Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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\ ' A F ****BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM IN Wes ^rn South Carolina. n Ji Bepresentativc newspaper. Covers Eexington and the Borders of the Surrounding Counties Like a Blanket. VOL XXX. LEX1XGTOX, S. C., WEDNESDAY, EEBBl'AHY 21. 190O. AO. 1"> "W"" "E3:- MOITCKTOIT,' .T23., ' 3k?^L3T?AJ3-S:ES, I )|g|J 16SO MAIN STREET, COI.CMHIA, ?. C., {Qi ' InL H Solicits a Share of Your Valued Patronage. Polite and Prompt Attention. $P if=V \ ? October 12?t' ^ BATES REASONABLE. 0 SUBSCRIPTION SI PEK AXNUS1 JIB PRIXTRfi \ SPECIALTY, * * I i !: LADIES'SHOES jj I or s* i I I i Wehave abon* 3"0 pa;r<? of Hand Turn and Hand Welt S2 50 $3.0') and $3.50 f Ladies' Shoes. Most of them small sizes that are odd lots trom one and two s^a' sons that we intend to c ose out. We 1 need room lor Spring Sho-s is the reason for this lew price. Ihis is the time for you to save money. !i OH' 75CTS. A PAIR. ' - I LEVEB, XIIE 8IIOK MAN, 1G03 Main Street COLUMBIA, S. C. ij I ! St-pteujber 20 6m. That Grow and Bear Fruit. "Write for our 60 page il&C:" /Jxt astrated Catalogue and 40 .ago pamphlet. ' Flow to #' ant and Cultivate an Orh.?rd " Uiv?s you that initiation y--u have so long vauted: teiis you all about hose big red ppies. lucious caches, and Jap >n plums vith theiro' iental sweetness. g. dl of wtiieh vou have often voadere-1 where the trees jfjgF* -^me from that produced Sim |:VERYTHi8Q GOOD IN FRUITS. *jf 7nusal fine sUck of SILVER ^ dAPJ.Eo.young.thriftytrees fcJk tsmooth andstrai ht.thekind h it live and grow off well. \'o old rough trees. This is he most rapid growing maido ?ud one of the most beauifnl shade tre^s. Write for prices and give 'st oi wants* i. Van Lindley Nursery Co., iliffiiMiii OF SOUTH CAROLINA State, City & County Depository * COLUMBIA, S. C. Cipital Paid in Full 5150,000 0t Surplus 3 sOOO.Oi * ?c c,.?.i.uu0 isnt?mf?ri Jjiaoinues ui uiwiiiuucio.... ?v -* toqc nnn fift SAVINGS DEPABTMSNT. Interest at tfce rate ol 4 per centum per an nnm paid on deposits in this departs ent TJtUST DEI'A li 2 ME XT, This Rmk under speeial provision of ib charter exercises the cffico ol Executor. Administrator, Trustee or Guardian of Es tates. SAFETY DEPOSIT DEPARTMENT. Fire and Burg'ar pro.,1 safety deposit for rent from SI 00 to $12 CO per year. EDWIN W. ROBE^TON, President, A. C. HASKELL, Vice President. J. CALDWELL ROBERTSON, 2d Vice President G. II. BERRY. Cashier. February 12?ly. THE COLUMBIA, S. C. CAPITAL $100.000 00 SURPLUS 30,000 00 ESTABLISHED lh71. JAMES WOODKOW, President. JULIUS WA.I KER. Vice President. EROME H. SAWYER, Cashier. DIRECTORS James Woodrow, John A. Crawioid, Julius H Walker. C. Fitzsim roons, W C Wright, W. II. Gibbes John 1. Sloan. T T. Aloore. J. L. Mininangh. E. S Joynes. rpHlS BANK SOLIC: TS A SHARE, IF 1 not all, ot j our business, and will giant every favor consistent with safe and sound banking. January 20. 1S07?ly. Saw Mills, Light and Jloavy, aril Ssippliea. CHEAPEST AND BEST, t ever*- day: wor i 180 h?.n 1*. Lombard sren ^orxs and Bupp.y Co., AUOt>J A, GEU'iOSA. Jannarj 27 . &E0B&1 BE MAIN ST., COLUMBIA. S. C., JEWELER REPAIRED Has a splendid stock of Jewelry, Watches Clocks and Silverware. A ine line o Spectacles aid Eyeglasses to i't every one p.il for sale at lowest prices. Bepairs on Watches first clas quickly done and guarantee d, at moderat prices oO?tf. W 4 RSiWKIM'ft TV J 2. ELJ S ^ s. ? v ^.IKTXS IT, COLUMBIA, S. C. IS NOW MAKING THE BEST PIC teres that can be bad in this eouutr} and all who have never bad a real tiue pit tare, should no* try some ot his latei ^ styles Specimens can b?- seen at his Ga BL lery, uu stairs, next to the Hub. D:ts and Dashes. If you condemn in others what you tolerate in yourself, then you are a hypocrite. Chairman Jones approves of holding the Democratic national convention on July 2. A two or three week's course of I TV \r SimmnnH "Liver Medicine will so regulate the excretory functions that they will operate without aDy aid whatever. Marriage is never entirely a failure except to the woman who entirely fails to get married. Illinois monument dealers want a law enabling them to seize tombstones for bad debts. To sweeten the breath, brighten the eye, clear the complexion and insure the natural bloom of health, use Dr. M. A. Simmons Liver Medicine. The British war office is sending every available gun, no matter how j ancient, to the front. Senator Vest is the only member of the United States senate who served in the Confederate senate dur- j ing the war. froTb "I am glad to Into your ho: You can lay u Or lay me or For I am goi say, And not a w I am simply a Corn raised on the farm am good country people n plain as that old shoe SPRING GOOE King's February 14, 1900. Ho Would Bspoat It. As good a story as told in the rel cent gold debate came from the lips of William L. Jones, a new member from Washington. The logic of events, he said, had overcome free silver logic, and the democracy were S now relying on the law of supplying 1 and demand 4,Iamy last campaign," ! Mr. -Jones continued, "I met an old i fellow and we were talking about j the price of wheat and meat. I told I him that the price was regulated by I | the law of supply and demand, f 4' -Is there such a law as that?' he asked. 'I never heard of it.' \ 44 'Why, certainly there is,' I said. "'Well,' he thundered, thoroughly f j aroused, 4'when we get into power '' j again you can bet that we will repeal i that law."" o 4SI think I would go crazy with __ _ l r _ ? n\ i l I pain were it noi ior Lmamuenaiij s 5 j Pain Balm,'' writes Mr. W. H. Staple ton, Herminie, Pa. "I have beer tffi-.cted with rheumatism for several * years and have tried remedies with : out number, but Pain Balm is tin best medicine I have got hold of." js One application relieves the pain For sale by by J. E Kaufmana. DeWitt'd Witch Hr.zel Salve is unequalled for pile?, i: juii( S and skin disease. It is the original Witch l Hazel Salve. Beware of all coun- \ terfeits. J. E. Kiufmann. | j f j A man is beginning to get old when he thinks it is more fun to remember what fun it used to be to do ! things than it i3 to do them. Tr? lefe a man know that you re I cognize and rcpice in some good j | quality of his, is to biers him with | a new heart and stimulus. A sluggish liver causes drowsiness, j j lethergy and a feeling of apathy, j j M. A. Simmons Liver Medicine j arouse3 the L'ver, and cheerful ener- : gy succeeds sluggishness. Japanese at Yancover, P. C , have j oganized a corps which has offered i its services the British government to figuragainst the Boers. ! In future, vessel captains arriving i at Pacific ports from the Orient will I be fined ?500 unless they can show properly vouched bills of health. j Mrs. J. K Miller, Newton, Hamilton, Pa., writes, *1 think De Witt's 1 Witch Haz-d Salve the grandest salve made." It cures piles and cures everything. All fraudulent imitations are worthless. J. E KaufmanD. IEPEO be permitted mes to come; ae on the table l the floor, ng to have my ? -1 95 ora morti. l Field Plow Boy?wa 1 know exactly what th %! ieed, yon will find me a ! under the table. WHEIT "STOXT C IS ARRIVING DA ' ?o 1G03 When a woman beins t-o call ber husband ''darliDg" when they have ' i company, she is generally trjing not i to let them see that he has done j something that he knows he will ' catch it for after they go home. j Geo. Bat be, Mecdola, Va? 'says, j '"Nothing did me so much good as ; Kodol Depepsia Cure. One dose re j lieved me, a few bottles cured me." i It digests what you eat and always ! cures dyspepsia. J E KnufmunD. 1 Dancing eggs are said to be abun! dant in Shasta County, California. The egg 13 laid by an unknown inI sect on the oak leaves and when it i is mature it drops to the ground, , i where it dances about as if animated. j John Dirr, Posey vllle, In J., says, [ "I Dever used anything as good as One Minute Cough Cure. We are i never without it."' Quickly breaks up i ' coughs and colds. Cures all throat > and lung troubles. Its use will pre ; vent consumption. Pleasant to take. > J. E Kaufmann. I "I should like to know when you are goiDg to pay that bill. I can'i ? ; come here every day in the week." "What day would suit you best?" '"Siturday." '"Wry well, thc-u you ' can call every Saturday." 12 ill on s Given Away. It is certainly f^ra'tif^ to the public to know of one concern in the lani who are not afraid to bo generous to the needy and suffering. The proprietors of Dr. Rug's New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds, have given awiy over ten million triil bottles of this great medi cine; and have the satisfaction of knowing it has absolutely cured thousands of hopeless cases. Asthma. Bronchitis, Hoarseness and all diseases of the Throat, Chest and Lungs are surely cured by it. Ci!l T F. T\" .nfinnrm, DiiiO'oisL .ULU VU J. - -l- OD get a tiial bottle. Regular biz: 50/. and $1. Every bottle guarantee J, pi ice refunded. The man who doesn't liko any of his neighbors is usually a mail whom none of bis neighbors like. As a rule there is about as much iuve going one way as the other. Dr. M. A. Simmone Liver Medicine by expelling from the body the excess of bile and acid?, improves the assimilative processes, purifies the blcod, tones up and strengthens. mmm ? ? ? wmmn nm i iimi i i i i i -J * 5 J. 3 JOKE SELL HE ' 2v?ain Street, X % Not Much, cf a Discriminator. A small sod, aged three, turned up the other afternoon and crying piteously. "What is the matter, asked papa." "Somebody hit me," answered : Johnny. "D.d you back," asked the stern parent. "No," sobbed Johnny. Then followed advice, which ended impressively with the word?: "Remember Johnny, you are a big bov and when anyone bits you, you - * V bit back and as bard as you eaD." Two days later, in came sonny, with bis bead high ia the air aud a blatant swagger. "Well, how goes it?" "Someone hit me," said (he proud boy, "but I hit back harder anyway." "Good, said the papa; was the little boy bigger than ycu wer< !" 1 It wasn't a boy, calmly answered John; it was a gill." Some aie so excessively acute at detecting imperfections that they scarcely notice excellencies. In looking at a peacock's train they would go ou every spot where the feathers were worn or the colors faded, and see nothing else. A womau'sjdea of a roimntie af f f tir is when a girl is j 1st going to get married and then something happens and it is put eft' so long she has to have ail her things bleach* d. All who try "Hilton's Life for the Liver and Kidneys are surprised at the wonderful relief given in Habitual Constipation, and it3 speedy, beneficial action on the Kidneys. 25c. The Indians of the interior of Bolivia wear shirts and hats made of the bark of a tree, which is soaked in water to soften the fiber, and then beaten to make it pliiblo. W. S Phiipot, Albany, Ga , says: "D?\Viti/a Little Lirly Kisers did me more goods than any pills I ever took/' The famous little pills for constipation, biliousness and liver and bowel troubles. J E Kaufmann. Siuce the Civil War the South has spent $100,000,01)0 on schools for ro'ored pupils. Throughout the S uth there is quite as much opportunity for the respectable black man as the white. Apples, oranges, bananas, lemons, cocoa: -;-ins, figs, candy of ail kinds, .1- I>:zaar. 'I ' . '^1,1 king. YOU ARB FROM UINTiTSES. A! Judex tESctel J"<s "I had bronchitis every winter for years, and lo medicine gave me permanent relief till I began to take One Minute h Cure. I know it is the b h medicine made," says J K jo v. ji ry, Pa. It quickly cures cough?, colds, croup, asthma, grippe and throat and lung troubles. It is the children's favorite remedy. | Cures quickly. J E Kaufmann. i "Women must consider it a dread| ful fate to be an old maid," mused Mr. Gang water. "They do, Josiab," said Mrs. Cuugwater. "What terrible sticks they sometimes marry to escape it." A ad Josiah rubbed his chin and said nothing. "After doctors failed to cure me of pneumonia I useu One Minute Cough Cure and three bottles of it cured me. It is also the best remedy on earth for whooping cough. It cured my grandchildren of the worst case?,' writes Jno. Berry. Ljganton, Pa. It is the only harmless remedy that gives immediate result?. Cures coughs, colds, croup and throat and lung troubles. It prevents consumption. Children always like it. Moth ers endorse it. J. P. lvaufmanu. i Pay your dues to the Dispatch. | ftSSOIAJSELY 3 Makes the food more c K3EaBBscaBBnEaBaBBaaHiMaiiaaMMai Not Marriod Yet. I rude up to a country store, where a young girl stood ou the porch swingiug a sun-bonnet and talking to a mouutuinecr. I h id left her in that position a year before and her father had told me theu his daughter and the mountaineer would soon be married. Talking to her father a few minutes later, I asked: -Is your daughter married yet?'' "Naw, an" I don't reckon she will be.*' "What is the trouble ? I saw her talking to her lover j ist now.'' "Y-ias?she don't do much else. Thet feller ain' no 'count. He's been courtiu' fa* three y'ar, an' axed Sal ter many 'im a y'ar ago. I tol' him ter clean out an' s'p>sed he'd 'lope with her. I toi' Sal she could hav' oycraKrctwqrotwo. ' I have just come to itli you all, and to sa^ 7 * tmc of the Grandest ? FOR YC E5& 5522 Notions, Hosier U6S, MATTINGS. HA AND A FINE that vou ever was. It > come to 1 WILL TR 10 T02T L THE LATES1 ircme. NG, Props Ti ? II I ? Ill I II biii g? ?a? Ccaparative. "Waiter, this steak is badly burned/' ; "Yes, sir: but you hadn't oughler make a fuss, sir; that man over there's got one broiled to a crisp, sir."' Gasoline drunkards are becoming j common among the small boys in i the vicinity of North Penn village, a suburb of Philadelphia, and the district known as "swampoodle.' For sometime past the police of the Twenty-second district have beer 1 mystified by finding youngsters fasl asleep and in a semiconscious condition, stowed away in vacant houses woodsheds and brickyards. It was i finally discovered that the boys hat become beastly drunk from iuhaling | the fumes of gasoline, and some o: ; ii 1. i ...! i _ d :i. mem nave ueveicpeu luio juvulik , i debauches. I j J. K LunsfonI & Son. Ciaft, Tex 1 sav that Ramon's Pepsin Chill Toui< i i * } is certainly the best on the market ! They have never kuov.'n it to fail t( cure. Have just ordered more am : must have it. Tasteless and guar anteed. 50c. For sale by G. M j Harman. kg RMUN6 Powder PURE lelicious and wholesome my bes' boss ter rim away with, bur he never did make no propel sition. I ain' go;n' tor the expense o' no weudiV fixing, an' it looks like he wan't goin' ter run oh' with her, so it jes'stan's tbar. I ain'goiu" ter Lev no homo weddin"; kain't afLrd do sich nonsense-; an' I've bed six gals run off an" git married, and that | feller don't seem to bev no appreciation of the sittywalion." As I left the girl was still talking to her lover, while the old man watched them from behind a tree. I - ''I had dyspepsia for years. No medicine was so effective as ICodol Dyspepsia Cure. It gave immediate ; relief. Two bottles gave marvelous results," writes L H. Warrm, Albany, "Wis. It digests what you eat j and camiot fail to cure. J. E Kaefmann. get better acquainted ' T-rm tliot f ll'.lVO i LI/ > Ull j. mi i v / Bargains )U IN ? GOODS, v, Underwear, TS. RIBBONS, LACES : LINE OF SUING GOGOS, ,viil pay you if you will see me. EAT YOU AND SQUARE. Jj r PATTERNS, rietor. i i MM???? mar Ramon's Tonic Liver Pills, a pleas ant remedy for all diseases arising from a disordered or torpid liver. They are the modern cure for constipation, biliousness, sick headaches, specks before the eyes, etc. They do not sicken or gripi, mild inaction, thorough in effect. Ooly one a dose, sugar coated and pleasant to take. ' Price, 25 cents a bos; at the Bazt ar. A Doubtful Compliment. ; A candid and well naeaniug profes i sor, who had witnessed the perlonnijanceina little play in a private {house. in >?hich his hostess had , j taken the leac.ing part, .met the lady ? as she came from behind the curtain. 1 "Madam," he said, lushing up to > her, "you played excellently: the f part fits you to perfection." "Ob. no, professor," said the lady, mod esth: "a young and pretty wo:nan it ? needed for that part." "But, mad ; am." persisted the professor, "yot . have positively pio\cd the contrary!' j Ledgers, journals records, connte: . books, memorandum, books, sc-hoc books, pads, pencils , ink of ali color mucilage, &.C., fur sale at the Bazaa: TTrannrc*. <a?am^?ga?mm?? AD7ERTISINQ RATES. Advertisements will be inserted at the rate oi 73 cents per square of one inch s4-ace for first insertion, and 50 cents per inch for each subsequent insertion. Liberal contracts made with those wishing to advertise for three, six and twelve months. Notices in the local column 5 cents per line each insertion. Obituaries charged for at the rate of one cer.t a word, wLen they exceed 100 words. Marriage notices inserted free. Address G. M. HARM AN, Editor and Publisher. From Upper Hollow Creek. T.j the K Jitor of the Dispatch: Mr. Job C S-vygert has just purchased a fme parlor organ, a sulky p'.ow aud an acme harrow. He m -a: s to have music, easy plowing au.l well feitilized laud Mrs. A K Amick is <juite sick. It is hoped that she will recover a3 she has the skillful treatment of Dr. ~ Hirden. Iter kous of Newberry hive been called to her bed side. Messrs. Ileury Adams and Enoch Swjooit are getting out the lumber to make repairs on Cedar Grove church. The members oi this ?< church have decided to make new benches, build a recess and repaint at OLce. Mr. Pierco Riainger has decided to quit the farm and try his fortune in cuo of Columbia's cotton mills. Mr. I A. Caughman is yet confiued to his bed. Dr. Wingard, of Lexington, was called last week as consulting physician. The closing exercises at Cany branch were quite iCcresting and well attended. The boys of Ridge Road school are progressing nicely in their debating society. Their next question for debate is "which is the more important to the country, the grits mill or the saw mill." S. S. L. February 12, 1900. For Nobody, The Detroit Free Press tells of a disappointed office seeker, who i t last obtained a gift through a latewon humility. When he arrived at Washington, it wis with the idea thut he was a distinguished and prominent citizen; but after hanging about and swallowing disappointments, he begaD to suspect that he was not so very important after all. Then be thought of home, and the mean9 of getting there, and sought out Colonel Biank, the passenger agent of a certain railroad. "I say colonel," he remarked persuasively, '-I want to go home." "Why don't you go V "Nj money ! C-in't you give me a pass f The colonel stiffened. "We give passes to nobody," said he. The counteuancs of the disappointed candidate brightened with a smile of humility. "Well, colonel," he pleaded, "then give me one. I'm nobody." Toe colonel admitted the force of the argument, and gave the pass. Working Nigkt and Day The busiest and mightiest little thing that ever was made is Dr. King's New Lrfe Pills. Every pill is a sugar coated globule of health, tint clnag')3 weakness into strength listlessness into energy, brain-fag into mental power. They're wonderful in building up the health. Only 200 per box. Said by J. E. Kauf I maim. The refusal of tbo Transvaal gov eminent to allow the United States consul at Pretoria to represent the interests of Great Biitian during th9 war is regarded at Washington as a violation of civilized custom and will probably be made the subject of a vigorous protest on the part of this government. There is no better remedy for the babies than Chamberlaiu's Cough Remedy. Its pleasant taste and prompt and effectual cures make | it a favorite with mothers and | small children. It quickly cures their cough and colds, preventing pneumonia cr other serious consequences. It also cures croup and has been used in tens of thousands cases without a single failure so far t oc wo l-.avfi Iv^n able to learn. It no'; only cures croup, but when given as socn as tbe crrr.py cough appears, will pi event the attack. In casts of whooping cough it liquefies the tough, mucus, making it easier to expectorate and lessens the severity and frequency of the paroxysms of | coughing, thus depriving that disi ease of all dangerous consequences. For sale by J. E Ivaufmann. An Alabama man is suing a telegraph company for $10,000, because a message that he sent to a young lady was delayed, thus causing her , to become another man's wife. It > will be interesting for the ''other fellow" when tbev come to prove ' - t r i . that be would bave been ieu at me 3 starting post if tie messenger boy . bad hurried. ! Running Expenses. -Shall I charge up the amount the r cashier skipped with to profit and j joss?" queried the bookkeeper. - No,' replied the head of the firm; s ' put it down under running expenr. ses."