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P I HEALTH "I don't think w? oonld kr?y U house without Thsdford's niackDraujrht. We hare uaed HS in tha family forever two year* with tha B beat of results. I have not bad a Hj doctor in the hniijn for that length H of time. It is a doctor in itseVf and I,, always ready to tnako a person well B and appy."?JAMHH MALL, JackH sou ville, 111. lbjcause this great medicine H relieves stomach pains. frees the & constipated bowels and invigorL a ten the torpid liver and wcakK ened kidneys | no DOCTOR | M is necessary in the home where * Pi Thedford's Black-Draught is K R* kept. Families living in the u ftl country, miles from any nhysi M| cian, have been kept in health H for years with this medicine as I their only doctor. Thedford'a B B Flack -1 'raujjlit cures bilious- E] V ness, dyspepsia, colds, chills aud k. M fever, bad blood, headaches, H Q diarrhoea, constipation, colic H B and almost every other ailment u HI because tho stomach, bowels uj m liver and kidneys so nearly con- g W trol the health. I THEDFORD'S I black-\ [pbaughli 11 11vi"1 M M "' 1i l llOLJiiII I S FOK FAKMKKS i he ( lose of the Year. liow doeH it stand with the farmers in these last dave of December, 1903? Are they netter prepared for the next year than they were for the present one? Do they find that their lands are better than they were a year ago. Are their w .rk ani inals in good condition? Are they supplied with beet fnrni iniple meats? Is there an abundance <if pnrn Mint fnruuu / n hatwt f..r tho next season? Have they sown small grain? Are they really any better oil than they were twelve months ago? The above are a few questions for them to consider during the holidays and the New Y^ar. Whije holding the self-exam ination the following suggestions may set them to thinking: FA KM ACCOUNTS. Any farmer who can add a row of figures can keep a farm account. Or perhaps the larger boys and girls could do the work and it would be good training for them. They can get a few lesfiftna from ar\ m n KaaI/ h ? A ?vr..u . m x/*a* kj\j\t m. aur yxr. I tti the store or bank. Let the farmer charge himself with land, farm implements, horses and other animals. That will be his capital carried from year 4o year- Then he will have to keep an accutntof all things purchased tor the farm, charging up every cent paid out from a paper of pins for the wife up to a steam engine. On the other side all income must be set down and at the close of the year all agricultural products on hand. The increase in cattle, hogs and horses will go down on the credit side. Then if he wishes to make a clean showing board of the family would be a large item. In some puch way any intelligent farmer would h better insight into bis real condition. SKTTINQ OUT TREKS. Too many homos of farmers are without shade and fruit trees. Ilide through all this Piedmont country in August and many of homes are exposed to the heat of the sun on all sides. Then the scarcity of fruit will be noticeable. Set out shade trees at once. There is no need of buy Iing from a nurBery. The water onk, poplar, sweet gum, holly, beech and various other hardy trees a*e abundant. Dig them up and set them out. 'Ihen if you have no grape vines by all 1 means get a few and set thetn out. Tiien be sure to put out a few fruit trees. Quinces, cherries and plums thrive better in rich soi 1 very compact ou surface L'i .nted in the back yard, or about the horse lot out of (he reai h of animals thoy always I do well. PA PER 8 AND HOOKS. The tin mer who fails to furnish good papers, magazines and hooks r his family does a great injustice to them. He may giv(> them sullicient food, shelter and clothing, hut he does the same ior his horses and cat tie, if lie is a humane master. There are half a dozen dollar magazim s that are really good. Then nit re are papers relating to I ' every department of farm work. A tew good books will entertain ami instruct a family the whole year. Start out by getting a good dictionary, a map of the | world, one county and church j paper, one or two good agricultural papers, two magazines, one general and the other suited for the wife and daughters. Aside from the dictionary and map the cost would not be exceeding $5. Then some excellent books may I hp bought for 25 to 50 cents each. They ar? not trashy, but good, standard literature. Ten dollars invested in papers and books would go far towards educating the boys and girls and making the h- ine bright and happy. J UK WOOD PKODLEM. During the last ten years iu the counties abounding in cotton mills there has been a great de tnand foi firewood. One consequence is that wood is getting i quit? scarce. Farmers are haulI leg it six to teu miles to towns. | Occasionally wood may be seen I on the market that has been hauled fifteen miles. Of courpe f j tn? railroads for a limited time lean supply the demand, but it ! will m/\e\ r i l> oonm n ooo eoo * ?. pvwu in V^/IIIO nuai v>u ill 1 oauu of railways. That is the people are destroying timber faster than the growth. It will become scarcer and scarcer and the price will go higher than it is at present. We advise farmers to plant waste lands in trees. The hillsides and the ravines that are numerous in the up-country will produce a large amount of firewood in a few years. The old field pine is perhaps the quickest growth. It requires about twenty years for that to attain much size. We know such lands that will give 15 to 25 cords to the acre and the pines have made most of their growth in twenty years. Any of the oak family, popular or sweet gurr. will grow rapidly. On iirtle streams the willow Huh oiwl Kim I. m.'ii I? "" " ? " Cured After Suffering 10 Years. B. P. Hare, Supt. Miami Cycle & Mfg. Co. Middletown, O., sulf'ered for ten yearn with dyspepsia. He spent hundreds of dollars for medicine and without receiving any permanent benefit. He says "On* night while feeling excep tionally bad 1 was about to throw down the evening paper when 1 saw an item in the paper regarding the merits of Kodol Dyspep sia Cure. I concluded to try it and while I had no faith in it I felt bettor after the second dose. After using two bottles I am stronger and better than I have been in years, and I recommend Kodol Dyspepsia Cure to -my friends and acquaintances suffering from stomach trouble." Sold by Crawford Bros. t ? soon get large enough for firewood. Another suggestion we make is that the farmers use their timber economically. When cutting wood select dead trees, or the crooked ones that have dono their host. Leave all the young, vigorous timber. One mav cut his winter sunnlv of rrv w" wood from a few acres of land and really improve its condition. There are stumps enough on some farms to make a considerable amount of firewood. The land is greatly improved by tak ing them up. SOMK HINTS FOR THE FUTURK. A seriouh condition confronts many farmers in this State. In some sections all crops were short. In the lowor part of Richland, certain sections of Orangeburg and Darlington and other counties there is complaint of | hard times. The male laborers have deserted the farms in Richland county and gone to railroads, turpentine districts and other public works. The women and children loft behind are in destitute circumstances. Hoth land lord and tenants are in a bad way. What is the remedy ! The rye sown for pasture was killed by dry weather in many places. The late sowing could not get up on account of the cold. Very few oats have been sown. We advise farmers to how rich lots in rye and oatR or barley I now. Break deep, manure well land how enough seed. If put in with a drill and harrowed a time or two they will furnish green feed bp the middle of April. The lots thus sown may be planted in corn and peas the first of June. The landlord who has good hands should give them work the year round. There is clearing, ditching, subsoiling, wood cutting and repairing out houses and farm roads always needed. Put the men to work on such jobs as these. Ah soon aftter the first of January as possible start the plows and prepare for the next crop. ?J-* r m. innuun icttHuuH creun ior supplies will be diiHcult to Recure next year. The merchants will not be able to furnish large quantities of goods on time. Owing to the stringency in the money market time prices will be high. Let the landlords make ai raugementfl with his hands to furnish them. He then can con trol the crop and sell when he gets rtsady.?Cotton Plant. One I)ose Convinces. Mozley's Lemon Elixir acts gently on the bowels without any unpleasant effect. It is a perfect liquid laxative. 50 cents per bottle at all drugstores. The Wise Course For the Farmer Correspondent Cotton Plant. Cotton has been an interesting subject for many years. It grows more interesting as each year's crop is marketed. The changes in the price of cotton have a wide felt ell'ect upon the finances ot the civilized world. The sudden rise or tall of one cent per pound in the price ot lint cotton makes and unmakes tort ones in a day. These things make it important tor the farmer to study the supply and demand for cotton. If the crop is a tew thousand bales in excess of the demand, the entire crop sells lor less than it should. If on the other hand it falls below the demand, the price advances beyond the real value, lience it is a matter of vital importance to the farmer to know how much is wanted and how to make just about that quantity. Just now the supply is short of the demand, and the price is very high. This is likely to cause a largo majority of farmers to wish to plant, more cotton next, season. They should he very careful not to do this. As soon as the crop is plamed, estimates of the mini her of acres planted will he made. If it is thought that an increased acreage has been plat* ed, the price will ho lowered and this will prevent the next crop from bringing the price it should. Again if large quantities of commercial fertilizers are bought, this will he used to lower the price. What then is the wise course for the far infer to pursue? First, do not increase the acre age. Do not plant as much much as you did in 1903. Hut you can prepare the land belter and make more per acre, and they cannot estimate this so as to alfect the price. Secondly, use fertilizers with more judgment. Do not buy ajl kinds of low grade mixtures; buy the material you need, and mix for cotton. We see that it is not the acres you plant, but the bales that you gin that makes the crop. Dis eases and insects have much to do with the yield. Ilence whatever you can do to prevent, these damages helps you. The United Slates government is spending large sums and doing all it can to encourage you to grow varieties that will resist the disease and get ahead of the insects. You can do a great deal in this direc tion by looking after the health of your cottou. Weekly plants do not mature heavy crops nor early crops. They are also liable to all kinds ol diseases, black rot, wilt, rust, boll worm, or boll weevil, any and all nl 1 1 .?! wi uiwr llllU K.I1IU1CU llisuiises 111 ii\ cut short or destroy late crops or crops that are not vigorous. It is well known that potash contributes more to health and vigor of cotton than any other mineral Hence we should use this ingredient freely. On many soils it seems to bo able to entirely prevent rust. Just how much we should apply and how we should apply it are not easy questions to answer. Different conditions will have much to do with this. Generally speaking high per cent, fertilizers are cheaper. Hut kainit seems to suit some soilf\ better than muriate. Potash, by making the plant healthy, enables it. to giyw off earlier in the spring This aiho causes ine oolls to be larner and to hold on better. Thus it increases the crop. Besides this it causes a heavier crop of seed, and as the lint proves from the seed, it increases both the quan tity and quality of the lint. Apply broad cast, or in drill, from two hundred to one thousand pounds per acre. .lames B. Hunnicutt. Atlanta, Oa. What's In a Name? Everything is in the name when it comes to Witch Hazel Salve. E. (J. DeWitt <fc Co., of Chicago, discovered some years ago how to make a salve from Witch Hazel, that is a specific for Files For blind, bleeding, itching and protruding Files, eczema, cuts, burns, bruises and all skin diseases De Witt's Salve has no equal. This has given rise to numerous worthless rounterfoits. Ask for De Witt's?the genuine. Sold by Crawford Bros. To save a negro from lynching, Justice Morris, of Driver, Vu , gave Charles Bynuin, charged with firing a barn, his preliminary trial by the light made by the burning barn at 2 a. m. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought B.ar. th. VA$^T-?~ Signature of fCtZZ/uA4 Thousands Hare Kidney Trouble and Never Suspect it t How To Find Out. ? Fill a bottle or common glass with youf water and let it stand twenty-four hours ; a sediment or settling indicates an , unhealthy con- * dition of the kidI your linen it is to pass it or pain ? in the back is also convincing proof that the kidneys and bladder are out of order. What To Do. There is comfort in the knowledge so often expressed, tliat Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, the great kidney remedy, fulfills every wish in curing rheumatism, pain in the back, kidneys, liver, bladder and every part of the urinary passage. It corrects inability to hold water and scalding pain in passing it, or bad effects following use of liquor, wine or beer, and overcomes that unpleasant necessity of being compelled to go often during 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 jQ for its wonderful cures of the most distressing cases. If you need a medicine you should have the best. Sold by druggists in fifty-cent and one-dollar sizes. You may have a sample bottle and a nbout it, both sent f i ee liamton, N. Y. When non>? of swamp-Root, writing mention this paper and don't make any mistake, but remember the name, Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, and the address, llingliamton, N. Y. LANCASTER & CHESTER RAILWAY COMPANY SCUKDULK IN EFFECT NOV 'JV. IBJ3. DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. WESTHOUND Lv Lancaster 7 15am 500 pm I.v Port Lawn 7 34 a m 5 30 p m Lv Mmtcotuvillo 7 44 u m 5 45 p m Lv Ulcllliurir 7 5 t a in ? 00 i> in Ar Cheater H is a m 6 .4< p in Ar Charlotte?Sou. Ky 5 s a tu 0 <><) p m Ar Columbia?Son Kv II 00 n m I I5 ft in A i A 11ft iila S A I, liv. .. 4 |> in Ar Yorkville ?UAN-W.R|.f l& i m Ar Oastonia " " 10 30 am Ar Lenoir " " 2 05pm EASTHOUND Lv Lenoir?C.&N-W. Ry.... 2 30pm Lv Cast.oil.i " " 0 :!u p in Lv Yorkvllle " " 023 p tn Lv Atlin tft?S.A L Ity ... I ' u p in i.\ ii.ii. ... i:. .. ..0 In n m fl.Vi p m Lv Charlotte ?Sou. Kv . ...8 40 am 6 - > |> ra Lv (Theater HI u0 u tn 8 25 p in Lv Klchburt; 10 45 ft in H 49 p tn Lv HftMCotnv Mo II 00 a m H 55 p m Lv Fori La" n 1116am 006 p m Ar Lancaster II 45 am u ?5 p in CONNECTIONS T CHESTER?Southern, Seaboard, and CaroMna & North-Western Railways LANCASTER?Southern Railway. A. P. McLUKK, Superintendent. LKKOY SPRINGS. President. Auditor's Notice. Notice is hereby ifiven flint this office will he open from the 1st ilav of n < <* / ??? i iir ^ui ii mi) hi r eoruary, 1904, for the purpose of receiving (he returns of the taxpayers of Lancaster county. All persons having property in their possession or control, as managers, holders or as husband, parent, guardian, trustee,execulor, administrator. receiver, accounting* otlicer, agent, attorney,or factor, on the First day of January 1904, are required to list 'he same for taxation within the time required hy law or incur the penalty or Fifty percent, whi h attaches in cases of failure to do so. The full tax of One iJollar is laid upon all male persons between the ages of 21 and <50 years, excepr persons who are maimed and unable to earn a support, and Confederate soldiers. For the convenience of the public the A editor or an assistant will attend the following places in the county on the days named : Osceola?Tuesday .Ian. Mil, 12 to J J o'clock. Pleasant Valley?Wed .Ian. (5. Relair?Tuesday, .Ian. 7. Van Wyck?Friday, Jan. H, !? to 12 o'clock. Dixie a. m., Dwight, p. in., Monday, Ian. lllh. T Tradesville?Tuesday, .Ian. 121 h. Taxahaw? Wednesday, .Ian. 13th. Flat Creek church?Thursday. January 14th. Dr. C.O. Welsh's?Friday, Jan. IS. l'rimus?Saturday, January 10th, to 12 o'clock. Hail** Gold Mine?Monday, Jan. 18. Keraliaw?Tuesday and Wednesday Ian. l&th and 20th. Heath gprings?Tuesday. Jan. 21st. Pleasant Hill?Friday, Jan. 22, to 2 p. m. Dry Creek?Monday, Jan. 25th. Under an act of the legislature, all persons having a gross income of $2,500 or more, are required to make a ret urn of the same to the Auditor at the time of making their other returns. It will he to the interest of every taxpaper to make his return promptly of all personal property; also ot .'ill transfers or improvements on r? al ^ estate, and save the penalty of 50 per cent which attaches after the 20th of February 1004. Kespt., J NO. A. COOK, County Auditor. Deo. 03-tld W