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^tumorous department. HIS LAST EFFORT. Mrs. Fidelia Crowell often remarked that she did Dot suppose there was another man in the country so careless as her husband, Elijah. This opinion was shared by the neighbors, who remembered numerous instances of Elijah's carelessness. But there was one occasion when Mr. Crowell proved that be could be as thoughtful as anybody, and Mrs. Crowell greatly enjoyed telling about it. "We never moved but once," she would begiu, "and I may say we have never got really settled, although it's over 20 vears ago. "My sister Elizabeth was a real good band to pack, and she came over and took right bold. She packed all our clothes and most of the dishes; and it was goiDg on two years before I dared lift up a towel out of a trunk without - using both hands, not knowing but Elizabeth might have placed a tea plate in it. "I had six of Grandmother Crowell's china cups. Of course I set considerably by them, and I packed them myself, just as careful as I could. Elijah saw me, and he noticed I put them into a small box and tied them up and set them on the shelf by the sink. "When we come to start, I went on the first team to see that the things were unloaded and set where I wanted them, and I took the box with the china cups with me, and held them all the way to Corinth. Elijah was com - 3 ' J nr. l J ? ing with tne second ioau. wc unu a real Bmart young horse at that time, and Elijah was going to drive him over. x "It seems after Elijah got his load all on he stepped into the kitchen and looked about, and right on the kitchen shelf he saw a box done up is careful as could be. Elijah thought it was the china cups, and I suppose he was dreadful pleased to find I had gone off and forgotten tbem ; and he made up his mind that he would show that he could be careful if be set out. "I know he must have had a dreadful time getting into the wagon with that box in his bands, for that horse never would Btand for nobody; but Elijah fetched it someway, and got started. "He said the horse went so fast and the wagon shook so that it scared him, for he was afraid those cups would get all smashed up. So he held the box in his lap as careful as he could, and being frightened then, he made the horse walk every step of the way, over twenty miles, and he set on the edge of that seat holding that box as careful as if it was a sick baby. "When he got here he wa3 as pleason/1 QQUQ H A 'Nnw tJU tK} UUU1U I'Oj uuu uwj fcj MV| Fidelia,' says he, 'you can't ever call me careless again. You stepped off and left grandma's cups on the sink shelf, and I've brought 'em myself, and walked the horse all the way so's not to jar 'em more than I could help.' "I had unpacked the cups the first thing, and they were set up in the china cupboard ; so I just pointed at them, and says I, 'What on earth have you brought, Elijah ?' He hurried up to undo the bundle, and if it wasn't my two best flatirons 1 Yes, Elizabeth had gone to work and wrapped them up, and poor Elijah had been to all that trouble to bring them over. "Well, we had a good laugh at him, but be was considerable riled about it, and I guess it discouraged Elijah, for be hasn't made much of an effort since then, and he don't like to have anybody give him credit for ever trying to be careful." What Webster Said.?A good story of a man whose memory was better for "substance of doctrine" than for literalnessof phraseology is related in The Green Bag. Some years ago an eastern farmer, in trying to repeat Webster's dying words, "I still live," gave an amusing rendering of the spirit, if cot the exact letter, of the phrase. A gentleman had remarked to him, "Life is very uncertain." "Ah, yes," replied the farmer, "that's true, every word of it; and by the way, captain, that makes me think of what one of your big Massachusetts men said when he died a spell ago." "Who was it?" inquired the captain. "Well, I don't jist call his name now, but at any rate he was a big politicianer, and lived near Boston somewhere. My newspaper said that when be died the Boston folks put his imapB in their windows, and had a ?0 - ? funeral for a whole day." "Perhaps it was Webster," suggested the captain. "Yes, that's his name ! Webster. General Webster. Strange 1 could not think of it afore. But he got off a good thing just before he died. He riz up in bed and says he, 'I ain't dead yet!' " I?- A new Georgia poet "is in our midst." He sends this charming lyric to the Atlanta Constitution, with the statement that it is "one of a thousand" he has written, but the first he has. ever submitted for publication. It is as follows: "My love has eyes that are as blue As I am when a note falls due; Her face with love lines abounds!; I think she weighs two hundred pounds. Her smile far more than gold is worth; 'Tis wide enough to light the earth! I hear the falling of her feet A hundred yards adown the street; She sets my happy heart to drumming, And the whole world shakes when she's coming!" "T want, thp nnmnanion volume to 'The Descent of Man,' " she explained. "The?the what?" asked the attendant. "The companion volume to 'The Descent of Man,' " she repeated. "I?I never heard of one," said the attendant, doubtfully. "I don't believe there is any." "Nonsense, young man !" she retorted, looking at him sharply. "I'm sure there must be something about the rise of woman." ?hc $tonj ?cllcr. HALF A MILLION." A CONCEITED MAN'S STORY. I bad been in the dry goods business 10 years or more, and had drudged all that while, winter and summer, without a holiday, except Christmas and New Year's Day and the Fourth of July, when one summer, calculating my profits, I made up my mind that I 1 ^ ' - ?i 1/? r could anora to eDjoy myseu xui uuvo as other people did?cut the shop outright for a while, and spend a week or so iu the country. Trade was dull, and I was dull, too. So as Dobbins's aunt?Dobbins is my head clerk?had a house at Shadyslope, and took a boarder or two, and was anxious to fill her unoccupied rooms that summer, I gave my name to Dobbins to fill up the list, and ran down with my trunk and bag about the first of July. I felt that it was an honor to Dobbins's aunt, as well as to Dobbins; but I made up my mind to be affable, and not to make them more uncomfortable than I could. No matter what your position in life, it is very wrong to put on airs, and I never do it. "Tell them not to put themselves out on my account," I said to Dobbins, "but to treat me just as they do the other boardersand Dobbins said he would. "Puff, of Puff & Co.," I said, when I met the aunt; "don't disturb your self on my account. I am quite simple iu my habits." She said she wouldn't, though I could see it was not every day that the head of a firm came to Shadyslope. They had three or four other people there. A few who taught music and composed some, you know; and an artist and a doctor and a few who wrote novels, but nobody of any importance. When I sat down to the table that night, I put them all at ease at once. "I distinctly desire it to be understood that I don't want to disturb any one," I said. "Go on just as you have been doing. I want relaxation, and it will amuse me. Simple pleasures are very charming when one is weary with application to more important matters." Then I bowed. But you can't expect everything of people not up to the mark. Two or three laughed? why I don't know. It was very pleasant there. Part.irnlflrlv nleasant. Mv landlady had a daughter, quite a charming creature, with eyes like bluebells and a voice like a canary. She used to sing a good deal with the music man. The moment that girl looked at me she appreciated me. Before the day was over she was desperately in love with me, and when a creature like that gives you her heart, how can you look coldly on her? Far be it from me to win the affections of an innocent girl, knowing as I do that I have a position in the world, and must marry with due consideration of the fact; but knowing what emotions I had awakened in her bosom, I felt obliged to be kind to her. We walked together. We rode, we sung. I felt that it was wrong, but my feelings carried me away. I often thought to myself: If that girl's father had been in the wholesale line and had left her well off, what a bliss would have been mine. But he was nothing but a lawyer, and had scarcely left a penny. Excelsior is my motto. Large retail should always aspire to a connection with wholesale. And Miss Briggs, of Briggs & Bounce, smiles very sweetly when she bows to your humble servant. Alas! who shall control the heart's affections? Evelina's beauty and her devotion touched my soul too deeply. On the first of September, when the trade was growing brisk, I began to feel that it was better for the peace of both our hearts that I should fly. I should forget the dream in a little while. But she, poor child, I feared that she would never forget me. "Adieu," I said, as I shook hands with her. "Perhaps we shall never meet again." She turned her face away from me. Her emotions overcame her. And I took the next train to the city. I entered again into the turmoil of trade. It was brisk. But nothing could make me happy. I accused myself of trifling with the affection of an angel. She loved me, I thought, and I have broken her heart?I who secretly adore her. I lost my appetite ; I grew thin. When I saw fair creatures of her age bending over the counter, my mind flew back to her lovelier than all. When Mrs. Brigg's daughter smiled upon me, I thought how plain she was, and how adorably beautiful was Evelina. At last?it was in October?my head clerk claimed a holiday. "I shall spend it with my aunt and Evelina,' he said. I sighed. "A beautiful girl," said I. "Yes," said he, blushing at the compliment to the family, I presume. "The loveliest girl I ever knew, and a lucky one, too." "Lucky ?" said I. "Yes," said he. "In a year from this time she will be a very rich woman. Old grandfather left her everything cmnfl of a/rp, or marrv. and he ~~o- ?/ i I was worth half a million." "Half a million?" I cried. My head clerk nodded. "Visit your aunt and cousin when you will," I said, "and don't return until you feel quite rested. You never mentioned to me before, Dobbins, that your grandfather left half a million." "You see it wasn't left to me," he said, and went off. "Half a million ! Miss Briggs was not worth that. A wholesale business was the thing to be connected with, of course ; but when the heart is touched we are willing to sacrifice all else. I will fly to your side, Evelina," I soliloquized. "I will recompense you for your hours of grief, by telling you how I adore you I" I pictured the scene to myself. I saw her as she confessed her love and fainted in my arms ; and that evening I ran down to Shadyslope, to offer my heart and hand to Evelina. I arrived after dark. The- house was very quiet, and as I advanced, I reflected that my sudden appearance might agitate Evelina too terribly; I must announce myself cautiously. I stole forward on tiptoe to reconnoitre. Two forms were seated on the porch. A faint gleam of moonlight revealed them to me. A lady with her cheek reposing upon a gentleman's shoulder. His arm about be waist. They were my head clerk, Tom, and his Cousin Evelina. I stood as one petrified. They were talking of me. "He really thought I was smitten, Tom," said Evelina. "He flirted with me terribly." "Did he dare?" began Tom. "Didn't he know?" "Of course I did not tell him I was engaged to you," said Evelina. "Why, Tom, you couldn't be jealous of such a fellow?a man with no idea beyond his counter." Then Tom kissed her. I waited for no more. Fortunately I caught the down train. At twelve o'clock I was in the city. At the depot I met Simpkins about to start for Albany. "Simpkins," I said, "I've heard you speak of a troublesome nephew you desired to provide for." "Confound him, yes," said Simpkins. "My head clerk's place is vacant," I said. "Tell him to come to me." "Thank you," said Simpkins. I waited for do thanks. I strode away, and wrote Dobbins tbat his services were no longer required. I have been married a year to Miss Briggs, and her father failed five months ago. Simpkins has just been arrested for embezzling sundry sums of money; and yesterday I passed Tom Dobbins and bis wife in the street. She is excessively pretty? lovlier than ever?and I feel quite sure, despite all tbat I overbead, tbat ber heart is still mine in secret. Of course she could not admit it, not knowing I returned the sentiment. But when I remember bow much we were together, I feel sure it must be so, and tbat two hearts were broken. Quite a romantic story, mine. Don't you think so ? FACTS FOR COTTON GROWERS. The Difference Between the Market Price and the Future of Cotton. To the Editor of The Journal: The convention of cotton growers, to assemble in Atlanta and Memphis at an early day, evince that the farmers know of the serious nature of the problem which confronts them. I wish to offer a few suggestions as to the remedies to be considered. The price received by the planters, as compared to that in New York, is revealed by the following tables, prepared by Mr. Plunkett, a bank president, of Lynchburg, Va.: In 1894, planter's average price, 4.6 cents ; New York, highest price, 8}. In 1895, planter's average price, 7.59; New York, highest price, 9?. In 1896, planter's average price, 6.6; New York, highest price, 8$. In 1897, planter's average price, 4.6; New York, highest price, 8$. The above table of prices explain how dealing in "futures" affects the price of cotton, pauperizes the landholders and producers and destroys the law of supply and demand so far as the price of raw cotton is coucerned. For 20 years the only money made in raw cotton has been made by the gamblers of the cotton excbauges and the commission men. The producers have made nothing. If all the accounts of all the producers could be audited for that time, it would prove this statement. Meanwhile most of these men never saw a cotton plant. The remedy is simple; but it will take Herculean and united effort upon the part of all southern and right thinking congressmen to apply it. It is, in brief, to abolish by legal enactment all dealings in "future contracts" as to all agricultural products. It is safer today to buy 100 bales of "futures" than to raise 100 bales on our farms and plantations. Cotton is a dethroned monarch. We, as a people interested in cotton pro duction, are practicalJy peons. Evading the law as to tbe tax on state banks is a remarkable act on tbe part of a state legislature; but it lends force to the charge that we live under a commercial vassalage that is nothing less than despotic. Yet even that law is puerile in importance compared to the suppression of this great evil which holds down the vast majority of our people in apparently hopeless ruin. The second subject for the consideration of these two conventions, is tbe effort on tbe part of our great commercial rivals, England, France and Germany, to depress the price of cotton so as to make its manufacture relatively cheaper. The framers of the Confederate constitution foresaw this danger and guarded against it by providing for an export duty. When we were forced back into the Union we became subject to the United States constitution again, and that constitution prohibits all export duties. History will yet show that commercial vassalage to the north and east had as much, or more, to do with secession than slavery did. The only practical remedy for this foreign control of the price of cotton is to spin it into yarns and cloth before it is shipped. This may be done to a much larger extent than it has been done, if our farmers will unite upon some form of co-operation, like that adopted during our war, when every man voluntarily aided the government by contributing one-tenth of all he produced on his farm. If they will do the same for each other, that they did then for the Confederate government, they will establish throughout the south a multitude of small mills for making yarns or cloths in their own communities. This will not only baffle European plans to depress the price of cotton ; but will give employment at home to the females, who would eagerly accept it. It would overcome the prejudice against large mills and resultant "receiverships" in time of panic. And finally it would crush in the bud the designs of eastern manufacturers, and railway and insurance companies to force, southern farmers to adopt the cylindrical bale, instead of the square bale, and thus gradually destroy millions of dollars invested in machinery and buildings for pressing cotton into bales, as at present. Francis Fontaine. DEATHS IN POLITICS. Dramatic Climaxes to Prominent Careers In America and Abroad. From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Henry George's sudden taking off in the closing days of an exciting canvass, in which be was the most striking and picturesque figure, will serve to recall some of the other dramatic deaths of publicists and statesmen. In George's own state Alexander Smith, a prominent carpet manufacturer, who was a candidate for congress on the Republican ticket in a New York district in .1878, died on the election night, five minutes after receiving the announcement of bis victory, and in the special election the Democrats recovered the district. But on critical occasions death has often in this country struck a far more shining mark than it did here. William Henry Harrison's demise in 1841, a month after his. inauguration, right at the outset of the Whig party's career of power, sent Tyler to the presidency, precipitated the conflict between him and congress on the bank question oplit his party and was one of the causes of its defeat in 1844. Death's second in TT vaaion 01 toe vybiwj iiuuoc wu& vu Taylor in 1850, who was an opponent of Clay's compromise measure of that year, and put Fillmore, who favored the legislation, and who signed the compromise bills without hesitation, at the head of the government. Lincoln's death at the crowning moment of his career gave under Johnson a more virulent character to the conflict between president and congress than it would otherwise have assumed, and delayed the work of reconstruction. Garfield's assassination marked the climax of the factional feud in the Republican party, defeated Blaine and the Republicans in 1884 and started Cleveland on bis long career of success. "I live in an inverted order," said Burke on the death of his son, who had just been elected to parliament. "They who ought to have succeeded me have gone before me. They who should have been to me in the place of posterity are in the place of ancestors." This death led Burke to refuse the title of Lord Beaconsfield, which George III had offered him, indirectly caused savage attacks on Burke by bis political enemies, caused n frinin in narliament and called out from him one of the profouudest of bis constitutional expositions, his "Letter to a Noble Lord." The Earl of Chatham was seized with an apoplectic fit and died in 1778, when rising to speak in the house of lords against the motion for the recognition of the independence of England's American colonies. He had been an able and consistent friend of the Americans, but he opposed peace with them at that time because this would be a trumph for England's "natural enemy," France. Premier Spencer Percival was shot dead in the lobby of the parliament bouse in 1812, but bis taking off produced no impor-l tant political consequences. The death of Castlereagh, the British foreign minister by suicide, in 1822, startled Europe, put Canning in the foreign office, turned England's lukewarm friendship toward the Holy Alliance into open hostility, and, through Canning's friendship for the United States at the time Monroe issued his historic declaration in 1823, "called the new world into existence to redress the balance of the old." The fall from a horse which killed Peel in 1850 came at a time when the troubles of the Bussell ministry promised to open to the veteran Opportunist chieftain a new career of glory. The theological student, Sand, who assassinated Kotzebue in Manheim in 1819 for his powerful opposition to German freedom, alarmed Stein and Hardenberg, who were older and wiser friends of liberty than Sand, and they saw that the assassin's work bad deofnnoorl tKflin tnnag "^Jnw the COD Obi VJCU KUV14 UVJ/VWI ? ???? ??? ? stitution i9 impossible," said William Von Humboldt, in words that were prophetic. Time and circumstances made Kotzebue's death a triumph for absolutism instead of democracj'. Marshal Prim's assassination in 1870 startled the world, even at a time when the Franco-German war was furnishing a new sensation almost every week, deprived Spain of an alert and resourceful mind at a decidedly critical period of her history, and took from King Amadeus, whom he had just elevated to the Spanish throne, an adviser whose guidance might have changed the current of future events. The assassination of Alexander II, in 1881 came at an inopportune time for the assassins, for it checked the reforms then in progress in Russia, removed the liberator of 24,000,000 serfs, and put upon the throne the most reactionary of the Russian monarcbs of the century except Nicholas I. Canovas's recent death took place at the most critical stage in Spain's career since the revolutionary days of 1868-75, put anew party in power, made a swift and sweeping change in the management of affairs in Cuba, and may be precursor of further and still more startling consequences. He Never Came Down.?The story of the popular vice-president of the Central Railway coming in contact with a Georgia cow, recalls to the Atlanta Constitution another?that of a sheriff in the rural districts, who attempted to levy on what is known as a "scrub" cow, the property of a Georgia Negro, who told the story as follows : "Yes, suh, dat cow wuz de mos' gentlest cow I ever did see, till dat day de sheriff come for to foreclose her. Dat 'peared ter upset her complete ! "De sheriff walk up berry polite, wid de rope in bis ban', sayin', 'So, now ; so, now !' de cow backin' down fum him all de time. "She didn't run?she des backed, en sorter shake her bead, ez much ez ter say, 'Look heab, man, you better not fool 'roun' me 1' "Den, de fust t'ing de sheriff know, be did n't know nuttin', but him en de rope went up in de elements at one en de same time." "Was he badly hurt ?" "We never did know, sub, kase be never did come down any mo' I" "And the cow?" "Ob, she 'roun' beah yit, sub. She in ber ol' age now, but she 'pears ter be enj'ying er good health, en des ez gentle ez kin be ter dem what knows her." *akihb POWDER Absolutely Pure THE BEST ON THE MARKET. Bryson City, N. C., September 14, 1897. Rock Hill Buggy Co. , Rock Hill, S. C. Gents:?Will you please send me your catalogue and terms. You will remember a buggy you shipped to J. F. Teague, this place, over one year ago. This is the best buggy pvpr shinned to Brvson Citv. I ~ ? ? J ? bought this buggy on August 13, 1896. I used it over a year, sold it a few days ago in as good order as when bought. Yours truly, J. H. DITMORE. For sale by? J. W. Dobson, Yorkville: C. L. Wroton, Rock Hill; J. R. Barron A Co., Clover ; Cline Bros., Blacksburg ; Joseph Wylie & Co., Chester, S. C. J. H. RIPPLE. PAY IT NOW. TO parties indebted to me fof GUANO, I will say that it is necessary for them to settle their accounts ON OR BEFORE THE FIRST DAY OF NOVEMBER, for the reason that I can't grant further indulgence at this time; and it is absolutely essential that debtors govern themselves accordingly, fori have no desire whatever to send a man to see you, and thus starting the neighbors to talking. Let everyone take this matter to himself and give it the attention I am sure it deserves. Cheaper Than Ever Before. My supply of BAGGING AND TIES are now in stock and both are of the very best quality, and I am offering them at Erices that will relegate the "second and" quality to the rear. The fact is that the price at which I atn offering the new gooas should induce the farmers to dress every bale just like a dude. Come and see us and let us give you prices. WE HAVE $2 KIND TOO. Oh ! yes, we've got the92kind too?the everyday variety that we've been selling all the time; but we've got something better now, if you've a mina to pay for it, and the difference in quality is much greater than the difference in price. Yes, we've got 100,000 LONGLEAF HEART PINE SHINGLES, which we are offering at the low price of 92.40 per thousaud. They are the best shingles ever put on this market. Plastering Hair, Lime, LATHES AND CEMENT can always be found at our store, and contractors or purchasers of large lots can expect close prices. J. H. RIDDLE. WHISONANT & CASTLES" HICKORY GROVE, H. C. n.T..n Iimmim im finfim emu at nr. WE are going OUT OF BUSINESS ON JANUARY 1, 1898. Our stock of DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, HARDWARE, BOOTS, SHOES, etc., is now full and complete. We are going to settle our affairs on a cash basis, and from this date on, everything must go AT AND BELOW COST; BUT ONLY FOR CASH. Early comers get the pick of the best bargains and at the lowest prices. We WILL CHARGE NOTHING. We mean exactly what we say, and wish to be so understood. Parties owing us on account, are requested to settle at their earliest possible convenience. Unsettled accounts will be collected by law. WHISONANT A CASTLES, Hickory Grove, S. C. September 18 75 3m T. W. SPECK. THE ENTIRE LAYOUT OF my Holiday Stock, offers a spectacle of unusual brilliance, even for the sparkling season of Christmas. Do you want The Nicest Gift That a reasonable price will buv? Something that can be given with pride and accepted with pleasure. I lay myself out to suit you. Will unlimited choice, endless variety and O T n UUUIIUIIIli; pilUUQ BUfb JUU < X uau uu lb and Lay Oat Competition By My Low Prices. No puree-pinching-prices, but figures just as reasonable as if my large stock gave me no pull on public patronage. Lay Out Your Money With me and lay in a bargain. Bat don't delay. Pickings go to the first and leavings to the last comers. Be in the front of the rush to my store. SPECK, The/eweler. Toys FOR TBI TOTS, In All Ages Sacrifices Have Been Made to Humor the Hood Little Children. For ages, parents of all classes, have made sacrifices to humor their children during the Christmas Holidays, and right it should be so. They deserve to be allowed to celebrate this great universal festival, and they should have our enthusiastic assistance as far as is in our power to give . it; and since the "blowing of horns and the dressing ot dolls" is one source of their delight, I made a special study to assist you in gratifying their wants, and have now in stock a large assortment of toys, consisting in part of Horns, Bouncing Balls, Tops, Drums, Carts, Wagons, Picture Books, Games and Baby Dollswithout number, all of which are marked at the most reasonable prices with the special view of assisting you in gratifying the little ones, and if you will take my advice, you will make your selections at once and lay them aside, thus avoiding the rush during the eleventh hour. Mrs. T. M. DOBSON. W. B MOORE & CO. DOORS, SASH AND BLINDS AT FACTORY PRICES. WE ARE in a position to furnish fine Mantles in Oak with Tile Hearths and Facings, Plated Grates to match, and ? Cauh nhoan \fantlpQ anH CUIU II11 >1.1 XJKJMl O, UfKJU, VUVW|/ Mouldings, at factory prices. W. B. MOORE A CO. FARM MACHINERY. WE CARRY, on easy terms, Turn Plows?one and two horse, subsoil and hillside. We guarantee to furnish extra points, either chilled, steel, or plain iron for" all plows we sell. Spading and Cutaway Harrows, Drag Harrows for one or two horses. You can't afford to miss looking into the merits and prices of our line. W. B. MOORE A CO. COFFINS, CASKETS AND ROBES. WE CARRY a full and complete line, with Robes, Slippers, etc. Give personal attention and insure perfect satisfaction. Prices as low as the lowest. Goods in stock from the cheapest to the best. New Hearse. . W. B. MOORE A CO. UNEQ.UALED! UNEQ.UALED ! I A REAL China Plate, Cup and Saucer. XJL une set, eacu wnu k,,1u wuuo, 81.50. These cannot be duplicated for the money. We have sold same goods in past years at fS a set. See our line of Fancy Goods for Xmas. We will not be undersold on anything, and our stock is larger than usual, being bought before the hardtimes struck us. Fine Lamps at a sacrifice. W. B. MOORE <fe CO. DYNAMITE1 DYNAMITE!! A LARGE QUANTITY bought at a sacrifice?one-half pound and one pound sticks. W. B. MOORE <fe.CO. FURNITURE. MANY nice things to offer at bargains. Pictures, Rockers, Extended Tables, etc. W. B. MOORE & CO. LOUIS KOTH. ROASTED COFFEE AT TEN cents a pound, put up in 1 pound packages. Fair goods. Try it. For Christmas. I have Mince Meat, both loose and condensed, at 10 cents a pound. JUST RECEIVED A BARREL OP Prime Sour Krout. nnimoirflonms nlpase bear in mind that I have a full and fresh supply of Raisins, Currants, Citron, Figs, etc., 'for fruit cakes at lowest prices. LOUIS ROTH. FAIR WARNING. ALL persons, without distinction of race or color, are hereby warned against hunting, fishing, riding, driving, cutting timber, or trespassing in any other way upon the lands of the undersigned. Persons disregrading this notice will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. O. W. HARTNESS, T. B. BARNETT, R. F. CARROLL, JOHN J. YOUNGBLOOD, JESS J. JOHNSON, Mrs. MATTIE NICHOLS, THOMAS J. NICHOLS, J. A. TATE, Mrs. N. D. TATE, JOHN F. A W. S. GORDON, W. P. HOBBS, JAMES GORDON, Mrs. SALLIE L. GRIST. December 4 96 s3t