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The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1893-02-22
Judge Lamar at Petersburg.

OF the many eloquent speeches
made by this brilliant Georgian, per
haps the 6ranl@st wasi n 1865, to the
man in the trenches. Generals Long
street and Ord were confronting each
other on the James, and it was not
long after the Fortress Monroe con
ference. Longstreet's men were
ragged and i'll fed, while Ord had
three to his one, al! warmly clothed
and richly fed.
The "boys in gray" were despon
dent, when it was suggested that
Col. l.. G. c. Lamar make them a
speech. Longstreet said it could do
no harm, and might cheer his sol
diers. But when and where to speak
was the difficulty. All the men were
III the trenches and close up to the
Federal line.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1893-02-22

ano one seahe llgee
not exiS as it would to other credi,
tors.
The spirit as we'll as the letter of
the laws of South Carolina ON this
question Of taxes and their collection
IS that the party feeling aggrieved or
imposed upon shall obey the States
order and accept her assessment, pay
her bill in full when presented, reserv-
ing the right to do so under protest
and to bring an action to Cow any
excess allegedas having been charged.
That puts the State in her proper
position, makes the tax payer, and
not a sovereign State, the actor in an
action for demanding redress.
Tie railroad companies would have
had the State Of South Carolina apply
to the federal court, at Richmond for
all order directing the receivers to
pay 20 the State the taxes in ques-
ton, and, in fact, so 50 far as to a
that. in addition to its being the most
peaceful and expeditions way, it is
really the only way.
1t should no doubt please a district
Judge Of a federal court of inferior
jurisdiction to have a sovereign State
petition him TO aid her in the collec-
ton OF her taxes and the enforcement
of her laws.
The State holds that she has her
own method for collecting debts due
her, and that method and its enforce
ment is law. She needs no outside
assistance and comedies no higher
authority TO check Or quicken her &C
ton than the Supreme Court of the
United States.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1893-02-22
They're Dying Out.
One Sees But Little Of the True
Type of the "Ole.time Darkey'
Now.

! One Sees But Little OF the True
Type of the "Ole.time Darkey'
Now.
Atlanta Constitution.
Away down in the valley Of the
Savannah river lies q fair strip OF
country where the spirit of the old
. south, its simple cust0ms and faith will
never die. There in that beautcous
and dclcctable land things seem to
rock recklessly on with the change
, Of seasons pretty much as they used
to 10 before there was ever any talk
Of war between the states, and Just
a though there had never been any
war to rutfie the peace and happiness
Of the south.
The people are not as rich as they
used to he, but what matters it when
they are just are a Eappy!-The
great plantations have never been
subdividcd or cut to pieces, and re
main to this day the same vast es-
tate that used to spread cut before
the gaze Of the southern barons who
presided over them in the dear oiddayi
when they could call their scores of
slaves around the big use" at sun
rise and march them out across the
fields Of cotton and corn for miles
around to work. The lands are Just
as rich, the seasons just as pro
pitious, the air just as pure and
fresh and the water runs from the
old sweet-gum springs just as cool
and delightful as it used to run;
while the sun summer shines just as
warm and bright and the mocking
birds have lost none of their power
to charm the human heart with
merry songs from out the bush and
bramble.
The same old darkies that used to
wait upon their lords are there, many
Of them, and while they have large
families they have not allowed the
'~'newfangled city ideas" to get sway
upon the mind of the younger gener-
alton. There are few regions in the
sohtA where such conditions still re-
main unchanaged. One seldom finds
~ tho co,tnarn ctata today 7ba +1,,a
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1893-02-22
do.

hdparents Y accused by THEN
nd daughters, with a fair show
o~fson, Of being decidedly more
lenient with juvenile offenders, less
sternly disposed toward discipline
than they were to their children
in an earlier day. They would spoil
tie grandchildren if allowed. declare
the fathers and mothers serenclvcon-
fdent of their own discretion, and
quite sure they are right in their
~sternlv ~repressive methods.
Never mind. The wheel of time
in its ceaseless revolution is bringing
on the day when the man who
laughingly reproves his parents fol
their fancied weakness. will himself
some day stand in awed pleasure
gazing into the round eyes of the
second generation, and feeling him
self the founder Of a line. Then il
will be his turn t. emulate the grand
parent, as the grandparent has been
from the beginning.
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8uCkIen's Arnica Saive.

The best Salve III the world for
Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt
Rheum, Fever Sores, letter. Chapped
Hands, Chilblains Corns, and all
Skim Eruptions, and positively cures
Piles, or no pay required. 1t is guar
antccd to give perfect satisfaction. or
money refunded. Price 25 cents per
box. For sale at the Bazaar
March 81.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1893-02-22

III course, the% writ
books about this claA~culled in
dividuals' say they find them here
and there, yet it is but tie simpl.
truth that the genuine character
doesn't turn up at the beck and cal
of the writer every time he makes
believe. Towering schools and col
leges for the colored freedman's
children have played sad havoc with
the ranks of the 10 de wah" planta,
ton darkies, and with no intention OF
robbing the statesman ofhis taskto tell
whether it be for the good or the i'll of
the republic that this is true, it may
just be stated here and now that the
writer who draws pictures from life for
the sake of fiction and his reputation
through conversations with the sole
time southern" darky had best hasten
with his task ere he have no object
left alive upon whom to work. They
are going from us with their happy
songs and shouts.
The type of plantation darky to be
found along the banks of the Savan-
nah today is so different in compare
son with the type of negro to be
seen commonly throughout the south
that one would hardly know whether
1t were the same race. 1t ought TO
be said Just i'll this connection that
very few of the book writer's who de-
pend upon the old type of negro for
their characters get the truth from
nature.-They fall short in the pic
ture anyhow. The pen of Thomas
Nelson Page has snatched from the
old Virginia darby the very words
he u~ttcrs, and it takes no close OBJ
server to know that be has painted
his pictures from life as he found it.
So it is with Joel Chandler Harris.
He has not been mistaken in the man
and las put the picture just as it was
presented.
What miserable fakes are many of
the plantation songs one hears from
the stage nowadays. It is the same
way with the characters portrayed
by some negro,dialect writers. Per
haps. the songs of the negroes meas
urcd beside the songs they are re-
ported to sing very often show the
widening difference between the true
character and the fictitious character
more conspicuouSly han any other
evidence that could be taken into ac-
count. 4 southern born man who
has ever spent a day on a southern
among the darkies ':of the old
school" so 10 speak, would laugh to
scorn the songs that the MINISTRIES
sometimes sing with pleadings to be
to their old plantations, songs
have pretty enough verses to
them. but which have none of the
simplicity that really cLaracterizcs
the true songs Of the old time darkey
As a rule their songs were discon-
ncctcd and contained but little more
than It mere tumble of iIl-timed
rhyMes.-The old time negro couldn't
sng a sentimental song. If he WAS
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neither thirst no more, neither shall
the sun light Oh them. nor any heat,
for the Lamb which Is IN the midst
OF the thron" Shall lead them to I'V-
ing fountains OF water, and God
shall wipe away all tears from Their
eyes.
On, unS!ove your hand and give 1t
to me Ill congr"tulatlon on that scene:
l feel as II 1 would shout. l VIII
shout halIei"J'N. Dear L'fu' forgive
me 'ha' l ever conpia'l'" any
Ehing' II Ill TINS l" before u.s. WHO
cares Tor anything bat Tod and
heaven and eternal brotherhood!
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1893-02-22

In the town Of Georgetown, in this
State, a club has been organized
called The Grand Gallon Pot"
The Georgetown Times says that
only tirSt-class liars are liable to join
this club. and that one Of his friends
remarked the other day that he had
never told a lie in his life, whereupon
The Grand Gallon Pot" promptly
elected him prcsident-this unliable
gentleman.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1893-02-22

III 4 sentimental mood his song WOul,
be more Of a m~onOtnOus moan, in
provised with a few words murmurcG
in a low voice over and over again
For instance, one could be heard
singing in the melancholy dirge Of q
tone.
I'm gwine ter leave old Gto-Gy-!,
I'm gwine ter leave % Gcorgy-y,
I'm gwine ter leave old GeorG!-y-y,
When the sun goes rolliu' down.
There were no more verses of this
song, ana [ ne'& heard but one
negro sing it. Therefore, I think it
was original. II was meaningless,
save to the extent that the singer
ha a temporary g"udge against his
native state and didn't mind making
bold to say SO. Yet to him it WAS 1t
highly sentimental song.
The chief repertoire Of the oh
time negro yocalists We're songs Of Il
lighter nature, and were usually sung
at the cabin dances. where, with a
great lightwood knot fire blazing on
the hearth, they would gather around
from all the cabins of the quarter for
the shot supper" as the ball was
styled by them.
With one to play a lively but never
turning tune on tie old two dollar
fiddle, one to "beat straws," and one
to call the figures Of the dance and
two or three enthusiasts to rap or
pat, the dance would 90 on with a
half dozen or more couples whirling
round and round, whetting out Shoe
leather at a furious rate on the rude
floor of the cabir. There it was
that one heard the real negro song,
original and simon pure, such as the
following:
Jay bird up de sugar tree,
Sparrow on de groun',
Jay bird shake de shugar down,
Sparrow pass hit 'er roun'.
Chorus.
Shoe, ladies, shoe!
Shoe, ladies, shco!
Shoe, ladies, shoe, my gal.
I'm jest fun Sugar Hill.
Five cents is my pockl change,
Ten cents is my bill,
IF times don git 10 better heah,
I'm boun' furl
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ages, IN MS IaS1 me or -
his last hours, looked up and saids, as
though he saw something supernatu-
raj, Light" and as he came nearer
the dying moment, his countenance
more luminous, he cried. Light"
and at the very moment of his dc,
parture lifed both hands, something
supernatural in his c~ountenance as
he cried, Light" Only another
name for sunshine.
Besides that we shall have all the
pleasures Of association. We will
go right up in the front of God with
out any fright. All our sins gone,
there will benothiDg to be frightened
about. There our old Christian
friends will troop around Us. Just
as now one Of your sick friends goes
away to Florida, the land Of flowers,
OF to the south Of France. and you
do not see I'm for a long while. and
after awhile y meet him, and the
holiows under ,Gc eyes are flied, and
the appetite has come back, and the
crutc' has been thrown away, and
he is SC changed You hardly know
him. You say, "Why, I neyer saw
You look 50 WELL" He says, =
couldn't help but be we'll. I have
been sailing these rivers and climb
rng these mountains, and that's how
| got this elasticity never vas so
we'll"
Oh, my friends, your departed
loved ones are only away for their
health. in a better climate, and when
You meet them they will be 50
changed you Will hardly know them
they will be SO very much changed,
and after awhile, when you are as
sured that they are your friends, you
will say: "Why, where is that cough!
Where is that paralysis? Where is
that pneumonia? Where is that con
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1893-02-22

Would stretch her wings and soar away
To aid the song. the PAIN to bear,
And bow the chief of siners there.
Oh, the sunshine, the glorious sun
the everlasting sunshine.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1893-02-22
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The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1893-02-22

I'm gwine ter leave old Gto-Cy-y,
I'm gwine ter leave % Gcorgy-y,
I'm gwine ter leave old Geor2!-y-y'
When the sun goes rollin' down.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1893-02-22

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Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-10-13
egoReTs oF AEALrAFuL eArINo.
How Couple of High Livers Found Out
the -Aind of Lunch Zach Liked.

On tic piazza OF hotel the other day
two men related their recent experience In
the matter Of lunches, to the considerable
amusement OF their friends who wero lis
tening They may DO called Smith md
Jones, though those were not their real
names Yes" said Smith, In answer To u
complimentary remark from JoDes, II am
looking well, but no better than | feel.
Fact Is, have got onto the secret OF good
health Stumbled on It by accident What
is it' oh, Just little matter OF lunch,
that's all. You may laugh but 1t is 80 all
the same. You see, It was this way.
"A few months ago decided that tho
elaborate lunches was eating were bad for
me So determined 10 20 back to bread
and milk, on which l had thriyen when u
boy. ! did so, but somehow or other tho
thing didn't work right. Instead OF feeling
better, kept feeling worse. But thought
it was because my system had become
vitiated through French cookery, and so |
perSevered. 1t was no 20, however, and at
last became convinced that bread and milk
were simply n slow poison 10 me
at this stage STUMBLED one day into
an English chophouse, aud longing came
over me to have a chop and bottle OF bit
ter ale did 50, and felt better than
had for months l had the same thing next
day and felt still better. | kept on with
the same kind Of lunch, changing OH To a
sandwich, a kidney. a Crilled bone, soup
or Z salad. but always avoiding milk and
the compounds thereof and sticking 10 the
bitter ale. The result is that | WAS never
healthier In my lifa What do you think
OF thatW
"well," said Jones, ~ don't think much
oft. Ny experience knocks your theory
into o cooked hat, too, was feeling a lit
tic out OF sorts few months ago. Like
you, also, had been eating elaborate
lunches, and as | had heard y great deal
about English ohophouses. | determined
TO try one did 10 and had lunch Just
Ike what you have described for several
weeks. But to use your language II was
no 20, and at last became convinced that
chops and bitter nlew simply slow poison
10 me- At this point stumbled Que day
into u dairy lunch place, and longing
came over me 10 have bowl OF brend and
milk. did 80, and felt better than had
for months. Since then have stuck faith
fully TO a lunch Of bread and milk, avoid.
ing all English ohophouses and their dend-
~ contents. And the result IL that was
never healthier in my life. Now, then,
ask you, what do you think Of that"
~ think, !" said Smith, that you must
have struck n terribly bad chophouse."
"Well,n retorted Jones, "it couldn't have
been anything like as bad a. the bread aud
milk you must have struck"
And then they argued out the question
in all It's bearings for about an hour, with.
out coming to any agreement. Smith still
says bitter ale IS the thing, while Jones
thinks milk is thenectar Of the gods.--New
York Tribune.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-10-13

Captain Adams, that a great chief and
brave was there taken sick, died and wa1
buried under the shade Of an elm on the
north side OF tho Conhocton river lat the
same time mapping 1t out on the ground
floor aud marking with his knife the place
OF the gravel, aud that he (Cornplanter)
was one OF the council that placed over the
grave post, stained with the Juice Of the
wild strawberry, 10 mark the spot lie
would not state the nnme or tribe Of this
great chief.
1t WAS net Captain Montour for he, with
his brother John, appeared mt the military
post OF Major Taylor, near Pittsburg, In
December OF the same year Two years
later the two brothers were with Colonel
BroGdhead on the Muskingum In Ohio.
Charles II. Erwin, in a pamphlet pub
llshed as late az 1874, accepts Captain Mon.
tour rs the hero and martyr, but In his more
recently prepared manuscripts cites the
facts which show that the captain and his
brother were active In the flesh for several
years later at least.
Mr., Erwin In his latest work scouts the
idea that the post was intended ~ n monu.
ment nj all. Such a tribute to the dead was
contrary TO Indian nature and TO any known
custom among them. It seems highly I'm.
probable that so unusual an exception
should be made very shortly after battle
in which the Indian had been worsted and
when their white enemy might be expected
to appear among them at any time. II Is
true, however, that excavations for cellars
or wells in the neighborhood Of the post
have frequently unearthed Indian bones
and relics.-New York Times
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-10-13

The following story was related by a
DArdistan man OF the name Of Ghalib Shah,
residing at village near Aston, called Par
fishing. lie was ono night looking out
whether Ruy bear had come into his rtron-
bs' Geld He saw that a bear WIS there,
and that he with his paws alternately took
> pRwful OF "trombs." blew the chat away
and ats hastily. The man was blind ofone
eye and ran 20 his hut 70 get his gun. He
came out and pointed 1t at the bear The
animal, who saw this, ran round the blind
aido Of the mans face, snatolied the gun
out OF his hand and thrsw it away.
The bear and the man then wrestlsd for
q time, but aftsrwRrd both gave up thu
struggle and retired. TIE man, after he
had recovered himself. went 70 look for the
gun, the stock Of which hs found broken.
Tho mR.chstring by which the stock had
been tied 10 tho barrel had gone on burning
all night and hAd been the cause OF the gun
being destroyed. The son OF that man still
lives at the village and tells this story.
which the people Affect TO belieYe-Dr
Leitner in Aslatio Quarterly.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-10-13
A $4,000 GRAVEL PATH.
Made of Brazilian Pebbles Which Have
been Bought as Coffee.

Made Of Brazilian Pebbles Which Have
Been bought as Coffee.
The gorgeous tales OF orieftal aplendor
tell Of pathways strewn with gold dust 10
be trodden b. the sacred feet Of royalty,
and diamonds are the conventional paving
material for the promenade Of the princes
10 the fairy tale. It has been left to q st.
Louis business man to construct gravel
walk-neither long nor stiitingly beand-
ful-that IL modern II comparatively
humble rival OF these glistsuing Highways
Of fiction and fable, for IL represents tlt,Ooo
hard cash.
Mr.. Edward p. KinsellR, vice president
Of the Hanley Kinsella CoGee company, is
the proud posseEsor Of this unique walk.
II lie composed OF several tons OF Brazilian
pebbles that came 70 him b an ordinary
business way during the past few years.
This arm are heavy importers OF Brazil
ian coffee Before the bsrrles ars ready to
be roasted for the market the sacks arc
opened and the contents carefully examined
for twigs, leaves and otherimpurities, the
latter generally taking the shape OF small
pebbles about the size OF coffee berry.
These came with such regularity and IN
such quantities that long asp the idea that
they were accidentally In the sacks was
abandoned aud the coneludon reluctantly
reached that they were purlosely placed In
the bags to make weight. The daily dis
coyeries Of the Brazilian pebbles viii I'LL An
ordinary water bucket Ths importers pay
for cofles.
Two years ago Mr.. Kinsena concluded 10
utilize this apparent evidepee oil the dis.
honesty Of the farRway coffee packer aud
had the accumulation Of pebbles carried out
to his handsome residence on the West
Pine street boulevard, where they were
used to make a handsome garden walk.
The pebbles represent a weight that In COT.
fee would be worth $500. The gravel
path is each month being added %, aud i
is bp. question Of time when Air. kinsel'
Ia will have the most expansive piece Of
garden path in the known worid.-st
Louis Globe-Democrat.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-10-13

Norton. the forger, whose too clever pen
has brought ridieuls on the enemies Of NJ.
Clemenceau, is a rogue Of many parts. A
story Is told Of him in a French papei
which proves the sublime Audacity with
which the man iE gifted and his readiness
TO seize opportunities, Norton WIS At Mica
at tho time TAmagno. the great tenor, was
playing Othello in Yerd's opera. Nov
Norton Is almost negro Hchak a swarthy
skin and short black beard, and IN Htaturs
10 strikingly like Tamagno when made up
IN the part Of the Moor. II ras therefor
not strange that people in the streets see
ing Norton go by should say There is Ia
mngnol forgetting that ortside the thea
ter the tenor would probably be very dif
ferent man.
Norton was not slow to profit by then
mistake. He entered AZ once upon an ex-
pensivo course Of living. He dlned at the
best restaurants, drove about the neigbbor'
hood, went on short trips into the Mcdl
terrauean. and always when the tims
came for payment said, send the account
10 the management Of the Caaino (whert
,Othello' was being periormcdl. and you
will be satisfied" No one objected. They
were proud TO have the custom Of the great
singer.
But Tamasno Is not lavish man. Tam
aoenn rather Is a man who rides In q cab
only when there Is no bus ana dimes within
s francs, and when the DIS began 70 pour
in from ali sides for %, y ard 20 francs hi,
face was a sight tobehold. But Morton had
thea left Nice. London Globe
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-10-13

A camel has twice the earring power Of
An OK. With AN ordinary load OF 400 pounds
he can travel IS or Ia days without water
going ~ miles day. They are fit TO work
at years old, but their strength begins &c
decline at Is, although they usually live to
40. They are often fattened at ~ for the
butcher, their flesh tasting like beef The
Tartars have herds OF these animals, often
1000 belonging to one family They were
numerous In antiquity, for the patriarch
Job had 5000 The Timbuctoo or Meharri
breed is remarkable FOR speed and used only
for couriers, going 500 miles in eight days,
with meal Of dates or grain at nightfall.
Napoleon conveyed 1 500 inlantry on eamels
acroSs the desert from Cairo TO St. Jean
diArc-Exchange