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New-York tribune., 1908-07-05

it up in papers which make you look perfect fright
and are so abominably lumpy to sleep in. And con-
cerning humps, how did Mr. Morson get his lump, to
which he had referred humorously as Exhibit
A? She herself had noticed one of the tugboat men
with coal shovel in his hands. This might
tainlv be a logical origin of the confusion, and
But no, Mr.. Morsons lump has stitches in it
stitches that must have hurt him trlghttully. No
wonder he had become faint and dizzy poor fellow
Anybody but a very brave person would have
screamed.
Valda started, her keen powers Of perception
ceiving a shock. The weakest and most improbable
part Of Morson's story had embraced the crazy in
cidents Immediately attendant upon that lump;
yet now in the cold. calm light of reason, it became
cause OF its simplicity of fact. Given a head hit
hard enough, and that head would bleed. Results
perfectly natural nd-doctor-stitches-p
-dizziness-intelgence part of trained physi-
1t was all 50 clear now! Morson had told the
New-York tribune., 1908-07-05

NALDA," said Miss Polly with s-a--- sudden-
ness. did YOU notice how his a..- euT-' aP
over his left ear -
Whos' asked Valda sharply ra-a-. .apoitey
and Polly answered with a pardon d'Sl "a
sarcastic scOrn -
think | meant" s..
Now. whatever were really Valid thoughts
concerning the owner of the ear and h-- her repF
was quite as remarkable the Tracy person con-
rnent the poet Keats Verbally. It was notnils
Dramatically, IT was much She Spr11- rom . Hr
seat cast the box of chocolates TO an ur Ietla-I'
sea- went hurrIedlv TO her state room. --i DahseI
the door. Next morning the carpen-c- came -
and mended it -,
Goodness" exclaimed Aunt Mary. Go9dnes'
me. Polly my dear l verify believe that cnid .
about to become a sufferer from mai a. ".'1 -
But Valda was not seasck- She was '1sr plalH
heartsick,-which is worse, for there Is -'-hihS =
take for it: but NaIda tried Unlike the lnlSntS -
old who always buckled up for dough-Z deed. snS
unbucked. That Is to say, she unhOoNet. ui'iioe'-
united undid; but mainly. Ike millions '- heI 50
ter sufferers, Miss Nalda GIrard unpInre l. ne-'
when lightly garbed and ready for the fray. She pe
pared 10 make her beautiful face unbea---tu- o' .
long and lovely, delicious cry. 49,,
She did it for twentv-seven minutes without -A'
inconvenience of sob restrictors meaning there
by COrsetS. Then she sat up and observed reS'-1.I
in a mirror. They not hatteunE- @Ae V0'
herself that she was simply. absolutely Ele!'.sf
which. by the way. was the biggest no she niI ''l
vet and she knew it. Still, she had looked h~s-
proceeded to obhterate the wreck of woe by t1
application of cold cream and nine other uiCI~Uo ~
articles, rubbed on and IN and over and or oH -
tient intricate art the while she criticized cretl'
generally and adversely s..
And TO think she muttered, among on
things, of Polly Thurman being such a sA-'l11,T -
silly little fool as 20 notice whether man 5 L''
CurlS up over ear or not t
1t was simply perfectly. positively rid-l"oas
And besides she told her pathet,c s'eaS+,
streaked image in the glass, his halr cur' up J'
exactly the same owl both ears,
New-York tribune., 1908-07-05

MS was prODdDlF an ulIDl JIlOtIO%
method of railroad construction; but
then. YOU know. Egypt Is a strange
country. and maybe things are done
differently down there.
Then there was a different scene.
and 1t was in house "a very different
sort of house. for there weren't any
walls to it, only poles so that the
breeZeS might come in, and there was
mating on the floor, and queer look
ing water jugs hung up by strings.
And there was a woman IN that
house, foreign woman, because she
wore bangles which clinked when her
brown hands wandered feveriShly.-
and the elder of the men was rather
nice to her The younger man was
there too He walked softly up and
down. up and down. and carried a
little brown baby in his arms 1t
was a funny little baby, 50 foreign
and cute, with deliciously comic little
features which became all wrinklv
when it howled And the young man
jounced it up and down and sang silly,
tender things TO it So Valda. some
how, grew intensely interested-in the
baby As for the two men. that was
a matter of perfect Indifference to her
perfect And then a sheIk or some
thing came along and told them he
was Very much obliged TO them, and
that they must either accept a large
fortune or have a lance run through
their livers. And then
New-York tribune., 1908-07-05

NALDA." said Aunt Mary. Mr..
V Tracy regret TO state, Is very
vulgar person.
is he" asked Valda absently, and
Aunt Mary seemed surprised.
Yes. she reiterated, he is, Also.
though | hesitate in CritiCiZing any
New-York tribune., 1908-07-05

Tracy person spoke up with an animation that
to me | confess. Is utterly IncOmprehensIble
What did he say asked Polly heard
at the time: but-but | wasn't listening.
He said. replied Aunt Mary, while a puzzled
expression ridged her placid brow he said, No.
ma am we don't know Keats Person5ay, as YOU
might saw but We saw him once II sd stX-round 90
with Patsy McCue of Brooklyn
Valda wanted TO laugh. She wanted TO do 50
very much indeed; vet. being more refined than
the Tracy person she choked and said nothing.
Aunt Mary went on as placidly as before.
Il have been wondering ever since what the
creature possibly could mean; and Nr. Ornond
also was astonished, if not mortified. Tor L dis
tinctly detected him IN the act OF kicking NJ
Tracy beneath the table on one of his limbs.
Valda ate a chocolate from box that lay n
her lap, but offered no solution of the problem
then while Polly and Aunt Mary discussed It N
all its lights she turned to the hole m the moon
light and hurried back 70 Egypt. without even
checking her trunks
THIS time she hunted for the two men. brazenly'
and found them IN rather an odd place. 1t was
a sort of hut place on river bank. AMI 1t was no.
and close One of the brown men -ts m d oulA'
though he wasn't brown any IOnge~. but White
and very still and the other man sat BESIDE nm
and held his hand. 1t was IN the night time l0O'
but not the night time either. eNac-.-. but Ve1y
early in the morning, for the desert "-, gray, anu
a hot red snudge was burning Il the east anu
smells came UP from the river and made one long
to run away; but the brown man STAYED ard ne-l
his fathers hand It was a frIghtrc..E not SpeLI'-
hOrrible!-and there was no wind, no Ice, ana an
other red dav was coming fast Ih-1 me Oro%A
man stopped and kissed the other gently on the
mouth: and Ealda knew-althOugl she c0uIdh
couJdtt look-that man was dead but lne
and his face was pale and drawn AMI 5-lrr 'inl
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able and almost entirely
honest gentlemen she
longed to box his ears
hard. AS for his disrepu-
table profession of worm
ing secrets out of people
well, it was simply
unbearable! Sympathy
was his long suit, was it
He had expected to win
her over with his croco-
die tears and his dancing
master bowings and
scrapings! Well, thank
goodness there was some
Intelligence left in the
world, after all,
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-09-30
Pond Branch Items.
D the Editor of The Dispatch:

10 the Editor OF The Dlspatch:
Cotton is being rapidly gathered in
this section. On account of the dry
weather few months ago the crop
will be very short. But if the farm
ers could secure y cents pound for
their cotton the short crop would not
be felt SO much.
Mrs. T. NJ. Kennedy, of New Brook
land, spent few days in the Pond
Branch section last week.
We can very we'll judge mans oc-
cupation by his conversation. If he
is a farmer he talks about his farm;
if he is dairynan he speaks of his
COWS and if heis big hunter he is in
favor Of the fox law. Now, Mr.. Ed
itor, is it right for the poor hard
working countrymen to stand, not
only in the night, but in broad day
light, and see the fox destroying
their chickens, turkeys and geese,
and thus be dared to kill the fox for
fear of having TO suffer the penalty of
the law? No; say it is not right to
submit to such law just to please
the big fox-hunters. It is true that
the lnlnks destroy some poultry III
some sections, bat nOU SO in every
case. l trust that, our Representa-
tives who have just been elected, Will
investigate the matter, and have the
law repealed. Z. 5. L.
Gilbert, Sept. IS.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-09-30

Mothers don't give your baby any
thing that contains opiates CT any
other injurious drugs, but insist on
having Dr.. Thornton's "Easy-Teeth-
err, as it is the best medicine on the
market for teeJhing babies, and is alb
solutely harmless as it does not con-
tain any opiates Or Injurious drugs Of
any kind. 1t is guaranteed under
Pure Food and Drugs Act, Guaranty
No. 1854. Price 35 cents. For sale
by Derrick Drug Co.; or Easy-Teeth-
er Medicine Co., HartWell, Ga.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-09-30
Notice, Trasrassess.

This is to notify all persons not to
hunt or trespass in any manner upon
our lands, as the lawwill positively be
enforced against all persons violating
this notice.
THos. w. GUNTER,
Sent. 24-4w. JEROME RISH.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-09-30
Post Cards.

Ned and Brack Toland post cards,
with Sheriff Corley reading the death
warrant on the scaffold, for sale at 2
for cents, or mailed to any address
ugon receipt Of stamps or coins. A
good souvinir of the famous hanging.
Rice B. Harman.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-09-30

Invested elsewhere would not give
YOU as much nice Furniture out OF one
500 cwt. Bale. AS you would realize at
the present price if you bought your
Furniture from
The Lion Furniture Co.,
Columbia, S. q.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-09-30
Shoes ara Hats.

Meetze &: Son are displaying all the
new styles and shapes in shoes and
hats. Call to see their line before
buying elsewhere. The prices will
please you.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-09-30
" D. Bates,

Bates sells it for less-yes, he does
if you don't believe it just read the
bargains he is offering through the
advertising columns of The Dispatch
this week. 'Nough said-Bates sells
it for less, yes, he does.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-09-30
Fer Sale,

A stock of merchandise, consisting
of groceries, hardware, ETC., that we
will sell in bulk at bargain. Tim
norman & Oswald, Lexington, S. G.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-09-30

One acre lot at Hyatt Park on car
line, corner lot, price 81 900, easy terms.
Six room house and large lot on car
line. Price S1,500. Three hundred
cash, balance four years.
A beautiful lot in the city, nicely To-
Gated, for 81, 1850.
Two six room dwellings on lumber
street, recently built, for, each, $4,000,
good terms.
Four 3-room houses in Waverly that
rent for SIG per month, price $1,450.
$500 cash, balance five years.
Four houses and large lot corner
Gervais and Williams streets. Size of
houses, 7, 6, and 2 room houses, in
fine condition. Price $4,000. Good
terms.
Improved place, 166 acres, 10 miles
from Columbia, on railroad, 20 acres in
cultivation, part of which will make a
bale of cotton per acre. The saw timber
has been estimated to cut 100000 feet OF
lumber. Price $1,650.
Improved place, 90 acres Of land with
grist mill that runs by water, prlce
$3.50.
$40 acres, 200 acres in cultivation
This is an improved place with two
dwellings and six or eight tenant houses
125 acres in pasture. Price per acre,
$3.50.
334 acres, so acres in cultivation,
good dwelling and outbuildings, grist
mill and gin that runs by water. Price
$4,000.
IS acres, nine miles from Columbia
and near railroad. price, $780, The
place is cheap at $500.
290 acres unimproved al S1.75 per
acre.
Improved place, IA acres, 30 in cul-
tivation, 16 miles from Columbia, near
railroad. Price $1,000.
House and lot, Eau Claire, 81 100.
Three hundred cash, SIS month.
100 acres of land near Columbia.
Three tenat houses, so acres in cultiva-
ton, balance woods. Cheap and good
terms.
An improved place of $50 acres, two
and half miles from Denmark, price
per acre, $780,
Two acres of land on road near car
line; per acre, 500.
An improved place, 80 acres, 25 acres
in cultivation and near railroad. Price
5000; $500 cash, balance, one, two and
three years.
300 acres of land, dwelling and out
buildings, 50 acres in cultivation that
will make bale of cotton per acre.
Price, 81 800; $500 cash, balance, one,
two and three years; near railroad.
r r. M0PT,EV
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-09-30
The Lexington Dispatch.
Wednesday, September so. 1908.
5naex ts New Advertiser enrs

index ts New Advertisements.
Whiskey-A. Hacke & Co.
Optician-L. J. Robbins.
Guns-Jacob Bros.
Announcement-Whitten.
Fall Opening-Mimnaugh.
Citizens Bank of Batesburg.
Bargains-W. D. Bates.
Furniture-Lion Furniture Co.
Jewelry-E. P. Epting.
Lanes Kidney Medicine.
Fall Goods-Platt.
Notice-Sarah Black Chestnut.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-09-30
Church Notices.

At Nazareth next Sunday the SER
vices will be under the direction of
the Woman's Missionary Society, fol-
lowed by an address by the pastor.
The usual services at ST. Johns in
the afternoon.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-09-30
For Rent,

Half Of the Lexington Department
Store building-one of the prettiest
stores in town. Apply to Karl +.
Oswald, Lexington, S. G.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-09-30
For Sale, Lease Or Rent.

I will sell, lease or rent my place
,pp Hollow. Greek, 100 acres; good
sthree-horse' farm of open land; good
for corn, cotton and grain. Good
dwelling and outbuildings ;good water.
For further particulars apply to j. 81.
Price, Gilbert, S. c., R. F. D. 9.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-09-30
Best Treatment for a Burn.

If for no other reason, Chamberlain s
Salve should be kept in every household
on account of its great value in the
treatment of burns. It allays the pain
almost instantly, and unless the injury
is a severe one, heals the parts without
leaving a scar. This salve is almost un-
euualed for chapped hands, sore nipples
and diseases Of the skin. Price, % cents.
For sale by Kaufman Drug Co.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-09-30
Joint Council Meeting.

There will be a meeting of the
. Joint Council of Bethel charge held
at White Rock on Saturday, Oct. 10,
at 10 O'Clock a. m. All members re-
quested to attend.
John G. Swygert.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-07-15
WEED VISUAL PROOF.

The value OF agricultural college
experiment stations can no where be
better proven than in tests covering
the various methods of seeding and
the results with each method. we
have In this state a widely varying
soil and climate. We have con-
siderable difference in rainfall. There
are certain methods by which wheat
is sown that will enable the grow
ing crop to Withstand to the utmost
the disadvantages of heat and dry
weather. And there are certain
methods of sowing the grain that will
cause It most quickly to succumb to
adverse circumstances.
We have had and will have many
examples Of the different results OBJ
tanned from good and poor methods
of planting, whether the grain Is
ssls n13l =
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-07-15

wheat, oats, corn or any other sort
OF crop. If we have experimental
farms in various sections of the state
where grain is sown according tc
the varying methods in vogue, and
the result of good sowing over poor
can be demonstrated usually to the
farmers themselves, we shall have
done much to improve farming
methods. 5z1. sE
. = There is as much difference in the
results of good and bad farming as
there is difference in the results OF
good and bad business methods. One
man will prosper and another will
fail under precisely similar condi-
tions. And we need, not precept, but
the strongest kind of visual proof tc
convince our farmers of the neces-
sity for finding the best methods and
applying them.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-07-15
THINK FOR THEMSELVES.

President Gompers of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, it is said,
will support Bryan in the coming
campaign. Mr.. Gompers is a Demo-
crat and it is not unnatural that he
should declare his allegiance to the
Democratic party as an individual.
AS president Of the Federation of
Labor, it is not probable that he
will WELD much greater influence
with the membership Of that body
than any other individual. $50. , -,
The members of the Federation are
self-thinking men, who determine
for themselves what is best. They
will hardly accept the political die
tatfon from any officer of their or
ganization, nor will any effort be
made by the officers to dictate to
them.
I The prosperity of Industrial work
ers under Republican and Democrat
ic administrations has been deter.
mined relatively In. number Of in
stances There may be differences as
to policies directly affecting labor or
CARNATIONS, but the Republican party
has always been the greatest friend
of labor in that its policies have
supplied general and remunerative
employment. This is, after all, the
test Of industrial and economic poll
cfes, and the great body of 1aborers
of this country will decide for them
selves, what policies will work to
their best interest.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-07-15
FOUR YEARS AHEAD.

We do not attach any great
amount of importance to Mr.. Bryan s
declaration that if elected he will not
be a candidate for second term.
In the first place it should not be
necessary for man qualified to be
president of the United States to in
sure the uprightness and squareness
OF his official actions by removing
from himself the temptations of a
second term. And in the second
place, we believe president of the
United States should have the entire
right to go before the people on the
question of approval of his policies
If his party desires him to do so.
And again, we fear that Mr..
Bryan's declaration is intended for
effect with the voters, since he could
with all truth say that he was not
q candidate for second term With
out resisting the nomination forced
upon him by his party. And the re-
ward of a second term is certainly
as apt to lead a president in the way
he should go as to make him swerYe
from his duty in seeking it.
( Four years in these strenuous
times is not great while in which
TO make effective any radical changes
In government policies, Mr.. Bryan
allows himself altogether too short
q time In which to bring about ali
the reforms he processes, in case he
should be elected. Declarations of
specific purpose at distance Of four
years are not always evidence Of
sound thinking or statesmansfip.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-07-15
BRYAN WOULD REAssURE US.


Golfers Weekly has supplied us
with the statements of Mr.. Taft and
Mr.. Bryan as to their conceptions of
the presidency. Mr.. Bryan's is the
more recent, since he was nominated
more recently. A careful reading of
Mr.. Bryan's statement will prove how
anxious he is to convince the peo-
pie of the country that his election
is not inimical to the country's best
interests. He shows how the presi-
dent is hedged about with safeguards
so that he cannot go far wrong. He
shows how congress must enact the
laws and the presidents duties are
recommendation and executive.
Indeed, he would convince us that
had he been elected at the time of
the free silver heresy, he would have
done no great harm. Had he been
elected at the time his declaration
for state and federal ownership of
railroads, he could have done no
great harm. But the memory of Mr.
Bryan's declarations upon two mat
tiers so important as the finance and
the transportation, upon both of
which he seemed to have been prov
en- wrong, for the Democratic plat
form of this year mentions neither Of
them, will finger with the people
of the United States. They will hard
~ forget that his economic theories
have been abandoned, and that he
goes before the people again as a
candidate who says 81 was wrong
twice before on vital issues, but /
am right now. - ~ a
1t is this unsafety of Bryan as a
statesman. this uncertainty Of poll
icy, this evidence of repeatedly mis-
taken Judgment, that deprives him Of
the confidence of the people, and that
makes it necessary for him to show
that he could do no harm, even E he
were elected.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-07-15
What Is the Des MOines Plan?

ific measure itself. A petition if not
less than ten per cent of the quail
fed voters is necessary to- bring a
proposed ordinance before the people.
The section Of the law covering the
initiative and also the referendum is
mandatory upon the council and COM
pels the calling of special election
upon petition of the required number
of voters.
The clause in the plan which pro.
vides for the referendum places in
the hands of the electors power to
block any legislation, with the excep
ton of such as may be required by
state law or the public safety. If
during ten days after the passage Of
an ordinance by the city council, 2;
per cent of the voters petition to have
the matter submitted to popular vote
the ordinance will not go into effect
until a majority at a special election
vote in favor of it.
The plan has attracted world wide
attention. Booklets containing the
| charter have been published by the
commercial club and distributed b.
| the thousand to applicants from
Maine to California. President Eliot
of Harvard has evinced such interes
in the plan that he made it the sub
ject of special inquiry on a recent
visit to Des Moines. =
The adoption of the charter by the
| metropolis of Iowa marks the begin
ming of a new era of civic spirit Il
is also one of the outward evidences
| of commercial awakening that bids
fair to work a business revolution in
| the middle west. =.
During the past eighteen months
Des Moines, the capital and metrop.
oils of Iowa, has undergone a com
| mercial metamorphosis. Established
business expanded with remarkable
rapidity and new businesses have
! sprung into being. Factories have
been built, jobbing houses opened
new territory invaded by commercial
travellers from Des Moines, electric
railways placed under construction
conventions entertained, q new city
charter known as the Des Moines
plan adopted and placed in opera.
ton and public projects have been
given support hitherto denied.
The best measure of city's public
spirit is its gift to educational and
philanthropic institutions. During
the brief period mentioned Drake
university has collected for its new
library $4,000; Des MONIES college
has just finished raising about $685.
600 for new buildings; the Young
Women's Christian association @ Ii
nearing the conclusion Of its canvass
for $4,000 to cover the expense of q
new home; the women's clubs have
opened a new free public art gallery