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18 SHADOW BANDS AND THEIR GADSES. nr william r. aikkn, m. i>. At the invitation of Prof. Otis Ashmore tif writer undertook the almost task of obtaining pho tfrraphs of the so-called shadow-bands and tring the recent total eclipse of the sun. 'lfe work was undertaken under the skill oj supervision of Prof Ashmore at the leiited States Naval Observatory station ai Bartlesville, stt|’orintend(d by Prof. N, P'pdegraff. a gtntletnan whose scien tijc zeal is matched by a charming court *7 *'hile awaiting ihe quite problematical of the development of the photo- places, the writer has arrived at obtain conclusions relative to the prob alple nature of the shadow-bands, based ocular observations made while pho tographing them, which conclusion* were, in a crude way, laid before the fiavan ntdi Curaera Club May SO last, but which art herewith published for the first time. to the unavoidable haste in which this article is prepared, it assumes to be nothing moV pretentious than a prelim inary report. It is to be hoped, however, that it may contain certain pregnant truths that will in good part elucidate the seeming mystery hitherto shrouding a curious phenomenon attending the manifold wonders of a total eclipse of the sun. The bauds in question were very appar ent both Immediately before and after the total phase of the eclipse. They were caught upon a white canvas screen at tached to <he frame serving as a wind* break about the structure supporting the objective, or eastern, end of the great forty-foot photo-heliograph. The base line of the screen ran exactly north and south; if faced <o the east and slightly upward, inasmuch as the frame inclined toward the west at the ton at an agle of about 15 degrees At its base, extending over the ground toward the east, was attached a wide s-tretch of sheeting, re - \ ■ Fl*. I. veinbling in its arrangement a photo grapher's “floor-ground.” This nearly, horizontal extension was designed to show the motion of the hands at a considerable angle, as compared with the upright screen. Both parts of the screen display ed prominent marks, indicating dimen sions in oil directions to facilitate meas uring both ocular and photographic re sults. The shadow-bands appeared as distinct ly contrasting but elusivelv outlined and vaguely spindle-shaped markings arrayed in seemingly straight ranks, which ranks moved rapidly in a direction at right an gles to their iengih, marching across the upright screen from above and from the left of the observer, standing with his back to the eclipsed sun. In other words, they moved diagonally downward and northward. The long axis of each spin dle-shaped or ripple-shaped marking pointed roughly toward the North star. Each “ripple” appeared to be from one to perhaps three feet long and from one to three or possibly four inches across. In color they resembled lighter rd darker Shades of smoke, showing absolutely no trace if color, only the varying tint* cf a mono chrome gray. They chased eiph other across the screen-like wind-ripples flowing over a large flag. Their vagueneaa of out line together with the neutral color r.nl r%pid flowing motion, to say nothing of the mental tension of the observer, mide any more accurate estimation of their ex act size quite out of the question. Owing to the necessarily rapid handling of he camera no opportunity occurred for the ■wTiter to note the appearances on the hori zontal street. Providentially the behavior of the bands on horizontal surface was noted by a most competent witness and scientifically trained observer in the person of Cupt. t'axsiue K. Gillette, U. S. A., Engineer Corps, who detailed his observations to the writer within seventeen hours after the eclipse. While walking due east along road directly below' the hill wheieon was located the observation station, .he noticed the shadow-bands. Turning about *o as to face the west, Capt. Gillette saw the bands apparently coming down the road from west to east, but moving In a line at an angle of about 45 degrees with Hair length! This appearance was evident ly caused by the invisibility of the lines on either side of (lie road where the grass bushes, etc., furnished no such screen as did the light colored dusty highway; hence the bands tho' actually moving diagonally ivusswise from eoumweit to northeast, produced the illusive effect of sliding down the narrow stretch of road with an oblique front. Now. inasmuch as the sun’s rays did not fall perpendicularly upon either the upright, r nearly upright screen,nor upon the ground, but rather Into the angle be tween surfactß so placed, we see ot once that the apparent motion downward and northward on the eastern aspect of the screen and the apparent motion from s->uthw\Bt to northeast on the ground are both the outcome of a true progression of the bands in a direction identical with tin moon’s motion across the* sun; or more accurately put. as will be made clear lat*r on, In the line of a perpendicular diawn to a tangent on that arc of the umbra passing over our particular sta* ti u it is well known that hitherto the sha dow-bands have baffled solution; more than that, they have at times been ascribe ( to optical illusion and even had thtir existence doubted. The latter verdict is satisfactorily set aside by the many and positively stated reports of their aiy penrance at numerous stations during the e lips* of May 28 Concerning the part played by optical illusion the writer will ! have a word to say later on. Pondering the curious phenomena I had witnessed, I began to form some idea of ' their probable cause while Journeying ! home to Savannah the night on May 28. j Thg irregularities upon the moon’s appar- ' •nt circumference aroused the question 1 whether or not the last attenuated cres- 1 cent of the sun's visible surface might j not be subject to a series of irregularly I occurring, unequal, and sudden shorten- j Ingf such as might produce, instead of a uniformly gradual darkening, a series | of sharply distinguished shades, it was a crude, unsclenttfl* theory, but to the suggestions that it contained I owe what ultimately Jed to a dearer understand ing of ihe phenomena under considera tion. I became aware of the need of a •careful analysis of the component light and shadow elements that go to form that enormous cone of graduated darkness we know as the penumbra. Again, I resiled that only mental confusion could remit ho long as the element of time remained In the problem. If bands of light and shade rushed over the earth’s surface Im mediately in advance of and succeeding the black circle of the umbra, why not, like Joshua of old. do our work with a *un standing still—the moon also in this case—and thus secure nn opportunity to study these stripes so closely draw n about the big black center. In oiher word*, let us imagine the progress of an eclipse qf the sun halted on some great plain while we go about at our leisure examining the ! edge of the umbra for any suspicious streaks. Figure 1 represents such a plain con ceived as perpendicular to the sun’s rays, the un being in the zenith, for the very apparent advantage of having both umbra and penumbra bounded by circles instead of the ellipses, that result when these ehndow* fall obliquely on the earth’s sur face. In the figure the relative size of the central circle, representing the umbra in proportion to the outer circle or limit of the penumbra, is very greatly exagger ated for the sake or convenience. It will be noted that <he central umbra is left blank, while the broad ring of penumora is occupied by .i series of circles, each of 1 which extend* outward to the edge of the penumbra, an*) at the center of the fig ure sweep* about and encloses the umbr i, which it ju*i touches with its inner or concave side. Not quite a quarter of the distance between the respective bounda ries of umbra and r*m*imbru is a circular dotted line, on which lie the several cen ters from which the many overlapping circles w’lthin the jienumlirn were drawn. This (lotted circle represents the apparent site of the sun high a love *he moon in the zenith, and the overlapping circles are j shadows of the moon, each cast by that foint of light on the circumference of the sun. which, in our diagram, serves as its center. In other words: Whereas, every point of light on the sun’s surface casts a separate shadow or projection of th* moon on the space within the outer limit of the penumbra, of ail these projections, we are now studying only those projected from points on the circumference j of the sun. and of the infinite number of these, only the few we i have represented in the figure. What is sufficient to dwell uion here is the fact that all thece circular outlines are pro jections of the moon thrown from an equal Fig. if. number of points on the sun’s periphery; that they cross each other very obliquely as they swing around close to the umbra;* and also, that by virtue of their all includ ing this central space, they thereby mak** it the one spot of total shadow, thus cre ating the umbra. Tho remainder of the figure is likewise cbvered with portions of these shadow circles, but as we shall in a moment see. it also receives more or less light from the sun. producing a mitigation of the darkness amounting to an ever increasing illumination as we approach the outer limit of the penumbra. Never theless, we must bear in mind that until that limit is reached these overlapping moon shadows are present. Turning now' from what may consid ered a a awkward way of stating trite farm about the nature of the moon's shad ow. but Is nevertheless needful for a later complete understanding of our subject, let u? take up the more interesting and com plicated study of the other factor entering into the production of the penumbra, viz. the form of light that mingles with tho shadows. In Fig. 2 we note again tho outer and inner circles bounding, respectively, pen numbra and umbra, but the intervening space is occupied by somewhat smaller circles than in Fig. 1, circles that ore just tangent to the bounding outlines of penumbra and umbra and not embracing the umbra as before. They are, in other words, circles whose diameters V ' / Kiir. in. , are exactly as long as the dis tance across the penumbra from its peri phery to the periphery of the umbra. Re membering that the margin of ihe penum bra represents the place where the “lirst contact/’ or beginning, of eclipse takes place, and the border of the umbra shows where the “second coniact," or begin ning. of totality occurs, we see that the intervening distance between these two boundaries must be the exact parallax of the sun's diameter as projected over any point on the moon's apparent circum ference. Hence, the ten equal circles in scribed In the penumbra in Figure 2 rep resent accurately ten dliTerent projections of the sun’s disc through as many points on the periphery of the moon. Further more. the centers from which these cir cles are described will themselvs fall in the dotted circle representing the clrcum ferenec of the moon. Now, these ten circles are assuredly not shadows, for their size is proportional to that of the luminous sun and not the ' shadow-casting moon. Neither can they be patches of bright supehtne, for they extend in quke to the margin of tie um bra. where we know it is very dark, in deed. No; they are for the present to be considered s Ideal figures that serve only to Indicate Ihe position of ideal pro jections of the sun’s outline through as many points of the moon’s circumference as are represented by the several cen ters of the said circles. Suppose now* we could affix to thq edge of the moon at some point a photographic lens whose focal length would reach to ihd earih’s surface. Such a lens would cast upon the ground an image of the sun's disc, and thui image would correspond exactly In point of size and of |>osiiion within the penum bra with such circle* as we have repre sented in Fig. 2. The image cast by the i lena we have itnagltud would be very fee ble union* we made the lens monstrously i large—per hat >• several miles in diamter. Even In that event the picture would be j far too faint to be Been in anything like i the brightness of full daylight. Hip quit* close In by the umbra, where the darkness , Is almost that of totality itself, we might expect tq see the innermost edge of the I picluie of the sun showing feebly as a ! crescent'c bard of light* r hue than the surrey d’rjr and presenting its convex. 1/ to. toe border of the umhral clr- I cle of darkness. ‘ But W such a lens merely a figment of THE MOUNJNG NEWS. SUNDAY. JUNE 10, 1900. 1 the knagination, or may we find some way in which this identical effect can be naturally produced? that is the question. If any one carts to tHke the trouble to cut a deep, narrow, V-shaped notch in the miM -of the long nid of an old pos -1 tal-card he will have constructed such a lens as nature has set up for us on the jnoon. Make the notch fa-inch wide at The f* ge of the card, wi h cl-an-cut straight sides meeting at a sharp angle 4i-!tich to <*n inch back from tfc* edge. In a room entirely dark save for a single bright gas light of good size, hold the pouial-caru wi h the no;ched edge uppermost about IS inches in front of the fiat of the flame so as to let the light fail across the rotchtd edge and through the notch onto eno:her card held about 18 inches away from the firsi csid, when an inverted image of the flaring irregular too of the flame will stream downward aero s the shadow' cast by the notched catd. The narrow pointed extremiiy of the V' ac* j as does a pinhole, throwing an invent and image of n luminous object ujon ony ! screen held opposite. In the probable ab sence'of anything like our terrestrial at mosphere upon the moon, we may expect to obtain precisely such results ir>m ihe gaps yawning between the steep and rug ged lunar jaks. Here, then, is cur lens; r.ow about the picture* it turns tti*. Turning back to Fig. 2, we tecall tin fact, that any projection of the su-n’B imag? must assume the form and position cf a circle similar to the ten we found gr:up and in the pcnumbral space and extending in just to the circumference cf the umlira. Here we may expect to find cur far-off monster lens of froxen adamant at work making sun-picturcs. As before stated, so feeble are these mysterious tract: gs that only those crescent-like inn r e’g<M Jerking closest to the protecting shadow yf the umbra can succeed in catching cur fit tent ion; nevertheless we know that Hit eniire penumbra is tilled with these sun images, for they are betrayed by the ghostly ripples produced by their *rner edges (hat sweep over our screen in cotwt less numbers in those, swift solemn sec onds that are a 'fitting prelude and flna e to the weird splendor of the solar coiona. Little more requires saying: Fig. A shows at B a*number of the inner convex margins of these sun-pictures purp s\y elongated out of all proportion to what is really visible in order to make plain the increasing obliquity of their crossings the nearer the unpb.a is approached. To this obliquity, and like wise to the slight irregularity in the brill iancy and contour of tho images due to the depth and shape of the generating mountain gaps and their distance apart on the lunar surface, is attributable the rlpple-like appearance of the shadow band*. In the same figure above at A are illustrated a series of interlacing arcs cor responding to the circles of lunar contour shown iri Fig. 1, and which may very possibly, also, enter into the complex formation of the bands. We have only to imagine a slight inequality In their shape Hun Nloon ( Eat n th j Fig. IV. and distribution, suth as might readily be conceived as originating in irregularities in the spherical contour of the sun—for instance, the effedt of solar prominences, su. lt as were seen by many observers at the recent eclipse, and so accurately por trayed by Prof. Ashmore on his beautiful, and in my humble estimation, uniquely perfect drawing of the corona—and such inequality, by disturbing that perfect even ness of blending of the infinite number of overlapping circles needful to produce, a uniform gradation of shading from with out inwards, would result in a noticeable striation adding itself to the complex of sun images constituting the shadow bands. Fig. 4 is an attempted perspective rep resentation of the way the, sun images are projected through a lunar mountain gap. Here again the crescent-shaped reversed image of the sun's equator is wrongly de picted, being tremendously elongated and 100 concave. The true shape should boa thin and short segment included between a sharply out lined arc- tangent at its middle point to the umbral circumference, or nearly so. and a vaguely shown or entire ly evanescent chord losing Itself in the shadows. The preceding statements that these segments are all tangent to the mar gin of tlie* umbra are broadly true rather than perfectly accurate. In reality the exact location of each crescentic outline; will he nearer or farther from the umbra in proportion to the relative depression or altitude of the bottom of each lunar chasm below, or above the mean level of the moon's surface. Were the crescentic sun-imoges. all uniformly tangent to the umbra we would get blended circle of brighter hue Immediately about the um bra. showing only such slight irregulari ties of shade as the unequal distances be tween the lunar notches would produce. Asa matter of fact some of these cres cents must fall at n considerable distance from the umbra. I had ocular proof of this in the fact, that twice at considerable intervals of time before the first hands appeared, that were unmistakably notice able. 1 seemed to observe faint wavelets which crossed the screen in the precise direction taken by the subsequent ones, a direction I had no means of supposing would be the actual one. To be sure these may have been the elongated ends of crescents tangent to the umbra at ix>ints. (visaing ot; either side of our station, but the considerable altitude of the lunar mountains warrants the belief that some crescents may fall quite wide of the um l>Ti. Furthermore, it is possible that even the j unseen circles in every, part of the penum- I bra may produce some effect on the pen- I umbrnl light, accounting for its notably ! peculiar quality. A moment's consideration of the ar jangprunt cf the sun-images around the I mrbral circle will disclose the fact that the apparent arrangement of the shadow- | patterns and their s etnlti? 1 tie of motion will be determined by the locs*lon of the obs-rver et her in the path of the center of totality, or at s >me piint more or lean near to the path of the extreme lateral limit of tho umbra. The varying reports REDUCTION SALE SUMMER CLOTHING. During the past week we have sold more Clothing, and to a greater number of customers, than ever before in the same space of time; but public interest in this great Sale continues unabated, and stocks are still complete— full lines of comfortable, light-weight Suits, in the jauntiest new styles and most popular fabrics, at prices not matched elsewhere for dependable qualities. WORSTEDS in great variety; nattiest checks, neatest of broken-stripe effects, rich grays, and Cheviots, every thread all-wool. MEN’S SIO.OO SUITS-NOW REDUCED TO $7.50. id* OE nnniimi MEN’S *12.00 AND *13.50 SUITS"NOW REDUCED TO $9.00 AND $10.12. R\ ZD Dd! CBilium -MEN'S sls -°° AND 516.50 SUITS-NOW REDUCED TO $11.25 AND $12.27. r MEN’S 18.00 AND $20.00 SUITS~NOW REDUCED TO $13.50 AND $15.00. ME > V S 525.00 SUITS~NOW REDUCED TO $18.75. - U Still Ml. BOYS’ $8.50 SUITS-NOW $6.37. V'uuuumi BOYS’ $6.50 SUITS-NOW $4.87. BOYS’ $4.00 SUITS-NOW $3.00. MEN’S SERGE SUITS at SI2.00; single-breasted, 4-button sacks, single-breasted vests; tailored our way. You would willingly pay $1 TOO for such values elsewhere---here, $12.00. , MEN’S FLANNELS, single and double-breasted coats; some suits without vests; full-fashioned and all that could possibly be wished for by the most critical dresser— slo.oo and up. You’ll find plenty of cool things here, ready to wear, at moderate prices. MEN'S NEGLIGEE SHIFTS ’FUME 9@FT SHIRTS. SI T© SS. More and better than we’ve ever had—we expected a tremendous business this Summer, and we’re getting it. The dollar shirts are good madras, in a big variety of patterns, made up in the best way. The betweens are cheviot, madras, percale, flannel, silk—evervthing you want. MEN’S AND BOYS’ STRAW HATS at 25 per cent. off. OnC s Plain Price Figures SAVANNAH' — S WO* FOR THE Graduation & Exercises. WHITE GOODS Or EVERY DESCRIPTION. Now is the time when these goods should be in full bloom. The demand is the greatest because graduating exercises and commencements are shortly to begin. If you have anything to buy in this line our prices ought to quicken your purchase. 36-inoh Linen Lawns, 35c. 36-inch Sheer Linen Lawn, 45c. 33-inch Linen Cambric, 75c. 46-inch French Nainsook, 25c; usual price 35 cent*. 46-lnch Batiste Mull, 39c. 46-inch Persian Lawn, 49c; usual price, 60c. White India Llnons, 10c; usual price, 3SV- White India Linor.s, 12Vgc; usual price 15c. White India Llnons, 15c; usual price 20c. White India Llnons, 20c; usual price, 2>c. VALENCIENNES LACES AT lIEDI (TD* I*RICES. We place on sale at the Lace Counters to-day some new French Valenciennes Laces at prices exceedingly low. - * This sale offers an opportunity to purchase trimming for the summer dresses at n great saving. SPECIAL SALE OF MUSLIN UNDERWEAR. Here are prices and values in Muslin Underwear character^tic of our Under wear Department. Every garment offered is wothy of your especial attention. The DANIEL HOGAN: The corner Broughton and Barnard Sts. of many observer, arc thus fully ac counted for. It Is unfortunate that the camera offers so mtle hope of verifying the facts elu cidated ab.ve A single good plate with tracings cf sufflei nt density without fog, and taken with a sufficiently short ex posure to avoid “dragging." would be of the utmost \alite In determining by actual measurement the truth cf the foregoing theory. It t, possible, however, by calcu la'lng the dimensions and ltn-s of motion of such images as 1 have described, to tquip observers at different points with exact data computed for each one's pre c so locat on at the n xt eclipse observed, which data will readily admit of confirm ation or dltproval by ocular evidence. It Is to be hoped that this will be done. Instead of attempting to photograph the band, with a cnmVru. I would suggest that they oott readily be tfnide to record themselves upon a long sensitized lllm me chanically caused to pass at a uniform rale of speed behind a narrow slot In a light tight roll-holder. Such n contrivamte cou’.d he set up with the slot In the long axis of the hands ns compu’o.l for each observation station, two positions being necessary for stations not on the central line of the eclipse to correspond With the different position of Ihe tangents on the untbral circles at the points corresponding to second and third contacts. It is possible, by a simple proportion be tween the moon's diameter and the ex treme estimated hlght of the lunar |>eaks. to Httd the greatest possible width of the belt of displacement of the solar images bordering the umbra. Then by applying to this Aujiyutcd width of the band area. materials are of standard quality—the cut ting ang designing are correct, the work manship is perfect and the quotations be yond the pale of competition. ,"The back bone of eolid worthfulness" is portrayed in every item offered for tO-morrow. The saving on the smallest purchase is mani fest. The better judge you are of values the more you'll appreciate the.e extraor dinary offerings. GREAT SHIRT WAIST SALE. Different styles of White Lawn Waists, also fine Dimities, French Nainsook, Or gandies, plain and fancy effects; nllover lace fronts; allover tucked waists; em broidery and lace fronts, etc. AT SPECIAL LOW FIGURES. SEtKWEAH. In Neckwear we show Bows, Ciub Ties, Tecks, Kour-in-Hands and Imperials from j 3c and up. We hove a special line of ties for boys, 25 cents each. BIBBED GOODS. Ladies’ fine Ribbed Vests, 10c; fine Lisle j Vests. 15c; finer ones, 25c; extra site Vests I ter ladles, 25c; Ladles' Ribbed Knee Pants 25 cents. COLORED SKIRTS. A biff shipment Just in and at very low prices. FURNISHINGS AND TOILET GOODS. None cheaper anywhere end only -the best goods here. We sell the dependable kind, and our prices are as iotv as any one. j the ktfown rate of motion of the shadow | over ihe earth's surface tvo may know the length of time the bands will be seen before and after totality. A roufrh cal culation of the recent eclipse would show this limit cf time to have been about nine s cends. Of course, the mure oblique crossings occur throughout the entire penumbra, could We but dlslln grtsh them. One point remains to touch upon. Are the resulting shsdow patterns (a more suitable term than hands for the ripple appearance) made up of alternations of lighter and darker markings, or does the rapidly increasing darkness towards the umbra so affect ti e pattern that each suc ccsftve shade as w<- approach the center Is absolutely a trifle darker, In which case the appearance of Increasing light ening of certain of the tipples Inside of darker markings Could bj due to physlolo. gloat contrast, each shade seeming to grow lighter ns tt approached to Juxiapcsltlon with a yet darker milking. Only photo graphy could settle this point to my satis faction. In concluding let tne express my Indebt edness to Professor t'pdrgraff for the In ti rest lie took. In my quite Insignificant part of the observations when so nrtanv mo e Important and de fate matfia els m ed tits utmost mention, every detail of which he evidently saw carried out with the utmost perfection: to f’apt. Gillette for Ihe vciy valuable contribution made use of In the beginning of this paper: to Mas ter Conrad Alkcfi w h<se unprejudiced ob servations corroberated my own, and whose service* a, "orderly” lightened mv work: and lastly because most notable, to Southern Railway. Train. Arrive and Depart Savannah on SO lb Meridian Time-One Hour Slower This City Time. ___ Schedules in Effect Sunday. June 10. 1900. HEAD POwtoll TO TH E EAST. || READ UP. ■>n>. a i Nb. ik it || no. i Not a II (Central Timed j) I 32 30pm 12 20am|jLv Savannah Ar'j 5 10am! 315 pm (I (Eastern Time.) || I ir! pm i ®* ro l lAr Blackvil(a Lv j X 00am| 107 pm ! ® Wans ,Ar Columbia Lvl| 1 25um|ll 25am 11 t? if m !^ r Charlotte Lv S spm| 8 10am -L^. m ; —l|Ar N r i. Lv 11 ...’- j 8 35pm -T?;”*” 1 I _Pml|Ar Danville Lv i 5 40oml 4 Mam t uuami 2spmpAr Rich mond Lv7l2 Olpmlll 00pm I *“! ? £ pn !|A r Lynch burg Lv<| S tlpm t Worn TXtaH! 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Dining cars serve all meals between Savannah ami Washington TRAi.vS 35 and 30 DAILY, THE UNITED STATES FAST MAIL vestibuled limited trains, carrying Pullman Drawing Room Sleeping Car? between Savannah *™ New York. Dining cars serve oil meals between Savannah and Washington. Aiao Pullman Drawing Room Sleeping Cars between Savannah and Cincinnati through Asheville and "The Land of the Sky.” For complete information as to rates, schedules, etc., apply to G. GROOVER, Ticket Agent, Plant System Station. i FREEMAN, C. P. and T. A., 141 Bull street, Telephones, Bell 850, Geer pia 800. RANDALL CLIFTON, District Passenger A sent, No. 141 Bull street. Professor Ashmore to whose persuas'on I owe Ihe fact that I snw the eclipse at ail; who procured my assignment to the ob servation of these shadow phenomena; an t to whose enthusiasm- and advice I ow that sense of encouragement without which this paper had not been attempted. Savannah, Ga., June 9, 1900. —■■ ■■ , FOR THE FRESH AIR HOME. Contrlhntiona nnd Annual Subscrip tions to the Charity. The ladies In charge of the Fresh Air Home at Tybee acknowledge the follow ing contributions during the last week: Mrs. H. ('. Cunningham $lO in Mrs. T. M. Cunningham, Jr l ro Mrs. T. J, Charlton 1 2'| Mrs. Kline 3g) Mr. McMillan 5 0:) Cash so) Mrs 1,. Kay ion 510 Elizabeth Drummond 110 Mr. George Wylly 5 co Sunbeam Circle a r. Mr. Ned Washburn 1 in Mrs. Washburn 1 co Mr. George Tenn'.lle 5 00 The Gorrle Ice Company. The Knickerbocker Ice Company. Mr. A. W. Morehouse, baking powder. Mr. John Screven, one bag of rice. The King's Daughter's, "Speak No Evil Circle" (Brunswick), quantity of grist. Miss Dolly Kennedy,-sugar. Mr. Thorpe, a machine. Messrs. Rhodes & Walker, two iron beds. Messrs. Lindsay & Morgan, one bed, four hammocks. The annual subscribers to the home during the week were: Mrs. John Ham mond, Mrs. Eldrldge Slmklns, Mrs. Clar ence King and Mr. Simeon Theus. , The home will begin til second week of outing* for the season to-morrow. Last week was the opening week, and sixteen children were taken down to the Island on the opening day. Wl-.ert you need mrdlvlnc you should get the beat that money can buy, and ex petlence proves this to be HftivVa Barsa pat ilia—ad THE GURNEY REFRIGERATOI Is Hie One We Sell. ’Tis the best, and we know It. Totl'll know it, too, if you tvill let us sell you 011 c. LESS ICE. MORE COLD, is the GUR NEY'S claim. FREEZER TIME IS HERE— :o are the OHIO nnd WHITE MOUNTAIN KREEZERS —best made. We sell ’em How about your China? Is It *W and wear-broken? We can sell you good China cheap. Glassware, too. Whiting’s Solid Silver, All here for less money than els? where. Try us and you'll be pleaded. Q. VV. ALLEN & CO., STATE AND BARNARD. OPIUM Morphine and Cocaine habits cured pain lessly in 10 to 20 days. Tho only guaran teed painless cure. No cure no pay. Address. £>U. J. H. HEFLIN. Locust Grove, Ga. M Morphine and Whiskey its treated without pair or confinement. Cure gu*ra> teed or no pay. B. H. V P.AU Mun’gr Lltbu .Spring, San itarium. Box 3. Austrll, Gw