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The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1904-08-10
Taken with Cramps.

VIM. Kirmse, member of the bridge
gang working near Littleport, was
taken suddenly i'll Thursday night with
cramps and kind of cholera His case
was SO severe that he, had to have the
members of the crew to wait upon him
and Mr.. Clifford was called and consult
ed. He told them he had medicine IN
the form of Chamberlain's Cohc, Chol-
era and Diarrhoea Remedy that ne
thought would help him out and accord
inly several doses were administered
with the result that the fellow was able
to be around next day. The incident
speaks quite highly Of Mr.. Glford's
medicine.-Elkader, Iowa, Argus.
This remedy never fails. Keep it in
your home, it may save life. For sale
by The Kaufman Dtug Co.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1904-08-10
Laying by Crops.

In one of the counties few days
ago We saw several hundred acres of
cotton. About half of it seemed laid
By. That is, it had not been plow-
ed since beating showers OF rain fell
about the last days of June. The
ground was packed. While there
was not much grass the cotton was
sadly in need of proper cultivation at
the right time. The ground is now
too hard for the cultivator and the
cotton is not doing we'll. Up to the
ooh of June cotton can be neglected
without any great injury, but after
that date it needs constant attention.
If you plow lot one day and beat
ing, baking rain falls next, put the
plow in again as soon as the soil is
dry enough. In many sections OF
the State there is lack OF rain. The
cultivators should never stop on that
account. Late cotton should be
cultivated up to the 10th of August.
We are most favorably impressed
with one horse harrows with II or IA
spike teeth for cultivatiug cotton the
last few times. Each run cultivate 8
a row. Better than that are the GU
tivators made after the style of the
Planet Junior. They clean row at
a run and the wheel in the front
guides the depth. The fine plows
may be arranged so that dirt can be
thrown to the cotton. The main
thing is to break the crust after every
rain and keep cuitivating until some
time in August.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1904-08-10
Trying to Settle Strike.

Chicago, August 5.-Federal IL
reference in the stock yards strike
was suggested today when Inter
national Secretary Call, of the Butch
er's Workmen union, divulged the
fact that he had been in conference
with representatives Of the United
States bureau of labor and commerce.
Who the agents are, or what their
immediate plane, Mr.. Gail refused to
say. If the stock yard strikers stand
firm until next week their leaders
believe they can secure settlement.
Every effort is being put forth to
hold the men together. The strikers
have arranged for a. big demonstra-
tion for tomorrow.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1904-08-10
It Didn't Pay.
PHILADELPHIA Press.

Philadelphia Press.
A newsboy was strutting along
Walnut street recently when close to
the curb he espied bright 10 cent
piece. A benevolent looking gentle
man stood near. The honest boy,
thinking the man had dropped the
coin, picked it up and offered it to
him.
The gentleman turned kindly and
not only allowed the youngster to
retain the coin, but gave him quar-
ter, saying:
Here is reward for being honest,
my young man"
The boy trotted eff in high spirits.
That night he slept little, partly on
account of thinking of his good for
tune, and partly because of a scheme
which his youthful brain had hatch
ed. He would make money delib-
erately in the same way as be had
accidentally made it on that day.
1t would be necessary to drop a
coin near some one then the reward
would come in the way of present
for honesty.
The next morning he started of
early, and seeing we'll dressed gen.
tleman standing at a corner, he softly
approached. Deity he dropped a
10 cent piece near the man, suddenly
he said: Excuse me mister, did
you drop this ?"
The gentleman, a noted million
aire, glanced at the prtfsred coin.
Then he took it, saying:
cab! perhaps I did. I always
have loose change about, but I must
reward you for your hone sty."
The boys heart went pit-a,pat.
The millionaire fumbled in LIS pock-
ct till car was near. Then be
quickly pressed a penny into the
anxious boys hand and boarded the
car.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1904-08-10

Cross eyes.
Left-handness.
Men wearing much iewelry.
TattooiDg.
Snub nose.
Cowlicks in hair.
Badness.
Rsceding chin.
P,otluding lips.
Teeth set wide apart.
"A person may have twelve OF
these marks of the degenerate" said
Prof. Starr, sand be all right. If be
has sixteen of them, pity him.
You needn't look at me 90 close
w." he remarked SO the student gazed
at him after the teeth wide apart"
rule. Il know I have many of the
marks. These marks are hereditary,
and by them you can tell the ten
dency of a person toward degen-
eracy.'
Speaking of bat ears, he said:
1T is strsnge that the only two
bat-eared students in this class are
sitting together"
Then he added: II know young
man in one of my classes who wears
four rings on his fingers. Within
ten years that young man will go to
ruin"
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1904-08-10
First Bale.

Augustus first bale of new cotton
was auctioned off August 4th for l3S
cents at the Cotton Exchange.
Mr.. w. E. Mikell had been asked
TO oficiate as auctioneer and at IL
o'clock took his stand on the steps of
the exchange. Mr.. Mikell made a
few remarks about future first bales
in Augusta and quoted the figures
on these sales for several years back,
making particular comment on that
of last year, in which the first bale
went to A B. Baxter & Company for
20 cents.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1904-08-10
Suicide Prevented.

. The startling announcement that a
preventive of suicide had been discov-
cred will interest many. A run down
system, or dependency invariably pre-
cede suicide and something has been
found that will prevent that condition
which makes suicide likely. At the first
thought of self destruction take Electric
Bitters. 1t being great tonic and ner-
vine will strengthen the nerves and
build mp the system. It's also a great
Stomach, Liver and Kidney regulator.
Only SOC. Satisfaction guaranteed by
The Kaufman Drug Co., druggist.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1904-08-10
Cured by Cham pertains Collie,
Cholera and Djarrhoes,
Remedy.

"A short time ago was taken with a
violent attack of d1arrhoea and believe l
would have died if had not gotten re-
lief," says John J. Patton, leading
citizen of Patton, Ala. ga friend re-
commended Chamberlain's Collie, Chol-
era and Diarrhoea Remedy. bought a
twenty-five cent bottle and after taking
three doses of it was entirely cured. 1
consider it the best remedy i'll the
world for bowel complaints. For sale
by The Kaufmann Drug Co.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1904-08-10
Starr Signs.

4 Chicago dispatch to the Wash
inston Post says: Prof. Frederick
Starr. head of the anthropologieal
department of the University OF
Chicago gave his class in ele-
mentary snthropology list CT the
marks of degeneracy. Here they are:
Red hair, but not for the Irish.
Blond hair in dark races, all right
for Swedes.
Bat ears.
Ears with small lobes.
Parting hair on right side' or IN
the middle.
GRAY hairs bsfore age Of forty'tiVe
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1904-08-10
Rounding Them Up.

st. Petersburg, Aug. 5.-deneral
Kuropatkin's position, hemmed IN as
it is by three Japanese armies nersh
of Hal Cheng, is causing the greatest
anxiety in official circles. Lights
burned the entire night at Peterhof
palace, where the czar is. There
were frequent interchauges OF mes
ssees between the palace and the
ministers.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1904-08-10
Wednesday, August 10. 1904.
An Apparent Danger.


Columbia Evening Record.
It cannot be too strongly urged
upon the Demecras'c voters o1 'ne
State the necesslt, OF qualifying and
voting in the ge.e'al eiec'lon. we
have become so accustomed TO. set'
ting the candidacy of aspirsnts Tor
Office in the primary that the general
election is wholly neglected, and the
vote cast in it, is as nothing compar7
ed with the voting population even
of the Democratic party. This may
not make SO much difference, under
present circumstances, in so far as
local or stste Offices are concerned,
but even in this regard the practice
OF not voting in the general elections
is bad one. When 1t comes to Con
sressional candidates the duty OF
every Democrat in the State is more
apparent, because Republicans OF the
North either cannot, or will not, uu'
darstand conditions in the South.
They cannot, as they ssy, understand
how q Congressman can be elected
with few thousand votes which ale
greatly less than she required num-
ber entisiipg any particular district
to representation in the house OF
representatives. FROM q political
standpoint it is no douos matter
about which Republicans refuse TO
understand, but no excuse should be
given them to have even semolance
of right in decidlng IN favor OF a
contestant from this State.
Il is said that there will be a num-
ber of Republican candidates Tor
Congress in shis State, among them
the notoriously ignorant negro
Dantzler, who is to oppose Congress
man Lever. He made q contest
before the last Congress, and perhaps,
had he not been personally on the
ground so that the committee which
had the contest in charge could see
him. he would have been seated. As
il wss, Mi. Lever had great difficulty
in retaining his seat In the nat'onai
legislature, and it was owing largely
to his personal popularity that an
adverse report was not made IN his
case. His experience will be that OF
others from this State if the next
house is Republican. It behooVes
all Democrats, therefore, to get rid
of the idea that the primary settles
all things political. 1t does as to
local affairs, but Republican house
should be gwen no reason whatever
to unseat member from this State.
The Republicans will be dissrmed II
the Democrats turn out and cast a
full vote in the general election.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1904-08-10
Ready Made.

She smiled 80 sweetIy on the lad,
he thought she loved him and was
glad.
He did not know the artful lass
Used drug store smiles as firm as
glass;
That on her face, bright, young and
fair,
The smile sweet was frozen there.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1904-08-10

J. M. Stewart, prominent poll
tician of Eliza, Ala, WAS shot and
killed recently By Miss Annie Rhodes,
a member of prominent faroily. 1t
ia said that Stewart had been mixing
up her name in q scandal.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1904-08-10
This Will Interest Mothers.

Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for
Children, cure Feverishness, Bad Stom-
ach, Summer Bowel Troubles, Teething
Disorders, cleanse and regulate the
Bowels and Destroy Worms, They
never fail. Over 10000 testimonials.
At all druggists. 25c. Sample FREE.
Address, Allen S. Olmsted, Leroy,
N. IL.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1904-08-10

"White men must rule" is the key
note of the Democrats of West Vlr-
einia, in which Senate. Davis heartily
agrees.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1904-08-10

Out of eight indictments for mur-
der in Barnwell recently there were six
acouittals and two convictions with
recommendations to the mercy OF the
court, which only meant lifetime SEN
tence to the State penitentiary.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1904-07-23
New Ornament for Woman

To remove the sorrow which many
women feel at being unable to wear
more than one pendant on her neck at
a time, a new ornament has just been
introduced in Paris in the shape of a
Jewel for the back of the hand. It
is set with precious stones OF all
kinds, and is kept in place by means
of tiny chains connected with a gold
bracelet on one side and with two
small gold rings worn on the first and
little fingers on the other. The jewel
has proved immensely popular in Paris,
and some specimens sent TO London
have found very ready sale.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1904-07-23

The express strikes it's gait, and
the panorama unwlnds like scroll. 1t
has been a long. long day. but that
sunrise in the Andes was more splen-
did than a transformation scene in a
spectacle OF the fairies, and this sun
set on the pampas is a glory OF an
other kind. One was proclamation
and the other a benediction. To see
the waning sun battle the great pam
pas in it's food of yellow light; to
watch the reds fade into blues; to
remain a spectator as nights forces
close down upon the earth, and post
the picket stars to watch, is well
worth all the dust and heat and thirst
of the crossing of the desert.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1904-07-23
Soldiers Warm Meals.

Timed meats for the Russian troops
are prepared by a process which en-
ables the contents of each tin to be
served hot without a fire. This boon
is secured by having the ordinary tins
hlled with food 'jacketed" in patent
tins. The patent tin contains water,
together with a chemical mixture, by
means OF which the water can be
raised to boiling point in ten minutes
or quarter of an hour. All that is
necessary to do when 1t is desired to
heat the food is to puncture the top OF
the patent tin, the chemical mixture
being thereby forced into the water.
which soon begins 10 boil.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1904-07-23
Snail Month.-No "a,.s

!, The season of the snail in France
is that Of the oyster in this country.
for 1t is in favor with connolsseurs
only when the month contains the let.
ter "r"that is to say, from September
to April. And 1t is especially in the
cold months of winter that this
greasy. garlicky tit-bit is appreciated
and consumed by the natives of
France. But there is no. absolute close
season, for the snail is made a peren.
NAL by being preserved alive in its
shell. and SO 1t can be bought and
eaten during the hottest months OF
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through furnace. The air is hot and
heavy You put your hand to your
burning cheek, and wonder If 1t is
really blistered. The clouds drift aim
lessly because there is no plotting
wind to shape their course. The train
Kicks up an enveloping smudge of
dust. which sticks as close as body
guard. Your eyes are red, and your
nose and throat become raw. Awake
you think of nothing but water, and
II you doze, your mind dwells on 1t as
you sleep. over 400 men started
across the desert and only forty-three
got over alive. Those white things out
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1904-07-23
TWO STEPS

The Last One Helps the First.
A sick coffee drinker must take two
steps to be rid of his troubles and get
strong and well again.
The FIRST step is to cut of coffee abb
solutely.
That removes the destroying ele-
ment. The next step Is to take liquid
food land that Is Postom Food COT
fee) that has in it the elements ma
ture requires to change the blood
corpuscles from pale pink or white
to rich red. and good red blood builds
good strong and healthy cells in place
of the broken down cells destroyed by
coffee. With well boiled Postum Food
Coffee to shift to, both these steps
are easy and pleasant. The expert
ence OF Georgian proves how i'm
portant both are. r isatH nt
From 1872 to the year 1900 my
wife and l had both been afflicted
with sick or nervous headache and at
times we suffered untold agony. We
were coffee drinkers and did not know
how to get away from 1t for the habit
is hard to quit.
''But in 1900 read of a case SINH
lar to ours where Postum Coffee was
used in place of the old coffee and
complete cure resulted. so concluded
to get some and try 1t.
THE result was, after three days
use of Postum in place of the coffee
l never had a symptom of the old
trouble and in five months had
gained from las pounds to 1853 pounds.
MY friends asked me almost daily
what wrought the change My an
swer always is, leaving OFF coffee and
drinking Postum In its place.
I'VE have many friends who have
been benefited by Postum.
"As to whether or not have stated
the facts truthfully refer you to
the Bank of Carrollton or any bust
ness firm In that city where have
lived for many years and am well
known" Name given by Postum Co..
Battle Creek. Mich.
There's reason"
Look In each pkg. for the famous
little book. The Road to MELVILLE
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1904-07-23
WAYS OF WILD CREATURES.
Easy Victim Preferred by Those Who
Prey on Their Fellows.

In a recently published book ON
fishing, w. s. Hodgson. an English
sportsman, argues that when q fish
of the salmon kind, or pike, takes a
real minnow impaled on a flight OF
hooks or manufactured thing re.
sembling minnow the fish is moved
less by desire to eat than by de.
sire to kill. He derives this impress.
sion from the fact that "a salmon OF q
trout. like a pike. will leave a whole
shoal of minnows undisturbed, and
rush at an impaled minnow, or a phan.
TOM" A critic of the book says:
Surely this is very far.fetched. Fish
and birds Of prey. like human beings,
are averse to unnecessary trouble, and
as II is easier TO catch a wounded
creature than fresh one, a peregrine
will take an injured grouse or a pike
q tethered or spinning bait when II
comes In his way, not because of the
instinct which leads wild animals to
kill the weaker brethren, but from
the natural tendency to take the
goods the gods provide you in the
shape of a cheaply earned and easy
meal" 1t may be added that old
guides of northern Wisconsin hold
with Mr.. Hodgson that the muskel-
lunge strikes the bait ordinarily only
when he feels savage and desires to
kill something.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1904-07-23
The Scramble Of tho pIckanInnIes


II saw an amusing thing not long
ago while travelling through North
Carolina" said the affable drummer
"The train stopped for water at a
way station, and l went to the rear
platform and found group of little
colored boys standing between the
tracks In the mud and water.
"'Say, boss, doan' you want us ter
sing fer yer?' was the first question.
and before I could protest they were
in the midst of typical coon song.
II tossed coin out TO them and
each lad got down on his hands and
knees, and even fiat on his breast, in
the mud, in his struggle for posses
sion. This was repeated two or three
times, and just as the train was pull
ing out, the smallest and dirtiest lad
in the crowd rolled his eyes up at me
and said:
"'Say, boss, amt 1t bout time TO
scramble?"
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1904-07-23

When the summit OF the Andes was
finally reached, after the long climb
by train, coach and muleback. and the
glories of this wonderful range we're
in full view. the appropriateness OF
what the cowboy said when he first
saw the mountains came forcibly to
mind. The rough fellow was a man
OF deep feeling, but few words. AS
his eyes took in the spectacle, and Its
grandeur grew upon him, his spirit
of appreciation arose, until, no longer
able to contain himself, he flung his
wide-brimmed hat in the air and en-
Enthusiastically shouted: "Hurrah for
God" This tribute Of the honest
plainsman, although very brief and
simple is more eloquent with feeling
than whole chapters of description.
The first night going from Santi-
ago to Argentina. the traveller from
the Andes sleeps in a corrugated iron
shed so high up the trail that he does
not need any ice for his tea. To say
that he sleeps here the first night is
misleading-he only stays a few
hours. It hardly seems he has had
time to warm his blankets before the
guides are after him. The start is
made In the dark, and at a pace that
is thrilling AS his mule gallops wild
ly around the edges of dizzy preci-
pices, he shudders from other causes
than the cold.
But the sunrise is his recompense.
II all happens as quickly as the open
Ing of a Jack-in-the-box. Long, slen-
der arms of light reach up and tear
the robe of night into shreds; the
SUBMITS fash white; the mist rolls
out OF the canons; and there, in all
their miles of splendor-downwar
upward and outward--stand the
mountains in unveiled glory. with the
sun scrambllng hastily over their
crest, then soaring into the sky. The
whole thing is over in an instant. No
mechanism could move so swiftly, so
noiselessly, and so effectively.
After the hasty scramble over the
frost and snow Of the summit comes
the hair-raising descent. The guides
tell you that the mules never fall, but
how they can keep their feet at such
pace seems miracle Down! Down!
Down! The SUBMITS sway in the
white light above and the capons
yawn below. AS the null op
FrrowniDg' cHW, n a
! the lpreyiplce, IN r. IS
roar IN neigh ling chas& az >a
mass OF rock breaks away and crashes
into space. One doesn't know whether
to laugh or to pray. There is feel.
ing of great exhilaration mingled with
a sense of fear.
The train makes an all-day Job of
getting down to sea level. The eyes
hurt from the white light and the
throat burns from the intense heat.
The dust becomes plague. The train
stops at forlorn little station, and as
the gasping, painting engine is allowed
to quench its thirst from the nozzle of
water tank, you nod In your seat
You think the car is running through
a tunnel In mountain of ice cream and
you haven't got spoon! What a pre-
dicament! Then there is a jerk and
you come to" with a start.
You are soon nodding again. You
dream Of the fellow you once met in
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1904-07-23
Motors In Scotland.

There are now about 1000 motor
vehicles in use in Scotland. At the
beginning of 1902 there were only
$50. A man who made a tour OF the
country on motor car In LOO had
stones or vegetables thrown at him
by men or boys nearly every day; but
since the speed was regulated by law
to twenty miles an hour in the country
and twelve in the cities. the opposi.
ton has gradually died out
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1904-07-23
Cost of War and Education.

Bishop Cyrus d. Foss was talking
about the worlds custom of spending
more on armies and navies than on
education.
Il once heard this custom epigram-
matically condemned by an Irish
priest" said Bishop Foss. There
was under discussion bill to appro
pirate s36,OOO,O0O for battleships and
$12,000,000 for schools. The priest
spoke against the bill, and his speech
ended In this way:
Friends, consider this proposal
It's absurdity is evident. For educa-
ton, s12,00O,0O0; for warfare, $780,
100000 That is to say $12,000,000
for putting brains in. and $S6,000,000
for blowing them out"