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111 ' I 11 Vim i man iMW? mimm BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM ?IN? Western South Carolina. 0 RATES REASONABLE. ??? ; SUBSCRIPTION SI PER ANNUM JOB PR!\TIXG? A SPECIAL^ | GO TO PHILIP EPSTII, | The Lexington Dispatch. VOL, XXVI. LEXINGTON, S. C., FEBRUARY 12, 189G. NO. 13. TRUSTEE, FOR nvm L\E * CLOTHING,: S -A. T S , 11 | ? ! t rirvm^n i Mil X I : HI'llMlllli I j GOODS, TRUNKS AND VALiSES, 180 MAIN STREET, COLUMBIA, S. C. Nov. 7?lv. ! j ' j SOUTHERN RAILWAY! ; Jk, <35v Central time between Columbia and Jackson* viile. Eastern time at other points. Ncrshboun I. 36 33 I J*n 3 1 S96. U?"> *>??ry_ J kv JicksonvHb .... J3 * Savannah 2 _ j- , ? 20 p 11 <>o a Ar. Columbia * V ' - l*>.i 3+tp J.v ( bariestoa | "'Y' a Ar Columbia 11 0'j a ~ I 7i<* M I a r\p ! f JL?. All?!!*?& ... ... . j jl i' I - w p j " Grauitcville . " ? | 2 33 p | " Trenton ? $--'>p 2>$p ? " Joh iHtons 310 p Ar foinmha i'OOp Lv. 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Charleston 11 10 a I 8 00p ? Lv Columbia 10 46 a 1 IS a i 12 10 p Ar Savannah ' 2 36p! 5 33a; 450 p " Jacksonville | 630 pj 9 45 a j 3l5p j SLEEPING CAR SERVICE. Nog 37 and 38?Washington and Son! hwestern ! Limited. Pullman cars 1'ampa to New York. K>lid Pullman train with dining cars north of i C barlotte. Nos. 3 and 36?XT S. Fast Mail. Through Pull- j man bu.TVt sleeping car between Jacksonville and New York. Nos 31 ami 32?"New York and Florida j Short Line l imited." Pullman compartment ! car and observation car between New York ami i Sr. Augus.ine; also first-class coach. Pullman rawing room buffet sleeping car between j New York and Tampa. Dining car between j New York and Washington ami between j Kalisburv and St. Augustine. Southbound this i train wid aiso handle Pullman Drawing-room J Sleeping ear New York to Columbia en route to Augr'sta; this car being bandied south of j < olumbia by train No. 33, ar.d northbound by train No 38. Augusta to New York. i N B.?Nos. 35 and 36 do r.ot enter Union J Station. C olumbia, but discharge and take pas- j sengcrs and baggage at ? landing St. Station. i W. H GREEN, J. M.CULP. ^ o tt T Nf ! V*- ?. " * v 2 ?? t*pu4iI w. a ."tiff: it. s. it. tiAn&tftfK. i ] O. T. A., W nhJagton. A. G. i\ A., Atlanta j F W7 HUSEMANN, | \ Gt7N AND LOCKSMITH, | j and dealer in i t GUMS, PISTOLS, PISTOL CARTRIDGES ] FiSHIHG TACKLE, j and all kinds of Sportsmen's Articles, which he has cow on exhibition and for ale at his store. Main Street, Near the Central Bank, ! Columbia, S, C. | < ASENT FOR HAZARD FODDER CO. i 1 ! l Repairing done at short notice. | ^ Paper and envelopes of all kinds writing and pencil table's, pens, j 1 pencils, memorandum and pas3 J j books, purses, banjo, violin and ; gui'ar strings, and notions generally, < ana???iiiMiiima?a?si WANTING. The new year has brought back the same old blooms, The daisies for the leas. The bluebells sweet, and the cowslips' plumes, And the pale anemones. And again with the golden fires of spring The woods arid groves are bright, And the same old songs the blackbirds sing In tho apple orchards white. And the dawns are bright and the eves arc fair As e'er in the days of old, And the fragrant hawthorn scents the air, And tho gorse is of burnished gold. And the wind has come o'er the southern seas From shores where the nereids play, And as of old do the brigand bees On their clover blossoms stray. There's an amber sea in the far off west, Where the hills and the sunset meet. And the hymn of the throstle by its nest Is tender and clear and sweet, And I wait and watch, as in days of yore, By the ivied trysting tree, But, ah, never, never, never more Can my sweetheart come to mc! ?Chambers' Journal. THE RED LANTERN. "Oh, pshaw, pop! What made you get a red one?" "Why, my son, I thought a red lantern would tickle you to death." "Naw," returned Jimmy, contemptuously. "I wanted one with a green light. They're twice as nice." "Well, now, that's strange," said John Saunders, looking at his boy's disappointed face. "When I was a youngster, I liked anything if 'twas red ?a red wagon, sled, top. As long as there was some red about it I thought 'twas stylish and first class." "Red is so common," said Jimmy, with great airs. "Go 'long," saidihe father. "Aren't p-cu ashamed, sir? That's the sort of airs rou learn from playing with boys that rave money?at least their fathers have. Red common. Well, so am I common; ?o's your ma, and, for the matter of hat, so are you, too, I reckon. Don't 'orget that, Jimmy. You're the son of a .aboring man. Don't try to ape folks rvho are better off in this world." Jimmy Saunders picked up the demised lantern and went out to the barn >rith it. His father Lad just returned 'rom the town with a few purchases for he family and among them this lantern, vhich was net up to Jimmy's ideas cf anterns. He wanted one with a bright ?reen light and nickel trimmings like he one used at Mr. Somers' stables. Charlie Somers said they were much licer than red lanterns, which were ;ommon looking and only used by rail oad men. And what Charlie Sobers ;aid was law to Jimmy baunders. Charlie lived in Chicago daring the .vinter and only spent his vacations oat n Indiana on his father's handsome :onntry placs. So, of coarse, being the ;on of a rich mau and a dweller in the ritios, his word bad a great weight w**Ii he boy who had never been farther iway from tho farm than to the neigh- 1 >oring town of Dexter. Mr. Saunders' farm lay next to the ailroad, which wound like a great shinug serpeut through tho woods, the deep :ut beyond the creek and across the iwarnp and on to Chicago, that wonder- j rul city of which Jimmy never tired of j learing Charlie's descriptions. But just now there was troublo in the ireat city?mobs and strikes and confuliou and chaos almost. Every day the toys could hear Mr. Somersspeak of the ;ta*e of affairs to the gentlemen who j ,vere visiting him, and all agreed that j here were to be terrible times unless I be city was declared under martial law. And as the days went on and rumors \ )f fires and killing and destruction lloat;d out through the quiet countryside Jharlie and Jimmy both became greatly uterested in tho news and plied Iheir athers with questions about the great j trike. "What did you hear in town today, j ather?" asked Jimmy, having recovered i rom his vexation over the red lantern, J is his father was unharnessing Zebedee, j he old gray horse. ''TUotq'o oil cmrfc ncwrc \cnrst I joings on in Chicago ever you heard of,'' mswered his father. "And Dexter, too, s full of a crowd that's threatening to )urn the depot. They've overturned a ot of freight cars and upset things genially around the station. I heard folks laying that soldiers are corning from Sew York some time tonight to re-en'orce the troops in Chicago, and they ,vere making threats that they shouldn't ;et farther than Dexter. I dunno," Roomily shaking his head, "I dunno vhat's going to happen, but I tell yon me thing?I'm glad we don't live in Chicago, my son." Jimmy secretly wished they did, so hat he might see some cf these exciting cenes, but as they didn't he tried to ronteut himself by going to the Somers :ountry place, half a mile tip the road, j o play tag with Charlie in pursuance >f an engagement made early that mornDg When be went into the house to ask or his playmate, who was not outside is usual, he found an excited little $roup standing about the telephone in be hall and Mr. Somers listening in- j ently to the unseen messenger. "Perfectpanic there tonight," he said is he dropped the repeater. "Troops ired into the mob this afternoon ; killed lalf a dozen people; fires everywhere; wrecking going on and re-euforcemeuts :oming from New York tonight." "Hello, Jim," said Charlie, coming rorward. "Come on. Let's play strike, itou be a freight car, and I'll be a striker and overturn you." This new game was followed awhile, ?ud then Charlie's fertile brain suggest:d another scheme. "You be a train full >f soldiers coming from New York, and i'll be the mob and stop you." So Jimmy, with many a toot and ;nort and "chug chug," rushed here md there among the shrubbery, playing -. I- i: ~ re was a tram, wmie ^uarue jjik-u sticks on the track and flagged the train md stopped it with a smart green lan:ern from the stable until both boys (Vere tired out. The sun had long since set, and the darkness was coming on fast "I must go home," suddenly cried Tkrcw Away His Canes. Mr. D. "Wiley, ex postmaster. Black 3reek, X. Y., was so badly afflicted vith rheumatism that be was only ible to hobble around with canes, md even then it caused him great pain. After using Chamberlain's Pain Balm he was so much improved that he threw away his canes. He says this liniment did him more good than all other medicines and treatment put together. For sale at 50 cents per bottle by Julian E. Kauffman. 15 | Knights of the MaccabeesThe State Commander writes us ! j from Lincolu, Xeb., as follows: "Af- j ! ter trying other medicines for what I j seemed to be a very obstinate cough i | in our two children we tried Dr. i I King's New Discovery and at the i end of two days the cough entirely j : left them. We will not be without i j it hereafter, as our experience proves ! that it cures where all other reme- I ! dies fail."?Signed F. W. Stevens, ! . ? I State Com.?"Why not give this great | medicine a trial as it is guaranteed I and trial bottles are free at the ; Bazaar. Jimmy. "Gracious! I didn't know it j was so late. Mother will be awfully j worried." "Well, be sure and come over tomor- { row," cried Charlie after biin, "ana we'll play strike again." "All riahr," answered Jimmy as he went whistling down the road. As he came near the road Jimmy I heard a strange sound. It was like the distant snarl and roar of the animals he remembered in the one circus he had attended in his life. He stopped for a moment to listen. The noise rose and died j on the evening air, and mingled with it rose another sound liko the clink of ini struments against steel. "That sounds as if somebody was hammering on the track," he said as ho listened. But he was late aud so hurried on toward home. As ho neared the gate bis mother came running down the walk, her apron over her head. "Jimmy, "she cried hysterically, "whero is your father?" "I don't know," answered the boy, staring in dismay at his mother, who j was pale and trembling. "Oh, my child," she screamed, "there's something wrong. Your father went over an hour ago down into the woods to find the stray lambs, and lie never stays so late, and 10 or 15 minutes ago a crowd of yelling, cursing men swept by here like a cyclone and down into the woods, and father's there, and maybe they've killed him." "Hold on, mother," cried Jimmy. 'TVin'fc tat-o nn <?n T'll vnn rlnwn tn thn ! i edge of the woods ami see what's up. i Father's all right. What would they j hurt him for, I'd like to know?"' Though ho speko so stoutly, the boy was frightened, but lie run as fast as b8 could toward the woods. He rememberi ed the noise he had heard at the track and suddenly it rushed over him what it meant. "They're sympathizers of Ibo strikers," he whispered as he tore across j the field, "and they're tearing up the I | track, I'll bet." When he reached the weeds, ho stole J | along as cautiously as possiblo toward j | the din and uproar, which every moj ment grew louder. Suddenly he saw 1 them. There were 50 at least, bareheaded, ! ragged, prying up the track with crow- j bars?a frightful sight to a lonely little boy creeping among the trees. The stray lambs, huddled together under a tree, were bleating in a frightened, helpless way. Jimmy felt sure his father must be near them, so, creeping on hands and knees now, the boy crawled slowly along and suddeuly saw his father tied to a tree, watching the rioters completing their work cf destruction. As Jimmy saw his father Mr. Saunders, turning his head, saw his son. Jimmy was not 10 feet away from his father, while the mob was at least 10 feet away from both. "Jimmy," murmured his father, "run, my boy, run! The New York special with soldiers! Hun up the road Hurt sionnl it ! Novei* niiiid rue. but save I the train." With a half sob the boj crept back through the tall grass to the edge of the forest anil then darted across the field toward the farmhouse like au arrow. His mother met him. "Don't stop me, mother," he gasped. "Father's alive, hut the strikers have got him. You run to 3Ir. Somers' for help. I'm goiug to signal the special." Signal tho special! Suddenly he stopped. What with? How could he, a little boy, step a train beforo ! it reached the cut yonder? Ah, the red ! lantern, the despised, common thing ho | had sneered at that very day. Two minutes later this towheaded, J freckled faced young hero was flying up i the track, his red lantern lighted, his j bare feet spurning the earth, panting, stumbling, sobbing, falling, up again ! and cu, on. A low rumble broke on bis ear. The j rails began singing under his feet. "It's J coming!" he shrieked, and putting all j his remaining strength into this last | effort he dashed on a few rods farther. There came a great white light glow- j ing at him like an angry eye, nearer i and nearer, larger, brighter. Would | they ever sec him as he stood there, j ! desperately gripping his red lantern and ' | swinging it with both his tired little j arms? At last! The engine gave a scream. I "I see you, Jimmy!" it seemed to cry to : the poor child. Then a shiver ran j I through the Jong train. It groaned and j ! stopped, the engine panting and sighing, i at the feet of James Saunders, hero. Do you suppose, if Jimmy lives to be j ; 100 years old, he will ever forget that j moment?the shouts, the questions, the I j excitement, the soldiers crowding around : ' him, the glistening bayonets, the praise, j : the thanks, all the pride of the instant i i as he knew that he, a little prairie lad, ! had saved the special laden with Uncle j : Sam's troops??Advance. The First Log; Cabin In Kentucky. The flourishing little city cf Harrods- i burg, the county seat of Mercer county, j ' Ky., was the scene in the latter part cf j : the last century of seme very exciting i episodes in the history of the early set| tiers in tho young state. On June 16, | 177-1, Captain James Harrod of Virginia, 1 s? o narfr r?-f tn I \>JJU 11UU t* . | the new country, laid off a town site at ; i Big Spring Camp, where they had erected j j the first cabin ever built in Kentucky. I I They allotted to each man a half acre J | lot and a teu acre out lot. The town's j | first name was Harrodstown, but later j this was changed to Harrodsburg. A | clearing was made in the east end of ! the town boundary, and hero it was that , John Harman planted and raised the ' first corn that was known to have been j i grown in the state. Only a few weeks I after this auspicious beginning of the j ! town's promoters four of Harrod's men j were ambushed by Indians. Jared Cow- j | an was killed. The other men escaped, j I only ouo of them being injured.?Louis- I | ville Post. Medicated cough drops and the j best cough syrup, for sale at the Bazaar. PIKE WANTED A FOTJT zeb white was sick, but he had A SUBSTITUTE. Ho* a Critter Named Pike Became the i Wollopedeet Man In Sight and How a | Good Wife Was Spoiled as a Very Nat- I nral Consequence. One October flay Zeb White, the possum hunter of Tennessee, took iue along with him when ho went the rounds of his woodchuck traps, and as we were coming heme he told me this story: "I worked so hard fur ibreo or fo' y'ars arter the wah," he began, "that I got ail run down and couldn't skeercely git abont. Thar war days when I felt purty well, and days when I jest sot around and hadn't strength 'nnff to move outdoahs. That samo y'ar a crit ter named Pibo moved into the naybur- I hood. He was from Alabamy, I believe, j and he let it be known powerful soon that he was a hefty man in a scrimmage. He talked so loud and blowed so high that ever1 body was skeart o1 him, and he jest went around steppin high and bossin the roost. Reckon ye hev met up with sich chaps in the no'tb?" "Yes, I've seen several of them. " "That perky critter used to cum down to my cabiu and brag and blow and tell how many men he'd licked, and one day I gin him plain tounderstan that I didn't believe in his stories. That made him mad, and lie went away savin as how he'd wollop mo fur his next victim. He knowed I was in pore health and couldn't fight a fly, but every two or three days lie'd cum down and stand in front of the cabin and yell: " 'Now, then, Zeb White, cmn out yere and gio i-ho awfullest wcllopin a hnman cricer ever received. I'm no hand to brag, but I kin tie both hands behind mo and then chaw ye up in two minits. I've licked 47 different men and never even got my nose skinned. Either own up that ye dasu't fight a man or cam out and bo wolloped.' "That's the way he'd talk to rue," continued Zeb, "and I'd git so mad that I cried lilro a child. Biineby I begun to git a leetle better, and one day when ho was callin on mo to cum forth and bo wollcped I told him that if he'd show up a week from that, day I'd tackle him. Ho went away crackin bis heels and whoopin and rejoiciu, and the old woman sez to me, sez she: " 'Zeb White, if yo was a well man ye could wollop that critter befo' I could mako a hce cake, but ye've bin down the banks all summer, and ye' can't git- well in a week. I'm sorry ye passed yer word, but bein it's passed we'll fcev to abide by it. I'll git whisky and rools toirorrer and brace ye up.' " "And did you get better?" I asked. "No, I got wnss. Whisky and roots didn't do mo no good. When the week was up, I was in bed and too feeble to walk across the room. That pesky critter knowed jest- how it was with me, and yit he cum and stood in front of the cabin and shouts to the olo woman : " 'Ar' this the dwellin place of a varmint named Zeb White?' " 'She be.' " 'Calls hisself the Possum Hunter cf Tennessee, don't he?' " 'Yes, ho do.' " 'Has wrassled with b'ars and wildcats and painters, and thinks hisself powerful on the fight?' " 'That's my Zeb.' " 'Then I hain't made no mistake. / Would ye do me the everlastin kindness to tell him to step out yero while I chaw his ears off to stay my hunger!' " 'He's sick abed jest now, but if yo'il cum back arter dark he'll make yo eat grass and bcller like a calf!' " 'I'll do it, ma'am! Thar' won't be uo mo' delay?' " 'No, sah!' " 'He'll cum right out and be pulver:ji : n i. ~ ? izeu, wjji iie: " 'Ho will!' " 'Then ye kin be lookin fur rue, Widder White! I'll bo kinder sorry to see death take biru from ye, but I must kev him fur my forty-eighth victim! Good arternoou, Widder White?good arteruoon!' "That's how they talked," said Zeb as he heaved a rock at a snake sunning himself on a rock, "and of co'se I heard every word of it. I jest couldn't help weepin with my madness. How was I to go out and fight him when I couldn't git outer bed? That's what I asked the ole woman, and she sorter winked and smiled and scz to me, sez she: " 'Zeb, doan' ye worry no] mo' 'bout this wollopin bizness, but leavo it all to me. If that varmint shows up yere tonight, he'll be tho wurst licked man in all Tennessee befo' he gits away !' " 'But who's gwine to lick him?' " 'Never ye mind!' "She wouldn't say nomo'," continued Zeb, "and I was too feeble to figger it out. I cried myself to sleep, and it was arter dark when I woke up. That thar varmint had cum back, 'cordin to promise, and was in front of the cabin a-shontin: " 'Zeb White, the time has cum fur ye to be pulverized. Ivlebbe I won't do no mo' than chaw yer cars off and cripple ye fur life, but I'll do that much fur I shore. Cum outer yer bole and stand up. J to me like a man.' i "Jest about the time he begun tn iiol- { ler my ole woman begun to git outer her j clothes and inter mine. " 'What ye gwino to do?' sez I. " 'Gwine cut to wollop that critter or j die,' sez she. " 'But ye ar' a woman and he's a ! powerful fighter.' " 'Zeb White, ye snuggle down and j keep quiet. He's cum fur a fout. He's j bin promised one and has to hev it. As i ye can't fight him I shall, and I'm j a-fee)in that the Lord will put a jaw- | bone inter my hand to slather him.' " 'It wasn't no use to talk to her. ' ? I A L:i3 Saved. i Jamestown, Term., October 15, iSOl. j Mv daughter tried physicia-jS j nearly all remedies for Femr ,ie irregularities, but. received no 3T-lief or benefit whatever. V> e nearly despaired of her rccore? -v when we were induced by our postmaster, Mr. A. A. Gooding, to. try Gerstle s Female Pauacea, ar.<) a .'ter using four bottles she was entire'y cured, for which I feoi it i jy dr^y to let it be known to the war I- { and suffering humanity, for I believe she owes her life to the Pnmoea. A. J". MACE, Sheriff of Fentress County, Tenn. For further information call at Julian E. Kauffmanrs drug store and get free, a pamphlet entitled, "Advice to Women, and O^jer Useful In?formation.'' 15. .... . Whcu she got dressed up, she looked like j a man, and as she stood in the door that varmint cracked his heels together and crowed like a rooster. I jest had tho strength to git to the winder, and I j saw all that took place. When the feller had crowed and cracked, he yells out: " 'My forty-eighth victim ar' now j befo' me to bo chawed. Speak up, Zeb White, and tell me which ear ve'd ray- j ther I'd begin on to git up my appertitc. Whoop! Whoopee!' " "And about the fight?" I asked as j Zeb was silent for several minutes. "It was full of surprises," he answer- i ed. "That varmint was only a blow- j hard arter all. The old woman walked i around him two or thrco times and then : sailed in. He hollered at the fust jump and tried to git away, but she wouldn't let him. She scratched, kicked and pulled ha'r, and when she finally let up ou him ho wouldn't hev looked wuss if half a dozen b'ars had played with him. I've seen a heap of men wolloped, but j he was the wollopedest man of the hull let." "And didn't be know it was a worn- i an?" I asked. "Never kuowed it till he got home I and his own wife examined the claw 1 marks and the bites. The story got j around party soon, and he had to jest j pull np and move away. Ke had bin i licked by a woman, and it was tho wuss lickin he ever got." "And how did Mrs. White come ont of it?" "She didn't git a scratch, but I've alius bin sorry about it." "For what reason?" "Waal," said Zeb as he turned his face away from me, "befo' that font sho was a mighty humble woman and left all the hossin to me. Senco then she's?she's"? "She's not so humble?" "Jest so. Jest got tho idea that she kin wollop mo same as she did him, and thar ar' days when she's all ready to make a try at it. Spiles a woman to git j such noshuns into her head?of oc'se it does.'' And an hour after wo got homo that evening I overheard her saying to him: "Now, Zeb White, ye git me up a heap o' firewood by the hack door toinorrer cr take tho consequences, and I'm tellin ye that them same consequences will make yer back ache fur a j hull month to cum."?M. Quad in De- ! troit Free Press. A Serious Objection. Denis?Faitb, Pat, what cher doin? j Pat?Coinmittiu suicide. Denis?Why don't yez put the rope around yer neck? Pat?Sure and Oi did, but I couldn't . get me breath.?Truth. i Eea*'n:ss Canno: be Cured. By local applications, as they can- { not reach the diseased portion of tbe ear. There is only one way to cure Deafness, and that is by constitu- f tional remedies. Deafness is caused', i by an inflamed condition of the rr.u- I cous lining of the Eustachian Tube, j When this tube gets inflamed you J have a rumbling sound or imperfect-! hearing, and when it is entirely i closed Deafness is the result, and ; unless the inflam nation can be taken j tr> its 1101'- : UUL UJLJLU. lUlO IUVL. ?.-w - - ~ mal condition, bearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten i are caused by catarrb, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case oi Deafness (caused by catarrb) that cannot be cured by Hall's Catanh Cure. Send for circulars, free. F. J. CHE?,EY & CO., Props., Toledo, 0. figySold by druggists, price 75c. 15. If there is any one thing that needs to be purified, it is politics, so the reformer says, and maDy agree thereto. But blood tells, and as a blood purifier and liver corrector Simmons liver Regulator 5s the best medicine. "I use it in pre erence to any other. So wrote Mr. S. M. Hysell, of Middle] ort, Ob io. Aud Dr. D. SRussel\, of Farroville, Va, writes, "It fulfills, jdl you promise for it." *" * ? -1- - A AM supanoi no ah u-uc*. Gerento, Miss., May Gtb, 1892. lltbough I never used any set ret rfi'.aedies before, I prescribe Sfc. Joseph's iSarsaparilla in my practice as 1 would any prescription of my own compounding, and any phys ician who will do t ne same will b 3 j greatly pleased at the results I achieved. In mv op. nion it is supej rior to all others and lias been es > pecially useful to me in Rheumatic ' and Scrofulous eases. | 11. M. KITTREL, M. D. I For further information call at [ Julian E. Karffmamn's drug store , and ask for a panphlet entitled, "A Treatise on the Blood.'' 15. ! If you ha-ve aching sides and back ] or suffering from rheumatism of an} form and want relief and permaneT|i | cure, then try Spirittine Balsam, 21 ; and 50 ccait bottles. Bo* sale atth( ' Bazaar. A Slavs from Boyhood. From the Red Wing, (Minn.) Republican. ' T am now twenty four years old," said Edwin Lawnson, of "WhileRock, Goodhue county, Minn., to a Republican representative, "and as you can see I ara not very large of stature. When I was eleven years old I became afflicted with a sickness which baffled the skill and knowledge of the physician. I was not taken suddenly ill but on the contrary I can hardly state the exact time when it began. The first symptoms were pains in my back and restless nights. The disease did not trouble me much at first, but it seemed to have settled * i i i i t i J in my oociy to stay ana my outer experience during the last thirteen years proved that to be the case. I was of course a child and never dreamed of the suffering in store for me. I complained to ray parents and they concluded that in time I would outgrow my trouble, but when they heard me groaning during my sleep they became thoroughly alarmed. Medical advice v. as sought but to no avail, I grew rapidly worse and was soon unable to move about and fiually became confined continually to my bed. The best doctors that could be had were consulted, but did notlnDg for me. I tiied various kinds of extensively advertised patent medicines with but the same result. "For twelve long years I was thus a sufferer in constant agcny without respite, abscesses formed on my body in rapid succession and the world indeed looked very dark to me. About this time when all hope was gone and nothing seemed left but to resign myself to my most bitter fate my attention was called to Dr. Williams' PiDk Pills for Pale People. Like a drowning man grasping at a straw, in sheer desperation I concluded to make one more attempt?not to regain my health ([ dare not to hope so much) but if possible to ease my paiD. "I bought a box of the pills and they seemed to do me good. I felt encouraged and continued their use. After taking six boxes I was up and able to walk around the house. I have not felt so well for thirteen years as during the past year. Only one year have I taken Dr. Williams' Pink Pills and I am able now to do chores and attend to light duties. 4'Do I hesitate to let you publish what I have said? No. Why should I ? It is the truth and I ara only too glad to let other sufferers know my experience. It may help those whose cup of misery is as full to-day as mine was in the past." Dr. Williams' Pick Pills contain, in a condensed form, all the elements necessary to give new life and rich- , ness to the blood and restore shattered nerves. They are al?o a specific for t oubles peculiar to females, such as suppressions, irregularities and all fcims of weakness. They build up the blood, and restore the glow of health to pale and sallow cheeks. In men they effect a radical cure in all cases arising from mental worry, overwork or excesses of whatever nature. Pink Pills are sold in boxes (never in loose bulk) at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50, and may be had of all druggists, or direct by mail from Dr. Williams' Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. Y. PROGRESSIVE DINNER PARTIES. The Revival of en Entertainment That Promotes Sociability. Frances E. Lnnigan in Ladies' Home Journal writes that tbo progressive dini ner party has experienced a revival this i winter and is once more established in fashionable favor. As 1896 is a leap year the dinner is now arranged so that . the men remain in their original seats ; throughout the meal, while the women | progress with the cuurses. The first aa| nouncemeut that the dinner is in any i respect different from the ordinary cere mouial meal of society is in the appcari auce at the host's place of a small silver j bell, which he rings at the conclusion f of each course, and in the quotations j rcpou the guest cards, the line given to 1 the lady occupying the seat of honor? j the right of the host?being, "Westward | the course of empire takes its way," j thus indicating the direction of the pro' gression. The other ladies' guest cards I may read: "All things journey; we go I with them," "Press bravely onward," * "Let ns then be up and doing," "Cn: ward, onward may we press," "A love' apparition sent to he a moment's ornrnsont." f Fes the cards of the men, who retain >: their original seats throughout the meal the following quotations will \ eerve: "How happy could I he with either were t'other dear charmer aW?>yl" i "Welcome the coming, speed the going l guest," "We must endure their going ] hence, even as their coming hither," ( "Variety's t2ie very spice of life, ""It j is something ioget this far if one is not 'j permitted to go farther," "Stay in that [ station in which you have been placed." j The rnlo to be observed by the hostess hnr.0 ns mnnv courses I 18 Ulill OUU iliwov .? ? j for her dinner as she has couples pres| ent. This is made necessary by the fact ! that the progressions ere made with the i courses, and that the round must bo completed with the end of the dinner. i ?he should of course .aim to arrange so ; rthat the peoplo who are most congenial I filial 1 be partners during the longest courses?the roast and the dessert. This | may he easily arranged by placing them ! | two .or three courses apart at the begii* j ning of the dinner. G. A. Sala's Career. | I first made the acquaintance of G. A. . Sala about 30 years ago, and I have known him well ever since. I always found him a perfect encyclopedia of i knowledge, coupled (which is rare) with } a keen sense of humor. No man probaI bly wrote more "copy" in bis life than [ lie did and few more readable. His I mode of writing was curious. He had a ' vast amount of collected notes on all ' matters carefully indexed. These he \ would consult. Then he would walk up t i and down the room for a time, aftei ) | which ho would write or dictate with, j j out pause. I have heard him make verj | jnany good speeches, conceived on tht same lines as bis articles, fie bad at times a strong desiro to enter tbe house of commons, but I somewhat doubt whether be would have succeeded there. Always occupied ou the press and cn the magazines, he managed occasionally to write a novel. They were really very good novels, and if he had turned his attention more exclusively to novel writing he would have run Charles Dickens and other masters of tbe art close. In business matters he was a mere child. Ho earned a great deal of money, he was not extravagant, and yet he never seemed to have any. In his first wife bo was fortunate in finding not only an amiable and beautiful woman, but a woman of business, and she was a terrible less to him. It is satisfactory to think that- ho was well cared for in his last sickness owing to the kindness and liberality of tbe proprietors of The Daily Telegraph, with which newspaper he had been so long connected.?London Truth. rtussian same. Russian sable owes its warmth and gloss to the fact that the longer hairs, as well as the under fur, are absolutely uniform in size and "section." Thus, the sable tail makes a perfectly proportioned natural pendant to the skin when used as a cape, and the whole skin has the unity of a manufactured fabric, with the other qualities only found in natural fur. This pre-eminence of sable fur gives it a value in the most minute quantities. The longer hairs, or surplus pieces of the fur, are carefully saved and made into the best paint brushes, which always "keep a point," and in the colormen's catalogues tho price of thess brushes is only approximately fixed and varies according to the prior "f sables. Sealskin and beaver fur not only softer, but warmer than any of the furs which, at first sight, seem to approach them closely in color and texture. Hareskin can be clipped and dyed so as to resemble sealskin, but even if lined with wool it docs not approach the pelagic fur in warmth or in luster. The wonderful fineness cf the under fur of the seal causes it to hold minute quantities of air in the infinitely small interstices between the hairs, and while the air inclosed is warmed by contact with the body the fur is a nonconductor to the cold from without.?Loudon Spectator. A Chnrch With hut One Member. There is a Baptist church at Cornish, Me., which now reports only one member. It is one of the oldest churches in the country, having been organized in 1792. Zion's Advocate declares that the rhnrch has not had a pastor for many years, but its members have regularly contributed to our denominational benevolences and maintained their organization. Notwithstanding tho opportunities which offer themselves to the membership cf this organization, the one member holds but one office, that of church clerk, but this is not surprising, as this member is a woman, and tho women generally do most of tho work, although holding comparatively few cf the offices. ?Chicago Standard. Pens are polished with emery powder in a large revolving drum. Indigestion is often taken for consumption. The woid consumption means wasting away, and dyspeptics often waste away as badly as consumptives. The reason people waste away is because either they don't get enough to cat, or they don't digest what they do eat. If the latter is your trouble, take Shaker Digestive Co dial. This will help you to digest your food and stop your loss of tlesh. Shaker Digestive Cordial is made from herbs, barks and the juices of fruit, by the well-known Shakers at MVmnt, Lebanon. It possesses great tonic and digestive powers. Shaker Digestive Cordial has cured many supposed consumptives (who were really dyspeptics), by simply helping their stomachs to digest their food, thus giving them nourishment and new strength. Sold by druggists. Trial bottles 10 cents. | An I.asler Way. "No," said the elderly lady, "I don't think that woman is advancing the right way. She is getting to a point where she is liable to be imposed upcu." "Don't you think she ought to vote?" "Of course if she can't do any better, But in my younger days a woman made t;p her mind bow she wanted a vote cast and sent her husband to the polls to cast it while she staid at heme and busied herself with whatever she thought proper. That 's what I call woman's rights." ?Washington Star. Home. Woman (in bookstore)?I want a motto of some kind to hang up iu my parlor. Clerk?Yes, madam. How does "God bless our home" strike you? Madam?Old fashioned, ain't it? Clerk?It is a trifle old fashioned. Well, there's "Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just."?Harlem Life. Her Turn at the Falsehood. "Yonare the only man I ever loved," she protested. "How dare you tell that falsehood?" demanded he fiercely. "Why not? It's leap year." With which she smiled a hard, advanced smile.?Detroit Tribune. His Torpid Liver. "What dedoctor say is do matter wiv you?" Rastus?He say I got what he call a torpedo libbah. Mandy (in evident trepidation)?It ain't liable to splode, is it??Indianapolis Journal Hood's Is Wonderful. Xo less than wondeiful are the cures accomplished by Hood's Sarsaparilla. even afer other preparations and physicians" prescriptions have failed. The reason, however, is sim 1 pie. "When the blood is enriched and 1 purified, disease disappears and good | health returns, and Hood's Sarsapa| rilla is the one true blood purifier. Hood's Pills are prompt and r efficient and do not purge, pain 01 j gripe. 25c. ADVERTISING RATES. Advertisements will be inserted at the rate of 75 cents per square of one inch space for first insertion, and 50 cents per inch tor each subsequent insertion. Liberal contracts made with those wishing to advertise for three, six and twelve months. Notices in the local column 10 cents per line each inser ion Marriage notices inserted free. Obituaries charged for at the rate of one cent a word. Address G. M. HARHAN, Editor. HIS IDEA OF A SHARK. The Boy Had Head About the Fish and Jetted HU Ideas Down. An examiner of lads under 16 fox the civil service commission gave for a question, "Describe the habits of fish." Here is a literal transcript of one out of a batch of some hundreds of answers: "The shark is about 20 feet long and has five rows of teeth whets the shark is going to catch its pray it turns on its side. The sharks are found in Indiad, where they are vcrry numerous in Africa, etc. The way they catch sharks is lowering a pieco of meat on a sharp hook (and sailers will do it for amusement), and the shark is very hungry always, that he Will grab at the meat and find himself caught. "un oi nis ices are tne sora nsn is will go and rtln its sword through its stummick. "When the shark has been floating about on the water for sometime it gets a lot of small fish in its mouth and they will go and lay on the beach and let small birds come in their mouth and pick them off and will not heart them. The shark can live in water and on land. Going from England to Indiad, you will see sharks in the nile, they will follow ships for many miles on purpose to get some meat, and then perhaps not get any. They are different kinds of sharks, the Black shark, Etc. "The shark is a very curious animal, it can lay its teeth down when not catching any food. "Once upon a time thero was a ship goiDg to america, and on board some slaves the slaves were pack so close together that they could not live, and the captin of the ship yous't to let some come upon deck, and many of the slaves yous't to jump overboard, and be eat with sharks, so the captin determined to stop it if he could. So one day a black slave woman was just in the acted to jump overboard when the captin caugnt her, and had had as many slaves as he could get upon deck. And then he had a rope fastened around her wast, and lowered her overboard, wen a shark came and bitt a half off her off, and then the captin had the other half pulled up and sown to the slaves on deck, and then cnirt to thpm that, htt would do anv one of them the same way if the jumped overboard."?Londcu Church Times. Undignified For % StatesmanIt is said that a woman remembers a man whom she has known well as a little boy always as the iittle boy and never can think of him as grown up. This saying seems to be borne out to a certain extent at least by an amusing story told in connection with the appointment of M. Edouard Lockroy as minister of marine in France. When M. Lockroy was a small boy, his father lived in a house in the street in Paris which now bears the name Rue Washington. His home was in the fifth story of this building, and it appears that he had certain habits which rendered him objectionable to some of the other residents of tho building, particularly to the concierge, or woman who looked out for the door. He found, fcr instance, a more expeditious way of coming down from the fifth floor than by tho stairs. This excellent woman is still living. When she beard that Edouard Lockroy had become a minister, she threw up her hands in astonishment and exclaimed : "What! That little Edouard Lockroy! And to think of his always sliding down from the fifth story of the palace cf the Elyeeo on the balusters!"?Youth's Companion. From a Financial Point of View. "I beg your pardon," said the man with the slightly bald head who eat in a parquet seat near one of the boxes in a down town theater the other evening. "I beg your pardon," he repeated, "but wonld yon mind looking at the figures on this check and telling mo what they are? I'm a little nearsighted. " The youngest member of the noisy box party, an amiablo looking youth with highly plastered hair, suspended his conversation with the interesting blond in the green dress a moment, leaned over the front of the box, and in answer to the questioner, who had risen to his feet and was smilingly holding out for his inspection the check end of a ticket, he said: "Certainly, sir. The figures are $1.50." "Well," rejoined the questioner, "that's exactly what I paid to hear this play tonight, and I'm going to get the worth of my money, or I'll lift my voice right now and raise a fnss and make a scene. You'll oblige me by telling the rest of them." He was not disturbed again during the evening.?Chicago Tribune. Not IIU Name. A TT,vr.,irr rnnTl Wf-nt illfOS StOrO tO bUV XI jr ij ?. _ a fountain peu. The girl in charge of the counter supplied him with a sheet of paper, a bottle of ink and several pens, and in trying them one after another he covered the sheet with the words tempos fugit (time flies), the girl looking on with a kindly interest. "If you boy one and it doesn't suit you, Mr. Fugit,"she remarked, "yoa can bring it back and change it,"-* Pacific. Why lie Feared. "No," she said, "father does not like you." "Bat he seemed very friendly last night." "You played poker with him?" "Yes." "Well, he says that he cannot conscientiously intrust my future to a man who bets only one white chip on three deuces."?Washington Star. An After Effect. Mrs. Matchmaker?I wonder you do not make up to Miss Singleton. She's a splendid girl, a bargain for any man who gets her. Tom Alley?Did you ever notice that a, bargain is almost always disappointing when you get it home:?Boston Transcript. Bucklen's Arnica Salve. The Best Salve in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and Skin Eruptions, and positively cures Piles or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale at the Bazaar. 1 When you come to town don't for get to call and settle your subscription due the Dispatch.