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SEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM ?IN ? WESTEBS CCU EH CAROLINA. BATES REASONABLE. O SUBSCRIPTION $1 PEB ANNUM JOB PRINTING A SPECIALTY. That Grow and Bear Fruit. yh Wri+e for our 60 page ilustrated Catalogue* and 40 >?P >age pamphlet. ' IIow to ^ Plant and Cultivate an Or- ! The Lexington Dispatch^ |t Beprcscntatiue Jleutspaper. Couers Lexington and the Borders of the Surrounding Bounties Like a Blanket. VOL. XXX. LEXIXGTOX, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 00. 1900. SO. 29 ^mmmummi? *" iiir up. jm?bwi wnaBMMBHBnaMa?naMWBawaB3MMn? ???????? BSUi GLOBE DRY GOODS COMPANY, JjtA T*7\ H. 2n?02*TCJeZT02X-, JR, MAITAG-EE, (S\-:-VT J KSSO MAIN STREET, COLUMBIA, 8. C., * Solicits a Share of Your Valued Patronage. Polite and Prompt Attention. m rV i i ^ 1j " October 13?tf ^ b -.rd " liivi's yon mat m?rfr):?tinn vu have - '^vc ; wanted; tells you ail bout V ^ ' ? hose big red apples, u. ii-us Vsi^y peaches, and Jap n plums " .vith theirori?-n*al sw< et!?<'.ss. j.. ill of wbicb you have < f en /gX .vondered where the trees t'^me fl"dm 'hat produced Mjm -YERnK!600D IN & PtJb CJnusal finest' ckof SILVER Mr NAPLES.young.thriftytrees sF 4, e' andstrai ht.the kind hat live and gr>w off well. *To old rough trees. This is se^^yiSgr he most rapid growing maTsmfcnlHg^ e Hnd one of the most beauRhade trees. Kg&E2tE?i Write for prices and give ist of wants. f. Tan Lindley Nursery Co., Waen writing mention the Dispatch. Fire, Life and Accident Insurance. Onl} First Class Companies Represented, See my List of Giants: Asstts *INA FIRE, of Hartford. Conn $13,019,411 CONTINENTAL < FIRE), of New York . 9.809,660 PHILADELPHIA UNDERWRITERS, Phila., Pa.. 16 528,773 ?TNA LIFE, cf Hartford, Conn 47,584,967 FIDELITY ANO CASUALTY, of New York 3,482,862 i My Companies. are Popular, Strong and Reliable No ore can give your business bttter attention; no one can give )oa b-.tter protection; no one can g;ve you better rates. ^BEFORE INSURING SEE^ Rice B. Harman. General Insurance Acent, LEXINGTON S. C. When writing mention the Dispatch inniAiin\i,i:i;m OP SOUTH CABOLINA State, City & County Depository COLUMBIA, 8. C. Capital Paid in Full $150,0O0 00 Surplus 3 >,000.0< LiabiHttes of Stockholders 150,000.00 $335,000.00 e a ttt^r/ie "mrp a75.tme3tt. Wa V mmmimwm ? - ? Interest at the rate of 4 per centum per an com paid on deposits in this department TRUST IiEPARlMENT. This Bank UDder special provision of it* charter exercises the office of Executor, Administrator, Trustee or Guardian of Estates. SAFETY DEPOSIT DEPARTMENT. Fire and Burg-ar pro.;! safety deposi' for rent from $4 00 to $12 00 per year. EDWIN W. ROBERTSON, President, A. C. HASKELL, Vice President J. CALDWELL ROBERTSON, 2d Vice President G. M. BERRY,Cashier. February ?lv When writing mention the Dispatch. THE mmi iifMii BUS COLUMBIA, S. C. CAPITAL $100 000 0G SURPLUS 30,000 00 ESTABLISHED 1*71. JAMES WOOD ROW, President JULIUS WAI KEB. Vice President 'EROME H. SAWYER, Cashier. DIRECTORS-James Woodrow, John A Crawford, Jaliiis H. Walker. C. Fitzsim uion8, W. C Wright W. H. Gibbes John T. Sloan. T. T. Moore. J. L. Mim uangh. E. 8. Joynes. rpfllS BANK SOLICITS A SHARE, IF _L not all, of joor business, and wilgiant every favor consistent with safe arc son nd banking. 'annflCrv 29. 1897-1v When writing mention the Dispatch. Saw Mills, Light and H*avy, and Supplies. OHK A PEST AND BEST, vw Can e\erv day; wor* 180 handa. Lombard iron Works and Supply Co., AUQUS1A, GUOitGlA. MHXftrv 27 When writing mention the Dispatch. GEORGE BRTOS MAIN ST.. COLUMBIA. 8. C , JEWELER - REPAIRER Has a splendid stock of Jewelry, Watches Clocks and Silverware A fine line o Spectacles and Eyeglasses to fit every one all for sale at lowest prices. Repairs on Watches first clat> qnicklv done and naaranteed. at moderat ^ .ff When writing mention the Disr ateh. WT A. RECKLING, TXST, COLUMBIA, S. C. IS NOW MAKING THE BEST PIC tnres that can be bad in this country and all who have never had a real fine pic ture, shonld now try some of his lates? styles. Specimens c?n he seen at his Gailerv no stai'-s. next- to the HnK When writing mention the Dispatch, BEESWAX WANTED IN LARGE OR SMALL QUANTITIES I WILL PAY THE HIGHEST MARks.t price lor clean an i pure Beeswax Price governed by color ai.d condi'ion. RICE 3. HARMAN, At the 3aziar. Lexinet.on, S. C. Remember tbat you can always find nice candies, c^kes and fruits, at the R>i7.ft<ir. SSjfi THE VICTOR'S SHOUT. DR. TALMAGE ON THE JOY OF OVERCOMING DIFFICULTIES. Bases His Sermon on the Satisfaction Expressed by Christ on the Snccessful Outcome of His Earthly Labors?Balm For Troubled Hearts. Wasihmjtox, May 27.?In this discourse Dr. Talmage shows in an unusual way the antagonisms that Christ overcame ana nnas a uaisam ror an wounded hearts; text, John xvii, 4, "I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.*' There is a profound satisfaction in the completion of anything we have undertaken. We lift the capstone with exultation, while, on the other hand, there is nothing more disappointing than, after having toiled in a certain direction, to find that our time is wasted and our investment profitless. Christ came to throw up a highway on which the whole world might, if it chose, mount into heaven. lie did it. The foul mouthed crew who attempted to tread on him could not extinguish the sublime satisfaction which he expressed when he said. "I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do." Alexander the Great was wounded, and the doctors could not medicate his I wounds, and he seemed to be dying, and in his dream the sick man saw a plant with a peculiar flower, and he dreamed that that plant was put upon his wound and that immediately it was cured. And Alexander, waking from his dream, told this to the physician, and the physician wandered out until he found Just the kind of plant which the sick man had described, brought it to him. and the wound was healed. Well, the human race had been hurt with the ghastliest of all wounds?that of sin. It was the business of Christ to bring a balm for that wound?the balm of divine restoration. In carrying this business to a successful issue the difficulties were stupendous. in many 01 our piaus nmc vui friends to help us; some to draw a sketch of the plan, others to help us in the execution. But Christ fought every inch of his way against bitter hostility and amid circumstances all calculated to depress and defeat. In the first place, his worldly occupation was against him. I find that he earned his livelihood by the carpenter's trade, an occupation always to be highly regarded and respected. But you know as well as I do that in order to succeed in any employment one must give his entire time to it, and I have to declare that the fatigues of carpentry were unfavorable to the execution of a mission which required all mental and physical faculties. Through high, hard, dry, husky, insensate Judaism to hew a way for a new and glorious dispensation was a stupendous undertaking that was enough to demand all the concentrated energies even of Christ. We have a great many romantic stories about what men with physical toil have accomplished in intellectual departments, but you know that after a man has been toiling all day with adz and saw and hammer, plane and ax. about all he can do is to rest. A weary body is an unfavorable adjunct to a toiling mind. You, whose life is purely mechanical, if you were called to the upbuilding of a kingdom, or the proclamation of a new code of morals, or tlie starting of a rnvnlntinn which should linturn all na tlons, could pet some idea of the incoherence of Christ's occupation with his heavenly mission. Christ's Humble Apparel. In his father's shop no more intercourse was necessary than is ordinarily necessary in bargaining with men that have work to do, yet Christ, with hands hard from use of tools of trade, was called forth to become a public speaker, to preach in the face of mobs, while some wept, and some shook their fists, and some gnashed upon him with their teeth, and many wanted him out of the way. To address orderly and respectful assemblages is not so easy as it may seem, but it requires more energy and more force and more concentration to address an exasperated mob. The villagers of Nazareth heard the pounding of his hammer, but all the wide roaches of eteruity were to hear the stroke of his spiritual upbuilding. So also his habits of dress and diet were against him. The mighty men of Christ's time did not appear in apparel without trinkets and adornments. None of the Caesars would have appeared in citizen's apparel. Yet here was a man, here was a professed king, who always wore the same coat. Indeed it was far from shabby, for after he had worn it a long while the gamblers thought it worth raffling about, but still it was far from being an imperial robe. It was a coat that any ordinary man might have worn on an ordinary occasion. Neither was there any pretension in his diet. No cupbearer with golden chalice brought him wine to drink. On j the seashore he ate fish, first having I broiled it himself. No one fetched him water to drink; but, bending over the well in Samaria, he begged a drink. He sat at only one banquet, and that not at all sumptuous, for to relieve the awkwardness of the host one of the guests had to prepare wine for the company. Other kings ride In a chariot; he walked. Other kings, as they advance, have heralds ahead and applauding subjects behind; Christ's retinue was made up of sunburned fishermen. Other kings sleep under embroidered can- | opy; this one on a shelterless hill, rid- I ing but once, as far as I now remem- i ber. on a colt, and that borrowed. His poverty was against him. Tt requires money to build great enterprises. Men of means are afraid of a penniless projector lest a loan be demanded. It requires money to print books, to build Institutions, to pay Instructors. No wonder the wise men of Christ's time laughed at this penniless Christ. "Why?" "They"saTTi, "nCIio Ts Id pay for this now religion? Who is to charter the ships to carry the misshfiaries? Who is to pay the salaries of the teachers? oliall wealthy, established religion he discomfited 1 y a penniless Christ?" The consequence was that most of the people that followed Christ had nothing to lose. Affluent Joseph of Arimatliea huricil Christ, but he risked uo social position in doing that. It is always safe to bury a dead man. Zaccheus riskid no wealth or social position in following Christ, but took a position in a tree to look down as he passed. Nicodemus, wealthy Xicodemus, risked nothing of social position in following Christ, for he skulked by night to find him. Difficulties Overcome. All this was against Christ. So the fact that he was not regularly graduated was against him. If a man come with the diplomas of colleges and schools and theological seminaries and he has been through foreign travel, the world is disposed to listen. But here was a man who had graduated at no college, had not in any academy by ordinary means learned the alphabet of the language he spoke, and yet he proposed to talk, to instruct in subjects which had confounded the mightiest Intellects. John said, "The Jews marveled, saying. How hath this man letters, having never learned?" We, in our day, have found out that a mail without a diploma may know as much as a man with one and that a college cannot transform a sluggard into a philosopher or a theological seminary teach a fool to preach. An empty head, after the laying on of hands of the nresbvterv. is cinptv still. But It shocked nil existing prejudices in those olden times for a man with no scholastic pretensions and no graduation from a learned institution to set himself up for a teacher. It was against him. So also the brevity of his life was | against him. He had not come to what we call midlife. But very few men do anything before 33 years of age, and yet that was the point at which Christ's life terminated. The first 15 years you take in nursery and school: then it will take you six years to get into your oc- | cupation or profession. That will bring you to 21 years. Then it will take you ten years at least to get established in your life work, correcting the mistakes you have made. If any man at 33 years of age gets fully established in his life work, he is the exception. Yet that is the point at which Christ's life terminated. Bargains: i l i MEN'S I HIV FHflll lilt JLT1 1 1 ItUili 11 ML4 L1 I We Have the R WHOLE; THE OUT PR! 11700 Mam I M-iro.h 7 12 noofr Men In military life have done their most wonderful deeds before 33 years of age. There may be exceptions to it. but the most wonderful exploits in military prowess have occurred before 33 years of age. But as a legislator n? nia,n become; eminent as a legislator until he has had long years of experience. And yet the gray bearded scribes were expected to bow down in silence before this young legislator, who arraigned sanhedrins and accused governments. Aristotle was old; Lvcurgus was old: Seneca was old. The great legislators of the modern world have been old. Christ was young. All this was against him. 11* a child 12 years of age should get up in your presence to discuss great questions of metaphysics or ethics or politics or government. you would be as contemptuous as these gray bearded scribes in the presence of this young Christ. All Asrainxt Him. Fopular opinion declared in those days. "Blessed is the merchant who has a castle down on the banks of Lake Tiberias." This young man said. "Blessed are the poor." Popular opinion said In those days. "Blessed are those who live amid statuary and fountains and gardens and congratulations and all kinds of festivity." This young man responded, "Blessed are they that mourn." Public opinion in those days said. "Messed is tlie Unman eagle, the flap of whose wing startles nations and the plunge of whose iron beak indicts cruelty upon its enemies." This younji man responded, "Messed are the merciful." Popular opinion said. "An eye for an eye. a tooth for a tooth." In other words, if a man knocks your eye out knock his out: if a man breaks vour tooth, break his. Retort for re tort; sarcasm for sarcasm; irony for Irony: persecution for persecution; wound for wound. Christ said, "Pray for them thar. despitefully use you." They looked at his eye. It was like any other man's eye, except, perhaps, more speaking. They felt his hand, made of bono and muscle and nerves and flesh, just like any other hand. Yet what bold treatment of subjects, what supernatural demands, what strange doctrine! They felt the solid eartli under them, and yet Christ said. "I bear up the pillars of this world." They looked ar the moon. lie said, "I will turn it into blood." They looked 1 at the sea. lie said, "I will hush it." They looked at the stars. lie said. "I will shake them down like untimely tigs." Did ever one so young say things so bold? It was all against him. ; After the battle of Antietam, when a ; general rode along the lines, although the soldiers were lying down exhaust- j cd tlie.v rose with great enthusiasm ! and huzzaed. As Napoleon returned j from his captivity his first step on the I wharf shook all the kingdoms, and i 250.000 men Hooked to his standard. It j . took 3,000 troops to watch him in ills exile. So there have been men of wonderful magnetism of person. But hear j me while I tell you of a poor young j man who came up from Nazareth to produce a thrill which has never been xcited by any other. Napoleon had j around him the memories of Marengo | and Austerlitz and Jena, but here was a man who had fought no battles, who > wore no epaulets, who brandished no sword. Ho had probably never seen a prince or shaken hands with a nobleman. The only extraordinary. nur">n we~know~of as" being in his company was his own mother, and she was so poor that, in the most delicate and sol- I enm hour that comes to a woman's soul, she was obliged to lie down among drivers grooming the beasts of I burden. Complete Triumph. I imagine Christ one daj- standing in the streets of Jerusalem, A man descended from high lineage is standing beside him and says: "My father was | a merchant prince. He had a castle on i the beach in Galilee. Who was your j father?" Christ answers, "Joseph, the \ carpenter." A man from Athens is i standing there, unrolling his parch- | ment of graduation, and says to Christ, j "Where did vou co to school?" Christ j answers, "I never graduated." Alia! j ! The idea of such an unheralded young ' man attempting to command the attention of the world! As well some little Bargains!! IN ALL KINDS OF )ODS, NC A TV JD furnis: idqilakters md iglit Goods at tlx Prices. SALE AND 1 oe cash b?a! Street, Coin: I m II Will ? !" ! ~n ! fishing village ou Long Island shore at-' tempt to arraign New York. Y'et no sooner does lie set his foot In the towns or cities of Judaea than everything is in commotion. The people go out on a picnic, taking only food enough for a day. yet are so fascinated with Christ that, at the risk of starving, they follow him out into the wilder-' ness. A nobleman falls down flat before liini and says. "My daughter is dead." A bcrrgar tries to rub the dimness from hi? eyes and says, "Lord, that my eyes may be opened." A poor,; siek. panting woman presses through the crowd an-.l says, "I must touch the hem of his garment." Children who: love their mother better than any one: else struggle to get into his arms and to kiss his cheek and to run their fingers through his hair and for all time putting Jesus so in love with the little ones that there is hardly a nursery in Christendom from which he does not take one. saying: "I must have them. I will lill heaven with these, for every cedar that I plant in heaven I will have 50 white lilies. In the hour when I was a poor man in .Tmhea they were not ashamed of me, and now that 1 have come to a throne I do not de-t spise them. Hold it not back, O weep-! iug mother! Lay it on my warm heart.; Of such is the kingdom of heaven." Again, I remark, there was no or-1 pani/ation in his behalf, and that was J against him. When men propose any J pre at work, they band together, they write letters of agreement, they take oatl>.s of fealty, and the more complete the organization the more and com- j plote the success. Ilere was one who, went forth without any organization and alone. If men had a mind to join j In his company^ all right; if they had a J 4 mind not lo join in Ids coin pan 5*. ail well. If tho\* 0:11110. thoy wore greeted with no loud salutation: if thoy wont away, thoy wero sont with no hitter anathema. IVtor departed. and Christ turned and looked at liim; that was all. All this was against him. I>id any one ever undertake such an enterprise amid such infinite embarrassments and liy such modes? And yet I am here to say it ended in a complete triumph. Notwithstanding his worldly occupation. his poverty, his plain face, his tin- I pretending garb, the fact that lie was j schoolless, the fact that he had a brief life, the fact that he was not accompanied by any visible organization-notwithstanding all that, in an exhilaration which shall he prolonged in everlasting chorals, lie declared, "I have finished the work which thou gavest 1 me to do." Beyond Hainan Power. See him victorious over the forces of | nature. The sea is a crystal sepulcher. ! It swallowed the Central America, the I President and the Spanish armada ?s I easily as any fly that ever floated on ii. The inland lakes are fully as terrible in their* wrath. Some of us who have sailed on it know that Lake Galilee, when aroused in a storm, is overwhelming. and yet that sea crouched in his presence and licked his feet. lie knew all the waves and the wind. When he beckoned, they came. When he frowned, they fled. The heel of his foot made no indentation on the solidified water. Medical science has wrought great changes in rheumatic limbs and diseased blood, but when the muscles are entirely withered no human power can restore them, and when a limb is once dead it is dead. But here is a paralytic?his hand lifeless. Christ says to him, "Strtteh forth thy hand," and he stretches it forth. In the eye infirmary how many diseases of that delicate organ have been cured? But Jesus says to one blind, "Be open!" and the light of heaven rushes through gates that have never before been opened. The frost or an ax may kill a tree, but Jesus smites one dead with a word. Chemistry may do many wonderful things, but what chemist, at a wedding, when the wine gave out. could change a pail of water into a cask of wine? What human voice could command a school of fish? Yet here Is a voice that marshals the fcr>nlv trihos nnHI. In n nlace where thev i had let down the net and pulled It up with no fish in it, they let it down a^ain, and the disciples lay hold and be^an to pull.. whept by reason of the j Bargains!!!! I I I i HINGS. SAVE HOSEY! I i Very Lowest I i DETAIL. N MERCHANT oilbia, S. C. I I M ' -Wfm ? ??? multitude of fish, the not broke. Na- ! ture is his servant. The flowers?he twisted them into his sermons; the winds?they were his lullaby when he slept in the beat; the rain?it hung glitferingly on the thick foliage of the parables; the star of Bethlehem ? it sang a Christmas carol over his birth; the rocks?they beat a dirge at his death. Behold his victory over the grave! The hinges of the family vault become very rusty because they are never opened except to take another in. There Is a knob on the outside of the door of the sepulcher. but none on the inside. Ilere comes the conqueror of death. lie enters that realm and says. "Daughter of Jairus, sit up!" and she sits up. To Lazarus, "Come forth!" and he came forth. To the widow's son he said, "Get up from that bier!" and he goes home with his mother. Then Jesus snatched up the keys of deatli and hung them to his girdle and cried until all the graveyards of the earth heard him: "O death, I will be thy plague! O grave, I will be thy destruction!" Supernatural Xnture. Xo man could go through all the obKt!wh>K I have described, yo:; say. with out having a nature suivrnatural. In that arm. amid its muscles and nerves and hones, were intertwisted the energies of omnipotence. In the syllables of that voice there was the efnphasis of the eternal God. That foot that walked the deck of tho ship in Gennesaret shall stamp kingdoms of darkness into demolition. This poverty struck Christ owned Augustus, owned the sanhedrin, owned Tiberias, owned all the castles on its beach and all the skies that looked down intojts water? absolutely t Makes the food more del ROYAL 6AKIWO POWD owned an the canii and aTi the lieav- j ens. To him of the plain coat belonged I the robes of celestial royalty. lie who walked the road to Eniniaus the lightnings were the lire shod steeds of his chariot. Yet there are those who look on and see Christ turn water into wine, and they say, "It was sleight of hand!" And they see Chr.st raise the dead to life, and they say: "Easily explained; not really dead; playing dead!" And they see Christ giving sight to the blind man. and they say. "Clairvoyant doctor!" Oh. what shall they do on the dav when Christ rises un in judg mont and the hills shall rock and the trumpets shall call, i-.al on peal? In the time of Theodoslus the Great there was a great assault made upon the divinity of Jesus Christ, and during that time Theodoslus the Great called his own son to sit on the throne with him and be a copartner in the government of the empire, and one day the old bishop came and bowed down before Theodoslus, the emperor, and passed out of the room, and the emperor was offended, saying to the old bishop, "Why didn't you pay the same honor to my son. who shares with me in the 1 government?" Then the old bishop , turned to the young man and said. , "The Lord bless thee, my young man," but still paid him no such honor as he had paid to the emperor. And the em- 1 peror was still offended and displeased when the old bishop turned to Theodosius the Great and said to him, "You are offended with me because 1 don't 1 pay the same houor to your son, whom you have made copartner in the government of this empire, the same honor I pay to you. and yet you encourage 1 multitudes of people in your realm to j deny the Sou of God equal authority, equal power, with God the Father." Live Forever. My subject also reassures us of the fact that in all our struggles we have a sympathizer. You cannot tell Christ anything new about hardship. I do < net think that wide ages of eternity will take the scars from his punctured side and his lacerated temples and his sore hands. You will never have a burden weighing so many pounds as that burden Christ carried up the 1 bloody hill. You will never have any , suffering worse than he endured when, with tongue hot and cracked and Inflamed and swollen, he moaned, "I thirst" You will uever be surrounded by worse hostility tlnn that which 1 stood around Christ's feet, foaming, re- ' viling, livid with rage, howling down 1 his prayers and snuffing up the smell I of blood. O ye faint hearted, 0 ye j troubled. O ye persecuted one, here Is ] a heart that can sympathize with you! i Again, and lastly. I learn from all 1 that has been said today that Christ ] was awfully in earnest. If it had not , been a momentous mission, he would | have turned back from it disgusted and i discouraged.. lie saw you in a captivi- ( ty from which he was resolved to extricate you. though it cost him all j j sweat, ail tears, all blood. He came a ! < great way to save you. lie came from j j Bethlehem here, through the place of skulls, through the charnel house, 1 through banishment. There was not ( among all the ranks of celestials one being who would do as much for you. I lay his crushed heart at your feet to- i day. Let it not be told in heaven that , you deliberately put your foot on it. i While it will take all the ages of eternity to celebrate Christ's triumph, I ' < am here to make the startling an- J ( nouncement that because of the rejec- i tion of this mission on the part of some 1 i of you all that magnificent work of garden and cross and grave is, so far as you are concerned, a failure. Helena, the empress, went to the Holy Land to find trie cross of Christ. Get ting to the Holy Land, there were three , crosses excavated, and the question ' was which of the crosses was Christ's cross. They toe1: a dead body, tradl- | tion says, and pot it upon one of the crosses, and there was no life, and they took the dead body and put It upon an- ' other cross, and there was no life; but. tradition says, when the dead body was . | put up against the third cross it sprang ! into life. The dead man lived again. ! Oh, that the life giving power cf the ! Son of God might dart your dead soul j into an eternal life, beginning this day! "Awake, thou that sleepest, and rise , j from the dead, and Christ shall give j thee life!" Live now! And live for, ever! I (Copyright. l^OO, by Louia Klopsch.] A Thousand Tongues Could not fxpress the rap'ire of j Annie E Springer, of 1123 Howard j i street, Philadelphia, Pi., when she j I .ound that Dr. KiDg'o New Discovery j j for Consumption hid completely ' , i cured her of a hacking cough that ! ' o e> i I for many years had made life a ! burden. All other remedies and I doctors could give her no help, but j she says of this R yal Cure?"it I soon removed the pain in my chest 1 ! and T rrm row sleen sound!**, some- i , r ., - ... . ; thing I can scarcely remember doing j befuie. I f*el like sounding its jpraises throughout the U .ivert-e" j So will ever\ one who tries Dr. j King1* New D scovery for aoy trou b e of the Tbront, Chest or Lungs, j Pi ice 50;; and $1 00. Tnal bottles' J free at J E Kiufm iuu'b Di ug S*oie; every boiue guaranteed. L Baking Powder l)RE icious and wholesome ER CO., HEW YORK. A Family of Sextons. The sextonshlp of the parish cliureb at Chapel-en le-Frith, Derbyshire. Xngland, lias been retained in one family since 1031. Tlie latest incumbent, Joseph Bra m well, who recently died, liad held office since 1803. He was burled in a vault In which lay the bodies of the eight predecessors of whom he was a descendant. One of them was sexton for 52 years. Handicapped For Life. ) The Transvaal war lias proved disastrous to old England in more senses than one. .Just think of it! Since the struggle commenced the following names have beeu conferred upon British babies: James Spion Kop Skinner, I Ladysmith Waghorn, Thomas Elandslaagte Wilks. Alice Pretoria, Amelia Ladysmlth and Cecil Redvers.?St. I.ouis Star. Robbed the Grave. A startling incident, of which Mr John Oliver, of Philadelphia, was tbf subject, is narrated by him asfoHowf.: "I was in a most dreadful condition My skin was almost yellow, eyes Bunker, tongue coated, pain continually in back and sides, no appetite?gradually growing weaker day by day. Three physicians had given me up. Fortunately, a friend ad- I vised tryiDg 'Electric Bittereand to j my great joy and surprise, tbe first bottle made a decided improvement. I continued their use for thres weeks, and am now a well man. 1 know they saved my life, and robbed I Ihe grave of another victim." No one should fail to try them. Ouly 50c guaranteed, at J. E. K iufmann's Drug Store. CHAT WITH A PAWNBROKER. The Oddest Thing- Ever Offered to Him?The Business Not All Profit. "The oddest thing I ever had offered to me," said a pawnbroker, "was a skeleton, and I didn't take it. I t.adn't any doubt that it was all right; that the man that offered it owned It &nd had a right to sell it. I suppose he was a medical student who wanted money just then more than he wanted the skeleton. But I didn't know anything about the value of skeletons and how much to advance on it, and so 1 didn't take it. But that will give you some sort of an idea of the variety of things that the pawnbroker has offered to him. "Of course, you understand that not all pawnbrokers take everything; there are men who advance money ou nothing but watches and jewelry and diamonds and pictures and that sort of thing and who wouldn't give anything on the handsomest satin lined overcoat that ever was, because it isn't in their line. They have no place to put such things, no conveniences for taking care of them. And then there are pawnbrokers doing a general busines") who take all sorts of things?watches and banjos, boxing gloves and silver spoons, practically anything and "verything that offers. They might occasionally run across something that they wouldn't take, as I did with the skeleton. but not often. There's practically nothing but what they will take and practically nothing but what Is offered at one time and another. liirrre tlin qmnnnt oHvonp. \J u ^VLUC lUIU^O IUV UU4VUUV ?AV* rMMV ed Is very small, but still I've got things In safe that I never should get my money back on if I had to sell them. You'd suppose It would be easy for the pawnbroker to give on a thing no more than he could get for it If he had to sell it, and so it would be. but, | as a matter of fact, he may give more than he could get back. He would be governed by circumstances and by his judgment of the person offering the goods. "I might have a customer bring in a diamond ring that I would lend so much on, whatever it was, and that would be a safe loan. The ring would be good for it if it was never reclaimed. But maybe the next* week the same customer, hard up and needing nxmey. would bring in a pair of trousers, spited and worn, not worth much if you had to sell them. And very likely I would lend more on those trousers than I could ever get for them, lending that because he's a customer and I want to accommodate him and I want to keep him as a customer and because the chances are that he'll take the trousers out agaiu, but if he doesn't, why. then j I'm out. "The question of whether a man who wants a loan is likely to redeem what j he offers is often taken into account. Tf Jo n /inmmAii thinrr fnr tllP P.nwnhrO ker to look at the tuan, maybe a stranger. and lend ou his judgment of the man as well as on his knowledge of the value of the thing the man puts down on the counter. Of course he makes mistakes in this, but he takes the chances, and I suppose he oftener gets it right than not. There might come in here you or anybody needing money with an old fashioned key winding watch, that I could not get $10 for. and want to borrow $lo. and very likely I'd lend it, though I know I never could, get my money back if the watch was not redeemed. But I know, or I_think ADVERTISING RATES. Advertisements will be inserted at the its 01 7 Cents per iMjnnre of one in? h itce for rirsi insertion and fiO cent* per uch tor each snk-eqiicnt insertion. Liberal uouiiitou ?n. de with th< se v'sh ug to advertise for three his and thrive nontbs. Notices in the local oolainn 5 cent> per me each inner ion. Obituaries charged for at the rate of oi e ent a word, wt en thet exceed 100 words. Marriage notices inserted free Address J. M. RAHMAN, Editor and Ptiblisher. f know, at a glance whether lie will ro-i deem the watch or not, what sort of! mnn ho i? nvil hotv much hp enlnna th?; watch for its associations, and I go according to 1113* judgment. "No doubt, as a general proposition, the pawnbroker sets out to lend on' things no more than he could sell theini for. There are times when, inst^d of making money, he loses it. What he tries to do is to get a profit as the net result."?New York Sun. A Doubtful Compliment. Governor Shaw of Iowa had amus-j ing experiences with newspaper men during a recent visit down east. "One reporter." he said, "referred to me as 'a dapper little old man,' another said my clothes didn't fit me and that I was 'no orator, according to classical standards,' but the funniest compliment I ever received was during the campaign last fall In mv own state. After I had made a speech before a crowd that had gathered to hear a debate between Jim Weaver and myself an old fanner pushed his way through to where I stood, grasped my hand and said, with | every indication of sincere admiration: 'Governor, that was a hue speech? an excellent speech! Do you know, you remind me very strongly of Abraham Lincoln in your powers of illustration? Of course you are a better looking man than Lincoln was!' Then, stepping back and taking another look at me from head to feet and evidently intending to emphasize the compliment, he added. 'But not much, either!' "?Omaha Bee. < Tlie Bishop and the Bore. Archbishop Temple of Canterbury la1 always made impatient by bores, especially clerical bores. One of the clergy of his diocese who had pestered him a good deal recently wrote an inordinate-' ly long letter describing a picture which! he proposed to put up in the chancel of; the church and asking permission to do so. By the time his-grace reached the end of the eplslle his patience was quite exhausted, and he replied on a' postal card. "DearBlank?Hang the pic-; ture!" The clergyman is still wonder-.' Ing how he ought to regard the reply, j \ I Truly Generous. ' Are the complaints of the ministers really well founded as to lack of gener-. oslty In supporting churches? As soon as the coinage of the half cent was announced the first thought apparently In all minds was its influence on the Sunday collection plate.?Baltimore American. j. j POWER OF RED RIBBON. In&acea Two Indian Matdeni ta Have Face Masks Made. Two of the fairest maidens of the Winnebago tribe of the Indians went through an hour of abject terror the other afternoon when they had their "faces pasted with white mud." The "pasting" was only the efforts of Hugo Loeb, sculptor, to get masks of the young maidens. T. H. Roddy, the newly appointed chief of the Winnebagoes, brought the two girls to Chicago on a visit Annie Bluerlng, the fairest of all Indian maidens, attracted the artistic eye of Mr. Loeb. who asked to be allowed to make a mask of her face. Mr. Roddy led the two girls to Mr. Loeb's studio, and the mystery of the masks was explained. When everything was ready, both girls declared evil spirits lurked in the plaster and refused to go. "Chocolates!" said Mr. Loeb. Both maidens became attention at once. Mr. Loeb made the mistake of feeding tbem a pound of chocolates before he completed his work. All the explaining of Mr. Loeb and the commands of Mr. Roddy were without avail. "Red ribbons!" suddenly said Mr. Loeb. lie brought forth several yards of the reddest of red ribbons, and both girls made a rush for them. "After I have taken the mask," said the sculptor, with a winning smile. The bright colors proved too great an attraction for the young Indians, and with the reward of ribbons suspended from a gas bracket they at last permitted their faces to be covered with the plaster.?Chicago Inter Ocean. . H To Annihilate an Arm/, A retired artillery officer of the Belgian army has Invited a number of officers and engineers to an exhibition at Antwerp of an invention he contends will revolutionize warfare. The inventor, a Mr. Itculiug, says that his Invention is so deadly that the army against which it is directed would be entirely destroyed in a few minutes. It is a species of bomb, loaded with a terrible explosive, the name of which the inventor has not yet divulged. lie ' ? A das promised 10 jrive lucuuiciiauto proof of tlie destructive powers of the invention before exDerts.- " '*"*?L? /jfhA/Baby's} /"M 1 r>y Bir;' II ing of a flower. Its beauty and ( i perfection depends entirely > I upon the care bestowed upon 1: I its parent. 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