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First Napolean of Financial World. John Law was the first of the so called Napoleans of finance, although that title for obvious reasons, had not at that time gained currency. And he set a fast pace-one which few since his time have been able to maintain. There have been many imitations since the days of the debonnair regent and his prince of speculation, but old John Law was the real thing in panic qreeders. It is extremely doubtful if any other man has ever succeeded in so completely innoculating a nation with poison of specula^in, the madness of gambling, as did this hard-headed, scheming, popish Scocthman during the five years from 1715 to 1720. Ana modern history fails to record another case in which such widespread min was involved. John Law was born at Edinburgh in April, 1671* His father was a gold? smith, as the bankers were called, and John's early education soon |give him an understanding of the ins and outs of financial operations. At the age of 20 he w?nt to London to study, but records of his life show that he led a wild life of gambling, drinking and love intrigues, the latter leading to a duel, in which he killed his op? ponent. He fled to Holland, and then toured Europe, spending his time in gamb? ling and speculation, making large ?stans of money, which he recklessly squandered. ?n 170S he made his first proposals to Louis XIV in relation to the finances of France, then in inex? tricable confusion, but was ordered cut of the kingdom as a suspicious character and a Huguenot. Law's time came in 1715, when the death of the King placed the regent in control. The finances of France were in such a condition that a declaration of national bankruptcy was seriously considered. While this was not resorted to a commission went over the claims against the government which had ac? cumulated through the reckless ex? travagance of the old King, and cut them down 50 per cent. The currency was recoined and debased 20 per cent, but despite all this the new certificates of indebtedness immediately fell 75 per cent. Ruin stared Frnce in the face. At this crisis Law bobbed up again in Paris and presented his scheme to the regent, and the plan was a vast ene. As a beginning Law was given permission to start a royal bank, which was to manage the trade and ! .currency of the country, collect the J taxes and free the country of a debt of 1500 milliards of lives. The plan was bitterly opposed, but Law boldly went ahead, and the bank was a success from theffirst shot out of the box. The .capital was divided in 1200 shares, ana4 in payment for thm Law accepted three-fourths in discredited debt cer? tificates and one-fourth cash. There was naturally a rush for shares, and rsoon shares, certificates and the bank's paper were a a premium. Various decrees gave the bank's ! notes great preference, and soon 60,000, 000 livres in paper were in circulation, with scacely a sou held for ultimate redemption. But the temporary suc? cess pleased the regent and Law was given full swing. Then he launched his Mississippi -scheme. He was granted regal priv? ileges over the most fertile part of the United States, and the stock in his vast enterprise "went like hot - cakes the printing presses couldn't turn it -out fast enough to supply the demand. This ^scheme was no sooner., in good -working order than Law obtained ab solute control of the mint and coin? age, followed soon after by the sole authority to collect the taxes. Now he was in a position to pay his big card -to put the capstone on his financial : shaft. The national debt was 1500 milli rds of livres, a tremendous sum for those days. But it was about the only profitable thing left in sight, so Law took it over under agreement to man? age it on terms favorable to the state. Law's complicated plan was, " on a figantic scale, simply one of those unco stock-jobbing schemes by which every one was to make money. Law was going to pile up such an immense rake-off that he, in the kindness of his heart, would let the public in on the deal. And the lambs flocked to be shorn. At each issue of shares mobs crowded the streets near the bank and literally fought for a chance to invest their money in Law's certificates. Nor was the speculation madness con? fined to any one class of people ; men and women, lords and ladies, mer? chants, adventurers and even servants 'Crowded and pushed one another in a mad struggle to reach the bank .counter. Chroniclers of that time say the sight baffled adequate description. The entire nation was touched by the speculative madness. It spread from Paris to the provinces. Men sold their all and hastened to the capital to speculate until the population of the capital was nearly doubled. Everybody seemed to be getting richer, and no one poorer. Trade received a tremen? dous but abnormal impulse. The shares steadily climbed, until they were forty times their par value. And John Law-foreigner and fop gambler and d?bauche, he who had been driven out of London for a low intrigue and expelled from Paris as a .suspicious person-rode on the crest of the wave. He was for the moment the most powerful figure in Europe. He had more than regal power. Kings paid court to him, and the proudest aristocracy in Europe humbled itself in his dust. In addition his prodigal liberality made him the idol of the populace. France was ruled by a wildcatter: his word was law. But his success was shortlived. The Missisippi company and its various branches were beginning to topple. It was inevitble, and the first de? mand for payment on the shares found an empty treasury. The tide turned. Men began to sell shares and buy land and houses. Violent edicts could not stem the current, and all at once the people began to demand .coin instead of paper. Public confi? dence was gone, and the immense bubble of inflation pricked. Every? where was distress and financial ruin. Coined money fled the realm, and prices advanced enormously. Still the shares and notes fell and fell until it was almost impossible to give them away. France was pauperized, and Law became an object of popular ha? tred. His enemies seized control of the government and tore out his sys? tem root and branch, and the country, in sackcloth and ashes, repented of its folly. Secretly, in the darkness of a De? cember night in 1720, Law stole away j from Paris, his money gone, his life in danger, to resume his old disreput? able life of wandering and soon to be ! forgotten. He died in Venice a pauper nine years after. Tradition has it that a beautiful woman, a discarded mistress of the financier, secured a terrible revenge by starting the rumors which finally pricked the inflation bubble. About the same time another specu? lative bubble was bringing disaster to the people across the channel. It was the collapse of the famous South Sea bubble, and when it burst the ruin was widespread. The speculative mania began to get headway in England in 1710, and was the direct result of the wonderful ex? pansion in English trade and com merce. Any scheme, no matter how chimerical, "found supporters, and the South Sea company was one of the wildest and largest. Since the days of*Elizabeth, Spanish America held out a strange fascination for English? men as the source of unlimited wealth. The South Sea company took advan? tage of this weakness. As the price of the monopoly of the Spanish-Ameri f can trade, the company agreed to pay off the national debt. The Harley Ministry- made the bargain in spite of Walpole's warning. Then the country went stock-mad. It was almost the French case over again. Everybody bought stocks, and when the crash came it brought universal bankruptcy and a crisis which drove the ministry from office,. The crash brought Stan? hope to his grave and many of his col? leagues were found to have received big bribes from the company. Croggs, . the secretary of state, died of terror at the investigation, and Aislabie, the chancellor of the exechequer, was sent to the tower. Thousands of families were ruined, and estates of directors of the company to the value of 2,000, 000 pounds were seized. During the boom the prices of the stock was, by the artifices of the directors, raised from 100 to 1,000 pounds.-Anaconda (Mont. \ Standard. EDISON'S LATEST TRIUMPH. After several years of hard labor and research Thomas Edison is heard from again and another most import? ant invention as well as discovery of great interest to the world is announc? ed. This latest intvention which promises to be a revolutionizer of traction as the electric light was in its field, is a storage battery. This new storage battery promises to displace trolley wires, costly sub? ways, steam auto-wagons, noisy gas engines and wandering earth currents which do so much damage to water pipes and other metal conduits. It promises in place of all these nui? sances, electrically driven cabs, buss? es, street cars, carriages, trucks and wagons of ?every kind. The storage battery is not new. It was originally invented by Planti in 1860. But the new Edison storage bat? tery is as different from this original one of heavy lead and cumbersome coils as the modern magazine rifle differs from the fighting machines of the Greeks and Romans. Edison is a quiet, modest man and a hard worker. His inventions are not announced un? til they are perfected, There is noth? ing of the Nikola Tesl3 about him. When he invents something it is prac? ticable and its benefits to mankind can be promptly estimated and appreciat? ed. For several years in the quiet of his shop at Llewellen Park, out in East Orange, New Jersey, he has-been laboring on this storage battery prob? lem. What was needed was a battery which would be inexpensive,, of . light weight, Capable of withstanding care? less treatment, " and one with large storage capacity, per unit of mass. The new battery is said to "combin? all of these advantages. It weighs only fifty-three pounds per horse power, whereas the bid style battery weighed from 124 to 186 pounds. The Edison battery gives its terminals sufficient energy to lift its own weight to a ver? tical distance of seven miles as against a power in the old lead -cell battery of raising its own weight but two or three miles. This will give the layman unversed in electrical terms an idea of the value of the Edison battery.-Atlanta News. Dairymen Needed in the South. A leading Pennsylvanian, Mr. W. M. Benninger, commenting on his ob? servations of the dairy industry in the South, says: "I have shown daily cattle and ope? rated model dairies at Southern fairs for a number of years. I find in every one of the large cities and places that I visited there is a scarcity of milk. ? I find that large numbers of the dairy ! farms are _ making a poor quality of butter, while in the same sections I saw as fine butter as I ever saw. The advantages for making good butter wijh less labor and expense far exceed any section that I have visited. "The mild climate makes it possible to raise green foods most of the time on the cheapest land, with the cheap est labor and lumber to built commo? dious barns at low cost, whjle these shelters need not be as expensive as our Northern barns. I had occasion to run a model dairy in the South, and I find I can keep milk sweet long? er and make a finer flavored and better grade of butter there than can be made in the North, as the night air seems especially adapted to this pur? pose. "lam further convinced that en? hancing the dairy indnstry would not increase the surplus product, for I be? lieve that every quart of good milk and every pound of good butter would make an increased demand for double the amount in the South. " -Southern Farm Magazine. Honey for Profit. Wadesboro, N. C., is interested in an industry conducted there by Miss Annie ^ Knight. A correspondent of the Chariote Observer from that town says that she is earning more than 8200 a year from a honey-comb? ing plant which ci ?sr 8500. lie* writes that part of the h<?ney is shipped in the comb, the square blocks of comb honey being packed in neatly made wood frames. She extracts honey and sells it in bottles and buckets, and is now preparing to ex pt-ri ment in put? ting up some of the very best extract for sale in drug stores for the use of 1 invalids. NO THIRD TERM FOR HIM. President McKinley Says He Would iMot Accept Nomination. "Washington, Jnne ll.-President McKinley today announces that he would not accept a nomination for a third term, in the following state? ment: "I regret that the suggestion of a third term has been made. I doubt whether I am called upon to give it notice. But there are now questions of the gravesi; importance before the administration and the country, and their just consideration should not be prejudiced in the public mind by even the suspicion of the thought of a third term. In view of the reiteration of the suggestion of it, I will say now, once for all, expressing a long settled conviction, that I not only am not and will not be a candidate for a third term, but would not accept a nomina? tion for it if it were tendered me. "My only ambition is to serve throughout my second term to the ac? ceptance of my countrymen, whose generous confidence I so deeply appre? ciate, and then with them do my duty in the ranks of private citizenship. "William McKinley." "Executive Mansion, Washington, June 10, 1901." President McKinley's official an? nouncement this morning, disposing of the third term idea suggested by some of his admirers, created no great surprise among his friends who have known of his deep convictions on the subject. When Senator Depew's suggestion 10 days ago that the president should be reelected for a third term began to be seriously discussed and whenever any of the president's friends felt called upon to endorse the idea the president decided that the public mind should be instantly cleared of even the suspicion that he was seek? ing to break down the precedents of the past by becoming a candidate for another term. He broached the sub jet to Secretary Long late yesterday 1 afternoon. He told him that he be? lieved that an announcement at the very inception of the discussion would > be wise and last night officially in? formed the members of the cabinet who had been informally called to? gether of his decision. It met with hearty approval. There was unani ? mons concurrence in the belief that discussion of a third term would not only place the president in a false , light before the country if allowed to go on, but would arouse antagonism and greatly embarass the administra I tion in the solution of the great ques ! tions before it. The brief announce? ment which the president had pre? pared was given out by Secretary Cor telyou at noon tonday. After the cabinet meeting today one of the members said they were unani? mous in their approval of the presi? dent's pronunciamento regarding the third term. The member pointed out that if the president had . allowed the discussion to proceed for any length of time, notwithstanding the fact that he has never entertained even the most remote idea of being a candidate for a third term, an announcement similar to that made today would have been subject to the misconstruction that .he had been forced by public opinion to give up an ambition whicri he had never had. PRlLADELPHlMiS 6IYE WELCOME To Hundreds of Business Men From the South. j Philadelphia, June ll.-Delegates numbering several hundred and repre? senting all of the southern State's and most of the principal cities of the ! south are attending the annual South I ern Industrial convention which began a four day's session in Horticultural hall here today. This is the first time the convention has been held in the north and it is expected that great benefits will accrue to tne commercial and industrial interests of the north and south through the deliberations of the delegates. Preparations for the present gather? ing had been in progress since last February when an invitation was ex? tended by the allied commercial and business organizations of Philadelphia to the Southern Industrial association to come here and debate ways and means for furthering the trade of the two sections. The delegates found a heartfelt wel? come awaiting them, the State and city joining in the efforts to rendel the visitor's sojourn as pleasant as i; is expected to be profitable. The bus? iness houses in the center of the city have been gayly decorated with flags and bunting and tonight the exterior of the city hall was ablaze with electric lights in honor of the occasion. The welcome to the city's guests consumed all of the morning session at which welcome addresses were deliver? ed by Gov. Stone and Mayor Ash? bridge. Responses were made by Gov. Longino of Mississippi and Mayor Riggins of Waco, Texas. The after? noon was given over to an excursion on the Delaware river and tonight the delegates listened to addresses by Former Secretary of the Interior Hoke Smith of Atlanta, Ga., and Robert C. Ogden of Philadelphia, president of the Southern Educational confer? ence. The day's events concluded with a reception tendered by Mayor Ash? bridge at the city hali. Sylvania. Ga., June 14.-Five bodies dangling upon the same gallows, five souls launched into eternity at the same moment, marked the triumph of the majesty of the law and the end of what is believed to have been an or? ganized gang of murderers, here to? day. Th?- victims of the legal tragedy were Arnold Augustus, Andrew Davis, Richards Sanders, William Hudson and Sam Baldwin, all negroes. The victims of their (.-rime were Consta? ble Mears and Fillmore Herrington, whom they ambushed and shot to death, and Capt. Wade, whom they seriously wounded in the shooting that ki Heil the two first men nearly a year ago. On at least two occasions efforts were made to lynch the murderers, hut by the prompt action of the officers of the law they were frustrated. On one of these occasions the governor found i: necessary to order out three compa? nies of the State militia. HORRIBLE BOSTON TRAGEDY. Jealous Husband Kills His Wife, Cuts Off Her Head, Packs the Remains in a Trunk and Ships it to Chelsford. Boston, Mass, Jnne 13.-The mys? tery concerning the disappearance from this city of Margaret Blond?n, wife of J. W. Blondin, remains unsolv? ed. Her headless body was found near Chelmsford and identified by her sister. The head was hidden nearby. The theory has been that the husband committed the murder in fit of jeal? ousy. Today it was intimated by the police that the crime was committed in the Green street house here, where the couple boarded, and that the wom? an's remains were sent away in a trunk. This theory was given weight by an interview between the police inspectorsl and Mrs. Mary Hannigan, the landlady, latter saying that on Saturday, April 27, the day of Mrs. Blondin's disappearance, she was sit? ting in the front hall just before 4 o'clock, when Mrs. Blondin came in and asked what time it was. On being told she exclaimed: "My husband will kill me." and ran up-stairs to her room. The husband immediately entered and demanded that Mrs. Han? nigan tell him how his wife spent the day. Upon being told that she spent the day quietly he rushed up-stairs as if in a furious temper, pushed the room door open and closed it violent? ly. The landlady heard angry talk and the fall of a body. Ten minutes later Blondin came out wearing his best clothes. He locked the door, not only by the ordinary fastening, but with a padlock, which he had attach? ed that morning. Mrs. Hannigan went up-stairs, but got no response from the room. She thought that the woman was ashamed to talk after what had taken place. Blondin returned the following Tues? day. During the interval Mrs. Han? nigan tried to get word from Mrs. Blondin. When Blondin returned he looked haggard. He went to his room, re? mained there an hour, and when he left in a hurry he doubly locked the door. In half an hour he returned with an express man, explaining to Mrs. Han? nigan that he had accepted a posi? tion on a Government boat in. Canada and that he was going to Montreal. "Where is your wife?" asked Mrs. Hannigan. Blondin muttered something which the landlady could not catch. In reply to numerous other queries Mrs. Hannigan was given to under? stand that Mrs. . Blondin was at the depot waiting for her husband. "I cannot understand what you haye kept her locked in her room so long for," continued Mrs. Hannigan. "Is she going with you?" asked the wo? man. "Yes. she is at the depot now," re? plied Blondin. Around the trunks which the ex? press took away were heavy leather bands. Then Blondin left the house and the landlady did not see him again. The police learn that a trunk sim? ilar to the one described was shipped to Chelmsford on the night of April 30. Blondin disappeared a week ago and is now believed to be near Montreal. FERRY BOAT DISASTER. New York, June 14-The wooden side wheeler Northfield which has been in the service of the Staten Island Ferry Company for the past 38 years, was rammed tonight by the steel hull? ed propellor Mauchchunk, used as a ferryboat by the. Central railroad of New Jersey. The collision occurred just off the Staten Island ferry slip at the foot of Whitehall street and in less than ten minutes after the Northfield, which was crowded with passengers, sank at the outer end of the Spanish Line pier in the East river. The Mauchchunk, which was badly dam? aged, landed the two dozen passen? gers who were aboard of her. Over a hundred of the passengers of the sunk? en Northfield were dragged out of the water by people along shore and crews of the fleet of river tugs which promptly responded to the ferry boat's call for help. . A few of the Northfield's pas? sengers were hurt in the accident and the police believe that some lives were lost. Capt. Daniel Gully of the tug boat Mutual, who saw the ferryboats crash together, says that immediately after the collision between 25 and 30 of the passengers leaped into the water and that many of those perished. Capt. Gully also declares that he is sure overa hundred of the Northfield's passengers were drowned. The cap? tains of other tugboats who were early on the scene, however, are inclined to think that the disaster was not so se? rious as regards loss of life. Thus far no dead bodies have been recoverep. Liberal Philadelphia. Philadelphia, June 14.-Mayor Ash brige has signed the ordinance appro? priating 835,000 for the purpose of de? fraying the expense of the Philadelphia exhibit at the South Carolina Inter? state and West Indian exposition to be held in Charleston. S. C., next win? ter. The mayor also signed resolution of council that the old Liberty Bell be sent to Charleston as part of Philadel? phia's display. Depew Now Booming Hanna. New York, June 13.-Referring to the Cleveland World's boom Mark Hanna for the next president, Senator Depew said today "Hanna for presi? dent? Grand, good fellow: none better in the world: patriotic citizen: noble specimen of American manhood and statesmanship: warm friend of mine: has the good will (if the whole com? munity: friend of the party and friend j of the people at large.** West Palm Beach, Fla., June 13.-j Henry M. Flagler the millionaire, has j applied for a divorce, under the recent Florida law. which makes insanity a ground for action. Mrs. Flagler has been insane for a long time. THE ANDERSON "SLAVERY" GASES Mr. Fowler Testing Right to Imprison When the Prisoner is Willing to be Locked Up. Special to The State Anderson, June 14.- George Thomas, Willis McGhee, Elias, McGee, indict? ed jointly with J. S. Fowler for con? spiracy, false imprisonment and as? sault and battery of a high and aggra? vated nature, plead guilty of assault and battery, and were sentenced to pay a fine of 850 each or 30 days on the public works or in the State peniten? tiary. J. S. Fowler went to trial this after? noon and a motion was made by his attorneys to quash the indictment. After argument, Judge Klugh quashed the indictment as to conspiracy and then he went into trial on the "other two counts. Testimony was taken and the case argued before the jury and court adjourned until tomorrow. The reason assigned for accepting the plea of assault and battery in full of the indictment is stated by the soli? citor to be that he did not'think the State could prove its case as 'in^the other counts. Hammond was indicted in four cases but was fined in only one, which settles the matter in full as to him. TRANSPORT CAPSIZES IN DRY DOOK Thirty Italians Were in Hole Loss of Life May be Great. New York, June 14.-While the Uni? ted States transport Ingalls was in the balance dry dock at Erie basin, south Brooklyn, this afternoon where she was about to undergo extensive repairs she suddenly slipped from the blocks and capsized. One man is known to have been killed and many injured. There were about 240 carpenters, ma? chinists and other laborers at work on\ the vessel at the time. It is supposed that the vessel was thrown from an even keel by ballast improperly placed, or by the shifting of the blocks on which she rested, causing her to list to starboard, 'driving the shorting beams through the rotten walls of the old floating dry dock in which she was cradled. Besides the machanics and other workmen who crowded the vessel and dock, preparing her for a voyage to Manila, there was supposed to have been about 30 Italian laborers in the hold of the ship, employend in shifting the pig iron ballast. While the work? men were trying to escape, the dock itself overbalanced by the weight of the ship, turnisd on its side and sank in 50 feet of water. A number of men were borne down into the water and jammed under and beneath the wreck? age which rose to the surface. How many were caught could not be learn? ed tonight. Martin Anderson, a painter, was caught under the descending side of the ship and killed outright. Others were dragged out of the water badly in? jured or half drowned and hurried to the hospitals. Added to the horrors of tonight was the uncertainty of the fat? of the men in the vessel's hold. Some managed to get to the deck and leap into the water as the vessel was sink-, ing, but it is feared that the majority weredess fortunate. The Ingalls went into dry dock at 11.30 this morning and about $80,000 was to have been expended on her re? pairs. The look in which she was placed was a very old one, ha?iftg been constructed over 50 years ago. An effort was made to close the gate at the time of the accident but was un? successful. No one could be found tonight who could give any estimate of the amount of damage the disaster had entailed. BR?flitiiifs Fine Weather Prospects-What is Said About Cotton. New York, June 14.-Bradstreet's tomorrow will say : Reports to Brad? street's show a further improvement in the volume and tone of distributive trade, which had" its'inception in the better weather and crop conditions. Following the check given to the crop damage-enthusiast by the June crop report, which can hardly be regarded as other than brilliant for wheat, comes assurances that the conditions on June 1, good as they undoubtedly were, have been further improved. What is true of the smaller cereals is also largely the case as to corn, though the latter is backward and needs warmth. Cotton crop prospects have likewise been improved though the low condition is apt to offset some, if not all, of the increase in acreage. A better business is noted in some lines of men's war woolens, and some makes of cheaper goods are reported heavily ordered ahead. While the cereals are lower on good crop reports, quick sup? port has come from the export de? mand which has been the largest for weeks past, and the decline has been temporarily, at least, arrested. One of the most satisfactory features of all is that after quite a period of dullness, pig iron has been taken more freely at leading markets and bars and plates have sold better, the latter event not? ing an advance. Pig iron production is shown to be proceeding at an un? precedented rate, but consumption appears to wait promptly upon output. Railroad earnings continue in undi? minished volume, and the only deci? dedly unfavorable feature deserving attention is the failure of the machin? ists' strike to be amicably settled, the prospect, in fact, being that the con? test will be a long drawn out one. Failures in the United States for the week number 1S8 agaist 1*53 last week, 180 in this week a year ago, 150 in 1899, 208 in 1898 and 266 in 1897. Canadian failures for the week num? ber 17 aganist 24 last week. 23 in this week a vear ago. 25 in 1S99 and 19 in 189S. Old. Soldier's Experience. M M Austin, a civil w;ii vet run. <>i Win? chester. Ind , wrire? : . M- w fe w.i* ?irk a long time in sfr*e of good doctor's treatoienr, bur WHS whol y cured ny l>r Kin^'i? New Life Pil'?. which worked wander? tor ber htal b " They always do. Tryih?ra Ooly 2^c ur J F W DeLornse'? drug store. 3 Passaic, N. J., June 13.- An explo? sion in the Chemical Royal Match factory set fire to the entire plant and destroyed it. There were twelve explo? sions altogether. A watchman ia missing. The plant was recently pur? chased by the trust. Washington, June'll-- Emilio Zur bano, of Tayabas Province, has pro ? claimed himself the successor of Aguinaldo and Gov. of Tayabas and the Philippines," according to a copy of a Manilla paper just received at the war department. Emilio is said to have always been a rather theatri? cal insurrectionist and to have sworn tojfight the Americans down to the last hole. The publication does not take the Filipino's announcement seriously and warns him that he will find "that the office carries with it certain grave responsibilities which will sooner or later result in heart failure and a sud? den demise." Life and Fire Insurance. Call OD me, at my residence, Liberty Street, for both Life and Fire IDSU rance. Only reliable Companies rep? resented. Phone No. 130. Andrena Moses* Oct 25-o. WiDtlirop College SdiolarsMp AND ENTRANCE EXAMINATIONS THE EXAMINATIONS for the award of vacant scholarships in Win? throp College and for the admission of new students will be held at the comi? ty Court House on Friday, July 12th, at 9 a. m. Applicants must not be less than fifteen years of age. When scholarships are vacated after July 12th, they will be awarded to those making the highest average at this examination. The cost of attendance, including board, furnished room, heat, light and washing, is $9.00 per month. For further information and a cata? logue address Pres. D. B. Johnson, Rock Hill, S. C. May 22 Just Good Timothy H?ay AND best White Coriu Molasses in 10-gai lon kegs, 1-2 barrels and barrels. Salt, Lime and a foll line of Groceries at low prices. G-et our prices be* fore yon buy and we will save you money. OR?SSWELL ft ?fc, PHONE 53. 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