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"~ t FLOUR. Oven Lifter Thoso two brands of FLOUR aro tho best and ehonpost on tho mar kofat presort. Everybody ought to use th is Flour and no othor. Buisrs GARDEN SEEDS. and Ferry's Wo will soil both of tho abovo SEEDS this season. Of courso ovory ono knows that thoso aro tho best on tho market. OATS. RED RUST PROOF SEED OATS. Moore's PLOWS. Plow Stocks, &c. Wo have a largo and complote stock of tho abovo Plows. Tumors Extra Points, &c. Thoso Plows nie tho cheapest and host on tho market. SHOES To Arrive. Wo havo invostod sovoral thousand dollars in CLOTHING and SHOES direct from tho manufacturers, which ai'o now hoing mado up to order. Now wo must make room for this IMMENSE STOCK, and wo havo do cided to sell our entire stock of Shoos on hand AT COST !:! Sinco writing tho abovo, p"rt of our Clothing has boon shipped and wo solicit on oar? y inspcotion. * OTTO H. SCHUMACHER, Proprietor. . 05^* doods Packed and Delivered Freo. January 2:1, 1890. Auditor's Notice. Assessment of Real and Per sonal Property. TL UK Auditor of Oconoo Comity or his Clerk will appear at tho following places and times for tho purposo of taking TAX RETURNS for tho year 1800: cleveland, Monday, January 20th. W. E. Wolborn's, Tuesday, January 21, A. M. W. 1). Dcaton's, Tuesday, January 21, P. M. 1). P. Carter's, Wednesday, January 22, A. M. - floury Loo's, Wednesday, January 22, P. M. .lonas Phillips', Thursday, January 2.1, A, M. M. J. Monro's, Thursday, January 2.'), r. M. Abol Robins', Friday, January 24. Mountain Rest, Saturday, January 25, A. M. Richland, Monday, January 27. Haley's Storo, Tuesday, January 28. South Union, Wednesday, January 20. Fair Play, Thursday and Friday, Janu ary 30 and .11. Sitton's, Mills, Saturday, Fobruary 1. Mrs. Chorry's, Monday, Fobruary 3. Seneca, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, Fobruary 4, 5 and 0. Westminster, Friday and Saturday, Fobruary 7 and 8. High Falls, Monday, February 10. Salem, Tuesday, Fobruary ll. Little Rivor, Wednesday, Fobruary 12. I will bo in my oOlco at Walhalla dur ing tboabovo period, oxcopt from tho 4th to thc Otb of Fobruary. Unless Ucl urns aro inado on or beforo tho 20th day of Fobruary', J81K), tho pen alty of Hf ty por cont will bo added in all cases and colluctod. AU Real Estato as well as Personal Property, will bo listed this timo for tax ation, and it is desirable that all persons owning Roal Estate mako out a list of tho numbor of acres or lots and tboir value, and tho numbor of buildings and tboir falito boforo going to mako returns, ns tboy will thou bavo timo to study and proparo tho valuation of tboir lands and houses, which will bo a great help to the Hoard of Assessors, as woU as facilitate tho making of Returns. AU Notes and Mortgages, and Moneys aro taxable, and otbor Choses in Action. AU persons be tween tho ages of 21 and 50 years aro liable to poll tax, unless exempt by law. I hopo ovory ono will como and mnko Ids or her return. Study it boforo you do como, so ns to got down tho property cor rectly. T. R. NORRIS, COUNTY AUDITOR. Decombor 5, 1880. 48-tf 1OTITI0"N7 IN THU COURT Ol-' PROIIATK. Rv ttlCIlARn LKWIS, J ir DOH OK PnonATio. WHRRBAS, F. M. Harton lias mado suit to mo to grant bim Lei tem of Ad ministration of tho Estato and EiTects of Sallio H. Armor, doconscd Those aro, thoroforo, to cito and ad monish ali and singular tho kindred and creditors of tho said Sallio H. Armor, deceased, that they be and appear boforo mo, in tho Court of Probato, to bo hold at Walhalla Court House, S. C., on Saturday, tho 8th day of February, 1K(M), after publication hereof, ot ?0 o'clock in tho forenoon, to show cause, if any thoy bavo, why tho said administration should not bu grant od. Oivon under my band and seal this tho 20th day of January, Anno Domini 1800. RICHARD LEWIS, Jmigo of Probate of Oconeo County. January 20,1800. 8-2t Walhalla Church Directory. Presbyterian Church-Hov. J. K. Fogartlo, Pastor. Preaching first and third Sundays morning and evening. Sunday school at 0% A. M. Methodist Church-Hov. M. I... Carlisle Pas tor. Prenehlng first, second and fourth Sundays morning and evening. Sunday school at 10 A. M. West Union baptist Church-Hov. Basil M. Pack, Pastor. Preaching every first Sunday night, at 7% o'clock, and third Sunday morning, at ll o'clock, and on Saturday hoforo. Episcopal Church-Hov. T. Vi Gadsden, pas tor. Preaching every Cth sunday. Lay Head ing ovory Sunday morning nt ll o'clock by V. K. Martin. Sunday Behool at 1 o'clock, c. M. Haptl8t Church-Uov. Basil M. Pack, Pastor. Preaching ovory first Sunday morning and Sat urday before at ll A. M., and on thc third Sun day night at 7% 1*. M. Munday Mellool at 10 A. M Evangelical Lutheran Church-Hov. J. G. Heit?., Pastor. Preaching ovory Sunday, first and third Sundays In Gorman and second nnd fourth Sundays In English, In tho morning. Sunday school at j A. M. Catechetical Instruction for tho young, at 3 P, M., by tho Pastor. I> I BE G T O R Y. MKMUK118 O KN KU A I. ASSKMIII.Y. Senator-lt. B. Mason. Representatives-A. Zimmerman and A. H. D royles, COUNTY OHFIOKHS. Clerk of Coa rt Janies Seaborn. Sheriff-AV. W. Moss. Probate Judgo and Master-Riobard Lewis. School Commissioner- S. P. Strihling. Coroner-David S. Craig. County Commissioners- A. P. Crisp, .fames M. Ilunnicutt and M. Nicholson: Clerk-.loo. W. Sbolor. Hoard meets on Tuesday after salesday In each month. Steward Poor ll? .use-A. H. Med ullin. Auditor-T. H. Norris. Treasurer-J. W. Holloman. Supervisor of Registration-N. C. McDonald. Jury Commissioner-Wm. J, Neville. TU! A i. JUSTICES. K. Ii. Horndon, David S. Craig, H. A. Mathewson. J. W. Todd, S. H. Johns, J. lt. Karie, K. 1). Rothell, Warren J. Deaton, J. H. Sanders, A. P. Heeder, J. J. Woodall, J. 1). Land, T. S. Kennell. WALHALLA TOWN OVKICKItR. Intendant-I), lt. Darby. Wardens-C. L, Held. H. I). A. llioinnnn, J. W. K. Thompson, O. li. Schumacher, D. Oolkcrs, G. W. Pratt. Council meets on thc first Wednesday nights of each month. Clerk-C. L. Held. Treasurer II. D. A. lliemann. FOR 1890 Consider SOIUHNKH'S MAOA/.INK when you aro deciding upon your reading mat ter foi next season. Tho subscription rato in low-$3.00 a yoar. Tho standard of tho Magazine, is bigb, Its spirit progrossivo, Tlio illustr?t ?ons aro interesting and of tho best. Tliore 1H not space, boro to givo oven a summary of tho feat tires to appear noxt year, but among other things there will bo ft NEW DEPARTMENT and ADDI TIONAL PAOES, and groups of illus trated articles will bo dovotod to tho fol lowing subjects* African Exploration and Travel, Lifo on a Modern War Ship (:! articles), Homes in City, Suburb, and Country, Providing Homos through Building Associations, Tho Citizen's Rights, Electricity in tho Household, Ericsson, tho Invontor, by bis Author ized Biographer, Hunting, Humorous Artists, American mid For oigb. Thorn will bo 8 sorials, Robert Loois Stevenson will contributo in 1800. Each subject, and thoro will bo a groat variety this year, will bo treated by writers most compotont to speak with authority and with interest. Rendors who aro interested aro urged to nomi for a prospectus. 25 cents a number: $1.00 for <1 months. Charles Schribncr s Sons, 743 Broadway, New York. Notice of Final Setilcment. "VTOf?OE is hornby given that I will ap ?y ply to Richard Lewis. Judgo of Pro bate, at bis ofllco, in Walhalla, S. C., on tho 17th day of February, 1800, for a tlnol sottlomont of tho estate of Anna R. Probst, deceased, And discharge there front. JOHN F. FRORST, Executor. January 10,1800. 2-4t DIU Ari?. HU WHITJC8 AIIOUT THU FAMILY DOCTOK AND POOTOltB IN OKNKUAI.. There is an awful mystery about these doctors. They know so much that common people don't know. When I was a child I had profound reverence for thom. Our family doc tor was a three hundred pounder and was gruff and short in his speech and not very fond of children. And yot he seemed to havo a great many hid out somowhore and was always giv ing them away. Whenever a new child oame into tho family or in tho' neighborhood, it was said that tho doctor brought it. I used to wondor whore lie kept them. I asked my mother once and BIIO said, "in Heaven, maybe," and this increased my veneration. Our big fat doctor had a shop-wo didn't call it an ofliee-and I used to peep in at tho door sometimes and look at his little bottles on the shelves. I was sent there onco for some medicine and bc gave mo some licorice root and some cinnamon bark. There was a myste rious box standing up in the corner -a long narrow box about big enough to hold an old-fashioned clock (a grand-father's clock,) and thc door was open a little and I saw an awful thing in there-a skeleton suspended from a scruc in tho skull. There were dark cavernous holes for thc eyes and a hole for the nose, and there were jaws with teeth in them and they looked fierce and malicious. I had a little primmer at homo and it had pictures in it. One was a picture of a skeleton willi a scythe in his hand and I had learned the lines "Time cuts down all, Both great and small;" and I thought I had discovered whore the old rascal was kept hid. Ho was in that box. It was a long time before I recovered from those childish superstitions. One time I had a long spell of fever and that old doctor bled me till I had fainted, and he wouldent let mo have any water, and when I got delirious, I thought that bc had that skeleton on my back and 1 was to be cut down with a scythe-blade. Ile bled mo several times. Five lit tle scars are on my arm yet. Bleed ing w as a big thing then. Mark Har din says his arms arc just tattooed with scars. I reckon they bled more in Mark's day than in mine, for thc older a man is the moro scars he has, and Mark says he has got forty. I i MI tell how old a man is by his scars. Mark says that "bleed ing was a good thing and ought not to have been abolished. That tlieso modern doctors are always talking about blood-poison-blood-poison. Well, if the blood is poisoned why not take it out-bleed a man until he can hardly wag and let new blood form that is not poisoned." But wo lived-blood or no blood -water or no water-doctors or no doctors. The Baptists lived and the Presbyterians lived, for they say that Baptists don't die until their time comes, and predestination saves the Presbyterians, but it is a wonder that any Methodists were ever raised in those phlebotomy days. Wc never had any medicine except cas tor oil and calomel and epsom salts and jalap and number six and sheep saffron tea and some jaw-breaking, tooth-pullers that were made just liko these crow-bar hooks that you turn over logH with at a saw mill. There were some patent medicines like paregoric and Bateman's drops and Godfrey's cordial and opodeldoc that were kept in the stores and they were good too. But the noble science has made progress-wonder ful progress-and I like it, because it offers such a wide field for a smart man and such a slim chance for a fool. We've got a boy studying mcdi cins and arc hopoful for him. Of course we are. Bis mother thinks ho will be a great surgeon, for he is tho soventh son and when he was a lad our peacock got his leg broke and I was about to kill him to put thc poor thing out of misery, but Ralph hogged me to give thc bird to him and he made onie splints out of a big cane and fixed him up in a swing and bc got well, and another timo he sewed up a bad cut on one of tho mules and he just lovos to pick out splinters or get. a cinder out, of your eye and so we consented to his being a doctor and he is attend ing leotures in Atlanta and tho other day I called to seo him at tho college? It was a kind of recess when I got there, and I was intro duoed to Dr. Kendrick and lie was mighty kind and said they woro just about to perform on tho clinik and invited mo in. I thought it was some kind of eleotric machine, but when I got in the room there wore 125 young doctors sitting all around on tiers of seats that got higher and higher so that all of thorn-could look down on thc little circular pit at tho bottom-a little pit about ton feet across and looked like it was built to fight chickens in. I heard that tho boys did light chickens there on tho sly some times. Tho clinik was a revolving table that had a cot on it nr?d was placed in tho middlo of tho pit. Dr. Ken drick wont in first and I followed along with a sick white man and two sick darkies. All of a sudden tho young doctors commenced cheer ing and so I took a cheer and sat down. I didn't know whether thoy wore cheering the professor or the sick men and for fear they would think I was sick I roso forward and took another cheer and they cheered again. Tho professor then intro"? d ticed mo to the audience and I came to a perpendicular altitude and they cheered again and again. I took my oheor. After this little episode was over tho professor asked one of tho darkies wdiat was thc matter with him and he said he didn't havo breath enough, he was short of breath, ho couldn't walk ton steps and his heavt went like a kettle drum. So the professor thumped on him and put his car to his loft breast and began to ask the young doctors questions about dis eases of the heart and they seemed to know right smart. One said tho heart had two beats to the bar, and and another said the reason the darkey was short of breath was beoatise ho didn't have enough of it, and another said the valves were out of order, and another thought that the clavicles of tho sternum were contracted, but a knowing young man said there was not enough oxygen in his blood. I noticed that when a young man hesitated and got things mixed thc professor was very kind and helped them along just like Dr. Waddell used to help us boys along in Latin when wc were in college. . "Quidam is a pronoun, is it not, Mr. Jones ?" "Yes, sir." "Well, quidem is what-an adverb is it not?" "Yes, sir-yes, sir. Quidam is a pronoun and quidem is an adverb." "Correct, Mr. Jones," and Mr. Jones thought he had done wonders until Iiis report came out and ho was put down 45 in Latin. "Well, what is thc remedy foi that?" said tho professor. If hi? blood lacks oxygen how can oxygen he supplied ?" "Give him a dome, sir," said t young man with a bad cold, "an hoi donic." Then thc book-kecpoi wrote a prescription. Good gracious thought I ! Hail that darkey got to eat a whole donic' A donic is a lump of iron as big as i water pail. Hut maybe bc is not tx eat it but is to handle it. Maybe lu is going to dig in the mines. It doe make a man strong to dig up donic, in the mines. It is like swinging i pair of iron dumb hells to get strong But our boy told mc afterwards tba it was not a donic but a tonio, wish I know as much about tin human frame as Dr. Kendrick knows He put a little glass quill in tb other darkey's mouth and when h< took it out he told thc young doctor all about his disease and how i caine and what must bo done fo him and then he begun on the whit man and asked him what was th matter, and the man pulled up th leg of his pants and showed an awfu case of big leg and the doctor sah something about an elephant am told him he had como tho wron] day and belonged to Dr. Westmore land's clinik. Poor fellow, though I. You aro gone up. Dr. West moreland will cut that leg off in te: minutes and smile. Next I wa invited into thc dissecting roon Yes, I was invited, and tho big fa black janitor who steals all the stiff opened the door, but I didn't go ir I saw enough and one whiff of th odoriferous atmosphere satisfied in and I departed thoso coasts. Th young doctors laughed at me tumul tuousiy. There wore ton tables ii there and o eadu vcr on every ta bli and some of them were split in tw and some dismembered, and thor were arms and legs hanging on th walls, and from some all tho nerve had been taken out like a bunch c strings, aud from somo all the mut oles had beou takon out; and there were backbones and haslets and spareribs just like you see at hog killing time. And all this is to toaoh tho doctors anatomy, and it is all right, and if a man has any gonius at all it does look liko ho ought to know how to troat every disease and what to do for ovory wound that humanity is Hablo to. Thoso 19.6 doot?rs scorn to bo in earnest and some of them will make their mark. Our boy carno homo tho other day and had a darkey's oar wrapped up in his pocket and wanted to toll his mother all about its anatomy. For A minute sho didn't understand what it was and asked him in amazement if he had got to chowing tobaoco. That is a darkey's oar that-" She rose forward and then, and was more indignant than when I hid that molo in tho sugar dish. Ralph had to leave the room and hide out the eur, and she wouldn't let him oat his dinner until ho had washed his hands with lye soap and cologno two or three times. Rut still,sho is proud of that boy and tells how ho used to speak a speech and say, "Friends, Romans and Countrymen-lend mo your ears. "Little did I think," she said "that he would some day go about cutting thom off from dead negroes." Bim. Ano. The South Carolina Farmer?. The Farmers' Association of South Carolina have issued a proclamation which is interesting from several points of view. This proclamation sots forth tho fact that tho Democrat ic party of South Carolina has boon deeply agitated for four yoars past by tho efforts that have boon made at tho pirmaries and in tho conven tions to sec ti re retrenchment and re form and a recognition of tho rights and needs of the masses. Since April, 1880, there have boen four Farmers' conventions held in South Carolina, all largely attended by the agriculturists of thc State, and at each of those, so the present proclamation says, thc demands of tho people for greator economy in the State government, greater eilicion ey in its officials and a fuller recogni tion of the necessity for cheaper and more practical education have been pressed upon tho attention of tho legislators. Tho proclamation goes on to say that all serious efforts at reform have been crippled and prevented by tho peculiar situation which requires the efforts of all white men to pre serve white supremacy, and, with it, the very civilization of tho State. Under these circumstances, as tho farmers have submitted to tho edicts of the party heretofore, they pro pose to carry on their light within the party lines, and they pledge themselves to maintain the party or ganization intact. This fact gives significance to tho movement, and lends importance to the complaints which tho proclama tion formulates. One of these com plaints concerns the working of tho railroad commission of South Caro lina. "The people demanded," says tho proclamation, "that tho railroad commissioners should have something to do besides draw their salaries and spend them. Wc want protection against tho greed of tho gigantio corporations owned at thc North which regard South Carolina as n lemon to bo squeezed and care noth ing for tho welfare of our town?, our State, our people. The railroad laws made the commission a power to de fend thc people against imposition. The same Legislature which enacted the commission, having boon bam boozled or debauched at the very next session left it only as a sinecure with fat salaries and no power. Wc have just seen the same disgraceful farce repeated." This is n very serious complaint indeed, especially at this time, when it is absolutely necessary that thc people should be fortified in some degree against the results of the remarkable railroad development that has taken place in thc South. Kail road development, ns wo havo fre quently remarked in these columns, is a vital necessity of tho South. It is equally necessary that tho publie should oe protected against tho re sults of unwise and selfish railway management. If tho Democrats of South Carolina will look over into Georgia they will see tho effects of a wisely conceived railroad law justly and impartially administered; they will seo tho results of a rail road commission perfect in all its parts standing as an impartial arbi trator between tho rights and inter ests of the roads and the rights and interests of the people. Thoro is no roason why tho Demo crats of Mouth Carolina should not givo to tho pooplo tho wonderful bonofits of a railroad law as porfeot as that under which the transporta tion linos of Georgia oporato. A railroad commission was an experi ment in Georgia in 1878, but for ten years it has protootod the public without injury to tho railroads, and it became long ago a definite part of the machinery of the Stato. There is no reason why South Carolina should not follow tho example of Georgia in this matter. Tho addrcs of tho Farmers' Assooi tion calls for :v convention of Demo crats that sympathize with tho views sot forth to meet at Columbia on Thursday, March 27th, to nominate a tiokot for ovory Stato office from Governor down, to bo put in tho field for ratification or rejection by the next Demooratio Stato Conven tion, and tho farmers pledge them selves to abide tho result, whether it is for thom or against thom. This sooms to bo reasonable enough, and yet some unforeseen controversy, some unexpected incident or episode may have a tendency to vi iv ido tho Democratic party, or to ronder its councils inharmonious. Ali tho re forms that aro necessary to tho wol faro of tho pooplo can bo made by the Democrats thomsolvcs, and tho party ought to hasten to mako them whenover and wherever they aro found necessary. Wo need not warn South Carolinians against tho danger of Democratic division. They have had a taste of Republican rule that ought to last them for a century. Atlanta Constitution. Rut They Haven't Started Yet. If tho Africans shall go back to Afrioa it will bo no such journey as that of the children of Israel. Thoy were forty years itt making it, and ono who was alive and moro than twenty years of ago when tho march began was permittod to livo to its termination. Their journey was a disturbed ono. They were bitten by venomous serpents; they encoun tered famine, thirst and plagues. The Moors in their return to Afrioa left in their pathways encumbered by their dead, old and young. Tho lance and tho sword were tho instru ments which stimulated their pro gress. There will bo no snakes, i thirst, famine, pingue, lauco or sword in tho return march to their native land of the Afro-Americans. It will bc first-class traveling the entire route. Meals will bo served at all stations and ample accommodations on all tho steamers.- Chicago Her ald, _ ?ngnll's Prophecy. The following is from a speech by Senator Ingalls, made in tho Senate about ten years ago : We cannot disguise tho truth that wc arc on tho verge of an impending revolution. Old issues are dead. Thc people arc arraying themselves on one side or the other of a por tentous contest. On the one sido is capital, formidably intrenched in privilege, arrogant from continual triumph, conservative, tenacious of old theories, demanding now con cessions, enriched by domestic lovy and foreign commerce, and struggling to adjust all values to its standard. On tho other is labor, asking for employment, striving to devolop domestic industries, battling with tho forces of nature and subduing thc wilderness. Labor, starving and sullen in cities, resolutely determined to overthrow a system under which tho rich are growing richer and tho poor aro growing poorer-a system which gives to a Vanderbilt wealth beyond tho dreams of avarice and condemns tho poor to poverty from which there is no escapo but thc grave. Demands for justice havo been mot with indifference and dis 1 dain. Tho laborers of tho country asking for employment aro treated ' liko impudent mendicants bogging for bread. . ; Epoch?, , Tho transition from tong, lingering ohd pain ful sickness te robust health marka an epoch in ' tho lifo of tho individual. Such a remarkable event la treasured In tho memory and th?agency whorohy tho good health lias l>ecn attained ls gratefully Mossed, llenco it is that so much ' ls heard In pralso of Klootrlo Hitters. 8o many fool thoy owe their restoration to health, to tho uso of tho groat alterativo and tonic. If you aro troubled willi ?ny disenso of kidneys, liver or stomach, or long or short standing you will surely And relief by tho uso of Klcctrlc lllttors. Hold at 60c. and fl per bottle a*. Norman 1>rug Co.'s drug storo. Ruoklcn's Arnica Salvo. Tho best Salvo In tho world for cuts, bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rhonm, fever sores, totter, ohappod hands, chilblains, corm. And all skin oruptlons, ami positively cure? riles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to glvo perfect satis faction, or money rofunded. Vilco 25 cents per box, VoraMe by Norman ?ivg Co, KEOWEE COURIER, -KHTAOI.IBIIKD AT Old Pickens in 1840, -MOVK? TO- 17 Walhalla in 1868. Destroyer! by Fire June 21st, 1887. Re-Established August ll 1887. .I ifn mn I il i ?!- i, ' -. Going Had front Want. CmoAoo, January 81.-~A special from Horon, S. 1>., to tho Tribune says : "Thoro aro hundreds of peo. plo sitting in tho farm houses on thoso snow covered plains going mad from want." Tho Tribune's oorros 1 londont visited many farmors near llor?n, and roporte that there is pressing need for relief; as starva- ; lion is staring hundreds of people in tho faoo. Ono farmer, who expressed tho belief that ho was muoh better off than othors, said : "Wo hove something to eat-hominy and a little pork. It won't last long, and wo havo to bo oaroful of the coal, but tho worst is the stock. Wo haven't got a thing to food tho horses and cattle. Can't soil them, can't food thora. S took is going to dio by the thousands unless we got some thing for thom to oat. We won't have horses to plough with in tho spring; no seed to sow. I toll you il goes against tho grain to seo dumb creatures suffer." Another ono said : "Do you know tho only help wo havo hod is from tho railroad-tho Northwestern? They havo brought coal to us for ?2 a ton, freo of freight, and have dono it all winter. Even ot that price wo have to economize on coal. I tell you, if it bad not boon for tho railway company thousands'of peo ple would havo frozen towpath last ween, when tko thormomcl^t-'won* down to 40 degrees below zero. .1. S. Oliver, superint<?adent of t Dakota Control Division of tho Chicago and Northwestern Railroad nt Huron, said : "That is all true that you havo hoard. Pooplo are undoubtedly suffering for necessaries, but this road will seo that no ono freezes. It is to tho in forest of tho company that tho pooplo stay hero. They aro bravo and their present condition is no fault of their own. The facts havo not boon advertised as extensively as they should havo been." Mr. Olivor, continuing, said : "I believe you will lind things still worse Northwest of boro. Governor Mollete has marked nineteen coun ties as hoing in need of rolief, and this county is, I think, mild to what some others aro. Nomo Important Discussions. Rnpid progress is hoing made tho world ovor in all that effcots tho masses. In nothing is this moro eminently true than itt tho condition of tho (armors. Agricultural prob lems were nover studied as oarnestly or as successfully ns they have boon within tho last fow yoars. Happily tho farmers' hardest problems scorn to bc solved. Organization has lifted thom out of thei? dobpondunoy and put them on a moro independent foundation. At first they wore on tho defensivo. They were organized for protection, almost for solf preservation. Now they aro on tho aggressive, and somo of tho most interesting probloms being discussed and solved experi mentally to-day aro in tho lino of innovation and aggression. Tho aro branching out into new enterprises, and, ns, a rule, with success. Manufacturing and merchandise) aro two fields thoy havo recently invaded in Georgia, and thoro aro indioations that they will ovcntually bo their own bankers. An interest ing phaso of their manufacturing experiments was described in full last weok. Yesterday wo printed two interesting articles on "Co-op erative Stores" and "Financo for Farmers," with tho views of Col. L. F. Livingston and Treasurer Hordo nian. Tho foots presonted in thoso nrtioles will bo a revelation to most of our roadors, and ovory patriotio citizen must bo enthused by tho brightening outlook and magnificent possibilities of tho great body of citizens who make up throo-fourths of our population. Their Business Dooming. Probably no ono i bin j; tins caused such ft ge neral rovtvnl of trado at Norinnn Drug Co.*? drug ?toro as tliolr giving away to their oustO' morts of BO many freo trial bottloa of Dr. King'? Now Oiscovory for consumption. Their trado is simply enormous in this vory vahtahlo artlclo from tho fact that it always cures and nover dis* appoints. Coughs, colds, bronchitis, croup and all throat and*lung diseases quickly cured. You can test it boforo buying by gottlng a trial bottlo freo, largtsizofl. Kverj bottlo warranted. The Centorvillo Alliance, nf Lau rons county, has passed a resolution requesting morchants not to soil pistols or pistol cartridges; nnd *.ho members pledgo thomsolvcs not to trado with any merchant who disre gards this request,