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-WTHE-W BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM | . ~INr Western South Carolina. RATES REASONABLE. O ^ SUBSCRIPTION $1 PER ANNUM , JOB PRINTING A SPECIALTY. I??????? Washington Gcs3ip. A Senate and House Committee Plans for Financial Bill. Gold Standard Clauses?Lightniug The lexington dispatch. Ecprcscntatice newspaper. Covers Lexington and the Eordcrs of the Surrounding Counties Lihe a Blanhct. VOL. XXIX. LEXIXGTOX, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1899. AO. 07 fflU," GLOBE DRY GOODS COMPANY, "W. EC. 3^03jT0KT0HT, TI3., (S\^T =-/ 1030 MAI3V STREET, - COLUMBIA, S. C., 8D * lh MoT iwS Solicits a Share of Your Valued Patronage. Polite and Prompt Attention. IP llA i October 12?tf Alarms the Watchmen in the Washington Monument. Colombia Daily Record. Washington, July 20?^Word comes from the Republican members of the Senate finance committee that they have practically finished their work i at Narragansett and have tentatively agreed on a platform for a financial bill to submit to the full committee It is understood here that the Senaators will go to New York this week for a meeting or t*o before they finally take a recess, and set a date for * * * - -? ?U zMic.fi non_ a joidc session wuu iuc nouoc v??cua committee. "When General HendersoD was in Washington last week he said that the House Committee had not prepared a bill to submit to Congress, and technically he was j right, for the committee have not put their ideas into the shape of a bill. But they have agreed upon a substance of a measure. Tbe Senate can say the same thing, for while they have not drawn up their bill in writing, they have agreed upon its , provisions, and the meeting in New York will be to conclude their work. is thought by Republicans here that when the two committees get together they will be able to agree. upon a bill, and that the members of the House committee will do a great deil toward inducing the Senate committee to make an open declaration for the gold standard. Although one or two Senators, notably Thurston and Chandler, have < declared in interviews against tbe Republicans committing themselves unreservedly for the geld standard, it is thought these opinions are only . given out that the Senators may seem -/.Rowfont *rith tho nnqf rponrds. But. UUUOIOkWUV fftvu v?v - v privately, these Senators say . that if a gold standard bill is reported they will vote with their party in the Senate.. The chief obstacle against such a declaration is the prospect of a long filibuster in the Senate against the final vote on any bill committing the country to the absolute gold standard. While the next Senate will be Republican by a good majority, there are still members who will bitterly fight any gold standard declaration. Under the rules of the Senate practically unanimous consent is necessary to vote upon a bill.' The Democrats and silverites will combine for a long contest, and will filibuster just as long as they can. However, it is a well established precedent that when a majority of the Senate i3 in favor of a bill it will pass, although it may take a long time in doing to. If a majority of the Senate, as represented by the Republicans, favor a declaration for the gold standard and it is incorporated in a financial bill, it will pass, but in the meantime it will create antagonism, bad feeling and debate on the floor, and furnish material for the coming campaign. It is the opinion of well advised men here in Washington, that notwithstanding this, such a declaration will be included in the new financial bill. During one of the big storms last week lightning struck the Washington monument and did considerable damage among the telephones inside the shaft. There is a complete tele phone system inside the monument, the wires connecting the engine room, the watchman's quarters, with the elevators and the platform at the top. There is also a lightning rod on the top of the monument, but somehow or other the electric current got tangled up in the telephone wires, and for a time the position of the base of the monument was anythii g but pleasant. The lightning rod on the top < f the monument is a peculiarly shaped affair, resembling a large gridircD, placed directly over "the capstone. All along the ribs of the gridiron are various points to attract the lightning, and in the centre is a taller one, directly over the aluminum apex of the monument. All these rods ai^. gathered under the gridiron into one wire, and it runs down into the top of the monument. Tcis one rod is connected with the wire in the inte" mnmimant ?nd runs down ! 11UI UA I.UC rnuuuiu - ~ ? the iron framework of the elevator, connecting at the base with a copper wire running into the earth. Generally when lightning strikes the mon umeDt, which is quite cfteD, the c rrant runs clown this rod into the j earth without doing any haim. Bat j last week, besides causing a gorgeous electric display inside the monument, j it burned out all the telephone?, and Beared the people inside the shaft very badly. No damage wa3 done to the monument, however. SpeakiDg of the monument, it is not generally known that when the memorial blocks were beirig sent by the various States and friendly nations to be put in the shaft, a block came from the people of Rome. When it became known that the Vatican had sent a stone to be put in thp mnnmnpnfc thprp war a fiprnp nn position to accepting it, and before it was decided wtiat to do some one stole the stone. Col. Bingham,, superintendent of public buildings and grounds, who has charge of the monument, says oneof the greatest troubles the watchmen at the monument has to contend with is the chipping of these memorial stones by relic huLters. "One of the strangest things about these relic hunters,*' saidColonel Bingham, uis the fact that more than one-half of the men arrested for clipping off relics are clergymen. When the police arrest these despoilers and start with them to the station house the man will begin to ask what is the penalty and try to beg off. He is told that the fine is a heavy one, but that $15 security can be put up for appearence in the police court. Then the prisoner explains that he is a minister of the gospel and meant no harm, and that he could not stand the disgrace of appearing in a police court. He ends up by giving up the collateral, after generally trying to cut it down to $10, saying that he * _ 1 _ iL.i l. L: ?? nas ODiy mat amouut mm. Children are like clocks; too much regulating is apt to make them go wroDg. The crooked horse race is the result of a lack of straightness in the human race. ' What might have been'1?if that little cough hadn't been neglected? is the sad reflection of thousands of consumptives. One Minute Cough Cure cures coughs and colds. J. E. Kaufmann. Hunger is a terrible thing, but some men consider thirst more so. The silent watches of the night hang in front of jewelry stores. E. F. Kenemur, Pickens, S. C, writes: Dr. M. A. Simmons Liver Medicine has for 10 years greatly benefited me and maBy others. I think it a better medicine than Black Draught; use it in preference as it is milder, yet more efficient. Oaly a strong-minded woman can keep her calendar torn off up to date. The good may die young, but'the nnftrln olnrorO Al 1 H i T7A t h PI T 11 SP uau uc?iij n t*j u VMVA*(W ? ? ? fulness. To arouse a Dormant Liver and secure permanent regularity of tbe Bowels, use Dr. M. A." Simmons Liver Medicine. The man who goes through life alone generally l?as poor company. For disobedience the small boy frequently takes the palm. No Torture Equal to the first S} before Itching md Burning of ?3* durabl Tiiis Fearful Disease. merelj tion o Eczema?which is more than skin-deep, cations of ointments, salves, etc., appli the real cause of the trouble, is in the bl through the skin; the only way to rea< the blood. Mr. Phil T. Jones, of Mixersville, In "1 had Eczema thirty years, and afl of treatment my leg was so raw and sor< constant pain. It finally broke into a n began to spread and grow worse. For six years 1 have suffered untold agony a all hope of ever being free from the dis been treated by some of the best phys taken many blood medicines, all in v faith left I began to take S. S. S., an made the Eczema worse, but I knew th way the remedy got rid of the pois< S. S. S., the sore healed up entirely, 1 clear and smooth, and I was cured perft Eczema is an obstinate disease and < only a tonic. Swift's Specific? S. S. S. FOR ?is superior to other blood remedies be not reach. It goes to the bottom?to tli the worst case of Eczema, no matter wh the only blood remedy guaranteed to t other mineral, and never fails to cure Poison, Cancer, Tetter, Rheumatism. O; upon S. S. S.; nothing can take its p!ac< * Books on these diseases will be mail ciiic Company, Atlanta, Georgia, j V Select Kansas Yarns. I State's Notoriety Doe to Eastern Correspondents, Who Invent Fabulous Stories to Regale Their Readers?Cyclones That Blow Cracks Out of Fences and Bung-Holes From Barrels. During the last quarter of a century Kansas has come in for a good- ! ly share cf notoriety as a land of strange happenings, and this atten- 1 tion which it is claimed is attributed i hv Mr. Cnburn. the agricultural com i missioner of the State, to correspond' ents from the east who, he claims, after having visited the commonwealth tried to interest their readers by inventing fabulous stories. The finest work of the eastern correspondent, says Mr. Coburn, has been his treatment of weather conditions, especially our impulsive zephyrs and periods of procrastinated rainfall. The lines of thought always discernible in his woik are that we are in a chronic condition of cyclone, drought or blizzard, variegated by invasions of devastating cinchbugs and grasshoppers. In dealing with the former he describes the wind which he saya blew a cow up against the side of a barn and held her there for 12 days, or until she starved to death. The same wind, says this veracious chronicler, blew the cracks out of the fences, sucked a cistern from the ground, moved the township line and CHANGED THE DAY OF THE WEEK, while it yanked the buDghole out of a barrel and buried it in a sandhill 80 mile? away. On another occasion* as he avers, while stopping at a farmhouse, a cyclone came up and he, with the family, went into the cellar. The house was soon blown away; presently the cellar went to, rolling over and over like a silk hat. He was early spilled out, but with in finite labor dragged himself back in the teeth of the wind, intending to take refuge in the hole the cellar came out of, but to his great consternation he found that the hole had been blown away also. Shortly after this, a farmer was riding along the road with a jug of sorghum tied with a strap to his saddle horn. A cyclone came up and after it had passed the jug handle was found inside the jug, and the strap was sticking out of the jug's mouth, the jug haviDg been blown inside out without having spilled a drop of molasses. DuiiDg the same blow a goat happened to get in its path, and his hair was blown of until he looked as clean as a skinned banana. This madfc the goat look so much like a Mexican dog with horns that it was placed on exhibition at the World's Fair, attracting attention as one of the great curiosities of the century. SOME TARNS ABOUT DROUGHTS. The eastern correspondent is < qual ly at ease in dealing with the inter vals occurring between showers, which the fertility of his imagination and tho extreme elasticity of his conmuch attention is often paid to the rmptoms of Eczema, but it is not long the little redness begins to itch ana ( This is but the beginning, and will > suffering and torture almost unen- i ie. It is a common mistake to regard . fhness and redness of the skin as j a local irritation ; it is but an indicaf a humor in the blood?of terrible and can not be reached by local applied to the surface. The disease itself, ood, although all suffering is produced jh the disease, therefore, is through Ler a great deal i that it gave me yL _ jnning sore, and IPvJ. j the past five or .nd had given up I =ease. as I have A icians and have 3^J?8gN?iP^\ ain. With little id it apparently at this was the he skin became ;an not be cured by a remedy which is THE BLOOD cause it cures diseases which they can :e cause of the disease?and will cure lat other treatment has failed. It is ie free from potash, mercury or any Eczema, Scrofula, Contagious Blood pen Sores, Ulcers, Boils, etc. . Insist ed free to any address Swift Spa science permit bim to describe as "droughts/' Whatever portion of his vocabulary has not already been exhausted in describing the "cyclone" is at once available for writing up the "drought." Through him a wondering world learns of the alleged Kansas ferryman who has to haul water 10 months in the year in order to keep his boat running; of the families who each morning are compelled to run their wells through clothes wringers that they may ob tain water for cooking purposes; of i neighborhoods wnere it is so ury that water is wet only on one side, and where fish, to allay thirst and rinse the dust from their throats, swarm out on the prairies and lap the boiling dew from the % buffalo grass. He it is who says this distressing scarcity of moisture is forced upon us by the corporations that have cornered the water supply to put into-their stocks, and to such an extent that farmers have to soak their hogs over night in older to make them hold swill. DROWNED IN THE AIR. Another remarkable story is told of a man who was driving over the divide north of Dodge City, when a shower came up. He was riding a buckboard, which has a bottom made by fastening cleats between the axles with spaces of half an inch between the cleats. The water fell so fast that it could not run through the bottom of the buckboard as fast as it fell. RushiDg down the side of the divide the water struck a barbed ? ? - ^ ?,.:i a. wire tence ana aammea up umu iuc water ran over the top wire of the fence. This was because the rain came so fast that it couldn't get through between the wires of the fence. On the same trip the traveler says he saw a jack rabbit drown while it was jumping through the air. The same traveler declares that within half an hour the water was three feet deep on the ridge and falling faster on the ridge than it could run down both sides of the hill. We have supposed that possibly the traveler in his excitement might have exaggerated, but there are residents in Dodge City who stand ready to prove the truth of the story by showing the ridge where the buckboard stood during the rain, and the place in the air where the jack rabbit was when it drowned. Millions G-ivon Away, It is certainly gratifying to the public to know of one concern in the land who are not afraid to be generous to the needy and suffering. The proprietors of Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and and Colds, have given away over ten million trial bottles of this great medicine; and have tl e satisfaction of knowing it has absolutely cured thousands of hopeless cases. Asthma, Bronchitis, Hoarseness and all diseases of the Throat, | Che3t and Lungs are surely cured by it. Call on J. E. Kaufmaun* Druggist, and get a free trial bottle. Regular size oOc. and 81. Every bottle guaranteed, or price refunded. * ^ Against Annexation. Carolina (Chopin) News. While the "expansion"' theory is on foot we would like to say a few words. We are told that Editor GoDzdes has a large influence over the Columbia city aldermen; that he caused them to raise the amount for erectiog a city hall "twenty better," and that < some "cranks" have an idea that because Eiitor Gonzales has "fit in the : Spanish-American war" that he is a | "whopper."' Our esteemed friend t i may rule the city council of Cflum- j . bia, he may even get "part" of Lexington aunexed to their "commercial capital," but our old Dutch Fork, if i she has any thinto say, will show ! the State's Editor a thing or two. ! < We are satisfied with our lot, (if it is M not a corner lot) and want no one to ! instruct us as to our duty. If there i is any change to be made we could j go in with Newberry county or have a county of our own. We have troa- i ' ble enough with getting to court j i now, and what would the citizens cf ' the north-western part of the Folk do about getting to court. Our idea ' is for the Dutch Foik to be "cut ell" instead of "annexed." We would like to hear from some of our leading j Fork land-owners in regard to this j issue. I Lament of a Little Girl. My brother Will, he used to be The nicest kind ol girl; He wore a little dress like me And had his heir in cu. 1. We played with dolls and tea sets then, And every kind of toy : * l>ut all those good old times are goneWill turned into a boy. Mamma has made him little fuits, With pockets in the pants, And cut off all his yellow curls And sent them to m> aunts And Will, he was so pleased, I believe, He almost jumped with joy, But I must own I didn't like Will turned to a boy ! And row heDlavs with horrid tops I tlon't know how to spin, And marbles that I try to shoot, Bat never hit nor win. And leaping ?I can't give a '-back" Like Charley, Frank or Roy, Oh, no one know9 how bad I feel Since Will has turned a boy ! I luve to wear frocks just the same, And now they're mostly white; I have to sit and just be good, Whde Will can climb and fight; Bat I mast keep my drei-ses nice , And weir my hair in cnrl. And, w >rse -Oh, worstest thing of all ? I have to stay a girl! Bed Hot From the Gun "Was the ball that hit G. B. Steadman of Newark, Mich., in the Civil War. It caused horrible Ulcers that no treatment helped for 20 years. Then Bucklen's Arnica Salve cured him. Cures Cuts, Bruises, Boils, Burns, Felun9, Corns, Skin Eruptions. Best Pile cure on earth. 25 cents a box. Cure guaranteed. Sold by J. E. IvaufmanD, Druggist. \ % New York World. Although the war in the Philippines is Mr. McKinley's own?Congress never haviDg declared it?the American people are fighting and paying for it. They are, therefore, entitled to full and trustworthy information concerning it. A double censorship at Manila and at Washington keeps this information from the people. But these facts are not denied: 1. The war has now lasted for 139 days, or 2> days longer than our war with Spain. We hold, after this period, less of the territory than Spain occupied and less than we held in August of last year. The rebel forces are now more "troublesome" than at any former time. 2. The war has cost nearly 700 ; men killed, 6,590 wounded, 40,030 j invalided. It has cost ?63,000,000 i iu money and is costing nearly S300,000 a day. Our losses in the fighting in Cuba which resulted in the surrender of Santiago and the end of the war with Spain were about 239 killed and 1,300 wounded. Our losses in Porto Rico were 3 killed and 40 wounded. 3 There have been sent to Gen. Otis 39,000 men. Some 4,500 more are under sail orders. The President has decided, it is said, quietly to enlist the 3o,0u0 volunteers he j was authorized by Congress to add j to the army for temporary use. 4 According to the beat expert j i. .. ....ii t mn nrtft ! lesmuuuv it win taut? iiuLu iw.vvjv f ! to loLk,000 'roup* to subdue the Fill pints and j.iol l the principal points in the islands. o. The rainy season will soon put an end to campaigning. "Fifty per j cent of our men will be incapacitated by sickness and the territory overrun will have to be abandoned; Manila will be in a state of seize again."' This is the testimony of j Dr McQaeston, late of Gen. Otis' i staff, and health officer at Manila. 0. The President's peace commia j bion is a total failure, owing largely j to its inability to consider any terms ' Except unconditional surrender and ; absolute submission to the "sovereign- | ty of the United States.*' This is not a pleasing picture. It j is neither '-benevolent assimilation" j nor successful conquest. It has all the appearance of a foolish and futile and endless guerilla war. If Mr. i McKinley can "crush the insurrec ! tion by an overwhelming force,as | his supporters are urgiDg him to do, ; it is manifestly the part of wisdom 1 for him to do so. There is neither ! honor nor profit in permitting this unnecessary and Un-American war to drag on into another year. I RoY/ Absolutely Makes the food more d WOVAl BAKTNO P The Summer School. Office of County Supt. Ed. Lexington, S. C., July 15,1899. Teachers and Friends of Education: it is with much pleasure that I announce to you the opening of our ''County Summer School" for white teachers, on the 9th of August. This Rrhnol will be under the man agement of Prof. W. K Sligh, of Newberry College, assisted by Mr James P. Bean, of JohnstoD, S. C. and will continue one month, 4 weeks A sufficient amount of funds has b^en appropriated by the State to run these schools, for the specie benefit of our public school teachers, the aim being to raise the standard of the profession, and this we hope will be accomplished. By a ruling of the State Board, County Boards are prohibited from renewing the certificates of qualifies tions of teachers who will not attend these "Summer Schools," and we wish to emphasize the fact, that it is | the aim of our County Board to carry out this ruliDg and require ment of the State Board. Let all of our white teachers begin at once to arrange to attend this school at Lexington in August, and prepare for more effectual and substantial work in the respective fields of labor in the future. The good people of Lexington have already intimated to me their willingness and desire to entertain those who may attend the Summer School, and we believe will offer board at actual cost. If any of those expecting to attend the school, desire further information I shall be pleased to serve them to the best of my ability. Yery Respectfully, J. E. R. Kyzer, Co. Supt. Ed. * Brave Men Fall Victims to stomach, liver and kidney troubles as weli as womeD, and all feel the results in loss of appetite, poisons in the blood, backache, nervous headache and tired, listless, rundown feeling. But there's no need to feel like that. Listen to J. W. Gardner, Idaville, Ind. He says: !!?/? T^iffaro ora inat fho fViiner XJigV/WliV JL/iVbVk U w* v jugv vu v Wu <Uq for a man when he is ail run down, and don't care whether he lives or dies. It did more to give me new strength and good appetite than anything I could take. I can now eat anything and have a new lease on life." Only 50 cents, at J. E. Kaufmann's Drug Store. Every bottle guaranteed. Spain has had thirty-one wars in the last one hundred years. One's memory is stronger in summer than in winter. The Dangers of a Malarial Atmosphere may be averted by occasionally raking Dr. M A. Simmons Liver Medicine. Two thousand saloons have been opened in Cuba since the war. The tandem cycle is all right in its way, but it will never see the day when it can supplant the hammock built for two. Cooling and soothing in its effects you will find Dr. Sawyer's Arnica and "Witch Hazel Salve for eczema, piles, hives, burns and cuts. J. E. ( Kaufmann. i An umbrella offers a good opening for people who have laid away money . for a rainy day. If an orator is a word painter a lecturer in a deaf-and dumb institute i must be a sign painter. < Sour Stomach is one of ike first ] symptoms of a coming Biiious attack. Cure it with a few doses of I Dr. M. A. Simmons Liver Medicine, i The fruit crop in and around ^ Ridge SpriDg, Edgefield county, which usually brings from SCO,000 1 to 875,000, this year sold for a few hundred. It was almost an entire ' failure. 1 k i baking ^ Powder PURE lelicious and wholesome OWPEW CO., NEW VORK. His Esvsngo. One of Detroit's business meD, who has a delightful summer home on the top of a hill between Birmingham and Pontiac, tells of aD experience he had last season: "When out there I always take a nap after my noon meal. No tropical resident thinks more of his siesta. Uoe afternoon 1 was awakened Dy a loud shouting at the front gate, which is at least GOO feet from the house. I went to the front door, rubbing my eyes and badly out of temper -What do you want?' I oil led out sharply to the man, who >ai coolly astride bis horse, as though I had no rights that he was bound to respect. " 'Haven't you seen a stray dog pass here in the last hour?' "'No!' I snapped, aod turned back into the house. Here the thought and inspiration for revenge * seized rae simultaneously. I hurried in the kitchen, grasped the big dinner horn, returned to the porch, waited till m> tormentor was at the top of the opposite hill, half a mile away^and then blew a blast that seemed to echo from the horizon. He turned to see me wave a towel over my head, and, recognizing the signal, dashed recklessly down the hill, spurred his horse to the top of the bluff on which I live, and fairly threw him on his haunches at the gate. 'Did you recall seeing him, after all V he halloed. "Oh, no,' I answered pleasantly, 'I just wanted to know whose dog he was.' "I don't think that I ever heard any other man swear so fluently." Perfectly Satisfied. Carolina (Chapin) News. The Columbia State, which has always been the champion of small counties, wants to consolidate Richland and Lexington counties with Columbia as the county seat. The change would be good,for Columbia, but we doubt very much if the people of Lexington county will agiee to the proposition.?Orangeburg TimesDemocrat. True brother. Richland connty has nothing on earth to do with our affairs, and we are satisfied with our "small towns," as the State says. We don't feel like assuming a part of Richland's indebtedness, and we won't do it, either. Our county is free from debt and we wish to stay so; we don't wish any "expansion" in ours; oh, no. An Exception. "I confess this Philippine problem puzzles me." remarked the man with the high forehead. "I don't know wh>it I should do if I were in Presided Mi-Kiuley's place." The man wirb tue ahort neck jumped up and gr<u?p?-d hum by the baud. "I am delighted to meet jou, eir," he said. "You are the first and only man I have seen yet who couldn't take right hold of this Philippine business and jeik the daylights out of it!"' "Working ITigkt and Day The busiest and mightiest little thing that ever was made is Dr King's New Life Pills. Every pill is a sugar-coated globule of health, that changes weakness into strength, listlessness into energy, brain fag into mental power. They're wonderful in building up the health. Only 2oc per box. Sold by J. E. Kaufmann. It might be well for the conceited man to remember that the smallest 1 mion is stronger than the largest * oumnkin. Cipital and labor go well enough < together, but the trouble is too many 1 men are trying to get capital without 1 labor. 1 A tired, sleepy, bilious ill is cured by Dr. Sawyer's Little Wide Awake < Pills. Little Wide Awake Pills reg- ] ulate the stomach and liver and fill ] the bill. J. E. Kaufmann. ADVERTISING RATES. Advertisements will be inserted at the rate of 75 cents per square of one inch s;-:ace for first insertion, and 50 cents per inch for each subsequent insertion. Liberal contracts made with those wish* ing to advertise for three, six and twelve months. Notices in the local colomn 5 oehts per line each insertion. Obituaries charged for at the rate of one cent a word, wfcen they exceed 100 words. Marriage notices inserted free. Address G. M. HABMAN, Editor and Publisher. A Trade Getter. We have lost trade by being out of Ramon's Liver Pills and Tonic Pellets. We can seldom ever induce a customer to take any other as a substitute for them when they have once tried Ramon's.?Justice & Fletcher, Crossville. Ala. For sale by G. M. Harman and J. E. Kaul'mann. ? ? . 1? rru^ ci.u A : ? JLUC otaic aiimuuc IUCOIO IU VUIULU" bia today, Wednesday, 25th. Judge Charles H. Simonton has returned from his European trip much improved in health. "I have used Chamberlain's Cough Remedy in my family for years and always with good results," says Mr. W. B. Cooper of El Rio, Cal. "For small children we find it especially effective."" For sale by J. E. Kaufmann. Work has been begun on the oil mill at Bennettsville and its size and capacity will be the second in the State. The State Board of Control has recently set apart twenty-five .thousand dollars of the dispensary profits for school purposes. You can't cure dyspepsia by dieting. Eat good, wholesome food, and plenty of it.?Kodol Dyspepsia Cure digests food without aid from the stomach, and is made to cure. J E. Kaufmann. An old Confederate soldier at Gaffney has a piece of shinbone cut from a yankee that he killed while on the picket line. Ninety-six car loads of melons were shipped through Columbia in one day recently to the North over the Southern Railway. Thomas Rhoads, Centerfield, 0, writes: "I suffered from piles seven or eight years No remedy gave me relief until DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve, less than a box of which permanently cured me." Soothing, healing, perfectly_harmless. Beware of counterfeits. J. E. Kaufmann. The Baptist college of Orangeburg has received a gift of $10,000 from a well-known citizen who does not give his name. Sick Headache, Wind on the Stomach, Biliousness, Nausea, are quickly cured by a few doses of ' Dr. M. A. Simmons Liver Medicine. James ?\ Thompson has Deen lodged in the Spartanburg jail, charged with beating his little sixyear-old step-daughter to death. DeWitt's Little Early Risers expel from the system all poisonous accumulations, regulate the stomach, bowels and liver, and purify the blood. They drive away disease, dissipate melancholy, and. give health and vigor for the daily routine. Do not grippe or sicken. J. E. Kaufmann. Paradoxical though it may seem some officeholders are very much out of place. Henry Clews, in talking to some young men on the best way to amass wealth, advised simply adherence to the Biblical command to do with all our might whatever our hands find to do. DeWitt's Little Early Risers benefit permanently. They lend gentle assistance to nature, causing no pains or weakness, permanently nnrinnr /?rmcHnatir?n an^ livar ftil. ments. J. E. Kaufmann. Lather said'that if a man were not strong at 20, handsome at 30, learned at 40, and rich at 50, he would never be strong, handsome or rich. The domestic shipments of phosphate rock from the port of Charleston 6iDce September 1st, 1898, to June 30, 1899, aggregated 89,977, an increase of 8,197 tons over the corresponding peiiod last year. J. T. Cunningham, a Bell telephone lineman, met with an awful death in Columbia last Satu?day by falling from a high pole on which he was stringing telephone wires. He broke his neck, and death was instantaneous. The popularity of Dr. Sawyers Ukatine as a Kidney cure is far reaching, as it permanently cures all Kidney disorders and brings ycu back to the realm of perfect health that insures true happiness. J. E. Kaufmann. ''Haven't you any faith in men, Doroth)?'' "Yes, I have faith in them, but I never believe a word they say."' Governor McSweeney has appointed Gol. L. W. Youmans of Barnwell, the delegate from the Second District to the anti-trust convention to be held in Chicago in September. The world would be gloomy indeed were there no light in the dark picture of ill health. Get rid of your kidney trouble by using Dr. Sawyei'a Ckaiine. J. E. Kaufmann.