Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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i ADVERTISING RATES. IS*THE^- A V H Advertisements will be inserted at the BEST AOVERTlSIHd MEDIUM rS"^w w *?* I * %J I 1%. T X. I I 1 J ^StL 13 A I I H I I HP LbXllNU 1 UiN UlorA I VI 1. patsa ^ l *1 Notices in the local column 5 cents per rates reasonable. "~~ " o,0, .t th, rete 0, co. Q ? " _ -?r>r*r> IV A r O1^ cent a word, wi en they exceed 100 words. |. V0L. xxyn. LEXINGTON, S. G. WEDNESDAY, MAY So. 18,8. _____ .STrT.iar PR!\TI\P. i SPECIALTY. . UUU 1 lllil 111IU v. ' SSIIS mi SOTKJ1, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BATESBCRG, - - - - S. C. Practices in ail the State Courts, especially in Lexington, Edgefield and Aiken counties i Mar. 6?It ANDREW CRAWFORD y ATTORNEY AT LAW, COLUMBIA, - - - - S. C. "PRACTICES IN THE STATE AND Jl Federal Courts, and offers his professional services to the citizens ot Lexington County. October 18?ly, EDWARD L. ASBILL, Attorney at Law, LEE3VILLE, S. C. Practices in all the Courts. Business solicited. Sept. 30?Cm C. M. EFIRD. J:'. ?i. JOREHER. EFIRD & DREHER, Attorneys at Law, LEXINGTON, C. H., S. C. WILL TRACT ICE IN ALL THE Courts. Business solicited. Oue member ot the firm will always be at office, Lexington, S. C. June 17?6m Albert M. Boozer, Attorney at Law, * . COJLTJ3XI31A, S. O. Especial attention given to business entrusted to him by Lis fellow citizens of Lexington county. Office: No. o Insurance Building, opposite City Hall, Corner Main and Washington Streets. February 28 -tf. DR. E.. J. ETIIEREDGE, SURGEON DENTIST, LEESVILLE, S. C. Office next door below post office. Always on band. February 12. Poultry, Farm, Garden, Cemetery, Lawn, Railroad and Rabbit Fencing. Thousands of miles in use. Catalo^/ue Free. Freight Paid. Prices Loir. The McMULLEN WOVEN WIRE FENCE CO. CHICAGO* ILL. Nov. 17-tt Saw Mills, Light and Heavy, and Supplies. CHEAPEST AND BEST. Can every day; wor)t 180 hands. Lombard Iron Works and Supply Co., AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. January 27? CAROLINA NATIONAL BANK, AT COLUMBIA, S. C. STATE, TOWN A\D COUNTY DEPOSITOR^ Paid np Capital - $100,000 Qnmlnc Prnfiha . . 100.000 Saving's Department. Deposits of $5.00 and upwards received. Interest allowed at the rate of 4 per cent, per annum. W. A. CLARK, President. Wilie Jones, Cashier. December 4? ly. BEESWAX WANTED IN LARGE OR SMALL QUANTITIES. I WILL PAY THE HIGHEST MARket price lor clean ani pure Beeswax. Price governed bv color and condition. RICE B HARMAN, At the Bazaar, Lexington, S. C. _ HARMAN & SON, CONTRACTORS, AND BUILDERS STEEL AND IRON ROOFING, LEXINGTON, S. C. Bids submitted fop all kinds of carptnter work. Estimates furnished. Noue but First Class Workmen em ployed. House building a specialty. Satisfaction Goaranteed. Remember us when you want work done. s. a. b. hxrman, killian harman. September?11. tf Grand Central Hotel COLUMBIA, S. C. E. H. G1LLIARD, Manager NEWL Y RENO VA TED. CUISINE UNSURPASSED, Especially adapted for those desiring Comiort, Ease, Home like methods. Commercial travellers receive every ac commodation. URATES. $2 and $2.50 PER DAY. June 2. 1807?tf. LEXINCiTON SAVINGS BANK. deposits received subject t( check. ? -- -? '-v < 1... 1.:.... >V . JL-*. IiV/V71' , . DIRECTORS: Alien Jones. W. P. Roof, C. XI. Efird R. Hilton James E. Hendrix. EXCHANGE BOUGHT AND SOLD. Deposits of $1 and upwards received an interest at 5 per cent, per annum allowed payable April and October. September 21 tf 1030 MAIN S1EI The Handwriting1 of G-od in the Government of Men. VII?THE UNITED STATES. War is a dreadful thing?war is very destructive thing?but some times it takes war to break men away from their moorings. It took that to break us away from our positions and now we can see the better fortune in it. War has its curses and war has its blessings too. War is better than slavery and bloodshed is better on the race than tyranny. At the end of each revolution the AngloSaxon has been able to looked back and gently whisper to himself, "broken fetters, shattered environments, greater liberties civil and religious!!" And to the thoughtful ones this meaDS greater responsibilities and renewed obligations to come up "to the help of the Lord against the mighty. ' The Anglo-Saxon was once himself a slave, but Runny Meade witnessed his revolt against the nobility of England and the Magna Charta, the bill of rights and the habeas corpus were only so many grades in bis elovation. In their proper time and in wise succession came the Puritan revolt in Oliver Cromwell's day?the revolution of 1CSS under the Prince of Orange. But England and the colonies labored under the burdens and relics still left from the feudal system and the dark benighted middle ages. Against these our revolutionary ancestors again revolted in 177G and the constitution of our great republic banished these barbarious vestiges forever in exile from our shores. England was greatly blessed and learned lessons from us which she has only improved ib*part,but allows herself still to be fettered, her usefulness impaired and her future beclouded by tradations and barbarous customs from which nothing but necessity and compulsion will diive her and the sister kingdoms on the European continent. Mexico was greatly blessed by her war with us in 1S4G, and 1850 had learned enough to virtually adopt the constitution of the United States. In this contest now with Spain Cuba will be freed and Spain will learn a lesson by sad experience which her history shows she can learn in no other way. The governments in Europe will see that they are a long pace behind the American patriots. Interferences and assistance in the Europeau political situation means only a land grabbing expidition, it means territorial extention for control and for revenue or for pillage and plunder. It is too late in the end of the Nineteenth Century to witness the scene in Cuba with any degree of toleration. The kingdoms in Europe stood by and saw the bloody tragedv in Armenia and by the cold blooded code known as international nutrality declared that noninterference was proper. Numbers in this countrv say that Cuba belong to Spain and as such she has a-right to kill and eat them if she so desires, or to crush them by sword and famine and aL kinds of inhuman torture. The position taken by some of our newspapers in this State is simply pitable The News and Courier exhausted al its powers to prove to us that th? Cubans were no worse treated thai Sherman treated South Carolina ii 1805. We live here in the midst o Sherman's raid and hundreds of u can testify that is a base maliciou falsehood. It is a libillous and cow ardly deed to misstate the facts o > an invading army to justify our self ish aims and hide our treacherou intentions. Our women were not assaulted, our little ones were not butch ered. There were no barns or dwell ; ings burned in this community wher the owners still occupied them. Oa of six saw and grist mills here (] Bull swamp only one was burned Gin houses and cotton were general'! destroyed. The stock was general 1; taken, especially horses and mules Corn and provisions here were take 1 for use but not wontonly burned o destroyed. I was not thirteen year ) old but I was at homo with in mother and sister and saw the whol columns of blue pass on. Grow men were not molested who were n< Confederate soldiers. I know onl i of this community but why'ligbte here than elsewhere? I see no rei d son why such should be, for we liv '' here in sight almost of the capit; where secession was inaugurate< BE DF "W. IE3 iT, Solicts a Share o An Enterprising Druggist. There are few men more wide awake and enterprihiDg than J. E. Kaufmann, who spare no pains to secure the best of everything in their lino fnr fboii* mfliiv customers. They now have the valuable agency for Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds. This is the wonderful remedy that is producing such a furor all over the country by its many startling cures. It absolutely cures Asthma, Bronchitis, Hoarseness and all affections I of the Throat, Chest and Lungs. { C ill at above drug store and get a trial bottle free or a regular size for oO cents and $1.00. Guaianteed to { cure or price refunded. But even if as bad as "Weyler's savage treatment in Cuba, and if as bad as ! the Charleston News and Courier rep .'i. TA i resents, is it ngui; jvues iuat jucmj these kind of papers to traduce our , i manhood and cast an insult at the , home of our childhood? If that is the feelings of the News and Courier let it say so, and let it say if it represents the sentiment of the people of Charleston. I am satisfied that it does speak the sentiment of a pori tion of Charlestonians, but I am | sure, till better convinced, that it is j a malicious libel on a large class cf ! patriotic citizens in Charleston. | j It is now time for the sons of Car- | | olina and of the South to think and I j think for themselves. These news! papers, many of them, are behind the day and generation in which we live. They are, as we term it, "moss ' back.7' There will probably linger in . the hearts of many both at the South and North for long years somecf that old civil war, but I am frank to say that it appears to me that that feel ing has passed away at the North more rapidly than it has at the South. There are a great majority of us here now who are fully convinced that a J success to our cause in 18G5, would have been to our lasting injury. My father was a large slave and land holder and with me there is no prejudice which might exist in a man who disliked the slave lord and rejoiced at his downfall, but I try in a patriotic | way to view the situation and be j governed accordingly. "We can now see how often our j aims and political asperations have . been thwarted and our bopes blighted ! and it becomes us to calmly consider i if some other hand than force of ( i arms did not have a say so in these | transactions and has turned our forI tune for good. The chastisement of nations like that of men has been for his good and future usefulness. , What could a disunited United States do to advance her own and the best : interest of the human family? Here , j are now about 7,000,000 negroes in . j our nation civilized and Christianized , j and by what power have they been I | so elevated may well be asked by us. ; Their kindred in Africa still bow , down to wood and stone, but the [ i American negro looks up higher in . | his devotions and worship the King . | Eternal, Immortal, Invissible! Over two billions of dollars were 1 ! invested in slavery in 1SG5, more j I money than can be estimated today i ! in all the missionary endeavors of the i i entire race of mankind! Our foref | fathers put their money in a vast 3 ' business enterprise, the God of na3 ! tions turned it into a vast missionary - ; enterprise. The labors of a hundred f j years in all heathen lands have not . ! accomplished a grander end. The s result may well daze the ultra abolu.Ic-f on/I ocf/^nicti flip cplfiwh fclflVP t- dealer. It is God's work and should L i be a marvelous feature for us to cone ! sider. The negro is not an anart j chist, be is not a communist, but a a firm, life long friend of American inI. i stitutions. During all that bloody v j struggle from 18(51 to lSGi> he was v j the faithful servant of his master, 3. the humble instrument to raise reve 1 nues and resources to wage that r ! bloody war. 3 J The reunion of the American peov pie is a necessity. The world's needs e ' require them in one solid unbroken n i line. The war in Cuba and the ,t ' trouble with Spain will in all probay j bility accomplish this one great end r j in human governments. We can rely j. i on it, there are greater realities than e i the war with Spain or the freedom of X1 Cuba involved in it. These are only * 1 ] i the outlines lor greater qucauuua IY GC I. MOITOKTOI f Your Valued Patrol | which must come later and only fit ! us for our duty. To a thoughtful mind the crisis is j a momentous one and the debates in | Washington show that the issues of | 1800 have largely returned and his1 ' if rnt. _ ..t 1 ; tory is repeating itseir. me coiu i blooded money changers show their ! dread of a loss of money in stocks and bonds. The slave lord controlled here until 18G5 and the money loids now show a like fear of loss in this i i trouble. The stock exchange put an end to the war between Crete and Turkey. It was to their firm decree that "The Great Powers" yielded aod not the success of battles. It was ' the stock exchange that dictated the j I terms of peaje between China and J and Japan, and that same power tried i its hand at Washington but gloriously ! | failed. There were two potent faci tors at Washington of which I will I write further in the future. There is another power behind all this and i the main feature in it all, which as yet not fully developed but will come ! out at is proper time, and of which I , will say more in my next article. In the session of 1892 and 1893 of j lbT A /I r?An?? "Pnr\_ I i tut? JUfglSiatuic auu nunc juui resentative, I stood at my post of duty as I deemed proper as a patriotic public spirited citizen. My reasons for the jc itions then taken I have , seen no reason to recant. Since that I have felt that I could be of no use to my country in public life and have retired til now. I was sincere in all I did and felt that the reformation of 1800 was a necessity to my native land and but for much of the nonsense and demagoguery that followed, I then felt and still believe that the great body of | the Reformers were not responsible and in which they did not coincide I thought my countrymen were bound up in the environments of a half a century and that these old petrified notions should be broken and put on new life and new garments and be armed with free thought and free action for a coming conflict. I have gracefully endured private life and all its joys, believing that the day was near when I could be of some use to my country. These billows will float away much of the rubbish and rash measures of the Reform Movement and prepare I ^ h ? * <? ? tlkCvisvA rVAOl lut) \va_y iui uctaci iuiu^d. xuc^uojtion I have occupied since on the | public issues by the political parties I still think was carefully, cautiously and considerately taken, and after months of quiet reflection and consideration 1 am not convinced that I made a mistake but believe as a Christian citizen I have done my duty and nothing more than my duty. I have sought no office, have sought no advancement in that line and to me it was a hard undertaking ! to apperently break away from firm ! and sincere friends and supporters, but was then and am still persuaded we shall yet strike hands on some more conservative ground, and that i our confidence in each other will be I unshaken when we see the unveiliDg of the future. We can never follow politicians j and office hunters. They are poor i guides and their only aim is to try to hunt the popular sentiment to try and keep in an office. We have seen enough of this to know how far to 1 r 11 ii ? j t ili.i. il _ ! iouow tuem auu ? luiua. meie ait: a j great many of the citizens who think ; as I do. We should not put our trust in free silver ncr gold standards. There are greater questions than these behind. I believe the time is Hearing when I can be of service to my native land and if in my opinion that day ever comes I shall not hesitate to say so. "While I am slow to advocate war or bloodshed, there are times when such is necessary, needful and beneficial. In my candid conviction I believe such a time is coming on us ere long and when it comes I shall not dodge my duty. In such an exegency I shall probably call for a company of Lexington's gallant sons to volunteer and go with me to meet the enemies of our homes in whatever situation our duty shall place us. I will pledge my honor and manhood to them and to their fathers and mothers never to send them where I will not go with them and never place them where I will not stand by their sides. D. J. Knotts. Swansea, April 22, 1898. For that tired feeling you must enrich and purify your blood. Hood's Sarsaparilla is the medicine you need. IODS < T, TX2., lago. Prompt and | An Ancient Custom. j Republican Traveler, Arkansas City, Kan. ' 1 1 * -f tJi. i I'ligrimages to some surme ui 01. j Vitus, to cure the disease known as ! St. Vitus' dance are no longer made. The modern way of treating this affliction is within reach of every household, as is shown by the experience of Karl A. Wagner, the elevenyear old son of George Wagner, of 515 i)th St., Arkansas City, Kan. The father tells the story as follows: "Over a year ago.'1 he says, "Karl was taken with St. Vitus1 dance and I continued to grow worse during five m jnths he was under a physician's care. His tongue became paralyzed and we could not understand a word he said. He became very thin, lost the use of his right leg and seemed doomed to become a hopeless invalid. We had about given up hope when Dr. Williams' Piok Pills for Pale People were recommended to my wife by a lady whose daughter had been cured of a similar affliction by the pills. "I bought a box of them at once j 4?k I i A HOPELESS INVALID, and soon noticed a change for the j better in Karl's condition. I was so well pleased that I brought more of them, and when he had taken five j boxes the disease disappeared. "That was six months ago and there has been no return of the dis- J ease. The cure was effectual and I permanent, and I feel satif*6ed that I no other medicine c uve pro duced so marvelous suit. We feel rejoiced over the restoration of , our son, and cannot help but feel I that Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for i Pale Peopl are the most remarkable j medicine on the market." No discovery of modern times has proved such a blessing of mankind as Dr. Wilhams' Pink Pills for Pale People. Acting directly on the blood and nerves, invigorating the body, regulating the functions, they restore the strength and health in the exhausted patient when every effort of the physician proves unavailing. These pills are sold in boxes at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2 50, and may be had of all druggists, or direct by mail from Dr. Williams* Medicine Co, Schenectady, N. Y. State Troops are to Move. South Carolina Regiments to Chicka. mauga, and Battalion to Report to Department Commander at Atlanta. Washington, May. 15.?The following order has been issued: "With the approval of the secretary of war, the following assignment-of troops is I ordered by the major general com| manding the army. H. C. Corbin. CHICKAMAUGA PARK. Arkansas?Two regiments infan1 try. Colorado?Two troops cavalry. Illinois?Three regiments infantry, one light battery artillery, one regiment cavalry. Indiana?Three regiments infantry, two batteries artillery. Iowa?Three regiments infantry. Kansas?One regiment infantry, j Kentucky?Two regiments infantry, two troops cavalry. Maine?One regiment infantry. Maryland?One regiment infantry. Massachusetts?One regiment in fantrv. Michigan?Two regiments infanI try. I Minnesota?Two regiments infanI try. Mississippi?One regiment infanI try. * j Missouri?Three regiments infanj try, one battery light artillery. | Montana?Four troops cavalry, j Nebraska?One regiment infantry, j New Hampshire?One regiment t infantry. I New Jersey?One regiment infanI try. New York?Six regiments infantry, two troops cavalry. Ohio?Four regiments infantry., - ' -1 i-EIES, Polite Attention. I I ' four batteries light artillery, eight troops cavalry. Pennsylvania?Seven regiments infantry, three batteries artillery. South Carolina?One regiment in- j fantry. Tennessee?Two regiments infan- , . tryUtah?Two troops cavalry. Vermont?One regiment infantry. West Virginia ?One regiment in1 fantry. Wisconsin?Two regiments infan| try. Wyoming?One troop cavalry. Distiict of Columbia?One regiment infantry. North i) ikota?Two troops cavalry. South Dakota?Five troops cav! alrv. Idaho?Oue troop cavalry. Nevada?One troop cavalry, j. Totals?Fifty-three regiments in| fantry; 11 light batteries: one regi ment and 30 troops of cavalry. TO NEW ORLEANS. Louisiana?One regiment infantry. Texas?Two regiments infantry. [ New Mexico?Four troops cavalry. Oklahoma?One troop cavalry. Indian Territory?Two troops cavairy. TO MOBILE. Alabama?One regiment iufantry. I TO DEPARTMENT COMMANDERS. Alabama?One battalion infantry, two batteries of heavy artillery, two battalions light battery. Connecticut?One regiment iufantry, one light battery; two heavy batteries. Delaware?One regiment infant- j Georgia?One regiment infantry, two light batteries to go to Tybee. Louisiar a ?One regiment infantry. Maine?One heavy battery. Maryland?Two battalions. Massachusetts?One regiment infantry, oue regiment heavy battery. Missippi?One regiment infantry. New Jersey?One regiment infantry. New York?Three regiments in! fantry. I North Carolina?One regiment, I one battalion infantry. Pennsylvania?Four regiments infantry, three troops cavalry. I Rhode Island?One regiment in| fantry. ! South Carolina?One battalion in! fantry, one battery heavy artillery. TO TAMPA. Florida?One regiment infantry. Georgia?One regiment infantry. Illinois?Two regiments infantrv. i Iowa?One regiment infantry. Michigan?One regiment infantry. : New York?One regiment infantry. North Carolina?One regiment infantry. i Ohio?Two regiments infantry. Virginia?Two regiments infantry. Wisconsin?Une regiment miantry. < . Ho^r to Look Coed. Good looks are really more than skin deep, depending entirely on a ! healthy condition of all the vital organs. If the liver be inactive, you r have a bilious look: if your stomach be disordered, you have a dyspeptic i look: if your kidneys be affected, you i have a pinched look. Secure good : health, and you will surely have good looks. '-Electric Bitters" is a good Alterative and Tonic. Acts directly on the stomach, liver and , kidneys. Purifies the blood, cures pimples, blotches and boils, and gives 1 a good complexion. Every bottle guaranteed. Sold at J. E. Kaufmann's Drug Store. 5" cents per | bottle. . . Possibly So. ; McKiulev Said to Ii?gard France and Germany as Enemies. "Washington, May ?It is announced by an authority usually rei liable that McKiuley regards Franco and Germany as enimies, preparing in any event to show their true sentiments. He is said to have conclusive evidence that both are aiding ; Spain. * ? One Minute is not long, yet relit f is obtained in half that ti.no by the use of One Miuute Cough Cure. It I prevents consumption and quickly 1 cures colds, croup, bronchitis. pnei> j monia, lagrippe and all throat and I lung troubles. J. E. Kaufmann. USS Y? COIATMHIA, S- C., October 13?tf. McLaurin's Plain Talk. i . | Speaks of the Patriotism of the MaSfine find Sr?nros fVio "\fnn WhnWnnf. ! the Bond Issue. Washington, May 10.?While several important paragraphs in the war revenue measure were passed over today for future consideration, excellent progress was made by the senate in the consideration of the bill. Two thirds of the measure have been read, the committee amendments generally having been agreed to. Mr. McLaurin (Dem ) of South Carolina opened the discussion of the bill today with a carefully prepared speech touching all of its features. He was ready, he said, to vote for any measure that would tend to bring the war to a successful crnclusion. People on the island of Cuba are dying every hour. Their condition is beyond the power of description. Kvery day now means the loss of hundreds, perhaps thousands of lives, in Cuba, Mr. McLaurin de clared. Liberty oil the island is at stake and the war has placed our national prestige at stake. Concerning the proposed issue of bonds, he said that there was an influence at work in this country more powerful than the President, more potent than congress. It was the silent, secret influence of the money power which was endeavoring to force an issue of bonds. Once the senate, the forum of the people, yields to this clamor, Mr. McLaurin declared, and becomes eutagled in 7 O the meshes of the money octupus, the people will suffer indeed. "There is an army in this country,'' said he, "just as anxious to raid the United States treasury as our volunteers are to raid the island of Cuba. To the army I refer to, no volunteers are needed. These jobbers and speculators form a greater menace to us than the war with Spain." Mr. McLaurin defended the bill as reported by the majority of the finance comittee and hopfed that with the possible exception of the stamp tax which he deemed unnecessary, the bill would pass as reported. He strongly urged the adoption of the proposition to issue legal tender notes. "It is the dealers in futures," declared Mr. McLaurio, "the finanI cial speculators and cormorants, the j transportation companies, the manufacturers of ammunition who make money out of the war. Upon these the financial-burdens of the war sought to fall and not upon the families of the menwho go to the front to fight for their coun| irj I | Mr. John Peterson, of Patoutville, | La., was very agreeably surprised J not long ago. For eighteen months i he had been troubled with dysentery ! and had tried three of the best doc| tors in New Orleans, besides half a j dozen or more patent medicines, but i received very little relief. Chamber| Iain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea i Remedy, having been recommended to Lim, he gave it a trial and to his great surprise, three doses of that remedy effected a permanent cure. Mr. Wm. McXamara, a well known ! merchant of the same place, is well : acquainted with Mr. Peterson and I attests to the truth of this statement. I This remedy is for sale by J. E. Kauf' mann. ! The Biggist G-uns. ! Armaments of Uncle Sam's Battlej ships?Latteries of the Brooklyn. i The biggist gun carried on any of J the battleships is a thirteen-iDch breech loading rifle. The battleships Indiana, Oregon and Massachusetts I each carry four of thele guns. They ! also carry eight eight-inch and four i six inch guns. These form their i main battery. In their secondary | battery they catry 20 six-pounders, | six one-poumlers, aDd six machine guns. If all these guns were find at once, projectiles weighing nearly | 7,000 pounds would be thrown from each of the big bittleships, and some ! of these shots could be sent about ten miles. The muzzle energy of these guns would be 202,430 tons, or. in plain language, the force with which the projectiles would leave the - ? t i i i muzzles ot tue guns would oe rquai i to the impact of 202,430 tons | dropped one foot. These are the The Royal is the highest grade baking powder kaowo. Actual tests show it goes ooetbird farther than My other hrsed. im ^AkiH<5 POWDER Absolutely Pure ROVAL BAKIHO POV.OC ft CO., SEWYOeiC figbtiDg ships of the United States navy, and an idea of their power can bo had when their guns are studied a little. The Iowa is slightly ioferier in armament to the battle-ships just mentioned. She carries four twelveinch guns, eight eight-inch guns, and six four-inch guns. In her secondary battery are 20 six-pounders, four one-pounders and six machine guns. The Iowa is now commanded by "lighting Bob Evans," but was origin illy Admiral Sampson's boat, who has been assigned to the New York. The Texas is smaller, yet she carries two twelve-inch guns, six sixinch guns, twelve six-pounders, six one-pounders, and eight machine8 guns. The batteries of the cruiser Brooklyn consist of eight eight-inch guns, twe'.e five-inch guns, twelve sixpounders, four one pounders and six machine guns. The New York ha9 six eight-inch guns, twelve four inch guns, twelve six pouuders, four one-pounders and six machine guns. These guns throw a projectile cylindro-concidal in form, which can be thrown a mile for every inch of calibre, roughly speaking. On board ship, however, the guns are never elevated to get the maximum distance because the angle at which the guns would have to be elevated would be such that the recoil might hammer the breech down onto the deck and do considerable damage. A thirteen inch gun's effectiveness is about eight miles. A Man Who Zs Tired All the time, owing to impoverished blood, should take Hood's Sarsaparilla to purify and enrich his blood and give him vitality and vigor. This condition of weakness and lack of energy is a natural consequence of the comiDg of warmer weather, which finds the system debilitated and the blood impure. A good spring medicine is a necessity with almost everyone. Hood's Sarsaparilla is what the millions take in the spring. Its great power to purify and enrich the blood and build up health is one of the facts of common experience. 29 ? *.? Why Sons People are Poor. Cjffee, tea, paper and spices are left to stand open, and lose their strength. Potatoes in the cellar grow, and the sprouts are not removed until the potatoes become worthless. Nice handled knives are thrown into hot water. The ilour is sifted in a wasteful manner, and the bread pan is left with the dough sticking to it. Clothes are left on the line to whip to pieces in the wind. Tubs and barrels are left in the .i. J 1 r.ii ?. gun 10 uiy auu isii apu. Rags, strings and paper are thrown into the fire. Pork spoils for want of salt, and beef because the brine wants scalding. Bits of meat, vegetables, bread and cold puddings are thrown away, when they might be warmed, steamed and served as good as new. Bucklen's Arnica Salve. The Best Salve in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and Skin fcVnrkfirmc nrxsitlvpIv PlirPfi Piles uiul,?vuu) r -j or 110 pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded. Price '25 cents per box. For sale at J. E. Kauffinan's. Spanish L:ss Heavy. Key West. May *20?Three hundred Spaniards are known to have been killed aud several hundred wounded ill the recent battle at Cienfuegos. The casualties on the Spanish side were much heavier than at first supposed. Xo fraud is more wicked than cheating in a love game.