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The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1900-10-31

poets to be paid his wages twice eacn
month, as provided by law.
THE practical bene6ts to the MI
ners, which accrue from thorough or
gapization. have been so clearly de-
monstrated during this strike that 1t
should be needless for us to urge
upon you the necessity OF MAINTAIN
ing your union intact. We trust
however, that those who are now
members of the union will be unceas-
ing in their efforts to induce all other
mine workers to ally themselves With
the United Mine Work of America
at once, as it will be impossible for
YOU to secure higher wages in the
future, or even to maintain the pres
ent rate Of wages, unless you are pre-
pared to cff.r a united resistance if
any attempt is made to reduce your
earnings upon the expiration OF the
present offer.
Gas there are some few companies
who have neither posted, notified nor
.ienified in any other manner their
willingness to pay the 10 per cent.
advance in wages and suspend the
,liding scale, we would advise that
,uless the men employed by such
ompanies receive notice before Mon
Law that the advance will be paid,
they remain away from the mines
nd continue on strikes until the
companies employing them agree to
the conditions offered by the other
companies; and the employees OF
the other companies who have ef fred
the advance of 10 per cent. and abol
ish the sliding scale are hereby au-
:horize to resume work Monday morn
,ug, October 29tb, and to be prepared.
if called to contribute reasonable
amount of your earning for the mair-
tenance of those who may be ccm
pelled to continue on strike"
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1900-10-31
AN APPEAL TO VOTERS.
Col. Jones Issues an Address Asking
All to Vote.

Col. Jones Issues an Address Asking,
All to Vote.
Along the line of the letter recently
received from National Democratic
Chairman Jones, the South Csrolins
Democratic chairman has issued the
following to the voters of the State:
To the Democratic Voters Of South
Carolins:
In view>of the present apathy
which seems to exist among the
Democrats of this State as to voting
at the general election, I feel it toBe
my duty as your chairman to address
you in this public manner and urge
that you all come out on November
9th and cast your votes for the Dem
ocrstic ticket from President TO
Coroner. Our people have gotten
into the way Of thinking that when
they have cast their votes in the
primary there is DO further use 10
vo,e. But this is very dangerous
policy to pursue and may result in
great harm to our State. Our State
and county tickets are safe, as the
Republicans have put up no op-
position at all.
The Republicans have an electoral
ticket 10 the field composed mostly
of negroes, and they have q candi-
date 10 every congressional district
in this State, hoping to have their
candidates seated by q Republican
bouse. Let every Democratic voter
come out and vote for the Democratic
nominees in his district and elect
them by such an overwhelming ma.
iority that not even a R~publican
house would dear unseat them or
even consider q contest.
The Democrats of this nation have
given you one of the grspdest,
purest and most brilliant men this
country has ever produced, and the
Democrats of this State have given
you seven of your best men as candi-
dates for congress, and I cannot be-
iieve that you will not come out and
vote for them. We have heard OF
late various threats on all sides that
our representation in congress would
be reduced by Republican congress
on account Of our small vote in the
general election.
Now, fellow Democrats, do not
allow this serious charge to be made
against you. Willie Jones,
-. State Chairman Ex. Com.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1900-10-31

The possibilities Of farming are
demonstrated by James Cantaulou,
of Edge6eld county, who works .-one
mule on a small tract farm. The
past two seasons have been hard on
both cotton and corn, but last year
Mr. C.ntaulou made 600 bushels. of
corn and nine bales of cotton. This
year despite the disastrous season he
has made ten bales of cotton and 700
bushels of corn, or crop worth
$3.50, with one mule.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1900-10-31
The Appetite Of a Goat.

Is envied by all poor dyspeptics
whose Stomach and Liver are out OF
order. All such should know that
DR.. Kirg's New Lie Pills, the won
derful Stomach and Liver Remedy,
gives a splendid appetite. sound
digestion and regular bodily habit
that insures perfect health and great
energy. Osly 25c. at j. E. Ksuf.
mann's drug store.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1900-10-31
ADVERTISING RATES,
RoUNDLAPs BRING $40 PREMIUM.
Mrs. N. J. Moore Sold Roundiap and
Square Cotton With That Result.


Square Cotton With That Result.
Mrs NJ J Moore, q business wo.
man of Y.lobusba County, Miss,
Who conducts two plantations on
which she makes about 1A0
bales of cotton q year, August
Is last wrote to the O,klsnd GIN
Co.: During the past season, I bad
the cotton raised on my place near
town, ginned at your gin and put up
on your roundlap bale press, but all
cotton raised on my Yocona planta.
ton was put in the old fashioned
square bale. Believing, that the
price of cotton would be much
higher in the spring after the short.
ness of the crop was fully realized
than it was bringing at the time
it was ginned, I concluded to hold,
and did not sell out until late in the
spring.
II put my roundlap and square
cotton on the market at the same
time, the grades OF each being the
same, and sold both lots to Messrs.
Harvey, Black & Co., their bids on ,
both kinds being the highest made.
[ got 9 cehts for my square cotton !.
and 81 cents for my roundlap cotton.
Il watched the cotton markets
here very carefully during the past
season, and the roundlap cotton
always brought premium Of from
cent to ( cent more than the
q1are bales Of the same grade"
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STRIKE CALLED OFF.
The Miners Are Partially Success in
Their Contentious,

Inef IUNteEtlui'Ss
H@zleton. Pa, October 25-The
mine workers strike has been de
clared eff as to sll companies which
has complied with the strikers de-
mspds, and the strike will be con
.inued against those companies which
have not granted che Scranton con
vention's demand. The strikers will
return to work Monday at the places
where The tie up is ended
The announcement was conveyed
n a statement addressed to the mi
ners and issued tonight by P esident
Mitchell and other officers of the
United Mine Workers. The state
meat says:
ssAfter carefully cauvassing the en-
tire strike situation, We, your officers,
district and national, have concluded
that your victory is so nearly COM
pIete that no good end can be served
bv continuing the strike longer. The
contest has been in progress for 80
days, and the companies employing
YOU have, with few exceptions signi-
fed their willingness to pay the scale
of wages formulated by the Scranton
convention OF October IL and l3.
1--WE are aware that some disap-
pointment and dissatisfaction has
been caused by the failure C the
operators in district ] and to sepa-
rate the reduction in the price of
powder from the advance in wages,
but after careful inquiry we are salts
6ed that each mine employee will &C.
tually receive an advance of 10 per
cent. on the wages formally paid. In
the schuylkill and Lebigh regions
the largest companies have ag' 'eed
that the sliding scale should be sus-
pended, and that wages shall remain
stationary at 10 per cent. until April
l, 1901, those removing one of the
niquities of which you have complain
ed for many years.
While it is true that you have not
secured redress for all your wrongs;
while it is true that the increase in
your earnings will not fully compen-
safe you for the arduous labor you
are compelled to perform in the
mines, you have established power
erfal organization. which, if main.
sained and conducted on business
principles, will enable you to regu
late many of your local grievances
snd make your employment less haz
srdous and more profitable than be-
fore the strike began.
"The companies agree, in their no
tices to take up with their mine en-
ployees all grievances complained Of
We would, therefore, advise that
when work is resumed, committees be
selected by the mine employees and
they wait upon the superintendent
of the companies and present their
grievances in an orderly, businesslike
manner and ask that they be cor
rected.
"Your attention is respec fully Call
ed to the fact that the laws OF the
State of Pennsy lvauia provide thai
| miners 81 ould be paid semi monthly
upon demand; we should, therefore
| . iyise that each mine employee serve
] notice on the companies that he ex
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1900-10-31
4 Marriage.
Columbia State. October 27.

Columbia State. October ~.
Last evening the Rev. j. c. Alb
ney, at his residence, united in mar
riaee Mrs. Mary c. Wilkins of this
city and Dr.. j A. Williamson Of
Thor, Lexington county. Only q
few friends witnessed the ceremony.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1900-10-31
From the Far Away Philippines.
Troop M" Sd Cavalry,
San Ferpando-de-la- Union,

Luzon, P. l., Sept IA, 1900
To the Editor of the Dear Old Dis.
patch and Kind Friends of Le1ing-
toL:
First, the editor will accept my
sincere thanks until better paid for
the three copies of the dear old home
paper (the Dispatcb), which I have
Just foished reading, and the editor
will please continue the same each
week until my departure for the
Uuited States. of which I will inform
him before hand.
The Philippines are about the same
as when I last wrote. Time drags
away very slowly, but I assure you,
friends, will" is not discouraged at
all and feels almost sure Of his re-
turn in another short 141 months to
his dear old home and loved ones
again.
Some of the men in this command
are looking very bad, but then I
thirk and kope they will come out
O K in the near future.
I would ike very much to see all
my friends once again. It is true 1
am long ways from home, but then
I came this far and I guess I can go
back that far.
The fighting is about over until
the dry season, and then I look for it
proper. I positively do not believe
all the fighting is over, for every now
and then we have a skirmish and can
hear of them all through the island
*" Troop of the Sd cavalry, Sta
toned at Loag, above here, lost five
men killed and number wounded 8
few days ago, and We have orders to
move north now but I do not know
when we will move, I guess not until
the rainy season is over, which will
be about the 1st Of December.
Ireceived three letters of copgrat-
ulation on the other piece that I
wrote for the Dispatch sometime ago,
and two of them were from "girls."
Say, Mr.. Editor, I have just finish
ed plate Of nice fish. I thought Of
you, as I know you are lover of nice
fish. We haven't very many varie-
ties of meat over here, the principal
varieties being fish, chickens and
monkey. We generally eat all the
fish and chicken we can get and keep
the monkeys for pets. This Trool
("M') alone has seven monkeya, an
Just think, I am not included in that
seven either.
I haven't seen any Philippine dam
sci yet that thought I could love
very much.
Well can't write much this time
as I have been working for the
military commission for the past
three weeks and have two cases to
finish up on the typewriter yet this
evening. I will be glad when it
closes, for after the hard campaign
that I have gone through With, it is
not much pleasure to handle a type
writer. I am nearly sick now, but
think it is only q little homesickness
1 wish the Dispatch the best of
success in all of its undertakings
and OF course, tnat lncluoes tne
editor. l wish to say to my friends
shall be very glad to receive a line
from any of them and at any time.
Whenever you get ten or twelve
thousand miles from home, you have
DO idea bow it does cheer poor SOL
dier's heart to receive even q line
from some dear friend at home.
Even q word, even q line
cheers the heart and consoles the
mind"
If the sun gets much hotter over
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1900-10-31
70 Cure a Cold in One Day

Take Laxative Bromo Quinine
Tablets. All druggists refund the
money if it fails to cure. E.%W.
Groves signature is on each box. 25c.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1900-10-31

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The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1900-10-31
Mother S
Friend

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Druggists sell Mothers Friend for 81 bottle.
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-14
Apple Cake.

Stew some apples which have been
peeled and cut into slices with only
sufficient water to keep them from
burning and without any sugar. When
they are done, beat them to a pulp, add
a small piece of butter and sufficient
molasses strip to sweeten the apple:
then stir in half a saltspoonful of pow
dered cinnamon and little grated lem
on peel. Cover a tin baking plate which
has been buttered with some short
paste of medium thickness, then spread
withta layer of the apple and scatter
some dates which have been washed.
stoned and cut up into small pieces over
it; add more apple and then cover in
with the paste and bake at once in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-14
THE PHILOSOPHY OF CORNERS

fully devised curtain, a cabinet, a small
table crossing it, will perhaps give the
desired effect.
A corner in library may be put to
good use by fitting it up with a small
writing table. This table may be moth
ing more than triangular board fitted
to brackets screwed to the wall, the
outer edge being nicely rounded off.
The board should be painted or stained
and vanished and then covered on the
top with a couple of thicknesses of
heavy blotting paper. This should be
fixed on with fiat brass headed tacks.
A little cupboard, into which writing
materials may be put or in which mem
oTandum books and bills may be stow
ed, should be placed in the corner a lit
tie above the table. A narrow, orna-
mental shelf for the taper with which
the wax is melted and similar trifies
may border one side of the table A
calendar may hang on the wall opposite
the little shelf, with some photographs
under it. To light the desk lamp sus-
pended from chain will be both useful
and ornamental A small wastebasket
underneath, chair at one side, with a
tabouret, on which stands a fiowerpot
ard plant, for the other side, and the
troublesome corner is finished.
In the dining room the corner may be
fitted with one Of the triangular china
closets which can be purchased for so
little. In case the china closet owned
by the family is a fiat one, it can be
placed across the corner and its height
relieved by a set of ornamental plates
on brackets.
In the drawing room a table on which
china and a handsome unframed en-
craving or painting are arranged will
give a pretty effect to a corner, espe-.
cially if one side is finished with framed
photographs and the other with small
water colors or a piece of ornamental
china.
Having the background filled in with
palms often relieves a drawing room
corner of the effect of stiffness when
it is occupied by a table or large ped
estal on which is a marble figure The
plants are arranged on little brackets
so disposed as not to be noticed at a
casual glance.
In dining or sitting room which has
large. light windows in one corner,
growing plants of the hardy, vigorous
sort that bloom often will look well.
They give a touch of brightness and
cheer to the prosy apartment
In library a corner may be furnish
ed with low seats, above which are
shelves ranged with books relating to
some particular subject. Greece, for
instance, being the topic, the corner can
be ornamented with small, framed pic
lures of the, country, reproductions of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-14

! LATE PARIS FASHIONS +

quality of looking well as long as any
of the material remains. Mousseline
duchesse is a new satin of very soft
quality; it is especially charming in
corn, reseda. lilac and brown. Khaki in
wool and linen is beginnings run which
will probably be a popular one, as the
material is a strong and therefore use
full one, especially for childrens gar
ments Cloths gauffered and with checks
and chaIlies of siIklike surface are indi-
Gated as the proper things for spring
juvenile gowns.
Pastel colors still are worn Light
mauves, reed green's and the new shade
called flame pink have been adopted for
general wear and by spring will be all
the rage.
Ribbons will be a good deal used in
trimming gowns, as they have been
during the winter. The puckered ones,
gauzes and shot ribbons, the ribbon
with lace upon the edges, all will GER
tainly be much in demand. The striped
ribbons, too, will have their admirers,
those with perpendicular lines being the
most modish.
Painted leather introduced on some
street gowns is found to be a trimming
of very good effect. We have had hand
painted satin and silk and cloth. and
now hand painted leather ornaments,
much more lasting than any woven
fabric, is sensibly being introduced.
With care the ehamois can be cleaned
when soiled and the painting used to
trim another gown when the cloth has
seen its days of usefulness departed.
Cloth gowns, too, are painted. but
they are too expensive for ordinary
wearers, especially with the painted
skirt fronts which the fashionable wo-
men are fond of DOMINIC.
Cut out patternS in cloth show M
signs of disappearing-in fact, it is a
season of elaborateness combined with
simplicity. Gray and brown street
gowns with cut out bands across the
skirt, and with silk of a lighter shade
underneath, are upon the models in the
shops now displayed for spring wear.
Coiffeurs are introducing the fashion
of turning the hair straight back from
the face. a style that suits very few
women
Leghorn hats are expected to be very
popular this coming season. For trim
ming them wide ribbons, ostrich plumes
and flowers will be much used, al
though great deal of straw braid is
to be utilized.
Fichus and lace scarfs are still la
mode; they give softening effect to
the severest toilet and serve admirably
to touch up a rather shabby costume.
orange is color InaC seems to be
gaining in vogue. Where a season or
so ago an orange gown was the excep-
ton one sees much orange, corn color
and amber used with black for matron-
| ly gowns with most charming effect.
Velvet for visiting gowns is popular.
When the cotton stuff is adopted, only
the best quality should be selected.
Satin, faille or damask looks better for
evening wear than the light shades of
xraIx he To1n nd iaoI re
remain undated in popularity and are
expected to be features in spring fash
ions.
Corduroy. while not so much used as
velvet, makes very pretty and very
serviceable street dresses. It is a fact
that corduroy will outwear almost any
other fabric and still look fresh and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-14

Many widows, finding Grape wells ana
bonnets too heavy, replace them with
black silk grenadine, but the crowns OF
the Grape bonnets are unlined and gem
orally display an Alsatian bow in front
FrenchWomen lead the way in the mat
ter of the long pendent wells; the most
graceful is the Gallo, especially as
worn by the young girls.
Toques, hats and bonnets worn in the
lesser degrees of mourning are made in
dull, fancy and satin straw, cloth or
felt. 1t is not considered good taste to
combine ostrich feathers with Grape;
they are replaced by dull wings and
quilts, giving the appearance of great
breadth across the face, sometimes
brought about by straw wings lined
with tuckings of chiffon or Grape or by
large bows of silk edged with fringe
falling over the brins at the side Many
felt toques and hats are trimmed with
huge rosettes and folds of chiffon, black
paradise, osprey and gourras (the latter
most la mode), with dull jet; but
mourning millinery follows the current
modes as to shape and styles modified
by the eXigencies of the material used.
Widows caps are now relegated to
elderly women; younger widows simply
wear a white rouleau inside the bonnet.
The shape of the cap undergoes but lit
tie change: in Paris the Marie Stuart
in tulle or lisse is still the prevailing
form. Bonnet wells for covering the
face in deep mourning are of grenadine
or of net, bordered with a hem of Grape
or three or five rouleaux. Spotted nets
are not considered suitable
With regard to ornaments, in the first
! depth of woe jet only is permissible, Civ
ing place by and by to pearls and dia-
monds. Jet purse chains are made in
h..frr 1,f l,zTT so4 q
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-14
CoRNERLEss room

III CORNERLESS room would be
a monotonous to most of us. The
appearance of greater space in
circular room of like area would not
by any means compensate for the loss
of variety that angles in a square or
rectangular room impart. The break
ing up of the wall space by corners per-
mits the Introduction of that constant
variety, united with similarity. which
is the basis of all opportunities for dec
orative beauty.
Probably the most difficult parts of
the room to finish off suitably are these
same corners. All sorts of furnishing
devices in the shape OF oriental hooks
and corresponding absurdities have
been introduced with a view of dispos-
ing of unsightly spaces; but, as rule,
the result has been worse than the
evil. for to the eye of good taste an
oriental nook in a modern room is an
incOngruity sadly contrary to the spirit
of art. Oriental corners are all very
we'll in oriental rooms, but the spirit
of the best architecture has been that
a house, even in its interior decora-
tions, should conform to the prevailing
plainer-idea. For instance, in the old
Italian palaces there is an abundance
Of slender marble columns delicate
marble carvings, sumptuous marble
,
p whose spacious windows looked out on
fountained rose gardens. This was well
in the architect who was striving after
GOODNESS and beauty. In the old Eng
ish houses, with their dark wainscot-
ed halls and stoutly built rooms, whose
design was comfort there can be found
desire to shut out the cold winter
blasts. The Englishmanss halls were
dark and heavy as his own brooding
sluggish temperament. In the orient
the aim was to secure GOODNESS and Sc
crecy. and the light was allowed to
simmer into the house through del
icately carved screens and 1atticeworks
of wood or marble. 1t was not the Eng
hsh shrinking from intrusion that ac-
tuated the oriental, but jealous horror
of prying eyes. Throughout the more
princely domiciles there were every
where alcoves, curtained and latticed
hooks, into which one might slip and
escape ones own family in a country
where no one trusted even his brother.
The life of a land is therefore the best
criterion of what viii be allowable in
its decorative art.
Most modern rooms are furnished
without any thought of the corners. If
the room is a small one and there is a
desire to make it appear larger, the
best way to accomplish this is so to fin
ish the angles in its outline that they
will not be noticed. A tail plant, a skill