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AT Any time
WRITE TO
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No. 10 Spruce Street
NEW YORK.
T9 WEAK MEN
buffering from tko effect! of youthful error* early
tecay, waiting weakness. lost manhood, stc.. I will
lend a valuable treatlae f sealed) containing ful.’
particular! for homo care, PR EE ot charge. A
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man who U nervous and debilitated. Address,
Vrofa F. C, FOWLER Hood^vConn*
FINE SHOW GASES
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Dec/ run. let,
IP YOU HAVE
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SUA'HISO iff yoar foot! do«ii not no*
•initiate and yon have no appetite,
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yon h»v«notbla| to loso,but will gain
§ Vigorous body. Price, 21c. per box*
SOLD EVERYWHERE.
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ary Hrnhllli, Syphilitic Rhanmitlam. Scrofuloui Ulcer!
and Hnrmi dlandular Swellings, libaamAtlam, Malaria,
old Chronic Uk-*-a that lure, rwlttad all tresttpsr*
Holiday Goods of all kinds.
Dolls, Vases, Plush Goods,
Toys, Work Boxes, Albums,
a handsome lot of Toilet Cases, etc.
If you want to make a handsome
present to your friends, the TEN
TEN CENTS STORE Is the place
to select it.
J. Z. SOLOMON,
427 COTTON AVENUE.
OPERA HOUSE.
One night only,
Wednesday, Dec. 17th.
ALG FIELDS & CO’S
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EUROPEAN ADUJNCl,
INCLUDING
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THEMIGNANI TROUP
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Edward Estees.
Our new First Part entitled
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Between the
R. E. Lee and Natchez.
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Great Dancera. All the Great Singers. All
everything! In minstrelsy. Worth
showing, owning or seeing. The finest
hand and street parade ever seen with a
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TREMENDOUS RAPID FIRING.
A fix Inch Gan Ponrs Oak Shot After
Shot at Enormous Speed.
Some important experiments were car
ried out at the artillery range of Sir W.
G. Armstrong, Mitchell & Co. The
principal object of trial was a six inch
quick firing gun of 40 calibers of length
on a mounting of new design, specially
arranged to bo suitable for either the
upper decks or tho between deck bat
teries of our new cruisers. Another
feature of this trial was the use of cord
ite, tho new smokeless gunpowder,
which has been tho subject of extensive
trial during tho last twelve months and
seems likely to mal^o a complete revolu
tion in artillery warfare. The proof of
this gun was carried out by tho Wool
wich authorities at Silloth, when tho
remarkable velocity of 2,609 f. a. was
obtainwl with a charge of cordite pow
der.
The* programme began by firing five
rounds with a charge of E X E powder
and service projectile for rapidity. Tho
total time of firing these five rounds was
0 sixty-one seconds. Tho same experiment
was then carried out with a charge of
cordite, but after three rounds the firing
was stopped for a few minutes to remove
a burr in the threads of the breech ac
tion, caused by sand getting into the
gun. The first three rounds of this series
were fired in twenty-four seconds, and
the second two in fifteen seconds. Five
rounds were then fired with EXE
powder (non-smokeless) and service pro
jectile at a target which consisted of two
casks lashed together with a flag above
them, at 900 yards range.
There being no yrind the smoke hung
a great deal, and tho firing was there
fore directed by an observer who stood
clear of tho smoke. The five rounds
were fired in sixty-one seconds, the tar
get being struck twice, the other three
shots just missing.
To .show the advantage of cordite over
the EXE powder five rounds were then
fired with tho former at the same target,
the flag and staff of which still remained
upright, as tho tide being low the target
rested on sand. It was found quite feas
ible to fire with the utmost rapidity, and
yet, on account of tho smokeless quality
of the powder, to aim each shot deliber
ately. Tho result was that out of the
five shots the target was actually struck
four times (which completely destroyed
tho casks and perforated the flag several
times), and tho last shot was only five
yards short; and these five rounds with
the above remarkable accuracy were got
off in the snprisingly short time of fifty-
five seconds.
Five rounds with EXE were now
fired, changing from one target to an
other, three targets being placed at
ranges 900, 1,400 and 1,800 yards, and
spread out so that the* gun had to be
traversed through a considerable arc of
training in going from one to the other.
The results were os follows: 1, 900 yards,
hit target; 2, 900 yards, hit target; 3,
1,400 yards, fifty yards over; 4, 1,400
yards, hit target; 5, 1,800 yards, hit tar
get, cutting flagstaff.
Tho total time of these five rounds
was 8 minutes and 43 seconds, but
a few seconds’ delay was occasioned
by the cap of a cartridge case, which
was only temporarily secured for these
experiments, falling off in tho gun
daring loading, which necessitated re
loading. Five rounds of cordite, under
similar conditions to the lost series, were
now fired at the 900 and 1,400 yards tar
gets, the 1,800 yards one being no longer
visible. The results were as follows:
1, 900 yards, hit target; 2, 900 yards, hit
target, cutting flagstaff; 3, 1,400 yards,
ten yards over; 4, 1,400 yards, five yards
over; 5, 1,400 yards, twenty yards over.
The total time for these five rounds was
1 minuto 37 seconds.
The gun was then fired with 5 degs.,
10 degs., 12 degs., 15 degs. and 20 degs.
elevation, with charges of E X E and
cordite, to test the mounting, and except
for a little difficulty in running out when
at 20 deg3. elevation everything weut
perfectly.—London Times.
IIF YOU WA3XTTI
A MERRY CHRISTMAS,
—GO TO-
Little Mardre’s
jngjninoTH book store
Where you will find an elegant and carefully selected stock from
which to choose. His goods are all new and of the
most elegant and novel styles
An Irish Legend.
Among the legends of Ireland is this
beautiful and suggestive myth — the
islands of life and deuth. In a certain
lake in Munster there were two islands.
Into the first death conld never enter,
but age and sickness and the weariness
of lifo and the paroxysms of fearf nl .suffer
ing all were there known, and they did
their work till tho inhabitants, tired of
their immortality, learned to look upon
tl^e opposite island ns upon a haven of
repose. They launched their Kirks npon
the gloomy waters; they touched its
shore and they were at rest. Thislegend
represents with pathetic fidelity the sad
Erin of today, looking over to Atlantis
across tho sea—America, tho haven of
reposo, tho shores of rest. Of tho four
and one-half millions of Irish people now
left in Ireland it is safe to say SO per
cent, have an ambition some day to see
tho land of the free and the home of Yan
kee Doodle.—Cor. Lewiston Journal.
SUFFERERS
:QF:
Texas Onc-Tcnth the Country.
A great many .people want to know
how. largo Texas is in area. They look
in quite a number of alleged statistical
| abstracta’and never find tho same figures
in two of them. Tho official figures of
| Texas area are 252,CM square miles—
I equal to about 8.0 per cent, of tho entire
area of tho United States and territories.
Texas is six times larger than New
| York, seven times os largo os Ohio, and
I 100,000square miles larger than all the
, eastern and middle states, including
| Delaware and Maryland. Compared
| with the countries of Europe she has
I #4,000 square miles more than tbo Aus-
I trian empire, 62,000 more than the Ger-
' man empire, and nearly 70,000 square
i miles more than Franco,—Texas Trade
I Journal.
A Valuable Deg.
Bilking—Bothered by a piano next
I door, eh? Well, I havo.a dog which al-
Youthful Errors
Lost Manhood, Early Decay, etc., «*7W»l“wo him If it'won't fcr'ono
etc., can secure a home treatise free I thing-
by addressing * fellow sufferer, • C. Wilkins—Is ho crom?
W.Leek, P. O. Box 310, Koanihe.iB01dii.-No. I can-tspate him.-New
Virginia. * ^ TarkWojkly.
Books of any and all Kinds.
Bibles of all styles, Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary, sheep binding and Indexed, at $4.8 . Works of
standard authors in sets, such as Shakespeare, Dickens, Bulwer, l hackery. Sir NValtei^Scott, Mrs. McKevier,
and mauv others. Also choice series for children iu sets. Political works in abundance ani at prices ranging
from the cheapest to the finest. Picture and story books for the ii'tle folks. A beautilul line of booklets,
Albums, etc., etc.
Plush Goods of every Description.
Manicure Bets, CoIlarlandjCu IT Boxes, Traveling Cases, etc. A magnificent line of Fapetriea. Portfolios,
Ink Stands, etc., etc.
Pictures! Pictures !! Pictures!!!
Oil paintings, steel engravings, Artotypes, I’ustels, etc. Also an elegant assortment of easels and pict
ure frames. A flue lot of Bisque figures, flowerpots, etc., mirrors of alt sizes and styles.
Christmas Cards. -
The most elaborate stock ever brought to Americus. Prices range from ten cents to $hree dollar,
apiece. Dolls from the largest to the smallest, and at prices ranging from five cents to ten dollars.
, Dolls, Dolls, Dolls.
From the smallest to the largest, and at prices ranging from five cents to leu dollars.
Toys, Toys, Toys.
Doll Carriages, Velocipedes, Hobby HorseB, Express Wagons, etc. In fact, anything and everything in
the shape of a toy. Be sure not to purchase your Christmas presents until you have called and examined the
most m«»nificent display of Christmas goods ever shown iu this city.
Little Mardre,
I 05 and 107 FOKSYTH STREET,
AMERICUS, CEOROIA*
CALL ON
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Thornton Wheatley,
mmnmiKmn
Furnishing Goods,
Shoes, Hats, Etc.
WHEATLEYS CORNER, 423, 425 and 427 JACKSOFSTREET
All Electric Cars Stop at Wheatley’s Comer,
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