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The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1897-02-24

Not long ago farmer who lives
three miles from here, came to my
store before breakfast and bought a
bottle of Chamberlain IS Cough Rem
edy. He said their little boy had
bad cold, and as they had used what
they had in the house bis wife would
not let him 60 to p)ow until he came
and got another bottle. The little
boy, who was with him, remarked:
Now l will soon be well, for
Chamberlain's "toff:' medicine always
cures me-" r. c.. McElory, Black
Hawk, Pa. In speaking Of this rem
edy Mr.. McElroy said people came
from far and wide to his store to get
it, and many of them would not
know what to do without it. For
sale at 25 and so cents per bottle by
J. E Kaufman, Lexington.
+. W. Oswalt, Barres.
Oswalt & Son, Irene.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1897-02-24
The Kind Of Gewannsr.

The President of the Gordon
County Agricultural Society recently
received the following letter:
Dear Syr-Kan 700 tel me whalr
to git thee Kind of GewanDer what
makes 2 ann sometimes 3 balls off
Kottin pur Akir. Please remit.
Sollymon Bunch.
The official replied that there was
no such fertilizer and any for which
such claims were made were either
fakes or humbugs. The next mail
brought letter from olr. Bunch
which said:
"Pleese sind me at oDct = faks and
6 Humbugs. Herald and News.
frx,Inr To
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1897-02-24
Muscular rheumatism Prompt
ly Relie7ea.

Mr.. J. X. Holton, we'll known
fur dealer of Oxford, Pa, says he
sometimes suffers with muscular
rheumatism, and while having one OF
the most painful attacks, he called at
". T. J. Browns drug store, and MIR.
Brown advised him to try Chamber
lain's Pain Balm, he did so: and 1t
gave him immediate relief. Pam
Balm is also recommended for 1heu-
matism by Mr.. e. ". Wheeler OF
Luthers Mills, Pa, who has used 1t
and found it to be an excellent rem
edy. If troubled with rheumatism
give it trial. It is certain to re-
lieve the pain as soon as applied and
its continued use will effect cure.
For sale at 25 and so cents per
bottle by
J.E. Kaufman, Lexington
F. W. Oswalt, Barres
Oswalt & Son, Irene
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1897-02-24

the County Supervisor and Town
ship Commissioners Investigate the
matter and see if it would not be
cheaper to relay out the road around
certain hills, as it was almost i'm
possible to make a road up them
with a reasonable grade" The
former superintendent of the chain
gang informs me that he has worked
six weeks on the hill near the river
on the south side, at an expense of
about one hundred and twenty five
dollars, and that it will take about
six weeks more to complete the work
with a like cost. That hill will cost
the county about two hundred and
fifty dollars. I think land is too
plentiful and cheap to spend that
much to move hill when it can be
avoided, which could have been done
in this case, asthey actually made the
road crooked to get on that bill.
Now, Mr.. Editor, if there is anything
the farmers of Lexington county are
interested in it is the subject of max
ing public roads and the expense of
making the same. A good road is
cheap at almost any price, but LET us
not spend more money than is &C
tually necessary to make them good,
either by changing Them or by work
ing them. Mr.. Editor, if I can find
a second, I move to have road con-
vention in Lexington county of all
who are in favor of good roads. Let
US hear from you, farmers, for we
cannot haul anything now. Let US
have it this spring.
J. H. Counts.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1897-02-24
70 Protect Wills.
Hartford Times.

Hartford Times.
The only practical and simple
scheme for the prevention of attacks
on wills is that proposed by Judge
John -. White, of Hartford, and de-
feated by the Legislature Of 1895.
1t provides that every person on max
ing will may deposit it With legal
officer, who shall give public notice
that a will has been so offered, and
that all who wish to attack the capa-
city of the testator shall have GER
tain time in which to offer evidence
and bring The matter to decision.
If no objection to the testator's ca
pacity is made within the time
specified, the will cannot be attacked
on that ground after his death.
The contents of the will are not
disclosed even to its custodian. No
one has any ground to attack it be-
cause he is left out or gets less than
he thinks he should have. Evidently
people will think twice about attack
ing the testamentary capacity OF q
man who is there to defend himself,
especially when they are uncertain
how he has devised his property, and
may be biting off their noses. as
Mr.. Swiveller remarked about the
roomes at Bevis Marks: "The cor
tingent advantages are extraordi.
nary" Under this law there would
be no premium on will breaking.
The proposed law does not require
any one to deposit his will. 1t Itmereiy
gives to every person an opportunity
to make sure that his intentions re-
gardipg his property shall be carried
out and a growing scandal dimin-
ished.
Another idea is that the Legisla-
tune pass an act directing the Judge
in his charge to the jury, in case Of
will contests, to instruct them as to
the weight of evidence and the yer.
dict that is demanded by the law.
These will cases present questions
of law about which the Judge knows
more than the jury; and we can con-
ceiyc of no more Infamous practice
than that of breaking will on tech
nical points, when the intent of the
testator is clear. Something should
be done to stop this continued and
growing raid upon wills.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1897-02-24
Victim Of Lumbago.

Last February my son was taken
with lumbago, and we tried almost
every remedy, but nothing did any
good, and our family physician fail
ed to cure. He was also attendcdby
a specialist without benefit. Finally
we began giving him Hoods Sarsa-
parilla, and before he had fnishe d
the first bottle he was able to 50
about on crutches."
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1897-02-24

almost survived the winter months
and is still pulling safely on with Mr..
G. 4. Hammer as Superintendent
and Mr.. J. f. r. Kyzer, assistant.
Our choir is worthy Of note in its
faithful endeavors to do its best.
Now, in conclusion, permit your
humble scribe to say, with shame,
to the disobedient that the behavior
of some at public worship is not the
best. to say the least. Friends, mend
your conduct: you can give the sub
ject only few thoughts and be con-
vinced that your behavior is wrong.
February 18th, 1896. Make.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1897-02-24

Badness is either hereditary or
caused by sickness, mental exhaus-
ton, wearing tight-ftting hats, and
by over work and trouble. Halls
Repewer will prevent it.
A dollar Lever buys much for
stingy man.
Misfortune and imprudence are
often twins.
Law wears iron shoes, and don't
care were it steps.
That the blood should perform its
vital functions, it is absolutely neces-
sary it should not only be pure but
rich in life giving elements. These
results are best effected by the use
of that well-known standard blood
purifier, Ayers Sarsaparril!a.
Two hundred thousand barrels of
souvenir buttons made and sold in
the last three months is the record
Of one factory.
The Chinese condemn criminals to
death by preventing sleep. Sufferers
last from II to 20 days, when death
comes to their relief.
The entering wedge Of fatal COM
plant is often slight cold, which a
dose or two of Ayers Cherry Pectoral
might have cured at the commence
ment. Therefore, it is advisable 10
have this prompt and sure remedy
always at hand to meet an emer-
2ency.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1897-02-24
Nc Uss for a Dead Town.

He walked into the car at Punkin-
vile and after carefully placing his
black valise sat down at the window
with a sigh.
The spruce old gent in the next
seat looked up and said pleasantly.
Nice looking town you have here"
Use to be purity fair town, stran.
ger. but she's no good now"
"Why, what is the matter? I see
many new buildings, tie streets are
clean and we'll kept and everything
looks bright and prosperous.
"Well, pardner, tell ye the truth,
the life is ali dun gone clean 6nten
the place. Hits jest the same as
watermillion with all the juice squez
outen it.
"Indeed!"
"Jest that away, pardner, though
fifteen years ago Punkinville were
one O the most stirrinest places in
Georgy. But bad luck struck her,
and when Pomp Allen, who had a
bar over there by the square, got into
a row with lobe Hardin that owned
the prize race boss of the country.
Pomp plugged Tobe with a Win
chester an got swung fur it, an
frum that very day Punkinville
started down hill"
II wonder"
Yep; Pomp's bar wuz closed up
an the race track wuz sold to
cranky ole fellow what had hit
plowed up and put in cotton. Then,
to make bad matters wuss, the rev
enue officers got SC bad all the ped.
dlers quit comm about our town, an
bizness fell off to nuthin'. Every
body jest seemed to lose spirit, some
how, an you couldn't git up crowd
for a rooster fight ner a foot race, an
the only pool room in town had to
close up fer want of paternage.
Then they commenced a.changin
things around, putin up street
lights, pawn of the sidewalks an
buildin' new churches, an one Of
these ere new tangled colleges, an
whole lot o'foolishness like that.
Then me and the other citizens who
had worked fer the place in its in
fancy begin to see Punkinville wuz
~ place fer Us any more. [ sorter
thought while thet mebby the de-
preston would let up an the good
times come back, but this thing hez
bin a-goin' on five years now, an
when I seed um pull down Pomps
old place an cummence to build a
dry goods store a month ago. l
knowed the thing wuz gone up.
You may walk all over the place now
and YOU can't find house ner nuth-
in left standin' to remind you of the
old times, an, pardner, I jest could
not stan hit no longer. [ had to
move out fer some place, whar the
dull times amt struck, an what a
feller don't feel so blamed lonesome, "
and lie looked sorrowfully back at
the tall spires and white houses Of
Punkinville fading in the distance.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1897-02-24
:ljl ! It that
time,
Long may the good old Dispatch
live and it's editor prosper.
February Is, 1897. Old Bear.

For more than hundred years
the Shakers have been studying the
remedial properties of plant'. They
have made many discoveries, but
their greatest achievement was made
last year. 1t is cordial that con-
tains already digested food and is a
digester of food. 1t is effective in
removing distress after eating, and
creates an appetite for more food so
that eating becomes a pleasure.
Pale, thin people become plump and
healthy under it's use. 1t arrests the
wasting Of consumption.
There never has been such a stop
forward in the cure of indigestion as
this Shaker Cordial. Your druggist
will be glad to give you little book
descriptive of the product.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1897-02-24
Gained Forty-oae Pounds.
Surprising Loss Of FLESH, and the
Reason-The Reason of the Gain.

Reason-The Reason of the Gain.
From the Advance. Osdensburg, n. y.
The picture of health is Mrs. Fer
dinand Bouchard, who resides in one
OF the apartments in the Hamill
Block, at. Ogdensburg, n. Y. Yet
fer years she has been almost an in
valid.
81 came to Ogdensburg from Mon
ttea), P. Q, four years ago, said
81 to reporter. ''Previous to ccm-
i4g here j was very sick and my life
WIS despaired Of. I was first taken
Nth what was thought to have been
dyspepsia. Then my kidneys gave
me great trouble, and oh, I suffered
UPHOLD misery.
;"I can't tell you what was the
matter with me, but I know that for
eight years I suffered from tortures
almost indescribable. 7 was confined
to my bed several months, and even
after I was able to be dressed and
to be around the house l could do
nothing.
Il had severe pains and a dragging
down feeling in my back and hips.
Iwould get up in the morning feel
ing much more tired than when 1
went to bed, had no appetite, was
extremely nervous, SO much so that
Isinvoluntarily jumped at every noise,
could do nothing and was badly dis
couraged. Then la grippe took hold
of me.
Several physicians treated me at
different times, but they didn't seem
to help me as I only grew worse.
Finally the last doctor in attendance
Told me he could do nothing for me
as mine was a hopeless case and I
could not live long.
about that time my mother wrote
me that she had read of very simi-
lar case to mine that had been cured
by DR.. Williams Pink Pills for Pale
People, and as a last resort [ resolved
to try them.
"Two boxes were taken. before I
began to feel any real benefit. I
continued taking them until l had
used ten boxes. I now do my own
sfrk, eat and sleep we'll, am not ner-
v3us, suffer no pain, in a *0Ed rh
we'll.
rBefore I was taken sick I weigh
ed 13O pounds and was quite strong,
but as my strength left my weight
fell to barely 100 pounds, but today
it is 141 pounds, and I feel better
than I have at any time for fifteen
years past.
Eyes, I think Pink Pills are an
excellent remedy. They have done
much for me, and have recommend.
ed them to my friends, some of whom
have used them with beneficial re
suits"
DR.. Williams Pink Pills for Pale
People are not O patent medicine in
the sense that name implies. They
were first compounded as prescrip-
ton and as such in general practice
by an eminent physician. So great
was their efficacy that it was deemed
wise to place them within the reach
of all. They are now manufactured
by the DIR. Williams Medicine Com
pany, Scenectady, n. Y, and are sold
in boxes (never in loose form by the
dozen or hundred, and the public are
cautioned against numerous imita-
tions sold in this shape at so cents
a box, or six boxes for $3.50, and may
be had of all druggists or direct by
mail from DR.. Williams Med. CO.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1897-02-24
Mike Pink il a Bad Fix.
To the Editor of the Dispatch:

To the Editor of the Dispatch:
After forty years I will try and re-
produce Nike Pink in tight place:
Mike Pink courted Deacon Smith
daughter Nancy. Deacon Smith
owned a brindle bull and Mike says
the bull would fight. One Sunday
prayer meeting was appointed at the
Deacon's and Mike set out on loot
across the feldsto attend.
The path led through the Deacon s
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1897-02-24
For Rent.
Sencyy.

The Judge Boozer homestead.
Dwelling with eight rooms, tenant
house with three rooms, large and
excellent gardens and five acres good
truck and farming land, Rent
reasonable, Apply to
G. N Harman.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1897-02-24
A Successful Real Estate Man.

For Coughs, Colds, Pain in the
Chest and Hoarseness l have always
found Cheney's Expectorant a sure
remedy. I take pleasure in giving it
hearty endorsement.
Atlanta, Ga. A. J. Mcbride.
For Sale at the Bazaar.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1897-02-24
Garden W osk.

Every gardener must now be
earnestly at work in the garden. If
frost should cut off any crop, SOW it
again; if any seed has failed, SOW
again; fthe sowing of any variety
has been overlooked, attend to it at
once. Hot beds will now require
daily attention.
Plant another succession of sweet
peas. Sow cabbage and collards for
succession, 70 bead later; SOW Flat
Dutch turnip, beet, squash, melon,
spinach, lettuce, cress, mustard, rad
ish, carrot, cucumber, parsnip, and
if the weather is mild, make a plant
ing Of extra early and dwarf sugar
corn. Cucumbers, squash and mel
ons should be protected early in the
season by covering at night, to pre-
vent damage from cold.
Plant Early Rose, Early Vermont
and Peerless potatoes. This is the
month to plant for general crop.
Plant snap beans. Early Mohawk
is best for first crop; it is more hardy
than the others. Sow in rows 20
inches apart; drop the seed about an
inch apart, and cover 3 inches deep,
Second sowing in two weeks may be
the Valentine. To have fresh, tender
snap shorts, there should be a few
sown every two weeks throughout
the season.
Corn-Plant first Adams or Cros-
by's sugar; next early sugar, man.
moth sugar, followed by evergreen
corn. Plant the two latter every two
or three weeks till Aug. or Sept and
secure the finest table vegetable for
six months.
Cucumber-Plant in hills, and
make small planting every month
till August.
Cress and Mustard-Sow these
together. When few inches high,
eut and use as salad. Makes a
charming salad.
Okra-Sow in rows three feet
apart, and thin out to four inches
apart in the row. Okra and tomatoes
canned together make very delight
ful dish for winter use for soups, etc.
Radish-Sow White and Yellow
Summer and White Strasburg, to
follow the red varieties which are
ready for the table in six weeks.
Thin this crop when up to an inch
apart. Always SOW between other
crops, as they soon come off.
Squash-The white squash grows
and produces for months. The Bos,
ton Marrow and Hubbard are fine
varieties for winter use for custards
etc. In planting, give plenty OF room
as they are strong growers.
Tomatoes-Independent OF sowing
in hot-beds for later crop, SOW in 6
warm bed or corner of the garden
covered at night or from cold winds
until the season is favorable. Wher
4 inches high, plant out into hills
feet apart, and two plants to hill
as they grow, tie them to stakes anc
as soon as 3 feet high pinch off the
vines. which will cause them to ma
sture their fruit earlier.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1897-02-24
Wants a Road Convention.

TO the Editor of the Dispatch:
Some time ago noticed commu-
,nication about the chain gang com
meneing work on the Dreher's ferry
road. The writer suggested that
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1897-02-24

camped at Veguite when the news
was sent to this city by a courier.
His orders in taking the fort was to
use Tue machetes only, and the
cavalry made gallant fight.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1897-02-24

Highest market price paid for bees
wax, in large or small quantities, at
the Bazaar.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1897-02-24

Give the babies Laxol, which is
Castor Oil made as palatable as
honey.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1897-02-24
ADVERTISING RATES,

Advertisements will be inserted at the
rate of IS cents per square of one inch
space for first insertion, and so cents per
inch for each subsequent insertion.
Liberal contracts made with those wish.
ing to advertise for three, six and twelve
moaths.
Notices in the local column 10 cents per
line each insertion.
Marriage notices inserted free.
Obituaries charged for at the rate Of one
cent word.
Address
G. NJ. HARMAN, Editor.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1897-02-24
La Grippe.

Some Recent Reports Concerning
the Ravages of this Prevalent
Disease.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1897-02-24

Hoods Pills cure oil liver ills.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1897-02-24

Murmuring is meapness trying to
talk.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1897-02-24
Thousands Starving.

The Famine in India Seems to be
Growing Worse.
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-06

Having reached our point in space and
endowed ourselves with eyes capable OF
observing the varied movements of the
stars we will look back. Suppose the ef-
fecls Of millions of years could be crowded
into a second ard that our eyes were ca
pable OF seeing the most distant stars as
if only a hundred million miles away.
What would we see?
AS far as modern knowledge goes, we
would see a lens-shaped vault OF inkv
bIackness filed with bright moving OBJ
jects, as erratic in their gyrations as a
swarm of bees. Some slowly creep to the
right and others to the left, and some go
up and some down. Some appear only as
a fash of light so fast do they travel here
and there, round and round, each inde-
pendent of the other but all bent on one
thing-motion.
In this grand physical manifestation OF
the primary force our sun could be dimly
seen He would be pretty hard to find,
because be is only about one-fifth the size
of some of the others. And our dear little
earth, so bright and green-well, to tell
the truth, we should not be able to see it
at all. We should not be abe to see it
even from Arctu-us, the nearest fixed star
to US, so small is it. All our solar svs-
tenn, OF which we mortals are so proud,
would appear only as a speck of light
journeying with a speed a thousand times
faster than lightning toward a point in
the constellation of Hercules. But even
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-06

TO meager data, and later investiga
has shown that they were not only
meager, but erroneous. The larger stars
were assumed to be IN general the nearest,
TO nave the largest rarallaxes, and when
IN favorable position with regard to the
solar apex to have the largest proper mo-
tlons. 1t is now known that the largest
proper motions and parallaxes belong
chiefly to the smaller stars, and that the
mum ner of stellar parallexes as vet ascer-
tanned are too few to furnish a reliable
standard of star distances in general.
1t may be asked why stellar parallax,
which is the Minute displacement caused
by the earth's journey round the sun, is
an important factor; but it must be re-
mem bered that parallax, which reveals the
distance of a heavenly body from the
earth, was long regarded as the only clew
to the value in miles OF the reflex of the
suns motion through space. For sim pill
tication 1t may be supposed that 100 stars,
situated sc degrees from the solar goal,
had each a distance of twenty millions of
millions of miles, that 100 more had dis
tances just twice as far, and that the
amount OF proper motion attributable to
the suns journey was twice as great in
the first case as in the second solar We
locity might be then safely inferred from
the known value in miles of the parallax
as the latter Is the length that the ca rth' S
distance from the sun would appear to
have if viewed from the star.
Ii it were half a second and the counter
part of solar progress per annum were one
tenth OF that amount, the velocity in
nllaa wnnln flan he Of
0C0 of miles. The matter is, however,
considerably complicated by the different
distances, and the different positions rela-
tive to the supposed apex. Professor
Eastman OF Washington states that if the
distances of the 5000 visible stars were
accurately determined the data would still
be inadequate to a satisfactory solution.
As it is. the distances of not more than
about fifty stars have been reliably ascer-
tanned. Confronted with these stern facts,
theory has been some what stationary
during the past Few years, but with that
inextinguishabIe persistence TO which
astronomical progress is chiefly due, stel.
lar motion is still assiduously observed in
several OF the leading obse-vatories.
In the meantime the powers ard appli.
cations of the spectroscope were being
manifested more and more. and as its
iridescent band may yet unfold a solution
of this complex problem, brief account
of few of the laws Of spectrum analysis
may be of interest.
The CLEAN of heavenly body when
passed through the prism of a spectre
scope not only discloses the incandescent
matter of which that body is composed
but indicates whether its motion in the
line of sight is toward US or otherwise
This latter revelation, founded on Dop
piers principle, enlisted spectroscopy q:
an aid in the DINNER paths of celestial
m echanics where observation and mathe-
matical deduction had been found insuf
ficient.
As a motion in the line of sight leave:
the position OF star on the background