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The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1913-08-06
c. 6,
T STREET.

will is. Has whiskey ever uplifted
the morals of humanity? Has 1T ever
Influenced anyone to become Chris
tian? Has it ever added any new
names to the church roll? Has it ever
brought happiness to home? Has 1t
ever been used as an Amounting OIL TO
make the world better? The lndis-
putable answer to these questions Is
no. Does God approve of drunked-
ness? Does He approve OF the stag
gering brute on the street corners?
No. Then what is His will? 1 don't
claim any superior gift of intellect but
do claim common reasoning and l
have studied this question from a
standpoint of Gods Word and fail
to find any place where the Holy
Spirit tells me to vote for whlskey.
But do find where it tells me. "No
drunkard has eternal life abiding in
him. ''No drunkard can enter the
kingdom of God.'' I also find that
one of the fruits Of the spirit is tenn
perance mother sobriety, and also
hear Paul saying: Whether there
fore ye eat or drink or whatsoe 7er you
do, do all to the glory of God" l
can't glorify God and vote to place
whiskey in the pathway of my weak
neighbor. Liquor is the greatest curse
of the age. It's the monster menace
to church progress. It's the biting
evil of business. It's the sneaking
iend of politics, It's rock Of offense
to all that is good. I haye never been
able to see how any true consistent
church member can be in favor of its
sale in any shape or form. Neither do
stand alone. I stand with the best
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1913-08-06
Jail News.

Monroe Williams shot Mack Hill at
Mr.. Dave Rawls saw-mi]l Sunday
night and seriously wounded him.
Williams forbade Hill to enter his
house and when Hill attempted to
force an entrance he was greeted
with bullee. Sherf Miller was no.
titled and had Williams safely lodged
in jail in a few hours.
Monday morning "trustee" con-
vict of the county chaingang walked
off from near the Supervisors home
where he was working on the road
and made for Columbia. Sheriff Mil
Ter was phoned for and in short time
had the negro, John Goodwin. back on
his job.
Charlie McNure, white, was arrest
ed by Sheriff Miller and lodged in Jail
last Monday, charged with attempted
assault upon a white girl
Sheriff Miller carried three conyicts
to the gang Monday. He still has in
Jail seven prisoners awaiting hear.
ing at the next term of court.
The sheriff is proficient officer and
when he goes after prisoner he gets
him.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1913-08-06
For Church People.

(By Rev. w j. Roof, OF Chapin.)
THE same old question of drunked-
ness chat has been in vogue ever since
Noah came ont of the ark and Lot
planted his vineyard is still bobbing
M before us. An election is pending
to vote .swet'' again or to keep it
ssdry.,' Every person is deeply inter
ested in this election. It is matter
Of no little interest to the church peo-
pie Of our county. Our vote deter
mines the election, and our vote should
be determined by the Word of God.
Now friends, let US reason together
about this vote. I have no right as a
citizen OF this county to dictate to you
how You must vote. The dictator
shows his small sense of reasoning
when he tells you to "hus.t up your
tax receipts and go to the polls and
vote for the Dispensary. Men are
not to be driven like brutes but rea-.
soned with. Too, if advice is to be
sought out by church people is it not
more reasonable to 60 to your pastors,
your spiritual leaders, those whom
God has called and you have chosen
to- feed you on the bread Of life rather
than to take the advice of people who
have not the love of Christ and the
interest of His church in their lives?
Now if it's Gods will to have a Dis
pensary in Lexington county. then
let's vote is in; but if it's not His will
let's vote it out. And Gods will
should be done in all things, ciyi lily,
morally and reigiously.
Suppose we determine what Gods
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1913-08-06
Respectfully,
W, w. LOnr.
Mr.. Mike S. Wingard.

Mr.. Mike S. Wingard, a we'll known
citizen who resided just below Lex
ington, died Sunday morning at
O'Clock, after an illness of about five
weeks.
Mr.. Wingard was one of Lexington's
Oldest and respected citizens, and had
resided On the farm near here for
many years. For pumber of years
he faithfully carried the mails on the
Star route between Lexington and
Rishes store.
Mr.. Wingard married Frances NJ.
Roof, daughter Mr.. Jesse N. Roof,
who survives him, besides eight chill
dren, viz: Mrs. Abram Stork, Jr.,
Columbia; Miss Katie Wingard, Jesse
O. Wingard, Quincy Wingard, Van
M. Wingard, Frank Wingard, Mrs.
M. P. George and Reedy Wingard, all
of this place.
The funeral services were conducted
Monday morning alto o'clock at St.
David's Lutheran church and the in
terment was in the cemetery nearby,
Rev. R. +. Livingston officiating.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1913-08-06
Mrs. Alice Arqoe.

Mrs. Alice Argoe was borE May IS,
1874, and died July rs, 1913, hence she
was 80 years, , months and ten days
old. In early life she united with
Florence Baptist church and was a
faithful and active member of the
Baptist church up to near the time of
her death.
Mrs. Argoe is survived by hus-
band ard tour children, father anI
mother, four brothers and four sisters,
one child and one brother having pre-
ceded her 10 the grave and Gre cEli!t
was buried IN the coffin with her.
The interment was at llarmoGV
church. The burial service was c ~
drcrof ~ tho Rev. p. &. l!"rlon".
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1913-08-06
Action on Cotton Crop.

TO evolve esome definite plans for
marketing the cotton crop gradually,
that losses Incidental to sporadic sales
may be averted, resolutions We're
adopted at recent meeting of the
Farmers union in SEmter county
with this end il view, and con- mis-
tee appointed 10 bring this matter to
the attention ~i al: unions throughout
the South and 10 invoke the aid ct ali
bankers, bcard> CT trade and ccm:n~r-
ci4i organizations. I'll" feature @:
,he It sUiu,i is IS thaG for every zoe
sold another he held CT the market,
cither at irl2nn nc stored j" -iic l.@.Ies'
Nac.h -
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1913-08-06
element of the age.

element of the age.
When T became a member of the
church, I promised God that II would
forsake the devil and all his works
and ways I promise the same and
so does every parent when bring my
children to God in baptism. No.: is
the Dispensary product OF God? DO
you believe that is pleasing to your
Maker to see thousands filling the
drunkard's grave? And this happens
daily. You say no. Whose work and
way is it then? The devils, the father
of all evil. And this is the greatest
way he has to send souls to hell, and
his work is to get church members to
lean on him for advice instead of Gods
chosen people.
The big argument, if there is any at
all, is that it will help up in our pub
lie schools, it will help us build roads
and number of other things. 1would
rather bring my child up in ignorance
and let him tread the pathway OF
thorns all his life than to educate him
or build roads for him with money
taken from the lips and naked backs
OF poor drunkard's families. As soon
as your boy becomes a drunkari then
you will become proh1bitionlst. The
LIQUOR traffic must have material to
work on-your sons are the material.
You place liquor before your weak
brother, he drinks it, gets drunk, is
placed in the lookup, goes before
mayor and is charged fine to get free.
The county grabs his money, runs and
places it in schools, etc. Such actions
should be blushing shame to chris
tian citizenship. Keep the influences,
the temptation or the stumbling
block" as Paul puts it, from before
him, wrap him up with christian IN
huences and make man out of him
instead of an empty po cket slave.
God has blessed Us in the past few
years. I claim that prohibition has
not been an 'ignoble failure" and
every true church member knows this.
Those who only look at the dollar are
not supposed to know better. church
work has never made such progress in
the history of our State as it has with
in the past four years, ask your pastor.
Place Dispensary back here and this
noble work is crippled. Ask the
drunkard what is his doom, he replies
eternal suffering in hell-this the true
answer. You shudder at the thought,
but 60 to his heartbroken wife and
hungry children. see them in their
poverty, and you I'll your eyes with
tears of sympathy for them. Oh, how
innocent you are! But listen! Who
made him drunkard! Yonder is the
Dispensary, the nursery OF blind tigers,
you say, II didn't put it there" yon-
der is the law, "well I didn't make it,"
yonder is the Dispensary politician,
ooh, well, I voted for him.
CONTINUED next week.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1913-08-06
Farmers Institutes.

Dear Mr.. itor:-There will be
held in your county farmers Institutes
on the following dates and at the fol-
lowing places: Hilton, S. c., August
10th and James E. Dunbar's, near
Pelion, S. c., August Goth.
There will be present practical
farmers in the demonstration work,
and experts from Clemson College to
address the farmers on subjects rela-
tive to their every day work on the
farm. These Institutes are held in
the interest of the farmers. The sal
aries and expenses of these men are
. paid by the taxpayers of the State and
the farmers owe it to themselves to at
tend these meetings and derive all the
benefit possible from hearing the lee
lures. These men are public servants.
anxious to serve the farmers. 1t is no
easy task to travel from county to
county, day after day and deliver ad-
dresses and to meet hundreds of peo-
pie. Therefore, these men are en-
titled to be encouraged when they are
endeavoring to perform a public SER
vice that is filed with so much promise,
provided that the farmers will simply
cooperate by attending the meetings,
and seek information by asking ques.
tions that will be cheerfully and glad.
ly answered by all the lecturers. It is
gratifying to know that the prejudice
that was once held by the farmers
against scientific men is passing away.
All Of the great discoveries that have
been made in the interest of agricul-
ture we owe to scientific men. It was
the scientific man who discovered that
legumlnous crops are able to take nj
tregen from the air and deposit it in
the soil and save the farmer the most
costly of all fertilizer ingredients; it
was the scientific man who made it
possible for us to overcome to large
degree the ravages of hog cholera by
the use of hog cholera serum; it was
the scientific man who enabled US to
secure seed corn that would give a
greater yield per acre by reason of
careful selection and breeding; it is to
the entomologist and plant patholo-
glst that we 60 to when insects and
plant diseases are destroying our crops;
it was scientific men who invented
anc manufactured all of the improved
implements for the preparation and
cultivation of the soil and the harvest
ing of the crop.
Surely when we realize these facts
we must respect and be willing to
heed the instructions of these students
OF plants and the soil. So I plead
with the farmers of South Carolina to
attend these meetings.
Respectfully,
W. w. Long,
State Agt. and Supt. of Ext.
At Hilton basket picnic dinner
will be served on the grounds and at
Pelion barbecue will be served by
that master of the culinary art, Mr..
]. E. Dunbar, at his home. Every
body is cordially invited to attend
both meetings.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1913-08-06
IT Office Voters
MoNCETo

the Books
waited until the 4th
.e certificates
will until
although advertisement that the
will different before that time.
people will allowed
polls nothing keep The opposition is
strong and organized
N
The Colorado statesman., 1913-09-06
Religion Of Own for
Growing Youth
By Rev. c. w. Clkey
Pestor Hyde Park Baptist Church. Chicago

all week well Sunday the type recommended for the
The attempt to furnish boys with eady ymade" religion will fail
and it to be urged that they be permitted develop their nd
viduaities in Sunday school and church.
This is period of transition in religion We discovering that
gon is not According to the old dea package of g
handed expected find the
same thing his package We that reg must be individual
Women religion will be the mens and the boys
will the the adult religion
and should be individual thing To demand the
religion of boys as of others is unreasonable
Religion has certain appeals boyhood The boy is not interested
in the life to in the intellectual aspects of religion.
Between the of fifteen and eighteen years the boy of
eal than he will Then suddenly he becomes
of his social ties and the appeal his happens be individual
The boy demands religion for Sundays only but also for the
Monday morning lesson school for the Saturday afternoon basketball
game and for the meeting gang Saturday night The first
step after the realization that the boys religion individual place
tile boys in separate classes under teachers
Religion has been attractive to boys through associating
with the boys interests, clubs The great question
show the clubs That the
ton ts Boy being asked meet Such clubs
really reaching out the boy and the boy should the body
behind the
We failing attach the the church. The club
should be turned into the midst of the church. The should
than develop make the aaround
Boys be shown their religion hiking
scouting but the boys department must certainly be than
nasium class.
boys they helping make
them that the church is interested in Them Work up masculine
religion Make the boys departments look and feel like going
The Colorado statesman., 1913-09-06
Plenty Of Good Paying
Jobs on Farms
BY S. M. Peters. Agricultural Agent
New York

abe-boded who will tell
have hunted job until they in body and in spirit
Maybe they have but their horizon bounded by the
about this island and Fourteenth street Why don't they the farms
They wouldn't have to ask twice for work there
No. don't the farms the but the farms New
York What the help for their crops they
willing and able to pay for it.
Many of these fellows loafng here would be glad to jobs So
day long they could stay the city Farm labor quite we'll
if not better than that besides offering other advantages
Say gets So the city and works twenyx days
the month That makes $52 Out of this he pays fares
which reduces his income somewhat Deduct further his house
his isn't whole lot clothing
sperdngs whichever he incline to- 1t will him
week. $26 month"; to keep himself leaving him $26 month
for other
Any farmer willing pay from $50 $40 month for hand
besides board and lodging You don't have be mathematician
figure out the advantage of working farm financially working
for 81 day the city But there other advantages we'll
The hired help eats with the farmer and his family, there
question about the quality of the food and everybody knows is
better than the table of the aborer in the city
fined air of shop factory the farm aborer the open
time building his breathing apparatus while his muscles keeping
in good shape.
He has plenty of milk fresh vegetables galore solid
instead sandwich
about the place where he sleeps either and he
the fire escape hot nights get enough keep
sufoaing.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-09-06
IDLENESS IN SUMMER TIME.

beaen people that disaster
progress will work steadily
during the lay off and in actually
quit work! This thing has
occupation
anything else 1t devlish ida born of stupidity and fostered by
unworthy opportunity
of The worlds
time well in the and the who
tony refuses during the hot spell should be denied the privilege
the weathe is
The young Negroes saunerng along
hanging pooroos exhibiting
Alec clothes and foolish talk and the young old
for that maer) paadng shopping
tricts spending their time and money drinking while
calls upon calls for help, good wages
Let be up doing work, stay work. your
work show for something tangible
the time to
The Colorado statesman., 1913-09-06
You Are Stronger Than
You Know
BY E. J. RICE. Milwaukee. Wis.

If body electrical machine these of the things
the energy expended
average electrical it would
hat he used about and oneha owatt hours of electrical
in the course of a working day.
This amount of electricity not great but when
the things that with the result is trie startling
With onehalf klowatt electrical energy could
heat electric faton sewing machine
heat electric for four hours large fan for
wo hours chatting dish for six hours and electric
curling for 100 hours
All this accomplished without voluntary effort and merely
days does represent the energy
aboring Really it astounding revelation Of
the efficiency of the human machine.
Now, when unusually strlg.
Cling along hot day and painting pathecay lie realize little
energy being generated and think of
things to which it might be applied
Though probably and the large
Of ability electric dnamo they would only wish they ccnd
h q a huFe fan o keep them cool
The Colorado statesman., 1913-09-06
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES.

Denver offers fine business opportunities along
city is and built like many
larger municipalities We have opportunity training people
paonize home industries
people
that they have of turned people
their purchases This will hold them and
when open enterprises
established Along every
seldom elsewhere, and to of
the cooed
the colored business enteprs? We had
they seemed surprised that
had little result experience
The opportunity will always lnger;
the cannot
accomplish these things ngl the
days when wealth is combined accomplish
and of Denver get together do something's
The Colorado statesman., 1913-09-06

The farms are suffering
for lack of laborers and il
just makes me tired to look
at these fellows loafng
around the parks of New
York when they might be
earning good money in the
The Colorado statesman., 1913-09-06

You are stronger than
you know. Only you can't
get at your strength to use
it as you want to. (No,
this isn't an advertisement.
It's a brief tale of what YOU
might do but can't.)
The Colorado statesman., 1913-09-06

Craving boys should b,
allowed to have religion
of their own kind and
should not be forced to
adopt the same sort as their
mothers and sisters.
Amasculine religion good
The Colorado statesman., 1913-09-06

less than three months contract
pany all orders parties
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-12-29
Daddy 'sBedtiirne
OtOV.
The Mermaid's
Dinner Party
For the Fishes.

~" nee ked
IN daddys W onceup
time lived down in
little fishes who live down the
her with shells
to
had h dinners The mermaid cried dried
pie She decided one evening she would dinner
ink
Oys.
method
hsh
cream The little
land
listening delightful
and
and had bite
fish the
that had
Joy
All the people who
went home wondering what could
hard to find out what had happened
and be
How silly of a fish 10 cryr said
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-12-29
BETTER OUTLOOK FOR 1914.

The year 1913 closes with man,
reasons for encouragement which dis
not exist when il began, remarks Hen
~ Clews. IL opened with grave un-
certainties concerning tariff. currency
trusts and neutrality-suspicious. which
for many wears have been az the bot
tom of much Of the discomfort in bust
ness and politics Ii closed with ever
al of these problems practically settled
and with adjustment 10 the new order
OF things the chief necessity OF the
future.
The tarin bill has been passed and
is now beyond range of a discussion
which kept SO large a portion of tho
business community under constant
discouragcment and uncertainty Our
manufacturers now know the condi-
lions upon which their calculations
must he based. and they can go
ahead without disconcerting uncer-
-ainty
Aonther very important development
which should tend To the restoration
OF business confidence is the attitude
of President Wilson on the trust ques-
lion. The president considers the
sherman law sufficient for an prac-
teal purposes. because the supreme
court has read reason into the sta
tute. lie is consequently opposed to
changes further than supplementary
legislation for clearing up ambiguous
points.
Politically the outlook is distinctly
brighter. Signs are multiplying that
The wave of radicalism which swept
the country for the past two or three
Years and which showed itself conspic-
uously IN The movement FOR govern
nent ownership, is on the wane. Con-
sentative forces are reasserting them
selves ana there is reason 10 hope that |
many of the political Illusions and |
agaries which have been dangled be
ore the public Of late VIII disappear.
rhe congressional elections take place
leXt fall and more or less talk and
citation may be expected Dut little
.erious legislation viii be attempted
turing 1914.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-12-29
THE FRANK.

An Indiana congressman wants the
present session TO abolish the frankins
privilege. At intervals congress has
had members who have felt that along
that line Of sponsorship runs the high
road to fame. Franiing has proved
TO be much-abused perqusite.
At the outset, in our own country's
experience, the frank was granted 10
soldiers in actual service. Later on
il was extended and, still later. cur
tailed. About the year l845 it was
limited to the president and the vice
president, 10 members Of congress, the
third assistant postmaster general and
all postmasters; other federal officers
Kept quarterly accounts. Thereafter
several changes were made.
Franking Is a grossly abused privi-
lege-some time ago the public heard
al q congressman who moved his
household furniture from his home in
The central west to Washington on
his frank. The most recent complaint
deals with the use ot the franks OF
senators or congressman for the mail
ing OF tons Of political documents. Re-
peatedly congress has taken the SUBJ
jcel into serious consideration and then
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-12-29
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Nhiskers and long hair have enabled
Charles Rogers, OF No % East Kinzie
street Chicago, to keep remnant Of
his independence for decade. They
are now the remaining asset Of the
infrm old man.
Giving him the appearance Of a
prophet hey earn small change" for
him now and then from artists who
can use him as a model
lie has not had q haircut in ten
years and he stopped shaving in 1876,
the year he attended the centennial in
Philadelphia. But when he stopped
shaving and let his hair grow long il
wal not for commercial gain. When
he was young his hair was black and
his beard was long and flowing and OF
the same ebony shade.
Il let them grow because ! thought
whiskers Indicated talent and believed
thought came through the hair" he
said IT is well let them grow. be-
cause they nelp me earn my living
now. | am not proud Of them now.
because they are gray and thin. /
only think of their earning power
which will help me to live.
Il have no child to care for me. A
nephew sends me s. every three
weeks. Sometimes people give me a
castonf coat. I am IS years old, and
| don't know What I should do IL IL
were not ~feef nnkers- and hair %