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I BEST ADVERT18IN6 MEPIUM fnp -_-^ I pyi MflTA XT HlCD AT^H i w""" l nt LtAIiMvi 1U1M UloPA 1 trl. =H ^?r RATES REASONABLE. ing to advertise for three, ?ix and tvelYe months. 0 Notices in the local column 10 cents per liut> each inserion. SUBSCRIPTION $1 PER ANNUM -. _. ^ TTTT T7 ~ _ . _ . Marriage notices inserted free. 0 VOL, XXVI. LEXINGTON, S. C., JULY 29, 1896. NO. 3<. cc^3"ch"g6dfor"tie"*?' M PRlMI\fi \ SPECIALTV. I __Addrem a. m. habmak, . NOT A SICK DAY i For Over Thirty Years! F RESULT OF USUTG AYER'S PILLS * "Ayer's Cathartic Pills for over thirty years have kept me in good health, ^ never having had a sick day in all that H time. Before I was twenty I suffered ?l| almost continually?as a result of conBe stipation ? from dyspepsia, headaches, K neuralgia, or boils and other eruptive 18? diseases. "When I became convinced that nine-tenths of my troubles were caused by constipation, I began the use L- of Ayer's Pills, with the most satisfac tory results, never having a single r attack that did not readily yield to this reuredy. My wife, who had been an invalid for years, also began to tiso Ayer's Pills, and her health was quickly restored. "With my children I had noticed that nearly all tlieir ailments were preceded by constipation, and I soon had the pleasure of knowing that with children as with parents, Ayer's Pills, if taken in season, avert all danger of sickness."?II. Wettsteix, Bvrou, 111. AYER'S PILLS Highest Honors at World's Fair. Ayer's Sarsaparilta Stresgtbew the System. Dots from Bishtcn. . To the Editor of the Dispatch: I There is an abundance of rain aod crops seem to be improving very fast, and the farmers say that the corn crjp is far better thanthey expected. Watermelons are plentiful. Everybody seems to be contented over the future. They say that with a platform like the National convention adopted at Chicago, with Bryan at the head of the ticket, times are sure to get better. Candidates have not made much of a show down in this section. The writer had the pleasure of convers- : ? - ing with a candidate for Supervisor and he informed me that he was in the race to stay. We hope to see all of the candidates on the 1st of August at Smith's barbecue. Come out, and let us look at you and hear what you will do for your constituents. We are anxious to know. The young men have re-organized their debating society at Smith's j Branch school house. That's right, boys, try to improve yourselves. We have had some trouble about our mail since Mr.* Wingard's conk tract expired. Mike is a clever fellow and everybody was sorry when he gave it up. From the sound of L. L. Gantt's and I. Hallman's steam saw mill whistle it seems that the low price of lumber will not push them out of the business. The Smith Brothers have gone out of the lumber and turpentine busibrook down there?" ness and have engaged their whole force in farming. From their corn fields and hog pens, I would say that it will be hog and hominy about their places this winter. From the appearance of J. W. Schofill's fifty acre cotton field it looks as if there will be some money forth coming this fall. Mr. C. R. Rish is still dispencing justice from the judicial bench and would like the appointment for two i years again. Mr. D. F. Shumpert, our merchant ; and postmaster, is doing a thriving j business. Daniel is a clever fellow, and when you call on him you always find him with a smile on his face. Mr. J. E. Dunbar is still in the lumber business, and says he has fine crops. Mr. J. J. McCartha has gone into farming more extensive than usual, and has a fine prospect for this harvest. | If the National convention did fail j ^ to indorse Tillman, be will always be j remembered for what he did to bring j about this reform. With much success to the Dis- j patch. Mack. | The Luck of a Letter. There are twenty-six letters in the English alphabet, but the letter "n" beats all the others combiued as the final letter in Presidential natnes. The first Presidential was inaugurated in 17S9 and since that time the terms of the men whose names end with that letter aggregate 55 years, j while those of the men whose names end with other letters aggregate only 'Sfszate - -... . v . 52 years. This is hue without cod sidering the fact that in 1834 Jackson received a plurality of the popular and electoral vote, while Adams was chosen by the House, and in 3846 Tilden was elected, but counted out. A id the terms of these two, and it would give the final "n'1 the approval of the .people for 64 out of 107 years. No man whose name ended with an ' n" was beaten before the people by one who had a different final let.er except in 1796, when Adams received more electoral votes than H orison. On the other hand the final "n" triumphed with Washington in 1789 and 1792. Jefferson in 1800 and 1804. Madison in 1808, Jackson in 1824 and 1832, Buchanan in 1856, Lincoln in ana xiuiiibuu iu 1888. In 1824, as alreody stated, Jackson received a plurality of the popular and electoral vote in 1876 Tilden was really elected. In 1836, 1840 and 1864 the names of both candidates ended with "n" while in 1816, 1820, 1844, 1848, 1852, 1868, 1872, 1880 and 1884 each candidate had a different final letter. Mr. Bryan has the lucky letter at the end of his name, and the superstitious may trust to it as much as they please. The Times Union alludes to these facts only as interesting coincidences. It believes that Mr. Bryan will be the next President of the United States, but it trusts in the voters?not in the stars. Mrs. Khodie Noah, of this place, was taken in the night with cramping pains and the next day diarrhoea set in. She took half a bottle of blackberry cordial but got no relief. She then sent to me to see if I had anything that would help her. I sent her a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and the first dose relieved her. Another of our neighbors had been sick for about a week and had tried different remedies for diarrhoea but kept getting worse. I sent him this sam8 remedy. Only four doses of it were required to cure him. He says owes his recovery to this wonderful remedy.?Mrs. Mary Sibley, Sidney. Mich. For sale by Julian E. KaufTman. Bullets in Battle. The old soldier, with a hot toddy before him, wss communicative. "How did you feel when you went into your first fight?" the reporter inquired, as most people do when they begin to ask a soldier questions about his experiences. "I felt as though there were a million places in the world I'd rather be than where I then was," was the frank response. "Were you afraid?" "Of course I was. I knew those it fellows shooting at us waren't doing for their health or for ours either, and I knew enough about guns to know that they were dangerous." "But you overcame your fear as the fight progressed?" "Anyhow, I didn't mind it so much. After awhile I got mad and wanted to whip the entire army against us " "Did you ever get shot?" "Once only, and it was queer about ' * ^ -A ? ? il tnat. JLOU reau siunea zu tuc popno about bow it feels to be shot, and I suppose they are correct, for every man has a different way of taking his cold lead. I've seen men shot square in the forehead, stand for an instant as if turned into stone and then drop without ever bending a joint. Some I've seen run screaming away and fail dead with the scream on their lips. I have seen some grab and clutch at themselves and spin around as if they had been hit with a club and didn't know what the matter was; some drop quickly and say nothing about it; some jump high in the air and fall stiff as pokers, and so on through a list of them, lo two alike. liIn my own case I was fighting in the woods in a skirmish in Virginia on a terrific hot day. It was lively in there, I can tell you, and I wasn't thinking about myself at all. "We had started on a run through an open space after the Johnnies, and just as we slowed down?when we saw they bad got too close to the main body for us to go after them? I becran to feel sick and weak and I told the man next to me that I | thought that I must be sunstruck. He began to say something, and j everything grew dark. The next I ! knew I was in a hospital with a hole | through my chest. When I got it or how, I never knew, but it couldn't have been more than ten minutes be: fore I collapsed, because a msn couldn't stand up long with that kind : of a ventilator in his bosom." Always in season, Hopkiu's Steamed Hominy ,Hulled Corn.) Elegant lunch in milk. Ask your grocer for it. A Close Sfc&vo. The Asheville Citizen tells of a very narrow escape a passenger .train had a few days ago while coming down the Saluda mountain. The story is as follows: T>own on the Asheville and Spar * tanburg railroad there is, for a few miles a stretch of mountain road as steep, as wild and as grand as anything the Switzerland of America holds out to the tourist. The particular part of the line referred to is that commonly called the Saluda Mountain, where the descent from the hills of North Carolina to the plains of South Carolina i3 so rapid as to make the timid passenger hope for a quick, and yet not too speedy trip. The trusty engineer, no matter how many times this run has been made by him, keeps closer watch upon the huge machine under him and grasps with firmer hands the lever that controls the air brakes. For in descending this unusual grade the slightest mistake might bring disastrous results to crew and passenger, once 'beyond control of the hand of the engineman there would be a wild race down the mountain to end at the bottom of some gorge or when the train reached the level, if it should be so lucky as to stick to the rails. It was on this short section of road an incident occurred recently that would have made the passengers catch their breath had they known it. A passenger train was descending the mountain at the ordinary speed. At a point where the mountain's side makes an almost sheer descent for hundreds of feet before the track is reached, a huge log, being cut for the mill, became dislodged and began a flying, bounding, crashing trip down the mountain. The slow moving passenger train was in its path and it seemed certain that it would be struck. But when near the track the log ran againt an obstruction, turned endwise and darted under the baggage car between the rear and forward trucks, and tearing off and taking with it the box under the car (called "the .'possum belly" by railroad me) keep on its way down the mountain. The train was not interfered with. There was no perceptible shock, and as yet there are only a few who are aware of the occurrence of the incident. When wear begins to exceed repair in your body you are going to fall sick. The signs of it are: loss of flesh, paleness, weakness, nervousness, etc. The repair needed is food You think you eat enough, and yet vou feel that you wear out more tis sue, energy, nerve-force, than your food makes for you. The difficulty is that you do Dot digest enough. And this is so serious it is worth sitting down seriously to think about. If you can't digest what you eat, take a few doses of Shakers Digesttive Cordial. The effect of it will be to increase your flesh and make you feel stronger. You won't fall sick. Proof that it is in contol of your, repair apparatus. It's easy enough to test this for yourself. Take a few bottles of Shaker Digestive Cordial. Sold by druggists at 10 cents to $1.00 per bottle. Dots from In and Near Leesville. To the Editor of the Dispatch: Ever} thing seems to be quiet and moving on very nicely as only a few candidates have mande their appearonce among us yet, but I guess they will come in full force on the 8th of August, which is campaign day here. We will be glad for you to come up and enjoy the day with us, Mr. Editor. Miss Belle Drafts, who has been visiting her sister, Mrs. Bates at Silverton, S. C., for some time, has returned home, Mrs. Bates accompaning her. The weather has been somewhat variable for the past two weeks, with plenty of rain. It seems that the farmers are sticking to their crops, as I see but few of them walking about now. I think the merchants are waiting patiently J for the "white crop?' to make its appearance, which will not be so loDg ! off. The cog wheels and buzzing of Mr. R. L Keisler's saw mill can be heard pretty often these days. From what I can hear the new railroad to Batesburg is being pushed forward toward completion. Lewiedale can soon boast of having something that is rearly seen in this part of the country. It is a railroad made of poles, and is being constructed by the enterprising firm of Messrs. J. Hall <& Son. It is four and a half or five miles long, and the -whistle of their locomotive can be heard pretty ofteD. It is to be used by them principally for hauling lumber from their mill. I am very sorry to hear that my old friend, Jail Keisler, is so ill as to make his retoration to health exceedingly doubtful. We all hope his recovery will be soon. Rev. J. C. Watts, of Lexington, preached an excellent sermon in the Baptist church at this place last Sunday, which was liked by all. Success is my best wish for the editor and the Dispatch. Tim. Two Lives Saved. Mrs. Phoebe Thomas, of Junction | City, 111., was told by her doctors sue IlttU VOLISUtUy L1UU auu liinu t.uwv was no hope for her, but two bottles of Dr. King's New Discovery completely cured her and she says it saved her life. Mr. Thos. Eggers 139 Florida St., San Francisco, suffered from a dreadful cold, approaching Consumption, tried without result everything else then bought one bottle of Dr. King's New Discovery and in two weeks was cured. He is naturally thankful. It is such re suits, of which these are samples, that prove the wonderful efficacy of this medicine in Coughs and Colds. Free trial bottles at J. E. Kauffman's Partners. A sturdy little figure it was trudg. ing by with a pail of water. So many times it bad passed our gate that morning that curiosity prompted us to further acquaintance. "You are a busy little girl today?'* "Yes'm." The round face under the broad hat was turned toward us. It was freckled, flushed and perspiring, but nhpftrv withal. "Yes'm; it takes a heap of water to do a washing." "And do you bring it all from the "Oh, wehave it in the cistern, t mostly, only its been such a dry time | lately." j "And there is nobody else to carry ! the water?" "Nobody but mother, an' she is washinV' "Well, you are a good girl to help her." It was not a well considered compliment, and the little water carrier did not consider it one, all, for there was a look of surprise in ber gray eyeB, and an almost indignant tone in her voice as she answered: "Why, of course I help her. I always help her do things all the time; she hasn't anybody else. Mother'n and me's partners." Little girl, are yon and mother partners? Do you help her all you can? Sunday School Convention. Program of the Sunday School Convention of the Joint Conference to be held with St. David's congregation, Lexington, S. C., July 31 to August 2, 1896,10 a. m. 1. The Sunday school Superintendent, his qualifications and duties ?Y. Y. A. Riser, J. Frank Kaiser, Revs. C. P. Boozer and S. P. Shumpert. 2. In what sense is the Sunday school the "nursery of the church?" C. I. Morgan, Revs. W. A. Deaton, E. L Lybrand and Jacob Wike. 3. Are Sunday school conventions helpful in Sunday school work, if so how ? P. D. Risinger, J. W. Dreber, Esq., Revs. 0. B. Shearouse, J. D. Shoalv and J. A. Cromer. * 4. Influence of the Sunday school upon the character of young men? E. W. Shealy, D. A. Kleckley, Pres. Geo. B. Cromer, Revs. J. G. Graichen and A. W. Lindler. 5. What are some of the greatest needs of our Sunday scht ols ? S. P. Derrick, T. W. Shealy, Revs. W. H. Roof aud Geo. S. Bearden. Sunday 10 a. m. addresses: F. K. Roof, "Our Sunday school and our orphan home." H. J. Mathias, "Young men in the Sunday school. The Secretary of the Convention, P. D. Risinger, Leesville, S. C., has blank reports and will send a supply to all schools upon application to his address. All Superintendents will please attend to this and have their reports ready when the convention meets. S. C. Ballentiue, Jas. D. Kinard, J. E. B. McCaitha, Committee. All ministers and delegates coming by railroad to attend the Sunday School Convention to be bria at ot. David's church will please notify Jesse M. Roof, Columbia, S. C, and i they will be met at Arthur's near the ! church. > Get your job work done at this office. Best work at lowest prices. NICHOLAS ll'S OBJECT LESSON. H* Bidet oa Street Car to Show Hit Offloera That It lan't a DU^race. Nicholas II of Russia has had some trouble ill bending the stiff necked military etiquette of bv< St. Petersburg regiments to suit his rather liberal ideas. He is not popular with the army, as were the three Alexanders, despite his gifts of reading rooms and dining halls to orack regiments, and therefore the innovations he recommends are introduced very slowly. Ever since he ascended the throne, for instance, he has been trying to discredit the notion that an army officer may not ride with propriety in a common street car. Tho army officer in St. Petersburg has long been supposed to be too rich and powerful and too far superior to civilians to associate with the ordinary street car crowd. One of the few untitled officers in the Russian capital ventured a few weeks a.(to to ride in a street car to his bar racks. It was a presumptuous and courageous act, for he had to alight before the crack cavalrymen's casino of the city. It proved to be a very indiscreet act, too, for his fellow officers at once took him to task for disgracing his uniform, refused to listen to his citations of the czar's remarks on the subject, and eventually, after days of persecution, began urging on him the propriety of his resigning his commission. In his distress the persecuted officer turned to a friend in the ministry of war, who brought the whole affair to the czar's notice. It was 4 o'clock in the afternoon when Nicholas heard the story. He at once put on a dark suit, ordered his adjutant to do the same, and together they went to the spot where the persecuted officer had taken a car. They boarded a car, rode I rm if tho hurnirlrs nlichted. boarded a returning car, and went bac': to the palace. The czar wrote out a brief account of this little trip, and added to it the inquiry: "Am I stiirworthy to wear the uniform of a Russian officer?" He signed the document "Nicholas," and sent it to the colonel of the persecuted officer's regiment. Since then there has been peace in the officers' quarters of that regiment, and the man who rode on a horse car has been treated with the deference belonging to one who pulls wires at court. Perhaps Nicholas got his idea of an object lesson in this case from Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria. The emperor heard several years ago that his officers in Vienna were agitated over the question of the propriety c?f riding in omnibuses. He remarked impatiently that this was a weighty subject for large brains and should be settled before anybody's mind broke down under it. He then put on full uniform, took with bim an adjutant in full uuiform and bad an omnibus ride. The ride was reported in the newspapers, and the question of propriety was settled. Preeidenfc Kroner's Wife. I have seen Tanta Sanna on several occasions and have noticed her one style. She always dresses in black, and the cut of her gown would certainly not be an advertisement to a west end dressmaker. Comfort, not elegance, is her maxim. Plain though Mrs. Kruger is in the matter of dress, she has her little vanity. She positively refuses to see a visitor who may happen to call before she has "tidied up." The tidying up takes place in the afternoon and consists of putting on her best black gown with trimmings. Mrs. Kruger is famous for her coffee, with which visitors are always regaled when they go to the presidential residence in Pretoria. Mrs. Kruger thinks she makes the best coffee of any good "huisvrouw" in Pretoria, and she boasts that she can make a tin of condensed milk go farther than any one else. Mrs. Kruger, while thinking her "rnann" the greatest statesman the world has seen, takes no 6ort of interest in politics, cue, 1 Deneve, uue? uui< know what the franchise means, bnt anything her husband tells her in connection with political matters she unhesitatingly accepts. In conversation she always addresses her "rnann" as Oom, and he in turn calls her Tanta. They are a happy couple, although her husband's sleeplessness and devotion to the affairs of state in the midnight hours distress her considerably.?Empire. Kye Poultices. Do not poultice an eye under any circumstances whatever. Binding a wet application over an eye for several hours must damage that eye, the assertions of those professing to have personal experience in this to the contrary notwithstanding. The failure to aggravate an existing trouble by binding a moist application over an inflamed eye, which application is supposed to remain for an entire night, can only be explained by the supposition that a guardian angel has watched over that misguided case and has displaced the poultice before it had got in its fine work. All oculists condemn the ponltice absolutely in every shape and in every form. Tea leaves, bread and milk, raw oysters, scraped beef, scraped raw turnip or raw potato and the medley of disgusting domestic remedies popularly recommended are, one and all, capable of producing irremediable damage to the integrity of the tissues of the visual organ.?New York Ledger. All the People Should keep themselves healthy and especial care should be given to tins matter at this time. Health depends upon pure, rich blood, for when the blood is impure and impoverished diseases of various kinds are almost certain to result. The one true blood purifier is Hood's Sarsaparilla. By its power to purify and vitalize the : blood it has proved itself to be the safeguard of health, and the record of remarkable cures effected proves that it has wonderful power over disease. It actually and permanently cures when all other preparations fail to do any good whatever. 38 A pound of phosphorus heads 1,000 000 matches. T.ie largest room in the world is said to be the hall of the imperial palace in St. Petersburg. It is 160 feet long by 150 feet wide. McKinley and Hobart were each born in 1814. This was the year when Henry Clay made his last run I f0f the presidency. Cannot Id a Without It. Jamison, S. C, Sept. 2, '90. Since the people know I keep St. ! Joseph's Quick Relief tb(y have taken it all out but one bottle, and that one j 7 { 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. 11. D KITTRELL. For further information call on J E. Kauffmann's drug store and get a : copy of St. Joseph's Four Seasons * ?ti> : Almanac. ou. BALD HEADS CLOTHED. Aft?r One Application a Fin* Growth of Hair App#are<l on the Shiniest Pate. j As a sample of commercial enterprise 1 the scheme of a vender of a preparation ' for Strengthening the hair, who has been i tonring the northern part of South Dakota for some time past, stands alone, i The merits of the doctor's preparation do not enter into the story, although j the doctor himself does not seem to have placed much confidence ia-them. A few days before his appearance in ' each town a stranger with an exceedj ingly bald and shining cranium invariably made his appearance, engaged i rooms and took immediate steps to in j gratiate himself with as many of the i residents as possible. He always pro; fessed to be in the place 011 important j business, and without spending much ; money contrived to make himself an i object of general interest in the little ; community. Before long tho 4^0tor 1 ? ' J '? -- ? Ulfl fn n I j WOU1U HUUW up, Uiiu^ his vtitgt-u i\j u I stand on a prominent comer, gather a j crowd and proceed to extol tho many virtues of his famous preparation. Purj chasers were never turned away, but i the sale of the medicine was not the doctor's principal object* Just when the ! crowd was greatest the baldhcaded j stranger would stroll idly up, attracted, j of course, simply by the doctor's oraj tory, an?l push himself into as promij nent a place, as possible. "There's a fit subject for an experi| rnont," the doctor would exclaim as j soon as he noticed the new arrival I "May I try my patent hair reuewer on i you? It shan't cost you a cent. I simj ply want to show these people that it j will do all I claim. " The stranger never made the least , objection to this proposition. A liberal dose of the mixture was applied to his ; head, and the doctor drove on, after assuring his hearers that another chance : would be given them within the next few weeks to invest in bis wonderful j remedy. Not long after a delicate new | growth of hair would begin to appear i on the stranger's crown, and by the I time tho doctor made his second visit to ! the city no finer head would be seen on 1 1T*% rt.joo 4o fKo /1/v^fni4 ro. I lie m tree to. xu uu vfloc jo uwiv* *n/ i corded as having failed to rake in a libj eral supply of shekels on his second trip A round price was charged for the re: newer, but what baldheaded man would ; fail to invest in so valuable a remedy for hi3 complaint? Then the doctor and the strange visitor would disappear, never to be seen more in that locality. Now the doctor has completed his ! round up of the South Dakota villages, i He will not reappear among them again for a long time. He makes no secret of the fact that the men upon whom his ? l-niYi'irlraKlo riirpd IVLltJ V? t'l WUiacu. nuvu ~? ? ' were in his employ or that their heads I were cleanly shaved before tho drug i was applied to them. Then it was necessary only to withhold the razor, and ! a fine growth of hair was not long in < making its appearance.?Sioux City j Dispatch in Chicago Chronicle. A Wide Awake Watchman. The directors of an Australian bank had engaged the services of a watchman, i who came well recommended, but did i not seem overexperienced. The ehairj man, therefore, sent for him to "post ! him up" a bit and began: "James, this is your first job of this kind, isn't it?" "Yes, sir." "Your duty must be to exercise vigi! lance." i "Yes, sir." I "Be careful how strangers approach you." "I will, sir." i "No stranger must be allowed to enter the bank at night under any pre, text whatever." "No, sir." "And our manager?lie is a good man, honest, reliable and trustworthy? but it will be your duty to keep an eye on him." "But it will be hard to watch two men and the bank at the same time. " ' 'Two men?how?'' "Why, sir, it was only yesterday that the manager called me in for a talk, and he said you were one of the best men in the city, but it would be just as well to keep both eyes on you and let the directors know if you hung about after hours."?London Answers. An?odote? of Balow. Social rank did not count in Bulow's : estimate of values. He broke up ail au' dience of titled personages assembled to j enjoy one of his rehearsals by causing | the bassoon players to perform their 1 parts alone until the listeners all left in disgust. "Now," said he cheerfully ! when the last of his noble hearers had departed, "we'll goto work. " He kicked the name board of a certain piano off j the stage because it degraded the artist j into an advertisement. In the presence of an enthusiastic audience he once no! ticed two laurel wreaths on the piano. He pickt*l them up, looked at them I and then kicked them under the instru| ment. He did this because he resented j the idea that musicians should be treati ed differently from other men. He I wished music to be a manly calling. i Me wouia nor nave it negraueu juw <* j ! matter of patronage. "Go, take that j laurel wreath to Herr Franz Lachner (his predecessor in Munich), who is on the pension list!" he exclaimed to an j usher. "I am not superannuated."? ; Bernard Boekelman in Century. Mamma: "I don't like the idea of : th it young Harris hanging around Jenny so much. He hasn't a cent j ; except his little salary." Papa: you : needn't worry. They are both too ' busy talking about bicycles to have any time for love mtkiug. A celebrated naturalist once said j that he found out something new every time he studied a plant, even though he had apparently discovered all there was to learn about it Holes In the Sails For Speed* The statement of an Italian sea captain that he had proved by experience that a ship goes faster when her sails are perforated with a number of holes than when they are quite sound, was at first looked upon as too ridiculous for consideration. Unbelievers, however, now find that the Italian has gone a long way toward proving his case. His theory is that the force of the wind cannot fairly take effect on an inflated sail, because of the cushion of immovable air that fills up the hollow. To prevent this cushion collecting, he bored a number of holes in the sail, which let part of the wind blow right through it and allowed the remainder to strike against the canvas and exercise its full effect Several trials have boon made, and it looks as if this is another of those paradoxical truths which appear so impossiTVia a ti'Orn un: uu iin* r>ux iau. xuv^cA^viiAuvuvo i?v*v made ixi all weathers. In a light wind a boat with ordinary sails made 4 knots, While with the perforated sails she covered 5J4 knots; in a fresh breeze sho did 7 knots with ordinary sails and 8% knots with the improved sails; ii^ a strong wind she did 8 and 10 knots respectively. If this augmented speed were sustained throughout a long voyage it would increase the value of the ship one-fifth, as she would make the same trip in four weeks that she did before in five weeks.?Boston Transcript An Eccentrlo Pianist After an interval of 14 years London has again heard the pianist D'Albert, whose nationality is so great a puzzle. He has a French name and was born in Scotland. His mother was English and his father, a well known dancing master, was the son of a captain of French artillery and of a German mother, whose ancestors were Russian! Though educated in England, ho adopted Germany as his country, and wrote savago remarks about the "British barbarians." At his reappearance in Loudon there was "little or no applause" when he first came on the stage, but matters mended gradually, and his greatest success was won with Liszt's "Don Juan" fantasia, to the great disgust of the critics. who cannot understand why edu cated audiences the world over, and great pianists likewise, should be so fond of Uszt. One of the critics says that save for a full grown mustache D'Altx-rt is much the same boyish figure which he presented in 1882.?New York Post Captain Harry North. Captain Harry North, the elder son of the "Nitrate King," is as unlike his J father as a son could well be. Tho opinion that young North will play ducks and drakes with his father's millions has been expressed, but few things are less likely to happen. Mr. Harry North is not exactly the sort of young man in whom the Young Men's Christian association -delights, but he is one of the class known as "steady," and has imbibed a good deal of his father's shrewdness in business matters without adopting the loud aud flamboyant methods for which the "colonel" was famous. Oom Paul'* Statue. A statue of President Kruger will soon be erected in Pretoria. It will be 40 feet high, and will represent the Boer statesman in the quaint garb, tall hat included, which he affects on Sundays and special occasions. The statue, which will be of bronze, will be mounted on a pedestal and column of granite, and at each corner of the pedestal there will be a figure representing a TraDsvaal burgher in an attitude of defense. Old People. Old people who require medicine to regulate the bowels and kidneys will find the true remedy in Electric Bitters. This medicine does not stimulate and contains no whiskey Dor other intoxicant, but acts as a tonic and alterative. It acts mildly on the stomach and bowels, adding strength and giving tone to the organs, thereby aidiDg Nature in the perfomaDce of the functions. ' Elictric Bitters is an excellent appetizer and aids digestion. Old People find it just exactly what they need. Price fifty ctnts and $1.00 per bottle at J. E. Kauffman's drug store. - ? No More Midnight Falls. She watch him put the package away carefully, and, womanlike she was curious. "What is it?"' she asked. "Phosporus," he replied. "What do you intend to do with it?" she persisted. "bast night," he explained with deliberation, in the tone of a man who felt he had a grievance, "I came home late." "As usual." He paid no attention to the insin UilllUU, UUt wuuuucu uio c?|;iauuuvu> "You may recall," he said, "that I fell over two chairs and a doll carriage and stepped on a wooden ball that threw me on the back of my neck."' "I recall it," she admitted. "It waked up all the neighbors as well as myself." "What of it?" "Nothing. Ob, nothing at all," he replied sarcastically. "It was a small matter, but it annoyed me, and I made up my mind that if you couldn't teach the children to put things away where they beloug I would at least make arrangement so that I would know where they are when I come home after lodge meeting tonight. This phosphorus"? "Pooh!" she retorted contemptuously, "you'd have stepped ou an electric light if it had been in yo r way last night." Chamberlain's Cough liewedy cures colds, croup and whooping cough. It is pleasant, safe and reiable. For sale by Julian E. Kauffinan. bM.<! POWDER Absolutely Pure. A cream of tartar baking powder. Highest of ?]1 in . leavening strength.?Latest United State* Government Food Beport. Bor al Baking Powdee Co., New York. > '* ? Just Holding the Lines. A father and his little son were , riding along a familiar road with a gentle horse. To gratify the child tho father placed the reins in his handa, bat at the same time, unseen, retained his hold on them. As they rode on they saw approaching them at terrific speed a runaway team. The daDger was great and iminent, but the father guided his horse so thai collision was avoided and the danger escaped. When all was over the little son looked up to his father and, with choked utterance, said:- . ' I though I was driving, but I wasn't, was I papa?'" So often does a child of God, when some peril has been escaped or some deliverance has been vouchsafed in ways unforeseen and unthought of, have occasion to say: , "Father I thought I was driving, but I wasn't." It is blessed to feel that the reins are in the hands of One mightier than we are. Chills &nd Fever. yi ~~ Barnwell, S C. July 1, 1896. "I have been having chills and fever and have tried many different remedies without benefit until at last some one advised me to try ' : ! Hood's Sarsaparilla which I did and it cured me. My father has also .. ~ ? ? Si taken Hood's barsapariiia ana it naa done him much good.'' W. A. Hartzog. Hood(s Pills cure indigestion, biliousness. Foots and the Lawyers. Foote was never tired of roasting the lawyers with his wit, of which a sample may be given. A simple country farmer, who had just boried a rich relation, an attorney, was complaining to him of the expenses of a country funeral, in respect to carriages, hat bands, scarfs, etc, were very great. "What, do you burylyour attorneys ; here?" asked Foote. , "Yep, to be sure we do; how else?" . ; "We never do that in London." "No!" exclaimed the astonished countryman. "How do yon manage?" "Why, when the patient happens to die we lay him out in a room orer night by himself, throw open the sash, lock the door, and in the morning he is entirely off." "Indeed!" said the other amazed, "what becomes of him?" "Why that we cannot tell exactly; all we know there's a strong smell of brimstone in the room next morning. ? * If the Baby is Cutting Teeth* Be sure and use that old and welltried remedy, Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays all pain, cures wind colic and is the best remedy for diarrhoea. Twenty-five cents a bottle. It is the best of all. ? ^ See here," said the policeman to the drunken man, who had been holding up a lamp post for some time, "why don't you go home?" "Thanksh, Thanksb!" murmured the* jag, effusively. "Swat I'll do. Been thinkin' . fer a hour where I wanted to go. The greatest potato eaters are the people of Germany and Belgium. Their consumption of this vegetable averages 100 pounds per annum for each person. The telephone line stretched recjntly from New York to Chicago is as long as twice the longest line known. Nearly 1,000,000 tons of copper wire were used in laying it. The art of dentistry was introduced into New York by John Greenwood in 1788. He said to have made the first artificial theeth ever manufactured in this country. The Bible is the only book ever written that points out a sure way to become ricfy. ^ . I*!