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A GEN ERATIC J^ii .Age of Hespectqfo ?/??JLL ?J . Atlanta The recent excitement at Dalton, I fia., over the train robberies and con- j ^calment of stolen gooda has been in tense and the" affair has] engaged the Courts and-.tho attention of public fer days. The public is astounded 0v?r the fact that so many prominent and heretofore honored men aro cdn iiecUd with ^it. j I?have read of few thing? inStho history of ?ny. State that have surprised?, me more. Tho affair has put me to thinking. Almost every week I am "shocked by tho announce ment through the press that some prominent man bas defaulted', or in plain English, stolen out a store or bank or sonieobusinoBs, and in many el' the so-called assignment cases it is simply a respectable steal Out. Mr- Webster?s?ys "stealing is the act of taking the property of a person without his knowledge or consent." With this--definition I ci.n run hun dreds of business firms and thousands of men into the ehaingacg. The honor of -[ouiJ.buainesB men has been dropping for years-gambling and stealing are becoming'more and more respectable methods of competition, tricks of1 trade.L Shams, adulterations and shoddicB'have multiplied in the business world e\ery year. Futures,, buckctshops, corners and monopolies arc nothing more than gambling and stealing institutions. The business firms have tricked and shammed till they have taught their clerks, and every 3toresuas to*-have two or three ways of checking up each transaction to prevent thc clerks from stealing, so that every honest young man is made to feel like a thief as soon he enters business. The truth is the&business meth ods ef the times are destroying truth and honesty, and rendering stealing .morcorespeotable every day. Honesty is the opposite of stealing. Honesty rests on truth and grows out of truth. An absolutely truthful man docs not make a thief, and it is hard to make an honest manaout of a liar. Tt'hcn truth is disturbed the whole structure ofccharacter" tumbles. Our business world starts at the manufac tory, and how ofteu?does our manufac tured articles start out bearing a li" on their faces.. Some of the finest in veatioas of the.age have been machin ery and processions for working in shoddies and adulterations. ' The leather factory^makes vb) jd-, stock out of poplar, and woolen-mil la make jean s out of cotton and worn:out clothing. The tobacco factories can almost cover the devil himself with a "good wrap per." The shoe factory makes .'hand made" shoes on a machine. The bug gy and earri?gir??et.Griss useput^y and paint as charity "and cover a multitude of sins. The?patent n>edicine f?oto ries simply seH lies bottled or pow dered, as required: Thc lie runs through all fines' of manufactured goods. Then this lie'must' be carried out hy merchant and clerk, so we be tonte a nation of'buainess liar?. Then society takes np thc lie by trying to palm off on the public shod dies for .genuine,?- The women wear lies in the hats, and dresses and jew elry, have lies on their tables,- in the shoddy silver indochina and out glass,, bare lies on their floors in shoddy car pets, on their windows in shoddy lace; in their furniture in stained poplar for walnut, etc. Tho little children ara dressed in lies-their, clothing is made .to representvsomeihjiiig that it is not. [i.Thc men as well as- the women, carry out the lie ic their shoes and hata; ' j?welry ?nd cravats. ? ??Wv^ mcu >the IOther day that carried a lie in his'grip ?nd in every article of ^ ?lothi?g^in tluding bia jewelry and--walking cants. I"hing representing something 'tbat it was not.' This method ?f ?oVm ?on lying is*destroying honesty. Wo j ?lift our hat to the fellow who manu factures or wears*counterfeit clothing, bat we jail the/fellpw-wno^makes^a'n^d pas'p.8 cbunterfcitmoneyV *..... . It is a, crime to sell a lead dollar for ? silver , dollar, but it is all right to .ell a brass button for ?a.-gold h h is a crime to sell a counterfeit fteenback dol!fi*>,-bbt it is ?il right to iell a cous ter??;t -?rc?n ?iik ? dress fdr lenuine green^'iB?lk/'^^vbte?mSrg?r??? ??5 aoid for nice yellow butter ti?l the k?ry mea kicked, jthed the govern ment enacted a law that every pou'nd *ot made of c??k should. h> raa*k?d *sd sold for what i t yeal ?y was.':; ''Those Wry dairymen would sell water for ftlk and the people kicked, abd dow gi?'have in tho ?it?cR authorities for ?*,:-n8 Aa.nd marlfing mi?k, and the jEjuyraan nells his milk' add -water ifparato. Our . laws are good, but B^n't go far onouv-h: \Vo put the ne WO in ; thc chaingang " for shooting rraps, but we lift our hats to the Pilers id wheat and cotton futures. p i?g; ibo follow that counterfeits. ^ money, but we'toast the man?f?o ttrerwhocounterf?HsourgGods. We '8 the fellow who robs a train, but e give the road to the fellow who ?bs tho public. I sec very little. f|p to come from our lawinakers^^| * and cheat and wirc-wo?.k iti?ir way Ko officev" lio hcip ciro como from IN OF LIARS,. ie Thives---So Thinks ones. Tournai preachers who buy goods and do not pay for them? but every preacher in this country who pays his debts ought to open his guns on the shams, shod dies, tricks aud robberies of this coun try. Every lawmaker and officer who has a character and a oonsoienee should rally his forces to the side of right. If thia country drifts on it will '^ase to be a country of peaceful, unmolested Homes. Thc assailant of womon, thc burglar, highway robber is becoming so comnos that no man leave? his home unprotected and feels easy. . I am cot a pessimist nor a croker, but the time has come for us to sound a warning lest our friends and neigh bors and loved ones go-down with the*] Bpirit of tho age to do anything to get the dollar. Let business firms start polieics of honesty, and let the people stand by them. Let parents impress upon their boys that honesty and ju??actcr is better than money. Let the people call honest men for outee ind seo that they arc elected by hon est measures. Let preachers set ex amples of honesty and then preach it ind purge the Charchas their Saviour cleansed the temple, if it takes the ?vhips of thc law. Let the liar, chea ter and deceiver be set down with thieves, and let the gambler in horse races, futures and bucke'tshops bo put lown with the crap-shooting negro, ind let us honor a man for what he is md not for what he has-, and' then wo nay shout over the revival of honesty, ind that will beat a revival in trade or i boo? in business. SAM P. JONES. Engineers' Sunoratit?ono. Locomotives. with bloody records, md which are dubbed "mankillers" )y the enginemen and the railroad jeople generally, because they are supposed to be under an evil spell, are lot uncommon on the roads of tue [Jnited States. Only one evil greater than to be itarted out on a Friday could possibly >efall an engine, so old railroad mes lay. This is to have a black eat run leross the traok in front of it. Of course this is an evil which cannot be oreseen' or guarded against. It can ?nly bc paasiv??y accepted as an omen if direst import. The only thing for he engineer to do under such circum tances se '?? get right down and ref nie 0 go farther or to make arrangements or his vf if c to collect his life insur nce. There are other omens of impending 1 isas ter. If a ye?low dog should bark it a train passing over the road the loom of tho I uin is sealed. It will lever reach the ?Dd of the run with ut some one on board being killed. ?he a u i mal's gift of foreseeing railroad isastcrs is explained by the.belief hat the 'souls of brakemen are sent fter death to inhabit yellow dogs, .'hey retain an interest in the welfare f their former companions and do all hoy eau to warn them of approaching oath. > . Agiiu, if thc bell should toll in assihg a graveyard, death is at hand or some of the crew. The number of oomed is indicated by the number.of ftps on the boil. No. 22, of the Colorado Midland, a en-wheel passenger engine, was first nt in service in June, 1877, on the i vision between Colorado City and leadville. 'Soon afterward it was ran Bf erred to the- westeia division. The first indication that tl .e engine ras under an evil spell was fi ven soon fter the transfer, to the western di iaioo. One day tho 22, in ch??go of Vii'iam ConCrty, had orders to meet a reight. The freight reached tho meting point a little 'late. A brako lan was sent ahead to flag thc ap r?acbing passenger train, j \ For some reason the brakeman fail li to give the right signal. The re alt was that tho 22 ran into' tire reight. Five tramps, who,were steal ig a ride in some box cars,, were kill el outright.. The'freight was carry ig some boarding oars used Hy bridge ion and carpenters. /Two* ' of these orkmen were fatally injured and a alf dozen were badly hurt. Tho.?2 was sc badly damaged in ita rsi baptism of blood that it hud to be mt back to the eKop; After three lonths the repairs Were completed. . 'foreman who "had no nonsense: Dout him*' . insisted ,on, sending tho igine out as soon ag it was ready, isregarding the fact that the day hap mcd to be Friday. The 22 ran with it mishap for so long thatsomeof io younger* enginemen began to thnik tat perhaps tho evil spell had boon oken". But one day in the fall of 1891 tho ? received orders at Basalt te go to len wood Springs'td,gefa tiain. Or irsi were to leave Basalt after tho ar val of an excursion train from th? 'est. When the excursion, train had riled down tho main lino, directly in ont of thc siding on which tho 22 ood, a brakeman gave the signal for in lucky 22 to como ahead. The 1 c t \ c s V V 1 r v r T b c 0 ll fi g c o o g h aai s h nj tx" 1 h si I rt G h C ic fii di el tc es Ii Of 5 signal was obeyed. Thc result waa that thc 22 ran into a coach in the ex cursion train*, which waa standing broadside toward it. Tho check val ve on the 22 was broken off, allowing the contents of the boiler of the 22 to es cape into the coach. Eleven persons were cookod to death, and a number were badly injured. Three years elapsed before the next viotim was claimed. In March, 1894, while .No. 22 was running between Basalt and Aspan, Fireman Lawton '.'ell off the running board while wip ing the jacket and was killed. lu August of the same year No. 22 ran into a pile of rocks which had fal len on the traek seven miles west of Buena Vista and was thrown from the track. While jacking thc engine back on the track Lee West, one of tho wrecking crew, had occasion to go un der the engine. The jack broke, and West was crushed so that bodied soon after.,. . Again three years elapsed before No. 22 had another mishap. This was to be thc dreadful accident at NTew Castle, in which sixteen persons were killed outright. These, with the twenty lives previously crushed out by No. 22. brought its bloody record up to thirty-six. D. and lt. G. engine No. 506, which ivas in thc Rio Grande-Midland wreck, ivas also a man-killer. Several tramps liad been killed by this engine. No. 300 killed an engineer and fireman May 28, 1897, at Cabeza, Col. A freight train had gone in ttyc siding for No. 4 to pnss, and the flagman left :he switch open. Dashing around the )urve at full speed, No. 506 ran on to me switch and crashed into the other irsin. The engineer, John West, and Iiis fireman, Dunahay, were instantly tilled. The engineer and fireman of ,he freight train and many of the pas sengers on No. 4 were badly hurt. Besides these wreoks the engine wes mfortunate in a smaller way, frc puently breaking parts of the meohan sm aq.d being compelled to go to the ?hops for*repairs. While No. 506 had been looked upon LS one of the "Jonahs" of the road, >he most ill-fated engine tho Rio Irande has ever had is old No. 107, low in the boneyard in West Denver. This engine has killed seven em ployees of the road and a tramp cr wo. Its first wreck was about ten rears ago at Roubideau bridge. The mginc went through the bridge, and he engineer and two firemen were ailed. The engineer's name was Gilliam Duncan, and a fireman who ?as "dead-heading" over the road, lamed Josh Quigley, was also killed. Che name of the regular fireman had >een forgotten. Tko second wreck was a few months ater at Escalnnta, when a large boul ier rolled down the mountain on to rack. This time the engine was bad y wrecked, the engineer and fireman ;illed, and several passengers hurt. Not six months after the second ac ident engine No. 107 ran into a land lide at Black Canyon, and was again rreoked. The engineer and fireman rere both killed almost instantly. Vf ter being taken to the shops and epaired the officials thought they rould have better luok if the engine tere transferred to another part of the oad, and sent it to the'Rio Grande Vestern. Here it was run for a Hum or of years, but something was almost onstantly wrong with the mechanism r it would "die" out on the road, de fying i\ train many hours, so it was nally, sent back to Denver And rele ased te the "boneyard," where it is ow standing. Several other wrecks f No. 107 are recalled by some of the ld employees, in one of which an en ineer was maimed for life and several ihers badly injured.-r^C/Atca^o Inter )cean. - It often happens that the doctor s out of town when most needed, 'he two year old daughter of J. Y. ohenck, of C?ddo, Ind. Ter., was hreatoned with croup, he writes: My wife insisted that I go for thc octor'at once j but as he was out o? awn, I purchased a bottle of Cham erlain's Cough Remedy whioh relieved he child immediately." A bottle ol hat remedy in the house will often a,ve the expense of a doctor's bill, be ides -the anxiety always 'occasioned y serious sickness. When it is given s soon, as the croup cough appears,* ii iii prevent the attack.._ Thousands f mothers ?may? keep it in theil Omes. The 25 and 50 cent bottles >r" sale by Hill-Oi? Drug Co. - "I suppose that Longshot will bc >b proud to spunk to anybody when c conies baok from the Klondike gold 5?ds.TV "Yo? can't tell," replied Sir. innick. "Ly. all deponds On whethei e in in a condition to borrow or lend toney." - Mr. Sharpsburg-?"What do yoi link of Spitfire ? Smart man, ion'l 0 ?" Mr; Millvale-"Oh, yesj-he> i nert man, but he ain't no scholar ic spells elephant with only one f.' - From tho Lone Star'.State comei ie following letter, written by W. F ass, editor of the sit. Vernon, (Tex. Tcr?iiV: "I have used Chamberlain') olio, Cholera and Diarrhoea Kerned5 1 roy family for .the past year, aUt ?id it tho best remedy for colic am iarrhcoa ?hat I bnvo over tried. Iti Fects aro instantaneous and satisfac ?ry, and I cheerfully recommend it ipooially f?' cramp colic and diarrhoea ideed, wo Shall try and keep a bottle ' it on our medicine shelf as long oj a. keop house." For sab by Hil! rr Drug Co. Hoir Country People Lived in Georgie Sixty Year? Ago. The way people farmed in my boy- 1 hood days did not yield suob results as are realized now. They did not make much cotton. Back before my time they bad to pick tbe lint from thc seed with their fingers. It was part of the family business every night and rainy day to pick the lint off thc seed so tho women could have cotton to spin. . In 1832 cotton gins were invented and some were operated in this, coun try, but not moro than one to each county. The farmers would carry their cotton on horseback for miles to gin, and but very few of them made more than spinning cotton. Whoo our farmers first bogan to raise cotton, it took two bands to hoc ' ono row, one hand on either side of thc row, and they did not chop through it, but thinned it with their hands. Jt took three or four hauds one day to .hoe ono acre, and when it came to picking it, but few bands could pick 50 pounds in a day. It was thc green seed variety, and hard to pick. They would pull off every boll and stand straight up to piek it out, and then stoop down and get auother. So you soo tho picking procoss was very slow. Tho first bales were packed with a crow bar, were round and about seven feet long, and weighed from 250 to 300 pounds. After using this method fer a few years, they began to make square bales. It took lots of timber to build one of these presses and thirty or forty hands to raise it and sometimes one or two men would be killed. It took about 50 yards for the leavers of one of these presses to turn in. Up to 1840 but very few farmers made more than one bale of cotton to the horse. By 1850 some made two or three bales to the horse, and the best hands could piok 150 pounds a day. . When I was a boy wo would pull off the boils while the dew was on them and carry them to the house to pick at night. . In those days we knew but little about the value of cotton seed for feed or manure. Wo would haul enough home to plant tho next crop and leave tho I alano zi thc gin, where they were thrown out in large heaps to rot, for it was thought they were no good. The men would risc early and go to their work on tho farm and the women to oarding, spinning and weaving, until about 9 o'olock, when the horn would blow for breakfast. We alwayf had meat and bread for breakfast, bul the bread was generally "Peter Con stant" (corn bread). "Johnnie Sel dom" (wheat bread) did not come vcr; often, about once a week-Sunda j morning. There was not much .wheal raised, and what was made had to bi flailed out with poles or tramped out by horses : thero wer? no wheat milli like we have now, but the wheat wa; ground on corn mills and was boltec by hand. Then wo raised ono year what wai expected to use the next-now wc us? one year what we expect to make th< next. . We had dinner about 3 o'clock ii the afternoon and supper about ! o'clock, which very often consisted o bread and milk. During the. fall an< winter our supper usually was mad? of roasted potatoes, and the wholt family, would gather around the hear tl and peel and eat them. About twenty acres to tl. i hors: wuB the average amount of land oulti vated-the rows were run as straigh as could bo and were made as long a possible-no attention was given i saving the land by running ?he row on a level, but instead were often rui ap and down the hill. Thousands o acres that are new io gulleys migh aave been in a high state of cul ti vatio bad the proper care been taken to prc trent the land from washing. The children would eat their suppc jarly and hurried off to bed, so tb rider folks could have light and rooi to work around the fireplace/ TV tiad no lamps or candles and thc on! light we had was a pine-knot light, have held a torch many times ff r tl women to see how to weave at nigh '~4I, D. Glover, in JBoioman Ifeadiigh A Household Remedy. -- And it never fails to cure Rheum tism, Catarrh. Pimples, Blotches, av ill diseases arising from impure blooi is Botanic Blood Balm, (B. B. B Thousands endorse it as the best ret sdy evtrt offered to mankind. Tl thousand of cures performed by th remedy are almost miraculous, T: t, only $1.00 per large bottle. ?. PHYSICIAN'S EVIDENCE-AN HO EST DOCTOR. Although a practitioner of ne iwerfty -years, my mother inflnonci ne to procure Botanic Blood Bah 3. B. B., for. her. She hnd been co ined to hefbed several months wi Rheumatism, which had stubborn resisted all thc usual remedios. Wit n twenty-four hours after rommcneii 3. B. B., I observed, marked relic ?be has just commenced her th i >ottle, and is nearly as active as eve md has been in the front 'ard wi 'rake in hand,".deaning up. H mprovernent is truly wonderful ai mmonsely gratifying.. s C. H. MONTOCXIEHY, A?. D., Jacksonville, Ala. For sala bv draggist? Ar?, We All Hoing Mad I . Is tho world going mad? This I piestiou is rendered entirely legi ti- a mate by the discovery that ovory year b tho percentage of cases of madness c among human beings is steadily in- c Greasing. Tho maroh of progress is c apparently affecting our brains, and * Borne day, if tho prosent ratio contin- ^ ucs, wo may ali be insano or so many of us that wo shall shut the sane peo- I pie up in tho asylums aud do just | what uur disordered brains may impel. Tho suggestion of all this has been made before, but never, as new. back ed by actual medical figures. Look at these ligures. The total ! present number of lunatics in Kngland and Wales is 99,365, as compared with 96,446 ou tho corresponding day of , 18%. It requires no mathematician ? to discover the fact that this shows . an iucreaBC of 2,919 persons who have < joined the lunacy coutingout. Some of our great doctors argue that the increase iu recoveries is due to the fact that more of the insane are placed under tho control of the medical pro fession than was formerly the case, but that is only a matter of theory, for no one ever will know thc correct number of lunatics that aro treated in their own homes or the homes of their friends. It is interesting to note the great part that love plays in the creation of insanity. To thoroughly appreeiato it. it must bo understood that half of thu cases whiob appear on the insanity records as due to various causes arc really the result of love. This ?B what medical men say, experts, as to the causes which drive people mad. Mar riage, which is thc natural result of love, unquestionably helps the growth of the insanity reoord. It is a fact that tho number of insane married men proportionately exceeds that of insade single men by at least one third. During the five years from 1891 to 1895, inclusive, 962 married men with suicidal propensities were treated, while duripg the same time there underwent treatment 738 bachelors ?nd 171 widowers. Turning to tho other sex, the records show us during the same period the married women treated numbered 1,222, the spinsters 939, and thc widows 353. These figures are necessarily con- j vincing, and thoy arc hard to explain. One of the very best-known physi- ? cians, in discussing the matter the other day, said : "It simply upsets j thc theory that marriage renders peo- j pie longlived and less prone to mental disturbances. I find no solution of thc problem, except that afforded hy the divorce courts. The number of divorces has increased in even greater proportion than tho nuiuber of cases of insanity. I sincerely believe that the marriage co venant is so lightly considered nowadays that people hastily assume all thc obligations it implies and when it is too late realize what they have really done. - "Did you hoar what Campbell's little boy said when they showed him the twins?" "No; what waB it?" "He said : 'There! Mamma's been gettin' bargains again.' " - Minding your own business is a good enough policy until you can af ford to employ a private secretary. - Smiling lengthens the mouth and the life in ubout equal proportions. 15acklong Arnica Halve." 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It isa short distance of the cot ton mill end will be a fine location fur r. oairv and truck fartu. Will be sold at public outcry Salasday in December if not disposed of at private Ba'e before that time Terms cash. Pur obaser to pity for papera. E. I*. SIOAN, W. W. WHITE, Executors Kit. Thoa M. White. Bept 22, 18117_13_ll BUILDERS OF ANDERSON And vicinity will consult their in terest by writing lo ino Standard Manufacturing Go. AUGUSTA, GA, Far prices on SASH* DOORS. BLINDS, SHINGLES, LATHS, LUMBER, Or anything in Yellow Pine. Satisfac tion guaranteed. Septs. 1897 ll 3m HONEA PATH HIGH SCHOOL HAS closed a moat satisfactory year's work to both patron., and teachers. The outlook for the next Session promises even better* results. How to secure the boat School ia tb? constant study of -tho teachers Excellent library, modern ap? paratah, live methods, and trained teach ing. Next Session opens Monday, Sept. (Rb, 1807. Hoard in best families at very low ruten. 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By a special arrangement made for a limited time only, our friends will bc riven an opportunity to take advan agc of this liberal proposition. Remember tho offer, TUE TWICE -A-WEEK REPUBLIC, li? pages awoek, md thc ANDERSON ?NTEI.MOE.\TER, ? nasreg a week, both one year for tn?y $2.U0. WK sell PUNllM and Ml'SK AL llX!%TItU!tlKKTN to the hew. trado in bis and adjoining Counties. Why not dlow me to still you ?i reliable IMaiio ur DrgAii. Wo guarantee every Instrument hat noon out nf our Waieroonis, anti nive a larne assortirent to select frc:n. Llave just received new stylos of Ivers & Pond Pianos - AND - Farrai d & Votey Organs, And we ft i getting in several other makes high ?Z) Instrument*. Ainu, a large lino of Ciuifitrw, Ituojo-s. Violins. .tntolittrpN, A*-., at lowest p;;.?ii.> liguros. HEADQUARTHKS for tho Celebrated Now Alome, DUetil mid several other lending Sewing Machines. Call and soo UH. or wrilo for entalegue and prices. Respectfully, The C A.. Bee? Music Honse. TAKE JOTICL We hereby notify all parties who owe Bleckley & Fretwell past due papers that owing to the death of our senior, Syl vester Bleckley, that the sam t must be paid at an early day, not later than Nov. 1st next, as a settlement mus.t 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, Sui v ivor Bleckley & Fretwell. Sept 13, 1R97 12 YES, Tney'll wear out, but only after a season of hard ser vice. School Shoes, Rob Roy, Kringo Goat, Colum bus Belle, Red Seal. Sold by cash-buying merchants. Made by- * J. E. ORK SHOE CO., _Atlanta, Ga. NOTICE. THE County Treasurer's Office will be open from the 15th of Cotober next to the ?1st of December following for the collection of Taros for the fiBcal yenr 1!>S>7. For the convenience of Taxpayers I will attend at the following places : Slabtown. October 15. Mount Airy. October 10 Piedmont, October 18. Polzer, October 19. UoneB Path. October 27. Cook's October 28. On hil other days between Octobar 15 tb and December :?tm, the office will be open nt Anderson. The following is th? levy for State, County and Schoo! purposes : State. 5 mills. Ordlnarv County. 3 mills. Special (Road). 1 mill. Special (Court House). 1 rilli. For SchoolB. 3 mills. Total. 13 Kills. TruestceB or Hunter School District have made a special levy ol 3 mills for school purposes, making a total levy for that dis trict of Hi mills. All male persons between twenty-one and sixty years of age, except those unable to earn a living on account of being maimed, or irom other cause, and those who served in the late war. are required tc pay a poll tax of one dollar. All male persons between eighteen and fifty years ol age. who are able to work roaas or cause them to be worked, except members of beards of school trustees, min ister: of the gospel in aotual charge of a congregation, persons permanent]? d-s nhi^'i in tbs 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 dollur, to be collected at Bame time otber taxes are collected. E. Z. DROWN, Co. Trea3. NOTICE FINAL SETTLEMENT. The undersigned, Executors of the Estate of Mhry Ann Harper, deceased, hereby give notice thai they will on the 1st day of November, 184*7. apply to the Judge of Probate for Anderson County for a Final Settlement of said Estate, and a discharge from their office aa Executors. THOMAS HARPER, J. W. HARPER, Executors. Sept 2?, 1897_Ii_5 NOTICE. AU parties owing me notes and accounts are requested and urged to pay same as soon as possible. I need my mon ey and will be compelled to make collections early in the season. Save the trouble and expense of sending to see you. J. S. FOWLER. Sept. 29, 1S97 14 1 Drs. Strickland & King, DENTISTS. OFFICE IN MASONIC TSHPLS. fSr Oas and Cocaine used for Extract ng Teeth.