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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-05-15
THETA.

THETA, May ll.-Misses Matte Nc
Kee and Lula Campbell narrowly es-
capped what might have been a serious
accident, while returning in a buggy
from Columbia. The horse became
frightened, and ran at break-Deck speed
for nearly two miles, but fortunately
nobody was hurt.
Miss Lizzie Epperson, of Nashville,
is among the visitors of Mrs. b. Z. Dal-
ton this week.
Prof. Patent, of Santa Fe, preached a
good discourse to a large and apprecia-
tive audience Sunday. The Professor
is held in very high esteem by Theta
folks.
Mr.. Morgan Fitzgerald is slowly inn
proving.
Mr., jim Hughes had his fine horse to
fall down and break his leg, and had to
be killed. Mr.. Joel Cox also had TO kill
n colt for the same reason.
CINDERELLA.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-05-15

Sick stomach means sick man tor
woman.) Why not be well? Sick stom-
ach comes from poor food, poor nour-
ishment; means poor health, poor com
fort. Shaker Digestive Cordial means
health and well stomach. If we could
examine our stomach we would under
stand why it is that so little will put it
out of order. But, unless we are doctors,
we never see our stomach. We only
feel it. We would feel it less if we took
Shaker Digestive Cordial. Shaker Di-
gestive Cordial makes your stomach di-
gest all the nourshing food you eat, re-
lieves all the symptoms of Indigestion,
acts as tonic and soon makes you well
and strong again. The more you take,
the less you will feel of your stomach
At druggist. Trial bottle 10 cents.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-05-15

All our calicoes, consisting of
the choicest patterns, stan
dard quality, none excepted,
go in this sale 1T
Heavy Brown Domestic, full
yard wide
Elegant quality Ginghams,
worth SC, go now at
Scotch Lawn, fast colors, cheap
at NC, sell at ............>
Challies of unusual pretty
styles, must go. ............
Chameleons Moire, of the
latest designs, only ....
Boys Knee Pants, less than
cost of material -. 49,.
Boys Knee Suits, from to s, at
Childs Wool Suits, beauties.
Wool Jeans Pants, all sizes -.
Half Wool, good weight, dres-
sy Pants, good material
A serviceable good Business
Coat, all sizes .......... 81
A Business Suit, half wool,
wears and looks as we'll as
$l2 suit, go with this sale at. SO
Is Fine Coats and Vests, form
erly belonging to a $l5 suit,
your choice at ........ SO
The best Coo unlaundered shirts
go with this sale ...........
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-05-15
SOMETHING TO KNOW.

1t may be worth something to know
that the very best medicine for restor-
ing the tired out nervous system to .
healthy vigor is Electric Bitters. This
medicine is purely vegetable, acts by
giving tone to the nerve centres in the
stomach, gently stimulates the Liver
and Kidneys, and aids these organs in
throwing off impurities in the blood.
Electric Bitters improves the appetite,
aids digestion, and is pronounced by
those who have tried it as the very best
blood purifier and nerve tonic. Try it.
Sold for 80 cents or 81 per bottle at Wef-
bridge * Irvine's Drug Store.
mayS-lyl2l
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-05-15
Relief in Six Hours.

Distressing kidney and bladder dis
eases relieved in six hours by the "New
Great South American Kidney Cure"
This new remedy is a great surprise on
account of it's exceeding promptness in
relieving pain in the bladder, kidneys,
back and every part of the urinary pas
sages in male or female. 1t relieves re-
almost Immediately. If YOU want quick
relief and cure this is your remedy. Sold
by A. b. Rains, Druggists, Comlubia,
Tenn. febl ly
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-05-15

The old man who looks out at the world
with clear and healthy eyes cannot help
feeling great qualification at the thought
that his children have inherited from him
no weakness nor tendency to disease. The
healthy old man is the man who has,
throughout his life, kept his digestion good
and his blood pure. Not one in a thousand
does do ii. Germs go through the healthy
body without effect, Let them once tind
Judgment or let them find weak spot,
they will develop by the million and the
blood will be fun of them. Instead OF CIV
ing strength to the tissues, it will force
upon them iunutriciOuS matter ana the
man will lose flesh and the more Suscepti-
bic is he to disease. Or. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery is the only medicine
that absolutely and infallibly cures all blood
diseases, and all diseases are blood diseases
II isn't a medicine for some one particular
So-called disease. IL is a medicine Tor the
whole body. 10 forces out all the germs OF
disease, and replaces Impurities with rich
red blood.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-05-15
STIVERSYILLE.

SrIVERSvILLE, May l3.-Rev. Frier-
SON of Culleoka, preached at this place
sunday afternoon. Mr., Willis of Nc
Gains will preach for US next Sunday
Mr.. and Mrs. c. l.. Smith of Yokley,
visited relatives here recently.
Mesdames West and Hill spent one
day last week with Mrs. jeff Wells on
Biz Creek. Mrs. Wells has been very
sick but is better.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jonas Brown have re-
turned from Texas, after spending sew
eral months there. Mrs. Brown is in
very bad health. We hope she viii be
benefited by the change.
The army worms are at work in this
vicinity. BLONDE.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-05-15

Mr.. A. was a very timid man, but
was accustomed to ask a blessing at
meals in mumbling sort of way,
when only his own family were present.
He always omitted the ceremony, how
ever, If any visitors were at the table.
one day, when a friend was dining
with the family, the little tour-year-old
daughter, after bowling her head few
moments and hearing nothing, limo
Gently asked: papa, aren't you going
70 make that funny little noise in your
throat that you sometimes do before
we begin to eat?'
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-05-15

Laundered Percale Shirts, all
sizes and patterns .... go. 3Sc
Athletic Sweaters, good quail
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Strictly all wool, newest
shades and Turtle Neck e.. $1.25
L. A. w. Bicycle Shoe, made
Kangaroo Calf, soft, flexible
and in every particular up
to-date ,,.....-........ $500
goth Century Toe, Mems Tan
colored dressy and durable
shoes ...... .............., $1.75
Goth Century Toe, Mems solid
inner and outer, Tap Heel
and Counter, Lace or Con-
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100 Pair Mems Shoes, Lace and
Congress, Black and Tan,
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Mems two buckle Grain Plow
Shoes, all sizes ....-...... 97c
100 Pair Boys and 2 Buckle
Plow shoes, No. 2, only go. 54c
l27 Pair Ladies' Shoes, in %,
3, and 80, these numbers
only, formerly sold at from
$3.50 to $500 per pair ...... CSC
Goth Century Toe, Ladies DON
COLA Button, 3 to 7....... $1.35
$50 pair Ladies Shoes, Dongola
Button, to I, at ............ Soc
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Rheumatism Cured in a Day.

"Mystic Cure" for Rhumatism and
Neuralgia radically cures in one to three
days. It's action upon the system is re-
markable and mysterious. Itremoves at
once the cause, and the disease immedi-
ately dis Ippears. The first dose greatly
benefits; 75cts. Sold by A. b. Rains
druggist, Columbia. nov29 SIN
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-05-15

When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria.
When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria.
When she became Miss, she chung to Castoria,
When she had Children, she gavethem Castoria,
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-05-15
r roo r1 1nr NEW Champion BinderS.M Mowers.
LOOK OUT

Don't how high and thick
wheat barley and German mi grow we w take
what of
Champon refer others;
DARK I'LL, IS,
Maury COUNTY, JAMES h. PARRISH"
feb, ON satterfeld & Dodson.
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the wheat and if there anything good it you
entitled to it, and shall have 1.-THE most and best.
BEST lbs MY OWN" bushe.
Bring wheat to and try the Planster -four
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-03-11
A Red. Headed Mummy.

A number of mummy remains from
the mummy pit at Manroloot, Egypt,
have just been received at Professor
Wards natural science establishment
on College avenue. There were 10
bodies II this particular assor tment, but
on looking oyer the invoice discovery
was made recently by Henry L. Ward
and reporter which will set Profes-
sor Howard Osgood and the rest of
the Psychological Exploration Fund
Society TO thinking.
A skull was being examined and it
was suggested that the inspectors re-
move the incrustation over the top of
the head and discover what colored
hair was; as;possessed by the deceased.
The crust was removed and straight
bright red locks were discovered be-
meath. Ared-headed Egyptian! Who
ever heard of. such thing? Every
one imae5nes Egyptian as of swarthy
complexion with straight, black
hair. The red hair was straight when
found, but certainly it has gone
through; enough to spoil the effects of
the last srimping. Of course it does
not folldw that because this skull was
found inc mummy pit it is the skull
of a naive Egyptian. Some noble
scion Of Egypt may have married some
red. headed Northern. beauty Eor the
party my have been Greek-but
the fact bf the red hair remains
Rochestst Post. Express.
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Kentucky and the Kearsarge, and it is
probable that they will be ready for
launching at nearly the same time.
Each of the ships will carry compile
ment of 600 men and officers.
In general appearance both ships
will seem rather short for their great
beam, their length being 36S feet, ex-
treme beam seventy.two feet two
inches, freeboard forward fourteen
feet three inches, freeboard aft twelve
feet four inches and mean draught
twenty-three feet six inches, which
means q displacement of 800 tons.
One of the requirements laid down
by the Secretary was that these sVes-
sells should draw less water when fully
loaded than any other frst-class bat
tleship either in this country or else
where. The largest foreign ship
draws about twenty-eight feet, while
the ships of the Indiana class will draw
but one foot less. The new ships,
however. have been designed to draw
but twenty-five feet, with 1900 tons of
coal aboard. They thus will be en-
abled to reach all Of the principal
navy-yards and ports of the country
and can be docked with less difficulty
than those now building.
The feature of the vessels which
makes them notably different from
other battleships is the new form of
turrets, about which there is still some
difference of opinion. Their advan-
tages are said to be large saving in
weight, which permits of more guns
and more powerful machinery for the
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REAT MAN-oF-wAR KENTUCKY.

propulsion, better concentration of
fire, and the ability of the vessel to de-
liver all four guns in either forward or
after tur: ct almost simultaneously,
with the ,sult of hitting terrific
blow to the target.
No battlesh;p, the ordnance officers
contend, could l,,;+hstand the blow if
every shot took effect. The introduc-
tion of the double turret system was
opposed by the constructors on the
ground that 1t was too great depar-
ture in the methods of mounting guns,
and that there was danger of both tur-
rets being placed out of action by a
single shot hitting either.
The objections advanced, however,
were met by the Ordnance Bureau,
and Secretary Herbert finally decided
to place the new tuTrets on
the two ships and have them
mounted with the heaviest guns made
for the navy-heayier even than the
rifles adopted for the battleships now
building for othes Governments.
The coming tower, from which
point the ships will be fought when
in action, will be protected by ten
inches of armor, and inside will be a
tube with seven inches of armor, lead
ing down to the armor deck, for the
protection of voice pipes, telegraphs,
steering rods, etc.
The Kentucky and the Kearsarge
will carry their full coal supply of 1910
tons with the greatest ease, their
bunker room being SO ample that the
coal can simply be dumped into it
without the labor of trimming. This
quantity will be ample for all ordinary
contingencies of cruising and for ser
vice in time of war along the coast, as
at cruising speed of ten knots it will
enable them to steam 5000 miles, and
at thirteen knots nearly 1000, or al
full speed to cross from New York tc
| Queenstown.
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useful to the owner of very extensive
lawns. Ordinary r,orttals will be n. ore
interested in the invention of an in
genious Yankee who has succeeded in
turning hard work into pastime-
Henceforth the boys and girls will
compete eagerly for the privilege of
cutting and rolling the lawn with the
bicycle lawn mower. This machine,
which is shown in the illustration, is
reported to work very easily and to be
about three times as fast as the ordin-
airy lawn mower. The idea is said to
have been suggested by lazy boy
who fastened a common lawn mower
to the hind wheel of his bicycle and
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-03-11

In recent address before the Lib.
eral Club, OF Buffalo, Hon. Carroll D.
Wright, United States Labor Commits.
sioner, made some interesting state
ments regarding the wealth and prog.
ress of the South. The strip of terri.
tory stretching from Pennsylvania to
Alabama, Mr.. Wright said, contained
forty times the coal accessible to
economic production and distribution
that was contained in Great Britain
before pick was struck. He esti.
mated that the production Of cotton
in the South is double what it was be-.
fore the war; in twenty years the
manufacture OF pig iron has increased
1000 per cent, the railroad mileage is
$50 per cent. greater now than in 1880,
and the passenger traffic 500 per cent.
greater, and the freight tons moved
400 per cent. larger. He says that
since 1880 the Southern railroads have
more than doubled their earnings, the
banking capital has increased in like
proportion, and the money spent in
the support of schools has also been
doubled.
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toned to at home. 1t is Eastern life
in a Western environment. They,
therefore, have built country club
house called the Cheyenne Mountain
Country Club, at Broadmoor, three
miles from town, SO as to havo some
place to drive to. It is an unpreten-
tious but attractive house, with large
grounds (there seems always to be
more ground stretching away in every
direction in Colorado than elsewhere),
in which are set up all the appliances
of country club sports. There is
pigeon-shooting on many afternoons,
and polo when the team does not play
nearer town. There are "meets" un-
der club direction, to chase the coy
ote, or live fox, or sometimes an ami
seed-bag only. Races and some native
horseback sports are held at certain
time in the season, and luncheons and
dinner-parties ore popular.
ner's
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MIGHTY WARSHIPS.
IMMENSE FIGHTING ENGINES
FOR THE NEW NAVY.
The Kentucky and the Kearsarge
Will Have the Biggest Guns
Afioat-Finer Than Any Eu-
ropean Battleship.
TTHE United States, says the
New York World, has the

THE United States, says the
I, New York World, has the
greatest seaboard of any Ma
ton. The American people,
in their numerous large and flourish
ing cities, have moro wealth directly
upon the edge # the sea than any
other.
An invasion of this country by any
European Power or combination OF
Powers being out of the question for
the same reason that the United States
could not invade European country,
there remains for the American Navy
the main purpose of defense, With
this object our new men-of-war are pc
culiarly constructed. They are de.
signed more for protection of the sea-
board cities than for offensive war at
long range, and coal carrying capac-
ity, which so reduces the power OF
British vessels, has in many of them
been utilized for increased destruc-
tiveness. Additional guns. armor and
ammunition take the place in an Amer
lean. battleship of thousands of tons OF
mere coal IN her British counterpart.
At the same time our battleships,
whose appearance has convinced Eu-
rope that America is not mere name,
have ali immense steaming radius,
great speed and latent aggressive
power that commands respect.
There is another feature OF the
American Navy that gives it superior
ity. That is the fact that every
American officer is q scientifically
trained naval fighter, graduated from
Annapolis, where, under rigid disci-
pline, he must have spent the forma-
tive years of his life.
The British naval officer. following
tho Traditions of Nelson's day, goes to
sea, where he is supposed to pick up
his knowledge. The American naval
officer, in accordance with modern
conditions, goes to naval academy
and then to sea, being not mere
sailor, but scientifically educated
sea fighter.
The significance of this will be ap-
preciated when the two newest vessels
in the navy, the Kentucky and the
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D his life done anything 10 ueserre .h.s
...A4al,nd fnta is tied hands and arms

In his life done anything 10 ueseire .n.S
vretched fate, is tied hands and arms
with strong hemp to a roughly iISpro-
yised chair, while his feet are bsl
TO q stake in the ground few feet PEI
fore him. A stout bough has been
stripped Of leaves and is held bent Dy
strong rope from a notch in the mid
die to a stake a few feet behind the
condemned mans chair. Another
one suspended from the end Of the
rough is so adjusted around the vic
TINS neck that when the bough Is al
lowed to spring back to its natural
nosition the head is torn off and hurled
far away into the jungle thickness.
Then occurs the most ghastly scene OF
all-the scramble for the finding OF
the head.
The finder keeps his trophy for sew
eral days and then cooks it. The
brain is considered the greatest dell
cacy and is generally given to the
chief Of the tribe.
If the victim were brought to the
pace of execution quickly and decapi-
tated at once his sufferings would be
less than those of the criminals who
die on the scaffolds Of America, as his
is swift death. 1t is the hours OF
agony which precede his execution
which makes the execution so inhu-
man.
The tribes of the Bangala race be-
lieye that the more frightfully their
victims are tortured the more tender it
makes their flesh, and consequently
the more palatable. 1t has actually
been shown Of late that many Of these
slave traders keep stocks of prisoners
on hand, whom they fatten for these
slaughters.
According to Captain S. H. Hinde,
who was one of Baron Dahm's force on
the Congo, there are 2O,000,000 people
in the Congo Basin who are eaters OF
human flesh Though the Belgians
have enacted laws against cannibal-
ism. and some Of the chiefs have been
hanged. there seems no hope OF amel-
iorating the present deplorable condl-
tions.
In addition to this custom Of eating
human beings another equally horrible
exists, according to Captain Hinde's
report. When Il chief Of any of these
Congo tribes dies all his wives are
buried with him. A hole is dug In the
ground about as large as an ordinary
room, and in the middle of it the body
of the chief is placed. One Of the
wives jumps down and seats herself at
the head of the corpse, another wife
squats at the feet. Others sit around
at the sides. If there is any room left
some slaves are broughti in and make
the'outer fringe of the circle.
Neither the wives nor the slaves
manifest the slightest concern, but ac-
cept their fate entirely as matter OF
course.
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According to William E. Curtis.
New York City is alarmed at the pos
sibility that Chicago may capture
most of the trade with the South if
the proposed Chicago and Southern
States exposition is held next fall. A
counter demonstration is therefore
being planned in Gotham. This will
take the form of a monster parade OF
the blue and the gray. Negotiations
to secure cheap excursion rates over
all railroads for tne masses and passes
for merchants, producers, shippers,
bankers and leading Grand Army oi
Z the Republic men in the South and
West are being made. By these means
it is expected that a big crowd can be
secured and the Chicago project nulli.
fed or at least prevented from accom-
plishing all its promoters anticape.
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perferred, and the evenly spaced shir-
ring, shown at the top and bottom,
which set off to advantage the soft
folds, can be omitted without spelling
the general attractiveness of the sleeve.
These sleeves will be found useful if
on hand when remodeling dresses and
jackets for the approaching season
and can be made in material to match
or contrast with the garment.
To make these sleeves for lady
having a36-inch bust measure medium
size), it will require of 44-inch wide
material % yards for No. design, and
2 yards for No. 2 design.
To make them for a miss of four-
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Kearsarge, are considered. The con-
struction Of these battleships has now
been begun, and is to be followed by
that of others.
They are not ships at oil, but i'm
mense fighting engines, upon which
an old-fashioned sailor would be al
most useless. The problems which
they involve belong to engineering,
and not to seamanship. With every
such ship which she epossesses the United
States can reach out and strike ter
rife blow with quickness and certain
" under conditions undreamed of by
Nelson or even by Farragut.
The kentucky and the Kearsarge
are to cost 50, ,25O,OOO apiece. These
two new battleships belong to the
class of the Massachusetts and the In
diana. The Kearsarge has been
named by special order of Congress SO
as to perpetuate the memories of the
ship that sunk the Alabama.
The Kentucky has been so named as
q tribute to the South, and because all
the vesssls of her class are to be named
after Ststes. NewEngland now stands
sponsor for one ship of this kind, the
Massachusetts,, the Middle West two,
Indiana and Iowa, and the Pacific
Coast one, the Oregon.
The Kentucky, however, will pos
sess many features that differentiate
her from, these ships, and make her
with her sister ship really the first Of
a new and improved type, and finer
than any battleship in Europe. Among
these ara double turrets, new con-
ming tower and thirteen-inch guns.
There is no battleship a6oat to-day
and hardly any fleet that could strike
a single blow SO terrific as the Ken
lucky or the Kearsarge. The reason
for this is that each carries on the for
ward and after deck a double turret,
each turret carrying two thirteen-inch
guns. No European Power has placed
guns larger than twelve-inch on any
new vessels.
The Kentucky, therefore, can con
centrate the ire OF Two thlrteen-lncn
guns and two eight-inoh guns stimuli
taneously upon any antagonist. This
is blow which all ordnance authori,
ties agree in stating no ship aaoat
could resist.
A single blow OF this kind would
disable, if it did not instantly sink,
the greatest warship on the seas. Nc
armor now made for naval purposes
could protect ship against these foul
guns simultaneously fired, the impact
of whose shots would, it is thought,
be even greater than a direct blow
from the heaviest ram. Either from
bow or stern the Kentucky OF the
Kearsarge could deliver this irresistible
force which nothing could Withstand.
The contract for building these
ships was recently given to the New
port News Ship-Building Company
Although the contractors have three
years in which to complete them, it is
not probable that it will require that
length of time. Work will be car
ried on simultane ously on both the