Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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^fi^pation and Indigestic I p^hi? H\and Tonic Pellets\Bfc\Nature and does not HARMAItf The Lexington Dispatch. Wednesday, August 5, 1903. A woman isn't necessarily a dream because she happened to be contrary. Bank deposits have increased 85 per cent in 10 years. Oconee county jail has not a single prisoner, a very singular condition. One Minute Cough Curs For Coughs, Colds and Croup. A negro porter fell from a window in the Spartan Inn, Spartanburg and was killed. The town of Heath Springs in Lancaster county was almost burned up Wednesday night. A negro in the Camden jail freed himself with a spoon by picking the ' mortar from between the brick. Mrs. Maggie Stanford, matron of the Thornwell orphanage, Clinton died on Sunday, 19th inst. S wifts where all asefails. jg Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. TJee in time. Sold by druggists. gl The contract for Aiken's new tourist hotel has been let The structure will cost something like $300, 000. A negro mob lynched a negro tramp in Florida for assaulting a negro woman. The United States has used nearly a third more coffee than the rest of the world put together. A woman's best enjoyment of both a wedding and a theatre is when she can have a good cry at them. With the exception of' lovemaking there are many new ways of doing old things. Trust not the friendship of the man or woman who will thoughtlessly mutilate a good book. True wealth consists in enjoying what you have, not in having more than you can enjoy. Many persons in this community are suffering from kidney complaint who could avoid fatal results by using Foley's Kidney Cure. Tbe Kaufmann Drug Co. A tourist without money is a tramp and a tramp without money is a tourist. More than physical culture is required to make a man strong minded. Unless a man has scored at least one failure he is unable to appreciate ! success. The proudest moment in a successful man's life is when he tells how he got there. Next to rejecting the proposal of a man she dosen't want to marry, a girl gets the most enjoyment out of snubbing another girl who isn't in her set. Generally when a woman has been married five years her husband' tells her in the night that he loves her she is dreaming. In one of the Howe Islands, off Australia, a banana tree has been *-discovered, the branches and trunks v .of which nearly covers seven acres. Charleston is collecting blind tiger 'license these hot days. The Kecorder palled in $150 from nine saloon keepers recently. About 3100,000,000 worth of candy and confectionery are manufactured and sold in this country , each year. i that case of Consti^^^M^ >nere it's chronic. Try\m\ Etol S BAZAAR. Ten deaths from locbjaw have resulted in Cleveland, Ohio, Bince July Jfch as a result of accidents with toy pistols. Foley's Kidney Cure is a medicine disease free from poisons and will cure any case of kidney that is not beyoDd the reach of medicine. The Kaufmann Drug Co. The executive office of the United States calls for only $112,000 a year while England gives the royal family $4000,000. The first bale of new cotton from Zapata county, Texas, was sold cn the New York cotton exchange on Tuesday, July 21st for 26? cents. The Kansas wheat crop is so large that a car faminie exists. It is stated that the railroads do not own enough cars to handle the crop. When you want a physic that is mild and gentle, easy to take and certain to act, always use Ubamberlain'a Stomach and Liver Tablets. For sale by The Kaufmann Drug Co. A tornado killed five persons and injured a score of others at Steator, 111. The same tornado killed four persons at Mendcla, 111. The Georgia Legislature killed the bill providing that convicts be required to work on the roads of the county in which they were sentenced. One of the most, uncomfortable things about having a wife is the favors her relatives are going to do you when they get through asking you to do them favors. One hundred and fifty American teachers were at work in the schools of Poto Rico last year and are just now returning for their summer vaca tioD. Wagg?Every man has eome sort of hobby which he rides. Wagg? Wei/, it is all right for him to ride his own, but he needn't deride his neighbor's. . Mrs. Mollie Allen, of South Fork, Ky., says she has prevented attacks of cholera morbus by taking Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets when she felt an attack coming on. such attacks are usually caused by indigestion and these Tablets are just what is needed to cleanse the stomach and ward of the approaching attack. Attacks of bilious colic may be prevented in the same way. For sale by The Kaufmann Drug Co. Twenty clerks of the New York Central railroad have been arrested for robbing freight cars. The peculations amount to many thousand dollars. It is stated that the Cincinnati whiskey combine has been smashed. This may be taken as another illustrafirm nf tlio faol'. thnf. teliiobov will 1V?WU V* KM W KMMV II MAWMVJ ft smash any combination into which it is injected. The man who predicts what is to happen in the next century is always safe. Nobody will feel like disputing him while he lives, and nobody will take the trouble to dispute his predictions after he is dead. If you know of a poor old strifled horse?a horse with a sore back, a barbed wire wound, unnatural growths, stiff joints or swollen limbs, send him around. We can cure him with a few applications of Ramon's Nerve & Bone Oil. 25 cents at Harman'e Bazaar. It is stated that the finest kind of china clay exist near Camden, and that in the colonial days the famous china maker Wedgewood in England feared its competition. China was made at Camden from this clay over a hundred and fifty years ago. A toothpick machine which cuts perfect picks from the wood at the rate of 1,000 a minute, a different advertisement being printed on each one, will be a feature in the Machinery Building at the World's Fair. Teaching a Dog to Bead. The intelligence of animals seems, as a rule, to be underrated rather than overrated. A dog breeder deo zrr -vnrl/irfnl fhftf. Vlftd OLliUCU ? fT juuw&xui belonged to Sir John Lubbock. "This dog," he said, "would when it was hungry lay at its master's feet a card marked 'food.' When it was thirsty it would fetch a card marked 'drink.' When it wanted to take a walk it would bring a card marked 'out.' "Sir John Lubbock trained it to do this trick in less than a month. He put the food card over the dog's food and made it bring the card to him before h9 would allow it to eat, and in the matter of drinking and going out he used a like method. The cards were similar in shape and color, but the writing on them differed. Since, therefore, the dog distinguished them by the writing alone it may truly be Baid that the animal could read." DeWitt Is The Name. When you go to buy Witch Hazel noma HaWitf. nn I kjcti V C 1UU& 1U1 I'UD UCkUJV i/u ?> ivv wu every box. The pure, unadulterated Witch Hazel is used in making DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve, which is the best salve in the world for cuts, burns, bruises, boils, eczema and piles. The popularity of DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve, due to its many cures, has caused numerous worthless counterfeits to be placed on the market. The genuine bears the name of E. C. DeWitt & Co., Chicago Sold by all druggists. For Lending Purposes.. "I want a lawn mower," said Mr. Sewburb, "one that is a misfit in every way, one that couldn't be pushed by an electric power house and that wouldn't cut grass anyway." "May I ask," said the amazed clerk "why you wish such a machine t" "Certainly," replied Mr. Sewburb. "I want to break some of my neigh? 'i i : u - u:?. 11 T>^1 Dors 01 me uorruwiug uauiu .?jl>?itimore American. Mackerel Scarce This Year. Boston, Mass., July 29.?According to reports of returning fishermen mackerel are about the moat difficult fish to find and catch this year of any sort fishermen go after. Schooners have scoured the Georged, the Bay of Fundy and the Maine coast without success. It appears from what they report that the schools of fish supposed by some to be mackerel are really herring or porgies. In places the waters swarm with theBe two varieties, but not a sign of mackerel. To Cure a Cold in One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove's signature is on each box 25c. Camp Steadman to Meet. The Ninth Annual meeting of Camp Steadman, No. 668, U. C. V., will be held in the court house at this place on Tuesday, August 11th, 1903. at 10 a. m. A full attendance is earnestly requested as officers will be elected and other important business in connection with our organization attended to. M. D. Harman, Comd'r. Geo. W. Reeder, Adjt. Stats on a Cash Basis. The Columbia Evening Record of Thursday, 30th of July, says: Senator George S. Mower, who is a member of the commission appointed to place the State upon a cash basis, was in the city yesterday on business connected with the commission. It has 1? Jo moofinrr in UtJCIJ UCU1UOU IU JJUiU %m UivviiiMg ?u the next few weeks, but it will probably be held at Glenn SpringB or Wnite Stone Litha, where the weather is more comfortable. stimulate the TORPID LIVER, strengthen the digestive organs, regulate the bowels, and are unequaled as an ANTI-BILIOUS MEDICINE, In malarial districts their virtues are widely recognized, as they possess peculiar properties in freeing the system from that poison. Elegantly sugar coated. Take No Substitute.-** Expectancy. The country clergyman wbs nailing a refractory creeper to a piece of trelliswork near his front gate when he noticed that a small boy had stop ped aDd wag watchiDg him with great attention. "Well, my young friend,'1 he said, pleased to see the interest he excited, "are you looking for a bint or two cn gardening'?11 "No," said the youth; "I be waiting to hear what a parson says when he hammers his thumb." u-ood For The Militia. Washington, July 31 ?The secretary of war today decided that officers and eoldiera of the militia while serving at encampments are entitled to the same pay as the officers and men of the regular army and that they also are entitled to transportation to and from such encampments as if they were regular troops. Quick Relief for Asthma Suffers. ? ? TT 1 m OO T * .tf'oiey s ijoney ana iar anoras immediate relief to asthma sufferers in the worst stages and if taken in time will effect a cure. The Kaufmann Drug Co. Ice in the A&iron&acks. Pittsburg, N. Y., July 29?The thermometer registered as low as twenty-eight degrees in several places throughout the Adirondacks last night and this morning. Ice formed in pails in many tents and cottages. / Mrs. Laura. S. Webb, I Vice-President Woman's Demo| cratie Clubs of Kortbern Ohio. I "I dreaded the change of life which I was fast approaching. 1 noticed Wine I of Cardui, and decfaed to try a bob I tie. i experienced some relief the j 1 first month, so 1 kept on. taking it for j | three months and now 1 menstruate I | with no pain and I shall take It off and I I on now until I have passed the climax." g I Female weakness, disordered I ff menses, falling of the womb and ff ovarian troubles do not wear off. ff They follow a woman to the change I of life. Do not wait but take Wine I of Cardui now and avoid the trouI ble. Wine of Cardui never fails | to benefit a suffering woman of I any age. Wine of Cardui relieved I 1 Mrs. Webb when she was in dan- I I ger. When you oorne to the change ff I of life Mrs. Webb's letter will I p mean more to ycu than it does I ff now. But you may now avoid the 1 f suffering she endured. Druggists 1 ff sell $1 bottles of Wine of Cardui. 1 VSiWEorCARDUy j food's Seeds j 1 enn cat i crku/iwr? 1 f rwr^, rAJL,L< ov n iv?* | 1 Farmers and Gardeners who de- J 1 sire the latest and fullest informa- 1 / tion about 1 1 Vegetable and Farm Seeds J t should write for Wood's New 1 1 Fall Catalogue. It tells all about J 1 the fall planting of Lettuce, Cab- 1 i bage and other Vegetable crops % ? which are proving so profitable to m I southern growers. Also about 1 I Crimson Clover, Vetches, I 1 Grasses and Clovers, 1 J Seed Oats, Wheat, I I Rye, Barley, etc* (> I Wood's New Fall Catalogue mailed free on request. Write for it. ( T. W. WOOD & SONS, I Seedsmen, - Richmond, Va. ' July 29?2mo. Union Made Shoes. | 1903. | j We extend to our Lexington friends a hearty welcome to inspect onr lire ct SHOES j j I | They have never been equal for the price. Ou (remnant) lots prices greatly | reduced. Spring Stock will begin to come on February loth, CALL AND SEE US BEFORE BUYING. |Ie. p. & f. A. DAVIS, j Nino >xai:x street Columbia, ?. c. i Febrcary 1?>?ly. j! A Specialty. || BLACK LANGSHAN are the best all round Fowls on the market. I have few very fine COCKERELS AND PULLETS for sale at low prices. They are from the purest and best known strain, and have been selected with the greatest care. For further particulars, address. G. M. Hannan, Lexington, S. C. Sinn CAROLIM HMIILi: WORKS 1707 MAIN ST., COLUMBIA, S. C. B MARBLE AND GRANITE Dealers South. "We use the best grade material in manufacturing Monuments and Headstones and guarantee our work and fiinish to be the best. When you hear a man complaining that he can buy so much cheaper from some little fellow who is anxious to sell anything, you can put it down that he will get cheap stock, cheap work, and of course a cheap job. We can compete with any fair dealer in this country, but we cannot say we will sell as cheap as some as we do not care work, IRON s WIRE FENCING, GRAVE LOT COPING, ETC., m 1 TTT _ L _ ^ ^ ? ? lor eaie. wrue 10 us or aee our ME. P. B. EDWARDS, LEXINGTON, S. C. and we will see that you are treated fair.] SOUTH CAROLINA MARBLE WORKS. September 11. 44?tf THE HOME BANK,! MS (INCORPORATED.) ?? W LEXINGTON^ S. G. g | DOES A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS, ? ffi CAPITAL, 830,000. fyl ?3 SAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES FOR RENT. INTEREST PAID ON SAV- gft ly/j INGS DEPOSITS. (It >\tS FIRE PROOF SAFE AND VAULT. BURGLAR INSURANCE. YOUR Mli MS ACCOUNT SOLICITED, W F. W. OSWALD, GEO. BELL TIM MERMAN, ALFRED J. FOX, (It President. Vice President. Cashier. vjU i]$ DIRECTORS: K)1 if) F. W. OSWALD, ALFRED J. FOX, J. E. KAUFMANN. i}\ rjg GEO. BELL TIMMERMAN, E. W. ROBERTSON, H. L. OSWALD. gfo An n' n ^ n n o a n a r> > a r\ i. a a a <t> a r\ a a rw WM. PLATT, DEALER IN Dry Goods, Millinery and Notions, NEARLY OPPOSITE POST OFFICE, COLUMBIA, - - . S. C. MA.IIV STREET. We have received and have placed on our shelves one of the most beautiful as well as the most complete line of SPRING AND SUMMER GOODS ,T" 11 f-mnm 4-V,a mftof mlioKla monil/a/?_ ever shown in the city, inese are an ?u.uuniu guuuj nvw mo turers and are recommended for their stylish and nobby appearance and the beauty of pattern. A full line of Ginghams and dress goods of all descriptions, as well as lovely creations in fashionable spring and summer millinery. Come and see these goods before purobasing. 1 will make it to your interest to do so. October, 9.?3m.