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j I Bowser's | fie Tire./* of Living In I fiolo< : [Copyright, 1903. by C. B. Lewis.] MR. BOWSER got into the house the other evening without the box under his arm being seen or any questions asked, and it was not until after dinner that he suddenly turned upon Mrs RnwsjT and asked: "Do you ever stop to think what a miracle it is that we have not been burned alive in our own house?" "1 don't see anything miraculous about it," she answered. "Why should we be burned alive any more than anybody else?" "There are fifty different reasons. In the first place, you always have a cook who is just as apt to leave the range open as shut: in the next, there are always matches scattered about; thirdly, JV 1 - ,1 : i THE BELL BEGAN* KINGING ITS LOUDEST! ! you arc extremely careless when you I light or turn off the gas. and. fourthly. ( the house is full of rats, and rats love j to nibble at matches. I could give plen- j ty of other reasons, but these are ' enough to make one shiver. Provi- ; dence must surely have been with us j since we began housekeeping." - "I don't think there is any cause to Via Ti*rvr-r>"n rAnliorl NT r? Rrtxrspr f?S < t . UV. ** V4 J. iVVl? *V|/?4V\* . *U>? VI V .. wv,. , she wondered if it was something: new In fire escapes. "No; probably not. That's a worn- j an's way. I am worried, however, j There is never a night in the year tlia* ! I do not start up three or four times i and woftder if the flames are making \ a furnace of. the house. Have you any ! HE RAISED THE SUPERS idea of" the number of people who have 1 beo:i burned alive in their homes in the j last year?" 'Eight or ten. perhaps." "The number is over GOO. madam, and all owing to just such carelessness as is observable on every hand in this lion.se. Von may be satisfied to keep on running these awful risks, but 1 am not. Today, when I read of a family of eight persons in Missouri perishing in their beds amid flames and smoke. I determined not to pass another night ! without some safeguard." "And so you got another fire escape .1 ... to let juu ?i \wiii a u.wi. "No tiro escape ever let me down with a crash. and I have not been in vesting. I have a better thing. You ! will find fault with it. of course, as you j do with everything 1 bring home, but [ that will make no difference to uie. I You can be burned in your bed or kill ; yourself jumping out of the window ! any time you feei like it." Mr. IJoweer went info the hall and < return^ with a "Parson's Household t Fire Announcer." It was a small af- ! fair, made like a pocket electrical bat- ; 1 K..,I i.s.n t/. ;f iillll IlilVA l/*"U 41V V* W 11. ~ "The material of this." he explained, j "is aluminium, treated by chemical process until it is supersensitive to j . changes of temperature, especially to I hear. You set it at 00 decrees, say. i If the temperature of the room rises j two degrees. the hell rings. That means } fire, of course, and I shall probably : have firm* to rush down and extinguish the flames. If not. we can at least save our lives. The temperature of j this room is 70 decrees by the flier- j mometer over there. I set the an- ! nouncer at 70, and should a fire hurst forth"? . The bell on the box began ringing Its loudest, although no fire had burst the Dadiy Danger of a I I forth, and Mrs. Bowser could not repress a laugh as Mr. Bowser stood and stared with a dazed look 011 Lis face. ' What part of the house is being burned down just now?" she queried as he grabbed the bell to stop its noise. "TJiofc wnmnnhr> shrtiitAd in reply. "I have hardly begun to explain yet. and you are ready to belittle an invention which has saved tens of thousands of lives. If it was something to kill oft* the germs of cholera or yellow fever, you'd try to be sarcastic over it." "If it is reliable, it ought to be a good thing," she said, hoping to mollify him. "Reliable? Of course, it's reliable. There are over 200.000 in use. and not one of them has ever failed to"? The bell began ringing again, and it was fuiiy two minutes before Mr. Bowser could get the better of it. The family cat took the thing for a music box and chased her tail around the room, and. try as hard as she coukl. Mrs. Bowser could not keep from smiling. "More giggles, o* course," shouted Mr. Bowser as he got the bell by the throat at last and choked off the tinkle.1 "Woman, if you have enough sense in your head to find your way upstairs you'd better go." "But I d really like to have this life saver explained to me. You say that if fV, tlJC lnUilV/C I.'UICC IV* "I say nothing of the kind. The flames may burst forth and be hanged to 'em!" "But if the flumes do burst forth and thus raise the temperature of a room this announcer will announce that fact!" "Not if I can help it?not until you have had to jump from the window. I hunt up a good thing. I invest in it. I seek to explain to you the principle on which it works, and you giggle like a ten-year-old girl. I won't have no more of it. I'll do no more explaining. | If yon want to sleep while the red I tongned flames are roaring through the halls"? The bell started up again, and during the confusion Mrs. Bowser made her escape upstairs, and the cat scuttled down to the kitchen. Mr. Bowser stood back and folded his arms and waited for the bell to let up. It finally got off on a sort of jig and ended up with a wail and a bang. The thermometer still stood at 70. It hadn't changed by " Va AAnflonrvofiAn xi'Q o r<urin(r a Ullll* ?y\J LVXiUtl^lU UVlt M (4P Ml^iun. There was not even a smell of smoke. "What in thunder ails you anyway?" EXSITIYE BOX OX HIGH. mused Mr. Bowser as he finally advanced and lifted the box up. In reply to his words the boil started off again. and this time it seemed determined to save the lives of the whole neighborhood. After half a minute Mrs. Bowser leaned over the banister and called down: "Is the conflagration at hand, or is it another false alarm:" Mr. Bowser didn't answer her. He simply stood and regarded that bell with the full contempt its contort 'oils merited. "If there is time. I'd like to pack up a few things." continued Mrs. Bowser, but he did not seem to hear her words. Five minutes passed, and the hell st: 11 played on. Another live went by, and the household announcer was still announcing. Then Mr. Bowser pick (Hi up the how walked down the hall and OfKuied the door. There were live or six pedestrians at the irate, mystified by the continuous riugiitir. They called i out to know what was doinjr. but for answer he raised the supersensitive box on liljrli in both hands and broujrbt it down on the stone steps with a crash. Then he kicked the fragments aside and shut the door against the world. "Do you tj:h:k we shall perish in our bod toniirhtV* ask"d Mrs. Bowser as lie en mo upstairs, btu he alared at her and sot his jaw and hndi't a word to say? not even a word a hot.divoreo. M. QUAD. . The Not Avniljihlr. Mould Be Contributor?You did not read all my article that you rejected. I pasted a few of The pn;:os together, ami they weren't opened. Editor?Do I have to eat a whole e;rj/ to know that it is had'/?New York Times. ''To say a pleasant word to anyone was almost impossible." "I was U ouhled with fer.ia'.e weakness for eight years. ami suffered more than I can tell." writes Mrs. Gust. Moser of Ovando. Deerlodgc Co.. Mont. " My disposition was affected to such at: extent that to say ? ?? a pleasant word, to anyone was almost | tions performed hv one oft he most skilled surgeons-of the West, hut did not get relief. Then, against my doctor's strict orders, K? j??55?pd VvSfolSc I commenced taking |? % I)r. Pierce's Favorite n si Prescription and Ej 'Golden Medi.nl Dis- Kj^sc^ coven-,' and also fol- _ lowed the advice gfi^Ewa yy^^><LSi. given in the Common ???Z??2 Sense Medical Ad"I continued this I treatment for three 1 mouths, and to-day 1 am as healthy a nil i well as a woman can l frr be. I cannc't thank \ jm-r'gfr. Doctor Pierce enough \ ' SuSSfe^. for his kind letters \ Womanly d 1 s - \ eases, as a rule, \ J spoil the"disposi- v tion," because of the extreme nerv- *? . ?: Treksa ousness and suffering they cause. Happiness as well as health is restored to the woman whose diseased condition is cured by the use of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. After eight years of sufter>.g and two fruitless operations, three months' use of r Favorite Prescription restored Mrs. Moser to perfect health. Th;s great remedy for woman's ills, establishes regularity, dries weakening drains, heals inflammation and ulceration and cures female weakness. The Common Sense Medical Adviser, I'XxS large pages, in paper covers, is sent free on receipt of 21 one-cent stamps to pay expense of mailing only. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, X. Y. ?A Xosleeted Clas.s. "When looking' around to discover social grievances or to iind subjects for philanthropic work, why has no one thought of the hotel maids and waiters? Their lives are hard, for tliey have long hours and must be 011 duty both early and late. Their time off is taken in snatches, and they seldom get a whole day. A kind lady, observing this at a ho-tel. asked her husband to give his morning paper every day to the man who waited at their table. The gratitude expressed showed how tedious the man found his idle time when he was "on duty," but had nothing to do and nothing to read. A book or paper to a chambermaid, ballbcy or elevator boy is often more gratefully received than the ever welcome tip. A little consideration as to unusual demands meets with equal appreeia tion. Any one who lias traveled much and not kept his eyes shut soon learns that hotel work is hard for those who do it regularly and continuously and soon becomes willing to be less exacting and more aware of certain needs in those who serve which cannot be supplied by gifts of money. A little personal interest is worth much more in many cases.?Philadelphia Ledger. The Iron Crown. I The "'iron crown." which worked up J the minds of the people of the middle j ages to such an extent as finally to become an obiect of worship, is. in fact. a gold crown, the secret magic of the name resting on the tradition that the inside ring of iron was made from the nails which were driven through the hands of Jesus at the time of the crucifixion. But little is known concerning the history of the iron crown until after the coronation of Agilulf. king of the Lombards. It is generally believed that it was made for that monarch in the year .">91. It was used by Charlemagne and by all the after emperors of France, who were kings of the Lombards. Xa polcon put it 0:1 his head when lie was in Milan in hs:i<>, saying. Jod liatli given it to me." This celebrated reiie is now in Naples among the state jewels. It was captured and taken by the Austrians to Vienna in 18."*). but was returned to Italy in 18(;<?. Believers in the sacred hoop of iron inside the crown point to the fact that there is not a speck of rust upon it, although nearly 2,000 years old.?Exchange. Wanted. We would like to ask, through the columns of your paper, if there is an11 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 me^.n their results, such as sour stomach, fermentation of food, habit- ! ual costiveness, nervout dyspepsia, j headache?, despondent feelings, sleep- | looanoai; in Pont aiiv trouble COD tWUCUUQU IU j Dected with the stomach or livef? I This medicine has been sold for many i years in all civilized countries aDd we wish to correspond with you and send yon one of onr books free of cost. If you never tried August Fiower, try a 25 cent bottle first. We have never known of its failing-. If fo. something more serious is the matter with you. The 25 cent size has just been introduced this year. Regular size 75 cents. At all druggists. G. G. Grfen, Woodbury, N J. Buy what you don't need and later on jou will sell what yo? need. A lazy man is always anxious to get busy where there is nothing to do. No man tells all he knows; every woman tells more than she knows. ( Rlonds In History. It is certain that blond. long beaded men once played a groat role in history. | for it was they who colonized Galatia j and brought homo the treasures of ; Greece and Italy to Toulouse, who ; overthrew the Roman empire in the j west and won England l'rom the Erie ! 011s. It is equally certain that this phys- j ical type was once initclt more doini- i nant and widely distributed than it is , no ?" and that it is tending to die out. ! This is especially true of that pronounced form of blonds which is distinguished by ml hair. Red haired persons do not now constitute the uia- i jority in any known tribe or nation. ! hut one authority sets forth grounds j for thinking that rod hair was once much more prevalent. It must have occurred, for instance. J among the Brakmans. since they were forbidden by the laws of Manu to marry red haired women. There is 110 doubt that blonds and red haired persons are still encountered about the Hindoo Kush. among the tribes i rom whom the Brahmans are supposed to have been immigrants. But obedience to the law mentioned would, in the course of time, annihilate the tendency to their reproduction. Not an Optical Illusion. He was positive that he bumped his head when he fell. "You see, it all happened just as 1 stepped off the porch." ho said as ho rubbed the back of his thought repository. "My heel touched the corner of the step, and I was gone. I nearly fractured my skull. The stars loomed up like a constellation. I never saw stars as plainly in my life.'' "But, papa"?his young son attempted to interrupt, but the stern parent would not permit it. "Don't contradict what I say. Frank, because you know I am older than you are," said the pater. "But. papa"? I '.rv.oT,!-?" A.' 1(111 IV "But, papa. I know you didn't bump your head. And you didn't see stars either. It was the ashes from your pipe. I guess I saw you.'' And Frank was reprimanded for having his say.?Indianapolis News. Yielded to the Inevitable. Bilson?So you have a titled son-inlaw. I suppose you consider him a high honor. Tribhler?Well. yes. he did come rather high, but Carrie seemed sort of set upon buying him.?Boston Transcript. A Weak Stomach Cicsts a weak body and invites disease. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure cutes and strengthens the stomach, ward* off and overcomes disease. J. B Tiyior, a prominent merchant of (JnriesmaD, Tex, save: "i couia I oot eat becauee of a weak stomach. I I lost all strength and ruu- down in weight. All that money could do was done, but all hope of recovery vanished. Hearing of some wonderful cures effected by use of Kodol, I cog luded to try it. The first bottle benefited me, and after taking lour bottles I am fully restored to my usual strength, weight and health.'' Kauimann Drug Co. A Countersign. / I A OMLY m\ & ^1.11 Mi 9?wa m. FROM TlJ A 90ZgB / ?Brooklyn Eagle. Rejected. She v.:is a literary lass Ami edited a cultured journal. Anil. oil. he loved h* r with u love He lVlt must be for life eternal. And so lo win her maiden heart Ho wrote a simple, soulful sonnet. With careful rhythm and studied phrase. And staked his wealth of love upon it. I He sent it her; his mind's eye saw Her quaint and queerly wise expression j Change, as with blushing cheek she t < :u] j Ilis heart's fond thought, his "Love*a l Confession." I f | Her answer came, hut who'd have thought j That she could cut so cute a cap'-rV | She wrote: "Your manuscript r?-:uriied. i Don't write on bolh sides of tin- pajHT!'* ! ?Philadelphia Telegraph. ! Better Than G-old. "I was trouble-d for several years j with chronic indigestion and nervous [ debility." writes F. J. Green, of Laii- ! caster, N. H. ''No remedy helped j me i.fotil I began u.-ing Electric I3it- j ters, which did me more good than j all the medicines I ever used. They \ have also kept my wife in excellent j health for years. She says Electric i j Bir.tera are just splendid for female ! troubles; that tbevare a grand tonic ! aud invigorator for weak, run down j women. No other medicine can take i if? plao* in our family." Try them, j Ouly 50c. Satisfaction guaranteed j by the Kaufmann Drug Co. DO YOU GET UP WITH A LAKE BACK ? Kidney Trouble Makes You Miserable. Almost everybody who reads the newspapers is sure to know of the wonderful j ; -r-v cures made by Dr. ?:i4rvr'J Kilmer's Swamp-Root. ? |:j the great kidney, liver S la an^ bladder remedy. f [fiS i-T It is the great medi-.1 L/1 cal triumph of the ninej. y*| H jijlfi teenth century; dis L'S^iL jjj'il covered after years of t(?'H f' f y^n. liid scientific research by 'j <F*~" J Kilmer, the err.ijj * . " nent ^iciney and b!ads=-? dsr specialist, and is wnndprfullv stmoflssful in nmmntlv ntrino ~ J I 1?J lame back, kidney, bladder, uric acid troubles and Bright's Disease, which is the worst form of kidney trouble. Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root is not recommended for everything but if you have kidney, liver or bladder trouble it v/ill be found just the remedy you need. It has been tested in so many ways, in hospital work, in private practice, among the helpless too poor to purchase reiief and has proved so successful in every case that a special arrangement hss been made by which ail readers of this paper who have not already tried it, may have a sample bottle sent free by mail, also a bock telling more about Swamp-Root and how to find out if you have kidney or bladder trouble. When writing mention reading this generous offer in this paper and send your address to Dr. Kilmer & Co.. Stag- ajg&aaifltflgggL \ hamten. N. Y. The regular fifty cent and Homo of sivamp-Root. dollar sizes are sola by all good druggists. Lullaby of the Goalless Quarters ^ A tho snow is on the hill?. WWhen the ice clogs uj> the riil.s "Wo-o-o. wo-f-o Wo-c-o. WO-O-O." That's the way the storm tree.-:. That's the way the wind blows, "Wo-o-o. wo-o-o. Wo-o-o. vvo-o-o-o." "When the wheels go creaking past, When the pumps are frozen last. Wo-o-o. wo-o-o. Wo-o-o. wo-o-o." ' ""tat's the way the wind howls. That's the way the storm growls, Wo-o-o, wo-o-o. Wc-o-o, vvo-o-o-o." a When the meadows are all white. When the grass is out of sight. "Wo-o-o. wo-o-o. Wo-o-o. WO-O-O." That's the way Jack Frost gees. That's the way the wind blows, Wo-o-o. wo-o-o. Wo-o-o. WO-G-O-O." v\ nen me iurou stars turn uiuf, As th^ children's noses do. "Wo-o-o. wo-o-o, W0-0-0, wo-o-o." That's the way the storm growls, That's the way the wolf howls, "Wo-o-o, wo-o-c. "Wo-o-o, wo-o-o-o." ?Chicago Record-Herald. Happy. Something told her lie would declare himself tonight. Was it womanly intuition V Xo matter: it told her aright. "Amelia?Mrs. .Jones/' cried he, "let us lie divorced'" "Oh, Edward, this is so sudden!" she protested, with pretty disingenttousliess. "But I cannot live with you!" he urged impetuously. "They all say that," she faltered, dimpling roguishly. Springing forward, he shook her hand again and again. "Of course I shall pay all your expenses at Sioux Falls." he said. She was silent, and silence gives consent. "I do not deserve to be so happy!" she whispered after a time.?Puck. Impending1 Trnu'ile. Customer?What's the matter -with that cook anyhow? Waiter (bawling)?Aw. cook, 'ore's a guy inquiring al'ter that black eye yer wife gave yer last night 1 ? Chicago News. Considerate. ' Why don't you do something that will cause your name lo echo down the corridors of fame?*' *.My dear sir,'' answered Senator Sonrhuni. "I am fond of children. I remember the difficulties I used to have with my history lessons. Kvery man who made himself famous added to my sorrows, and I will be perfectly eonteat to feel that I have not added to the li-a of proper names that future I generations will have trouble in learn- j imr to spell." The best physic. "Once tried and you will always use Chamberlain's I Stomach and Liver Tablets," says j William A. Girnrd, Pease, Vt. These j Tablets are the most prompt, most j pleasant and most reliable cathartic 1 in use. For sale by the Kapfmann j Drug Co. TAX KETUBXS in accordance with the law JL in relerence to the rc-assessment ami taxation ot property. the ( milter, or hi* ?ss:st"irt, wiII be and r.ttei ft tbo led owing mimed places tor the purpose ol eceiviug ax returns for the ? cut year 1W03. and i*a >r<ier 10 meet the next appointment, the imur wi;l chose at 11:3<> in the morning and it l o'clock iu the a'tf-rr oon: taxpayers will, therefore. be prompt in meeting th~ appointments so as rot to cause delay. Taxpayers wdl p'e.we come prepared t?> give the name of their toa-nsnip and number of school district wherein they reside: Lexington c. II , from the lutu to the 20th of February. tvctioh z 0 1.1 the law in reference to the assessment of taxes, (Revised Statutes. 5 reads as follows: All prop: r.y shall be valued f< r taxation ! at its tiue value in money, which in ai: I - -I ?t 1 ? urn j-peciany provioea lor r?y Jaw. I shuli be held 10 be as lollows, to wit: For per-onal property the usual selling pricefo a he usual terms ot s.iudar property at ai] c:it 1 tratoi's or ? xecuior's sale, at the plac* where the return i> made:and for real property. the n-nal-f iling pace, on the u?iu'. terms of s-itniiar property at sales for partition under or er ot court, at the place a here the return is to he made If there ino usurtl selling price, then at what is honestly believed could he obtained for the same at a tu'r sale under the conditions above mentioned Ir shall be the dntv of each owner of lands, and of any new structures thereon which shall not have been appraised for taxation, to list the same for taxation with be County Auditor for the Count) in which rhey may be situated on or betore the 20th. day ol February next, alter the same s .aii become sut ject to taxation Section (i. That from and after the passage of this > ct, trere shall be assessed upon all taxable polls in this State a tax ot one dol'ar on each poll, the proceeds of which tax shall be applied solely to educational purposes, ihery male citizen between the ayes of twentv-one and sixty j ears, except those incapable of earning a sufjyv/i i, wuiii k/ciut; iiiaiuiru ur iiuui oilier causes, and excent '.hose who are made exempt by law, shall be deemed taxable polls. All returns tor taxation must be filed with the Auditor not later th<?n February 20th, 1903. as aber that date the law requires aa addition ot ;.U per cent, to the last year's returns Township Beards of Assessors will meet at some convenient place in their respectivtownsliip on Tuesday, March 3, 1903. County Board of Equalization will meet ac the Auditor's oiiice on Tursday, March 24, 1103, at 10 o'clock a. m. G. A. DERRICK, Auditor ot Lexington County. T?? PROOF OF THE P jD8^S IB THE | EATIN0. THEPSQQF OF THE MEDICINE IS THE TAKING. MJLTU&I'S LiFt FOS Tnc LIVER AND kidneys will verity e*ery claim made lor it. Tost it by a trial of a 25 j. bottle. I: makes fast lri^nds wherever once used, and becomes the medicine of the household. I is pleasant to take, acts pleasantly and causes one to feel pleasant. ! It i* the best and quickest remedy for the ! cure of kidney troubles, lame back, disl ordered liver and 8ny derangement of the [ stomach and bowels. BOTTLES, 25c., 50c. and $1.00. j Wholesale by the MURRAY DRUG CO., Columbia. S. C. For Sale at THE BAZAAR. May 15?ly. ill I Hi! IRIURiII ill. Will Practice tn all Court?, KAUFMANN BUILDING. LEXINGTON, S C On the 18th div of October, we formed a co-partnership for the practice ol law. We will be pleased to receive those having legal busine-s 10 be attended to at our ottice in the Kaulmann building at any time. Resnecttully. J. WM THUBMOND. G BKLL TIMMERMAN. October 22. 1902.?ly. Wlieele & Wilson No. 9 BALL BEARING Wonderfully Light Running and Rapid. One-third faster; one third easier than anj shuttle machine. Save about ONE DAY IN THREE. Quiet and durable. THREE DRAWERS. FIVE DRAWERS. DROP HEAD AND CABINET STYLES. ORGANS. A lot of Higli (irade Organs very low for cash. Cue Chaple very near cost. 1900 BALLBEARING Washing Machines and 1> ill B firing Wringer^ These are treasures No uvt dresses ' and teet. Any seven or eight year oici child eau work it. Will cleanse {Lie clothes in ten minutes. Will last lor years. T_ ZEE. EEBET, ISO! MAIN ST.. COLUMBIA, S. C. December ' ). l'JJ'2. 3ui Kodol Dyspepsia Cure Digests what you eat.