Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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< How to Increase '/ Increased fruit crops are mc ment than of good luck. Fruit 1 supply of Virginia X' Ol \> t|V !> ' The trees absorb plant fooc1 and potash?from the soil just tl ence has shown this over and o\ 1 well recognized that " return to t would expect the best results " 1 |/ 1 growers. Apple, pear, peach, orange ; careful fertilization. But be sur u I made a test with other c( Lowry, of Manatee County, Fla. The yield where I used Virginia much as where the other tw< Hundreds of users say Virgin because of their good qualitiesresults. Many facts of great interest lished in the new 1909 Farmers' sent tree on application to auy u I Virginia-Carol Sales Offices mmm Richmond, Va. i|BEARDEN I 922-924 Cervais 5 9 Groceries, Hay, Grain, Hi ? j.?:_i nr:--, r\ grV veriili, rr jlj.*7 x cubing, j B ments, Harness, Si I Brid] I Best wagon yard in the c I Call to see us. I | treatmenl if THE PRICES TELL. I J. B. FRII Wholesal Grocers, Fl? 7 !&?- <& "5; ' ' . I. "S?^ J? We Want the Merchants, Pi ington County to Call and S I Purchases. We Can Fill I Money. 1823-1825 Main S I I 0. BROV 11730 MAIN STREE Is where you can find OF AL DOORS, Sj BLIND T.TMP ATM1 | CABINET jg Call or write for Prices. JT B. H ' -. . : Wholesale ant General Groceri* Pork anc 332 trJ!iit V A1J5 BTJlX<J!i 1, FLOUR-h"c: Cheaper by the han-el. First patent, \ give satisfaction or money lefnnded. 1 people to bny floar at a low price. See the Yield of Fruit re often the result of good manage:rees and fruit plants need a liberal i-Carolina ilizers * Is?that is, nitrogen, phosphoric acid le same as any other crop. Experirer again. This truth has become so he land what the tree removes if you las become an axiom with the best md other fruit trees soon respond to e to use the best fertilizers. >mpanies' fertilizers," says Mr. H. O. , "and yours proved to be the best. -Carolina Fertilizer, was just twice as 3 companies' fertilizer was used." ia-Carolina ' Fertilizers are cheapest -give better satisfaction and quicker and value to fruit growers are pubYear Book, a copy of which will be f our sales offices. ! Una Chemical Co. Durham, N. C. lovCc-ftlwB Charleston, S.C. JH Baltimore, Md. ie m Columbus, Ga. A. LUTHER I St - Columbia, S. C. | BBEBBBBBB &j ardware, Wheelwright Ma- | rinware, Farming Imple- I addles, Collars, Pads, | ies, etc. | ity for the benefit of all. | 'rompt and courteous | t guaranteed. | THE QUALITY SELLS* >AY & CO., e and Retail our, | sd and Grain. lanters and Farmers of Lex'ee Us Before They Make Their Yoyr Wants and Save Yov treet, Columbia, S. C. nuiq T, COLUMBIA, S. C. j| one of the best stocks of |lj II I o L KINDS jj SLSH, S& GLASS D CEMENT. jj MANTLES. ?! ERIOT. I Retail Dealer in es, Beef, Mutton, j I Sausage, COLUMBIA, S. C. just received a carload of fiour. The price reduced to only 65c, per 24 pound sack, vaterground. Every sack guaranteed to rhis is a fine opportunity for Lexington ine before you buy. Owing to the growing demand for our Hand Made Harness, we find ourselves overstocked on Factory Made goods, and for the next 30 days will sell all Factory Goods at greatly reduced prices. These goods are made by Factories of the highest reputation, and con sist of Carriage, Baggy' and Slip Harness. It will pay any one to get our prices DAVIS & COMPANY, 1517 Main Street, Columbia, S. C. Prof. Derrick on Anne; ation. To my Dutch Fork Friends: "Why the unrest in the 'Dutch Fork', of Lexington County?" This seems to be a question that is puzzling a great many minds nowadays. And I appear not as one able to answer the question, but simply as an anxious inquirer also. "Why the unrest?" Is there any just reason for it? Having been born and reared in the Dutch J Fork, and having lived and worked ( there al! of my lite, until \% years j ago, and knowing those people as I I do, to the above question, I answer j there is no sane and just reason for | you to want to cut yourselves off from Lexington county and annex to some other county. But still if you want to go you have a reason for it and you think it is a just reason. Then what is that reason, is it from a pecuniary point of yiett ? Well if that be it, lets see how that will work. Lexington county to-day is clear of any debt whfttpvnr. and if I mistake not she has j the distinction of being the only county out of the forty-four in the State of South Carolina that is free from debt. So you see that argument will not hold. Well then you may argue ! that the roads and schools are better, ! both in Richland and Newberry conn- j ties. Grant that to be true, and I i must say from a broader point of view 1 I believe it is true. But why are the roads in these counties better than they are in Lexington county? There ! is one of two reason; it is either be- ; cause they have borrowed the money and built their road9 or it is because their county levy i3 higher than ours. Then why are their schools better than ours? There is one and only one reason for this; it is because the individual districts have voted an extra school levy on themselves. Then, gentlemen, if the above be your reasons and you want better roads and better schools, which I hope. you do, why don't you do as these otter counties have done, and do id in your own j name? You can do it just as well in ; Lexington county as ycu can by call- | ingyourselves Richland or Newberry. ! You all know there is nothing in the ; name, you are not going to have any better schools nor better reads until ! you pay for them, no matter what you call yourselves. You might say vnn arp livinor in "a land that. ! _ J flows witli milk and honey, and that j would not add one iota more to your j schools and roads, than by calling j yourselves by the same old name, "The Dutch Fork of Lexington Coun- 1 I tv." So, then, I am sure you all un- j derstand that if you want these ira- i proyements you must pay for them, j And I hope and believe you do want | them, but why not do it in your own . name? Why do you want to call j yourselves Richland or Newberry, j and thereby put yourselves in a posi- ' tion to be compelled to help pay off ! a debt consisting of thousands and i thousands of dollars that you have j ? i * - . v i? >-i? : _ _i_ !i.i. i naci nouiing m tne worm 10 uu witn i contracting? Where is the logic or i reason about it? I must confess my- I self as being unable to see it. But then you 9ay, "THE STEEL; BRIDGE!" O, yes, I had almost for- j gotten that. My dear friends, has it* ever appeared to your minds that Lex- j ington county is the only county j in South Carolina that ha9 a ( river flowing through it for the length j that Saluda river flows through and j there is no steel bridge? I venture j the assertion that Lexington county , 18 unparalleled In this respect, we { have always been sorely in need of a j free bridge. But possibly you will ! say there is GRAFT. If there is, it is j not the fault of the bridge nor the j fault of the advocates of the bridge, i but it is the fault of those who are in authority. So it is your duty to have that part of the situation investigated and ascertain whether or not there is any graft. And if you find that there j is, why then punish the grafters and j ? ? -i 1 i? fu i : j 1 i go aneaa anu ouna vuur unuge, anu if you find that there is no graft why thengive these men credit for having the NERVE to go ahead and have this much needed work done. Take j either Richland or Newberry and I i J I venture the assertion there are half ; dozen steel bridges in either of the i counties and that none of them are j paid for, and possibly there wont one i of you men out of every ten eyer see | either one of these bridges; but if you j annex vourselves to either of the i counties you wiUhave just as much of the burden to War as any one el9e. j But I shall not say more; in fact it j was not my intention to say as much j | as I have when I started out. But, j ; being 0110 of you, 1 have felt it my J duty to admonish you to be careful, ! be considerate, before you take the ! step. Because after it is done you ; will feel too proud to retract, but I j firmly believe you will regret in time S to come. j' So, again, I want to admonish you j to be CONSIDERATE and to THINK j WELL. Remember the old name, \ Lexington County, is very dear to vus all. Yours very truly, W. Ed. Derrick. Cameron, S. C., Feb. 27, 1909. HEALTH INSURANCE i The man who insures his life is wise for his family. The man who insures his health ; _ .C ^ ^ ! is wise dolii sor nre> raraiiy ana ' himself. You may insure health by guard? sng it. It is worth guarding. At the first attack of disease, which generally approaches through the LIVER and manifests itself in innumerable ways ^ TAKE. And save your health. Is There Wot A Cause? To the Editor of The Dispatch: Your recent inquiry as to the cause of the spirit of unrest so apparent among the people of Lexington county is worthy of consideration. I realize that an attempt to answer it is calculated to lead one into a field where some might prefer to have left alone. But since the task is to find the cause i all fields are open for the search. First, I would insist that the spirit of progress, and the extent of territory in Lexington county is out of proportion to the public service being rendered. Take the roads' through the county and streets and side-walks of towns. The law provides for their width and the method of their being j kept in good order. The supervisor, \ county commissioners and overseers of roads are clothed with, power to keep the roads at their proper width and in good condition. The mayors ' and iutendants of the towns have like power for the streets and side-walks. If every road, street and side-walk in the county was kept to its proper width and in good order that would create a county pride that would put reduction of territory at a discount. But since it is not so but rather obstructions are being thrown in the way we need not be surprised that reduction is at a premium. Second. The difference in the market and tar: value of some property is out of proportion. To illustrate, Mr. Crooked is rated at eighty thousand dollars in the* trade guides and re- J turns for taxation property valued at j five hundred dollars. Mr. Crooked is not a politician in the sense of officeseeking, but he is am expert in office filling. He manipulates the nambypamb}' office seekers and insists upon the right of suggesting or rather rejecting the appointment cf men who would raise hi9 assessment or in any manner lay upon him the simple duty of patriotic citizenship. He is willing that the farmer and small merchant pay tax in proportion to the market value of their property, but you must excuse him. If Mr. Crooked returned his property for taxes on a basis of equality with the small farmer and small merchant the county tax would be so reduced that no one would expect to find them cheaper any where. Third: Mr. Crooked, by virtue of his notes, liens and mortgages, tabes away the independence of voters to a large extent and thereby becomes a stupendous factor in our elections, not for the better but for the worse. These three reasons will, I think, Mr. Editor, to some extent explain the present state of unrest. New counties or annexation will not cure all of these. SUBSCRIBER. A Common Cold. VVo /.loim that, if f^nlrl r.ftnld be avoided some of the most, dangerous and fatal diseases would never be heard of. A cold often forms a culture bed for germs of infectious diseases. Consumption, pneumonia, diphtheria and scarlet fever, four of the most dangerous and fatal diseases, are of this class. The culture bed formed by the cold favors the development of the germs of these diseases, that would not otherwise find lodgment There is little danger, however. of any of these diseases being contracted when a good expectorant cough medicine like Chamberlain's Congh Remedy is used. It cleans out these culture beds that favor the development of the germs of these diseases. That is why this remedy has proved so universally successful in preventing pneumonia. It not only cures your cold quickly, but minimizes the risk of contracting these dangerous diseases. For sale by Kaufmann Drug Co. The ringing of a gong on an electriclight company's wagon in St. Louis - ? ii.. ?.i._?? i i causcc a panic in uie doiesium, wnert : fourteen thousand persons were listen- i ing to Gipsey Smith. The excitement j was subdued by the singing of hymns i by the choir of a thousand voices. -i Chamberlain's Cough Remedy the Most Popular Because it is the Best. "I have sold Chamberlain's Cough { Remedy for the past eight years and j find it to be one of the best selling mod- ! icines on the market. For bahies and young children there is nothing better in the line of rough syrups." says Paul j A 11/\m T1 lo 'n TV?olinr? T o rlTKia I rx.l.lt~u? i xoiu i/vaiUijj, x^n. a ^ *jav j not only onr^s the coughs, colds And croup so common among young children, but is pleasant, and safe for them to take. For sale by Kaufmann Drug Co. Th? Bad Child. Come, Little Badness, and climb to my knee; Put your head down here and cry on my shoulder. For badness in you is like badness in me, Only my own is the older. If you were a papa and wore a high hat, I wonder if you would be talky and bossy, And then when your little ^irl answered like that, Would you say she was ugly and saucy? If you were a mamma and wore along skirt, I wonder if you would grow weary of service, And then when you scolded and made ner ieei nurc, Would you 9ay she was "naughty" . or "nervous?" If yon were the strong one and I were the weak, When you punished me, then would I thank you? And when I was crying, too sobby to speak, Wouldn't I long to spank you? Threatening fevorishness with children is quickly and safely calmed by Prevonbics. These little Candy Cold Cure Tablets should always be at hand ?for promptness is all-important. Preventics contain no quinine, nothing harsh or sickening. Tnev are indeed, "the stitch in time." Carried in pocket, or purse, Prevenrics are a genuine safe guard, against Colds. 25c. Sold by Kanfmann Drng Co. A hard thing to make up your mind to do is something you know i9 sensible. One of the most wasteful things a man can do is saving money for his heirs to throw away. A Columbus railroad engineer committed suicide with a strap of his artificial leg. J. Walter Doar, editor and publisher of the Sunday Outlook at Georgetown, has sold his business to C. E. Rouse. The five-year-old son of Rev. Oliver Johnson of Chester swallowed a horse ' ' ?1 A Kn f U rtO vxrvf ,snuu nan several ua^ a uuu nao juju suffered any bad effects. Wanted?Piedmont cigarette coupons. I will pay 40c per hundred cash in redeeming these coupons. Rice 1>. Harman. J. C. Dunn, contractor oi the C. C. & O. Railway has engaged one hundred Greeks to work at his camps on Broad and P.icclec rivers his intention being to use these Greeks in place of negroes. It is proposed that Kentucky shall build a memorial bridge at Frankfort in honor of Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis, both of whom were born npon her soil. 0. H. Feldman, a liquor drummer, has been arrested in Yorkville for solicting orders in violation of the Carey-Cothran law. Bottle drinks of all kinds and flavors will be found at the Bazaar Fountain. On ice in season. A New Jerseyfman won a bride at a charity raffle. She was put up as one of the prizes, and he paid his dollar for a ticket whichjhappened to be the lucky number. He married the prize beauty, but he may live to see the day when he will wish he had not been so charitable.?Daily Record. FOR SALE?A bflat Cornet, nickel finished and bright polished in fine condition (good as new) with nice leather carrying' case for sale at low figures Apply to Rice B. Harman Subscribe tc the Dispatch. Pay your dues to this paper. Subscribe for the Home and Farm. Only 25c. in connection with The Dispatch. Women are fortunate in that their hair does not naturally growfthe way thej' fix it up. The average woman^neverXreceipts for a telegram without getting as O white as a sheet. * An ideal play in the estimation of women is one wherein the heroine weeps most of the time. FELLERS, THE HARNESS MAN, 933 Cervais St., Columbia, S. C. All standard Farm Harness and Gears, Traces, Trace Chains, Collars, Whips, Saddles, Bridles, Etc. All kinds of repair work promptly done and guaranteed to give satasfac- j tion. Prices are the lowest. Give me a trial. E, A. FELLERS, COLUMBIA, - S. C. Train Leaps oyer Chiff, Guayaquil, Kcuador, February 24?A passenger train on the main line bound North was to-day thrown over a cliff one hundred feet high at a point near Rio Bamba and crashed to the bottom of the ravine. Twentv-fiiv persons were killed and forty wounded The accident was caused by a displaced rail, Three Roys! Toasts. The ''Greville Memoirs" tells this story of King William IT. of England and the Duke of Cumberland, his brother: "During dinner loud voices 41 were heard, which soon became more vehement. Both brothers had drunk more than usual, and the duke had lost his temper and his head. Then "f/-\T Trill!.,.., *vi ui<^iuioi i/iiitc xvui^ ."/lir peeted the idea which from tli:tt time * was never out of Puke Ernest's mindthat he ought to be the next king of England should no male children survive his brother, William IV. The duke, rising, said: 'Cal! in the suit. I am proposing a least. The king's health; God save the king.' The suit came in and drank it. Then the (lulio said. 'May I also. sir. propose the next * toast?' 'Xamo it. your grace,' replied . the king. 'The king's heir.' proudly said tlie duke, 'and God bless him'/ "A dead silence followed. Then the . king, collecting all his energies and wits, stood up and called out, 'The king's heir; God bless her!' Then, throwing the glass over his shoulder, he turned to his brother and exclaimed, 'My crown came with a lass, and my crown will go to a lass!' Every one *?ticed that the duke did not. drink the toast. lie left the room abruptly." j A Kind Hearted Waiter. A surprising experience was that of ' a lady who received a bit of advice on table etiquette. She is sufficiently free from vanity to tell the story herself. She says: I know that I am not a person of impressive appearance. I am inclined to be short and stout and to dress plainly. Still, I had hoped that I had an air of acquaintance with polite society. But now I shall be more modest than ever in my idea of the impression I make upon strangers. At my first meal at the hotel where I passed last summer I was pleased with the face of my waiter. It was radiant with kindliness and good nature. I began my dinner with soup and fish. As the waiter set them in front of me he glanced at the persons of fashionable appearance who were my neighbors at table. His kind heart J.I 1 ? ? i- 1- ? Zi l. 4. K ^ 4-U 4 was suuuemy suuca \miu iuc ic.u iu<a I might make an unfortunate impression on them. He bent down and whispered in my ear: "Eat your soup first." ** Grccming. Aneiently man thought more highly * of his horse than of his womenkind. But woman, as it chanced, was crafty. "Why does he esteem his horse beyond his wife?" she asked .herself and resolutely faced the task of finding out. Her first answer was: "The horse will carry a heavier load." Her next: "The horse doesn't talk back at him." But neither of these, somehow, im- # pressed her as being correct. "Mo'-t likely." slip declared at length, "it's in the grooming. Well. I'll just be well groomed myself and see." It was a lucky guess, and from that time forward woman's position rose relatively until in our day the horse has scarcely a look in even at the horse show.?Puck. Her Darling's Desire. "Mr darling," said a fond mother, ? who believed in appealing to children's render feelings instead of punishing ihem, "if you are so naughty you will grieve mamma so that She will get ill and have to lie in bed in a dark room and take nasty medicine, and then she may die and have to be taken away out to the cemetery and be buried, and you"? The child had become more solemn, hut an angelic smile overspread his face at his mother's last words, and, throwing his arms about her neck, he exclaimed: m "Oh, mamma, and may I sit beside the eoachm-'n?"?London Queen. m The Age cf Man. It is generally admitted by scientists ' that men lived on the earth contempo raucously with the big nosed rhinoceros, which became extinct about the beginning of the glacial period. That period, so high an authority as the late John Fisko assures us, probably began not less than 240,000 years ago and came to an end 80,000 years ago. How long man existed on the earth prior to the glacial period we have no means of knowing.?New York American. Puzzled. Mrs. Gnswell?Who is that man who looked at you as if he knew you? Mrs. Highsonie?He is a man who has done some professional work for me once or twice. He's a chiropodist. Mrs. ? Gas well?Chiropodist? Oh. yes; I've beard of them. They don't believe in ^ fftreordinnfion rin thevV?('hionco Trih- J ?- ?? i UJIC. * To What Base Uses, Etc. Ono of our State street brokers received a note from a customer bearing the cryptic message. "Richard III., act 1. line 138." Turning to the passage he read, "Now, by St. Paul!" and next moment he had given the order.? ? Boston Transcript. ' Useless Prayers. An earnest young preacher in a remote country village concluded a long and comprehensive supplication by 55a ing. "And now lot us pray for those who are dwelling in the uninhabited portions of the earth.*' Willing He Should Know. A certain boastful man assert^thnt he knows how to play on two cornets at oncc. and the neighbors say that UU 1IUI UUJCCL iu IJ13 nuuiviug nun, but that he had better not try to do It The man who Is always trying to And out what people say of him la seldrm hnppy.?Chicago Reeord-Herold.