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* BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17,1898. VOLUME XXXIY-NO. 8. We have thought over this: announcement, then penned it, then examined it, then amended it. Without preface or digression we proceed to recite the features of -the move ment : 1st. All our STRAW and CRASH HATS will from now on be sold at one-half price : dOe. Straw and Crash Hats now 25c. 75c. Straw Hats now - - 38c $1.00 Straw Hats now - - 50c. N $1.25 Straw Hats now - - 63c. 2nd. All our SUMMER UNDER WEAR will be sold at CUT PRICES. . 3rd. All our NEGLIGEE SHIRTS have been greatly reduced in price. It will not be wise for you to dally. Crowds of frugal and thrifty men will quickly respond, and it's best for, you to get into their ranks. Your money back if you want it THE SPOT CASH CLOTHIERS. FARM MACHINERY. Haye yon seen the Latest Mower on the Market ? The true worth and great advantages of our Mowers cannot be explained in an ad. like this. Come to us and investigate. We are not simple Agents for certain Steam Engines. We are more, and are in position to figure down where competition can't touch us. The Eclipse? The Atlas, The Erie City STEAM ENGINES ALL SIZES and STYLES for sale. We carry in stock, and save big money in freight on from three to five car loads of Engines. THE CREAT SMITH COTTON ?GIN, COTTON PRESSES, SAW MILLS, &c, <???pose a partial lilt of our Machinery. HYDRAULIC RAMS, Which give your house and farm pure spring water at little cost where water is within reasonable distance. We are making a great success of our Kams, and charge nothing for information. SULLIVAN HARDWARE CO ALABASTINE. IT WON'T RUB OFF? Wall Paper Is Unsanitary. Kalsomine is tem porary, rots, rubs off and Scales. THE DOCTOR-"Ono lautr rf paptr it ba J t norna h. you htm*) thrtl ht rt. . Sabf mag^ftocwij but cannot Ur/**."' forms a pure and permanent coating and does1 not require to be taken off to renew from time 0 to time. Is a dry powder. The latest make A vrvj*-; being adapted to mix, ready for use, with* Coldwater. Can be easily brushed on by any I one. Made in white and twelve fashionable i tints. ALABASTINE is adapted to all styles' of plain and relief decorating. ASK YOUR PAINT DEALER FOR CARD OF TINTS. ? ^3^53^**^ ^ ^s?jii?^ H not for sale In your town, write us for name of i \ s_^=*.=.-'- ^'^^mmmWkW nearest dealer. 0MANUFACTURED ONLY BY ALABASTINE co., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ALL COLORS KEPT IN STOCK BY E^TA-IsTS PHARMACY. BLACK DIAMOND RAILROAD. Scheme Feasible and Practical-Col. Boone a Benefactor, not a Visionary. MR. EDITOR : Col. Boone assigns no less than fifteen reasons why the Black Diamond Road proposed by him can and will be built. It is not my purpose to try to add to their clearness and force. They ought to be sufficient for any unprejudiced mind that will stop to consider the facts. Instead of considering these, we are met with the profound statement, "Col. Boone is visionary." I am not a railroad promoter, am not visionary in my ideas, and am no dreamer, but I can read and reach my own conclusions from facts stated. Let me present some facts for the consideration of those who are not prejudiced in their minds against Col. Boone : First. Let us take Knoxville, Tenn., as a starting point, and go over the Southern R. R. via Chattanooga to Atlanta, Ga., thence over the Southern to Spartanburg, S. C., thence over the Southern to Asheville, N. C., thence over the Southern to Morristown, Tenn., thence to Knoxville. This takes you around a territory nearly as large as the State of South Carolina, embracing parts of the territory of South? Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia without railroad facilities. A section abounding in minerals, with rich and fertile valleys, and mountain slopes covered with primeval forests. It may be justly said to be "God's Country." Around this clime, so favored by nature, the Southern Railway Company has drawn its trocha. If you want to reach the coast you may go all the way round over the Southern, but you cannot cross it. The man who attempts to invade this territory is a reconcen traolo, or a "visionary." Grant that Col. Boone is a "schemer." a "visionary."' If he cuts the barbed wires of selfishness, that will neither enter nor suffer any one else to enter this territory and give the people a railroad, he will have proved to his enemies that he is a public benefactor, despite all their sneers. Suppose Col. Boone succeeds with his roads and builds say 1587 miles, reach ing from Duluth to Port Royal, S. C., how will his system compare with the Louisville & Nashville system ? Let us place these side by side : LOUISVILLE & NASHVILLE. Cincinnati & Louisville. 110 miles. Louisville to Nashville. 186 miles. Nashville to New Orleans. 625 miles. Memphis J. to Memphis. 259 miles. St. Louis to Nashville. 320 miles. Louisville to Lexington. 94 miles. Other Branches. .1590 miles. Total.3184 LIST OF BLACK DIAMOND COMPANIES That makes up the line from Duluth, Minn., via Springfield, 111., Vincennes, Ind., Vevay, Ind., Cynthiana, Ky., Knoxville, Tenn., Franklin, N.C., Clayton, Ga., and Anderson, S. C., to the Seacoast at Port Royal, South Carolina. The Duluth, Wisconsin & South Atlantic (Wisconsin). 325 miles. The Duluth, Springfield & South Atlantic (Illinois). .. 190 miles. Use tracks Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern, Springfield, 111., to Vincennes, Ind. (Illinois). 161 miles. The Springfield, Ohio River & South Atlantic (Indiana).175 miles. The Ghent, Cynthiana & Tidewater (Kentucky). 225 miles. The Ohio River, Knoxville & Tidewater (Tennessee). 130 miles. The Ohio River, Franklin & Tidewater (North Carolina) . 77 miles. The Ohio River, Clayton & Tidewater (Georgia). 20 miles. The Ohio River, Anderson & Tidewater (South Carolina). 284 miles. Total.,.:.1587 miles. Whose maximum grade will not exceed sixty-six feet to the mile. There are other lines contemplated by Col. Boone to be added to these, making 2690. Now, there has been a great deal written on this subject, but I will try, as far as possible, to abstain from threshing over the old straw. The Louisville & Nashville operates in some of the States through which it is proposed to operate the Black Diamond, but it does not reach into the granaries of the great Northwest, at Duluth and Chicago at one end, nor reach tidewater at the other, with a deep water port like Port Royal. It does not reach through thc great forests of hard wood in Tennessee and North Carolina, nor through the heart of the great coal ields of Kentucky and Tennessee, marble belts and mineral sections of Tennessee and North Carolina, like the B.D. will do when built. So far as territory is concerned, any one can see that the environment, so to speak, of the B. D. will be far superior to the L. & N. Again, it must be noticed that the L. & N. is a single track road with heary grades. Recently the report of August Belmont, chairman of its Board of Directors, was made public through the Manufacturers1 Record and Nashville American, showing the gross earnings of that system for the year ending in June, 1898, to be $22,000,000. After paying all expenses the net earnings amounted to $7,100,000. That is five per cent, on $142,000,000. K the 187,000 miles of railroad in the United States, as given by some statisticians, cost $10,566,865,771, making the average cost per mile for con struction and equipment $59,618, then it would not be an exaggeration to put the cost of the L. & N. road at $45,000 per mile. If after its experience in handling freights on high grades it saw the wisdom of appropriating about a quarter of million of money to reduce its grades, then why should Col. Boone be characterized as a visionary for proposing to double-track his road with a low grade at the inception ? Here is a large corporation learning by experi ence from year to year, and improving their lines at heavy cost, adding mod ern improvements to their equipment, and when Col. Boone proposes to profit by the mistakes of others, and avail himself of the practical experience of shrewd railroad men, he is "visionary." Did not the L. & N. undertake to double-track their road a few years ago, realizing the mistake that had been made at the beginning ? Is the experience of others in building railroads worth any thin <r ? Is material harder to get than formerly ? Is money scarcer ? Second. I submit that it is just as easy for a competent architect to plan for a large house as it is for a small one ; just as easy for a railroad promoter to plan for a large one as it is for a small line. It may take a longer time and more money to complete the one than thc other. AH things arc great or small relatively. For me to build a $5,000 house would, perhaps, be a great under taking, but it would be too insignificant a thing for a Vanderbilt or an Astor to consider or notice. Thc business experience of men with Urge capital, as shown by recent purchases of Government bonds, for example, is that capital ists prefer to invest in large first-class securities, rather than have it scattered around ia second or third rate securities. It is less trouble and expense for him to look after it. Every sensible man knows it is easier to keep a first class machine going than a third-rate one. The natural common sense of the American people demands of the Government the building of the very best battle ships, armed with the best guns, propelled by the best machinery, about which-there can be no doubts, and manned by the best men of the navy. Any man who has $20,000,000 -/hich he proposed to invest in railroad securities would want to know (1) that thc road was in a good section of thc country; (2) that it had facilities for handling its business with economy and dispatch ; (3) that the country was capable of furnishing the road an adequate business, so as to pay all the running expenses, necessarv repairs and interest on his investment. I submit that Col. Boone's road will meet every one of these conditions. Now, what is the usc of piddling on this matter ? If the road is a com mercial necessity to the West and the South, get out of the way and let it bc built. It is not necessary to the North aud East, but as it will deflect to-amc those sections will oppose it. Have they not opposed any appropriations towards building up Southern ports ? Did they not decry thc battleship Texas because she was built at Newport NCWB ? Did they not oppose any appropriation for the Dry Dock at Fort Royal ? To make their opposition more glaring did not they have one of our largest battleships taken to a for eign Dry Dock to create the impression that thc Dry Dock at Port Royal was not safe ? If thc building of the Black Diamond is to help develop the country ; if it is to give employment to thousands of laboring men ; if it will enhance the value of real property ; if it will cheapen transportation of breadstuffs. giv ing the people access to the markets of the world, then, io thc name of hu manity, let Col. Boone build the road. Third. The Black Diamond system is to reach Duluth. I do not know that Col. Boone saw an article that appeared in the North American Review about a year ago. I have not the article by me, and, therefore, 1 have to depend upon my memory fer Borne of the ideas suggested. The writer pointed out the dancer of competition to American wheat with Russian wheat in the markets of Europe on thc completion of thc great trans-Siberian railway across Russia to Vludivostock. American rails are being shipped to complete that road. Ile called attcntiou to thc fact that Northern capitalists were about to invest $500,000,000 to open a great steam canal to New York, so as to give New York absolute control of thc commerce of thc great Northwest. While thinking that scheme was unwise, he made these suggestions: "We must perfect a short, low grade railroad from Chicago to New York harbor, upon which the agricultural products of tho far "West can bc carried at a cost so low that we can deliver our own breadstuffs in Europe at a price no other nation can meet." Again : "Measures must he taken to create a new era of commercial activity from the Mississippi Uiver to the Pacific coast." Not one word, however, does he suggest in favor of South Atlantic seaports. If New York cannot get all, then take the balance to the Pacific coast. Now, Col. Boone offers to the South Atlantic a chance to get into the marts of the world. Refer again to Col. Boone's mileage. Port Royal can he reached by 1587 miles from Duluth, or 1010 miles from Chicago. The same writer in the North American Review, above referred to, shows that it takes five days from San Francisco, 3207 miles, to Chicago, and seven days to New York for the fast express trains. There were $200,000,000 invested in the Pacific Railways between Kansas City and Omaha and San Francisco-across arid plains, over lofty mountain ranges with heavy grades. The average rate of speed of the trains was 458 miles per day. Now, from Chicago to Port Royal, 1010 miles, it is across fertile fields, over inexhaustible mineral beds, through great forests, by magnificent water-powers contiguous to the cotton fields of the South, across the Blue Ridge mountains at the maximum grade of 66 feet to the mile, which can be reduced to 57 feet per mile if need be, instead of 120 feet over the Central Pacific, reaching Port Royal in two days from Chicago, instead of five to San Francisco. Hence the matter was urged that "measures must be taken to create a new era in commercial activity from the Mississippi River to the Pacific coast," lest it should be deflected to the South Atlantic over a short, low grade road like.the Black Diamond. Some weeks ago I called attention to the fact that the result of the war with Spain would leave Cuba and Porto Rico in our hands. Then we had not annexed Hawaii nor taken the Ladrone Islands. With the new acquisition of territory, the Nicarauga Canal question is coming to the front. This Govern ment cannot afford to spend months traveling 13,000 miles or more around Cape Horn to get to our new territory, and Port Royal, as a coaling station, will be right in line for the advance movement-the "new era"-that is to come. This is not visionary. The wheels of revolution have never yet turn ed backwards. Will we get ready for this new era in commercial activity ? That is the question. J. L. TRIBBLE. Anderson, S. C. END OF THE WAR. Protocol Signed-A Cessation of Hos tilities Ordered. WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.-An official statement for press publication, set ting out the provisions of the peace protocol, was read and approved at the Cabinet session to-day. It was prepared by Secretary Day, the pur pose being to make it public immedi ately after the required signature had been affixed to the protocol. It does not give the text of the document, but details its main points and provisions, which are as follows: 1. That Spain will relinquish all claims of sovereignty over and title to Cuba. 2. That Porto rico and other Span ish islands in the West Indies, and an island in the Ladrones, to be se lected by the United States, shall be ceded to the latter. 3. That the United States will occu py and hold the city, bay and harbor of Manilla, pending - the conclusion of a treaty of peace, which shall deter mine the control, disposition and gov-1 eminent of the Philippines. 4. That Cuba, Porto Rico and other Spanish islands in the West Indies shall be immediately evacuated,!and that commissioners, to be appointed within ten days, shall within thirty days from the signing of the protocol meet at Havana and San Juan re- ' spectively to arrange and execute the details of the evacuation. 5. That the United States and Spain will each appoint not more than five commissioners to negotiate and con clude a treaty of peace. The commis sioners are to meet in Paris not later than the 1st of October. b\ On the signing of the protocol hostilities will be suspended, and notice to that effect will be giren as soon as possible by each Government to the commanders of its military and naval forces. As soon as the peace protocol was signed the President sent for Secre tary Alger, Secretary Long and Gen. Corbin, and by his direction orders to cease hostilities forthwith were sent to Gens. Miles, Merritt and Shafter, to Admirals Dewey and Sampson and the military commanders generally. Thc order sent to Gen. Merritt to suspend hostilities was as follows : Adjutant General's Office, Washing ton, August 12, 1898.-Merritt, Ma nila: The President directs all mili tary operations against the enemy be suspended. Peace negotiations are near ing completion, a protocol having just been signed by representatives of the two countries. You will inform the commanders of the Spanish forced in the Philippines of these instructions. Further orders will follow. Acknowl edge receipt. By order sf the Secretary of War. H. C. CoBBiir, Adjutant General. The orders to Gen. Miles and Gen. Shafter were identical with the above, save as to namee. As the order states, further instruc tions will be sent to each general. Gen. Merritt will be directed to confer with the Spanish commandant at Ma nila, to carry out the terms of the \ protocol and to occupy Manila imme diately. Gen. Miles will put himself in communication with the chief au thority in Porto Rico, for the purpose of having the Spanish forces turn over San Juau and other points to him preparatory to evacuation. Owing to conditions in Cuba, the orders to lieu. Shafter, to be sent hereafter, will be very different from those to other generals. The navy department is also prepar ing orders to all commanders on lines similar to the war department order. The President has issued the fol lowing PROCLAMATION. By thc President of the United States of America-A Proclamation. Whereas, by a protocol concluded and signed August 12, 189S, by Wil liam R. Day, Secretary of State of the United States, and his Excellency Jules Cambon, ambassador extraordi nary and plenipotentiary of the Re public of France at Washington, re presenting for this purpose thc Gov ernment of thc United States and the iioyernment of Spain, thc United States and Spain have formally agreed upon the terms upon which negotia tions for thc establishment of peace between the two countries shall be undertaken; and Whereas, it is in said protocol agreed that upon its conclusion and signature hostilities between the two countries shall be suspended, and that notice to that effect shall be given as soon as possible by each Government to the commanders of its military and naval forces: Now, therefore, I, William McKin ley, President of the United States, do, in accordance with the stipulation of the protocol, declare and proclaim on the part of the United States a suspension of hostilities, and do here by command that, orders be immedi ately given through the proper chan nels to the commanders of the military and naval forces of the United States to abstain from all acts inconsistent with this proclamation. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at this city of Washington, this 12th day of August, in the year of our Lord one thougand, eight hun dred and ninety-eight, and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-third. WILLIAM MCKINLEY. By the President: William R. Day, Secretary of State. A copy of the proclamation has been cabled to our army and navy commanders. Spain will cable her commanders like instructions. A Blot on the Second Wisconsin. MILWAUKEE, WIS., August 13.-A special to the Journal from Marinette, Wis., says: Word has been received here from Ponce, Porto'Rico, that Private L. A. Duke, of the 2nd Wis consin regiment, who shot and killed Private Thomas Stafford, of the 13th infantry, regular army, during a quar rel in a saloon at Ponce, was court martialed August 3, found guilty, and shot on the morning of August 4. The murder of Stafford was the result of a quarrel in a wine shop in the mountains near Ponce. Thc Last Call to be Mustered Ont. A special to the New York Journal from Washington states that all of the troops obtained under the last call will be mustered out of service within a month's time. The special is as follows : "The mustering out of all of the soldiers under the third call will be begun within the next thirty days. Seventy thousand men will be sent to their homes. The practice adopted after the civil war will be followed. The soldiers will be sent to the places where they enlisted, and from there > will be given transportation to their homes. All the definite arrangements for this reduction will be completed within the next week unless the close of the war should bs farther post poned. "An army of 100,000 in addition to the regular army, however, is to be maintained for an unlimited period after peace has been declared. At the war department to-day it was stated that this number of volunteers will be kept in service, and the state ment is in line with the story already printed exclusively in the Journal. The volunteers will bc needed for service iu Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines. "The administration is not yet assured of the attitude of thc insur gents after an agreement for peace has been reached." - The State Board of Control has directed thc payment of $20,000 to the State treasury to be credited to thc school fund. This is the first cash payment to the school fund since the meeting of the General Assembly. The dispensary has a considerable cash balance and in addition to this, about $27,000 in cash is now invested in the dispensary building, which has re cently been purchased and improved. $100 Reward. $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that thore is at least one dreaded disease that sci ence has been ableT cure in all its stages, and that ls Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only posi tive cure now known to tho medical fraternity. Catarrh bein-; a constitutional disease req ii res a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces ol' the system, thereby de stroying the foundation of the di ease, and Riving ibe pa lieut strength by building up thc constitu tion and assisting nature in doing its work The proprietors have >o much frith in its curative powers, that they offer One Hundred ] ollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of tes timonials ANNOUNCEMENTS. FOE TREASURER. WILLIAM L. BOLT, the ex-8heriff, ta hereby announced as a candidate for County Treasurer, subject to the action of Democratic Primary. I hereby announce myself as a candi date for the office of Treasurer of Ander son County, subject to the action of the Democratic Primary Election. JA8. M. PAYNE. I hereby announce myself as a candi date for the office of Treasurer of Ander son County, subject to the action of the Democratic Primary. R. E. PARKER. The friends of L. O. WILLIEORD, Esq., of Rock Mills Township. respect fully nominate him as a candidate for County Treasurer, subject to the rules of the Democratic party. BROWN A. WILLSON, of Belton, who lor the last nineteen years has been Railroad Agent there, announces himself as a candidate for Treasurer of Anderson County, subject to the rules of the Derne eratic Primary. FOR COUNTY 8UPERVI80R. The frieDds of OLIVER BOLT respect fully announce him a candidate for Coun ty Supervisor, subject to the action of the Democratic Primary Election. I respectfully present myself to the voters of Anderson County for re-election to the office of County Supervisor, subject to the rules of the Democratic Primary. W. P. SNELGROV?. FOR SENATOR. I announce myself a candidate for the State Senate from Anderson County, sub ject to the action of the Democratic Pri mary._JA8. M. 8ULLIVAN. FOR HOUSE REPRESENTATIVES. The undersigned respectfully announces himself as a candidate for the House of Representatives, subject to the action of the Democratic Primary Election. T. T. WAKEFIELD. I hereby announce myself a candidate for the House of Representatives, subject to the result of the Democratic Primary Election. GEO. E. PRINCE. I The undersigned respectfully announces himself as a candidate for the House of Representatives from Anderson County, subject to the action of the D?mocratie Primary. B. C. MARTIN. I hereby announce myself a candidate I for re-election to the House of Represen? tatives from Anderson County, subject to the roles and regulations of the Demo cratic Primacy. R. B. A. ROBINSON. I announce myself to the voters of An derson County as a candidate for a seat in tho House of Representatives, subject to mles of the Democratic Primary. J. L. JACKSON. HON J. W. ASHLEY is announced as a candidate for re-election to a seat in the House of Representatives, subject to the action of the Democratic primary. I announce myself a candidate for the House of Representatives, subject to the action of the Democratic Prim arv. E. M. R?CKER, JR. I hereby announce myself a candidate for a seat in the House of Represen tatives from Anderson County, subject to the mles of the Democratic primary. JOHN B. LEVERETT. I announce myself acaodidateTora seat in the Honse of Representatives, subject to the rules of the Democratic Primarv. J. A, HALL. I hereby announce myself as a candi date for the House of Representatives from Anderson County, subject to the ac tion of the Democratic nrimary. G. A. RANKIN. FOR COUNTY SUP'T. ; EDUCATION LEWIS M. MAHAFFEY is hereby announced as a candidate for the office of County Superintendent of Education for Anderson Conntv. subject to the action of the Democratic Primary. I hereby announce myself as a candi date for re-election to the office of County Superintendent of Education, subject to the ruleslof the Primarv Election. _ nifif A. W. ATTA WAY. I hereby announce myself as a|candidate for Superintendent nf Education, subject to the action of the Democratic Primary Election._R. E. NWHOLSON. FOR JUDGE OF*PROBATE. I hereby announce myself a candidate for the office of Judge of Probate, subject to the rules governing the Democratic Primary. 8 T* " 1 H. H. EDWARDS. I hereby announce myself as a candi date for Probate Jodee, subject to the ac tion of the Democratic Primarv. R. Y. H. NANCE. I herebv announce my?elf a candidate for the office of Probate Judge, subject to the action of the Democratic Primarv. R. M. BURRISS. I announce myself a candidate for thc office of Probate Jndge for Andenos County, subject to thc action of the Dem ocratic Primary. f? ^?fcJ. F. RICI. I herebv announce myself a candidate for the office of Probate Judge, subject to the action of the Demotrstic?Primarv. _D H. RUSSELL. FOR AUDITOR. , G. N. C. BOLEMAN is respectfully an nounced as a candidate for re-election to the office of County Auditor, subject to the action of the " Democratic primaiy Election.___ FOR^CONGRESS. JULIUS E. BOGGS, of Picken?, is re spectfully announced as a candidate for the Fifty sixth Congress, subject to the action ot the Democratic Primary. I announce to the voters of the Third Congressional District that I am a candi date for re election to Congress, subject to the rules of the Democratic partv of South Carolina A- C. LATIMER. I hereby announce that I am a candi date for the Democratic nomination for Congress in the coming primary election, and pledge myself to abide the result of said election. GEO. JOHNSTONE. BELTON IHIGHIISCHOOL. BELTON, S. ?. W. B. WEST, A. G. HOLMES, Principal. 1st Assistant. A good corps of experienced teachers, among them Mr. A. G. Holmes, who gave such general satisfaction the past session. Our students take high stands wherever thev go. The Colleges recognize our thor ough work. We try to practice common sense in education as well as in other mat ters. Send us your sons and daughters and we will do them good. Send to W. B. West. Belton, S. C , for catalogue. 5-6