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Chicago, Largest package?greatest cconomj-. THE . K. FAIRBANK COMPANY, St. Louis, New York, Boston, Ehiladelphia. : OBELISK FLOUR. "Friendship is all right in ite piuco, but bus iness is business." Lots of Flour in Town, und everybody wants to sell you, but no one ex ctpt Brownlee & Vardivers can sell you Bui lard's "Obelisk," "Favorfce," "Blue Bird." "Wate-loo" and "Old Hickory." Ii you need cny Fli ur, from 24 lbs. to a car load, we can sell it to yon for n=* little rr for less than you can buy <-beap s ufi" elsewhere. In every oth er barrel or sack you g -t a pr"ze which costs ; ou no'hing. MOLASSES. We thought seme time ago that v. o bad over bought but are nearly out, and aro expecting another car by e7ery freight, which we can sell you for lass money than you can buy the same goods for ?n this market, and we guarantee them not to sour. S?e us on Molasses and we will do vou good. ?V-/'COFFEE?All grades, from 10c. per lb. to the finest grown. Try one dollar's worth of Lezgett's Breakfast Java and ODjoy good Coffee for once in your life. TOBACCO?We can sell any sane man his Tobacco. Eighteen grades to f-elect from. If you don't see what you want ask for it. This is our Grocery season, and we aim to tell every fair mined person that honors us with a look on his Spring bill : but while we are pushing Groceries we have not for gotten Dry Goods, Shoea, Bats, &c, and can show you a slick, honest line of Good? cheap for ca?h. Yours for traffic, BROWNLEE & VAND1VERS. ^^j?t'AlwaysReliable. HAVE YOU ANY CENTS IF so, they should be invested with care and with an eye tingle to getting es SI much for them as possible. One hundred cents make a dollar, bntyou" don't always git a hundred ceni s worth for evf ry dollar invente i To avoid this y yon should buy Standard Good< with a reputable cnarantee behind them ; socb 8 Goods, for instane, as DEAN'S PATENT FLOUR. CHARLE V BUCH AN-? AN'S D3LIGHT TOBACCO and oar LEADER $1.00 BROGAN". The report that we sell more for a dollar than can be bought somewhere else || for a dollar and a quarter is coirect, and we might es well acknowledge it. Remember, we give you Quality as well as Quantity. DEAN & RATLIFFE, Guano Dealers, Cotton Buyers and Money Savers to the Trade. Q We are Making Special Prices on . . . TOBACCO I IF you want to buy Tobacco by the Box or pound it will pay you to see our Stock and get our prices.:. Fancy and Fine Groceries to suit Every One. We sell D. ?L Ferry & Co's. GardenlSeed. Also, Multiplying Onions and Onion Sets. COME TO SEE US 'PHONE 44. FREE CITY DELIVERY. OSBORNE & BOLT. A x SQUAKE MEAL ! IS always enjoyed by every individual, but just now the housekeeper has to.hustle around right lively to get it up. I am prepared to assist in this good work, as I have in stock a fresh and complete line of? Plain and Fancy Groceries, Canned Goods, Country Produce, etc. My stock of Confections, Fruits, Nuts, Tobacco and Cigars, IS ALWAYS COMPLETE. Give me a call. Prices and Goods will please you. FREE CITY DELIVERY. _ Gk F. BIGBY. IRON KING, ELMO, LIBERTY, AND RUTH. THE NEW EXCELSIOR, WITH OR WITHOUT RESERVOIR. IT is a given up fact that the above line or STOVES is superior to any on the mar ket. They are not as cheap as some 8toves, as the material is of the very best make, and therefore more durable. For the next sizty days I will sell cher.p for cash, and to good parties part on time. We continue to handle? Everything in the House Furnishing Line. TIN and CROCKERY cheaper than some of our competitors can buy, and not saying anything about their profit or loss, yet they Hay no one can sell cheap but them. A visit to my place will convince yon how you have been duped. I solicit your patronage. Respectfully, JOHN T. BUKRISS. GOOD COAL! It Pays to Buy the Best ! BEST Grade Jellico Coal, delivered, $4.50 per Ton. Best Red Ash Egg Coal, delivered, S7.50 per Ton. Best Grade Nut Coal, delivered, ?7.50 per Ton. tSf Prompt attention to all orders and satisfaction guaranteed. TELEPHONE :i7. ?5 Oct 2S, 1896 18 J. RH. PATR5CK? Um * 4 O o d < t? < al H fi D < ta ft ce H h 0 ^ S > O g 5 pej a S .o g o o 1-5 BUILDING! MATERIAL. BEFORE BUYING give us a call. We can save you mouey on all kinds of Building Material, such as? BRICK, LIME, CEMENT, PLASTER PARIS, A.t Lowest Prices. Also,fa COMPLETE STOCK of? jHEAVY and FANCY GROCERIES. Four good Mules for sale cheap. Jackson & McKimiey. Too Mudi Government. Ex-Senator David l?. Hill has ? - tributed the following to the March 2l! number of Turf, Field and Farm : Someone?I do not now recall who or where?made use of this expression, ''We are too much governed." No matter who coined the sentence, it may well be regarded as au apt saying, whereby tersely to convey the idea that government is constantly and un necessarily encroaching upon indi vidual liberty. In that sense the phrase supplies a public need. Some such epigram was required to be in vented to appropriately express the popular thought upon a subject which is causing so much public unrest. The liberal minded and thoughtful citizen views with anxiety the increas ing demand for Legislative restrictions upon individual action, which is everywhere being pressed by the de votees of fanaticism and paternalism with a zeal worthy of a better cause. There seems to be a mania among modern lawmakers for the abnormal increase of statutes. This tendency is not confined to a desire for unjust or illiberal legislation, but extends to legislation of every sort and character. A bare glance at the recent session laws of New York confirms this state ment, for the bulky volumes are filled with crude, illy-digested and undesira ble statutes, one-half of which, it is safe to say, are either mischievous or wholly unnecessary. The flood gates of special legislation seem to have been let loose, and every conceivable subject has been acted upon which the ingenuity of man could suggest. But it is in the realm of obnoxious legislation affecting individual rights that recklessness has been especially developed. There has been so much penal legislation enacted in recent years that a good citizen hardly knows which way to turn to avoid becoming a criminal by the infraction of statutes specifically regulating his conduct. The sound and well-recognized gen eral doctrine that a man may eat, drink and wear whatsoever he pleases, and act as he himself sees fit, so long as he does not interfere with the just prerogatives of his neighbors, is being so hedged about with exceptions and qualifications that it has almost been lost sight of. It is a fitting time to revive the consideration of elementary principles of conduct and to determine the true province of the lawmaking powers of government. Excise legislation has been enacted, so arbitrary and unreasonable, that the citizen may well inquire whether all his natural rights have been for feited to the State. Exhorbitant li cense fees have been authorized; virtual monopolies have been created in the liquor selling business ; every just principle of taxation has been violated in order to deprive localities of excise moneys properly belonging to them, and to build up a huge State liquor machine ; improper discrimi nations have been sanctioned between the meals and resorts of millionaires aud those of poor men; the principle of home rule in excise matters has been set aside or ignored ; unusual methods of trial and judicial procedure have been provided for ; severe penal ties have been authorized for trivial offences? all this has been done, not merely in the interest of political sel fishness, but in deference to a spirit of fanaticism?intolerant and arrogant in its exactions?which, under the pre tence of regulating legitimate business, annoys, persecutes and oppresses peaceful citizens in the enjoyment of their inherent rights. Our public schools have been in vaded in the temperance crusade which has been carried on, whereby in order to more completely stop the consump tion of harmless beverages our teach ers are compelled by law?under pen alty of forfeiture of public moneys? to teach during a number of hours each week upon the mooted question of the allered injurious effects of such beverages upon the human system. "Was evera more ridiculous law enacted in a free State ? But, not content with such invasions of our personal rights, it is now seriously proposed to establish a sys tem of official espionage over our social clubs in order that excise laws may be more strictly enforced. There is seem ingly a spirit abroad that cares little about the prevention of muiders. rob beries, thefts and assaults?apparently viewing these heinous offences with much complacency?but which clam orously insists that the police power of our great cities shall be largely di rected to the detection of petty viola tions of sumptuary laws. There is a persistent endeavor to still farther restrict rather than to relax the laws applicable to the speed ing of horses. We are already so hedged about with narrow constitutions and meddlesome statutes upon that subjecl. that legitimate sports and reasonable recreations have been much interfered with and embarrassed. Ex treme puritanism is rampant. Liberal ism is to the rear. Even the liberty of the press?sup posed to be guaranteed by our Consti tution?is not safe from attack. Our lawmakers are further contemplating the prohibition of the printing of the picture of any person in a newspaper without the express consent of euch person. While such a measure would undoubtedly possess some advantages and is not wholly without merit, yet, after all, is it not really a step in the wrong direction ? Where is the line to be drawn ? Would there not soon follow the prohibition of the printing of the picture of one's house, barn, carriage, horse or servant? Would not a full and complete censorship of the press be next in order ? Indeed, a measure to that effect has already been introduced in the New York Legislature, and is now awaiting action. These facts show the wonderful pro gress which the adherents of absolut ism arc making in their zeal to suppress what remnants of personal liberty arc still permitted to remain among us. We arc familiar with the old argument which is urged as a justification for these legislative interferences. It is that abuses pertain to the exercise of our inherent rights, and, therefore, in the general interest such rights must be curtailed, regulated or prohibited by law. "Regulation" has especially become the tyrants' familiar plea everywhere. I deny the proposition that merely because abuses are inci dent to or liable to accompany the doing of concededly proper things, that therefore such things must be forbidden or surrounded with obnox ious provisions infringing our personal rights. Otherwise nearly every right guaranteed to us under our system of free government could be ruthlessly subverted under the pretense of guard ing it from alleged evil effects. It was only a few years since when the scif-constituted guardians of our manncrs and morals?those who assume to be public teachers?attempted to stop ladies from ridiug bicycles in our parks and thoroughfares upon the ground that such conduct was highly improper; but an enlightened public sentiment refused to listen to their unfair criticism, and it is believed that female bicycle riding basc?me to stay. There will undoubtedly be cranks among us who will want to stop the electric carriage when it shall first ap pear on our streets during the coming summer. Our communities are filled with long haired men and short-haired wo- > men?well-meaning, but woefully mis guided persons?intent upon minding other people's business, who are dili gently concocting new schemes of leg islation whereby to more completely circumscribe the personal privileges and innocent customs and habits of citizens. Mississippi Flood Scenes. Did the reader ever travel on a Mis sissippi river steamboat from St. Louis to New Orleans during an overflow? If so, he has seen a condition of waste and desolation that sickened the heart and one that defies the imagination to accurately describe. It is a long line of blackness and despair, with the sur face of the muddy waters covered with floating timbers, wrecked houses, ed dies of swollen dead animals, with an occasional lifeless human being mixed with the debris. From foothill to foothill there is nothing but a black sea of water, There is an occasional mound to be seen, and on these are sometimes to be found grouped shivering, trembling animals, wild and tame. I took a skiff one morning at Gold Dust Landing, and was rowed out in the black waters four miles toward the hills. Upon a little promontory of a half-acre size we saw cattle, hogs, sheep, coons, rabbits, deer and one bear, standing together, trembling with fear as they watched the fast ris ing waters that must soon envelop them. They did not frighten at our approach, but appeared as though glad to see us, walking far out into the water as if appealing for help. Every man in the boat had a gun, but none dared to use it, each apparently waiting for the other to speak. But as we rowed away, looking for a help less family reported to be in that vi cinity, a deputy speriff remarked that he thought some men were humane af ter all, and nobody disputed him. If the flood that came in 1892, when its warning had been sent forward more than a month in advance, de stroyed growing crops and property to the value of over $20,000,000, what must be the extent of damage this year, when the rivers south are already higher than they were in 1892? And then the war department advises that the waters will continue to rise indefi nitely. From St. Louis to Cairo all of that immense basin that was created by the earthquake 50 years ago is deep enough to swim a steamboat. This section embraces a remarkably big part of the wheat fields of southern Illinois and Missouri. The submerg ed farms may be entirely useless for the remainder of the year. It takes growing wheat a long time to recover from a flood, however short the period may be that it has suffered. So if the Missouri and Illinois valleys are not instantly drained the fall wheat crop there is gone. But it is south of Cairo and clear down to New Orleans where the real damage is now being done. That is the part of the country that lie3 un protected, where millions of acres of fertile fields and hundreds of homes belonging to the laboring people are absolutely at the mercy of the rc morseloss waters. The lowlands are so much more productive than the hill country that the highlands have al most been abandoned of late years, the farmers going to the "bottoms ' to raise their produce. Until Memphis is reached there are no levees to speak of. There are a few, of course, but they are as chaff in a storm when a big flood comes. They seem to ex cite the river's wrath all the more. Tennessee is but little affected even at the highest stages of the river. The banks on the left are high and are supported by rocky hills that creep up almost to the river's edge. Thus the volume of water is thrown with all its terrible force to the unprotected sides of Arkansas territory, backing up the smaller rivers and streams, causing them to overflow lakes, thus creating an inland sea, that adds new territory to its cruel waste hour by hour until the entire surplus waters of the north have gone to join the salty waves of the southern seas. And how cruelly coquettish this Mississippi river has been, changing town sites, creating new channels, robbing the soil of one plantation to give to another. Vicksburg is high and dry, three miles away from the river, whereas a few years ago the bus iness part of the town sat snugly on its banks. Look at Greenville. Ten years ago the city was two miles fur ther westward than it now lies. It has been driven back gradually until if it retreats much further it will jam her self up against a lake that sometimes get mad herself. Thus the poor town is as if between the devil and the deep sea. There's Natchez. You remem ber "Natchez Under the Hill?" Well, there is no "under the hill" now. It's a steep declivity from the town to the river. Passengers leaving the steam boats there have to climb up gang planks, just as if they were going up a tree. And there is Memphis, that, according to the way the river is act ing thereabout at present, may be made to view the "Father of Waters" from afar. No one can tell this year where the main channel of the Missis sippi is to be the next. In most towns there is an ordinance against the running of cars within the city limits at a greater speed than 10 mile3 an hour. Look at a cable car running along on the north side some where and you will have a good idea of the velocity of the Mississippi when it is at high flood. Going down the river in May, 1802, I sat near a negro one night on the "hurricane roof" on an "Anchor liner." The darkness was appalling, being occasionally lit up by vivid flashes of lightning. The thunders were roaring as if pained by the quivering electrical darts. There was plainly heard the caving of banks, mingled with the swishing sounds of the seething waters. There was no dry land within GO miles of us. The boat was scarcely allowing her big wheels to revolve, but was cautiously picking her way through the floating timbers. His Threat A little colored boy, the grandson of an old servant in a New England family, is a constant playmate of the boy of the house, whose parents are particularly anxious that their child shall treat his colored companion with gentleness. They are so anxious, in fact, that the little negro has acquired a habit of running to his playmate's mother with any trouble which may have be fallen him, sure of her protection. One day the two boys were snow balling, and in some way or other the negro received an especially damp and "slosby" snowball in his face, though it had been aimed at his back. "You better look out, William Pcr cival !" he cried, turning a snow-plas tered face, from which gleamed two small but wrathful eyes, on his play mate. "If you don't say you won't do dat again, I take dis count'nance right in an' show it to your ma jes' as it is!"_ Bucklcns Arnica Salvo. The best salve in the world for Cuts Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Erup tions and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money refund ed. Prise 25 cents per box. For sale by.Hill-?rr Drug Co. Rockefeller on Success. As a rule the most unsatisfactory and unpractical talks we have over seen aie tho.se of millionaires who essay to give young men the benefit of their experience. We once heard a famous clog dancer oiler to teach anybody in five minutes how to dance with clogs. With some degree of elaboration be explained the character of .shoes to be wor'.i, and the kind of clogs that would give the best results, consuming in this way some three or four minutes of his time. Then he said: ''You sit down this way, and adjust your clogs in this manner; (and rising to his feet and dancing), then you do this, and that is all there is of it.'' That is just about the way in which the iverage millionaire explains to the anxious inquirer how to make a mil lion. His advice is generally, when boiled down, about this: You save money and make fortunate investments, and keep on doubling your money until you have a million. Anybody could give that recipe. What the young man wants to know is how to save money and make fortunate investments, and keep on making them ; and that is something that no millionaire can tell him. That is where the special money making and money-saving faculty comes in, which is specially developed in some men, and is not in the great majority. It is a talent?a superior intelligence along a particular Hue, which lifts its possessor above the mediocre herd, and makes him a leader in finance, just as superior abilities make an Edison in electricity, a Dana in journalism, a Mark Hanna in pol itics, ora Gladstone in statesmanship. However, there is somewhat more of interest than in the average million aire's talk, in a little address deliver ed by Mr. John I). Rockefeller before the Young Men's Bible class in the Fifth Avenue Baptist church on Sat urday night, in New York. Mr. Rocke feller made as the text of his talk a little pocket ledger which he kept 42 years ago when he began working, and he advises every young man to keep in black and white a record of all the money he receives, and how he spends it; and, said he: "See that you pay it away in such a manner that your fa ther or mother may look over your book, and see just what you did with your money." Mr. Rockefeller's ledger shows that from September 26, 1855 until January 1, 1856, he made ?50, and out of that he paid all his living expenses and saved money. The next year his earnings swelled to $25 a month, and he felt that he was a cap italist. His ledger shows that from November, 1855, to April, 1856, he paid $9.09 for clothing, and during the same period there is a record of $5.58 cents given away to various charities, Sunday school and missions. So exact is the record that it show? the contribution of a single cent every Sunday to the Sunday school ; 10 cents to foreign missions ; 50 cents to a lit erary society ; 35 cents contributed to a Christmas present for his Sunday school teacher, and 20 cents to the poor people in the church. All the time he was saving money, and in a few years there is $1,000 shown in ac cumulated savings. Apart from the idea of keeping the daily ledger of re ceipts and expenditures, however mi nute, there are two other thoughts in Mr. Rockefeller's talk that are inter esting. Said he : "What is success? Isit money? Some of you have all the money you need to provide for your wants. Who is the poorest man in tho world ? I tell you, the poorest man I know of is the man who has nothing but money, nothing else in the world upon which to devote his ambition and thought. That is the sort of man that I con sider to be the poorest in the world." Agaia he says : "Money is good if you know how to use it. I beiieve it is a religious duty to get all the money you can, fairly and honestly to keep all you can, and to give away all you can."?Augusta Chronicle. His Brother's Keepsr. Two dogs are still held in pleasant recollection in Melrose, Mass. One was a shaggy, lumbering, elephantine New Foundland named Major, the other a sleek, wiry little black and tan, called Kikie. Both Major and Kikie luve long since passed to their reward, but this story of their friend ship is ?tili told by those who knew them. A few hundred yards from the home of the woman who owned the dogs was a railroad crossing. Kikie had the bad habit of rushing down the street to this crossing when he heard the whistle of an approaching train, lie would tl en dash along beside the cars and bark furiously. Many a time he had been punished for it, but the roar of a train was always too much for his good resolutions. One daj?the pitcher that goes too often to the well, you know?some portion of the flying train struck him. He fell into the ditch beside the track and there he lay till old Major's bark ing attracted the attention of a pass ing friend. The lil-tle dog was taken home, hia wounds dressed, and his battered frame nursed back to health. During his convalescence Major was always with him and doubtless often said: "I told you so," and "I hope this will teach you a lesson." But, alas for Major's hopes! Kikie was no sooner out doors again than he resumed his dangerous habit. Major, however, had apparently made up his mind that moral suasion was useless and physical force must be employed. Tho next time Kikie started for the crossing Major followed. The little dog was light and quick motioned and "got into his stride," as the horseman say, in the first few yards. Major on the other bund, was heavy and slow at the start, and before he was under full headway Kikie was fifty yards ahead. But there was conscious rectitude and stern resolve and the force of a moral principle in Major's gait. He doubled himself up and let himself out in a way that was ,nood to sec, and he overtook Kikie with ten yards of the crossing. With one blow of his paw he batted his small friend over, placed his great foot on the little dog's chest, and held him down while the train rushed by. Kikie lay perfectly still. When the last car had passed old Major re moved his pawj with a bark and a growl which said as plainly as speech: "There, you little fool! Can't you learn anything? Do you want to get hit by the cars again?" and Kikie got up and followed Major home with his tail between his legs. Many a time all this was repeated to the delight of those who saw it. Kikie never failed to get the start, but Major always caught him before the crossing wai reached, always knocked him over and held him down till the whole traiu was safely past. Kikie never learned wisdom, but Ma jor never gave him up as "past rcfor m ation."?Youth's Com pan ion. ? *'I dunno ez the prodigal son was so very bad after all," said Mrs. Corner. "He wa'n't no good to his family," her husband rejoined. "That's a fact. But when Le got home, he didn't lie no more tor say. Ef he'd been like most o' the men folks nowadays, the fust tiling he'd cf done would ef been to liud fault with the way the fatted calf was cooked for him." ? Falsehood may have its hour, but it has no future. ; . j The Engineer Tells a Story. A locomotive engineer should beone of tbe most truthful of men. That's why this little story of a Southern engineer should be believed implicit ly. "You may talk as you please about red-beaded women," he was saying to a group of listeners, among whom was a Star reporter, "but a redheaded wo man saved my life and established a home for herself at the same time. I was 25 then and was running a freight on tbc C. & 0. in the West Virginia mountains, where it took talent to run an engine. My division ended at Hinton, and there was a redheaded girl living six miles to the east, where there was a siding near a big cut and fill, and it was a bad place as the road was new. "The girl's name was Maggie Con roy, and she had the reddest head I ever saw on a human being's shoul ders outside of a torchlight proces sion. But I didn't care for that and I did care for Maggie. One sunshiny day I was coming down the track load ed with extra fine cattle and sheep, and I had in the caboose three of the owners. It had been raining, and washouts were looked for, but I hadn't seen any, and was bowling along at a good speed when all of a sudden, at the curve, I thought I saw a red light rising just over the track. It seemed to shine like a blaze in the track, and before I took time for a thought I had shut off the steam, whistled down the brakes and was doing my best to stop. "Eight then my fireman gave me the ha ha, in a way to chill the blood in the veins of a man who can't stand teasing, and I took a look forward and found that the red light I thought I saw was only Maggie's head of red hair sticking up in advance as she pulled herself up the steep embank ment to get on to the track. "With an oath I opened everything wide, but as I did so Maggie threw up her hands and dropped in a dead faint by the track, and I stopped everything again, for I felt sure that something was wrong. I had half an hour or so leeway between trains, and I shook Maggie up as quickly.as I could to find out what was the matter.. She came around mighty soon, because she had only fainted from over-exertion, and she told me how a big boulder had fallen on the track in a curve near her house that I wouldn't have seen till it was too late to stop for, and she had run across the spur of the mountain to stop me in time if she could. "That was what she wa3 trying to do when her red head elione like a danger signal and stopped me. Later the owners of the stock gave her money enough to buy. a nice little house at Hin ton, and sis months later moved in. We've got the house yet, but we don't live in it," concluded the engi neer, 'Tor it wasn't big enough for a family of six children, and not a red headed one in the lot.? Washington Sta-. ? :'I do not know," she said in answer to his proposal. {,I do not know what to say. If I could be sure you cared for me?" '"Care for you ? I would die for you. Nay, I will do mor?, for dying is nothing. After our marriage. I will always let you have the last word." "IY.haw !" she ex claimed, turning aw?.y from him in anger,;'that's nothing. I would have that anyway." ? Sacred concerts, as they are termed, are given at the Chinese the atre in Boston, on Sunday evening, and a placard bearing this carefully worded announcement is posted at the door: "This being of a religious nature, no Americans will be admitted ; only Chinamen and their families." ? A certain minister, who is not always so careful as he ought to be in making his teaching and his practice correspond, was lately telling some friends a story of ad venture. It was a pretty "tall" story, and the minister's ten-year-old little girl was observed to be listening to it very intent ly. When he finished she fastened her wide-open eyes upon her father's face and said very* gravely, "Is that true, or are you preaching now, papa?" ? It was a wise man who said : "If you would keep the wrinkles out of your face, keep sunshine in your heart." Be bright and happy, and help your wife and chil dren to be the same way. Carry no bus iness troubles home; leave them "down town" and enjoy your life by making others happy by your brightness. Dol lars and cents are tho smallest things in life? don't fret your life away about them. Teachers' Examination. AKEGULAR examination of teachers will be held Saturday, April 17, at 9 a. m. Applicants will provide titationery. Wnites will be accommodated in Graded School Building, colored in Gresley Insti OTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT. of the Eslate of Elizabeth Cowan, deceas ed, hereby give notici that they will on the :ird day of May, 1897, apply to the Judge of Probate for Anderson Coun ty for a Final Settlement of said Estate, and a discbarge from their office as Execu tute. A. W. ATTA WAY, Co. Supt. of Ed. The undersigned, Executors tors. W. P. WRIGHT. J. J. ROBINSON, March 31, 1897 Executors 40 5 Experts disagree on almost everything, but when the subject touches upon the Superiority of the. There Is bnt one opinion, and that is : They are the BEST WHEELS on earth at any thing like the price. They are going at popular prices. 1897 MODEL.880.00 1896 MODEL. . 60.00 Rido a Rambler and atay out of repair shops. Every Rambler fitted with the Great G. & J. Tire. They are hard to puncture and easy to repair and easy to ride. We have cheaper Wheels, too. Prices to suit everybody's pocket book. Be sure to see our line of Wheels before buying. Yours truly, BROOK BROS. From Ham's earliest time until the present period? HAM HAS been one of the necepsitiea of life, which you could find on the table of the peasant as well as on that of Kings and Princes. The sweetness and de liciousnesa of? Partridge Brand Hams Is well known, and we therefore offer yon a large acd fresh ehipmentof this luscious Partridge Brand Hum at 13c. per pound. We alo sell I KG ANS RELIA BLE HAMS, and their unrivalled ALU HO O SAUSAGE. PURE MUSroVADO MALASSES in the original Ilogshecd. Bring ytni Jug and try a gallon. Try Velvet Molasses Candy fresh at? JOHN A. AUSTIN & CO'S. GROCERY. MEW QUARTERS. MISS S ALLIE BOWIE HAS moved her Stock of Goods to the Broyles Building, No. 21 Sr>uth Main Street, and will be glad to have her friends and customers call ou her there. She is selling Goods cteap for cash?senio of them at and below cost?to make room for the New Spring Goods soon to arrive. 37?3ni LEND US YOUR EAR ! AND LISTEN TO OUR SONG! We have on hand the largest stock we have ever carried, and our motto is to sell goods, not keep them. . . 0TJR line of Shoes is large and complete. Closing out a lot of Ladios $1.00 Shoes at 75c. Also a lot of Men's High Cut Bro gans at ?1.00. There is good wear in both of those Shoes, and the price is dirt cheap. We don't moan to be undersold in Flour. All bought before the rise, and it's bound to go in a hurry. 50 barrels of good family Flour to go at ?3-50. Tobacco cheaper than ever heard of before. Come end try our "Tar Heel" at 21c. One of the best chews on the market. We mean business, and ask you to give us a chance and we are bound to sell you A new lot of Blue Straw Wheat just arrived. O. D. ANDERSON & BRO. P. S.?Bring your Peas, Corn, Butter, Eggs, etc., to us. THE ANDERSON Wants to Insure the Country Dwellings of Anderson County. LOSSES PAID CASH! J. R. VANDIVBRi President. J. J. FRET WELL, Vice President. H. H. WATKINS, Secretary and Treasurer. DIRECTORS : W. G. WATSON, J. G. DUCKWORTH, R. B. A. ROBINSON, A. P. HUBBARD. R. S. HILL. JOHN M. GLENN, J. J. BAKER, B. C. MARTIN, J. J. MAJOR,* COLE & COFFEE For tlie next Thirty 33ays WILL sell you a dandy Congress Shoe, worth 81.50, for SI.00. A beautiful Buff Button, for Ladies, worth SI.25, for 90c. All grades of Shoes at cut rates unheard of. We are glad to say our Shoe trade has heen more than wc oven expected. We have had to duplicate our Shoe bills three times already ; and at the extreme low prices wc are offering Shoes now wc hope to double our business fur the next thirty days. We will sell you WATER PROOF GOODS in all the colors, worth 75c. per yard, for 40c. One thousand yards OU TINGS and SUITINGS, worth 7c. to 7ic, re duced to 5c. and 5*c. CASHMERES that are soiling at 75c. to 81.00 wc are offering for 35c. to 50c. COLE & COFJFJEE. ANDERSON, S. C, January 21,1897. HILL-ORR DRUG CO. GeKTLLMEX : I am much pleased with the "Mas tic Ready Mixed Paint." I have had my house?"Rose Hill"?painted sev eral times, and have used many dif ferent brands of Ready Mixed Paint, and have had it painted with Lead and Oil. In my judgment the MAS TIC gives better results, and is more satisfactory in every way than any of them. It has a gloss and finish about it rarely found in Paints, and when I have more painting to do I shall cer tainly use it. It is a mistaken notion that Ready Mixed Paints cost more, and if the people will use a high grade, like the MASTIC, the preju dice existing against them will die out. You are at liberty to use this as you like. Respectfully yours, B. F. WHITNER. Wo have handled this Paint for years, and have sold several thousand gallons of it under au absolute guar antee in each case of purity, quality and satisfaction. We have sold it with the under standing that we would appreciate notice if it wasn't right. With a sin gle exception we have never had complaint. This ought to count for something. Remember, it costs as much in time and money to put on cheap Paint as to put on good Paint. Get the best. LEAD and OIL if you prefer it. We have it in large quantities. HILL-ORR DRUG CO. Jf?y Anything you want in the DRUG line?any time, day or night. NOTICE. ILL be let to the lowest responsible bidder? On Wednesday. April 14. at 11 a. m., the building of a bridge o\er creek near Cal houn Hamlln'a place near Starr, on road leading from Starr by J. B. Leveiett's. Plaus and specifications made known on day of letting. W. P. SNELGROVE. Supervisor A. C, S C J. C. WHITEFIELD, DENTIST. OFFICE?Front Room, over Farmert.' and Merchants' Bank, ANDERSON, S. C. Feb 10,1897 33 GLOBE FERTILIZER. HERE is the stuff to make all the Cot ton you want?the Globe Fertilizer, a le of phosphate rock of our own State. Best Acid on earth, and the Ammoniated Guano not excelled. Sold by A. L. WELCH, at Anderson, S. C. Also, by John W. Campbell, with the Campbell-Mattison Co.. ai Belton, 8. C. ^an 20,1897_30_3m TO THE PUBLIC, THE report ihat I baveltfc Anderson is a mistake. I can still be found at my old office, and am now associated with Dr. W. J. King. Thanking my friends and patrons for past favors, and soliciting a continuation of the same, I am Respectfully. A. C. STRICKLAND. Drs. Strickland & King, DENTISTS; OFFICE IN MASONIC TEMPLE. Gas and Cocaine use! for Extract ing Teeth. Feb 24, 1807_35_ SOUTHERN RAILWAY. Condensed Schedule In ??.Toct Nov. is, is:><>. Dally No. ll. STATIONS. Ly. Chnr?Tston. . : 7 10 a m Lv. Columbia..". IL (M a m " Prosperity. ?li 11 Ar. ; ?-.vherry. 1 ! 22 m Ar. Ninety-Six. ! 1 ?55 m " Greenwood.-i 1 45 p m "_Hodgea. : :i 35 m Ar. Abbeville_... . 2 55 m Ar. Bolton_. 3 lu m Ar. Anderson. __ ? S 35 m Ar. Green villo.. 4 Al ;? m Ar. Atlanta." " " ?_ i? ;W "? STATIONS. : ?f->) Lv. Greenvillo. 10 ?J0 m " Piedmont. I 10 55 a m " Willianiston.11 18 m Lv. Anderson. ? _ 05 : m Lv. Belton.'. 1185 a Ar. Doimalds. ! 12 02 m E . AHieville.....1 Ti -15 u m LV. HodgeM. " Greenwood. " Ninety-Six. Lv. Ncwoorry. " Prosperily. ArLCnluniliia ..... . Ar. Charleston. 1-? m 1 .! in 1 ?i 2 33 m 2 37 m 8 50 m 's od m Daily ;l)aiiy? ? < tiovc iJs???y Daily No. !';No.l:(|_STATION h._ ;so.ft,x0.ft a?)p:'7 loa Lv... "("'l)Tir)e"-<ton. _ Ar S'Utfp ?! (Ahi "8 30a 11 30a? Columbia '. .*: 8 ? l'i 28p 907al2l5p ".Alston.?? | 245p 8?!a 10 04a 12.jp ". Sam ne." 1 25p 7 ;*?? 10 20a 202p ". ni.. ." I Ittpl 7 2Up 10!?? 22lp " .... Joncsville ..." 13 Mp f?isp 1061a 287p ".Pncolet ... " 12 Up t'4."p 11 25a SlOpjAr. Sparianburff. Lv 11 I5nl ( 2ttp 11 4"?i 88!tpLv Bpnrlnnlmrg. Ar II 3Sn Ousn gjOpl 7U)p Ar Aslieville. l.v S Afri Slftp "P." p. m. " A." a m. Train? !? and 10 enrry elegant Pullman sleeping rnra between ? Olttniliia und Aslmvill" enroute ilnlly otween ?laeksom ille nini ?tuin nati. Trains leave Spnrtnnhnrgr, A. ft C. ili vision, nnrthtioiind. fi:42 a.m.. ?1:41 p.m.. '?:1.? p. ni., (Ves?tliu?e Limite.il; sontjdioll'ld 12:/? ., m., 8:15 p. m., II :?a. m., < Ve ?: i?m?e Limile 1.1 Tra?na ient'* Gm?nv1l?V. A. mid O. division, nnrtlilH)niid,&:45n, m..' . . an i?:;?Up. ni., (Ycstilmled Limit' ): * mi li Ix ?und. 1 :.V? a. in., 4:20 m . VOSS \>. m. IYivtiMBtoJ Limited). Pull man Service. Pul.man palace sleeping ear:; on Tr:d::sXand 80, ?17 and 8a, on A. and C. division. W. 11. GKEEN. J. M. CULP Gen. Superinte" lent, Truffle X'ij'r, Wnsldszton, C. Washington, D. C. W. . T?KK, S. H. HAXDW?OK, Gen. Pesa, kg't. As't Gen. Paus. Ag't. W^ahiuytou. P. a_Atlanta, Oa. ~*<?um c otton, With careful rotation of :rops and liberal fertilizations, jotton lands will improve. The ipplication of a proper ferti izer containing sufficient Pot ish often makes the difference between a profitable crop and failure. Use fertilizers contain ing not less than 3 to 4% Actual Potash. Kainit is a complete specific against " Rust." o Ail about Potash?the results of its use by actual cx periment on the best farms in the United States?is told in a little book which we publish and will gladly nail free to any farmer in America who will write furie GERMAN KALI WORKS, 02 Nassau St.. New York BICYCLE REPAIRING NEATLY and cheaply executed byJ. T. & T. A.WIGINGTON, Newell, 8.0. BLUE RIDGE RAILROAD H. C. E E, Receiver. October 6tb, 1895. Eastbound MIXED No. 12. s 10 50 a in 10 25 am 0 IS a m ? 10 00 a m s 9 42 a m f 9 M a m ? 8 55 a m ? 8 25 a m s 8 15 a m Between Anderson antl Wal halla. STATIONS. Ar.?Anderson.Lv .Denter. .Autun. .Pendleton. .Cherry's Crossing.... .Adam's Crossing., .Seneca.... .West Union. ...Walhalla.... Westb'd muet, Ar, No. 11 8 35 m 3 55 m 405pm 415pm 4 25pm 4 35pm 505pm 550pm 6 20 m 6 30p ni J. R. ANDERSON, 8eperintendent. W. C. COTHRAN, General Agent. Connections al. Seneca with Sonthcan Railway No. 11. At Anderson with Southern Railway Nos. Hand 12. CHARLESTON AND WESTERN CAROLINA RAILWAY. AUGUSTA AND A SHE VILLE ?HO R LINE In effect February 7,11197. Lv Augusta...m Ar Greenwood.. Ar Anderson...... Ar Laurens. Ar Greenville.... Ar Glenn Pprlngs... Ar Spartanburg.. Ar Saluda.. Ar Hendersons ilio. Ar Ashcville. 9 (0 am 12 17 pm 1 15 pm 3 00 pm 4 35 pm 3'Wpm 5 ::3 pm 5 l>l pm 7 00 pm 140 pm 6 10 pm 7 00 am 1015 am 9 25 am Lv Asheville. Lv Spartanburg. Lv Glenn Springs. Lv Greenville. Lv Laurens. Lv Anderson. Lt Greenwood-. Ar Augusta. Lt Cnlboun Falls. Ar Raleigh. Ar Norfolk..... Ar Petersburg. Ar Richmond. 8 20 am 11 45 am 10 )0 am 11.75 am 1.10 pm - 00 pm 4 00 pm 7 10 pm 7 00 am 2 '. pmi_MMN 5 00 pm 11 10 am 4 14 pm j 216 am' 7 Maas 6 iiC r.m 815 am lv Augusta. Ar Allendale... Ar Fairfax...... Ar Yemasseo... Ar Beaufort. Ar Port Royal., Ar Savannah... Ar Charleston.. 9 SO am 10 35 am 10 SO am 2 55 pm 5 00 pm 515 pm 6 20 pm 7 20pm 7 30 pm 8 00 pm 8 08 pm Lt Charleston. Lt. Savannah... Lt Port Boyal.. Lt Beaufort. Lt Yemasseo... Lt Fairfax. Lv Allendale... Ar Augusta. 1 <i pm 2 0 pm 35 pm 6 50 am 6 50 am 815 am 8 25 am 9 25 am 10 82 am 10 47 am 12 55 pm Close connection at Calhoun Falls for Athens, Atlanta and all points on S. A. L. Close connection at Augusta for Charleston, Savannah and all points. Close connections at Greenwood for all pole te on S. A. L., and C. & G. Railway, ani a : Spartanhurg with Southern Rai. way. For any information relative to tickets, :rates, schedule, etc.,address W. J. CRAIG, Gen. Pess. AgeDt, August*, Ga. E. M. North, Sol. Agent. naujsCEBHDf SERI?IEE TO ATLANTA, CHARLOTTE, WILMINGTON, NEW ORLEANS AND NEW YORK, BOSTON, RICHMOND, WASHINGTON, NORFOLK, PORTSMOUTH. SCHEDULE IN EFFECT FEB. 7, 1896. SOUTHBOUND N0.4C3. No.-4L Lt New York, via Pcnn R. R.*ll CO am ?9 0? pm Lt Philadelphia, " 112 pm 12 05 am Lt Baltimore " 3 15 pm 2 60 am Lt Washington, " 4 40 pm 4 SO am Lt Richmond, A. C. L..12 56 am *1 39 nm Lt Norfolk, t? a S. . L., Lv Portsmouth, " .. 8 30 pm *9 05am 8 45 pm 9.20am Lt Weldon, Ar Henderson, Ar Durham, Lt Durham, ..*11 28 ?11 55 am 12 56 a m *1 89 pm 17 32 am , f5 20 pm f4 09pm til 10 am Ar Raleigh, sia S. . L, Ar Sanford, " . Ar Southern Pines " Ar Hamlet, " . Ar Wadesboro, " . Ar Monroe, " , ?2 16 am 3 35 am 4 22 am 5 10 am 5 54 am 6 43 am 3 31 pm 5 03 pm 5 55 pm 6 63 pm 8 11 pm 9 12 pm Ar Charlotte, 8 30 ara ?10 25pm Ar Chester, " .. Lt Columbia, C. N. & L. R. R. ?8 10 am 10 47 pm Ar Clinton S. A L. Ar Greenwood " .... Ar Abbeville, '? .... Ar Elberton, " .... Ar Athens, " .... Ar Winder, " .... Ar Atlanta, S. A. L. (Ccn . 9 45 arc . 10 35 am .11 05 am . 12 07 pm . 1 15 pm . 1 59 pm Time) 2 CO pm f6 00 pm ??2~?0am 1 07 am 1 40 am 2 41 am 3 45 am 4 30 am 5 20 am NORTHBOUND. No. 88, 7 60 pm 10 42 pm 11 26 pm 12 S3 am 1 40 am 2 09 am 3 05 am A r Columbia, C N. & h. R. R-*4 30 m ?7 45 am Lt Chester, S. A. L . 8 13 pm 4 33 am ?v Charlotti ~ .*10 25 pm *8 80 am Lt Atlanta,S.A L.(Cen. Lt Winder, Lt Athens, Lt Elberton, " Lt Abbeville, Lt Greenwood, " Lt Clinton, " Ko. 40?. Time) *12 00 n'ri . 2 40 pm . 3 16 pm . 4 15 pm . 5 15 pm . 5 41 pm . 6 34 pm Lv Monroe, Lv Hamlet, .?10 25 pm . 9 40 pm . 11 23 pm 6 05 am 8 15 am Ar Wilmington_ Lv Southern Pines, Lt lialclgli, Ar Hende.i?on J5 30 am 12 30 m 9 20 ?m 11 BS am 1 10 pm 12 14 am "1 IG am 3 23 am Ar Durham, Lt Durham + 7 ?2AKJ . t5 20 pm f4 ( " fil 10 am Ar Weldon, " ..U 65 tm ?3 00 pm Ar Richmond A.C.L. 8 15am 6 50pm Ar Washington, Penn. U. R. .. 12 31 pm 11 10 pm Ar Baltimore, " . 141 pm 12 48am Ar Philadelphia, " .?. 3 50 pm 3 45 am Ar New York, " . ?6 23 pm ?6 53 am Ar Portsmouth S. A. L.. 7 80 am 5 60pm Ar Norfolk " .*7 50am C 05 pm Dally. tDailv, Ex. Sunday, * Daily Ex. Monday Nos. 403 und 402 "The Atlanta Special,"' Solid Vestibuled Train, of Pullman Sleepers and Coach es betwern Washington and Atlanta, also Pull man Sleepers between Portsmouth and Chester, !?. Nos. 41 and 38, "The S. A. L. Expreis," Solid Train, Coaches and Pullman Sleepers between Portsmouth and Atlanta. For Pickets, Sleepers, etc., apply to B. A New land, Gcn'l. Agent Pass Dept. Wm. B. Clements, . P. A., 6 Kimball Eons? E. St John, Vice-President and Gen'l. Manger V. E. McBce General Superintendent. II. W. B. Glover, Traffic Manager. T. J. Anderson, Gen'l. Passenger Agent. General Officers, Portsmouth, Va. ATLANTIC COAST LINES Tit affi: Department, Wilmington, N. C, Feb. 2 , 1897 Fast Line Between Charleston and Col umbia and Upper Sou th Carolina, North Carolina. CONDENSED SCHEDULE. go i no west, ?No. ?'J. GOING EAST NO. 53. Lv.Charleston.?..Ar Lv.Lines......Ar Lv...Si mit .Ar Ar.Column: a........... L Ar.Prosperity..Lt A ..Ncwherry.?.Lt Ar. Clinton. Lt Ar.Lauren s.Lt Ar.Greenvill?.Lt Ar.Spartanbu rg.Lt Ar.Winneboro, S. C.Lt Ar.Charlotte. N. C.Lt Ar...IIendersonvi!le, N. C_.Lt Ar.Asheville, N. C.Lt 7 CO am 8 2 , am 9 35 am 10 55 am 11 58 am 12 10 pm 12 50 pm is pm 5 00 pm 3 00 pm C 15 pm 8 20 pm 6 0? pm 7 00 pm ?Daily. Nos. 52 and 53 Solid Trains between Charleetc and Columbia, S. C. . M. Emerso*, Goa'l. Passenger A|jcn1 g| j. R. Kenley, General Manliger, T. M.Eiisr.soN.Trafflc Manager. 9 25 pm 7 48 pm 6 35 pm 6 15 pm 8 13 pm 2 57 pm 2 10 pm 1 45 pm 1160 am I t 45 am II 41am 9 35 am 9 15 am S 20 am