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The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1896-08-19
A Life Saved.

jamestown, Tenn, October Is, 1891.
My daughter tried physicians and
nearly all remedies for Female irreg-
ularities, but received no relief CT
benefit whatever. We had nearly
dcspaired Of her recovery when we
were induced by our postmaster,
Mr.. A. A Goodipg. to try Gerstle's
Female Pauacea and after using four
bottles she was entirely cured, for
which 1 feel it my duty to let it be
known to the world and suffering
humanity. for believe she owes her
life to the Panacea. A. j MACE,
Sheriff of Fent.ess County, Tenn.
For further information call at
Julian E. Kaufmau's drug store and
get free. a pamphlet entitled, "Ad-
vice to Women and Other Useful In
formation" AZ.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1896-08-19
PLANTERS OLD THE COUGH SYRUP

The Prince of Cough Syrups. The
consumption preventive. For Group
in children and coughs of all kinds
it has no equal. An excellent remedy
for grippe or severe colds. Is and
SO cents bottles.
PLATERS FEMALE REGULA
tor, the priceless boon for women. A
special treatment for all diseases pc
culiar to her sex. Price 81.
PLANTERS PILE OINTMENT
never fails to effect = cure. Wb,
suffer from this troublesome disease
when single package of this medi
cine may cure you. Price SO cents.
PLANTERS CATARRH BALM.
for colds, catarrh, hoarseness, sor'
troat, loss of voice, loss CT hearirg.
bay fever, etc. etc. Price so cents.
THE TWIN PAIN KILLERS
Cuban Oil for external use, Cuban
Relief for internal use, for man and
beast. Price 25 cents.
PLANTERS EYE WATER for
infamed and sore eyes of every de.
scription. Strengthens the eyes OF
the age. 25 cents per bottle.
PLANTERS HEADACHE POW
ders for sick and nervous headache
and neuralgia. Will cure in 20 min
utes. 10 cents per package.
PLANTERS HORSE AND CAT
tie Powders, the finest medicine ever
known for stock and poultry. In
vest 25 cents and make your horse
worth $50 more.
PLANTERS NUBIAN TEA, the
finest vegetable liver regulator in the
world. Does not grippe. Cures bill
iousness, indigestion, sour stomach,
dyspepsia and all liver complaints
Is cents per package.
B~ For sale at the Bazaar's Med
ical Department, Lexington, S. G.
January l, 1896.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1896-08-19

Bobby(at the breakfast table,:
MAUD, did Mr.. Jones take any Of
the umbrellas or hats from the hall
last nieht!" Maud: why ofcourse
not! Why should he? Bobby That's
Just what I'd like to know. thought
he did, because I heard him say,
when he was going out, I'm goirg
to steal just one, and-why what's
the matter maud!"
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1896-08-19
Ths Great Family Medicine,

Is Spirittine Balsan. This valua-
ble preparation is the pure extract
of certain pine trees, and manutac-
tured with great care: and in conse-
quence of the astonishing success in
removing diseases, has become very
popular and is being called for again
and again until it is necessity IN
every household. This great family
medicine has proven to possess the
most safe and efficient properties for
the cure OF Colds. rheumatism,
Lameness, Sprains, Bruises Neural
gia, Sore Throat, Soreness in the
Bones, Ringworm, and is very USE
ful in all cases where an externa
remedy is applicable. For Earache,
and Toothache there is no better
remedy. Sufferers from Lung and
Bronchial Affections will obtain great
relief, and for general use there is no
better medicine fer the household.
For sale wholesale and retail at the
Bazaar.
Tf ,,o,, .,,oJ,, ~. oboo fr1- fbo 6nc
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1896-08-19

Every household should have these
we'll tried remedies so that in case of
sickness your physician is ever at
your command. They are popular,
because they give certain and quick
relief, wherever used.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1896-08-19

Remember that medicines of all
kinds, perfumery, sweet soaps, combs,
brushes, etc., can be found at the
Bazaar.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1896-08-19

II is said that the dispenser at
Chester is short in his account $640-
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1896-08-19

II you smoke or chew try the fine
brands Of cigars and tobacco, at the
Bazaar.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1896-08-19
COLUMBIA, kEWBERRY AND
OlA0RENS RAilk0Ap.

The Short Line to Greenville,
Spartanburg and Glenn Springs-In
Effect April 30th, 1896.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1896-08-19

In addition to the above train service,
there is local train daily between Column
bia and Charlotte, making oil stops. Nc.
"a leaves Columbia, (Blauding Street,
daily at 5 100 D. III. arrives at Charlotte $40
p. n. No 33 leaves Charlotte daily at 63O
y. H. and arrives in Columbia at 9:5o p m.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1896-08-19

SLEEPING CAR SERVICE.
Double daily passenger service between
Florida and New York.
Nos. 81 and 38-W ashington and Southwestern
Limited. Solid Vcstibued train with dining
cars and first class coaches north OF Charlotte.
Pullman drawing room sleeping cars between
Tampa, Jacksonville. Savannah. Washington
and New York.
Pullman sleeping car between Augusta and
Richmond.
Nos. IS and 38-U. S. Fast Mail Through
Pullman drawing room buffet Sleeping cars be
tween Jacksonville and New York and Au
gusta and Charlotte. Pullman sleeping cars
between jacksonville and Columbia. en route
daily between jacksonville aud Cincinnati. via
AshevilIe.
W. H. GREEN, J. NJ. CULP,
Il. Supt., Washington. T. NJ. Washington.
". A. TURK, S. Fl. HARDWlCK.
G. P. A.. Washington. A. G. 2. A.. Atlanta
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SPlRiTTIKE CHEMICAL CO.,

Wholesale and Retail by G. NJ. HARMAN,
Lexington, S. q
January 30-1y
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-04-23
The Ynle Log.

In some parts of Germany the Yule
log is placed on the hearth on Christ
mas eve and if possible kept burning
for two on three days Then a piece Of
it is laid aside for the purpose of light
ing the next year S log and of guarding
the household from harm Pieces of fir
wood charred but not quite burnt ont
in the Christmas fire are also placed nm
der the family bed in some German viii
lagos to avert the dreaded lightning
stroke, which appears in this relation to
be the type of fire III its evil aspect, in
contradistinction from the solar orb, the
representative Of benefcent light and
warmth. The custom Of burning a Yule
log for three days and nights in each
homestead is almost certainly survival
from the alteration once offered to the
sun at the winter solstice.
Three centuries after the Christian
era sun worship was still maintained in
Brittany, and in Normandy not more
than 100 years ago the household fire
was extinguished on Dec. "a aud the
Christmas log was ignited by the aid of
a flame procured from the lamp burning
in the neighboring church. This fact af-
fords a curious instance of the probable
transference Of respect and reverence
from the sacred fire Of a purely heather
creed to the ecclesiastical lights of Ca
tholicism. When the pagan rites for pro-
curing unsullied fire were forbidden or
fell into desuetude, the ideas to which
they owed their origin and development,
instead Of perishing, continued to exist
more or less perfectly by attaching
themselves to usages and ceremonies
having no direct association with them.
Gentleman Magazine
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-04-23
a ratlgnlnr rashion.

A strange custom among the Bayanzi,
who live along the upper Kongo, has
been described by explorers. Brass
rings, sometimes weighing 30 pounds,
are welded around the necks of the
wives At first the neck becomes raw
by the chafing, bnt after awhile it be-
comes calloused, although woman has
to hold the ring up frequently to get
relief from the weight. Tie ring is new
er pat around woman 8 neck until she
has attained her flll development. The
women are proud Of their ornament, be-
heying thai !. enhances their impor-
lance and beauty New York World
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-04-23
W. ]. Brennan,
ATTORNEY

Will practice in all courts. Special
ties: Collections, loans and settle
ment OF estates. Office in Baxter
block.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-04-23
WHY The pArRoLMgN MISSED.
An Old Time Match with RevoIvers In
the TenderIOin Police Station.

An Old Time Match with RevoIvers In
the TenderIoin Police Station.
The recent order of the police board
that all patrolmen shall become prof.
cient in the use of the revolver, said a
retired sergeant. reminds me of lit
tie target practice that took place in the
cellar of the Tenderloin station house on
West Thirtieth street three years ago.
There was quite sporty crowd of pa
trolmen doing duty in that precinct in
those days, and there was always a polk
er game in the off platoon. The game
was run on the dead quiet of course and
was played in "A small room in the cellar
used ordinarily for storing ballot boxes
and other election paraphernalia. The
boys struggled a stove down there, and
a poker table that was seized in raid
ON gambling house was corralled and
placed III the room.
Now, there were two wardmen do
ing duty in the Tenderloin then, and as
they had no regular hours they were
able to play along with each platoon
without interruption They We're cou-
pie of pretty slick fellows, and it was
only matter of time when they'd have
all the money on the table. Eventually
it got SO that the patrolmen wouldn t
play with them any more, and this
source of revenue cut off, they hit ON the
idea of shooting at a target with revolv-
ers at % cents a shot. Now, some of
these coppers We're crackajacks with PTS
tolls, and they seized the opportunity
thus offered to win back the money they
had lost at poker. So one night a to-
mato can was set up at one end of the
long cellar. and lighted candle was
placed beside it. Then the men began to
shoot. Only two pistols We're used, but
every time patrolman shot he missed,
while the wardmen bored hole in the
can each time.
Every night for week the men
would shoot, and always with the same
result. The wardmen We're winning
about $40 apiece night, when the game
came to sudden end. One of the patrol
men suddenly opened the pistol which
wardman had handed him to shoot
with and found it loaded with blank
cartridges. Then there was howl, and
! the bad shooting of the platoon was ex.
| planned. The other pistol, which the
wardmen had been using, was loaded
with 32 caliber bullets, and as both were
good shots of course they plumbed the
can each time. The patrolmen threaten
ed all sorts of things, but the wardmer
only laughed and held ON to the money
they had won. There was no use kick
ing to the captain about it, for he'C
have preferred charges against every
mothers son of them for gambling il
the station house. and so the patrolmeI
swallowed their loss and let the mattei
drop. BUTT was a long time before the,
got over it, and some of them are laying
for a chance to get even to this day. -
! New York Sun.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-04-23

Captain Bassett was the first man
officially 70 -engthen time by turning
back the hands Of the senate clock III
Washington He did it for the first time
March 4, 1914, by direction of Senator
Wiley r Mangam Of North Carolina,
then president Of the senate pro tenn
pore. This is history. -Doston Globe.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-04-23

The parchments and papyrus used by
the ancients seem to have had a special
preparation. by virtue of which they abb
sorbed the ink and thus caused the writ
ing to be almost indelible.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-04-23
Brown & GnndselI
ATTORNEYS

VIII practice in an courts in the
county and state. Real estate bought
and sold. Probate business special
". Collections promptly attended 10.
Office over State bank
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-04-23
w. E. Howe.

ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW
Practices in all courts. Collections
a speciality. BoscoBEL, WIS.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-04-23

Employer (to new Office boy)-If any
one calls, James, be sure and remember
that am not in Half an hour later)
Didn't you hear me call, you young ras-
cal?
James-Yes. sir. but l fought yer
WASH { in. London Tit-Bits
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-04-23
Cleary & Cleary.

VIII practice in all courts. Special
les: Collections, Loans and Settle
ment Of Estates. PLATTEvrT.LE. WIS.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-04-23
BANISHED FOR LIFE.
THE oUTcAsT OF CHURCH ISLAND IN
GREAT SALT LAKE.

He Has For Years Lived the life of Wild
Man and Rarely Sees a Human Being
Branded For Robbing the Dead by Order
of Governor brigham Young.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-04-23
Herman Buchner.
ATTORNEY

Practices in all state courts. Loans.
collections and settlement of estates.
Court commissioner for y. S. courts
and for circuit court Of Grant county.
Pendleton block.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-04-23
F. E. Strong. NJ. D.
]. Godfrey. M. D.

Office over Post Office. Residence
two blocks north of Grand Central
Hotel.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1896-01-04

ting To our town. some twenty or
thirty thousand dollars. which
geographically properly belongs
to us, but which for lack Of this
ROAD is now spent in New Iberia.
All hail. to these gentlemen who
had the prescience and courage to
create an organization. the benefit
of whose efforts cannot .he measu-
red in dollars and cents.
Go on, gentlemen, in your noble
work of rejuvenating and instill-
iny new life into our grand old
town. Continue your efforts, I'M
til We shall have water works.
electric lights, paved streets and
side walks. A grand High School
Building. and Churches in which
the incoming tide of immigrants,
may find the affairs. at which they
have been accustomed to kneel, in
praise Of their Maker. after their
own conception of worship, and in
"A few years, the Petit Paris Of
Louisiana, where refinement and
culture were unexcelled and still
exist, will become the great me-
tropolis of the garden of the
world, Southwest Louisiana, own
ing allegiance in wealth, and COM
mercial greatness only to the
Crescent City itself
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ded and much exposed to sunlight.
How does malaria invade the
system?
Now, may be treading on dan
gerous grounds, and what l shall
advance may perhaps be critised
by others, yet, l do SO, for in my
humble opinion, l am convinced
and satisfied that such are the
facts.
The great medium, and l am
tempted to say the sole medium,
by which malaria invades the sys-
tenn, is through our drinking wa
ter. That is, our polluted drink
ing water. Malaria is most fire.
quently met with amongst people
living in low and marshy sections,
and hence, one is sometimes temp
ted to consider the mere fact to
living there as a sufficient cause.
But let us go little further and
see if their be no other existing
causes. What is the condition of
people living in these less desira-
BILE sections? Of course, necessa-
rily poor. Where do they procure
their supply of drinking water? Is
it in well kept cistern or other
convinient receptacle to retain
pure water? Or is it in wells
deep enough to assure water that
has been filtered? No, their
means do not allow them that.
The neighboring (coulee or creek,
some stagnant pond or what is
frequently the case, some shallow
surface well into which all the
surface drainage is allowed to FL
ter. Are the sources from which
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and propagation. 1t has long puz-
zlrd scientists to know the precise
cause of malaria.
The germ theory looked as if it
might give Il clue to the solution
of the problems; attempts upon at
tempts were made to find in the
blood of those affected with mala-
ria a special parasite to which
might be attributed the cause of
the trouble. The ague plant which
Salisbury i'm 1866 claimed to be
the special cause of malaria. and
the many other apparent disco
veries had their day. but one after
the other they all failed to stand
the test of experience and gradu-
ally they we're relegated to obi
WON.
In 1881 came the discovery of La
veran. He proved that in victims
Of malaria. the blood was found to
contain bodies of different shapes
and sizes. and that these bodies
mostly inhabited red blood cor
puscles, though they were also
found free in blood serum These
bodies which were afterwards
more infinitely studied, by Mar
chiafava, and cell. were found to
possess an amoeboid movement.
and they, after extensive resear-
ches, considered these bodies to
be parasitic organisms which pc
netrate the red-blood corpuscles
which they partly or wholly des-
troy and in which they elaborate
the characteristic malaria pig
ment.
Hence results at each new crop
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shine ever gets access.

shine ever gets access.
In fact there are three prime re-
quisites for the growth and pro-
pagation. of malarial organism
and these are: High temperature,
moisture and decomposing vegeta-
BILE. or, in other words, malarial
germs will thrive where these re-
quisites exist, and not i'm a coun-
try as whole. not in Southwes-
tern Louisiana, regardless of par
ticular locations and conditions
existing in certain localities, and
above all. it cannot be advanced
that st. Martin parish as whole
is malarial parish, an1. why?
Because the avocations of the
inhabitants are such as to gradu-
ally extinguish the requisites for
the propagation and growth of
malarial organism.
OF course there are some Sec
tions of this parish where the con-
ditions are such as to favor their
growth i. e. in swamps.
l say the avocations of the inha-
bitants tend to extinguish the ma
larial organism because their pur-
suits require drainage, because
every year the fields are plowed
and exposed to sunlight (the grea-
test destroyer of malarial germs)
because the inhabited section of
the parish, is high, mostly along
waterways, and hence is well drai-
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MALARIA.
Conditions favoring its
growth and works of
infection.

Of the few arguments raised
against Southwestern Louisiana.
as a whole, regardless of section,
l dare say. the one referring to
Malaria. has more to dc, and is
more potent. to deter strangers
from considering the advantages
that this fertile section offers to
the farmer. the stock raiser, and
in fact to all engaged in agricul-
tural. or other rural pursuits.
That malaria exists i'm South
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1896-01-04

western Louisiana is undeniable.
That ii exists in St. Martin par
ish is also partly true. But. to those
two admissions, there are many
notifications. and those are of
such nature. that they must ne
cessarily strike the most preju-
diced as being rational and based
upon the laws of nature.
Let us see what we mean by
malaria. and understand its growth
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thy patient has been injected with
blood impregnated with these or
ganisms, malarial symptoms soon
developed.
Now let us revert to the practi-
cal feature of malaria, and ask
ourselves what is malaria. and
what causes it?
To the first We can answer. 1T
is paroxysmal fever, the pheno-
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the barracks, though they we're
exposed to the same atmosphere
as the village people.
The only apparent difference in
their mode of living was the peo.
pie from the village would use
shallow we'll water, whilst the sol.
diers and people inside the bar.
racks took the precaution never
to drink any water but water CON-
ing from clean cisterns. Wbv
then should the people inside the
barracks have been immune, as IL
as some claim, the atmosphere has
much to do in transmitting the in
lection.
l have seen cases this summer
that persistently resisted vigorous
medication, yield and became very
submissive when the precaution
of boiling the bad water they
drank was taken. OF course in
country prectice like this, one
has no statistics to 60 after, yet, l
am sure, should the records be &C.
curately kept. it would soon BIZ
apparent that there exist in every
case, some obvious causes for il.
and which most undoubtedly could
be eridicated.
Hence, l am ready t. state, and
have ample proofs, upon which to
base this statement, that malaria
can flourish at your next door
neighbor, that you can with but
little precaution, protect yourself
against it.
Drainage will weaken the growth,
cultivation will better expose the
ground to sunlight, and the UNDER
ground heat will thus find ready
exit. And gradually it will fol-
low, as it has already in great
measure, that malaria will be, by
cultivation, entirely driven from
the arabic portion of our parish,
and will seek refuge in swamps
and uncultivable lands. &.
In concluding this article, which
l really did not intend to make 90
long, l would like to say a word to
the prospective settlers, who, on
account of this malaria scare"
have been deferred from locating in
Southwestern Louisiana, and that
is, come and see, and what you
will find shall serve to cOnvince
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mena observing a regular sue
cession. characterized by a cold, a
hot and sweating stage, followed
by an interval of complete inter-
mission or apyrexia varying in
length according to the variety of
the attack, and the presence in
the blood of the haematozoa of
saveron' and there is also a re-
mittent type of fever or what is
sometimes enormously called typ
ho-malaria.
What causes malaria?
As we have already seen, it is
caused by "A specific vegetable
micro-oryanism, either the Dacil-
lus malaria of Klebs and Tomma-
81 Cru,ldi or the haematozoa of
of Laveran, though the organism
is to-day usually termed the Pas
mOcIium WoIWioi) Now we come
to the point in view, We know that
ma aria is not a communicable
disease. and that it is not caused
by an organism, that this organ
sism is capable of life and motion.
Let us look at the condition that
favor the growth and propagation
of the germ. AS a synonym to
malaria. the terms marsh fever
and marsh miasm are often used
and not wrongly used at that; and
why?
Because the organisms that
cause malarial fever are f und in
marshes and in concentrated
places when decomposition is
favored, and where little sun
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their drinking water is procured.
1t is a fact beyond dispute that
malaria isthe exception in families
who keep their cisterns in proper
condition. l remember reading a
very able paper, on the modes of
infection of malaria. IfIremem-
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1896-01-04

OF these organisms, the chill,
which means breaking down of
blood corpuscles, your sudden
rise and fall of temperature, and
other characteristic symptoms of
malarial fever.
Attempts to cultivate these bo-
dies have failed. but when heal