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\ The Aiken Recorder. A Democratic Newspaper, PVBLISHCD EVERY THURSDAY. THE GREAT NAVAL BAHLE. By ARTHUR P. FORD. TEEMS OF 8UBS0BIFTI0N. One year in advance $1.50 Six montns in advance .75c Three ninths in advance 40c ADVE TIDING RATES. $1.00 50c three One square, first insertion ... Each subsequent insertion, Special rates by contract, for months or more. Changes of advertisements must be sent in at least three days beforechange is made. Changes made only where contracts are made to that effect. AIKEN, S. C.: THURSDAY. JUNE 1, 1905. The Charleston News and Courier of Tuesday came to us printed on the new Double Supplement Hoe Perfect ing Printing Press. This is one of the most perfect newspaper printing ma chines that has ever been invented. The cost of this improvement in the mechanical department of this newspa per is considerably over $25,000. And the expenditure of such a sum is a good indication of the prosperous condition Thus far full details of the naval bat tle have not come to hand. From the briefest and most fragmentary reports coming toTokio it is impossible to gain an approximate conception or picture of the desperate and decisive combat. The navy department, after announc ing the bare results, yesterday lapsed into silence again. Admiral Toga appears to have plan ned and laid a complete trap which fit ted Admiral Rojestvenski’s action and the Japanese out manoeuvered, out fought and out shot the Russians, fear lessly taking lightest cruisers against the heavy Russian armor clad battle ships and joining battleships with ar mored cruisers, smothering them with gunfire. Tremendous interest attaches to the submarine vessels. The navy depart ment is silent on this point, but it is confidently believed that submarines were effectively used for the first time in history. Theoretically, the sea was too rough for the employment of sub marines Saturday, but the Japanese sailors welcome desperate chances. It is believed that torpedo boats aad de stroyers scored heavily Saturday night. The conditions on Sunday was most fa vorable. The night wascalmn and clear and land was visible for 40 miles across the Tsu straits. Hundreds of Russian refugees who landed on the Tsu islands and neigh boring provinces are coming to Sasebo and Maizuru. Many of them are woun ded and are otherwise suffering from the terrible ordeal of the long battle Local branches of the Red Cross and government hospitals are sheltering and treating them. It is believed that the fighting ended Monday. A search of the sea is in progress to-day. The Everything to Gain —AND— Nothing to Lose If you buy your Suit at McCREARY’S 72c Broad St., AUGUSTA, GA. You run no risks with our new Spring Suits. About the handsomest we have ever shown. $IO, $12, $15 to $1S LOPi RIGHT, 1906 1/ You Can’t Buy as Cheaply Elsewhere. QOUTHERN RAILWAY. Tie South's Greatest System. Unexcelled Dining Car Service. Through Pullman Sleeping Cars on all Through Trains- Convenient Schedules on all Local Trains. WINTER TOURIST RATES are now in effect to all Florida points. For full information as to rates, routes, etc., consult nearest Southern Railway Ticket Agent, or R. W. HUNT, Division Passenger Agent, Charleston, S. C. W. C, H YER Plumber. CAPITAL $50,000 Surplus $25,000 PEOPLE’S BANK State, County and City Deposi tory. Banking Busi- Does a General ness. Your Accounts Solicited. F. B. Henderson President. L. S. Tkotti, Cashier. Safety Deposit Boxes to Rent, DIRECTORS. F. B. Henderson, H. C. Hahn, R. W. Mcreary, J. P. McNair, C. K. Henderson, W. J. Platt, H. N. Schroder, J. W.Lupo, Henry Summeral. Cll \ iLi a d > -> 1 Schedule in effect April 10, 1905. Leave Augusta Arrive Anderson Arrive Greenwood Arrive Laurens ... . Arrive Greenville Arrive Spartanburg Arrive Asheville Leave Augusta Arrive Allendale ArriveFairfax Arrive Yemassee Arrive Charleston Arrive Savannah (c. t.). Arrive Waycross No. 1. 10:10 a m .12:39 P M . 1:45 p M 3:25 p M 3:30 p m . 7 :40 p m No. 5 2 :55^am 7:10 p >r No. 42. 2:35 p m . 4 :30 P M . 4 :41 p M . 5:40 p M 7:40 p m 6:45 P M 10:00 p M Arrive Beaufort . . Arrive Port Royal. 6:30 p M 0:10 P M OZLTZ'IDJE of the business. The mechanical work on the News and Courier, like the editorial, and local, has always been exceptionally good, but this new press enables our esteemed competitor to do more work and do it more economically. The naval battle of Tushima, as it is called,of Sunday, in the Korean straits, to all intents and purposes settles the outcome of the war. Rojestvensky’s fleet was the last hope of Russia to re trieve her ill fortune in war, and but for it even the vacillating czar must have finally been convinced that a fur ther prosecution of the war was hope less, and that its continuation would be a crime against civilization. Practi cally all was staked upon the result of the naval battle ; and now that the Bal tic fleet has been destroyed or dispersed there is nothing else for Russia to do but accept the inevitable and make the best terms possible w’ith its victorious opponents. The battle was in truth an historic one. It places Japan unquestionably among the great powers of the earth to be reckoned with in future world poli tics. It brings Russia down from her former place of power and influence, a country whose aggressions were a per petual source of concern and even fear on the part of other nations. It does not make her a second rate power by any means, for with greater freedom and honest and just administration of her internal affairs she will be the strong and powerful nation she was up to recent times believed to be. But her humiliation is overwhelming, and in some respects she will receive sym pathy, yet the concensus of opinion of the civilized world will undoubtedly bo that she richly deserves her fate be cause of the outrageous disregard of ygifp 7*' l “-»^ The government and the inftaman cruel ties and massacres so ofteri'Tnflicted upon them by their rulers.—Colombia Record. Indications have been rapidly multi plying the past several weeks to show that the dispensary is losing its hold in all parts of the State; dissatisfaction has set in with gre^t strength from two important quarters, and demonstrating that the unexpected has happened again. The larger cities and the rural districts, the urban anti-Tillman ele ment, and the farming Tillman ele ment, seem to have unconsciously com bined forces in a movement which is gathering force and compactness daily and which many experienced politicians are freely predicting will wipe out the system entirely, if not at the next ses sion of the legislature then at the suc ceeding session, when a new set of men will be seated. That the action of Cherokee and Pickens counties, where there are few towns of importance was not due to spasmodic local influences or isolated prohibition sentiment, but is indicative of the general feeling of these kind of communities upon which the system has been depending for its suppert for so many years, seems to be shown by the information that is now constantly floating into Columbia that the rural districts have been convinced that the system is permeated with graft and that other departments of the State government have been tarred with the same feather. On top of this manifestation of deep discontent, not to say disgust, on the part of the rural districts, comes news of a movement that has been started to vote the dispensary out of Charles ton. Copies of the petition calling for an election have been drafted and will be put in circulation in a few days. Some time ago it was predicted on all sides that the election to be held in Spartanburg would overwhelmingly sustain the dispensary, but there seems to have been a decided change there in the past two or three weeks, since the campaign has opened actively and the eon test has become heated. fate of Admiral Rojestvensky is still in doubt. The failure of tidings strength ens the belief that he has reached Vla divostok badly wounded. Thus far the losses reported are as follows: Russian—6 battleships, ocruisers and 6 special service vessels sunk; and 2 battleships, 2 coast defense ships, and 1 torpedo destroyer captured. Total loss 22 vessels. Men killed, wounded and captured, about 4,000. Japanese—No vessel lost, and about 500 men killed or wounded. The wonderful fact that the Japanese destroyed so many of the Russian ships without losing a single ship themselves is explicable only by their accuraie marksmanship. It seems that on every one of the large calibre guns on the Japanese bat tleships and cruisers is placed a minia ture gun. For hours at a time, day after day, the Japinese engage in target practice with these miniature guns. They shoot at a target which is placed at distances which are in the same pro- l ortion to the carrying power of the miniature gun as one, two. three, four or five miles, we will say. are to the big gun. The gun crew go through exactly the same drill preparatory to dischag- ing the miniature gun as it would if the big gun of which the small gun is the counterpart was to be fired. The cost of such target practice is trifling as compared with the cost of using the big gun, and so expense puts no limit to the number of shots that are fired. The gunners shoot the small gun on the dip and rise of the vessel, when she lists, in heavy and calm seas, until they become so expert that their percentage is phenomenal. It was the deadly accuracy they ac quired by constant use of their minia ture guns which enabled the Japanese to use their big guns against Rojest vensky with such terrible effect. Nitrogen by Mall All Over the World. T. R. Robinson of the Department of Agriculture, Washington, discussing the inoculation of soil with nitrogen, writes as follows in The Country Cal endar for June, the new outdoor mag azine by the Review of Review’s Book Company: “Not only has inoculation made it possible to grow legumes on soiljvhich previously refused to produce a"stana7 but evidence is furnished in numerous ESSENTIAL RULES OF SUCCESS y/te State. Baron Alphonso Rothschild, who died in Paris a few days ago, never lost an opportunity to aid young men—with advice. He doubtless aided many young men with other things, but his advice was enough if it could be followed. It was potentially worth some of the Ba ron’s millions—not all of them, as he inherited a great fortune. He gave wisely in a currency which the whole world shamefully abuses, in lavish, spendthrift giving—good counsel His precepts were the fruit of his practice, and he never advised another to do a thing that he had himself found impos sible—that he had not done. After years of success he gathered up a few maxims that had served him as guiding principles, each one tested by his own experience, and tried as a measure of the successful experience of others. These he had printed upon cards and distributed among the young men of France. Here they are: Shun liquor. Dare to go forward Never be discouiaged. Be polite to everybody. Employ your time well. Never tell business lies. Pay your debts promptly. Be prompt in everything. Bear all troubles patiently. Do not reckon upon fehances. Make no useless acquaintances. Be brave in the struggle of life. Maintain your integrity as a sacred thing. Never appear to be something more than you are. Take time to consider; then decide positively. Carefully examine into every detail of your business. The peculiar and inspiriting strength of the maxims is their fine practicable ness. They could be followed by the average young man of intelligence pro vided he has the courage,for a high moral courage is necessary to any large or worthy success. These eighty W’ords form a lexicon of conduct—a lexicon in which there is no such w’ord as * fail.” Our National Prosperity. The United States, after a twelve- months’ halt in ita trade activity 4 has again moved forward, with evidence on j all sides of healthy industrial expan- j sion. Two tests habitually applied by i experts as a measure of trade condi-• tions in this country are the exchange of bank checks at its clearing houses, showing the volume of business actual ly done, and the consumption of manu factured iron, showing the plans of gen- i eral industry. If merchants, bankers ! and manufacturers make fewer pay- i ments through their banks, it means j that the sales and purchases in their in- j dustry are reduced. If orders for iron j and steel diminish, it is a sign that | manufacturers, builders, and transpor tation companies foresee small busi ness and are curtailing orders for new machinery, new structural material, and new rails or cars. Each of these signs of the times foretold with un pleasant clearness the reaction of 1903. The shrinkage in clearing-house ex changes. and the cutting in two of the country’s iron production, pointed un- m stakably to the coming storm. But the storm passed over rapidly. This season, bank checks put through the country’s clearing houses have sur passed all records in our history, rising in value 50 per cent over 1904. Iron production has reached a magnitude twice that of December, 1903, and never approached in the history of the tr de. Consumption at the rate of nearly two million tons a month, where a million tons was the highest monthly average of any year up to 1900, is witness to the state of our industries.—From ‘ The Progress of the World,” in the Ameri can Monthly Review of Reviews for June. Estimates on Plumbing, Tinning and Heating cheerfully furnished. A large stock of Blue Flame Stoves. $2 to $8.50. Ovens from $1.50 to $4.; Glass and Crockery, Lamps, Household Supplies. Ice Cream Churns. Fiber Ice Coolers, cleaner than the old Muresco. the finest Oil and Cheaper style. wall finish, and in every Floor # tint. Paints, Stains Oils, Varnish and AX His Store # ON LAURENS STREET. H EINDERSOIVS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, AIKEN, 8. C. Practice in all of the State and U S courts. Collections a specialty. Arrivals: Train No. 2 from Asheville, Spa-Uanburg, Greenville, etc., 5:20 PM. Train No. 6 from Anderson, etc.. 11:15 a m. Train No. 41 from Charleston, Sa vannah, Beaufort, Port Royal, etc., 12:20 noon. Through train service between Augusta and Charleston. For any information relative to rates, etc., apply to EARNhST WILLIAMS, G. P. A.. E. M. NORTH, Com. Agt. Augusta, Ga. T. M. EMFJRSON, Traffic Manager. L. & M. Made to Last. NeiYort, Charleston & Florida | STEAMSHIP LINES. FBOX CHARLESTON FOR NEW YORK. The steamships of this company are STo a ’l\r«lJeM^t a of tiuee J 8 e t r ‘ I s sciiii-inIxcd, iintl i his is Uk> w ay it compares as follows: With 1111X0(1 IHlillt. (All dates subject to change without A notice.) 'Ii your house takes 21 gffikms of ready mixed paint at ARAPAHOE 4 Friday, June 2, 6.00 a m i$l.o0 per gallon, you must pay $31 50 APACHE. Monday, June 5, 7.30 a m j The fame work is done with L. & M. as follows,-12 gal- THE YOLKS OF EGGS. Those of a Reddish Hue Better than the Pale Yellow. There is most probably an important dietic difference between two eggs, the yolk of one which is of a very pale yel low color and that of the other a rich, almost reddish color. It is a notorious aimosi reuuisn color. xi is a mnuriuua .Lkero. ar« iin ■fact nrarTTie'eountYy'proiTueeU egg lb a T t j ie ., ODU |ati cases that the highly bred bacteria are more efficient as nitrogen-gatherers than those preciously occurring in soils This may be illust rated by a report from a section where clover had previously been an average good crop: ‘With the seed inoculated we produced clover eighteen to twenty inches high at this time and blooming; that not inoculated is six to eight inches high and sickly- lookinp, not blooming. We have all confidence in the germ,-and believe it will restore clover to us again.’ Even more striking than this is the following from a region where clover has previ ously not been grown: ‘I sowed about eight pounds of clover seed, not inocu lated, all over the field, and three pounds of inoculated seed in the form of a cross. Result, cross distinct with clover; balance of the field none.’ Several recent reports from distant countries show that the bacteria in the dry culture form can actually be sent on long journeys and retain their orig inal power. From New Zealand, “the trials at the Government Experiment Farms are reported to be quite success ful.’ From Natal, South Africa, the inoculated cow-peas produced nodules in every case, while those not so treat ed failed to show nodules.’ Takes Water on Panama Supplies. Oh, Teddy and Taft, Both fore and aft. Are a wonderful combination. Harvard and Yale, How can they fail To wallop all creation? Says Teddy to Taft. “These trusts are daft; Let’s fill ’em with consternation. “We’ll give ’em a jolt, “Like a thunder bolt. On the score of the‘favored nation.’ ” So Teddy and Taft Got after the graft. They cried, “We are out for the dough,too, ‘‘You fellers will sell “Some lower or. well— We guess, you know where you can go to.” But the trusts they laughed At Teddy and Taft, And grinned at this latest measure, And word came in From the “Men of Tin” And word from the men of pressure. burg has a larger mill population than any other county in the State, and the contest will be of great interest as showing the attitude of this element, j Mill managers contend that dispensary or any other kind ef whiskey has a de- ! eidedly deteriorating influence on help, and the influence of the mill owners and managers is always against wins-j key. In the Pickens election one of the cotton mill boxes voted 50 against and only 1 for the dispensary. Men of good political judgment who have studied ’ the Spartanburg situation from Ixith close and long range, say that if the election were held to-morrow Spartan burg would vote out the dispensaries by a two to one vote.—Charleston Post. And, O, my Lord, How the telegrams poured And letters from Hull to Frisco, And Teddy and Taft Were paragraphed Spartan- ! Till they didn’t feel quile so brisk-o. And the putty jolt, This thunderbolt Like a bag full of air exploded, And Teddy and Taft Were terribly gaffed, For they never had guessed “ ’twas loaded.” O Teddy and Taft, Both fore and aft, Are a wonderful combination. Harvard and Vale, How can they fail, To wallup all creation? —John Kkndick Bangs. usually be placed under the latter de scription, while the egg produced by the hen that is under an unhealthy and limited environment shows an anaemic color, generally a very pale yellow. The eggs of wild birds—as, for exam ple, the plover—show a yolk of rich reddish color. The substance which contributes col or to the yolk of the egg is iron, just, as it is iron which gives the color to the blood, and there seems to be little doubt that the iron compound in the yolk of the egg is of a similar nature to that of the blood. It is easily assim ilated, and eggs are regarded as a suit able food for the anaemic person, as they present a concentrated and gen erally easily digested form oPhutriment rich in iron. The iron compound of the egg has, in fact, been termed a “hae- matogen,” because it is probable that from it the blood of the chick is derived. The amount of iron in the yolk of an egg would appear to increase with the intensity of its color, and there can be but little doubt that the maximum is reached in the richly colored yolk of the egg produced by a fowl existing in healthy surroundings, for then its pro cesses of nutrition would be working under very favorable conditions. As an article of diet, therefore, the egg should be judged not by the color of its shell, but of the yolk, which should be a rich reddish rather than of a pale yellow color.—Lancet. Reindeer in Alaska. It is gratifying, says The New York Sun, to learn that our reindeer stations in Alaska can now supply the present needs of the country and will have be fore long a surplus for export, if any body wants to buy. No Siberian ani mals have been imported for three years and the domestic herds are doub ling every two and one-third years. Dr. Jackson’s latest report says that in the eleven years of importations from Siberia a total of 1.280 animals were ferried across Behring sea. In June last year there were 8,189 reindeer in the Alaskan herds, to say nothing of the surplus males, which the Esquimau herders are permitted to kill for food. No females may be slaughtered, the present policy being to increase the herds as rapidly as possible. At the present rate there should be 128,000 ! deer in Alaska in 1915 and about 38,000 fawns should be born in that year. We see the Esquimau already skilful in raising and training reindeer. He I owns about a third of the deer in the j territory. He is beginning to sell fresh j meat to miners, an important matter i at the inland camps, for moose and car- | ibou are disappearing, and beef and ! mutton from the .-Hates are hard to get. j He is proving to be skilful in driving : reindeer and is already carrying mail, ! freight and passengers between mining | camps on four postal routes. I So the reindeer is helping to solve a serious problem. Our Mongol wards - along the coast were in a wretched state and their privations threaten to wine j them out, but UncleSam lias introduced | them to a source of wellbeing that as sures their future and makes them help ful to others Farioni Fighting. “For seven years,” writes Geo. W. Hoffman, of Harper, Wash., ‘‘I had a bitter battle, with chronic stomach and liver trouble, but at last Lwon and cim'd my diseases, by the usr of Elec tric Bitters. I unhesitatinHy recom mend them to all, and don’t^intend in the future to be without them in the house. They are certainly a wonderful medicine, to have cured such a bad case as mine. Sold, under guarantee to do the same for you, by H. H. Hall, and W. J. Platt & Co., druggists. Price 50c. a bottle. Try them to-day. The Vaslness of Texas This will help you to figui'e out just how large Texas really is. iryou have a star mathematician in yJur family tell him the number of sepMre miles the bie state. ®ien4*M» uim l W.QUITMAN D-VVIS HEKBERT E. ROBT. L. GUNTER, GYI.ES. DAVIS, GUNTER & GILES. A TTORNEYS AT LAW, AIKEN, S. C. Chatfield Building. MURRAY’S IRON MIXTURE. Now is the time to take a spring tonic By far the best thing to take is Murray’s Iron Mixture. It makes pure blood and gets rid of that tired feeling. At all drug gists. 50c a Bottle. Or direct from THE MURR AY DRUG CO., Columbia, S. C. tion of the glolTa; then asK him if all the people in the \rorld were placed in Texas and its soil divided out among them per capita, Inow large would the man’s farm be who had a wife and two childreri? When begets through figuring, then whisper in his ear. “More than half an acile.”—Tex arkana (Tex ) Courier. In Mad Chaw. Millions rush in mad chase after health, from one extreme of faddism to another, when, if they would only eat good food, and keep their bowels reg ular with Dr. King’s New Life Pills, their troubles would all pass away. Prompt relief and quick cure for liver and stomach trouble. 25c at H. H. Hall’s, and W. J. Plait <fe Co’s, drug stores; guaranteed. Winthrop College Scholarship and Entranca Examination. The examination for the award of va cant scholarships in Winthrop College and for the admission of new students will be held at the County Courthouse on Friday, July 7th, at 9 a. tn. Ap li- cants must not be less than fifteen years of age. When scholarships are vacated after July 7, they will be awarded to those making the highest average at this examination provided they meet the conditions governing the award. Applicants for scholarships should write to President Johnson before the examination for scholarship application blanks Scholarships are worth $10) and free tuition. The next session will open September 20, 1905. For further infor mation and catalogue address Pres. D. B. Johnson, Rock Hill, S. C. are known by wbat they have grown. For half a century they Lave been the standanl—haven't failed once to produce bigger, het- *’ ,d nnal free to alfappllcants. D. M.-FERRY A CO., Detroit, Mich. M. Schedule of Maili. From the North 7 a. m., 12 m., 3.30 f East 8 00 a m., 12 m. South 8 a. m., 12 m.,4.30 p. m. West 8.00 a. M.,and 4.45 p. m. and 7.30 1*. m. From Columbia 10 a. m, Augusta, Ga., 12.30 p. m. (except Sunday). MAILS CLOSE AT POST OFFICE. For the North 7.00 a. m., 3.15 p. m., and 8.00 p. m. East 7.00 a. m., and 3.15 p. m. South 7.00 a. m., 3.15 p. m., and 8.00 p. m. West 11 a. m and 8 00 p. m. For Augusta, Ga., at 2.00 p. m., except Sunday. Edgefield 9 a. m,, 3.15 p. m. Mails close promptly at above time Office open for general transaction of business from 8.30 a. m. to 6 00 i\ m. Sunday hours 10 a m. to 1 p. m. C. E. Carman, P. M. ^ Ct \ n LIGHTS DIFFER in their intensity. Our Electric Lamp*. Caudles, etc., are adapted for all pur poses. Of the utmost brilliancy or ban a gentle glow. The new Turn Up and Turn Down Light is a great improve ment. and needs but to be seen to be appreciated. Electric Bells, Burglar Alarms installed anywhere at remark ably reasonable rates. Let us illumi nate your darkness with our dazzling devices. Examine our stock. a ike; in ELECTRIC CONSTEDCTIOM CO W. ROTHROCK, Electrician. 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It i a cheap food or Though put up is a medicine, not condition powder, in coarser form than Thedford's Black-Draught, renowned for the I cure of the digestion troubles of j persons, it has the same qualities of invigorating digestion, stirring up the torpid liver and loosening the constipated bowels for all stock and poultry. It is carefully pre-1 jlpvA/l SkTwl »*■«» ani >in an that stock grow and thrive w.«h an occasional dose in their food- It cures hog cholera and maVeo hogs grow fat. It cures chicken cholera and roup and makes hens lay. It cures constipation, distemper and colds in horses, murrain in cattle, and makes a draught animal do more work for the food consumed. It gives animals and fowls of all kinds new life. Every farmer and raiser should certainly give it a trial. It costs 25c. a can and saves ten times its price in profit. Pittsbubo, Has., March 25,1904. I have been using your Draught Stock and Poultry Medicine oa my atock for some time. I have uaed all kinds of stock food but I have fouud that yours Is the best for my purpose. J. 8. HASSON. c You can only talk to one customer at a time in your store, but you can talk to a county full of people in the- Aiken Recorder every week. Remember this Mr. Merchant. SAVE MONEY ON YOUR STOVES. We make 131 different styles and sizes of Cooks and Heating Stoves, and produce 150 daily, selling all our pro duct directly to the user at low prices and freight paid. We save you $3 to $20 on a Stove. Write for catalogue and prices. COLOMBUS STOYE WORKS, COLUMBUS, MISS. Doors, Sash, Blinds, Etc. Office and YVorka INorth A.uj;uata 9 iS. CL Estimates cheerfully furnished on application on every class of work. Your orders solicited, large or small. POST OFFICE, AUGUSTA, GE0KGIA. “ Here’s wh iskey that’s good.’ That’s what every one says who tries our PURE NORTH GARO>- LINA MOUNTAIN Whiskies and Brandies. THE JOHN W. SOWERS DISTILLING CO., ^Formerly of Ronda, N. C.) MILTON, N. C. To our Good Friends and Old Customers: We take this method of advising you that w T e are again ready to supply your wants for PURhl Whiskies and Brandiesfl[Tid~sup ply them promptly, fill all orders same day they are received. Our Guarantee: If our goods are not all that we^represent them to be, return them to us at our expense, and we (will refund your money. - SPECIAL OFFER- In order to introduce our new brand “WHIXE RAVEN” Corn Whiskey we have cut prices, and quote you as fo|lows* next thirty days, prices subject to change without thirty days from date of this advertisement. — Pl^yigc »•■>»'iiisi lovY' pricesv 1 gallon “White Raven” Corn Wi*Skey 2 gallons “ “ “ “ <k ( 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4+ “ 44 44 * 4 .... .4 W When ordering please s 'y that you saw our t.d\ertisoinonfc in the Aiken Recorder. Another point in your favor, we make no charge for jugs nor kegs, but buy them back from you at their full market value. Very truly, THE JOHN W. SOWERS DISTILLING CO., MILTON, N. C. As TO OUR RELIABILITY: We refer you to the Merchants A Planters Bank,or any merchant of the city of Milton, N. C. Ayers Pills Wake up your liver. Cure your constipation. Get rid of your biliousness. Sold for 60 years. Want your moustache or bear J a beautiful brown or rich black? Use S DYE . . V cm. or DALOUI8T1 0k H. r. HALL , CO.. RASUDiL N. H. Pine °gs Lon a: or Short Leavod WANTED. A Fewful F»te. It is a fearful fate to have to endure the terrible torture of Piles. “I can truthfully say,” writes Harry Colson, of Masonville, la., “'.hat for Blind, Bleeding, Itching and Protruding Piles, Bucklen’s Arnica Salve, is the best cure made.” Also best for cuts, burns and injuries. 25c at H. H. Hall, and W. J. Platt A Co., druggists. An Intereatlnir Relle. In the matter of diminutive bank notes a correspondent sends an ac count of a curious note which he iiaa In his possession. It is a card measur ing 2 by ‘J 1 /-* inches, on one side of which is twice printed the word "Two pence.’’ while on the other the sum is printed in words and figures round the border. In the middle is the following: “I promise to pay the bearer, on de mand. twopence. By order of the Cor poration of lhe City of New York. Fetx 20, 1790. I). Phoenix, City Treasurer.** —London Graphic. G. L. TOOLE. J Attorney at L,aw, j' /CROFT’S Block, Room No. 0, Aiken, j 8. C. Notary Public S. C. (with 3 seal). Loans 12 to 20 ft. Long--Loaded anywhere within 100 miles of Aiken-Wanted in carload lots " AIKEN LUMBER CO. i! security. negotiated on acceptable HAVE YOUR EYES Properly Fitted With Glasses at WesseJs Brow. FREE EYE TEST COAL T. G. CROFT. .1 B SALLY. Croft * Sallv, Attorneys at L,aw aokein. s. c. Egg and Nut hard coal. Bestquality. Domestic Block-lump and Black smith coals. Best quality. FULL SUPPLY NOW OX IIAXIL Llkt a Whale. “You can't keep me down.” shouted the great orator at a public meeting; “though I may Ik* pressed below the waves I rise again. You will find that I come to the surface, gentlemen.” “Yes.” said an old whaler in the au dience, “you come to the surface to blow.” CONTINUE Those who are gaining flesh and strength by regular treat ment with Scott’s Emulsion should continue the treatment In hot weather; smaller dose and a little cool milk with it will do away with any objection which Is attached to fatty pro ducts during the heated season. Send for free sample. SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemist*, 409.41$ Pearl Street, New York. Joe. and f t oo; all druggists. Noah’s Ark. It was on Nov. 16, B C. 2348, that Noah and the animals came out of the ark, according to Archbishop Ussher’s ; chronology. Several experts have cal culated that they enjoyed ample ac- commodation in the ark. Sir Walter Raleigh computed that there were eighty-nine distinct species of beasts to he provided for. “or. lest any should be omitted, a hundred several kinds.” He allowed tha, one elephant would want as much space as four beeves and one lion as two wo'ves and found that there was room for 91, or. say. 120 b< e e-. 80 sheep and 6i wolves, which sufficed. One story or n« m would hold these, another their meat, a third ; the birds and their food, and still there j was space for Noah and his family. 50 YEARS’ EXPERIENCE Siol Dtirnble. “Marriages may be made In heaven.” J be said thoughtfully, "but if so. I hey’re ! di aliiie. in a cheaper giade of goods up Ithis Sitate. Special attention given to; there every year. They don’t last any- | " 1 filing like the way they used to.”— , Chicago Post Will <practiee in all of the courts of 1 lie Siale. I coUoetions. mm 4 W it Trade Marks Designs Copyrights Ac. Anyone sending a sketch and description may quickly ascertain our opinion free whether au invention is probably patentable. Communica. tioiisstrictlyconOdentiaL HANDBOOK on Patents sent free. Oldest acency for securing patents. throueh Munn & Co. n A l-’a I r So |i|»oalt Ion. 10 is that man who keeps saying: Is always the unexpected that hap pens?” “I'm not sure—probably an attach* of the weather bureau.”—Washingtoai 8tar. Patents taken through Munn St iptcial notice, without ebanre, in the receive Scientific American. A handsomely Illustrated weekly. Tersest dr- dilation of any scientific Journal. Terms. $3 a year: four months, $L Sold by all newsdealers. MUNN & Com'ii*—-r. New Yori Brand) Office, SB F 8t_ Washington. D. C. rather JEot So Drave. Blobbs—He says be would fight than eat. Blobs- Pugnacious, eht Blobbs— No: dyspeptic.—Philadelphia Record. A bachelor says that love Is • coonbl- uation of diseases—an affection of th* bean and au Inflummatloo of the braJo.—Chicago News. TY»o-nj.vht She XVns a Calf. TThr*?! Mine. Scbuninnn-Heink war thirteen, iir-r father m us transferred ti Gratz, vriLere a singing teacher. Ma rietta voa Xrf'ciair. recognizing T he young girt'* talent, offered to give b- r singing Jeasons without i-oiupensation. For two years she st/.Jied nothing but solfeggios. Then she began learning songs. She had a very deep contralto without any high notes at that ttii^e. One day a caller, hearing her sing Schabert’a “Dcr Tod und daft Mud rhon” In an adjoining room said to her teacher. “I did not know that yen taught young calves.” “She la not a young calf,” repfiev il arietta von Leclair. “Some day sh* will be a great siuger.”—Gustav Ko^lx lo Woioap’a Home Companion Good Pine and Oak, also a plenty of Pitch Pine kindling On hand. -A-HSHElNr IFTTEX., OO. .1. AT. RICLIARDSOrV, Mgr. ’Phone No. 68. CASTOR IA For Infanta and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought RegistraiidD Nctlci of Bears the t’ignatnra of rpHh books for the registration JL voters will be open on the first Monday of each month, and will remain open for one day and no longer. ''y Office in the Courthouse. Office hour* from 9 a. m. to 3 p. in. —^ G. C. MOSELEY. Chairman Board Supervisors.