The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, January 13, 1909, Image 12
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First Makes a Target of PurI
Kpr ?f News, but misses Hsrp?Laid
In Private Burying Ground.
I^^^^^Hpr-eeling of Exultation.
^^^^ BgbSfaursdny morning we tumbled j ,
K^r
^^^^HH&bed half an hour after the sun
^BH&aover Bull mountain. Alwe
had to hunt for twenty
-After cur collar button, we
^^HHpj^^;*peace with all mankind. We
HHHm^ad we were alive. We felt that
H^^Bpi&ted to keep on living for the
^^ HHjKS&red years. Any critter in the
^KSBPHr:' of Arizona could have sporj^^^p?e3^p|dled
our nose and we should
to a breakfast consist
of grizzly bear chops and
but we underwent no
We were still lamb
SWUNG BACK, AND
I^^H^Hj^HwOfe^POONEB ENTEBED.
HHHrKt?ok our way to the Kicker
down to write an ediannexation
of the United
^
it#* balminess steal over us as
^^H|mfl^pttK>ughts of raising the sal^^^^^^B^^jpricoltnral
editor and won^DHj^^;l^^^trself
if It woold spoil his
our borse e^tor on
e *ast Jear i? order that ,
^Hpiot be tempted to commit
^tout we wondered now if
^H||KBp|f^dn't come to raise him a 1
and let him become the 1
HBRtamiJy.
Schwartz, the druggist,
called us a liar, but our
^HKS^|Hy^|mained.
White, the saloonist, dropinlp
s&y that be would riddle our i
hail anything mnrp to
IS- him in the Kicker, but we j
;bed and winked at him.
gm as If nothing could trou- i
||jput us out of temper. It
j&those days when one looks t
teo and realizes that this is a
^world and doesn't want to 1
pes on the next <
|e never in better fettle for 1
|v We had advanced fifteen
Jlgy Jt would be a good thing i
da to get hold of this coun- <
jrere hunting around for the
|en when the sanctum door
Mr. Charles Spooner
We noticed that he had a
is hand and that there were
cental excitement in his face, \
is is the way with half our
6e paid po particular atten- (
oner, it should be explained,
Gireadam Gulch about three
? ? ?j i.i
I BBS ago. lie naa waicueu iue
?>but sure approach of that re^ss
thing called civilization, and
Hppbacked against it. He wanted
ttmes to stay with us and to keep
Ppir far away. He looked over
Nown, thought the soil was ferand
hitched his cayuse to the
best post The late deceased, as
must now speak of him, didn't lose
time getting to work. He used
guns right and left to reduce the
census, and he was soon known
^tiproarer. To do him justice, he
J wad?lots of sand,
p*: Drove Him Out of Town.
$ are secretary of the local vigie
committee. The late deceased
\ given a fair show to make his
|e, and then it became our painful
rto notify him in writing to light
and "hit higher altitudes. He reft
at first to go, but one night,
? ?? v.M.i o
.BOiaaiug vu a. uauu vtnu a
Hp.ndMed rope around his neck for ten
minutes, be changed his mind. He
|V dJdnt seem to blame anybody in par^p-fBrular
at that time, bat after getting
H^&vray be felt humiliated and laid it all
HHft&'tnt personally. He had now come
forllis revenge, but of course we
read his mind.
I b late deceased opened the interby
announcing that if we desired
In prayer he could spare us
^HmBptinutes to ask forgiveness for all
^^EgpiKieaii things we had ever done in
TT_ i.M klm 4-Ur,* U ^.AnM
17%TT B IUIU uiui luclc iv nvum
r<tferee weeks to make any sort of
gfcof It, but he refused to see the
||r in our remarks. He then an tod
that he had come a distance
Ktndred miles to shoot us into the
Eland and ordered us to elevate
pads. Up they went Any editor
KiP&rt of the west who is worthy
jESEL
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Artists listen
and many things not n
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1 C27 Wain Street,
B . And in Lcbby c
of the name can talk with his hands
up as well as down.
We tried to be entertaining to our
caller. We told him two or three good
jokes and hoped to see him laugh with
us, but ^e continued to treat the matter
as a serious affair. We had just
started in on the best yarn of all when
he called time on us and began blazing
away. Why he didn't gather us to
our fathers and leave the only good
weekly paper in this country editorless
is a wonder to us, for he was only
eight feet away. Even as the bullets
cut our clothing and whizzed by our
ears we said' to ourself that it was
mighty poor shooting for a holy terror
to do.
tvnJ ? /li'otnnfla t\f ctr ff| frO
VT C uau a uioiauvv vv
and then to pull a gun from its holster,
and our first shot was fired as Mr.
Spooner fired his last. No second was
needed. He went down, and he expired
while breathing out the words:
"Why didn't I come in and attack I
him with a crowbar?" !
Of course it was a case for the coroner,
and that official was soon on the
spot and his jury summoned. Our office
devil had seen the last of the
fracas, and the late deceased had
boasted on the street of what he was
Sfoing to do. At the eud of half an
hour a verdict of justifiable homicide
was rendered and the body removed.
We have had hut one policy ever since
the first man was planted in our private
editorial graveyard. We have
ilways paid all funeral expenses ana i
taken a carriage at the head of the J
procession. Later on we have erected
tombstones with lamps on top and
3ecorated the graves until they were
pleasant and artistic objects to contemplate.
' Nothing was found on the body of
the deceased to show that he had a
living relative. All that was discovered
in his pockets consisted of a few
shillings in change, a dozen extra cartridges
and a poem entitled "Bury Me
Neath the Willow." This had been cut
from a newspaper, and it looked as if
the deceased had read it over many
times. It seemed to show that he had
i deep feeling of sentiment way down
in his heart, after all.
Laid Him to Rest.
On Thursday we saw the mistaken
man laid in his last resting place. He
brought the number of mounds in our
graveyard up to nineteen, but there
was no feeling of exultation in our soul
is we looked around.
Some editors would have striven to
turn the affair to their benefit in the
way of increased subscriptions and advertising,
but not so with us. We have
?ver kept the two things apart. We
take advertising at regular rates, and
we remove men who seek to remove
us, and even if it does occur under the
same roof we keep the accounts separate.
Mr. Spooner had a large and liberal
?' rru?.wA ?t*a r? cr +a mo r
Luiierui. i ut?i c wao uvtuALij-, tv
the harmony of the occasion. It was
a cloudless day. and his coffin cost $25,
to say nothing of vthe gravedigging
and the hacks. We also gave the officiating
minister a five dollar bill, and
lie was pleased to praise our straight
shooting and to observe at the grave
that the deceased would never more
know weariness and pain.
A week hence we shall erect a tombstone
over the grave of our mistaken
brother, and next spring the trailing
arbutus will be taught to trail o'er the
mound covering him in.
We don't think he was a bad man at
heart, but was simply mistaken in his
mission here on earth. He thought it
was to remove an Arizona editor, but
it was more likely to have been to run
a sawmill.
We have no word of criticism. One
must take this life as one thinks best.
Mr. Spooner may have decided in his
own mind that the holy terror business
just fitted him. He might have
J- ~ of on*r_
uiaue an cven ^icaici iauuic u*. auj
thing else. We are sorry that we could
not bury him under a willow, but that
kind of tree does not flourish here. He
shall have a cottonwood In place of it,
and we shall personally see to it that
it is enriched and watered and made a
thing of beauty on the landscape.
M. QUAD.
At .one season of the year white
people kill negroes and then about
the end of the year the farmers begin
to shoot white agents who try to decoy
their negro tenants. In the Delta
counties of Mississippi the farmers
are lying in wait for the agents with
far and faaf.liara
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A man feels more self respect for
being able to discount a note that he
would for not having to do it.
The reason there will be no purgatory
for a woman in the next world is
she gets it here in suffering man.
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His Throat Gut By ITsighbors.
Thomasville, Ga, January 3.?B. F.
Akridge, who lives at Sale City, Ga,
near here, was found this morning ;
near Thomasville with his throat cut j
from ear to ear, and with numerous j
bruises on his body. He will probably
recover.
Akridge says that he left Thomasville
on Saturday afternoon to walk
to his home, and that at Ochlochnee
River he was met by a crowd of men
from his own neighborhood, who attacked
him and inflicted the injuries
which he bears. He says that some
held him and others of the crowd
covered him with rifles, while one man
cut his throat.
He refused to give the names of his
assailants.
The virtues we are proudest of we
practice because we haye to.
Postmaster!Shoots Himself.
Americus, Ga, January 3.?Col.
Joseph C. Honey, for twelve years
postmaster here, shot himself through
the brain with a pistol early this morning,
dying, as his wife, who heard the
shot, reached his bedside. Illness and
the fear of increased bad health is believed
to have caused his act. He was
one of the wealthiest men here. He
was a brother of former*Judge Henry
C. Roney, of Augusta,fcGa, and was
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Granulated Sugar
At Cost.
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FRESK ROASTED COFFEE
10c. fco| 35c.
Green, Black and Mixed Teas
30c. to 80c.
CHEON TEA
The best 50c. value in America
Oar ''Special" Coffee at 25c. is a Cap
Favorite. Baker's Chocolate and
Cocoa.
Souvenirs given away
on Saturday.
SUGARS AT COST
ffipL75 Stores in United States
C. D. KENNY CO.
1639 Main Phone 151
DR.fG. R. HARDING,
Painless" Tooth Extractor and
Professional Dentist,
R. F. D. No. 2, 18 A., Columbia, S
C. Hyatt Park car runs by the
office.
Land For Sale.
Ten acres splendid farming land,
suitable for good truck or one-horse
farm, with four-room dwelling, located
in Lexington, for sale at low
figures. Apply at this office.
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Everything on Eartl
: prices which will actonn
As to Clot hi 112: wo are handlim
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; country ol j 1 v;porto< 1 'iuuionni ami sol*
For the Ladies' and wo have
on exhibition in any market. They are so
i jike to outshine the most fastidious Belie b
In the Shoe line we have something
Leather will stand any weatherl Our :
suit Bcvs' and Girls of anv kind. Gome at
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Kris Kringle 1ms promised ro make
lot of the nicest Christmas 'ifcicks ever wit
people and nice little boys and girls.
Make our place headquarters \vl;
i sine to come again. We are conven
the Union Station, where we will a
we defv! We lead, others follow.
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Year, I am, ?
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919 Gervais Street and'
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We still have
Wire Fence for
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have everything
children. Don't
We have a ful
best that money
all. See us befo
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witfcont a question iho Nobbiest Sk
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uy our Skirts, ior -Jivy lit supremely
extra fines Oar Ladm-P autl-Gor.T.-c
standard Taa is the best .Shoe a:: c;
iu Sao v.'11r stock ! r in Sooes wo hat
our store his headquarters during i
ncssed by human eye. Boll Babies,
ien in Columbia and we will tr<
iently located just three doors
lways be yd ad to serve you. 0
patronage, and wishing you a
Yours for business,
102 1-2 Main Street,
Elections ^
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topped the 1
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Carolina.
{ plenty of the famous Pittsb
all purposes. You will find
4361^1Nteu
s, Notions, Shoes an4
sasonable Dry Goods, Notions,
/ thing we have ever^shown, an
with any in this section of the
in wearing apparel for men, \
; buy others until you have seer
1 line of Staple and Fancy Grc
can buy. Our prices and terms
re you buy. We are here to pl<
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jnder how we can do ho. ii you would
fantastic toe is all the .2:0. Our Patent
irth for any man. Our smaller line will
;u Columbia ''Chock-a-block."
.he Holidays, and has sent in advance a
Wagons and ail kinds of Toys for big
?at you so clover that you will be
from the Seaboard Depot and near
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Opposition we invite! Competition
Merry Christmas and Happy New
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