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THE ECHO, EEXTNGTON, GA.: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 55.
The Ogethorpe Ech o.
LEXINGTON. GA.
Over=Work Weakens
Your Kidneys,
Unhealthy Kidneys Make Impure Blood.
Ail the blood in your body passes through
your kidneys once every three minutes.
The kidneys are your
blood purifiers, they fil¬
ter out the waste or
impurities in the blood.
If they are sick or out
of order, they fail to dc
their work.
Pains, aches and rheu¬
matism come from ex¬
cess of uric acid in the
blood, due to neglected
Tudney trouble.
Kidney trouble causes quick or unsteady
heart beats, and makes one feel as though
they had heart trouble, because the heart is
ever-working in pumping thick, kidney
poisoned blood through veins and arteries.
It used to be considered that only urinary
troubles were to be traced to the kidneys,
but now modern science proves that nearly
all constitutional diseases have their begin¬
ning in kidney trouble.
If you are sick you can make no mistake
by first doctoring your kidneys. The mild
and Swamp-Root, the extraordinary effect of Dr. Kilmer's
the great kidney remedy is
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Chri^tm&.s
Smoke
[Copyright, L' 1902, by T. C. McClure.]
I T was three days before Christmas.
Redney Burke separated his di¬
minutive frame from the seething
crowd of humanity that pressed
along the street and paused before a
plate glass window which above all
others attracted him. This was not
a department store or a candy store or
a bakesliop. Inside there were neither
toys nor sleds nor good things to eat,
but it held those things upon which
Redney Burke had feasted his small
eyes for many days. And now he
looked, with his whole soul in his
glance—he looked and looked and look¬
ed. He sniffed the air and imagined
to himself that already lie was enjoy¬
ing the good things within.
For it was a cigar store, a store of
the better class, full of pipes and tobac¬
co and cigarettes and chewing tobacco
and everything that ends in smoke.
In the front of the window immedi¬
ately under the olfactory nerves of Mr.
soon realized. It stands the highest for its
wonderful cures of the most distressing cases
and is sold on its merits
by all druggists in fifty
cent and one-dollar siz¬
es. You may have a
sample bottle by mail Home of Swamp-Root
free, also pamphlet telling you how to find
out if you have kidney or bladder trouble.
Mention this paper when writing Dr. Kilmer
& Co., Binghamton, N. Y.
Con’t make any mistake but remember the
name. Swamp Root, Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp Root,
and address, Binghamton, N. Y.,on every bottle
Here are Teeth
That Stand Wear
Si*.*!
Best sets ot teeth $5.0t toS15.no. superior
We make a roofless plate which i3 far
to any ether.
Solid gold crown *5 00 to $8.00.
Bridge work $5.00 to $8.00 per tooth. Th»re
is nothing equal to perfect bridge work when
properly constructed.
Gold fillings $1.50 and up; amalgam fillings 75c
and up.
We extract teeth positively without pain.
You may rest secure in the knowledge that
your teeth will receive the best and most skillful
attention at our office.
We have the finest equipped office in this sec¬
tion of the country and reduced are prepared prices. to give you
the very best work at
CLASSIC CITY DENTAL ROOMS
DR. C. A. RYDER, Wlngr.
.McDowell Building, - Athens, Ca.
Long Distance ’Phone 87.
m, jTnTcholson,
Practicing ♦ Physician,
Obstetrician and Surgeon,
A NTIOCH GA. Chronic and diseases of wo
jCjL men and children a specialty. Has taken
■special course in nervous diseases and diseases
or eye and ear. Has been offered one thousand
dollars foT his treatment of blood poison.
AMASON HOUSE
LEXINGTON, GA.
MBS. EVIE AMASON,PBOPIETBESS
TTAVING opened the commodious house on
11 Church street as a hotel solicit for both share regular of the
pnd transient boarders I a
aatronage of the traveli^ubhc^
M0NEY_L0ANED.
I negotiate mortgage loans on im¬
proved farms at 7 per cent, without
commissions. Reasonable fee for
making abstract.
JOEL CLOUD,
Attorney-at-Law, LEXINCTON CA
C. W. MOTES,
i P hotographer,
ATHENS, GA.
♦ All of the very latest style work
♦ done in the very best of
i Gallery manner in McDowell of the art. Building,
♦ College Avenue.
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The man smiled a smile of pity.
“Dear me,” he remarked, half to him¬
self, “how true it is that one hailf of
the world knows not how the other
half lives.” Then he raised his voice.
“What would you say, small sir, if I
should buy you some of those toys”—
He stopped as he gazed into the win¬
dow. “Why, why,” he went on, “I
thought this was a toy store that you
were looking into!”
“Naw,” returned Redney. “It’s a to¬
bacco store.”
“But—but,” continued tbe man, “you
— you don’t smoke tobacco. You cer¬
tainly at your age cannot*’—
“Naw.” returned Burke. “1 don’t. I
—I wasn't thinkin’ about meself so
much. I was thinkin’ about me old
father. He broke his pipe last mont’,
an’ he ain’t had none since, an’ he’s too
poor to git annuder one. 1 was lookin’
at these. Gee! If I could git enough
of the stuff together, 1 wouldn’t do a
thing but buy that there one for him—
me poor ole father.”
This was said with an air of the
greatest frankness, although Mr. Red¬
ney Burke had always considered his
father, as did many others, in the light
of a genteel myth. Still he thought to
himself that if he had a father and if
he himself were worth a few million or
so he might—he didn’t commit himself
upon the subject, however, even in his
thoughts—he might blow his father to
‘WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO HAVE FOB
CHRISTMAS?”
Redney Burke was a pipe—not an ex¬
pensive one, but one of just the make
and pattern that suited Mr. Burke. He
had religiously watched this pipe from
day to day, afraid that some other cus¬
tomer would buy it. But there it still
remained.
“Gee!” exclaimed Mr. Redney Burke
to himself as he scratched his short red
hair. “Gee, I wisht I had it!”
And the unfortunate part of it all
was that he didn’t have a cent. He
searched every pocket and cranny of
his superannuated clothes, from his
feet, which rested on the ground, to his
hat, which occupied an exalted posi¬
tion some three feet odd above the
ground, for that which he knew he did
not possess. The expected happened,
for he found nothing.
“Gee!” he exclaimed again. “If I had
annuder suit, I’d hock this. I gotter
have that pipe; that’s what!”
Strolling along the street, at peace
with all the world, came a philanthro¬
pist. Redney’s critical eye, casting
about for ways and means, noted him
as he came.
“I t’ought he was a stiff,” he remark¬
ed confidentially to some friends a day
or two later, “but I was away off, I
was.”
The philanthropist, whose good na¬
ture, to give the devil bis due, was
caused by a remarkably good dinner
which he had just enjoyed—the phi¬
lanthropist bore down upon Mr. Red¬
ney Burke. The latter saw him com¬
ing. anyways?”
“Now, what’s his game,
thought Mr. Burke as he turned back
once more to gaze upon the pipe.
“Hello, small sir!” remarked the
friend of mankind genially. “Merry
Christmas!”
“Aw,” thought the small sir to him¬
self, “what ye givin’ us? Why can’t
ye leave me alone?”
But he didn’t say it. He simply
looked up at the big man with a half
coy, half frightened glance, more par¬
ticularly to determine whether he
might not be the police department in
disguise. *
“Merry Christmas!” he returned,
bit wistfully as he thought he saw
a possible opening of a pleasant na¬
ture.
“Well, my boy,” continued the man,
“what are you going to have for
Christinas, anyway ?”
“Christmas!” returned Redney, with
a slight variation from the truth. “We
don't never have nothin’ for Christmas,
we don’t.”
A. W. MATHEWS,
CARLTON, GA.
Besides a full line of Dry Goods, Hats, Shoes,
Clothing, etc., at prices so low that few of his
customers ever think of trying to “jew” him, he
has on hand a beautiful line of Holiday Goods,
consisting of Toys, Dolls, Albums, Toilet Cases,
Photo Boxes, Silverware, Vases, Fancy China,
Glassware, etc. MOTTO: One price to all and
that the lowest. Come and see the goods.
A. W. MATHEWS,
CJ-A.IRI-.TO2>T, GEORGIA.
P. S,—Shoes a specialty. Best Calico, 5c. Five
cent Bargain Department still very popular. A.
K. Hawkes will be on hand December 16 and 17.
a
sentiment, he reasoned, justified his re¬
ply to the philanthropist.
“Well, well,” remarked the latter,
glancing down at the disinterested
specimen before him, “but wliat would
you like to have now for Christmas?"
Redney shook his head. “I ain't per
ticler about meself. If I could git that
there pipe—an’,” lie added as he scent¬
ed possibilities heretofore unsuspected,
“an’ a good bit of smokin’ tobacco, an’
one of them there rubber tilings to put
it in—say, if I could do that for the old
man—say! An’ wouldn’t lie fee! stuck
on hisself! But, gee, wot's de use? I
Can’t do it, so I might as well be go
in’.”
He made this last remark because be
knew intuitively that brevity, which is
the soul of wit, is also the essential in
charitable enterprises. Good impulses
don’t last forever, so lie moved off,
shaking liis head as lie went.
The big man looked up and down the
street to see if he was observed,, then
he stretched forth liis hand and caught
Redney by the arm.
“Here, my boy,” he exclaimed gently
as he shoved a five dollar bill into Mr.
Redney Burke’s reluctant grasp—“here,
go and get the pipe for your father and
then go and get something for — for
yourself, and—and have at least one
happy Christmiys that you can look
back upon.”. His eyes glistened a bit
as lie said it. and, to his credit be it said,
he did not regret the impulse or the do¬
nation for a full two hours thereafter.
“T’anks,” said Mr. Burke, with a bit
of a scrape and a stiff sort of bow
“t’anks from me an’ me old man!”
The next day there was a queer for
mation in an unfrequented corner of
the play yard of the Fourteenth ward
school. This formation resembled more
than anything else an Eskimo hut, but
composed, instead of inanimate ma¬
terial, of a very animated and interested
crowd of boys gathered around a com¬
mon center. From the aperture in the
top of this human Eskimo dwelling,
and therefore heightening the illusion,
ascended a column of smoke, and as it
ascended to the skies there came a
voice from within.
“Gee, fellers!” said the voice. “Gee,
but ain’t this great?” It was the voice
of Mr. Redney Burke, the votary of my
Lady Nicotine, the center of an admir¬
ing crowd. He smoked a pipe—the pipe
of his heart—and he filled It from a red
rubber ease.
“Just fits in me pants pocket,” he ob
served. And as he said it he pulled out
a few dollar bills and exhibited them.
“An’ I got four more plunks left!
What d’ye t’ink?” he said.
Later, in the class room, the teacher
lifted her head high in the air and
sniffed.
“Some boy,” she remarked severely,
“has been smoking. I want to know
who it is.”
She looked—not around tbe room—but
directly at Mr. Redney Burke. He fair¬
ly reeked with tobacco, and he knew it.
Under the circumstances, therefore,
he side stepped with alacrity into the
aisle and looked squarely into the
teacher’s eyes.
“Me old wo—me mother,” he explain¬
ed glibly—“me mother had a smokin’
jag on yestiddy, an’ I bad to stay home
an’ fill her pipes, an’ me clo’es Is full
of It. It ain’t me; It’s her. D’ye see?”
Then he whipped out a small, new
leather pocketbook with a brand new
penny in it and handed it over. “An’ a
merry Christmas to you, Miss Burt
whistle!” he remarked.
The Sound Wn» Not Hollow.
Mr, Dennis was endeavoring to the
best of his ability to give the doctor a
faithful account of his xvife’s symp¬
toms, but he found it uphill work.
“You say she lias a cough,” said the
doctor. “Is it a hollow cough?”
Mr. Dennis cast bis eyes to the ceil¬
ing and then down to the ground, but
found no help anywhere,
“It may be a hollow cough,” be said
humbly, “but there's n great soobstance
to the sound of it annyway!”
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HARD TO BELIEVE.
We admit it is hard to believe that you can buy a beautiful
high-grade handy top buggy for $59.50. However, we will
introduce the evidence and allow you to be the judge. How
can it he done? We do strictly a cash business and cut out
all allowances for bad debts, bookkeepers’ salaries, collecting
expenses, etc. We only charge you “other for the fellows.” buggy you Doesn’t get
and make no assessment for the
this appeal to your business sense? The dealer who gets $75
to $85 for a similar job “on time” is simply obliged acknowl¬ to assess
the good for the had. He may not make experience public selling
edgment of the fact, but if he has had any
goods on time, he will get back in a corner, away from the
“public gaze” and admit it to himself. He knows it. Wo
have faith in our position and are anxious to produce the If evi¬
dence. Will you come in and examine this work? not
coming to Athens soon, write for further particulars. We
can ship on receipt of order. Write NOW, before our pres¬
ent assortment is broken.
2. D. SLEDGE, ATHENS, GA.
CORN * WHISKIES
POPLAR LOG, 7 years old, $1 quart, $5.00 per gallon.
* TURKEY MOUNTAIN, 85 cents quart, $2.50 per gallon.
ROCK MOUNTAIN. 75 cents quaat, $2.00 per gallon.
GEORGIA CORN, 60 cents quart, $1.75 per gallon.
MOUNTAIN DEW, 50 cents per quart, $1.50 per gallon.
Ryes, Hnriions, dins, Rums, anil all kinds of Wines anil Brandies.
MAIL ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED.
JOSEPH THOMPSON CO.,
7, 9 and II, Decatur Street, ATLANTA, GA,
No Interest In or connection with any other house In this city,
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CHILDREN’S SHOES I
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£ Complete Stoclc
of 'NTT'ear iBesistlng-
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Fop Every Member of|the
£ Family, Especially the Children.
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5 1903 FALL AND WINTER 1904
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I MILLINERY
I I am showing a most complete line Hats of and Fall Bonnets. and Winter Millinery
i consisting of all the new things in
Outing and Golf Hats in White and colored felts, also in the long
i nap Mohair, Amazon Plumes in black and white, black and white
8 Tips, fancy Feathers. Kid Caps in russet, white and red for boys.
Knit Toques or Toboggans for cold weather for boys and girls.
HOODS FOR THE BABIES.
Black Lace, Sewing Silk and Colored Chiffon Veilings, Mourn¬
= ing Veils, Crape, Silk, Velvets, Ribbons, etc. A codial invitation
-= is extended to all ladies to call. Prompt attention to mail orders.
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— — 5 MISS ANNIE KNOX, - LEXINGTON.
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