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BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDEESON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1. 1899. ~ VOLUME XXXIV-NO. 36 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, 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 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 us 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 W?: did sell cheaper. We have proved that the trade can tell the difference in Prices, and we are doing more busi ness now than ever before, and we get the Spot C*sh for every article we sell. / ... Straw and Crash Hats CUT UN HALF ! 25c. Straw and Crash Hats.now 13c 50c. Straw and Crash Hats.now 25c 75c. Straw Hats.now 38c SI CO Straw Hats.now 50c SI 25 Straw Hats.now 63c . SI 50 Straw Hats.now 75c Let ns impress the fact upon you that this is not a sale of out-of-date Hats. These Hats are desirable, stylish and seasonable. Our reason for cutting these Goods is that the sizes are broken. If you attend this sale you will be convinced that " WE SELL IT FOR LESS." . Evans & Co, THE1 SPOT CASH CLOTHIERS. BILL ARFS LETTER. His Heart is Sad Over the Recent Death of Two (?oort Frienjis. Atlanta Constitution. Simon Peter Richardson and Henry B. Plant, two more of my friends, have fallen asleep. They were not my near and dear friends, but they were friends to humanity and I am human. I knew them well and was always pleased with their presence. It is a good sign when you are glad to meet even an acquaint ance-a good sign for him and it is a good one for you when your acquaint ances meetyou gladly. Simon Peter Richardson ministered herc several years and I was always cheered with his presence and learned something I did not know. He was a walking edu cator, a man of wit and wisdom and of great philanthropy. Sometimes he cut to the quick, but his knife was sharp and left no ragged edges. I recall an incident that illustrated his earnest readiness to reply to a man who refused a little charity to a very poor blind woman who wished to go to Atlanta to have Dr. Calhoun remove a cataract from her eye. Simon Peter very ear nestly related her condition and her extreme poverty and said, "Please give I me half a dollar; only half a dollar.*' The merchant replied, "No, I can't, do it. We merchants are bled to death b3r these country people and we have got j to stop. I tell you, Uncle Simon, we are bled to death, you must excuse me." Simon Peter looked at him as if he were amazed. After a brief silence he said, "Bled are you. Let me show you something. He took off his long linen duster, then unbuttoned the wristband on his left arm, rolled up the sleeve and pointing to two little scars near tho elbow said, "A long time ago a fool doctor tried to bleed me and made those scars. He missed the vein and got no blood, but the scars are there. I am afraid that is the experi ence of a good many people who ask a little charity for the poor. They get no blood, but leave a scar/' We who saw the point smiled audibly. The merchant's face reddened under the sarcasm. He suddenly pulled out the money drawer and handed a dollar to the old man, and said: "Give this to her. I don't want any of your scars about rae." The last year of his sojourn here Uncle Simon took a vacation and visit ed his old home on the Peedee river, in South Carolina. When he returned he told me exultingly of the good time he had and about a wonderful revival that occurred in his old home church the greatest revival he said that he had witnessed for many years. "How many converts did you take into the church," said I. "The first week/' said he, "we never took in nary one. but wc turned seventeen out and purged tho church. After that the lord blessed us and there is many a church in this part of the country that needs the same medicine/' Uncle Simon left his impression upon the people of every community in which he lived. He was an earnest I mau, a strong man, a man of convic tions and was perfectly fearless in maintaining them. Woe to the infidel or sceptic or agnostic who encountered him. Woe to the man who declined to go to church because he didn't feel the need of religion. No doubt wc have as good men now, but the preachers I are rare in any denomination who are his equals in convincing and converting force. WTith Paul he could say, "I have fought a good fight. I have kept thc faith." Mr. Plant's photograph is before me. What a broad, attractive, human-like face. There is nothing ot awe or solemnity in his features that would in timidate the approach of the humblest of his race. "Knowing that thou wast au austere man" did not apply to him. Always dignified, always self-poised and earnest, he seemed as much con cerned for others as for himself. Ile was frank but careful in speech, genial, uncomplaining and never worried over business cares br disappointra ents. His last letter to me, written in February, was an autograph and is a model of good old-fashioned penmanship, lt is a large, open, honest hand without a blot or erasure, thc i's all dotted, the t's all crossed and quotation marks where they should be. In speaking of his health, he says: "I have been suf fering, but am yet on deck and pre pared in a moderate way to attend to my duties and in some measure bc of benefit to the people." I have taken note of him for nearly half a century and know of no greater man in the line of public progress and public benefaction. Many millionaires nave acquired fortunes from specula tion-speculation that robbed others. Many have built on the foundation that others laid and some have wrecked railroads and private enterprises on purpose for their own profit, but Mr. Plant made honest plans in early life and has by slow and sure degrees ex panded and matured them. He has added to values not only of his own property, but to that of communities and States. He has proved himself an unselfish friend to the south and won the love and admiration of our people. Shakespeare says, "The evil that men do lives after them. The good is oft interred with their bones." That is not always true. In fact, he might as truly have said, "The good that men do lives after them." Good deeds are like the circling waves that gently move to the shore when a stone is cast into a pool. They never lose their influence. The good that Mr. Plant has done for the people has not been buried with him, nor will he be forgotten for gene rations to come. But the command is to "Close up ! Close up!" The old men die and others step into their places-and the world moves on. "Close up" is heard all along the line. "Friend afier friend depart?1,' Who bas noe lost a i ri end '.' There is no uorm here of hearts That has uot here au end." BILI. Aue. A Wonderful Blind Studnnl. John IC. Swearingen, ol' ridgefield, who was made totally blind byan acci dent when 7 years old. has just been graduated from the South Carolina col leg" at the agc. of .'20, after having made thc highest record during the entire four years of any man since the round ing of thc college in the first part of this century, says a Columbia dispatch to The New York Sun. He was first honor maw, delivering an oration en titled "Our Heritage." The faculty regard Mr. Swearingen as a wonder. Dr. J. W. Flinn, I). D., said he had been a professor only ten years ; 'hut had spent years in a half dozen colleges of high standing, in cluding Heidelberg, "and," said he, "I have never met a man to compare with Swearingen. I sincerely regret the alumni has not a fund to send him to the best places in the world to thor oughly develop his powers. His family have not the means to do this. "In whatever he undertakes he must stand at the top. He is uncertain whether to study for the ministry or the law. As a lawyer he would make a great success even before a jury, and he would make a mark as an author. His imaginative powers of mind and fine logical reasoning are astonishing. His memory is such as few other men have had: for instance, he can deliver a lecture complete that he has heard once, but not in the same language. It* vital points have; only been touched upon by the professor he will bring them ont and elaborate them. "In such branches as mathematics, astronomy, psychology, as now taught, where the sense of sight would be con sidered so important, Swearingen never faltered. He answered with less than two minutes" thought, a complex math ematical proposition that I have never had answered by another student. He has a perfect conception of relative positions and distances of heavenly bodies, and experienced no difficulty in drawing correctly geometrical figures." In further exemplification of the man's extraordinaiy faculties, Dr. Flinn said he had tested him in various ways even to his o wn astonishment, when one day he handed Swearingen a wood en nutcracker. The cracking portion was a finely carved head of Bismarck, giving a capital likeness. The young man passed his linger over the face and unhesitatingly said : "Why. that is Bismarck." A class and room mate read aloud his studies in Swearingeiv's hearing. That is how he studied in college. There is more CaL?rrh ia this section of the country than all other diseases put together, and until thc last few years was supposed to he Incur able. For a great "many years doctors pronounced it a local disease, and prescribed local remedies, and by constantly fa'ling to cure w'th local treat ment,"pronounced it incurable. Science has. prov en catarrh to bc a constitutional disease, and therefore requires constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F.J. Cheney & Co. Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional cuio on tho market. It is taken internally in doses from lu drops to a teaspoonful. It acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the iiystcm. They oller one hundred dollars for any case it fails to turi'. Send for circulars and testimonial. Ad dress F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo. 0. ^g>_Sold by Druggials, 75c Hall's Family Pills are the best STTAE NEWS. - Spurtanburg county is to have her twenty-fourth cotton,mill.. - Spartanburg is arranging to have a baby show in the near future. - Tobacco is now being marketed in Darlington and Marion at good prices. - Mr. T. M-. Seigler, of Bradley, own3 a Stradivarius violin that is 1?7 years old. - The movement to complete the State Capitol is growing in favor all over the State. - Charleston shipped a great many strawberries in the season, just passed, and the farmers are well pleased with the returns. - Henry T. Thompson, of Darling ton, has been appointed a Captain in the new provisional army by thc War Department. - W. M. Lewis, State Secretary of thc V. M. C. A., has resigned to take thc same position in Texas. He will be a loss to the'State. - Mr. Andrew Woods, of Sumter county, who died recently, willed his estate, valued at about $3,500. to the Connie Maxwell Orphanage. - The second artesian well has been dug at Camden <?25 feet deep, mostly through solid granite, and a good supply of water obtained. - Thc contracts have been given out for the erection of the buildings for the oil mills at McCormick and Lowndesville. Both mills will have about twenty tons capacity. - John K. Stuckey, a wealthy mer chant of Spartanburg, who killed his bookkeeper last December, was con j victed of manslaughter last Saturday and sentenced to ten years in the pen itentiary. - In thc vicinity of Hardeville, S. C., there arc a number of cases of smallpox, and the probability is that the disease may become epidemic in that section. It was brought there from Savannah. - Three negro boys in Kershaw County. S. C.. recently quarreled about a plate of food. One of them was wounded in the face by a spoon, and he died from the injury. His com panions have been arrested. - There was an excursion from Greeiiwood to Augusta on the fourth inst., and as a result two colored men were killed outright, two more serious {ly wounded and young Dr. Tom Jen I nings in all probability fatally woun ! ded. - Last Thursday Dight during a -?orin in thc Harris Creek section, ridgefield county, on Mr. Sarauel Mil ler's place. Lucy Koper was killed by lightning. She lived alone and waa in the act of cooking her evening mea) when struck by lightning. - Possibly the oldest woman living in South Carolina is Mrs. Jane Crane, who has just celebrated her 103rd birthday near Easley. She is quite sprightly, her hearing is good, mem ory good and she converses well, and has never bees too sick to enjoy a meal. - Mr. N. J. li. Kennerly, living in Greenwood county, is engaged to a considerable extent in the growing cf celery. He cultivated celery last year j and this year has several hundred I plants growing nicely. The celery he has grown is as fine as has ever been seen in this section. - The first honor man of the South Carolina College this year is J, E. SweariDgen, a blind man anda nephew of Senator Tillman. Mr. Swearingen is totally blind and studied his les sons by getting his college mates to read to him. He is said to bc pos sessed of a wonderful mind, and he proposes to become a lawyer. - The following rewards have been offered by the governor : One hun dred dollars for thc apprehension and conviction of the parties who bumed the barn and contents belonging to Joe Johnson, of Kdgefield, and the same amount for Joe Robertson, who, in Greenwood County on JuBe ll, is supposed to have killed his wife. Cor nelia. - Mr. James Neighbors, a good cit izen of Laurens County, was shot by a colored laborer and mortally wounded. The negro after shooting Mr. Neigh bors was choking and beating him when he was shot and killed by Edgar Neighbors, a young son ol' Mr. James Neighbors. A jury of inquest ex onerates the son. Mr. Neighbors has since died. - An Edgefield man, who has given the matter some consideration, is op posed to the adoption of the round bale for Southern ginners. He thinks that inasmuch as the round bale peo ple refuse to sell their machinery, but only lease it temporarily, that in a few years they will have a monopoly, the square bale machinery being out of the way, and will grind the cotton grower more than he ia ground afc. I present. IF your child has Whooping- Cough and yon think no Medicine will be beneficial or do any good TRY WILH MIXTURE And you will find that you are mistaken. By commencing when first symptoms are shown it can be cured in from one to six days by using ibis Mixture according to directions. Cases of long standing, if not cured, can be greatly alleviated, re lieving the distressing and harassing Cough, and allow the little one to sleep, preventing complications which sometimes are of a very serious, nature. This is not a Patent Medicine, but the formula has been made and dose according to a careful research as to the nature and course of the disease, and after being used many years has proven to be a meritorious and efficacious remedy. Does not contain any Opiate or poisonus Drugs. It Relieves or Cures in every Case. It only costs 50c. per bottle, and if you use it according to directions and no benefit is derived, we will cheerfully refund amount paid for it. Recommended for nothing else. Ask your neighbors-probably they have used it-if so, they will tell your that it will de what is claimed. 38 Fifi Sill.