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From the Georgia Grange* j
Work fortlie moutli.
Cotton —It is very important that
cotton should be picked out before the
severe cold weather sets in. It is im
possible to get a days work accomplish
ed in cotton picking during very cold
weather. See to it, farmers, that this
crop is gathered, housed and ginned
during the month of November. Don’t
keep much cotton unginned on hand.
There are too many iucendiaries in the
country, and insurance is very high on
gin houses. Our rule has been through
life, to pick, gin, pack and sell as fast
as possible.
Coen —lf all of the corn has not
yet been housed, delay not to attend to
this matter at once. Too many thieves
and unruly stock will depredate, aud
cause-a loss if farmers neglect too long
the gathering of corn.
Peas —lf a sufficient quantity of the
pea crop, for seed, has not been secur
ed, don’t neglect to put away in the
hull an abundance for that purpose, at
least.
Sweet Potatoes —This crop is often
allowed to remain in the ground until
a severe freeze destroys it entirely.
When harvesting, it should be done in
clear, open Weather, aud if very cold,
the potatoes should not rernaiu on the
ground (after being dug) during the
night. Care should be taken in bank
ing and covering with shelter to insure
success ia preserving them during the
winter.
Sugar Cane —Now is the time to
complete syrup making if it has not
been already done. Those who plant
the ribbon cane, had better look well
to their supply of seed ere a sudden
frost should come and blast their pros
pects for another year. Cut at once,
and place it in such position that the
leaves will protect it for a time
Wheat —This is the proper month
in Middle and Southern Georgia to put
in a full crop of wheat. Let us urge
upon our Georgia farmers the great
necessity of this valuable crop. Dou’t
neglect. Don’t put it off beyond the
last of November. Don’t say, “we did
not have the time to sow wheat.”
Would that we could so impress this
subject upon the whole farming com
munity, that every farmer in Georgia
would be cheered with a beautiful
patch of green wheat during this
winter.
Oats —It is not top late even now to
sow fall oats ; especially will this apply
to the Southern portion of the State.
It has been an unfavorable year for
the ccrn crop, and the deficiency should
be supplied with oats which is far
superior to feed to stock. Now, brother
-'"farmers, don’t be iiatjling coruTueit
spriDg from the railroad depots, but go
to work and sow oats now.
Eve and Barley —lf there is a
patch near the lot, let it be seed
ed at once with rye, or barley, it will
save much of the dry forage from the
barn next spring, and promote health
in the animal.
We have laid out much work for this
month, but it should be accomplished
even though extra labor be employed.
If we want prosperity, we must diversi
fy our planting, and to do this every
thing should be done at the right time.
See now, brother Patrons and farmers,
what can be done during this month,
and keep an account of its effect upon
oar present and future income.
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Agricultural Value of Ashes.—A
reader who can buy dry wood ashes for
twenty.five cents per pushel, wishes us
to tell him whether if he applies fifty
bushels of such ashes to the acre, on
common mowing land, be would have
sl2 50 worth of grass the first year more
than if he did not apply the ashes.
Now, to the writer, this probably seemed
like a very plain question, and one
which we ought, to be able to auswer at
once, but we cannot do it. Ashes are
especially adapted to clover, and “com
mon" mowing is not usually very thickly
set with clover. Ashes are chiefly val
uable for the potash and phosphoric
acid they contain. Grass needs these
elements, but it also needs nitrogen,
and cannot grow without it. Which of
these three principal elements are most
lacking in the soil of the mowing land
referred to we cannot possibly know.
If potash only were needed, the ashes
would be worth more the first year
than if the soil were lacking in the
other two elements also. It is claimed
that potash is usually most beneficial
on light, sandy sods, that they are less
valuable on clay and loam soils, but as
so much depends upon the kind of rock
such soils are formed from, it is impos
sible to lay down any set rules for the
application of ashes, which will not be
subject to a good deal of modification.
Our judgment is, that for the kind of
mowing you describe, it would be very
doubtful whether the increase the first
year would pay the whole cost of the
ashes. Ash- s last a long while in the
soil, and give up to vegetation their
elements little by little, from year to
year. They are not specially quick in
their action, like nitrogen in some ot
its forms. But the hardest problem
to solve in this case is, how much grass
dees it take to be worth sl2 50? The
letter referred to has neither post office
address nor date, aDtl we are left en*
tirely in the dark as to the location of
this land, whether it is near Boston,
where a ton of hay is worth $25, or
it is ia Canada, or ill some o
THE CHRISTIAN INDEX AND SOUTH-WESTERN BAPTIST.
the new western territories, where hay
is worth little more than the cutting.—
New England Farmer.
Salt in Agriculture. —Few persons
lealize the value of salt in agricultural
operations. In large doses it is of
course an injury, destroying every thing
vegetable it comes in contact with. In
heavy soil it is also an injury, as the
tendency is to make it still heavier and
thus whatever good it might have in
one respect is outweighed by the other.
But in light, sandy soils, or those ele
vated tracts of land not wet, but which
are liable to become dry in summer
time, it has been found of the greatest
benefit, and this chiefly on account of
the property it has of absorbing mois
ture from the earth in dry weather. It
is for this perhaps as much as tor any
chemical quality, that it proves so ben
eficial in these cases. Usually wheat
does best on rather heavy, though not
wet lands; but where salt has been
used on light soils, as good crops have
been gathered as on the most favored
heavy soils. In the far western States,
where rain does not fall often, aud the
danger to crops is chiefly through
droughts in the summer time, salt in
light doses ought to prove beneficial;
and in the sandy soils of Delaware,
Maryland and Virginia, it might be
employed to a much greater extent than
now, with profit.
It is chiefly for the moisture it seems
to draw from the atmosphere that it
has often been found of so much good
for asparagus. The asparagus requires
an immense deal of water in the make
up of its stalks, though it does not
like to grow in wet ground, and this
moisture the salt supplies. It has also
been found of excellent benefit in rais
ing turnips, beets, cabbage and other
succulent vegetables. But it must not
be forgotten that it is an injury in soils
already wet or heavy, aud therefore,
good as it is in so many cases, an in -
discriminate use of it will result in
disadvantage. In this respect it is like
lime and some other things, in which
even “ salt w : ll not save it. - ’ — German
town Telegraph.
®hc Jijnarg.
Bee Notes for November.
BY L. C. ROOT, MOHAWK, N. Y.
It will be remembered by the read
ers of these Notes, that one of the best
swarms in my apiary, the present sea
son, is one that was wintered upon its
summer stand. lam generally opposed
to out of door wintering, yet in an or
dinary season, bees may be so win
tered with success. Even when the
season is severe, bees may be wintered
on tl.eir summer stands u.ore success
-futly, when the necessary Equip
ments are observed, than wftenWaced
in a damp, poorly-ventilated cellar- A
cellar properly ventilated, so arranged
as to be kept dry,dark, and of even tem
perature, where the bees may remain
perfectly quiet and undisturbed, is un
doubtedly the more preferable place
for wintering. If, however, it is
thought, after due consideration, best
to winter out of doors, the hives
should be protected in some way from
the wind, and the cap, or vacant space
at the top of the hive, well packed
with cut straw or chaff. This packing
will absorb the moisture, and at the
same time retain the warmth. When
wintered indoors, I use a small quilt
spread over the frames.
THE HONEY CROP IN CENTRAL NEW
YORK.
The yield, generally, has been below
the average, and besides being less in
quantity, it is generally inferior in
quality, or rather, in appearance.
This is from the fact that it was gath
ered less rapidly than ordinary, and
the combs thus became soiled and yel
lowish. It does not follow that the
flavor is inferior, it is quite likely to
be the reverse. Having recently visit
ed the dealers in New York city, and
inspected the honey from the apiaries
of several prominent bee-keepers, I
find that the average appearance is as
stated above. In my home apiary of
150 swarms, I have but very little in
crease in numbers, and have marketed
2,775 lbs. of box honey, and 6,644 lbs.
of extracted. From another apiary,
seven miles away, results are better.
One of the peculiarites of this location
is, that the bees gather no dark honey,
and the white honey is of superior
quality. In this apiary, there were, in
Tie spring, 65 swarms; this number
was increased to 100, and the honey
marketed was 3,225 lbs. of box honey,
and 356 lbs. of extracted, showing a
much better average of box honey
than from the 150 swarms above men
tioned.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
About Ventilation. —“W. H.,” of
.fronton, Mo., asks: “Is it best to
close the bottom ventilation, or to leave
it open in wintering bees out of doors ?
There is a 3 inch square hole in the
bottom board of my hive, covered
with wire cloth.”
I am inclined to think that the low
er ventilation is not essential, yet there
are conditions that seem to make it
necessary. The lower entrance to the
hive, of necessity, gives some ventila
lion. The arrangement of this lower
opening, s > that it may not become
closed by dead bees, is of much more
importance than the question of lower
ventilation. If the hole in the bottom
board were 12 inches square, and cov-
ered with wire cloth, it would not
prevent injury, should the small en
trance become closed, and the bees
find themselves confined to the hive.
Some of our best bee-keepers make
hives with a 6x12-incli ventilator in
the bottom board, which may be
opened or closed with a slide. For
wintering, these slides may be opened
a short distance, leaving the opening in
such a position, nearly under the clus
ter, that the dead bees will drop
through, thus avoiding the possibility
of its becoming clogged; while the
opening is so near the cluster that the
bees are aware of their perfect free
dom. The hole in the bottom board,
three inches square, is large enough,
but the wire cloth should be removed,
and a slide used, that may be opened
or closed at pleasure. —American Ag
riculturist.
©he ftouUrjr-fJartl.
In-Breedlug of Poultry.
Breeders are prone to advance ultra
views on the subject of in-breeding of
poultry, based on mere prejudice or
constrained qpinion of the term. All
ot our strains of pure bred poultry,
with but few exceptions, have been
produced by a systematic course of
in-breeding Judiciously carried out.
Bake well, of Licester sheep fame, in
tensified and improved his sheep by an
intelligent in breeding of such ani
mals as possessed, in an eminent de
gree, the qualities he wished to inten
sify and perpetuate. In horse-breed
ing this is carried on by old breeders,
with most excellent results.
Knowing the above, it behooves us
to know just what will bring the divid"
ing lines together, so as to combine
those qualities in the offspring from
the animals or birds coupled, which
we desire to secure a permanency for.
We hold to the opinion that with
fowls, more care is necessary to pre
vent the intensification of bad qualities
in adopting any system of in breeding
than with most of the animals which
require more than a year to give them
age enough to properly bear offspring.
We believe that an infusion of new
blood lo be a good thing to do every
second year —perhaps every year—
thougbnWe would advise fanciers to se
lect mate birds from the same strain,
so as to m.ke breeding for particular
points far more certain than it would
be if a male bird was selected from
any, or no particular strain, merely
because he was fine individually.—
American Poultry Record.
MISCELLANEOUS. _
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' pH I', Southern Mutual Life Insurance Com pa-
Any, of Louisville, Ky., hae deposited
ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS
for the protection and benefit of the policy hold
ers in Georgia, “ besides giving to them the sur
plus pro rata." They have invested One Hun
dred Thousand Dollars in safe securities and
lodged with the State Treasurer, on which they
at e limited to draw interest, and only when there
is entire safety, without encroaching upon tlio
security which the law requires.
We challenge investigation as to its soundness,
and as to its possessing superior claims to public
patronage. It. S. JACKSON,
octlß-tf General Agent for Georgia.
Lane & Bodley Cos.
CINCINNATI,
Manufacturer of Standard
Plantation Machinery, Stationary and
Portable Steam Engines.
Saw Mills, Grist Mills, Shafting Hangers, Pul
leys. elc. Our machinery iH strong, simple and
well made, ar.d is especially adapted to the
wants of farmers and planters, for Ginning,
Sawing, Grinding and Factory nsc. Rend for an
illustrated Catalogue. LANE & BODLEY CO.,
0ct25.1y John ft Water etc., Cincinnati, O.
MANNING, ROBINSON & CO.
MAN UFACTURING
Electro Silversmiths,
AND
General Platers with Gold,Silver
and Nickel.
54 FULTON SQUARE 54
Cincinnati, Ohio.
SsT Licensees of the United Nickel Cos.
juuel4.tf
EST ABLISHEP 1846.
SHELDON COLLINS & Cos
MANUFACTURERS of
PRINTING INKS
OF EVERY VARIETY.
Offiee and Depot—si Frank fort Ntreet
mar 26 6m NEW YORK.
ATLANTA PAPER MILLS
WM. McNAUGHT & CO ,
Whitehall street ATLANTA, On,
sample of newspaper see Tire. Christian
1 INi-Kx which is printed on paper made at
the above Mills
Cotton and linen rags wanted. 19-tf
Deeds.
Size 12*18 inolics—Splendidly gotten np.
Price 10 cents per copy; 4 copies, 25 cents; $2 per
quire. Postage prepaid.
JAS. I’. HARRISON ft CO„
Atlanta, Ga.
55 to 77 Dollars
A WEEK to Agents. $lO outfit fr.e. P. O
VICKERY. Augusta, Malta sepl2,ly
Rifles, shot-guns, revolvers sent
C.O D , for examination, all charges paid.
No risk. No humbug. Write for catalogue.
Address GREAT WESTERN GUN WORKS,
Pittsburgh, Pa. jnlyl2.6m
CHAMBERLIN, BOYNTON & CO.
66 and 68 Whitehall Street, ATLANTA, G-A..
DRY GOODS STORE.
LKS—The largest stock of Black
bilks in Atlanta, that ive will sell at prices never
before seen in this market.
Cashmeres, Alpacas, Basket Cloths, Lustres,
Camels Hair aud Knickerbocker Suitings, Water
Proofs in every style and quality.
COLORED SILKS—AII the new shades in
Plum, Navy Blue. Seal Brown, Medium Brown.
Myrtle Green, Prune. Parti Colors, etc. We
have four different gradts of ftiese goods and
can satisfy the most fastidious in price and
quality.
special attention is called to a largo purchase
of black aftd colored Silks bought at auction, in
addition to our regular stock of these goods.
HOSIERY —No less than 85 different styles
Gents’, Ladies’, Misses’, and Children’s Hosiery.
111 this department will ho found everything
from a ten cent quality to the finest.
LACES—AII kinds, prices and widths.
CORSETS—Our “Bon Ton,” the best in Amer
ica—every pair warranted. Misses’ Skirt-Sup
porting Corsets on hand.
RID GLOVES—We have invostod twice as
much as usual in Kid Gloves, in a variety of
qualities/ and can furnish any style and prico
needed, ?
CLOAKS—-Will open this week all the nvoel
ties in clfndis.
GENTS’ AND LADIES’ UNDERWEAR—A
very large assortment @f best makes.
Cashmeres, Joans, Blankets, ltloaehod and
Brown Sheetings and Shirtings, and Flannels in
large quantities, lower than ever before offered.
BLAOf- CASHMERES AND COLORED
CASHMERES—We have bought in large quanti
ties Multilist sell them, heuco have made prices
astonisbitigly low.
Dross Goods in styles aud qualities too nu
merous to mention.
Atlanta lion and Brass Foundry,
W. S. WITHERS PROPRIETOR.
wj Persons having
A lead ores for sale,
or ores of any kind
they would have
™ tested, will please
Mmf correspond with the
\ undersigned, as he
Etrjp x/.I" f/y is prepared to make
TBi lot In, and would
fa M like to buy lead ores
fill if satisfactory ar-
NjSgf rangements can be
made with the own-
Offica. and Shop cornei of Calhoun street and
Georgia Railroad.
OPPOSITE ROUND HOUSE
ALL kimlM of Caßtiuurt made. FENCING of
every description, for cometerioh, yards and
clmrchoH, of various and BEAUTIFUL patterns,
Columns for buildings, grates, wagon boxes, eto.
Every description of Cast Iron manufacture,
Portable aud Stationary Grates always on hand.
Manufacturers of everything in the Oast Iron
line, useful or ornamental. Old Stoves repaired.
Cash paid for old Castings. Manufacturer of
the “Prairie Corn Sliellor’’ and Well Wheels.
Terms—(’heap for Cash. Over thirty years
experience. (Jail and seo mo.
J W. S. WITHERS. Iron Founder.
CHEAPEST AND SSrf
HOWARD
Hydraulic Cement
DlinuDictured near Kingston, Bn-nw
County, (fcorgla.
Equal to the best Imported Portland Cement
Send for Circular. Try this before
buying elsewhere.
uT ii. WAKIIttI,
feb2i 3m<§> Kingston, Georgia.
—THE NEW—
W! /c #
SeiviHCMACHINE
A L iJK? >
MgMCjv,
Simplest & Best.
—Agents Wanted
offi?! No. 177 W.4 t ." St.
CINCINNATI,O.
(|mch24.ly@
PIONEER
STAINED GLASS WORKS.
McCully & Mile?,
MANUFACTURERS OF
STAINED. ENAMELED,
EMBOSSED, CUT and
COLORED GLASS.
85 Jackson St., : CHICAGO.
dec7-li
Wire KadiHa hiui Ornamental Wire Work*
ls<Jt-’IIR A CO.,
No’HA Howard street, jXsOQvM
Haltimore, Ifld.
ANUFACTUKE Wire Hailing fer Cemeteries,
*' A Balconies, etc., Sieves, Fenders, Cages,
Sand and Coal HcreoHH, Woven Wire, etc. Also
I on Hedsteads. Chairs Settees, etc., etc
febls-1’ ®
"I *) * < ay at home. Agents wantod. OutAt
HP 1 and terms free. TKUE ACO , Aligns
ta, Maine. decl4.ly
QA E'egant Cards, 10c.- 50 Ladies’Favorite
o y 10e., with name. Siooombm A Cos., Kinder
hook, N. Y. octlf)-6ui
CARPETS, CARPETS.
BODY BRUSSELS,
TAPESTRY BRUSSELS,
THREE PLY.
Best ingrains medium and low priced carpets.
This season has furnished the most beautiful
designs in carpets we have seen. We have pre
pared for the oarpet trade a much larger stock
than usual, aud of entirely now dosigns,
FLOOR OIL OLOTH3, alt widths aud quali
ties for halls and dining rooms. Table oil cloths,
alt colors and widths.
■ WINDOW SIIVDES, Cornice, Lace Curtains
reps and brocatelle for lamhregrins, lace iam
bregrins, etc., etc.
Wall Paper, several hundred of latest patterns
in wall paper and bordorings.
Remember tins is a separate store from our
dry goods and boot and shoe Htore, under same
roof, and handling large quantities of these
goods, cannot be undersold. An examination
of thts stock will pay you.
ESTABLISHED, ISSO. BEST IN THE WORLD, 1371
CLOUGH & WARREN ORGANS
EVERY INSTRUMENT FULLY WARRANTED !
CAPTIVATE THE WORLD!
HAVING NOT ONLY RECEIVED
Diploma of Honor and Medal of Highest Merit at the United States Centen
by the World’s Best Judges, as Superior to all Others.
In those qualities whioh go to make Perfection, thus deservedly placing these Unrivaled Instru
ments at the heal of the highest rank of Reed Instruments ma lufaeturod in ths World. While
the competitors of the OIOUOH A WARREN have been accredited with producing smnthuess,
Evennoss of Tone, etc., it remains! with the Clough A Weft he v al m i to receive the Crowning
Honor of producing, in a pre-eminent degree, (to use the extet words of the Judges* report,)
“Volume with Purity of L'ou \ hailing the. ok mie'er of the Ihipas >n i t the erdin try {Pipe) Orgm,
a distinction bespeaking the Highest Possible Musical Qualities, the desideratum eagerly aspired
to, but not attainei, hv otuer miuifactiirers. A 111 1 this t m re n lining lutiuetive clause of the
Judges’report, as a basis of awar 1, to-wit: “bemuse of certain ru: ihi hoi! arrangements, whioh
facilitate the world lg of the Instruments, together with neatness of design ail ornament, com
bined with simplicity of eo lst-iedo i,"vi 1 vsihavethi liscr.ptiou of the iustr uneut. leserved
ly loading the first rank, in the critical judgment ot' the Musical World. Cloigii ,t W.asaax
Organ Company, by ttio introduction of
SCRIBNER’S PATENT QUALIFYING TUBES,
(AVer whioh we have the exclusive control for the. United States .)
Are enab'od to impart to a Reed, in addition to all ordinary desirable qualities, the paramount
characteristic, pr > re mol by the world’s host ju Iges. as that of the Diapts u Stop in Pipe Or.
gans, thus confirming our pre-existing claim to Equality in Pipe Organs of same capacity.
All late im >rov iue its f>r .}.-s ies..-l. til I 11 1 Organ effects, will he foi ii in Organs raw
ufaoturei by tuis ll'm. a u >ug wno i nav be meuti me 1 ear coleh at el 'V ix Oaleste,” “Vox Hu
mana,”“ Wile >x Pa'e it Octaveo >inler," aid c iir alg "0 ):l>" or “Olarie iet” S ops. “Gems Hern,
“Cremona,” “Vex 1 1 g <lt " -V lASthena.” “o>r highs," Viola Dal eet.” etc , producing all tb
varied harmonies, an! shales of tone ooior imaginable.
All iustfuon enti an > upa ted oy a written guarantee far five or coven years.
Fifty Different Styles Quality aud Volume or Tone Unoqaaled
For the Parlor and the Church. Tno Be t M sternal and Workmanship!
——- PRICES Ar.l* TO 81.300
Factory ami A’arer eoms, corner Sixth an and U ingress sis., DETROIT, Mich.
AOENTS WANTED IN EVERx COUNTY.
Address PHILLIPS, CREW & FREYER, Atlanta, Ga.
O'-t'-T'
We have the best TmlfatlA Cold Watch In th® Market for TYiidfflfc
Parpoeos. The metal is a coni position of other metals, so closely rcHemb
ling t,ml tho .l u 'lj;es rttiil It dlffl
=**S. - - rfiK cult io detect the difference, except by %
/' Kk/aa i&A'wr* chemical test, and it has the virtues ro-
JBj £dHFav ***Pg. 'A '■. q nisi to to make it the best substitute
jfltTTTfi \ TFPTJ 'lifi uan*m'ovkmS*nt. expansion’ balT
mm Alwii anci. kkautifully engraved or
WATCHVHAT'cOST8 C fro|w
ttt i Kl! wlfhawatch for your owfn use or to make
W * S t *<•' uPECU LATQ n S mill ~l,>ney . tf y , Owing to our large
H||X r ! |Vj -!•. we are enabled to reduce the price
fi i aant Chain attached. Thev are used on
MWJ ffi Rjr \|l y V wb j' Kali roads, steamers, mid in Manufactories, and
J i 1 ; i*; iH^oqnlred,
JM4M w) Fifty Pennyweights, and the same pattern la
gw jpure gold would cost sl*>o. We sell those Chains
B a- jn aaA each. But wo sell the Watch and Chain for
’’ iy' oj v ’**~r<Bii*l* >g r sl2, sent by MaU In a Registered Package, post-
WE SELL THE WATCH WITHOUT THE CHAIN FOE $lO,
I. BRIDE & CO., Clinton Place & No. II Eighth Street, N. T.
eepm-13 mX
PATRON’S PAINT COMPANY.
Ingersoll’s Ready Mixed Paint and Paris Green
no per Cent Saved.
r FREIGHT paid on Paints to all parts of tho country. Onr book, “How every one can paint,’
. mailed free upon application to the PATRON’S PAINT COMPANY, 259 Front street, New
York. Trustee*.
T. A. Thompson, Pres,, Minn., Mcrtimrr vVhnehovl, N. J., O. H. Kelly, Ky.,
D Wyatt Aiken, S. 0., Samuel E. Aiainn. Vtmu., J. W. Naughton. N. Y.,
M. D. Dixie, Ky., J. W. A. Wright, Oil.. O. it. Itvgersoll, Manager.
aug2.3m®
BOOTS AND SHOES.
We have fitted up in connection with our dry
goods and carpet store, a room of equal size to
either, aud we have opened one of the larges
stocks of
GENTS,
LADIES,
MISSES, aud
CHILDREN'S
Boots, Shoes'and Gaiters in”the State.
These goods are e'mry’pair made to order,'ani
freak from the lianas of the manufacturer.
WE WARRANT EVERY PAIR
Aud guarantee prices lower than elsewhere, as
we have bought in large quantities for cash ex
clusively.
This is strictly a /fine store, not a few styles
mixed up with dry goods, but SEPARATE SHOE
HTORE,and m it oan be found evorvthing from
a brogan to the finest Gents’, Ladies', Misses'
and Children’s Shoos and Boots made, without
shoddy or bad material.
Shoe Findings —A full supply of Shoe'Plud
ings, Luther, etc., on hand. sep29-*t
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* PRE-EMINENT FOR PURITY OF TONE,