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J BY CLINESGALES * LANGSTON^ ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 1898. VOLUME XXXni-ND. 42. Money is so valuable now one has to look to see where it will go the farthest. We can convince you by our Goods, which are facts, that you can't only SAVE money but MAKE money by purchasing from us instead of credit houses. We sell for cash, and therefore have no losses. We guarantee what we say, and if Goods are not satisfactory, you can return them and get your money. * . ? ' - Spring Snits. We are ready for the man who wants a good Spring Suit forlit$le money, and also for the man who wants the best money can buy. $5.00 to $20.00. SPRING FURNISHINGS. If. you want a Shirt or pair of Socks in the brilliant, handsome colors of 1898, they are ready, too ; and, though fancy in looks, as they should be, they are not in price. SPRING HUTS ? Oh, yes; alj^he.new shapes and colors. THE SPOT CASH CLOTHIERS. DO YOU KIMOW? 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STATE NEWS. - Columbia's Spring Floral and Horse Show will be held on the 21st. - Kershaw county has already eight candidates in thc field for county officers. - Senator George Lamb Buist, of Charleston county, has retired from 'politics. - A section of the Standard Ware house, with about 1800 bales of cot ton, was destroyed by fire last Monday morning. - Chaine of torpedoes are being put down in Charleston harbor, so as to block the advaice of any hostile vessel in case of war. - The Governor has received orders from the General Government to have his militia in fighting trim ready te move at a moment's notice. - Another holocaust. Four ne gro children were burned to death in Orangeburg last Wednesday. They were left alone in a room with fire. - lt is expected that the Pickens Uailroad will be fully completed and turned over by thc contractors to' Presideut Eoggs and his company on next Friday, April 15th. - A large meeting of thc citizens of Laurens held last Monday adopted' resolutions asking the Board of visi tors of thc Citadel Academy to rein state the recently expelled cadets.?a - The annual convention of thc societies of Christian Endeavor in our State was held at Clinton, S. C. The founder of the society, Kev. F. E. Clark, was present. The convention was a success. - A Sumter negro who was told the other day that he would have to go into the army when the war began, replied that he just couldn't do it as he was under contract and would be put in jail if he broke it to join the army. , - It is epidemic in Columbia. Some of the physicians call it chickenpox and some call it smallpox; hut all agree that there is absolutely no dan ger, as there have as yet been no fatalities from the disease in the State. - While carelessly handling a Winchester rifle last Monday night. Drayton Nabors, who lives near Hodges, accidentally shot and killed his eight-year-old son. It is reported that Mr. Nabors was intoxicated at the time of thc killing. - Information conies from McCor mick that work on the Dorn gold mine is progressing rapidly. A mining company is operating the property a-ad a new shaft is being sunk. There is a good prospect that this old mine will again yield fortunes in the yellow stuff. - On the 27th. 28th and 2!)th, at Converse College, under the auspices of the Choral society, there is to take place whas is conceded by all the leading musical papers to be the lar gest and most important music festival ever arranged in this section of the country. - What promises to be one of the ''biggest" sensational suits Orange burg county has ever experienced, has just started in that county. It ap pears that L. D. Felder charged his neighbor, Lewis Jones, with larceny, some months ago. and now Joues has sued Felder for $5,000 damages. Both parties are prominent citizens. - Mr. Wm. Me.Coy was caught in the machinery of a shingle mill, near High Falls, WedDCsday morning about ten o'clock, and was so badly mangled that he died in thirty minutes. His clothing was caught by thc rapidly revolving wheels and he was dragged into the machine. His feet were crushed, one leg was broken , and he was otherwise terribly mangled. Ile leaves a wife and five children, who have the sympathy of many friends. Walhalla Courier. - '"The end of thc world may come before the middle of the year 181)8." This is the statement of a minister now preaching in Greenwood county. Me does not majce the statement as a conviction of his own. but as a result of the careful compution of others based on the prophecies of Daniel and Isaiah. So far the prediction has not excited very great alarm or involved the people in serious fear. Hut it is announced in ringing tones, is sup ported by ingenious arguments and falls largely on not unwilling ears. ' k is no longer smallpox, says a Spartan burg special to the Greenville .Vms. "but 'Cuba itch. This is said to be the disease that has caused thc doctors tn differ in opinion, ll is said that ;i family caine from Cuba to Atlanta last fall and scattered the disease, 'hie who hus visited Cuba says it is ijint'- common there. Our city authorities are sending all cases to their hospital, lt i- believed that in two weeks the disease will bc stop ped. SOHAM OF fl WASHINGTON, April li.-Presid? McKinley's long expected message v sent to Congress at noon to-day. It asks Congress to authorize the Pr? dent to take measures to secure the t mination of hostilities in Cuba and to cure the establishment of a stable gove: ment there and to use the military a naval forces of the United States as m be necessary for those purposes. The president calls attention to the f that for fifty years revolutions have be occurring periodically in the islai where the people have risen in ari against the dominion of SpaiD. Th? wars have caused the people of this cou try great inconvenience and loss a shocked them by the nearness of su barbarities as were practicsd. He comments on the friendly oilers President Cleveland looking to med tion and the refusal of Spain to acce such offers. The horrors of reconcentration a vividly portrayed, the President sayic "Reconcentration, adopted avowedly a war measure in order to cut off the i sources of the insurgents, worked ita pi destined result. As I said in my mc sage last December, it was not civiliz warfare; it was extermination. Theon peace it could beget was that of the wil erness and the grave." After speaking of the work of relief e gaged in by the people oftbiscountr he adds: "Tho war in Cuba is of euch natu that short of subjugation or extermin tion a final military victory for either sit seems impracticable. The alternatif lies in the physical exhaustion of the 01 or the other party or perhaps of botb condition whicb in effect ended the ti years' war by the truce of Zanj?n. "The prospect of such a protection ac conclusioa of the present strife is a coi tingency hardly to be contemplated wit equanimity by the civilized world an least of all by the United States, affecte and injured as we are, deeply and int mately, by its very existence. "Realizing this it appeared to be m duty in a spirit of true triendliness n les? to Spain than to the Cubans wL have so much to lose by the prolonga io of the struggle, to bring about an im mt diate termination of the war." The President then s eaks of bis la! efforts at negotiations with Spain whic were futile, and which he says brou gi him to the end of all that he could do o that line. The President says the only hope of re lief from a condition which can n longer be endured is tho enforced paciii cation of the island. The request for ??authority to stop th war is as follows: "In view of these facts and of these con ditions I ask Congress to authorize am empower the President to take measure to secure a full and final termination c hostilities between the government o Spain and the people of Cuba and to se cure in the island the establishment of; stable government capable of maintain ing order and observing its internationa obligations, ensuring peace and tranquil ity and the security of its citizens, as wei as our own, and to use the military ant j naval forces of the United States as ma] be necessary for these purposes." The issue is now with Congress and h< j awaits its action, standing prepared t< carry out every obligation imposed upor bim by the constitution. Spain's decree for a suspension of hos tilities is submitted to Congress for jus and careful attention, with the observa tion that if the measure attains a success ful result, "then our aspirations as i peace-loving-people will be realized. I: it fails it will be only another justifica' tion for our contemplated action." The President argues that the wreck of the Maine in Havana harbor shows that Spain is not able to guarantee se curity to foreign vessels. WASHINGTON, April H.-The Presi dent's message did not, after the firsl reading, receive the indorsement of a ma' jority of the Senators, and many excused themselves from speaking about it until they could have time for careful perusal. lu a general way the objections were baae'd on the ground that it did not go far enough In recognizing the rights of the Cubans. The Senators who have been especially noted for their conservatism were pleased, but they were the excep tion to the rule, and many of those Sena tors who had in the past few days shown a disposition to slacken their opposition to a conservative course, appeared to be disposed to return to their original posi tions. A large number of the D?mocratie Sen ators refused 'o express themselves at all as did several Republican*, 00 the ground that as they could not speak in compli mentary terme they would Shy nothing at all. One of the most significant utterances on the subject of the message was that of Senator Foraker, (Hep. 1 from the Presi dent's own State, and a memberof.be committee on foreign relations. Ile said: "1 have no patience with the message, and you can say so.'* Hu refused to go into details Senator Mills, 1 l>em 1 of the same com mittee, saiii: "Without referring to the message specifically, you can say I am Cor the independence of'Cul a and for war on account of tho Maine." Senator Collum, ( Kep. also ol' tun for eign relations committee, commended tlx* doiii merit. I i e s nhl : " It is a strong paper, a well-prepared and careful review. The Senate may go farther than the Pro-idont recommends, but it will have a strong intlnenco in shaping thu course of events " The IV clin g in the Se?ale is nuire bitter than in the house. The members of the foreign affairs committee will, it is said, go much farther in their resolution than they would otherwise have done had the President been more energetic. The committee will report tomorrow and will have in the resolutions no equivocal ex pressions which might be construed by the President a9 endorsing his action. The committee may not recommend the recognition of independence, but it will report a resolution directing in the most forcible language immediate armed in tervention. Every Senator one meets says the same thing: ' That Congress will not be influ enced or guided by the message." The House will come nearer endorsing the policy of the President than either, but the present outlook is that neither will follow his advite. - ? ?? ^ Suffering Humanity-Intemperance. Mn. EDITOR: We nee and bear a good deal about ?elief for suffering humanity, all of which is right and proper and in keeping with Ifivine instruction. There is State and National relief for disabled soldiers and their families; for communi ties suffering from disease, Gyclones, floods etc.; general relief of the poor and needy every where: for suffering nations, as Cuba, Armenia and India, and soon throughout the world, but where is there actual relief for the thousands of poor deluded sufferers from the use of intoxi cating beverages? Who comes to the re lief of the sixty thousand or more of our fellow citizens who fill annually in the United Slates as many drunkard's graves? Not relief, it is true, of money, food, clothing, etc , but the relief of free I dorn from the iron chains of intoxication. In less than ten years we lose by strong : drink directly and indirectly, nearly as many people as t!ae entire population of Cuba, and yet there is no parade made over it-no legal efforts put forth to arrest 8uoh a havoc. Sometimes there is t io much misdirected sympathy-a wonder ful amount in some directions and little or none in others. National and State authorities can provide means and ways , for the relief of all other sufferer's except the greatly-to-be-pitied victims of strong drink. Indeed, iu place of throwing a shield arnuad them, they legalize and foster the manufacture and dispensation of the very beverages that prove their i ruin; yea, take the work of dispensing ; into their own bnnds, and thus spread, theiogiau wings ofState over the ruinous i liquor traffic. Is it not time that some-: thing should be done to relieve these sut' ferers, and to remove so fruitful a source ; of trouble, and to show due respect for j the expressed wishes of the people? It! should be remembered that many i"e- j briates are iu a degree powerless to shake j off the shackles that bind them, aod are more the objects of pity than of blame. True, they ought not have tampered with a thing whose very nature is to slowly but surely forge its chains around them. In this they are to blame.-But unfor tunately the habit has become established and external help is needed. I have never met with a drunkard yet who, in his sober moments, did not wish for the removal out of reach of all intoxicants. How carefully ought men to guard them selves against contracting a habit so hard to shake off, and especially young men. Let them resist with all their strength every enticement to drink while they hold the balance of power, lest losing that they become the unhappy objects of human commiseration. One of the most talented and kind-hearted men South Carolina ever produced informed the writer that on the periodical returns of thirst for driok which he suffered, he would sacrifice everything on earth for liquor to quench it, even if necessary abandon his wife and children. What is to be done, therefore, in behalf of such sufferers aud to prevent others from con tracting the same deplorable habit? Only one thing certainly, and that is. put all intoxicating beverages out of their reach by proper legislation. Not legislate, as has been done, to put them in their reach and entice them to drink. Let it be remembered that the woe is not pro nounced against the man who drinks, but the man who puts the bottle to his neighbor's lips to induce bim to drink. The Church, temperance organizations, aud various other means, have in some degree, nodoubt, decreased intemperance, j but nothing but the strong arm of the ! law will ever arrest it. It is most won- j derfulthat the so-called dispensary law j should ever have been thought of ai a remeda for intemperance. It is hard to account for the judgment ol' men who honestly, no doubt, thought so. It can i only he accounted for on the ground that | they really regarded it simply as a sub-j stitute for tho open saloon, mid not a \ .remedy for the evil. Oh! ye legislator*, what are ye going to ilo for the relief ol' your brethren, who are bound in ?'hains by the habit of drink and who are crying, "No man ca ret h for j us." Cau't you kindle np a spark of sympathy for them, and looking upon them as blood of your blood ?md bone of your bone, offer them some assistance?.; Katherp, mother*, brother*, sisters and i wives call long and loud for some relief, j Society, desiring to maintain its place in the esteem of all good men and women, and contribute to tho well bein?? and hap piness of mankind, rails for relief. Yea. the poo pl o in Township, County, State, government rall for it. Humanity eries alono for il, and the Church prays ami plead Ibm relief may come. Mae it come and that quickly. S KN RAI:. 1 m . ^ Beware of Ointments for Catarrh that Contain Mercury, as mercury will surely destroy Iii? sense of smell ami completely derange the whole system when eolcrinic it through the mucous surfaces. Such articles should iicver 1"' used execpl on prescrip- ! lions from reputable physicians. as the damage they will il<-. j.* I:MI fold to "the good yon can |n?si hly derive from them. U al t's Catarrh (ure manu factured hy ?.' .1. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O., con tains rm mercury, mid is" taken internally, neting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In buying Hall's Catarrh Cine hs sun- yon j;et ihe genuine, lt is taken interna ly. and made in Toledo, Ohio, by Cheney A Cb, Testimon?ala free. ?J-Sold hy Druggists, joice 75c. per bottle. Charleston Safe. Charleston is absolutely safe in case of war with Spain, and there is no oc casion for thc least alarm. As the time draw*s near for the dc claratiou of hostilities the fear of many people increases when there is no occasion for it. The Evening Post has received the most positive assur ances of Major Ruffner and Captain Hubbell that Charleston is impreg nable. These officers, valuing their reputations and being keenly alive to the gravity of the situation, would not have given the assurances that they have, unless the harbor defence war ranted it. They stand too high in the service of the government and they are not men who talk idly. The positive character of their assurances should be accepted by all patriotic, citizens. The neighboring islands may not be safe, but the city is and no alarm should be felt. In some quarters there is a feeling of excitement which tends to develop into actual fear. This should not be. Should war be declared the fighting will nearly all bo, done at sea. An of ficer of the monitor, Puritan, stated several days ago to the Evening Post that he thought a short and sharp^ na val engagement would end the war. All that will be necessary for the United States to take Cuba will be to destroy Moro Castle. Once Havana is taken Cuba belongs to the United States. The entire fleet of Spain will be centered around Cuba. Spain can not afford to scatter her -fleet. The oflicer in question doubted whether Spain would make an attempt to shell any of the ports along the Atlantic or gulf coasts. To do this, he said, Spain would have to ejnploy a number of vessels which she can"ill afford to sena herc from Cuban waters. She will need every available,vessel about the Florida coast. An army of invasion is entirely out of the question. Spain has-no army which she can apply to this purpose. If Pensacola should fall before the Spanish gunboats, an army of United States soldiers will bc ready to wipe off the face of the earth any troops that the vessels may land. Spain will hardly be so foolhardy as to attempt a landing anywhere in the Uuitcd States. Charleston can not be shelled. There is not a vessel in the Spanish navy which could throw a shell the distance of six miles. On an arseual ground, the projectile could bc- thrown a distance of eleven miles, but the rifles arc mounted ou ship board so. that they can get an elevation of only about eight degrees, which will per mit the throwing of a shell only about five or six miles. The approaches to Charleston harbor have been platted for torpedoes and mines, which can bc laid in a few hours. These will blow up any vessel which attempts to enter the harbor. The rifle and mor tar batteries while not yet completed are prepared to give any vessel which dares to take a position near the ap proaches to the channel a warm re ception. A floating battery could not enter the harbor on account of the mines and torpedoes and unless thc harbor is entered the city can not be shelled. If war comes, business will go on as usual. There will be no suspension. No runs will bc made on the banks for banks are thc safest places to de posit money and valuables in such times. To take money* out of the banks would be to invite the entrance of burglars into private dwellings. Spanish troops will never effect a landing in Charleston and the banks are the safest^ places to keep money, for the burglars and theives which in fest the community can never get at it wheu securely locked in thc vaults. Charleston will be as safe as Au gusta, Columbia or any inland town and an exodus ol' people out of Charl eston would be entirely unwarranted. Capt. John White, of the linked States army, who has been in the city for the past several days, stated yes terday that he had visited the island fortifications and found them to be the best on the Atlantic coast. His visit was not an official one and he was only allowed to inspect the de fences from a distance the same as any ordinary citizen. The fort, he said, was not equalled by any that he had ever heard of, and it would be simply a matter of impos sibility for it to be penetrated by shells and projectiles from the enemy. In speaking of tho protection of the harbor by submarine mines he said they could be used effectively in this harbor. With the harbor properly mined, in his opinion, it would be out j id' thc question for a Spanish warship to enter thc harbor. - Cfwrleston /W. The Mobilization of Troops. ATLANTA. Ga., April S.-To-night Gen. William M. Graham, commander of the Department of the Gulf, wired the war department at Washington, recommending Atlanta as a point for the mobilization of troops in case of war. Cen. Graham, on orders from Washington, had been devoting his entire time, since his return from the tour of inspection to visiting the dif ferent places pointed out to him in the vicinity as available for points of concentration. While tin- General' had not recommended any certain lo cation, it is known that he had three in view. His final decision is based mi thc splendid railroad facilities, thc high altitude and pure water of At lanta. The city councilof Atlanta to day agreed to appropriate $7,0011 for laying the water mains to any point tho war department may decide upon. Col. il. I.. Lawton, inspector gen eral of tho Southern district of tho anny, pa-sod through Atlanta to-nitrht en route to Washineton. Spaniards in Cuba Anxious for War. HAVANA. Aprils.-This communi ty awaits developments witH stoical indifference. Among the officials, from Blanco down, the feeling is one of resignation. They are desperate, but they have done what they could to save the remnant of Spain's sov ereignty in Cuba. They have also j made the best preparation possible for : repulsing a hostile attack. Some navy and army officers have real faith in the extensive land batteries and in the harbor defenses of Havana. The higher officials, however, fear that if ihe point of hostilities is reached and that landing of American ' troops on the island is desirable for stragetic purposes, they will bc landed at Mantanzas and other places and marched overland, while Havana is blockaded. The authorities are doing all they ean to increase the number of troops available for duty. A decree issued to the civil governors calling on them for a census of able-bodied men be tween the ages of 19 and 50 who were not already enrolled in the volunteer or similar organizations was interpre ted as a call to arms of all Spanish subjects. A denial was made to this intention, but, thc result was thc same. While the popuiace thinks itself ready to repel a hostile force, the main trust is still in the Spanish na vy. The Ovuendo, thc Viscaya and the torpedo flotilla are on all tongues and all tongues wag patriotically. It is yet a delusion of the Spanish classes that war is not to be feared, because in addition to defending Cu ba, the Spanish fleet will devastate thc Atlantic coast and compel the Yankees to sue for peace. Officials who encouraged this belief when they were stirring up a patriotic sentiment arc trying to moderate it, but without success. An actual demonstration of American fnaval su periority is the only thing which will curb that delusion. This loyal feel ing has reached such a pitch that if peace negotiations on the basis of in dependence should prevail a serious problem would bc to regulate it with out causing a counter revolution. The authorities believe they can now ad mit that instead of thc insurgents seekiug an armistice, Sagasta has of fered it and they might even propose a flag of truce. That, too, is in pro gress. Reports of attempted mediation on the part of the Pope was a straw clutched at eagerly by the officials. They even credited it to a degree not warranted by their own knowledge of the circumstances. x While Madrid may not be able to entertain the idea, thc representatives of Spanish au thority in Cuba see how immensely better it would be for the peninsula to concede independence through media tion. Everything is quiet and the state of waiting, expectancy and doubt con tinues as it has during the past week or more. According to outward ap pearances there - is absolutely no change in the usual routine of life in* a happy tropical city. Good Friday, with its proper observance, is more the topic in thc mind than war or diplomacy. What Gen. Lee Will Testify. WASHINGTON, April 8.-Represent ative Lorrimer, of Illinois, is authori ty for the statement that Gen. Lee will make some startling disclosures before the Senate committee on for eign relations when he arrives here, regarding the conspiracy to blow up the Maine. It was announced yester day that Gen. Lee would be called be fore the committee, but the nature of the testimony expected from him was not disclosed. ''I understand that Cen. Lee is to supply the missing link in the testimony," said Mr. Lorrimer. My information is that Capt. Sigsbee is in possession of the facts, but does not feel at liberty to give them until the person who gave them to him re leases him from the secrecy imposed. That person. I understand, is Gen. : Leo.'' It is said that the information Gea. Lee is expected to testify to relates t? j the extinguishment of the electric lights in Havana at the instant of the Mowing up of the Maine. Electrical experts have said that if die lights went out in Havana at the due of the explosion it would be con clusive evidence that the mine under the Maine must have been fired from a shore electrical connection. Capt. Sigsbee before the foreign relations committee said bc had information that thc lights had gone out. but did not think it advisable to give the uame of his informant while in Cuba. His informant is said to be Gen. Lee. Cycle Fuueralsin Chicago. CHK'A?O, April 3.-This is thc no tice which a Chicago undertaker is about to issue to the public: "Funerals conducted by wheel t? Kosehill. Calvary. Oakswood and all other cemeteries. Cheapest and most elegant service. For the first time the wheel, which has been the con stant companion of the living, is tobe made thc instrument of rendering to them thc last rites when they are dead. The cycle hoarse, propelled byJ eight stalwart wheelmen, will be fol lowed by a few cycle carriages for the aged, and after them will come the friends of the deceased on their wheels. "lt seems most proper and fitting ti me." says the undertaker who is con sidering thc project, "that thc fun erals of those who have been ardent cyders in life should be conducted by the aid of the wheel." - Xe tr York Thu e*