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Often The Kidneys Are Weakened by Over-Work. Unhealthy Kidneys Make Impure Blood. It used to be considered that only urinary and bladder troubles were to be .. . . traced to the kidneys, but now modern jj science proves that nearly all diseases NumTtl have their beginning ^ t^e <l^SOr^er 0i these most important The kidneys filter and purify the blood? Therefore, when your kidneys are weak or out of order, you can understand how quickly your entire body is affected and bow every organ seems to iaii to ao its duty, n If you are sick or " feel badly,'* begin taking the great kidney remedy, Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, because as soon as your kidneys are well they will help all the other organs to health. A trial wiH convince anyone. If you are sick you can make no mistake by first doctoring your kidneys. The mild and the extraordinary effect of Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, the great kidney remedy, is soon realized. It. f&i'. stands the highest for its wonderful cures f,:.'. I of the most- distressing cases, and is sold on its merits by all fT-#7** druggists in fifty icent and one-dollar size BKSjHjjtlBi fflfejilEB bottles. You mav ' have a sample bottle Homeof8wamp>soot. f; by mail free, also a pamphlet telling you v?r- how to find out if you have kidney or bladder trouble. Mention this paper when writing to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y. Don't make any mistake, bat remember the name, Swamp-Root, Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, and the address. Binsrhamton. N. Y.. on every bottle, j t PSOyggSIOSTAL OAEDS. D. MARTEN", ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW, LEXINGTON, S. 0. Office in Hannan Building rear of court house. Will practice in all courts. Special attention to collection of claims. ?M. W. HA WES, Attorney and Counselor, at Law. NEW BROOBLLAND. S. C. Practice in all Courts. Business solicited. November 1,1906. C. K. EFIRD. F. E. DKEHEB. EFIRD & DREHER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, LEXINGTON C. H., S. C. Will oractiee in all the Courts. Business solicited. One member of the firm will always be at office, Lexington, 8. C. Jh. frick. attorney at law, CHAPIN, S. 0, Office: Hotel Marion, 4th Boom, Second . Floor. Will practice in all the Courts. Thurmond & timmerman, attorneys at law, WILL PRACTICE IN ALL COURTS, Kaufmann Bide. LEXINGTON, 8,0, We will be pleased to meet those having lend business to be attended to at onr office In the Kaufmann Building at any time. Respectfully, - Wm. THURMOND. G. BELL TIMMERMAN. .ji lbert m. boozer, a attorney ay law, . columbia, 8. 0. Office: 1816 Main Street, upstairs, opposite Van JLtre'e Furniture Store. 1 Espeolal attention given to business entrusted to him by his fellow citizens of Lexington county. . George. r? rembert, ATTORNEY AT LAW. 1221 LAW RANGE, COLUMBIA. S. C I will be glad to serve my friends^rom Lexington County at any time, and a-i prepared to practice law in &U fctate and Federal Courts. Andrew crawford, attorney at law, columbia, 8. c. Practices in the State aDd Federal Courts, ??/* nffara Vi<?: irrnfa?mi"nnftl HerviceS to the citizenscJf Lexington County, Law Offices, { ) Residence, 1539 1309 Washington < > Pendle ton Street. Street. ( ) Office Telephone No. 1373. Residence Telephone No. 1036. WBOYD EVANS, lawyer and counsellor. Columbia, S. C. Dr. p. h. she alt, . DENTIST, LEXINGTON, S. C. Office Up Stairs in Roof's Building. Dr. f. o. gilmore, DENTIST. 1510 Main Street, COLUMBIA, S. C. Office Houbs.* 9 a. m. to 2 p. m., and from 3 to 6 d. m. in. a HARMANf g DEALER IN t 1 General 1 | Merchandise, j i Corner Main and New Street, m f Opposite Confederate * # Monument, i ? Lexington, * - S. C. J A Poor Organ. Dam (s) the bile. That's what your liver does if it's torpid. Then the "tile overflows into the Wood?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. Prevents and cores these troubles. It aids? doesn't force. Entire treatment 25c, Derrick's Drug Store and C. E. Corley. BOWSER KODAK He Does Not Score Much of a Success With it. ilES OUT AFTER SUBJECTS. Encounters Three, Who Prove to Be Belligerent?His New Fad Attended With Difficulties, and He Finally Has It Out With Mrs. B. [Copyright, 1907, by Homer Sprague.] VV lieil Air. Duwsei V-'ume uumc u. evenings since with a bulging package under his arm and a glad smile on his face, Mrs. Bowser, of course, had a natural curiosity to know what he had purchased. He would not give her any satisfaction about it until after dinner, and then he asked: "My dear, has it ever struck you that I had the instincts of an artist about me?" "No, I can't say that it has," she honestly ansYvered. "That's because your mind has been on bargain sales. If there is a sale of Ill a cat's head where the cork ought to be. women's forty cent stockings at 28 cents a pair, you never fail to observe the advertisement." "Do you think you have the instincts spoken of?" "Think! I know I have. I have known it for years. One can't deceive himself about such things. There isn't the slightest question in my mind but that I was born for a great artist." "Was that why you were going to paint the front fence blue and the gate red this spring?" Could Not Understand Him. Mr. Bowser was walking around the sitting room with his hands ^crossed behind his back. At the words his face got red. and he stopped short and gave Mrs. Bowser a look that would have swept all the towels off the clothesUna nn n rrflfih riflv and followed it b.V saying: "How could I expect that a mind like yours could*1 understand one like mine? You can sit down to a dish of pork and beans and yum-yum over it, but you'd stand by a hollyhock the whole afternoon and never think it was any different from a cornstalk." "Well, dear, let's not dispute," replied Mrs. Bowser after a moment. "You have said that your grandfather was as artist, and perhaps his mantle has fallen on your shoulders. Are you going to try to paint a landscape?" It took Mr. Bowser five minutes to get over his injury, and he was still sulky over it when he said: "No, I'm not, but I've bought a kodak and propose to take a few pictures this summer. Any objections to that: Got any more sneers ready?" "None whatever. I think it a good thing, and I believe you will make a success of it. I will learn how to operate it, and when you are at the office 1 ? "Not much you won't! It's something not to be fooled with. You'd use it just as you would a coal hod. I shall do the artist work for this family." Unwrapped a Camera. He cut the strings of the package and unwrapped a fine kodak and explained that he had paid only $40 for it because he had once served on a coroner's jury with the man who sold it. It would have been $50 to any one else. "Wouldn't one for $5 have done just as well?" queried Mrs. Bowser after looking the instrument over. "I mean wouldn't it have been just as well to get a cheap one until you were sure about the artistic instincts?" "Not by a durned sight! A cheap kodak may do for a scrub person, but I want the best. So you still doubt the instincts? You hear me. Mrs. Bowser, when I tell you that there is more of the born artist in my little finger than there is in all your re1oHa?CJ frtl* f an cfan at?(l f Iatio Ka aI laiiv/uo L\j L icu ^ciiciaiiuuo Enough, however. I am now going out into the back yard to take a few flashlight pictures. You and the cook can hold one of your heart to heart talks and wonder if I'm not crazy." Mr. Bowser had taken the picture of t CJtt walking on the fence when the neighbors got on to him. The fathers and mothers stopped at curiosity, but the l>oys went further. They rained bottles and cans into the Bowser yard, and one missile struck the kodaker on the head and drove him inside the house. In the kitchen he tried to get the cook to pose for a "study" he was going to call "Industry," but she flew the coop at once. Cook Took No Chanoes. "It may be a kodak or it may be an infernal machine," she protested, "and I'm not going to take any chances. I had an aunt who posed in front of one of those things once, and all of a sudden there was a fizz-bang, and ail they found of her was one rib and a scream of terror." When Mr. Bowser passed through the house Mrs. Bowser asked where he was going. lie replied that he would take a little wander around the streets to catch some character studies. He did not have to go far to find them. On the corner two blocks down stood three old trauips waiting to strike some pedestrian for lodgings money. They represented one of the types he was after. Before he had reached them he had decided to label their pictures "AmViitinn " "Perseverance" and "Integri ty" respectively. "Boys," he began, "I'm an artist, and this is a kodak. Have you any objections to my taking a flashlight picture of the group?" "If you will come down $2 apiece all around," answered Ambition. "Nonsense! You ought to be proud to be taken for nothing." "Oh, we had, and the police wanting I us! It's $2 or nothing." "Then you'll get together, and if I can put the police on I'll do it." That was an unfortunate remark for Mr. Bowser. One of the three grabbed his hat, another gave him a cuff, and the third made a grab and just missed his nose as they ran away. Mr. Bowser looked around for a statue of Liberty to tear down; but, not finding any handy, he cooled off after a time and went his bareheaded way. He had thought to return home after another headpiece, hut ue suuuemy lemcur bered that great artists always went around the streets bareheaded and thus got a name for eccentricity. Three blocks farther along he came upon a short, squat woman carrying a bundle of kindlings on lier shoulder and talking to herself about the high price of diamonds. She was the type he want ed for "Hope On, Hope Ever," and he accosted her with: "Madam, can I speak with you a moment?" "Can yon speak with me?" she repeated as she stood and looked at him. "You can, sir, but let me tell you that if you utter one single word that an unborn babe oughtn't to hear I'll be the death of you. I'm a lone woman, sir. I'm a lone woman"? "Yes, yes, but all I want is to take a picture of you. I'm an artist, you know." "I know nothing of the kind. You may have come from the zoo for all I know. A picture of me! Never! No true lady will allow a man to take her picture and be showing it around in saloons. ?ir, you pass on." Rebuffed by a Woman. "But, ma'am, you misapprehend the situation. I am making some studies from life. I am taking pictures of cats, dogs, tramps and"? "And I'm to go along with cats and dogs and tramps, am I? Sir, you are a villain! If I was a man, sir, I'd proceed to mop you all over the street *? n 10/1-1- Tr-lm 1c r?flrrvin?? lUi. msuuuit; a. invij n uv . ^ ,, ?a home a bundle of kindlings to her starving family. Take that, you old baldhead!" And she gave Mr. Bowser a tremendous kick on the knee and turned her back on him to pursue her way. lie arrived home in a limping condition, and when asked to explain he said that he had fallen over a barrel of sand on the sidewalk. His wife didn't press the matter, and the next morning he took his only proof down to a protographer to be developed. The proof came back by mail a day later. Mrs. Bowser opened the letter and looked at it and then saved it to hand to him when he came home. The proof showed a beer bottle sitting on the fence, with a cat's head where the cork ought to be. "Woman, what dees this mean?" demanded Mr. Bowser as he turned pale and his chin trembled. "It's the flashlight picture you took the other night." I "Never! Never in all this world!" j "But here is the letter from the de- | veloper saying that the thing is unique J and asking if the rest of the cat is in the bottle." Mr. Bowser walked to the closet where the kodak was kept on a shelf, and, reaching it down, he raised it aloft in both hands and dashed it to the floor with a blood curdling "Ha!" | and then turned to Mrs. Bowser and said: I "It is early in the evening yet. We ! can telephone to our respective lawyers to come over, and we can doubtless arrange about the divorce and ali mony so that you can leave for your mothers on the first train in the morn- ; ing. This Is too, too much. You have ! reached the dead line at last." M. QUAD. | A Reminder. Actor (as the violent storm dashes the fruit from the treesp-One can almost imagine that he is on the stage.? Meggendort'er Blatter. Punishment. Head Inquisitor?You were the chauffeur, I believe, who was continually 1_J-.II tl_ 1- 4- 4-1, ~ leiinijc vin; muuivu euxiie uui ui mc icoi of your machine. Late Arrival?Yes, sir. "Well, go and swallow a cup of boiling cylinder oil every ten minutes until I can think of some punishment to fit your case."?New York Life. WHEN COMP'NY COMES. Once Mr. Robson come to visit us, En mamma says, "Now we won't make a | fuss [ Like you was comp'ny, but I'm most afraid You'll git no dinner 'less'n I help the maid." En I said, "Mamma, what's a maid?" but mamma, she Just hurried out en didn't answer me. En, dinner time, the spoons was just as shiny! En we et off the plates that's made in j Chiny, Like it was Sunday. En Blossom, she says, "Oo! There's olives en there's pickled peaches, too; ! Oo, goody!" En I says: "There's lemonade. Out in the kitchen. Papa, what's a maid?" But papa he pertended like that he Was busy, en he didn't answer me. En we et up the soup that Annie brought. En Mr. Robson made a weeny spot Right on the cloth, en I says, "Sloppy slop!" Like papa says to me 'f'ever I drop Things on the table. En pa says, "My dear!" ' s But didn't say it lovin'. Sounded queer j En most like things you hadn't ought to say. En Blossom says: "We got ice cream today. The man Just brought it. I heard mamma phone When she was in the libr'y all alone." En I says: "Mamma, is there macaroons? En why ha3 Mr. Robson got throe spoons To his place?two that auntie sent To mc en Bios? En this one I got's bent!" En then he laughed, en so I wasn't 'fraid Of him no more, en ast him, "What's a maid?" En mamma spoke up quick en says: "My dear. I never saw you talk en act so queer. You know it's Annie! Now do keep your seat En don't 3'ou say another word, but eat!" En Blossom says: "Don't eat too much, bccuz There's best things for dessert that ever wuz. There's fruit en nuts en funny lemonade!" En papa said that children once was made To 'have themselves, but Mr. Robson smiled En said he only wished he had a child Like us. En I said, "Well, why ain't you got One then?" En Jus' then Annie brought The icc cream en dessert, en it was nice. En me en Blossom had another slice. En Annie brought the funny lemonade T/* ?-i T r<o 4 4 A nn?A O J.I1 UU Wlo. x aaj o. j \J*.I a d> maid! En Mr. Robson knows j-ou are. because We all heard mamma say it twicet you vtfas." En Mr. Robson went away, en then Annie was nothin' but a girl again. ?Edmund Vance Cooke in W Oman's Home Companion. Truth at the Well! The Confused Gentleman?It's norra bit o' use goin' on like that, Maria. You may drown me if you liksh, but I never hadda drop?nothin'.?Sketch. A Remittance. A southern lawyer tells of a judge in Arkansas who had several "tiffs" with a lawyer retained by a woman who had instituted a breach of promise suit in the court presided over by the judge in question. After each exchange of repartee between his honor and the imprudent counsel, the judge would say: "Clerk, just enter another fine of $10 against Mr. Mitchell for contempt of court." When this sort of thing had proceeded further than counsel wished, he addressed his honor in this wise: "If your honor please, I am a good citizen and as such intend to obey the orders of the honorable court in this as in all other instances. Now, your honor, it so happens that I have not about me the sum of $30, for which I have been mulcted for contempt. Therefore I shall be compelled to borrow such sum from some friend, and I see no one present whose friendship I have enjoyed so much as your honor's. So I I make no hesitation in approaching j your honor for a loan to square the fines assessed against me." With just the faintest smile about his lips, his honor looked first at counsel and then at the clerk. "Clerk." said he at last "remit Mr. Mitchell's fines. The state is better able than I to lose $30."?Harper's Weekly. That Hungry Feeling. "I put iny feelings into this picture," said the poor but proud artist. "That probably accounts for it," said the critic. "Accounts for what?" queried the artist. "The fact that the sky in the background looks like a scrambled egg," | rejoined the critic.?Detroit Tribune.. Not a Difficult Matter. j The Doctor?What your wife needs is more physical exercise. Homer?But. doctor, I can't induce her to go outside the house. > The Doctor?Oh, yes, you can. Mark all the bargain advertisements in the paper and give her $50.?Pittsburg Post. . . . . ' f * rv- ,* DONT FORGET JBE* J*L. TJBLYXiORt Successor to Maxwell & Taylor, NEAK TOST 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. No. 7 Black Oak Stove with a complete list of Cooking XJtinsels, for $7.50. No. 8 Black Oak, with a complete list of XJtinsels, $12.50. 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