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By virtue of a decree of the Superior
Court for Anson county, made at the
fall term, 1899, in the case of Mary H.
Thompson and bushand vs. P. H. LVggs
and others, the undersigned Commissiner
will sell, at auction, at the court house
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day of January, 1900, two tracts of land
on and near the fee Dee river, in Anson
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or less, the other 45 more or less. Said
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Ex-Commissioner of Agrlculur
R. T. Neabitf, Foiufs the Way
t (he South' tJoWeti Oppor
tanily. Atlanta Constitution.
Editor Constitution: Thoughtful men
everywhere, who take an interest in in
dustrial conditions at the south, are im
pressed with the peculiar features which
have marked the cotton business of this
season. Notwithstanding the strong
"bear" influence 3 at- work and the testi
testimony of so-called experts as to a
phenominally large crop, the market has
steadily advanced and cotton has com
manded a higher price here at our own
doors than in New fork or Liverpool
a state of affairs almost undreamed of.
Inquiring into the causes of this anoma
lous condition, we find that ior many
years the industrial south has been iu a
cause of hard training, but the disap
pointments and disasters of that trying
period have been silently working out
her emancipation. The lessons have been
evere, but the farmer has learned to pro
duce his cotton at less cost; to curtail his
expenses; to buy less on credit and to di
versify his crops, and thus a mighty agri
cultural evolution which has been de
veloping from year to year has now as
sumed definite shape. Also these and
other influences have materially reduced
the crop. We find that foreign spinners,
relying as usual on the reports of their
paid agents, who have declared and re
iterated that the cotton crop would reach
the enormous amount of 12,000,000 balas,
concluded that all they had to do was to
lie in wait and when the large bulk of j
the crop was forced on the market and
the farmer was compelled to part with
his cotton for less than the cost of pro
duction, they would, according to the us
ual programme, gleefully step forward
and seize upon it. But in planning this
wholesale confiscation they were igno
rant of three important and heretofore
unknown factors operating against their
cherished plans.
L Tue improved condition of the far
mer above referred to.
2 The willingness of the merchant to
aid the farmer in his efforts to hold his
cotton for a living price.
3. The strong power of the southern
cottori mills, which have entered the mar
ket and proven their luck and energy
that the most proper andprofitable manu
facture of cotton, as in other industries,
is that which is nearest to the production
of the raw material. It, is these mills
which have absorbed the cotton that Eu
rope would not buy, and which helped
the farmer to obtain a-fair price; to pay
his debts; and to. so far. hold the small
surplus of this year's crop.
It takes only a glance to see that in
this powerful combination we have the
strongst co-operative forces known to
business and their united strength would
work wonders.
Let us examine the component parts of
this combination and find if this state
ment be true.
1. An indisputed monopoly in the pro
duction of the raw material.
2. The mills at our doors, to say to for
eign consumers, if you won't pay a living
price for the farmers' cotton , we will and
we will also manufacture and sell our fin
ished products at figures that will make
you look to your laurels iu the great east,
where you have so long enjoyed a mo
nopoly. 3. The merchants and bankers whose
aid to the farmers will enable them to
bfeld the surplus not needed by our own
mills until other spinners are compelled
to pay a fair price, fur which service (the
merchants and baukers) will be repaid in
the largely increased business which will
eventually come to them.
Here we have a plain statement of a
strictly business proposition, mutually
profitable to those who are mutually de
pendent. At first the stupendous scope
of the work may discourage the hesitat
ing and doubting, but we have the weap
ons of justice, right and opportunity in
our hands, and when these are weilded
by intelligence and energy a signal vic
tory will be won.
The higher price of cotton may tempt
thoughtless men to invest largely in
fertilizers, even at the present high quo
tations; to plant largely in cotton at the
sacrifice ot food crops, and also to con
tract debts to be met in the early fall
months. The merchant is perhaps better
informed and more fully aware f the
disastrous consequences of such a policy
than the farmers themselves, many of
whom are tenants, and a large number
irresponsible negroes, and lor strictly
business reasons each merchant can af
ford to discourage increased cotton pro
duction and every form of unnecessary
debt. It is only by thus making common
cause against a common enemy that we
can hope to discount the oldtime tricks of
the "bears" and crush their ascendt-ncy
out of the market. "Co operaton" and
"cotton factories" should be our watch
words. The world needs our co:ton now
and will continue to need it from year to
year. A compact organization of our
yaried but mutually dependent interests
whereby we maybe enabled to control
both the production and the sale of our
annual crop means prosperity for all con
cerned. Heretofore every organization looking
to the agricultural emancipation of the
south has failed because of a more or less
, proscriptive policy. The grange and al
liance movements were built on the
soundest principles, but membership was
limited to farmers, and when partisan
politics and blind zeal to advance party
lines and individual interests crept in the
structure crumbled.
At the south we are a peculiarly homo
geneous people, and need no such divid
ing lines. What we want is an organiza
tion taken from all classes. The banker
is aware that his success depends upou
the merchant, and the latter knows full
well that his fate is in the hands of the
farmers, who constitute fully 73 per cent
of our population. Let these be brought
into closer business relations with each
other and all enter into more direct busi
ness communication with the manufac
turer. Properly managed much of the
expense of handling cotton will be elim
inated, and when the farmers get better
prices that means prosperity to the united
south. - .
Of course the perfecting of such a far
reaching plan means patience, time and
work, -but I believe the campaign The
Constitution has inaagurated will finally
succeed. Let us tackle the difficulties at
once. The methods for obtaining and
publishing accurate crop reports and for
various other details necessary to perfect
thi3 gtand system will be gradually evolv
ed. What we need to do now Ls to realize
our opportunity and not allow it to slip
from our gra? p. The Constitution has
already led the movement will it keep
up the good work? Yours truly.
R. T. Nesbitt.
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Itrpreseulative Bellamy and
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Washington Post.
"One of the prettiest romances
could be written about the Croatan
or Hatteras Indians in my district,"
remarked Representative Bellamy,
of North Carolina. "They are the
descendants, as you may know, of
Raleigh's lost colony. I once men
tioned the case of these Indians t"
Thomas Nelson Page, and he was in
clined to write a story about them.
1 have just introducea a bill to
give these Indians $50,000 for pub-
he schools. , They live in Kobeson,
Scotland, and Richmond Counties.
There are about 3,000 of them, in
cluding 600 voters.
When Sir AValter Raleigh's col
ony numbering 100 souls came
over here about , the year 1580, as I
remember, they settled at Roanoke.
Sir Ralph Lane returned to London
for supplies and more colonists, but
when he reached Roauoke again ev
ery trace of the colony had diappear
ed. It is supposed that the men
were murdered, and the women be
came wives of the Indians. All the
traditions of the Croatans point to
that, for these traditions U.11 of
mothers who were white women.
The preseut Croatans are laud own
ers. Revels, the negro representa
tive from Mississippi for many years
was half Croatan."
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Washington Cost.
Decidedly the homeliest man in
Congeess is Eddy of Minnesota. - He
rather glories in the distinction of
ugliuess, especially as all his other
characteristics are enviable.
During his last campaign the en
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being double-faced. He met the
charge in a mauner that disarmed
all criticism.
"Great heaven," said Mr. Eddy to
his audience, "do you thiuk that if
I had two faces I would wear the
one I am showing yo now?"
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"That takes face!" Bhe hissed, in
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Has Jutt Krlorned From m L ac
ta ring; Tod r Observation Dur
ing Trip.
Riches bring a trouble when they come
And money leaves a pain when it goes.
But everybody now should have a little
sum
To brighten up the year at its close.
And so my wife thoughtful woman
told me that I had better start out and
see if I couldent talk the good people out
of enough to make the grandchildren
happy. The weather was un propitious
and my old bones were grumbling, but I
obeyed the maternal orders and went
Inertia is a great invention- The older
we grow the more inertia we have. When
I have stayed at home a few months, I
want to keep on staying there and it
nearly kills me to rouse up and go away
for even a week. After I have gotten on
the road the harness seems to warm me
up, my Inertia is broken and new scenes
and people and friends abiorbny atten
tion. .
I have just returned from Alabama
from a second trip and the welcome home
has settled me down so calm and serene
that my inertia has began to work and
feel, like I could never go away any
m re. 1 be weather was against me some
what, but J reckon I sold enough talk to
run us through this Christmas. I hope so,
for jt may be the last, and then wha
then?..
There is aNwonderful difference be
tween the people of big cities and those
of little unpretending towns. By request
I visited Childersburg, a village of a few
hundred people, whom I did not find too
busy to talk to me; especially the old con
federate veterans, whose grizzly beard
and settled features always mark them.
I can tell them a b undred yards off. Aud
the common people heard him glady,"
sayeth the scriptures. Just so have I
found the yeomanry of our sunny south"
land a e my most willing hearers. I love
them and love to talk to them, for they
have neither policy nor hypocrisy. I am
glad myself t belong t the middle class
and to mingle with them. Aristocratic
society has but few charms for me. The
sweetest poet who ever wrote a verse
said that Abou Ben Abdam was placed
high in heaven because he loved his fel
low men. That was his only credential.
Iq Childersburg the good people gath
ered at the academy that cost nothing.
In fact not anything cost anything, and I
was most pospitably entertained and left
with a kiss on the lips of a sweet little
girl who recited a speech for me that
her aunt had taught her. She was only a
little child. Before. I left home I had a
let;er lrom a cousin in Birmingham cor
dially inviting me to his house, and said
he would meet me at the depot with a
brass band. Also another letter from a
lady friend, a wdow, who said I must
come to her house and she would meet
me at the depot with open arms. When
my wife read them I asked where I had
better go, and she replied with emphasis:
go to Fred's."
Birmingham is a wonderful city and a
very beauuful one. A large, clear, well
arranged depot receives you. Broad,
well paved streets and side walks delight
you, and magnificent commercial blocks
astonish you. Everything has been
planned on a grand scale and everybody
busy with trade and industries that seem
to be increasing and spreading out in ev
ery directiou. Thousands of beautiful
dwellings adorn the highlands that envi
ron the city and hundreds are being built
on 'new street) that are being built 01
new streets that are being graded, and
paved as fast as it is possible. There are
churches there that cost over f 100,000
each. Money, money, money! It is
there by the million and keeps on com
ing from all points of the country for in
vestment. Wealthy merchants from oth
er cities have planted branch houses there
and the child is outgrowing the parent.
All around the centre the whole face of
the earth is dotted with iron plants and
their fires are ever burning. It is mag
nificent sight to approach Birmingham
by night, and on either side of every
railroad to see the angry looking flames
going up from thousands of coke 'ovens
and hundreds of smoke stacks. It makes
one think of. Dante's Inferno and Hades
aud Pinto and Hell itself. Not very long
ago a tramp wandered out among the
ovens before they were fired and laid
down to sleep. During the night, when
the fires were all aglow, he was found
in dangerous proximity and was rudely
punched up, and when asked who he
was and where he came from, said: "I
was in Birmingham yesterday and I
reckon I got drunk and I suppose I am
in tell now just as I've been expectiug
ho water about here is there?"
I visited Ensl.y, the 3outhern Pitts
burg, where the leyiathan s'.eel plants
are going up. There is . population now
of 10,000 busy peop'e operating the fur
naces and rolling mills aud mining for
toal, but the half is not ytt been told,
and I'm afraid to tell what I think I
was told about the plants that are going
up and are ucdjr contract to be com
plctedand in operatiia by l-.t April next.
Hundreds of handsome cottages, all neat
ly finished and painted, are now ready
and hundreds more going up for the
workmen who are to man tlmse immense
Bteel plants one of which is to be the
largest in the United States, and I was
told that by the 1st of April these plants
at Ensley will require 26,000 men, and
they with their families would make up
a population of 100,000 people. There
are a cluster of five furnaces there now
that turn out 750 tons of pig iron every
day, and thee are not half of them
and the great steel plant is to njake 6,
000 tons of steel every day. "jiirable
dictul" Have I got these figures down
light. I made some no'es on the back
of an envelope and that's the way they
read. I know that the 2G.000 opera
tives w right, though another man said
20,000. Not long ago I retold a story
that a friend tQ.!d me about his hunting
expeditions on the Pan Handle region
just after, the civil war, aud how be and
his companions camped in an old
cabin one night and the wolves came
down from the mountains and besieged
tLem, and how they shot at them all
night through the cracks between the
logs and killed hundreds of them, and as
fast as they killed them the pack of hun
gry varmints would jump on the dead
ones and eat them all up all except the
hair and bones and how the wolves left
at daybreak, and afterthey were all gone
these hunters went out to see how many
they had killed. They never found a
single wolf, but the ground for three
acres around the cabin was covered three
feet deep in hair. That's what I thought
he said and I told it that way." Not long
after this a mutual friend told me that my
hunter friend was hurt at me for exag
gerating the story, tor he declared that he
told me that the ground was Covered two
and a half feet deep in hair, and I had,
without any provocation, added a half
foot to it. And so to keep the peace I
agreed to take off that half foot and have
ever since done so whe I repeat the hun
ter's story. -
It is a sore temptation to us all to make a
story a little bigger when we retell it and we
ought to be very careful on that line. And
so 1 feel very cautious about retailing the
magnitude of things at Ensley. But my
eyes did not decieve me and 1 saw solid
steel billets that weighed 5,000 pounds each
piled up and cross piled like great logs of
woods, and I- saw the men molding them
from the fiery furnaces. The men
bad on large blue spectacles and visors, for it
was awful to look upon the dazzling heat
that glows from the caldron of liquid steeL
These caldron's weie not tapped from the
bottom, but were turned up at an angle of
45 decrees, so that they would overflow like
water from a wash bowl, and let the top of
the lava run into the upright molds. These
huge molds were arranged perpendicular
011 adiltle train of cars that was moved
slowly by electricity, and as fast as one
was filled another took its place. Oh it was
grand and fearful. These caldrons were lift
ed up aud careened by great rams that look
ed like immense cannou. But I forbear. The
huge leviathans all around me laade me
dizzy and 1 begged my friends to let me go
home, for my amazonieut was tired. Xow
just ihiuk of the wire department, where
one of these great billets was reheated aud
started through the great rollers and was
squeezed smaller and smaller as it went on
through hundreds of them till it was re
duced to wire i,teel wire of all sizes, even
down to silver steel wire that was small
enough to make the bows to a pair of spec
tacles. What a wonderful thing is the
brain of a man? 1 could tell more won
derful things about Ensley, but I remem
ber that during the civil war, when confed
erate mouey had flooded the south and ev
erybody bad a bat full or a bag full, 1 asked
the treasury official how much had been
issued, and he looked dazed for a moment
and said it was either three hundred million
or three thoueaml millions, he wasn't cer
tain which. And so 1 will take off the half
foot.
Birmingham has been accustomed fo speak
of Ensley as one of its suburbs, its pet, its
cub, but Ensley is already putting on Pitts
burg airs and talks of taking in Birming
ham within the year and calling herself the
"Greater Ensley," for the parent city has
only 75,000 people.
1 was going to write about Tuscaloosa,
that sits high on the banks of the Black
Warrior, the Athens of Alabama, the home
of the university and the colleges, the alma
mater of culture and refiifement, the druid
city, the historic capital of the state up to
1844. I was going to relate something
about the destruction of its beautiful uni
versity buildings by the federal army, and
their reconstruction on a far more magnifi
cent scale. I wished to say something abou
it splendid organization, il learned and effi
cient faculty, its museum,' I he largest in
all the south, and its magnificeut library. 1
wished to make favorable mention of the
Stilman institute, where negro students
are studying theolgy and preparing for the
white man's methods of ministerial service,
and to tell about the two negroes from Af
rica who are there, and who are the gen
uine sons of negro princes, whom the mis
sionaries have converted to Ch. istianity.
But this letter is already too long aud so 1
will suspend. Bin. Akp.
A Cure lor Indigestion.
I have suffered uutold misery within
the past ten years from indigestion and
bilhousness, attended by a pain in my
left side and bowels. Five physicians
treated me but gave only temporary re
lief. Four months ago I began using
Ramon's Liver Pills and Tonic Pellets,
and have been constantly improving ever
since, with fair prospects being perma
nently cured. W. II. Peters, Notary
public, Nathanton, Ky. For sale by Jas.
A Hardison, Druggist.
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T II KICK MEN'S I'KtYEKS.
Supplications ol Dean Swift,
Dr. Kaniuel Johnston and ol
Stevens-en, the Novelist.
Independent.
The prayers of three great men of let
ters are strikingly illustrative. We scarce
need to be told that these words came
from the grief-stricken heart of Swift,
writhing in agony over the painful ill
ness and approaching end of Stella:
Give her a true conception of the
vanity, folly and insignificance of all hu-.
man things, and strengthen her so as
to beget in her a sincere love of Thee
in the midst of her sufferings.
Forgive the sorrow and weak ness of
those among us who sink under the
grief and terror of losing so dear and
useful a friend. Accept and pardon
our most earnest prayers and wishes
for her longer continuauce in this evil
world, to do what Thou art pleased
to call Thy service and is only her
bounden duty; that she may be still a
comfort to us and all others who will
want the benefit of her conversation,
her adv'ce, her good offices or her
charity.
In this petition, uttered only a few
days before he faced the Arch Fear,
we gaze deeply into the great heart of
Samuel Johnston:
Almighty and most merciful Father,
I am now as to human eyes, it seems,
about to commemoiate, lor the last
time the death of Thy Son Jesus Christ,
our Savior and Redeemer. Have
mercy npon me, and pardon the multi"
tude of my oflenses. Bless my friends;
have mercy upon all men. Support me,
by thy Holy Spirit, and in the days of
weakness and at the hour ot death; and
receive me, at my death, to everlasting
happiness, for the sake of Jesus Christ.
It is significant to uotc that the jaun
ty Stevenson, "light in ragged luck,"
really felt his dependence on God, as
we learn by perusing his beautiful
"Prayeis written for family use aj, Vail
irna." Swift and Johnston thought of
ten of death; Swift, because he looked
forward to it. as a release, and Johson,
because It was the only thing that shook
bis heart. . In contrast to these power
ful and rugged men, Stevensou says lit
tle of death, though he walkes daily in
its jaws. It was life that interested him,
and we naturally find his prayers in har
mony with his ideals.
He prays not for courage to meet
death, but for divine help in rational
living. "Prolong our days in peace and
honor," be asks: give health, food, bright
weather, and light hearts. Let us
lie down without fear and awake and
arise with exultation as the sun
lightens the world, so let our loving
kindness make bright this house of our
habitation." Let us listen reverently to
this petition.
AT MORNING.
The day returns and bring us the petty
round 'of irritating concerns and duties.
Help us to play the man, help us to per
form them with laughter and kind face",
let cheerfulness abound with industry.
Give usgracetogo blithely on our business
all this day, bring us to our resting beds
weary and content and undishonored,
and grant us in the end the gift of sleep.
A KIRK CCKK FOK CROll'.
Tweuly-Five Years Constant
(tte Without a Failure.
The first indication of croup is hoarse
ness, and in a ctild subject to that dis
ease it may be taken as a sure sign of the
approach of an attack. Following this
hoarseness is a peculiar rough cough. If
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is given as
Boon as the child becomes hoarse, or even
after the croupy cough appears, it will
prevent the attack. It u used in many
thousands of homes in this broad land
and never disappoints the anxious moth
ers. We have yet to learn of a single in
stance in which it has not proved effect
ual. No other preparation can show
such a record twenty-five years' con
stant use without a failure. For sale by
Jas. A. Hardison, Druggist.
TrTIiy Twenty Children Here
Absent from School.
Charlotte Observer.
In a town not a hundred miles
from Charlotte one day this week a
little girl got several boxes of pills
from the drug store and distributed
them among the other children iu
the primary room at school. The
dose is "1 to 3." One little fellow
took ten, while nineteen others took
from three to five. It is needless to
say that jnst twenty pupils of that
room were absent the followiug day.
The pills were well advertised.
To ( are a Cold la One iay
Take Laxative Bronio Qjiniue Tablets.
All druggists refund the money if it luils
lo cure. 25c. The genuine has L. B. O, on
each tablet.
The. three leading Southern cotton
mannfactuiitig States are South Carolina,
with 75 mills, 1,285,328 spindles, con
suming .133,876 bales; North Car. lina
with 168 mills, 1,000.268 spindles, con
suming 380,231 bales, and Georgia
with 67 mills, 66 .394 spindles, consum
ing 2SO.I77 bales.
Dr. If. n. Il.rden, Summit, Ala., says, 'l
think Kodol 1 s, epMa L ure is a splendid
medicine. 1 presenile 11, and my confi
dence iu it glows itb continued use." It
digests what you ei and quickly curts
djspepsia and indigestion. Jas. A. Hardi
son, Druggist. .
oAOTortrA.
Baaxs tia ? 1 H;v9 A'.s E::
of t&z&jt? . (;z ;
Wants a Farmers Trail. '
Wilmington., Del., Dec. 13. At
the meeting of the State grangers
to-day at Dover Mi. Ilellings intro
duced a resolution looking to the
formation of a monster trust of
farmers.
The resolution says that since the
time for the farmer is not now cor
never will be hire until they are
thoroughly organized in defense,
with a live man as president of the
comliuation, oue who knows that
potatoes cannot be grown at a
profit for G cents a bushels nor com
at 27 cents; one having a kuowledge
of the markets of the worlu and the
transportation facilities, the farmers
should unite in making a common
center for the receipt of all farm
produce and the fixing of a price
which will give a generous recom
pense for labor expended. The res
olution was referred.
As a cure for rLeumathtn Chamberlain's
Pain Balm is gainings wide reputation.
D. B. Johnson, of Richmond, Ind., has
been troubled with that ailment since
1SC2. In speakinsof it he stiys: "I Beyer
ound anything th.it would relieve me
until I used Chamberlain's, Pain Ba'm.
It acts like magic with me. My foot was
swollen ami paining me very runch, but
oue good application of Tain Balm re
lieved me. For sale by Ja. A. Hardison,
Druggist.
President Ciarfleld'a Funeral
LxpiMisrw ot Vet l ttitl. .:
The Bostm Traveler calls attention to
the fact that the funeral expenses of
President Garfield have n it yet been paid
in the following edit rial: It can scarcely
be regarded as other than a nati aal dis
grace thai the undertaker's bill for the
funeral of President Garfield has not btci
paid. The expenses cf the faiieral were
assumed by the nitioa by a vote ol Con
gress, and the 1 the committee in whose
hinds th: appropriation was placed be
gaa to haggle over it. The auditing
committee took the bills and proceeded to
cut them here aud tLeie, as seemed
pleaiiug, takitig the position that only
such priipoition of each bill bluuld be
paid as they saw fit. The undertaker's
bill for $ 2,000, which was ex peuded" al
most entirely, it is said, for carriage hire
and such expenses, was prcscnUd and
the undertaker refused to accept anj'thing
less than its full amoutit. For eighteen
years this bill has been unpaid, and the
indecent spectacle of a great nation re
fusing to discharge a debt for the buriial
expenses of President is presented.
Surely this is a matter which should le
attended to without the usual accompani
ment of Congressioaal red tape.
"I wouldn't be without DeWitt's Witch
Hazel Salve for any consideration." write
l'hos. 15. itluxlcs. CVntertieUI, O Infallible
for pilts. cuts, burns and skia disease.
iJjware of counterfeits. Jas. A. Hardison,
Druggist.
His Sin !)i)wn.
Utica Observer.
The story is told of an intoxicated man
coming out of a saloon in one of the city's
suburbs and falling upon the sidewald.
He was unable, to arise. A bright and
sharp-eyed miss, perhaps a dozen years
of age, was passing. A thought struck
her and she opened 1 the door cf the sa
loon, and said: "Mister your sizn has
fallen down!" The proprietor caute to
the door, and immediately recognized
thai a truihfal point had been nnideat his
expense.while at a afe distance stood the
girl laughirg at him.
(ieo Xoland. Rockland, ( . savs. "My
wife had j:i!es forty years. DeVin"s Witch
Hazel Sake cured hr r. It is the best salve
in America." It h.-als everything and
cures all skiu diseases. J. A". Hardison,
Druggist.
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