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Pttmhi -iTar~ t BBS " 1 A SAD PICTURE. Bill Afp Cal l Attention to the Decadence of the FARMERS OF NEW ENOL \ND. lit- Write* Ahoiit a Hook. Which All Should IComl, K*|ti>'-lally Our Yoiiiiu Mimi. A 1>(n)(I hotter. Last night I rend to iny family porlions of a long article by a preacher describing the sad condition of a people lie Iras recently visited. Out of one hundred and sixty-eight towns in I lw. k'tnln 1%^ a.i..:?.wl ??..??? .. ..r ti...... liic niaic uc \ i.>ilcu >ciilj ui i u<_"iii that are oil' from the railroads, and all of these have decreased in population since 1890. None of these towns have settled pastors or preachers and the churches are abandoned or have preaching at irregular intervals and the attendance hardly ever exceeds twenty-five persons. The Sabbath schools are equally deserted. The once busy plants of small industries are dead and the people farm only for the hare necessities of life. Houses, barns, and fences are going to decay and the little mills that were on the creeks have tumbled down and the dams have washed away. Here and there you will see a stately mansion sheltering some degenerate family in the back woods while the vacant front greets you with the silence of the tomb. Sometimes you will find an old man and woman alon > in an old ancestral home. I found a mother and her two sons and two old maids in or" house not one of whom could rear The intermarriage of near relative or not marrying at all is common and bachelor and divorced men and widowers have housekeepers and they unhlushitigly cohabit with them and young girls become grass widows by the time they are sixteen. "Where is all this?" said my wife. "I don't believe a word of it. It is some newspaper lie a fake made up by some reporter." 1 read on. In one town I found the usual Saturday night dance going on in an old vacated tavern and they danced and (levelled and drank until Sunday morning. Sunday is no more observed than it is in Chicago, for they hoe and dig and gather hay all the same as on week days. Illiteracy, insanity and imbecility are very marked! 1 found one family in which both parents were idiots and had raised up a family of idots. In another home or house I found a poor father taking care of three motherless children, all idiots. "1 don't believe a word of it," said my wife. "There is no such people in this country. What paper arc you reading from?*' One can hardly conceive of the tilth and vice reigning in these country places called homes?a barbarism differing from the city slums only in its stagnant inertia and touched as little by church influences as ir in the heart of Africa. The country people all able to read orwi^^oflscin their family relations, socially corrupt, given to drink, and some to the opium habit. And these are the towns where half a century ago, lived the best families of the State. Among them the Fields (Cyrus and his brother), the Abbotts, the Barnes and Donald C. Mitchell and others. And now let nic tell you, my dear wife, 1 am reading from The liartford Times and this is only a short portion of the report read in New Haven recently by Ilcv. Mr. Hutching, a Bible colporteur, of Connecticut. This report is fully accredited to be true and the editor of The Times tries to tone it down by saying, "The same conditions described by Mr. Hutehins for Connecticut are common to all the oicier stales. Kev. < Jeorge ! Ie?rr. of of Massachusetts, is also a Iiil?l?? colporteur for that State and he said in Boston the other day. *1 have driven all over New England with my own horses and my conviction is there is no immortality in any western mining town that will compare with what you find a few miles from any New England town. Mr. llutchins' observation corresponds exactly with my own." Good friends, kind friends, what is to he done about this. Hut the editor of The Times is mistaken when he sajs the same conditions are common to all the older States. We have no such people in Georgia. In some of our mountain counties the people are illiterate, but tney are honest and moral and attend church ami observe the marriage relation and obey the laws of the land and make the best soldiers the world ever saw. They have courts twice a year and it lakes only a half a week to clear the criminal dockets. "Now, I was thinking that as Huston and Hartford and New II veil had sent a big lot of money down hereto educate and reform our negroes it would lie nothing tint fair for us to send a lot of t he graduates up there to do missionary work in Connecticut and Massachusetts. These negro graduates couldn't teach them the lost art of making wooden nutmegs, hut they could teach school and preach and the New England people could pay them for it and keep their money at home. Something must he done and done quick, or the old Puritan race will become extinct. 1 reckon these colored graduates would make good missionaries. They have never tried anything else. When my good friend Mr. T. K. Ogleshy sent me ids book, "Some Truths of History The South V'indi cated," 1 was too sick to peruse it carefully. Since 1 have gotten tHitter 1 have reread it every page and am free to say it Is the most comforting little tMMik of 2t?o pages I have yet found. It is masterly and as true j and solid as a stone wall, lie has i certainly vindicated the South and nailed the lies and slanders to the masthhead. i feel like 1 have tidefender in mine own household, and yet there Is not a malignant expression in It. 11 is gracefully done and J would tiring conviction to any mind, j North or South, that was open to! . i . > . n .. conviction. Every youth In the land should buy a copy aud absorb its con1 tents, for It is as readable as a ton ance. I regard It as the best contribution to Southeru historical literature that lias yet appeared. Send ! 1.25 to Mr. Oglesby, No. 8 South iiroad street, Atlanta, Ga. It seems ! to me that this book would convert a Northern fanatic und if it converted I only one it would save a soul from j d 'ath and hide a multitude of sins. And there has recently come to me the March nuuiiwr of The Alkahest, a : tiret-class Southern magazine, and 1 j find in it a very remarkable article, ] I "The Stages of Civilization," by Mr ; Frank Orme, of Atlanta. 1 'lid not j tliink that tiie Frank Orme ! used to know was old enougli to have written : an article so scienlitic, so nliilosoplii eaJv-so Huxleylikeon the races of man-! kind. M? st of the article is an analy Ileal history of tlie principal races ami the causes tli.it contributed to their advancament or their decay. The latter part deals gently and fairly with the negro and our efforts to elevate and rctine him by education. From Mr. Orme's viewpoint and the laws of ethnology and biology this cannot be done and the effort will he in vain. Mut I have not time or space to review his admirable treatise. Let our thoughtful men, our wise men, our learned professors in the college read it and they will tind abundant food for thought* and serious reflection. Mr. Ormc seems as familiar with entluiology, biology, anthropology, so- j ciology and all the other ologics as | Huxley or Humboldt or Darwin. We old veterans arc pleased to see our young men taking hold of these things. Kver since t he war our people have seemed almost paralyzed fui fear of making their condition more intolerable by talking hut of late there is a renewal of independence and younger men are coming to the front. 1 The sale of Henry II. Jackson's great speech on "The Wanderer"' has exceeded my expectations audit was a young man who projected t hat not for money but for the diffusion of knowledge. And here is a long article in a Des Monines paper from a woman who has hecn recently traveling through Texas hunting for something she wanted to tind and she found it. It was some very high weeds in the front yard of one home and at another house was a woman sitting on a log dipping snuff and she had Inst all her front teeth. Another discovery was that Texas wo hum! uon i no anyuiing. rney won"l work the garden or raise cnickens or churn the butter and if one was caught at it slie would be taken up and put 111 a glass case and sent to the St. Louis fair as a curiosity. What a malignant slanderer she is. She winds up by saying that the people there hate the negro so bad that if the whole race had but one neck they would chop it off. I know Texas from oast to west and north to south and the people will average well with t lie better class In the older States. When will these slanders cease? The March number of The Review of lie views has a most excellent editorial on the Sout h and her people. it is kind and considerate until it gets to Kooscvelt and it gives him the most falsotne praise and diM^yv^Miat he is our friend. I tut l/\va(itHHV>aw to tell me if he can dbput \Wum^v1i1 RooseveTE retract tils published slanders or .letferson Davis and make an apology to his widow. That's what 1 want to know and until he docs t hat no words of praise will prove him to lie either a gentleman or a friend. ItillArp in Atlanta Constitution. NEGRO BLOOD IN THEIR VAINS. | lleiti-v WutlerNon Take* Notice <>| a| I ICccnu Xi'H \ nrk Henry Watterson finally has taken . note of t he entertainment on the part i of New York's too of a negro woman. ! Aida Overton Walker. The Cou- [ rier-Journal's editor docs not appear J to have been greatly shocked, llej says some of these swells need not no i far hack to lind negro blood in their I veins. Says Mr. Watterson: "The newspapers arc making an ado over the incident which came to pass at Uelmonieo's the other evening, where at a funetion hy some members of the smart seta colored lady beeame l he piece of resistance, as we Irish say. "It is due to the truth that history observe that the colored lady was not I among tin' oriirlnallv invited guests, i In point of fact, she belonged to a| company of show people exhibiting at ; a Itroadway theatre, ami that she i came to instruct the swells into the mysteries of the eakewalk. Tliev took such a liking to her. however. ' that the line of distinction was quick- | ly obliterated, the host leading the Queen of Midnight through the giddy inn'lll, nf t I,., rl........ .....1 # I 1:1.. ---1 : . .......v..? V.. HIV UUIIVl , .IIIVI IIP' 111 V Ulll't1 belles of the court circle, making her , at home and inviting; her to other entertainments. pledged her in flagons of foaming champagne. "The Courier-Journal has been asked by several esteemed contemporaries for an expression as to this new departure. It is not, we take leave , to remark, an altogether new departure. Several swells named as of those present are known to have acted within their rights. If questioned, these might trace their own origin back to the rich, red blood of the ( Klhiopian, in some eases not so very far hack, either. They did but honor ? their race In honoring the dusky rep- I rcsentatives of the vaudeville stage. "The Courier-Journal is not en- i | gaged in the work of sensational speci- i tication. If it was so engaged, it might reduce the great question to the , dimensions of a vulgar scandal." , Washington Post. A Free I'ass. i . An exchange says that it lias been i offered four dollars for twenty-two dollars and fifty cents worth of adver- J tising and will "note with interest the number of brethren who accept I this munificent offer.One of the ; hardships and actual losses of a news- , I paper is in doing a great deal of work : for nothing, and there is no way of , estimating the cost to a newspaper of . the absolutely free advertising it does ] in the course of a year, Hut the surprising thing is that it is often expect- i ed by people who are lilieral in other matters. I I CAPTURED THE TOW*. Trouble With the Ijandronea on I ml it tul or Mindanao. A dispatch from Manila says town of Surigao, In the nor.heas part of the Island of Mindanao, *1 was captured Sunday hy lad rones, relieved Wednesday. The Ainer officials and foreigners were foutu l>e safe. Secretary lloot receive cablegram from (lovernor Taft gi tlie following account of the at of Surigao: "AITairat Surigao turns out t< the escape of in prisoners sentei iii Miliar i onus mr moronism. \ willi HO or NO of tlioir follows rctm lo Surigao, succeeded in surpri ami rushiiik the constabulary ins tor, Lewis M. (Jlarkc. and thus tal command of the town. Nine An cans, including two women, retrei to the provincial building where, tier the direction til Luther S. K provincial treasurer, formerly cap of volunteers and still earlier an dian scout, known as 'Yellow Si Kelly.' hart leaded the building aga the attacking party. The A merle armed with only a few shotguns short of ammunition, mainta their defense against the lad rones, fusing to yield t > an ultimatum mantling guns by the reply of l> that they would not give up a sii gun and would kill oil sight any drone within range. Assistant (J Taylor arrived at Surigao w ith stuhulary force, about 18 hours a the attack. < >n his approach tin drones disappeared and columns now following tliein. Surigao. treme northeast Mindanao; is so removed that I have concluded to upon (ieorge \V. Divisloput. mili in command with hope that a 1 force of ladnmes and their guns he captured and they may he pros ted for murder and ladrouism. S< as advised ('apt. < I irke only Airier killed. The cable from Surigao 1; ed near provincial building in w Americans took refuge and they \ thus able to communicate with i tary commander at lligan and i constabulary headquarters at C Two constabulary inspectors were sent from Surigao in (Jehu, w they were passing their examinat for promotion. Surigao had been garded as a quiet province since capture and sentence of ladrones, their escape led to the difficulty, deemed necessary hv the mili commander the commission will pond the writ of habeas corpus Surigao, hut it is to l>e hoped this measure can he avoided." mU9i ri, Mail Act of n Mormnii Cider in 1 liumsluirj; County. A dispatch to The State says tl was considerable excitement at I City in Williamsburg County on Thursday mused by two Mormon crs. About 10 o'clock that mori one of the Mormon elders entered home of Mr. A. (J. Stewart, a far living a few miles below Lake C , L'lie JvlLs were nut in the lid work, no t.ne being in the house Mrs. Stewart and Iter daughter, talked insultingly to Mrs. Stev and her daughter, causing then run out of the house with fright, voting lady jumping out of the ' dow and rnur.iug across the tiel Mr. S. Kd. Floyd's screaming for I with the Mormon elder chasing It seem the other elder t ried to: him. Mr. Floyd and others got him tied him and after he was tied went into t he house of a Mr. Met /.leant! used insulting language young lady there, lie fought 1 linish and was knocked down int clay hole of water by Mr. Floyd \ a large paddle used in boiling dot He begged Mr. Floyd to pull him ' and when out he fought Mr. F again, and the latter had to ki him down several times before he ? iluered him. Mr. Stewart was informed t two men wen attempting a cr u pon his daughter, and it took li work to get his gun away from 1 I, * ... I I.Ill ?l.l.. #-ll ? .t-i ii< iiiiuiru L'i i\ill lllis n-lliiw. other having gotten away. A cornier went into Lake City v ilit* report, saving tliey had one hri inc him to town and wanted clou cateii the other. Soon after t eame in with the man they had i tured, tied and bloody, wet and e and shivering like lie h id an a^ue. An excited crowd mom assemb hut nothing rasii was attempted, did not ask toliave 11iwounds died. hut lieooed for some one to something to net him warm, wounds were dressed by l>r. Courli lie was havinn a preliminary trial attempted rape when vour cor res i dent's train arrived. Youroorresj dent had a talk with the prisoner; believes lie is not in his ritfht mine Woman. A plain woman takes pride in friends, a beautiful woman in enemies. A woman will often say no wl >he means yes: but never yes wl die means no. The normal woman is capable me love and titty alTairs. A woman's charit y somet imes bey iway from home, and then rcma .here. A voting oirl is the nearest appro; o an anwel that we have and liost exasperating. It has not been decided whether vnman is happier when happy alien miserable. When a woman is throughly ti lie finds nothing so refreshing as iicc i 'iIK. II ia I'm tier's I'rioml. Thomas McNeill, Ksq., speaking tin- hanqiK't ?>t J he Kansas State I issoeintioii, lolil <>l a lawyer wIum leeled $.">o for a client and took < for Ids fee. lie said as he ha L'd over the *!.">, "1 am your frie ind 1 can't charge you a full fee. knew your father for a ^ reat in: years." And the client in the f ness of his heart could only s "Thank (Jod, you didn't know grandfather." Law Notes. ??? ~i4 i . .ilii W? IHOWINO THEIR TEETH the The Bliltd tliicriln Charleston Claws ^ ths Chief of Police. the A dlcpatch from Charleston to the tern Auifuata Herald says war against the lilch hllnd timers of Charleston lias developwas ef* (ll,He a sensation In whleh some i lean skartllntf assertions against the I *,u character of Charleston's chief of pol- i ,(j a Ice have been made hy means of plac- j vin" P'aeards In the- window of one of LU(.|. I the places recently closed up. Since the first of his administration Hover- j ( jM. ; nor Ileywurd has l>een keeping the iced ' constabulary moving; actively against V,U) | the blind Hirers, of Charleston. The mod : 'lovelopinenlsln the ChiocoatTair were j si,,j, spread broadcast and read with con pec- Adorable Interest in a threat many kin" newspap**rs, but the latest "aHair" is u,rj. the lirst of a really sensational typo so [ited ' Several days ago a blind tinci ih'i. run hy H- McManus was raided i>y eU i .rdcr of Mayor Smytlie and ever since taiii there have been placards plaeed daily 'ln in the * indow knocking on the tunc character of the chief of the police ins, 'h'partn.ent to stare pedestrians in the ans ,:ux'- 'T'lie day following the raid this and j,icj 'This business was closed by _ orders or a drunken, ii.e mpetent ' (le. Chief or Police." I<?11 v "N"' notice, was taken of the plicard riglc ,,v 1'lL* ?'llcials, bill il was read by evl;l cry body thai passed the place. The hie! b'bowing day an even more sensationat placard was exhibited in the winner 'b?w, reading as follows: L. j;i " VVh> don't this drunken Chief an> of Police be as active in closing t.x_ other places as he has this. The C;ir Governor could then call in tiie ,..Ju constabulary." ^ary The alTair did not stop with ibis urge P'acar''< ,,or was it allowed to remain may i,s P'at"e* Apparently not ecu*- s:i^'s''('d wit li the etTect a single pla , la|. card was having, the advertisement lean was changed this morning, and blind s^ea(' ol,c r'ard, the show window liich was decorated witii an array of cards vere that was calculated to stop anyo.ie ,,ili. who might lie passing, and could not with belp but have some resting place in 0?)U the minds of the readers. The signs a,^ displayed are as follows: lu,rt. "What the community wishes ions know is why tliis Chief of Police ! ri>'. disgraces the uniform that the ( tlu. taxpayers put on Ills back. Who jjnf pays the rent of No. .'17 Coming IC street? Who runs that den? Let ?.irv him answer that, too." Sfor "Closed by order of that ' >e111;lt baucher. Impostor upon the taxpayers as the Chief of Police. Had he been sober instead of a state of ( beastly intoxication on the night of the murder of Young Pinckney the perpetrators of that foul deed ivII- might have been apprehended." "Who but this rotten Chief of Police is responsible for t lie robliere bery of the old Veterans during ?ike the reunion in the year ltfi>8? A last privilege was granted ail imported eld- gambler and ex-convict, at tin* lint; cost of $.">,000 to do the work, the Why was suchu privilege granted? mer Not for the love of tliis convict, ity. Who got the privilege money? but He "This drunken Chief of Police rart occupied the time of tlie special i to detectives in hounding down the those that are distasteful to him, viii- while the thieves have their own d to way and the taxpayers pay the help costs." her, it is the chief of police, W. A. itop itoyle, who s refered to in the signs or cards that appear in the window, and and everyliody in Charleston expects I he that some serious trouble will he the veil- result of what in my of the best pcoto a pie here are referring to as "a dirty to a piece of work" on the part of a "blind o a tiger keeper" meaning MeManus. vith While Chief l'.oyle has taken no lies, action in the matter, treating itappaout, rently with contempt, it is plainly loyd -.cen that the manner in which his lock name is being bandied by the blind "on- tiger is not at all appreciated by him. The chief of police is pretty well liked .hat hy tlie best element of Charleston's i.ne people and the community is siding lard with him in the work lie is doing, dm, while on the other hand MeManus has tlie very little standing here at all. The fair-minded element of the city are >ith referring to his action in using the hig- placards the wav lie has as "a stab in s to tlu* dark." hey ap,,l(J A Case iil'Tornirc. The public has been a reused by the 1 '0('* ease of a private in the army named Kiehler who was bound, gagged and ess* tortured by his company Lieutenant Sinclair In the Philippines till the sol- | "'s ilicr died. Mis mother appealed to "'-v- the president to have the lieutenant I tor retired and punished, but so far her >on- request has been disregarded. The on- war otllce publishes statements that 1,n(' Kiehler was a hopeless case of drunken ' insolence and that his death while t being punished resulted from drink. A public meeting in Faneuil Hall ;j ',ei Host-son, that historic hot bed of all i 'u>r agitations has been held, where the 1 president has been roundly denounced lien for withholding from the public the ' lien records of the court-martial that tried 'j Sinclair. This matter may yet he | of made an issue against lloosevelt In c politics. The claim is made that in t rj|ls the far away Philippines many deeds < |liS of horror and cruelty in the army and < among the natives are perpetrated 1 land that only inklingof the facts ever tell i ,ll4?i,nL. iiw. .X..V.U.. I " the | ' 51 or Y goS i ; ^ O s ?? I re,l I CC3 X. K i " j, a I 'S I 5 * * **3 CZ3 S X * - rfaya) ,=> "3 y ~ ? ~ ^ 2 A < c- p ; h" .?, ^ . ,8^5 J Z%%% ; , <=*=> X X K as M ^ fl-2S : |{ar " ? ~ O C f g .= .?-?* Ml- *-?j .7 w ?% w ~ -g *?03 m "5 ' X C, - O llllt ? 1 V "T 7 .X 3 ."3 ? * > nd- = n. H w j ml. B 5 ? r ? ?o|^ ; 1 g^3 -c n 0 < ca * '. c- 7" 3 D i,^ >i iny cn=? 1 ? H SS?2. Ull- fc=^3 |: * f J-C~= I ;,y- -! o S^'i I tny I \ " . ?' ii.. " r i Men arid 1 DR. HATHAWAY. X," Recognized as the Leading and Most Successful Specialist in the His line in the United States. l,QO' _i _ My cure for this disease is Ct ^TPinTlirR no cutting or dangeroni nun w" ,U " usl attention, and treat Iff c tlon and Forcnesa i? allayed and tho canal liciils u \m This disease l< the rnlargi V3TIC0C6I6 the vitality. It weakens tl V Ui IUUUVIU form certainty just as qutc any other disease, and their strength is being dra ed, ami learn the cause of your trouble. Send for Blood Poison ftu,uuu 1 '""**"11 ,H>nos faiung hair,or i will tell you frankly whether or not you are an drugs,In as quick, if not quicker, time than any ki will be eradicated from the system forever. Send Diseases of Women ~jK to health thousands ot suffering women. Send i< Chronic Diseases gSsgs is equipped with the most approved X Kav and cl Home Treatment ^?"1 oountriea. Correspondence confidential. J. NEWT xx Inman ltuilding. 22k S. 1 triad ! A Hutl Mrm. An unusual criminal case was re- 1 eently tried iti the court at OrccnwiKid, Norman I lodges and Hargrove, two white men, and three negroes, Jim Hast, Kicking llcll and Koltcrt Coleman, w re arraigned on the seri- i iius charge of highway robbery. it is said that they "'held up" (ins Arnold, a white man, near Ware's Shoals, some time last fall and relieved him of $<iil in money. (Jus Arn Id i-. also to he tried fur killing a negro on l is Thanksgiving day. The three negrc.es pleaded guilty, hut asserted tt.ut Arnold only had $.>.'1. They claim that he lost Sl.'t gambling with them and with two white men, Hodges and Hargrove. KcmiI t lie Stars. A dispatch from Seattle report*-: "A. J. Speekert, on trial there for murder, is an astrologer, and is using his knowledge of the subject as a guide in the selection of a jury. *1 i absolutely refuse to iet any man serve,' J said Speekert, 'who was l?orn between June 21 and July 22. because a iuan i born at such time will pay no at tentiop to argument. Neither is a man born between October 23 and November 22 eligible, lie will be unsym-' pathetic and unfeeling. It will be _ ditlicult t render him sensitive to any ' appeal. With those Imru between C February 111 and March 21 argument ^ will also be useless.' " I ,| ATLANTIC COAST LINK It It 1X>' ? Co NI) E N s KI) S?' 11KI > r L K. Trains doing South. Dated April 14i b. I1HI2. I No 35 No 23 No 53 . ! i am i.in pni' Lv Florence 3 20 7 " Kingstree !?07 Ar Lanes 4 30 51 2* p m Lv Lanes 4 36 6 2s 7 57 A r Charleston o 00 11 15 Si 29 No 51 No 551 a m a in Lv Florence M 45 " Kingstree 10 551 .... A r Lanes lino Lv Lanes 11 on !? 40 Ar < 'harleston I in 11 45 Trains Doing Nort h." No 7s No 32 No 52 ? * a in p in a m ' Lv Charleston.. . 7 no 5 20 0 10 Ar Lanes 8 37 0 45 s 15 Lv Lanes x 37 0 45 .. Kingst ree 8 51 A i h Ion nee ! 45 7 55 No.Vi N0 >>s pm p n Lv Charleston 4 20 f> 2."? < A i Lanes .... 0 n?i 7 2s . Lv 1 auu-s COG " Finest roe Ar Florence 7 40 I >ailv. JTuesday. Thursday and Saturday No. .">2 runs through to Columbia via Jent ral It K of S (J. r Trains Nos. 7s and run via Wilson md l-'ayet t ville Short Line and ^ nake close connection for ail points I North. Trains on C. A 1>. II. 11. leave 'lor?nee daily except Sunday loo.", a in irrive Darlington loltoa in. llartsville V V. p in. Cheraw II 4"? a in., W.ideslioro ^ 2 ">0 pin. Leave Florence daily ex:cpt Sunday 8 00 p m. arrive Darllnir 0 s 25 p in, Heiinettesville 9 22 p in, filison 10 2o p in. Leave Florence Sunlay only loo:, a m, arrive Darlington o:toa in. Leave Gihson daily except Sunday > "h a m, Bennett sville r> 50 a in, arrive >arlinglon S 15 a in, leave Darlington 50 a in. arrive Florence w 15 a in. .cave WadesUiro daily except Sunday n lo p in, t'heraw 5 15 p in, llartsvillc \ 1 15 a in, Darlington tl 20 pin, arrive U 'lorence 7 no p m. Leave Darlington !5n a in, arrive Florence t? 15a in. j[. M. Kmer5on, Gen'l l'ass. Agent, .1. B. Kenly, General Manager. I K. M. Kmerson, Tratllc Manager. V. shot II is Two Hons. I At Frankland Did., as a result of a amily feud David Gaines Thursday U light shot two of his sons. Lloyd 11 rears old. was shot in the side and the ? ilder son who interferred was slmt hrough the lett hand. The younger tt my will die. Gaines left home and is ct icing hunted hy two other sons. Who tl ire armed and swear they will shoot "j dm on sight. Ollicers are also looking tl or him. SF^ U - aft p ' -V *> ?? " Women of All Ages, I CURE YOU! The specialist It now Indispensable. In all walks of life there 1* a demand for the man u ran do one particular thing better than any one else, and such a matt Is one who ha* confined endeavor to, and centered all of his energy and ability on the ?ecialty ho has chosen for hi* 's work. Kttily in my professional career I realised thai Chronic I?l-.*>a-iei vrero not belli*? given the ntion which their Importance warranted. 1 saw that these disease I required a special llts which the busy practitioner could never acquire. For more than twenty years 1 have dord myself exclusively to the study and treatment < ( these diseases, and the fait that physlis recommend me to their patients Is an evidence of my skill and ability in my special line. 1 sjicclul counsel to physicians with obstinate and obscure cases. 1 hare devoted particular attention to chronic diseases of men and women, and no other is of disease requires more intelligent and export treatment. 11 Is a fact that a majority o! k owe the seriousness of their condition to Improper treatment, arid a failure to realtze the Mtriance of placing their case In the hands of a skilled and expert specialist. itminiiA HoIsiIi^k Overindulgence, Indiscretions nnd excesses are not the only I VOUS U6DMITV ?II linpanment nf nrxuil streiiitlh. Such a derange- j j ment frequently come* from worry, overwork, mental strain, , which gradually weakens and Injures the system lwfore the unfortunate victim realizes true nature of his trouble. Nervousness, weak l.nck. dizxluess, loss of memory, spots before eyes, despondency, etc..often are the llrst symptoms of an lni|>airmentof manly vigor, and If lected serlou* results are sure to follow. I Want to talk to every men who bM any of these iptonis of weakening of his manly functions. I enn promptly correct all irregularities, ami or mv skillful treatment you will have restored all of the strength nnd glory of your man? d. Whether you consult me or not, do not jeopardize your health by experimenting with ly-made medicines, freo samnles. so-called aulok yua| tka -?| ?? " . . ? M...vn . V? , U - .Uf- inwsb un Jtni? ort'BUB <)( body are Involved, ami only an ex|M>rt should l>c entrusted with your case. Bend for free klet, " Nervous Debility and Its Family of Ills." intln and painless, and often causes no detention from business or other duties. It Involves deal operation. Iuipro|>er treatment will result In serious injury. I give each ease indlvldvery requirement. Every obstruction i- removed, and all discharge soon "**** inS.?., p promptly and permanently. Heud for free book on Stricture. mrnt of veins of the scrotum, which fill with stagnant lilood, raising a constant 'Irani upon ic entire system and satis away all sexual strength. 1 cure this disease with the same uni k as consistent with medical science. Pr<?t>ably more men are allllcted with Varicocele than Inedaway without their knowing the cause. Come to nic ut once If you think you are affitctfree booklet on Varicocele. is no longer incurable, anil when I sr.y that I can cure the most severe ciise I do so liecnuse I eatment has accomplished. If yon have sores, pimples, blotches, gore threat, pains In the m any symptoms which you do not understand, it Is l mportant that you consult me at once, and unfortunate victim. I will guarantee to cure you without the use of strong and Injurious town treatment. My eure is a permanent one. and is not mere patchwork, and the disease for my free booklet, "The Poison King." u who suffer from the ailments peculiar to their sex nre cured by my gentle and painless d of treatment, which avoids all necessity for surgical operations. If you suffer from l>earlng>alns, backache, irregularities, b-uehorrhca, etc., write me u'siut your CMC, 1 have restored >r my free bookletou Women's Diseases. also includes all r.ther chronic diseases, such as Rheumatism, Catarrh, Dlal>etes, Hrlght's aaeh. Liver and Kidney Diseases, Piles. Fistula. Kupture. Paralysis, Locomotor Ataxia. St. etc., and all who want skillful, expert treatment should wrp nie attout their ease. My office ectrlcal apparatus, so that my patients get the IsMiellt of the latest discoveries of science. one to consult me without charge, and will refund railroad fare one way to ail who take f you cannot see nie in person write for symptom blanks and full information about my suc1 home treatment by which I havecured patients in every state tn the t'uion and In foreign ON HATHAWAY, M. D. St.. Atlanta. Oa. The Great Rheumatic Cure ^ a AND Spring Blood Purifier i Positively cures all diseases arising from impurities in the blood, including Catarrh, Indigestion, Chronic Constipation, Kidney and Liver Troubles, etc. Every person in the land needs a powerful blood purifier every Spring. You need it. You want the best?the standard. That is RHLUMACIDE. BEWARE OK DA.VGEIiOUS NUIISTITITTES. E KllfclJ MAL lUt benefits uiMeai or injuring the digrs'ive organs as K 9 many so-called medicines do. RIIEUMACIDE is a powerful alterative, but B 9 old people or children can take it with absolute safety. 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