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ft **' ? \ i -i-----_ '~~ ~~-?------_''' _'"' _^_^_ BY (33NKS0ALES & LANGSTON. ~ANDERSQN, S. C., W1D??~SPAY, OCTOBER 19, 1898!-VOLUME XXW-MT?. BOY KNEE PANT SUITS Our assortment of School Suits Is certainly the l>est we have ever shown. Your boy slides down banisters, climbs fences, fallsoff hen-roosts, and breaks up things generally, and is almost always hard on clothes. Kow, isn't he ? Doesn't he rip "unrippable" seams, tear out the knees and elbows of his clothes, and often requires a new seat to his trousers ? But, bless his heart, wouldn't it be better to have him that way than pining away on a sick bed, running up doc tor's bills? Boys will be boys, anyway. If you bring the young shaver to us we'll put a Suit on him that he won't tear in a hurry. A nice locking Suit, too, and for little money. Prices from Sl.OO to S5.0CX No one can or will undersell us, because we sell for Cash and have no Josses. Your money back if you want it, W SPOT GASH CLOTHIERS. Business Architect... CANNOT afford to base his structure ou misleading statements. No Merchant can earn money or reputation by misrepresenting what he has to sell ; he ita foolish to assert what he cannot prove. . Our object is to sell relia ble merchandise ?t a moderate price, and we do this, giving the actual values, thus effepttng a positive money saving for the purchaser. When we teil you in all earnestness that our Goods are the BEST-the most reliable that eau be bought for the money-we want you to understand that you are getting something service?biein buying from us, not cheap merchandise that is attractive only for the moment in price and looks and deficient in quality. I>?u't let sentiment enter into your business transactions-buy where it is to voar advantage to do so. Let us convince you that for every dollar you spend with us you get its actual value in merchandise. We certainly merit vour attention when it comea to buying We give you style, fit and quality, combined with cheapness of price that \ makes the Shoe irresistible. i Sach'a Shoe Co's. Ladies' Custom-made Shoes 82.00, $2.25 and 83.00, j , easily worth 50c. to $1.00 more per pair. c A handsome Shoe of soft Dongola and Pat. Leather Tip only 81.50. ( A stylish, well made Shoe, any toe, 81.25. j j AU solid leather, Patent tip, Dongola top, good for 81.25, only 81.00. MEN'S SHOES. j We've got them, all kinds, all prices. You will get lois of satisfaction i .out of wearing a 8hoe bought from us. We know they will please you. it \ .is BO experiment with us. s DRESS GOODS, i All Wool Dress Goods 25c. per yard. 1 Figured Black Satine, fast color,'stylish, onlv 15c. per yard. * White Flannel 12], 15 and 20c. ] Yard-wide Bleaching, good as any, 5c. per yaid. Splendid quality Bed Tick 5c Sweet, Orr & Co's. Ready-made Shirts and Pants, the best that arc made, j ' ?nee wear one of th^se Shirts or a pair of these Pants and you will alwajs call for them. They never rip, and the same buttons are ou when you throw , fhem away. . ? Come to us for Bagging and Ties. ! Our prices guaranteed, ; i fl??* Remember, wo have built a nie? wajjou yard in the rear of om Store for our customary, and we are always glad to offer you privileges of same. The Cropping ETII. Memphis Commercial-Appeal. All efforts so far by conventions to curtail tho acreage of cotton have failed. It seems to me that there is a way to success, and it is by putting an end to the prevailing system of cropping. An owner of land usually rents out his fields to smaU tenants in such sized tracts as they individually seem capa ble of cultivating. These tenants pro ceed to put in as much cotton as thev individually can possibly cultivate and twice as much as they can possibly pick out; then, at harvest, extra pick ers are in demand, and they Deiner scarce, are able to dictate their own terms, thc consequence being that the cotton costs, more than it will bring in the market. Resolutions by conven tions cannot alter this condition. Plant ers meet and resolve to plant less cot ton, go home, rent out their lands to croppers and the old game is played over, year after year. ls there no remedy? I think there is. Let landlords hire labor and pay for it as it is performed. The merchants arc to blame that this plan has not been adopted long since. If a land owner, seeing the evil of cropping years ago, approached a merchant (and cotton factor) and asked for assistance to work his lands, in the form of cash ad vance, agreeing to give mortgages on his lands, crops, stock, etc,, the mer chant Avould coldly refuse; he would be willing to aid with merchandise, for which nc would charge as large a profit as his conscience would permit, with perhaps a little cash now and then to pay doctor's bills and for coffins. The planter was compelled to accept these terms and went sorrowfully home and igain let out his land to small tenants, cvho consented to work after a fashion, provided they were furnished with mpplies in quantities largely beyond ;he actual value of their labor. Thero is a large number of planters ?vith credit so well established that ;hey can get th? cash needed and can (vorktheir lands with hired labor. They jan put in as much or as little cotton is iJicy think it profitable.to raise, and ihere can be no complaint among the laborers if they are paid in full eveiy Saturday night. Planters too often buy their corn in-" ?toad of making it. They say it is not i paying crop, and it is not, when made >y renters. It does not realize as m uch ;o the acre as cotton, but it requires ;en months to cultivate and harvest a irop of cotton, and but five months for iorn, and at less than half the expense >f iabor. Merchants and factors who hold large plantations, on which they have forc :losed, may not fancy the plan suggest ?d, as these plantations are dumping j jrounds for large quantities of mer ihandise, but it will pay, even them, to lave responsible managers and pay ;heir laborers weekly; nor will it in any ivay affect their merchandise business, is each of these owners maintains a ?torc on his plantation, where, instead >f supplying his people on credit, he ?an sell them goods for cash. As long as the owners of large bodies >f land leave their land to the ignorant nanagement of irresponsible croppers, vhite and and black, just so long will :otton be overproduced, and soon the rages of labor in this favored South on land will be on a parity with those .f the peasantry of C4crmany, Italy or lussia. JAMES Ii. CKIGIIEAD., Arkansas. Origin of the Term "Cotton." To thc Editor of the ?State: lt is an uterestiug fact that we have in con tant use in South Carolina, ami indeed n other southern States, a work which 3 of Arabio origin. This word is fa miliar to allot" our people-it is used lore in the fall than any other season if the year-at this season it is used a rrcat deal by thc white farmer, the iierchaht and the negro laborer. My i'.aders have; probably guessed that his word is "cotton." It comes to us rom the Italian "cotone," and this in urn is derived from the Arabic koton." I cannot account for this rord among the languages of thc Aryan aces nnless thc following is the so il ti on : Spain was thc first European country ii which cotton was cultivai ed. It was utroduccd into that country by the irogressive Moors in thc tenth century nd about t he same time it was also utroduccd into-Sicily, [ suppose thc loci's (who were a branch of thc Ara ?an race) continued the Arabian name if the plant when they introduced it nto Spain, and thus this interesting void has become stamped into our anguagc. lt is an interesting subject ?f study to linguists to consider the 'act tli?t we who live thousands of niles from Arabia and have nothing in ominou with that country should have is (-ne of our most common words one >f Arabian origin-one, too, that was uobably carried to Europe hundreds >f years ago by thc dark-skinned and warlike Moors.' , rj T^iM While I am on the subject of this void, I will mention that this is the centennial year of cotton culture in vhat is now Sumter county. We have wo accounts about the first cultiva ion of cotton in this country, and as hey vary a little I will give them both. iii an essay on tho cotton plant, writ en by Governor Whitinarah 1). Sea brook, it. is mentioned that John May ant ami Asbury Sylvester first grew sotton in the high hills of San tee in 79?. In an address delivered by Sam icl Du Bose in the lower part of thc state, during thc year 1858, occurs this Statement: "Cotton was first grown in he district of Sumter, by John May ant in 1H0H." MCDONALD PUUMAX. - Mr. W. K. Dargan had on exhibi tion at thc Pee-Dce ware house, in florence, a stalk of corn that measur ed Iii feet in length. Thc ears are 15 eet from the root. Mr. Dargan has in acre of puch corn on his farm which s fully fruited. The gathering of this :orn will evidently have to be done "rom step ladders, as there are other ?talks taller than this one. Deafness Cannot be Cur.d ty local applications, as they rannoi renell Mi? liscard portion oi' thu ear Tiler? is univ |o ?ray tn euro D.-afinv. and that is hy cms !tu ional remedies Deafness it caused hy au i u (lam il conti il ?on of tin mu e. H: ?* lining of III'! K?bach - un Tuli;. Win n this Mibe gets inflamed you have i rioohliuR 'Oiind or imperfect hearing, mid when i is entirely ( ?MCI! deafness imho result, and mles* i he inllnmatio'i can he taken nu: ?iud this nbc i stored lo i is HOI mal condit ion, hearing will ie destroyed forever; niue viss nut of ten are uiscd hy catarrah, which is not hi og hut. an in* Iniiied condition of tho i neons nurfaaes. Wu will give One Hundred Dollars birany casu T Deafness fcatiswl hy catarrh) that cannot IMJ urod hy Hall's fa! irrh ' ur- Send for circulars ree. K. J. CHUNKY. ('" .Toledo, 0. tttT*Sold by Dru? ?i ls, ""ic STATE NEWS. - AH the oounty officers elected in Lexington County in the last primary election are Lutherans. - The contract for furnishing the music for the State Fair has been awarded to the 1st Regiment Band. - W. H. Robertson, colonel of the colored regiment of National Guards at Charleston,.has been suspended for pawning government rifles. - Reports received from different parts of ?George town county fully justi fy the estimate of $75,000 damage to the rice crop by the recent storm. - Do you wish to see the progress the farmers of our State are making in diversified and intensified agriculture? If so, visit the State Fair in November. - Under the recent vote the city of Orangeburg will soon put upon the market forty thousand dollars in bonds to build water works and an electric light plant. - More or less excitement has been created over the reported case of small pox at Sumter. The disease, however, is not ia the city, but some distance in the country with no chance to spread. - Greenwood is now lighted with electricity. Their plant just finished works most satisfactorily. It cost $10,000 for 75 arc lamps and 1500 in candescent lights. Steam is the power used. - There are again a goodly number of young ladies entered as students at the South Carolina College, and there is at least one young lady matriculated in the State Medical College in Charleston - Claude Floyd, white, shot and killed Rob Dorroh. colored, in a pub lic road in Newberry county. Floyd says Dorroh fired at him first. The 3ause of the trouble seems to have been a private feud. - There are now 430 students in Winthrop College. - The special primary election in Sumter county to determine the con test between Senator Moses and Rich ard Manning resulted in the election of Manning by a majority of between 75 and 100. - Dr. Moseley, pastor of the Bap tist church at Florence, after preach ing an able sermon Sunday night, had an attack of vertigo and fell in the church. Friends carried him to his home and he is now well again. - "Hartwell," the fast trotting horse of Dr. J. 8. Stribling, of Seneca, won a purse of $250 at the Macon, Ga., fair on Wednesday, 12th instant. There were 12 entries and nine trotted. "Hartwell" won over the field. Time 2.21 for mile heat. - The farmers of Florence; Dar lington, Marlboro and Marion counties are rapidly regaining their lost fortunes by raising tobacco. From 800 to 1500 pounds can be produced on an acre of land and the price this fall has ranged from 8 to 38 cents a pound. - Prof. J. W. Hart, of Clemson, has handed in his resignation to Pres ident Hartzog, to take effect on No vember 1. He will go to Kingston. Ontario, where he has been elected superintendent of the dairy branch of the school of mining and agriculture. - The . Riser boys, of Newberry county, fcwho were convicted of serious robberies about Pomaria. were taken to Columbia Wednesday and placed in the penitentiary, where they will serve five years" unless sooner pardoned. Both are young men, one being hardly more than 18 years old, and both bore good reputations in the community before their conviction. After their conviction an appeal was taken to the supreme court on some ground, but it j was withdrawn last week and the ! young men began to serve out their terms. - The dispensary board of control has adopted a resolution appointing a special committee to report on a new scale of figures so that towns and coun ties can get a larger proportion of pro fits. The board thinks this can be done and leave a good showing for the State. - James Davis, a prominent citizen of Marion county, in feeding his gin on the 10th, had his right arm caught, and trying to get it out, both arms be jame entangled and were cut off and his face and head horribly mutilated, from which wounds he died a few hours later. - Near Edgefield Court House George Hutchinson and Alfred Hol lingsworth had words over domestic affairs. Hollingsworth attacked Hutch inson with brass knucks. Hollings worth retorted with a razor, nearly severing Hutchinson's head from his body, producing almost instant death. No arrests, have been made. - The. Telephone Manufacturing Company, of Sumter, now has sixty eight hands regularly employed and arrangements are being made to en large the factory and increase the force of hands to one hundred or more. The factory has orders ahead ali the time and the output is not equal to the de mand, although the factory has been enlarged and the force of hands in creased sev,eral times within the past twelve months. - An unknown negro went into Luhn's book store in Charleston and attempted to rob it. He knocked down Mr. Robt. Haig, a clerk, and then bound, gagged and choked him. The man tried to enter the safe but could not do so. He carried off a few small articles and about $2 in cash. Mr. Haig was taken to his home and a doctor sent for. He was not serious ly injured. There is no clue to the i len ti ty of the negro. ai W. C. T. ?. Rally. SPARTANBUBG, S. C., Oct. 15, l&to. -Thc local W. C. T. U., of Spartanbu?g, invites tho Temperance women of all denominations and especially all W. 6. T. U. workers, to a rallying mee tilg. Oct., 27th and 28th. The W. C T. V. in State Ms accomplished but little ap parently lately. Some Societies dil ban ded on account of one of the 41 plans of work, namely Woman's Suf frage. The State W. C. T. ?. has bee? misrepresented, we have not taken nj? Woman's Suffrage. These plans ar? not compulsory, one society cannot take all of them, each local Society chooses its own plan among the 40. The Southern States have not choses Woman Suffrage as one plan. We pre fer to work for Sunday Schools, prison and poor house, flower mission, otc. As our state is trying to get prohibition, so we must try to help them, and solicit renewed interest of all women who de sire to see this evil of intoxicating t drinks taken from before the eyes of our children, husbands, brothers and fathers. Write to our Local Corres ponding Secretary, Miss Julia Smith, Sparenburg, S. C., that you will be at our Rallying meeting, arriving on th? 26th October, 1898, and we will meet you at depot and entertain you wl?l? here. By Order of Local W. C. T. U. Yours Truly, _SECRETART. - As evidence of how varied vege tation may bc made here, the fact is mentioned that in the yard of Mrs. J. H. Earle, on Academy street, banana plants are now growing with several buuches of well matured and com pletely ripe bananas. The fruit though not large, has a delicious flavor and so far as taste is concerned, these Green ville grown bananas are the equal of those of any other climate. This is said to be the first instance of bananas maturing and ripening in this country. Thc fact that the fruit matured this year is probably due entirely to the lateness of the season.-Greenville. News.