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TABOlil) MtmClNb. At the Fequest of Interested Faitifs the date of KtiforclDK ilio I,*\v 1N?h? pone <1 to J?nnr?rjr 1 for Mak<?rH and April I for the Hollera. The commiFioner of luucrnal revenue, J hn W. Yerkei, some time ano beiran an Investigation oncemlng alcoholic "om pounds labeled as triediclin'S at d held out to the public remedies for d.si ases and the < f the examinati n v/an yiven jester^aj in a circular to c:ll(C-ors. It fol lnwc1 ' Oa September 12, Circular No 073 was issued fri m tils (til .e, con corning ale'hollo compounds adv^r Vised and s >1<1 as mmicliies unrh r various names sonn?? of which were com pi s?d ciuefly ul disli.l d s p i r i t,n or mixtures then of, without tide ard' tiou of driikiB or medicinal ingredients in sutll3leut quantity \n change mat < riaby the character of Jie alcoholic liquor. ' In that circular it was stated tha' because these preparations were heir out to the public as medicines woulc not afford ground for relit vim/ their manufacture from special tax^s as rtcoltiers aud wholesale liq ior deUers and would not relieve the retail deal ers therein fiom spiclal tax as retail liquor dealers under the provisions of the Federal statutes. "It was further stated that this efflei would, by analyses made in the chemical laboratory here, of these various compounds determine whether tho.-e manufacturing and handling them would be liable to the sptcia) tax named. "Further that until such ant.l,ses were made and conclusions reached by tills ( tllce druggists and merchants sellirg these compourds In good fatti as medicines only would not be i ITdoted by the new ruling until I)-member 1. Before that date it was the purpose of the alio to make public annouroment of the various prepar atlons found by anaylsls to he within the terms of the ruling of Septem >er 12. "By reason of the care given In making analyses of tluse compounds the odi*o has been unable to o mplete the examination of all such com pounds now upon the market, However It has made the following prep aratlons, aud linds that they are within the terms of ruling of Septem her 12: At woods La Grippe Spec lie, Cuban Gtngerlo, 1)3 Witt's Stomach ltil.t.ftfH Hr Uanularo Knnlm Oi.. T\ , ..!. ,,uu <iu 10 uuuiiu vtiu, it r. Fowlers Meat and Malt, Duflfy s Mai Whiskey, G Iberia Rejuvenating lroi and Herb .luice, Ilostetters St<?maci Hitters, Kudros, i'eruna, ltbckandy Cough Cure. "Since ihe ruling made, manufactures of preparations referred to in that ruhng and wholesale drug gists and retail druggists handling them have demonstrated that large looses would occur to them If the ruling was made c IT ictivejon December 1. They have stated that in good faith and under rules heretofore controlling they have purchased these compounds in large quantities, have them instccf and that it would be impossible to dispose of them by the date originally determined. POSTPONES KNKOUCKMENT OF LAW. "After careful consideration or this phase of the casa and to protect those who in good faith have engaged in the sale of these preparations, this c fll:e has determined to make the order effective as against manufactures on Janurary 1, 1906, instead of December 1, 1905, said date, Janurary, 1 1900, being the beginning of the third quarter of the fiscal year. ' With regaid to all handling these preparations as retail dealers both druggist and other merchants, the order will be made tlT cted April 1, ] 900 the beginning of the last quarter of the current fiscal year. "This ( ftloe will contiru^ to make analyses of other preparations similar to those already examined, and will announce from time to time th? mn. elusions reached. "Until public notice is given as to other preparations than those above i ancd, manufacturers, diuggists, and others handling these prepara tions will not be held liable for other articles than those set forth herein provided that the ci mpounds are sold in good faith as medicines." U(ich U|> Head. At the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Atlantic C mst Lire Railroad at Richmond, Ya.,last week T. M. Emerson, of Wilmington,N. (3., waseleo.ed president; vice R T. Ervln, resigned. Mr. Emerson was formerly fuuth vice president and t,r? tile manager. He succeeded Mr. Erwin on the hoard of directors. Ail the other cllioers and directors weie reelected Alex Hamilton, former second vice president, was promoted to he first vice president. C. S. Gadsden was promoted from third to second Vice president. .J. R. Kenly was made third vice president. A dividend of 3 per cent, was declared on the stock, placing it in a 0 instead of a 5 p ;r cent, basis. The annual report showed an i creise in milleag*, gross and net rece its. President Emerson started with the road as a dork in the freight atllces In Wilmington, N. 0., at $76 per month. Thk Southern Cotton Association is one of the best organizations in the South. Every business man and cotton farmer in the entire South should be enrolled in it as members. It has already saved the South millions of dollars and will save It millions more by keeping up the price of ootton. \ WAfliJiU MOTHV.R KllLKD Cfno*nit?'l Woman H*?!Iov?m1 In Clil< \ j rof %rm for I ho Infirm, Miss Anna II ill, of Cincinnati, who recently attracted a gr at deal cf at tint io** by an address she made In Philadelphia before a national convention of humane workers, Is a daugh ter of the noted txplorer 11 ill, whi nut, lils life manv v^ars ago on a to tbe far Dorth. In her address Miss Hill advocated admlnlaterli g chloro fof >i to persons hopelessly ill and siilT ring. The government paid Ex| I rrr IJab's tan. 11 v ?18 000 by reason t f bis death while on a j urn^v of scteotltb research to th? north pole, and t'ds money has caused litigation In the fa milv F id a y fn JU?grt PMeger's court during i e neadug of a wl?l c ise of Miss Hall's mo*her, M s M irey Hall, s Mrs. SIoqcoo testified that f lentlv "bile she was ahout the ro >m wh??re Vlrs. 11*11 lay dying she I card M'S>Anna Hall urge the attrndh g physl dan to let her administer chloroform vi end her mother's sulT ring. Miss flail Insisted, said the witness, that ter in >thi r was In great p*ln, and as leath was Inrv'tab.e It was not right to l?t b< r sulT :r. The doctor, the witness said, assured Miss 11 ill that her mother was really not In pair, as she was In a sein' comoious condition Toe witness said the physician remarked one day to Miss 11 all: "You are a th? us\nd years ahead of your time, Miss Hall " Someday perhaps, wnat. you advocate may become the practice, but not in this day. How l?? Treat your Town. Prai e it, improve it. Talk about it. Write about it. Trada at home. Ti ll of its business resource!. Tell of its natural advata^es. Trale and induce others to trade here. When strangers come to town use them well. D >n't call your b.-fcit frleud frauds and imposters. Support the local Institutions that bene tit your town, Lo >k ahead of yourself when all the town is to be cins'dered. Don't forget you live oti the people here, and you should help others as they help j ou. D m't ad vertise iu the local paper ,4to help the proprietor," but to help yourself. r j i ^* ucu a lAi^obiici illiu KUtjp LUlDgH moving, hustling all the time; cheer fully keeping a still* upper lip waiting for the good time coming for the old town. L^t's try it, D) it now. I, voHtook Triidc. The receipts of all kinds of live slock at the Chicago stock yard for the present year greatly exceed those of auy preoeding year of its history. Arrivals up to date foot up something over 14,000,000 and estimating the receipts for the balance of the year, the grand total will be cjnsiderably. In eicess of 16,000.000 and this does pot loclude over 500.000 head sent direct to packers outside the yards. Of cattle, 3,400,000 head have been re- | ceived during the year. Calves 880,000, hogs 7 700,000; sheep, 4 840,000; horses, 127,000; or about 110,000 more calves than ever before, nearly 300,- ' 000 more sheep than any other record 1 and over 9,000 more horses than are the figures: 3 086 4 pounds avordupois. One million silver dollars weigh 56 931 pounds avordupols or nearly 28 1-4 tons. Bar?e Minks, The founder of the new steel barge Delawanna and the loss of four persons on board, Including Capt. John B. Munsey and his wife, was reported at Boston, Mass., Friday, by the tug Soranton, which had been towing the 1 Delawanna from New York. The barge went down in a heavy sea at 8 30 o'clock Thursday night about eight miles east by south from Minots light. One of the crew of the Delawanna was saved. So quickly did the barge founder after the snapping of the hawsers that the crew had abso lutely no time to assist the tow. which disappeared almost before the Scranton could put about. Tne sole survivor was found clinging to a fragment of a broken boat. lie hald the Delawanna was thrown on tier beam ends by a terrific sea, and the water Hooded into the hold. No Kaoe SutoUln. The wife of W. W. Wilson of Austin, near Chicago, is a wcmin after President Riosevelt's own heart. She has witnln th? last elehteen months made an anti-race suicide record of wiving birth to two sets of triplets and less than four vears airo the nam) mother give birth to twins. And aM are reported to be alive and doing well It is related in reference U.) Mrs. Wilson that she has a twin, who is the mother of twins, while twins have also appeare j in the homes of herenisins. On Mr. Wilson's side he has uncles who are twins, and one of his sisters Is the imlher of twl ns. Killed l>y Omioor, After living over ninety years with out any sc rlous Illness, Mrs. Matilda Scott, of liellevillft, Mlfltn ounty, Pa., live months ago pricked her foie head with a pin. Cancer resulted and she died last week. She was the mother of twelve children and gave s( v^n sons to the Union army In the civil war. Sho was the second oldest woman In central Peunslyvania and would Jiave reached 100 next Febru ary. */ \ I "MAKES RHEUMACID all the germs and | spots in the body Nature's way. Pur most powerful of time regulates the up the entire systc that cures rheuma MOST POWERF I ^ I CUBES DISEA RHEUMACID1 other remedies ar Percelle, of Salem, dreds of dollars for by half a dozen b 2120 Ramsay stre< man." Mrs. S. A. C it cleansed her bio Alter Noted Doctors Fai Here is a case cured l>v RHF ClUK after noted New Yorkst ists had failed. Mr. VV. K. 11 writes from A tkins, Va.: "Four bottles of R1IKUMA have entirely cured ine of a standing case of rheumatisn greatly improved my general li I was a total wreck, ha vine had matisin for twenty years. I spe oral weeks and mueli money specialists in New York, but K MACIDF is tlie only cure I f,?uwi i i? Siihp ShotH The man who don't have friends, lon't deserve them. The man who "knows himself" never looks like a "dude." The follow who ''talks to himself' often has an ass for a listener. Nearly all of us could write a large book on the things "we don't know." It's a shame for the rich to have to die and leave their diamonds and poodle dogs. A religion that won't produce "smiles" Is not the brand we are looking for. Show us a man who never "falls" and we'll show you a man who is too Ibz/ to try. When it takes money to get pen pie to notice a fellow, he must have been durned common before. The girl who makes a conlidant of her mother is the girl who never has rnuoh bad news to peddle. No man can "settle up" and get a rpcfli r\t. t mtm (1 ni-vfcll hn vvvat m vvvi |/u A I \/>U VJi HI UUUU 11C I j squares his accounts with his neigh-j bors. The fellow who thinks that the'; world owes him a living, Is never ; able to collect only about ten eents i on the dollar. The fellow who believes two much in ''providence" is the chap who ginerally has an empty pocket and a patched pair of pants. If we knew that all the foolish people were to be killed on a certain day, , the maj irity of us would get busy , writing farewell letters. I The fellow who believes that a , "horse shoe will bring him good , luck," Is the fellow who is willing \ for his wife to take in washing to sup-!, p rt himself and three or four t hounds. ] The devil is not afraid of the Preaob- i er who uses hlank cartridges What 1 this country needs is a lot of REAL preachers on the "tiring line," witn loaded G.spel guns and with grit enough to use them Wlmi a Wise Wifi Known. ] She knows that home is more than i half what you make it, and that a builder of a happv home is a success i indeed. She knows that it takes two ! to prolorg a family qu ?rrel, one can therefore terminate it. She knows that tilling e house with bargains keeps a couple from owning the house | in which they place them. She kno^s j that if wo thought all we said we'd I t - t j * ? - - ? '? wu wmtj, uui 11 w?- sain ail we thought, we'd he foolish. She knows that some people sneer at love In a cottage, but love that c >uld wish to 11 vo any where else is not love. She knows that proud p- ople seldom have fileads. I i prosper 1.y \ hey know DOboU); in tdverslty nobody knows t.hem, says Woman's Life. She knows that to make long livid friendships one nrun be slow in making them. She kno^a that the woman who galna a tr M meanly Is mean r t?at toe fr tl i. S e i knows t^at "it Is less pain to learn in youth than to be Ignorant in old age." She khows that If she can njt throw brightness oyer hor home It, 1h hest not to throw a wet blanket over ivi uuo nuu *rn hiiifcu liHU W1IC WHO thinks she is perfect is generally the oQist imperfect. Trie uaffUe wife may protlt by studying what the wise i woman knows. I) HkMiriuiM S'ornm The Detroit Journal siys 149 lives' have been sacrltl-ed, over 7u ships w??r? wrecked and a loss of nearly 17 000 000 i)as been sustained In the three big storms on the Great Lakes this season. That this Is most disastrous season in the history of shipping on the lakes is beyond doubt. YOU WELL E goes right to the seat of 1 poisons out of the blood, clea and sets aH the organs to w ely vegetable, non-alcoholic, cleansing medicines, and a liver, tones up the stomach im. RHEUMACIDE is the o tism to stay cured. UL BLOOD PURIFIER T!ff wmm iMft /jBh ii. i a. W77rrFK7im*i SE BY REMOVING THE E has cured thousands of cai id famous doctors had fail Va., spent $200 in medicine physicians* fees, and at last h< ottles of Rheumacide. G. I 5t, Baltimore, says it has "rr ombes, 114 S. Gilmor street, od, took away her pains, and like a new woman." ied and recommends Rhei ^ CURES AFTE CIDK krttfl/* ?ar*. WU1 |?a V W W k M W HIT . ami for postage to lealtli. ill Bobbitt Chemic; have START TO? WOMAN KILL ft 1) DJBNTI&T. ! All tho Parties to tho TrtKorty Haiti to bo Prominent. .las Mrs. Hirdsong, whoshofc and killed Dr. Thomas Hutler at his tttlce at Mjuticello, Miss., Saturday moaning, Is in jail and her husband, Dr. James Hlrdsong, a well kuown dentist, has beiu placed under arrest as accessory. An Inquest was held Saturday afternoon before Justice John W. Steen but li was brief. Neiiuer Mrs. Hird song nor her husband wcu d make any statement. It is believed that Mrs. Ihrdsong in her trial will set up slander as the grour.d for the killii g, there having been considerable gossip connecting the names of the two for auuJU uu) N p ISli Last Thursday, after the woman had visited the ctlioe of the dead man, she went home and tried to commit " suicide by taking morphine, but puy-1 siclans were hastily summoned and * her life was Have d. She was in bed j all day Friday, but Sa u*day morning 5 after her husband left for his ctlioe | Bhe got up, secured his pistol and * walked to the cftloe of Dr. Bu ler. The docter was alone when sue en- \ tered and without a word she begau | to tire on him. Dr. Butler retreated, > the secoud shot being tired while he * was going through the door. lie fell 5 to the sidewalk and the woman fired \ three more shots at him, two of the $ womans bullets penetrating the mias 1 tie&rt The dead doctor was a nephew ? 3f former Governor Longlno, of Jack | aon, who will come here Monday to 4 take part In the preliminary trial, j which is set for that date. Dr Bird- \ long has engaged the Hon. R. N.lj Miller, of il&zelnurst, a noted crimi 3 al lawyer, to defend him. Dr. But- j ler leaven a widow and four ohildren. 1 W?*ff<>rd Boy JL>iM?ppe*rft. A dispatch from Spartanburg to i rhe News and Courier says. "Hugh \ Urelghton, a student of Wofford Col- j lege, disappeared from the oity Satur-1 \ lay. The young man's father, tbe j 1 Rev. C. W. Creighton, of Qreeuwood, i| editor of the Christian Appeal, was' j here Sunday making inquiries, but J has fuund^pothing to indicate where \ the young man is likely to have gone. | The boy is 17, has light hair, delicate \ features, Is tall, slightly stooped, : and was last seen wearing a gray; 1 suit j The police are requested to look out for him, aud if found to notify his father at Greenwood. The young man understands typesetting. i Telepathy. 1 This case of telepathy is reported | from Union in a dispatch to the ( State. A rp.markahlo inofo?/.? ? - ? uinvaiiUD U1 p eH?nfmeat of danger to his little child 6\lday ciused C. F. MacGregor, who was Ludly at work In the sDinning room of the Uulon cotton mill N j, 2, suddenly to atop workj and rush home, where he arrived j just la time to see his little 10 ; months old child a mass of llinaes. 1 Tne mother had stepped out to a neighbors for a fjw moments, and but for the timely arrival of the father, the child would have been burneci to death. As It is, the child may yet die. The father's hands were terribly burned in the llamea. Col. Coward, the ertlclent superio* tendenu of the Citadel, can be relied up)n to do what is right in the oise of h8% tig now under Investigation in that institution. There is no suoli thing as policy with the Colonel. He will dj his duty regardless of person* al cjnscq lenccs to himself, ALL OVER. the disease, sweeps ns upall the plagueork again in it is yet the t the same jir and builds nly remedy J a WORLD. f : cause. l^t^h ses after all \<L^ ed. Austin ^8g (.; VtffMflsS 5S and h un3 was cured vS Dietrich, of lade him a new Baltimore, says made her "feel Your druggist sells umacide. :r all others rt K I r* f (>>/>? if l/AII Ct>r>/"4 i U Mvwrvi Vt, I WW / WM al Company, Proprietors, ETWELLTO ?3! O R S B C Bookkeeping, Shorthand, Type guaranteed, course 20 weeks. Sing hand, 8 mos. 12 calls for graduates mand. Write. COTTON GINNER SAND I Write (or Prices on DnKldf n- 11 ^ i ia i M M u v^uiipuugs villages Drills Guage Cocks Oil Cups Hack Saws OH Cans Helt, lcatl Fittings Injectors Pipe Lace Leather, Packing all kinds, Shaft! else in machin Columbia Supply Co.. I | W; hnestly bellev* that M$287 spent with us buys more } j lasting Piano satisfaction k than $400 spent elsewhere. m F There's a reason. Write us ^ i about It. Pull particulars ft by return mall. | |jg i High Orade Organs, T f $47 60 to $65. A 1 | 1 I Ludden & Bates, S. M. H., | !f Dept. "E"' \\ |j Savannah, Qa. All r.Oo. Popular Mimic 1 % I ra 17c., or :i pieces for f?Oc. I I ij* | - - ORGANS - - i m of the boat puality $15 up { | Upright Pianos $ & From $225 up. f t Write Us T fr\V notftlrv/^nrlri ? J -* ? A j?i vai(iiu^?icn illKJ. lurins. | | S Malone's Music Honse, !l 1432 Main Street Almost opposite Masonic Temple. < 2 Columbia, S. C. ? iwii Kiiioa. Two men were killed and about, a d(m more or less seriously injured in the wreck of the Pulladelphla expre.48 on the Central railroad of New Jersey Friday night near the Pennsylvania Haven j motion, 100 miles n >rth of Pniladeiphla. The dead, Fireman Rupert of Monon Chunk, Pa., and an extra engineer named Detroy, who was riding home on the locomotive. f I fm*-- ?|?v 1 nve c?n*? ^ \ > R tsj E: '? r^v, OA, )-writing, English branches, Full le course of either Business or Shortiu about 20 days. (Jan't supply doMACH1NERY OWSE RS.~ the Following Lubricators Belt, Gandy Belt, Rubber Drill Press lier Ejectors Hammers i-iles Pulleys ng, Collars for Shafting and anything ery supplies. r ?i u J _ c Pr wMMiinu'i. r?. WEAK MEN, 1 CAN RESTORE YOU TO PERFECT MANHOOD. I Harn Bonn Successfully Troatlnf( Diseases of men tor 2ft Years and Mr Method of Treatment Assures You a Positive, Permanent Cure, I can positively restor weak men thoir lost vitality and all L want is an opportunity to convince you that I ca . It" you are in a wo?k, dejected onnditi ?r?, discouraged and broken in health, sit right down and write 1110 a letter and let ino toll you in my answer why my treatment will positively and permanently restore to you the vim^'and vitality you onco possessed. I havo jfiven tiiis condition s oci ti study for over twenty-five years and 1 know, and it has been proven by the large number of people whom I nave cured, that I aiu capahlo of t.hor >ughlv uidorstaudiug every possible treatment accordingly. vly wide experience has taught mo that there are hardly two taso of this uatwhs exactly alike, and hence each musr. !>n mnio " Q differently if a o ire ia ever brought about 2 ? prepare iho propor treatment in 111/ o ui laboratory to in *ot the demands of ovory individual case, attor I have given a thorough examination. My method of troaomemt ia tho result of ail these years of c ose atiuly and it is to-day recognized by the medical profession as the most thorough and scientific treatment for men. I have had great success in curing tho nfllicdod ai a distance. IJy tho ail of a compete system of self-exam nation blanks I can diagnose a case at a distance and if you are in this condition, or if you sutler Ton* any other disease of a chronic nature, write me. O > n it look for a cure in tho many widely advertised "ready-made' medicines, free tre.itmeats from fake medical companies, otc., et. for will not jh Otlly never bo cured but VOU will become worso, / in addition to 1< sing tho money you have spent. My chnrgosaro very reasonable, and no )' -W man should hesitate writing me ouJtriis account. I have been established in Atlanta for many years aid my reputation as a skillful specialist is known to nil. lie sire to wnto mo for mv book for ? .. . - VIII niru I108H, Vigor and Health" it is absolutely froe for the asking. Address J. Nowton Hathaway, M. D., 88 Tnman Bldg., Atlanta, Ga.