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*A* v , ; ^jg&. .ni^SZ. - w | ADVERTISING RATES. BEST ADVERTI8NG MEDIUM ? p\f| X T Z'"* X T 1 1 f CT Tl A ?-1 ? I LtAIlMJ I'UfN UIorA 1 Cn.l=iE~ri RATES REASONABLE. IUJ? t a<]vertiSe for thre6i BIX ^.d twelve ! lKO'itUS. t Q ? ^ ? ~ "~~ 1 ~"~ " | Notices iu the local column 10 cents per ! line each inser ion. L SUBSCRIPTION $1 PER ANNUM -*T ^ . i Marriage notices inserted free. pr o: VOL, XXVI. LEXINGTON, S. C., SEPTEMBER 9, 1896. NO. 43. cta^foratthe"* " JOB PR1XT1XG A SPECIALTY. | | Ad*r?* G. M. HA KM AN. Editor. ??????? NOT A SICK DAY For Over Thirty Years! * BESTJLT OF USHTG "AVER'S PILLS >* "Ayer's Cathartic Pills for over thirty years have kept rue in good health, never having had a sick day in all that time. Before I was twenty I suffered almost continually?as a result of constipation?from dyspepsia, headaches, neuralgia, or boils and other eruptive diseases. "When I became convinced y tliat nine-tenths of my troubles were caused by constipation, I began the use of Ayer's Pills, with the most satisfactory results, never having a single attack that did not readily yield Co this remedy. My wife, who had been an invalid for years, also began to uso Ayer's Pills, and her bcaiyj was quickly I restored. With my cbi&nsn I had noticed that ueariy all the* ailments were preceded by constipation, and I soon had the pleasure of knowing that with children as with parents, Aj-er's Pills, if taken iu season, avert all danger of ^-sickness."?II. WrrxsTEiv, Byron, 111. AVER'S PILLS * ~ ? ~ Highest Honors at World's Fair. Aftr't Sim#villa Streigtfaeas the Systea. Burners of Marriages. > "Make it short.1' "Very well. Then you do not care to'repeat much of the ceremony?" "Oh, do! I am faint now," says she. > ' That is one experience. Our next was the very opposite", f The young couple wanted all they j could arrange for in the way c f cei e, mony?two reheanals, odo up at | mother's and a final one down at the church, the door all but chalk-mark^ ed where bride and groom and each attendant was to put his or her feet, the sentences learned and repeated, and every motion gone through again and again, as through the whole matter were a bit of "linked sweetness," better enjoyed in proportion as "long drawn out." In this land of light and liberty the nuptial knot may be tied in all - styles; to suit the parties, from the bare fo^m of the rural justice to the flowing robes and stately ceremony of the Episcopal Church. As simple * 1_ as ftDy IS IU6 lOruiuitt ui a tci iaiu Western official of whom we have somewhere heard: "Jake, du you 'low ter take Sal?" "Yer bet I du." "Sal, du you low teriake Jake?" | "I low ter." . "Then, in the name o' ther State Missoury. I pernounceyou-unsman aud woman. Amen." Though somewhat abbreviated, . this service was not. quite so short as that of a rather eccentric old minister in Connecticut* who, chancing to meet a couple that had for years ^ harassed him by seeming at any time about to put their heads into the matrimonial noose, yet never doing it, said: v "Stephen and Sarah, do you really want to be married?" "Why, yes." "Then I declare you man and wife." And away he went and entered the marriage in the town records. There is a story of a young man ewmpd to know a good deal bet ter what he was about. When the minister asked him: "Do you take this woman to be your wedded wife?"' he answered instantly, with no small degree of warmth; "See here, parsoD, what do you suppose we came here for, a divorce?'' No more true to life was that than another case when in addressing the bride the minister asked: "Do you take this man for better or worse?" "I can't tell until I have hau him a while," interrupt* d the bride. On this occasion we think it would not have been inappropriate had the friend who presided at the piano played for a recessional the same selection that is said to have been performed at a recent wedding ^ ia Boston. As the neply-married pair returned down the aisle the organist is said to have inaocentlp rendered: "Onward, Christian soldier?, marching as to war." Bucklen's Arnica Salve. The Best Salve in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and Skin Eruptions, and positively cures Piles 10 pay required. It is guaranteed ve perfect satisfaction or money / V * THEIR ROO Our $.150 tH; W, ,M/ Al^ ,M/ 3i/. *V W ,Mj ,W, Aj4 I I ? A^' < I Our 20c. Printed Challies 74 cent*! jj ^Our $6.00 Silk Shirt Waists $4 00? \ ^Our 15c. Piinted Batiste 9 cents, i < AV ^ Al/. MA A)/ \i? At/. W ^ ^ W W |J j yB^ *^v vWr /Si v?v T^r Our 25 cents French Sateens 12| cents. What is cn hand of Dotted Swiss 40 in Lonsdale Cambric 8?. J 100 Lad FA] At the big auction sale in New York 1 resented, and as uauuljgot the plums. 1 Pairs of $5.00 White Blanke come first served. See th lishment. r'". * MIMNAUGH'S ( It is Dot ungual for druggists to recommend Chamtx rlain's Cough Remedy to their customers. Many ( of them have used it themselves, or ] in their families and know from personal experiecce its great value ? in the treatment of coughs, colds i and croup. They know too that their J customers are their best friends and ; naturally wish to give them the most j : reliable medicine they have for those | ailments. Messrs. Daugberty Bros., i prominent druggists of Indiana, Pa., J | say, "We sell more of Coamberlain's ^ Cough Remedy than of any other 1 cough syrup, and always take pleas- j ure in recommending it to* our cus: j omers." Mr. H. M Urey, the p<pu- 1 lar druggist at Fredotia, Pa., who has , sold Chamberlains Cough Remedy ] for several years, says: 11 can truly j say that it is the best cough medi cine in the market." For sale at 25 and 50 cents per bottle 5 by 1 T 171 Tr 1 T nmnninn ! | . o. ?i. ivau^uuiau, ojcAiugwu I F. W. Oswalt, Barre's Oswalt & Son, Irene j J ! ' 1 When Chancer Went to Italj. 1 Oil the 1st of December, 1372, "Geoffey Chaucer, esquire of the king, sent beyond the sea to transact some secret business of the lord king intrusted to him by the same lord kinc," received, ; "in moneys delivered into his own ' * hands, on account of his expenses," the j i then considerable sum of ?36 13s. 4d. j ' The mission to whieh the poet belonged ! 1 included besides him James Pronan and 1 John de Mari, a Genoese citizen, both ' being named before Chaucer in the com- ^ mission delivered to them on the 12th 1 of November of the same year. The journey lasted till the following autumn, j ^ and was in any case finished in Novem- j bcr, 1373, for we find Chaucer on tho , 22d of that month receiving "with his ! own hands" in London the arrears of a 1 yearly pension granted to him some J time before by letters patent pro bono < servitia The sum awarded to him at ' starting did not prove sufficient to cover < his expenses. He produced an account < of them, which was examined by the | exchequer, and, after some delay necessitated by tho verification of his eompoti, a further sum of ?25 (Is. 8d. was allowed to him, on Saturday, the 4th of i February, 1374. The issue roll from j which this information is derived tells us at the same time which were the ? countries beyond the sea where Chaucer 1 '?J U..J * /-> nft Iwl "for the ? uau JJ<?U business of the king toward Genoa and t Florence." Chaucer was, at the time ho started, 32 years of age, having been torn (as 1 seems most probable) in 1340. He had i already seen much and gone through a variety of experience*. He had made war in France; he had been a prisoner there; t he had been in love; he bad married; t he enjoyed some celebrity as a poet, i having written "many an ympce" to 1 j the god of love, his beautiful elegy on t the death of "Blaunchc the Duchesse," j ; and, above all, his translation of the "Romaunt of the Rose," which had 1 j made him known on the continent and 1 had obtained for him the praise of Eustache des Champs, tho best French poet of the day.?Nineteenth Century. j i Over 5,000 species of butterflies j are known, of this number 000 are j peculiar to North America. I 1 i I TEI s u r IS BETT] Shirt Waists 75 cents. Our $1 50 Shirt Waists 50 cents. v Our 50c. Shirt Wai ? 40c. Colored Organdies 20c. X jK 15c. Printed Organdies 7ic. ^ 10c. Crinkle Seersuckers 7?c. $ I ches wide, for curtains, was 15c. nov ies Wrappers were $1.50, now 98c: | Lie BUSINI Thursday, August 20, MIMNAUGH' Is a forerunner of what we propese ts. Your choice at Q Q ese goods in show^jj^#t^O COLUMBIA, S. The Yellow Shirt Yenns Sunstroke. - A- hint coines from India which is worth using when the hot summer days ire upon us. Lassitude end loss of appetite are among the first evidences of the effect of the sun's heat upon the body, and in hot weather many persons who have never had sunstroke are debilitated by what may fairly be called sun fatigue, which, although not serious, renders work of every kind more laborious than it would otherwise be. The influence of the ^un*varies enormously mi different individuals, forne of whom have to take special precautions in order to be uble to resist it. A spinal pad is nsed by soldiers in many tropical countries. It arrests the light, which often works such injury, but is uncomfortably hot According to a royal engineer, who is stationed in India, the boon and blessing beyond compare to those who havo to spend part of their Jive?" under a tropical sunlight is an change colored % ' ' * - * iL - a I.. A i.1. sfiirt. ne aeciarea mat ne m-queuuy fell sick after duty inthe sun until "ho treated himself as a photographic sensitive plate and surrounded his body with yellow light. All clothing, -however thick, allows certain rays to pass, and although thick clothing would Arrest all the injurious elements of~ sunlight, it would interfere with the escape cfbixtily heat. The yellow shirt, for sensitive people who are much iu hot sunlight, is an excellent protection, -only inferior to that simplest and best of :all Indian p'rotectlvcs, a white umbrella, which - h&s uot yet been acclimated in this countryr ?Pittsburg Dispatch; The Pope's Safferlcgs. ,-** Both tho Tribuna Cf Rome and the Sccolo of Milan assert that Pope Leo XIII is a very ill man,' whose sufferings wrought by rheumatism are something terrible. Dr. Lapponi, the.special physician at the Vatican, will now allow [^interviews. The pope rarely ventnres :>ut into the gardens and when he does be is supported, almost carried, by his attendants. The last public audience was given by the pope on Aug. when be was visited by the American pilgrims. Artificial iTorjr. Another wonderful substitute for ivory bag Just been discovered and put on the. market by a Norwegian chemist It is called lactite and is such a perfect imir\t r?al i rnrr hwf liofhljlf hnt HII elaborate chemical analysis will <lis: over the difference. It is mr.do of :;roo?d bone and skimnailk. Make the Mcst of Yourself. . It is the duty of every roan to uake the most of himself. "NVhstiver his capacities may be, he is sure 0 find some place where he can be 1 tful to himself and to others. But ? * 13 cannot reach his highest usefulicss without good health" and he s innot have good health without pui e ilood. The blood < rj lVes to eveiy jrgan and tissue and when it is pure, ifli and Wealthy it carries health to he entire system, but if it is impure t scatters disease wherever it flows, [food's Sarsaparilla is the one true flood purifier. It cures salt rheum^ scrofula, catarrh, dyspepsia and rheunatiain because these diseases have .heir origin in the blood. IG. * Lemons, lemons, lemons, always 10 be found at the Bazaar. r . .^or ER THAN TH 6 sts 25 cents. } &> r\ ir -n ii-i * ^ - ? Our 15c. Percales Scents. x> > <x 2 % | $ Our $1 Cilico Bundles GO cents. ! Our 12|c. GiDghams 7|c. ^ ' ? % Our 15 cents Striped Lawn "i-\ cents ? 10 cents. "Wide Bed Sheeting 12?c All the Zephyr on hand at 3^c. SSS 'S was the only house in the State rep doing this fall we will sell i No charging at this price. First ? window of our Grand Central estab- s i C. Rev. Mark Minser, a Dunkard minister of Deckers Point, Pa., says he can recommend Chamberlain's Pain Balm to any one in need of a good liniment, and tnat ne considers it the best he has ever^used. Pain Balm is especially valuable for rheumatism, lame back, sprains, swellings, cuts, bruises, burns aDd scalds. It is one of the most remarkable medicines in existence, and its effects will both surprise and delight you. For sale at 25 and 50 cents per bottle by J. E. Kaugffmar, Lexington. F. W. Oswalt, Bane's, Oswalt & Son. Irene. Icinf Veye tables For Shipment. "One of the. most remarkable new, , departures in the freight business,'' said Mr. Omar H. Bartlett, general freight ' Agent of the'Louisville and Nashville, railroad, "is thQ idea of icing vegetables for shipping long distances. It has been* tried spasmodically in other years,- but! ' never unfril-^his-year was the plan'cur-1 j * ried. out-to guy extent. Now the New 1 Orjeans shippers are icing their veget'a- \ bte^'rigffct^ai'ofig. "We'havc already;this ! . scitsoij "hauled So can? to- Nb\y York .pity ;j alono that .contained . iced vegetables, j and the shipments to Boston. Buffalo.' j '''Pittsburg;Baltimore, Philadelphia audi! in fact to.all the northern cities have j , followed opt this new idea. You know, | "the shipments of cucumbers, .cabbages,'; bettilSimd all kinds of gard^i stuff have i . gro-jVn .very rapidly-j in the past few j mm* fbn tmv1n/>r?vc li?"?T*r> I JCC4XO, tUA?i tUV'?? l?V |;<..WUV%4.^ found it Teoesxary to ice them. The ' process -of packing is' quite interesting. j \ ?Jfcw. Orleans Times-Democrat. ' 1 Cannot to Without It: ' : ! . Jamison, S. C, Sept. 2, *00. I ,Since the people .know I. keep Sff. ? Joseph's Quick, llelief they have taken j it all out but one bottle, and that one I cannot sell until I get in sorno ' more,-for I cannot be without it my- i F. self. It is beyond doubt the best j medicine for cramps, colic, and all j* kinds of pain on the market. Send, j me three dozen bottles per express. | It. D KITTIIELL. . \ For further iuformation call on J j E. Kauffinamrs drug store and get a 1' copy of St. Joseph's Four Seasons Almanac. 10. , f, _? A French anti-tobacco society has j petitioned the Chamber of Deputies to -enact a law. forbidding school boys I .and postollice clerks-to smoke cigar-.j ettes, and punishing tobaccoi ist3 J who.-sell smoking materials to cbil-'; dreu. ' "Yes," sighed Mary, Queen of Soots 'J "my life has been'a very "in happy one. And yet," she added, with a < gleam of gratitude in ber eye, "I ] ! have always -bad something to be ! thankful for. No one has ever called ( I ma Mamie." i , I Thei e is nothing to prevent anyone | concocting a mixture and calling, it ?' 1 4:sarsapaiilla," and there is nothing to f prevent anyone spending gobd-money d ; testing the stuff; but prudent people, g | wl o wish to be - f ure of their r.eui- j i edy, take only Aycrs Sarsapai ilia, and ij i so get cured. ' ? ' * cool [?IR COMP.A Clothing. * \ The Remainder ' t <- ... One lot Cassimere One lot Scriven Di One lot 50 cents,-G One lot 50 cents N The balance of "*dc 300 Pairs Bfock *01 300 Pairs Boys Kt 100 Pairs Men's W One lot White .Yes i ?i ^T? Our Mr. Davidson has returned from irriving he must have expected free sil supply this part of the State. Well \v? lificent roouis covering floor spactfof 2 Mil Two Lives Saved. ' ' ? r * * Mrs. Phoebe Thomas, of Junctit^ ; City, III., was told by her dpctois she had Consumption and that *the~e' was no hope for her, but two bottlfew \ of Dr. King's New Discovery -com- J pletely cured her and. she says. ifc. saved her life. Mr. Thos. Eggers; 139 Florida St., San Francisco,' suffered from a dreadful cold, approach-; ing Consumption, tried without rc-; suit everything else then bougbt,.one bottle of Dr. King's New Discovery and in two weeks was cured, j He is naturally thankful. It is such" Results, of which these are samphfe*" that prove the wonderful efficacy?ot. this medicine in Coughs and ; Colds.* Free trial bottles at J. E. KanffmaS^ * ?^ " *- ? - ?T" I If *0* I .11 I.. ' ^ - HIzht. r t" "y 1 " Earlyone morning-, after-.vainly'cif-;> deavoring to sleep, I went ontside^|3Plw^ stars were shinifig iira sky of dark^.r^cli, purple-lightening to jx yellowish Tone " cn the -northern horizon1; the y&st tfe&rt-v was'a great mass of delicate lilac^nd. 4 green, and 'the igloo a-bfighttfr iiote of J the samc>color;rvT4re^iogs,-eurfod ftp iiV" balls and almost covered by. the snow; were so many black spots. The Wiiml^ blew shrill' and chill, add * the mew" streamed-anu eddied /iaj l<#?g-yeiIs over the lonely desert. The tents flappd-liko: groat birds' alighting, aha the wind. g;i'?e kepr lip a monotonous tap. tap',' tap. Tlio ut(W> -.lpndinc^-and , (Isolation of the scene; we#} so penetrating that/1 w.as glad 'td "creep'over the" recumbent forms; of my companions into , the ' shelter ofT the sleeping bag, who,re I .shivered and dozed until the bright" sun called us again to life and action'.?Frank Wil- n bcrt Stokes in Century. - ? Iioinj Very Well For a Prince. For some time past those who.have watched the course of events have had ' reason to .believe that the Prince of Wales was giving himself seriously and earnestly to those good Works which lie Within the. province of his duty. There are a great many.fields of public labor from which lie is absolutely excluded by virtue of his position. It is only in the'domain of pleasure and sport that ! every avenue is open to .the heir to the throne. But in those labors for the public benefit from "which he * is not debarred the Prince of Wales^s showing year by year an increased d?vo,iou t0 duty which cannot l>e too Warmly commended.?London Speaker? ^ Tampering: With Wires. A now feature in the rr?fc.s; of-'electricity is found in the tragic fate g?- a f retail dealer who disliked; the position ' of one of the lights in front of his Store anrl thcroforn unshed' -if Avith a small stick. It so happened that the latter was part of agilt/rame, and as he stood 011 ail iron plate 'in the sidewalk the gilding formed-a connection and sent a current through his body, causing, in"stant death.?New York Letter. \ . Snatched From Death. Cold Water, Ala., Mar. 11, 1802. My little child had the droopy U r two years. We had tried various remedies and the most prominent physicians dri-r the country hut to no avail. ' We commenced the,use of; St..: Joseph's Liver Regulator and she is now as hcaltliy as auv child: T. P. W. BftOOCS, M D. For further information call on J. E. Kaufftnanms driig&tprg gud get a': copy. of: SL \ Joseph s Eour x Seasons Almanac. * ""* 36..: . - *>.4 )RE 9 S lny, henci of Summer Sto< Pahts-were $2.00, your choice at 75 awers at G9 eentsauze.Undershirts at 33? cents. eckwear at 25 cents. ir Straw Hats at almost your^own pr av-Worsted Pants/'all sizes, $5.00 gc iee Pants. 'hite Duck Pants, the $1 25 kind, at ts worth $1.50 and $1 75, now 99 ce the great Shoe markets of America, ver by the time Fall trade opens. V j are prepared to supply your wants !G,500 feet, the largest in Carolina, w MNAUGH'S CO Shakespeare and the Color Sense. 1 have selected Shakespeare's "Soi net3" as his. most- personal utterunc and "Venus and Adonis" as a ckarai teristic youthful poem, avoiding tl plays, in Which the coloring miftht I .xheld to.be largely of the sceno paintin order. I believe this selection is fair] ' comparable with Marlowe's work. Th "Sonnets'''--give very flifferent resuli fropi .the longer poeiji. They are nine severer iif color, black and yellow pr< dominating, while in "Venus an Adonis" there is a profusion of red an . w-hite, with very .little black or yettov Tt is"ca <y to gain a view of Shakespeare -'c'Oior. generally by turning' to a goc <>oncprdam^:Such as Schmidt'j>' 'Shake jjeare Lexicon." He appears, speakin ' roughly, to use red epithets about' times-tor 50 tipiesr lliuk hc uses green, ?t.r..'L i jfXgUlCie WJIJCU t uses preen without any'reference t fcdibrr <"&&& *% . ?.,.: jjiutkespeanj's usa -of.jcoJoF if? very c: ?- Xrnvagaut,. ^yjnbo]jc?vl, xften contr; dictory. He plays, witli color,']ays it c :'-to air ifh^ssible'thirkiioss, Oses .it i ^aittcfiy jt!H5}?d,>j8e#sts ^o-jik>?rfahc spiri ^pa^ laets. Colors, sc?-m to become cold " less ulgebraiV- fdrttinla* hi his lumds. mhy s:lfely'-b? sawfrtiAt* no 'great.'pa :;&rer used the colors ^f-lhe world so di . ^ilainfuJly, making them the plaything of a mighty iihagiiiatioir, only valuir ' 1 hem-for the emphasis thejuiiny give i .the shapes of his own innpr vision. J his use of color Shakespeare bears wi ncss* to his belief in Prospero's philp ophy and counts the external world ; but a gay, insubstantial fabrie, a nie] .Japanese house set up over a voleai* and though lie scorns well pleased i live there, ho is sometimes tempted i thrust his list through the walls.-rCoi temporary Review. Tho Late French Emperor. There never was a more amiable niti in private life than the Emperor Nap loon III or one more absolutely unpr tending. His constant gentleness, h unvarying, patient kindness, were on! too much preyed upon by many of tho; around liirn, but 1m* was certainly dec] ly loved by all who were in habitu; personal contact with him?more lovr than was the Elnpress Eugenie, no ?: J. i.,3;,.",. 1.i.lii.riKi; S?l YV J I UM <UiU II IIVA |IV1J7VUI?4 . r?. was cxtrcipely good natured, thorougl ly natural, devoid" of haughtiness ( great merit in such a position), but in pnJsivo ;ui<l hot tempered, too sincer too straightfbrwisd, 10 conceal her Vi rying. impressions, withal fanciful an tenacious in her fancies, which often i H 'WtaHffl those who hart to yield to In .wishes despite difficulties and inconvei ieiice! ''One of the empress'whims, r wills often. the comment of her attem ants, down to the domestic servants < ; the palaCo. . : The rmi>eror, always quiet, and eve apathetic, disturbed no one, but if a appc.,1 were made to his feelings 1 coulrt not resist. There was a sort < tender hearted, sentimental- softness i his nature which recalled the "sensibi rily" of bygone days probably inherits from liis-mother, Queen Hortcuse. Th often led him astray and is the real e: planaticn of many errors. He was f; from being deliberately false, us hi been so often asserted; but, unfortt uately, he was more a man of fcelin than a man of principle. This led 1 weakness and vacillation, though, lil . maijy* others whese natures are tooyich iug, when ho hart finally taken' a dec . ...... fx, n'lic?,'ii.i,.r _ ElCljy Jit! \V (? 1JIJJI VUU l<_> uuciJliim;. 5'<Liff Ju the TuiierieV by Anna J Bickncll. "}'ou have' uolLiu^' to ngre bi other?"'tentatively asked the mini! t<r. "Nope," said the d^iu^iounde: "I ain't leavin a cent." wrnmmmmmm / : THE PRICE Clothing. k at Half Price. cents. ice. )ods at S'2.99. 75 cents. Dts. and judging from the way goods are fe think he has bought enough goods to at the right prices. With our two mage are in a position to sell you goods. LUMBIA, S. C. Are You Tired A- # * . :e ' / ' ^ " All the time? This condition is a sure indication that \our blood is )8 " 1 " . g 'not rich' and nourishing as it ought y to be and as it may be if' you' "will tg ; take a few bottles of the great :blood h purifi-r. Hood 15 Sarsaparflia. t Thousands write that Hood's SaisaiQ I # . . . . ' ' % ' 3 ; paiilltf has ctfred them of that tired " r. I feeling by giving them rich,* red J J blqcd. kJ < s -M. ' . ? ?' ^ ?*l' Hood's' Pills act easily and i L promptly on the liver and bowels. io Core tick headache. * to I ;?i " . * _ I Waves 'frbxa the West. i-1 ?- _ .. _q. j To the Editor of the Dispatch:, t* i mi. it ini i: j. J ' .. rue wtrtwuvr-bLm-couiiiJueij uoi sua i r* 1 ! * It ' dry, --?t Crops have, bcori cutshort wonderfully by the drought-*- ...... v-v r ig - ..-.We.bad a, fejv dayg which* were [? very pleasant, but it bas got very hot t.- again. - .. ; r s- - * I have been taking in a great-many'. of the barbecues and picnics during r)t ihe-.Iast month, and I did enjoy tbcrn l? very much, indeed: v.-i - ? We closed our protracted meeting at Shady Grove last Tuesday. We certainly bad a .glorious time. I arn sure that I enjoyed the rusting' and 0. feel that God bas blessed me in the e- past and-trust that lijs blessings will ,w continue to follow me im the future, ly se I think everybody oughtlo be very p- thankful that their lives-are spared,' but still they grumble ami complain, t- Mr. J. 13. Daily has sold one bale 10 of cotton and has four more out a ready for market: * l- Misses Emfna' and Josie Elliscr ^ are payiug a visit to Miss Liiah-Turfj kc-tt in Fairfield county. . r- Miss M K. Ellisor is orie of' the "T handsomest antf -liiost intelligent "i . .. - - .? , ;1 " young ladies cf-4 Lexington cotinty. I ^ She is'very j>dpular among her fiienda | aud acquaintances May Flower. | n *' I 11 Whiskers that are prcciatureiy j" >f g'ay or faded "should be colored to j n preveut the look'of'age, and Buckj inghauis Dye "excels all others in 1 is coloring brown or black. ** It is reporte d that the United States j is war ship Mooodoey has been lost io J Chinese waters. She was an o'd hul\.aud had beenrestirgin themud :e in the liver. It is not likely that : ]" auy lives were lost..,.,.., v y , .. . . - A telegram received by the chair-. J man of the committee of the District of - Columbia indicates that Mr. j ' Bryan will be in Washington between t r thi loth and 20th of September-pro- i bably the 17th. _ ' j ? x' 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 eo whiskey nor 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 aiding Nature in the perfomancc of the functions. Elictrie Bitters is an excellent appetizer and aids digestion. Old People find it just exactly what they need. Price fifty cents and $1.00 per bottle at J. E. Kauftman's drug store. ^ A Successful Union. v; To the Editor of the Dispatch: Please grant me space in the good Dispatch for a few words in regard to our Baptist Union which met at v Harmony church on the last Satururday and Sunday in August. The Union met promptly at the hour previously announced in the program, and was called to order by ! the Moderator. All the churches in this division ! was represented with delegates and ^ ! letter.' The young brethren who had been appointed to open the discussion of the queries were all present and acquitted themselves with honor to the Union and credit to themselves. Tho discussion of these queries I were entered into very fully by the different brethren and many good points brought out. The Charity sermon was preached ! on Sunday by Rev. N. A Hemrick i from Romans XIII, 12: 4,The night . ! is far spent, the day is at hand; let us therefore cast off the work of v darkness, and iet us put on the armor of light.' The sermon wtfs a? very able one and the minister held the large audience's profoundest attention from beginning to end. The offering taken at the close of the sermou amounted to $14 50, which I was appropriated to State missions. I am proud to say, Mr. Editor, that .the lower division of this Union is doiDg some good, faithful, consecrated work for the Mastef. May the work that has begun continue to ? i grow, flourish and prosper, ana mucn good be accomplished in building up the Master's kingdom. W. B. Fallaw, Union Clerk. Gaston, S. C, September 1, 1896. .. ' '"5 Ayer's Hair Vigor tones up the .. weak hair roots, stimulates the vessel* and tissues which supply the hair with nutrition, strengthens the hair itself, and adds the oil which keeps the shafts soft, lustrous, and silky. The most popular and valuable toilet ' preparation in the world. -Program cf the Lecture Board. ? The following is the' program of 'the Lecture Board of the Lexington County Farmer's Alliance; to be held Ls- ' ' 'September li);b, at 10 a.- m , with ! ftightwell Alliance at Piney Woods church: 1st. A graduated income tax?J. D Farr. Alternate, Rev. N. S Younginer. 1 '' -; :" 2d. National and State limited to the necessary expenses of-the govi * * * y ernment economically and' honestly administered?J. W. Dreher. Alternate, E L Wingard. 3d. What constitutes a true Alliariceman??Enoch Hite. Alternate, J. W. Summer. 4th. The < fleet ofthe Farmers' Alliance on national legislation.?Dr. JVL. Shuler. Alternate, Dr. J. W. -Eargle. .The meeting will be public to r which even body is invited. , D. F Edrd, Chairman.' Enoch'Kite. Secretary pro tern. - . .'VTJ % ; - . /. , ..J ^ flOYAl IEI ^ Roy*t\?si?a ; r g??r ~ POWDER Absolutely Pure, . , cream of tartar baking powder. Highest ot .11 in leivening sittrigth ? Lateht United-States Government Foq<1 ivepor*. Koyal Faking PowdeuCo , New York. ? i *?r H / *' * *