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TO THINE OWN SELF .ME TRUE AND IT MUST FOLLOW AS THE NIGHT THE DAY, THOU CANS'T NOT THEN BE FALHK TO ANY MAN. ll Y J AYN KS, SU H LO lt, SMITH Afc STUCK, WALHALLA, SOUTH CAROLINA, FiilJHUAKY I, lOOO. NEW SERIES, NO. 80.-VOLUME LI.-NO. ?. s We are now ir having bought veirj which puts us in pi are now overstock? Be sure and se Will sell you I person, so as to go FOR THIS YEAH THE COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE OF GEORGIA GIVES A FI REVIEW Of HIE SIMON. Thc Farmers Should Heed This Noted Ex ( perl's Timely Advice. Th \f:irmers have been the r?cipi ents of much gratuitous advice, ami I hesitate in tho fuco of so grave a subject, but the cotton area question | is looming up again ami possibly lhere may be those who, despite the disastrous lessons of tho past, are contemplating thc folly of again committing themselves to an over whelming cotton crop. Surely we have suffered too painfully from this mistake to again plunge ourselves and all connect tul with us into tins' sea of agricultural and financial iron- ! bles. Lot each of us narrow lins' question down lo Iiis own farm and there let us decide it. It is imma terial what our neighbor does; it is, in a large measure, immaterial lo us individually whether tho cotton area be large or small, for in the agricultural results of I Ooo it will he found that success has come to thc man who, regardless of outside influ ences, has planted ample provision crops and then as much cotton as lie can afford to thoroughly prepare for, highly manure and rapidly cultivate. Short or large crop, high or low price, lie stands the li rsl chanco to win, and if tin details of preparation, fertilization and cultivation be so managed that be gets tho largest yield from the smallest area, he bas mastered the secret of successful roi, ton production. Having done bis utmost, in bis individual capacity, to settle the ever-recurring cotton prob lem, he must seek means to combine with his brother farmers, with the mendiants and with the bankers, in order that the general cotton crop may he held against .1 ! pernicious i II ll Hences of specuhiti ;< i ombinalions I and their power to wrest from dis grasp his hard earnings ere he can realize a fair return for bis investment. The bonded warehouse bill, now it law, is perhaps the lirst step toward J the amaiieipatioii of ihe Southern J fanner from bis bondage to Wall and Lombard streets. 11?re we have the inception of ?1 plan whereby the fanner who wishes lo hold his cotton may, for a nominal sum, store and insure his crop, the warehouse receipt j being a letter of credit acceptable in itny business transaction. Uv mutual agreement both fariner and merchant are secured. Should I he plan become general, tho glutted markets, so often witnessed in the earlier tall months, will he consigned to a dead past, never to be resurrected. The fanners will by this plan be enabled lo market their cotton with more judgment and ii?>l under the whip and spur of necessity. Witness ihe powerful lever wilie!) the limited co-operation of the present season bas proven in forcing up prices. Iftight loyally have the bankers, the merchants and our local manufactu rers upheld the farmers, and right royally has the price of cotton with stood the repented and vicious attacks of manipulators, speculators, and "prophets ol' .vii." \ N t.M l'? Hi l A N I (JI KKTItiX. It has been asked, il a man has the land, with siillicieitt supplies and slock, is he not just ?lied, after setting aside an amply sufficient area for provision and supply (wops, in crowd ing ill every possible acre for Cotton ? Ves, and no. Yes, if lu- has good land, or such as has been gradually brough! up to a good stale of fer tildy. XII, if his acres are like hun dreds and thousands over the South, each year condemned to cotton cul ture, ami which do not pay the cost of production. In proportion as the bales made on these denuded actes go lo swell thc general (trop and thus reduce the average price, they, lo that extent, increase the burdell which their cult i val ion imposes. No' PECIAL i better shape than T heavily before th 3sition to save our ] erl and new goods c e my Ladies' All Sc ?est Standard Drills around. Ile greater mistake was ever made, limn to nisi, over thc preparation of il larg? area ol' poor land, to he stimu lated by a little commercial fertilizer, ami plantet] indiscriminately in cot ton. At tho beginning of a new your the colton farmer is apt to ovor-ostt mate tho fertility of his soil, as weil as his ability to prepare and cult? valo a full quota of broad acres. It is rudy nf toi he is irrevocably com mitted to Ibo "extensivo" plan, and linds himself "over-cropped,'1 that lie realizes bis mistake, and begins to wish that a part al least of his laud lind liven devoted to a rest, or to some renovating crop. In tho final settlement, however, lu? does not always realize the fact timi the pain ful disparity between lite receipts ami expenditures of Iiis year's ac counts might be truced directly lo this big leak of injudicious cotton cultivation. It certainly does not pay lo plant an indiscriminate and wide area in cotton-though .>. man have supplies, stock and surplus of well-worn and overtaxed acres of har ? nut land. I i the histor}' and progress ol our agriculture, that period has been j roached where farmers (?..innot, raise and sell the raw products of tile farm al a satisfactory pro lit, if wo take into consideration the deterior ation ttl' our lands. This is a startling statement, but it is inade deliberately and after thorough consideration, anti On hives- : ligation it will I .. found that such is the history >f every agricultural ' country, where crops have been grown and sold off thc farm for many successive years, without an ad?quate return heing made to thu soil for the ?l?ments removed in those crops. As an illustration of this truth, we have only to point to Ireland, whose poverty stricken peo ple, under the bondage t<> alien lords, have seen their crops removed ami ex pended elsewhere, year after >ear, and nothing nf this departed fer tility replaced. In our own ease many causes have tended to bring us toa condition where we have boen compelled lo study met hods lo restore ami pre serve the fertility ol'our soils and keep up the productive power ?d' our farms. At thc close of the Will", much ol' the lam? at the Soi,th was impoverished from success:vt; years ol culture and despite the fact that.', the war left ns very poor people, in! (Joorgia alone property values being reduced from sf?0l),Ot)b,O0() to *!,">(!, 1)00,000, our fanners took up thc struggle bravely, Imping to retrieve their losses in the further production of cotton, which ruled bewilderingly I high. Thc infatuation of high prices in every avenue nf trade and com merce prevailed. Credit was easy, too easy, and everything needed on the farm was ruin nu sly ?lear. Mules ? I ;M> to S-J..II; Hour r I o,.x| .s-jn p(.,- barrel ; nnal in the same proportion; meat 'li. to "J.i cents a |iouri<I ; farm labor?is $|;?0 to -07.i per year, and rations; besides guano fc'.Ml per ton ami farm tools were eagerly purchased al prices which we woiihl uoi regard as almost prohibitory, lint this high pressure policy could not con tinue indefinitely, neither could the mt! ll i tu Ls prevailing he fore the war, except in rare arni lav. ictl eas s, be successfully brought over into the new conditions, which followed that memorable and devastating stnn'gle. Af least ?HI per cen I of the men is ho plunged into lliis desperate ami sp?cul?t ive period became hopelessly involved, both linnets ami mer chants. The high price of coll?n and the ease with which high priced supplies could be purchased, credit prices being prcilicnlct] on big ami remunerative cotton crops, tempted many men lo pu: every available acre in cot lon and no! ono square inch, or else a totally inadequate area, in provision or supply crops of any kimi. When the price of cotton declined, both tlie farmer, ulm had borrowed, ami the mendiant, who had loaned, foil ml themselves sad dled willi debts ? h icii on) y years of DRIVES L ever to save our e advance. We st mirons money and \ oming every day, ai )lid Button Shoes at at 5 cents. Not ov spertfully, Q V [earnest atnl patient labor could hope I Ito wipe out. Iii many instances j alter a vain struggle to regain the lost vantage ground, the merchants went to tho wall and the old planta tions passed into tho hands of strangers. This is a sad picture and pity 'tis, 'tis true. It was only those men who followed more conservative methods and who apprehended thc new ern just beginning lo dawn on our agriculture, who were able to retain their birthright and weather thc storm of financial ami agricul tural depression, which swept with such fearful force over thc entire South. Hut that generation has passed-new mon have como upon the scene and new methods now pre vail. The strong, young business men of the South, farmers and mer chants and manufacturers and bank ers, have been trained in a very dif- I feront school from thc magnificent golden age of the old South. Agri- ; cultural liter.it ure has been spread broadcast over the land, experiment stations have multiplied, farmers' j institutes and '.ollogo.-' and other ; methods for disseminating agricul- I taral and up-to-date principles, aro in easy roach of the anny of earnest j workers, constituting 7.! per cent of ? our population who are reading, ! studying and applying those vital j truths. Already diversified farming and rotation, fruit growing, cattle raising, butter making arc taking the place of thc one-crop system with its attendant bondage to debt and thc independent fanner who can make his cotton and hold it is not , tho rara avis he once was. In tech- j nical education and manual training, in manufacturing, in every other development of business, thc new South is proudly taking her place among commercial nations. Thc era for which thirty odd years of lessons painfully learned, disappointments, disasters and lina! successes have prepared tho way, is being ushered j in, and on tho banners of the twen tieth century we sec the glimmer of victory-victory for fanners, mer chants, bankers, manufacturers-all business interests lighting in ont! grand anny lo hold thc commercial and agricultural supremacy of tho 'South against tho world! I*'rom this union must come our strength for all Inline conllicts against lin. forces and combinations thal would strive lo reap thc enfin' prolits from our groat crop-cotton-which is tho gigantic industry ol' the world.- K. T. Nesbitt, in thc .Uh.ida Constitu tion. Catarrh Cannot he Cured by local applications, as (bey cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. 'l here is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inllamod con dillon of the mucous lining of the eusla ; chian tube. When this tuhogets inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect I hearing, and when it is entirely closed 'deafness is Hie result, and unless the inflammation can be taken ont and (bis tube restored to ?ts normal condition, ? hearing will bo destroyed forever. Nine (.ases out of ten arc caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an iiillaiiieil condi tion of the in neons su i laces. I'. .1. CIIKNKV A cn., Proprietors, Toledo, ohio. I Sold by druggists, 7*?e. Hall's Family Pills are the best. ... May Prevent a Lynching. A. .1. Uonoyeutl, aged sixty, a far mer, living near ('enter, Texas, Sun day nighl attacked bis wife with a I knife. Their children ran lo the as sistance of their mother, when llon eyeiitt stabbed liosa, aged sixteen, killing ber instantly. Thc wife and I wo sons, aged twelve and ten, were Ho bailly wounded that they may die. Iloiieycull is in jail, and precautions have been taken to prevent a lynch Congressman Talbert has again been .made chairman of the South Carolina j delegation in the hon.se, and he is also 1 a member of Ibo congressional cain paign committee. customers money, ;ruck it just right, ve will do it, for we id we must unload. ; 80 cents, er 20 yards to one V. BAUKNIGHT, LETTEN FROM THE PHILIPPINES. Mr. John F. Tatham Writes a Short Letter (rom tho Distant Isles. _ In a loller written to our Mr. .1. YV. Shelor hy Mr. .lohn I?'. Tatham, dated December 17th, IS!>!>, Moy oatinyan Station, Philippine Islands, among other things In? says : I came into thc army to gratify a desire to travel and sec this country and a longing for active service in the army. In a large measure I have realized what I came into the army for. The travel and scenery across the country were grand, also the voyage of about X,0(><) miles from San Francisco to Manila. My company is now camped al Meyeauayan Station, on the railroad from Manila lo Daguapan, which is about 1!57 miles from Manila. It is now tin* dry season and the climate is line. Rice is thc principal crop here, ex cept fruits. The rice is just now be ing harvested. The natives are industrious and very friendly toward the soldiers, apparently. They dress very lightly and il is difficult to describe their apparel. The women keep them selves very clear of the soldiers. We are quartered in an old monett tary, right hy a cathedral. The natives are all Catholics, ami very I zealous toward their church. We are about sixteen miles from San Male, which is the Philippine stronghold. We all are expecting strong resistance. We are expect ing the American forces lo move on that place any time. The food eaten over here by thc natives is as widely different from ours as their dress is. I will close, hoping thal you will send mc Tin: KI:OWI:I: Coi KU I:. My address is : John |?\ Tatham, Company "Al," 2t?th I'. S. V. I., ! Manila, IM. Special From the CA: j STORE, Wa HUBBUB On Ute jii-sl da II of /< \o/)C/t tt/> {rilli a Urn in/ Arti ( 'urra LYU, sn OHS, II. I I I Ifttfn isltin <J, doods ?u \ heller fttt rgtt ins limn . I/// si or A' trill he li en I ar. I trill lin II die I en (I i II o' ni n eke I's nf Iii e I ' n ( !i re (ts n en li nu d tee i ) hu rs re." Cash Ba LOUIS Ile sn rc timi rend o< for il triil n si on i sh //ott ! Judge Kniest dary in a recent charge t<> thc grand jury al t?eorgo town used the following wise words: j Ile said that the dial by jury was tile bulwark of liberty and that tho objections made we. . md lo the system itself, but lo its administra lion. "A corrupt juror," said Judge (Jary, "is a greater menace to the social organization Ihnii the ? ?'?initial, upon whose guilt or innocence he passes." The treasury receives about, *..!.>, (11111,11(111 a month from thc internal icvenue tax. The Irish p?dalo crop of I Sil!? in this country amounted to _* |\!,(HMi, non bushels REPLIES TO MESSRS. VERNER ANO COOK ON THE ROAD LAW QUESTION. ll HEAVY BLOW FOR WI. COOK. Ko Punctures tho l aw and Wants to llavo tho Privilcgo of Paying or Working. ?KTitKAT, S. C., January ?3. I'M ?tors Courier : As Mr. Vernor takes "Neil Todd" to task, I wish to say a tew words in reply : Now, as to tho boss business, I wish to say that Mr. Vernor may not look al it as 1 do. Of course; every body luis different names for things, but I eau'', see any difference in it. We elect men to make laws for us and they just meet and do nothing but amend and change things, and then don't make them any more sat isfactory than they were before, and sometimes not as well. We ?lid not mean Mr. Vernor, though, any more than we did any one else. We know that be can't do everything by himself in making laws for the people, for he has to have a majority of the Representa tives with him ; and then it only goes to the Senate and it sometimes dies with that body. Then, again, what makes this road law look so bossy is that they made it, st) we could not do as we jilease about il, but we have got to work the four days. Mr, N'orner says you can hire some one to work for you. 1 would like lo know who you could hire when the law says that any tine loo young or too old is not a lawful sub stitute. Now, if the overseer wants lt?, lie would not receive any one as a substitute unless lie was a lawful hand, ami then you would be com pelled to work. Ami, if you don't, you will wish you had. Don't that look a little like bossism'/ Xow, if he hail said you shall work four days or pay ?1.00, that would look like business. Then no man coidd com plain, and it would have been just and right, for *1.;>0 equals four days work, for the law says thal the day's woi k is only eight lunns, and that would be just thu same wages wc pay for labor on thu farm. Now Mr. Vernor says he has done all he could lor his people. Ile coultl ami has made ns good a Repr? sentative as wc ever had. Wc don't deny lint', and we believe he will still do all lie can for his people. [f I wc had not believed it we would not i have voted for him. Rut that don't Notice SH BARGAIN il hal la, S. C. ?BBB 'KUIHM li ) ; WOO, wc will i ' und ll 'ch'scirr ICil SI uck fifi "S. .YOTI OA'S nuil CK.YTS' I it'll i eli ire trill o'ii'cf/att IV* rrcr brftirr. I rtniifilc.fr ?II rrrrif fitw I lie hi I rsl ?'titi H fill Ihr i I !?<! Sidles. will sure I ccu I t/nii ri'jlil. ?jirel full ff, rgain Store, BLOOM, Proprietor. ur ml. in nr.vi trrrA' 's fift/ier, ' make mc believe thal this thing of ; having to work four ?lays, without ihe chance to pay a commutation tax, is right. Now, as to the Supervisor bossing the money. I know thal has been I the way of it, bul I don't believe it j is .i;dil ; for lie could send the ! money back to the same road it was ? paid iii from i I be would ; and I think he ought to do it. Of course ?I would be a lilt le trouble, bul he could lind out what school district the lax belongs to just as l he ( 'on ll I y Superintendent nf Kducalion tines his school tax. Rut the Supervisors gel nu* ol' all the work they can. Still I guess we all would do (he : ann- way if we h at I the chance. Now, as to lins contract business, I <ii<i not Uko it myself, anti that is thc cause of the roads being iii the lix they are to-day. Thcso contrac tors did just as I or Mr. Vernor would have done-got their pay with just as little work as possible. If the Supervisor anti Commissioners had appointed good overseers on the roads and had paid them fair wages, thc roads would have been in better condition to-day. Thc pinn worked well before the contract system was inaugurated and it would again. Hut then everybody is liable to make mistakes, even when bc thinks ho is doing the best he can. That is thc way we look at ibis present road law. We think Mr. Vernor did it through n mistake, ns he assumes the responsibility for it. Now, ?Slr. Vernor says his friend at lietreat should be willing to join in for that which is good for all the people. That is just what I am in for, and I can't sec why my plan is not just as good as Mr. Vernor's, though wt; "Ullin" farmers ought not to say anything about this law-mak ing business, and always accept the law as it is dealt out to us, and plow on to make something to support the law-makers, and bc pleased with whatever comes, and always stand ready to send them hack again al each election. Now a few words to Mr. Cook. I Ic says we can't reasonably expect Mr. Vernor to satisfy the people, for God di<l not satisfy them when there was only two, anti now there .ire three thousand in < >oonee and they have had thousands of years to get worse in. No, I did not expect it, nor I still don't expect it. I don't think he could satisfy Mr. Cook from the way he writes. lint then he is after the same classes I am, but he did not know it. Now, lo his hist tdass-the colored population-I say Iel as many ol' them pay out as will al "sl.fiO each, without the fax on the other little property ht: talks of, and then put the money in thc hands of some good man that knows how to work employees and bit him hire hands and work thc roads, and then you will get more work out of one negro than you would with two til these fellows if they were working their own lime. Can't you sec youl mistake, brother? If the Legisla ture is going lo make an one-sided law at all, it ought to make every man liable to road duty pay ?l.f>fl and md have any work in it, and then we would get rid of these dom: beats on the road who don't care foi anything but lo put in their time. Now ."Mr. Cook says we have fl class ot' young while men in oin county who have no properly, am some ol' them will spend their las: dollar to splurge on. I am al'lei these same boys, for they would liol br caught on the road if there wa; any way out of it. So I say lc them pay &l.f)0, for their moue) would do more work than the) would, ami he a great deal less (rou hie to the overseer. If we have gol any of that kind in the county don't know them, but I guess the; slay close to ."Mr. Cook's, and niayb around his own fireside. 1 don' know ; but there is ono thing I di know, there are none tm this side o the county. And if he has them want him to keep them, for ? don' want them scattered over the count) Xow, as lo his third class, the ol gray haired citizens who huv worked hard all their lives. Now guess this applies lo Mr. Cook ; and til* course, he is like all oilier nie who want thc county lo just, carr I them along on llowevy beds of east Now what is wrong alunit taxing th property lo make good roads? Don good roads advance the value t properly, HO maller where it is Don't these sanie old honest me like to travel good roads as weil i young men? Don't Mr. Cook wat a good road hy his lillie farm ami I town? Ol' course he thies, and it j nothing but just and right for him I help build them, ?ml he wants t poke the young man's nose to tl grindstone and let himself go frei I want sonic one lo tell mo what right about that. lint then me like .Mr. Cook .'ire always lindie fault willi other men because thc don't carry their burden und mal good roads for them to I rav el on an pay the liddlcr while they have noll lng lo do hut dance. They want I call that jusl and right. Why shoul ia man, because he is lilly years o and has horses and wagons, he e cinpf fr. in helping lo keep up ll roads? There is no more j II st i co if than to exempt a man al I went one who has neither horse m wagoo, and not. as mindi, for he h nothing to travel on the road. I'> Mr. Cook wants lo work him foi days without even giving hint L ?BSOWtJEW?t Mal?es the food more de rnv.?.i f!?y.iHo ?JW chance to nay oui. Hut you must not way one time lo him, you must help work the roads which you drive over while the boys have to walk ; and yet he ?aya that is just and right. I don't believe it is right, neither can I see justice in it. Now Mr. Cook says he calls it robbing ami placing a premium on trill bigness. Now I don't sec il that way. If there is any trillingness in it, or sellishness, it would be for thc poor young men of our county to have to work the roads ?ind such men as Mr. Cook be frei1. Now where is right and justice in such a law ? I can't see it and J don't be lieve Mr. Cook docs either, if he won't say so. Now, Mr. Cook, get your heart right ami practice what you preach -?"(?(jual rights to all and special privileges to none," and let us live on under the road law so we can work or pay, and light to kill the dispensary law and go on progress ing. Hut I inness the old man is joined lo his idol and we will have lo let him alone. NV. M. L KM.M ONS. LEGISLATIVE DOINGS. Fertilizer Tax Hcilticcrt- Nothing Has Been Done thc Past Week. TIIIKTKKNTII l>.\V-.IAN. ?51. Tho Senate session to-day was brief and the proceedings were of n routine character. The Appell local option bill, which was reported unfavorably last night, was recommitted to the judiciary committee. Only a few of the mem bers of thc committee were present when the unfavorable report was adopted, and it may be that the full committee may report the opposite way. Thc House spent the entire day discussing the Ashley bill to reduce the fertilizer fee lo IO cents instead of "Jo cents per lon. After a light a j J compromise was adopted fixing the loyalty al fifteen cents. A number of local bills passed. Senator (Jraydon's bill to limit the power of municipal corporations in enacting ordinances and providing punishments for offenses triable in the State courts provoked some de bate among the lawyers. Thc com mittee on corporations had made an unfavorable report on the hill, and it I was killed. Thc Virginia-Carolina Chemical Company was lugged into thc debate and spoken of in uncomplimentary terms hy several members, it heilig ! 'characterized as thc trust controlling thc juice of fertilizers. Clemson's ! income was also talked about in plain Knglish. .Mr. ration's bill to provide for the changing of boundary lines ol' towns ned cities was killed by :i vote of '17 to ;'>('>. Mr. 1 luke's bill, making ii a mis demeanor for any municipal ollieer to take a contract for municipal . work was passed. Thc annual report of thc South ('andina (\dlogo trustees was made public today, asking an appropriation j >e27,;V.)S.O:{. Major Dendy introduced :i bill to amend the county government law j so far as relates to roads, bridges' and ferries. l>ll> NOT DO A N Y 'I'll I N?.. The Legislature did nothing on the 14th and If)til days of its session except "gas" about a few dispensary bills and local measures. I Just a Cough ? Thin is ila ?tory : ^ d A t Iii st, a slight ceuc.li. At last, a hemorrha?o. I At first, easy to euro. At last, extremely ilifTicult. AyerS Cherry Pectoral quickly conation* ymir hnckingcongh. 'lhere ia nn doubt .about the cure now. Fur over half a century Ayer's Cherry Pectoral has been curing cehls ami roughs and preventing con sumption. Two si/es: $1.00; fiOr,. Keep one ol Hr. Ayer H Cherry Pectoral Plustern over ymir hm/-. Il yuu cough. Wrlta tim nontor. If you li.ive mi)' ri.lHlilallll wllMOVAf, writ? tim iloclor friirfy ntmui lt. You ?III n?i'olvi' ? ennui ! niilv. ? Minuit colt. A?Mri>M, Ult. il. C AV KU, Lowell, Ma^s. -The Atlanta Semi Weekly Journal and Tm. Coi meit foi $1.50 a sear. ?HMMMMMMNMBMOHMMBi j BAKING T POWDER >URE licioi.s oncl wholesome DTR C0.? Hf.fi VOUK. PANTHER NEAR SALEM. Two Accidents-Mack Pony Wants to Know a Few Tilings About tho Lino Fcnc<?. SAI.KM, January 22.-(Delayed.) Everything ia moving along very .voil at this place. Mr. Wm. Vaughn, while sawing shingles at J. ll. Wigington's mill on thc Kith instant, had the misfor tune to lose half of one of his fore lingers. Ile is doing very well at this time. Mr. J. W. tirant, one of our mer chants, while driving a cow on thc 20th instant, got one of his hands badly bruised by being jerked against a tree. Air. J. W. Cannon has bought a saw mill and lix Lures near Sapphire, N. C., and bas taken charge of tho same. Mr. (J. IC Pike is having his dwelling house painted, which adds much to its appearance and proser valion. Mr. W. C. YVhilmire, of thc Wal halla Cotton Mills, is spending a few days in this community recruiting. Ile is looking remarkably well to work on the night shift. Mr. J. ll. Cirant bas thc contract to run .Mr. T. A. (inuit's grist mill this year. Those ho failed lo meet our new pastor at \ li il i n ire's on the Otb in stant mis- 'il a line sermon. The pastor's next appointment is on Sat urday before the lirai Sunday in February. .Members of Whitmirc's church will jilease remember this and govern themselves accordingly. Messrs. Fisher and Gibson, of Jo cassec, were in this burg last Sun day. They went toward thc Little Uiver section after tho turn of the day. When they left the above named section il was late in thc night, and llioy heard a panther screaming in thc distance. None of us know whether thc boys landed at home or not. Now, as I have named panther, some one will wish to know more about this animal. Whore il came from, no one knows, but several have seen it and several have beard il scream. Mr. .lames Compton saw it last, so far as wo know. Sonic liine about thc first of .Ianuai v, the last time it was heard, il was between Mr. .1. I.. Talley's and Mr. I,. I!. Cantrell's, until Sunday night, January 21 st. Now a word or two about thc line fence and wc will close. There seems to bc a great deal of confusion i:i thc upper part, of this county about a lint; fence. Can some one tell us about this fence ? I have been told that lhere was a line across (Icoucc county, and all above this linc were exempt from the enclosure law. Now can anybody tell us whet) this law was passed ? Whore docs this linc commence and where docs it end ? Who is going to build this fence? Who arc the building com mittee? What farms does this line run by at the upper edge? How far below the linc will parties be allowed to turn cattle in thc pasture? Will all the tenable land above thc linc fence bc enclosed ? How much is a share in this fence? How many rails will it take to build it? How much money will it cost ? ls this not a blockade shebang? If so Corbin will catch it. Can sonic one toll us about, the linc fence ? MAC K I?KUUY. "Mack," we can't tell you any thing about thc line fence, .il wish lo say that ? there is any rest for thc "wicked" "The Keowcc Courier (inn Club" will go up and bunt and kill that panther. Koop it in thc neighborhood by feeding it a few young lambs. We have killed many a panther in tho West. There they grow lo bc tho size of a horse. l ice ol Charlie. Any adult suffering from a cold settled on the breast, bronchitis, throat or lung I roubles of any nat ure who will call at .1. II. Dai hy's will he presented with a sample hot lb- ol ltosehee's Cern?an Syrup, free of charge. Only one bottle given to one person, and none to children without order from parents. Nu throat or bing remedy ever had such a sale as ltosehee's ('orman Syrup in all pails of the civilized world. Twenty years ugo millions of bottles were given away, and your druggist will tell you its success was marvelous, lt is really (he only Throat and laing I'.emedy generally endorsed by physicians. 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