Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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The Cause of Many Stv ' Sudden Deaths, There is a disease prevailing in this country most dangerous because so decep. , Si | n jjjjpJgL tive. Manysudden ^ ^PiCTt deaths are caused ease, pneumonia, 111 l^HTvheart failure or b; j| j ?fcr^ -cw r- apoplexy are often J/v \ \<fi the result of kid/jl J n^sease'. ^ thekidney-poisoned blood -will attack the vital organs, causing catarrh of the bladder, or the kidneys themselves break down and waste away cell by cell. Bladder troubles almost always result * from a derangement-of the kidneys and a cure is obtained quickest by a proper 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 take and is sold by all druggists in fifty-cent and one-dollar "size bottles. You may have a sample Ajpttle of this wonderful new discovery fmd 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. PBOFSSSIO^lTcABDSr D. MARTIN, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW, lexington, s. c Office in Harman Building rear of court house. Will practice in all courts. Special attention to collection of claims. ?m. w. hawes, Attorney and Counselor at Law. new brookland. 8. c. Practice in all Courts. Business solicited. November 1,1905. ? C. Iff. EFIKD. F. E. DBEHEB. Efird & dreker, attorneys at law, lexington c. h.. s. c. Will practice in all tbe Courts. Business solicited. One member of the firm will always be at office, Lexington. 8. C. t *t~~a.frick. J . . attorney at law, chaf1n, s. c. Office: Eotel Marion, 4th Koom, Second Floor. Will practice in all theXlourts Thurmond & timmerman, . attorneys at law, will practice in ALL courts, Kaufmann Bldsr, 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 time. Respectfully, - Jr. WM. THURMOND. G. BELL TIMMERMAN, Albert m. boozer. attorney .at law, COLUMBIA, S. C. I Office: 1s16 Main Srreef, upstairs,- opposite Van Metre's Furniture ^toreEspecial attention givr-n to business entrusted to hitn by hi.> feliow citizens of Lexington county. fleorge r. rembeet, VJ attorney at law. 1221 LAW RANG a, CGL.UM3LA. S. C. | ? . . I will be glad to serve my friends from Lex- j ington County at any time, and am prepared to practice law in all ctate and Federal Courts. i Andrew Crawford. attorney at law. COLUMBIA, S. C. Practices in the State and Federal Courts, and offers his professional services to the citizens a I Lexington County, Law Offices, ( ) Residence, 1529 1209 Washington < > Pendle ton Street. , if. Street. ( ) Office Telephone No. 1372. Residence Telephone No. 1036. ?BOYD EVANS, .LAWYER AND COUNSELLOR. COLUSIBIA, S. C. T\R. P. H. SHEALY, U DENTIST, LEXINGTON, S. C. Office Up Stairs in Roof's Building. Dr. f. c. gilmore" DENTIST. 1510 Main Street, COLUMBIA, S. C. Office Houbs: 9 a. m. to 2 p. m., and from s to 6 d. m. ? mm **** vi a nvs ?t fl I'M. U. HAW DEALER IX ft General | Merchandise, I Corner Main and tiew Street, | Opposite Confederate ? Monument, Lexington, - S. C. esesesesssesesssesesesssa ? A Poor Organ. Dam(s) the bile. That's what your liver does if it's torpid. Then the bile overflows into the blood?poisons jour system, causing sick headache, biliousness, sallow skin, coated tongue, sick stomach, dizziness, faiuring spells, etc. Ramon's treatment of Liver Pills and Tonic Pellets strengthens the liver and makes it do its own work. Prevents and cures these troubles. It aids? doesn't force. Entire treatment t-.'c, Derrick's Drug Store ar.d C. E. Cork y. ( i * | Bowser Has I Dairij Plan It Would Have Been a Great Success but For the Skepticism of His Wife. FORGOT TO FIGURE COST When Confronted With the Expense of Keeping Forty Cows He Gives Up the Project [Copyright, 190G, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.] "TV Iow*thea* ^hat is it?"asked I \ I Mrs. Bowser as she and Mr. | Bowser reached the sitting room shortly after dinner the other evening. ' ' "What is what, dear?" he replied, trying to look surprised. "I want to know what project you have on hand. I can tell by the way you look and act that something ha3 happened today. Are you going to try to make artificial coal, manufacture leather from bark, or what?" "Mrs. Bowser, I am working six days a week, am I not?" "Yes." '"And we are only saving a few dollars a year?" "No; we are not saving much, but the trouble is with your fads. You are always paying out money"? "Stop right there I" he interrupted. "I never had a fad in my life. I never paid out a dollar to experiment with a fad. If you want to discuss matters with me. begin by stating facts." "Well, you work six days a week, and we don't save much money. What# ic fA fnllAwV 40 iV AViiW f ? "I am not growing any younger." "No." "And therefore it's natural that 1 should look about to see how I can "I STAUT OFF WITH FOIiTY COWS." better the situation. I have been looking-for several years, but nothing has turned up until today." "And what is H? I hope you don't think of going into poultry or squabs. I was reading yesterday about a man raising squabs for the market. Does he want to soil out to you?" Resents Kcr Criticism. "Don't begin to speak in sarcasm or you won't get a word out of me. I know nothing about frogs or squabs, but I think 1 have a better thing?far better?than poultry. In fact, I wouldn't exchange it for any gold mine at Cripple Creek. I don't want to seem too enthusiastic, but the facts are that I have struck the opportunity of a lifetint e." "And what is it?"'asked Mrs. Bowser in a whisper. Mr. Bowser didn't reply at once. That would have been beneath his dignity. He smoked away for a cou-. pie of minutes and looked wise and then said: "I propose to sell out as soon as possible and start a dairy farm. I have had the idea in view for some months, but never got down to figures until today. If I had gone into the business ten years ago 1 should have been a millionaire now; There is nothing on the face of this earth so profitable, and I am amazed that every farmer hasn't gone into it." "You?you have got figures, have you?" "Any amount of them. Mrs. Bowser. your husband is not the man to rush blindly Into things without havT ing first figured. I can show you how we can make $10,000 a year as easy as turning a hand over." ""iQUl VfUl ue uice. aiaic case." "Well, I trade this house and lot even up for a farm of 100 acres. That's even up, remember." "Yes." "Then I start off with forty cows. I figure that each cow gives ten quarts of milk a day. That is 400 quarts per day. It will sell to the creamery at 5 cents per quart. Figure that for a year, and you get $12,2S0. Do you want any better incbtoe than $1,000 a month? j We'll knock off the odd figures and say ! $10,000 a year. We not only have that j money coming in as sure as the interest on a government bond, but we are 1 out in the pure air of the country and j living on the top shelf all the time." j "But you have made more figures i than these?" queried Mrs. Bowser, j "What's the use? You get so much i milk per day and sell it for so much. | Its a simple sum in arithmetic." "Let r.s see if it is. You start with forty covrs:'' "Just forty." "I see by the papers that a good cowls worth $40. You will have to pay out the sum of $1,000 to get your drove. Had you figured on that;" Mr. Bowser's jaw dropped, and he turned red. He hadn't. "You figure 0:1 ten quarts of milk per day for each cow. That is summer figuring. If you get seven quarts a day from each in the winter you will be doing well. You must knock off many hundred quarts from your estimate. l"ou must remember, too, that to have new milk cows in the spring some of your cows will be out of the milkiug for weeks. Had you figured on that?" "You are finding fault already!" he growled as he pounded on the table and bristled up. "I might have known that you would do your best to kill a good thing." What It Will Cost. "But I'm not, dear. J only want to understand how you figure. Each cow will consume two and a half tons of hay during the winter. That is 100 tons for all, and at $20 per ton wo have $2,000. You figured on that, didn't you';" Mr. Bowser flushed red and white, but did not answer. "There will be other food needed for the winter if you want the supply of milk kept up, and you can put that down at $200. You must have a team and wagon to start with to deliver your milk at the creamery. The cost will be all of $400. To run the farm and take care of forty cows you must have three men. I don't think you can get them $r less than $30 per month, and you will have to board them. That means $9 per week, besides the wages and board of a hired girl. Then you must feed your team, you know. I suppose you provided for all these things." Mr. Bowser tried to say something in reply, but words failed him. "You speak of tradiDg our place for a farm," continued Mrs. Bowser. "Has the farm got a cow barn on it?" Mr. Bowser got up and walked about. "Probably not. or you would have mentioned it at the start. Well, a good barn for forty cows and a team of horses will cost you at least $2,500. If you are going into figures, you must figure the interest on your capital. If you are going to run a dairy farm, you must figure in what ycur own time is worth. You may have ?alf a dozen calves to sell in the spring, but you may lose two or three cows in the course of the year. If you raise your own hay, corn and oats, you must nave agricultural implements. There will be a constant replacing of things. You will also want a horse and buggy. Do you think there is quite .$10,000 a year in it for us, Mr. Bowser?" Chan ares His Mind. "In what?" he asked as he came to a bait and glared at her. "Why, we were figuring on the profits of a dairy farm, and you said"? "I said nothing?nothing whatever." "But you said"? "Mrs. Bowser. I am no man to refer to any one's misfortunes, but as your husband I feel it my duty to observe that I have seen signs of late that you are not quite right in the head. Don't you think it would- be a good idea to have the family doctor over here this evening to give us an opinion?". "But you came home and said you were going into the dairy business,"she protested. Mr. Bowser looked at her in a pitying way and then passed down the hail. He was boiling over. He had gone into the dairy business to make $10,000 a year and had come out without a gallon of frozen milk to his name. He stood at the gate wondering what he should tear down first when a man came along and inquired for Witherspoou. "Prepare to die, villain!" yelled Mr. Bowser in reply, and the nest minute he was after the frightened man and the two were going up the. street at the rate of thirty miles an hour. It was dark, and a cold wind blew and snowfiakes fluttered down, and as Mrs. Bowser heard the yelling and the scrambling she sighed and mused: "Poor Mr. Bowser! Poor forty cows! Have I always get to stand between him and a good thing?" M. QUAD. Afraid He'd Chance. "Could you guess "how old I am?" said the girl with the crow's feet giving a little giggle. "Why, you're about twenty-four." said the man who thought he ought to be kind to her. "Remember." she said, with more giggles. "I only gave you one guess."? Yonkers Statesman. A Swindle. ? Uncle Cyrus?Say, this glass eye hain't no good. I want my money back. Optician?Xo good? Uncle Cyrus?Hain't wuth a tinker's darn. Can't sec a bit better -with the blame thing than I kin without.?Lealie's Weekly. Kubbin;; It Ixi. j Mrs. Closefist?It's too bad that I, like most women, have no head for figures. Closefist?Well, suppose you had? Mrs. Closeiist?Oh, then I might be i able to tell you what I did with that j dollar yon gave me three weeks ago.? j Cleveland Plain Dealer. The Know It Ail. iM03T agervatin' customer wuz Isickcdomus Erown. ? Who knowcd it ail an' bound to have his say. There wuzn't no theaytcr play thet ever ccme to town Eut Erown he'd git to sco it. night or day. He'd make a p'int to git his seat 'fore any of the rest, An' when the curtain riz upon the play An' all the actors got to work a-doin' of their best He'd snicker in his agervatin' way. An' when the most excitin' part of all wuz gittin' near An' folks wuz sittin' nervous an' perplexed Old Brown he'd whisper loud enough for every one to hear, "I'll bet you I kin tell w'at's comin' next." Thar wuzn't any curin' him. He'd be the same in church Or anywheres he happened fur to be. Fur, like an old poll parrot jest a-settin' on its perch, He'd squawk to all his critics, "Talk is free." Eut when the grip wuz goin' round?last winter wuz a yearIt tackled on to Nick an' took him down. An' then he got religion, fur he thought his end wuz near, An', sure enough, that wuz the end o' Brown. His folks wuz all a-gathered round, an' jest before he died, While Deacon Jones wuz readin' of a text, The sick man smiled, an' "Well. I'm done with this here world." he sighed. "I'll bet you I kin tell w'at's comln' next." ?T. A. Daly in Catholic Standard and Times. Maybe She Is Xot the Only One. Banker's Daughter?The baron loves me. He proposed to me today. Her Friend?Then he lpves you. But do you know whether he loves any one else??Jugend. Opportune. "What are you doing?" harshly demanded the brutal husband, abruptly entering the room. "I'm just going to trim this fortynine cent hat I bought yesterday," replied the trembling wife. "Extravagant woman, you will ruin me with your everlasting bargain hunting!" he exclaimed, enraged, and, seizing the hat, he crumpled it in his hands, trampled it underfoot and, finally flinging it into the corner of the room, strode away. Weeping, the wife stooped to pick up her insulted property, but lier tear stained face was irradiated by an ecstatic rapture as ber eyes fell upon it. "Ob," she exclaimed in delight, "now it is the exact shape of that forty dollar French hat I saw yesterday, and I never could have got it that way myself! All it needs is a couple of blue roses and a. bunch of lavender buttercups."?Lippincott's Magazine. A Puzzler. In a certain town are two brothers who are engaged in the retail coal business. A noted evangelist visited the town and converted the older brother of the firm. For weeks after his conversion the brother who had lately "got religion" endeavored to persuade the other to join the church., One day when the elder brother was making another effort he asked: "Why can't you, Richard, join the church, as I did?" "It's all right for you to be a member of the church." replied Richard, "but if I join who's going to weigh the coal?"?Cleveland Leader. Public Office. "Well, Moses," began the senator as a grinning southern darky was ushered into his presence at Washington, "what brings you here?" "Mars Joe." replied Moses, "I's got 'portant business, sah. I want er office." "You want an office? Why, what can you do?" "Do, Mars Joe? What does everybody do that gets er office? Bless yer heart. Mars Joe, yer don't un'stand olo Moses. I ain't lookin' fer work. sah. I only wants er office."?Philadelphia Ledger. A Mere Babe. "Ah, me!" sighed young Kallow, with a lovelorn glance at the object of his affections. "I was so full of miserr I tossed and turned upon my bed last night and could not sleep." "You don't say!" remarked the heartless girl. "What's the matter with you?teething?"?Catholic Standard and Times. Always After Him. Sandy Pikes?Did you ever follow de horses, pard? Gritty George?No: I always had as much as I could do to keep de horses from following me. Sandy Pike?Race horses? Gritty George?No, saw horses.?Chicago News. He Tried It Once. , "What made your husband's hair turn so gray? He's still a young man. Was it the result of some terrible fright?" "No. lie once tried to have a house built."?Judge. i Ic is a well known, fact that cotton, or any other crop, produced with Yir- jM ; Ss ginia-Caroliaa Fertilizers will bring the highest possible price on the market. go J fix Make healthy, strong, well-developed, early cotton, with full grown bolls on jg| I to the fruit limbs at the base as well as all the vay up to the very top and tip gs ! Hj ends of the branches of the cotton plants, by liberally using ; ; i Virginia-Carolina Fertilizers* 1 This is one of the several ways to increase your yields, g|* a They contain all the materials necessary to supply to your land the ele- gg g ments which have been taken from it by repeated cultivation year after year. j a These fertilizers will greatly '* increase your yields per acre," for they are gw j 9 Ihiixed by capable men who have been making high-grade fertilizers all their IS jg lives. They contain materials in the right proportions to return to your S kj soil the plant-foods that it needs. Accept no substitute from your dealer. ^ Hi g Virginia-Carolina Chemical Co. /|| ^ Richmond^ Va. ^ ^ Atlanta,^* a. ^ Yalaes Yields Per AcmJ^ Above par ???pmj? ?a?wmmjmmm?or-a? cca?i?cttjmow?htmuu ii i ? wcBpaatmMW? DONT FORGET H. A. Successor to Maxwell & Taylor, NEAR POST OFFICE, COLUMBIA, S. C, When you are looking for Furniture. We buy only in Solid Car Load Lots and at the lowest spot cash prices, we therefore, can sell you for less than if we bought in local shipments. Solid Oak Bedroom Suites. Nine Pieces?One Bed, One Bureau, One Washstand, One Centre Table, Four Chairs. One Rocker?all for $17.25. Mo. 7 JBlaek Oak Stove ' with a complete list of Cooking TJtinseis, for $7.50. No. 8 Black Oak, with a complete list of Utinsels, $12.50. Our line is complete. All grades. Prices guaranteed as low as Furniture of the same grade can be bought. Write or phone 4 90 for prices. A. COLUMBIA, S. C. Our stock of Fall and Winter G oods are now ready for inspection, embracing everything in Wash Goods. DOMESTICS, DRESS GOODS AND SILKS of all imaginable shades and patterns, bought to please our ! customers. In Millinery we have a select line of the very latest styles and trimmings. Don't buy your hat until you have seen ours Our notion department is complete with all the new novelties, too numerous to mention here. We want our Lexington friends to call and see what we have. MAKE OUR STOKE HEADQUARTERS. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL, ' 1603 MAIN STREET, COLUMBIA, S. C. I The Palmetto National Bank, ( COLUMBIA, s. c. n United States Government, State, City and County Depository. JB Capital paid in $250,000 00 ? Surplus profits 12,500 00 B Liability of Stockliolders 250,000 00 m Security for depositors $515,500 00 || Interest allowed in Savings Department at 4 per cent, per Annum, Jp Payable Quarterly. ?? United States bonds $100,000 00 ? South Carolina bonds 82,000 00 m OFFICERS. |1 Wilie Jones, President. J. P. Matthews, Cashier. fir J. J. Seibels, First Vice-Pres. W. M. Gibbes, Jr., Ass't. Cashier. wi TttOQ T .\ VT OF? Sm Pfmrl Yif>f>-Prp<5. WFSTOV AvOOOTT A ttnmr^\re H (This is the peopled hank?"of the people, for the people and by the || Loans to small merchants and small farmers as much desired as large M oi'ies. "We want your business, Bank opens every Saturday front Gtct k S o'clock p. in. for accommodation of wage earners. g