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W ' Badly Shattered Nerves and Weak Heart. Too Nervous to Sleep or R.est. Dr.Miles'Heart Cure and Nervine Cured Me. A shattered nervous system nearly always leads to some affection of the heart, especially where the patient's heart is weak from hereditary or other causes. Dr. Miles' Heart .< ?1.. - I l-.?- l?. .o U.I.J KIWI Iir?ll irciiiuiui, Iiuk it is a blood tonic which speedily corrects and regulates the heart's action, enriches the blood and improves the circulation. It will build you up just as it did Mr. Crawford who-e letter follows, and greatly improve your general health: "I have been so greatly benefited by Dr. Miles'Nervine and ileart Cure that I freely recommend them as the best remedies for the diseases they are recommended to cure. When I began taking these medicines I weighed scarcely 140 pounds, my nerves were badly shattered ana my heart troubled me a great deal. I had pain in my left arm and shoulder, had difficulty in sleeping on mv left side, had frequent smothering spells and my heart would flutter and palpitate. I could eat scarcely any kind of food without suffering great distress, and was so restless and nervous that I slept little night or day. Now I am never bothered with my heart, my nerves are steady as a die, 1 sleep well, eat well and weigh 163 pounds. I am happy now and am trying to make back the money I spent for doctors who did rue no good while I was ill."?T. R. Crawford, Center, Texas. All druggists sell and guarantee first bottle Dr. Miles' Remedies. Send for free book on Nervous and Heart Diseases. Address Dr. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, lnd. The Elusive $10 Bill. Hy Elliott Fowler in February McOlure's. Abuer Calkins was resting. In order to rest properly it was necessary that Aoner should have his feet elevated to approximately the sAme height as his head, so he had carefully placed them on the raihug in the City Clerk's office. The City Clerk was an old trieud, and so was the railing. Whenever Abner came to town to make purchases or to dispose of the produce of his farm, he invariably called on the City Clerk and made temporary use of the railing. On this occasion the City Clerk was deeply interested in an old typewriter. lie inserted a sheet of paper, and then hit ail the keys oue after another, begin ning at the upper left-hand corner and ending at the lower right hand corner. "I don't see what's the matter with that machine," he paid at last. "It's rather o'd and some of the letters are worn, but it works all right." "Is it yourn?" asked Abner casually. "No; it belongs to the city," answered the City 'lerk. "It has been discarded by one of the de partmentB and I'm the custodian." ??TU? L _ OH J * ui? wuuu uemanueu ADnor. "The custodian," explained the City Clerk. 4,I have charge of it. I have charge of all the supplies and in fact of all property that isn't in use, but I'm blesaed if 1 know what to do with this. They're getting mighty particular when they discard so good a machine." Abner puffed at his corncob pipe meditatively for a few minutes. "Liz is dead set to have one o' them things," he remarked at last. "Never saw such a girl in rny life?thinks she's going to be a story writer an' says nothin's no good only when it's writ on a tvpe-write machine. If they clKln't cost so blame much I'd git her one." "Why don't you buy this one?" asked the City Clerk. "It's go ius; 10 trie Btoro room and it's no use there." "How muchb" said Abner, with the terseness that characterized him when the question was one of dollars and cents. "Oh. I guess you could ha*7* 't for ten dollars," replied the City Olerk. Abner Calkins took his feet from the railing and let the front egs of his chair come down with ? thump, as he reached for his pocket book. "I'll take it," he announced, unwinding the string that encir cled the pocket book and producing a ten dollar bill. "Oh, 1 can't sell it," explained the City Clerk. I'm merely ex officio custodian? "Ex what?" "Ex officio. I mean that's one the duties of my position is to take care of all such things, and they can only leave my possession on the written order of the Mayor or the City Treasurer. You pay ten dollars to Hark ley, the Tress urer, and get an order from him. We have to do these things by system in a municipality, you know." "Nnw. lonk-a hprp. Sum Skin-. ner," protested Abner; "I ain't city bred an' I'm glad I ain't, an' don't you go springin' them words on me an' ma kin' fun o' me. I reckon I'm smart enough to learn city wajs if I wanted to." "Of course you are," admitted the City Clerk conciliatorily. "I'm only explaining how you will have to go about it to get the machine." Somewhat mollified, Abner departed to hunt up the City Treas urer, but, unfortunately, there was some delay in reaching him. When he was found, however, the business was quickly transacted. "Ten dollars for a discarded type-writer in the store-room," repeated the City Treasurer. "Why, sure. The city's so hard up and there are so many outstanding bills and judgments that I'm almost ready to turn the office into cash. Give the money to the cashier and I'll wrice you an order for the machine." Armed with the order Abner returned, only to find t)ie City Clerk absen* The machine was there but it could not be touched until the order hud received the "O. K." of the City Clerk, and , that official had not appeared when the lateness of the hour necessitated a departure for the farm "It's mighty annoying," commented Abner to himself; "but I reckon 1 can git it the next time I come to town. Knowed Sam ever since his father had the next farm to mine, 'fore he come to town, an' it's safe with him till tomorry or the day after." Abner's daughter, Lizzie, was delighted when she heard of the purchase. She was sure that the road to literary fame was uow open to her, for she was in possession of several stories that she knew had been returned because they were not type-written. In fact, she was so enthusiastic that she insisted upon accompanying Ahner when he went after the machine, and she was very much distressed because three days passed before he felt that he had leisure to make the trip. Finally however, they invaded the City Clerk's office together. "Kemember Liz, don't ye, Sam?" asked Abner, by way of preface. "Used to play with her when you was a boy *n' lived out near us." Tiie City Clerk threw away his cigar and hastily rose from his chnir, for Lizzie was an attractive young woman. He had not seau her for several years, and girls blossom into young women very quickly. "Come for that there typewrite machine," Abner went on, "an' Liz is so crazy 'bout it she had to come too." Thereupon Abner handed the order to the City Clerk, who took it mechanically and read it through twice while he was getting his wits together; for the City Clerk was in a quandary. ??YA/u.. u.. ?i? t?? i.1? ft U > W n y , tut? IRCt IB, tllB machine isn't here now," he explained at last. "Ain't here!" ejaculated Abner. "Where in tarnation is it? I paid my ten dollars for it." "Of course," said the City Clerk soothingly, "and no doubt ' Mysterious Circumstance. One was pale and sallow and the other fresh and rosy. Whence the difference ? She who is blushing with health nses Dr. King's New Life Pills to maintain it. By gently arousing the lazy organs they compel good digestion ami head off constipation. Try tht-m. Only 25c,at Crawford Bros, J. F. Mack -y <V Co., and Funderburk Pharmacy. ft we can straighten the matter out t all right. But you didn't come i back for it, you know, and the next day the Mayor sent down an t order for it, and a clerk in the j Water office has it now." "But I've got an order for it," asserted Abner belligerently. "Quite right," acquiesced the 1 City Clerk; "but this lsu't the place to present the order now. j I can't give you what isn't in my c possession. You take the order ) to Mr. Winkler at the Water Office and tell him you want the < machine." "Come on, Liz," said Abner de- ( terminedly. "1 bet. ye 1 get that i mere machine or I'll bust thiugs * wide open." Lizzie, doubtful and disap- e pointed, dutifully followed her aggressive father to the Water t Office, where Mr. Winkler Sol- t eninly read the order through. t "This doesn't interest me," announced the latter. "It's ad- . dressed to the City Clerk." . "But the City Clerk hain't got ^ the niachiue," protested Abner hotly. "1 can't help that," said Mr Winkler. "In a municipality , things have to be done according to system. The machine is here I by order of the Mayor. You'd ' better see him." "Well, by gum! I'm goin' to have that machine!" proclaimed Abner. "Now you jest watch me ! Come on, Liz." The girl's mouth twitched onn- | nously as she followed ; she was not far from tears. The Mayor gave the subject a few minutes of thoughtful con ' sideration before replying to Ab I ner's demand. ' "Neither the City Treasurer t nor the City Clerk had any rieht 1 to Fell that machine," he* said at t last. "No one has any right to c, sell city property for which the ' city has any use, and thiB type t writer was sent to the store room , by mistake. It is serviceable and { is needed in the Water Office." 'But it's mine!'' broke in Abner wrathfully. . "Not at all," answered the Moyor. "You simply show your r ignorance of civic methods of doing business. It's all an elabo- < rate system, you know." "System be dinged!" roared Abner. "Every tarnation critter , talks about system while he's beating me out o' my typewriter machine an' my ten dollars. It's I a swindle; that's what your sys- 5 tern is 1" i "Be a little careful, Mr. Cal * kins," cautioned the Mayor with 1 dignity. "Neither the city nor * its officials are in the swindling 1 business, and you would not be 1 in this predicament if you were not ignorant of the ordinary routine." "I'm learnin'," retorted Abner, "an' I'm paying for the eddieation." "The best thing for you to do," continued the Mayor kindly, "is to i go he to City Trea^rer and get ' your money back. While there ( is use tor the machine, I Certain < ly can't let it go for ten dollars." "Come on, Liz," said Abner, his determination and energy in no measure diminished. "Dang ?i.,. i.;..~ ?.> . imi . i nc7 111 nK-11111rry nuyvrny y a n ?^11 the money." "But, my dear Mr. Calkins, I ' haven't your ten dollars," said the City Treasurer. "1 give it to that cashier o' youm," asserted Abner. "You tell him to give it back to me." "He hasn't it now, either. It has been entered on the books | and belongs to the city." "It belongs to me," insisted 1 Abner. "Ethically it does, but practi cally it is a part of the city tunds at this moment, and can only be , secured by the regular system." "System be swiggled I" cried Abner wrathfully. "I want my ten dollars." i "Naturally," answered tho City i Treasurer. "I quite appreciate ] your feeling, and I was about to < say that I'll give you a voucher < for it." ( "Now, you're talkin'business," I said Abner with evident aratiftca- < tion. *4Uive me the voucher an' l ^ i, ,, - i WT"' Y* ell me how to get the money on t." "That's very simple," explain)d the City Treasurer. "All yon lave to do is to present it to the vhief Clerk to be recorded, and vhen the city has the ttymey it vill be paid." "Has the money I" repeated \bner. 4iWhy, dang it! The jity'8 got my ten dollars now, lain't it?" iiAi' - I -v^i course, our. mere are daims ahead of yours." "There hain't nobody got, any ;laim on that ten dollars but rue. It's mine." "You don't understand the lystem " "Don't you talk no system to ne," interrupted Abner, "or I'll miash your head in! The sysem's nigh wore me out a'ready." "What 1 mean," explained .the Elberta Peach Trees, Barred Plymouth Rocks, Red Raspberry Plants. Irk* for halo >lnK a snfclaltv. All inquiries >rompily answered. Write for circulars, GEO. F. MONTGOMERY, an 1.1 St Marietta, Ga. WW&nt L??.? TO QUALin FOR GOOD POSITIONS OUARANTIID IN WRITING. BOO FREE 8CB0^8.",' ??7o'E" GA. - ALA. BUS. COLLEGE. MACON. OA CTCTPBC! READ MY MdIIiIUjI Free Offer rHK COUPON below tilled out with your address, and sent with a two-cent stamp, oMrs. M A. Hilton, Kershaw, S. C., within he next thirty days, entitles you to a package lontaining a Homo Treatment discovered t>y drs. M. 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It stands the highest for its wonderful cures of the most dis- ^ tressing 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 about it, bothsent f ree liaintoil, N. Y. When Home ol Bwamp-Root. writing mention this paper and don't make any mistake, but remember the name. Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, and the address, Binghamton, N. Y. LANCASTER & CHESTER RAILWAY COMPANY SCHEDULE IN EFFECT NOV 39, 19)3. uailii r.av,r.r i au aua i. WESTHOUND Lv Lancaster 7 15nm 5 00 pm Lv Fori Uwn * 34 a m 5 30 p m (,v HaHcomvtllc 7 44 a in 5 45 p m Lv Klchburg 7 5 i a m 0 (A) p in Ar i: hen lor 815am Ui-pm Ar Charlotte?Sou. Ky 9 55 a m 9 oo p m Ar Columbia? Sou Itv .... 11 00 a m 1 15 a m A r A tlanta?S. A. L. Ry. ...4 5o p m Ar Yorkvllle ? C.&N-W. Ky .9 35 a m Ar Oastonia " 10 30 am A r Lenoir " " 2 05 p m EAST1IOUND Lv Lenoir?C.&N-W. 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All persons having property in their possession or control, as managers, holders or as husband, parent, guardian, trustee, executor, administrator, receiver, accounting otllcer, agent, attorney, or factor, on the First day of January 1904, are required to list the same for taxat ion within the time required by law or incur the penalty or Fifty percent, whi h attaches in cases of failure to do so. The full tax of One Dollar is laid upon all male persons between the ages ?> t\ aim no yearn, except persona who are maimed and unable to earn a support, and Confederate soldiera. For the convenience of the public the Auditor or an assistant will attend the following places in the county on the days named : Osceola?Tuesday Jan. Kth, 12 to 3 o'clock. Pleasant Valley?Wed Jan. 6. <J Helair?Tuesday, Jan. 7. Van Wyck?Friday, Jan. 8, U to 11 o'olock. Dixie a. in., Dwight, p. in., Monday Jan. lltb. Tradeaville?Tuesday, Jan. 12th. ^ Taxahaw?Wednesday, Jan. 13th. Flat Creek church ?Thursday, January 14th. t)r. C.C. Welch's?Friday, Jan. IIS. Primus?Saturday, January 10th, to 12 o'clock. Maile Cold Mine?Monday, Jan. 18. Kershaw?'I uesday and Wednesday ' J an. lflth mil MOl h Heath Springs?Tuesday, Jan. 21st. 1'leanant Hill?Friday, Jan. 22, to 'J 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 return of the same to the Auditor at the time of malting their other returns. It will be to the interest of every taxpapsr to make hisretnrn promptly of all persenal property; also of all transfers or improvements on real estate, and save the penalty of 50 per cent wbieh attaches after the 20th ef Febraarj 1904. hesyt, J NO. . COOK, *aaatf Auditor. I I>ee. $, W-Md 4