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Intelligencer. Published every Wednesday. J. F. Cl.INKSCAI.K8, I - DITOHS AND C. C. LANGSTON*, S PROPRIKTORS. _____ ONE YEAR, - - - - $1 50 SIX MONTHS. --- 75 WEDNESDAY, NOV. 20, ?001. In a precinct in New York where voting machines were used the result was known two minutes after thc polls closed. The accuracy and speed of these machines will in the end re sult in their adoption over the whole country. 2->The Gaffney Ledger says: "It is reported that n change of postmaster will shortly take place in Florence. Thc negro parson, Wilson, who now holds the office will be ousted and a white man put in. A Mclaurin man l>ul ju, wc suppose, ii' this is true Editor Ayer, ol" the Florence 7 inns, will, wc [?resume, [?ot bc pleased, and will register a great, big kick against such action. The American Anti-Cigarette League, which is said to have a mein - bership of '51)0,009, bas drawn upa pledge which is to be read in every Sunday behool in tim United States, Sunday, November 24. lt binds the signer to abstain from tho use of ciga rettes or tobacco in any form until lil years of agc. Tbe expectation is that several hundred thousaud signatures will bc obtained. - - . -i -? Tho Democratic party has good cause to be pleased with tho outcome of the recent elections, considered without reservation and with thc fullest statement of thc vote in ail sections. The truth of adequate Democratic organization has been made plain. Thc promise of Demo cratic success in 1002 and the encour agement for the best Democratic en deavor in 1901 arc sufficient to justify Democratic confidence. Allendale is thc next new county that is seeking formation. Tho sur vey bas been made. These small, new counties are increasing expenses to taxpayers, lt is impossible to carry ou forty-live or fifty separate county governments with the same ecouomy as one-half tho number. If, however, thc movement is success ful it will bo the lust mutilation to Barnwell County possible under the present law, as no other county can bo cut out without reducing the urea of Barnwell below 600 square miles. An exchange coughs up great gobs of truth when it says the class that builds up a town and country, and en joys life and makes the best citizens, are the enterprising and liberal men who believe in living and let others live and who, when they get a dollar, don't squeeze it until the goddess of liberty feels as if a corset laced to the last notch would feel more comforta ble. Such squeezing is what causes hard times and stops the circulation of the American eagle. If it wore not for our broad gauged, enterprising men it would be impossible to build a prosperous town. - mt m> **. Just one week from next Monday President Roosevelt will press a but ton in the White House at Washing ton which will set in motion the my riad of wheels which aro to turn at thc South Carolina Interstate and Wer* Indian Exposition, and that great fair will that instant be officially opened. The preparations making for the great show are now, of course, going forward with a deafening rush. The religious exercises, an elaborate program of which bas already been arranged, will take place Sunday, De cember 1st, but the real formal open ing of the Fair does not occur until the following day as has already been stated. Within the past few weeks there has been considerable discussion in the Northern press in reference to the negro problem, and nine-tenths of tho writers know nothing whatever about the negro. Here in the South the negro is understood and he is given friendly aid to thc furthering of his every legitimate aim. and the white mau is the negro's true friend, and if loft to itself the South will work out the negro problem by methods mutual and rational. The Northerner who knows not thc situation looks through strained optics and through mock philanthropy thinks he can adjust things from a distance. When the matter is bi ought home to them they have shown they arc less tolerant than the Southern white. Thc Northern per. ^'e ought to inform themselves on the situation hero or cease to meddle with thc matter. It is ei-courag?Dg to note that in most of thu former slave States the white population is growing more rapidly than thc black. Louisiana has ceased to bo a black State, her white citizens now outnumbering her colored. Alabama has gained dis tinctly in white population. So have Georgia, TenneBseo, North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky and Mary land. South Carolina und Mississippi arc now the only two States in which tho blacks predominate. Mississippi has a negro percentage ol' 58.0. and South Carolina of 58.4. Hut if thc present industrial revival in South Carolina continues, this State will soon follow Louisiana out of this nar rowing class, leaving Mississippi thc only commonwealth where, ou a count of noses, thc colored race would rule. Diffusion is apparently doing a good deal to lessen the pressure of thc negro problem in tho cotton States as much perhaps as could have been expected from a diminished birth rate. And this process, emphasized by the ligures of thc latest census bulletins, will undoubtedly continue to over come, so far as tho dangers of negro overcrowding are concerned, any re lative inflation from one census to another in the rate of negro growth. Portman Letter. h'lliior J n dermal lnteltt{/ein.vr: There is but one justifiable reason in making this letter n public correspondence, to forewarn I hose who need to bo fore armed ns n?wH gatIn-rers; und also to acquaint them with the climax that may terminate their best effort for the publie good. Devout! this philan thropie purpose, the communication is personal, us ?1 correction ol a mistake in last week's letter mid one which lilis the correspondent with humiliation. Tlie letter, perhaps, ought tn be pub lished for tho benefit of those school children v.hoare endeavoring to make those Portman figures work put right. The children might labor through eter nity and lind no nearer solution to the problem, because it had no beginning except in tho Unite brain of tho corres pondent, who must confess now to an unchallengeable ignorance of ligure? that is appalling. Tho day following tho appearance of THE ISTEi.i.KJKNC Kit the engineer at Portman discovered where dwelt tho Andersen correspondent, lie peremp torily enquired: "Do you know who wrote that Portman letter Inst week for tho Anderson Intelligencer?" "I," I replied, a great wave of pride swelling up in my heart and over whelming all lesser ambitions. "Do you know who sent in those dam ligures?" Echo answered "1," with tho same magnitude of overawing responsibility, my band on my heart. "Doyen know," said he, "that you don't know any more about figures than a ghost does about Christmas.'" 1 replied that my acquaintanceship with the seet was limited,.but "Hut," said he, "you don't know any thing about corresponding for a paper, either." 1 now thought that be accredited my last, eff usion to divino afflatus, and was not willing to allow mo any claim in tho honor. 1 assured him I had every thing to do with tho achievement my self and wished to retain my laurels. Said he: "Do you know if 7,?i00 cubic feet of water per minute would wash out a hen coop 40 feet high in some thing over 17 hours?" "lt depends," said I, with alacrity, "upon tho coop's area and the number of-" "Number of nothing," he impatiently interrupted. "Never say number of anything again; you almost might as well have said 7,300 cubic inches." "But I didn't say inches," said I. "No," said he," you did not know enough for that. You remind me of people who give measures for pies an' things. Why, there ain't a child be tween this and Georgia who won't be gray haired figuring out t \Oa figures. You've lost your calling; yon ought to have been on the building committee for the Exposition nt Charleston. You'd make jin architect, you would." I thought now this was one of the engineer's practical ways of joking and laughed; then recollecting the hen coop said, well it depended on the area of the buildings and tho number of peo ple; but a look into bis face showed mo 1 was on unsafe ground. 1 arose and handed him the paper; asked, him to ligure it out; that ns it was it suited me all right. Ile looked nt the figures and a grimace illumined his counten ance that wns a laugh, yet not a laugh. "You don't know how much power it takes to turn a churn, do you?" bc asked, as though seriously. "Yon mean 40 feet high?" said I, re verting to the measurements that were running beneath his eye. Ile did not seem to have heard me. "What made you write 7,300 when it should have been 73,000?" "Inspiration," said I, "natural fac ulty." "For lying!" said he, completing the sentence to suit himself. I now rebounded upon the Inst straw of escape, called vicarious implication, and said I believed the types made that mistake. Ile said no, the types were like figures, they did not lie when tho truth was put iu them. "Now," said he, "you should have said 73,000 cubic feet; that quantity of water per min ute, Oowing 2 miles long, would fill a cavity 700 feet wide and 10 feet deep in 17 hours, 04 minutes and 30 seconds. What sort of a river would we have nt 7,300 cubic feet? and what sort of fig ures? Set the children right." I calmed bis conscience by assuring him I would try and Ret the children right-as nobody ? Iso would care; then to change the current into smoother regions I asked: "Now that the nv pony had all this now power on their hands, bow long would it take them to effect a sale?" but I was ns deer> in complication ns before. "Why," said he, "'twas sold before they had it, before 'twns made." Thia, with all deference to tho engi neer's information, threw me upon a revci ic o? the exchange markets in cot ton and grain. 1 had heard of people dealing in "futures;" buying wheat, for instance, that ?.nd never been sown nnd selling wheat that had not been reaped. I knew of the enormous j amount of wheat that Leiterin Chicago i had bought, and had heard a great dca' about this buying nnd Helling, and at tho Hame timo had heard thc prac tico very strongly condemned. All the 'justice in my heart arose and I Haid: "Why do you condemn the grain mar kets? What would farmers do if there were no buying and selling? Does it not give them an incentive to labor moro?" I wa? told then that these peo ple, or "merchants" on exchange, who bought and sold millions of dollars worth in I he year, never saw a grain of the crop, and that for that matter they were selling what had not yet been sown-that all their buying and selling was of imaginary grain-problematic crops, and did not help the farmer a particle but very often hurt him. That these "markets'' were gambling dens of tho highest functions of death and dishonor to many, and unjust gain to others; that if the number of mon who had staked their lirst few dollars or hundreds on imaginary grain, had put tho amount in the earth toward a prac tical, material crop, thia world would be a bind of Canaan, flowing with ali tin- earth's richest blessings and the problem solved of labor and wealth ? combined, with au era of no poverty. Contrasting the reverie of tho past .with my knowlegc of the present, that thc people who bought their power be t?re it was made, bought a certainty in the future. That tho commodity is now theirs for the bent-lit of us many in the county as tile power can reach. That it means an income to thc posses sor and a constant, source ol' revenue to i tlmse who wish employment. 1 could not help thinking, under tho considera tion, tiie enormous amount of good money cnn produce and the amount of satisfaction honest labor can bestow upon the employer and employee, and that there, is nothing in this world but labor that will bind rich and poor together in common understanding and sympathy, for each needs tho other and both together are joined in union for the world's welfare. H. K. L. - Twenty counties will have ex bibil? at the Charleston exposition. NOTICE. ALL persona aro warned not to huDt or otherwise trespass on our landa in Cen tarville Township, Anderson County. Persona disregarding thia notice will be prosecuted to ttl? full extent of the lnw. MARY J. CHAMBLEE, \rATTTiij BOLT LUL?'CHA MBLEE, M ALLIE RHIKKEY, ALBERIK A OH ? M BLEE. Nov 2U. 1001_'2J_3? FOR_S?LE TOE undersigned will sell on Salesday in 1 ?ocemt?T, l??l, ou Publie Square nt Anderdon ('. II., H. < '., ono Lot-shout ono acre-near Orr Cotton Mill, facing Cotton Mill hotiSHf. Good aland tor a Store and a niro building site for u dwelling bouse. Al-o, ono Loi, containing one-hull' acre, adjoining land? of th? Anderson Cotton Mill Co. ?ml other*, with a good Htore room and a six-room dwelling house,etc. Terina-Cash. MRS. E. A. KELLY. Nov 20, l!?0l_?2_ 2_ FLORIDA ORANGES. They are cheaper this year than they have been in ten years-from 25c. a dozen up. My Store is stocked brim full of good things to eat RAISINS, CURRANTS. CITRON, COCO?NUTS, BANANAS, NORTHERN APPLES, MALAGA GRAPES, CRANBERRIES, CELERY, MINCE MEAT. It id tempting to visit our Store. Como and see us and our Stock whether you want to buy or not. Yours for Cash, C. FRANK BOLT. FAIR NOTICE ALL those indebted to us, either by Note or Account, must call and settle at one?;. We most positively will not carry you longer than Dec. 1st. We u< ed tho mon ev and must have it. H. G. JOHNSON & SON. Nov 13, 1P01 21 4 A FEW WORDS ABOUT Flows may come and Plows may go, But the Oliver ?oes on forever. MANY (line-rent makes of so-called Chilled Plows have been brought out, and a large number having enjoyed a brief sale have been forced to give way to the superior merits of the OLIVER. Others which arc yet on the market claim to be as good as the Oliver, but none of them claim to be better. The only safe plan is to buy the GENUINE OLIVER At the start, and then no question can arise as to thc quality of your Plow. The fortunate possessor of an Oliver Plow bas no difficulty to contend with in the matter ol' extras, as we constantly carry in stock a complete line of perfectly fitting duplicate parts. Sullivan Hardware Co. RED STAR HOUSE ! CLOSING OUT. CLOSING OUT. GOING TO QUIT BUST _ T7 " '1 _ r Thousands of Dollars -worth tx Ollie liar ly ?? Merchandise to go at a SAC Our entire Stock of CLOTHING, SHOES, HATS, - AND - GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS, MUST BE SOLr. Tor the next 50 days we will slaughter prices and make them go. Our stock is a well bought one, of good selections and values, and as we intend selling them at less than origi nal cost, this means a great deal to you. Come quickly, so benefit yourself by better selection. This is certainly the grandest opportunity for merchan dise buying Anderson has had for many a day. Cash does the work. We underbuy, we undersell ! And now we'll beat that ! Shakespeare said : "There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune ; omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries." So don't let this chance pass by you. LEVY * CO., Anderson, S. C., west side Court House Square. P. S.-Household Furniture for sale._ Are you getting your Share of the Good Things at - - The Magnet ? ' The reason we ask you this question is, that we have heard so many ex pressions like this : "Oh, why didn't I come to The Magnet before buying ?" Our anxiety for you to see our Goods and get our prices before making your purchases is not founded on brag, bluster or reckless claims ; it is simply our unbounded confidence in our ability to SAVE YOU MONEY. We advertise what wo have and have what we advertise. Beginning Monday, Nov. 11th, we will have a whole week of Bargains for you. Special Prices like these throughout, the entire week : Good Green Coffee all the week 12 lbs. for $1.00. 27-inch wide Cotton Checks 3$o.yard hy the bolt, 3$c to out. The 7}c quality Drilling priced all the week at 5:1 c a yard. Best A. 0. A. Ticking priced all the week at 1210 a yard. All Standard Prints, fancy designs and patterns, one week only 4$c yard. Very best Knitting Cotton, all numbers, at 23c pound. ^ Real Linen Window Shades, on spring rollers, with complete set of frx-^j tures, specially priced next week 20o. Curtain Poles, complete, 20c each. Shoe Nails, one-quarter pound packages, two for 5o. * 10o Bottle Yasaline, bargain week price 5c. Ready Mixed Paints, 35c and 40c nt tho drug stores, our price 10c Can. High Grade Paint Brushes 8c, 10o and 12o. Wo have the largest and best assortment of Dolls, Toys, Christmas Goods, &c, of any house in tho oity, and none eo?d for more than 25o. Tell the children that we are ic correspondence with Santa Claus, and have his word for it that ho will spend hi-* entire time with us while ho is in Anderson. Come early. Yours always truly, JOHN A. AUSTIN AN1> THE MAGNET, yext to Post Office._High Price Breakers and Low Price Makers. Let Him Strut! HIS DAYS AliE H> is big, but none too big to fiji the roomy, white enam el oven of a Buck's Stove., Do You Owe Me ? if so come in at once and settle, as I must make colicc tions at once, and save expense of coming to see you. Respectfully, JOHN T. BURRI88. 1 This is Weather for Them, and here they are? All of our Clothing selling at New York Cost, and of course Overcoats ure constituted in the Clothing Stock, There is no reason why a man should suffer from cold or for an Overcoat when it can be bought here for little money. If you are needing a winter weight Suit they are here for you? too-all at New York Cost. Furs I Our Fur Stock is now complete, anil everything from the low-price garment, including those of high cost. Muffs, Boas, Collarettes and Plush Capes are here in splendid variety. Blankets! The Blanket Sale continues, and the special prices quoted ? last week are still on. Our Blanket Stock is most complete. Respectfully, Aeents for the American Lady Corset. Agents for Butterick Patterns. Ask for Coupons for FREE PREMIUMS. Are Your Hands Tied TO HIGH PRICE TIME STORES ? IF MOT SEE W. F. Marshall & Co's. Stock* ALL CASH STORE, Our Line of Outings for Children and Ladies Are beautiful at 5o: 7e, 8c. 10c. Cotton Flannels-we kuy in solid, caaes direct from the factory, at 56, 7c, 8c, 10c--best values in town for the mosey. Jeans-fine line cheap. Ladies and Childrens Jackets. Stylish, Cheap and Up-to-Date. Calico, Percales, Ticking, Bleaching, Brown Homespun, Red and White Flannels at Rock Bottom Prices. - Our salcd this Fall in this line has been much larger than last year. Why ? We have a batter Stock at Popular Prices. A Dandy Work Shoo in Women's and Men's at 81.00. Better ones at $1.25, 81.50, 82.00, 82.50. Best $3.50 Man's Shoe in the city. Also a splendid line of School Shoes for the little fellows. Full line of HOSIERY. BLANKETS-If you need them these cool nights we h^ve thom. TRUNKS at factory prices. Headquarters for TINWARE, GLISSWARJE, CROCKERY. Come and see how far a dollar wiU go with us. Yours truly, 36 Granite Row. N. B.--What Clothing we have we are selling out at actually 50c. OD he dollar. We will not keep Clothing after this season.. W. F. M. & Co. NEW FIRM ! T. A. ARCHER and JNO. J. NORRIS have bought L. H. SEEL'3 Slock of Goods and will continue the business at Mr. Seel's oM stand. The Senior member of the Fit?^ having ?orve? hts apprenticeship at the Tinners* Trade years ago, and who has been doing business in our city for years, is known throughout the County for his pains-taki'-g and.good, honest work, and needs no introduction. Give us a call. We can SAVE YOU MONEY, for wo are selling off our old stock to make room for New Goode Have a big Stock of STOVES, met as good aa new, that must go. Also, TINWARE, AGATE WARP, WOODEN WARE, BROOMS, CUTLERY aud Household Furnishing Goods. We also have in connection with our Store a Shop equipped with the boat Tools and Machines that,can be had, and we aro in a position to do all kinda of repair work in our line. ROOFING, PLUMBING and ELECTRIC WIRING, Your* for. businesa, ARCHER & NORRIS, PhOHO No. 265. No. G Cfoiquola Block