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DO YOU GET UP
WITH A UAME BACK?
Kidney irouble Makes You Miserable.
Almost everybody who reads the newspapers
is sure to know of the wonderful 1
n t. cures made by Dr. j
'?-?* j. Kilmer's Swamp|
Root, the great kid1*:
ne}"> liver and bladIjTmLW
j. der remedy.
Li V M It is the great med>y
/ 1 fjrl ical triumph of the
?. ) !i nineteenth century; \
u Vip2! > < .r- ll (jit discovered after years j
Gj fc- pof scientific research
{j * bv Dr. Kilmer, the
eminent Kiuney anu
bladder specialist, and is wonderfully
successful in promptly curing lame back,
uric acid, catarrh of the bladder 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 will be
% found just the remedy you need. It has
been tested in so many ways, in hospital
work and in private practice, and has
proved so successful in every case that a
special arrangement has been made by
which all readers of this paper, who have
not already tried it, may have a sample
bottle sent free by mail, also a book telling
more about Swamp-Root, and how to
findout if youhave kidney or bladder trouble.
When writing mention reading this
generous offer in this paper and send your
address to Dr. Kilmer
dollar size bottles are 3ozne of swamp-Root,
sold by all good druggists. Don't make
any mistake, but remember the name,
Swamp-Root. Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root,
and the address, Binghamton, N. Y., on.
every bottle.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
C. V. EFIRD. F. E. DliEHEB.
Efird & dreher,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
LEXINGriXJN C H. S. C.
Will oractiee in all the Courts. Business
solicited. One member of the firm will always
be at office, Lexington, S. C.
t h. frick,
tl. attorney at law,
CHAPIN, ?. C.
Office: Hotel Marion, 4th Koom. Second
Floor. Will practice in all the Courts
Thurmond & timmerman,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
; . WILL PRACTICE IN ALL COURTS,
Kanfmann Bldg, LEXINGTON, S. C,
W? will be pleased to meet those having legal
busioess to be attended to at our office
in the Kanfmann Building at any time.
- Respectfully,
J. Wk. THURMOND.
G. BELL- TIMMERMAN,
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Albert m. boozer,
attorney at law,
COLUMBIA, 8. a .
Omcs: 1316 Main Street, upstairs, opposite
.Van Metre's Furniture Store.
Especial attention given to business entrusted
to him by his fellow citizens of Lexington
eoudty.
w. A. CLARK.
WASHINGTON CLARK.
qlark & clark,
attorneys and counselors,
No. 1388 Washington Street,
COLUMBIA - - - S. C.
George r. rembert,
attorney at law.
1221 law range, columbia, s. c.
i will be glad to serve my friends from Lexington
County at any time, and an prepared
to practice law in all btate 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, 1529
1209 Washington < > Pendle ton Street.
Street. ( )
Office Telephone No. 1872.
Residence Telephone No. 1036.
?boyd EVANS,
.LAWYER AND COUNSELLOR.
COLOIBIA, S. C.
Dr. p. h. shealy,
DENTIST,
LEXINGTON, S. C.
Office Up Stairs in Roof's Building.
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TAMES HARMAN,
tl * DENTAL SURGEON,
LEXINGTON, S. C.
(Office in Rear of Court House.)
Informs the public tnathe will b? in his office
every Friday for the parpose of doing dentalwork
in all its branches.
T\R. E. J. ETHEREDGE,
1/ SURGEON DENTIST,
LEESYTLLE, S, C.,
Office over J. C. Kinard & Co's, Store. Always
on hand.
Dr. f. c. gilmore,
DENTIST.
1510 Main Street, COLUMBIA, S. C.
Office Houp.s: 9 a. m. to 2 p. in., land from
3 to 6 p. m.
*0%^ ^0R? C. J. 0LIVER0S,
v^HKIEYE, EAPTTHRQAT.NOSE
AND LUN3S.
Guarantee Fit of Office and Residence.
Glasses. 1424 and 1423 Marion St.,
) March 15?ly. COLUMBIA, S. C.
Drugs, Chemicals,
STATIONERY.
? PAINTS - - OILS - - GLASS.
GARDEN SEED?Bulk and Package.
THE SICK MAN'S FRIEND.
Licensed Druggist and Chemist.
KINARD,
LEESVILLE, - . S. C.
Bowser Is
A Hustler
He Gets the House Cleaning
Done In Two Hours While
His Wife Is Away.
PARLOR IS HIS UNDUiiNLi
Regains Consciousness Only to Find
Doctor, Wife, Cat and Domestic
at His Side.
[Copyright, 1905. by R. B. McClure.]
" ? SUPPOSE you won't be bome beI
fore the regular hour?"' quesj[
tioned Mrs. Bowser at breakfast
the other morning.
"And what if I'm not?"' he asked.
"I was going to assist the church society
at a children's festival, and I
may not be home until nearly G. I
can give the girl orders about dinner,
you know.?
"I don't see why you shouldn't go,"
he said after thinking it over. "I heard
you say the other day that you'd be
busy house cleaning next week."
"Yes. I can't put it off any longer.
I'm two or three weeks behind all the
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other women arounu uere ass it i*.
"Will it take a whole week?"
"It will take four days anyhow. I
wish there was some place where you
could go and board for that time."
"Perhaps I may hunt a place."
"Well, I'll go along to the church this
afternoon, and I'll try to be home as
soon as you are."
Nothing more was said on the subject,
and when the mail was finished
MR. BOWSER SMELL KD CAMPHOR AND
OPENED HIS EYES.
Mr. Bowser took bis departure. At
noon Mrs. Bowser dressed, and at 1
o'clock she started for the church, seven
blocks away. Mr. Bowser, unknown
to her, was standing on a corner half
a block away, and she had no soonerleft
the house than he entered it. The
cook heard him as he opened the door
and came up from the kitchen to see
what was wrong.
"It's all right, Jane," said Mr. Bowser.
"Business was a little slack at the
office, and so I came home to clean
house this afternoon and save Mrs.
Bowser the trouble. I may want a
little of your help."
"But I'm busy wid the ironing, sir."
"Oh, well. I can manage it alone.
When we lived in the west they used
to call me the lightning house cleaner,
and I think I can still hold up my reputation.
You go down "Slid attend to
your work, and I'll rush things through
alone."
"Mrs. Bowser was saying that it
would take four days, sir."
"That's all she or any other woman
knows about it. If 1 can't clean this
house from top to bottom in two hours,,
then I'll never do any talking again."
"It's not me business, sir, but I
don't think the missus will like it,"
still persisted the girl.
"Nonsense! It will be all over with
before she gets home. Get me a broom
and a feather duster and a dust rag
while I change my clothes."
"If there is to be explosions around
here"?
"Get on with you! What is there to
explode? You may hear a bit of a,
racket up here, but it will be only me
- > -fl.-. -4. .1 ,1
drugging uitr siepiauuci aiuuuu.
Ten minutes later Mr. Bowser was
at work. So far as his experience had
gone, taking up carpets was the principal
thing about house cleaning. He
began in the family bedroom. The
dresser and chairs were rushed into
the storeroom, the pictures whirled off
their hocks, and the bedstead came
down with a crash when it came. While
the pieces were being picked up the
cook made her appearance and asked:
"Is it the roof that is falling in, sir?''
"Certainly not. It was only the bedstead
fell down. You go right back to
your ironing and don't be alarmed."
"But if you should break your leg
you'll call down to me through the
tube, and you'll also tell the missus
that I didn't encourage you?"
"Of course?of course. See me take
this carpet up."
lie got bis fingers under the carpet
at one end of the room and gave a
heave, and in about a minute the covering
was bundled up and ready to
throw out of a back window.
"Mrs. Bowser would have spent a
whole day prying the tacks out," he explained.
with a bland smite, "while I
have the carpet up before you could
say Jack Robinson. Oet me that broom
and I'll sweep the floor. I gave my
self just eleven minutes to do the job. |
and I did it in ten.''
The girl went hack to her irons, and
Mr. Bowser gave the backs of the pictures
a rub or two, swept up the floor,
set up the bedstead anew and in thirty j
minutes from the beginning was looking
around saying to himself:
"There?I've got this room all done.
It'll be cooler and healthier with the
carpet up, and so I won't mind that.
Four days to clean house! I wonder
what Mrs. Bowser could have been
thinking of!"
There were three bedrooms upstairs,
aud an hour and a half finished them.
In taking down the curtains from the j
windows of the last room Mr. Bowser
and tlie stepladder went over 111 company,
and he was sitting up -and rub- j
bing the back of his kea<Yfc md seeing
stars when the cook came running up
to ask:
"Will yez give me one minute's
warning before I'm to be scattered to
all eternity?" i
"Nobody's going to eternity," he replied
as he tried to smile.
"Then what was that crash, like a
thousand oxen falling off a haystack?
How many times, may I ask, can yez
fall like that and not bring the house
down wid yez?"
"Didn't I tell you not to mind a few
crashes?" hotly replied Mr. Bowser.
"I'm running this thing, and if you get
hurt I'm good to pay all damages. Get
down to your work."
Cooky reluctantly descended the
stairs, and five minutes later the lightning
house cleaner descended to the
parlor. There was a grin of anticipation
on his face as he looked around
him. Here was real house cleaning
and no make believe. All the damage
he had done upstairs was to break a
pane of glas^- knock the corner off a
picture frame and lose two casters
fr3m the dresser, but here!
He began on the front parlor. Down
came the curtains and portieres, the
chairs and sofa went a-skittering, the
pictures came off the walls with a
whew, and before his back could begin
to ache all the rugs were out of the
back window. It was truly a lightning
transformation scene. He had called
for a feather ruster and a dust rag,
and after devoting live minutes to rest
he mounted the stepladder and began
to dust. He wanted to leave nothing
for Mrs. Bowser's critical eye to find
fault with. He had fanned along the
ceiling a few feet with the duster when
he overbalanced himself as he reached.
He knew he was going, but he was
helpless, except to yell. He uttered
one shriek?a shriek that lifted cooky
below him a foot high as she ironed
away?and then there came the sound
of a thunderous crash.
"Tell me, is it slaughtered ye are?"
demanded Jane from the foot of the
stairs.
No answer.
"Is the missus to come borne and
find yese dead and buried?'
Not a leaf stirred.
*******
Mrs. Bowser had been at the church
for about two hoifrs when a lady living
in the neighborhood of her house arrived
to say:
"So you've got Mr. Bowser at the
house cleaning, have you?"
"Bless ye*i. no!"
"But just as I left my house he was
flinging rugs and things out of the
window. Perhaps he's moving."
Mrs. Bowser started for home at
once with a great fear in her heart,v
and she was still half a block away
when she saw the cook at the gate.
"It's lyin' a crushed strawberry he is,
mum," was Jane's greeting. "Don't
lay it to me, for I did my best to make
hiin behave himself."
"How did it happen?"
"He comes home as soon as you
leaves and starts in to play thunder
and lightning with the house cleaning..
There was one crash that only broke
his back and sivin ribs, but whin the
next one came he didn't have time to
say go.odby to you."
Mr. Bowser smelled camphor and
opened his eyes. An hour had passed.
Mrs. Bowser, the cook, the cat aDd the
family doctor were gathered around
him.
"He lives!" said the cook, as she saw
his eyes open.
"He is coming to!" whispered Mrs.
Bowser.
/IA/?tAT* *<rTT\A
V/JL 4X\X\X\i\M uv^tvi. AAiN.
only way to kill a jackass is to let the
whole range of Catskill mountains fall
on him at once."
Then Mr. Bowser closed his eyes
again and seemed to sleep, but down
in his heart he knew that he would
demand and secure a terrible revenge
before morning dawned again.
M. QUAD.
She Knew Him.
Mr. Klosefyst? Humph I Copper is
a own again two ponus.
I\Irs. K.?Well. I'm awfnl sorrry, but
I simply can't make this old hat do.?
Brooklyn Life.
Out For No. 2.
Hicks?Of course every married woman
believes that the proper age for
matrimony is the age at which she
married.
Wicks?Unless she happens to be a
widow, and then she hastens to declare
that she was entirely too young when
she married the first time.?Catholic
Standard and Times.
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IN' STRICT_GOSFIDEICE.
Women Obtain Mrs. Pinkham's
Advice and Help.
She Has Guided Thousands to Health.?
How L.ydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
Cured Sirs. Fred Seydel.
^ It, ^is ^ 3.gv^a,t
pathy for her
sick sisters, and
above all, a woman who has had
more experience in treating female ills
than any living person.
Over one hundred thousand cases of
female diseases come before Mrs. Pinkham
every year, some personally,
others by mail, and this has been going
on for twenty years, day after day.
Surely women are wise in seeking
advice from a woman o?,such experience,
especially when it is absolutely
free.
Mrs. Pinkham never violates the confidence
of women, and every testimonial
letter published is done so with
the written consent or request of the
writer, in order that other sick women
may be benefited as they have been.
Mrs. Fred Sevdel, of 412 North 54th
Street, West Philadelphia, Pa., writes:
TViar Mrs "Pinlrham??
'' Over a year ago I wrote you a letter asking
advice, as I had female ills and could not
carry a child to maturity. I received your
kind letter of instructions and followed your
advice. I am not only a well woman in consequence,
but have a beautiful baby girl. I
wish every suffering woman in the land would
write you for advice, as you have done so
much for me."
Just as surely as Mrs. Seydel was
cured, will Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound cure every
woman suffering from any form of
female ills.
No other medicine in all the world
has such a record of cures of female'
troubles as has Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound. Therefore no
prudent woman will accept any substitute
which a druggist may offer.
If you are sick, write Mrs. Pinkham,
Lynn, Mass., for. special advice. It is
free and always helpfuL
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fumery from Hoyt's 5c. size ^
K German Cologne to the ^
S Finest Extracts,Toilet |j!
Powders, Pomade ?|
S Hair Oil, Bay |
M Rum,etc. jj
s Combs, Hair ^
K Brushes, Shaving k
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^ Finger Nail Brushes, etc. ^
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B Sets, suitable for Wedding Pres- B
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1 HABMAN'S - BAZAAR. 1
2 Lexington, S. C. ^
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PARLOR RESTAURANT.
B. DAVID, Proprietor.
1336 MAIN, COLUMBIA, S. C.
The only up to date eating house of its
kind in the City of Columbia. It is w*ll kepi
?clean linen, prompt and pcbte service,
You get-what ynn order and pay only fox
wharyouget. Within easy reeeh of desirable
sleeping aparrmenls.
OPEN ALL NIGHT
J. B. Beidlinger,
JE5 A* JS 3R- 9
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 Giyen 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, tc-v or tonic,
25c, and money back if not satisfied.
For Sale at Hamian's Bazaar
Cheap Rates.
Southern Railway announces rate
of one first class fare plus 25 cents
for the round trip, (minimum rale 5C
cents), to Calhoun ana Cnerry'd Cro68'
ing, S. C. on account of the State
Farmers' Institute, Clemeon College,
n /"t ? .oil -t nn r m: x _
D. KJ. August O IX, JL^UO. iictbis IL
be sold August G, 7, 8, witb final
limit August ]3:>b, 19U5, from all
points in South Caroline, including
Augusta., For full information consult
Ticket Agent, or.
It. W. Hunt,
Division Patsenger Agent,
Charleston, S. C.
Judge Purdy called an extra session
of court at Sumter to try Jim
Taylor, colored, charged with attempted
?esault upon a young white
woman some dajs 8go. He was
convicted aod sentenced to thirty
years in the penitentiary.
T. X. L. cures rheumatism.
They are Open for Inspection!!
Say, it is up to you whether you would save anywhere
from SI.75 to $2.00 on a Spring Suit. We
have in stock the greatest variety of spring suits
and Gent's Furnishings to be seen in Columbia.
Every Pattern is the latest Fad of Fashion.
Greys, Jans, Blues and Browns!
-Ices ranging from $2.75 to $18.00 and every
article a bargain. $5.98 buys a swell thing in two
piece suits, so don't forget to call on
mi i xjtticx tnnntvrn
ruAimn - jUDBiiw - nuim
1427 MAIN ST., COLUMBIA, S. C.,
while iii the city. Tlianking you for past patronage, respectfully
Frank's MMngHouse.
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When you need shoes for heavy work?in the
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 every element in them that is substantial
for wear and comfort. We select the
leather from top to toe that are used in these
shoes, therefore we candidly say there are no i
better shoes made for heavy out door service. \
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 sat- * ;
;sfaction.
Whenever your need shoes for Men, Women \
and Children we be) ieve 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 i
remain, yours very truly,
THOMAS A. BOYNE,
(0PP08ITE POST OFFICE.)
, 1736 Main Street, Columbia, S. C.
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!and (j
SOCIAL STATIONERY j;j
on Anv Afternoon, the early day of Summer
J at any o'clock ji
!j in the Masonic Temple, Columbia, S. C.
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Buy |Your
; SPRING SHOES
Nothing but Solid Leather Shoes Sold and
Every Pair Guaranteed.
They are here and of course are beauties, because they are Keith Konqierors in High
and Low Cuts. J1 irks and Tans, All Leathers, Union Made. Yon ar<i respectfully
invited to cal. wuen in the city and inspect theie goods. Quality guaranteed. "
Cohen's Shoe Store,
I 636 MAIN ST.. COl UMBIA. S. C.