Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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t BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1899. VOLUME XXXV-NO. 14 ~ ' Men's Shoes At $3.50 ? We have just received our first sMpment of Shoes for 'Men. These Shoes we had made for us by one of the best manufacturers in the East. We have them in all styles, sue quality, one price,, and that is $3.50. We want all you people who have been paying $4.50 to $5.00 for Shoes to some in and see ours at $3.50. We think we can save you from $1.00 to $1.50 on your next pair, and you'll think so, "too, when you wear them. Every pair is sold with our guar antee-^your money back if you want it. School Suits For Boys. Our line of School Snits is complete, and every Suit in our Stock is made of durable, hard-to-wear-out cloth, which . ?re priced from $1.00 to $5.00. Suits, for instance, in which 7,he Pants have double seats and kroeo and are tape-sewed throughout, in which the Coats> are double-stitched and the buttons sewed on with a waxed linen thread. Remember, when you want anything in the Clothing Jinethat ? WE SELL IT FOR LESS." i THE; SPOT CASH CLOTHIERS. WHITE FRONT. -OUR Buggy and Wagon Trade is on the increase, but we want it to increase more. THOUSANDS of Farmers can testify that "Old Hickory/' "Tennessee " * Studebaker" and "Milburn'' Wagons are the lightest running and will wear longer than other makes on the market. You may find in this County these Wagons that have been in contact use for the past twenty years. . We also have on hand a large and varied assortment of BUGGIES and CARRIAGES, and among them the celebrated "Babcock's," "Columbias," . Tyson & Jones," "Columbus," and many other brands. Our record for selling first-class Goods is evident hythe blands mon n: ned above, that we have exclusive sale for in Anderson County. Our "Young Men's" Buggy has no equal. Have ?U'J a. large and select liue of HARNESS, SADDLES, BRI STLES, &c., and have recently secured exclusive control and sale of the cele brated "Matthew Heldnia?" Harness, which is well known in this County, :.nd needs no "'talking up.'" The Wagon and Buggy manufacturers arc advancing prices on all their goods on account of the advance in price of ail the material, and in conse quence we will have to advance our prices from S5.0? to S10.00 a job : hut we wish to give you a chauee to buy before the rise, so you hau better join in the procession and buy one o?' <ur Buggies.or Wagons at once, for on and after September 1st next our prices will be at least S5.00 higher than at p?sent. We regret having to do this, but cannot gel around it. Bny now and save this advance. JOS. J. FRETWELL. W?l still sell you a first-class Buggy for $30.00. Car riage $85.00. HATS, CAPS. Always up in Styles, down in Price. Novelties in the above lines. HALI, & MILFORD. THE WOMAN, THE MAN and the THE PILL. "She '.va.^ ti coori woman. He loved her. She wa.- h? wife. rs The pie was good. Hie wife made it He au.- ?i. But the pie disagreed with [iim. and he disagreed with his wife. Now fie takes a pill niter pie and i- happv. The pill he tak?< i EVANS'. MOKAL: Avoid Dyspepsia ty uainjg EVANS' LIVER AND KIDNEY PILLS. EVANS PHARMACY. BILL AR P'S LETTER. Vrp Has to Haye Help in Answering His Letters. Atlanta Constitution. It is a hopeful sign that so many of bhe young girls and boys have a thirst for knowledge. The youth's depart ment in the newspapers and magazines is growing into importance and their letters to the editors betoken studious, inquiring minds. The art of letter writing is itself not only an accomplish ment, but a good part of a polished education. Letters indicate character and good letters require thought. The. letters of notable men and womon arc the best part of their biographies. They arc an index to the heart, the emotions, the disposition. Time was when but few could write at all, and the opening of mail in a country town was a small affair. I know from experience, for when I was in my teens my father was thc postmaster and I had the work to do. i There arc now at least ten letters per capita to where there was one in those days. One great drawback on letter writing then then was the cost of postage. A letter to a place within ? thc State was 12A cents and the postage j had to be paid by the person receiving '. it, and it it was a poor letter he felt > like he was cheated. Many a letter ; was handed back to me with such a re mark as "Well, I reckon it's from Dick Jones, over in Arkansaw, and I hain't got thc quarter. Just, put it back outil I come ag'in." It keeps nie busy now-a-days to an swer all the letters I receive. My wife and daughters help to keep up thc cor respondence with the far-away boys and the other kindred, but good friends who write kind letters to mc must be answered in person. Such letters aro a pleasure and a comfort. Then, there are many letters asking for charity or a little help for a church that only reminds mc how poor I am. lint these letters from inquiring minds who are in pursuit of knowledge and perplexed about the mysteries of nature always interest me, and I have ti) pre tend to bc a wisc man whether 1 am or not. Now, here is one from a pretty school girl in her teens. I know that she is pretty, because she writes a pretty let ter and there is not a blot nor an erasure or an misspelled word. S lie wants to know where the day begins and why, and where the navigators Jirst lind a change. Of course that is worth knowing, and I suppose that ? very few outside of tho colleges and 1 the continental travelers and the sea faring men understand it. Well, my dear girl, thc day begins just where man begun-in thc garden ot' Eden. If the Creator had chosen New York or Charleston for that gar den, the day would havo begun over here on this continent and extended westward to California, as thc people multiplied and carried it there. Of course the day kept its name and its date around, lind east of Palestine as far as the sea. but "westward the tide of empire takes its way," and so did tho tide of time. Columbus brought the day with him to this continent. From our eastern coast thc people took it to California, and from there the missionaries,took it to the Sandwich islands, and it continued to follow the sun until thc navigators got around to Bombay sind Hong Kong and Cairo and j found they had lost a day and it was Monday instead of Sunda}*. And those who sailed eastward and traveled against thc sun lound they had gained a dav and it was Saturday instead of Sunday. ! But lt is not so now, Lor lhere is an j international line in midoeoau--a inon dean that has been established by the ! great powers and accepted by the nav igators of all nations as the change of date line. This line is 180 degrees wes! of Greenwich and runs from Xcw Zea- j land north to Mehring straits and goes not far from Samoa, it is just half way around the world from London and is called the- Antipode ol: Creen-j wich, lt is 1,300 miles west of Hawaii and :>,l?0() west of San Francisco. This line is check-marked on the up-to-date maps and Sunday is printed ou the west .side aud Monday on the east. Navigators tell by their log books and compass when they have reached it. and the captain or the mate announces with great ceremony: "Set the day clock back twenty-four hours. We have crossed thc line." For many years our American rail ways, as they pressed their way from the Atlantic to thc Pacific, round the question of time very confusing, and hence by consent of action they estab lished four divisions of ral way time and marked longitudinal lines 1,000 miles apart, to indicate them. When the train crosses one ol! these lines the passengers set their watches back or forward just one hour, for thc sun move.- or seems to move just LOW miles ?in hour. These moiideaii lim--* divide time into eastern, central, moun tain and Pacific, and they pass through New York city, St. Louis, Denver and Carson City, and therefore when it is 12 o'clock in New York city it is only'J o'clock in California. The railroad companies, however, could not cut tin ir lines in i wi? io suit these mondeaiis and hence their railroad lim?is a zig-zag crooked line to lit their terminal points, but it approximates the mondean. This is. m?t all that could bc w rit len about time and where the day begins, bul it is enough to satisfy tiic school girls and boys, ami ? specially the pret ty girl who writes me from Me.L'ue. In these days ol! telegraph and ocean ?.ables it seems very funny to us vete rans thal when a message is >ent from London it gets here two or three hours before it starts, and if we semi a tele gram io San francisco to-day nt noon it, gets there at t? o'clock this morning. Tho battle of Manila was fought on Sunday morning, but the news ot it carno on Sat urda v night before. How is that? Edgar Poe wrote a pretty little story called "Three Sundays in a Week," in which he told about a young man who was adopted and reared by a rich old bachelor uncle who had been a sea cap tain, and how theold sailor WHS to leave his nephew alargo fortune if he be haved to suit him. Thc old man was awfully uneasy for fear he would do something to displease, him. At last he fell in love, of course, with a very poor but pretty girl named Kate. They kept their love a secret and lived on it for about a year, and thought the old captain didn't know it, but he did. So they determined to get married even tho' it should make the old man mad and he should turn them out of doors and not leave them anything when he died. So on Sunday morning Jack took Kate by the hand and boldly they went into the old man's presence and told him all about it, and that they had come for his consent and for him to fix the day when they should be mar ried. The old fellow was really glad of it, for he liked the girl, but he couldn't help being contrary and so he blustered around and pretended to be very mad, and finally wound up by say ing: "Ye6, yes, #ou may get married, and I'll say when-yes, when. Well, you may get married when there are three Sundays in a week. Yes, then and not before.'' This was awful and the sad young couple were about to leave when"there was a knock at tho door. When it was opened two sailors, sea captains, too, carno rushing in and seized the old man's hands and hugged him, and all three got jolly, for they were old chums and had not seen each other for a year. Tlie old uncle introduced them to the young man and Kate and said some thing nice about them. He soon brought out some linc old Maderia and made every body take a drink. After while Captain Pratt said: "Well, now I remember that the last time we were together we had a royal game ol' cards. Suppose wo have smother irani?: as a reminder." "Oh, no," said thc old uncle. "Good friends, you folget that this is Sunday, and true Englishmen never play cards on Sunday." "Sunday, indeed," ex claimed Captain Pratt. "It is Monday. Yesterday was Sunda}-, and I had prayers on board my ship as 1 always do." Captain Smithson by this time was excited and exclaimed: "Why you both are crazy. To-day is Saturday and to-morrow will be Sunday. Didn't I make my sailors scrub ship this morn - ing before sunrise as we came into port, and don't we always scrub ship on Saturday. What are you thinking about?" . Then the old uncle laughed and chuckled and danced around the room in great glee, for?thc wine was doing its work. "Sunday-Sunday!" he exclaimed. "Pratt says that yesterday was Sun dav. Smithson ?Wears that to-morrow i will bo Sunday, and I swear that today j is Sunday. Ha! ha! ha! I see how it is. ! Pratt sailed west from London and Smithson sailed east and have been round the world in opposite directions, j and I have stayed at home. Three j Sundays in a week, by Jupiter. Hen-, j Jack, "you young dog, go after the ; preacher and you and Kate get mar- ? ried to-day. for it will be a long time 1 ?cfore three Sundays rome together again.'' 1 haven't told 1 he story as Poe told it. hut that is the gist of it. MiU. AVA-. Yu Shut Down Southern Mills. PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 22-.-About twenty-lire repr?sentatives of the Southern Spinners' Association from North and South Carolina are now in this city. The delegation Ls headed by President J. ll. McAdcn and Sec retary G. 1?. Hiss, of Charlotte, N. C. The visitors came to seo the National j Export Association. They will while ! here, it is said, discuss questions which may result in temporarily shutting down a large number of mills in the South. This is on account of the an ticipated increase of cost of cotton, i The present price of material suchas ! the mills in the -Association use is Oj cents per pound, ft is expected thal I in sixty days the price will be raised to \ 71 cents. The question whether or not i il would be advisable to lake orders at ? tlie present prices or refuse them is j accordingly the principal subject of ! discussion with the committeemen here and among the members of the Asso ciation themselves. Secretary Hiss said to-night that tho j present prices arr entirely too low. and unlcssan advance is made it will-bo im possible to till orders at thc anticipated ' raise in the price ol' the raw material. As amatlerof fact, he thought it would ; lie better to shin down than run tho ! mills at a loss. j Should there be a general shut-down j it might ailee I one hundred and Hf ty I mills in the South. Five Sisters for Wives. . W illiam Mercer, of liaccoon Creek. W. Ya., has married live sisters. Not all at once, of course, but when one i wife died Mr. .Mercer nan ried bereister. ! In a word, Mr. Mercer fell in love with the clan of Moffat, and (he Moffats ; agreed thai they musl keep Mr. Mercer in the family. Miss Anua Mofla!, whom he niai ried on Tuesday Inst, is 2(5 years old. In pursuance of the plan to keep Mercer j in the family Miss Anna rejected :i '. young man of Raccoon Creek. "Each om- of the Moffat girls has i made me a better w ?fe than her sister." i say.- Mr. Mercer. "I can't say more. for any of them than that. I real!} : think 1 am fonder ol'Anna than 1 was of Jennie. Ada. Catherine or Mis .souri." Mr. Mercer, whose age is ."Ri. married : MissJennie M oh a I w hen he was 1.11 years I old. The girls' parents have never ol' ? lei eil objection to their marriage with ' Mercer, although Mrs. Motl'at was bite 1 h heard to complain: "It does seem : strange to have bad lour girls married , and only one son-in-law." Knell ol' Mercers wives has blessed , ilim with two children, all of whom are n ally first cousins. They can call . their new stepmother '.auntie," if they j will. Miss Anna Moffat is robust, bul ! il must gratify Mr. Mercer to know i there is yet one Modal girl loft. who is 20 years old and noted for her patient disposit ion.-Philadelphia tanoni. Chfiap Printing. Law linet's at GO 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 todo, it will bc to your interest to write to tlie Press and Banner, Abbeville. S. C. H. Corner Creek ?vrs. _ i The farmers of this section arc very j busy nowadays picking out their cot ton. The majority are about half f through picking. Some of our farmers will not make over half a crop of cot- s ton, while others will make a very fair crop. Corn is generally good in this 1 section, and we think our farraers will l make plenty ot corn, etc., to feed stock i on anotheryear. Muscadines have been plentiful in ' c these parts this year, and we have cer- j tainly enjoyed ourselves feasting on j them. Mr. J. N. Shirley's mineral spring is x the centre of much attraction these 1 days, for people, from far and near are t drinking it for their health. It is prov- j ing a great benefit to several. Mr. Shir- j ley had it analyzed at Clemson College, I ! and it was found to contain some min- ? 1 eral. ; ? Messrs. Darby and Lomax are put- ? ting the roads of this section in excel- 1 . lent shape. This is the second year ' that these gentlemen have had the road I machine in their hands, and we haven't ? heard a single complaint as to their working the roads. We think Mr. 1 , Hanks has the right men in the right 1 place. '1 Miss Modona Bigby, one of our fair < belles, visited her cousin, Miss Cassie Fleming, at Abbeville, last week. Hugh Bigby, of the enterprising town ( of Pelzer, spent, Sunday with relatives. 1 Clayton Ragsdalc and Clarence Cle ments,, two tit Barker's Creek's dashing young sports, made pop calls on two of our fair young girls. Sunday night. Come again, gents, for we are sure you enjoyed the visit. Cotton ia bringing :i very good price now, and we see no usc of the farmers grumbling, although wc would like to see it go to seven cents. Cotton seed was bringing 10 cents at Ilonea Path Saturdav, and we say let 'cr roll on. TYRO, j The public schools will open in Hall 1 Township October 16th. The trustees will meet at Cars well at 2 p. m. on Oc tober 14th to consider applications of teachers. No teachers will be accepted who do not lirst get permission to teach from the Township Board. J. T. C JONES. Ch'm. ? --i Will Enter Snit Against the Bond. Attorney General Bellinger is prc- ? paring to bring suit against thc bonds- J men of Col. W. A. Neal, owing to the j failure of Col. Neal to make any other settlement of the amount the commit- j tee linds him owing the State, lt hap pens that all three of the bondsmen i arc Columbians and are men who stand high in thc community, financially as well as otherwise. The bond is signed by Wilie Jones. P. II. Hal ti wanger and ( Scott Pope. ; Mr. Bellinger recently notified these ! ; bondsmen that they were expected to j call to see him and settle the matter at i ! once. Of the three Col. .Iones failed and intimated to the Attorney general that he was williug to pay up and would do so. Mr. Bellinger said yes terday that neither of the other gentle men had taken any notice of his letter j to them, and he would forthwith pre- 1 pare to enter suit. The bond was given for .^0,000. Of ; course the bondsmen will only have to make good thc shortage, which Mr. j Bellinger insists must be considered what is set forth in the legislative com- 1 mittee's report. Kacie bondsman is ; liable for the entire amount in case the ; ?Ubers fail to produce property cover ing their share. lt is understood that thc ot her bonds men will test the question of their lia bility in the courts before paying any of the money claimed to bc due the ! State. Mr. Pope is said to have.inti niated that he will awaii the bringing of snit in the courts. Thus the matter stands. Of course all actions on the bond will be entirely separate and dis tinct from the criminal prosecution of ' Col. Neal.-Thc Stair. Submarine Torpedo Moat. ? liuKExrouT, N. V.. September Thc submarine torpedo boat Holland made a remarkably good showing dur ing the practice run to-day. Thc trials : were made over the course in Little : j Peconic Day, which will be used for j the dive tests tobe held later. The I vessel was recently overhauled, and ; during thc run of to-day showed a con- ? siderable increase of speed. The new J ? diving apparatns for opcratiog thc ! j steering engine worked successfully, the boat getting under water and com pletely out of sight in quick time. I?c side diving, running on the surface ? and limier waler for a long length ol' time, torpedo practice was indulged in. The Whitehead torpedo was used, sim ilar in design td I luise used on thc j smaller vessels of the Pnited States navy. Sullicient air was stored in the air chamber of the torpedo to give it. a radius ol action of about "iiiii yards. The trial was in sending thc boat over ? a mile course submerged, at the end of | j which it came lo thc surface ami thc I j torpedo \vas?diseharged from the tube, which is about five feet below the sur face of the water. The run under wa- ; ter was made in about ten minutes. ? The torpedo was successfully diselsarg- ; ed from the tube, but owing to what i< thought to have been a disarrangement j j of some of the mechanism the torpedo, instead of laking a straight course, ? took' a downward turn and the volume : of muddy water sent up showed that ii struck the bottom about lifty feet from the bow of tlie boat. Iii. 11- is nunc Cul ii ri i in this section ul' (he ' country than nil oilier diseases! put together, ?iud until thu la.-l few years was?supposed to Ix; Incur- 1 able. Kur a groat immy years doctors pronounced ii a local disease, and pre?-eribed local remedio, and by constantly fie ling to euro willi loen t incl inent, pronounced it Incurable. Science bas prov- ' en catarrh to be n constitutional disease, ami i therefore requires constitutional treatment. Hall's '. Catarrh Cure, manufactured by K. J. Cooney .v Co. Toledo, Ohio, a the only constitutional cute on the market. It Ls tnkon Internally in dones from IO drops to a teaspoonful, lt acta directly on the blood ami mucous surface:; of thc .system. Thc? ottor OUR hundred dollars for any case ll fails tu eure. Send for circulars and testimonial. Ail draw. F. J. CHENEY A CO., Tolmlo. >>. MjioM by ]>ri^?iats, 7?c. Hair? Fierily Pill? tn? the bte i STATE SEWS. - Mrs. John Kirby died in Pacolct rom the effects of the bite of a small pider. - Greenville is to have another )ig mill and Yorkville is raisiog the noney for another there. - Gen. G. Walt Whitman has ?schewed politics and will turo his Mention to merchandising in Union. - Mr. Aaron Radcliffe, the cotton veigher at Denmark, dropped dead ?riday. while weighing a bale of cot ion. - Many farmers in Laurens county ire buying cotton and holding it and very little cotton is being offered for sale. - Mr. Jacob 1* Houch, a young "armcrin theLyons section of Orangc burg County, was killed in a cotton :in accident. - The bu3iuess men of Columbia bavc organized a home fire insurance company which will do business ex clusively in that city. - Judge W. C Benet, presiding over First judicial circuit, has return ed to South Carolina from a visit to his family in Scotland. - The government lias asked per mission of thc State authorities to make some extensive improvements on Castle Pinckuey at Charleston. - Select specimens of your choicest grains, vegetables, finely bred stock, including poultry, for exhibition at ! thc State Fair. A little effort on your part will secure one or more of ? the handsome premiums. - Charleston has quarantined against all points infected with yel low fever. This disease is spreading in Key West, and has assumed au alarming phase at Tampa, Xew Or leans, and Jackson. Miss. - Georgetown county is feeding four little negroes in jail, now con fined in Sheriff Skinner's hotel for larceny. Thc average agc of these prisoners is about !J and 10 years, two of them being little girls. - Dr. T. K Kvins, of Spartauburg, has received a regimental surgeon's commission in the 49th, with the rank of major. His "cgiment is of thc de partment of California, but will be or dered to Manila at an carly day. - A Beaufort jury at the last Court brought a verdict for $850 against Senator Don Cameron for horsewhip ping a man named Schein some time ago. Schein was accused of sellig liquor to thc people on thc Senator's plantation. The whipping is said to have been done good-naturedly-that Schein took it as a joke at first, but later on decided to bring action. He would probably like to have a few more whippings at thc same price. - The cotton mills of Spartanburg ..'?unty use about 150,000 bales of cotton a year, while the county produces in rouid number but 50.000 bales. The Clifton mills alone con sume nearly as much * as the crop of the county. - Larry Gantt seems to have put quite a lively hum on the atmosphere in Spartanburg county. Ordinarily Larry is right smart of a humbug; but in the present instance the fact stands him in good stead. Most of the men he is after are humbugs, too. - YorkviUt Enquirer. - J. M. MacFarland, a member of the constabulary force, has resigned to engage in other buisncss. The Gorernor announces that the vacancy will not be filled. This is thc second vacancy not filled. He says the law is being better enforced. - Thc third trial of Mrs. Hughes, charged with the murder of her hus band, took place in Greenville last week. Thc jury could not agree and a mistrial was ordered. It is said that the jury stood eight for acquittai, three for murder and one fer man slaughter. Thc fourth trial will take place next January. - The three-year-old daughter of Mrs. S. H. Owens, of Columbia, was seriously kicked in thc head by a horse. The little child was playing in the yard with her kitten when the pet ran under the horse's feet. Thc child stooped dowu to pick it up, when the horse kicked her a fearful blow on thc side of the head, cutting a gash about four inches long. - Miss Virginia Massec, the 23 year-old daughter of 'Squire AV. ll. Mass?e, a wealthy and prominent citizen of Chesterfield county, left her home recently to walk to her sister's, 1 mite distant. She did not return that night and it was supposed she had remained with her sister. The next day it was ascertained the young lady had nev?r reached her sister's. There is great excitement in the community. Thc country has been searched over by 100 men day and night since, but no trace of the girl found. National Export Exposition. Commencing Tuesday. Sept. V.), and on each succeeding Tuesdays and Thursdays, up to and includi. ? No vember "23rd, the Southern Railway will sell from all stations round trip tickets to Philadelphia at rate one and one-third fare, plus ?0 cents admission to the Exposition. These tickets will bc limited 30 days from dato of sale. For full information, Pullman car res ervations, call on any Agent, or address J. B. HEYWARD, T. P. A., Augusta, Ga. - Self-possession is more than nine ? points in law-or in anything else for 1 that matter. Every Store CXX#^|1H WE KEEP onlV handles OJIANDO* the BEST. $3.00 Vici, Kid) Tan, Black and Russet. Equal to any $3.50 Shoe in the market, or your money back. HALL & MILFORD. ROOMS for RENT/ GOOO LOCATION. APPIA TO THOMSON CYCLE WORKS, ' NEXT TO NEW BANK. We have added io our Stock a New and Complete line of FANCY DRESS GOODS, TRIMMINGS, NOTIONS, MILLINERY, A tal Lb 8? HOUSE FfflSHIB, And Everything it tatas to mike a First Class Stora. Ocr liuyers selected the latvand besl styles in everything hi thr N orth ern markets, and we eau. beyond a doubt, please you. Von are eipscialiy invited tu examine our whole Stock, which we will lake pleasure i i showing, whether you buy or :iut. MRS. D. M. WILSON, who spout several weeks in New York, will have . barge of our MILLINERY DEPARTMENT, which is supplied with ibo latest styles and Novelties, aud with her exp?rience in this line wo know s!;> < aji interest you. MISS OLA MOOIIE will he glad lo show you Dress Goods, etc. Sh . also has experience in this line, and will do all she eau to please you . We have :i big Stock of SHOES, and arc offering some bargains which y< ii can't a fiord to pass over. Also, Wc handle GROCERIES of all kiuds, aud will give you spacial prices on FLOUR, MOLASSES nm! TOBACCO. Special values in every department. Come, and we will convince you. Iii? lot of TEXAS KEP RUST TROOP OATS on hand. Your.; truly, MOORE, ACKER & CO., IvAST SIDE VURT.tr SQUARE-CORNER STORK. Hair Five City Delivery.