The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, January 31, 1900, Image 1

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* 8EST ADVERTISING MEDIUM -IN? Wes arn South Carolina* rates reasonable. subscription $1 per annum JOB PRINTING i SPECIALTY. J BARGAINS. | j Th e LEX i ngton di s patch. Jt Bepresentatiue newspaper. Goners Lexington and the Borders of the Surrounding Bounties Bike a Blanket. VOL. XXX. LEXINGTON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31. 1900. NO. 12 "istji GLOBE DRY GOODS COHPANY, jfett "W- XI- M02TCIT01T, TX2-, X*?.AJN".A.a-3EX3. g|J teao MAIjV STREET, - -- -- -- - COLUMBIA, OS. O., jjjp ' ulrM" jffiN Solicits a Share of Your Valued Patronage. Polite and Prompt Attention. (P pf I t " Ootober 13?t f 5/' > LADIES'SHOES 154 Wehave abou* 350 pairs of Hand Turn j and Hand Welt $2 50. $3.00 and $3 o" Tjftdieft' Shoes. Most of them small sizes , that are odd ?ots from one *n-l two 8<-akod8 that we intend to close out. "WV need room tor Spring Shor-f^ is the reason for this low price. This is the time for you to save money. [ONLY im A PAIR. I T iTHT/ THE SHOE MAN, 1603 Main Street COLUMBIA, S. C. September 20 6m. That Grow and Bear Fruit. I | Write for our 60 page ilW-i'-iW ustrated Catalogue and 40 -age pamphlet. '"How to ^ ''ant and Cultivate an Orhard " Gives you that in?5g*4|^ ormation you have so long canted; tells you all about jffS hose big red "pples. lucious >eaehes. and Japnn plums vith theirorien'al sweetness. I.. ill of which you have of;eu 5N A*ondered where the trees 'ame from that produced I EVERYTHING GOOD IN W? FRUITS. !v (Jnusal fine stock of SILVER K MAPLES. young.thrift7 trees U t -smooth and strai ht. the kind hat live and grow off well old. rough trees. This is ?5* he most rapid growing mag* pie and one of the most beauBc :iful shade trees. Write for prices and give 1M list of wants. ||l. Van Lindley .Nursery Co., LOAMBXCHAMje bank OF SOUTH CAROLINA State, City & County Depository COLUMBIA, S. C. Capital Paid in Full $150,000 Ot Surplus 3 ,000.0< Liabilities of Stockholders.... 150,000.(K nnn rw SAVINGS DEPARTMENT. Interest at the rate of 4 per cent am per an aom paid on deposits in this department TRUST DEPAR1MENT. This Bank under special provision of it* charter exercises the office of Executor Administrator, Trustee or Guardian of Es tates. SAFETY DEPOSIT DEPARTMENT. Fire and Burglar proof safety deposi for rent from $4 00 to $12 CO per year. EDWIN W. BOBERTON, President, A. C. HASKELL, Vice President J. CALDWELL ROBEETSON, 2d Vice President G. M. BEBRY,Ca8hier. February 12? ly. THE csmiL Einorn ins COLUMBIA, S. C. CAPITAL $100.000 00 SUBPLUS 30.000 00 ESTABLISHED 1H71. JAMES WOODKOW, President. JULIUS WAI KEB. Vice Pres dent. EBOME H. SAWYER, Cashier. DIRECTORS James Woodrow, John A Crawiord, Julius H Walker. C. Fitzsim mons, W C Wright, W. H. Gibbes TrtV.., T Slrton T T Mnnre J. L. IVlim f VVUU A- ? . ? naugh. E. 8 Joynes. This bank solicits a share, if not all, of jour business, and wil! grant every favor consistent with safe and sound banking. January 29, 1897?ly. Saw Mills, Light and Heavy, and Supplies. J CHEAFEST and BEST. IBP^Can every day; wor< 180 hand*. Lombard fron Works and Supply Co., AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. January 27? mbmuvr Tmrors WMVAVWH VBV vm iv MAIN ST.. COLUMBIA, S. C., JEWELER "d REPAIRER Has a splendid stock of Jewelry, Watches, Clocks and Silverware. A fine line ol Spectacles and Eyeglasses to fit every one, afi for sale at lowest prices. Bepairs on Watches first class quickly done and guaranteed, at moderate prices. 5ft?If. W. A. RECkLIXO -A-IESTI ST, | COLOMBIA, IS. C.. I IS NOW MAKING THE BEST PIC tores that can be bad in this country, and all who have never had a real fine picture, should now try some of his latest styles Specimens can be seen at his Ga* lacy, up stairs, next to the Hub. legislative Proceedings. Condensed from the Golnmbia S ate. HOUSE-WEDNESDAY. The House of Representees passed rather an uneventful day. There was another dispensary bill introduced?a substitute for that of the Winkler bill. Mr. Hjdrick's insur-^. anee bill passed and the bill to reduce rate of interest killed. The fertilizer bill passed the third reading and sent to the Senate, as was also the bill relating to the granting of bail by Magistrates. The first second reading bill to be discussed was the bill providing salaries instead of fees for county officers. The bill was referred to a committee consisting of one member from each county, and Mr. Sharpe was placed on this committee to represent Lexington. The bill relating to life insurance passed to a third reading after a fight. The subsitute bili relating to funds with which to fr^ife school books at cost to the public schools, passed. The bill provides that the amount so set aside by the county board of education shall be and remain a perma cent fund in the hands of the county education. and I fchy.ll be by him used in purchasing and keeping on hand school text bocks for sale to pupils attending the free public schools of his county, for cash, at actual cost or exchange prices, and shall be used for no other purpose and in no other manner; and places where said text books are kept for such sale shall be deemed depositories under the control of the State, as provided in the 7ih article, or provision, in the contract made in 1893 with the publishers of school text books. The bill also requires the county superintendent to keep his office open each day for a week before and succeeding the opening of the public schools for the sale of such books. Th6 House passed the bill requir- . ing a disinterested party who can read and writo to witness bills of sale and chattel mortgages, The petition of students of the South Carolina college for a new steward's hall was referred to the ways and means committee. The comptroller general sent a bi*ch of claims which were properly )eferred. SENATE?WEDNESDAY. The Senate took up the Graydon dispensary bill, generally considered to be the administration measure, and proceeded to knock a large spacious hole in it. The provision constituting the secretary of state, the comptroller general and the superintendent of education the state board of control was stricken out of the bill, and it is to be who shall be members of the board if the bill passes. It was shown in the debate that it was doubtful whether these officers could fill the position under the constitutional provision forbidding the holdng of two offices by one person. In addition the senators seemed to think that these officers already have plenty of work to do. Wiih this out of the bill the measure lose3 much of its importance, and its supporters will have to form- ! ulate some other plan that will stand the test. A substitute for the Graydon bill was introduced by Mr. May field, an anti dispensaryite. The Graydon dispensary bill occupied the atten ticn of senate most of the time, the other special orders being continued. Amoug the most important measures intioduced were the following: To authorize the erection of a monument to the women of the confederacy on the State house grounds. To amend the law in reference to the violation of laborers' contracts. To authorize Ciemson college to build a railroad from the college to /"t 11 . x _ i! Udiooun siauon. To amend the concealed weapon act. The House bill granting to the United States the title of this State I and jurisdiction over certain lands on Sullivan island for millitary purposes was passed. HOUSE?THURSDAY The House disposed of the bill to provide two additional judicial cir Copper Colored Splotches. There is only one cure for Contagious Blood Poison?the disease which has I completely baflled the doctors. They are totally unable to cure it, and direct their efforts toward bottling the poison op in the blood and concealing it from view. S. S. S. cures the disease positively and permanently by forcing out every trace or the taint. I was afflicted with a terrible blood disease. Which was in spots at first, but afterwards t spread all oTer my body. Those soon broke out into sores, and it is easy to imagine the suffering I endured. Before I became convinced that the doc tors could do no good, I had spent a hundred dollars, which was really thrown away. I then tried various patent medicines, but they did not reach the disease. When I had finished inv first bottle of S. S. S. *1 was greatly improved and was delighted with the result. The large red splotches on my chest began to grow paler and smaller, and before long disaDpeared entirely. I regained my lost weight, became stronger, and my appetite greatly improved. I was 30on entirely well, and my skin as clear as a piece of gLass. H. L. Mtebs, 100 Mulberry St., Newark, N. J. Don't deatroy all possible chance of a cure by taking the doctor's treatment of mercury ana potash. These minerals cause the hair to fall out, and will j wreck the entire system. SS.S.% Blood is purely vegetable, and is the only blood remedy guaranteed to contain no potash, mercury, or other mineral. Books on the disease and its treatment mailed free by Swift Specific Company, Atlanta, Georgia. c lite, killing it by a v^te of 60 to 39 SpeakiDg to this bill, Mr. Sbarpe said be wa9 not "tooting bis own born.11 Personal interests have crept into this discussion, and time had been fritted away; but he would discuss it from on impersonal standpoint. The condition in South Carolina for the past 10 or 20 years has been that the people have been promised reduction in taxation. But there ha9 been an increase in the expenditure. This bill proposes added exper.se, ! and the law now affords relief through the medium of special courts. There was toward the close of the day a ratber dramatic picture in which "Citiz?n Josh" Ashley and the colored legislator, Representative Bolts, played a conspicious part. There were several new bills, of more or less importance introduced and referred to appropriate committees. The next bill on the calendar was seemingly one of little moment. It was the bill to prevent the shipping of shad to points beyond the State It was during the discussion of this bill that the dramatic incident referred to above took place. At a time when things looked squally for the opponents of the bill, Representative Bolts from Georgetown took the fl)or. There is no mistaking the member's identity. He is fh.st a Republican. Second, a black Republi can. Amusement was depicted oi the faces of 123 white Democratic Representatives when he got up to speak. But all listened?through curiosity. The colored member left his seat in the far corner of the hall and proceeded to the middle aisle. Josh Ashley's sunbeam face was all agrin. Josh had been telling those around him that this was a good bill and he "would vote for it, fellers." He anticipated a picnic when the brother in black began to speak. All the hubbub was hushed and the House listened. ^ U n/\l rv% r\ 1 > Q v Kncron f A COT7 JL UC V-UiU'CU lUtUiUti w iv wt?j that this bill would work a hardship j upon the fishermen of Georgetown. Mr. Giuse interrupting?Do the j poor people get any benefit of this ! industrj? Representative Bolts?They get work. It is their private business if j they make anything out of it. This rt joinder showed that the colored member < o dd handle the sword of repartee, and the Hou9e j laughed. ! Mr. Ashley?Don't you know we | can't get no shad in none of the rivers in the up eountrj? Rcpresf ntative Bolt? Just send _ J? J i _ a 1 ? ,q your urufia uuwu iu ^cui^rtuw li uuu you kin git plenty. (Laughter ) Representative Bjlts then proceeded to tell that the shad fishiDg j was conducted piincipally in "Winyak's bay," five miles wide, and the nets being one iui!e wide did not prevent the shad from running up the t-t earn on either side of the net. There was ti-hing in the channel of the Santte, but none ( n the Pee D<e. Mr Game?Don't you know that fish run up the channel? Representative Bolts, get ting warm ?I ain't no fisherman. This neat evasion created more laughter. Continuing, he said, that the hubits of shad were te; "run" in the marshes on the side of the river. He described how the "boss of the net"' and his little Ijoy or striker," plied the ntt from their boat. The bill, he said, was directed solely at Georgetown, and there was no occasion for it as fish were sold at Florence at 12-J cent apiece. Mr. Ashley, sitting in his seat, remarked sarcastically, "Why, this bill don't keep_jou from selling fith inside the State." QUQfl. X ue uuiuicu uiciiiUvi uuwibij ed this thrust by saying that he would Dot pay any attention to Mr. Ashley unless that gentleman arose from his chair before speaking. (There was a laugh at Citizen Josh's expense.) He continued ironically that the author and friends of this bill would soon be taking sfeps to stop the lumber industry at Georgetown because the logs fljatiDg down the river prevented fish from coming up Had it not been for her fisheries thousands from Georgetown county might have been calling on the State for help. Citizen Josh had been somewhat nettled because his effjrts to discoD cert the colored member had acted ! as a boomarang. He was embarrassed when he was forced to ask "if the genti'man, er-er the member from Georgetown, would permit an interruption?' He was chagrined when the black man showed a quickness at repartee in his mongrel gullah and parliamentary phrases which were too much for the vernacular of the Representative from Anderson. The negro had started to speak with little sympathy, but concluded with laurels for his dusky brow. Mr. Ashley obtained the floor when his dusky colleague sat down, grinning. He began to speak rather excitedly about the gcod purposes of bill. There was no fish in his county at all. Representative Bolts?Well, you cen get enough in a day's fishing in Georgetown to supply your county three months. Mr. Ashley?There is just as much right to stop the shipping of fish as there is in the shipping of birds, like we done the other day. Representative Bolts?Shad is the fisherman's crop, why don't you stop shipping your crop?cotton? Mr. Asfcley was neara to say, angrny. above the laughter which greet(d this sally, "You done made your speech, sit down, you niggar, you." When Mr. Ashley concluded, the vote was taken and it was found that over four-fifths of the membtrs agreed with Representative Bolts and the bill was killed, Then the worm turned again on Mr. Ashley, for he has a fashion of "clinching" the vote whenever his side wins. To "clinch" a vote means that the matter cannot again be taken up. When Speaker Gary put Representative Bolts' motion to clinch the vote, there was a howl of laughter at Mr. Ashley's expense. Thus concluded one of the most remarkable and the most amusing innidenf. whiph has pvpr occurred on the floor of the House. After the transaction of other business the House adjourned, SENATE?THURSDAY. The Senate's session last night was lively and interesting. The dispensary was discussed and a certain caucus was mentioned and snowed under. The Graydon dispensary bill, which it seem?, according to the author, is not after all the administration measure, was the pending question together with the amendments proposed on Wednesday, but in the scramble the bill was lost sight cf and Senator Mayfield's substitute occupied : the Senates attention, It was developed that the Majfield substitute * was the bona fide administration scheme, having been approved at a caucus held in the Governor's office and presided over by the Governor. Senator Manning stated this fact in the form of a question to Senator May field, who did not make a direct reply and in the course of his re marks succeeded in avoiding the mention of the Governor in that connection. The Senate, by a vote of 30 to 8, j struck out the provision creating the ! boaid of coutrul of the governor, the ehaiiinau of the senate finance committee, and the chairman of the house ways and means committee. When the senate had taken this ac| tion it adjourned and the whole mati te; is tj Cjine up again. | Superintendent Griffith's Report. The report of Supt. Griffith of the I board reads as follows: j To the Honorable Board of Directors South Carolina Penitentiary. Gentlemer: I herewith submit foyou my first annual report for the year 1899. CONVICT STATEMENT. We had confined in the penitentiary and convict camps, one year a?o. 784: received from the courts, C7 ' 272: escaped convits recaptured, 17; total iD prison during the year, 1,073; discharged by pardon, 16; escaped 15; accidentally killed, 1; died, 41. Total loss of 272. Having in confinement, January 1st, 1000, 801, which is an increase of 17 for the past year. For a more detailed statement as to the prisoners, I respectfully refer you to the full | and complete report of Capt. W. D. Black in his report to me for the year just ended. moilal ;,nd religious statement. We have regular services each SabbatV .ruing in the chapel, conducted by our worthy chaplain, Rev. J. C. Abney. Also Sunday school exercises ever Sunday afternoon, conducted by Messrs. C. D. Stanley and R. M. Adams. I respectfully refer you to the chaplain's report, and state that he has been very prompt and dutiful in the discharge of his duties as chapIaiD, vi3iting the sick and administering to them spirtually, | regularly. HEALTH AND SANITARY STATEMENT. The general health of the institution has been comparatively good. You will note by referring to Dr. , Sturky's report that 16 out 41 deaths j during the year just closed were of j tuberculosis and 8 of spinal meningitis, which show that more than one- j half of the deaths during the past year were caused from the two dis- j eases above named; and in my opinion the principal cause of so maDy deaths from these diseases is for the ; want of better sanitary arrangements in the hosiery mill and theprieon. In 1 the hosiery mill a much better sysj tern of ventilation is very necessary and in the prison proper kind of venj t lation should be devised and also a system of heating is necessary for the comfort and health of the prisoners. The prison, in my judgment, is not at all a healthy and comfortable one. The ventilation is poor? too warm in summer and too cold in winter, having no way or means by which it can be heated in winter and pleLty cf fresh air in the summer. Therefore, I respectfully recom mend that your honorable board aek that the Legislature appropriate 810,000 to build a modern prison Lr her convicts?one that is roomy, comfortable and safe, and one, too, that the jouDg and oftentimes harmless and helpless convicts can he kept separated from the old and hardened criminals. FINANCIAL STATEMENT. We have had a fairly satisfactory year agriculturally; have made no very large crops; but, under all the circumstance?, think we have done fairly well. To b?gin with, will state that when I took charge of the penitentiary? March 1-r h, last?I found the buildings in d about the prison yard in fairly . condition, except as to the rootling on the greenhouse, woodshed and tho prison buildings, which were all badlv in need of repairp, because of holes and leaks in roof. These I have repaired. The roof on the h js'erj mill was too far ! to repair, and a new roof should be placed on it. At DeSaussure farm, I found the buildings poor and dilapidated. The dwelling house, guards' quarters, stockade and commissary house were passable, but the barns, stables, gin house, etc , are all old and almost worthless. At Raid farm, the buildings are all ! new onrt rrnn<^ anrl were in fine i shape. At "Lexington farm, the barns and j stables were iQ pretty fair shape and j passable, while the stockade, gin | house, guard honse, cook house and | dwelliog house were in very poor fix. I have had a new guard house and j cook house built aud the dwelling | house repaired. , i In February last, before I took I charge, the river had broken the SB BB tMk w mBi /yflj aQW mBw Xt HD AH wIV^ ^?pr Knl w ^ absoluieeyi Makes the food more de RQYAL BAKINQ Per* ditri3 on Ihe K-;id and DjSassure j firm3 in several places, and the 1 breaks were bad ones. It to^k quite | a long time and a great deal of work I i v i* y !-_ __3 T 1.' 3 L ! to repair mese Dreaas, ana 1 aiu nut ! have a sufficiency of hands of the right kind to do this work, many of them being inferior; but the work was done, and I have been fortunate enough to make a large supply of i corn to feed prisoners, stock, etc., on all the farms and at the penitentiary which will be a great help to U3 in our next yeai\s business. So the year has been fairly satisfactory, considering the late start I had and other disadvantages under which I had to woik. Between March 15 and the harvesting of the new corn crop we were compelled to purchase, for the penitentiary and farms, 3,388 bushels of corn and meal. My predecessor?Col. Neal turned over to me $11135 after I took charge. "We have now on hand, deposited in bank, $9,886.67, and in sight and available about 85,400, and I would recommend that your hon? Li- i j ?ii :? I urttmu UUU1U auiuunz,c IUD |jajuicLit of about Si0,000 to the State treasurer. Allow me to thank each oDe of the board of directors for their kind and courteous treatment and advice given during the year, as well as all the | other officers of the institution. I For a full and complete statement ! of the receipts and disbursements of the institution, allow me to refer you to the complete report of Mr. John | Taylor, our competent and courteous | bookkeeper. All of which I most j respectfully submit. D. J. Griffith, Superintendent. * Story of a Slave. I To be bound hand and foot foi [ years by the chains of disease is the ' worst form of slavery. George D. | Williams, of Manchester, Mich , tells | how such a slave was made free. He says: "My wife has been so helpless for five years that she coald not turn over in bed alone. After using two bottles of Electric Bitterp, she is j wonderfully improved and able to do j her own work." This supreme rem edy for female diseases quickly cures j nervousness, sleeplessness, melan, choly, headache, fainting and dizzy j spells. This miracle working inedii cine is a God send to weak, sickly, ! run down people. Every bottle guar| anteed. Only 50 cents. Sold by J. i E. Ivaufmann, Druggist. Fatal Procrastination. "He asked me to marry him." "And you accepted him!" 1 "Nj. Idiot that I was, I asked for time." "He said he'd give me a year." i "Ah! And what did you saj?" I "I saw my mistake. I said two days would be plenty. But he wouldn't hear to it. He said no woman could make up her mind in so short a time. He really insisted upon my taVng six months. We finally compromised on 30 days.'' "And then?-' "He married that putty faced i Bimberling girl the very next week." | Having a Groat Bun on Chamborlain's Cough Bsmsdy. I Manager Martin, of the Picrson | drug store, informs us that he is having a great run on Chamberlain's j Cough Remedy. He sells five bot: ties of that medicine to one of any ! i other kind, and it gives great satis . faction, la these days ot la grippe i there is nothing like Chamberlain's j Cough Remedy to stop the cough, I heal up the sere throat and lungs i and givo relief within a very short time. The sales are growing, and all who try it are pleased with its j prompt action.?South Chicago Daily I Calumet. For sale by J. K. Kauf| rnann. + 1 Come to see us when i? town j bakino itJ Powder >URE ilicious and wholesome 'DER CO., NEW YORK. Pig Iron and Hog Iron. Negroes are very original ia their dealings with white men/1 said the foreman of a North Memphis iroD foundry. "A couple of negroes were unloading pig iron for me the other day, and it comes in pretty goodsiezed chunks. Ooe chunk is a heavy load. One of the negroes came to a lump twice the usual size, beiDg two chunks run together. He stopped work the minute he caught sight of it. "'What are you stopping for?' I yelled. 'Pick it up !'" "'Boss, I dostn mine ooloadin' pig iron,' said he, but when it comes to hog iron, I quits.' " R:markable Rescue. Mrs. Michael CurtaiD, Plainfield, 111., makes the statement, that she | caught cold, which settled on her lunge; she was treated for a month by her family physician, but grew worse. He told her she was a hope less victim of consumption and that no medicine could cure her. Her druggist suggested Dr. King s New Discovery for Consumption; she . bought a bottle and to her delight found hersel" benefited from first dose. She continued its use and after taking six bottles, found herself sound and well; nov does her own housework, and is as well as she ever was. Free trial bottles at J. E. Kaufmann's Drug Store. Only 50 cents and SI.00, every bottle guaranteed. * Medicinal. I think that the majority of the church choirs in Brookland are helps to churches. But some of them have got a bad habit of late?the quarttelle habit. They sing without the accompaniment of an organ, and thus exhibit all the blemishes of their voices: Only well trained and highly cultivated singers may safely venture to sing without a musical accompaniment. When the amatures try the experiment they inflict needless pain upon their hearers. And the modern anthem! I recall an occasion on which the anthem ran in this waj: Soprano: 4'0b, take this pill?" Tenoi: "Ob; t-a ake this pill?" Contralto: ' O-o h, take this pill?" Basse: "O-o oh, take this pill?" All togethei: "Oh, take this pilgrim home." ? - . ? An Eabirrassin* Question. They are telling a story in Washington about Congressman Clayton, of Alabama, who used to be district attorney in his State. It became his duty at one time to prosecute an old man for making illicit whisky. It was not a very seriou3 infraction of the law; but the old backwoodsman had been reckless in his violation I and it was necessary to mak? an example of him. He was brought into court, and after the government had stated its case the old man, who had no lawyer, asked to be allowed to go | on the stand. He wa9 told that this would render him liable to answer any question, but he insisted. ' Well, uncle John," said Cayton, ''did you really make any whisky in your still?" "Henry," replied the old man, with pathetic tone, "I know'd your pa; I voted for you pa every time he ran for Jedge. And, Henry, your pa would never have axed me no question like that" The j jrors laughed, the court smiled and Clayton relented. The old man drove home that night. ^ Bismark's Iron ITervs. j Was the result of his splendid ! health. Indomitable will and trej mecdous energy are not found where f Stomach, Liver, Kidneys and Bowels i ure out of order. If vou want these I qualities and the success they bring, use Dr. King's New Life Pills. Tuey develop every power of brain and body. Only 25 cents, at J. E KaufJ raann's drug store. ADVERTISING RATES" Advertisements will be inserted at the rate of 75 cents per square of one Inch s;-.ace for flrst insertion, and 50 cent* per inch for each subsequent insertion. Liberal contract* made with those wishing to advertise for three, six and twelve months. Notices in the looal oolumn 5 cents pax line each insertion. Obituaries charged for at the rate of one cent a word, wlen they exceed 100 words. Marriage notices inserted free. Address G. M. CARMAN, Editor and Publisher. The Dispensary Profits. Tin L truest Nat E trainee List Year Than Ever Be-fore. Columbia Evening Record. The state board of control has completed its report and the members present have signed it and turned it over to the state printer. The figures show that'the net profits for 1899 were $114,181.84. Of this sum the counties and towns received $220,492 35 and the S ate $193,689.49. In connection with last years business, the fact is stated that $100,000 has been paid to the state' superintendent of education on ac count ot tbe school fund. lnis is all that is asked for the year. Tbe dispensary has resources upon which to operate during the year on a cash basis. The pa&t year was the largest in the history of the business. The financial progress of the institution, as shown in the report, is as follows, the net earnings of various administrations being given: Tillman-Traxler regime of 19 months 8 125,328 40 Evans-Mixson administration 313,974 08 Board of Control for 33 months 853,219 95 Board of Control for 1899 414,181 84 Quaker Humor. The unexpected humor which often tints the grave speech of the Quaker is wall illustrated in a little fttnrv told of an eminent voun? nhv sician of Pennsylvania at the time of the civil war. He had determined to serve his country and leave his practice at home; but met with grieved remonstrance from his mother, a sweet Quakeress. "I beseech of thee not to go to this war, my son!*' she pleaded, her soft eyes full of tears. "But I do not go to fight, mother," said the doctor, cheerfully. "I am going as a medical man. Surely there is no harm in that." "Well, well," said the little mother doubtfully, "go then if it must be so." Then suddenly a gleam of loyalty shone through her tears, and she straightened herself and looked bravely into her tall son's face." "If thee finds thee kills more then thee cures,she said demurely, "I advi3e thee to go straightway over to the other side, my son." State of Ohio, City of Toledo, ) Lucas County f Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co., doing business in the C.ty of Toledo, CjUDty and S'.ate aforesaid and that said firm will pay the sum of One Hundred Djllars for each and every ca*e ? . 1.1 . 4 L. - Krr oi Uiianu toai chuuui u? vmcu vj the use of Hill's Citarrb Cire. FRANK J. CHENEY. S vorn to before me and subscribed io my presenc?, tbis 6tb day of December, A D 1886. { SE . ) A. W. Gleason, { ' ' [ Notary Public. Hill's Citarrb Cure is taken interDally aud ac's directly on tbe blood and mncons surfaces of tbe eystem. Sand for testimonials, free. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Bargain Connt9? Bspartse. It was at a department store bar-* gain counter for odds and ends. Tbe crush wa9 terrific. Women squeezed and elbowed to get alongside the counter. Frequently two of them happened to pick up the same bar- * ? gain at one and the same time, and then they both retained their clutch on it and looked daggars at each other until the stronger of the two u?rm the victnrv or the bargain was rent into riboons. A Laughtv matron with an electric seal co?.t picked up a box containing three cakes of imported soap for 8 cents at the same moment that an humble looking little woman in a faded t ncoat had fastened her grasp on the b)X. "I believe I was the first to take hold on of this," said the matron in the electric seal coat, freezingly. The humble looking little woman held for a minute, studying her antagonist, then she slowly relaxed her hold on the box "Well, you can have it," she said amiably. "You look like you need the soap." , *. Volcanic Eruptions 4 m/S J l*?af Qb-ir* Pfiiir?na AI C j^iauU) u u L Maiu AJiu^/vivug rob life of j iy. Bucklen'd Arnica Salve, cures them; also Old Running and Fever Sores, Ulcers, Boils, Felons, Corns, Warts, Cuts, Bruises, Burns, Scalds, Chapped Hands, Chilblaius. Best File cure on earth. Drives out Fains and Aches. Only 25 cents a box. Cure guaranteed. Sold by J. E. Kaufmann, Druggist.