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The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1903-05-27
Leaves from Spring Branch

To the Editor of the Dispatch:
The health of this community is
pretty good-no sickness reported.
Peaches will soon be ready for pies.
Crops ale beginning to show up
very well, but bud worms are still
killing corn, mostly in bottoms.
Mr.. J. E. Dunbar has a nice
field of tobacco. Some leaves VIII
measure 1925 inches. We suggest
that he go into manufacturing smok-
ing tobacco. Then We would have
Dupbar's Best instead of Dukes
Mixture.
Mr.. Summers Gunter, who spent
last summer in Arkansas has decided
to spend this summer at home, salts
fed that there is no place like home.
The Sunday school which has been
running near two years is still
fourishing under the management of
MIR. D. E. Clark at Smith Branch.
Wheat will soon be ready to cnt,
and bl4ckberries are turning.
Hot weather now and bee swaIms
plenty.
Farmers are now making good
time with General Green. They Rre
turning him seven inches at time.
Success to the Dispatch.
Nav %. 1903. Billie Blue
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Billy Felix's Letter.

To the Editor of the Dispatch.
Having won complete victory in
close, heated battle with Gen. Green,
can uow breathe freely for short
while, and in my reflections pen a
few items to readers of the Dispatch.
We are having fine weather now
and the farmers are busy in their
crops. The crops are growing nicely
since the passing of the cool weather
and warm days appear.
Wheat is not failure and begins
to take on q golden hue. Fall oats
are splendid while spring oats are
almost complete failure.
The buzzing round of the hateful,
pestiferous, ahominsble, obnoxious
nocternal "skeeter" is very audible
these warm nights, as we'll as the
touch of a keen, piercing, penetrat-
ing, presentation of a ''bill." OF all
the bills presented to Billy, the bill
of the mosquito is the most unwel-
come.
Mrs. J. F. Fallaw has been con-
fined to her bed for some time with
lung trouble. We hope ere long she
msy recover and be at her post Of
duty.
Mr.. Editor, We all erjoy jokes and
none any better than Billy, but when
it comes to penning such farfetched
ones ss I have seen of late, I am in
clined to swear of.
The sweet graduate will soon be
in evidence.
The sparkling eye, smiling counte-
nance and digni6ed. bearing of the
Editor was seen on the streets of the
Capital city taking in the reunion,
and judging from his demeanor, he
must have scooped in several dollars
from Dispatch readers across the
Congaree. We heard of some while
in there.
The Sunday school picnic at Red
Bank, on the 18th instant, was q
grand SUCCESS. There were good
speaking by the children, fine din
ner and plenty to drink. Hon. John
Bell Towill put in an appearance
made capit tai and timely address te
| the audience, ate big dinuer(?) anc
judging from general appearance
and what I overheard-he put il
some good electioneering. True, thi'
is not campaign year, but Joha rang
the bell ''just the same" and I thinl
ere long you will hear another bell
but this time, the wedding bell
The music at the Athens schoo
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Occasional.

Are You Using Aliens Foot-Ease?
Shake into your shoes, Aliens Feot
Ease, a powder. It cures Corns,
Bunions, Painful, Smarting, Hot,
Swollen feet. At all Druggists and
Shoe stores, Csc. 81
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You Know What You Acs
Taking

When you take Groves Tasteless
Chill Tonic because the formula is
plainly printed on every bottle show
ing that it is simply Iron and Quinine
in tasteless form, No Cure, No Pay.
5Oc.
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DIR. r. C. GILMORE,
DENTrTTST

DENTIST,
II COATED AT NO. 1910 MAIN STREET.
L over Rusemann's Gun Store, Colum-
bia. s. c., where he will be glad to see his
former as well as new patients.
Dr.. Gilmore will be at Drafts Hotel in
Lexington on Tuesday and Wednesday.
June 9th and 10th. to accommodate
patients who find it inconvenient to call at
his Columbia Office.
January %, l901-tf.
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Come to See Us.

we nave a large and wsli assorted STOCK
you to see it before buying the stuff you
need.
Don't let talk abou; up-to-date factory
worry you we are III position to meet
prices and some times better them. Give
US trial order.
SHAND BUILDERS SUPPLY CO
BOX 24o,
COLUMBIA, S. c.
October 2S-1y.
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The Frog.

Nj. FTog has an enormous mouth fol
bis size andsif we We're to put a finger
inside il We would find that he has a
low Of laeth.in the upper jaw and that
bis soft whse tongue. unlike own,
Is attached N front and is free behind.
When he wishes TO catch any insect he
throws out he free end Of the tongue,
tasn draws it in so rapidly that it ia
difficult TO e whether he has been
successful or o AS the tongue Is
coated with a gummy fluid, the insect
sticks 20 it and Is carried back into the
mouth which closes upon it like the
door Of a tomb Frogs. however, ere
not limited TO one mode Of feeding,
They often leap open mouthed upon
larger prey. which includes besides In,
sects small fish. mice, small ducklings,
poihwogs and Tiny frogs Woman's
Home Companion
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NEW YEAR,s CARDS,
They Originated In Japan and Were
Masterpieces of Art,

They Originated In Japan and Were
Masterpieces of Art.
In Japan originated the art of max
ing and the custom of exchanging New
Years cards. Today both are as obso-
lete in the Flowery Kingdom as is
New Years calling in the United
States. More charming art, more de-
Hghtful custom, are not numbered
among the good things that have
passed away to suffer, in their time, lief
us hope, a happy revival.
For more than 100 years the design
ing and coloring Of New Years cards
occupied the attention of the foremost
craftsmen and wood engravers Of ia
pan. They were made Mt the command
of the nobiemen of the emperor's court.
In size they were from 6 to 8 inches,
and each was inscribed with a poetic
sentiment dictated by the noble giving
the order. They were printed from Eve
or six blocks. each color requiring, as
In modern color printing, a separate
block. The blocks were the property of
the noble, who retained or destroyed
them at will. No reprints for another
were yer permitted. A n%oblernan's
New Years card was like his coat tof
arms or his sword. The surimonos, as
Japan's New Years cards were called;
were designed specially to please some
ladylove.--New York Press.
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swelled the Conscience Fund.

The legislator took up his hat to leave
the ~statehouse. 1t was In Connecticut
some years ago. Tucked in under the
swaziland was a roll Of greenbacks.
The legislator counted the bills. FIN!
Five hundred dollars" he said, and put
the money into his pocket. Later in the
day he encountered a man with a shit.
ty glance of the eye who asked him,
Did you, ah, that is, HIM, did yo'uns
find anything in your hatr Eyes, /
found something in my hat well,
1t was a mistake" cit locke like
one" See here, that roll was meant
for another hat. see" 81 see." 'As
it's a mistake, l su Sc you are will
Ing to rechfy itT' Not l." said the
legislator. I'm going to send that
money to the conscience fund. Good
morning."
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The Picture In the watch.

The following anecdote is related of
jerome Bonaparte: He had been play
Ing cards until he lost all his ready
money, then pledged his rings and final
" laid his watch on the table. It was
q small gold one, the back of which
opened with a spring. A lady overlook
ing the game admired the watch and
took 1t up to- examine it. On her at
tempting to open the back Jerome i'm
mediately clasped it and said that must
not be done. his wife, who stood by,
insisted upon knowing what was in It,
grew angry, reproached him with hay-
Ing some keepsake of a ~favorite there
and finally, bursting into tears, quit
the room.
Jerome then opened the watch and
showed to all present that it contained
a beautiful miniature of his first wife,
Betsy Patterson, with the remark.
"You see, 1 hope, that 1 could not with
propriety let her see it" 1t was no..
torious that he remained deeply at.
tached to his first wife long after their
separation.
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The snakes Wl,fstlc.

l found myself somewhat muddy and
breathing n little hard, but l was not
wholly chagrfned. had heard and
see a black snake whistle. l had never
even known Of the habit before. Since
then l have seen one other snake do it,
and l think l have heard the sound
three OF four times. 1t is almost indie.
scribable. The jaws were closed as ii
was made, not even the throat moving,
that I could see. The air seemed to be
blown violently through the nostrils,
though sounding as if driven through
the teeth-a shrilling hiss, fine and
piercing, which one not SO much hears
as feels-feels it crisping cold along his
nerves. 1t may seem strange, but I be-
leve this whistle is a mating call. Even
the forked tongue Tor maybe the nose)
Of a snake grows vocal with loEe.-Dal-
las Lore Sharp In National Magazine.
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HOY, Eyes Are rested.

The theory II the op,icilly perfect
eye is that parallel rays OF light enter
ing it are brought to a focus on its ret
Ina. Any deviation from this condi-
ton constitutes an error of ~refraction
and requires for its correction an arti-
hcial variation of the luminous rays.
The generally adopted method of de.
termining the ~refracticn Of the eye i.
to use test types placed at such a dis
taree that the rays OF light emanadng
them may be regarded in practice
as parallel. and the deviation rom a
allel1sm necessary to correct a refrac-
i've error is effected by placing a lens
In front Of the eye. There are many
other methods of changing the course
Of luminous rays coming from a test
object and of these the single convex
lens Is the simplest and most often
VSed IN optometry.
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HUMoR OF rHE HOUR
sure Cure For Heart disease.

Sure Cure For heart Disease.
One of the most remarkable cases Of
mistaken identity ever brought to the
attention of the national government
is revealed in a letter which has come
to the interior department. The letter
Is addressed to a former assistant sec
rotary of the interior, although the lat
ter official has been out of office eve
since the Cleveland administration.
The, writer COMPOUNDED this official
with a local poet of the same name in
central Pennsylvania: hence the re.
quest sen to Washington. The lettee
follows:
Dear friend and statesman: I rite you
the earliest DAFT to be so cind as to do q
CRATE fafor. l hat tride all cinds Of paten
medesin for hart 6ecease an no avale. /
red yure little Pome on hart decease Com
mencenge.
1.-THE hart wich sad tumultus beets.
With throbs of keenest pain,
will oft recover it's defeats
Thro' naturs sweat %refrane."
I hat never tride a injun dokter but hat
took all conds of CRIBS 1 now asst you to
sen by return male 2 bottles of you med
~esin--naturs sweat refrane. Sen to Alex
K c. Postoffice. Penn,
N. b will sen Prise by return male.
New York Tribune.
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Women's Library Association.

The Fair, the proceeds Of which
are to go into the book fund, will be
held about the middle Of this month.
Everyone is asked to contribute
somsthing- either useful or orna-
mental. The solicitors have called
at every house. II you have not seen
them please take this as a personal
request and send your gift when the
time and place shall be announced.
The following committees will
meet Thursday afternoon at 4 O'Clock
to perfect arrangements. Fancy
Work-Mesdames II. E. Hitchcock.
Ward, Lamb.
Useful Needlework : Mesdames
Silsby, Wiltse, I. Windie.
Egy-Mesdames Moore, Wood, An
derson.
Samples Mesdames Robt. Burns
Bliss, Bailey, Syms.
Ice Cream Mesdames Branson,
Rathbun, Miner, Hoon.
Flowers-Mesdames Winsor, c. e.
Newbury, Vim. Scallin.
Lemonade and ~Punch-Mesdames
Butterfield. Dawson, Conyes, b. a.
Bobb.
Cook Book-Mesdames Foster, Sid
Smith, +. B. Smith.
~Bakery-Mesdames Downey, Craft,
Morrow, Walrath.
Adyertising-Mrs. W. A. Barber.
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Catarrh of the Stomach.

When the stomach is overloaded /;
when food is taken into the stomach
that it fails to digest, it decays and
in6ames the mucous membrane, ex-
posing the nerves, and causes the
glands to secrete mucin, instead of
the natural juices OF digestion. This
is called catarrh Of the stomach. For
years l have suffered with catarrh of
the stomach, caused by indigestion.
Doctors and medicines failed..to bene-
fit me until 1 used Kodol Dyspepsia
Cure,-J. R. Rhea, Coppell, Tex.
Sold by L. 0. Gale.
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Black Bucks of India.

The black buck of. India is a very
graceful animal, weighing between
thirty and fifty pounds. The hide Of
the male when full grown is of tnky
~Dlackness on the back, while the belly
u as white as snow, the contract being
very striking. The horns are black and
spiral In shape and In length average
about eighteen inches, although nass
nave been known to reach twgrTA1
inches. The animals are nsaaNy tcaad
In herds and + difficult u sp2rueca
on foot, as the bucks toss tar heads
In the air from time 10 tine IN 3 F-y
graceful manner, and some Of them ars
almost sure to detect any attempt st
stalking.
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prelimiuarieH.

Ermengarde-If you were going to
propose to a girl, Mr.. Blacque, what
would you say?
Mr.. Blacque-I should say: you are
the one woman in the world for me.
love you with a consuming madness.
Be mine!!" 49,
Ermengarde-How beautiful!
Mr.. Blacque-And If a man proposed
to you like that, Miss Ermengarde,
what would you say?
Ermengarde-I should say: Take
me, beloved. I am all yours!"
Then these two crafty beings drifted
away from Representatives and got
down to business.-New Yorker.
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Making Up For Lost Time,

Husband Ito second wife)-You don't
cook like Mary, my first wife, used to
do, Alice, he said, in tones Of gentle,
exasperating reproof. No, it seems to
me you can't cook like she used to.
On another occasion he remarked:
you are not SO smart at getting
about as Mary was. You don't appear
to catch on where she left of" (
About this time a heavy rolling pin
came In contact with his head.
What do you mean by that, you
-T he exclaimed, in agony.
Il am doing the work that Mary neg.
Iected," she replied.
There was more peace in that famf.
~ afterward.
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Just About Bedtime.

Take a Little.EaIly. Riser--it will
cure constipation, biliousness and
liver troubles. DeWitt's.Little Early
Risers are different from other pills.
They do not grippe and.--break down
the mucous membranes.of..the stom-
ach, liver and bowels, but.cure by
gently arousing the s%ecretions and
giving strength to these organs. Sold
by L. O. Gale.
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Roll Butter.

The young housekeepec who told the
hshman that she wanted seme eAs and
when he asked her how much replied.
about two yards and q hsff.n has q
rival.
u wish to get some butter, please,
she said To the dealer.
Roll butter. naa.amT he asked DO
htely. Z
NO. We wish to eat it on toast We
seldom have solls-"-Chicago News
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The Foundation of Health.

Nourishment is the foundation of
health-llfe-strength. Kodol Dys-
pepsia Cure is the one great medicine
that enables the stomach and digest
I've organs to digest, assimilate and
transform all foods into the kind of
blood that nourishes the nerves and
feeds the tissues. Kodol lays the
foundation for health. Nature does
the rest. Indigestion, dyspepsia and
all disorders Of the stomach and d.
gestive organs are cured by the use
OF kodol. Sold by L. o. Gale.
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Not For His ReadinR

do you choose for yourself the
books you read, my boy"
"Sure."
"But how do you know what to
avoid?"
"Oh, I've got all their names here"
"Their namesT'
you bet. It's in this list of 100 best
books for boys to read."-Cleyeland
Plain Dealer.
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Ext the Editor.

"You have nc use for the papers,
you say" remarked the tourist.
NO" replied the wild westerner.
They get too personal sometimes.
did subscribe to a paper onct. but l
stopped 1T"
What paper is 1t you refer
You mean what paper was it
Amt just told you l stopped it?
Done it In n shot too."-Philadelphia
Press.
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A household necessity. DR.. Thorn
as Eclectric OIL. Heals burns. cuts.
wounds of any sort cures sore throat.
Group, catarrh, asthma; never fails.
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Had Good Reason,

Dolly--Gracious! Why does Mrs. De
Styles always refer to MI. De Styles
as her late husband" when every n
knows her husband is alive2
Polly-The reason she calls him her
late husband Is because Of the late
hours he wanders home in the morn
1ng.-Baltimore Herald.
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The Loop the Loop Act.

How is it possible for, a man. to
perform Diavolo's marvellous and dar.
ing feat OF "looping the loop',.on
bicycle, which is now astonishing
the country as q feature of the Fore.
paugh-Sells Circus?
The building of the first bicycle
loop the loop by Arthur j. Prescott,
who Is also the constructor OF the
apparatus used by Diavoio, was not
a matter Of chance experiment. 1t
was the net result of a series OF
mathematical calculations Of extra.
ordinary technical intricacy.
Before Diavolo made his first trial
weeks had been spent in calculations
involving a knowledge OF abstrnse
mathematical laws, and in the APP
plication Of them in the construction
of a trial track.
Before the first trial had been made
1t was known to a nicely the exact
momentum that the wheelman would
attain just before he began the as
cent Of the first side of the loop.
The pressure that would be exerted
at the apex Of the loop when the
wheel is upside down, was ascer-
tanned almost to a pound.
The point at which the highest
pressure Of the nan and the wheel,
nearly 1000 pounds would be felt,
was figured out within a few inches.
The speed at which the rider would
be going at the apex was known with
exactneSS.
Involyedsin these calculations there
are some peculiar factors. The most
curious is that ia the loop there are
arcs of five different circles, each arc
perfect in itself. The purpose Of
these varying curves in the loop is
to adapt the travelling to the speed
of the rider.
The first factor to be considered
was the length and angle OF the slide
approaching the loop. Diayolo's ap-
proach is at an angle of about SO de-
grees. His weight is $50 pounds and
that of his wheel S pounds. Given
these factors the constructor was
able to figure that at the bottom Of
the slide he would be running at a
speed of a little mole than 40 miles
an hour. 1t was the next task to
find how high this would carry him.
The arc of a very large circle was
placed at the bottom OF the loop to.
take the momentum gradually. Even
with this large curve it was ealcu-,
lated that a pressure of nearly LOCO
pounds would be exerted against the
track at a point about six feet from
the ground.
Above this large curve is a smaller
one that is the length Of half a
circle. At the apex the speed is Just
about Is miles an hour and the pres
sure upward a little mole than 10
pounds.
After the apex has been passed
and the descent has begun, a still
greater curve takes the rider to the
ground with the least possible acqui-
sition Of speed. which, however, is
nearly 40 miles an hour as the level
is reached.
The loop is 10 feet across and "a
feet high. The relation Of these dis
tances Is the result OF careful compu.
tation. The size of the loop has a.
direct bearing on the weight of the
rider and his wheel. II it were
smaller the speed would immensely
increase the danger. If it were
larger the danger would also be
greatly increased.
A household necessity. DR.. Thorn
as Eclectric OIL. Heals hurns. cuts
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An Important Distinction.

~" DIhtHuCI1OA.
She-I suppose that it would take q
great deal of observation and expert
ence to enable a man to pick the fast.
est horse entered for a race.
he tmournfullyl-Yes, but that isn't
what you are trying to do. What you
want Is to pick the horse that is going
to wtn.-New York Times.
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Giving Authority.

A worthy pason, On being accused
Of erbbtng, owned to 1t c~heeEtuilE, but
added naiveiy, Il siways acknowledge
the fact by raising two fingers at the
opening words; and Vt fingers again,
at the end Of the borrowed matter, tos
indicate quotation marks" :
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Years OF suffering relieved in a
night. Itching piles yield at once to
the curative properties OF Doan's
Ointment. Never falls. At any drug
store, SO cents.
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Study Is the bane of boyhood, the
ailment of youth, the indulgence Of
manhood and the restorative Of. eldi
Rke-Landor. Il
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Undone by Their Lo...

"Why did the people turn against
that divine healer who had such a fol.
lowing down here a year or two aeo?'
TT was a case of hard luck with
him. He had a little accident with
some kerosene and lost his long white
"hiskers."-Chicago Record Herald,
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us this the cracked wheat. Jsnes.
I u know mum. amt looked at
It or teched it, an If it's cracked it wuz
cracked afore l come here."--Nev York
Observer.
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She Furn.hed RuIIe,tnx-

Their marriage was a surprise,
wasn't it,
Wen, his friends were surprised,
but I believe her friends were expect
ing it"-Brooklyn Life.
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Proper

what kind of a heading shall 1 put
over thi account of the electrocution?"
asked the assistant.
Il should think Current News
would be about right" the new editor
answered.-Brooklyn Eagle.
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Christian Endearor Meeting. Denver
July 9-13.

The c.. NJ. s. St. P. railway will
sell excursion tickets for the above
occasion for $50. TO for the round trip
Dates of sale July l to TO-, final re-
turn limit Aug. 81.
NJ. T. Patton. Agent.
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Baby Brakeman.

Mrs. Z.-Listen. George-the baby Is
saying, "Ooo-goo-ja -bo-oegor What
does it remind you Of?
MI. Z HIN. Reminds me Of a
brakeman calling out stations.-Phila-
delphia Record.
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Feeless Information.

Mr.. Tytephist tat the Chubby the
way, doc, what is good for indiges-
tion:
Doctor yellow clubman)-Well, a
Welsh rabbit is sometimes good for
about three days of it.-Chicago Trib.
une.
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Ladies First.

Msgistrate-NeXt case. who've We
got nowf
Constabie-D Dick Buggins, alias Bull"
Observation-Disclosures first. Let Alice
Bull take the stand. - Philadelphia
Press.