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| Potash as Necessary as Rain J * I The quality and quantity of the I a crops depend on a sufficiency of f I Potash I. in the soil. Fertilizers which are I low in Potash will never produce \ I satisfactory results. | Every farmer should be familiar with the proper proportions of ingredients that go to I ' make the best fertilizers for every kind of I crop. We have published a series of books, I I containing the latest researches on this all- B P important subject, which we will send free ftjj if you^ask. Write now while you think of I I GERMAN KALI WORKS | I New York?95 Nassau Street, or i j? Atlanta, Ga.?22% South Broad Street. & PROFESSIONAL CARLS. A z-^r C. V. EFIRD, F. E. DBEHER. Efird & dreher, attorneys at law, lexington c. h.. s. c. Will practice in all the Courts. Business solicited. One member of the firm will always be at office, Lexington, S. C. T h. frick, j . attorney at law, CHAPIN, S. C. Office: Hotel Marion, 4th Boom. Second Floor. Will practice in ail the Courts Thurmond & timmerman, attorneys at law, ' WILL PRACTICE IN ALL COURTS, Kaufmann Bids, LEXINGTON, S.C, W? will be pleased to meet those having legal business to be attended to at our office in the Kaufmann Building at any timeRespectfully, J. Wat. THURMOND. G. BELL TIMMERMAN, Albert m. boozer, attorney at law, COLUMBIA, S. C. Office: 1316 Main Street, upstairs, opposite Yan Metre's Furniture Store; Especial attention given to business entrust*' ed to him by his fellow citizens of Lexington county. W. A. CLARK. WASHINGTON CLARK. qlark & clark, attorneys and counselors, No. 1233 Washington Street, COLUMBIA. S. C. p eorge r. rembert, ?T * mrrAnwv at T \ xv V-* ax xuxn. 1221 law range, columbla, s. c. ^ I will be glad to serve my friends from Lexington County at any time, and am prepared to practice law in all &tate and Federal Courts. Andrew crawford, attorney at law, COLUMBIA, S. Practices in the State and Federal Courts, and offers his professional services to the citizens of Lexington County, Law Offices, ) ( Residence, corner 1200 Law Range > < Pickens and Pendle \ ( ton Streets. * TIT BOYD evans, Yt .lawyer and counsellor. Columbia, S. C. Practices in State, County and City Courts, and in United States Circuit and District Courts in Litigation between private parties or corporations. Dr. p. h. shealy, dentist, lexington, s. c. Office Up Stairs in Roof's Building. tames harman, j dental surgeon, lexington, s. c. (Office in Bear of Court House.) Informs the public thathe will be in his office every Friday for the purpose of doing dental work in all its branches. Dr. e. j. etheredge, surgeon dentist, JbJtt-EiSY 1,l;t/Jfr, O, VJ., Office over J. C. Kinard <fe Co's, Store. Always on hand. Dr. f. c. gilmore, DENTIST. 1510 Main Street, COLUMBIA, S. C. Office Houbs.- 9 a. m. to 2 p. m? !and from 3 to 6 p. m. PARLOR RESTAURANT. 3. DAVID, Proprietor. 1336 MAIN, COLUMBIA, S. C. The only up to date eating house of its kind in the City of Columbia. It is well kept ?clean linen, prompt and polite service. You get what you order and pay only for whar you get. Within easy reach of desirable sleeping apartments. OPEN ALL NIGHT n fk :?1? imp, LiiBiiiiuais, STATIONERY. PAINTS - - OILS - - GLASS. GARDEN SEED?Bulk and Package. THE SICK MAN'S FRIEND. Licensed Druggist and Chemist. KINARD, LEESVILLE, - - S. C. Has Stood The Test 25 Years. The old. original Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic. You know what you are taking. It is iron and quinine in a taste1 ess form. No cure, no pay. 50c. Vanderbilt University. Nashville, Tenn., April 20.?3 p. m.?The main building of Vanderbilt university is on fire and it seems 86 if its destruction will be complete, j \ a The Lexington Dispatch. Wednesday, May 3, 1905. Cotton Growers. What the Southern Cotton Association Stands For. The Southern Cotton Association stands for the South's supremacy agriculturally, commercially and financially. The present effjrt of the Association, looking to the reduction of cotton acreage and use of commercial fertilizer, is merely an inci dent in the great wort wmcn ic was organized to perform. The principal object of the Association is to unite in one grand business organization the Southern farmers, merchant, bankers, cotton manufacturers and all other allied lines of business to develop the vast resources of the South and to maintain the price of oar great staple crop?COTTON, at a fair and profitable figure to the producers and cotton milling interest of the country. To develop Southern, ports, extend the building of cotton mills and bring about closer trade relations between this country and foreign nations, and more especially with the Central and South Ameri can Republics, to seek wider markets for the sale of our cotton and cotton goods, to the end, that consumption may be made to keep pace with the extended cotton production. To organize and perfect a cotton company for the purpose of|*protecting the sale of our cotton and to safeguard it from wide fluctuations that are brought about by speculative influences. To encourage the building and maintaining of a first class system of bonded warehouses, in which cotton can be stored at a minimum cost, or encourage the proper storing of cotton on the farm so that the crop may be marketed in such quan tities as will meet the legitimate demand for consumption. To encourage the better handling of the cotton crop so that it may go to market in the beet possible condition and thereby bring to each grower its maximum value. To gather correct and accurate statistics, bearing upon the production, manufacture and sale of cotton so that the producer will be as well informed upon every phase of the great cotton industry of the world as those who handle the crop after it passes from the hands of the grower. SON ANTAGONISTIC. The Association does not propose, and will not antagonize any legitimate line of business or industry carried on in the South, but on the contrary, its best energies will be directed along the lines of a higher development of agriculture, more extended building of factories, wider development of our commerce and increasing our financial stregth. These are the fundamental underlying principles of the SOUTHERN COTTON ASSOCIATION, and in that work, it earnestly seeks the active cooperation cf the entire agricultural, commercial and financial strength of the South. ORGANIZATION NECESSARY. Organization, of course, is one of the essential features of the Association because'without unity there can be no strength. The organization of the Association throughout the various cotton-producing States and Territories, is patented after the political form of the United States government. The Association, in its head formation, is made up of representatives fron" the 13 States and Territories producing cotton; each state division is composed of a representative delegate from each county or parish; each parish or county organization is composed of three representatives from each civil subdivision and each civil sub division is made up of the units of the people. Thus we have a centralized organization, beginning from among the people at the bottom and working through the counties, or parishes, up through the Btate divisions and forming the parent head?THE SOUTHERN COTTON ASSOCIATION. The strength of the Association is therefore, obtained directly from the people, and its success must depend upon the people, whose interest it seeks to safeguard and protect. It is a movement in which the sympathy, support and active cooperation of every man of business and pro- J fession in the South should be cor- j dially enlisted. EXISTING CONDITIONS For the past fifty years, the South has directed its energies principally in the production of cotton; our people have taken but little interest in devising the proper ways and means for marketing the staple, or in obtaining proper snd correct knowledge of the use to which our cotton has been put and its consumption among ; the nations of the wcrld. We have, therefore, known but little of its value beyond the price offered us by | the people who have come into our | markets to purchase it. COTTON HAS NO COMPETITION. It is now a well established fact that the South hoids a complete monopoly of the cotton crop of the | world, and that no material which can hfi wnnvfin into cloth, can be I used as a competitor againBt American cotton under 14c. per pound. Our cotton has but four competitors ?wool, flax, silk and foreign grown cotton. It is only when American cotton is sold at 14c. per pound* that foreign grown cotton can be profitably manufactured as a competitor, and the price of the staple must advance to 25o. and 30c. per pound to permit woolen goods to be manufactured as a competitor. The limited supply of Bilk and flax places them beyond the realm of competition; hence, we must conclude that the only competitor today .of Amerinan cotton is a SURPLUS of American cotton. The only reason why the price of our cotton has been depreciated below its maximum value in years past and gone, has been due to either a bad system of marketing with i.eckless disregard of its sde, or, to an over production of the staple, and permitting the over pro pucwou 10 Do useu as a uarnmer 10 beat down the price of the staple actually needed for consumption, either through speculative influences, or the combined energies of the exporters and spinning interest of the world. With the knowledge of these facts, it is the imperative duty of the cotton growers, aided by the combined efforts of all the allied business interest in the South, to devise ways and means which will protect the staple from depressing influences which have annually robbed the South from TWO HUNDRED to THREE HUNDRFD MILLIONS OF DOLLARS that should have gone into the pockets oJ oUr people. VALUE OF THE COTTON CR6P. The annual cotton *^crpp pf the South is the most valuable of any agricultural product grown on the face of the globe. Ics annual sales amount in the aggregate for the raw material of more than SIX HUNDRED MILLIONS OF DOLLARS, and, when converted into the finished fabric, will sell for the enormous total of nearly TWO BILLIONS OF DOLLARS. It is due alone to the cotton crop of the South that the balance of the trade is in favor of the United States in its commercial relations with foreign countries. In 1904, the exports of raw cotton amounted to more than ONE MILLION DOLLARS for each of the 365 days. And this THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FIVE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS, which was sent to this country in gold by the foreign spinner, paid for only SIXTYFIVE PER CENT, of the crop produced, leaving the balance, of THIRTY-FIVE PER CENT., to be woven into cioth under the roofs of American mills. (To be continued.) Cures Blood Poison, Cancers, Ulcers. If you have offensive pimples or eruptions, ulcers an any part of the body, aching bones or joints, falling hair, mucous patches, swollen glands, skm itches and burns, sore lips or gums, eating, festering sores, sharp gnaging pains then you suffer from serious blood poison or the beginning of deadly cancer. You may be perl manonHu r?nr?/^ Vw falrinor T^ofonip UJ-UVMHJ VM" W VJ Jb/V/kU U1V Blood Balm (B. B. B.) made especially to cure the worst blood and skin diseases. Heals every sore or ulcer, even deadly cancer, stops all aches and pains and reduces all swelliugs. Botanic Blood Balm cures all malignant blood troubles, such as eczema, scabs and scales, pimples, running sores, carbuncles, scrofula. Druggist, $1.00. To prove it cures, samples of | Blood Balm sent free and prepaid by | writing Blood Balm Co., Atlanta, Ga. I Describe trouble and free r?edical [ advice sent in sealed letter. OPERATION AVOIDED EXPERIENCE OF MISS MERKLEY She Was Told That an Operation Was Inevitable. How She Escaped. It When a physician tells a woman suffering1 with ovarian or womb trouble that an operation is necessary, the very thought of the knife and the operating table strikes terror to her heart, and our hospitals are full of women coining for ovarian or womb operations. There are cases where an operation is the only resource, but when one considers the great number of cases of ovarian and womb trouble cured by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound after physicians have advised operations, no woman should submit to one without first trying1 the Vegetable Compound and writing Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass., for advice, which is free. Miss Margret Merkley of 275 Third Street, Milwaukee, Wis., writes: Dear Mrs. Pinkham " Loss of strength, extreme nervousness shooting pains through the pelvic organs, bearing down pains and cramps compelled me to seek medical advice. The doctor, after making an examination, said I had ovarian trouble and ulceration and advised an operation. To this I strongly objected and decided to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ulceration quickly healed, all the bad symptoms disappeared and I am once more strong, vigorous and well." Ovarian and womb troubles are steadily on the increase among women. If the monthly periods are very painful, or too frequent and excessive?if you have pain or swelling low down in the left side, bearing down pains, leucorrhcea. don't neglect yourself : try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. To Cure a Cough talce Ramon's English Cough Syrup in small dosesduring theday, then sleepatnight. Apine tar balm without morphine. *'oc ~t all dealers. For Sale at Haraian's Bazaar. \ FOR THE TOILET. jb % ? || Sweet Soaps, Castile Soaps, Per- jg fmnery from Hoyt-'s 5c. size k German Cologne to the k 3 Finest Extracts,Toilet 3 9 Powders, Pomade k Hair Oil, Bay k 3 Rum,etc. 3 Sj Combs, Hair |j k Brushes, Shaving k 3 Brushes, Tootli and 3 : Finger Nail Brushes, etc. Sj k See our line of useful Toilet k 2 Sets, suitable for Wedding Pres- 2 P ents, Birthday Presents or Gifts, g ft There are numerous other articles ft |j that will pay you to call and see. j| I HAEMAN'S - BAZAAE. ^ I i ^ Lexington, S. C. ^ r^jsrjtr^r^rArjrjorjrjarAwj^ MURRAY'S IRON MIXTURE. Now is the time to take a spring tonic. By far the best tiling to take is Murray's Iron Mixture. It makes pure blood and gets rid of that tired feeling. At all druggists. 50c Bottle. THE MURRAY DRUG CO, COLUMBIA, S. C. Fishing Tackle. All Fisherman should remember that the headquarters for fishing tackle is at the Bazaar. You can find any kind of fishing tackle you may want in stock all the time. Such as: HOOKS. LINES. BOBS, TROT LINES, NETS. CANES, ETC. THE EAZAilL J. B. Reidliuger, BAKER, COLUMBIA, - S. C. Fresh Bread, Plain and Fancy Cakes, Pies. Cream Puffs, Buns, Rusks, Rolls, in fact everything that is good to eat usually found in a first- class bakery. Mail Orders Given Prompt and Careful attention. To Cure Constipation take just a mite of Liver Food before retiring each night. Ramon's Tonic Regulator supplies it in a palatable form of powder, tea or tonic. 25c, ana money back if not satisfied. For Sale at Harman's Bazaar. They are Open for inspection!! ?>av, it is up to you whether you would save any where from SI.75 to S2.00 on a Spring Suit. We have in stock the greatest variety of spring suits and Gent's Furnishings to he seen in Columbia. Every Pattern is the latest Fad of Fashion. Greys, Tans, Blues end Browns! Prices ranging from S2.75 to S18.00 and every article a bargain. 85.98 buys a swell thing in two piece suits, so don't forget to call on FRANK'S - JOBBING - HOUSE. 1427 MAIN ST., COLUMBIA, S. C., while in the city. Thanking you for past patronage, respectfully Frank's JoMingHouse. To the People of Lexington! Whon vnn v.pprl shoes for hfifl vv work ill the ; i. the field, on the road and for all round hard work?you certainly do want shoes that will give you service, besides feel easy on your feet. Our shoes for hard wear cannot be surpassed. There is everv element in them that is sub^ ! stantial for wear and comfort. We select the leather from top to toe that are used in these I shoes, therefore we candidly say there are no better shoes made for heavv out door service. ! j We also have a full line of Shoes and Rubbers for cold weather?for home and outdoor wear. | When you want shoes for dress-up, remember we can supply your wants to your entire satisfaction. Whenever your need shoes for Men, Women j and Children we believe we can serve you best?your shoe wants will be carefully attended to at this store. Thanking you very kindly for your patronage and awaiting the pleasure of seeing you soon at our store, we remain, vours verv trulv, THOMAS A. BOYNE, (OPPOSITE POST OFFICE.) 1736 Main Street, Columbia, S. C. |;i THE BEST IN j| j Printing and the AIM Arts, BOOKS, ! STATION EKY, < FEINTING, |: AND BINDING. In the Masonic Temple. j COLUMBIA, - - - - 8. C. Buy Your fflHK SPRING SHOPS COLUMBIA, S. C Nothing out Solid Leather Shoes Sold and Every Pair G-uaranteed. Th ey are here and of course are beauties because they are Keith Konquerors in High and Low Cuts. Blacks and Tar A.I1 Leathers, Union Made. You are respectfully v - ? -> - ^ -1 :i_ i. ? J invited to call when in the c..y anh inspect tnese gooos. v^uuuvy gutu-*uw;eu. Cohen's Shoe Store, (636 MAIN ST.. CO! UMBIA. S. C.