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FORREST ON T How His Mon Tra -FVOWB ?h? Nach flic landmark? of the old South are fast crumbling ?woy, ?nd it ia only a .ideation of ? very few years till the men and women who eau look book upon the late ut-pleagantnes? ?nd aay ? . ff e remember tho amoke of battle, wc bare heard tho rattle of musketry and theroar of .cannon," will ha?? passed oror the rivjer into the great j beyond. The story of the struggle between brother and brother is surrounded by a sacred halo. Thc fierceness and tie savagery of it all is dead, and in ?is placo has sprung up a haani?f legend of life, a story tbnt can be told ?n tho nursery to thc infant on its mother's knee, or c?n bo clothed with tho beauties of a language and descend lo history as the amplification of a novel of purity and truth, whoso influ ence will serve to ennoble posterity. Kven now it is a treat to hear one of those who belonged to the old school tell of thc trials and incidents of that day. Yesterday a veteran ?ho had worn thc gray with honor in thc civil struggle of the '60s, whose face was scarred and scamed with relics of past experiences, and whose hair was white with the frost of time, uas sitting in one of the public olliccs of the city, and when an American re porter entered he was in tho midst of one of these talcs of other days which ?ire well worth retelling. It is a story of real life, and thc once dark hair of the heroine, which was her glory and pride, is streaked with threads of sil ver. She is now the mother of a family, the wife of a'prominent states man of North Mississippi, and her home itself is a beautiful relic of-the old South. |)uring the carly part of the fall of lsM Forrest's cavalry was encamped at Verona, Miss., one of the few sup ply depots on the Mobile and Ohio railroad, and particularly important on that account. Sixty miles from Vero na is liienm, a little suburban town, which had fallon into the hands of the Federal troops, and from this place little bands of thc bluecoats were making rapid devastation of thc surrounding territory. Forrest was thwarted in every attempt to pu? a step to thc depredations, and he was convinced that his misfortunes were due to some spy who kept the enemy (.(instantly informed of his move ments. His suspicions were fastened on one of those Federal sympathizers, i?n rare in the South, and yet so dan gerous and ruinous to every venture of the rebels. The man's name was Jenkins, and Forrest decided to take immediate action. The country people at that time were, of cutirse, drawu together by a common bond of sympathy and suffer ing, livery house was open to the in - mates of every other, aud Jenkins, though suspected by his neighbors, had.he entree to every abode, for miles around. More than that, his knowledge of the country; was unlim ited, and he was indispensable to the : Northerners and secretly, drew a very hmdsonie revenue from the govern ment treasury. Within half a milo of Jenkins' iouse lived a young woman who was tke daughter of a Confederate general, a woman who would have been willing to die for tho cause at any time. She combined the tender, lovable nature ni ?er mother with the courage and will .flier father, and more than once '.encrai Forrest had sought informa I lion from? her and had used it to ad vantage. He resolved to ask her aid is capturing Jenkins, and her part in the plan was to learn of Jenkins' whereabouts and communicate by .ourier with a point two miles dis tant, where a signal service began, which extended thc entit? sixty miles t* the camp of (Jebera! Forrest him ?elf. By tliis means a message could .c delivered in half an hour, and ?very man knew his duty. <hio afternoon, a few days after she i kad been commissioned a spy, Jen I kins stopped at her home for,a drink ; ?f water. . The young girl waited on i kim herself, invited him into her par lors, concentrated ail her strategcrpi \ ?id beauty and smiles on/ his enter tainment, and when he took his/de Parture she had his secret. . Will bo at homo Thursday u'ight," I ?as thc message that went ?,vown the Hoc, and scarcely had it beeri received ^ed?i?Suay morning wfycr/ an order *a.s issued for ten of tho 'most trusty .en in camp, mounted on thc surest ^?nd fleetest horses, to yeport to Gen eral Forrest at once. , Among the number was a young lieutenant, scarcoly ?more than a boy [kiniself, who was knjown by tho sol diers for his cool daring in times of danger, and it was lihis mau whom !; General Forrest summoned before Bini. ! . ! I ''Bedford/' he said, l"you ?. have a I fine detail and theso njien wildfellow ! U0u anywhere. You \*rill take sup* j per to-night within three- miles of the j . foeray's camp at ft??nsi. Watch j Jour front and allow nothing to prc- j pent you from reaching jyour destina- ' HE WAR PATH. ^ppecl a. Border Spy* H?SBB3HHBSHBS ' PW* America?. lion, avoiding ?1! jngegeraente on your journey. Pey no attention to anything behind yon. I have that all arranged. To-night I trait to your own judgment. Forward!" Lieutenant Bedford's orders were to report et the house of oar fair yoong spy for orders. As the detail rode away one of tine soldiers shouted ont: "Boys, make your wills and leave your saddle blan kets to yonr sweethearts." Another muttered ander his breath: "That dare-devil Bedford would charge hell itif cid FO?T?S?Orucrc? i" The ride was a long and tedious one, but at 8 o'clock a halt was called and the destination had been reached. Lieutenant Bedford repaired to the young lady's home, as directed, and ! he afterwards said ho "had the devil of a time to make that little woman believe he was who he was." For his uniform consisted of an old pair of blue pants and a Union coat, and he was a very suspicious looking object even to himself. Thc girl informed him of thc loca tion of Jenkins' house, however, and he was instructed by her as to the best approaches, for it must bc re membered thc Federal camp was not a quarter of a mile distant. Theo, af ter an hour's rest, the horses were left in charge of one of thc men with instructions to fire his gun in case he was attacked, and thc rest started on thc perilous expedition, each taking a circuitous route. Each mau was ac curately instructed by Lieutenant Bedford, thc house was described in detail, aud a certain position at the different doors and windows was as signed tb each man. It was under stood that Jenkins was not to escape, and he must be taken before General Forrest, dead or alive. Then, turning to the largest man in the detail, Bedford said: "You will go with. roe, break down thc door while I stand ready to enter, and we'll get Jenkins or have a morry time try ing." Then to the others: "Boys, cool heads! <?o where I have ordered -forward!" Then, with the lights of the cuetny's camp flickering in thc distance, these men set out to do or die. From the windows of a Southern home far in tho rear thc bright gleam of a lamp was just visible to the eye, and the soldiers knew that a woman's prayers were with them. One by one they ar rived at the home of Jenkins, took their station?, cocked their carbines, and when all were in waiting the word was passed to Bedford in a whis per: "All is ready." , Tbe door was broken in with a crash, and in au instant Bedford was or. top of the bed in which Jenkins was supposed to he. His man struck a match, and imagine thc chagrin of the young lieutenant when he found in his merciless grip the throat of a woman, her hair disheveled, her fa?b blue with fear and the tears brimming from her eyes. It was Jenkins' wife. Her husband had heard the slight noise on the outside'uud had attempt ed to escape through a rear window, but was held by the m*n stationed there. Xot a word was spoken above a whisper, not a gun was fired, and with che prisoner well bound and guarded thc detail made their escape, but not without apologising profusely to Mrs. Jenkins for the rough handling she had received at thc hands of thc lieu tenant. "It was one of the most daring deeds of the war," said the old vet oran, "and we stayed about that place long enough to /convince Miss tbat ho was no,,bluejacket, and if you ever po down.in that part of the coun try now, maybe you will stumble on a little family of Bedfords, and if you have thc good luck, as I have, to en joy a taste of good old Mississippi hospitality in that home, maybe Bed ford will tell you how he caine to mar ry a/spy." ,"And what became of Jenkins? ' tho reporter inquired. "Oh, he went where all good1 men of Ibis kind went in those days-upa limb." Lettin?: Him Down. "I am a self-made man!" grandilo quently announced the pompous per son, smiting his swelling chest impres sively. "All that I am I owe to my self and my unaided efforts." And so on, to considerable length. .'Pardon mc!" vet?turod the .modest man j "but what is your weight?" "Two hundred and ten pounds, sir," was the reply. "All solid, s'elf maucroan!" " Ah! yes ; exactly! Do you know, by thc woy, that tho estimated weight of thc earth is about ?,tK:>,8:lG3000,(JOO tons?" "I havo heard so; but what has that to do with rue?" "Why, excuse mc ! But don't you seo how impossible it is that tho earth should tip every time you tako a step?"-7W.-. Japanese children are taught to .write with both hands. MEYER VISITED BI WHITE MEN Tart Tratte eff Lui Awaiting Coura geous Expiaran. The story af Dr. Sven Hedin's trav els in unknown lando, says the Pitts burg Dispatch, doubtless astonished a great many people, who imagined that practically all of the earth's surface ie now known to civilization. There was something strange about the narra tive . To speak of four years' travel - inga in unknown lands in the heart of Asia seemed like a fairy story. But it is nothing of tbe kind. Dr. He din's story is altogether probable, and the field is still large in Asia, and will be for many years to come. Few people realise how much un discovered country there is still on tho globe. In spite of the efforts of Livingstone, Stanley, Baker, Vam berg, Andree and all the others the opportunity for exploration is still ex tensive. It would not be extravagant to say that at least 20,000,000 square miles of unknown lands yet remain to be mapped and described by thc in quisitive traveller. Though explora tion is steadily in progress in all quar ters of the globe there is still a big field left, and many n dreaming school boy of the present day will yet achieve fame among the world's map makers. Thc traveller in Asia has yet to map nearly 200,000 square miles of that continent. In central parts we know nothing of cities, towns and races beyond the extravagant yarns of native pilgrims. There may be peo ples in these interior countries un heard of by civilization, as there are certainly geographical peculiarities of which we know nothing. Tbe same may be said, and with con siderably more emphasis, of Africa, North and South America, Australia and the Pacific Islands. Millions of square miles remain to be uncovered in Africa, America and Australia, and not a year goes by but what some hitherto unknown island of thc Pacific is added to the list, and many more remain. Many a tourist in Kurope this last season has heard for the first time, as he sailed past Uibraltar, that beyond thc range of mountains that extend along t,he coast of Morocco there is a laud that has never been trodden bj' an explorer. The information seems all the more strange when it is real ized that the most civilized peoples of the world have been sailing along this same rock-bound coast ever since the dayri of the Phoenicians. Just think of it! Less than a score of miles from .i pathway of civilization several thou sand years old, and yet unknown. It may be all the more sunrising to know that it is not ten years since a big lake was discovered in thc heart of the Pyrenees,the mountain chain dividing Spain from France, and in tho hear* of Kurope, one might say. What do we know of Africa? Noth ing but in a general way. The ex plorers have not gone far away from thc river courses. We can follow fairly well on the map now tho course of thc Congo, the Zambesi, and locate approximately the lon?;, mysterious course of the Nile. But the geogra phers have little or nothiug with which to fill up the white spaces in Central Africa. . Some travellers are gradually breaking their way into the interior country, and thc next few years will yield many valuable and interesting discoveries; but the field is still large for those with the ambition to travel in unknown countries. The most important work of the fu ture African explorer will bc to study thc various races and map out thc hy drographie features. There arc doz ens of native tribes presenting charac teristics interesting to tho ethnolo gists. We need more information than wc have of the . tree dwellers of Shari, the dwarf tribes of the Congo, thc Baluba. and thc remarkable Bach ilangc, who ure already on the high road to civilization. Examine the latest maps of West ern and Central Africa" and you will seo great districts without a mark or sign' of the geographers. The great rivers seem without any tributary streams. This is in no sense a pecu liarity. The tributaries arc there. Their absence from the maps is the most effective presentation of the fact that they are not yet mapped out oi explored. There is a whole world ol unexplored country to the north. south east and west of the wonderful Congo. It is merely a theory that these dis tricts are the richest in the world foi the farmer and the scientist. It it certain that gold, silver and precious gems arc plentiful. That the climati is fitted to tlie production bf tho tem perate zone fruits and plants is yet t< bc decided. There is work for tin husbandman, the mineralogist, the an thropologist, and thc archaeologist n well aa to the topographer. At leas 5.O00.00U square miles of unknowi country, an area larger by one-hal thou the total area of thc Unite? States, is awaiting the scientist's visi to Africa. Strange talcs come to us at inter vals of a race of white pcoplo living,ii the far interior No civilized ma has over reached their country, whicj is said to be on the skirts of a deser ?::.??}.? :? V- >Y' ' : . extremely dangerous to cross. Efforts made from time to time to reach these people have been repulsed by the fierce tribe surrounding them. A Mo hammedan priest, nsmed Al Hadji, nsw one of. the tribe some years since while on a pilgrimsge to Mecca? Al j Hadji described the man SB being os white as sny European he had ever met, with light hair and hine eyes. Who will find these people ? Australia is another great field for the explorer. Developments as strange and important as thoso at ! tending the efforts of the African ex I plorers may await the traveller in the continent of the Pacific. More than 2,000,000 square miles of unmapped and unknown country awaits thc ven turesome individual who shall endeav or to penetrate its wilderness. South America is also entitled to consideration. There arc parts of it that arc less known than any other in the world, not even excepting Africa and Australia. For some reason trav ellers have neglected the Southern Hemisphere, lt is thought thc un healthy climates of thc southern zone are responsible, but this scarcely ex plains the lack of kuowiedge concern ing the districts in the higher alti tudes. Thc results of Dr. von Steinen's trips up thc Xingu tributary to thc Amazon, thc discoveries of new tribe? and curious romains of earlier occupa tiou were sufficient to stimulate fur ther energy in this direction. Xot the least interesting would be particu lars concerning thc tribes of negroes descendants of thc Spanish slaves wh< escaped to the wilderness to fount tribes more barbarous than those fron which they .vere taken in Africa. Thc headwaters of the Amazon, tin interior of Brazil and Ecuador, ant even the Orinoco, are awaiting ?nyes tigatiou. Results extremely impor tant to mankind may bc achieved fron thc exploration of these districts. I has only been a few years since wi learned that Western Patagonia offer, great opportunities to thc cattle raiser and that even cold, bleak Terra de Fuego, thc "Land of Fire," is alsi adapted to sheep farming and otho kinds of stock raising. liven the sea is not without its op portuuitics. It is believed that man. islands of the Pacific and lower Atlan tic have never been visited by whit men. This statement scorns hard t believe, but there are many evidence of its truth. Within thc last fei years a group of islands hitherto un known have been placed on the ma to the northward of Xew (?ni?ea. Tw islands have also been added to thos comprising the Bismarck Archipelago and dozens of others in isolated posi tions are thc revelations of recen days. Geographers estimate that a least 500,000 square miles of islan territory remain to be explored, an wheu thc matter is given thought th theory seems possible enough. Take the interesting bland of Xe1 Guinea as an example. Half as larg as Alaska, and with a" climate mor conducive to success.?1 exploration, i is still but little known, execptin along thc principal water courset New Guinea would be a veritable pai adisc for the explorer with a fondues for natural history. Its llora is arnon thc most wonderfully diversified i thc world, and it is us richly endowe with peculiar forms of animal, inset and bird lifo. Thc obstacle which ha stood in thc woy of exploration i New Guinea has been its savage ir habitants. Though there arc som peaceful tribes, many arc still cann bals, who fiercely resent the cncroacl ment of thc stranger. British America and Alaska ai both largely untapped. Any reccr chart of either territory will preset large spaces which, if not marke "unexplored,'' show by the absence ( natural features that they arc Ul known to the map-makers. In add tion there still remain the great Ar tic and Antarctic fields. They ai mentioned last because thc fact < these icy regions of tho North ai South Pole being unknown is patel to thc schoolboy with his first gcogr phy. Thc advances of science in r cent years make it possible that son of us may yet bc pretty well informi regarding the physical peculiarities these districts. Nevertheless, thc o stacles arc so great-they have defei ed the most determined efforts f centuries-that there is no certain of when or how the secrets of the i lar regions may become known. The individual with a taste for ? plaration may. indeed, find opportui ty for thc display of his talents r far from home. There are a mimi of districts in thc Northwest a Southwest that aro still unknown tho geographer. In Washington St; is a district estimated to bc 2,C miles square that, so far as is knov has never been visited by the foot c white man.' There are ethers of eqi magnitudc^iind right within the bot claries nf thc United States. How's This. We oiler Ono Hundred Dollars rewa rd Jor ca?e'f Catarrh tnat cannot bo cured by Hi Catarrh CuvV. We, th' undcrkljtnrd har?? known F. J. Che fur the a*t 15 yvars, nod believe bim per** honorable In all business trefractions aud fir ci.-liy able to carry out any obligation? tu adi their firm. W?T A. TKVAX, Whoh-?ale Druraists, Toledc WAMUKG. KINNAN A M AI; VIM, WhoUsaieDi gluts, Tclfdo. O. . Hat l'a Catarrh Cure ia taken Inte*, nally, act directly upon the blood and HUH ci* anr'act tho ajwrrtn. Tfsthaonlab) xcni ire*. Trie:* \nrhQMt> SIM brill .?r.i?jr?-i Thaw Hugging Partie?. A Charleston paper, several years ago. published the following: "Anex change says that hugging parties for the benefit of Churches are a recent importation into the South, but they are becoming very popular in some sections, especially in Virginia. The prices are as follows: For girls under li), 35 cents for a hug of 2 minutes; from 15 to 20 years of age, from 35 to 75; another man's wife, 1; widows, according to looks, from 10 conto to 92; old maids, 2 cents apiece, or two for a nickel, and no limit of to time." To which a lady very properly ob jected and repino, an fellows: In your last issue there appeared a Saragraph entitled "A Hugging blatch." which w?? intended tc bc funny, but which proved to bc mean. It embodied thc old fossilized slur on old maids, and averred that in the hugging matches now in vogue in di vers places, while young girls and widows were hugged at a dollar or two each, and a very few seconds allowed at that for thc thrilling performance, old maids were hugged at 3 cents each or two for a nickel, with no limit ns to time. I'll vouch that the author of that paragraph is a bachelor who keeps his blacking brush on thc man tle-piece, and his clean shirts iu the coal box, and who is a good enough judge of whisky to pull the stopper out of a bottle of corn whisky and smell tho negro that hoed the corn. And if thc truth were only known, bc has boon rejected by a dozen girls, porhapB some old maids, any one d' whom would had to have supported him had she been foul enough to have had him, and all of whom render thauks night and morning now that they had sense enough to kick him. 1 am au old maid, and 1 am happy. I don't know how it feels to uncork a bottle of paregoric at 2 a. tn. to quiet a squall that was caused by a colic in stead of a cloud; and I am ignorant of the process of pulling oil' a pair of muddy boots at midnight and Swath ing with wet towels thc burniug, ach ing forehead of a "lord of creation," who promised with a lie upon his lips nt the holy altar, to love, honor and protect mc as long as he lived. 1 re peat it, J. don't know anything about these delights of matrimony. I sup pose I ougb.t to be pitied. ? But 1 had rather be laughed at because I am not married, than not to bc able to laugh because I am married. If you will es cuse me for being confidential, I'll say iu closing, that during a career of 30 years I've only been hugged ono time. On that occasion, strange to say. I got three scents. 1 didn't want any more. The three scents I got were scents of disgusting hair oil, rum and tobacco. - Father-"Come, young mun, got your coat oil' and come witii mc !" Tommy-;<You're not going to lick me, arc you dad ?" '"Certainly. Did not 1 tell you this morning that 1 would settle with you for your bad behavior ?" "Yes, but I thought it was only u joke, like when you told the grocer you were going to settle with him." How to bc beautiful. To bc beautiful, you musthavo pure blood and good health. . Te do so, purify the blood and build up the health with thc best Tonic and Blood Purifier of the age, Botanic Blood Italm i-'B. B. B." It is the old standard and reliable remedy. It never fails to cure all manner of Blood and Skin disease, where eminent phy sicians, and all other known remedies have failed. Send stamps for book of particulars, to the Blood Balm Co., Atlanta, (la. Price ?1.00 per large bottle. POSITIVE PBOOF. A lady friond of minc has for sev eral years been troubled with bumps and pimples on her face and neck, for which she used various cosmetics in order to remove them and beautify and improve her complexion ; but these local applications were only tem porary, and left her skin in worse con dition. 1 recommended au internal prepara tion-known as Botanic Blood Halm, (B. B. B.) which 1 have been using and selling about two years : she used three bottles and all pimples have dis appeared ; her skin is soft and smooth and her nouerai health much ietprov* ed. She expresses herself much grati fied. MKS. S. M. WILSON. "Iron Mountain, Texas. For sale by Druggist._ TO THE LADIES ! .F YOU WANT TIFF; MOST Reliable Fancy Groceries, FROM the best equipped St< re in th? City, it will bo lo your personal interest to purchase from us. To please end Ac commodate ?s our constant aim. Woy? trade n with Mr A. or Mr. lt. jost becau?e tbf>y are nico fellows, or that you have he en trading with them io long That's "before the war" sentiment. That won't do. Sentiment in business IIMH play ed otic long ago, and it ls now a matter of dol?an? and cents. If you will only tako the trouble to come in to see us wa will malt ? pt ice? that wtll please you, and will rall j *>u Gooda that will enable you to enjoy thy best. Here is a natr.ple of aume of tbe Rnr gittus which you can pick up in our K? tablishmeut :.-. 4 lbs. good Carolina Klee for 25c. 4 lb*, best Oytter Crackers fnr 3t?c .". cans new-packed Tomatoes tor 25c :'. o .? a new Sweet Corn for ?">.i 1 package Ar buckle's Ce?fee for Min. 1 package Kol led Oata for J?c. 1 packHge Corn .Starch for nj. I package Cryatal Gelatins l'or s i can Vienna Sauvage fur nc These price* a?e but ? lew of the un matchable values in h?od products of time tried excellence and worth Tneres ia m?rlt in these Goods-a repu tKtion hebind th?sc famous Packets' brands that the prices we have placed on them be little, bm the- ben ell t is sour*. .3SSf If you arc in a burry und w?nt your Groceries quick, come "to ut?. Our services are at your dtspo-nl. Yours for more Business Ou a Cash BUMS.'. AUSTIN & CO., Sconoraicue Grocery. - New Boarder-"Do you enjoy Christmas, ma'am?" Landlady-"Very auton, indeed. AU my boarders get invited out to dine, you know." llany men fool with sickness jast aa a bear fools around a trap. A man doesn't like to own up that he is ill. He sayB "O, it amounts to nothing. 1 afaall be al! right to-morrow." Bat he isn't all right to-morrow; nor the next day. Pretty soon *be trap ?naps to ; and he has some serious disease fastened on him. The only sensible course is to keep away from the trap, and not allow sickness to get any hold on yon. lt is a frightful mistake to trifle with indigestion and bilious troub les iu the belief that they will cure them- I selves. On the contrary they drag the whole system down with them. When the appetite and digestion are iv body is out of order and is not doing its proper work; the blood-circulation is poorly supplied and is being gradually debased by bilious poisons. The proper alterative for this condition i? Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. It acts directly upon the die.? stive functions and the liver; and enables the blood-mak ing glands to supply au abondance of pure blood, rich with thc nutritious vital ele ments which build up healthy flesh and enduring strength. % In all impoverished and run down condi tions the "Discovery" is far better than malt "extracts" or nauseating "emul sions." It creates genuine permanent strength. It does not make flabby fal but solid muscle, lt is a perfect tonic for cor pulent people. A full account of its properties and mar velous effects in many so-called "hopeless" cases, verified by the patients' own sig natures, is given "ill one chapter of Doctor Pierce's thousand ? page illustrated book. "Thc People's Common Sense Medical Adviser." This splendid volume will bc sent free on receipt of 21 one-cent stamps to pav mailing-cost oitlv. Address. Dr. li. V.* Pierce. 66;, Main Street, liuffalo, X. V. For a cloth-bound copy semi u stamps. 'Having suffered for several years with indi gestion." writes Runnel Walker,' KMI.. of i'nrkcs burg. Chester County, Pn 1 I concluded t.> irv your valuable 'Golden Medical Discovery.' Af ter taking five tattles I was entirely eared. 1 also Miffrrnl from bladder trouble, which was also cured by thc * Discovery.' 1 leel liken new man." WK soil B*i t jVOM o <1 .VBUSK'AIi ?X v'ft'RU ?. K Vfi'N t" the best, trade in this und unjoining (Jon nt ip.?, Why not allow me tn ??di you a reliable 1'tnho or Organ. Wo KiHrnntee.????ry lnstrutu*nt that, goes out of ?mr Waierootns, end hnvH a Inrge B?t??nii eet. ti? select fr? in HavejtiHt received 1 ew Klyifci of Ivers & Pond F?anos - AND - Farrand & VoUvy Organs, And WM are getting in several oilier inak?H of higii graiin Instruments Also. >. larne lino nf CiiiitnrM. HunJoN. Violin**, AutoIiHi'iin, dc, at lowest possible ligures. HE A DQUAKTJiUS for C?l?brai ed fc'ww I" onie, ?'.?VJII ami se vorn 1 other leading Sewing 'Machines. Call MTiil seo us. ur writ? for catalogue Buil prices K< sportfully. We hereby notify all parties who owe Bleckley & Frctwell past due papers that owing to the death of oui 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 NOTICE AUDI TOR'S OFKK'K. ANI)ICH?PS, S. C. THIS etile? will he open to receive lia turns of URAL ?OMI PERSONAL propertv for tixa'ion for the next fiscal year from the first of .fantinry, ivis, to the SOfh February following, IncimdvA. Ii is important thar ail Lauds, Lots and Buildings he enumerated correctly: for, unions there is Miine change in the law, this assessment of Kealiiy will f'and for llienezt lour yesrs. Consult your deeds and gi\ e tho number of acres exactlv. Umlor the new ns? est i nu la WM th? Town ship A^se^for* required t-? make Ita? turns for all Taxpayers that fa'i to return to the Auditor within the lime prescribed by law. so ihat t;.ero is i ?are ly a chance for delinquent* to e-icnpe the penalty. For tlie convenience nf Tax. payen? we will abo have Deputies to tate Koturns nt the following limes and ulan*?: Holland s, Mondnx, January lo, 18!?s. Starr. TtMsday, January ll Cook's, Wednesday .Innuary DJ. Moseley, Thnraday, Januvry DJ MolTattsvillo. Friday. January 14 Siorevillo, Mondav, January IT. Clinks?*!e?' x'ill. Tuesduv. Jnnuarv IS Piercetown. We Inewlay. -launary 111, Bishop's Branch. Satardtv, .Ian. 'JU. A ut mi. Friday. .January 21 Wyatt's Store, Monday, .Innuary 24. tvilar Wreath. 'fuetdny, .'nrniarv 25 Wive Forks. Wednesday, Jan -?i Wigington'a Store, Wednesday, .lan. ->'> Kquality, Thur>dav. J?nuary J7. Pendleton. Friday, .tannin v 'J*. Townville, Friday, .innuary 'J*. Tngaloo Saturday, .lannary Jil. Honea Path Wednesday and Thursday .l.niuary 12 and DI. Helloo, Friday and Saturday, January It and 10. Piedmont, Monday and Tuesday, Jan uary 17 und 18. Peizer, Wednesday. Thursday and Fri dav, January DI, 20 and 21. Willlam?t?n, Monday and Tuesday January '?\ HIM 25. G N. C. BOLE M AX, Auditor Anderson Uounty. Dec H. 1KU7 24 Cotton, like every other crop, needs nourishment. A fertilizer containing nitro gen, phosphoric acid, and not less than 3% of actual Potash, will increase the crop ami im prove thc? land. '. hir !::::;!::. tel! al! about tito sub'eri Til ur.- I rev to any farmer. GERMAN KALI WORK?. 93 N???U St., New Vor lt. Cotton Is not the hand maid of prosperi &r ty That's more the reason you should wear the best make of Shoes. Our line isl built for service. Sold by Cash-buying merchants. Ask for the Red Seal. J. K. ORR SHOE CO., Atlanta, Ga._ Drs. Strickland & King, OFFICE IN MASONIC TEMPLE. Oaa and Cocaine ascii for Extract Si; Teeth. All partier owing mc notes and * accounts are requested and urged to pay same as soon as^possible. I need my mon ey and will be compelled to make collections early in the season. Save the trouble and expense of sending to see you. -J. S. FOWLER. Sept. 2?, lS'.iT 11 1 HOFJEA PATH Him SCHOOL HAS closed it meat tmllsfuctory Vf-uv'a work tn both patron* and teachers. Tho ont look for the next &gvt-ioii premises oven better ret? ult*?, ll or. to te? ll re tDe best. School i:? tltp eons'tint study of the teachers Excellent library-, modern np parnttiM, live met hods', and tunned teach ing. Next Session opona Monday, Sept. nth, 1>!'7. Hoard in hrs* fiimiliPH at very low ratea r t>-foi :!<< r Information write to- .1. C. ll SRP15R, Prin.. [fnma Path, H. C, J uly 14 , I Sh" ?(ni TVToTH'l'. TO ( ".'J ;I > li < ? J ?S. % VU pet'soei Davitt:* i 1 it'iia against 1:1.? Estate OJ .i. Ii. Uri Hin, deceased, urti hen liv net i tbn prirent Ihn gnuie, properly proven, lo tho tineenigncd with in tho lime pie*urila.d by law, and ihosc indebted io nicko ? aviriMii . W. < . LEE, Adm'r. 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