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THE NATIONAL BANK OF AUGUSTA L. C. HAYNE, Preal't. F. G. FORD, Cashier. Capital, ?250,000. [ Undivided Profits } $110,000 Facilities of our magnificent New Vault ! containing410 Safety-Lock Boxes. Differ ent Size? are offered to our patrons and the public at 8G.00 to $10.00-per annum. THOS. J. ADAMS PROPRIETOR. PUNTERS LOAN ANO SAVINGS BANK. AUGUSTA, GA. Pays Interest on Deposits. Accounts / Solicited". L. C. HAY?TE, President. W. C. WABDLAW.I Cashier. VOL. LXIV. NO. 10. MAINE'S NEW SWEDEN. MOST FLOURISHING COLONY EVER PLANTED ON AMERICAN SOIL Its Remarkable Success Recognized by the Social Economists of Two Hemis pheres- ?. S. Minister Thomas Brought Hardy and Frugal Norsemen to Maine. "From here on it's all Sweden." The driver iudicated by a sweep of his arm all the farms tb be seen ahead of ns, says a correspondent of the Cincinnati Tribune who has been mak ing a tour through Maine. From Cari bou it was eight miles over a road as smooth and hard as asphalt, and now we were on the edge oi New Sweden, the most flourishing colony ever planted on American soil. A kiug fostered it. Because of it its projec tor was subsequently made minister to Swedeu by our government, and its remarkable success is recognized by the social economists of two hemis pheres. From the lower waters of the Penob scot it isa woary climb of two hundred miles through the great piue woods of central au<l northern Maine, to the uplands of Aroostook county. The train carries you through the home of the deer, past the runways of 'the moose aud caribou, by iakes aud trout streams, always up hill; by the doors of hunting camps, sportsmen's hotels, bare and most attractively desolate, and around the foothills of hoary old Katahdin, whose peak may be seen in shadowy outline through rifts in the forest. Tiien, when least expected, the primeval woods give place to mau made groves .of second growth, orch ards and plowed fields. Instead of log camps, farmhouses come iuto view. The railway station, water tank aiid solitary tavern develop int" villages with Railroad avenues and Main street, and at length the tourist steps from the car at Caribou, the garden spot of the great northeast. The Hon. William Widgerly Thomas, minister to Sweden, founded New Sweden in 1870. He had been ap pointed a war consul to that country in 1803, and theu the idea of bringing the bardy aud frugal Norsemen to Maine occurred to him. He aroused the interest of both the Swedish and the Maine state authorities, and, after some years of delay, he secured a grant of one hundred acres of land in Aroos took county to the head of each fam ily, and aid until his first crop could be harvested. Mr. Thomas was also appointed commissioner of immigra tion by the state of Maine, aud> had personal charge of the colony until, in 1S73, the settlers voluntarily relin quished state aid. On Julie 23, 1870, under his guid ance, fifty-one Swedes sailed from Go thenberg to America. The colouy was composed of twenty-two men, eleven women and eighteen children. All of the men were farmers, and many of them were als*o skilled in other trades and professions. Among them was a lay pastor, a blacksnii*1 civil engineer, two carpe?' ket maker, a whee' tailor and a *" I It w?" oaar ^ufiy vouched ...y after reaching their desti _.uiio'i the Swedes began converting the wilderness into homes. To put them in the way of eamiug their liv ing by their own labor, Mr. Thomas set them to work felling trees, cutting out roads and building houses, paying them'Sl a day in provisions and tools from tho state fund provided for that purpose. At the close of the year, through births and additional iunni gration, the colony had increased iu numbers to 114; seven miles of road had been cut, twenty-six dwelling houses built, aud about three hun dred acre3 of laud cleared and partly sowed iu grain. A number of the dwellings were erected by the state, and were paid for iu labor. These buildings were of peeled logs, und contained three rooms each. They were also furnished with cooking stoves. The same year a public build ing, called lo this day "The Capitol," was erected, whereiu all public func tions not given in the various churches are held. Today there are more than seven teen bundi ed Swedes in the colony, which now extends over seven town sbii*. They have more thau seven hundred buildings and eighty miles of turnpike roads. They own aboutSOO 000 worth of live stock, and in 1894 their farm products were valued at ?173,730. That same year the total value of buildings, clearings, tools, stock, factories, mills and farm aud mill products reached nearly $800,000. When ono considers that a quarter of a century ago this territory did not produce a dollar these figures are elo quent. Today there are upward of four thousand Swedes in Maine, who are the direct result of this enterprise. On every side were neat farmhouses, some of them bright with paint, and all of them tidy and warmly built, with barns three aud four times their size. Aronui them were pasture lands aud groves, orchards and mead ows and vast potato fields. Aroostook county raises moro potatoes than the entire balance of tho state. It is one of the great potato-raising regions of the world. One farmer has raised as ni >ny as 743 bushels to tbe acre, and the average yield is more than two hundred bushels. It pays to raise large families in New Sweden. There would be very little profit in farming, if there were not plenty of children to load the baskets in the potato fields. A youngster can pick up as many potatoes as a grown-up, and ibis is the great har vest among the Aroostook Swedes. But it is hard work, and there is plenty of it. The First Lutheran church is a plain, white structure, bare and simple, quite different from the rather gaudy Bap tist meeting-bouse down the road, where Ave saw the parson and his pretty wife in the family potato patch, with their little ones, harvesting their crop, the same as the rest of the peo ple do. The preachers of New Sweden all combine farming with their minis terial labors. Money goes a long way in this faraway nook, but even here $"500 a year is not enough to rear and educate a family, unless it is pieced out with some kind of lnbor. The feature of the Lutheran, as of all churches hereabouts, is the horse shed, large enough to shelter a regiment of cavalry, and iu which the worshipers leave their teams during services. The Swede is a merciful mau to his beasts. There are half a dozen white school houses with patriotic flagstaffs, aud a dozen or moro sawmills and starch fac tories. Tlie latter is the greatest of all manufacturing industries in this region, turning out fifteen thousand tons, of starch annually. New mills aro going up yearly. 1 stopped at one of these mills-a simple affair,"with many odd makeshifts in a mechanical line, such as a homemade pnmp and an bectric plant, designed aud made hy two youngsters who never saw a dy namo, except the one at Caribou, and ?ever saw that until their own was set up. They built it from descriptions in a book. The machinery clanked and clamored noisily as the potatoes bounded down the chutes into the bins, wherein they became pulp, then paste, and at last starch. ORDEAL OF A SOLDIER LAD. A .Sensational and Mysterious Occurrence on San Juan Hill. Telling of volunteer and regular of ficers recalls a sensational aud mys terious occurrence on San Juan Hill. On the uight of July 2, when the Spaniards made a dash at the Ameri can Hues, the available trenches were packed full of meu. An excitable volunteer major, startled out of his sleep, ordered the men in support over the brow of the hill into the trenches. They grabbed their guns and ran over the crest of the hill, only to find the iutreuchments filled' to the limit with their own men. They had to lie down just back of the trenches without cover. The men in the trenches were blazing away for all that was in them. The new men sent up back of them were so many that they could not lie side by side, but some had to lie one behind auother. It was a dark night. Orders were drowned in the volleys of musketry, and to many of the vol unteers the bugle and whistle calls were a foreign language. It neces sarily rested with the individual men iu the ranks back of the trenches to display their cool judgment by refrain ing from firing. An excitable lad of not more than seventeen or eighteen in tho rear rank of those back of the trenches loaded and fired. At that moment a comrade just in front of him who had lifted himself cn his elbows to see the ad vancing Spaniards flattened out orchis face-stone dead. The Spaniards were soon glad to gallop back to their intreuchments.. Then the support was ordered back under the brow of the hill again and brought its dead with it. The man who had been kill 1 just in front of the excitable lad had a hole in him that you could shove a wagon pole through. It looked mighty liko a Springfield bullet from the rear. A man beside the lad had seen him fire and the dead man drop. The lad him self admitted that he had fired. The captain of the company, his men say, is a good officer, but excitable. In this case he was horrified and showed a disposition to be hasty and a little vindictive. He assembled his com pany, and in the course of a five minute talk had the accused lad grovelling on the hillside in abject hysterics. The captain talked of a drumhead and court-martial and * squad in the morning. '" renee had quite . much for h1'" , and it . mm or shake ..?.I was writhing rnd ." ni a kind of hysteria at his 01. He looked dowu at him, poked him with the toe of his boot, and said, "Shut upi" Then he stepped over a few pace3 to where the dead man was stretched ont aud examined him by the star light. He took quite a time, and the men, who had gathered about, awaited further developments with tense in terest. To the lad writhing around on the ground it probably seemed an eternity. At last the regular surgeon came back. He looked down at the lad indifferently. Then he looked the company commander square in the eye and said: "Shot with a Mauser bullet-from the front! Seud this yelping whelp to your field hospital for au opiate." Then he poked the lad with the toe of his boot, said "Shut up!" again, and marched off. Fighting at Manila. It is impossible to picture the drear iness of t?ose lines. It was so dark that noman could distinguish the com rade at his elbow, and officers had to aunounce themselves by name that their men might kuow who they were. The ground was trodden into deep mire, alternating with pools into which one sank to the waist; cold gusts of wind came from the bay, chilling our wet bodies to the bone; many of the men were going through the setting up exercises or the bar-bell exercises with their rifles, in order to get up circulation; tho wounded were being carried back in caramettas, an abomi nable species of native cart, not much bigger than a baby carriage, and drawn by the most wretched little beasts that ever wore bridles; every condition was present which can chill the ardor of soldiers in a fight; but our meu were calm and even cheerful, complaining only of the impossibility of getting at the enemy through the intervening swamps and bamboo jun gle. Our loss this night was ten men killed and about thirty wounded. We learned later that the Spanish loss was much heavier.-From "The Fall of Manila," by Captain T. Bentley Mott, TJ. S. A., in Scribner's. In Ye Olden Pays. Mrs. Sarah Terry of Philadelphiar has just celebrated her 108th birthday by joining the Daughters of the Revo lution. "Not very many years ago," she says, "when I was a good, large girl, there was an Indian camp where the city hall now is. Ou Sunday my father used to hiten np the horses aud we would drive out there and talk to them; but the Indians are gone now, and the towu has grown. Never will I forget when my father joined the army under Washington, and how he fought agaiust the redcoats. And then enme peace with England and the freedom of the colonies. How happy the people were. Every wagon, every cart and every carriage which drove into town had a big sign on it, and every sign said 'Peace, peace, peace.' They were happy days. Tliecity was illuminated aud the people cheered, and tho pretty girls let the young men kiss them ou their returu from the war."-New York Tribune. A Long Visit. One of th(? longest" visits on record is one that M as made by a woman in the south. Perhaps such a thing could not have happened in a less hos pitable part of the country. The vis itor was ouoof those most unfortunate waifs and strays of the country, a re fined womau with no home of her own; that was in the days when women were expected to be cared for and not go out into the world to look out for themselves. This woman went one clay to spend the day with a friend and remained for 25 years. She out lived the father and mother of the family, took their places to some ex tent in the hearts of the children, and for all those years she lived there happy and beloved, and giving iu re turn for her home those services which cannot be paid for in gold.-Chicago Times-Herald, SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS. The Nile has a fall of only six inches in 1000 miles. A physician declares that people who sleep with their mouths shut live longest. A snake doss not climb a tree by coiling around it, but by holding on with the points of its scales. A snake could not climb a glass pillar. Eeceut chemical experiments prove that all waters baye action on copper; that "hard" water takes up little lead from lead pipes, but that "soft" water aud carbonated water dissolve consid erable quantities. At the Paris Academy of Medicino Dr. Doyau gave the other day his ex perience in regard to the result of 146 cases of surgical operations on'the stomach. There were only twenty two deaths in all, aud tweuty of these were in cases of cancer. The slime secreted by ducts along the side of a fish, according to a recent investigator, keeps the scales from harm, increases the speed of the fish, and makes it difficult to hold by its enemies. Probably the smell of it is also repuguant to other fishes. More over, it protects the fish against the attacks of a fungus. FOR SLEEPLESSNESS. A Good Cry Is Considered the Caro for Insomnia. Medical science is rampant just now. We have been told not to do so many things that if we obeyed all our counsellors we should be in a parlous state. The latest information-from a Kussiau doctor-is that Ave must try not to blush, langh or weep much, uulcss we want to suffer from in somnia. His observations have led him to conclude that persons who do either of these three things "easily" are more liable to sleeplessness than others. I should like to be told how we are to help blushing. Is not the timid debutante always asking that question and asking it in vain? And is she afflicted by want of sleep? As re gards laughter, I haye observed that nervous people often have a bad night if they have been tempted to excessive hilarity just before bed time, but as to the effects of weeping I am not sure. It has been said that the great est sufferers from insomuia are the people who rarely allow themselves the relief of what we call "a good cry," but rather let their sorrows eat their hearts out in stoical silence. One does not lie awake brooding over a trouble which may be soothed .by tears. But now l?f me give yon a brand-r?*" 'eeplessness I . bantry. Uv?t" ?lauds. The be wakeful, lil they find 0*n, their soother in a hollow bamboo, . . emits a hissiug sound, which -.io we are told-is unfailing ir the inducement of sleep. Here wt> uave, I think, at last the answer to the fa mous puzzle propounded by Josh Bil lings: "The reaaou why snaiks wnz hilt has never yit been diskuvvered." The efficacy of the remedy,if practiced ou an American, would no doubt de pend upon the certainty that the scaly soporific was really "confined in the bamboo. " Crnzo for l'olar Research. Never in the history bf the world has there been such intense .interest in polar search a3 today. No less than ten expeditions are feeling their way to tho extreme north and the ex treme south, and private enterprise and the public purse have given mil lions to aid in the work. Andree is not counted iu the list because his fate is so uncertaiu. Indeed, if that daring balloonist returns alive it will add an other marvel to the nineteenth centu ry. As for those who are on their way to the north and south poles, let us eu nm orate: "Wellman and Peary rep resent America; Sweden has Nathorst, Nordenskjold, andStadling in the arc tic field, Sverdrup and Borcbgrevink on behalf of Norway are searching in tho south; Amdruf is bearing Den mark's standard to the northward; Russia has sent Admiral Makarof to look for the pole; LaChambre's party represents France;Priuce Luigi heads an Italian expedition; Von Drygalski is reaping well-earned honors for Germany in the far south, while Bel gium has pinned her faith to De Ger lach's force. Norwill the work stop here. It is proposed to send three more expedi tions next year. The British Geo graphical Society is raising $250,000 for an expedition; the Quebec Geo graphical Society will send Capt. Ber nier over the route Nansen took, aud Prof. Steehn will take out an expedi tion for the Paris Geographical So ciety. And all for what? Only the empty honor of being the first to reach au al most inaccessible spot. For the hon ors are empty. The world will not be by tho smallest fraction benefited by any discovery at either of its logical extremes. Good money and good lives aro beiug thrown away for noth iug. If the same amount of enterprise and money were expended in explor ing aud mapping Africa or South America that is spent in the race for tho pole the world would be vastly better off and humanity would receive some returns for its sacrifices.-Phila- I delphia Inquirer. A Fortunate Reply. The Duke of Ossuna, who during his long career as Viceroy of Naples was distinguished as much for his sound good sense iu small matters as in those larger questions of statesman ship which made him one of the fore most men of Europe, once paid a visit to the Cape galley at Barceloua. As he passed in aud out among the crew of slaves he questioned several of them regarding their offenses for which they were so laboriously paying the penalties. Each had plenty of excuses. One said he had boen sent there from 6pite; another asserted that the judge who sentenced him had been bribed; still another declared that his being there was all a mistake, and that he was suffering for the crime of which his brother was guilty. At last the duke came to a stout lit tle black fellow of whom he asked, "And what are you here for, my man?" "My lord," replied the slave, "I cannot deny that I am justly put in here, for I wanted money, and so took a purse, near Tarragona, to keep me from starving." Upon hearing ibis the duke gave him two or three blows across the shoulders with his stick, saying, as he did, so: "You rogue, what'are yon doing among so many honest, innocent men? Get out of their company!" The thief, who was so surprised that he could scarcely comprehend what was going on, was theu set at liberty, .while the rest were left to labor at the, oar.- Harper's Bound Table( THE NATIONAL BANK OF AUGUSTA L. C. HAYNE, Preal't. F. G. FORD, Cashier. Capital, ?250,000. [ Undivided Profits } $110,000 Facilities of our magnificent New Vault ! containing410 Safety-Lock Boxes. Differ ent Size? are offered to our patrons and the public at 8G.00 to $10.00-per annum. THOS. J. ADAMS PROPRIETOR. PUNTERS LOAN ANO SAVINGS BANK. AUGUSTA, GA. Pays Interest on Deposits. Accounts / Solicited". L. C. HAY?TE, President. W. C. WABDLAW.I Cashier. VOL. LXIV. NO. 10. against domestic harmony, f the generative organs ia : of tho unhappiness in tho d these troubles. The malo only knows of them theoreti icientifically, and finds it hard ;m. :e is cure for them, certain, and M DSEPH you 1 of ex ronder taking : Com g time . those and it i never ;a, dull s weak )ctored ? good, y your 1 that I of the Hs, and :ld only give your medicine a ly they saw your advertise ade to Mrs. Pinkham for what t is worth its weight in gold." V HE IMPROVED THE OPPORTUNITY. Vhy the Realistic Novelist Was Called a Brute by His Wife. "There, there, there!" exclaimed the rife of the realistic novelist, as she ushed into her husband's study and ticked up her howling offspring. "Did muzzle's precious little lamb bink she had deserted him?" After she had quieted him, she turn d to her husband and asked, "Did j'ou have a terrible time with ?Yillie while I was shopping?" "Oh; no," replied the intellectual fiant with a glad smile. "I was very nuch Interested. I had never* before nade a study of how a baby cries, ind I have secured some very interesi ng notes. I have discovered just how i baby cries when lonely. A few rain ites after you went shopping he bc jan to whine softly to himself, and to winder about as if searching for some >ne. Then he let out a yell. When 1 spoke to him and asked him ,vhat was the matter he drew lown In thg corners of his mouth ind began to cry in earnest. Thv. iounds he made were all variations of :he vowels, altogether devoid of con sonants. His method of crying Is to itter from four to seven sharp baric ng sounds, then draw a quick, den'i )rerth and yell at the top of his voice. ?villi his mouth almost perfectly .ound. Fi om time to time IP? vaned his performance by holding his jreath as if choking, and when he lid, -not only- his^ iace,_\but er.cn. ills ;calp got red." . "And you sat there and took notes, rou brute. lil never leave our dar ing with such a cold-blooded fiend iga in." As she said this she gathered ip tho pet of the household and flounc ed from the roora in a huff. The realistic novelist took a couple if turns abont the room, smiling softly :o himself In the meantime, and then stopped before a mirror and winked at himself in a way that suggested that | [icrhaps after all he had simply been j Icing ti clever little romancing thal tvould save him from being left lu .imrgc of the baby in future.--Har ncr's Bazar. _ Practical Results of an Idea In 1842 a Russian farmer named Bokareff conceived the Idea of extract ng oil from the seed of the sun flower. His neighbor told him it was a vis onary idea and that he would have his abor for his pains. He persevered, lowever, and from that humble begin ing the Industry has expanded to mormons proportions. To-day more han 7,000,000 acres of land in Russia ire devoted to the cultivation of the ?unflower. Two kinds nre grown, one ?vith- small seeds, which are crushed 'or oil, and the other with large seeds, :hat arc consumed by the poorer peo ple in enormous quantities. Photos of Ancient Vintage. Most of the newspaper pictures of Patti that were dug up, dusted off and Drinted when she was married to Baron Dedarstrom are evidently photographs ;aken about the time of her first fare veil tour.-Minneapolis Times. Beauty V.a Blood Deep. Clean blood means a clean skin. No jeauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Cathar :ic clean your biood and keep it clean, by ?firring up the lazy liver and driving all im jurities from the body. Begin to-day to manish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads, ind that sickly bilious complexion by taking Mascarets,-beauty for ten cents. All drug gists, satisfaction guaranteed, 10c, 25c, 50c. Tho southern boundary of Canada Wretches over fully four thousand milos, dong which Southern Ontario haft the lati ude of ('cutral 1 tilly. Manitou and Vancou ver that of Central Germany. To Cine a Cold In One Dny. Tako Laxativo Bremo Quinine Tablets. All Druggists refund money if lt falls to cure. 25e. Rev. Dr. A. H. Simpson, president of the Christian and missionary alliance, reports ;hat over 100 students Imve entered the Al iance institute ntXvaek, aud nre preparing 'or work in foreign Heids. l?o-To-Bac for Fifty Cents. Guaranteed tobacco hebit euro, makes weall men strong, blood pure. 60O.81. Ali druggists. The linker's hoy cnn interest himself in his norning delivery "roll calls." Fits permanently curort. No nts or nervous ness after first day's uso of Dr. Klino's Great ?serve Restorer. $2 trial bottle onrt treatise freo. OH. R. ?. KLINE, Ltd.. 031 Arch St., Phlla., Pa. Dr. Z?rcher'.- "Monks and Their Declino" ins been placed in the index of prohibited aooks by the Vatican. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children leething.softens tho muns, reduces inflamm.i Hon.Allayspain.cures wind colic. S?c.abottlo. I cannot spoak loo highly of Plso's Cnrofor Consumption.-Mrs. FRANK MOBBS, 215W.22d it. New York. Oct. 29,1894.__ Tho wiso preacher looks for most trouble vherche Ands most taffy. To Cure Constipation Forever. Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. 10c or 25c. ti C. C. C. fail to cure, druggists refund money London and Liverpool aro both nt the level )f thc sea. Glasgow is thirty feet abovo it. History of Three Maa Cages. AG a finishing touch to tho rebuild ing of the Lambertus Church in Mun ster, Westphalia, the three "man high" Iron cages that hung from its great tower since 1C37 have been hoisted anew to a height of 325 feet In accordance with toe sentence of the ancient Bishop's Court: "And there,, on the highest point In Munsterland, they shall hang for ever and ever, as a warning to evil-doers from now on till judgment day." These cages were both the prisons and coffins of the renounced Anabap tists, John Van Leyden, self styled "King of the Universe," his Chancel lor, Kretchlng, and his Governor and Lord High Executioner, Knippordol llng. The cages just hoisted were re made from the originals, when the latter were taken down a year ago to allow of ?the rebuilding of the tower. They were then in a dilapidated con dition, rust having eaten away part of the framework. The new cages, al though strict copies of the original, are somewhat smaller, but they con tain the hooks and fetlocks with which their unfortunate tenants were bound and tortured while being car ried around Westphalia to be exhibit ed to the public and tortured by such persons as cared to pay the fees ex acted for the privilege. It cost a penny to stick a dagger into, one of thc doomed men's legs, while for three pence the King might be burned with a hot poker. In the cages, when they were takeD down, were two skulls, a broken and a battered leg bone and odd pieces of ribs and fingers. One of the skulls was Identified aa that of the King by an iron crown fastened to the head by spikes. The Instruments of torture, including rusty daggers, big nails ami pincers, were in good state of preser vatlon. Toilet of Cats. Cats make the most careful toilet of any class of animals. The lion and the tiger wash themselves in .exactly the same manner as the cat, wetting the-dark India rubber-like ball of the forefoot and inner toe and passing it over the face and behind the ears. The foot is thus at the same time a face sponge and brush, and th? rough tongue combs the rest of the body. Don't Tobacco Spit and Smoke Tonr Life Anny. To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mas netlc. full of life, nervo and vigor, take No-To* Bac, tho wonder-worker, that makes weak men strong. All druggists,50c or 81. Curoguaran teed. Booklet and sample free. Address Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or New York. A church race may be just as ungodly as inj- horse race. Beware of Ointments for Catarrh That Contain Mercury, IIB mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell and completely derange the whole system ?Then entering it through tho mucous surfaces. Such articles should never bo used except on prescriptions from reputable physicians, as the iamago they will do ls ten fold to the good you :an possibly derivo from them. Hall's Cntarrh Cure manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., roledo, 0., contains no mercury, and ls taken Internally, acting directly upon tho bloud nnd mucous surfaces of the systom. In buying Hall's Catarrh Cure be suro to get tho genuine, it is taken internally, and ls made in Toledo, Ohio, by P; J. Cheney & Co. Testimonials free. 3?-Sold by Druggists; price, 75c. per bottle. Hall's Family Pills aro tho best. If told to go soak ronrhe.id tho pawnbroker probably wouldn't give you much on it 40 to 60 per cent Saved Buying Here. $1.75 For this White Enam eled Steel Bedstead. We make, them in 54, 48, 43 and 36 inch ' widths, -j* inches lone; x inch pillan. Y, inca filler. A $4.00 Bedstead for 01.75 is but one of the ' thousands of bargains contained in our general, catalogue of Furmture/Bedding, Stoves, Crock ery, Mirrors, Pictures, Lamps, Refrigerators, ' Upholstery Goods, Baby Carriages. Sewing ? Machines, Silverwaj*, Clocks, etc. Why buy these goods from high-priced retailers when ' you can deal with the manufacturer? We publish the finest lithographed catalogue in this country-it show exact designs of Rugs, Carpets, Art Squares, Portieres and Lace Cur ' tains in hand-painted colors. It tells you hoir , to buy at dealers prices. We sew Carpets free, furnish lining and prepay freight. There is not a town or village in the United States where we are lioTsclling. Wc make fre quent shipments to Canada. Mexico, Bermuda, Cuba ana even, as far as Australia and South Africa. There is a cause for all this business. Why? Our free catalogues will tell you. Baby Carriages^ Address this way, $2.70 to C50. ^ O Dept. SOI. BALTIMOBE, HO. I > BAD BLOOD "CASCABETS do all claimed for them and are ? truly wonderful medicine. I have often wished for a medicine pleasant to take and r.t last have found lt in Cascarets. Kineo taklnz them, my blood lias been purified and my complexion nos im proved wonderfully and I feel much hotter In every way.'' MRS. SALLIE E. SELLAKS. Lattreil, Tena. , *SS% CANDY I %^\mW CATHARTIC ^ TRADE MARK MOWTIMD. Pleasant. Palatable. Potent, Taste Good. Do Good, Never Sicken. Weaken, or Gripe. 10c, 25c. 50c. ... CURE CONSTIPATION. ... Sterling Remedy Coaipaay, CMctffl, H.atrral, Ht? Tort. 819 lill -TH Dil1 Soldandjrunranteod by ail Cmg HU" i U-D?U Rists to CUBE Tobacco HabitT The Potash Question. ? thorough' study of the sub ject has proven that crop fail ures can be preven te4 by using fertilizers containing a large percentage of Potash; no plant can grow without Potash. We have a little book on thc.subject of Potash, written by authorities, that WO would like to send to every farmer, free of cost, if he will only write and ask for it. QERfTAN KALI WORKS, 93 Nassau St, New York. THE NATIONAL BANK OF AUGUSTA L. C. HAYNE, Preal't. F. G. FORD, Cashier. Capital, ?250,000. [ Undivided Profits } $110,000 Facilities of our magnificent New Vault ! containing410 Safety-Lock Boxes. Differ ent Size? are offered to our patrons and the public at 8G.00 to $10.00-per annum. THOS. J. ADAMS PROPRIETOR. PUNTERS LOAN ANO SAVINGS BANK. AUGUSTA, GA. Pays Interest on Deposits. Accounts / Solicited". L. C. HAY?TE, President. W. C. WABDLAW.I Cashier. VOL. LXIV. NO. 10.