Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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SOUTHER things Th.ey IDid TD Chicago ii je was tho daintiest old lady iroag and so talkative! HerJwhite. ??crew curls bobbled up and down ,1a emphasised every sentence with ?(ion of the head or hand. She had ?o this to make herself impressive, j?er voice was so silvery soft that couldn't have been heard other t And no wonder, for she was founded by a group of young wo , sewing away at a lot of denim jfgency bags which soldiers will jiibly never need. How do you like sewing for Yan (?oldiers?" a pretty girl with mis fv?ius eyes asked her. I never would have believed that have beeu guilty of doing such a j?," answered the old lady with a ?h. ''But here I am stitching away pur squadron A men, or whatever Icall 'em, and me such a through through Southerner, too. I do ier what my people in South Car I would say. Some of the old i would think that I'd lost my o. I reckon; that I'd gone stark j: but I want to be doing some jg now that we are in for another You didn't do anything for the liers in the last war, I suppose," la tall, light-haired girl. "I be ra you Southern women are and al fs have been physically opposed to [thing like work.*' Well, you believe whatisabsolute intrue," an?wered tho old lady, her :k eyes snapping, and her curls Ming furiously, "and the quicker ?young people get Buch notions out four heads the better. If I can idnce you that you are altogether mg I shall feel myself repaid for ing this long trip up here. South women not do anything for the ?federate soldiers, indeed, during war!" "Tell us all about it," urged a . ithern girl, and about twenty voices j ked up her request. Well, you girls and women are get- j rup your Red Cross relief societies I we had aid associations in the ith during the Civil War with a lilar object. There was an aid so ly in every neighborhood, and we ithern women had to exercise so ch ingenuity that we actually did realize what privations we were luring in those days of busy aght. The hardest task that an society had was when the members lertook to make uniforms for a com ly. Think of it, dear girls 1 These forms were made of heavy jeane, ren at home by our slaves. A tail- 1 cut them out, but the mothers, ?es, sweethearts and sisters made a!, and every stitch was handwork, , for at that time sewing machines ?e almost unknown W?? knit socks I shirts on steoi and wooden needles [finally thing i come to such a ^?ss t we had to rip the ticking from mattresses and convert it into tts for our soldiers. Oh every Qtation there was one pr more eraakers for the slaves, and these ie up quantities of shoes out of old tlegs." 'How did you get these things to soldiers?" asked some one. "Did i send them through your sanitary imission?" 'We didn't have snoh a thing," an ired the old lady sadly. "It was a at day with an aid society when ugh things were ready to warrant ding a big box to the soldiers by ie returning soldier or by some Bol t's bbdy servant, at home to rest a le spell. Air the women and cid a, too old for service, would come ju mi lea. aud miles around to the ?se where tho box was being packed aging anything they had to send lir folks,iu the war. One would og a waistcoat, one a pair of trou- { ?, another a shirt, and all brought nothing in the way of clothing or I shall never forget a scene that k place at my father's house once en my brother's valet, Bob, was go ; back. Everybody in the^urro.und ; country began to bring things for b to take bask, and what to pnt m in began co puzzle aa. Sudden ire remembered a tremendous trunk ich my uncle, Dr. Nott, had ught frjm Paris, filled with surgi instruments and valuable skeleton, at trunk had always been a white Dhant on our hands, and my old her suggested that we send the ogs in it. It was brought out, fill and packed and filled again, nntii illy everything was in. I can see ? waistcoat now which a mother do. for her boy.'. It was made of y strips, and one-half was brown 1 the other half blue, but, she said, vould keep her boy' warm. Finally b got off with the trank, and the ct day I heard somebody cry out at ?gate, 'Hello!' I wentoutonthe 'anda. It waa bitter, bitter cold, I tho wind was blowing at gale, ar? was an eld, emaciated man on his sc, with a bundle hugged up to his N WOMEN. ?Tiring the Civil "War. i ter-Ocean. j breast. I " 'Good niorniaV he said. " 'Good morning,' I answered. 'Wont you 'light and come in?' " 'No, I reckon I'd better not,' he answered. Tm just outen tho small pox, and I hain't got out yet. Min, my wife, ad 'em first. She tuck on pow'fully 'bout the burning and pain, au' I would say: 'Oh, I reckon it's not so bad;,don't take on so.' But when I tuck 'em myself I sang another chuue. But I rode six miles this mornin' to put a bundle in the box for j my son.' " 'But Bob has gone with tho box,' I i said, 'and I am so sorry to disappoint I you.' . " 'Gone, gone,' he kept repeating to j himself in a dazed way. 'Well, I'll ? get back home. My poor boy! I kuow he needs the things,' and off he went with his head ou his breast. I secretly thanked God that the things had gone, for think of putting gar ments made by a mother just over the smallpox, made in a house infected, into a great trunk of clothing for sol diers! "Bless you, my children," contin ued the old lady, "what thc Southern women did for thc Confederate sol diers in the field was only a small part of the work the war entailed on us. Wo couldu't buy things to eat or wear, and there were all of those poor, iguo rant slaves to be cared for. I remem ber so well that salt was one of the j scarcest articles, and one that mustbe had, so we all thought. As long as the government could, it furnished, salt to the families of tho soldiers, giving I so many pounds to each every man th. 1 Polly," addiespiog the Southern girl, I "your dear ola gran'pa was a salt dis : tributor, and how pathetic it was to see the poor and the rich coming to his house for their share. Some came afoot, some on horseback, and others in carriages. And how kind, patient and just he was! I can sec him now. Finally a time came when he had no ! salt to distribute and could get none. The people were wild for it and at last he could stand their pleadings no longer. He gathered many teams and drivers, went to some salt wells in Vir ginia, and brought back a pretty good supply for thc neighborhood. Salt earth was also dug up in old plantation smokehouses, where we cured our meat, put into hoppers, dripped, and then boiled down. Many bushels of nice white salt were obtaiaed in this way. ' "Many used parched rye or parched okra seeds in lieu of coffee, and a more beautiful beverage than the latter you never saw. It was clear and rion in color, but I couldn't go it. We always kept a little coffee on hand for fear of illness." "You said you couldn't buy anything to wear, didn't you?" asked a young woman, smoothing down her tailor made gown. "That's what I sam," answered the old lady. "For common wear we wore dresses made of homespun, woven by the slaves. Polly's grandmother owned a great many negroes who could weave really beautiful homespun and dou ble-faced jeans, and they also made really very pretty and artistic wool coverlets and counterpanes. Old black silk was raveled into Hut, then carded on with cotton and woven intS a kind of gray poplin, which was very pretty and soft. Our best gowns were I made of this, and we only wore them on state occasions to swell functions, as you girls say, when we sipped tea made of dry strawberry leaves. Of I course Southern men, before the war, I were great on wearing silk hats, and these were left at homo. Wo women skinned the hats and covered tho home-made frames to make low hats for ladies. They looked something like a sailor hat, and rooster feathers were used for trimming. Our gloves were made of black Bilk stocking legs. "Our mail facilities wero very poor all over the country. A neighborhood would arrange to have a daily mail by haviog a member of each family going or sending on his day to the nearest railway station. I have known Pol ly's grandfather, old and feeble as he was, to go oftentimes fifty miles in a day to get his own mail and fetch that of tho soldiers' wives in his neighbor hood. They'came teeming in to get their letters and to hear the paper read. The old gentleman got tho Daily Carolinian, published in Colom bia. At first it was printed on paper made of straw, and the cheapest ink was u?ed, but at last the publishers couldn't get even straw paper, and so they issued the news printed on wall paper that had been stowed away. Schoolboys made lead pencils by melting bullets and pouring th? molten liquid into canes; when cold the canes were split off. "There were many funny things to lighten our burdens, however, and ev erybody was hopeful and helpful. How Iho women worked in every way. . They no the plantations, looked per soually after tho farming implements, the etook, the cows in thc pastures, the hundreds of sheep, whose wool was needed, aud, most carefully of all, after the hundreds of negroes, who must be clothed and fed. Toward the end Confederate money would buy nothing. Why, I've paid as much as $25 for a spool of cotton thread. How good, how faithful, how kind were the negroes. What could they not have done, with all tho white men gono to war, had they been evil-minded? When Sherman was marching through Caro lina, I was the sole white person, with the exception of my baby girl, on the great plantation, among all thc negroes. My sisters were water-bound twenty five miles distant, and my mother was in Richmond with my ouly brother, who lay wounded unto death. But the negroes never left me, and how they loved and petted aud looked out for me. My old negro mammy, Mam my Liza, comforted me all the while, saying: 'Mover you min', honey, I'll sleep in the big house with you,' and she did in after years, when she waa free and I enslaved by sorrow, she comforted mc again. When my little girl died she told me so many beauti ful things that kept my heart from hardening. She uever would leave her white folks, as she called us, and really died our slave, for there is no master like love, and she loved us and we her. "Now, do you believe that we Southern women did any work during the war?" she asked, with a smile. "Oh, yes," instantly spoke up the girl who had expressed a doubt. "Do you know," said the tall, light haired girl, "I feel as if making these emergency bags and doing such things as we do is mere child's play. But all the same. I trust that the women of the country will not have to do such things as you Southern women did, uo matter how fiercely war ie waged." "Such conditions could uever exist again," answered the old lady, placid ly. "Have no fear. ' Then our people were divided; now we are welded to gether by the Stars and Stripes for ever. Really, I don't care what my unreconstructed Southern friends say t wheu they hear I've joined this relief association, for I'm downright proud to be doing something for these dear Yankee soldier boys." And the girls exchanged amused glaucos. This Will Interest Many. Editor of Intelligencer: If any of your readers who suffer from Blood ? Impurities, such as eruptions, un sightly Pimples, Ulcers, Eating Sores, Eczema, Scrofula, Cancer, Tetter, I Swollen Glands, Rheumatism, Catarrh, Contagious Blood Poison, Ulcerated Mouth or Throat, or any other Blood j Taint, will write us, we will send them free of charge and prepaid, a Trial Bottle of B. B. B. (Botanic Blood Balm), a positive .specific cure for all Blood Troubles. As you are well aware B. B. B. has been thoroughly tested for thirty years, and in that time has permanently cured thousands of sufferers after all other treatments had failed. B. B. B. is undoubtedly the most wonderful Blood Purifier of the age It is different from auy other blood romedy, because B. B. B. drives from the Blood the Humors and Pois ons that cause the unsightly eviden ces of Bad Blood and a cur?is thus made that lasts forever. B. B. B. is for sale by every druggist in the United States, but to satisfy your readers that B. B. B. is a real cure, we will send a bottle free of charge and prepaid, to anyone who writes us. If your readers will describe theil troubles we will give Free Personal Medical Advice. Ask your local drug gist about B. B. B. Blood Balm Co., 380 MitohellSt., Atlanta, Ga. -mm O m - It is, perhaps, not generally known that potatoes are imported inte this couutiy from Scotland and Ger many; but sueh is the case. For thc past five years, however, the Scotch yield has been so small as to preclude the exportation of any part of it; but this season the >;rop was large, and on* ship alone brought?150,000 sacks. On thc 10th of December, 1897, Rev S. A. Donahoe, pastor M. E. Church South, Pt. Pleasant, W. Va., con traded a severe cold which was at tended from the beginning by violen coughiug. Ho says: "After resort ing to a number of so-called 'specifics, usually kept in the house, to no pul p?se, I purchased a bottle of Cham berlaiu's Cough Remedy, which acte< like a charm. I most cheerfully re commend it to the public." For sab by Hill-OrrJ)rug Co. - "Now that you are about t marry," remarked the fond mamm: to her only daughter, "it behoove me to speak plainly. You have ha your own way all your life, but tha must end." "Why, mamma!" exclain ed the prospective bride; "George wi let me do just as I please." "Bothc George!" retorted the fond mamm! "I'm thinking that you will have t have a oook." During the winter of 1897 Mr. Jame Reed, one of the leading citizens an merchants of Clay, Clay Co., W. Va struck his leg against a cake of ice i such a manner as to bruise it severely It became very much swollen an pained him so badly that he oould n< walk without the aid of crutches. H wis treated by physicians, also use several kinda of linimeut and two an a half gallons ol' whiskey in bathin it, but .nothing gave any relief unt he began using Chamberlain's Pai Balm. This brought almost a eon plcte eure in a week's time and he bi lieves that had he. not used thia reo edy his leg would have had to be an pntated. Pain Balm is unequaled f< sprains, bruises and rheumatism. Ft sale by Hill-Orr Drug Co. W. 0. T. ?. DEPARTMENT. Conducted by tho ladies nt' tile W. C. T. U. of Anderson, S. C. Eli Perkins .Joins a Drinking Club. "Sellin' whiskey in Kausas !" ex claimed the purple-nosed railroad pas senger, as ho bit oil a chew of plug tobacco while the traia was pulling out of Topeka. "Drinkin' whiskey ! Why, they're drinkin' more whiskey than they ever did before !" "But wo never sec auy bar rooms," I i - marked. ':No, they ain't no bars an' they ain't no signs of a bar; but they's drinkin'." Then I rode through thc State with out seeing a barroom, a drunken mau, or a sigu up where whiskey was for sale. Valuable- corners were occupied by stores, and thc money that used to go into the open saloons was goiug into the stores. I found that Kansas used to scud out 15,0(10,000 to Peor', and Kentucky for whiskey, and now she is sending out about a million a year. I found that Kansas is now saving through temperance $14,000.000 a year, and in ten years will save $140. 000.000; and still that red-nosed lounger in the smoking car is contin ually screeching through thc car : "They's drinkin' more whiskey in Kansas than they ever did before!" Up in Maine I heard thc same whis key drinkers' refrain, lt never came from a church member or from a pros perous, moral, business man. It al ways came from a drinking man. So during my last trip through Maine I decided to investigate and find out if the law preventing drunkenness doub led tho drunkards-if r%claw prevent ing the sale of whiskey really increas ed the Bale of it. Well, a lecture engagement called me up to Farmington, twenty-five miles uorth of Lewiston. The engage ment was for Saturday night. I had to drive up from Lewiston. It was a $10 ride through the snow. "This is a temperance State isn't it?" I said to thc stableman as he was hitching up his team. "Temperance State!" he exclaimed! "Why, they're pourin' down whiskey , here-drinkin' inore'n they ever did before." "Hadn't you better take a hot milk punch before we start ?" I said. "Hot milk punch!" he said, his eyes snapping with joy; "yes, it would taste good; hut you can't get those faucy drinks up here. No bars, you know, an' you've got to make them fancy drinks at home." "But when there is so muoh drink ing there must be bars near by," I said. "Well, they're drinkin', all the same, but wo don't have bars. We have to manage a little, and it takes time, you know." So we started off for the long twen ty-five-mile ride through the snow. We passed several hotels and stopped and warmed. There were no bar rooms, and hot lemonades were the only drinks to be had. We found Farmington without a bar, and a thorough temperance town. The audience that greeted me showed temperance, intelligence and prosperi ty in their faces. Coming back the next morning, I said to my driver: "It is strange that people will so traduce this temperance State." "They don't traduce it," said the driver. "They's drinkin'goin' on here. I can get you a drink." :'You can get me a drink," I said with an accent on the "can." "Why, of course you can," I Baid enthusias tically, "and when wc get to Lewiston we'll have some nice hot whiskey, won't we?" I noticed my man didn't enthuse, j Then after a moment's thought he re marked: "I'm afraid I'll bc too busy putting out my horse; hut I could get you a drink if I had time." "But I'll pay a boy for unhitching the horse,*' I said, as we drove into I the Lewiston stable. "Now, let's have thc drink, como on !" "All right," said the driver. "I think I can get a drink; butmebby the whiskey is out, and we'll have to take bottled beer." Then I followed him through the dried weeds and snow along thc river bank. "This isn't the way to a saloon," I said. "No, I'm going to Mike Grady's. Mrs. Grady has some beer left over from a funeral. When we reached the rear end of Grady's cabin tho driver knocked on the door. "Bo aff from there !" said an Irish woman's voice. "It's no use comin' round here. The perlice has been round hero, and poor Moike has gono wid "em." "Con-found itl" said my driver, striking his left hand with his right fist, "the police are always gettin' on the end of a wake. But I oan get you a drink yet." Then he looked at me quizzically, and said : "Will you join a club?" "A what!" "A club.'* "Yea, I'll join anything to get the drink. I'll join the Maacna, join a hose company, join a church-any thing." "Como along, theo. I know where it is." Then I followed him across thc bridge and up Maine street. Then he turned up a pair of stairs, and I fol lowed him up three stories to a door with a little wicket door in the center, where he gave three knocks and thc wicket Hew open. Then commenced some low whispering, and then the big door slowly opened. "Fifty cents is thc price of member ship," he said, holding out a card with my name written on it. Then we went to the next room, whore there was a bottle of whiskey on thc table. 1 took it in my hand and smelt id' it. "What is it?" I asked. "Uh, don't bc afraid of it. lt's whiskey." It was whiskey-Maine whiskey, but such whiskey ! My man had kept his word. I looked at tho bottle, then looked at my membership card. 1 have that card now. I'm a member in good standing. . "Well." I said, "this is pretty near prohibition. If walking eight blocks, climbing up three pairs of stairs, join ing a club of drunkards, and paying fifty cents to look at a bottle of vile poison, isn't prohibition,! never ex pect to see it." If any clergyman reading this article doubts the truth of my story, 1 will send him my membership ticket by return mail-with my affidavit ap pended. Prohibition docs prohibit whiskey about as much -ns the law prohibits stealing. They still steal, but they ste??.i less. If the penalty against l:quor selling were as strong as it is Against murder, there would be as few liquor sellers as murderers, and there would be less tears aud less poverty in this world and less sulphur in thc next.-Eli Perkins, in thc New Voice. Joseph Stockford, Ilodgdon, Mu., healed a sore running for seventeen years aud cured his piles of long stand ing by using DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve. It cures all skin diseases. Kvans Pharmacy._ KAMNOL. HEADACHE, NEURALGIA LA GRIPPE. Relieves all pain. 25c. all Druggists. YOUR HOME PL ASURES NO influence lenda so much to home life aa music. No Stock offers greater attractions than ours, and we wish I to help you to happiness. Bi'M not alone th tat we say ia, but yon know that we mean fit, as wo soil the best clans of PIANOS and ORGANS? As well AH small Musioal Merchandise, and will give yon f nil valne for ev ery dollar. You are cordially invited to call in person and inspect our Stock, or write for catalogues and pricey. Wo also represent the leading SEWING MACHINES Of tho dav, and aro constantly receiving now additions to our Stock. Wo appeal to your judgment and will sell you tho be*t in t'lii'i Hoe. We still handle thoroughly reliable Carriages, Buggies and Harness, And can eave you money by an investi gation. .Look to quality first-then price. MoBt respectfully, THE C. A. REED MUSIO HOUSE. If you want Bargains go to. CHEAP JOHN'S, The Five Cent Store. IF you want SHOK3 cheap go to Cheap John'?, the Five Cont Store. For your TOBACCO and Cit; ABS lt's the place to get them cheap. Schnapps Tobacco. 37Jo. Early Bird Tobacco. 37?c. Gay Bird Tobacco. 35o. Our Leader Tobacco. 27jo. Nabob's Cigars. lc. eaoh. Stogies.4 for 6c. Premio or Habana.3 for 5c. Old Glory. 8o. a pack. Arbnckle'a Coffee Ho. pound. No. 9 Coffee 9c. pound. Soda 10 lbs. for 25c. Condies 6c. per pound. CHEAP JOHN is aheed in Laundry and Toilet Soaps, Box and Stick Blue in mot, everything of that kind. Good 8-day Clock, guaranteed for five years, f 1.95. Tinware to beat the band. JOHN A. HAYES. _ THESE LADIES HAVE NEVER Tried The^re?? system reculator PRICKLY ASH BITTERS, Because They think it is nasty and bitter, disagreeable I to the stomach and violent in action. ASK. THESE They wi!1 fell you it is 'nut at all disagreeable. [And as a cure for Indi^esTio ^Constipation, Kidney disorders if ?sun4 Evans Pharmacy, Special Agents. TAX NOTICE THIC booka for tho collection of State, Schot? mid County Taies will bo open from Oct. 10th i ..'JJ, u o i ll December ?lat, ??J'J, inclusive, and for tho convenience of the taxpayers I will collecta the following places: llishop'a Braneh. Oct. MO, 'J to 12 Slabtown, Glenn'* Store, Oct. HO, li.il to 3 p. in Mt. Airy, Oct. SI, 'J lo 12. Leach*! More, Oct. .'il, 1:30 to 3:30. Piedmont, Wednesday, Nov. 1, 0 to 8 o'clock, l'el/er, Thursday. Nov. 2, 8 to 4 o'clock. Williamson. Friday, Nov. "ii, ?to 12 o'clock. Helton, Friday, Nov. 3, 1:30 to 3:30 o'clock, lionea l'ath, Tuesday, Nov. 7, & to 3 o'clock, foulis or Iva, Weduesdny, Nov. 9,10 to 2 o'clock. Holland?, Thursday, Nov. 9, 10 to 2 o'clock. Townvllle, l'riday, Nov. IO, 9 to 12. M1?. ?. W. Farmer's. Krlday, Nov. 10, 1:30 to 3 r>lldletou, Mond iv, Nov. IS, 10 to 3 o'cloe*. After tho Kith ol Nov. th ? Treasurer's ofllca wil lu- open, lute >?i" tux levy as follows: Slut?Ta?. ft mills. Ordinary County. 2?<? Constitutional School. 3 " l'utile Hoads. l Past Indebtedness. )?', '? Court House and Jail. 1 ' " Total. |3 '. Ai? additional i i y nf :: milli Inti been niado for Hitntei School District for school purposes, mak ing total levy in tiiiu ?Htrlct Hi milis. Hie Miltie Const it'.lion rt quires males be tween iv.,m .,",) s1x;y y,.;,r, ,.t age, except tin.-.' ineaiianltv of eari.itiK a *np|.ori I rom bei ug H.u.U..;, ur from ot lier cause, and those who served in Hie war between ibu Slates, to pay? pall tax of one dollar. All male persoi.s. between 'be ages of eighteen nt.d lilly year ., ?lu. are able tu work roads or cause them tobe worked, except school trustees preachers w ho have charge ol' congr?gations, and person* who -?rv,il in th,, war between I he Si ates are liable lo do mad duty, and lu lieu ni work mav pay a lex of ?mo dollar, to lie collect? d at the same time the other laxes are collected. ' .1. M. PAYKi:, County Treasurer. Drs. Strickland & King, DjEISiTItST&l. OFFICE IN MASONIC TEMPLE. ?V Gamine Cocaine used for Extract ing Teeth. _ E G. EVANS, Jr. R. B. DAY, M. 1). EVANS & DAY. - DEALERS IN - XJ?TJO-S and GROCBBIES, PENDLETON, S* C. STAUT It I (JUT I- Tho regulation of the prim ro vito is the baBal principle of all therapeutics. Keep clean, eat properly tty uning FRESH DRUGS, FRESH GROCERIES', FRESH SODA WATER, FRE8H ICE, FRESH FRUITS, FRESH TURNIP SEED, EVERYTHING FRESH EXCEPT EVANS & DAY. Notice to Debtors. PARTIES owing UH open and socured Aocount.s due in tho Fall arc notified that Haid Accounts aro now duo and must bo i-ettled ut onco. GUANO NOTES aro title and payable tm or before October 1st, and unist be paid promptly out of Hie lirHt sales of Cotton. We appreciate the general desire, to hold Cotton for higher prices and do not object, but munt insist that it be not held at our ex pense and risk. You can Blore it and.borrow enough on it to pay your Account ; therefore, do not expect to.ride us when we ato needing our money. This in strictly business, and we mean every word we tay, for we will have our money if we have to put out Special Collectors to get it. Save yourself trouble andi expense by giving UH prompt settlements. Yours truly, DEAN & RATLIFPE. WHEAT AND OATS FERTILIZEFiS. HALF crops of [0n\ton don't [pay as well as half crops ot Wheat. Your land uecds a change, anyway, and with proper manuring will pay you better ?u Wheat and Oats than in Cotton. We Lavett ho Fertilizers] specially made] and. adapted: for Wheat Culture, Recommended by eminent Chemists t*?nd practical Wheat glowers all over tbe country, and it is suitable to the oharaoter of Anderton County soil. It is well pulverized, and in nice shape for distributing. Let us sell you if you want THE BEST GOODS. DEAN & BATLIPFE. ? ss ?m g Sa 0 td H w 0 < ft H M ft CO 0 0 ? < > 3 H "I ft 0 O * ft cc td > a M H il gs w ft ? w td a ft M 2 H co . o o M BS ts fl i, i The Best Company-The Best Policy." D Tl MUTUAL BB1FIT LIFE INSURANCE CO., OF NEWARK, N. J. This Company has boon in successful business for fifty-four y?ars; luis paid policy-holders over $105,OOO,OOO, and now bas cash assets of over $67,000,000. It ltsues tho plainest and best policy on the market. After TWO annual premiums bavo boen paid it rnAPiMTcpuf !. Cash Value. .'5. Extended Insurance. 6. Incontes UUAKA?IAIW>| 2 l oau value. 1. Paid-up Insurance. tabllity. Also PaiH Large Animal Dividends. M. M. MATTISOK, State Agent for South Carolina, ANDERSON, S. C., over P. O. SSSB.. Resident Agent for FIRE, HEALTH and ACCIDENT Insurance. WWW WW W W V f W V W A FIRST-CLASS COOK Can't do first-class work with second-class materials. But you can hold the girl accountable if you buy your : : : : GROCERIES FROM US ! We have the right kinds of everything and at the right prices. Where qualities are equal no dealer can sell for less than we do. We guarantee to give honest quantity at the very LOWEST PRICES. Come and see us. We have numerous articless in stock that will help .you get up a square meal for a little money. Our Stock of Confections, Tobacco, Cigars. Etc., Are always complete. Yours to please, _ . _ Free City Delivery. Gk F. BIGBY.