The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, August 26, 1903, Page 6, Image 6
The Lexington Dispatch.
Wednesday, August 26, 1903. *
THE QUESTION;
"Should We Blow Our Own
Horn?"
The ^bove is the question. I say
yes! Should we praise our section?
Stir up enthusiasm and, like bees, the
people will settle down to the tinkling
that pleases most. I wish that we
could have had thousands cf visitors
from a distance to attend the associa
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tions, toe veterans reunions anu iue
Sabbath school celebrations as we
had in the last month. To say that
we have been having a good tim8 is
patting it mild and to say that strangers
would have been impressed favorably
can be stated as a certainty. Me
and Brown both have gained twenty
pounds apiece in the last month and
we will weigh two hundred apiece if
the gain keeps up through campmeeting
time. We have already attended
one campmeeting, but we failed
to realize a gain of flesh by one
little mishap that it was as natural as
it was provoking in results. Brown,
as usual, made a bad break on the
first morning after our arrival and
nothing would do him but what wemust'
return home at once.
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In the early morning ne was me
' first one up on the grounds, and in
4<nosing" around, as be does always
"nose," he discovered a pretty foot
that bad worked itself all unconsciously
under the sheet that bad
hung to divide the male sleepers from
the side of the females in the tent.
It was nothing to make a great ado
over, but Brown thought that every
fellow on the male side would like to
gaze on the pretty foot and ankle and
so be waked us all up and pointed in
great glee at the object. Of course,
we bad* to look, and while we were
looking my old* friend decided that
he was just obliged to see what lady's
foot it was. He sneaked out and to
the entrance of the tent and peeped
in at the sleeping lady, when, lo and
behold! be discovered that the pretty
fnnt that he had taken such pleasure
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to exhibit belonged to his own wife.
He rushed frantically back to where
we had remained to stop the gaze of
the men he bad himself invited to
look, He gently but firmly pushed
the foot back to its own side, pulled
down the curtain close to the ground
and with coold perspiration dropping
from his brow he went out for a stroll.
The men had the joke on him and
they teased him to such an extent
that nothing would do but his crowd
and my crowd should return to their
homes at once?as we all went in his
wagon I bad to comply, and thus, I
am sure, was lost two or three pounds
of flesh to myself, for eating was
abundant and my appetite was somewhat
like that of my old friend's on
former occasions. He had promised
me a full half gallon of good old
corn not to tell the joke around home
on him, and I shall not if he stands
tn V>ia nrnmise.
Everything invites cheerfulness in
this section of country. Cotton is
backward in fruiting, bnt I never saw
such prospects for corn and hay in
all ~iy days. There has been some
little prospects of a war with Russia,
some predicting a world wide
war, but when I had watched and
studied Brown for an hour my verdict
was that there would be no war. I
know Brown so well that I am sure
be would feel it in his bones if there
was as great a prospeet for war as
many would have us believe. If the
war was probable I think Brown
would know it by instinct and would
be setting up a place to hide when
the conscript officers came. Instead,
he has taken unto himself a boastful |
air, and a stranger would think he j
never dodged from a bombshell in
his life, nor hid out to escape the
conscript. If war was imminent he
would be drooping around with rheumatism,
spinal afflictior, dimness of j
sight, dropsy of tl? chest, heart fail- j
ure, dizziness in the head, softening j
of the brain, hereditary insanity, or |
seventy-five or eighty other ailments
too numerous to mention. He even
had the impudence yesterday to let
rae hear him say that he wished Russia
would give us a chance to whip
her? he was sure he could whip four,
five or seven of the rascals himself
and would be glad of the chance to
try it. I asked no better evidence
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tban Brown's condition to convince
me that we will have no war in the
near future and so we settle down to
an enjoyment of the sweet peace
that is upon us.
But a more important thing than
wars or rumors of war confront the
people of the South today. Our own
native born people, both white and
black and both male and female, seem
to have a craze to avoid rural pursuits.
The demand for labor on public
works and the high wages paid is
having the effect of causing our farm
labor to lose its head. If our native
born people will leave the farms then
we must invite people from a distance.
Tr>n mnr>h lanrt its heincr tnrned nut to
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sedge and briars. To stop this we
must have people from a distance who
have felt the sting of congested centres
and learned the wisdom of sticking
to agriculture, know and be impressed
with the opportunity that is
here in Georgia. We have the best
country in the world if people only
knew it. Those who shiver in the
cold blizzards of the North ought to
know that they can < miss all this
freezing by coming South, and those
who sink from the intense heat of
the Northern summer ought to know
that we have no such beat in Georgia?I
never knew a sunstroke in the
confines of Georgia territory. It is
distressingly cold at the North in
xninfor an*} rlint'.rABninolv and dancrpr
ouely hot in the summer. "We have
no 6uch menace here, and I want
strangers to understand it. Not such
as would come to our towns and in
where it is already overcrowded, but
farmers, field hands, people with
sense, to know that farming offers
the greatest opportunity that is before
us today, and the sweetest peace
and respectability.
When you come South on prospective
tours?we address this to strangers
at a distance?don't stop in and
around the towns. Go out into the
country among the country folks
themselves. Happen here sometimes
when our associations are meeting at
th6 churches, and Sunday schools are
joyful in the groves around the
springs, or campmeetings are ia
blast, and then you may see the people
just as they are. Some strangers
have an idea that this is a land
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for chills and fever and other malarial
drawbacks, come and look upon the
blooming health that you will find
pictured in the faces of the assembled
crowds, and all such thoughts
will pass forever. Some, only think,
are foolish enough to have a Bort of
notion that Georgia is a sort of kuklu
land when it comes to dealing
with strangers from a distance. If
you will come you will Boon dismiss
any such notion as that and decide
that, taking everthiDg together, the
South is the moBt favored land on
earth and offers the greatest opportunity
for those who will come and
work the fields?don't come if you
mefn to crowd the towns, unless you
will crowd out our native born and
crowd sense enough into their heads
to know that they ought to stick to
the farm, boys, stick to the farm.
This is my advice.
Sarge Piunkett.
How's This.
We offer One Hundred Dollars
Reward for any case of Catarrh that
cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh
Cure.
F. J. Cheney & Co., Props.,
Toledo, 0.
Wo f V>o nnr?orcirrnor3 Viqvo tnrkron
f f V3 UUU^AUAgUVU) UM f V Tt .V4
F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years,
and believe him perfectly honorable
in all business trar .actions and finan;
cially able to carry out any obligations
made by their firm.
West & Truax, Wholesale Druggists,
Toledo, 0.
Walding. Kinnan & Marvin,
Wholesale Druggists,
Toledo, 0.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces cf the system.
Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by all
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I'ruggiscs. -LesumomaiB sent iree.
Hall's Family Pills are the best.
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The Injured Battleship.
Washington, August 21 ?Captain
Emory, commanding the Indiana, telegraphed
the navy department from
Frenchman's bay that the Massachusetts,
under convoy of the Indiana,
Potomac and LebanoD, sailed
this morning for Tompkinsville. She
will be docked and repaired at the
New York yard.
His Reasons 2Tot Wanted.
Georgetown, Ky., August 21.?In
the Powers case today tbe deposition
of former Governor Taylor, the reading
of which was begun yesterday
afternooD, was concluded. The court
excluded 15 questions asked as to
the conversations with W. H. Culton
as to his (Taylor's) reasons for psrdoniLg
Caleb Powers; the political
complexion of the General Assembly
at the 1909 session, the filing of his
certificate of election and his reasons
for leaving the State of Kentucky
after being indicted. These were
held by the court to be incompetent.
fT* 1-. r\$ A co!atonf
JLIIC ucpuc.1 tiuu \J JL XKJL U-i t L UOC lOirtUU
Secretary of State W. J. Davidson,
taken at IodiaDapoIis, Iod , was filed
by the defense. Davidson entered
denial of all conversations and incriminating
knowledge attributed to
him by the Commonwealth's witnesses,
Golden, Balton and Youtsey,
' Tallow Dick11 Combes, or the negro
mason, Hocker Smith, to the private
office of Caleb Powers for such a
purpose or for any purpose.
Not Over-Wiss.
There is an old allegorical picture
of a girl scared at a grass-hopper,
but in the act of heedlessly treading
on a snake. This is paralled by the
man who spends a large sum of
money building a cyclone cellar, but
neglects to provide his family with a
bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera
and Diarrhoea Remedy as a safeguard
against bowel complaints,
whose victims outnumbered those of
the cyclone a hundred to one. This
remedy is everywhere recognized as
the most prompt and reliable medicine
in use for these diseases. For
sale by The Kaufmann Drug Co.
The "Wrong Suggestion.
A good planter's wife "befo' de
wah" was teaching a jet black house
girl, just fourteen and fresh from the
plantation, the letters of the alphabet.
Betsy had learned the first two, says
Harper's Magazine, but always forgot
the letter "C"
"Don't you see with your eyes?
Can't you remember the word see?"
said her mistress.
"Yessum," answered Betsy. But
she could not. F;v? minutes later
Betsy began again bravely, "A?B"
?and there she dropped.
"What do you do with your eyeB,
Betsey?"
"I sleeps wif 'em miss'."
Stop That Cough!
When a cough, a tickling or an
irritation in the throat makes you
feel uncomfortable, take Ballard's
Horehound Syrup. Don't wait until
the disease has gone beyond control.
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Anderson, 354
West 5 th St., Salt Lake City, Utah,
writes: "We think Ballard's Horehound
Syrup the best medicine for
coughs and colds. We have used it
for several years; it always gives
immediate relief, is very pleasant and
gives perfect satisfaction." 25c, 50c
and Sl.00. Sold by The Kaufmann
Drug Co.
Will Not Plant Tobacco.
It is not likely now that the farmers
in lower Kichland will plant tobacco
next year, says the Columbia
Evening Record. The floods and
storms a month or two destroyed almost
the entire crop this year and
the planters have been hearing so
much lately of the tremendous drop
in prices, caused by the operations of
the tobacco trust, that unless there
is competetion in buying before
planting time there will be no effort
at a crop. Should this be the case it
means no tobacco warehouse for Columbia,
an enterprise in which several
local capitalists were interested.
Foley's Kidney Cure
Will cure JBright's Disease.
Will cure Diabetes.
TT7HT T11.3J-.
win cure oione in x>iauasr.
Will cure Kidney and Bladder Diseases.
Fol y's Kidney Cure cures all dieeases
arising from disordered kidneys
or bladder. The Kaufmann Drug
Co.
A Bashful Young1 Man.
One of our town dudes, who is
rather bashfnl, and is "sparking" a
young woman a few miles from towD,
called a few afternoons ago to spendi
the evening with her, says an ex
change. While there it commenced
raining and the girl's father asked t
him to remain over night. The next
morning when he was invited to a
seat at the breakfast table he reluctantly
accepted. He was very nervous
and agitated. H9 sat opposite
the mirror and discovered that he had
forgotten to comb his hair. Then he
dropped his fork on the fbcr and as
he stooped to pick it up he up-set hi9
coffee. Matters went from bad to
worse, until finally the young roan
n 1 "M f oof ir?cr kin V\ A
ijutv bUUiLig QUU pal LtlC Liti^U U JLJ U Hi
the table. The loose end cf the tablscloth
was lying in his lap end
when he touched it he turned pale.
He thought it was his shirt and that
in his nervous excitement while dressing
be had forgotten to put that
garment inside his trousers. This
accounted for smiles and embarrassment.
There was no time to lose.
He hurriedly stuffed the supposed
shirt inside his trousers. Two minutes
later when the family arose from
the table there was a crash. The
dishes lay in a broken heap on the
floor. The young man pulled three
feet of the tablecloth from his
breeches and tied through the door.
He is now hiding, and the girl is
looking for a less bashful lover, one
who can tell his shirt-tail from a tablecloth.
Eat All You Want.
Persons troubled with indigestion
or Dyspepsia can eat all they want if
they will take Kodol Dyspepsia cure.
This remedy prepares the stomach
for the reception, retention, digestion
and assimilation of all of the wholesome
food that may be eaten, and
enables the digestive organs to iNpsform
the same into the kind of blood
that gives health and strength. Sold
by all druggist.
Killed by Doctors.
Cartersville, Ga., August 21 ?A
surgical operation performed on Mb]'.
Charles H. Smith, (Bill Arp) this afternoon
revealed the presence in the
gall bladder of a double handful of
gall stones, more than 2,000 in number.
This cause of the patient's pro
tracted illness has been hardly suspected,
the diagnosis indicating liver
trouble. In spite of the operation,
Mej Smith was alive, but increasingly
restless at a later hour tonight.
His physicians gave no hope of his
recovery.
Rheumatism.
When pains or irritation exist on
any part of the body, 1 he application
of Ballard's Snow Liniment gives
prompt relief. E. W. Sullivan, Prop.,
Sullivan House El Reno, 0. T,
writes, June 6, 1902: "I take pleasure
in recommending Ballard's Snow
Liniment to all who are afflicted
with rheumatism. It is the only
remedy I have found that give* immediate
relief." 25c, 50c and Si 00.
Sold by The Kaufmann Drug Co.
A Legal Execution.
Ceneva, Ala , August 21 ?Luther
Tinsel, a negro, was hanged by tie
Sheriff here today for the muideron
Nov. 4, 1901, of Mrs John Ovens,
wife of a prominent citizens of this
county. She was killed by a rifle
ball, while riding with her husband.
Tinsel died of strangulation.
Potent Pill Pleasure.
The pills that are potent in their
action and pleasant in effect ate
DeWitt's Little Early Risers. W. S.
Philpoto, of Albany, Ga., says "During
a boilious attack I took one. SmaJ
as it was it did me more good than
calomel, blue-mass or any other pill
I ever took and at the same time it
effected me pleasantly. Little Early
Risers are certainly an idea: p L."
Sold by all Druggist.
HPho ho if of fVi o c.nit orvome fe r !
~uv Liuii. LUV UCUU loot' X I
in summer than in winter.
CHICHESTER'S ENGLISH j
PENNYROYAL PILLS!
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Safe. Alwavs reliable. L.arl<<>?. a.?lf f:r I
CHiniF.HTEH Ji EX(iLI.<tK in Bed aril |
Inold metallic boxes, sealed with blue ribbon.
Take no other. Keftue (Inacerous ?ub?.iSiJtiontnad
iniilation*. I'.uyof your Druggist,
or send 4e. in stamps for S'artieu'ar*. Testimonial*
and "Belief for Lail.e*." in Uttrr.
by return .flail. 10.000Tesi.monials. oold by
all Druggists.
CHICHESTER. OIIEMIG AH CO.
Ci JO HiaJluon ft^uarr. I'li. 'A., X*?.,
Alentiori this crv>*r.
FOLEYSHONEY^TAR
stops the cough and Heals luags
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In elegant cases containing all the ;
Litest improvements. Designed lov i
both Home and Church u?<? Dp-to
(Lite and noted for sweir.-ss and I
pnrity of tone, pO'.ter and dnvatnlitv. !
Write today for catalogue prices and
terms. Stool, book and J: eight free.
m&um &
rumwLm.
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a wro-der'tit attachment to tit any
piano, fmihdng any one- without previous
kno-.vlerl-.ie of music to play j
th*1 smioh-st to most difficult music
witbo-.it study or practice. Catalogue i
and particulars tree.
We have u lot of good second
band "^i'mos and Organs of various
makes from rent and -xehftogs to be
sold a low prices and oasv terms. 1
For anything musical write
'km k BATES,!
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September 10, 1903. ly.
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ANDREW CRAWFORD
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
COLUMBIA, - - - - S. C.
PRACTICES IN THE STATE AND
Federal Courts, p.nd offers his professional
services to the citizens of Lexington
County.
October 18?ly,
: Alfred J. Fox,!
j Life and Fire!
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iReal Estate!
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Only First Class Companies .Represented.
Mv companies are popular, strong j
and reliable. No one can give your
business better attention; no one eau j
give you bettor protection; no one can j
give you better rates.
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Prompt and careful attention given i
to buying and selling Heal Estate, '
both town and country properties. ;
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% Thiswonderru! medicin3 posi-g
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| Colds, Bronchitis, Asthma, Pneu-Ss
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EF1RD & DREKER,
itforaers at Law,
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LEXINGTON, C. H? S, C.
tit ill pkactice in all the i
VV Courts. Business solicited. One
member of the firm will alwajs be at offioo,
Lexington, S. 0.
line 17?6m.
BE, E, J, ET11ESEDGE,
SUKGEON DENTIST,
LEESVILLE, S. C.
Office next door bsio^r post office,
A' ways ouharnl.
Icbrnarv .1.2, .
imm L A3B1LL. Attorney
at Law,
LEESVILLE, S. 0.
Practices in aii the Conrts.
Business solicited,
Sept 30 - 6rc.
momE BEUNS
i>iAliN BI? liULUlUCiA, S. U.,
| JEWELER REPAIRER .
Has a splendid stock of Jewelry, Watches,
Clocks and Silverware. A fine line of
Spectacles and Eyeglasses to fit every one,
all for sale at lowest prices.
f&r Bepairs on Watches first class
quickly done and guaranteed, at moderate
prices. 60?tf
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THE ONLY NATIONAL BANK IN
COLUMBIA. 1
UNITED STATES, STATE, CITY AND COUNTY 5
DEPOSITORY.
Savings Department.
Paid up Capital - $200,000
Surplus Profits . - 70,000
Liability of Stockholders - 200,000
$470,000
Interest allowed at the rate of 4 per cent.
nor Mot? 1 e> f V
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ber 1st W. A. CLARK, President.
Wiiiif Jonxs. Vice President and Cashier.
December i?ly.
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DEPOSITS RECEIVED SUBJECT TO
CHECK.
W. JP. ROOF, Cashier.
DIRECTORS:
Allen Jones, W. P. Roof, 0. M. Efird, > I
R. Hilton. Jaices E. Hendrix.
EXCHANGE BOUGHT AND SOLD.
Deposits of $1 and upwards received and j
interest at 5 per cent, per annum allowed, 1
payable April and October.
September 21?tf
|I0!NES BOILERS.
T?n54 Stack*, Stand Pipes and Bheet-Iroa
Work; Sfcaftinr, Pulleys, Gearing, Boxea,
hangers, eta. Mill C&stlnra.
Bsr~Cast every day; work 200 bands.
U>tl?A?D IKON WOBKR M SUPPLY C?
AUGUSTA, GSO&OiA.
January 57? ly
EODOL digests what you eat.'
KODOL c^eanses? purifies, strengthenj
and sweetens the stomach.
EODOL cures indigestion, dyspepsia, and ^
all stomach and bowel troubles.
KODOL acce^era*es the action of the gas
trie glands and gives tone to the *
digestive organs.
KODOL relieves an overworked stomach
. of ail nervous strain gives to
the heart a full, free and untrammeled
action, nourishes the nervous system and
feeds the brain.
KODOL *s wor'derful remedy that la
making so many sick people well
and weak peopie strong by giving to their
bodies all of the nourishment that is con
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KLiliw'U 111 VI1S> 1UUU U1E.JT v?.i.
Bottles only, $1.00 Sire hcldlne 2*A tirr.es the trial
size, which sells for 5Cc.
Prepared only by E. C. DeWITT 4 CO.. CBICAOO.
FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS
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