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WARFARE 20 1 On tibe Verge of a ile Figh PMladelph "The ney1 armed conflict in which Uncle Sam is called upon to engage j will be a war of physics and chemis try. We are on the edge of a great j revolution in the art of fighting and j before long the methods of warfare ; most, approved to-day will be regarded 1 as wholly out of date. Twenty years from now, reckoning at the very far- . thest, there will be no floating for tress of the kind which we call battle ships; they will be considered as rep resenting an obsolete type of naval architecture comparatively small, yet j infinitely more formidable and de- ? struotive. "By that time also, electricity will ! have made its appearance as an active agent of destruction and military en- \ gines of all sorts will have assumed ! forms as yet undreamed of." The words above quoted were used J by a Government official who is one of the foremost scientific men in this Navy, in conversation with me. Im- j posing the condition that his name ? should not be mentioned, he proceeded j to develop the idea by a series of sug- i gestions so striking as to excite the utmost interest. He said: 1 "To illustrate the tendency of the | development of warfare at present 11 ' will refer to the wiping out of the bat- J ^ tleshin Maine. According to ? *00., ' lief, it took jasi about three men to ' accomplish the destruotion of that gi gantic fighting machine. They had a i 1 large quantity of nitro-glycerine or j 1 some such high explosive, packed in j 1 bags impervious to water. In each ! 1 .bag was placed just enough cork to j ' give the contents the specific gravity j 1 of water, approximately. Dragging ! the bags, one or more of the men swam { out to within a short distance of the s ship, then dived and swam under the j 1 water to escape observation and came ! ' up tinder the safe shelter of the side 1 of the vessel. To attach the bags to * the bottom of the ship was easy , and 1 a chemical time fuse that would burn j underwater could be ignited readily 1 enough, permitting the assassins to 1 swim away at their le isure. * "In some such way as this, I think, ( ihe Maine was destroyed. I only cite * the case to illustrate the ease with which a mighty warship of this kind j can be destroyed by ?wo or three de- . termined men at a minimum of cost. A few dollars worth of high explosive will wipe out'?4,000,001) worth of ma- 1 chinery and several hundred lives. If half a dozen hostile vessels of war ventured into thc harbor of New York they would be annihilated very quick- 1 ly, not by our own war ships, but by 1 email groups of" courageous men with ( so called infernal machines of one ( kind or another. When this sort of ( thing can happen, and is alway? likely 1 to occur, it means that the fighting ship of the type described is out of 1 date. Tho modern battleship is con- 1 structed, so to speak, on a gunpowder ' basu; in the building of them no j4 more account is taken of hizh cxplo- j 1 sives than "if there were no such I ' things. But it is perfectly certain ( that the wars of the immediate future ! are-to be prosecuted with high explo- ? sive?. { "Y >u must remember that as yet no 1 adequate tesf?f the efficiency of bat- ' tie ships has "been made in practice; 1 they arc built on theory. What does ' their strength amount to-the thick- j' ne8J< of their armor and the weight of j ' the projectiles they can throw-if they J can be sn readily destroyed? They ? represent a putting of matter in thc 1 wrong place. In a museum of natural ! history yo- will see thc skeletons of 1 mau y extinct animals which have ' lived at va ious epochs of the earth's history. Vou can tell at a glance thc ver" ancient skeletons from those which belonged to creatures of more i recent times, because the latter are so much lighter and more graceful, rep- : resenting improved types. In one of the.s warships you see a massing of material, regardless of expense and without regard to practical conditions. Taerefore thia species of vessel is doomed to carly extinction, like the huge and unwieldy mammals of the pliocene. '"Th J great war ship and the great gun are thc naval ideals of to-day. Both of them are based on wh it? On gunpowder. Modern forts, both on land and on ?ea, are built on a gun powder basis, and without any consid eration of high explosives. The very brain.? of army and navy men all over the world are adjusted to gunpowder, as it were. Military expert?*, general ly speaking, are unable to think of ! war oxeept in terms of gun powder, j Vet gunpowder ia practically out ?tf j date. The day of high-power exp?o- | ?ives ha? arrired: they constitute thc !' postulate to which ideas of war must 1 be adjusted. Thc.??- explosives have ? carried the art of war beyond the j stage wheti thc battleship can be use ful. With their aid it is as easy to I destroy the strongest armored ship as J to smash up a wooden schooner. It is I not possible to predict with confidence lust what whe character of thc fighti.ig ' ?TARS HENCE. volution in the Art ol' ting. ta Times. vessels of the future will bc, but a suggestion in that direction seems'to be afforded by the torpedo boat. A torpedo boat costs $75,000, and you can build a whole fleet of such craft for the cost of one battle ship. "The advantage of high explosives is that only a little power is required to concentrate them in the place in which they are to do work. Their adoptiou as a means of construction is certain to introduce an entirely new series of inventions for war. The development of the art of war from this time on will be a battle of inven tion. If hostilities should break out between Spain and the United States, iuventiou in this line would be mar vellously stimulated. Has it ever oc curred to you to think of the fact that during our own civil war a greater number of fighting machines were in vented than in all the history cf the world up to that time? The Franco Prussiau conflict gave a-great stimulus to military invention. "We, of course, are a nation of in ventors. A war with Spain would bring into existence many contrivan ces for destruction far surpassing what has hitherto been devised. The Spaniards, themselves not at all an inventive people, would think that thpv had come up against a nation of levil?. "It is logically proper to assume my absurdity for thc sake of argu ment. Let us assume, then, that we ?vere driven from the seas actually by t ?be Spaniards, and that our defeat was lbsolute and overwhelming. The ?rind up of the whole affair would nevertheless be the total wiping out )f Spain, for we would build vessels ?djusted to requirements. There is io telling what we might do with elec tricity, which doubtless is destined to ?lay a part in future warfare as an ac ive agent of destruction. Telegra ihy without wires is as yet in its in x'ney, but something very substantial n this line has been accomplished al .eady. If we can convey, as wc do, o a distance and without a wire, mough energy to communicate intelli gence, we shall bc able before long to sonvey enough energy to work injury. I ?.S our control of electrical energy | jecomcs more complete, weean extend ^ ts reach farther and farther. It does j lot seem wholly improbable that the Ame will come wheu wc shall be able to explode the magazine of a ship without going near it. ''The ouly attempt thus far made by thc Uuited States in the direction ?f utilizing high explosives for purposes >f naval warfare, if torpedoes be ex jepted, is represented by thc so-called lynamite cruiser Vesuvius, which is :iow in the neighbornood of KeyAVest. This vessel has on her forward deck three fifteen-inch guns, which threw j projectiles loaded with dynamite near- j ly a mile and a quarter. This ship is >n!y an experiment, and her practijal utility is regarded by naval authori ties as very doubtful. The problem >f throwing high explosives with safety to those who usc them has not vet been solved satisfactorily. No ?xplosive is good for fighting purposes that can bc touched off by shock or otherwise than by actual contact with 5re. Thc stuff called 'explosive gela tine,' for example, is the most power ful of all known explosives, being fif teen times as strong as gunpowder, [t is made by dissolving gun cotton in nitro glycerine, the preparation hav ing the consistency of honey. But it is very unsafe for usc in battle, be cause a bullet striking itw ll set it off j by concussion. ''It is extremely likely that :in the next great war shells that liberate I poisonous gases on explosion will bc j employed. It has been suggested that ! bombs loaded with hydrocyanic acid i iras under pressure could be thus uti | listed, releasing such fumes on burst- ! mg as would destroy all life in the neighborhood. The Trench melinite has for its base a coal ta? product j termed picric acid. Its-consistency i s i about that of molasses, and it is pour ed into ?hoirsand permitted to harden. This stuff is entirely safe to handle, though three times as powerful as gunpowder. The fumes >et free by the burling of a bomb loaded with it arc most deadly. A .-ingle one, fired experimentally at a vessel, on the ? deck of which had been .placed a num j ber of -sheep and gouts, Icille'd'by suf- ' location all of the animals that were ? not destroyed by the tlying'fragttieuts. | If a -*hell loaded with hydrocyanic j acid -gas-this is the same thing as ; prusic acid and alie deadliest of all j poisons-should be fired into a ship j and explode inside of the vessel, pr?t j ty nearly everybody on board would I surely perish. "Thc newly invented smoke gre nades are. filled with chemical substan ct's which, on explosion, produce- j clouds id' ilense black smoke. They 1 are intended to be carried in advance ! by 'skirmishers and thrown so as t.-, conceal the troops following, and i< a good thing." Tlie Mad Dog Bugaboo. lu the June Ladies' Home Journal Edward W. Bok writes on thc "Buga boo of thc Mad Dog," quoting a num ber of authorities to show that there is no such disease as "hydrophobia," and inquiring if "it is nottime, there fore, in view of these indisputable facts, that we should give ourselves a little more freedom from this bugaboo of the mad dog? What the newspa pers so essentially report as cases of hy drophobia arc, in reality, nothing more nor less than instances of peo ple who have been bitten by dogs and frightened into hysterical conditions, in which they involuntarily reproduce all the supposed symptoms of hydro phobia. It is a pity that our newspa per editors cannot have amore careful regard for thc feelings of women dur ing the summer months and agree to suppress the reports of cases supposed ?o bc hydrophobia. They make thc public mind nervous, and do more to spread thc silly notion of a belief in hydrophobia than anything else. "Women have had their feelings played upon enough by this foolish notion of hydrophobia, and enough unnecessary suffering has been inflict ed upon the dog, who is often killed for nothing but a popular fallacy. "It is high time that common sense should rule; that we should believe r,he fact that there is no such thing as hydrophobia, and rid ourselves of this senseless and ridiculous bugaboo of the mad dog?" ?o .? ?-? Finances in the Home. A lack of sound business under standing between husband and wife has been the ruiu pf more homes than poverty. WilOD ? man and woman enter into a partnership-that most important partnership in life-both members in the new firm should have a distinct appreciation of the financial situation, and, as theyears pass, the firm's prof its and losses should come within the equal knowledge of both. So would be avoided much of thc unhappiness that arises from thc hus band's thinking his wife extravagant or the wife's thinking her husband stingy. Nothing is more discouraging to a man than to sec his hard-earned money thrown recklessly away on lux uries he feels that only the families of richer men can afford, but often this expenditure is due. not to willfulness on the wife's part, but to simply not knowing how much her husband can afford to have her spend. He is often over-indulgent. She tells him of two bonnets: one is five dollars more than the other, and she doesn't know whether she ought to get it-"but it is a dear of a bonnet." she adds, and he, too weakly loving, tells her "to buy it and look pretty." and then when the bill conies in, he broods over his expense. At another time she asks for money to buy a certain piece of bric-a-brac, and meets with a refusal, and. ata loss to reconcile her husband's former generosity with the present denial, inwardly decides that he is "close."' Both of these misunderstandings are due to a want of mutual advice and confidence concerning the household treasury. Thc way to avoid thc unhappiness that such misunderstandings invaria bly brings about, is for thc wife to have au allowance for household ex penses, knowing exactly what ratio this allowance bctars to her husband's whole income. Whether the allowance be large or small will really matter very little in a home that is establish ed on the above sound-money basis. Fnnm-r. l acie Kph's Opinion. "An old man who used to bc a slave in our family has been greatly interested in our war with Spain, and to please him I have read a g*od bit from the newspapers," said Mr. A. Vt. ningham of Georgia nt the Kigirs. "Thc accounts of Dewey's great (leeds at Manila wert? read to the nhl fellow; who sat as if entranced, with open mouth and shining eyes. At thc end of the story he heaved a long sigh, remarking. 'Well dat docs beat all." " What do yon think of it l ucie Kphriam?' 1 asked. " 'l>id 1 undcrstah' yon. in a rs ter, to sar dat dem Spanish nebber killed a single one uv ou' people?' ""That's right, Kphriam: wc killed several huudred of them, but not one of our men lost his life.' " "'Den all I got to say is ddt dc' is dc iio-'couutest lighters libin'. Your I ucl* Kphriam is surprised, he is, fur I sh orel y did spect to hear dat dey 1 id killed at least ?ne nigger and perhaps u mule. Dey shorcly must not a bin cony of deni aroun' dcre, for niggers and mules always gits de wust n\ it.'"- Washington f'<><t. i . ? On?:? Trl??<l. Alway* I.'N?MI. If we sri! one bottle of Chamber lain's Cough Remedy, wc seldom fail to sell the safluc person mure when ?I i is aga i ii needed. Indeed, it lias be come I lie family medicine of this ? town, fur coughs and colds, and wo recommend it because ol' its establish ed merits .los. K. IIAKXKI?, Trop. ( ?aklnnd Ph ann ac y. < lakland. Md. ' Solo by ilill i ?rr Drue Co. FLED ON A MATTRESS. The Experience of a Chicago Man at tbs Great Fire. Justice John K. Prindiville had the experience of being carried through the city on a mattress, as at the time of the fire he was unable to walk. The Prindiville residence stood, in the days before the fire, at the intersection of Chicago avenue and State street. It was a spacious house, in the center of a large yard, and was in what was then the most fashionable residence district of Chi cago. A fall in a gymnasium some three weeks before the lire had left Justice Prindivillo a cripple for the time being, and he was confined to his bed. "Late Sunday night a friend of the family came to the bouse,'' said the justice, "and called my father to one side, telling him that the city was burning np. My six brothers told mo as soon ns they were dressed not to worry, as there wero enough I of them to care for me. I assured them I was not fretting, and while they made preparations to move me to a place of safety I, from my sick room window, could see the reflec tion of the fire, then just beginning to get under way on tho South Side. Father sent one of the boys to Wright's livery burn, nt State and Kinzie streets, where our horses were kept, to get them and the car riages, which be intended to use in moving my mother, who was also ill, and myself as well as what prop erty he could save. "It so happened," continued Jus tice Prindiville, "that Wright s bani was tho first building to burn on the North Side. When it was learned by the other boys that our horses wore gone, one of them went out and in some manner got possession of au old express wagon, I don't know how he did it, but I have al ways thought he must have turned burglar for the nonce, as vehicles of all descriptions were then at a pre mium. They started to carry mo out of the house on a mattress. The front door was too narrow, and they had to improvise a stretcher from a sheet. I remember that it was just at daylight Monday morning, and I was calmly smoking my pipe. This annoyed father, who told me to stop smoking, for fear I would set the house on fire. Four hours afterward the whole building was a smoldering mass of rubbish. "Three of the brothers pulled the wagon, for want of a horse, and I was taken to Elm and Dearborn streets. Thero they left me, while they hurried buck to save as much property as they could. For three hours I tossed about in the bottom of that wagon, unable to rise, while a steady stream of excited and in many cases frantic people poured past me, seeking shelter in Lincoln j park. Many of them put things into the wagon and asked me to watch them. One man had three dishpans, and another some valuable oil paint- j iugs. A woman ran by, I distinctly remember, with a big billy goat clasped in her arms, and a little girl ; left a cat in my charge. All the ' property I threw out of the wagon, but I kept the cat. "Somewhere ono of the boys hired a truck with a team, got my mother and came whero I was and took us to St. Joseph's hospital. We wero . left there, and the boys ami father hurried back to save all they could from the house. They took the fam ily silverware and other valuables to the hench at Lincoln park and buried them in the sand. As far as ! we have been able to learn up to the present time, the property is ist ill in : the Hand. '"Late Monday night it was feared on all sides that the fire would come ! as far north us thc hospital. The j scene in the institution when the sick and injured learned of the new fear 1 will never forget. Mother and 1 were not worried, for we knew J father and thu boys would come for us, hut the friendless and poor pa tients were in a frenzy of fear, many of them giving up to despair. Pray ers and curses were mingled, and more than om? unfortunate, unable to help himself, tried to crawl away. ..Father did come for us, and wu were taken to the home of friends on Warren avenue, out ?if the. path of the lire. The hospital was not burned, but i lie excitement there 1 will always remember.'*-Chicago News. Married to :i flower V?*e. Ainoiii; the curious marriage cus toms prevailing in China is ono which is thus described by a writer iu Tho Family Herald: Not long ago ti veiy pretty girl, the daughter of a prominent Chi nese official, w;ts married with great pomp to a huge, red flower vase, representing a deceased bridegroom who had ?lied a few days before his wedding was to be celebrated. inconsolable brid? elect de clared that she would never marry any nm: else, but would devote her self as a widow to the dead man's family. Si? the eenmiony with the flower vase wa-* gone through with to enable the girl lo enter the lam i ly, and the town proposes to build an andi to commemorate her devo tion. Pitt-?' Carminative is pleasant to the taste, acts promptly, ami never fails tn give satisfaction. It carries children over the critical time ol' teething, and is thc friend id'anxious mothers and puny children. A few doses will demonstrate its value. K. II. I?orsey, Athens, (Ja., write-: *' I consider it I he besi medicine I have overused in my family, lt does all you claim for it, and even more. - A man never sees all that lii-^ mother has been to him till it. s tn<> Lite lu let lier know i hat he sees ii. TWO NARROW ESCAPES. Colonel Rice's Experience With an Angry Elephant and a Lion. "Speaking of escapes from death recalls my experience with the mur derous elephant Romeo. Had I boon a little slower in my movements f would have been his eighth victim," saul Colonol Rice reflectively. "One dayl was directing the arrangement of some canvas men and unwittingly ventured a cou plo of steps backward and within rango of the death deal ing elephant, which at once raised his trunk slowly with the purpose of giving mo a settler. He would have succeeded in killing mo had not a young elephant near by trumpeted an alarm, aud, like lightning, I at once sprang forward and out ol' dan ger from tho murderous blow of the trunk by such a small distance that on tho back of my head I felt tho wind occasioned by its descent. Aft er that experience Romeo was al ways kept chained by all four legs. The young elephant which had saved me was rewarded with candy. "It is not smqirising that eventu ally I essayed the role of lion tamer, " continued the speaker, "and under the a bio tutelage of Franco nolli, the best lion tamer I ever saw, and who, by the way, subsequently met his death in a lion's den in tho city of Havana. After having twice accompanied tho fearless Franco nelli into the den of Richard III, tho largest and fiercest African lion ever exhibited in this couutry, it was at Vincennes, Ind., that I at length determined to enter the den of tho beast alone. Clad in tinsel and spangles, at the afternoon per formance, amid an outburst of music by the band, I boldly approached the lion's cage, opened the barred door and entered unharmed. Thc great brute, which was lying upon tho floor at the farther end of the cage, seemed to not heed my pres ence other than by a glance of sullen indifference, so that I deemed my first attempt at entering a lion's den a success, "But my assurance of success was a litt lo prematuro, and fortunate was it for mo that beneath the cage was a furnace in which glowed red hot iron rods and that trusty attend ants were at hand to effectively wield them upon the lion' if necessity de manded, else another page would have been added to tho bloody his tory of the king of the forest aud another name to his list of victims. After a three minutes' stay in the lion's den I made a parting salute io the breathless audience and prepared to leave the cage. As I backed to ward the door I observed, to my horror, that the lion had almost im perceptibly risen from the floor, pre paratory to springing upon me. Al most overcome by tho grave danger of my situation, I contrived to sig nal tho attendants to thrust the heated rods in between me and the bloodthirsty brute. Scarcely had I done so when the great tawny crea ture hurled itself upon me and, bury ing its claws in my shoulders, bore me to the floor. "I felt tho hot breath of thc liou in my face as he opened his huge jaws preparatory to sinkiug his fangs in my throat, and a horrible death was but a brief second distant when tho redhot irons were brought into play and used so effectively that the brute was forced to retreat to the far end of the cage without inflicting further injury upon me. I was hurriedly drawn from the cage, norn; the worse for my thrilling ex perience save badly shaken nerves, lacerated shoulders and a tattered tinsel jacket. As I hurried behind tho curtain the band triumphantly played "See, tho Conquering Hero Comes!' and I noticed that a panic in the audience had been narrowly averted. And what became of Richard III.' Oh, ho lived to kill Franconelli a few months later!" Los Angeles Times. Loudon Driver?. In London the drivers are all li censed. No nuiii can go upon tho streets in charge of omnibus, han som or cab without a license in his pocket. If he get*; into trouble once through his own fault, ho is lined and warned. The second timo his license is taken away from him and he is never allowed to drive again on tho streets nt' London. Before drivers ure given their licenses they ar?; required to pass a civil ser-vico examination in actual driving. They are taken into a yard where lhere ure ninny posts set np iu tin- pave ment and required to drive in and around these obstacles. They aro asked what street they would take in order to go from one placo to an other at lu o'clock in thc morning, at 1 in tho afternoon and at I o'clock. Unless they are able to tell the best routes all over the city at various times of the day -indicating rho thoroughfare* which aro least con gested as the traffic shifts and changes they get no license.- Wal ter Wellman iu Chicago Times-Her II ld. IiiiliKpntiihle. "I'don't know about the feasibili ty of the single tax." "Why. mau. it covers the whole ground."-Indianapolis .tournai. m ? mi CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Signaturo of Accord i H? to the best authori ties, there has never been a ra.f men thal was ignorant ol' the use of ire. Wave of Patriotism Swept Conference. BALTIMORE, .May 18.-A wave of patriotism swept over the general con ference of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, at today's session. Kev. W. T. Davison, fraternal dele gate from the British Wesleyan church, in the course of his address said: "When I landed on your shores a few weeks ago war had just been de clared between your country and Spain. I want to express on behalf of the church I represent and the country from which I come the strong sym pathy we have for you in thc present crisis in your national history. It is not necessary for me to say that Eng land is entirely on your side in this war. Our nation can appreciate more perhaps than some other nations thc righteousness of your cause. The bar barities in Cuba, too, outraged human feelings in this country, and you were at last driven to trust the issues of the matter to the arbitrament of war. We appreciate the lofty nature of your motives. We are assured that only the claims of the highest humanity force you reluctantly into this struggle. ?'We congratulate you on the splen did victory at .Manila (great applause) and I may say also we have no fears as to the final outcome of the war. Although war is an evil thing in itself, it is probable that good will come out of this struggle. I think it may be an epoch-making war with you. and there may be several thingsforyour country to learn from it. -It may be that out of it will come a larger sense of your responsibility abroad among other na tions. But whatever else comes from it, I sincerely trust that it will result in binding together into still closer fellowship our two nations." At the close of his remarks, dele gates and spectators arose as one man and vociferously cheered and applaud ed the happy hit made by the E nglish divine. The ?tory Teller, ^o^- In eastern countries, tm?g* in place of our story writers, they have professional story tellers. It is their art to interest their listeners with tales of love, and marvelous adventures, and hair-breadth escapes, and magic cures. There's a story of a wonder ful medicine that has made thousands of cures that seemed almost magical, which every woman should read or hear. To have heard it or to read it, may save a wo man her own life or t*.it of her husband. The medicine is thc discovery of Dr. R. V. Pierce, an eminent and skillful spe cialist, for thirtv vcars chief consulting physician to the great Invalids'Hotel and Surgical Institute, at Buffalo. N. Y. It is known as Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis covery. It makes the appetite hearty, the digestion perfect, the liver active, the blood pure and rich, the nerves steady, the brain clear and the body strong. It is the great blood-maker and flesh-builder. It cures qS percent, of all cases of consump tion and diseases of the air-passages. It cures nervous diseases and is the best med icine for overworked men and women. A woman may save her husband's life by keeping a bottle in the house, and getting him to resort to it when he feels out-of sorts. All men are heedless about their health. Medicines stores sell it. Doctor Pierce's reputation is world-wide, and his fellow townsmen, of Buffalo, N. Y., think so highly of him that they made him their representative in Congress, but his great love for his profession caused him tu resign that honorable position that he might de vote the remainder of his life to the relief and cure of the sick. Another good thing to have in the house is a vial of Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. They cure biliousness and constipation and never gripe. THE BANK OF ANDERSON. We Tay Interest on Time Deposits by Agreement. Capital $165,000 Surplus and Profils - - lOQ.QC'O Total - $265,000 OFFICERS. ,T. A. BitocK, Presiden?, .los. M. BHOWX, Vice-Picsident. lt. F. MACLDIX, Cashier. DIRECTORS. .1. W. Nouais. < r. W. FAST. N O.FOKMKK. Jos. N.BROWN. .1. A. BROCK. .1 G. DUCWORTU. J.J. FRETWELI.. J.M.SULLIVAN. B. F. MAULDI.V. Marin;; the l?rmest capital and surplus ol* any Bank in the State outside of Charleston, we oller depositors tho strongest security. This applies to our Savings Department, where we pay i merest, as well as to active accounts We loan to regular depositor customers ?tour lowest rates. Private loans arranged without charge between our customers, and other investments secured when desired. Wito twenty-live years experience in banking, and with unexcelled facilities at our command, we are prepared to give satisfaction in all business transactions, and will, as heretofore, tak*) care of the i in crests ol'our regular customers at all times. LOST STOCK. LOST, mislaid or destroyed live Share* oi the Iron Molt Ruildii'g and Loan Association of Roanoke, Ya , Certificate of Stoek No. SiW", Series ll. Ail parties are warned not to trade tor said Stock. JAS. \V. POO KR. Belton. S. O , May IS, 1S1?S--Jm. VTOTJCE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT, j^l The undersigned, Administrator ol' the Estate ol' A. B. Towera, decent ed, herebv given notic- that lie will on the 22od day of .June, IHiAS, apply io [he .Judge of Probate for Anderson Coun ty for a Final Settlement of said Estate and a discharge from his office as Admin istrator. T. C. Lit ?ON, Adm'r. May I*, isa* 47 ."? VTOT?CE FINAL SETTLEMENT. Tl f undersigned, Administrator of Kataie ol W. W. Humphreys, deceased, hereby gi\ ?s notice thal lie will on the 24th "day of May, lSfiS, apply to the Ju dg* of Probate tor Anderson County for a Final Settlement of said Kstato, and a dnvvhargtt from hi? office aa Administra tor. NY. C. HUMPHREYS, Adm'r. April 20, lft?s c; :, NOTICE. IN compliance with the reco nun eu da lion of the Crand .Jury, all persons who damage tIie public roads by the orec Iion of damn on side of road which ob struct the llow nf the water therefrom, or ol lier wise damage the iliads by throwing tocks, brush or other obstruction in the side d!tch?'a, will be prosecuted, unless such obstructions :ire removed before tho first d?y of April next. This is given io thal guilty parties may have time to com ply willi til*? law W. r. SN E Hr ROVE, Co. Sup. like every other crop, needs nourishment. A fertilizer containing" nitro gen, phosphoric acid, and not less than 3% of actual will increase the crop and im prove the land. Our books tell all about the subject. They arc free to any farmer. GERMAN* KALI WORKS. 93 Nassau St., New York. , I0E-00LD_I0E-I0E. MY customers and the general public will take notice that Elias Single ton is no longer in my employment. I have employed a reliable man to sell Fish for me. so please give him your orders. I have been in the Uah business for nine years and have always tried to give satis faction, and will appreciate a continuance of your patronage. I handle aU kinds of Florida Vegetables and Fruits in and oat of season. Aldo, a foll line of Fancy Groceries, Tobacco and Cigars, Oranges, Bananas, &c , at wholesale. J. F. FANT, Florida Fish and Fruit Store. _ April 20, 1898 43_ 3m [ Texas, Mexico, California, ? I Alaska, or any other point, ? with FREE MAPS, write ? 1 FRED. D. BUSH, I > j District Passenger Agent, ? 36? Wall St^A^lanta, Ga^^J Drs. Strickland & King, DENTISTS. OFFICE Iii MASONIC TEMPLE. Gas and Cocaine used for Extract ing Teeth._ NOTICE. All parties owing me notes and accounts are requested and urged to pay same as soon as?possible. I] need my mon ey and will be compelled to make collections early in the season. Save thejtrouble and expense of sending to see you. J. S. FOWLER. Sept. 29, 1897 14 1 HONEA PATH HIGH SCHOOL. 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