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To Soire the Cotton Problem? To the.Ed.itor of the News and Cou rier: Being a cotton planter I take a keen interest in everything relating to cotton. At the present price of that staple and the prices of everything that goes toward making' a cotton crop, it really -seems foolhardy for any one to plant cotton another year. But what are we"going to do? Cot ton is the basis of credit in the South. By it the 'wheels of Southern com merce turn. Capital of the North and East is obtained upon the papers of cotton planters. This capital is put into the hands of farmers for the sole purpose of planting cotton. The contracts between the borrower and the lender stipulate this fact.. Now, that - being the method by which the major portion, of the cotton crop is produced do we wonder that the price of cotton is down to zero, and that a plethora of that staple has glutted the marts of the world? We cannot; and until the final crisis comes, which sooner or later will come, without Providential interven tion, we may expect to grow poorer each succeeding year until we have reached the end of the tether which binda ns with Plutonic chains of ada mant. Nearly every man you meet or hear from has a panacea for the cotton planters, or a scheme more visionary than the fabulous Shekinah, by which the price of cotton can be made to go np with leaps and bounds to the high watermark. Of these free silver is the most popular and threadbare cry.. Then there is talk of a Southern Co tton Association, a corner in cotton, a trust, pure and simple. There al so is the cry of reduction, of acreage. I have also seen it suggested that the' farmers borrow all the money possi ble; inves* it in cotton, plant none next season, and sell the cotton thus purchased and held when the market warrants it. The plans are all as vis ionary as the works of Dean Swift, (" Kider Haggard/ Edgar Poe or any any other dreamer-not only vision ary, but impractical, and while the impossibility is easily demonstrated, * I will give each only a passing notice. First. Free silver was an issue in the last national campaign, and the result is too well known to mention Itere. Second. Trusts are abominable, to say the least, and the temper of the American people is not going to toler ate long any gigantic trust, be it in cotton, ' corn, wheat or any other product. If I mistake not, Congress has passed an. anti-trust measure. 80 a cotton, association is neither right or legal, j Third. The reduction of acreage or the mere talk of reduction greatly in oites the acreage and production, Ii is one of th? surest ways to over-pro duction. Last. The buying and storing of actual cotton by the farmers is too foolish to notiee. Farmers never buy cotton; they sell cotton. Let us now come down to the prob lem, and let us undertake a solution of it. Every problem has a correct solution. Though it may be eveir so intricate, wrapt in darkest mystery, yeiled in deepest doubt, yet to it is a key and when found the mystery is made plain, the intricacies disappear. To the vexed cotton problem there is a key, and if you will pardon my* vani ty I hereby place -it in your hands, and when you get it you can eliminate the adverb from the Scriptural phrase and write it: "Tell it in Gath and publish it in Askalon*" Under the present Bestem of cotton planting, with no legal restrictions upon the acreage, the volume of cot ton is sure to grow larger each suc ceeding year, until the final crisis comes. How long under present con ditions the farmers can stay the irre sistible hour is hard to say, but un less there comes a sudden and perma nent change for the better, in a few years few farmers will own the lands upon which they live. The system of Europe, the peasant system, is knock ing loudly at our doors, and it is only a question of time ere it is irrevoca bly established here. Take up the County papers of South Carolina and observe the legal sales of land being made each mooth. It is truly appall ing and alarming. True, by some fic tion of the law, some of these lands revert to their former owners, but in many cases the title deeds are made to other persons than the former own ers. But a change of owners does not change the methods of culture. The same old system, regardless of owners, goes on from year tn year, the cotton acreage steadily increasing. And the lower the price of cotton goes the larger the area is given to that plant. Every farmer must have a given sum of- money in order to go on. Of course, a few bales of high-priced cotton will yield this sum. and a larger number of low-priced bales arc necessary to yield it. So a farmer reasons that a specific sum must be had. and. in order to raise it, greater energy is brought into requisition when cotton is low. Although cotton now is, with one exception, cheaper than it has beeD in fifty years, yet even now every farmer is planning to increase his cotton crop next year from 10 to 40 per cent. Such is the case here and such is thc case all over the South. It has gone on thus since the war, is going on now, even in the face of the fact that production has reached a ple thora, aud it will go on till thc strong arni of the law steps in and calls a halt to the farmers in their hell-hcnt voyage. Legal measures must stop this reck less planting of cotton. The law must say how much each individual farmer can plant in cotton. Make the law reach every cotton grower, bc he merchant, doctor, lawyer, preacher, farmer, cropper, tenant, or what else. Make the extreme limit under all cir cumstances not over 12A acecs to thc plow, and have commissioners in every township to sec the law executed to the letter. Make the offense so great till no one dare violate it. Do this, and you have the cotton problem; no other wajr is possible or practicable. Do this and the "West would have to seek other customers for her grain, flour, meat, horses, mules and provis ions; Wall street would have to seek other borrowers of her idle millions; Liverpool would no longer fix the price of cotton; the farmers would soon be independent, self-relying, prosperous and happy; the South would be the grandest, richest, most# independent country on earth; pros perity would flaunt her banners to the passing breezes, herald the breaking of a glorious day; peace, happiness, contentment would be our own, and "all go merry as a marriage bell." Fail to do this, and ruin, gaunt ruin, the harbinger of woe and misery, will make our houses her haunts, her dwelling place. Chaos, from which all things sprung, will come -and claim her own, singing as she comes the solemn requiem of the dead. Such a law is reasonable, practica ble and lawful. The framers of our Constitution never onoe dreamed that the farmers of this country would or could glut the marts of the world with any product and continue each year to make the plethora more burdensome, and, therefore, never inculcated in the base of civil liberty any clause forbidding the abrogation of what might, at a casual glance, seem the immunities of the agriculturist. Therefore, the Constitution is power less to interfere. 8uch is my humble opinion, and I am vain enough to be lieve the highest Courts will sustain it. So the true .solution of- the cotton problem is the intervention of the law's strong arm. No other reasona- ! Me solution can he reached. The ; farmers have reached thc point o? ? recklessness and desperation, in ' their vain efforts to free themselves they are getting deeper tri the mire : eacb year. Oiir'password sfi?uld be, "To the rescued To liie rescue!" And the motto of every law-maker should be tte words of thc golden-tongued Ben Hill: "Who saves the country, savis all things, and all things saved will bless him. Who lets his country die, lets all things die, and all things dy ing, curse him." A. W. BRABHAM. Kearse, Bamberg County, Nov. 22, 1897. Benefit From Weeping. We have heard of people "sick from weeping," but now it appears, according to the Hospital, that tears are positively beneficial. This ie partly due to the increased depth of respiration and the improvement in often languid circulation thereby in duced, but to a large extent it is the result of the muscular exercise in volved by which the general vascular tension, and especially the blood pres sure to the brain, is mnch reduced. The profuse flow of tears, no doubt, also acts strongly on the cerebral cir culation in still further reducing ten sion. The sobbing movements again have a good influence upon the cir culation. All of which makes us in favor of what is known a.? "a good cry." _ A Cheap Spree. A German chemist has succeeded in making a first-rate brandy out of sawdust. I am a friend of the tem perance movement and I want it to succeed, but what chanee will it have when a man can take a rip-saw and go out and get drunk with a f enceboard ? What is the use of a prohibitory liquor law if a man is able to make brandy out of his hen-roost, or if he can get delirium tremens by drinking thc legs of his kitchen chairs? You may shut an inebriate out of a saloon, but if he can become uproarious on boiled saw dust, any effort n?ust necessarily bc a failure.-San Francisco News-Letter. - Mrs. Stark, Pleasant Ridge, 0.,sayK "After two doctors gave up my boy to die, I saved him from croup by using Une Minute Cough Cure/' It is the fuickiist and most certain remedy /or ?ough*. colds and ail throat and lung j .(roubles. Kvans Pharmacy. - A inrn of 100 and a woman of 70 j have just married at St. Joseph. Mo. Love may not be entirely blind in this case, but perhaps has to wear very strong glasses. - Mrs. M. B. Ford.Ruddell's, lil., Buf fered for eight yearn from dyspepsia and chronic constipation and was finally cur ed by using DeWitt's Little Early Risers, the famous little pills for all stomach and liver troubles. Evans Pharmacy. Sixty-Eight Miles itu Hour. OMAHA, Neb., Nov. 29.-Thc Union Pacific Road has made another record for fast running. A mail train has been shot across the country, from Cheyenne to Council Bluffs, 510 miles, in 559 miuutcs. This is actual elap sed time, and includes all stops. En gines were. changed twice and one engineer was relieved. All thc regu lar stops were made a*nd ono extra, when an air-brake burst and had to bc repaired at thc expense of several minutes. A burned-out bridge, near Medicine Bow, Wyoming, delayed thc mail train five hours and thirty minutes. The train reached Cheyenne five hours late. It was necessary to reach Coun cil Bluffs on time or pay a heavy fine to thc Government. It was a most remarkable run against time. Che yenne to Sydney, 102 miles, was made in 107 minutes. Engineers were changed, and the run from Sydney to North Platte, 123 miles, was made in 118 minutes. On this run a stop was made at Julesburg to get the Colorado mail. From North Platte to Grand Island, 1.38 miles, the time was 154 minutes. Engineers were changed at Lexington, and other stops were ne cessary. From Grand Island to Coun cil Bluffs, 156 miles, the time was 165 minutes, including a stop of five min utes to fix a bursted tank hose, regu lar station stops, a delay by a Missouri Pacific freight train entering the Omaha yards, and other annoyances. The mail was landed in Council Bluffs with 13 minutes to spare, the actual average running from Cheyenne being a little more than 62 1-2 miles an hour. The most wonderful burst of speed was shown on the 100-mile stretch be tween Grand Island and Ames. This was covered in 93 minutes, actual time. From this must be deducted five "minutes for the delay with the broken'hose at Columbus, making the time 88 minutes for the 100 miles, in cluding all regular stops, or more than 68 miles an hour. Women Jurors in Idaho. Boise City, Idaho, has experimented with women jurors, and the result has been entertaining anyway. Perhaps it was instructive, too, for in the end justice was done, and the next time these particular women sit on a jury they wi-1 have learned the fundamental principles of law. It was a probate case before Judge Blake, The jury was mixed in tho mattet of sex, there be??g two men and,four women. Mrs. R. E. Green, Mrs Royakin, Mrs. E. J. Pasmore and one' unmarried woman, Miss S. F. Wood. Perhaps the men couldn't ex plain the fine points of law, or perhaps the women wouldn't let them. Any way, after being out six hours, wheu tbe hearing of the evidence took only one hour, and after deliberating in voices which reached the uttermost parts of the court building, the jury came into court with the announce ment that they couldn't agree, no, never. "We can't agree, that's all there is to it. I never saw such a lot in all my life," was the report brought by Mrs. Green, the foreman. They had been laboring heavily under the impression that the statements of the district attorney were part of the evidence. In telling the story Mrs. Green told ten times more than the judge thought should be given out in open court, but there was no stopping the flow of words until the source had been ex hausted. When the judge gave the jury to understand that the statements of the district attorney were not evidence the jury retired and in a few minutes brought in a verdict giving the plain tiff every cent asked for. The jury was seriously put out because the bailiff hung around so he could hear every word that was said, and when another court officer went into the jury room to build a fire the women begged him to give his opinion on thc case. But the judge was mollified by the verdict, because the jury had agreed, and that was more than thc previous jury in the same case, a jury composed entirely of men, had done.-Kansas City Journal. - Prosperity comes quickest to the man whose liver is in good condition. De witt's Little Early Risers are famous lit tle pills for constipation, biliousness, indigestion and all stomach and liver troubles. Evans Pharmacy. - Little Willie: "Are you tongue tied?" Featherstone: "Of course not. Willie. What noakes you think so?" Willie: "Sister says she has been waiting for months for you to speak." - J. A Perkins, of Antiquity, O., was for thirty years needlessly tortured by physicians for tim cur? of eczema. He was quickly cured by using DoWiU's Witch Hazel Salve the famous bealing salvo for piles and .skin diseases. Evans Pharmacy - If you accept a favor from a friend in your own hour of need, and refuse to return it when his circum stances are hard and difficult you show yourself to bc essentially base. - It is easy to catch a cold aud just a?? easy to get rid of it if you commeno early to uso One Minute Cough Cure, lt cures coughs, colds, bronchitis, pneumo nia and all throat and lung troubles. It is pleasant to take, safe to use and sure to cure. Evans Pharmacy. All Sorts of Paragraphs. - Faith in God will never ?row stronger by neglecting prayer - A hot argument, strange as it may sound, can most e??ectually cool a man. - People who are addicted to tat tle, gossip and scandal are no better than those they talk about. - Web tr the length ol' two and one-fourth miles has been drawn from thc li.xiv of a single spider. - What is that which you cannot hold 10 minutes, although it is "as light as a feather ?" Your breath. - M?as Allie Buglies, Norfolk, Va., was frightfully humi d un the face and neck. Pain was instantly relieved bv Dewitt's Witch Hazel Salve which heal ed tho injury wi'bout leaving a scar Ir. is the famous pile remed}'. Evans Phar macy. - Thc most popular female in thc United States; is thc blonde lady whoso face adorns the twenty-dollar gold piece. " - "Say, do you believe that story of the goose laying & golden egg ?" "Well it would bc just like a goose to do such a foolish thing." - Tom-"Why do you call your mother 'the mater?'" Bick-"Any woman who could succeed in marrying off my four sisters deserves the title." Mrs. Mary Bird, Harrisburg, Pa., says : 'My child is worth millions to me ; yet I would have lost ber by croup had I not invested twenty-five cents in a bottle of One Minute Cough Cure." IteureB ooogbs, oolds and all throat and lung troubles Evans Pharmacy. - Sheet-iron is rolled so thin at the Pittsburg iron mills that 15,000 sheets are required to make a single inch in thickness. Light shines as readily through one of these sheets as through ordinary tissue paper. - One Minute Cough Cure cures quick ly. That's what you want ! Evans Phar macy. - "At no time," said the Cornfed Philosopher, "is amanso willing to take the burden from the weak shoul deni of frail woman as when she is harassed with the care of' a large and payi ng property." - In Alaska the natives use a fat fish, like a smelt, for a candle. They light them at the tail, and they burn 15 minutes. There are millions of them. The crabs measure six feet from tip to tip of the claws. - Miss Bettie Runnels, of New Orleans, a social favorite and a young woman of genuine worth, has the unique distinction of being the first female law student in the State of Louisiana. She has matriculated at Tula.ne University and will take the frill law?r/urse preparatory to entering the practic?i - Quick-firing guns are more de pended upon at the present day than extreme length of range, and in this respect what is considered the most wonderful of guns, perhaps, is one of the Maxims, which can fire as many as 600 shots a minute, and yet is so lighi; that a soldier can carry it strap ped to his back. - Billikeu: "What's the matter, Williken?" Williken: "Matter enough. You know, some time ago I assigned all roy property to my wife to-to keep it out Of the hands of-of people I owe, you know?" "Yes." "Well, she's taken the money and gone off-says she won't live with me because I swindled my creditors." TO THE LADIES ! 'P YOU WANT TfiE MOST Reliable Fancy Groceries, FROM the best equipped Store in the City, it will be ti> your personal interest to purchase fro ai us. To please and ac commodate is our constant?ai m. Woy trade n with Mr A. or Mr B. just because th?y are nice follows, or that you have been trading with them so long That's "before the war" sentiment. That won:'t. do. Sentiment in business haa play ed out long ugo, and it is now a matter of dollurs and cents. If jou will only take tho trouble to come in to soe us wa will make prices that vrill please you, and will sell you Goods that will enable you to enjoy tho bwt. Herc ?3 a sample of some of tho Bar gain* Which you can pick up In our E3 tab liniment : 4 lbs. good Carolina Rice for 25fi. 4 lb*, beat Oyster Cnickors for 30u: li c ans new-pt'.cked Tomatoes for 25c. 'A cms new Sweet Corn for '?5.: 1 package Arbuckle'* Coffee for Hie 1 pitckngc Rolled Oats ft?r 9c. 1 package (Non S:weh fur ito. 1 package Crvstal Gelatine for Ho. ] can Vieuna Sausaga LT f)o Those prices a'C but a few of the un niHtotinble vulu.? in food produc? of time tried excellence and Wurth Theres is merit In these Goods-a repu talion behind these famous Packeis' brands that the prices we have placed on them be little, but the benefit ia \oure. jp.fr If you ire in a hurry and want your Groceries quick, come to ns. Our services are at your disposal. Yours for more Busine? On a Ce?h Basis. Economicue Grocery. Anyone scmllm,* n Bkclch nrul (teserinllun ni:iy qnl'-kly ascertain our opinion free whether ?rn Invention ls probably patentable'. Communie* UonsstrictlyconOdciitinl. Handbook on Patents Bent. free. oiliest nirency for seeurliin patent.?. P.rtcnts taken tliroutrli Munn Si Co. receive special notier, without charco, in thc Scientific American. A handsomely lllnstrated weekly. Lamest cir culation of aiiy t dentale journal. 1 erma. $a a year; four months, $1. Sold by all newsdealers. MUNN ? Co.36tBroadway New York Wrench Onice. C2T? V St, Washington, D. C. Heaven Lost Its Charm. "liamma," the Chicago Post quotes the 5-year-old, sitting in Iiis oath, as saying, '*we have to die.'1 "'Vos." asset ted thc mother, rubbing him cheerfully. "1 have to die, and you have co die." "Oh, yes: sometime." ''Thon .ve. have to go to heaven. Will they live in different houses, or al? together in one family ? "Perhaps al] ir; one family." sug gested the mother, carelessly. ''Then 1 don't want togo to heaven. There wouldn't be anybody to visit." - One of our exchanges reports the following as a curiosity of law: ;,A young man purchased 2,000 extra ?nc cigars, and had them insured for their value, smoked them up and demanded the insurance, claiming that they had been destroyed by (ire. Thc case was taken to the court and thc judge de dided in favor of the young man. The insurance company then had the young man arrested for setting fire to his own property, and thc same judge ordered that he pay a fine and go to jail for three months." - "A married life isn't what it's cracked up to be," remarked Mrs. Grrimesleigh. "When I married Dan iel I thought it would be so handy to have a man about the house ; but lor ! that's all it amounted to. He's never at home when he's wanted for any thing, and if he is, he's tired or busy or something or other ; and so I have to go to work and do the thing myself. 'S far as I can see, men are only in the way when they are in the house, and out of the way when they're wanted." GETTING READY Every expectant mother has a trying ordeal to face, If she does not get ready for it, there is no telling what may happen. Child-birth is full of uncertainties if Nature is not given proper assistance. Mother's Friend i is tho best help you can use at thia time. It is a liniment, and when regularly ap plied several months before baby comes, it makes the advent easy and nearly pain less. It relieves and prevents "morning sickness," relaxes tho overstrained mus cles, relieves the distended feeling, short ens labor, makes recovery rapid and cer tain without any dangerous after-effects. Mother's Friend is good for only one purpose, v?z.: to relieve motherhood of danger and pain. $1 dollar per bottlo at all drug stores, or sent by mall on receipt of price. FREE BOOKS, containing valuable informa tics, for women, will ba sent to aay address upon application to THE BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO., Atlantti. da. An Innocent Sufferer! How often you hear of a sweet, in nocent child suffering from some ter rible blood disease which is heredita ry, and which, if not irradicated from the system, will be a source of much misery during its entire life. If you are a parent and your child is suffer ing from any blood disease, don't neg lect getting a bottle of AFRICANA, the sure cure. Read thc following : I had been troubled for years with .heumatism. I took two bottles of your most excellent medicine, Afri cana, which has about relieved me entirely, and I feel like a different man. My little daughter, eight years old, was greatly afflicted with sore eyes all her life, and less than one bottle of Africana hus affected appa rently a permanent euro, lt aiiords nie great, pleasure to recommend your most excellent medicine, the "Afri cana," as a great relief to suffering humanity. RKV. F. M. JORDAN, Brevard, Transylvania Co., N. C. fitgr For sale hy Evans Pharmacy aud Hill-Orr Drug Co. ) Texas, Mexico, California, (' ; Alaska, or anv other point, ( \ with FREE MAPS, write \ ( District Passenger Agent, > iLomsrfllB & VastmDe Wall St., Atlanta, Gn. FOK SALE. ACRES OF LAND, one und threo q uarter mi les from Public Square on the Pendleton Koad, adjoining lund of JC. A. Hell and others. There is a beauti ful lot fora dwelling, and he limit has beon brought up to a high state for culti vation. Tnis will be an ideal place for truck and dairy farming, as it is only a short distance from Factory Town and there are two stroams running through it. ? Apply to R. S McCUI.LY. at McCully Bros. Nov 10 1897 20 S WO FAKE ! That Jewelry Palace _. OF - WILL. IL HUBBARD'S, .M X'" TO F. and M. BANK, Has ihe Largest. Pre'tlsst % and Finns! itu of . . . XMAS AND WEDDING PRESENTS . * Si X.I?.JB CITY. Competition don't cur, any ?ce with 1110 winn it comes to prices. ? don't buy ponds to keep. I want thc people to have them Gold and Silver Watches, Sterling and Plated S.lverware, Jewelry, Clocks, Lamps, China, Spectacles, Novelties of all kinds. Rogers' Tripple Plate Table Knives 81.50 per Set. A world beater. ? WILL R. H08BABO. BIG BARGAINS FOR NOVEMBER. CLOTHING. A Big and Complete tin?. S?m-r.hing to please all. Bext part. Prices to suit the tunes Listf-n : \?en's Suits from ?1.75 up. B^ys'Suits from 05a up. 9-rur,"8 All Wool Jeana Punts 98c. DRESS GOODS. I have a big line of New and 8tj lith Goods of all kinds, on which I have knocked the bolton? out of prices. CLOAKS AND CAPES. A line that will t?ckle yon, especial Iv prices. UNDERWEAR, Ladlee' Undervesis from 10 .. up. Men's TJndervests from 12*c. up. SHOES, HATS AND CAPS. Just come and pee f<?r yourself. Great big No. 7 Stove 85 OO. GROCERIES. A large fre"?h lot bought low rio:-vn-vii] sell you the same way. Rem. mber, I am in the Cotton and Cotton Seed market to stay! Two red hot stoves if your are cold. Yours for Bargains a_ R. A. LEWS, Belton, S. C. LET'S HAVE SOME FUN! We propose to give away absolutely for nothing, the following Presents on 15th January, 1898: Present No. 1, one barrel Standard Granulated Sugar. Present No. 2, one barrel best Patent Flour. Present No. 3, ten pounds fine Rio Coffee. Present No. 4, ten pound box good Chewing Tobacco. Present No. 5, one pair Men's Fine Shoes. Present No. 6. one pair Ladies' Fine Shoes Present No. 7, one B ine Decorated Bowl and Pitcher. Present No. 8, one Set Fine Decorated Plates. Present No. 9, one Fine Decorated (covered) Dish. Present No. 10, one Set of Fine Cups and Saucers. The person who guesses, or comes nearest to the number of Bales of Cot ton received and weighed by the Sworn Weighers in Anderson from Sept. life, 1897, to Jan. 14th, 1898 (inclusive), will receive Present No. 1, and the ncsfc nearest guess, Preseut No. 2, and so on through the list. Every .one who trades with us will be entitled to a guess for each dollar's worth of cash goocfe purchased from us between now and 31st Dec. next ; guesses to be made aaa lated on day purchase is made ; in case of a tie, the guess bearing earliest dale to count first. Guesses to be deposited in a locked tin box ; Mr. J. E. Vandt ver, Cashier F. & M. Bank, will hold key until 15th Jan., when he and MP. W. T. W. Harrison (cotton weigher), will award the presents to the beat guessers. We will not add one cent to the price of our Goods, but will sell you Goods is cheap as you can buy elsewhere, and somebody will get the presents that we will give away for absolutely nothing. If you get one, it will be a clear gain to you. If we don't sell you Goods cheap, don't bny them. This is the most liberal offer ever made by a merchant in Anderson, as we propose to give you value received for every dollar spent with us. ' Guess early and often ! Anderson, S. C., Sept. 29. 1897. D. P. SLOAN. H CH O W 2* as CT 0 tn td c < H lil 0 a 3 < > H n (j) 2 = T: % CD ? O go* o s ?-i ?. ?-i > < s 0 si z ? 0 *! H n THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUKTY OV ANDERSON COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. Levi N. Geer, PlantilT, against Marion Eskew, De fendant.-Summons for Belief-Complaint Sirr ed To the Defendant, Marion Kskew : YOU aro hereby summoned and required to an swer the Cou.plaint in this action, of which a copy is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your answer to the said Complaint OD tho subscribers at their office, Anderson Court House, South Carolina, within twenty days after tho service hereof, exclusive of the day" of such service; and if you fail to answer the complaint within tho time aforesaid, the Plaintilf in this action will apply to the Court for tho relief de manded in the Complaint, ruted at Anderson, 8. C. Nov ISth, 1897 BONHAM A. WATKINS, Plaintiff's Attorneys. IBBAI.] JKO. C. WATKINS, c. c. c r. To the nb.?ent Defendant, Ma-ion Eskew : Take notice that the Summons herein and thc Complaint in thia action were filed in the office of J no. C. Watkins, clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for Auderson County, at Anderson, S. C., ou tlie ISt h November, 181)7 BONHAM A WATKINS, Plaintiffs Att'ys. Anderson, 8. C., Dec 1,181)7. 2C-C P?AUO FOR SALE, ?F n-?t previously sold at private sale, will be sold at auction on Friday, Dec. ? 17. at. 1 o'clock p m., one Knabe Square j Pisro, in perfert condit'on and in all ! respect* as good sa new. R. R. TODD j Deel, 1897 23 S SOUTHERN RAILWAY. s c n T? i E!O ?2 " Er SJ*?-K=?:L > a R m.a aS g?_ sro w. ft Q??g=.gr?F P O - |g-Ci e > CD n S'S.? o S <1 p i ? On 2^W=; b- CD B O <r2 "B:-, B ^5 oT M. ? ^ - ?B Es^s g, P ^ ^ re T5 5-3-"H H a C - tr ^ ? 2,. ? ? R 5. CO M? S- w r sr.-* . ^ p ? ? lr -; s g -?5 o c & is =? ?? te M tr 3 . _ C.? C ? ? SJ SJ O S3 Rt pa CondcnneU Soliedul* in Effect JULY 4. 1897. STATIONS. l^Cliitrleston."... 7 10 a n> tv. Columbia. "00 a m " Prosperity. \? ? P ?' Newberry. ? I? P " Ninety-Six. } ~o p ni Ar. Grecnwooa.. \ ? P ?l " Hodges. 2 2o p m Ar. Abbeville... 2 M P ?n Ar.Belton... 3 10 p m Ar. Anderson ... 3 U5 p n? ^Grecnvi???.. . -.. * 20 p m ArTAtlanta. . : . 9 :M P^1 STATIONS. y0ailf2. tv. Greenville...'.., JO M a m " Piedmont. W So a nt " Williamston.. . 1 " 18 a m ?^T?ndeTs?u._1105_i?_B EOelton . }JS5T Ar. Donnalda........ 1? 03 P m EvTXbbevilU'. Tl 45 a m CvTHoilpen... . I? j? P ? ? Greenwood. } 00 p ipi Ninety-Six. 1 25 p m Newberry. f ? P n " Prosperity. 37 p m Ar. Columbia. .* w p m Ar. Charleston. S 00 PJP SNS^I __J^ONS!_isaassa "ihjOn?TlO^v.... (Charleston.... Ar 8 OOpj li 00r. "s??? ?? 30a! " . . . Columbia." H 3?p 010r 907a 1215p ".Alston.? 2gp 85&J 10 20a' 202p' ".Lmion. 1 Oftp 7 30p 0 ? 8 " .... Jonc,v?llc 12 26p 6$ 10 2:570 " .Pacolet." 12 Hp 64<p 1125a 310uAr.. ?ptirtanburjr...Lv ll 45a 6 20p 11 4.r?i 3:?3i? LV. . Spartanbuvf,'.. .Ar ll 28a G O?p 2tsn 700nlAr....Aslie\iuo.....Lv 820a 805p "P," p. m. "A," a. m. Train? 0 and 10 carry elegant Pullman pleepiuji ears between Columbia and Asheville, enroule daily between Jacksonville andCiucin "brains leave Spartanburc, A. & C. division, northbound. 0:?t7 a.m.. 3:47 p.m., 8:18 p.m. (Vestibule Limited); southbound 12:20 a. in., 8:15 p. m., 11:37 a. m., (Vestibule Limited.) Trains leave Greonville. A and C. division, northbound,.'. :45 a. m., 2:31 p. m. and 5:30 p. OX. (Vestibuled Limited)jsouthbound, 1:25 a. m. 4:20p. m., 12:30p.m. (vestibuledLimited), rollman Service. Pullman palace sleeping cars on Trains85and 86, 37 and 3s, on A. and C. division. W. H. GREEN, J- M. CULP Gea. Superintendent, Traffic M g'r, Washington, D. C Washington, D. O. W. A. TURK. S. H. HARDWICK, Gen. Pass. Ag't, As't Gen. Pass. Ag't. Washington, D. C._Atlanta, Oft. Daily No. ll. NOTICIO TO CREDITORS. Al I persons l;avitm demands against the Efcttt?* of Alasander Orr, deoaased, aje hereby notiiied to present them, prop orly proven, to the ruuler^ned within the time prescribed by law, and those in dented to make payment. JOHN h. ORR, Executor. Dec i, mi 23 S