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Sprinkle Sunshine. If you see a fellow-man with trouble's flag unfurled, An' looking like he didn't have a friend in all the world, Go up and slap him on the back and holler, "Row d' you do?" And grasp his hand so warm he'll know he has a friend in you. Then r x h'm what's a hurtin' him, an' laugh his cares away, And tell him that the darkest night is j':st before the day. Don't talk in graveYard palaver, but say it right out loud, That God will sprinkle sunshine in the trail of every cloud. This world at best is but a hash of pleasure and of pain; Some days are bright and sunny. and some ali slashed with rain. And that's just how it ought to be, for wuen the clouds roll by, We'll kno just how to 'preciate the bright and smiling sky. So learn to take it as it comes, and do i't sweat at the pores, Because the Lord's opinion doesn't coincide with yours; But always keep rememberin', wheu cares ? our path enshroud, That God has lots of sunshine to spill behind the cloud." -James Whitcomb.Riley Straight Facts. A whole lot of fancy phrases can be written about remedies, but it takes facts to prove anything-good straight facts. And the strongest fact you ever heard is that Tannopiline is the best cure for piles on the market. It cures absolutely. Has a healing, soothing effect from the start. All druggists have it for $1.00 a jar. Ash for Tannopiline and don't dare take a substitute. Wanted Her Name. A minister of this town was moved by the grief of a husband whose wife was to be buried, and sought to commiserate him in the following manner: "My brother, I know that this is a great grief that has overtaken yon and though you are corn pe-led to mourn the loss of this one who was your companion and partner in life, I would console yor. with the assurance that there is another who sympathizes with you and seeks to embrace you in the arms of unfailing love." To this the bereaved man replied by asking, as he gazed through tears into the minister's face, "What's her name?"-Fulton, Kan, Ga zette. Just the Thing for Weak, Pale Children Columbia, S. C., Nov. 2, 1903. Dear Sirs: I have been giving Dr. James' Iron Blood and Liver Tonic to my little daughter. She was pale and weak, and had no appetite. She has been benefited by your tonic a great deal, and is much stronger, eats well, and looks healthier. I cheerfully rec ommend Iron Elood and Liver Tonic as a splendid medicine. J.Yur J. Handcock No.19 S. Sumter St. The wedding ring, says. The London Chronicle, was placed on the left hand, as nearest the heart, and on the fourth finger because that finger was supposed to have its own "private wire' (in the sha?e of a delicate nerve) to the heart. That finger, too, wad cal'ed the medicine finger, and the belief was that by vitdue of the little nerve it could'-'detect a dangerous poisor~ if simply in serted in the liquid. From that belief the idea that wedding rings -the rings worn on that finger -had special curative qualities had its rise. To this day wed -- ding rings are rubbed over an obstinate sty on an eyelid. Say "ilurray's." When you've got a bad cough just say "MURRAY'S." If a druggist gives you anything but Marray's Hore hound, Mullein and Tar you're not getting the best and surest cough rem edy. Make him give you Murray's. -Acte quicker and you get a 50c. size bottle for 25e. Every duggist has it. Not a few clergymen would b: glad to be the victims of such practical joke as was receuti. played upon the Rev. Mr. Hage man, the story of which appear in the 0-:ford (Mich) Leader: At the last meeting of the church, when the srbject was brought up, a good deacon arose and said: "All in favor of retaining Brother Hageman for anothier year. at the same salary, please r'se." Not one rose, and the minister hearti lv wished hi-nself anywhere else. Then the 2eacon who l'ad put th' question sa': "I see jo one favors that motion, so I y' ill put it again in this way: All t' ose in fevor of keeping the Rev. Mr. H ageman at an increase of salary will please rise." Every one. got upon his feet. Then it dawned upon Mr. Hageman that he had been the victiLa of a jokei. Sonme of his friends had planned the surprise, and t'ie scheme had worked to perfection. Th'e Best All-Around Tonic-Can't be Beat. Columbia, S. C., Nov. 2S, 1903. Gentlemen: I has e taken one bottle of Iron Blood and Liver Tonic, and I have just bought the second bottle. It has done me a great deal of good; I am stronger and feel better in every way, my appetite is good, and I digest my food. As an all-around' tonie Dr. James' Iron Rh>odi and Liver Toni can't be4&at. Y DETECTIVE STORIES. 'Yle Literary Weakneys In the Novel of Crime and Detection. I know of oneV good re:is An. and onily one. which really ,revents detective stories standing aumon; Ile a les; forms of art. Most of the objectio:is raised against them by the vague mind ed world of modern culture (prohably the most vague minded wcrld that has ever existed) are quite narrow and childish. To say that the detective tale is sensational is simply to say that it is full of feeling or is aesthetic. Aes thetic is the Greek for sensational. Sensational is the Latin for aesthetic. To say that the thrill which it gives is connected with bald and positive sin, with bald and positive death and not with any of the fine spun drawing room emotions which it is now the fashion to consider "deep," is to pa,y it a high compliment. The Bible is concerned with these great plain sins and judgments. So are the great Greek dramas, so are the tragedies of the Elizabethans, so are the old ballads, and so are all men anywhere who live lives sufficiently real to have ever seen the great plain sins and judgments. There is one good argument, as I have said, and one only, against the police mystery, and that is that police mysteries exist to destroy mystery when they have created it. A sad tale should be saddest when we finish it; a happy tale should be happiest when we finish it; a stirring tale should be most stirring at the end, a fantas tic tale most fantastic at the end. But this kind of mysterious tale is not most mysterious at the end. It is then least mysterious, or, rather, not mysterious at all. Instead of mak ing a commonplace thing mystical (the aim of all good art) the detec tive reverses the process and makes a mystical tling commonplace. And from this comes that one fatal weak ness in the sensational novel of crime and detection, the one thing that does separate it, I am- afraid, from great fiction, the fact that there is no im pulse to read it again. A detective tale we have read is an empty bottle of wine, an exploded shell, a thing de stroyed. The mystery of the sanity of Hamlet is alive and kicking still.-G. K. Chesterton in London News. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. Probably the easiest thing in the world is to be a bore. You waste half your time. There's reform work for you. It is possible to laugh at trouble, but the laughter doesn't mean it. What a disagreeable world this would be If people were perfectly candid. It is easier to talk a man out of a thing than it is to fight him out of it. There is one thing sure about a fuss It does not do any good to talk it over. When men talk together, it is of prices at which things can be sold. Women talk of prices at which things can be bought. The sentiment seems to be always In favor of abusing the man who ob jects to cost when it comes to funerals or weddings.-Atchisonl Globe. Do Not Boil Cofee Too Long. There Is only one mistake that can be made in making cofeem1Kd that is to cook it too much. When* subjected to a momentary boiling and then re moved from the fire It is a dik-t the gods, but If it Is kept at ,p high de gree of heat for thirty painutes Its character is entirely c a?ged, and it becomes almost pois .,us. Of the peo ple who overcoe cei.fee in this way some do It thro igh Ignorance, but the greater part q?them through greed in order to m)Ke It go further and pro duce a la -er profit. What we need is a law paaking It a capital offense to be ee more than three minutes. cago Chronicle. Child Pension In France. At all times It has been an object with French parents to teach a child to be provident and economical. A child of three can become a member of the Mutualite by giving only 2 cents a week. One cent will entitle It to get ting 10 cents a day when it Is ill, and the other goes toward getting a pension when it is at a certain age. No one knows how long a child can live, but what does the contribution amount to? There is hardly a child in the world who does not spend that for candy. Now, a boy of eighteen giving 34 cents a month to the society will when he Is sixty have a pension of $72 a year. The Cofee Plant's Friend. In the republic of Colombia there Is a tree highly esteemed as a shade for the coffee plant It Is found also in tropical Brazil and possesses qualities that make it peculIarly suited for this particular use. It will live on a stony, poor soil, and a tree only eighteen months old will shade 144 square yards of ground, while, when full grown, it may be fifty feet high and have a spread of fifty feet on every side. Aggravating. Wife-Henry, what makes you in such a furious temper? Husband-I'm trying to read a Scotch dialect story. The plot is fearfully exciting, but I can't hurdle over the language fast enough to keep up with the hero':-De trot Free Press. Not Needed. "Do you favor the whipping post for wife beaters?" "No," answered the woman who has been several times married. "The flat Iron or the stove lifter is good enough for me."--Washington Star. Out. "He's out a good deal nights. Isn't he?" "He was last night. I won a hundred from him."-Cleveland Plain Dealer. Cotton seems to be doing a little better now. The bulls and the boll weevil have been recruit eZyai%c~ weather and sleet all ovthe country. The bears and tegovernment statistics a: e suffering from cold feet just now. -Washington Star. Bear the TheKind You Have Aways Boght oSigatre of? JURIES IN GERMANY THEY ARE ONLY PERMI-TED TO ACT IN CRR NAL CASES. A Enancimous Vote I.. Not Required in Finding a Verdicti Only a Ma jority of Two-Thirds Is Necessary. Jurors Serve Without Pay. It may not be generally known that under the original constitution of the United States provision is made for the trial of criminal cases by jury, but not of civil cases. This in 1789 caused dis satisfaction, the people claiming that the omission was intended to abolish trial by jury in civil cases, and the sev enth amendment was soon adopted, se euring the rights of trial by jury in suits at common law where the value in controversy shall exceed $20. In many countries juries decide by a majority. In France since 1831 a ma jority of two-thirds is required. This Is true also in Germany, where the opera tion of the institution is so complicated and withal so interesting that It is es pecially valuable to note some of the methods adopted in the land of the kai ser to secure justice and protect the rights of the accused. According to German law, trial by jury is limited to criminal proeedure and to cases with' - the competence of a single court composed of three judges and twelve jurors. The juror rieeives no pay for his serviccs, because the of fice of juror is an honorary one. Many classes of persons are eicluded from jury service. Among these may be mentioned not only such perspns as have suffered a criminal judgment or such as are on trial on criminal charges, but such also as are restricted in the use of their property by judicial decree. The law enumerates also certain classes of persons who ought not to be summoned for jury service and who are meant to be excluded, but whose presence on a jury does not of..itself nec essarily invalidate a verdiet. In this group are persons under 'thirty years of age, persons who within-three years have received support from pub lic charities for themselves or their families and persons who are em ployed as servants. A great many people are as a specia! privilege exempt from jury service in Germany. These Include oficials, per sons employed in a public capacity In the service of religion, persons :in ac tive military service and teachers In the public schools, but attorneys are not numbered among these so privi leged. Physicians, however, and apeth ecaries who have no assistants, persons above sixty-four years of age and per sons who show that they are unable to bear the expense of this unpaid jury service are among the privileged. The basis of the list from which the jury is selected is a list of persons who are eligible to service as lay members of local courts. None of these lay mem bers serves more- than five days in a year, and this provides a large list for jury selection. - The presiding official In each comn mune must each year prepare a list, which Is exhibited for public inspece tion for one week, at the end of which time the unprotested uibes are sent to a judge In the district to' which the commune belongs. . Eventually froi h"year list" are selected thirty Jurors who constitute .pIt-ian -known as the "verdict list." In any given case these thirty jurors are brought before the president ft the court, who tells them the name of the accused and the nature of the offense charged. The names of the thirty jurors are written on tickets which are placed In an urn, from which the final twelve jurors are drawn by lot. There may be as many challenges as the names In the urn exceed twelve. One or more persons may be drawn by lot to act In the place of regular jurors In the event of the disabilty of any of the latter. They sit in the case, take part In the trial, ask ques tions If necessary, but assist in ren dering a verdict only In case any of the regular jurors be suddenly in capacitated. The jury determines the degree as well as the fact of guilt and is ina no wise bound by the Instruction of the presiding judge as to whether a given act fails 'within the definition of a crime under the law. The jurors elect their own foreman, but only after they have Jetired to the jury room to agree upon a verdict. A unanimous vote Is not required in Snd ig a verdiet. Only a majority or two thirds Is necessary-that Is, if the vote is seven for conviction and five for ae quittal the defendant is acquitted' If It Is eight to four.he is cenvicted. Boston Globe. *"Pedigree" of "Fes'." If any Londoner crawling up to basi ness by train or tram through the, fog turned his idle mind to wondering why itwscalled "fog" he would probably decide that It could not have been call ed anything else. "Fog" Is Its obvious name. Yet there Is much speculation among philologists on this point. Dr. Murray's dictionary suggests an inter esting pedigree. As far back as the fourteenth century "fog" meant after grass, the rank grass that sprang up after hay harvest or grew In the win ter, while In the north It meant moss. Then "foggy" came to mean boggy. Next it was used ta' mean bloated or puffy of the flesh of men or animals, and finally, as applied to ale or air, It meant thick, and our modern fog was derived back from this "'foggy." Skeat, however, goes straight to the Danish -fog" as in "snee fog," a snowstorm, from "fyge." to drift. The worst of London fogs is that they do not drift fast enough.-London Chronicle. The better a man Is the less ready he Is to suspect dishonesty In others. tCicero. We can help make people bright by our keenness, but we can never accomplish anything toward making people good except by our tenderness.-C. H. Parkurst, D. D. To Cure a Cold in One Day Take LAXATIVE BROMO QUI FNINE Tablets. All druggists refund th nmonev if it fails to cure. E. WV. Grove's signature is on each St. Valentine's Day. The peculiar customs connect ed with the celebration of certaii days in the year are, in mani cases, quite ancient and theii origin lost in antiquity. As foi instance the celebration of St Valentine's day, the 14th o February, goes back to ancienl Roman times. In Rome the pagan feast of the Lupercalia wat held on Feb. 15 in honor of the god Faunus or Lupercus. One of the customs connected with thit feast was for boys or young men to draw from a box of tablets or each of which was inscribed the name of a girl. Each boy wa' expected to keep company witt and be devoted to the girl for E year, whose name he drew froa the box. After the Romans hai been cons erted the Christian teachers and ministers found ii hard to break up this heather cr~tom. Hence they decided tc make a Christian custom of it They named the 14th day of Feb ruary St. Valentine's day aftei Valentine, a Christian bishop wh< had suffered martyrdom in the reign of Claudius on Feb. 14 27( A. D. The young Roman Chris tians met on St. Valentine's day and drew letters or notes from : box, very like the heathen had done before. This custom gradually gre' into the modern custom of send ing valentiaes on the 14th o February. Of late years some o the valentines are very beauti fully printed and in some caset are quite expensive. It has beei predicted that the custom woulk die out, but it is quite as livE now as it was in our boyhood The silly custom of sending th wretchedly printed comic valen tines we hope is dying ont. It i a custom "more honored in th breach than the observance." Word and Works. Notice. Notice is hereby given that th heal.;h of the people of this county i in imminent danger and must be takei care of. It has been decided that ever; precaution be taken to prevent pra lodged cases of pneumonia, grippe etc. The best thing to do is to give ; gooa cough mixture as soon as th cough starts. Get MURRAY'S HORE HOUND, MULLEIN AND TAR Only 25c. a bottle. At all druggssta. Some Van Dykelsms. Dr. Henry Van Dyke, in recent foreword for a new book sass: "Make me respect my materia so much that I dare not sligh my work. Help me to deal ver: honestly with words and wit. people because they are botl alive. Show me that, as a river so in writing, clearness is thi best quality, and a little that i pure is worth more than muel that is mixed. Teach me to se the local color without bein blind to the inmner life. Give m an ideal that will stand the strail of weaving into human stuff o& the loom of the real. Keep mi from caring more for books thaa for folks, for art than for life Steady me to do my full stint c work as well as I can, and whe3 that is done stop me, pay m what wages thou wilt and hel] me to say from a quiet heart grateful amen."~ Each sentence contains a senti ment, and each sentiment is helpful one. The Best fledicin e I Have Ever Use Columbia, S. C.. Nov. 10, 1903. Gentlemen: I have suffered a ion time from chronic liver complaint, an lind that Dr. James' Iron Blood an Liver Tonic gave me more relief tha anything I have ever used. I recon mend it to all who suffer from const pation. Yours truly, J. S. Shehand. An Arkansas farmer, descrill ing to a tourist some of the won derful properties of the minera springs of that State, said: "Di you see that spring over there stranger?" He said that he dii whereupon the farmer added "Well. that's an iron spring, tha is; and it's so mighty powerfu that the farmers' horses abou here that drink the water ofi never have to be shod. The shoe just grow on their feet naturally. CASTOR IA For Infanits and Children. Thu Kind You Have '.Iways Bough Bears the Signature of When we do our best, We may trust God for the rest; But we still may often meet; Little things not very sweet; And whatever can't be cured Should patiently be endured. If we wish to "win andl wear," We must learn to "grin aud bear. Many people miss success And the way to happiness, Just because they lack the will Needed to endure some ill; If success we wish to gain, We may just expect some pain; If- we wish to "win and wear," We must learn to "grin and b)ear. -E x. , ~, Thbe Kind You Ha, Always Bongir MULES= The largest number City of Columbia can get our prices will cheaper than you car GREGO,RYof JNO. W. CON 1115 PIslri Street, Have Your HON Cabbage P1 Prices: 1000 @ $1.50; 5000 ( Shipped C. O. D. if desii Office i WRITE FOR Cabbage, Beans, Sweet Pota fot shipment of Tomato Plan, Potato Draws should be boo] Jas. Ray Gera Express Ofc SOUTHEF THE SOUTH'S GREAl UNEXCELLED DININ THROUGH PULLMAI THROUGH TRAIN CONVENIENT SCHEE Winter Tourist F Florida points. For full informatic suit nearest Southern Division Passer1 i Tax Returns-19 The County Auditor's offHe open for the purpose of takin returns from. January let to Fel) 28th. Only returns of personal erty are to be made this year; ai persons liable to poll tax are rec by la wtormake return of same. \~ parties have acquired or sold real, since last return are required to note of same whiein makinig reti personal property. T~he A uditor r special request that property 0 wvill not neglect this, as it perhiaps save much trouble and confusion. Parties between the ages or 21 60 years are liable to poil tax otherwise eKemp)t. Ex-Confe< soldiers are exempt from pollt the age of 50 years. There will acciute a penalty of cent where parties fail to make r within the time mxentioned above The Auditor or his deputy will the usual places for taking retur days mentioned. These ap; ments are made for the converi of taxpayers, and it is hoped the; remember and take advantagec opportunity, and not be in the rus last days of February. Wolling1 Friday, January 13. Crosby vi lie, Saturday, January Gladden's Grove, Monday, Jar 16. Flint Hill, Wednesday, Januar Longtown, Thursday, January Centreville, Friday, January 20 Bear Creek (M. L. Cooper's), E day, January 21. B3lythewood, Monday, Januar Ridgeway, Tuesday and Wedne January 24 and 25. Horeb, Friday, January 27. Jenkinaville, Saturday, Januar Monticello, Monday, January 31 Buckhead, Tuesday, January 3: Woodward, Wednesday, Febru; White Oak, Thursday, Februa J. L. RICHMONI 12-7td County Audil For Sale Cabbage Plan We have been in the truck bus since 1871 and are again prepar fill any and all orders for early late varieties of Cabbage Plants. are best known to experienced true are grown in open air near salt i and will stand sevei e cold withou jury. Prire $l..50 per 1000, F 0 B here. make special prices on larger lots solicit correspondIence. All lants packed in lightbha: and shipped C 0 D) when mor.ey not ac.comi any orders. We guard satisfaction. A ddress all orders to D. H. TOW LES & SON Meggetts, S.' or TOWLES & ARNETT, 1-18:2m Green Pond. S i Tasteless CI 1. Average Annual Sale yfameit appeal to you? BUGGI iGONS=== of either to be found in be seen at our places. T convince you that we i buy elsewhere. 1HEA IM 00, DER, Sec. and Treas., -, COLUMBIA,S3.C. [EGROWN CABBA ants, All Varieties. $1.25 per 1000; 10,000 @ $1 per 1 red. Plants arrive at your Express n good condition. MERCHANTS' PRICES.. toes and Turnips in Season. 0 ts, Sea Island Cotton Seed and S Led in advance. ity, Enterprise, S. e: Young's Island, S. C. (N RAILWAY. 'EST SYSTEM G'CAR SERVICE q SLEEPING CARS ON S ULES on all LOCAL T ates are now in effect n as to rates, routes, etc. Railway Ticket Agent, or R. W. Hunt; ger Agent, Charleston, 'Se * 8. 8 05 Id prop- It should beborne in id all 5every coldweak~ens the uired ers the vitality and t here system for the more estate Ueases, among which are thl make greatest destroyers of ira of gpneumonia and consm -Chamberi and CoughR leat has won its great ax at 5 rompt cures of 'most I ailment. It aids eturn secretions, effecting a be at any tendency toward *tSO- Prie2c Large SIz fi the hur the 1.WILL BE CONTINUED. 19. tefuture the same as in the. - in the old establishment' au-departments with a f y 23. Caskets, Burial Case sday, constantly on han hearse when reque os Thankful for ). and solicitous fo -. future, in the old fi Calls attended r. TH ELI J. Fl. ELLU WE WANT ALL TOSAVEMACHIN TNAEOUR NAME ['hey install, and we will kers, FREE OF ALL COST rater A NANDSOME AND USEUI m-.POCKET DIARY AND ATLA We OR A sAR'aE and COMMERCIAL CALENDAR G(libes Mlacinlery Conqlipy, COLUMBIA, S.C. A STOOK OF HORSE POWER NAT PESSESa TO aE COSEaD oUT AT SPECIAL PRICES . C iiflT011iC s over One and a Half Nia No u-, oPa. 0 S E ED TIME f T I M E e experienced farmer has learned that some s grains require far differ ent soil than others ; some crops need differ enthandling than others. He knows that a great deal depends upon right planting at the right time, and that the soil must be kept enriched. No use of complaining in summer about a mis take made in the spring. Decide before the seed is planted. e best time to reme dy wasting conditions in the human body is be fore the evil is too deep rooted. At the first evi dence of loss of flesh Scott's Emulsion should be taken imme diately. There is noth ing that will repair wasted tissue more quickly or replace lost flesh more abundantly than Scott's Emulsion. It nourishes and builds up the body when ordi f nary f o od s absolutely fail. we pa send you a sample free. Be sure that this picture in the form of a label is on the wrafpper of every bottle of Em1ulsion you buy. SCOTT M Kf BOWNE CHEMISTS 409 Pearl Street NEW YORK . 5oc. and $x; all druggists "Be a breeze from the mountain height; Be a fountain of pure delight; Be a star serene, Shining clear and keen e Through the darkness and dread of the night; Be something holy and helpful and bright, Be the best that you can with all your might." Has Stood the Test 25 Years. T he old, original GROVE'S Tasteless 1Chill Tonic. You know what you are takin g. It is iron and quinine in a ttasteless form. No cure, no pay. 50c. 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