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Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1909-06-17
BARN DANCE.

Last year while I was at a board
ing school for girls from thirteen to
sixteen years old, in Washington, D.
c., we gave a barn dance, which was
a most informal and jolly affair. It
being leap year. each girl invited a
boy from a neighboring preparatory
school, who appeared as a "Rube,"
ia full farmer regalia. including blue
jeans and a large straw hat. Each
girl wore a calico dress, an apron and
a sunbonnet. During the evening
there were old-fashioned reels, barn
dances and a confetti battle. The as
sembly hall was tastefully decorated
with cornstalks and various farming
utensils, while on the platform a large
stack of hay had been piled. During
the intermission the lads and lassies
clambered up on this pile to partake
Of a luncheon. which each girl had
furnished for herself and partner.
Such fun as there was while the bas-
kets were being emptied! And old
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1909-06-17
A TRUE STORY.

"A teacher, not long ago., wishing to
commemorate with her pupils the
Father Of his Country, gave to them
as theme for a composition"
George Washington" Among the
memorials" brought to her was one
by a colored boy, Daniel Johnson.
aged nine. Here it is, exactly as the
child wrote it, capitals and punctua-
ticn excepted:
GEORGE WASHINGTON.
I haven't nothing to say about
George Washington, and I don't want
anything to say about him. All the
white people say he " told a lie.
I say he did, and my mother said he
did. When the wal in slavery time,
he freed the white folks. He told
the colored people that he would free
them if they came up north and fight.
So they came up north. When they
got through fighting, they went back
to George Washington. He said,
"No. I can't free you, you must go
back to your masters" Do you call
that a lie or the truth? Well, I call
that a lie. Lincoln is father Of the
colored race. I haven't nothing to
write about Washington that's good.
I am sorry to hurt your feelings
Daniel Johnson, in the Christian Reg
lister.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1909-06-17
Easier to Hit.

Buffalo Bill, who says that with
hard work a man should live to be a
centenarian, talked at a reunion Of
Kansas cavalrymen about straight
shooting. "It is hard work to learn
to be a good shot," he said. I'VE
Americans are better shots than
most" he continued. IA French
prince visited me on my ranch once
and we went out after birds. I came
back with a full bag. but when |
asked the prince what he had killed.
he said proudly: "Of re bairds, none;
zey are too dif1cle; but Of re Wild COW
and calves, I ave nine ovair re Ill. :
philadelphia Record
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1909-06-17
IN A SUBWAY TRAIN.

I will tell you about an incident
that occurred a short time ago in a
subway car in which I was. Opposite
to me there sat in a orner an old
woman with a large basket in her
lap. Among the passengers I noticed
a very sedate man, who was reading
a paper, standing near her. A few
moments after we left one Of the
stations the a came to al abrupt
stop, which lasted for ten minutes.
During this time a sound of a cat
in distress was heard. All looked at
the basket of the cid woman. It kept
up until a passenger asked If there
was a cat in the basket. There was
not, and a hunt through the car was
made. but in vain. At last the train
proceeded to move to the next station,
where the sedate looking man got
out. On his way out there was the
bark of a dog. It was due to this
man, who was a ventriloquist. He
had remained silent during the COM
motion.-Edna Randall, in the New
York Tribune.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1909-06-17
Spelling Out Numerals.

An amusing instance Of typograph-
ical laundering occurred lately IN q
well-known newspaper. A paragraph
read as follows: "Some time ago a
fiat in a not questionable quarter OF
the city was let unfinished to 10
ants. who offered and paid a months
rent In advance" The explanation
of this slip is almost as amusing as
the misprint itself. It is a rigid rule
Of some printing Offices that, while
numbers below ten are spelled in full,
all numbers higher must be in fig
ures. to save space. It is, therefore.
really very difficult for a compositor
to spell tenants" though "ninepi1s"
is child's play to him.-London Eng
land) Peoples Friend.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1909-06-17
Comic Supplement a Peril.

The Sunday comic supplement is a
national peril, and students of juve-
nile crime a no longer ignore its
influence upon the receptive infant
mind. It is a well known biological
and psychological law that the nil
metic tendency of children is partic-
ularly strong in the domain of the
reprehensible. To laugh at the dis
comf1ture Of an elder person to whom
affection is owing, to seek revenge by
~underhanded means, to betray guile
less and trusting confidence, to be
selfish, untruthful, brutal and crafty,
these are the qualities of the heroes
of the comic supplements.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1909-06-17
TT DOESN'T PAY TO LIE.

Be truthful. The boy who scorns
to lie or prevaricate may generally
be trusted by those with whom he has
dealings.
Aside from the consideration that
he is breaking one of Gods command
ments in telling a falsehood, the I'M
truthful person is in danger of meet
ing with just retribution from a bus
mess point of view even though It
may not be so Immediate as In the
following instance quoted from that
entertaining book, "Other Memories.
Old and New"
A very full train was within q very
few minutes of starting from Man.
chester for London. A gentleman
had gone the whole length of the
train and saw only n vacancy, and
this was occupied by a Gladstone bag.
In his difficulty he opened the car
rage door, and was about to remove
the bag, when the passenger on the
opposite corner told him that it be-
longed to a friend who had taken the
seat.
WELL" said the other, who was
evidently a mar of experience and
who grasped the situation, "the train
will start in a minute and I fear your
friend will be too late. At any rate.
l must go to London by this train and
I will keep this seat until your friend
arrives" He sat down and took the
bag on his knee. Then he took out
his watch and said, There's only
| half a minute left. I'm afraid your
| friend will be too late"
He got up and kept looking out
| a%nxiously for the belated friend Till
| the whistle sounded.
WELL" he said, we're off. Your
| friend has lost the train, but he must
not lose his bag" and with that he
threw the bag out on the platform.
Here! What are you doing?'
cried the other man, but 90 late.
"That was my bag!"
What a PITY" returned the other.
blandly. II thought you said 1t was
your friends. 1t seemed a pity that
he should suffer the loss of his lug
gage as well as his trafn."-Bee Hive.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1909-06-17
to this the position Of manager OF our

to this the position OF manager OF our
works with a $4,000 salary"
The girl suddenly laughed.
why, that was fine, daddy. And
what did the gifted young man do?"
THE gifted young man never
turned a hair. If he was surprised at
my offer he carefully concealed the
fact. He thanked me, but added that
he would be guided entirely by his
partner, who owns a half interest in
the factory and patents. He prom
ised to let me know his partners de-
cision very soon. and I had to be sat
isfed with this promise. And that.
dearie, is what / call eating humble
pie-and lots OF it."
There was a little silence.
Daddy" said the girl, II want
your advice"
"But l know nothing about hats
or gowns"
She softly laughed.
Its a money matter this time,
daddy. I bought a half interest in a
manufacturing plant a year ago and
I've been offered 400 per cent. profit
on my investment If I will sell out.
The old man stared down at her.
THAT sounds good. What's the
| plant called?"
The girl hesitated.
cts the Andrus Transmitter Co.,
daddy"
What"
"Yes, daddy. I'm the partner who
must be consulted"
"You!"
Eyes, daddy. What do you advise
me to do?"
Let me get my breath, you ras-
cali"
"All right, daddy. Take your
time" She looked toward the door,
Robert" she called. And Robert
Andrus entered the room. "Here is
my partner, daddy"
The old man stared at the new.
conner.
well, WE'LL" he muttered.
"And, daddy, Roberts price has
gone up. II found it out thi.
afternoon. He wants me, tool"
The old man stared from Robert tt
the girl. Her arm stole round hi.
neck.
"Say it's all right, daddy"
He sank back with a sigh of resig
nation.
;; more humble pie" he murmured
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1909-06-17
A BIG GREEN BULLFROG.

A BIG GREEN BULLFROG.
Summer before last, when I was at
Deer Isle, Maine, I found a bullfrog
which lived in a pond that was full
of water lilies. He was a big green
frog, and used to sit on the large
lily leaves in the pond. Sometimes
I had to look a long time before I
could see him blinking at me with
his. big eyes. I used to pull up long
grasses, fasten the tops together, put
them under his chin, give a little
jerk, and he would go head over
heels into the water. At other times
I would drag the grasses over the
water, and he would jump after
them. Once he came so close to me
that I caught him. I was going to
take him to the cottage and show him
to mother, but he was SO slippery he
got away from me.-Katherine X.
Burnet, in the New York Tribune.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1909-06-17
Ornithological Error.

Judge-"You are accused OF
snatching a turkey o a grocery.
window"
Prisoner "a student)-l took IL
for a lark, your honor.
Judge--"No resemblance what.
ever. sir. You must have been drunk.
Sixty days."-Eoston Transcript !
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1909-06-17
THE CITY OF WASHINGTON.

The city OF Washington has been
the capital Of the United States and
the seat of the federal government
since 1900.
Washington is almost alone among
the capitals Of great nations Of mod
ern times in the fact Of its creation
for the sole purpose Of a sea OF
government, apart from any ques-
tons of commercial greatness or
population.
The history of the selection OF
Washington as the seat Of govern
ment shows a protracted conflict in
Congress over the claims OF rival To-
calities. The action was brought
about by the cession to the United
States by Maryland and Virginia of a
federal district ten miles square to be
known as the District of Columbia.
The site of the city and the loca-
ton of the public squares and build
ings were selected by President
George Washington in person on the
Maryland side of the Potomac River.
At that time this location was all
most precisely in the geographical CEN
ire between the northern and SOUTH
ern limits of the Union.
On April Is, 1891, the corner
| stone of the federal territory was laid
by three commissioners appointed by
| the President and the boundaries
were permanently marked by procla-
nation of the President by the plac-
| ing of square milestOnes.
The government of the city CT
| Washington was strictly municipal
in character until 1871, when Con-
gress created a territorial govern
ment for the District of Columbia.
In 1874 this kind of government was
abolished, and a provisional govern
ment of three commissioners appoint
ed by the President and Senate was
constituted, and still continues
Bee Hive.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1909-06-17

THE LITTLE VOYAGER.
Oh, the ways are many to Drowsy Land,
Some one, ] know, would try them all.
lis hey, tonight, for q big balloon,
Big and round, like q silver ball.
Up through the dark it swings along,
Blown by the night winds rusting song.
Slowly it sways and swings this way,
Posing at last, Just overhead,
When down drops a glimmering rope Of
light,
And anchors it safe on a tiny bed;
And climbing the ladder of silver beams,
Some one embarks for the land of dreams.
AL through the night, in the shining thing,
Silent they float through the cool, sweet
dark,
Reeds they dip in the foamy clouds,
Where the summer i~ghtnings CLINT and
spark,
And east or west, or the wind swept sky,
The twinkling, golden bubbles fly.
Do you ask me how Some One comes home
again,
When sah deep in the west dips the silver
Oh, never a thought do I give to that,
+ Perhaps the sun is the charioteer,
I only know that the tiny bed
Pillows each morning a golden head.
Pauline Frances Camp, in the New Eng.
land Magazine.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1909-06-17
Ny.
IT WAS MUCILAGE.

Mamma, is that bay rum in the
bottle on your table?"
Mercy, no, dear!" she replied.
That is mucilage.".
"Oh!" said little Johnny, perhaps
that's why I can't take my hat off"
The Methodist Recorder.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1909-06-17
SCIENCE
AND

According to the Governments geo.
logical experts we waste 100000, 900
tons of coal every year in this coun-
try owing to improper mining meth
DDS.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1909-06-17

fashioned songs struck up. Our
faculty were also there, and it wa
due to them that we had SO MAI:
jokes and SO much merriment. Afte
we finished our supper we continued
our dancing and merrymaking until
midnight, when we were reminded
(by no means gently that it wal
time to depart, and though the part.
ing caused much pain. we said good
night, to meet again. Rose Maurer.
in the New York Tribune.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1909-06-17
Tie 0wners. Of the Soil.

The man who stands upon his soil, who feels that, by the
law of the land in which he lives, he is the rightful and ex-
elusive owner of the land which he ti.ls, feels more strongly
than another the character Of a man as the lord OF an mani
mate world. OF this great and wonderful sphere, Wn1cn,
fashioned by the hand Of God, and upheld by His power, Is
rolling through the heavens, a part OF 1t IS h1s--n1s from me
centre to the sky! It is the space on which the generation
before moved in its rounds of duties, and he feels himself
connected by a visible link with those who follow MIN. and
to whom he is to transmit a home.
Perhaps his farm has come down to him from his 1atners.
They have gone to their last home; but he can trace their
footsteps over the scenes of his daily labors. The roof which
shelters him was reared by those to whom he owes hsb being.
Some interesting domestic tradition is connected with every
Enclosure. The favorite fruit tree was planted by his fatners
hand. He sported in boyhood beside the brook which still
winds through the meadow: Through the neios ne PAN
window the voice Of the sabbath-ben, which called ms
fathers to the house of God: near at hand is the spot wnere
his parents lay down to rest, and where, when his time mas
come. he shall be laid by his children.
n : &C. : the feelings Of the owners of the soil. Words
cannot paint them-gold cannot buy them; they flow out OF
the deepest fountains of the heart; they are the very ~
springs Of a fresh, healthy. and generous national character.
Edward Everett.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1909-06-17

The flagship Connecticut, of the
United States Navy, is now equipped
with the most powerful searchlight in
the world. The great mirror is five
feet in diameter, and was made for
the Government in Germany. The
searchlight will throw such an i'm
mense beam of light that it will be
able to detect a submarine or torpedo
boat at a distance of ten miles.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1909-06-17

The first operation in this country
upon a human being in which the
cavity of the thorax was opened while
the lungs were inflated from a cham
Der contaiing air at a greater pressure
than that of the atmosphere was per-
formed recently at the German Hos
pital by DR.. Willy Meyer. Many op-
erations in the thorax have been diff
cult to perform, and others impossi-
Ele because as 500 as the cavity Of
the therax is opened the lungs col
lapse because Of the atmospheric
pressure.
A novel competition is to be decid-
ed by Halley's comet, which is ex-
pected SEQ to come in sight for a few
months of it's seventy-five-year circuit
around the sun. A wealthy Euro
pean amateur astronomer offered a
prize for the best computation of this
comets orbit, submitted before the
close Of 1909, and a competing ephe-
meris for this year and next indicates
a very different route from that ex-
pected, showing the perihelion pass
age in the middle Of June instead OF
the middle Of April, 1910.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1909-01-20
PROF.. John Hawkins
Ends His Own Life.

All Lexingot was shocked on Monday
when the news reached here that
Prof. John Hawkins hal taken his
own life by blowing out his bra ms with
pistol in his room in the Columbia
hotel on Sunday afternoon.
Prof. Hawkins visited his sister, Mrs.
G. T. Graham, in this town, during
the holidays and seemed in the
brightest spirits. Little did any one
think that he was so 500 to end his
earthly existence. He lelt here
for Columbia to attend the meeting of
the Teachers, association. He was seen
in Columbinia few days afterwards
by several people from Lexington.
Prof. Hawkins was one of the
brightest men in the State. He was
a son of the late Rev. J. Hawkins and
was 4Syears of age. He was graduate
of Newberry college and had been
teaching for several years, being prin-
cipal of the Ridgeland school in
Dorchester county at the time of his
untimely end.
The remains " ere taken to
Prosperity on Monday afternoon and
inferred in the cematery at that place.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1909-01-20
From Dsluar.

Delmar, Jan. 1s.-Mr. J. Lloyd Ear
gle has moved to his new home, the
B. I. Hayes place, near Lexington.
Mrs. Mary A. .Holiey, formerly post
master at Dupler, has gone to spend
a while among relatives at Pinevjlle,
N. G.
Mr.. Wesley Eargle will move this
week to the Epsy Hare place which
he has recently purchased.
Mrs. Mary Price took trip to Co.
lumbia last week.
There is considerable grippe in our
community now.
On last Friday morning Mr.. W. M.
Shealy while assisting in some haul
ing was thrown from the rear end Of
the wagon by sudden starting of the
team and sustained a fracture of the
small bone Of the right leg just below
the knee. He received surgical atten-
ton promptly and is now doing as
well as could be expected.
1t is hoped that the Legislature will
make dog law that will throw more
safeguards around the people and less
around the dog, so that we may have
more liberty in the matter of hand
ling mad dogs and such other dogs as
are suspected of having been bitten.
The survey for the proposed te:e-
phone hne from Lexington to. Mr..
George Shirey' has been completed
and we presume that it will soon be
built. This line should also connect
with the Deimar line and into the
Dutch Fork.
Mrs. Presley Shealy has been con-
fined to her room for several days.
- w. II. H.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1909-01-20
Mr.. Lever Proposes
More Cotton Figures.

Washington, Jan. 16.-The collection
and publication by the director of the
census OF statistics of stock of baled
cotton in the United States to bes sum-
married. as of November 1, December l.,
January and March /, in addition to
the cotton reports, is proposed in a
joint resolution presented in the house
today by Representative Lever of
South Carolina.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1909-01-20
First Week Jurors.

;: The jury commissioners met this
morning and drew So petit jurors to
serve the first week of the general
sessions court which convenes on the
first Monday in February. The list
follows:
Henry J. Furtick, John E. Ballen-
tine, J. Fred Lucas, P. Brooks Lind
ler, r. Wilbur Frick, W. O.. Oliver,
John F. CLANCY, V. Winter Sturkie,
James Gillian, Sr., Sim Alewine, Sol
D. Shumpert, E. Crosson Price, Dan
P. Bodie, Sidney W. Amick, James
w. Oswald, Hayne o. Wingard, Da-
yid Taylor, Jasper Amick, Jacob j.
Buckley, William I. Jumper, Ernest
H. Smith, James w. Bouknight, Gee.
T. Carson, D. Rufus Haltiwanger, J.
Bachman Meetze, Berley A. Gregory
G. Haskell Meetze, James l.. Shealy,
George Shehane, J. Hamp Rauch,
Walter D. Hendrix, G.. Lawrence Lu-
cas-, Willie w. Hammer, John G. A.
Rister, Job A. Swygert, Jacob P.
Derrick.
Grand Jury.
Twelve grand jurors were drawn as
follows:
J. Derrick Addy, Darling F. Neese,
Chalmers E. Wessinger, Geo. A: Cum
alanier, E. S. CAN'T, John W. Mathi-
as, Henry L. .Shealy, Henry D: Hughes,
BENJAMIN R. Flake, Charles n. Frick,
H. Baylis Wessinger, Claude M. Warn.
The following grand jurors hold
over from 1908 to 1909:
Isaiah Hallman, J. D. Price, Willie
E. Corley, A. Luther Hook, J. K.
Lindler, Charles J. Huffman.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1909-01-20
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
County Of Lexington.

County OF Lexington.
By Geo. S. Drafts, Esq, Probate Judge.
Whereas, Elizabeth H. Gardner made
suit to me, to grant her letters of Ad-
ministration of the Estate Of and effects
of Edward A. Gardener.
These are therefore to cite and ad-
monish all and singular the kindred and
creditors of the said Edward A. Gardner,
deceased, that they be and appear, be-
fore me, in the Court of Probate, to be
held at Lexington, @. H., S. c.. ON 3rd
Feb. 1909, next, after publication
hereof, at II o'clock in the forenoon, to
show cause, if any they have, why the
said administration should not be grant
ed.
Given under my hand, this 10Th day
of January Anno Domini 1909
GEO. S DRAFTS, IL. S.
Probate Judge, Lexington County S. G..
Published on the goth day of Jan.
1909, in the Lexington Dispatch. 2wl3
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1909-01-20
Beautiful Stand Now.

s.the Stand and Stock of The Lion
Furniture Co., Columbia. You will
save Money by sending them your
orders. For Beds, Bureaus, Chairs,
Rocker Springs, or anything in the
Furniture Line, See their ADVERTISE
ment in this paper. -.....