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NATIONAL PHANTOMS GHOSTS THAT HAUNT THE UNITED STATES CAPITOL w ' A Stary of Specters That Stalk at .. Sight When the Halls of Legislate tlon Arc Gloomy nnd Deserted, as i Told by One of the Old Guards. ) Like most repositories of good stories, the ancient man who has spent decades as a guard in the capitol in Washington did not yield up the fullness of his narratory riches without a struggle. "It's unpleasant to be made a mock of by the skeptical." he protested. "Do you beiieve in ghosts, young man?" "If answering in the affirmative begets an interesting tale, I do," returned the writer. v' "Well, starting on the premise that you do believe to some extent in the supernatural, 1 win aarnit you to my confidence," resumed the old guard, and here goes for the authentic yarn of the spooks that haunt the nation's capitol: "In the long, monotonous watches of the night innumerable are the spooks, hobgoblins and the eerie, vapory things which glide from the shadowy nooks and crannies of the intangible nowhere to people the capitol's vast stretches of darkness. Of course you know of the extraordinary acoustic freaks which obtain in many parts of the great building?how a whisper, a breathed word at one particular point is audible at another scores of feet distant? Yes. Now, at night these acoustic spirits simply go mad. Where they by day were pygmies they expand into giants, and a whistle, a sudden sound, a footfall, resolves itself into a pandemonium. "Weird, terrifying noises beat upon the eardrums of the watchmen as they pursue their lonely patrols through the seeming miles of corridors, and then ? ?rv#w,l?e, +)ia c1ia<lae r\t tho nntinn'o ULI^T OJAA/aO, UA^ OUUUWO V* I.*JV UMVWM ^ great, the astral bodies of those that toiled in obscurity for the nation's good, dodge the watchmen's step, some grand and awful in their speechless dignity, some creeping humbly about in apologetic silence, some laughing, some sobbiug, but all of them horrible ?horrible." . The old man paused to muse. "Do you know." he said, breaking into his own reverie explosively, "Feb. 23 is a date dreaded by many of the eapitol night guards? It was on this day, in 1S48, that John Quincy Adams died in the chamber of the house of representatives, now Statuary hall, where the exact spot is marked by a brass tablet. Promptly at midnight on every anniversary of his death the shade of John Quincy Adams appears in a sort of phosphorescent glow over this brass tablet. Oh. dozens of guards have seen it from time to time as well as 1. and 1 can refer you to many of chem for affirmation of my assertions. "Once over the spot the shade begins to gesticulate, after the manner or a member addressing the bouse. Then, all of a sudden, the fine face becomes distorted and agonized, tbe gracefully "waving arms f?ll convulsively, and down sinks the rbade with all the movements of an expiring man. Then the phosphorescent glow fades away, and the ethereal effigy dissolves. "But, although lost sight of, its presence is still made known by the 'clump, flop.. clump, flop,' of invisible footfalls departing down one of the long vacant corridors. "Stranger than this is the ghost of the entire congress of 1848. which appears in vigorous if spooky session every once in awhile in Statuary hall, the old ball of representatives, as I have previously remarked, inaudible, but spirited, are the debates; energetic to the bursting point of vehemence are the silent political dissensions. Provoked by a doubting Thomas, a member of the capitol night watch several years ago made affidavit that he had seen this ghostly congress in session. Yes. he was a sober man and true. "The shade of General John A. Lo gan is a frequent visitor at the eapitol. Almost every alternate night at half past 12 o'clock this ghost materializes at the door of the room occupied by the senate committee on military and militia. Silently the door swings open, and out steps the looming and luminous presence, to stalk in stately dignity away into the swallowing gloom. This is a favorite phantom with the guards. Its conduct is exemplary. "Then there is the shade of Vice President Wilson, who died in his room in the senate end of the eapitol, you will recall. Its peregrinations are few and desultory. When it does come, there is always aD expression of concern and self absorption in the ghostly face. The movements of the vapory body are restless and hurried. "All of the older members of the night watch are well acquainted with Vice President Wilson's apparition and never fail to salute it. although, truth to tell, the shade remains haughtily indifferent to their deference. This spook rarely fails to put in an appearance when the body of a dead legislator or statesman of national renown is lying in state in the eapitol. "Deep in the subceuar vaults spooks of lesser magnitude revel in hordes. Immediately beneath the hall of representatives every night is to be found a tall, erect, gaunt specter, whose identity has remained a mystery for years in spite of unceasing efforts on the part of the night watch to uncover the secret of its origin and antecedents. Its hands are clasped behind its transparent back in a convulsive clutch, and the face evinces a condition of emotions prodigiously wrought upon. Many attempts have been made by guards with rubber soles on tbeir shoes to catch this wraith unawares, but failure is the invariable result. Presto! It has blown into thin air before the sleuthing watchman is within forty feet ?f if?New York Herald. ? THF ^ of toughest steel ? mmSLo ?MU% becomes dulled by constant use and must have a new edge if it is to do good work. Constant vork dulls a man as it does an ax, make9 h .m sluggish of body and dull of mind. He needs a tonic, ?^restore the keenness f j of mind and activity {<L. J| Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery V /AJ puts new life into weak,worn-out, run- ?g down men and women. It strength- y.fc efig, ens the weak stom b 1 o o df and effect- TfjJre ivelv stimulates the E|||K body is built up with ptwOffl j i ^ j n _ _i_ i PLJ iflU^ L~3S&3 souna, sona nesa uy l^ggfoji D-*Y the use of "Golden gjgMB^l Medical Discovery." "I was confined to my ?and a|m^e^ to <ta^ Indigestion, obstinate constipation, and hardening of the liver was ray trouble. I am at this time able to do almost any kind of house work. Your medicine saved me from my grave. Thanks to you for the benefit. My case was hopeless when I began taking your medicine." Don't be fooled into trading a substance for a shadow. Any substitute as v iust as cood" as " Golden Medical Discovery," is a shadow of that medicine. There are cures behind every claim, made for the "Discovery," which no "just as good" medipine " can show. Biliousness is cured by the use of Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. ALLIGATORS AS BOATMATES Experience With One That Had Been Apparently Killed. Alligators move rapidly under water, are hard to see, harder to hit, and the harpoon will penetrate only the least accessible portions of the body. Nor does the title to the hide necessarily pass with making fast the weapon. One afternoon in the Cheesehowitzkee river I harpooned a large alligator which towed me up and down the stream for an hour or two and then sulked in its deepest part. I pulled on the line until the boat was directly over him and stirred him up with the harpoon pole. He rolled himself up on the line in the manner peculiar to sharks and alligators and banged the boat suggestively. We rowed to the bank and, making fast to some bushes, hauled cn the line until we succeeded in worrying him nearly to the boat when he rose to the surface and attacked us with open mouth. We re- ( pelled the attack' with harpoon pole < and rifle. The former was promptly bitten in three pieces, but the latter apparently finished him. It was so nearly dark that we decided to carry him in 1 the -skiff a mile down the river to where our sloop was anchored. We broke the seats out of the boat and together managed to lift the head of the alligator aboard and tie it. We then tied the ^ other end, when the reptile came to life and landed a blow with his tail J which lifted me out of the skiff into ' the saw grass, with the breath knocked ' out of my body and my hand and face ] badly cut by the grass. Boat and boatmen were capsized. As my rifle had fortunately been left upon the bank. I was able to kill tho alligator again. We secured him by floating the boat under him and then bailing it out. The alligator completely filled the boat, so that my companion and I sat upon his back as we paddled down the ] river with gunwales unpleasantly near the water. It was growing dark, and the water around us was becoming alive with Dllinwitnts: Wliiln n-o vofl cr uitigd IV! .J. ? ? U14V H V " VI V i VUVV'.iU^ upon our overloaded condition our alligator came to life again and shifted ballast until water poured over the gunwale. We quickly balanced the boat, only to see it again disturbed and to ship more water. A scramble for the shore followed, which we reached with- j out capsizing and where we left our i victim for the night after again killing him. In the morning our buzzard i friend from the Homosassa river, surrounded by his family, was sitting abo\ e him in the tree waiting for us to attend to our carving duties.?Country Life In America. Wanted. We would like to ask, through the columns of your paper, if there is any person who has used Green's August Flower for the cure of Indigestion, Dyspepsia and Liver Trouble that has not been cured?and we also mean tbeir results, such as Bour stomach, fermentation of food, habit- , ual costiveness, nervous dyspepsia, headaches, despondent feelings, sleep- | lessness?in fact, any trouble cod- i nected with the stomach or livei? This medicine has been Bold for many years in all civilized countries, aDd we wish to correspond with you aDd send you oDe of our bookR fret of cost. If you never tried August Flower, try a 25 cent bottle first. * We have never known of its failing. < If so, somethin , more serious is the < matter with you. The 25 cent size t has just beeD introduced this jear. t Regular size 75 cents. At all drug- f gists. G. G. Green, * 1 Woodbury, N. J. 1 ] t There is Dot a negro in either s branch of the present general assem- \ bly. This is the first time that this i has been the case since the negro en- ( tered political affairs in this State. 1 THE LONDON TAPSTER. Hard Lnck Stories That Take the Place of Open Ue;r?;iii8rThe plain and open tapster who accosts 3'ou in the street purely to beg may generally be known by an amazing overpoliteness in opening the conversation. He is the only person I know who begs pardon for taking the liberty of speaking to you, and by this sign you shall know him. They all begin by begging pardon for taking this not so very rare liberty, but only the duffers go on straightway to tap. The proficient tapsters approach the tap sideways, so to speak. Something like this, with a quick touch of the hat brim: "Beg pardon, sir. I'm sure I 'umbly beg your pardon for takin' the great liberty of speakin' to you in a public thoroughfare like this, which I am quite aware it is a great liberty, sir. though trustin' you will kindly pardon the great liberty of a pore, 'ardworkin' man, sir, in takin' the great liberty of askin' if this street is the 'Aymarket, sir?" (Or the way to the Strand or the day of the month, or something.) Yuii answer the question, but you don't stop the stream of apologetics. "Thank you, kindly, sir," pursues the tapster, pouring out the words, "thank you kindly, sir, if you'll so far pardon the liberty of a pore, 'ardworkin' man, sir, in askin' the question, which unfortunately I was forced to take the great liberty, sir, through bein' out o' work eighteen months an' nothink to eat since last Toosday fortnight, sir. upon my word of honor, which nothink but the cries for bread of fourteen young children in arms would prevail on me, sir?so igstreme kind as you've bin to me, sir, which I shall never for- * get?to take the very great liberty, sir, in a public thoroughfare, of askin' which is the nearest work'ouse?" If once more you give him information instead of coppers, you only provoke another speech of the same sort, for he can go on like that for a deal longer than you want to listen. It is only in the extreme that he will directly ask for money, though I fancy that it is merely caution that marks his guarded way, as they say in the lyric, for if accused of begging by some watchful policeman he can always plead that he was only asking a harmless question. And the questions are enuiess in vanoiy. 1 give uij>r suicjjjjj word that I was once buttonholed by one of these seedy tapsters with the apologetic request that I would tell him the number of stars on the national flag of the United States! This is a simple fact.?Leonard Larkin in the Strand. A Weak Stomach Causes a weak body and invite*disease. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure cures and strengthens the stomach, wards off and overcomes disease J. B. Taylor, a prominent m-rcbant >t Ohrit-sman, Tex, says: *T could not eat because c.f a weak stomach. [ lost all strength and run down in weight. All that money could do was done, but all hope f ieciiVer> vanished Hearing of some wonder ful cures effected by use of Kodol, 1 concluded to try it. The first bottle benefited me, and after taking foui bottles I am fully rest ored to m> usual strength, weight and health." Kaufmann Drug Co. UNPLANTED CORN. It Hatt a Habit of Getting Uneasy In the Spring. "It beats all," said a Bergen county fanner, "what curious things we find in nature that we can't explain. You kin go over a lot of 'em, and there's yet one that you can't tell me why it is. That's corn heatin' up in the spring. "You take a lot of corn. 1 don't care if it's whole corn or cracked corn or cornmeal. You keep it in any kind of storehouse?the common granary, like we have on the farms, or the stone or brick buildin', like mai)3r of the grocers and feed dealers have it in. When it comes corn phuitin' time, that corn of yourn '11 git oneasy. Soon's the blades start out of the ground, then you'll have to hustle to save your grain. "Seems as when the time comes along fur corn to be planted the corn in the bags, no matter what shape it's in, begins to heat up, and when the planted com begins to grow what you ve got stored will git so hot it'll fairly smoke. You've got to take it out of the bags and spread it out so it'll cool off or you'll lose it all. In a few days it'll cool down again, and you won't have no more trouble with it durin' the summer, no matter how hot the weather gits. It's jest when the planted corn starts; that's all. "Curious? Of course it's curious or I wouldn't speak of it. I might understand how whole corn would act that way. but when it comes to cracked corn and cornmeal then it's too much fur me. And I'll bet you can't tell why it is, 'cept it's jest nature tryin' to assert herself."?New York Mail and Express. Better Than Gold. "I was troubled for several years vith chronic indigestion and nervous lebility," writes F. J. Green, of Lanlaster, N. H. "No remedy helped ne until I began using Electric Bit;ers, which did me more good than til the medicines I ever used. They 1 I 4 # * 11 A lave also Kept my wire in excellent, lealth for years. She pays Electric Bitters are just splendid for female roubles; that they are a grand tonic md invigorator for weak, run down vomen. No other medicine can take te place in our family." Try them. 3nly 50c. Satisfaction guaranteed )y the Kaufmann Drug Co. MADE TO STAND PULLING. The Great Tensile Strength of the Government's Paper Money. "The way some cashiers pay out small bills in exchange for large ones must make other men as tired as it wearies me," remarked an observing business man to another Washingtonian as they watched the cashier of a fashionable uptown cafe pull at and strip the ones and twos in exchange for a ten as though he were pulling a piece of molasses candy over a hook and hated to let go. "It does," acquiesced his friend, who happened to be a United States treasury expert. "The way some cashiers jerk, snap and pull at bills as they pay them out is utterly absurd. The old adage about pinching a silver dollar until the eagle screams pales before flio wnv the tin to date fiin cashier jerks the long green he handles. "In this connection I will give you a fact that is not generally known, and that is the weight a new treasury single note, and four notes in a sheet, will sustain without breaking. The figures may be accepted as official and accurate. "A single treasury note measures 3% inches wide by 7*4 inches long and will suspend 41 pounds lengthwise and 91 pounds crosswise. Notes are printed four to a sheet. A sheet will suspend 108 pounds lengthwise and 177 pounds crosswise. "The remarkable strength of a United States treasury note may thus be seen at a glance, and I venture to say that not one person in a million would have guessed the great tenacity of the paper which, when properly printed and stamped, becomes good money." The cashier had interestedly listened to the treasury expert's explanation of the weight sustaining and necessarily resisting power of wear and tear of our paper money, and then he said: "You see, it is this way: Bills stick together, see, and we cashiers have to make up any shortage out of our own pockets, and that's one reason why we snap and jerk the bills so hard, so we will not pay out two for one, as might be done. Again, a two dollar bill is frequently mistaken for a five, and vice versa, and by counting out our money as if it were drops of our lifeblood we are less liable to pass out one for the other."?Washington Star. PICKINGS FROM FICTION. Ambitious people must always be disappointed people.?"Fame For a Woman." The best kind of courage often comes from a full stomach.?"Captain Macklin." Love is like honey?it must be taken by sips. One must not swim in it.? "The Pharaoh and the Priest." The man who is weakened in well doing by the ingratitude of others is serving God on a salary basis.?"The Power of Truth." Nine times out of ten a woman falls through love, and she must be reached by love if she is to be restored.?"Down In Water Street." Don't call yourself a friend and be thinking all the time what the other side of the friendship can do for you. ?"Aunt Abby's Neighbors." Philosophy is primarily a matter of food; secondarily, a matter of clothes; it does not concern the head at all.? "Two Thousand Miles on an Automobile." Half the trouble of this troubled world comes from the fact that, for one reason or another, women are not able to look up to the men with whom they have dealings.?"The Vultures." A Couple of Inncriptions. "I was in New York one day and took a trip down to Coney Island," said the agent of a Pittsburg nail mill. "I had heard of the slick fellows down there, and so I left my watch at home and carried a dummy across which I pasted a slip of paper bearing the words, 'Look inside for a fool.' I hadn't got the salt taste of the ocean yet when the watcli disappeared, and it was three hours later, as I sat in a booth drinking beer, when I felt that watch in a side pocket of my coat. I pulled it out in amazement, and I found my slip of paper replaced by one bearing the words, 'Look outside for an ass!' It may be that I got the bulge on the gang, but somehow I have always thought that they came out a trifle ahead?just a trifle." Rarbering; L'ned to Be ait Art. Time was when harboring was a way up art. In ancient times barbers were surgeons, the only persons who could scientifically "let blood." In London there is still a barber surgeon class. They possess a cap given the guild by Charles II. Around the barber's pole still twines the snake, the subtlest beast of the field, a survival of the brazen serpent lifted up in the wilderness, the symbol of the healing art. Not Concerned. "Why don't you try to hand an honored name down to ]>osterityV'? "I don't know," answered Senator Sorghum. "Maybe 1 don't look far enough ahead. So long as my signature is honored .it the bulk I can't see that my credit with posterity makes much difference."?Washington Star. Cynical. Inquiring Young Man?When a person says something nice about another, why is he said to "pay" a compliment? Crusty Old Man?Itocause he expects to get something for it. There Arc Other*. Old Kmdee?Well, how do you like your profession? Young Kindee--Profession is O. K. It's the practice I'm kicking about.? Town and Country. Over-Work Weakens Your Kidneys. Unhealthy Kidneys Make Impure Blood. All the blood in your body passes through your kidneys once every three minutes. fThe kidneys are your blood purifiers, they filter out the waste or impurities in the blood. If they are sick or out of order, they fail to do their work. Pains, aches and rheumatism come from excess of uric acid in the blood, due to neglected kidney trouble. trniihl^ mikm rmirlr nr heart beats, and makes one feel as though they had heart trouble, because the heart is over-working in pumping thick, kidneypoisoned blood through veins and arteries. It used to be considered that only urinary troubles were to be traced to the kidneys, but now modern science proves that nearly all constitutional diseases have their beginning in kidney trouble. If you are sick you can make no mistake by first doctoring your kidneys. The mild and the extraordinary effect of Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, the great kidney remedy is soon realized. It stands the highest for its wonderful cures of the most distressing cases and is sold on its merits by all druggists in fiftycent and one-dollar sizes. You may have a "ijgSSg sample bottle by mail nomo of swamp-Root, free, also pamphlet telling you how to find out if you have kidney or bladder trouble. Mention this paper when writing Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y. The Title of "Mr*." The title Mrs. was in olden time applied to unmarried as well as to mar nea women ana 10 young as wen as old. Sir Walter Scott spoke of Joanna (unmarried) as Mrs. Joanna Baillie. Although it was not perhaps so universal to address quite young children as it was those over twenty-one by the title of Mrs., yet it was frequently done. The most ludicrous example of this occurs in the register of burials for the parish of St. Margaret, Westminster. The burial of Milton's second wife and that of his infant daughter, named after her, who died at the age of five months, are both recorded in that register, the name in each case being entered as "Mrs. Katherin Milton," without any mark of distinction save the letter "C" for "child," after the second name. Even in the reign of George II., as we read in "Pope's Letters," unmarried ladies used to be styled Mrs. Wonderful insect Vitality. It is a standing puzzle to the entomologists how frail little insects of the mosquito and butterfly order can brave the cold of an arctic winter and yet retain their vitality. The larva of the milkweed buttetfly bas been exposed to an artificial, blast OS degrees below zero. Taken out of range of this artificial blizzard and gradually "thawed out" this same worm was able to creep in less than half an hour afterward. Butterflies have been found flitting joyously about in the highest latitude man has ever penetrated, and the mosquitoes of Alaska and Greenland are known to be the healthiest specimens of that race of little pests. Engagement Ring*. The custom of giving engagement rings ranks back to long before the Christian era. With the ancient Egyptians engagement rings were always of iron, to indicate the mutual sacrifice of liberty of the contracting par ties. One of the very earliest adornments of betrothal rings was a loadstone, which symbolized the attractive force which drew a maiden from her own family circle into that of her husband. It is believed that the fourth linger has always been the bride's ring finger. Hard to Part With. The man at our boarding house has the remains of a once prosperous pocket comb, from which the teeth have long since fled. "Why." we ask him, "do you carry that thing around with you?that worthless old comb?" And he replies: "Well, I can't part with it."?Baltimore News. A IJasi* For Social SacocMs. Mr. Blank?I was rather amused to hear the children gossiping about their little playmates. Mrs. Blank?The little dears! If they only keep on, how they will shine in polite society when they grow up!?TitBits. Ideas generate ideas, like a potato, which cut in pieces reproduces itself in a multiplied form. Greenville, Tenn. I have thoroughly convinced myself that Dr. Baker's Blood and Liver Cure is the finest medicine made for Indigestion and Constipation. (I have tried them all) aDd wa9 cured by the use of this medicine, after all others had failed. I most cheerfully and unhesitatingly endorse it. Yours truly, H. N. Baker, Mayor. For sale at the Bazaar. A Borrior. "What have you in the way of beefsteak today?*' asked the cheerful customer who hadn't paid his bill. " vortlm/l frnnlr hntnhnr "T VU, LliC" 11UX1U uuiv,u\.i, A reckon about tlie only thing in the way is its price."?Baltimore News. InveBtiRatlng; the Delay. Sunday School Teacher?And It took Noah 100 years to build the ark. Street Arab?What was the matter? Was there a strike??Fuck. TAX JtETUKNS. IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW in reference to the re-assessment and uiatior of property the /uditor, or his assistant, will be and attend tbo fol owing named places for the purpose of eceiving ax returns for the S cal year 1903 and in ?rder to meet the next appointment, the hour will close at 11:30 in the morning and at 4 o'clock iu the a tt-rnoon; taxpayers will, therefore, be prompt i meeting the appointments so as not to cause delay. Taxpayers w>ll please come prepared to give the name of their townsuip and number of school district wherein tney reside: Lexmyton C H , from the 10th to the 20th of February. Section 2 0 of the law in reference to the assessment of taxes, (Revised Statutes,! reads as follows: All proprr.y shall be valued for taxation at its troe valne in rnoDey, which in ail cases not specially provided for by law, shall be held to be as follow*. to wit: For personal property the usual selling pricefon iLie usual it-rms o! s.iuilar pruycrcj at admim trator's or executor's sale, at the place where the return is made;and tor real property, the nsnal selling price on the usual terms of similar property at sales for partition under or er ot court, at the place where the return is to be made If there is no usual selling price, then at what is honestly believed could be obtained for the same at a lair sale under the conditions above mentioned. it shall be the duty of each owner of lands, and of any new structures thereon which shall not have been appraised for taxation, to list the same tor taxation with he County Auditor for the Count\ in which ey mav be situated on or betore the 20th day ot February next, alter the same a all oecome sut ject to taxation action 6 That from and after the passage of tbis ct, there shall be assessed upon an lax-iDia pons in tins State a tax of ?ne dollar on each poll, the proceeds of *hich tax t-hall be applied solely to educalonal purposes. Every male citizen be*een the at.es of twenty-one and sixty ears, except those incapable of earning a support, Irom being maimed or from other causes, and except ihose who are made exempt by law, shall be deemed taxable polls. All returns lor taxation must be filed with he Auditor not later than February 20th, 1903. as afier that date the law requires au idition ol U per cent, to the last year's ' etnrns Township Boards of Assessors will meet t some convenient place in their respective ownship on Tuesday. March 3, 1903. ouuty Board of Equalization will meet at be Auditor's office on Tuesday, March 24, 1103, at 10 o'clock a. m. G. A. DERRICK, Auditor of Lexington County. THE PROOF OF THE P D?I*G IS THE E4TING. THE P^OOF OF THE EDICINE IS THE TAKING. HilTOn'S LIFE FOR THE LIVER ANO KIDNEYS verilj ever> claim made tor c Test it by a trial of a 25 i. bottle It uakes last in^nd* wherever once used, and oecomes the medicine of tbe household. ( is pleasant to take, acts pleasantly and anses one to feel pleasant It ia the best and quickest remedy for the ure of kidney troubles, lame back, dis rdered liter and any derangement of the stomach and bowels. BOTTLES, 25c., 50c. and $1.00. Wholesale by the' MURRAY DBUG CO., Columbia, 8. C. For Sale at THE BAZAAB. May 15?ly. THURMOND III1H, intun: it lit. Will Practice "n, all Courts, TriTTTAfAVV RTTTT 'nTVn LEXINGTON, S C Ou the oth cUv 01 October, we formed a co-partnership for the practice of Jaw. We will be pleased to receive those having legal busine-s to be attended to at our office in the Kaulmann building at any time. Resnecttollv. j. Wm thukmond, g bell tim merman, October 22. 1902.?ly. Wheele & Wilson No. 9 BALL BEARING SEWING MACHINES!!! Wonderfully Light Banning and Rapid. One-third faster; one third easier than any shuttle machine. Save about ONE DAY IN THREE. Quiet and durable. THREE DRAWERS. FIVE DRAWERS, DROP HEAD AND CABINET STYLES. ORGANS. A lot of High Grade Organs veiy low for cash. One Chaple very near cost. 1S00 BALLBEARING Washing Machines and Bill Baaring Wringers These are treasures No wet dresses ^ ? ? .1 . * V. auu. ion. Any stsvcu ur ezyiit/ yeai old child can work it. Will cleanse the clothes in ten minutes. Will last lor years. t. n. 1804 MAIN ST.. COLUMBIA, S. C. December 3, 1002. 3m Kodol Dyspepsia Cure Digests what you eat.