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CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, KEB UT A RY 22. 185M. YOI j I'M E XXXIY-NO. 85. Wheo our competitor! see how well we ?re succeeding they often wish we were never born. They blame us for ruin ing the Clothing business, but we defy them to prove one in stance wherein we broke our word or our rules. We sell everybody we can, but always for 8POT 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 tis a huge joke, and claimed that the people wouldn't pay Cash when they could get Goods on Credit ; and as for Prices they ?Lid the trade couldn't tell the difference, even if we did sell cheaper. We have proved thai the trade can tell the difference in Prices, and we are doing more busi ness now than ever before, and we get the Spot Cash for every article we sell. traw and Crash Hats CUT IN HALF ! , 25c. Straw and Crash Hats.now 13c 50c. Straw and Crash Hats.now 25c 75c. Straw Hats.now 38c $1 00 Straw Hats.now 50c 61 25 Straw Hats.-now 63c . 61 50 Straw Hats.'.. now 75c Let us impress the fact upon you that this is not a eale of out-of-date These Hats are desirable, stylish and seasonable. Our reason for ing these Goods is that the sizes are broken. If you attend this sale you will be convinced that " WE SELL IT FOR LESS." wa THE SPOT CASH 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 driver can lift either end 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 Mowen must be tur led out. Ii makea .no noise when at work. There is no wasted power. It bas only two cog-wheels and no pitman. It has more genuine improvements than all other Mowers combined. Come and let us show you this wonderful Ma chine. LLIVAN HARDWARE CO. SPRING SHOE DEPARTMENT &ov? open for the inspection of the public, and we know we can suit % in exactly the Shoe you want. In Men's Shoes we have cut prices, selling high grade, first quality Harvard Ties at $1.00-former price Men's Satin Cali, thoroughly solid Shoos--former price 91.25-our ? at only 90o. In Fine Shoes we have all the latest and newest prodno * all shades of Tans and Vlei Kids, Cordovans and Patent Leathers. ' give you any style Toe or any width made. Wies' and Misses Shoes we are sure there is no house in the city compare, with UE- ? . .IN STYLE., EOT OR PRICE. ! have everything in Oxfords and Spring Heel Shoes, in Blacks and I- **nt to see the most perfect-fitting, attractive and elegant linc of thd up-to-date footwear ever shewn in Anderson come in to see us. ( are headquarter*forSho$s. Very truly. D. ?" BROWN & BRO." BILL ARP'S LETTER. Bill Says There is no Entertainment ?9 Cheap aa Reading. Atlanta Vomtitution. Some notable person-1 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, 1 mean good reading-such au history, ancient and modern; biography, where we get both example and pre cept;'good storybooks and standard novels that' teach good morals; good magazine literature and good news papers, whose editors are conscient ions 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 tho intellect only, but reading affects the heart, the emotions and passions and establishes the character of the young for good or for evil. Man has been defined to bc a bundle of prejudices, and these prejudices most generally come from the books, magazines or newspapers that we read. Little stories like "Audrocles and the Lion" or "Damon and Pythias" have molded the character of thousands cf children, and just so have "Robinson Crusoe," the "Young Marooners" and the "Swiss Family Robinson" estab lished the characters of children 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 thc 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 tho founder of the democratic party. "Jefferson must have been a very great mon," said I, "for he wrote the declaration of inde pendence." "And what is that?" said the doctor, "but a series of ungram matical platitudes that 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 jay 'respect for3 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." Glregg had sojourned in the south du ring slavery times and knew the book ivas 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 ind malignant. It was Henry Ward Beecher who incited old John Brown bo his reckless deeds and daring and ?vho declared from his pulpit that Sharp's rifles were better missionaries fran Bibles, and that to shoot at a dave holder and miss him was a sin igainst heaven. It was that same Beecher who, while a preacher, seduced ;he wife of one of his members and ?roko up the family, and after weeks >f a mock trial got a whitewashing rerdict from a packed committee. But I was ruminating about the far reaching influence and effect of that jook and how it fired the northern ?eart and the English heart against us, md how it was a lie and wholly mis represented our people, and how the Lord cursed Shemaiah, ono of the >rophets, because he made the people >elievc a lie, and how St. John said no me should enter heaven who loveth or naketh a lie, and so I was wondering vhere the Beechen aro now. ' But the trouble ia they wont stop. Umost every mail brings me nows ?apers with marked articles denounc ng us and threatening us for this ynching business, and they all pity he fate of Sam Hose and weep over hat incendiary scoundrel whom they all that good, inoffensive old preacher, J go Strickland. May the Lord have nercy upon ns and keep us calm and erene, is my prayer. My Inst comes rom The Humane Alliance, of New fork, and says: "Three thousand demons turned oose upon a helpless prisoner. They ut off his ears and fingers and plucked mt his eye balls and plunged knives tito his body. His liver and heart VOTO, cut into small pieces and sold to he highest bidder. Not long before he mob took nine negro prisoners from he guard and shot them all to death ave one. That one was Sam Hose, rho escaped. Cranford was one of hat mob, and Sam Hose was only Tonging the death of his friends "hen ie killed Cranford. After burning lam Hose the mob found an old honor d negro preacher named Strickland nd lynched him." Then comes thc isual anathema, and the article winds p with the assertion that a race con ict is inevitable. And now comes The Atlanta Age and Vestley Pledger, the mulatto editor, ays, in answer to J. Pope Brown, "the egro is ready to go. There is not one cgro in ten that will not gladly wel ome an opportunity to go. Tho negro >ngs to get away from Pope Brown and his ilk. He wants the anglo Saxon race to buy a piece of -round from Cl?na or anywhere that will enable him to leave Pope Brown and others who have robbed* him for years. We aro anxious to go-we are ready. Tins crowd brought our mothers here nnd debauched them and outraged them till we find 0,000,000 of mulattoes, kins men of this man Brown and his friends. Let us go as went the children of Israel from Egypt, and harden not your heart when we get ready to leave." Then he copies Joseph Henderson's reply to Governor Norther?, which contains more lies to the square inch than any thing I have yet seen. Hen derson belongs to the Thomas Fortune Ida Wells gang, who are making big money out of yankee bato and cred ulity. He made his speech in Boston and said he wns a Georgian and his mother obeyed the slave master's whip and felt the bloodhound's bite. What a liar, but he has made those yankees believe it. In all my experience I never knew a negro woman to run away, nor did I ever hear of a blood hound biting man or woman. Some times bad negro men nm away and were properly punished when they came back, or were taken up and brought back. I never heard of half a dozen runaways in our county. As a rule all negroes were humanely treated. Every master knew that it impaired their value to treat them otherwise. Percy Gregg declares, in his history, that the Southern slaves were the best treated servants the world ever Baw. The young and the old were enred for kindly and affectionately by master and mistress, and their condition was infi nitely better than the poor of England or Germany pr of the Northern United States. Pledger gives Henderson's speech in large headlines and calls it "Plain Words." The article is malignant, mendacious and incendiary, and this man Pledger coidd not run his paper in Wilmington nor in any country town in Georgin. It is a weekly menace to the place between the races. He ad vises the negroes to patronize negroes in all avocations. What a fool. Sup pose the merchants of Cartersvillc should conclude to patronize white draymen and white carpenters and blacksmiths only, what would become of the negroes who now so faithfully, servo us ? What would become of Joe Brown and Tribble, our expert carriage 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 aloug with, and so does every white mnn: But such as Pledger are not going away unless he sees big money in a contract. Ho 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 wascnt. They wo ul de nt 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 Borne 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 caUs 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 ns against the new town liquor law, and subject my wife to a fine of $60, and me to break rocks for thirty days. That would be bad and sad. wouldn't it ? Emerson is now our liquor depot, lt is four miles away, but the road is good, and they say thc 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. Bir.i, Am\ Recruiting Work. Since Capt. Fuller left Columbia he has been succeeded in charge of the recruiting station here by Lieut. Wil liams, U. S. A., who is also in charge of the recrniting station in Charleston. The office is located in the Kendall building and a large sign banging 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 como 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 th?i regiment-* to wliich they will his assigned. The office is also authorized to recruit colored men for the Twenty-fifth infantry now at San Carlos, Ariz., expecting orders for Philippine service. Two such recruits have been taken already. Yesterday one young white man from the coun try was accepted and' will be assigned to duty in Porto Rico. Dr, William Weston has- been ap pointed examining surgeon for the sta tion in this city.--TAe State. Cheap Printing. Law Briefs at 60 cents a Pago-Good Work, Good Paper, Prompt Delivery. Minutes cheaper than at any other house. Catalogues in the best style If yon have printing to do. it will be to pour interest to write to tho Press and Banner, Abbeville, S. C. tf. Dr. Whltsltt's Successor. ATLANTA, GA,, Juno 31?.-Dr. K. V. Mullius, ot' thu Newton Centre Baptist Church, Boston, has been elected to tho presidency of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminar}', at Louisville, to succeed Dr. Whitsitt, resigned. The election ot' Dr. Mullins was unanimous. Mr. Joshua Levering sent a telegram to Dr. Mullins notifying hint 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 Kngland, 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 eollege in Texas, and of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, to the head of which ho has just been called. He w as atone time the pastor of Leo Street Baptist Church in Baltimore, and has also been associate corresponding sec retary of the foreign mission board of thc Southern Baptist Convention. Ho resigned the last position and is now the pastor of the Newton Centre Bap tist Church, in Boston, and is also thc chaplain of thc Newton Theological Seminary, thc oldest Baptist Seminary in thia couti try. Dr. Mullins is io vcars old. __ _ TliIrtj-FIve Thousand Volunteers Needed. CHICAOO, Juno 27.-A special to the Tribune from Washington says: As a result of a conference betweeu the president and Secretary Alger, it has been decided to begin the enlistment of volunteers for two years' service in the Philippines. Orders to recruiting officers to this effect will bc sent out to-morrow, lt is proposed to arm and equip at once three brigades, or about 10,000 men, and then to contiune the work until the whole 3,"?,000 authorized by tho law are'secured. There will be no call upon the States. The regiments will be organized as United States volun teers. Officers will be appointed by the president und assigned to regi ments without regard to State lines. The maximum of tho regular army of 55,000 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 20,800 men 9n the ground or under orders, and volunteers will be rushed to him until lie has au efficient force of 50,000 men. In the enlistments for tho United States volunteers of the late war, in cluding those who did not get beyond tho Home camp?., but were seasoned, will be given tho preference, nnd the lame will be truo of officers. A briga dier general for every three regiments md a major general for each division of three brigades will be appointed. They will be part regulars and part volunteers, nnd Gen. Joe Wheeler will be among the number. Onr Dead in Arlington. WASHINGTON, June 28.-At thc in stance of Adjt. (?en. Corbin Quarter master Ludington recently instituted in 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 tlepot quartermaster who has charge of the Arlington Cemetery, has just been Sled at the war department. "There we," says Major True, "186 Confede rate soldiers and civilians, State pris mers, now interred at Arlington Na tional Cemetery. Of this number 12(1 ire known and 10 are unknown. These lead are buried with other honorable lead in' the cemetery, their graves are cnown and recorded, aro marked with iieadstones very similar to those mark ing the graves of Union soldiers, bear ii g the name but not the regiment, company or State, as in the case of [."iiiou soldiers, are well sodded and Mired for according to regulation, pre cisely ns the graves of all the other lead in that cemetery are cared for. In ?hort, the Confederate dead are honor ibly interred and honorably cared for. t rs hardly probable that they would be so well cared for in uny other than i national cemetery." Peanut Trust Formed. NEW YORK, June 30.-The American Edible Nut company, to control thc leanut trade, is about to bc iucorpo ated in New Jersey with a capital lock of $5,000,000. The charter of the ombination will permit it to handle mts other than peanuts, and tho pro lucts of nuts grown in this and other ountries. The company will control, t is claimed, the entire peanut market >f the world. i "eunuts have been advancing for ome months from natural causes, there >eing an active demand and scant sup dy. When the company begins ope ations the nuts, it is believed, are ikely to advance still further. There ii more Cat ?rr h in this section of the ountrr tuan all other diseases put together, and ntl) toe last few years was supposed to be tacar ble. For a great many years doctors pronounced i a local disease, and prescribed local remedies, nd by constantly fa-ling to eure with local treat ?ent, pronounced it incurable. Sc I en cn has prov n catarrh to to o constitutional dlseiae, ?od herefore requires constitutional treatment. Hall's axarrh Cure, manufactured by F J. Cheney & Co. 'oledo, Ohio, ia the only constitu? ional caro on bo market. It ls taken Internally ta dosea from 'J drops to a teaspoonful. It acta directly on the lood and mucous surfsoes of the system. They Ber one hundred dol?an for any caso it fails to aro. Send for circulara and testimonial. Ad .ea?. F. J. CHKNEY &. CO., Toledo, O. 9JSo1d by Drat ?tats, 76c. Hall's Family Pills ara the hast. STATE NEWS. I - li round has been broken t or the erection of a cotton compress at Sum ter. - The organ for thc new I'resby- i terian Church at Spartanburg will cost I $2,H00. - Col. Tillman wants to organize a regiment tn South Carolina for en listment in the Philippine ?,\Var. - Recent rains have saved the rice planters of thc lower part of the State from serious disaster by drought. - Capt. Wm. J. Neville, one of thc oldest citizens of Oconee County, died at bis home in Walhalla on .'une 25th, after a lingering illness from paraly sis. - Mr. J. A. Copeland, of Laurens, has brought suit against Mr. W. K. Lucas, president of the Laurena cot- \ ton mills, to recover $10,000 for ?lau- ? der. i - The latest political gossip is that I Hon. tloe McCullough, of C?iecnville, is going to shie his castor into thc arcua and contend with Hon. Stau yarne Wilson for Congressional honors. [ - J. M. Swcaringen, who gradu- | ated at Cedar .Spring Institute a few j years ago, took a ? ourse in the South ? Carolina College and graduated last j week at the head of the class. He is the first blind tuan 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 thc town of Marion wa 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 has been recently highly honored by Mer cer University of (?eorgia with LL D degree. Dr. Hart^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. His record proves his entire fitness for the re sponsible post. - Un 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 steers and stopped in the creek to let them drink. The horse could only see their bocks 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. - Qconev Neus. - 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 ?ot 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 ahow ever held in the South has been scheduled for Charleston in November. Combined with thc exhibit of bicycles, parts and sundries will be an extensive show of Over Two Hun? WAGONS at To Arrive in m I am sole Agent and control Old Hickory and Tennessee Babcock, Tyson & Jones, C many other makes. These Wagons and Buggies I so don't buy a "pig in the poke" represented as being "just as go Wagons have advanced $2.5 I will contir.ue to sell for thirty A first-class 23 1-4 Wagon f The Celebrated "Columbia" and Dust Proof Axles for S50.0? When they arrive I will sell "Barnett" Buggy for $35.00. Vi must bo sold. While in the West a few da riages at a price that will surpr I am in the Buggy and Wai one in the business can sell you spot Cash for my goods and get 1 Let every one that wants a SURE BO YOU GOOB. JOS. automobiles. The exhibition will be nuder the auspices of the South Caro Una Division of thc League of Amen can Wheelmen, and will be held iu * 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 kius. a young negro loafer about town, got drunk and made himself generally objectionable about thc depot of the Charleston aod Western Carolina road. (Ic finally hit a negro woman on th'* head with a rock und attempted to get away from the crowd by climbing on a moving freight train. He missed th ? ladder for which he grabbed and fell off the train. His body was cut ia two about the breast and he never moved again. - A tragedy occurred ten niilea southeast of Greenville, on Trida/ night of last week, in which Lum Watson, a prominent young farmer, was shot una mortally wounded by J. V. Sloan, a neighbor, also a farmer. .Wat son hud been paying attention to Sloan's (laughter, a bright, haodsom e girl. Watsoti hus made a dying de? lurution, stutiogthat Miss Sloan mad.* an engagement with him to meet her on Friday night. He was to hang about the house and when her father had retired she would put out th) light. He was to go to a window and tap three times to notify her of his presence. At midnight the light wa:? extinguished, he went to tbe window and tapped and received a load cf buckshot in his breast. Dangers of Matrimony. From time to time since the world began there have been malo scoffers at matrimony, but, as n 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 tho escape of its members from the marital state and devotes itself to the work of warning deluded young men of tho dangers of matrimony. "We have been there our selves," they say in effect, "Und we know whereof we speak. Those bent upon wrecking their lives should profit by our sad and harrowing experiences. If you want to be happy, remain sin gle. Adam had no trouble until Eve joined him in the Garden of Edon.'' The club is regarded by its members ns a benevolent association, a sort of life saving service, and it claims that it has already done effective work iu 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 iu preventing men from allowing their love to get the better of their judgment. Several men who thought of getting married have been saved by our missionaries, and we in tend to push the good work along." The women who have been divorced from the members of the club could probably say something of their side about "sad and narrowin g 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 to 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 Eeople from being nappy because they ave missed happiness themselves. Ba I tim ore ?Sun._,_ Ired and Fifty ii BUGGIES ext few Bays. I this territory far and other Wagons. Columbia and Columbus, and are j well known to you all, hy buying something that is od." 0 each, but to reduce my stock r days at same old price. 6r;$45.00. Buggy, witt? Grade Wheels ), worth $65.00. L you a first-class Piano-Body Forth a good deal more, hut y s ago I secured a line of Car - ise you. ?on* business to stay, and no cheaper than I can. I pay benefit of all discounts, vehicle call on me and I will J. FRETWELL.