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The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-02-12
Valentines.

New comic, lace, sachet, fancy,
novelty and post card Valentines.
New line,of fine imported Valentines.
Largest, best and cheapest selection
ever shown in Lexington at The Ba-
zaar.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-02-12
70 Break In New Shoes Always
Use

Aliens Foot-Ease, a powder. 1t pre-
vents Tightness and Blistering, cures
Swollen, Sweating, Aching feet. At
all Druggists and shoe stores, 25c.
Sample mailed FREE. Address, A.
S. Olmsted, LIE Roy, n. Y. 4w17
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-02-12
Church Notices.

Rev. M. o. J. Kreps, of Prosperity,
Min preach at Providence next Sat
urday at 8 p. m., at ST. Johns on
Sunday at II a. M, and at Nazareth
8tSS33. 80 p. NJ.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-02-12
Rev. Quick Loses Fine Mule.

Rev. w. D. Quick lost fine mule
q few days ago, the animal dying
non an internal growth. The mule
was valued at $3.50.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-02-12
Oyster Supper Saturday Night.

The Ladies Aid Society of the Bap-
tist church at Lexington will serve
oysters, ice cream, and other refresh
ments on Saturday night, the 18TH,
at the home of Miss Sue Corley.
Plenty to eat, hearty welcome and
an enjoyable time will be in store for
all who come. Bring your friend
with you and spend few pleasant
hours together.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-02-12
Departmsn eat Store Closed.

The Lexington Department Store
has been forced into involuntary
bankruptcy, and the store has been
closed since the first of February.
Mr.. Karl F. Oswald has been appoint
ed trustee and the matter is now be-
fore Referee John j. Earle in Colum-
bia.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-02-12
saw MIL Burned.

Mr.. Pierce Amick, residing about
three miles North of Gilbert, lost has
saw-mill by fire on last Wednesday
night. The plant was entirely des-.
troyed. The origin of the fire is un-
known.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-02-12
MI E}I1TI!DERS' SUPPLY CO.,
D2crnlaii.

norman.
Mr.. II. Leland Crouch, oS L""sville,
has accep-ed d position with the Gun
te: Drug Co.
The bank building to be occupied
by the First National Bank is bearing
completion. Mr.. J. j. Seastrun>, the
we'll known contractor Of this section,
has supervision Of the work.
Feb. 10. A.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-02-12
For Sale.

Good mich cow with young calf.
Apply to Heber Ballentine,
Nv Gilbert, S. c.. R. F. D. 8.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-02-12
Paid for Ills Paper Two Years.

s did TOT Els psi VIZ z esss 90
We are just in receipt of a brand
new 50 bill from Mr.. julie A, Krentz-
len, of Washington, D. c., which
runs his subscription two years in ad-
vance. Mr.. Krentzlen writes that
The Dispatch sounds from home,
that's what She is to mel 1t is such
letters as these that gives us renewed
hope and energy to make "he Dis
patch better every issue.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-02-12
Lost.
Liberal re-

pair of fur gloves. Liberal re-
ward if returned to
g. G. YOJNT, Lexington, S. 6.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-02-12
Rricls M:ill for sale.

We have for sale, at a bargain, one
brick mill. Apply to Jake snelgrove
& Sons, Lexington, s. G.
Twp.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-02-12
The Lexington Dispatch.
Wednesday. February IL, 1868.
Index Co New Advertisements.

Dispensary report.
Mules Rutland-Brabham Co.
Clerks Sales.
Warning-J. w. Sharpe.
Mules Gregory Conder Mule Co.
Pinkhan's Vegetable Compound.
Spring Suits--Tapp.
Stock Caughman Bros.
Mules Rhea Live Stock Co.
Spring Goods-N. A. Young.
New Goods VIM. Platt.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-02-12
NEW SHIRTWAISTS.

One big lot Of fine White Sheer Lawn Shirtwasts,
beautifully tucked No such value offered hereabous
before at our special price, 81 90
New Spring Shirtwaists from S1O0 to $59S each.
The newest styles, special values.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-05

Mr. Clarkson. In a second the old man went white
with the pallor of death. Bob, his beloved Bob had
been hurt at the mines. Natalie, the business
enterprise, everything forgotten in his eager
ness to catch the first train, to hurry out west to
the bedside of his boy.
There was snow on the ground when he re.
turned. Bob had been sent ahead in the care of
trained nurse and already convalescing, al
though the splint which held his fractured leg still
hung suspended from the ceiling of his little
in the hospital AS the old man entered the room
a young lady who had been sitting beside the in
valid reading aloud to him, arose as if to hasten
away.
Miss Bradford, I'm so delighted to see you" he
exclaimed interceptng her flight. 81 you
deep debt of gratitude for lookin after this young
ster of mine. His letters are all full of the books
you have been readin' to him." The girl extended
her hand, flushing warmly. Things had been
happening in that narrow room things which
would have much to do with shaping the future
destiny of Robert Allison. When the girl insisted
at last that she must go home Benjamin would
not have it other than that he should escort her.
He had business with her father, he told Bob by
way of explanation. Outside the hospital he got
down to business with the daughter, for it was
only short walk to her home.
Miss Bradford, will you call me an old fool
when | tell you that you amt been out of mr
mind for a single hour since | met your" he be-
gan abruptly. The girl looked at him curiously.
ut hasn't been much than hour since
you met me-" she said 81 should hope you
wouldn't lose me entirely from your mind as long
as | was in your sight, even if Bob-your neph-
Mr.. Allison there" and her cheek crimsoned
with embarrassment.
81 don't mean my second meeting with you to-
day." he insisted. 81 had reference to the delight
full evening | spent in your society" He was
talking with evident effort, attempting to make his
English conform to the rules. He remembered
vaguely that he had not felt this restraint in her
presence the first time they met THAT evening
when you took my foolish old heart by storm and
made me feel like young colt friskn around
the pastcher instead of a silly old widower who
swore 'leven year ago that he would never marry
again, no not the Queen of England. l know was
an idiot to hope that it struck you as hard as 1t
did me that night"
But l never you before in my life" the
OF n1ea6ed
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-05

had the dignity, the height, the learning of the
family, Natalie the piquancy, the dimples, the
beauX.
1t was in connection with of these beaux
that they learned how absolutely their mirrors
and the eyes of their friends had been deceived.
Henry Bradford on the verge of financial
collapse. Some multimiliOnaire had been trim
ming" him, along with host of other small men
in the business and it had come to the point where
he had to face ignominious defeat-or sell out to
the Trust. Henry Bradford was not the man to
sell out. And yet there the two girls, just
out in society, and the mother with boundless
ambition for the girls. Was ever father so
bounded, so set upon from every quarter? Pride
in his business integrity, pride in his family!
Between the two, he on the verge of distrac
ton when old Benjamin Clarkson CHANGED to drop
into the office.
How're you maxim it, Hank, my boy?" he
rumpled through his thick gray moustache, a
kindly curtain which served to at least partially
conceal the toothless condition of his month
"As bad as could be-" the younger man returned,
trying to laugh. Mr. Clarkson, they've got me
going In six weeks I'll be out of the running
one way or the other. Either I'll be Infamous
coward and settle down with fat wad in my
pocket or the officers will come around and close
my doors-and you know what that will mean for
my family"
eyes, you'll get down to work with your fists,
like your dad done in the old days when me and
tall hustling under him. You was ten years old
in them days when | made my strike for liberty
and riches" with jolly grin on his scanned old
face 81 was eighteen and, Lordee how the time
do fly | turned sixty last month Say, Hank, I've
got as pretty country place as you ever see
windmill and big red barn and an orchard that
brings me in five thousand a year without me
havin' to touch apple on the trees. I'll tell
you what. If the wost comes to the wost, III
give you job overseein' my place"
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-05

1t had never occurred to any of their friends
that the Bradford girls looked particularly alike.
clear compilations and hair that no drug store
compound could initiate; but beyond the
matter of coloring, and a tantazing family re-
semblance" that crept out around the corners of
the mouth and the eyes when they laughed
were taken by surprise, the sisters they
had not been cut off the same pattern. Helena
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-05

Never saw me! Oh Lordee, that's hard Here
I've been hopin' that might win you, maybe be-
cause | loved you and maybe out of gratitude
for what l done for your father. l wouldn't
how l got you, SOS | got you. And now you tell
you've forgot you ever seen me Don't you
remember seven weeks ago when you cooked the
dinner and you sent me to look at the sunset and
and" He remembered her kindness that oc-
casion and his ardor increased
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-09
LYON TALKS SHARPLY.
Attorney General Says He Will Save
 State From PIundering.

Columbia, S. C., March 8.-When At torney General Lyon was shown the press dispatches as to the reported attempt to have him attached for contempt on account of the strictures of Judge Pritch- and contained in the interview given out by him in Augusta, Ga, last night, he said:
 Ut is not surprising that these harpies (referring to the liquor lawyers) should wish to have men attached for con- tempt. This vail was probably caused not from any disregard which may have been shown the learned judge, but more probably from the prospect of being kept for long while from plundering and feasting upon the revenues of South Caro- lima
 q repeat again that l will use every lawful means to save the state from the possibility of such plundering and will proceed in the courts of the state to checkmake the liquor houses that have fed upon the state whenever it may be proper to do so, any orders of the United States circuit court to the con trary notwithstanding.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-09
BLOODY HE'D OF THREG CONv|CTS Deputy WardB ! Is Murdered
 By the llI Breakers TWO OF CON |IcTS ARE SHOT Attack Is Made pon Prison Officials In Office and leputy Warden Is
 Instantly Kled-convicts
 May Recover.
TWO OF CON |IcTS ARE SHOT

Deer Lodge, Mat. March S.-Warden Frank Conley of te Montana penitentiary was severely wodded today and Assist ant Warden John Robinson was killed by three life conviet George Rock, W. H.. Hayes and anoth{ who tried to escape from prison. Rolhsons throat was cut from ear to ear ad the juglar vein was severed. Conley's lhroat was gashed, and he was stabbed setral times in the shoul- der and in the groh before he was to able to draw his revhver and shoot down Hayes and Rock, who were armed with pocket knives It believed that the war den will recover. he three convlcts were taken to the offici of the pententiary ay Deputy Warden bbinson to be tried be- fore Warden Conly for some nfraction of the prison ruld Hayes had for sev- eral months beenh rusty and served as turnkey. He lad been placed in the same cell with Bek, who had been re- garded as a despdate man.
 The moment thdmen entered the office Rock turned swiftly on Robinson, who was closing the dbr behind the men, and quickly drawing a knife, slashed the deputy warden s throat so deeply that Robinson fell hekless and soon died.
 At the same motent that Rock attacked Robinson. Hayes lrew a knife and start ed for Conley, wlo retreated to the rear of the office Betre he could draw a re- volver Hayes had sprung on the warden and slashed his hroat from the left ear to a noint ,ndeu the chin Conley half eluded the blow md struggled desperate ly. Hayes. seeIna his intended victim get ting away, stabbed tho warden several times in the shoulder and the groin.
 Although bleeding terribly Conley man. aged to draw a revolver and fire four times with the feapont pressed against Hayes abdomen As Hayes sank to the floor, Rock rushid at Conley, who hreo the remaining two bullets lnto ROCK breast, and the alter fell helpless. Boln convicts proba bablywill recover.
 The third convct took to his heels al the beginning of the throat-cutting, put he was quickly captured. The prison or ficials refused to give out the conVlct name until they have investigated whether he was concerned in the plot.
 How Hayes and Rock got the knlVes IS not known. It is believed that the ln- Fraction of the ruhs had been planned Ill order to reach the warden's office, whence the conyicts would have better chance 10 escape. once the warden and ms oepu'y were out of the way.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-09
JAP AGGRESSION
 IRRITATES CHINA
Since the Evacuation of Manchura By Japanese and Russian Troops Japan Has Established Complete Postal Service In That Country, and By High Handed Acts Has
 Finally Aroused the Opposition of China.

Pekin, March S.-China's activity to re- cover full sovereignty in Manchuria has aroused the Japanese to opposition Japan has raised the standard of her postoffices, increased the effectiveness of her postal system, which is one of the Japanese governments special institutions of aggression and is harrassing the F, { perial Chinese government by such ID = as the following: CeS
 Japan refuses China certain pos SJ eV- ileges on the south Manchurian raih 7 to which she is entitled, has broken open Chinese mail bags secretly confiscating one mail bag and contents, and conducts a parcel post over her railways while re- fusing to carry the parcels of the Chi nese post.
 China has been aware for some time past that Japan was using her department of communications to extend her au- thority in Manchuria. Japan substituted for her military post when it was with drawn at the time of the evacuation, complete postal service and postal com mander of the imperial Japanese post who resides at Dalny. Chinas method of combating this aggression mas been the re-establshment of her own posts, which were disorganized by the war. The number of postoffices was increased from 4 to S4 and will be further increased to 15O by April, 1908. China has not so far had the temerity to mention her nat ural rights in Manchuria account of the menace which the Japanese govern ment holds over her. And since it is impossible to oust Japan, China only weapon is competition.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-09
CHID'S WELFARE
 TO BE DISCUSSED
Women and Men From All Parts of the World Will Assemble At the Mothers Congress to Discuss Every Phase of Child Life and Laws Protecting Children
 From Hardship and Crime.

view of conditions in this country Miss Severati Callisperi, inspector of schools for girls in Greece, will discuss education al work over which she has control
 Gen. Francois Joubert-Plenaer for Angola, Africa, will talk on "Children's Lives in Africa" Charles P. Neill, com missioner of labor, will review conditions under which child labor Is performed in this country and pr. Harvey w. Wiley, of the department of agriculture, VIII talk of Pure Food in the Household
 Backward and Deficient Children" will be discussed by Dr. E. A. Earring ton of Haddonfield, N. J.
 The welfare of deaf children will be the subject of several papers. An entire days session will be devoted to discus sions on moral and educational work among children. ',rhe Causes of Tru- ancy, Vagrancy, Delinquency" will be considered by William II. Delacy, judge of the juvenile court of this city and Mrs Frederick Sehoff. president of the Philadelphia juveniles court and Henry L. McCune, judge of the circuit court of Naneas City, Mo, will speak on kindred subjects.
 "The Prevention of Blindness, will be discussed by Dr. F. P. Lewis, president of the New York state commission to n- vestigate conditions of the blind and sev- eral topics bearing upon the improve ment of the condition of blind children will be treated by distinguished students.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-09

Washington, March S.-Women represent in nearly all the progressive nations of the world will assemble here tomorrow to attend the international congress on the welfare of the child under the auspices of the National Mothers congress. Sub jeets bearing upon the great work of the congress will be discussed throughout the session which will be held from 10th to 17th instants inclusive. President Roose- welt will receive the delegates at the White House on Tuesday and will talk to them concerning child life.
 At least dozen different nations will be represented in the assembly which promises to be the most important i'll the history of the organization. Governors of all the states of the union have been asked to appoint special delegates and each state congress of mothers will have it's official representative.
 Foreign delegates will come from Great Britain, Germany, Holland, Japan, Greece, France, Switzerland, South Africa and from nearly every portion of the globe. The United States will be of ficially represented by Elmer Ellsworth Brown, United States commissioner of education. The British ambassador. Hon. James Bryce, will speak for the child protectors of Great Britain
 Commissioner of Education Brown will speak on the Children In the United States his paper being a complete re-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-09

Russia has been a party to Japan's success ' her postal policy. The war fare b, the Chinese and Japanese postsArf> .ce began immediately after the ey yHS.SSn of Japanese and Russian .&kY Shortly after that China dis .D.N red that Japan and Russia had made }f4 Secret compact by which the imperial sSshinese postoffices were excluded from 7 the through mail traffic between Europe and the east by way of Siberia and Manchuria.
 The mails from Europe are received by the Japanese imperial postoffices in the heart of Manchuria and are delivered by the same postoffices to addresses in Chi nese cities. Russia claimed the right to ignore China in this matter because China was not member of the nterna- tional postal union. Japan reciprocated Russia's delivery of European mails by delivering all European bound mails to her. China then notified the postal union officers at Berne that she would come into the union at the next congress, which meets in 1911. She has since been seek ing a modus operandi with Japan that would safeguard her sovereign postal and telegraph rights. In January Japan sub mitted preliminary proposals and a scheme for a postal convention. 1t was regarded as impossible in its conditions, but was submitted to the foreign board for discussion. In 1t Japan asks for the consolidation not only of her present postal and other communications in Man churia but for the enactment into per manent rights, of certain privileges over the Chinese imperial railways In Man churia and China proper which she has held by grace from the period of the boxer troubles. Japan's exactions, if suc- cessful, will open the way for, a demand for similar privileges from other powers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-09
DIAMOND MONOPOLY
 WILL BE BROKEN UP

London, March 9.-There is a probable ity, according to the Daily Mail, that the diamond monopoly will be broken up through the non-renewal of the contract which expires this month between the Premier Diamond Mining company and the Diamond Syndicate, which hitherto has taken the output of both the Premier and the DeBeers companies. In case the contract is not renewed war will be de- clared by the Premier company against the DeBeers.
 The Diamond Syndicate practically con- trols the worlds output, amounting to about $50. .000,OO0 annually. Early in the year there was a depression in the dia- mond markets of the world, resulting from the financial situation in America and the money stringency in Europe. In order to maintain the price of diamonds the Premier company announced reduc- tion in their monthly output, and the Diamond Syndicate also came to the sup port of the market, deciding that there should be no reduction in prices of stones. 1t was believed at that time that the slackness of the American demand would be shOrtlived.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-09
INDIANS ON WARPATH.
Jail Is Set on Fire and Cain Is Raised
 Generally.

Grand Junction, Col. March S.-As the result of an outbreak of drunken Indians at the government school nea. Grand Junction last night the jail building was set on fire and two of the disturbers narrowly escaped crema- tion. Disciplinarian J. E. Shields was murderously assaulted and the men re- sponsible for the trouble are in the county jail awaiting whatever action Superintendent Burton may deem best. The trouble started from indulgence in liquor which several of the boys at the school procured in Grand Junction.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-09
SCUDAMORE FIGHTS
 FOR HIS LIBERTY

Montgomery, March S.--A special to the Advertiser from Pensacola says:
 George C. Scudamore, who is alleged to have emb ezzled thousands of dollars from the Pensacola Bank and Trust company during the time he was cash . fer of that institution and who has since been adjudged insane, Will De taken by the sheriff of Escambia couh- ty to Tallahassee where he IS to ap- pear in person on a wrlt or hapeas s corpus procured by his attorneys eo secure his release from the custody UT inc sheriff and insane asylum author- ities.
 The case is brought to test the con stitutionality of the laws of Florida er.ntinr to the county judge Of 9 countv the right to commit a person without a jury trial or opportunity '' aafand himself to the insane asylu"'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-09
CENTRAL OF GEORGIA IS
 ILLINOIS CENTRAL LINE

Macon, Ga, March S.-Chairman Me Lendon of the Georgia railroad com mission has made public signed statement in which he gives reasons for his conclusions that E. H. Harrl- man will transfer his Central of Geor- gia stock to the Illinois Central and make the Georgia Central a part of the latter system. MT. McLendon says that President Hanson of the Georgia Cen tral appeared before his board Novem- Der 8, 1907. and stated that by direc- ton of D. H. Hartman, he appeared before the commission to say that while the stock of the Central, all except few shares. stood on the books of the company in the names of Oakieigh
 Tn orne and Marsden J. Perry, It in fact was owned by E. H. Hartman, hay ing been purchased by him on June I6, 1907. from the Southern Railway com pany for s3,O00, 900, Thorne and Perry
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-09

Chicago, March S.-(Special.) )-Emma Goldman, queen of anarchists, barred from addressing any meeting in public hall through the joint action of the po- lice and owners of halls, is now trying to arrange for open air meetings.
 Theodore Appel, secretary of the Inter- national Federation of Anarchists of Chi cago and others, after finding that they could rent no hall in which the woman leader would be permitted to spread her doctres turned their attention to real estate agents with the idea of leasing several lots on which to erect large tent in which they purpose to have her address their meetings.
 Lucy Parsons, wife of an anarchist who was hanged for his part in the murder of the police during the Haymarket riot. Yamopolsky and scores of women held conferences this afternoon with Emma Goldman, discussing ways and means of spreading "the cause" among the wom- en. Both religion and government must