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The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-07-22
For Sale.

Prettlest and cheapest lots on the
market for speculative and building
purposes, at Eau Claire Heights, within
incorporate limits, convenient to trolley
line, $50 to $2S5 each. Terms $40 cash
S. per month, no interest or taxes. 5
per cent. discount for cash.
One store house and lot at Livingston,
size lot 24Ox12O, corner lot. Price $780,.
Store. house and dwelling attached at
Livingston. Size of lot l20x60. The
dwelling has four rooms. Price $500.
LOO acres of land, 900 acres
cleared, 200 acres second growth pine.
Operating now l7-horse farm, 8-room
brick dwelling, 4room cottage, IA ten
ant houses, two barns, one brick store
house 25x5o. blacksmith shop, giuhouse,
l2.horse Tozer engine, saw mill, one
80.saw gin and Murray system, 600
acres in pasture. S. A. L. railroad
passes through the middle Of the place.
In the survey is included the town of
Leeds. Price $4,000; $500 cash, bal
ance one, two and three years. The
place has plenty Of labor and the land
is in good state Of cultivation.
An improved place, 173 acres, three
miles from Sally and four miles from
Perry, 100 acres in cultivation and will
make bale of cotton per acre. Some
saw timber, balance woods.
An improved place three miles from
Lexington, 155 acres, three hundred
Thousand feet saw timber, 500 cords
good oak wood. Price 900.
20 acres three miles from State house,
800 per acre.
House and lot Miller Heights, $625.
Three nice dwellings, real cheap, very
little money required down, good terms
on balance.
An improved place of 334 acres on
Ancrum ferry road, twelve miles from
Columbia, sixty acres in cultivation,
balance saw timber and woods. Grist
mill and Gin. Price $4,000, easy terms.
Timbered right on 1000 acres Of land
in Appling county, Georgia, five miles
and half from shipping point, and has
been estimated to cut three million feet
Of lumber. Price 81, 900, cash.
500 acres of land on road to Augusta,
nine miles from Columbia and two and
one-haf miles from Lexington. About
fifty acres in cultivation, saw timbo1
enough to cut one million feet of lum-
Der, balance woods. Price 81, 800.
House and lot on the car line to Hyatt
Park, corner lot, size of lot 52x4O6.
Price s1,050.
Large store house, dwelling over the
store and rooms on the side. Also on
same lot two and single story dwell
ing Rents for $56.25 per month. Price
$500, 81 500 cash, balance one, two,
three and four years.
An improved place Of $40 acres, II
miles from Columbia on the Camden
road. The place has a S-horse farm
open on it, also 15U acres il pasture
well watered. Price $3.50 per acre
Terms, $4,000 dollars cash, balance one
two and three years.
40 acres Of land, five miles from the
city. on the Winnsboro road. 30 acres in
cultivation, 60 acres in woods. Price
s37 so per acre, 1-3 cash, balance Oh
easy terms.
43 acres of fine bottom land three and
half miles from city, and will make
bale of cotton to the acre or - bushels
of corn. Price 800 per acre, easy
terms.
Enquiries will be answered promptly,
and will take pleasure showing the
property.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-07-22
Get nv HROOk No. + For Women

Get my "Book No. For Women.
1t will give weak women many valua-
BILE suggestions of relief-and with
strictly confidential medical advice IS
entirely free. Simply write DR.. Shoop;
Racine. Wis. The book No. i tells all
about DR.. Shoop's Night Cure and how
these soothing, healing, antiseptic sup
positories can be successfully applied to
correct these weaknesses. Write tor
the book. The Night Cure is sold by
Kaufman Drug Go
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-07-22
Union Picnic.

There will be Farmers Union pic
mic on August Is, at the old picnic
grounds in front OF. the parsonage
near Piney Woods church. There
will be speaking by prominent Union
men and others. The public is cordi-
ally inyited. Music will be furnished
by string band.
@. S. Matthews,
Chairman of Committee.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-07-22
WHEELWRIGHT and
BLACKSMITH SHOP

At BERLEY & KYZER'S New
Blacksmith Shop you will find Mr.. L.
L. Long ready to give you prompt
service. All kinds of repair work,
horseshoeing, etc. Give us trial.
Shop situated near the Berley home
stead. Marl1 6m
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-07-22

Several miners were killed and ten
others injured in a mine explosion at
Pottsville, Pa, on Wednesday.
Max Beden, a German, went to his
home in Savannah on Wednesday and
found his wife dead. She had CON-
mitted suicide believing that she was
followed by some one.
Cheap help is always the most ex-
pensive.
Heat prostrates the nerves. In the
summer one needs tonic to offset the
customary hot weather nerve and
strength depression. You will feel bet
ter within 4S hours after beginning to
take such remedy as Dr. Shoop's Re-
storative. Its prompt action in restor-
ing the weakened nerves is surprising.
| Of course, you won't get entirely strong
| in few days, but each day you can
| actually feel the improvement. That
| tired, lifeless, spiritless feeling will
quickly depart when using the restora-
tive. DR.. Shops Restorative will
sharpen failing appetite; it aids di-
gestion; it will strengthen the weaken
ed kidneys and heart by simply rebuild
| ing the worn out nerves that these or
gans depend upon. Test it few day:
and be convinced. Sold by Kaufman
Drug Co.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-07-15
Old Scottish Sanctuary.

The old sanctuary of the Abbey and
Palace of Holyrood House, to quote
the full description, was an interest
ing institution. The debtor was free
from arrest during the week. o.
entering the sanctuary he enrolled
himself in a formal manner and OBJ
tanned a room-that is, if he could
pay for it. There was a public house
within the boundaries, and it was not
uncommon to see the debtor in the
inn playing dominoes and his credit.
ors standing looking in at the win.
dow with wistful eyes. The debtor
was safe, and he knew it, and the
face OF the creditor told the same
tale. Sunday being a dies non, the
debtor could leave his sanctuary and
visit his family, but he had to be
careful to get back to Holyrood on
Sunday night. Sometimes a debtor
had the temerity to leave on a week
day, but he did so at his peril.-Lon.
don Globe.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-07-15

Washington, D. CDR. Harvey
w. Wiley, food expert Of the Govern
ment has a few simple rules for eat
ing and drinking during the heated
term. Here are his commandments:
Eat one-fourth less in summer than
in winter.
Eat meat in moderation. Select
the lighter meats.
Danish all alcoholic beverages.
Eat most largely Of cooked fruits
and vegetables.
Drink nothing below sixty degrees
in temperature, and drink sparingly.
Be careful to seek, the society of
cheerful friends.
Practice moderation in open air ex-
ercise.
Don't fret; don't worry.
Thousands of people are made
sick in summer because they do not
know how or what to eat" observed
DR.. Wiley. But the same criticism
applies to the winter season as we'll.
Few people follow definite rules.
Moderate eating. moderate drinking,
moderate exercise in the open air and
cheerful friends will keep any good
man alive through the summer.
Eating in summer should be di-
minished by about o~ne-quarter, mas
much as the heat energy is one-quar-
ter less than in winter.
Fruits and vegetables are the nor
NAL diet for summer, provided they
are cooked. If eaten raw they
should not be contaminated with
pathogenic bacteria.
Few persons who delight in raw
fruits for breakfast have any idea of
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-07-15

To these two examples Of White
Mountain tramping trips, some OF
them within the writer's own expert
ence, an indefinite number Of others.
might be added. In these common
sense days Of outdoor enjoyment n
Appalachian Mountain clubs, the
wonderful region embraced in the
White and Franconia mountains,
away up in the northern corner Of
Winston Churchill's ~favorite State, is
fairly gridironed with trails, path
ways and carriage roads, most OF
them leading to 4 scenic surprise.
The New England Alps but lit
tie known to the general public hall
a century ago, and not nearly rs well
appreciated as they deserved to he
aven twenty or twenty-five years ago,
have to-day come to be one Of the
most popular Meccas for the vaca-
ZIONIST on the continent. The region
has had development, too, ~curiously
different from that Of any other vaca-
ton section in the country; for, while
it retains, in a certain sense, its "eX-
c~lusiveness,'' it's welcome has by no
means been confined to the wealthy
or ~aristocratic few. Indeed, these
mountains are socially democratic.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-07-15

he took the steamer, MT. Washing
ION" (scores of readers of this paper
will recall with pleasure a similar
sxperience), across the lake to Cen
re Harbor.
Next day he tramped through
Moultonboro and Tamworth (the
Grover Cleveland country"), to
Wonalancet, %annexing at that place
a local guide, who. safely piloted him
over Mt. Wonalapcet and Mt. Paugus,
two of the lesser hills of the White
Mountains, to picturesque Passacona-
way village, where he changed to a
second guide.
The new pathfinder, an experienced
hunter, led his ambitious employer
over the mountains and through
dense woods that have been wholly
innocent of roadway or trail since
they were created, eventually strik-
ing in at Livermore, whence they.
reached the summit Of Mt. Washing
ton by way of the Crawford Notch
and the southern peaks. '1=.
Much of the way lay through
woodland solitudes where the eye of
man had seldom, if ever, penetrated,
and the chief member of the expedi-
ton says of it that it was "a walk
full of surprising interest as we'll as
interesting surprises"
This was in July, when the noun
tains were in their full glory Of foil
age, sunshine and birds and animal
life.
A few months previous, in Febru-
airy, two other New England lovers of
outdoors enjoyed a pedestrian trip OF
100 miles or more through the White
Mountains, travelling most of the way
on skis and making the ascent of Mt.
Washington in this way under condi-
tions that were nothing less than per-
ilous.
Three or four feet of snow almost
everywhere covered the trails and
roadways, and the Alpine character
Of the journey was enhanced by at
least one avalanche.
Such are the contrasts INT gets in
New Hampshire's White Mountains;
and yet American travellers rave over
the Alps and the Himalayas as If
there was no such thing as real
mountains in their W country at all.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-07-15

Indeed, the vacation seeker VINO
cannot find a sufficient diversity OF
amusement, exercise and study in the
White Mountains might as we'll cease
looking for what he wants on this
planet. In addition to the owen
tional tramping (the most helpful
and e~xhilarating exercise in the
wo!ld), there are delights of driving,
horseback riding, golf, tennis, fishing
and rowing, not to mention other at
tTactive outdoor pastimes, including
The great national game played by
crack baseball clubs.
There is life and health and men
al healing in the ozone of the White
Mountains, for, next to the impressive
:2auty of their scenery, their most
important attribute is their wonder-
tIl air. shall never forget my first
introduction to it, as | descended
from The train from Boston at Il little
station in the Crawford Notch.
The unfamiliar surroundings, the
qHietude of that vast canyon, but
more than all else the elixir OF that
Peerless mountain oxygen, made 1t
seem as though we had entered a new
world and transformed us all Instant
" into new men and women.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-07-15
ARMY OF 100000
PLANNED, SAYS OLIVER
First Move to Make America a
Military Power.
PRAISES PINE PLAINS CAMP

Assistant Sec ,etary Of War Outlines
Scheme For Union of State and
Regular Troops Under Call Of the
President.
Pine Plains Camp, n. Y.-The
Var Department has perfected a plan
for the virtual amalgamation into a
standing army of 100000 men ready
to answer the call of the President of
all the regular and National Guard
troops in the United States. Assist
ant Secretary of War Oliver, who
was at Pine Camp witnessing the De-
partment of the East maneuvers, gave
out this information.
Secretary Oliver, in outlining the
plan for the reorganization Of the
National and State troops, declared
that the word militiamen is now a
misnomer, and that the State troops
are at this moment United States
Volunteers.
The War Department plan means
nothing more or less than that the
moment this country gets into trouble
the so-called National Guard organi-
cations will cease to exist as such,
and Immediately become active units
of the regular army. absolutely under
the control of the President and the
Secretary Of War.
This scheme" said General Oil
yer, lis the first move in the plan to
make this country a military power.
Before this we have had no authori-
ty over the State troops, better
tional Guard organizations. What
we propose to do is to organize these
State troops and all the regular forces
into eight army corps, and the New
England States, New York. and other
States in the military division known
as the Department of the East will
constitute the First Army Corps
1.-THE maneuvre grounds, here IN
Pine Plains If the Government buys
them will be the place where the Ma
tional and State troops that will be
in this First Army Corps. will have
their field training. In other words
it means that two years hence $4,000
men will be modified on this plain.
"As at present planned the Wal
Department will be able to put into
the field almost Immediately an army
of 100000. men, part Of them being
regulars and the remainder under the
system of instruction.
This new plan obviates all posi-
bil;ty' of confusion in the event of a
sudden call to arms. There will be
no troops around the country in hap
hazard fashion; every regiment, reg
ular and State, will know exactly
where it belongs and where it is
to go. The plan will facilitate every
feature of mobilization. 1t will be
my duty to put this plan into opera
ton, but should the necessity arise,
my successor can carry on the work
without the slightest interruption so
perfectly and so thoroughly worked
out are the plans of the Department.
Prior to the passage Of the Dick
law the President of the United States
had practically no power at all over
the militia organizations. But now,
in view of the recent legislation. a
militiaman enlists for real service,
and in the event of a war his status
is that of a regular, and no re-enlist-
ment on his part is necessary.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-07-15

Kid McGoogle labored owe MS CHARS
and jake painted out after the enemy
each time. putting them out n DJ
one. Protest was vain. The man,
ager said that if no light men came
then jake must meet what material
was at hand.
Or no pay" he finished.
"What size they'll be by Sattiday'
moaned McGoogle tearfully.
Jake sighed. He had not been
home since Monday, therefore ne
lacked the sage advice of his six
shrewd brothers.
Saturday matinee a tall, thick box
er appeared. He was a bouncer III
q concert hall on the Bowery.
Gimme a ladder SOS I kin reach
up to his map" cried jake angrily.
We'll, if you lay down that lets
us out" announced the manager
coolly.
The big man couldn't find jake,
who ran between his long legs, Skill
fully marrying him, under Kid Nc
GOGGLES coaching. jake introduced
a Graceo-Roman hold, which caused
the other to bend down to see what
he was doing, whereat jake hooked
him with a hard jab to the stomach.
The roars from the admiring audi
ence would have prevented the man
agement from giving a decision to the
big man in any case, but as evil living
had induced indigestion in the boun-
Ger, the body blow settled him.
One show remained and jake could
only wait and pray. 1t was clear that
the t~reacherous manager was provld-
ing these enormous men in an effort
to save paying the industrious jake.
That night a hefty two hundred
FOUNDER climbed on the stage, to
emerge from the wings in red tights
five minutes later.
Mike O'Brien!" yelled the stage
manager.
"O'Brien had a large hook nose.
Kid McGoogle, seeing him, stared in
wonder. 1t was Caesar Appel, who
would do anything for money. The
offer outside had tempted him.
Caesars surprise eQualed Jakie's,
but he made no sign. At the first
clinch jake agitatedly whispered his
story. KNOCK me out in the next"
said Caesar; don't worry"
With a vicious right swing to the
jaw jake sent Mike O'Brien" to the
canvas. Unwilling and slow as the
referees count was, he did not rise,
for Caesar would have stayed there
all night. Wild bellows applauded
jake, the marvellous young tiger.
At t%en-thirty Jake and Mr.. Nc
Google, keeping close to Caesars
large bulk, heard the latter demand
his little brothers money. 1t was
given and the percentage also, for
Caesar would not be denied. Then
he took the. exhausted juvenile away.
"Next time hold out to the
family" he gently rebuked, cause
them's your best friends. New
York Telegraph.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-07-15
"EAT LESS, DRINK LESS, CHEER UP" HOT WEATHER ADVICE
Dr.. n. w. Wiley, Government Expert, Says Ice Water, Raw Fruit, Aieo-
hI and Gloomy friends Should Be Stunned.

pathogenic bacteria, its appearance
or it's taste, if it has any. So apples,
peaches, grapes and even the delect-
able grape fruit are to be banished
because they may have been contain
mated. Stewed prunes are good, If
you like them and the contamination
has been cooked out Of them.
"The festive highball and the more
plebian "scuttle Of suds" are to be
put aside. Alcohol when oxidized is
nothing but heat, and these summer
days are hot enough. Should more
alcohol be used than Is oxidized the
user gets poisoned. 1t Is hard to
tell during the heated season when
the alcohol imbibed Is going to stop
oxidizing, so the safest plan is to
cease imbibing.
Care should be taken against
over-indulgence in very cold drinks
or frozen relishes. On hot days no
beverages below sixty degrees In
temperature should be taken. Other
wise they are apt to produce what
physicians describe as ice-water dys-
pepsia. Soda water and Ice cream
are alike bad when taken in large
quantities. Observe the law Of mod
Grafton and eat and drink slowly
Here Dr.. Wiley interrupted his SOL
emn warnings to break into verse:
Full many a man, both young and old,
Has gone to his s%arcophagus
By pouring water, icy cold,
Adown his hot esophagus.
'Tell your readers to be cheerful;
it might be worse" DR.. Wiley con-
Guided, as he mopped his brow and
turned on the electric fan.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-07-15

There Is one summer city in the
White Mountains whose population
expands to nearly 10000 during the
height of the vacation season; and
there r days when as many as 500
tourists ascend to the summit Of
stately Mt. Washington, $500 feet
above the sea, on the famous Cog
railway, to be torn by that awful
mental conflict that always must be
fought by the man or woman who
has to decide whether It shall be din.
ner indoors or scenery outdoors. And
what an appetite that mountain air
does give one!
Once, during an ocean voyage, I
elected to forego my dinner in order
to enjoy an unusually fine sunset. AS
the barometer falls with the ap-
preaching storm, so did I fall in the
estimation of my travelling compan-
ions as the result of that little bit
of self-saerifce. If 1 had but a half
hour on the summit Of Mt. Washing
ton, and it was a question of dinner
or view, I would decide in the self
same way, however. -
In passing, let me say that the
prospect from Mt. Washington's alti-
tudinous crown is one that cannot
easily be described in too extrava-
CANT language. In a way, IL Is even
more wonderful than the cycloramic
outlook from the top of Pixies Peak,
which stands twice as high in the
world as does "Old A%giochook."
The normal radius of observation
extends for about 100 miles, taking
in the ocean on the east and includ.
ing a marvellous mosaic of lakes, riv.
ers, mountain peaks, notches, towns
and villages and forest tracts. Aided
by the refraction Of the atmosphere,
there are some features of the land
scape that can be identified 140 miles
distant. No one possessing anything
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-07-15
"OBLITERATIVE COLOR"
The Part 1t Plays in Animal Life and
Defense.

Whales, lions, wolves, deer, hares,
mice; cartridges, quails, sandpipers,
larks, sparrows; frogs, snakes, fishes,
lizards, crabs; grasshoppers, slugs,
caterpillars-all these animals, and
many thousand more, crawl and
crouch and swim about their business,
hunting and eluding, under v of
this strange obliterative mask, the
smooth and perfect balance between
shades of color and degrees of illum-
nation.
Nature, having thus usually un-
substantialized the bodies of animals,
sc that if seen at all they look fiat and
ghostly, does not stop. there. From
solid, shaded bodies they have been
converted, as it were, into fiat cards
or canvases, and, to complete the flu
sion of obliteration, pictures of the
background-veritable pictures of the
more or less distant landscape-have
! been painted on these canvases. Such,
in effect, are the ella !orate markings
of field and forest birds. This is the
| consummation of obliterative colora-
ton; full obliterative shading in ON
junction with a true plcturing Of such
scenes, nearer or farther, as would
appear straight beyond the animal
were it transparent, or as would ap-
pear if there were no creature there
at all. The animal has vanished and
in his place stands a picture of the
distance, with its numberless details!
The term "obliterative celebration"
truly fits the case, since these animals
prove to be colored to disappear from
view and not, as has hitherto been
supposed, to look lifeless solid OBJ
jects. Some writer's, indeed, have
mentioned the fact that animals blend
into the varied ground behind them,
but all have failed to see that this
phenomenon could not exist without
the aid of some profound principle in
addition to the general resemblance
of color and pattern.-From Gerald
H. Thayer's The Concealing Colora-
ton of Animals" in the Century.
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Last summer an enterprising Bos-
ton man, like the three PHILADELPHIA
ans who lately started on a 10000
mile tramping trip to South America,
decided that he would do something
original in the line of pedestrianism.
Like thousands of other well-bal-
anced v~acationists, the gentleman in
question selected the White Noun
tains as his objective point, and
reached them over a route which, he
claims, was never traversed through
out it's entire length by any other hui
man being.
Going from the modern Athens by
rail to Rochester, N. H., he walked
from the latter place to Alton Bay,
on the southern shore of incompar-
able Lake Winnipesaukee. from there
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-07-15

man wants to drink ne SnOulQ De
compelled to take out a license to
do So, and it should be a misdemean-
or for any person to sell to a man
who does not have such a license.
Such licenses should be issued by
county and city, a reasonable fee
being about SIS a year for county
licenses and from 81 to SO a year for
city. This would bring in a larger
revenue than under the present
license system, and would put the
burden where it belongs.
Each license thus issued should
have attached thereto a photograph
of the person taking it out, so there
could be no using of the license ex-
cept by this nan 1t should also
contain a provision that a conviction
for drunkenness at any time would
be punished by a revocation of the
license for a period Of six months or
a year. This appears to me to be the
logical solution of the liquor question
in districts where saloons are not
barred by local option"