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BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM Western South Carolina, 0 RATES REASONABLE. 0 SUBSCRIPTION $1 PER ANNUM JOB PRINTING A SPECIALTY. Sill Aip's Letter. Talks About the Cold Days of Sixty Years Ago. Atlanta Constitution. # The Lexington dispatch. \ Representative newspaper. Covers Lexington and the Borders of the Surrounding Counties hike a Blanket. VOL. XXIX. LEXIXGTOX, S. C., WEDXESDAY, MARCH X, 1800. XO. !? ,BLA GLOBE DRY GOODS COMPAHY, jgi -W. 22. MOUCSTOIT, T23., , J MAIN STREET COLUMBIA, S. C., ?1 > trhllk FfSripj Solicits a Share of Your Valued Patronage. Polite and Prompt Attention. /if |V114> J "~T - October ,3?tt P I remember?yes, I remember the cokl Friday and Saturday of '39, when I was a little male boy?I meaa a mail boy?and bad to ride the mail from Lawrenceville to Risewell, twenty four miles and back ia a day. Friday was my day, rain or shine, cold or hot, and my mother ciied when father helped me on to the high dromedary horse that morning; but I was bundled up good, and bad warm, woolen socks over my shoes and a pair of home knit mittens on my hands and a woolen comforter crossed around my neck and ears. I thought I could stand it, for I was young and tough, and full of blood, and had been raised to work in the old and to chop wood and go to m il, and my father always said that boys who were raised easy would be no account aDd die hard. I made the trip to Rose well in good t'me, but it was growing culder and colder, and the drizzling rain bad turned into sleet. For about an hour I sat by the postmaster's fire and got thawed. He urged me to stay all night, and said I would freeze to death on the roa3, but I knew my motHer would imagine I was some where dead on the way and be distressed, and so the postmaster helped me on the old dromedary and I gave him the reins for home and held on to the horn of the saddle. He was a fine traveler, and paced up hill and down hill at the eame. By the time I got to Gregory's bridge, on the Chattahoochee, I wa3 pretty j well clad in ice, and the horse's main was a solid sheet nnd his ears were 1 4 full. I stopped in the shelter of the covered bridge a few minutes and found I was getting colder, for the * fcleet had blown under me on the saddle and got into my socks. A 1 feeling of alarm came over me, for ' my fingers were numb and my feet too. Desperately I clucked to the good horse, and away he went, for 1 there were yet sixteen miles to make, and the blizzard was on in earnest and it looked like the daikness of night had almost come. Mile after mile was left behind, and I felt that 1 we could make i*; but all of a sud- 1 den, when I got to Fairview Church, I realized that I had about lost feel- 1 T nnril/tivfr tinV?lnf/il"t mv hand IVi A WU4V4U V UUV?U?VU MM J MMUV* from the horn of the sad jle, snd I ^ didn't know whether my feet were in 1 the stirrups or not. I was only two 1 miles from home and my good horse ' paced on. They weie looking forme ] ?my father and mother?and as the 1 horse rounded up to the back door I 1 almost fell into their aims and my 1 hand was wrenched from its frozen 1 grip on the saddle. I remember ^ that, for it was the cold Friday, and BB the next day was colder. I was 1 j|f rubbed with turpentine and oil and W tenderly nursed, and in a few days \ was ready for another trip. We had no thermometers then, and there is no record how cold it was, but I remember that birds were frozen in the woods and chickens on the rco&t. I don't know whether these thermometers are any advantage or not. The other morning I got up soon and made a fire in two rooms and then l went out to the coalbouse to get more coal for upstairs. I noticed that the back ball floor and the steps aid platform cracked straDgely as I walked on them, and I felt that it was cold?very cold?but I never looked at the thermometer for half ' an hour, and it was 7 degrees below zero. I got colder immediately, for I had never seen the mercury that low before. My opinion is that 10 degrees above zero is about as cold as 10 degrees below if you have m thermometer. I can't realize the difference, and that is the leason why our nothern brethren make so little fuss about weather 30 or 40 degrees below the mark. "It is like . the engineer who wa3 called iQ by a railroad committee to give his opinI ion about speed. They asked him if ^ it was more dangerous to ruu fifty * miles an hour than forty. He said no. "Can you run sixty as safe as forty?" "Yes," said he. "How about | seventy or eight}?" "Just as safe as ! forty," he said, "for if you jump tl e j track at forty you will go to the devil, and that is as far as you can go at 100 miles an hour." Ju:t so I j don't care much where the mercuiy goes to after it gets below 20. I was talking to an old friend from Maine about the weather, and he j said he had suffered about as much | down here as up there, but didu't | eufftr loDg at a time?only a day or two: but up there it was several long, weary mouths. "Wiiere I was raised," he said, "the mercury was far below zero for a month at a time, i - and I remember one long, weary night when it dropped to 30 and then 35 and 40. There was an oldfashioned box stove in the big room. It was made of thick malleable iron and on bitter nights we crowded in wood aDd pine until it was red hot all round. On this particular night we boys had to turn round and round to keep from freezing on one side while we were scorching on the other. About midnight the mercury dropped to 45, and the house cracked and popped like little guns. Father got alarmed, and, being an old fashioned Christian man, said, 'Come, children, let us kneel down and pray.' After prayer we piled more pine into the heater. "Father said to mother: 'When Elisha Kent Kane was in the artics he said that he found that fatty matter was better than fire and he made his crew stuff themselves with whale blubber and seal oil and grease and it saved their lives. And so, mother, you had better bring U3 all the grease in the pantry.' Mother turned us all loose on her lard and butter and fat meat and we crammed it down and it did do us good. But the mercury kept dropping. Father bad an old donkey that brayed incessantly all the forepart of the night, but about [ 3 o'clock he ceased and father said: My children, the poor old donkey is j dead.' About 4 o'clock there was a i 5re in the little village, but nobody 1 went to it. The family fled to the 1 nearest house for refuge. Just be-j fore daybreak the mercury began to i rise a little and father said: 'Come ! children, let us kneel down and gi\e J . thanks to God of His mercy.' "Well, it was glorious to see the big, j ^ rouDd, red sun rise and shine in the ' windows next morning. About this j ' time we heard a racket in the barn j which was near by and father said: Boys, go out and see if that donkey ' is alive.' And sure enough he was and there he stood facing the door with an icicle sticking out of his mouth three feet long and as big at the base as a coffee pot. His brays had frozen and frozen to a sharp point and had stopped up his mouth ' 30 effectually he couldn't bray any more." That's what my friend told me, but N B. he was a newspaper man. Well, I'm not going to write a poem on the beautiful sdow, for I don't like it, especially when I am the boy?the only boy about the house, and have to keep trotting to town or the woodpile orcoalhouse, or somewhere. But the children like it, and there's some comfoit in that, an 3 the other day while I was tramping slowly to town on the slippery walk I met a pretty lady, a middleaged matroD, and just before she got to me her foot slipped backward and the nther exiremitv had to bend forward and she made me the prettiest little courtesy I ever had made to me. She never lost her perpendicu lar, but just come down gracefully on one knee like I have seen girls in the parlor daDce. If course, I tip ped my hat and said ''Thank you, madam." She colored up and smiled and spoilt it all by sayiDg, "I didn't mean to." I havn't told my wife about it yet, for our golden weddirg is near at band and it is no time for these irregularities. It was the beautiful, the sliekery, trickery sncw that did it. I had to shovel it out the pathway from house to the street 50 yards so that my women folks could walk without their shoes and stockings, but every one of them, even to my wife, prepared to wade in the beautiful snow and the girls found a ditch where it was keep and waded in that. That's the way they impose on a poor old boy like me. But there is not so much difference between heat and cold after all. Both destroy sensation, vitality and wither and blast vegetation. They are vrry close akin. Not long ago a man told me he witnessed the experiments made in New York with liquified air. He saw the discoverer place a tumb- j ler half full of it in the center of a j large pan of water and in less than a minute the water was frozen into solid ice. Then he took an iron rod three feet long and as large round as ! a cedar peucil aDd put one end in J the tumbler and while it rested time | he touched a lighted match to the j other end, and it took fire and burnj td furiously until the whole rod was ! consumed. He declared that a tcasi poonful of this liquified air placed in j a refrigerator would freeze every thing in it and keep it frozen for three or four days, and that ice would soon be made at 10 cents for a thousand pounds, and all the ice factories be closed forever, and he said that this liquified air had five times the destructive power cf dynamite. The operator made lemonade and cocktails for the party and froza them by dropping a very small drop in each glass. How is that? But?N. B. The gentleman who solemnly told me this is a newspaper man, too. Bill Arp. How's This! "We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, 0. "We the undersigned have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, aDd believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to can*y out any obligation made by their firm. West & Truax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Walding, Rinnan & Marvin, Wolesale Druggists, Toledo, 0. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken interDally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by druggists. Testimonials free. Hall's Family Pills are the best. LTotss of Travel from Bateshur? to Florida. To the Editor of the Dispatch:" On the morniDg of the lGth of February I and my friend P boarded the train at Baxter, near our humble home, for the distant land of flowers, arriving at Denmark at 9:30 a. m., where we had to lay over until the next morning at 7 o'clock. Denmark is a nice little town on the F., C. and P. railroad, fifty-two miles of Columbia. We found kind friends ready to make our short viyit pleasant. We left Denmark at 7 a. m. for Savannah arriving there at 10 o'clock and had only a glimps of the city, as we had just time to get a ticket for Jacksonville. ' The road from Savannah to Jacksonville is a continual swamp in which can be occasionally seen some very poor cattle. We landed at Jacksonville at 2 p. m., a distance of two hundred and thirty-seven miles, in seven hours. Jacksonville is a modern city with all the beauty and wealth to make it attractive. The first thing was to ! satisfy the innerman which was done with new cabbage, tomatoes, strawberries, etc., and fish until we could I almost swim. Then we went out to see the ships and boats as they plowed the waters of the St. Johns river. Oar eyes grow dim as we behold the beauty and grandure of the Lord and the skill of man combined. We spent a night in this beautiful city. Euly Saturday morning we left for Waldo, fifty-six miles South West of Jacksonville. After a travel of about two hours we found ourselves at Waldo, entirely among strangers, but the Lord always provides, and soon we found ourselves at the hospitable home of Mr. H. P. Holstein, one of Ridge Spring's noble S XJ WA A?" A *-?? .1 /J A f fflol oua?. iiac w c ?cic iuauu iu ic\.? tie good of a friend three hundred aid fifty raile3 away from home and 1 >ved ones. Mr. Iiolstein married here and to say the least of his noble wife, she is just a model women. We find this a rich little town of about one thousand inhabitants, though the people are very despondent, as the recent cold has just killed all their vegetables and "worse, their fine orange groves are all dead which was out in full bloom. Oranges is their main crop. The }ecp 3 work vary little here but live well and are kind and hospitable to straDgers, indeed this is the '"land of flowers." It is quite warm here and the mocking birds sing all day long. More Anon. I have been afflicted with iheumatism for fourteen years and nothing seemed to give any relief. I was able to be around all the time, but constantly suffering. I had tried ; evervthiiii? I could hear of and at I ' ? ! last was told to try Chambei Iain's ! Fain Dalm, which I did, and was iiu j mediately relieved arid in a short ; lime cured. I am happy to say that ! it has not since returned.?Josh i j Edgar, German to wd. C.d. For sale | by J. E. Kaufmann. : rVCUUAR 1 M'TO OUR SOIL. EH American disease. /? liasdoDO so much pood for me that I am able j^vf * '* to do my own work."* fef -s: <w\vN ^r-dacob(Iridir.. Elmer, Mieli..writes: "I was very f nervous and unable to work. 1 have taken several bottles of Pe-ru-na and am entirely well."' Esther Luther, Frank^ ^ linsville, N. C., says: 'I ( ! took your Pe-ru-na for deafness can hear now as j well as I ever could.*' Aug. TrylofF, Mt. Clem- ' j -A.ti ens, Mieh.,writes: 4* i had im M_ j|fo ^r'PPe an<* Ine ! ??! ^vlln a ternuje cuugu. i I to?k Pe-ru-na and was Mrs. E. Guest, Kearney, | Buffalo Co., Neb., writes: | . "J took your Pe-ru-na for < catarrh, and can say that I am now entirely cured II. "Walter Brady, Cascade, Ark., saj-s: "1 had ' \ running ears. It was so j offensive I excluded my- j ' self from all society. After I* had borne it fourteen \ years I read Dr. Hartman's book called ' 'The Ills of Life.' I took seventeen ! dollars' worth of his remedies and am ! entirely cured." Tillman on the Negro. i ! He Can be Faithfull, But He is Not J Fit to Vote. WashiDgton Times. United States Senator Benjamin j R. TillmaD, of South Carolina, and j Rev. A. H. Bradford, D. D, of | the Mountclair First Congregational | church, debated before the Outlook j Club here recently on both sides of. ' the race question in the South. Senator Tillman , after laying the cause of the problem to the war and draw- | ing a graphic picture of the ruin and displation caused in his land by the civil conflict, went on to saj: "The white man is superior to the ordnrod rar.P and. so heln lis God. we , r ? , - , will maintain our superiority. Your ] great soldier, Grant, sent to mj coun- j try in 187G a regiment of ten com- ; panies to maintain carpet bag govern- ! ment. Those troops had orders to ! comnel a free vote and a fair count. ' i They did their duty as they saw it. ! They maintained lav and order, j although there were 2,500 blacks to i 3,500 whites. What do you reckon \ our majority was? Thirty-nine hun- j dred. [Laughter.] Can Tammany j beat that? Can Philadelphia beat ! it? We beat these people by out- I votiDg and out-counting them, and | I admit it. We cannot repeal the j Fourteenth and Fifteenth amend- i meuts except by force and fraud, and j I told the senators this in Washington, and then I said: 'What are you goiDg to do about ii? In the North it is a case of white rascals ag> iost white rascals. In the South with us it is a contest between Anglo Saxon | superiority and civilization and dei graded and corrupt people. The colored people are a happy J go lucky, immoral, untruthful, un! reliable race, There are exceptions, | and blight ODes, but I speak of the I l ? ? 1% t I V?n i great mass. iuev hcjc uuuv ivi iu? ! ballot, and now, because they aie | lacking iu that moral fibre which ! gives them sound judgmeit, and i they can be led away by any shrewd I and sharp rascals. I simply recog! nize my superioiity to him and am j willing to cansent to him life, liberty j and happiness so long ws he does not | step on my feet. [Laughter J Take | a pilgrimmage to the South; settle in any part you may please, and if . vou don't come North convinced that i " j my view is the right one, why; then, ! I'll stand treat. I have a negro on j my plantation twenty-seven years j old. I would trust him with my ; wife and child, and he would die i protecting them, but he ain't fit to j vote. You can't altar what God has i made, and though this or that negro j may be a decent man or an honest | man, yet the tiger is loosened in a | white man's bosom without regard j to consequences when the two races ; come in contact." i Speaking of the negro from the iu, i dustrial standpoint, Senator Tillman , ; said: "Ue is by nature and bj every ! ijst.net of his soul a loaftr. His r ; one puipose in life is to get some thing to eat for today with no thought > for the future. In ccDsrquence the Southern States lag behind the North because of the lack of thrift in its laboring class. But don't think that the negro does all the wcrk. The South produced 11,000,000 bales of cotton last year and half of it was raised by white men. If any commonwealth will give us one good, iu i dustrious white man for three nig| gers we'll stay as loDg as they will | keep up the exchange. We've got j the white man's burden down there." [Laughter and applause. ] In closing the speaker said: "We are educating them, but even if they can learn we don't propose to have them govern us. We'll use the shotgun if necessary.1' Dr. Bradford denied that "we can't alter what God has made." "That's what we are doing all the time," be said. Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly for March, 1899. i The timely topic of Mormon polyg- | amy, and the opinions of the late ! Brigbam Young and various Mormon j wives regarding it, is tactfully dis- i cussed by Mrs. Fxank Leslie, in an \ I illustrated article which is one of j the principal features of F.ank Les- j lie's Popular Monthly for March. I The Nicaragua Canal project?past, i present and future?is ably discussed by E. A. Fletcher, whose contribution has the advantage of being thoroughly well illustrated. "Queen j Wilhelmina and Women's Work in j Holland,'" by S. M. D'Eogelbronner, j is full of personal and literary, as well as pictorial interest, which is equally true of "Sketching from Nature," by H. Villiers Barnett. Thomas R Dawley, Jr., famous for his hair-breadth 'scapes while camnoinninn OM < Vt ft-\niC7 in ftllbn tpllfl """ v-v ? y some thrilling stories of that veteran hero and the late Gen. Qaintin Bandera. "A Skein of Silk"' is a charmiDg illustrated paper, bj W. C. Kitchin, describing silk-worm culture in Japan. The "Woman in Action" article tells about the fair sex in Wall Street. Bret Harte and Egerton Castle head the fiction writers in Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly, and there are complete short stories this month by Mary J. Holmes (illustrated by Wenzell), and Eita W. Pierce (illustrated by Rosenmeyer) '-Marginalia" contains some spicy contributions by R. K. Munkittrick and others. The fine art productions in this number are profuse and beautiful. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. This remedy is intended especially for coughs, colds, croup, whooping cough and influenza. It has become famous for its cures of these diseases, over a large part of the civilized i world. The most flattering testi| monials have been received, giving j accounts of it9 good work; of the agi gravating and persistent coughs it has cured; of severe colds that have yielded promptly to its soothing effects, and of the dangerous attacks of croup it has cured, often saving the life of the child. The extensive u^e of it for whooping cough has shewn that it robs that disease of all dangerous consf qnences. Sold by i J. E. Kaufmann. Adjt. Gen. Floyd intends to start shoitly upon the work of reorganizing the State militia and for that purpose he and his assistant, Col. John Frost, will visit all the companies in the State to assertain which ; of them shall be retained and to find out the status of affairs in regard to the arms and uniforms of the ccrn| panies. There are now 70 companies, or alleged companies, on the rolls but many of these are known to be in a thoroughly disorganized state ' and not to be relied upon in case of need. Rev. E. Edwards, pastor of the English Baptist Church at Minersville, Pa., when suffering with lheumatism, was advised to try Ckamberlain'd Pain Balm. He say:: "A few applications of this liniment proved of great service to me. It subdued the ii llimmation and relieved the pain. Should any sufferer profit by giving Pain Balm a trial it i will please me." For sale by J. E ' Kaufmanu. Ro* r Absolutely'] Makes the food more de 8AKINO POV I The Tolberts Defiant. i i i li. II Tolbert .Says They Will lie- j turn Home. But He is in Washington and Prob- , ably Was Talking for Effect- Push- j ing His Congressional Contest. R R. Tolbert is in Washington. Notwithstanding the action of the people of Abbeville and Greenville ' counties in positively warning him and some of his relatives to stay . away from those counties. Tolbert says he is going to return. The fol! lowing is from the Washington Post: Mr. R. R. Tolbert, of Abbeville, 1 S. C , whose political activity made 1 it necessary for him to flee from the 1 Palmetto State at the time ofe the I last election, has returned from a ? trip to his home, and last night was j i registered at the St. James hotel, i "Affairs have quieted down somewhat 1 since the excitement of election time," i said Mr. Tolbert, "but I do not by i any means consider that all danger t has passed. I would not be sur- ] prised at any time I am within the borders of the State to find myself i surrounded by a dozen Winchesters, i i Those people never come at a man single handed. Still South Carolina is my home, and I shall continue to reside there. I have just spent two months in my congressional district preparing evidence against -Representative Latimer, and I met with no physical violence. Shortly after I went to my home near Abbeville court house there was a meeting of the citizens held and resolutions passed calling upon me to leave the State. A committee waited upon me and presented them, but I paid no attention to the resolutions. 'T continued to remain there for two weeks afterward, in fact, until I had concluded my business. Then I canvassed my district, although I did not visit Phoenix, where most of the rioting occurred. I have several days yet in which to complete my testimony in the contested election case, but I have secured already practically all I want, and I shall certainly push the matter before the house committee. None of our fam- 1 ily have yet returned to Phoenix or McCormick, but all will do so shortly and face all the opposition and Winchesters which may be brought before them. They will not attempt to cause trouble, but seek to avert l ir? fit : r _ t it J it. iuy iuiuer, win1, uromer uuu children are now in Chaileston. But they have a plantation near Phoenix and will return in the spring to cultivate. My brother, who was shot four times, is an invalid for life, but he proposes to live out .the rest of ' bis life in South Carolina I would not I i be surprised to see these disturb- j | ances taking place until congress, as | I I believe it will do, cut the repre| sentation of South Carolina to its i actual voting population. Then she will have three instead of seven con- J gressmen. That will open the eyes of the people. Howc-ver, so far as I i j am concerned I would prefer the I representation to continue as it is, ; ! with suffrage for all. I shall return ; j to South Carolina as soon as the j i present session of congress closes." i Saturday's Tragedy. I Columbia Even in j livcortl. r I Under ordinary circumstances The | Record would not discuss an occur; rence like Saturday evening's tragedy j , j i in advance of the law s action, but j j newspapers in opposition to the dig- | ! pensary law have in advance denomi- j j uated the homicide a murder and ! have used it as a text for diatiibes ! | against the law. To a certain extert ! the case of the constables has been ; J prejudiced. As a matter of fact, j j only one constable, Crawford, is re- 1 ! soonsible and can be brought to trial I ; The others did not draw their wea- j i pons, Cooley was outside the prem- j ! ise> and Duin and Coleman did their I utmost to prevent a tragedy, ever i urging Crawford to withdraw, though I he was armed with the proper j Baking ^ Powder Pure ilicious and wholesome yQEB CO.. NEW YORK. authority to search the premises. The Iiecoril will discuss the imitt< r calmly aDd without prejudice for or against any of the persons involved. In the first place, it is unfair to charge those who voted for the dispensary law or against its repeal with even indirect resposibility for the homicide. There is no reason in that charge. The point upon which the whole affair turns is the right of search. ' Legally the constables had that f right. As a matter of fact, they , acted decently about the matter of ^ its exercise, which they deferred un- | til Mr. Stuart, the head of the house, could come home. Whether Mr. Stuart thought it right or wroDg for ( the constables to be authorized to 3earch his dwelling, they had the necessary legal warrant for the j, search and as a law-abiding citizen t ae should have allowed them to make j !t. If each and every citizen is to be J illowed to nulify a law which he disapproves, a state of anarchy would prevail in South Carolina. * Stuart having declined to permit he search and threatened to resist I ivith force, while Crawford had the ight to go ahead and make the ( search, regardless of consequences, t would have been far better for him ;o have retired and sworn out a war- ^ ant against Stuart for resisting an )fficer in the discbarge of his duty. So language used by Stuart could j ustify Crawford in slapping his face, j [le should have restrained his temper. j All accounts agree that Stuart ^ ired the first shot. If he was deternined to have a battle with the constables, he should have waited until y ais wife was out of the way before he f )pened fire. It would have been superhuman self-control for Craw- < ford, with a pistol in his hand, to t 1 _ f..! 3 e i -i jave jeirainea irom reiurDing me 3hots of a man only a few feet away ] from him, especially as be was hit ] by one of the first shots. Under , such circumstances, net one man in ( a million would have remembered ] that a lady was present and would , bave made no return to shots which endangered his life. Good Advico. The Washington Post, which seems to understand conditions of the South better than any other newspaper published north of the Potomac, says: "The South does not and never will pretend that it offers the negro political domination, official control or substantial ascendancy of any kind. The South is frank enough to proclaim faith that the negro represents an inferior race and shall not be permitted to rule. But the colored people will be wise to consider that the white Southerners are their real friends and sympathizers. The time has come for tbe negro to choose between the 'leader* who promises much and does nothing for his welfare and the Southern white who promises nothing and does much." No truer statement of the position of the white men of tbe South has been made; no better counsel has been offered to tie negroes in this section. The "leaders" of the negro have gotten him into most of his troubles and are responsible for mistakes which have cost him very dearly. We are glad to believe that a majority of the negroes in the South have learned wisdom by experience and cheei fully accept the position which by laws and instincts beyond the control of man they now hold aud under existing conditions must continue to occupy. 4 ^ * ? " If the Baby is Cutting Teeth t Be sure and use that old and well tried remedy, Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays all paiu, cures wind colic and is the best remedy for diarrhoea Twenty-live cents a bottle. It is the best of all. ADVERTISING RATES. Advertisements will be inserted at the rate of one cent per word for first insertion, and one-half cent tor each subsequent insertion. Liberal contracts made with those wishing to advertise fot three, Biz and twelve months. Notices in the local column 6 cents per line each insertion. Obituaries charged for at the rate of one cent a word, wken they exceed 100 words. Miirriage notices inserted free. Address G. M. BARMAN, Editor and Publisher. Scores a Strong Point. ? Special to the Di q aVli: Wubuiiigton, !> U. Feb. 25, 1899. Representative Stokes scored a ,1. . :..i i . f l. pOllH 1U I LI C lIUL'It'bt Oi LI1S CULItJiUUents a day or two ago, when he succeeded iu placing on the po9t office appropriation bill an amendment which goes a long way toward his Star Route delivery scheme. Finding that it would be difficult to get through a separate measure on any subject this session, and realizing that something must be done at this session, if done at all in time to benefit S,-uth Carolina. Mr. Stokes placed it as a rider 011 the Appropriation Ihll. As contracts for Star Routes in South Carolina are dun to be renewed next fall, and as these contracts are for years, it is very important that the law be p issed iu some form prior to the giviDg out of these contracts. While Representative Stokes' district will get a large slice of the benefits from this legislation, it is more than a local matter. It will reach the rural communities all over South Carolina and over all of the States. It is a measure that is National in its sweep covering something like 22000 Star Routes and the millions of rural residents served by them. When this system is supplemented, as it will be in time, by bis Rural Delivery system, where applicable, the rural districts will have i fairer proportion of the benefits of he postal system than ever before. Ramon's Pepsin (.'hill Tonic contains Amorphous Quinine to neutralize and deitroy the parasite in the blood; Pure Iron ;o enrich and tone up the blood, and Pure Soluble Pepsin to digest every dose given. It recommends itself to physicians. Tasteessani guaranteed. 5"e. For sale by r. M. H trman and J. E. Kiufmanu. It matters not how long we live jut how well. Telephone lines use 12,000,000 jounds of copper yearly. Quite recently 125 negroes left Calhoun Falls for Mississippi. It is better to suffer wrong from ivery man than to do wrong to a single one. The Curative Properties, Strength md Effect of Dr. M. A. Simmons jiver Medicine are always the same, it cannot be equalled. Enlargements of Granby Cotton TjMorv in f! ilnmhia. costinc $500, WVVW4J ? ^ ; w )00, bas commenced. Governor Ellerbe's physicians adrise bis going away for a change as soon as be is able to leave bis room. The city council of Sumter has jompelled all the children attending he public schools to be vaccinated. J. R. Hill, Packsville, S. C., writes: [ have used Dr. M. A. Simmons Liver Medicine for Dyspepsia with better results than I had from a long trial af Zsilin's Regulator, which I found ot so good. Never had any good results from Black Draught used. Greenville girls take to the soliliers. There have been several marriages recently, the soldiers being the grooms. The appropriations by this present Congress will reach, it is said, one billion six hundred million dollars. ' Uncle Sam" is both rich and liberal. The Philippine war is about to develop into a bushwhacking campaign such as has been carried on against the Spaniards for the past fifty years. To restore the Clear Skin, the Bright Eye, the Alert Gait and Sound Health, use Dr. M. A. Simmons Liver Medicine. Three persons have died in Rock Hill within twelve months from drinking '*\YoocI Alcotiol. mac gets in the woik quicker than single X, Palmetto brand. Prom September 1, 1898, to February 23, 1899, the police of Spartanburg made C>S0 arrests, and the total amount of the fines imposed in the Mayor's Court was *1,398.13. Flushed Cheeks, Throbbing Temples, Nausea, Lassitude, Lost Appetite, Sallow Complexion, Pimples, Llotches, are warnings. Take Dr. M. A. Simmons Liver Medicine. J. Y. Jones, of Abbeville, is a candidate for bookkeeper of the penitentiary. The claims of the Southern States for equipping and maintaining the troops during the Spanish war will, by a recent act of Congress, be paid immediately. Constipation of the Bowels may be easily cured by a few doses of Dr. M A. Simmons Liver Medicine. T ffllA of ;U l. Iiciii J h ui/ i?u Abbeville last week, had S3,000 insurance on his life, but since his' death his family has been unable to find the insurance policy and may have some trouble in getting the money.