The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, May 24, 1900, Image 4

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~THE OLD ARMOR MAKER. LoWg Before the Civil War lie Wove Coats ol Mail as a Side Line. "About two years ago," said a Poy dras street business mian, "there died at the Charity Hospital an eccentrid old German. who once upon a time fob lowed the queerest trade in the world. He was a maker of coats of mail. Long before the war he had a little jowelry shop on the north side of Canal street, and the coat-of-mail business was a sort of private sid- lne. The armor he then made' was composed of small links of very hard steel. woven to gether so compactly that one could not thrust even a pin through the inter stices, and it was said that te ':oats would turn either a knife or bulbllt. They were fashioned something like a sleeveless undershirt. and were intend ed to be worn immediatAy beneath the outside garment. In those days the use of such devices was )opuIArly at tributed to fellows who wanted to se cure an unfair advanta e in dueling, and the reputatilon of wearing one un der any circumstances wa., fatal to a reputation for courage. Consequently the old German didn't go to any pains to exploit his business. and his eus tomers must have come to hiii through many devious channels. I knew the old chap quite well when I was a boy, and I have often seen him putting the mail fogether in his little back room. He got the links from Germany and they came in long single-strand chains. which he fastened toge-ther with small steel rings, thus building up a fabric like knitting a stocking. The coats were made over a wooden form, shaped like a man's torso, and were astonishingly light. After the war broke out a good many men boaght them openly, as a legiti mate protection. and for a while the old man had more business than he could attend to.. I went into the army and lost sight of him until some years after peace was declared. When I en rountered him one day, working as a journeyman watchmaker, I asked at once whether he made any more chain armor, and he laughed and said it had gone out of fashion. I believe, how ever, that he used to still make a coat now and then for some crank up to the time of his death. Of late years he quit active business and lived in quiet retirement out near St. John's bayou."-New Orleans Times - Demo crat. Cecil Rhodes says the British flag is the richest asset in the world. Cecil can't get over the habit of reducing his patriotism to a commercial basis. A BLOOD Ista trdTROUBLE Is ha tiedfeeling-blood lacks vitality and richness, and henco you feeLlkea lag -gard alt day and can't get retted at night. -Hood's Sarsaparilla will edre you because the qa alities it T needs ourishi, ogthen and sustain the mn es, nerves a organs of the body. It gives sweet, ref resb eep and imparts new life and vigor to My 1ealon. Tired Feoling--"I had that tird.eel lng and headaches. Was more tired~fn the morning than when I went to bed, and my back paine.d me. Hood's Sarsaparilla -and Hood's Pil1s have enred me andi made me feel ten years younger." B. ScH EBLEIn, 274 Bushwlck Place, Brooklyn, N. Y. -Hood's Sarsaparilla Is the Hest Medicine Money Can B-ty. Pre pared by C. L Hioo'i & Co.. Lowenl. M1asa. So. 20. Soothing Bath for Nervous Women. The woman that suffer-s from ner vous afflictions will find a bath of lime lowers most soothing. The bran bath * Is also restful after the strain of the lay and can be made by putting bran and starch in a bag and letting it soak for a little while in hot water that is afterward added to the bath. Some times nervous trouble (can also be alle viated by putting ammoni-1 in the bath; one ounce should be used to a bucket ful of water. In a description of the compulsory arbitration law of Newv Zealand Henry D. Lloyd says that its comipul - sion is three-fold.. It compels pub licity. rererence to a disinterested ar biter in case the disputants will not arbitrate voluntartily, antd finally obed i enee to the award of the arbitrating tribunal. THE HEAL.TH OF YOUNG WOMEN Two of Them Helped by Mrs. Pinkham -Read their Letters. " DE AR This. PINKisA'1:-I am sixteen years old and am troubled with my monthly sickness. It is very irregular, occurring only once in two or three months. and also very painful. I also suffer with cramps and once in a while pain strikes me in the heart and I h ave drowsy headachecs. if there~ is any thing -you can do for me, I will gladly follow your advice."' * -Miss MARY GoMESa, Aptos, Cal., July 31, " DEAR MBS. PINKHAM: After receiv- - ing your letter - I began the - use of your reme- ,ij dies, taking bothi Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetale Com pound and Blood Purifieri. I am now regular every month a n a suffer no pain. Your.medicine is the best that any suf fering girl can take."-Mtss Mixy Gouse~, Apgtos,..Cal.. .Iiuly 6. 1$99. Nervous and Dizzy "DEAR Mas. ItaNAux :- wish to express~guiy thaa~ks to you forthe great benefit Ieve r4-ceiyeth from the use of . Lydia ]. iakham's Gege.tabl-e Comn .po~ud.: I aered considnstly-from ter ribl sidey.he..rd chilla. wa:.nervous - andl dizv3 -i-bad tried side rent hin ds , They ail failed entirely. '"'ter-takng three botties of Vegetable Compounnd.and tl-ree of Blood Purifier I am all right. I cannot th ank you enough forewhat yor-r remedies have done for me."-Miss MA-rr.DA JENsEN, Box 48, Og,.ejnnhnen Wi5. Ju.nea 10. 1A89Q. NEW IDEA ABOUT RAIN. PROOF THAT IT IS CAUSED BY ELECTRICITY. Enigmas of Nature Solved During Some Remarkable Experiments at the Elmer Gates Laboratory Near A ashington Cyclones Artificially Reproduced. The phenomena of the earth's rota tion, of rainstorms, cyclones, water spouts, thunder and lightning are be ingartificially reproduced in the course of some remarkable experiments at the Elmer Gates Laboratory, at Chevy Chase, near Washington. Professor Gates, the famous physi cist who directs this'fascinatiug work shop, has long been conducting elabo rate researches looking to the solution of these enignias of nature. As a re 6ult of this labor he has deduced sonic surprising theories which, in the opin iou of many learned men, will effect a I complete revolution in present meth ods of weather foi-ecasting. Many of these important discoveries were made with the assistance of the late H. A. Hazen, professor of meteor ology at the United States Weather Bureau, whose accidental death oc curred a few weeks ago, just as the work was drawing to a close. The early experiments of the two investigators were made for the pur pose of ascertaining nature's method of rainmaking. The most widely ac cepted of theories hitherto offered in explanation of this process assumes that when moist air is carried from one region above the earth to-another which is colder, it undergoes conden sation and vice versa. Professor Gates and Professor Hazen both doubted that heat and moisture were the sole f sctors concerned in storm production. Professor Gates had long believed that electricity played the most important role in weather-making, and he set about to convince his ::ollaborator that he was correct. In the initial experiment a large fluffy mass of fleece cotton was sus pended from the ceiling of the labora tory by a dry silk thread, and was electrically charged by one pole of a powerful static machine. The other pole was connected with a similar mass of cotton. As the two tufts were being charged they grew perceptibly larger. Brought nearer, they grew smaller. When sufficiently near or sufficien'tly charged for a spark to pass between them, as a lightning.flash passes between two clouds, they twitched at the moment of discharge. The two tufts were afterward filled with smoke puffed into them through a tube. Some of this smoke was ejected by each at the moment a spark passed. When a certain distance apart, the smoke left one of the masses and proceeded in a straight line to the other. Thus the electricity actually carried the vapor from one to the other. Then steam was injected into one tuft and some of its moisture was similarly conveyed to r,h0 intwior of the. other, as proved by an instrument for measuring humidity. It was noticed that although one piece of cotton would increase in volume when first charged with electricity, it would begin to shrink as soon as 't indaced an opposite charge in some adjacent mass of matter.1 A volume of moisture-saturated air - next enclosed in a rubber toy balllaravnd1ed by a string. The balloon swelled w ' charged, but shrunk when in the pres body charged with opposite electricity. When a succession of sparks passed into the balloon it appeared to take a sudden expiration, then an inspira tion immediaie'y -'ter ward. These and otner experiments proved to the satisfaction of the two invesii gators that electrical conditions are capable of increasing anid diminishing the density of the air. In a later experiment a moist cur rent of air was charged with negative electricity as it entered the laboratory through an open window. A similar current from another source was charged with positive electricity. At a distance between the two inlets and where the two currents mingled a list was seen to form. It was this successful attempt at rainmaking in doors which is believed to have solved the problem as to how Dame Nature herself aggregates the moisture of the air into mists, rain or snow. According to Professor Gates, if one locality or cloud acquire a charge of electricity, some adjacent locality or cloud must acquire a charge of oppo site electricity. Midway between these two oppositely charged clouds or regions of moist air there must be one or more secondary regions where their respective particles commingle. Those of one being positive and those of the other being negative they attract, cohere and form raindrops. One region may be a cloud or a vapor charged air mass, and the other may be another cloud or the earth. When disturbances of the~ electric equilib riumi of [the atmosphere occur differ ences in density, pressure, tempera ture and moisture result. Returning to the cotton tufts, it was discovered that when one was charged with positive, the other with negative electricity, and the former only was saturated with smoke, injected into its centre, the smoke escaped toward the opposite tuft and assumed a coni cal cloud-like shape, its particles trav eling across the intervening space in the form of a waterspout. This was repeated many times. By connecting one terminal of his static machine with the bottom of a saucer of water, pierced by a wire, and by causing the other terminal to approach the top of the water, Pro fessor Gates produced a miniature waterspout. As soon as the water touched the upper terminal, it was thrown laterally outward in a shower, of drops. In a later rain-making experiment the professor placed his datie machine midway between the windows of his laboratory while a moisture-laden beeze was blowing through the room. He suspended a mass of cottoii from the ceiling by a piece of dry silk. On the floor below he placed masses of different substances having ground connections. He charged the cotton -serving as a cloud-with positive electricity, and mist was seen to form abut midway between it and the lower conductor-serving as the earth whieh was soon covered with moisture, partcles. This proved to him that the moisture nargiclee not onlv. aggre-. gated into droplets, as a result of tha process explained abont, but that therE was an electric translation of nioisture from the cotton cloud to the floor. When asked how a complete thun derstorm might be produced by such artifice, Professor Gates replied that this was done by maintaining a layer of moist air in the top of a room, and by charging this to a potential differ ent from that of the floor below. I charged to a sufficient height and with sufficient quickness there would re sult a sodden flash and discharge, ac companied by a fall of rain upon the floor. Additional experiments, to which Professor Gates gives particular weight, were made in closer collabora tion with Professor Hazen. Their object was to more satisfactorily provo that when two aerial localities are charged with opposite electricities there is a more rapid difiasion of moisture from one to the other than when they are not electrically charged. They employed an oblong glass box with wooden ends, into each of which was fixed a multiplicity of copper wires with points protruding inward. The apparatus was placed upon an in sulated stool in front of a static ma ebine having a power of 450,001 volts and capable of producing sparks eighteen inches long. The box was partitioned into halves by a sheet of porous paper. One-half was filled with dry and the other with wet air. The wire points at the dry end were harged with positive, those at the moist with negative electricity. While it ordinarily required from six to twelve hours for the moisture to escape through the porous partition ind distribute itself equally through the entire box, the charging of the two ends caused a transference of the moisture from the moist to the dry end to take place in from eight to ten minutes. The moisture was electri ally carried from the positive to the negative pole. When the whole box was equally alled with moisture, it was discovered that more collected in the air sur rounding the negative pole. Thus it was ascertained that an electric charge in the air will unequally dis tribute the moisture already present and perhaps uniform.-John Elfretb Watkins, Jr., in Boston Transcript. CURIOUS FACTS. A Rumford Falls (Me.) veteran has in his possession some of the hardtack omposing the last rations dealt out to him by Uncle Sam when in the ser vice over thirty years ago. It is in ;ood state of preservation. A curious plant is the "tooth-brush" plant of Jamaica. It is a bpecies of reeper, and has nothing particularly striking about its appearance. By cutting pieces of it to a suitable length and fraying the ends, the natives con vert it into a tooth-brush; and a tooth powder to accompany the use of the rush is also prepared by pulverizing he dead stemn. An operation was rect ntly p'erformed t a hospital in Trenton, N. 3., for the :emoval of a tumor from the cheek of Landsford Blergen, the five-year-old son of Edward Bergen, of Yardley, Penn. - The swelling was about the size of a hickory nut and was situated inder the right eye. It begun about wo years ago, when the child comn lained of an itching and burning sen ~ation there. When the tumor was emoved the doctors found a grain of At a legislativ ea the insane poor, a physician recalled the fact that as late a.o 1839 the city of Boston kept its pauper lunatics in wooden cages, which rested on wheels and were rolled out of the ahmshouse on pleasant days, to give the wretches a little air and sunshine. When a new building was provided, the patients were trundled into it in their cages. But Doctor Butler, the wise and hu mane superintendent, promptly set them free from conditions which might make a sane man crazy. William MIcDonald's white hair is turning black and his few decayed stumps have fallen out in favor of a brand new set of teeth. Some of his neighbors in Alpena County, Mich., declare that the old pioneer must be bewitched, and the doctors themselves confess that he presents a freak of na ture without parallel. Dentists in particular are greatly wrought up over the phenomenon of new teeth sprout ing in the shrivelled gums of seventy five years. They say that if MeDon ald's example were followed extensive ly it would be a blow to their profes son. Of the forty-two catacombs now known and christened, extending be yond the gates of Rome, over an area twenty by twelve miles, that of St. Callistus is one of the largest and most interesting. Its entrance is on the Appian Way, about half an hour's drive from the centre of the city, in a vineyard close to the ruins of the an ient church of St. Callistus. The catacombs have for many years been in the charge of monastic orders, and many a ramble through St. Calisbus was under the guidance of a Cistercian friar, young, fresh-complexioned, eneerful and humorous in his talk. The catacomb are such a mighty maze, yvith passages at four or five different levels, crossing at all kinds of angles, that to venture far into them alone wod be almost an act of suicide. -A Character Study. Before Lord Roberts left Cape Town he called into his office a certain Col onel and charged him with a certain mission. " Now," said the Chief, 'how soon can you put this through? I know you'll do the best you can." "Well," replied the Colonel, "I'll try to do it in a fortnight." '"Well,?" Lord Roberts repeated, "I know you will do the very best you can," and with a pleasant smile he dismissed the officer. Outside the door he met Lord Kitchener. "Well?" said Kitchener, with business-like abruptness. "Oh," said the Colonel, "I have just seen the Chief; he wants me to do so and so." "WVhen are you going to get it through?" "Well," said the Colonel, "I promised to try to do it in a fort night." "Now, Colonel," was Kitch ener's retort, "if this is not done within a week we shall- have to see about sending y-ou home." And done it wms. POPULAR SCIENCE. Clouds that move in a contrary di, rection to that of the surface carrent indicate a change of weather, becauso tLey prove the existence of two air enrrents, one warm and the other cold, and the mingling of these frejuently causes rain. The injury to soil from flooding by a high tide is variously estimated to last for five to twenty years. A lat3 investigation in Essex, England, showed that the soil was left with two per cent. salt mostly to the completo destruction of earthworms. An epidemic of typhoid fever has recently been ' aced to the use of celery grown on some sewage fertil ized ground. As it occurred in an in stitution it was very easy to trace the cause. Owing to the peculiar nature of the stems it is very easy for them to become saturated with fertilizing material. The ordinary hydrometer is a ver tical float, with a scale to miasure the depth to which it sinks and the corre sponding density oT'the liquid. A new instrument measures the density by the inclination of a float, and as the readings are not affected by capil larity, it is much more accurate than the common form, afid is capable of wonderful sensitiveness. John Murray recently summed up the latest discoveries concerning the ocean. The deep sea, he says, is a region of darkness, as well as of low temperature, becdise the rays of the sun are wholly absorbed by the super ficial layers of water. Plant life is absent, but animal life is abundant in those night-haunted depths. The Majcrity of the deep-sea animals live by eating mud and by catching the ininute particles of organic matter which descend from above. Many of the mud-eating animals are of gigantic size compara. Aith their allizs in shallower waters; but thej are the prey of rapacious enemies armed with peeuliar piehensile. organs. Some deep-sea fishes are b!ind while others have very large eyes. Phosphorescent.1 light plays an important role in tw great deeps. Sometimes the ani mals are farnished with phosphoresent organs which recall the use of bull's' eye lanterns. The Australian insect fauna is esti inated at 10,000 species, but it is be lieved that the actual number is con iderably greater. Of these the great est variety is to be found in New 'or th Wales, the scientifie collections orme( in Sydney and elsewhere being pf singular attractiveness and in-' terest. In the vicinity ot streams may be found large and beautiful dragon flies, often'of considerable size; while every where during.the warmer months of the year the ceaseless hum of the cigale reminds the traveler of a simiilar insect experience in Italy. Native honey bees are plentiful in many places and are easily recognizable by their small size, being little larger than the common house fly. Mos quitoes are practically unkb'wn in the dry intenom but their place is taken. *by the sand fly, an eq a ylia's: chievous insect. There a -spiders of all sizes, a few being p sonous, but their webs a y of a most faciful ch . The splendid ap pearance f some of the butterflies rivals at of the most gorgeous in sects und in South American forests, Loogng After Its Soldiers. A young a~ry officer, who has seen service on the ArizouagJgins and on the Maine coast, an Lwho-fs now in Cuba, tells two stories out of his own experience, to show the accuracy with wich the War Department follows the movements of officers. "I was with a small scouting party in Arizona," he says, "and after two weeks in the desert my squad came to the railroad near a small station. Within ten minutes a dispatch from Washington wa~s brought to me by the station agent. It asked if I wished to be transferred to one of the two new artillery regiments then forming. "I answered by telegraph that I should be glad to enter either of them. Then we set off again across the desert. "It was six days later when we again struck the railroad, this time eighty miles from the point at which we had previously crossed it. But my reply from the department was awaitingme. It had been telegraphed: to every station within two hundred miles. "A more striking instance of accur ay occurred after my transfer to the East. I was traveling home on leave, and as the regulations require, I had Dotified the department of the day, hour and probable route of my jour ney. Alter I had been on the train for eight hours. at a small station the porter entered with a telegram, ask in if any one of my name was pres ent. On opening the dispatch, I found that it was from 'The adjutant general's office, ordering me on de tached duty, "Exactness of detail could not be carried much farther. The depart ment knew the whereabouts of an in significant second lieutenant, even when he is traveling on leave of ab sence." Flapping of an Insect's Wings. The slow flapping of a butterfly's wings, according to Sir John Lub bock, produces no sound, but when the movements are rapid a noise is produced, which increases in shrill ness with the number of vibrations. Thus the house fly, which produces the sound F, vibrates it wings 21,320 times a minute, and the bee. which makes a sound of A, as many as 26, 400 times. Professor Narey, the nat uralist, has succeeded by a delicate mechanism in confirming these num bers graphically. He fixed a fly so that the tip of the wing just touched a cylinder which was moved by clock work. Cut Both Ways. In an interval in the drilling one of the volunteers belonging to 'a crack regiment stepped out from the ranks to light~a cigar from that of his officer. The latter took this evidence of the democratic spirit of freedom in good part, but said by way of a hint: "In the regular army you couldn't h'ave done this to an officer, Brown." "Right you are," responded the private, "but in the regular army you -mn1d nnt he an Officer." Where-Eugene Passes Her Time. Thc Empress Eugenie's home in Engh:nd. Farnboro!gl Hill Mansi3on. is a eh:aring place half way betveen t!he Royal 1ilia1ry School at Sa;ndhurst a:1 the faminouts (-;11mTp at AIlrshot. Clos-e to the house is the church of St. Michal, built lby EugFenie as a nvmo rkil chapel to her husbiand. and in the crypt is also placed the tomb of the Prince imperial. During the winter the Empress pasos much of her time at her lovely V!lla Cyranos, at Cap 'Martin. one of earth's chosen spots near Nice. From here she may cruise at will upon the Mlediterranean in lir yacht. She then goes to Paris. the scene of her greatest triumph and saddest hunmilia tiots, to consult her physician before returning to England. Shorn by fat.- of the crown that Na poleon proudly placed upon her exqui site brow, she is crowned anew by the superbly white hair of beautiful old. age, and set apart. to' the e'nd. as one I of nature's queens.-Ledger Monthly. Tetter and Eezema. "What will you charge me for 1 dozen boxes Tetterine? I know it to be a splendid remedy for the cure of Tetter and Eczema. I would like to keep it for sale. Mrs. Emma Plum mer, Waynesboro, Miss." If your druggist don't keep it, send 50c. to J. T. Shuptrine, Savannah, Ga.,for a box. An indication of some of the impor tant industrial effects which may be expected to folow the opening up of I China. is given in recent reports con cerning the Chinese tree called I!e "tu ehung." Both i' reach and English botanists assert that this tree contains a valuable substance resembling rub her. or gutta-percha. Mr. Weiss, of Owens College. believes that the sub stance is a true caoutchouc. and that the tree will become of great economic Importance. Nell-"I hear yotr've left your new job in the hair-dressing establish ment." Belle-"Yes; I was afread I'd dye an old maid." Do Your Feet Ache and Burn? Shake into your shoes Allen's Foot-Ease, n powder for the feet. It makes tight or new shoes feelpasy. Cures Corns, Bunions. Swollen, Hot, Smarting and Sweating Fees and Ingrowing Nails. Sold by ailldruggists and shoe stores, 25 cts. Sample sent FREE. Address Allen S. Olinsted, LeRoy, N. Y. No. Maude, dear. we have never heard that people who don't pay their bilis prefer soda water 'because it's charged. iT Comp unstru: and have' * TI Spring2 Nearly every one needs a go that will remove impurities fr digestion, and bring back the nerves. A perfect Sarsapari Sarsaparilla that contains the gredients: a Sarsaparilla accu one that experience has showr That's 2 "The only Sarsaparilla made three graduates: a graduate chemistry, and a gr 51.00 a bottle. . "I arm perfectly confident that Ayer' by taking them every fall and spring. past twenty yeas."--Eva N. HAR, I Crowding the I'rofesslons. Chicago. too, notices the crowding in the professions, not as something new, bunt as becoming intensified. It is estimated that out of a total of 4000 lawyers in Chicago 500 are handling the litigation of the city and aly a'out 200 are making $3,000 or over each year. The passing of the national bankrupt cy act. It is claimed, cut off a large and profitable source of revenue for lawvyers. While the legi timate business of the courts has not shown any marked Increase, the influx of lawyers from the country has been steady and utninterrupted, and the stream of Blackstonians has been yearly augmen ted by heavy contri butions from tihe colleges and univer sities. Of dloetors the number In Chi cago is estimated -at 4.000. If the city had1 a poplahtionl of 2.000,000 this would give a physician to every 500 inhnbitants, which means t hat there are four or five times as many physi 2ians gs are needed. That's the way s because the profi heap Bugg off at only a doilar c SSee our Agent or writs direct To Care a Cold In One Day. Take LAXATIvE BRoMO QUININE TiBLET3. All druwgists refund the money if it fails to ,ure. E. W. GRovE's signature on each box, 250. '1he girl who dosen't wish to see callers must expelt to be found out. Band Contests, Prize Drills, Dress Parades, Sham Battles. Take the children and randchildren to the 20th of May Celebra tion at Charlotte. N. C., by the Seaboard ir Line, May 22-23-24-25th. The trees are turning over new leaves. Carter's Ink Is the Best Ink made, but no dearer than the poorest. Has the largest sale of any iLk in the world. One kind of financial embarrassment is when a man lis so much money he docmn't know what to do with it. The Best Prescription for Chills and Fever is a bottle of GRovE's TASrELEss CUILL Toaic. It is h:mple iron and quinine in a tasteless form. No cure-no pay. Price 25c. The pick pocket sometimes follows his voca tion just to keep his hand in. Grand Bills and public addresses.. Open air concerts all the time. Thousands will be in Charlotte, N. C. during the 20th df May Gala Week, May 22-23-24-25th. Take the Seaboard Air Line. Doctors are mourning the demise of the grip season. Each package of PCTNAX FADELESs DYE colors more goods than any other dye and colors them better too. Sold by all druggists. Eve may have had her troubles.but Adam never brought his friends home to dinner unexpectedly. Reel Races, Hook and Ladder contests, bursts of speed by trained horses, athletic contests of all kinds; base ball, foot' races, tests of strength, for valuable prizes. Fan tastic parade of the Flks. Every Lodge In the State will be in line in fancy costume. Riding Camels, Riding Oxen. Riding Mules, d'iring the 20th of May Gala Week at Char lotte, N. C., provided you take the Seaboard Air Line. Mrs. WInslow's Soothing Syrup for children I eething, softens the gums, reduces infIamuna tion, allays pain. cures wind colic, s5c.a bottle. There will be $1,000.00 in prizes for Fire men's contests at the 20th of May Gala Week in Charlotte. Take the Seaboard Air Line. I do not believe Piso's Cure for Consumption hss an equal for coughs and colds.-JON, F. PoYER, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 15, 1900. One fare for the round-trip by the Sea board Air Line to the 20th of May Gala Week at Charlotte. J. C. Simpson, Marquess, W. Va., says: "Hall's Catarrh Cure cured me of a very bad case of catarrh." Druggists sell it. 75c. Four days of Pageant, Panorama and Pa triotism during the 20th of May Gala Week at Charlotte. May 22-23-24-25th. Take the Seaboard Air Line. the children this spr I aining a good deal of 11ead can't study as well-as usual, all the time? 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