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The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1903-11-11
Castor G~leaaings.
To the Editor Of the Dispatch:

To the Editor Of the Dispatch:
Owing to press of business and
other matters my pen has been silent
for some time in writing to the col
umns OF the good old Dispatch.
Now that the famous Tillman-Gon-
zsles trial is over, the County and
State Fairs q thing of the past, the
celebrated Barnum & Bailey circus
come and gone, my-be there is room
for q bit of news from this part OF
our moral vineyard.
Everything is quiet along the line
save now and then the explosion OF
gas bubble on the Tillman trial
and the bobbing up OF an expect
ant candidate for 1904.
Crops are about housed, corn,
peas, cotton is off considerably. IT
our farmers reach the point finan-
eially speaking to be able to hold
their cotton, they could realize better
prices.
We are panied to learn of the con-
tinued illness of Mrs. W. A. Good
win and Mr.. John S. BROKER. We
hope ere long they msy be up and at
their post of duty.
MIR. B. E~Crsft has rendered his
resignation as 4 F. D. carrier and
entered upon his studies in the
Peabody Normal College, at Nash
vile, Tennessee. We wish him an
abundance of success in his studies.
Ipresume the famous boll-weevil
has about died out for a while at
least. We hear ell sorts of comments
upon him, and be has quite q variety
of sizes, shapes and forms. Some
say he looks like the Texas flea; some
say he is just like the weevil in the
corr; some say he looks like the
Yankee bag. Mr. Editor, reckon
those fellows would know 'em if they
were to see 'em!
Death entered the home of Mrs..
David Wise recently and claimed as
his victim Mrs. Annie Morris, who
had reached mere than the allotted
time of three score years and ten.
She leaves to mourn her death 4
daughter, two grand children and
great grand child. Her remains
were laid to rest in the Sandy Run
b8rying grounds at CASTOR: Our
sympathy goes out to the bsreaved
ones.
The vidowers hsve been much in
evidence of late and judging from
appearances, it would not surprise
us to be called upon to perform q
parsons duty in reference to the
nuptial life. Unless their mules
run off sgain and leave them and the
old folks get g move or EN-.
Teaching school, farming, attend
ing to some business affairs, serving
several churches, performing domes-
tic chore, helping the Misses nurse
and attend to several babies, is the
experience and labors of a young
man and still he has time to read, to
r~ecreste, make calls and do several
other things OF minor importance.
The little Felix family is bright,
happy, cheerful and hopeful, living
at home, staying in the same shack,
boarding at the same place and
wagging along with the OLD world
satisfied with what they have.
Mr.. Oscar Sturkie, one OF our
CASTOR merchants, has gone to the
progressive little village of Brook
land. Gaston's loss is Brooklsnd's
gain. W. wish him much happiness
and prosperity in his new home.
Messrs. Gregory Spires and Leml.
Sishtler, two OF our bright young
men have gone to Edge6eld as stu
dents in the Edge6eld college. May
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1903-11-11

Failure.
New York Nov. ion board the
steamer Msjestic, which arrived to-
day from Liverpool, were IL negroes
from the southern States, who went
to Liberia, West Africa, to expert
ment in cotton culture with the view
to future colonization from this coun-
try. They say the experiment was
8 failure and they embarked on the
Majestic in a penniless condition.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1903-11-11
CHEAPER Sugar.

New York, Nov. 5-All grades OF
refined sugar we're reduced 5 cents a
hundred today.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1903-11-11

A man who is a gentleman only by
the grace of his tailor doesn't count
for much.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-31

most cases, 10 cents per member for the
various lodges of the city and has formed
a contingent fund of substantial proper
tons. Central Labor union then voted
about $50 to L. v. Guye, business agent OF
the BARRIERS union, for his continuous eff
forts in behalf Of the present strikers. MIR.
Guye has acted as chairman of the special
arbitration committee appointed some time
ago by Central Labor union and otherwise
has been active from the first Of the trou-
BILE.
After a conference of the Joint board Of
restaurant workers and the b~artenders with
the retail liquor dealers late yesterday
afternoon the officials of the Bartenders'
union gave out the statement that they
would nave no trouble with their employers
but that all matters OF difference would be
smicably adjusted, as many already had
been.
The new scale which Is to take effect
on June 1 will cause no breach, therefore,
and the strike which was looked for by
some will not materialize.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-31
HIDE AND SEEK GAME ENDS
Detectives Follow Clue Furnished by
Cattle and Run Down
Their Men.

on March 81 last, Roy Green and Tom
Lawless left Omaha over the Northwestern
road for Blair and arriving there that night
broke open a box car and stole therefrom
thirty-elght hides. These they buried in
that vicinity. Thirty-fve Of them were
buried in a stock corral under some manure,
and the three others alongside the track.
A day or two afterwards some cattle paw
ing about the corral, excited by the smell Of
blood from the buried hides, unearthed them
and the thirty-hve hides were recovered.
Immediately after secreting the hides Green
and Lawless came back TO Omaha, and get
ting a pal, named Bob McCollum, returned
to Blair TO get their plumber, but succeeded
in recovering only the three hides buried
alongside the track These they brought
back to Omaha and sold 10 the Florence
tannery.
The case was put in the hands Of Detec-
tives Drummy. Mitchell and Dunn. and
the thieves were finally located and idenu-
fed. Green had In the meanwhile been
arrested for stealing a gun from the Town
send company. and sentenced to serve a
thirty day term in the county Jail, which
he Is now doing. Tom Lawless was cap
tured a few days ago, and was sent to
Blair. for the hide deal Bob McCollum
was finally traced TO Stating. MINI. where
II was learned that he and his brother.
Austin. have just been sentenced to a term
In the penitentiary for horse stealing.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-31
ROYAL ARCANUM MEMORIAL
Service in Memory of Departed
Brothers to BE Sunday in
KOuntEe Church.

A Royal Arcanum memorial service IL to
be conducted under the auspices of Union
Pacific council No. 1863 in Kountze Me-
mortal church this afternoon at s:5
o'clock. Following are the exercises:
PART I.
Organ Prelude-Funeral March. ...... Chopin
Brother J. II. Simms.
Regent. Howard Bruner; secretary, ii. B,
Morrill,; guide, F. w. Robinson.
Misses Barr lSoG and u P]oTterheld and Messrs,
Wheeler and Haverstock.
i"'o0'''o" Cha plain T. ]. Mackay.
solo-One sweetly Solemn Thought: -.
Mr. q. S. Hiaverstock.
N4'y Brother q. M. Bartlett.
Solo-O Shadow in a Sultry Land .Marstor
Miss Porterfeld.
PART II.
Brother a. Hugh Nipple.
solo-The Home Land. ''.;. Hanscom
Chaplain T. ]. Mackay.
Quartet-Asleep In Jesus.
Misses Barr and Portericld and Mcssrs.
Wheeler and Haverstock.
Chaplain T. j. Mackay.
Organ Postlude-Andante MaestosO.. ....
Mendelssohn
Brother J. II. Sims,
The roll Of departed brothers now in
cludes William b. Alexander, Marion l..
Andrews, Charles AspinwaI, r. w. Bart
lett. E. W Dent, Harold II. Finn. Charles
II. Gardner. L. A. Garner. Dell n. Good
rich. ". ]. Hughes. w r. Learn. A. NJ.
Lyons, Robert f. Pease, William f. Ran
som. stuart p. Shears, Irwin c. shreiver,
l.. A. Sunderland, J S. Tebbetts, N. II. N.
Thoebroe, NJ. A. Upton, William f, Vail,
]. F. vickers, ]. T. Wade, f. A. Walter.
Phillip A. warrack. II. b. Wheeler and r.
f. Whitmore.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-31

The others are from Africa and india ana
practically all Of them are there as SUI
dents in the higher institutions OF learnihs'
Everyone was good to us-even the ponce
men would trouble themselves to make
certain that we found the places we sought
and did not turn the wrong way at corners
Miss Helen Adams, one of our company IL
engaged to a Scotch minister. There are
any number of chances to marry them over
fhera"
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-31

0NAANS ~ NAS BIN
Everyone was good to us-even the police
men would trouble themselves to make
certain that we found the places we sought
and did not turn the wrong way at corners
Miss Helen Adams one of our company Is
engaged to a Scotch minister. There are
any number of chances to marry them over
there"
He f. Good Enough for Her.
Perhaps that accounts in part for your
announced determination to return to Eng
land after you finish at Oberiin," was sug-
gested to Miss Wilson.
Indeed, II does not" she responded
very promptly. 1.-The American negro is
quite good enough for me. There is al
Ways the barrier between my race and
the white that we cannot overcome"
But you intimate that it is overcome, to
large extent. in England and Scotland"
perhaps so, but dear me, one doesn't
wish to live apart from ones W coun-
try"
'Then you don't expect to remain Away
away from the United States?'
"~Emphatically l do not" Miss Wilson
answered. This is my home, the best
country In the world, for all Its prejudice
against us, and / shouted with Joy when we
sighted New York harbor on our return.
l was glad to get back to a country where
there is something for dinner besides an
unvarying succession OF roast beef and
roast mutton, with vegetables cooked, I'M
seasoned, In plain water. They have ex-
cellent i~nnkeepers in England. but their
hotel keepers are very different affairs
far behind the times in many respects and
not inclined to get abreast with them"
English Taste in Music.
How was your music received thereT'
was asked.
'Very we'll. l think, for l know that the
management made a great deal of money.
even after Mr.. Loudin was taken Ill. At
the heaters and music halls they are
going wild over the coon songs that are
now four or five years old in America, and
in churches where We sang the audiences
we're equally receptive Of our style of
music. which was the old darby songs.
Steal Away to Jesus as originated by
| those darkys who, years ago, were not
permitted 10 worship at their quarters and
had to steal away TO camps in the woods,
was a great f~avorite, as was also Nobody
Knows the Trouble / See, Lord There
seems no tolerance over there OF the senti-
ment l song that is so popular here at
theaters. The English audiences would
accept DeKoven's For This and others
Of that type, but none OF the Because /
Love You stamp. Their preference seems
70 be a song that tells a story and has a
climax. For myself, l seemed to do best
with that old, old 'suwanee River"
Suppose you sing It now was proposed.
and Miss Wilson did. playing her own piano
accompaniment. The English burr she has
, acquired-or, perhaps more properly, "as-
simIated.' since she uses II unconsciously
and without observation-disclosures with the
nrst note and in It's place was the genuine
darby dialect, with its softened con-
sonants and slurred vowels. The voice
! was one OF marvellous range and youthful
power. meilowing to q fearful plaintiveness
at the lines:
"Oh, take me back to my kind old mudder.
"Dere let me live and die"
II was not the voice OF a finished artistic,
nor he voice Of one wrought by the gods
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-31
German Presbyterians 20 Meet.

In the German Presbyterian church,
North Eighteenth street. between Burt and
Cunning. there will be held the annual con
ventiOn OF the German Presbyterian minis
tiers and elders Of the west, June 4 10 T. IL
is expected that about nifty will be present,
representing churches throughout the west.
The convention will be opened Thursday al
8 p. m, with a sermon by Rev. r. /. Boell,
the general missionary for the German
hraneh Of the Presbyterian church.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-31
CECILIA WILSON'S SONGS
Omaha Orphan Girl Wins Success OIL
English Concert Stage.
HER EXPERIENCE ON HER FIRST TOUR
DeliEhtful Trip of Sightseeing
Mingled with Pleasing Work with
the Fisk Jubilee singers in
the United Kingdom.

Miss Cecilia A.. Wilson has returned from
the British isles to Omaha. an exemplih-
cation OF what may be accomplished by a
colored girl II she but have a voice attuned
to the melodies of her race and a courage
and ambition that will not falter before
the obstacle of a preconceived prejudice.
Graduated from the Omaha High school
Just a year aga and graduated from her
teens scarcely a longer time ago, she has
spent nine months on the British isles,
singing simple folk songs to cultured
audiences that accepted her without bias,
applauded warmly when her effort merited
II. and later received her into private
homes, freely, courteously and without that
patroniEing ostentation hat would have
tainted her Joy with humiliation and kept
her ever mindful of the chasm OF the pig
ments.
Moreover, she has returned with a ward
robe that has an aristocratic rustic In it's
folds. and with plans TO spend the summer
r~ejuvenating at Hot Springs, s. D.. and
after that to spend two years at the Ober-
lin conservatory, ohio's famed institution
for higher education in music. In other
words. Miss Wilson has brought back with
her n suficient accumulation OF English
shillings and even OF English pounds to
AAA R0-aAhA1 SUI . dAu tnGn
such devotion TO study OF her chosen theme
as she never before has known and as many
girls who were in circumstances Infinitely
better than her own a year ago may never
know.
Her start.
Miss Wilson has been distinctly the child
Of Dame Fortune. Her parents died when
she was but a mite OF a pickaninny and her
sister, Mrs, J.. c. Parker OF Decatur street.
ave her the only care she received in her
infant years. For some time she was in
the Omaha Public library and had intended
making a teacher OF herself. but at Christ
mas time 1901. she sang before the meet
ing OF a teachers literary association. held
In Kansas City, and one who heard her
there wrote to f. ]. Loud. concerning her
remarkable voice. Mr.. Loudin is the only
surviving member OF the Fisk Jubilee
singers who went to England thirty years
ago from the Fisk university for eolored
people at Nashville. Tenn. and for the
past six years he has been touring with a
successor to his old organization. sinRinR
before all the crowned heads OF the Old
world.
Manager Loudin opened correspondence
with Miss Wilson, with the result that
last August, without a companion ana as
ignorant Of the customs OF travel as apv
school girl could be, she undertook ana
accomplished a journey TO London. Arrv-
ing there. she studied six weeks under
Miss Ira Aldridge, once a pupil OF Jenny
lind. and a very candid teacher. who told
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-31

The nome Of Mrs. Kate Connolly on Calf
fornia street, between Twelfth and Thir-
tee1th, was destroyed by FIRE yesterday
afternoon. Mrs. Connolly had gone
across the street TO visit, a n%eighbor. ieav-
entire contents Of the house we're destrovej
Mrs. Connolly was badly burned about tba
face. her hair sinEed and clothing partiv
burned in an effort 10 save some OF her
effects. The destruction OF her home leaves
her destitute. She Is a widow in humbie
circumstances. The house was a uttie
shack In the railroad yards.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-31

soc Fans at I5c, Sc and I-Zc
Fans worth up to soc each go at 24c, sc and 1c. A New York inn
porters foreign samples and surplus stock of all kinds of japan.
S %ort SH uP to S sa a aF'noh silk fans PFC, Sc and 15C
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-31
Her Purpose and Her Helps.

Most fortunately. it seems Miss Wilson's
desire to develop and make better that
which she has. rather than to convert 1t
into something altogether different and
never intended by her maker.
In her work she will have the beneht OF
a splendid physique for she has developed
a figure not only tall and full but rounded
out firmly along those lines that indicate
the whereabouts of the lungs.
IT gained two stone and was getting
quite too large for comfort in England"
she said, with a laugh, but have been
losing flesh since then and hope to reduce
myself still further when l get to climbing
about at the Springs this summer. If l
don't do II there, l certainly will when l
get to Oberlin, for 1 shall have to study
very hard, / realize, and very constantly.
II hope to qualify for the stage-the con-
cert stage only, please understand me- and
not for the other. To succeed on the latter
and overcome the prejudice which l realize
exists, 1 should have to be nothing less than
phenomenal. But in concert work ] believe
1 can succeed II I but spend enough time
on my work-and enough money to get on
the lists Of the right agents, who are, l as
sure you, no inexpensive ~luxuries. In Eng
land YOU simply have to have a reputable
agent back OF you when you are first com
ing out, and the agents themselves realize
this fact quite as well as does anyone else
Perhaps even better"
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-31
some of Her Impressions.

Journeys are necessarily short there"
she said. "and usually We were at our
destination before the noon hour. That
made IT possible for us to spend our after
Moons in sightseeing. and, being Americans.
we did so. Most OF all. 1 was impressed
by those grand old cathedrals-I don't see
how one could help believing In God after
feeling the spell they cast about one-but
we were at famous bridges and monu-
ments and castles and galleries and statues,
too, and at points with a fame that re-
freshed my half-forgotten lessons in his
tory. We were at S~hakespeare's home. and
at Burns home, and at Knox's home and
at Ian Maclaren's CMiss Wilson pronounces
it 'Yawn.' with an easy Scotch rolD, home,
and at the Scottish lakes that have figured
In 50 many novels.
But best OF all. we were Entertained in
the homes OF the respectable living. Taken
in on a footing that was a nearer approach
to one OF equality than I had ever known
before and shown a consideration that was
strange! For this I like the English people
very much. They're rather conservative,
don't you know miss Wilson does not saw
'dawn't-cher-kueow. but uses the phras s
with a true British swing). but they prove
good friends and lasting friends. The feel
ing toward our race seems 10 be not one OF
prejudice, but Of sympathetic desire 70 be
helpful. There are 5000 negroes in Lon
don, but l doubt II there be more than a
score OF the distinctly American type.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-31
why She Didn't Go to Russia.

In Ireland the company sang at Belfast,
Dublin and Cork, and then Manager Loudin
was stricken i'll and 1t became apparent
that the tour must be brought to a pro-
mature close and the invasion of Russia
abandoned. He was taken to a hydropathic
institution at PEBBLES, Scotland, where he
still lies, and his company routed itself
for London, stopping in the larger cities
to give farewell concerts, the last OF which
was at Newcastle-on-Tyne, May 70. I'M
mediately afterward Miss Wilson sailed
from Liverpool for New York. In the
latter city she stopped two days, then
went to Niagara Falls and last Sunday
night sang in q Chicago church. She
reached Omaha Tuesday morning and will
be the guest OF Mrs. Newman at 22O9 North
Twenty-ffth street, Mrs. Gordon at 1896
North Twenty-hrst street and OF other
friends until she goes TO Hot Springs, two
weeks hence. Tuesday morning she is to
talk to Miss Pfeiffer's class in English
history at the High school.
II she can talk as we'll 20 students as
she can to interviewers she will prove
very entertaining. She has been a keen
observer while abroad and apparently has
benefited by the impressionableness Of
youth.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-31
COUNTY ROADS lMPASSABLE
Floods in Country Precincts Give Work to
the COMMISSIONS rs.
WILL MAKE INSPECTION TOUR MoNDAX
Farmers Complain that Low Places I'm
Road Have Been Filled without
Making Proper Provision
for Drainage.

The county commissioners held a con-
ference at the court house yesterday
to consider action on the roads, which are
in impossible condition on account OF the
recent rains. These rains have demonN
strated the error of the plan adopted by
the board ten years ago, and since that
time carried out IN most instances of nling
low places In the roads without making
adequate provisions for the flow of storm
water. In the western part OF the country
from the northern TO the southern bound
airy these fills have proved to be dams Tor
the storm water and in many cases they
have been washed out, leaving the roads
impossible, while in other cases the water
has backed up over adjoining farms and
the owners OF the lands have cut bitches
through the roads TO relieve the conges-
ton.
Reports as 10 the condition OF the roads
in the southern part OF the county were
received Friday and the road committee
given power 20 make temporary repairs
where absolutely necessary. Yesterday
the reports came from the northern part
Of the county, particularly from Valley and
Elkhorn precincts. The road from Valley
to the Platte river is impossible, q MI,
which was substituted for a bridge whic
formerly spanned a ravine, having been
washed out. The commissioners decided
10 place a culvert In the nj as soon as
possible.
In Precinct.
The water Is said 20 be worse I'm the
northwestern part of Elkhorn precinct thar
was ever before known. West OF Rawhide
creek the water stands TO the first rail
on the bridges across the ravines and the
RaWhide itself Is spread over the adjofn-
ing land. 1t is said that because OF wash
ing out OF approaches the bridge which
was recently constructed near Senator
Noyes' farm is absolutely useless, and
travel over that. road is impossible.
A number OF farmers we're before the
board making reports OF damage OF greater
or less extent IN various parts OF the coun-
try and received assurances that the com
missioners would do all In their power TO
relieve the condition. In pursuance OF this
promise the members OF the board will
start on an inspection trip Monday morn
ing. It IS probable that two or more parties
will be formed 10 VISIT different sections OF
the county, so that work can be started
as soon as possible,
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-31

Cecilia that her voice was one Of quality
and Of marvellous range, but poorly used.
The girl spent her time in remedying the
defect and at the end of six weeks Joined
the Fisk singers as contralto ~soloist, max
ing her first appearance with the p
Of ten at Harrington, just out of London.
October, November and December were
spent IN touring England. the concerts
being given exclusively in churches and
usually under the auspices Of religious
organizations. With the new year a fort
night series OF concerts was begun at Synod
hall, the largest auditorium in Edinburgh,
and after that others were given at Glas-
gov, Perth. Aberdeen and the other larger
cities Of Scotland. with one appearance at
Wrexham, Wales.