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Dr. Miles'Nmv-s Pt.Asrmiwcurv RflEUMATWM. WEAK BACKS. At drtiKKlMt*. only 25c. i ' /A.^^jSSSMum ^B*30 FOW ? C?SE IT WILL NOT CURE. IP Adiv;i\ able I> -vo and nSSvrtSjk tc. Didb" .inifnrls . sent by mall. ?f>c.,fiOo., VOrl *' -t? per p* ^-?fo. Samples free. no HO sarssaSSMffl# Wanted-An Idea fmtort tout ld?M: thOT m?y (vHdk fo* V355 Wrtw. JOHN WKDDPRUUHN * CO PaU-Itt AttOl V ivxhinirUHi. I) 0.. uir their ti.*Vi> prise off* THE M J TJ 41 LIFE INSO RANGE COMPANY OF NEW YORK. Wl'HAKO A McCUKDY, President. Assets over $ 253,000,000 00 Bar pi us over 35,QUO OiK) 00 Insurance in force, over 936.000,000 00 INCOME 1S97. Total Income 1997 $54.16^.609 00 laconic per week, over T.GOO.OOO 00 Income each working day 190,000 00 Inoc-ue per hour (Banking hours) 36,108 00 (nanranee in force in 8 C De . 31st. '97 $ 8 875,816 00 Insurance written and paidforlnH Cin'79 1,205,49300 Premiums received in 8 C in '97 214.057 84 Oeath losses paid in 8 C in '97. 116.477 "V. largest and best Company J V Uio world. Paid Policy Hold *qp in 1897, $26,992,055. n> vj. iUCltjW AIM, S P E C 1 A L A GENT, Lancaster, S. C. wmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm -Til E ( - 50 - Til AT - 50 c X$r By paying your subscriptioi tbo above po[ ular papers at prices \ ma AHK VOU IN ARREARS! If so, you can give us your noto to be duo Docomber 1st, next, for indebtedness to date, and pay jrotir subscription one year in adwatyju jundget the benefit of above pd*es. A m 1 jrl TKM rkdn A 11 xiuurcss 11 un T. S. Cj Diseases of the Blood and Nrrvea. Nn No one nted suffer with neuralgia. This disease in quickly and permanently cured by Browns' Iron Bitters, livery disease of , . the blood, nerves and stomach, chronic fx or otherwise, succumbs to Browns' Iron Bitters. Known and used for nearly a here juarter of a century, it stands to-day fore- . most among oqr most valued remedies. ,mM? Browns' Iron Bitters is sold by all dealers. at tl LANCASTER AND CHESTER To RAILWAY. BETWEEN CHESTER AND LANCA8TER. A. (Schedule in etFect Daily except Hunday ^ D neea ou and after Sept 11, 1898. clal, WESTBOUND I EARTBOUND. Eva No's. 14 and Ifl. j No's. 17 and 15* to p A M. P M. A M. P M lo 11 9 55 5 55 Ar Chester Lv 11 00 7 00 9 07 5 07 Rlclihurg 11 38 7 45 8 55 4 55 Bascombville 11 52 7 65 P M ^ 8 33 4 33 Fort Lawn 12 12 8 00 4 00 Ly Lancaster Arl2 50 8 55/ Conuecta at Chester with Southern Roi'way, Seaooard Air Line anil Carolina and North-Western Railway. Connects at ' ancaster with the Ohio River A rharleston. Leroy Springs, Pres., Lancaster, 8. C. * J M Heath. G. P. A., " 1 L,E1 W H Hardin, V P and And., Chester Tickled because I ext pain. 1 can do the same for you. effects result front my extracting pleasant ness and satisfaction inst< I've the experience, the 4'knowh doing all branches of scient.fic dent Special attention given to AVork. No charge for exaniinatii Or 1. E. Rutledg LANCASTER. iiw Tuii worn Three Times Each Week) cents for one yeai Sixteen Pages Every Week ) nits fnr* jitin sjv BVFA uuv J VHSffi m FMI 'ree for one year. 1 to Tub Lkdoeu one year ie advance i vo quote above. 3 jg -ta -6J am ,!tg ->. <j rn yw I SI i%M v8 *a -\S ' ^ ?11 >53 zti 3S IM Cheap Enough. The Lodger (Semi weekly), The Now York VVorld (Tri-weekly) I and Home and Farm, all throe pa- 9cri pers, one year for $2.15. n(,w The Ledger (Semi-weekly). The clu' Atlanta Constitution (Woekly) and Homo and Farm, all throe payors one year for $2.25. Tho Ledger (Semi weekly) and Home and Farm one year for $1.50 Or, all four papers one year for $3.00. RBGHB RBHRIIIrMDMHHI tiers and make rei \RTER "* ?? itice to Rotd Oteheers. ,1. OVERSEERS OF PLBLIC roads in Lane later county are by notified to call out their road is and work their stction* of road ie earliest day possible. MOGARDNER, Co. Rupr. and Chr. of Bd. >\ 24, 1899. 1 Notice!, | the l>ebtora and CretUfora of Evan Rolling*, heceaaeil. LL PERROS INDEBTED TO the late Evan Rollings are here* lotitied to sett'fe theiy indebted at once and all persons having us against the estate of the said n Rollings, deceased, are required resent the same, properly verified, le undersigned at once R. E. ROLLINGS, Executor. . l. a. * o r i f T - i f J "SUBCSRIBE TC THE LEDGER W Pay Dp. i Pay your subscripiton to dokk! tracted his tooth without Neither pain nor after Ej. My methods sn?g<>st ?ad. tow'' and .nefacilities for istry at the least cost. Gold Crown and Bridge [>ns and estimates. ;e, Dentist. S C. M ^ ^ I m. SOTS, ? jar. are will send you any one of SUBSCRIBE NOW! f you aro not already a sub bor to The Ledger subscribe r and get the benefit of our ibing rates. rnittances to iger, lcawter, H. C, i WALTfift FEARN bEAD. u A Man >Vho Had Quito a Career in Diplomatic Service. ? a Richmond, Ya , April ?Hon. w Walker Fearn, wh.i died at Hot n Springs, Va., yesterday, was p buried here today in Hollywood |, cemetery. Deceased was a native of Alabama. Before the war K he serVed as an attache of the tl American legation in Belgium and as secretary of the legation in Mexico. Ho Was a Confederate v commissioner abroad in 1861, and p was subsequently in the Confeder- w ate army. He was apjiointed by ^ Mr. C leveland minister to Greece, h Rouman'a and Serria, where he p represented the United States for w four years, and was chief of the q department of foreign affairs at \ the world's Columbian exposition, and later a judge of the international tribunal in Egypt. b kj a ?>1111 tii & <Jo., manufactu- |, rers of acids and fertilizers, At- j lantn, Ga., have fuiled. Liabilities about |200,000. Assets about ^ the same. tl ?- 1 s, The agricultural exports of the p United States increased $120,000 c 000 in 1898 and manufactured ex- t ports increased $28,000,000. c - > The evidence in the Moetze i murdfer case was conflicting, but > it should have been easy to deter- r mine what was sincere and what was trumped up. These frequent t mistrials in murder cases are not 1 creditable to the intelligence nor c the conscientiousness of jurors.? They are hard to reconcile with t the theory that jurors go on the s pauel with open minds and are y guided only by the evidence.?The State. v ?IOO KKWAKI). $IOO v The readers of this paper will be 8 pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been a^le to cure in all its stages and f that is fVarrh Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known n b? the mtKlical fraternity Catarrh be- i. log a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment Hail's Ca- u /airh Cure is taken internally, acting dir?etl\ upon the blood an < mucous ' I1 sufrsces of l he ay stem thereby destroy- |, ing the foundation of the disease, Mini giving the patient strength by build- a ing up the constitution and assisting i nature in doing i.s work The proprietors have s much faith in its ^ curative powers, that they offer One . 1 Hundred Dollars for any cast that it ' laih to cure. Hen * for list of testi- j( mottlalt Address, J v CHENEY A f O.. Toledo O. fc^~Sjld by Druggists, 75c. H nt t ,| m , , , s S8UTB C&RGLII& & GEORGIA H B C i: SCHKDULK IN FROM OCT. 2d, 1808 f ? First (Masj, Daily. ? c West a in p m East Leaves 7 10 Charleston 8 00 arrives " 6 20 Augusta 10 45 " ( " 9 20 I'mumhla ft 20 " M 10 10 Kingsville 4 28 1 NORTH CA KG LIN A DIVISION ? ? Daily. Except Sunday ? 75 77 78 74 r am. ? in. 1 eave Arrive p in. p m j H 20 11 40 < anuien 3 00 4 3d . lo |0 12 40 Kerahaw 2 15 3 10 1 10 30 12.55 Heath Springe 145 2 15 < 10 40 1 00 Pleasant Hill *40 2 00 11 80 120 Lac mater 1 20 1 20 * 12 16 1 25 Rlveraide 1 o5 12 15 . I 50 1 MCaUwIiaJuui!1!) 12 50 II 20 3 10 2 15 Rock Hill 12 25 0.50 4 40 2 49 Y-.rkvllle 11 52 7 50 0 20 3 65 Blackaburg 10 45 0 (JO N o 81 N?? 82 7 40 ' Blackaburg 7 25 0 00 4 25 Shelby 10 15 6 30 ] 1100 5 34 Rutlierfordton 0 00 3 30 12 3-5 6 30 Marion 8 10 2 00 I p in. p m a m p m OAFFNEY BRANCH ? Daily, Except Sunday ? 85 83 84 80 p in. a m. Leave Ar Ive a in. p in 4 10 6 30 Blaekaburg 7 30 6 30 4.35 6 50 Cherokee Kalla 7 05 0<05 5 00 0 20 Gaifuey 6 40 6 40 Train No 77. going We?t makes dav < light connection at Lancaster with the L AC Railroad, at Rock Hilt with the Southern Railroad, going north, at 1 Rlaoksburg with the Southern. Train No 78, going eart makes oons nectlon at Marlon, N C with the Southern Railroad, at Blaokaburg with Southern and at Lancaster with ] the Ii kC Railroad. Train No 81, going east makes oons nectlon at Shelby* N C with the H A 1 L Rallroid, going east. All Local Trelgiit trains still carry pa*aen|fcfa if htttvfded with tickets. < L A Emerson, fc fe im*n>klh, ; Trarao Manager. biv.'Nk. A|t. til .1 t mmmm low nn English Scoffer was Un done in u Moment. An English peer called upo 10 famous Josiah Wedgwood ho wus an earnest, religion lun, and desired to see his grcn ottery factories. With one < is employees, a lad of ahou ftcen years of age, Mr. Wedg ood accompanied the nohlema irough the works. The visitor was a man of soul hat reckless life, and rathe ain of his religious unhelie: 'ossesoing great natural wit, h 'as quite entertaining in convei itiou, and after u while forgt imself in expressions of "polite rofanity and in occasional jes1 nth sacred names and subject 'his seriously disturbed Mi Vedgwood. The boy at first was shocke >y the nobleman's irreverence ?ut soon became fascinated b lis flow of skeptical drolley, an nughed heartily at the witt mints made. When the round of the factorii iad been made, the boy was dii nissed, and Mr. Wedgwood w ected a beautiful vase of uniqti lattern, and recalled the long at areful process of its making, i hey had oeen it in the vats an vens. Tho visitor was charmed wit ts exquisite shape, its rare coloi ng, its pictured designs, at cached out his had to take it. Mr. Wedgwood let it fall c he floor, and broke it to atom .'he nobleman uttered an angr ath. "I wanted that for my colle< ion," he said. "No art can r< tore what you have ruinfed b our carelessness." "My lord," replied Mr. Wedj food, "there are other ruinc hings, more precious than thii fhich can never give back to tt oul of that boy who has just le is the reverent feeling and simpl aith which have been destroyed h uaking light of the religion whit as l>eeu his most sacred memor nd inheritance. For years h aients hare endeavored to teat im reverence for sacred thing nd so to influence his mind thi lis life and conduct should I governed by religious principle Ton have undone their labor ess thun half an hour." The nobleman, though greatl stonishcd at such plainness < peech from a "mechanic," r pcctod a brave and honest mai md he did not go away withoi txpressing his regrets, and a< mtting the justice of the reproo A common acknowledgment < iod, and the prevalence of everent spirit, are society's sa guard and the Stato's defence. None but those who forget he nuch the country owes to relij nils feeling will ever trifle with n the young, or sneer at a "pio ^location." A singlo scoflii ipeech may do mischief for a I If iiue. --Youth's Companion. 4 Blfc Otter. One pound of the Afric Limbless cotton seed, The A lanta Journal, a large eight pag Lwioea-week paper for one yea ?nd Tho ledger, twico-a^week f >no year?ALL for $2. whi must be paid in advance. Thii 3f this ! 20C papers in a year, ai 3ne pound of the African Lim ess seed, enough to plant o fifth of an acre, all for $2. 1 pound of seed alone sells for $ The Journal for $1., and T Ledger for $ 1.50. Tho Journal and T [jedger, both papers s4mi?week) will he sent obe y^Ar, without t seed, for $1.75. THE SUCCESS -J A WOMAN DROWNS HERSELF. n Body of Mrs. Corrie Bishop I, Found in the Poe Mill Reservoir. 18 it Mrs. Corrio Bishop, wife of >f John Bishop, of Poe mill, and t daughter of James Southcrland, of Newry mills, committed suicide n Friday night by drowning herself iu the Poe mill reservoir, wher& e her body, dressed iu her night >r clothes, was found yesterday f. morning at day break in 7 feet of e water. She was driven to thn % deed by the hopeless condition of )t her health. She had been in <!e'' clining health for the past two tr years and during the past month s. her mind had become unbalanced r. by tho great pain she suffered. It was the intention of the family id to take her to Newry ta-akV >, and from there to take her t6 y Columbia and commit her in thfc id State hospital for the insane.? ,y Greenville News. 08 Ex-Secretary John Sherman is b* improving so rapidly in health a- that his daughter recently feltjus10 titled in showing him some of the id obituary notices printed by the is pajiers. <1 Dr C S Gardner, pastor of the tb First Baptist church at Greenville, i> has been suggested for president id of the Southern Baptist Theological seminary at Louisville, a po. m sition made vacant by the resigns 8. tion of Dr. W H Whitsitt. y The offices of clerk of court and b- sheriff will no loDger lie furnished 3- with lights, fuel and stationery by v the county. The new board say they must furnish their own mat. terial, as there is no law for theui >d to furnish it.?Saluda Sentinel. J, -nte John Gentry shot Luther Eu? ft banks near Seneca on Easter day o because of some insulting remark y the latter made about Gentry's :h wife. y is An ice gorge in the Yellow :h Stone river at Glendive, Mont., a, Saturday caused the river to overlit flow, drowning four persons.? >o Eight more are missing, s. in C B Smith, one of the staff of ly Columbia State has been appoint^f ed by President McKinley a seo0. ond Lieutenant in the regular U. S. army. He left Sunday for Fort Monroe to stand his cxamL j nation. Ho graduated from the f Citadel in 1805. a More Mules ami Better Mules. Our Mr J M Hood has gone for another car load which weexiw pect to arrive by Thursday or Friday. Think of it, three car it; loads in less than ten days ! Don't us think of buying before seeing our ig last lot. Remember you take no e? chances when you buy from us.? Competition don't cut any figure with us. We always do what we promise. Remember we have in all our connections five or six tin bundled head alwuys on hand.? L Any kind you want and price to suit. Some extra tine ones still ir' on hand, both mules and horses, or eh Farmers' Banking and Mercantile Company. b REGITRATION NOTICE. ne rh T^HK PUBLIC WILL TAKE notice 1- that the Registration Boutin wilt 1- be open, at the court bouse, for the he registration of parties entitled to register under the ('onatltutlou, on the let Monday in each month, until AO he days preceding t< e next general eleo? tam W G \ PORTER. Chairman Board Registration L C I1SfffBtf'0 jTSSpBIT |(' Tha iawalar,.