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ON SUBJECT ntellectual Activity e of 8] Xeiv Yo "But I can't sleep/' insisted the pa tient. "That's nothing," repeated the doc tor. "Nothing ! Why I stay awake all night." "No, you'don't," rejoined the doc tor. "You stay awake part of the time and'dream some more of the time that you're awake, and betimes you sleep soundly." "Well, you can put it that way if you want to ; what I'm after is some thing that will make me sleep instead of lying awake, and will keep me from dreaming that I'm awake." "You're fgoing too fast," said the j doctor. "In2 the. first place how do you know, that you need to sleep any more than youjdo ? Lots of people sleep too much for their own good." "I've been accustomed to my seven straight hours all my life, and I don't know why I ehould 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 lives, and they don't see why they should have dyspepsia now. There are a lot of possible dan gers about too much sleep in the way of causing certain ailments to say nothing of the wear and tear of the nerves brought about by trying to force yourself-tojsleer/more than your mature says, just because you've heard that the normal man spends a thixd of . his life in bed. Why, don't you know that the higher the intellectual rank, the less sleep a man requires ? Goethe and Humboldt got along with two or three, hours 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 once 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,fyou will observe ?laid his arms on his knees and hi? head on his arms, and went off to sleep as sweetly as a child up there on his perch. It's a faculty that civilization deprives us of, that of going to sleep at any time and in any place. The1 Papuans fall asleep when they've nothing else to do. So do all savages. So d? dogs." "Dogs can fall asleep at 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 ?to keep one in a house in the country." "When you're growing old," con tined the doctor, "you may know that your intellect*^is -all right and your powers are unimpaired so long as yon stay awake ; it's only when you feel a constant need of sleep that the decay )ef the mental faculties has set in." iaShen maybe I'm growing young," said the patient. "I used to take a up after dinner, and dot Idon't even ?o that" "A good'thing for you," said the doctor. "You oughtn't to sleep after jale?is." "How about the famous siesta of Latin cour.tries ?" "It's all wrong. If doctors wait long enough a case is pr?tty sure to come along that will tell them what they want to know. It would, of course, be easier to cut people up and find out the things we want to know as the questions arise, but there are objections to doing that, and so we have to wait until good fortune injures somebody in the right way. So it happened that once a man had his stomach cut open by an accident, and his doctor made use of him. The doc tor learned among other things that the process of digestion became weak er while the man was asleep. The moral is, that it isn't well to sleep after meals. Some people feel the need of a nap after eating. That is because their digestive apparatus isn't in good working order, or because they are gluttons. In either case blood seeded elsewhere is drawn to the 3tomach, and the brain is impoverish ed. That's why serpents and certain other animals go to sleep after gorging themselves." "That may be all right about the other man," persisted the patient, "but in my case it is different. I don't sleep now because I've had a lot kf care on my mind." "Maybe that's the reason and maybe it isn't," replied the doctor. "Care works both ways. Toward the end of his career Napoleon sometimes could tcarcely keep awake at critical mo ments in the midst of a battle. They ?aid it was his liver, but it wasn't. The same phenomenon was observed among the ancients. A passage was called to my attention only the other day from Montaigne's essay on sleep. He describes the suicide of the Km OF SLEEP. is it A.ffects the Need Leep. rk Sun. peror Otho. After having made all arrangements for killing 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 the Emperor Augustus, when engaged in a naval battle, could hardly keep himself awake long enough to give orders." "All that is very interesting," said the patient, "but what has all that to do with my case ?" "Everything in the world." answer ed the doctor. "If we only knew I 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 anywhere near knowing ; but we think we are. Do you kr.ow 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 ; there are too many technicalities and provisional hypotheses and other in volved things about it. But the gen eral idea oi? 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 ?for ideas to passover. 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 in his castle when he raised the drawbridge, or as two cities are nowa days when a blizzard comes along and blows dowE 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 ? Well, in your case, 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 contractand then you'll get all the sleep you're entitled t?. 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 Make Good Tea. Japan's government several months ago sent a special commission to this country to investigate the conditions of the Japanese tea trade in the United States and Canada. This commission reported that about 60 per cent of the teas consumed in North America was of Japanese growth, but that a great majority of the American people did not seemingly understand how to make good tea. ? ? The government immediately made an appropriation'of $420,000 to the Japan Tea Traders' Association of Tokio, a corporation under the regu lations of the Agricultural and Com mercial department df the Imperial" Japanese Government, to be expended in the United States and Canada in advertising the merits of Japanese teas and in giving publicity to the authorized government recipe for ob taining the best results in preparing tea for drinking. Here is the Japanese recipe for making perfect tea, issued by the government of Japan : First?Use a small, dry. and thor oughly sweet teapot. Second?Put in one teaspoonful of tea leaves for each cup of tea desired. Third?When using the finer grades of teas, costing at retail in the United States and Canada $1 a pound and upward, pour in the required quantity of fresh boiled water of not quite boiling temperature and let it stand with closed lid from three to five min utes. When using the ordinary grades, costing less than $1 a pound, use boiling water and let it stand from two to three minutes before using. This will insure perfect tea as can be made from the tea leaves used. Always keep the tea leaves free from moisture to retain the natural flavor. In preparing tea never boil the leaves. ? Chicago Tribune. ? Teacher?-John, of what are your shoes made ? Boy?Of leather, sir. Teacher?Whfre does leather come from? Boy?From the hide of the ox. Teacher?What animal, then, supplies you with shoes and gives you meat to eat ? Boy?My father. ? A man getting rich is much like a man getting drunk. The more he gets the more be wants; and the less he is capable of knowing when he has enough. All Sorts of Paragraphs. ? In the winter months a child grows only one-fifth as much as it daos in June and July. ? London has the largest telegraph office in the world. There arc 3,000 operators there, 1,000 of whom are women. ? Increased corn and wheat prices made for the farmers as compared with last year an additional $1,125,? 000,000. ? Josh "Billings says : "It is a sta tistical fact that the wicked work harder tew reach hell than the right eous do tew go to heaven/' - ? Near the Maryland border of Pennsylvania, on the farm of a county commissioner, 800 bushels of apples were picked from 24 trees. ? She?" Oh ! Is that Miss Gotrox? I understand she's as rich as Klon dike.-' He?"Yes; and they say fortune hunter? find her just as cold." ? A farmer near Moorefield, W. V., was thrown against a fence by a cow anda splinter penetrated an artery in hir. 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 chair in the dark, then ?" ? "I understand Coxey is thinking of matching to Washington again with an array." "That so? Well, he can't make a go of it th?3 time." "Can't ? Why?" "Most of the unemployed are already there." ? The amount of capital invested in the manufacture of bicycle tires in the United States is estimated at $8,00C,000, the number of person's employed at 3,000, and the number of tires produced annually at 4,000, 000. ? The rsturns of causes for insanity in England show that in every 100 cases 24 t.re hereditary, 24 may be attributed to drink, 12 to business and money troubles, 11 to loss of friends, 10 to sickriess and 11 to va rious causes. ? Statistics of life insurance show that ir: the last 25 years the average womaE'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 cent. ? "From the way my ears burned this morning 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 ears to burn." ? A poor editor who knows how it is himself says : "It is said that a New York girl kneads bread with her gloves on. Tnat is no news to us. We need bread with our boots on, we need bread with our pants on, and if those subscribers who are so much in arrears don't pay up soon we will need bread without anything on." ? A set of "hair scientists" have been counting a square inch of hairs on the heads of several persons and have come to the conclusion that a head of hair is made up of 143.000 hairs ; a dark head produces 105,000 hairs and a head of red hair only 29, 000. The reason of the difference is that fair hair is of the finest and red hair of the coursest quality. ? A Highlander, who sold brooms, went into a barber's shop in Glasgow to get shaved. The barber bought one 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 you a penny, and if that does not satisfy you, take your broom again." The Highlander took it, and asked what he hid to pay. "A penny," says strap. 'Til gie ye a baubee," says Duncan, "and if that dibna satisfy ye, pit on my beard again." ? On one occasion, when a well known wit was listening to the band on the pier at Brighton, England, some medical students who happened to be there thought they would have a joke with him, and accordingly one of their number went up with out stretched hand and said. "Ah, good morning,Mr.-! Howdoyoudo?" "I am quite well, thank you," he re plied, "but I really have not the honorof your acquaintance.'' "What," said the student, "you don't know me! Why, I met you at the zoo." "Young man, accept my apologies; but, really, I saw so many monkeys there that :t is impossible for me to recog?ize them all again." ? Few men in this country are bet ter or more favorable known to the drug and medicine trade than Mr. E. J. Schall, buyer in the proprietary medicine department of Meyers Bros.' Drug Co., St. Louis. He says: ''.My boy came home from school with his hand badly lacerated and bleeding, and suffering great pain. 1 dressed the wound and applied Chamberlain's Pain Balm freely; all pain ceased, and in a remarkably short time it healed without leaving a scar. For wounds, sprains, swellings and rheu matism, I know of no medicine or pre scription equal to it. I consider it a household necessity." .Sold by Ilill Orr Drug Co. A Country Souvenir. I was passing a farmhouse about five miles from Spooncrsv ?lie when the farmer came running out and wanted to know if I would send a certain doc tor out to the farm as soon as I read ed town. I promised to do so, an asked if any one were dangerously i "By gum !" he exclaimed in rep as he held up his hands, "but wc' had an awful time around here to-day Four gals and a young man cum down from the summer hotel on their bike and as they stops at the gate the you man sez to me, scz he : " 'Mister Granger, thar's sunthi hangin' to the limb of a tree down th road, and we'd like to take it back the city as a souvenir of our trip.' " 'Do you mean that hornets' nest? sez I. " 'Mebbe it's a hornet's nest,' sezhe " reckon it is,' sez I, 'and I reck on you don't want to meddle with it " 'Fur why ?' sez he. " 'On account of the hornets,' sez " Tve never seen a hornet,' sez he 'but I'm willin' to stand up to crowd.' "The gals chipped in and said they wanted that nest to hang up in the hall at home, and none of 'em was goin' to be skeered off by my talk, finally told 'em to go ahead, and they ^yen't bac't fur the nest. The young feller u /in' on the lounge down stairs, ai.*? erhaps ye'd like to look at him?" I went in and saw a young man in flannels whose head was about three times too .arge, while his face was swollen so that he could net open his eyes. Cloths wet in vinegnr had been laid over his face and the farmer rc moved them to say : "Young man, what was your thoughts when the fust hornet flew outer the nest?" "I dunno," was the whispered re ply. "Did't you think any thin' when about 50 of 'em tackled you ?" "I can't say." "What passed through your min when a thousandof theminsecks, each with teeth like a buzz saw, lifted you and the gals three feet high ?"' "I-1 dunno." The farmer was about to put another question when I suggested that I' better hurry on for the doctor. "What I wastryin' to get at," h said, as he followed me out, "was whether that young feller thinks he was run through a thrashing masheen or gored by a bull, but I'll talk to him later on. The three gals is upstairs in bed and wuss off than he is, and the only one who kin talk keeps callin out fur somebody to help her off the barbed wire fence. They'll all live, I reckon, but they won't want no more h'ornet's nests to ornament halls with Yes, tell the doctor to hurry up, and tell him I say it'll take him three hull days with a pa'i o' pinchers to pull the stings out !"?M. Quad, in St Republic. Hadn't Thought of That. "Somq time ago," says an insurance man, "a man asked me to accompany him home, as he had some things there to be insured.- When we ar rived at the house he showed me 100 boxes of cigars, which he wanted to insure.' There were 100 cigars in each box, making 10,000 in all, and were valued at 10 cents eaoh, so I in sured the lot for $1,000. A few days ago.the man came to me and asked for the insurance money. 'You've had no fire at your house,' I replied. 'No, but I've smoked them,' said he, 'and according to the paper I am entitled to the money, as it reads distinctly that if the goods are consumed by fire money is paid on application,' As far as technicalities were concerned he was all right, but I knocked, him cold about a minute later by saying, in a very stern manner: "All right, sir; you'll get the money, but according to your own confession I will proceed at once to make a charge against you for incendiarism.' 'Well, I'lKbe hanged !' was all he said, and the rcom shook violently after he banged the door." ?Philadelph ?a Record. ? Nothing is more reasonable and cheap than good manners. Cures Kidney and Bladder Troubles. Thousands of such cases have been cured by the use of Botanic Blood Balm ( . .. B.) If you doubt it, call or send to the Company whose adver tisement appears in this paper, and they will, for a one cent stamp, send you a book of wonderful cures, not only of the above diseases, but of all manner of ailments arising from im pure blood. It is the standard remedy of the age for the cure of all blood and skin diseases. $1.00 per large bottle. CURED WITH TWO BOTTLES. J. A. Maddox. Atlanta, Ga.,writes : "I had great trouble iu passing urine, which was filled with sediments. My back and loins gave me much pain, and I lost my appetite, strength, and flesh. I became nervous and unable to sleep. Two bottles of Botanic Blood Balm ( . B. B.)gave me entire relief." S. M. Ellis, Atlanta, Ga., writes: "Botanic Blood Balm ( . . B.) cured me of most stubborn eczema. I had doctored it without success for twelve years.'1 For salo by druggists. The Failing of the Stars. The astronomers look for the next great meteoric shower on the mornin? of November 15, 1S99. They calcu late that the earth will then pass again through the center of an im mense swarm of meteoroids, as they arc called, before combustion. These great ''Leonide star showers."' as they are called, occur at intervals of every 33 years and one day. The great shower of 1799 occurred on November 14, and, consequently a repetition of the next wonderful phenomena is ex pected on the morning of November 15, 1899. In the meanwhile, however, as the aggregation of meteoroids is of im mense length, one end of it will en counter the earth in 1898 and tho other in 1900, making, Professor Lewis Swift, the distinguished as tronomer of Rochester, . Y., says, 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 come within the earth's atmosphere on November 14,1897, be cause many of the meteoroids are al ways considerably in advance of the main cluster. Professor Swift says: ''The thickness of the meteoroidal stream is 100,000 miles, and the dura tion of the shower is equal to the 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 product of the exploded comet itself, and through which we pass once every 33 years and a day." The meteoroids are dark bodies, and it is only when they pass into the earth's atmosphere that they are ig nited by friction and become visible for a few seconds. The stream makes a revolution around the sun in about 331 years, and by consequence the earth passes through it in a new place every year. The length of the swarm is so epormous that although it moves at the rate of nearly 25 miles a second, yet it takes it two years to pass the earth, so that when its hinder part is still with us its advancing side will have reached the orbits of Jupiter and Saturn. Notwithstanding this extent it is but a fraction of the entire orbit. Professor Swift says: "This great cluster will reach the earth's orbit about June 1, 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 in Covington recently t/ 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 blind woman who actually clears 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. HONEA PATH HIGH SCHOOL HAS closed a most satisfactory year's work to both patrons and teachers. The outlook for. the next Session promises even better results. How to secure the beet School is the constant study of the teachers. Excellent library, modem ap paratus, live methods, and trained teach' ing. Next Session opens Monday, Sept. 6th, 1897. Board in best families at very low rates. For further information write to? J. C HARPER, Prin., HoneaPath,8. C. July 14,1897 3_3m YELLOW FEY] ANDERSON COUNTY never had a | a kind of fever prevalent all over the Coun tors of trade. They can't understand it, bi closely, and made a careful diagnosis. A vertisement, is seized suddenly by a desire I lieve we can do wbat we claim ; believes o glaring farce ; doesn't believe we carry the County ; doesn't believe that we can sell tl and, to cap the climax, believes that our fai is a visionary myth. He makes a full inve told, goes home, tells bis neighbors, who a The only solution is that we never adv? finding this out take a feverish desire to sco The most pleasing ?ddition to our Stoc! as Vienna Sausage. Pigs' Feet, Potted Han Corned Beef and Brawn ; aleo, Bologna Sai Breakfast Bacon. Complete Stock F?rtil Includicg 13 per cent and 11?1 per cent A< WE WANT YOT Try our "Success" Cigar, only see if they are worthy of the Also, 1 CHOW-CHOW in bulk, Sweet Pickles i ed Pickle- in bottles all sizes, Prer Cau Beef, Pickled Pigs Feet, Can Saueage, Bologna Sausage, Hams, Breakfast Bacon, Svrup, Fruits all kinds, Candies, Fancy Cal Perrin Worcester Sauce (best made,) Ketchi A. Varied L: Dry Goods, Hats, Shoes, Tinware, W< lowest market prices. Come price our Goods and see how you Eight varieties good Baking Powder. H.J How Road In Ireland Was Made. The way in which tho Irish imagi nation accounts for the curious notch in tho Devil's Bit mountain, Tipper ary, is indicated in its very name. But there aro two versions of the legend. According to one, it is said that Nickie Ben, just to try how sharp his teeth were, bit a piece off the upper edge, but. finding it rather too hard even for his digestion, bo tbi^v it up at Cashel, in the samo county, where it has lemaincd ever since. In confirmation of tbe story it is gravely asserted that tho rock of Casliel would exactly fit into the gap left in tho aforesaid mountain. In Notes and Queries, June 1, 1851, tho tale is told as follows: 'In the Barnane mountains, near Temple more, Ireland, there is a large dent or hollow, visible at the distance of 20 miles and known by the name of the 'Devil's Bit. ' There is a foolish tradition that the devil was obliged by one of the saints to make a road for his reverence across an extensive bog in the neighborhood, and so, taking a piece of the mountain in his mouth, he strode over the bog and deposited a road behind him!" ?Gentleman's Magazine. ? Some people waste a lot of time telling you what they said to some body else. Woman's Diseases Are as peculiar as unavoidable* and cannot be discuss ed or treated as we do those to which the entire human family are subject. Menstruation sus-Jj tains such import ant relations to her] health, that when' Suppressed, Irregru lar or Painful, she soon becomes! languid, nervous and irritable, the bloom leaves her cheek' and very gTave complica tions arise unless Regularity and Vigor are restored to these organs. Is a receipt ^ of one of the 1 most noted CHlcUC physicians ?p. ^ of the South, Regulator sort prevail more extensively than in any other section, and has never failed to correct disordered Men struation. It restores health and strength to the suffering woman. "We have for the past thirty years handled Bradfield'e Female Regulator, both at whole sale and retail, and in no instance has it faUed to give satisfaction. We sell moro of it than all other eimllar rem?di?e combined." Lauae, Eai?kih & L?mar, Atlanta, Macon and Albany, Ga. -in ad eld Regulator Co., Atlanta, Ga. Sold by all Druggists at 01.00 per Bottle. Court of Final Appeal. When a case is referred to a court o?' final appeal its decision is irre vocable. When you have lost all hope, in your own case, of being cured of Eheumatism, or any disease caused by impure blood, try Ar ?.ina. Africana cures positively. Africana cures permanently. Africana cures perfectly. Africana cures quickly. Read what a prominent Atlanta Broker writes us : Africana Company; I was attacked with Rheumatism in my feet and knee joints, was in duced to try Africana, and after using five bottles as prescribed, and not using any other remedy or treatment during use of AFRICANA, I now regard myself as free from Rheuma tism. Your truly, J. M. Ponder. J66T For sale by Evans Pharmacy and Hill-Orr Drug Co. m ! genuine case of Yellow Fever, but there is ty tlaat has bailied the skill of all tbe doc it we can. We have studied the symptoms man, healthy or unhealthy, reads our ad ;o e?? aDd price our Goods; he doesn't be ur Whole Stock ?1.50 Shoe for 81.25 is a prettiest and cheapest line of Shoes in the i'e best pair of Pants in town for a dollar, nous, much-talked-of Dpan'a Patent Flour Btigation, finds the half has never yet been Iso catch the contagion, and eo it. spreads, ?rtise anything we haven't got. The people in as many of our bargains as possible, kc ih a complete line of Canned Goods?such , Lunch Tongue, Salmon, Breakfast Bacon, isage, delicious, juicy Hams, and Smoked izers always on Hand, :id. DEAN & RATLIFFE. J TO SUCCEED ! 5c,and j name. ook over our Grocery List and give us an order. a bulk, Sour Mixed Pickles in bulk, Mix lared Cod Fish, Cream Cheese, Can Tripe, Bucket Sausage, (all pork.) Link Saueage, Oat Flakes, Maple Syrup, New Crop N. O. jes, Oyfrter Crackers, Celery Sauce, Lea <fe jp, Preserves and Jellies. ine of G jds. jodenware, Crockery and Earthenware at will succeed in the Bargain Business. B. FANT & SON WE sell PIANOS and MUSICAI, l?'^TKU.TIENTS to the best trade in tbia aud adjoining Counties. Why not allow me to ?eil you a reliable Piano or Organ. Wti guarantee **?iry Instrument tbat goes ont of our Warerooms, and bave a large assortment to select from. Have just received new styles of? Ivers & Pond Pianos - AND - Farrand & Votey Organs, And we are getting in several other makes of high grade Instruments. Also, a large line of Guitars, Banjos, Violins, Antoharps, dec, at lowest possible figures. HEADQUARTERS for the Celebrated New Home, Ideal and several other ? leading? Sewing Machines. Call and see us. or write for catalogue and prices. , Respectfully, TlBCiMffllillSB. TAKEJjOTICE. "We hereby notify all parties who owe Bleekley & 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 . 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 Bleckley & Fretwell. Sept 15,1P97 ? 12 THE undersigned desires to inform the pnblic that he will continue the bus iness of his father, the late A. S. Stephens, on South Main Street, and will be pleased to serve the old patrons of the deceased at anytime. The best'of workmen will be employed, and when you need any repair work on your buggies, carriages and wag ons give me a call. We will also keep in stock a full line of Carriage and Wagon Material. We have in stock now a num ber of home made one and two-horse Wagone and Single-seat Poserons which will be sold at very reduced prices. Persons indebted to the late A. S. Ste phens and to the old firm of Reed & Ste phens will please make payment to the undersigned. ' PAUL E. STEPHENS, Manager. Sept 8,1897 11 3m YES, They'll wear out, but only after a season of hard ser vice. School Shoes, Sob Boy, Kaago Goat, Colum bus Belle, Bed Seal. Sold by 'cash-buying merchants. Made by? J. E. OBB SHOE CO., _Atlanta, Ga. NOTICE. THE County Treasurer's Office will be , open .from the 15th of October next. to the 31st of December following for the collection of Taxes for the fiscal year 1897. For the convenience of Taxpayers I will attend at the following places : Slabtown. October 15. Mount Airy. October 16. Piedmont, October 18. Pelzer, October 19. Honea Path, October 27. Cook's October 28. On all other days between October 15th and December 3lst, the office will be open at Anderson. The following is the levy for State, County and School purposes : State.5 mills. Ordinare County. 3 mills. Special (Road). 1 mill. Special (Conrt House). 1 mill. For Schools. 3 mills. Total. 13 mille. Trues te es of Hunter School District have made a special levy of 3 mills for school purposes, making a total l*>vy for that dis trict of Id mills. AH male persons between .twenty-one and sixty years of age, except those unable to earn a liviog on recount of being maimed, or ?rom other canse, 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 of age, who are able to work roaoa or cause them to be worked, except members of beards of school trustees, min isters of the gospel in actual charge of a congregation, persons permanently dis abled in the military service of this State, and those who 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 bo collected at same time other taxes are collected. E. Z. BROWN, Co. Treas. VTOTICE FINAL SETTLEMENT. .1 The undersigned, Executors of the* Estate of Mary Ann Harper, deceased, hereby give notice thai they will on the 1st day of November, 1897, apply to the Judge of Probate for Anderson County for a Final Settlement of said Estate, and a discharge from their office as Executors. THOMAS HARPER, J. W. HARPER, Executors. Sopt 2!), 1897 14 5 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, Anderson Countv. By R. 3/. Bwrian, Judge of Probate. WHEREAS, S. R. Timms has applied to me to grant him Lettera of Ad ministration on the Estate and effects of E. D. McAlister, deceased. These are therefore to oite and admon ish all kindred and creditors of the said E. D. McAllster, 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,, to show cause, if any they have, why the said Administration should not be granted. Given under my hand, this 13th dav of October, 1897. R. M. BURKISS. Judge Probate. Oct 13, 1897 1G 2