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"WARFARE 20 On tJir Verge of a, Re Wigh Philadelph ..fte next armed conflict in which . vaUi is called upon to engage j ' "II [", a war of physics and chemis Wc are on the edge of a great j Evolution in thc art of fighting and i fae !j?g ibo methods of warfare' Vt approved to-day will be regarded 1 " holly out of date. Twenty years f?ouj i; reckoning at the very far- . [ , |j,crc will be no floating for tis of ti1'' kind which we call battle j ihey will bc considered as rcp ,. ,lir au obsolete type of naval ?hiteciure comparatively small, yet ; ?i?initcly '""r(' formidable and de- ; ttruetive. Itv that time also, electricity will ' we made its apjicarance as an active "\"t ol' destruction and milita/, en- ? , all sorts will have assuatied I fa- yet undreamed of." The words above quoted were used tr a Government official who is one of .be foremost scientific men in this Navy, i" conversation with me. Im ping thc condition that his name ?boult] not bc mentioned, he proceeded u, develop thc idea by a series of sug- i cestiou> so striking as to excite the j najoit interest. He said: .'To illustrate the tendency of the j Jevelomnent of warfare at present I j "??I refer to thc wiping out of the bat tleship Main.?. According to ^ 00. , lief, it took just about three men to iccouiplish thc destruction of that gi caoti? fighting machine. They had a j hxzc ?juautity of nitro-glycerine or I ?onie such high explosive, packed in J mief impervious to water. In each I ?he wa* placed just enough cork to ! ?che the contents the specific gravity ?of water, approximately. Dragging the bags, one or more of the men swam tut to within a short distance o? the ?hip, then dived and swam under the j water to escape observation and caine ! up under thc safe shelter of the side of the vessel. To attach the bags to the bottom of the ship was easy, and i chemical time fuse that would burn under water could be 'ignited readily enough, permitting the assassins to fffitn away at their le isure. . In some such way Ss this, I think, ihe .Maine was destroyed. I only cite MR!IO case to illustrate the ease with gtth ch a mighty warship of this kind tin bc destroyed by 'wo or three de termined men at a minimum'df cost. few dollars worth of high explosive will wipe out $4,000,001? worth of ma ehiuory and several hundred lives. If half a dozen hostile vessels of war tentured into Inc harbor of New York they would be annihilated very quick ly, not by our own war ships, but by ?mal! groups of courageous men with to called infernal machines of one Kind or another. When this sort of ?thing can happen, and is always likely ?to occur, it m?ans that the fighting ?thip of the type described is out of Wat?. Tho modern battleship is con Hitructcd, so to speak, on a gunpowder ?basis; in the building of them no ?more acoount is taken of hieh explo Bpive? than if there were no auch 9thiog6. But it is perfectly certain ?that the wars of the immediate future ?are-to be prosecuted with high explo ites. ? "Y >u must remember that as yet no Sulequalc tesV'?f the efficiency of bat Hue ships has been made in practice; ?they arc huilt on theory. What docs ?their strength amount to-the thick Hiee.? of their armor and the weight of ?the projectiles they can throw-if they Bun bc so readily destroyed? They ?represent a putting of matter in thc ?wrong place. In a museum of natural ?history yo-? will see the skeletons of ?many extinct animals which have ?lived at va ious epochs of the earth's ?history. You can tell at a glance th? ?tt" ancient skeletons from those 'hich belonged to creatures of more recent times, because the latter aro so much lighter and more graceful, rep resenting improved types. In one of 'hes warships you sec a massing of material, regardless of expense and .mhtttu regard to practical conditions, luerefore this species of vessel is "Willed lo emly extinction, like thc S?e and unwieldy mammals of tho pliocene. "Th J great war ship and the great P>o are thc naval ideal? of to-day. Both of them are based on whit ? On ppowdcr. Modern forts, both on M and on sea, are built on a gun SP "uer basis, and without any consid ?.ration of high explosives. The very ? of army and navy men all over ?Jhe world are adjusted to gunpowder, ?ji* ft were. Military experta, general ?'? shaking, are unable to thiuk of ?*.4T e*cept in term? of gunpowder. ?jc* gunpowder ia practically out -df ? The ilay of high-power explo ?l,ve* has arrived: they constitute the ?intu?ate io wh?ch ideat of wftr muat ?be adjusted. Thone explosives have ?*rricd the art of war beyond thc ?J^e when the battleship can be uBe ' ^ *fch their aid it is aa-easy to ? J>troy the strongest armored ship as UT lma*h up a worden schooner, 'it is ?j!0? possible to predict with confidence WM1 ?hat vhe character of the 6ghti .ig IEARS HENCE. volution in the j\.vt ol' ting. ita Times. vessels of the future will bc, but a suggestion io 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 thc cost of one battle ship. ' "The advaulagc 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 adoption as a means of construction is certain to introduce au 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, invention 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 thc world up to that time? The Franco Prussiau conflict gave agrcat 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 thev had come up against a nation of devils. "It is logically proper to assume any absurdity for thc sake of argu ment. Let us assume, then, that we were driven from the seas actually by the Spaniards, and that our defeat was absolute and overwhelming. The wind up of the whole affair would nevertheless be the total -riping out of Spain, for we would build vessels adjusted to requirements. There is no telling what we might do with elec tricity, which doubtless is destined to play a part in future warfare as an ac tive agent of destruction. Telegra phy without wires is as yet in its iu fr'ney, but something very substantial in this line has been accomplished al ready. If we can convey, as we do, to a distance and without a wire, enough energy to communicate intelli gence, we shall be able before long to convey enough energy to werk injury. I As our control of electrical energy j becomes more complete, weean extend ( its reach farther and farther. It docs not seem wholly improbable that the time will come when we shall be able to explode the magazine of a ship without going near it. "The only attempt thus far made by thc United States in thc direction of utilizing high explosives for purposes of naval warfare, if torpedoes be ex cepted, is represented by the so-called dynamite cruiser Vesuvius, which is now in the neighbornood of Key West. This vessel has on her forward deck three fifteen-inch guns, which threw projectiles loaded with dynamite near ly a mile and a quarter. This shin is only an experiment, and her practical utility is regarded by naval authori ties as very doubtful. The problem of throwing high explosives with safety to those who uso them has not yet been solved satisfactorily. Xo explosive is good for fighting purposes that can be touched off by shock or otherwise than by actual contact with fire. The stuff called 'explosive gela tine,' for example, is thc most power ful of all known explosives, being fif teen times as strong as gunpowder. It is made by dissolving gun cotton in nitro glycerine, tho preparation hav ing the consistency of honey. But it is very unsafe for use in battle, be cause a bullet striking it w di ?et it off by concussion. "It is extremely likely that :iu the next great war shells that liberate poisonous gases ou explosion will be employed. Ithasbeen suggested that bombs loaded with hydrocyanic acid gas under pressure could bo thus uti lized, releasing such fumes on burst ing as would destroy all life in the neighborhood. Thc French melinite has for its base a coal tar product termed picric acid; Its-consistency is about that of molasses, and it is pour ed into sholls and permitted to harden. This stuff is entirely safe to handle, though three times as powerful as I gunpowder. 'Thc fumes ?et-free by thc bur ?ting of a bomb loaded with it are most deadly. A ?ingle one, fired experimentally at a vessel, on the deck of which had been .placed a num ber of sheep and gouts, killed'by suf focation all of the animals that were not destroyed by tba ? y i ng'f ragmcnts. If a -shell loaded with hydrocyanic acid -gas-this is 'the same thing as pruste acid and 'thc deadliest of all poisons-should be fired into a ship aud explode inside of the vessel, pret ty nearly everybody on board would -surely .perish. '"Thc newly invented smoke gre nades are fi Heil vd th chemical substan ces which, on explosion, produce clouds of dense blauk smoke. They are intended to bo carried in advance hy ?skirmishers and thrown :so -as to conceal the troops'following, and is a good thing." The Mad Dog Bugaboo. In the Jun? Ladina' Homo Journal Edward W. Bok writes on the "Buga boo of the Mad Dog," quoting a nurr her of aiith.nrit.ii>? to show t.hat there is no such disease as "hydrophobia,'1 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 are. 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 thc supposed symptoms of hydro phobia. lt is a pity that our newspa per editors cannot have a more careful regard for the feelings of women dur ing the summer months and agree to Mijpnress the reports of esses supposed to be hydrophobia. They make the public mind nervous, and do more to spread the 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 Buttering 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 wc should believe the fact that there is no such thing as hydrophobia, and rid ourselves of this senseless and ridiculous bugaboo of the mad dog?" Finances In the Home. A lack of sound business under standing between husband and wife has been the ruin ^f more homes than poverty. When a man and woman enter into a partnership-that most important partnership in life-both members in tue new firm should have a distinct appreciation of the financial situation, and, as the years pas6, 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 mau 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 t?lls him of two bonnets, oue 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 comes 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 arc due to a want of mutual advice and confidence concerning thc household treasury. Thc way to avoid thc unhappiness that such misunderstandings invaria bly brings about, is for the wife ta have an allowance for household ex penses, knowing exaotly what ratio this allowance bears to her husband's whole income. Whether the allowance bc large or small will really matter very little in a home that is establish ed on the above sound-money basis. 'Dixie Farmer. Unele 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 good bit from thc newspapers," said Mr. A. E. Biugham of Georgia at thc Riggs. "Thc accounts of Dewey's great deeds at Manila were read to thc old fellow; who sat as if entranced, with open mouth and shining eyes. At tho end of the story he heaved a long sigh, remarking, 'Well dat does beat all.' "What do you think of it Uacle Ephriam?' I asked. " "Did I understah' you, marster, to say dat dcm Spanish nebbcr killed a single one uv ou' people?' " That's right, Ephriam; wc killed -several hundred of them, but not one of our men lo.it his life.' '"?Den all I got to say is dat dc' is de no-'couatest fighters libin*. Your rfJncl? Ephriam is surprised, he is, fur I shore ly did'spec t to hear dat dey hod killod at least one nigger and perhaps a mule. Dey ahorely must not a bin cony of dem aroun' dere, I for niggers and mulos always gits de wust uv it.' "- W?xhingtmi Pout. Oiiee Tried, Alway* Used. !If wc sell one bottle of Chamber lain's Cough Remedy, wo seldom fail to sell thc sase pcrsou more, when it is again needed. Indeed, it has be come the family medicine of this town, for coughs and colds, and wc recommend it because of its establish ed merits-Jos. E. 'HABNKH, Prop. Oakland .Pharmacy, Oakland, Md. Sola by Hill-Orr Drug Co. FLED ON A MATTRESS. Tuc **?p?rionce of a Chicago Man at thc I Justice John K. Prindiville had tho experience of being carried I through th? city on M JniitttfSSS, SSS* the time of the tire ho was unable to walk. The Prindiville residence stood, in the days before the lire, nt the intersection of Chicago avenue und State street. It was a spacious house, in tho center of a large yard, and was in what wu? then tho most fashionable residence district of Chi cago. A fall in a gymnasium nome three weeks before tho fire had left Justice Prindiville a cripple for the timo being, and ho wan confined to his he<l. "Late Sunday night a friend of the family came to tho house," said tho justice, ''and called my father to one side, telling him that tho city WOB burning np. My six brothels told mo as soon as they were dressed not to worry, as there were enough of them to care for me. I assured them I was not fretting, and while they made preparations to inovo mo to u place of safety I, from my sick- ! room window, could see tho reflec tion of the tire, then just beginning to get tinder way on tho South Side. Father sent one of the boys to Wright's livery barn, ut Stato and Kinzie streets, where our horses were kept, to get them and the car riages, which he intended to uso in moving my mother, who was also ill, and myself OH well as what prop erty ho could save. "It so happened," continued Jus tice Prindiville, "that Wright's barn was tho first building to burn on the North Side. When it was learned by the othei boys that our horses wore gone, ono of them went out and in some manner got possession of au old express wagon* I don't know how he did it, hut I have al ways thought he must have turned burglar for the nonce, as vehicles of all descriptions were then nt a lire- i minni. They started to carry mo j out of the house on a mattress. The j frontdoor was too UiU'rOxV, and they | had to improvise a stretcher from a sheet. I remember that it was just nt 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 tire. Four hours afterward tho 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 back to save as much property as they could. For three hours I tossed about in the bottom j of that wagon, unable to rise, while a steady stream of excited anti in many cases frantic people poured ? past mo, seeking shelter in Lincoln ! park. Many of them put things into the wagon and asked me to watch i them. One man had three dishpans, and another some valuable oil jiaint- \ iugs. A woman ran by, I distinctly 1 remember, with a big billy goat \ clasped in her arms, and a little girl . left a cat in ni j* charge. All thc j property I threw out of the wagon, ! but I kept the cat. "Somewhere ono of the boys hired j a truck with a team, got my mother j und came where I was and took us 1 to St. Joseph's hospitul. We were I left there, anti the hoys and father ' hurried bunk to save all they could i from the house. They took the fain- ! ily silverware and other valuables to the beach at Lincoln park and bm ied them in the sand. As fur as we nave been able to learn up to the present time, the property ?H still in the sand. "Late Monday night it was feared on all sides that the tire would come aa far north us the hospital. The scene in the institution when the bick and injured learned of the new fear 1 will never forget. Mother and 1 were not worried, for we knew j father and the boys would come for us, but the friendless and poor pa- ; tients were in a frenzy of fear, many of them giving up to despair. Pray- i ers and curses were mingled, and ! more than one unfortunate, unable ! to help himself, tried to crawl away. "Father did como for us, and we were taken to tho home of friends on Warren avenue, out of the path ! of the lire. Tho hospital was not . burned, but the excitement there I will always remember."-Chicago News. _ >l*rvtc<l tn a flower Vu??-. Among the curious marriage cus toms prevailing in China is ono which is thus described by a writer in Tho Family Herald: Not long ago a vet y pretty girl, the daughter of a prominent Chi nese official, was married with great pomp to a large, red flower vase, representing a deceased bridegroom who hud ?lied a few days before his wedding wan to be celebrated. His inconsolable bride elect de clared that she would never murry s?:y else, but would devote her aelf as t? widow to the dead man's family. So the ceremony with the flower vase was gone through with to enable the girl to enter the fam ily, and the town proposes to build an arch to commemorate her devo tion. _ _ Pitta' Carminative is pleasant to the taite, acts promptly, and never fails to give satisfaction. It carries children over the critical time of teething, and is thc friend of anxious mothers and puny children. A few doses'will demonstrate its value, li. H. Dorsey, Athens, Ga., writes: "I consider it the best medicine 1 have ever used in my family. It does all you claim for it, and even more." - A man never sees all that his mother has been to him till it's too late to let her know that he secs it. S TWO NARROW ESCAPES. Colonel Rioe's Kxperlenco With un Angry l.U'plian' anil ? Lion. "Speaking of escapes from death recalls my experionoo with tho mur derous ol nt Vh n. nt l?oi?i*?o. Had ? been a little slower in my movements I would have been bis eighth victim," said Colonol Rico reflectively. "One day I was directing thc arrangement of some canvas meu and unwittingly ventureducouple of steps backward and within rango of the death deal ing elephant, which at once raised bis trunk slowly with the purpose of giving ino a settler. He would have succeeded in killing mo had not a young elephant nour by trumpeted un alarm, and, like lightning, 1 at once sprang forward ami out of dan ger from tho murderous blow of the trunk by such a small distance that on thu back of my head I felt tin 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 mo was rewarded with candy. "It ia not surprising that eventu ally I essayed tho role of lion tamer,1 ' cont i nticd the speaker. ? ' and under tho a hie tutelage of Franco nelli, the best lion tamer I over saw, und 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 Riobard III, tho largest and fiercest African lion ever exhibited in this country, it was at Vincennes. Ind., that I at length determined to enter the den of tho beust 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. The. great brute, wbich was lying upon tho floor tit tho farther end of the cage, seemed to not heed my pres eneoothor than by a glance of sullen indifference, so that 1 deemed my first attempt at entering a lion's den a success. "But my assurance of success was a little premature 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 baud to effectively wield them upon the lion if neoessity de manded, else another pago would have been added to tho bloody his tory of the king of the forest and another narnu to bis list of victims. After a three minutes' stay in the lion's den I made a parting salute to the breathless audience and prepared to leave the cage. As I backed to ward the door 1 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 the attendants to thrust the heated rods in between me and the bloodthiisty brute. Scarcely had I done so when tbe great tawny crea ture hurled itself upon me and, bury ing its claws in my shoulders, bore me to tho floor. "I felt tho bot breath of the lion in my face as he opened bis huge jaws preparatory t<? sinking his fangs in my throat, und 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, none the worse for my thrilling ex perience save badly shaken nerves, lacerated shoulders und a tattered tinsel jacket. As 1 hurried behind tho curtain the band triumphantly ?dayed 'See, tho Conquering Hero Comes!'and I noticed that a panic in the audience had been narrowly averted. And what became of Richard III.' Ob, he lived to kill Franconellia few months later!" Los Angeles Times. London Drivers. In London tho drivers are all li censed. No mau can go upon tho streets in charge of omnibus, hau* bom or cub without a license in his pockitt. If bc get? into trouble once through his own fault, hu is lined and warned. The second time his license is taken away fruin bim and he is never allowed to drive again on tho streets of London. Before, drivers are given their licenses they ure required to pass a civil service examination in actual driving. They are taken into a yard where there aro many posts set up iu the pave ment and required to drive iu and around these obstacles. They are asked what street they would take in order to go from one place to an other at 10 o'clock in thc morning, ut 1 inthoafternoouand ut 4o'clock. Unless they are aide to tell the best routes all over the city at various times of the ?lay - indicating tho thoroughfares which are least con gested as the traffic shifts and changes-they K^t no license.-- Wal ter Wellman in Chicago Times-Her ald. _ IntlUjttrtahl*. "I don't know about the feasibili ty of th? single tax." "Why, ?MI?, it covers the whole ground."-Indianapolis Journal. . .. - . mm CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears tho Signaturo of - According to the best authori ties, there has never been a race of men that was ignorant of thu use of fire. Wave of Patriotism Swept Conference. l?A?/iiSiuni?, *uay 18.-A wave of patriotism swept over thc general con ference of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, at today's session. Hov. W. T. Davison, fraternal dele gate from thc British Wesleyan church, iu thc course of his address said: "When 1 landed on your shores a few weeks ago war had just been de clared between your country and Spain. 1 want to express on behalf of thc church I represent and thc country from which I come thc strong sym pathy we have for you in the present crisis in your national history. It is not necessary for me to say that Lang land is entirely on your side in this war. Our nation can appreciate more perhaps than some other nations thc righteousness of your cause. Thc bar barities in Cuba, too, outraged human j feelings in this country, and you were ! at last driven to trust the issues ol' ! the matter to thc arbitrament of war. I We appreciate the lofty nature of your I motives. We are assured that only thc claims of the highest humanity force I you reluctantly into this struggle. I "We congratulate ye ?j on the splen did victory at Manila great applause) and 1 may say also we have no fears as to thc final .tute?me of thc war. Although war is an evil thing in itself, it is probable that good will come out of this straggle. I think it may bc an epoch-making war with you, and there may bc several things fer your country to learn from it. lt may be that out of it will conic 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 ono man and vociferously c.'ieeied and applaud ed thc happy hit made by thc Knglish divine. ^ ^ ^^^^^ ?^Bft?^ j*4?fsP^^ , nc ^tory Teller. -^gC^iaa^-C' Tn eastern countries, i MUT in place of our story writers, they have professional story tellers. It is their art to interest their listeners with talcs of love, anti marvelous adventures, anti 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 ttV.it of her husband. The medicine is thc- discovery of Dr. R. V. Pierce, an eminent ami skillful spe cialist, for Ihirtv yeats chief consulting physician to the great Invalids* Hotel and Surgical Institute, at Buffalo, N. V. It is known as Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical DLS 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, lt is the greal blood-makcr and flesh-builder. It cures t>S per cent, of all cases of consump tion and diseases of the air-passages. It cures nervous diseases ami 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 ottt-of Horls. 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 matte him their representative in Congress, but his great love for his profession caused him to resign thal honorable position that be might de vote the remainder of his life to the relief and cure of the sick. Another good thing to have in ihe house is a vial of Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. They cure biliousness and constipation and never gripe. THE BANK OF ANDERSON. We Pay Interest on Time Deposits by Agreement. Capital . - ~~ - $165,000 SurplBQ and Pronta - - 100,000 Total .... - $265,000 OFFICERS. .1. A. Bicoca. Preside n?. .los. N. SHOWN, Vice-P?esldent. lt. F. MACLOIN, ("ashier. DIRECTORS. J.W.Noaau. o. W. FAKT. N o. F.iiMKit. .los. N. BROWN. .I.A. ItBOCK. J <?. Durwun i II. J.J. l'n*TWKM.. J. M. si i.i.iVAN. ll. F. M AC LUIS. llaviuK the largest capital und surplus of any lUnk in tho State outside of Charleston, we oiler depositors the strenge*! seen rit v. Tilla applies to our Saving* Department, where we nay intered, in well aa to active accounts We loan to regular depositor m bionic ri at our lowest rates. Private loan? arranged without chaine between our customer*, and ut her investment)! secured when desired. Wi to twenty-tire year? experience in liankioir, and with unexcelled facilities at our command, wu are prepared to vivo satisfaction in all husiueai transaction?, anti will, ns heretofore, tak?i caro ol tb? interests of our regular customer.* at all time* LOSTJBTOCK. LOST, mislaid or deatroyed live Share? ol tb? Iron Heit Building and Lunn Association of Roanoke, Va , Cartitieatt of Stock No. awn, Se?en lt. All parties are warned not to trade for said Stock .IAS. XV. POORK. Relton. S. (' , May is, isjts - -Jm. NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLE MKNT, Tho undersigned, Administrator of tlie Estate ol'A. B. Tower*, deoeai ed, berebv given untie? that hu will on the ilrJnri day ot' June, isi>s, apply to the Judge of Probate for Anderson Coun ty for a Final Settlement of ?aid Eatata and a discharge from bis oihee a? Admin istrator. T. C. Ll'.iOX, Adm'r. May IS. IS?*? 47 ."> NOTICE FINAL SETTIiKMENT. TI f undersigned. Administrator of Estate ok \V. XV. Humphreys, deceased, hcrebv CUM notice that he will on the '24th 'day of May, ihfh, apply to th? Judge of Probate tor Anderson County for a Final Settlement nf said Katata, and a diacharge from hia office aa Administra tor. W. C. HUMPHREYS, Adni'r. April 20, IFOs_4?_ _?i_ NOTICE. 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