r
Defeated.
Hp?Sorry (o hear your engagement
Mth young I?e Rocks is off.
She?Yes: lie ran away and enlisted
to tight in China, the coward!?Chicago
News.
A (tollable Almunac.
A good Almanac is an important factor in
(very house. A poor one is worse tbaa none
at all. If our readers would have the best,
*Ha?9 will ?>At nn? in whioh iht* SliTUS Of ttttf
zodiac, moon's pba?-es, tune of sunriso and
Bunset, days lengths, etc., aro correctly calculated
and not guessed at. Our experience
has been, and many others agree likewise,
(that Ramon's Weather Almanac is the most
accurate and reliable ono published. The
weather (ore-casts in this almanac have
proton themselves wonderfully correct In
foretelling storms, cold waves and sudden
changes of the weather, even as much so as
the signal service reportt. The astrouomsr
who makes the calculations belongs to a Juicily
who have made it th?ir profession for a
eeninr* and the records at his dlsyosnl nro
such as to make his predictions almost perfect.
Our readers can get a oof y free at acy
Drug Store or by addressing the Browu MnnulacturiDg
Co., GreeueviUe. Tenu. Those
who prater an almanac in ou.t4dur form,
showing moon's phases, weather predictions,
etc.. can gst one of the Ramon's Brownie
Calendurs, Illustrated in colors, for 10 ceu'.s.
from the same company
Senat-irs audt'ongross are now using Goose
Grease for sore throa . hoarseness ani colds
Itcures \vh?*n all else fail. The wise use Goose
Urease tor man or beast,every bottle guarant'd
When a woman drops a remark it is
natural that her speech should be broken.
To Cure a Cold In One May.
Take Laxative BkoXO Quinine Tables.
All druggists refund the money if it fails to
cure. E. W. Ubove's signature on each box.
25a
At Christmas even the humblest
may have a family tree.
Tn<Ilr?nc?inn ia a had anmiianlon. Get rid Of I
it by cbewiDg a bar of Adams' FepsinTutti
Frutti after each meal. ,
Sillicus?"They say he Ls qute a literary
light." Cynicus?"Yes; he seems
rather light."
Hire'* tioouc (irriuo
Will absolutely cure Ckoit. Corens and
Colds qu ckei than anything known.
The greatest favorites are not the
people who are always asking favors.
We refund 10c for every package of Putnam
Fadklk s 1 te tiiat fails to gi>o satisfaction.
Alonroo Drug Co., Unionvillc. Mo.
Sold by all druggists.
A wedding mom should have no
mourning.
Scratch-*, -addle gal!-'. - >rc shoulders,
sweeney. cuts, biu ses aud lameness of ov- r kiud,curcuat>
iu- by ?.oosciirca-e Lin:meat.
The iceman's profits must sur lv be cold
ca-b. So. 1Makes
Hair i
urow
?
Perhaps your mother had j
thin hair, but that is no reason
whv vou must go through iife
with half-starved hair. If you
want long, thick hair, feed it.
r eed it with Aver s Hair \ igor,
the onlv genuine hair food you
can buy.
Your hair will grow thick
and long, and will be soft and
glossy.
Ayer's Hair Vigor always i
restores color to gray hair; it j
keeps the scalp clean and
healthy, and stops tailing of !
the hair.
One dollar a bottle.
If your druggist cannot supply vcu, send
us fii<x> and we will express a bottle to you,
all charges prepaid. Be sure and give us
your nearest express office.
J. C. Ayex Co., Lowell, Mass.
Send for our beautiful illustrated book on
The Hair. Free.
III ?. Safest. surest cure for
Hr KilEK Sail throat and lung
l/l w troubles. People praise
/"? t P I. (w./.?Arervr*C/>ril\iatf
Lougn ^yrup Ouick. sure results,
ieiuse substitutes. Get Dr. bull's Cough Svrut*.
W3 r* i
supply
at i enough PotWk\-l?M>
WS i ]
a a y?nr
W\ I profits will be
J^Q>X * i||jj large; without
3* Potash your
croP will be
"scrubby."
Our book.- falling about composition of fertilizer*
tKiCudapted for all crops, are free to all farmers.
JL.' GERMAN KALI WORKSw
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I FARM TOPICS I
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How to Fatten Chicken*.
Younir chickens. say. from two to
three montlis' old. will not take on fat
........in.r nt 1nr?ro mul nrc there
fore not in prime condition for tho
table. They will, of course, be thrifty
and grow fast, but their tiesli does not
liavo that tender and juicy flavor that
a week's special care in conlinensent
will give.
A creat many people do incalculable
Injury to the fowls by shooting anions
them, or by letting a dog chase the one
they want to kill.
This is all wrong. and may lie avoided
l?j bavins a slat coop larso euoush
to comfortably hold half a dozen
chickens. Catch them at nisht after
they have sone to roost, and quietly
put them in the coop. Feed them all
they will eat of table scraps, cooked
potatoes, rice. milk. etc. Vegetable
scraps and grass should also be given.
Ill a week or ten days' time they will
be fat. and so far superior to one taken
YV/im thu flniL- ot lor"., tli.ol villi could
tell the difference even when blindfolded.?National
Provisioned
Shredding or Tim-shins Corn.
T have handled the corn crop In the
dry state in nearly every way possible.
Running it through the old threshing
machine has these objections: You can
do but a small amount at one time, as
there is no practical way of getting the
fodder from the machine without
treading it more or less, and this will
start the whole bulk heating at once.
The cob is lost in the mow. which we
now grind up with the corn. A large
percentage of the grain is cracked,
which in a moist time soon begins to
mold.
Willi tl.rt cm-ill luislror with .-i fchrod
der nn<l wind stacker arrangement. the
pipe can be placed over any of the big
beams in the old style barns and made
to till a bay half or two-thirds full,
without a man stepping in the bay.
This is the secret of keeping the fodder:
we tried jt in threshing corn and
found it all right, hut we had to arrange
high scaffolding so as to shove
stalks off without treading. A mow
ten or fifteen foot deep will hold perfectly
safe if not trodden.?f. II. Whitcomb,
in American Agriculturist.
Good Butter.
It seems hard for some farmers to
realize the fact that in the making of
a first-class article of butter the beginning
is in the stable. Accumulations
of 1:11li in the stables, moldiuoss
in the food or filth of any kind wiii
make it impossible to make the best
quality of butter, no mat tor what the
treatment of the milk ami cream may
l)o afterward.
No particular plan of butter making
will bo fouml host for all. DilToivuoe
in conditions will often make a considerable
difference in the plan of
management that it will be best to
follow.
Economy should always be considered.
If choice butter can be produced
more easily or at less cost in
on." way than in another it is certainly
good economy to try that method.
Profit is * he principal object sought
. ml tin- Tirnlii is; (ho otto in li" followed.
V?iu- n po??r quality of salt will
often est use trouble with the butler,
stml pnrtieuhuiy so if it is onarso
jrrainetl. that if cannot l?e well or
rat'iu;- thoroughly incorporated wil'i
111-- hut let*. -Northwest I'steilie I'strnv
?r.
A Device For I'ulihic t'p T'ost?.
A post-pulling device whieli i have
found very .-.itistaoiory eons'sU oi a
J' \< i of two by four inches oak. seven
feci ion jr. placed in an uprijrlit of uvo
by six inches and two and one-half
feet loiijr. as shown in the illustration.
The lever is fastened one foot front the
end. A pointed piece of steel bent
slightly in the form of a hook is fastened
to the end of the lever. To use it
put the uprijrlit in the ground, about
one foot from the post, raise the hau,
* ' 2 >
o
K
^ I
' y
A POST PULLING DEVICE.
tile aim lorce tne suarp steel point into
the post and pull down on the lover,
which will raise the post out of the
ground. I lind it one of the handiest
tools on the farm. One man can pick
it up and carry it anywhere 011 his
shoulder, and it takes hut an instant
to put it into positiou for use.?New
England Homestead.
Gambling Debts in China.
Gambling debts are pre-eminently
debts of honor in China, and they are
more willingly and speedily paid than
any others. To pay them a Chinaman
will pawn oil his property, and even
soil liis children. For doing this he is
regarded by the public as worthy of
all praise, and the relatives who allow
themselves to be sold are treated
as models of filial i.ovot;on. Meanwhile
a tradesman to whom a debt is due
may starve or go bankrupt.
Best For the Bowels.
No matter what als you, headache to a
cancer, you will n?vur cat well until your
! bowels are put right. CiscABaTs help
nature, cure you without a gripe or pain,
| produce easy natural movements, cost you
| just 10 cents to etart getting your health
I back. CAsciarrs Candy Cathartic, the
j genuine, put up lu raetul boxes, every tubi
let has C.C.C. stamped oq It. Beware oI
I Imitations.
The man who is bis own best friend
has few others.
Tlif Bf?t Prcarrlptlon For < h I lie
] nud I'ever Is a bottle of Grove's Tasteless
i Chill Tonic. It is simple iron aud quinine
in a tasteless form. Nocure.no pay. Price25c.
The sold yield of Cripple Creek for
the year is expected to amount to
fLJ7.000.000
r- ? ?
THE DISCO
Lydia E. Pinkbam's
The Great Woman*s Re,
j "?????????
No other medicine in the wo
; and unqualified endorsement.
No other medicine has such a
I or such hosts of grateful friends.
Do not be persuaded that a:i
j Any dealer who asks you to buy <
; his store purposely to buy Lydia E.
; has no interest in your case. He
thing on which he can make a la
i whether you get well or not, so lo;
; money out of your sickness. If
without hesitation hand you the mi
' knows is the best woman's mccHcin
Follow the record of this me
thousands of cures of women who
in this piper were not brought ab
LytfJa Em Psnkham's V
The Great Woman's Ron
Those women who refuse to a
a hundred thousand times, for the
: Moral ? Stick to the medicine that
When a medicine has be
to health more than a mi
I well say without trying it,
help me." If you are ill, do
tie of Lydia E. Pinkham's
once, and write Mrs. Pin
i cnprial nHvire. It U free ;
Notes and Comments.
French census figi res for 1899 report
births as S47.627. wl ich is 10.000 le.-s '
than the avcraee for the past decade. |
The excess of births ever deaths was
but SI.394. \I. Bertillon, in an essay !
on these figures, ss.ys grimly that i
France is in the position of a man dying
under ;he influence of chloroform.
Germany now has 55.000.090 inhabitants
and France but 38 000,000.
Milliners in the Northern States, who
operate on a large scale, are complain- i
ing of their inability to secure bright !
and capable young women with the .
nece siry taste to do their work, even ;
htough they are willing to pay goo 1 j
wages. They say that for less money
the girls prefer to work in the big dry ;
goods shops or to try to become sten- '
ographers, even though the market is !
overstocked with both.
A resolution was adopted recently by
the Indiana Federation of Labor, asking
that a law be passed prohibiting the
employment by street railway companies
of conductors and motormen who arc
addicted to the use of intoxicants.
i
l)?afnMi Cannot Be Cured
by local applications*, as they cannot reach the
diseased portion of the ear. There is only one ,
way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional
remedies. D-afnessis caused by an nflamed
condition of the mucous liningof the I
Eustachian Tube. When this tube is in- '
flnmed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect
hearing, and when it is entirely closed
Deafness i> the result, and unless the inflammation
can be taken out and tliis tube restored
to its normal condition, hearing will be
destroy* d forever. Nine cases out of ten are
caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed
i ondition of the mucous surfncec.
We will give One Handled Dollars for any
case of Deafnes- (causAl by catarrh) that cannot
be cured by Uall's t.aturrh ture. Send
for circulars free.
F. J. I.'hrnet A Co.. Toledo. O.
Fold by Druggists, 75c.
Hall's Family Pills are the beet.
Don t forget all Dams relieved at once by
Goose Grease. NocUke, no Pay.
Piso's Cnre Is the best medicine we ever nsed
for all afTei-tlins of throat and lnncs. Wsi,
O. Endsley. Vanburen. Ind.. Feb. 10. 1900.
. I
VERER OF
Vegetable Compound
mcdy for Woman's Ills.
rid has received such widespread
record of cures of female troubles
i
y other medicine is just as good,
something else when you go into
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound,
is merely trying to sell you some- i
rger profit. He does not care j
ng as he can make a little more j j|
he wished you well he would , t
edicinc you a.->k for, and which he i
e in the world. J
idicine, and remember that these ?
t
se letters are constantly printed
out by " something else," but by 1
egatabSe Compound,
tody for Woman's //Is.
ccept anything else are rewarded
:y get what they want ? a cure,
you know is Best,
jen successful in restoring "
a
liion women, you caunuL
" I do not believe it will
not hesitate to get a bot;
Vegetable Compound at /
kham, Lynn, Mess., for ,v
and helpful.
16 Plates of Soup, 10c. | ?
imiWMLLUJjii
"ft I
A 10-ct. cao .i Libby's Premier ?
SOUP makes plates of the best | A
soup you eve/ tasted.
If then was a way to make soup | |
better *e would learn it ? but 3 1
there isn t.
Oxtail Mullagatawny p, [
Turtic Mock Turtle ? i *
Chicken Chicken Gumbo |J Tomato
Vegetable G |
Ready-Made Soups.
One can will make you a convert. B I
Liliby, McNeill & Liifcy, Chicago | i
I Write a postal for onr free book, "How to 9 Make
Good Things to Eat." M j
i _
a ni<sf,niiNT
OFTEN PER CENT.
M. A. MALJIE"!
Columbia, S. C.,
and he will quote you terms and
price?. A chance to get a line
ORGAN or PIANO cheap.
Please Rive your name and F. 0. address,
troen send this ail.
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CANE MILLS, RIGE
HULLERS, PEA HUL.
LERS, ENGINES, BOILERS,
PLANERS AND MATCHERS,
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?nd all other kind* of wood working maobinsry.
.My Sergeant Log Benin Saw Mill
9 the heavies, strongest?, and most efficient
sill for the money on the market, quick,
iccurate. State Agent for H. B. Smith
Machine Company wood working machinery.
For high grade engines, plain slide valve.
Automatic, and Corliss, write me: Atlas,
Water-own, and Struthers & Wells.
Y. C. BADHAM,
1326 Main Street. COLUMBIA. S. C.
117 r n i \]JT Well mention
WCLAn I here all we han.
die but we do
SELL EVERYTHING"
In the MACHINERY & MILL SUPPLY Una
?
The Murray Cleaning and JJiitrlhutlng system!
Laue, Chase, Hege, Liddeii and High
Point saw mllis. Lludejl Automatic aud
Plain engines, Bundv traps. ''NEW SOUTH"
Bri'k Machinery, Erie City engines and
hollers, Dlsston t aws, "Queen of the South'*
Grist .Mills.
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COLL*.TIBIA) S. C.
CONTRACTORS' ?
^BUILDERS'^
JILL SUPPLIES.
Castings. Steel Beams. Columns and Chanlel
Holts. Hods, Wel<hj?e. Tanks. Towers, do.
Heel Wiro and Manila Hope, Hoisting Engines
tud I'uinps. Jacks, 1 crrloks, Crats. t Lain and
<op? Hoists.
IT Cast Every Day. Make (juick Detivsry.
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"REE ELECTKB PELT OFFER V.iTHTtMCiV
Sf3?EWURIH?
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No m-.cc? hi *.!..n?i w-l low
Co?l:j?o?;tl?*?war?>it?e. COSTS
""'" AIMOST NCTKi.'iG com pared
rtth moat all other treatments. ler-* nkm ail oih.-r cl*a>
rle brlli, appIUrcr. sad rcmi-illet fall. QUICK OL'fic Tor
ooro thaniOiil:ni-".t*. O.'iLVSl'ItEClllE lor all nervous
' van*, wrakne-oes r.id disorders. Kor eon-pleto
> ali' 11 onlWen: ill catalogue. rilthU.dont ar.d auitt ua.
!EARS, ROEBUCK & CO.. Chicago.
airlllTrrj i AUKNTS FOR TIXK
JtfAHTED .OLIVER TYPEWRITER.
a Uso your inflience ond earn a machine
or yourself or make a nice profit by selling
few machines am<>"K your li ien s. et oll
a installments and t<k other makes of
laculnes us part payment.
Send for utilog and Terms.
J. C. CRAYTON, Cen'l Agent,
ANDKIiSO.N, 9. V.
Money in Chickens
For'doc. In stamp.! wo saod a HM
If J'AUL iivurv. giving me ejipcrjuu^
I I or a practical i'oulir/ ltai?er?no?
/<# /an amaleur, out a man working
' T ,or dollar* ami cents?<uuriu/ ii
\)r?r?. It iMcltW now U> UrlfCt
. lanUPurr Utoaicc fee-l toeKtt*
olwj i?ir ratlca.nj; uiiic.i tualtU
auve lor lirccUtUic everyllil?i< ro?
I 1 ^uuitc for prouiauic I'outiry ralaL
I II1K. HOOK rtlil.l.ltliNU
O. 1 J 1 l.oouui-J Mivui. Sew Yer*.
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's'.ik SS55'32 ppil CP of ecerytlofo-Tiption. Satr
? Rrgd?. o>j3LLo l^factica GiiMr*ni<*eil.
' a vSSL- t Write for prim. JUSSti MAKDKN
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