Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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PENCIL AND SCISSORS. Subscribe for the Dispatch. Car Patent Floor at the old price. Call on P. M. Frick, Chapin, S. C. It appears to us that all of the legislative investigation committees used the whitewash brush freely. They were cases of you tickle me and I'll von. Box Ball Alley now running over Roof'9 old stand. Premiums given each week for highest score. Come up and enjoy the fan. J. B. THOMPSON. The County Board of Registration attended to routine business while in session Monday. We have been informed that the trolley line to Columbia has not gone dead but only sleepeth. It will probably awaken by the time Gabriel blows hi9 horn. The latest styles in spring millinery, something new and pretty, Wm. Piatt & Son, Columbia. Today the hunting season closed and the birds and quails will now be given a rest for many months. Wo nnfcirwl mini/Hncr with the orrswd on Monday the inimicable Dick Peele as jovial as ever. When you want the finest and purest plantation and family supplies, call at Mrs H M Wingard's where you find just what you want at rock botton prices. For Pianos and Organs, write P. M. Frick, Ohapin, S. C., and get his good terms. Schulz is the best. Col. J. Brooks Wingard was among those who went to Washington to see President Wilson inaugurated. A better man than W. Lucius Wise, of Pelion, never breathed the breath of life and we are always glad to 1 % *_ _ V J Y-t i * gnaw his nana, xm was in town Monday in attendance upon a meeting of the Board of Registration, of which he is a valued member. One of the best selected stocks of dry goods for spring and snmmer wear in the latest patterns and shades is to be found at Wm Piatt & Son, Columbia. The General Assembly of South Carolina has voted in favor of the amendment of the United States constitution providing for the election of United States Senators by a direct vote of the people. Governor Blease did not veto this measure. Box Ball Alley now running over Roofs old stand. Premiums given each week for highest score. Come up and enjoy the fun. J. B. THOMPSON. Mr. W. H. Witt, one of Swansea's prominent merchants and stock dealers, was in town the first of the week. Col. E. L. Asbill, one of Lexing. ? * a a _ i ton 8 Dngmest ana most successim attorneys, was in town Monday from Leesville on legal business. Single Comb White Leghorn Eggs, 75c per setting' flo), if called for; $1.00 if by mail. Fine laying strain, pure, from Young & Northups variety. Rev. W. J. Roof, Chapin, S. 0. 21 Miss Lilla Rhoden will have her millinery opening March 7th and 8th. Her stock embraces the latest styles in trimmed and untrimmed hats and millinery. Her stock is fresh and upto-date and her prices are reasonable. Rev W D Quick, pastor of the Wagener circuit, spent the week-end with his family here and paid us a pleasant call, Brother Quick is doing a good * work in the Master's cause, having built and remoddled two churches since he has been in that work. Box Ball Alley now running over RooFs old stand. Preminms given each week tor highest score. Oome up and enjoy the fun. J. B. THOMPSON. T3...1. "OCT akA.l? 4-V.? fl ttUA fl OUCCUJ , cue p/puioi Clerk of Court of this county, is taking a long needed rest and is spending his vacation among the Orange groves of Florida?the "Land of Flowers." Mr. &bealy is reported to not having been in--good health for the past year and this vacation is taken under the advice of his physician. The friends of Mr. Shealy wish ^ for him a speedy restoration to health. I will open up in the old market next Friday a meat market and will keep a supply of fresh meats every day. Your patronage is solicted. 19pd. ROSCOEH. CAUGHMAN. Mr. Albert Taylor, from down on the Congaree, was in town Monday. One among the largest planters, if not the largest, in Lexington county. Mr. and Mrs. Sim J. Miller paid a delightful visit to friends at Hopkins, Richland county, last Sunday, returning li the afternoon. Mr. Miller says he made the distance of twentyfive miles on his return trip in one hour and twenty-five minutes. This is some traveling. Dr. J. T,. Shnler. of Selwood. was among the prominent visitors in town : > alesday. His presence here carried . : us back to the days of the Nineties when the doctor was a power in politics and Alliance affairs and his wise councils in the uplifting of the farmers and the betterment of the condi ten of all closes of citizens is felt u itii this day. 5 - " i. . - ' * , ,.j 'vk t; -. #,. , ~~ PERSONAL Gathered Here. There and Everywhere. Mr. Joe Canghman spent Sunday in Columbia. Mr. W. M. Schwartz, of Columbia, I anenfc ftnnriav with his mother here. ?-? ? Capt. L. W. Redd spent Sunday in Graniteville, S. C. The County Board of Commissioners was in session salesday. Mrs. G. M. Harman went over to Columbia Monday, on business. Miss Inez Hook, of near New Brooki land, spent Sunday with Miss Lessie Hook. Mr. Jesse Wingard has returned home, his sdhool having closed at Gaston. Misses Kate and Blanch Shull were the guests cf Miss Lessie Hook Sunday afternoon. An interesting will case will come ap before Judge of Probate Drafts Shortly. A. Madison Hutto. of Pelion, a good man and citizen, made us a pleasant call salesday. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Crout, cf near Gilbert, was shopping in Columbia one day last week. Dr. L. L. Toole, a prominent dentist of Columbia, mingled with our people fooro salpcrJav Mrs. G. C. Hook visited her daughter, Miss Mildred, at Lander College, Greenwood, last week. Col. D. J. Knotts, of Swansea, and well known throughout the county and State, was in town Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Harman and daughter, Wilhemina, of Chapin, were visitors in town Monday. Mrs. L. Steel who has been visiting he daughter Mrs. W. H. Bickley, has returned to her home at Ethan. Mr. C. H. Liyingsfcon, from Hollow creek section, a model farmer and good man, was in town salesday. Mr. Jesse L. McCartha has moved his family from Batesburg here and occupy the George McCartha home. P. D. Meetze, a substantial citizen of the Ballentine section, was among the visitors in Lexington Monday. Mrs. E. G. Dreher and little son James, spent last week, the guest of her mother Mrs. Oswald at Barrs. Beautiful line of Clothing, at P. M. Frick's, Chapin, S. C. Call and look over the styles and get the prices. Mrs. L. J. Sox after a fortnight's visit to her daughter, Mrs. Sim J. Mc Cartha, has returned to her home. Misses Julia Bickley, Ada Williams and Cromer Oswald motored over to Oolumbia Sunday afternoon. If it is good, tender, juicy home meats, always go Kyzer's market, up street. Delivered at your home if you like. Miss Jessie Denny is visiting her brother, Mr. M. D. Denny, the popular and efficient depot agent at Lexington. Messrs. Artie and White Geiger and A. D. ghull came up from New Brookland Monday in their handsome automobile. J Sid Clark, of Chapin, was in town Monday. Sid is jovial and clever and always wears the smile that won't come off. When you need a stylish suit of clothes, spring neck wear or gents' furnishings, give Wm. Piatt & Son, OftlnniWo a r? o 11 M VWAA* We with regret chronicle the serious illness of Asbury, the little son of Mr. and Mrs. Aughtry Smith, on route 5, Lexington, who has pneumonia. Cotton Seed wanted. Will give good prices cash or in exchange for Fertilizers, time limited 15 days only. P. M. Frick, Ohapin, S. C. Mrs. M. W. Meetze and daughter, Miss Annie Martha, have gone to Washington to witness the inaugural ceremonios of President Wilson. T. C. Callison, one of the brightest members of the Lexington bar, is cff on a week's visit to his mother at Oallison, in Greenwood county. Mr. W. B. Tavlor, from up on Hollow creek, was here Monday. He is a good farmer and takes great inierrst in all agricultural matters of the county. Ex-Sheriff P. Henry Corley looked natural among our people Monday. Henry can still number his friends in Lexington by une scores. A good, clever man is i Mr. J. M. Gunter, who has resided at New Brookland for a number of years, has moved to Swansea where he will reside in the future. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Leaphart and little son returnpH a ~ ~ ? I1.U11I ca V lOlU lU iur< and Mrs. G. 0. Hook, the parents of Mrs. Leaphart, in Swifczer Neck last week. Miss Minnie Bouknight, who has been on an extended visit to Mrs. Rhude Roberts, has returned to her home at Irino leaving many an aching heart behind as a memorial of her j pleasant vfsit here. ^>:jJ WILSON'S VIEWS GIVEN TOMTION ? 1L. II inaugural mm or me new President. DEFINES PEOPLE'S DUTY. First Obligation of Law Is to Keep Society Sound by Sanitary and Pure Food Statutes and Measures Determining Conditions of Labor?Task Not Merely One of Politics. - Washington, March 4.?The inaugural address of President Woodrow Wilson is as follows: There has been a change of government It began two years ago, when the house of representatives became Democratic by a decisive majority. It has now been completed. The senate nhrmt a?spmhlp will also be Demo cratic. The offices of president and vice president have been put into the hands of Democrats. What does the change mean? That is the question that is uppermost in our minds today. That is the question I am going to try to answer, in order, if I may, to interpret the occasion. It means much more than the mere success of a party. The success of a party means little except when the nation is using that party for a large and definite purpose. No one can mistake the purpose for which the nation now seeks to use the Democratic fftirty. It seeks to use it to interpret a change in its own plans and point of view. Some old things with -which we had grown familiar and which bad begun to creep into the very habit of our thought and of our lives have altered their aspect as we have latterly looked critically upon them with fresh, awakened eyes; have dropped their disguises and shown themselves alien and sinister. Some new things as we look frankly npon them, willing to comprehend their real character, have come to assume the aspect of things long believed in and familiar, stuff of our\)wn convictions. We have been refreshed by a new insight into our own life. Our Model Government. We see that in many things life is very great. It is incomparably great in its material aspects, in its body of wealth, in tne aiversny ana sweep ui its energy, in tlie industries which have been conceived and built up by the genius of individual men and the limitless enterprise of groups of men. It is great also, very great, in its moral force. Nowhere else in the world have noble men and women exhibited in more striking forms the beauty and the energy of sympathy and helpfulness and counsel in their efforts to rectify wrong, alleviate suffering and set the weak in the way of strength and hope. We have built up, moreover, a great system of government which has stood through a long age as in many respects a model for those who '? ~ UK/vwf-o nrw\n btCli IU SiCl I1UC1 IJ U\7\JLI iuuuuu uuuc that will endure against fortuitous change, against stoma and accident Our life contains every great thing and contains it in rich abundance. But the evil has come with the good, and much fine gold has been corroded. With riches has come inexcusable waste. We have squandered a great part of what we might have used and have not stopped to conserve the exceeding bounty of nature without which our genius for enterprise would have been worthless and impotent, scorning to be careful, shamefully prodigal as well as admirably efficient. We have been proud of our industrial achievements, but we have not hith erto stopped thoughtfully enough to count the human cost, the cost of lives snuffed out. of energies overtaxed and broken, the fearful physical and spiritual cost to the men and women and children upon whom the dead Weight and burden of it all has fallen pitilessly the years through. The groans and agony of it all had not yet reached our ears, the solema moving undertone of our life, coming up out of the mines and factories and out of every home where the struggle had its intimate and familiar seat With the great government went many deep secret things which we too long delayed to look into and scrutinize with candid. fearless eyes. The great government we loved bas too often been made use of for private and seltisb purposes, and those who used it had forgotten the people. Duty of Americans Outlined. At last a vision lias heeii vouchsafed OS ot our life as a whole. We seo the bad with the good, the debased and decadent with the sound and vital. With this vision we approach new affairs. Our duty is to cleanse, to reconsider, to restore, to correct the e?vil without impairing the good, to purify and humanize every process of our common life without weakening or sentimentalizing it. There has been something crude and heartless and unfeeling in our haste to succeed and be great. Our thought has been. "Let every man look out for Uimself; let every generation look out for itself." while we reared giant machinery which made it imp*, ~sible that any but those n-hn ct/wi .qf thft levers of control should have a chance to look out for themselves. We had not forgotten outmorals. We remembered well enough that we had set up a policy which was meant to serve the humblest as well as the most powerful, with an eye single to standards of justice and fair play,-and remembered it with pride. T7-. *1 y But we were very heedless and in a hurry to be great We have come now to the sober sec- i ocd thought Tbe scales of heedless- ] Dees have fatten from our eyes. We have made up our minds to square every process of our national life again with the standards we so proudly set up at the beginning and have always rarried at our hearts. Our work is a work of restoration. ' Things to Be Accomplished. We have itemized with some decree of particularity the things that ought to be altered, and here are some of the chief items: A tariff which cuts us off from our proper part in the commerce of the world, violates the just principles of taxation and makes the government a facile instrument in the hands of private interests; a banking and currency system based upon the necessity of the government to sell its bonds fifty years ago and perfectly adapted to con centrating casn ana resiricung ereuus; an industrial system which, take it on j all its sides, financial a.s well as administrative, holds capital in leading 1 strings, restricts the liberties and Jim- j its the opportunities of labor and exploits without renewing or conserviug the natural resources of the country: a body of agricultural activities never yet given the efficiency of great business undertakings or served as it should be through the instrumentality of science taken directly to the farm or afforded the facilities of credit best suited to its practical needs; watercourses undeveloped, waste places unreclaimed, forests untended. fast disappearing without plan or prospect of renewal, unregarded waste heaps at every mine. We have studied as perhaps no other nation has the most effective means of production, but we have not studied cost or economy as we should either as organizers of in dustry, as statesmen or as Individuals. Society's Duty to Itself. Nor have we studied aDd perfected the means by which government may be put at the service of humanity in safeguarding the health of the nation, the health of its men and its women and its children, as well as their rights in the struggle for existence. This is no sentimental duty. The firm basis of government is justice, not pity. These are matters of justice. There can be no equality or opportunity, the first essential of justice in the body politic, if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives, their very vitality, from tne consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control or singly cope with. Society must see to it that it does not itself crush or weaken or damage its own constituent parts. The first duty of law is to keep sound the society it.serves. Sanitary laws, pure food laws and laws determining conditions of Jabor which individuals are powerless to determine for themselves are intimate parts of the very business of justice and legal efficiency. .These are some of the things we ought to do and not leave the others undone, .the old fashioned, never to be neglected, fundamental safeguarding of property and of individual right This is the high enterprise of the new day: To lift everything that concerns 'our life as a nation to the light that shines from the hearth fire of every man's conscience and vision of the right. It is inconceivable we should do this as partisans; it is inconceivable we should do it in ignorance of the facts ?? r\y% 4Kop+A eV?oll as lucjt die vi iu uuuu uasic> itc ouuh restore, not destroy. We shall deal with our economic system as it is and as it may be modified, not as it might be if we had a clean sheet of paper to write upon, and step by step we shall make it what it should be in the spirit of those who question their own wisdom and seek counsel and knowledge, not shallow self satisfaction or the excitement of excursions whither they cannot tell. Justice, and only justice, shall always be our motto. Task Not Merely One of Politics. And yet it will be no cool process of mere science. The nation has been deeply stirred?stirred by a solemn passion. stirred by the knowledge of wrong, of ideals lost, of government too often debauched and made an instrument of evil. The feelings with which we face this new age of right and opportunity sweep across our heartstrings like some air out of God's own presence, where justice and mercy are reconciled and the judge and the brother are one. We know our task to be no mere task of politics, but a task which shall search us through and through, whether we be able to understand our time and the need of our people, whether we be indeed their spokesmen and interpreters, whether we have the pure heart to comprehend and the rectified will to choose our high course of action. This is not a day of triumph; it is a day of dedication Here muster not the forces of party, hut the forces. of? humanity. Men's hearts wait upon us; men's lives hang in the balance; men's hopes call upon n* to say what we will do. Who shall live up to the great trust? Who dares fail to try? I summon all honest men, all patriotic, all l/\rvl-ir?r# f A ro TT C?Ma 1 VI ?U1U U_1 vJll IV i-l-ijr Oiuc. \j\njk helping me. I will not fail them if they will but counsel and sustain me. The Drama of London's Fog. There is a whole world of drama bound up in the chronicles of London's fog. This misty and mysterious visitant, far older than Gog or Mttjog. which used to visit the watches of the night when the metropolis barely lifted itself out of the surrounding marshes, has a fund of comedy as well as tragedy. Countless murders have been committed under its sheltering cloak, men and women have beeD waylaid, children have been torn from their mothers and wives from their husbands.? London Strand. > y c* Mr. D. L. Eptinj?, alive and progressive citizen of upper Salnda, was c aere Monday. t Mr. D. Frank Keisler, one of the 1 best men up on Hollow creek, was in town salesday. ^ Mr. J. Sol Hendrix. one of our best i citizens and an old comrade in the 3 war between the States, was in town salesday. Our friend Luther L. Lown, of , Lick Fork, was in town salesday on business. Mr. D. E. Craft, cf Swansea, one of the best men in Lexington, and wife are in town today. Hon. D. Frank Efird was in town salesday shaking har.ds and mingling with his numerous friends. What Ex-Gov. R. B. Glenn Of North Carolina, says about Gowan's Preparation (King of Externals) For Colds, Coughs, Croup, Throat and Chest Troubles? PNEUMONIA. MONIA and throat trouble with ma that I give you this testimonial. Anyt word for your Company, I will do so i For Sale by All Druggis' 0 IIS HMJ 1 SEE J Full l^jje of H 1 guaranteed 1 I Grass is tin I Majestic and Pr if "None Better 1 Buggies anc 8 ' "The Long-las 1 American F 1 Saw Mill Supplies and j I Paints and Oils, Stai 1 Our Prices A1 I Enterprise Hi & W. J. McCARTF | MEET ALL TRAINS | T. L. M * | Automobile * SPECIAL RATES * % ALL NEW ? _ * | PHONES 346and 1532 I COLUMBIA, SOU' * I SPECIAL ^ Southern Farm and FieL iiw Southern Iron & Steel Co., *1* employ the most up-todate /li known in the manufacture ilv Wire Products. *1* Southern Fence is made P'e- The uprights, or stays jk cross bars or intermedial ((? around the cross bar, then t j ? J ? i-_ ,1 r Knox ana a inngeu juuu. ' * tages in this type joint or I ods. Let us tell you about /!\ '3uy *n car ^oac^s an( t fully assorted stock of a (|j large quantities enables us /|\ ory prices, therefore we ar t you money on your fence. <f| j guaranteed by manufactur $ SEND US YOt T ?? i _ 1519 MAIN ST. ( Mrs. H.'M. Wingard has a fine stock yt high and low priced spring and summer shoes which she is offering it panic prices. Mr W Q Jackson, fromjdown cn'the Kdisto, was in town Monday. Kit is ?ood fellow and we are always glad to meet him. < Misses Lucile and Jessie Smith, of Columbia, spent Saturday and Sunday with Miss Mamie Corley, near Lexington. Mr9. P. H. Corley and sons, Leppard and P. H. Jr., of Columbia, are visiting relatives in and around Lexington. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Sox, of Columbia, spent a few days last week with relatives near Lexington. "I make it a rule never to recommend medicines until I have myself tried them, as there are a great m3ny in the land that are perfect sham9, bnt having tried your Preparation for Colds, Sore Throat, and other inflammatory troubles, I have no hesi- * tation in cordially recommend ing it to the public, for I think it a blessing to the people?especially the children. I have known its being used forPNEU.rvelous effect. It is with pleasure ime in the world that I can say a without hesitation or reserve." ts, $1.00, 50c and 25c. HE YOU NEE?} US. 1 hardware and 1 'ools. "Blue f e Brand." 1 incess Ranges Made." I \ Harness I ting Kind." ield Fence 1 ; Automobile Accesories, m ns and Varnishes. I wavs Right. I s ardware Co. I IA, Manager* J RATES REASONABLE % ART1N I * } Transfer | BY THE HOUR t * CARS % _ * * 916 MAIN STREET | TH CAROLINA. $ * NOTICE. | d Fence is made by the ijfr Birmingham, Ala., who . i and practical methods Mr r of their popular line ^ on hinged joint princi;, are Fastened to the Cjfr te wires by wrapping ^ sby forming a complete W There are many advan- vii *not over other meth- ... them. \f/ 1 carry a complete and .11 heights. Buying in y/. ; to get the lowest facte in position to save Every rod absolutely W ere. ^ IR ORDERS s ? COLUMBIA, S. C. w '