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The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-02-19
results without fully going into the
merits is not the question.

results without fully going into the
merits is not the question. .
Several bills intended to better pro-
tect policy-holders in local and mutual
companies will be enacted.
In the matter of railroad legislation
there have been several bills that will
cause these corporations more OF less
trouble and expense to get to the rati.
fcation stage. The Graydon fellow
servant liability bill is on the House
side. The three bills recommended
by the Legislative committee are on
the Calendars, the two major bills
have unfavorable reports on the Sen
ate Calendar, and that augurs bad
luck to these bills.
The railroads in common with others
have had rough time of it during
the New York panic, and the disposi-
tion is to give them a chance to
breathe and live.
The most importantmatter affecting
the railroad interest has been the
passenger rate question. The issue
has resolved itself into waiting con-
test. The final result is uncertain.
The proposition is offered by Mr.. Fin
ley, exactly and not changed to meet
varying views and gather strength,
will pass or nothing will be done,
There have from the first vote been
fourteen Senators opposed to any rate
legislation. The latest announcement
is that Senator Rlease and Senatot
Smith and perhaps others stand for a
2 10 cent rate bill, without any frills,
and that they are against the Carlisle
bill. At first the advocates of rate
legislation were enthusiastic and per-
sistent in wanting to vote on the rate
bill. They pleaded and begged for
the test of strength and to get to vot-
ing, but for the last few days they
have been absolutely Indifferent and
evidently afraid to come to the final
vote they had previously sought.
Had the vote been taken last week
the Toole bill would have gone to the
Legislative graveyard. What will
happen now is uncertain.
The Senate has passed bill provid-
ing for twelve judicial circuits-two
new ones. The House has provided
for one additional circuit. This would
appear to make the new circuit GER
tain, and the chances are that the
two circuits will be provided rather
than sacrifice one.
Calhoun County was the only new
county question mentioned. There
was no opposition whatever to this
county.
The indications are that there will
be an insurance department establish
ed, and that the State will supply
ample machinery for a good depart
ment. The commissioner will prob
ably be paid $500.
Arrangements will be made to have
the registration list revised and cor
rected. 1t is admitted on all sides
that the registration lists are in a
deplorable condition, and that every
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-02-19
Brookland Bank,

In this issue appears an advertise
ment of the Brookland Bark. This
institution is filling long-felt want
at New Brookland and is gradually
coming to the front. Mr.. L. S. Trotti,
man of wide experience in the bank
ing business, is president and cashier.
He is extremely courteous to depos-
itors and is growing in popular favor
with all classes. See their advertise
ment elsewhere and give them part
Or all of your business,
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-02-19
one ought to be made to register so as

one ought to be made to register so as
to get more general and better curry
lists from which to select jurymen.
All the bills looking to State or
general system of rural police have
been killed. W
There has been no change in the
pistol toting laws.
The General Assembly will adjourn
on the 22nd of February. This will be
either Friday night, after midnight,
or late Saturday night.
A great many towns, townships and
counties have bond issues coming due
this year that they have arranged to
have refunded and incidentally haye
asked to have them exempted from
taxation.
There has been no change in the
tax or assessment laws, both of which
need Improvement.
The income tax law-the greatest
farcdDn the statute books-remains
unchanged.-August Kohn in News
and Courier.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-02-19
Unclaimed Mail.

List of letters remaining uncalled
for in this Office for the week ending
February II, 1908:
Females.
Lee, Mrs. Annie.
Geiger, Maralie.
These letters will be sent to the
dead letter Office March 2, 1908, if
not delivered before. In calling for
the above, please say "advertised, "
giving date of list.
S. ]. Leaphart, Postmaster.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-02-19
Five Hundred Dollars
FOR One Word,

This is what the Semi Weekly
Journal proposes to give. Send in the
Missing Word and take the Prize.
With every yearly subscription to the
.Semi-W eekly Journal you IRE entitled
to two trials at the missing word. A
sentence has been selected from a
well known and widely read work of
fiction. From this sentence word
has been dropped, leaving gap. This
word is English and not a proper
name, and can be found in any ordi-
nary dictionary.
Here is the sentence:
."THEY CAN'T GET ANYTHING
BUT-------NOW SIR. EVERY
THING ELSE is CONE"
What is the sentence?
For full conditions of the Contest
write the Semi-Weekly Journal, At
lanta, Ga.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-02-19
THE WoRK OF TIE
LEGISLATURE.
THAT WHICH HAS BEEN FINISHED
AND THAT REMAINING.

The Legislative session for 1906 is
now about at an end. The final polish
remains to be put on the handiwork.
The general outline of the work has
been finished. The details of certain
poishes have not yet been determined
upon, but the general outline and
scope of the specimen that is to go
into the furniture collection of the
work of 1908 are fixed.
There will be State tax levy of 5
& 1-2 mills.
There viii be no fundamental change
in the LIQUOR situation
Ali prohibition laws have been kill
ed.
There viii be no repeal of the lien
law and there will be no change in
the present credit system.
The winding-up commission of the
8 dispensary will be continued in Office
for sufficient time to close its business
and the dispensary property, real
estate, will be sold at public auction
for not less than $75,oO0.
The perennial fight on the depart
ment Of agriculture and immigration
has failed, and bills looking to that
s end have been killed in the Senate. 81
There>has been disposition to deal
s1fberally with the educational system.
Realizing the growth Of the State,
the demand sand hunger for higher
educafion and the position OF this
State all of the State colleges Glenn
son, Winthrop, the University of South
Carolina and the Citadel-has been
given kindly consie eration and an
opportunity to grow.
The high school law has been loosen
ed up a bit and is found to be working
{ satisfactorily.
The disposition, and it is decided,
is to let the voters in the communities
affected decide whether they want
dispensaries or not, and the voters are
to be given opportunity of voting out
dispensaries where Objectionable by
towns instead Of by counties as here
Z tofore. @
Aiken, Union and Coneton, and,
perhaps, Barnwell, are to be author
lied to hold early elections to deter
mine whether these counties shall
continue their county dispensaries or
join the prohibition counties.
The desire is to tighten up on insur-
anee companies. A bill to prohibit
prize box life Insurance is to become
( law. In the matter of fire insurance
there seems to be unrest, and two
bills, one about the contract and the
other to outlaw the Sopth-eastern
Tariff Association, are the most likely.
Whether either will do particle of
real good or are efforts to accomplish
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-02-19
EXCURSION RATES
To New Orleans, Mobile and Pensa.
cola via Southern Railway.

Account Mardi Gras celebrations at
New Orleans, La, Mobile, Ala, and
Pensacola, Fla, the Southern Railway
announces the very low rate of one
firstclass. fare plus 25 for the round
trip. Tickets on sale February 26th,
9th, 2sth and Doth, Inclusive; March
1st and End, inclusive, good to leave
New Orleans returning not later than
midnight March 10, 1908. Stop-overs
allowed going and returning.
For rates, detailed information, etc.,
apply to nearest ticket agent or ad-
dress j. G. lUSK,
Division Passenger Agent,
Charleston, S. @.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-02-19
Shoots His Wife.

VIM. D. Shaw, former Sumter
mail carrier, shot his wife at Rocky
Mount, n. c., on Monday. Mrs.
Shaw is not seriously wounded. Shaw
is in Jail. The cause of the tragedy
is unknown.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-02-19
2s Men Entombed in Mine.

Caused by the breaking Of dam,
% men are entombed in a mine near
Mt. Carmel, Pa. 1t is Thought that
all may he rescued without the loss Of
ifo
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1908-05-21
Winthrop College Scholarship and En-
trance Examination.

The examination for the award
of vacant scholarships in Winthrop
College and for the admission OF
new students will be held at the
county court house on Friday, July
3, at 9 a m. Applicants must not
be less than fifteen years of age.
When scholarships are vacant after
July 3 they will be awarded to those
making the highest average at this
examination, provided they meet the
conditions governing the award.
Applicants for scholarships shsuld
write to President Joh/ son before
the examlration for examination
blanks.
Scholarships are worth S100 and
free tuition. The next session will
open September 16, 1908. For fur
ther information and catalogue, ad-
dress President D B Johnson, Rock
Hill, S G. DIST
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1908-05-21
Bucklen's Arnica Salvo
The Best SaIve In The World.
Registration Notice.

Theoffice OF the Supervisor Of Reg
istration will be opened on the first
Monday in every month for the pur-
pose of the registering of any person
who is qualified as follows:
Who shall have been a resident OF
the State for two years, and Of the
county one year. and of the polling pre-
cinct in which the elector offers to
vote four months before the day OF
election, and shall have paid, six
months before, any poll tax then due
and payable, and who can both read
and write any section Of the constitu-
tion of 1895 submitted to him by the
Supervisors of Registration. or who
can show that he owns. and has paid
all taxes collectable on during the
present year, property in this State
assessed at three hundred dollars or
more. j. Y. McGILL,
Clerk of Board,
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and happened to find it." He turned
to the strangers who had accompanied
him from the ship. crying, Serve those
warrants" and they stepped forward.
The uproar OF the past few minutes
had brought men running from every
direction till, finding no room on the
stairs. they had maSSed in the street
below while the word flew from lip to
lip concerning this closing scene Of
their drama. the battle Of the Midas,
the great fight upstairs and the arrest
by the iFrisco deputies. Like Sind
baHs genie, wondrouS tale took shape
frcm the rumorS. Men shouldered one
another eagerly for glimpse OF the
actors. and when the press streamcd
out, greeted it with volleys of ques-
tions. They saw the unconscious mar
shal borne forth, followed by the Old
Judge, now a palsied wretch, Sinking
beside his captor. very shell of Il man
at whom they jeere1. When McNanla-
IA lurched into view, an image of de-
feat and chagrin, their voices rose
menacingly. The pack was turning
and he knew it, but, though rackcd
and crippled, he bent upon them a
viSage so full OF defiance and contemp
tuous nialignity that they hushed them
selves, and their final picture Of him
was that Of Il big man downed, but
unbeaten to the last. They began to
cry for C;lenister, 50 that when he
loon!el i'll the doorway, Il ragged, he
roic figure his heavy shock low over
his eyes. his unShavGn face aggressive
even in its WEAKNESS, his corded arms
and chest bare beneath the tlutterinS
strcamGrs. tie street broke into wild
cheering. Here was il man Of their
own. Il son Cf tie northlaud who labor
ed ana loved and fought in 4 way they
understood. and lie had come into his
due.
But Roy. Gumh ami iis!rS&. stag
gcrcd Up the street. refusing the help
Of every man except Wheaton. lie
heard his companion talking. but
sraspci only that gHe attorney Gloatcd
and %:oricd.
I'VE have whipped ;hyrL. boy. We
have whipped them IL their own game
Arrested in thei: very dooryards-c!tcd
for contempt Of c"Urt-thats what
they are. They d.sobcycd those Other
writS. and 80 | got them.
Il Iro,,r mis- &r,l." muttereI the
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1908-05-21
her continued duly, ajust like a

her continued duly. "just like a
hovei handle. felt it-but he tried
0 kill me. and had to do It."
The attorney took Roy to his cabin
aud dressed his wounds. talking In
.essantly the while. but the boy was
Ike sleep walker, displaying no ela-
lon. no excitement, no Joy Of victory.
last Wheaton broke out
Cheer up Why. man. you act like
user! Don't you realize that we've
IN? Don't you understand that the
idas Is yours? And the whole world
tn IT."
Won echoed the miner. What
do yon know about 1t, Bill: The
Midas-the wOrld-what good are they !:
You're wrong. I've lost-yes-I've lost
-~a.hing she taught me. and by
'nnrd trick of fate she was
g" RE Go It. Nov. 90 away;
% sleep"
sank upon the bed with its tansle
ankets and wcs unconscious be-
he lawyer hid covered him over
concluded next week.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1908-05-21
Read the Farmers T. Merchants
Banks ad. this issue.

Hereafter we positively re-
fuse to publish any communica-
ton received at this office later
than Tuesday, noon, except To-
cal and personal items, which
will..not be available later than
Wednesday, noon, for the cur
rent week. By trying to be ac-
commodating We are thr own late
every week and we are tired OF
it. This notice applies to
EVERY BODY.
4-25-tf.
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7 Continued from page ,. ]

otbor.s .,,uu;nu hIovS while Clients
tors evarv homo WAS wreDched and
twisted under his enemy's terrible on
SID Asbts, The miners chief effort. It is
true. was to keep his feet and to break
the mans embraces. Never had he en-
countere6 one whom he could not beat
nv sbeer strength ill he met this great,
Sna rIipy creature who worried him
h;tI.a- md ron = .h,urb he were q
lJ,irI rim. NM ,.~,i, ~ l,.t mon
A., ,,.u... f,c. win mo Ifovs of a
.,n,,,, Y, .,,,ax .,.o,noI t,;S solitary
oo,..I,,t. TIA, ,.,n,, ,,...n deaf to all but
tIc r,,rfn.. j., r..n.. ea..S t.;nGed to all
hrt hai. il ~ :fhlc to everything but
tba bIood ma3iu. Tbair trampling feet
c,uscJ fine buildin- TO rumble and
shake rs though some monster were
r,nnipp amuck
Meanwhile 4 bareheaded man rushed
ont of tbe store beneath. bumping into
n nedestrian who had paused on the
s;dauan. and torether they scurried
mn the stairs Tho dory which Roy
nod Saon at seo had shot the breakers,
and now IFS three passengers were
tracking through The wet sand toward
Front street Bill Wheaton in the lead.
He was followed by two rawboned
mon who travelled without baggage.
The civ was awakening with the sun
which reared q copper rim out of the
sea. Judge Stillman and Voorhees,
.ame down from the hotel and paused
To gaze through the miSts at caravan
Of mule teams which trotted into the
other end of the street with jingle and
clank The wagons were blue with
soldiers. the early golden rays slant
ing from their KragS, and they were
hound for the Midas.
Out of the fogs itch clung so
tbicklv to the tundra there came two
other horses distorted and unreal, OIL
one girl on the other figure of
main and tragedy. a grotesque creature
that swayed stiffiy tc the motion of it's
steed. its face writhed into lines Of
suffering IFS hands clutching cantle
and horn.
II WAS as though fate, with invisible
+oucb wera sattiro ber stage for the
,oSt oc+ of This nI,v assembling the
,r;nc;nolS closa to tbe golden sands
,rhorn first tbav had made entrance
yho mon and tho orl came face to
Goo 18th ,bo indgo and marshal who
oria,, ont mon snoin. tbom hut rs
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III,
my Il,
mara:' -
boss, who .c,uru,
glower.ng lii while
Stillman ran u slrilly
irascible.
Take hii - tell you. Taie
him to jail!'
But Wheaton" X place. while
the room ce< IS uDoa him.
scenting SOD denoCemcnt.
He saw il, an, 'SSion to nat
ural vanity ar instinct, be
threw back h stuffed his
hands into his coat while the
crowd waited He gl inSolently
at the ju'gr and the re,
This will be n day eats and
disappointments to you, friends.
That boy won't 20 10 Jail 'e you
will wear the shackleS you -
you played shrewd gan
with your senators, your
your pulls. but it's our t,
we'll make you dance fO,
you gutted AMI the robberies "
done and tie men you've ruin
Thank heaven. there's one honest couls.
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In the Interest of Better Roads.

I'LL tnO lUtUi OOt VI UUttOl nOuuos
.IditorCOUNTY RECORD:-Now, g,
nat our road official, Mr. Slnglclarv,
,ports funds available for roads.
o better use could be made of said
llnds than in IN honest, well-direct-
attempt at improving the sandy
ads of the county, at least those
pst Travelled.
South Caroll na has done practi-
ely nothing with experimental
reds and ouly where citizens have
taen the matte ia their own hards
al where latel Y some counties have
aen up the work has there been
doe.
rhe State has as varied soils as
an, other-the soil varying with
eae geological belt as we'll as in
eac belt. Here in the lower pine
bel SAID prevails but black land is
alm'st as prevalent, particularly
on te near slopes of our branches.
ar rrainfall here is very heavy at
fme when the roads are most
I'd and the BLACK lands and clay
se easily cut into almost i'm
+ X; however, 1t is the pur-
% ,>&onfne attention to
Just aS too much rain means the
certain destruction of clay and such
roads, so drought is fatal to sand
that in more favorable seasons are
passable. As soon as the rains fall
the water permeates the sand beds
and sinks away to underground
channels, leaving behind loose in
coherable, gritty dust. Often this
dust becomes six inches deep or mole.
Clay scattered to depth of six
inches over such a road-bed has
proved very effectual and is now
generally employed in such cases.
The clay possesses exactly the oppo-
site mechtani al properties fromthose
of sand, the latter having practl-
cally no binding force, while the
former has great binding qualities.
The further attribute of water re-
tention makes clay useful also in
holding the necessary moisture, thus
making sand itself incline to cohere.
Clay is usually quite abun liant in all
localities and may be had by the
road, side, so hat the question of
hauling is reduced to a minimum.
In some places muck or black earth
may be more convenient and while
not so efficacious as the clay, owing to
the efficiency in binding force, it is
neyer-the- less useful also when mix
ed with sand and it has been en-
ployed very successfully in some
sections Its virtue consists main
" in its holding capacity,
which is second only to that of clay.
After once getting the clay or
black earth on the bed, it should then
be worked over with road drag.
Such a device, as far as | know, has
never entered into the heads of oar
people and certainly of all the road
working machinery none is so mex.
simple and indispensable as
the dag. Good roads after the
foundation is once made can be and
have been maintained indefinitely
at the nominal cast Of one dollar per
mile per anum.
What has been said of the appli-
cation of clay to good roads applies
with equal force to the application
of sand to clay roads. The res 1t is
the same.
In the interest of better roads ]
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Judge was ashy. imDecIie. uerpI-s=.
McNamara's distress was patent to

Judge was ashy. imbecIie. Ierprvs=.
McNamara's distress was patent to
bis antagonist who advanced upon
him with the hunger Of pro| vic
tory. but the Young mo les
obeyed his commands g Ais
ribs seemed broken. s
weak. and OH the in
the flesh was QuiV \
together the boss
hand and caught !,
burying thumb ke
into his cheeks. Z, Us
apart, thrusting L
while he centered e
strength in the effort 10 NAL.
felt the flesh giving way ant.
himself backward to break the holu,
whereupon tie other summoned his
wssti--1 1ergy and plunged toward
y here la the revolver. In
I'd GleniSter Of treachcry,
at the man had sought this
to save himself. and as
turn his back and reach
I on the youth leaped like =
1g him about the w9>
n imaraS wrist Will
rig. or the first time du
the Y were not face to face.
and ant Roy realized tn
advant.,u i'm through the oil:
erS pertidy. the wreStlers
hold that was Ii. 'n""- that the
The oasis. [volume] (Arizola, Ariz.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-17
III CLe4-a-ee,
Saturday, OFT. v, 1908
Change In the Firm.

Last week Mr. Btrney Cohen Of
the Grand Hotel at Hprmosillo
and the Hotel Rosales at CnliAcan,
returned to HermosiIlo from q
three weeks visit ut the Sinaloa
capital, where he was engaged in
arranging the details Of change
in the firm of Cohen Brothers IL
Braun, In the management Of the
Hotel Rosales, Mr.. Joseph + Braun
retiring, and the business being
now run under the old, familiar
name of Chen Brothers, which
has been well and widely known in
the hotel world from a time when
the memory of man runneth not
to the CONTEMPORARIES the man
who recollects differently he some
mossback who has forgotten to die
In their two caravanseries-the
Grand Hotel at Hermosilo and the
Hotel Rosalps at Culiacan-Barney
and Henry Cohen have two OF the
best kept and most popular hotels
on The West Coast of Mexico.
The oasis. [volume] (Arizola, Ariz.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-17
Live Sto ok N arket.

KANSAS CRY, Mo-, Oct. 8, 1905
Cattle receipts this week amount
to $4,000 head, including $4,000
calves, the heaviest run Of cattle
ever received at this market in
single week. Prices were 10 to 20
lower the first two days OF the week,
but demand is 81 great that sellers
were able to obtain strong prices
since the middle of the week, some
sales yesterday 10 higher than
previous day. Shipments to the
country this week have been the
heaviest OF the season, and local
packers have kept up the heavy
buying inaugurated at the begin
ming OF the fall season of big runs
here. Cattle slaughter in the
plants here during september was
25% heavier than same month last
year, and heaviest ON record here
for September. Purchases of stock
and feeding cattle this fall have
been smaller than last fall, hut
buyers are realizing that there will
most likely he Il shortage of beef
cattle next winter. and are taking
hold mnre freely now than hereto
fore. A drove Of Colorado stockers
sold at 81 90 today. and other sales
this week have ranged from SO GO
to 81 10. heel steers 80 80 to 81 81,
COWS " 10 to $3.50 TO So 20, a few
at $3.50. stock cows and heifers
$2.40 To 1890, calves $50 to vs. 80
A COOL run of cattle j. expected
next week, attracted by the Ameri.
can Royal Show, but after that
moderate supplies are the prospect
SHEEP and lambs have sold gooC
this week, firm the first half of the
The oasis. [volume] (Arizola, Ariz.) 1893-1920, 1908-10-17
a Slnaloa Visitor.

Mr.. G. A. Ament Of Deming, New
Mexico, who operated formerly in
Sonora has been in Nogales this
week on business. Mr.. Ament has
returned to the West Coast Of
Mexico as a field of operation, and
will devote his attention to the
great opportunities offered in the
state Of Sinalna. In the recent
irrigation congress at Alb lquer-
que Mr.. Ament represented Sina-
loa, carrying credentials from Gov
ernor Canedo. And he states that
he made good use Of the recent
articles on that state in The
OASIS.