Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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A A 11 v ?n 5 Lancaster M< .. I 1 CLOS] jSURPLU 1 2 ? RoW i 101 n rv | * l^UUVyil Ig i Large 1 THE HE/ This season has made c M stocks; but we still have 5 short time, and we are not * *NAMB Y' 4) And take the goods. V ^ money. We must have J money made. Every doll ^ you from 15 to 40 per cer 5 THB R1 ^ Includes everything in hot ^ friends to make 5PURCH/ yb Before the hest bargains s 6 I 4 _ n/ffi ?> Lancasier me 5 $ ' ' . * jrcantile Company, ? ~ ! [N6 OUT | j S STOCK!I |S *8-^8^ t * H Their Four i Stocks. I iw TDiinrS' :onsiderable inroads into our large ^ m< a large surplus to clear out in a \ ? : particular how they go. J c* ? hu OUR PRICE p Viz need the room. We want the ^ your business. Money made is f ,m ar you spend with us now will save jLj it. ^!mi Sr ^ nx SDUCTION ll ^ CO I h our large stores. We advise our 5 ,or 2to ^ hk ^ I on CSES NOW, J;5 ^ I art and choicest goods arc closed out. 3rsl" Si1r in. ^ ()l ij.o rcantile Company, S:;; ^ Hi; W art l WVW'VW^ !"" i liai v > ' . * \? > 'Sweet Bells Jangled Out of Tune and Harsh.*' Shakespeare's description fits thouands of women. They are cross, destondent, sickly, nervous?a burden to hem selves and their families. Their woet dispositions arc gone, and they, like he bells, seem sadly out of tune. But here is a remedy. They can use McELREE'S Wine of Cardui It brings health to the womanly rganism, and health there menus rell poised nerves, calmness, strength, t restores womanly vigor and power, t tones lip the nerves which sufTerng and disease have shattered. It is ho most perfect remedy ever devised t> restoro weak women to perfect lealtli, and to make them attractive nd happy, $1.00 at all druggists. For advice in cases requiring specil directions, address, giving sympoms, "The Ladies' Advisory Deinrtment," The Chattanooga Mcdiine Co., Chattanooga, Tenn. 11KV. J. W. 8MITII, Camden, H. C., ?y?i?"My wife used Wine of Cardul at home >r falling of tho womb and It entirely cured er." SHTWfiTK; olished tvery Wednesday and baturdaj BY < -.liftriTisf; Milillshinjt Companj A. J. CLARK Kdltor. e /ear. $1.00 Months, 50 eti ree Months 25 eti In Advance. Hat'?rday, Dec. O, 1899. War and Trade. nl hern Presbyterian. Probably the cause which u >st effective in producing war its commercial results. War nefits trade and brings incased prosperity to all lines of siness. While no one would re to advocate war as a means financial prosperity, the fact tt advantage always accrues in is way to a people who carry on var outside of their own boun ries underlies the war senti Mit and loads to a rockiest? irit in advocacy of war. The vantage lo trade comes in a in her of different ways. When ir is carried on, large sums ist he disbursed by the govern 'lit ; and contractors for govern lit supplies as well as soldiers eive the direct benefits. Of urse the contractors must pay the goods which they convey the government and so governnit money circulates throught the country. Then, too, a ge number of men are wit linen from production and, bv i?oii ol their salaries as soldiers. ' enabled to increase their con inption This leaves labor with s competition and produces an reused demand for its product, course all this prosperity has tu? tv.ii/l l'i.f ! > I I"" ? ./w |MM\| IWI *11 inv mmi^ J fill 9 peace which must follow, for ;;u\f rnnieiil ran carry on \frar lefinitely without destroying credit. When the abnormal maud lias ceased and the nor i! production is readied, prices i^in' to sat; nnd taxes heint; avier,the hardens ot the people j felt more severely. This has en the history of war. Knirland s always enjoyed a wave of f prosperity during, and for a time after, each war in which she has engaged, when the war was in foreign territory. In each case the falling prices and the closer competition of peaceful time* have resulted in bread riots and general discontent. Hence it fias come to be thought not a bad ' thing for a country to have an occasional war; for while it, brings many evils, it relieves the pres sure upon the masses and allevi; ates the struggle for existence. Civics and economics are but half developed sciences. They | have hardly yet reached that degree of perfection which enables us to say positively what remedy to apply to a given social or financial evil. But it seems to us that the time has surely arrived when we may discard this barbarous, blood thirsty doctrine of war for prosperity, and adopt some system whereby the same end may be reached without the shedding of blond and the consequent degredation of our people. If the government would, not at inter---** vals as in llio rase of war, but continually at '1 regularly adopt some system of public works, which would lake Irom ordinary occupation something like two hundred thousand men and pro' vide tor an expenditure of say a hundred million dollars per annum. we might expect the good ' financial results ot war without entailing upon ourselves the fearful cure itself. For instance, if t th" government of the United 1 iStates should undertake the irrigation of t lie western deserts, or the cutting of long ship canals, or the building of Macadam roads throughout the country, any one of which undertakings would ah sorb immense sums and require i the labors of hundreds ot thous. ands of men, the same beneficent results of war would accrue without the moral losses. Then besides the oonntry would bo immensely benefitted by the i work done. The government might build three splendid roads from the Atlantic to the Pacific each year at hall the cost of an ordinary war. Perhaps it could link an Atlantic port with the , Mississippi river and the ereat west by a canal via the Savannah and the Tennessee rivers, or via the l'otoniac and the Ohio rivers. It would not be difficult to find a sufficient number of public works to keep the government constantly encaged and to i Itlie profit and permanent advanj tace of the people. If we must ' have some means of exciting 'trade to abnormal proportions, surely this is a bettor plan than war. A SURB CUIUS FOR CROUP. ? v j Twenty-Five Years' Constant Use Without a Failure. The llrst itolication of eronp is I hoarseness, ami inn ? |? 11 ?t subject to j tlint (license it may he taken as n sure I sign of i lie approach of an attack. I Follow nig t liis hoarseness is a peculiar rough rough. If Chamberlain's i t/Ollirh lieliieil i.' i j ? *' ? , . . " a."' ."IS MH* | child become* bourse, or even after the cronpy cough appears, it will prevent ! the attai'k. It is used in many thousands of homes in this broad land and > never disappoints the anxious ninth! era. We have yet to learn of a single I instance in which it has not proved effectual. No other preparation can <? show such a record?t wenty-llve years' constant use without a failure. For sale by .1. F. "Mackey & Co. If troubled with Dizziness, Furred Tongue, Hitter Tn-te in Mouth, llloat- / j ed Feeling after eating, Constipation or Sick lleadahe, use Dr. M. A. Sim| uions Liver Medicine.