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LAN IolixT~ ? FR0URES8 OF BOER WAR. j Buller S11 pposed to bo Making Wide Detour to Reach Ladysmith?Large Operations About to Begin in tho West. London, Feb. 6.?Military opin | ion in London continues to as-J sumo from very slender materials that, Gen. Buller is again throwing his army against the Boer works. A retired genera!. Sir William Henry Greene, whose distinguished career gives weight fc<7 hie opinion, thinks that Gen. Buller, with 25.000 men, is making a wide detour to the west and . north in order to avoid the rough) est parts of the country. As Gen. " Buller must have some thousands of wagons, Sir William Greene poihts out that the advance must necessarily be slow. No authentic word is at hand, save that the war offioe reaffirmed orally to newspaper inquiries at a late hour that it could not confirm the reported advance. There the Natal situation rests. It is from the western field that more definite statements come. Large operations are apparently about to begin. Gen. French who has now returned to Rensburg from his conference with Lord Roberts, has sent what is describ ed as> an overwhelming force of infantry to seize Norval's Point. This is where the railway, before f it was destroyed, crossed the Orange Piver and connected with the Free State trunk line to Bloemfontein. Norval's Point is 19 miles north of Colesberg and 25 miles from Gen. French's headquarters at Rensburg. The Boers at Coles berg have been in danger of being surrounded by the largely reinforced and extending lines of the British. An occupation of Norval's Point in force would, presumably, render Colesberg untenable. The Boers are showing great activity in the Naanwpoort and1 esborg districts. Many of thci guns hitherto fa ing Lord Methueii are beiiev. i o liave whip l to Norvai's l'on.t. British, therefore, may find formidable i bodies of Boers there. L The war cflico announces that 15 transports will be dispatched; between today and Monday, with! 13,000 troops, including the ltli cavalry brigade, militia ha*tal ions, and 3,000 yeomanry BUI.I,I'll MAY ItK PI6IITIXU. London, Feb. 5.?The war ollice statement that it has received no confirmation of the report that j ....... A Narrow Escape. Thankful words written hy Mrs. Ada E. Hart, of Groton, S. 1). i "Wan taken .vith a bad cold which settled on my lunge; cough set in and finally terminater! in Consumption. Four Doctors gave up, saying'I could live hut. n short time. 1 gave myself up to my Savior, determined if could not stay with my friends on earth, I ? would meet my absent ones above. My husband was advised to get Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, (loughs and Colds. I gave it a trial, took in all eight bottles. It has cured mo, and "thank God, 1 am saved and now a well and healthy woman." Trial bottles free at Crawford Hros.' Drug Store. Regular size 50c snd $1. Guaranteed or price refunded. 1. t.-' 0 \ AST? LANCASTER, S. C Gon. Iiuller has recrossed the! Tugela river has failed to shakej public belief that, operations of M tremendous importance are pro i ceeding at the Tugela, and it is thought that either the denial; was prompted by a desire to keep j f the military movements as secret as possible until something is no complished, or that Gen. Huller; is keeping the home officials in j the dark pending results. It is! obviously extremely difficult to extract the truth from the confl lr?f i no cto t??v>o Uiviiuf^ omtUUiUIilO Bli tlUUIiUlUg 11 Gen. Buller's movement, but most 1 of the commentators agree that " the aggregate of the items tends 0 to confirm the belief that move- t ments of importance are in pro- p gress. It is true that the correspondents at Gen. Buller's head- t quarters convey the impression that his main force is still south o of the Tugela, but it is easily t, conceivable that the dispatches ? . r are so censored as to convey a p false impression. Possibly, though n dated Saturday and Sunday, the a dispatches were, in reality, writ- n ten prior to the movements reported to have commenced on j, Friday. This has already happened on various occasions, die- u patches being detained by the 0 censor and redated when actually a released. p Whatever may be the actual f situation, there seems no doubt " that Gen. Buller's preparations c for a fresh attempt to relieve | Ladysmith were completed on n Thursday or Friday, and though ii the start was possibly deferred H from the date first selected, it 1 will not be long before it. is defi- 1 niteJy known that Gen. Buller's r forces are again fighting their ? way toward Ladysmith. Those, v however, who expect den. Buller 1 to r-'aoh the beleaguered town11 tonight, seem (o have forgotten I the presence ( the Boers. The v best informed people, while san- l guine, fully realize that a British victory can only be achieved at a j J1 heavy cost. A Frightful Blunder Will often cause a horrible1 ? Burn, Scald, Out or Bruise. Buck 1,, leu's Arnica Salve, the best in the t world, will kill the pain and N promptly h' sl it. Cure* <)!d Sores ' Fever Sores, I Beers, Boils, Felons ("orris, all Skin Frimtir.ns rn.r-f I'ile cure on earth. Only els :i , box. (biro guaranteed. Sold by ' Orawforu Bros , Druggists. i ,, .Memphis Itauk Cleverly Swindled. Memphis, Feb. 8.?The Mem- ' phis national bank was victimized yesterday by a forced check for" $5,1540 purporting to have heenjr drawn by Edward Smithers, the (<> major surgeon and disbursing of-111 fieer of the United States army at j San Francisco and payable to the order of S. A. Hvrne and endorsed by him. I < The bank advanced the holder ^ $1,000. It has since tieen ascer-1 e taincd that tho check wan one of o a number stolen from Srnither's ' ollice by a former employee and j1 the signature forged. The man who presented the check disap-; ; peered. I . , _ t After doctors lulled to euro me of pneu' * nioniu I used Dm' Minute Cough euro and v three bottles of it cured me. It In also the best remedy on earth for whooping cough. It cured I] mv granuchlldrch of the worst cases," writes i John Horry, Loganton, Fa. It Is the only harmless remedy that gives Immediate results *, Cares coughs, colds, croup and throat and lung troubles It prevents consumption. Children 0 alwuys like ft Mothers endorse It. Crawford Bros. d-w-a ' v SEM I-WEEKLY. L, SATURDAY, FEBF FERTILIZERS HIGHER. lLL THE CRUDE MATERIA US, HAVE MATERIALLY AD VANUED. 'resident Morgan, <>1 The Virginia-Carolina Chemical Com pany Says the Selling Priee is Lower Than Cost, ot Materials; Warrant. Richmond, Va., Fell. 1, ISKK) To the Editor: My attention lias as been called to a communication in he News and Observer, published nder date of January 31, 1900, in eference to the advance in the price f fer ilizera, wherein it is stated that he farmers of Pitt county, N. C., proose to organize and tight (he advance n the prices of fertilizers, and by ininuation our Company is censured as he cause of this advance. I desire to make a plain statement f facts and conditions as now obnined in the fertilizer trade, and to how to the dealers and consumers of ertilizers that the advance in the nve ui luunuiaciureu fertilizers is ot only just and warranted, but is bsolutely necessary, and that the lanufacturers of fertilizers could not fford to sell them at the price ruling tat year unless they did so at a very eavy loss. Now to get down to facts and llgres; we will see what has really austd the price of fertilizers to be dvanced this year over last: Acid Phosphate being one of the irincipal ingredients in all complete ertilizers, I desire to show here how luch this article costs to make in exess of the cost price for the same hing last year. The advance in pyrLes, from which sulphuric acid is nade, is more than $2.00 per ton over ast year. The advance in Nitrate of ioda, which is a necessary ingredient n the manufacture of sulphuric acid, s fully $8.00 per ton more than last ear. Phosphate Rock has advanced a ninimum of $1.75 per ton at the mines, ind in some grades of rock the adanco is more than $5.00 per ton. These three articles constitute what is lecessary to made Acid Phosphate. *ut them together in the proper pro- j torliou and a ton of Acid Phosphate rill cost .<2.07 per ton more than it did | ast year. Hags are costing us 20 cents per ton 1 uore than they did hist year, so that . he crude materials going into a ton if Acid Phosphate is costing approximately .<2.27 more than it did a year , , .1 jiii. i- <u lactiirj >ll|lj)lll'.s ami machinery, coal, ami everything n< sary to operate a fact >ry, n from 2.1! o 100 per l eu!, higher than it was a ear ago. This will add certainly an j alditiunai 10 ?*? iTt to the i :i~t of a ton if fertilizer, making in 11. most eon-| mvativ and reasonable estimate j . ..-si tile a ton ol id per < nl Aeiil Phos- i diatr. bagged and ready for shipment, ( osl lite at. innfae! nrer $2.;;7 more t httn ^ t did twelve months ago. Now let lis look at complete ammo-: dated fertilizers: We will take what ; s commonly known as standard grade , if complete fertilizer, running, say,; pe?* cent of ammonia, S per cent of vailabh phosphoric acid, and I per ?*iit of potash As I have above dem- , nst rated, acid phosphate costs $2 07 i lore than last year This is eqtiiva- , put.to a little more than 10 cents per Spain's Greatest Need. Mr. K. L\ Olivia, of liarcelonia,j pain, spends Ins winters at Ai-i ,eii, S. C. Weak nerves-had auaed severe pains in the back j f his head. On using Klictric \ iittiTJ, America's greatest Blood! nd Nerve Remedy, all pain soon fit him. lie says this grand mod-1 cine is what his country needs. VII America knows that it cures! iver and kidney trouble, purifies j he Mood, tones up the stomach,' trenuthens the nerves, puts vim, igor and now life into every) uuscele, nerve and organ of the : tody. If weak, tired or ailing you J iced it. Every bottle guaranteed, nly 50c. Sold by Crawford Bros., j )ruggists. 1,1 TERF tUARY 10,19QO. Absolutely'l ? Makes the food more de "OvM tSAKINO POW 100 pounds. In making the 2)4, Sand 1 fertilizers, 1,200 pounds of acid phosphate would be necessary, so at 10 cents additional cost per 100 pounds, the additional cost for acid phosphate would be $1.20. If cotton seed meal was used for the ammonia, it would take approximately 700 pounds, and cotton seed meal is now worth $0.00 per ton more than i crmatiy. so it can not be said that our company controls or is in any wise responsible for the advance of these materials, as we have no interest whatever in any of these properties, either directly or indirectly. Take phosphate rock : We do mine a small proportion of onr wants of phosphate rock, hilt we mine none for sale and we buy from other mines more than two-thirds of what we consume. So no one will suppose that we were anxious to put up the price of pho.?ip!i:ite rocks. A - for cotton so *d m >:il we Have no nterent eiliier directly or indirectly in any cotton .-ce?l nil mill, .-owe are no' rc-pon-ibl" for t In* advance in this article. '!ood . : i ! t mkayfe are made !>_ tin* ' !!* ; jn:c!?".-- i*i the tVi !, and ut* Iiavt* ii.i interest ami no rotilrol over these pmducls in a:i.\ way. Why, lti;*:i, shouid I In* Virjjiniat'nrolina <heu.i.al Company be blamed for lhe ad\ance in the cost of crude materia! , anil . mid it tie business-lii.e for us t 1 wan' an advance in ( ru le inaieri i! , ni which we have to buy almost entirely allot' our needs ami of which we produce absolutely not bine-, except .1 sin.ili ipiantiiy of pho-pliate rocU? It is our aim and purpose to manufacture lertili/. r- '.s cheap y as possible and to sell them at a low price as we can alford, thereby st imulatinj; a large eoiisiiinption of fertilizers and their general one for all crops. Let us see how the farmer is situated: lie is gett iug I his year from to 51 cents a pound for his cotton more than last jear.and we understand that for a great deal of the cotton seed the cottonseed oil mills are now paying Jfi cents per bushel Are these advances wrong, and arc the manufac turers who arc having to nse this product condemning the parties who produce them, simply because the demand is such that the price has increased so enormously over last year? At present prices the farmer can sell the cotton seed from one acre of land and buy as much fertilizers as he usually puts over two to three to ci;ki: a <:oi,i> n o*k day Take I.axativk Hkomo Qtinink Tabi.kts, All druggists refund the ino ?ey if it fails to cure. K. W. Gbovk'm signature on every box. cents. 1. iasi year, which is equivalent to 30 cents per 100 pounds, and 700 pounds would cost $2.10 more than it did last year. Now add 20 cents for extra cost 'of the bags and you have $3.60 per ton more for the materials than we paid for these same materials last year. If tankage or blood was used for the source of ammonia instead of cotton seed meal, the advanced cost over last vear would hp 43 90 nnr fori oa mmmnn ia from tankage or blood is now 60 cents per unit higher than last year, so tor 2}g per cent of ammonia the extra cost over last year would be $2.80. Sulphate of ammonia is tne only other source of ammonia commonly used in the manufacture of fertilizers. Twelve months ago this article was selling at about $12.00 per ton. We paid for it this week $62.00 per ton. Now I assert that the price of fertilizers has not advanced nearly so much as the price of raw materials going into them. Let us see who is to blame if any one, for the advance of these crude materials. Take Pyrites : We buy from Spain more than threefourths of all we use. Nitrate of Soda: We buy entirely from South America. Potash Salts: We buy entirely from city today. After the wind \nd rain subsided a heavy enow bepan i'aliinp. Indianapolis, Feb. S. -A torride wind storm swept western Indi-iua and eastern Illinois oarly thi> rnominp. ('ollinsville. 111., Feb. S.? Nine I people were seriously injur-d in a tornedo ibis tnovuiup ami much dam i:r .va - done i property. A proup of fine residences ;>uticii? of the town ..ere reduced to j splinters. Minneapolis, Feb. i>.?The mv t sn >w :;fi,nn of i !io winter, la: nipanied by high wind and * low temperature, occurred here : ttoday. Business is paralyzed. ()malia. Feb. 8.?A storm which began hero last night is row a I blizzard and isstill raging. Street , trallic is considerably delayed. Chicago, Feb. 8.? A blizzard of huge proportions is raging in Nebraska and there is great danger to lives and stock. Snow is I falling and is being driven by heavy gales. There was a drop of I 12 degrees in six hours. 'The thermometer is 12 degrees below zero at Bismarck, 18 below zero at Wildstou and 21 below zero at Prince Alberta. ( ?'?> lUrlip, Mciulolii. V.i.. says, "Nothing i id ini' ho mui-h good us Ivodnl l> mi I x-hiCura Onr ilosi' roliovoil me. a fuw Imttlcs cured me." It digests what you eat uihI always euros dys popsiiu Crawford Uros. d-w-s John Ihrr. Poscyvillo, Intl., says, "I never used any thing as eood as *>?? Minute Cough f'nrt' W < ore never without it." Quickly breaks up coughs and cold Cures all throat and lung troubles. Its use will prevent consumption Pleasant to take. Crawford llros 1-wMothcr's 'Crusted Friend, Simmons Stiuav. Vine Wine or 'l'ablots. Prepare the System for Confinement, Shorten r.abor and make Child birth Easy, >RISE. NO. 91 8 Bakina i$U PoVvDEH >U55E licious and wholesome OCR CO., NIW YORK. acres, even though there is a small ud? vance in the price of fertilizers, caused by the manufactures haying to pay high prices for the materials entering into them. We propose to be perfectly fair and candid in our statements and believe tbat when an unprejudiced farmer looks into the situation he will realize that he is not charged as much for fertilizers as the cost of materials under present conditions warrant. Yours very respectfully, S. T. Morgan, Pres. Virginia-Carolina Cheml. Co. That Throbbing Headache Would quickly leave you, if you used Dr. King's New Life Pills. Thousands of sufferers have proved their matchless merit for Sick QnH M OrTTAll a IlAO/lo/ikAn HP L MUV* vt ?wuo xxvnuavyiion. A UOJ make pure blood and strong nerves and build up your health Easy to take. Try them. Only 25 cents. Money back if not cured Sold bv Crawford Bros., Drug. 1 BLIZZARD IN THE WEST. Five States Swept by Wind, Snow and Cold. St. Louis, Feb. 8.?Oue death and widespread property damage resulted from a severe wind storm that swept this city early today. Rain fell in torrents before the blow set in. JefTerson City, Mo., Feb. 8.? Anton ileister was blown from his door to a stone wall and killed in n wind otnrm thof onranf fKio