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COLONY OF AMISHMEN. V iiTieer Sect on Farms In Indiana > Witb. Homemade Laws. A few miles northeast of Washing ton, IncL, is a fertile section of land owned and cultivated by a peculiar sect of people known as the Amish. Little is known of them except by the peopleliving in thejmmediate vicinity of their settlement. The Amish came to that county at an arly date and bought rich farms for a nominal price. They have added great ly to their possessions until now this . settlement takes up thousands of acres. - Their peculiar manners and customs are interesting. According to their religious beliefs, lie Amish are not alloweu to use but tons on their clothes. Instead 'of but Ions, they use hooks and eyes. Their oth ng is homespun, and they wear - ,black slouch hats. All Amishmen let their hair grow long and fall over their shoulders. They never shave, not even . "when young mern They invariably drive fine, big horses. They prefer death, rather than to swear in court/ They are an economical sect of people and are great traders. They seldom pay cash for anything, but always in sist on trading farm products and poul try for what they want, j Their settlement is divided up into farms of an equal number of acres. They adhere strictly to the code of Jaws handed down to them by their an cestors. One of these laws is to the affect that no Amishman in the settle ment shall be entitled to more of the world's goods than his neighbor. Con sequently the farms are about the same size and stocked equally. An other law says if one member of the settlement meets with misfortune his neighbors must go down in their pock ets, ]>ay his indebtedness and, if neces . sary,-buy him a new farm and stock it. The Amish originally-came from a county in one of the eastern states. There are a few families still living in the s st Whenever a scion of one of v the eastern families emigrates to the I indiana settlement he is immediately || presented with a farm equal in size to -those of his brethren. The Amish do not believe in courts-that is, they nev ~er settle any of tneir difficulties in the courts. All disputes and disagree ments of every nature are taken up for settlement by a majority "of the mem bers of the settlement It is, however, a rare occurrence that the least trouble . arises among them. They are law abiding, honest and truthful. They do not deposit their money in banks, but accumulate and, hoard it in their lomes. They raise all the farming products usually grown in this section of the country and are said to be the most successful poultry raisers in the United States. Their -everyday life is their religion. They speak the German language and .; nb other. They are negligent about educating their children, and start them, boys and girls alike, to work in the fields when young. The women and girls never wear flashy colors, and long pants are put on the boys at the age of 2 and 3 years. Several months ago a young Amish man conceived an idea to discard the hooks and eyes on his clothing, to shave his beard and to don a suit of .store clothes. . This he did and returned td his neighbors in the new garb. He "was immediately ejected from the com I munity. His farm was taken from him, as well as his stock aud farm ina i chinery, and he was given strict orders aever again to put his foot on proper ty owned by any member of the settle ment After several weeks he allowed ibis beard to grow to its former length, p discarded his new clothes for the old nd returned to his people. They finally received him and returned hts property to him. Another Amishman, while doing his trading in Washington, became struck .Tvith the idea of wheeling. He pur chased a bicycle and went gleefully : borne, to show, the machine to the members of hi> family. The old Amishmen of the settlement looked "Wise and called a mass meeting to de cide whether or not it was proper for one of their number to ride upon such j Contrivance as a bicycle. The ver dict of the elder heads was against the jwung Amishman, and he was com pelled to part with the wheel.-Chicago Tribune. Bolivar, the 3Ian Killer. Bolivar, the man killing circus ele phant, "who since Dec. 23, 1SSS, has been a captive at the Philadelphia zoo' logical gardens, is said to be more than 70 years old. He was presented to Philadelphia by the late Adam Fore paugh and has not been freed from lin chains for more than ten years. Xo . one noticing his cordial manner to thc small boy feeding him peanuts would suspect that he bad killed two men in bis time. His mate, Princess, who is very tame, is aliowed to bathe every day and stroll around "the inelosure. But old Bolivar, owing to his irascible temper, is never permitted to have the slightest freedom. Remarkable Life Saving:. A remarkable incident has come to light in connection with a recent jdrownins case at Rothesay. One of 'the occupants of the boat a boy s years of age, whose swimming master had told him in an emergency to lie upon his back in the water, did so. Two little girls belonging to the party held on to his legs and a smaller boy rested his head on the youth's breast. The four thus floated for some min utes, and were picked up by men who bad to row nearly a milo t<> their res cue. Three adults-two sisters and a sweetheart -were drowned. One way to hear a pin drop is to beat it red hot and drop it into a keg f powder.-Philadelphia Record. Former Brutality In War Before a battle in former time the priests solemnly devoted to the gods the whole of the hostile arni y then in sight, and, if possible, no man of it was left alive. A writer in The Nine teenth Century says that wh^n Her mann decoyed the great host of Yarns into the forest depths all the Homans that ^scaped death in the battle were captured and lcd into the dark recess es, where every man of them was sac rificed upon hastily erected altars. Latham, in his edition of Tacitus, quotes six contemporary authorities to show that this practice of concluding a victory with human sacrifices was customary among our Teutonic ances tors. Some crucified their prisoners, others hung them up to trees for arch ery practice, but in general a captive was either slain on the spot or else re served to be sacrificed to the gods. Even when the progress of agriculture induced them to keep a majority of the prisoners alive to be slaves they appeased the gods for this indignity by increasing the tortures inflicted on the small remainder. Gibbon describes how, before the blazing altar, every hundredth man's arms were hacked off him and, before his eyes, thrown into the flames. All that a red Indian would have done last century was freely practiced by our ancestors of 12 centuries ago. And the highest ideal of a m%n then in cluded, as a duty, dark cruelty and grewsom r revenge against ail his ene mies. aienti rcet. The man buying a pair of shoes found the right one perfectly comfort able and easy, the left one rather snug. "It's usually so," said the salesman; "the left foot is commonly a little big ger than the right foot." "Why don't you. make the left shoe a little bigger, then?" asked the custom er. "Well," said the salesman, "the dif ference is usually not great, and it might not be enough so that it would be noticed if trying on shoes. And then it is not so great but what the differ ence in feeling of the two shoes disap pears very soon. And then, too, in some cases the man's right foot is the larger, the man being right footed in this re spect as men are sometimes left hand ed, the reverse of the common habit in the use of their hands. If shoes were commonly made with the left <L little bigger than the right, to fit the major ity of cases, they'd be worse than ever when you hit a right1 footed man. So the shoes are made alike in size, a man gets a pair that fit him comfortably to start with and they adapt themselves quickly to any slight differences in the feet"-New York Sun. A. Lucky Bit of Tin. Telling of a narrow escape from death which he had recently ex perienced, a railroad switchman said: "I was leaning up against the end of that blue box car over there, thinking of what I was going to have for dinner, when I thought I saw a silver dollar lying in the street about ten feet away from me. "I knew there was a shifter on the same track, but I thought it was down on the wharf at that time. I hadn't more than stepped away from the end of that car when the shifter bunted into it and drove it ahead about 20 feet. Say, suppose I hadn't seen that silver dollar and started for it Where would 1 have been now? Yes, a man that is working around the cars has got to pay strict attention to business. "Oh, I forgot to tell you ^hat that silver dollar was only a round piece of tin, but it served its purpose just as well as the real thing could have done. I'm going to wear it on my watch chain for a charm. It ought to be bet ter than a rabbit's foot."-Portland Express. Shoe Id Women Smoke? I have no earthly objection to women smoking; only, if they, do smoke, they should smoke seriously. Most of them just fool a little* with a cigarette. Now, that scarcely amounts to smoking at all. If they really mean it, let them take to cigars and pipes. I know a -lignified old lady, a Polish countess-what is her name? Countess? Countess?-oh, well, Thingamojisky it ends in *: ky,' anyhow-and I respect that woman. She genuinely smokes, and no mistake about it There is no I playing there. She looks on it as a sacred duty She has a long pipe with a wooden stem and the bark on, and a fine big bowl-a regular man's pipe. When she was visiting me, she just loaded up and smoked, and loaded up and smoked, and loaded up and smoked again. She meant business. I know another lady who has a long Turkish piiK. and she, too, means busi ness. x If women are ever to be genuine smokers, that is the way they must go to work.-Mark Twain. Thc Good Old Quill. _ The art of cutting a quill by adept "quill drivers" was dying when I be gan schooling. Steel pens had been known for some time, but were not in general use. The goose quill pen died a hard death as a commonly used writ ing tool. My first schoolmaster was a first rate hand at cutting a quill, and he could use it with wonderful effect in flourishes. It was his boast that he could fill the first page of a lad's schoolbook with name, age, date and nourishes-in which were depicted wonderful swans aud other birds-in such a fashion that none but experts like himself could tell where the quill pen was taken from the paper for a fresh dip. My last master could nei ther cut a quill nor use one with ad vantage. Quills as pens remained in use in some houses as the only writing tool up to ;i dozen to 20 years ago. Notes and Queries. Lake Superior is 1.008 feet deep, COI feet of this body being above sea level and 4(j~ below it. The bottom of this great lake is about 375 feet deeper down than the channels giving admit tance to New York harbor. Lake Erie's greatest depth is 210 feet. Shocked the Chief Justice. Lord Russell of Killowen, the chief justice of England, was up in London for a few days last loni; vacation, and having nothing to do after the morn ing accepted a friend's invitation to lunch at his club. After luncheon a scratch rubber was with difficulty got together, very few members being in the town. The fourth mau, a young subaltern in the guards, only joined after mentioning that he played a very poor rubber. Unfortunately the chief cut him as partner, several times in succession. At first he only fidgeted a little and mode one or two mild in quiries. But after something extra diabolical.his lordship broke out with, "I really think, sir, you are playing badly on purpose to annoy me." "Oh. shut up!*' said the soldier. "How can any fellow play when you keep jawing at him?"' Lord Russell, with quiet dignity, observed, "I don't think you know to whom you are speaking, sir." "Oh, yes, I do," said the warrior. "You are the lord chief justice, but you're not in your blooming police court now." Tableau. A Startling: Answer. A Latin professor was explaining the derivation of our word "ostracize" to his class in a local academy. He told the story of the early Roman republics and the scheming of the politicians of the times. He related how, when any man in the republic became obnoxious to his neighbors, they used to write his name on an oyster shell (Latin-ostre um, shell), and on the receipt of a specified number by the consuls that man was,banished, killed or otherwise -removed in some one of those pleasant ways the old Romans had. "When he had finished his explanation, he said: "Now, the boy here in the front seat, what did we derive from the old Latin use of the shell, which was called os treum?" The answer he expected was far from what he got for the little student with spectacles in the front seat arose and delivered himself thus: "From the Roman habit of using shells to get the best of people, we de rive the present Coney Island shell game, which is a fascinating and cost ly sport"-Brooklyn Times. Any Time Yon Want at thc Pole. Those who are conversant with the use of globes know that all the merid ians of longitude starting from the equator converge toward and meet at the pole. They know, too, that longi tude signifies time, and that difference of longitude is difference in time. They know very well that when it is noon in London it is about 7 o'clock in the morning in Bostou. and that when it is noon in San Francisco it is about a quarter past 3 in the afternoon in New York. Now, as the meridian of London ex tends to the north pole, it necessarily ensues that when it is noon in the Eng lish capital it must also be noon at the north pole. In a similar manner when* it is noon at Bostcu. or in San Francis co, or at Peking, or any other place situated in the northern hemisphere, it follows that it must also be noon at the pole, because all the meridians of those places unite at the north pole. Therefore it is noon all day long at the pole. Thus there is an entire absence of time at the pole. But it would be just as correct to say that it is a place where there is a preponderance of time, for it is practically any time of day during the whole 24 hours, or in deed through the year.1 In fact, a resi dent at the north pole could make it any time of day he might choose to se lect with the consciousness that it would be the right time.-Youth's Com panion. The Broker's Reply. A youthful looking broker went into a Broadway store the other day to buy a new hat, and laid his old one on the counter while waiting for the clerk to wait upon him. He happened to turn around as a Quaker came in in the garb unusual even in this cosmopolitan city, and smiled involuntarily at the odd sight The Quaker took the bro ker for a salesman, and, taking off his broad hat held it out to the young man, saying: "Hast thou a hat like this, my friend?" "No," replied the broker, "and if I had I would not wear it." Then, noticing the look of surprise on the face of the grave old Quaker, he explained that he dealt in stocks, not in hats.-New York Tribune. Disastrous Fortune Telling. An extraordinary case of madness, in which all members of a family, con sisting of father, mother and four chil dren, were simultaneously afflicted, re cently occurred in Belgium. A party of strolling gypsies, who undertook to tell the father's fortune by means of cards, declared that he would be killed while serving in the army, and this prediction so impressed him and his family that in tue course of the same day they all developed signs of waver ing reason and before long had to be put under restraint. The gypsies, who were the source of thc trouble, were arrested by the German police when crossing the frontier from Belgium. Her Unfair Tent. She-Which would you rather bc. a little toad in a big puddle or a big toad in a little puddle? Ile (after long and serious thought) Well, all things considered. I'd prefer to bea big toad in a little puddle. She-There! I have always thought ! that you bad no real ambition to make a man of yourself.-Chicago Times Herald. . j Pu ii vt ii rod. i Sprocket-Had my tire punctured '? this morning. ("rocket--You don't say so? How did j it happen? Sprocket-Riding in a strange coun try and ran against the forks of a road. -Toronto World. A TRAGEDY IN DARLING TON COUNTY. Darlington, Oct. G-News has jus reached Darlington of a ratal &hocticg wbieb took place at Lydia yesterday afternoon Dr. Maxcy L20 shot, his father, Dr. H. J Lee, through the gcomacb with a 38-calibre pistol bail, as a result of a paternal rebuke. Dr. Lee died today. The youcgc-r Dr. Lee W2s]in Darling too yesterday, and is said tc have been somewhat ceder the influence of liquor when he left town. The details of the tragedy cannot be given at this writing, the above infor mation have been given me by Coroner Dargan, who did not, know anything of the circumstances cf the shooting. The Lees are promioeot and wealthy. The family to which they belong is one of the foremost in this cocoty and is well known throughout the State. T Transport Siam Encounters Typhoons,, Manila, Oct. 6, 4 40 p. m.-The United States transport Siam, which ieft San Francisco Aug. 19 with up wards of 330 valuable males, the com ing of which had been anxiously await ed, as males are in great demand for continuing the campaign, arrived this morning and reported that ali bat 19 of the animals bad been lost io two fevere typhoons, ander peculiarly distressing circumstances The Siam, which left flonolala 31 days ago, encountered the typhoons early this week One lasted 40 boars Most of the forage, which was on deck, was swept overboard, all the boats were smashed and the Steamer rolled tre mendously io the trough of the sea, although the officers made every effort to bring her about. The males were hurled from side to side and frightfully mangled and dis emboweled. Their legs and necks were broceo and the wretched animais feli in scch a confused mass that the attendants were unable to relieve them io the meantime tbe deck load was washed off, the ship lightened and the roiling increased. When the storm abated the injured animals were killed and*their carcasses thrown overboard. When the Siam arrived her propeller waa* high oat of water and the wrecks of her boars were hanging from the davita Eaten by Savages. Vancouver, B. C , Oct. 6.-A story of cannibalism was brought to Sydney, Australia, just before the sailing of the steamer Aorangi to this port, by a Freren steamer. The viotim of the display of gavagry was a native of Hawaii, named Amara, who acted as orderly for the immigration department at Noamia, in the New Hebrides. About six months ago Amara mar ried a native woman of Aoba, in the New Hebrides group, and on pasging that island later on, decided to visit bis wife's tribe, accordingly the couple were pat off in a boat A few weeks ago when toe steamer cailed for them it wae earned that Amara felt ioto the hands of a savage tribe of natives, who after torturiog him tere bim to pieces and then roasted him with two sheep. The matter has been reported to a British man-of-war. Dr. M A. Siemens Liver Medicine has greatly beoefited others and is reasonably certain to do you good. Tr* it ! Quick, easy labor and rapid recovery are guaranteed by use of Simmons qaaw Vine Wine or Tablets. Native Red Rust Proof Oats for sale by W. M.Graham. Sept 27 Brave Kruger. It is stated io South Afrioa that if war breaks oat President Kroger will have more than fifty sons and grandsons io the army of the Transvaal republic. Joseph Chamberlain, the man he has sparred with a long time in diplomatic affairs, will have only a tittie taxation on bis great wealth at stake in the struggle besides his political prestige and popularity. The oid Dutchman has shown by far the greater courage and readiness for self sacrifice* Cleveland Leader. 1 Two Connecticut men wno got home from the Dewey celebration with 30 cents between them, and without and recolcection of how they spent their money, have been noti fied by the hotel s>t which they stop ped that $500 B in the hotel safe to their credit They had deposited it for safe keeping before they began to celebrate, but forgot ail about it When they get it they will probably celebrated again. m^ammW- 1 i mmm John Brown's son, Jason, is living a hermit's life on the highest peak of thc Santa Croz mountains, in Califor nia He was with his father at Har per's Ferry, and still suffirs from a ivouod received there Columbia, Ojt. .3 -Governor Mc Sweeney today allowed a commutation of the sentence of Charles F Pons, a prisoner in Bsmweii County, so that he could go 00 the chain gang and get fresh air. which it i chimed is neces sary for his health Gov. McSweeney has persistently refused to yardon Pons, who piea'ied gu: ty cf marrying a young lady in Barnwell County, while having a wife and family in Florida. Carriages, Buggies, Wagoo9 and Harness at Graham's. Sept 27 AN ADDRESS TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. The object of the American Anti Trust League is to drive from public places tbe subservient fools of the trusts, monopolies, combines and corporations, and to establish the equal rights of American citizens in the commerce and industries of the country. Today in every legislative hali, both state and nationai, omnipresent stands the lobbyist and corruptionisi of this great raiiroad, monopoly, trust combination, which has formed an alliance offensive and defensive, by which they expect to controi leg islation and to plunder the producers and consumers of America And, what ia still worse, there aleo stand the representatives, elected by the people, who have become de bauched and who are the secret ser vants and instruments of this great corporate power and are ever ready to do their bidding, while proclaim ing the devotion to the rights of tbs people We find them everywhere -ic the legislature, in congress, io the senate, and on the bench. The political life-of this kind of repre sentatives is made easy. Their re nominations are arranged for them by the political bosses, who are but the servants of this power Cam paign funds are famished That part of the public press that can be man aged is used to eulogize and lionize these subservient tools Their elec tiona are managed for them. There also stands the representa tive- elected by the people, who is true to the principles of manhood and is governed by the promptings of public welfare. He stands a bul wark against the legislative schemes by which this great railroad, monop oly, trust combination expect to plunder the people. He is obnoxi ous to this dominating and controll ing power, and their emissaries are sent into his district to undermine and destroy him politically. Some popular man is encouraged to become a candidate for nomination to his place, and the power and influence and money of thia corporate conspi racy are put behind this candidate, and the true servant of the people finds himself defeated for renomina tion, and be is retired from public life-retired because he was a true representative of the people and dared to defy this corporate monster. Thia procesa baa been worked 8o silently and secretly that the people have not recognized the handiwork by which a majority in their legisla tive bodies baa been controlled. In many of our great cities the street railway traction companies have created a politcai depotism. That man who is ambitious political ly, before he can hope to be nomi nated to any position of public trust must first kneel at the throne Yes, iand in many, many esses before a laborer can hope to earu bread for his family he has first to show that he wears the brand and collar of their ward bo6S They have created a despotism so damnable that man must become a serf to this corrupt corporate power before he can ob tain an opportunity to work. I-have talked with these men who jmcuro the ioss of their liberty as American freemen. This great railroad, monop oly, trust, traction combination is .'corrupting our public affairs and debauching our public men" and destroying the foundations of the republic by the corrupt use of money in our political life. The purpose of the American Anti Trust League is to arouae the only power on earth that ia atronger than the power of money in our pub lic life. Tb^t power is the patriotic impulses ? the people The little fioge. at power, when awakened ia stronger ten thousand times than the influence of ali the billions of the trusts and combines of the iand. The memorie8 of the many aacrifice8 of the fathers call U8 to action. If the8e trust combinations are allowed to go on they can plunder each of us into poverty. No man knowe how soon the fear of hunger for hie wife and family will make him a coward. It behooves us to strike while the fire of liberty yet burns. The American Anti Truet League is non partisan We call all Ameri can freemen to council. If a Demo erat, or a Populist, or a Republican, public man has shown himself to be a oubservient tool of this great cor porate power: then all the united power of all the men of the Ameri can Anti Trust League will be used to crush him and drive him from public life We wilt adopt tbe tac tics of our enemy until we have cre ated a Legislative, Judicial and Exe cutive power in sympathy with the public welfare And we call upon every American citizen who loves his country and the great principles of popular government better than he does his party, to join us in the work of reestablishing the equal rights of American citizenship M. L Lockwood. Pres. American Auti Trust League. Zelieuople, Pa Bismarck'* Iron Nerve. V,'AS the result of his splendid health. In domitable will and tremendous ecergy are not found where Stomach. Liver. Kidneys and Bowels are out of order. If you want these qualities and the success tliey bring, use Dr* King's New Life Pills. They develop every power of brain and body. Only 25c at J. F. Vi. DeLorme's Drug Store. 2-6 ! Condensed Schedule in Effect June Hrh, 1S00. "No ll \"o ii 'No. G No. I Dt lvDa y EASTERS TIME. D:ii]y D:dij 530p 7 00a Lr... < Marleston .. Ar i 1 OCa 8 17:-. f>09p 7 -i : 44 .. Summerville . *' -ly lsa 732? 750p Sa a . Branchville. " i 8 32a G02p 824p i> 0-1 4; . .Orangebtug... " ; S 22a 529p 920p;10lca " . Kmgv le... -44 ~:^a *3Sp l04Saj '* CamdcnJnnctionLv .! 350p ll 40a! Ar.Camden.Lv .: 300p 10lOp'lICSalAr... Columbia... .Lv 0 4-'a. 3 ? ~53 p| 7 00a;Lv "^h^l ston Ar I Oaj 817? 7 50p' 915a " .. Branchville " 852a| *302T, 819p. 941a - ... Bamberg ... " S 24a 5;*i? 831pl 952a " . Denmark .." Slla]/519p 850p IO Kia 44 ... .Blackville-" 7 S'ia 503p 957p llC9a ".Aikex. " 7 02ai 4C0? I045p!ll alaj Ar. Augusta un.d-Lv44 j 620a| 310? ; Ex. Sun. ; Ex I Sun. only : Sun i Lv. Augusta .: TOOa 9'Stol S21: Ar. Sandersville.! 100p 119p 05*: 44 TenniUe.U 30?' 130?; 9 21? I-' Lv. Tennille. 5 15a 310p 3 10p " Sandersville..'5 25a 321p 323? Ar. Augusta.. 9U0a. TlOp 830? Mix. Mix. j (Daily Ex su. Lv. Allendale.! 6 45a . " Barnwell. 7 25a; 12 30? " Blackville.j 7 45a! 100?( Ar. Batesburg.'.... ., 3 30p! . Mix. ; Mix. j Sua. Ex su Exsuj only Lv. Batesburg.i. 425p|. " Blackville. 10 20a; 7 00p!1015a " Barnwell. 10 45a! 735p;l0 35a Ar. Allendale. .[ 830pill 15a. Atlanta and Beyond. Lv. Charleston... 7 OOaj 530pj. Ar. Augusta.1151a;1045p. 44 Atlanta. 20pj 5 00a. Lv. Atlanta.llOOp; 515a; 400? Ar. Chattanooga.I 5 45a; 925a 840? Lv. Atlanta.! 5 80a! 415? Ar. Birmingham .ll 20a|1010? " Memphis, (via Birmingham)... j 930pi 7 4Z.i Ar. Lexington.! 500p! 5 00a 44 Cincinnati..! 730p; 7 45a 44 Chicago.j 7 15a; 530? Ar. Louisville.; 735?! 7 55a 44 St. Louis.TT.. 7 04a: 6CO? Ar. Memphis, (via Chattanooga). .1 .| 7 40a To Asheville-Cincinnati- .ouisville. EASTERS TIME. Dai! V Lv. Augusta.! 2 4i ipi 9 SO? " Batesburg.419a 12 07a Lv. Charleston." . ] 7 OOaj 5 30p Lv. Columbia i Union Depot ). Ll 4Caj 8 30a Ar. Spartanburg _.; 310p ll 25a 44 Asheville .j 700pj 240? " Knoxville. .! 4 l5a 7 20? 44 Cincinnnati.! 739p( 7 45a 44 Louisville (via .Tellico >. .| 6 50a To Washing-ton and the East. Lv. Augusta. ...: 240p] 930? 44 Batesburg.| 419? 12 07a " Columbia ^Union Deoot ). 523p 215a Ar. Charlotte... 845p! 915a Ar. Danv le. 777.112 55ai 122? Ar. Richmond.! 600a| 625p Ar. Washington.i 7 40a; 905o 44 Baltimore Pa. R. R.! 912a!ll25r> " Philadelphia.. 1135a! 2 :;:v 44 New York.I 203?; 6 ja. Sleeping Car Line between Charleston and Atlanta, via Augusta, making connections at Atlanta for a'1 point* Xorth and West. Solid Tr' ' between Charleston and Ashe ville, carr elegant Pullman Buffet Parlor Cars. Connections at Columbia with through train - for Washington and the East ; axso for Jackson ville and all Florida Points. FRANK S. GANNON. J. M. GULP, ' Third V-P. & Gen; Mgr., Traffic Manager, Washington, D. C. Washington, D. C GEORGE B. ALLEN, . Div. Pass. Agt.. Charleston, S. C. W. A. TURK. S. H. HARDWICK, Gen'l Pass. Agt. Asst. Gen'l Pass. Agt " Washington, D. C. Atlanta. Ga. Dyspepsia Cure. Digests what you eait. It artificially di gests the food an^ ald9 Nature in strengthening and recon structing the exhausted digestive or gans. It is the latest discovered digest ant and tonic. No other preparation can approach it in efficiency. It in stantly relieves and permanently cures Dyspepsia. Indigestion, Heartburn, Flatulence, Sour Stomach, Nausea. SickHeadache,Gastralgia,Cramps,and all other results of imperfect digestion. . Prepared by E. C. DcWItt & Co., Chicago Por sale io Snmter by fin rbson-Lisoo Co ATLANTIC COAST LINE North-Eastern R. R. of S. C CONDENSED SCHEDULE. TRAINS GOING SOCTH Dated No. No. No. Api. 17, '99 v 35* 23 53* Le Florence Le Kingstree Ar Lanes Le Lanea a m 3 25 4 33 4 33 p m 7 45 8 55 9 13 9 13 p m 6 20 Ar Charleston 6 03 10 50 8 00 TRAINS GOING NORTEL No. 78* No. 32* No. 52* Le Charleston Ar Lane? Ls Lace? Le Kingstree Ar Florence a m 6 33 8 03 8 03 8 20 9 20 a m p m 4 49 6 14 U 7 20 p in a m 7 00 8 32 a Ci .Daily. fDaily except Sunday. No 52 runs through to Columbia via Cen tra! R. R. of S. C. Trains Nos. 78 and 32 run via Wilson and Fayetteville-Short Line-aod make close connection for all points North. Trains on C. A D R. R. leave Florence daily except Sunday 9 50 a m, arr^e Darling ton 10 15 a ri?, Hartsville 9 15 am, C'beraw ll 30 a rn, Wadesboro 2 25 po. Lea vt Flore nee daily except Sunday 7 55 p rn ar rive Darlington 8 20 pm, Bennetteville '9 17 pm, Gibson 9 45 p m. Leave Florence Sunday coly 9 30 .a m. arrive Darlingtoc 10 05 a m Leave Gibson daily except Sunday 6 CC a tn, Benoe tsvi e 7 00 a rn, arrive Darling ton 8 00 am, leave Darlington 8 50 am, ar rive Florence 9 15 am. Leave Wacesborc daily except Sunday 3 00 pm, Cbecaw 4 45 p rn, Hartville 7 00 a m, Darlington 6 29 pm, arrive Florence 7 00 p m. Leave DA. lioi ton Sunday only 8 50 a m, arrive Flor ence 9 liam. J. R KENLEY, JNO. F DIVINE, Gen'l Manager. Gen'l Sup'tr T. M. EMERSON, Traffic M H. M . EMERSON, Gen'l Pass. Agent