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Jacksonville. llOOaj 6 301?, 3 " Savannah Pi 11 Pj tl Ar. Columbia 6 41pj 3o0uj j. Lv. Charleston t ,^ri ,1 ?9a S( Ar. Columbia j l-D 10 j> 11 Oo a Lv. Augusta j 1 2 bop n 44 virauiteville ? ** _' P 23 P ? ** Trenton ?* ?!' T ? *' Johnstons. 8 4pl) *1 10 P il Ar. Columbia L"n. depot ?;... lllJp 4 -lop . Lv Columbia Bland'gst. 7olp uOOa 5 05p : A 44 Y.'inssboro 8 47p; 6 03 a C05p tl * 44 Chest er 0S4p 6 55 a 6 53 p j " Rock Hill lOOTp' .Ma' < 5fl)p j n Ar. Charlotte 10 Mp 8 25a' 8 SO? . c " Danville 2 33 a) 1 30 p] 12t)0:n \ ^ Ar. Richmond j 6 40pj 6 00a p Ar. Washington 9 45 a: 9 40 p! 6 42 a r' " Baltimore 11 05 a. 1125p! S05a i e: 44 Philadelphia 1 20 p; 3 00 a' 13 25 a 44 New York 3 53 p: 6 20 a 12 53p ~ 1 a No. 31 No. 33 No. 37 I c. Southbound. ! fv.1t.. I V v.. x f ? : ( ! a Lv. New York 3 20 p 1215ntj 4 Sop ! o " Philadelphia. 5 57p! 3 5oa| C55p " Baltimore 8 37 p G22a 0 20 p a Lv. Washington 10 05 p 11 lor.i 10 fop n lv. Richmond | 12S5j?j 2'ODa ; f ' I.v. Danville ...^ j 5 0)a: 0 Cup! 5 30a | j " Charlotte i 8 40a 11 00b 9 05a a " K-vk Hill 9 22 a 11 401>* 10 20 a : c " Chester ! 9 53a! 121?nt 10 55a ' Winnsboro I 10 04 a 1 Ck> a. 11 41 a I 11 *\ Ar Columbia Bland'gst.! 11 30a! 2 l:)a 12 50p i lv. Columbia Un. depot 4 3.) a 1 20 p ; " Johnstons 6 32 a 3 10 p i " Trent on 6 4Snj 3 23 p i " Graciteville ' 7 10 a; 3 45p Ar. Augusta | 8G9aj 4 15 p Lv. Columbia j 7 00 a | 4 00? Ar. Charleston ' 11 10 aj 8 Oop Lv. Columbia 10 40 a 1 l.sa; , A r. Savannah 2 ?G p 5 So a 1 " Jacksonville t< :jU]? 9 45 a SLEEPING CAit SEKVICE. Is os. 37 and 38?Washington and Southwestern 'Limited. Vcstibuled Pullman curs. between j Augusta and Nov.* York. Solid Vestibule J ! -train with cming ears and first class coaches j north of Charlotte. No.h. 35 and ? >? L:. S. Fast Mail. Through j "T>i5llman drawing room buffet s'coving car be- ; tween Jswlcsenviiic and New York and mar- I k and Augusta. Also Pullman sleeping 1 cars between Jacksonville and Cincinnati" via i 1 w Ashevilie. j Nos. 31 and 32?"New York and Florida Short ! June Limited," comprises between Now York tl find ct. Augustine: Pallnian ce.mpartmonT and ^ library observation ears. Pullman drawing- j room ears, vestibuled coaches wiih smoking r room and also dining cars serving meals, j y Also drawing-room Pullman cars between | , New York and Tampa. Sonthbounrlthis train i ? will carry Pullman drawing-room sleeping cur ^ New York to Colombia, en route to Augusta by I Train No. 37: and northbound by train No. 38 1 C Augus'a to New York. ; V W.'H. (vKEEN, J. Itf. CULP, : I O. S-r>>;.. Washington, T. M.. Washington. 1 * YT. A. TURK. S. II. HAKDWICK. r G- P. A.. Washington. A. G- P. A.. Atlanta. I i A i h w. husemannj* mrx AWB MCSS2?TTH. ! ! fi and dealer ia j j GUrJS, F1ST3S.S. PISTOL CARTRIDGES | c FiSHiSO TASKtE, I \ aftcl al! kinds of Sportsmen's Articles, j e whic h he l as uovr on exhibition and for ; } ale at lus si ore, j t Main Stieet, Near tlie Central Bank, ^ Columbia, C. j f c &SSNT FOR HAZARD POWDER CO. J 1 Iier-oirins done at short notice. : a ? c Paper and envelopes of all kinds t writing and pencil table-s, peDS, J pencils, memorandum and pass j M books, purses, banjo, violin and * guiar strings, and notions generally, i at the Bazaar. 8 >. \\N Tfc^APP v|p ^ j-J ? ' 'j 1 ?V iV-. -f' 'A;aA ' \ ~?;C4*~^v ? I - 7-k^ < _?-^ ~. o 'V^ SI A^AMAz/,, Z x/ , 'Xy\ t.y/ / / /, . -X s/A sv/Z'/y AA^-m i </// / y/ */' f Bucklen's Arnica Salve. The Best Salve in the woilJ for luts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt iheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped lands, Chilblains, Corns, and Skin Iruptions, and positively cures Files r no pay required. It is guaranteed } give perfect satisfaction or money efundecl. Price 25 cents per box. 'or sale at the Bazaar. Now is the time to begin to think bout planting your gardens, and re Bazaar is the place to get your eed. They are fresh and reliable. ieasonable Thought Fresh From the Pen of Famous Men and Women?The Ping of Verse, the Peal of Sentiment From Poets, Novelists, Playwrights?1The Text of an Archdeacon and the Motto of Great Surgeon. [Copyright, ISOn.] But this j*3 cheerful?the promiso cf un and summer is in the blood. We bein to long for the outer r.ir. The bird3 0 and the four footmmm, eci o"cs, Ea* tare,and the gyp? sies are up and on the road again. I i&W Spring dons her \ IP* :^W-!%yE D0W bonnet, so tender m ccicr, \ po capricioas in creation that no 11 ^ar5S ^aU1? 1,3 a 7 Easter. How will you have it? On WILSON BAitRETT. the blithesome or be serious side? What thought dees it ing in your hearts? The birds in yours, uds and primroses iu yours, but in ours there is noforgotting the dead and one winter. So this and that and the ther, and never a one alike?thoughts f the great story, souvenirs of the ross, remembrances and expectations rhich in this season of crosses are no tosses but joys. Yes, but confess. The east?the farff Bible country, the land of romance od fairy tales, 10 scene of the to of Christ? jtg&\ 3eins to most of folfev* \ cu, as to me, H? eogranhv for be- vSKSsJS?, Cj i i s aa, ^ v ig so familiar SfflL S n?\ i tho book. Eat ^ icre has como to :e, like a farff burning light V\ \Y* rawn up by tho alb of its own canon farrar. ^flection, like a distant dream become mbodied, a souvenir from Christ's grave -flowers from the way of dolor, found beat tho holy tomb, so the inscription iys. It is a crucifix?a sign of the cross one in pressed flowers, tho many colred flowers and leaves of the country? nd it canio to ine even through the ledium of the prosaic post lrcin a mcctin pilgrim in the Holy Land. And the <?ro of the divine story never seemed so kin to any other martyr to human joys ud sorrows as at this time of Christiau;y turned inside out. Tho telling of this has drawn me unr-ifconsciously near ?&"<{another subject, t uo ^eur^E6 mavt directly 0:1 this offering cf Easter sentiment. That religious drama, "The Sign of the Cross," has fcecome the fashion. ^ V By it even the * pulpit has been v')7 T^.?^' seizcd as an ad' /;/ J I / vertisement for ' ' the stage. Sunslla wiief.lei: Wilcox, day texts bear on t. Its greatest ad mi rers and def en ders? las, that the best we have to give needs efending !?are learned divines. I was eadinjf all this in the English press rhen it occurred to me that a man who iad put so much of his riper experience nd thought on a play of this character culd give an Easter thought to the pubic worth reading. Dow apt a response Ir. Barrett made to my suggestion nnr liaro } >?> CftPTl What is this world? l little tarrying i>laoe, n tir.y bridge between two great eternities?that wo have traveled, from that toward which we go." W; LSON B A ISKKTT. "The Sign of the Cross." A fitting link to this Easter cfcaiu, or 0 it seem? to me, 3 that added by lie of the great higlish divines, 1 ick W i i I i a m r'arrar, D. 1\, F. bSfr ^ *** i. H., a canon of Vestruinster and ? ;. cctor of St. Mar- k^X 7 *sSh iaret's, is vriter cn Giblicil subjects. Canin Farrar dates '^f-y ifi..y roni Canterbury ' he follow ing ijjjplg text! LOUISE C. MOULTON, I say with Robert Browning. " 'God, thou art ovc'?I build my faith on that." F. W. Farrah. Following this most happily are these U, *U/V- //, E|\L OF 4 FASTI gglff ;==l C\V V| N ' = v x\N ; f ?V* /i/1 v V\V\ y|? N\V-\ c (/, iikigfP V V ia * ? < \ i / ?- - r f musical lines from the popular pen of Mrs. Wilcox. The verses discover their own beauty. F ,r young people fond of clipping they make a charming autographical souvenir of the season: A truth that has long lain buried At superstition's door I see in the dawn uprising In all its strength once more. It standi? in the light transfigured; I: speaks from the heights above. Each soul is its own redeemer; There is no law but love. Ei.la Wheeler Wilcox. j Admirers of that happily edited col lection, "Songs ^ j of This Century," lovers of Lg \ dead and gono r|j | poets and thcEO K ^ who have breath- ^ ed more deeply ( S y over tho fresh- %?} \ J JjsS ness and originality of "Earth's Voices" will bo f \^v glad to listen to * J ya \ tho follow ing f ( \ ! song from the ' same pen. Of it edfur fawcett. Mr. Sharp says in explanation: : Tho only Easter lines I have ever written. They are from an unpublished and probably never to bo finished drama?of a priest self slain through doubt in his faith: Tilt: BJEJLL.S OF JKASTEK. [Sons of Father Ambrose in ''The Priest's Tragedy."J I hoar the bells of Easter Across the windy sands, And the sea waves are the whispers Of the rejoicing lands. Br.t in my heart is silence, Although the heart commands? Oh, sounding hells of Easter, Would ye were saving hands! Wrirf-iAM SnAitr. Perhaps because Mrs. MorJtcu aud the Euglish editor William Sharp seem allied by tfcc-ir tributes to the memorable work of poor Marstou, I follow tvith this chanting Easter quatrain fresh from the author's pen. Surely it rings its owu message of solace even to the heart of the doubting priest in the foregoing song: Shall blossoms proet tho sprir.p? Shall birds come homo r.nd ting? And shall the longinp soul Not find its heavenly goal? Louise Chandler Mout.ton. Easter could net be expected to arouse Q religions enthusiasm in Mr. Fawcett. But as no side of a question is thoroughly aired unless nil ft/lac bo nr>d i I because a sense of the happiness pervades this ^\jJ* writer in ccinmon with the rest of us, I avail myjohn kabberton*. self of permission to quote him just here: Alas, I have no Easter sentiment! All religion is to rie superstition, and Easter would scarcely be the proper time at which to say so. Very truly yours, Edgaj: Fawcktt. And in contrast como these lines from the author of "Helen's Babies:" All men, whether good or bad, are so S'.ire that they could bo better and happier in some other state ci existence tnat tne oocinne in the resurrection, the central idea of the Easter celebration, 5s the most comforting promise that modern humanity can cherish. John Habeerton. This religious strain on the sounding harp of the season winds up with a remembrance?a quiet scene in the English midlands; copses in perspective and great splashes of yellow primroses sitting on cushions ci brown moss. It is Easter Mon- igggy, day. I am abroad \ betimes to see the children march. . \?? V At this time ery year these .. . white rubed no-\'? ?&$;'>: destrians paradeJy8^ the town at early X morn, and as the ^^5 day wears on find eventual free- ^ dom, luncli and ^ joy in scenting s. minturn peck. the premise of .May or gamboling on the velvet lawns of some rich nabob, who, bo lie ever so exclusive, must abandon his fine demesne to the children on this day at least. Thus Mr. Peck, in the following, struck a familiar chord. And yet in a great country so lavish of both it is not strange that Easter should provoke memories of flowers and children. From the author of "Cap and Bells" you arc expecting rhyme, perhaps in the trylo ct' these charming "Kings and Love Knots" of his, or that rhymthical "Knot of Blue," tho first college song ?? - An Affidavit. This is to certify that on May 11th, I walked to Melick's drug store on a pair of crutches and bought a bottle of Coamberlaiu's Pain Palm for inflammatory rheumatism which had crippled me up. After using three bottles I am completely cured. 1 can cheerfully recommend it.?Charles H. Wetze), Sun bury. Pa. Sworn and subscribed to before me on August 10, 18(Ji?-Walter Shipman, J. P. For sale at 50 cents per bottle bv Julian E. Kauft'mnn. 23 /tlv-{ a \ \ ~ i' v?i;l Sic all n^lTCnble Rlirpiise to ?- persons subject to attacks of bilious ' colic to lean that prompt relief may be lire! by taking Chamberlain's Colic. Cholera ana Diarrhoea Remedy. In many instances tlie attack may be prevented by taking this remedy as -you as the first symptoms of tin . disease appear. 2~> and ~>0 cent bolv les for sale by Julian Jv Kuuffman 23 -O Root Brer, Cream Soda, Ginger Ale, Pepsin Cherry Tonic,?all delicious fall and winter drinks, served at the Bazaar's fountain. 5 cents a drink. j -o i ! ! that has won the honor of being included in that classic collection of verse, "Bryant's Library of Poetry and Song." j Bat the poet explains that during recent | months lie has not been able to writo verse and goes on to say: My memories of Easter are all of the south. I do not think that those who have never seen i ^ - 4 1,14 r*ci nil? souuium t'un anu?- mv uu^i beauty of Eastertide. This lovely season is asso .dated in my mind with hrppy children 1 clad in white, joyous ehurchbells, rosea, roses, ' roses everywhere and over all the fragrant sunshine of the south. Very truly yours, SAM L'EI. Minturn PECK. Here is something from a hand more versed in cutting away disease than penning sentiments. ^ i With the great /T English surgeon, a j Lawscn Tait? $ j the stickler fcr >1$ plain manners \-J who will not oven attend the queen unless ho \ can enter and V*'^ leave her pres- ' *S^^ki// ence with no rnoro ceremony J.)y^r Jy than ho would > ' * give to an nnti- paul i>u ciiaillu. tied lady?Easter, it would seem, is , blended with the most cheerful of associations : With the Easter motto I can do nothing better than Sir John Suckling's well knownlir.es: "2\o sun upon an Easier day Is half so fine a sight." Yours c-vcr, Lawson Tait. These two lines are the Inst of a verso from Suckling's immortal "Ballad Upon j a Wedding." The entire familiar stanza runs: Her feet hi ncath her petticoat. Like little mice, stole in and cut, As 1f they feared the light. But, oh, she dances f;uch a way! K?> gun upon an Easter day Is half so lino a _"ir;ht. i Dn Chaillu began life at the right end?enduring nature in her most primi! tivo lights and suffering hardships that ! give the proper edge to fame. It is net j wonderful that the discoverer of the goi rillu and the pygmies should write you I in the midst of his well earned enjoy | ment of civilization a sentiment like \ this: Easter?llio day for lovely girls, beautiful flowers, sunshine, graceful gowns and euunning bonnets. Paul Dc Ckailix. And just here the ever popular novelist, Captain Charles King, U. 8. A., ^crrr^ who draws in such warm lights j \ *"e charming ! ??pj?|?^ \ young women,for j whom cue happy Wpjfc&rWf' Klri0 or tester jj& was sweJy made, ventures a mod. v-. tl;is li;:t?an exi jPrC?o c"s0 which is so mg^W^M^'mach cf a sentimeat in itself '% that- I am act sr.ro but it- is a very clever one. Captain king. You must judge. 1 In response to a suggestion for a word | or two from the captain ho replies: Forgive irc\ but srr.timer.ts arc 1;< yor.:l rre. I am 51?ami nothiug but a soldier. Yours | wistfully, Chaki-M Kino. 1 From the novelist to the playwright is a short step nowadays. There are doubtless admirers of Mrs. Kendal's later fitylo cf work who will be pleased to read this from the author of "The Second Mrs. Tanqueray I rejoice to have this opportunity afforded me of greeting my friends?friends familiar to me and friends who are strangers?aeros the Atlantic. To those who insist that rejoicings at Easter cannot he too solemn I would say th-.t the thought is surely a solemn one which reminds a man who is greatly dependent upon the solace cf friendship of friends to whom he is indebted r r much sympathy, many hind! nesses, whose hands he may r.evor clasp, , whose names even he may newr l.nove. Easti r, 1x0. AirrilL'K V?\ PiNEito. 1 Thus Piiiero, seizing en Easter and these columns for the quaintest of greetings, splashes the canvas with new color and saves a poor draftsman's brush like mine the labor of the finishing tonch.es. Lillian A. Koiitil Death a Glorious Hlon.ing. As long as the race continues, as long 1 as the moon pursues her silvery course through the heavens, as long as the stars glisten in the diadem of night, so long will Easter morning be nnliko any cthj er morning of the year. It is a bridal day which greets us with the assaranco cf eternal love. The world's great heart no longer resembles a mufried drum, but beats with divinely inspired hopes. With moist eves we look at the mound where rests the loved one, br.t with grateful hands we scatter flowers therecm "He is risen!" And we, too, shall rise. Tho years may come and go as they will henceforth. They may bring whatever fortune ho thinks best?our , sojourn is but short, and then tire heavens will open. The grave is no one's home?it is only the resting spot from which the soul takes iti flight to other climes. Tears for the departed will keep the grass of the cemetery green, but behind the tears at separation is the hope of reunion. ! Even earthly love may be eternal, for God will not part for long the souls that really belong to each other. | First a toilsome and a burdensome day. Then cometh the night, in which no man can work. After that the new life in the presence of God.?George H. Hepworth. ' 4 - , 1IER EASTER ANTHEM BY VEIKS-SMITIISON*. [Copyright, ISSf), by the Author.] Jeanne Mario leaned against the door i < ii the church and -wept. Jeanne Mario had Lccn u pretty littlo ' voman. Her people were Gascons, hut he and her husband Tenia lived in a ;;laiu white paiutcrl honee on the road iide near the city limits of New Orleans. L'hey wore happily married, for their ohoico was duo to love, and is there :mvrHitifr eke in this world that brings J nore happiness? If thero is, neither Jcr.nno Mario nor Tonta knew of it. .'But soon they ha4 a great sorrow, and it drew theru closer together than all ihcir happiness. It- came about in this way: They had a chilcl, a beautiful boy, and when he was scarcely 3 years old ho died. Then there came another one, a weak, tiny babe, to fill the dead one's place. But "he was deformed. His hands were shriveled and twisted. They were dreadful to look at. People said this was due to -.ho mother's ceaseless grieving for her Srstborn, and tho snrgeons tried their aest to remedy tho matter, all in vain. Yet tho child lived and thrived, and the mother hated God for having taken her perfect boy and given her this one. j Tcnta was more patient. He suffered meekly. Sometimes he tried to comfort i his wife. Jeanne Mario," he whispered, "God is good, though his ways aro beyond our understanding. Bo sure this n-ild will lip n hlpssirsor to ns vet." But the little woman was hard. She would not bo comforted. "God is not I pood or just," she said. "Look at those hands! Why should my other boy be taken from ino and this wretched creature sent instead?" "I love hiin all tbo moro for his misfortune," said the father. "Dearest, have pity on your own flesh and blood." She laughed in a satirical and unmotherly way. "Ho can never work; he caDnot earn his living. Wo shall have to support him all his life," sho said. When tho boy was old enough to understand, ho soon found out that his mother did not love him. One day he begged her not to bo so angry with him, but she paid no heed to his tearful words. When he tried to use his clumsy fingers, she exclaimed bitterly: "You are no child of mine. My child Tin rt-na ?>inlit-A vnn. 13 UIMU. xxu ** L*.1 4IUV -.-w ^ ~ ? Go away. You do not belong to rue." One night the boy sobbed himself to sleep. The next morning he kissed his father lovingly, as usual, then crept out of the house. There were dark circles round his eyes as ho hurried away, not knowing where to go. He did not come home, and when after a few days his father went to iuok for him ho could not bo found. "I am glad he is gone," said Jeanne Mario to herself, but sho was very kind and gentle to her husband because be was so grieved. Years passed, and Jeanne Marie was a widow. She lived alone, unloved and desolate. At night she lay awake and thought of her lost ones, her husband and her child. But it was always the first boru, not tho second. And the poor outcast whom she had n-no lii-inr, ir-ifli ?> r?rwir! \cnin. an who had pitied him and taken him to her home. Joanne Marie had gone lochnrch every Sunday morning since her husband's death. But it was merely habit. She never prayed; the preacher's words had no meaning for her, and to the singing of tho choir and people her ears were deaf. Her heart seemed turned to stone. Ouo Easter morning tho widow knelt in her usual placo in church, her eyes fixed absently upon tho altar where the tall candles Lmrncd brightly and white flowers shed a soft fragrance. Jeanno Mario saw nothing. IJer thoughts were wandering. But gradually a sense of peaceful joy crept over her, and happiness, so long stranger to her, filled her soul. She knelt motionless as if entranced, giving herself up to the now sensation, though she knew not whence it came. Slowly at last she realized that she was in the church and that a voice in the choir was singing the Easter hymn, a tenor voice, sweet, high and clear as an angels. "Resmrexit sicut dixit!" ("He has risen as he said,lie is risen?halleluiah!" sang the voice,pouring forth triumphant "rOME HOME, MY SOX." CE7ED JEANNE MARIE ly over the kneeling throng. And the people listened devoutly,some with tears iu their eyes, sane with faces radiant and joyous. They were thinking of the glory of tiro resurrection and the deep import of the mystery, but Jeanne Marie thought only of that Holy Mother's joy when she saw her sen again. Too soon the sweet voice sank into silence, the organ's peals were hushed, the hymn was finished, and Jeanne Marie clasped her hands together snpplicatingly and prayed to God to pardon her re Demon. Then when all was over and the people went out of tho church the lonely \vcruan still knelt, with her face coverThrcw Away His Cane3. ?ur. D. ~\Vilej, ex postmaster. Black Crock, X. Y, was so "badly afflicted with rheumatism that he was only able to hobble around with canes, and even then it caused him great pain. After using Chamberlain's Bain 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. Kauffmau. 15 \\ -V \V \ N y v \,\\. \ n *\0 V\ ^y^0Y^ '.>"^' spc <$J Out from the jeweled east aglow Comes now to end the days forlorn, Past ebbing fields of ice and snow, The never failing Easter mora. The sky is filled with portents dear, And carols of the birds are meet; The blackened fringe of yester year By lily cups and blossoms sweet Is brushed aside; the north wind flees; And over hill and dale and glen The rosy bought of bourgeoning trees In the spring sunshine gleam again. i The sparrow pipes his fluted song To call the pink anemone. And the loosed runnel leaps along With joy to greet the sounding sea. So to a world of weary care The Master's crown of lilies white Comes to eliminate despair And put the promised life in sight. With hints of that far Syrian sky Under whose blue life's hope was born, Fast as the circling ages fly, Returns tbe wondrous Easter morn. Bring lilied wreaths and garlands fairMay faith abound and love increase, And the transfigured earth declaro Millennial joys and endless peace! Joel Benton. Easter Hope. It is the Christian belief that man is i both body and spirit. The body is the cr 1 gan; the spirit is the phivcr on tne organ, i J When he pushes in the steps and locks J the instrument, ho dees not cease to be. ; The music remains to him, though he | has ceased to express it audibly through j keys and pipes. Looking down into the 1 ! eyes which look up appealingly cr con- 1 ! iideutly into hers, the mother sees a.soul i looking through them, and in tho inu! tual -glance soul touches scul. Closer ; than words cau bring us is tho intercomi munion of heart with heart in moments j cf most expressive silence, when not i even a glance cf the eye or a pressure of the hand is needed as interpreter. Sci- ' ruce may nbe able to explain these ' experiences of the invisible life, but in i vain it denies them. The poets bear wit- ' | uess to them, and the poets do not create i lint iiifprrrpt n world liUUg 1UUX J 11 Ui 1UC, VWfc ? ? that is real, though unseen. The truth ] ; cf their interpretation is attested by a < ' universal experience.?Rev. Lyman Ab- j j bott. I J j Eautcr Li lie*. , Easter lilies aro seen everywhere j , growing or cut and placed in water in ] j Bermuda. The number cf lilies is ul- 1 ! most cloying, and visitors tiro of the j ever present qdor. ? J 4 A Wise Hen. , Jj !; J ^ I! I' -j, . i A hen who rif thought very wi.se i ^ J UI1CU WJK HUi iHVJiU5 UUikV ujr cui ^4*^vx On the last duy of Lent To the market she went ^ With her eggs?and she took the first prize. C ^ Marriage Bells. ! ^ Center Hill, S. C , March 13, 1S9G. j f i To the Editor of the Dispatch: ; * Times in this section are quite ^ | lively and every one seem to enjoy ; t ' themselves. AVhen the dear, tender ! i ; hearted young ladies are asked to } ! leave father and mother they -will i I and take up their abode with him. ; 1 ; On last Weduesday evening two lov- ; * j ing hearts were happily united at the : ? : residence of llev. E. H. Graves, Mr. \ t j W. J. Jumper and Miss E. C. Hook, i i all of Lexington county, Rev. E. H. I Graves officiating. t . i1,1 I i1 11 ' ' / / / / i-/. / ' -,v :; //,y,'/,y/' - v / gigg i''<" /iX v f/s '' I i^N w> ) X CV. W-'.ZAJ-?'/ y-v fe^vL' )' ' ii'iLl &<???. Wa fMT r> i *M of, isf'Slllf' 'ad! tiffed N SF" fi^A 1 lis. &'"y' ' . ' Mm: } ??i.^v . v. \ x v S^v^vv,, , \ ed. There was no one else in the church but two figures?a man ami a woman kneeling near the door?as Jeanne Mario rose and walked slowly out. On tl:o steps a few persons stood talking. "A great singer indeed," said one, "and so young. Ho has a future before him." "They say his mother is an old friend of cur pastor's, and that is why he sang for us today, " said another. "??hc is a widow, and he supports her. Ah, what j a good son sho has 1" .Teanno Marie was alone 0:1 the steps when an elderly, sweet faced woman I leaning on a young man's aim canio out j of the church. They were both smiling, Jp tfpipp^F iliraipi ti ~ Mil' Sf miv> tTWv ?i ii.iiSift'J :} liPj&i *||C|:; j VUgfe; JEANNE MA HIE LEANED A HA INST TIIE T>OOE ' AND WE IT. ami the other woman looked at them j wistfully. They stopped near her, and ( the man put cn his hat. As he did so ' Jeanne Mario saw that his hands were deformed. Thero was no mistaking those shriveled, twisted fingers. It was her long forgotten son that stood before ; i v. i ir t tier, wit;) :i cry oc joy sue mmm uerseii | Ltd own to him. While sho talked the J other woman looked at her in terror and clung still closer to the youth, whoso : pale face flushed as ho listened. A dead silence followed, and then the mother added: "I was cruel and hard, hat yen will forgive me. I am so lonely!'' "My father is dead, yea say? Poor mother! You are indeed alone." Ho spoke softly and pityingly, hut at the same instant ho clasped the thin hand which rested on his arm and with his | crippled fingers caressed it lovingly. "Come heme, mj' son," cried Jeanne | ; Maria. "I have repented and prayed l'or ; 1 pardon. I v.ill he a true mother now." She stopped as he shook his head. "My home is with her," ho said, looking down at the bowed figure beside , him. ".She found inccrying on the road- ( side and took me to li.-r heart, giving j me the place of a child she had just lost. I bear her name. I owe everything { :o hc-r. She has no one on earth but me, ; Hid I must always stay with her." n-tr-.i 'irr rrflrsimed disM-artcdlv. I 'Then I cannot see you again: I am j jover to see my own child!" The other woman raised her face and j looked at him entreating!}*, and as if in ! < reply to her appeal he said gently: j j "Yes, mother, of course you shall see 1 t 2:0. Kext autumn I am to sing in the ^ rathedral. We shall live near you, and ' j [ shall go to you often, very often, I promise you." Ko left his companion for a minute, I ' tud putting his face close to Jeanne ! ' Marie's whispered: | ' "Will you kiss me, mother clear?" j ' Site strained him frantically to her loart witiiout speaking, then watched i lim put the other woman's arm in his , igain, lead her carefully down the steps md out of the churchyard. As he disappeared, his mciher murmured hoarsely: "Ho is a good man. Ho will do his iuty, hut he does not love me, and he - - - _ Am / % I J ever win. ir is iry paiiisiiuiuiu. vaou i s ju.st." And in the glad Easter sunshine the ! hi Id 3 ess mother leaned against tho door j 3 ;f tho church and wept. Kicbard "Washing t m. colored, was j lange-d at Abbeville on ihiday n7ib, | ( or the inuuler of X.uoi-sa Bagwell' virile.last November, near ('. ke-br-ry. | < it will be remembered at the time of : ' be murder that she left homo iot< ndng to go to Atlanta, was murdered ; )T this negro and her body thrown j n an old barn which was burred, j lopirg to hide his awful crime, but | ViJeuee pointed to him and he was j irrested and convicted, and he paid j ' he penalty for his crime as stated. No one has ever been able to cash i compliment. ; Subline Egotism. I " j Cleveland Ilugs tbo Delusion That He's Digger Than His Party. | New York World. "Washington, March *25.?If Grover : C!i V(laud declines to be a president| inl candidate it will not bebecauseof any fear tbat be would fail of elecj tion. The President believes with alibis beait that the nominees of the Dera! ooraoy will be elected next fall if Ch vtiaiid pjcu are named on a Clove; land platform. If ti e Democratic party depait-, in men and principles, from tbe course lu? lias marked out, the ir, and not iill then, will the heart of Cleveland enteitaiu a doubt of Democratic success. This is exactly 1 how the President feels. The reason is easy to explain. Mr. j Cleveland todav, as in 185^4, has ab ; solute confidence in himself. Ke has ' always looked upon himself asa(*niuii j of destiny." Convinced of the just! nres of bis cause and I be soundness i of bis policies, be believes, lias ever ; belitved and apparently always will j believe, tliat the people are with him. I A doulr lias never entered bis mind ; that in the hearts of the people there ; is the slightest mistrust of bitn. And there arc reasons for bis faith. ; The singularity of bis political call eer lms established it, if it did not pive it birth. The recent reverses of i bis party, far from shaking it, have confirmed it. To Mr. Cleveland's mind those reverses have been but chastisements inflicted upon thoso | parly leaders who have rejected the j President's counsels or opposed or i defeated his policies. Therefore, in uio vauvu 1/riiiuviniiV/ kav feats have been, in fact, Cleveland victories. j The Democratic party in 1S93 ? only a year after the Democratic tidal i wave which carried Mr. Cleveland into the "White House?suffered a seiies of reverses. The President | had hoped for victories as a reward for his efforts to cahu the business I troubles by ending the purchase of silver. When the returns came in ! he saw* in them only the punishment of the Democrats who had epposed his will, and a renewal of the people's expression of confidence in himself. When the returns were coming in, those around the President said in one breath: "This takes Mr. Hill out of the race for '96 and puts you in it," There were Democratic reverses in every Shite, whose Democratic Senators '*bt Id up" tirifi" reform and had compelled the enactment of a tariff bill which Mr. Cleveland has charactoiiz-. d as representing "patty perfidy and dishonor." To the President the wraih of the people was visited unon these Democratic Senators in te.-tiumny ol' the people's devotion to himself. Lust year's election confirmed the impredion in the President's mind that the plain voters of the land were bent on ir fiiding severe punishment on the Democratic party for its failure to follow Mr. Cleveland. The victories of the Republicans in Maryland and Kentucky were so inlerptelid. In one case Gorman was whipped and in another the free silver bolters were defeated. In view of the facts }.Ir. Cleveland finds that his own nomination, or that of one of his friends, and on a platform of his choice would be welcomed by the country with favor. Four Big Successes. Having the needed merit to more than make good all the advertising el time f for ibein, the following four r emedies have reached a phenomenal sale. Dr. Ming's Xew Discovery, for consumption. Couirhs and Colds, 1 * ?.? each bottle guaranteed? Electric J titters, trie great remedy for* Liver, Stomach and Kidneys. I3u'.lien's Arnica Salve, the best in the world, and Dr. King's New Life Pills which arc a perfect pill. Ail these remedies are guaranteed to do just what is claimed for them and the dealer whose name is attached herewith will be glad to tell you more of Lhem. Sold at G. M. Ilarman's drug store,Lexington, S. C. Attention Fellow-Survivors. Iln.n qfakteiis, Camp Lexington, No. CGS, U. C. \ ~r ei T t ? ? t r\r\ r? Jjixiiigtcn, e;. Jiarcu jli, iojo. There v-v ill bo a speci.-il meeting of Damp Lexingt >n, No. 008, U. C. Y., n the Court House at Lexington, S.. D , Apiil Gih, IS'.io. Members will [dense take notice and attend promptly at 10 o'clock a. m., as busi:;rss of great importance will be up for discussion and transaction. Membi rs will please come prepared :o seit'e annual dues, as the same is ji dcicd to be raid on or by April 1st. Delegates to the- Charleston convention which mecs on the 22d or 23rd A Amii. will be elected. Lv order of S. M. ROOF, Coin aiacder. M D. HARM AN, Adjutant. C"p:n:r to All Other. G Miss. May Gth, 1892. Although I never used any secret remedies before, I prescribe St. JVsepl/.s Sarsapaiilla in my practice is I would any prescription of my own compounding, and any physician who will do the same will be ually pleased at the results u.'iio.ed. In my opinion it is superioi to ali ottiers and lias beeii especially use ful to me in Kheumatic :nd i;Ci'ofulous cases. 11. M. K1TTKEL, M. D. For fur!her information call at Julian K. KaulT nann's drug store and ask for a pamphlet entitled. \ Treatise on the Blood." 23, Lack of money wrecks more married people than lack cf love.