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The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1913-07-09
A Good Investment.

w. D. Magil, we'll known mer-
chant OF Whitemound, Wis, bought a
stock of Chamberlain's medicine 80 as
to be able to supply them to bis Gus.
tollers. After receiving them he was
himself taken sick and says that one
small bottle of Chamberlain's Collie,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy was
worth more to him than the cost of
his entire stock of these medicines.
For sale by All Dealers. adv.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1913-07-09
ORGANIZE Law and Order Leauue.

Walterboro.-In accordance with the
plans laid for the obliteration Of
blind tigers" from Colleton county,
the Colleton County Law and Order
league was organized here this week.
The Rev. T. P. Baker, pastor Of st.
Jude's Episcopal church Of Walter
boro, was selected as president with
the Rev. J. C. Lawson, pastor of the
Baptist church at Lodge as secretary.
The league membership is composed
Of two men appointed from each
church in the county together with the
pastors Of the county.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1913-07-09
Obey That Impulse!

Instead of enduring the daily tor
ment of weak back, backache, sore
kidneys, swollen joints and rheuma-
tism. obey that impulse to take Foley
Kidney Pills. They cooperate with
nature, which accounts for their sue
cess in all kidney and bladder disor-
ders. They are healing, strengthening
and tonic. Obey that impulse to-day
and give them chance to help you.
Harmon Drug Go. adv.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1913-07-09

Equal parts of ammonia and turpen
tine will take paint out of clothing. no
matter how hard or dry it may be.
Ssturate the spot two or three times
and then wash out in soapsu5s.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1913-07-09

The agonizing discomfort and sense
of suffocation that accompany hay
fever and asthma may be greatly al.
leviated by the use Of Foley's Honey
and Tar Compound. It has soothing
effect on the mucus Innings. and re-
lieves the gasping and tickling sensa-
ton in the throat and bronchial tubes.
Harmon Drug Co. adv.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1913-07-09

DON'T use cough medicine con-
tainiDg opium or morphine. They
constipeta the bowels and 90 not cure,
ony stifle the cough. Examine the
label and if the medicine contains thess
harmful opiates refuse it. Foley's
Honey and Tar Compound contains no
opiates, is healing and soothing. Har-
mon Drug Co. adv.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1913-07-09

G., lun'tjs, July 3.-Congressman
Lever .Df W. W. Long, state agent
IF the Un:ted States demonstration
work. addressed a large pumber of
Ric!'!an" county farmers today at noon
ia Crdv-n hall.
The Washington herald., 1913-07-26
The Extravaganee of EARNED Peace

1t is almost incredible that in this
age of progress and intelligence one
OF the foremost nations of civilization
should feel called upon to keep nearly
10000 men under arms and prepared
to defend the country against danger
that should have no existence, and
would have none, if common sense were
10 be given a chance.
The Chamber of Deputies last week
passed the bill to provide for three
years of military service instead OF
two in France. 1t is estimated that
this will add 10000 more men to the
standing army, making the total ap-
proximately 10000. This was done as
an answer to the action of Germany
in increasing its military force, and is
another striking illustration of the
wastefulness of ARMED peace"
1t is not easy to comprehend why
there should be a possibility of con-
tinued conflict between Germany and
France, both being progressive and
fair-rninded. Both are willing to enter
into arbitration agreements with the
United States. There seems TO be no
valid reason why there should be any
dispute arising between them that
could not be adjusted by peaceful
means. What can France hope to gain
by the new law that will compensate
for the economic loss of Withdrawing
practically 10 per cent of her men of
military age from the fields of pro-
ductive usefulness and adding them to
the list of those already too heavy a
burden on the resources OF the country?
The Washington herald., 1913-07-26
The Lesson of Cardenio King.

A decade ago fnanciers of the type
of Cardenio F. King. who died this
week in a Massachusetts prison before
the Governor was able to release him
so that he might die a free man, were
common enough. He was a promoter
who had been convicted of swindling
gullible investors. His story serves to
direct attention to a phase of our pub
lie life in which Improvement has been
very rapid and very great. These men
had made it a business to cheat men
and women out of their savings of
many years by means of alluring pros
pectuses about oil fields or mines, for
tunes to be made by fiers in cotton,
real estate booms, &c, which in most
cases were worth only the paper they
were so deliberately printed upon. They
advertised lavishly, spent money freely,
and seemed even to have the indorse-
ment of solid men and strong instr
tutions. The dead mans case was one
in point, for when found out and
stopped he had less than SI4,ooo with
which to meet liabilities of about half
a million dollars.
1t is gratifying that this gang of
sharpers has disappeared. The govern
ment has played no sn2., fart in this
reform Numerous convictions of
swindlers for using the mails to de-
fraud drove them out of business. The
newspapers also have accomplished
great deal by the much closer super
vision they exercise over their adver-
tisements. Many, which would have
been accepted without question few
wears ago, would not now be con-
sidered at any price. Public sentiment,
The Washington herald., 1913-07-26
Bleeding . Continent.

From the Christian Herald.
The total Panama excavation for the
transisthmian canal win be 100000
cubic yards. The annual erosion of the
banks OF the Mississippi River alone
tributaries evcludeO is estimated II
more, than loo, 900 cubic yards.
The Mississippi in flood is eight times
the volume Of mighty Niagara
The annual losses in the Ohio Valley
alone exceed 900. and the Ohio Is
only ss7 miles long and drains but 10000
square miles.
clifford Pinchot estimates the flood
losses since 1900 at 81, 900 900 900, and statis-
ticians agree that direct flood losses
within the last half century exceed the
total cost Of all our wars (including the
civil war;.
Floods in the Mississippi Valley carry
out to the Gulf Of Mexico every year
nearly 600. 900 tons of the richest soil
in the whole great basin, and the irony
Of the loss II biting when 1t is remem-
bered that this vast area Of alluvial Ia
wrenched from the producer only to OBJ
struct navigation by depositing bars or
Swallowing channels, and that this same
produced must be taxed to pay for Q
second removal. OF his lost producing
area. AL OF these figures have been on
direct lines OF dollars or square miles.
Who can estimate the volume or the
Of those who see the results Of years
Of hard endeavor swept out IN . single
niGht7
The Washington herald., 1913-07-26
Why They Married.

Post cards having been sent out
10 married men with the inquiry,
Why did you marry?" . large
number Of responses came to hand.
from which the following is . Sc
lection:
That's what have been trying for
eleven years to find out.-C. W.
Married TO get square with her
mother. but never havoc. o.
Because Clair told me that five
other Young men had proposed to
herr. b.
The Washington herald., 1913-07-26
some Vegetables of the Future

From Harpcr's Weekly.
There are more than twenty new veg
etables that show a likelihood OF coming
INTO general use on the American dinner
table within the next ten years. The
choice OF the housewife Is going to be
considerably more than doubled. SIZE
will have forty different vegetables from
which TO plan her meals instead of TWEEN
~. There IS nothing OF the fad PROPOSE
ton about any of these new vegetables
All nave been and are being grown and
already have some market. All have
been popular wherever they have been
tried. and all can now be grown at
profit. In addition, over and above the
forty, there are FIVE or six vegetables
not so new. but still uncommon as foods
because they have never been put widely
upon the market These latter have
passed the public verdict OF approval,
hut in most cities and towns II is difficult
to obtain them But all the new rege-
tables, the experts say, are going TO be
possible for the slimmest pocketbook-
The aquatic potato. which tokers. when
they get wind OF 1t, are going to desig.
nate as submarine" because II really
grows. so to speak, under water, is one
Of the most spectacular OF the new vege-
tables The scientists and the proSrts.
sive farmers who have looked into II say
that the aquatic potato has a very fair
chance of being one Of the great Amer,
can food products all by itself. 1t is
good to the taste and 1t grows where no
potato worthy of the name could ever
be induced to grow before-on very moist
and marshy ground.
Along with the aquatic potato Is the
roselle. Tae roselle is almost the star
arlong the new vegetables, for even now
it has a brilliant record and has be-
come a distinct commercial success. II
Is a substitute for cranberry, or really
not a substitute OF all. but something
new and capable of making a jelly that
can meet cranberry on its own ground
an6-some day. OF SURPRISING that deI-
cacy. It will grow in Southern climates
impossible for cranberries and, best CO
all, a market for 1t is now established.
Texas, California. Florida. and South
Carolina have all become roselle States.
One advantage il has over the cranberry
is that it is very easy OF culture and CAN
be grown in any garden.
The Washington herald., 1913-07-26
A SUBMARINE WIRELESS.
Navy Uses q Violin to Send Mes
sages Through Water.

From the Scientific American
The Navy Department has adopted a
Submarine violin" for the transmission
of messages between submarine torpedo
boats and shore stations or other vessels.
Exhaustive tests of the apparatus have
been made on a submarine at Hampton
Roads, Va. and three sets of the signal
device have been ordered to be placed on
as many vessels
The mechanism is explained to be an
adaptation of the violin. From one side
OF the submarine project two steel stays.
From the ends OF these is stretched taut
a piano wire. Touching the wire is the
roughened rim of a wheel which. when 1t
revolves, sets up vibrations in the wire.
The wheel is controlled by a motor in
side the hull of the submarine, and the
motor. in turn. is controlled by a Morse
key.
When the key Is pressed the motor be-
gins % revolve, the exterior wheel scrap
ping the wire precisely as a bow agitates
a violin string The hull of the submarine
acts as. sounding board. The key is
used precisely as an ordinary Morse key.
and dots and dashes are hummed on the
wire as the key is depressed and released.
About eight words minute is the best
speed so far attained. The receiving sp-
paratus is the ordinary telephone receiver.
The end under water may be connected
by insulated wires to a fort, shore sta
ton or another vessel
The experiments at Hampton Roads
showed that the vibrations may be heard
clearly at a distance of five miles. Naval
officers believe that the device can be per-
fected SO that the range of the mechanism
may be greatly extended Christian Ber-
ger, an Austrian, is the inventor OF the
submarine violin. He attempted to get the
Austrian government to make tests of It.
but failed. Coming TO the United States
he succeeded in convincing Navy Depart
ment officials of the practicability Of the
scheme.
The Washington herald., 1913-07-26
INSIDE CIEoPATRA's NEEDLE.
From London Tit-Bit.

4
How many of the thousands who daily
pass Cleopatra's Needle, on the Thames
| embankment. know Of the exceedingly
miscellaneous collection of articles which
was placed in the cavity In the base of
| the obelisk on its erection? The fol-
lowing is a complete list:
Standard foot and pound.
Bronze model of the obelisk. one
half-inch scale to the foot
Copies Of Engineering printed on vel
lum, with plans of the mechanical con-
| trivances employed in erecting and
transporting the obelisk, together with
its complete history.
A fragment of the obelisk itself,
| Clipped from it in the process Of level
| ing the base.
Jars of Doulton ware.
Complete set of British coinage, in
GLIDING an Empress of India rupee
Standard gauge Of 1,000th part of an
| inch.
Baby's feeding bottle and children's
| toys.
Parchment copy of DR.. Birch's trans
lation of the obelisk's hieroglyphics.
Portrait of Queen Victoria.
Bibles in French and English, the
Hebrew Pentateuch, the Arabic Gen
esis, and a translation into 215 Ian
guages OF the sixteenth verse of the
| third chapter OF St Johns Gospel
A shilling razor.
Bradshaw's Railway Guide.
Case Of cigars.
Some pipes.
Box Of hair pins and sundry articles
of feminine adornment
A hydraulic jack, as used IN raising
. the obelisk.
Specimens of wire rope and subma-
rine cables.
Twenty-four maps of London.
Copies Of daily and illustrated news
papers.
A two-foot rule.
A London directory.
A Whitaker's almanac.
| And last. photographs OF twelve
beautiful Englishwomen of the day.
The Washington herald., 1913-07-26
THE OPEN FORUM
..rhe u.rest ia PelsnA.e

To the Editor: In the editorial column
Of the Washington Herald for July q.
lsl3, there appeared note entitled The
Unrest In Poland" which needs little
correction.
The sentence which reads. the first
division" (of Poland was frustrated by
Napoleon, who befriended the nation. but
after his fall there was q second parti.
ton, and this holds good to the present
day." 10 not In accordance with historical
facts, except for the statement that Ma
poleon befriended the Poles. This he
did. not, however, from q motive Of dis
interested magnanimity. but for reasons
Of q purely selfish character. The fact
IL that there were three partitions OF
Poland, all of which took place before
Napoleon's advent to power, as follows:
The first one was effected In 1T2. the
parties to that crime being Frederick the
Great of Prussia, Catherine II Of Russia
and the House Of Hapsourg. or rather
the Empress Maria Theresa. BY this
partition Poland lost about one-fourth
of her territory. The second division
took place in 1873, the partitioning pow
ers being Russia and Prussia, and by
this transaction Poland became reduced
to one-third Of her original proportions
The third Generally called the laso par
titiOn OF Poland was enacted IN 1850,
again between Russia, Austria and Prus-
STA Napoleon later established what was
termed the Grand Duchy OF Warsaw, in
order to soothe the sensibilities Of the
Poles, although this never amounted to
much more than a recruiting ground for
Napoleon's armies. In 1915 the Congress
OF Vienna ratified the previous partitions
Of Poland between Russia, Prussia, and
Austria, with the exception that the City
Of Cracow in the old Polish province OF
Galicia. In what is now Austrian Poland.
was constituted into a so-called republic,
all the rest of Poland being formed into
what was termed the Congress King
DOM" with greatly circumscribed liper-
ties. under the Emperor of Russia as
King or 'Tsar' OF Poland. This con-
dition obtained until 1863. when the
last and great Polish instruction put
an end to even this small vestige OF
Polish liberty.
Such is, in mere outline, the history OF
a great political crime, the humiliation
of what was. once a high-spirited and
great, II not powerful nation. II should.
however. be added that the Poles had,
in large part. only themselves to thank
for their fate, as history hardly affords
an example Of a country more divided
against itself. or one where the selfish
ambition, jealousy and corruption OF its
aristocracy was coupled with more
ruthless and cruel oppression OF the
lower classes OF its society.
s. NJ GRONBERGER.
The Washington herald., 1913-07-26
SATURDAY, JULY &c. 1913.
II Happened in Missouri.

The State of Missouri, having fixed
a standard for figuring rates for fire
insurance by law, the business OF IN
surfing was made so improbable there
that the result was a deficit of 10 per
cent-often moreover the premiums
collected. These conditions attracted
the attention of insurance departments
in other States, because it was assumed
that the deficits in the Missouri bust
ness were made up by higher charges
elsewhere.
Then legislator conceived the bril-
liant idea that it would be greater
advantage still for the State to compel
fire insurance underwriters to compete,
and a law was passed forbidding any
company to adopt as its standard OF
rates the schedules of any other COM
pany. Distant principals were to be
held responsible for the actions of
their Missouri agents, and as a viola
ton OF the statute was made an ex-
traditable crime, it would have been
possible to hale officers and managers
of fire insurance companies from any
part of the United State TO Missouri
TO be tried for a crime of which the
law declared them guilty in advance.
No agent can be expected to carry all
the rates in his head; and if any of
them should be caught reading table,
his principals would be 'conclusively
guilty"
Can. under such conditions, any one
blame the outside companies for ceas-
ing to underwrite risks in Missouri?
But the Attorney General declared that
he would not permit them to quit" to
which the aggrieved companies replied
that there was no law compelling any
one to accept business which he did
not want This was unanswerable. An
effort was made to induce the refrac-
tory insurance companies to reconsider.
but as the State ref4sed to make up to
them any deficit thus occasioned, moth
ing came of it.
Still they were made to give in after
all and have to thank the Federal gov
eminent for it. The case was taken
TO the Supreme Court of the State, and
this tribunal, borrowing a leaf from
the highest tribunal of this country,
decided that the insurance companies,
in agreeing not to do business in Mis-
souri,, had acted in restraint of trade"
1t is right here where the fun comes
in, in this merry war" The penalty
for engaging in a trust conspiracy by
any company is "ouster" from the
State" The concerns are only too will
ing to be kicked out, so where is the
Attorney Generals victory" Quickly
all the agencies of outside insurance
companies have disbanded-and there
you arel
The State authorities still promise
property owners that this chaos soor
will be ended; but litigations pay no
fire losses, and no one out there seems
disposed to appreciate the joke.
The Washington herald., 1913-07-26
HOW TO SLEEP COOL.
says Bed Can Be Made Refrigerator
by sprinklInE Water ON sheet.

From the New York Sun.
Persons who have the electric current
in their homes" said a physician. need
not suffer for want OF a refreshing sleep.
day or night. Such a sleep is the best
safeguard against being Frustrated or
killed by the heat.
Let me tell you the method first" the
doctor continued. land then I will give
the reason for II. On a bed or cot spread
a single sheet Take a basin Of water
and a whiskbroom and with the broom
sprinkle the sheet until it is thoroughly
dampened. II you have a rubber blanket
in the house, you can spread the blanket
over the mattress. make the sheet mere
wet by dipping it in the bathtub, and
spread it over the blanket. Set the cleo
trio fan so that il will blow a fairly stiff
blast across the bed or cot. Lie down on
the sheet. and you will soon be sound
asleep.
Now for the reason" the doctor went
on. TT is not the hot blast from the fan
that cools you. The fan sets the air In
motion and gives appreciable relief. But
what thoroughly cools you is the evap-
grafton from the sprinkled sheet with the
warm blast blowing over 1t. And the
will be the evaporation and the greater
the GOODNESS.
Here is an illustration that all persons
having to do with explosive vapor motors
in automobiles or motorboats will under
stand. The one part Of these motors that
always is cold is the pipe from the car
bureter or mixing valve to the cylinder
exhaust Is close to the vapor intake. In
some machines the exhaust. within q few
inches Of the vapor intake, is 50 hot that
drop Of water on 1t will hiss yet the
intake Is cold while the machine Is run
ming. 1t Is made cold by the rapid vapor-
iZing II the gasoline. Water vaporizes
not SO rapidly, but q warm blast from
an electric ian en- a damp sheet. what
ever the temperature Of the room, will
produce a degree Of GOODNESS through
evaporation that will be perhaps more
than that desired.
1T Is simply the doctor concluded
making a mild form OF refriserating
plant of your bed or cot. 1t cools not
only the person, but lowers the tempera-
ture of the entire room. The cost Of op-
Grating II Is about the same as that Of
keeping an ordinary electric bulb lighted"
The Washington herald., 1913-07-26
HOME PLEASURES BEST.
Julia Narlows Disessrages Gisls
fron stage Careers.

Julia Narlows Disesarages 0isls
fron stage Careers.
julia Masiows. IN the sts,.d Nas.aina
II any girl considers that In becoming
an actress II b necessary for her to eve
up the fundamentals Of existence. would
say that 1t II not worth while. Fer
sonally, I would not recognise any art
that interfered with the genuine things OF
life.
1t 10 because I know that the stage
does not make any such demands that !
have never discouraged It ~ profession;
either for man or woman. AL arts, ana
especially that Of the stage. must con-
tribute to the beauty and charm OF life;
but they must not do 80 at the expense
Of Its votarieS
I. cannot bring myself to think that
any actress could possibly attain great
distinction In her art who had cut out
of her life those essentials which are 30
necessary for the full development of q
woman. When I hear Of an actress max
ing any such claims, feel that 1t IL but
the expression of a mood. and that she
has expressed It publicly Ii resretable.
The greatest things that can come to
woman are love and affection. and these
can but help to make her q better &C
tress. The life of the stage teens with
examples. Our best actresses have been
women who have had q happy nome
life.
1t Is one of the greatest Of faalacies
that the public ceases its interest IN an
actress when she become a wife ana
mother. II is only necessary, in this par
ticular, to cite the cases Of Mrs. SID
dons, Mr.. and Mrs. Barney Williams,
Mr.. and Mrs. Florence and many others
II It were necessary for a woman TO
choose between happy home life and
the greatest triumph that the stage can
offer, would choose the home!
We are constantly informed that the
stage is beset with pitfalls. Those who
make this assertion do SO inadvisedly.
It is because the free, bright light OF pub
licity beats upon the stage and magnines
every little incident that the public has
come to think that the stagedoor Is the
entrance to an inferno.
Were the same interest and attention
focused upon other professions 1t would
be readily discovered that the percentage
of those who cast discredit on them is
greater than that Of the players who
bring discredit upon the stage. 1t is
fact that many persons, brought into
court on various charges. Immediately
name the stage as their profession. when.
as a matter of fact. they have never
been connected with II, even in a minor
capacity. That the stage is not the sink
of iniquity that some would have US be-
lieve Is proved by the lives Of its fore
most yotaries
The Washington herald., 1913-07-26
Household Hint.


From the Cas- County Democrat.
Ordinarily We have no suggestion &c
make to the good housewives OF Har-
risonville as to how they should run
things around their homes, but We have
one this week. 1t is this-keep a kettle
Of water on the stove, boiling hot. all the
time. There has been an impudent maya
zine solicitor. who visited several homes
in the east part of town. and was I'M
bearably impudent II he is still here
and persists in his impairment manner
soliciting subscriptions. get said kettle
OF water and scald him. We're willing
to see any good HarrisonvilIe woman
through the Supreme Court on that issue.