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FMi. uLU .<? iii??- i i' ' A Southern Woum s View ??f tho Col ored Man s Destiny. (From the New York Sun.) Being a subscriber to the Sun, I have been reading tho many articles published in your valuable paper on thc negro and his needs, and il is very plain to see that tho average North ern man, with all his cultivation aud superior advantages, is altogether ignorant as to tho darky and thc South generally, and a total want of knowl edge of these matters renders such a one totally incapable of forming a cor rect opinion. I think it but fair that these questions should be left to us o?" the South, who know the darkey and his wants so well. Only yesterday a great burly, black negro came to my door, with hat in hand, respectfully soliciting tho job of repairing a house about which I had spoken to him previously. After speaking to him about thc work he wanted to do he drifted to thc sub ject of thc colored people, and stated that any colored man who would keep sober and attend to his business could make a living, as he was doing; that the trouble with tho negro race was that thoy drank too much liquor and were too idle to prosper. Ile then went on to say: "What would becomo of us negroes but for thc whito people? They are our friends. We have been brought up with them, and know and bye them. Why do these Northern peo ple bother over us so muoh? We don't want office; it don't suit UB. We want to labor and be happy here in the South. We can't trust our own race, and I've got no use for the Northern man, either, if they who come down here putting in machinery are a sample. He treats the negro mean and che**s him out of his mon ey, too. Our white people don't do that way. No, ma'am, I want to stay on right here." This man is only one of thousands whose ideas run in the same channel. We of the South know how to treat the negroes. We know their require ments. The* have their own schools and their own ehurohes and wo help them to get them, and then support them largely by taxation on our own property. Some of them own thoir farms and stock, while cot a few own houses and lots in our towns and cities. Others are shiftless and in dolent and never will have anything, but the same is also true of some of the other race. It is sadly true that the negro as a moral propoaition is far from perfeot, and here lies muoh of tho trouble. Eduoation does not improve him in that respect, for many negroes who have the best school training are often immoral. They have a natural trait of lying and deoeiving in their make up, but we people of the South know how to make allowances for that. We may oultivate and improve them in many ways, but we can't make them over or change their original inheri tance any more than you can ohange their color. So why push them on to oooupy pisces that they are not fitted for and do not caro for? Let them alone; we are thoir real friends and they aro happy here. We have a charming country homo a few miles from our thriving little city, surrounded by several acres of forest trees, many aorea of good .arm ing lands adjoining. In the midst of this forest is a beautiful spring from whioh flows a pure stream of, water that runs off like a thread of silver. The spring flows at the' rate of sixty gallons per minuto and sup plies ali on- the farm with an abun dance of pure water. Just in a stone's throw from the dwelling house, and in the cool and shady woods, dwells, io a comfortable cabin, an old, old negro. His step is slow, and his unco strong form in bent and feeble; his eye is now dim and his her and beard are snow white. He lives here content, at peace with God and man. In his cabin :.:abig old-fashioned fireplace, with its blazing logs. He has a good bed, with plenty to eat and to wear, with nothiug to do but sit in his chim ney corner and dream of tho "happy days in Dixie, now gouc by." When this old man was young and strong, and happy and secure in his master's care, he know and cared noth ing for the ups and downs of life, nor did ho realizo any of tho hardships of lifo. He had his duties only, his good master did all the rest. But after freedom carno ho must go, he must assume his cares and duties, he must look after and raise his family. He took up the burden as best he could, and after thirty-five years of toil and struggle in his changed capa city, with his children all grownup and married, his faithful old wife departed, then he turns with a yearn ing for his old home and tho life on the old farm, and his own whito folks. Ho wents* to go back home, and when death ciaims him he wants to be bur ied in thc old family graveyard, not. with his own color, but with tho loved forms of his old white friends. Ho hears of his young mater, who, when he left homo after tho war was sitting on thc front pjrch of the obi farm cottago with his blue-back sycller'on klivr, itu* -i inlddlc-a?c'd man D! :I lia i r ?i, und achieving Mich suc?es* JIM comes in thu South only by 'inst: who work hard, and ibis is thc uiet>?ngc tho old negro ?eui: "I toted you when you wus young? now you tote mo till I die." The message was heeded. The old man was sent for and installed in his cabin and told to stay there and sit in thc sunshine and enjoy himself tho remainder of his days, Everything is. furnished to him that is necessary to mako this possible and he does his part to perfection. There is a strange coincidence in connection with this story. The logs that the cabin is built of were cut and hewn by tho eamo old man in his young er dayB. Tho cabin was removed from its original place and rebuilt to give a bit of picturesqueness to the forest, with little thought at thc time that thc old negro would ever occupy it again. This is a true statement of facts, and it shows thc feeling of the original owners of thc negroes toward them. Now, if you do not believe this state ment justcomedown and see for your self, and that is just what you should do, and others, before expressing an opinion on the subject. Mrs. J. J. Fretwcll. Auderson, S. C., February 20. Poll Parrot Talk. ' "It's all nonsense this continual josh about parrots swearing," remark ed Frank Edwards, the Michigan avenue bird man, as he playfully chucked his aged cockatoo under the chin-or rather the bill. "Most of the parrot stories, anyway, aro myths," he continued, as the vi cious bird crawled around his shoulder. "In all my czporienoes with parrots I have run aoroBS but three that swore, and ono of these was a female with the worst kind of a vocabulary. "But^alking about birds swearing this cockatoo has a little history along that line. She used to belong to a saloon keeper, who had a very tough joint. The bird learned a heap of bad talk and had a vocabulary., that would put a pirate to shame. The 8aloonist brought her to mo to dispose of. I know nothing of her history and sold her at onoo to a man who was looking for a Christmas present for hiB daughters. He took tho bird home and the girls were delighted for a while. But it wasn't long be fore the fond fathor brought tho cock atoo baok post haste and said I oould sell it for a plugged nickel for all he cared. lb was nob only contaminating the whole household but was driving away all his friends and neighbors. "Imagine the consternation of the two daughters, showing off the bird to their friends, when the dear old she devil ripped out a string of oaths. It seems she has a peculiar habit of swearing every time she sees a woman, and you can't break her of it. "Parrots are taught to speak simply by repeating words and simple sen tences to them over andover. They don't know what they mean. They are just imitating sounds. Most every one tenches his bird to say, 'Polly wanta a cracker;' it scorns to be the foundation of all parrot learning. I onoo had a bird that I tried to keep from that one sentence, but somehow he heard it and sprung it on me ono day. "Tho more things a bird can say bhe moro valuable he is. I have ono I value ab 950, whioh has a vocabulary of about 50 words. Parrobs learn to speak because their tongues are more like those of human beings than any other bird. The cookatoo is the same, and the magpie aud minor will also talk a bit." Mr. Edwards has many other pets besides the parrots and cockatoos. He handles rabbits, birds of all kinds and goldfish in great numbers.-De troit Journal. One Idea of Happiness. Along tho upper Potomac, botween GTre?t Falls and Harper's Ferry, says tho Saturday Evening Post, Grover Cleveland, when ho was Prcsidonb, found great dely'ut in fishing. Among the canal men and fishermen of the vicinity many interesting incidents of thc eminent visitor's outings aro re peated. At the place on the Potomao known as Point of Bocks tho President was fishing one day and, with democrabip simplicity, chatting with some canal boatmen. ODO of the latter remarked that the people in that vicinity were very glad to seo tho President enjoy ing himself. . "Yes," said the President, "there are two ideal states of happiness in this world, and ono of them is to fish and catch something," and he pointed to his string of bass. "What's the other happy state?" ventured ono of his auditors. "The other grcat'felioity," replied the President/ pointing to one of thc members cf his party who had been easting his lino diligently and with great enjoyment, but without other visiblo results, "is to fish and not catch anything." - Tho averago woman would rather bo made lovo to in the poorest sort of fashion than to mako lovo herself as it was never dono before. mun ? Wu Lt bri? Correct Pronunciation, r.e. a Ruto, Ob tain- in thc West Tlic west has ?ewer mannerisms, fewer provincial?8iii3, than any other section of the country. The west erner, making no pretensions to great culture, ctn visit any section of the land and cause little remark for divagations from the standard Bet by the most cultivated people nf,thc section he visits. That which thc rest of thc country accepts os the standard of correct pronuncia tion, though seldom attaining it, characterizes thc speech of tho ma jority of the people of tho west. The west .'is the only section that doc* nek badly misuse Ii. lt is pcr liaps incorrect to say that tho east and south misuse ?t; they hardly use it at all. In the oast^nd many parts of the couth lt is, iii "effect, hu auxiliary vowel except at the be calming of words. Jt merely length ens the preceding vowel. Occasion ully it receives a <L.->linct vowel sound, that of Italian A. In many parts of the south.it is not heard at all. While tim .Georgian says, "be inah," Iiis Alabama neighbors say "befo*/" deposing lt from its posi tion aa a vowel or vowel modifier. Ja?the west 1? is sounded with an ap proximation of correctness. Yet even the westerners do not give it its full value, us do thc Irish and Scotch. Their strong enunciation of the letter sounds liarsh to us, yet the lotter is intended to be pro nounced, and its use differentiates words liable to bc confused by the ear. Tho Anglo-Saxon eeeme to bo do ing hi? best to depoee TL Were it not for the influence of tho Irish! and Scotch (and the influence" of these Celt? speaking an alien tongue is pretty powerful, though you do not often realize it), R would now be little moro than a written letter, as silent as initiai H in Spanish. Leslie's Weekly. ,fc^jKr mm^-f.^. - jr- ^ Malice of Old Sarah Churchill. An electioneering squib written in the reign of William IXL de scribes the scenes of the hustings in Guildhall when the platform was crowded by "all the folks in furs, from sables, ermines and the skins of eur?/' Swift has mentioned a "Ballad Full of Puns,""which was produced during the Westminster election of 1710. But we have moro preciso records of the deeply de signed stroke of electioneering pol icy ascribed to old Sarah, duchess of Marlborough, who, wishing to annoy George Orimstonc, who was oppos ing tho success of her nominees, nod a fresh edition printed of a very stupid eomody called "Lovo In a Hollow Tree, which had boen writ ten by Lord Grimstone and which, being heartily ashamed'of it, he had suppressed. The implacable Sarah reprinted'the silly play i and affixed to it on engraving representing an elephant dancing on a tight rope, London Telegraph. Exonerated. The judgment "that wee pro nounced on tho manuscript which'a SIay\vright had in his possession uring.-tho time of King William III. coulddjo applied ,with\oquar.pio priety.'to tho workatof'some-modern writers which find,presentation, on the . stage. Having "been arrested andfbrought beforethoSEartof Not tingham on the i charge of - owning treasonable papers, he denied at great length all knowledge of the affair, saying that ?ho was ia poet and that the papers in, question were only a roughly sketched play. Tho earl,.however, examined them care fully, and finally, having settled the thing in his own mind, turned to the prisoner and said : "I have heard your statement and read your manuscript, and as I fail tof seo any traces .of ? plot in either you may go."--Philadelphia Ledger._ . Collecting Deg Tax With a gun. Levi C. Devore, the assessor of Lon dondery Township, has found more dogs than any inhabitant ever dream ed could belong there. Since the close of tho hunting sea son Mr. Devore bas been studying the last assessment relative to the owners of dogs, and concluded that tn." ny per sons evaded the dog tax. In making his visits, he carries with him a pock et rifle. After assessing real estate and horses and. cattle, ho asks: ;'Do you own a doa?"' "No, sir,'' was the usual auswer. "Whose dog i* that outsido the door?" "!I don't kuow." "Do you waut him assessed?" "No, sir." "Then I will kill him," remarks the assessor. Ho produces tho rifle, but beforo he has time to go out to shoot the dog tho owner say?, "Don't kill him. I will pay the tax." The assessor* has killed but four dogs, while a very large number havo been added to the tax list.-Philadel phia Press. - By the record of tho Cincinnati Kxpress Gazette, it appears that there wcro twenty-two robberies in the Uni ted States in 1002. In tho past thir teen years, according to tho same au thority, 328 railroad trains have been "held up" in tho country and ninety eight persons have been killed JJ nd 107 injured, mostly by gunshot wounds in tbe?parpctration of tho crimes. I ?.?ic (Juioutl and I wero riding a?oug a Kansas highway when we came to a river in flood and a man sitting on 'a log holding a horse by the bridle. When asked about our chances for fording the stream the mau replied: "I wouldn't try it. Nancy and mc was beaded for Blissfield when this river stopped us. I said we couldn't go ou. She said we could. I said I wouldn't try. She said she would." "And did she make the crossing?" asked the Colonel. "Noap. I told her she couldn't, and sho didn't." "You don't mean she was swept away?" "That's what sho'.was. The boss didn't keep his feet a minit. 1 stood right herc alookin' when he turned over and over, and I jest got ono glimpse of thc ole woman as she f brow ed up her arms and went out of eight." "And you are i o-^st smiling about it," exclaimed the ?Colonel, in great indignation. "1 can't help it," replied tho old mau. "She was determined to hev her way if it killed her. I told her and toldiher, but she-." He stopped short and his smile faded away. We heard a movement in tho bushes close at hand, and as we turned the old man started off at his best speed. Five seconds later a bare-headed, bare-footed woman, with her wet garments clinging to her like a plaster mold, sprang out of the scrub with a club in her hand and took out after him. As they disap peared over a ridge half a mile away, she was almost near enough to hit him on the back. A Miracle of Irrigation. From Roy Stannard Baker's paper on irrigation in his series in the Cen* tury on "The Great Southwest": If ever men worked miracles, they have worked them here in these western valleys. If ever soaiothiag was crea ted from nothing theBe men have done it. Thirty-five years ago. the Salt River valley, into whioh we had driven, was ail a parched desert, unin habited save by a few lean Indiana and two or three hardy traders, whom the sand and cactus crowded down close to the water of the river. It was a thous sand miles to tho nearest railroad-an unknown, desolated, forbidding landa part of the great Great American deB ert, whioh travelers said would never1 support human life. Today the Salt River valley, contains a population of over twenty-five thousand. It has three cities, one Ph?nix, the capital of Arizona, having electric lights, an^ electric car line, good'hotels ohurobos, and other buildings, residences sur-' rounded by treW, lawns, and a wilder ness of flowers. More than 125,000 acres of land round about are laid oat in farms, highly cultivated, with or chards of oranges, almonds, olives, and figs, and grain and hay fields. Thousands of cattle feed in the rich meadows, and there are bees, obiokens ducks, and ostriches nnnnmbered. Rioher soil than this once desert val ley does not exist anywhere in the world exoept, in other once desert val leys. Here one may behold the start ling speotaole of orange-groves in bear ing worth $1,000 an aero on one side of a fence, and bare cactus desert on the other, both having tho same eoi!. the samo opportunities, but only- ooo having water. Here, when a man builds his fence of cottonwood posts, such is tho soil and suoh the water that tho post stake root and grow into trees, so that the wire of many old fences ia seen running through the center of large trees. Here a farmer rarely needs to uso fertilizer, for the river coan-* io bearing rich silt and spreads it over his fields; and he may sometimes out two or three or inore crops a year from his alfalfa fields, aud then pasturo them during the win ter-winter whioh is in reality a oon tiuual spring. . -- a --\ - APennsylvania father withdrew his objections to his daughter's mai ri agu ut the K.si moment ?nd thu? took all tho fun out of it. \ HBVBSSBBBBBIBBBEBSEHHHH^SR Thoroughly eradicates the excess of Uri starts ?he kidneys int? healthy action, TH ta DONE, YOU RHEUM AN? ANY ?TH Eft QI6RASE Ci Do noe be discouraged if other remedie made ha reputation by curing alic injure the organ: IGcntlomon-Como six rears act? I bei on? ot musoular rheumatism. At limos betas? nsOT&jr? master oa Southern TL. B.). not werk. My suffering was Intense. Phj relier, however. Tried ? number et adi benefit. Finally X tried .'KntnmAorom.*' ceUont health for three years. - I caa eke tue " BnauiiAotDB," for lt ls by far tho tx Price $x.oo prepaid express Bobbitt Chemical Co.? FOR; SALE BY EV. As to Signing Names. Large firms which have a great deal of correspondence with women are often very much put to it to discover whether or not the writers of the let ters they receive should be addressed as "Miss" or as "Mrs." Abnoat in variably there is nothing in the epis tle to indicate. Lucy Smith signs her name Lucy Smith, apparently with the supremest confidence that the head of the firm will know she mar ried John Smith io 1900, and baa been happy ever since; and also that her name before she was married waa Luoy Jones. Then comes the by no means easily j solved problem to the business people j of how they shall address their letter to her. If they make the envelope read "Mrs. Luoy Smith," and that lady is a spinste*, she is apt to become offended, and transfer her custom to some other house. If she ia addressed as "Mis' Lucy Smith," and is a matron, she's jure to get f uriou?, and she remarks it whoever is nearby that if Boots, Shoes & Go. think she's an old maid she'll show them. So the astute manager of the mailing department is fain to writo her down plain "Lucy Smith" and let it go at that. The postman must decido who the r she's maid, wife or widow. The rules that women should follow in signing their letter?, business and social, aro expounded every now and then in the inquiry department ,of newspapers, while whole pages in books of deportment are devoted to the subject, and still nine ont of every ten letters reoeived by an editor who handles a large correspondence are subscribed as before explained, with out nary handle at all, or else written jut flatly, "Mrs. Mary Jones," jost as if Mary had been baptized "Mrs." and that word was a legitimate part of her. There are also still a few ladies who complacently sign themselves "Mrs." Dr. Brown," Or "Mrs. Capt. Green," just beoaure their husbands have a right to those titles, and "what's his ?B hers." Tliis is the worse mistake cf all, of course, and, luckily, has at last disappeared from coco try newspa pers.-Baltimore News. A Trap for Moses. They were trying a oolored man be fore an Alabama Justice for stealing a hog, bot the prosecution had a weak cast1 until tho prosecutor blandly, ob served: > "Now, Moses, yon say yon pever stole the hog; but won't you kindly tell tho jury why you threw the en trails into the river instead of bury ing them?" " 'Peed, sah," promptly replied Moses, "but yo' ammistooken. I did dun bury 'em right Lt de baok end of de 'gt'den sah, an' dey must be dar yit." ^ . T ' Love is Blind. "Do yon think you will like me just as well," she asked, "when I tell yon my hair ia dyed?" "Yes, dear," answered her elderly lover. "I have known it all the time. Will yon think any thc lees of me when I confess that my hair is a wig?' "Not at all. I knew i t was the first time I ever saw you." After whioh the billing and cooing went on with greater tenderness 'than before.-Chicago Tribune. -- A Rhode Island feminine peda gogue began to punish the 180-jponnd captain of the s oh o ol football team his friends rushed to assist him; but she knocked ono down with a straight shoulder blow, and then blacked an other's oyo by an upper out. Tbo m nanular woman has h?r uset on od oasioo. -JSdy th-"If you were io my place would you accept Tom's proposal?' Maytno-"Sure. Why, if I had been in your place I would have accepted him last week when ho ' proposed to me. ; ., A- Let your ;boy know that yon think ho will never amount to aty thitig and ho will not disappoint you. c and Lactic Arida from the ?vitera, eurea constipation and indigestion. i ARC witt or HTISM, WOKO nv IMPURE ?Loon. I hare filled. RHEUM ACIDS ha? ged incurable cases. Does asi i of digestion. GoLnsBoao, N. CL, Au*?. 29, VXX ma te nave sciatica, and else act?enlo X oe ula not work at *U (my busts*** For Oars ead weeks et a tim* Xestttd eloisa* treeted me. wlthonSfrB nuatjBPt rertaed remedies without psrmoneot 1 It ?3 Ike work, and I have koa OOH ?rfuily say that a? rbsnmottea shoals ist remedy. j- . . H.A. LOMAX. , or from your Druggist. - Baltimore, nd,i U, 5? A? OS. PHARMACY. ACOT? AND CHRONIC, {&ffl?_^S?fc i MUSCULAR, MERCURIAL, SXf??^ from an ach? or pata, sad ha? /* ARTICULAR AND ??f??p??l INFLAMMATORY. i tba temperature. Th*y become walkir/y barometers and moat accurate fa weather predictiona, the ?ncreasla? pafeig i m?flele? and ?oints foretelling tho approaching etona or the coming ol biri! vreatW. If & from thftt constant sn^ " cHaelea ia recruited. Their bodia? ar? x?ora out by the incessant pains ?5 W the joints become ao stiffened and bent n -. that they are at last compelled to give Bevrila? ?reea, gv ft mot hobble about on crutches. <^r.t?ejwai"-A* ?utt aye? at? s ? Nobody evrr outlived Rheumatism; ettaoYed by unto ?neum*^ v the Asease : nrver loosens it? fri? of _?__*??_^;_^ ] leaves of its Jwn accord, bat most be ^^tJ^J^?L???!^^? ' eat treatment through th? blood, fer elvia* SM ?ar relief. X ?av a. ?a .Rheumatism of every variety and form adrertleed an4 Ce aided to- try ?? is caused by an over add condition of Immediately Z comment?es it? u?i v < thc blood, and the deposit lu muscl?e, 'fait betta?, aad remarked to my joints and nerves of corrosive poisoaa saetlae* that X waa triad X aa? at lag and gritty particles, and lt ls these fcaad some **^,??^*V?*1* ? mflamtnatioa, swelling aad pams, SU0OM. of 0.0.0. ataca it di* m!Z J which laeta3 long as the blood remains math e-ood. Touro truly, this sour and acid state. MES. AXAO& HORTOS. To cure Rheumatism permanently VU Twelfth Street. | the blood must be purified cad invlg- , J orated, and no other remedy does this so well or so promptly aa 3. 9. S.^ft refreshes and restores to the thin acid blood its nourishing and hepJth-stfc. tainine properties. And when strong, rich blood is again circulating throrigj, the body the acid poisons and irritating matter are washed out of the musclS J . and joints, and th-a^aini3 atoncecea?a a S_ j^^*^ and Rheumatism xs a thing of the ?ljPMlnJ S?F^A P*3** S* ?* S- *3 a Pure*V vegetable ?J^awJ"' ? W^ra*^" medicine and does not derange % ^^??^.v^.^Zr^k stomach Ilk? the strong mineral fca7^^% a 1 ?medies, but build9"np thogenerd F**B*^Jr B&**hS ?ealti,? increases tho appetite ar4 % Through our Medical Departae i thepaln-rabked, despondent Rheumatic sufferer will receive helpful advice t from Physicians of experience and skill without charge. Write us fully abos* your case. _____ THE SWSFT SPWQm? ?O*9 AM?HTAP m? Thirt Establishment has been Selling LN ANDERSON for more than forty years. Daring all that time competitors httvn come and btH VA b%ve r^Sisiss?i right here. Wc have' allays ?o??^ Cheaper than any othens, and during those long years we have not had one di?-, satisfied oustomer. Mistakes will sometimes ooour, and if at any time w ' found that a customer wa) dissatisfied we did not resta?? til we had made bk satisfied, This policy, rigidly adhered to, has made us friends, true and !ag< j ing, and we can say with pride, but 'without boasting, that wo have the conti- j dence of the people of, this section. Wo have a larger Stock or Goods this I season than we have ever had, and wo pledge you our word that we have never j Bold Furniture at aa clo?e a margin Of profit as w's are doing now.. This is j proven by abe fact that we aro selling Furniture not only all over ?ndereon J County but in every Town io the Piedmont section. Como and see us. Tour j parents paved money by buying, from us, and you and your children can sire - money by buying here, too. We oarry ?yER?THTNG io tho Furniture line, G. F. Vo?LY ;&'-ftON9-'Dppot..iS]?rQet. The Old Reliable Furniture Dealern NO BETTER PIAHOS Blade in the world, and no lovel prices. Absolutely the. highest grada that can be found, and tnejsurprise is how can such high- grade'-'Pianos ba had 80_ reasonable ? Well,*!*'* th? way : r?anos are being sold at too great a profit. I save you from 25 to 40 per cent in the cost. I ara my own book-keeper,.salesman and collector -tue whole '"Show." Peel No worked-over, second-hand* reposs?sed 8t*>ck. I do not bell that kind. If yon are alright your credit is good with mc The best Reed Organ in the world is the "Carpenter." Will move to Express office Decemberylst. / M: L. WILLIS. A 0 STBI?BXAND, PBMTIST. OFFICE-firent Rooms over Farm ors and Merchants Bank. Tho opposite ont Illustrates Coo* dopons Ghm Teeth. The Ideal Plate-more cleanly then tho nata ral teeth. No bad tiwtw or brean ftoai Pla^.iji.tWs Kind* are the most fatal of ali dis? eases? .. ;.>a. . <?: .. .?v-'--.**v3<jl5..-.-* or money r^u?^^^ffo^iii?m remedies ; r?c?g^ixed \by emf neut phydcia ha: as th? fest lor Kidney and Bta^J troci?les* PRIC3? 60? and ii.00. FOU HY r.VANS' f?HARMAOY J. A. BROCK, frorttde^tT JOS. N. BROWN, Vice Preehien t . B. P. MAULDIN. Caehler m th i ' '_ ' " j /M^^|__8^_^|_ eagsg?d hy the Auderson^Mutu*! Fifi inaur/vitce l'-o^to iiiHpect the building ^^S?B?P* commente work o?^ tK ffrVt of July.! \^^sL^^M^t^?i^ Policyholders are requested to have WW ^H_pSfeilLa^ their Policies at hand, ao there will v E Xi__HHSG9i BB&^I oti po unnecessary delay in the ia ^^^W^^^f^y: Al?BK?s?N MUTUAL FIRE D? AT HORS Si S H0EIM6 _8URAN0E CO. . We can serve you promptly and ii a ?H?%*??S8ieS,-^la^& \xorhman-like raauher. Repairs oe SM.']_|?2S5|S?BJ auxiretuBifio.eiJ l.nxi riago^, Buggier au<i W ?gone ai- Bi BW gi ll tl BB of ways hct ure cioav attention. The VWg- SM KS9^8! IflR j___h?rrffi ima WM bullit.* have n?tii?o? but high ^^^^ AMD ^^OOU^EV^ P ?\f? ^iSR ! & A !> y ?{ E. ? Mc^l)Alt8, . thoiwoatiieallnBttatvolBthtoworlr?. w* a?v**?#?x? j , ' ./ ; ---;.; --~ ATTOK.N.WY-;^L*T JJA*^* 8B38KI]]w rifHce!n Sooohd Story of tte A^-S \ S fnwSSi iO?5^^j?wirt??r" derwon Bnildin?. over ?ho Clothlr.? Stor?? H||||^|B^H|^HB^B_9l^^_^^Hai_^_^_^HVBeHBS THE largest, ?ronge?t Bank County. interest Paid on Deposits By Bpeaial ao^eeuient. . With KUBnrpaaHfd facPUiea and reaoui?; co* wo m. o at alf times pr?par?t' to a? i o-v amodate our ??u-tomers. 'van 10,1900