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The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1904-09-14
Deafness Cannot be Cured

By local applications, as they can
not reach the Diseased portion of the
ear. There is only one way to cure
deafness, and that is by constitution
al remedies. Deafness is caused by
an infamed condition of the mucous
lining of the Eustachian Tube.
When this tube gets infamed you
have rumbling sound or imperfect
hearing, and when it is entirely
closed deafness is the result, and un-
less the Inflammation can be taken
out and this tube restored to it's nor
NAL condition, hearing will be de-
stoyed forever; nine cases out of ten
are caused by catarrb, which is moth
ing but an infamed condition of the
mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars
for any case of Deafness (caused by
catarrh) that cannot be cured by
Halls Catarrh Cure. Send for cir
culars, free.
F. j. Cheney & Co.,
Toledo, Ohio.
Sold by druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for con-
stipstion.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1904-09-14
The Sweet Gum.

The exudation you see clinging to
the sweet gum tree in the summer
contains a stimulating expectorant
that will losen the phlegm in the
throat. Taylor's Cherokee Remedy
of Sweet Gum ard Mullen cures
coughs and Group. At druggists,
25c., SOC. and $1.00 a bottle.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1904-09-14
Wednesday, September IA, 1904.
Letter Carriers Association.

Letter Carriers Association.
The following is the constitution OF
the Rural Letter Carriers Associa-
tion of Lexington county and which
We publish by request:
ARTICLE I.
Section l. The name of this Asso-
citation shall be the Rural Letter Car
riers' Association of Lexington county
Sec. 2 The purpose of this So
eiety shall be fraternal aud for the
study and adoption Of the best meth
DDS of performing the duties of the
Rural Free Delivery Service and to
strive to increase the revenue of the
Government; also to seek improve
ment in the condition of all it's mem
bers and to cooperate at all times
with the department. for the advance
ment of the rural service.
ARTICLE II.
Section l. This Association shall
be composed of Rural Letter Car
riers in the service and substitutes as
honorary members.
Sec. 2. Each member of this As
soeiation shalLhaye one vote in any
convention or meeting of this Asso-
eiation.
ARTICLE III.
Section 1. The officers of this As.
sociation shall be a President, Vice
President, Secretary ard Treasurer,
to be elected annually.
Section 2. The officers named in
Section / shall act as the Executive
Committee, whose duties shall be to
see that rules and acts determined by
the vote of the Association shall be
enforced and to represent this organ
ization in all proper ways during the
interim between meetings, but moth
ing herein shall be construed to pre-
vent the appointments of Special Com
mittees.
Section 3. The meetings of this
Association shall be semi annually at
a time and place decided upon at a
previous meeting.
ARTICLE ~.
Section 1. At the last regular meet
ing previous to the meeting Of the
State Association delegate or defe-
gates shall be elected to represent
the county in that body.
7 ARTICLE V.
Section /. No salaries shall be paid
to the officers OF the Association ex-
cspt such as this Association while
in session may direct.
ARTICLE vi.
Section /. Three members shall
constitute quorum while transact.
ing business.
Section 2. Amendments to this con-
ssition can be made only at any regu-
lar meeting and upon q two-thirds
vote of the members present.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1904-09-14
Consumption

The only kind Of consump-
ton to fear is "neglected
consumption"
People are learning that con-
sumption is a durable disease.
1t is neglected consumption
that is SO often incurable.
At the faintest suspicion of
consumption get a bottle of
SCOTS Emulsion and begin
regular doses.
The use Of SCOTS Emulsion
at once, has, in thousands Of
cases, turned the balance in
favor of health.
Neglected consumption does
not exist where SCOTS Emul-
sion is.
Prompt use Of SCOTS Emul-
sica checks the disease while it
can be checked.
Send for free sample
SCOTT & BOVINE, Chemists,
4oe-4I5 Pearl Street, New York
SOC. and 81 90; all druggists
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1904-09-14
A, Remedy Without a Peer.

Il fud Chamber,ain's Stomach
and Liver Tablets more beneficial
than any other remedy I ever used
for stomach trouble" says J. P.
Klote, of Edna, Mo. For any dis
order of the stomach, biliousness or
constipation, these tablets are with
out peer. For sale by The Kauf.
mann Drug Co.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1904-09-14

Before we can sympathize with
others We must have suffered our
selves.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1904-09-14

The girl to watch is the one that
acts as If she didn't need it.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-10-06
INDUSTRIAL INTERESTS.

The Canadian government has decid-
ed to construct three factories in Nova
Scotia for the manufacture of glue and
other material from dogfish-all that the
dog6sh is good for.
The number of furnaces in blast In the
United Kingdom for the quarter ended
June 80 last was 1923, and the estimated
make of pig iron for the half-yeg' is
4,218,000 tons.
The average annual production OF an
thracite coal in Pennsylvania has been
between 656. 000, 900 and 100000 tons,
but for the past three years the average
has been only IS, 100000. The average
production of bituminous coal has In
creased from III, 900. 600 in 1900 to 2S4,"
100000 during 1903.
A census bureau report on occupa-
tons shows that In continental United
States the total number Of persons en-
gagged in gainful occupations In 1900 was
29,073, 233, which constituted one-half
the population, ten years of age and over,
and nearly two-fifths of the entire pop
ulation. OF these 4,833 $50 were women
and 1,750,178 were children. Those Of
foreign birth aggregated 1851 1893, or
one-fifth of the total number of gainful
workers.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-10-06
Elaborate Letters.

In India letter sent to a native
prince is often a very elaborate af-
fair. The paper is especially made
for the purpose, and is sprinkIed with
gold leaf. Only the last few lines
of the somewhat lengthy document
contain the purport of the letter,
while the remainder is made up Of
the usual roundabout and compli-,
mentary phrases. 1t is folded in a
culiar way, with the flaps outward,
and placed in a muslin bag, and this
latter into one of crimson and gold
tint, with slip-knot of gold thread,
attached to which is a ponderous seal.
The address, written on a slip of
parchment, is attached to the outside
bag. These details are very impor-
tant for polite letter writing in India,
and if any one of them were omitted
it would be an insult to the person
addressed.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-10-06
ODD BITS FROM ABROAD.

Close to Blackfriars bridge, London,
Is an eel market where cells are sold
by the handful, the price being -four
pence a grab"
Jane Cheesman, aged 3d. who died
recently in Somerset, England, had
never spent a night out of the cottage
in which she was born and died.
In the village of Meavy, Dartmoo-.
England, is an old oak which was
flourishing in the reign of King John,
and is still 1ourishing, though sup
ported by stout props.
A Milford Haven (England) trawler
recently landed - fine sturgeon,
caught in one haul. Some of them
were six feet long. Such a catch has
never been known previously.
When the kaiser drove through
Hamelin, recently, hundreds of chill
dren stood along the route, dressed
either as rats or in the picturesque
costume of the famous pied riper's"
period.
The British war department recent
~ granted a 99-year-old veteran of the
Crimean war pension of 18 cents
day He had been receiving outdoor
relief" and the authorities at once
cut it down to the extent of % cents
a week.
Four of the cannon taken from the
French off Finisterre in 1747 by Al
miral Boscawen now fill the lowly, II
useful, roles of curb posts and lamp
posts in front of the house No. 2, st
James square, London, of Boscawen'a
descendant, Lord Falmouth.
Monterey's state prison at Cettingt
is the principal square of the city
The prisoners, merely deprived d
weapons, roam about the square nj
will during the day. At night they ar.
shut up in spacious room in tht
town hall. They do not think of try
ing to escape
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-10-06
SINGLE GERM BEET SEED.
An Improvement That Will Mean a
Saving of 81, 900, 900 Annual
ly to Our Farmers.

The experimental patch of single
germ beet seed which was grown on the
Saratoga farm near Lehi, Utah, has
been, harvested. Prof. Townsend found
that certain sugar-beet flowers had a
tendency to develop seeds of fewer
germs than others. Following this
hint, he took the pollen of hundreds
of these flowers and placed it in similar
flowers of other beets and tied little
paper bags over them till they ripened
into seed. By this method he secured
quite a number of seeds with but a sin
gle germ. These seeds he planted last
year in Washington, and while they
were growing into mother beets, he
again pursued the paper-sack plan and
gathered several thousand others of the
single-germ variety, and sliced the
beets grown last winter in Washing
ton. This spring, owing to the eminent
success attained by Utah in the produc-
ton of sugar beets, the experiments
were transferred to Utah, and the sin
glegerm seed and beets produced from
single-germ seed were planted. The
closest attention was given to the beets,
and there were no other seed beets
grown within five miles, which insured
them from receiving pollen which might
be carried by insects from plants of
multiple-germ seed. Later, experts will
carefully examine the seed produced
this year and will separate the single
from the multiple-germ seed, and it is
expected that from the beets which re-
ceived special treatment 80 per cent.
will prove to be of single germ. Prof.
Townsend believes lat beets produced
from the. seed grown his year will pro-
duce seed that will be more than so
per cent single-germ seed, and that
ultimately he will get species that
will invariably produce but a single
plant, and which will mean saving to
the American farmer of 100000 an
nually.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-10-06

munications. She waited and her
mother went on nervously.
you must know, my dear, that
things have not been going we'll with
your papa. At one time we thought
all was lost and even the house must
be given up. Think of me in hired
apartment, fifth story, back, and
woman shaking carpets over my win.
dow from the fiat abovei"
A piece of Dresden china on =
wooden chimney piece! Myrta's mag
ination declined the jump.
Happily the misfortune has been
averted by-whom do you think?"
Again speculation halted.
"Mr. Lester,-your fathers old
friend, you remember? Though, OF
course, years younger than your father
who retired from the street last year
just before the crash in Great West
ern came and put his money in
What Is it they put it in,Myrta?"
Pianos" said Myrta, unconsciously
looking back to that last evening.
Mercy No, child! Whoever heard
Of putting money in pianos? Some
times they put it in bureau drawers,
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-10-06

those sawed. Ches-n and cypress rive
easily, and the lat er, when placed un-
der the ground where wet all the time,
is almost indestructible. The earth
packs tightly about the boards, which
receive no jars or shocks to make them
crumble, and retains an open passage
long after the fiber has decayed.
One method of construction is shown
in Fig. a, where two boards about
six inches wide are nailed together in
V shape and laid in the bottom as
shown. If the boards are rived and
there are many narrow strips among
them, they may be nailed together as
shown at b.
For either of these the ditch need not
be over a spade wide on the bottom.
The fall required for board drain Is
greater than for round tile. 1t is we'll
to estimate same on the basis of three
inches per 100 feet of drain. The deep
er the drain the farther it will draw.
1t is not considered, however, good pol
icy to make unusually deep drains IL
stiff clay soils. In such soils the drain
will not do it's best at first, but will i'm
prove with years as the ground grad
| ually becomes more porous Two feet
for stiff clays and three feet for light
soils are good depths for work.
In laying board drains be careful to
have them closely put together, cover
ing any holes with small pieces of
board to prevent the entrance of dirt.
Cover the outlet with wire netting to
keep out mice, rats, rabbits and other
vermin. Take particular care to have
the bottom of the ditch perfectly even
and on the proper grade, otherwise it
will wash out in some places and fill
up in others.
Ditching grades can be easily Sc
cured by the use of the homemade in
strument shown in the cut. To make it
take straight pine board six feet three
inches long, as shown at C. Fixin the
center and at right angles another board
half as long. At the ends of the long
arm fix sights, and from the center
suspend plumb bob with strong cord.
This may be fastened to a ia
cob's staff, e, with a thumbscrew
that may be clamped in any po-
sition. When adjusted so that the cord
indicates zero on the scale the sights
On the long arm, C. will be on a level.
The scale is divided into one-sixteenth-
Inch spaces. By moving cross-arm so
that cord passes over one scale the line
Of sights will correspond to a grade of
two inches to 100 feet, and when moved
two spaces the sights will indicate a
grade of four inches to 100 feet, and so
on in proportion-R. S. Mortimer, in
Farm and Home.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-10-06
When Feeding Aquatic Fowls.

In feeding aquatic fowls we should
bear in mind that in natural state
their food is always mixed with water
to some extent. They can scarcely
swallow dry food, and the corn is not
as good for them in the grain as 1t is
ground coarsely, and mixed with wheat
bran in a soft mash. A duck or goose
is never so happy as when boating in
the shadows Of a creek or pond, where
the tender, Shiny growth at the bot
tom may be reached with the bill, by
Impending, and padding with the feet
for balance. Marshes and reedy
places, where there are tender sprouts,
water bugs and creatures of the dark
and dank-that's the natural foraging
ground of the web-footed feathsred
tr4oe.--Farm and Ranch.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-10-06
CAN DRINK TROUBLE.
That's One Way to Get 1t.

Although they won't admit it many
people who suffer from sick headaches
and other ails get them straight from
the coffee they drink and it is easily
proved if they're not afraid to leave 1t
to a test as in the case of lady in
Connellsville.
81 had been a sufferer from sick
headaches for twenty-five years and
anyone who has ever had a bad sick
headache knows what l suffered.
Sometimes three days in the week |
would have to remain in bed, at other
times l couldn't lie down the pain
would be so great. My life was tor
ture and if / went away from home
for a day always came back more
dead than alive.
zone day l was telling a woman my
troubles and 81. told me she knew
that it was probably coffee caused it.
She said she had been cured by stop
ping coffee and using Postum Food
Coffee and urged me to try this food
drink.
That's how / came to send out and
get some Postum and from that time
I've never been without it for it suits
my taste and has entirely cured al
of my old troubles. All / did was to
leave off the coffee and tea and drink
well made Postum in its place. This
change has done me more good than
everything else put together.
"Our house was like drug store for
my husband bought everything he
heard of to help me without doing
any good but when began ON the
Postum my headaches ceased and the
other troubles quickly disappeared. l
have friend who had an experience
just like mine and Postum cured her
just as it did me.
Postum not only cured the head
aches but my general health has been
improved and l am much stronger
than before. I now enjoy delicious
Postum more than l ever did coffee
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich.
There's a reason" and it's worth
finding out,
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-10-06
The Chickens Went to Sleep.

A grower of fancy silver-laced Brah-
ma chickens, in clearing up some
flower beds, recently threw all he pulled
up over the fence into the chicken
yard An hour later he had a very
amazing and unhappy surprise. Every
hen, chicken and rooster that he owned
were lying around apparently dead. His
family and friends mourned with him
and joined in the search for the poison
supposed to be about the yard. A vet
Urinary surgeon was called in and upon
picking up one of the hens Immediately
exclaimed that she was not dead, but
asleep; and so were they all save three
or four. They had eaten ripe poppy
seeds and the opium in these had put
them all to sleep.-Prairie Farmer.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-10-06
DEPENDS ON THE FARMERS
Prospects for National Road Legis-
lation Discussed by an I'm
prejudiced Observer.

The candid and unprecedented opin-
ion of public man on a question con-
corning which he is well qualified to
speak is nearly always of interest.
Such an opinion concerning the pros
pect for national highway legislation
was recently secured from a gentle
man who is a close observer of men
and events, and who has spent many
years at the national capital. He said:
l have watched the growth of the
so-called good roads movement" with
mucn interest, and especially since
Col. Brownlow introduced into con-
gress his bill providing that the gov
eminent should pay half the expense
OF improving the roads. AS regards the
prospect OF such a measure ever be-
coming law, viii say that it all
depends on the farmers. II the agri-
cultural classes go to work in earnest
for government aid, they will get it;
If they do not, congress will never
enact such law. In government af-
fairs, as in most other affairs, l have
noticed that the people who go after
things are the people who get them,
The farmers as a class receive COM
paratively little serious consideration
from congress, simply because they
don't demand it. Every congress now
apprOpriates more than a billion dol
lars, but how much of this is spent
in the rural districts? Almost moth
ing. Millions are spent for public
buildings, in cities; millions for inn
provement of rivers and harbors; mill
lions for the army and navy; millions
for the government at Washington.
etc. Occasionally a few thousand dol
lars go for something that directly
benefits the farmers, but that is all.
Of course, there isn't as much chance
to give the farmers direct benefits
from the spending of public money.
But national aid to road improve
ment furnishes an ideal opportunity.
1t would even up things to some eX-
tent 1t would certainly be big
thing for the rural districts. The
money spent would, of course, make
good times; but the main benefit
would come from the improvement OF
the roads. 1t would increase the value
of farm lands; it would enable the
farmers to market their crops to- bet
ter advantage; it would make farm
life better worth living. In fact, it
would be a great permanent benefit.
If any other class of our population
has such an opportunity to enjoy the
fostering care and aid of the govern
ment, how they would work for it!
They would give their senator's and
representatives no rest. But the
farmers as a class move more DELHI
erately. They take time to look into
the why's and wherefores, and to con-
slider all objections. So far as l
am able to learn, the farmers are talk
ing up this question seriously, and in
time will make their influence most
powerfully felt. / think congress will
be ready to enact national aid law
whenever there is a general demand
for it from the farmers of all sections.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-10-06
PRACTICAL BEE NOTES.

The color of honey varies greatly,
ranging from water-white to a very dark
brown.
Fifty pounds of surplus honey per
hive in season is a fair average in most
localities.
In grading comb honey for the mar
ket, face the case with a fair sample of
its contents.
Bottled honey should be of a fine
flavor and light in color. Dark honey
looks bad in glass, and is a drag on the
market.
Bleaching honey impMrs it's flavor
and makes it impracticable. 1t would
be better to have dark, good honey, than
light, poor honey.
Bottled honey is, as rule, purchased
by class of customers who demand
4 fancy article, and are able and
willing to pay fancy price for it.
Light colored honey is gathered from
such flowers as clover. Eastwood and
mountain sage, while the dark is gath
cred from buckwheat, autumn flowers
and whitewood.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-10-06

lection, says the New York Tribune,
while her own chicks have been driven
off by her to wander in the barnyard
and shift for themselves as best they
can.
The kittens follow the hen about by
day, and at night they nestle under her
soft, warm wings and enjoy the COM
fort and protection which should go to
her discarded chicks.
The hen will allow no person to handle
the kittens when she is near. All who
attempt to do so are attacked by her.
She is owned by Joseph Hockberger,
of York, Pa.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-10-06
Legal Advice.

Suppose" said the man who was
looking for free information, Il should
fall through a defective sidewalk and
sprain my ankle, what would you ad-
wise me to do?"
''Well,' replied the lawyer, I'D ad-
wise you to come to me and plank down
SO as a retainer-then ask me that
question. Cincinnati Enquirer.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-10-06
Vantage Point

From Mount Genevieve. a peak in Gill
pin county, Colorado. person can see
into four states and one territory. On a
clear day the observer can discern the
Uintah mountains, of eastern Utah; the
Medicine Bow range, OF Wyoming; the
tips of the Rockies. in New Mexico. and
the principal peaks re Colorado. The
plains, stretching to the east, are plain
Iy visible clear into Nebraska.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-10-06
Teeming with People.

The greatest density of the popula-
ton in the world is claimed by Bonn
bay, and is only disputed by Agra
The population of Bombay amounts 10
760 persons per acre in certain areas,
and IN these sections the street area
only occupies one-fourth of the whole.
If the entire population massed in the
streets for any purpose, the density
would equal 3.040 persons per acre.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-10-06
Where His Meals Go In,

marked the thick-necked boarder, that
it was simply impossible for me to
get anything through my head
'He doesn't know what he's talking
about" replied the lady of the house.
Il should say not"
mo; he hasn't any idea of the
amount of food you get through it,
Catholic Standard and Times.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-10-06

shown in the illustration. Stats may
be substituted for wire. Under this the
little chicks may be fed without he
ing crowded away by the larger ones.
1t is so arranged that the frame may
be raised on stakes az the chicks grow.
B M. Briggs, in Farm and Home.