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thing realizes that nobody could do more for the club than we are doing
 Simpson was as disgusted as Hoxie, and said so. So was Monroe. so was Titus, so was Johnson. so were all the members of the committee, except Dunlap. He list ened to the others and smiled. After a while Hoxie turned to Dunlap and asked him what he was smiling about and what he had on his chest.
 'I had a party of friends here the other day said Dunlap, and one of the party was a girl of 23 whose father has gone broke and who has to go into the world and make a llvihg for herself We Were the only people in the big dining room and naturally some one remarked about it's emptiness. Some of my guests have been here before, and they ~uues- tioned me as to why it was the club did not enjoy better patronage. I was in a mood to talk and told enough of the sit- uation to make them understand our trouble. The young woman--her name is Miss Priscilla Henry--,isually is the life of any party. but while we were talking she had nothing to say. The others had various suggestions to make, but Miss Priscilla remained quiet. Finally turned to her and said: Miss Priscilla.
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you generally are a most resourceful young lady. What have you to say about ths?''
 She laughed. and then she said in that self-satisfied way that women have, Why, the whole thing is so simple. I'm surprised you have worried about it so long
 "'Weli, what's the matter?' l asked her.
 She answered my question: Yankee fashion, by asking me another. Did you ever go into a room and see lot of peo- pie sitting around like dummies, nobody knowing what to do. nobody enjoying himself or herself. everybody stilted and miserabe?
 Yes I replied.
 And then did you see some one enter, say few words that seemed to bring smile of pleasure to every one face, and then start this one and that one in con versation and dissipate the air of gloom and reserve so quickly that the whole at mosptere was changed2
 "fYes,' l replied.
 Well, she said. you want a gloom dispeller. The people who come here sit around like lot of sticks. Get one tact full, clever. bright person to look after the people who come to the club house
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screened houses and were not bitten by mosquitoes. The fact that the yellow fever mosquito would transmit the yel- low fever was discovered by a board of army doctors, namely, Drs. Reed, Carroll, Agramonte and LaZear, at Havana. t was their discovery that enabled us to 1po tne yellow fever out of the island of Cuba and later on to clean up the isthmus. These doctors made expert Inents which showed that yellow fever could not be taken unless q man was bitten by a yellow fever mosquito. They had men sleep in beds in which yellow fever patients had died. They even had them covered with tho black vomit of a yellow fever patient, and to be exposed to the elnanations from yellow fever, but none caught the disease until he was ae- -tually bitten by a yellow fever mosquito, which was in the right condition to trans init the disease.
 That story is too long to tell now, continuel Colonel Gorgas. Those discoV- cries, however, will go down in history as among the great events of the Wofld' and tho American doctors at Havana who permitted themselves to be bitten by yellow fever mosquitoes and thereby took the fever that they might make these in- vestigations deserve to be ranked among the greatest of our heroes. Of them Dr. Lazear died. pr. Carroll took the disease, but recovered. Dr. Reed was absent at the time the test was made.''
 'Tell me in few weeks how you keep out the mosquitoes. Colonel Gorgas"
 "Our first work here was to clean up Panama and Colon, and especially all places on the zone within 200 yards of the settlements. We cleaned the cities 10 get rid of the yellow fever. and we have drained all places about the settlements and kept down the vegetation to fight the malaria In some place< our drains arc made of concrete and in others they ara open ditches which must be kept free from grass. We have also subsoil drain age. We have taken away the breeding places and are trying to keep them away. We have a mosquito brigade, which is devoted to this business. We have also
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and whether it was really as bad as was painted. He replied:
 We found it so when We took charge here in 1904 The official pilot chart used at that time described the isthmus as the hottest wettest and most feverish region on earth. It said that intermittent and malignant levers were prevalent, and that there was an epidemic of yellow fever ct times. This had been the condition for centuries. The Spanards. who first crossed the Pacific about 15S0, found it so, and at the time of the discovery Of gold in California the forty-niners died by the hundreds. Along about 1853, when the Panama railroad across the 1sthnnus was l half completed. we sent a regiment of the United States army to California by way of the 1sthmus, with General Grant as quartermaster That regiment had to
 march from Gorgona to Panama. where
 htey took ship for San Francisco. During the latter part of their journey they lost so men out of Sl0.
 An even greater mortality prevailed among some of the men who built the railroad. You have heard of the death
 cars which went over the road every
 morning and the story that there was a | corpse for every tie on the track do not know about that, but the mortality
 was so freat that the construction work had to be stopped for lack of men. The railroad company once imported 10or ne- groes from the west coast of Africa, and
 they all died within the space of six months. Later they brought in 1000 Chi namen and the most of these died. The
 mortality was terrible.
 Death and Disease Among the French
 Tt was equally bad in the days of the French canal. was it not?'
 If we may believe the stories it was beyond description, awful. Sir Claude Mallet, the present British minister at Panama, who was then British consul here and as such had the administration of the estates of the British subjects who died on the work, tells me that he had
 from 300 to 600 such estates to settle every month Our death rate, calculated on a force of SO,o00, would amount to only 70
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and your troubles will dlsappear.'

and your troubles will disappear
 "I like to say graceful things to the girls, so I said to her, Miss Priscilla, l know no one more tactful, clever or en- tertaining than you
 Well she said, I'm looking for a poshion.'
 'I couldn't very well tell her she Being a woman, wasn't suitable. after l had paid that compliment to her, so 1 warned her in jocuar way that she might be called upon by us. Of course, we couldn't think of engaging a young woman like that. but really think she has discovered what ails this club"
 "I think she has, said Monroe. 'If she was man I'd be in favor of taking a chance and hiring her"
 ''So would l." said Johnson.
 "Where can we get a man who will fill the bill?" asked Hosie.
 None of them knew. They talked for an hour and the more they talked the more confirmed they got in their view that the failure of the club was due al- together to lack of cordality and that inc club never would be of any account till somebody instilled spirit of friendli- peSs into the club, Tn desperation Hoxie said he almost was willing to engage Miss
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artist and he did himself proud. So did the faiters. They had mddy blouses and sailor trousers. and while the diDner was being served the orchestra playing noth- ing but sea airs. The diners sang sea songs they hadn't sung since the days of their youth.
 This shore dinner was so much of a success that a month later she gave a Wild West dinner This time the walters wore cowboy costumes, with somhrerors blue shirts, chaps and spurs
 Next she breathed life into the ball room weekly dance was announced The club was becoming so popular that the attendance was good. and when Miss Henry had the chorus of some of the popular songs thrown on a screen all the dancers and a good many of the fall flowers joined in the chorus with fer vor that was stirring, She became more popular with the young fol keven than with the old ones. But even that did not satisfy her. She wanted to make that club a real family club, and she inaugu- rated baby day. The mothers did not know what to think of it until they brought the youngsters out there Then they found that Miss Henry had provided
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 big sand pit, for tho toddlers to play in They found plenty of big rubber bals, half a dozen hobby horses and va rious things which delight the heart of childhood Nurses and mothers and children had more pleasure on baby day at that club house than they had known in months.
 Miss Henry had become so much of feature in the club by this tlmo that me an dwomen were ready to take up an thing she suggested. She gave an am teur theatrical show. only members of tthv club performing. She gave a show, tdoI with only the children of members pdrN forming, and she bossed q minstrel show that they are talking about yet.
 Miss Henry had been at the Countr club eight months when she got one evi dence of appreciation. She was ap{ preached by a representative of tn Transportation club He wanted to kno, if she would take charge of the annual banquet which they were to give In the city. She got permission from the housd committeA of the Country club and she made the banquet of the Transportation club so novel in its entertaining feature& that half a dozen other clubs sought t{ engage her services for their banquet She had as good ideas in regard to. bi banquets as she had in regard to revivit droopy clubs Anyone who goes to bal quots will say that every banquet Is u same as another. Miss Henry made h banquets distinctive She has a fine i'd of proportion. She knows how to m music and food so that man can dige each. For example: The orchestra ma play something from the classics wh the diners are eating, but not Q nome longer. Between the ending of course and the serving of the next tn are four or five minutes. Light. popul airs go better then. The chorus always thrown on the screen so every one caN sing it Men are sure to enjoy themI selves when they sing. She always intro- duces novelty. At one of her banquets a man who was enough like David War field Co he his twin came in. violin casa under his arm, It was announced he hal been stopping | nthe hotel and had wa dered in. Most of the diners thought was Warfeid made up for "The Mus Master"
 That man played the "Traumerei'' they never had hearl 1t played befo To this day they do not know the named the master. Miss Henry keeps her secre we'll
 Naturally. she had charge of the
 
 Automobile Country club but she did know it was to be surprise party Ri In the midst of things the president the chairman of the house committed N tO her an descorted her to the sea.f honor And then. a a signal. the wal came forward with the greatest arra roses lilies Of the valley, orchids beautiful flowers that the city could nish, and they were all heaped 2 her.
 The president made a delightful speech all about the girl who rev the droopy club and lifted it from argy to prosperity while she added tc happiness of all the members. and chairman of the house committee sa many beautiful things about her ths tears came 10 her eyes But the srs surprise of all came at the end, from the whole club. she received fo first years work gift of 5000 in a c of gold.
 Copyright, 1912. by Richard Spill
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Copyright 1912 by Frank c. Carpenter.)
 Hotel Tivoli, Ancon, Panama. II HAVE just returned from a chat with
 Colonel William c. Gorgas. the army A surgeon, who has been in charge of health matters during the stay on the Isthmus of Panama. You all know of his wonderful work. He found the canal zone pest hole, and he has msde 1t one of the healthiest Of all spots upon earth. The death rate last year among our fifty odd thousand employees was less than eight to the thousand. and among the f9hite Americans who work on the canal 1t was less than three to that num- Der. The death rate in New York of all causes was about Is per thousand, and in many other cities of the United States 1t is very much higher.
 have never seen anywhere a healthier looking crowd than those men who are working on the canal. They labor all day in the sun, and in the rainy season are out for eight hours when the heavens downpour. Nevertheless their eyes are as bright as the blus of the Panama sky, and their faces as rosy as that of the sun when it rises out of the Pacific ocean to send its blazing fire down upon them.
 That sun and the Pacific I will not again attempt to explain. It seems here to rise in the west and set in the east but it is just as hot s- any sun of the tropics, and for all other things quite as deadly. Through the efforts of Colonel Gorgas and the others of our medical force 1t has been robbed of it's terrors and men labor away all day, all week and the whole year without fearing. Their experiments in sanitation have. n- deed. robbed the tropics of it's terrors, and they have instituted a new scheme of treatment which promises to create a new world for the future. But will tell you what Colonel iorgas says about this farther on.
 The Panama of the Past
 During my talk I asked Colonel Gorgas something as to the Panama of the past
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 by improved sanitation? Have they learned any lessons from Panama?
 Most of the people of the tropics, and by this mean the civilized nations, have been watching with great interest the government work here at Panama and many of them are taking advantage of the discoveries made in recent years as to malarial and yellow fever mosquitoes. They have adopted the methods of elimi- hating these pests which we introduced at Havana and have found to work so well here. As a result, yellow fever has been almost eliminated from Rio Janeiro and Santos, which. for generations, have been the pest holes or the world. If has been practically wiped out of Mexico and 1t has been reduced greatly in other places.
 And just here I would say" continued Colonel Gorgas, that a great misappre- henson obtains as to the dangers of the tropics. If you can keep away from the mosquitoes the climate Is no more dele terious than that of any other part of
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 HoiXe in his bitterness had harsh things 10 say about various officers of the club. He was particularly severe on the pres ident.
 Why" said he, "I saw him last Sun day. He was here for three hours and sat on the porch looking as glum as If he were at a funeral. He did not spend a cent. His house account for all last month was only 30 cents. Two lemonades -15 cents apiece. He's a tight wad as far as this club Is concerned, but he spends his money like sailor in the city He gives dinner parties in town in the hotels but never gives them here. I think he's trying to put me in a hole. That's the spirit of a whole lot of men in this club, and Pm getting tired of 1t. I've spoken to a whole lot of them, but 1t doesn't do any good. They roast the club and say it's no good. They blame us, although you and and everybody who knows any,
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is improved the diseases will be so eliminated that the cost of fighting them will grow less and less
 You must also remember continued Colonel Gorgas, That the great unde- veloped lands of the future are those near the equator. Take Brazil That country is as large as the United States. and has a vast deal more culttvahle land. The whole northern part ur South America will eventually be the home of a great people, and we may yet have the Kongo valley as the center of a race of white men. Moreover the haoitable part of the colder lands are already crowded and the world must have room. 1 believe that the white mans emigration to what Is the so-called forrid zone is only ques- ton of time.
 Sanitation in Brazil
 But how about the tropical peoples of today, Colonel Gorgas7 Do they realize the possibilities that might come to them
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1912-11-13
Constipation and Catarrh

Ilieve me? Well, whether you would be.
lieve me or not it is the truth.
For many years I have been wrest-
ling with the problem Of furnishing
the public an internal catarrh remedy.
Peruna has been the remedy that
have devised and 1t has certainly re-
lieved many thousand pee yes hum
dreds OF thousands Of peol Of chronic
catarrh.
Constipation was my chief difficulty
in treating these cases. I often felt
that it would be better if laxative
element were added to Peruna. feared
| to do so, however, first because OF
the number Of catarrhal patients who
needed no laxative. and second l was
afraid of making such a radical change
| in a remedy that was already doing
SO well. Thus it was that I continued
to prescribe with the Peruna q bottle
! of Manalin to those who needed lax
ative At last. under circumstances
explained in my booklet, l was con-
strained to add the laxative element to
Peruna. This constitutes what Is now
known as the revised Peruna.
| Now those who take Peruna VIII,
first, find themselves promptly relieved
of their constipation. Second, the
catarrh will gradually disappear And
once the catarrh is cured the consti-
patton leaves permanently. Then II
you follow the advice given in my
book, you will never have to take pills
any more. Cathartics and laxat1ves
you can ignore. You will be perna-
nently relieved Of both your catarrh
and the constipation. P E r y n A IS
FOR SALE AT ALL DRUG STORIES.
SPECIAL NOT1CE-Many persons
are making inquiries for the old
time Peruna. TO such would say,
this formula is now put out under the
name of KA-TAR-NO. manufactured
by KA-TAR-NO Company, COLUMBUS.
pleased to send you free booklet, !
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1912-11-13

Much cotton has been sold on the
Lexington market during the last
week. The price has ranged from 1919
to IL 81 cents per pound.
We regret to learn that both Mr..
Will George and his wife are quite sick
at their home near the depot.
Mrs S. J. Thompson, Mrs. Jodie
Lawson and daughters, Misses Frances
and Antoinette, of Abbeville. and Mrs
Ivar Harth, of Columb bia, were recent
visitors of tine family OF Mr.. G. NJ.
Harman,
Mr.. Batin Meetze has our thanks for
some Of as large sweet potatoes and
Chinese radishes that we have seen
this season. Those who beat Mr..
Meetze growing potatoes and radishes
will have to get up soon in the morn
ing.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1912-11-13

The editor is in the Fork this week
with the Treasurer collecting for the
Dispatch. Send him home, kind
friends, loaded down with the root
of all evil'', so that printers and devil
can enjoy a good Thanksgiving dir
ner.
Hon. J. VIM. Thurmond, a leading
attorney of Edgefeld, spent last week
in Lexington being engaged in the
case of Spires against Gardner. Mr..
Thurmond is a candidate for United
States District Attorney, and it is un-
derstood that he has practically the
endorsement of all the lawyers of this
Judicial Circuit.
Hon. IT. o. Stoudermyer, the popu-
lar Mayor of the town of Chaplin, was
here Monday as a witness IN court.
Mr.. J. F. Livingston, that prince of
good men and the popular and genial
President of the Columbia Newberry
and Laurens Railroad, has been here
this week. Mr.. Livingston has many
friends in Lexington who are ever
glad to see the light of his benign
cOuntenance.
1t is reported that the st Stephen
cemetery is not in such condition as
it should be. We know not who has
the care Of this White City of the Dead
in charge but it should certainly be
kept in clean aud fresh condition.
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MIS- J. W. Ogilvie and her daughter,
Miss Elizabeth, arrived last week and
are now occupying the Corley resi-
dence on Main street.
Messrs Job S. Swygert and D. D.
Smith, the we'll known stock dealers
of Leesville, have been visitors at the
court this week;
Mrs A Earle Boozer spent Sunday
with the family OF Mr.. G.. NJ. II ar
man, accompanying her husband as
far as Lexington, the Doctor having
been called to Batesburg on protes-
sional business.
MIR. Charlie T. Corley, one of our
Industrious and best truck farmers,
living near Red Bank, was in town
Monday and renewed his paper for
another year. Mr. Corley has market
ed 526 bushels Of sweet potatoes since
the 23rd of August.
The home of Frank Miller, a far
mer residing in the Hollow Creek Sec
ton, together with its contente, was
recently destroyed by an accidental
fire. The house belonged to Shelton
Shealy and was valued at $500. We
failed to learn whether or not there
was any insurance on either the build
ing or household goods.
Miss Ada Williams went to Colum-
bia Monday to be treated by special
ist for throat affection.
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Death of Mrs.
r. T.. Lybrand

The sad intelligence of the death Of
Mrs. r. L. Lybrand. Was received
here last Friday morning, whore she
has many friends and acquaintances.
The death of this estimaele lady oc-
Cured at the home Of her husband in
Swansea on Thursday night atout 70
O'Clock of brights disease in the "a year
of her age.
She suffered severe pains before
death relieved her of her suffe1ings,
alliof which she bore with Christian
fortitude and patience.
She was a young woman of beauty,
of character, kindness of heart and
hand, An affectionate wife. loving
mother, a sympathetic friend and a
thoughtful neighbor. She is survived
by a husband and four children, one
of whom Is an infant of only three days
old.
The interment was in the Swansea
Cemetery.
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PENCIL AND SCISSORS.

The many friends of Miss Alma
Long will be panied to learn that she
has been critically i'll at the home of
her sister in Irmo for several days.
Miss Rnth Long, who attended the
Lexington High school for number
terms, is now teaching the Mt. Pleas
ant school on Hollow Greek.
Joe Benjs Lyles, Esq, prominent
member Of the. Columbia Bar, is at
tending court here this week.
DR.. George B. Cromer, for some
years President of Newberry College,
and one of the leading lawyers of the
State, being member Of the law firm
of Johnstone & Cromer, is here repre-
senting the Southern Railway.
SALESMEN WANTED to look
after our interest in Lexington and
adjacent counties. Salary or Com
mission. Address
THE VICTOR OIL CO.,
3 Cleveland, O.
Early White Pearl, Silverskin and
Yellow Danvers Onion Sets, Seed Rye,
Winter Turnip and Mustard Seed.
2 Harmon Drug Co.
Prof. s. s. Linder, of Hollow Creek,
one of the Oldest and best known edu
Gators in the county, is now principal
OF the Delmar High school. This is
Prof. Lndler's thirty.ninth year in
the school-room.
FOR RENT-One farm two and q
half miles east of Chaplin, 8. @. For
further information write
Mrs. F. L. SCHWARTZ,
4p Lexington, 8. @.
County Supervisor Langford is hay
ing splendid highway built from the
upper Hollow Creek section to the
town of Leesvile. This is the first
work this section has eyer received nv
the chain gang.
MIR. M. G. Laird, of the Pelion Sec
tion, good farmer and substantial.
citizen, did not forget the printers
while here at court last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. John N. Stuart, of
Columbia, spent Sundsy at the old
h"Tesread, with the sisters of the
former.
Be sure and meet the Editor on his
rounds with the county treasurer. See
the sciIedule elsewhere.
FOR SALE-A good horse five years
old. A lady has driven him.
3pd. P.D. RISINGER.
Miss Mary Rauch, of the College for
Women, Columbia, visited the Miss
Stuart, Sunday.
DR.. J. NJ. Sease, one of the clevefest
citizens of Little Mountain. and q
physician of wide practice in that com
| munity. was in town Monday ard
made Us pleasant call.
DIR. j. G. Eleazer, a successful prac-
TONER, of the Chapin section, was in
town Monday and paid the Dispatch q
pleasant call.
Much property will be sold at pub.
10 auction by the Clerk of the Coart
on the first Monday in December. See
the advertisements elsewhere.