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The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1900-08-15
introduced to the Lyddite Shell.

London, August IL, 4:lO a. NJ -
The morning papers express salts
faction at the latest Developments IN
Cuiaa. The average comment is that
China is now genuinely suing for
peace through Ii Hung Chang.
Dispatches printed this morning
give further details of the tSk;ng Of
Yang Tsun. According to The
Daily Nails correspondent to the at
tack, it was led by the Americans
and British. The Chinese position
consis!e Of seven lines Of entrench-
ments. The enemy fell back from
one To another, until driven from the
last line, they fled toward Pekin COM
pletely demoralized. The Chin ese
cay they retreated because the British
poured poison" into their troops.
This refers to the lyddite shells,
which the Chinese then experienced
for the first time.
The correspondent adds that the
British casualties were 200 and the
American $50; but this latter esti-
mate, it will be noticed, is four times
greater than that CT Gen. Chaffee's
report.
A st. Petersburg special says the
Chinese minister there has received
telegram announcing that Ii Hung
Chang is dangerously i'll and confined
to hia bed, and that he has been
granted months leave.
Another St. Petersburg dispatch
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1900-08-15
A Mother Tells How She Saved Her
Little Daughters Life,

am the mother of eight children
and have had a great deal of expert
ence with me dicines. Last summer
my little daughter had the dysentery
in its worst form. We thought she
would die. I tried everything l
could ebink Of, but nothing seemed
to do her any good. I saw by an
advertisement in our paper that
Chamberlain 9 Collie, Cholera aud
Diarrboes Remedy was highly re
commended and sent and got a bot.
3 at once. 1t proved to be one of
be very best medicines We ever had
the house. 1t saved my little
daughters life. I am anxious for
very mother to know what an excel
lent medicine it is. Had I known it
It first it would have saved me
great deal Of anxiety and my little
daughter much suffering.-You1s
truly, Mrs Geo. F. Burdrick, Lib
erty, R. I For sale by J. E. Kauf-
mann.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1900-08-15
Robbed the Grave.

A startling incident, of which Mr.
John Oliver, of Philadelphia, was
the subject, is narrated by him as
follow: II was in most dreadful
condition. Ny skin was almost yel-
low, eyes sunken, tongue, couted,
pain continually in back and sid's,
no appeti;c-greduslly growing weak
er day by day. Three physicians
b I'd given me up. Fortunately, s
friend advised trying Electric Bit
ters; and to my great JOY and sur
prise, the first bottle INSIDE decided
Improvement. l continued their use
for three weeks, and am DOW a we'll
man. I know they saved my life,
and robbed the grave Of another VIC
tim" NJ one should fail TO Try
thsm. Only 50 cents, guaranteed,
at J. E Kaufman Drug Store.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1900-08-15
To Honest.

A lawyer took in a new boy thu
other day, and, as be had suffered te
some extent from the depredstions
of the former one, be determined t.
try the new boys honesty at once
He therefore placed S. note under
a weight on his desk and walked out
without word. Upon his return
half an hour later, the note was gone,
and half a dollar in silver had taker
it's place.
"Boy, when I went out I left So
under this weight"
Yes, sir; but you hadn't beer
gone f7e minutes when man came
in with bill against you for 81 80
1 guess the change is correc ?
you paid the bill!'
"Ies, sir. There 1t is, oil receipt
ed. The man said it had slipped
your mind for the past four years,
and So
He did not get any further before
be made e rush for the door. Thai
boy is not in the law business any
more.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1900-08-15
Brain Food for Goats.

On one ccasiop, wien Greely was
q power in New York journalism, he
was sitting on hotel piazza in Peek
skill, quietly scanning the columns
of that mornings Tribune, when a
stranger came along, glazed con-
temptuously at the paper he was
reading, and remarked:
Fine sheet you've got there, mis-
ter! 1 use to read it myself; but
I've subscribed for decent news
paper now, and as fast as Tie Trl-
bune comes along 1 feed it to my
goats. That's all it is fit for."
Nlr. Gfeely looked at the man with
IL q 'izzical smile.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1900-08-15
How is This?

We offer One Hundred Dollars
Reward for any case of Catarrh that
cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh
Cure.
F. j. CHENEY & CO., Props,
Toledo, O.
We the undersigned have known
T. J. Cheney for the last Is years,
and believe him perfectly honorable
in all business transactions and fin
ancislly able to carry out any obliga-
tion made by their firm.
West & Truax, Wholesale Druggists,
Toledo, O. Walding, -innan & Mar
viz, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken inter-
nally, acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces Of the system.
Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by drug
gists. Testimonials free.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1900-08-15
Wanted Them Lively.

Talking about the queer ways
some people have Of sizing up a
mans capabilities for a job," said q
New Jersey man the other day,
"there recently died in my town q
boss carpenter who had one question
which be always asked Of journey
men who applied to him for employ
>msnt. II the applicant was found 10
poseess all the other necessary quail
fications, !le would ask:
What are your favorite tune ="
why, what do want to know that
fol?"
You whistle ard sing some
al Your work, don't ytu!"
"O3, yes.
"Weli, what tunes do you generally
whistle or sins?"
"'Oh, there's "O.d Hundreith"
and Aud Lspg Syne" and Down
by The Weeping WIIlows'' and
"'That's eocugh. the boss would
exclaim. You won't do for me.
These tures ere too slow for me.
Good day
"On the contrary, if the applicant
snsw cred, Ooh, l generally whistle
"Yapkee Doodle" or The Fishers
Hornpipe" or something OF that sort
the carpenter would say at once:
"I think you'll do. Take off your
coat if you Want to and 60 to work.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1900-08-15
A Thousand Tongues

Could not express the rapture Of
Annie e Springer, Of 1925 Howard
street, Philadelphia, Pa, when she
found that Dr.. Kings Nsw Discov-
cry for Consumption had completely
cured her of burden. All other
remedies and doctors could give her
no help, bat she says OF this Roy
Cu1e-"it soon removed the pain in
my chest and can now sleep sound.
ly, something I can scarcely remem-
Der doing before. I feel like sound
ing its praises throughout the Uni
verse" So will every one who tries
Dr. Kings New Discovery for any
trouble Of the Tnroa!, Chest or
Lungs. P.ice 50.. and 81 90. Trial
bottles free ct J. E. Ksufmann's
Drug Store; every bottle guaranteed.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1900-08-15
NO. 10

" u feed your goat on Tribunss,
do you?" he asked, in the mildest of
accents.
Yes, sir, / do" clustered tie
stranger.
"All right, my friend,' said Mr..
Greely, qnietly; keep right on read
ing some other paper and feeding
your goat on Tfibunes, and III
guarantee IN three months time the
goat will know considerably more
about what is so:ug on in the world
than its owner dues :"
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1900-08-15
Military Uniforms.

Military uniforms were rot origin
ally especially splendid. It was the
Prussian army and then Napoleon
who set The example OF adornipg the
soldiers dress all over with fur, gold
lace and so on. The Napoleonic
armies suffered from perfect mania
for showy troppinss.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1900-08-15
Reduced Rates. .

Montreal Bible Conference; Black
Mountain, N c., August 18th, 2G b,
1900:
On account Of this occasion, South
ern Railway will sell round tip tick
cts from all Stations on its Lines to
Black Mountain, N. G, and return at
rate of Ooe First Class Fare for the
round trip. Tickets will be sold
August 9th, 1O.b, 11th, 18th and
13th,' with final return limit August
28th, 1900, inclusive.
Black Mouptsip, n. G. is located
in the heart of the Land Of the Sky"
and this will give all fire opportu-
nifty to visit that beautiful sun mer
region. 80
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1900-08-15
A Woman's Letter.

Coolidge, Ky, Aug. 1st, 1898.
have been suffering from Female
troubles and was unable to get relief,
I was persuaded to try Benedicta.
and after one months treatment l
can say am fully restored. Irecom-
mend your remedy to suffering wo-
men. Mrs. H. R. Gilreath.
Sold by Julian E Kaufman.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1900-08-15
A Triumph Of Science.

Eminent foreign scientists have
found out that grassboppes's ears
are IN it's legs"
How did they ascertain that?"
They put hopper on board
and tapped TIE board gently"
"Well!"
The creature nopped away. Then
they cut eff 1t, legs, put it on the
b ,ard again, and tapped the board
as before, and it didn't hop away. 1t
couldu't hear the tap, you see."
Gosh, what wonderful thing
science ISL
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1900-08-15

asserts that the Russian general staff
have been notified that the Chinese,
10000 strong. are moving from Hu
Nan and Hu Pei toward Pekin aid
Tien Tsiu.
The Shanghai correspondent of
The Daily N-ws wiring Thursday,
announces that the Cainese mer-
chants are petitioning the authorities
not to land troops.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1900-08-15

A: a reception in Paris traveller,
who was s.tongly prejudiced against
Jews, was talking to Rothschild on
The beauties OF the Island CT Tahiti,
and sarcastically remarked, There
are neither hogs nor Jews there!"
"Indeed." retorted Rothscbild. Then
you and I should go there together.
We should be great curiosities."
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1900-08-15
II the Baby is Cutting Teeth

Be sure and use that old and we'll
tried remedy, sIrs. Winslow's Sooth-
ing Syrup for children teething. 1t
soothes the child, softens the gums,
allays all pain, cures wind collie and
is the best remedy for diarrhea.
twenty-five cents bottle.
It is the best of all.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1900-08-15
Very Low Rates to Chicago and Return.

On account of the National En-
campment, G. A R, Chicago, ILL.,,
August 27sh-. September lst, 1000,
the Southern Railway will sell round
trip tickets from I'll stations on its
lines to Caicago, Ill, and return at
especially reduced rates. The fol-
lowing rates will apply from points
uamed: Auguste, GA, S23 70;
Columbia. S. C, s24 Is; Property,
5 G, S23 So Tickets will be sold
f-om points in the State Of Florida
on August "a b ard 25;b, and from
points in all ether S:a es on August
25th, 26.b and 9Th, with final limit
September SD, 1900. By deposit Ct
tickets with Joint Agent of Central
Passenger Association, at Chicago,
prior to - 90 noon September 2nd,
1850, and on payment Of fee Of fifty
(5O) cents in connection with each
ticket at time Of deposit, the return
final limit may be extended until
September Goth, 1900. Persons
located at non coupon stations should
notify agent several days in advance
of date they contemplate leaving in
order that he may supply himself
with proper tickets. For detailed
information relative to rates, sched-
ules, reservations, etc, call on or ad-
dress any agent of the Southern Rail
way or its connections.
S. H Hardwick, A. G. P. A,
Atlanta, GA.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1900-08-15

"Where is the island of Java 81 tu-
ated?" asked school teacher of a
small, rather forlorn-lookiDg boy.
Il dunns, sir ''Dou'J you know
where coffee comes 'front.'" Yes,
81; we borrow it from the next-door-
neighbor."
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1900-08-15
That Throbbing Headache

Would quickly leave you, if you
used Dr.. Kings New Life Pills.
Thousands of sufferers have proved
their matchless merit for Sick and
Nervous Headaches. They make
pure blood and strong nerves and
build up your health. Easy to take.
Try them. Only 25 cents. Money
back if not cured. Sold by J. E.
Keafmann, Druggist.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1900-08-15
TUFTS Liver Pills
II NonpIused He".

Mrs. Malsprop-Aud then, after
all, when I got to tie convention hall
tie man at the door said: Sorry,
madam; but you can't get into the
ball without q card"
Mrs. Qualifications, what did
you do tbe'?
MIS-. Malapop-I didn't know
what to do. 1 WAS completely ne
plus.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1900-08-15
Mothers
Friend

viii do for every woman what it did for the
Minnesota mother who writes the above let
ter. Not to cse it during pregnancy is
mistake to be paid for in pain and suffering.
Mot6er's Friend equips the patient with a
strong body and clear intellect, which IN
turn are impaired to the child. 1t rsla1es
the muscles and allows them to expand. 1t
relieves morning sickness and nervousness.
1t puts all the organs concerned IN perfect
condition for the final hour, so that the aetcal
labor IS short and practically painless. Dan
ger Of rising OR hard breasts is altogether
avoided, and recovery is merely matter of
a few days.
Druggists sell Mothers Friend for ST bottle.
The Bradfleld Regulator Co., Atlanta, Ga.
Send for our free illustrated book.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1900-08-15
Effect Of Paternal Example.

Mr.. Tucker, who sometimes goes
cunning, was trying TO teach Tommy
the meaning of the word "brace" as
applied to game.
Now, Tommy" he said, "if you
should 60 hunting and kill 20 pheas-
ants, for instance, how many would
YOU say you had bagged?'
Fifty" replied Tommy.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1900-08-15
Editors Awful Plight.

F. NJ. Higgins, Editor Senace,
([lls News, was afflicted for years
with Piles that no doctor or remedy
helped until be tried Bucklen's Arnica
Salve. He writes two boxes wholly
cured him. It's the surest Pile cure
on earth and the best salvs in the
world. Cure guaranteed. Only 25
cents. Sud by J. E Ksufmann,
Druggist.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1900-08-15
Annual Convention, National Baptist
Association, Richmond, Va,
September 1920, 1900.

OepIeuOoh IL ~, 10Vo.
Ga account Of this occasion, South
ern Railway will sell round trip
tickets to Richmond, Va. and return,
at rate of One First Class Fare for
the round trip, from all points on its
Lines, except from Washington. D
G. and Alexandra, Va. Tickets will
b. sold September 10Th, llth, and
12;h, with fnal limit September p,
1900 inclusive.
For further and detailed informa-
tion as TO rates, reservations, sched-
ules, etc, Call upon or wlite any
agent of the Southern Railway or its
connections, or to
S. e. Hard1ick,
Asst. Gen. Pass. Agent,
5143 Atlanta, Ga.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1900-08-15
County Campaign Meetings.

The following is the campaign
schedule:
Samaria Church, August 16.
Leviedale, Augu:t 18.
Irmo, August %.
Chapin, August "a.
Pine Ridge, August 25.
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show that the dispenssry is here to

Quay
He taok up the, Rev. W. r Rich
ard.ou' recent sci mon and read The
extract relative to the demagoGue
and that the dispensary was organ
izod by political demagogue for po-
litical purposes. What was that but
politics? He did not fight the preach
ers except when they attacked him.
Talking about Hoyt's D. d. and
LII d, be said that some now
thought D. D stood for ''dsmrcd
devil, and LII D was to be changed
by putting "h o" before the L.
These people here will continue s.
make their liquor and use it no maj
ter what prohibition may try to dc
Oconee DOW lad $4,000 in the trea-,
ury from the dispensary and no one
knew or felt where it came from. H.
wanted to know why, if Col. Hoy
knew that the dispensary was noH
being enforced why he and his pro
hibition friends did not, as they
ought, cooperate and help enforce
the law and get all the good there
was in the system and if the people
did the wrong thing they have them
selves to blame.
He expected that he had lost from
10000 to 10000 votes by his fight
from the prohibitionists. Most Of
those who are fighting him now are
the very same as were fighting him
when he tried to lead the people in
1890. If they do not want me for the
place let these good men scratch my
name and not vote for me. The peo-
pie want to know how many are so
narrow minded as not to vote for q
man who insists on free speech.
He did not want to pen the old
sore, be did not want any feeling,
but he wanted to be left alone, but
wanted it understood and published
be was not begging for votes and he'j
wanted to see, and the people wante d
to see, how many men in all South
Carolina would vote against him and
his record. He then took up DR..
Gardner's sermon. In Edgefeld for
instance today there was absolutele-
straint of appetite. There are plenty
of counties where you can't get a !
drink to save your life. He was no
defender of the misdeeds and mis-
management of the law. he had
Charleston as dry as gunpowder and
kept the State 80 during his term
He addressed the ladies and said
the ministers are trying to break up |
the only thing that recently had
brought any temperance. Preach
ers ought to preach obedience to law.
Never do you hear sermons against
blind tigers, but it is all against the
He was willing to mear-
ure up in the next world with many
of these preachers without any badge
of denomination, admitting his weak
ness but trying to do his best. Toe
preachers now were after the dis
pensary and next no doubt would be
after his neck. He wanted the leg
islators pledged. The largest num-
Der of drunkards he saw was at
Yorkville, dry town.
He asked only those who voted to
have their cousciences 60 with their
hands. He wanted an honest vote
and Zone that meant something.
About 5 voted for prohibition and
about 60 per cent. voted for the dis
pensary, 40 or 80 per cent. did not
vote at all, but the m-jority presept
voted for the dispensary after being
asked to vote honestly.
Y
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1900-08-15
ADVERTISING RATES.

Advertisements will be inserted at the
rate Of Is cents per square of ono 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 thelve
months.
Notices in the local column cents per
line each insertion.
Obituaries charged for at the rate OF OF
cent word, wien they exceed 100 words.
Marriage notices inserted free
Address
G. II. HARMAN, Editor and Publisher.
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CAMPAIGN MEETINGS.

They Open at 0rangebur9 and Close
at Columbia.
The sub committee of the State
Democratic Executive Committee has
arranged the following schedule for
the campaign meetings:
Aiken, Wednesday, August, Is.
Edge6eld, Thursday, August l6.
Ssluda, Saturday, August IS.
Lexington, Tuesday, August 4.
Columbia, Wednesday, August p.
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Surplus $4,000 90
ESTABLISHED 1871.
JAMES WOODROW, President.
JULIUS WAL KER, Vice President.
JEROME &. SAWYER, Cashier.
DIRECTORS-Ja James Woodrow, John 4.
Crawford, julius II. Walker, c. Fitzsim-
mons, w. c. Wright, W. b. Gibbes,
John T. S:oan, T. T. Moore j. L. Min
nargh. E. S. Joynes.
YT1HiS BANK SOLICrCS A SHARE, IF
not all, of your business, and Will
grant every favor consistent with safe and
sound banking.
January 30. lS97-1v.
When writing mention the Dispatch.
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have hard time to pull up, and how
he could and did sympathize with
him. He held the prohibition con-
vention responsible for the present
m;x-up and campaign, and insisted
that party or factioual conventions
should not be held.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1900-08-15

ne could and did sympathlze with
him. He held the prohibition con-
vention responsible for the present
m;x-up and campaign, and insisted
that party or factioual conventions
should not be held.
JAMES A. HOYT
Said the friends of the dispensary
had already criticised it sufficiently
for him not to say anything about it.
There is no use TO 60 to Kansas to
find violations of the dispensary, fer
any law is violated there or here.
He believed there would be agitatica
until the dispensary was abolished.
The dispensary has some good fea-
lures but they are getting in bad
repute by non. enforcement. Moral
questions. if they affect the people,
have perfect right to enter into
politics. The State has no right to
engage in business.
You take the profit feature from
the dispensary and it will 60. It is
the money that is in it that keeps it
in you; That is the universal ap
peal. He had said everywhere be
wanted to abolish the dispensary.
He insisted that Tillman had made
the mistake to mix up in this family
q1srrel, and, especially to jump On
him. Hoyt is going to be elected, be
thinks, unless he can stop the wave.
Hoyt spoke of Tillmau now being
D. D., T. L D., and one X. D, and
as such he welcomed him. He was
not afraid to meet him as candidate
for the United States Senate. It
would be far more becoming to talk
on national issues. When this coun-
try is intensely interested in national
matters, and he says not word on
national matters. He believed as a
Governor, he could enforce the dis
pensary law ten times better than at
| present.
He insisted that there was no
necessity in the Bible for expressly
prohibiting the sale of whiskey, to
begin With, the general principle is
against liquor selling, and there was
no such vile stuff known in the days
of the Bible as fuss X, and be took
up the Bible 10 show it's argument
against the sale of liquor.
SENATOR TILLMAN WELL RECEIVED.
Senator Tillmas was well received
after six-hour wait. He said be
was limited because of time, and
some one cried: The moon is
shining" and Tillman caught the
joke and thought this was good one
on him about this moonshine coun-
try. he then took up Col. Hoyt's
speech and said it was distinctly bis
purpose not to dictate or meddle,
and then again explained why he
was running, and he was going tc
speak on what he pleased and would
take no orders from anyone. The
people would elect no governor this
year not in sympathy with him. BE
las been all along the line and knew
of what he spoke.
He was better satisfied now thai
Gonzales was sticking him with a pir
than soldering all over him. HI
then argued that hand primaries hae
and will show how things are going
He insisted that the hand primaries