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2Cized Pickles. A $150,000 fire occurred in Decatur, Ala, recently. The Meetze murder still remains shrouded in mystery. Gen Dick now wears Mark Hanna's toga, ae Senator from Ohio. The President h** appointed Julia M. Merrit to be postmaster at Walhalla. The great home medicine, Horehound, MulJein and Tar, cures that cough and cold. Murray Drug Co. The average girl changes her mind several times before she changes her name. The man with a full stomach is verv BDt to think that all mankind is prosperous. ? The man who goes to the bad never thinks of providing himself with a return ticket Greenville is experiencing no little inconvenience on account of a kerosine famine. Greenwood county will lead off in the campaign this year with seventyfive candidates. The devil doe9 not have to waste any time securing hold of a heart that is greedy for goid. Safety pins are peculiarly American The Uoited States uses 144,000,000 of them each year. Attacking the Christian faith of the aged is as bad as kicking the crutches from beneath a cripple. The appropriations made at the recent session of the legislature * - * amounts to someinmg over a ujuuuu dollars. Unole Sam is satisfied with the title to the Panama canal, and is ready to plank down the purchase money. "Where did the late Henry B. Plant, the multi- millionaire live?" is a question that is of interest to three States. Once in a while a man tells Satan to get behind him, hoping that Satan's push will provide him with an excuse. The number of ants in a nest varies from 12,000 to 93,694'. These figures are from a recent count of five nests. The Maryland legislature is discussing the "Jim Crow" law, which reminds us that the negro, like John Brown's soul, is marching on. Miss Pearl Niedenthal, aged sixteen, committed suicide in Baltimore by.swallowing carbolic acid because she was scolded by her father. Foley's Kidney Care makes the kidneys and bladder right. Contains nothing irjnrious. Sold by The Kaufmann Drug Co. Hugh Jones, of SharoD, Pa., who was in the Youngetown, Ohio, hospital with a broken neck, has been discharged and pronounced cured. The house of a negro woman near Liuren9 was blown up with dynamite recently by unknown parties. The occupants escaped without injury. It now transpires that the franchise law, which was passed by the recent legislature, is inopperative this year 02 account of a blunder of that body Several Georgia farmers near Barnesville have sold iheir next crop of cotton, in lots of 100 to 200 baies, at prices ranging from 11 to 12^ cents. A case of small pox is reported from E jgefield and as a consequence, Mr. Terrell, of the JohnBon Monitor, is scared nearly out of his spring suit. Ramon's Liver Pills and Tonic Pellets?a complete, pleasant, scientific treatment for constipation and biliousness. 25 doses, two nedicines 25o. The Pope has issued a pronunciamento forbidding women to sing in choir of the Catholic church and ' there is now trouble in the camp for the old bachelor at Rome. And now comes another law, the terms of which are so uncertain that the Attorney General has been asked for an opinion. The law referred to - is what is known as the "telephone bill," and its provisions are so conflicting that not even a "Philadelphia Lawyer" can tell the meaning of the author of it. When will the General Assembly learn to make haste slowlj? 0 There are a great many hungry hearted women who wouid attend a baby sale if babies were ever offered for sale, because there are a great many wives who love children and have been told by physicians that they can never hope to nurse a child of their own. Some of these women who have used Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription for the cure of womanly ills have been made happy mothers as a result of the cure of womanly disease and the building up of the general health. Doctor Pierce's Favorite Prescription makes weak women strong and sick women well. It establishes regularity, dries weakening drains, heals inflarnma* < - -_J r tion ana Ulceration anu cures iciuaie weakness. ?I wrote to you some time ago to get information about my case." says Mrs. Mary Lee Flanary, of Dryaea, Va. "I was troubled with female weakness and pains. Received answer from you. advising me to take Doctor Pierce's Favorite Prescription and ' Golden Medical Discovery.' I took two bottles of ' Favorite Pre cription' and found it did me good. I had been married four years and had no children; now I can say that our house is blessed with a little baby boy, born July ioth, by the help of God and your medicine. I praise your medicine highly. ? You can publish this letter if you wish." Free. Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Medical Adviser is sent free on receipt of stamps to pay expense of mailing only. Send 21 one-cent stamps for the book in paper covers, or 31 stamps for the clothbound volume. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. In is reported from Moscow aDd St. Petersburg t^at Jewish soldiers are deserting in great numbers from the Russian army. Six were caught and shot. A Chinese hospital has been established in New York where Chinese patients are treated according to the methods followed in their own country. If horehound, Mullein and Tar fails to relieve that cough, cold, or even pneumonia, we will retuna your money. Any druggist will do this Murray Drug Co. The reason why Mr. Bryan failed to discover a Cleveland boom during his Southern trip was probably because he was too busy looking for his own boom. The practicability of the wireless telegraph is beiDg tested by the war department. The other day the warship Texas, while over a hundred miles from land was caught by "the wave sound." Tannopoline is guaranteed to relieve blind or bleediDg piles and will cure where no other remedy like it will or can do so. Murray Drug Co. G. W. Aderhald, of Canton, Ohio, visits his father, Mike Aderhald, at Tallapoosa, Ga , after they had been separated for forty-two years, not having heard from each other. The eoldier boys of Bennettsville wanted to make Hon. John L. McLaurin their captain but the former Senator declined with thanks, but promised to drill them. La grippe coughs yield quickly to the wonderful curative qualities of Foley's Honey and Tar. There is nothing else "just as good." Sold by The Kaufmann Drug Co. The tobacco planters in Eastern South Carolina are disgusted with their last year's experience with the weed, and will probably not plant much this year. A burnt child dreads fire. A torpedo or a stick of dynamite was thrown under the rear of the residence of Robert Spitzer, at Birmingham, Ala., and the explosion, which was deafening, almost destroyed the house. Liver spots have spoiled many pretty complexions, and nothing so completely removes them as Ramon's m *r> i < r * *i < i * ionic .Regulator, j ust a mite 01 tnis pleasant vegetable powder on retiring paints the bloom of health onthe cheeks. Large tin box 25c. Two of the four State constables who were recently convicted in Charleston on a charge of assault and battery with intent to kill, were given sixty dayb in jail or a fine of Si00 each. The other two got thirty days or $50. Pending an appeal to the Supreme court their sentences have been suspended. The constables made the alleged assualt upon a blind tiger while in the discharge of their duty. Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use In time. Sold by druggists. Haa the millennium dawned, or is the world coming to an end. Strange things are happening. An cfficer holder in Barnwell county has published his intention not to stand for re election. What is the matter with Barnwell's office holders? If troubled with weak digestion belching or sour stomach, use Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets and you will get quick relief. Fjr sale by The Kaufmann Drug Co. A carload of dynamite exploded at JacksoD, Utah, 011 the Southern Pacific, eighty five miles from Ogd^n. Between twenty and twentj-five persons were killed outright and about thirty injured, many women and children being among the number. "Why are you leaving?" asked the star boarder. "I'm afraid the landlady has designs on me?thinks she'w going to get me to marry her daughter or something. At dinner last night she gave me the tenderloin instead of the tough end of !h^ steak Tragedy Averted. "Just ia the Dick of time our little boy was saved" writes Mrs. W. Watkins of Pleasant City, Ohio, "Pneu monia bad played sad havoc with bira and a terrible cough set in besides Doctors treated him, but he grew worse every day. At length we tried Dr. King's New 'Discovery for Consumption, and our darling was saved He's now sound, and well " Everybody ought to know it's the only surp cure for Coughs, Colds and all Lung diseases. Guaranteed by The Kaufmann Drug Co, druggist Prcie 50c and SI 00. Trial bottles free. Private banking institutions, rs well as those under government and State control, must make quarterly statements of their condition, by publication in a newspaper. The crime of assault with intent to ravish is punished by hard labor for 30 years. 19 the punishment commensurate with the crime? In six'y years the annual per capita consumption of whiskey has gradually decreased from two and one-half to one and one-quarter gallons. In forty years the consumption of beer has increased from less than two to more than seventeen gallons per capita. Working Over Time Eight hour laws are ignored by those tireless, little workers?Dr. King's New Life Pills. Millions are always at work, night and day, curing Indigestion, Biliousness, Constipation, Sick Headache and all Stomach, Liver and Bowel troubles. Easy, pleasant, safe, sure. Only 25c at The Kaufmann Drug Co's, drug store. Chauncey Depew tells this story, and some persons believe it is really his own: "One day I met a soldier who had been wounded in the face. He was a Union maD, and I asked him in- which battle he had been wounded. "In the last battle of Bull Run, sir," he replied. "But how could you get hit in the face at Bull Run?" I asked. "Well, sir," a ' i _ l.x j said me man, nan apoiogeucaiiy. "after I had run a mile or two I got careless and looked back." The petrified man that was dug up in the neighborhood of Asheville, N. C, and Fold to a company for $3,500, now turn3 out to be a neat bit of modeling in Portland cement; but still it is not thought that this unfortunate affair will seriously depress the gold brick market. The Bink of Greenwood has hid its officers and clerks bonded in one of the strongest surety companies in America in the sum of ?25,000 for the honest and faithful discharge of their duties. Gives Health, Vigor and Tone. Herbine is a boon for sufferers from aneamia. By its us? the bl- ud is quickly regenerated and the color becomes normal. The droopiDg strength is revived. The laugnar is diminished. Health, vigor and tone predominate. New life and happy activitv results. Mrs. Belle H. Shir^l. Middlesborough, Ills., writer: 41 have been troubled with liver complaint and poor blood, and have found nothing to benefit me like Herbine. I hope never to be without it. I have wished that I had known of it in mv bnaband's lifetime." 50c. Sold by The Kaufmann Drug Co. SEWING MACHINES! Wheeler & Wilson Mo. '3. E4LI SEf RiKG Marvelously Ligm huutiing an": Noisles', (a No. 100 spool eoitrru thread lor ? belt will rnn it). Ore thirn 1'aster; one third easier than any shuttle machine. irave about ONE DAY IN THREE. A GPEvT FWORITE WITH DRESS MAK 'RS. AND BECOMING MORE POPULAR Al>L THE TIME xmm fiir m, mnnvES. REPAIRING A SPECIALTY. WORK j GUARANTEED. ATTACHMENTS, SHUTTLES, ETC. Iu bringing M idlines to b? rep-tired it is ouly neces>?try to br.ng the head?Leave tLfc table at home, unless u needs r irg too ~ 1900 ~ Wash-rs and Wringers. j The mo^' perfect Washer ever I invented. I cm eell them at my | store for less than they will cost }ou j ordered direct, from the factory. Write fof circulars and prices. J. 231. 1*01 MAIN ST.. COLUMBIA, S. C April 1. 19)3 3rn | Alfred J. Fox, | I ____?| | | Life and Fire 1! ? ??? j | Insurance and I Real Estate Agent, 1 Lexington, S. C | Only First Class Companies Represented. Mv companies are popular, strong and reliahle. No one can give your i business better attention; no one can j give you better protection; no one can igive you better rates. Prompt and careful attention given to buying and selling Ileal Estate, | both town and country properties, i Correspondence respectfulysolicited, j Money to Roan. TT/-E ARE PREPARED TO NEGOTIvY ate loans promptly iD sums of $300 and upward on improved tanning lands in I Lexington county. Long time and easy terms. No commissions. Borrower pays actual expenses of preparation oi papers. THOMAS & GIBBES, Columbia, S. C. November 1, 1903 6mo. II ' t? II II '-0^ | :"^'V': II J. P. ABLE, ft DEALER IN *^7^ 1 inTfiSsj 1 , ^.fc -?^p, .4^. CLOTHING .44 f f- STAPLE AM) FAMV GROCERIES, M 'j||| HARDWARE, * '$&. i tiv \\\\ wnnnnwtnp fit I K MUUUL.l tMUL) L 1LI) W LEESY1LLE, S. C. W^WM. PLATT, DEALER IN .1 Dry Goods, Millinery and Notions, NBAE'^Y opposite post office, ! COLUMBIA. - - . S. C. MAIN STREET. j We have received and have placed on onr shelves one of the most beautiful as well as the most complete line of SPRING AND SUMMER GOODS. ever shown in the city. These are all standard goods from the most reliable manufacturers and are recommended for their stylish and nobby appearance and the beauty of pavtern. A full line of Ginghams and dre*s goods ot all descriptions, as well as lovely creations in fashionable spring and summer millinery.i Come and see these goods beiore purchasing. I will make it to your interest to do so. October, 9 ?3m DOR FALL AND WINTER SHOES > ? f i n i ttt i i if; row ready mr onr Lexington rnenas to inspect. ?e snow mat we nave I just the kind they want. We were very careful in haviDg this season's ccods made '1 key have SOLID INNER and OUTER SOLES and GENUINE j LEATHER COUNTER;. They can't help from giving good wear. j PRICES REASONABLE.] E. P. & F. A. DAVIS, 1710 MAIN STREET, COLUMBIA, - S. C. ' | YOUNG'S 1 . | DRY GOODS | | and | | NOTIONS. ? Dross Goods and Dress Trimmings. Ladies Ribbed jra gftg Underwear, Hosiery. Gloves, Handkerchiefs, Riblions. Lace. Corsets' Embroidery. A big line of all gBP m wool Blankets. Some rare bargains in Comforts. M ?MEN'S FURNISHING GOODS? m fife! This department of our business receives our most " careful attention and we are sure we can show you ^ goods in this line equal to any ever shown. u We are not equalled in our line of Men's Shirts, Collars, Cuffs and Ties, Suspenders and Hosiery, Gloves and | XighrjMx^ g ^ ^ ? ? | Underwear. | 1 ?0? N We carry a full line of Umbrellas. Trunks?Trunks? ^ Trunks. We invite you to call on us while in the city. I ntr. -A.. Touira, | , 1603 Main Street, Lever's Old Stand, !0 if COLUMBIA, - - S. C. $ 1