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THE WILD ANGLERS. ANIMAL FISHERS THAT ARE QUICK, SURE, WARY AND SHY. Chief Among: Them Are the Heron, the^Kingfisher, the Mink, the Water Snake and the Snapping? Tur. tie?How They Land Their Prizes. "Any om>- -w'-sr ?rn suppress for awhile his i*h rhe rod on a trout Streams.? . .::?a patience T;> lie in wait and va;:a the ways of beasts and birds," said one who had evidently been able to do so. "will discover that be is not the only fisher in those waters. Chief among the other fishers are the heron, the kingfisher, the mink, the water snake and the snapping turtle. "An angler passing down in a brook intent on liis rod will rarely see any of these wild fishers at their work, for they are all wary and shy, perhaps with the exception of the water snake. No angler has ever fished between the elder skirted banks of any trout stream without discovering one or more of these reptiles?harmless except as to their woeful appetite for trout?twisted around some overhanging branch, watching for prey. "One day while fishing in a Sullivan i county brook I lay down in the shade of a maple to eat my lunch and smoke a pipe. While thus in quietude I saw a blue heron drop down on the edge of the brook only a rod or two away. After a few minutes of statuesque watching the long legged bird darted its head down into the water, withdrew it with a large trout in its bill and fiew away. "Not more than five minutes after the heron had disappeared a mink &me swimming up the brook. In a pool nearly within my reach the mink dived. A moment later it appeared with a good half pound trout in its mouth. ' "This expert fisher had scarcely gone its way when a harsh voiced kingfisher alighted a dead overhanging the brook twenty yards from where I lay. The bird was not long on the limb before down it went in the water and came up with a trout. I was trying to figure out what the probable drain on the trout population of the country might be from the inroads of these wild marauders when a water snake came gliding up the stream carrying a trout in its mouth that was big enough to talk about. Then I thought it was time for me to get to fishing again before these expert and persistent wild fishers bad robbed me of my chance for sport. "Herons, like snapping turtles, select the largest trout for their prey. They usually fish at the foot of some deep pool. Poised on one long, slender leg. the heron, as immovable as if it were carved from stone, waits patiently the passing of some lusty tront from the rapid water below into the pool. "The wait is se'dom a long one. Suddenly the long neck shoots out like an arrow, and the great bill is buried for an instant in the water. The aim is rarely at fault, and when the bird's head appears in sight again a large trout usually comes up with it The heron rises lazily from the creek, trailing its spindling legs, and flies home with its savory burden. "Late in the season, v^hen trout begin to congregate where small spring runs empty into the stream, the heron will be found fishing there, as it seems to know well, as does the kingfisher, all the habits of the fish it loves so well to feed npon. One heron with a free scope on a trout stream will likely take from it a thousand trout, many of them heavy with spawn, during the time this big bird fishes, which is from the time the ice leaves the creeks in the spring until it forms on them again the following winter. "The mink fishes all winter long as well as in the summer. In fact, it is during the icebound period that it is most destructive to trout. ^.'The kingfisher is net so certain in its aim as the heron, but one failure never discourages this winged marauder. It will resume its perch on the dead limb ?an outlook it seems to prefer?settle down with its1 watchman's rattle cry and watch and dive until the prize is won. "The kingfisher is no stickler for size in tront, but tries for the first that comes along It is a greedy fisher, or. rather, perhaps the family that it feeds has an insatiable appetite, for the bird has been known to return ten times to the same place within an hour and carry away a trout every time., A catch which it makes in that length of time the best of anglers nowadays would consider something to boast of. "Water snakes^ basking by the hundreds along every trout stream, fish with so much tact and cunning that tbey number their prey by thousands from the time they come out of their hibernating places, which is as soon as the weather begins to get warm, until the approach of winter drives them back into their holes. "There is no knowing to how great a J ?? lifltolioto ATI tlio cnitp? I aegrw me uuui i c wuu for their warfare, but that they do make reprisals is known to every angler, for many a big trout when dressed is found to have from one to three young water snakes in his stomach. "It is fortunate not only for the trout, but for all kinds of brook, pond and river fishes, that the snapping turtle is of extremely slow growth and that its eggs are themselves the prey of birds, snakes, muskrats and various predatory things, for it is one of the deadliest foes to the finny tribe. Bulky aDd apparently clumsy as these formidable creatures are. they are so quick, wily and active when hunting a stream tha^ no trout that a snapping turtle darts for ever escapes."?Chicago Inter Ocean. MmTh? Start In married life is generally made on an equal footing Nbr /v.^ N>iiL of health in man-and wife. But kxmt,-rin hi any eases, the wife 'k*es the start and fades in teee and ||s?jg^ fails in flesh, while her husband grow3 even more ffiBBs rugged and robust. ; There is one chief cause PjfffifI for this wifely failure and fojfwj that is, the failure o4 the P jg womanly health. When Lviw there is irregularity or an r&JK unhealthy drain, in flamination, ulceration or female weakness, the genjvig eral health is soon imVgffl Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription cures womanly diseases. It establishes regularity, dries unhealthy drains, heals inflammation and ulceration and cures female weakness, it makes weak women strong and sick women well. * i little over a vear ago I wrote to vou for advice." says Mrs. ?lirabeth J. Fisher^ of Diana, W. Va. "You advised me to use j?\ Pierce's Favorite P"cscriptioo and 'Golden Medical Discovery,' wVch I did. and with the most liappy result. I was troubled with fejnale weakness and bearing-down pains. Had a very bad pain nearly all toe time in my left side, nervousness and headache. Was so weak I ceroid hardly walk across my room. Could not sit np only just a little while st a time. My husband got me some of Dr. Pierce's medicine and I began its use. Before I had taken two bottles I was able to help do my work. I used three bottles in all and it cured roe. Now I do all my hoewework. It is the best medicine I ever used." The Common Sense Medical Adrrser, in paper covers, is sent frea on receipt of 21 one-cent stamps to pay expense of mailing only. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. BRIDAL PHOTOGRAPHS. Sat Nearly So Many Taken Nowaday a Kg Tbcre Used to Be. Brides are probably just as beautiful now as ever they were, but they are not nearly so anxious to record their postnuptial loveliness by means of photographs. Most photographers say they are glad of it. "I never did enjoy taking the pictures of brides," said a photographer. "Like all the rest of the world, I love the dear creatures, but when it cornea down to $4 a dozen commercialism they do not satisfy my artistic instincts. Few brides take a good picture. Somehow their togs are not becoming. A bride Is supposed to look superlatively lovely oil her wedding day, but if anybody dared to toll the truth on the subject that superstition soon would be exploded and the sweet things would realize that, instead of looking their best on that occasion. most of them are apt to look their worst. It is the same way when they come to be photographed in their wedding finery. They are either too pale or too red. and thoy have a nervous, anxious expression that robs the face of all good lines for photographic purposes. "The time was when no bride considered herself really married until she had arrayed herself in spotless white and had her picture taken. Generally 'he' came with her, and 'he' looked Just about as foolish as she did. Goodness, the trouble I have had posing brides and bridegrooms before the camera! Instead of telling them to look pleasant I always felt like saying, "Don't look idiotic if you can possibly help it,' and then I would have to think up some device to keep her from scrouging down too close against his shoulder and to keep him from responding with an equally inappropriate embrace. But * * T Willi all my precautions i never xuuy snccecded in preventing their acting like lunatics. The other day when looking over a lot of old negatives I came across several hundred of those sentimental combinations.- and I thanked my lucky stars that nowadays few newly mated couples have the camera craze."?Chicago Record-HeraId. POULTRY POINTERS. Stale bread soaked in milk and squeezed dry is a good feed for young ducks. Only medium sized eggs should be set. Extra large or small ones are apt to produce deformed chicks. Turkeys are not so sure to come home as other fowls: hence it is a good plan to mark them in some way. Feed the young chicks often if you would have them growing rapidly, but do not feed more at a time than they will eat up clean in a few minutes. Destroy the old nests as soon as the hens come off with the chicks. The safest and best plan is to burn all of the old material. Healthy fowls pick up their food quickly and relish it. When they go at it lazily, pick up a grain or two and then stop something is wrong. Never shut the fowls up in such close quarters that they cannot take enough exercise to promote digestion. Hens treated in this way will soon become too fat to lay. Brutally Tortured, A case came to light that for persistent and unmerciful torture has perhaps never been equaled. Joe G-olobick of Cjlusa, Calif, writes. For 15 years I endured insufferable pain from Raeumatism and nothing relieved me though I tried everything known. I came across Electric Bitters and it's the greatest medicine on earth for that trouble. A few bottles of i* completely relieved and cured me" Just as good for Liver and Kidney troubles and general debility. Onlv 50c. Satisfaction guaranteed by The Kiughmann Drug Co. k 1 The Sterna of the Prickly Pear. In most plants, to put it simply, the leaves are the mouths and stomachs of the organism; their thin uml flattened Wades are spread out faorizou tally in a wide expanse, covered with tiny throats and lips which suck in carbonic acid from the surrounding air and disintegrate it in their own cells under the influence of sunlight In the prickly pears, on tlie contrary, it Is the flattened stem and branches which undertake this essential operation in the life of the plant?the sucking in of carbon and giving out of oxygen, which are to the vegetable exactly what the eating and digesting of food are to the animal organism. In their old age, however, the stems" of the prickly pear display their true character by becoming woody in texture and losing their articulated, leaflike appearance. The Green Fiend. While a number of workmen were sitting in a wine shop in the Hue de | Charcnton in Paris oneway one of them, a man of forty, named Xegocier, made a wager that lie would drink a dozen glasses of absinth while 11 o'clock was striking. The wager was taken and the twelve glasses placed on the table. On the first stroke Xegocier swallowed his first glass, and the clock liad just finished striking when he drank the twelfth and last. While his companions were applauding the feat Negoeier staggered and fell heavily to the floor. He was picked up dead. What He Ix>st. Shakespeare was reading the latest news. "Here's a fellow getting $1 a wowif' he exclaimed. "Too bad!" returned Johnson. "Just think of what I'd have got at that rate." Determined to have the last word any way, he turned to his dictionary.? Judge. In the Stilly Night. "What is it?" the druggist sleepily inquired from his bedroom window. "This ish drug store, ain't it?" asked the man who had rung the night bell. "Yes. What do you want?" "Want to look in your city directory minute an' shee where I live."?Philadelphia Ledger. He IvnjftT Hott. Mr. Kidder?Peopie say that it is impossible to find a needle in a haystack, but they're wrong. Mrs. Kidder?How would you go about it? Mr. Kidder?Walk across the stack in my stocking feet.?Denver Republican. For Ovor Sizty Years. Mrs Wioslow's Soothing Syrup has been in use for over sixty years by millions of mothers for their Children while teething, with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the gums, ailays all pain, cures wind colic, and is the best remedy for Diarrhoea. It will relieve the poor little sufferer immediately. Sold by Druggist in every part of the world Twenty-live cents a bottle. Be sure to ask for Mrs. "Winslow's Soothing Syrup," and take no other kind, tf TRA!NING#A LN3N. A Darin# Performance That Had a Very Simple Explanation. Not long ago a lkfci tamer who was exhibiting in a German circus in Holland attracted immense c-Fowds at every Dorformance bv doing what seemed j to be the most daring of acts in the lions' cage. He would climb iDto the cage with great pieces of meat and throw it to the roaring beasts. The moment they had leaped upon it he wouki spring among them and put his foot on it. The animals would growl furiously, and then, just as the spectators were all waiting breathlessly, expecting that the beasts would tear liim to pieces, they would shrink back, cowed. After he had repeated this exciting act for many days an Englishman made a wager with him for a big sum of money that he would not dare to do it after the lions had been starved for three days. The trainer considered for a moment and then accepted the ' wager, making only the condition that he be allowed to have three weeks of preparation. At the end of three weeks the trainer announced that ho was ready, and the process of starving the lions began. The Englishman kept guards posted around the cage day and night to make certain that not a morsel of food should be given to the animals. At the expiration of the three days all Amsterdam { rushed to the circus. The lions were maddened with hunger, as any one could see and hear, for they roared continually, and their attempts to break through the bars showed how angry they bad become. In the height of the uproar the trainer entered the cage with an immense piece of beef in his arms. He tossed it on the floor of the cage, raised his whip and. lo, not j one lion dared to approach it. The mighty brutes lay crouched, roaring and growling so hard that their great frames shook, and each kept his terrific yellow eyes fixed hungrily on the meat. lint not one of them stirred. The trainer stopped, lifted the beef and tossed it to them again, and in a moment the lions were in a great tawny ball, rending and snarling and tearing, with blood from the mangled beef spurting all over the cage. The Englishman paid his bet and then tried to find out how the lion tamer had acquired such wonderful control over his beasts. At first the man would not tell, but at last he consented to explain it. During the three weeks' period of preparation he had always starved the lions from the very beginning. Then, on the fourth day, he would enter the cage with a piece of beef which.bad been soaked in kero sene oil. The lions would no 3oonor pounce upon it than they would shrink away, sickened by tbe steacb. Then he would throw them a fresh and good piece of beef, which they would devour in a moment. Tlve lions soon became bo accustomed to expecting that tbe first piece of beef that was thrown to them was not good that at the end of three days they would not even move from their corners when the trainer threw it on tbe floor of the cage. They would not try to eat anything except the second piece. So the daring trick had a very simple explanation.?Washington Post. A Test of Refinement. The truest test of refinement is a uniform regard for the welfare and interests and feelings of others. There is a refinement which is by education, but in each case the sure indications of refinement are the same. You cau recognize the difference between those who have and those who lack refinement hv their henrine in n crowd. In deed this difference is easier perceived in a street car or in a market or in a thronged highway than in a drawing room. A person of true refinement takes up the less room and claims the less concession and is readier to yield position than an unrefined person. The way in which a man carries a cane or umbrella in a crowd settles the question in his case. And again the keeping of one's market basket in the way, or out of it, as at the busiest market hour, is an infallible te9t of the bearer's in- I ner grain. And so in many other minor matters.?Philadelphia Ledger, Catarrh of the Stomach. When the stomach is overloaded; when food is taken into it that f?iis to digest, it decays aDd ii flames the mucous membranp, exposing the nerves, and causes the glands to secret mucin, instead of the Datuial justice of digestion. This is called Catarrh of the Stomach. For years I suffered with catarrh of the sttmach, caused by indigestion. Doctors and medicines failed to bene fir, me until I used Kodoi Dyspepsia Cure. ?J R. Rbea, CoppelJ, Tex. Sold by all Druggists. Silk Cultnre In Italy. About 500 A. D. Persian monks tirst brought silkworm eggs concealed in the head of a hollow staff to Constantinople. Thence silk culture spread into Greece. A little later conquest carried it to Sicily. From there to Italy it was hut a step. Soil, climate, people suited it The industry took root grew, throve and continues to this day. The thrifty peasant manages to get silk and oil and wine from the same small holding. First he plants his mulberry trees, sixteen feet each way: next he prunes the heads into a hollow cup and trains his vines all over them, and finally around the edge he sets a shelter of olive trees. So all seasons bring him labor and the reward of it Forgotten, but Xot LrO*t. "My dear," said Mr. Pewnyhub, venturing to put in a word as she paused for breath, "may I ask what you are scolding about?" "I can't remember it just now," replied his irate spouse. "You've driven it out of my head. But if I hadn't a good reason for it do you suppose I'd be as mad as I am?" And she broke loose agaii*?Chicago Tribune. The Only Difference. "De difference between de man dat'a figerin' on perpetual motion," said Uncle Eben, "an' de man dat's workin' a system to beat de races is dat de perpetual motion man didn't hab no money in de fus' place."?Washington Star. Between the party of the first part and the party of the second part there's many a sorrow sanctioned by law.?Schoolmaster. Wo Pity ShoTO. "For "years fate was after me continuously1 writes F. A. Gulledge, Verbena, Ala. "I bad a terrible case of Pdes cauping 24 tumore. When all failed Backlen's Arnica Salve cured me. Equally good for Burna and all aches and pains. Only 25c at The Kaufmann Drug Co. Come Eniy, Go Kany. Lenders?Why don't you try to live more economically? Spenders?Oh, I suppose I will some day. Lenders?Yes, some day you'll have to. Spenders?That's just it. I -won't mind it so much when I have to.? Philadelphia Tress. Severely rnsympatliefle. "Mister," said Meandering Mike, "if I was to tell you dat I had seen better days would you believe me?" "Certainly," answered Mr. Leandor Scraggs. "This is one of the most unsatisfactory days that our versatile climate has yet produced."?Washington Star. Hardened. "Man below wants to be an umpire, boss." "Well, does he think he can stand all the kicks that will come his way?" "Guess so; says he used to be a complaint clerk in a gas office."?Chicago News. Bronchitis for Twenty Years. Mrs. Minerva Smith, of Danville, Ill, writes: UI had broncbhis for twenty years and never got relief until I used Foley's Honey and Tar which is a sure cure. TheKaufmann Drug Co. i 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. Kidney trouble causes quick or unsteady 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 cf 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 |fcv/yv'-l by all druggists in fifty cent and one-dollar sizes. You may have a sample bottle by mail Homo 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. Albert M. Boozer, Attorney at Law, COLUMBIA, 8. C. Especial attention given to business entrusted to him by his fellow citizens ol Lexington county. Office: 1316 Main Street, upstairs, opposite Yau Metre's Furniture Store February 28?tf. |i| * & OJB an TWO HUNDRED ?7 14 $y fi fa Si voung men and Wf OA Bra a a Si ladies to qualify Vv 3 l&j for paying positions. If you are Interested, write us for our handsome illustrated catalog. IHE LfiNltR SOUTHERN BUSINESS COLLEGE MACON, GA. November 19, 190-2?ly. Parlor Restaurant 1336 MAIN STREET. COLUMBIA, - S. C., The only up-to-date eating House ol its kind in the City oi Columbia. It is well kept?clean linen, prompt and polite service and get it quickly. Quiet and order always prevail. You get what you order and pay only for what jou get. Within easy reach of desirable sleeping apartments. 03?JEIV A.HJL1 NIGHT. S. DAVID, Proprietor. 11 fm, F, 1 SS I 638-1 640 MAIN SI gru ? gfj OFFEKS THE F Best China Matting, the 35 cents &r39 Nice Brown Sheeting, the 7 cents 3.UC0 jards Cottonades, the 15 ar Largest Malaga Hats, the 20 cenl Men's two-piece Fine All Wool Si 100 esses Shoes just in at 10c.. 15i fTHft oave about 300 Ladies and Gentlem ? and $4.00 kind, in extra small and will sell for $1.99 the pair. x- 10 gross Men"s Coat Collar Sprii 50 gross Fine Satety Pins, at 1 ci 300 Ladies, $1.50, $1,25 and Sl.C they last. S3 B HUNDREDS OF I ?s 4a) for " B come to see us 1 ss adyertiseme: ffi Si \" ery Sincerely, I THE n. F. t mssssmssi BEESWAX WANTED IN LARGE OR SMALL QUANTITIES WE WILL PAY THE HIGHEST MARket price tor clean and pure Beeswax. Price governed by color and condition. THE BAZAAR, i LEXINGTON, S. C- j MIT TREES That Grow and Bear Fruit. Write for our 60 rage illustrated Catalogue and 40 ? - ? ' IT AT" t*A p:igw yauiyiiicwt .. Plant and Cultivate an Orchard," Gives you that in- ^ formation you have so long wanted: tells you all about those big red apples, lucious 1 peaches, and Japan plums with their oriental sweetness, i all of which you have often wondered where the trees came from that produced fhoni. > EVERYTHING GOOD IN FRUITS. Unnsal fine stock of SILVER MAPLES.young, thrifty trees smooth and straight, the kind I that live and grow off well. No old, rough trees. This is the most rapid growing maple and one of the most beautiful shade trees. Write for prices and give list of wants. J. Van Lindley Nursery Co., POMOKA, N 0. * HAIRRBALSAM Cleanses and beautifies the hair. Promotes a luxuriant growth. Never Pails to Bestore Gray Hair to its Youthful Color. Cures ?e#!p^di*ea*es 3^ hair Jelling. THURMOND I TIIEiHN, HIKIHS II us. Will Practice m a'l Counts, KAUFMANS BUILDING, LEXINGTON, S O On the I8th day oi October, we ioruied a co-partnership for the practice of law. We will be pleased to receive those having legal business to be attended to at onr office in fcho Kautinann building at any time. Respecttallv. J. WM. thubmond, G. BELL HM MERMAN. October 22, 1902.?ly. When you lend a man moDey, if you don't insist upon hie raying it back he thinks you are a fool; if you do, he thinks you are his enemy. w ] 1 I " " r\ It I a VrWjF COLUMBIA,S- C. 8 OLLOWISG: flg kind, at 184 cents. B3 > kind, at 5 cents, id 20 cents kind, at 10 cents. l8 kind, for 10 cents. 0^0$ aits, $5.75, $5 00 and $6.50. c., 25c., 40c , 98c. and up. We en's Very Fine Shoes, the $3.50 extra large sizes only, that we g* A Stl igs. at 1 cent each. ent the dozen. * KJ Corsets, at 79 cents while ? SOOD BARGAINS j? iOU. |j|| YSU BRIXG THIS S3* ^ s T WITH YOU. if nTinr nn ?3 ( If Mill II). g !SS98S3SSsS /.