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BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDEESON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1. 1899. ~ VOLUME XXXIV-NO. 36 =3 Straw Hats, Crash Hats, Negligee Shirts, Summer Underwear, Serge Suits, And Light-Weight Coats and Vests t O m We have what you want, and as to PRICES you know WE SELL IT FOR LESS. 9? . Evans & Co, THE SPOT GASH CLOTHIERS. THE GREAT IS especially adapted for the very rough country. Its peculiar gearing and plan of construction are such that among stones, or stumps and trees and shrubbery, and over rough ground, it has no ?equal. Without moving from his seat, without checking the team, the di iver can lift either end of the cutter-bar, independently, or both ends at once ; or can raise the bar to a vertical position, and Un? pass by or over obstacles for which other Mowers must be ?urned out. Ii makes no noise when at work. There is no wasted power. It has only two cog-wheels and nc pitman. It has more genuine improvements than all other Mowers combined. Come and let us show you this wonderful Ma chine. SULLIVAN HARDWARE CO OUR SPRING SHOE DEPARTMENT IS now open for the inspection of the public, and we know we can suit . jrybody in exactly the Shoe you want. In Men's Shoes we have cut prices. ?::d are selling high grade, first quality Harvard Ties, at $1.00-former price $1.25. Men's Satin Calf, thoroughly solid Shoes-former price $1.25-our -:w lot at only 90c. In Fine Shoes we have all thc latest and newest produc tions, in all shades of Tans and Vici Kids, Cordovans and Patent Leathers. ";'7e can give you any style Toe or any width made. In Ladies' and Misses Shoes we are sure there is no house in the city .-ho can compare with us IN STYLE, FIT OR PRICE. We have everything in Oxfords and Spring Heel Shoes, in Blacks and ians. If y*)U want to see the most perfect-fitting, attractive and elegant line of stylish and up-to-date footwear ever shown in Anderson come in to sec us. We are headquarters foi Shoes. Very truly. D. C. BROWN & BRO BILL ARFS LETTER. Bill Gives an Interesting Talk on Trusts. A flan ta Const itu Hon. David saith "Put not your trust in princes,'* and if he had lived in our day he would have added nor in million aires or oil trusts or sugar or whiskey or tobacco or even in chewing gum trusts. "Trust in the Lord and do good" is the only trust he commended. I wonder why these combines are called trusts. I reckon it is because thc com biners know it is a rascally business and they will have to trust one another 1 to tote fair and divide square, for they can't enforce it by law. These trusts seem to be a modern invention-a North American idea-an idea of our north ern brethren to make the rich richer ! and the poor poorer. Thc consumers of oil and sugar and such things are not complaining of thc price-nor would they complain if they got them for nothing, but these combines arc founded on selfishness and greed. They disturb the general welfare, destroy j the equilibrium and put tho public in constant peril. Thc3* can raise the I price when they wish to and there is j no competition to keep it down. If j competition dares to build up against j them they can destroy it in a week or a month. They have no heart or pity or kind consideration for their em ployees, but can reduce their wages or discharge them at their pleasure. They defy the law and bribe courts and law makers. Now, it may be possible that the oil trust or the sugar trust sell us those commodities as cheap or cheaper tban if there were no trusts, but we would rather pay more and have a free fight. It is all a one-sided business and the old maxim that "competition is the life of trade" lias been virtually de stroyed. We old men have not ceased to la ment thc destruction of the hundreds of small industries that before the war enriched our State and made our peo ple happy and contented. The time was when there was a wagon shop and a blacksmith shop at every cross roads -a hatter's shop and two or three shoeshops in every village-a tanyard in every settlement and little mills ou every creek. But big fish have swal lowed up the little ones. Their pro ducts may be cheaper now, but thc producers have had to move away or go to planting cotton. Northern capital takes our iron and timber and hides and wool and after paving'freight both ways sell back to us what we had been making at home. Time was when 1 wore shoes that were made in our vil lage-made from leather that was tanned not far away. Time was when I was proud of the wool hat that Ben South made-made while 1 was look ing on. I remember thai the whipping post was planted not far from thc hat ter's shop and how i ran home on one occasion to keep from seeing a white man whipped. "I will meet you at the hatters," was a time-honored maxim, but is not now. Time was when once a week I roth- the little bay marc to mill three miles away and left my grist so as to have a race back with some other boy. And there was a country school on the road and the boys way laid us because we had dared to cry "school butter.'* This reminds me tc say in passing T received a letter the other day from some Alabama .school boys wanting to know the origin and meaning of school butter. My father was an old-time school reacher and said that in his boyhood thc expression was "school better" and signified that "our school is better than your school," and it always provoked u collision. Some very hungry boys corrupted it into "school butter." But the town boys never go to mill nowadays; the mill comes to them. 1 iome-made shoes and hats are things of the past-every thing comes from the north, and is now made by a trust: and on almost every thing we use or consume there is a duty or tariff, and we p:?.y our part ot it to keep up the government expenses and pay the pensions and fight the Filipinos. Talk about the trusts-that pension trust is the. biggest trust of all, and the most corrupt. How the north stands it I cannot understand. Over $2,000,000,000 have already gone that way, and John Brown's soul keeps marching on. Ohio gets ?13,000,000 this year, and Georgia has io pay lu i quota of the 100,000,000 and gets noth ing. Yes, Georgia pays about $0,000, 001) annually through thc operations ol' thc tarif}'. T bought a pocket knife to day for 50 cents that I could have bought in London for half thc money. Just, think of it, my brethren, 80,000, 000 in tariff taxes annually to support a million pensioners, one-tenth of whom are entitled to it under the law and nine-tenths are frauds. This scanda lous trust is barked hythe G. A. Us., and they are backed by thc republican party, and that party is backed by the cohesive power of public plunder, ll this was all that Georgia paid we would be happy, but our State has to pay her part of $800,000,000more than it takes tu run thc national machine. Altogether we pay not less than 840.000,000 an nually for tho privilege ol' remaining in thc union-How is that, for oppres sion? f tell you, iL takes a vast: amount of patriotism tor a southern man tc love, his government and fight for it. The only way to bo a patriot is to shut one's eyes and go it blind, it would not do to think about our grievances, for they interfere with our digestion. l?esides all these troubles there is ii long, dry drought upon us, and our gardens have dried up and the money ! has given out, and the cook is sick, and I have to hunt up kindling wood and lire up the stove before sun-up and go to market, and there is a picnic on hand to-morrow and one of thc little grand children got hurt on the jogging board. It tore the flesh from her ancle, and 1 almost cried; and our dog and another dog got to fighting right over another little one and knocked lier down and scared her into fits, and I couldn't nm to her as fast as I wanted to, for my corporosity interferes with my alacrity. Besides all this, the town is kept in commotion about the jug business, and it has got into the courts and into the churches, and folks have taken sides and friends are alienated, and a man don't dare to go to town hardly for fear of being drawn into it. "A soft answer turneth away wrath," but they are not soft in these parts. "When a man's ways please thc Lord He maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him,"' but his ways don't seem to please the Lord in Cartcrsvillc, for his ene mies are not at peace With him. The great question here is not about drink ink or selling whiskey, but is about the right of a man to order a bottle or a jug from Atlanta for his private usc or for medicinal purposes; and its agita tion and denunciation has made as much talk as thc magna charta, and both sides declare they will take it to the supreme court of the United States of North America and thc Philippines. Then, again. Hon. Pope Brown, the zealous president of the .State Agricul tural Society, says the State will not prosper any more until the negroes are sent away or colonized; but if they woni go, what is to be done aboutit? He says that education has ruined the negro as a laborer, but how is it to be stopped? Thc rich fools at the north keep on dying and leaving money to negro schools, and our law-makers keep on making appropriations for them and taxing us to educate them to oppose our people and to take sides with our political enemies, who are. killing negroes in Indiana because they want work. And now the war party want negroes to go to the Philippines and fight other negroes. That would be a good de liverance all round, but I don't believe they will go to ?any extent. The nigger is in the wood-pile, and he is here to stay. Let him stay as long as he be haves, and if they won't behave and be good citizens they will suffer in the Mesh. Our people are tired fooling with them, and are desperately in ear nest. I reckon wc can get up excur sions and take all the bad ones to In diana and drop them. They will go on an excursion. liir.i. Anr. The Facts of thc Situation. Although the war in the Philippines is Mr. McKinley's own-Congress nevei having declared it-the American peo ple are lighting and paying for it. They arc, therefore, entitled to full and trustworthy information concern ing it. A double censorship at Manila and at Washington keeps this informa tion from the people. But these facts are not denied: 1. The war has now lasted for 188 days, or 2.1 days longer than our wai with Spain. We hold, af ter this period, less of the territory than Spain occupied and less than vre held in Augu? .. f last year. The rebel forces are now more "troublesome" than at any formel time. 2. The war has cost nearly 700 men I killed, ?.?OO wounded, 40,000 invalided. It has cost $(?3,000,000 in money and is costing nearly $300,000 a day. Om losses in thc lighting in Cuba which resulted in the surrender of Santiago and the end of the war with Spain were about 230 killed and 1,300 wounded. Our losses in Porto Rico were " killed and 40 wounded. 3. There have been sent to Cen. Otis 38,000 men. Some 4,500 nu ?re are under sail orders. The President has decided, it is said, quietly to enlist the W.OOC volunteers lie was authorized by Con gress to add to the anny for temporary use. 4. According to the best expert tes timony it will take from 100,000 to 150, 000 troops to subdue thc filipinos and hold thc principal points in thc islands. 5. The rainy season will soon put un end to campaigning. "Fifty per cent of our men will be incapacitated by sickness and tho territory overrun will have to he abandoned; Manila will bc in a state of seize again." This is the testimony of Dr. McQuesfon, late ol Cen. Otis'staff, and health officer at Manila. fi. The Presiden t's peace commission is a total failure, owing largely to its inability to consider any terms except unconditional surrender and absolute submission to the "sovereignty of the I'ni ted States" This is hot a pleasing picture. It is neither "benevolent assimilation'1 nor successful conquest. It has all thc ap pearance of a foolish and futile and endless guerilla war. It Mr. McKinley eau "crush tin; insurrection byan over whelming force,"' as his supporters arc urging him to do, it is manifestly thc part of wisdom for him to db so. There is neither honor nor pro lit in permit ting this unnecessary and Un-American war to drag on into another year. Xar York World. W, 0. T. ??. DEPARTMENT.1 Conducted by thc ladies ol' thc TV. C. '1'. C. ol" Anderson. S. C. .Masters .Made Slades. _ i One thing which led nie to make up i my mind never to touch liquor was the ! ruin which I saw it briiiir to some^of ? the finest minds with which 1 have ever i come in contad. 1 have seeu. even in i my few years of professional life, some of tlie smartest literary men dethroned ' from splendid positions, owing to noth- j ing else but their indulgence in wine, j I have known men with salaries of : thousands of dollars a year come to . beggary from drink. Only recently there applied to me for ! any position 1 could offer him. ouc ot! j the most brilliant editorial writers in the newspaper profession-a man who j two years ago easily commanded one ; hundred dollars fora single editorial in t his special held. That man became ? so unreliable from drink that editors j are now afraid of his articles, and, j although he. can to-day write as forci- ,' bio editorials as at any time during his j life, he sits in a cellar in one of our j cities writing newspaper wrappers for one dollar a thousand. That is one ; instance of several I could relate. I I do not hold my friend up as a "terrible , example." Ile is but one of a type of mon who conyinecdme. and may con- [ vince others, that a clear mind and j liquor do not; go together. I know it is said when om- brings up ? such an instance as this: "0, well, that j man drank to excess. One glass will not hurt anyone." How do these peo ple know that it will notOno drop of | kerosene has been known to throw into flame an almost hopeless tire, and one j glass of liquor may fan into Hame a i smoldering spark hidden away where ; wc never thought it existed. The., spark may be there, and it may not be. ; Why take the risk ? Liquor will never j do ? healthy boy or young man the [ least particle of good : it may do him ! harm. A man who will wittingly tempt | a young man who he knows has a prin- j ciplo against liquor is a man for whom ; a halter is too good. Then, as I looked round ami came to know more of people and things, I found the always unanswerable argu ment in favor of a young man's absti nence-that is, that "the most successful men in America to-day are those who never lift a wine-glass to their lips. Hecomiug interested in this fact, f had the curiosity to inquire into it: 1 found that of twenty-eight of the leading business men in the. country, whose names I selected at random, twenty two never touch a drop of wine. I made up my mind that there was some reason for this. If liquor brought sat'?' pleasures, why did these men abstain from it '.' If, as some say, ?tis a stimu lant to a bu sy man. why do not these men, directing the largest business interests in this country, resort to it ? And when 1 saw that these were che men whose opinions in great business matters were accepted by the leading concerns of thc world. I concluded that their judgment in the use of liquor would'satisfy me. If their judgment hi business matters could command the respect and attention of the leaders of trade on both sides of tho sea, their decision as to the use of liquor was not apt to be wrong.-Edward ll*. f'<df, Kdifpr Lttdie* Home .Journal. An OM Iden Exploded, Thal burglars Ot tho more advanced type can and do usc chloro "orin in thc commission of their crime!-: is a belief , widely held ami rarely contradicted, and yet there is. curiously, little foun dation for it. Indeed, those who are most familiar willi the administration and effects of anaesthetics assert that there is no foundation at all for it ex cept iu the imagination of sensational writers and in the needs of people whose losses cannot safely be explain ed by statements of fact. The. ques tion has been raised at Pittsburg re cently by several robberies at which chloroform is said to have boon cm ployed, and opinions of tho local ex perts arc strongly against tho possibil ity of such use. Ono of the physicians interviewed is quoted as sayiug: "As far as known, chloroform and other have never taken effect on a healthy sleeping person without that person knowing it. Both of these anaesthet ics are at first stimulating and invig orating in their effect and will arouse a sleeping person. The er tire system is excited and the heart beats violently and fast. The usc of cit her chloro form or other, or any other anaesthetic, by burglars is absurd, lt frequently takes physicians with their various ? appliances from 10 to fifteen minutes to put a person nuder the influence of either of these anaesthetics, uud often a patient will become, so stimulated and active before the effect is secured that it requires several strong men to hold him."' The idea that the mere in troduction of chloroform into a room would cause unconsciousness was de rided as absurd. Even if doors sind windows were airtight, il would take several gallons of cither anaesthetic so to till u room with the heavy fumes as to affect a sleeper on a beet of average height. And the first effect would be, not deep sleep, 'nut excited wakeful ness. The chances are. then, that when anybody claims to have been chloroformed by burglars there is something queer about the case.-AV c/iff nar. Five (?iris Drowned. LA air AS AS, TEX., .June #?.-Mrs. T. J. Lloyd, living seven milt's northwest of this place, live daughters and a visi tor. Miss ('hilders, went in bathing in a creek to-day. The three youngest girls went beyond their depth. Their eldest sister and Miss Childers went to their rescue and all live were drowned. Mrs. Lloyd saved her other daughter only by heroic efforts. The bodies were recovered. - An unbridled passion sometimes leads to the halter. STATE NEWS. - Court will convene at Walhalla on the second Monday in July. - Twenty-three cows with thc tu berculosis have been discovered in one herd in Charleston. - Newberry county reports a tine wheat crop this year. York county has about a half crop. - Wm. M. Kersh, of Atlanta, died suddenly at the Mansion House in Greenville last Sunday. - Prioleau Southern \ as shot and instantly killed near Marietta, Green ville County, last Sunday by Tench Cox. - John Taylor, a popular yo^ng man of Laurens, was drowned while seining with a party of friends Tues day afternoon. - Mayor James T. Williams, of Greenville, announces himself as a candidate for the mayoralty of that city for thc fourth term. - Governor MeSweency wants it understood that there are no vacancies on the constabulary force to be filled and there is no use to send in appli cations. - Col. G. McDufhe Miller is quite sick at his home in Ninety Six. This will be grievous news to his many warm personal friends and the sur vivors of Orr's Kines. - J. F.dward Nettles, Master of Darlington county, formerly State sen ator and I'nited States consul at Tri este, Austria, under President Cleve land, died at his home in Darlington last week. - T. M. McCants. a fanner of Or angeburg county, sowed nine acres in j oats last fall and two in wheat. He j made 531? bushels of eats and 42 j bushels of wheat. That was at the I rate of 5?) bushels of oats to the acre. - Capt.. Ezra B. Fuller, of the Sev I en th cavalry, who has beea instruc j tor in military science at Clemson I College, has been ordered by the war j department to join his regiment now j stationed in Cuba. j - J. K. Monah, of Abbeville coun j ty. is dead. Several weeks ago in at tempting to mount his horse, the stirrup leather broke and he felFto thc ground, being painfully hurt, but it was thought not to be a serious mat ter. - lour prisoners escaped from the ? Florence jail last wjek, one of then: ! being James Abnham, convicted ol i murder and sentenced to be handed I July 7th. Three of thc escaped rris lon?rs. incUuliug Abraham, were cap ' tured in Darlington aud taken back tc j Florence. - All veterans and visitors to th< i State Reunion of Confederate veteran! in Chester, July 26th and 27th. ar< requested to report to J. W. Meed. ! chairman committee. Chester. S. C. as soon a* possible, so that arrange mcnts can bc made for entertainment j without confusion. ! - Kev. William Aiken Kelley, whe I has thc faculty of disappearing fron family, home, friends and work a? suddenly as one of the rapid firins guns of modern make, suddenly drop ped out of sight last December in th< city of Charleston. For weeks he wa? lost. Finally he turned up in New Orleans begging for help to get bael to his home. Bishop Duncan has placed him over his appointment tc which he wa^. assigned at the last Con ference. Over Two Hu To Arrive in I am sole Agent and cont: Old Hickory and Tennessi Babcock, Tyson & Jones, many other makes. These Wagons and Buggi so don't buy a "pig in the pok represented as being "just as Wagons have advanced $S I will continue to sell for thii A first-class 23 1-4 Wagoi The Celebrated "Columbis and Dust Proof Axles for $50 When they arrive I will g "Barnett" Buggy for $35.00. must be sold. While in the West a few riages at a price that will sui I am in the Buggy and V one in the business can sell y spot cash for my goods and ge Let every one that wants SURE DO YOU GOOD. JOS - A few days ago in Spartanburg I'aul, the five-year-old son of Pre siding Elder W. P. Meadors. playing in a stable loft in his father's lot, fell I through the floor, his head striking the wall and fracturing his skull. The ! wound is a serious one and there is some doubt as to his recovery. - Last Wednesday at Conway, Horry county, a party of negroes at tempted to lynch a white youth named Sam Dowe, who had killed a negro named Green. The negro ran into Dowe with a bicycle and the killing resulted. Dowe's father drove away the lynching party with a shot gun. - It is said that about fifty or fifty five appointments will be allotted to South Carolina io the clerical force of thc census bureau. The appoint ments will be made upon recommen j dation of the Senators and Represen tatives, the appointees being required to pass the census office examination. - Thc Confederate veterans are get ting after pension frauds. In accord ance with orders from Gen. Walker, commanding the S. C. Divisiou, the matter will be thoroughly investigated at the reunion in Chester on July 2Gth, by a committee composed of one member from each camp in the State. - During the thunder storm last Saturday night, at Sellers, Mr. Davie. Carter lost three horses from an elec tric discharge. His stable has a pas sage, and three horses were stabled or: one side of the passage and one horse on the opposite side. The one horse was uninjured. The stables were not set on fire and were very little ip jared. Mr. Carter saw the flash, but was un aware of his loss until the next morn ing. Fewer and Better Roads. In another column appears a notice of a ;,Road Builders7 Institute^ to be held in Charlotte, N. C., on July ll and continue 10 days or two weeks. Every reader of The News should read this notice, think about and decide what should be done to have this city and . county represented at the institution. , This city should send its engineer or such other officer as may have charge of improving the streets. The county ' should send its supervisor and a repre ' sentative from every township-the mau who has charge of roads and who ! is responsible for road improvements, t Only those should go who go to learn, ? something. This is not a junketing, ^ free and easy outing, but a school for the betterment of every mans property in the city and country. If we learn 'nothing from Inst will UT? experience 1 then our name is mud. One good road is better than 16 of the kind we now i have. Notmoreroadsbutbetrerroads. 5 -Greenville Xeics. Deafness Gannet be Cured ' hy local applications, ES they cannot reach the diseased portion of th? ear. There is only one way to cure Deafness and that is hy constitu - tional remcd: j). Deafu^ss is caused by an intlatn L ed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustach . ian Tube. When this tube gets inflamed you have a ruinblirn' lound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed deafness is the result, and uuless the inflamation can bc taken out and this ' tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will . be destroyed forever ; nine cases out of ten aie caused by catarrah, which is nothing but an in } flamed condition of the mucous surfaaes. ? We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case j of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, - I free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, 0. j 4S*Sold by Drugeists, 75c. ' j Hall's Family Pills are the best. j j Cheap Printing. ; i Law Briefs at GO cents a Page-Good , I Work, Good Paper, Prompt Delivery. 5 Minutes cheaper than at any other > house. Catalogues in +he best style If you have printing to do, it will be to your interest to write to the Press and 1 Banner, Abbeville, S. C._tf. ndred and Fifty nd BUGGIES next few Days. roi this territory for ?e and other Wagons. Columbia and Columbus, and es are j well known to you all, e" by buying something that is good." ?.50 each, but to reduce my stock :ty days at same old price, a for^$45.00. i" Buggy, with Grade Wheels .00, worth $65.00. (ell you a first-class Piano-Body Worth a good deal more, but days ago I secured a line of Car prise you. Tagon* business to stay, and no ou cheaper than I can. I pay it benefit of all discounts, j a vehicle call on me and I will ?. J. FRET WELL.