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The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1901-02-06
The Result of His Plea.

"And do you think" asked his
friend, "that your remonstrances will
have any efects" "Well," said the
Chinese statesman, "the European
generals have promised that, in fu-
ture, their troops will be more mod
crate in their atrocities"
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1901-02-06
Hotel Life.

Jackson-What time do you wake up
in the morning usually!
Jimson-Four o'clock.
"Great snakes! Why 50 early"
81 board at a hotel, and that's the
hour the man in the next room goes 70
bed."-New York Weekly.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1901-02-06

beauty to the landscape, besides en-
hancing the value Of property. Not
only do level curved roads add beauty
to the landscape and make lands
along them more valuable, but the
horse is able TO utilize his full
strength over them; furthermore a
horse can pull only four-ffths as
much on a grade of 2 feet in 100
feet, and this gradually lessons until
with a grade of 10 feet in 100 feat be
can draw but one.fourth as much as
be can on a level road.
All roads should therefore wind
around hills or be cut through in
stead Of running over them, and in
many cases the former can be done
without greatly increasing the dis
tance. To Illustrate, if an apple or
pear be cut in half and one of the
halves placed on a fat surface, it will
be seen that the horizontal distance
around from stem to blossom is no
greater than the distance over be-
tween the same points.
The willfulness of one or two pri-
vate individuals sometimes becomes
barrier to traffic and commerce.
The great drawback to the laying out
of roads or the principle referred to
is that of the necessity, in some cases,
of building them through the best
lands, the choicest pastures and Or
chards, instead, as they now do, of
cutting around the farm line or pass
ing through old worn out fields or
over rocky knolls. But if farm
ers wish people to know that
they have good farms, good cattle,
sheep or horses, good grain, fruit or
vegetables, they should let the roads
60 through the best portions Of the
farms.
The difference in length between
straight road and one which is
slightly curved is less than one
would imagine. Says Sganzin: IF
a road between two places 10 miles
apart were made to curve so that the
eye could see no farther than quar-
ter of mile of it at once, its length
would exceed that of a perfectly
straight road between the same points
by only $50 yards" Even if the dis
tance around hill be much greater,
it is often more economical to con-
struct it that way than to go over and
necessitate the expenditure Of large
amounts of money in reducing the
grade, or waste Of much valuable
time and energy in transporting
goods that way. Gillespie says,
"that, as a generalrule, the horizontal
length of road may be sd7antagi-
ously increased to avoid an ascent by
at least twenty times the perpendicu-
lar height which is thus to be avoided
that is, to escape hill 100 feet
high, it would be proper for the road
to make such a circuit as would in
crease its length 2,COO feet" The
mathematical axiom that "straight
line is the shortest distance between
two points is not, therefore, the best
rule to follow in laying out a road;
better is the proverb that "the long
est way round is the shortest way
home
a full anH new SlJNNlV OF
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1901-02-06
Owing to the good financial condi-

Owing to the good financial condi-
tion of the State Fair Association, q
State appropriation will not be need
ed this year.
The Excelsior Knitting Mill, OF
Union, S. G., will shortly double its
size. It will then be the largest
mill of it's kind in the South.
When you want physic that is
mild and gentle, easy to take and
pleasant in effect use Chamberlain g
Stomach and Liver Tablets. Price,
25 cents. Samples free. Every box
guaranteed. For sale by J. e.
Kaufman.
The value of the Christmas tur-
keys eaten by the American people
during the late holidays is estimated
at S5,OO0,00O.
When trouble comes wabbling
along a woman gives way to q food
of tears, and 8 man proceeds to tint
the atmosphere blue.
Reports show greatly increased
death rate from throat and lung
troubles, due to the prevalence OF
Group, pneumonia and grippe. We
advise the use of One Minute Cough
Cure in all of these difficulties. 1t
is the only harmless remedy that
gives immediate results. Children
like it. j. E. Kaufman.
An Ohio man aged 112 years is
threatened with nervous prostration.
His physician attributes it to the ex-
cessive use of tobacco for the last
ninety-se7en years.
The Vesta mills, of Charleston, S.
c., will be moved to Gainesville, Ga.
This was a mill that experimental
with negro labor and found it unsat-
isfactory in the cotton mill.
Recent experiments show that all
classes of foods may be completely
digested by a preparation called
Kodol Dyspepsia Cure, which abso-
lutely digests what you eat. As
it is the only combination of all the
natural digestants ever devised the
demand for it has become enormous.
It has never failed to cure the very
worst cases of indigestion and it
always gives instant relief. J. E.
Kaufman.
For many years there has been an
inter -denominational church on Sui
livan's island, all using it. Recently
the government has bought the prop
erty and the island has no church.
The Governor has received reports
of smallpox in the counties of Dar-
lington, Beaufort and Newberry, all
new He has followed the usual
course and referred the reports to
DR.. James Evans of the State Board
of Health, with the request that he
look after them.
A powerful engine cannot be run
with a weak boiler, and we can't keep
up the strain of an active life with
O weak stomach; neither can we stop
the human machine to make repairs.
If the stomach cannot digest enough
food to keep the body strong, such
preparation as Kodol Dyspepsia Cure
should be used. 1t digests what
you eat and it simply can't help but
do you good. j. E. Kaufmrnn.
It is known that wasp nests often
take fire, supposed to be caused by
the chemical action of the wax upon
the material of the nest itself. This
may account for many mysterious
fires in barns and outbuildiDgs.
Cuba will send a representative
delegation to Washington and ask
Congress for a reduction in the
duties on Cuban products, but they
will probably get nothing except the
trip for their paine, as the Republi-
can leaders will not consent to re-
ductiOp.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1901-02-06
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FOEee3HszaaGMs

The liability to disease is greatly
lessened when the blood is in good con-
dition, and the circulation healthy and
vigorous. For then ali refuse matter
is promptly carried out of the system;
otherwise it would rapidly accumulate
fermentation would take place, the
blood become polluted and the consti-
tuition so weakened that simple
malady might result seriously.
A healthy, active. circulation means
good digestion and strong, healthy
nerves.
AS blood purifier and tonic S. S. S.
has no equal. It's the safest and best
remedy for old people and children
because it contains no minerals, but is
madeexclusively of roots and herbs.
No other remedy so thoroughly and
efectually cleanses the blood of i'm
~ ~ m purities. At the
@% K%R same time it builds
u q - up the weak and de-
A8h@A va bilitated, and reno
49, ~ S Yates the entire sys-
TEN. It cures permanently all manner
of blood and skin troubles.
MIR. L. E. Kelly, Of Urbana, o., writes:
stI had Eczema on my hands and face for
Ave years 1t would break out in little
white pustules, crusts would form and
drop off, leaving the skin red and infam.
ed. The doctors did me no good. I used
all the noedicated soaps and salves without
benefit. 8. 8. 8. cured me, and my skin
is as clear and smooth as any ones"
Mrs. Henry Siegfried, of Cape May, N.
j., says that twenty-one bottles OF 8. 8. 8.
cured her of Cancer of the breast. Doc
tors and friends thought her case hope
less.
Richard T. Gardner. Florence, s.. c.,
suffered for years with Boils. Two bot
aition n and an / the be Boils disappeared.
Send for our free book, and write
our physicians about your case.
Medical advice free.
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA, GA.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1901-02-06
TO Cure a Cold in One Day

Take Laxative Bromo Qulnlne
Tablets. All druggists refund the
money if it fails to cure. Il. W.
Groves signaturei is Oh each box. 25c'
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1901-02-06

Chocolate for cakes, powdered
sugar for iceipg cakes, candy trim
mings for cakes, fine extracts and
essences, all at the Bazaar.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1901-02-06

Two vessels sailed recently from
Georgetown, S. G., with over a mil
lion feet of Carolina lumber con.
signed to Boston.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1901-02-06

A full and new supply OF
Garden Seed, just received
at the Bazaar.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1901-02-06

The life of an Australian native
rarely exceeds so years. .-
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1901-02-06
THE
gEIgsLL NATIONAL slEE
COLUMBIA, S. @.

CAPITAL S100. 900 90
SURPLUS. ...... 10000 90
ESTABLISHED 1871.
JAMES WOODROW, President.
JULIUS WALKER. Vice President
JEROME h SAWYER, Cashier.
DIRECTORS-Jam Woodrow, John A
Crawford, Julius H. Walker. G. Fitzsim-
mons, W. c. Wright, w. Il. Gibbes,
Joint. Sloan, T. 7. Moore. J. L. MINI
naugh, E. s. Joynes. -.
,CHIS BANK SOLICrrS A SHARE, IF
not all, of your business, and will
grant every favor consistent with safe and
sound banking.
January 29. 1897-1y.
When writing mention the Dispatch.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1901-02-06

In every home there is trcuble Sun
day morning in finding the mans clean
Globe.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1901-02-06
ACVE2. TTISING RATES.

Advertisements Will be inserted ct the
rate OF rs cents per square of one ch
SPACE for first insertion, and so cents per
inch for each subsequent insertion.
Liberal contracts made with these wish
ing to advertise for three, six snd thelve
months.
Notices in ths local column cents per
line each insertion.
Obituaries charged for at the rate OF ore
cent word, when they exceed 100 words.
Marriage notices inserted free
Address
G. II. EARMAN, Editor and Publisher.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1901-02-06

Lemons, Bananas and Apples, at
The Bazaar.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1901-02-06

Halls Cata,,h Cure is taken inter-
nally and acts directly on the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system.
Send for testimonials, free.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1901-02-06
STATE OF OHIO, Cry OF TOLEDO, !
IucAs COUNTY

Frank J. Cheney makes oath that
be is the senior partner Of the firm
of F. J. Cheney & Co., doing busi-
ness in the City of Toledo, County
and State Aforesaid and that said
firm will pay the sum of Ooe Hun
dred Dollars for each and every case
of Cstsrrh, that cannot be cured by
the use of Halls Catarrb Core.
FRANK J. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed
in my presence, this 9th day OF
December, A. D. 1886.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1901-02-06

Contin ued Oh Second Page.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-18

negroes on election day, cart them to
the polls. half drunk. and vote them
in blocks. No politician or Office seek
er would pay the poll tax of an iGnor-
ant Mexican or negro year or SIX
months in advance The only way by
which INSCRIPTIONS criminals could get
around the law would be by forging
receipts. and that would be made too
serious an offense for most men to try.
This provision would make the en-
forcement of the registration laws SIM
pier and more certain, and remove
practically all the element of judicial
discretion" or fraud that now enters so
ton, and election matters.
The rule would be absolute: Did you
pay your poll tax six months ago, and
have you the. receipt in your hand to
prove it, You can vote Tor register).
Have you no receipt with you? Then
you cannot vote Tor register). No one
should be allowed to swear in his
vote The period in which to pay the
tax could be made long enough to let
in everybody that wanted to pay, and
then if a man did not value his vote
highly enough to keep track of his re-
ceipt, he would deservedly lose 1t.
This plan has the merit of extreme
simplicity, which the present election
laws of this state and most other states
so conspicuously lack. 1t is also hon
est, and leaves almost no opportunity
for the practice of fraud.
Still more. it will add several hun
dred thousand dollars a year to the in
come of the state or county or city,
through the collection of the tax.
If the present legislature will adopt
this plan it will win the everlasting
gratitude of every honest and decent
minded citizen.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-18
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION:
TO ADVERTISERS:

In order to insure prompt changes in
advertising, COPY for same should
be at the business office not later
than 10 a. m.
ADVERTISING RATES:
Rates of advertising in The Daily or
Weekly HERALD will be made
known upon application at the BUSH
ness office. Those who prefer can
have a representative of the bust
ness department call upon them, who
will quote prices and make contracts
for space. Call telephone No. lis.
Classified advertisements for locals, ten
cents per line for first insertion and
five cents for each additional inser-
ton. Specia, rates upon five hum
bred or one thousand lines Of local,
to be used in one month, will be
furnished upon application.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-18

An Illinois girl has an artless little
way of waking a living by promising
young men of other cities, whose ac-
quaintance she makes through a mat
rimonial journal. to go to marry them
if they will send her the railroad fare
When she receives the money she
drops the correspondence. Her photo
graph is pleasant and sincere looking
and not too pretty and she has sue
oeeded in getting quite a collection of
dollars and checks, but the police have
hard heartedly closed in on her senti-
mental scheme
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-18

Booker Washington's ideas OF citi-
zenship would be more TOO low for the
white His plea for Industrial educa-
ton is practical for the white youth as
well as for the black He does not de-
sire that the fields of art and letters
and the classics should be denied the
negro, but he thinks he should be as
sured skill in some work of the hand;
that boys should he taught carpenter
ing. forging, gardening; the girls sew
ing. cooking. poultry raising, house
keeping, so that they can Go it SO skill
fully that their efforts will be in de-
mand. The germ of much of the rot
teness of our education and culture lies
in the fact that our young people are
slovenly in classics and slovenly with
their hands. They are not taught gen
uine skill or good work with hands OF
brains. but are given slipshod hold
on their own, energies. A carpenter
who is in earnest in his work and tries
to create strong, true, perfect work.
has more real culture than the clerk
who has had Greek forced into him,
but has never digested it. Fair, true
work is the basic element of good citi-
zenship. of happiness, of success in its
best sense. and of culture.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-18
THE ONLY WAY TO
GET HONEST ELECTIONS

In the Texas state legislature a few
days ago, during the discussion upor
the proposed changes in the election
laws and the constitution, Represent
alive ]. R. Heslep, of Burleson, said
that it is well known that votes are
purchased in all parts of the state;
that such practice is responsible for
the solid democratic delegation elected
to congress from Texas at the recent
election, as we'll as for the fact that
the state legislature is solidly demo-
cratic. with the exception of one popu-
list member of the house. Mr.. Heslep
is a prominent democrat himself, and
his statement went unchallenged.
A number of members took the stand
that if legislation were directed mere
1y against the purchase of votes there
would not only be almost as much OPP
portunity for fraud as at present, but
the negroes in the "black belt" would
rule in their communities. They there
fore advocated the Acknowledgement of
the undesirable vote.
This is the position long ago assumed
by The Herald, and consistently adj
hered to. The Herald does not look
upon the voting franchise as natural
right 1t is a privilege. in the gift of
a body polite. and should be strictly
guarded for the protection of the COM
munity. 1t is to the interest of the
community to eliminate the ignorant
and corrupt vote. 1t is wrong, how
ever, to engage in the criminal prac-
tice of buying the votes of these people.
directly against the laws of the state.
and the laws of common decency and
honesty.
The undesirable vote should be elm
mated, but it should be done legally.
Nothing will be gained by deliberately
ignoring or breaking the laws OF the
state. But the laws should be speedily
changed so as to make it possible for
the honest people to secure an honest
government, and impossible for cleo
lions to be turned one way or the other
by buying the votes of the ignorant
and corrupt voters
There is but one way in which this
most desirable end can be accomplish
ed That is by making the payment
of poll tax and the presentation of
receipt necessary in order to secure a
registration certificate; and making the
payment of this tax necessary at least
six months, or preferably a year. prior
to an election at which the applicant
intends to vote.
This provision would make it impos-
sible for heelers to corral Mexicans and
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-18

A poor. defenseless thief who hit a
New York woman in the back of the
head with a gas pipe as she was as
cending the stairs leading up from the
street car tunnel. and knocked her
down. got the worst of it in the end
he missed his footing. and the woman
screaming for help all the time. kicked
him; he fell and got up, the woman
after him. and the unfortunate man
was chased block after block by the
woman. He jumped a three-foot wire
netting; she cleared it as easily, and
finally a policeman appeared on the
scere and carried the thief OFF to Jail.
All he wanted was her diamonds and
purse. The woman was the daughter
in-law of Judge Pryor, but her good
standing will not excuse her. The
modern woman who oversteps the
bounds of what man expects of her,
certainly makes life very hard for the
man.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-18

Booker Washington is one of the big
men of our land despite his black skin
His intelligence. patriotism. sincerity,
and loftiness of purpose. and his ability
to carry out his ideas, cannot be ques-
toned. Honor. in the long run, is us
ually given where honor is due. No
mans prejudices can hold out against
qualities that are deserving of honor.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-18

In the recent discussion of the pro-
motions to brigadier generals stars
the president was criticised by some
senators for Offering Leonard Woods
name above others, cut no one denied
that Wood has done the country great
service in Cuba, and when it came to
vote his name was confirmed. Mckin-
ley says that Woods abilities are of
such high order that he must be Civ
en- high rank, that the country may
take every advantage of his powers.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-18

Mrs. Nations argument to the bar
keepers that she loved them and that
was why she broke up their business
is about as consoling to the barkeeper
as the same argument is to the child
who is about to be spanked and whose
mother assures him that it hurts her
argues back, But, mother. not in the
same place.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-18

The Daily HERALD is delivered by
carrier in Ell Paso, Texas, Juarez,
Mexico, and at the Ell Paso smelling
works, at fifteen Q5c) cents per
week. or sixty Coco cents per month.
Subscribers failing to get the HERALD
regularly or promptly should call at
the Office or telephone no us. All
complains will receive prompt at
tention.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-18

The Louisiana bill worked all right
under the administration of Thomas
Jefferson. 1t was a temporary meas
ure. admittedly such, and it was also
constitutional. The president is gov
erning the Philippines now through a
commander of the army. and there is
no more despotic power than that
which general exercises. His re-
quest for legislation is an appeal that
the congress share with him the re-
sponsibilities by permitting him to es-
tablish a greater degree of civil gov
eminent than is possible for an army
commander of the army, and there is
all there is to it. If there be any des-
potism in this then Jefferson must be
charged with the same offense.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-18

Edward T. Mathews of Chicago. a
composer of national repute, is in the
city and will remain for several weeks.
An effort is being made to get Mr..
Mathews to give an entertainment
while visiting here. He is a profess
sional musician as well as an actor and
is we'll recommended by the eastern
press.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-18

this mysteriour man? 1t was the gen.
ius of comm. IN sense. He was a COM
mon man. expanded to giant proper
tions. Truly he was inspired of God
as Shakespeare and Mozart were.
"A thousand years hence no tragedy
will be followed by mankind with
deeper reverence than that which tells
the story of life and death"
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-18

The little child is safe from ordinary
dangers in the care of the faithful dog.
But neither the dogs fidelity, nor the
mothers love can guard a child from
those invisible foes that lurk in air,
water and food-the germs of disease.
Children need to be specially watched
and cared for. When there is loss of
appetite, lassitude and 1ist1essness in
child, an attempt should be made to re-
vive the appetite and ally the spirits. In
DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
parents have found an invaluable medi-
cine for children. Its purely vegetable
character and absolute freedom from
alcohol and narcotics commend it to
every thoughtful person. 1t is pleasant
to the taste, unlike the foul oils and
their emulsions Offered for. children's
use ~Golden Medical Discovery" makes
pure blood and sound flesh, and abso-
1utely eliminates from the system the
poisons which feed disease.
Mrs. Ella Gardner. of waterview Middlesex
Co., Va whose daughter suffered from malarial
poisoning and catarrh, writes rMy little
daughter is enjoying splendid health. am glad
I found a doctor who could cure my child She
took twelve bottles of the Golden Medical Dis
covery' eight bottles of Pellets and one bottle
of DIR. Sage's Catarrh Remedy. and she Is well
We thank God for your medicines"
Give the little ones DIR. Pierce's Pleas
ant Pellets when a laxative is needed.
They're easy to take and don't gripe.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-18

There will be no Prince of Wales
until after the Duke of Cornwall, the
heir apparent, has made a visit to the
colonies, Australia and Canada. On his
return to England after his tour he will
be crowned Prince of Wales
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-18

The new battleships will be christen-
ed Connecticut, Louisiana, Washing
ton, and Tennessee, and all the states
are justly proud and already claiming
that the new boats will beat the Ore
gOn.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-18

Millions of people are familiar with
DeWitt's Littl Eearly Risers and those
who use them find them to be famous
little pills. Never grippe. Fred Schae-
fer, druggist.