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ON SUBJECT Intellectual A-ctivity i - of S New Xi -But I can't sleep," insisted the pa tient. '.That's nothing," repeated the doc ' - Nothing ! Why 1 ?tay awake al) ui.dit." No. you'don't.p rejoined the doc tor, "You stay pwake part of the timo atul'drcam solne more of the time that you're awake, and betimes you sleep soundly.'.' I "Well, you can j put it that way if V0U Want to ; what I'm after is some thing that will make me sleep instead oi king awake, and will keep me from Jreaniing that I'm awake." "You're [going too fast," said the doctor. "Inj the. first place bow do you know, that you need to sleep any more than yougdo ?C Lots of people sleep too muoh for their own good." "I've been accustomed to my seven straight hours all my life, and I don't know why I should cut down the al lowance now. ' "Some people," retorted the doctor, "come in/here and say they've been accustomed to their three square meals a day all their li Ves, and they don't .iee why they should have dyspepsia, now. There are a lot of possible dan gers about too much Bleep in the way cf causing certain ailments to say nothing of the wear and tear of the nerves brought about by trying to force yourself .tojsleep'more than your ?stare says, just becauoc you've heard that the normal mah spends a third of his life in bed. Why, don't yon know that the higher the intellectual rank, the less sleep a man requires ? Goethe and Humboldt got along with two or three hourn of sleep a day. Napoleon needed only four or five hours, and Kant scolded his pupils for exceeding that limit. Now, you're intellectual." 'And a victim of insomia," added the patient. "I OJCC saw a Chinaman I admired;" continued the doctor. "He was wait ing for a train at a station consisting of a platform set down in the middle of nowhere out west. We intellectual Caucasians fretted and fumed, but my Celestial friend merely sat down on one side of the edge of a barrel, rested his feet against the other edge-an un comfortable position ,1 y ou will observe -laid his arms on his knees and his head on his arms, and went off to sleep as sweetly na a ohild up there on his perch. It's a faculty that civilisation deprives us of, that of going to sleep at any time and in any place. "The Papuana fall asleep when they've nothing else to do. So do all savages. So do dogs." "Dugs can fbi! asleep s-, any moment during the day," interrupted the pa tient, "because they stay awake all night barking, as you'd know if you had ever tried ito keep one in a bouse in the country." "When you're growing old," con tined the doctor, "you may know that iatel?cet*|is . ali . right end y^-tr Is powers are unimpaired so long as you fey awake ; it's only when you feel a constant need of sleep that the dacey mmn nie mental faculfciea has sot in." H "Then maybe I'm growing young," Htti? the patieisk ' "I need to taie a i g up after dinner, eid now I don't ewen \ & that-" *A good' thing for yon/1 said the i ioetor. "Yon oughtn't to sleep after I ?Mis." "How about the., famous siesta cf I Uiin o?untries ?" "It's all wrong, lt doctors wait etiG&gh a case is pr?tty sure to ?a? along that will toll them what w?y want to know. It .would, of wirae, be easier to cut people up sad nd out the things we want to know uihe questions arise, hut there-are objections to doing that, and sowe we to walt until good fortune injures ?omebody in the right way. So it wppened that once 'a man had. his "omach out open by an aeoident, and " i doctor made use cf him. The doc to learned among' other, things that we process of digestion became weak* * while the man was asleep. Tho pl is, that it isn't well to sleep 'ter meals. Some people feel the ^?fc?oi a nap after eating. That is !~ se their digestive apparatus isn't d working order, or because they luttons. In either, case'blood d elsewhere is drawn to the ch, and the brain is impoverish that's why serpents and certain animals go to sleep after gorging elves." tat maybe all right about the man," persisted tho patient, in my case it ia different. I sleep now because I've had a lot e on my min J." aybe that's the reason and maybe V replied tho doctor. "Care both ways. Toward tho end of ?reer Napoleonv sometimes could ly keep awake, at aritical mo in the midst, of ti battle.1 ,They . was* his liver, but it wasn't. ?rae phenomenon was observe^ ) the ancients. A passage was to my attention Only the other om Montaigne's ossay on sleep, ?scribes the puioiue of tW?mv ^ OF SLEEP. is it .A.ffeots the Need, leep. <rk Sun. peror Otho. After haviug mado all arrangements for hilling himself, he was so overcome by drowsiness that he fell asleep, and soon was snoring. In the same way Caton, when about to make away with himself, was over come by sleep, and once tho limpcror Augustus, when engaged in a naval battle, could hardly keep himsolf awake long enough to give orders." "All that is very interesting," said the patient, "but what bas ali that to do with my case ?" "Everything in the world," answer ed the doctor. "Xi we only knew what sleep was, I might do something for you that would remedy the evil in a direct manner ; but unfortunately we don't. We're not even sure that we're any where near knowing ; but we think we are. Do you know what the latest theory of sleep is ? Of course you don't. It's only about two years old, and it isn't yet in a condition for popular consumption. It is too com plicated for me to explain to you ; j there are too many technicalities and provisional hypotheses and other in volved tilings about it. But thc gen eral idea of it is simple enough. You know there are such things as nerve cells, don't you ? Well, we used to suppose that they were continuous and formed a permanent line of communi cation ifcr ideas to pass-over. Now we find, or at least we think we find, that they are only contiguous ; that they connect one with another by means of prolongations. Sometimes they con tract and draw in their prolongations, and then they are as much shut off and isolated as a medioeval baron used to be iu his castle when he raised the drawbridge, or as two cities are nowa days when a blizzard comes along and blows down the telegraph wires. That is sleep. Sometimes a few of the nerve cells remain connected and ex change ideas ; that is what dreams are. When you're awake they're all connected, and as you go to sleep they contract and shut off the current. Pretty theory,. isn't it ? Wei!, in your ease, say, something's wrong that prevents the cells, or some of them, from contracting and keeps them excited. So the thing to do is to try to soothe them, and that's what I've been trying to do. Don't worry about going to sleep, and maybe in time the balky .cells will get calmed down and will contract and then you'll get all the sleep you're entitled to. Try. shooting them. And I suppose you expect me to give you a prescrip tion besides all this good advice and wisdom ?" "I believe it's customary," said the patient. Tell How to Blake Good Tea. Japan's government several months ago sent a speoial commission to this country to investigate the conditions ~'f vhs J*spsssx? ==a ?rauc IS tuS SJ ? ii. Bli States and Canada. Thia commission reported that about 60 per cent of the teas consumed in North America waa of Japanese growth, but that a great majority of the American people did ?ot seemingly understand how to make 50pd tea. The government immediately made an appropriation-of $420,000 to the Japan Tea Traders' Association oi Tokio, a corporation under the regu lations of the Agricultural aad Com mercial department df the Imperial Japanese Government, to be expended in the United States and Canada iv advertising the merits of Japanese teas and in giving publicity to thc rathorised government recipe for ob taining the best results in preparing tea for drinking. - Here is tho Japanese recipe foi naking perfect tea, issued by thc government of Japan : First-Use a small, dry, and thor >Ughly sweet teapot. Second-Put in one teaspoonful ol ?a leaves for each enp of tea desired. Thir^d-When using tho finer ara?ei if teas, floating at rstfcil in the Uni tee kates and Canad- $1 a pousd one ipward; po!?riR the required quantity >f fresh boiled water of not quit? miling temperature and let it stand pith closed ltd from three to five min ites. When using the ordinary grades osting less than $1 a pound, Usc ?oiling water and let it stand fron wo. to three minutes before using. This will insure perfect tea as cai .e made from the toa leaves used ll way s keep the tea leaves free fron misture to retain the natural favor, n preparing tea never boil the leaves -Chicago Tribune. - Teacher-John, of what are yom hoes made ? Boy--Of leather, sir. 'eacher--Whore does leather com? rom ? Boy-From the hide of thc X. Teacher-What animal, then. ipplicB you with shoesand gives yon teat to eat ? Boy^-My father. '.-- A. matt getting rich is much like man getting drunk. The. more he sts the more he wants; and the !esi d is capable of knowing when he hat jough, . *i- '' . ' i ' " ' ' > ' ?<< - ? . rr . ? .?: := \.u Ill Sorts of Paragraphs. - In tho winter months a ohild grows only one-fifth as much as it does in June and July. - London has tho largest telegraph office in the world. There ure 3,000 operators there, 1,000 of whom are women. - Increased com and wheat prices made for the farmers as compared with last year an additional $1,125, 000,000. - Josh Billings says : k'It is a sta tistical fact that tho wicked work harder tew reach hell than thc right eous do tew go to heaven." . - Near thc Maryland border of Pennsylvania, on tho farm of a county commissioner, 800 bushels of apples were picked from 24 trees. - She-"OR ! Is that Miss G otros? I understand she's as rich as Klon dike." He-"Yes; and they say fortune hunters find her just as cold." - A farmer near Moorefield, W. V., was thrown against a fence by a cow and a splinter penetrated an artery in his neck, causing him to bleed to death. - "Do you take instantaneous pho tographs here ?" "Yes." "Well, get in your work quick, then, before my wife takes a notion to go to some other gallery." - Yeast : "That man Dough ton is very skeptical. Unless he sees a thing he won't believe it exists." Crimsonbeak: "He never ran into a rocking ohair in the dark, then ?" - "I understand Coxey is thinking of marohing to Washington again with an army." "That so? Well, he can't make a go of it this time." "Can't ? Why?" "Most of the unemployed are already there." - The amount of capital invested in the manufacture of bioycle tires in the United States is estimated at $8,000,000, the number of persons employed at 3,000, and the number of tires produced annually at 4,000, 000. - The returns of causes for insanity in England show that in every 100 cases 24 are hereditary, 24 may be attributed to drink, 12 to business and money troubles, ll to loss of friends, 10 to sickriess and ll to va rious causes. - Statistics of life insurance show that in the last 25 years the average woman's life has increased from about 42 years to nearly 46, or more than 8 per cent. In the same period man's life average has increased from nearly 42 years to about 44, or 5 per aent. - "From the way my ears burned this morcing someone must have been talking about me.** "Now that is a strange coincidence. About 9 o'clock, was it not?" "Yep." "Well, at that moment someone in the crowd I was saying that you had cars to burn." - A poor editor who knows how it is himself says : "It ia said that a New York girl kneads bread with her gloves on. That is no news to us. We need bread With our boots on, we need bread with our pints on, and if those subscribers who are so much in irre ar s don't pay up soon we will need L_."J _]iL.-i 1'_il ;_li bress -----jMl a-j-s?;ng uu. - A set of "hair scientists" have been counting a square inch of hairs an the heads of several persons and bave como to the conclusion that a head of hair is made np of 143.000 aaira; a dark head produces 105,000 hairs and a head of red hair only 29, 3?9. The reason of tho difference ia that fair hair is of the finest and red asir of the coarsest quality. -. A Highlander, who sold brooms, ?vent into a barber's shop in Glasgow to get shaved. The barber bought >ne of his brooms, and after having shaved him, asked him the price of it. "Tippence," said the Highlander, 'No, no," said the shaver, "I'll give jon a pensy, and if that does not istisfy you, take* your broom again." The Highlander took it, and asked ?hat he had to pay. "A-penny," tays strap. "I'll gie ye abaubee," >ays Dunoan, "and if that dinna satisfy ye, pit on my beard again." - On One occasion, when a well town wit was, listening to the band in the pier at Brighton, England, ioma medical students who happened 0 ho there thought they; would have 1 joke with him, and accordingly ono >f their number went np with outs tretched hand and said, "Ah,, good norning, Mr.-! How do you do ?" 'I am quite well, thank you," he re lied, "but I really have not the lonorof your acquaintance." "What," aid the- student, "you don't know ie! "Why, I met you at the zoo." 'Young man, accept my apologies:' ut, really, I saw so many monkeys hore that it is impossible for me to eoCgoiso them all again." - Pew men in this country are bet sr or more favorable known to the rug and medicine trade than Mr. E. . Schall, buyer in the proprietary icd ici ne department of Meyers Bros.' ?rug Co.j; St. Louis. Tte says: "My oy came home from school with his and badly lacerated and, bleeding, dd suffering great pain. I.dressed ie wound and applied Chamberlain's ain Balm free'y; s>ll pain ceased j ad ia a remarkably ' short time it ealed without l?iv'ng a scar. For ounds, sprains, Wellings 'and rheu atism, I know of no medicine or pre tription equal to it. I consider it a msehold necessity." Sold by Hill rr Dr^g Co. A. Country Souvenir. I was passing a farmhouse about five miles from Spoonersvillo when the farmer came running out and wanted to know if I would send a certain doc tor out to tho farm as soon as I reach ed town. I promised to do so, and asked if auy one were dangerously ill. "By gum !" ho exclaimed in reply as'he held up his hands, "hut we've had an awful time around here to-day. Four gals and a young mau cum down from thc summer hotel on their hikes, and as they stops at the irate the young man sez to me, se/, ho : .' 'Mister Granger, thar's sunthin' hangin' to the limb of a tree down thc road, and we'd like to take it hack to the city as a souvenir of our trip.' " 'Do you mean that hornets' nest?" sez I. " 'Mebbe it's a hornet's nest,' sez he. " 'I reckon it is,' sez I, 'and I reck on you don't want to meddle with it.' " 4Fur why ?' sez he. " 'On account of tho hornets,' sez I. " 'I've never seen a hornet,' sez he, 'but I'm willin* to stand up to a orowd.' "The gals chipped in and said they wanted that nest to hang up in thc hall at home, and none of 'em wai goin' to be skeered off by my talk. 1 finally told 'cm to go ahead, and thej won't back fur the nest. The young feller is lyin' on the lounge down stairs, and perhaps ye*d like to look at him?" I went in and saw a young man it flannels whose head was about thrct times too large, while his face wai swollen so that he oould not open hil eyes. Cloths wet in vinegar had beei laid over his faoe and the farmer re moved them to say : "Young man, what was you thoughts when the fust hornet fiev outer the nest?" "I dunno," was thc whispered re ply. "Did't you think anythin' whei about 50 of 'em tackled you ?" '.'I can't say." "What passed through your min* when a thousand of theminsecks, eacl with teeth like a buzz saw, lifted yo and the gals three feet high ?"' "I-1 dunno." The farmer was ?bout te put ano the question when I suggested that I' better hurry on for the doctor. "What I was tryiu' to get at," h said as he followed me out, "wa whether that young feller thinks h was run through a thrashing mashee Dr gored'by a bull, but I'll talk to hil later on. Thc three gals is upstairs i bed and wuss off than he is, and tb imly one who kin talk keeps calli: 3ufc fur somebody to help her off tb barbed wire fence. They'll all live, reckon, but they won't want no moi tarnet's nests to ornament halls witt ?es, tell the doctor to hurry up, as tell him I say it'll take him three hu lays with a pa'r o' pinchers to pu >he stings out 1"-M. Quad, itt & Republic. Hadn't Thought of Vhat. "Some time ago," says an insurant nan, 'a man asked me to ac com pac lim home, as he had some thin; here to be insured. When wo a ived at the house he showed me lt >ozes of cigars, which he wanted usure. There were 100 cigars lach box, making 10,000 in all, ai rere valued at 10 cents each, so I i lured the lot for $1,000. A few da igo.the man oame to me and asked f he insurance mosey. 'You've h io fire at your house,' I replied, rut I've smoked them,' said he, 'a iceording to the paper I am entitl o the money, as it reads distinct hat if the goods are consumed by fi noney is paid on application,' ar as technicalities were concerned ras all right, but I knocked him cc ibout a minute later by saying, ii rery stern manner: "All tight, e rou'll get the money, but according 'our own confession I will proceed ?noe to make a charge against you : neendiarism.'. 'Well, T'irbe bange? ras all he said, and the room she iolently after he badged the dooi -Pliiladelphia Record. . - Nothing is more reasonable ? heap than good manners. lores Sidney and Bladder Troubl Thousands of such eases have bc ured by the use of Botanic Bk 5 al m (B. B.. B.) If you doubt it, c r send to the Company whose adv isement appears in this paper, s boy will, for a one cent Btamp, se ou a book of wonderful eures, i nly of the above diseases, but of tanner of ailments, arising front i ure blood. It is the standard reme f. the age for the cure of all blt nd skin diseases. $1.00 per la: ottle. CUREE? WITH TWO. QOTTLK8. J. A. Maddox, Atlanta, Ga., writ< I had great trouble in passing urii hieb was filled with sediments. 1 ick and loins gave mo much pain, s l?st my appetite, Btrength, and fie became nervous and unable to sie wo bottleo of Botanic Blood Bc $. ?. B.) giivc me entire relief." S. M. Ellis, Atlanta, Ga., writ? Manic Blood Balm (B. B. B.) cu e of moat' stubborn ee&ema. 11 >ctorcd it without success for twe For sala by druggists. ?J:. I'lW.'';:'.? V.f ;r-?'.?-v. f.ix? Tho Falllug of the Star?. ni in U? B lc tl ?l t! U tl e< B? il o g 1 t I u 0 The astronomers look for the next great meteoric shower on the morning of November 15, 1S?W. They calcu late that thc earth will then pass again through the center of an im mense swarm of meteoroids, as they are called, before combustion. These great "Leonide star showers." as they are called, occur at intervals of every years and one day. The great shower of 170!? occurred on November 1 !, and, consequently a repetition ol' the next wonderful phenomena is ex perted on the morning of November 15, 1890. In the meanwhile, however, as the aggregation of meteoroids is of im mense length, one end of it will en counter tho earth in 1898 and the other in 11100, making, Professor j Lewis Swift, thc distinguished as tronomer of Rochester, N. Y., says, j considerable showers in those years also. Not only this, but it is stated on the same authority, that many forerunners of the great shower may be expected to como within tho earth's atmosphere on Novembor 14,1897, be cause many of thc meteoroids are al ways considerably in advance of thc main cluster. Professor Swift says: "The thickness of the mcteoroidal stream is 100,000 miles, and the dura tion of the shower is equal to thc time of the diagonal passage of the earth through it, usually from midnight to dawn." He adds: "As there is a light shower of Leonoids every No vember, we know that there is a vast ring formed by the comet's tail, and that the immense shoal in one portion is the produot of the exploded comet itself, and through which we pass onoe evory 33 yer.rs and a day." The meteoroids are dark bodies, and it's only when they pass into tho earth's atmosphere that they are ig nited by friction and become visible for a few seconds. The stream makes a revolution around tho sun in about 331 years, and by consequence tho earth passes through it in a new place every year. The length of the swarm is so enormous that although it moves at thc rate of nearly 25 miles a second, yet it takes it two years to pass thc earth, so that when its hinder part is still with us its advancing, side will have reached tho orbits of Jupiter and Saturn. Notwithstanding this extent it is but a fraction of thc entire orbit. Professor Swift says: "This great cluster will reach the earth's orbit about Jone!, 1899, but the earth will not have arrived there then, but will be due nearly six months later, when our planet will plunge into the swarm ing mass, and for at least five years we shall experience a little rain of fire."-Baltimore Sun. - The Kentucky State Horse Swap pers' Convention met i? Covington recently to the number of 2,000 or more. One man brought twenty-five horses and announced his intention to swap every horse three times before the convention's three days' session was over. - Texas has a biind woman who | b actually dears about $200 from a little farm where she raises vegetables. The woman's exquisite sense of touch tells her the ripeness of a berry or vegeta ble._ HOB1?A PATH HIGH SCHOOL HAS dosed a most satisfactory year's J work to both patrons and teachers. - The outlook for the next Sealion promise? n even better results. How to jecure the u best School ia the constant study of the i teacher*. Excellent library, modern ap- u ?tar?t aa, live methods, and trained teach r ag. Next Session opens Monday, Sept. t 0th, 1897. Board in best families at very low rates. For further information write to- J. O. HARPER, Prim, Hon ea Path, S. C. July 14,18W_8_3m YELLOW FEVE ANDERSON COUNTY never had a geo a kind of fever prevalent all over the County tors of trade. They can't understand it. but \ closely, and made a careful diagnosis. A ma vortiaemcnt. ia eel zed suddenly by a desire to ? lieve we can do what we claim : believes our glaring farce ; doesn't believe nu carry the pr Connty ; doesn't believe that we can sell the and, to cap the climax, believes that our fimo is a visionary myth. He makes a fall investit told: goes home, tells bis neighbors, who also The only solution is that we navet advert? finding this out take a feverish desire to ?wop The most pleasing addition to our Stock I* ca Vienna Sausage, Pigs' Feet, Potted Ham, I Corned Beef and Brawn ; also, Bologna Baussf Breakfast Bacon. Complete Stock Fertilize including 13 per cent and 11-1 par cent Acid. WE WANT YOU rry our "Success" Cigar, only 5c see if they are worthy of the i Also, loo DHOW-CHOW in bulk. Sweet Pickles in h ed Pickle? in bottles all sizes, Prepare Jan Beef, Pickled Pigs Feet, Can Sausage, Bu bologna Sausage, Hams. Breakfast Bacon, Oal ivrnp, Fruits all kinds, Candies, Fancy Cakes, 'errin Worcester Sauce (best mads,) Ketchup, .A. "Varied TAx] Dry Goods, Hats, Shoe?, Tinware, Wood ?West market prices. Come price onr Goods end see how you wil Eight v?ieti?s ?rood Raking Powder. H. B, Slow a Road In Ir? latid Wa? Mad?. Th? way in which tho Irish iniagi ition nccountH for tho curious notch i tho Devil's liit mountain, Tippera ry, is indicated in its very name, ut there aro two versions of th? tgend. According to one, it is saul mt Nickie Bon, just to try how linrp his teeth wove, bit u pieco oil* li? uppor edge, but, finding it Hither io hav?l even for Iiis digestion, ho wew it up at Cashel, in tho samo ounty, whero it h:;s lcniuincd over inc?. In confirm?t ion of tho story ; is gravely asserted that thu rock f Cashel would exactly lit into tho. ap left in tho aforesaid mountain, u Notes and Queries, .limo i, 1851, ll? tolo is tobi us follows: 'In tho taronne mountains, nour Tenipl? lore, Ireland, there is u largo dent r hollow, visiblo nt tho dist.moo of 0 milos und known by tho nanio of ho 'Devil's Bit.' Thero is a foolish raditiou that tho devil was obliged iy on? of tho saints to make a road or his rovoreue? across an extensiv? )Og in th? neighborhood, and so, uking a pieco of tho mountain in lia mouth, he strode over tho bog md deposited a road behind him!" -Gentleman's Magazine. - Some people waste a lot of time oiling you what they said to some body else. Woman's Diseases Are as peculiar aa ?trn?m unavoidable, and JjgP :annot be discuss ed or treated as we dtWY&K lo those to which MSaimWd the entire human S&LWf&S family are subject. % f?BfSi . Menstruation sus- l[tnySSB^\Vi ,ib tains such import- jKMJ/flj v?h ant relations to her *?wM|'} \Y8jj healthy that when3sSj|j | H** Suppressed, Irregni- -Jf|? |? il lar or Painful, Mufi ll \ U ?he soon becomes ig?y| ^ I^JF languid, nervous '""TOw **** md irritable, the bloom leaves her :heek? and very grave complica tions arise unless Regularity and Vigorare restored to these organs. Bradfield^ SoneTt^ I most noted L* gffialC physicians _^ ^ of the South, Regulator ?ort prevail more extensively than n any other section, and has never 'ailed to correct disordered Men itruation. It restores health a.nd itrength to the suffering' woman. "Wo hsvo for tho put thirty /ears handled Iradfisld's Female Regulator, both at whole ale and retail, and in no inatanoe baa it failed o gire eat infaction. We aeU more of it than all tier similar rem?di?e combined." LAMAS, RANK? & LAM AB. At! an tn, Mc con and Albany. GS. THC BRADFIKIO RBOULAYOR CO., ATLANTA. QA. Sold by aft OragoiaU at ?U00 par Bottle. Jourt of Final Appeal. When a case is referred to a court f final appeal its decision is irre o ca bl e. When you have lost all hope, a your own case, of being cured of theuraatism; or any disease caused y impure blood, try Africana. Africana cures positively. Africana cures permanently. Afrloana cur?s perfectly. Africana'cures quickly. Read what a prominent Atlanta ircker writes us : AFRICANA COMPANY : I was attacked with Rheumatism a my feet and knee joints, was in lucea to try Africana, and after using ive bottles as prescribed, and not sing any other remedy or treatment urine use of AFRICANA, I now egard myself as free from Rheuma isffl. Your truly, J. M. FONDER. ??r For sale by Evans Pharmacy nd Hill-Orr Drug Co. RI mine cue of Yellow Fever, but there !s tbat baa bellied the skill of all tbe doo ire can. We have studied the symptoms n, healthy or unhealthy, reads our ad 00 and prion our Goods ; he doesn't be Whole H tock 81.50 Shoe for S1.25 is a ettiest and cheapest line of Shoes in the best pair of Pants In town for a dollar, us, muoh-toiked-of Dean's Patent Floor gatton, finds tba half has never yet been catch the contagion, and so iL spreads. no anything we haven't got. The people in as many of our bargains as possible. 1 a complete line cf Canned Goods-such junch Tongue, Salmon, Breakfast Bacon, ;o, delicious, juicy Hams, and Smoked srs always on Hand, DEAN & RATLIFFE. TO SUCCEED ! ., and lame. k over our Grocery List and give us an order. mik, Sour Mixed Pickles in bulk. Mix d Cod Flbb, Cream Cheese, Can Tripe, cket ?p.usaue, (all pork.) Link Sauaage, Flakes, Maple Syrup, New Crop N. O. Oyster Crackers, Celery Sauce, Lea ?k Preserve.! and Jellies. LB of G oods. enware, Crockery and Earthenware at 1 succeed in the Bargain Business. .FANT & SON WK Mil l?l\NOS ?iul MUSICAL I ?? Vi'fcll'll Kt?TS to the best trailo in i'iiiiniio?. Wby not Ivers & Pond Pianos - AND - Farrand & Votey Organs, And w? are getting in several other multen of high grad? Instrument*. Also, A largo line of tiultars. Banjos, Violins, Amoliarpa, ?fcc, at lowest possible figur?e. HEADQUARTERS for tbe Celebrated New Home, Ideal and several other leading Sewing Machines. 1 and see us. or write for catalogue prices. Respectfully, Tho C. A. R88tl Mnsic House. ~ TAK?_N?riC? We hereby notify all parties who owe Bleckloy & Fretwell past due papers that owing to the death of our senior. Syl vester Bleckley, that the same must be paid at an early day, not later than Nov. 1st next, as a settlement must be made with the heirs at law. Your prompt attention to this notice and a compliance with same will be duly appreciated. Yours very truly, JOS. J. FRETWELL, Survivor Jbieckley & ?'retwell. Sept If), W>7 . 12 Will Cjiiie tile Business ! THE underbigno i desires to inform the public that he will continue the bus iness of his M her. tbe late A. S. Stephens, on South Matu Street, and will be pleased to serve the old patron? of the deceased at any time. The beat of workmen will be employed, and when you need any repair work on your buggies, carriages and wKg ons give me a call. We will also keep in stock a full line of Carriage end Wagon Material. We have in stock now a num ber of home made one sod two-horse Wagons and Single-seat Pb reto?a which will be sold at verv reduced prices. Persons indebted tr, tbs ho? A. S. Ste phens and io the oid firm of Reed A Ste phens will please make payment to the undersigned. PAUL E STEP?IEV8, Manager. Sept 8,18?'7 ll 8m YES, They'll wear out, but only after a season of hard ser vice. School Shoes, Bob ??Oj, JJ.(VUgu UUUt, V/UAUXU bus Belle, Bed Seal. Sold by cash-buying merchants. Blade by J, E. ORE SHOE CO., Atlanta, Ga. NOTICE? TBE County Treasurer's Office will bo i. opea from the 15th of October next to the dist of December following for the collection of Taxes for the fiscal yssr 1S97. For the convenience of Taxpayers 1 will attend at the following placea s ?iabtown. October 15. Mount Airy. October 16. Piedmont, October 18. Pelter, October 19. Hones Path, October 27. Cook's October 28. On all other days between October 15th and December 3Ut, the office will be open at Anderson. The following is the levy for State, Connty and School purposes : Hists. 5 milla. Ordinary County. 3 mills. Special (Road). 1 mill. Special (Court House). 1 mill. ForSohools. 3 milla, Total. 13 mills. Tru?ateos of Hunter School District have made a sp?cial levy ot 3 mills for school purposes, making a total l?vy foi* that dis trict o? 10 mills. All male persoos between twenty-one and sixty y cf rs c. age, except those unable to earn a l:vlog on nccount of being maimed, or from other cause, and those who served in the late war, are required to pay a poll tax of one dollar. All male persons between eighteen and fifty years oi age, who are abie to work roana or cause them to bs worked, except members of beards of school trastees, min isters of the gospel in actual charge of a congregation, persons permanently dis abled in the military service of this State, and those wbo served in the late war, are required to work three days on the public roads, or in lieu of work, pay a commuta tion tax of one dollar, to be collected st same time other tuxns are collected. E. Z. BROWN, Co. Treas. NOTICE FINAL SETTLEMENT. The undersigned. Executors of the Estate of Mary Ann Harper, deceased, hereby give notice thai they will on the 1st day of November, 1807, apply to the Judge of Probate for Anderson County for a Final Settlement of said Estate, and a discbarge from their offico as Executors. THOMAS HAPPER, J. W. HARPER, Executors. Sept 20, 1897_U_5_ ?ITA TE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, } ANDERSON COUNTY. By Ii. M. Bur risa, Judge of Probate. WHEREAS, S. R. Timms has applied to mo to grant him Letters of Ad ministration on tlie Estate and effects of E. D- McAllster, deceased. These are therefore to ?rite and admon- ? lah all kindred and creditors of the said ? E. D. Mc Alisto r, deceased, to be and appear before me In Court of Probate, to be held at Anderson C. H. on the 27th day of October, 1897, after publication hereof,, o show cause, if shy they have, why he said Administration should n*?t hV 7?-Rr.tod. uivci* under aiy hand, thia. ?3th dav of October. 1897. R. M. BURRISS. Judge Probate. Oct 13,1897 16 2