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' “Three from two you can’t,"
Bays the schoolboy. Right [ Three
from two you can’t, either in dol
lars or dividends or sarsaparilla.
It takes the best sarsaparilla root
to make the best sarsaparilla ex
tract. The best sarsaparilla comes
from Honduras, C. A., and the I>r.
Ayer Cos. practically controls the
entire product. Yet others claim
to be making “best” sarsaparilla.
They must be making it out of the
remainder left after subtracting
three from two. But, “ three from
two you can’t.” You can’t make the
best sarsaparilla without best root.
Y'ou only get the best when you
fitt Ayer’s
Sarsaparilla
which is made wholly from the best
root imported from Honduras.
The War hi Brief.
Events have moved rapidly during
the past few months, more rapidly
than at any time in American history.
And if Spain as reported, is now ready
to consent to terms of peace, the na
tion can look back upon an unparall
eled’ record. Victory has followed
victory so rapidly that it is necessary
to recall the leading occurrences to
realize fully what has been done.
Here is a brief recapitulation :
Aprd 22 —War was begun by a
blockade of the ports of Cuba.
May i—Commodore Dewey attack
ed and sunk the Spanish fleet in the
harbor of Manila.
May 24 —Commodore Schley’s
squadron blockaded Admiral Cer
vera’s fleet in Santiago harbor.
|une 20—Gen. Shatters army ar
rived ofl Santiago.
July 1 and 2 —The American
troops attack the Spanish, drove them
into Santiago, and captured El Caney
and San Juan.
July 3 —Admiral Cervera made a
dash out of Santiago harbor and every
one of his ships was sunk.
July 14—Gen. Toral surrendered
Santiago, the eastern end of the island
of Cuba, and 22,000 Spanish prison
ers.
July 26—First landing of United
States troops made in Porto Rico at
Guanica.
Aug. 6—Spain reported to have
accepted terms of peace and war
comes to an end.
This is a wonderful record to make
in 107 days. Considered in connec
tion of the unpreparedness of the
country for war it is a record no in
telligent man could have anticipated.
With the lessons learned in this war
as to the need of keeping a larger and
better equipped army and a navy ad
equate to the needs of the country,
and demonstration given of the war
like spirit of the nation, there is no
probability that any foreign power will
have the temerity to attack us. So
much for making the war short, sharp
and decisive.—Philadelphia Press.
Doctors Can’t
Cure It!
Contngioiu blood poison is absolutely
beyond the skill of the doctors. They
may dose a patient for years on their
mercurial and potash remedies, but he
will never be rid of the disease ; on the
other hand, his condition will grow
steadily worse. 8. S. S. is the only cure
for this terrible affliction, because it is
the only remedy which goes direct to
the cause of the disease and forces it
front the system.
1 was afflicted with Bleed Poison, and tha
bast doctor* did nv no good, though I took
a their treatment faith
fully. la fact, I seemed
to get worse nil tha
while. I took almost
every ao-eaUed blood
remedy, but they did not
Seem to reach the dll
ease. amt had no effect
i whatever. I w as d1 a
; heartened, for It seemed
1 that I would never be
v cured. At the advice of
8. 8. 8.. and began to Im
prove. 1 continued the
Ttedlelne. snd it cured me completely, build
ing up my health and Increasing my api>etlte.
Although this was ten years ago, I have nevei
yet had a sign of tha disease to return.
' W, R. Nrwman.
Staunton, Va.
It i* like self-destruction to continue
to t*ee potash nnd mercury; beside*
totally destroying the digestion, they
dry up the marrow in the bones, pro
ducing a stiffness and swelling of tbs
joints, causing the hnir to fall out, and
completely wrecking the system.
S.S.S. r Th. Blood
Is guaranteed Purely Vegetable, and is
we only blood remedy free from these
dangerous minerals.
Book on self-trectment sent free by
. mm\t% fc pec ilk) Company, Atlanta, Qa.
OF LOCAL INTEREST.
Gnarleij Brittain Writes
ftn Interests Letter
o
The following is a portion of a very
interesting letter written by Mr. Char
ley Brittain to his parents, on July
15th, on board the Comanche, near
Santiago:
I have taken a look at the country,
and of all the peoples in the world
that I’ve seen in my short career,
these Cuban natives rank lowest in
the scale of humanity. Of course,
these are the poorer class that we
see here, who only a few years ago
were slaves.
Most of these natives are as black
as any old-time Georgia negro I ever
saw, and they are worse off. by far,
than any of our ordinary darkies. A
great many live in what you would
take to be brush heaps a few yards
away from them, though some live in
straw covered huts. I have seen
more females than males and I sup
pose the reason for that is, the men
arc fighting in the Cuban army.
Even those who were left behind
carry machetes, from the oldest down
to the youngest. You will see an old
man, hardly able to get about carry
ing a machete hanging at his side,
and it is the same way with boys from
about 14 years old.
The small children run around in
the first suits of clothes they ever wore
—their birth-day suits. I never
wanted a kodak so badly in all my
life as I did two or three days ago,
when I saw a woman, black as tar,
leading along by the hand a five-year
old boy, or girl, blacker than she was,
and clothed only in dirt and sunshine.
1 wanted to get a snapshot of that
badly, for 1 fear I will never see just
such a sight as that was, in all of its
surroundings.
These beings live almost entirely
on the fruits that are growing wild
everywhere. They cultivate nothing.
Since our troops have been landing
here, the women stand around in
groups with large baskets of fruit and
and sell it to them. They take
American money every time in prefer
ence to Spanish, in fact, they get rid
of the Spanish as as fast they can by
selling it to the men at a great deal
less than face value.
One of our officers bought a Span
ish gold piece, valued at S2O, for $5
yesterday. A Spanish dollar is worth
about 40 cents in America, but of
course Spanish gold is good as any
other gold.
Barrett and 1 brought all of our
money over in gold, which we carry
in belts next the skin, but our silver
over here is worth just as much as it
is at home.
On last Sunday we sat on deck and
watched our lleet storm Moro. They
fired a great many shots at the castle
but no fire was returned at all. We
can see Moro very distinctly with
our glasses from this place.
Monday following they seemed to
be firing into the hills this side of
Moro, and we learned afterwards that
they were firing into Aguadores, and
they finally succeeded in burning the
place.
The work of unloading the trans
ports is necessarily very slow, (or
there is no wharf here and it has to
be done by means of a “lighter" and a
i steam tug. The lighter is a flat sim-
I ilar to a ferry boat.
They made the horses from the
Comanche swim ashore and it was a
pitiful sight to see the poor beasts
struggling in salt water about a hun
dred feet deep. They first thought
they could guide the horses to the
shore, but they soon found out that
they couldn't, for several of them
started for the shore and then turned
around and started lor the sea. They
didn't know what to do, so the men
put long ropes and halters on them
and towed them ashore two at a time.
Of course, to get them into the water
at all, they had to be pushed out of
the boat by main lorce. It seemed
cruel, but they had no other way of
doing it.
The work of unloading has been
stopped since the surrender of Santi
ago and our officers are awaiting fur
ther orders.* The order will either
come to move up to Santiago or to
start for Porto Rico, no one on board
here knows which it will be, and
some of them are getting nervous over
, the uncertainty of the thing.
Gen. Miles is down here now and
paid the Comanche a- short visit this
morning. He is certainly a line
looking man.
The Comanche has been feeding
us in first-class style up to the last
day or so, but they are getting down
to canned goods now. You know
it has been fifteen days since we left
Tampa, and everything is getting
low. The steward has informed us
that the ice would be out by tomorrow;
: then living will be a misery sure
| enough, for we've been getting all the
ice and iced drinks we wanted and
we will miss ice more than anything
else. They have given us turkey
every day tor dinner and roast beef,
fish at all times, chicken, steak, veg
etables and all kinds of stuft that I
can't begin to mention now. They
ought to feed us high for they make
us pay enough for it. Of course the
government furnishes transportation,
but our meals cost 11s $1.50 per day
whether we eat anything or not. The
officers have had to pay it as well as
we civilians.
There have been only three civil
ians on board the Comanche and it
would have made you laugh to see
the outfit that Durrett, the other civ
ilian besides Barrett and myself,
brought along with him. Durrett
came with Maj. Hutchens, of Ken
tucky, as his clerk and this is what
he brought with him for his Cuban
outfit: A Bowie knife, a pistol, a
pair brass knucks, two quarts of Ken
tucky liquor and thirty dollars.
How's that for a genuine Kentuck
ian ?
I see General Miles is burning all
of the old huts on shore. They
should have been burnt long ago. A
good many of our soldiers are re
ported sick, but most of the sickness
is due to malaria and sickness brought
about by the men eating the green
1 iruits they run across. There are a
lew isolated cases of yellow fever, but
they are carefully guarded and kept
I off to themselves. The cocoanuts we
get here are fine, especially the milk,
and healthy, but the other fruits are
not.
The big battleships are gradually
leaving the coast here, as they are no
longer needed, and I have already
seen the largest ones go by. They
look like floating castles as they go
by, and from the size and number of
the guns they carry it is easy to un
derstand how the Spanish navy was
destroyed. In the recent fight the
Oregon sent a 13 inch shell clean
through the Cristobal Colon, length
wise, from stem to stern.
We received a cablegram from
Sampson himself, while we lay at Key
West, announcing his annihilation of
the Spanish fleet, but since coming
here we have found out that Schley’s
fleet did all of the work. It fact,
Sampson was away up the coast when
Cervera’s fleet sailed out of the har
bor on that Sunday morning, and
came up just in time to take the honor
of the surrender from Schley. Cer
vera had already signalled his surren
der to the latter. That was pretty
bad on Schley.
Well. I guess I’ll let you off this
time with this much. Hope we will
succeed in getting some mail before
>ong. I suppose you are all well and
enjoying life.
As I can’t get any stamps, I’ll have
to send this through as a soldier's
letter and make you pay the postage
at that end.
Give my love to my friends and
tell them that 1 think about them
often and miss them. You know
that must be true, for when I board
ed the Comanche I didn’t know a
soul on board and had only known
Barrett for two or three weeks.
However, I have several friends on
board now.
Good-bye until next time. Hope
you will get this in due time.
Yburs affectionately,
Charles.
On board S. S. Comanche,
otf Doiquiri, Cuba.
THE TURN OF LIFE.
Owing to modern methods of living,
not one woman in % thousand ap
proaches this perfectly natural change
without experiencing a train of very
annoying and sometimes painful symp
toms.
Those dreadful hot flashes, sending
the blood surgiug to the heart until it
seems ready to _
nervous trouble. The nerves arc cry
ing out for assistance. The cry should
be heeded in time. Lydia E. Pink
ham's Vegetable Compound was pre
pared to meet the needs of woman’s
system at this trying period of her life.
Mbs. Dki.i.a Watson, 524 West 6th
St., Cincinnati, Ohio, says:
“1 have been using Lydia E. Pink
ham's Vegetable Compound for some
time during the change of life and i,t
has been a saviour of life unto me.
1 can cheerfully recommend it to all wo
men. and 1 know it will give permanent
relief. I would be glad to relate my ex
perience to any sufferer."
A FRICAN A will cure RheumaCaia ana
Scrofula to Stay Cured.
All druffftsto guarantee Dr. Mile*' PaiO
Fuxa to atop Headache. “Ow ccmt a do**,"
Time to Call a Halt.
There is truth in some of those old
sayings yet, despite the iconoclastic
touch of modern life, says Puck.
“Even the worm will turn,” for ex
ample. ,
The worm in question was small in
stature, but greatness of soul doesn t
always select a commensurate abiding
place.
“Elvira,” he began, hesitatingly and
low; “I've been a pretty patient
man.”
A snift was the only reply vouch
safed him.
“A pretty patient man,’’ he reiterat
ed in stronger tones. Since the day
we were married you've run this
household to suit yourself. You've
done all the talking and I've played
a thinking part and footed the bills.
Many things you’ve done that I have
n't approved of I’ve suffered to pass
without protest. But the line has to
be drawn somewhere. Tommy tells
me ”
He paused, overcome by emotion.
“Well, what ?” she demanded.
“Tommy, tells me,” in ringing
tones, *dhat you’re going to cut down
his old trousers for me—for me, his
father ! There is where I draw the
line !”
And, if looks mean anything, that
line was going to be a fairly efficient
trocha.
THE GREATEST DISCOVERY
YET.
W. M. Repine, editor Tiskilwa, 111.
“Chief,” says: “We won't keep
house without Dr. King’s New Dis
covery tor Consumption, Coughs and
Colds. Experimented with many
others, but never got the true remedy
until we used Dr. King's New Discov
ery. No other remedy can take its
place in our home, as in it we have a
certain and sure cure for Coughs,
Colds, Whooping Cough, etc.” It is
idle to experiment with other reme
dies, even if they are urged on you as
just as good as Dr. King's New Dis
covery. They are not as good, be
cause this remedy has a record of cure
and besides is guaranteed. It never
fails to satisfy. Tria' bottles free at
W. A. Wright’s Drug Store.
As Henry Grady used to put it, we
dig our grave vaults in monuments of
marble, and ornament them with spin
dling shafts from Vermont.
We feed our hogs on peaches, and
then buy for our own eating jellies
that are made of the apple cores and
peelings ot the slop tubs, and flavored
with peach stones and chemicals.
Our farmers destroy grass for six
months in the year, and buy that
which is grown by somebody else the
other six months, if not the whole
twelve of the year.
There is but one thing reduced to
mathematical persistence in Georgia,
and that is how to spend more than
we make.
FOR OVER FIFTY YEARS
Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup
has been used for over fifty years by
millions of mothers for their children
while teething, with perfect success.
It soothes the child, softens the gums,
allays all pain, cures wind colic and is
the best remedy for 1 )iarrhcea. It
will relieve the poor little sufferers
immediately. Sold by Druggists in
•every part of the world at 25 cents a
bottle. Be sure and ask for Mrs
Winslow's Soothing Syrup, and take
I no other kind.
'administratrix sale.
By virtue of an order of the Court
of Ordinary of said county, will be
sold at public outcry, on the first
I Tuesday in September 189S, at the
i court house of said county, between
j the usual hours of sale, the following
! real estate situated in Pike county,
1 Ga., to wit: One dwelling house and
\ lot of four acres on Greenwood street
lin the town of Barnesville, said state
: and county, it being the place at
which Chas. E. Lambdin, deceased,
lived at the ,ime of his death, bound
ed north by lot of J. C. Collier, south
|by lot of C. H. Rivere, east by said
| Greenwood street, and west by Thom
aston railroad right of way; also the
j east half 01 lot no 22 in the 7th Dist.
of said Pike county, containing 100
acres more or less. Property sold for
distribution; terms cash.
Mrs. Annie Lambdin.
Admrx. of Chas. E. Lambdin.
I
An Old Idem.
Every day strengthens the belief of emi
nent physicians that impure blood is the
cause of the majority of our diseases,
i Twenty. five years neo this theory was used
j as a basis for the formula of Browns’ iron
' Bitters. Tfie many remarkable cures effected
by this famous old household remedy are
sufficient to prove that the theory is correct.
; Browns’ Iron Bitten ia sold by all dealers.
Wanted: —Lot of country raised
I goose-feathers. S. M. Howard.
A STARTLfD MOTHER
Stranger Happening *0 Her Four-year Old Daughter—Did
not Realize the Danger Until too Late.
While bney at work in her home. Mrs. W il
liam Sliav, corner of Taylor ana Hancock
Avenues, Freeport,*lll.. was startled by liear
inca noise just behind her.
Turning quickly she saw creeping toward
her, her four- veur-old daughter, Beatrice.
The child moved over the floor with an effort,
but seemed tilled with joy at finding her
mother.
Beatrice Shan.
The rest of the happening is best told in
the mother’s own words. She said :
“On the 28th of Sept. 1696, while in the
bloom of health Beatrice was suddenly and
severely afflicted with spinal meningitis.
Strong and vigorous before, in five weeks she
became feeble and suffered from a paralytic
stroke which twisted her head back to the side
arid made it impossible for her to move a limb.
Her speech however was not affected. We
called in our fumily doctor, one of the most
experienced and successful practitioners in
the city. He considered the case a very grave
one.
“ The child’s body was bandaged to keep
her in position. Soon it was seen that other
means must be adopted. Little Beatrice,
much against her will, was housed up in a
plaster pnris jacket which she wore for sev
eral months.
“In the hope of receiving some help lor
the child we consulted in turn nine of the
SPRIN3 AND SUMMER TRADE.
J. W. HIGHTOWER,
—DEALER 11ST—
HARDWARE,
Stoves and Tinware,
Asricnltnral Impleasnls, Bellini, Carriase Material, Gutlery, Hora
Ftraisliai Goads, Gdhs, Pistols, AnniiOD, Etc.
FARMING IMPLEMENTS.
My store is headquarters for all kinds of Farming Imple
ments such as Plow Stocks, Cotton Pcanters, Plows , Chains ,
Collars, Backhands, Lines and almost everything needed by the
farmer.
House Furnishing Goods.
I carry complete lines of Cooking and Heating Stoves, Tin*
ware, Woodenware, Crockery, Cutlery, Silverware.
Electric Liglit and Waterworks Fiitires.
Call to see my stock, examine my goods , and gtt my prices
l will appreciate the patronage of the people.
J. W. HIGHTOWER,
GAUNESYILLE, GEORGIA.
JACKSON G. SMITH
BARNESVILLE GA
*T*here are more buggies in use to-day of
* his make than any other on earth.
WHYP^SD
They are Best-
One of them will wear longer than two of any other make and
four to six of some kinds.
Manv of them, 15 to 20 years old, are doing active hard service
to-day.
For thirty-two years they have been made of the best material
money will buy. by the best workmen to be had.
We will quit the buggy business before we will turn out anything
not strictly first-class.
The people know that these are facts.
Be glad to sell you one. Yours faithfully,
J. G. SMITH A SONS.
te£~HAVE A FEW STOVES AT $2 to $5 worth $5 to $l5.
Mins
JOB WORK.
From the Bulletin, Freeport, 111.
I moat prominent physicians of Freeport. Two
of them applied electric batteries, but none
of the doctors’ treatment gave any iasting
benefit. It wastlien that my liusband’soppor
tune visit to a drug store brought us the
means which led to the cure of our child.
\Vhile there he learned of the wonderful
power of Hr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale
People, ami decided to buy some for our
daughter’s benefit.
“We tried them and the hopes which we
had fixed regarding their merits were much
more than realized before one box of the pilla
had been used.
“Busy in mv kitchen one nfternoon 1 was
startled'with the cry of ‘ Mamma’from little
Beatrice who wub creeping toward me. I
had placed heron an improvised bed in the
parlor comfortably close to the fireside and
given her some books and playthings. She
Became tired of waiting for me to come back
and made up her mind to go to me, so her
story ‘My Pink Pills made me walk,’ which
shetells everyone who comes to our house,
wastben for the first time verified. Shelias:
walked ever since. She bus now taken about
nine boxes of the pills and her pale and
pinched face has been growing rosy, and her
limbs gained strength day by day. She
sleeps ull night long now, while before taking
the pills she could rest but a Tew hours at a
time.
“ I shall be glad if anything that I can
say for Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale
People, may he of benefit to those in pain.
There must be many children who suffer as
Beatrice did and I hope that my story will
be noticed by their parents.”
A specific for all forms of weakness is ob
tained in I)r. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale
People. The blood is vitalized and becomes
pregnant with the elements of life. The ner
vous system is reorganized, all irregularities
arc corrected, strength returns and disease
disappears. So remarkable have been the
cures performed by these pills that their'fame
has spread to the far ends of civilization..
Wherever you go you will find the most im
portant article in every drug store to be Dr
Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People.