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The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-03-25
The Lexington Dispatch.
Wednesday, March rs. 1903.
President z. .. Smith Issues
a Call to tie Farmers.

To the Cotton Growers of South Car
olina:
|. The executive committee of the
South Carolina division of the South
ern Cotton Association has requested
me to issue an address in reference to
the acreage for 1908.
Whatever may be the motives that
prompt it, it is a fact, nevertheless,
that the cotton mills in America are
running on short time; some limiting
their hours per day and others run
ming only certain days in the week.
The effect Of this will be to curtail
the consumption of raw cotton.
It is unquestionably true that we
have made small crop-in fact SO
small that if the mills were running
on full time it would hardly prove ad-
eouata to the demand. It is earnestly
desired by the manufacturing inter
ests to so curtail the use Of raw cotton
that they will have on hand surplus
at the time the new crop comes in.
If the acreage in cotton is not re-
duced, we will be confronted, perhaps,
by a surplus of the old crop and a
large acreage staring US in the face
With these conditions the price of
cotton would be put below the cost Of
production.
The effectupon every branch Of in
dustry and the people throughout the
South would be pitiable indeed if we
are again to have low price cotton.
The situation is entirely in the hands
of the farmer, and earnestly plead
that they raise an abundance of home
supplies, and this in itself will neces-
sariIy reduce the cotton acreage. [
can assure the farmers of South Car
olina that throughout the Southern
States an earnest appeal is being
made to the farmers to- adopt the
course which recommend to you. l
deem it my duty to sound this note OF
warning in ample time to forestal
large crop for 1908.
\ live can make our supplies at home,
our debts will be small and will not
need much cotton to pay them. Let
every farmer profit by the experience
of the past and make enough at home
to enable him to be master of the sit
uation. One course offers continued
prosperity, the other financial embar-.
rassment, inability to meet your obli-
cations and the thousands of other
evils that exist in the South when
cotton is cheap. Hold your spots and
plant provisions. E. D. Smith.
Columhia March 49,
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-03-25
Best Healer In the W orld.

Rev. F. Starbird, of East Raymond,
Maine, says: II have used Bucklen s
Arnica Salve for several years, on my
old army wound, and other obstinate
sores, and find it the best healer IN the
world. T use it too with great success
in my veterinary business" Price 25c
at Kaufman Drug Co., and Derrick s
Drug Store.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-03-25
Notice to Our Customers

We are pleased to announce that
Foley's Honey and Tar for coughs, colds
and lung troubles is not affected by the
Natural Pure Food and Drug law as it
contains no opiates or other harmful
drugs, and we recommend it as a safe
remedy for children and adults. Der
rick's Drug Store.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-03-25

Public Printer Charles S. Stillings
has rendered his resignation to Presiz
dent Roosevelt. His successor will
be named shortly.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-03-25

The Anti-Liquor League of Edge
field, has raised the sum of S400 with
which to fight liquor in that county.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-03-25
# the Baby is Cutting Teeth,

Be sure and use that old and well tried
remedy Mrs. Winslow's Soothing
Syrup, for children teething. Itsooth-
es the child, softens the gums, anays
al; pain, cures wind collie and is the
best remedy for diarrhoea. Twenty
five cents bottle. Guaranteed un-
der the Food and Drug act, June 80,
1906. Serial number 1908.
If It is the best of all.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-12-31

Naples, Dec. 80. Time only con-
firms the unspeakable horrors of the
overpowering catastrophe and mis-
tory. perhaps, never will diyulge
its supremest Individual tragedies,
for earth and sea ruthlesslly claimed
thousands OF human beings, and
flames mercilessly completed the un-
finished devastation.
Naples, vibrant with the memory
of Vesuvius, is Frustrated anew at
the misery and woe from Messina
sconfided to her care. Hotels and pri-
vate homes are crowded with refu-
gees and people are sieing with one
another In aiding the stricken.
Those who have explicit knowledge
on the subject agree that the center
OF the cataclysm was the strait Of
Messina which also is the center 81
the volcanic zone, whose highest
peak, Aetna, is now silent. From
this base. the telluric disturbance ex,
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-12-31

Union City. Tenn, Dec. 80. The
question Of whether or not a wife
can testify for her husband was rails
ed in the night rider trials today
and decided in the negative, but it
was ruled that the wife of one de-
PENDANT might TESTIFY to an alibi for
another defendant. ,$s
When the defense offered to exam
Inc Mrs. Bud Morris, wife of one of
the indicted men, the state objected
and was sustained because the only
alibi she could testify to would be
in behalf Of her husband. Under the
Tennessee law, a wife can testify mel
ther for nor against her husband.
Later the defense put Mrs. Bo'
Hoffman and Mrs. Sam Applewhite
upon the stand and their testimony
Twas admitted Mrs. Hoffman testi
fled to an alibi for Sam Applewhite
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-12-31
THE OHIO SENATORIAL MIDDLE

Columbus, Ohio, Dec. 30.--Wade H.
Ellis, returning today from Augusta,
Ca, where he went to interview Taft
in the interest of the candidacy of his
brother, Charles P. Taft, for the
Ohio senatorship, and plunging into
three-hour conference with the lat
ter and his chief supporters, gave a
decidedly interesting turn to affairs
ON what would otherwise be an ex-
tremely dull day Ii the progress
the contest for Senator Foraker's
seat In the upper house of congress,
Varying reports are afioat tonight
as to the result of Ellis mission.
President Elect Taft has on every
available occasion announced that he
would keep hands of the senator
iai fight. He announced this prior
to the entry OF his brother into il
and reiterated it with emphasis after
ward.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-12-31
VOTERS LEAGUE
ASKS FOR funds
Wants Enough WhereWithal to
Secure Clean Primaries
and Elections in Pitts
burg Next Spring

Pittsburg, Dec. 30.--An appeal for
funds to meet the expenses of the
Voters league in continuing work al
ready started, as well as to broad
en- the field Of that Organizations en-
deavor is the leading development in
the Pittsburg municipal scandal to-
day. Since the arrests of seven coun-
cilmen and two former bankers last
week, the league officers have an
nouneed from time to time the re-
ceipt of liberal contributions, but that
the total of these is inadequate for
the leagues plans is indicated in
letters sent out today marked CON
| fidential' and addressed to heavy
taxpayers and public spirited citizens
of the city.
From an authoritative source it
! is learned that the league proposes
| to raise afund for use in connection
with the primary election next month
| for nomination of candidates for
| mayor, members of councils and 9TH
er municipal offices, as well as for the
local election in February.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-12-31
one Of NATURES BEAUTY
SPOTS IS OBLI1ERA1ED

tended, abating little by little, north
serly as far as Cape Vaticano and
southerly as far as the Bay of Cat
ania, rayaging the western region
of Calabria and the eastern coast of
Sicily for distance of nearly 100
miles. {
It is impossible accurately to ascer-
tain the extent of the movement east
and west in the inland regions, but
the beauty Of one of the most charm
Ing sections Of southern Italy has
been irrevocably despoiled.
Vineyards are no more, waving
rows of lemon, orange and olive
trees have been torn up, and the en-
chanting coast line with its soft and
fragrant foliage has been converted
Into d desert.
| Reggio's gay aspect set OF the Sc
verify Of the mountains and Palmi.
perched iauntily amid the orange
and olive trees. have become mere
blots on the horizon.
u "
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-12-31
NIGHT RIDERS HAVE ALlbI
FIXED Up in nice SHAPE

and Mrs. Applewhite for Bob Hoff-
man.
1t developed that t.Ae Hoffmans
were the guests of Applewhite the
night of the Rankin murder. AS
the evidence was introduced it be-
came evident that half the Reelfoot
lake population spent the night of
the murder, October 10Th, with tae
other half.
To the surprise of everyone, the
state not only admits this, but will
lofer additional proof to substanti-
late it. But the states theory varies
from that of the defense. 1t contends
| that the various male heads of fam.
lilies, knowing that they were going
cut to kill Rankin and Taylor that
might, took their wives to houses
of friends In order that the women
might not be left alone in lonely lake
homes.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-12-31


Whatever was the message which
he returned by Ellis, or whatever adj.
vice he gave, it found reflection only
in the announcement at the conclu-
sion of the conference that the fight
against Congressman Theo. E. Bur-
Ion, the leading candidate in the OPP
position, would be carried forward
with increased vigor
1t was said tonight that Taft and
made plain to Ellis all of the deal
ings which he had had with Burton
regarding tke offer of the treasury
portfolio in his cabinet. 1t was also
said that it was primarily to get a
statement from the president elect
on this matter that Ellis was sent
to Augusta.
It was said at Taft headquarters
tonight that President Elect TAFT
weald not be formally drawn into
the fight except as a last resort.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-12-31
HISTORY
Of America Dis
cusses Manner Of Teach
ing History and Style Of
History Taught in Schools

Richmond, VIZ, Dec. 30.-Meeting
in number of separate sections, the
American Historical association
heard number of papers today, the
most popular feature being the dis
.cussion of the teaching of history
in secondary schools. Discussion on
this topic was led by Professor A.
G. Mclaughlin of the university OF
Chicago, number of practical teach
Sers in school of various grades TAX
ing part. The view was expressed
that in current history too much at
tention was given to wars and polit-
:csi matters, and too little to the life
of the people, and that, ancient his
icryswas not being taught in a way
t, give it practical bearing on pres
ent day life.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-12-31
True TINE
Naval Observatory at Wash.
ington Will, Send Out .Ex-
act Time OF Beginning Of
New Year by Wire To-
night

Washington, D. c., Dec. 30.-The
naval observatory here will send out
four series of New Years eve tele-
graph time signals, at intervals of
exactly one hour, to mark the in
slant of the beginning of the new
year in each of the four great stand
ard time belts into which the United
States is divided, namely, eastern,
central, mountain and Pacific.
Tie signals will be transmitted by
the various telegraph companies as
a matter of public interest. When it
is midnight at Washington, Philadel-
phia and New York, it is II p. m. at
Chicago, st. Louis and New Orleans,
10 p. m. at Denver and 9 p. m. at
San Francisco.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-12-31
EXPERTS Dis
CUSS DIVORCE
Many sOciolOgists Think Il
Best Thing for Misfil
People But others Com.
bat the Idea FuriOusIy

Atlantic City, N. j., Dec. 30.--Argu-23
ments by expert students Of social
conditions who took sides for and
against divorce as means of a1levi-
ating marital unhappiness made a
lively ending to the meeting Of the
American Sociological society here
today.
Following the lead Of DR.. Geo. Ell
hot Howard of Nebraska university,
who claimed that the growth of di-
vorce is necessary for the proper pro-
lection of women against cruel in
difference.
Dr. Joseph Krauskohf of Phila-
| delphia stated his open advocacy Of
separation of men and women who
had been wrongfully bound together
by marital ties which CALLED. In OPP
position to the theories advanced by
these students Walter George Smith,
4 a lawyer and a member of the Ma
4 tional Divorce congress, took the
stand that divorce in any form is
a danger to both home and state.
! During the height Of his argument
the Philadelphia referred to the
! advanced advocates of divorce as
false prophets, and hereties.
Figures that show that over two
thirds of the applications made for
divorce come from wives, were taken
by the divorce advocates as the proof
that growth of the spirit that allows
separation of mis1nated couples is
La sign that wives are claiming. theil
4 rights with the offered alternative q
i leaving their husbands.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-12-31
90 AMERICANS
At MESSlNA
Hotel Said TO Have Been Full
Of Them Some Escaped
Death Of American Con-
sui and Wife Confirmed

Washington, D. g., Dec. 80. Nine
~ Americans were in the Messina
hotel that was destroyed and Italians
and Americans are cooperating in
the quest for information regarding
the missing, is reported upon in a
cablegram to the state department to-.
day received from Ambassador Girls
com at Rome. The ambassador
cab1ed that he has received no word
from the American consuls at Mes
sina and Palermo. He has asked
tie foreign Office for information
and that Office, he adds, will use
every effort through army and navy
officers to obtain immediate news
The consul at Messina is reported
Injured and his wife and children
dead. The ambassador says it is
rel orted that ninety Americans were
in the Tranceria hotel at Messina
! which is said to be totally destroyed.
4 It is known, however, that some OF
the guests escaped. The foreign Of
lice .eperted that several foreign ma
4 tions are hurrying warships to the
scene to offer assistance.
The ambassador has dispatched con-
! sular officers in quest for informa-
| ton. s5 n.
Buried in the Consulate.
i Naples, Dec. 30.-The commander
of tie Russian battleship Makharoff
which has arrived here with refugees
from Messina, brings word that Ar
thur s. Cheney, American consul al
Messina and his wife, died under thu
4 debris of the consulate.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-12-31
KAUFMAN WINS IN
THIRTY-NINTH ROUND.

Los Angeles, Cal, Dec. 80. - AL
Kaufman was awarded the decision
over Jim Barry in the thirty-ninth
round of a forty-flve round go before
the Jeffries A. G. tonight It was a
tame and uninteresting bout through.
out. Barry's manager claimed that:
Barry's hands were broken "
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-12-31
Scores Of Other Towns Add.
Their Thousands to the
List Of Dead While as.
Many More Are s0rely
Injured People Naked
and Without Food and
Great Suffering Will Re.
suit Before the Supplies
Being Rushed Gan Reach
Them Straits Of Messind
Are Clicked With Human
Bodies
j. ]. J. j. : i y = . !. I. $500

IS. i. $ q: = = = $ = $500 =
Rome, Dec. 80 The immensi- :.
i ty of the disaster in southern :
1. Italy and Sicily can only be =
Il measured by the fact that it is ::
I. now estimated that 10, 900 peo- :
= pie persisted In Messina and $
J: Reggie alone A score of other s
4. towns have been devastated and :.
(. thousands Of victims in these =
II places must be added to the :.
!. roll. In the face of these awful =
: totals, all Italy stands appalled,. 4.
!. :. Il Il: s. = q = =. s. 4. =. :. 4. 4 ~
ss Nor has full death list yet been
reached. Shiploads Of fugitives have
arrived at Naples and other ports and
3 vast majority are sorely injured.
Other thousands remain near the
ruins Of homes or wander half starry.
ing, half naked, over the land.
The forces that on Monday over
whefmed the cities also destroyed
the means Of sustenance. Telegraph
lie communication has been established
with Messina, the apparatus having
been established in a railway van.
I Messages which have come over the
1 line, though they have been meagre
4 IN detail, show that hope is gone.
Nothing remains Of the city but a
mass of ruins that have been swept
& BY fire. A mere handful of survivors
are being cared for by the rescuing
& forces, but their distress is great and
1T has been increased by violent
wind that followed the deluge Of rain
50. = = = = = : :
/. Destitution is eyeryWhtre and !
= appalling. There is little food :
(: and less water. ?
!. OF Messina's ninety thousand :
/. population it is believed that !:
!. fully 10000 persisted. Forty I;
1. thousand people died in Reggie. !:
1: Z. Z. i. = !: !. = : 8
King Victor Emanuel and Queer
h Helena were In Messina today. He
explored the ruins. regardless Of the
danger to which he exposed himself
He was often moved to tears a
heart scenes which came VI
at every turn the king was lo,it
In praise of the splendid work accom-
plished nv the italian, Russian ant
English bluejackets, who saved man.
persons who otherwise would have in
evitably persisted.
The queen spent the day In tn
wards OF the improvised hospitals Wis
iting the wounded, many OF whom
have lost all that was dear to them
Her majesty did her best to chez
them with womanly words Of conso
lation, often breaking into sobs q
she listened to their dreadful tales 9
suffering. The king left for Reggi
tonight.
Gatania, the largest city nearest tn
zone OF disaster, is crowded with re
fugees, and continuous stream 9
sugitives is coming in and the sigh
Of the wounded and the fear Of q re
petition Of real Or imaginary earth
quakes have SO alarmed the pcpula
ton that they are becoming ilncon
trollable. There is no longer an
place where refugees may find shelter
l., Y r.. I, s,isso ha "a nj Bnnfiff
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-12-31
TRI-sTATE WEATHER.

TRI-sTATE WEATHER.
North Dakota-Fair Thursday and
Friday; colder in southeast portion
Thursday. . 81 ss. II
South Dakota Fair Thursday; in
:creasing cloudiness Friday, continued
cold ~
Minnesot Fair, colder Thursday;
Friday fair and cold fresh northwest
winds. ., 8. .s@
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-12-31
l50,OOOLIVES ARE WIPED OUT bYNA-
T(JRE'S ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ITALY.

of the town was laid waste. All the
villages adjacent suffered as severely.
The king has telegraphed Premier
4Gio1itti, informing him that Reggie
is in the same awful condition as
Messina and announcing that Rus
sian steamer with five hundred in
habitants will arrive at Naples to-
morrow. His majesty asks that ell
preparations be made for their rec
turn at the hospitals and requests
that the ships be sent back with all
the doctors that can be mustered.
Dispatches from Catania describe
Messina as appearing like huge
incandescent furnace. The fire has
spread to the buildings that had not
vet fallen, completing the work Of
destruction. Mi.
/. !. :. =. !: !: :. :. 4 = I: I. = : =
: The strait Of Messina is now 4
| = choked with scorpses of men and $
4 = women.
(. . : !. :
1 At the present time there are
/ twelve warships at Messina, four Ital-
ian, four. British and four Russian,
as well as a number of destroyers and
steamers, the latter belonging to the
Italian General Navigation company,
The injured are being carried aboard
1 the steamers and will be removed to
Naples. Is. ..,ss8
The relief work now is well begun
!. but hundreds of persons are wander:
B ing about the ruins like madmen
4 They are being given food and cloth
4 ing as fast as it is possible.
New-York tribune., 1908-04-12

nearby suburban places Long Island West
chester. New Jersey and IN Richmond that the
prospective homeseeker. looking for q comfortable
house. with rural Surroundings. viii be forced 10
60, II he 10 live in a place with a rural
atmosphere and having city advantages. Many
realty leaders hold to the opinion that the trend
Of suburban development will be greater along the
New Jersey tunnel system than along the easterly
lines OF the tunnel projects
These persons however, seem 10 have overlooked
the aims OF the Long Island Railroad system.
which is planning to afford residents OF Brooklyn
and adjoining places an attractive means OF trav-
ellng TO and from points beyond Jamaica IN a
manner entirely satisfactory from the point view
Of the cOmmUteT.
AIMS OF THE LONG ISLAND RAILROAD
The Flatbush avenue extension OF the Long
Island Railroad is a third rail tunnel system.
representing investment OF over 81 OOo COO and
many millions more will probably be expended by
the company in enlarging that system or improy-
ing it in the next few years The aims Of this
system to afford a cheap safe and easy vehicle
travel and from ali stations within the local
districts and 70 points ON Long Island all hours
or the day until early the following morning
Whenever the traffic Warrants IL the road intends
to operate trains a schedule OF about fifteen
minutes headway after midnight. and thus tho
persons who make their homes ON the island and
are detained ths city until late hour viii be
able 10 Ect home without much delay ana almost
quickly as In the daytime.
New-York tribune., 1908-04-12

driven in the four railroad tracks it there
will be- for the first time in the history of this
city, all-rau through New York between
New England and the South. An idea OF the
engineering feats accomplished in erecting this
bridge may be had from the fact that it's carrying
capacity will be about twenty times greater than
that OF the old Brooklyn Bridge. OF the four
tracks. two will be for passenger and two
for freight service- The passenger tracks, by
way OF a cutoff in Queens County, Will connect
with the Pennsylvania Railroad tunnel and its
central station at 23d street and Seventh avenue
Manhattan, and the Long Island Railroad with
its seashore resorts and city stations and all OF
these railroad systems with the New York, New
Haven & Hartford and other New England lines
The freight tracks will run across Queens, and
with the Long Island Railroad viii form a big
loop around Brooklyn
BUILDING FREIGHT CENTRE IN BROOKLYN.
Through freight from New England for the
South and West Will be carried this
and New York Bay from Bay Ridge
Greenville, ~. J. Thus there will be distinct
routes for the two classes OF traffic and neither
will interfere with the other. With this connect
ing railroad and bridge and with the many plans
being carried out by tho city for improving tho
pier facilities OF Brooklyn the industrial growth
Of Brooklyn is expected 10 keep pace with its
remarkable residential .vigor Tt should prove to
Germs than II is nou. and II many Of tho big fac
tory plants established throughout the country
should locate In Brooklyn, II viii mean greater