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The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1893-02-22
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not exiHa as it would to other credi.
tors.
The spirit as well 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 recover 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 to the State the taxes in ques-
ton, and, in fact, go so far as to say
that, in addition to it's 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 it's enforce
ment is law. She needs no outside
assistance and comedies no higher
authority to check OF quicken her &C
ton than the Supreme Court of the
States.
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neither thirst no more, neither shall
the sun light on them, o any heat,
for the Lamb which is in the midst
of the throne shall lead them to liv-
ing fountains of water, and God
shall wipe away all tears from their
eyes,"
Oh, unglove your hand and give it
to me in congratulation on that scene!
I feel as if I would shout. I will
shout hallelujah! Dear Lord, forgive
me that I ever complained about any
thing. If all this is before us, who
cares for anything but God and
heaven and eternal brotherhood?
Take the Grape off the door bell.
Your loved ones are only sway for
their health in a land ambrosial.
Come, Lowell Mason, Isaac Watts,
and give us your best hymn about
joys celestial.
What is the use of postponing u
heaven any longer? Let it beginnow,
and wtosoever lath a harp let her
thrum it, and whosoeyer hath a trum-
pet let him blow it and who's )ever hath
an organ let him give Us full diapason.
They crowd down the air, spirits
blest, moving in cavalcade of triumph.
Their chariot wheels whirl in the Sab
bath sunlight. They come. Halt,
armies of God! Halt until we are
ready to join the battalion of plea
ures that never DIE.
Oh, my friends would take a ser.
mon as long as ety2ity to tell the
joys that are comiS to us. I just
set open the sunshiSkdoor. Come in,
all ye disciples Of she world who
have found the world a mockery.
Come in, ali ye disciples of the dance,
and see the bounding feet of this
heavenly g~ladness. Come in, yc dis
ciples of worldly amusement, and
see the stage where kings are actors
and burning worlds the foot|ghts,
and thrones the Spectator.
Arise, ye dead in sin, for this is
the morning of resurrection. The
joys of heaven submerge our soul. I
pull out the trumpet stop. In thy
presence there is fullness Of Joy; at
thy right hand there are pleasures
forever more.
N 1
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About Our Grandparents.
Harper's Bazaar.

Harper's Bazaar.
Judged from the standpoint of the
average child, there is nobody so de-
lightful as the average grandparent.
Grandfathers are the j~olliest of play
fellows, the most charming of COM
panions. Fathers are apt to be alb
sorbed in business, with little or no
time to devote to the amusement of
their boys and girls, hut grandfath-
ers are no longer in the conflict; they
can patter about, help in making
kites and building boats, tell stories
by the hour 'ogether; they a sym
pathize with a "ftllow" in his daily
trials and triumphs. 4 grandfather
is very much nearer a boy of five or
ten years old than his father is apt
to be. He looks through older yet
more child like eyes, and appreciates
the boys difficulties aud Temptations
more readily and more truly than a
younger man does. It almost seems
at times as if a man must be a grand
father before he entirely enters into
the fullness of fatherhood.
AS for grandmothers, no family is
that lacks one. A grand
mother over the way, in the next
in the next town, is a bless
ing, but a grandmother resident in
the family is a gift for which to thank
God fervently. Who else is so ten
der, so sweet, so dear? To her quiet
room, young and old bring their per-
plexities, to find he patient wisdom
and the ready common sense which
whatever was battling, and
le1ise a way inc fir, edom from care.
GranG-mother's chat ismovedinto the
,unniest corner of the kitchen when
grave household duties are afoot. 1t
S her recipe by which the wedding
Jake is compounded for the bride,
md the mince meat prepared for the
winters supply.
Grandmother always has court
and witch hazel and arnica
md toothache drops in the little cab
net in her room. She can spreadQ
and bind up wounds, and
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8enedies do.

40.
fdparents are accused by then
pd daughters, with a fair show
Of }son, 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 serenely con-
fdent of their own discretion, and
quite sure they are right in their
sternly ~repressive methods.
Never mind. The wheel of time
in it's ceaseless~ revolution is bringing
on the day when the man who
laughingly reproves mis- parents for
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 it
will be his turn to emulate the grand
parent, as the grandparent has been
from the beginning.
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a Question Of State Sovereignty.
From the Columbia Journal.

From the Columbia Journal.
In the pending controversy be-
tween the railroad companies and tn,
State of South Carolina the issues
involved are of too serious character
and consequence, the law on the sub
ject too elaborate and the plain plan
for the assessment and collection of
taxes too clear to conclude that in
this instance it is passion and not
Judgment that prompts the unusual
and summary action emanating from
the Executive.
A question of State sovereignty is
involved. A position is taken on the
one hand, which if maintained, will
paralyze the arm of our State in the
enforcement of her laws. We are
fairly facing a grave question and a
serious situation, the result of which
will make its impress and materially
effect the administration and enforce
ment of our laws in the future. En-
tirely irrespective of party factions,
with the present governor Of the
State entirely eliminated in his per-
sonality, from the matter, We must
consider this question with care and
sincerity.
1t is to be deeply deplored that
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In the town of Georgetown, in this
State, a club has been organized
called The Grand Gallon Pot"
The Georgetown Times says "that
only frst-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 president-this unliable
gentleman"
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Some days ago a tramp applied for
lodging at a Mississippi farm house,
when the farmer set his dogs on him
and severely beat him. The farmer
afterwards discovered that the man
was his son, who had run away from
home 20 years previously.
Never whip a horse for not doing
what be cannot understand is wanted
of him. Few horses wilfully refuse
to perform a service required. But
they do not understand. Spend
your energy in patiently making the
animal understand, instead of spend
ing it in whipping him.
S. J. Chandler, Richmond, Va.
writes: No one can afford to lie
WITHOUT B. B. B., who wishes an APP
petite. I could scarcely eat a single
biscuit for breakfast, but since taking
B. B. B., I clean the whole table, so
to speak" 16.
A young girl was caught kissing
her sweetheart a few days ago. Her
mother took her to task for such
actions, but the girl silenced her by
this quotation: whatsoever ye
would that men should do unto you,
do We even so unto them" The old
lady wilted. Memories of old were
brought forcibly to mind.
A wilful falsehood is a cripple, not
able to stand by itself without an
other to support it. 1t is easy to tell
q lie, but it is hard to tell only one
lie.
Hoods Sarsaparilla, for sale at the
Bazaar.
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They're Dying Out.
One Sees But Little OF the True
Type of the "Ole-time Darkey"
Now.

Type of the "Ole-time Darkey
Now.
Atlanta Constitution.
Away down in the valley of tn
Savannah river lies a fair strip O.
country where the spirit of the ole
south, its simple customs and faith viii
never die. There in that b~eauteous
and delectable land things seem tc
rock recklessly on with the change
of seasons pretty much as they used
to do before there was ever any talk
of Wal between the states, and just
as though there had never been any
war to rutie the peace and happiness
of the south.
The people r not as rich as they
used to be, but what matters it when
they are just are as happy!-The
great plantations have never been
subdivided or cut to pieces, and re-
main to this day the same vast es-
tate that used to spread out before
the gaze of the southern barons who
presided over them in the dear oiddays
when they could call their scores of
slaves around the ''big'ouse" 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 r 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
south where such conditions still re-
main unehanged. One seldom finds
in the southern state today the tue
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Judge Lamar at Petersburg.

Of the many eloquent speeches
made by this brilliant Georgian, per-
haps the sranlest wasi n 1855, to the
nan 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 ill fed, while Ord had
three to his one, all warmly clothed
and richly fed,
The 'boys in gray" were despon
dent, when it was suggested that
Col. L. @. G. 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
in the trenches and close up to the
Federal line. -
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way from the shoulder down the
arm in measured jerks, keeping time
with the seldom changing tune.
There is an inspiration about the
banjo when played this way that
goes right into the heart OF a man,
and makes him say to himself, if the
banjo was not first conceived by the
negro, it certainly is easily at home
on the negro's knee.
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Piles, or no pay required. 1t is guar
anteed to give perfect satisfaction, or
money refunded. Price Is cents per
box. For sale at the Bazaar
March 81.
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more inspiring d: 49, the plaintive
tone that runs through the true
negro melodies Aether they be
merry or solemn.
The "set" is finally ended and a
relay of dancers, summoned out by
the repeated shout, "pardners Oh de
flo, " take position in the arena
The tune changes with the change
Of set and another singer comes to
the front with:
Steal my pardner, I steal yourn.
Little Liza Jane;
Steal all 'er roun', don slight none,
Little Liza Jane.
And when the chorus comes, all
Join in the shout and. the dance as
sumes all the life of a perfect south
Georgia cyclone.
hdhi AbOUI TdE BANJO!
1t has been a much debated ques-
ton among negro dialect writer's
whether the banjo is really very much
of a negro musical instrument, that
is to say, whether it was invented by
the slaves and whether it was ever
played by them to & great extent.
1t has been claimed by some that
the banjo is an Arabian invention,
and that it came to this country sim
ply as a rude combination of hide
and a wooden rim. It is also claimed
that the negro was never much of a
performer on the banjo.
Whatever might be advanced to
sustain these claims, the fact still re-
mains that the prima facie evidence
is against them.
To those who have never heard
the genuine negro banjo picker, there
is but little doubt of at Leaf the
adaptability Of the instrument to the
race. Of course, to hear the banjo
fakir of modern times, whether his
skin be black or white, would tend
to disprove the commonly accepted
tradition that the banjo is the negro's
instrument, for the faxed songs and
fantastic movements of the fingers
on the strings have no smack of
plantation originality. There is the
greatest difference between the ban
joist of the present day and the
"banjo picker of the past, whose
songs were the life Of the plantations
Of the south, The entire art is T
changed, and the banjo itself has ,
evoluted from a seive hoop covered s
with a sheep skin to a beautiful in i
stument trimmed with silver orna- !
ments and covered with the finest ,
calf skin parchment such as is used t
the manufacture of college dip /
The old negroes along the banks
Of the Savannah river play the banjo
today just as it was played in its
primitive days. They know nothing G
of the fancy minor chords that the
dudes of the cities have found on the f
frets Of their pretty instruments. r
They use but the ~forefnger and the L
thumb on the strings, and have but il
;he one movement which is all the | +
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A place little back from til
Lamar begal3

and never in the senate, the hoHgy6f
the courtroom did he make such a
stirring address. He stood on q real
stump, with the ragged veterans of
Lee huddled close about him.
AS the great orator proceeded the
men cheered. Attracted by the
cheering the federals shot at the
noise. Lamar went on With his
speech ducking his head to the right
or the left, as bullets whizzed closely
him. Finally the firing became SO
heavy, continuous and accurate, max
ing splinoers fly from the stump he
was IN. that Col. Lamar concluded
his speech with this remark: "Those
yankees must have OWLS eyes,"
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ages, III LIS last moIhehG. OF "BS
his last hours, looked up and saidSssas
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.
p~arture lifed both hands, something
supernatural in his countenance as
he cried, Light" Only another
name for sunshine.
Besides that We shall have all the
pleasures of association. We will
60 right up in the front of God with
out any fright. All our sins gone,
there will benothing to be frightened
about. There u old Christian
friends will troop around US. Just
as now one of your sick friends goes
away to Florida, the land Of flowers,
or to the south of France, and you
do not see him for a long while, and
after awhile yo'; meet him, and the
hollows under he eyes are filed, and
the appetite has come back, and the
crutch has been thrown away, and
he is so changed you hardly know
him. You say, "Why, I never saw
you look SO we'll" He says, II
couldn't help but be we'll. I have
been sailing these rivers and climb
ing these mountains, and that's how
I got this elasticity Inever was so
we'll
Oh, my friends, your departed
loved ones are only away for their
health, in q better climate, and when
you meet them they will be so
changed you will hardly know them
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
sumption?" And he will say: "Ob,
I am entirely well! There are no
sick ones in this country. 7 have
been ranging these hills, and hence
this elasticity. I have been here now
years, and not one sick one
have I seen-we are all well in this
climate"
And then I stand at the gate of
he celestial city to see the process
'ions come out, and I see a long pro-
,ession of little children with arms
of flowers, and then I see a
procession of kings and priests NOV
ng in celestial pageantry-a long
procession, but no black tasseled We
ncle, no mourning group, and I say:
How strange it is! Where is your
Greenwood? Where is your Laurel
Hill? Where is your Westminster
And they shalt cry, "There
re no graves here"
And then listen for the tolling Of
he old belfries of heaven, the old
Of eternity. I listen to hear
hem toll for the dead, but they toll
lot for the dead. They only strike
'p a silgery chime, tower to tower,
'ast gate to west gate, as they ring
'ut, "they shall hunger no more,
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!! :!
VI course, the< writ

AeN' 'no WIN
books about this classy culled in
dividuals' say they find them here
and there, yet it is but the simple
truth that the genuine characte,
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 "fo de wah" planta-
ton darkies, and with no intention of
robbing the statesman ofhis taskto tell
whether it be for the good or the il. 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
r 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 compari-
son with the type of negro to be
seen commonly throughout the south
that n would hardly know whether
it were the same race. 1t ought to
be said just in 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 utters, and it takes no close OBJ
server to know that he 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 has put the picture just as it was
presented.
What miserable fakes are many of
The plantation songs one hears from
The stage nowadays! 1t is the same
way with the characters portrayed
oy some negro-dialect writer's. Per-
1aps, the songs of the negroes meas
lred beside the songs they are re-
to sing very often show the
widening difference between the true
and the fictitious character
more conspicuously than any other
evidence hat could be taken into &C.
:ount. A southern born man who
las ever spent a day on a southern
arm among the darkies "of the old
SO to speak, would laugh to
the songs that the MINISTRIES
sing with pleadings to be
AIKEN to their old plantations, songs
which have pretty enough verses to
hem, but which have none of the
implicitly that really characterizes
he true songs of the old time darkey
Is a rule their songs were discon-
Iected and contained but little more
han 4 mere tumble of ill-timed
old time negro couldn't
lag a sentimental song. If he WAS
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