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CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, KEB UT A RY 22. 185M. YOI j I'M E XXXIY-NO. 85. t I? t I t ssa WWW =X3 SO Straw Hats, Crash Hats, Negligee Shirts, Summer Underwear, Serge Suits, And Light-We:. it Coats and Vests =X3j ap 3=3 We have what you want, and as to PRICES yon know - - - - WE SELL IT FOR LESS. THE SPOT GASH CLOTHIERS. 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 teano, the di iver can lift either end of the cutter-bar, independently, or both ends at once; ?r can raise the bar to a vertical position, 4nd thus pass by or over obstacles tor which other Mowers must be turned out. It makes i^o noise when at work. There is no wasted power. It has only two cog-wheels ard no pitman. It has more genuine improvements than all other Mowers combined. Come and let us show you this wonderful Ma chine. - ' ?ULLIVAN HARDWARE CO IR SPRING SHOE DEPARTMENT S now open for thc inspection of the public, and we know we can suit body in exactly th? Shoe you want. In Men's Shoes we have cut ?ricos, aelling nigh grade, first quality Harvard Ties, at $1.00-former price Men's Satin Calf, thoroughly solid ?boes--former price $1 ?25-our at only 90c. In Fino Shoes we have all the latest and newest produo 8i in all shades of Tans and Vtci Kids, Cordovans and Patent Leathers, can give you any style Toe 4r any width made. Io Ladies' and Misses Shoes we aro sure there is no house in the city can compare with us- % IK STYLE, FIT OR PBICE. We have everything ia Oxfords and Spring Heel Shoos, ic Blacks and Jf you want to seo'the most nerfect-fitticgv attractive and elegant linc of fish and up-to-date footwear ever shown'in Anderson come in to see rn,. We aro headquarters for Shoes. . Very truly, D. C. BROWN dr. BRO. I BILL ARP'S LETTER. BUI (iires an Interesting Talk un Trusts. Atlanta Constitution. David saith "Pat not your trust in princes," and if he had lived in our day he would have added nor in million- 1 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 aro called trusts. I reckon it is because the com biners know it is a rascally business and they will have to trust oue another to tote fair and divido 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. The consumers of oil and sugar and such things ?rc not complaining of the price-nor would they complain if they got them for nothing, but these combines aro founded on selfishness and greed. They disturb the general welfare, destroy tho equilibrium and put the public in constant peril. They can raise the price when they wish to and there is no competition io keep it down. If competition dares to build up against 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 ami 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 than if there were no trusts, but we would rather pay more and have a free light. It is all a one-sided business and the old maxim that "competition is the lifo of trade" has been virtually de stroyed. We old men have not ceased to la ment thc destruction of the hundreds of small industries that before thc 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 on every creek. But big fish have swal lowed up the little ones. Their pro ducts may be cheaper now, but the producers have had to move away or go to planting cotton. Northern capital takes our iron and timber and hides and wool and niter paying freight both ways sell buck to us what w? lind been making nt home. Time was when I wore shoes that were made in our vil lage-made from leather that was tasn?cl not fur away. Time was when I was proud of tho wool hat that Ben South made-made while I was look iug on. J remember that the whipping post was planted not far from the 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 hatter's," was a time-honored maxim, but is not now. Time was when once a week I rode 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 to say in passing T received n letter the other day from some Alabama school boys wanting to know thc origin and meaning of school butter. My father was an old-time school teacher and said that in his boyhood the expression was "school better" and signified that "our school is better than your school," and it alwoys provoked a collision. Some very hungry boys corrupted it into "school butter." But the town boys never go to mill uowadoys; the mill comes to them. Home-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 pay our part of it to keep- np the government expenses and pay the pensions and fight thc 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 to pay her quota of thc 100,000,000 and gets noth ing. Yes, Georgia pays about $0,000, 000 annually through tho operations of the tariff. I bought a pocket knife to day for 50 cents that I could have bought in London for half the money. Just think of it, my brethren, $0,000, 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 backed by the G. A. Bs., and they , are backed by the republican party, and that party is backed by the cohesive power of public plunder. If this was all that Georgia paid we would be happy, but our State has to pay her part of $800,000,000 more than it takes to run the national machine. Altogether we pay not less than $40,000,000 an nually for tho privilege of remaining in tho union-How is that for oppres sion? I tell you, it takes a vast amount of patriotism for a southern man to lovo his government and fight for it. Tho only way to be a patriot is to shut ono's eyes and go it blind. It would not doto think about onr grievances. for they interfere with our digestion. Resides all these troubles there is a long, dry drought upon us, and our gardens hu ve dried up mid thc money lias given out, and the cook is sieh, and I hnvo to hunt up kindling wood and Uro up the stove before sun-up and go to market, and there isa picnic on hand to-morrow und one of the little grand children got hurt on the jogging board. It tore tho flesh from her aurie, und 1 almost cried; und our dog and another dog got to lighting right over another little one and knocked her down and scared her into lits, and I couldn't, run to her ns fast as I wanted to, for my corporo8ity interferes with my alacrity. Resides all this, thc town is kept in commotion about tho jug business, and it luis got into the courts and into the churches, and folks hay? 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 ide?se the Lord He mnketh even his enemies to bo at peace with him,'? but his ways don't seem to please the Loni in Cnrtersville. for his ene mies ure not ut peuce with him. Tho great question here is not about drink ink or selling whiskey, but is about the right of amanto order a bottle ora jug from Atlnuta for his private usc or for medicinal purposes; mid its agita tion and denunciation has made as much talk as the magna charta, and botli sides declare they will take it to the supreme court of the United States of North America and thc Philippines. Then, again. Hon. Pope llrowu, 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 wou^go, what is to be dom- about it / He says that education has ruined thc negro as a laborer, but how is it to be stopped? Tho rich fools at. the north keep on dying and leaving money to negro schools, and our lnw-mukers keep on making appropriations fel them and taxing us to educate them to oppose our people and to take sides with our political enemies, who ure. killing negroes in Indiana because they want work. And now the war party want negroes to go to the Philippines and light other negroes. That would be a good de liverance all round, but I don't believe they will go to nny 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 softer in the flesh. Our people are tired fooling with them, and are desperately in ear nest. I reckon wo can get up excur sions and toko all the bad ones to In diana and drop them. They will go on an excursion. Un.i. Awi*. The Facts of thc Situation. Although the war in the Philippines is Mr. McKinley's own-Congress never having declared it-the American peo ple are fighting and paying for it. They are, therefore, entitled to full and trustworthy information concern ing it. A double censorship nt Manila and nt Washington keeps this informa tion from the people. Hut these facts aro not denied: . 1. The war lins now lasted for 130 days, or 25 days longer than our war with Spain. We hold, after this period, less of tho territory than Spain occupied and less than we held in August of last year. The rebel forces aro now more "troublesome" than at any former time. 2. The war has cost nearly 700 men killed, 0,500 wounded, 40,000 invalided. It hus cost $03,000,000 in money and is costing nearly $300,000 a day. Our Tosses in thc fighting in Cuba which resulted in the surrender of Santiago and tho end of tho war with Spain were about 280 killed and 1,300 wounded. Our losses in Porto Rico were 3 killed and 40 wounded. 8. There have been sent to Geii. Otis 88,000 men. Some 4,500 more arc under sail orders. The President haS decided, it is said, quietly to enlist thc 35,000 volunteers he was authorized by Con gress to ndd to thc 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 und hold thc principal points in the islands. 3. The rainy season will soon put an end to campaigning. "Fifty por cent of our mon will be incapacitated by sickness and tho territory overrun will have to be abandoned; Manila will be in a state of seize again." This is the testimony of Dr. McQueston, late of Gen. Otis' stair, and health officer at Manila. 0. Tho President's peace, commission is a total failure, owing largely to its inability to consider any terms except unconditional surrender and absoluto submission to the "sovereignty of tho United States."' This is not a pleasing picture. It is neither "benevolent assimilation" nor successful conquest. It has all the ap pearance of a foolish and futile and endless guerilla war. If Mr. McKinley can "crush the insurrection by an over whelming force," as his supporters aro urging him to do, it is manifestly the part of wisdom for him to do so. There is neither honor nor profit iu permit ting this unnecessary and Un-American war to drag on into another year. Kew York World. W. 0. T. JJ. DEPARTMENT.1 Couti oe ted by tho ladies ot (he \V. C. T. I', of Anderson, s. C. Musters .Miule Slaves. One thing which led ni?' to make up i my mind never to touch liquor was the ' ruin which I saw it bring to sumo of ? tho finest minds with which I have ever come in contact. I have seen, even tn my few years <>1" professional life, sonic ot the smartest literary men dethroned ' from splendid positions, owing to not li ing else but their indulgence in wine, j 1 have known men with salaries of thousands of dollars a year rome lo ' beggary from drink. <?nly recently there applied lo me for j any position 1 could oiler him. one of | the. most brilliant editorial writers in the newspaper profession-a man who two years ago easily commanded ono hundred dollars fora single editorial in , his speeial Hold. That man became ; so unreliable from drink (bat editors1 are now afraid of his articles, and, although ho can to-day write as forei-j hie editorials as at any time during his life, he sits in a collar in one of our cities writing newspaper wrappers for one dollar a thousand. That is one instanee of several I eould relate. I do not hold my friend up as ?i "terrible example." Ile is but om? of a type ol' men who convinced inc. and may con vince others, thal a chai mimi and liquor ?lo not go together. 1 know it is said win n ?nu* brings up such au instance as this: "O, well, thal man drank to excess. One glass will not hurt anyone.'1 How do those peo ple know that it will not .' Ono drop of Kerosene has been known to throw into linnie an almost hopeless tire, ami ono glass of liquor may fan into Hume a smoldering spark hidden away where we never thought it. existed. Thc spark may be there, and it may not bc Wliy take the risk .' Liquor will never doa healthy boy or young man the least particle of good : it may do him hann. A man win? will wittingly tempt a young milli who he knows has a prin ciple against liquor is a man for whom a halter is too good. Then, as I looked round and carno to know moro of people ami things. I found the always unanswerable argu ment in favor o'f a young man's absti nence-that is, that the most successful men in America to-day are those who never liff a wine-glass to their lips. ! llecoiniug interested in this tuet, I had the curiosity to inquire into it : I found that of twenty-eight of the lending business men in the country, whose names I selected at random, twenty two never touch a drop of wine. 1 made un my mind that there was some reason for this. If liquor brought sale pleasures, why did these, men abstain from it ? If, a's sonn? say, it is a stimu lant to a busy man, why do mit these men, directing the largest business interests in this country, resort to it? Aipl when 1 saw that these worn the 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 in business matters could command the respect and attention of the lenders qt trade on both sides of the sea, their decision as to the use of liquor was not ant, to be wrong.-Edward IV. Uni;, Editor Ludir? Home .tourn?t. An Ohl Ideo Exploded. That burglars Of tilt: more advanced type eau and do usc chloroform in the commission of their crimes is a belief widely held and rarely contradicted, and yet there is. curiously, little foun dation for it. Indeed, those who un? most familiar with tho administration and effects of anaesthetics assert that there is no foundation at all for it ex cept iu thc 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 ruiscd at Pittsburg re cently by several robberies at which chloroform is said to have been em ployed, and opinions of the. local ex perts arc strongly against the possibil ity of such use. Ono of tho physicians interviewed is quoted as saying: "As far as known, chloroform and ether have never taken effect on a healthy sleeping person without that person knowing it. Both of these, anaesthet ics aro at first stimulating and invig orating in their effect and will arouse a sleeping person. Tho entire system is excited and tho heart beats violently and fast. The uso of cither chloro^ form or ether, or any other anaesthetic, by burglars is absurd. It frequently takes physicians with their various . appliances from 10 to fifteen minutes to put a person under tho influence of either of these anaesthetics, and often a patient will become so stimulated and active before tho effect is secured that it requires several strong men to hold him." Tho idea that the mero in troduction of chloroform "into a room would cause unconsciousness was de rided as absurd. Even if doors and windows were airtight, it would take several gallons of cither unaesthetic so to fill a room with tho heavy fumes as to affect a sleeper on a bed of average height. And tho first effect would he, not deep sleep, but excited wakeful ness. The chances are, then, that when anybody claims to have been chloroformed by burglars there is something queer about the case.- Ex change. Fire (?Iris Drowned. LAMPABAS, TEX., June 2:i.-Mrs. T. J. Lloyd, living seven miles northwest of this place, five daughters and a visi tor, Miss Childers, went in bathing in a creek to-day. Tho three youngest girls went beyond their depth. Their oldest sister and Miss Childers wont to their rescue and all five were drowned. Mrs. Lloyd saved her other daughter only by heroic efforts. The bodies were, recovered. - An unbridled passion sometimes leads to thc halter. STATE NEWS. Court will convene at Walhalla on tho second Monday in July. 1 ii Twenty-three cowa with the tu- tl bcrculosis have been discovered in one : t herd iti Charleston. w Newberry county reports a lim* ! s when crop this year. York county has about u half crop. I Wm. M. Kersh, of Atlanta, died | t suddenly at the Mansion House io Greenville last Sunday. -- I'rioleau Southern \ as shot and instantly killed near Marietta, Green ville Cmnty. lust Sunday by Tench Cox doini Taylor, a popular yo*?l?g man of Laurens, was drowned while 1 seining with a party of friends Tues i day afternoon. - Mayor James T. Williams, of I Greenville, announces himself as a?. I candidate for the mayoralty of that I t ' city for the fourth term. Governor McSweency wants it understood that there are no vaeaueies on the constabulary force tn be tilled and there is no use tn send in appli i cations. - Cid. G. MeDutho Miller is quite : sick at his home in Ninety Six. This will be grievous news tn hts ninny warm personal friends ami the sur vives of Orr's li?fles. J. F.dward Notules. .Master nf i Darlington county, formerly Stat o sen ! ator and I'nited States consul at Tri , este, Austria, nuder President Cleve I land, died it his home in Darlington 1 last week. - T. M. MeCants. a farmer of Or augeburg county, sowed nitu acres in oats last fall and two in wheat. Ho j made ?'511 bushels of oats and 12 i bushels of wheat. That was at thc rate of f>i> bushels of oats to thc acre. - Capt. Ezra H. Fuller, of tho Sev j en th cavalry, who has been instrue j tor in military science at Clemson I College, has been ordered by the war department to join his regimont now stationed iu Cuba. - J. If. Morrah. of Abbeville coun ty, is dead. Several weeks ago in at tempting to mount his horse, the stirrup leather broke and he fclFto thc ground, being painfully hurt, but it was thought not to be a serious mat ter. - Foiir prisoners escaped from thc Florence jail last week, ono of them ! being ?lames Abraham, convicted of ; murder and sontonoed to be hanged ? duly 7th. Three of thc escaped pris loner*, including Abraham, were cap j tureii in Darlington and taken back to j Florence. - All veterans and visitors to thc State Reunion of Confederate veterans in Chester, duly 2<Jtli and 27th, are requested to report to J. W. Heed, chairman committee. Chester. S. C.. as soon as possible, so that arrange ments can bc made for entertainment without confusion. - Rev, William Aiken Kelley, who has the faculty of disappearing from family, home, friends and work as suddenly as one of the rapid firing guns of modern make, suddenly drop ped out of Bight last December in thc city of Charleston. For weeks he was lost. Finally he turned up in New Orleans begging for help to get back to his home. Bishop Duncan has placed him over his appointment to which he was assigned at the last Con ference. Over Two Hunt WAGONS ai To Arrive in n I am sole Agent and control Old Hickory and Tennessee Babcock. Tyson & Jones. ( many other makes. These Wagons and Buggies so don't buy a "pig in the poke1' represented as being "just as go Wagons have advanced $2.5 I will continue to sell for thirty A first-class 23 1-4 Wagon ? The Celebrated "Columbia" and Dust Proof Axles for $50.01 When they arrive I will sel "Barnett" Buggy for $35.00. ^ must be sold. While in the West a few da riages at a price'that will sur pr I am in the Buggy and Wa; one in the business can sell you spot cash for my goods and get 1 Let every one that wants a SUBE DO YOU GOOD. JOS. - A few days ago in Spartanburg a ul, the five-year-old son of Pre . ling Kider W. 1'. Meadors. playing i a stable loft in his father's lot. fell ii rough the floor, his hc?id striking ho wall and fracturing his skull. Thc round is a serious one and there i onie doubt as to his recovery. - liast Wednesday at Conway, lorry county, a party of negroes at empted to lynch a white youth named iain Dowe, who had killed a negro lamed Green. The negro ran into )owe with a bicycle and the killing esultcd. Dowe's father drove away he lynching party with a shot gun. - It is said that about fifty or fifty - ive appointments will he allotted tc >outh Carolina in the clerical force o he census bureau. Tho appoint - nents will bc made upon rocoiuinen latiou of tho Senators and Rcpreaen atives, the appointees being required o pass thc census office examination. - Thc Confederate veterans aro get ing after pension frauds, in accord ince with orders from (ion. Walker, lonunanding thc S. C. Division, tho natter will be thoroughly investigated it thc reunion in Chester on July ililli, by a committee composed of me member from each camp in tin plate. - During the thunder storm last Saturday night, at Sellers, Mr. David Darter lost throe horses from an elec tric discharge. His stable has a pas sage, and three horses were stabled on ;mc side of the passage and one horse on the opposite side. Thc ono horse was uninjured. Thc Btables were uot set on lire and were very little injured. Mr. Carter saw the flash, but was un aware of his loss until thc next morn ing. - ? - - ? - - Fewer und Better Hoads. lu another column appears a notice of n "Bond Builders' Institute" tobe 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 bo done to have this city anil county represented at the institution. This city should send its engineer or snell other officer ns may have charge, of improving tho streets. The county should send its supervisor and a repre sentative from every township-tho mau who has charge of roads and who is responsible fur road improvements. Only thoso should go who go to learn, something. This is not a junketing, freo and easy outing, but a school for thc betterment of every man's property in the city and country. If wo learn nothing from Inst winter* expericne, then our name is mud. Ono g??d road is better than 10 of the kind we now have. Not moro roads but better roads. -Greenville Nave. Deafneii Cannot be Cured by local applications, as they ??uiiiut roach lin* diseased portion of thu ear. There is only one way to ctiro Deafneu, and that ls by constitu tional remodies. Deafness ls caused br an inflam ed condition of the mucous lining of tho Ku etaon - ian Tubo. When this tube gets inflamed you tuero a rumbling > ou nd or Imperfect hearing, and when it ia entirely closed deafness lathe result, and micas the inflamation can bo taken out and this tubo restored to Its normal condition, hearing ?ill 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 gire One Hundred Dollars (or any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulara, froe. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo. O. ?9-Sold by Druggists, 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Cheap Printing. Law Briefs at CO cents a Pago-Good Work, Good Paper, Prompt Dclivory. Minutes cheaper than nt any ocher house. Catalogues in tho best style If you havo printing to do, it wiU he to ?our interest to write to the Press and ianner, Abbeville, S. C._tf. ired and Fifty ii BUGGIES ext few Days. I this territory for and other Wagons. Columbia and Columbus, and are j well known to you all, by buying something that is iod." 0 each, but to reduce my stock r days at same old price. br?$45.00. Buggy,' with Grade Wheels X worth $65.00. 1 you a first-class Piano-Body forth a good deal more, but y s ago I secured a line of Car i8e you. gon" business to stay, and no i cheaper than I can. I pay benefit of all discounts, vehicle call on me and I will el. FRET WELL.