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The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1906-11-14
Court.

On Saturday, morning the criminal
court came to an end, when the jury
failed to agree in the Stockman case.
After remaining out over night Judge
Memminger ordered new trial, and
thus the matter goes over.
The jurors were: B. N. Bodie, fore
man, G. S. Cumalander, j. E. Wessin-
ger, Irwin Jumper, G. P. Derrick,
Jno. B. Roberts, II. D. Harman, c..
w. Chapman, I. N. Buckley, w. J..
CAN'T, J. A. Eleazer and S. P. Bick-
ley.
Mr.. Stockman was charged with
the murder of II. J. Hartley, on Dec.
90, 1905, and was represented by Mess.
Graham & Sturkie and VIII. Sharpe,
and Solicitor Zimmerman was assist
ed by Messrs Efird & Dreher and Ed.
Asbil for the State.
The trial lasted for three days,
twelve witnesses being sworn for the
State and eighteen for the defense.
The Common Pleas court opened
up Monday morning with Judge Mem
minger at his post and the Clerk and
Sheriff ready for business.
The first business was getting the
petit jury organized. There were
many absentees and so that Wade F.
Corley, Samuel Rikard, Justus Win
gard and Jacob J.. Schwartz were
Drawn to fill these vacancies.
After disposing of minor cases the
case Of Mary E. Able as administra-
trix of the estate of Oliver G.. Able,
who was killed by Southern Rail
way passenger train at Leesville just
two years ago. The action is brought
by Thurmond & Zimmerman and Gra-
ham for 81, 900 damages, and E. NJ.
Thompson and w. 81. Sharpe repre-
sent the corporation.
This case was tried at the last
spring term when the jury found for
the company, but, afterwards Judge
Hydrick set the verdict aside, because
he made an error in charging them,
and ordered a new trial. The case is
still in progress. q
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Brook okland News Notes.

Brookland, Nov. 11.-Mr. E. W.
Shull has nearly completed his hand
some brick building on Meeting street.
Work on the Baptist church is pro-
crossing rapidly. The congregation of
this denomination has had many mis-
fortunes. The church was burned in a
two fire years ago and the cornerstone
for the new building laid last February.
In September a windstorm blew down
the church, which had been complet-
ed, and the people of Brookland
bravely set to work again to build
once more.
Col. w. w. Haws has located new
bottling plant here and has COM
menced business. THE State Nov. II.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1906-11-14

The farmers are now preparing for
their next years crop in the way of
, farming implements, and they are
reminded that the place to find every
thing if1 this line at the very lowest
price is at T. B. Aughtry & Co.'S, CO.
lumbia.
Mrs. w. P. Roof returned on Sun
day afternoon. after attending the
sessions of the Woman's Home and
Foreign Missionary Society in Angus
ia. She also visited friends at Bax-
ter and Batesburg while away.
When in need of wedding presents
YOU will find Them at Scott Hendrix's 8
Furniture, Store in the way of nice
sets, clocks, rugs, rockers, &c. toilet
Mr.. II. M. Jumper, of Swansea, is
the champion fox hunter of that Sec
ton. He has already caught this sea-
son nearly twenty foxes, and the
sound of his horn, familiar IN those
regions, cause the cunning fox to
ramble cautiously.
Are you looking for winter clothes?
Then 90 to E. G. Dreher & Co., the
only exclusive clothing and furnish
ing store in Lexington, There you
get the best, whether it's suit of
clothes or collar at the same price
you pay for inferior grades.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. A. Derrick have
issued invitations to the marriage Of
their daughter, Miss Kate, to Mr.. Jo-
seph Martin Caughman on Wednes-
day evening, November 2Sth, at eight
O'Clock, the ceremony to take place
at the home of the bride, Lexington,
South Carolina.
The Editor will be in the Fork next
week to mingle with friends and to re-
ceive his dues for the Dispatch. Look
for him and have your money for the
paper. He continues to add new
names to the list and he expects to
find several in the Fork.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1906-11-14
SALE.

ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER THE
27, 1906, beginning at 10 o'clock a. m.
we will sell at public outcry, to the
highest bidder, the personal property OF
the estate of William Price, deceased,
as follows: One horse, one wagon, corn,
fodder, peavines, peas, cotton seed,
farming impliments, household and
kitchen furniture, two organs, one
melodisn and vast quantity of good
books, with merchandise, consisting Of
dry goods, hardware, &c. One tract OF
land containing so acres, more or less,
lying two and half miles north OF
Gilbert, on the old Augusta road, near
W. T. Craps place. S. D. PRICE.
Oct. %. 19O6-3W3pd.
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EHRLICH'S.
1879 1879 Main Main S., S., : COLUMBIA, S. c.
For Sale.

Twill sell all of my corn, fodder, pea
vines, cotton seed, one horse, one wagon,
harness and other articles too numerous
to mention on November 26th, at 10
o'clock a. M, at Oliver Addy's place
two miles from Gilbert. Terms of sale
cash M. L. KYZER.
2w3 pd
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1906-11-14
Final Discharge.

Notice is hereby given to all persons
intreseted that will apply to Hon. Geo.
S. Drafts, Judge of Probate, in and for
the couny of Lexington, State Of South
Carolina, on the 22d day of December,
1906, for final discharge as Admins
tratrix of the Estate of J. Fred Jefcoat,
deceased. RACHEL JEFCOAT,
4w5 Administrative.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1906-11-14

Itch cured in 80 minutes by Wool
ford's Sanitary Lotion. Never fails.
sold by Derrick's Drug Store.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1906-11-14
Wells! Wells!!
BERLEY & KYzER,
THE WELL MEN.

If you want to do well, be well and
look well, get Berley & Kyzer, Lexing-
ton, S. c.. to put you in Terra Gotta
Well which will give you pure water.
Our prices are right, our work is right.
Give Us a trial and be convinced.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1906-11-14

SCHOOL BOOKS are positively sold
for cash. Harman's Bazaar.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-10

women of Egypt got TO wearing them long,
adm imperious fashion required the men to
do the same. 1t was difficult for the men
to move freely. though, wearing these long
aprons. genius appeared He cut holes
In the apron, stuck his legs through and
behold he had the rudimentary trousersi
Little by little something was added behind
or in front until today we have the perfect
pattern"
Until the present time Mrs. Ruge said.
the caprice and within of women threw COM
mon sense to the winds. and the result
was the most outlandiSh dress conceivable.
We have progressed" said Mrs. Ruge.
I'VE have found that 1t is foolish to sub
nit to the slavery of fashion. Today what
ever is beautiful Is fashionable. Formerly
1t was whatever Is fashionable is beautiful.
1 consider. though, that the periods In
which the most beautiful costumes were
worn both by men and women were in the
time of the Greeks and during the Renais-
sance."
Hats have always indicated ideas, said
the costume expert. The felt hat, broad
br.nmed. free and easy. has always stood
for liberal ideas, freedom hatred of ty-
ranny and manliness.
THE first felt hats were worn by Wallen-
STEMS soldiers during the thirty years
war" she said. THE Hollanders wore them
ID show they had thrown off the rule of
Spain. The Puritans wore them, and 80 did
the Quakers, making fashion of soft hats,
which indicated their formality and stern
ness. Today the rough rider hats and the
thing-love of liberty
Mrs. Ruge illustrated her talk with stere-
opticon views and living pictures. The girls
of the Art Workers Club showed them
selves dressed as Greek maidens Roman
metrons. Egyptian prfncesses, Spanish gyp-
sizes ladies of the time of Philip II, of Spain.
ladies of the court OF Louis XIV ladies Of
the first and second empires, and in cos
tunes of every period which had a distinc-
tive costume. They appeared In a great
frame of black and gold. which had back
ground of green velvet
How would you like to walk along
Broadway In that7" whispered one of the
women In the audience when a girl OF
Pericles' time appeared in the frame.
Not much" said her girl friend. I'D
lose that In the first department store crush
1 got into"
Mrs Ruge exhibited costumes to show
the effect the age of troubadours, the
Crusades, the Renaissance, the invention
OF gunpowder and printing and the dis
covery of America had on costumes She
regretted that she hadn't been able to pro-
cure a man who would pose in the skin
tight trousers, each leg OF different de-
sign, that the Italians wore In the fifteenth
century.
''It would have been so pretty she said.
The erinolne invented and popularized by
the Empress Eugene. was shown on the
screen and in living pictures.
THAT was bad enough" said Mrs. Ruge,
'but the narrow gowns of 1870 were worse.
cross a ditch with that garb on.
Next came the hustle of 1880.
Would you believe that your mothers
thought them handsome?" said Mrs. Ruge.
People who didn't wear them were called
crg nks."
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Ancient Cure for Inebriety

N
LONDON May IS. 1906.
Some old torture relics of the past
have Just been sold at auction here.
&uaintest among them was a device
known as the ''drunkards clock" 1t
is made of wood and in shape resembles
huge inverted flower pot Through the
small circular Aperture in the top was
thrust the neck of the imprisoned inebriate
The weight of this ancient counterpart of
the straightjacket fell on the victim s
shoulders and was sufficient to make every
bone in his body ache. With his hands
practically pinned to his sides and the gar
ment reaching almost to the ground. the
only motion allowed him was slow shut
fe of his weary feet as he dragged his way
painfully along. One can well believe that
any one who had been compelled to don the
"drunkard's cloak would be very apt TO
come to the conclusion that a high old time
was not worth having at the price. Many
who saw 1t at the auction sale expressed
the opinion that its revival in these mod
ern days would have most salutary eff
feet in promoting temperance. Before it
was put up for competition a plucky man
was induced to undergo incarceration In it
and submit to the ordeal of being photo
graphed. There happened to be no Ameri-
can relic-hunters around and ii was knocked
down for IS.
An iron 'foot-squeezer' sold for The
same figure. and persuasive instrument In
the shape of an iron boot, in which the
victims naked foot was incased while boil
ing oil was poured into It, fetched only So
and the same price was paid for set OF
ancient branding irons. An old chair from
the castle of Nureulburg, in which people
were secured for torture, brought $50 A
fiendish substitute for collar in the form
Of an iron ring studded with sharp spikes
on the inside fetched 1925.
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and substantial Improvement have been
made on @ street between 9th and 18th
streets in the recent past The cross streets
are receiving generous consideration from
investors and those establishing new places
of business, 18th street from + street north
10 New York avenue being especially &C
tive. The sale at public auction this week
of 700 and 100 18th street at $50 per square
foot marked new era In prices In that sec
ton.
number OF other recent purchases have
been made and the buildings devoted TO
business purposes.
Going further out to the Columbia
Heights section, Mr.. Sansbury commented
on the active operations in building In that
locality. He handles exclusively the sales
and rentals of the properties OF Lewis f.
Breunlnger, an extensive builder who is
largely interested in that section. He has
at present under construction and near
completion the Cambria and Majestic two
four-story apartment buildings on Euclid
between 18th and 18th streets northwest.
containing thlrty-two apartments which
will soon be ready for inspection; three two
story residences on HOlmead place above
Newton. which will contain seven rooms
each. two three-stOry apartments on Park
road near 18th, and two three-story ten
room residences on Kenyon street between
18th and 18th streets have Just been com
pieted and sold by Mr.. Sansbury for same
builder Mr.. Breuninger will begin next
wen AHt tleClluu OF ten tnree-StOTy mod
ern high-class residences on Irving street.
They will contain the latest features of
comfort and elegance Mr. Sansbury will
be the sole agent FOR the sale OF these
houses
Speaking Of the general realty market.
MI Sausbury says il has been remarkably
active. and he has consummated an un-
usual number OF sales this season The
inquiries Tor good properties are numerous.
and he predicts continued activity during
the coming year
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-10
EYEBROW sUPERsTITIoNs.
The Omen of Meeting Brows-Beliefs
.of Different Peoples.

From the London Globe.
Notwithstanding their inconspicuousness,
the eyebrows have been the center of GER
tain amount of lore, and even superstition
But the chief point at which superstition
or folklore is found in this connection
is in those cases, not infrequent, where the
eyebrows meet. Everywhere this meeting
of the brows has been held to be omi-
nous in one way or another.
In some of our southern counties folks
say that 1t Is good to have such brows for
the possessor viii never have trouble but
this is a rare Interpretation. AS a rule the
meeting brows are held to be of evil omen
Readers of Charles Kingsley's 1.-TWO Years
Ago" will remember Mrs. Harvey's face
which had been handsome and was still
clever; but the eyebrows" continues
Kingsley, ''crushd together downward
above her nose and. rising high at the outer
corners, indicated surely as the restless
down-drop eye a character self-conscious
furtive, capable of great Inconsistencies
possibly of great deceits."
In the Icelandic sagas man with meeting
eyebrows is said to be one of the dreadful
creatures known as werewolyes, and the
same belief has been traced in Denmark
and Germany; while In Greece says Mr.
Barring Gould, they are a sign that man
is a vampire. In horror there is little to
choose between vampires and werewolves
A fanciful reason which has been given
IOr THESE sQpefSlitlOnS Is tnat the meeting
brows resemble butterfly, 1.-The familiar
type of soul ready to fly off and enter
some other body" This seems tolerably
far fetched.
In Hungary gypsy women and men whose
eyebrows grow together are supposed to
have In special degree the power of en-
chantment and iiiiterate folk have a
great dread of such mysterious powers. es-
pecially as they may be supposed to be
directed against the we'll being or happi-
ness of their children, it need hardly be
said that man whose brows meet is not
d POI ular person. Even now there are parts
of England where a belief In witchcraft
still fingers; and not so very long ago in
Northumberland there were people WHO re-
garded person whose eyebrows niet as
q witch or warlock
In the north of Aberdeenshire, according
to the late Rev. Walter Gregor, who was a
very competent authority on Scottish lore
and customs ''closebroot man"-that is
one whose eyebrows met-was regarded as
being immoral Elsewhere In Scotland one
with ''close breos'' was regarded as unlucky
to be met as first fit;' while other folk
went good deal further, and regarded
the unlucky l,ossessor of CLOSE broos'' as
one foredoomed to be hanged.
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we amt had no chickens these ten years
come Michaelmas." The ingenious farmer
| who had made the claim had forgotten to
| bring his better half into the conspiracy.
The crop of accidents has been aceentu-
| ated this week by the distressful mishap to
| the Countess of Orkney, one OF the most
daring as we'll as the most beautiful horse
women in England She had a severe spill,
which has resulted in a serious conclusion
of the brain, from which ii is likely that she
may not recover. Lady Orkney was at one
time better known as Connie Gilchrist, the
famous Gaiety actress.
Her love of horses brought her into con-
tact with the hunting set, and IT is stated
that her engagement to Lord Orkney was
primarily due to a friendly dispute over the
ownership of magnificent hunter which
both wished TO acquire They could not
agree until finally his lordship suggested
that the only way in which they could both
be satisfied would be to get married and so
have a joint ownership, which they did and,
in the story OF the Christmas fairy tale.
have lived happily ever since.
Lady Orkney is not the only Gaiety act
reSs who has made great reputation IN
the hunting field. There, for instance is
Belle Billion, erstwhile of the Gaiety, VINO
is now Countess OF Clancarty, for whom
every Hibernian in the south of Ireland
would go through fire and water, and who,
If the Irish were to vote for a queen, would
certainly be elected by an overwhelming
majority. She rides furiously to hounds and
has scored many bad spill, but she is also
a devoted mother of twins
Another Gaiety girl who is now March
ioness of Headfort was Miss Rosie Boote,
who left the plaudits of Jonneydom In the
first row to take front rank amor.g the hard
riding set in West Meath. where the poor
amateur horseman or horsewoman finds lit
tie sympathy and no sport. The march-
ioness - q NEST beautiful woman, who has
taken to her sphere in life as If she
had the blood of the Charlemagnes IN her
veins.
It is interesting to contrast Lady Head
forts case with that of another marchlon-
ess who was once on the stage. and whom
once saw on the downs near brighton
astrdde OF a. humble donkey. She was
known In the music halls as Doilie Tester
and she was married to the most remark
able, most astoundingly common nobienian
that the world has ever seen. He was the
Marquis of Aylesbury. the head Of the great
family of Bruce, and his vocabulary used to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-10
TROUSERS WERE APRONS ONCE.
Fashion Made Them So Long That
Men Couldn't Manage.
From the New York sun

ElNin tne new YORK
Mrs. Clara Ruge revealed the mystery OF
trousers last night at the Hotel Astor. The
useful garment came from the banks OF
the Nile, IL appears. and may have been
worn for the first time by King Snefru of
the fourth dynasty, who hourished about
5.O0o b. c.
Mrs Ruge is an art critic who has made
a special study OF costume. She talked at
the Astor last night before the Art Work
ers' Club on the Origin. History and De-
Velopment of Costume" William NJ Chase.
the artist. lent her some OF his most
gorgeous costumes that she might illustrate
heI talk by dressing live girls up In them
and giving living pictures. Mr.. Chase also
posed the young women who We're pretty
professional models
Mrs Ruge devoted several minutes of her
talk TO trousers and the women who form
ell large majority of the audience listened
with interest They had a right to- If it
hadn't been for womens aprons. first worn
IN Egypt there wouldn't have been any
trousers. Pants are but aprons OF a larger
growth. Men have always been more sem
sibie about their dress than women said
Mrs. Ruse. AT times they have become
foolish and worn things 10 show off their
handsome figures. or let vanity run away
with them. but in the main they have been
Trousers, the distinctive feature OF mems
dress were worn in Egypt for the first
time. Both women and men had been wear
ing aprons Aprons were the very first
attempt to ornament and decorate the per-
son. Before they appeared men and women
were skins and furs-plain severe and sim
pie The aprons were a fanciful frill. The
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-10
The Passing of the wilderness.

From the Reader
There viii be place left to which we
can go in our traditional love of isolation
and hide from care and labor and tele-
phones, and be alone Where we have re-
Taxed In the beedlessness of overalls and
any old shirt that our WORKOUT wardrobe
could produce, we shall have TO have a mind
to the cleanliness of white duck and the
change of shoes ere we turn from the tramp
to the supper table. The wild meats which
we have eaten with only the flavor of bacon
and skillet we shall have to take from a
linen tabiecioth and eat seasoned with
French dressings. The trout and the young
salmon which have almost bobbed from the
stream to our frying pans we shall have
to accept in white-dressed bakings from
the hotel ovens, or boned and headed for
the epicurean laziness of those who resent
the price of trouble that one should always
in the true spirit of the game, pay for
having the thing that is unusual and rare
and privileged.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-10

Annallay, the master, who rules his hunt
like a ear
The claims from farmers for Reynard' $
depredations on the poultry houses require
the constant attention of the hunt secre-
tary, who in these days has to be a detec-
tive even more versed in the discovery of
shams and subterfuges than Sherlock
Holmes. Everybody in the hunting country
who does not follow the hounds keeps chick
ems and ducks and geese in the hope that
the midnight marauder may deign to pay
them a visit, so that bill may be sent in
the next day to the hunt secretary the
hunt being the legitimate prey of the coun-
try folk. Only the other day the secretary
of well-known hunt was called upon to
pay for the unexpected demise of forty
chickens which had been ruthlessly de-
stroyed by a fox.
The secretary bestrode his faithful bicycle
and met the farmers wife by the roadside.
He said: Il have called to see about those
chickens. Are you sure the door was prop
erly fastened? and he was amazed when
she replied: Begin your pardon. sir, but
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-10
We is Fired.

From the Cecil Wig.
beg to announce the disappearance from
these columns of the editorial I'VE" Why
should 1t remain? The essayist says Il"
the orator says 81" Why shouldn't the
editor say ..I2" He should and he shall
except when he has passed within his own
door-then he will say. My dear, what had
we better do IN that matter2f But here
in the quiet retreat of his sanctum barred
and double barred against the pubic, am
a free man and / boldly declare In the face
one) win not make one twain. "I' will not
be I'VE"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-10
INDICATES PROGRESS

CONTINUED from Fifth Page.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-10
The Exploitation of the West.
From the Reader.

From the Reader.
Five years ago we who lived In the far
west were wondering when the marvellous
resources of our one-third of the United
States would be discovered and exploited.
Today we awaken to find cur forests strip
ped, the places where We pitched our tents,
built our smudges and fried our bacon and
game made desolate by the steam saw and
the freight car. The rivers where we
speared our salmon and the rushing waters
of the northwest where we cast our seine
have been made TO I'LL the labeled tins OF
highly capitalized syndicates, until the
preservation of the ''sock-eye, the most
delicious of all salmon, has become the
subject of interstate conference. The Inn
mense plains, whose phenomenal produc-
tivity made legends of our "Mussei
Sioughs" and our "Yuba Dams" are being
turned into irrigated plaisances into troll
iey-strewn highways, into the dense social
conditions of Ohio, Iowa and Illinois,