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? I ^ Cotton Must Have Potash ^ Potash is an essential plant food which must be added as a fertilizer S Wiw or the soil w ill j become ex*'./ true of so many cotton giving valuable <!<>- I lv>\ tails about lertili;- jj them free to any farmer who asks us for them. H GHRnAN KAl.l WORKS, New York ? ! " >'na?au stn'd, or Atlanta, tin. ?* { So. Itrond St. y T" """" ' .. Mow OUt is liick? K Those newspaper readers who remain outsftle the asylum after figuring on the age of Ann tnay ? be ready for another problem of the same eort. It seems that the Ann problem has been tackled in Knglsnd aw well as it? America but our British cousins wanted something not so easy and the island empire is now astir over a new one which dome unknown geniutC has put into catchy but puzzling rhyme. The following is the new problem i<h it is said to have come over from England : Said Robin to Hicham: "It ev?r I come To the age you are now,brother mine, Our ages, united, will 'mount to a Bum OI yearn making ninety and nine." SaidLlichard : "That's certain and * it it be fair For ua to look forward so far, I then shall be doutile the uge that you were \ When I wae the age that you are. This la really not aa hard aa it sound*. The State's mathemati cal editor ia out of town?having never recovered from hia atrug gleH with the age of Ann?but a auatitute has worked it out, and theunswer will be presented uB a { Chriatmas gilt to any one who Hernia stamps for reply and whom* aubacription ia paid a year in ad vance. Mathematical genius in high.?Columbia State. WE GORE MORPHINE HABIT; We Have Discovered a Marvelous Remedy tor Drug Habits and We Hive it to You Free. We have found a marvelnUH remedy for restoring to perfect health, men and women suffering from the awful curse of drug habit. It matterp not how long v you have had it, how or when you got it. This is no ordinary drug or method of treatment. We are constantly cnring the worst cases of drug habit known - and give au unqualified guaran tee to cure any case undertaken by us or refund your money. We urge every person suffering from this terrible disease to write us and we will send free a bottle of our marvelous remedy. We urge physicians having refractory cases and all who want to be cured of this awful curse to write us today. All correspond ence confidential in plain ?nvelopos. Address, Manhattan Thera peutic Association, Dept. B., 1135 BroadNew York City. The joy of giving thanks for .fhat we receive is small compared with the joy of being thankful Jf for an opportunity to give. OASTOHIA. B?an u? yflht Kind You H>ra AlwajsBoasJt i T" i \ 0 i i ii ?? i i ^ I I A Shining ({ft A special to The State from Spartanburg, under date of Dec. 11), nays : A young white man named W. H. Clark, who la engaged in carrying out a novel waser, in in the city. II? haa bet $1,000 that lie can visit every city in the Unitod Stat??a of over 30,000 inhabitants and be in New York city ChristtllUB dav of 1904. on onndiHi.ti that he accepts m> gifts of charity | that he pays his way and all expenses of traveling, and that he will derive all of his means of livelihood from shining shoes, lie is a young man of prepossessing nppearance and charming personality, and is confident of winping the wager; ho was kept busy lining shoes in Spar ten) urg today. He leaves in the morning for Columbia. One Dose Convinces. Mozley's Lemon Elixir acts gently on the bowels without any unpleasant effect. It is n perfect liquid laxative. 50 cents pot bottle at all drugstores. Great Cargo of Cotton. Charlotte, N. C , Dec 2?What is said to be largest cargo of cot inn ever cleared Iroin a 8nut.li Atlantic porl, lelt Wilmington today. It consist# of 17 000 bains and ijne.s to Bremen on the Anglo Saxon. The value of the cargo is $1,020,000. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Boars the Signature of | (f .. A GR s 1 At R. Mil g x Tf4TNCERTAIN of r( Bl XJ/ another year, and case I decide to move g until Jan. ist, next, asto s ^7?= $ Clothing,S ^ And Gents' Fu: H Come early and get f ^ ting bargains. Each < ^3 saver to those who pi shoes, hats, etc., from r Very res] t R. in NOTICE To the Taxpayers of Lancaster County. Tlio Treasurer's ollico will be open for the collection of taxes for the present fiscal year,with out penalty, from the 15th day of October to tlin 31 ef ???v " ? uw V4i?jr v/1 December The levy is as follows : Mills State 5 County 4 Special (L. A C. K. R.) 3 Sinking Fund f L. & C. R.R.) 1 Constitutional school tax 3 Total 1(5 SPKCIAL I.OOAT. LBVY fs. C. A OA. R. R. ] Cane Creek Township 4)6 Gi'ls Creek " f> Pleasant Hill " 3 Hl'KCl A I. LOCAL I.KVY FOR 8HOOL l'UKPOSKB. Van Wyck School District 2 Lancaster 4j? Lancaster interest on bonds and sinking fund lXA Kershaw 4 Heath Springs 3 Dakhurst 4 Jones X Roads 2 TOTAL I.KVY IIY DISTRICTS. Indian I.and 10 4 " Van Wyck IS Waxhaw 10 " Van Wyck IS Cane Creek 20}^ " " G ratled 20 " " Jones X Roads 22 Cilis Creek 21 " " Graded ' 27 " " Jones X Koads 23 It n ford 10 Flat Creek 10 " 44 Kershaw 20 IMeasant Hill 1!) 44 44 Kershaw 23 44 44 Heath Springs 22 44 44 Oakhurst 23 44 44 Jones X Roads 21 Cedar Creek 1G " 44 Jones X Roads IS Respectfully, VV. C. CAUTIIEN, Co. Treas. Sapt. 28, '03?tf OASTOI1IA. Bmm tho /) Kind Yctt Have Always Bought :eat.. | & 1 BVI1 L|P? ^ l&CTa ^ !es' Store 1 nnaining in Lancaster N to reduce my stock in Jg; , I am going to give, A\ nishingly low prices on (<( s hoes,Hats p rnishing Goods ^ _ irst pick of these temp- ^ day will be a money ft urchase their clothing, S1 I pcctfully, ^ tt rrc ^ J) II Want a few words to the man who mortgage 011 your home, and di< going to raise it? Your widov pied with the job of raising yo left on her hands without su YOU found it hard to raise th well enough that, your little v v jin(iukmumHj uiuess you leave e M it off. II you are a man wort I don't want your widow to be M your children back to her falli M one way to guarantee that tl ? insurance. That's what the < K you are b?rty years old, we will $.42.0() or $42 00 per thousand, m by deposits with the Goveram * to know more about The State its greater security and great 9 the inlormation Irom Whiskey Morphine Cigare habit. habit. habit Cured by KEELEY i: 1329 U:uly St, [or P.O. Bo* 7n) Columbia, S. ( LIME, CEMENT, PL CAROLINA PORTLAND CK Magnificent < Carnations 7ftots per dozen, roses, (Kino Grcenli your friend it l?ox or basket of lino mixed Klowi t-> ifrt.no. Kxpress puiil. Cut Klo-vers, nonquota a ding work a specialty. Send for price list. Dee m ROSE KILL G3 <r ?7= I Thousands r n JTJLWisa V U Miai J is the best published at only 10 cents a copy, $ I, In every number of > Articles of intense interest on subjects of the greatest national import- < i ance. 1 In It McOluro's will be more inter* tertaining than ever. 'Ever or it would not be McCLURE T7*T> TjlT? Subscribe now for t JP XvXliA-J November antf Oeceml fri,? c c e?ei flno j ?i ?*i U v v i it I'll V;U,U^O Iji'XlIl j Cotton Gii ^ We handle al $ GIN SAWS * t AND RIBS ^ PHONE 98- 2 rings. ? W. O. McKE( 0 Chester Co. v r . k to Say } is in debt. If you have a % 3 before it is raised, who is W v will be pretty well occu- W ur childreti whom you have a ffieieiu means of support, m at mortgage, and you Know m vidow will find it absolutely % nough lile insurance to pay m ly of wearing breeches, you M forced to take herself and K ier for shelter. There's just m tis will not occur?buy lite companies are built for. If J sell you a policy lor $20 00, J and every policy is secured M ent of Indiana. You want ^ Life Insurance Company? m er dividends. You can get m m Cpx, General Agent, C Columbia, S. C. ^ tie All Drug and Tobacco t. habits INSTITUTE of S. C, C<mll<l<n tl;il corri-SDondctice solicitoii. fl rnT*T\ Terra Cottn Pipe, Ilonllng fa \'|' L U Paper. < ar lots, small HO llll, writ. _uyr M K.N T CO., Charleston, S C. 3ut Flowers ouae) I'iOO to J3.5') per dozen. Let us send rrs for Oh Istiiius (enclosing your curd> fl.6U ,ikI Designs shipped every whore. Kino Weil* EEKHQUSES, Columbia, S. C. say that >K.]srjs any price. Yet it is no a year. lcClure's there are Six good sliort storios, humorous storios, storios >f life and action?and al ways good. *04 >sting, important and'eny year better than the last \S." lecture's for 1904, and get the )er numbers of 1903 free. gton Bklg,New York ,N.Y. i Owners j [1 grades of J BRISTLES $ AND TWINE $ 3WN & SONS, \ Cornwell, S. C. ^