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The Lexington Dispatch, LEXINGTON, 8. 0.. | . | SUBSCRIPTION KATES: One Tear $1.00 j Six Months 50 Three Months 25 j I advertising rates. Regnlsv Advertising, first insertion, 75 cento per inch; web insertion thereafter, 50 cents per inch Local notices, 5 cento rer line each insertion; no local aocepted for less than 25 cents lor first insertion. Obituaries. Tnbates of Respect. In Memoriam. Resolutions of Respects, Cards of Thanks, are charged for at the rate of one half cent a word for every word over 100. The cash must invariably accompany the copv. In sending copy count the words and send one-half a cent for each word over one hundred. This rule will in no case and under no circumstances be deviated from. Marriage notices inserted free and are solicted. Rates for contract advertising will be cheerfully furnished on application. Anonymous communications will receive no attention. Rejected manuscript will cot be returned unless accompanied by stamps for the purpose. Changes of all regular advertisements allowed once a month and all additional changes charge for extra. All changes and advertisements must be in not later than Monday afternoon. For any^fnrther information call on or address. G. M. HARMAN, Editor and Publisher. Wednesday, March 30, 1904. Our News Letter is respectfully informed that we consider every cent taken from the funds of the free public schools to purchase libraries, charts, maps and such like to be wrong in principle. If the common schools can spare any of its funds it would be far better to use this surplus in founding a first class academy where the higher branches are taught and where our boys and girls can attend to prepare themselves for college without 'having to leave the county to do so, as many are now forced to do, by reason of the absence of such an institution. United States Senator Burton, says the Columbia Evening Record, has been convicted of accepting money to secure the continuance of postal facilities to a speculating scheme which came under the ban and which bad been deoied the U9e of the mails. Oar recollection is that the >. jury in the Burton case failed to find a verdict and a mistrial was ordered. Mr. Bryan through his newspaper. The Commoner, is still insisting that the 16 to 1 platform should be reaffirmed. In that case Mr. Bryan would be the candidate, and two experiences with him as the head of the party ought to convince Democrats that victory will not perch on party shoulders by following his advice. The arrival of the steamer Highlander, from Georgetown, has set the two Columbia papers wild with joy. The Steamer is now bottled up at Port Granby on account of sand bars in the river. We join with our Columbia friends and ask that the South Carolina delegation in Congress use their best endeavors to ' have the obstructions to navagation removed. Some papers are abusing Hearst, m ) v . . _ _ ?_ _ some uieveiana aoa some are giving Parker bail Columbia. If either one of these candidates should happen to receive the Democratic nomination for President, some newspapers will have to eat a mighty nasty dish of crow. Let us not split hairs. The Board of trustees of the Columbia Female College have selected and decided upon the plans of A. W. Todd, of Charleston, for the new college buildings tbat are to be erected in the suburbs of Columbia. Tbe buildiogs are to coat about $125,000. Reports from the seat of war in the far east indicate that there will be no more engagements between the hostile armies for sometime to come Both Russia and Japan are making extensive preparations for the great struggle. Wonderful progress has been made in the construction of the manufacturing plant at Ware Shoals. Sin.^A Spntember the dam race and canal, 2,800 feefc in length have been completed. PoorTeddj! It does really seem that the country is forgetting fciat such a man as R)osevelt lives. Eugene V. D?bs, the labor agitator, has declined the socialist nomination for President. The State re union of Confedeia e soldiers will be held in Charleston the latter part of May. Selma News Notes. To the Editor of the Dispatch: Mrs. Martha Ellisor of the Shady Grove neighborhood died Saturday I and was buried Sunday afternoon in ' the church graveyard. ?ne was 111 her 84r.h_year of her age and leaves a large circle of relatives and friends. Her funeral services were conducted by her paster, Rev. 0. B. Shearouse, and attended by a large crowd of people. The farmers are generally well up with their work and seem in fairly | good spirits and making earnest ! effotts to plant when the soil is in good condition. We don't think that we are going to over plant cotton to the exclusion of food crops. We are rather going to work on the principle of "fewer acres, more bales" bv eood preparation of the soil and liberal fertilizing. The outlook for the oat crop is not very encouraging as those sown in the fall are nearly all frozeD, and it is too early yet to form an opinion as to spring oats. Wheat looks very fine. The prospect for a good fruit crop is very fine at this writing, but as daDger from cold is not yet passed we cannot be over confident as to the outcome. Rev. S. C. Ballentine preached a very interesting sermon at Spring Hill last Sunday. We are sorry that a larger congregation was not present. At a special meeting of council, of Mt. Olivet church, Mrs. Emma Ballentine w*s elected organist and Miss Sallie Eargle assistant. March 28,1904. H. Chapin News.. To the Editor of the Dispatch: Mr. Editor, you are mistaken we farm too. ' Mr. John A. Wessinger, of near Ballentine, is reported to(be critically ill. Prof. John D. Farr's school closes at Newburg, Wednesday eve, the 30ih. It in but natural, where we can 866 others faults, we cannot see our own. Mr. Ambrose Wingard lost one of his fingers last week, from the bite of a hog. We had the pleasure of meeting our friend, Mr. Henry J. Rawl, at the Prosperity Oil Mill, Saturday. He is a good hearted, broad minded and accomodating gentleman. He said he would not be in the race this summer with the boys. For the information of all those who reside on and near the proposed Rural Route from Hilton, S. C. we would suggest, to them, if possible remove the gates, then the Route would be a surety. B. . March 28, 1904. County Alliance. The 2od quarterly meeting of Lexington County Alliance No. 721 for 1904, will be held at Rightwell academy April 8th at 11 a. m. Subject for discussion.?How much land can one horse cultivate successfully Speakers: L F. Frick, Jno. A. Dreher and 0. L. Mayer. Jas. B. Addy, President. Dr. J. J. Biekley, Secretary. Succeeds Hanna. Washington, March 23 ?Gen. C. E Dick took the oath of office as Senator from Ohio today, to succeed the late Mr. Hanna. Cures Blood Poison, Cancers, Ulcers. If ycu have offensive pimples or eruptions, ulcers an any part of the body, aching bone9 or joints, falling hair, mucous patches, swollen glands, skin itches and burns, sore lips or gums, eating, festering sores, sharp gnaging paiDs then you suffer from I serious blood poison or the beginning of deadly cancer. You may be permanently cured by taking Botanic Blood Bilm (B. B. B ) made especially to cure the worst blood and skin diseases. Heals everv sore or ulcer, j even deadly cancer, stops all aches j and pains aDd reduces all swelliug?. j Botanic Blood Balm cures all malignant blood troubles, such as eczema, scabs and scales, pimples, running sores, carbuncles, scrofula. Druggist, $1 00. To prove it cures, samples of Blood Balm sent free and prepaid by writing Blood Bfelm Co., Atlanta, Ga. Describe trouble and free medical advice sent in sealed letter. BIG PIE FACTORIES. Methods by which they handle their immense product. fen to Fifteen Thousand Pies Made and Baked In a. \i^ht?The Crusts, the Filling and the Frosting:?Absolute Cleanliness In the Shops. A visit to ono of the largest pie construct!::.^ plants in a city would make the average housewife who prides herself in her baking green with envy. The maker of old fashioned domestic pies cannot easily conceive of a system by which a barrel of apples and a barrel of flour can, figuratively speaking, start at one end of a long bench and leave the other end a thousand or less finished pies, but this sysfew is in use in .-ill the large pie bakeries. The baking- force goes on duly at 10 o'clock at night. During the day girls have been paring and slicing apples and pumpkins, and the foreman has been spicing and sweetening the cooked fruit or mince, the custards and other prepared tilling which have also been cooked by steam in large stone stew vats. When the bakers go on duty' tiie filling is in place in front of the great dough board in tubs holding a half barrel each, and the stewed apples in full sized barrels. At one end of the bench is a great stack of Hour, near which stands a pail of water into which a saucer of baking powder has been dumped. The dough mixer ati tacks this heap and makes in it a deep depression, into which the water is poured. The embankment of fiour is I rapidly turned into the water and I stirred with the hands until a thick, pasty dough has been formed. This is I shoved along until a tail heap is forml ed at the mixer's right, and the kueadj er, a spry young fellow, working with an instrument resembling a plasterer's trowel, cuts off large masses and rolls them until the mixing is completed and then chops them into chunks of suitable sizes for forming bottom crusts. The men beyond roll the bottom crusts and place them in the pans, which are I arranged in large wooden trays, heaped one upon another in stacks as tall as a man. The stacks of trays are then hauled to the filler by means of a hook ! inserted in a ring in the truck at the bottom. The pies, whether 10.000 or 15.000 a night are baked, are all tilled by one mau. With a loug handled cup similar 1 mil!- frvim -i lO IIKXI USUI Hi iiiim uuui n can be stands over a tub of stewed pumpkin, mince or custard au<l tills pies so rapidly that all of one man's time is required to bring the trays to his side and that of another to take them away. lie works like an automaton. a tilled pie resulting from every drop and rise of bis two bands. Nearly a hundred pies a minute look like an impossibility, but be sends tliem to the men who put on the top crusts and the meringues ;it. that rate for many minutes at a sTretcli. lie lias, by actual test, put half a barrel of mince meat into pies within ten minutes. The tilled pies go into the big wooden trays to the men who cover them with the top crust or who put the meringue on with a conical shaped canvas bag open at the smaller end. out of which they squeeze the frosting on the fancy pies. The fancy pies and the plain ones do not come together again until they meet in the delivery wagon about 5 o'clock in the morning. The top crust pies go to the drawplate ovens and the pumpkins, custards, meringues and tarts to the older ' " ' 1 - 4-! ? at? ni'o n. IHSlliOIlCll U \ t'U5>, W 1JUC llicj lilt uuu died with long. slender shovels. Out of the larger drawplate oven is pulled with a steel hook a plate of iron half an inch thick or more already heated. The thermometer in front of the oven shows a temperature of -"50 degrees. As many pies as will lie on this plate? about 100 at a time?are placed on it and it is pushed into the oven. The 1 hands of a dummy clock at the side are set to indicate the moment at which the baking will be finished. Another plate is then drawn out and filled, and the proceeding is repeated until the night's work is finished. The pies, after baking, go into wooden trays, as before, and [ are taken to the shipping room, where they are counted and loaded into the wagons for delivery. About forty girls, boys and men by this system produce from 10.000 to 15.000 pies a day. They use about fifteen barrels of fiour. six to ten barrels of apples, nine or ten half barrels of mince meat, nearly as much stewed pumpkin and perhaps half as much each of other fruits and custards, a barrel or more of lard, about two barrels of sugar and large quantities of spices. Contrary to all popular notions on j the subject, the wholesale manufacture of pies in a modern establishment is thoroughly cleanly. Workmen are not allowed to enter the work rooms in their street attire or to change their clothing ther". The use of tobacco at all stages of the work is prohibited. Spitting on the floor or on or into anything eiso in the work rooms is expressly and emphatically forbidden. The walls are white, and the tloors of concrete are misuess. r.wm <./i anything thai can sour is daily washed from the vessels used for tillinir. from the cooking vats, from the trays and from the benches, and they are all sterilized with steam or boiling water. The shortening, sweetening and spicing are carefully and accurately weighed i;i exact proportions. The baking is timed to a constant temperature, so that there is absolute uniformity, and all the mixing and flavoring, while clone on a large scale, are so conducted as t<> insure a uniform quality.? New York Tribune. (furry brightness with you to the heme. Worry should have no place under the roof that shelters your wife and children.?Maxwell's Talisman. CATARRH TH OF I " Pe-ru-na is a Blessing to Those 1 Catarrh," Says United States Sent la fe; i Celds Not Promptly Cured Are Sure | j to Cause Catarrh. < - ox Catarrh Improperly Ireated is Sure111 to Make Life Short and Miserable. I 1 :an Many Wonderful Cures Are Made! j by Pe-ru-na. so ; Co CATARRH spares no or^an or fane-! .Ju tioa of the body. It is capable of i lai f 'stroving sight, taste, smell, hearing, j re? ; _ -stton, 9eoretion, assimilation and i en Capital THE I I FOUR PER CENT.?peh a * * 1 IDMSI; & OF * I ALT, KTM^K. | * * *- Remember we are ready to serve * * joil at all times with Drngs and j* ]? Medicines ot the very best quality. i? Ptrtumery. Soaps, and Toilet Arti ? ck-H, Eveglasses to tit every * ^ eye. International Stock * # Food Patent Medicines. | PAINTS AND OILS, % Window Glass. I -STATIONERY A SPECIALTY- | Z? Agents lor Nannerly's FiDe Can- & j f' dies. A iot ot Early Amber end * Orange Cane Seed j ist received. Call ]? Z- and see us. I (DM DRUG CO. I! t LSESVIiLE, S. C. |! | A A A A A A A A a A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A i -e -? 'V -e 'V ?e* -r* -r? t* -e ?r* ?e ( Reaistration Notice. w A LL PICK SONS NOT HAVING A KEG- | istra'ion certificate ami dr siring to ! ? register must app-ar before the Board at i Lexington C. H., in p.-rsin. The Board j will be in session every first .Monday Irciu 9 a in. to i? p. m. JAMES B ADI)V. Chairman. | A: S. H. HaRMaN. Secretary OUR way" | j THE GENTLE WAY. I The feeling and the rdges of the collars j are respected, shirts are restored to their j *" owners tree lrom the rip and tear that i some laundries seem to thiuk necessary, 1 ? 1 - - - Ka A * 1 cnlts are worn out as jhu?* as itieuc. * .-> | result the linen last loader aucl done bet- j ter at the LAURENS STEAV5 LAUNDRY. 11J LAUKENS S C. , oi I ^aTWjite now l'or the Agency, [ E MOST DAI Kll CHRONI "rcubled With A ttor Corbin. I^^^L3,S^dtor ^ D .Y Cor bin. I Gentlemei?--^7^Tuse^fPe^ ; runa has been a blessing to) those troubled with catarrh. < So many of my acquaintances ? have been cured and benefited S by its use that its curative $ mta/tfi/zc chnitJ/i hr> <rpnfrn[f\/ ) known. 1 do not hesitate to I recommend it as the best rem- s edy yet discovered for that dis-1 ease."-??D. Y. Cor bin, 916 Chi- S cago Opera Mouse, Chicago, //aJ cretion. It pervades every part of e human body. Poruna also cures bronchitis, cough*. (I consumption in the fir-t stages with failing certainty. [Ton. P. Y. Corbin. is ex-United States nator and cousin of Adjutant General rhin of the United States Army, dge Corbinisone of the best known vvers in Chicago and stands high pro>sionally and socially. The above dorsement coming from such a man IOME ? .EXING-TON, S. C. fcfNUM PAYABLE QUARTERLY We Have J A NICE AND C( 'HUE IMPORTED I ar Milliner, with a varied and fine sele< in style, qnanlity and price. V* J. C. Kin LEESVII March 23, 1904 ?in. RUJ5BKR re nit long Srtjt. I make a my kinds exc< iudeiib.e pad tor marking linea tor -i( "\7\7 Z ZLi S O [ TYPEWRITERS, OF, 5:5 I MAIN STKKET, DH. F. 0. QiL^OHE, ZD-EITTZST1, 1 310 Main St, Columbia, S. C. .rFICE HOUR^*: it a. m. to 2 \. m., aud 1roru 3 to fj p. in. J; nnary 23, 1901 ?tl. SGEROUS IC DISEASES. | ' rnnnot. help tint add weight and import::n?*e to the thousands of testimonials '!? from the humbler walks of life. fl Catarrh is tlie cause of at least one- ^ half of the ills to which the human. * family is subject. Is there no way to escape front it ? There is. P'-runa never fails to cure a cold. Peruna never fails to cure catarrh in the f:r.-t stage. Peruna cures catarrh in the jk ; second stage, nine cases out of ten. Perttna eures catarrh in its last and worst , stages in the majority of eases, and "f ' never fails to benefit every ease, how- I ever bad. M A book on the cure of throat and lun? diseases, and catarrh in all stages and J? var:iM m's, m'iil 1 iu an \ auuiw ??^y The Per una Medicine Co., Columbus, O. ^ . "My Life Hun? by a Mere Thread, 1 Pe-ru-na Cured Me." ' Mis. Sarah Smart, 276 i I ay ward St., IJrook! y n, X. Y., writes: " 1 can't tell in words how low I was. My life hung by a mere thread. I was waiting for months to die. | "My trouble was consumption or ' bronchitis. 1 suffered no pain when I A was low, but coughing and breathing M kept sapping what little strength I had. 1 could not eat, sleep or even lean bade ^ on a chair. I was a mere skeleton. I said to my husband, ll can't last much t longer.' My neighbors say they do not ^ know how I ever recovered. Jt was al- "M most a miracle. " 1 took your medicine but three ^ months, when I could do my housework J lnwl vistinf unrt have been diiinir it: I""" ?' - J ever'sin<*o. Now I am able to do any- ? j tiling. You would never think I liad S||i been troubled with such a serious ill- ^B|j i 11 ess. I shall always keep your medicine Wg ; in my house."?Mrs. Sarah Smart. vH Despaired of Recovery. ^ Mrs. K. L. Aulich, Vice President J American (lenealogieal Association, <K>4 ^ II street, X. W\, "Washington, I>. ('., writes: ' 1 know whereof I speak when I say that Peruna is a wonderful remedy for eolds and catarrhal trouble. Last fall I ! was very much debilitated from tho effect of a cold contracted early in tho a summer and which I neglected. 1 knew fl that my system was irynecd of medicine * and n-st. hut to find the right thing was J the problem. Happily I gave Peruna a M trial first and have no reason to com- ifj plain of the results. Within a month I had entirely recovered my strength and | good health and really felt better and stronger than before."?Mrs. It. L. j Aulich. I I f you do not derive prompt and satis- ^ factory results from the use of Peruna, j write at once to I)r. Hartman, giving a ' full statement of your case and lie will be pleased to give you his valuable advice gratis. I Address I)r. Hartman, President o? | The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, O, $30,000. IA NK -?SAVING DEPOSITS. ' lust Opened )MPLETE LINE OF 1 'RENCH MILLINERY stion of styles, will endeavor to please yoa fe shall be pleased to have you call. ^ ard & Co., jLE, S, C. MONEY GROWS m BEARS INTEREST when placed in a wide-a wake progressive " ??ass?T~\ Leave your Limes and Dollars with us and see them increase at toe rate of 4 per cent, pt-r annum. Interest is payable quarterly in our SAVINGS DEPARTMENT. PALMEITO II I TRUST CO., i COLUMBIA. S. C. " Wm. H 1YLES President. JULIUS B WALKeU. V. President. J. P. MATTHEWS. Secretary. STAMPS * - jpt tbe bad ones. I furnish a Name ami aa ) cents. 1 Lave some o;her good things. 1ST G-XISSZES, F2CS SUPPLIES, ETC. COLUMBIA, Si. C: To Cure A Cold in One Day ^ i Take Ltxative Bromo Quinine i Tablet*. All druggists refund tbe money if it f iils to cure. E. W. i