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YELLOW Recollections of Ores St. Louii When people who have lived through some of the yellow fever epidemics that have scourged Southern cities during the past 20 years read in the newspapers that only lave out of every 100 of our soldiers who have been attacked with the disease die, they are incredulous. They say: "That's not the genuine article; it's too mild. It must be something else." Physicians and nurses, now alive, who actively participated in the treat ment and care of people during the most destructive and widely spread epidemic that ever visited the United States-that of 1878-are apt to be particularly skeptical about the char acter of the disease which made its ?appearance among our troops in Cuba in the beginning of July. You may tell these doubting Thomases that medical science has made great strides in the prevention and treatment of yellow fever, as it has done in coping with other malignant diseases, and that our soldiers were surrounded with all the resouicesof sanitation, hygiene and prophylactics that enlightened medical skill could provide. But they are apt to shake their heads and put their experiences against thc achievements and deductions of science. That was a dreadful epidemic-that of '78. I witnessed some of the havoc it wrought in Southern homes, and must confess that in a very small per centage only of the cases that came under my notice was mildness one of its characteristics. Between the latter part of July, wher^he fever first made its appear ance at Port Eads, and the early part of November, when frost put a stop to its ravages, theire were approxi mately 15,000 cases in the city of New Orleans and over 3,500 deaths. In Memphis, with a population about one-fourth that of New Orleans, the death list for August and September contained 2,700 names. Vicksburg's contribution to the harvest of mor tality that year was over 1,100. Grenada, Holly Springs, Port Gibson, Greenville and many smaller towns in Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee were almost depopulated. The tugboat Porter carried the dis ease along the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers from New Orleans to Galli polis. Refugees from the stricken cities scattered the germs from the Gulf of Cairo, and from the Missis sippi to the base of Lookout Moun tain. Plantations and farms became the feeding places of the scourge, and hundreds who had sought safety in the country places were followed thither by the (saffron foe and returned to the cities to take their chances with death. Shotgun quarantine flourished every where in the exposed area with brutal and conspicuous ineffectiveness. Lo calities without quarantine protection, which gave frc ingress and egress to refugees, enjoyed immunity from the disease, while others a few miles away, which were protected by a cor don of armed men, would inside a week's time develop the fever in epi demic form. Nashville, Atlanta, Sa vannah, Montgomery and many other towns were conspicuous examples of immunity. The situation was full of distress and crowded with anomalous conditions. Men who have witnessed the car nage of a battlefield and the scenes attending a yellow fever epidemic prefer the latter in a choice of unwel come alternatives. The symptoms of yellow fever differ but little from those which presage an attack ?f ordinary malarial fever. It usu?lly makes its presence known by a chilly sensation, generally felt along the spinal column. It is accom panied by a feeling of lethargy and weariness and an inclination to stretch the limbs and to yawn. These were my premonitory symp toms when yellow Jack took me in hand at Vicksburg. The day before I had attended the funeral of Lieuten ant Benner, who commanded the relief boat Chambers which went from St. Louis loaded with clothing, medi cine and food for the sick and desti tute in the towns and plantations along the Mississippi. After the chilly sensation intense pains along the spine and back of the head follow. These pains are some times felt in all the limbs and become more racking towards evening and at night. Moodiness, depression of spirits, irritability and restlessness set in. The eyes become dull and are filled with water. The fever stage nf the disease as a rule begins about 12 hours after the premonitory chill. !It doesn't come on with the slow prelude of an organ voluntary but with the swift rush of the cyclone. The temperature runs up to 104-to 101? degrees, in a short time. Occasionally it gets as high as 110. Few patients, even when they happen to be physicians, are capable of keeping track of their sensations after the febrile stage of the disease is reached. / FEVER. bt Plague Year, 1878 ?. Republic I The crisis usually comes on the third day. Then the sick person travels rapidly towards either dissolu tion or convalescence. There have come under my notice instances of patients dying within 10 hours from the time they took to bed. I helped prepare one young man for the grave, who, the attending physician said, had died of pure fright. All sorts of treatments were applied to the yellow fever patients during the epidemic of '78. Members of several schools of medicine were operating among the sick and the re sult was the employment of a great variety of remedial agencies in fight ing the disease. I one day asked an experienced and successful practitioner, Dr. Harper, who began as an allopath, but was then employing the homeopathic sys tem of curing-which of the two methods he had found of greatest efli cacy in treating yellow fever. He was a long man-too long to ride in a buggy comfortably. He was an old man-nearly 70-also a profane man; and he answered me with a long string of picturesque oaths, decorat ing his reply: "By heaven, sir; since I have been px-acticing homeopathy, I have man aged to save a few people; but I'll be d-d, sir, while I practiced allopathy I never saved a single one." I had occasion to become convinced, as far as my personal experience went, that the old Doctor's homeopathic treatment was a mere figure of speed. For, as soon as he was called in, he had me put into bed, covered with a pile of heavy blankets and bathed in water heated to a temperature ap proaching the boiling point and plen tifully thickened with mustard. In this sort of bath, applied under bed clothes, my body was steeped three times du' ing the first two hours after the attack came on. A thorough dry ing with crash towels followed each application of the hot water and mus tard. A mustard plaster was laid on the full length of my back and I was given a copious dose of castor oil. Bags filled with crushed ice were kept about my head and I was allowed to drink all the ice water I wanted. Frequent draughts of watermelon seed tea and sweet spirits of nitre were ad ministered to stimulate the action of the kidneys. I was allowed to take chicken broth the ' first day and to drink iced buttermilk on the second. Before noon on the third day the doc tor pronounced the fever broken. On {the fourth day the period of convales cence began; on the ninth I was per mitted to dress and walk about the j room. On the fourteenth day I walk I ed out of the house a well man. The ravages of the fever showed j most severely among the poor, because j their number was greater and because their surroundings, were for the most part foul and unsanitary. Foul air as the result of bad water and lack of a sewage facilities aided the fever in taking a virulent type from the mo ment it made its appearance at New Orleans, Vicksburg and Grenada. In those places, And especially in the smaller towns around them, a shortage in experienced doctors and trained . nurses to cope with the disease in the j initial stages of its progress, had much ? to do with piling up the mortality. j The wealthy and well-to-do classes j suffered also with proportionate sevcr j ity. Many of them stood their ground i and did faithful service in nursing the j sick and helping the bereaved and j destitute. j 'I saw a bank president and a pro j fessional gambler sitting as nurses by ? the bedside of an Italian fruit ped dler and members of thc half world ministering tirelessly in plague-strick . cn homes. Sanitation and boards of health in ; the stricken cities of the South were : jokes in '78 compared with what they j are now. Old tar barrels were burned I on street corners, carbolic acid was thrown in the gutters and lime was scattered everywhere, but this was done in the < ? ld. days after the fever had obtained a foothold. Since ISIS the exposed localities have entered on the ''ounce of preventive" policy on an extensive, enlightened and perse vering scale. Facts which outweigh theories in un immeasurable proportion, indioate that, although thorough sanitation may not prevent yellow fever from making its appearance on our coasts, -still it does cause it to come in milder guise and to manifest a less infecti ous type. Some of the vagaries of yellow fever patients are remarkable. One of these is the clement of hopefulness most of them manifest. In thc in cipient progress of the disease it is difficult to persuade one of the afflicted that he has contracted thc lever, even after thc premonitory chill and the pains in the back of thc head and thc small of the back have given ominous warning. In nine cases out of ten thc patient will maintain that he has only j an ordinary bilious attack. I have I eveii seen many a one, after the doctor J had given him up, hold to the belief j that he was on the road to health till the bla?k vomit put in its appearance and banished hope. Not everyone who has had black vomit dies, for I have known a few to get well after this harbinger had shown itself. Another peculiarity about the dis ease is that the more intelligent pati ents are the hardest to control, par ticularly during the period of conva lescence. They will deceive their nurses in order to induce them to leave the room so that they may get hold of some article of food, which is almost sure to cause a relapse if they succeed in swallowi ng it. Once I sat up all night with a mer chant, a big, husky fellow, who in health weighed over 200 pounds. He had wasted to a skeleton. The fever was gone and the man was nearly so, for his pulse had fallen to 52. He had not slept a wink, he told me, for three days and nights. Thc doctor brought in a four-ounce vial filled with bromide of potash and chloral and in structed me to give the sick man two tablespoonfuls every hour till he should fall asleep. "What have they been feeding you on?" I asked him, as soon as.the doctor had gone. ' Champagne," he whispered, dis gustedly. "They've been poking a spoonful of the stuff, mixed with cracked ice, down my throat every hour for the last four days." "They have been starving you to death," I told him. "Now I am here to give you whatever you want-what shall it be first?" His eye looked thirstily toward a cupbaard that stood in one corner of f.he room. I fished out a square black bottle from its hiding place and made my friend a reasonable weak toddy. He drank it without any coaxing, and fell back on the pillow with a heavenly look of satisfaction on his wan face. For an hour he slept like a tired child. When he awoke I made him a second toddy, much stronger tha'n the first. This made him slumber peace fully for three hours longer. He woke a second time after 12 o'clock, and re lated a dream he had about his little ones. He said he felt much refreshed, but did not intend to turn his back on another sleeping potion if I should insist on concocting one. This time I built him an Irish cocktail: Half a glass of whiskey, three lumps of sugar and one tablespoonful of cracked ice. At G next morning the fat little doctor called and found his patient sleeping peacefully. "Ah!" he said, proudly, "that chloral and bromide had done the business-he's entirely out of dan ger." I led the doctor gently to the open window and pointed to a four-ounce vial, uncorked, and with label upturn ed, roosting harmlessly among the tall grass. This reminds me that nearly every regular beer drinker that yellow Jack attacked, as far as my limited collec tion of statistics extends, succumbed, while the whisky and brandy drinkers, in a majority of instances, fought him off. AN IMMUNE. -m 4? m* - Household Hints. Brown boots may be simply, and ef fectively cleaned by rubbing them with a peeled oniom and afterwards polishing them with a soft cloth. The pressure of a tight shoe may be relieved by applying a cloth wrung out in boiling water, to it when on the foot. This causes the shoe to stretch and mold itself to the shape of the foot. Caue chairs, thc seats of which have sunk down, may be renovated by turning them upside down, and wash ing with strong soap suds, after well soaking, set to dry, when it will bc found that thc scats have become quite flat. Hair brushes should never bc wash ed with soap. A piece of soda dissolv ed in warm water should bc used, and the bri-ties will speedily become white and clean under its influence. Dry in the open air, keeping the brist les downward. Fruit should be eaten by every une during the hot weather unless it posi tively disagrees with them, as it con tains a large proportion of pure water, in addition to certrin salts which are needed to keep the body in perfect health. - There arc many truths it is not worth while to know. If we had a dozen centuries of life allowed us wc might, perhaps, bc pardoned for spend ing a little time upon curious trifles; but, with thc small pittance of life wc have, it would be great ill-husbandry to spend a considerable part of it in what makes neither a quick nor a sure return. - Dr- J. I. Terry, of Trimble, Ten., in speaking of Chambcrlains's Colic. Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, says : " It has almost become a necessity in this vicinity." This is thc best rem edy in the world for colic, cholera mor bus, dysentery and diarrhoea, and is recognized as a necessity wherever its great worth and merit become known. No other remedy is so prom.pt or effect ual, or so pleasant to take. Sold by Hill Orr Drug Co. The Florida's Daring Dash Through Federal Lines. One of the boldest and most peril ous feats ever accomplished by a block ade runner was the "neck-or-nothing" dash of thc Confederate cruiser Flor ida through the national squadron at Mobile Bay in 1862. She had been forced to leave the British port of Nassau, in thc Baha mas, with a very imperfect outfit. In thc haste of departure she sailed away without rammers, sponges, lights, locks, elevating screws, or quoins. Her guns, therefore, were useless. She took refuge on the coast of Cuba, but thc yellow fever, which in that re gion is a more terrible scourge even than war, got aboard, and for a time reduced thc effective crew to one fire man and two seamen. The captain himself was given up by the Spanish doctor called from Havana, who de clared that he could not possibly sur vive beyond noon. ''You're a liar, sir !" cried the sick man, "I have too much to do, and can't afford to die." His will force saved him. It was now necessary at all hazards to run into Mobile and refit, though the place was blockaded'by a formida ble force, and the Florida was quite unable to fight. The British flag was run up, and by this ruse the vessel succeeded in getting pretty near the gunboats before her real character was discovered. "Four minutes of hesi tation may save us,"' said Captain Maffit. Then came a warning shot across her bows. She made no response, either by gun or signal. The next instant a terrible broadside burst from the chal lenging ship (the Oneida.) Two more Federal gunboats quickly joined the melee. The Florida was shot through and through. One 11-inch shell rent her side only three inches above the water line. The blast of missiles which swept over her deck tore her spars and rigging in shreds and splin ters. The cries of the wounded and helpless sick ros?* shrilly above the cannonade. At this moment an at tempt was made to hoist the Confede rate flag, but the hand of the man who grasped the ropes was torn by shrapnel, and he desisted in agony. All this while, remember, the Florida was powerless to reply with a single gun. The strain of this passive con flict was awful. The ship seemed doomed. But she was swift-as a successful blockade runner has need to be. Her engines heaved and strained and pant ed, the steam pressure almost at the bursting point. It was no time for caution. Helpless as she seemed, she was rushing through the water at a speed unattainable by her pursuers. Their shot began to fail short. They heaped rosin upon their fires until the black smoke gushing from their fun nels was flecked with flame, but it was no use. Slowly the ship which had seemed their almost certain prey drew away from them, and at last made safe anchorage under the guns of Fort Morgan. Scarcely less extraordinary was the escape of this vessel through the blockading lines some months later. She started out at night close on the heels of a tempest. Possibly the bit ter cold-it was midwinter-made the watch a little remiss ; anyhow, she was not sighted until about daybreak. The drums sounded, lights flashed, and there was general commotion. All day long she was hotly chased by no less than a dozen armed ships, but by evening all were distanced ex cept two. These were finally thrown off the track by a clever though risky stratagem. Captain Maffit damped his fires, thus subduing betraying smoke, and closely reefed his sails. This, in the mist and gloom, made his vessel practically invisible. Her pur suers passed by at full speed, and great was their wonder as to what had become of her ; it was even surmised that she had sunk, so sudden and mys terious was her disappearance. Mean while she was quietly making off in a ncwdircction.-Phil ad el phia Inquirer. - A hard thing to understand is the repugnance shown by so large a proportion of our farmers to the wide tired wagon. If it could be exclusive ly used for all carting, or all heavy loads, in any single township for a year, thc result would be so gratify ing that their use would immediately become quite general. In sections where roads traverse clay lands and where they arc so often very badly rut ted, thc wide tires would be a bene diction. They would accomplish more good than the road machines, though we rate thc machines highly. A road cannot well bc rutted with wide-tire wagons, no matter how heavy the load that they ?put on them-on the con trary, they will obliterate ruts and give a smooth road-bed if nothing else. -So nth ern. Cultivator. - Nothing so thoroughly removes thc malarial germ from thc system as Prickly Ash Bitters, lt gives life and action to thc torpid liver, strengthens and assists thc kidneys to properly cleanse the blood, gives tone to thc stomach, purifies the bowels, and pro motes good appetite, vigor and cheer fulness. Sold by ICvans Pharmacy. I - Hon t worry because you have ' nothing to worry about. The Development of the Southland. BALTIMOHE, June 30.-Close ob servers of movements tending to the development of the south are con vinced that the industrial leagues that are being organized in many places will arouse a new spirit of enterprise and establish a new order of things in the South, encouraging the migration into that section of manufacturing capital which is so much needed for the full conversion i of its abundant raw material in the higher utilities and for employment of thousands of men, women and chil dren. It is believed that a great im pulse will be given to these move ments as a result of the present war with Spain. Col. J. B. Killebrew, of Nashville, Tenn., who has been active in industrial and immigration move ments in the South for several years shares this conviction, and he bases his belief upon the fact of the greater diffusion of knowledge among the northern and western people concern ing the advantages of the south. In an interview published in the Manu facturers' Record he says that people of other sections recognize more than ever that we arc one people in sympa thy, in effect, and in destiny. He says, in discussing the influences that have been active to the end : "The railroads have been exceed ingly active in the work of immigra tion. They have dissipated preju dices, provoked inquiry, supplied in formation, sent well informed agents into every part of the north, and especially in the northwest, to meet the people face to face and tell them the truth, until the citizens of the north have had their eyes opened in many matters concerning the south. Another reason for increased immi gration is the fact that the high prices of farm products have distributed a large amount of money among the rural classes in the north, and they have been able to find purchasers for their farms. Many who have sold out at good prices are seeking homes in a warmer climate, and this also accounts for the fact why a better class of im migrants are coming South. This class wants the best lands in the South, or, at least, lands that may be easily restored to fertility. Another powerful factor in this work is the unquestionable patriotism displayed all over thc South since the beginning of hostilities with Spain. Soldiers from thc north by the thousands have passed through the most beautiful portions of the southland in the most beautiful season of the year, and they have written home describing the loveliness of the country, the fertility of the soil, the sweetness of the cli mate and the hospitality of the peo ple-all this has moulded a new senti ment in thc north. Intensifying this favorable sentiment was the death of Bagley, the heroism of Hobson and the alacrity with which the South has responded to the call of thc President for volunteers. After r viewing the difficulties which the South has encountered, Col. Killebrew adds: "In the face of all these facts, the south has moved onward and upward. It has turned its face to the sunlight of prosperity. The desire of the peo ple of the South to win a more glorious place in its country's industrial his tory will assuredly find its fulfillment early in the coming century. Through much tribulation it has been working out its manifest destiny. The invin cible spirit of the Anglo-Saxon rules its councils, and though sometimes slow to act and cautious in its move ments, it rarely suffers defeat, and even turns defeats oftentimes into glorious triumphs. The south is a land of high spirited men and women. It is the land of beauty and promise and of conserved power, rich in re sources, abounding in fertile soils, cheap lands, wide forests, numerous waterfalls, great coal and iron fields, phosphates, zinc, marble, copper, etc., and possessed of a climate so genial, so invigorating, so happy that pleas ures and amenities of life are doubled while its cares and accerbities are re duced to a minimum." AU Honor to Joe Wheeler. lt is stated circumstantially that the distinctive "hero of Santiago" is Cen. Joseph Wheeler, who was born in Au gusta. But for him, so thc story goes, (?eu. Shafter, who was aboard ship during the critical period of the fight, might have listened to importunities for ordering a retreat. Officers begged Wheeler to retire the command, but he refused, and sent a dispatch to Shafter urging him to turn a deaf cai to any advice looking to abandonment of thc contest. Had Gen. Beauregard, who was sick in thc rear at the battle of Shiloh, refused to order a retreat from the river bank where Bragg had the Federal army cornered. ( i rant and his entire force would have been cap tured. Thc late Col. Schaller told thc writer that Gen. Uragg, when he re ceived (Jen. Beauregard's order, was so indignant that he broke his sword and sullenly obeyed a fatal command. All honor to Joe Wheeler, the Ex Confcderatc, for his undaunted firm ness. Honor to Shafter for refusing to issue an order for retreat. Some ol' these days the bronze statue of (?en. Wheeler, as he stood finn and unflinching at Santiago, will adorn the city ol' Washington.-Anf/nsla Chron icle. \ <| DON'T FEEL RIGHT... W ?JV Do you wake up in the morning tired and unre- ?B& Tmk j*** freshed? Do you perform your daily duties fB^ ?Sb ?M? languidly? Do you miss the snap, vim and A ugSgJ 4Jl> energy that was once yours? If this describes your condition you are in urgent need of ^ Your trouble arises in a clogged and torpid condition of the liver and bowels which, if allowed td continue, will develop mala rial fevers, kidney disorders or some other troublesome disease. PRICKLY ASH RITTERS drives out all poisonous impurities, strengthens thc vital organs, promotes functional activity, good digestion, und vigor and energy of body and brain. SOLD AT ALL DRUGSTORES. t PRICE, $1.00 PER BOTTLE. EVANS PHARMACY, Special Agents. Disturbing' Nature's Balance. The great and growing cost of the attempts in Massachusetts to exter minate the gypsy moth shows how serious may be the consequences to "the balance of nature" by the intro duction of foreign insects or animals. A few of these moths were imported some years ago by an entomologist re siding near Boston, says the New York Times. Several of the captives escaped from custody, and the State has spent $450,000 in the last four years in a vain attempt to exterminate | their descendants. It is now esti mated that at least $1,575,000 will be required, and that the appropriation for five years to come should be $200, 000 per annum. On the other hand, a perpetual appropriation of $100,000 per annum would serve to confine the moths to the districts in which they are now found. The problem resem bles that which has taxed the resour ces of the Australian colonies since the progeny of half a dozen rabbits, imported from England, became so nu merous that the maintenance of agri cultural industries was menaced by their depredations. Australia has expended millions in rabbit-proof fences and devices for killing off the rabbits. But, although bacteriologists have endeavored to re move them by disseminating the germs of fatal disease, the colonists have thus far been able to do no more than to hold the animals in check. In Florida several rivers have recently become choked by the rapid growth of a kind of hyacinth imported a few years ago, and considerable expendi tures will be required to keep the streams open for navigation. An im ported insect called the black scale menaced the fruit industry in Cali fornia until the State procured from Australia and introduced iu the or chards a little beetle which ate the obnoxious insects, and thus brought relief. These and other instances which might be cited show that the utmost caution should be observed with re spect to the introduction into any country of insects or plants for which nature has made no preparation there, and the growth of which may not be restrained by natural enemies and checks with which they must contend in the countries from which they arc brought.-Scientific American. When you call for DeWitt's Witch Ha zel Salve, the great pile cure, don't accept anything else. Don't be talked into ac cepting a substiiute, for piles, for sores, for burn9. Evana Pharmacy. - " There is indeed an honest man. He pays all the taxes that he should." "O, that isn't honesty; that's foolish ness." A stubborn cough or tickling in the throat yields to One Minute Cough Cure. Harmless in effect, touches the right spot, reliable and just what is wanted. It acta at onoe. Evans Pharmacy. - She-''Oh my darling, I will trust thee forever.'* He-"Noblewom an, would to heaven thou wert my tailor." You invite disappointment when you experiment. DeWitt's Little Early Kisers are pleasant, easy, thorough little pills. They cure constipation and sick headache just as sure as you take thom. Evans Pharmacy. , - "Say, friend." asked the com mercial traveler, "how tall are you in your stocking feet?" "I haiu'tgot none." answered the guileless Ken tucky mountaineer. Por broken surfaces, sores, insect bites, burns, skin diseases and especially piles there is one reliable remedy, DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve. When you call for DeWitt's don't accept counterfeits or frauds. You will not be disappointed with DeWitt's Hazel Salve. Evans Phar macy. - "Wc are prone to forget kindness and to remember injuries. Better would it be to ?everse our habit. If one docs you good, keep it in mind; if he docs you harm, let it be forgotten. "Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors." Morn than twenty million freo samples of DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve have been distributed by the manufacturers. AN'hat hotter proof of their confidence in its mer its do you want? lt cures piles, hums, scalds, sores in the shortest space of time. Evans Pharmacy. We Pay Eiterest on Time Deposits by Agreement. Capital.$165,000 Surplus and Profits . - 100,000 Total .... - $265,000 OFFICERS. J. A. BROCK, President. Jos. N. BEOWX, Vice-Piesident. B. F. MAULDIN, Cashier. DIRECTORS. J. W. NORRIS. G. W. FANT. N. 0. F*RMER. Jos. N. BROWN. J. A. BROCK. J. G. DUCWORTEJ. J. J. FRBTWELL. J. M. SULLIVAN. B. F. UAULDIN. Having the largest capital and surplus of any Bank in the State outside of Charleston, we offers depositors the strongest security. This applies to our Savings Department, where? we pay interest, as well as to active accounts. We loan to regular depositor customers at oar lowest rates. Private loans arranged without charge between our customers, and other investments secured; when desired. With twenty-five years experience in hanking, and with unexcelled facilities at our command, we are prepared to give satisfaction in all business transactions, and will, as heretofore, take care o?' the interests of our regular customers at all times Drs. Strickland & King, DENTISTS; OFFICE IN MASONIC TEMPLE. Gas and Cocaine used for Extract ing Teeth._ "THE EMERSON PIANO," ls Unequalled In Tone, Matchless in Dosign of Case. 75,000 IN USE. Have stood the test for fifty years,, and the price is right. Do all my own work. ?S" No second-hand stock. HIGHEST GRADE ORGANS. Competition is the only way to keep the? prices right. 'Can save you money. . Sample Piano and Organs on hand Address M. L. WILLIS", Box 294. Anderson, S, C. W. G. McGEE, SURGEON DENTIST, OFFICE-iront llxxr, bve. Farmers? and Merchants Bank ANDERSON, ?. G Feb 9,1S98 33 ICE-COLD ICS-ICE. MY customers and the general public will take notice that Elias Single ton is no lorjger in my employment. I have employed a reliable mau to sell Fish for me. so please give him your orders. I have been in the tish business for nine years and have always tried to give satis faction, and will appreciate a continuance of your patronage. I handle all kinds of Florida Vegetables and Fruits in and out ot' season. Also, a full line of Fancy Groceries, Tobacco and Cigars, Oranges, Bananas, &c, at wholesale. J. F. FANT, Florida Fish and Fruit Store. April 20.1S98 43 3m NOTICE. THE management of the Equitable Life Assurance Society in this territory is desirous of securing the seryices of a man of character and ability to represent its interest with Anderson as headquarters. The right mau will be thoroughly edu cated in the science of Life Insurance and the art of successful soliciting. There is no business or profession not requiring capital wo ich is more remunerative than a life agency conducted with energy and ability. Correspondence with men who desire to secure permanent employment and are ambitious to attain prominence in the profession is invited. W. J. RODDEY, Manager, _ Rock Hill, S. C. NOTICE. All parties owing me notes and accounts are requested and urged to pay same as soon as possible. I ; need my mon ey and will be compelled to make collections early in the sea son. Save thejtrouble and expense of sending to see you. J. S. FOWLER. Sept. 29, 1S97 14 1