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comj: TO— SANTA LU SE HEADQUARTERS —attiie (uainU, Marrurta) l*nl*on, Totter, Hcildhea«1. etcate. T. T. P^^gHy^^tgB^M>djB|^e»c«H*nt applti» wr. building up tho oystom rapidly. IjujIb* whooo ajatBins ara poiaci.nd and whoia blood la in a-: impnro rendition duo to manatrual Irrwgulirl- LIPPMAN BROS., Proprietors, WHOLE8ALISJPBUOOIST8. ■oomap Blor* SAVANNAH, GA If YOU WISH • To Advertise Anything Anywhere AT Any time WRITE TO Geo. P. Rowell & 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 eplcmlld medical work ; ahonld be road by every man who U nervous and debilitated. Address, Vrofa F. C, FOWLER Hood^vConn* FINE SHOW GASES .Aft-Ask lw. catalogue. TERRY M’r’G CO.. Nashville. Tehw Hiff O ts u/noT7:cose4 llie leading remo.lv for Oonorrbora * elect. 1 bo only Hue remeCjCfal LeucorrhcraorWliltca I nreecrlbe ltend feci ■tfe In rcooamendinf I i to all laflbren. A. J. STONES, M. D. Dec/ run. let, IP YOU HAVE mORPK Rim HEADACITE. DUMB AOFRc COS* TIVE BOWELS, HOUR STOMACH and SUA'HISO iff yoar foot! do«ii not no* •initiate and yon have no appetite, Ms Pills Will care tbeM troubles. Try thamj yon h»v«notbla| to loso,but will gain § Vigorous body. Price, 21c. per box* SOLD EVERYWHERE. TEN CENTS STORE 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 ✓ Famous : Minstrels, EUROPEAN ADUJNCl, INCLUDING : The : “Gradoc9: THEMIGNANI TROUP AND Edward Estees. Our new First Part entitled THE .;. BOAT .:. RA"E Between the R. E. Lee and Natchez. All tho Great Coinmedluns. All the 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 Minstrel show. Grand, free, open air con cert at 11:30 dally, Prices: first floor |1.00, gallery CO cents.- 70 % CD CO CD < CD CD 3 7T P> 3 Q. 2 CD P 3 > 3 CD O c CO m 0) S o; O g To il ~ rn a CD m mmm X 2 — o § 2*8 D § Hr z s OS. CD j Os r£ ol mm 0) H S' m<§ o* 50 (D $3 H H & S3 & (D u P, F (D CD o o X m z 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 vj Thornton Wheatley, mmnmiKmn Furnishing Goods, Shoes, Hats, Etc. WHEATLEYS CORNER, 423, 425 and 427 JACKSOFSTREET All Electric Cars Stop at Wheatley’s Comer, , 8 , < ) O •• .S < vt > *t >. 1 ,.o.ojar *<• a.j/ wmtm rJaryMO 6,