Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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N MM Up*. ■ifrmiri PHIT *d na w«i(ifWyM «<.Ji, •4M •^«- Thb: i^ki>oici<. Si.oo per Year. rUBUtttiKH WKUNKADAY AND SATL'UDAY BY * Ed. H. DeCamp. The Ledger is not responsible for the views of correspondents. Correspondents who do not contri bute regular news letters must fur nish their name, not for publication, but for identification. Write short letters and to the point to insure publication; also endeavor to get them to the office by Tuesday. A.11 correspondence should be ad dressed to Ed. H. DeCamp. Manager. Obituaries will be published at five dents a line. Cards of thanks will be published rt one cent a word. Heading notices will be published At ten cents a line each insertion. NOTES AND COMMENTS. The news comes from Washington that the administration has deter mined to re-apportion the Southern delegations in Congress on the basis of the last census. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ We were premature in announc ing in last Wednesday’s issue that the beer privilege had been abolished by the Legislat.ire. The Jhouse did pass the bill by a large majority but the Senate killed it. So beer drink ers are still in luck. When a butcher sends poor beef to a household, the housewife fumes and vows that she will get even with him, and that is the last of it. When the packer sends it to the soldiers, the Commander-in-chief takes a hand and makes things warm. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ American cafe keepers in Cuba have refused to serve colored visitors, and it is said that trouble is bound to come if some agreement is uol reached. So it seems that the color line is drawn in Cuba also where there is such a blending of colors that it must take a color expert to keep them distinct. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ The Legislature passed a bill au thorizing the extension of the O. R A C. Railroad from Gaffney to Clif ton and Spartanburg. We hope the extension will soon be made. Though we have j,no particular com plaints to uiake of the Southern, yet there can be no possible harm to Gaffney in having another string to her bow. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Through the efforts of Senator Till man and Congressman Wilson an ap propriation of |200,000 has been se cured for improving the channel of Congaree River up to Columbia, and $f)0,000 of the appropriation is im mediately available. When Colum bia gets a water way to the ocean and consequent cheap freights, the whole state will be benefitted.* The Legislature which has just ad journed, passed 156 acts. The Co lumbia State calculates that the paper on which they are written would cover 2,600 square feet, and cut into strips one inch wide it ce a continuous ribtym fmiles long, costine^he Jot, or s'yardTotill the country survives, and people are coming and going, marrying and giving in marriage as they are said to have been doing when the flood came and swept them all away. ♦ ♦ The winter has been peculiarly and persistently unfavorable to farm work. Yet on a well regulated farm there are always many things that can be done under shelter and in spite of weather. Then there *are many other things out of doors that can be attended to in any but the severest weather. The wide-awake, successful farmer never gets out of work. He will.have all extra jobs, or such as might interfere with regu lar work, done at odd times, and when the time comes for plowing, he will not have to stop to have a load of wood, or go mill, or mend a plow stock, or to do anything that might have been done when the ground was too wet to plow. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ The people of Greenwood county are determined that the Tolberts shall dwell outside of their borders. On last Tuesday night 75 to 100 armed men from the Phumtx neigh borhoqd rode into the town of Green wood on the hunt of two of the Tol berts who were thought to be in the town. Dut fortunately the Tolberts bad left a day or two before. The men are said to have been sober and orderly, but declared that peace and good order could not exist in the county while the Tolberts were per mitted to live in it, and that they were determined to take no further risks on them. We hardly think that it will take very strong persua sion to keep the Tolberts henceforth away from Greenwood. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Complaints come to us from sub scribers in various quarters, that The Ledger does not reach them promptly. Ezells, a pos to flics within twelve or fifteen miles of Gaffney, Is not reached by our Haturday’s issue till late in the day on the Monday following. We afc informed also people Ji a" that the sumo issue dOoft not teach Fountain Tun, a town hot fifty miles away and connected djrcetly by rail, until Wednesday. Such things are as exasperating to us as they possibly can be to our readers. The paper is mailed here promptly every Satur day morning in time for all the out going mails, and it ought to roach the points named on the same day. If the grievance continue we will find out who is to blame and see if post masters and railroad attaches cannot be compelled to attend to tMer busi ness. • ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Let it not be forgotten that Char leston expects the people of Chero kee county to make a contribution of provisions or money for the enter tainment of the veterans in May The amount asked for is very little and it should be given with pride and pleasure and not regarded tu a cross or a burden. The veterans don’t care for dainties,—indeed if they had their old cartridge belts buckled around them, by taking up a hole or two each day they could go two or three days without anything to eat, visit all the places of interest abbut the historic old city and return home not much the worse for wear. Bub this generation has too high a regard for them to permit them to take care of themselves in that manner. They must have some bread and butter and meat while they are in Charles ton. and the people will see to it that no belts be tightened this time to keep down the pangs of hunger. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ All the volunteer troops now en camped in South Carolina and Geor gia are to be disbanded between now and the first of April, and the Green ville News is looking around for the means of a living for Greenville af ter the soldiers leave. After some dark intimations as to what the win ter would have been without the troops and some vague forebodings for the next winter, it declares that Greenville cannot live on 15.000 or 3J.000 bales of cotton which will fur nish only $41 apiece for its 12,000 people. We suggest to our honored contemporary that possibly Green ville has formed extravagant habits, and spends too much for dress and show, and wants to live too high. There is many a farmer who does not spend $41 apiece a year on his family, and his family lives well too. But we give our neighbor town the same advice that we give the farmer. Don’t depend entirely on cotton. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ The Legislature adjourned last Tuesday and the members are now all probably at their homes congratu lating themseves and the country on their arduous and eminent services. There was the usual rush during the closing hours, the usual amount of important business postponed till next session and the usual amount of unimportant business transacted. Upon the whole, however, we think this Legislature was a little above the average, and we thi..k so, not be cause it did more good, but because it did less harm than the average Legislature has done for the last ten years. The truth is we have too many Legislatures by at least half. We believe that the sentiment of the people is strongly in favor of bien nial sessions, and that the members of this last Legislature knew it to be thus; yet such is the fascination that law making at $4 per diem has for the members, that no effort at all was made to have the constitution so amended as to authorize the biennial session. Thoinp«ou'n Mill Talk. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Thomison’s Mill, Feb. 20.—This morning resembles spring and the shrill noise of the little birds is pealing from every tree top if this weather continues a few days longer all the farmers will be pulling the bell cord, as no oats have been sowed and no other farm work done. William Mabry was in this vicinty some time ago. Mr. Bisks the veteran tobacconist passed through last week enroute for Charlotte his home. Dr. Bam’l Foster expects to travel this summer and peddle the reliable “Native Herbs’’ which he claims will cure all diseases arising from the blood. prayer meeting met at Mrs. Bai lie Foster’s last Babbath evening with a good attendance. Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Estes have a very sick child. Miss Maud Kirby of Webster is visiting friends and relatives in this section. Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Foster visited the family of Mr. B. F. Estes Satur day night. Nightingale. A Sluggish Liver causes Drowsiness. Lethargy and a feeling of Apathy, Dr. M. A. Bimmona Liver Medicine arouses the Liver, and cheerful energy succeeds sluggishness. A capital idea for a writer is to have money enough in bank to enable him to write checks. To Sweeten the Breath, Brighten the Eye, Clear the Complexion and lusure the natural Bloom of Health, use Dr. M. A. Simmons Liver Medi cine. Help a man out of trouble and he will remember you—when he gets in trouble again. For a clear '’ouiplexiou, bright bpiirklln* *yre und vlgorou* dlge^tlou. Uke Pricki.v A*t; biTTKit* It puts tin* syatdn in pt-rfoct order. Bold I y Chrrokw PrujrCd. 1 CONFEDERATE SOLDIER'S PLEA For Pensions for the Wearers of the Gray. HE BELIEVES IT RIGHT The Mouth Wni* Not Keapomtlble for the Introduction of the Klavc IIuxIucni*.--Mouth Carolina Opposed It llcforc Any of the Other Htatcx. Mr. Editor:—Will you be kind enough to give an old Confederate soldier space in your valuable paper to throw out a few thoughts to the public on the Mr. Butler’s proposi tion, though now withdrawn, to pen sion Confederate soldiers in tITe fu ture as well as Federals. It would be right for many reasons, among these, the Confederates fought tor constitutional equality, respect ing properties among the States; es pecially is this true in respect to that monied value then guaranteed to all southern planters who held colored people as slaves. The supreme court judge, R. B. Tanney, presiding about 1860, de clared that, “under the constitution any slave owner could enter any free state in the union and repos sess any fugitive slave found in its limits.” Notwithstanding this decision from the highest tribunal in the American government our south ern representatives were insulted in congress and most grossly misrepre sented throughout the civilized world. Not only did our northern friends do this hut they sought by legislation and political intrigue and all other infamous means to provoke the south ern people to revolt. Why was the south (if she was) more respcnsible for negro slavery than the north? The answer car. only be given, “be cause the southern climate made his labors renumerative to southern planters. Mr. Yeorgan, who brought the first cargo of negro slaves to this south land of ours knew their labors would pay here. The enterprise was a success; their labors were renumer- ative, but Bouth Carolina was not pleased and.soon placed herself on rec ord, (I believe abuut 1787) passing in assembly a resolution positively in opposition to importation of colored people to be held as slaves in her ter ritory. This opposition from Bouth Carolina was the first, it appears, to this traffic anywhere made public. It certainly was before New England or Great Britain came out in opposi tion to kidnapping of negroes in or der to sell themjinto slavery. No other colony or territory, it appears, then even sympathized or heeded her opposition in the least. The reason presumably was, the constitution as a basis for future government recog nized them then as property right fully belonging to the people who paid their money for them. The people then of other states and colonies as well felt that it would be unkind, and unpatriotic to infringe in the least sense upon the rights and priv ileges of others, Bo the Bouth always regarded these things, hence she withdrew from a union, as she re garded it, of oppression, so you see it is plain that the Confederate sol diers’ fight was one of constitutional right and not that of rebellion against the constitution, as so often charged. By force and not by constitutional right was the money wrested from out the southen planters bands, and not one cent as an equivalent has ever been placed back into the hands of the parties so misused, according to the plain teachings of the consti tution in ante-bellum days. View ing these facts from our standpoint we fail to see why any southern sol dier could feel any scruples or mis givings in the remotest sense at be coming a pensioner upon the rolls in common with Federal soldiers. The government in the future, to my view, can only make amends for the wrongs it has done the Bouth and its soldiery only in one of two ways; that is, place the old Confederate in the future side by side with the un ion soldiers on the government pen sion roils; or else eliminate all tiie southern states in the future from payment of so much revenue to the general government as would be their prorata of the general pension levy that congress is now making from year to year. To do otherwise seems to me to be uncharitable toward us. Not only so, but is in a sense taking from us monies which no unconstitu tional act on our part has ever give them the right to take. With reference to pensioning Confederate soldiers if it is intended as a reward for faithful services rendered in defence of a wortiiy and patriotic cause, no dis crimination of any kind ought to ob tain, hindering anyone who faithfully served his state’s call for such ser vices, no matter how successful he may have been since the close of the war, he ought to receive recognition or compensation for such services as well us the poorest. In a financial sense any other way is unfair discrim ination. If we cannot treat aii meri torious ones alike let us for consist ency to all repeal our pension law and create in its stead a state benev olent fund, and also create bureaus with branch offices at every county seat in the state whose sole duty shall be to look after and care for aii widows and orphans and helpless Confederate soldiers, taking into ac count only those who positively need help. In this way, only, it seems to me can impartial justice be done to all. Now, Mr. Editor, I hope no one will say that I am displeased because 1 have not been pensioned. This would be untrue. I have never asked for a pension, still I am satis fied that many in-better financial cir cumstances than myself have keen pensioned. I cooscienciously believe that all true Confederate soldiers ought to be pensioned, and that the general government while it collects a revenue to be applied to payment of pensions from us ought to return to each southern state its portion, to be divided out equally among the southern soldiery. To do otherwise is unfair. L. B. Davis. A SOUVENIR Of VIRGINIA. I'nclr .llinmy, of tli* Old Dominion, Write* In Enrlr .Ilininy, of llto I'hIiiiHIo. .Correspondence of The Ledger.) Etta Jane, ^eb., 21.—Mr. James Raines, of Mar Chester, Va., bus our thanks for a special extra number of “American Journal of Progress,” il lustrating Richmond, Va. It is, in brief, a history of the city of today. The cuts show the familiar faces of some of Richmond’s leading men and places of business. Among them we recognize the Washington Monument, City Hull, Lee’s statue, capitol square, Washington’s statue, Cham ber of Commerce building, postoffice, state capitol, masonic temple, bird’s eye view from the city hall looking west, state library, Jefferson hotel, view of James river looking west, view of Main street, Y. M. C. A. building, commercial club, view of Broad street, the Times building, Richmond college,',Castel Thunder— Confederate prison—togetherjwith nu merous other places and things we would be glad to mention had v/e only the.space to do so We are glad that Uncle Jimmie still remembers The Ledger family and has a kind word and wish for it. Hope he will favor it with a letter occasionally. We are always glad to hear from the “Old Dominion.” Mr. W. T. Osment has moved from Trough Shoals to Gaffney. He doesn’t think there is any place like Cherokee county. We regret to learn that Mrs. Amanda Poole, the postmistress of Suunyside, is quite sick. Also Mr. Pierce Y. Poole is sick too. These witli Mrs. Mary Walker, are the only cases of sickness we hear of now. Mr. Edward Byars expects to move his family to Spartanburg this week, where he will continue his insurance business, having rented out his farm. The recent rains have done consid erable damage to the public roads in in tliis township. Our people would be glad if the county authorities could send the chain gang down this way to do some work; but we pre sume that the sumc wish is shared by the people of the different parts of the county, and we know all the roads cannot be repaired at the same time with the means at the disposal of the Supervisor and Commission ers. Our people were hopeful that they could begin sowing oats this week, but the rain last nigiit set them back again. We learn that Dr. Sidney Sarratt is speaking of locating in the Skull Shoals neighborhood for the practice of ids profession as well as to look after his farming interest. The remarkable (if not ridiculous) assertion of Bishop Potter, of New York, that “the saloon is a social ne cessity” has led the Ram’s Horn, (a religious paper) to ask the question: “Is the saloon a necessity?” to which many eminent statesmen and divines have given answer. It is with great pleasure we note the reply of Senator Tillman, which wo clip from the Ram’s Horn: “I have your letter of the 25th inst., giving what purports to be an extract from a recent address by Bishop Potter in regard to ‘saloons being a social necessity.’ You ask me the question: Ts the saloon a social necessity?' I answer, em phatically no. On the contrary, I believe it to be a curse and the imme diate cause of infinite evil. I do not consider a ‘club’ a necessity for a ricli man, for I do not regard it essential to happiness and enjoyment to leave home and go only where men congre gate. That man who cannot find all the relaxation and mental stimulus in the society of his family at home, and in the society of friends in the* home of friends is in a bad way. I consider an evening spent in a saloon as an absolute waste of time, entail ing necessarily a waste of money also, and, although I am not a prohibition ist, either in principle or practice, and do not feel disposed to criticize others, I must confess I am utterly astounded at Bishop Potter’s utter ances.” Hurrah for Tillman ! Let his aspi rations be wiiat they may, Ins words have only one sound, There is no reading between the lines of a differ ent sentiment than that he wishes to express. Miss Grace Whisonanthas given us an answer to our problem of two weeks ago—seven persons can set in 5,040 different positions around a ta ble. Mrs. Moliie Ray mswers the problem of last wee*. The ditch U dug in nine days, Here is another: What is the area of a field if it takes me twelve minutes to walk around it at the rate of five miles an hour? j. l. a. J. C. Sheppard of Edgefield, 8. C., in writing 'to Hon. M. J. Moore, Cameron, Texas, and giving him information for a cotton mill move ment. says that the president's salary in Bouth Carolina mills Is not Infrequently $12,000 or$15,000 a year, and tliat several factories pay $10,000. Mr. Sheppard's Impession is that the largest salary any South Carolina cotton mill president receives is $15,- 000. The hen should not be blamed if the egg is bad. It was good,when she marketed it. After a politician has been dead HO or 40 years he is sometimes referred to as a statesman. It is well to know thyself, and it Is also well to know that the commer cial agencies speak well of you. Catarrh Cannot he Cured with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, us they cim- not reach the xea|r of * (he diaMSe. Catarrh U a blood or conrtltutloiiul dixeuse, mid lit order to cure It you must take Internal rem edies. UaU‘H Catarrh Cure lx taken tutor- nally, and uctx directly on the mucous xur- fueex. Hall's Catarrh Cure lx not a quack medicine. It wax iircxcribod hy one of the Ixiit physicians In this country for years, and Is a regular prescription. It Ucomposed of the l>est tonics know, comhinod with the best blood puriflerx. acting directly on the mucous surfaces. The perfect coinhlnullon of the two Ingredients Is what produces xueh wonderful results In curing Catarrh. Head for testimonials, free F.J. CHENF.Y A CO . Projjs.. Toi >do, O. Sold hy druggist, price lie. Ilafi'g Family Pilfg are the last. IN THE COURTING DAYS OF FLAW. How He Was Frightened by Ghosts. HIS HAIR STOOD ON END. He Wax ruxxing Through a Graveyard When the Kcreecli Owl Screeched and Scared Him so Had He Lost Hlx Senses and He Hasn't Kcgitincd them Yet. One thing*an’ another most ingin- erully brings on one thing an’ an other in this fast an’ fleetinVday an’ gineration to write about, but as I haint seen tny onliest friends Munro Mize, Banjer Lu nor t Ranse Spencer in a long time my nows chamber is about coflumixed so fer as news is concerned, an’, too, I haint bin a feelin’ none of the beat since the cold spell set in, for I had to stay in doors pritty much all of the time an’, by gatlins, what little sense the little Bickers didn’t worry out of me weren’t Lever stored away in my up per story to come out. Honestly, I ralcy don’t bleeve I've got as much sense as a string of fish. Talkin’ of me not a havin’ of no sense brings to my mind a night wherein I was worse off than a man what aint got no sense atali. Hit was a way back yander in my sweet heart days, when I first begun to think that man weren’t made to live by his self alius—though I weren't a man yit, you understand— when I would work hard all week an’ plan out an’ dream as to how I should git married an' then make a good livin’ fer my onliest wife, when them Saturday evenin’s would seem like months a gittin’ around so I could go six miles on foot to see my sweet heart, when I thought I didn’t need anything else on earth but a wife (now I think I need everything else under the good Lord’s shinin’ sun but a wife). Aii! them were glori ous ole days to me. Happy is the man who loves but Lord pity him when his faith breaks. Hit were away back there in them days what I started to tell you of a while ago. You understand, I had to walk six miles to see my best gal, and what's more, 1 had to pass right by an’ ole grave yard on the side of ihe road in the woods, which, you understand, looked to mo like hit tneby ought to hatch out ghosts' by the drove in day time much less of a night, but us I have already went on down to tell you here before, you haf to break a Bicker’s neck ef you ever git him broke, an’ I would a walked over the “bottomless pit” on u rot ten rail or saw that gal every Satur day night—nigger nigiit as they cull it in this day an’ time—so, as I go on do.vn to tell you,this graveyard had a reputation fer ghosts equal in every way to its looks. The ole nabers what hud lived there in them diggins fer all us, said that hit had bin beam hundreds of times to sound like a team of mules a runnin’ away down through the tickest body of woods you ever saw from the graveyard and an’ said—said you could hear a man fall off an’ holler like a j was run over by the team, an’ a dyin’, an’ said that hit was out of the question to tree a possum in them woods atali, but at any rate that didn’t stay ole Flaw from a goin’ to see that the gul just the same. I had passed that blasted ole grave yard at nights till, by gatlins, I jist begin to think that everybody hud jist naterally hopped upau’toleu naked lie about the whole affair, but one nigiit I hud to change my mind, fer a while at least. Hit was u dark, rainy Saturday night an’ owin’ to hit a bein’ a rain in’ tbrowed me later of doin’ of my work up, consequentially I was tbrowed ontel after dark a passin’ of the graveyard. I didn’t dream of a ghost, hadn’t thought of one in the last three times I had past, but, by gatlins, hit come at last—ail at once, just as I got fernent it I hearn some thin’ pop, an’ slap, an’ wisp right over the top of my head. There I was right kersmack-dub in the ole graveyard with a‘thousand ghosts turned loose on me. Then hit was that I was in a worse fix than ef I hadn’t no sense atali to speak of; then hit was that I stood there in dumb silence with my hat prized up on the ends of a few of the longest hairs of my head. I listened ier the runnin’ gears of a wagon down through the woods, the wail of some poor man in agony, looked fer movin’ blaok an’ white things, coffins and so forth. Urazy weren't no where. I was so blasted crazy ontel 1 didn’t have sense enough to “git in out of a shower# of rain,” as it were, an so blasted weak ontel I couldn’t hardly stand on my feet, much less run, That thing would wisp! pop! snap! I’d shake an' quuk, an’ jne thinks my hat would sway to an' fro. Hit raley seemed to me that ef I’d a started to run a thousand ghosts would u started right in behind me. uu’ hit was so felonious dark I kuowd hit was well nigh impossible fer me to keep in the road, an’ so, whilst I was u standin' thar a tryin’ to git my hair down an’|my senses coilccttd a blasted squitchowl went w-l-l-i-1 right at tiie side ol the road even with where I was a standin’ an ben it was I knowd what had bin a doin’ all of that poppin’ an’ amuckin,’ An’ su it is, my onliest friends an’ fellow readers, most ingiuerally every time you see or hear a ghost, or spook us some folks calls ’em, ef you’ll only take a little trouble to find out fer certuint what it is hit will turn out to be nothin’ to speak of in the end. Whilst I was a tellin’ of nr.y gal about the scare I had at the ole grave yard she says, says she, “Well, Flaw, didn't you run?” “Not on your sweet life, my dear est,” said I, “I wanted to be away from that fuss an’ grave yard as bad as any livin’ mortal man could but somehow I couldn’t make it up in my mind that I could git away from thur fast enough to suit me, so I jist stood still to see how a feller felt when he was scared right rail bad. Flaw Picker. Royal Absolutely touRF Absolutely'Pure Makes the food more delicious and wholesome WOVAl BAKING POWDER CO., HEW YORK. Axbury I’aruKraphx. (Correspondence of The Ledger.) Abudry, Feb. 22.—We have had u few days this week which felt like spring time, we all would be glad to see it continue so. The wheat crops are not looking so very well in our community. Our farmers have begun to clear their lands ior another crop, no ploughing has been done yet, tiie weather being so bad. No oats have been sowed yet, sow when tiie land gets dry, because we cannot have toojmany in the county. Albert Littlejohn, the son of Mr. J. R. Littlejohn, is the best educated boy in our community at his age. Ho is not over twelve years of ago; he is in rank with most of the large boys. Mrs. Lucinda Littlejohn died Feb. 21st, she was the wife of Mr. Wil liam Litttlejohn. She was quite an old woman, she has a large number of friends and kindred to mourn her loss. Bm;e Bird. Hattie of Cowpeng. I Talon Timex. | Concerning tiie Sanford, N. C., cot ton mill enterprise Jno. W. Scott writes from there that they have the promise of some $30,000 thus fur, but hope to double the amount before organization. They do not know what size or kind of cotton mill they will build, but will probably erect a spinning mill. Mr. Scott says Sun- ford has many advantages for manu facturing establishments that few possess. All there now have paid well. The Life Brosever which has carried many ladies safely over tiie dangerous sea “Chungs of Life” is Simmons Squaw Vine Wine or Tablets. A man who looks only at one side of a thing imagines every other man does tiie same. A two or three weeks’ course of Dr. M. A. Simmons Liver Medicine will so Regulate the Excretory Functions that (hey will operate without any aid whatever. The Gaffney Ledger lias undertaken a grand work, in assisting the Memo rial Association of the Battle of Cow- pens, in getting a list of names of all who took part in that decisive battle of the Revolution. As a number of dependants from participants in that battle live in Union county we ur gently ask all who have any infor mation on the subject to write us and we will gladly forward it to the proper parties. The data that is be ing coliected*is of necessity unofficial so do not hesitate to send in any re port of names you have heard the old people talk about. Any short sketch of any of these ^ grand old patriots will make inter esting reading which wc will be glad to publish. I NDIGESTION, resulting from weakness of the xtoiiutch, is relieved hy Hood’s Sarsaparilla, the great stom ach touic and cure for DYSPEPSIA. Why Eat Dkt ? That is tho question, when 3*011 can eat pure i wheat flour ;it the same price. The Pond Lilly brand of fiour j is made by Stroup Pros., at < 'herryville, N.C.,of pure wheat. It contains no chalk, kaolin, j mincraline or corn meal, as it is as pure as it is possible for Hour to he. If you want the best call «• for Pond Lilly at J. N. LIPSCOMB’S. MONEY TO LEND!! On loiifr timo | ami easy terms. Secured Lj first mortipige ! on improved farms. Apply to r. H. Hoffman. 4 llowline Greeen. ! nr to.I. A'. .Ikkfkriks. New York City. Oull'iieys, S. ('., for information. ! l-.>-Gino pd. Say flister! Folks in Manilla can't trade With me now, but you can. Do you know where I am at? I’m on Factory Hill, near tiie o. II. &C. it. It. New Store House, A new and well selected stock of Heavy and Fancy Groceries At Prices Lower than Ever Before! I srunruiitce every accomo dation possible and appre ciate your business. Respect full}', J. tv. IvtvX .. .THE... PRUDENTIAL Insurance * Company * of * America. Home Office, Newark, N. J. John F. Dryden, President. James O. Wynn, Manager Southern Dep’t., Atlanta, Ga. Assets Jan. 1st. 1899 Surplus Jan 1st, 1 399 Annual Income Insurance in force Insurance written in 1898, $28,887,196.42 $5,888,894.76 $17,481,875.74 $414,547,053.00 $ 164,600,000.00 Paid Policy Holders to Date Over $36,450,000.00 -♦♦♦♦♦* ♦♦♦♦♦ 'V THE PRUDENTIAL lias forged its wav ahead until it stand in the front rank of the great Life Insurance Companies of tho world. It offers all that is good in Life Insurance and under the best conditions. C. T. Rawls, General Agent, Asheville, N. C. WOOI> ^JVU'TIT, Keciicleiit iVj*;entw.