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A Gentle Hint. DeQnill-I have resolved to launch, upon a literary career. PeLush-Glad to hear it. Of course you know at every launching it is cus tomary to crack a bottle of wine. Th? Faults and Follies of the Age Are numerous, but of tho latter none ls more ridiculous than tho promiscuous und random use of laxative pills and othor drastic cathar tics. These wrench, convulse amt weaker both the stomach and the bowels. If Hoetetter's Stomach Bitters be used Instead of these no re medies, the result is accomplished without pain and with great benefit to the bowels, the stomach and the liver. Use this remedy when constipation manifests ..?elf. and thereby pre vent lt from becomlug chronic. Th s philosopher ls a man who can lock inter ested at a ladles" tea party. Ko-To-Bac for Fifty Cent?. Over 400,000 cured. Why not let No-To-Bac regulate or remove your desire for tobacco? Saves money, makes health and manhood. Care guaranteed. 50 cents and $1.00, at ail drug fists. _ Crow would not taste good if lt was cooked lil Greece._ A Beautiful Skin ls one of the chief requisites of an attractive ap pearance. Rough, dry. scaly patches, little blis tery eruptions, red and unsightly ringworms these would spoU the beauty of a veritablo Venus. They aro completely and quickly cured by Totterine. 60 cents a box at drug stores or for 50 cents In stamps from J. T. Shuptrlno, Savannah, Ga. Some of these days there may be a trolle-' Une to ?ie North Pole. Almost Blind Was my little girl, owing to scrofula trouble. She was treated by physicians and sent to a hospital without icing cured. We resorted to Hood's Sarsaparilla, and in a week we could see a chance. We continued giving her this medicine, and to-day her eyes are perfectly well; there is not a blemish on her skin, and. she ls the picture of health." B. C. ALLEN, 81 West ?1st Street, New York, N. Y. Hood's Sarsaparilla Is sold by all druggists. Price 81, sli f or $5. UMM^HM Dell? are prompt, efficient and H00? S r?llS easy in effect. Scents. CASCARETS stimulate Uver, kidneys and bowels. Never sicken, weaken or gripe; 10c. Deafness Cannot be Cured by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only on? way to cure deafness, and that is by constitu tional remedies. Deafness ls caused by an in flamed condition of tho mucous Unlng of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets in flamed you have a rumbling sound or imper fect bearing, and when it is entirely closed Deafness ls the result, and unless the Inflam mation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be de stroyed forever. Nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh, which ls nothing but an in flamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We win give One Hundred DoUars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that can not be cured by HaU's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free. P. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Hall's Parally Pills are the best. JUST try a 10c. box of Cascarets, the finest Uver and bowel regulator ever made. FITS stopped tree and permanently cured. No fits after first day's use of Da. KLINE'S GREAT NERVE RESTORER. Free $2 trial bottle and treat ise. Send to Dr. Kline, 931 Arch St., Pulla., Pa. Hrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething, softens the gums, reduces Inflamma tion, allaya pain, cures wind colic. 23c. a bottle. I believe Plso's Cure for Consumption saved my boy's life last summer.- -Mrs. ALLIE DOUG LASS, LeRoy, Mich., Oct. 20,94. If afflicted with sore eyes uso Dr. Isaac Thomp son's Bye-water! Druggists sou at 35c. per bottle. St Vitus' Dance. One bottle Dr. Fenuer's Specific cures. Circular, Fredonla, N. Y. WHEN bilious or costive, eat a Cascaret, candy cathartic; cure guaranteed; 10c., 25?. Wanted to Help. "Couldn't you give me a job?" asked the young man with the shrewd face to the prize-fighter's manager. "In what capacity?" "Help you train your man." "Do you know anything about ath letics? You don't look very muscu lar." "Oh. I'm not much on muscle. But I was accounted the best conversation alist in our debating society."-Wash ington Star. BUCKINGHAM'S b DYE For the Whiskers, Mustache, and Eyebrows. In one preparation. Easy to apply at home. Colors brown or black. Thc Gentlemen's favorite, because satisfactory. n. P. HALL ft Co., Proprietors, Nashua. N H. Sola by all Druggists. a and health making arc included in the making of HIRES Rootbeer. The prepa ration of this great tem perance drink is an event of importance in a million well regulated homes. HIRES Rootbeer is full of good health. Invigorating, appetiz ing, satisfying. Put some up to-day and have it ready to put down whenever you're thirsty. Made only by Thc Charles E. Hires Co., Philadelphia. A pack age makes 5 gallons. Sold everywhere m i "Blight" costs cotton planters more than five million dollars an nually. This is an enormous waste, and can be prevented. Practical experiments at Ala bama Experiment Station show conclusively that the use of "Kainit" will prevent that dreaded plant disease. AU about rofash-the results of its tt*e by actual ex periment on the bes' far.UN in the United States-is told in a little boole which we publish and will gladly Bail free to any fermer in America who will write for it. GERMAN KALI WORKS, 93 Nassau St., New York, Pu WALL COATING^ ...4??t SMOKE YOUR MEAT WITH .ClSCOLAR. E. KRAUSER & BRO. MILTON, PA. THE HOLLY= BIM winter, when il feil at Osceola, fell with amplitude. Il you stood on the upper bridge -o high, open bridge you saw the canal stretching far u p and down, a level trench of snow, its whiteness em phasized here and there by a patch of brown earth showing from some underwash in the banks. In one corner of tho mill pond on the morrow, if tho mor row chanced to be a Sunday, in a pool relieved of ice for the occasion and hedged about by a throng of specta tors, there would be a baptism of the latest converts of the winter revivals. In milder seasons tho prevailing form of social entertainment was even ing tea?, bnt now there was apt to be a round of rather stately dinner parties. The ladies came in crrefully treasured blaok silk gowns, of the riohest and stiftest material, with wide collars of white lace, and luce-edged white lawn undersleove?. The men wore coats of blaok broadcloth, no less carefully kept and no less excellent in quality, and high, stiff collais,swathed in blaok silk or satin neckerchiefs. The dinner, cooked mainly by the hostess's own hands,was served in two courses, but out of its abundance might easily have furnished forth twelve or fifteen of the daintiness which courses acquire when they are made a particular point of. The company came to table foi these dinners with a certain hesitation and awkwardness, and for a little whilo afUr they were seated conver sation lagged. First thero fell a sharp, expectant silence until thc minister, if present, aa he usually wa?, had in voked a blessing. Then, as tho host took carving knife and fork in hand and rose from his chair with a certain confidence, every eye and all attentior fixed intently on him, and remained so fixed. It was almost doing violence to cus tom Then, at a dinner by Mrs. Hamlir Wampler, Mrs. Luther Gears began, ir, the very height of the carving, to tel a story of the loss of a spoon. She told it in a plaintive tone *, how, aftei a dinner given by herself ten dayi before, to substantially the presen: company, when she came to colleo her silver, with a view to washing anc putting it away with her own hand (ai her careful custom was), she found < spoon missing-one of her holly-sprif spoons. Nobody attended much, for Wamp 1er was really doing a very neat job, At the conclusion of Mrs. Gears's reel tal two or three ladies murmured i perfunctory "that was too bad," one Dr. Dudley asked in his blunt way, "What is a holly-sprig spoon ?" Bm ho gave no outward sign of listening to Mrs. Gears's explanation that holh sprig was the design, and that the los: wai especially griovons because it oe casioued the first break in a set givei her at her marriage by her mother, who had brought it at au early daj out from New Jersey, sewn up foi safety in her petticoat, a gift to hei at her marriage from her own mother, Mrs. Gears's grandmother, and to tin latter previously at her marriage iron her mother, Mrs. Gears's great-grand mother, for whom it had been ex pressly made by a London silversmith the only set of its design ever seen OJ heard of. At the words "grand mother" and "great-grandmother" th? doctor's head nodded slightly, but hit eye, like all other eyes at the table, even Mrs. Gears's, was on Wampler'i knife. "Wampler shaved away the last bil of breast and raised his instrument foi tho master stroke through the flank. The guests dipped forward a little further. The knife descended, pierced -then stopped abruptly. Wampler'i face grew red. Mrs. Wampler's grew red, too, ont of sympathy. "You must havo struck a tough tur key, mother," said he. "It's a young turkey," protested Mrs. Wampler, "and it seemed vcrj tender when I was dressing it." "Then you didn't cook it enough,' urged Wampler. "I had it in the oven four hours,' said Mrs. Wampler. The other ladies averred that if yow oven WM right four hours was long enough. By pushing and sawing like an oma teur with a dull blade, Wampler finallj cut through, and sought to retrievi himself by a special dexterity on th< other side. But again the knife, nfte; entering keenly, came to a sudden halt and had to be driven on by main force Wampler finally wrenched off thi breast bone and resumed his chair. In tho courso of this office Wamplei thrust a large spoon deep into th*, mound of stuffing. Thero came a me tallie click which everybody distinctlj heard and again fixed eyes on the host Then, on bringing up the spoon, he turned up with the handle of another, a smaller one, which everybody saw, Since there could be no concealment, Wampler sought escape from the mis adventure by jocularity, and saying: "Well, well, yon must havo run sborl of bread crumbs for your stuffing,' drew forth tho spoon and held it nj in full view. "It's my spoon," cried Mrs. Gears, fairly shrieking, "the ODO J lost-my holly-sprig;" and she etretched out her hand as if to recover it, if need be, by force. "At any rate it's not mine," said Mrs. Wampler. "Oh, it's minc, it's rame ! I should know it anywhere," persis!ed Mrs. Goars excitedly, and Wampler handed tLc spoon over to her. "It must be yours," said Mrs. Wam pler. "I remember tho design, and it's not like any of mine. I never saw it, unless at your house, until this moment, ano tba turkey I dressed and put into the oven with my own hands." The other gnests commented a little on the singularity of the incident, and ventured to make a joke or two upon it, then dropped it from tho talk and were studious not to recr.r to it. One and all departed, however, with it still sufficiently lu mind, and more than mudo themselves amends ulti mately for any self-denial they may have tattered regarding )t iu the pres ence of thp't ho t and lu? tess. Very boon the whole town ku?? the story, WRm^ . - ? ' i ? -. f r " /.-:/. /ry THOS. J. ADAMS, PROPRIETOR. ' "~ EDGEFIELD, S. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 1897. _YOL. LXII. NO. 12. WRm^ . - ? ' i ? -. f r " /.-:/. /ry THOS. J. ADAMS, PROPRIETOR. ' "~ EDGEFIELD, S. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 1897. _YOL. LXII. NO. 12. WRm^ . - ? ' i ? -. f r " /.-:/. /ry THOS. J. ADAMS, PROPRIETOR. ' "~ EDGEFIELD, S. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 1897. _YOL. LXII. NO. 12. BITS OF INFORMATION. Bellows are used as a burglar alarm, he opening of the door closing the .ellows and forcing air through a pipe 0 a whistle. There is a tradition in the British oyal family that boys must wear High and costume until tho queen deems it ?roper to order a change. The late Miss Julia Cooper, of New fork, left 8150,000 to the Cooper Jnion-a snm which will enable the nstitution to receive 200 more pupils. The hundredth anniversary of the )irth of Bosmiii, the Italian philoso >her, will be marked by the publica ion this mouth of a new edition of his porks. Dr. Nansen sold the old suit he wore vhen he met Mr. Jackson in Fran Tose Land, to Mme. Toussaud for :5,000, and it will take its place among he wax works and other curiosities. In parts of the west, where barbed eire fences are universal, they have >een forced to do service as telephone Fires between different ranches. Farms 1 mile apart have telephone communi ;ation in this way. Vindicating Her Idea. The vindication of an idea is a great hing. One of the teachers in the public ichool in Wells street was speaking to mother a few days ago of the careless ?ess of pupils in certain directions and neasures to be taken to cure them. "Why," she said, "on one of the sitterest days of the early part of the r,*eek a little boy came to school from lis home, nearly a milo away, without in overcoat. The temperature had been it nearly 30 degrees below zero, and bink of that child walking all that listance in such weather ! It was ter ?ible. I don't see how ho kept from jerishing. Ho said he had forgotten ;o put it cn." "Forgot to put it on!" said the )thcr. "Isn't that silly! What did pou do about it?" "I sent him right back home," the :eacher answered, with the firm con viction of one who has faced an emer gency and has conquered.-Chicago Record. And the Debate Was Closed. "Why do they say, 'As smart as a steel trap'?" asked the talkative board ?r. I never could see anything par :icularly intellectual about a steel .rap." "A steel trap is called smart," ex plained Mr. Asbury Peppers, in his sweetest voice, "because it knows ex ictly the right time to shut up." More might have ben said, but, un ler the circumstances, it would have seemed unfitting.-Cincinnati En juirer. Convincing Evidence. "Somebody told me that that young man who was just introduced to us is m acf*r," remarked Maud. "-io, ;' replied Mamie, positively: "I'm sure he is not." "He looks like one." "I don't care. He isn't. "How doy ou know?" "We were talking about the stage, ind he named as many as five or six people whose acting he admired. Washington Star. Persuaded. On one occasion, when John Kern nie played Hamlet in the country, the jentlomau who played Guildenstern rather fancied himself as a musician. Hamlet asks him: "Will you play ipon this pipe?" "My lord, I cannot." "Well, if your lordship insists upon it-" And in the rago and confusion of Flamlet and the gre it amusement of he audience he tooted out: "Got Save .he King!" with variations.-Ex ?hnnge. Legislature (Joes io Church. "There is another thing I wish to tnow," remarked the snako editor to :he religious editor. "Your thirst for knowledge is insa nable. Goon!" "If the legislature gets into a very spirited debate while in its improvised juarters, will it be called a church ight?"-Pittsburg Clir o ni o 1 o-Telo rraph._ His Hardest Joh. Some of our police captains are bravo nen. I asked one of tho bravest what ivas thc hardest job he ever had, to ivhich he replied: "Stopping a prize fight." Thinking to hear an account of riot ing proceedings, I asked for the de :ails. "Oh, there ain't any," he said. "Thc ;rouble was with mesolf. I wantod to see the finish."-New York Press. Bostonian's Neglected Education. "Browning, dear," said Mrs. Emer son to her husband, "what is a cu tano ni iastime?" "A cutaneous pastime, love? I lever bruni of such a thing." "Well, I heard two men on tho street .ar talking, and one of them spoke of i skin game."-Brooklyn Life. All-important. Mrs. Toplofty (anxiously)-I won der what President McKinley's policy i i going to be? Mr. Toplofty-In regard to what, my dear? Mr; Toplofty---Why, theater hats, jf course.-New York Evening World. TASTELESS TONIC IS JUSTAS COOD FOR ADULTS. WARRANTED. PRICE 50 cts. GALATIA, I M.S. i Nov. 16,1803. Parts Medicino Co., St. Louis, Mo. Gentlemen:-Wo sold last year, 600 bottles of SBOWS TASTELESS CHILL TONIC and h?TO bought threo gross already this year. In all our ex perience of 14 years. In the dniK business, havo ucvcrsold an article tuft uave such universal sali? CicUou us your Tonlf, Toura truly, AUN EY. c Alia &CQ, Stop! tornen, And Consider thc All-important Fact, 1 That in addressing Mrs. Pinkham you arc con? fiding your private ills to a woman-a woman whose experience in treating woman's diseases is greater than that of any liv ing physician-male or female. I You can talk freely to a woman when it is revolting to relate your private troubles to a man-besides, aman docs not understand-simply because he is a man. ., Many women suffer in silence and drift along from bad to worse, know ing full well that they ought to have immediate assistance, but a natural modesty impels them to shrink from exposing themselves to thc questions and probably examinations of even their family physician. It is unneces sary. Without money or price you can consult a woman, v.-hose -*- knowledge from actual experi ence is greater than any local physician in the world. The fol lowing invitation is freely offered; accept it in the same spirit: MRS. PINKHAM'S STANDING INVITATION. Women suffering from any form of female weakness are invited to promptly communicate with Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn, Mass. All letters are received, opened, read and answered by women only. A woman can freely talk of her private illness to a woman; thus has been established the eternal confidence be tween Mrs. Pinkham and the women of America which has never been broken. Out of the vast volume of experience which she has to draw from, it is moro than possible that she has gained tho very knowledge that will help your ?ase. She asks nothing in return except your good-will, and her advice has relieved thousands. Surely any woman, rich or poor, is very foolish if she docs not take advantage of this generous offer of assistance.-Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass. lANDY CATHARTIC CURE CONSTIPATION io* ^s^?3ffl?BlH??*aiffl3?Pp''" ALL 2S* SO* ^ft-MfTl||,*nlllvrll "**^ DRUGGISTS ?P.QAT TTP?T V flTTUDlllITDPri to core tor case of constipation. Cascarete are the Ideal 1>T?. ?DoUiiUlhhl UU?n?nlEjljU tire, nercr ST?P or gripe.bat canse easynatoralresult?. *> a pie and booklet free. Ad. STERLING REMEDY CO., Chlcaso. Montreal. Can., ?r_>>wTork. JIT. 1 Baker's Chocolate 1 MADE BY Walter Baker & Co. Ltd., f Established in 1780, at Dorchester, Mass. Has the well-known Yellow Label on the front of every j package, and the trade-mark, "La Belle Chocolati?re," 3> on the back. NONE OTHER GE/MUIAME. Walter Baker & Co. Ltd., Dorchester, fVtass. j wsm PAIN THE STANDARD PAINT FOR STRUCTURAL PURPOSES. ?Pamphlet, "Buggestions for Exterior Decoration," Sample Card and Descriptive Price List free bj- man. Asbestos Roofing, Building Felt, Steam Parkin?;, Boiler Covering*, Fire-Proof Paints), Etc? Asbcvtos Non-conducting and Electrical Insulating Materials. H. W. JOHNS MAMTPACTUBING CO., 87 Maiden Lane. New York. CHICAGO: 240 A: 242 Randolph BL PHILADELPHIA : 170 ft 172 Xorth 4th St. BOSTON": 77 ft 73 Pearl St. A lady from North Carolina says : "My sister has used RIPANS TABULES and speaks in the highest terms of them, and says they cannot be excelled in keeping the system well regulated. She was a sufferer from dyspepsia and indigestion for several years/' MALSBY ??.COMPANY, 07 So. Forsyth St., Atlanta, Ga. Genoral Agents for Erl? City Iron Work* Engines and Boilers Steam Water Ilenters, Steam Pumpa and Penberthy Injector*. MABU fae turor* and Dealers In SAW MILLS, Corn Milla.Feed M Ul*, Cotton Gin Machin ery anti Cr.? I II Separators. SOLID aud INSK'.TKD Saws. Saw Teeth ano Locke. Knight's Patent l>ng?, Blrdsall Baw Mill and l'.nglne K?-|>:iIr?, Governors, (Irate Bars an?! n full lino cf Ulli Supplies. Price and quail* y nf goods guaranteed,. Catalogue free by nu maning this paper. |W.L. DOUBLAS /fTx OSBORNE'S y A agneta, <'u. Actual bu?ine*v Notext ?r book-. Short timo. Cheap board- 8snd for catalogo*. MEDICATED AIR INHALER Ha? no equal for the cure of Catarrh and Lung Dis eases. By rnsil, tl.eo. . W. II. SMITH ?fc CO., Tropa., Buffalo, N. Y. BEST IN THE WORLD. For ll years this shoe, by merit alone, has 9 distanced ntl competitors. ? Indersed by over 1,000.COO wearers as Ute SJ best in style, lit and durability of any shoe ever offered at ?33.OO. It is mad; in all the LATEST SHAPES and (L 8TYLES and of every variety of leather, ?K One dealer in a ten given exclusivo sale $ and advertised in local paper on receipt of ?JU reasonable order, tf Write for catalogue *o y> ? W. L. DOUGLAS, Brockton, Kass. m ^B<???6????66?<??6g????W?# ?5. FA R M IN TEX AS ? , yourown term?, write me. I handle notblngbnt bar gain*, and ran locare von in any county in the State. ! ROBERT C. (A li''IAN, - Austin, Texan. I PURCHASE SS! Manufacturer to wearer. Illustrated catalogue free. Underwear department. Address, CONSUMERS' SI: I? PEI KS CO., Troy, N. Y. * TEUE. * Rice's Goose Grease Liniment Is always sold under a guarantee to cure all ache* and pains, rheumatism, neuralgia, sprains, bruises and burns. It is also warrant ed to cora colds, croup.coughs and la grippe quicker than any known remedy. No cure no pay. Sold by nil druggists nnd general store?*. Made only by t.OOSE GREASE LIMMEN!' CO., GKEENSOOKQ. N.?"?; A. N. D. .Thirteen, '97. M il D DU I ll C Opium and Whisky Habit III UmninCcuredathome. Never falls. Monarch Homo Cure Ca,, N*w ALBANY, I:JD. ? PISO'S 'GWrT FOR ? m CURES WHtHE AIL ELSE FAILS. Best Cough Hyrup. Tastes Good. Cse I tn tima Sold by druggists. t? sjpMBEnaBEya|i