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RY f!TJNKSf!Al?RS & LANGSTON. _ ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1899. VOLUME XXXV-NO. 7. -BY B. O. Evans & Co., ANDERSON, S. C. THE GRAND KEY AND TAG SALE! We have placed in our Stare a handsome Oak Money-Box containing Silver Dollars. We have had made for us a number of Keys, some of which will unlock the BOX. With every CASH purchase of $ 1.00 will be gi ven a KEY attached to a tag. Keys can be tried fte -First Hay in ead ni after Sept. isl, And holders of Keys that unlock the box will be given Five Dollars as a present. This is a new and novel way we have of advertising and giving to our trade in Cash what we have heretofore paid for advertisng, with the hope the greater number will be benefited, THE SPOT CASH CLOTHIERS. BILL ARFS LETTER. Bill Says tie Can't Fool His Wife. Atlanta Constitution. Mr. Lincoln said, "You may fool some of the people ali the time-you may fool all of thc people some of thc time, but you can't fool all the people all the time." That's so, I reckon, hut I Trill add that a man can't fool his wife at all. She catches up with him by instinct. My wife has been away to Rome and so I took advantage of her absence and had two trees cut down. One was dying at the top and the other was crowding two other trees and doing no good. But she is utterly hos tile to cutting down a tree and so I have to do it while she is away. One of them was cut down low to the ground and after every chip and twig was cleared up I had grass put over the place where the tree was. I was going to do the other the same way but I got sick and she carno home prematurely aud there was the stump grinning with its fresh cut edges. I was getting bet ter, but when I saw her coming I took a horizontal attitude ou the couch and tried to look sick and sad and melan choly. It was too days before she no ticed that stump and when she called my attention to it I told her that it was an old stump and had been there for years. She never said anything, but there was a doubtful expression on her tranquil countenance. If there were no grandchildren around here I could get along, but they let the cat out of the bag ever}' time and I am the vic tim. "I don't remember ever seeing that stump before," said she, but I per suaded her that the late rains had colored it. When she found rae out, I assured her that the tree was hollow and was bound to die soon and that its proximity to the other trees prevented their expansion and that expansion was now the policy of the country. "Yes," said she, "I suppose we must cut down the smaller trees so that the larger ones can have more room. We must kill off the Filipinos for the same reason. I wonder how many of the poor creatures they have killed. If our people kill a black brute down here, they make an awful fuss about it, but they are killing thousands be cause they are defending their native land. It is all very strange to me.'' I don't like some of our governor's late utterances. The daily paper prints in big lines that he said the man or men who lynched a negro were as guilty in the sight of God as the negro they lynched. Surely he didn't say that. The reporter must have misquoted him again. It does not sound like him. There is no such theology in the books. If God had not have put a mark upon Cain anybody might haye slain him. Moses had to provide cities of ref og for those who accidentally killed any body, lest the avengers of blood shouh pursue and overtake and slay them The avengers ol' blood were recognize! factors in the administration of tin law. "What would have been thc pun ishment of these black brutes ' ii Moses's time for their outrages we can not imagine, for with the Jews no sue! crimes were known, and to this day n< j such crime is known among them. A: a race they arc thc purest people ii their domestic, relations. Husband: are loyal and true and kind to theil wives and wives to tl? ir husbands I children are obedient to their parents j and affectionate to one another. Bul herc among us arc a numerous pcopk who seem utterly devoid of those family virtues that are the safeguards of all good government. Within tin last thirty years they have grown Iron] childhood to manhood and have be come iniinitcly worse than their fathers and mothers were while in slavery. There are more bastard negroes in and around this city than those born in wedlock. They are not mulattoes, but they are negroes of full blood. The moral degeneracy of the race is alarm ing. The State convicts and County convicts now aggregate over four thousand, and all of them have come to maturity since the close of the civil war. The morals of these negroes gets worse and worse and their outrages upon white women more frequent and more brutal. Our people are shocked and whisper to one another, who will be the next victim. When the savage Indians burned the homes and toma hawked the women and children our forefathers pursued them by day and by night and had their revenge. Wc have a people among us many of whom are worse than savages, and every man among us who is loyal to his wife or mother or sister or daughter is an avenger of blood and shouldnever stop until the britte is caught and slain. For such there are no cities of refuge and no horns of the altar for him to. lay hold of. This is one crime that makes a man an outlaw and the people have no more fear of provoking the venge ance of God than did Governor Candler when he was leading his brave men against the enemy and crying at the top of his voice, "Shoot 'em. boys! Shoot 'em! Kill the last rascal ; come on, boys ; Come on and follow me !" He never thought of giving them a trial by jury nor of being guilty of murder. Let governors proclaim in their per functory fashion-let preachers and judges speak ex-cathedra from the pulpit and the bench, our people will lynch a brute as soon as they can catch him, and it is no sign of lawlessness, either. You cannot lind in any State a better citizenship than in Early County, and mv letters from friends who live there defend them most heartily from ill their slanderers. If you wish ti lear the truth, just souud the coinmoi people-the country people, thc work ng people, who live in the peril o these outrages-the people who are tot poor to move to towns or cities-th? people who are of all people the mos ?bedient to law-tho people who serv< an our j mies and work the roads, ant nurse their sick neighbors and bur] their dead, and AVIIO gather at rh? humble church on the Sabbath day ant worship God. These are the lynchen for this particular crime and always will be. Tf a thoughtless, reckless ele ment joins them it cannot be helped The people of our county of Bartow, 1 suppose, are a fair sample of the peo ple of Georgia. There has been bn? one hanging in twenty-two years. Wc have no white citizens in the chaiiigang nobody ever shoots or lights in om streets. Sometimes at long interval? there is a small light between lawyer.4 in the courthouse, while court is in session, and the.judge on hand to stor it. hui nothing more. Hut nine out ol ten of our grand and petit juries would lynch a negro for this crime as soon as they could catch him. Kx-Governoi Jones, of Arkansas, hus got sense common sense-and he says: "All this stuft" about tiie law's delay provoking lynchings is the merest nonsense. When this crime is committed no man stops to think or. to care whether the brute will be tried next week or next year. They want vengeance right now and they are going to have it, and that is human nature in all civilized coun tries and is to be commended rather than condemned." And so let Governor Candler recon sider and take back, if he said it. He eau with propriety teach us patriotism and the purit}' of politics, but his "obier dictu," as the lawyers call it, on our guilt or innocence before God is "ultra vires"-it is beyond his jurisdic tion and hence goes for nothing. But we are all getting along pretty well. Two weeks ago it looked like starvation Avas staring us in the face. The garden had dried up, the corn was perishing away; everything save cot ton had withered, but the rains came in with the dog days, which this year began on the 20th, and the change is wonderful. It looks like like a miracle of grace. Verily, God moves in a mysterious way aud, as the poet says, "Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face." Our second crop of garden vegetables is better than tue first. We did not count on any more; beans or squashes or cucumbers and. the tomatoes were nearly dead, but everything is on a boom. Our roses are more beautiful than ever before and every morning I j fill the vases with a fresh supply, and my wife smiles her sweet rewards. Verily, we cannot foresee what a kind Providence has in store for us. Now, if the Philippine war-will be honorably closed and our northern brethren will apologize and be reconciled to us, and our negroes will behave and vote the democratic ticket, we will all be hap py. BILL ARP. STATE NEWS. - The Christian Scientists have or ganized a Ch' rch in Charleston. - Five times more cotton is said to be needed by the mills of Spartanburg than the County raises. - Congressman Talbert says that he will not oppose Senator TiLaian: that he is entirely content with a place in the lower house. - Charleston received her first bale of new cotton last week. It came from the farm of Hon. L. W. Y'ou mans, in Barnwell County. - Adjutant General Floyd announ ces that thirty companies iu the mi litia servicft of the State have been completely and entirely equipped. J 'arlington had her opening to bacco sale one day last week. Be tweeu l?O.OO? and 70.000 pounds were sold at prices ranging from 5 to 20 cents. The South Carolina Railroad Commissioners have gone to Denver, Col., to attend the national convention of railroad commissioners, which con venes to-morrow. - The old South Carolina railway shops at Charleston and those* of the Augusta Southern at Augusta are to be removed to Columbia and consoli dated with the Southern shops in the latter city. - W. lt. Moise1, of Sumter, won the prize for oratory io the Southern Col legiate contest at Monteagle, Tenn., last Friday. He is now the champion orator of the State, having carried off the honors at Due West. - An unheard of thing has happen ed in this State: Mr. W. J. Connor, of McCormick. Abbeville County, who was recently appointed a notary pub lic has resigned and returned his commission to the Governor. - Spartanburg is reported by one of her noted citizens to have melons this year so small that they can be swallowed whole. The tomato record is on the other extreme, one weighing 27 ounces having been reported. - A young son of Calvin Reeves, near the town of Kershaw, was hand ling a pistol when it was accidentally discharged, the ball entering the back of his brother, penetrating the heart, and killing him almost instantly. - Last Thursday night Herbert S. Ellerbe. brother-of the late Gov. El lerbe, was killed by a passenger train near Florence. It is almost impossi ble to tell how the accident happened. Mr. Ellerbe was 25 years old and was not married. - As a result of a gun shot wound received a week ago, Kli Sherman, a uegro more than sixty years of a^s, has died in the Dark Corner of Green ville County, of blood poison. Sher man was shot io the leg with an old and rusty gun. but it did its work. ? George Sherman, son of the deceased, i did the killing. j - James Wesley Mayne came tc? ? Greenville last AVinter from Wheeling j with the Second West Virginia Regi ! ment. When mustered out he re j mained in Greenville, obtained era j ployment and married a pretty girl. I >'ow a first wife and two children ! appear on the scone and Mayne is in jail on the charge of bigamy. I - Gov. McSweeney has received a j check for over eight thousand dollars ' for payment of war claims against the j government. The check has been de j posited in thc Carolina National Bank * I in Columbia, and arrangements have ? been made with the bank whereby j claimants entitled to a share of the j money may obtain it at the bank, j - A Ridge Spring special says: 1 "Our town and community is seriously feeling the effects of having no fruit this year. Heretofore at this season from $50,000 to $75,000 have been re ceived here for peaches. The crop this season has been shipped and re ? turns have amounted to only a few ! hundred dollars, and some large grow ers have not shipped any at all." : - Dr. Charles U. Shepard, in charge of the experimental tea station at Summerville, S. C., has made a report to the secretary of agriculture on the progress of the work. He says there are 500 acres under cultivation. Thirty thousand pounds were sold last year at a profit of 25 per cent. It is esti I mated that if all the plants mature i they will yield 10,000 pounds annually. - . -- $100 Reward. $100. j The readers of this paper will be pleased to IearD i that there is at least one dreaded disease that sci ence has been able to cure in all its stages, and tait is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only posi tive cure now known to the medical fraternity. CaUirrh being a constitutional disease requires a coniititutional treatment. 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