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I BY CLD?KSCALES & LANGSTON^ ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, 1899. YOI-UME XXXV-NO. 2. I When our competitors see how well we are succeeding they often wish we were never born. They blame us for ruin ing the Clothing business, bat we defy them to prove one in stance wherein we broke our word or our rules. We sell everybody we can, but always for SPOT CASH, and that's the reason our prices are so little for good Goods. When, eighteen months ago, we commenced our Spot Cash business our compet itors considered ns a huge joke, and claimed that the people wouldn't pay Cash when they could get Goods on Credit ; and as for Prices they said the trade couldn't tell the difference, even if we did sell cheaper. We have proved that the trade can tell the difference in Prices, and we are doing more busi ly . ness now than ever before, and we get the Spot Cash for every article we sell. Straw and Crash Hats CUT IN HA?.F ! ; 25c. Straw and Crash Hats.now 13c 50c. Straw and Crask Hats.now 25c 75c. Straw Hats.now 38c $1 00 Straw Hats.now 50c $1 25 Straw Hats.-now 63c $1 50 Straw Hats.now 75c Let us impress the fact upon you that this is not a sale of out-of-date il&is. These Hats are desirable, stylish and seasonable. Our reason for coting these Goods is that the sizes are brokeD. If you attend this sale jou ?ill be convinced that WE SELL IT FOR LESS." Evans & Co THE1 SPOT GASH CLOTHIERS. THE GREAT hanlon 18 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 driver can lift either encl of the cutter-bar, independently, or both ends at once; or can raise the bar to a vertical position, and thus pass by or over obstacles for which other Mowers mn?t be turned out. Ii makes no noise when at work. There is no wasted power, lt baa only two cog-wheels and no pitman. It bas more genuine improvements than all other Mowers combined. Come and let us show you this wonderful Ma chine. SULLIVAN HARDWARE CO. DUR SPRING SHOE DEPARTMENT IS now open for the inspection of the public, and we know we can suit everybody in exactly the Shoe you want. In Men's Shoes we have cut prices, and are selling high grade, first quality Harvard Ties at $1.00-former price $2.25. Men's Satin Calf, thoroughly solid Shoes-former price $1.2.")-our new lot at only 00c. In Fine Shoes we have all the latest and newest produc tions, in all shades of Tans and Vici Kids. Cordovans and Patent leathers. We 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 -v'no can compare with us IN STYLE, FIT OR PRICE. We have everything in Oxfords and Spring Heel Shoes, in Blacks and 'ians. If you 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 for Shoes. Very truly. D. C. BROWN & BRO BILL ARFS LETTER. Bill Says There is no Entertainment as Cheap as Reading. Atlanta Constitution. Some notable person-I believe it was Lady Montague-said "there is no en tertainment so cheap as reading and no pleasure as lasting." Especially is this true nowadays when there is so much to read that is cheap, instructive and interesting. In fact, reading is now the best part of a liberal education. A well read person is wiser, happier and better fitted for the duties and trials of life than the scholar who has graduated at the top in the arts and sciences. Of course, I mean good reading-such as history, ancient and modern; biography, where we get both example and pre cept;'good storybooks and standard novels that9 teach good morals; good magazine literature and good news papers, whose editors are conscientious and feel their responsibility. "As a man sows, so shall he reap," and we might as truly say what a child reads, so will his or her moral and emotional character be. The schools educate thc intellect only, but reading affects thc heart, the emotions and passions and establishes the character of the young for good or for evil. Man has been defined to be a bundle of prejudices, and these prejudices most generally come from the books, magazines or newspapers that we read. Little stories like "Androcles and the Lion" or "Damon and Pythias"' have molded the character of thousands of children, and just so have "Robinson Crusoe," the "Young Marooners" and the "Swiss Family Robinson" estab lished the characters of childreu of a larger growth. Whether a man de spises or admires Napoleon depends on whether he has read Scott or Abbott. Whether a man was a whig or a demo crat in the old times depended on the newspaper he took. As great a man as Dr. Miller, who was an old line whig; had a contempt for Thomas Jefferson because he was per-se the founder of the democratic party. "Jefferson must have been a very great man," said I, "for he wrote the declaration of inde pendence." "And what is that?" said the doctor, "but a series of ungram matical platitudes tiiat any schoolboy might have -written. The first sen tence is ridiculous, for it says a decent respect for the opinions of mankind. A decent respect! Who ever heard of an indecent respect? Why didn't he say 'respect for1 and leave out the 'decent,'" and he scarified the whole document from a whig standpoint. Well I was ruminating about this while reading Percy Gregg's high toned but merciless criticism of Harriet Beecher Stowe, "Uncle Tom's Cabin/' Gregg had sojourned in the south du ring slavery times and knew thc book was a lie when it was written, and that it was written to inflame the northern mind and precipitate a collision. That Beecher family was smart, unprincipled and malignant. It was Henry Ward Beecher who incited old John Brown to bis reckless deeds and daring and who declared from his pulpit that Sharp's rifles were better missionaries than Bibles, and that to shoot at a slave holder and miss him was a sin against heaven. It was that same Beecher who, while a preacher, seduced the wife of one of his members and broke up the family, and after weeks of a mock trial got a whitewashing verdict from a packed committee. But I was ruminating about the far reaching influence and effect of that book and how it fired the northern heart and the English heart against us, and how it was a lie and wholly mis represented our people, and how the Lord cursed Shemaiah. one ol" the prophets, because he made the people believe a lie, and how St. John said no one should enter heaven who loveth or maketh a lie, and so I was wondering where the Beechers are now. ' But the trouble is they wont stop. Almost every mail brings me news papers with marked articles denounc ing us and threatening us for this lynching business, and they all pity the fate of Sam Hose and weep over that incendiary scoundrel whom they call that good, inoffensive old preacher, Lige Strickland. May the Lord have merty upon us and keep us calm and serene, is my prayer. My last comes from The Humane Alliance, of New York, and says : "Three thousand demons turned loose upon a helpless prisoner. They cut off his cars and fingers and plucked out his eye balls and plunged knives into his body. His liver and heart wore, eut into small pieces and sold to the highest bidder. Not long before the mob took nine negro prisoners from the guard and shot them all to death save one. That one was Sam Hose, who escaped. Cranford was one of that mob, and Sam Hose was only avenging the death of his friends when he killed ('ranford. After burning Sam Hose the mob found an old honor ed negro preacher named Strickland and lynched him." Then comes the usual anathema, and the article winds up with the assertion that a race con flict is inevitable. And now comes The Atlanta Ag?- and Westley Pledger, the mulatto editor,, says, in answer to .1. Pope Brown, '.tin negro is ready to go. There is not one negro in ten that, will not gladly wel come an opportrnity to go. The negro longs to get. away from Pope Brown. and his ilk. He wants the anglo Saxe race to buy a piece of ground froi Cliina or anywhere that will enalx him io leave Pope Brown and otha who have robbed'him for years. W are anxious to go-we are ready. Th crowd brought our mothers here an debauched them and outraged the] till we find 6,000,000 of mulattoes, kim men of this man Brown and his f riendi Let us go as went the children of Isra< from Egypt, and harden not your heai when we get ready to leave." Then he copies Joseph Henderson reply to Governor Northern, whic contains more lies to the square inc than anything I have yet seen. Hen derson belongs to the Thomas Fortune Ida Wells gang, who are making bi money out of yankee hate and cred ulity. He made his speech in Bosto and said he was a Georgian and hi mother obeyed the slave master's whi and felt the bloodhound's bite. Wha a liar, but lie has made those yankee believe it. In all my experience never knew a negro woman to ru; away, nor did I ever hear of a blood hound biting man or woman. Some times bad negro men ran away am were properly punished when the; came back, or were taken up au< brought back. I never heard of half ; dozen runaways in our county. As ? rule all negroes were humanely treated Every master knew that it impairec their value to treat them otherwise Percy Gregg declares, in his history that the Southern slaves were the bes treated servants the world ever saAv The young and the old were cared foi kindly and affectionately by master anc mistress, and their condition was inti nitely better than the poor of Englani or Germany or of the Northern Uhitec States. Pledger gives Henderson's speech ir large headlines and calls it "Plait Words." The article is malignant, 1 mendacious and incendiary, and this man Pledger could not run his paper in Wilmington nor in any country towr in Georgia. It is a weekly menace tc the place between the races. He ad vises the negroes to patronize negroes in all avocations. What a fool. Sup pose the merchants of Cartersville should conclude to patronize white draymen and white carpenters and I blacksmiths only, what would become ! of the negroes who now so faithfully ; serve us '? What would become of Joe Brown and Tribble, our expert carriage I makers whose deportment as citizens commands our respect and confidence ? I tell you, my brethren, there are many good industrious negroes in the land, and we would have no trouble if it were not fomented by such politicians as Pledger. I know lots of negroes that 1 can get along with, and so does c ?ry white man. But such as Pledger are not going away unless he sees big money in a contract. He wants to be hired to drum recruits. Six millions of mulattoes. Good gracious! And he is one of them, and no doubt is proud of it. I never saw a mulatto who wasent. They wouldeut have been black ne groes if they could, and they wouldent swap colors now. They are the 400 the elite, the upper ten. But enough of this. Tip has been to see us-the faithful Tip-and he was happy. Tip bought some land near Rome from a Michigander. The price was $1,000, which. Tip paid, and after the Michigander had left for parts un known Tip found a mortgage on it for $500 more, and will have it to pay. Nobody but a dirty yankee dog would have swindled Tip that way. Tip brought his "mistis/' as he still calls my wife, a bottle of wine made from his own grapes, but I reckon you had better not mention this, for it might be construed as against the new town liquor law, and subject my wife to a fine of $50, and me to break rocks for thirty days. That would be bad and sad. wouldn't it ? Emerson is now our liquor depot, it is four miles away, but the road is good, aud they say the travel over it is increasing. For some reason or other Mr. Thomas has recent ly built a new depot there. Neverthe less, the fight between the barons and King John of Runnymede is going on, and another magna charter may be granted. B'n. ATM'. Recruiting Work. Since Capt. Fuller left Columbia he has been succeeded in charge of the recruiting station here hy Lieut. Wil liams, I'. S.A., who is also in c harge of the recruiting station in Charleston. The office is located in the Kendall building and a large sign hanging over the entrance door tells the applicant for service in Uncle Sam's army where he must go. The recruits are wanted largely for Philippine service. Lieut. Williams is to come to Columbia twice a week, on Wednesdays and Saturdays, and applicants should present them selves on those days. Arrangements have been made for the lodging of those men accepted until they are sent on to join thc; regiments-to which they will be assigned. The office is also authorized to recruit colored men for the Twenty-fit'tli infantry now at San Carlos, Ariz., expecting orders for Philippine service. Two such recruits hitvc been taken already. Yesterday one young white man from thc coun try was accepted and will be assigned to duty in Porto Rico. Dr. William Weston has been ap pointed examining surgeon tor thc sta iion in this city.-TA? tiiatc. Cheap Printing. Law Briefs at 60 cents a Pag(-Good Work, Good Paper, Prompt Delivery. Minutes cheaper than at any other house. Catalogues in the best style If you have printing to do, it will be to vour interest to write to the Press and Banner, Abbeville. S. C. ti'. Dr. Whltsltt's Successor. ATLANTA, GA., June 20.-Dr. E. Y. Mullins, of the Newton Centre Baptist Church, Boston, has been elected to the presidency of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, at Louisville, to succeed Dr. Whitsitt, resigned. The election of Dr. Mullins was unanimous. Mr. Joshua Levering sent a telegram to Dr. Mullins notifying him of his unanimous election, and this was fol lowed by a message of congratulation from ex-Governor W. J. Northen, but Dr. Mullin's acceptance has not yet been received. Although pastor of a church in New England, Dr. Mullins is a Southerner by birth, and it was not until the past few years that he was called to Massa chusetts. He is a native of Mississippi. Dr. Mullins is a graduate of a college in Texas, and of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, to the head of which he has j ust been called. He was at one time thc pastor of Lee Street Baptist Church in Baltimore, and has also been associate corresponding sec retary of the foreign mission board of tiie Southern Baptist Convention. He resigned the last position and is now the pastor of the Newton Centre Bap tist Church, in Boston, and is also the chaplain of the Newton Theological Seminary, thc oldest Baptist Seminary m this country. Dr. Mullins is 40 years old. '_^ ^_ Thirty-Five Thousand Volunteers Needed. CHICAGO, .lune 2?.-A special to the Tribune from Washington says: As a result of a conference between the president and Secretary Alger, it has been decided to begin the enlistment of volunteers for two years' service in the Philippines. Orders to rerruitiug officers to this effect will be sent out to-morrow. It is proposed to arm and equip at once three brigades, or about 10,000 men, and then to continue the work until the whole 35,000 authorized by the law are'secured. There will be no call upon the States. Thc regiments will be organized as United States volun teers. Officers will be appointed by the president and assigned to regi ments without regard to State lines. The maximum of the regular army of 05,000 men has been secured, and now enlistments will be for the provisional army to make up the total strength of 100,000 men. Gen. Otis has 29,300 men on the ground or under orders, and volunteers will be rushed to him until he has an efficient force of 50,000 men. In the enlistments for the United States volunteers of the late war, in cluding those who did not get beyond the liome camps, but were seasoned, will be given the preference, and the same will be true of officers. A briga dier general for every three regiments and a major general for each division of three brigades will be appointed. They will be part regulars and part volunteers, and Gen. Joe Wheeler will be among the number. Our Dead in Arlington, WASHINGTON, June 2b.-At the in stance of Adjt. Gen. Corbin Quarter master Ludington recently instituted an investigation of the published re port that the Government was neglect ing the graves of the Confederate dead in the National Cemetery at Arlington. The report of Major T. E. True, the depot quartermaster who has charge of the Arlington Cemetery, has just been tiled at the war department. "There arc,'7 says Major True, "136 Confede rate soldiers and civilians., State pris oners, now interred at Arlington Na tional Cemetery. Of this number 12? are known and 10 are unknown. These dead are buried with other honorable dead in the cemetery, their graves are known and recorded, are marked with head8tor.es very similar to those mark ing the graves of Union soldiers, bear ing the name but not the regiment, company or State, as in the case of Union soldiers, are well sodded and cared for according to regulation, pre cisely as the graves of all the other dead in that cemetery are cared for. In short, the Confederate dead are honor ably interred and honorably cared for. i It is hardly probable that they would, be so well' cared for in any other than a national cemeteryi Peanut Trust Formed. j NEW YORK, June 30.-Thu American I Edible Nut company, to control the j peanut trade, is about to be incorpo rated in New Jersey with a capital stock of 85,000,000. The charter of the combination will permit it to handle, nuts other than peanuts, and tho pro ducts of nuts grown in this and other countries. The company will control, it is claimed, the entire peanut market of the world. Peanuts have been advancing for j some months from natural causes, there ; being an active demand and scant sup ply. When the company begins ope- I rations the nuts, it is believed, arc ! likely to advance still further. There is moreCaurrh in thia section ol' the country titan all other dlsi-ases put together, and until the last few years was supposed to be incur able. For a great many years doctors pronounced it a local disease, and prescribed local remedie?, and by constantly fa'linjr to cure with local treat ment,'pronounced it incurable, ?cienen has prov en catarrh to be a constitutional dii-ease, and therefore require.? constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F J. Cheney <fc Co. Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional cum on th?; market. It is taken internally in doses from l? drops to a teaspoonful, lt acts dirrctly on tho blood and mucous surface* of the sy-tcm. They oller one hundred dollars for any case i*. fails tn cure, tfend for circulars and testimonial. Ad - | d es*. P. .1. CHENEY ? CO., Toledo, C. fl&.Sold by Dru^?ia?.s, 7?c. Hall's Family Fill- are the best. STATE NEWS. - Ground has been broken for the erection of a cotton compress at Sum ter. - The organ for the new Presby terian Church at Spartanburg will cost $2,800. - Col. Tillman wants to organize a regiment in South Carolina for en listment in the Philippine ?,War. - Recent rains have saved the rice planters of the lower part of the State from serious disaster by drought. - Capt. Wm. J. Neville, one of the oldest citizens of Oconee County, died at his home in Walhalla on June 25th, after a lingering illness from paraly sis. - Mr. J. A. Copeland, of Laurens, has brought suit against Mr. W. E. Lucas, president of the Laurens cot ton mills, to recover $10,000 for slan der. - The latest political gossip is that Hon. Joe McCullough, of Gieenville, is going to shie his castor into the arena and contend with Hon. Stan yarne Wilson for Congressional honors. - J. M. Swearingen. who gradu ated at Cedar Spring Institute a few years ago, took a course in the South Carolina College and graduated last week at the head of the class. Ile is the first blind man ever to have gradu ated at this college. - Marion county is becoming noted for its tobacco growing. Last week a barn of. the new crop raised within three miles of the town of Marion was sold. This is said to be thirty days earlier than all previous seasons, and will be an eye-opener to Virginians. - The many friends of President Henry S. Hartzog, of Clemson College will be pleased to learn that he hts been recently highly honored by Mer cer University of Georgia with LL.P degree. Dr. Hartz'og will wear his new title gracefully and well. - Prof. P. H. Rolfs, formerly of Iowa, and now of the Florida Agricul tural College, has been elected to the chair of Botany in Clemson College, to succeed Prof. A. P. Anderson, re* signed. Prof. Rolfs has decided to accept the position. Kis record proves his entire fitness for the re sponsible post. - On Wednesday morning Mr. Jno. M. Gillison went out to plough near his home along side the public road. Mr. Addis passed along the road driv ing a yoke of bteers and stopped in the creek to let them drink. The horse could only see their backs under the banks of the creek and was frightened so badly that he fell dead without making any attempt to run. A post mortem examination showed that his heart had bursted.-Oconee News. - A few days ago in Sumter Coun ty a merchant bought a basket of eggs from a negro. The eggs were placed in a box under the counter with a lot of other eggs and nothing more was thought of them until next morning. Soon after the store was opened a young chicken was heard under thc counter and an investigation disclosed the fact that the eggs purchased the previous night had commenced to hatch, and during the day ten chick ens were hatched out. - The first cycle show ever held in the South has been scheduled for Charleston in November. Combined with the exhibit of bicycles, parts and sundries will be an extensive show of Over Two Hun To Arrive in ia I am sole Agent and contre Old Hickory and. Tennessee Babcock, Tyson & Jones, many other makes. These Wagons and Buggiei so don't buy a "pig in the poke represented as being "just as g Wagons have advanced $2. I will continue to sell for thirt A first-class 23 1-4 Wagon The Celebrated "Columbia," and Dust Proof Axles for $50.C When they arrive I will se "Barnett" Buggy for $35.00. 1 must be sold. While in the West a few d riages at a price that will surp I am in the Buggy and Wi one in the business can sell yo spot cash for my goods and get Let every one that wants ? SURE DO YOU GOOD. JOS. automobiles. The exhibition will be nader the auspices of the South Caro lina Division of the League of Ameri can Wheelmen, and will be held in a hall having a seating capacity of 7,000. The auditorium is large enough for a cycle track if it is decided to conduct races in connection with the show. - A case of swift punishment is re ported from Spartanburg. Will Jen kins, a young negro loafer about town, got drunk and made himself generally objectionable about the depot of the Charleston aod Western Carolina roid. He finally hit a negro woman on the head with a rock and attempted to get away from the crowd by climbing oo & moving freight traie. He missed the ladder for which he grabbed and fell off the train. His body was cut ia two about thc breast and he never moved again. - A tragedy occurred ten miles ? Southeast of Greenville, on Friday I night of last week, in which Luci Watson, a prominent young farmer, was shot and mortally wounded by J. F. Sloan, a neighbor, also a farmer. .Wat sou had been paying attention to Sloan's daughter, a bright, handsome girl. Watson has made a dying dec laraci?n, stating thai: Miss Sloan made an engagement witt; him to meet her j on Friday night. He was to hang about the house and when her father had retired she would put out the light. He was to gc to a window and tap three times to notify her of his presence. At midnight the light was extinguished, he went to the window and tapped and received a load cf buckshot in his breast. Dangers of Matrimony. J."rom time to time since the world began there have been male scoffers at matrimony, but, as a general rule, they have consisted of wretched old bache lors who could get nobody to have them. Whatever married men may think on the subject, they are usually too well disciplined to give expression to rebellious sentiments. The Di vorced Men's club, of Alameda, Cal., a suburb of San Francisco, enjoys the distinction of glorying in the escape of its members from the marital state and devotes itself to the work of warning deluded young men of the dangers of matrimony. "We have been there our selves," they say in effect, "and we know whereof we speak. Those bent upon wrecking their lives should profit by our sad and harrowing experiences. If you want to be hstppy, remain sin gle. Adam had no trouble until Eve joined him in the Garden of Eden." The club is regarded by its members as a benevolent association, a sort of life saving service, and it claims that it has already done effective work in rescuing a number of men who were in eminent danger. In the words of the secretary : "Our club is doing a great deal of good in preventing men from allowing their love to get the better of their judgment. Several men who thought of getting m arried have been saved by our missionaries, and we in- . tend to push the good work along." The women who ha ve been divorced from the members oiE the club could probably say something of their side about "sad and harrowing experiences." They were doubtless as glad to be freed from the bonds of matrimony as their husbands, and may have had even better cause for wishing their freedom. But they do not appear to have formed a club tb denounce marriage or to pro claim the evils of wedlock. They, no doubt, realize that their experience has been exceptional, and do not feel that/ they should attempt to prevent other people from being happy because they have missed happiness themselves. Bait tm o re Sn n. _ dired and Fifty text few Days. >1 this territory for 3 and other Wagons. Columbia and Columbus, and sarejwell known to you all, " by buying something that is ood." 50 each, but to reduce my stock y days at same old price. for.;$45.00. Buggy, with Grade Wheels IO. worth $65.00, ll you a first-class Piano-Body fforth a good deal more, but ays ago I secured a line of Car rise you. igon' business to stay, and no u cheaper than ][ can. I pay benefit of all discounts, a vehicle call on me and I will J. FRETWELL.