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I^CLSSCALES & LANGSTON. ~~ ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 189U. V()LUMK xxxr^~?"07jT (EDUCED lUvL?O.... V/e have thought over this announcement, then penned t then examined it, then amended it. Without preface or .gression we proceed to recite the features of the move ent : 1st AU our STRAW and CRASH HATS will from now on be old at one-half price : dOc. Straw and Crash Hats now 25c. 75c. Straw Hats now - - 38c $1.00 Straw Hats now - - 50c. $1.25 ?traw Hats now - - 63c. nd. All our SUMMER UNDERWEAR will be sold at CUT BICES. rd. All our NEGLIGEE SHIRTS have been greatly reduced price. It will not be wise for you to dally. Crowds of frugal d thrifty men will quickly respond, and it's best for , you get into their ranks. Your money back if you want it . 0. Evans & Co, THE SPOT CASH CLOTHIERS. FARM MACHINERY. Haye you seen the Latest Mower on the Market T The true worth and great advantages of our Mowers cannot be explained an ad. like this. Come to us and investigate. 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Made In white and twelve fashionable? tinta. ALABASTINB is adapted to all styles1 of plain and relief decorating. ASK YOUR PAINT DEALER FOR CARD OF TINTS. _ ll not for sale la y oar town, write tu for nanto ot? i A-^iSSa^ nearestdealer. K ?^^" ? Yu RED ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^J^^^^^^^^^^^^'3' OS, MIOH, ALL C0?J3BS KEPT in STOCK BY BLACK DIAMOND RAILROAD. Scheme Feasible and [Practical-Col. Boone a Benefactor, not a Visionary. MB. EDITOR: Col. Boone assigna no leas than fifteen re;>.s;>us why the Black Diamond Road proposed by him oan 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 faots. Instead of considering these, we are met with the profound statement, "Col. Boone is visionary." I am not a railroad promoter, am not visionary iu my ideas, and am uo dreamer, but I can read and reach my own conclusions from facts stated. Let mc present some facts for thc consideration of those who are not prejudiced iu their minds against Col. Boone : First. Let ?B take Knoxville, Tenn., as a starting point, and go over thc Southern R. R. via Chattanooga to Atlanta, Ga., thence over thc Southern to Spartanburg, S. C., thence over the Southern to Asheville, N. C., thence over tho 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 bc justly Baid 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 thc way round over the Southern, but you cannot cross it. The mau who attempts to invade this territory is a reconcen trado, or a "visionary." Grant that Col. Boone is a "schemer," a "visionary." If ho outs the barbed wires of selfishness, that will neither enter nor suffer any one else to enter this territory and give the people a railroad, ho will have proved to his enemies that ho 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 Atlantio (Wisconsin). 325 miles. Tho Duluth, Springfield & South Atlantic (Illinois). .. 190 miles. Use tracks Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern, Springfield, 111., to Vincennes, Ind. (Illinois). 161 miles. The Springfield, Ohio River dc South Atlantio (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 emceed sixty-six feet to the mile. There are other linea 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 reaoh through the great forests of hard wood in Tennessee and North Carolina, nor through the heart of the great coal fields of Kentucky and Tennessee, marble belts and j mineral sections of Tennessee and North Carolina, like ?ho 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. wi?! be far superior to the L. & N. Again, it must be noticed that the L. & N. is a single traok road with heavy grades. Recently the report of August Belmont, chairman of its Board of Directors, was made public through the Manufacturers' 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 ia five per cent, on $142,000,000. If 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 oost 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 asa visionary for proposing to double-track his road with a low grade at the inception ? Hore 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 anything ? Is material hardor to get than formerly ? Is money scarcer ? Second. 1 submit that it is just as easy for a competent architect to plan for a large house as it is for a small ono ; 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 the other. All things are 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. The business experience of mon with large 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 oommon sense of the Amerioan 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 bebt men of the navy. Any man who has $20,000,000 *vhich he proposed to ipvest in railroad securities would want to know (1) that the road was in a good section of the country ; (2) that it had facilities for handling its business with economy and dispatch ; (3) that the country was oapable of furnishing the road an adequate business, so as to pay all the running expenses, neoessarv repairs and interest on his investment. I submit that Col. Boone's road will meet every one of these conditions. Now, what is the use 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 be built. It is not necessary to the North aud East, but as it will deflect teaffic those sections will oppose it. Have they not opposed any appropriations! tc~*rd~ building ??> o?uiueru ports r Did they not decry the battleship Texas because she was built at Newport News ? Did they nut oppose any appropriation for the Dry Dock at Port Royal ? To make their opposition more glaring did not they have one of our largest battleships taken to a for eign Dry Dook to create the impression that the Dry Dook at Port Royal was not safe ? If the building of the Blaok 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 breadstuff's, giv ing the people acoess to the markets of the world, then, in the name of hu manity, let Col. Boone build the road. Third. The Blaok Diamond system is to reaoh Duluth. I do not know that Col. Boone saw an article that appeared in the North Ameritan Review about a year ago. I have not the article by mo, and, therefore, 1 have to depend upon my memory fer some of the ideas suggested'. The writer pointed ont the danger of competition to American wheat with Russian wheat in the markets of Europe on the completion of the great trans-Siberian railway across RnsBia to Vludivostook. American rails are being shipped to complete that road. He called attention to the fact that Northern capitalists were abont to invest $500,000,000 to open a great steam canal to New York, so as to give New York absolute control of the commerce of the great Northwest. While thinking that scheme was unwise, he made these suggestions: "We must perfect a short, low grade railroad from Chicago to New Yprk harbor, upon which the agricultural products of the far Wost can be carried at a cost so low that we can deliver our own breai nation can meet." Again : -'Measures commercial activity from thc Missisaipp ono word, however, docs he suggest in f; New York cannot get all, then take thc Now, Col. Boone offers to the Soutl marts of thc world. Refer again to Col. reached by 1587 miles from Duluth, or writer in the North American Review, al fire days from Sau Francisco, :i207 mi'loe York for thc fast express trains. Thor Pacific Railways between Kansas City a arid plains, over lofty mountain ranges of speed of tho trains was 458 miles Royal, 1010 milos, it is across fertile fie! through great forests, by magnificent wi fields of the South, across the Blue Rid of OH feet to the mile, which can bc re instead of 120 feet over the Ceutral Pa< from Chicago, instead of live to San Fri that "measures must bc taken to create the Mississippi River to the Pacific coat South Atlantic over a short, low grade i Some weeks ago I called attention t with Spain would leave Cuba and Porto annexed Hawaii nor taken the Ladrouc territory, thc Nicarauga Canal question ment cannot afford to spend months Cape Horn to got to our new territory will be right in linc for the advance i come. This is not visionary. The win ed bhiikwards. Will we got ready for t That is thc questiou. Anderson, >S\ C. END OF THE WAR. Protocol H?gs?d--A Cessation of Hos tilities Ordered. WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.-An official statement for press publication, set ting out the provisions of thc 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 docs 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 thc 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 ernment of the Philippines. 4. That Cuba, Porto Rico and other Spanish islands in tho West Indies shall be immediately evacuated,eand that commissioners, to be appointed within ten days, shall within thirty days from the signing of the protocol meet st Havana and San Juan re spectively to arrange and execute the details of the evacuation. 5. That the United States and Spain will eaoh 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 th?a the 1st of Ootober. 6. On the signing of the protocol hostilities will be suspended, and notioe to that effect will be given as soon as possible by each Government to the commanders of its military and naval forceB. As soon as the peace protocol was signed the President sent for Secre tary Alger, Secretary Locg 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 agaiust the enemy he suspended. Peace negotiations are near ing completion, a protoool having just been signed by representatives of the two oountries. You will inform the commanders of the Spanish force? in the Philippines of these instructions. Further orders will follow. Acknowl edge receipt. By order sf the Secretary of War. H. C. COBBI*, Adjutant General. The orders to Gen. Miles and Gen. Shafter were identical with the above, save as to names. As the order states, further instruc tions will be 63nt to each general. Gen. Merritt wiH be directed to confer with the Spanish commandant at Ma nila, to carry out tho terms of the protocol and to occupy Manila imme diately. Gen. Miles will put himself in communication with the ohief au thority in Porto Rico, for the purpose of having the Spanish forces turn over San Juan and other points to him preparatory to evacuation. Owing to conditions in Cuba, the nrA*?* to lien. Shafter, to be sent hereafter, will he very different from those to other generals. The navy department is also prepar ing orders to all commanders cn linus similar to the war department order. The President has issued the fol lowing PROCLAMATION. By the President of the United States of America-A Proclamation. Whereas, by a protocol concluded and signed August 12, 1898, 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 the Gov ernment of the United States and the Government of Spain, the United States and Spain have formally agreed upon the terms upon which negotia tions for the establishment of pesco 'stuffs io Europe at a pri?e no other must be taken to create a new era of i Uiver to thc Pacific coast." Not avor of South Atlantic seaports. If balance to the Pacific coast, i Atlantic a chance to pet into the Boone's mileage. Port Royal can bc 1010 miles from Chicago. The same bove referred to, shows that it takes ' i, to Chicago, and seven days to New e were $200.000,000 invested in thc nd Omaha and San Francisco-across nith heavy grades. The average rate per day. Now, from Chicago to Port Ids, over inexhaustible mineral beds, nerpowcrs contiguous to the cotton ge mountains at thc maximum grade duccd to 57 feet per mile if need be, citic. reaching Port Royal in two dayB mcisco. Hence tho matter was urged a new era in commercial activity from it," lost it should bo deflected to tho oad like tho Black Diamond, o thc fact that thc result of the war Rico in our hands. Thou we had not Islands. With tho now acquisition of is coming to tho front. This Govern traveling 13,000 milos or moro around , and Port Royal, as a coaling station, uovement-the "new era*'-that is to ?cls of revolution have never yet turn his new era in commercial activity ? J. |j. TRI BULK. between thc 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 bc suspended, and that notice to that effect shall be given as soon as possible by each Government to thc commanders of its military and naval forces: Now, therefore, I, William McKin ley, President of tho United States, do, in accordance with tho stipulation of tho protocol, deolare 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 tho United States to abstain from all acts inconsistent with this proclamation. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my band and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Dono 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 thc 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 1. 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 Mastered Oat. 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 humes. 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 bo 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 lino with the story already printed exclusively in the Journal. The volunteers will bo needed for service in 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 thc first cash payment to the school fund since the meeting of the General Assembly. Tho 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 reidera of this paper will be pleased to learn that there ls at least one dreaded disease that sci ence has been able to cure in all itsstagea, and thst ts Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure ls the only posi tive cure now known to tho medical fraternity. Catarrh be i ncr a constitutional disease req lires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cur?is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby de stroying the foundation of the di ease, and giving the pa Uent strength by building up the constitu tion and asslst'ng nature in doing Its work The proprietors litte ?o much Mth hi its curative powers, that 'Ley offer Ono Hundred l ollara for any ciao that it ralla to cure. Bend for list of tes timonials ANNOUNCEMENTS. FOR TREASURER WILLIAM L. BOLT, the ex-8heriff, IH hereby Hnuounced us a candidate for County Treasurer, subject to tho action of Democratic Primary. ? hereby un neimen myself as a candi* dat? for tho olllco of Treasurer of Ander POI? County, subject to the action of tin Democratic Primary Election. .IAS. M. PAYNB. I hereby announce myHelf as a candi dat?' for the otltco of Treasurer of Ander son County, subject to the action of the Democratic Primary. R. E PARKER. The friend* of L. (). WILLIEORD, Esq., of Rock Milla TowoHhip. respect fully nominate him as a candidate for County TreHsurer, subject to the rules of the Democratic party. BROWN A. WILLSON, of Holton, who tor the lam nineteen years has been Railroad Agoni tlirro. announces himself as a candidate for Treasurer of Anderson Countv, Biibjfct to the rules or tho Doini eratic Primary. FOR COUNTY SUPERVISOR. The friends of OLIVER BOLT respect fully announce him a candidate for Coun ty Supervisor. Kubject to the action of the Democratic Primary Election. I respectfully prosent myself to the voters of Anderdon County for re-election to the ollie? of County Supervisor, subject to the rules of tho Democrstio Primary. W. P. 8NELGR0VE. FOR SENATOR. 1 announce myself a candidate for the State Seuate from Anderson County, sub ject to tho action of tho Democratic Pri mary. _JAJLM_- 8?LLIVAN. FOR HOUSE REPRESENTATIVES. The undersigned respectfully announced 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 IIOUHO of Representatives, subject to the reBult of the D?mocratie Primary Election. GEO. E. PRINCB. The undersigned respectfully announces himself as a candidate for the Houso of Representatives from Anderson County, RUbject to the action nf the Democratic Primary. B. C. MARTIN. I hereby announce myself a candidate for re-election to the House of Represen tatives from Anderson County, subject to the rulec and regulations of the Demo cratic Primary. It. B. A. ROBIN80N. I announce myself to the voters of An derson County as a candidate for a seat in tho Houso of Representatives, subject to rules of the Democratic Primaiy. J. L. JACKSON. HON J. W. ASHLEY is announced as a candidate for re-eleulion to a seat in the House of Representatives, subject to the action of the Democratic primary. T announce myself a candidate for the House of Representative'*, subject to the action of the Democratic Primarv. E. M. RUOKEK, JR. I hereby announce myself a candidate for a seat in the House of Representatives from Anderson County, subject to thc rules of the Democratic primarv. JOHN B. LEVERETT. I announce myself acandldate'.for a seat in the House of Representatives, subject to the rules of the D?mocratie Primarv. J. A. HALL. I hereby announce myself as a candi date for thu HouBe of Representatives from Anderson County, subject to the sc tiou of tho Democratic nriraary. Q. A. RANKIN. FOR COUNTY SUPT. .EDUCATION LEWIS M. MAHAFFEY is hereby announced aa a candidate for the office of County Superintendent of Education for Anderson County, eubject to the action of the Democratic Primary. I hereby announce mysolf as a candi date for re-election to the office of County Superintendent of Education, subject to the rales'.of tba Primarv Election. _ ?tfi? A. W. ATTA WAY. I hereby announce myself as a*csndidate for Superintendent of Education, snbject to the action of the Democrat.!a Primary Election._R. E. NICHOLSON. FOR JUDGE OF'PROBATE. I hereby announce myeelf a candidate for the office of Judge of Probate, subject to the rules governing the Democratic Primary. | T~ " "**. H. H. EDWARDS. I hereby announce myself as a candi date for Probate Judge, subject to the ac tion of the Democratic Primary. R. Y. H. NANCE. I herehv announce my"elf a candidats for the office of Probate Judge, subject to the action of the D?mocratie Primarv. R. M. BURRISS. I announce myself a candidate for the office cf Probate Judge for Andemos County, snbject to the action of the Dem oed tie Primary. M .idsJ. F. RICI. I herehv annoance myself a candidate for the office of Probate Judge, subject to the action of the DemocrstioJPrimarv. _D H. RUSSELL. FOR AUDITOR. . O. N. C. BOLEMAN in respectfully an nounced as a candidate for re-election to the office of County Auditor, Bnhject to the aotion of the Democratic primay y Election._ FO Ri CONG RESS. JULIUS E. B0GG8. of Picken*, is ie Hpectfully announced as a candidate for the Fifty sixth Congress, nubjoct to the action ot the Democratic Primary. I announce to the voters of tho Third Congressional District that I am a candi date for re election to Congress, subject to the rule?? 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 eleotion. an.i pledge myself to abide the result of said election. GEO. JOUN8TONK. BELTON HIGHIISCHOOL, RELTON, 8. C. W. B. WEST, A. G. HOLMES, Pri 11 cl pal. 1st Assistant. A good corps of experienced teachers, among them Mr. A. G. Holmes, who gave such general satisfaction tho past session. Our students take high stands wherever they go. The Collegee recognize our thor ough work. We try to practice common dense in education as well as in other mat ters. Mend ns your son*, and daughter; and we. will do them good. , Send to W. B. West, Belton, S. C , for catalogue. 0-6