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Pretty Handkerchief

Embroidered and Lace Cornered Effects
Al loo
All Linen Embroidered at &c.
80 dozen special Embroidered and
Hemsutcbed. fine Linen. good DC
special at &c
Hundreds q others. al new and
marked close
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Memorial Day.

Memorial Dav was observed
here Tuesday evening with ap-
propriate ceremonies, under the
auspices of the ladies' Memorial
association. The procession as
usual, formed at tie court house
and marched to the tap of the
drum to the old cemetery, under
the direction of Capt. b. j. With
ersponn. The exercises were
opened with PRAYER bv Rev
Chalmers Frasier. A choir com
posed of little girls sang "A meri.
ca" Then list Of the dead SOL
diers was read by Maj. b. F. Mil
Ter. - I
The Rev. w. G. Ewart was
then introduced and delivered n,
very touching and beautiful ad
dress Of about 20 minutes. He
brought tears to the eyes Of many
when he exhibited an old, worn
and ragged Confederate jacket,
remarkIng as he did so, This
demonstrates more eloquently
and forcibly than can that the
soldiers who would wear. a uni
form like this must have been ac
tuated by high and noble purpo
ses in the fight thev made"
p At the conclusion Of the exer
cises Mrs. j. FL. Boldridre sang a
very sweet solo. Mrs. Lula Rowell
played the accompaniment on the
organ.
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Card OF Thanks.

We, the undersigned merchants
Of Heath Springs do most heartily
and gratefully thank the people
OF the town and vicinity, both
white and colored, who so eff
ciently and successfully assisted in
keeping back the flames in the
conflagration of Sunday, May 2S.
f, NJ. Bruce,
A. p. Brown,
Mobley & Croxton,
S. j. Hinson IL Co,
Springs ~ Heath,
Il. II. Cauthen.
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1nfiudI Settlement.

Chief Clerk, Il. b. Clyburn, Of
the Comptroller Generals office
came up Tuesday evening on the
o. II. Il G.. train and made the
annual settlement with the Treas
urer and Auditor. Lancaster was
the first county to make settle
ment for the fiscal year 1S9S-99.
1t was said by the clerk, that the
papers, books, &C., Of the Au-
ditor's Office, were the neatest
that he had seen in quite while.
On Wednesday, Mr.. Blackmon
turned over the books, and all
monies belonging to the treas
urers Office to his successor, Mr..
w. G. Cauthen.
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Governor Ellerbe's condition
Is gradually growing worse.
Mr.. S. w. Heath of Kershaw
was in Lancaster for a few days
this week.
DR.. r. M. Galloway left yes
terday for a visit to Columbia.
and while there will attend the
commencement exercises Of the
Columbia Female college.
Seven deaths occurred at tbe
penitentiary from meningitis
within the last week. Every pre-.
caution is being used bv the an
thorities to keep the disease
down.
Coroner Young held an in
quest over the body of Mamie
Mcllwain, a colored woman liv.
ing on Mrs. II. N. Draflin's plan
tation near Riverside, Thursday
morning. She" died sometime
"Wednesday night, and the YER
dict of the Coronsr's iurv was
that she cameeto her death from
heart failure.
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VfsftfnO arkansas.

Mr.. j. K. Blackmon and family
lett Wednesday evening on the
l.. & @. for Junction City, Ark
ansas, for visit 10 Mrs. Black
mons parents. They will be
gone about three months.
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IH5E

Thomas Thurman, deputy sheriff of
Troy, Mo-, says il everyone in the
United States should discover the vir-
tue of DeWitts Witch Hazel Salve
for piles, rectal troubles and skin dis
eases, the demand could not be sup
piled. Crawford Bros.
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w. II. Davis, Ruby, s. c., writes: DR..
Nj. A. Simmons Liver Medicine cures
Pains in the Back, and that "Out Of
Sorts" Tired Feeling. think il four
times as strong as Zeillin's and Black
Draught.
Lancaster enterprise. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1891-1905, 1899-06-03

During Summer we are liable to
stomach and Bowel troubles, such as
Diarrhoea, Collie, Cramps, etc. for
which DR.. M. A. Simmons Liver
Medicine is highly recommended.
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For the Enterprise.
Rev. Jno. S. Croxton.
A GOOD MAN. UNIVERSAL
N LOVED BY ALL WHO
KNEW HIM,
A Sketch of His Life and His
Work.

INSN. JoHn =. CrOStOn was born
May 6, 1881, in Lancaster Dis.
trict, now called Lancaster coun-
ty. He entered the school of
Rev. Peter Nicholson, at Pine
vile, n. c., January 1860 and
studied under him during the
years 1860 and 1861 and was
there prepared to enter college
but was prevented from entering
college by the closing of Furman
University on account of the
breaking out of the war. But bv
hard study and by reading some
ofthe great authors, he did much
to make up for lack of full acad-
emic training. In the fall of 1874
he entered the Southern Baptist
Theological Seminary at Green
vile, S. c., but in the following
spring on account of i'll health,
he was forced to give up his
studies at that great school. But
during these months DR.. John A.
Broadus made a deep and lasting
impression upon him and helped
him to become the fine man he
was. He there learned the value
oi standard authors and how to
use them.
On Feb. 10, 1854, he was mar
ried to Miss Eliza Jane CASTOR
and to them were born thirteen
children eight of whom together
with their mother are living.
Que Of the sons, Rev. A. NJ. Crox-
ton, hid, is the pastor of the
Baptist church, Monroe, n. c.,
and one of the daughters is the
wife Eof Rev. M. w. Rankin, of
South Carolina. The other chill
dren are well known and are
highly esteemed in social and
business circles in the county.
Rev. j. S. Croxton was bap-
.tized into the fellowship of Fork
Hill church, Moriah Association,
Oct. 8, 1S4S. He was licensed in
and by Fork Hill church in 1S4S.
He was ordained by Rev. Peter
Nicholson and Rev. w. f. Bras
ington under the authority of Fork
Hill church Jan. s, 1862. He
was called to the pastoral care of
the Beaver Creek church, Moriah
Association in 1868, and of Fork
Hill church in 1867, the latter of
which he served till death. He
resigned Beaver Creek in 1891.
He was called to the pastoral
care of WaXhaw Baptist church
in Union county, n. c., in 1861
and continued his work there fer
SIX consecutive years. During
his ministry he was pastor of the
following churches Hopewell in
Chester county, Mt Pisgah, Beth
any, Sand Hill, White Plains.
Laurel Hill, New Hope, TaAhaw,
Spring Hill, Heath Spring. White
Bluff, Antioch, and Heath Spring
churches were founded by him.
He was elected clerk of the
Moriah Association in October
1868 and served until 1874 and
was then elected Moderator Of
that body that year and annually
to the time of his death a period
Of twenty-five years.
Previous to this year he had
haI tun OF ~ >
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Don't Tobacco spit and Smoke Your life Away

To quit tobacco easily aud forever. lie mag
neLic. iuil OF lIc, nerve and NIgor, take MOTTO.
Bno, the wondc worker that nrnEeS wCaII mou
strong. Al druggist, ipc or ~. Cure Cuaran-
tecd Booklet upt EIwUiC free Address
Storling Remedy Co Chicago us Ncw Sor.E.
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afraid nor alarmed and several
times was heard to say that if it
were the will of God that he 90
by that means that the stroke
might come upon him while
preaching. This prayer was
heard. SO on Sunday May 81,
1899, while preaching at Heath
Spring from the text Heb. 1917:
"Obey them that have the rule
over you, and submit yourselves +:
for they watch for your souls, as
they that must give an account,
that they may do it with Joy and
not with grief: for that is un.
profitable for you", the stroke
came. He had been preaching
about fifteen minutes when it
came. DIR. Hinson saw that the
stroke had come and went to him
and gave all needed help. BY
assistance he walked to his home
some two hundred yards off and
it is the opinion of the doctor
that he did not suffer any more.
On May "a, 1899, he went off to
the many mansions to be with
Jesus. The funeral exercises and
burial took place at Fork Hill
church May 25th. There he had
been baptised, licened to preach,
ordained, and been pastor for
thirty two years and it was fit.
ting that there his body should be
laid to rest among the people he
had loved and served. Rev.
Jabez Ferris conducted the de-
votional exercises; Rev. S. n.
Watson spoke of him as a preach
er and pastor; and Rev. j. IL.
Boldridge spoke of his work in
the association. The choir sang ::
II Would Not Live Away ::
"How Firm a Foundation"; "Some
Sweet Day Bye and Bye; Mrs.
j. III. Boldridge sang: "Some
Sweet Day" The congregation
was one of the largest that ever
assembled at funeral in the
county and the people cried aloud,
walled, and mourned as if their
own father had died. 1t is per
fectly safe to say that no preacher
of any denomination that ever
lived in the county ever had as
much influence for good or was
so deeply imbedded in the hearts
and lives of the people as Rev.
John S. CroXton.
He had been Moderator of the
Moriah Association for twenty
five years, had been a trustee of
Fnrman University, a member of
the Board OF Education of the
State Baptist Convention, and
had presided over the South Car
olina Baptist Minister'S Confer
ence. He regularly attended the
meetings Of the Union in his own
association, the sessions of the
Baptist State Convention, and fire.
quently the Southern Baptist
Convention. In these gatherings
when his voice was heard it was
always in behalf of progress,
peace, and the extension of the
Masters Kingdom. He was a
man OF the people. Nothing
delighted him more than a fresh
and vigorous discussion of "a vital
tonic of nnn Of fh. Al
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in mind and firm in his convic.
tions. There never was any
doubt as to what he believed.
He was orthodox TO the core and
no new theology ever for "A
moment found any place in his
creed or life. His mind was sat
urated with Bible truth. He
believed it the best and su
preme guide in the life of man
on earth. The people learned to
look upon him as a man who
knew what the Bible teaches as
to how man is saved and how
man ought to live. They went
to hear him preach in great
crowds and realized that he fed
them on good solid wholesome
food. He was thus a teacher of
the people. He lived, preached,
and died practically in the same
community and among the same
people among whom he was born.
The people therefore knew him
thoroughly-his faults as we'll as
his virtues--and yet he stood the
test of the great white light of
publicity. His mind was full,
clear, logical. His judgment was
unusually fine In all matters sec
ular and religious. He was not
easily imposed upon in any
sphere of life. Ministerial tramps
and sky scrapins frauds could not
count on receiving much mercy
at his hands. He upon several
occasions, even at the risk of
offending time honored brethren,
stood up boldly and told the peo-
pie that certain men were not
altogether trustworthy and in
every case subsequent events
proved him to be right.
lie was an earnest friend of,
and a worker for, education, mis-
sions, orphanage, and all benevo-
lent work connected with the
churches.
He did a great work in the
association in reference to dis
cipline. This for ages has been
a burning question. Some
churches are nests of unclean
birds. Other churches try to
realize Heaven on earth. He
taught that New Testament pre-.
cept and example were amply
sufficient for all purposes and
that all offences therein prescribed
and prohibited ought now by the
churches to be prescribed and
prohibited as regards their mem
bers. AS a result a healthier
spiritual tone began to prevail.
The people soon learned that the
New Testament is as clear on
morals as it is on baptism, or the
Lords supper, or church govern
ment. He did valuable work in
favor Of temperance, purity, and
general clcanness of life. He
believed that Jesus Christ is the
hope of the world--the only saw.
ing power among men. He him
self was an example of what The
gospel can do for a human soul.
We may sometimes have doubts
and fears but when we see what
it did for Rev. John S. CroXton
we well say it is not all theory
but lite also. a religion which
can make such a noble specimen
of manhood will not soon perish
from the earth. How many peo-
pie were brought to Christ
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Restore the Menstrual and Genera
tive Organs to natural conditions so
they will do their duty by taking Sim
mons Squaw Vine Wine or Tablets.
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On Friday, June 2, cotton
and produce brought the follow
ing prices
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Short Locals.
Knowing and Doing.

Better 'twere to have no knowledge
Than to know, yet never do,
Truths that have the power to make thee
Ever good and staunch and true.
MARGARET A. RICHARD
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To Cure Constipation Forever.
Take Cnscnrots Candy Cathartic l0c or 25c
II 9. G. q. fail 10 cure. druggists refund money
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~ Is a deceptive
NsSNG disease thou
TROUBLE san sands son'; 9eye yeom !.
it. IL you want quick results you can
make no mistake by using DR.. Kill
mer's swamp Root, the great kidney
remedy. AT druggists In nifty cent and
dollar sizes. Sample bottle by mail
free, also pamphlet telling you how to
find out IL you have kidney trouble.
Address, DR.. Kilmer 81 Co., Bingham
ton, N. Y. Q
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Wonnn's Wall.

Why do wear veil?
Ills OF no use,
'Tis always fetching loose. =.
A pIaything OF the wind' thst IHAes W.
In ever iS"f being wrong and never right ),
T'bnur,h Of nv coRmutme It's chief detall,
II makes me fret and fume and fuss and
rail.
! cannot get II of whom It is on.
And once / don Il then l cannot don.
WV Do wear II? IT'S nuisance great,
beyond all words to state.
And an expcnse
The Ihs" wTGtehed, flmsy veil!
To.day I bus buy a new ono. and, behold,
Tomorrow II Is old! -,,,, h,o
Forth TO the shops then HnEriIy ME
on never every side SEQ Fnrs bargain sales
And 10 pay an awful price,
For must have It nicei
with knota,
or spots,
or simple plain illusion. But OF such
buy six times nE much.
And so.
You know.
The cost is Just as great
on, how / hate
4 veill
Ike to to fse ' Il rubbing gainst my nose?
Forever cntchlnR on my cyelRsh tips
Perslstently 1dheTinF 10 my lips. :, ~.
The while the lil.dycd blaekneSS OF hS
Makes ~ Sr,my smudgcs on my face.
or II the veil he white, 1870,
Itself ii smudges III It Is slHhu
why do ! wear TT
Why? ..,,...,,
II Is n crime thus daily 70 cnWI1P
1,ai. aa1F In Hurh n 61iCfODo tFhpa
Death and disease Turk hidden IN us
pestl 4 banel A blot upon our SEX
Just made 10 YeN ,, 49,.
A buTdened WornAn'B OHerburueneu herNeH'
oh, fashion. hear my wall ,... ,,.,t
Or Is my plea TO let mo 10 Without a Vei'
"''"G @caroiyn wel1S In aaTDsFS Bazaar.
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dollars for one story Of ten columns,
He said recently that this one incident
gave him $50 900 worth Of advertisement.
Mrs. E. D. E. N. southworth. then a
poor widow. received a small fortune
for her "Hldden Hand" Henry Ward
Beecher received from the Ledger $4,000
for his novel Norwood His expendi-
lures for advertising. his paper were a
million and a quarter dollars, and he
once ieased for single day eight pages
Of the New York Herald.
All the country knows Of Mr.. Bon
ner's passion for owning the champion
race horses Of years ago. among them
the famous Dexter, for which he paid
Ss5. 900. back in 1867, when Dexter's trot-
ting Of a mile in 2:17 was a wonder.
The remarkable features and wide d.
yersity Of Nj. Boomers life made him
nm object OF much discussion. He was
noted for his deeds Of charity and his
benevolent gifts in various lines. He
was IN intimate friend of the late DR..
John Hall, the famous pastor of the
Fifth Avenue Presbyterian church, and
1t Is said his death was largely due to
his grief over the recent death Of his
nastOr.
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borrowed from the national banks. But
the national banks do only part Of the
country's banking business. There are
also the state banks. the great private
banks, and the trust companies, whose
loans for Industrial uses have increased
in like proportion. Without exact sta
tlstics from them it is perfectly safe to
say that the merchants and manufac-
turers of this country, the men who pay
wages and keep the wheels going round.
are borrowing and using at a profit be-
tween one-half and three-quarters of a
billion dollars more this year than they
could find remunerative use for a year
ago.
This adds another to the many indica-
tons of national prosperity recently
cited by the World in statements Of fact
and tables OF figures.
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NOTES ABOUT NoTABLEs.

Admiral Dewey is an inveterate tea
drlnker.
Lord .Rothschild's musIcales are the
finest in London.
Lord RItchener's fovorite diversion is
reading the Koran.
President Mckinley has received the
degree OF LII. D. from seven colleges
and universities.
DR.. Felix Brunei, n surgeon of the
French navy. has perfected means OF
removing tattoo marks.
Senator Depew has purchased four
thoroughbreds for the coach he Is to
keep in Washington.
In one week recently Miss Helen
Gould received six hundred letters. The
total amount asked for was over $l,OOO'-
900.
Congressman Ketcham, OF New York.
has a unique claim to fame. He mas
served in thirteen Congresses and has
never made a speech.
Claus spreckles, the sugar king, is an
expert electrician. He is experimenting
the erection OF his own electric plant In
San Francisco.
President McKlnley's record for
hand shaking Is 1876 in an hour and
forty.fiVe minutes. This is at the rate
Of forty-sIx shakes n minute.
Mrs. Charles Havemeyer is, feature
for feature, an exact counterpart OF the
beautiful Duchess of Portland. Lady
Curzon, VIcerelne OF India, Is the
double Of the Empress Of Russia.
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Robert Bonner's Success,

In the death OF Robert Bonner, the
famous millionaire publisher of the New
York Ledger and horse owner. whose
fortune was built up through the enor-
nous amounts he spent in newspaper
advertising, man with Almost remark
able history passes away. He began
life as an apprentice boy In the printing
Office Of the Ledger then n small finan-
cIal sheet and not the leading literary
paper It afterward became. He bought
1t from the proprietor. and through his
wonderful genius for advertising It
gained a national reputation, and was
one Of the pioneers OF our better class
OF literary journals The novelty Of his
method Of advertising was. In that day
In the Aftles. startling 10 the public. In
a modern publisher it would no. be re-
garded in that light
Mr., Bonner's mode Of getting the
Ledger talked about was to pay enor-
nous amounts for literary contributions
from authors. away above anything
they dreamed Of This caused the fact
TO be published everywhere in the coun-
try. and Was worth thousands Of dollars
in advertising the Ledger. and brought
fame TO many an aspiring author. Al
though Fanny Fern was well known as
M author Of charming stories Mr.. Bon
ner startled the literary circles and the
reading puhllc by pGying hera thousand
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PASSING pIEAsANTRIEs.

(which is the best-to be lucky or
rich?' ITO be rich. Then you don't
have to be lucky.'-Chicago Record.
Henpeck-There'll be no parting in
heaven. you know. Friend-Thats SO.
II you want a divorce, old fellow, you'd
better attend to 1t on this side.-Life.
Minister-I am sorry didn't see you
at church yesterday. Fammus. Tam
mus-Weel, We see. 1t wis siccan a wat
day It wisna fit to turn DOT dog in.
But sent the wife, sir.-Tit Bits.
curate-I never saw such a set Of
idiots as had to preach to this morn
ing. Mabel Zone Of the congregations
suppose that is why you kept on call
ing them Dearly beloved brethren. =
TIt-Bits.
The Llmit.-"Paw," said Tommy,
"how big haIlstone did you ever see?"
when was out west in 1891" said
Mr. Tucker, II saw hallstones as big as
this boil have got on the back Of my
neck. Tribune.
One Ahead. = Cooking school?
Hmph! suppose you've learned ev-
erything except how to bake bread,
young woman" Yes. sir. We don't
bake bread at cooking school" "oh,
you don't? mo, Sir, we pake Lne
dough. "-Chicago Tribune.
ChIcago's Vindication.-"I tell you"
said the man with chIn-whiskers and a
silk hat, at doesn't do to sneer at Chi
cago as a centre OF intellect and refine
ment." "All ecxuse for that has passed
has it," II should say so. Boston, nor
New York, nor any other town can kick
any harder against the nude in art than
we can II we get chance. Washing
ton Star.
An old farmer who had been to Lon
don, was describing to his friends the
splendor of the hoted he stayed at.
Everything was perfect" said he.
with the exception OF one thIng-they
kept the light burning nll night in my
bedroom. a thing amt used to-
well" said one Of them, why didn't
you blow It out?" BLOW It out" said
the farmer; chow could I? The blessed
thing was inside a bottle!"-Tit-Blts
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ANat,on,s Shame.

Under the title Of 1.-THE Nations
shame, "-willlam Lloyd Garrison, whom
we all used to honor, has published a
collection Of nine poems he has written
since March 10, on the subject of the
greatness of Agulnaldo and the degra-
dalton of America. One Of his sonnets
is tribute to 1.-THE patriots Of the Phil
ipplnes, murdered to satisfy nations
greed" Another is headed william
Mckinley" In which Mr.. Garrison walls
that, whether as tool or tyrant. His
tory's pen upon the nations scroll of
lasting shame, shall pillory in letters
black thy name, time can alone adj
Judge" In others Aguinaldo Is classed
along with Bozzaris and Kosclusko,
and he calls upon the Filipino chief to
take heart and comfort II thy soul be
sad. Thou hast unmarked a ma
ton falsely clad" To the Christian
pulpit, he addresses an ode that is sac
religious. In some verses entitled
"Abased." the Massachusetts Filipino
laureate refers to President MCKINLEY
again as pirate" saying: But now
our Ship of State. in pirate hand, in
carnadlnes the water in Its wake
1t is not believed that these sonnets
of Mr.. Garrison have induced any
Americans to so to Manila to shoot
American soldiers, nor have they In
spIred some crank to seek to remove"
through violent means, the pirate that
is steering the Ship Of State" They
have not hlndered In any way the re-
cruiting of an army to go to the Philip
pines to counteract the effect Of the
laureate's encouragement Of the rebel
chief. 1t remains TO be seen how many
OF these sonnets will be used as insplr-
ing texts for AguInaldo's Wheeling or
gan. The book is appropriately named,
for 1t is, indeed, "a Nations Shame"