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GAME IN SOU'
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News and
Lower Waceamaw Neck was iu the
gentle clasp of winter. Boreas em
braeed the woodland as his bride, the
gaunt clutch1 that he laid everywhere
on all living j things was here soft as
the lover's hand when he strokes the
hair of his 'lady love. Leaves had
flitted slowly down, Jack Frost had
conic, bat eo lightly did he breathe
upon the grass that it was barely
withered in December.
Outside the calm bay lay smooth as
a ribbon, save that now and then,
when the tide turned, there was a rip
pling wave sent up Waccamaw to be
brushed aside by that stream with
majeatio indifference. The dense
green of pines became loot in live
oaks on the knoll that stretohed
around Fraeer's Point, and but for'
rice field, dead marsh and Babbit
Island, looking more sombre, there
was no hint of aught but early fall. '
Turkeys had been numerous; their
signs were everywhere; their calls
were now and, then heard, but the.
season for gobbling had not come.
Somehow one does not go turkey hunt
ing until the winter grows a! bit old.
Why no one knows, it is the custom.
This Deeember, however, Jack pro
posed that we go down around the
point, skirt the old reserve and drive
a famous buok, marked by a curious
twist On One Of hlS fen*.- trntn whinh
circumstance we had a name for him.
Ho was called the. "Red Buck," and
to kill him was the ambition that lay
in several breasts. He had been seen
many times, but never: when.the hun
ter was ready with gun,
Jaok and I. had determined to get
him and we rarely failed to got
what we went after; so far tho "Bed
Back" was an exception that we were
eager to take out of the rule, but id
vainl '
By early sunrise we had reached a
point where Jack told me to dismount
and wait until he ?ad skiked s small
swamp. The words were hardly put
of his mouth when Heritor's deep bay
came down the wind, followed by one
or two sharper notes from Fly; they
were way up the swamp. Jack went
like mad down the road, dashing out
of it where it curved and the last I
saw of him was when Saladin oloared
a pine top, the boughs orashingagainst
Jaok'e boots. The danger was that
the dogs would oarry the deer across
to the old reserve below, whence
he wouhjl inevitably go into it
and. become lost in the sea of tan
gled marsh; or go. straight away to
ward Goat Island j landing, in either
case, where we could not reach him
that day, '
My mare, Genevi?ve, was quivering
in every, limb; she could not help it.
Genevi?ve lov.ed a chase better than
her life, but like the faithful animal
ehe was, she was standing, ears* rais
ed, not moving out of her tracks, de*
epite tho temptation, although she
was. not tied. Genevi?ve was never
subjected to that humiliation; she
would never hive. forgiven it; she
knew her business.
By and by the. dogs came down the .
swamp in full cry and passed on to
the left among the palmettoes where I
did not care to follow, although Jack
came orashiog / after like the Wild
Huntsman. 1 * caught sight of him.
for a few seconds and he was waving
towards the bluff below me, where
I eould see everything that passed
and where I felt confident no deer at
least had gone, but as I 'turned my
eyeB the explanation canW. . An old
gobbler was standing on*- the edge of
the bluff, ?omc oixty or seventy yards
away, looking me..over critically. I
swore under my breath. There I was
with those miserable buckshot in my
gun and the finest gobbler I ever saw
in good jrango for sixes or sevenB,vb?t
buckshot, bahI Sand would have been
better; at that raugo buckshot would
scatter over ? ten-acre field. ;My
hear^sj^^^t?: Icovere^vthat beard
?n'^^S??v.JjsViy^ he rose at the fiash
and sailed off, ; I pumping buekBbot
afier him from my Winchester. like
Bnsaun infantry repelling a Jap
:" charge./.' Not a feather was touched;
t stood on tiptoe ^watching him and
saw hjin come down right out in.the
open rushes; by this lim? Jack had
oome baok; the hounds having got
away from him- and'gone up th? Neck
pst of. hearing.
.. ^e aslted. " >? told him I had obl*-i ??en
: be gobM^ he'thereupon asid
i bat Sv* or six had g?ue out into the
: ashes some two hundred yasda bc
' wr. rl - tv^^yery ' buckshot shell
> )Ut of my pockota and put them 'in
ay saddle b^s. * 'Now. ^ome on,-' I
ftid.
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! we had giver, him up and Saladin shot
into the air with Jack, like a sky
rocket. I could not blame him?even
Genevi?ve wheeled with me, but as
she came round she stood stock-still
and I got in one barrel as he was
swinging through a pine, a desperate
chance, but the load landed right be
tween the wings, where his neck join
ed his back and I need not tell a hun
ter what happened, he dropped like a
partridge.
Jack's retriever, 'who had been
sneaking after us, now came up and
that settled it; we decided to leave
the horses, take Brag, the retriever,
and go after the rest on foot. This
was novel work to both of us; turkeys
are not shot that way, as every one
knows who has hunted turkeys, but
this morning proved to be a record
breaker all around.
Both of us shot repeating shotguns
and we agreed to shoot as we Bhot
partridges, turn about, each, man to
look after the birds on his side. We
kept Brag close in and after we had
passed the place where Jack said he
saw them go down and had about ex
hausted oar pntience, Brag spun
around and came to a point; he had
hardly stiffened himself when a tur
key rose, quartering away from Jack
and was tumbled over. Just then one
700? bcLiluI nut! uiei tue same fate.
We searched those rushes for nearly o
half hour before finding another ar :1
we must have gone in two feet of him
from where he roso.~ Jaok. out him
down before he straightened?a fine
young gobbler. At the orack of the
gun two hens rose and we grassed
both, but one was winged and the re
triever had to run her down. Just
before reaching the horses another
hen got up and- she fell to me?seven
turkeys and all shot like partridges,
as' tame a morning's work as either
had ever indulged. Barring the glo
rious bag, it was nothing.
After we had tied them to the sad
dles, giving the horses all the load
t?ey wanted and more, we stopped a
while to smoke and talk. By and by
the dogs came baok and Jack suggest
ed driving a small island in the reserve
near the woods. He carried the dogs
around and put them in; I waited be
low. They struck soent at once and
oame on,making splendid music; just
as they reached the middle of the is
land a peg-horn buck broke cover in
twenty' yards of me and I stretched
Mm; I saw nothing else. But Jaok
?ame around tho jeland swearing like
a trooper; he was blowing off steam at
Buoh ? rate that I could not make out
the trouble, and all of ? sudden, he
got non-committal. 1
"What the. diokens is the matter
with yon?" tasked. "I got him, there
he is." "Get the devil," Bnorted
Jaok, "you turned the '?Rod Buck"
by shooting that infernal kid, that
measly goat."
My jaw' fell; I looked at Jaok and
he looked at me; the "Red Buck" had
saved his antlers again, almost by a
miracle. We rode sadly home, for
getting,the turkeys Until we arrived
it the barnyard. Brat the look!
Sometime after thia found ma alone
with the boatman, Caesar, (who was
proud enough of his Afrioan descent to
boast that he was a full-blood negro,)
leepin the great swamp that forms
the upper part of Sandy Island. The
rivera do a tri ok here th at is unusual
in America. A bioad and deep chan
nel runs across from the channel of
the two Pee Deco into Waeoamaw and
sod is known* as Bull ; Creek, a name
given it in colonial days.
Part of the water of the Poe-Dee
joes on in a ?ifferont channel to
Georgetown, where before reaching
Winyah-.Bay it is joined by Blaok
River? Between Bui', Creek, the- con
necting link of Waeoamaw and the
Pec-Dees and Waccamaw-Pointj in
the ,hay just above Georgetown, thoto
are innumerable islands, the. most
Qortherly of which is known as Sandy
[eland from the vast sand deposits on
Its southern edge. Just touching ibis
??nd ?? th? r.Wet bot^ms on -tho Wal??
saiuaw side are a dumber ' of plaata
tions, abandoned 1?^ their former own
ars and some of them otraed by the
aegroesy The northern pari of Sandy
island is swamp, subject for the most
pa$?t^^
uB* of freshet. The preoiee area of
ao ?^'??te survey ever having been
aoad^t hut it ja-'vast, much of it im
[>en?tr?ble and threaded hy Small
Urea^a that admit the passage of
It if&? most famous turfcey range
[q.'ifcj? Southern Statesj here that no
de Amerioau ,bird, c^tt rai ac It ;brood
jrt>d:ui^^
>u\tl^|???g^
not leave the island until spring, com
ing baok then at night to roost.
Turkeys always roost over water, if
it oo available, hence it is that a bun
te;* with eyes and training oan follow
these streams in a boat' and be able to
do good work just before nightfall
and sometimes even after moonrise.
Bnt simple as it seems thero is re
quired the finest eyesight, the most
careful manoeuvring and, above all,
quickness when tie game has been
found. The way an old gobbler oan
get out of a tree and off into impene
trable gloom would amaze a man who
had not seen it done; nothing living
is quioker except a fish or an alligator
jumping from a bank when he is
"good soared."
The streams over whieh they sit
are sometimes too small to admit the
passage of a boat and here they are
reasonably secure unless some indus
trious hnnter has "roosted" them,
that io followed them, calling at in
tervals with a bone or box until the
flock rises for the trocs. When this
is done the hunter comes baok way
before day, calls them again and
usually manages to score.
Caesar and I had our share of this
tedious and uncertain modo of hunt
ing; aotiog on his advice I was taking
to the water. In the growing duBk
every object in the swamp assumed a
shape strange to daylight; overhead
you eould see; io front now and then
we caught glimpses; once in a while a
summer duck flew ouUwith a clatter;
but we took no notice. On turning a
dismal bend I felt the paddle touoh
my legs, as the canoe slowly settled
against the bank. > Straining my head
I oaight Caesar's gase fixed on a oy- ]
press/. Nol Yes I M-a-y-b-e, but Ij
doubt it?then all doubt that was
passing through mv mini? ftdsdj I'.c
had ducked his head and betrayed
himself; now the plump outline of the ;
turkey's form beoame visible; the
boat was stock still, held by tho pad
dle. I drew a bead, tho finest I could
get in that light, and fired my rifle at
the place where neok and head joined;
the turkey dropped like a bag of sand
and at the crack another flew out of a
tree and went sailing across the stream
for the swamp ridges beyond. I
pumped twice at the last one, but he
went on, Caesar stoutly maintaining,
however, that he was shot through.
.Oar talking had disturbed others and
they went the/ other way, not one
orossing the stream. As the night
?'ar> ooming on we got our turkey, a
fair sized gobbler. We had many
miles to go, so both took a paddle and
the oanoe shot swiftly through the
bsyoas. As we reaohed our destina
tion that night, Pompey Masyok, an
old darky, met us and told Caesar of
flushing a - flock jnst at sunset, in
-seme tall pines by a branoh and I
determined to be baok in time next
morning.
It turned off bitterly cold and the
wind rose?ciroumotnnces both highly
favorable to Work next morning, but
not conducive to comfort. I slept un
der a fly and woke cold, as the stars
were shining next morning. It was
half-past three o'clock. Caesar was
out of pocket, 'but soon turned up,
having gone off to get lightwood. He
had GUr breakfast ready directly and
then brought out from behind the
blaze a coffee pot* explaining "dat gal
Cindy fetch 'em last night, Moussa."
I did not care to pursue the investi-,
gation, having no farther interest in
knowing how Caesar came by the pot
of coffee?really a godsend, as by on
unpardonable blunder mine bad been
loft with the eoffee at the plantation.
Swallowing.; breakfast without cere
mony and without a minute's loss
of time, we were off on foot for the
place where Pompey had seen the
flock, j had my .box and Caesar
could yelp with a turkey bone to fool
the oldest gobbler on tho range. Long
before day we were at the rendez
vous.
By ono of thoso sudden shifts thai
coast weather is famous for, there be
gan to fait a slight drittle of rain,
hardly more than a mist. Caesar's
first attempt brought a reply-"from a
pine right over us. I looked up and
again sc the ; faint gleam of ths sodden
sky| there Was silhouetted a gobbler,
Caesar had brought my riflo and he
softly handed it.to mo. I fired and
that turkey shot away like he was
sent from the mouth of .a cannon baok
on the oak ridge. "W# git' dem*
Haue so; she daid.dey-dey."
This was in. a .whisper, of course;
w? were both too well trained in wood
craft to break cover yet. The smoke
less shell made little noise and there
Was nothing else to indicate onr pres
ence. ' Waiting a sufficient time for
the slight excitement created by the
sound to die away, Caesar again began
|i^a)|.to .a low';key, a few short notes
with rising inflection, Sod then to
waHfor an answer. Tho third trial
brought re&nlfc w?th a chorus of answer
ing calls and lieforo their echoes had
?id/l a gobbler flew; by and , lit in a
heigbborioK pine, not thirty yards
away, b,ut where he could not be Seen
for th? pin? needles.
CaOsir? indicated a tree to nie with
his eyes right in front, where the last
turkey had flown from; I jnide oat
through the boughs the dit?tinet outn
key bave it, this time full in the
breast, and as he tumbled I grasped
tho shotgun from Caesar to get our
neighbor as he left the ',ree, but he
did not leave.
Fearing any longer to tako chanoes
I made Caesar take the rifle and go
around the tre?; he had not got half
round when the turkey flow and I out
him down. The noise of tho gun
brought a hen out of the pines, sail
ing by us- to tho oak ridges. I was
fortunate enough to get her too.
Tnis was tha last we saw of the
flook; there wero more; we heard them j
leaving the trees, but they all went the
other way. Now I told Pouipey as we ]
left oamp when he heard the shotgun
tiro to let Ponto loose and in a few
minutes he was leaping against ray j
bosom in the ecstasy of dog bliss. He
found the turkey I had first shot j
about two hundred yards off, dead as j
Heotor, shot through and through.
Caesar insisted that we look fur
ther on the oak ridge for the turkey
I had shot at the night before and we
found him also, that is the remains of
him?a wildcat had been there just
ahead of ui and regaled himself with
the breakfast wo had provided. Our
firing had evidently disturbed him at
his meal; it was useless to utter re
grets and we returned to oamp with
the booty.
That morning by appointment Jaok
came up the river in a launch and I
went aboard for a nap.
I wondered, and still wonder, when
the delioious nap is over and Boston,
Jaok*s oook, is fixing lunoh and oof
fee, how many lives have been savod,
how many men made happy, how
many oareoro touohed with a gleam of
geld as r. result, of the association
with steam lautfihes. The travel
miy ho likened to an aerial voyage on I
a oloud blown through the empyrean j
by zephyrs to tue acoompaniment of j
oelestial harps, heard far off in ether,
ns angel fingers stroked their delicate j
strings. j
The plan this time was novel and of
our own devising. ? Two old gobblers
had been in the habit of going to a
certain field every afternoon for a
month; they were probably there in
the morning also, but had only been
seen in the afternoon. We had ar
ranged for Pompey and Caesar to put
the dogs in the run from whioh they
oame and to bring down the dogs as if
they were driving deer; this we thought
would drive out tho turkeys and they
would, nine timeo out of ten, pasB
close to us. Jaok and I went to our |
stands; the negroes were a mile above
with the dogs. In due time the dogB
opened and oame toward us in full
ory, whioh at first couuded faintly
down the wind and freshened into a
swelling chorus that &eant > business
and signified more, than turkeys. A
hound broke cover above and oircled
with raised bristles; no hound raises
his bristles for a deer, but only for
dangerous animals, and I was puzzled
to know what it meant, but thought
it probably a wild oat and was strain
ing my eye-sight on every bush; when
jnafc behind me the worm fence eraok
ed and the rails came down in a heap.
Before I oould think a bear rose from
the dust, making straight by me. I
fired before I thought, right at his
stomach, but possibly, owing to the
excitement,(he caught the load on one
side and I was knooked down and run
over with such force that it nearly
knooked the sense, out of me. Bruin
esoaped into, the swamp just as the
hounds dashed through the broken
fence, the whple pack yelping like
mad. At that instant Jaok's gun
cracked twice and I went hastily to
him,; only to learn that he had hot
seen the bear but had killed a turkey
with one barrel and had fired at anoth
er, but with what result he oould not
tell, as the bird was in the trees.
Just thon a young hound strayed from
the paok and stopped suddenly. I
nude my way to him and found him
on a turkey, an old gobbler. That ac
counted for both Jaok's birds.
We held a short council of war and
determined to go after the bear, as we
both bad plenty of buckshot. The
hounds were baying; the game was
run to earth'or to a tree. Through a
tangled oanebroko we pushed, with
vines and briars scratching the blood
[at-' every step, until just before we
oamo to a sme!I run the undergrowth
cleared a little and such a sight met
our eyes as hunter has seldom seen.
The bear was backed against a fallen
tree, his front Moody and his little
eyes snapping viciously; before, him
iwb'of the dogs lay gasping, in death
armas we came-up the paok closed
again and he sent two to earth, one
with bis neck broke and the other
ripped up like a bank saw had struck
him. Met by this terrible onslaught
tho pack gave way and I emptied buck
shot as fast as a Gatling gan could do
it. Bruin collapsed; the range was
too jplo'sp and tho smokeless powder
behind tho shot was a deadlier charge
than his race had yet met. But we
had paid d?arly for our victory. Four
dogs were dead and poor old Heotor,
whose discretion was proverbial, had
received a wipe tbat cut a pieco of hido
from him as big as a napkin.- Hector
gmjrered, however, by careful nurs
ing and lived to see ma?/an eventful
day after tbat.
The adventure and accident broke
and we returned that night to tho
plantation. We found upon exami
nation that my first load had torn into
the bear's side without reaching tho
intestines and had done little dam
age; it wi\3 olumsy. work, but tho
time limit upset mo?besides neith
er of un dreamed of seeing bears.
They were rarely met with short of
Santee and tho Big Swamp in Horry
County.
One could go on without end telling
of turkoy hunts. I have killed more
than I could count up; the reader will
be dismissed with this side-light on *
another olasR of turkoy hunting, the
best of all and one that appeals to tho
true sportsman?hunting on horse
back with a dog.
Virst it is unforgettable how the
doctor and I soared a negro out of his
wits on Santeo, where we had a pen
for baiting turkeys, just because there 1
was a bluff where they flew over in the
grey of the morning, fed for a time on
the acorns and then went back across 1
the river to the swamp. A negro had
found the place and was thore ahead (
of us several mornings. The doctor
got a shrivelled hand out of his dis
secting room and this was put on wiro
and placed in tho path whero Sambo
had to go. At two o'clock in tho
morning wo were there and an hour
after the negro arrived, coming along
v/hi?tHng a tune. Whan he first saw
the ham he stopped, for he could not
make iVout; next mom?nt he gave a
blood-curdling yell, droppod his gun
and hat, and made a world's roeord
for sprinting through those lonely
woods. We were not bothered with
him after that.
I have not time to tell how the doc
tor's pretty young wife found us two
consnirat\n->? o?er the Louiiuy poi at
two o'clock another morning and
langhingly drove us out of tho kitch
en, until with her own fair hands she
fixed a glorious breakfast for us, and
of how, when going along that morn*
ing with a oold wind making us shiver,
the log turned as wo tried to oroBS a
branch and precipitated tho assortment
into the ioy water, and how after that
two frozen fools caught lumbago r .it
iog foe., the gobbler that never eame.
But what memories they are.
One&frly morning when tho winter
was wemon and turkeys were reported
on every hand, the doctor and I
mounted our horses and, oalling to his
pointer, Ponto, dashed off into the
forest. Ponto knew his business;
when ho Baw tho motion of the horse
men he knew as well as we did that
turkeys wero the game and he let him
self loose. We had ridden several
miles when his furious barking oalled
us to the edge of a swamp; he was
haying just inside. We dismounted
and made our way to him as fast as we
oould go.
He had a gobbler treed and shoot
ing him down was nothing at all; soon
Fonto had another and yet another, in
each case tho turkeys sat for us, ap
parently unmindful of our preaenoe and ,
wholly bent on watohing Ponto.
We bagged five in two hours, two
gobblers and three hens.
Then we oalled Ponto to heel and
rode slowly along; after a while Ponto
become" f/estless and was sniffing tho
leaves by the trail. The dootor spoke
to him and he oiroled the gallberry
bushes and with tail up ran into a
dense patoh of sparkle berries; out
rose a gobbler dashing by us bo fast
that ?Gnevic-vu snorted and roared
with me, but the dootor, whose horse
stood, got him with the first barrel.
Ponto treed two more, one of whioh
we killed. The dootor let the other,
go on?said he fired a squib shell, but
then we all do it and all have a good j
exouse.
. That evening when we reached home
a neighbor by the name of Tottis
Same over in distress to say that his
son, John, was missing sinoe morn- -
ing, a lad of thirteen years. Being
questioned, Tuttle said his son went
off with his muszle-loading shotgun
that morning, the.gun being heavily
loaded. ,
From svhsti John had told the doo
tor he inferred that Joh& must have
fone to a "blind" or pen to shoot tur
eyo. We both knew the plaoo and
started for it at a gallop, telling Tuttle
to follow on foot. Just before we
reached the point where the road turn
ed ws met John himself. He had a
tale of disaster to relate.
The tarkeys had oome to the bait
and the whole flock was eating oorn
from the little drill where it was
{riaoed with their heads together when
ying full on his face, John fired
through the cracks of his pen at the
collection of heads. He learned the
result a long time afterward, for the
gun. flew up and struck, him on the
temple, rendering him" ucoonecions.
When he camo to himself it was
late in the day and he had three dead
gobblers stretched in front of. him.
The dootor had to take John in baud
and sew up his head'; but John wore
the soar as a/badge of honor ever
??i?rjand said he would take another
for the same reward. j
There Js no fiery sport in turkey \
hunting; but it has a charm of its own (
and a reward worth trying for. 8
The coastal regions of Sooth Caro- (
lin a is now the finest territory in e
America for hunting turkeys and the j
woods in winter will satisfy the most rj
exacting taste.
: The last wild turkey I ate was cook- fl
sdln a pit on the sand which had *
been heated for hbursand at last tho (
fire removed. Tho dressed turkey was r
placed ; ia the pit and allored to re? a
main there closely covered with twigs
and leaves, Overlaid with sand, until
morning. When the covering was
removed next morning a New York
financier, famous on two continents, "
almost fainted at the savory aroma
that arose from the pit and. missed an
international appointment on the plea
of sudd an illness (a report whioh play
ed old Rair.v with tho s took market) a
io order to get another cooked in the a
san^^^ TWbo would hot suffer for o
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Wanted to Sell.
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?
148 acres, Savannah Township, known as Evergreen place. Well im
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84 acres, Hopewell Township. Tenant house, barn, Ac. 45 acres i?
cultivation, balance woods and old fields.
152 acree, Rock Mills Township. Price 81200.
5)05 acres, Broadway Township. Well improved. Price $2500
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ACTED IIQIUQ 85 order wo Ruarnntco to euro or refund tho money. Sold at gl.OO per box.
ArlCnUOinOi o boxes for 95.00. im.ftlOTT'S CllUiniCAL CO., Clovelaxid, Ohio.
FOR SALE BY EVANS PIS A RM AO Y.
D. S. VAN DIVER.'
E. P. VANDIVER,
VAN DIVER BROS,,
General Merchants.
COME TO SEE US!
On anything in our line and we will make PRICES SPECIALLY INTER
ESTING. We have a limited amount of?
Sound, Cheap Flour for. Hog Feed,
At $8.50 per barrel.
Yours for Trade,
VANDIVER BROS.
Flooring, Ceiling,
Siding, Framing,
Shingles, Lime,
Cement, Lathes,
Brick, Doors,
Sash. Blinds.
Mantels,
Turned and Scroll Work,
Devce's Faint, Lead,
Oil, Turpentine,
Hard Oil, Glass,
Putty, Etc.
EVERYTHING
fSS THE BUILDER.
IMPORTANT !
INVESTIGATE when in
need of any kind of?
BUILDING MATERIAL.
See me. If I don't sell yon
TU make the other fellow
SELL YOU RIGHT.
ANDERSON, S. C. '
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This Establishment has been Sellins:
N ANDERSON for more than forty years. Daring alt that time competitors
iave dome and gone, but we have remained right here. We have always sold
Cheaper than any others, and during those long years Wb have not had one dis*
atisfied customer. Mistakes will sometimes ooonr, and if at any time we
otind that a customer was dissatisfied we did not rest until we had made him
latiefied. 1 This policy, rigidly adhered to, has made us friends, true and last
ng, and wo ean say with pride, but without boasting, that we have the oonjb
lenee o( the people of this section. We have a larger Stock of Goods this
eason than we have ever had, and we pledge yon onrword that we have never
old Furniture at as close a margin of profit as we are doing now. This is
iroven by the fact that we are selling Furniture not only all over Anderson
Jounty bot in every Town in the Piedmont section. Come and see us. Your
>arents saved money by buyrag, from us, and you and your children oen save
aoney by buying ten 1*0. : We carry EVERYTHING in the Furniture line-,
C&vP. TOLLY & SON, Depot Street
The 01d.Rcliable<Furniture[DeaIe?B
WE have moved onr Shop and office below Peoples'. Bank, in front of
it. J. J. Fretwell'a Stables. We respectfully ask all our friends that need
ny Rovfinc done, or any kind of Repair work, Engine Stacks, Evaporatcca?
r any kind of Tin or Gravel Roofing to call on us. as we are prepared tods
i'nr?mt)?T andin best mn?v&As?mC4