The Spartan, 1898-02-16

Taken early ntmng gestation, u makes motherhood perfectly s ife and almost painless. Its beneficial effect is transmitted to the child in increased constitutional vigor. It protects the mother against relapse and Improves the quantity and quality of nourishment during the nursing period. It reinforces tired over-wrought women at every critical stage, and heals the special diseases to which they are subject. It was designed for this express purpose by an educated physician and skilled specialist. Dr. Pierce has devoted thirty years to this particular field of practice. His thousand: page book, the "People's Medical Adviser," will be sent free, for 21 one cent stamps to pay the cost of mailing onlv. Or. clothbound for t? stamps. Address R. V. Pierce, M. D.. Buffalo. N. Y. Mrs. I. B. Clough, box 10%, Lisbon, Grafton Co., New Hampshire, writes : "I am the mother of nice baby four and a half mouths old. He is a perfect child and weighs about eighteen pounds. If you remember I wrote you nbout a year ago bout my condition. I rannot give too much praise to your ' Favorite prescription ' as it saved tne a great deal of suffering. I got along remarkably well, this b^ing my first baby."

ffttuouur 'en* (ltd aiflFtli ?-iouh- murtf to the senate's amendment. 'The senate alt-o granted $2,500 the State f *ir tts-8 >ci?Mcn, but thA house does not approve of tliis eliMer. However the adjutant peoersl willl yet liie $500 f jr holding iusjn'ctiou*. V| Two new counties fougmt for a foothold in the house tliii wMek. That of L^a, composed of parts of Suurter. Darliogton ?md Kershawl. was pasted by a ve-y flattering iwnjerlty. Pee Dee, to be composed cf p irt of Marion failed, but a concurrent r ^solution has passed the house by mors than a twothirds vote declaring the i ilectiou fraudulent, void and no elect<o i and requesting the governor to order a fair election to be held at a convcniei t date. This resolution is now in the senate with every indieat'.on that it i ill pass. The capital of Lea county will be Bishopvilie. I And this suggests ho^ few of our counties bsar I ad 'an names. They *re Oconee, Saluda aud Cherokee. Those named for grest Carolinians are Pick? ns. iantens, Kershaw, Marion, Horry,

" I T?iMiss Nina Tb'jfcnson. ?LL . as'J-ii. -v- - a ^ ph-ase state that they whph advertised in the Spartan of Feb. 10. 1898. H. L>. Floyd, P. M. Tillman s Bill Killed. Washington, J_). Q., Feb. 11. ? The House committee judiciary touay killed the Senate bill to permit the State of South Carolina to control liquors brought into the State in original package. The motion to report it favorably was lest on a Me vote. The action of the committee today end* a long cod test that has att racted national attention. One of the principal objections developed is that it would give the States the power to control inter-State commerce and might lead to the invocation of power in the case of other coiumoditieg. Before the direct vote was taken today an amendment to the bill providing that the 8ta'es should not discriminate against the liquor of auy particular State was adopted by a vote of 7 to 5. The vote

that of bachelor of science. The exercises to day consisted < f si] orations, delivered by the graduates who bad not prepared these, and t.b< presentation of diplomas. Tbe orator: were Mergers. A. B. Bryan, of Barnwell J. 8. Garrls, of Colleton; C. W. Gentry of Spartanburg; R. T. Halluiu.of Pick ens; D. H. Henry, of Abbeville; J. H Hook, of Orangeburg. Mtssrs W. J. Sa'ratt, of Cherokee, and Percy W. Moore, of Greenville, were to hav? spoken also, bnt w?re prevented bj slokness and absenoe. Most of Hit young oreto'S acquitted tbemselvet well and tbeir efforts are oousidsred tc bs above the oidinary and especially good were the speeches of Mr. J. 8 Garrisaud Mr. R. T. Hsl'uin After speaking was over Col. R. W Simpson give the graduates a short ad drees'ard delivered the diplomas, whlcl ended the exercises of the morning. The following gentlemen preparec

W H imvc nnvvil-vu IUV vvuu a^ofiin lature, born into the day of public confidence. We have watched it in its progress; and now that ita inn of office tenure la declining, we wonder if, like the inn, ita members will eome again, or will thay sink bevond the horizon of exa'tat.lon to the hnmble plane oi humble eltlzanshlp? Will they, in parking, leave behind them a glorious record of great accompl'shments of dnty faithfully performed, or will the'r day li ?ht of existence be but. a mat< ori< flash across the legislative sky? 1 The principal matter of Interest ii the proceedings in the House of Kepre ' sentatlves last week was the disposl * j ti n of the Ohllds bi'l. It baa hern r? M j corded, a strong fight was made npoi