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SOUTH CAROLS One Spot in tlie XJnii Negro is Content "V Helen Merris Lewis ii While in most localities tho negro, j with feverish anxiety, strives by edu cation to attain sooial equality with his superiors, the South Carolins rice field negro jogs along contentedly with the mule through the peaceful bogs of malaria and ignoraooe. Sinoo the year 1784 on the tide water plantations of our State, the negro and the mule have been inti mate associates. For almost two cen turies they have grubbed sido by side in the same soil; munched sweet pota toes from tbe same patch; dozed on the same straw, and kioked and devil ed each other at every favorable op portunity. It is not surprising then that they resemble eaoh other in many partioulars. As a rule the lower orders of crea tion acquire tho oharaoteristics of hu man beings with whom they come in contact. The negro and tho mule, failing to disoover superiority on either side, finally adopted those moral delinquencies most useful in helping them to oiroumvent the world, the flesh-and eaoh other. The negro from this association hat lost muoh of his sunniness of tem perament and displays the grumness and obstinacy of his four-footed com panion. Although trioky by nature, he has cultivated tne ounning and ely artfulness of the mule, and like him has become an adept in conceal ing emotions under an expressionless demeanor. The mole has become even more de moralized than his oomrade. His in telligence ?B clouded. His methodi cal and industrial habits wrecked. His reverenoe and affections annihi lated. His abstemiousness is meta morphosed in voracity. Negro and mule vie with each other in laziness and the desire to see which can shirk the most work. In an eminent de gree they possess the faculty of see ing "sperrets." and will flee from any graveyard they may butt into after nightfall. They hate water. They lovo oamp meetings. Both are contemplative by nature. The negro before starting work invariably leans against his hoe or plough and remains transfixed for at least ten minutes. If questioned as to hi? purpose in doing so, he will reply, 'Ts studdinl" which interpre ted means, that he ii studying the difficulties that oonfront him. If the movement of his brain was analyzed there would be found a sluggish .dread of the task before him and a hopeless yearning to eBoape aotivity and set tle down into the peaoef ni Land of Nod. If the mule's countenance is an ides to his soul, his longings are similar to those of his companion. Although there ?B SO muoh in com mon between these tillers cf the soil, and although perfeotly contented in eaoh other's society, they never miss an ceo as ion to antagonize eaoh other. About two centuries ago, when the iicgro and the muie left their native jungles and prairies to try their for tunes in South Carolina, the rice fields, so beautiful now, were blaok and almost impenetrable swamps. The physical labor of clearing and draining the land was performed by their effort. They tussled with the tough, defiant cypress trees. They grappled and dragged at the rugged, knotted knees of those old swamp monarchs; they tore and pulled at the supple jaok vineB, that like leviathans coiled and twisted about the tree brandies, bind ing thom in a vioo like grip-strong as cablea of steel. They wrested with the sword plant; they uprooted the fibrous palmetto, whose root burrows deep into the subsoil. The reeking, poisonous stench of decaying vegetable matter filled their nostrils. Noisome reptiles and vioionn ? o soots spent i their T?nom upon them. . They dug and hauled the putrefying mud, and built dikes that resisted the rivers' encroachment. They excavated ditches and canals to drain the foetid, ?reen scum water away from the fields. Brawn and sinew, and life's blood they gave to their work. Brain, they had none. Without the hope of gain,' without the spur of ambition they toiled on and on, until they converted the' wil derness into cultivated fields of won derful productiveness-fields that need no foreign fertilisers, for they are constantly enriched by alluvial de posits from the dark rivers that border < them. ' Tho Madagascar rico brought to Charles Town in 1694 and experiment ed upon by Landgrave Thomas Smith in his garden was successfully plant7 ed by the colonists, tad has result ed in the cultivation ofVthe magni ficent seed that has ?ong- made this State pre eminent in tho quality of its rice. Without the negro and tho mule this vic tory perhaps would never have been . accomplished. Farming imple JA RICE FIELDS. bed States "Where the iTith. His -A-ssociate. o the News aaa Courier, monta end machinery used on rioe plantations have, through suooossful invention, been brought to great per fection, but the negro and the rico field mule remains as unimproved as they were in the beginning. On acoouut of tho soft, spongy soil only small mules are employed in till ing and harvesting the fields. They are exceedingly agile and oat-like ic movement. Great difficulty i? always experienced in rigging them up for daily work. Rawhide boota aro at tached to their small foot by thongs. The negro, if ho owns any boots, leaves them behind, for his splay feet spread out like sncw shoes and pre vent him from sinking in the muok. Tho stable into which rice field mules are indiscriminately hustled at night is entered at daylight by a negro, who with cracking of whip and wild Indian war whoops, proceeds to fright en tho animals out of an open doer, where stand the riders and drivers ready to lasso them as soon as they show their noses. Even with the greatest dexterity it not infrequently happens that a mule gets loose. This is a signal for the stable door to be slammed and human ingenuity devised to circumvent the mule. All who are able mount steeds, the balance use the two legs God gave them. Around and around they go in the large stable lot. It is a perfeotly aimless chase, that depends upon acoident for a cli max. Sometimes the mole seized by a contemplative mood, halts suddenly in the oorner of a fonce in order to stndy his next manoeuvre. * The mem bers of the chase immediately dose upon him, with crios of "Whoa, mule! Whoa mulei Whoa, whoa! Whoa-a-1" The whoas are finally reduced to tho softest dimuendo. To the outsider they have appeared superfluous, for the mule as soon aa he took to the oorner of the fenoe "whoaed" in every m?s ele, and remained as rigid aa the statue of Calhoun that adorna the Citadel.square. The only hint of the devil beneath revealing itself in a glint of white eyeballs below tightly backed ears. In the meanwhile the pursuers in evident trepidation, came closer and closer, their "Whoa, mule!" sinks into the coaxing tenderness of the cooing dove. The mule appears thoroughly hypnotized. The most skillful member of the herders throws his lasso. No explosions of dynamite oould occasion greater soattoration! With a buck, jump, never exceeded, save by the cow in the celebrated ditty of "Hi, diddle, diddle." the mule bounds over a six-foot fenoe and is soon lost to view. Gone for a day's rejoicing and feasting in the luscious cane brakes, where he can have inter vals of leisure to contemplate with satisfaction how he outwitted his two legged companion. It must not be thought, however, that the mule is always victor, for he is often worsted in the fray. After harvesting he is as scarred and bat ? ered and one-eyed as was ever4 'Happy Hooligan." after his coas ole s s encoun ters with policemen, while the negro, who has been gorging on stolen rioe and 'possum, is sleek and hearty. The loveliness of springtime on a South Carolina rioe plantation must be seen to be appreciated. Ii is then that the vivid eolor of the young rioe burns like green flame. It is then that the flooded fields'become dazzling mirrors to reflect the superb forests .that border them I Beautiful forests, where swaying Spanish moss forms a background of silver mist, against whioh magnolia blossoms gleam like stars sinking into cloud land. The silken rushes kiss the baby iris, who opens her eyes where land and water meet. The yellow-breasted terrapin suns himself upon cypress logs, that for centuries have been his piazza. The birds sing dreamily. There is melody in the little eddies that trill and gurgle from open flood gates. The most ' inoongt uous objects upon this s co no of beauty are the negro and mule, and yet they aro the tools that have wrought this BC o ne. Their work has transformed the bale ful gloom of the swamp into a terres trial picture of the peace of God that passe th all. understanding! To Care a Cold ll OBS Day Take Laxative Bremo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund tho money if it tails to cure. E. W. Grove's signa ture is on each box. Price 25o. - Friends seldom desert a man while his money holds on. - lt's a ease of minority rule in a houso where there's a baby. . -. If some girls who think they ean sing would not try to prove it all might be forgiven. , Stellt COMBO tad Works ?tr tho Cold. Laxativo Bromo-Quinine Tablets ente a cold in ona day. Ko Cure, No Pay. Prioe 25 cents. - On the otago of lifo tho leading lady is usually the cook. Le? to Confederate Veterans. Gou. Stephen D. Lee, under date of February 28, in a eiroular noto, for mally announces to Confederate vet erans that he has taken up the duties of exeoutive head of the United Con federate veterans. His note is a beautiful tribute to General John B. Gordon. Quotations from it are ss follows: "The death of our almost idolized commander, so eminently fitted for the plaoe hy his splendid war record, his oratory and his winning magne tism, has imposed a difficult task upon me, his successor, in keeping up our organization; doubly difficult without continuing to me the same tender feeling, love and esteem which you bestowed upon him in such heaped-up measure. No living Confederate can fill his plaoe as ho filled it. "In obedience to nature's laws, in the thirty-nine years since we laid down our arms, our great generals and many of the rank and file who followed them, have orossed over the river, and the survivors are but a remnant of the most valiant army that ever contended against mighty odds and untold resources. Wo aro so near the river that we oan almost hear tho roaring of the water. "Our commander has fallen, bub the, cause for whioh we toiled and the principles for whioh we fought still live-can never die. Let us-as we did, in the heroio days of 1861 to 1865, when our leaders fell in battle and our commands were thinned by Shot and shell-close up our ranks and step forward; perpetuate our great fraternal organization; and have our sons and daughters step into our plaoes as we vacate them, and con tinue to vindicate the integrity of our lives and the ends for whioh we contended: "The proudest part of my life is the remembrance that I was a Confed erate soldier. I love the name and all who bore it. Our constitution and by-laws have temporarily made me your commander until one is eleoted at our next reunion. I yearn for a portion of that tender regard and confidence you gave General Gordon. Let us be true, even to the end." Cheaper to Kill the Wounded. Downingtown, Pa, March 1.-There I is living in Downingtown a former soldier in the Russian army, who can tooti."y to the fact that there is a se cret rule in the Czar's army to kill all the wounded. His name is J. M. Schulman; he conduots a flourishing clothing store, and previous to ooming to this country served two months in the Russian army as a conscript. He says: There is a secret rule in the Rus sian army to kill all the wounded. It is communicated officially to all the officers and is tacitly understood among the soldiers. The Russians argue that the maintenance of hospi tals is too expensive-more so than to kill off the wounded. I am in a position to say with the utmost positiveness that such a rule exists in the Russian army, and that it applies at least to the privates, and probably to the officers.-Phila delphia Record. Her Tongue Slipped. A young woman who recently be came a teacher in a kindergarten en tered a trolley car in Brooklyn yes terday and bowed pleasantly to a man who sat aoross the aisle. He rais ed his bat in return, but it was ?vi dent that he did not recognise the I young woman. "Oh, excuse me," she remarked in tones whioh oould be heard by every one in thc oar. "I mistook you for some one else. I thought you wero i the father of two of my children." I She left the oar at the next oorner. ? --New York Sun. Cares Cancer and Blood Polten. If you have blood poison producing eruptions, pimples, ulcera? swollen glands, bopa and risings, burning, itching skin, copper-colored spots or rash on tho akin, mucous patohes in mouth pr throat, falling hair,-bone pains, old rheumatism or foul catarrh, take Botanic Blood Balm (B.B.B.) It kills the poison in the blood ; soon all sores, eruptions heal, hard swellings subside, aches and pains stop and a perfect euro is made of the worst cas es of Blood Poison. For oanoer, tumors, swellings, eat ing sores, ugly ulcers, persistent pim ples of all kinds, take B.B.B. It de stroys the oanoer poison in the blood, heals oanoer of ali kinds, cures the worst humors or suppurating swell ings. Thousands cured by B. B. B. after all else fails. B. B. B. compos ed of pure botanio ingredients. Im proves the digestion, makes the blood pure and. rioh, stops the awful itching and all sharp, shooting pains. Thor oughly tested for thirty years. Drug gists, $1 per large' bottle, with com plete directions for home cure. Sam ?le free and prepaid by writing Blood ?aim Co., Atlanta. Ga. Desoribe trouble and free medical adyioe also sent in , sealed letter. For sale by Evans Pharmacy. - Ii it's necessary to lie in a man's favor do it while he ls alive instead of hiring a marble cutter to do it after he is dead. State Could Hun a Giant Still. Sinoe the court of claims dcoision against the State as to the payment to the government of the retail and wholesale licenses has been published, the suggestion is being renewed by those connected with the State dispensary management that if the federal supreme court sustains the contention'of the State and reverses tho oonrt of olaims, a case bo oarried through the court:, to test the right of the federal government to collect the revenue tax of $1.10 on liiuor that might bo manufactured by the State for salo by tho State within this State and that in case of a fa vorable decision a big distillery bo established by tho State for tho manufacture of its own liquor. Of tho thrco million dollar annual liquor business done by the Stato over & th'rd ia in tho cheaper grades, it is said, and over a million dollars a year, it is argued, oould thus be saved to the Stato should the great commonwealth engage in the manu facture of whiskey on tho sido with tho necessity of paying this license tax removed. The revenue department at Washington and the secretary of the treasury havo deoided adversely a similar oaso-that in which the State denied its liability to tho tax on contraband liquor seized by the constables.. But in the oourt of claims oase, which is to be passed upon by the federal supremo oourt, the points involved are almost identically tho same, and if the supremo oourt deoides in favor of tho State those favoring the State's es tablishment of a distillery will be encouraged to make a test of resis ting payment of the revenue tax. Employes in the revenue collector's office are forbidden under penalty of dismissal to give out information as to how muoh tax a distillery pays to the government, and exact figures as to how m oh any South Carolina dis tillery ii paying to the government aro difficult to obtain. But it was learned yesterday from a reliable souroe that the Richland distillery, which is the most important of its kind and does a large business with the State dispensary, is paying the government nearly a million dollars a year, although it is operated only fron 200 to 250 days a year. The concern, it is said, pays the govern ment over $4,500 a day when it is in operation, and the total tax last year is said tc have been over $900,OOO. The oapaoity of the plant is 4,500 gallons a day. The government requires the tax on 80 por cent, of the oapaoity even if that muoh is not made. With a 200 day run therefore the concern is liable to a tax of not less than $720,360 whatever the output is. The experience of the Richland dis tillery is said to be the chief inspira tion of those who favor the State's going into the distillery business. The State. Fun in Jersey. Tom Owens, tho Gloucester iceman, asked a Philadelphia friend over for a day's shooting in South Jersey, where a gunning license is necessary nowadays. Tem h?s a license and explained to his friend, as he handed over a gun, that if a game warden should happen along, he was to say nothing but saw wood. They had good sport, and in the course of the forenoon knooked over a dozen rab bits and started for home. When about hrdf way there, a tall man olimbed over a fence and came rapidly toward the gunners, whereupon Owens put his gun and rabbits in the hands of his friend and said: "Fol low this road till you get to my home and wait there till I come." Then he turned and ran like a deer, with a tall man following. It was the Woodbury Pike, and the race was a dose one, but Tom was finally over hauled and brought up before a jus tice of the peace. "What's the charge?" asked the squire. "Same old thing," said the game warden, "gunning without a license/' "You are fined $20," said the jus tice. "But I've got a license," said Tom, producing the document. The 'squire grinned and tho crowd roared. "What in thunder did you run for?" said the game warden. "Just to get up an appetite," said Tom. "You chased the wrong man," said the squire to the game warden.-Phil adelphia Press. - In an effort to close up a pool room that had been run for a long time in the outskirts of Madison , 111., three constables, augmented by a posse of oitizens, and bearing war rants for the arrest of six men con nected with the poolroom, precipita ted a riot, which resulted in the shoot ing of six men. . -r Mayor Fred E. Le wis, of Aileu town, Pa., has vetoed a curfew ordi nance passed by the city fathers pro viding that after 9 o'clock children under 16 years must keep off the Streets. His honor objects to a penalty o?anse providing for fine or imprison ment io the county jail, holding that to send a boy or girl to prison for snob an offense is unreasonable. Matrimonial Catechism. What is marriage? Marriage is an institution for tho blind. Why do some people never marry? Because they do not believe in di* vorce. When a man thinks seriously of marriage what happens? He remains single. Does a girl ever '?hink of anything but marriage? Only that, and how to get married. Should a man marry a girl for her money? No. But bo should not lot her be come nn old maid just because she is rich. Is un engagement aa good as mar riage? It*s better. How may wo tell when a courtship has progresBsed? When the man takes to yawning in tho girl's presence. When two thin people become en gaged what happens? They immediately grow very thick. When a man has popped tho ques tion has he finished? No, ho has yot to question Pop. When asking papa, how should a young man act? He should faoo papa manfully, and never give him a ohanoo at his back. Why does a bride wear a v?il? So that she may conceal hor satis faction.-Joseph Van Haalto in Now York Times. A Dry Lunch. A company of sports wore taking supper together the other evening in Mexico City as the guest of a some what notorious gambler, who is a man past middle life and is always a prom inent figure on the streets because of -the great length of his waistband. The repast was served in a well-known restaurant and the host, who is a flu ent talker, entertained his guests with some marvelous stories of feats ho had witnessed, inoluding one about a man who had eaten ten dozen of eggs, another who had devoured a twenty five-pound fish, another who had dis posed of 10 dozen broiled quail and many more of like tenor. ? The guests listened in wonder, but without protest, then he gave them a poser by repeating that ho had seen a man cat eight pounds of cheese and four pounds of crackers without tak irjg a mouthful uf liquid uf uny kind. The assertion caused ono of the guests to wake up, and he said to the host: "I will bot you $40 that you oannot eat forty craokers without tak ing something to drink while doing so. The bet was deolined, but thegueBt made another attempt and said: "I will bet you $20 that you oannot eat twenty crackers without taking a drink of some kind." The host is a man who dooo not eare to be bluffed, and responded by putting up the money. It was done. The craokers produced and carefully oounted, the guests all laid down their knives and forks and the host began to try to win the money most vigor ously. He ate rapidly, but when six crackers had been disposed of his jaws showed evident signs of weari ness. Ho struggled gamely with the seventh and got it down. When he took up the eighth he nibbled at it for a whilu, put it on the table bui> half eaten, and in broad, rioh Irish toceB said: "I'll ate no more." And the bet was paid. Mexican Herald. -mm B * - Girls usually want to marry men who oan support them in a stylo to j which they have been unaccustomed. - In a suooessful matrimonial firm the husband isn't a "full" part ner. - The fairy tsie always ends with the marriage of the princess-then an other kind of fairy tale begins. - One thousand Italian farmers are to settle in Alabama, 7,000 acres of ?and having been secured for them. - The girl's face is in it with a re touched photograph. - A woman's idea of mutual pleas ure is to spend the money her hus band earns by tho sweat of his brow. TAKEOFFYOUR HAT Don't you see the result of neglecting your hair ? You certainly need a Hair Toole, and the best OD the market, regardless of cost, is HAIRINE It feeds the bair, cleanses tho scalp and makes the bair grow. Also makes tko bair soft, light and Hurry. No grease or injurious ingredients in Its compo. sitlon. A clear tonic, without coloring matter and sells for only IS GENTS A BOTTLE IS Cents, 40 Cents and 75 Cents a Bottle (By mail S cents extra for poetago.) BEAL-8TREIT GO., 73-81 Cortland! Sf, MEW YORK Drag Sales Cu., Chicago, General Sa!.* Agents, For sale locally by EVANS PHARMACY. Certainty of Our to sufferers from SPECIFIC BLOOD POISONING ?S Fo?rg[Remedy CoVEvansville^ Ind.? f?? t? 0?I>IT?LBTOOK ?JO.COOfULLVMID TO .W TM? O.KMmil i? lina -??Si IW M ?la ???111 ? FOERC'S-REWiEDY^ ? t*1 J5i consideration of Five Dollars ($5.00) paid~for six bottles' jjr SB ' of Foetus Remedy, thb?S^tSSSS?Ldiy of ^ g tVi consideration of you using these slr bottles exactly according to gr 28 directions,' for Specific Blood^*Po>son of Scrofula, the undersigned XL 'S i 'jtfMCJ to pay fo Z 111 gg a _Five Dollars, pro-\ ?? videJ no benefit is derived from the six bottles, ?nd this certificate is\ returned to the undersigned within four months. sp??!!!??Ejsl!^ ._, i Wtfuxrtr.lcr the juymmfcf fiV Dollin (SS.OO) in ncorfince vnth'cont'r?cTprinted aiot*.^ TOERG REMEDY CO. ?4 || \$ H& if. U T-.ii. }?fc *5?v TV efPcm ?*J mj.tfi rt Kw Pf.tl* G>. IIWWI m/ moufly jf mn rf fR" <i>rt tVtptv M iwl*. *A< a any (w* hUl iKll ?fl t.'jtjtnt. til ft I. (1/.. .?-.< || ^ 1 [Thia Im a fae'Bim I/o of ou* gu or ant aa) This certainly ls a most liberal auaranteo and ono which wo could not ovado oven if we so do elm!. Wt* aro perfectly s-vfe in making it, for ?Ix bottleH will produce such marked benefit that tho user will lu? natu tied nf an ultimate euro, and hi? gratitude will prompt him to I?* fair. With ttil? guarantee you taki> absolutely no chancea for this certificate In worth $'i cu in rash to you nail will l><> redeemed by tho drucgirit from whom you purchased tho remedy for $3.00 cash. Wo guarnntt-o tins, ami to further satisfy you n nntional bank guarantees usas you cutt BOO front tba certlflcnte. You catt se? that If we did not positively know that Foerg'i Remedy would run! any case wo could not afford to tuako .such a liberal genuino proposition, us the IOBS it would entail. Would lu.? enormous. With tho above Information liefere you If you co on Buffering from the curse of poisoned blood, either primary, constitutional or as a result of mercurial treatment don't rail at fate but simply Mame yourself, for bereits a run-absoluto mid Bun?. Tainted blood manifests itself in the form of Scrofula. Eczema, Rheumatic rams. Still' or swollen .lolntu. Emptions or Copper-colored Spot? on tno Face Ol Hotly, Little I'leers In the Month or <>n tho Tongue. Sore Throat, Swollen Tonsils, r'aiiinc ?ut of the Hair ur Eyebrows, and tinnily a Leprous I,?ko l)ecay of tho Flesh omi Bottes. If you havo mir ono of those, cym pto m a don't delay till too lato but go to your druggist and get a bottle ot FOERG'S REMEDY ?Abttt&S All druggists gu mp ant oo Hm If your druggist docs not handle this remedy si ni us tl.00 for ono bottle or $5.00 for ci.; bottles and cbsolute guarantee, fnc-sltnllo of which is published ubove. All packages sent in plain wrappora. All correspondencestrictly confidential. ^ FOERG REMEDY CO., Evansville, Ind. REAL ESTATE FOR SALE. WW We offer for sale the followingftdesirable property, situ ated in thia and surr pundi ii g Counties.! jNearl^ all of theso places have good improvements on them. For full] particu lars as to terms, location, &c, call at my office. 50 aoreB, two miles from oity, un improved. House and Lot, 6 sores, noar oity limits, very desirable. Half acre City Lot, front on Main Street, no improvements. 1 acre, with new dwelling, in city limits. ll* aores, near city limits, cleared, no improvements. 200 acres in Fork township, on Tug aloo Uiver, two dwellings. IOU acres in Williamston township, 'T.prcved, cn Beaverdstn creek. 4UU acres in Oaklawn township, in Greenville Co., half in cultivation, tenant dwellings, 50 aores of this is in bottom land. 700 acres in Hopewell township, on Six and Twenty Creek, 300 acres in cultivation, 2 good residences, 6 ten ant dwellings, 40 aores in bottom land. 91 aores in Garvin township, on Three-and-Twenty Creek, good dwell ing, barn, &o. 56 aores in Macon Co., N. C., 29 miles above vValhalla, on road to Highlands. Berry placo, V?rennos, 87} acres. 437 acros, Pendloton township, ton ant houses and dwelling. 145 acres, Evergreen placo, Savaa nah township. 90 acros in Fork township. 150 aores in Savannah township, well timbered, no improvements. 400 acres in Center township, Ooo oeo County, 100 cleared, balance well timbered, well watered, good mill site with ample water power. 05 acrcB in Pickens County. 174 acres in Hopewell township. 130 acres in Broadway township, improved. 230 acres in Fork township, on Sen eca River, good dwellings, &o. 800 aores in Anderson County, on Savannah River. 90 aores in Lowndesville township, Abbeville County. 84 aores in Corner township. 75 aerea in Oconeo County. 75 aores in Piokens County. 152 acres in Rook Mills township, on Senooa River, 2 dwellings. 700 aores in Fork township. All the above are desirable Lands, and parties wanting good homes, at* low prices, oan selcot from tho above and oall for further particulars. Now is the time to secure your homes for another year. JOS. J. FRETWEIX, ANDERSON, S. C. M ? 2 3 g Sa F SB td M W O < M tl H w M CG M M 'J 3 M _ w o Q *1 OD O ? ? w c ti b? r ^ M H S W M % O m co . o o 94 te Tills Establishment *as been Sellins IN ANDERSON for more than forty years. Daring all that time competitors have come and gone, but wc have remained right here. We havo always sold Cheaper than any others, and during those long years we have not had one dis satisfied oustomer. Mistakes will sometimes occur, and if at any timo we found that a oustomer waa dissatisfied we did not rest until we had made him satisfied. This policy, rigidly adhered to, has made us friends, true and lash ing, and we can say with pride, but without boasting, that wo have the confi dence of the peoplr of this section. We have a larger Stock of Goods this season than we have ever had, and we pledge you our word that we havo novor sold Furnituro at as olose a margin of profit as wc are doing now. This is proven by the fact that wo are selling Furniture not only all over Anderson County but in every Town in the Piedmont section. Como and seo us. Your parents saved money by buying from us, and you and your children can savo money by buying here, too. Wc carry EVERYTHING in tho Furniture lino, '. G. F. TOLLY tb SON. Depot Street The Old Reliable Furniture Dealers 1 HAVE JUST RECEIVED A CAR LOAD OF CORN, SH ghi ly [dam a ged, and can sell you at 50c. per L bu shel.m Will have a lot of it cracked for hog and] chicken feed at same price. See me for OLD DOMINION, CEMENT, AND IB ZEST LIMB. O. D.