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BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON" ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY IO, U)lH>, VOLUME XXXV-NO. 2'.?. j GREAT j off. i25 Per Ceat; off. DISCOUNT SAL The First Loss Is the best loss-that's the principle we work on. If we carried our heavy weight Suits and Overcoats over to next Pall we'd probably have to sell them at a loss then. How much better it is to take our loss now-to get the money out of the goods and invest it in Spring Goods-to keep our Stock clean and fresh. "We believe we are on the right track. So here we go. Commencing Tuesday morning, January 9th, we will offer a uniform discount of one-fourth off on all Men's, Boys' and Children's Suits and Overcoats. This means a $4.00 Suit or Overcoat for $3.00. 5.00 " " " 3.75. ?< <( < ii ? \ U U (( M ? M U ?I 6.00 " " " 4.50. . 7.50 " " " 5.63. 10.00 " " " 7.50. 12.50 " " " 9.38. 15.00 " " " 11.25. " 20.00 "1 " 15.00. Eemember, this includes our full stock of Clothes and Overcoats. This isn't a sale of a few job lots, but ouv ontirt stock of clean, fresh Clothing. . 0. Evans & Co, THE SPOT CASH CLOTHIERS. WHITE FRONT. i One moment of your time, please : WE propose doing a heavy busimes this year on the smallest possible expense. Every shrewd buyer knows what that means for him. We are carrying a splendid Hue Dry Goods and Shoes, With special attention to HEAVY GROCERIES and FARM JUPPLIES We believe we carry the best line of FLOUR, COFFEE, TOBACCO and MOLASSES to be found anywhere-the kind that will please you and satisfy your hands. Be sure to see us on that Spring bill. Yours for more business, VANDIVER BROS. P. 8.-We can accommodate a few gilt-edge, prompt-paying time customers. THE HUSTLING CITY OF ANDERSON Is still Booming, Ind KING BEC S. BARG MN STORE is Booming with Bargains. WE have never before had so much to offer our cu itomers and friends SB we have now. Ton will remember the way we sold JEANS last Fall. We have bought another lot at old price and are selling' ?*!gbt and left. School Boy Jeans 12Jc. yard. We bnvH bought the Bee Hive Stock of Goodp ut price? that tickle us to think about. Now, If you want tbe best Over and Urmershirts you ever bought for the money get one of ours. Our 10c. 8uepend??rs are going off by the dozen. Come be f?te they aro all gone. Socks, cooks, Socks! That's enough ! Come and seethe rest. We want you to see our 6c. Comb If you ever expect to buy-it's a dandy. A few more Spittoons to go at 61?. Dust l'an 5o. Patty Pans 5e. a dozen. Never forget us when you need CROCKERY, GLASSWABE and TINWARE. For Spica, Soap and Starch we are tbe people. Yours very truly. KING BROS., BARGAIN STORE, Two Doors from Post Office. flSr P. ft.-If not sold at private sale bofore we will sell to highest bidder Sale day in February one Lot containing one-half acre, situated on Franklin Street, ad joining lots of Mrs. H. H. VA Wards and John T. Burri-?. ?'- i i i i. i ? '1 1 E G. EVASB, Jr. R. B. DAY, M. D. PENDLETON. S. C. DBUGS arid ^^XDXOI^sTES, lerfumery, Toilet Articles, Fancy Soaps, Sponges, Combs, Hair and Tooth Brushes, Bnbber Goods and Druggist Notions, Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Byes, Buists' Garden Seeds. ? to and I wish to Thank All mv friends for their liberal patronage for past year, and wish yon all a happy New Year. Respectfully, JOHN T. BUKRISS. h i FROM THE NATION'S CAPITAL. Fi om Our Oten Correspondent. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 8, 1900. If tho Republican party si io nhl bc carried away by its apparent power to legislate as it may see tit, and should attempt to pass tho bili introduced by Representative Crumpacker, of In diana, reducing tho representation in Congress of States which restrict negro suffrage, the chances are that it will experience something like the same fate that overtook it in 1802, after its disastrous failure to pass the "force1' bill. The opportunity to pass such legisla tion is at hand in the reapportionment that must bc made cither at this ses sion or tho next, under tho new popu lation statistics secured by tho census. These ligures must bo submitted to Congress within sixty days after June 1st, aud it is not only possible but pro bable that Congress will be in session until some timo after that date. While it has been customary not to pass a re apportionment bill until tile second session, there is nothing to prevent this being done, nor to prevent the elections this fall being held under the new quotas. Moro or less confus ion would bo caused where a State's quota is reduced and, in such oases, special sessions of the legislatures would have to oe hurriedly called to redistrict thc State, but this could be done. Representative Crumpacker is chair man of the committee of the House on tho Election of President and vice President, and it will fall to him to re port tho bill for reapportionment. If he desires, and his committee sustains him, there is nothing to prevent his re porting a bill reducing Southern repr? sentation in accord with the Fourteenth amendment to the Constitution. Whether it will pass or not is another question. It will be remembered that in tho first session of the 51st Congress, a bill to put United States marshals and Uni ted States soldiers at every polling place in the South, known as the "force" hill, was rushed through the House, and was only defeated iu tho Senate by the votes of one or two Re publicans who joined with tho Demo crats under Senator Gorman to oppose it. It will bo remembered, too, that at tho next election, in the Fall of 1892, a tidal wave swept over the country, wiping out the Republicans so com pletely as to reduce their representa tion in the House by nearly 150 mem bers. The Republican party has not forgotten this, and it is unlikely that it will risk its repetition by giving its support to thc Crumpacker bill. Still, it is possible. "Whom the God's de stroy, thoy lirst make mad." The s!vp subsidy hill, which is to he buken up in tiie Semite Home time in February, and in the House within the next week or two, grants the most enor mous bounties ever proposed by any ?ation. The bouuties are to run for twenty years, and in that time a great md swift steamship will earn more :han double the entire cost of building iier. Even a slow steamer will earn If ty per cent, more than her cost. The total bounties guaranteed by this bill luring the twenty years, are estimated to amount to $165,000,000. The worst thing about tho hill, however, is not to se found in these enormous bounties, jut in the ultimate crippling effect it ?viii have on our merchant marine. The right to contract for a twenty pear bounty system will expire, under the bill, in ten years. Any ship begun u those ten years will receive bounties :or twenty years, but ships built after -hat time will receive no bounties. That is, at the end of ten years, every American ship will be earning a boun ;y secured to it for twenty years. New rtiips without bounty could not com >ete with bounty-paid ships and, herefore, no one will build any ships if ter tho ten-year period ends, and the narine built up at so enormous a cost viii swiftly decay. Tho difficulty is nherent in all subsidy schemes and .annot be done away with. It cannot be denied that the action >f Secretary Gage, in regard to the sale >f the old New York custom house, ins laid lum open to serious charges. Last July tho government sold the >ropcrty to the National City Bank )f New York for $8,205,000. In pay nont the 'hank tendered a check or the amount, less $40.000, held hack for a special pu /pose. Secretary Gage it once handed back the check for leposit to the credit of the Govern nent. The bank has had the use of the money ever since, payiug no in terest. The payment waa never cover id into tho Treasury, as required hy aw. Moreover, as $40,000 of the pur chase price was retained, the title to :ho property is supposed to be still rested in the government, and the jan k has resisted State taxation on it m this ground. Besides all this, the government, which has not vacated :ho property, pays rent for its- use unodnting to $180,000 a year. In other ?vords, the bank gets the interest on the money it paid to the government, jets a heavy rental for tho prop jrty, and pays no taxes. Altogether, ;he transaction has netted it at least a piarter of a million a year. Possibly, secretary Gage may be ablo to explain his transaction, but until ho does so, t must continue to seem rather fishy. Senator Cockrell's declaration that io will fight any permanent increase of tho arni}' to tho bitter end lias had the effect of causing tho Administra tion loaders to abandon their intention to try to force through such a measure. Tho currency bill and tho shin subsidy steal are considered to furnish enough new legislation for a presidential year. Resides, there is no particular hurry about tho matter at present, as tho present army has still is months of existence, and there is a risk in forcing imperialism too forcibly down tho peoples* throats. At the "next session, however, the establishment of a per manent standing army of 100,000 men, is certain to be urged. A Naval Academy ?Scandal. WASHINGTON, January 4.-Congress man Latimcr, of South Carolina, was the central liga re of a sensational sceno at the office of the Secretary of the Navy to-dny. This was the second chapter of a sensation brought on by the uujust treatment at Annapolis of a South Carolina boy, who is a cadet, thc inspiration of this treatment being Admiral McXair, thc head the Naval Academy. The result ot it all is an investigation into tho conduct of the old Admiral by thc Secretary of thc Navy and there can be no doubt of the reinstatement of the cadet. He is Cadet Maxwell, of Anderson. Mux well was, in the slang of the Academy, sent to conventry by his class because of alleged implication in some dis graceful proceedings that, figured du ring Christmas jolities at Annapolis. When the matter was first before tho class the action was favorable to Max well, but there was a subsequent moot ing at which Maxwell was decided against. When thc boy got into thc trouble he telegraphed his father to come on. His father asked Congressman Latimcr, who appointed young Maxwell, to in vestigate and accordingly, Congress man Latimcr went over there yester day. In tho course of his investigation ho found that the action*, of the class ' had undoubtedly been inspired by the Admiral. He*"asked McNair about tho case and the old Admiral denied any knowledge of it. When ho discover ed what he had reason to believe tho truth Congressman Latimer was very mad and charged McNair with lying to him. This brought tho sensational Bcene, tho upshot of which was an apology from McNair and the promise that tho wrong that had been done the boy should bc righted. The Congress man made it plain that he would not uphold t he boy if he was in thc wrong, but he proposed to have fair play. To-dny the scene of action was trans ferred to Washington. One of Mo hair's aides came to Latimcr, begging him not to make any charges against the Admiral, anil he agreed that ho would not if there was full reparation made the wronged cadet. Later, however, the Secretary of thc Navy took up tho matter and sent for Admiral McNair, who was here. Tho Secretary had tried to get Latimcr to prefer charges, but the latter said ho lid not want to give thc old man trouble and that be did not consider that McNair was altogether respon sible for his conduct yesterday. When the Admiral aud Latimcr met face to face, tho Secretary having in tho ii can time talked with tho Admiral, the atter was enraged beyond measure. 'You havo charged that I was drunk," ie cried out to tho Congressman; "you ie." With that Latimer jumped up ind was about to strike tho Admiral, vhen the latter apologized most nd ectly, taking back all offensive words. Ie was evidently laboring under in ensc excitement. After awhile, how ever, he quieted down, and the matter vos loft by the Secretary with tho inderstanding that McNair is to in vestigate tho Maxwell case thoroughly ind make proper amends if any wrong ins been done the endet. This, Mr. jatimer insists, must como in the shape >f a public apology by McNair to tho joy before the class. lt is highly probable that there will ie official investigation into McNair's conduct, although there is a general Reposition on tho part of all concerned 0 let him oft' as lightly as possible be muse of his age and thc fact that he viii retire within a year.-Special to Seics and Courier. LATER. Representative Latimcr, of South Jaroliua who had a clash with Ad niral McNair, superintendent of tho Saval Academy, tho other day at An lapolis, nnd wno is said to have thrust lis fist into the Admiral's face sub sequently at tho office of Secretary Long, in this city, was at tho House yesterday. "Are you and tho Admiral still on he warpath?" ono inquired of him. "Our matter has been adjusted ina peaceable way," replied tho tall South Carolinian, in a very courteous tone. 'Everything that 1 asked was conced ed, and my cadet, Maxwell, is to bo ;iven fair treatment. Admiral McNair md myself reached an agreement, nado before tho Secretary of the Navy, yj which the resignation papers that ny cadet was compelled to make out will be destroyed, lie will be restored to his position in the class and proper intends will bo made by Admiral Mc - Nair. This was the agreement sanc tioned by Secretary Long. With such 1 satisfactory arragemcnt I was nut Reposed to bo severe nor to press any sharges that I might otherwise have nade against the superintendent." Representative Latimer waa asked whether he did not fear that his cadet, dthough restored to his former place n tho class, would bo "bilged" when Arno comes for examination. "I have charges still pending," ho replied expressively, "but I have not Mired to preu* them now. All I want tor my cadet is fair treatment, the lame as any other boy would bo en titled to. Tho officers at tho Academy igreo that ho is a bright boy and I lope that ho will stand well in his 'lass."- Washington Post. OUR COLUMBIA LETTER. CoLi'Mitu, Jan. 9th.-Th? members ot the Legislature have reassembled hen; for the session thnt opened to day. As yet there in little on which to base prognostications of th? work ot the session, but as far as I eau see, this session promises to be one of tho most interesting in many years and tho most free j from anything like fractional differences, l'or a number of years this note of discord has been growing fainter and fainter, until it has become dillie ult to distinguish be tween men and measures ns to wheth er they are reform or conservative. All now sit at tlir name table and eat out of thu same spoon. 1 believe that this session will bo marked 1 a mani fest intention on the part ot all mem bers to the best interests ol' the State. The matters that aro being discussed aro chiefly the recent dispensary scan dals, the result ut! tin* penitentiary in vestigation committee, ami tho com pletion of tho Stato House. There aro about two hundred bills loft over from tho last session, about half enough for a whole session, but it. is safo to count on tho usual number of hills hoing pro sen ted. lt is very hurd to get any of tho mem bers of tlie assembly to express au op: i ion as to the Html result of the dis pensary light. It. is pretty safe to HU}' that there will be something ?lone. There is some suspicion t o be noticed oh the part of some, that the charges made by Uu/.ts that there was an in tention on the part of the "ring'' to form a State house trust in tho dispen sary matter are true and they will re quire to be convinced that there is no "nigger in the wood pile" before they swallow any bill that is presented. The small pox situation will be very carefully considered, and there is every treason to believe that the Legislature will be more liberal to the State Hoard of Health than it has ever been. The Governor seems to bo in hearty sym pathy with the Hoard in its endeavors to perfect i ts organization and make its work for the good of the State more highly effective. '1 he Governor's message is very grati fying 1 o his fi iends. He is very careful and cc nservative in his recommenda tions, and through tho whole paper tin re is nothing to be seen beyond an honest desire to serve the best interests of the State. The whole Stato is to be congratulated on tho remarkably good showing that every department of tho State government shows m the brief review made by tho Governor. Thc first day's session was taken up almost entirely with the organization of the houses and the reading of thc message. There is very little chnuge in tho personal of thc members of the legis lative body this year. Work will go smoothly on from where it was broken off last year. Within the week tho harness will have been adjusted mid the tread mill will be grinding stead ily on. There is a great deal of political gossip to be heard in the lobbies and on the curbstone, most of it in relation to the campaign of tho summer, which is now practically at hand., so far as the politicians are concerned, wita Uko the drummers are generally in advance oE the season that they might be like the carly bird. HARTWELL M. AYEK. Shady Grove Locals. Christmas has passed. This is the only time in tho whole calendar of tho rear that each heart seems tobe drawn in common unison. Yes, while wo re joice at Christmas time,'we must not forget that dear old '00, with its multi tude of pleasures and blessings, is ?one. Thc old year was a dream, bright and beautiful, as it faded away. Tho new year that came to us twelve months ago, with bounding step and beaming face is now pictured with bent form and features all scarred with lines af care and trouble. It is very seldom tho new year finds us just ns tho old /ear left us. A feeling of inexpressible sorrow per vaded our neighborhood on Wednes day, Dec. 27, 1899, when tho sad news ?vas spread that Miss Evie Poora was lead. She was about twenty years of ige, and to be thus cut down when the jud of life was just opening into tiie perfect flower of womanhood makes it peculiarly sad, but is understood by Him who is "too wise to err, too good to be unkind." The funeral services ?vero conducted by Kev. W. T. Tate, ind the body laid to rest in tho Shady Srovo burying ground. Capt. J. S. Acker died Friday morn ing, Dec. 29. His death was not a sur prise to his friends, for they had been JO ti tied of his long illness. He is dead md gone, but not forgotten. He was buried at Shady Grove on Saturday norning in the presence of a largo lumber of ?wmtives and friends who lad assembled to pay the last tribute JO his memory. Funeral services wore conducted by Kev. M. McG ee and Kov. W. T. Tate. Miss Pearl Cox spent the holidays ?vith friends at Donalds and Helton. Mr. J. S. Acker, Jr., after spending tho holidays nt home, returned to ireenville Inst Monday. Messrs. John and Allen Scott, of Lick ville, visited Mr. J. Press Acker sunday. Misses May Sutherland mid Laura \cker spent Christmas in Pelzer with V?iss Maude Sutherland. Misaes Khctta and Helen Hroazcale, ;wo lovely young ladies of Helton, rpeut a portion of Christmus in this community. M. G. STATE NEWS. _ I - There wore 237 homicides in South Carolina last year. - Darlington will double the capac ity ot her cotton mill. - The issues in the State campaign will he made up ?luring the session of the Legislature. - During th?' month of November the Spnrtanburg dispensary made over $2,000 in prouts. - The Court ?d' (Jenera 1 Sessions tor Greenville County will convene on Monday, 22nd inst. - The Secretary ?d' Stat?' issued sixty-one charters last year represent - ing capital amounting t?) $08,0(10. - Citizens of Simpsonvillc in t Srceii ville county aro enthusiastic ?>u the subject of building a SoWi.ouo cotton mill. - Col. T. Harker dones, a while Republican of Charleston, will oppose the. Democratic nominee in lb?? lits! District tor Congress. - Smallpox bus appeared at sixteen places in this State and in eight, coun ties. The Stat?' Hoard of Health has handled CHM) cases this year. - Superintendent Griffith, ? ? 1 Hm Slate lVuitentiary, has turned over to tho State Treasurer, $10,000 as the profit of the Penitentiary for tho j list J year. j - ( 'ol. Wylie dones ol' Columbia has [been appointed Commander of the ! South Carolina division ?d'tim Associa I lion ol' veterans ?d' tin- Spanish-Ameri I can war. - Ncwberty wants an observatory lo attract visiting astronomers who will have to look at the ?'elipse of thc sun in Muy. Its newspapers say.it will I make a big tillie for the obscrvtttory. J - Light negro men ?li?'?l during j Christmas week in Reunion County, S. C., from whiskey drinking, lt i* J thought that "the liquor had been ; tampered with or was not chemically I pure.1' - The new mill at Clover. S. C., will bc in operation by .March 1st. lt will spin ?inly live Egyptian yarns. Tht first shipment of cotton for these hat been purchased and is now on its waj by way of Boston, Mass. - "Coot" Robinson.lncolored youth has been arrested at Laurens for slay ing his father, Henry Robinson "Coot'' claims that he acted in s?'11 defense, shooting his parent when lu was attacking him with a knife. - The bonded indebtedness ol Greenville county is $1(50,000. Of tlih amount $??"?,000 is in Air Line bond? $10,500 10 Greenville and Laurens rail road bonds and $32,000 inn recent is sue of bonds for past indebtedness. - Saturday a conductor cn a brand lino ol' the Coast Line killed a iiegn at Pinewood, in Sumter county. Ac cording to th?: testimony the killin1, was in self-defense, yet the negroei became very much stirred up about it - Mr. Tom Jones, a brakeman on t i.? Southern Railway, while standing om box car when the train was running near Union became, unbalanced, an? fell to the ground, breaking his neel and crushing his skull. Ho lived a Saluda. - The citizens of Eherhardt in Hain herr county are petitioning for tin removal of thc dispensary there. Thej say that they have changed theil minds about tho State's great mora institution and that it is a dead ex pcu.se, to tho town. -- Mr. Caen Ellerbe, brother of Gov ernor Ellerbo and administrator of hi estate, has settled with the Stat?* lo tho amount ?lue by tho late Govcrno Ellerbo to tho penitentiary. Tho in dobtedness was ascertained by th?' in vestigating committee. - Rufus Sartor, who some time ag> was connected with a whttccappinj case in Union county, and on trio turned State's evidence, heard a nois in his yard last Saturday night am opening his door tired a pistol in th air, whereupon two shots were tired a him, ono penetrating his heart. - That South Carolina is prosperin, and progressing is shown by tho state ment in Secretary of State Cooper1 report that commissions were issue in 1899 to the coporators of 277 com panics, withan aggregate capitulo $10,375,150 as against 135 com pa nit in 1898, with an aggregate capital o $5,740,800. -During the past year the insurant' companies of all kinds doing busbies in this State have dom; an cnormou business, to j inigo from the stimmat ized'stntoinont made up by the com JJ troller general for his annual repot t The statement shows that tho increas has been close to $1,000,000 ns compni ed with Inst year. - A grandnephew anil grandnicc of General Robert E. Lee dined wit 500 other poor children at Charlcsto at one big table in Masonic templo Inf week. They are the children of Henr Lee, who recently carno to Sooth Care lina with his family from Virginia i search of work. Tho boy is twelv years old and is named after the grce southern chieftian. - In law there wcro 203.81 miles c railroad built in South Carolina, an that has been tho record for any twelv months since that time, tho rieres approach to equaling it being in 189! when 181.57 miles were built. In th last six months, however, 107 miles?: road have been constructed with tli prospect of 100 anil perhaps 150 mik moro being built before the middle? nest summer-far surpassing any pr?1 vious twelve months record. General ?tews Items. - Thirty inches of snow covered tho ground ut Watertown, N. Y., last week. - lt is estimated that about 18 pounds of butter ure made annually in thel'nited Slates for each citizen ot tho country. - Columbia, Mo., is ono oil the great, turkey to \ ns. For some time before Christmas it shipped about '.2,000 a day. They were driven in groat droves from the rural districts. - The demand for railroad supplies from Cuba was nevoi active at this season of th? yeal Indore. Within a few ?lays ?11,000 worth of ear material has been sent to Havana and also $N, 000 worth of rails. - The Washington estimate nf tho wheat crop for 1800 is 517,800,00(1 bush els, 12.3 bushels per acre. The aroa in winier ft heat this fall is about 20O.0C0 aere? greater than hi*t year. The average condition ??T. 1. - Tin* people aro marrying by tele graph. A lu ide and groom wer?'unit ed by wiro I,"(Ml miles apart a few days ago, ami a proniiw iii Biiuis'.or per formed I he ceremony with all Tue solemnity such an occasion requires. - The best authorities rale tho eui o crop of IMBI, taking the world as fi whole, the greatest ever grown, ex cepting only the oro]) of 1807. Of the total ol' more than :i,iHM?,OOn,000 bushels reported (his year. Ide I'nited Stylos furnished about SI per cent. -'Nearly 3.000,000 acres ot land in this country were devoted this year to the cultivation of potatoes, with tho result that a crop ot! 2-12,000,000 bushels luis been or is being harvested. TII?H is the largest potato crop since 18915, and one ?d' th?' largest in the country's history. - Among the members ol! the present Congress 05 per cent wear Prince Alberts and silk bats, which has caus ed observers to remark that is the best dressed Congress in many years. A majority of the Senators stick to busi ness suits, while a great many of them dress like funnels, - Aniseis arose in New York, at this season ol' the year especially. Du ring the holiday week they have been selling at the rate of $89 a dozen. Pinks sell for $4 a dozen, but the, highest-priced Howers of all are azaleas. A small basket of them were sold to a millionaire on Saturday for $125. - The mayor of Galesburg, III., has received a letter from a woman of Hath, Me., who says that in 1890 she rode through his town on a bicycle nt night without sv light. She desired to know what line thc law provided for (ho oil elise, as she wanted to pay the sum and thus relieve her troubled con science. - The cost of our war with Spain has been thus far about $250,000,000. In battle and from wounds 845 officers and men died; of disease 2,505 olticcrs and men, a total of 2,910. The Philip pine war has cost, including the $20, (100,000 paid for the islands, about $(?0, 000,000,1,202 killed, died of wounds and disease. - Augusta has had another disas trous tire. The lumber plant of the Perkins Manufacturing Company and the Georgia Iron Works were com pletely destroyed by lire of an un known origin. The loss amounted to $75,000, which is partly covered by in surance. 200 men are ?thrown out of employment. - Tho biggest egg in the world has recently been taken t?> Loudon for sale. It is the li nest known specimen of the egg of Aepyoruis maximus, and is over a foot long and nearly a yard in circumference. In cubical capacity it equals six ostrich or 150 hens' eggs. Its value is about $850. lt was found buried in the sand, in Madagascar by natives. - With the arrival at Manila of tba transport (irani, which left San Fran? cisco on the 21st ultimo with tho Forty eighth volunteer infantry (colored), General Otis will have command of au effective force of about 05,000 men. The army now in the Philippines ag gregates 02,500, of which 31,000 aro regular troops and 81,500 are volun teers. With the arrival of the tirant the entire volunteer strength ol' 8!,0C0 men will be in the Philippines. - Army and navy .surgeons ar? greatly interested in a medical repot t from the Philippines in regard to ft wounded marine!. He was shot twice with Mauser rifles at Novcleta, both bullets penetrating the head in nearly the same place and coming out at different places. The brain was oozing out when the marino was removed from the field and he was not expect ed to survive until tho hospital was reached. He not only lived that long, but the last mail advices say he is living yet and will survive the wounds. It is likely, says the Washington cor respondent of the Chicago Tribune, the unfortunate marine will always be clouded mentally, and though this is tho case now, he can ask reasonable (piest ions and usually answers logically. There ls mord Catarrh ia this section of tho country than ali other diseases put together, ?uni until toe last few years was supposed to be Incur able. For a great many years doctors pronounced it a local disease, and prescribed local remedies, and by constantly fat ling to euro with local treat ment, pronounced lt incurable. Science has prov en catarrh to be a constitution?) disease, and therefore requires constitutional treatment. Hall*? Catarrh ("un;, manufactured by K.J. Cheney AC?. Toledo, Ohio, it the only constitutional cure on the market. Il is taken Internally lu doses from lo drops ta a teaspoonful, lt aclu directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. The" oder one hundred dollars for any rue it fails to cure. Send for circulars and testimonial. Aa div.-. F. J. CHENEY A CO., Toledo, O. n .Suki hy Dru)o;i?t.s, 7f>c. Hall's Family Pills aro tho brst.