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Are You | Thtn? I ^ Look about you I See for S yourself I Who suffer most 0 from sleeplessness, nervousness, p nervous dyspepsia, neuralgia, P despondency, general weak- R ness? Who are on the edge ^ of nervous prostration all ihe M time? Tho-e who are tnin, 9 Opium, chloral, bromides, J2 headache powders, only mike [J matters worse. Iron and bit- W tcrs a'C only stimulant?. To W be cured, and cured .for good, A you need a fat-making rood. [3 , You want new blood, rich J blood; and a strong nerve- j ( tonic. a | scorrs etvtulsion of b\ Cod-Iivcr Oil with Hvooohos- Ba phftes is all this, I* feeds the $1 tissues, makes rich b'cod, aed F: strengthens the nerves. ** jtA^ui it 'v.' ttiC For s.iU by all drug/Lsls at 50c. and r $1.00. SCOTT 1 BOWNIi. N?vw Yurk. < Nome Fuels About Klondike. Alaska is two and one-half times as large as Texas ft It is eight times as large as all of New England. It is as large as the South, excluding Texas. It is as largo as all of the states 1 east of tlie Mississippi, and north of the Ohio, including Virginia and West Virginia. It makes San Francisco east of our center. Its coast line is 20,000 miles. It has the highest mountain in North America. It has the only forest-covered glacier in the world. The Tread well is one of its greatest gold mines. It has the hest yellow cedar in the world. It has the greatest seal fisheries. It has the greatest salmon fisheries. It has cod banks that beat Newfoundland. ?. It has the largest river. A man standing on a bank of the Yukon .150 miles from its mouth cannot see the other bank. The Yukon is twenty miles wide 700 miles from its mouth. With its tibuta^ ries it is navigable 2,<">00 miles. It is larger than the Danube. It is larger than the Orinoco. It discharges one third more water than the Mississippi. 'I he water i> fresh fifteen miles from its mouth. It has more gold in itr basin than any other river. Its color is beautifully blue to its junction with the White river, 1,100 miles from its mouth. Alaska runs 1,500 miles west of Hawaii. Yukon basin gold i> estimated at .$5,000,000,000 The necessary eruptive force for the formation of great fissure veins is everywhere evident in Alaska. Silk should be worn next the body, then woolen and then furs. > Citric acid should bo taken to prevent scurvy. The food there produces rectal diseases. Take medicno. Lima beans are good portable food. Snow glasses should not be lor| gotten. i Nowhere are mosquitoes so nu- , rnerous. There are two kinds of poison ous tlies. There are no snakes in Alaska Moose are plentiful. The llesl resembles horse llesh. Capital of stock companies or ganized to do business in Alaski aggregates $200,000,000. It is probable that withii twelve months Dawson will h within four days of Juneau. In Central and northern Alask: the ground is frozen to a depth o I 200 feet. Snowfall in the interior is von I light?six inches or so. The heaviest rain and snow i on the southeast coast. No land contains liner sprue* timber. In its low temperature go!* fillings in teeth contracts am falls out. l\se amalgam. Men born in southern latitude have become insane in the lonj dark. Take a chess board and men 1 ney prevent dementia. The medicine chest should hoh pills, pills, j)ills. A temperature 75 degrees be low zero has been recorded. When it gets lower than 5< there is no wind. A tent is as good as a house and is also cheaper. No shelter is needed oxcop when the wind blows. At othe times a sleeping bag answers al purposes. Just below rapids ice form only nine feet thick and ther fishing is done. At other place it reaches forty feet. In the dark season twiligli lasts six hours and almost an; kind of work can be done. Klk, cariboo and grouse an common and easily killed. Don't eat snow or ice. Melt it in OA iinlnoi* Jitovi i j innr? > In low temperatures the insith of the throat sometimes freezes This is locally called "frost burn ing." For frozen fingers use colt water. You can bathe only the fee and face. Sweat under blankets in sum mer or get rheumatism. I'nder foot is ice cake, ovei head is twenty-two hours' sun. Kverybody gets lice. Boil tin derelothing. Freeze sleeping bags Talk on the ice pack is heart for half a mile. An expert placer miner cat pan dry. Alaskaian "dust" is as big a wheat. Some gold is line enough 1( lloat. Wear silk gloves ami then lnr Canadian rapacity will driv? tlie miners into American Jerri tory. Canadian police are highly ef licient. lieindeor will he the future lo comotives. Alaskan doers are wondorfiilh intelligent. The natives eat much deeayer fish. They are all honest. Thousands of miners from othe; nations will go. Hay grows as high as a man'i head. Hardy vegetables can be raised All streams show gold fissures Take plenty of flour, liny all you think you need, then buj noro. Last winter a man killed himself bocause he had fiv< - pounds of baking powder and nt Hour. Under act of congress commu 1 nities of miners can make theii own laws. No thief gets a fairer trial any <x where, nor any prompter execu tion. I Make caches on platforms six e feet high. Wolves. It will pay you to wait a yoni \ or two. It costs $1,000 now ami f will cost $200 then. All distances are gigantic. It r is 2,500 miles from Sitka to Klondike. s All wood in the Aleutian Islands grew onglaei< rs in Alaska, e Whole forests break into the sea. lj Some streams are bridged by II glaciers. Some wood is beautifully pols ished by glacier action. H Avalanches in the interior arc unknown, i. Owing to dryness there is not much suffering from the cold. 1 Take a -10-80 rilie; with tele scope sights. One small tribe makes $2.500 n 3'oar from silver fox skins. They 1 arc worth .$250 each. Exnosed nortions nt* tl>o A - I VVVV . freeze in throe minutes. Enough library ; one Bible,one t Shakespeare. r Snowshocs not needed in tlu 1 mine country. Huv mines from discouraged s miners. e Trading companies will not s carry goods for competitors. A boat leaving Dawson Sept t 20 is chased to the mouth by y freezing water. Next year competition will b bring down their prices 50 pei cent. Meals on the boat up the rivei cost $ leach. b Men who have gone this wintei . tomake their living sawing wood - will not have time to saw much. ?II. S. Canfield, in Chattanooga 1 Times. t THE WONDER? OF SCIENCE. - LUNO TROUBLES AM) (ONSUMPTION CAN UK CLRKI). r All Eminent New York Chemist ami Scientist Hakes a Free Offer to Our Readers. i Tlio distinguished New York cheini? t. T. A. Slocum, demonstrating hidiscovery of u reliable and absolute 1 cure for Consumption (Pulmonary Tuberculosis] and all bronchial, throat, lung and chest diseases, stub5 born coughs,catarrhal atl'ect ions, general decline and weakness, loss ol flesh, and all conditions of wasting > away, will send TIMJKK FREE ItOTi'l'l I.'< mil .1; O'... ..I I.:- V I I eovery to any attlictcd rentier of tin1 , Kvikki-iiisk writing for them. 'I Ilis'Wew Solent i lit*. Treat incut" lifts ? cured thousands permanently by its ! timely use, and he considers it a simple professional duty to suffering iiiiiiiuuity to donate a trial of his infallible cure. Science daily develops new wonders, and this great chemist, patiently experiment ing for years, lias produced ! results as beneficial to humanity as can be claimed by any modern genius. His assertion that lung troubles and . consumption are curable in any clii mate is proven by "heartfelt letters of j gratitude," tiled in his American and . European labratories <n thousands * from those cured in all parts of the | world. j Medical experts concede t bat bron ] eliial, chest and Inn# troubles leail to I Consumption, which, uninterrupted, 1 means speedy and certain death. Simply write to T. A. Sloouin, M. C., 98 Pine street, New York, giving * postolllce and express address, and the free medicine will be promptly sent. Sull'erers should take instant advantage of his generous proposition. Please fell the I>ortor that you saw . his otfer in the Kntkkphisk. r CASTOniA. There is no Word so; Full of Meaning and about which such tender recollcctionsclustej ' ar,vl Mother's Friend so assists Nature in the change taking ' place that the Expectant Mother is j enabled to look forward without dread l to the hour when she experiences the , | joy of Motherhood. It insures safety 1 to both Mother and Child, and she is ! found stronger after than before con tinement?in short, it "makes Child- j ' ( birth easy," as so many have said.1 Don't be persuaded. Use nothing but1 "Mother's Friend" "My wifo Buffered more in ten minutes with ' either of her other two children then she did ] i altogether with her Inst,having previously used , I four bottles of "Mother's Friend." It is n bless- j tti$ to anyone expecting to boeotr.o a mother, ' I says n customer." Hkndkrson I)ai.K,Carmi, 111. j Sent \ y Mall, on re elit of price. ?i -o PI R HOTTt.!-. ! ' Book "T Kxpc tant Mother*'* m*ile?l froc, containing ^ valuable information ami voluntary testimonial*. Tmc bradfield regulator co. .atlanta.ga. old by all druggists. t?southhrn RAILWAV. CMtral Ttm. tletwsnn Columbia and Jnefc omrlllo. Eaalvrn rtuio rlirimti Co> , lumblu and Other Point.. I EFfEOTIVE IIAV 8, 1H97. I INo. BH. No. 30| Northbound. ^|ly. Lv. J'vtlle. 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The~uiu> Pullman drawing room l>uffot sleeping ears bo tween Jacks-,nvillo and Now York and A i? fiustu iMiil Chariot to. Pullman sleeping can *?twe?n Jaeksonvtljo und Columbia, on rout* tlniiy between Jacksonville and Clucli.r.uU, vu AshevHle. V II. UltliKN. J. M. CULP, <i. Sunt. Washington. T M Wa-ihlnrton. W. A. TL/'UK. 8. H. HARDWICK, O p. A.. WuaMngtoo. A. O P. A.. Atlanta "In addition to the nbove train pqrvire, tliere is a local train dai- ; ly between Columbia and Charlotte, making all stops. No. 34 leaves Columbia (Rlandingj iStreet) at 5:00 p. m., arrives | Charlotte 8:10 p. in. No. 33, leaves Charlotte daily 0 :30 p. m., j 1 arrives Columbia 9:55 p. m." PHILITOKEN. Is Woman's Sain and KcliaMc Friend. Ko i llovos monthly palnes, rurot nervousness and hysteria anil restores to period health. Sold by druggists and dealers for 11 a tattle. 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