The Florence daily times. [volume] (Florence, S.C.) 1894-1925, May 24, 1898, Image 3
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Wh»t Is Tetterlne?
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KtXsnr&zr*" po, iJ iTei r ,nre er *°
SoZwTk?*.??* 1c ??**■ 50 cents at a dr ok
Shuptrinl^na^oT 1 ' ‘ n aUmps - J - ^
®Oft , r5u^ PlUm 18 ° bUlned from th * com-
VILLAIXOUS GUNCOTTON ! dMtnicUw spnl and th« remarkable j
B. B. B. Never Fells to Core
B1<x ? 1 Tromfclee SyphiUtie sad
NlMwaistism. I LOO per large bottle,
^sfi *b d ™** 1 * U -’ or 1001 tor orlce. ex-
** B<x>Ju ot
_ — - -i »*• »«>u» for price, ex-
Biood Helm Co, Atlente, Us.
i of woaderfol cures sent free.
Moscow has a hospital large enough to hold
7,000 persons.
H, ke ^P hous * Without Blue
?? kln * Po wder. At all Grocer*. B.
H. B. P. Company, Richmond. Virginia.
In Hamburg the authorities tax
■cording to its size.
a dog ac-
Avon A <o'i “Pick Leaf” Smoklns Tobacco
"^ e et ofthe 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.
■sen Tobacco Spit and Samke Tosr life Away.
To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag-
«etlc. fuU of life, nerve and vigor, take No-To-
Bac, the wonder-worker, that makes weak men
All druggists, 80c or II. Cure guaran
teed. Booklet and sample free. Address
SterUng Remedy Co., Chicago or Now York.
The finest shops In a Chinese eity are those
devoted to the sale of coffins.
THIS HIGH EXPLOSIVE ADOPTED FOR
THE ARMY AND NAVY.
To Cure a Cold In One Day.
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
Druggists refund money if it falls to < are. 3Jo.
The wise father always tries to bring up
Ills children in the way he should have gone.
Fits permsnently cured. No fits or nervous
ness after first day’s use of Dr. Kline’s Great
Nerve Restorer. $2 trial bottle and treatise free
Dk. R. H. Klink, Ltd.. 881 Arch 8t., Phila, Pa.
A cow may have many good qualities, but
she is too modest to blow her own horn.
No-To-Bac for Fifty Cents.
Guaranteed tobacco habit cure, makes weak
Den strong, blood pure. Me, |L AU druggists.
Railway engines are not allowed to blow
their whistles within the city limits of
Berlin.
A new kind of cloth is made in Lyons,
France, from the down of bens, ducks and
geese.
M. L. Thompson & Co., Druggists, Couders-
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 takeu the place of na
ture's teasle in finishing various grades of
woolen cloth!.
Educate Year Bowels With Cmscareta.
Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever.
10c, 25c. It C. C. C. fall, 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
for Consumption.
Moix.ton, Nei
get along without Piso’s Cure
Ion. It always cures. » rs. E. C.
m. Mass., October 22,1884,
a shiftless husband in
int it sometimes takas a
1'he men who used to start newspa
pers are now starting lodges.
Corn
responds readily to proper fer
tilization.
Terrific Damage Wrought on Warships
by Shells Charged With Cordite in the
War Between China and Japan -Its De
structive Power — How It Is Made.
Guncotton, 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
guns of warships aud seacoast de
fences, as the tests at the Indian
Head aud Sandy Hook proving
grounds have demonstrated the entire
feasibility of tiring 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 w ith guncotton, would make
our fortified harbors safe from an at
tack by a hostile fleet. A single shell
from the great Watervliet gun to be
mounted on Komer 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
run through the fire of the long-
range gnus and 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 and 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 in Europe have met with
such success that it is believed that
should there be another great Euro
pean war thfe combatants would all be
found supplied with high explosive
shells. Dynamite and guncotton were
used in torpedoes aud submarine
mines in the war between Chili and
Peru, the Turco-Russian war of 1877,
the Franco-Chinese war of 1884, the
Brazilian 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 hour* of naval fighting
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, but 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 an old wreck.” he said. “On
deck the sight w as cruel and beggars
description. Woodwork, cordage, bits
of iron and dead bodies all lay in con
fusion. Between decks matters were
bad. The slaughter had been
freedom with which it can be used
safely alike make it a valuable mili
tary explosive. Guncottou is made
by immersing pur^ dry cotton in a
mixture of the purest and strongest
nitric and sulphuric acids,and pressing
it into blocks. When dry it is as easi
ly electrified as a cat’s back, and is
luminous when rubbed 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 is uo 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
used 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, aud the
pressure has been carried to 15,000
pouuds without causing explosion.
Dry, loose guncottou burns with a
flash, but without explosion; wet com
pressed guncotton will not burn until
the moisture is dried out of it. In the
torpedo station experiments a ton of
wet guncotton has been placed in a
bonfire, where it slowly burned away
without explosion.
CHILKOOT PASS HOhRCRS.
Larger crops, fuller ears and
arger grain are sure to result
rom a liberal use of fertilizers
ontaining at least 7% actual
Potash
Our books are free to farmers.
GERMAN KALI WORKS,
93 Nassau St., N*w York.
BAD „
tREATH
I have bees using CAfiCARETfi and as
Id and effective laxative they are simply wop-
ul. My daughter and l were bothered with
stomach and our breath was very bad. After
ig a few doses of Csscarets we J
ierfully. They are a great help in the family.
WlLHELNIKA NAOEL.
1127 Rlttenhouse St.. Cincinnati. Ohio.
CANDY
CATHARTIC ^
rant. Palatable. Potent. Ta*t* Go«l. Do
Never Sicken. Weaken. 05 Gripe. 10c. 25c. 80c.
CURE CONSTIPATION. ...
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uon,_ Positions Guaranteed—Catalogus Frt«
as
awTul, blood and human remains being
scattered over the decks and guns.
Three of the five men working the
four-ton gnu 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 and
managed to fire three rounds at the
Xaniwa, 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. One shell struck the
deck aud, 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, was adopted for use in
the army. The service charge of em-
meusite for common 12-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 experiments 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-piercingshells
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 emmerfsite will be made, and
the government is 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
Foot Creature* Who Have Given Up Hope,
Lying Upon the Diasolving 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
be reached Vancouver he heard sinis
ter rumors as to the state of Chilkoot
pass, aud, not willing that his men
with their supplies should be met
with serious obstacles, he proceeded
iu 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 oat, and covered with the
remains of thonsauds 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
tbe desperate procession w hich, what
ever happens, will never stop. And
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 like children. They
bad lost their horses; theyJMNtarted
out with ^sufficient foodj^^B were
in hnngerand wretchednesfi^wy hod
been thrust aside by the desperate
creatures behiud, who showed no
mercy, but were bound to push on re
gardless of the sufferings they inflict
ed npon those who were too weak to
keep np. That was the callousness
of it—that those • who from fatigue,
from hunger, from utter c naustion
through carrying their own packs,
stumbled, were pushed or kicked out
of the way, and you 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
meu, 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 fonnd
among the Canadians an 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 have been in the
arctic regions and I know that the
talk of the need of liquor is all tommy-
rot. Liquor in 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
you have, when these men are drunk,
all the elements of an inferno.”
A CWaaafal
Ou Democrat, DratH, TmL
Every womaa oannot be beautiful, but a
cheerful faoe often euppllee the derioii*Bov.
But an one can be cheerful end bring joy to
others unlees they here perteotheelth.
Fortunately, soleooe has placed this price
less boon within tbe reach of every woman
as tbe following incident proves:]
Mrs. Amende Robinson, Wife of William
Robinson, farmer and stockman, near
Howeevllle, Olay County, lad.. Is thirty•
two yean old mad bad for eeveral years
been in declining health end despondent.
For three months she was not only uaable
to attend to her domestic duties but too
feeble to be upend about. To-day she is
in good health and able to attend to her
household affairs, she relates Has ex
perience as follows;
“I was afflicted with female troubiee and
was In a delicate state of heeltaT I leet
my appetite, grew thin end was greatly
depressed. After taking various remedies
without being benefited I was Induced bye
friend to tryDr. Williams* Pink Pills.
’’Early In
the summer
of 1887 I pro-
feured five
boxes of them
and before Aa>
isbing ibaS
second box I
began to im-”^!
prove and by
the time I bad
taken the five
boxes I was
able to go
about my A Prictlrtt Boon.
usual work and stopped taking the pills.
“Our daughter Anna, twelve" years old,
was also afflicted with decline and debility.
She lost flesh, seemed to be bloodless
and bad no ambition. She took two boxes
of the pills and they restored her appetite,
aided digestion and brought color to her
cheeks, rtho is now in the best of health.
I think Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale
People the beet medicine wo ever had In
our family and reoomm'ud them to all
needing a remedy fof 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 recognised as a specific for
diseases of the blood and nerves.
SRW MILLS.
If you peed a saw mill, any >ls* writ*
me before buylnj? eleewher* I
the most complete line of miu* of any
dealer or manufacturer in the South.
CORN MILLS.
Very highest grade Stones, at unusual
ly low prices.
WOOD-WORKING MACHINERY,
Planers, Moulders, Edgers Re-8*wfe
Band Saws, Laths, etc.
ENGINES AND BOILERS,
Talbott and Liddell.
Engleberg Rice Huller, in stock, quick
delivery, low prices.
V. C. BADHAM,
No. 1320 Main St., Columbia, 8. 0.
YOU KNOW THAT WE SELL
MACHINERY AND MILL SUPPLIES.
Then when you need anything in this
line get our prices before you order.
\Ve Make a Specialty of Kqulpplng
Modern Ginneries with the Gele-
brated M array System, tbe
Simplest and lleat.
Engines. Boilers, Saw. Grist and Cane Mills,
Gins, Elevators, Presses, Pumps, Rice Mull
ers, Threshers, Harvesting Machinery, Wind
Mills, »> „ ( h1 Working Machinery, Belting,
Pipe and Pipe Fitting. Packing, Etc.
LOW PRICES. FAIR DEALING. RELIABLE GOODS.
W. H. GIBBES & CO,
S.C. Agency Liddell pm |I||DI A S P
Co., Charlotte, N. C. uULUlflDIA| Oi Ui
Money in Chickens
For 'tic. hi stamps ws sand a DM
FAUK BOON giving Um eapertenoa
ot a practical Poultry Hsiaer—not
an amateur, but a man working
for dollars aad uanta—during si
yean. It leaches bow to Uataot
and Cure LMseasea; Vead fprOggs
" ‘ sU to
So far, the doctors have persuaded
people to have everything else cut out
but their tongues.
alao for rattening; wbteh Fowls t
bar* for Breeding; everything re-
uulslt* for protttaUe Poultry rale*
lug. HOOK PI)BI.IMHlNtt
UO, 131 Leonard Street, New Vera.
MISSISSIPPI GIRLS
NOT AFRAID.
Crape, Mias., says: I hat*
used Dr. M. A. Simmons
Diver Medicine 18 yean.
1 It is the best of all Liver
Regulators. It cures Slek
Headache, and Is s great
deal more popular than
“Black Draught” or any
other liver medlclna In
1 this country.
M«nitrual Non-Appsarsnos.
Humor in Epitaph.
An Irishman having lost his wife
and one child in the old country, jour
neyed to this with his living child.and,
while passing by steamboat down Lake
Champlain, his boy sickened aud died,
aud was buried iu Plattsburg. Tho
bereaved parent tells the following
story of how he buried him:
“I asked a neighbor to give the loani
of a wheel-barry to wheel me boy to
the bnrying-place, and After the 1k>x
was in the ground I raised a boord at
the head of the grave, and to kape the
remembrance of me boy, I had this
bit of epitaph painted upon the boord
“liwneatta this toon lie two ehilders near,
Wau in aw ate Ireland, and the other here.**
— Lake George Mirror.
A New Cloth.
A new kind of cloth is being made
in Lyons from the down of hens,ducks
and geese. Seven hundred and fifty
grains of feathers make rather more
than a square yard of light, waterproof
cloth.
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 trnly beneficial m 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 FIB SYRUP CO.
SAM FHAHCISCO. CAL
MUKVILU. Kf. HEW YORK, M.X.
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LOMBARD IRONWORKS* SUPPLY CO.
AUGUSTA. GA.
7000 BICYCLES
tarried ever from IMTmvat
8* soerMesd sew. Mew
a sh tirade, «U etylee,
it equipment, ayarm-
si I makes, $3 to SIX.
We iMp on approval teifs-
Wuf a etui payment. Write
sin list sod srt catalogs*
_ aedels. BICYCLE FBEE for
sssssa to sdvsrttss them. Bead for one. Rider agenU
wanted. Lenmhusr to EnmnMleycle and make money.
K. F. MBAD CYCLE COMPANY, Chicage.
j there aid many symptoms Uia«
should be apparent to an Intelligent mother.
When they are tardy, the attempt to estab
lish this tnnetion Is attended with palatal
the head, loins and bock, chilliness, nansen
and bloating of the abdomen. The treat*
ment necessary Is moderate out-door ex«*
else, the DM Of Dr. Bf. A. Simmons Liver
Medicine to correct the action of the digeo.
tire organa and a dose twice a day for somo
weeks of that great uterine stimulant,
Dr. Simmons Squaw Vino Wine.
Postmaster,Merchant
and First Ansinant
Principal Hebron
Normal High Scbool, |,
Fuller, Miss., writes: 1
I am 25 years old, and I
my Father, who died
when ho was 75 years j
old, had been using
and selling Dr. M. A.
Simmons Liver
Medicine ever since
, I could remember. It
does nl 1 that is claimed
for it, and is as staple as Sugar, Flour and
Bacon. 1 consider It much Superior to
“Zellin’s Medicine," which I don’t use ok
any price.
Girls Approaching Puberty
Frequently snfier from irritability, restless*
ness, smothering sensations, palpitation ot
heart, depression of spirits, noosea, const!-
g ation and sometimes fainting spells. Dr.
immone Squaw Vina Wine, taken with
tbe original Dr. M. A. Simmons Live*
Medicine, quickly relieves these and other
distressing symptoms and assists nature In
performing Us natural functions at thA
proper time.
Look Out.—Don’t let the preparation
called’’Black Draught” come into yonr
house on the fraudulent pretension of being
“Just the same” ns M. A. 8. L. M.’ ,It w
“not” the same. If the component parta
were the same there is ns much dlfferencq
between them as between day and night.
Beware of all imitations.
^W* d'tight to do sn ssrly frisnd
food turn. Ths workmi port, of ’
.ANY AERMOTOR7
EXCHANGED ,
FOR A ROLLER!
1 BEARING. “I'lijf run. |
, •Tsr.|uin|, svsrlaatinr, powst-
doatiliac, UP-TO-DATE
(MOTOR,8 FT. FOR S6| «ft forSU. Itift-1
I (o. tJO. Tbsy run liks * bit,els, sod sr* wads iiktsl
I rtstcti, ever, muvsbls pari on rollers Doublss gssrsd I
I mill power. Tbs Asnautor ran when ail othsr mills I
I stood still, and mads tbs steel windmill business. I
THE NEW BEATS THE OLD ASTHCl
OLD BEAT THE WOODEN WHEEL.!
I On receipt of amount, revised motor (but not wheel 1
[or vsusi wiU bo Motto rsplsen old sn* tksa to htl
[ returned. Offer kuljsti to canesilaiion at say ttm*. ]
If your old wbssl Is not an ksrmotor, writ* 1st A
k tcrms of swap—nstr for old—tofoon old lower.
Jou sen put it on. dennatar Co^ CWIssgs.^ '
NOW OK N F V F^
PAYS
THE
FRAYT
OPIUM
and Liquor Habit cured in
UO to 30 dan. No pay till
cured. Dr..I. L. Stephens,
Dept. A. Lebanon, Ohio.
BEST SCALES. LEAST MONEY
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