The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1903-02-18
The Lexington Dispatch.
Wednesday, February 10, 1903.
Random THOUGHTS.


over With vanity on account OF the
prospective establishment of cigar
factory in that city.
Germany it seems is just spelling
for fight. If she keeps on mon
keying with Uncle Sam it is morally
eertain she will get q real good spank
ing. Uncle Sans patience endureth
not forever, and it is proverbial that
be is long suffering, but when he is
aroused something is going to hap
pen and that pretty quick.
Jake Hines, a young negro buck,
suspected Of stealing meat, was Wis
listed by party Of 10 or 12. white
caps at his home on young's Island,
in ColIeton county, few nights ago,
and severely whipped. His wounds
have since proved fatal. No meat
was found in the house, but three
sacks of guano were hid under his
bed. He denied stealing them but
implicated another negro in the theft.
s.The way of the transgressor is hard
and the road thereof leads to death"
The Aiken Times says there is
quite a lot of complaint made about
the inferior quality Of kerosene oil
which is being sold in that town at
30 cents per gallon. The same com
plant comes from many other towns
in this State, and the evil is present
With us here in Lexington. The
patience and temper Of the good
housewives are being stretched to
the point where longer forbearance
ceases to be virtue and the voice OF
long and continued complaint is heard
in the land and, like Banquo's ghost,
will not down until the evil is abated
and Standard Oil Co., again furnishes
an unadulterated Illuminating oil.
The world is growing older every
day. It has withstood the storms
and vicissitudes of the warning ele-
ments since the dawn Of that glorious
day 'sWhen the Morning Stars sang
sogetherfor JOY" ages and ages ago.
Yet, notwithstanding she has been
kicked and cnffed about by Father
Time, she is as beautiful and bright
today zas the time when the first
ssreako of light cast its refulgent
beams across the void and shape
less mass of wild raging waters.
THERE'S nothing little or mean about
shisotd worldof ours. With a lavish
hand she has contributed from her
vhss storehouses everything necessary
for the happiness, comfort and enjoy
ment of man, and if he does not ae-
ceps the golden clusters Of fruits and
the rich gifts placed at his disposal,
and persists in looking upon the
shadoWy side of nature, be has only
himself to blame for his failure to do
A wave of homicidal mania seems
to be sweeping over the State. Al
most daily the papers bring us shock
ing accounts of tragediesin which hu-
man life is ruthlessly, if not wontonly
taken. These occurrences are deplor-
able and are evidences of an unhealthy
state of public morals and a depraved
condition of public sentiment. They
unerringly point to the fact that there
is something radically wrong some
where, screw loose, or friction in
the machinery of our body polite.
We boast of our high state CT
Christian civilization and our ad-
vanced enlightenment, and yet we
turn right around with our boast
scarcely cold upon our lips, and take
the law into our hand and with a
deadly weapon slay our brother to
revenge some real or fancid wrong.
There is most assuredly very fer
tile field in this as well as other
States, for the moral reformer to use
his best endeayors.
The babeas corpus proceedings in
the case of the State Of South Caro-