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OAQAOAQAOAOAGOAQAQJVOAOAO? f A BAG OF t COFFEE ? A ?tory of th? . Confederacy. 2 'Talk about feeling blue," said the colonel one day when the blue pencil brigade .rc ted at noon from their labors of editing postmasters' <'acconnt? current/* "abont the bluest tb(ie I ever saw, and most of you are j aware I ain't nb spring chicken, was when I surrendered tfith Johnston in No'th ?a'lina and clarted for home." "Tell us about it, colonel !" said the boys. "Well, you see it was this way. ?niirino" th? vrnh TM loft the dd V.7C niau on the plantation down in South Ca'lina, but when the surren der come I hadn't heard a word from home for more than six months, and I didn't have the least ?dca whether there was a coul left alive on tho place nor whether v Sherman's army had left anything of the old place more vLan just the naked dirt. "Well, I started off for home, or toward where I thought, homo ought'r he, with my parole in my pocket, and, riding the poorest, orneriest mule it was ever my mis fortune to become acquainted with, ami I da assure you, gentlemen, I have had a large, variegated and picturesque experience in that par ? ticuiar line. ? ??We moseyed along, the mule and I and one or two other boys, until wc got down to Charlotte, and there thc officer in command pressed me into service to help him parole a big lot of the prisoners. "It took us a couple of weeks to get through the job, and when I was getting ready to start the colonel in command said : " 'I can't pay you anything for your services, but ? think if you vere to take that beast down to the corral and swap him off for a better one it would be a good thing for you, and I guess the government Till be able to stand it/ "Well, you fellows here who know my liberal disposition will probably imagine I wan't slow to take a hint like that. I turned in my crow bait and took the best in the lot, and I Hatter myself I know a good mule when I see one. "Turty good animal you got there,' said the officer when I rode np to his quarters. 'There's some coffee down in the commissary, and that mule looks strong enough to carry a baj? of it.* \ "Well, sir, half an hour later I left town on the beet mule I efrer straddled, carrying a bag of coffee worth $160 in gold and altogether feeliug like the richest man in the late Confederacy. "I traveled by myself on the first day out, just me and the mule and the bag of coffee* "I got along all right until along j toward dark, when 1 began to look out for a place to put np for the night. It'was the dismalest pros peet you ever saw--the poorest pine barrens. It made you hungry to just ride along and look at the cowl and the houses were mighty lerida apart. "At last I saw a light and rode Eptoa cabin by the Bide of the road ad found an old woman sitting in _be door smoking & pipe. I boned er to let me stay all night. She etched her old pipe a few more rhiffs and finally said: "TToull hatter gwy On to the next house, stranger/ "'HowfariaitF "Puff, puff. "Bout four or five les-m ebbe six.' [ '"But, my good woman, I am red and my mule is tired. Let -e stay if I have to sleep on the oor.' "Puff,, puff. hain't got no mb.' " 1 do not care for myself if you m only give my mule something.' * "Puff, puff. Hain't got nothing .t the critter.' A . . /"Well, we-will-both do without can only stay. I do not want lie down by the road and maybe "Ve np murdered by some guer Ja.' "She finally consented to this and wed ont of the .door and took up ? station by tho fireplace, where be continued her labors with the fpe, as if that .were the chief end ad aime" existence. "I took off the saddle, tied the iQle to the door j'amb, spread my ket just inside the door and lay wu, with my precious bag of wee for ? pillow. ["There didn't seem to be another N on the place, but I asked no pestions for conscience's sake. I st lay there wishing for a bite to? l^and watching that ?ld woman 'cered over the fireplace smoking fja tar kiln. [^Vell> I kept on lying there try to forget how mortal hungry faa and ni ebbe catch 40 winks of * but the mule outside was as ss ? was^ and every now and ie'd ff?tch a lo^r kin3 of ? |^ckeringf heehaw, and then he'd B ia to gna?- cn tbs door jamb. ? tired of his capers after awhile ?finally said: ' 1 know you are hungry? old ? and if I thought you'd eat it ive you some of this coffee.' fell, sir, I happened to have my turned toward the fireplace Ba I said'this, and I'm a sinner didn't actually see that old wo man prick up lier cara like she'a beard something drop. "She straightened up, looked at me a moment and said : ** Did you uns say c-o-f-f-e-e?* " " 1 did, madam/ " 'G-i-n-n-y-w-i-n-e c-o-f-f-e-c V " 'Genuine coffee, madam/ a'A-gwvin to give it to the m-e-w-e-1 r " The mule is tired and hungry, madam', and so am 1/ " 'Stranger, I hain't seed no g-i-n n-y-w-i-n-e coffee for nigh on to three years, and it would seem sorter onr'lig'us somehow to feed it to a mewel/ '1 supposed she'd actually told me the truth about having nothing to eat, but I said at a venture: " *Madam, I've got 160 pounds of coffee right here under my head, and if you'll get something for me and my mule to eat you shall have some of it.'* "Well, ?ir, it acted like mngic. She went to the bed in the corner, turned back the cover, turned down the mattress, and I'll agree to never put good victuals in my chops again if she didn't have a regular com missary in there. All the under part ,?f the bed was planked Up solid and was just filled with ham and side bacon and meal and corn. She even fetched out a little poke filled with flour. In five minutes my mule had a good feed of corn, and in half an hour I sat down to the best dish of fried ham that ever went down my throat. "While she was cooking supper I Soured her out about a quart and a alf of the green coffee, and you ought'r seen that poor old soul. She was just tickled to death. She whirled in and parched a skilletful of it, pounded it up in a rag on the hearth, and when I went off to sleep with a full stomach she was sitting there hunkered up over the fireplace, with an old rusty pot steaming full and drinking like she'd never get enough. You bet ter believe the pipe was laid on the shelf, and about every 15 minut?s she'd say to herself: "Ifs the fust ginnywine coffee I've seed for three years/ "Well, sir, I won't undertake to say that she sat there all night and poured hot coffee down her throat, because I slept like a top and don't know what she did do, hut I'll agree to never tell the truth again if she wasn't sitting there the next morn ing hunkered up over the ashes and drinking away, and the first thing I heard was: '''Ginnywine c-o-f-f-e-e/ "She stopped drinking long enough to cook me some breakfast, and then I gave her another quart of the green berries and rode away. The last I saw of ber she was mak ing a fresh potful, and the last words I heard were: '"Goodby, stranger. Thank thc Lord fur? ye comm. It's the fust ginnywine coffee I've seed in three years/ ** . Taken at His Word. The celebrated French poet Saint Foix, who, in spite of his jarg< income, was always in debt, sat Oxu day in a barber chop waiting to b< shaved. Ho was lathered when th? door opened and a tradesman enter ed, who happened to be one of th< poofs largest creditors. No sooner did this man see Saint Foix than ho angrily demanded hil money. The poet composedly begged hin not to make a scene. "Won't you wait for the morie: until I am shaved ?" "Certainly," said the other, pleas ed at the prospect. Saint Foix then made the barbe a witness of the agreement nn< immediately took a towel, wiped th lather from his face and left th shop. He'wore a beard to, thc end of hi f.*iys._. The Strength of lc?. - There ar? certain rules for detei mining the sustaining power of icc Two inch ice will sustain a man o properly spaced infantry; 4 inch ic will carry a man on horseback, o cavalry, or light guns; 6 inch ic? heavy field guns, such as 80 pounc ers; 8 inch ice, battery of artillery with carriages and horses, but nc over 1,000 pounds a square foot o sledges, ana 10 inch ice sustains a army or an innumerable multitudi On 15-inch ice a railway could t built, and 24 inch ice will with s t au the impact of a loaded railway cai riage after a 60 foot fall (or pe haps 1,500 foot tons). Trautwii gives the crushing strength of fin ice as 167-to 250 pounds to tl square inch. Tricks of the Types. Long ago a man on the old Charlot Observer wrote that "Prof. E. V Scott,, the writing master, is in town Tho compositor >"jad it, "Prof. E. \ Scott the visiting rector." Only Pew years ago a state news item, wri ten for this paper, stated that ' High Point hoy drinks 12 *dlk shak in 15 minutes." The typo mi solemnly printed that "a High Poi boy skates 12 miina |n i& ^-;Q?Mit Audit wis in July* Baaks says I rrr^to a piece cf poetry ona tim? whi declared. that "he kissed. her und the silent otara," and he was shocke not to say grieved that be "kick ber under the cellar stairs/' Ai there was another ono. It Was I tended to say : "Mrs. B. had on not lng that fis remarkable/' being drei ed simply, but beautifully. It wc lo the world: "Mrs. B. had on no! jog.. * That *as remarkable."- Ch( "orr* Observer SONG OF THE RIVER. Clear and coo!, eleu and cool. Br lahing tualiuvr and dreaming pool; Cool and clear, coot and clear. By ablning thingl* and toual tv weir; Under the crag where the ousel stags, 1 And the Ivied wall where the church tyll rings, U?leflltd (or the undefiled; Play by me, bathe in me, mother and child. Strong and tree, strong and (ree. The floodgates are open, away to the sea; Free sad Btsvog, (tee and strong. Cleansing try streams aa I burry along To the golden mods and the leaping bar And the taintless tide that awaits me Uar, As I lose myself in the infinite main, Like a soul that bi? sinned and ia pardoned again. Undefiled (or the undefiled; Play by me, baths in me, mother and child. -Charlee Kingsley. TOLD BY THE FEATURES. How Character Can Be Read In a Per son's Countenance. Teeth that are long and not nar row denote large, liberal views, strong passions and heroic virtues; if they are long and narrow, a weak character is denoted. Evenly grow ing teeth show a better disposition and better developed mind than | those that crowd and overlay. 1 Long noses are cautious and pru dent; short ones impulsive, and tip tilted ones hopeful, impulsive and joyous. Beep colored eyes, with well arched lida, both upper and' lower, show a trut?iful and affection ate nature. An eyebrow slightly curling at the outer edge indicates a jealous nature. There is . a whole world of telltale indications in the apex of tho ear. If it lies close to the head, the owner possesses a re fined nature, but if the top starts away from the head at a well de fined anglo that person has an un even disposition and is not to be re lied upon. If a girl's thumb lies flat or drops a little, marital submission to thc master mind is indicated. If the thumb has a tendency to stand at right angles to the. hand, the damsel owning it is headstrong. A person of weak character has a pendent thumb; the strong character has a strong, erect thumb. Fingers which bend backward mean powerful determination. If they are round, strength, both physical and mental, is indicated. Stubby fingers are grasping fingers. Finger nails that are rounded show refinement; if long and rather square at the top, firmness and en ergy are denoted.-Leslie's Weekly. Lightning Measures Itself. In the investigation of natural phenomena scientific men are often assisted automatically by the very phenomenon they are trying to un ravel. Lightning sometimes meas ures itself, for instance, and shows the scientist in a very easy way how far it penetrated the earth and how wide it was. When a lightning meteor strikes a bed of sand and penetrates it, tho heat causes the silica in the sand to melt, and thus a glass sheath is formed under the surface. These tubes are called fulgurites, and vary in diameter from a quarter of an inch to three inches. They some times go down to a depth of 30 feet* and at others only a few inches. They are occasionally dug up and preserved in* laboratories ana mu seums. When such a meteor strikes a rock, it does not go far below the surface, and the fulgurito consists of a small piece of glassy substance. Nicknamed by Royalty. On one occasion Queen Victoria's strong sense of humor led her to make a remark which would un doubtedly have greatly annoyed the subject of it had he not remained in happy ignorance. Indeed not till after the death of those concerned was the story repeated by the per son to whom it was made. Lord John Bussell, the famous statesman, who was one of the queen's most valued prime ministers, was ex tremely small, and when his engage ment to a very tall and beautiful young widow became known his fu ture royal mistress observed that he should be known as "the widow's mite/' _? A Dog Waa Their King. In Ethiopia the people once went so far in their fanaticism as to elect a dog as their king. The animal so chosen was' kept in great state, sur rounded by a numerous train of offi cers and guards. When he fawned upon them he was supposed to be pieced with their proceedings, but when he growled it was understood that he disapproved of the manner in which their government was con ducted. These indications of his will were implicitly obeyed. Fallacy In Education. ? story ?3 told of a French girls' high school visited not long ago by an inspector who asked a pupil how long it required to "soft boil an egg." She answered,- "From 20 min utes to half an hour." The next re 5lied, "Three-quarters of an hour." !he third thought that "about 15 minutes would do," and the fourth responded brightly, "Juat.five min utes." Yet those girls knew all about tho egg from a scientific point of view. CASTOR IA For Infant? and Children. Hie Kind You Haw Ataaj* Lteag?! Boars the Signature of f - In Healing apreoipicc aman is up ?gain?t a big bluff. - The political orator and the whale are bntK spestsrs. A Salt Sea Yarn, The Bowdoin Quill tells this sea yarn: '"It was hack in 1870, and the coaster Jonathan Bell was beating her way from Boston to Bockland, when, mistaking the light of a jogging old tramp steamer ahead for the Monhegan light, she shaped her course by it, and had the un canny experience of following this receding lighthouse all night and getting 50 miles off her course. Head winds made the Bell three days late into Rockland, and the captain lost his job. "In explaining his mistake tho old ealt said: 'You see, the masthead light of tho tramp was hoisted on the f or'ard side of the mast, so that the mast was in between tho lantern and our boat. That night the swell was pretty regular ; but, as is always tho case, every minute or GO there is a heavier roll than usual. That ex tra heavy roll was just enough to swing the light out from behind the mast so we could see it, so that ino old tramp, with the ocean to help, was doing an imitation of Monhegan just to take in fools like us. Well, we chased her 50 miles, but there's no use crying over it.' " Applause on Trust. In Jules Simon's "Piomieres An n?es" he tells that once, when a candidate in Brittany, he spoke for more than an hour amid great ap plause, was "chaired" and carried back in triumph to lis hotel. There the friend who had organ ized the meeting said to him, "Well, I hope you are satisfied." The ora tor assumed a modest air. "Come, now," said his friend, "own up. No one can have on ovation like that without being moved by it." "Well, then, I own up," said Jules Simon. Laughing heartily, his friend con tinued: "There were two or three thousand people there, were there not ? Except you, myself and three more, whose names I could give, not a soul understood French. You got your applause on trust." Jules Simons concludes, "It was the greatest oratorical success of my fife." Hit Him Back. A certain famous English general, the hero of two eastern wars, found his health beginning to give way be neath the strain of long and ardu ous service"" and was ordered home by his doctors. On the day of his embarkation for England he was ac companied by a vast crowd of friends, to whom he began to dis tribute various small tokens of his regard. "Well, general," asked the bishop of Calcutta, who was one of the party, "have you no memento to leave to an old friend like me ?" "Oh, I have not forgotten you, my lord," cried the general. "On the contrary, I have bequeathed to you my entire stock of impudence." "Ten thousand thanks, my dear general," replied the undaunted ishop. "You have given mo by far the largest and most valuable part of your property." And then the bishop's wife turned to her husband and said sweetly, "My dear, .I am glad to see that you have come into your legacy so soon." Plenty of Amusement*. The management ot tba Southern Inter-State Buir, to ba held at Atlanta ibis feu*, ia determinad to supply a capia amusement. Ia ima* it aaa been decided to have a continual amusement program lasting from tl o'clock a, m. to ll o'clock p. m. Twenty thousand doliera has been appropriated, and will be enan* on special attraction!. The Fair Aaec ooiation baa determined to get the beet of everything going, and there ie to be fnn all day long, and a carnival every night. _ Human Baring. " Everyone has the greatest possible ad? miration for tho man who daroo. There are thousands of people in the world to? day who are bending their best.thought to the matter of inventing some new moana for death-begging extiibitiona. The question is not aa to who will tisfc their lives; there are thousands awaiting an opportunity. The only question involved ia one of method; for the public demanda more than a mere exhibition of brutal recklessness; there most ba grace as welL So the man, or woman, who perfects eome act of great daring, combined with ease, or, more properly speaking, appa rent ease of performance, is the indi vidual whom every one applauds. The act must entail risk of life and limb, but this risk must be assumed with appa rent carelessness. The actor must defy all natural laws, and laugh at fate; for the public demands a smiling face. There is probably no one man in the United States who has devised so many daring enterprises as Charles G. Kilpat rick. He was first heard of by reason of his euooessf ul attempt to ride down the steps of the copitol at Washington, on a bi cyclo. This m ar vol om feat Kil gatriok accomplished successfully, and, y reason of the same, became fanions. Since that time Mr. Kilpatrick has in* vented and performed dozens of marvel ous feats. None so daring, however, as his fa mous automobile ride down an inclined plane. Thia mar valona feat waa per formed for two months at Madison Square Garden and excited the wondor and admiration of all New York. The prese and public were unanimous in saying that it waa the most marvelous atad astonishing feat ever performed by a haman being. jaryKlipatrfck will perform hie gratti automobile aa* at the Southern Inter state Fair,, to ba held in Atlanta thia fal?, and the Southern publlo will have an opportunity of witaesnng the most aensaooaal act ever performed in the United States, or Europa. -: Unless a man can trip it off his tongue like music that she will always be the moat beautif al woman in the world to him, he'd better keep ont of the engagement business. - Fortunate is the individual who U both right and president. A Pioneer Nebraska Home. One of the unique buildings oo ?be Pau-American Exposition grounds is the Nebraska sod house, located near the Indian moued, says the Buffalo Express. It is tinder the supervision of Mrs. L. Bowser, who had a similar construction at the Exposition . at Omaha. Her suecos? was so marked there that Director General Bc cha?an invited her to reproduce the attraotion at the Pan-Amerioan. The sod house was constructed by Mr. A. Q. Morrison, a brother-in-law of Mrs. Bowser, and is made entirely of sod brought from the prairies of Nebraska. It is a small, low struo turo, with a wide, squatting vorauda reach i UR across tho front, sn exact re production of thc homesteader's house of twenty-five years ago. Such houses generally have been replaced by com fortable frame dwellings, although a few sod houses still are to be seen on the Nebraska prairies. Each piece of sod is three feet thick, one foot wido and two feet long, making a solid two foot wall. There is but one room iu tho building, which serves as kitchen, dining room, sitting room and sleep ing room. The sleeping apartment is partitioned off with a screen 'made of blue jean. Through three small windows the unpretentious house ts lighted. The inner walls are lined with a native lime, or alkali clay, which is found iu Nebraska. Tho lime is supposed to set, stopping the growth of inc grass, but the rainy season Buffalo has ex perienced has prevented the lime from hardening and the prairie grass has forced its way through the lime, so that the walls of the house have a very realistic interior decoration. The rough board floor is covered with a rag carpet, a luxury in which thc carly settlers did not indulge. The ground is so dry and becomes so packed in that State that a beard fleer is quite unnecessary. The low pitched root is made ot timbers running lengthwise, the centre timber supported by a cottonwood post, and tho board roof oovorod with sod. The ceiling is whitewashed. Upon the walls aro hung a few old fashioned piotures, rudely framed. The furniture is aoant and typical of the settler's days. In connection with the sod house Mrs. Bowser conducts a restaurant in a rustic pavilion adjoining. She has been invited to have a sod house and restaurant et the Charleston Exposi tion.- Woman's Home Journal. Brains Saved by Machines. A machino which does the work of six clerko without making their mis takes has been introduced into several Chicago banks. It weighs oounts, and, sorts gold ooins, delieately separating the worn ones-which lose four cents in value for every grain rubbed off from the pieces of standard weight. Adding and ohangentaking maohines have already been long in use in banks and commercial houses. Cash registers are familiar savers of time and figuring. In many markets there are patent scales whioh indicate weights and calec?ate prices ai ?ne same time. It is worthy of notice that what these pieces of mechanism relieve is not the hand but the brain of man. They serve to spare the arduous exer cise of certain mental facultteo, just as books of ready reference make en ormous strains on the memory un necessary. As inventions multiply which light en men's brains of a mass of clogging detail more room is left for other things in the human mind and a great er freedom of montai process is af forded. These brain saving devices then, must be ranked high among the instruments of progress, over-coming handicaps for the intellects that must go racing-on.-New York World. Thin signature ls on every box ot the genuine Laxative Bronio?Quiafne Tabieu the remedy that caires a cold la. ono day - i - - - A woman judges her neighbors by their baokyard display on wash-day. - There are two kinds of men; tho dogs owned by one kind won't follow them. - Lots of men marry young be cause they are not old enough to know better. c. 7 2p WATCHES, CLOCKS. & JEWELRY. JBsW- All Repair work done promptly and at low ratee. JOHN 8. CAMPBELL, AT DEAN & RATLIFFK'S i If a Woman jj i wants to put oui a fire she doesn't a? | ' heap on oil and wood. She throws y \ un water,knowing that water quenches \ \ i (Ire. When a woman wants to get II Iwell from diseases peculiar to her sei. j | she should not add fuel to the fire ? \ already burning her life away. She <. i should not take worthless drugs and j ? potions composed of harmful narcot- \ \ les and opiates. They do not check < > the disease-they do not cure lt-they j ? ? simply add fuel to the fire. jlTIlfl His. Bradfield's Female ? BB m Regulator should be j i? CBSsflr^si taken by every woman ?> jX I slightest suspicion of J ? i-fJHffk y>) any of tlio nil- J JmSSSJmSk^ jmUkx men ts which af- X AmW, 5ffiNV \?V fl ?ct women, j JHISa Aw They will simply J siMllK^BP^By^Mif^Tfi bo wasting time " imm^^S^^?^ssllTTM u"1'1 tney take it. ?{ SBSSBBSSWSSBSP The Regulator is >' ?BsKin^ a purify! n g . > . HBXr^ssS?/ strengthening ?? WE ^^SBF_tull io, Whk'h KCl H 5{| lWE|fP^| , I nt t>>e roots ot .ho (.' j f " disease and circs " HHk I the cause, lt ?lues not <lr?g ?! ?A I the pain, it eradicates lt. j! BHfc j It stops falling* of the womb, ?| ! Ba I leucorrhea, inflammation ?? 9& I and periodical suffering, ir- ?? Bl regular, scanty ot pnnful ?? HH| menstruation; anil by toing X ?Ml ult this drives awa\ thu Jj HBB1 hundred and one ache: ami >| HSBBBBBI pains which drain lualth ;t RS and beauty, happiness and \i I twM good temper from tin ny n J. \ HMS woman's life. It is rh - one Mil remeilv above alt others 21 ? fiftal which every woman should X \ EhvKy0 know about ?nd use. ^ H\ * ' ut unr ?liUK store. l\ fWjBw? Rend for our fire it MBHfev illustrated book. O NOTICE. THE Annual Meeting nf Stockholders of The Anderson (Vuton Milln will bo UHUI in the Court Hour-Mat noon on TUESDAY, 17th SEPTEMBRE next. .1 A. BROCK, President. A ug_2 ', JOOl_ll _ 1 J. S. ACKER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ANDERSON, S. C. AH business will re?oive prompt atten tion. OFFICE OVER WEBB BUILDING. July 24,1901 3m Will sell during August my PLANTATION, Containing 400 acres, situate near Iva, S. C. Well improv ed, convenient to school and churches. Also, one House and Lot and Store-room at Iva, S. C. Cali on or write to W. F. COOK, Cva, 8. C. Aug 14, 1901_8_3 VAI.UA BUB FARM FOR SALE. The Homestead af tba late H. S. Stribtiia, at Rlchlaod, 8. C. p* Af\ ACRES-120 acres Bottom. kJ TfcV/ Sltnate on Southern Boilrosd. o????pubie or division. Two-good dwellings, farm houses, con venient to churches, schools and markets. Will bo eold at private sale. If not sold "-privately will bs sold at Bubllo sale at Walhalla Court House on 'Member 2,1901, at ll o'clock s. m. Call on or address L. D 8TRIBLIKG, Helena, Oe. 8. P. BTRIBLING, Chalmer. S. C. Aug 14, 1901-8-4 Exeoutoro. THE WORLDS GREATEST FEVER MEDICINE, Tor sH forms of fever take Jess* sea's cata em) Fever Taste lt ia MO times bettor than quinine sad dees in s asnal?day what stow ani nnis cannot de in 10 days. It's spin ne id eures sis in striking eon tr act to the foeble cures mads br qolalns. > Costs SO Cents H It Cans. NOTICE. WILL let to the lowest responsible bidder on the -Un dsy of September, at 2 o'clock p. m., tho building of a Bridge over creek near J. W. Hotbrock's. on Pendleton rosd in Pendleton Township. Also, on Thursday, the 5th day of Hep tombnr, at 10 o'clock a. m., the building of a Bridge over Bea verdant Creek, on road from Pleroetown to Williamson, near Dr. (?uyton's, in Willlamston Town ship. Also, on same day, at 8 o'clock p. m , the building of a Bridge over Hurricane Creek, on road from Pelr.er to Piedmont, near J. E. Clardy's place, in Williamstoa Township. Also, on Sept. 6th, at iii o'clock a. m., the building of a Bridge over Branch nu road leading from 8lpbtown to Eairvlow Jhurob, near 8. J. Wyatt'?, lu Brushy Creek Township. Reserving the right to accept or r? ject any or all bids. J N. V ANDI VER, Co. 8up?rvlnor A. f\ A PLEASED MAS ! A GOOD PHOTOGRAPH gives a great deal of pleasure, and my Spe cialty is the Photographs that will have life-like accuracy and artistic excellence. I combine the best points to produce the best Photographs. J. H. COLLINS. 7 SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT. To the Public. Pleaee note our obange in business from credit to Cash, and read tho follow ing below : our reasons for doing so areas follows: Fl rot, our accounts being necessarily small, and au endless amount of confu sion and expenae entailed loan injurious degree, and the losa in bad aco-mnta, and the time and attention it requires to col lect esme. Second, our current expenses, au oh as labor, fuol, gas, water and other suppli?e arc cash. The utand we have taken ia one we have b? un forced into. With a great many of our customers wo regret to be obliged to pursue thia course, but as we positively rxncot discriminate, we truat that you will appreciate our position and not ask .or credit. AU bundlea delivered after June lat and not paid for will be return ed to laundry. For convenience of our cu'atomera we will Issue Coupon Hooka Hold for cash. Tbeae booka can be V ?pt at heme and payinent made for bundles when deliver ed wl'.h the coupona. You oan get tbeae booka at Laundry olllce, or from the driver Tb:', chango gooa into effect lat of June, 1901. We desire to thank all of our cuatomera for the patronage they have kindly favor ed UH with in the past and hop? wo have merited the Hame, and hop? io nilli be ont mated with your valued ordera after our change goes into effect for caah only, which will always recelvo our prompt attention. Very renpoctfully, ANDERSON STEAM LAUNDRY CO. 202 East Boundary St. lt. A. MAYFIELD, Supt. and Treas. PHONIC NO. 20. ^Stt, Leave ordera at D. C. Brown A Bro'a. Store. ATTORNEY AT LAW, AIKICI'KOU, S. C. OFFICE-OVER THE POST OFFICE. Peoples Bank of Anderson Moved into their Banking House, and are open for busi ness and respectfully solicits the patronage of the public. Interest paid on time deposits by agreement. - THE - BANK OF ANDERSON. J. A. BROCK, President. JOS. M. BROWN, Vice President. B. P. ?AULDIN, Cashier. THE largest, etrongeat Bank in th County. Interest Paid on Deposits By special agreement. With unsurpassed facilities and resour ces we are at all times prepared to ac oom m od ate our customers. Jan 10,1900_29_ THE ANDERSON MatBsl Fire Insnrancs Co. HAS written 1000 Policies and have a little over $550.000,00 lararesss ia loree. The PoHoies are for small amounts, usually, and the risks are well scattered: We are carrying this insurance at less than one-half of what the old line companies would charge. We make no extra charge for insurance against wind. They do. J. R. Vandiver, President. Directors-R. S. Hill, J. J. Fret well, W. G. Watson, J. J. Major, J. P. Glenn, B. 0. Martin, B. B. A. Robin son, John G. Ducworth. R. J. GINN, Agent, _Starr, d. C. 8. G. BRUCE, DENTIST. TN BROYLES BUILDING, over Nlch I olson's Store, below the Bank of An derson. I have 25 years experience in my pro fession, and will be pleased to work for any who want Plates made, Filling done, and I make a apeoialty of Extracting Teeth without pain and with no after pain. Jan 23,1901 _31_ SO YEARS'* EXPERIENCE * PATENTS TRACE WI AHR? J DceiQNS * COPYRIGHTS) AC^ Anyone ten dins a ?ketch and description may quickly aa certain our opinion free whether an Invention lo probably patentable Communlc* Uona strictly oonSdentlal. Handbook on Patent* sent free. Oldest agency for securing patent?. Patents taken tri rough Muna a Co. rc col vi special notice, wltboafrcnarge, In tho > Scientific ?metical!. A. handsomely Ulnitrated weekly. Larsest cir culatlon of any sclontiflc tournai. Terme f3 a four months, Cl. Bold by all newsdi- tiers. ;;&Co.36,BrMd^ New York Branch office. 625 F St, Washington, D. C Notice of Final Settlement. THE undersigned. Exocutora of the Estate of G. W. Farmer, deceased, hereby give notice that they will on the {.th day of September, 1901, apply to the Judge of Prooate for Anderson County, ti. C., for a Final Settlement of eaid Ea tate, and a diacharge from their office as Bx ecu tore. N. F. FARMER. E. B. FARMER, A. S. FARMER, Aug 7. liKU-7_Executors. VIGOR OF MEN Easily, Quickly, Permanently Restored. TJTTVT TYTTJri DB. JE4N CH ABB vs <rav I??..K OJ?JL i/ ls) GREAT FltBNC: IONIC IND VTTALIZER ls sold with written gu. rantee to dire Nervous Debility, Lost Vitality, Falling .Jemory, Fits, Dlsiinea?, Hysteria, Stops all Drains on the Nervous System Canted by Ba-i Habits or Excessive Vee of Tobacco, Onlvm, Liquors, or "Living the Paco thtt Kills." It warda off Insan ity. Consumption and Death. It clears the Blood zn? D??iu, nuii?a up the Shattered Nerves, He stores the Fire of >*outh, and Brings tho Tink Glow to Pal? Cheeks; and Blakes Von Yea cg and Strong ?gala. 50c., 1* Boxes 15. Br Mall to any swMreea. EVANS PHARMACY, Sole Agents. P?TENTS-Ili] ADVICE AS TO PATENTABILITY IPOEE J NoUco in "InvenUve Ara" EBSSS5?5! Suok "How to obtain Patents'* fl DB Baa Rsa 4 I CZz:??m .Murraa. No fee UH Datent is secured. 1 r Letters strictly confidentT. Add rea?, 1 tE^ 0- 8'SQRKS. PaUnt U?yct> ygathlnoton. P. ?. j