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Show IF WE ONLY HAD THE NERVE. r AST week we received an invitation to buy JJ a bale of cotton. Say, Willibald, the way .lungs are going we'll be lucky if we can buy a 'pool of cotton ! Geo! If we only had the nerve 1 What we couldn't do ! Had we been born with the ind of some people we know, here's what you vould find on these pages from week to week: "On account of the European war, the sub-icription sub-icription price of this paper has been raised to $5 oer year, cash in advance. "On account of the loss from import duties, idvertising rates will be increased to 50 cents per uch, effective at once. "We. are pained to arnounce that owing to the almost complete suspension of the importation of "hemicals, obituary poems will cost you 10 cents er line hereafter. "It being impossible to export prunes to Prz-royal, Prz-royal, notices of church suppers will be charged "or at the -rate of $2 each and two tickets to the tuppor. "Resulting from the suspension of regular hipping facilities between this town and Gulf of Hjigosh, all pumpkins, apples,' potatoes, corn, grapes, etc., brought to this office under the pre-ext pre-ext of exhibition to the editor, will be siezed as 'ontraband of war. "All parsons found owing this paper more than jix months subscription will be shot as spies." |