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The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1903-06-17

vThe square peg in the -o1rd hole"
fgurat;vely expresses the use Of means
unsuited to the desired erd. A great
many people who have been cured Of
dyspepsia and other diseases Of he storr-
ach ard its allied organs of digestion and
nutrition BY TIL. Use OF DR.. Pierce S Golden
Medical Discovery say: "We tried manly
medicines with only temporary benefit.
It was not until we began the use Of
Golden Medical Discovery that we
found a complete and lasting cure.1
$1,000 FORFEIT will be paid by
WORLDS DIsPENsARY MEDICAL Asso-
c1Ac1oN, Proprietors, Buffalo, N. Y, if
they cannot show the original signature
of the individual volunteering the|testi-
raonial below, and also Of the writers of
every testimonial among the thousands
vtich they are constantly publishing,
thus proving their genuineness.
u1t is with pleasure that tell you what Dr..
PieToe's Golden Medical Discovery and Pellets
have done for me- writes Mrs. l. ". Palmer, of
Pvede, Kaufman Co., Texas 1.-TWO years ago
was taken with stomach and bowel trouble.
Everythins ate you'd P put me in 1, distress.
pain. felt as though would st2rve to death.
Three doctors attended 1ne-one said had dys-
pepsia, two said catarrh Of the stomach and
bowels. they attended me lone at t;rEe) for
one year. stopped taking their medicine and
tried some patent r,cdiciuc; got no better, cd
I grew weak snd nervous my heart would
hutter. could noc do any kind Of work. Now
can Go my house - * very well am gaining
in flesh Gsi6 .-trea1gss. and can eat anything I
want.1
Accept no substitute for DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery.
DR.. Picrce's Common Sense Medical
Adviser is sent free On receipt of stamps
to pay expense of mailing only. Send
2I oi1e-cent stamps for the paper covered
book, CIR 81 stamps for the cloth bound
volume. Address Dr.. R. V. Pierce, Buf-
fa1o, n. Y.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1903-06-17
A PINCH OF SALT.

As Necessary In Our Daily Life as
In Our Daily Food.
How could we get on without salt?
In our daily food. as in our daily life.
little Of it is necessary. and the absence
Of it takes away from the favor Of eT-
eIything we eat. The salt Of life"
which we hear about signifies the
health, vigor and wit which we find In
life. There was time in countries far
from the sea when primitive man new
er used salt in his food, and 1t was
only when nations advanced in civfI-
zetion that salt became an absolute ne
cessity.
But it was not alone as food that salt
was valued. Among the ancielf; salt
spring was regarded as a gift Of the
gods. and it was believed that any salt
found in the soil lent it a peculiar sane
tity and made it place where prayers
were most readily heard. Every meal
that included salt had certain sacred
character, creating bond Of piety and
friendship between host and guest;
hence the expression, There is salt
between u.s." meaning friendship, and
to be untrue to salt" means to be dis
loyal or uDgrateful.
In the middle ages, when all classes
ard degrees sat at the same board,
they were placed according to rank.
above or below the great saltcellar.
which always stood in the middle and
marked the dividing social line. above
the salt" meant "of high degree" Be-
low the salt were the yeomanry, serfs
and vassals of the feuGal days. \ good
description Of this custom may be
found in "Ivanhoe" where Cedric, the
Saxon, entertains his vassals and
friends.
4 pinch of salt IS always considered
lucky In cooking. TO take anything
with Il pinch Of salt" means to excuse
or make allowances for it. 4 salt IS
a sailor. To salt ones conversation
means to make it sparkle. Salt is al
ways employed in sense Of benefit or
strength.
The Bible has many references to
salt. among them being Eye are the
salt of the EARTH" Matthew v. 13, and
St. Paul says, Let your speech be al
ways with grace seasoned with salt"
Salt is used by Catholics in baptism.
They consider it a symbol Of wisdom
and put few grains in the mouth Of
the person baptized.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1903-06-17
DON'T GET ANGRY.

Fire in the heart sends smoke in the
head.-German Proverb.
An envious man wakes lean at the
tatness Of his neighbor.-Socrates.
One Of the very best Of all earthly
possessions is self possession.-G. D.
Prentice.
The fire you kindle for your enemy
often burns yourself more than him.
Chinese Proyerb.
The envious man pines in plenty. like
Tantalus up to the chin in water and
vet thirsty.-T. Adams.
An irritable man lies like q hedgehog
rolled up the wrong way, tormenting
himself with his own prickles.-E. p.
Hood.
Lamentation is the only musician
that always, like q screech owl, alights
and sits on the roof of an angry man.
-Plutarch.
A man can easily be intoxicated with
anger as with wine; both produce a
temporary insanity, and during the
paroxysm he should be avoided as q
Da6man.-J. Bartlett.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1903-06-17
yodol Gives Strength

BY enabling the digestive organs
TO digest, ass,ni|ate opd transform
all of the wholesome food that may
be easeD into tie kind of blood that
nourisbes the nerves, f':eds the It's
sues. hard,sns the muscles and rscu-
perates the organs Of the entire
body. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure cures
Indigestion, Dy'pepels. C+'a!rh OF
the S onanh AID Ill stomach dis
ord. rs. Sold By all druggists.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1903-06-17
aNAASAAA.AAAAA- 4AhA AAAA-A
yED EEYsEyTE :
He Tell How E''s Con Joe {
Tackled q Railroad.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
1903. by L. T. R'rhards.1

[Copyright 1903. by L. T. Pi"hards.l
~ HAD hoor 3~-~o to +Ae General
store a1 ike '.nrncrs" with rAe
III old Nn:e,.--s =: q" cf Ten So
to buy ;hEssxts ss:!l tobacco and
among the id,"r& ur-. The sore was y
pert young laau wi-o had good deal
to say about himself. On our way
horne ard after long period of silence
old Zeb suddenly exclaimed:
"Drat that young Perkins! He's got
the big head the worst way, and I'm
horin' that suthin' comes along to give
him a shock Most young men seem
to want to make fools Of themselves"
"But they get over it after awhile"
1 replied.
"ye-es, if they don't die first. I had
a powerful pert son who DIDN'T live to
Git over his braggin' days. Sometimes
I feel bad about it, and, ag'in, l think it
happened for the best"
asked him for the yarn. and after
walking along for quarter Of mile
he began:
'One spring, when my son Joe was
eighteen Vars old, lie got the big head
michty bad. I seen it comm on him
and knowed thar'd be trubble, and the
ole woman size seen it comm and said
to me:
"Zeb, our son Joe Is gittin' ready to
make fule Of .hisself, and want you
10 keep an eye on him. Ee imagines
he's as big as mounting, and he feels
that he kin lick ten men all to once
when the big head gifts hold OF a
young man it takes powerful dose of
medicine to celre 1t. Joe kept CROWN
wuss and wuss. He got lazy. and he
got to braggin' and blowin', and from
the way he looked at me now and then
outer the corner Of his eye knowed
he was achin' to tackle me. Just to let
him know st his ole pop was on deck
/ grabbed him one day and throwed
hin sky high over the fence, and he
was mo- humble arter that.
cit didn't cure him, however. He
went around rubin ag'in folks and
stepnin' high, and one day he comes
home and sez to me:
Pop, cid yo' ever tackle rail-
road?
"'No, sonny. never did. I've tao
kled men and bars and wildcats and
circuses, but not railroad
They've got one over in the valley,
and think I kin wbop it In about FIVE
minutes
Joe had never seen a railroad" ex-
planned the old man. land they had jest
run one down Little Valley, twelve
miles away. told him what it was
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1903-06-17
RendY For Grace.

"Quite q number Of the old deacons
can now resume the practice Of saying
grace at mcaltime. Willie"
ALLOW me to inquire why, Saliie."
"Why? Why. because they have
ceased chasing the devil around the
stump and indulging in political fan
tastes. A man can't say grace with
very good grace if he be graceless, can
he?'-Canton Saturday Roller.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1903-06-17
Talent and Vocation.

Each man has his own vocation. The
talent is the CALL There is one direc-
ton in which all space is open to him.
He has faculties silently inviting him
thither to endless exertion. He is like
q ship in a river. He runs against OBJ
struct;ons on every side but one. On
that side all obstruction is taken away,
and he sweeps serenely over Gods
depths into an infinite sea. This tai
ent and this call depend on his organ
fzation or tire mode in which the gen.
eral soul incarnates itself in him.-Em-
erSOn.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1903-06-17
In the Wrong Direction.

When my little brother was five
years old, he had the misfortune to fall
from the second story porch Of a fiat
in which we were living.
Our aunt, who is minister's wife,
was calling a few days afterward and
in speaking Of the accident said:
well, Orr. If you had died when you
fell the other Gay YOU would have gone
to heaven. wouldn't your
Without hesitutirg, he replied, "Oh,
but I didn't fall that way!'-Llttle
Chronicle.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1903-06-17

HE STOOD THAR AND JUMPED w AND
DOWN.
like, but he wasn't bit discouraged.
He jest bumped up his shoulders and
spit on his hands and said:
"'Shuck my hide. but I'm dyin' to
whop somebody, and I'll go over to-
norrer and tackle that railroad. If
nobody around yere has ever tackled
a railroad, then it will be all the more
glory tur me-
"tJoe, don't go and make no fule of
.ye-self,' sez I.
GAS to how" soz he.
"' AS to tacklin' a railroad. thar are
some things as even yer pop can't Go,
End one Of 'em is tacklin' railroad.
Jest yo' go out and find a bar and hev
some fun with him and git over this
nonsense
''He didn't sav nuthin' to that, but
&knowed he wouldn't mind what said.
lie went to bed airly, and jest at day
Hight heard him movin' around. told
him If he was bound to go over to Lit
tie Valley I'd 20 along with him arter
breakfast and see far play, and SO he
waited. When we sot out, be was in
high spirits he whooped and holiered
and pranced, and the road wasn't wide
'nuH for him to walk in. Befo l left
the house the ole woman sez to me:
"Zeb, are yo' gwine to let our Joe
4out a railroadT
"Yhat'S the idea,' sez I.
"'Will he git whoppedT
"I1e will. He'll git whopped so
powerful quick and hard that he'll be
as humble as a nursin' babe fur var
to cum
I'VE got over to the valley 'bo1t 10
o'clock in the mawnin'," continued the
old man. "and Joe got his fust sight Of
railroad Ee was disappointed.
Thar wasn't nuthin' but the iron rails
to fou1. and thar was tears in his eyes
as he sot down on stone and sez:
"'Hop, thar's nuthin' to fout, and
we've walked twelve miles fur nuthin'.
I'm feelin' that this state Of Tennessee
is ag'in me-
Joe SCI l arter thinkin' things
over, thar amt nuthin' yere to fout,
jest as l told yo'. but mebbe it would
console yo' to bluff one Of them bull
gines.'
"I can bluff anything from noun
ting to a grasshopper! Whar's yer
bullgine?
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1903-06-17
Interesting TO Asthma Suffer
efS

Daniel Barte of Otterviile, Iowa,
writes, i hsve had asthma foe three
or four Years aud have tried abou'
Ill the cough ano asthma cures IN
the market aud have received trest
men5 from physic;=ns IN NV York
ard o. her cities, but gou very llstle
bent H. until I ;ritd Foley's Honey
aud Tar wkict gave me- iumed'ate
relief aud will n. Yer be without it
in my house. I sincerely r-rommend
il to all" The Ksnfmann Drug Co.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1903-06-17
Yocnr Men and BIaidens.

life would become intolerable if girls
could not be on frank and uncoQuett1sh
terms with men Of their own age or
some wears their seniors. The idea that
because two young people may have a
great deal in common they must also be
in love is happily dying out No one is
hurt. no one is compromised, when a
friendship does not Lead to marriage
John Oliver Hobbies in Pail Mall Mag
aZine.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1903-06-17
Ten Years in Bed.

R. A. Gray, }. T., Oakviiie, Ind,
wrltes, "For ten Years I was con
6u.d lo LII, bed with disease Of my
kidneys l. was 80 severe that l
ctuld rct move part of the time.
cou-ul,ed the very best medical
sknt ava,iabie, bur could get no re-
lef uu,ii FJies's Kv,:ley Cure was
RECOMMENDED TO me 1t has been a
CD 20, d to me-" The Kaufman
Drug Go.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1903-06-17
T.nra Growing Cold,

Mrs. OctcDus-I know that you don't
care as much for me as you did before
we were married.
Mr.. Octopus-W'hat put that notion
in your pretty head. ny dear?
Mrs. Octopus-Why. you used to put
a hundred arms around me. and now
it is as much as you can do to use one.
philadelphia Telegraph.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1903-06-17

II have BEEN truuDieu for some
I'm with indigestion and sour sto'n-
AGO." says Mrs Sarah W. CARTS, OF
L+e, Mass, "and have been taking
Champerlaln's Sromsch aid Liver
Tablets whisb have helped me very
much so that now / can eat many
snirgs that before I could hot" If
you have any trouble with your
stomach why not take these Tablets
and get wei? For sale by Ihe
Kaufman Drug 90.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1903-06-17
Greenville, Tenn.

I have thoroughly convinced my
self that DR.. Bsker's Blood and
Liver Cure is the finest medlclne
made for Indigestion and Constips-
ton. Il have tried them ally and
was cured by the use CT this medl-
cine, after all others had failed. l
most cheerfully and rnhesitatingly
endorse it. Yours truly,
81. N. Baker, Mayor.
For sale at the Bazaar.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1903-06-17
The Reason.

"W'y Gid Solomon say all wuz wan
.ty en- weyation er spilit:"
"Well. he wuz nightly married, en-,
sides dat, dey didn't grow watermil-
lions in dem days."--Atlanta Constitu-
ton.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1903-06-17
The EInin Issue.

Now comes the dainty maiden all agog
with animation
And fairly bubbling over with the coming
graduation.
But when it comes. Las, we find her
knowledge less impresses
Than founces, frills and tucks and things
connected with her dresses.
Baltimore News
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1903-06-17
A Barcnfn In Real Estate.

House Hunter-lsn't $500 rather
high for that house?
Agont-iIigh. Why. friends of mine
when they heard l was offering that
house for such low price have asked
me if it was haunted.-Brooklyn Life.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1903-06-17
The Calf.

Kate-Is there much difference In
their social position?
Nell-Oh. yes: her father gets sal
ary and his father gets wages.-Somer-
vile (MassD Journal.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1903-06-17
Expert Opinion.

Teacher Ito little six-year-old-Now,
Freddie. what is volcano?
Freddie with great confdence)-Oh,
I know that. It's q mountain that in
terrupts all the time.-Life.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1903-06-17

Music beckons the human race on
and is followed by the two great COL
umns. the joyous. light hearted and
happy and the sorrowful, wretched and
despairing.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1903-06-17
An Early start.

Parent-Children. children! What are
you ql:arrclinS about?
Freddy-We're playing house ana
don't know who's to get the divorce
New York Times.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1903-06-17
A Sorry Finish.

Eadleish-Your wife is always out
spoken. isn't she?
Henpeck-Yes. but try to be that
way, too. sometimes.
Kadleigh-Really?
Henpeck-Yes. bet whenever I ven
ture to be outspoken it ends in my be-
ing Observation-Disclosures Press.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1903-06-17

cures made by Dr..
Kilmer's Swamp-Root,
the great kidney, liver
and bladder remedy.
It is the great nledi-
cal triumph Of the nine
teenth century; dis
covered after years Of
scientific research by
DR.. Kilnner, the emf
nent kidney and blaG-
der SDecialiet and ie
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1903-06-17

wonderfully successful in promptly curing
lame back, kidney, bladder, uric acid :rou-
bles and B-ight's Disease, which is the worst
form of kidney trouble.
Dr.. Kimer's Swamp=Root is not rec
ommendedf for everything buff you havekid-
ney, liver or bladder trouble it will be found
just the renedyyou need. lthas been tested
in so many ways, in hospital work, in private
practice, among the helpless too poor to pur-
chase relief and has proved so successful in
every case that special arrangement has
been made by which all readers CT this paper
who have not already tried it, may have a
sample bottle sent free by mail, also book
telling more about Swamp-Root and how to
find out if you have kidney or bladder trouble.
When writing mention reading this generous
offer in this paper and EyK-
send your address to :.!s:sss
Dr. Kmer & Co., Bng A X :s.:l::2 s.l.
harnton, N. Y. The sSss::: 4A!!9ss& s:t::ss:sss&Es
regular fifty cent and Home of swamp-Roo:.
dollar sizes are sold by all good druggists
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1903-06-17
UnD-oatable 0ucstioninEs.

Husband-A penny for your thoughts,
Flora.
Wife-I was thinking of fifteen dol
lar hat.-Detroit Free Press.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1903-06-17
DO YOU GET UP
WITH A LAME BACK ?
Kidney Trouble Makes You Miserable.

Almost everybody who reads the news
papers is sure to know of the wonderful
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1903-06-17
Not ms Serious as 1t Might Be.

L1II tttSNNKII IT wv - fr''Ff1
forms us that the times are out OF
joint.
It's 4 good thing the butcher shops
are nOt.-Clevelan Plain Dealer.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1903-02-06

The effort to bring about a prohibi.
ton election in Staunton failed be.
cause the requisite number of signers
could not be procured to the petition.
We cannot say we are sorry. "Prohi.
oltlon" has been such failure
wherever tried, and especially in a
town OF this size, that any other con-
dltlon Is generally preferable. Having
lived for two years in State where
every officer was sworn to see that the
prohibition laws under a prohibition
constitution, were enforced. and
where. with all the law that could be
mustered and the prohibitionists in
1ull control, whiskey was sold as OPEN
ly as under license in any place In tho
Union. the abortiveness of prohibition
became so manifest to us that We des.
pair OF that remedy. We need 90 only
to counties in W. Va, very near us to
see what prohibition is working and
has wrought. The condition could
hardly, be worse under any other sys
tenn. People will have liquors and when
they will enjoy a luxury there is moth
Ing left to do but make them pay for
IL. Kansas will throw off her prohibi.
lion laws in short time. Vermont
ibis week repudiated hers after a.
thorough test of them for fifty years.
apart from sentiment, however, the
business men of Staunton on this oc.
as1on did not take kindly to this
node OF dealing with the LIQUOR traffic.
Inc large tax payers and those Who'll ,
10 the bulk OF the business here gave
be move neither aid nor sympathy.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1903-02-06

and his calling attention to the order
OF Lee is cruel stab at civilized war
fare as practlced by the North when
it invaded our country, and as prac-
tlced in the Philippines, under men
who are bone of the same bone, and
flesh of the same flesh, and taught in
the same school.
Would that Mr.. Adams could have
produced a counterpart of this order
OF Lee in one, just one of the generals
on his side. Of course Mr.. Adams
could not cite these recent cases of
burn and kiln; be HAD to go back to
lilly and Melac, but the rebuke 10 our
conquerers is greater for this, and by
his silence as to Sheridan, and Sher-
man, and Hunter, the fame of Lee is
magnified, and his humanity made to
blaze as an electric search light by the
side of tallow dip.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1903-02-06
Scribner's for February.

Another of the great features which
are to distinguish Scribner's Magazine
during the current year begins i'm the
February number. The Presidential
Office" by James Ford Rhodes, is the
opening article in the series of various
authors on The Government of the
United States. 1t is the aim of these
papers to show our Government &C
tually in operation; reverting to the
past sufficiently to trace the develop
ment OF power and responsibility in
each department; discussing the pres
ent In order to show the machinery of
Government as it now works: and
IL king to the future with It's crest
problems in view, all pressing for solu-
ton. Mr.. Rhodes, the we'll known his.
torlan, has had extraordinary oppor-
tunitles to acquire knowledge of the
manner in which Presidents do their
work, and in this article be passes
acute comments not only On the earlier
Presidents, but upon Lincoln, CIeye-
land, Mckinley and Roosevelt His
paper is study of the office, and. in |
addition. of the impression made upon
Lhe office by the personality of the |
great men who have held it.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1903-02-06

EVERY CHURCH or institution sun
ported by voluntary contribution will
be given a liberal quantity of the
LOngman u Martinez Pure Paints
whenever they paint.
NOTE: Have done so for twenty sew
en- years. Sales: Tens of millions of
gallons; painted nearly two million
houses under guarantee to repaint if
not satisfactory: The paint wears for
periods up to eighteen years. Linseed
Oh must be added to the paint. done
in two minutes). Actual cost then
about $1.25 gallon. Samples free.
Sold by our Agents-B. F. Hughes,
Staunton; N. l. Kagey, Weyer's Cave;
Foster Bros, Mt. Meridian; C. Fl.
Cohron. Stuart's Draft; J. b. Roden,
Waynes boro. feb Emo
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1903-02-06
Not Sure of HIS Address

Inc following letter has just been
received at the SPECTATOR Office from
an old and appreciated subscriber-it
reads:
Dear Mr.. Editor:-I have been road
ing the SPECTATOR for more than
Sixty years and feel as if | could not
get along without its welcome visit
every week, 80 L enclose helewitb a
one dollar bill for another years sub
scrlptlon: In case l do not live the
year out cannot say where to direct
the paper-whether to mail it in a
wrapper of asbestus or tissue naner ),
wishing you continued success. / re-
main, Yours very truly,
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1903-02-06
WASHINGTON LETTER,
tFrom our Regular Correspondent.

Washington, Feb. 2. = President
hoosevelt's message to Congress, trans
mltted last week, constitutes a most
remarkable recognition of some of the
monetary theories advanced by Mr..
Bryan. Accompanying the Presidents
communication were notes received
rom Mexico and China requesting
Ioe United States to join with them ia
an International movement to estab-
isn q standard for silver, depreciation
Ina fiuctuation Of which was causing