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BY CLINK SCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1899. VOLUME XXXV-NO. 4. B. O. Evans & Co., ANDERSON, S. C. THE GRAND KEY AND TAG SALE ! We have placed in our Store a handsome Oak Honey-Box containing Silver Dollars. h We have had made for us a number of Keys, some of which will unlock the BOX. With every CASE purchase of $1.00 will he given a KEY attached to a tag. Keys can be tried TM First Satnriay ii ead inti ate Sept. 1st, And holders ol' Keys that unlock the box will be given Five Dollars as a pr esent. ? This is a now and novel way we have of advertising and giving te our trade in Cash what we have heretofore paid for advertisng, with the hope the greater humber will be benefited. 0. Evans & Co, i THE' SPOT CASH CLOTHIERS. To Arrive in next few Days. ' I am sole Agent and control this territory for ? Old Hickory and Tennessee and other Wagons. Babcock, Tyson & Jones, Columbia and Columbus, and many other makes. These Wagons and Buggies arej well known to you all, so don't toy a "pig in the poke" by buying something that is represented as being "just as good." Wagons have advanced $2.50 each, but to reduce my stock I will continue to sell for thirty days at same old price. A t?rst-claHS 23 1-4 Wagon for;$45.00, The Celebiated "Columbia" Buggy, with Grade Wheels and Dust Proof Axles for $50.00, worth $65,00. . When they arrive I will sell you a first-class Piano-Body "Barnett" Buggy for $35.00. Worth a good deal more, but must be sold. While in the West a few days ago I secured a line of Car riages at a price that will surprisa you. I am in the Buggy and Wagon* business to stay, and no one in the business can sell you cheaper than I can. I pay spot cash for my goods and get benefit of all discounts. Let every one that wants a vehicle call on me and I will SUBE DO YOU GOOD. JOS. J. FRETWELL, FRESH LOT OF BUIST'S TURNIP SEED. EVANS PHARMACY. WHEELMEN, ATTENTION I IF YOU WANT BICYCLES AND SUNDRIES FOR COST, Bring the CASH and call on THOMSON BICYCLE WORKS, THE BICYCLE PEOPLK. BILL ARFS LETTER. Bill Tells About His Wire's Departure from Home. Atlanta Constitution. . My wife, Mrs. Arp, hadn't been away from home for two years. It is said that a setting hen never gets fat, but these human hens do, and so the girls thought their motlier ought to rouse up and go somewhere and take a rest. It was a great undertaking to get her off. It took a whole week to get her apparel in first-class condition for she wasn't raised on common clothes and won't wear them now especially when she goes abroad or to church. We final ly got her oft', though the train liked to ! have left her while she was saying good-bye and kissing all the little grandchildren. Ohe of the girls went with her, but I was to scatter around at home. Two weeks was the time she gave herself, for she says that is as long as anybody ought to stay any where on a visit, for sometimes folks wear out their welcome and don't know it. In fact one week is the safest. She went to Rome, where our oldest boy and his family live and where she lived for twenty-seven years. Some of her early friends are still there and they came to see her, of course, and talked about the dear old times until their eyes got teary and they drew their chairs a little ch oer and were merry and sad by turns as they talked of the living and the dead. On Sunday she went to our same old church and sat in thu same old pew and drank in music from the same old organ, but the preacher and thc choir were changed. After service she was forced to hold a reception in the vestibule, where old friends and their children and grand children gathered around her, the friends to greet her and their children to look upon the matron of the olden time of whom they had heard. Yes, ! this wonderful woman who so gentljr dominated her lord and master and ! kept him so sweetly subdued that he liked *he subjugation. She spent a delightful week and the programme for another was already arranged when on Saturday some bird of the air told her that I was sick and she could hardly wait for thc evening train. I had been sick, but the crisis had passed and for fear she ?night hear it and cut short her stay I wrote her that 1 was getting well and to finish her rest. She is not that kind of woman or wife, and sure enough about 6 p. m. I happened to look out of the window and saw her coming up the lawn like she feared I would die before she got here. Then I had to tell her as how I was taken down on Wednes day for my same old kidneys got belligerent again and wrestled with me and threw me and I had vertigo and lumbago and embargo and my eye balls ached and how the doctor treated me heroically and scandalously and dosed me with something every two hours-all different-and nobody can tell what cured me. But all's well that ends well, and now I am in for another lease. Of course an old wagon will break down ever and anon and has to be patched up and kept greased, or it can't go. By and by it will all collapse and tum to dust like the one-hoss- shay. And nwv here comes the Philadel phia Record just to disturb my tran quility and aggravate me into using more language on those yankee editors. I have already used up all my adjectives on Boston and never dreamed' I would need any for the Quaker City. The Record pretends to be a democratic paper, but it has got a whole columir about the Andersonville prison and its horrors, which it says have created a sentiment that will last as long as time, and how the poor creatures were shot down like dogs and starved, and had to dig wells twenty-live feet deep with their nand? and scraps of shells in a vain effort to get water to*drink, etc. Well, it is awful to read, but I would like to know wliere those shells came from-must have fed the boys on1 oysters. , Yes. Blaine charged all those horrors upon us ib a terrible speech, and Ben Hill replied to him in one ot' the great est speeches ol' his lite and refuted every charge and did it from the war records and proved' to the world that Grant aud Stanton and Lincoln were responsible for every death and all the distress that occurred at Anderson ville. They utterly refused toexchange prisoners with us when importuned to do so for the sake ol' humanity, for Grant said that our men in northern prisons would'go back to fighting again. We begged them to send us rations and medicine for their men and told them that both might be distributed by their own officers and surgeons. They re fused this and, of course, their men died liKe sheep, for we had no medi cines and our own rations were com meal and salt pork. But those prison ers had just what their guards had. Ask the guards who still live. Ask Captain Hudson, of Marietta, one of the best of men. and he will tell you that the prisoners had everything that he did and there was no inhumanity, but pity and sorrow for them and in- | dignation at the^henrtlessue.ss of their J government. Read Percy Gregg's chap- , ter on this Andersonville and you will j wonder that such indifference to the misery of their own soldiers could be t'onnd in any government upon earth. Mr. (?rege: declares that if the great powers of Europe had have kuo\ they would have been horror stru that the authorities at Washin were really the murderers of their soldiers and they had to appease kindred of these soldiers hy maki scape goat of poor Wirt and han him after a mock trial. And yet a man who signs himsel Atlanta Yankee writes me an insul letter and tells me to hold up atv and let the yankees alone, for the is over. Well, then, let him call his own dogs and write to his peopl stop their lies about Anderson ville about the negro, and let us alone will quit when they quit, and until 1 repent and apologize I will cry al and spare not. Solomon says th slanderer is a coward and I woul reply to their slanders if it was n maxim of the law, that silence m accusation is a partial ' confessior guilt. And let me tell you, my broth that the fire still burns in the bos? of the Confederate veterans and tl children, and if disaster and com comes again to the people of the so it will not be saved by the politici or the mongrel money-loving peopL the cities, but by the common peon! the honest, fearless yeomanry \ make up our rural population. Andrews, that gifted and noble noi ern man. told the people of Chic and again at New Orleans that supreme court of the nation had deci< that every principle we fought for ^ just and legal and justified by the c stitution, and Percy Gregg says tl didn't dare to try Mr. Davis for treas for they knew that no court would ct viet him. But enough of this for this time, see advertised a medicine that is w ranted to remove that tired feel which sometimes overcomes a man, s I'm going to buy a bottle and try for these northern slanders make tired half my time. And as I read th I unconsciously whisper that's a ' that's another lie and another. Da1 says: "And I said in mine haste t] all men were liars." He might lu said it at his leisure if he had lived north till now and read the nortiu daily papers. And we see that McKinlay has J pointed another negro postmaster Alabama. Tried to shove it on hi but the negro wouldent accept That's the man our bootlickers w< slobbering on while he was marchi through Georgia. May the Lord ha mercy on us and protect us from o own politicians. BIM. ARI* White Men in the Tropics. The evil effects of hot climates up the white race are being rapidly co quered by science. Indeed, even wi our present imperfect knowledge, colony of our own planted upon ti Isthmus of Darien to-day would not ' annihilated by the climate as was tl Scotch colony placed there in 1008, an with the rapid advance! of sanitary s< once, it is probable that, twenty-ir years hence an American farmer wi be able to cultivate land in the tropi with less danger to Iiis health than WJ encountered by his father in ploughir the valley of the Wabash or the sem tropical valleys of California a quart of a century ago. An expert points out that the ten pcrate zones are being filled up by tl white race, and that tire richest an most productive part of this planet in the tropics. Our conclusion froi these statements is that the necessai trend of the white race, in its geogm pineal extension and distribution wi lie toward thc tropics, and with th necessity will come the means. The answer to Mr. Kidd's claim tim India has been made habitable only to an oflicial class, isthat as yet there ?in never been any necessity to make it s for any other class. The Chinese driven forth by thc pressure of thei dense population, have succeeded ii living and prospering iii great number in all climates, from those of Arcti severity on the borders*?!"' Siberia ti the torrid' rice swamps of Java au? Sumatra. Is it not probable that, witl science at our command, wc shall bi able ter solve the same problem of lift even'more successfully'.' The human species took its lise ii thc tropics. Thc spell of 'longing foi southern dimes, so common to mos! of us. the pleasures we all derive fron tropical landscapes; and'thc survival in us of many other such ancestral traits, show that we haye not yet be come entirely unadapted to them, lu our wanderings in the temperate zone we have found thc mine of modern science, and with the vast accumula tions we h;i.ve made from it we eau now return to and rehabilitate the old home.-Thc l'onnu. There is more Cat . rrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put together, and tintil tue last few years was supposed to be Incur able. For a great inauy years doctors pronounced it n local disease, and prescribed local remedies, and by constantly falling to cure with local treat ment, pronounced it incurable. Science has pror eu catarrh to be a constitutional disease, and therefore requires constitutional treatment. H.'.li's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F.J. Cheney A Co. Toledo, Ohio, ii the only constitutional cute on the mr.rltet. It hi taken internally in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. It acts directly oa the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. They oller one hundred dollars for any case lt fails to cure. Send for circulant und testimonial. Ad dress. F. J. CHENEY A CO., Toledo, 0. it^.Sold by Pruggiats, 7.">c. Hall's Family Pills are the beat. Cheap Printing. Law Briefs at 00 cents a Page-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. tf. AU Checks Must be Stamped. WASHINGTON, July 14.-Commissiou er Wilson, of the internal revenue, has issued a circular absolutely prohibiting banks from affixing fstamps to checks unstamped when presented, and re quiring them to return the same to the drawers. In his circular to collectors the commissioner says: "Yon are directed to notify the banks that are guilty of stamping unstamped checks that if the practice is not imme diately discontinued they will be re ported to the United States district at torney for prosecution. "The instructions contaiued in treas ury decision No. 19,606, under date of June 29, 1898, to th?, effect that there was no objection to the affixing by the bank of the requisite stamps to an un stamped check presented for payment, is hereby revoked. "Then instruction was given to meet an emergency immediately preceding the taking effect of the Stampt Act of July 1,1898, in order to obviate the ne cessity of returning by the banks of thousands of unstamped checks issued by drawers in ignorance of the law. The law being now generally under stood, there is no further need of such permission." ' This action was taken upon infor mation that certain banks had adopted the practice of not requiring stamps, as an advertisement to secure patronage, as against rival banks. Bars in Havana. "Speaking of hot times in Havana,'* said another resident who lately re turned from the island Capital, "I was very much impressed by a statement which was made to me by the propri etor of a bar and cafe near the Hotel Gran Pasaje. In Havana, you know, or perhaps you don't know, all the bars arc supplied with small tables and chairs, where their patrons can sit down and drink and talk at leisure. The 'vertical drinking' generally indulged in here is almost unknown. Well, ? fell in with rather a jolly crowd one evening, aud we made the rounds of a number of bars, all georgeously fur nished and all apparently doing a land office business. It was a hard thing to lind a table unoccupied, and the place near the (iran Pasaje was particularly crowded. We were introduced to the proprietor, who proved to be a pleasant fellow, and incidentally I congratulated him upon his good fortune. ' Pfc shrug ged his shoulders. "'It is fair, senor,' he admitted, 'but nothing to what it was when the Span iards were here/ 1 was surprised, and he volunteered some particulars. 'Since the Americans came,' lie said, 'we have been forbidden to sell liquors to private soldiers, and when the Spaniards were here the private soldiers had no money to buy. Consequently the most of my trade has always been among the offi cers, and 1 have had a good chance to compare the two nationalities. During the time of Weyler and Blanco this place was a mint. You could not be lieve the business I did. lt was mar vellous. Kvery table was crowded day and night, and nothing was too tine or expensive for my customers. You could sail a warship in thc champagne they drank, aud, as 1 say, the thing never stopped a minute, but wen t right on from night till morning and from morning till night. " 'Folks claim that the Spanish sol diers were paid beggars' wages. That may bc so, but the Spanish officers cer tainly had money, and plenty of it. How did they get it ? Quien sabe? Now that my customers are Americans, bus iness has fallen off 7"> per tent. The crowds seem large, but they spend lit tle. A party of officers come in; they buy a ft'.w glasses of beer, and talk for an hour. Those were good tinier when thc Spaniards were lighting the Cubans. Everybody knows that Weylers.urmy could have ended' thc war in a week, but nobody wanted it done. It was tgo profitable. They did just enough lighting to keep up thc farce-that is to say, about one skirmish every tcp days, which the correspondents kindly made into at least twelve battles. Meanwhile the officers and their friends drank wiue. They were good times." Xrv Orleans Timm-Democrat. Steam Still King Several years ago when the Ii ist suc cessful xperirnents were made with electricity as a motive power quite a number or scientific men predicted that it would supcrcedc steam as the king ol'motors before the end of the cen tury. It was asserted with much con fidence that electricity would bc em ployed* to move cars over all lines of railway ami the steam locomotives would become as obsolete as the old fashioned stage coaches, lt will be remembered that lines of electric rail way were projected to connect New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Washing ton and Baltimore, and there was much talk about the lightning-like rapidity with which trains would transport pas sengers from one city to another. It was said at the time that an electric train would run 100 miles an hour with perfect ease, and could bc made to ex ceed that speed. Experimental tracks were laid at various localities where electricians endeavored to explain the correctness of their theories, but the tracks have disappeared and the power houses have been dismantled. -m ?? -.? - - For disobedience the small boy frequently tak.es the palm. Mi:. EDITOR: Allow me, if you please, a word concerning the Grand Jury's report on the condition of the hooks in the office of the County Su perintendent of Education. First. The present iuciunbent re ported that I, beiug th? , predecessor, left the books in an unfinished condi tion. This is true. He did not report, however, that .I left $12.50 in the Su pervisor's office for him as compensa tion for the work left for him to do, I feel sure that an energetic man could do that work in two days, three any way. Mr. Nicholson availed himself of this money Feb. 23rd, and tells me now he is satisfied with the compensa tion. I, therefore, fail to see why I should be putin this light before the Grand Jury. Now, my reasons for not having the books posted up to date of transfer. The best of men make clerical errors. I found it more convenient to write up thc books after the rushing season of school business. Moreover,,I could the better correct any clerical errors made in the haste of a busy day with the public. My predecessor, a good, faith ful officer, turned over the books to me in the same unfinished condition. ? wrote them up without compensation and without complaint to the Grand Jury. I suppose he had the same good reasons. He and I both were very busy men during the school term. Second. The day I turned over the books to my successor, I called his attention to the discrepancies com plained of. I said to him : "1 will be busy now, and you are not yet familiar with the books. When you get ready to take up the matter drop me a card and I will come over and give you the benefit of my knowledge of entries." I have not yet heard from Mr. Nichol son bearing on this subject. I do not understand why he should lead the Grand Jury to believe the discrepancies a serious matter, when he did not esteem it serious enough to ask light of those who had information by which every item might be verified. It will all come right when the ex-Treasurer completes the transfer of his books to his successor. Had Mr. Nicholson known more about the books he would ?have seeu the matter in quite a difier en t light. He is excusable. Third. The report says, "Apparently the County Superintendent would draw a warrant against a certain dis trict when he intended to draw it against another/' Further on its con clusion is that "perhaps some districts have lost by reason thereof." Lee ns remember that a County Superinten dent never issues a warrant. I never did. Trustees issue warrants. After searching the whole years work Mr. Nicholson found one claim for $10 or $12 bearing the wrong number. Whose error was it ? If you look on my book you will find the correct number. The trustee mistook his own number, and I failed to notice that he had placed upon the warrant thc wrong number. One warrant, this out of more than a thousand, and yet it is magnified until the Grand Jury is led to fear that "perhaps some districts have lost by reason thereof.'' I would not notice this, but some may fear their funds have disappeared. Mr. Nicholson, with all his bright, quick ways, failed to see that there was absolute protection in the correct figure which stands on my book. Verily, some of the fearful and unbelieving may be alarmed. Finally, let me assure the people of Anderson County that their school funds are not in jeopardy. I will take pleasure in showing this to the Grand Jury's committee, and they must see it before the next term of Court. Respectfully. A. W. ATTA WAY. H ii man Being or Monkey .' Cni<;At;u, .July 16.-A special to the Tribune from Bonesteel, S. D., says : Upon thc question whether his victim was brute or human depends Archie H. Brower's guilt or innocence of the crime of murder. Brower was one of the owners of a small tent show, which came here for exhibition. Among other attractions was a creature of seemingly a higher form of animal life than a monkey, and BroWer and Thorndyke called the animar the "Missing Link/' and laid great- stress on the alleged fact that no one was able to say whether it belonged to the human or thc brute creation. Brower now avers that the freak was a monkey. In a scuffle the showman became angry and s?i/.iug a heavy club dealt his antagonist a hard blow over the ear, from the effects of which he died in a few lunns. The local authorities i inmediately placed Brower under arrest ona charge of murder. At the preliminary hearing his lawyers set up the defence that their client did not take the life of a human being, but the magistrate bound him over to the Grand Jury. - An all-around writer ought to be able to get up a good circular. - Hunger is :? terrible thing, but some men consider thirst more so. - The silent watches of thc night hang in front of jewelry stores. - Only a strong-minded woman eau keep her calendar torn oft up to date. - The good may die young, but the bad nearly always outlive their use fulness. - The mau who goes through life alone generally ha? poor company. STATE NEWS. - The State Alliance meets in Co lumbia next Wednesday, 2Gth inst. - Judge Charles H. Simonton has returned from his European trip muck improved in health. - Mr. Noah Y. Wilson, of Lexing ton, was accidentally killed by a rail road train at Winnsboro, S. C. - Work has been begun on the oil mill at Bennettsville and its size and capacity will be the second in the State. - The State Board of Control has set apart twenty-five thousand dollars of the Dispensary profits for school purposes. - An old Confederate soldier at Gaffney has a piece of shinbone cut from a yankee that he killed while OQ the picket lice. - Ninety six car loads of melona were shipped from Columbia to the North over the Southern Railway oa Saturday morning. - The Baptist college of Orange burg has received a gift of $10,000 from a well-known citizen who does not give his name. - James F. Thompson has be*n lodged in the Spartauburg jail, charg ed with beating his little six-year-old step-daughter to death. j - The postofiice at Easley waa broken into Thursday night. Serez dollars io money was taken from Post master Folger's desk. No trace of the robbers has been found. - The domestic shipments of phos phate rock fron: the port of Charleston since September 1st, '98, to June 30, '99, aggregated 89,977, an increase of 8,197 tons over the corresponding period last year. - Jesse Kohn. a negro, shot and killed his wife at Timmonsville. Kohn i is a consumptive and was in bed at the time of the shooting unable to take care of himself. It is said he was crazed with jealousy, -*? J. T. Cunningham, a Bell teie phone lineman, met with an awful death in Columbia last Saturday by falling from a high pole on which he was stringing telephone wires. He broke his neck, and death was instan taneous. - During a storm in the Harris Creek section, Edgefield county, on Mr. Samuel Miller's place, Lucy Roper was killed by lightning. She lived alone and was in the act of cooking her evening meal when "struck by lightning. - Gov. McSweeney has refused to pardon Jones, the murderer of the Pressley family in Kdgefield. Every governor in recent years has been im portuned to pardon Jones and all of them have acted just as Governor Mc sweeney did. Some of the petitions have boen strongly backed. - The Southern Railway has let the contract for building three large warehouses at their water terminus in Charleston. The floor room will cover nearly two acres, and ?ill be large enough for present needs. When completed the road will be able to handle big shipments for foreign ports. - An artesian well in Marion, S. C., has been giving people fever. The town authorities sent on samples of water from their shallow wells and from the deep well toa New York chemist. He pronounced the shallow wells all right, but said that the dead ly microbe had polluted the water from the deep well. - Mr. Thomas Marrett and wife, living in the South Union neighbor hood, were badly burned on Sunday night, July 2nd, by the explosion of a kerosene lamp. The flames enveloped Mr. Marrett's head, shoulders and arms, burning his beard and the hair of his head off. while his arms and hands suffered terribly. His wife, too, was badly burned on her arms and hands. The timely assistance of Mr. S. M. Crawford, who was near at hand, prevented what otherwise might have proved a fatal accident to both parties. - Colonel George McDuttie Miller died at his home near Ninety-Six. last Wednesday night and was buried on Thursday afternoou. He had been sick for several weeks. He succeeded J. Foster Marshall as colonel of Orr's Rifles, and served throughout the war and was wounded four times, twice severely. He was in some twelve severe battles and was captured after the fall of Petersburg and imprisoned at Johnson's Island along with Colonel Joseph Brown, of Anderson, and ex Governor McDaniel, of Georgia. He was an efficient officer and brave and gallant soldier. He was an elder in the Presbyterian Church. He leaves a wife and a large family of children. - mm m **m - - The crooked horse race is ?he re sult of a lack of straightness io the human race.