The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, February 10, 1897, Image 4

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rS "MOTHERS' M FRIEND" i Shortens labor, lessens pain. "" diminishes danger to life of both mother and child and leaves her in condition more favorable to speedy recovery. "Stronger after than before confinement" says a prominent midwife Is tfce best remedy FOR RISING BREAST ~ Known and worth the price for that alone. Endorsed and recommended by midwives and a^i ladies who have used it. Beware of substitutes and imitations. Makes Child-Birth Easy.; Sent by Express or mail on receipt of price. S1.00 per bottle. Book "TO MOTHERS" mailed free, containing voluntary testimonials. BBADFIELD REGULATOR CO., ATLANTA, GA. SOLD BT ALL DRUGGISTS. - < V ADVICE OF A FARMER >' ? ' ~ ~ -? | 8EF0RE THE STAMMERING RUSTIC f MIGHTY HOSTS TREMBLED. ^ Iter. Dr. Talmage at Hi# liest In a SerK moo Oeclai ing Goodness and Power and Watchfulness of God?Looking at . the Midnight Heavens. |. BBSF Washington, Jan. 81.?This sermon i 9 uf Dr. Talmage, looking at the midnight j Bfigtf heavens through the tyes of one cf the j KB ancients, is unique for practicality and j _ must set all to useful thinking. His text ; 9 is Amos v, 8, * 'Seek him that maketh I | the seven stars and Orion." BBS A country fanner wrote this text, ' Bhm Amos of Tekoa. He plowed the earth HP and thrashed the grain by a new j WBT thrashing machine just invented, as Wm formerly the cattle trod out the grain. \ He gathered the fruit of the syca- j more tree and scarified it with an j r iron comb just before it was getting ripe, as it was necessary and customary K " in that way to take from it the bitterness. He was the son of a poor shepherd and stuttered, but before the stammer ? ? .^rrinitc rUdUU lliU Jt uixiouuvo uiiv4 and Phoenicians and Moabites and Am^ monies and Edomites and Israelites trembled. *** Moses was a law giver, Daniel was a prince, Isaiah a courtier and David a king, but Amos, the author of my text, was a peasant, and, as might be supposed, nearly all his parallelisms are pastoral, his prophecy full of the odor of new mown hay, and the rattle of locusts, aDd the rumble of carts with sheaves, and the roar of wild beasts de- I vouring the flock while the shepherd j came out in their defense. He watched j the herds by day, and by night inhabited ^ ___ a booth made out of bashes, so that - J&rough these branches he could see the "* ? stars all-night long, and was more familiar with them than we who have tight roofs to our houses and hardly ever see the stars except among the tall brick chimneys of the great towns. But at seasons of the year when the herds were in special danger he would stay out in the open field all through the darkness, his only shelter the curtain of the night heaven, with the stellar embroideries and silvered tassels of lunar j light. Alone With His Hard*. What a life of solitude, all alone with his herds! Poor Ainos! And at 12 o'clock at night hark to the wolf's bark, and the lion's roar, and the bear's growl, and the owl's te-wliit te-who, "*Si?1 and the serpent's hiss as he unwittingly steps too near while moving through the thickets. So Amos, like other herdsmen, rr* ~ got the habit of studying the map of the heavens because it was so much of the time spread out before him. He noticed some stars advancing and others receding. He associated their dawn and setting with certain seasons of the year. He had a poetic nature, and he read night by night and month by month and year by year the poem of the constellations, divinely rhythmic. But two rosettes of stars especially attracted his attention while seated on the ground or lying on his back under the open scroll B of the midnight heavens?the Pleiades, j P- or seven stars, ana uriou. rue iorrner group this rustic prophet associated with the spring, as it rises about the first of May. The latter he associated with the winter, as it conies to the meridian in January. The Pleiades, or seven stars, connected with all sweetness and joy; Orion, the herald of the tempest. The ancients were the more apt to study the physiognomy and juxtaposition of the heavenly bodies because they thought they had a special influence upon the earth?and perhaps they were right. If the moon every few hours lifts and lets down the tides of the Atlantic ocean and the electric storms in the sun, by all scientific admission, affect the earth, why not the stars have proportionate effect? t And there are some things which * make me think that it may not have been all superstition which connected the movements and appearance of the heavenly bodies with great moral events on earth. Did not a meteor run on evangelistic errand on the first Christmas night and designate the rough cradle of \ our Lord? Did not^the stars in their courses fight against Sisera? Was it merely coincidental that before the de^ strucflon of Jerusalem the moon was hidden for 12 consecutive nights? Did vnAiscl*r Konnon en a nenr ctsr an V UUJ/JIVU ^ Xpeared in constellation Cassiopeia and ' then disappeared just before Charles IX 6f France, who was responsible for the St. Bartholomew massacre, died? Was it without significance that, in the days cf the Roman empire Justinian, war and * famine were preceded by the dimness of the sun, which for nearly a year gave no more light than the moon, although there were no clouds to obscuro it? ' Astrology, after all, may have been I something more than a brilliant hear thenism. No wonder that Amos of the I text, having heard these two anthems ' of the st;irs, put down the stout, rough staff of the herdsman and took into his j - brown hand and cut and knotted fingers the pen of a prophet and advised the recreant people of his time to return to God, saying, "Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion." This command, which Amos "gave 785 years B. C., is just as appropriate for us 1897 j A. D. A God of Order. T.x A nine coir oc tTA I ill lac 1UCI piC?VV , 1AU4VJ K7t*VTy uo ?f V | ? must see, that the God who made the j | Pleiades and Orion must be the God of I order. It was not so much a star here i and a star there that impressed the in- ! spired herdsman, but seven in one group and seven in the other group. He saw ; that night after night and season after season and decade after decade they had j kept step of light, each one in its own place, a sisterhood, never clashing and never contesting precedence. From the i time Hesiod called the Pleiades the "seven daughters of Atlas" and Virgil wrote in his JEneid of "stormy Orion" j until now they have observed the order i established tor their coming and going? order written not in the manuscript that may be pigeonholed, but with the hand -> of the Almijjiuyon the dome of the sky, so that all nations may read it?order, persistent order, sublime order, omnipotent order. What a sedative to you and me, to whom communities and nations sometimes seem going pellmell and the / ' M ' ? world ruled by some fiend at hapnazara, | | and in all directions malndmini.-tration! j < The Gcd who keeps seven worlds in i j right circuit for fi, 000 years can certainly j j keep all the affairs of individuals and j nations and continents in adjustment, j j We had not better fret much, for the j peasant's argument of the text was { right. If God can take care of the seven j worlds of the Pleiades and t lit four chit f j worlds of Orion, he can probably take j j care of the one world we inhabit. j . So I feel very much as my father felt j , one day when we were going to the , country mill to get a grist ground, and j , I, a boy of 7 years, sat in the back part j , of the wagon, and our yoke of oxen ran , - " - e.i.? away witn us ami nioug u i?uui^muu road through the woods, .so that I thought every moment we would he dashed to pieces, and I made a terrible outcry of fright, and my father turned to me with a face perfectly calm and said: "Do Witt, what arc you crying , about? I guess we can ride as fast as the I , oxen cau run." And, my hearers, why , should we be affrighted and lose our equilibrium iu the swift movement of worldly events, especially when we are assured that it is not a yoke of unbroken steers that are drawing us cu, but that order and wise government are in the yoke? In your occupation, your mission, your sphere, do the best you can and then trust to God, and if tilings arc all mixed and disquieting and your brain is hot and your heart sick, g? t some one to go out with you into the starlight and point out to you the Pleiades, cr, better than that, get into some observatory, and' throngh the telescope see farther than Amos with the naked eye could?namely, 200 stars in the Pleiades, and that in what is called the sword of Orion there is a nebula computed to be two trillion two hundred thousand billions of times larger than the sun. Oh, be at peace with the God who made that and controls all that, the wheel of the constellations turning in the wheel of galaxies for thousands of years without the breaking cf a cog, or the slipping of a band, or the snap of an axle! For your placidity and comfort through the Lord Jesus Christ 1 charge you, "Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion." The God of Light. Again, Amos saw, ;is we must see, that the God who made these two groups of the text was the God of light. Amos saw that God was not satisfied with making one star or two or three stars, but he makes seven, and having finished that group of words makes another group?group after group. To the Pleiades he adds Orion. It seems that God likes light so well that he keeps 1-.-.,Onlr <mo liAinrr i;i flift nni liioaxiip, xv. v*.v ? verse knows tbe statistics of solar, lunar, stellar, meteoric creations, and that is the Creator himself. And they have all been lovingly christened, each one a naine as distinct as the names of your children. ' 'He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by tiieir names." The seven Pleiades had names given to them, and they are Alcyone, Merope, Celieno, Electra, Slerope, Taygete and Mai a. But think of the billions and trillions of daughters of starry light that G<k1 calls by name as they sweep by him with beaming brow and lustrous robe! So fond is God of light?natural light, moral light, spiritual light! Again and again is light harnessed for symbolization?Christ, the bright and morning star; evangelization, the daybreak; the redemption of nations, sun of righteousness rising with healing in his wings. Oh, men and women, with so many sorrows and sins and perplexities, if ycu want light of comfort, light of pardon, light cf goodness, in earnest prayer through Christ, ' 'Seek him that niaketh the seven stars and Orion!" Again, Amos saw, as we must see, that i*ho Goel who made these two archipelagoes of stars must be an unchanging GoeL There had been no change in the stellar appearance in this herdsman's lifetime, and his father, a shepherd, re ported to mm mar mere imu ueeu uu i change in his lifetime. And these two clusters hang over the celestial arbor now just as they were the first night that they shone on the Edenic bowers the same as when the Egyptians built the pyramids,from the top of which to watch them; the same as when the Chaldeans calculated the eclipses; the same as when Elihu, according to the book of Job, went out to study the aurora borealis; the same under Ptolemaic system and Copernican system; the same from Calisthenes to Pythagoras and from Pythagoras to Herschel. Surely a changeless God must have fashioned the Pleiades and Orion. Oh, what an anodyne amid the ups and downs of life and the flux and reflux of the- tides of prosperity to know that we have a changeless God, "the same yesterday, today and forever!" Xerxes garlanded and knighted the ! steersman of his boat in the morning and hanged him in the evening of the same day. Fifty thousand people stood j around the columns of the national cap- ! itol shouting themselves hoarse at the presidential inaugural, and in four months, so great were the antipathies, that a ruffian's pistol in Washington depot expressed the sentiment of many a disappointed office seeker. The world sits in its chariot and drives tandem, and the horse ahead is Ruzza, and the ! horse behind is Anathema. Lord Cobham, in King James' time, was applauded and had ?35,000 a year, but was afterward execrated and lived on scraps I i stolen from the royal kitchen. Alexander the Great after death remained uni buried for 30 days because no one would do the honor of shoveling him under. The Duke of Wellington refused to have his iron fence mended because it had been broken by an infuriated jjopulace in some hour of political excitement, and he left it in ruins that men might learn what a fickle thing is human favor. "But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting to them that fear him, and his righteousness unto the children's children of such as Li" A TX'lto r*o. Mrp HIS nnru.uiu lli 1U ivy mun uuv ?v, member his commandments to do them." This moment "seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion." A God of Love. Agaia, Amos saw, as we must see, j that the G<xl who made those two boa- j eons of the oriental night sky must be i ' a God of love and kindly warning. The j I Pleiades, rising in midxky, said to all the herdsmen and shepherds and husband- j men, "Come out and enjoy the mild j weather and cultivate your gardens and | fields." Orion, coming in winter, warned them to prepare for tempest. All ; navigation was regulated by these, two ! constellations. The one said to shipmaster and crew, "Hoist sail for the sea ! and gather merchandise from oihir i Biliousness Is caused by torpid liver, which prevents diges- | tion and permits food to ferment and putrify in ; the stomach. Then follow dizziness, headache. Hood's iusomina, nervousness, and. _ _ if not relieved, bilious fever .11 ^ or blood poisoning. Hood's Sr 3 f i Pills stimulate the stomach. rouse the liver, cure headache, dizziness, constipation. etc. 2T? cents. Sold bv all druggists. The only Pills to take with Hood's Sarsaparilla. l It Stands To Reason | that 20,000,000 bottles of a $ j medicine could not be sold X unless it was good, honest, and -T ? did what was claimed for it. ^ Here are the facts about O ? Dr. CLARK JOHNSON'S f INDIAN 1 BLOOD 5 i r=>vm 10 f | nwr t I In 30 years 20,000,000 bottles I - have been sold to cure Blood * ? Diseases, and it most be a T CURE. All the sickness in T ? this world is caused by bad ** $ blood; Weakness, Loss of ap- < ? petite, Dyspepsia, Headaches, < & Constipation, Liver and Kidney o & troubles, Scrofula, Pimples, etc. I Attack the foundation of dis- i > ease, cleanse the blood, bring it ^ ' back to the splendid work inten ded for it by nature. There *' ? may be other ways, but the best 1 * $ is by using the tried and true < * remedy < > i ' Dr. Clark Johnson's 4 L INDIAN BLOOD SYRUP " 50c. per bottle; all druggists. <; lands." But Orion was the storm sig nal unci said "Roof sail; make things sung or put into harbor, for tho hurricanes are getting their wings out." As tho Pleiades were the sweet evangels of the spring, Orion was the warning prophet of the winter. Oli, now I get the best view of God I ever liqd! There are two sermons I never want to preach?the one that pre sents God so kind, so indulgent, so lenient, so imbecile that men may do what they will against him and fracture his every law and put the pry of their impertinence and rebellion under his throne and while they are spitting in his face and stabbing at his heart he takes them up in liis arms and kisses their infuriated brow and check, saying, "Of such is the kingdom of heaven.'' The other kind of sermon I never want to preach is the one that represents God as all fire and torture and thundercloud and with redhot pitchfork tossing the human race into paroxysms of infinite agony. The sermon that I am now preaching believes in a God of loving, kindly warning, the Gcd of spring and winter, the God of the Pleiades and Orion. You must remember that the winter is just as important as the spring. Let one winter pass without frost to kill vegetation and ice to bind the rivers and snow to enrich our fields, and then you will have to enlarge your hospitals and your cemeteries. "A green Christmas makes a fat graveyard" was the old proverb. Storms to purify the air. Thermometer at 3 degrees below zero to tone up the system. December and January just as important as May and June. I tell you,we need the storms of life as much as wc do the sunshine. There are more men ruined by prosperity than by adversity. If we had our own way in life, before this we would have been impersonations of selfishness and worldliness and dis gristing sin and puffed up until we would have been like Julius Caesar, who was made by sycophants to believe that he was divine, and the freckles on his face were said to be as the stars of the firmament. The God of Orion. One of the swiftest transatlantic voyages made one summer by the Etruria was because she had a stormy wind abaft chasing her from New York t? Liverpool. But to those going in the opposite direction the storm was a buffeting and a hindrance. It is a bad thing to have a storm ahead, pushing us back, but if we be God's children and aiming toward heaven the storms of life will only chase us the sooner into the harbor. I am so glad to believe that the monsoons, typhoons and mistrals and siroccos of tl:e land and sea are not unchained maniacs let loose upon the earth, but are under divine supervision. I am so glad that the God of the seven stars is also the God of Orion. It was out of Dante's suffering came the sublime "Divina Commedia," and out of John Milton's blindness came "Paradise Lest," and out of miserable infidel at tack came the4' Bridgewater Treatise" in favor of Christianity, and out of David's exile came the songs of consolation, and out of the sufferings of Christ came the possibility of the world's redemption, and Gift of your bereavement, your persecution, your poverties, your misfortunes, may yet come an eternal heaven. Oh, what a mercy it is that in the text and all up and down the Bible God induces us to look out toward other worlds! Bible astronomy in Genesis, in Joshua, in Job, in the Psalms, in the prophets, major and minor, in St. John's Apocalypse, practically saying: "Worlds, worlds, worlds! Get ready for thebi!" We hare a nice little world here that we stick to, as though losing that we lose all. We are afraid of falling off this little raft of a world. We arc afraid that some meteoric iconoclast will some night smash it, and we want everything to revolve around it and are disappointed when we find that it revolves around the sun instead of the sun revolving around it. What a fuss we make about this little bit of a world, its existence only a short time between two spasms, the paroxysm by which it was hurled from chaos into order, and tire paroxysm of its demolition. And I am glad that so many texts call us to look off to other worlds, many of them larger and grander and more resplendent. "Look there," says Job, "at Mazaroth mid Arc-turns and his sons!" "Look there," says St. John, "at the moon under Christ's feet!" "Look there," says Joshua, "at the sun standing still above Gibeon!" "Look there," says Moses, "at the sparkling firmament!" "Look there," says Amos, the herdsman, "at the seven stars and Orion!" Do not let us be so sad about those who shove off from this world under Christly pilotage. Do not let us be so agitated about our own going off this little barge or sloop or canalboat of a world to get 011 some Great Eastern of the heavens. Do not let us persist in wanting to stay in this barn, this shed, this outhouse of a world, when all the king's palaces,already occupied by many of our best friends, are swinging wide open their gates to let us in. When I read. "In my Father's house tire many mansions,"I do not know but that each world is a room and as many rooms as there are worlds, stellar stairs, stellar galleries, stellar hallways, stellar windows, stellar domes. How our departed friends must pity us, shut up in these c ramped apartments, tired if we walk 15 miles, when they some morning, by one stroke of wing, can make circuit of the whole stellar system and be back in time for matins! Perhaps yonder twinkling oonsh llutiou is tiro rosich lice of the martyrs; that group of | 12 luminaries maybe the celestial home j of the apostles. Perhaps that steep of j light is the dwelling place cf angels j cherubic, seraphic, arch angelic?a munj sion with as many rooms as v/crlds and i all their windows illuminated for fesi tivity. Worth of the Soul. Oli, how 1 his widtns and lifts and I stimulates our expectation! Ilov; little j it makes the present, and hoy,- slr.ptni dous it makes the future! How it cenI soles its about our pious (lead, that, instead of being boxed up and under the i ground, have the range cf as many rooms as t here are worlds, and welcome t verywherq, for it is the Father's house, in which there are many mansions! O, Lord God of the sevt 11 stars and Orion, how can I endure the transport, the ecstasy, of such a vision! I must obey my text and seek him. I will seek him. I seek him new. for I call to inii:d that it is not the material universe that is most valuable, hut the spiritual, and that each of us has a soul worth mere than all the worlds which the inspired hordsmaii saw from his Looth on the hills of I Tekca. I had studied it before, but the cathedral c-f Cologne, Germany, never impressed me as it did one summer. It is admittedly the grandest Gothic structure in the world, its foundation laid in 1248, only a few years ago completed. More than 600 years in building. All Europe taxed for its construction. Its chapel of the Magi with preciou>witon'. s . enough to purchase a kingdom. Its J chapel of St. Agnes with masterpieces I of painting. Its spire springing 511 feet into the heavens. Its stained gljtss tw chorus of all rich colors. Statues cucir-*i cling the pillars and encircling all. Statues above statues, until sculpture can do no more, but faints and falls back against carvj'd stalls and down on pavements over which the kings and queens of the era*th have'waited to confessional. Nave and aisles and transent and nortals combining the splendors of sunrise and sunset. -Interlaced, interfoliatcd, intercolumned grandeur. As I steed outside, looking at the double range of flying buttresses and the forest of pinnacles, higher and higher and higher, until I almost reeled from dizziness, I exclaimed: "Great doxology in stone! Frozen prayer of many nations!" But while standing there I saw a poor man enter and put down his pack and kneel beside bis burden on the hard floor of that cathedral. And tears of deep emotion came into my eyes, as I said to myself: "There is a soul worth more than all the material surroundings. That man will live after the last pinnacle has fallen and not one stone of all that cathedral glory shall remain uncrumbled. lie is now a Lazarus in rags and poverty and weariness, but immortal and a sou of tbe Lord God Almighty, and the prayer he now offers, though amid many superstitions, I believe God will hear, and among the apostles whose sculptured forms stand in the surrounding niches he will at last be lifted, and into the presence cf that Christ whose sufferings arej represented by the crucifix before which he hows, and be raised in due timeiout of all his poverties into the glcriou.4 home built for him and built for us 1V 'him who maketh i he seven stars and Orion.':' ????????- - r A Disguised Enemy.; Chronic catarrh often mak|s its approach in disguise. Before L person knows it, he may become A victim of chronic catarrh. tt'J^bset may be gradual, its developem^nt insidious, and at last the victim'finds himself in the clutches of a ten\cious disease. A slight cold, a tendency to sneeze, a puffness in the nof and head, fullness or crackling m the ears, stringy mucus in the ijcroat, slight cough or weakness, snoring during sleep, any one of these jymp' 1 ' ^ ~ ao c% iworn. tcm8 SCOUiU Utr If^uiucu as a ??ii. ing. "What can be cured in the beginning in a week or two, by using Pe ru-na, if allowed to become chronic, may require months of faithful treatment. You had better take Pe-ru-na now, for by and by you may be obliged to take it a long time in order to get well. Pc-ru-na is the remedy for catarrh. Almost everybody knows that by hearsay and thousands know it by blessed experience. The Pe-ru-na Drug Manufacturing i Company, of Columbus, Ohio, are sending Dr. Hartman's latest book ou chronic catarrh and climate diseases of winter free of charge?G4 pages instructively illustrated. Not Ashamed. x Some years ago walked along the shaded streets of a prosperous ?Sew England city, I saw a little incident which has always remained as vivid in my mind as on the day I witnessed i it. A group of boys, averaging about ' a dozen years of age, were gathered at the foot of one the great elmns, when a lady passed, and in response to her greeting one of the lads raised i his cap from his head and answered, ? "Good evening." ' The lady had hardly turned the corner before a storm of ridicule broke from the little group. Apparently the courtesy of lifting the bat ; I was not familiar in the town, and the boys seemed to think the opportunity of airing their wit at their companion too tempting to be let pass. The little fellow was a sear or twoyoung. j er than a majoiity of the others, and it was not surprising teat tue jesis and laughter brought the blood to , his cheeks. 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Juno 6,?tf jj :,MATHUSKEK*'The Piano for a Lifetime. ^ When other Pinncj c:: hand, i urM^ET) a RGTF!^. interested in gj tTiks^FacU?ry,*1:dvv offer th'is great Steele If at SoO to SlOolos then former prices. >'o m strictly Vilt'h (jrado risuo ever sold so loir. I ONE PROFIT frcm Fader? to Consumer, ? Greater inducements than ever inslightL ly used rinnos ami organs?many as good as row?sold under guarantee, g LafostStyles. KJegani Cases. Also Haw STEIHWAY Plaaes, f $asen ft Hamlin Organs. g Write f.vr Factory 1'rices at; 1 Bargain Lists. I LUDDEN & BATES, SAVANNAH. OA. All Sheet Music One-ilnif l'rice. April 1:2 ly. HARMAN &SGN, CONTRACTORS, AND BUILDER: STEEL AND IRON ROOFING, LEXINGTON, S. C. Bids submitted for all kind of carpenter work. Estimates furr isbed. None bat F:ist Class Workmen en pioyed. House building a specialty. Sa islaction Guaranteed. liemembtr ns whe you want vork done S A. B. H \RMAN, K HAU MAN. September 11?tf. GEOEGE BEU27h MAIN ST., COLUMBIA, S. C., JEWELER "d REPAIREI lias a splendid stock of Jewelry, Watche: Clocks and Silverware. A fine line < Spectacles ana u.yegiasses 10 jil c?vi_) w all for sale at lowest prices. 7?f3r Impairs on Watches first claf quickly done and guaranteed, at nioderal prices. SO ?tf. ARE YOU SICK sifTs:iti\<i. OR AFFLICTED IN ANY WAY, AND NEED 1)0 101 HOT RELIEF if so, you will find in the Dru< and Medicine Department a the Bazaar, Standard Medi cines for all Complaints Diseases, tic., wmui wn give relief and cure you. AT THE BAZAAR, ; j " I Chamberlain's Eye and Skin Ointment i ygS Is unequalled for Eczema, Tetter, Salt j RsLj : Rheum, Scald Head, Sore Nipples, Chapped : Hands, Itching Piles, limns, Frost Bites, ! 1 Chronic Sere Eves and Granulated Eye Litis. ; For sa'e hy druggists at 25 cents per box. TO nOEsFoWNERS. For putting a horse in a fine healthy condition try 1 >r. ('ady's Condition Powders. They tone up the system, aid digestion, curt j loss of appetite, relieve constipation, oorreckidney disorders and destroy worms, giving now life to an old or over-worked horse. 25 cents per p??cl:?ce. l or sale hy druggists. PARKER'S CINCER TONIC ~ ! ^ abates i.ung Trouble-", TVbii>:.",d;:'.recent r.unach and | f>-:r.i!c ill*. r.nd is noted fur nisViii;; -uros rrhen ail OLiieT | I f?it? rv..rv mother and invalid hr.lild haw it. | llSFT^fjS PARKER'S H ! Q) HAJR BALSAM j & B'Vuwwi ^ J?t.C1hti'-c tud beautiflej the hilr. Br@E^: ** HBrrvtiiviii a luxuriant pc*th. j JBljlxcver Fails to Restore Orsy "?2w Hair to its youthful Color. tralp^di j 'ax ,??&*** 11 HiNDERCORMS The cr.'.y pure Carr for I <fcaa.Stopj all p.?:a. Makes w-lk.e,- <::y. loc OtiJri^uis C!ili'l.'V.ir? iiuglNli IlUaoad ilrsni. ' : rEN^?B0?Ai FiLLS j... I V r~f> >. Orlrhuic:;il (.nly Genuine. A \\ I /1 ;i^?V care, al-ica r-liahlc. ladics *?St t?\ I ? >S\ I'rUK'rfft I-r Chi.hrrl.-ri Fn it.'h I',tjfB\\ ^ nUI~n? I i'i Ktulua.!f.V./ricialt;i\\*y r\ f.-aiol with M i ri?>N>:i. T*kf I "W vi->a>i other. h>/?<jdaugcm-<* tuhiUm- v I I / _ fwl'""t"nd Ai I'.-ursi"*. or .vn l 4c. J L- J& in ?:air|?? f.r p.ir'ion'.ir,. t-?:imi.nia'.x nut j \,1.1 \ V ?r "'Relict' for l.u<l!c?." in I'ticr. l>v return xlllU I ?X [F Mull. Jt?,000 T -tirnuiit?N. .V.imr lay. / (?hli'hr>lrrt'licinlcuK'ii.).Ui)il!>niiSiUii>ci SotI h; ?il lirucKi'M- i hiludis., !*?. ; C?muiiCATARRH R j Is quickly ?ib- flggfir fLYsr^SSi 1 sorbed. Cleanses daiKV^B the Nasal Passu- c/SS?C0LuH . Res, Allays Pain For , and Intlamma, tion, Heals and K?AY'f?VES Jg ? Jjj I l Protects the raWk > Membrane from By_ W/iU* ?*VV?V. Taste and Smen. ^QKr2Tv(^^<!^B Gives Relief at WBS?^^^I^SKL and " wm COLD'N HEAD * A particle is applied directlv into the nostrils, is ____ agreeable. 50 cents at Druggists or by mail; sainpies 10c. by mail. A ELY BROTHERS, 5G Warren Street,'New York.^ 2S H - KH** HINDERCOR^S The only Fur? Core for I n3 Corn!*. Sto,/. all pfiin. Makes walking ra?y. loc. At Dni/jiatc. PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM Clesnreg end beautifies the hale Promotes a luxuriant growth. Never Fails to Bestoro Gray I Hair to its Youthful Coior. J Cures tcalp diwss.? it hair failing. ? 3f>c, and Sl.oo at DrugJti*t? f. If yon arc CON SU W! PT3 VE or hav? | f^ji Imiftrertion. Painful Ills or la bility of any kind uso felTTa PAEKErVS GINOElt TONIC. Many v.fio we re hopoless and discouraged liavc regained health by its u^o. i 5 SOUTHERN RAILWAY. i$\ 111] Central Time Between ( iilumb!:) au<l Jack* J bonvillo. Kantern Time Hot ween Colunibla nnd Oilier Points. K I- KCTi VK .1A \ 11), 1 SO7. rr*~7T i n"V,,.' u?~Nu yj* / ' ^"rtWbound. Dallj'.j Daily.| Dully ( Lv. J'ville, F.C.&P.Ey.J rt .'> pi 8 -JO a 11 10 a " Savannah ) il " . vpl 12 20 p 2 58 p Ar. Columbia ..I 11 &> a 4 18 p 0 41 j> 1 Lv. Char'ton.SC&lrKK. "> i">?% 7 10 a -i Ar. Columbia.. .| I > Dpi 10 ."A a Lv. Augusta, So. lly.... I1 -'fJ v 2 19p| 5 00p j " <4ranitevii!o ...' lOl.'pi 2 5 28p J " Trenton ilu;V)p> liOSpi 3 54 p " Johnstons . 11 Dp; 3 2?)p[ 0 iri p . Ar. ColuinbiaUn. (lep'i. 2 17 at 4 .V>p M Lv Col'bia Binnd'g ?t. I j a 5 2:tpj 7 54p " "Winnsboro j Da 0 lap 8 47 p " Chester I 7 tun 7 111;?! 0 20 p 9? " Hock Hill 7 4mi 7 ::4;> UO'.'p M~~ ' Ar. Charlotte 8 50 a! 8 2>;? UfOp W. " Danville 1 :a?p 1- tr-.ittj 2i.ua Ar. Richmond 0 40 pi OoJ: ^5 Ar. Washington 9 40p 0 42 w. 9 45 a _ m " BnllimorePa. R. B..I 11 25p' s w ? II OS a " Philadelphia littlii 10 15a 1 Dp " New Yolk 0 20aj .'243pj J 52p , stt. No. :i7 No3i* I Daily, j Daily. Daily. I.v. NfvvYork.Pa.Ji.il.] J3I."uti 4 iilip I- H-an I4iUmte!t?hia n r,:vPT " Kuilimnrc ... 6 Dial DAln 5 00 }> Lv. AVasii'tou, So. lly..j !1 If.s! 10 43p| G liu jj Lv. Richmond ! 13 ft5n| 2 >? ?' r Lv. lmuvillo < 11')j?| 5 M a 1 l?a " Charlotte 10 20t? f iia a 5 1 > a 0^ " K<vk JILI1 11 U> i>j 10 iftt a b:.: a <K " Cbfslfr I H:57m| JO fanI 0 2\a 0< " Vjjm.shoro 13 30 at U 4! >?j 7 It a Os Ar Coi'J>ia Hland'g st... 5 37 a 13 f^nnj 8 17 a (X Lv. ColumbiaUu.dop't.l 3 0>? 1 l.">p! <X " Johnstous 5 7.1 'i 3 7.3 j>j 10 CD a " Tr?ulon I ?1 15 a JJOSpj 10 13 a <X " (irar.itevillo I 0 f?7 a 3::3p; 10 Ma & Ar. Augusta 7 45 uj 4 11 30 a Os Lv. Col'liia, .S.C.&Gr.By.i 7Ut:ii 4 (Dp Ar. Cfnarloston ] 11 oiaj h 001 . <X Lv. Col'l.ia. F.C.&P.Ry. 13 47 m! Mala. 7 37 a <X " Savannah 5 (Da 4 ."7!p 11 52a 0\ Ar. J.vk-mnriHe ! I>i4)nj ' 13?-! ijl.yp si.KKi'ixtt C.VJ; skiivh i:. $ Ttiplo daily nassnnsjer sorvifo 1 . twc-.-u FlorIda nail ISo.v 5 ovk. (X *No.*:. 31 and ;ri?Now Yorlc r.nd Florida T.irnitort. Throutrli vcsiiI??*.!? 'I t-oio l>ot\vi?:i St. <y Aulas'i:o> and Xmv York, !.*:ivi:iir fvo'i toroii- a cal point (St. AujpisM'jo rod Now York) daily w ejcoopt So a day, o?>!ii*>o-:fd of ''".illioao nonpar.'.* iiifur sloopinj; oars, P'iIiimmm flrawia^ -w Sjeej>i:i" < :;i s, ruimin.n u.wn.hiM.! < u hotel dining cars. Ai-?> I'lijlrs.jt:* ciaoing ro'nsi ^ buffet sleeping cars between Augusta ;?-.d Now Vo: k. No>. i!7 and its?Wash? ?-.don ?:?d fb '?<!! western Limited. b<iii(l \'??-. ?i?;;?r::iu Willi dining cars and fiist classenjdn-s m-rik < !' Charlotte. f]f Pullman drawing vooin siecpiiigt-jtrxludweea 3 j Tampa. Ja^kvinviiic, f-uvnuiiali, Washington I J1 I and New York. - vv I'rtilieau sleepingcar l;ct .vrcti Augusts. and Richmond. Nos. itij and 'T?IT. S. Fast Mail. Through i Fuliutaii di awing room lnd'trf s!i-e;.ing ears Iwc j twi-en Jacksonville and _Wv/ York and. Augusta a:i<l ('harlot ! . P.t!!':;::n s!e...j?:ng <*.;rs Cj between Jacksonville and < 'oiunilen. .-a rou'.'j j daily l>cl ween Jacksonville and Cincinnati, via j Ashevillc. i V. H. (tRKRX, J. CCI.P. " <1. Sn>,t.. Washington, 'i'. M . W:i-:hing'ou. W. A. Tf'KK. S. il. HAKOWICK, _ ( ?. p. A.. Washington. A. '! !* A. a "an fa. -? 1 X s p?LUiVSSlA, NEWB'RRY AND LAURENS RAIL? 0A3. PFi Tbe Sbort Line to Greenville, Spartanburg and Glenn Springs?In Effect April 30tb, 189G. s Passenger Local Ft. l" jfp. 52 No. 2 t- J lv Columbia 11 00 a m 5 00 pm n ; lv Leaphart 11 10 a in 5 25 pm | lv Irmo 11 17 a m 5 42 pm lv Ballentine 11 23 a m 6 00 pm ~ lv "White Kock. .11 28 a m 6 12 pm O lv Cbapiu 11 35 a m fi 30 pm | \ lv L. Mountain. .11 45 a m 6 55 pm j J lv Slighs 11 49 a m 7 05 pm i lv Prosperity ... 11 58 p m 7 30 pm j j lv Newberry 12 10 p m 7 55 pm j lv Jalapa 12 23 p m 8 17 pm lv Gary 12 27 p m 8 20 pm ; S) i lv Kinard 12 31 p m 8 35 pm ; )f | lv Goldville 12 38 p m 8 45 pm I 8? J lv Clinton 12 50 p m 9 00 pm Oal< 5g [ ar Laurens 1 15 p in 9 30 pm gen :e | RETURNING SCHEDULE, j i and Passenger Local Ft. I roi j No. 53 No. 1 ' ! lv Laurens 1 45 p in 7 15 am G J lv Clinton 2 10 p m 7 45 am ; cite j lv Goldville 2 20 p m 8 00 am j j lv Kinard 2 26 p m 8 12 am a i lv Gary 2 30 p m 8 21 am ; j lv Jalapa 2 34 p m 8 30 am ' m * I iv Newberry.... 2 50 p m 8 55 am ! ' *? o ? ? n on I 1 iv rrospemy ... o uo p m n -v am i lv Slighs 3 12 p m 0 37 am i U | j lv L. Mountain.. 3 1G p m It 45 am ^ i lv Chapin 3 25 p m 10 00 am | n lv "White Rock.. 3 37 p in 10 20 am p j i lv Ballentiue 3 42 p m 10 30 am ; I j lv Irmo 3 50 p m 10 45 am ipf i lv Leaphart 3 5G p m 11 10 am | ar Columbia .... 4 15 p m 11 30 am Am => Connections made at Clinton for fur: t points "West and Northwest and at thii Laurens for Ausruxta, Greenville, int( Spartanburg and Glenn Springs. bu} ,! For tickets and any other in for ma- hon " tion, call on 13. F. 1\ LEAPHART, TH City Ticket Agent, { Columbia, S. C. 2" iix BARGAINS. J 2-Horse Wagons, .1 1-Horse Wagons, I ? fBH CA timhiipII Tor* RiKyaifis. B AT ACTUAL FACTORY COST, ill be Big Bargains for Somebody. rUIAY WARRANTED. ^ [ress, ,001 HILL BUGGY GO., Eock Sill, s. c. Sale >j . ' b J. GREGORY & CO., Donly & Sease, Columbia, S. C.,, Lewiedale, S. C., MATTHEWS & BUJKNIGHT, [ay 11?iy. Leesville, S. C., P^CTSTANTON HOUSE, D. .J. JONES, Proprietor. KATES $2 PEB DAY' HUpgm SPECIAL TERMS^TO FAMILIES. | TWO MINUTES WAIJ FROM CENTRAL ^ nilATTANOOC A. TENIV. tis* 5-tt 1 AMERICAN BEAUTIES FOR 1897. """ Pr-rtvnlro Inro of firsf Kicht and hold. - yyfr S%iA/fYd ~[t Vt[ve? A i^Bicycliog should be pure happiness. ?[/ ?/ty'T Y *fc? sure to ^ J?u ^de a WINDSOR. Specifications of the 'jC A WINDSOR BICYCLES ' /XJC | / /'^k prove conclusively that better, handsomer bia i/&5&K. ! /yy^k^yc]e than the "American Beauties" have i? Dtver been built. The elements ot strength, beauty, speed and durability are embodied in vCw/Ti\ v\^IF tbeir construction. For catalogue, address VIUKS* _ ^7/1 U\y SIEG & WAIPOLE HFO CO.. _ Kenosha, Wis- 39_-^X<" .NEW FANCY GOOST -A-xriving: IDaH^r. - - - - - ^ aaa a a aaaaa Diamond Dyes. I I "1 OF % ETE2t7 SSWCEITAELE 001CR 1 FOR | Wool, Cotton, Silk, Feathers, Etc I lARMAN'S BAZAAR, INFECHONERIES, FRUITS, CAKES, CRAtMS, -ZP-A-ETCTT GKESOCEISIES, [GARS, CHEWING and SMOKING TOBACCO ^ Toys. Fancv Goods, Notions, J 5S3TJO-S and. MEDICHTBS-,"^ 3FLMERV, STATIOXERV, SCHOOL BOOKS, ALBUMS, EC,, ; 1 ?< IST" A well selected stock of the above Goods constantly on hand and j ays at the very lowest prices. These Goods are all fresh and reliable. | LEXINGTON C . H., 8. .C 1 OMONA HILL I phySSS??| Nlll'SPPlAQ I 1": ^ SflNDEL, lulJl SCI 1CJ>, Physician and Surgeon, ?OMO]\A, IV. O. : ^\ffers his professional ser \_s vices to the citizens of Brookland and nTvr T j surrounding country. Calls answered day AJLiIj JLxjAUiiNvjr X-LUllD, j and night. He also carries and offers for ;ulated to suit the Southern and border i sa*e a *'ne d for descriptive^Catalogne .No. .. , FKESll DRUGS A\D MEDICINES, J FRUIT TREES. VINES, ETC., ; which can be bought at the lowest No. 2, Green House Catalogue of younf | ^ 'v^.)[>lce'i'x, T T i a la not crown **rRev. E L- LyVrand is associated P " with Dr. Sandel and will be pleased to ac3ES, CHRYSANTHEMUMS, CARNa commodate his friends. HONS, Ac. August 10 ?3m. alalognes free. Correspondence soli ? ? ^ ? ^ . d. Address * ? J. VAN LINDLEY. Proprietor, c-" dt tiie Pomona, N. C. T"| 1 T| 1 J Parlor Restaurant JOKING STOVES, Lafa ^Gentlemen, I rivrnA ; (Kendall building,) tA stria, 'or Oysters. Fish. Steak, Chops. Veal,. Drains. Ham ami Eggs, Liver, Chickens. -? fl jkj O C C All Game in season and prices to snit Anu Eva ! evei}body Good service and polite atten' jtion. Silisfaction guaranteed. 5N, TIN AND WOODEN WARE, 0etober 17-tf .1 every conceivable household l|?l|'Lw* Hl^lllt oishing article. If you need any- -"(II 11^ 311 M (1III Ulll, ig in my line it will be to your LEXINGTON, S. C. n est to see my stock before you -* jeals FURNISHED AT ALL HOUES TLink of ine before you leave b?JL Table supplied with the best the no, and call when in town. , market affords. Fish. Oysters, Game, Etc.. p p WOOD in season. It you want agocd meal, cooked t.- ctavt \r\v ' and served in the best style and at only 25 n.Vn V/Vi 1- ? n 1 cents, call and you will be pleased. Lodg- Jfl 1. 0. Bxock, Columbia, b. C. ; jDg$ ais0 provided. fov. 13?lv. September 9. HH