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A GENERATK An .Age of Respect t Sam tl I Atlanta The recent excitement at Dalton, | Ga., orer the train robberies and con cealment of stolen goods has been in tense and the affair has] engaged the Courts and the attention of public for dava. The public is astounded over the fact that so many prominent and heretofore honored men are con nected with it. Iihave read of few things injthe history of my State that have surprised ; me more. The affair has put me to thinking. Almost every week I am "Shocked by the announce . ment through the press that some prominent man has defaulted', or in plain English, stolen out a store or bank or someobusiness, and in many of the so-called assignment cases it is simply a respectable steal'out. Mr- Webster^sdys "stealing is thc act of taking the property of a person without his knowledge or consent." With this-'definition I can run hun dreds of business firms and thousands of men into the chaingang. The honor of -[ourj.business men has been dropping for years-gambling and stealing are becomiDg'more and more respectable methods of competition, tricks of trade. L Shams, adulterations and (shoddies*have multiplied in the business world every : ear. Futures, bucketshops, corners and monopolies are nothing more than gambling and stealing institutions. The business firms have tricked and shammed till they have taught their clerks, and I every store- has to*'have two or three ways of checking np each transaction .tQ'prevent the clerks from stealing, so that every honsst young man is made to feel like a thief as soon as he enters . business. The truth is thejbusiness meth ods ef the times are destroying' truth, and honesty, and rendering stealing .moreorespectable every day. Honesty is the opposite of stealing. Honesty rests cn truth and grows out of truth. An absolutely truthful man does not make a thief, and it is hard to make an honest mahout of" a liar. When truth is disturbed the whole structure ofecharacter" tumbles. Our business world starts at the manufac tory, and how often.does ourmanufac tured articles start out bearing a lie on their faces... Some of the finest in ventioas of the age have been machin ery and processions for working in shoddies and adulterations. The '. leather factory^-makes solid stock out of poplar, and,woolen*millsmake jeans 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 carriage factories use put^y and J paint as charity and cover a multitude j of sius. Thcpatent medicine facto-j ries simply sell lies bottled or pow- j dered, as required. The lie runs j through all lines of manufactured | goods. Then this lie must bc carried | out by merchant and clerk, so we be- ! come a nation of'business liars. Then society takes up the li 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 andgebina and cut glass,, have lies on their floors in shoddy car pets, on their windows in shoddy lace, in their furniture in stained poplar for walnut, etc. The little children are dressed in lies-their clothing is made to represent* something that it is not. The men as well as the women carry out the lie in their shoes and hats, jewelry and cravats. I saw. a man the other day that carried a lie in his grip and in every article of clothing, in cluding his jewelry and"walking cane, everything representing something that it was not. This method of com mon lying is*destroying honesty. We lift our hat to the fellow who manu factures or wears-counterfeit clothing, but we jail thc fellow who makes and passes counterfeit money. . It is a. crime to sell a lead dollar for a silver dollar, but it is all right to sell a brass button for a gold button. It is a crime to sell a counterfeit greenback dollar, but it is all right to sell a counterfeit green silk dress for genuine green silk. Oleomargarine was sold for nice yellow buttertin the dairy men kicked, then the govern ment enacted a law that every pound not made of milk should be marked and sold for what it really was. Those very dairymen would sell water for milk and the people kicked, and now we ha-,e in the cities authorities for testing and marking milk, and the ! dairyman sells his milk and water | separate. Our laws are good, but j don't go far enough. We put the ne gro in the chaingang for shooting ! craps, but we lift our hats to the j dealers in wheat and cotton futures, j We jug the fellow that counterfeits j our money, but we toast thc manufac- j turer who counterfeits our goods. We j jug the fellow who robs a train, but j we give the road to thc fellow who j robs thc- public-. I see ve rv little J help to come from our lawmakers who j rob and cheat and wire-work their way j into office. No help can come from )N OF LIARS. le Thives--So Thinks rones. Journal \ preachers who buy goods and co not I pay for them, but every preacher in this country who pays his debts ought to open his guns on the shams, shod dies, tricks and robberies of this 30un try. Every lawmaker and office:* who has a character and a conscience should rally his forces to the side of right. If this country drifts on it ! will cease to be a country of peaceful, unmolested Homes. The assailant of women, the burglar, highway robber is becoming so comraon that no man leaves-his home unprotected and feels easy. I am not 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 spirit of the age to do anything to gei the dollar. Let business firms stari policies of honesty, and let the people stand by them. Let parents impress upon their boys that honesty and character is better than money. Let the people call honest men for office and see that they arc elected by hon est measures. Let preachers set ex amples of honesty and then preach it and purge the Charchas their Saviour cleansed the temple, if it takes the whips of the law. Let the liar, chea-, ter and deceiver be set down with thieves, and let the gambler in horse races, futures and bucke'tshops ba put down with the crap-shooting negro, and let ns honor a man for what he is and not for what ho has, and then we may shout over the revival of hoaesty, and that will beat a revival in trade or a boora in business. SAM P. JONES. Engineers' Superstitions. Locomotives, with bloody records, and which are dubbed ."mankillers" by the enginemen and the railroad people generally, because they are supposed to be under an evil spell, art not uncommon on the roads of the United States. Only one evil greater than to be started out on a Friday could possibly befall an engine, so ola railroad men say. This is to have a black cat run across the track in front of it. Of course this is an evil which cannot be foreseen or guarded against. It can only be passively accepted as an omen of direst import. The only thing for the engineer to do under such circum stances is to get right down and refuse to go further or to make arrangements for his wife to collect his life insur ance. There are other omens of impending disaster. If a yellow dog should bark, at a train passing over the road thc doom of the train is sealed. It will never reach the end of the run with out some one on board being killed. The animal'sgiftof foreseeing railroad disasters is explaiued by the belief that thc souls of brakemen are se.nt after death to inhabit yellow dogs. They retain an interest in the welfare of their former companions and do all they can to warn them of approaching death. x Again, if the bell should toll in passing a graveyard, death is at hand for some of the crew. The number of doomed is indicated by the number of taps on the bell. No. 22, of the Colorado Midland, a ten-wheel passenger engine, waa first put in service in June, 1877, on the division between Colorado City and Leadville. Soon afterward it was transferred to the- western division. The first indication that the engine was under an evil spell was given soon after the transfer to the western di vision. One day the 22, in charge of William Conerty, had orders to meet a freight. The freight reached the meeting point a little late. A brake man was sent ahead to flag the ap proaching passenger train. For some reason the brakeman fail ed to give the right signal. The re sult was that the 22 ran into the freight. Five tramps, who were steal ing a ride in some box cars, were kill ed outright. The freight was carry ing some boarding cars used by bridge men and carpenters. Two of these workmen were fatally injured and a half dozen were badly hurt. The 22 was so badly damaged in its first baptism of blood that it had to be sent back to the shop. After three months thc repairs were completed. A foreman who ;ihad no nouscuse about him" insisted on sending the engine out as soon as it was ready, disregarding the fact that the day hap pened to be Friday. The 22 ran with out mishap for so long that some of the younger enginemen began to think that perhaps the evil spell had been broken. Lut one day in thu fall of 1SU1 thu 'i'l received orders at Basalt to go tc Glenwood Springs to get a train. Or ders were to leave Basalt after the ar rival of an excursion train from the West. When thc excursion train had pulled down the main linc, directly in front < f the siding on which the 22 stood, a brakeman gave the signal for the unlucky 22 to come ahead. Thc signal was obeyed. The result that the 22 ran into a coach in th( cursion train-, which was stan broadside toward it. The check v on tho 22 was broken off, allowing contents of the boiler of the 22 t< cape into the coach. Eleven pen were cooked to death, and a nun were badly injured. Three years elapsed before the i victim was claimed. In March, 1! while No. 22 was running beta Basalt and Aspen, Fireman Lav fell off the running board while i ing fche jacket and was killed. In August of the same year No ran into a pile of rocks which had len on the track seven miles wes Buena Vista and was thrown from track. "While jacking the engine b on thc track Lee "West, one of wrecking crew, had occasion to go der the engine. The jack broke, West was crushed so that he died s after. Again three years elapsed bef No. 22 had another mishap. T was to be the dreadful acoideni New Castle, in which sixteen pers were killed outright. These, with twenty lives previously crushed by No. 22, brought its bloody rec up to thirty-six. D. and ll. G. engine No. 5015, wh was in the Rio Grande-Midland wre was ahso a man-killer. Several tran had been killed by this engine. ? 500 killed an engineer and iircn May 2S, 1S97, at Cabeza, Col. freight train had gone in thc sidi for No. 4 to pass, and the flagman 1 the switch open. Dashing around t ourve at full speed, No. 506 ran on the switch and orashed into the otl train. The engineer, Jchn West, a his fireman, Dunaljay, were instan killed. The engineer and fireman the freight train and many of the pi sengerB on No. 4 were badly hu Besides these wreoks the engine v, unfortunate in a smaller way, f: quently breaking parts of the mecha ism nd being compelled to go to t shops for'repairs. While No. 506 had been looked up as one of the ''Jonahs" of the roa the most ill-fated engine the B Grande has ever had is old No. IC now in the boneyard in West Denv< This engine has killed seven ei ployees of the road and a tramp two. Its first wreck was about ti years ago at Roubideau bridge. Tl engine went through thc bridge, ai the engineer and two firemen we killed. Thc engineer's name w William Duncan, and a fireman wi was '.dead-heading" over the roa named Josh Quigley, was also kille The name of the regular fireman ht been forgotten. The second wreck was a few monti later at Escalanta, when a large bon der rolled down the mountain on I track. This time the engine was bai ly wrecked, the engineer and fireraa killed, and several passengers hurt. Not six months after thc second ai cident engine No. 107 ran into a lane slide at Black Canyon, and was agai wrecked. The engineer and fi rc ta a were both killed almost instantly After being taken to the shops an repaired thc officials thought the would have better luck if the engin were transferred to another part of th road, and sent it to the Bio Grand Western. Here it was run for a nun ber of years, but something was almos constantly wrong with the mechanist or it would "die" out on the road, de laying a tiainmany hours, so it wa finally sent back to Denver and relc gated te the "boneyard," where it i now standing. Several other wreck of No. 107 are recalled by some of th old employees, in one of which an en gineer was maimed for life and severa others badly injured.-Chicago Inter Ocean. - It often happens that the docto is out of town when most needed The two year old daughter of J. Y Sehenck, of Caddo, Ind. Ter., wa: threatened with croup, he writes "My wife insisted that I go for th doctor at once : but as he was out o: town, I purchased a bottle of Cham bcrlain's Cough Remedy which relievei the child immediately." A bottle oi that remedy in the house will ofter ave the expense of a doctor's bill, be sides the anxiety always occasionet by serious sickness. When it is giver as soou as thc croup cough appears, ii will prevent the attack. Thousands of mothers always keep it in theil homes. The 25 and 50 cent bottles for sale by Hill-Orr Drug Co. - "I suppose that Longshot will bc too proud to speak to anybody when he comes back from the Klondike gold fields. "You can't tell," replied Mr. Sinnick. "It all depends on whether he is in a condition to borrow or lend money." - Mr. Sharpsburg-"What do you think of Spitfire ? Smart man. isn't he ?" Mr. Millvale-"Oh. yes: he's a smart man. but he ain't no scholar. Ile spells elephant with only one f." - From the Lone Star State comes thc following hiter, written by \V. F. ( ass, editor of the Mt. Vernon, (Tex.) /A rahl : "ll have used Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy in my family for the past year, and lind it the best remedy for colic and diarrhoea that I have ever tried. Its effects are instantaneous and satisfac tory, and I cheerfully recommend it. especially for cramp colic and diarrboa. Indeed, we shall try and keep bottle of it on our medicine shelf as long as we keep house." for sale by Hill Orr Drug Co. How Country People Lived in Georgia Sixty Years Ago. The way people farmed in my boy hood days did not yield such results as are realized now. They did not make much cotton. Back before my time they had to pick the lint from the seed with their'fingers. It was part of the family business every night and rainy day to pick the lint off the seed so the women could have cotton to spin. . . In 1832 cotton gins were invented and some were operated in this, coun try, but not more than one to each county. The farmers would carry their cotton on horseback for miles to gie, and but very few of them made more than spinning cotton. When our farmers first began to raise cotton, it took two hands to hoc one row, one hand on either side of the row, and they did not chop through it, but thinned it with their hands. It took three or four hands one day to .hoe one acre, and when it came to picking it, but few hands could pick 50 pounds in a day. It was the green seed variety, and hard to pick. They would pull off every boll and stand straight up 'to pick it out, 'and then stoop down and get another. So you see thc picking process was very slow. Thc 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 for 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 pick 150 pounds a day. . When I was a boy we 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. We would haul enough home to plant the next crop and leave the balance at the gin, where they were thrown out in large heaps to rot, for it was thought they were no good. The men would rise early and go to their work on the farm and the women to carding, spinning and weaving, until about 9 o'clock, when the horn would blow for breakfast. We always had meat and bread for breakfast, but the bread was generally "Peter Con stant" (corn bread). "Johnnie Sel dom" (wheat bread) did not come very often, about once a week-Sunday morning. There was not much wheat raised, and what was made had to be flailed out with poles or tramped out by horses ; diere were no wheat mills like wc have- now, bui, the wheat was ground on corn mills and was bolted by hand. Then we raised one year what was expected to use the next-now we use one year what we expect to make the next. We had c'linner about 3 o'clock in the afternoon and supper about o'clock, which very often consisted of bread and milk. During thc fall and winter our supper usually was made of roasted potatoes, and the whole family would gather around the hearth and peel and oat them. About twenty acres to the horse was the average amount of land culti vated-the rows were run as straight as could be and were made as long as possible-no attention was given to saving the land by running the rows on a level, but instead were often run up and down the hill. Thousands of acres that are now in gulleys might have been in a high state of cultivation had the proper care been taken to pre vent the land from washing. The children would eat their supper early and hurried off to bed, so the older folks could have light and room to work around the fireplace. We had no lamps or candles and the only light we had was a pine-knot light. I have held a torch many times |r the women to see how to weave at night. -/. D. Cheer, in Bowman Headlight. A Household Remedy. And it never fails to cure Rheuma tism, Catarrh, Pimples, Blotches, and all diseases arising from impure blood, is Botanic Blood Balm, (B. B. B.) Thousands endorse it as the best rem edy ever offered to mankind. The thousand of cures performed by this remedy are almost miraculous. Try it, only $1.00 per large bottle. A PHYSICIAN'S E V1DEXC K-A S HON EST DOCTOR. Although a practitioner of near twenty years, my mother influenced me to procure Botanic Blood Balm, B. B. B., for-her. She had been con fined Lo lier bcd several months with Rheumatism, which had stubbornly resisted all the usual remedies. With in twenty-four hours after commencing li. B. B., I observed marked relief. She has just commenced her third bottle, and is nearly a.- active as ever, i and has been in thc front yard with "rake in hand." cleaning up. Her improvement is truly wonderful and immensely gratifying. C. H. MONTGOMERY, M. D.. .Jacksonville. Ala. for sale by druggists. Arc, We All Going Mad Is the world going mad? This question is rendered entirejy legiti mate by the discovery that every year the percentage of cases of madness among human beings is steadily in creasing. The march of progress is apparently affecting our brains, and some day, if the present ratio contin ues, we may all be insane or so many of us that we shall shut the sane peo ple up in the asylums and do just what our disordered brains may impel. The suggestion of all this has been made before, but never, as now, back ed by actual medical figures. Look at these figures : The total present number of lunatics in England and Wales is 99,3G5, as compared with 96,446 on the corresponding day of 1896. It requires no mathematician to discover the fact that this shows an increase of 2,919 persons who have joined the lunacy contingent. Some of our great doctors argue that the increase in recoveries is due to the fact that more of the insane are placed under the 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 the correct number of lunatics that are treated i a their own homes or the homes of their friends. It is iuteresting to note the great part that love plays in the creation cf insanity. To thoroughly appreciate it, it must be understood that half cf the cases which appear.on the insanity records as due to various causes are really the result of love. This is what medical men say, experts, as to the causes which drive people mad. Mar riage, which is the natural result of love, unquestionably helps the growth of the insanity record. It is a fact that the 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 and 171 widowers. Turning to the other sex, the records show us during the same period the married women treated numbered 1,222, the spinsters 939, and the widows 353. These figures are necessarily con vincing, and they are hard to explain. One of the very best-known physi cians, in discussing the matter the other day, said : "It simply upsets the theory that marriage renders peo ple longlived and less prone to mental disturbances. I find no solution of the problem, except that afforded by the divorce courts. The number of divorces has increased in even greater proportion than the number of cases of insanity. I sincerely believe that the marriage covenant is so lightly considered' nowadays that people hastily assume all the obligations it implies and when it is too late realize what they have really done. - "Did you hear what Campbell's little boy said when they showed him the twins ?" "No; what was 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. - Smi ng lengthens the mouth and the life in about equal proportions. Iiucklcns Arnica Salve. . 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 satisfac\ion, or money refund ed. Prise 25 cents per box. For sale by Hill-Orr Drug Co PERHAPS YOU ARE NOT PLEASED WITH YOUR GROCER. It may be that the prices are too high or the quality of Goods poor. If you want to be pleased give us a trial order, and see how well wc can please you. Our Store is stocked with the very best quality of everything that is good to eat, and we will ell you as cheap as others charge for cheap quality. Once a customer ol* ours always a customer. We want every body that comes to Anderson to conic and soc our Goods. Don't matter whether you want tu trade or not. No trouble to show you our Goods. Yours for trade, OSBORNE & BOLT. DMR I of meaning and about which such tender and holy recollections cluster as that of " MOTHER "-she who watched over our helpless infancy and guid ed our first tottering step. Yet the life of every Expectant Moth er is beset with danger and all ef fort should be made to avoid it. mm mm i so assists nature Mottler s I rm a ? the Expectant C CP fl f \ M o t h e r is ena ri i o lillbied to io kfor ? I I VII lt ward without dread, suffering or gloomy fore bodings, to the hour when she experiences the joy of Motherhood. Its use insures safety to the lives of both Mother and Child, and she is found stronger after than before confinement-in short, it "makes Childbirth, natural and easy," as so many have said. Don't be persuaded to use anything but MOTHEHFRIEND "My wife suffered more in ten min utes with either of her other two chil dren than she did altogether with her last, having previously used four bot tles of 'Mother's Friend.' It is a blessing to any one expecting to be come a MOTHERsays a customer. HENDERSON DALE, Carmi, Illinois. Of Druggists at Sl-00, or sent by mail on receipt of price. Write for book containinc testimonials ana valuable Information for all Mothers, free. Tba Bradfield Bcfrnlator Co., Atlanta, Ga. "Better late than Never." The above old adage is as forceful now as ever, and suf fering ones will rejoice when they hear of the wonderful efficacy of . AFRICANA, the marvelous Blood Purifier. Hundreds who have become discouraged by trying a score of other remedies, and upon whom the best physicians fail ed, have ere it was too late, heard of the grandest of all Medicines .AFRICANA. The- Sure Cure of all Blood ' Diseases. O SF For sale by Evans Pharma y cy and Hill-Orr Drug Co. POE SALE. THE TRACT OF LAND known as the Vineyard," 'containing twenty-five acres, more or less, situat.-d just outside of the city limits, adjoining landa of E. P. Sloan, B. F. Cray ton &oA J. L. Glenn. A good two-room house, barn and well on the place. It is a short distance of the cot ton mill and will be a fine location for a dairy and truck farm. Will be sold at public outcry Salssday in December if not disposed of at private Ba'e before that time Terms cash. Pur chaser to pay for papers. E. P. SLOAN, W. W. WHITE, Executors E3t. Thoa M. White. Sept 22, 1897_13_ ll BUILDERS OF ANDERSON And vicinity will consult their in terest by writing to tho Standard Manufacturing Co. AUGUSTA, GA , Far prices on 1 SASH, DOORS. BLINDS, , SHINGLES, LATHS; LUMBER, Or anything in Yellow Pine. Satisfac tion goaranteed. Sept 8.1897_ll_3m HONEA PATH HIGH SCHOOL TTAS closed a most satisfactory year's Al, work to both patrons and teachers. The outlook for the next Session promises even better" results. How to secure the best School is tb constant study of 'the teachers Excellent library, modern ap paratus, live methods, and trained teach ing. Next Session opens Monday. Sept. (Ith, 1897. Board in heat fanilif-s at very low rate . For fnrtbur information write to- J. C. HARPER, Prim, Honea Path, S. C. July 14,1S97 3 3m A SPECIAL BARGAIN FOR NEWSPAPER READERS. -a AND THE Anderson Intelligencer Both One Year for $2.00. IT is scarcely necessary to call at tention to the superior merits of THE TWICK-A-WEEK edition of THE ST. LOUIS REPUBLIC as a newspaper. It has so maDy advantages as a , news gatherer, that no other paper can claim to be it1? equal. Thc whole field of news is covered thoroughly. The special features and illustrations are 'always the best. More noted writers contribute to its columns than to any other paper of its class. It is pub lished especially to meet thc wants of that large class of readers who have not the opportunity or cannot afford to read a daily paper. It is the lead ing Democratic paper ul' the Missis sippi Valley and thc South and Wost. By a special arrangement made for a limited time only, our friends will be given an opportunity to take advan tage uf this liberal proposition. Kcniember thc oller, THE TWICE .\ WEEK REPUBLIC, 10 pages a week, and thc ANDERSON INTELLIGENCER,, 8 pages a week, both one year for only SLMJI). THE WOBLD LOVES MUSIC; WE sell PIANOS and MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS to the best trade in this aud adjoining Counties. Why not allow me to sell you a reliable Piano or Organ. We guarantee pvery Instrument that goes out of our Warerooms, and have a large a^sortnient to select from. Have just received new style's of Ivers & Pond Pianos . - AND - Farrand & Votey Organs, And we are getting in several other makes ol' high graoe Instruments. Also, a large line of Guitars*, Banjos, Violins, Antoliarps, fcc, at lowest possible figures. HEADQUARTERS for tho Celebrated Now Homo, Ideal and several other leading Sewing Machines. Call and see us. or write for catalogue and prices. Respectfully, The G. A. Reefl Mnsic House. TAKE JOTICE. We hereby no tify all parties who owe Bleckley & FretweU past due papers that owing to the death of or J senior, Syl vester Bleckley* that the same must be paid at an early day, not later than Nev. 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, Survivor Bleckley & Fretwell. Sept 15, 1897_12 YES, They'll wear out, but only after a season of hard ser vice. School Shoes, Rob . Roy, Kango Goat, Colum bus Belle, Red Seal. Sold by cash-buying merchants. Made by- - * J. K ORR SHOE CO., _Atlanta, Ga NOTICE. THE County Treasurer's Office will be open from the l th of October next to the 31st of December following for the collection of Taxes for the fiscal year 1S97. 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 2S. On all other days between October 15th and December :>lsr, the office will be open at Anderdon. The following is the levy for State, County aud School purpoees : State....... 5 mills. Ordinarv County. 3 mills. . Special (Road). 1 mill. . Special (Court House). 1 mill.. For Schools. 3 mills. Total. 13 mills. Truestees of Hunter Snhool District have made a special levy ot 3 mills for school purposes, making a total levy for that dis trict of IC 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 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 of age, who are able to work roads 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, tobe collected at same time other taxes are collected. E. Z. BROWN, Co. Treas. VTOTICE FINAL SETTLEMENT. -LM The undersigned, Executora of the Estate of Mary Ann Harper, deceased, hereby give notice tba! they will on the 1st day rf November, 1S97, apply to the Judge of Probate for Anderson County for . Final Seulement of aid Estate, and a discbarge from their office as Executors. THOMAS HARPER, J. W. HARPER, Executors. Sept 29,1S97_1 _5 NOTICE. All parties owing me not s 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 ear.'y 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 TEMPLE. $8* Gas and Cocaine used for Extracti ng Teeth.