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SARGE P] The Boys Who Get ii Can Guy N > - Atlanta C "I had to go when old Sherman .came," said Brown, "andi as little ?expected it as I do of having to go at the present." "Had to go?" said I, in a manner to draw him out, for talks on the war . ?re now in order and about all that people will listen to. "Yes, had to go/' said he, with something of a sneer in his tone. "I had to jine under the last con script aot, whieh took us from sixteen to sixty. I have never seen what good there was in taking such oki folks, but they did, and I was a most unwilling victim. They mixed me up with the fellows who had been there all the way through and to say that these fellows presumed on their length of service is putting it mild. They were entirely too funny to suit me. They seemed to derive the greatest ? pleasure in laughing at me at times when nothing but the severest seri ousness perched upon my fevered brow. I am satisfied that one fellow t?ey put me in a pit with tried to get i me killed just that he might laugh at my kicks as I expired. Every time I got laid down good he found some excuse to make me *et up and let them pop at me again, and then he would laugh at every fool thing and th? nearer they came to killing me the louder he would laugh. One time when I raised my head a little 1 too high a yankee ball went zip through the crown of my hat. The . fool took it as great fun and rolled .and roared in greatest glee. I never jet have 1>een able to see anything funny ?bout war." Brown's right; the old soldiers did treat raw recruits with to much hilar ity, and especially did they take de light in guying the "melish." "Come ont of that biled shirt!" "Come ont of that hat-I know you are there for I see your legs!" Such foolishness as this was sure to greet the old melish wL -aever he hap pened about them. But these screams did not disturb the ones taken in the last call, for the mose of them were deaf even to the cannon's roar, muoh less the voice of man. I knew one company of this old militia that was a hundred and five streng, and in all these 105 men there were only 106 eyes. Just one man of their number had two good eyes, and the drill ser geant had to go close up to each one and scream: "Fall in" when he wanted diem to forma linc- "Fall in! fall in!" and it took quite a while to get them in line, and then if you didn't mind they Would sit down and have to have help to get np if any speed was required in the matten I laugh a little myself) now, when I think of that old Georgia melish and of Joe Brown's pikes, and yet I know it should be no laughing matter, for it represented the great stress for sol diers and indicated the desperation of the leaders to sustain the Confederate cause. Joe Brown's pikes were good for nothing but to show how little we knew of what war really was, and so it is now. The young generation will leam of things they1 never dreamed, and there can be no harm iu telling of things which may in a degree prepare them for whatever may come as a consequence of war. Just before old Sherman swung around to Jonesboro, the people seemed to know that there was trouble a-brewihg, and the big roads were fill ed with refugees getting, out of thc way. Befugeeing is a part of war and a very sad part. These refugees had been moving on in front of Sherman from away in Tennessee and the most of them was in a bad condition; in fact the most of them were in distress and had to live as best they could from the charity of the few who yet remained at their homes along the roads. My folks, nor Brown's folks could never find it in their hearts to turn away these poor refugees- as long as there was a crust of bread to divide or a place to stick one of them on bad nights out of the weather. Toe night before Sherman swung around it was raining and as dark as Egypt. "We had took the refugees in till there was not. a place for one to lie. They had been piled upon the floor after the beds gave out till there was not room to step about without stepping on some one. Me and the old woman had reserved our own bed, and were just fixing to retire, when the dogs broke around the house as if they had discovered some wild var mint and were bent on tearing it up. When'l stepped out to see what was the matter, what should I find but as sweet young lady as you ever laid your ey?s upon, sud when we had got her inside the house she told the most pitiful tale you ever heard about as how she had" started down the road to keep out of the way of the yankees, had lost h?rw?y in the dark, could travel no further aud was just'about to faint. The old woman shed tears as the girl related her story and went about to get up a little something to * eat. I gave up the last drop of spirits .UNKETT. i the War First-They ew Recruits. institution. I had to stimulate the poor thing and my good old woman give up the last grain of sure enough coffee in Georgia to warm the lady and make her feel as much at home as possible under the circumstances. After so long a time, we began to figure as to how the young lady should sleep for the night, whereupon she insisted upon just sitting in the chair through the night. My old woman would never hear to such a thing such a sweet creature must. have a bed if we had to do without one our selves; but at last it was arranged that we should crawl up the ladder into the loft and sleep on the broom straw up there, and I will remark that I had as good a night's rest as I ever had in my life, for the rain pattered on the boards right at my head and sounded so sweet that I forgot all about the war and dreamed sweet dreams the whole night through. The young lady was up and gone by the break of day the next morning an d our hearts went with her, wishing her a god-speed upon her way. Up in the day, after breakfast, I saw a long line of blue coats coming. T called th J old woman and told her that we were goners-that old Sherman was upon us. Brown's girls were there and persuaded me out of running, and so we stood upon the porch and awaited the coming of the soldiers. Just as the line had arrived in front of Our house the soldiers halted and ? scattered to each side of the road and sit down for a rest. Directly there came in sight some men on horses, and as they apprbaohed vthe soldiers arose and shouted, with a great waving of caps : "Huzza, huzza, huzza!" I did not like that sound, nor I don't like it much till yet, but any how, I soon understood that the men and horses were some general and staff, and before I could tell it two of them rode right into our yard and once, again I would have swore that we were goners, but they soon turned to the well and inspired the hope that they only wanted water. One of these two was a monstrous handsome young officer and the other was a sharp-looking man, whom I after wards learned was General Sherman. I kept my eyes on them and expected every minute to see them begin to feel for matches, but they didn't, and pretty soon the young officer-lifted his hat and gave us a salute. Then, thinks I, what in the thunder is the matter with these yankees, and before I had time to feel good over their politeness the old general called a man and pointed toward us. This man, with six others, at once came m?rching up to us, and again I would have sworn that we were goners, but the spokesman said, as they halted in our front: "We are sent here by General Sher man to guard your home." Before I had caught my breath from the surprise up rode another fellow **ith a whole lot of bundles and handed them over to the old woman. Along with a lot of sure enough coffee and other good things, there came a note for me. It read: "These things are sent you by an officer of the United States ?nny whom you so kindly entertained lust night, thinking I was a lady-I am a federal scout." SARGE PLUNKETT. Filling up the Ranks. WASHINGTON, June 10.- The war department has issued instructions for the guidance of officers of the volun teer army detailed to recruit for their own organizations to fill them to the maximum under thc second call of the President for 75,000 men. Applicants for enlistment must be between 18 and 45 years old, of good character and habit, able-bodied, free from disease, and must be able to speak the English language. Married men will be enlist ed only upon the approval of the regi mental commander. Minors must not be enlisted without the written consent of a parent or guardian. The term of service is two years. For infantry and artillery the weight must not be less than 120 and not more ?han IMO pounds, and for cavalry the weight is not to exceed 165 pounds, though re cruiting officers are authorized in their discretion to accept desirable appli cants 10 pounds or less overweight or underweight. For a regiment the maximum of all grades, commissioned and enlisted, must not exceed 1,326 infantry or 1.1 55 in cavalry. For-a company the maximum of all grades is 106 in infantry, 100 in cavalry, 173 in field artillery and 120 in heavy artillery. Wherever practicable thc choice by an accepted applicant of a particalar company of thc regiment or other organization for which the re cruiting officer is making enlistments should be respected. I A WOMAN'S NEW KIN! People-in-Law are Bound 1 With Husbands and Wedd St. Louis Republic. She has been married tw< but she has told her husband not marry his whole famil course he was a little surp hear her say this, but he ac< as a sort of matter of fact, anc he was provoked enough to say he wisely did not. i It all came about in this w; husband's mother and sister h ten they were coming up foi visit, and the little bride h other plans for the coming four weeks, and she did not wa: interrupted. j The mother and sister from by town are just the dearest wc the world, and they have not j J the lovely little wife about their dear ctWill" has writ j much. They have her pictu I have admired it and shown i I their friends. Will's businesi pectedly detained him, so thi ding journey has been postpon I the pretty new home occupied I than was expected. It was a simple wedding and as Will in! I taking his wife at once on a \ his old home the family had no at the wedding. I The bride of this story is not u j or ungenerous. She has only n J learned that people-in-law are I sities, that folks accept with husl She adores her own mother, ai I brothers dote on her. She woul j it sadly if she was separated I them, and I don't know wha j would feel should her beloved I tell her one day that he had ! married her whole family." Bi little bride thinks she has gat! I wisdom from the experiences of ot I She has heard older women tell o I perfectly horrid times they hav< I when their husband's mothers ! to visit them and teach them h( I keep house, and she has quite i I up her mind that just as drei ! times are in store for her. She I not stop to consider how dear V* I gentle mother is to him or how ii I ested his sisters must be in his home and how it is managed. I want very much sometime pick up the cudgel of defense in be of people-in-law. I did that when I heard the? two-weeks' wife clare that her interest did not inc the whole of her husband's family rather think I would have been j had that particular Will, insteac I looking a bit grieved and saying c forting things, said the "things' thought. He may have been wi j not to, but I somehow fancy he I finally, unless his pretty girl-s I early repents and loves, as she I serves to be loved, the dear li I mother andjfche quiet womanly sis I in-law. Their ways may not be i actly her ways, but I have lear I that most husbands' mothers have I very best of intentions, and o meau to improve their new-foi J daughters when they offer to te? I them old-fashioned ways of cook I and economizing. I hope that eye of some new wife will catch t that I am going to write: A husban J mother is to be won over forever i son's new wife will only let herself I taught a few things that will add J the happiness and comfort of tl mother's son, for he is still her "boj I and indifference to his comfort heme and thc thoughtless spending his money can never be anything I a deep grief to thc mother heart. The girl who is generous will willing to have her husband share 1 love With his 'family and try to ma the mother feel that she has not lc a son, but has gained a daughtc This may. I know, sometimes not an easy task, but for the final hapj ness of'two people it is well worth tl gentleness and patience that it w: require to accomplish this end. When '.Tom, who has spent near all his life in the country, goes town and in time marries a city gi J and takes her 'to his country hom then I am sorry'for both thc city gi and Tom's people, to say nothing i Toni himself. For so many years the quiet, coi and roomy, old house has known tli same even rule. Tom's mother wt born in that house, and from h( mother she learned a'll the mysteric of housekeeping, every carpet an every piece of furniture ha3 its ow particular associations. The cane scated chairs that stand about in th kitchen and on the porches are mad from thc hickory trees that were cu down to clear a place for the firs three rooms that composed the home stead that has been added to until i is now a great, rambling house witl one of the Original three rooms in th' Center for a hallway. If Tom's wife loves quaint, old fashioned things she is satisfied witl all this, but quite often it happen: that she approves ol' things more u] to date, and modernizes the old home until she is quite happy, and Tom's mother is quito uncomfortable. I If the t??wn girl accepts Tom fron . the country she should accept Tom's home and family just as they are, without one change or improvement. She does not need to sink her own individuality in doing this. She will be left freer and happier to follow her own favorite pursuits if she willingly leaves the reins of the household in the old hands that have held them for so long. It is time enough when they fail for Tom's wife to take them up. The saddest thing that can hap pen on earth is the putting of a mother on the retired list before she herself is ready to be put there. A woman does not want to feel that because her children are grown all her work for them is at an end. She likes to feel that in a measure they are always de pendent upon her. It seems *to me that a daughter-in law's position is a responsible one, and that no better fortune can befall her than to hear herself in time affectionately spoken of as "my son's wife," and called "daughter" by her husband's parents. Baked hominy in Georgia fashion is a Southern dish that proves itself both appetizing and nourishing for the children's supper, or for a lunch eon dish, served with cold meat. The hominy may be freshly coiled for the purpose or the cold boiled grits, left, over from breakfast, may be utilized. When warm, drop in it one egg, a piece of butter the size of a hickory nut, and salt to taste, and mix thor oughly with a little milk or cream, until it forms a batter of medium con sistency. Fut in a shallow baking dish, one of the pretty earthen ones that can be used on the table, and bake to a delicate crisp brown on top and sides. It should not be over two inches deep in the pan. But there are two sides to every question, of course. The reverse side to all this! is the one where Tom, Dick or Harry's wife is regarded for an indefinite length of time, or always, as a robber who has come in and car ried off the dearest family treasure. The engaged girl first goes through this awkward experience, and after she is a wife, if she is sensitive at all, she doubly feels her position when the separation from home becomes final. Often she longs to have her new relations assure ber that they are something more than merely "resign ed" to Dick's marriage. Dick is not always most happily married when he waits until mother and sisters are quite reidy to have him wed and pick out the woman he is to marry. There is nothing that concerns other people so little and yet is interferred in so much as the matter of finding a suitable husband or wife. If you are inclined toward matchmaking, my ad vice to you is, don't. It is all right to throw congenial people together If Cindereila had not gone to the bail, you know, she never would have met the Prince. But Cupid and Fate are better hands at managing affairs of the heart than summer time chape rons or "best friends." Not infre quently, when it is a "best friend" who engineers matters, it turns out to be a regular "why don't you speak for yourself, John?" case, and then somebody is bound to be disappointed and unhappy. And, then, who ever heard of one's marrying to entirely suit everybody in one's family? It may be true that marriages are made in heaven, but a great deal that is earthly somehow gets mixed up with them. If two people think that they will journey through life for maybe half a century, with a halo of romance about them all the way, and all the time,- then those two are mis taken. There will be trials and hard ships that it will be very hard to asso ciate with romance. The highest and best of happiness comes through sympathy-through being understood. All men, as well as womeu, have ideals. These should be respected. We arc all better for entertaining them. The woman who is interested in her husband's life work, no matter whether that is plant ing com or painting pictures, and encourages him to reach his highest aims, is better beloved, even if she is plain of form and features, than the woman who is selfishly indifferent and as beautiful as it is possible to be. I, for one, am a great admirer of beauty, but beauty in woman cannot begin to compare with that sweetness of dis position and charm of manner that make one forget to notice whether the mouth is faultless or thc figure per fect. Many women who please at first sight in a short while lose their charm. Vanity and an evidence of self-love are not calculated to inspire j ?r help very deep regard. Thc most delightful woman in the world is the one who retains her indi viduality after marriage, for in this way she is ever charming and new. brough purity of heart there comes beauty of soul, and there is a positive divinity about thc woman whose soul shines out through thc commonplace doings of her daily life. Such a woman, into whatever home or place she may go, and whether as maid or wife, you will rind not so much a mis fit, and not waiting long to bc under stood and appreciated. M.MWAitET HANNIS. Was Jt Swearing? Two ladies were talking in an avenue car, says the Washing on Star. "This war is perfectly dreadful," said one. "Indeed it is," said the other. "Couldn't he worse." "Yes, it could be worse, if the Span iards were treating us as we are treat ing them." "Of course; I don't mean that. I mean in its moral effect." 4 4I hadn't noticeu that particularly. ' ' "I didn't till yesterday." "In what way ?" "On my husband." "He doesn't want to enlist, does he?" "Oh, no; I don't mean that. It is on him and my little boy, too." "Not on an innocent child ?" "Yes. You know the little fellow has been marching around at a great rate with his tin sword and gun, and yesterday afternoon he informed me, to my horror, that he was going to fight the d-n Spaniards. Think of that, will you ? And he is a prize Sunday school scholar." "Horrible !" "Yes ; and when his father came home I told him about it, and insisted that he take Willie and give him a good whipping for swearing, and what do you think he did ?" "Told you to do it yourself, as my husband always does." "No, he didn't either. He told me that under the circumstances it was not swearing, and that the boy could say what he pleased about the d-n Spaniards. And he's a member of the Church himself ?" A lamons Shot. A chicago lawyer has received from one of the officers of the United States monitor Puritan a letter giving an account sf the bombardment of Matanzas and the famous shot which silenced the Gordon Point battery. The story was written at the request of the attorney, and is as follows: "You ask me about Matanzas, and the bombardment. Wednesday the New York came down from off Havana to investigate a report to the effect that the dons were putting up some new batteries at Gorda Point. She passed us and signaled us to follow her, steaming in to within 3,000 yards D? the batteries. She stopped, and suddenly we saw her forward 8-inch guns fired, the shot striking the earth works near the battery. The Span iards replied to this shot, and the New York began to light up. You could not see her for smoke. ''We began to get nervous for fear that we were to be left out of the muss, so we signaled for permission to fire, and it being given, we unchained a few of our pets and did good work. We fired only one of ?ur 12-in?h guns, one in our forward turret, at the Murillo battery, on the left hand side of the harbor. "It struck short, but the ricochet must have hit the battery, as the dons were immediately seen going over the hill, striking the ground only in high places. "The famous shot was our last one from the port forward 4-inch, and it was quite funny. A man by the name of Jackson, an old cowboy, is the gun captain. Three minutes after the or der, "cease firing"' was given from the flagship, everybody was startled to hear the 4-inch gun go off. The man evidently felt he had a dead head and he let her go regardless. The range was about two and one-half miles, and the shot struck right in the Gorda battery and burst-a phenomenal shot. The men shouted themselves hoarse." - Ch i car/o Inter-Ocean. YELLOW FEYER. A MI rt of Warning. Persons who maybe exposed to yel low fever and others living in districts liable to be infected by it will find that timely and intelligent preparation is thc best means of keeping this dread ful malady out of the family. Sani tary regulatious in the household arc of the first importance. Clean up all refuse matter, decaying vegetation or cesspools. Drain off ponds, pools and sinks. Burn vegetable offal from the kitchen. Kat nothing but light, whole some and easily digested food, avoid ing green or over ripe fruits and vege tables. Lastly, bc sure that the blood, stomach and bowels of every member of thc family is in healthy condition. Irregularities iu the system, such as indigestion, constipation, torpid liver, invite disease to enter the body, and in thc case of yellow fever, renders its progress more virulent and deadly. This condition can bc speedily remov ed and pure blood, good digestion and regularity in the bowels re-established by using Prickly Ash Bitters, the great System Regulator. Thc fre quent usc of this remedy in doses suited to the agc of each person will maintain perfect health in the family, ? J et a bottle at once while the fever is yet ?far off, use it faithfully and reg ularly. Prompt action NOW in put ting yourself and family in condition to resist tlic disease germs may spare you suffering and sorrow. Prickly Ash Bi tors can bc obtained at I*] van s I 'hanna? v - Pedagogue-'"'Conj?gate the verb 'to do.' " Pupil-"Do, Dewey, done/' "Correct, my boy; y u shall have a Manila hat next week." - Among the new diseases are list ed typewriter's backache, telephone earache, gumchewers' lockjaw, and cigarette smoker's insanity. A crino line craze is th?eatened also. - A shoemaker was the other day fitting a customer with a pair of boots, when the buyer observed fihat he had but one objection to them, which was that the soles were a little too thick. "If that is all," replied Crispin, ''put on the boots, and the objection will gradually wear away." - "Do you thiuk your father is going to move out soon?" inquired the owner of a rented house of the son of his tenant. "Think so," was the reply; "we've begun using the win dow frames for firewood." - "Why don't you give us a little Greek and Latin occasionally?" asked a country deacon of a new minister. "Why, do you understand those lan guages?" was asked, "no but we pay for the best, and we ought to have it." - Whereas in 1837 the ammount of tea consumed in England did not ex ceed 30,000 pounds, all* of which came from China, the quantity now import ed is upward of 230,000,000. pounds, or more than five and three-quarters pounds per head of population. - "Doctor, I want you to prescribe forme." The doctor felt her pulse. "There is nothing the matter, madam ; you only need rest." "Now, doctor, just look at my tongue. Just look at it; look at it now. Say. what does it mean?" "I think," replied the doc tor, "that needs rest, too." - Consul General Lee's report to the State department will show that last year's sugar product pf the island of Cuba was 212,051 tous. In prosper ous years it is over 1,000,000 tons. - Says a newspaper item: "It is a curious fact that the honey-bee was never known in the United States till imported irom England." 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It does not make any difference what the disease may be called, so long as it has its inception in improper or insufficient nourishment-this great medicine will cure it It may be called dyspepsia, kidney disease, "liver complaint," skin or blood disease, or nerv ous prostration-all these have thc same starting: point. The " Golden Medical Dis covery" reaches that point. It will cure these diseases absolutely. None of them can retain their hold on the system when the arteries are filled with rich, pure blood. " I ara S4 years old," writes Mr. F. G. Bledsoe. of Leesville, H?"nry Co., Mo. " For 25 years I suffered from torpid liver, constipation and indi gestion which severely affected my nerves. Hav ing to make my living by hard work, I would keep on until I would have to give up. Some times my friends would pick me up and carry me to bed. What little sleep I could get was tortured with horrible dreams. I took six bottles of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. 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