Keowee courier. (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, October 17, 1900, Image 1
TO THINK OWN SELF BB TRUE AND IT MUST FOLLOW AS THE NIGHT THIS DAY, THOU CANS'T NOT THEN BE FALSE TO ANY MAN.
BY JA YNES, SHELOH, SMITH ? STECK? WALHALLA, SOUTH CAROLINA, OCT. 17, 1000. NEW SERIES, NO. 133._VOLUME LI_NO, 42.
JACKETS, CAPES AND CARPETS.
We call your special attention to the following :
Ladies' and Children's low and medium priced Jackets and Capes. Ask
to see my Ladies' Jackets at $2, and Children's Reefers &t $1.
My stock of Children's Suits is complete, and the prices will surprise you.
If you want a new Carpet come in and see what I can carpet your room
for. I have the inside on the Carpet and Carpet Furnishing Business. Com
plete line ol samples always on hand. C. W. BAUKNIGHT.
I Am Out for Business!
My Knock-out Prices
FOR THE NEXT TI I KKK WEEKS ARE
1,000 yards Extra Wide, Good Quality Cotton Flannel,
1,500 yards Good (irado Cheeks, only
1,200 yards of 7-cent Bod Tick to close out at
2,000 yards of Bolter tirade from 8 to
2,000 yards of Good Quality 3-4 Sheeting, only
3,000 yards of Good Quality Outing at 6 and .
Big lot or Wool Flannel from 16 to ...
50 Pieces of Jeans from 10 to .
? couts.
4? cents.
6 cents.
12.J cents.
3 cents.
8 cents.
35 cents.
30 cents.
Largest and moat up-to-date line of
Ladies' Dress Goods
in the county, at prices that can't bo beat.
Look out for prices on
Capes and Jackets.
Big linc on the road.
WATCH FOR PRICES ON LADIES' AND GENTS3
UNDERWEAR.
Big line of Ties, Cravats, Collars, Shirts and Underwear alway? on hand.
Gents' Furnishing Goods:
. . . Fifty-Cent Shirts . . .
To Close Out at ... 39 Cents.
REMEMBER? GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS IS MY HOBBY.
Shoes for Men, Women and Children.
Job lot of $1.25 Brogans to close out at .... 98 cents.
Job lot of $8.60 Men's Kine Shoes, Congress or Lace, - - $1.08.
Big line of Mon's Shoes, in all stylos, from $1,25 to - - $4.00.
Job lot of Ladies' Kine Shoes, regular $1.26 and $1.60 sellers, to
close out at.- - - - 98 cents
Job lot of Ladies' Kino Shoes, regular $2.00 seller, to close out at $1.08.
Big lot in other styles from 98 cents to .... $8.50.
When in need of Shoes, from tho Baby up to the Man that
wears 13's, CALL ON MK.
Hals and Gaps from 24 Certs to $3.50, in all Styles.
Derbys in Black and Brown from $1.08 to
Alpines in Black and Brown from 08 ucutS to
Railroad in Black and Brown from IS cents to
$3.50.1 Cigarette in Black and Brown from 24 cents to
3.00. Broad Brim in Black and Brown from 24 cents to
2.00. \ Ol**5 * Give me a call before buying. . $
$1.26.
2.60.
The Largest Line of Men's an? Boys' Clothing Ever Brought to Oconee County.
Men's Suila from $1.98 to $15.00. When you need a Suit, from a three-year-old boyton 18 size man,
See my All-Wool Men's Suits; others get $7.00-my price only $4.98. give me a call. You will lind just wdiat you want.
These arc all well made and guaranteed to give satisfaction. Men's Extra Pants from 18 cents to $5.00.
Children's Suits from 65 cents to $8.00. Good .leans Pants only -18 cents.
Be sure to see ?ny Boys' Suits for $1,48 ; other dealers will ask $2.00. One Dollar Jeans Bants at 05 couts.
Just think, $2.48 will buy a Man's Wool Overcoat, well made and1 $1.25 Pants at 85 cents,
guaranteed to give satisfaction. $1.35 and $1.50 Pants at 98 cents.
Trunks, Valises, Grips, Etc., from 25 Cents to $8.00. Good Assortment Always on Hand.
-^9-^CROCKERY AND TINWRE, LAMPS, ETC.^*?2>
IP l J I* IV I T URE AND S rJT O V 13 H .
Poplar Bedsteads, with or without Oak Posts, from $1.50 to $3.50. Bed Lounges, Lounges, Couches, Spring Mattresses, Pictures, Easies,
Solid Oak Bedsteads front $2.25 to $8,00. Bug?, Window Shades, Curtain Poles, etc.
Iron Bedsteads from $8.08 to $12.00. If in need of anything in the Furniture Line give me a call. Full
Bureaus from $4.00 to $15.00. stock on hand.
Kitchen Safes from $1.90 to $4.60. Cooking Stoves from $8.50 to $(>(?.
Oak Centre Tables from 75 cents to $1.75. He sure to see my $8.50 and $15.00 Stoves. livery one guaranteed or
26 different styles of Hookers from $1.00 to $5.00. moncy'refunded.
Suites consisting of Dresser, Wash Stand and Bedstead, from $50 down. ; Heating Stoves from $4.00 to $0.00 always on hand.
-MY MOTTO:
GROCERIES ALWAYS FRESH AND BEST QUALITY. ?HONEST DEALING AND COURTEOUS TREATMENT."
ANDER
SENECA, S. C.
LAND TO RENT.
rp Wo or thvoo-horao farm; good im
JL provouionts ; good bottom land fol'
corn, mid good upland for cotton ?ind
Wheat. Apply to
DH, ,f. M. MrCLANAHAX,
Westminster, s. 0.
Octobor :;, I?HM?. in |:?
STATK OK SOUTH CAROLINA, I
COUNTY OK OCONHK. \
I>Y virtue of tho power to ino given hy
> tho last will and testament of
Washington Oglcsby, deceased, and for
tllO purpose of the payment of the d?lits
of the testator, as provided in and liv his
Haid will, I will sell to thc highest bidder,
in frotit of the. (dint House door in
Walhalla. S. C., on salesday III NOVKM (
UKI? NKXT, between the legal hours of
Halo the following described UKAI.
KSTATK, to wit :
"All that certain tract or parcel of
land, lying, being and situate in the
('utility Of Oconee, Slate of Sont b ('aro
lina, adjoining lands of .lames Ward and
the Itay and Si i I ford lands, on a branch
of Choestoe Creek, waters of Tugaloo
Uiver, Containing seventy nint.les,
inore, or les?, the said tract of land hoing
tho Kamo mentioned ami described in
the deed of conveyance of V?? I.. Hallen
ger to Ti J, Hancock, bearing date the
nth day of I'chmary, A. I). I8M, and
recorded in the Clerk's Olli CO I'ickeiis
District (new County ) in M estie Convey
ance, Kook K, Ptigo 4(!<l, and fully roni'O
Rented by a plat Illeroo! made by Itoborl
Fullerton, I). S., on the Mb of .lune A
1). I8f?i>," Tho deed to testator is io
cor.ied in Mcsim Conveyance OcoilOO
county, Hool; ll, Page '?80. Thia tract of
land lies on tho Oak way road, in half
mile of the town of West minster, S. C.
TKI?.MS OK SALK: Cash, tho pur
chaser to pay extra for papera and
B tampa,
CMKTON ll. M 11 M i:,
KxOClltor of the last Will ami Testament
of Washington Oglcsby, deceased.
October lu, HMM?. .Ji l?
Notice of Final Settlement and!
STATIC OF SOUTH OA HOM NA, J
oco.N'KK COUNTV. i
IN Tl I K cori;T OF I'HOHATK. (
A nd row II. Un ninny and Alexander liam*
say, .lr., Kxccntors of tho last Will and
Testament of Alexander Ramsay, Sr.,
deceased, Plaintiffs,
against
Thomas S. Itamsay, Wm. .1. Ramsay,
Cen. .1. Ramsay. Margaret J. Rankin
nee Ramsay, Relio R. Davitt nco Ram
say: Hie hcirsat-law of Mary H, Doyle
iiee Ramsay, deceased, lo w it: O. Ram
say Doyle, Wm. R. Doyle, K. Clay
Doyle, virginia Jones nee Doyle; tho
heirs at law of lOli/ahoth R. Jarrott
ncc R.unsay, deceased, to-wlt : Dever
eaux Jarrott, Alexander R. Jarrott,
Mamie l>. Simpson nee Jarrott; tito
hchs-at law of .1. Reid Ramsay, de
ceased, lo wit : .lames W. Ramsay,
George Ramsay, Reid Ramsay, John I'.
Ramsay, Wm. Ramsay, licssie Ramsay,
Salli); Smith nee Ramsay; the heirs al
la w of Maggie Rill'wei I net! Ramsay,
deceased, to wit : Reid Rurwoll, -
I'mr wei I,-Rurwell, Defendants.
The Defendants above named will take
notice, that (herc will he a lina) settle
ment of thcestaleof Alexander Ramsay,
Sr., deceased, in thc Court, of Probato,
ai Walhalla Court House, in the County
and State aforesaid, on Thursday, the
15th day of November, Rino. If you fail
to answer the Petition filed in this action
within thc time proscribed by law, judg
ment will he entered against you hy de
fault. Tho Petition in this action was
flied in the Court of Probate, at Wal
halla Court Mouse, in Hie County and
State aforesaid, on the nth day of Sep
tember, Ruit?.
HOR T A. THO? I'soX,
Plaint ills' Attorney.
11., s ! D. A. SMITH. Judge if Prounto
( ?coneo County, S. C.
September 12, 1000. ?17- \2
BRIDGE TO LET.
nnilK County Honro! of Commlaslonors
.1. of Oconco comity will lot, to (lit!
lowCRt responsible bidder, on Kinlay, the
2(lth(layof October, I ill Ml, at ll o'clock
A. M , at the bridge, tho contract to
build one bridge over Stamp Crook in
Sutton's plantation. Tho Hoard reserves
the right to reject, anv all bids.
.J. M. IICNNICUTT,
Supervisor OcotlOO county.
October lu, HMM). ll j:$
Notice to Debtors and Creditors.
ALI? persons indebted lo the estate
of .1. H. Sanders, deceased, are
hereby notified to make payment li, the.
undei signed, and all persons having
claims against, said estate will present
thc same, duly attested, within the time
prescribed by law, or be. barred.
S. PKTKH SAN DHUS.
MANON <i. MAUK IT,
As Kxectitors of tho Kstato of .1. H.
Sanders, deceased.
October lu, KKK). li ll
TAX NOTICE.
COUNTY TltKASUKKIt'S OFR?CB, I
Walhalla, S. C., Sept. '.'?, HMM). J
rn I IK HOOKS for the collection of
1. laxes for the (?seal year, cninmcnc
lug January lat, 1000, will open Octobor
15th, HMM), and (dose on ??1st Dc .ember,
HMM).
State tax. .r? mills.
S' hool tax ..'! mills.
Ordinary County tax... D mills.
Total.121 mills.
Midway School District, No. :a? . .'..' mills.
Mt, Tabor School District, No. IO.,2 mills.
Hcthel School District, No. ."> nulls.
Piovidonco School District,No. :!..'.; ic Hs.
Kif tool) per cent ponai ty will ho at
tached on all unpaid taxes on January
1st, 1001. J. H. KAY,
Treasurer Oconee County.
September 20, 1000, 30 52
Defended His Mother.
AUGUSTA, GA., October i>.-News
has just boen received in this city of
thc killing of S. Richardson, a white
mnn, living nt tho Ridge, in Rich
mond county, hy iii? son, David.
Richardson had 1)0011 drinking to
ROIDO OXtont, and sharpened his knife
with thc declaration that lie was
going to kill his entire, family, lie
was quieted and the matter forgot
ten hy his family.
hate this afternoon he entered his
home knife in hand. His wife was
tho first person ho encountered and
he started for her with tho knife.
Ahout tins time tho son, David, carno
in and ordered his father to stop.
Richardson thou turned upon his son
with tho knife. Voting Richardson
drew a revolver and shot his father
in tho breast? Death ensued im
mediately.
Nebraska Corn Plentiful.
OMAHA, Octoher ll.-The corn
crop this year is plentiful and the
ears are splendidly matured, lt lins
boen estimated hy the N'ehraska
(?rain Men's Association that there
will he a yield of 280,000,000 hush
els.
Down in Southwestern Missotlt \
preacher announced that in the ?lear
futuro ho would discourse on "Hell
and who would go there." The
good man has been somewhat puz
zled on receiving several letters from
parishioners threatening all kinds of
vengeance if their names are men
tioned in the forthcoming sermon.
NEWS IN AND AROUND WESTMINSTER.
M. F. Freeman Celebrates His Eighty-Second
Birthday-Local Nows of tho Town.
WKKTMINSTKH, S. C., Ootober 10.
-M?SB Ilnttio Zimmerman paid a
brief visit to Greenville last week.
Tho morcan tile firm of Mason &
Peden Pros., have sold their entire
stock to JJ. A. Edwards <fc Co.
Tho Southern Inter-State Fair
opeucd at Atlanta to-day. Many
persons will doubtless attend during
the next two weeks, as tho rates on
railroads are very cheap.
Next Saturday week, October 20,
all who have relatives buried in the
Old Westminster cemetery are ear
nestly requested to meet there to
assist in clearing off the cemetery
and attending to such repair work
deemed necessary. It is hoped that
none will neglect the duty they owe
thu dead. Remember the day, Sat
urday before the third Sunday.
Mr. Jacob Stewart, a prominent
larmer on Toxaway, was in town
yesterday. Ho reports his son, A.
B., who bas bad fever, to be much
better now.
Kev. and Mrs. J. B, Dickson, of
London, Ky., are on a visit to thc
former's parents, Mr. and Airs Sloan
Dickson. Ile was reared in this
section and a cordial welcome is ex
tended bim, both on bis own and his
parents' account.
The farmers who agreed to pay
colton for their fertilizers are cer
tainly paying a high price, counting
cotton at lt) cents per pound.
Last. Sunday was communion day
tit thc Baptist church.
Another large warehouse has been
built at tho Southern Shuttle and
Bobbin Factory.
We congratulate our young friend,
Dresden A. Smith, Jr., on his ven
ture into journalism Both issues
ol' the Oconco News since he took
charge as editor ami manager are of
a neat appearance and a credit to
a newspaper man of more mature
years and experience.
Kev. J. N. ll. Summeroll, a promi
nent minister of the Southern Pres
byterian church, and for five years
pastor at Anderson, has tendered
Iiis resignation to accept a call at
Wilmington, N. C.
Kev. X. G. Christopher will preach ?
a sermon to the Indy members of the l
Baptist church to-morrow afternoon
at 1 o'clock on mailers pertaining to ,
their church work.
Mr. M. F. Freeman celebrated his ,
birthday on Sunday, the 7th instant
by inviting descendants, other rela
tives and friends to dine with him.
There was a largo gathering to en- |
joy the hospitallies of Mr. and Mrs. ,
Freeman besides kinfolks. Mr. ,
Freeman is one of our best citizens.
Ile is eighty-two, and, compara- ?
lively speaking, is an active man. ?
His posterity numbers over ono hun
dred, reaching to the li ft li genera
tion. Mr. Burt Freeman,of Atlanta,
spent tho ?lay with bis parents.
Miss Annie Robinson, an accom
plished milliner of Anderson, is ex
pected to arrive the latter part of
lhe week and will 1)0 in the store of
.Mrs. Icio McGee. A. L.GOSSKTT,
The above communication arrived
too late for publication in last week's
issue.- ElurOKS.
$100 liKWAKD $UM).
The readers of this pap? ? will he
pleased to learn that there, is at least one
(beadell disease that, science has boot)
able In cure iii all its stages, and that is
catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only
positive cure known to the medical fra
ternity. Catarrh hoing a constitutional
disease, requires a const it ul ional treat
ment. I fall's Catarrh ls Curo taken inter
nally, acting directly upon the blood and
iniicuous surfaces ol' the system, thereby
destroying the foundation of the disease,
and giving the patient strength hy build
up lite constitution and assisting nature
in doing its work. Tho proprietors have
have so much faith in its curative pow
ers, that I hey oller one hundred dollars
for any case it. fails to cure. Send for
list ol' tesl Imonlalsi
Address, l'\ J. OllKNKV A Co., Toledo, ().
Sold by Druggist, 75c.
Hall's Family ''ills are tho best.
Let lers from two subscribers were
received by a Kansas editor on the
same day-one correspondent asking
for advice in thc mattel of raising
twins and the other requesting advice
as to how he should get rid of grass
hoppers. The editor forwarded the
answers by mail, but mixed the en
velopes. As the result thc proud
fallier of twins received the answer:
"Cover lbein carefully with straw
and sot fire to it, and the little pests,
after jumping in tho Haines a few
minuit's, will bo speedily settled."
And tho man willi the grasshoppers
was told to "give them castor oil and
rub their ginns with a bone."
People living in the neighborhood
nf the Water backed up by the elec
tric power companies' dani in Tampa,
I' la., are Opposed In the dam, and an
attempt was made lo destroy it with
(ly lin milo recently.
Look up your registration certifi
cate and h ive il ready for USC ill tho
couti UL; general election. It is tho
duty ol' every Democrat to vote,
win Iber lhere is any opposion lo the
(.audid,ile ol' the party Ol' liol.
A Corroe! Prediction.
"The Spnrlniiburg Herald has entered
liol <'ii li. Scarborough in the list against,
.lohn I,. Mcl.nurin for United States
Sc'tinlor, Cnrly-hondod Johnnie, how
ever, is laying low and saying nothing.
Should he decide lo stn ntl for re-election,
he will probably succeed himself," says
Hu1 Lexington Dispatch. Kditor Harmon
is coiiect in his prognostication. Mc
I .antin has tho solid support of thinking,
substantial citizens, who are not to be
moved by Hie clamor of politicians
against him. They will re-elect him,
despite tho politicians, just as they
placed him in the Senate in 1807, when
he was fought, hy tho active politicians.
-Columbia Uncord.
SOME BIG TRI
"There aro no trusts."-J lanna.
Tho National Domocratio Kxocut
lowing information rolativo to trusts :
Trust. Capital.
Amor. Stool and Wiro, Kop..* 00,000,00(
Stovo Trust, Kop. 75,O0O,0O(
Galvanized Iron, Hop. 2,000,001
Iron Pipo Trust, Hop. 74,000,001
lhick Trust, Hop. 10,000,00(
Glass Trust, Hop. I7,000,00(
Tiri Plato Trust, Hop_..... 50,000,001
Copper Trust, Hop. -100,000,001
Hopo and Cordage Trust.ltop. 12,000,00
Dumber Trust, Hop. '10,0O0,00(
Broom Trust, Hop. I0,000,00<
Sardine Trust, Hop. :l,0oo,00<
Salmon Trust, Hop. 8,000,00(
Canning Trust, Hop. 20,000,00(
Tack Trust, Hop. 8,000,00(
Match Trust, Hop. 15,000,001
Salt Trust, Hop . 12,000,00C
Soap Trust, Hop. 100,00",OOt
Starch Trust. Hop. 0,(XX),O0C
Tobacco Trust, Hop. 7*1,000,001
Sugar Trust, Hop. 75,00 ),<)(><
Knvolopo Trust, Hop. 5,000,00c
Knameled Ware Ti ust, Hop.. 25,000,000
Chair Trust. Hop. 20,000,01 '1
Purni turo Trust, Hop. 12,000,000
Flour Trust, Hop. 40,000,OOC
Hoof Trust, Hop. 100,000,001"
In connection with the above ii
trusts two things should bo spocificall
First-The prices of the produce
the manufactures of theso articles hav
producers aro concerned, as they get i
did before these trusts increased the |
Second-Every manufactured art
to-day selling for thc same or at a lest
trusts were organized, thus showing tl
turo these goods are receiving no nu
goods arc manufactured than they do
are manufactured. Added to all this
Farming That Pays.
Wheat, $450 ; oats, $126 ; straw,
$126 ; hay, $260 ; sorghum, $140 ;
cant; seed, $76 ; total, $1,105.
That is the value of the side crops
raised by Mr. W. S. Wilkerson, of
Hickory Grove, this year, with three
plows. Mr. Wilkerson is otic of the
largest land owners in Western York
and has a number of renters. Ile
runs only three plows himself, how
ever, ?md the figures quoted represent
what he has realized without count
ing his cotton or corn.
Air. Wilkerson plants both cotton
and corn, ol' course. With the same
three plows he cultivated about -5
acres of oneil, and thc prospects are
as good as are thoso of any of his
neighbors. lint everybody raises
cotton and Corn, and it is the show
ing of these, side crops that is espe
cially interesting.
In a talk with the reporter, Wed
nesday, Mr. Wilkerson gave tho
ligures as estimates only. The esti
mates may be taken as very nearly
correct. They are rathol' under than
liver ; but, if there, is any dispute
Mr. Wilkerson has the exact ligures
at home by which the matter may be
settled definitely."
In the opinion of Mr. Wilkerson
$260 will cover the entire expense of
making the crops mentioned, and he
thinks he can fairly Hay that they
represent a clear profit of nearly
{?1,000. While he was talking he
tobi of a cropper who cut $12.60
worth of crab grass hay-sold tho
hayal that-off a stubble field. The
wheat hail been fertilized liberally,
and il was the fertilizer that caused
the grass to grow H? luxuriantly.
The grass sold for enough to pay for
tho fertilizer that had been used on
thc wheat. That portion of the
wheat field that hail not been ferti
lized yielded no crab grass that was
worth cutting.
"Speaking of hay, though," said
Mr. Wilkerson, "I can give you an
experience that ought to be inter
esting. Last fall Mr. II. \V. Thom
son and myself went shares on some
wheat and oats, on means grass land.
Wc sowed 20 acres-10 acres in
wheat in November anil 10 acres in
oats in February. The means grass
grOW up with the wheat and oats and
when the grain reached the milk
stage we cut the grain, grass and all
for hay. At the first cutting we got
three-fourths of a ton to the
acre, worth $t0 a ton, and
at the second cutting of grass
alone we got half a ton to the ?tere,
worth $12 a ton. h rom the two cut
tings we got hay to the value of $1S
per acre, and there is still another
cutting, though, of courso, it will not
be of as good quality as either of
the first two."-York ville Enquirer,
On Guard
TML?2 The warningcough
gdrfsSBBfet ls the faithful se nt i -
/ ff*?^Pslfik somption, which has
? IfflSiaPfrv* 'Cl* more PeoP',?
< jj llultell's of painful ;
I ? v Hfln$H7cncsts' sorc mn8s?
L HflRBflBR^wcnk throats, bron
I fiBBW^ monia. Do not suf
fv UBV fer another day. It's uso
? W less, for there's a prompt
' and safe cure. It is
Pectoral
which cures fresh colds and coughs
In a sin^.e night and masters
chronic coughs and bronchitis in
a short time. Consumption is sure
ly and certainly prevented, and
cured, too, if taken in time. A 25c.
bottle for a fresh cold ; 50c. size
for older colds ; $1 size for chronic
coughs and consumption.
" I ulwayHkcopalxittloef Ayor'flCliorry
POOtOrftl on hand, Thon every tinto I net
cold I tnko ?v little of lt nuit I nm Imttoriit
On?O," .lAMKS (). HI I)I LU.
( Oct. 10, 1808. Kl l'aao.'roxflN.
UST FIGURES.
Jvo Committee 1ms furnished ftie fol
luoronso iu prices during McKinley's
Administration.
)-barbed wiro |>1.8r> to $4 por hundred.
)-cast iron stoves 20 per cont.
)-water pails 12 per cent.
)-2-inch pipo 50 por cont.
)-plain brick $4.75 to $0 por 1,000.
)-window glass 100 por cont.
)-tinwnro 50 por cont.
3-coppor utensils 30 per cent.
)-ropo and cort! 8o. per pound to 17.
)-?ino lumber $12 per 1,000 foot to $18.
J-brooms $1.75 to $2.85.
)-sardines $2.50 to $4.
)-canned salmon $1.35 to $1.80.
)-canned vegetables 20 por cent.
)-tacks, gross, $1.50 to $2.30.
I-matches, gross, $1.50 to $7.50,
I-salt, per barrel, 7e. to $1.10.
I-laundry soap, per box, $2.35 to $2.85.
I-starch, por pound, 2e. to lc.
I-tobacco, per pound, 320. to 42c.
I-sugar, per pound, 3e.
i-increase 40 por cont,
i-Inoroaso 50 por cent,
i-iucreaso 30 per cent,
-inoroaso school furniture 40 per cont,
i-increase 20 per cont,
i-increase 5c. per pound.
ncreaso of prices exacted by these
y noted :
rs of tlie raw material which goes into
e not been increased so far as thenc
io more for their products than they
?rices to the consumers,
ide not controlled by tho trusts is
s price than sold for before these
tat tho laboring men who nianut'ac
>re wages in factories where trust
where those not made by the trusts
the cost of living has been increased.
Senator McLaurin on Bryan.
WASHINGTON, D. C., October 10.
Senator John L. McLaurin, of South
Carolina, Was among the distinguish
ed Southern people in Washington
this week, lie came to Washington
for tho purpose of looking after some
matters of importance to his constit
uents pending before the Executive
1 apartment.
Thc Senator is pleased with the
political outlook, and although he
did not go into any extended discus
sion on political topics while in the
city, he expressed his belief that Gol;
Bryan would be elected President.
The South, he says, of course, will
be practically solid for thc Demo
cratic ticket, and he believes that the
Democratic gains in thc Congres
sional elections will be sullicient to
give the Democratic party a good
working majority in tho coming Con
gress.
Senator McLaurin says that but
little political discussion is heard in
South Carolina since the close of the
Democratic primaries. The Stale
being sure for lilyan and Stevenson
by a very large majority he says the
people of the Stale are turning their
attention to business. Thc State, he
says, is in a very prosperous condi
tion and the outlook for the cotton
crop is very good.
As is well known, the South Caro
lina Senator is not in complet? har
mony with the Philippine plank of
the Democratic platform, being an
advocate in the Senate of the for
eign policy of the present adminis
tration. Nevertheless thc Senator
is a linn believer in Bryan and is
earnestly working for the latter's
election to the Presidency.
Thc Senator, il is understood, will
return to South Carolina from Wash
ington.
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CONSUMPTION f>
United States Pensioners.
No pensioner in the Revolutionary
war survives. The last one died in
1800, at tho age of 100, but last year
there were, and doubtless slill are,
four Revolutionary widows on the
pension rolls, none of them older
than 80. Pensioners' widows make
little of the lapse of centuries. Judg
ing by precedent it is not improbable
that 160 years from now lhere will
slill be widows drawing pensions on
account of the service of their hus
bands in our late war willi Spain.
Only one pensioner who served in
the war of 1812 is loft. His name is
Mirani Cronk., lie is loo years old
and lives in Oneida county, New
York. About 2,000 widows of 1812
are left one the rolls* The pension
ers of the civil war hold out very
well indeed. Kvery year on June
30 they are counted. In Jurie, 1898,
the number on the lists were 008,7 l-l.
Last year there were about 2,000
less, and this year also there are
fewer than in 1808, but the commis
sioner says that in 1001 the list will
beat the record, because an Act ol'
Congress, passed last May, has ex
tended the provisions ol' tllO law of
1800, so as to let in many thousands
of new claimants. About one-quar
ter of all the pensions go to widows
-Harper's Weekly.
A Ducal Gift.
DUIIHAM, \\ C., October 5. - lt was an
nounced by President Kilgo at a mass
meeting in Craven Memorial Mall this
evening that Mr. Washington Duke, of
Durham, has given another hundred
thousand dollars to the endowment of
Trinity College.
Mr. D' KC'S gifts to Trinity College
within this, decade now amount to half
a million dollars, and the gifts of the
Duke family during this time amount to
more than $000,000. This does not in
clude the amount given by Mr. .1. II.
Duke, of New York, for a library build
ing to be erected during the year.
Mr. Washington Duke has made larger
gifts to Southern educational institutions
than any other nativo Southerner in tho
Southeastern states.
Tho population of (Jrealer New Vor
has been oflicially announced as 8,107,202.
Tho corner stone of tho Carnegie li
brary in Atlanta was laid Saturday.
Tho Murdered Missionaries.
Nicw Yonu, October 9.-A com
pleto list of Protestant missionaries
believed to have boen killed from tho
beginning of tho Boxor movement to
September ?r> lias been received by
tho American Bible Society from tho
Hov. John lt. Ilykos, D. D., its agent
in Shanghai.
The ?Ht contains tho names of 178
people, very few il" any of whom will
escape. Of these 0(3 aro men, 73
women (41 married and 32 singlo)
and 39 ehildien.
In tho above total there are tho
following Americans: Twenty-five
men, 24 women (lo married and 8
Bingie) and 20 children; total 09
Americans.
Total killed, about whose death
there cannot bc any question :
Eleven men, 0 married women, 13
ningle women, 13 children; total 43.
Of those killed thu following were
Americans: Three men, 1 married
woman, 0 single women, 3 children ;
total, 13.
Of these in Tai Yuen Ku, who
were unquestionably massacred,
July 9, were 10 men, 9 married
women, I singlo women, 7 children ;
total 3U, all British.
There are still some missionaries
ill tho provinces of Kansuh and
Kwniobow, who have not been heard
from for some time, but there is good
reason to hope that they will get to
places of safety.
Our Great Postoffico.
One of the most striking evidences
of the rapid growth of the country
is to be found in tho annual report
uf the Postmaster General.
It shows that the receipts of thc
department for the (iscal year ended
lune 80 last, wore nearly $102,500,
D00. For the preceding fiscal year
the receipts were $90,000,000 in
round numbers. The fiscal year
ended June 80, 1900, was the first
one in which our postal receipts
passed the $100,000,000 mark. The
ievenue of the department bas prac
tically doubled in 12 years. Tho
postal receipts of no other nation
have increased anything like so fast
ind no other nation makes anything
like so large a use of the mails as do
we. The increased efficiency of tho
postal service is one of thc reasons
for the great growth of its receipts.
Thc people rely more and more upon
the mails for business and social
uses.
Although vasily more money ?8
expended on the postal service the
3XCC88 of expenditures over receipts
s less now than it was ten years Ago.
Receipts would exceed expenses
wry largely wore it not for the great
loss entailed by handling at second
..lass rates an immense amount of
matter which should not be so classi
fied.
Sovcral attempts have been made
Lo exclude this sort of stuff from
second class rating and it is hoped
;hal something like the Loud bill
ivill bo passed by the next Congress.
A Gruesome Prophecy.
The most famous of newspaper
correspondents, Henri do BloWltz,
Lakes a very gloomy view of thc
future.
])c lilowilz is generally considered
tho liest informed man on polities in
Ku ropo, and his views usually carry
vrent weight. For thirty years ho
lias been the Paris correspondent of
Lhe London Times and has fre
njucntly known more State secrets
Limn any statesman in Kurope. This
wise correspondent is usually very
salmi and conservative, but of late ho
seems to have taken lhe role of an
ilarmist. Ile predicts that in thc
near future til ero will bc a war be
tween nil the civilized nations, a
war which in the magnitude of its
proportions and its results will sur
pass all of the great conflicts of thc
past. The nations, as viewed by do
IMowitz, are full of light. They have
imhitinns and schemes which are so
conflicting that a clash between them
very soon is inevitable and when thc
Lrouble si arts it will almost cer
tainly involve all the powers.
When the Czar called the great
Peace Conf?rence de Blowitz pre
lictcd that it would accomplis!)
Kithing, lie now sees more signs of
war than have been visible for a
long time and his high character as
in observer has caused his prediction
Lo receive very general attention.
Atlanta Journal.
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Question Answered.
Yes, August Plower still has the. larg
est sale of any medicine in the civilized
world. Your mothers and grandmothers
lever thought of using anything else for
lidigOStiOll and biliousness. Doctors
wore scarce, and they seldom heard of
appendicitis, nervous prostration or
lioart failure, etc. They used August
Kiowor to clean out the system and stop
Fermentation of undigested food, reg l?
ate the action of the liver, stimulate
he nervous and organic action of the
system, and that is all they took when
feeling dull and had with headaches and
. thcr aches. You only need a few doses
ti Green's August Flower, in liquid
form, to make you satisfied there is
milling serious the matter with you.
Kt ir sale hy .1. ll. Darby, Druggist.
The newspapers, as usual, are giv
ing tho farmers good advice. We
tloil't want to be behind the times,
s<> will try our hand. Our idea is
ibis: Let the fanners hohl their cot
ton and sow plenty of wheat. That
is tho card lo play at present.-The
Slate.
Tho Georgia Slate election took
place last, week, and the Democrats
were successful by about 80,000 ma
jority. The Populists had a full
State ticket in the field, but their
vote was only about one-half of what
it was two years ago.