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The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1905-08-02
PENCIL AND SCISSORS.

Wayside Notes Gathered Here and
There by a Dispatch Man.
Ask your dealer for T. x. L.
The post Office at Delmar is to be
reopened
Il is on dit that we are soon to
have electric lights.
Buggies and wagons that sre made
to.run, cheap at, W. P. Roofs.
Miss Ida Reeder is in Macon tax
ing . business course.
Those in arrears for their paper
will please call, or send and settle.
Meal and hulls.
LeesyilIe Oil Mill.
The brick work on the George
building in town has been completed.
Mr.. w. j. McCarths, State Inspec-
tor of Dispensary, was in town Sun.
day and Monday.
T. <. &. cures cold in the head.
As We go to press we learn that
Mr. Henry Swygert died at his home
near Hilton. last night.
Editor Bayly of the Batesburg Ad-
vocate, was in town yesterday and
called in to see Us.
a beautiful line of toilet sete,
cheap, at Scott Hendrix.
Mrs. Pleasant Busbee, of Searcy
county, Ark, is visiting relatives and
friends in She Pelion section.
WANTED-To contract for 4 foot
wood, at Leesville Oil Mill.
If you wish to spend q pleasant
day and enjoy q good dinner, go
to 81. D. Smith cue on the 18TH.
Miss Lille, daughter Of Mr.. Walter
Shealy, on Lower Hollow creek, died
last week in the 18th year OF her sge.
To Wear-Shamrock and Royal
shoes, at J. S. Wessinger, Chaplin.
We understand that the eldest son
Of MIR. j. Weir Addy. who lives in
Switzer Neck, is quite i'll with fever.
Petitions are being circulated in
various sections Of the county asking
for an election on the dispensary
question.
The latest styles in men, women
and childrens' shoes, at W. P. Roofs.
Teachers attending the Summer
School are reminded that they can
find all kinds of stationery and school
supplies at the Bazaar.
Senator Tiilman has accepted the
invitation to address the people OF
Edgefeid next Saturday on the dis
@pensary question.
Mrs. Charles B. Harmsn, of Au-
gusta, Ga, is visiting her mother,
Mrs. John 81. Meetze, and other rel
atives in town.
PROT. Samuel J. Derrick and wife
of Swansea, were visiting relatives at
the old home near here, for a few
days of last week.
Miss Merideth Muller has returned
from pleasant visit to relatives in
Pine Bluff, Ark.
Mr.. r. D. Smith, teller of the
Lexington Savings Bank, is spending
his vacation rusticating at the springs
in the mountains.
Mr.. Simon Smith, who once resid.
ed in this place, but now OF Leesvi!Ie,
is in town spending several days
with friends.
Just received nice line of ward
robes and chifsniers, at Scott Hen
dirk.
Mr.. SiIas McCarths, good citizen
of Hilton, and one of the best car
penters We have, was in town Friday
on business.
Sergt. Clay Roberts, Of the peni-
tentiary guards, came over from
Columbia Sunday and spent the day
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1905-08-02

Oh CNo OouaS OEoFe pasVoL aGo WILL CS
held at st. Paul's church, beginning
Saturday, August 5th.
Misses Burris and Blossie Kreps,
Columbia, and Miss Eva Crews, of
Spartanbure, are visiog their cousins,
the Misses Efrd, in this place.
Mowers and rakee. the best on the
maket at the lowest prices, at W. P.
Roofs.
The Lexington Manufacturing Co.,
is having another boiler and engine
added to it's power plant. and will
hereafter use coal instead of wood as
fuel.
The picnic at Barr's Upper Mill
last Thursday was q very pleasant
affair and everybody that attended
report having had very delightful
time.
The Laurel Falls Roller Flour Mill
is running day and night and is put
to it's utmost capacity to handle the
rush of wheat which is being carried
there.
Something for the head-Two and
three dollar Jefferson hats, at J. S.
Wessinger, Chaplin, s. G.
The annual reunion Of the stu
dents of Newberry College at Little
Mountain, will take place next Fri
day, and that at Delmsr on August
18th.
The premium melon of the season
came from MIR. Tom Gunter, from
near here, for which he has our
thanks, as we'll as those of the Dis
patch force.
We are under obligations to Mr..
Joe F. Harmsn for a lucious cante-
loupe, It was thoughtful in him to
remember the printers out of bis
abundance.
a good farm and buggy horse for
sale cheap. Apply to Irwin D. Hail.
man, Lexington, S. G.
Mr.. Samuel j. Clark, of Irene, has
/ been at his brothers, Mr.. B. E..
Clark, on Depot street, for several
| days. He has had fever and is rest.
ing up.
Ed Reese, who was shot on the
Fourth of July at CASTOR and subse-
| quently taken to the Columbia Hos
pital for treatment, has recovered
and returned home.
Mr.. Luther Black and bride, spent
portion of their honeymoon with
Mr.. Paul Black, the father of the
groom, near here and returned to
Columbia Thursday.
The crowded condition of our
columns compel US to carry over ee7-
eral communications. Our CORES
| rondents will please send US only
brief news items.
The old Confederate veterans will
have jollifcation next Tuesday and
Wednesday and the probability is
that there will be large gathering
of them and their friends.
Car of selected Furniture to arrive
in about two weeks, embracing the
latest designs and styles. Don'5 buy
before you see this line. J. S. Wes-
singer, Chapin, S. G.
Mr.. John Fry is now engaged in
building reservoir for the Middle
burg mill at Batesburg. Heis work
ing twenty hands and has about half
completed it. He has other work
ahead.
Perhaps one of the most delightful
barbecuss of the season will be that
at Mineral Spring on August II
Nothing will be left undone chat will
add to the pleasure and comfort Of
the guest.
{ Mrs. E. L. Shealy, of Summit, is
spending sometime with her son,
Treasurer F. W. Shealy. Treasurer
Shealy and wife will take a trip to
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1905-08-02

The first boil Of open cotson wss
sent to this Office by Mr.. Joe Harroac
of this place, and the second b. 3lc.
e. F. Bouknight on Gilbert +. I y.
No. l., nd the third By Mr.. West
Caughman, of near this place.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-27
Theft of Bicycles.

The carelessness of some people in re- gard to the safety of their personal prop erty is hard to understand, remarked a member of Birminghams police force at the city hall yesterday.
 Especially is this carelessness true re- garding the care of bicycles People are in the habit of leaving their wheels on the streets and in public places at tha mercy of those disposed to steal them. Hardly day passes but that the theft of one or more bicycles is reported to this department. Sometimes we recover them, but many are never found. If they are not found and the thief appre- hended the police department is usually blamed for negligence while the care lessness of the owner, in almost all in stances, is responsible.
 Articles of this kind should not be so carelessly exposed in public places if the owners do not expect them to be stolen. The public would be surprised to know Just how many bicycles are stolen in Birmingham during each month, many of them never recovered"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-27
Another Southern State.

The proposed new state to be form ed from the mountain districts of Ten nessee, Kentucky and Virginia may go through congress readily, because 1t would be republican in politics, and would never under any circumstances send a democrat to congress. But congress lacks the power to cut up sovereign states, taking a slice Of territory here and a slice there All that congress can do is to authorize the three states to act upon the pro position, and if the three states should act at all--and they probably would not-they would simply submit the scheme to the voters of the respective states interested.
 Representative Brownlow of Ten. nessee, Slemp of Virginia and Ed wards of Kentucky, all republicans, propose to push the bill through next winter and Knoxville will second the motion, for 1t is to be the proposed capital of the proposed state.
 The proposed state would contain forty counties and about S0O,000 people, and the only chance it has In this world consists in the fact that the forty-fve counties are a source of vexation to the three states in which they are located. Tn order to get rid of them the three states may consent to the formation of the proposed state of Lincoln, or whatever else it may be named. The mountain state would be full of crackers and moon sinners, feuds and sharpshooters, bear and nature in it's untamed moods. It would be peculiar state, and in it the descendants of the early English settlers would rule almost by them. selves. No foreigners need apply in that state if it should be formed, which is very problematical.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-27
Mine Fire 47 Years Old.

From Fuel
 President Lewis A. Riley of the Lehigh
 Coal and Navigation compnay In his an- nual report makes a number of statements
 of public interest. One of the company's
 mines near Tamaqua has been on fire for
 forty-seven years. Regarding the efforts now made to auench these subterranean fires the report says:
 "A portion of the outcrop of the Nam month vein in this locality has been on fire since 1857. the fire being confined bv the water filling the workings below WA
 ter level and cut-offs on the outcrop. Be
 fore opening the colliery below water level if is necessary either to extingish the fire or get it under control During the mast year efforts have been made with this
 end in view which have met with a large measure of success. A boiler plant and
 humping machinery have been erected
 on the bank of the little Schuylkill river
 at Tamaqua for the purpose of pumping
 water to the level of the outcrop. A
 branch of the Panther Creek railroad hs a
 been extended nearly two miles to reach
 the outcrop, and more holes have been
 nut down at various places where there
 rere indications of fire. The fire is be- in z extin Ruished by washing fine coal dirt through bore holes on the fire and filling up the vacant spaces so as to cut of the air supply
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-27

JULES VERNE was born at IO1 Nantes on February 8, 1928. He O left school when very young and studied law, but practically all his life was devoted to authorship.
 verne's comedies. dramas and burles- ques written for the Paris theatres, many of them while he was yet studying law were very popular. Les Pailles Rompues was produced at the Gymnase theatre in 1850. when he was but 22 "Cnze Jours de Siege" was staged soon after. His first novel in his strong scien- tihc strain was Five Weeks in a Bal loon," published in 1863, which scored a great success. Since then he has written mere than 60, many of which have been successfully dramatized.
 After writing various comedies and operatic librettos and turning out much hack-work he struck a new vein in fic- reputation. He elever'J exaggerated the possibilities of the then-current science and gave ingenious versimilitude to mar ratives of wild adventure carried out by inventions of the most marvellous na- ture. Among the stories of this type, which have been translated into almost every modern language, including Arabic and Japanese, may be mentioned: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" A Journey to the Center of the Earth" and Hector servadac," the last named being a wonderfully clever story O. two years journey on a comet 'The Mysterious Island" and Around the World in Eighty Days" have been uni- versally regarded as his best books, the latter being a masterpiece of construc- tion and exciting narrative.
 It has been said of Verne's books that there Is not drop of human blood in the characters; they are the veriest au- tomata. It is a clockwork crowd of ex- plorers, sailors, engineers, reporters, sci- entists and puppets, with labels innum- erable. The readers interest depends as solely on incident as it does in the Arab Ian Nights. In MT. Vernes earliest sto- ries the interest was wonderfully well sustained, but the amusement to be de- rived from his later works is not that which the author intended; as, for in stance, in the case of his Glasgow worthies in 'The Green Ray" he makes them 'quaff foaming tankards of us- quebaugh' and do other things equally characteristic CD of Scots.
 An Antarctic Mystery" was written in 1898. The volumes named after 1t were written since and have not been translated.
 For many years Verne's home has been at Amiens. In 1896 Edmondo de Amicis wrote an account of a visit to the aged writer by him and his two boys.
 ITO find Verne we went to Amiens," l" he said where he stays all the year, two and 8 half hours from Paris by rail. On the way we talked about the curious fact that the readers of this living French writer, celebrated as he is should have so little information
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-27
NATURE WANTED HERE.

From the Southern Aegls
 E. H. Hartman is to have a sso, 900 barn erected. It would be pleasant to be horse and live in MT. Harriman's barn. Age-Herald.
 And be combed down by the eouerry and fed on dry oats, corn and hay. There Is no accounting for the peculiar tastes Of some people; but we are of the opin- ion that if the horses of MT. Harrlman's barn could have say they would take the open field with scant grazing, a mar gin of shade by brook of pre-, limpid water, and an old shed somewhere near to run to in time of shower of a rain, where their felicity would be augmented thousand times over by snIffinR the balmy breeze fresh from spring flowers and wooded hill.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-27
Footing the War Bills.

Russia demanded from Turkey In 1877 a heavy indemnity, some of which is still unpaid. Russia also re- quired China after the Boxer trouble to pay her an indemnity of $132,000,- GOO. Japan took from China in 1894 an indemnity of $172,500, 900. The United States after the war with Spain took an indemnity in the form of islands But the greatest of mod ern indemnities was that which Ger many exacted from France in 1871. France was obliged to pay one thous- and million dollars; and the vast sum was fully paid by September 5, 1875.
 It has become the custom to make the vanquished pay the expenses of the war, and beyond all doubt Japan will require Russia to pay large sum as an indemnity. This is said to be the chief obstacle to negotiations for peace. Russian as well as Japan csc precedent point to an indemnity, and Russia will have to pay to Japan the expenses she has incurred in driv- ing the former out of Manchuria.
 It is thought possible that Japan will accept territory and the sum due Russia from China in lieu of direct money indemnity. But all this is mere surmise, the chances being that Japan's terms will be harsh in both directions. She was badly treated by Russia, aided by France and Germany, in the war with China in 1894, and the terms which she will encounter from Japan will not be in any respect light. Japan will seek full indemnif- cation, and she will probably secure it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-27

that the beef trust is a noble, philan' thropic institution.
 The President cannot we'll take the investigation of the Standard Oil out of MT. Garfelds hands, for that would be equivalent to a declaration of in- competency or insineerity, or both, and Mr. Garfield will encounter in his mission the opposition of those whose services he has the greatest need.
 The Kansas senate, largely republi- can has protested in a formal manner against an investigation conducted by MT. Garfield, and so has the executive committee of the Kansas oil producers association. The situation has be- come so acute that the leading spirits in the Kansas revolution will have nothing to do with the Garfield inyes- tigation. and the administration will therefore lose credit for action in that behalf.
 Kansas is not a good state in which to conduct mock investigation. Miss Ida Tarbell is on the spot, and so is Ex-Attorney General Monnett of Ohio, and other men who know all the ins and outs of the oil monopoly, and the investigation of it must be thorough to be at all satisfactory. MT. Garfield has lost the confidence of the anti trust men in Kansas, and his beef re- port is laughed. at in Chicago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-27
Direct vntinn in the West.

The primary system and the cleo ton of United States senators by di- rect vote is familiar enough through out the south, but elsewhere the popu- lar movement had not taken root until the recent uprising among republicans in the middle west
 Walter Wellman in the Chicago Re. ordHerald reviews the situation in the middle west. He finds that Wis consin has adopted a complete pri- mary system acting under the leader ship of Senator Lafollette, who in that way proposes to oust the Babcock- Spooner machine from power Min nesota also has a primary system. It is not, however as comprehensive as the Wisconsin law. Illinois has voted in favor of compulsory primaries, and , her legislature is now engaged in framing the law. Michigan and Iowa are. bolH luONluS III llhe ulrecIlOn. All of these states desire to select United States senators by direct vote. Thus far Indiana and Ohio have not acted, but the sentiment in favor of primaries is spreading rapidly in each of those states.
 The south set the pace in this mat ter, and the southern policy now prom. ises to overspread the union. This section formerly inaugurated and car. ried out great governmental policies, and the primary is an achievement of the highest and deepest sort. When it covers the entire country, as it doubt. less will, our institutions will become more democratic. and the plain peo. pie will begin to come into their own.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-27
GREAT CARE REQUIRED TO
 MAINTAIN DINING CARS

it's previous trip. This is no easy job, for the average diner contains some 400 ar- ticles of silver kinds. The commissarys list must check with that turned in by the conductor of the car. This list contains an enumeration of everything the car car- ried when it began it's journey of every article it may have bought en route. and of all left over. The difference between these items represent the food used on the trip for the meals. When the list reaches the superintendent he is enabled to calculate exactly how much the meals served have cost the company and how much the company has earned or lost
 Also. and what is more important chs lis. affords to the head of the dining car service a clear idea of how the taste of his patrons runs. After comparison of these two lists, the car is reloaded for it's rext run and is then ready to start again. Nearly all the work referred to must necessarily be done by night. the diners beine in use pretty nearly the entire day. The sleepers and buffet cars are looked after in the daytime.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-27
JULES VERNE, PROPHETIC
 NOVELIST AND DREAMER

about him, while of all the others there are minute, constant and abundant de- tails both of their lives and charac- ters
 We knocked at the gate of minia- ture palace situated at the entrance Of deserted street in a lordly quarter. A woman opened it for us and made us cross a little garden and enter room on the ground floor, which was full of light Suddenly Jules Verne appeared, with smiling face and ontstretched hands
 If meeting him without knowing who he was I had been asked to divine hls profession I would have said he was a retired general or professor of physics and mathematics. cabinet officer-never an artist. Apart from the friend ly look and affable demeanor l could recognize nothing in common with the Verne who stood before me and the one who had a place in my imagiEa. tion.
 He spoke of his works with an ab- stracted air, as .4e would have done of someone elses writings, or rather of things in which. entered no merit of his as he would have spoken of a collec- ton of engravings or coins he had ac- quired and with which he had occupied himself more from the necessity of do- ing something than from any passion for the art.
 Contrary to what I had thought he does not first imagine the characters and facts of the novel he is to write and then make investigations for his scene and details of action. He reads up the history and geography of the countries first The Taried information re- garding physics. chemistry. astronomy and natural history in which his stories abound are the result of his favorite reading from early youth, anc to tins store he is constantly adding. He was anxious, wrote De Amics, to write books enough to- describe the geog- raphy, history and natural history of every country on earth, and hoped to live long enough to do it, but in the meantime lost not a day, writing two novels a year, but giving only one to the publishers, that they might not issue too close together.
 
 Everywhere was there severe and simple elegance. His study and bed- room were one-a very small room with a great work table in one corner and | a small camp bed in another. On this soldiers couch Jules Verne has slept from shortly after sunset to the first hours of daylight, winter and summer, l for 1 know not how many years" On a shelf in his library were all his works in French. Eighty volumes,' said Verne. They were arranged ac- cording to their dates in a great variety of bindings
 De Amicis speaks of Verne giving him his photograph, on which both Verne ard his wife wrote their names but nowhere else in the books or records in | the Carnegie library is an allusion made | to Mime. Verne.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-27
BOY WOULD DE sLEurH.
Had Found His Father When All Other
 Searchers Had Failed.
From the Kansas City Journal.

From the Kansas City Journal.
 A boy who appeared to be under fifteen years old came into police headquarters and told Lieutenant Kennedy that he wanted a job as detective.
 Why do you want to be detective?" asked the policeman, trying to conceal his amusement.
 Well" said the would-be "sleuth," some fellows told me that 1 could get a job here. Haven't you got anything left for me2'
 How much experience have you had?" he was asked.
 "Oh, l have had tots of experiences, all right" replied he of the youthful aspira- tion But the best one guess I ever had was when I found my father after every body had looked for him for two days. l didn't look more than half an hour either. l went right down to a saloon on Grand avenue and found him in the back part asleep. 1 knew right where to look be- cause I once heard pa tell a man that they kept the best booze in town in that saloon. Pa wants the best of everything, you know"
 That was very good" said the Lieuten- ant eneouragingly.
 'Yes. that parts dead easy" said the boy The hardest part came in getting him home without ma knowing where he had been those two days. took him to a drug store, where friend of mine clerks. I told him what was 'do- ing, and asked him to fix pa up. He gave him something that loked like milk only 1t loaned By and by pa was so that he could walk by holding to chairs and to me. Then I got the clerk to put a big piece of court plaster over one eye, and to put some black paint under the other. l called a carriage and we went home.
 Ma met us at the door most sacred to death. I told her that pa had been In railroad accident and night have one of his legs broken, which made him walk so lame She swallowed it whole and we put him to bed. In two days he was all right again and he gave me a new s5 bill for being smart that what he said. Now, don't you think that you could give me a job?'
 Well come back tomorrow" said the Lieutenant.