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PThe Lexington Dispatch. Wednesday, April 2. 1902. Tie First Drink. Two boys stopped in front of a saloon, and an old man standing near listened to what they said. "Let's go in and take a drink," said x one of them. t4I?I don't think we'd better," said bis companion, "my father's terribly opposed to saloons. I don't know what he'd eay if he knew I'd been in one, and drank liquor there." "Just for the fu-n of the thing, you know," urged his friend, "of course, we'd stop with one drink. There could not be any harm in that." "My boys," said the old man, coming up to them, "you don't know what you're talking about. If you go in there and take one drink, you're not sure of stopping there. The chances are that you woD't, for I teli you?and I know what I'm talking about by a bitter experience?there's such a fascination about liquor that it takes a stroDg will to resist after the first taste of it, sometimes. Take onrl thp WftV Of the ilUC HI OU lAkJun, w-v. J drunkard is open before you. Only those who let liquor entirely alone are safe. I know, for I've been a drunkard a good many years. I expect to be one till I die. I began by taking a drink first as you propose to 'for fun'?but I didn't stop there, you see. Take the advice of a poor old wreck?and that is Dever take the first drink/' "You're right," s&id the boy who [ had proposed to visit the saloon. "I I thank you for your advice, sir. I TO i en o a nflinr say, X UIXI, iCL C piuuuioo vvuvi. never to take the first drink." UA1 right," said Tom, and the boys I clasped hands on their pledge, b ikThat's a good temperance society to belong to," said the old man. "I wish I'd joined one like it when I wa3 a boy." It Dazzles the World. No Discovery in medicine has ever created one quarter of the excitement fKof V?c?q hoon r?anspd hv Df. King's tUUW O New Discovery for Consumption. | It's severest tests have been on hopeless victims of Consumption, Pneumonia, Hemorrhage, Pleurisy and Bronchitis, thousands of whom it has restored to perfect health. For Coughs, Colds, Asthma, Croup, Hay Fever, Hoarseness and Whooping Cough it is the quickest, surest cure in the world. It is sold by J. E Kaufmann who guarantee satisfaction or r?fund moncv. Large bottles 50c and $1 00. Trial bottles free. Tillmon on Pap. Washington, March 27?The Senior 1 Senator of South Carolina is looking sharply after the interest of his State and in the performance of that duty he hurls his pitchfork at the C.vil Service commission. He finds that South Carolina has only 70 per cent of her share of the places in ^ the government service at the Capi* > "i i - il - jj ,3 ? tai ana wanie me ueumenuy ujaue good. It is claim that the fault lies partly with our own people who do not take proper advantage of the frequent civil service examinations. If the Baby is Cutting Teeth. Be sure and use that old and well tried remedy, Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething. It soothes the child, softens the gums, " "I _ -1* 3 allays ail pam, cures wina coiic aim is the best remedy for diarrhoea. Twenty-five cents a bottle. K It is the best of all. W From Mountains to Sea. Afternoon Record. & W. B. Smith Whaley, in a recent issue of Cissier's Magazine, has a very interesting article on tbe use of (electricity as a mouvo puwci m uuiton mills. He takes the Olympia and other mills of Columbia and shows how the power can be supplied, not only cheap for the mills, but fer electric railway and lightning purposes generally. He states that there are fifteen mills now operated by electricity in the State, and th9 power generated at all of them is sufficient not only to operate the mills, but to l1?? hood cheaper than it could be don otherwise. In the course of his article he sug gested an interesting probability i the assertion that it will soon be pot sible to have an electric railroad frci the mountains to the sea, operated b power furnished from cotton mills c such like enterprises, which can b done cheaper, considering all thingi than such power could be supplie for a railroad alone. If suchaschem ia rtnf T-irorti-inaVilo nr.w it, will nnt b yiuvvivjs/*v - - ?w _ ? many years before it is. Alreed there is a chain of mills from th mountains to Columbia, but all c them are not operated by electricity When electricity is substituted fc steam in all of them the electric rai road will come. At the last session of the Legisk ture a charter was granted to th French Broad and Southern railroac which i9 to be an electric liDe. It i to ran from a point in North Carolin to a point in South Carolina abou Easley, and the plan contemplate is eventually to continue it to Ar derson. One or two Columbia ger tlemen are among the corporator! Who knows but what this is the b( ginning of an electric road from th mountains to the sea, which Mi Whaley sees in his mind's eye? Neglect Means Danger. I TN 1 ? * 1 1 * 1 J jL/od t neglect DiJiousuess ami uux. stipation. Your health will suffe permanently if you do. DeWitt' Little Early Risers cure such case M. R. Smith, Butternut, Mich , say DeWitt's Little Early Risers are th mo3t satisfactory pills I ever tool Never grippe or cause nausea." t] E. Kaufmann. ?# -? Higa Boiler. New York?Society was startle recently by a confirmed story to th effect that Reginald Claypool Yar derbilt lost more than 8100,000 at roulette table in a famous gamblin house of "Dick" Canfield. Th young millionaire is now a membe of the senior class at Yale, where th news of the luckless play caused great sensation. The event is sai to have occurred after a dinnpr give recently in honor of young Yande: bilt. $100,000 in Paper Lost.. Thousandss of dollars' worth c cash, checks, drafts, money orderi stocks and negotiable securities ac dressed to Baltimore banks and firm were destroyed in the wreck of th fast mail train on the Southern R*i way, near Charlotteville, Ya., r< cently. The total face value of th paper destroyed is near 8100,000. The Thrust of n Lance Is scarcely more agonizing tha the recurrent pains in the abdome which follow the eating of imprope food or too free indulgence in ic< water. The immediate cause ( cramps and colic is often the distei tion of the bowels by gas. Quick r< lief follows the use of Perry Davi Painkiller. Careful housekeepei give it the place of honor in th family medicine cheat. Host of Thorn Escaped. Pretoria, March 28.?General D< ! laney, with 1,500 Boers were withi | the scope of Kitchener's recent mow ment to avenge Metheun's defea but most of them escaped. Con mandant H. Kruger and a hundre and seventy eight men were capturec ! Steamboat Company Charters: Application has been made to tfc Secretary of State by the Surnt* Steamboat Onmnanv. nf Gharl?stm : The company proposes to engage i ! the manufacture and sale of boa! j and has a capital of ?1,500. It Girdles the Globe. The fame of Bucklen's Arnica Salv as the best in the world, extenc ! round the earth. It's the one pe i feet healer of Cuts, Corns, Burn | Bruises, Sores, Scalds, Boils, Uicer Felons, Aches, Pains and all Ski | Eruptions. Only infallible Pile cur | 23c a box at J. E. Kaufmann's. The people of the United State i ate sC,530,000 worth of bananas las I year. '' if n)| 1^% ; Unless she is a healthy mother. No J woman can. If the baby has drained 1 I- her vitality; if its care is a tax; if, in ( short, the baby is a burden instead of a e blessing, how can she enjoy it? She ^ 1, loves it, but she cannot feed it. She j yearns for it, but has not the strength . 8 to fondle it. a There is nothing more beautiful in the 1 , world than a healthy mother and her J * healthy child. The madonna is the j d highest reach of human art. In the j j serene strength which art gives to the j ] typical mother and child there is distinct ! ( j_ denial of suffering and weakness as a , j necessity of motherhood. But how few ! ? women are there to whom motnernooci \ s_ is naturally an abiding joy. In how ; ' many cases a woman dates her loss of , 1 e health from the birth of her child ! To I r all such suffering women Dr. Pierce's Fa- 1 vorite Prescription comes as a veritable j < god-send. It prepares the mother for . her hour of trial, tranquilizes her nerves, | ^ encourages her appetite, and brings her 1 restful sleep. It makes the baby's ad- f vent practically painless, and gives the ; 1 1_ mother abundant strength to nurse and | 1 r nourish her child. , Every claim made for "Favorite Pre- I i 6 scription" is supported by the testimon- ! ] iS ials of wives and mothers, thousands in i ( number, and covering in their several I e experiences the whole range of womanly j ' 0 suffering. In a great number of cases j 5 after the utter failure of all doctors and j 1 medicines, Dr. Pierce's Favorite Pre f scription, tned as a last resort, nas er- j fected a perfect and permanent cure. Sick women are invited to consult Dr. i Pierce by letter free. All womanly con- | fidences held under the seal of strict ! professional privacy. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. I : d There is no alcohol in " Favorite Pre- i scription" and it is entirely free from j e opium, cocaine, and all other narcotics. 1 Between Life and Death. a "I think I)r. Pierce's Fa%-orite Prescription ( or and'Golden Medical Discovery' the best medn icines in the world.'' writes Mrs. Amelia Dought3 erty, of Kerrigan. Wayne Co.. Mo. "My baby was born last summer. After baby came I help came ill, had the best physician that could be j got, and he diagnosed my ?ase as uterine trouble \ ? tending to dropsy. Medicine seemed to do me j no good; I lingered between life and death for j a quite a while,"every day growing weaker, until I could not walk across the room. My friends d were looking for my death every minute. A friend wrote and told me about Dr. R. V. Pierce, rj and I at once wrote to him for medical advice. He replied immediately, giving me full instruc4' * 4 ~ ^ Ar* T o f /-\-i rr?11ntrAf1 liic r. CIS IU VWlClC LKJ KA\J. X CiW v/n>.v. ivmv/.tv^ , advice, and when I had taken his medicine about a week I felt a good deal stronger. When I had taken it about oue mouth I felt as strong { as I do to-day. I took four bottles of each kind ' and two vials of ' Pleasant Pellets.' Many 1 thanks for the medicine. It has cured me permanently." )f Gained! 40 Pounds* 9 nI am very glad to let other poor sufferers [ '' know what Dr. Pierce's medicines have done j I for me." writes Mrs. Edwin H. Gardner, of I Beechwood, Norfolk Co., Mass.. Box 70. "You _ know I wrote to you last summer. I read what your medicine had done for other people, so thought I would try it, and I found that is was a ? blessing to me and my family. I began in June j 1 and took six bottles of your medicine, and three I vials of ' Pellets.' I took your medicine a year j , when I had a ten pound girl. I had the easiest j time I ever had with any of my three children. I have been very well since I took your medil? cine. I took three bottles of ' Favorite Prescription,'three of ' Golden Medical Discovery,'and three vials of'Pellets.' I had no appetite and could not eat much without it distressing me before I took your ' Favorite Prescription ' and I j only weighed 135 pounds. Now I weigh 175 j pounds." Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets commend j E themselves as a family laxative. They j are easy to take, effective in results, and ' n their use does not beget the pill habit. >r ? ? - . . . , . ... Kemember the kind acts or otners ; ^ but forget your own. One thorn of experience is worth \ a dozen buds of advice. 9 A fool's modesty i3 never allowed s to overshadow his inability. The candidate who gets the vote ! of the fair sex ought to receive quite a handsome majority. Try Chamberlain's Stomach & ; Liver Tablets, the best physic. For sale by J. E. Kaufmann. 8~ f The Secretary of war lias been authorized to furnish tents for the i- __ _ i Confederate Veterans at the Dallas d ^ reunion. At the electric congress just held L. in Moscow an electric motor plow ie was exhibited which turned a furrow ?r twelve icches deep. 3* "A neighbor ran in with a bcttle Q of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and "s Diarrhoea Remedy when my son was suffering with severe cramps and was given up as beyond hope by my regular physician, who stands high ! in his profession. After administer ' . . I js ing three dosee of it, my son regain- : r. ed consciousness and recovered en- j tirely within twenty-four hours," 5? says Mrs. Mary Haller, of Mt. Crawn ford, Va. This remedy is for sale by 1 e< J. E. Kaufmann. A new 1-cent postal card is beiDg printed by the postcftice dipirtment ; ?s with McKinley's vingrette on it init stead of Jefferson's. The new cards will be placed on sale soon. LUNGS THAT ARE LAZY. rheir Owner* Digest Poorly and Catch Cold Easily. Fresh air is a free gift, but~it is like j nost of the gifts of heaven in that we j mist do our share of work to benelit I )\* it. No one would expect to have a tood lire just because a pair of bellows lung on a nail by the chimney, but this s exactly what many people expect of :heir lungs, which are really only the )eliows given us by which to keep the j ir<> nf lifo hnrninsr brieht and clear I within us. It is not too ranch to assert tlmt !un,rs iroperly used in a comparatively close 00:11 will do more good than lazy lungs 11 an open field. This trick of lazy lings is a habit, like any other, and nay be overcome by persistent effort, daily persons, for example, are affiictld with a nervous habit of holding the ireatli unconsciously. These are the icople who, in spite of plenty of time spent out of doors, yet catch cold easiy, digest poorly and are always more >r less "under the weather" physically. Many other persons?and they consti:ute the great majority of mankind? Droathe oniy with the upper part of the lings and although they may breathe egularly do not draw in sufficient air it a breath to fill all the lung cells. When once the pernicious habit of ? 1 11 n d ImAn ItrA JUUr, 5LU1111MV UI K'il I mils wiv ken np, the health undergoes such markid improvement, there is such brightenr.g of the spirits and improvement of :he looks, that the luxury of deep wreathing is not likely to be readily foregone. A good way to start the new habit is to take deliberately a few minutes at dated intervals and devote them to proper breathing. If this is done systematically, the reformer will find himself unconsciously breathing more and more, until very soon he is obeying nature and really breathing to live. Besides the gain to the general health which comes from the habit of deep breathing there is created a reserve strength and preparedness which is :>ften of great service in warding off icute pulmonary diseases.?Youth's Companion. HE SIGNED HIS NAME. Story of Frank Ilntton When lie Be- I came Postmaster General. "Frank Hatton was a great stickler for details," said a former representative of congress who had been in Washington when Mr. Ilatton was postmaster general the other day, "and when he entered the cabinet in the latter part of Arthur's administration he ! carried this habit with him. He let it j be known among the heads of bureaus and divisions that he proposed to familiarize himself with the business of the department until he had grasped all the details of the work over which he presided. "The second day at his desk the venerable colored messenger who attended him brought the usual large bundle of letters to be signed. It was a pile of typewritten epistles, inches thick. The messenger placed them before Mr. Hatton and, with a blotting pad in hand, . stood waiting for the signature, as he had done for Mr. Ilatton's predecessors since Hayes' time. The first letter was 1 q innfr atia r>n n tonic with which the new postmaster general was not famil- i | iar and so formal, legal and involved j that one reading did not make its meaning clear. Mr. Ilatton hesitated, wrinkled his forehead and mused to j himself: " 'What's this all about anyway? It's ; all news to me. I don't know whether j I approve of the things it says or not. j I can't make head or tail out of it.-I j don't know whether it's a good thing or : not.' ' The old messenger, standing with i blotting pad raised, leaned over and } placed his forefinger on the space at i the end of the last page and answered: j " 'Well, neither do I, but you sign j your name there.' "Mr. Ilatton signed."?New York j Times. Queer Freaks of Flovrers. "Why is it." complained the man with a grouch to a restaurant keeper : yesterday, "that you fellers hardly ever j have any flowers in your old joints?" i The hasli founder looked up. "Flow- } ers won't live in restaurants," he said. | ( "The smoke and odor of the cooking i.. seems to smother them, and they never thrive. I've tried it dozens of times, and always with the same result. Put . flowers in a saloon, though, and they grow and bloom in splendid shape. The tobacco smoke, I suppose, serves as a fumigator, and the fumes of the liquor j nnnnrentlv stimulate them. If you want | I to make a success of flowers, put them in a grogshop. stunt or kill them, a restaurant is the best ever."?Duluth News-Tribune. Performed n Filial Duty. .Toe was such a pathetic little man. lie came from 41 quarter of the city where crime and misery had formed a background for the five weary years of his unnatural little life. He was late to kindergarten one morning and was asked to sit by the door until the morning exercises were over. Before being i restored to grace the teacher asked him why he was so late. "Well," replied , Joe, "the patrol came after my mother, and 1 waited to see her off."?Chicago ; Tribune. j 1 j I.nnfcv For Both. i j "When her grandfather came to this j | town. In; was ha re footed and had only | 50 cents in his pocket.*' "What a lucky thin.tr it was for her I that he didn't know she would some day be ashamed of the manner of his arrival. If lie could have known how it was going to Humiliate nor, no iiugui not have come."?Chicago Herald. It is said that no musical work has aided so materially the cause <<f chari- I tv as Handel's oratorio of "The Mes- | siab."?Ladies' Home Journal. | SPRING AND SUMMER | 1FURTICK'S? m . {yy? ffi W b are ready tor the bprmg and bummer |gWfbuyers. Our stock is complete with all the ??? rnl Jf I I TEST TUI1W1C OP TUP SMHW M gH umim iiiuiuu ui HILJ munflvii gg Our net spot cash system of buying and selling, gppfgj) coupled with experienced buyers, places us in a posigffia tion to offer prices that few can meet. gRj We invite you to inspect our stock when in ColumJfJS bia. It won't cost you anything and may save you Jp3 some hard earned American Dollars. gj3J By a special deal we are enabled to offer gg gg 5000 M22T and BOY'S SUITS ?g at extra special prices. M /v nt r\ r\r\ ri _ * j c a r J1 - -1* xl . T") T^DT wur 5iu.uu ouiis ior iuen are maae 01 uie dloi lift m gjjg MATERIAL and by the best workmen. For ?5.00 we can give you a suit fit for anybody to wear. CJ ?0 1,000 pieces fine Flowered Organdy, special, at 50c. ww ?J9 per yard. ?j3 1,000 dozen King's Spool Cotton at l?,c. per spool. ?9 5,000 pairs Men' Mixed Wool Trousers at 25c. a pair gjyJ We will be prepared to offer one of the largest Maiaga Hats for men, at 10c. each. We have contracted SjK for 25 cases and will be 50 per cent, under the market on these famous hats. ?^5^1 Thousands of good things to show you. Thanking the readers of the Dispatch for their libQ9 eral patronage in the past and soliciting a continuance JSS .2 of the same, I am the purchaser's friend, ipi l?as A>"T? K.JO HIAI1V ST.. SmI 7 m , tig ?3 OOIL-CJlvdlSTu^., S. C.f}jJ Goods of all descriptions are the only kind kept in stock in our new store, and those who wish to purchcase the latest novelties in Fall and Winter DRY GOODS, NOTIONS AND MILLINERY. as cheap as the same class of goods can be purchased elsewhere, should inspect this stock before purchasing. Honest values for your money is our guarantee, so if your want to buy goods that will prove to be just as represented, give us a call and you'll not be disappointed. MAIN STEEET, NEABLY OPPOSITE POST OFFICE, COLUMBIA, S. C. October. 9 ?3m. Mi Carolina lift lorls, 1707 MAIiY ST., COLUMBIA, S. C. a The Largest Retail ly^MABBLE AND GRANITE !^.f-1 Dealers South- We use the best grade material in macufacturing Or Monuments and Headstones and guarantee our work and -. tiinish tc be the best. When you hear a man complainin? that ke can buy so much cheaper trom some ^"^8510 little fellow who is anxious to sell anything, you can put it down that he will get cheap stock, /^EfrssEJjgg cheap work, and ol course a cheap job. We can compete with any lair dealer & in this country, but we cannot * work. IRON e WIRE FENCIXG, GRAVE LOT G0PIM1,ETC., for sale. Write to us or see cur MR. r- B. EDWARDS, LEXINGTON, S. C. and we will see that you are treated fair. ? M 1% /xv ?** I *ir h T* TtkT n f*TAT\17/1 SOUTH UAEUL1M IUAKDLl WUMO. September li. ^ ** :