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SHAFTER SCARED. Says Oar Army is in Desperate Danger in Cuba. LIKE HUNITY. Ollieers iVmandlo He Sent Homo *iini S:iv the Men \\ ill < )therwisc I >10 Like Kottcu Sheep. Hy Telegraph to The Gicenvilio Nous: Santiagode euha, Ann: 4.? Suinnionni hv Major General Shatter, a meeting was hold here this morning at hoodquarters ami in tin; presence of every commanding and medical oflicor of the lifth iiMiv corps General Shafter read n t'at)le message from Secretary Alger ordering him, at the re- i common latiou ofSnrgoon tieneral Stenherg, to move the army into the interior to San Luis, where it is said to healthier. Vigorous protests were made by all 1,Ik? commanders, colonel ^ lloosovf t took the initiative and i a Idrc^v.>d General Shaftc :i for- " mnl imIc declaring thai the army will be annihilated if forced to remain in enha, saving that the men will die like rotten sheep. V olhnving tliis, General Shaffer sent tins mes-age to General Alger: "This army must he moved at once or perish. As the army can t?e safely moved now the person responsible for preventing such a m >v 15 will l?5 resp msih'o for the unnecJisiry lots of m i'iy thous* an 1 Iive>. Ninitaj.i pir cant of tV; entire army G now stricken an 1 115 p?op )ftio i is growing in >ro frightful." _jLWrKPr PIULADELIMUA. ^ *3 A Cyclone Ciusas M ich Dnstruction and Snne Deaths. ^ Hv Telegraph to The Gresnvill# News. Philadelphia, Pa., Aug 3.?A torrilic electric and rain storm, the heaviest in the history of this city, struck here this afternoon. In scores of places streets, cellars and low buildings were submerged. Wannam ikerbs groat store i.s badly dimigod. Itiilro.sl and street car traffic was stopped several hours. Peter S/nel!, age 1 years, sms drowned in the cellar of his house at Twenty-third an 1 Chris, ti in stre-'ts. Other c isuslties aro reported from different sections of the city. Calming Ilim Down. "If women just had a little ta<and didn't tly to pieces their own selve- v h rn their husbands git t< jawin a.jd t-aring around, thereb bo loss trouble m families," sat' rs (brim ?.i > ^ %jxr tm ''J k'l nv 'tis," replied Mp.h (iron "Di you suppose I lone uiy UjiI til my tingue and go all to pieces and say thing.* I'm aorry for aftorwtrd when Orim -gets into one of his tantrums? Woil, I don't. I just keep cool ) and calm him down." "How do you calm him down?" "Well, sometime* with a stick and ag'in with a broom handle, or mobhe I'll grab up a pail o' water and douse all over him. There's plenty o' ways to calm a man down if a woman will only keep cool herself and try 'em. Am Old Mm. Every day strengthen* the belief of eminent physicians that impure blood la the cause of the mafority of our diseases. Twenty-Sve years a*o this theory was used m a basis for the formula of Browns' Iron Bitters. The many remarkable cures effected by this fhmons old household remedy are auflleient to prove that the theory is oorree*. Browns' Iron Bitters is sold by ail deaissw ass AN OPEN LETTER To MOTHERS. WE ARK ASSERTING IN TI1E COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THE EXCLUSIVE USE OF" THE WORD ?'CASTORIA," AND ' PITCHER'S CASTORIA," AS OUR TRADE MARK. /, DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, of Hyannis, Massachusetts, was tho originator of "CASTOR I A," tho same that has borne and does now bear Sfj? y/STTTT "" on overy the facsimile signature cf wrapper. This is the original "CASTOR I A" which has been used In the homes cf tho Mothers of America for over thirty years. LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it /a the kind you hove always bought y/$~~ ~ "" on the I and has tho signature of wrap- i , per. No one has authority frutn me to use my name except I The Centaur Company, of which Chas. H. Fletcher is President. March 24, 1898. // ^. a ( I THI CKNTAUR COMPANY. TT MURRAY tTRCIT, NtW YORK CITY. _ ], KAHLS iglJgS ! ,'h. f " ?. nil<l. kho criti* fur Costorut F} Q T* ! ,'l:"u k!.-> ufTN.-no Mix*, she clung to Casforh, ( ^nirirs f /i /mTmbI | 'lien si ? "'in'-1 u^Cruu, she jc-ivu .?i -m Out'or*. BJ.COO .. .n IJ.. Whocthn I 1 ^ v^nipn i\n iosa ,,f *oni"Hin,p! o vf?n<iNF.uvF.tonic. iTJUMDj.! Mil IUOU thhi?lo|>ateM so.,. .uuw wilt l.y mall. 5JfKJ.,60o., i rot pet vour thff niaj bring ) cu ihi nc*r i ere SAnil>li!fl rn.o jn.iN WhDDFItHURN A CO V . nt AUOl J 1 J ' ' ' ' r TnnLr.r' >vs v tiUKiot. *? -their* f ott? s* ID? p ilte I'avorlte TOOTH POWMS Pl'L '-tbt'Tooth and Urti>thiM " 7T35.0G0 Cash Offer!! -sgr J| This paper announces, in connection with The Atlanta Wc^iy Constitutution, a new otTer in which everyone may have a chance, <~^_-SEND IN AN ESTIMATE ON?^ THE GOTTON CROP SEASON OF 1897-98 CONTEST BEGAN MARCH 1-ENDS SEPT. I.'98. TO ENTER THIS CONTEST YOU MUST SUBSCRIBE FOR IN CONNECTION WITH L-iEJDO-HJIR, AT THE EXTREMELY (PA A A LOW PRICE OF 3)?iUU In connection with this Clubbing Rate, we will. If you send your guess with the subscription price, forward all for you and thus j OIVE YOU k CHANCE AT THE SPLENDID CASH PRIZES AN EXTRfl0ROINft^"0FMW0URluBCR!BERS! Ilcre it la, rrnj It all very owrtfullf and be ear# yea aaderetand (be (rriim: i'lrn Awiril: Tollwioleerl- Second Awardi To the tub- Third Awardi To the 11bt < r *r a iiwcribera naming the ecrther or eulmcrtbere naming ecrlber aamlng the mi.] -x ' mi'ii'nT nr urnrret lo . _ ^ nuinbrr of bale# In the flrat nr*l nenreat we will ecu aeerrat we nlll give if < . ii, hi i-r .p of lJ,>7 t?x will give If the eatlia.ua ti received the rati mate la reocivcd <t,c ! the etimatc la rocel ve>l :VsM-r.h: *2,500 "SPOUT: SI,500 SI,033 \ 2,ceo trXn'~ 1,250 750 ^7:/,r,uw.o, i.soo '7(r.T??*r1,000 u?^y..?L., bro 1,000 u?ssmsi:.? tso "fxzii&'z 200 S3, TJUT THE FIRST THREE PHIZES AMOUNT TO 55,000 IK C:3;:. <=?r%*rin 11 \/ " A? EXACT fin res ere not given during slut c-n ? twit. a. P^V.IUIIJ'. Ictl. the mon? mill h. n.idA?t ? it- VL i u i ^ . .c J .? ?UV 11 IWt #\ 1. 11/ ! II F. I'.XACT figures. Somebody will get the money, it doe* not go back to the 1 lia i.'onstitution by any mean*. Those who solve the problem at the longest range *; I it : ? proportionately the highest prires, a* you notice tha figure* grow loes as the tune ei re-, and because the number of bale* received up to certain dates, a* the tir?e advances, in i.e known exactly, leaving shorter time and prot>abilitie* to figure against. In all three of (he cases submitted it is distinctly understood that, should more than >ne ,-o'rect or equally correct estimate 1>? filed in the contest, the amount of the prires *? e -? n -11 will be divided equally among the correct answers. The prises are offered in ca?b. I here is no "missing word" in this, no probability for some one to know alwolotely lie oirrct answer, but this is braan versus brain, skill versus skill, pencil versus pencil, tig_re* versus figures. Every man is interested in the cotton crop, the amount of the crop ?vies the price and the price of cotton in our territory is the barometer of the people's prosperity. ( ifiHa. ?On Such a Vital Problem You Ought to Hake Figures. ' THE CONTEST CLOSES SEPT Tat The estimate is to be made upon the total United States Cotton Crop for 1897-9.8, the crop that ha* already been gathered and is now in the country as official figures ol receipts will show it from Sept. 1, 1897, to Sept. I, 1898 This is not the crop that is to be planted this spring, because the figures thereon will not be obtainable until Sept, I, 1899. It is lor the crop already in and marketed, official figures of which will be announced in Septemf>er. Ai a guide for making your estimate we give official figures for each of the last tea crops, l ie conditions under which this last crop was grown and its probable output are ele \ men'* for you to compute from and will aid in the correetneia of your present estimate 1 he figures given by I^itham, Alexander ft Co., of New York, are generally received throughout the South as official, and we given an exact copy front tkeur latest edition ad "(,'itton Movement and Fluctuations" as follows: ' Season Acre* planted Bales in crop Season Acres planted Balesinerop 1SS7 88 . . . 18,961,897 7.046,833 1892-93 . . . 18,067.924 6,700,363 I 1KSS89 6.93*.*90 1 *93-94 . . 19.684.000 7.$49.*'7 1889.90. . . 20,171.896 ?.311,322 1894-9$. . . I.4S4.000 9.901.?5l , . . . j .e)>.&97 II '?9S"?9 . H.Ml.OOO 7.157.34^ 1X91-91 . . . ao.714,937 9.035.379 II ?89^97. **.34?.<*? MS7.904 Their fl|ur?f wlli be used la daeldlng this 0011 teat. Their Estimate of the Acreage for the Crop of the Seaton of 1897-98 it 23,320,000 Acred. Following Art tht Conditions of tho Contosti i:x.t(*r relTinat* apoa the amber of helra. the prlr.es offered radar the second proposition will ( te 1J nonrrat fUxulr. but If the drat price ere gtraa lor the DKAR KMT estimate, an one hoeing Banted orr ctlv tbe net Bgurre, tarn the nereid prince would ooaae la br the eeeond teret tell in tin tu4 the tblr 1 prlree for the third nearest estimate. skc.n D -If wierrnr ahould submit a enrret estimate la ?M dtelalee ef tbe time them ehnee and ?o-t?.-,ia thou id een<l e correct estimate la eonte later dlrlnten, this laet sail oa eta would take rank tnl) among the eeoond prizes. btrttM the Ira bed bean prertoeatp awarded le aeraeuae who earned the amount eorrectlr la tbe reenter parted. Third -The eaadlUea precedent he anadlor an eaMmats at Hta OeMen Orae It that aaeh and creep nil mate munt be accompanied by a rearb eubaoriptlea >e The Weekly Obneutatfea. B ant through the -M|*r publishing thla adeerUsameat la aaeepteace ef ear elathh g aObr. the MUnaate ef tbe notion me *11 be forwarded. Thte muet be aaai la the tdeattmJ eat elope that brtogt the aioaey that pay* far the I t iwrlptlon. Yea oanaot eafaaerlbe mow aad aead rear aettaaaee afterwards* ae forgetting ft er tearing .1 out bp accident er etherwtae. or not knowing ef thla eoateet at the time pee eabeerthe, or nap ether i- .cut. will entitle one to read aa utlnili afterwards. Tbe eetlnaate meet Mae with the eaheertpUoo. >r n<^fgd all. la eendlag poor eeUmate bp aa ageel ef The UaeeMtatloa pea make htm pea* aaenl and .o( oirrt In forwarding poar eetlnaate. both aa to tbe idem ef the fcgarea aa paa la tended them end ;>.? oertalntv ef the forwarding o# tbe tnllinato Bhould a party eead mere thaa aae edlaelt, he at aha rill be entitled ea a there ad the pplaa I?d oeder which H map seen re a prise loe each oorreet eatl made cat Person# map eater tha -nobeet aa attr llama ae thsp eead eabeertpttoes. aad ander Mea raise the t me parena mar reestes a prtaa wMh aaah of the three priptntttcce PoUBTK-tn making pout aaawae. heat elate dm pip- -1 rati mate tbe Bomber el balm ef eottoo III be Make poor Bgnree rerp plain If pea ami la make tetlmadeg later, er If worn -mot to repeat tbe eetlmahm paa have made, eead ether eahinlggiai. Deal fur gee ererp aahinl>bia lor pourneif ar poar nitafts wiu ewttfcte pea ea aa mMmate dI"** mm all. C!.cniM tttna ' I_iHJDG>H]F^ % LANCA5TEM. 5 0 * > TRESPASS NOTICE. All persons are hereby t>otill?- 1 not l.o trespass l<y walking, riding, fishing iwinuning or in any other way,on my [ latumion. situate t mile or twtxStui'ii >f Lancaster court house. Any person or persons disregarding this notice w ill he prosecuted to the lullest extent jf the law. R / WKI.RU, June 0. 1R9S. THE MUTUAL LIFE INSU RANCH COMPANY OF NEW YORK. [UCHARl) A Md'UKDY, President \?setH over $ 253,000.000 0(1 Surplus over 85,000 Oi.O (Ml [iisurance in force, over 936,000,000 00 INC'OMK 1807. Total Income 1897 $54.162 008 00 ncoinu per week, over 1,000 (KMMio neome ach working day 180,000(10 noome per hour (Hanking hours) 36,108 00 naurance in force in .S t. Dec. 31st. '97 $ 8.875 816 00 naurance written and paid for In H (7in'79 1,205,493 00, 'remiums received in S L' in'97 ?14,057 84, death losses paid in S C in '97. 110,477 j The largest tintl Lest Company j the world. Paid Policy Ilold | .-r in l.V.'Y, *2<>,092,055. G. McILWAIN, SPECIAL AGENT, L iinc a s t c r , IS. C. -Til 3 i - 50 - mi hi ? 50 c - m i JjgT" By paying your subscripti the above Jk>j ular j>apers at price* M A ItK VOC IN A KRKAItS f If so, you (ad give us your note to l>e due December 1st, next, for your indebtedness to date, and pay your subscription one year in advanco and get the t>enefit of at>ove prices. Address all 01 T. S. C - '1 Y ' IMPORTANT Notice by Hoard of Registration. The hoard of Supervisors ol Registration for Lancaster county | met this the 7th day of March, 1898, and organized by re-election of \V G A Porter, chairman and 1 Montgomery Caskey secretary. According to notice already iven, the hoard will not keep the aoks open for the registration of electors between the consecutive I days in each month until thirty days before the general election this year. Electors who registration in I O 1 1896 and 1897 and still remain in their respective poling precincts | are not required to register. Those , who have moved from one pro cinet to another will have to com'J forward and have their certifies' changed to conform to their pr? ent precinct. \Y G A Porter, I Chairman. .1 M Caskey, Secretary, nneaster, S C., March 7, 1 Sl?S. Pay Up. Tickl6(i because pain. 1 can tin the same for effects result from my exti pleasant noss and satisfaction I've the experience, the 44k doing all branches of scient.fu tS|)cuinl attention giv< Work. No charge for oxun Or J. E. Rutlf LANCAS' SIW w f Three Times Each Wee) cents for one y* SANTA C0MI1 Sixteen Tages Every II V< tents tor one 3 Tro^rvrra n ?v*n\ m 1 i IlUilillt 2U11J Si ?ree for one yea ion to Tiik Lkixjeu ono year ie ud\ i we quote above. Cheap Enough. The I^edger (Semi-weekly), Th< New York World (Tri-weokly and Home and Farm, all three pa pers, ono year for $2.15. The Ledger (Semi-weekly), Tht Atlanta Constitution (Weekly) an< Home and Farm, all three paperi one year for $2.25. The Ixsdger (Seuii weekly) ant Home and Farm one year for $1.5( Or. all four nanern nnn v?ui | for f3.00. tiers and make ARTER lMb It ro?t? with 7011 whrthrr yon pnnttnn* n< r?o-kllltiiK t<it'a< ro habit. Mt-Tn llAILrfjj remove* tlio dcalre (or tohaceo, wilh^^-cjj 45 ZflH outner?oti?di?iroa?. iilco^w-lTtj o/ 1 tino, 1 urm-s the blooj, Bev ores lost manhood. ' B HU^uoo luuro makes you atroiiKf [X Ah 'rold. <00,0>X) Inhealth, eerro-JW H I {PSLP^oasnruroil Muy Oil pockot-^o^Jg (55 jj NO'TO II AC front bonk. *18 I ?5v> w'VP^yonr own druggltt. who ' "><Cd?S ^3^*wlllvoUih foruo Takoltwlth >i^ R f 1 S*^* wlll.paUenll7, jK-riitjtriitly Otw? I IWkP iHk ^ box. !, uoually euros; 3 boxo?, 91 M, iwj'j'5 truarnnlerd to euro, or wc refund mnnrr. 0?^'^ lltrllni Knrt;Cr., Ul?i(c, lonlrnl, IwL i LANCASTER AND CHESTER RAILWAY. BETWEEN CHESTER AND LANCASTER. Schedule in effect Daily except Sunday on ntui after May 11, 1898. WESTBOUND | EAHTBOUND. No's. 14 and 16. ! No's. 15 and 17. A M. P M. A M. P M 9 45 6 Ot) Ar Chester Lv 1165 7'25 8 55 6 26 Ricliburg 1141 8 16 8 42 5 16 BascotnbvUle 11 60 8'20 P M 8 20 5 00 Fort Lawn 12 05 8 40 7 45 4 36 Ly Lancaster Arl2 35 9'20 i Train No 19, Sunday Only. A. M. P. M. , 9 00 Lv. Lancaster Ar. 8 55 9 30 Fort Lawn 8 25 9 46 Bus tonivllle 8 10 9 56 ltiehburg 8 01 10 30 Ar. Chester Lv. 7 25 Connects at Chester with Southern j Ru'way, Heaoonrd Air Line and Carolina and North-Western Railway. Connects at ' aticaster with the Ohio : River is, Charleston. I Leroy Springs, Pres., Lancaster, 8. C. j J M Heath, (4. P. A., " ' W H Hardin, V P and And., Chester J extracted his tooth without you. Neither pain nor after 'acting. My methods suggest instead. now how" and .nc facilities for ; dentistry at the least cost. bu to Gold Crown and Bridge 4illations and estimates. idge, Dentist. TER, S. C. 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