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"gYOIilNKSCALES & LANGSTON. ~ ANDERSON, S. C, WEDNESDAY, ATJUUST \). 189i>. VOLUME XXXV-NO. 7. .? ~ Ii m Dollars AWAY BY . U. Evans & Co., ANDERSON, S. C. Ithe grand key and tag sale \ We have placed in our Store a handsome Oak Money-Box r.aining Silver Dollars. We have had made for us a number of Keys, some of rhich will unlock the, BOX. With every CASH purchase of 11.00 will be given a KEY attached to a tag. Keys can be ried? irst t lSi, id 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 bring to our trade in Cash what we have heretofore paid ?r advertisng, with the hope the greater number will be eneflted. THE SPOT GASH CLOTHIERS. BILL ARP'S LETTER. BUI Says He Can't Fool Ills Wife. Atlanta Constitution. Air. Lincoln said, "Yon may tool some of the people all the time?you may fool all of the people some of the time, but you enn't fool all tho people all the time." That's so, I reckon, but I will ndd that a mini can't fool his wife at all. Sho catches up with him by instinct. Aly wife has been away to Home 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 sho 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 aud 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 came home prematurely and there was the stump grinning with its i'reslr cut edges. I was getting bet ter, but when I saw her coming I took a horizontal attitude on 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 any thing; but there was a doubtful expression on her tranquil countenance. If there were no grandchildren around here 1 could get along, but they let the cat out of the bag every 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 me 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 arc 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 bocks. If God had not have put a mark upon Cain anybody raient have slain him. I Moses hiid to provide cities of refuge for tbose who accidentally killed any body, lest the avengers of blood should pursue and overtake and slay them. The avengers of blood were recognized factors iu the administration of the law. What would have been the pun ishment of these black brutes in Moses's time for their outrages we can not imagine, for with the Jews no such crimes were known, and to this day no such crime is known among tlicni. As a race they are the purest people in their domestic relations. Husbands are loyal and true and kind to their wives and Avives to their husbands; children are obedient to their parents j and affectionate to one another. Hut here among us are a numerous people who seem utterly devoid of those family virtues that are tho safeguards of all good government. Within the last thirty years they bave grown from childhood to manhood and have be come infinitely worso 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 eonvicts 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. We have n 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 should never stop j until the brute 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 tear of provoking the venge ance of God than did Governor Gaudier 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, boy s ; Gome 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 find in any State a better citizenship than in EiuTy County, and my letters "from friends who live there defend them most heartily from j all their slanderers. 11 you wish to j hoar the truth, just sound the common j people?the country people the work J ing people, who live in the peril of ! these outrages?the people who are too J poor to move to towns or cities?the j peoplo who are of all people the most I obedient to law?the people who serve on our juries and work tin- roads, and ; nurse their sick neighbors ami bury their dead, ami who gather at tIn humble church on tho Sabbath day and worship God. These are the lynchers for this particular crime and always j will be. If a thoughth-ss, reckless cle i ment joins them it cannot ho helped. ! J The people of our county of I tar tow, 1 ! : suppose, are a fair sample of the peo ! pie of Georgia. There has been but I one hanging in twenty-two years. We ' I have no white citizens in the ehaiugang, nobody ever shoots or lights in our ! ' streets. Sometimes at long intervals | i there is a small light between lawyers ! j in the courthouse, while court is in ! session, and the judge on hand to stop j it, but nothing more. Hut nine out of Iten of our grand and petit juries would lynch a negvo for this crime as soon as they could catch him. Kx-Governor ; Jones, of Arkansas, has got sense? common sense?and he says: "AH this I stuff about the law's delay provoking ! lynchiugs is the merest nonsense, j When this crime is committed no man stops to think or. to can- whether the brute will be tried next week or next year. They want vengeance right, now aud 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. lie can with propriety teach us patriotism and the purity of polities, 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. Hut we are all getting along pretty well. Two weeks ago it looked like starvation was staring 'is 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 tho change is wonderful. It looks like like a miracle of grace. Verily, God moves in u mysterious way and, as the poet soys, "Behind a frowning providence Tie hides a smiling face." Our second crop of garden vegetables is better than the first. We did not count on any more beans or squashes or cucumbers aud the tomatoes were nearly dend, but everything is on a boom. Our roses are more beautiful than ever before and every morning I till 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 und vote the j democratic ticket, wo will all be hap= j py. Bill Ari\ STATE NEWS ? The ( 'hristian Scientists have or ganized a Chi rch in Charleston. ? l'ive 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 Tilluian; that he is entirely content with a place in the lower house. Charleston received her first bale of new cotton last week. It eauie from the farm of lion. L. W. Vou mans, in Raruwcll County. Adjutant (.?encrai Floyd announ ces that thirty companies in the mi litia service of the State have been completely and entirely'.'quipped. Darlington had her opening to bacco sale one day last week. Be tween 110,000 and 70,000 ; aunds were j sold at prices ranging from ."? to 20 S cents. The South Carolina Kailroad Commissioners have gone to !>enver. 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. h. Moise. of Suinter, won the prize for oratory iu the Southern Col legiate contest at Monteagle, Tenu., 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. \V. J. Connor, of McCormick, Abbeville County, who was recently appointed a notary pub lie 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 j received a week ago, Kli Sherman, a neuro more than sixty years of age, has <He<l in the Dark Corner of Greea ville County, of blood poison. Sher man was shot in the leg with an old and rusty nun. but it did its work. George Sherman, son of the deceased, did the killing, j ? James Wesley May ne came to i Greenville last Winter from Wheeling ! with the Second West Virginia llegi i ment. When mustered out he re mained in Greenville, obtained em ployment and married a pretty girl. Now a first wile and two children appear on the s. one aud M ay no i- in jail on the charge of bigamy. Gov. McSweeney has received a ; cheek for over eight thousand dollars ' for payment of war claims against the ! government. The check has been do j posited in the Carolina National Bank i in Columbia, and arrangements havo ; been made with the bank whereby ! claimants entitled to a share of the , money may obtain it at the bank. ! ? A Hidge Spring special say.-.: 1 ' Our town aud 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 beeu shipped and re i turns have amounted to only a few ; hundred dollars, and some large grow ; ers have not shipped any at all." ? Dr. Charles IF. Shcpard, in chatge of the experimental tea station at Summerville, S. C, has made a report to the secretary of agriculture on tho 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 ! they will yield !0,000 pounds annually. $100 Reward. $100. I The readers of this paper will be pleased to learu i thai tltere is at least one dreaded disease that sci ence has been able to cure in all Its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Curo Is the only poa: - tivn cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease reqaires n constitutional treatment. 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