The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1911-04-12

them properly youched for, but tEs
price of admission to my Lectures has
| remained at the old figure Of Is cents.
| That is the cost of admission to any
! hall to see a trained hog. and, CON-
! parsI to the performance CT trained
hog, by lecture is as corn to the husks.
@. Hope Jones belongs to no trust and
because he bas got a good thing be Is
not going to be selfish about it.
"For hundreds Of years, my friends,
the name Of Nero has been held up to
scorn and detesfatiots beeaHse he fid-
died when Rome Eas .Purriistg and
|; beaauss lie had i ltttleway q sfa,tsh'
|; tering from 5000 to 1G,oe2 ptsszssrs
! tns d batch to save army rdtionS NsV
aAso' had a trick Of wiping out tossps
and depopulating farming communt->
ttes,- and We have read Of his putting
cot ey5sss and shaving of toes and hn-
gens. Historians; hare gone at 1t and
matA~ out cat be .eas never SO happy
as when slcMg,. % orphans or stick
ing dd>women e;n1 Of pins.
~Ve A-e down "a Nero becaase We
have heaad but. o::s eide Of his char-
acter. It's just anotHes case Of Stand
ard ,Oh brought down 70 date. When
Mr. '.Rockefelhor raises the price OF
kerosene a cent a gallon We are down
on him: when b. gives $1,000 to
beat the> >hooaaorm We hasenS a word
Of praise. =.
The Good ThatfWae in>hero.
-Who' was Neroe Has any" man os
woman in Huckletsny Hill asked tic
question? No. You have gone hight
along not caring a durn' who or what
be was. but ready to believe the worst
of him.. AS a kid Nero was one Of
the best Of the bunch. A little sugar
tied up in an old rag contented him.
As youth he was never charged with
stealing eggs or stoning the school
house windows: He drew water for
the washing. and he moved the lawn,
and he took all the. prizes IN Sunday
school. Industrious. honest and truth
full. be. was 4 living example to be
pointed out to others. have been told
that Nero and are alike in this re-
spect.
"Such was the probity of the young
man when. he reached his majority
that you might have searched his
rooms from top to bottom without
coming across the photo Of chorus
girl or love letter from the cashier
of a restaurant. This evidence alone
ought to he sufficient to satisfy you as
to what sort Of young man he was.
but it has always been rigidly sup d
pressed by historians.
Nero was twenty-threeI years old
when the blow fell-that is. he fell in
love with female trainer Of lions.
We have all been there. The thing
is bound to happen. We have done
just as Nero did when ME chance
came. That yaller haired young man
on the back seat will do it. | think
Nero would have done better to fail
in love With Il stenographer. but I'm
not going to criticise. AS it turned out.
the female trainer was after his cash
and didn't care tunk for him. If |
that young woman had not toycd with
Neros heart and busted his bank ac-
count he would have married hap
pily and been taken on as keeper of |
the elephant and driver Of the band |
wagon. But she toyed. and when he |
discovered that she was toying he be-
came q terror on wheels. have been, |
told that I am like Nero about that.
Let a woman toy with my heart and
,hou1d become raging lion. He went
In to slam things around from that |