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The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1902-12-03

"Of late We have been unable to
pick up paper, except of q religious
character, that does not contain the
ad. of one or more whiskey houses" ="
-Batesburg Advocate. The Dis
patch is secular newspaper, but it
contains no advertisement of a whis.
key house.
Santa Claus has in stock at the
Bazaar lot of spring and air guns,
drums, pocket knives, harmonicas,
jews harps, balls, end fireworks for
the boys, while the little girls de-
light to see the pretty dolls, pianos,
stoves, tea and kitchen sets and other
toys, at the Bazaar.
Last Wednesday q State Consta.
bic seized two packages Of booze at
the express Office atthe depot. This
booze, it is said, was intended to
celebrate Thanksgiving day, but the
hard hearted Constable scooped it in
and the dispensary being closed it
was rather dry Thanksgiving to
the parties who ordered the liquor.
Those near and far will please
settle for their paper. We have beer
indulgent and now must have money
to settle our paper and other bills.
Those who are not coming to town
can send by mail or by person who
are, and those near, will call and
settle. We dislike to be continually
c laning bus we must have our
money.
Rev. VIM. Roof, who has been the
preacher in charge of Cades circuit
of the Methodist Episcopal church,
South, while on his way to Confer
ence, passed through town Saturday.
After Conference adiourns he will
spend several days at his old home
near Leesville, in this county. The
Rev. Roof has the Dispatch to fol-
low him wherever he goes.
Mr.. B. N. Bodie, of Leesville, is
an enthusiastic grower of the pecan.
He has an interesting article on this
subject in this issue and many can
read it with profit to themselves.
He has sent to this Office q sample
box Of pecans gathered from his
grove. The meat is rich and crisp
and the favor is deliciously sweet.
They are of what is known as the
paper shell variety.
The time to cook cakes, pies, plum
puddipgs and bake turkeys and
osher Christmas delicacies is now at
hand and to obtain the beet results
you need new and the latest i'm
proved stove or range. The place to
get the best stove or range for the
least money is at Lee A. Lorick &
Bro, Columbis. Wives insist upon
your husbands getting a new stove
from this firm.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1902-12-03
An Artists Trials.


Brownly-Dauber certainly has his
own troubles.
Pinder-Why, I thought he was do
ing splendidly.
Brownly-He was until he painted
that last landscape. He painted the
sun in too natural.
Pinder-How could that be?
Brownly-Well, it dries up the wa
ter in the pond so fast that he has to
paint in new water every two or three
iays.-New York Times.
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Notice..

ALL PERSONS INDEBTED TO THE
n Estates of Sally, Rosa and Elizabeth
Amick, deceased, are hereby notified that
they must make payment to the under
signed on or before the 22nd day Of De-
cember, 1902 and those having demands
against the said Estates must present them,
duly attested. on or before the above date,
SAMUEL B GEORGE,
Administrator.
December 2. 1902. 3w6.
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Fruit Cake Ingredients.

The Bazaar is in receipt Of cup
ply of fruit cake ingredients such as
raisins and cnrrsnts in l pound pack
ages, citron, icing sugar, etc., They
are nice and fresh. No old stock.
Call and get your supply at the
Bazsar.
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Wanted.
Married.

On November 30sh,, 1902, at the
residences Of the officiating minister,
the Rev. w. D. Quick, Mr.. Willie D.
Blume, of Bsnberg, s. O., and Miss
Estelle Hendrix Marks, of Lexington,
S. G. The young couple will make
Columbia their future home. May
peace, happiness and prosperity at
tend them through Life.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1902-12-03
For Sale.

Saw mill outfit, consisting of one
twanty-ho power engine and boil
er, saw mill, l yoke of oxen and
carts, l cut off saw, shafting and
attachment. Apply at the Dispatch
Office.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1902-12-03
Invitation. .

II suppose in the collecting business"
said the inquisitive man, nearly ev-
cry man you go to see asks you to call
again."
ASK me" replied the collector.
''Some of them dare me" "-Philadelphia
Press.
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NOtice.

A IL PERSONS INDEBTED TO THE
n Estate CT John w. Cannon, dec, are
hereby notified that they must make i'm
mediate payment to the undersigned. and
those having demands against said Estate,
must present them, duly attested, to
CHARLES w. CANNON.
Administrator.
December 3. 1902. 3w6.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1902-12-03

There is no case on record of man
having committed crime with a pipe
DR. cigar in his mouth.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1902-12-03
THB NBW DRUG STORB,

T AM NOW PREPARED TO FURNISH
L the people of Lexington county with
something that is always needed Pule
Drugs. Stationery. Soaps, Perfumes. Combs,
Brushes, Tooth Powders, Tooth Brushes,
Eye Glasses, any price and anything in d
1st class drug store. Try my Perfection
Toilet Cream, for chapped hands and face,
and is the best shaving lotion. Here are
some prices, formerly 10 and Is cents per
ounce: Paregoric. OF for 25 cents; Ex-
tract Of Vanilla. OF, for 25 cents. Triple
Extract of Lemon, 4 OF. for 35 cents. I
make extract, every tincture and everything
that first class dru uggists can make. I do
not sell nv customers something put up
by some Northern house. When I make it
know for truth that I am giving you
something that is sure to do the work it is
bought for, if not your money will be re-
funded. Prescription work Is my specially.
give this my especial attention. Give
me a trial this. is sufficient. Notice my
ad each week. Yours to please,
j. w, KIN ARD,
The Licensed Prescription Druggist at
Leesville, S. G.
December 8, 1902. 1y.
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The Wary Purchaser,

Mrs. Youngwed-And what are these?
Dealer-Salt mhckerel. mum.
Mrs. Y.-Are they quite esh?-Chi-
cago News.
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Notice
OF THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE
COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSION
Frs

COUNl OOAhD OE COMMlSSlON.
ERS.
NOTICE rs HEREBY GIVEN THAT
IN on Thursday, the 9th day of January,
A. D. 1902, the COUNTY Board of Commits
sioners for Lexington county, South Caro-
lima, will hold their annual meeting in their
Office in the court house.
All persons holding claims of any kind
against Lexington County are hereby noti-
fed and required to file such claims with
the Clerk o. said Board on or before the
lst day of January next, in order to have
such claims passed upon by the County
Board at it's annual meeting.
J. BROOKS WINGARD, Clerk.
County Board Of Commissioners for Lex
ineton County.
December 2, 1902, 4w6.
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Trespass Notice.

ALL PERSONS ARE HEREBY POSI-
II lively forbidden to trespass in any
manner whatever, especially by hunting,
fishing, cutting wood or crossties. hauling
straw, etc.. upon lands of the undersigned,
as ths law will be rigidly enforced.
MRS. SARAH G. QUATTLEBAUM,
MRS. CLAUDIA j. BRODIE.
December 9, 1902 4w7.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1902-12-03

This is the best day the world has
eve- seen. Tomorrow will be better.-
q. A. Campbell.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1902-12-03

WANTED-All the beeswax you
have for sale. The highest market
price paid for same.
The Bazasr.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1902-12-03
The Lexington Dispatch.
Wednesday, December 3, 1902.
Index 60 New Advertisements.

Index 70 New Advertisements.
Holiday Gifss-M. A. Malone.
Dress Goods -McC Creery Brothers
Ssoves-Lee A. Lorick & Bro.
Drugs. w. Kinard.
Sewing Machines. a. Berry.
Notice.. Brooks Wingsrd.
Trespass Notice-Mrs. Sarah G.
Quattiebaum and Others.
Trespass Notice.. W. Sites and
Others
Notices. B. George.
Notice Charles W. Cannon.
Citation--Estate of Daniel and
JemimaAmick.
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Largely Supplied,

care you a man of family, SIR"
eyes, sir. My third son-in-law moves
In today.'-Detroit Free Press.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1902-12-03
Trespass Notice.

A LII PERSONS ARE HEREBY NOTI-
II fed not to hunt, fish, haul wood or
trespass in any manner whatever on our
lands, adjoining each other. with separate
lands, and the law will be enforced against
all trespassers. Signed;
G. W. Sites, K. A. Bouknight,
Cary Koon. Arthur Jacobs,
C. L. Bouknight, Samuel Coogler.
Lucius Bouknight, John F. Eleazer,
q. 81. Eleazer, Carroll Bookman,
G. T.. Bearden, NJ w. Lorick.
Alice r. Bookman.
December 2. 1902. 4w7.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1902-12-03

We will send you
a little Of the Emul-
sion free. /
Be sure that this picture in
the form of a label is on the
wrapper of every bottle OF
Emulsion you buy.
SCOTT & BOVINE,
Chemists,
400 Pearl St., N. Y.
soc. and 81; all druggists.
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Wanted.
Standard yellow pine ties 6xszs.
Anderson Lumber Co,
Ems Charleston, s. G.

2m5
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-08-22
WHAT TRUE REST MEANS.
Sense Of responsibility Is Good
Thinq at Times.

| know two fairly responsible men
who spent some hours of a recent hol-
iday playing in the childrens sand
pile at country place they were Wis
iting. Before they got through they
had worked out complicated system
of mountains and valleys, and one
of them had modelled an almost recog-
nizable house. know two other men
who, on a sudden impulse, bought
some marbles and played with con-
siderable enthusiasm on a garden
path. In each instance the day and
the mood had something to do with
it. None of the men was childish.
They were striving to catch oncS more
a glimpse of "the glory and the dream"
to reattain, for time, the old sense
of responsibility. This was not dis
creditable. fancy that many parent
secretly does the same thing when he
enters into the playroom activities Of
his children, or takes them to the cir
cus-always to amuse them. And If
after all, we must sadly admit that
we cannot gather up the rainbow gold
of childhood, it will not hurt us to
be irresponsible once in while along
with the children. In the Catskill
woods, on the water, or galloping on
country roads-wherever we do not
mistake hectic excitement for true
happiness, the play instinct Is the
samoa brief escape from RESPONSE
bility; short respite from things that
we must do and want to do, but are
willing to leave now and then because
we know we shall love them the more
when we return to them.-The Great
Round World.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-08-22
HIS NEW ANGLING TACKLE

suppressed scream from the sidewalk.
The reel worked, however, and to the
prospective fsherman's surprise
womans picture hat came to the end
of the pole. He knew what had hap
pened. The scream from below had
awakened his wife, and she, seeing
the hat, demanded an explanation. The
doctor had a hurry job on the street.
Securing his rod between the legs OF
a chair, he unlocked the hat and
rushed to the front door. The owners
husband was fighting mad as was the
lady The doctor made apologies and
humbly got on his knees and found
the hat pins.
After an explanation, which the ag-
grieved lady and her husband accept
ed, the doctor went to his room, only
TO find his wife in state of temper,
accusing him of fishing for other kind
of fish than he had SAID he was going
after More explanations were in or
der, and there will be no damage suit
for the hat or divorce by the wife. A
tub of water is now in the doctors
back yard and the gate is locked. II
he wants to practice casting between
now and the time set for the real fish
ing trip he can safely cast out of a
back Observation-Disclosures sun.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-08-22

Judge Doolittle of Illinois was a
most energetic man and excellent jur-
list.
One day young man was tried and
convicted in his court of riotous con-
duct on the street.
Before passing sentence the judge
looked kindly at the culprit and re-
marked that he did not seem to be an
habitual offender, End if a promise of
reform was given, the sentence would
be merely nominal.
81 suppose It don't make much diff
ference" said the young man, with
what he evidently intended to be an
easy smile. "You can't give it to me
very hard, since you can only do lit
tle.''
There was a laugh in the court
room, which the judge repressed with
glance.
"There is not much in a name,
young man." he said, calmly. 81 will
give you two years at hard labor, and
leave you to discover whether that is
much or little"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-08-22
SOME NEW CYCLONE STORIES
What the Wind Recently Accom-
pIished in Michiqan.

A Wheatland farmer says that upon
entering his pigpen, Immediately at.
ter the passage Of the cyclone last
Wednesday, he was surprised to find
what he at first supposed was new
species of swine. His porkers had
been driven so full of splinters as to
be scarcely recognizable.
A man sitting in the back window
of his residence, just out of the path
of the twister, saw his cows, which
we're grazing in neighboring field,
90 sailing skyward. They landed on
an adjoining farm and began grazing
again. He has not yet recovered from
his establishment.
do you know the reason they
couldn't find that piano?" asked a
man in the barber shop. II was stand
ing in front of the hotel at Manitou
Beach when l heard something that
sounded like music directly overhead.
| looked up and saw a piano going
northward over the lake at an eleva-
ton of about 200 feet. The wind was
agitating the keys, and l could dis
tinguish the strains of "Ain't 1t a
Shame?' l have told a lot of people
about this, but they don't seem to
believe It,"
The foregoing stories were gathered
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-08-22

A prominent physician of Baltimore
has been busy of late trying to regu-
late his practice so that he may enjoy
an extended fishing trip. His early
arrangements have not been propi-
tious, though he has boosted of the
great catches which he anticipates
making in Canadian waters. He has
purchased fishing outfit at cost of
about 500, bought railroad tickets,
figured up hotel bills and other ex-
penses, and set aside an amount Of
money sufficient to pay all bills for
himself and his wife for the trip. The
fishing tackle was sent to his home
late at night, and he and his wife,
after duly admiring it, retired.
Then came trouble which nearly re-
suited in a divorce suit. Thoughts Of
the coming fishing trip so filled the
doctors mind that he could not sleep,
as he arose, assembled his split-bam-
boo rod, and put the reel and line on.
Not having space in the room to test
it, he carefully opened a window and
began to make casts into the open
area of the street, but he made one
too many. In attempting to wind the
reel there was a stop.
Thinking it kink in the new line,
he wound harder. Then there was
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-08-22

Hayti is chiefly remarkable by rea-
son of its being military republic,
with an army of 1000 generals and
1000 privates-a general to each
Tommy. The generals are extraor-
binary men in more than one sense
of the word. There Is one who COM
mands a large province in the re-
public, who is of the lowest Of the
people, who can neither read nor
write, and who is nevertheless a great
revolutionary power. This man-Gen
Johannis Merisier-is obliged to ask
one man to read to him what another
man has written for him, and yet in
his hands are the lives and deaths of
the people over whom he rules.
Every third man you meet in Hayti
is a general, but 1t is only every
tenth general who gets paid; it has
to be conceded that each general does
his best to pay himself. The author
lied rate Of pay is G140 annually for
general of division and 9105 for a
brigadier. A captain is passing rich
on 912 year; private thinks him
self fortunate If he receives G2 los.
during the same period.
The Haytian soldiers uniform Is a
fearful and wonderful thing Let us
review a regiment on parade. Some
of them are shod in dried grass Slip
pers. They wear little blue cap
with red band. One man, perhaps,
is wearing a shabby pair of old tweed
trousers, and slung by hemp rope
over his shoulders is an old-fashioned
flint-lock gun. The officer who COM
mands the regiment is brandishing a
rusty sword.
The army, it goes without saying,
is miserably housed. In Port-au-
Prince, the capital of Hayti, you will
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-08-22
HAS FAITH IN HIS STATE.
Iowa Man Revives When the Train
Crosses Mississippi River.

STOSSCS miSoiSoiPPi niNCTs
AS a recent train of the Chicago
Milwaukee & st. Paul line halted a
few miles east of the Mississippi river
a stretcher bearing limp. carefully
wrapped figure was gently deposited
in a baggage car. A fearful looking
woman was in attendance; the train
men were all service and solemnity
and the passengers in the adjoining
coaches were stirred with emotions of
helpless sympathy.
The bell rang, the engine caught its
breath and the train swept on its
westward way. Passengers returned,
for the most part, to newspapers and
novels, but a few of the most thought
full ones continued to muse over the
sad fate of the PROSTATE traveller in
the baggage car and to have the dis
turbed feelings of following hard upon
a hearse.
An hour later, the Mississippi hav-
ing been crossed in the meantime, the
occupants of the smoking car-among
whom was the Chicagoan who vouches
for this story-were treated to lat
ter-day miracle. Suddenly, some fu-
neral wrappings still clinging to him,
the man lately seen upon the stretch
err, entered the car, dropped into a
seat, and, lighting a cigar, calculated
in voice of deep content and consid-
cradle vigor, well, now, declare eff
| don't feel fust rate! jes' said all
long I'd git we'll as soon as ever l
got into Ioway."
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-08-22
Frenchman Would Tax Kisses.

Certain legislators in France are
talking of imposing several new taxes,
and political opponent suggests that
they put kisses on the schedule of the
articles to be taxed.
A statistician, he points out, has
calculated that 73,S59,40 kisses are
given in France every day, and, If
these figures are correct. the national
treasury would receive large amount
annually even though only small tax
was imposed on every kisser.
He claims, however, that children
who kiss their mother should be ex-
empt from taxation, and that ten times
the ordinary tax should be imposed
on men who kiss married women.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-08-22

find a post of soldiers every fifty or
a hundred yards. They live in
wretched guard rooms, which are
merely long novels, with piazzas
raised two feet above the street. Be-
low flows an open drain. The men
themselves drink, smoke, and gam
BILE all the weary day.
You must never allow smile to
cross your face-however, tempted
you may be to laugh-if you meet q
Haytian soldier. A European diplo-
matist landed once at Port-au-Prince
and on his way from the ship he fell
in with what he imagined to be a tat
tered mountebank carrying a rifle. He
smiled, for the black mans pompous
solemnity was immensely funny. At
once the negros face changed.
you laugh at me? You laugh at
me?" he cried, furiously.
He was a soldier of the republic;
his fingers flew to his cartridges, and
the visitor waited for no more, but
fled up the street.
The Haytian soldier needs but the
license of a political strife to lash
him into frenzy. Given political trou-
bles and a modicum of shooting in
the streets, and man such as we
have just described, with intense
Feasibility of temper and thousands
of companions like himself, he would
become very perilous and terrible
element in the general anarchy.
The Haytian army in peace time
may be like that upon comic opera
stage, but given war, it would be-
come hotbed of tragedy.-London
Express.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-08-22
Not Impressed by Title.

Back in the summer of 1871 Benja-
min Harrison, with party of four
teen made up of members of his family
and some friends, started from Rye
Eeach, N. H., for Center Harbor. The
neighborhood was then very popular
with tourists, and he thought it we'll
to telegraph ahead for rooms. AS he
was about to sign the telegram, he
said to a friend:
Il never make use OF my title
don't believe in that sort of thing;
but-well, do you think we'd fare bet
ter if l wrote General before my
name? Do you think they'd take care
that we got nice rooms?"
Certainly" was the friends reply.
The wire was sent. When the party
of fourteen arrived, the ladies were
told at the hotel that he could give
them pallets on the parlor floor, while
the men could get nothing better than
side-by-slde chairs in the reception
room. Gen. Harrison never again tried
to make an impression by using his
tile.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-08-22

Seated with some congenial cronies
in a cool corner of a roof garden the
other night was James Conner Roach,
actor, playwright, wit and raconteur.
They had been discussing wealth and
what it meant to be man of millions,
when Roach said:
Now, how many of us here tonight
know what a million dollars really
means? How many people in general
know?
Some think of million as check
for that amount signed by George
Gould and Endorsed by Russell Sage.
Others picture great heaps of gold.
when I hear poor chaps like us
speaking of millions | think of the
story of three of my countrymen who
were digging sewer up in Harlem.
"They had shovels with very short
handles and the dirt had to be thrown
higher the deeper they dug, so the
longer they worked the more energy
had to be expended.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-08-22
TEETH OF GEORGE WASHINGTON
Interesting Particulars Which Have
Recently Come to Light.

Interesting Particulars Which Have
Recently Come to Light.
George Washington's teeth were
made from hippopotamus' and ele-
plants ivory.
We know this from the records left
by his own particular dentist, John
Greenwood, who, during the latter
years of our national hero, made sew
eral false sets for the general. These
pleased him so much that on Jan. 6,
1893, he wrote from Mt. Vernon to
DR.. Greenwood, saying: If you should
remove to Connecticut, l should be
glad to be advised of it and to what
place, as l shall always prefer your
services to that of any other in the
line of your present profession"
There is in existence letter from
George Washington, which shows in
what esteem he held his dentist. We
give a copy of it in full:
Philadelphia, February 16, 1871.
"Sir: Your letter of the 9Th and
the box which accompanied it came
Sdlc W TIC COulcHlo VI tHC idt-
ter were perfectly agreeable to me,
and will; am persuaded, answer the
end proposed very we'll.
Enclosed l send you $40 in pay
ment for them and the repairs of the
old ones-and am, sir,
"Yr. Very Hble. Servt.,
&c. WASHINGTON"
This is one of four letters that DR..
Greenwood left to his children in his
will. The other three letters from
Washington are in the possession of
descendants of his family. In a let
ter written in 1860 by Isaac John
Greenwood to DR.. Taft the writer
says:
There is pair of false jaws with
human teeth on now in the head of
President Washington, in the tomb at
Mt. Vernon made by my father, John
Greenwood. in 1899. and they are
made with the bone gums-I think
of the elephants tooth ivory, and
made from molds of beeswax."