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?En I?I "I feel as young now, at tliirty, as I did at eighteen years of age." That is part of the statement of one woman, mother of six children, who found new life by the use of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. It is not the ordinary cares of the family, nor the natural obligations of motherhood, which make women prematurely old. But it is the womanly aiseases, draining away the vitality, and undermining the strength, 1 which take the roundness and supple- | ness from the form, the bloom from the cheek and the brightness from the eye. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription cures those womanly diseases which rob women of youth and beauty. It establishes regularity, dries enfeebling drains, heals inflammation and ulceration, and cures female weakness. It makes weak women strong and sick women well. It irings back to the mother the lighrheartedness of her bridal day. This is :he testimony of thousands of women who have renewed their youth by the use of "Favorite Prescription." "For four years I suffered untold agony,* Writes Mrs. H. A. Nations, of Witts Springs, Searcy Co., Arkansas. "Sometimes I would get some better and think I would get well, only to wake up some morning not able to rise. In'ir.y hips and^'around lower parts of abdomen was where I suffered the most, and when the pain would rive way it scattered all over me and I would ?e so sore and stiff t could scarcely move. 2gy hujMnd got the best doctor in the country to attemftne, but I did not improve any. Finally I told my husband tliat I was going- to try ur. Pierce's medicines. By the time 1 had taken one bottle of4 Favorite Prescription' I could notice a little improvement. Dr. Pierce advised me to take 4 Golden Medical Discovery' in connection with the 'Favorite Prescription.4 By the time I had taking five bottles of 4 Favorite Prescription 4 and four of the 4 Golden Medical Discovery,r I waswelL That was two years ago this summer. I felt well until I expected to become a mother, then a threatened mischance greatly weakened me, and ray old disease returned. My husband got another doctor for me. but I seemed to just drag alocg and get no better. At last I toW the doctor that if his medicine did not help me I would go back to Dr. Pierce's, medicines. I did so, and by the time I had taken them one month I could do my own housework, except washing, and tendca ray garden, too. I was stouter than I had ever been while waiting baby's coming since ray first baby came (this one was the sixth child). She is now eleven months old, and is a healthy child. As for me, I feel as young now. at thirty, as I did at eighteen years of age." Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cure biliousness and sick headache. CAEDS, THEN DEATH ; 1 A DOOMED DESERTER WHO PLAYED POKER AND WON. As a Preliminary to His Execution He Had His Winnings Distributed Among the Hembers of the Squad That Shot Him to Death. "It is a carious fact," said a member of Company A, Third Maryland, "that military execution bad a peculiar fascination for men who were daily accustomed to see hundreds slain in battle. Men who shovel a breastwork in on a trench full of siain comrades and chew hardtack or eat salt pork while at the job with a callousness which only such frequc-nt scenes or occurrences would make possible in the human heart became peculiarly sensitive and alive to the solemn parade and formalities of a military execution. "In our regiment we had a private soldier sentenced to be sho^/cr deserting to the enemy. His "Aame was Thompson, and he belonged to CoinnonT7 TC TV>io mor> Tl-inmnoAn l\rwl /In f u AX* AiiiO AAH4JA X livu?pcv/ll 1JUU UC* serted off vedette post one night and some two months afterward came into our lines, where members of his own company happened to be on picket duty. Thompson did not calculate on this. His idea in coming in was to surrender as a Confederate soldier and be sent north. It happened near to the Weldon railroad, where our division of j the Ninth corps was then posted. Of course, on being recognized, he was taken to headquarters, and a court martial was immediately convened. It leaked out somehow that Thompson was not the humble soldier he seemed, but a Confederate officer and spy. He had been an officer in the United States c navy before the war. He resigned and went south, where he secured the commission of colonel of infantry. J ''Being a Marylander of family, ef- ^ forts were made to save his life, but In a quiet way, as his relatives feared to disclose his real identity for fear he would be hanged as a spy instead of shot as a deserter. Friday, the day set for execution in the Army of the Potomac, came around too soon for Thompson and his relatives. The night previous he had been informed that all efforts had failed at Washington. I was on guard duty over him, and my brother was one of the detail of twelve men selected as the firing squad. My brother didn't like the job. and came to the tent where I was on guard to consult with me how to get out of it. Thompson overheard our conversation, and, knowing my brother by name, be broke in: 'Say, Tip, you must not back out. I want you in the squad, as 1 know you are a dead shot and will save me from the sergeant.' "It was the practice for the sergeant flt-4ncr cnivn! fnilori tn kill the XL. tuv l?t IU^ UVj UMV? w ..... . ... doomed man with a volley to place the muzzle of his ritle against the temple of the prisoner and blow out his brains. "After Tip had consented the officer of the guard permitted us to play cards with the prisoner. He had a roll of bills, and we were'soon in a stiff poker game. Two guards, including myself, my brother Tip and Thompson, composed the quartet. We played until gray daylight, and Thompson skinned the party of every dollar. He had phenomenal luck and watched the game closely. "In the afternoon he was to die, and about noon he asked to see the lieutenant of the firing squad. Handing the officer $500, he asked him to divide it equally among the men detailed to shoot him. "The division was drawn up and formed three sides of a square, the fourth side being open, where the grave of Thompson was freshly dug. The band played the dead march in 'Saul,' - * ^ -a. -.1- - i -J ana lnompsoii, at me ui-.iu ui iuc ming squad, inarched around.the three sides of the square, with the coffin in which he was to be inclosed carried immediately behind him. Reaching the open space, the coffin was set down. Thompson seated himself on the end of it. facing the tiring squad, about twelve paces distant. The death warrant was read, and the chaplain tied his handkerchief over the prisoner's eyes. I watched Thompson, curious tp note if he would hear the reports of the muskets that killed him. Presently I heard the lieutenant's low voice:. 'Ready! Aim! Fire!' "In the nest instant Thompson toppled back into his coffin a dead man. The reports of the muskets he never hoard, as I saw him swiftly fall over befo^? 1 heard the guns crack, and so I setued this disputed point to my own satisfaction, and to that H.ent the execution of Thompson interested me and no more."?Washington Post. Does It Pay to Buy Cheap? A cheap remedy for coughs and colds is all right, but you want something that will relieve and cure the more severe and dangtrois result* of throat and lung troubles Wfcst . hill you dot Go to a war m't atio more regular climate? Y-?s, if possible; if not possible for you, then in eitner case take the only remedy that has been introduced in all civiliz-d couutries with success in severe rhrost and lung troubles, 4*Boschee'tGerman Syrup/' It cot - nfv bealt and stimulates the nssu * ? A- **w the germ disease, bat allsye it flam rnation, causes easy. expectoration, gives a ?Om3 night's re6t, and cures the patun. Try one oolite, commended many years by all drug gists in tbo world. Y?n can get thic reliable remedy %fc Kaufrn "o'm Drut rdfiii'j >1 a I A 1 rr? no c. I W* Vi f U I f u P i ?J/VV Mi 4JLi UJ uuau 12-33 ' . To Tlirend a Hair Tlirong-b a Walnut. To pass a hair through a walnut without boring a hole seems an impossibility, but the feat has often been done. The hull of the walnut when examined with a stroug glass is seen to have innumerable small openings, some of wliieh lead entirely through the uut. The trick consists in using a very Cue hair and an infinite amount of patience. Pass the hair into one of these minute crevices and urge it gently along. Sometimes it will appear on the other side at the first trial, but if it comes out at the hundred and first you will be very lucky. Ho Find Learned It. T heard a good story the other day,'began the gr<. -cry man, "about a certain politician." 'That will do." interrupted the disappointed officesoeker. "In the first place, there are no certain politicians." ?Chicago News. And One of Them Went Wrong. Adam was lucky in another way. He had uo friends to come around telling him how he ought to bring up his boys. ?Chicago Record-Herald. Just What You Need. Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets. When you feel dull after eaiing. When you have no appetite. When you have a bad taste in the mouth. When your liver is torpid. When your bowels are constipa'ed When you have a headache. When you feel bdious. They will improve your appetite, iieanse and invigorate your s omacb, tnd regulate your liver and bowels Price 25 cents per box. For sale by T. E Kaufmann. | Or. Pisree's GOLDEN MEDICAL DISCOVERY LOST FLESH AND STRENGTH " I was a total wreck?could not sleep or eat," writes Mr. J. C. Beers, of Berryman. Crawford Co., Mo. "For two vears I tried medicine from doctors but received very little benefit. I lost flesh and strength, was "not able to do a good day's work. I commenced taking Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, and when I had taken one bottle I could sleep and my appetite was wonderfully improved. I have taken five bottles and am still improving." The sole motive for substitution is to permit the dealer to make the little more profit paid by the sale of less meritorious medicines. He gains; you lose. o nr\ eiiKcfifiifa A. ii\-k tivH acccpu iiv ouiyoiicut^, iv* w Golden l\fedical Discovery." SOOTHING SHOPPING. A Pencefnl Experience at the East Xorley General Emporium. The exhausted shopper sank upon the sofa, while from the open mouth of her reversed Boston bag poured a cascade of little parcels, freshly struggled for at the Monday bargain counters. "Oh." she cried, "why does one have to shop in the city? Everything is so hurried, confused, complex, distracting and nerve uestroying! If I were only back at East Norley! "Last summer while I was there I had to buy a yard of dark blue ribbon, and I drove over to the one store at the crossroads to get it. It took some five minutes to convince the amiable proprietor that I really wanted dark blue and could not be persuaded to accept light instead, which he considered more suitable and becoming to a fair complexioned person of my years; he added reassuringly that anybody under forty was not too young for baby blue. "Another five minutes were given up to his incredulous reluctance to believe that two inches wide would not do as well as three, especially as the three inch width had been mislaid on a top shelf and he would have to get a stepladder to get it down. Several more minutes passed in the search for the ladder, its laborious portage from the cellar, its erection and repair with a piece of twine, the braces being broken, and his final ascent to the dim and dusty upper region, whence the box of wide r'bbons wa9 at length produeed. ur A il_i. ,3~ 1 IUUUU U KUilUV LHU v. UU1U UU, BliU he leisurely measured off a yard, fingered it, then paused to rub a perplexed ear and smile ingratiatingly. " 'Fact is,' he confided sweetly, 'I sold the last pair of scissors in the store just before you came in, and I've forgotten my jackknife. It's kind of awkward cutting it off, but I'll manage somehow. I guess there's an ax in the shed.' "He carried the silken roll away with him as he started with comfortable deliberation to find the ax, which, though the hunt for it was long and persevering, evidently could not be found, for we caught a glimpse of him at last through the half open door to the back shop severing the required yard of ribbon with an old chisel. "It was all so serene, so soothing and so satisfactory! I believe I shouldn't be a wreck before New Year's every T ziAnlrl /I a mi* viof_ \W1HCI 11 L tvuiu KJ LllTf V1V ILIJ mns shopping at the East Norley general emporium."?Youth's Companion. If the 3aby is Cutting Teeth. Be sure and use that old and well tried remedy, ?Irs. "Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething. It soothes 1 he child, softens the gums, allays all pain, cures wind colic and is the best remedy for diarrhoea. Twenty-five cents a bottle. It is the best of all. Acconntert For. Barnes?There goes Stavers. I never saw anybody who eould stand the hard knocks of life as he can. He's a man of iron. Howes?That accounts for It. I thought he looked rather rusty.?Boston Transcript. The fool sits down and worries about the living the world owes him. but the wise guy hustles around and collects the interest on the debt. ? Chicago rsews. One of the hard things to under'stand is how such nice grandmothers i I as everybody hae ever could have been mother-in-laws. Hilton's Life for the; Liver and Kidneys tones up the stomach. FRUITS AND FLOWERS. In setting out an orchard keep together all trees of the same variety. | Good garden soil is good for pot . plants, but can be improved by the addition of leaf moid. Weak rosebushes may often be made to grow by giving them an occasional watering with liquid manure. One advantage with small fruits is that they can be made to furnish a supply loug before trees come into bearing. In planting a border don't plant everything in rows. A row of hollyhocks, for instance, isn't half as attractive as irregularly placed groups that break the outline. With pot plants in a general way too milt; Wttiei la uetLt-'i muii LW UJIH-U. The dropping leaves indicating drought are mQre easily remedied than yellow leaves.. the result of being kept too wet In preparing pots for plants the pieces of broken pots or crockery in the bottom should never be omitted, as without proper drainage the soil becomes sour, the plants languish and the leaves become yellowish. Willing; to Be Sued. "I once threatened to sue an old fellow in Vermont for $10 that he owed a client of mine." said a New York lawyer, "but the threat did not seem to impress him much. " 'What good will it do you to sue me?' he asked. " 'It will get the money,' I answered. "Here the fellow came up close to me and said, 'Say, if that's so, sue me for OOA n /vi ?v*/\ A? WUU L )UU, auu Ilic LUC ULUCi $10.' "I gave up hope of collecting that claim."?New York Times. Home Discomforts. "No," grumbled the husband in a spasm of confidence to a friend, "I have no place at all for my books. The storage room is kept exclusively for my wife." "Oh, she puts away those things that are a trifle too good to be destroyed, yet scarcely good enough to be of use." ?Brooklyn Life. Her Call. "I ran into town today to do some shopping, dear," said Mrs. Subbubs, entering her husband's ofBce. "and I"I "T coo" ho fntorrnnto/1 "nnrt von Inert i raD in here because you ran out." "Ran out?" "Yes; of money." ? Philadelphia Luck in Thirteen. Bv sending 13 miles Wm. Spirey, of "Walton Furnace, Vf.., gofc a box o? Bucklen's Arnica Salve, that wholly cured a horrible Fever Sore on his leg. Nothing else could Positively cures Bruises, Felons, Ulcers. Eruptions, Boils, Burns, Corns ard Piles. Ooly 25c. Guaranteed by J. E Kaufmann, druggist. HE WAS A PAINTER. A Dmsken Prisoner's Excuse In New York Police Court. It is characteristic of almost all the prisoners except the drunks that their chief concern is to secure a delay. They plead and beg for an adjournment, whieh they know will only postpone the inevitable for a day or two, and that although, through their inability to obtain bail, they will Siive to stay in prison just the same. The most plausible 'explanation is that they all are fatalist^ always hoping that something unexpected may turn up to stave off the impending catastrophe. The drunks, on the other hand, are more eager to face the arbiter of their fates, knowing that nothing worse than a fine is likely to befall them and that the sooner it is imposed the sooner it may be paid or served off. And then there ; is the chance, if the magistrate is in good humor, that they may get away unscathed at once. As a rule, although not seldom still in their cups,, they are loath to make any incriminating admissions. "No, sir," protested a man who kept himself from falling over by holding on nerv ousiy 10 me oar; i in nor urunii, 'cause no one's drunk who's not falling all over himself." Excuses of the most wonderful kind, some of them really ingenious, others merely ridiculous, are put forward when the futility cf feigning innocence has been discovered. The cleverest explanation of that kind that I ever heard was advanced by a man who. when taxed with having displayed unmistakable signs of intoxication, simply replied that he was a painter by trade. "That has nothing to do with your condition," said the magistrate. "Of course it has," rejoined the prisoner. "I was painting a barber pole and kept on twisting after the stripes until I got so dizzy that the cop thought I was boozy."?Edward Biorkman in Century. Greenville, Tenn. I have thoroughly convinced my self that Dr. Baker's Blood and Liver Cure is the finest medicine made for Indigestion and Constipation. (I have tried them all) and was cured by the use of this medicine, bt e: alt others had failed. I mo*t cheerfully and unhesitatingly endorse it. Yours truly, H. N. Baker, Mayor. For sale at the Bazaar. Fresh Fish. I will have for sale an assortment of fresh fish everv Tuesday and Saturday at J. W. Long's Old Store. Give me a call when you want a nice mess cf fresh fish, tf John A Williams. JUST THINK OF IT! Over the above nnmber of the Celebrated Makes represented by M] A Malone, of Columbia, CM have been sold, and chiotly to people of musical culture. For catalogue, prices and terms on the Best Pianos and Organs, Address hvbs a P. O. BOX 32, COLUMBIA, S. C. N. B Some special piano bargains always on hand ranging from $65 to $275, May 15?ly. AND g Marietta Marble Works. , jSffcjjS We have the best equipped plant in the 8onth. w.th up to p date pneumatic tools and polishing macbines whion puts ua in a position to do all kinds of Marble and Granite Work at the very lowest orices. Estimates made on all kinds of Cemetery Work, and Building Material. Wholesale and retail. Call on or address, S. G. KOZLEY & CO., P. B13Y23, Proprietors, Atlanta, Ga. General Agent, Riige Springs, S. C. May 8?lv. WM. PLATT, DEALER IN ' \ Tto frnftfif! Millinewr and Kf^inne *tJf MVVUMp ATAAAAAAAWA V WAAIi ilUUAUUBp v NEAELY OPPOSITE POST. OFFICE, COLUMBIA, - - . S. C. : MAIN STREET. We have received and have placed on our shelves one of th? most beautiful as vrell as the most complete line of ^ FALL AND WINTER GOODS ever shown in the city. These are all standard goods from the most reliable manafae- ?" I turers and are recommended for their stylish and nobby appearance and the beauty of pattern. A full line of onting and dress goods of all descriptions, as well as lovely creations in fashionable fall and winter millinery. Come and see these goods before purchasing. I will make it to your interest to do so. October, 3.?3m. TAX NOTICE. | y" 1 y I WILL ATTEND THE FOLLOWING I /STT. Vep"J&SSJ mentioned places for the purpose of re- I 'v?fV ceiving taxes for the fiscal year 1902: B <?.. f-Rmfj! Lexington C H., from the 15th of Ocfco- 1 fMiWilii ber to the 1st of November. 1902 1 Spring Hill, Wednesday morning. Nov 19 I Peak, Wednesday afternoon, Nov. 19. i ^ X Koads. Thursday morning, Nov. 20. fl CJbapm, Thursday alternoon. Nov. 20. Cbapin, Friday morning. Nov<mber 21. I PipPP^' Josh Shealey's, Friday afternoon, Nov 21 8 Crout's Store, Saturday morning, Nov 22 I p f1?a* The balance of the time at Lexington I Wow 2"Or Inal C H. until December 31st, 1902, after IW tf 1 ?*-*** ?2^ which time tho penalty will be added ac- I wjjw jlYJLllllOOcilirw ct rding to law. llk ^ # The hours for closing the tax book will ? jyf r~*PPllflQ* ho ut 11 n'olnck for the morning and 4- I fiaF * o'clock for the afternoon appointment. I TAX LEVY. I 1 * n oi i. T> C wn I WC21 ClOthCS For State Purposes 5 Mills I , For Ordinarv Conntv Purposes.. 3J M'lis I made to your For Special County Purposes ... \ Mnl I tyims jOX For Constitutional School Tax.. 3" Mills J ^ Special School Levy, District 18 3 Mills CTDAIKC DDflC Special School Levy, District 37 2 -Mills DI\UJ B?a8llll Poll Tax SI 00. Good Tailors for |?SMS||? Parties owning property in more than 23 years. one Township will so state to the Treas- riur^rn 'a urer, and when writing lor information WrllvAliO gnKgjaHpjP fi concerning taxes always give name in full. v . ^2^/^80 " FRaNK W. SKEALY, You * * Treasurer Lexington County. . J**?t ritfht in ttSnEati September 24, 1002. them. Near- SHHp| Ily 500 pad- * tern, to se. |||| -* vx n/u(av) j a i?c! xrom h h 1 Tract of lard containing 96 acres, more I I Satisfaction w ?B or le?s. adjoining lands of Mrs E. A. Cor- I snaranteed ME I t ley. A. R. Taylor, Mrs. Sea-trunkandT. E. I fig RawL B Sc? the com* tjgk 1 Tract of 95 acres, more or less, adjoin- | pleto line e.t ^ | | ing lands Mrs. Susan Seastrnnk, Feter I it,. _i___ CCCL'rT Founds, A. K. Taj lor and T. ?. RawL I <he 8tor? of Errt(~' Foi terms, etc., apply to -v*/ -o t> t,^ fl ALFRED J. FOX. I w ^ 9 g Lexington, S. C. I LEXINGTON S. C. _ _ Hilton's Life for the AMnREW ~fiRiWFrtRh Liver and Kidneys """ overcomes constipa- columbu . J 1 8. c. fimi "PRACTICES IN TEE STATE AND tlUIl* JL Federal Courts, and offers his professional services to the citizens of Lexington County. People who use "liver pills" ought October 18?ly. to try the well known Itimou's Liver JAMES HARMAN, Pills and Tonic Pellets. No handful TDEISTT-^-Xj for a dose?no constant dosing?no LEXINGTON, S, C., _ , .... . , ~ , m, (Office in rear of the Court House.) ~> debilitating, weakening effect. They TNFORMS THE PUBLIC THAT HE are far superior to the ordinary pill. JL will be in his office every Friday for the Box of 25 doses 25c. Herman's Ehef d0i?8 "" Bazaar. March 19, 1902. ly. . s. I