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BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1; 1899. VOLUME XXXV-NO. 19. In every line of business there is always ONE BEST. There can never be two. In the Clothing Business of Ander son there is one Store that is better than all others, because it's a SPOT CASH STORE, and it's the place for you to trade if you wish to save money. It has been our ambition to make our Store the best of its kind. We have succeeded. If you will come into our Store we can show you exactly why we are able to save you money. The advertisements we publish will probably sound like bragging. All right, let it be so. You may call it bragging, or whatever you please. If we can save you money on your Clothing, Hats and Furnishings, that's all you need care about. That's what we can do. That's what we are doing for lots of people. We sell our Goods for strictly Spot Cash. We keep no books. We have no bad debts. Our way of doing business is fairer than that of 9 ny Store we know of. If you make a purchase'here and you are not satisfied, we will give you Ml NIH! BICK IF YOU Mi IT I Men's ? Hats. BOYS' KNEE PANT SUITS. Don't wear that old Hat when you know you can get a good Fedora here-one that is Union-made and not out of a job lot-for a uollar. You had beter make up your mind to come here at once. Our Fall Eats are all in, and we want you to inspect the most complete line in Anderson. Hats from 25c. to S3 00. Shoes. We handle only a One Price Shoe -all styles, one quality, one price, and that is $3.50. The nest time you want a pair of Shoes come in and see ours Notice the way it is made, how far the leather is turned over on the inside cf the uppers, the daintiness of the stitclus, the graceful shape, the way the back seam is covered, and in Tan Shoes the soft bi own colors. Compare all these thing?, not only with other S3.50 Shoes, but with Shoes at a dollar more. Then buy the Shoe you think is best worth your money. One lot Double Breasted Suits ages 8 to 14 years-extra well made. A good bargain at.$1 00 One lot Double Bieasted Suits ages 8 to 16 years-strictly all wool, double seat and knees. The Credit Stores' leader at S3.00. EVANS' price.$2 50 One lot Vestee Suits in mixed Che viots-ages 3 to 8 years-an extra value, for.SI 50 A complete line of Knee Pants for Boys at 25c, 50c, 75c and S1.00. Single and Double Breasted SACK SUITS. In Plain Goods, Blue Sorge, Blue or Black Clay Worsted, and Blue or Black Herring Bone Cheviot are the correct things, though a few Fancy Worsteds will be worn. We have these Suits at 85.00, $7.50, 810.00, 812.50, S15 00, and on up to 820.00 ? if vou wish. THE' SPOT CASH CLOTHIERS. WHITE F?ONT. A Letter From Gen. Wheeler. NASHVILLE, TENN., Oct. 29.-The following letter has been received from Gen. Joe Wheeler, in the Philippines: Santa Reta, Isle of Luzon, September 18, 1899. Van Leer Kirkman. My Dear Young Cousin: I have now seen much of the country and the peo ple in that part of Luzon for about 50 miles north of Manila. In every town there is a magnificent stone church and a convent or monastery. Thc insur gents have a great antipathy to the priesthood of Friars, and the}* have dismantled many of the churches. The value of the church and monasterj' of a town seems to be equal in many cases to the value of all the other buildings in the town. The more I talk to the people, the more I am convinced that the insurgents are actuated, in a meas ure, by a spirit of communism, and in their talks, their most serious objection to the church seems to be the fact that ecclesiastical organizations own so much of the property, and one of Agui naldo's most earnest demands is that the church property be confiscated. There is a general impression that the insurgent army is made up very largely of people without property, and that people who have property de sire the Americans to control., so that they can have protection and feel that their property is secured to them; but I find that there is some fear or appre hension among some of the wealthy that if Americans control and give uni versal suffrage the power of the wealthy people would be taken away and their hold on property very much impaired. I think that if the wealthy people would be assured that they would be protected in their property rights by the United States it would have a very good effect. The Friars and priests "are charged with all sorts of oppressions and mis demeanors, but it must be remembered that Friars and priests are very numer ous, and in so large a body, there will be found every possible phase of char acter and disposition. Some of them are, no doubt, oppressors of the people, exacting in the collection of rentals from thc lands, indulging themselves in many ways and leading lives very different from what should character ize the life of a priest; but there are very many good men among them. The statement that I have seen that TO per cent, of the people of Luzon can read and write is a great mistake. It may be true of many, but it is not true of those in the rural districts and the percentage of illiteracy in the other islands is much greater than in Luzon. The appearance, mode of life and method of performing work are to-day very much like they arc described in the'Bible at the time of and even be fore the Christian era. The people dress very much as they did two thousand years ago. To-day I spent some time in watching natives cleaning shucks from rice; the method of shelling and cleaning is primitive and no better than used 2,000 years ago. Everything can be grown, but oranges and bananas are not so good as in other localities, the reason nt) doubt being that they seem to give them no cultivation whatever. Coffee is grown which is said to be superior to Mocha. Rice is the principal product and a failure of that crop would cause a ter rible famine, as the people depend al most entirely upon it for food. Sugar is the principal crop tor export. The greatest amount exported in any one year was 201,081 tons, which was in 1893. Corn grows very rapidly and the cars reach their full growth about 60 days from the time of planting. There is a great amount of very valuable timber in these islands and many va rieties of beautiful hardwoods under native names such as mahogany, black walnut and ebony. Gold, copper, coal, iron, sulphur^ lead, building stone, petroleum and guano are found. There are many different tribes liv ing in these islands, the only ones in active rebellion being the Tagalos. This tribe occupies some eight prov inces in the neighborhood of Manila, and their association with Europeans has made them more civilized than other tribes. We are now seven or eight miles from Porac, where an insurgent force has been stationed for some time, but around here and through this vast val ley the people are actively engaged in planting rice. 1 have been riding around the outskirts of this place and the fields are dotted with men, women and children planting rice. I confident that a brigade of cav alry could easily travel through a great part of the island. The Suez causl brought the Philip pines much nearer to Europe and has greatly increased their commerce. The exports of hemp have greatly increased. In 1882 44,205 tons of hemp were ex ported, which has increased until there were exported in 1897 112,785 tons and this output can be largely increased. The shipments of coffee gradually in creased until tlie year 1880 when the amount exported amounted to 7.;?:j7 tons, and from 1880 to 1890 the ship ments averaged about 0,000 tons a year, but from that time they have fallen off. I learn the following about cotton from reliable sources: The cotton tree is lound growing in an uncultivated state in many islands ol' tho archipelago. Long staple cotton j was formerly extensively cultivated in the province of Hincos Norte, when ! many years ago large quantities ol' j good cotton stull's were exported. This ! industry still exists, j The cultivation ol' this staple was, however, discouraged by the Ioctl gov I ernors in order to urge the planting ol' tobacco for the government supplies. It has since become diflicull to revive the cotton production, although ;ui essay, in pamphlet form (for which a prize was awarded in Madrid) was gratuitously distributed over the col ony in 1888 with that object in view. Nevertheless cotton spinning and weaving are still carried on on a re duced scale, in the [llocos provinces .(Luzon) west coast. Wild cotton is useless for spinning as the staple is extremely short, but perhaps by hybridization and careful attention its culture might become valuable to the colony. Tlie pod is elliptical and the cotton which burst from it at/maturity is snow white. It is used for stuffing pillows and mattresses. It isa common thing to see wild cot ton trees planted along I he high road to serve as telegraph posts; by the time the seed is fully ripe every leaf has fallen and nothing but the burst ing pods remaining hanging to the branches. With regards. Sincerely yours, JOSEPH WHEELER, The State's Watered Liquor. BARNWELL, S. C., October 29.-The monstrosity produced by Tillman's per version ot* thc Gothenburg plan of liquor soiling is resulting in general political nausea even among thc faith ful, except as to those whose stomachs are unsually strong and 100 proof against political and moral putrescence of all kinds. It is remarked as somewhat peculiar that Ouzts, who has anatomized the dispensary skeleton with the minute ness of detail of Defoe in his account of the London plague, has not touched on the watering of the liquor. Col. J. J. Brown, of this place, and another wrote a letter last year or the year before to Com mission er Vance, inquir ing as to the truth of tiie report that they watered the whiskey before bot tling1. Vance replied, "Yes, it was true, but that the water was chemically pure, being carefully boiled before adding to thc liquor.'1 Ile said, "They added one barrel of Ava ter to every four bar rels of 100 proof liquor." ?he natural question that then arose but which Mr. Vance never solved was, Who goethe profit on the 100 gallons of water to every 400 gallons of whiskey so treated? In the board of control's accounts with the State did they credit the State with the surplus so*gained, or, if not, where did this immense sum of money lind lodgment?-Special to Kcics and Courier. This Settles lt. As each century draws near its close I there, is much controversy as to when the next century will begin. For more than a year past there has been a lively dispute over the question whether the twentieth century will be gin January 1, 1000, or January 1, 1901. Newspapers and Magazines have pub lished innumerable communications on this subject; it has been discussed around thousands of family firesides and by many debating societies. Strange to say, the disputants have been about equally divided between the two dates. We say this is strange, for it would seem to be a very easy matter to de termine when a century begins. It is cause for congratulation that the Chicago Tribune has made a publi cation which will go far toward settling this mooted question. The Tribune appealed to Professor W. H. M. Chris tie, director of the Royal Observatory, at Greenwich, for an authoritative statement as to when the next century will begin, and has received in reply the following cablegram from that eminent authority: Royal Observatory, Greenwich, Lon don. October 21,1899. Editor of the Tribune: In reply to your inquiry I beg to in form you that the twentieth century begins on January 1,1901. It has been generally agreed to call the first year of the Christian era Anno Domini 1, not A. D. 0, and consequently the second century begins with A. D. 101, 100 years after the beginning of thc first year, and so on for the succeeding centuries' The question was fully discussed at the Century dinner at Glasgow on April 15, 1870, when the Lord Dean of the Guild, after quoting various author ities, gave his decision as arbiter that the nineteenth century did not com mence till January 1, 1N01. An account of this meeting was printed for private circulation at the time. Yours faith ! fully, W. H. M. CHRISTIE, Astronomer Royal. ! It appears, then, that the scientific ; world is agreed that the twentieth cen tury begins January 1, 1001. Suppose wc let it. go at that and re joice in the assurance that we will have a whole year due us from the nine teenth century after the present year j has gone. Fitzhugh Lee on Cuba. WASHINGTON, October 29.-Gen. j Fitzhugh Lee. who is in the United ; States on a vacation from his post in ' Cuba, is in the city on his way "South, j He is accompanied by his son. To . morrow night Gen. Lee expects to go to Richmond to witness the launching of the Shu brick, but will return to j Washington on Wednesday. In an in terview he says the people of Cuba are steadily improving under the existing : protectorate of thc United States, and are slowly, but surely, rebuilding their ? war-wasted homes and repairing their ! crippled fortunes. Lifo and property arc secure in (alba, owing largely, he ! said, to the salutary restraint exercised 1 by American military authority. Mc thinks the time not yet ripe, however, for a purely Cuban government. : "Cuba," said Gen. Lee, "is improving. ! Tlu; Cubans are tractable and quiet, ; and the revolution has given them sci f ! assurance and self-reliance. Their 1 impulses are generally in the right di , rcction, but, id" course, both in the the ; ory and practice of self-government they are wholly without, experience. There is among certain Cubans a deep seated prejudice against some men, who, the Cubans think, oppressed Cu bans under Spanish rule, and if given a free rein thc Cubans would make short work of them. The United States Government is pledged to grant inde pendence to Cuba after the island lins been pacified, ami I believe thal prom ise should he fullillcd just as swiftly as we can iti reason and just ?ce. "The industrial situation is improv ing and money is gradually going into Culta, hut nothing like as fast as it would if investors were sure t hat prop erty would remain safe for years to come and he protected by a Govern ment strong enough to enforce law and order." 'Jen. Lee declined to discuss political a Hairs in Cuba ami whether or not the Cubans desired independence or annex ai iou. How's This. Wo ni!cr Oms Hundred Dollars reward tor any case ' f Catarrh Iii ?t cannot tte cu rod by Halt's Catarrh (Turo; Wc, Hm undersigned have known h.. . Cheney for thc last 15 ycart, and believe li ?ni perfectly honorable in all business transactions and lin an dally able to carry out any obligacuis inado hy their firm. WK>TA TRKAX, Wh ilesale Prugglsts, Toledo, O. WAMMNU. KIN.VAN .V MARVIN, Wholesale Drug, gists; Toledo, O. Ha'l'sCatarrh Cure is taken internally, neting directly upon thc blood und mucous surfaces of the systnni 'iV.-ithnonials wwi 'roo Prico 7Sc ppr I wit i.].* Sobl brail ilnugists Hall's Fau il y Pills are ihr liest. - Among thc passengers who ar rived at New York on night ot'October 2fth, on the Ward liner I lavana, were General Fitzhugh Lee and Colonel E. G. Rathbone, in charge ol'the postal service in Cuba. STATE NEWS; -Tlie Sparenburg poultry associa tion will hold its show this year from December 20 to :J0th. inclusive. - The annual report of the city treasurer shows that the expenses of thc city of Spartanburg for the past year were $58,040. - The {State Pharmaceutal Board meets in Columbia next Tuesday and Wednesday for the examination of ap plicants for licenses. - At the baptism of John Belk a child whose parents lived at Fort Mill, five grandmothers and great grand mothers were present. - The tax assessments for 1809 in South Carolina show an increase of $3, 000,000 over last year. Over 82,000,000 of the increase is in persoal property. - Miss Lily Lander, of Clifton, was accidentally shot by her brother when he was carelessly handling a pistol. The ball entered the cheek. The wound is not considered dangerous. - A young man lost his life thc other day near Mount ville. While ginning he was caught by some part of the machinery and suffered internal injuries, from which he died. - Five hundred thousand pounds of tobacco have already been sold in Darlington county from this year's crop. The prediction is that the sum total will reach four million pounds. - J. C. Wilkinson, of Barnwell coun ty, grew this year 75 pumpkins on one vine, weighing from- 20 to 50 pounds apiece. The man who can come near that must be "some pumpkins" of a farmer. - It is announced that a York county man has a bonanza in supplying game cocks for Mexico, one rooster of that county having whipped about forty battles and won ten thousand dollars for his owner. - It has transpired that under the war revenue bill Converse College will have to pay 10 per cent of the' legacy left to it by Mr. Converse, toward pay ing for the war against the Filipinos, a clew loss of $10,000. - Thieves broke into the store of Simmons Bros. at Hodges, aud then set lire to the building to conceal the crime. Uno negro was tracked to his home by blood hounds and is now in jail at Greenwood. - The people of Marion have pre sented Lieut. Victor Blue with a silver loving cup. Lieut. Blue is at his mothers home in Marion enjoying his honeymoon, as he was married a few days ago to a young lady in New Jer sey. - Tlie State Board of Control has de cided not to interfere with the beer dispensara nu til their terms of office expire. These terms vary in differ ent cities, but by June next all will be up aud the privileges will then cease. - Joe Alexander, a colored couvict who escaped twenty-one years ago. came to Columbia last Saturday and was recognized and arrested by Ser geant Swearing. He will have to serve out his term after his long taste of liberty. - Spartanburg and Greenville coun ties have long been wrangling over the boundary line between the two counties. The dispute has at last been settled by the courts and Spar tanburg wins. - Mr. Alfred Taylor, of Taylors sta tion in Greenville county, had 25 or ;10 acres in corn on the Enoree bottoms this year and the average yield was about 71 bushels per acre. On one plot, the yield was at the rate of 15G bushels per acre. - One day last week a negro work ing at the factory had atoe run over by a truck and the end mashed off. Tho poor fellow picked up the piece of llesh and skin and atc it saying, "1 ain't goin'let nobody have my meat." ft is needless to say that he enjoyed his diet.-Clinton yens. - The reported shortage in the office ol' County Superintendent of Education Rcmbcrt ol' Sumter county turns out toben mistake, and was caused by a clerical error in his books, which has been discovered since tlie report was made by the grand jury, much to thc gratification of the officer and his friends. - T. E. Younger, a salesman in a stoic in Spartanburg, has been lodged in thc Spartanburg jail charged with forgery. It is claimed he forged the name of W. H, Swain to a $400 check on tho Central National Bank and sent a negro with a note to collect the same. The bank refused to pay the check and by this Younger was entrapped. - The next meeting of the Baptist State Convention will be held at Gaffney, S. C" beginning Wednesday night, November 29. Thc Baptist Ministers' Conference will meet Tues day night, November 28. The Con vention sermon will be preached by Kev. H. B. Buchholz, of Chester or by Rev. W. T. Tate, of Willaiustou, his alternate. - Blind tigers are made ont of a va riety of material, but it is seldom that ii dispensary constable develops into one. Vet ex-Constable Harvey C. Hill was before Magistrate Mauldin of Greenville accused of selling whiskey. Ile owned up frankly,'pleaded guilty, and failing lo pay his $100 line, went to the gang for thirty days. - Mr. F. M. Ciidd, of Santitc, near Worthy's leny, brings us a specimen of the Koon cabbage that just takes the rag till'the bush in tito cabbage line, lt is as large as a cotton basket, about three feel in diameter and weighs nine pounds. Mr. Cadd says it heads in the winter and is a him variety. Ile says he has a garden tull ol' I hem.- / ilion Times. - The members ol' the Oconee Horse Swappers Convention are expecting a large crowd at Walhalla dh next Tues day and Wednesday. The object is to encourage the raising of better stock, to get thi' people together to trade theil' suporiluous stock; to ex- I change I heir ideas upon the different subjects of raising stock, growing va ! l ions crops, and permit everybody to have a jolly good lime. - X. T. Pitman, a wealthy merchant ol; Gonrdiirs, S.C.. was shot and killed by his brother, A. .1. Pittman, in the Calhoun hotel,Charleston, on Wednes day. The dead niau was <>.*> years old. his brother 50. They were' for merly in business together in Charles Ion under the name ol' Pittman Bros., bm had failed. They met al the hotel by appoint nient. The survivor refuses lo tell the cause of (he trouble, bul it is supposed to be financial. - Yellow lever continues to thrive at New Oilcans, Miami and Key West, Florida, and other points. General News Items. - Forest lires are raging in West Virginia and millions ot' feet of lumber nive been destroyed. - Smallpox is prevailing in many sections of Georgia, but the disease is rory mild and generally no scars are eft. - A terrible epidemic of dysentery s sweeping o rei* Japan; of -10,000 per sons attacked up to .September 14, near y 12,000 have died. - The Virginia Military Institute of Lexington, Va., has been closed 30 lays and the 2?0 cadets furloughed, )ecause of the prevalence of typhoid fever. - A market gardener living near a ivestern town says the most prolita :able crop he raised was lettuce, his sales of this vegetable grown under ilass and marketed during the winter jenson bringing him in nearly 81,00o ?ach year. - Rear Admiral Schley has positively innounced that he is not only not a candidate for the presidential nomi nation, but that he would decline the nomination if tendered. He says he is but a plain sailor in the service of Iiis country. - A New York business man, now nuder arrest, is said to have made more than $100,000 by removing cancellation marks from war revenue stamps and selling the stamps to employes of big establishments. He was, ci: course, in favor of the indefinite retention of the war taxes. . - The greatest sale of wool ever made in Indiana was closed at Craw fordville, Indiana, on October 24th, when McClure, Graham & Roundtree sold to the Manchester Mill Company, of Manchester, X. H., over 300,000 pounds of fiue wool. The clip was bought at from 18 to 22 cents. - The Vanderbilt millions have been divided as follows, according to the will of the late head of that familv: Cornelius, Jr., only one and one-half millions, Alfred fifty millions, the other sons and daughters seven and one-half millions each. Cornelius was cut on account of his marriage, but Alfred will give him six millions to make his share equal to that of the others. - Artist Elliott of Washington, D. C., who is making the statute of Sen ator Z. B. Vance, informs the commit tee that it will be completed by March or April. The unveiling will occur May 20th, North Carolina's State holi day. It is proposed that all the nation ill guard of the State shall parade and that there shall be a large body of Maryland and Virginia troops and of Confederate veterans in attendance. i - On arrival of the Twenty-Ninth olunteer infantry at Honolulu, on its ; ny to the Philippine Islands one of he waiters on the vessel became sick ut refused to take medicine or receive he attention of the physician. The ommanding officer ordered the phy ician to visit the patient, when it was .iscovered that the waiter was a roman in male attire and was going to lie Philippines as the representative f American newspapers. - At Muncie, Ind., Miss Goldie Goch an, aged 14, struck a burglar in her oom. a few days ago, with a silver tacked hair brush, and the unknown nan will die as the result. The man vas detected carrying a valuable clock rom the residence, when the girl com manded him to drop the time-piece. This he did, and, closing the door, urned upon her, when she threw the ?rush, striking him in the temple. He ell to the door and has remained un conscious since. - City Councilman J. L. Reilly, of Jlevelaud, Ohio, has fallen heir to'$80, i00. Four years ago, while in San Antonio, Tex., Mr. Reilly stopped a unaway team, probably saving the ife of the driver, a wealthy farmer of -"aimer, Texas, named John Wallace. Iis arm was so badly injured in the itruggie that for a time amputation vas thought to be necessary, but even ually it healed. On Saturday Mr. Reilly received notice from San An onio that Mr. Wallace had died and eft him a legacy of 380,000. - If you are a good guesser, or have iny inside facts on the cotton crop for 890-1900 there is a good chance to nake $1,000. S. Munn, Son & Co, a arge cotton brokerage establishment >f New York, doing business at 56 ?eaver street, makes the offer of this .eward. The estimate of the crop that viii be used by the firm in selecting ;he winner will be the one that will be nade up by the New York Chronicle. The person guessing nearest to the Chronicle's estimate will get the noney. All guesses must be mailed jy noon November 25, and addressed :o S. Munn, Son & Co, statistic depart neut, 50 Beaver street, New York. - A peculiar theft is reported from ive miles down the Augusta road. Hr. Bud Ward had about 800 pounds )f seed cotton lying in a pile in the ieltl, and Monday morning about day ight some one drove a two horse ivagon into the field and took the mtirepile. The wagon went into the Fork Shoals road, but no further trace )f it has been found.-t? reen ville Motin - [aincer. - When a child is lazy his mother liscovers that all his ancestors on his Lather's side were that way, too. THE REASONS WHY You will buy your STOVES of JOHN T. BURBISS. let. Because I give you honest Goods at che lowest possible prices, and I make true repr?sentations of the Good? 2ad. It is a foregone fact that I am the leading Stove dealer in this section. 3rd. We don't blow, but our prices do the work. Don't fail to see our Coon in Show Win dow, and what be has to offer, Ont CROCKERY, TIN* and LAMP DEPART3IEXT Is now r;omplete,*nd af, tho right prices. Our Stock is too numerous to itemize, like Borne do, but for example a nice Decorated Chamber Set, nine pieces, for ?2.25 per set; four-piece Glass Set ano sis large Tumblers all for 25?. No Coupon required. Call and see for vourselves. Your trade solicited. JOHN T. BURRISS. N. B.-All partit* owinc: me by Note or Account will plea-e call in and settle at once, and save the expense of sending to see you. J. T. B. Is a Little Thing when it Begins ! THE longer you put it off the harder it is to aire. The longer it lasts the more serious it becomes. Let it run on and there's no telling what the end will be. The worst case of Consumption wag a little Cold once. TAR MINT Will stop any Cough when it first begins. It will stop most Coughs after they get bad. But the best way is to take it at the first sign of a Cold. It ought to be right at your elbow all the time. Tar Mint Is the BEST REMEDY for COU3HS, COLDS, HOARSENESS, aird all diseases of the Throat and Lungs. Don't buy any other kind. LL-ORR DRU II THE HOUSE-KEEPER'S TROUBLES ! DURING the Fall aad Winter months the House-keeper has no little trouble in supplying the table with something to eat. We can help them if they will only give us a call. We have a choice and select Stock of Family and Fancy Groceries. Our Stock of CANNED GOODS cau't be excelled, and if you need any CONFECTIONERIES, FRUITS, NUTS, etc., we can supply you. TOBACCO aid CIGARS a specialty. If you will honor us with a visit we will appreciate it, and make it mighty interesting J'or you. Free City Delivery. GK F. BIGBY.