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RY OLTNK'Sf?ALES Jr. LANGSTON. ANDERSON. S. C.. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 7. 1900. VOLUME XX Y V-NO 33 That 25 per Cent niannmiT CAI r UlduUHlB ?ALL Of ours is certainly bringing business to us. People know that when we advertise a thing it's so, and they act accord ingly. Now, don't put off coming here to get what you want in the Clothing line, because this sale won't last much longer, and if it should stop before you get here don't blame us. We give you fair warning. While it lasts you save 25c. on every dollar you spend here. You get our $5.00 Suits or Overcoats, 25 per cent off, for $3.75. 7.50 Suits or Overcoats, 25 per cent off, for 5.63. 10.00 Suits or Overcoats, 25 per cent off, for 7.50. 12.50 Suits or Overcoats, 25 per cent off, for 9.38. 15.00 Suits or Overcoats, 25 per cent off, for 11.25. 5.00 Odd Pants, - - 25 per cent off, for 3.75. 4.00 Odd Pants, - - 25 per cent off, for 3.00. 3.00 Odd Pants, - - 25 per cent off, for 2.25. 2.00 Odd Pants, - - 25 per cent off, for 1.50. This is not a sale of old, shop-worn Goods but brand new stuff. Just got too much Winter Clothing on hand and we we don't wish to carry it over. That's all. B. 0. Evans & Co, THE' SPOT CASH CLOTHIERS. WHIT? FRONT. Onelmoment of your th?e5 please : WE propose doing a heavy business this year on the smallest possible .expense. Every shrewd buyer knows what .that means for him. We are carrying a splendid line Dry Goods and Shoes, With ?peeial attention to HEAVY GROCERIES and FARM JUPPLIES. We believe we carry the btst 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. ??????????????????????^??????UMBMrtBi^ ll ?ll THE HUSTLING CITY OF ANDERSON Is still Booming, and KING BEOS. BAB G MN STORE is Booming with Bargains. WE have never before had HO much to offer our customers and friends as we hav? now. You will remember the way we sola JEANS last Fall. We have bought another lot -at old price and are selling right and left. School Boy Jeans l2Jc. yard. We have bought tbe Bee Hive Stock ot ods nt prices that tlokle us to Clink about. Kow, ir yon want the best Over anu Undershirts.yon ever bought for the money got on? of our*.Our 10o. Suspenders are going off by the dozen. Come be fore they are all gone. Socks, books, 8ocks ! That's enough ! Come and seo the rest. We want you to see oar 5o. Comb if yon ever expect to buy-it's a dandy. A few more Spittoons to go at 5o. Dost Pan 5c Patty Pans 6c. a deseo. Never forget as when von need CROCKERY, GLASSWARE and TINWARE. For Spice, Soap and Sta, ?L we are the people. Toara very truly, BROS., BARGAIN STORE, " Two. Doors from Post Office. E G. EVAN?, Jr. _^ R. B. D?T, M. D. PENDLETON, S C ID-R/tTGrS and OS^CB?IOIITES, Perfumery, Toilet Articles, Paney Soaps, Sponges, Combs, . Hair and Tooth Brashes, Bubb or Goods and Druggist Notions, Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Byes, Buists' Garden Seeds, ?EEO HQU5C Vj* nit SOUTH l's Ssefls ?i^?x?tS * w www flvfry?ouuxernwtato andhaveachicvedthohlghestrepntatoa for quality, produe?vanesa and adapta? bility to oar Southern soil and climate. m ssw esBYSRv issue OF BOOTS OISOSIPTIVS OATA&OBOe ia fully abreast of the times, find ?Lyes tile fullest Infor? matioa about ell Seeds For Southern Planting* It should bo in the hands of all who plant seeds, and we.mil mail it freo upon receipt of postal request. T. W. WOOD & SONS, Seedsmen Hi6HH?sv,{:.^?iB?rei?. FROM THE NATION'S CAPITAL, From Our Oin, Correspondent. WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 5, 1900. "Whom the Gods destroy they first make mad," It is credibly reported that President McKinley has chanced his position in regard to tho Porto Ri can tarin; and that ho will henceforth support tho bill approved by the Ways and Meaus Committee of the House, prescribing differential duties of 75 per cent, of tho present ones on all gooda shipped between thc United, States and that island. In other words, he intends boldly to assume not only that tho Con stitution and laws of the United States do not extend to Porto Rico at present, but that Congress has full powers to legislate in regard to that island-and all the others-without extending the Constitution over them. Of course, such a position is absolutely untenable. The Supreme Court has repeatedly ne gatived it . Beginning with Chief Jus tice Marshall, who held nearly a hun dred years ago that tho tenn United States included all territory over which the United States exercised jurisdic tion, there have been a score of decis ions reiterating this decision. All of those quoted on the other side, when examined, are found merely to assert that annexed territory is not subject to the Constitution as long as it is govern ed under military law by the President. Apart from the impossibility of legis lating for Porto Rico, and yet keeping it outside the Union for a longer time than will be necessary for the Supreme Court to pass on tho subject, the Presi dent must withdraw from the position he took in his message in favor of free trade with that island and must de liberately abandon the policy which ho declared to bo essential to its prosperi ty, and to which we were bound by every consideration of fair dealing. And he must do this at the behest of a few mercenary patriots who fear the importation of a maximum yearly pro duct of $100,000 worth of tobacco and $3,500,000 worth of sugar. However, the President may not have changed his attitude after nil. He may be only indulging in his characteristic custom of "wobbling." The Gnge^scandal will not down. The extraordinary character of some of the letters which the Secretary sent to Congress themselves condemn him of having lent;his great office to fraudu lent purposes. It is no answer to this to say that he himself has not profited by the fraud. Such proceedings can-, not be forgiven simply because they were taken for the benefit of the Sec retary's party rather than for that of the Secretary's pocket. The whole matter has been referred to the Ways and Means Committee of the House for investigation. This being a strong Re pu blican body will of course minimize the findings as much as possible, but even so it will be impossible to hide them utterly. The most ominous thing in the entire matter for Mr. Gage is the President's recent assertion. "I am responsible for the Secretary of the Treasury," he said. "Tho attacks are not primarily intended for Mr. Gage but for me." No one who remembers recent history can fail to see in this tho shadow of approaching fate for the Secretary. Only a few months ago, the President made a half a dozen exactly similar remarks about Secretary Alger. At tho very moment when he was re iterating his assertion for perhaps the tenth time, vice-President Hobart was on the way, at the President's request, to ask Mr. Alger to resign. It is possi ble that the President, urged by Sena tor Hanna, is trying to make it easy for Secretary Gage to leave the Treas ury ? Strong influences are being brought to bear ou the Republican leaders and on the Administration, to secure the postponement of the shipping bill un til the next session of Congress, or at least Yo insert in it an amendment pro viding that it shall not take effect until January 1,1001-two months after the next Presidential election. The more the country has learned about this ini quitous bill, the more decided has be come the opposition to it. Especially is the West indignant at the enormous bounties to be paid under it to fast At lantic passeuger liners, which are too aristocratic to carry any except the most expensive freight. The object of the bill is asserted to be to secure cheap conveyance abroad of our grain and heavy freights. The farmer, how ever, is unable to soe what benefit he can derive from a bill which will pay something like $9,000,000 a year to fast, six-day Atlantic steamers and only ono or?two millions to the slow vessels which must carry his goods. Mark Hanna, who introduced the bill in the Senate, has realized the depth of this opposition and for political reasons, would, no doubt, like to amend the bill ao as to chango tho beneficiaries. But afark Hanna, like everyone else, must DOW to the men who will furnish the money for the Republican campaign tilia fall. They insist that the fast vessels owned by them shall receive the lion's share of the loot and the Administration is forced to yield. But it is fighting for time. If the bill bo somes a law at this session, the full enormity of ita provisions will become apparent by drawing millions from the Treasury before the election, and will unquestionably alter the votes of one or two States in the West. So Mr. Hanna has hit upon the plan of post poning action till the next session, or of postponing the time when the bill is to go into operation until. af ter elec tion- Whether he can persuade the Bhip owners to permit this and j ct put np money for the election is a ques tion. / O?JR COLUMBIA LETTER. COLUMBIA, Feb. 5. Interest in local affairs has been sec ondary to interest in the affairs in Ken tucky during tho past weok. Tho fact that tho house had special prayer offer ed by its chaplain in tho midst of its routine work is evidence of tho intensi ty of the feeling hero. Tho elections for directors of tho penitentiary and trustees of tho South Carolina and Winthrop colleges passed off without exciting much iuterest. There were few candidates for the po sitions, but one feature has developed which has been coming more und moro into evidence every year recently, t hat is the uso which members of the legis lature make of their membership to secure the positions which are to bo given by the assembly, especially those which are remunerative. There is little uso for un outsider to apply. This is going to result in rousing feeling against the "legislative ring" which will be unfortunate. The chief interest of the week has been in the development of the dis pensary sentiment in the two houses. .The senate has passed the May field substitute bill, which is tho ad ministration measure patched, trimmed and cut down to fit thu sentiments of the senators. Tho bill abolishes the present boards of control and provides for the election of a new one, the chairman by the.Sennte, and two mem bers by the House. This Board shall advertise for bids for furnishing liquor each quarter. The liquor shall not be bought from a House that sends drum mers or strikers into the State or that sends samples. The county boards shall bo appoint ed by this State Board. The com missioner and constables are all to be under bond. It is though t that this bill will meet the approval of the peo ple. Tho House has killed a prohibition bill, but tho vote showed that the cold water army has gained five recruits last year. The House has passed a bill that will be gratifying to towns that are trying to accomplish great public works witli a bonded indebtedness already as great as the constitution allows. This bill is for the purpose of securing a constitutional amendment to allow certain towns to issue bonds for the improvement desired in excess of tho constitutional limit. Winthrop hos asked for an addition al donni tory, and the necessity for it hos been abundantly demonstrated. This may have a bad effect on the plan for the improvement. Thc House has k illed the bill providing for the sale of thc present Governor's mansion. The ancient and honorable bill to tax dogs will ccme up again during this week. The wide tire bill had a narrow esj cape in the House, but is safe as yet. There has been a strong fightniade on the anti-lynching clause in the con stitution, but the house has stood by it. There is going to be a hard fight over tho petition of a part of Abbeville county to bo joined to Anderson. These neighborhood rows aro alwoys hot when they get into tho legislature. The plan'of establishing a fertilizer factory in the penitentiary was killed by the House, though many thought the plan a good onoto follow in the matter of fighting the trnst. Whether the session eon get pay for more than forty days or not is still agitating the members. If it is decid ed that this is one of the first four sessions under the new constitution it moy be extended beyond forty days. If there is to be no pay for moro; than forty-five days it is very sure that tho session will not be longer than ?forty five at tho outside. It is a mystery even to the members themselves, how time is killed in the legislature now, when the four weeks of the old sessions used to be plenty of time. There are many explanations of the matter. Some people say that in old times that all the legislature bad to do was to follow the directions of the bosses and go home. Again there are others who say that in years past there were men in the legislature who used to know what was to be done and they did it and quit, that now there are a great many who have to take six weeks to find out why they are there. There is certainly an effort at too much legis lation. Thc solicitors are very much tc blame for the vast amount of trash that gets into the legislative mill and has to be cleared out before the grist can come. They could and ought, if they did their full duty without fear or favor, keep this trash ont bf the way. HARTWELL M. AVER. Of Interest to Pensioners. Township Boards of Pensions will meet at their usual place of meeting at 3 o'clock p. m., Feb. 10, 1000. All pen* stoners must report to their own Town* ihip Boards, and the Boards will make complete list of all pensioners in their Township. The County Board of Pensions will meet in the office of J. J. Gilmer, Sec retary, on Feb. 10, and all Township Boards will please make their reports on or before that time. JOHN T. GREBN, Chm'n Board. J. J. GILMER, Secretary. -- It is believed that the Nicaraguan canal bill will pass Congress and be come a law within thirty days. , A Political Assassination. FRANKFORT, KV., Jan. 30.-Senator Goobel was shot from ambush aa bo entered tbo capitol grounds this mom- j ing. Goobel is not yet dead but cannot live. The bullet was tired from a side window on tbo third iloor of tbo exe cutive building. Goobel was carried away by bis friends. The assassin is not known. Tbo people, especially Democrats, aro worked up. io a frenzy of excite ment. Five shots were tired, lt is not known bow many took effect. Goobel was carried to the Capitol ho tel. At4.10p. m., (?oebel is still alive with abare hope of recovery. Ho was only shot once. Tho ball entered the right breast and passed out two inches from the backbone. Outside tho Capital hotel where he lies and around tho State House, theiu is ono boiling elater of growing ex citement and turbulence'. The State H o uso grounds are under an armed guard. Tue shock following the attempt to kill Goebel seemed to paralyze tho public, but indignation is rising now. The gubernatorial contest board of the legislature will probably hoar no argument. It had been arranged for each side to have ten hours debate. The democrats have decided since tho shooting not to mnke any speeches. Both houses of tho Legislature ad journed immediately after the shoot ing. Itcpublican oftlcials are dazed. Many of Goebel's partisans, as soon as the tiring ceased, rushed toward tho north end of the Executive building, which is occupied by Governor Taylor. A body of men armed with Winchester's met them at the entrauce. "Wc want to search this building for thc murderer," cried the Democrats. "You can't enter here," answered the Taylor men. Pistols aud guns were leveled, but soldiers appeared on the scone and marched betwean tho two factions and a collision for the time was averted, but with every hour the excitement grows. A general slaughter may en sue at any time. Goebel's followers declaro that he shall have tho seat if ho lives if they have to fight their way with Winches ters to the capitol. The streets aro crowded with armed men. They glare at each other. There seems to ho no doubt that a civil war is iminent. FRANKFORT, Jan. 81.-GovernorTay lor has adjourned the Legislature. He has refused to allow tho Legis lature to assemble. v Martial law 1ms heen proclaimed by tho governor. William Goebel was shortly before 0 o'clock to-night sworn in as governor of Kentucky and J. C. W. Beckham a few minutes lateras lieutenant gover nor. Tho oath was administered to both men by Chief Justice Hazehigg of the court of appeals. FRANKFORT, Feb. 3.-Thc bullet fired by an unknown assassin hiBt Tuesday morning ended tho lifo of William Goebel at 5:4:2 o'clock this evening. Tho only persons presentat the deathbed were Mr. Goebel's sister** Mrs. Braunacker, and his brother, Arthur Goebel, of Cincinnati, who have been in constant attendance at Mr. Goebel's bedside, and Dr. Mccormack. Justus Goebel, another brother who has been hurrying from Arizona as fast as steam could carry him in a vain hope of reaching his dying brother in time for some token of recognition, arrived 40 minutes too late. Oxygen was frequently administescd the dying man during the af ternoon in an effort to keep him alive until his brother's arrival, but in vain. By tho cruel irony of fate the train on which f Jus tus Goebel was traveling to Frankfort was delayed several hours from various causes, and when Mr. Goebel finally reached here it was only to learn that his brother was dead. Among partisans of both pnrties deep grief is manifested and alrdhdy a movement has been started to erect a fitting monument to Mr. Goebel's mem ory on the spot in the State House grounds where he was shot. LOUISVILLE, Feb. 5.-Shortly after midnight tho Republican and Demo cratic conferees in session at tho Galt House carno to an agreement and a document was drawn up for signatures. It is said tho agreement is decidedly favorable to the Democrats. Gov. Taylor is to withdraw the troops from the State buildings at Frankfort and send them home. The order conven ing the Legislature at London, Ky., is to be revoked and tho regular, sessions ?f the General Assembly aro to be re sumed at the State capital without mo lestation. It is believed the under standing arrived at to-night will result in an amicable settlement of the dis pute between the two parties in this State, and do away with the dual gov ernments now asserting themselves. .100 Howard. $100. The readers of this ps per will be pleased to learn tbsl thor? Is at lesst one dreaded disease that tel emos bas been able to cure In all Its stages, and that ls Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure ts the only posi tivo cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh bel na a constitutional disease req-ilres a constitutional trestmcpt. Hall's Catarrh Cur?is taken Internally, neting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby de stroying the foundstlon of the dliease. and giving the paillent strength by building up the constitu tlon snd assisting nature In doing Its work. The proprietors hare ?o much faith In Ita curativo lewers, that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it rails to cure. Send for list of tes timonials ?9JBold by DrugzlatF, 75c. Hall's Family rills aro the best. STATE NEWS. - Col. J.e. lloyd of Greenville is au avowed candidate for railroad com missioner. - Several local capitalists from Clin ton propose to organize a million dollar cotton mill. - The National Educational Asso ciation will hold its next annual con vention in Charleston in .Inly next. - Charleston is interested in tho building of a sanitarium at Castle Pinknoy, for which purpose u bill is pending in the Senate. - Forty-four Mormon elders heida conference in Columbia last Sunday. They claim to have 1,300 members ol' their church in South Carolina. - Congressman Talbert has again been made chairman ?d' the South Carolina delegation in the house, und he is also a member of the congression al campaign committee. - Mrs. Montague, the mother of the president of Forman University, was burned to death at the home of her son in Greenville, her clothes catching tire as she sat before the lire. - A big lumber mill and a cotton warehouse in Kock Hill have been burned. 350 bales of cotton were de stroyed in the warehouse, and the plant and lumber in the mill. - Mr. Pinckney Shockley, a farmer living at Barksdale, in . aureus Coun ty, on the Greenville & Laurens Kail road, was run over by a train last Fri day night and crushed to death. - The Greenville Convocation, of which the Episcopal clergymen of up per South Carolina form apart, will convene with tho church of the Epiph any, in Greenville, February 21st. - Senator S. G. Mayfield has gener ously given the material required for building a new Baptist church nt Friendship, Greenville county, in tho neighborhood in wit ich he was raised. - Rev. L. M. Roper, a nativo of Carolina and a graduate ol' Purumu University, but for the past four years pastor of the First Baptist, church of Canton, Ohio, has been called to the First Baptist church in Spartanburg. - Last Friday lire burned for six hours in 1,000 bales of cotton stored in the city bonded warehouse of Laurens. Much of it was destroyed, while all was damaged by water and smoke. Tho loss will not be known until au inspection is made. The cotton is in sured. - Week after week we notice pa pers In varius sections of tho State an nouncing that they will put up the subscription price from S 1.00 to $1.00 and in some instances to $2.00 a year. Tho great advance in tho pri'e of all printing material has caused this ad vance in subscription. - Tho first term of the criminal Court in Greenville for tho year ended last week with tf2 cases disposed of and 34 cases continued. Of tho 32 cases disposed of there were 15 convictions, G acquittals, 4 pleas of guilty and 7 no bills. There was a conviction in only one.of thirteen murder casi's before tho court. - The correspondent from Jones ville to the Union; Times gives the following: "Mrs. Milton Kennett kill ed a hawk last 'Saturday_ with a plow handle. The hawk scooped down upon a chicken in Mr. Kennett's yard and while the hawk was tussling with tho chicken Mrs. Kennett seized a plow handle and dispatched his hawkship." - A charter in perpetuity has been granted to Forman University. The petition for tho charter was signed by Henry P. McGhce and J. B. Earle, and W. II. Ly les, of Columbia. Furmnn University was originally incorporated by an act of tho general assembly, ap proved on December 20, 1850, the char ter being renewed by an net approved December 20,1800, and renewed by nu act approved February 10, 1808. - The State Board of Control com pleted its annual report lost week. It Bhows a net profit for 1800 of $414,181, the largest in the history of the insti tution. Of this amount $220,402.45 went to tho counties and cities and $103,000.40 to tho State. Within the I present month the Board has turned over $100,000 to the superintendent of education for th?; school fund, this be ing the total amount, asked for tho present year. - Mr. Pin Casey, aged about 70 years, who lives at Enoree met with a tragic death. He was assisting his son and another white man in loading a wagon of wood in a forest near his home. His son and assistant were busily engaged cutting down a tree, and tho old man was paying little or no attention to tho progress of the work. When thc tree fell it went to earth in exactly the opposite direction tJ that intended. Mr. Casey was not on the alert and the tree struck him, crushingUiim to death. .- Some valuable and historic prop erty A as transferred when the South Carolina Jockey Club Racing Associa tion, which flourished in Charleston for twelve years, decided to disband the organization and donate its hold ings as an endowment fund for the Charleston library. The property, which includes tho old Washington race course, is worth $100,000. Under the lawe of the jockey club its property could not bo sold and on this account the efforts to purclmso tho race course a few years ago by ono of tho Dwyers failed. Tho obfb was organized in 1834 and the races given there wore the greatest events of tho kind^of that day and time. Thc donation was ac cepted by tho library association. General Kens Items. -- In the Sixteenth Congressional District of Illinois a candidato has ap peared in each of tho eight counties. - Tho liv?* losses in this country last year ligure up $130,773,200, against $110,050,500 for 1808 and $110,312,550 for 180?. - A bill has been introduced in the Maryland legislature that will disfran chise a large percentage ol' the negroes in that State. - It is said that $<3:;,<)00,<KJ0 were in vested in southern cotton mills last year. The present indications are that during 1900 more than this amount will be invested. - Plague is increasing in Honolulu, and there have been 38 deaths from tin- disease. Ten blocks of the city have been burned in the effort to stamp out the pestilence. - There is still chanco for the own ers of cotton captured during the civil war and sold by the United States, to make good their claim. There ar? still *!),OOO.<MH> available for paying them. - The gunboat Nashville which tired the Hist shot of the Spanish war is now in the Philippines, but there is little chance that it will tiro tho last shot of tho Filipino war at least for some time to come. - Dr. H. M. Palmer is tho oldest sur viving moderator of the Southern Gen eral Assembly, holding that ollico in 1801. Ho is still in tho active pasto ago in Kow Orleans, although consi derably past 80. - The next Confederate reunion will bo held in Louisville, Ky, That city will raise .* 100,000 fund in order to se curo tho $100,000 ottered by Charles Broadway Rouss for tho Confederate Hattie Abbey. - A bill will be introduced in Con gress shortly to extend the facilities of public libraries by reducing the postage on books from main stations to branch es, for tho convenience of patrons iii small communities. - Thore aro 8,175 widows on tho pen sion roll credited to the Mexican war and only 9,204 surviving soldiers of that eonllict. The Indian wars, from 1832 to 1842, show 3,000 widows and 1,050 surviving soldiers. # Hard fighting reported in the Philippines on Jan. 25, resulting in American victory. Only ono U. S. soldier killed, while 82 Filipinos were slaughtered. Gen. Otis claims that this tight disposes of the last organ ized band of "the enemy." - Tho levees on both sides of the Mississippi arc of sufficient extent that if they were built in a single straight line they would be about 1,300 tuiles long, or long enough, to stretch the greater part of tho distance between New Orleans and New York. - Balloons are now used for drying linen in .ono Paris laundry. Bamboo frames aro attached to a captive bal loon and the clothes are attached to them. Tho balloon makes six ascents daily to a height of about 100 feet, where the air, according to tho pro prietors of tho laundry, is particularly good for linen. - Josiah Emerson, a farmer who voted for McKinley in 1800, declares his intention to vote for Bryau pro vided tho latter is nominated in the summer, because tho kinks in tho tails of the three remaining pigs from a re cent litter form the letters W. J. B. Mr. Emerson interprets this incident ns an omen of the outcome of the next Presidential election. - A bill has been introduced by Representative Glynn, of New York, to stop the shipment of convict-made goods from one State or Territory to another State or Territory. Violation of thc proposed law is to bo punished by a fine of not less than $250 nor more than $500, or imprisonment for not more than ono year, or by both fine and imprisonment, and tho forfeiture of tho goods to the United States. - P. C. Torry, of Wisconsin, has re ceived notice that the government will pay his claim arising out of tho de struction of the schooner Thankful by French pirates in 1708. Mr. Torrey who is a descendent of the people who owned tho Thankful, will receive $1, 400. Thc claim, it seems, was present ed by this government to tho French government and paid long ago, but tho money was not turned over to tho heirs. - The Medical Record says: "What ever may bo tho immediate or remoto causes of tho dark complexion of tho negro, philosophical inquiry has shown us that to him it is a provision of nar ture, mercy and benevolence. Tho black color of natives of tropical re gions may justly, then, bo considered as a wise experience provided by Om? nipotence for cooling the fever o? the blood under the influence of the seo J ch ing sun." - Charles H. Cramp regards the South Af rican war as a serious menace to England's commercial supremacy? He says that the war has had such an effect on the demand for vessels that "tho climax of England's supremacy may have been reached." He thinks that Germany has captured the North Atlantic steamship trade permanently. She will divide it later on with tho United States, ho believes, and there after tho United States, by roason oP its superiority as a producing nation, will occupy, with the Kaiser's Empire* tho position which England formerly held.