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I - . ' '.I 1 1 -------- I -mum.. ,| , in ? -- II \ j li I I ? n ~1 Tv ?YT .TWIT SSC! A 1 .RS Rr T, A WGSTON. ANDERSON. S. C.. WEDNESDAY. NOYEMiWUi 24. 1897. VOL. XXXTTT Nf? ? 10 ? 1897 " lia Give Thanks That you are living, That you are prospering, That you are blessed beyond the majority, and that you are enjoying privileges and benefits in the United States that ean be enjoyed in no other country-. Wish for happiness, Wish for health, Wish for honor, Wish for wealth, Hut be sure to wish for the con tinued' prosperity of D.U. LV?LiyttLU. CLOTHIERS and FURNISHERS Prices Blown to Profits Twisted Off at the Roots. MILLINERY, MILLINERY, To be sold at prices never heard of before. A regular 25e. Saijor Hat'for 10c. A regular 50c. Sailor Hat for 25c. A regular 75c. Sailor Hat for 50c. Trimmed Hats, sold all over the place for $1.50, now 75c. The secret is that we have no expensive trimmer hired. Our Miss Dora Geisberg attends to trimming as well as selling. ? In fiact, ??e dc all our own work. No Clerks to pay, heneo - our expense is very small in comparison with other houses who employ a large force, all of which the consumer pays for. M!eii?s and Boys9 Clothing* For less&haa others are offering at Cost. <. QUILTS and BLANKETS from 50c. up. A regular 83.50 MACKINTOSH for $2.25, which is guaranteed to wear, made by one of the most reliable firms in the.country. We do not sell trash. We were horn here, and expect, to be here, so the Goods We sell mast be as represented. NO FAKES IN OUR BUSINESS. Remember tho; place T?::?3 :F.AJM:OTJ-S, ? 14 Brick E&Dge, West bide Public 8quare. : L- C.EISBERC, Proprietor. CHRISTMAS IS COMING. YES, and tho Housekeeper is making preparations for Us reception. We -are prepared to assist the Housekeeper, and aro now receiving NEW CURRANTS, NEW RAISINS, NEW FIGS, NEW PRUNES, NEW NUTS of all kinds, CANNED MEATS, CANNED FRUITS, CANNED VEG?TABLES, BOTTLED PICKLES, SAUCES, . CATSUPS, Etc., Etc. 'j? We.area%receiving every week APPLES, ORANGES, BANANAS, CRANBERRIES, and other Frails. Our line of CONFECTIONS cannot b^ surpassed, and we still have a ?e?ect Stock of CIGARS and TOBACCOS. Our Goods are fVeafe and firs-Mass, and our prices will please you. Wve us a eal! and seo our Stock. Yours to pifa?, FrwCUy livery. * ?^W? i - STATE NEWS. - Hon. J. N. King, who is well known in this county, as well as many other couuiics, will make the race for Congress, for this district-Picketts Journal. -^Saluda now has only one admit ted attorney, who ia a resident of tho place. But other young men now reading law intend to locate at the growing little city. - Mr. Sid M. Williford, of Kock Hill, has a citron or pie melon vine, which covers a quarter of an acre. It has on it 39 melons, which will average 50 pounds in weight. - The gift of $15,000 from Mr. ? Joseph Wylie to Erskiue college is to he applied to building a dormitory for girls, and therefore involves co-educa tion. After a little hesitancy it waa accepted. - Bristow Sherrard, while in a buggy driving a mule across Boyd's bridge on Saluda river the other day, met another vehicle and the mule backed off the bridge. Bristow had time to jump out and escaped unhurt but the buggy was completely wrecked and the mule killed.- Greenwood Journal. *- Judge Aldrich in a recent charge to thc grand jury, advised them that it was a part of their duty to look into matters pertaining to the publio schools, especially to the character and qualifications of school teachers. A good idea that of Judge Alerich. May it become the practice of all grand juries to do this thing. - At Mr. Qonces's place, a few miles south o'Johnston, last Friday night, John Maye shot and instantly killed his father, ?riff Mays. Both oolored. f hey were gambling and the dispute was about twenty cents. A negro girl, the'daughter of Griff Mays, attempted to stop the row and received a bullet through the hand. John is at large. - Governor Ellerbe has granted the petition submitted by residents of Cokesbury Township in Abbeville county, asking for an election to be held looking to their joining Green wood. December 15 nest, was the day appointed for the election to be held. The portion of the township wanting to get into Greenwood county embraces twelve square miles. - Some graceless sinner, having no fear of the penitentiary or ohain gang, entered the rear upstairs lobby of the eourt house between adjournment on Saturday and opening on Monday with a duplicate key and stole Judge Gary* s handsome gown. County pride leads us to believe that such a reckless rogue must have been a black bird of passage.-Barnwell People. - While the whole State is more or less of a stir over the killing of Farmer Turner by State Detective Newbold and about the flight of Newbold, Gov. Ellerbe stepped in and granted a full pardon to Liquor Constables J. H. Buiceahd J. 'A. May. who killed John T. Sims, in the Dark Corner section of Spartanburg county, on December 18, 1895; nearly two years ago. - - Adolphus Coker, a man about forty-five, of Clarendon county, was whipping a young son ten years old, when Bosey Coker, the oldest son, to whom the child appealed, told his father not to hit his brother another cut. The elder Coker declared he would whip the boy whenever he felt like it, and struck him another blow, whereupon Bosey sprang on his father and inflicted six wounds with a loog bladed knife, from the effects of which Coker died. The son has been' ar rested. - At a meeting of the faculty of Erskine College Wednesday evening, it was decided that there should be nb more football playing by the students. lt was stated that this action had not been Bought by the faculty, but was forced on them by growing conviction j of thc danger connected with it. In support of this the case of young Gam- j mon was cited, also thc case in Erskine last year, where a young man. was so badly injured as to have to leave col lege and whose lifo wes seriously im periled. - Henry Heyward, colored, a line man in the employ of the Charleston Electric Light Company, was electro cuted while at Work last Friday after noon. Heyward was adjusting wires .under instructions from a foreman. He wai? seated astride the eros'1 arm of a pole about forty feet from the ground. By mistake he took hold of a live wire. He warf killed instantly, but the body remained in a natural position oh the bar. Hey ward's hands were terribly burned, but the body wa? disfigured in no ether way. - Rev. J. L. Mullinixwas attacked and badly mistreated by a crowd of drunken rowdies last Saturday after noon on the road leading from Wal halla to Long Creek, over Sfcumphousc Mountain. There were some six or eight young men in the mob. They seized his horse, stopped the buggy, threw a club at him, and cursed him. They also seized his valise, took it out of tho buggy, opened it and took the contents. They will probably bo called to answer for their conduct at the bar of justice.- Walhalla Courier. - On Thursday night at the farm of J. L." McCullough, in Danklin township, Greenville -county, tho negroes indulged in a cakewalk and an unlimited amount of "fuss" and whis key. A religious dispute between a negro woman and a man resulted to thc woman breaking a shovel on the head of the man. This started a gen eral light, in prhioh pistols and razors were freely used. A negro man was killed, another mortally wounded sad other?? more or lees injured. As all tho negroes were drunk, shooting and slashing, the coroner was unable to fast?? iii? killing on any one. Flour Adulteration. In the midst of its discussion in regard to water-ground meal, the Con stitution took occasion to waru all lovers of good cntiuj; that thc tlour on sale iu the stores, from the finest patent? to the lowest grades, is adul terated. Several years ago a well known Georgian, since dead, informed the writer that he had for some time bceu shippiu.tr kaolin to St. Louis, and that ho very strongly suspected it was employed tn adulterate tlour, adding to the bulk as well as well as to the weight. His suspicions were afterwards coutirmcd by analysis, and tho facts had wide notoriety at thc timo. Wc have no doubt, however, that kaoliu is still used to adulterate Hour, but there are other forms of adulter ation. Mnny loree fln::r Billia have corn meal plants attached to their ma chinery. They use these plants for tho purpose of making corn flour which ia "spiked" iuto the wheat flour, thus adding to their profits. An expert miller, familiar with tho whole scheme of adulteration, informs us that tho corn is crushed into meal between iron rollers. This meal is run through a bolt and tho corn flour dusted out. The meal is again crushed and rebol ted, and thc opera tion is performed several times until all the corn flour is bolted out, and then the residue is sacked and branded "straight meal," and sold to tho Southern trade. This sort of stuff ia the ordinary corn meal of commerce, and is not worth feeding to a hog. From all that can be learned, South ern buyers are in a particularly ooft and sappy condition when they go out to purchase their provender. They seem to prefer what may be termed tho offal of commerce in all linee. Why this shonld be so is and always must remain a mystery. By what fatality of choice do the Southern people insist cn buying wheat flour because it is white? They seem to Judge it wholly by its whiteness, and buy it on that account, when the merest tyro should know that the whiteness of the flour is a certain evi dence of adulteration or inferiority. Until quite recently the offal of tho glucose factories has been sold to the hominy mills, where it was "spiked" into "hominy hearts," or into feed meal; but now thc glucose offal is made into a, very fine white starch, and is sold to the flour mills, which ase it for "spiking"' ail grades of flour, especially the lower grades. These lower grades are enhanced in whiteness and are thus fittest to suit the delicate Southern palate. We have before us a price list of tho glucose offal, sent cut by a large glucose factory in Chicago. Accom panying it is a circular describing how the offal may be used to adulterate flour. That our readers may be in itiated into the mysteries of flour adulteration, we print the circular in full. "Instruction as to How to Mix and Handle Our Product-We would ad vise substituting 10 per cent, in patent, straight and clears, and 15 per cent, in the lower grades. With this percentage good jesuits arc ob tained in both bread and biscuits, starch being a natural product of both wheat and-corn. All that is necessary cr required, to mix and assimilate thoroughly would be to feed the pow dered starch into lue finished product of the mill, conveying the mixture twenty or twenty-five feet; with this amount of conveyiug the starch will be thoroughly mixed with the flour. It is not necessary to feed the starch through the bolts in any particular, as the same is thoroughly pulverized and double bolted, and kiln dried to a very dry moisture percentage, whereas flour has a minimum of 13 anda maxi mum of 19, showing the keeping quali ties in favor of starch. "We would call your attention to the fact that the germ, or the oily substance, of corn is entirely ex tracted, thereby assuring the starch from becoming yellow or fermenting, which would be the case with corn flo?r. "lu using starch as a substitute, especially in the lower grades, they arc brought out in color at least two grades thereby, enabling the miller also to obtain on this particular grade from 15.to 30 cents per barrel with thc mixture than* without. "For all southern trades starch is used very extensively, as all flours are judged by their colors, enabling the miller to produce whiter flour and meet competition by using our pro ducts."' We call attention to the last para graph of the foregoing, where an ex traordinary tribute is paid to southern taste and judgment in thc matter of wheat flour. "All flours," says thc me reel eh s "circular, "aro judged by I their color" in thc south, and this is the truth. The whiter the flour, the more it has been deadened in the grinding ; and the more it has been adulterated in the handling, the more precious it is to tue southern trade. Now, as a matter of fact, it should be well known to southerners that pure and perfect wheat flour is never as white as the flour of commerce. It has a faint golden tinge or Mush. When it is perfectly white, something substantial haa been extracted from it. and its place supplied with some form of adulteration. Wo do not know that there is anything harmful in the glucose offal that is injected into the flour of commerce, but it is not wheat flour. It is aa adulteration and therefore a fraud. There is something nore than an intimation that only thc flour used in thc southern trade is adulterated with the glucose offal. If that is ao it must be thc? result of carelessness on tko part of tho southern people. No doubt it would be too much to hope that publio opinion will so progres? aa to bring about a change ; but it will bc tho fault of tho people if they continue to buy Hour that is adulterated. Wo aro safe in saying that there if not a barrel of pure flour on sale in the south ; ami it is a pity.- -Atlanta Con stitution ? lion. "Butler's Viens. To tim Editor oft/,,: Stud. Tho sug gestions bf Mr. W. T. Bradley in his communication to your paper of the 1?th inst, in regard to thc present low price of cotton, are thc most sensible aud praotical 1 have secu. If tho cotton raisers of tho South could bo iudueed to act upon them for live years we would bc the richest, most prosperous agricultural people in the world. Tho two prominent and controlling factors that depress thc price of cot ton are (1st) tho over production of cotton and under production of food cropsy (2d) the inadequacy and in equality iu distribution of thc volume of currency. The iirst wo can control if wc v?ill iu tho manner indicated by Mr. Bradley and other practical farm ers, and tho second can, and I trust will, bo corrected in time by appro priate legislation. If we could limit the production of cotton to 7,000,000 or 8,000,000 bales per annum, the demand would neces sarily enhance the price, and make cotton the host and surest money crop in the world, and a money crop that would remunerate thc producer. This is so perfeotly clear to my mind that I cannot conceive of any successful argument against it. The limitation on the orop in this country would, perhaps, stimulate the production elsewhere, hut not to a de gree that - could seriously affect us. So'far, the efforts to fiad a soil, cli mate and conditions to produce a fibre comparable to pur upland cotton have proven failures. Ido not mean to say that we are complete masters of the situation in cotton raising, but we do occupy such a commanding position as to defy successful competition, if we are true to ourselves. Just how we are to reduce tho acreage and limit the production is a difficult, some think a hopeless, undertaking. It can only be done by close concert of notion and good faith on the part of the principal cotton raisers in the cot ton belt. That a reduced acreage and production would result in enhanced remunerative prices seems too clear to require argument. When the Confederate government restrained, by law, the plaiding of cot j ton to so many acres to the plow, and I thereby encouraged the production of I food crops, the ?South was full of corn, wheat, oats, sorghum, bacon and beef. In fact, wc had an abundant supply in every line of food products. In times of peace it' is, ot course, qucs~ tionable whether such restraint could bo imposed by law. If, however, such legislation could bc had it would be a wise thing to adopt and enforce it. If time enough has been allowed to secure a representative convention from the cotton growing States at At lanta on the second Tuesday of next mooth, I shall have hopes of such ef fective and earnest concert of action as will improve thc prospects of cot ton planting throughout thc South. It is sad to think that an agricultural people so favored by nature as ours should so often be made the plaything of speculators and drones of the in dustrial world. It is our own fault, however, and we have nobody to blame but ourselves. If we will only plant less cotton, more grain and encourage cotton man ufacturing in our midst, the solution of our present depression would, in a few years, be made in our favor. . Mr. Bradley*s example is one that would pay every farmer in the South to follow. M. C. BUTLER. The Case Woes Up. Assistant Attorney General Town send did go to Charleston as he in tended to do and nowhere else. Yes terday he was back at thc Attornoy General's oflicc. He has succeeded in getting thc Vandercook original pack age case on thc way to thc United States Supreme Court and expresses his confidence that the' State will be able to obtain a decision in ample timo for thc guidance of the General As sembly when it meets in January. Attorney General Barber is not quite so confident of getting a decree by that time, but feels certain that he is go ing to win thc fight over the main is sue involved. Judge Townsend says that Attorney Bryan has agreed with him on every detail of the ease and it has been stip ulated that thc. decision on thc main issue shall go in* thc decree of thc Court. Judge Townsend found Mr. Bryan very courteous and obliging in regard to the matter. He said yesterday that bc was then preparing the motion to advance tho case upon the docket the minute the record had been filed and no time will be lost in getting up the record of thc case. It is understood that Judge Simon ton thinks that a final decision can be obtained by the time the General As sembly meets and is anxious that tho ?'highest Court in the land shall pass upon his decisions ia the O. P. cases at the earliest possible moment. It is also understood that thc judge thinks that he has never rendered a lino of decisions which are more certain to bo approved in the higher Court than those he has handed down in thc mat ter of the interstate commerce feature of the dispensary law. The further progress of the case will be keenly watched by both sides. -Columbia State, Nor. 17. - Uneasy Ile? ibm ftece that; wear? . 1 frown.. Tho (?rent Moral Dispensary, w - IK COLUMBIA. NOV. 21.- -Commissioner ^ 'ance is not at all gloomy about the ' .! ispcnsary outlook. Ile say? that he ^ ad not even thought ol' getting any ' ' uneral equipment, ?iud il':'.*, th? talk . ? bout (he funeral <>t' the dispensary ..> ill premature. Mr. Vance takes the \ tosition that, while the dispensary is 1 tot makiug as much money as it has 1 )cen making, it will he found that it . s making a little money. He says it I s at least self-supporting, ami, in I iouscquonee, it will he sustained hy j ,hc people. Ile seems to bc inure i inxious about the decision ?>f the j 1'uitcd States Court in the Vander .'ook case than iu anything else, and I while neither he nor any ol' tho State LMuehils have much hone nf anything hut failure from this litigation, he ! would like to see a tina! decision, so I that the General Assembly will better know how to deal with the situation. Mr. Vance is of the opinion that the system will remain practically as at present. lt might be that Mr. Vance, on account of his- connection with the institution, is au enthusiast upon the syBtem, but the facts and ligures of thc situation are likely to have very much more bearing upon the situation I than anything else. Mr. Vaneo says that there seems to bo a generally erroneous impression about the prout situation, that thc whole trouble ha?*, to a largo extent, boen brought about by thc system of bookkeeping. lie docs not like thc item that has been in the reports heretofore, known as 'unearned profit.*' It sounds very nicoly for thc time being, he thinks, but docs not pun out in tho end. Ho says that in his opinion the books and profit accounts ought to be run on a hard pan basis, ana there ia no need to count profits that have not yet been realized. With this view and to get rid of the puzzling features of the bookkeeping, Mr. Vance says that he will recommend a change after this year in the reports BO that th? geuerai public may more fully appreciate the situation. Mr. Vance made thc further sugges tion that while in many of tho towns the city and county profits were con sumed, that such a fate was not u sequence as to tho State's share. Ile says that in many of the towns thc salaries for dispensers and clerks an too high, and with high rents it is nc under that tho t-11ie.* and towns get titling out of tho dispensary. Th? ato. on the other hand, has nothing i do with local rents and salaries, a? s share of tho prolits is put on gooda >forc they are shipped out. There lia> been a suggestion that io State board of control would cut ic price on its liquor, so as lo bettor ici't ibo competition of thc "'origina! aekagc" people. The matter came up t ibo recent meeting of thc State oard of control, and it was decided o appoint a coinnrttcc to look into bo matter and make a report at the e\t meeting upon the advisability of educing the pri?e on liquors. This otnmittee, so far as is known, has not .et decided what had host bc dono for he dispensary. Col. .Iones, of tho State hoard, to-duy said that he did tot know what action the sub-commit ce would take, but that nothing had jeeu done up to this tin o in thc mat er of reducing th? price nu liquor. There is no chance ol' there being any reduction in tho price of liquor until the nest meeting of the State hoard of "outrol, and tho disposition hereto fore has been not to interfere with tho price li.sts. Neither ('overlier Kllerbe nor tho rotate board ol' control has received any report as to the number of "orig inal package." stores in the State. The impression, however, isthat there arc original jxickage stores iu every place where there is a dispensary. In a great many places there are lire times aB many "o. p.",places as theta arc dispensaries.-Nt-ics am/ Courier. - iMr. 1. B. Jones, of Chappell?, recently killed a hog which was evi dently sole proprietor of a curioiw appetite. In tho gall was over an ounce of coarse sand-nothing else. Imbedded in thc liver was a consid erable sized rock. Thc hog wa? fat and healthy. - Twenty million (lollara is the. ?um which the French government proposes to devote to the Paris Exhibition of limo, Nearly $10,000,00(1 will be consumed by the construction of two palaces in tho Champs KlyBeeB, and thoBO in tba Champ de Mars, in the Esplanade des Invalides and on tbe quays. Tbe bridges across tbe Seine aro to cost $1,0(H\&30, and tba mechanical and electrical service another si,000,000. In one word, France proposes to do tho whole thing on a seale of un precedented magnificence. G. F. TOLLY h SON. The way we are Cutting Prices on Furniture will be a revelation in Furniture Selling, The rush of Christmas trade is almost upon us, and the room now taken up by large quantities of Furniture is abso lutely necessary to the display of our HOLIDAY COCOS. To make a prompt and effective clearance of this surplus stock we have made a remorseless use of the knife in CUTTING PRICES. 7^111 you be one of the lucky ones to share in the Big Bar gain Feast we will spread before you the next few days? The largest Stock of Furniture in South Carolina, and at prices at Retail below what the little fellows pay wholesale. So come along asd get your Furniture and have money left for Christmas. All prices below everybody else's price. Ge Fe TOLLY SON. The Leaders and Money Savers for You. When it is understood that the tremendous business strides of X). C. Brown & Bro, ytlERE made during the most depressed business period that this country wfl has experienced in over half a century, it at ouce becomes a source of wonderful significance, and creaUs a lively interest in die reasons tor this ?seculiar prominence. Why should one house become so signally successful, bree itself so prominently to the front while others have been halting, re treating, losing ground, and in mauy cases disappeariug altogether '! It is simply in their ability to foresee conditions and to meet them ; the wisdom to grasp opportunities and profit by it ; the power t J utilize forces, iu meeting emergencies. In a nut-shell To Sell Goods Cheap, and to Sell them Cheaper than others. Does the fact that the volume of business, the Stock, carried, the force employed, the number of customers nerved, has doubled and redoubled itself, successfully demonstrate that they have met and mastered the situation, and established their supremacy a* a Bargain House, and earned their claim of being the CHEAPEST HOUSE m ANDERSON. We are not like the rooster who thought the sun rose every morning just to hear him crow, but we cannot help feeling justly proud of the record of progress obtained. Now, are you ou a hunt for Bargaius ? Come and see us. We are sup plying better Goods for less money than can bc obtained elsewhere. We are constantly demonstrating our ability to undersell, and to save our customers rooney. "Nothing aueteeda like success," and the most pronounced aucea*s ia Anderson ia D. C. BROWN & BRO? Tia o Olaesipeat Moase In tlae ?ttty?