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The Cause of Many Sudden Deaths. There is a disease prevailing in this country most dangerous because so decep?Jiff ri |OJ tive. Manysudden STrtJLk deaths are caused ease, pneumonia, heart failure or ;$ 1 |^v_Pn\ ^ T~ apoplexy are often 11 if I \ neJ disease. If j| ji \ \j kidney trouble is ^^yjr / allowed to advance tack the vital organs, causing catarrh of the bladder, or the kidneys themselves break down and waste away cell by cell. 1 Bladder troubles almost always result from a derangement of the kidneys and n rare is obtained nuiekest bv a nroner treatment of the kidneys. If you are feeling badly you can make no mistake by | taking Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, the | ? great kidney, liver and bladder remedy. { It corrects inability to hold urine and scalding pain in passing it, and overcomes that unpleasant necessity of being compelled to go often through the day, and to get up many times during the night. The mild and the extraordinary effect of Swamp-Root is soon realized. It stands the highest for its wonderful cures, of.the most distressing cases. SWamp-Root is pleasant to t$ke and is sold by all druggists in fifty-cent and - \ % tWie-dollar size bottles. You may have* a sample bottle of this wonderful new discovery and a book that tells all about it, both sent free by mail. Address, Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y. When, writing/mention reading this generous ^ offer in this paper. Don't make any mistake, but remember the name, SwampRoot, Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, and the address, Binghamton, N. Y.* on every ^ bottle. PBOFSSSZO^ALCAEDS. D. KARTEN,ATTORNEY * AND COUNSELOR AT LAW, V / LEXINGTON, S. C Office in Harman Building rear of court house. Will practice in all courts. Special attention to collection of claims. ?M7 W. HA WES, Attorney and Counselor at Law. NEW BROOKLAND. S. C. ' Practice in all Courts. Business solicited. November 1,1905. 0. *. EFIBD. F. E. DEEHEB. I71FIRD & DREHER, I Hi ATTORNEYS AT LAW, LEXINGTON C. H. 8. C. Will,practice in all the Courts.- Business solicited. One member of the firm will alwa^beatoffice,Lexington.8. CJ'-jjp." ppTnr .* . ATTORNEY AT LAW, CHAPIN, 8. C. Officer Hotel Marion, 4th Koom. Second Ploor. Will practice in all the Courts fflHURMOND & TIMMERMAN, 1 ATTORNEYS AT LAW, WELL PRACTICE IN ALL COURTS, , Kaufmann Bldg. LEXINGTON, S. C, We wHI be pleased to meet those having le. galbusioesstobe attended to at our office tn the Kaufman a Building at any time. Respectfully,. fc Wsc. THURMOND. G. BELL TIMMERMAN, LBERT M. BOOZER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, COLUMBIA, 8. 0. Office: iffi Main Street, upstairs, opposite Van Metre's Furniture StoreEspecial attention given to business entrusted to him fey iris fellow citizens of Lexington county. /GEORGE R. REMBERT, XX * ATTORNEY AT LAW; 1221 LAW RANGE, COLUMBIA 8 C. I will fee nSad to serve my friends from Lex jj* ington Comity at anytime, and an prepared to practice law in all Mate and Federal Oonrts. Andrew crawford, ATTORNEY AT law. COLUMBIA S. C. ? Practices in the State aDd Federal Courts, and offers Ms professional services to the citizens r { Lexington County, Law Offices, C ) Residence, 1529 1209 Washington < V Pendle ton Street. Street. ( ) Office Telephone No. 1372. Residence Telephone No. 1086. WBOYD EVANS, .lawyer and counsellor. Columbia, S. C.DR. P. H. SHEALY, DENTIST, LEXINGTON, S. C. Office Up Stairs in Roof's Building:. Dr. ft^tgilmore, 7~ DENTIST. 1510 Main Street, COLUMBI^., S. C. OfficeHoubs.*9a. ra. to 2 p. m., and from. 3 to 6 p. re. | dealer in | Maniimont. i by in VIIMK* v?l I J ^ jg Lexington, * - S. C. g i ^ A Poor Organ. Dam(s) the bile. That's what your liver does if it's torpid. Then the >ile overflows into the blood?poisons your system, causing sick headache, biliousness, sallow skin, coated tongue, sick stomach, dizziness, fainting spells, etc. Ramon's treatment of Liver Pills and | Tonic Pellets strengthens the liver and : makes it do its own work. Presents and cures these troubles. It aids? doesn't force. Entire treatment 25c, Derrick's Drug Store and C. E. Corley. t s * ? I FICTION and j FRICTION By Margaret Muzzey | J | Copyright, 1906, by Homer Spraguo 5 #WU%%%?U%%%WUUU^i%U%WO The most popular novel and "biggest seller" of the year was "Aunt Mary Moffat," written by an unknown author, whose name and fame had suddenly gone abroad throughout the land. Young Dr. Brandon, just returned from Europe, hastened to congratulate his successful friend, and to his amazement hcjeund the writer in the depths of desDuir. "John Hastings, what is the matter? Arc you not satisfied with being the most admired and discussed man of the hour? You ought to be ecstatic, elated, delirious with joy, and you look as if you had swallowed a bad oyster." "Why should I rejoice in success when the only reason I tried for it is gone?" John groaned. "What do you mean?" "I was engaged to Ethel Ransom, you remember, and only waiting for , money to support her"? "Some people consider that an insignificant detail." "Unfortunately Ethel's father did not, but now my fortune is assured, she refuses to marry me altogether." "May I ask why?" "She declares that I have drawn the character of Aunt Mary Moffat from her grandmother and held her up to ridicule before everybody." *Slie is crazy!" Brandon exclaimed. There are plenty of others," pointing to a pile of letters. "All those are from people who recognize themselves or one of their relatives among the characters of my book. Listen to this: "Dear^ Mr. Hastings?I was so pleased to find you made me the heroine of your book. I told the editor of our village paper, and he put a piece in the Huckleberry Junction Post about it. Please send me your autograph. "There are more heroines, a number of heroes, and you remember the man I called the 'patriarchal parson?the wond? nr#> fnll of srrnnrtfnthors pxactlv ~ O */ like him, it appears. As for the Aunt Marys, their name is legiOD?there are at least three in every village in the states." Brandon helped himself from the pile and read aloud: "Dear Hastings?Perceiving, as I cannot fail to do so. the depiction of my late lamentable aunt in the title character of your book, I suggest that it would be a thankful act for you to put. a monument on her grave. Her folks can't afford it. It would be a good ad. for the book too." Brandon laughed heartily. "What fun it would be to get these people together! Suppose tfe g* to my house at Knowlbridge and give a party for them. Perhaps if Ethel sx-ea the numerous other claimants she will give up her idea about grandma,-' John demurred, but was finally persuaded by Brandon, who assumed tk? entire responsibility, and sent the following letter to each of the originals: Mr. John Hastings requests the honor of your presence October the sixteenth at severs, o'clock to meet the ladies and gentlemen from whom characters in his "Aunt Mary Moffat" were drawn. "I have scon your capricious charmer and prevailed upon her to come to our party," said Brandon, u few days later. "She hesitated, but she will be there?the unmistakable glitter of cu riosity was in her azure orbs." First among the author's guests to arrive on the auspicious 10th was an alleged "patriarchal parson," personally conducted by a nephew named Samuel Bangs. The heroine was represented by a married woman (whose husband came also}, a young widow and a sentimental maiden. Two clerks, a bank cashier and a commercial traveler appeared for the hero, and four Aunt Marys in various stages of senility came attended try enterprising relatives. "I wish we had never invited them," said John nervously. "We will have a row as 'sure as sparks ?y upward.' " "Leave fit to your uncle," said Brandon. "I wouldn't miss it ?or a golden corkscrew." "Suppose they find one another out before supper." "They can't break loose and wax confidential bet ween now and 7 o'clock." Brandon announced the guests as they entered the drawing room. Sam Bangs came last, his face radiant with smiles and soap; placing one hand 0:1 his spine, the other on his heart, he made a real dancing school bow and said: "This is the proudest moment of my life." John thanked him and Brandon said he was lucky to keep his heart where he could lay his hand on it so readily. Ethel arrived and insisted ou going with the housekeeper to the butler'u pantry, where she stayed, looking through the door. Brandon, opposite John at table, forced the conversation to bet general, steering it off the book, until fcie dessert appeared, then John rose. "Ladies and geutlemen," lie said, "I have been fortunate enough to bringtogether a number of people represented in my book. We have the hero, Thomas Presley: the heroine. Jennie Jenkins; the patriarchal parson, and Aunt Man- Moffat herself. Will those I have named rise while I drink their good health?" "Here is to Aunt Mary Moffat and all her friends, relatives and acquaintances!" said John, and glasses were drained amid great applause. Then, in order to identify each character, he suggested that all should be seated except the hero and heroine, and four Thomas Presleys and three Jenny Jenkinses were left staring, first j % j In perplexity, then in rage, at one another. "There must be a misunderstanding," said John. "Surely there can be but one hero or heroiue of a single book." The throe women talked at once, the heroes muttered bittcrlj-, the personal conductors exchanged hasty confidences; John cast a glance toward the door, but Brandon laid a detaining hand on his shoulder. "My friends," he said, "it is plain that Mr. Hastings has drawn composite characters, taking from each the quality for which you are best known. Is one clown in a three ringed circus less a clowu because there are two others?" Nothing could have been more ingeniously offeusive, and smoldering ir?pa-? J l\nwof f rvrfh T'Vl a riutuuu luretueuc-u iu uuui iui uj. widow stood by John to protect hi in. Brandon tried again. "We have all seen 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' with two Uncle Toms, a pair of Topsies and a brace of Evas, and none of them uifTercth from another in glory." Here the butler announced that the 'doctor was wanted across the street. "For heaven's sake, don't go!" whispered John. "Talk to them yourself; make 'em laugh." 1 Before John could utter a word Sam Bangs rose in wrath. "This is a nice job you Lave put up on us. If these ain't the real folks in the book how do we know you are the real author?" Approaching footsteps turned attention toward the door, through which, marched a lively gentleman, who saluted and addressed the company. "I am rejoiced, delighted, enchanted to see you all," he bawled, "the creatures of my imagination?the characters of my book. I?the famous?the clever?the inimitable?the greatest of authors, greet you." "I knew it," Sam exclaimed. "Then you really wrote 'Aunt Mary Moffat,' and he is an impostor?' pointing to John. ? ?!ii. I,; jlo peruiutm wiiu mui ju iivu luiu.utes! Certainly I did?I wrote all the books in all the libraries?I made the world, and the people are my children." "it's genius," said the maiden. "It's ruru," said the widow. "It's mania." said Brandon, entering, followed by a man who, stepping behind the elated ^gentleman, took him by the elbows and walked him out of the house. "That is a paretic patient of mine, who overheard me speak of this party to his daughter today, and stole away from his attendant to come." "I don't believe he is a bit crazier than you are, with your composite clowns, your three ringed Topsies and your piratic patients," said Sum. "There is no time to explain?I have terrible news," said Brandon. "One of the servants has developed malignant sihallpox, and you must all leave the house as soon as possible to avoid infection. There is a train to New York in half an hour." Sam made a bolt for the door, followed . by all but the widow, who refused to le^tve John. "You needn't wait?I will attend to him," said Ethel, confronting her suddenly. "Who are you?" demanded the astonished widow.* "I am the girl who is to marry Mr. Hastings." "Are you sure you are the original gir! or only one of several?" asked the widow sarcastically. "But perhaps you are a composite. Withont saying goodby, she marched majestically out of the room. "Heaven forgive that lie about the smallpox," said Brandon, mopping his brow. "Nothing less would have saved the Toof over our heads." Breaking the Chain. In 1SS1 a bill was introduced in the Massachusetts senaie which provided for a. bounty of $5 .for the killing of "a lynx or wlidcatT says the Boston Herald. When the bill was under discussion Senator Rice of Essex, who had a habit of asking the committees to explain some parts .of bills they had reported, said he would like to ask the committee who reported the bill whether the term "lynx or wildcat" referred to two different species of animals or whether it was the s.-Line kind of animal called by different names. Senator Rockwell of I'ittsfield, who never let an opportunity to say a good thing pass, arose and said, "In the absence of the chairman of the committee who reported tins bill I would say for the | information of the honorable senator from Essex, who. having always lived in the eastern pail of the state, is not probably aware that for years there has been a chain of wildcats roaming ever the Berkshire hills, that the object of this bill is to take some of the links out of that chain." Bank Note Paper. The nine kinds of notes printed by the Bank of England are all on thin, white, crisp paper. The ink used is o nov/1 dvr niwtnrntirtn ISAUV.1Y, U Ai?U U, Vi* J |/? "^ v. to be made from naphtha smoke. A peculiarity of the English notes is that the engraving is simple and old fashioned, fn contrast to the notes of other countries, which are most elaborately engraved by complicated machinery. : the designs being difficult of imita- ! tion by hand and the lathes and ruling engines being so costly as to discourage ] counterfeiters. The English paper is made by a private concern, as is that j in use in the United States, the pulp of the latter being a mixture of linen, cotton and silk, the silk threads coming into prominence after the printing. The French bank note paper is of similar texture, hair bring used with the pulp instead of silk threads. Over 50.000 notes are issued by the Bank of England daily of an average value of ?20. Why Refer to Doctors [I Because we make medicines 1 for them. We tell them all I about Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, I ~~ .u ^u ? :? c~_ ganu nicy picitnut n tui coughs, colds, bronchitis, consumption. They trust it. Then you can afford to trust it. Ask^your own doctor. The best kind of a testimonial? "Sold for over sixty years." BRHMNMWaHMHWMMMM JP Made by J. C. Ayor Co., Lowell, Mass. V* Also manufacturers of iO > SARSAPARILLA. \f 1 hpvq p'lls. ja. uvff ^ i:a?3 vigor. I We have no gecrets! We publish H the formtfcas of all our medicines. Ayer's Pills greatly aid the Cherry Pectoral in breaking up a cold. New Light on Dairying. In one of the model schools in our town a first grade teacher was having a "lesson on the cow." She was trying to impress on the young minds the various uses cf the milk. Butter, cheese, etc., had been disposed^ of, and she wanted some bright genius to tell how the farmer fed the surplus^}ilk to the pigs. Leading up to this she asked this question: "Now, children, after the farmer has made all the butter and cheese he needs and uses what milk he wants for his family, what does he do with the milk that still remains?" Dead silence followed for a moment, and then one little hand waved frantically. The teacher smiled and said, "Well, James." "He pours it back into the cow!" piped James.?Woman's Home Companion. Troubles of nil Amateur. "I thought you had gone to raising bees," said the man from the city. "I don't see any sign of them around here." "I had half a dozen colonies of the finest bees I could get." answered the suburbanite, "and a whole library of literature on bee raising, but' they swarmed one day and while I was looking through my books to find out what was the-proper thing to do when bees swarmed the blamed things flew away and I've never seen 'em since." ?Chicago Tribune. SnsilicioUK. "Mother," says the doubting wife, "I do not believe Henry is all that ho should be." "What is wrong with him now, Agnes? A short time ago you were complaining that he stayed out too late of nights. Is he staying out later than ever?"' "No. He spends every evening at home now. and really that looks to ir.e as though he had something on h?; conscience." A Double Come Down. Train])?Pity a poor man, miss, 'oo was once 'igh hup in the world, but 'as bin brought down to where I are now. "Go away. I'm in the same position myself, f was at the top of the house when yon knocked."?Sketch. A Distinction. "Why do you insist on annoying the neighbors instead of playing in your own yard?" asked the irritable man. "Because." answered the precocious youngster, "when mother tells on un father's likely to punish us, but when the neighbors tell on us he just says, 'Boys will be boys/ "?Washington Star. in. 111^ IJI? \ J^urst "Is she :m athletic girl V" "I should say so! Why, whenever I call on her I always take the precaution of taking the cigars cut of ruy vest pocket and placing 'em on the mantelpiece."? Yonkers Statesman. The Keiinlt. He wrote a noble poem Designed to bring renown. "With common voice the critics Advised to "Boil it down." He cooked it to a sonnet. Again, with lordly frown, The arbiters of letters Repeated, "Boil it down." It simmered to a quatrain. He missed the laurel crown; Still in his ears re-echoed The mandate. "Boil it down.*' But when again he boiled it, Complying with the hint, The only word remaining Was scorched too much to print. ?McLandburgh Wilson in New York Times. DONT FORGET H. J*. TAYLOR) Successor to Maxwell & Taylor, NEAR POST OFFICE, COLUMBIA, S. C, When you are looking for Furniture. We buy onllf in Solid Gar Load Lots and at the lowest spot cash prices, we AT. 11 r 1 i.1 1 T J 1 i 1 uiereiure, uau sen you ior less man 11 we DOUgni in local SIlipments. 9 Solid Oak Bedroom Suites. Nine Pieces?One Bed, One Bureau, One Washstand, One Centre Table, Four Chairs. One Rocker?all for $17.25. No. 7 Black Oak Stove with a complete list of Cooking TJtinsels, for $7.50. . No. 8 Black Oak, with a complete list of TJtinsels, $12.50. Our line is complete. All grades. Prices guaranteed as low as Furniture of the same grade can be bought Write or phone 490 for prices. he a. tayuor, COLU31BIA, S. C. rxjrmiture7 *. H. 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We want our Lexington friends to call and see what we have. MAKE OUR STORE HEADQUARTERS. U A If AII LI A ii. a. vuunu, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL, 1603 MAIN STREET, COLUMBIA, S. C. I The Palmetto National Bank, I COLUMBIA, s. c. ? United States Government, State, City and Connty Depository. 1" Capital paid in $250,000 00 m Surplus profits 12,500 00 B Liability of Stockholders 250,000 00 K Security for depositors $515,500 00 ? I interest allowed in Savings Department at 4 per cent, per Annum, S Payable Quarterly. m United States liouds $100,000 00 w South Carolina bonds 82,000 00 B OFFICERS. B Wilif. Jones, President. J. P. Matthews, Cashier. M J. J. Seibels, First Vice-Pres. W. M. Gibbes, Jr., Ass't. Cashier, w Thos. Taylor, Second Vice-Pres. Weston & Aycook, Attorneys. K This is the people's bank?"of the people, for the people and by the g Loans to small merehantsflnd small farmorc ?j -- *? I- ^*"v?^uffliuuunuOTijruttti large ones. 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