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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 e ^ n e y» s 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. ♦ ♦ ♦< 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!” o 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, ^ffiiiiwiimwitiwiimiffffitmfiffwiiTiiTiiiiiniiniwiiiii I CHILDREN’S SHOES I £ £ Complete Stoclc of 'NTT'ear iBesistlng- 1 Battle Axe Shoes Fop Every Member of|the £ Family, Especially the Children. & | J. A. ROLAND, CRAWFORD | iiuiuiuiuiumiuiuiuiuiuiuiuiiuuiuiuiuiuiuiuiuiuiul dllllllilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllltllllllllHItiilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllltlllllllii^ 5 1903 FALL AND WINTER 1904 § s 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. = — — — 5 MISS ANNIE KNOX, - LEXINGTON. s