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Wh»t la Tetterlne? ytoafeajisssy tssasna ® Ssrs^Spa S^syjfs,? “g"" u '“ ‘“' w u obUin ^f7om the cotn . B. B. B. Merer Kell* u> Care V.“«223; £ vwx>u of wonderful cures sent free. Moecow hue hospital large enough to hold 7,000 persons. nRv 1 *’ 4 tO T> k0 V house without Bin. Ribbon Baking Powder. At all Grocers. B. R. B. P. Company, Richmond. Virginia. In Hamburg the authorities tax a dog ac- wording to its size. Lyoe A Co's “Pick Leaf” Smoklnc Tobacro Is the “best of th*> best" 2 ounces and cigar ette book for 10 cents. Try it The cathedral of Rouen boasts a clock which has kept time for 500 years. Dean Tobacco Spit sad Smoke Toar lift Away. To Quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag- aetic. full of life, nerve and vigor, take No-To- Bac, the wonder-worker, that makes weak men atrong. All druggists, 50c or Cl. Cure guaran teed. Booklet and sample free. Address Sterling Remedy Co, Chicago or New York. The finest shops in a Chinese city are those -devoted to the sale of coffins. To Cure a Cold In One Day. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All Druggists refund money If It falls to cure. 25c. The wise father always tries to bring up his children in the way be should have goue. Fits perms nently cured. No fits or nervous ness after first day’s use of Dr. Kline’s Great Nerve Restorer. $2 trial bottle and treatise free Dh. R. H. Klink, Ltd., 031 Arch St., Phila, Pa. A cow may have many good qualities, but «he is too modest to blow her own born. VILLAINOUS GUNCOTTON THIS HIGH EXPLOSIVE ADOPTED FOR THE ARMY AND NAVY. Mo-To-Bae for Fifty Cents." Guaranteed tobacco habit cure, makes weak anen strong, blood pure. 60c, |L All druggista Railway engines are not allowed to blow their wbistiee within the city limits ol Berlin. ' A new kind of cloth is made in Lyons, France, from the down of hens, ducks and geese. r- ugi port, Pa., say Hall's Catarrh Cure is the best and only sure cure for catarrh they ever sold. Druggists sell it. 75c. No machine has yet taken the place of na ture’s teasle in finishing various grades of woolen cloths. Bdueate Your Bowels With Cascarets. Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever. tOc, 25c. If C. C. C. fail, druggists refund money. The republic of Uruguay has more newspa pers in proportion to its population than any •country in the world. I could not get along without Piso's Cure for Consumption. It always cures, a rs. K. C. Moulton, Needham, Mass., October 22,18W. A woman can get *a shiftless husband in about five minutes, but it sometimes takes a lifetime to get rid ef him. The men who used to start newspa pers are now starting lodges. Corn responds readily to proper fer tilization. Larger crops, fuller ears and larger grain are sure to result from a liberal use of fertilizers containing at least 7% actual Potash Our books are free to farmers. GERMAN KALI WORKS, 93 Nassau St., N«w York. BAD BREATH «• I have been using CASCARETS nod ns * mild and effective laxative they are aimplv won derful. My daughter and 1 were bothered with elck stdtnacb and our breath was very bad. After taking a few dosee of Cascarets we have improved wonderfully. They are a great help in the family. WlLHXLMINA NAtiEL. 1137 Rlttenbouse St., Cincinnati, Ohio. CANDY g m. CATHARTIC ^ THAO! MANN MOtStflKO Pleasant. Palatable. Pdlent. Taste Good. Do Good, Never Sicken. Weaken, 0{ Gripe. 10c, 25c, 50c. ... CURE CONSTIPATION. ... SUrll.f IrwHy C—psay, CMesgs. M—tfrah I»« fwt. 31* I0-T0-MC KircSKf*" b ’« C Tobacco Habit. Sgr OSBORNE’S TTl yon don't see what yon want, look again. If and flndlnc it eav von saw it here. ho. 10 C HARLOTTE COMMERGUL _ OLLEGE, cMuoms.0. No Taca lions -Positions Guaranteed-Catalogue Frts Terri Or Damage Wrought on Warships by Shells Charged With Cordite In the War Between China and Japan - Its De structive Power - How It la Mada. Onncotton, one of the most power ful destroyers known to man,has been adopted by the United States as the service high explosive for the great gnns of warships and seacoast de fences, as the tests at the Indian Head and Sandy Hook proving grounds have demonstrated the entire feasibility of fit ing from modern rifled guns, with smokeless powder as the propelling agent, steel shells carrying heavy charges of guncotton. Among all the measures taken for strengthen ing the national defences, this is one of the most important. Armor-piercing projectiles, heavily charged with guncotton, would make our fortified harbors safe from au at tack by a hostile fleet. A single shell from the great Watervliet gun to be mounted on Romer Shoals would carry such a weight of the powerful explosive as to put out of action the most heavily armored ship afloat. Should a portion of an attacking fleet ruu through the lire of the long- range guns aud come within range of the mortar-batteries, upon the decks would fall tons of guncotton incased in deck-piercing shells, which would explode between decks with terrible effect. Armor plate would be crushed like tin, guns dismounted, boilers ex ploded, and crews decimated by the flying fragments of steel aud the force of the explosive. Modern high explosives have never been used in large quantities to charge rifle shells in warfare, but secret ex periments iu Europe have met with such success that it is believed that should there be another great Euro pean war the combatants would all be found supplied with high explosive shells. Dynamite and guncotton were used in torpedoes and submarine mines in the war between Chili and Pern, the Turco-Russian war of 1877, the Franco-Chinese war of 1884, the Braziliau civil war, aud the last war in the East,but only in the conflict be tween China and Japan was any use made of high explosive shells. Dur ing the few hours of naval lighting terrible destruction was wrought by Japanese shells charged with small quantities of cordite, the service smokeless powder of England. Many of the shells failed to explode and the aim of the gunners was bad, bat the effect of high explosive shells, even under these adverse conditions, was terrific. In the action off Asan on July 25, 1894, in which three Chinese and four Japanese warships were en gaged, the Tsi Yuen, one of the Chinese ships, received the heaviest fire. An English officer went aboard after the battle. “The vessel presented the appear ance of au old wreck.” he said. “On deck the sight was cruel and beggars description. Woodwork, cordage,bits of iron and dead bodies all lay in con fusion. Between decks matters were as bad. The slaughter had been awful, blood aud human remains being scattered over the decks and guns. Three of the five men working the four-ton gun in the after turret were blown to pieces by a six-inch shell, and a fourth was shot down while at tempting to leave the turret. The re maining gunner stuck to his post aud managed to tire three rounds at the Naniwa, and one shell entering her engine room aud another blowing her fore bridge away, she hauled off. The Chinese admiral awarded to the plucky gunner 1000 taels. Oneshel! struck the deck and, glancing,passed up through the conning tower and exploded,blow ing to pieces the gunner-lieutenant aud leaving his head hanging on one of the voice pipes. Huge fragments of armor aud backing had been torn from their fastenings and carried in board, crushing a number of poor wretches into shapeless masses, even the upper part of the funnels being splashed with blood.” Guncotton shells for heavy guns have been adopted by the United States as the result of experiments ex tended over a period of years. Long ago the ordnance experts were con vinced that high explosive shells could be used with entire safety, and emmensite, a modern explosive of un certain action, w as adopted for use in the army. The service charge of em- meusite for common 1‘2-inch mortar shells was fixed at seventeen pounds, and for deck-piercing shells at thirty- eight pounds. Three years ago the army ordnance bureau announced that experimeuts were in progress with a view to adopting an armor-piercing projectile and a high-explosive shell. Several American inventors have since brought forward armor-piercing shells meeting the government requirements. The projectile factories are now work ing under rush orders making shells for the government. The armor- piercers, deck piercers, and common shells are all made with powder cham bers, solid shot having been discarded. No more emmensite will be made, and the government ia placing large orders for cellulose (cotton fibre) and nitric and sulphuric acids for the manu facture of guncotton. The great power of guncotton as a destructive agent and the remarkable I freedom with which it can be used ( safely alike make it a valuable mili- ) tary explosive. Guncotton is made by immersing pure dry cottou in a mixture of the purest and strongest nitric aud sulphuric acids, and pressing it into blocks. When dry it is as easi ly electrified as a oat’s back, aud is luminous when rnbbed in the dark. Dry guncotton may be exploded by wrapping it tightly in tin-foil, striking it several light blows on an anvil to compress it, and then giving it a heavy blow; but there in no certainty that it will explode. Saturated with water guncotton is exploded with great dif ficulty, and it is in this condition that it is stored away in magazines and nsed as a shell-charging explosive. The wet guncotton, in the process of pressing in its manufacture at the United States torpedo station, is sub jected to a pressure of about 6300 pounds to the square inch, and the pressure has been carried to 15,000 pounds without causing explosion. Dry, loose guncotton burns with a flash, but without explosion; wet com pressed guncotton will uot burn until the moisture is dried out of it. Iu the torpedo statiou experiments a ton of wet guncotton has been placed in a bonfire, where it slowly burned away without explosion. JfaL A CkMtfai W 0W Democrat, Every woman cannot be beeattfixl, beta cheerful face often supplies the deftoleoey. But no one can be cheerful and bring Joy to others unless they have perfeethealtli Fortunately, science has placed this prfoe- lees boon within the reach of every woman as the following incident proves:} Mrs. Amanda Robinson, Wife of William Robinson, farmer and stockman, near Howesvllle, Olay County, lad., is thirty- two year > old and bad for several years been In declining health and despondent. For three months she was not only unable to attend to her domestic duties bat too feeble to be up and about. To-day she is in good health and able to attend to her household affairs. She rsiatss bet ex perience es follow*: “I was afflicted with female troubles and was In a delicate state of health. I lost my appetite, new \fte CHILKOOT PASS HOhRORS. Poor Creatures Who HaveGiven I p Hope. Lying t poii the Dissolving Snow, Horace Mangold, leader of a band of Englishman who a few weeks ago passed through Ottawa on their way to the Klondike, is back again. When he reached Vancouver ha heard sinis ter rumors as to the state of Chilkoot pass, and, not willing that his men with their supplies should be met with serious obstacles, he proceeded in advance (accompanied by two Indians as porters) to test the actual conditions. He found the pass so bad that he is returning to England with the intention of coming back to pro ceed when the Stikine is open. “The horrors of the trail will never be adequately portrayed,” was Mr. Mangold’s comment. “There is in reality no trail. It is a fearful wind ing in and out, and covered with the remains of thousands of horses, the debris of outfits and camps into which you sink up to the waist. I saw poor wretches thrust aside by the score by the desperate procession which, what ever happens, will never stop. Aud those who actually pass the summit, what horrors await them on the other side! “As I made my way along I saw strong men crying likechildren. They had lost their horses; had started .out with insufficient ff>od; they were in hunger and wretchedness; they had been thrust aside by the desperate creatures behind, who showed no mercy, but were bound to push on re gardless of the sufferings they inflict ed upon those who were too weak to keep up. That was the callousness of it—that those who from fatigue, from hunger, from utter e aaustion through carrying their own packs, stumbled, were pushed or kicked out of the way, and yon passed on, brush ing by poor creatures who had given up all hope and who were lying out upon the dissolving snow, utterly in different to their fate. Two things have contributed to the misery which I saw. First, the weather, which was so mild as to make the pass simply a deep creek filled with snow broth, and second, the imperfect outfits of hundreds of men, who, after they reached Van couver, had no more notion of where they were going or how they were to go than they had of flying.” Mr. Mangold says that he found among the Canadians au objection to the introduction of the English. “This was unaccountable to me, but there is no doubt that it exists. Those who have influence should impress upon the government not to allow liquor in the Yukon district. I speak from experience. I Lave been in the arctic regions and I know that the talk of the need of liquor is all tommy- rot. Liquor iu a mining camp is simply a crime. A poor man who has never handled any money worth talk ing about makes a ’strike.’ He at once treats the whole camp. Then yon have, when thess men are drunk, all the elements of an inferno.” thin Tut was gg#itW depressed. After taking various remedies without being benefited I was induced by a friend to tryDr. Williams' Pink Pills. “Early in the summer of 1897 I pro- oursd live boxes of them and before ishin g t h eS second box I_ began to im-*' prove and by the time I had taken the five boxes I was able to go about my A Pn'crlrss Boon. usual work aud stopped taking the pills. “Our daughter Anna, twelve years old, was also afflicted with decline and debility. She lost flesh, seemed to bo bloodless aud bad no ambition. Hho took two boxes of the pills and they restored her appetite, aided dlgobtion and brought color to her ebeeks. fihe Is now in the best of health. I think Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People the best medicine we ever had in our family and recommend them to all needing a remedy for toning up and re building a shattered system. No discovery of modern times has proved such a blessing to women os Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. They restore strength and health to exhausted women when every effort of the physician proves unavailing. These vegetable pills are everywhere recognized as a specific for diseases of the blood and nerves. llttinor in Epitaph. An Irishman having lost his wife ami one child in the old country, jour neyed to this with his liviug child,and, while passing by steamboat down Lake Champlain, his boy sickened and died, aud w as buried in Plattsburg. The bereaved parent tells the following story of how he buried him: “I asked a neighbor to give the loan of a wheel-barry to wheel me boy to the bmying-place, and after the box was in the ground I raised a boord at the head of the grave, aud to kape the remembrance of me boy, I had this bit of epitaph painted upon the boord: “Beneath this toon lie two childers dear. \\ au iu swale Ireland, and the other here.” — Lake George Mirror. SAW MILLS. If you need a saw mill, any elaa wrtta me before buying elsewhere. I hav* the most complete line of mills of any dealer or manufacturer la the South. CORN MILLS. Very highest grade Btonea, at unusual ly low prices. WOOD-WORKING MACHINERY, Planers, Moulders, Edgers, Re-Saws, Band Saws, Laths, eta ENGINES AND BOILERS, Talbott and Liddell. Engleberg Bice Huller, in stock, quick delivery, low prices. V. C. BADHAM, No. 1826 Main St, Colombia, 8. 0. YOU KNOW THAT WE SELL MACHINERY AND MILL SUPPLIES. /2s Then when you need anything in this line get our prices before you order. We Make a Specialty of Kqulpplng Modern Ginneries with the Cele brated Murray System, the Simplest and Best. Engines, Rollers, Saw, Grist and Cane Mills, Gins, Elevators, Presses. Pumps, Rice Hull- ers. Threshers, Harvesting Machinery, Wind Mills, »> ood Working Machinery, belting. Pipe and Pipe Fitting, Packing, Etc. LOW PRICES. FAIR DEALING. RELIABLE GOODS. W. H. 6IBBES & CO., 8. 0. Agency Liddell Co., Charlotte. N. C. A New Cloth. A new kind of cloth is being made in Lyons from the down of hens,ducks aud geese. Seven hundred and fifty grains of feathers make rather more than a square yard of light, waterproof cloth. So far, the doctors have persuaded people to have everything else cut out but their tongues. COLUMBIA, S. C. Money in Chickens For ‘J3e. In stamps wo mail a UW PAOK book givtng U>« exportenoe of s practical Fouliry Kaiaor—not an amateur, but a man working fur dollars and cent*—durluc m years. U leaubea bow u> Detent and Cure Diseases; Feed fpr Rggt also tor Fattening; wbteti Fowls to bare for lireeUInx; everything re quisite for profitable Poultry mlO> lug. KOOK PUBI.IrtlllNU CO. 131 Leonard Street, New Verb. MISSISSIPPI GIRLS * NOT AFRAID. Both the method and results when Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acts gently yet promptly on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys tem effectually, dispels colds, head aches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. Syrup of Figs is the only remedy of its kind ever .pro duced, pleasing to the taste and ac ceptable to the stomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial in its effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities commend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50 cent bottles by all leading drug gists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will pro cure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it Do not accept any substitute. CALIFORNIA FI0 SYRUP CO. SAM FRA MCI SCO, CAL UHIWILU. At. MEW YORK, M.T, Crape, MUa., gay*: I hav* used Dr. M. A. Simmons , Elver Medicine 18 year*. 1 It li the belt of all Liver Regulator*. It cures Slek Headache, and ia a great deal more popular than “Black Draught" or any other liver medicine^ In > this country. Menitrua! Non-Appe«ranoe. Absenoe of the flow mav arise from aoins i abnormal condition arganl of the blood or nervona ay stem. Aethetii uiuo approaches there are many symptoms that snould be apparent to an intelligent mother. When they are tardy, the attempt to estab lish this function is attended with pain in the head, loins and back, chilliness, nausea and bloating of the abdomen. The treat* ment necessary is moderate out-door exer* else, the use of Dr. M. A. Simmons Livsr Medicine to correct the action of the diges tive organa and a dose twice a day for some weeks of that great uterine etimnlant. Or. Simmons Squaw Vine Wiaa. I’ostmaster,Merchant and First Assistant Principal Hebron Normal High School, Fuller, Miss., writes: I am 25 years old, and tny Father, who died when he was 76 years old, had been using and selling Dr. M. A. Simmons Liver Medicine ever since , I could remember. It does all that is claimed for It, and is as staple as Sugar, Flour and Bacon. 1 consider It much Superior to "Zeilin’B Medicine,” which I don’t use at any price. - Girls Approaching hiberfy incntly snffer from irritability, restleM- ■ j, smothering sensations, palpitation of heart, depression of spirits, nooses, consti pation and sometimes fainting spells. Dr. Simmons Squaw Vine Wine, taken with the original Dr. M. A. Simmons Uver Medicine, quickly relieves these and other distressing symptoms and assists nature ia performing its natural functions at thO proper time. Look Ont.—Don't let the preparation called "Bluck Draught” come into your house on the fraudulent pretension of being “just the same” as M. A. 8. L. M.' It li ” not” the same. If the component parts were the same there Is as mnch di Serene* between them as between day and night. Beware of all imitations. Frequently ness, smott AND C ONTRACTORS’ ^BUILDERS’ ■ *« 0 _IVIILL SUPPLIES. Castings, Steel fleams. Columns and Chsa. nel Bolts, Rods. Weights. Tanks. Towers. An. Steel Wire and Manila Hope, Hoisting Engines and Pumps, Jacks. Derricks, Crabs, Chain and Rope Holsts. VT Call Every Day. Make Quick Delivery. LOMBARD IRON WORKSS SUPPLY CO. AUGUSTA. GA. ■■mbo BICYCLES eerried over from 1M7 mutt b* •ocrtSvwf sew. New High tirade, all style*, beat equipment, gaoraa- a’MmSsia. ut a cent payment. Writ* . __ln ll.t end art catalogue lake. BICTCLEFikEfor teeeoa to adrertlee them. Send for one. Rider agente wanted. Laarn how to Kara a Bleyeleead make money. K. F. HEAD CYCLE COMPANY, Ckiraga. PAYS THE FRAYT OPIUM and Liquor Habit eared in 10 to 20 days. No pay till cured. Dr. J. L.Stephens, Dept. A. 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