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%. EST ADVERTISING MEDIUM Western South Carolina. 0 RATES REASONABLE. 0 SUBSCRIPTION SI PER ANNUM JOS HHTIKi i SHCUITT. fi-O TO .-f The Lexington Dispatch. I VOL, XXVI. LEXINGTON, S. 0., MARCH 25, 1896. NO. 19. j PHILIP EPSTII, trustee, for CLOTHING, ZE3T -A. T s , GEIT'S j GOODS, TRUNKS AND VALISES, 180 MATN" STREET, COLUMBIA, S. <1. Nov. 7?lv. SOUTHERN RAILWAY. Central time between Columbia and Jacksonville. Eastern time between Columbia an<l other points. Northbound No. 32 No. 36;No. 38 February 23, 180G. Dally. Daily. Daily. Lv. Jacksonville lb 00 a; IS 50 p " Savannah 2 32 pj 11 iMp Ar. Columbia 6 44p| 3 50 a Lv. Charleston ! 5 30 p 720a Ar. Columbia : 10 10 p 11 05 a Lv. Augusta 7O0p 2 05p " (rraniteville 7 46p 2 Sip " Trenton 8 25 p 2 58 p " Johnstons 8 45 p 3 10 p Ar. Columbia Un. depot 11 20 p; 4 45 p Lv Columbia Bland'g st. 7 54 p: oOOaj 5 05p " Wiunsboro 8 47 p^ 6 03ai C05p " Chester 9 34p; 6 55 a| 0 53p " Rock Hill 10 07p 7 34 a 7 30p Ar. Charlotte 10 50 p 8 25ai 8 20 p 44 Danville j 2 30 a 1 30 p 12 00m Ar. Richmond j 6 40 p 6 00a Ar. Washington 945a 9 40p 6 42 a " Baltimore 11 05 a 11 25 p; 8 05 a 44 Philadelphia 1 20 p; 3 00 a 10 25 a " New York 3 53p 6 20 a 12 53 p c ... . jNo. 31 No. 35 No. 37 Southbound. ,, ? ! ? T. .. Daily. Daily. Daily. Lv. New York 3 20p 1215nti 4 30 p 44 Philadelphia. 5 57 p 3 50a! 6 55 p 44 Baltimore 837p 6 22al 920p Lv. Washington 10 03p 11 15 a; 10 43 p Lv. Richmond 12 55 p 2 00 a r_ i ^na?i R A" S V> ft jljY. j v iiic I v w ? v w v w ?. " Charlotte 8 40 a 1100 p, 9 35 a " Rock Hill 9 22 a 1146p!l0 20a " Chester. 9 53a 1219nt| 10 55a " Winnsboro 10 34 a 1 08 a 11 41 a Ar Colombia Bland' g st. 1136 a! 2 10 a 12 50 p Lv. ColumbiaUn. depot 4 30 a' 120p " Johnstons 0 32 a 3 10 p " Trenton 6 48 a 3 23 p <' Graniteville. i 7 16 a; 3 4op Ar. Augusta ? ^ ! 8 00 a 4 15p 3Lv. Columbia j I 7 00 a 4 00 p Ar. Charleston 11 10 a 8 00 p ?,v. Columbia. ' 10 46 a 1 IS a' A r. Savannah ..... | 2 36 p 5 35a ' Jacksonville j 6 30 p' 9 45 a SLEEPING CAR SERVICE 27os. 37.and 38?Washington and Southwestern Ihniit-ed. Vestibuled Pullman ears, between Augusta and New York. Solid Vestibule! train with dining cars and first class coaches north of Charlotte. Nos. 35 and 86?U. S. Fast Mail, Through Pullman drawing room buffet sleeping car between Jacksonville and Ne-.v York and Charlotte and Augusta. Also Pullman sleeping cars between Jacksonville and Cincinnati via Asheville. ^7os. 81 and 32?"New York and Florida Short Limited," comprises Ixuwcen New York Andfcf Augustine: Pullman compartment and library observation cars, Pullman drawingj<x>m vestibuled coaches with smoking g*oom and filso dining cars serving meals. Also drawing'i-.oom Pullman cars between XsVvV York aud Tampa. Southbound this train -will curry Pullman drawing-room sleeping car New York to Columbia, ?-r. route to Augusta by 'Train No. 37: and northbound by train No. 38 Augusta to New York. V. K. GRREN. J. M. CULP, G. Sunt., Washington, T. M.. Washington. V. A. TURK. S. H. HARDWICK. G. P. A.. Washington. A. G. P. A.. Atlanta. F. W. HOSEMANN, &t7iT AKD L0SESMITH, and dealer in svni a niorni niDT3IIvnCO ?U iSj Pli'vW' ruiUL UMnimuuLo F1S:1?M6 TACKLE, find all kind.J of ^Dortsmen's Articles, which he has asar oil exhibition and for Ale at his store, Slain Street, Near the Central Bank, Columbia, S. C. AGENT PGR HAZAKD POWDER CO. Repairing done zt short notice. Paper and envelopes of ail kinds writing and pencil table s, pens, pencils, ciemorandum and pass 3>ooks, purses, banjo, violin and guiar strings, and notions generally, TO WARM THE WORLD I i CHRISTIAN SYMPATHY IS THE GLO- ! RIOUS FURNACE. ) ! ! | Rev. Dr. Talmago Finds a Lesson In the ! i Weather?Christ the Great Warmer?A I Word to Frosty Christians?Good Deeds i Kindle the Fire?Come la Oat of the Cold, : Washington, March 15.?The freez- ! ing blasts which have swept over the ' conntry at the time we expected spring | weather make this sermon especially appropriate. Dr. Talmago's text was | Psalm cxlvii, 17, 44 Who can stand bofore j his cold?" The almanac says that winter is ended and spring has come, but the winds, j and the frosts, and the thermometer, in j some places down to zero, deny it. The j psalmist lived in a more genial climate j than this, and yet he must sometimes ! have been cut by the sharp weather. In j this chapter ho speaks of the snow like j wool, the frost like ashes, the hail- j stones like marbles, and describes the ! congealment of lowest temperature. We have all studied the power of the heat. How few of us have studied the power of the frost! "Who can stand before his cold?" This challenge of the test has many times been accepted. Oct. 19, 1812, Napoleon's great army began its retreat from Moscow. One hundred and fifty thousand men, 50,000 horses, GOO pieces of cannon, 40,000 stragglers. It was bright weather when they started from Moscow, but soon something wrathier than the Cossacks swooped upon their flanks. An army of j arctic blasts, with icicles for bayonets and hailstones for shot, and commanded by voice of tempest, marched after them, the flying artillery of the heavens in pursuit. The troops at nightfall would gather into circles and huddle themselves together for warmth, but when the day broke they rose not, for they were dead, and the ravens came for their morning meal of corpses. The way was strewn with tho rich stuffs of the east, brought as booty from the Russian capital. An invisible power seized 100,000 j men and hurled them dead into the snowdrifts, and on the hard surfaces of j the chill rivers, and into the maws of the : dogs that had followed thc-m from Mos- { cow. The freezing horror which has ap- j palled history was proof to all ages that it is a vain thing for any earthly power to accept the challenge of my text, "Who could stand before his cold?" Frigid Horrors. In the middle of December, 1777, at Valley Forge, 11,000 troops were, with j frosted ears and frosted hands and frost- j ed feet, without shoes, without blank- j ets, lying on the white pillow of the ; snow bank. As during our civil war the j cry was, "On to Richmond!" when the ! troops were not ready to march, so in the Revolutionary war there was a de: maud for wintry campaign until Wash} ington lost his equilibrium and wrote j emphatically, "I assure those gentlemen 1 it is easy enough seated by a good fire- j side and in comfortable homes to draw I cut campaigns for the American army, but I tell them it is not so easy to lie cn a bleak hillside, without blankets and without shoes." Oh, the frigid 1-orrors that gathered around the American army in the winter of 1777! Valley Forge i was one of the tragedies of the century. ; Benumbed, senseless, dead! "Who can stand before his cold?" ".Not we," say j the frozen lips of Sir John Franklin and I his men, dying in arctic exploration. 1 "Not we," answer Schwatka and his j crew, falling back from the fortresses of j ice which they had tried in vain to capture. "Not we," say the abandoned and crushed decks of the Intrepid, the Resistance and the Jeaunette. "Not we," say the procession of American martyrs returned homo for American sepulture, De Long and his men. The highest pili lars of th9 earth are pillars of ice? Mont Blanc, Jung^rau, the Matterhcrn. j The largest galleries of the world are i galleries of ice. Some of the mighty ! rivers much of the year are in captivity ; of ice. The greatest sculptors of the ages j are the gaciers, with arm and hand and j chisel and hammer of ice. The cold is i imperial and has a crown of glittering crystal and is seated on a throne of ice, j with footstool of ice and scepter of ice. Who can tell the sufferings of the winter of 143-3, when all the birds of Germany perished? or the winter of] 1G58 in England, when the stages rolled on the Thames and temporary houses of merchandise were built on the ice? cr the winter cf 1821 in America, when New York harbor was frozen over and the J heaviest teams crossed on the ice to Staten Island? Then como down to our j own winters when there have been so j many wrapping themselves in furs or I gathering themselves around fires or i thrashing their arms about them to re| vive circulation?the millions of the ! temperate and the arctic zones who are I orvmnoUd tr> pnilfftSS. "llOlie Of US CUU j stand before bis cold." A Lesson In Coinmou Sense. I One-half of the industries of oar day i are employed in battling inclemency of the weather. The furs of the north, the j cotton of the south, the flax of cur own ' fields, the wool of our own flocks, the i coal from our own mines, the wood from our own forests, all employed in battling these inclemencies, and still every winter, with blue lips and chattering | teeth, answers, "None of us can stand : before this cold." Now, this being such ; a cold world, God sends out influences j to warm it. I am glad that the God of i the frost is the God of the heat; that j the God of the snow is the God of the ! white blossoms; that the God of Janui ary is the God of June. The question as j to how shall we warm this world up is There is more Catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put together, and until the | last few years was supposed to be in! curable. For a great manv rears i ~ . i doctors pronounced it a local disease, j and prescribed local remedies, and 1 ? '*_:ii A_ j Dv cousianuy iauiu^ t j cuic j local treatment, pronounced it incurj able. Science has proven catarrh to i be a constitutional disease, and there J fore requires constitutional treat| meni. Hall's Catanh C ire, manuj faclured by F. J. Cheney & Co., j Toledo, Ohio is the only constitution | al cure on the market. It is taken j internally in doses from 10 drops to ; a teaspoonful. It acts directly on I the blood and muc<u; sui faces of j the system. They offer one hundred .' dollars for any ca e it fails to cure. I Send for circulars a'id testimonials. ! F. J. CHFsFY & CO., Props., Toledo, 0. ; ffg^Sold by druggists, price 75c. 19? a question of immediate and all encompassing practicality. In this zone and weather there are so many fireless hearths, so many broken window panes, so many defective roofs that sift the snow. Coal and wood and flannels and thick coat are better for warming up such a place than tracts and Bibles and creeds. Kindle that flro where it has gone out. Wrap something around those shivering limbs. Shoe thoso bare feet. Hat that bare head. Coat that bare back. Sleeve that bare arm. Nearly all the pictures of Martha Washington represent her in courtly dross as hewed to by foreign embassadors, but Mrs. Kirkland, in her interesting book, gives a more inspiring portrait of Martha Wash ington. She conies forth from her husband's hot in the encampment, the hot 1G feet long by 14 feet wide?she comes forth from that hut to nurse the sick, to sew the patched garments, to console the soldiers dying of the cold. That is a better picture of Martha Washington. Hundreds of garments, hundreds of tons of coal, hundreds of glaziers at broken window sashes, hundreds of whole souled men and women, are necessary to warm the wintry weather. What are wo doing to alleviate the condition of those not so fortunate as wo? Know ye not, my friends, there are hundreds of thousands of people who cannot stand before his cold? It is useless to preach to bare feet, and to empty stomachs, and to gaunt visages. Christ gave the world a lesson in common sense when, before preaching the gospel to the multitude in the wilderness, he gave them a good dinner. Winter of Gladness. When I was a lad, I remember seeing n>U luugu nuwucuioi uuv more impression tipon me than any pictures I have ever seen. They were on opposite pages. The one woodcut represented tho coming of the snow in winter and a lad looking out at the door of a great mansion, and he was all wrapped in furs, and his cheeks were ruddy, and with glowing countenance he shouted, "It snows, it snows!" On the next page there was a miserable tenement, and the door was open, and a child, wan and sick and ragged and wretched, was looking out, and he said, "Oh, my God, it snows!" The winter of gladness or of grief, according to our circumstances. But, my friends, there is more than one way of warming up this cold world, for it is a cold world in more respects than one, and I am here to consult with yon as to the best way of warming up the world. I want to have a great heater introduced into all your churches and all your homes throughout the world. It is a heater of divine patent. It has many pipes with which to conduct heat, and it h3s a door in which to throw the fuel. Once get this heater introduced and it will turn the arctic zone into the temperate, afcid the temperate into the tropics. It is the powerful heater, it is the glorious furnace of Christian sympathy. The question ought to be, instead of how much heat can wo absorb, How much heat can we throw out? There are men who go through the world floating icebergs. They freeze everything with their forbiddiug look. The hand with which they shake yours is as cold as the paw of a polar bear. If they float into a religious meeting, the temperature drops from 80 above to 10 degrees below zero. There are icicles hanging from their eyebrows. They float into a religious meeting and they chill everything with their jeremiads. Cold prayers, cold | songs, cold greetings, cold sermons. Christianity on ice! The church a great refrigerator. Christians gone into winter quarters. Hibernation! On the other hand, there are people who go through the world like the breath of a spring morning. Warm greetings, warm prayers, warm smiles, warm Christian influ? ?A?A rkoreAr.o Wa Hoco XXJCXO axe DUV.il JJUiDUiiU. .. v uavuu ! God for them. We rejoice iu their com! pauionship. Fellow Feeling. A general in the English army, the j army having halted for the night, havi ing lost his baggage, lay down tired and j sick without any blanket. An officer ! came up and said: "Why, you have no ; blanket. I'll go and get you a blanket." ' He departed for a few moments and ; then came back and covered the general up with a very warm blanket. The general said, "Whose blanket is this?" The officer replied, "I got that from a private soldier in the Scotch regiment, Ralph MacDonald." "Now," said the ; general, "you take this blanket right ; back to that soldier. He can no more do i without it than I can do without it. | Never bring to me the blanket of a prij vate soldier." How many men like that ! general would it take to warm the j world up? The vast majority of us are i anxious to get more blankets, whether i anybody else is blanketed or not. Look ! at th6 "fellow feeling displayed in the : rocky defile between Jerusalem and Jericho in Scripture times. Here is a j man who has been set upon by the bandits, and in the struggle to keep his ! property he has got wounded and ; mauled and stabbed, and he lies there j half dead. A priest rides along. He sees him and says: "Why, what's the mat j ter with that man? Why, lie must to | hurt, lying on the flat of his back. Isn't ; it strange that he should lie there! But i I can't step. I am on my way to temple ; services. Go along, you beast. Carry j me up to my temple duties." After awhile a Levite comes up. He looks over and says: "Why, that man must , be very much hurt. Gashed on the forehead. What a pity. Stabbed under his aim. What a pity. Tut, tut! What a pity! Why, they have taken his clothes i nearly away from him. But I haven't time to stop. I lead the choir up in the j temple service. Go along, you beast, j Carry me up to my temple duties." After awhile a Samaritan comes along ; ?one who you might suppose through a national grudge might have rejected this poor wounded Israelite. Coming along he sees this man and says: "Why, that man must be terribly hurt. 1 sec by his features be is au Israelite, but he is a man and he is a brother. 'Whoa!' " says the Samaritan, and he gets down off the beast and comes up to this wounded man, gets down on one knee, listens tc ?ee whether the heart of the unfortunate man is still berating, makes np his mine! t'hPm is a chance for resuscitation, goes to work at him, takes out of his sack a bottle of oil aud a bottle of wine, cleanses the wound with some wine, then pours some of the restorative in the wounded man's lips, then takes some oil and with it soothes the wound. After awhile hf takes off a part of his garments for ? bandage. Now the sick and wounded man sits up, pale and exhausted, bui very thankftsL Now the good Samarb : tan says, "You must get on my saddle, i and I will walk." The Samaritan help: end tenderly steadies this wounded mar until be gets him cu toward the tavern Knights of the Maccabees. The State Commander writes us j from Lincoln, Neb., as follows: "Af- : ter trying other medicines for what : seemed to be a very obstinate cough ' in our two children we tried Dr. j King's New Discovery and at the end of two days the cough entirely ! left them. We will not be without j it hereafter, as our experience proves I that it cures where all other reme- j dies fail."?Signed F. W. Stevens, j State Com.?Why not give this great ' medicine a trial as it is guaranteed and trial bottles are free at the I Bazaar. . ^ ^ the wounded man holding gii with the little strength he has left, ever and anon looking down at the good Samaritan and saying: "You are very kind. I had r>n rioht tn frmoofc this thine of a Sa -o~ - ? 1 r-. maritan when I am an Israelite. Yen i are very kind to walk and let me ride." : Now they have come up to the tavern. The Samaritan, with the help of the landlord, assists the sick and wound- j ed man to dismount and puts him to 1 bed. The Bible says the Samaritan staid j all night. In the morning, I suppose, ! the Samaritan went in to lock how his patient was and ask him how he passed the night. Then he comes out?the Samaritan comes out and says to the landlord: "Here is money to pay that ( man's board, and if his convalescence j is not as rapid as I hope for, charge the whole thing tome. Good morning, all." \ He gets on the beast and says, "Go i along, yon beast, but go slowly, for j those bandits sweeping through the land may have left somebody else ' wonnded and half dead." Sympathy! Christian sympathy! How many such men as that would it take to warm the I cold world up? Famine in Zarepthath. Everything dried up. There is a widow with a son and no food except a handful of meal. She is gathering sticks to j kindle a firo to cook the handful of meal. Then she is going to wrap her arms around her boy and die. Here , comes Elijah. Bis two black servants, j the ravens, have got tired waiting "on I him. Ho asks that woman for food. Now, that handful of meal is to be di- j I infr< fVirpo nnrts, 'Rpfnrp. it was i to be divided into two parts. New. she { says to Elijah, "Come in and sit down at this solemn table and take a third of the last morsel." Hew many women like that would it take to warm the cold world up? WarminK the World. Recently an engineer in the southwest, on a locomotive, saw a train coming with which he must collide. He resolved to stand at his post and slow up the train until the last minute, for there were passengers behind. The engineer said to the fireman: "Jump! One | man is enough on this engine! Jump!" The fireman jumped and was saved. The crash came. The engineer died at his post How many men like that engineer would it take to warm this cold world up? A vessel struck on a rocky island. The passengers and the crew were without food, and a sailor had a shellfish under his coat. He was saving it for his last morsel. He heard a little child cry to her mother:"Oh, mother, I am so hungry; give me something to eat. I am so hungry!" The sailor took j the shellfish from under his coat and ! said: "Here! Take that." How many men like that sailor would it take to warm the cold world up? Xerxes, fiee- j ing from his enemy, got on board a | boat. A great many Persians leaped into the same boat and the beat was sink- j ing. Some one said, "Are you not will- : ing to make a sacrifice for your king?" : and the majority of those who were in the boat leaped overboard and drowned to save thsir king. How many men like that would it take to warm up this cold world? Elizabeth Fry went into the horrors of Newgate prison, and sho 1 turned the imprecation and the obseeni- j ty and the filth into prayer and repent- ! ance and a reformed life. The sisters of charity, in I8u3, on northern and southern battlefields, came to boys in blue and gray while they were bleeding to death. The black bonnet with tho sides pinned back and the white bandage on the brow may hot have answered all | the demands of elegant taste, but you could net persuade that soldier dying ' 1,000 miles from home that it was anything but on angel that looked him in j the face. Oh, with cheery look, with helpful word, with kind action, try to make the world warm ! Count that day lost whose low descending sun Views from thy hand no generous action done. Christ's Sympathy. It W38 his strong sympathy that brought Christ from a warm heaven to a cold world. The land where he dwelt I had a serene sky, balsamic atmosphere, j tropical luxuriance. No storm blasts in heaven. No chill fountains. On a cold i December night Christ stepped out of a j | warm heaven into the world's frigidity, i The thermometer in Palestine never drops below zero, but December is a j cheerless mouth, and the pasturage is j very poor cu the hilltops. Christ stepped out of a warm heaven into tlie cold i world that cold December night. The world's reception was cold. The surf of bestormed Galilee was cold. Joseph's i sepulclier was cold. Christ came, the great warmer, to warm the earth, and all Christendom today feels the glow. He will keep cn warming the earth until j i the tropic will drive away the arctic j and the antarctic. He ga\e an intima- ' i j ticn of what he was going to do when i he broke up the funeral at the gate of i Naiu and turned it into a reunion festi- j : ! val, and when with his warm lips he | i melted the Galilean hurricane and stood j on the deck and stamped his foot, crying, "Silence!'' and the waves crouch- j ; ed and the tempests folded their wings, i Oh, it was this Christ who warmed > the chilled disciples when they had no food by giving them plenty to eat, and ; who in the tomb of Lazarus shattered > the shackles until tire broken links of i tne tinuu 01 Geainraiuca into uie uarK> est crypt of the mausoleum. In his geu! ial presence the girl who had fallen i into the fire and the water is healed of ) the catalepsy, and the withered arm i takes muscular, healthy action, and the 1 | ear that could net hear an avalanche > j catches a leaf's rustle, and the tongro t 1 that could not articulate trills a quatr > ' rain, and the blind eyo was relumed, i | and Christ, instead of staying three [ | days and three nights in tho sepulcher, i ; as was supposed, as soon as the worldly > I curtain of observation was dropped bev : gau the exploration of all tho under1 ; ground passages of earth and sea, wher; j ever a Christian's grave may after . i awhile be, and started a light of Clnis? tian hope, resurrection hope, which shall > i not go out until the last cerement is * j taken off and the last mausoleum breaks . ' open. Warmth and Hope. Ah! I am so glad that the Sun of [ Righteousness dawned on the polar j night of the nations. And if Christ is the great warmer, then tho chnrch is ! the grear hothouse, with its plants and j trees and fruits of righteousness. Do you know, my friends, that tho church is the institution that proposes warmth? I have been for 27 years studying how to make the church warmer. Warmer architecture, warmer hynmology, warmer Christian salutation. All outside Siberian winter, we must have it a prince's j hothouse. The only institution on earth j today that proposes to make the world warmer. Universities and observatories, they all have their work. They propose to make the world light, but they do net propose to make the world warm. Geology informs ns, but it is as cold as the rock it hammers. The telescope shows where the other worlds are, but an astronomer is chilled while locking through it. Christianity tells us of strange combinations and bow inferior affinity may bo overcome by superior i affinity; but it cannot tell how all j things work together for good. Worldly j philosophy has a great splendor, but it j is the splendor of moonlight on an iceberg. The church of Gcd proposes warmth and hope?warmth for the expectations, warmth for the sympathies. Oh! I am so glad that these great altar fires have been kindled. Come in out of the cold. Come in, and have your wounds salved. Come, and have your sins pardoned. Come in by the great gospel fireplace. A Blessed Conflagration. Notwithstanding all the modern inventions for heating, I tell you there is nothing so full of geniality and sociality as the old fashioned country fireplace. The neighbors were to come in j for a winter evening of sociality. In the middle of the afternoon, in the best room in tho house, some one brought in a great backlog with great strain and put it dowu on Hie back of tho hearth. Then the lighter wood was put on, armful after armful. Then a shovel of coals was taken from another room and put under the dry pile, and the kindliDg began, and tho crackling, and it rose until if. a rnnrinu flamp. which filled all the room with geniality and was reflected from *he family pictures on the wall. Ihen the neighbors came in two by two. They sat down, their faces to the fire, which ever and anon was stirred with tongs and readjusted on the andirons, and there were such times of rustic repartee and story tell- , ing and mirth as the black stovo and the blind register never dreamed of. ' Meanwhile the table was being spread, and so fair was the cloth and so clean i was the cutlery, they glisten and glis- ; ten in cur mind toduy. And then the best luxury of orchard and farmyard was roasted and prepared for the table, to meet the appetites sharpened by the cold ride. Oh, my friends, the church of Jesus Christ is the world's fireplace, and the woods are from the cedars of Lebanon, and the fires are fires of love, and with the silver tongs of the altar we stir the flame, and the light is reflected from all the family pictures on the wall?pictures of those who were here and are gone now. Oh, ccme up close to the fireplace! Have your worn faces transfigured in the light. Put your cold feet, weary of the journey, close up to the blessed conflagration. Chilled through with trouble and disappointment, come close up until you can get warm clear through. Exchange experience, talk over the harvests gathered, tell all the gospel news. Meanwhile the table is being | spread. Chi it, bread of life. On it, grapes of Eshcol. On it, new wine from the kingdom. On it, a thousand luxuries celestial. Hark! as a wounded hand raps on the table, and a tender voice comes through saying: "Come, for all things are now ready. Eat, O friends! drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved!" My friends, that is the v/ay the cold world is going to be warmed up, by the great gospel fireplace. All uations will come in and sit down at that bauquet. While I was musing, the fire burned. "Come in cut of the cold, come in out of the cold!" Cannot bo Without It. Jamison. S. C. SeDfc. 2. '90. Since the people know I keep St. Joseph's Quick Relief they have taken it all out but one bottle, and that one I cannot sell until I get in some more, for I cannot be without it myself. It is beyond doubt the best medicine for cramps, colic, and all kinds of pain on the market. Send me three dozen bottles per express. R. D IvITTRELL. For further information call on J. E. Ivauffinann's drug store and get a copy of St. Joseph's Four Seasons Almanac. 19. Russia's riague of Rodents. Russia has suffered from a genuine plague of rats and mice, and the story is attractively told by United States Consul Heeuan at Odessa, iu a report to the state department. The vermin first appeared in southern Russia in the autumn of 1893, and they increased in number with marvelous rapidity, owing to the heavy grain harvests leaving pinch unthrashed grain, and in the mild weather. In addition to the common house and field mouse, another and new variety appeared, having a long, sharp nose. These mice overran every place, and they moved in vast numbers like armies, and iu instances did not hesitate to attack men aud animals. While the rats were not so numerous as the | mice, they were more destructive, eatj ing evei^rthing, gnawing away woodwork, and even ruining entire buildings. After exhausting all other ineaDS, the plague was finally terminated iu j 1894 by resort to bacteriology, when the vermin were destroyed by the iuocula| tion of a few rodents with contagious disease germs.?Washington Pest. .? Threw Away His CanQ3. ?.?? Mr. D. Wiley, ex postmaster, Black Creek, N. Y., was so badly atllicted | with rheumatism that he was only able to hobble around with canes, j and even then it caused him great paiu. After using Chamberlain's Tain Balm he was so much improved I 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. Kauffj man. 15 The Proper Tim9 When the most benefit is to be derived from a good medicine, is early in the year. This is the season when the tired body, weakened organs and nervous system yearn for a buildingup medicine like Hood's Sarsapariila. Many wait for the open spring weather and, in fact, delay giving attention to their physical condition so long that a long siege of sickness is inevitable. To rid the system of the impurities accumulated during the winter season, to purify the blood and to invigorate the whole system, there is nothing equal to Hood's Sarsapariila. Don't put it off, but take Hood's Sarsapariila now. It will do you good. Read the testimonials published in behalf of Hood's Sarsapariila, all from reliable, grateful people. They tell the story. 20 Chicago's Wonderful Growth. In the seventeenth century the present site of Chicago was a swamp, which fur traders and missionaries found fatally miasmatic. About 1800 a government ! engineer, viewing that rank morass j traversed by a sluggish stream, proi nounced it the only spot on Lake Michi| gan where a city could not be built. In I 1804 Fort Dearborn was erected here to j counteract British influence. In 1812 the fort was demolished by Indians, but in 1816 rebuilt, and it continued standing till 1871. Around the little fort in 1840 were settled 4,500 people. The number was 30,000 in 1850; 109,000 in I860, 300,000 in 1870. In 1880 the community embraced 503,185souls; in 1890 it had ! 1,099,850. In 1855 the indomitable city illustrated her spirit by pulling herself bodily out of her natal swamp, lifting churches, blocks and houses from 8 to 10 feet, without pause in general business. ?President E. Benjamin Andrews in Scribner's. i They Were Lorer*. Of the deep attachment which existed between the late Prince Henry of Battenberg and Princess Beatrice it is almost unnecessary to speak, so notorious was it. They both carried their love for each ether on their sleeves. In this connection an anecdote is related: Last year Princess Beatrico had her portrait done by a well known lady pastelist, who, while a thorough artist, knows how to | combine a good likeness with a pretty picture. One morning when the portrait | was nearly finished Prince Henry hap penea 10 emer ine siuaio. Airer a minute examination, tho prince remarked: I "But you have not made my wife stout enough. I am fond of my stout frau, since it shows the is happy." The portrait was altered.?London Tit-Bits. Attention Fellow-Survivors. Head Quarters, Cam? Lexington, No. 668, U. C. V., Lexington, S. C, March 11, 1896. There will be a special meeting of Camp Lexington, No. 668, U. C. V., in the Court House at Lexington, S. C., April 6th, 1896. Members will please take notice and attend promptly at 10 o'clock a. m., as business of great importance will be up for discussion and transaction. Members will please come prepared to settle annual dues, as the same is ordered to be paid on or by April 1st. Delegates to the Charleston conven tion which meets on the 22d or 23rd of April, will be elected. By order of S. M. ROOF, Commander. M. D. HARMAN, Adjutant. Snatched From Death. Cold Water, Ala,, Mar. 11, 1892. My little child had the dropsy for two years. We had tried various remedies and the most prominent physicians in the country but to no avail. We commenced the use of St. Joseph's Liver Regulator and she is now as healthy as any child. T. P. W. BROOC3, M. D. For fuither information call on J. E. Kauffmann's drug store and get a copy of St. Joseph's Four Seasons Almanac. 19. A Laudable Effort. % . Fellow Soldiers of Company K, 13th S. C. V.: Our late Captain, Jeremiah "Wise, is dead and his remain? are layiDg in the cemetery at New Hope church. I would ask my brother soldiers of Captain Meetze's company to con tribute a small mite to buy a monument to mark his grave. I think there are about foity of us that are alive, and we can get a nice monument for about thirty-seven dollars. Captain Jeremiah Wise was a brave officer and a kind, Christian gentleman, and I hope all the veterans of Co. K. will give $1.00 apiece for this purpose, as his widow is not able to pay for a monument, and if she was, I think it is our duty to do it and I hope every member will put this undertaking in motion. I will ask Mr. Preston George and Rev. Arthur Taylor to see ail the soldiers about the Court House aDd vicinity, and I will do all I can in this part of the county to raise the money to buy the monument to mark his last resting place. J. P. How? ll. Beaver Pond, S. C-, March 3,1896. Bucklen's Arnica Salve. I The Best Salve in the world for j Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt j Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped j Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and Skin | Eruptions, and positively cures Piles j or no pay required. It is guaranteed ; to give perfect satisfaction or money | refunded. Price 25 cents per box. | For sale at the Bazaar. Root Beer, Cream Soda, Ginger ! Ale, Pepsin Cherry Tonic,?all delij cious fall and winter drinks, served ! at the Bazaar's fountain. 5 cents a | drink. Log wocd, madder and all fancy colored egg dyes, at the Bazaar. nHHBinn THE FARMER FEEDS THEM ALL. You may talk of all the nobles of the earth, And the men who hold the nations in their thrall, But in this we'll all agree If we'll only look and see That the Farmer is the man that feeds them all. Chorus? Then take him by the hand All ye people of the land, Stand by him what e'r trouble may befall, For the Farmer is the man that feeds them all. There's the President of these United States, And the Kings who'r holding nations in their hands, And the officers no end, Lords and Nobles, oh! so grand, But the Farmer is the man that feeds them all. Chorus? There's the Governors and officers of States, And of Counties and of Cities all so great, Exercising lordly care, Ov'r the people "oh! so dear," But the Farmer is the man that feeds them all. Chorus? There's the Lawyer and the Doctor and the "Beat," There's the Merchant and the Banker and the "Cheat," Dressed in fine clothes every day, Eating everything they may, But the Farmer is the man that feeds them all. Chorus? There's the Drummer and Agent, | they will talk, You can know them by their looks and by their walk. * ? Tk 1 1 1 _t JL'bere's toe 1'reacner, Diesseu. man, Doing all the good he caD, But the Farmer is the man that feeds them allChorus? There's the paper man who gives us all the news, Editors and Printers on their p's and q's, There's the Teacher working too, Showing pupils what to do, But the Farmer is the man that feeds them all. Chorus? There's the railroad men so Busy with their cars, And the Sailors on their ships upon upon the seas. There's the mighty men of war, Bringing nations to their knees, But the Farmer is the man who feeds them all. Chorus? There's the "Gold Bug'' and the speculator too, Hoarding millions and oppressing? cares not who, There's the "Wall street "Bull and Bear," Scattering ruin everywhere, But the Farmer is the man that feeds them all. Chorus? There's the crazy man, the dude, the crank and the fool. Bloated like a frog, and braying like I a mule, Vain, conceited, and so proud, Twirling, twisting, talking loud, io mfln tkof. j DUl tUU i'ttllJJCi 10 tut iutm uiww *ww . them all. Chobis? 'Tis the Farmers and Mechanics and the Smiths, And the labor'g servants, never, never quits, Feeding, clothing, serving you, Fousing, paying taxes, too, But the proud refuse to honor them at all. Grand Chorus? Then take them by the hand, All ye people of the land, Stand by them whate?r trouble may befall, For to them you owe your life, your bread and all. Respectfully dedicated to the farmers, mechanics, and laboring men of the world by J. H. Koon. New Brookland, March 15, 189G. [The above has been arranged and set to music by Maj. J. H. Koon. At his request we publish the words, but as the scale requires figures and dots we cannot publish it. The tune and music will doubtless be furnished to those who desire them, by apply ing to the Major, at Brookland?Ed. Dispatch.] mm I Caused by Vaccination. From the Journal, Detriot, Micb. Every one in tbe vicinity of Mel dium avenue and Cbamplain street, Detroit, knows Mrs. McDonald, and maDy a neighbor has reason to feel grateful to ber for tbe kind and ! friendly interest eke has manifested j in oases of illness. She is a kind hearted friend, anat! ural nurse, and an intelligent aud refined lady. To a reporter she recently talked ! at some length about Dr. Williams' j Pink Pills, giving some very interest- i ing instances in her immediate knowlj edge of marvelous cures, and the i universal beneficence of the remedy I to those who had used it. "I have reason to know," said Mrs. McDonald, "something of the worth of this medicine, fur it has been demonstrated in my own immediate f mily. My daughter Kittie is at ADVERTISING RATES. Advertisements will be inserted at the rate of 75 cents per square of one inch space for first insertion, and GO cents per inch tor each subsequent insertion. Liberal contracts raado with those wishing to advertise for three, six and twelve monthsNotices m 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. HARMAN, Editor. tending high school and has never been very strong since she began. I suppose she studies hard, and she has quite a distance to go every day. When the small pox broke out all of the school children had to be vaccinated. I took her over to Dr. Jame1 1 < 1 T son ana ne vaccinatea ner. ? never saw such an arm in my life and the doctor said he never did. She was broken out on her shoulders and back and was just as sick as she could be. To add to all neuralgia set in, and the poor child was in misery. She is naturally of a nervous temperament and she suffered most awfully. Even after she recovered the neuralgia did not leave her. Stormy days or days that were damp or preceded a storm, she could not go out at all. She was pale and thin, and had no appetite. 4*I have forgotten just who told me about the Pink Pills, but I got some for her and they cured he right up. She has a nice color in her face, eats and sleeps well, goes to school every day, and is well and strong in every particular. I have never heard of anything to build up the blood to compare with Pink Pills. I shall always keep them in the house and recommend them to my neighbors.*1 Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People are considered an unfailing specific in such diseases as locomotor ataxia, partial paralysis, St. Vitus' dance, sciatica, neuralgia, rheumatism, nervous headache, the after effects of la giippe, palpitation of the heart, pale and sallow complexions, that tired feeling resulting from nervous prostration; all diseases resulting from vitiated humors in the blood, such as scrofula, chronic erysipelas, etc. They are also a specific for troubles peculiar to females, such as suppressions, irregularities, and all forms of weakness. In men they effect a .idical cure in all cases arising from mental worry, overwork, or excesses of whatever nature. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are sold by all dealers, or will be sent post paid on receipt of price (50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50?they are never sold in bulk or by the 100) by addressing Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., a Schenectady, ST. Y. Still at the Old Stand Answering Questions. Union Gates, Columbia, S. C, March 12,1896. To the Editor of the Dispatch. Today my gates are eight years old and I am still winding them up and down, drinking fat and swinging on the gate answering questions as usual: What time er day? When does the 5 o'clock train go out? Is the Irmo train come? How much you get? You know where I can get a job? Where is the Richland Mills? How far to the Penitentiary? Is there a dispensary close? You think it will rain? How is cotton? How far to Brookland? Got any matches? Give me a drink of water. Where is John Folk? Have you seen Bill Griffin lately? Who was that killed? Where is Capt. C. 0. Little? Seen Tom Harper's wagons? Where is Reamers coal yard ? Where is the street cars and how often do they run? Do you know whether Mimnaugh's 2c calico is out? &c., &c. On last week I went home looking rough, my wife said Darla what s tne matter ? I said, I can't, tell, 1 feel all out of strts. She said, did get the old cain cutter ? No ! That's what is troubling you, I bet. And Josh that was the trouble. Whenever the Dispatch fails to reach me, I'm out of sorts and everything goes wrong, for it brings glad tidings to the troubled mind and rest to the weary soul. My best wishes to you and all? By by G. A. Swygert, Sr. If strength is what you want, you should study what causes your weakness. It is practically lack of food. But you eat three meals a day, and all you can eat at a time. Yes, but do you digest it? Food undigested, is not food. It is not nourishment. It doesn't create strength. To digest your food take Shaker Digestive Cjrcid at meals. After a whiie you will digest your food without it. Then you will get well, and strong and healthy. Shaker Digestive Cordial cures indigestion and all its symptoms, such as nausea, headache, eructations, pain in the stomach, giddiness, less ? of appetite, etc. It makes your food nourish you, and make you strong and fat and hearty. Druggists sell it. Trial bottles 10 cents. Not to bo Trifled With. From Cincinnati Gazette. Will people never learn that a "cold" is an accident to be dreaded, and that when it occurs treatment should be promptly applied? There is no knowing where the trouble will end: and while complete recovery is the rule, the exceptions are terribly frequent, and thousands upon thousands of fatal illnesses occur every year ushered in by a lit'leinjudicious exposure and seemingly trifling symptoms. Beyond this, there are to-day countless invalids who can trace their complaints to ''colds," which at the time of occurrence gave no concern, and were therefore neglected.?"When troubled with a co'd use Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. It is prompt and effectual. 25 and 50 cent bottles for sale by Julian E. Kauffmann. 19. Now is the time to begin to think about planting your gardens, and the Bazaar is the place to get ycur seed. They are fresh and reliable.