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BETTER ROADS.
We desire to impress upon" our
readers the importance of attending
the good roads meeting which is announced
to be held in this place, on
the 20th day of August and the
necessity of giving this important
matter their closest study in the
interim ao that some definite and
t
practical results will come out 01 ine
meeting.
It is probable that both Senators
Tillman and Latimer will be present
that day as they both have signified
their purpose to do 60 if their affairs
could be arranged so as to permit
them to come, but, however, Bhould
they be unable to come there will be
other speakers who will make the
meeting both interesting and profitable
to those present on that occasion.
The crops will all be laid by by
that time and there will be no pressing-Arm
work calling for immediate
attention and thus interfere with and
prevent farmers from turning out in
full force. This question of good
roads is the most important one that
the people of the Slate have to deal
with, and the solution directly affects
the farmers more than any other
class of people, and they should
certainly respond to the call for the
meeting with promptness and in
numbers. Considering this question
from every stand point we are, with
ai ll. i:.li i__* ? j__:j..
me preeeub ligui ueiuie lie, ueciutruijr
in favor of a eastern of township or
county taxation to raise funds, which
are necessary to put the public highways
of the county in permanant
good repair. We risk nothing in
asserting that there is scarcely a
man in Lexington cunty but who
will acknowledge the necessity of
improving the roads in one way or
another. Indeed the demand for
improvement comes from every section
of the county and the complaint
by reason of their wretched condition
has been long and loud. The hindering
cause to their improvement heretofore
has been the want of a concert
of action in this direction by our
people. We all admit the existence
of an urgent necessity for their improvement
and yet we have done
absolutely nothing toward the accomplishment
of this deserved end.
It is true that we have tried, or
rather permitted to be tried, by the
County Commissioners, several systems
of road working, but the results
have been a dismal failure, or proven
very unsatisfac'ory in giving us relief
from the evil under which we
have so long been suffering. We
have for a long time given the system
of compulsory road working, that
is requiring all able bodied men, except
a few exempted by law, between
certain ages to perform, or cause to
be performed a given number of
days work'on the public highways.
This system gave temporary relief
only and the next rain left the roada
in as bad, if not a worse condition
than they were before the alledged
working. Then besides this we have
what is commonly known as the
commutation tax by which persons
subject to road duty can pay one
dollar to the County Treasurer in
lieu of work. This sum is so ridiculously
small that it is totally inadequate
to accomplish any good whatever.
This leaves for our consideration
the plan of increasing the commutation
to a just and reasonable
| amount together with national or
State aid or both, supplemented by
small tax levy for road purposes. It
certainly will take a considerable
amount of money to improve the
roads at first. This must be considered
as a foregone conclusion and
must form the basis of'all our calculations.
. The question then for us
to <*on*ider is how this sum of money
is tu b~ raised. Let us decide upon
thai and half the battle will be won.
These things will doubtless be fully
discussed at the meeting on the 20th
and some plan will be evolved that
will give assurance that our roads will
be greatly improved. Let us hope
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encouragement and endorsement by
being present.
"New County Talk."
It seems that the proposition to cut
the grand old county of Lexington
so as to* form new counties to suit
the fancy of those who feel themselves
8grieved from real or fancied
causes is still on. It is a great mistake
in the Constitution -to allow these
questions to be agitated so frequently.
The latest project on foot now is
(thrashing old 6traw) to take a considerable
portion of the lower, Edisto
part of this county, Orangeburg and
Aiken counties, to make a (Wagener)
county. The Dispatch is now, as it
has always been, opposed to such a
scheme and does not piropose that
one foot of Lexington's territory shell
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KIDNEY TROUBLE CURED.
General Health Greatly Improved
by Pe-ru-na.
| MRS. M "j. ^ANLEY. 1
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Mrs. M. J. Danley, Treasurer of the
Rebecca Lodge, I. O. O. P., writes from
12-1 First street, N., Minneapolis, Minn.:
"I was afflicted for several years with
kidney trouble which became quite serious
and Caused me considerable anxiety.
I spent hundreds of dollars trying to
be cured, but nothing gave me any
permanent relief until I tried Peruna.
It took less than three months and
only ten bottles to effect a permanent
cure, but they were worth more than as
many hundred dollars to me. I am mlly
restored to health, know neither ache
nor pain and enjoy life."?Mrs. M. J.
Danley.
This experience has been repeated
many times. We hear of such cases
nearly every day.
Mrs. Danley had catarrh of the kidneys.
As soon as she took the right
remedy she made a quick recovery.
A Prominent Southern Lady's Letter.
Miss Laura Hopkins, of Washington,
D. C., niece of Hon. E. O. Hopkins, one
of the largest iron manufacturers of
Birmingham, Ala., writes the following
letter commending Peruna. She says:
"lean cheerfully recommend Peruna
for indigestion and stomach trouble
and as a good tonic."?Laura Hopkins.
Peruna cures catarrh wherever located.
Peruna is a specific for the catarrhal
derangements of women. Address The
Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, Ohio,
for free book on catarrh written by Dr.
S. B. Hartman.
Hit 'Em Again.
Senator Tillman Monday night, at
Madison, Wis, matched his wit and
sarcasm against the legal mind and
western manners of Senator J. R.
Barton, of Kansae, in a joint debate
on the negro question.
"Senator Tillman said the people
of the North were as bad as those of
i
the South in their handling of the
negroes who committed 'unspeakable
crimes.' 'When a negro up here
shows the outcroppiDgs of the instincts
of his inferior race,' said
Senator Tillman, 'you mob, string,
lynch, burn and outrage humanity
with him. It makes a mighty big
difference whose family is struck,
whose home is entered, whose wife
or daughter is the victim. You men
in the North are not slow to aot
when your women are oiitraged, and
I want to say you are men to do it'
"If you bad as many niggers as
we have in South Carolina you would
feel as I do, and your people would
not sustain your anti-nigger senators
as my people sustain me "
"The fiery Southern Senator, says
the correspondent to the News and
Courier, W3S unpopular at first with
the audience of 8,000 people, but at
the close of the debate the impression
seemed to prevail that he had
the better of the argument."
Cures Blood Poison,
Cancer, Ulcers, Eczema, Carbuncles,
Etc. Medicine Free.
If you have offensive pimples or
eruptions, ulcers on any part of the
body, aching bones or joints, falling
hair, mucous patches, swollen glande,
skin itches and burns, sore lips or
gums, eating, festering sores, sharp,
gnawiDg pains, then you suffer from
serious blood poison or the beginnings
of deadly cancer. You may be per- i
manently cured by taking Botanic
Blood Balm (B. B. B) made especial- I
ly to cure the worBt blood and skin !
diseases. It kills the poison in the j
blood thereby giving a healthy olood !
supply to the effected parts, heals |
every sore or ulcer, even deadly can- I
cer, stops all aches and pains and rerlnpfis
all nwfi!lincr?. Bntftnif* Tllnnrl
Balm cures all malignant blocd ]
troubles uch as eczema, scabs and \
scales, pimples, running sores, car- |
buncles,scrofula, etc. Especially ad- j
vised for all obstinate cases that have !
reached the second or third stage, i
Druggists, $1. To prove it cures, j
sample of Blood Balm sent free and
prepaid by writing Blood Balm Co.,
Atlanta, Ga. Describe trouble ana
free medical advice sent in sealed
letter.
De laaen away irom ner wunoui our
protest, as we know it is beat for her
general interest and that of her people
to keep intact. Our information
is that the larger number of our people
residing within the territory
which it is proposed to cut off are
perfectly contented to remain just as
they are now situated and do not desire
a cbaDge of counties, and why
create contention, strife and bitterness
among them ?
Speaking of this proposition a correspondent
in the Wagener Record
of last week says:
"For the territory above referred
to, we propose the following boundary
subject tQ any alteration suggested
by the people concerned: Beginning
at Merritt's bridge on South IJdisfco
river, thence Two Notch road to
t i i a t i
dones cross roaa in Aixen county:
thence direct line via Steadman station
to Huffman's burnt mill, on
Black crek; thence direct line to the
head of Salem branch, (leaving Pelion
out or in according to her wishes);
thence down said branch to where it
intersects North Edisto below Witts'
Mill: thence direct line to South
Edisto river near Springfield, (leaving
Springfield in or out according to
her wishes), then up Baid river to
starting point."
The territory from Lexington it is
estimated would take about 55 or 60
square miles, out of Black Creek and
Bull Swamp townships with a valuation
of about $100,000 taxable property,
and a voting population of between
200 and 250. We do not
know just where the proposed lines
run, or those of our citizens they
would cut off. They perhaps may
know and will act accordingly. It
is a matter for them to consider well
before they act.
This scheme was once overwhelmingly
defeated and we dare say
that it will meet the same fate again
whenever a test is made.
The revenue officers at Columbia
seized a car load of whiskey Saturday,
believed to be consigned to a
dealer in contraband in that city.
The car contained 165 kegs, each keg
containing four and seven-eights gallons
and at the average cost of $1.50
per gallon would be worth about $1,300.
The first regiment of the State
militia which has been in Colombia
for the past week, broke camp early
Sunday morniDg and the tents and
other equipage were packed and sent
to Charleston for the second regiment
which went into camp on the
Isles of Palms thi9 week.
The recent troubles with the negroes
in Indiana and Illinois have
made it too hot for them and it is
said they are returning South by the
car loads.
The railroad authorities are to
build a Union depot at Fairfax.
A PART OF THE PLAY.
UlfiRinff That Bronsht Some Ruwilam
Actors to a. Prison Cell.
The course of true art does not always
run smooth in Russia, as. for example,
in the theater of Y'olizavetgrad.
In the fourth act of a certain play there
is a theater within a theater, as in
Shakespeare's Ilamlot," only that
some of the dramatis persona? have to
mix with the public in the galleries
and to hiss the chief actress, who duly
faints. As soon as the gentlemen had
taken their places among the gods and
begun to hiss and whistle the policeman
011 duty came down upon them
I like a wolf 011 the fold, and before they
1 could utter a word of explanation he
and his colleagues "nabbed" two, reI
iy^/- -<Yf1 f R/v?iy Ki* o n/1 tA
j 1UI L'U lUtUi UJ IV/1VV7 (inu ivu?\ iv/
I the next police station, where they
| were charged with disorderly conduct
| at a public place. They protested that
i they had only done their duty, but the
police laughed their explainui us to
scorn. The public left the theater en
masse to see what was happening to the
actors, but the latter had already been
j consigned to the cells. The crowd in
| the street before the station house grew
| rapidly in numbers, and its noisy
; protests threatened to culminate in serious
disorders. Fortunately, the manager
of the theater appeared before the
| superintendent and by the light of a
j lamp declaimed, with manuscript in
! hand, the whole fourth act, in order to
| show that hissing was an essential part
of the performance. Only then did the
representatives of the law release the
innocent actors.
Nativity of the Potato.
There is as much mystery as history
i connected with the common tuber callI
ed the potato. Its nativity, original
place in the kingdom of nature and
several other things regarding it are
still open questions. As to its nativity,
j the weight of argument seems to favor
I the tropical or subtropical regions of
j America. There is a tradition that the
vines once grew to monstrous size and
j that the "balls" were of the "bigness
i oi melons, aim at mm nine nit- iuuis
were not tubers, the edible parts growing
among the branches. It seems that
they were first introduced into Europe
in the year 1505.
Haskell's "Roots and Wild Plants"
says, "Wamkins first fetched a queer,
bulbous root out of America which
some called a 'bodado,' while others,
who had heard the Peruvians mention
it, spoke of it as a potato." Periam's
Cyclopedia of Agriculture says that Sir
John Wamkins found it growing wild
near Santa Fe de Bogota at an altitude
of S.COO to 13,000 feet. lie also
says that it was "fetched out of America"
at about the time settled upon by
Haskell?viz, in the year 1505.
A Royal Romance.
Carmen Sylva, the royal authoress,
met her husband, the king of Roumania,
in quite a romantic way. As a
girl of seveiiteen she was running down
the staircase of the palace at Berlin
when her foot slipped on the marble,
and she would have fallen to the floor
below, but at the moment Prince
Charles of Hohenzollern stepped from
an anteroom and caught her in his
arms. She did not accept him, although
he made her the offer at once. In joke
?fo". it was then most unlikely?she
sa.. she preferred to remain queen of
herself, but If she became queen of any
country at all she would prefer Roumania.
Eight years afterward the
beautiful Carmen was married to
Prince Charles, who had been proclaimed
king of Roumania, and thus she realized
her ambition.
When Water Was Avoided.
Until comparatively recent times
there was a medical prejudice against
drinking water. Sir William Yaughan
in hie "Vntnrnl ;in<1 -\ ctifioiii 1 Diror
tions For Health" declared that water
"ought seldom to be drunk." Another
doctor admitted that it might be
healthful for children, but not for men
i ?"except some odd, abstemious one
| among a thousand perchance, dogenI
erate and of a doggish nature, for dogs
J of nature do abhor wine." Indeed, the
recommendation of water as a beverage
was supposed to be the sign of the
quack. Even Wesley in his "Primitive
Physic" wrote of it with caution:
"Drink only water if it agrees with
your stomach; if not, good, clear small
beer."
A Qneer Doff.
Dagonet in the Iteferee tells a story
of two little girls who were trying to
explain what sort of a dog it was they
had seen. Said one little girl. "It was
one of those funny ones; you know, the
ones that are a dog.and a half long and
half a dog high." Said the other: "You
must know the sort. It's a dog that
only has four legs, but looks as if it
ought to have six." It may interest
Dagonet to hear of a fairly apt definition
that a Public Opinion man once
beard applied to the dachshund?"the
dog with the Louis XIV. legs."
The Appetite of Kitty.
The number of wild animals sold as
pets to private families in this country
is said to be beyond belief, but the
families generally return the leasts
before long to the dealer. A writer on
this wild beast traffic in Leslie's
Monthly says that one animal dealer
who recently sold a lion cub to a lady
received only two months afterward a
letter from her saying: ' please come
and take Kitty away. She has eaten
our Newfoundland dog."
Relief at I.n.it.
Man With Petition?I'd like to have
your name on this, Ruggles. It is a
mere formality, you know. butBusiness
Man?I'd like to oblige you.
Itaekstraw, but a fellow came around
last week with a pledge binding the
signer not to put his name on a petition
of any kind for a year?and I signed it.
?Chicago Tribune.
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Mill Business Continued.
I have rented the Andrew Lorick
Flour aDd Grist Mills and will run j
tbem as usual, giving entire satisfac i
tion to my patrons from v. horn I solicit
patronage. J K. Swvgert.
July 20, 1903?2w3S
For Sals.
A farm of ninety acre9 morp or less,
near Ella post ( fficr; about Go acres
open. Good pasture, good water and
very good buildings. Also a young ;
orchard of about 15 acres with about i
lGf'O young trees.
For further particulars and terms j
apply to J. H. PRICE,
July 22, 1903. Ella, S. C.
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Chartered in 1856 Stands for
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Christian influences, ana at moderate
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Tuition $40. Twenty thousand
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erection.
Next session begins September 23.
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July 23?tf Newberry, S. C.
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Barbecue.
TTJE WILL FURNISH A FIRST
VV class barbecue with refreshments,
near Midway School House, three miles
north of Lexington court house, on the
Dreher Ferry road, on August 15. Prices:
Ladies, 25 cents; men, 35 cents. Everybody
invited and a pleasant day is promised
to all.
JUSTUS WIN GARB.
BaCHMAN jieetze.
July 1, 1903, 7w40. "
DRUGS
Are always a necessity, almost
as much so as food. I am still
saving my customers money and my trade
still grows, and remamber your interests
will always be looked aftei by
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The Licensed Diuggist,
LEESVILLE, - - S. 0.
Notice.
All persons indebted to the
E-rate of An ire w J. Lonck. deceased,
are hereby notified that, they must make
payment to the undersigned, on 'or before
the 15th day of September, 1903, and those holding
claims against said Estate must
present them, properly attested, to
J. K, SWXGERT,
Eexecntor Est. A. J.Lorlck, dec.
July 12. 1903. ' 3w39.
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