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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 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 Gooda 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 ness now than ever before, and we get the Spot CHSII for every article wo 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50c $1 25 Straw Hate_.now 63c SI 50 Straw Hats.now 75c Let us impress the fact upon you that this is not a sale of out-of-date t?. These Hats are desirable, stylish and seasonable.' Our reason for fog these Goods ?B that the sizes are broken. If you attend this sale you will be convinced that " WE SELL IT FOR LESS." THE1 SPOT CASH CLOTHIERS BILL ARTS LETTER. His Heart ls Sad Over the Recent Death of Two (?ood Friend*. vi (UtII tn 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 1 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 au acquaint ance-n good sign for him and it is a good one for you when your acquaint ances meet you gladly. Simou Peter Richardson ministered herc several years and I was always cheered with his presence and learned something I did not know. Ho 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 au 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 lier extreme poverty and said, "Please give mc half a dollar; only half a dollar." The merchant replied, "No, 1 can't do it. We merchants are bled to death by these country people and we have got to stop. I tell you, Uncle Simon, wc are bled to death, you must excuse me." Simon Peter looked at him UH if he were amazed. After a brief silence he said, "Bled are you. Let me show you something. He look od" his long linen duster, then unbuttoned the wristband on his left arm, rolled up thc 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 thc vein and got no blood, but the scars are there. I am afraid that is tho experi ence of a good many people who ask a little charity for the poor. They get no blood, but leave a scar.1' 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 ho said that he had witnessed for many years. "How many converts did you take into the church," said I. "The ilrst week/' said ie, "wo never took in nary one. but we urned seventeen out und purged thu burch. After that the lord blessed us ind there is inauy a church in this part if the country that needs the same nodicine." Uncle Simon left his impression upon ho people ol every community in vhich he lived. He was au earnest nnn, a strong man, a man of convie ion? and was perfectly fearless in nain tain in g them. Woe to the infidel ir sceptic or agnostic who encountered lim. Woe to the mau who declined to ?o to church because he didn't feel the iced of religion. No doubt we have ts good men now, but the preachers ire rare in any denomination who are tis equals in convincing and converting force. With Paul ho could say, "I lave fought a good light. I have kept he faith." Mr. Plant's photograph is before me. What a broad, attractive, human-like face. There is nothing of awe or solemnity in his features that would intimidate the approach of the humblest >f his race. "Knowing that thou wast in austere, man" did not apply to him. \lways digniticd, always self-poised ind earnest, he seemed as much con cerned for others ns for himself. He i\ as t rank but careful iu speech, genial, incomplaining and never worried over mildness cares or disappoint ments. His ast letter to mc, written in February, ivas an autograph and is a model of ?ood old-fashioned penmansh p. lt is i large, open, honest hand without, a jlot. or erasure, the i's all dotted, the t's all crossed and quotation marks where they should he. In speakiug of lis health, he says: "1 have been suf fering, but am yet on ?leek and pre pared ina moderate way to attend to my dutieK and in some measure be of benefit to the people." 1 have taken note of him for nearly lialf a century and know of no greater man in thc line of public progress and oublie benefaction. Many millionaires iiave acquired fortunes troin specula tion-speculation that robbed others. Many have built on the foundation that ethers laid and some have wrecked railroads and private enterprises on rmrposo for their own profit, but Mr. Plant made honest plans in early life ind has by slow and sure degrees c.\ [uinded and matured them. He has lidded to values not ouly of his own property, but to that of communities ind States. He has proved himself nu unselfish friend to the south and wou the love and admiration of our people. Shakespeare says, "The evil that men [lo 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 Io lives after them." Good deeds are like the circling waves that gently move to the shore when a stone is cast into i. pool. They never lose their influence. The good that Mr. Plaut has donc for the people has not been buried with aim, 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 ?tep into their places-and the world aiovcB on. "Close up" is heard all along the line. "Friend afier friand departP,* _ Who bas not tost M irleod? There is no union bar** of hearts That han uot hero an end." Bii.i. Aur. A Wonderful in ?mi Student. .John IC. Swcuringeu, of ICdgcticld, who was mode totally blind by an acci dent when ? years old, has just been graduated from the South Carolina col lege at the ag?' ?d' 20, after having made thu highest record during the entire four years of any mau since the round ing of the college in thc first part of this century, says a Columbia dispatch to The New York Sun. He was Urat honor man, delivering an oration en titled "Our Heritage." Thc faculty regard Mr. Swearingen as a wonder. Dr. .1. W. Flinn, I). 1).. said he had been a professor only ten years; but had spent years in a half dozen collegcH of high standing, in cluding HeidellxH'g, "ami.'' said he, "I have never met a mau to compare with Swenringcu. I sincerely regret thc 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 menus to do this. "In whatever he undertakes he must stand at the top. He is uncertain whether to study for tho ministry oi the law. As a lawyer he would make a great suceess even before a jury, and he would make a mark asan author His imaginative powers of mind anil tine logical reasoning are astonishing His memory is such as few other mei have had : for instance, he can dclivei a lecture complete that he has hean once, but not in thc same language If vital points have only been touche?! upon by thc professor he will br int them out and elaborate them. "in such branches as mathematics astronomy, psychology, as now taught where thc sense of sight would lie eon siderod so important, Swearingen neve faltered. He answered with less thai two minutes' thought, a complex math ematical proposition that I have neve had answered by another student. Hi lins a perfeet, conception of relativ? Eositious and distances of heaveni; odies, and experienced no difficulty ii drawing correctly geometrical figures.' In further exemplification of tin man's extraordinary faculties, Dr. Flini said he bad tested him in various way even to his own astonishment, whei one day he handed Swcaringen a wood cn nutcracker, rho cracking portioi was a finely carved head of Bismarck giving a capital likeness. The youm man pasBcd his finger over the fae and unhesitatingly said : "Why, tim is Bismarck." A class ?md room mate read alon his studies in Sweariugen's hearing That is how he studied in college. ? - - There is moro Cut . rrh in this section of tt country thou nil "tlier diseases jmt together, ac until thc last few yen rs was supposed to bo lncu able. For a great many years doctora pronounce itnloraldiuen.se, nn-1 prescribed local remedie and by constantly failing to cure with local trea tuent, pronounced it incurable. Science bas pro? en catarrh to bo a cr-istitutional disease, at therefore require* constitutional treatmeut. Ital! Catarrh Cure, manufactured by K. J. Cheney A C Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional cut o c thc market. It is lat fri Internally in doses fro lo drops to a teaspoonful. It acm directly on tl blood and mucous .surfaces of the system. Thc ??fTer ons hundred do'la?s for auy case it falla pp rc Send for circulars and iebUmonial. <Y tires.-. F. J. CHENEY A CO., Toledo. (). ?K9_Sold by Druggists, 75c Hall's Family Pills are the best SITAE NEWS. - Spartanburg county is to have her tuon ty-fourth cotton mill. - Spartanburg ia arranging to havu a baby show in tho near future. - Tobacco is now being marketed , in Darlington and Morion at good ' prices. - Mr. T. M. Seigler, of Bradley, owns a Stradivarius violin that is 1T>7 years old. - The movement tt> complete the State Capitol is growing in favor all over thc State. - Charleston shipped a great many strawberries in the season just passed, and the fanners aro well pleased with thc returns. - Henry T. Thompson, of Darling ton, has been appointed a Captain in thc new provisional army by the War Department. - W. M. Lewis, State Secretary of the V. M. C. A., has resigned to take the same position in Texas. Ile will ' bc a loss to the State. - Mr. Audrew Woods, of Sumter i county, who died recently, willed his I estate, valued at about $11,500, to the Connie Maxwell Orphanage. - Thc second artesian well has been dug at Camden <>'J."> feet deep, mostly through solid granite, and a good supply of water obtained. - The contracts have been given out for the erection of thc buildings for the oil mills at McCormick and Lowndcsville. Roth mills will have about twenty tons capacity. - .Fohn 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 the vicinity of Ilardeville, S. C., there arc a number of cases of smallpox, and thc probability is that the disease may become epidemic in that section. It was brought there from Savannah. I - Three negro boys in Kershaw County, S. C.. recently quarreled about a plate of food. Ono of them was wounded in the face by a spoon, and he died from the injury. His com panions have boen arrested. - There was an excursion from Greenwood to Augusta on the fourth inst., and as a result two colored men were killed outright, iwo more serious \ ly wounded and young Dr. Tom Jen i nings in all probability fatally woun I ded. Last Thursday night during JL ?.'in! in tho Harris Crook section, .Ulgcficld county, on Mr. Samuel Mil ler's place. Lucy Hoper was killed by lightning. She lived alone and W;u in the act ol'cooking her evening meal when struck by lightning. - Possibly the oldest woman living in South Carolina is Mrs. Jane Crane, who has just celebrated her lOord birthday near Pasley. She is quite sprightly, her hearing is good, mein ory good and she converses well, and bas never bec? too sick to enjoy a. meal. - Mr. N. tl. K. Kennedy, livitu i (Jrcenwood county. is engaged to a considerable extent in thc growing of celery. He cultivated celery last year and this year has several hundred plants growing nicely. The celery i e has grown is as fine as has over boen seen in this section. The first honor man of the Sont') Carolina College this year is J. K. Swcariugen, a blind man anda nephew . >f Senator Tillman. Mr. Swearim,ren is totally blind and studied his les sons by getting his college mates to read to him. He is said to bo pos sessed of a wonderful mind, and ho proposes to become a lawyer. - The following rewards have been offered by the governor : One hun - dred dollars for the apprehension and conviction of the parties who burned tho barn and contents belonging to .loe Johnson, of MdgeGeld, and tho same amount for Joe 1'obertson, who, in (Jrcenwood County on June 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. Thc negro after shooting Mr. Neigh bors was choking und beating him when ho was shot and killed by Edgar Neighbors, a young son of Mr. James Neighbors. A jury of inquest ex onerates the son. Mr. Neighbors has since died. - An ridgefield man, who has given tho matter some consideration, is op posed to the adoption of the round bale for Southern gi oners. Ho thinks that inasmuch os the round bale peo ple refuse to soil their machinery, but ouly lease it temporarily, that ina few years they will have a monopoly, thc square bale machinery being out of the way, and will grind the cotton grower more than he is ground at. present. IM jj^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^ ^jj^ ^jj^ ^^^l^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^j^ ^^^l^ll B .piwaiic >?^iiigiig^^ il IF your child has Whooping Cough and you think no Medicine will he beneficial or do any good c nu c S9Hb you will find that you are mistaken. By commencing when first symptoms are shown it eau be cured in from one to I Bx days hy using this Mixture according to directions. Cases of long standing, if not cured, can he greatly alleviated, re vving the distressing and harassing Cough, and allow the little one to sleep, preventing* complications which sometimes are effa very serious, nature. II t 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 lc?the disease, and after being used many years has proven tobe a meritorious and efficacious remedy. I Does not contain any Opiate or poisonus Drugs. I It Relieves or Cures in every G eise? M I* only costs 50c. per bottle, and if you use it according to directions and no benefit is derived, we will cheerfully refund amount for it. Recommended for nothing else. Ask your neighbors-probably they have used it-if so, they will tell your that it will do f|g ' WILH1TE & WILHITE, 9 Mk Spat