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were IK^n^HRHRnagHith? HHSBflBKflHHB^^^H' Northern ^H^H^BHHHHPHrto grant the negroes H|^HmNn^B^air count when it involved I^BsBH^B^urt' and simple? HH^g^PRuiulay nuuning. while stopping ovei ^^HHndianapolis. the beautiful capital of the ^^^WSenator's State, I walked out to take souic exercise,and had only goneu little distinct from the hotel when 1 came on a square whieh the street entered at the corner, and in the center of it is one of the most artist it and beautiful structures in stone 1 have ever seen -the State's monument to its dead soldiers, costing, I am told, something i.? <>.?. ?ioirrtilu.rli<?,.(l .if 11 million , |, |I1 firs I approached and road on one side, chiseled into the stone, this legend: TO INDIANA'S SILENT VICTORS, WAUFOKTHK I'NION, 18U1-18(M 129 regiments of volunteer infantry 17*>,77<i 14 regiments of volunteer cavalry 21,WW 27 regiments of volunteer artillery 10,H8(i Indiana volunteers in the Navy 2,Hit Total Indiana volunteers engaged in? battle 210,40; Killed and died: (.'ominissioiu'tl otllcors (Jji Noncommissioned otlicors and enlisted men 23,791 ToUd killed and died 24,411 For the purpose of comparison I will givf the figures from my own State of Soutli Carolina: Total number of officers and men who volunteered, 71,083; died in battle, died from disease, died in prison?total 15,495. 1 tOOK tfl0 irOUUlt* IU uuiui/aiu mv patriotism of the two sides to the quarrel as evinced by their willingness to die for whal they fought. The voting population ol South Carolina in 18G0 was GO.OOO? that is those 21 years of ago and white. We puj into the lield 11,000 more men than we had voters. Indiana's voting population was 300,000 in round numbers. Ninety thou* and of her voters or their substitutes die not volunteer. They were not needed, 1 suppose. Now for the deaths. Th< percentage of deaths in Indiana was 11% in South Carolina, 22, nearly double. I will make no comment on this, Mr President, other than to remark that I be lieve the men on both sides thought the} were right, and the South Carolinians, tru< to their State motto, "Anirais opibusqu< parati," "Ready with our lives and for tunes," died for their convictions. No mar can do more, and I pity the narrow sou who would charge them with being rebels or traitors, as uiu ouum vaivuuuIndianna, so did they all. The embattlet South met the embattled North, and th< issue was thought to be settled. Thrt issue, as I have stated, was wheth er all men are created free and equal including the negro. But for that then would have been no secession; but for tha < there would have been no war. Therefore ^ while I have acknowledged in the fulles \ sensi' that the Union sentiment caused th< K Northern people to pour out their bloo< \ like water to main tain it. do not forjje ) that the issue was the equality of mar ! and liberty in the Union. Is the questioi I settled? Did the 24,000 men from Indiani / who offered up their lives for the Unioi ' and liberty believe that in thirty-five yeari the party and the men of the party whosi principles they died for would come bacl to believe with Stephen A. Douglas tha 4-jv\*-? ,,f tri/lan/in/lnn/m tuc lycuiaiauuii ui luuujn uutuw/ ??. tended only for white men?" Did they believe that Lincoln's famou: utterance, "The Union can not exist hal slave and half free," would be forgotten and that we would have Senators here con tending for the right of Congress t? govern indefinitely in absolutism 10,000,001 people under a form of government that ii to be "simple and strong," a govornmen of force resting on principles and idea entirely foreign to those for which Lincoli died? Were the fruits of the war men Sodom apples, to be turned to ashes on ou lips within the generation of the men wh< fought in that struggle?men who were a earnest, honest, and patriotic in sustaining the Government as any men ever were Have we got Sodom apples as tho fruit o that great contest? Are the thirteenth, fourteenth and fif teenth amendments to be nullified in thei: essence because they have failed of thei: purposes in the South? Are they for hom< use only ? Is the flag to become again i "flaunting lie" and float over a military de 8potism first in the JPhilippines una later a home? Was the memorable conflict be tween slavery and freedom useless ? Hav< we gained nothing? Is the commercia greed which dominates in our councils anc Odcici's the President to do his bloody anc horrible work to make of tins C< >iistitutioi u new "league with death and a covenan with hell" in the interest of oppression akii to slavery? In order to do all these thing; must we "camp outside the Constitution' and give the old interpretation of tin Southern slaveholders to the Declaration o Independence, and nullify all precedent: and decisions of our Supreme Court ? Di< this nation offer up of its best and braves upon the altar of liberty the blood of sevei hundred thousand men and spend and de stroy five billions of treasure that we migh have a "government of the people, by th< people, for the people," to find that in th< brief span of one man's life the sacrifici was vain, the civil war a mistake, and tha ihe colored race has no rights we are bourn to respect at home or abroad? Says the Book, "0 ye hypocrites, ye hvpo crites!" Hitherto the South has enjoyed a monop oly in and the odium of shooting and hang ing men of the colored race. Have tin Northern people grown envious and d< they seek to emulate our example? Th< South has had no choice, and much of the blood of negroes shed by white men is th< direct result of the attempt to place thai race in control of our Southern States. Tlu irrepressible conflict between liberty anc slavery destroyed slavery, but it has left tc the South an irrepressible conflict betweer intelligence and ignorance, between vicc and virtue, between barbarism and civiliza tion. We inherited our race problem. Yoi are going out wantonly in search of yours and of the nation's. The sins of our fathers arc being visited on the children to thi third and fourth generation. The ill con sequences of having been bred in an atmosphere of slavery clings to us like th* shirt of Nessus in our attempt to throw oil the yoke and go forward with progress But have we not enough cf debased and ignoble people in our midst that we should seek by conquest, without any right other than a shadowy one, to incorporate 10,000,000 more colored peoples? If the North is jealous of the South's "bad eminence" in the murder of colored people, is it not strange, is it not passing strange that almost the only protest against this infamous policy of the President comes from men from the South who are representatives of their States in this Chamber? We know whereof we speak. We are in contact with the race question at close quarters and have been and will have to continue to l>e. You know not what you do. We are tied to the "bodv of death." rep> ... I + ,a' ? ivoviiuvu vnv, in wui iiuum vi t\ debased and ignorant race. Wc are doing the best we can. Can we incorporate a large number without increasing the danger to our institutions, especially when it is boldly asserted they are not fit forself-government? Is there any reason either in policy or in morals why the already hard task and hopeless future of the blacks of the South, the burdens under which they I tend, should bo increased bv having the "sullen, silent people" of the East brought into direct competition with them in the cultivation of cotton, rice, and other subtropical products? Do the imi>erialiste worship at no shrine except that of Mammon? I mean you men who believe in this new policy. Is the dream of empire in the East and of the wealth that is to flow into our coffers therefrom to drive the nation onward in its downward course, unchecked by any memories of the past, "without any regard for the rights ana interests of pur own people, bliick or white? \ . J In tho rice and sugar industries!!! Louisiana and South Carolina the lafyxc, which represents three-fourths of the cost, is black, and it is these men whtfmu suffer The Senator from Indiana would have tte subjugation of the Filiplnoflgffi<^t^m% performed. His heart is harp a&OTftfc llthough his face is as taujter- asvpt of k smiling girl. Personally*!* Ktiow ne is a genial and pleasant gentleman, a man whom I like, and he comes from a State where there are such monuments to the dead who offered up their lives for liberty as should be an inspiration for the love of iiberty, and I say it is astounding, Mr. jjtfrilVnif rreeident, that a man coming from such a j State should dare get up here and offer ' such a scheme of government for any peo- ' pie anywhere under the Stars and Stripes ' as he did. I I l?ojr vou t?> remember that lie did no4 tnIst that marvelous memory of his. be- ] cause we all know, at least those of us , who have made speeches?and we some- , times talk ourselves?that those flowing i periods and tltose beautiful sentences and I that rhetorical beauty and finish and glit- j tor did not come from any well into which 1 he can dip a bucket and draw it out at will. , [Laughter.] i Listen to the programme to be followed. | He read it, mind you, showing that he < ' either had not had time to commit it to ! memory or he wanted to be exactly sure of i every word. Announcing, as he did, th.it ho was doing it at the request of men at both ends of this Capitol and leading Ke- , publicans everywhere, knowing that the i papers had stated that he had conferred i with the President time and .again, I say ' his theory or his plan of government stands i . ?i ?.!n ctjind as that which . UI1U Will t'Uliiiuuu *vr VVU..M [ the Republican party proposes for the gov- ; . eminent of the Philippines. I say, further, that while he was candid i ' enough to throw off all disguise, having boon a baby or having been born during the i , war, and remembering nothing about it ex cept a vague and indefinite idea of glory; i I never having been through it, even in part; i - (although I was not in the army, I know i I what there was in my country in the way i of suffering and tears and blood), he, I say, came here at the end of the nineteenth cen- j 1 tury, when we are blossoming, so to speak, , for a new fruitage; and what is it that he i . offers us in the way of government? Lis- i . ten. I can not conceive that any of you caught the full import, unless you have ! studied it: 1 And so our Government must befcimple and j strong. Simple and strong! The meaning of i those two words must be written In every line i , of Philippine legislation, realized In every act ; of Philippine administration. A Philippine j office in our Department of State; an Ameri. can governor-general in Manila, with power to ' meet daily emergencies; possibly an advisory " council with no power except that of discuss1 ing measures with the governor-general, which [ council would be the germ of future legisla? ture, a school in practical Government; Ainer.' icon lieutenant-governors in each province, ' ^with a like council about him; If possible, an 1 'American resident In each district and a like eouncil erouped about him; frequent and un - announced visits of provincial governors u> tne r districts of their province; periodical reports ? to the governor-general; an American board of j visitation to make semiannual trips to the ' archipelago without power of suggestion or interference to officials or people, out only to rej port and recommend to the Philippine office of 1 our State Department; a Philippine civil serv5 Ice, with promotion for efficiency: the aboli] tion of duties on exports from the Philippines; j the establishment of import duties on a reve3 nue basis, with such discrimination in favorof 3 American imports as will prevent the cheaper goods of other nations from destroying Amer ican trade; a complete reform of local taxa, tion on a Just and scientific basis, beginning 3 with the establishment of a tax on land act cording to its assessed value; the minting of abundant money for Philippine and Oriental ' use; the granting of franchises and concest sions upon the theory of developing the reP sources of the archipelago, and therefore not 1 l>y sale, but upon participation iu the profits I of the enterprise? i A now socialism? 1 the formation of a system of public schools evl erywhere, with compulsory attendance rigidly 1, enforced; the establishment of the English 3 language throughout the islands, teaching it ? exclusively in the schools and using it, through . interpreters, exclusively in the courts; a slmj pie civil code and a still simpler criminal code, 1 and both common to all the Islands except - Sulu, Mindanao, and Paluan? These latter, I suppose, belong to the Sul' tan of Sulu. We have bought his allegi1 ance? , ' American judges for all but smallest offenses; gradual, slow, and careful introduction of the 1 tx'st Filipinos Into the working machinery of J the government; no promise whatever of the 5 franchise until the people have been prepared t for it; all this backed by the necessary force to s execute It. This outline of government the situation demands as soon as tranquility is es' tablished. Until then military government Is 3 advisable. r And I asked Senators, to remember the ? description he gave of Aguinaldo and see ^ how he fits the place of governor-general, I and he had already organized just such a ; government in many respects. 1 The Senator from Colorado [Mr. Wolcott], who took issue with the Senator * from Indiana the other day, committed ' himself to this proposition in general ? terms. While criticising our young friend * he recognized the necessity for force. The 1 Senator from Wisconsin [Mr. Spoonek), r who had a bill introduced which I read, 1 turns the whole thing over to the President, ' and as to Congress, we know he has got no j use for us in carrying on the Government. It does not matter, because we obey orders ! anyhow?at least Senators on the other 1 side do. (Laughter.) 1 N??w, Mr. President, if you will take that t uniinti,,, nlnn that nntlimv and ana * lyze it, what is the first thought that will * come to your mind? That Nero or Caligula prepared it as memorandum for a Roman ( general sent to govern a newly conquered ' province. Under such a scheme of despot, ism, backed by force, you have soldiers at : every turn, to be supported by the people here, and, Mr. President, that scheme is 1 the one that will be followed unless the ' American people shall rise in their wrath, J like Unple Sam did at the Gridiron dinner I Saturday night, and march up to the new " emperor, Mr. McKinley, and take his crown and purple robe off, and tell him it,is time , for this foolishness to stop. It is time for this foolishness to stop, Mr. President. It never ought to have started. But there is time yet i'or us to retrace our steps. In addition to this scheme outlined by the Senator from Indiana with such fulij ness, and to show whither we are drifting, ; I saw in yesterday's paper that the Com] mittee on Puerto Rico had decided that j wherever in the bill before this body for j the government of that island the word I "constitution" occurs, it was to bo stricken ^ out, and that law, if it becomes a law, .will J allow those people to be governed by Congress, ana the guaranties of the Con> ora tr? cp m lit it In r nnnriitinn of J paralysis. Why, Puerto Rico has not been ' in insurrection! Puerto Rico even stood Spain's tyranny without complaint, and its | people are peaceful and obedient. What is ' the matter with Puerto Rico? I do not know, but from the source that ; the amendment came I judge that there is tobacco raised in Puerto Rico, und that [ there is some similar tobacco raised in Con' necticut, and for that reason the Constitu1 tion shall not be extended over Puerto Rico. : I will be obliged if some one will tell me 1 where. Congress gets such power. I have 1 1 been innocent and foolish enough to think that whatever the United States bought or 1 conquered belonged to it and came under ' the flatr and the Constitution both; but the ! Constitution will not apply to Puerto Rico J if this committee has its way. The reason is that under the Constitution, if the Supreme (.'ourt does not retrace its stops, our excises and taxes must be uniform everywhere within the jurisdiction of the United , States, and therefore we can not put a j tariff against Puerto Rican tobacco for the i protection of the Connecticut seed leaf. ( Mind you, that is a mere guess. I hope I j will not.*do anvbodv from Connecticut any ( wrong in charging that this scheme ema- j natotl there. It is certainly a startling ( proposition, and Puerto Pico is to be governed just a-Spain governed it. j According to the best reports, we have < already done to death anywhere from ( 5u,ouo to 100,000 Filipinos?men, women, < and children If Otis's dispatches are even , approximately correct, the number will i exceed the larger llgure. ( Mr. President, is it any source of satisfaction to those who gave the President , the excuse for this war, who hacked him hi ' it, to know, as I will now tell them, that , during the three hundred years of Spanish j domination the Spaniards never put to a death one-half that number? Yet the j President proclaims that it is the provi- { dence of God and in the interest of liberty, ( law, and order. I recall the famous saying, j I do not know who was the author of it, , probably it may have been Suwarrow, that c "order reigns In Warsaw". H It was a dispatch sent, I think, to the r Empress Catherine; if not, it could have c been. Order in Warsaw meant that that c devoted city had been taken by assault; c that It Iky in ashes, or the largest propor- j tlon of it,'and that nearly all of its inhabtante, mei, women, and children, had been J pub to the sword. We have heard- that v c?oer reigns in Hollo; We know thafc" that f woe flourishing olty, a large propocttpn of ? W, is now in ashes; and in mahy&Ks of ? the Philippine Islands there is no Ipjarip- t tlon at all adequate or that will glmTtis a ? clearer idea of the situation bettefc-than n that contained in Byron's line: . 8 He makes a solitude and culls it peace. . n Now, here is the most astonishing part, a I do not know that I ought to say anything v about it after the crushing answer of the I ii ? ..II ! L?J-JJJ. - -1 !! l.-iM. . . Senator from Massachusetts [Mr. Hoar], ( jut I have to do it to round out my , Noughts. The Senator from Indiana, ( ifter giving us the outline of the plan or j jov?;nim? iit fur those islands, said: Hurh a government will have Its effect upon , lis here in America, too. Model administratlon there will bean example created by ourselves for model administration here; and our jwn example is the only one Americans ever heed. It is not true that charity begins at home. Selllshneess begins there; but charity ' begins abroad and ends"in its full glory iit the ' lionie. It is not true that perfect government must be achieved at home before administering it abroad ; its exercise abroad Is a suggestion, an example, and a stimulus for the best government at home. It is as if we projected Dursclves upon a living screen and beheld ourselves at work. The government wo set up, this despo* 1 - 1 -aA" V?/\ O C/lltA/J tism propped uy oayoueus, 10 iaj w o. qvuvu. in which Americans will learn how to govern so well they -will be brought back to improve on our own boasted self-government. The Senator quotes Scripture. We are urged as follows: Cast thy bread upon the waters, and after many days It shall return unto you. With what measure ye mote, it shall be meted to you again. We are going to measure out good government or this kind of government, and we are to receive it back to us after many Jays. I have heard somewhere that "the tlevil can quote Scripture for his purpose," and, Mr President, even I can quote Scripture for my purpose. [Laughter.] "And verily, verily, I say unto you," Senator from Indiana, "that ye can not gather grapes from thorns nor figs from thistles," ' and if ye mete out despotism and bayonet rule to those unfortunate people, that rule will come back to you again as sure as there is a God in heaven who watches over the destinies of peoples. The despotism of rule by the bayonet can not oome to ' ue through any foreign foe. We are too strong for any nation?for any combination of nations?to dare attack us. We read in history that the Iloman Empire trdveled this path of glory and universal control over the nations of the world; that the liberties of the people disappeared at the center and the empire rotted at the core. We read that the Roman cohorts and legions which were sent to maintain Iloman authority in Germany, in Dalmatia, in Asia Minor, in Snain. in Gaul, in England, in Africa, in Egypt, occasionally returned and got together and put the emperorship up at auction to the highest bidder so as to nave money with which to gratify their lusts. "Old age, sickness, death, and hell" are believed by some men to be the destiny of everybody, except themselves. History and historical illustration and the lessons 1 which may be obtained by reading carefully the course of other nations are not for our Republic. This one has a charmed life; it can not go that way. So gentlemen seem to think. Mr. President, what, have we got right now? We have men, liberty-loving and free-born American citizens, under the throttle of the Army of the United States in Idaho, and any other State in this Union is liable at any moment to undergo the same experience. Our danger lies !n familiarizing our citizens to uphold a despotic and a military government in those Islands, the inevitable consequence of which is a large standing army with which to do it: ana that large standing army will afford the means and the temptation to use it for a similar purpose here when some future Cffisar comes along and our rottenness and corruption will have gone far enough to make us look on quietly in one part of the country while the other is being despotically governed by military rule. That has been the history of every republic of the past. Men of th? North, you nave never lived under a carpetbag govern ment, propped by bayonets, as I have, and seen negro mHitia march by your door tit ronton in i? the lives of your wives and children, ^ou do not know what it is to have bayonet rule. God forbid you- ever should. But are we going fo have any peace in the Philippines? Is the conquest of those islands going to be perfect'!1 There is some talk that now they will hang these scattered bands if they catch any of them, those guerrillas, and it is said that they are mere robbers. Why, Mr. President, during, the Revolutionary war, when Great Britian's armies overran the entire State of South Carolina from the mountains to the sea; when there was not a foot of territory that was not occupied by British troops and all the whigs had to hide in the woods or to cross over into North Carolina or into Georgia; when Marion, the "Swamp Fox," and Sumter, the "Gamecock," and the other men who fought and continued" to fight were hiding out and making their little expeditions against the redcoats with 30, 40, or 100 men, they were guerrillas. They were like these Tagals. Is it proposed that we shall forget everything of our own history that is noble and ennobling in order to carry out this damnable programme? The Tagals having once tasted of the fruit of the tree of knowledge, having had a taste of liberty? and freedom from Spanish rule is my defl nition of Tagal liberty?having, as i say, had that taste, are they going to quietly subside and become the simple, cowardly, peaceful, submissive creatures that they were before? . All history teaches us to the contrary. Bruce and Wallace in Scotland, Tell- in Switzerland, William of Orange in Holland, Kosciusko in Poland, the only one who failed, and last but not least?no, possibly the greatest of them all?Oom Paul Kruger and nis little band of Dutch in South Africa give the lie to the proposition that theso men will quietly submit and become the abject slaves even of the.great United States. They do not want our liberty. They want their own liberty, worse than ours though it may be. And remembering that the death of Leonidas and his 300 spartans inspired the Greeks with such courage that although the struggle seemed hopeless and very few of the Grecian confederates were willing even to dare make the light, the Athenians, with the few auxiliaries inspired by . his deathless example, fought the battle of Marathon and drove tne , Persian hordes, twenty times their number, back to Asia. Nnhodv exnects the Tacals to drive us out. They do not know the hopelessness of attempting to get their freedom. No brave people ever did calculate as to whether they would win' or not, and no brave people ever will. Eight here I want to say that the blood of the American soldiers is as dear to me as anybody. I pity, from the bottom of my soul, tne officers and men of the American Army who are out there doing this dirty work because they have to obey orders. But I love to believe, and I do believe, with Byron that? Freecjom's battle once begun, r Bequfeathed by bleeding sire to son, Tho' baffled oft Is ever won. ' Mr. President! as one who loves liberty and loves Ids country and believes that its Lrue greatness lies in clinging to the ideals of our fathers, I protest against the 1 continuance of this unholy war. Let us be rid of the dangers and pitfalls that lie in , the course we an* pursuing. Let us re- 1 main true to the precepts of the great < founders of our Government. What is it our duty to do? First, stop ;his war. How? By telling those people ] ;hat we do not want to have them govern- \ ;d after our methods. By saying to them, 'Come together and piece up the govern none you nau, ux any oliiui vuu now wunt. 1 iVe will warn Europe and all other dopre- f httors off your shores." That will be some recompense. Wo can t jrotoct them against outside Interference. A'e can retain whatever territory we may , iced for a naval station. We could make i compact with them which would give us tnv advantages we might desire or needn the way of commerce. We could have lono this a year ago much easier than wo an now, but it is not too late to do right, t is never too late to do rh?ht. If we . lo not, if we continue our bloody tyranni:ul course, if wo say to them you must submit to the last man, agd there must lot bo a man left in those'islands who leclares or claims that he is notja subject if the United States, we"'may establish leaco. We can, I suppose, suppress and epress and continueto kill and murder, for fc is murder. Wo had no right there s it the beginning?I mean in the way we tave undertaken. We captured Manila bom.Spain, and that we had title to. pleated it',to-us. We can retain it if re waaitrto ln law ;iBdin morals. But the alancekiof the islands are not ours, and . heynjjfer were. ours in any legal aspect r seaifc. I repea'u what I nave already aid, thauBC'the civil war was not a listake, if it' wae not a :hi(k}0U8 blunder nd crime, let us stop; because if that .War ran for freeing the slave and establfsning i this Government the principle that^O vSfia- 'ikj i - - ' . -tjigA-l. . jquality and liberty in the Union were its purposes, this Filipino wur is a war of conquest and nothing else, and is a crime n the sight of God and man. (Applause n the tfiillorifs.l Trespassers. \ LL persons Hro forbidden to trespass on ** our lands. No shooting on our premises illowed under any circumstance*. Ij. A. JACKSON. K. K. HARKISOS, HUOH WIUSON. January 1,1900. I J V ^7 -<S> / \ 6. A. Donglass. % # J. L. HEL & CO., No. 3 ROSENBERG BLOCK. WE HAVE MOVED OUK WAGON AND Carriage Repository to the store room reoemly occupied by Mr. X D. The?e wagons were given first prize over al competltoraattheNashvlUe.ExpoelUon. We Binvj ua?u ? lu.ioiwm v# , . Bodies, Gam%|" Harness, fa Give us a call before buying. We guarantee ailslactlon. J. L. HILL, & CO., No 3 Rosenberg Block. Mg. p:h . FALL STOCK FANCY A ..Mil \ ' . ? ;.! We have in stock and arriving dai well selected GROCERIES that we 6 1-2 cents cotton and on abidi^qon ways wants the BEST iu thellrie/o only for Liberal Qualities, We will, Uierefore, da$ri$f Ihft the wants of the most exaetix^Snf PRICES within tbe reach bf^HK, CERIES, keep us in mind. | No. 4-flj JOHN 1 '/ v y Undertaker a 1 DEALER I Coffins, Caskets a: With all the appliances for embalming perieaee in this line ensures satisfactioi Notice to 1 Returns of Personal Property Mui Before the 20th of February, for Neglect, In order to accommodat: ville County in the matter of maki; 1900, I will be at: Calhoun Falls, January 9th and 10th Lowndesville,"January 11th aud 12th Mt. Carmel, Jauuary 15th and 16th? Willington, January 17th?Wednesd Bordeaux, January 18th?Thursday. MpHnrmifik. January 19th and 20th? Donalds, January 23d and 24th?Tue Due West, January 25th and 26th?T Long Cace, at residence of A. F. Cah Antreville, at McAdam's store and 1 February 20th. Bryant's Cross Roads, from January Abbeville, from January 1st to Febru Remember that parties having creditj ire liable to prosecution, by the Auditoi When parties wish corrections made fore returned by them, they must pres Jeputy. Don't send returns by mail, except w pointments of the Auditor, or to come ivhere parties reside outside the County Remember that in swearing to your r eturned your property at its market va he Board of Assessors can approve. E heir employees are returned. w. w. brad: See us before r L. C. Haskell. At' 4 - ' V. Foreign Exchange cigar lends In Abbeville Mllford & UuPre Iiuh nolo iweniy-Hix thous and since February lOtli, lSyi?. l)r. 1111 1'h Headache Powder*. both old and new style. at Mllford iV DuPre'n, the druggists. PtlOCC Vil. Dr. Hill's headache powders both old and new style at Speed's. j Nice Farm for Sale ! TWO HUNDRED ACRES, In two miles of Abbeville. Pine wood enough on It to pay for one-half of it?the NOBLE PLACE. Apply to AUG. W. SMITH. Oct. 3, IH91I, tf Farm Hands "Wanted. Good steady and Industrious colored men, slnule or married, with families to work the whole year for Cash payments and settlements monthly. Apply to Hollow Creek Farm, Toale's P. O., Aiken Co., S. C. Nov. 22, 1899. 3 mo. * [FOR SALE. I OFFER FOR SALE FIFTY ACRES OF laDd within the Incorporate limits of the town of Abbeville. Can be divided into two tracts of twenty-flve acres each. Titles perfect. Terms easy. Price low. Apply to J. W. W. MARSHALL. Nov. 1st, '99. ABBEVILLE HOTAL ' H. D. BEISE, SURGEON. * , j TOHJE piaee to carry yon r SltTK WATCHES JL and BROKEN CLOCKS, wbere they will bclooked alter and attended to at all hours of ,tbVday with skill and experience. No turning yon "away or Bending Patlenta off to have tbem treated elsewhere, bat I will put them going at prices to salt the times. Will Ms, CMs,V: 'and JEWELRY. j Prices Down. ... t jf H. D; REESE, 1 THE PEOPLE'S JEWELER. ND STAPLE GROCERIES iLER'8.. ly, the most attractive assortment of have ever had. An intimation of fldeoce in the fact that Abbeville alf edibles, caused us 10 contract not ^u^mgher Quality. ^min^B^Boo be able to cater to lb at time we shall keep of CHOICE GROM SI&N, nd Emlbalmer. N 0$,.Metallic. Cases. j; -:i,Tbfrty-three year* of business ex 1 and gnar*Dtees the beat results. if n ? 'OV DQUADO, UA_I uyoiai at be Made at Its Market 1900, Fifty Per Cent. Penalty E THE TAX-PAYERS IN ABjBE-' g tbeir return tax for ttie flscal>piar ?Tuesday and Wednesday. ?Thursday and Friday. V ( Mouday and Tuesday. ay. AUn^ir/lnv JL1 I iUtxy auu oaiumoj , sday aud Wednesday. hursday aud Friday. rert from January 10th to February 2Dth. Wakefield's store from January 10th to 10th to February 20th. ary 20th. ) and not making a fair return of same, r aud County Board. in the number, of acres of land heretoent their plats to the Auditor or his here parties are unable to meet the apto Abbeville before February 20th, or eturn yon take aa oath that you have lue. We want a fair return such as mployers are requested to see to it that ' ' ^Winter, i i, | beville Lumber Co.!' I* ,>. V . -, --/ . Abbeville-Greenwo od MUTUAL IIMI1IC1 ASSOCIATION. $ 550,000. WRITE TO OR CALL on the'undernIjfTied or to tbo Director of your Township for any Information you may desire about our plan of Insurance. We Insure your property against destruc Won by FIRE, WBMU IS U5Bim, and do so cheaper than any Insuranoe Com pany In existence. Remember we are prepared to prove to you that ours is the safest and cheapest plan o? Insurance known. J. R. BLAKE, Jr., Agent, Abbeville, S. C. J. FULLER LYON, Pres. Abbeville, S. C. BOAfefDIRECTORS. W. E. Leslle^L,^ Abbeville Township H. M. BenJA&]]Q,4&?....GreeDwood " J. Add CarbooSi-~?.-Nlnety-Hlx " W. B. AckerJSEw..........Donaids " M. B. Cllnksofiiii... Due Went " Dr. J. A. Aoderuop.Diamond Hill " H.'Ai Tennenk,'^?~..Lowndesvllle " 57 D. COl?man;..,? Coronaca " J. W. ijfoD ,...Troy J. R. Tarrant~-ii;....CalhouD Mills T. L. Ha?don<.75;. -Long Cane " Jofleph^Lwke/. .~Pjw?c?x " H. O.Harvey WainutwSsSwr ? W. A. Nick lea HodjM^,-\u J. W. Scott Verdel^^HflgH J. T. Mabry Cokesburafl^A >3 B. F. Cromer BmltbvilM^BKg^jg <i. N. MnKlnney Bordean*WugRi_ 3 P. B. Callison and Joseph TpVnB.tCa"lllfton. J. Add. Calboott^ffifaiWph Lake. KlrhxevsTownship. IHBSf'l J. Add. Cnlhoun, Joseph Lake ana'B, w.' Town send, Fellowship Township. Stthl/ J. Add. Calhoun. Joseph Lake and MpW'.; Townsend. Brooks Township. J. W. Lyon and A. K. Watson, IndlidHv Township. Abbeville, 8. 0., Jan. 17, 1900. Charleston and Western Carolina B. E Augusta and Aaheville Short Line. In effect Dec. 10,1S99. Lv Angunta 9 40 am 1 40 pin Ar Greenwood..... 12 18 pm .. Ar Anderson 6 10 pm Ar Laurens 1 20 pm 6 35 am' Ar Greenville - 3 00 pm 9 U0 am Ar Glenn Springs - 4 00 pm Ar Spartanburg 8 10 pm 10 20 am Ar Saluda 5 88 pm ' Ar Hendereonvllle 6 08 pm.'/ - Ar AahevlUe. 7 00 pm . . Lv Aaheville ZI 8 90 am .............. Lv Spartanburg... 11 45 am 4 10 pn. Lv Glenn Springs- ..10 00 am yjuiL Lv Greenville 13 01 at: 4 00 pa Lv Anderson 6':V Uf Lv Greenwood 2 9T 11? t\T roirjux... Y"a*?f*4 Lv Yemassee 2 SO p a Ar Angusta. - ' 11 56 Lv (Greenwood 4 05 am Ar Laurens 6 00 am Lv Laurent* H 15 am Ar Siiartanburg 9 < 0 am Lv Spartanburg 4 10 pm Ly Lr.oVens 7 80 pm Ar Greenwood _.. 9 00 pm Close connections at Greenwood Tor all points on 8? A. L. aud O. & 9. Railways, and ut Spartanbnzy with Southern Hallway. For any Information relative to tickets, rates, ached ule. etc., address W. .1. CBAT6. Gen. Pasa. Agent, Awrusta,G?. K. M. NORTH.Hoi. Agent j*y, * T. M. EMERSON, Traffic MawKer. ' flOglHEB^AXtWAY. .'tO i5?5l LV. Helton 0 40 p *= Ar. Donnalda... Ar. OreOTwood ? * Ninety-81* . ^ | ^ " Summer-villa | At. Charleston * ? "f? ?"1 &!& ST* *8- bgffM 11 00 p 7 00 a Lv<.Oharl*fiton..Ar VlAp f 00 12 00n 7 41 a " bummarvilla * 7 ?? ?? IK ft 8 66 a " .Branchville. ". tfp f*J 2 50 a 9 28a "Orangeburg" 5MP ?,*" 4 SO a 10 IS a " ..glngvllla " * 48? HoTa Lt. .ttavannah Ar ~h l<jj 4 60a H ..Barnwell.. 8 ?4 16a " ..Blackvill#.. 8 06? 8 80a 11 40a M ?Columbia.. " 8 20* gP 9 07 a 12 20 p "....Alston... - ?&?. S52J 10 Oia 1 28p " ...rautuo... " 128Pl?P 10 20 a 8 OOp " Union....." 1 06p J 80p rn Sf a 2 22p '..jonesville.. " 1??P ?P Wka 2 Hp ?..Pacolot.... " 12 14p 8 4#p ra|( 8 10O ArBpartanburr Lt 11 46 ft 1#P 8 40a I 40 pf> Spartanburg Ar U 17* 00 j 8 Wp 'T 00p Ar?AgheyHK...Lt I >> mi 8 >fP" p. m. "A" a. m. "K" might Pnjhnan pfclaoe alMplng cars;on Tralitf 86 and DC, 07 and 88, on A. and <J. turinon. uining eari on these trains serve all meals enroute. Train* leave Spartanbare, 110. division, northbound. 7:08 a. m., 8 :S7 p.m., 6:13 p. m., [Vestibule Limited); southbound 12:28 a. a., 1:15 p. m.. 11:34 a. m., (Vestibule Limited.) Trains leave Qreenville, A. and C. division, aorth bound, fl :0U a. m., 2:84 p. m. and 6:22 p. m., (Vestibuled Limited) :squtnbound, 1:80 a. m., 1:90 p. m.. 12:% p. ro. (Vestlbuled Limited) Trains 9 and 10 carry elegant Pulkmaa bImd- ] ng cars between Savannah and Ashe villa & route daily between Jacksonville and Cia?t?> latl. Also Pullman Drawine-room aleeplnf 1 sars between Charleston and Columbia. ntANK 8. GANNON, J.M.CULP. ! Third V-P. ? Gen. Mgr., Trail# 1 Washington, D. CL Waahingtfl*, D. C. W. A. TUBE, 8. H. HABPWIC5L ] J I i . ' 'W TO RENT. TWO WOOD SHOPS and a BLACKSMITH Shop, M tun ted acrofis the street from WalllDglord it Russell's Stables. J. M. MARTIN, Oct. 14,1899. tf Cave, S. C. DENTALl?OTICE~ \ 8. F. Killings^orth, No. 4 Seal Block, Abbeville, 8. C. ^ DENTAL NOTICE. ^ M Dr. S. G. Thomson, fej OFFICE UP-8TAIRS ON MoILWAIN V Corner, Abbeville, 8. 0. Dll. J. A. DICKSON, SURGEON DENTIST. GOLD FILLTNGH; CHOWN AND BRIDGE WORK A SPECIALTY. A MOOD PLATE $8.00 AMALGAM FILLINGS75c and. 1.00 OFFICE OVER BARKSDaLE'8 STORE. C. C. GAMBRELL, M. D., Physician and Snrgeon, ABBEVILLE, 8. C. 0T Offireln the National Bank. May 26,1898. tf WM. H. PARKER. WM. P. GREENIS PARKER & GREENE, Atiorneys &sd Counsellors &tLaw. ; Office on LAW RANGE. ABBEVILLE - 80UTH CAROLINA. May 4. 1898. tf E. F. MILLIARD, TAILOR,/. HAS moved, and occupies tbe rooms op stairs Id Knox's Hall, and Is now pre pared to do all kinds of repairing and clean Inn of fpnttaroon'K clothe* on short notice. Sample? ol 8nlla always on baud. CbargM J.L. MIS, i':V. - DEALER IN USE OF ALL KINDS, FANCY GROCERIES, AND ICE IN SEASON. . All orders promptly filled. Hiore first door I Wit I'/A Bfetbe ladles can always b?> found at onr 3HSfc< ' establishment. Wh have ^ AU Latest F^I Style 3. j* Jijh^red from the centers of of good thlngjfc- iidtei^yon can save money, p?tlf?Doe,j|rBMfc hy-Jpoying your Millinery wtM^FCII^our own sails^HE ABBEVILLE COTTON MILL WILL ^iatttity of Split Four-Foot *Pine Wood, Bw maae hi ine orace. t once. If you delay 3. HABEIS, || " MILL OFFICE. ; v t ? *(> ? q i ^ Get one of tbose raz ir strops at Speed's will make shaving h pleasure. Do not fall to see the line of Christmas joods before buying at Speed'B. The place to get what, you want and have It lellvered at your home promptly ring phone l8 Speed's drug store. Boy*, boys, your girl loves candy. If you innL ht*r to love vou. a-t. a ft??h ?.? ? S'uDually'H. I get a iresh lot every? week. C. Mllford, The Druggist, Phone 10*. , / ,,:M