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The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1902-12-17

Elder, has been appointed to The
Batesburg charge.
Representative elect, John Bell
Towill, is in Lexington G. H., today
attending a meeting of the county
delegation to recommend Board of
Control.
Rev. DR.. A. G. Wilkins, at the
Baptist church yesterday, gave re-
sumo of the years work of the De-
nomination as was reported at the
convention at Greenville. The dis
course was exceedingly interesting
and heard by large congregation.
The travelling Evangelist ''Yar-
borough" preached on the streets
Saturday afternoon. He frequently
holds services of that nature when
passing through towns.
That friend of the Dispatch, Billy
CAN'T, of Black Greek, paid US q
brief visit last week-one of Lexing-
tons best men. We are always de-
lighted to see him.
Dec Is, 1902. Occasional.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1902-12-17
?. G. 7. Notes.

Misses Essie and Lucille E6rd,
who graduated at the Institute last
year and who are now attending the
Presbyterian College, Columbia, s.
G., spent last Saturday and Sunday
at their home in Lexington.
Miss Eva Derrick, once student
at the Institute, who is now teach.
ing the Long Branch school, spent
Saturday and Sunday at her fathers,
Auditor G.. A. Derrick.
Just after Christmas will be q
good time to send your children to
the Institute, as the first term closes
directly after Christmas and new
classes will then be formed.
:s4The Christmas holidsys begin next
Wednesday afternoon and continue
for one week. It is earnestly re-
quested of the parents that what
ever entertainment is to be given the
children will be given them during
this week 80 that they may 60 back
to school the first day with minds in
proper condition for study. P.
December 16, 1902.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1902-12-17
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eruptions, pimples, ulcers, swollen
glands, bumps and rislngs, burning,
itching skin, copper-colored spots or
rash on the skin, mucous patches in
mouth or throat, falling hair, bone
pains, old rheumatism or foul cstarrb,
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It kills the poison in the blood; soon
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Improves the digestion, makes the
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also sent in sealed letter.
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Brookland News.
To the E litor of the Dispatch:

To the E Elitor of the Dispatch:
The warm and balmy autumn days
have at last yielded to the cold blast
of winter and the chilling wave ha'
not only robbed nature of its beau
ties, but many 'swiners' from longer
husking the grain.
Most of our citizens have raised
| some fine hogs this year, and it is a
| common and sad thought on rising
in the early morning to see 80 many
bon fires and hear the faint squeal OF
the dying pig in the distance.
Messrs A. D Shull, Cal Hook and
| G. O. Corley returned few days
| ago from a hunting trip on the
| coast. These gentlemen had an ex,
perience long to be remembered
when one of their party. Mr.. A u.
Shull, brought down fine buck at
distance of 81 yards. Several fine
deer and turkey were killed. The
!. party was highly entertained, while
quartered at the home of Capt. 81.
4. Mcdonald.
M. q. Witt returned Thursday
from Charleston, at which place he
was delegate to the Grand Lodge
of Mssons.
At the last regular communication
of Sin Clair Lodge, No. 154, the fol-
lowing officers were elected for the
next ensuing year: M. 81. Witt, w.
M; r. s. Wilson, s. W.; J. L. Gun
ter, j. W; j. M. Wingare, Treasurer;
and r. E. Shuler, Secretary. These
officers will be duly installed Friday
evening, December 26sh. :.
We regret very much to lose one
of our good substantial citizens, MIR.
B. s. Mack, who will this coming
week move his family to Leesville.
+ By the good grace of the Bishop
the Rev. Foster Spears, of the
Methodist church, was returned to
this charge and the membership of
the church, as well SIS the citizens,
gladly welcome his return.
Brookland boasts oil the champion
barber of the State. Recently he
shaved III men, in addition to
several hair cuts, in one day.
Ali the churches here will have
Christmas trees and great prepara-
tions are being made by the various
denominations for this festive occa-
sion.
We will venture to say that few
places of equal size enjoy them
selves more pleasantly than our
people. Not a week passes from the
beginning of the year to the end,
but what there is gathering of the
"young and DID," It is box party,
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1902-12-17
In Meuaoriam,

A4 xsAS1u01aaI4s
Donald, '.a little cherub, who had lost
his way
And wandered hither, 80 his stay
With US Was short, and twas not meet
That he should be no deliver in earth's
clod,
No need to pause and cleanse his feet
To stand bofore his God:
o blest word-Evermore.
Donald Middleton, son of George
T. and Sara Hawkins Graham, and
grandson of Rev. Jacob HAWKING,
D. D, was born June IA, 1898, and
died December 6, 1902.
The burial service was read at the
home of the bereaved parents, in
Lexington, s. c., by the R.v. }. G.
Graichen on the morning of the
hallowed day.
The sympathy of the congregation
present was most touchingly ex-
pressed as with affectionate hearts
and tender hands they brought to
the tiny cssket their floral tributes
manifestations of love-strong love
that never can decay.
The interment took place in
Columbia, S. G.
Another little mound,
More flowers wet with tears;
Little Donald's sleep is sound
No dreams. no griefs. no fears!'
Among celestials, bright angel,
he waves the palm of victory and
wears the crown of glory.
J. G.. G.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1902-12-17

A glass or two of Water taken half
an hour before breakfast will usually
keep the bowels regular. Harsh
cathartics should be avoided. When
a purgative is needed, take Chamber
lain's Stomach and Liver Tablets.
They are mild and gentle in their
action. For sale by j. E Kaufman.
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Batesburg Items.
To the Editor Of the Dispatch:

To the Editor of the Dispatch:
I notice in the Washington dis
patches of last week that our Office
has become q Presidential one. That
is pointer as 70 business. It has
been correctly said town can be
judged by the receipts of it's post
Office and this ia now the only one of
this class on the line of railroad from
Columbia to Augusta.
W. A. Strother, of Wslhslls, has
been visiting his brother, DR.. E. F.
Strother, the past week. He is
President of the Bank at Walhalla
and prominent capitalist of the up
country.
We regret to note the death few
days ago of Y. B. Shealy. Mr..
Shealy was a good man and one OF
the landmarks of our county. BE
had suffered much from i'll health
and was ready and willing to meet
the summons.
Rev. j. D. Crout preached his
farewell sermon in the Methodist
church yesterday. We regret to
announce that he has been changed
to the DILLON station.
Rev. E. T. Hodges, late Presiding
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1902-12-17

oyster supper, ice cream festival or
something of the kind and it is
seemingly strange that they are
always largely patronized.
Recently one of our citizens has
been banking some funds in his
trunk at home for Christmas pur-
poses, his servant being vigilant OF
his depository waited for a "con-
venient season" and applied about
eight dollars in the purchase of
wedding apparel and cocoanuts for
the holidays.
A few evenings ago, in the absence
of W. D. Dent and family, some one
entered his home and stole his
Waterbury watch. The gift was so
highly admired by the thief that he
made repeated Efforts to dispose of
it, when the owner was informed and
the victim was easily caught and is
now "keeping time" by spending his
holidays on the gang.
Turkey raffies are all the 60 in
these regions and judging from the
sound of gobbling, kissing, quack
ing and cackling every family in
town will be we'll supplied by Christ
mas tide.
D. z. Sox, one of our most promi-
nent merchants, recently purchased
beautiful lot fronting on State
street from M. 81. Witt and will in
a short time erect an up-to-date store
room for his own use.
The street car movement has doomed
property at this point. If it advances
as much when the trolley arrives as
it has since it was first spoken OF,
the four land kings of Brookland
will be comfortably quartered. Our
people are longing to hear the hum
of the trolley, we will gladly welcome
it's arrival and will cooperate in
every effort to the speedy building
of this line. No better opportu-
nifty will ever be given the people
residing in Congaree and adjoining
townships and the citizens of Colum-
bis, then assisting in this great
undertaking and when the waters of
the Congaree are spanned that the
citizens of the two section take some
concert action by cooperating with
the promoters of this movement and
build a free combination bridge.
The city of Columbia has made
wonderful growth within the past
few years, in fact she is becoming
recognized trade centre, being favor
ably spoken of as the coming city of
the South, and with all these recog-
nized facilities, it behooves her citi-
zens to be equalled to the occasion
and allow her neighbors to freely
enter her gates without being sub
iected to cost in doing 30. D
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1902-12-17
If you feel i'll and need pill
Whv not purchase the best?
DeWitt's Early Risers

Are little surprisers,
Take one-they do the rest.
W. II. Howell, Houston, Tex, writes
Il have used Little Early Riser
Pills in my family for constipation,
sick headache, etc. To their use I
am indebted for the health of my
family. J. E. Kaufman.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1902-12-17

Tomorrow a week is Christmas.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-10-19

phys Hotel
Miss Martha Weisiger is visiting friends
in Richmond.
Mr.. James f. Goodloe is the guest of
his daughter, Mrs. w. Bailey Saunders
Mrs j. K. Hyue and daughter, Miss
Bessie hyde. OF washington, are spend
ing October at the Alton House
VINO attended the Martin-Garth nuptials.
returned home yesterday.
Miss Annie Mays who has been visit
ing her sister. Mrs. Critzer. near Alton,
lvturned to her home in Amherst, last
Monday. e
Mr.. G. H. Timberlal1c, of Palmyra, Va,
is expected at The Farm in a few
days.
Mr.. John VIM, who has been critically
ILL., is conva escent.
Miss Bette Lipscomb has returned to
"Redlands' from visit to relatives in
Charlottesville.
MI. John Mills Goodlce. who has been
at Locust Dale" for a week, left for
Big Stone Gap Monday
Rev; Hartweli Hawthorne has just
ings at Mount Ed Baptist church. He
was assisted by Rev. L. w winfrey, Of
Cupepar
; 4 handsome new, organ has been put in
Hebron Baptist church by the ladies Of
the congregation.
SCHOOL NOTES.
me schools have begun work. and a
good attendance is. reported. Miss Irene
SciSAuell III tSdcH the HEBRON school,
Miss Rodgers t Oman. Miss Fitzpatrick
at Alton Miss Garth at Greenfield. Mrs
Cameron the school at Oman, and Miss
Maddox at Edgewood
Miss Jane Shipman. of Salem. is teach
ing in the family of Rev. H X. Haw-
thorne.
The large new ma chine-shop of Critzer
Brothers. which was destroyed by fire
some months ago. is rearing completion.
Work vii! be resumed in a few weeks.
The shipment of chestnuts is very
large: they are bringing good prices The
Shipment of apples is lighter than for
many years. owing to blight in the
bloom. a large crop is being hauled.
however. from 'Three-Ridge mountain
20 r. pc consigned to northern markets
Apples there have yielded much better
than in other parts of the county
Whooping-cough is prevailing to a
great extent among the children: in
several instances with fatal results.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-10-19

! who whiled away their schooldays in
| merry pranks and youthful loves: in re-
| ality. l saw last week in the Valley of
| Virginia the remains of an old school,
| house which had long since crumbled into
| a pile of gray rocks 1t was in a neigh
=; bOrhood settled by the descendants Of
| the Scotch Covenanters who doubtless
| brought over to this country all their rigid
| ideas of life. The rocks are now covered
with vines and creepers. and are sur
rounded by trees of a t least q century'S
age
The children are gone: the nlaSter-Well
| one attempted to hope that sometime
somewhere, the master had a hard lot
of it before he left the scene of his earthly
tolls
AS HARD AS PHAROAH'S HEART.
From all accounts given by the old peo-
pie of the country side. the last of these
ancient pedaSogues was as l4omely as
sin. and as hard of heart as Pharoah.
His tortures were only limited to his I'M
agination. and his unfortunate pupils
might we'll have been born in Thrace.
Like Dickens's Wakeford Squeers, some
of his methods We're unique. A favorite
mode of punishment was to pin together
with thorns a row of boys and stand
them upon plank balanced over a log.
The movement of finger upset the trem-
bling row. In this pleasant attitude they
OF the dictionary. with meanings Fail
ure or rebellion meant the rod and that
belongs as much does the rack to q
dark and brutal bygone age.
The refinement Of Squeers's inquisition
he kept for the un1ucky girls Poor Ma
tilda. or Jane. or Betsy. s it CHANGED 10
be. had humbly to ask his pardon for any
delinquency. and kiss him before the as
sembled school, l can imagine the harsh
outlines of that cruel mouth touched hy
the velvet lips of those innocent children
and the fancy solved "a problem no
longer wondered that the scholars of that
primitive neighborhood and their chill.
dren-old people now--grew up in igno-
rance. nor that yellow almanac and
some patent medicine circulars were about
the only things in print they have cared
for since. One such an educate as this
in community Injuries the cause of learn
ing for the :eNt two generations Child
hood. as we understand it. is modern ,
discovery Never before in the worlds
history has so much thought been paid
to children-their schools, their books,
their pictures. and even their toys: This
is we'll. Happy children are always the
more intelligent. In the school-roonls die
tatorial. aggressive discipline never yet
enlarged child's brain or improved its |
mind.
PERSONAL
Mr. and Mrs; Walter Garth are at
tending the Richmond horse show. They |
Will beat home to their friends a Green
field after October 25th.
A. large number Of Alton people are in !
Richmond this week.
Misses Georgia and Cha rlotte Goodloe |
are the guests of their sister, Mrs. Doug
las Macgregor, of west Main street
Z Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Ewing. of Slaugh-
ter,s. this county. are registered at Muir
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-10-19
OLD-T|ME SCHOOLS.
THE ALTON LADY TELLS OF EDU-
CATION IN BYGoNE DAYS.
LITTLE ONES JARED BADLY.
They Had Few Facilities and Task
Makers ns Hard as Pharoah's
Heart-A Glimpse of Ancient Meth
DDS of Instruction-Local Notes.
LITTLE ONES JARED BADLY.
They Had Few Facilitie. and Task


ALTON, VA. October 17-(Special) y
The Thracians wcpt when a child was
born-With an increase of woe in the ad-
vent OF twins-and they Toasted and made
merry when man went out Of the world
We read from old tranSations that the
Chief mourners at a Thra clan birth chant
ed doleful aXioms such as Labor and
sorrow attend our days" Grief sickness
want and woe are the sources of life''
etc. but nowhere is mention made of the
troubles incident upon a struggle with the
three rs"-readins. riting and 'rith-
metic for an education
WAR WAS THEIR TRADE
The little Thracian boy was trained to
arms. If he was killed his country re-
joiced. The little girls have not been
thought worthy OF reference
There We're schools Of ancient Rome and
Greece, but they seem TO have been 20
lite and platonic gatherings of young men
and maidens--of the Hypatia order
rather than institutions of real learning
for growing race. instruction for chill
Gren was of the briefcs, and was largely
pral.
With the Hebrews only enough Chal-
daic was taught TO enable Young peopIe
TO decipher the law-must haze been a
constitutional amendment" about there
unless the boy was TO he made a rabbi.
and it was whole generation after Christ
before public schools were established In
Palestine. Then the High Priest Joshua.
Of GamaIa made education obligatory.
Perish the sanctuary. but lei The chill
6ren go to school,
From early time belief in the value
p5 education has been a general sen1i-
ment in the United States. Although il
may not be correct 10 say that we have
had free schools from colonial days-,he
landing OF the pilgrim fathers" or tho
cavaliers of JamestoWn-it is true thai
we have inherited from our remote an.
cestors deep. almost religious conviction
Of school training.
fsAax ona can see the children OF
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-10-19

fall eary-there is just now perfect riot
of color-green and gold red and yellow.
and russell. Soon the work of denuda ton
will begin. and it will progress steadily
day by day till the branches are barred TO
the winter winds. Following the first
heavy frost the air will be full of the
fascinating motion of silently dropping
leaves, that fall from branch to branch
and then t!utter nndulatingiy to the earth
flies. In the roads their delicate tints are
soon despoiled by the mud, where hee..-
less feet trample over them. but in the
tered valleys and slopes they mass them
selves In a gorgeous multi-colored car
pet. a frail fabric woven by the winds
to add new noruishment to the soil hy
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-10-19

those old-time schools: docked hats. buck
skin breeches. stockings to the knees.
fastened with buckles. buskins and shoes
those were what the schoolboys wore
100 years ago. The schoolmaster wore a
wig, or his hair was braided with the
braid hanging Gown his back like our
school girls of to-day
There We're not many schoohouses, but
most schools We're kept in dwelling houses
IN the old square rooms. In winter there
was a great fire in wide-mouthed fire
place. with big back log. and the
smaller wood heaped upon it.
There were no deSkS-nothinc but
benches made OF slabs, and there were
three reading books two or three arith-
metics and q couple of States
There We're few printing presses in
those days-and little printing Of school
books. The reading class stood with their
toes to crack in the floor. and when the
boy at the head had finished he passed
the book TO the next. And then they
spelled, the boy who missed dropping
down a peg in the class. 1t was a dis
grace 10 be foot. and the Ounce stool and
pointed cap waited for the blockhead
THE CHIEF STUDIES.
There were no studies. except reading,
writing ana arithmetic. Few of the
scholars had paper writing books for
their parents could not afford to buy
them: but they went into the woods
peeled the bark from the brici trees. and
split it into thin leaves. and sometimes
the smaller bays made their first a, B.
C's in mostened sand.
They made their ink by boiling maple
bark: their pens We're plucked from the
wings of the geese; their inkstands We're
the tips of COWS horns. sawed off and
fitted With wooden bottoms and shoppers,
and for want Of desks they held pieces
of board in their laps.
The scholars lived so far from school
that they carried their dinners in little
baskets. All this was before the days
of tin pals before the days OF newSpa-,
bread they wrapped in cabbage leaf.
ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO.
The masters did pretty much as they
pleased 100 Years ago. They whacked the
boys over the head with sticks, blistercd
the girls hands with the ferule. and
shook the poor little scholars until they
saw stars. Worse than all, the chances
We're when they reached home, that they
each had second dressing down. it
was rule in those dark days that if a
pupil, especially boy, got a whipping
AT school. he was to have another when
he got home.
There is tradition about Alton that
one old-ume schoolmaster near Doby's |
whipped his pupils SO much
ana used SO many alders that great !
swamp near the School-hOuse never would |
'aNe been cleared if it had not been for
lim.
We are wont to read Of the old-fa shion /
"a red schooi-house of romance, and Of |
ne sturdy lads and fair haired lassies |
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Our Househotd eceinen Department

has time only thanks nanv patrons of the
past week. both city and country their large and re-
nerave patronage and say that we are still using every
effort supply all useful and ornamental articles
the drawnsroom, the chamber the dning-room and the
kitchen. Every department of household usefulness has due
consideration, and neglected here Why should
say that in all Linen materials excel in low prices we'll
extent Of supply and variety The public and appre
ciate this and give evidence the fact repeated large pu
chases We hope all the many friends made dur
ing the past week frequently in the future
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