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CHRISTIANITY'S I "Pastor Chalmers Visa guised cLS St Atlanta Co CLEVELAND, ?., Dec. 2.-Is relig ion the property alike of rich and poor, or is it the exclusive possession of those who can afford to dress in purple and fine linen. These are the questions that for some time past, have caused the Kev. Audrew Chal mers, pastor of the Durham Avenue Christian Church, Cleveland, 0., many .sleepless nights. The more he pon dered over it, the more troubled he was over the thought that a religion, bora and nurtured among the meek and lowly, should have become so far above the reach of the rank and file of . humanity as to make it impossible for a poorly dressed y^*&utoi one of our mo?^cf?s^Lcches without calling ^^?nount of attention to himself that, to put it mildly, is very embar rassing. Dr. Chalmers deoided to put the matter to a practical test and settle to Ilia own satisfaction the length, breadth and height of a poor man's welcome from the ushers and congr? gation of a fashionable religious estab lishment. Doning his clerical garb, Dr. Chalmers assumed the clothing of an ordinary son of toil, and thus dis guised ho visited one of Cleveland's leading Churches. His experiences .he reserved for a modest little sermon delivered to his Durham avenue flock. Bab it was not to be in the nature of things that Dr. Chalmer's action should pass unnoticed. After he had preached the sermon he found himself everwhelmed with correspondence, tone writers criticising his action, others congratulating him. He re plied to each of them briefly and mod estly. Many of his friends urged him to still farther agitate the question of high-toned versus humble religion, bathe declined to do so. He has at laat consented, however, to teil in de tail the story of his very interesting experiences while on his tour in the guise cf a poor mao, and his signed statement follows : "If this article will be continued as arraying the poor against the Churches more than they already are, it will not j represent me and will be worse than wasted. I did not make this visit to further divorce the workingman from the Church. I made it to sec if the conditions noted in the second chap ter of James were really true,-and if so, to put the Churches, my own Church especially, to a process of self examination, which would he helpful to the Church and would prevent our being 'respecters of persons' in our assemblies. "I was sick, some in body and much in eon], because I felt that the Church es did not haye 'compassioc on the multitude, because they fainted and were scattered abroad as sheep having no shepherd.' Matt, ix, 36. I felt tikis in my own work. I was -so sick that my physician told me I could not preach on Sunday. On Sunday after noon I felt better and told my wife that I was going to see how far the Churches believed on Jesus Christ and whether or not they believed on Him in respect to the ones with the 'gold ring' and 'the gay apparel.' I would have preferred to attend my own Church and see how my own -con gregation welcomed the stranger and 'the poor man in poor clothes, but I knew I could not do that without be ing recognized. "I dressed myself in clothes better >t?an the average man who works on tae streets at $1 or $1.25 per day can afford. The clothes were not ragged. They were not dirty. They were not the clothes that a man would work in en the street. They were such as he Might possibly have for Sunday wear. I went to one of the representative Churches in the city of Cleveland. I do not think this Church I visited is more to be blamed for what followed than the rest of us. I am dealing with a condition. The Church I visi ted pays the pastor $5,000 to $8,000 a year. I think there was on the bulle tin board on the outside of the Church, in connection with the announcements of the regular weekly services, the usual sign ; 'AU Welcome' I soon found that this sign was much like the circus ads., not quite fulfilled. I found it was one thing to place on the bulletin board on the outside of the Church the advertisement of welcome and quite another thing to have that welcome stood in thc aisle and looked down while written in the very heart of the Church people. I determined that night that wc in our Church would either takedown that sign. 'All Welcome,' or make those welcome who came. "I went in during the playing of thc Toluntary on the grand pipe organ and when the worshipers were entering. Group after group of fashionably dressed worshipers in their :gay ap parel' were shown by dude ushers to the best seats in the Church. I stood there so long that I began tc be em barrassed and had to recall to myself again and again who I was and why I was there to insure my continuing to remain under such trying cirenmstan COLD SHOULDER, ted the Clmrehes Dis J?oor Man. _ - institution. ces. I tried to put myself in the workingman's place for the evening and yet I had to remind myself that I was not a-workingman and that I had better clothes at home before I could be willing to carry it out. I almost j felt tempted to tell who I really was to get recognition, but I refrained. "When the men with the silk hats and those in fashionable attire had been given seats down in front, around me and almost over me, an officious usher, evidently feejing that I was cumbering the ground, pointed out to me the^last seat in the house. He "'had to bn?gme^t?^fcr'^WlM?P?ow distance to give me the seat, for I had advanced some way down the aisle to see if I might get recognition. I was not told in so many words that I was not wanted. There was no one at the door with a club to knock me down and drag me ont because of my imper tinence at coming te the Church bf Jesus Christ, the carpenter of Nazar eth, in the clothes of a carpenter. I felt that if Jesus had come to that Church that night it would have been with the words : 'Woe unto you, scribes and pharisees, hyosrites who tithe of mint and anise and cummin and neglect the more weighty matters of judgement, mercy and peace.' "The whole service was fitted for the cultured. The preaching, the singing, the entire service was very dignified and proper an our services go these days, but the poor were not there, and it is not surprising, for they were not wanted. If you were to ask the pastor of the Church if he wanted the poor he would say'Yes.' If you were to ask thc office-bearers in that Church they would say 'Yes, we wel come the poor and are glad if they come and feel at home in our Church.' j The difficulty is in the lack of wel come that is felt by one who visits our Churches in these days. "After the service was oifc I stayed around to see if I would be sought out and asked to come again and made to feel at home finally. After standiDg around for a time and watching the rich greet t/he rich, and no poor there to greet, me. I wandered home sicker than when I started out. I was sick in body and sick in soul, for I love the Church and it hurt me to see the apos tasy in the life of the Church which is so much worse apostasy than that of doctrine. "I would not care to investigate the creed of the Church I visited that night. I wanted life and not musty theology. If I had gone to the Church ; that night dressed in my usual way, I would without doubt have been given I the best place in the house, and possi bly would have been invited to the pulpit to assist in the opening servi ces. I found that in the estimation of the Church the clothes made the man and not worth. i "I determined that night that I would make our Church more open and see that the men who worked on the streets shoveliog, and the man who delivers our ice, and the girls who work in our kitchens, and the women who do our washing, should find, our Church and should find therein most cordial and genuine friendship. "I began a series of sermons on the line of my visits and kindred subjects and our audiences have been increased by the hundreds in the past two or three weeks. I feel that the Church should be first, not for those who need most. Tho light owes something to darkness. The wise belong to the ig norant. The good have a duty to the bad. The lives filled with love belong to those lives filled with hate, even as Christ belongs to the world more for what he could do for it than what he could get out of it. "Men of money are feelingrnore and more that capital has its duties as well a3 its rights. Culture is feeling her debt to illiteracy, and university ex tension work is au evidence of such sense of duty. The characterful are feeling their belonging to the charac terless and the social settlement work is the outgrowth of that feeling. The Church must feel her belonging to all the multitude, not because they arc good, but because they may be. The maa with the largest need should find in our Churches the largest welcome. I could add volumes ?long this line, but I have written enough. I do not write this for the sensation it will make, but for thc good it will do. I want to help the Churches to lead them to see their sins and mend their ways. "One critic had said of me: 'Thc Cleveland minister who disguised him self as a workingman to attend a fash ionable Church to detail his treatment later in thc pulpit may have demon strated thc worldliness of some of thc worshipers, but he certainly did not add to the dignity of the cloth/ The dignity of the cloth was thc very thing I was trying to avoid and it is the thing that I care least about. When we ministers care more for the real work of the Church in reaching and helping human lives than we do for the dignity of the cloth we will begin to win the-world to Christ. ; "ANDREW CHALMERS." Wft?it Do You Want for Christmas? As the Christmas season approaches the usual grumbling about hard times, empty purses, so many to give to, the difficulty of finding at reasonable price what will be suitable for such and such friends and, above all, the utter impossibility of finding out what "will do for a man," makes itself heard. From now until Christmas ive the chorus of complaints will go on growing louder and increasing in volume until it culminates in a per fect wail of despair from those who find at the last moment that they have forgotten to buy anything for this or that friend. The usual resort in these circumstances is to wait un til Christmas morning and then to select from the gifts received the ob ject one wants least, and send it to the person whose name has been omitted ijjf^l?di??ri lim Himilil anyone consid er the above st?fcm?nent exaggerated let him take a seat ina^^f the stores in King street and, while feib-**ng to be occupied in inspecting some article of merchandise, lend an ear to the conversations that are carried on aromnd him by the throngs of shop pers. He will hear little but talk about Christmas presents, not in tones that imply any pleasure in se lecting and giving them, but with complaining and weary voices that in dicate that the speakers regard the whole business as an unmitigated nuisance, and that convince the lis ten<3r it would be an excellent thing if the custom of Christmas gifts was abolished, or at least discontinued until the return of "good times." Perhaps when purses begin to fill up and we have a few years rest from worry ing ov er Christmas,we may begin to re gard it in a different light, and to find pleasure in what should be a delight to each of us. ; The oddest part of tne affair is that, grumble as they may, every person feels compelled to give. Be they rich or poor, generous or stingy, all are afraid to set custom at defiance and to say that they will accept nothing and will give nothing this year, because they do not feel their means suffi cient to justify any outlay for things so unnecessary as are Christmas gifts. Of course many of the presents ex changed are very acceptable, and persons of good sense endeavor to so se-ect them that they will be either useful or ornamental, but a gr at deal of what is given is the veriest trash, and no amount of bows, wrapping in silver paper and tying with "baby rib bon" will make it anything else. Rather than compromise so with our conscience, would it not be better to be honest with our friends and tell them we cannot afford to give anything worth their accepting; or, if we can afford to give, why not make an effort to find out what they should like? Of course some of our readers will ex claim with horror at such plain deal ing and lack of sentiment, but senti ment, has been almost banished from the custom of giving away, and any pretence of it is mostly a sham. The true value of a Christmas pres ent is entirely independent of its in trinsic worth, although there are some mercenary souls who judge only in that way of everything received, and who care for nothing that has net cost con siderable money. Important as is the spirit that inspires a gift, the spirit in which it is received is of equal im portante, and nothing is more chilling to a generous person than to find that he to whom he has given something is oppressed with a sense of obligation until he can return a still more costly gift. The things that detract most from one's pleasure in receiving a gift are, first, the realization that it is a duty gift, ?and not prompted by anf special desire to give happiness, and thc inappropriateness of it, which shows but too plainly how little real thought was given to its selection. The latter is thc outcome of the ex pression so frequently heard at pres ent about the difficulty of finding "something that will do." If wc care at all about a friend it is not "some thing that will do" we send him, but something that has cost us thought in selecting, and that we hope will prove useful and acceptable. "We saw recently a suggestion for a Christmas book that was a very good thing. It is a blank book, hung in some conspieuous place in the house for some time before the holiday sea son. To it a pencil is attached, and it bears on the outside in letters of gold an invitation to each member of the family to make his or her wants known. With the children it takes the place of thc very popular letters to Santa Claus that arc so frequently written by the little folks and placed in thc chimney in the belief that that is the nearest postoffie to the dwelling of the good-natured saint, and that he will bc sure to bring at Christmas thc special toy or book for which the writer asks. Thc book is equally use ful to the ciders, as it saves a great amount of puzzling over gifts, and of unsatisfactory shopping for things which no one wants after they get them. As each writer can express his desires freely and in an imperson al manner, it gives a wide choice, as things may be asked Sat varying in value from a watch or a diamond ring to tho simplest object, and those whe j wish to give can be as generous or as economical as their nature prompts or their purse allows. The same good sense which should direct us in choosing gifts for our friends should guide us also in our giving to the needy. It does not re quire any very deep thought or any great stretch of imagination upon our part to know what are the most press ing wants of those whom wo would benefit, and the appropriateness of our present adds much to its value. If we are animated by the true spirit of Christmas the gifts we make to those who really need our help will give us far greater satisfaction than those wc give to our friends, who can and will give us in return. If we re member the fact that the whole world lying in darkness and the shadow of death received from Heaven on Christ mas day the priceless gift of eternal life, if it will accept it, and that we can give nothing in return, it should so fill our hearts with gratitude that our first thought will be to give h?p piness to others in whatever way we ca?r-v^ testify ? our thankfulness. There aU many to whom the coming of ' Christan*^ will bring the most mournful thougi^s, as they remember the loved ones wfio^b*.ye been called away from earth sinee tte-last Christ mas time. Would it not so/ten their sorrow if they dedicated the a -?ount that would have been spent in gu+.s for those lost friends to some chari table object? The affliction that does not move the heart to greater thought fulness and kindness to those who are sad and suffering has failed to teach the lesson that it is intended to give to each of us.-Charleston Sunday News. -i- m a m - Reflections of a Bachelor. When a man reads a newspaper sit ting between two women in a street car, he always pretends that he never bothers with tho woman's page. There are lots of woman haters that you never hear of because they're married. The proof that men are vainer than women is that they are too vain to show it. A girl is never really in love with a man until she thinks of him when she says her prayers at night. A woman can never be very bad after she has once learned that her little child measures its ideas of God by her. Men are more curious than women, ? j because there are more funny things in women to be curious about. A woman can always get 'even with her husband by buying a Christmas present and having it charged. The mau that puts on a nonchalant air when he asks a woman to marry him is the same boy that used to whistle when he went past a graveyard at night. The first month a man is married he says *'my wife" every 10 minutes. After he has been married five years nobody would ever know he had a wife. An engagement ring is one a girl puts on her finger to show off before the other girls. A wedding ring is one a woman puts on to remember something by and then forgets what it was. A man will dig up the whole yard when he wants to go fishing and not find near so many worms as he does when he spades up one flower bed the next day. When a man gets beaten in an argu ment he always tries to act as if he had thought that way all along and only wanted to draw the other man out. Married men get to be such good friends because they always act sorry for each other ; married women never do, because each one knows the other would never admit that she wished she hadn't. The easiest way to find out what a girl is like is to get chummy with her bosom friend. A man is a slave to his own opin ion ; a wonjan is a slave to the opin ions of her husband. The first sign that a woman wants you to love her is when she lectures you because you smoke too much. Marriage is generally enough to take the conceit out of a woniau. lt takes lots more than that with a man. One of the most subtle kinds of flirtation is when a man refrains from telling another woman that he is hap py with his wife. Catarrh Cannot be Cured with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they cannot reach the B"at of the disease Catarrh is a blood or constitutional disease, and in order to cure it you must take internal remedies. Hall's CaUrrh Cure is taken internally, and act* directly on tho blood and n, ucous su raices Halls Catarrh Cure is not. a quack medicine It was prescribed by une of tbe best physicians in this country for years, and is a regular prescription. It is com posed of tho best tonics known, combined with tho best blood purifiers, neting directly on tl o mucous surfaces. The perfect combination of the two ingredients is what produces such wonderful ramltsin curing Catarrh. Send for testimoni?is free .- Ked is not objectionable as a color for a woman's hair, providing it doesn't run into her temperament. - I write this to let you know what I would not do: I would not do with out Chamberlain's Pain Balm in my house, if it cost ?r> 00 per bottle, it docs all you recommend it to do and more.-j. li. WALLACE, Wallaceville, Ga. Chamberlain's Pain Balm is thc best household liniment in the world, and invaluable for rheumatism, lame back, sprains and bruises. Be ready for emergencies by buying a bottle at Hill-Orr Drug Co. Had Bees for Sale. As I sat on the veranda with the farmer after supper I asked him if he was not greatly bothered by tramps, and his reply was : "Wall, a good many of 'em come along and want a bite to eat, and some of 'em are pretty sassy, but only one man of 'em ever served me a real mean trick." "Poison your dog ?" I queried. "It was meaner than that. We was eatin' dinner one day in the spring when a hive of bees started to swarm. I'd bin expecting and watching 'em and had a new hive ready. When bees swarm they will light on most anything handy-a limb, a bush or even the pump. Jest as the bees be gan to pour out of the hive and circle around along comes a tramp up the path to ask for sunthin' eat. The queen bee settled down o> id hat, and the hull swarm folle. . In two minits that tramp's . . nd shoulders was covered by bet. T yells to him for heaven's sake Duu to try to fight 'em off or he'd be stung to death." "Hemust have been terror-stricken," I said. "Nota bit of it, sir. He was as cool as a cowcumber, and when I told him he'd hev to stand in a smudge till the bees was killed off he jest laughed. When they'd all settled down on him and I was goin' to start a smudge he tez : " '0]d man, what d'ye consider this swarm o' bees wuth in cold cash ?' " 'Abouc $ve dollars,' sez I. "'Are ye villin' to give three?' sez I. " 'Bekase you'll oither pay me three dollars or I'll walk cff with the biz ness and sell out to somebody else !' " "And you had to buy him off ?" I asked. "That's where the mean nb?.', come in," replied the farmer. "Them-bees was my property, and I wasn't buying what was my own. He offered to take two dollars, but I couldn't see how he could git away with 'em and refused to come down. Then he starts off. I reckoned the bees would git angry and sting him to death, but nuthin' hap pened. He jest walked out into the road and down the hill, and he carried them bees seven miles and sold 'em fur a new pair o' shoes." "And he wasn't stung ?" "Not once, sir. The bees seemed to like the smell o' him, and he pad dled along the road as grand as you please. As fur tramps, I've had 'em lie and steal and set fire to straw stacks, but I ain't feclin' hard to wards anybody but the feller who walked off with the bees."-M. Quad, in St. Louis Republic. - Sam Jones says that the women are cutting off their dresses at the top for ball rooms and are cutting them off at the bottom for bicycles. Sam says he is getting frightened, for he don't know when the women are going to stop cutting. .- m ? - Bishop Leonard, of the Protestant Episcopal missionary diocese of Nevada, Utah and Western Colorada, says that the Indian bas no profanity-not a pro fano word in his language. When he desires to swear, it is necessary for him to learn English. - There is no medicine in the world equal to Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for the cure of throat and lung diseases. This is a fact that has been proven in numberless cases. Here is a sample of thousands of letters received: "I have tried Chamberlain's Cough Rem edy while suffering from a severe throat trouble, and found immediate and effective relief: I can unhesita tingly recommend it."-EDGER W. WIIITTEMORE, Editor Grand Rivers (Ky.) Herald. For sale at Hill-Orr Drug Co._ TAKEJOTICE. 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 same must be paid at an early day, not later than Nov. 1st next, as a settlement must be made with the heirs at law. Your prompt attention to this notice and a compliance with same will be duly appreciated. Yours very truly, JOS. J. FRETWELL, Survivor Bleckley & Fretwell, Sept 15, 1*97 12 TWO FOR ONE. RY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT WE OFFER HOM E AND FARM In combination witli the ANDERSON INTELLIGENCER for SI.55, being the price of our paper alone. That is, foi all new or old subscribers renewing and paying in advance, we send HOMK AND FARM one year free. HOME AMI FARM has for many years been the leading agricultural journal of thc South and Southwest, made by farm ers for farmers. Its Home Depart ment, conducted by Aunt Jane, its Children's Department, and its Dairy Department are brighter and better than ever. Renew now and get this great journal for thc home and thc farm-FREH. - This is thc advice of the Chicago Tribune to those intending to go to thc Klondike: ''Acquire habits of self-control and industry ; bc prepared to meet with firmness whatever dis couragements may arise; scrape to gether two or three times as much money for the journey as the best estimates render necessary ; and don't go. In the old days of the Christian martyrs it was not unusual for the sav age Pagans to cast inno cent women into a den of lions, to s??er horri U- ble agony and fear be m fore death finally came to their relief, te In tlis Christian age Ve? and this land of {jt civilization tens *y**vOf thousands of women daily suf **?? fer the slow tor ments of ap proaching death. They do this because of a false delicacy fre quently inculcated by their mothers. There is a marvelous medicine for women that cures all weakness and disease of the distinctly feminine organism. It acts di rectly on the delicate and important organs concerned in maternity and makes them strong and healthy. It is Dr. Pierce's Fa vorite Prescription. It allays inflammation, heals ulceration and soothes pain. It gives rest and tone to the tortured nerves. . Under its magic influence the headaches and pains in the back and sides, the dragging and burning sensations, the nervousness, weak ness, lassitude and despondency that result from so-called female weakness are ban ished. It fits for wifehood and motherhood. Taken during the period of solicitude, it banishes the usual discomforts and makes baby's entry to the world easy and almost painless. It insures the new comer's health and an ample supply of nourishment. Thousands of women have testified to its marvelous merits. All good druggists sell it. Mrs. Ursula Dunham, of Sistersville, Tyler Co., W. Va., writes: " My baby is now nearly a year old. After she was born I had local weak ness. I could not stand up. I took three bottles of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription and it has cured me. I can now do all my work." T> \rw * It is better to do I If*. Pierce S mending while the Ul * F 1Ci WC 25 damage is slight, than wait until the whole structure is ready to falL Constipation is the one, all-embrac ing disorder that is responsible for many other dis- . eases. Doc tor Pierce's KlPA?Atlf Pleasant Pellets cure 1 ?vOOttUl it Drug gists sell them. They never gripe. One little "Pellet" is a gent!; laxative, and two a mild cathartic. They are tiny, sugar-coated grannies. n (J . Nothing else is "just as J^PljPTQ good." A permanent cure. viivtoi THO WORLD LOVES MDSIt WE sell PfiANOS ?nd SVSlCAIi VS -TKUK?&TS4 tn 'he he*r tratf$S*fc t?.is Hud arijos, ing Coan ties?. Why not -How me tr? sell yon a rvihble PJano or flfcrfittu. Wo guarantee ?,A nry Inetrnmiot . hm. goea ont <:f our Wwrurootus, and "avH a large n?8ortr?jent ro select from. Have just received new styles of Ivers & Pond Pianos - AND - Farrand & Votey Organs, And w? are getting in savers! other makes of" bigh grao* Instrument? Also, n largo line of Guitars. Banjos. Violins, Autohnrps, ?tc., at .lowest possible figures. HEADQUARTERS for the Celebrated Mew Hume? Ideal and several other lending Sewing Machines. Call noli see UH. dr write for catalane Jitid prices Respectfully, * C. i. ?ert loslc imn PLEASED WITH YOUR GROCER. lt may be that the prices are too higli or the quality of Goods poor. If you waot 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, sud we will sell you as cheap ns Killers charge for cheap quality. Once a customer of ours always a customer. We want every body that comes to Anderson to come aud see our Goods. Don't matter whether you want to trade or not. No trouble to show you our Goods. Yours for trade, OSBORNE & BOLT. BUILDERS OF ANDERSON Arul vicinity will consult their i ri - Tt-rost by writing to the Standard Manufacturing Co. AUGUSTA, GA.., For prices on SASH, DOOKS BLINDS, SHINGLES, LATHS, LUMBER, Qr anything in Yellow Piue. Satisfac tion guaran'?ed. Sept 8,1807 il .'ira responds readily to proper fer tilization. Larger crops, fuller ears and larger grain are sure to result from a liberal use of fertilizers containing at least *]% actual \ Potash Our books are free to farmers. ^ GERMAN KAU WORKS, 83 Nissan St., Nor Yc?iJ Cotton Is not the hand maid of prosper! ty That's more the reason you s hould wear the best make of Shoes. Our line is^ built for service. Sold by Cash-buying merchants. Ask for the Red Seal. J. K. OER SHOE CO , Atlanta, Ga. COLE & COFFEE, IK order to get a satisfactory dissolution of partnership, have to put their goods into money, and o win? to the already I large ?tocks of goods advertised at cost, lt simply means to sell for what we can get above what a brother merchant will pey in bulk. Tbeoe goods must go in the nectt thirty day*. People wanting bargains m Dry Goods, Shoes, etc., now is vouir time. COLE A COFFEE, No. 5. Hotel. FOR SALE. THE TBA CT OF LAND known as the Vineyard, containing twenty-five acres, morn or lees, situated just outside of the city limits, adjoining lands of E. P. Sloan, B. F. Cray ton and J. L. Glenn. A good two-room house, barn and well ea the place. It isa short distance of the cot ton mill and will be a fine location fora dairy and truck farm. Will be sold at public outcry Saleeday in December if not disposed of at private sale before that time Terms cash. Pur chaser to pay for papers. E. P. ST OAN. , W. W. WHITE, Executors Edt. Thos M. White. Sept 22,1807 13 ll Brs. Strickland & King, OFPICE Iii MASOffKL TEMPLE, Gan and Cocaine used "for Extract ing Teeth. All parties owing me note? 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 yon. J. S. FOWLER. Sept. ?, 1807 14 1 MONEA PATH HIGH SCHOOL HAS closed a most satisfactory yeer-s work to both patrons and teachers. The outlook for tbe next Session promises even better result*- How to secure the best School is tb? ?ouatant study of the teachers- Excellent library, modern ap paratus, live methods, and trained teach ing. Next Session opens Monday, Sept. 6th, 1S97. Board in best families &t very low rates. For further information write to- J. C. HABPEB, Prim, Honra Path, 8. C. July 14,1897 3 3m NOTICE. rpHE County Treasurer's Office will be J. oren from the loth of October next to the olst of Decemht r following for the collection of Taxes for rh*, fiscal year 180?. For the convenience of Taxpayers I wiH attend at the following places : On all other days between October lath and December 3 1st, the office will be open at Anderson. The following is the levy for State, County and School purposes : State. 5 mills. Ordinarv County. 3 mills. Special (Road). 1 mill. Special (Court Hourn-). 1 mill. For Schools.3 mills. Total. 13 mills. Tru?ateos of Hunter School Districthave made a special levy or 3 milla for school purposes, making a total lnvy for that dis trict of 16 mills. All male persons between iwenty-one and sixty years of age, except those unable to earn" a JiviDg on account of being maimed, or from other cause, and rboee who served in the late war, are required to pay a poll tax of ono dollar. All male persons between eighteen and fifty years of age. who are able to work roaos or cause them to be worked, except members of be ards of school trustees, min? i?ters of tb o gospel in actual charge of a congregation, persons permanently di? ahlod in the military service of this State, and those who served in the late war, are required to work three d?ys on the public roads, or in lieu of work, pay a commute/ lion tax of ona dollar, tobo collected at same time othor msw arc collected. E Z. BROWN, Co. Treas. VTOTICE FINAL SETTLEMENT. JLS The undersigned, Administrator of the Es tote of C. M. Hall, deceesed, herobv gives not ico that she will on the 24th day of December, 1897, apply to the Judge of Probate for Anderson County for a Final Settlement of said Estate, and a discharge from her office as Administra trix. MATTIE J. HALL, Adm'x. Nov 2?, 1887 22 5