"01 all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these, it might have been."
How often are these words on the lips of men who didn't
act at the proper time.
It is too late after the fire.
The only time is now.
And we are the ones to insure your property, because
1. We put you in only the best companies.
2. We never fail to keep your policy in force.
3. We extend you every accommodation.
Savings, Loan & Trust Company,
IXSURANCE DEPARTMENT.
English and Richardson. Managers.
A
BOOK
OF
INTEREST
the most absorbing one of all greater than any work of
fiction is a bank book.
Its tale is never too long nor its pages too many, and the
long row of figures so dry in other books are intensely inter
esting. Kut in order to enjoy its pages each man must have one
of his own. You can not borrow this book. You must own
it. You can do this by opening an account with the
Savings, Loan & Trust Co.,
which numbers among its customers many of the best people
of Union county, both rich and poor.
And the weather man says:
"Cold doings between now and
April first."
That means weeks of discomfort without a warm
house or office.
You can work better or rest better with a warm,
comfortable house, such as comes only from a steady
fire.
Our high grade coal (no trash and cinders) makes
the best fires. You may still buy much without risk.
Phone 279. We do the rest.
Monroe Ice and Fuel
Company.
OF THEM,
STRAIGHT AND FINE.
40
Our buyer has come in from the West with a big lot of fine
Farm Mules and Horses, especially selected for the needs of
our farmers. It is a good lot of animals, and you can get just
what you want out of them.
Remember that every 1 V ,
animal we sell is guar- ' " l . I
anteed a miresented I
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Come right along and see them. It will be our delight to
please you. We have been selling stock all our lives and we
know what our people want.
Armfield Bros.
A BREATH OF THE PAST.
A VUitor Describes what One May
5c and Hear on Going to the
Home of a Qood Old Woman in
South Carolina.
T. the Editor of Thr Jtmrna :
In a little house on the plantation
of Mr. IL J. Funderburk there lives
an old lady who, more man any
one we have ever seen, give one a
glimpse into the past, a hint of the
Roneby days when this country was
in its in fancy.
Stepping in the door of her hum
ble borne one bright winter evening
we were kindly invited to take seats
while she finished preparing her
evening meal, which consisted of
some nicely fried meat and a small
cake of bread cooked in the fire place
in an old fashioned skillet The
small repast, however, looked and
smelled very appetizing.
We have come, said I, "to see
some of the things we have heard of
you having had so long if you don't
mind showing them. Aunt Clary.
"No," said she, "I don't mind." And
so she sat and talked to us about
those long gone days and seemed to
take pleasure in showing to us the
things she has had so long.
Her father was Mr. Harkle Harris
and married Miss Elizabeth Davis.
They lived about two miles from the
present town ot l'ageland, h. (J.
Unto them were born ten children.
"Aunt Clary" is the only living
member of that large family. In
the days of her girlhood she says
that deer were plentiful about here
and she very often helped her father
clean them for cooking.
There were no cooking stoves, no
machines, no buggies and no baby
cradles in those days. And yet the
babies slept just as soundly and
smiled just as sweetly and were just
as happy in their little home-made
boxes with their rockers to them as
the babies are now in their silk lined
carriages, ah tanning tools were
made on the farm then and they
milked in vessels known as the "milk
piggin," one of which Aunt Clary
has now. It is 50 years old. They
churned in wooden churns then, too.
They didn't raise much wheat in
those days and what they raised was
thrashed out with poles and so they
only ate biscuit onco a week, every
Sunday morning for breakfast. There
were no hats for the women, and so
they all wore sunbonnets to church.
Aunt Clary remembers when
folks here first began to eat onions,
okra. tomatoes and blackberries. She
says they didn't know how to cook
the berries and so cooked the pies
without any sugar and ob.how bitter
they were.
One old doctor got wrathy and
went to cursing because folks were
ing onions and tomatoes, be
cause," said he, "now they will stop
having the fever. Poor doctor!
Happy people. Will some one take
the hint?
Good whiskey could bo bought
then at 30 cents a gallon. Wonder
if anybody wishes they had lived
then? If ycu do I wish you had too.
"Aunt Clary" has a dress that her
mother wove and wore, and a spin
ning wheel that she uses yet. She
has white counterpanes that she
picked the cotton from the seeds and
spun it and wove it herself.
She doesn t know the date of her
birth, but was married at the 8ge of
twenty-seven to Mr. Thomas Dees,
Rev. Jackson Stevens, a Methodist
minister, performing the ceremony.
She has the first set of plates she
went to housekeeping with. They
are white with a blue edge. She
also has two curious looking little
pitchers that were bought before the
civil war. She has her wedding
dress. She never Lad her picture
taken in her life. Her busband died
in the fall after the war closed from
some disease contracted during the
war. She never married any more,
but worked faithfully and raised her
only child, a three-year-boy. He is
living in Union county, North Car
olina. She has lived a pure, spotless life
through all the years, and we believe
that when she embarks on the un
known sea all will be well with her
soul. May she be spared to live
many years yet, and when the end of
her long life comes, may she meet
her dear old friends that she talks
so kindly about who have been
gone so many years.
When "Aunt Clary" was a girl
they had to sell their cotton in Che
raw, S. C, and do their marketing
there, as Monroe was not much more
than a place where the roads crossed.
EDS. V. Fl'NIKRIll'RK.
Took All His Money.
Often all a man earns coca to doctors
or for medicines, to cure a stomach,
liver or kidney trouble that Dr. Kings
New Life Pills would quickly cure at
slight cost. Best for dyspepsia, in
digestion, biliousness, constipation,
jaundice, malaria and debility. 25c.,
at English Drug Company's.
Good Receipt Book for ten cents
at The Journal office.
BEE S LAXATIYE COUGH SYRUP
KILIIVtS COUQHS AND COLDS
Dr. Muea Auu-faia Pill, relieve pain
Narva.
A woman went 'o I be telephone of
fice milh a kirk. She saki she tried fur
half an hour to c4 the acaaer to a
telephone rail aud ahe wanted to know
the reason wb.r.
"What la your naniberV ased the
manager.
"Ob, hsre no phone oorseiTes,"
was the astonishing reply. -I was
Mine my oeljhbor'a." Kansas City
Journal.
Won't Need a Crutch.
When Editor J. P. Soasman of Cor
nelius. N. C, bruised his leg badly,
it started an ugly sore. Many salves
and ointments proved worthless, then
Bucklen's Arnica Salve healed thor
oughly. Nothing is so prompt and
sure for ulcers, boils, burns, bruises,
cuts, corns, sores, pimples, eczema or
piles. 25c., at English Drug Co. s.
The Fountain Head of Life
Is The Stomach
A ana who has a weak and impaired tfoaaach and ho dors aot
properly difeat his food will sooa and that his blood has become
waak aad iatpovamhed, aad that his whole body is improperly aad
asMmfiearly aonraaed.
Dr. picaeea coldem medical discoyemt
mtakea fe atomtaem treat, promote fe oar a
ttotlr. la Ice: reotorea tke Imat appetite, aaetee
maelmllatlom perfect. larltoratca tkm liter aad
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atraat Im mor, act! re la malm mm cool Im laffrmeamU
This "Discovery" is a para, flyceria extract of Aaiericaa saedical roots?
absolutely Irea (root alcohol aad ail injurious, habit-forminj drugs. AU HS
iai mi teats are printed oa its wrappers. It has no relationship with secret
nostra int. In every in ( red tent it endorsed by the leaders ia aU the schools af
net ic inc. Uoa't accept a secret nostrum at a substitute lor this tiaae-provea
rented y oa iwri corosmo. Ass roua HrwHeoas. They most know of
many cures ma J by it during past 40 years, riht in your awa Beihborhood.
World's Dispensary Medical Association. Dr. R.V. Pierce. Pres., Buffalo, N. Y.
The Doctor Man will Getcha
If You Don't Watch Out
All shoes get their hardest knocks and go to pieces
twice as quickly in the wet of winter as in the dry weeks
of summer. Muddy, slushy, wet walking is far more
responsible for sickness than damp
or cold air. A good pair of rubber
boots, overshoes or arctics will
make your winter less costly.
Melrose
ttl BOSTON
XmmW&MWWA b' the trade mark.
VSliWlm. If you, dealer doesn't
alMW2m "J will
MALDEN
RUBBER.
SHOEi
AND COv
Maiden
Rubbers, Arctics. Boots
are the surest "ounce of prevention." Made
stout and strong of the purest Para gum and
durable cloth fabrics, they easily outwear,
two to one, any other brands of rubber foot
wear. Made in all styles, from infants' over
shoes to men's hip boots. Easily identified
handle these liranJs, writ tit
(hat you are supplied.
rs, Write for Price List
CRADDOCK-TERRY CO.
I mVJ iVhw aw m m a
$tmt&V LyncisDuro, va.
Largest Manufacturers
and Disiribtitert
of Shoes In the South
ric
Gone after More Horses,
Mules and Brood Mares.
Ma J. W. Fowler, our buyer has gone
to the western markets and expects to
have a fine lot of stock in this weeh
Come and see them.
In the mean time, with Buggies and
Vehicles of all kinds, we can make the
price that will do you good.
New Harness sold, traded, or old re
paired. Anything in the Horse, Mule,
Vehicle, or Harness line to suit.
Cash or credit; sale or swap
Nice Livery Turnouts on short notice.
Don't lose money by failing to see us.
Fowler t Lee.
Be Up-to-Date Staple FST
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