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WHOLESALE SI Others _A.wf\il Cone Medc New an< Washington, August 4.?Special: Suicide on 6uch a dcale as has never been peen in the history of the world trill probably .follow the entranco of the allied forces into Pekin. It is the customary Oriental way of esoaping the dishonor of defeat and in this case the leaders of the rebel Chinese will knuw that terrible punishment awaits them if they survive the loss of their cause. In 1860, when the Taku ports were taken, many mandarins took their own lives, as well as the- wives of numerous officials, and when the Brit ish captured Amoy, Ning-poand Chin-, kiang scores of ladies, imagining that they would be subjeoted to brutality and outrage by the foreign soldiers, slew themselves in the presence of their husbands, who followed their example. The victors found dozens , f bodies in wells and-ponds belonging to private residences. suicide a custom in china. The Chinese are more addicted to suicide than any other people, and un der certain circumstances the act of gelf-destruction is consid?re i the most virtuous and heroic imaginable. This is particularly true of civil or military officers who refuse to survive defeat in battle or an insult offered to the sovereign of the country. Opium, hanging and drowning are the favorite methods adopted, and the unfortu nates, believing that beyond the grave the shades of the departed are olsd in garments like those the defunct wore at the time of death, usually put on their best clothes in preparation for the deed. On a previous occasion the Emperor's summer palace was de stroyed for a leason to the Govern ment, but this time, if it is found that the present rulers are responsible for the recent mischief, the whole of the Forbidden City will doubtless be razed to the ground and the injury to the sensitive feelings of the official class will be frightful indeed. does christianity ask this? On the other hand, if the powers that he are able to clear their skirts of accountability, they will be requir ed to inflict punishments on a whole sale scale, and this will be accomplish ed in ways peculiarly Chinese. The leaders of the rebels, or the principal scapegoats, will be sliced to death?a mode of execution whioh, while ex tremely barbarous and cruel, is the most scientific known. According to the rules governing the process the victim is cut into a specified number of pieces, which may be 120, or 72, or 36, or 24. If there are extenuating circumstances in his case the number of pieces may be reduced even to 8, which brings death relatively soon. But in every instance the succession of cuts is regulated as exactly as those ased by a butcher in' dividing up an ox. The feeling of horror with which one regards such doings is mitigated lo some extent by recollections of the abominable crimes of whioh theoffend ?rs have proved themselves capable.. I? June, 1870, a powerful magistrate it Tien Tsin was presented' by the lo ?1 literati with a red Bilk umbrella as ?reward for doings of his whioh di rectly caused the frightful massacre tat occurred three days later. This assacre cost the lives of twenty-three foreigners, most of them ladies, who ere put to death in a manner too ftrfui to be described. The magie/ te paid for his umbrella by hard la r for life as a prison convict; twenty ?ives were beheaded and a large umber were punished in other ?ys. wholesale executions. Offenders of the second grade in the resent instance will be put to death decapitation. They will be placed *rows, hundreds of them at. a time, .Tobably, and the .executioner >11 strike off each of their heads wilt .tingle blow of a heavy, two-handed . ?fd. While awaiting the coup-de ce they will kneel upon the ground, aioned. Those who have influential eods, willing to pay money for the "??lege, will have their heads sewn Q their bodies afterwards, though authorities in such oases always uire that the head shall be revcrs that ?of ec-s os back sido fore st. The third method of capital Nshment is by strangling, a rope i""?g tied, loosely around the neck a stick thrust through it and ted. suicide.as a privilege. > some instances, doubtless, per I convicted of complicity in the re i?n. if of high rank and official ding, will bo requested to commit de. Cheater Holcomhe, to whose c? 'The Real Chinaman/' the ff is much indebted, says that species of favor is orte of the JICIDE IN CHINA. 3equen.ce of Foreign Hing. 1 Courier. highest that can be bestowed. Suicide being considered less disgraceful thai any form of death at the hands of the public executioner, the viotinireceivei a handsome lacquered box wrapped it silk of the citron yellow color sacr?e to the Emperor. On opening the re ceptacle a white silken chord is fount lying within, neatly coiled. This is i silent, though stern, suggestion to th< recipient to take his own life by meant of the rope thus provided. If ho fail: to aot upon the hint within twenty four hours the executioner claiun him. TWENTY THOUSAND BEHEADED. Twenty thousaud revolutionists were deoapitated after th.e great Taip ing rebellion. The only way in whicb the Imperial authorities can make their own good faith manifest on th< present occasion is by wholesale exe eutions, and so in any event there ii sure to be a series of huge massacre! under form or pretence of law soon af ter the allies have entered Peking The bodies of the offenders, save in i few oases where reclaimed by relatives will he thrown into huge pits, whih the heads will be consigned to tubs oi quicklime and thus consumed. Ex ceptions will be made with the headi of many ring leaders of the Boxei movement, which will be exposed ii cages in various cities and towns, si as to be a warning. THE GOSPEL OP VENGEANCE. Very horrible, all this! Bat jus think what the Chinese fiends aie do ing to Americans at the present time outraging and torturing even the wo men and children. One may not de sire retribution in kind, b?t there it consolation in thinking that the pun ishment can hardly do more ihsa ? the crime. Many minor offenders wil lose one or both ears, and others wil have their names and crimes tattooe< on their cheeks?certainly a moat effi oient penalty so far as it goes. Sloi strangulation On the cross will be re served for special eases, the rule gov erning this method requiring that th< sheriff shall attach his seal to the kno of the rope, while at the top of tfo croe?, Jost above the head of the male factor is pasted a strip of paper witl the name and offence written upoi it. THE FRENZY FOB MABTYBBOM is still aotive in the world. To-oV -i-.-.E-drcdo of good men and women ii this country are eager to go to Chin and take the places of the missionar; people who have died and are perish ing at the Boxers' hands. - It is glorious, but not wholly unselfish, de votion, inasmuch as they feel perfect iy sure that death thus met will trans late them direct to Paradise. In pre cisely the same faith the Boxers them selves are fighting and Becking to de stroy the foreign devils, being led b; their priests to, believe that, if killed they will go straight to glory. Th execution of 10,000 or 50,000 of thei will have no appreciable effect as lesson to the mass of the population Even under ordinary circumstance Chinamen are wonderfully indiff?r?e to death, and it is not very difficult t hire a person in that oountry to b executed in' place of another. Th money obtained goes to his family, an he is sure of the posthumous worshi which his sou! craves beyond all othe thingB. MANY INNOCENTS WILL SUFFER. A great many wholly innocent j?ei sons are sure to suffer punishmen with the guilty at the conclusion o the present episode, because in Chin it is customary to extend the pen alt to the relatives of the offender. Chef ter Holeombe speaks of a Ohinama who was convicted some years ago a having broken open the tomb* of prince and robbed the coffin of vain able ornaments which it. contained Though nobody else had anything t do with the crime, his entire family numbering thirteen persons and eon prising five generations, from a ma 90 years of age to an infant 2 month old, were pat to death. The erimini himself and his parentB were sliced t death; of the others, the men were be headed and the women strangled. Th children of the man who tried to ai sasBinate the Emperor Kia-shiog, eai ly in the century, were executed b strangling. Convicted persons usually nnderg frightful TOBTUB?S IN THE PRISON before they are executed, many c them dying from of t repeated flogging! and a dead house is a necessary at jnnot to every jail. Sometimes coi victs aro starved to death as a mod of punishment. Those who are to t executed receive only a few/minntei -warning. -3Thett the-hour arrives a officer enters the prison, carrying a board, on whioh is pasted a list of the names of the offenders who are to atone for their erimes. ' This list he reads aloud, and eaoh prisoner whoso name is called answers it, being made thereupon to sit in a basket, in which he is carried into the presence of the Judge. After answering a few perfunctory questions as to his guilt, etc., he is carried to tho execution ground, pinioned. H?b friends bring him a few cakes, a little soup, or, if they can afford it, betel-nut, which acts as a narcotic. Persons of wealth and distinction under suoh circum stances are apt to intoxicate them selves with wine. disregard of human life. The Taotal of Tien Tsin, during a recent war, was appealed to by for eigners in behalf of the Chinese wounded and Hick, who were suffering horribly and receiving no nursing or other attention whatever. He seem ed surprised and replied: ''What do I want with wounded men? The sooner they die the better. China has plenty of men." This remark affords a key to many matters in China that puzzle the for eigner. Men are a drug in that coun try and human life is not considered valuable in the way we look upon it. The loss of a million soldiers in the field would not be regarded as a se rious misfortune by the Imperial Gov ernment, inasmuch as they could be easily replaced. China is the great swarming place of mankind, and the population is so close to the possible limit set by the available food supply | that the destruction of a few myriads of lives is actually a substantial bene fit rather than a calamity from the point of view of those who sur vive. Rene Bache. Married Life. ? girl thinking seriously of her fu ture husband does not lay great stress on good temper. A soldierly form, a pair of fine eyes, a noble mouth?any of these might easily outweigh good temper. Yet one writer assures us that "?fter the first year married peo ple rarely think of eaoh other's fea tures: whether they are classically beautiful ot otherwise: but they never fail to ho cognizant of each other's temper." As to a husband's fortune, it is not so important as the qualities whioh lead to fortune?ambition, determina tion, industry, thrift and position suoh as a man may attain for himself. In education a man should be at least his wife's equal. Undoubtedly there is some sublime affinity between op p08ites. Yet there must be likeness as well as unlikeness. The latter will lend piquancy whioh is pleasant; but the former will give peaoe, whioh is essential. At first love itself will be all-sufficient; but a little later tho in dividual Characteristics re-assert them Huives, and then, in the absence of comprehension and sympathy in one's pet taste's and theories, a barrier springs up, slight, unoonfessed, per haps; but still impassable, and in one sense at least, man and wife are not "one." but distinctly "two." Blood Poison Cored by B.B.B.?Bottle Free to Sufferers. Deep-seated, obstinate cases, the kind that have resisted doctors, hot springs and patent medicine treat ment, quickly yield to B.B.B. (Botan-. ic Blood Balm), thoroughly tested for* 30 years. Have you mucuous patches in the mouth, sore throat, eruptions, eating sores, bone pains, itching skin, swollen glands, stiff joints, copper colored spots, chancres, ulc?ration on the body, hair and eyebrows fall out ? Is the skin a mass of boils, pimples and ulcers ? Then this wonderful B.B.B, speeifio will completely change the whole body into a clean, perfect condition, free from eruptions, and skin smooth with the glow-of perfect health. B. B. B.., drains the poison out of the system so the symptoms cannot return. At same time B.B.B, builds up the broken down constitu tion and improves the digestion. So sufferers may test B.B.B, a trial bot tle will be given away free of charge. B.B.B, for sale by druggists and Hill Orr Drug Co., Wilhite & Wilhite and Evans Pharmacy, at $1 per lar6e bot tle, or 6 large bottles (full treatment) $5. Complete directions with each bottle. For trial bottle address Blood Balm Co., 380 Mitchell St., Atlanta, 6a. Describe trouble and Free medi cal advice given^ _ ?It must be a consolation to a wo man to know that, no matter how knock-kneed she is, it's her own fault if any man discovers it. One Minute Cough Cure quickly oures all lung troubles. Evans' Phar macy. ^ Millions will be spent in politios. We oan't keep the campaign going without money any more than we can keep the body vigorous without food. Dyspspiiua used to starve themselves. Now Kodol Dyspepsia Cure digests what you eat and allows you to eat all the good food yon want. It oures stomach troubles. Evans Pharmacy. ? In the United States there is a fish, the bowfio, that oan be drown ed by stretching a not below the surface of the water, so that it cannot get to air. The quicker you stop a cough the less danger there is of fatal lung trou ble. Ono Minute Cough Cure is the only harmless remedy that gives immediate r?sulte. -?Evans' Pharma cy. ? Men get corns; women never got worse than tender feet, Charm of Thirty Summers. ? crafty penswoman deliberately goes out of her way to flatter her sis ters who have reaohed 30. Gould any woman who has brushed by her 20's ask for a more sugary bit of com fort? "Give mo a olever woman of 30 and I will back her any day against a pret ty, inexperienced debutante of 20. It is little feminine ways which appeal so irre si st ably to a man's heart. These ways are the result of careful, tactful practice, generally speaking, the result of knowledge of the world that can only come after one has lived amongst men and women, after one has lived and been loved! Oh, the stupidity of the average chaperons! No wonder they sit and watch their soulless daughters being cast 'into the shade by the smart married women or the finished and desperately attractive, though still unmarried, siren of 30." The woman of 30 will accept this compliment as a debt the world owes her. Tho role of charmer is no sine cure. I pray you look not with en vy upon the much-sought-after lad/ who in the fairest of garbs and with the sunniest of smiles trippingly makes her way through life. Hours have been spent learning arts which givo the plain woman of uncer tain ago tho right to fascinate where more beautiful women fail to please. There are charms of mind which charms of the body cannot rival. Neither winsome youth nor beauty finds much of a show beside subtleties of the soul. Only after hours of discipline can one learn to control one's rashness of speech, pleased when people arc tact less, learn to excuse the hopelessly life's centered, selfish individuals with whom life's roadway is throng ed. Hypoorisy is a harsh term. It is applied to the tactics of tho woman of the world. This is unjust. Besides, hypoorisy is soon unveiled. Then the game is lost. Tact, sympathy, is not hypocrisy. The soothing and healing properties of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, its pleasant taste and prompt and perma nent cures, have made it a great fa vorite with the people everywhere.? For sale by Hill-Orr Drug Co. ? When a girl begins to take an interest in the cigars a man smokes it is time for him either to quit smoking or to make love to some other girl. It will surprise you to experience the benefit gained by using the fa mous little pills known as DeWitt's Little Early Risers. ?Evans' Pharma Evans Pharmacy, Special Agents. 180 Acres Land for Sale. ACRES cleared, balauce in woods and pi no land. 8 aorea of bottom land. Well improved. Six miles north of Elberton, Ga. Public road running through the land. Lloa on Beaverdam Creek. AIbo, 110 acres on the Elberton A. L. R. R. at Dewey Rose, Ga. Good build'ijga and a good 8tore House and one-acro lot In Dewy Rose, Ga. A fine place for business. Both places well wa tered. Terms easy. Write or call on A. J. BOND, Dewey Rose, Ga. ?ngUBt 8, 1000 7 4 Notice of Final Settlement. THE undoroigaed, Administrator of the Estate of John Wlllingham, deceased, hereby gives notice that be will on the 12th day of September, 1000, apply to the Judge of Probate for Anderson County, 8. C, for a Final Settlement of Raid Es tate, and a discharge from his office as Administrator. J. N. WILLINGHAM. Adrn'r Aug. o, 19G0 7 5 Notice to Creditors. ALL psrsons having demande against the Estate of A. P. Hubbard, deceas ed, are hereby notified to present them,. Sropsrly proven, to Trlbble & Prince,; ttorneys, Anderson, S. C, within the debted to make payment, time prescribed by law, and those 1n MARY M. HUBBARD, Ea?x. Aug 8,1000 7 8 Some People have asked Isn't Two Cars of Fruit Jars too much for ..... KING BROS. BARGAIN STORE IN ONE SEASON? WE beg to say that it is not. We have about sold the last of our second car. We will agree that we have handled more Jars this season than any one firm of Anderson has in any past season. Buying right enables any one to sell right. We have purchased one solid car of CROCKERY. Sa look out for trices on Crockery. Our Cnp3 and Saucers at 35c, 40c, 45c and 50c goes, 'latesperset 35c. . We nought two hundred and eighty-eight Balloon Fly Traps. 10c each. A few specials to take home with you : Butter Dishes 5c. A large Glass Bowl 10c. Fickle Dishes 5c. If you would make sure of getting lowest prices always buy from BROS., BARGAIN STORE, Two Doors from Post Office. SEND US YOUR PRESCRIPTIONS. We have engaged the services of Mr. J. E. BRADLEY, an experienced Pharmacist, and we are now prepared to serve you at all hours?either day or night. Mr. Bradley will room over our Store, so if you want a Prescrip tion filled at night just press the button in front of our Store and wo'll do the rest. Remember, only? THE BEST AND PUREST DRUGS Are allowed in our Store. E. GL EVANS & CO., _PENPLETON, 8. C._ ^rVTWANTTO BUILD And so do yon. Build right by getting the best material. I-jIQ-CDINT c3c LjEDBBTTHIR SELL THE 3E3?!3*b Cement, Ljime, c5co., On the market. Have sold several of the Cotton Mills their supply of Lime, This, of course, means the best and lowest price. Still Selling Groceries Wholesale, And don't break packages for anybody. This means we sell cheap. Come and see us. LIGON & LEDBETTER. WHOLESALE GROCERS. The largest stock of TOBACCO in the up-country. All first-class brands on hand. GARDEN SEED. Buist and Ferry's. Bemember when yon go to get your Seed to get fresh ones. As this is our first year in the Seed business we have no seed carried over from iast year. Yours, F. B. CRAYTON & CO. STssr its ?cst G??ee. 'DEAN'S PATENT FLOUR ECLIPSES ALL OTHERS!" THIS U the message flashed through the great telescope which we got rom Lack Observatory to observe the great eclipse. We knew that, however, everal years ago. We originated that brand and advertised it too long ago or the fresh inhabitants of a foreign planet to presume now to claim the hon >r of it This we can prove by the thousands of pleased customers we have nade on that brand and held them over all competition throughout the eight years we've been prescribing it as a balm for all the woes weak stomachs are a prey to. We wish only to put the eating public on notice that there is then but oue genuine and original DEVN'S PATENT FLOUR, und that is sold by us. All other imitations are spurious, no matter where they come from. It is nevertheless a noteworthy fact that DEAN'S PATENT does totally eciinse all other Hour.*?a fact admitted by all, but first proven by its great merits wherever tried side by side with others. The facts in the case are that we are just eclipsing all competition, if we ever had any. Thai's another big eclipse. Just watch the? FLOUR, MEAT, CORN and TOBACCO ! To say nothing of the? ZDIR/?T O-OODS, SHOES, HATS and ZFA-IsTTS That we load at our front door, and judge for yourself what we are doing these dull days. No, no, we're not asleep?it's the other fellow. Time's up now, mu9t go to work. So long ! DEAN & RATLIFFE. Fruit Jars, To put up your Fruit in. Preserving Powder, To keep Fruit from spoiling. Fruit Jar Rubbers, To put on your old Jars. To make Cherry and blackberry Acid. Sticky Fly JPaper, To catch the flies while working with your frui ALL AT HILL-ORR DRUG 00. ? Emerson/* A half century of successful PIANO BUILDING? Seventy-live thousand delighted cuatomorH.. Unequalled in tone, touch and durability. A peer Jobs, perfect PIANO. Every Instrument sold under a positive guarantee. The name "EMERSON" on a PIANO is like the trade mark on English Silver? a guarantee- that it is Standard. Frlendc, remember that you can buy an r of the leading SEWING MACHINES from me at about one-half other dealers ask. A full line of ORGANS. Time given. South Main Street. 91. L. WILLIS. FRUIT JARS! FRUIT JARS ! Now is the time to buy your Jars before they advance in price. There being a big crop of fruit all over the country, Jars will be much higher later in the season. I have a big lot of them on hand at a low price Fruit Kettles, Fly Fans and Fly Traps, and all other summer goods. I have a lot of Decorated goods in odd pieces at a bargain. I am run ning out of stock at very low prices. t&" Bring me your Rags and Beeswax. Your patronage solicited, _JOHN T. BURRISS^ ? - g w~~ - O < g CD 0 s? Osd a 2 2 HEB z ?S H? g m * Sis ?sss ? ? S w S n il ?2 ? 2 > 3 ? > Clarence Osbobne. Kutlbdoe Osbobne. Stoves, Stoves! Iron King Stoves, Elmo Stoves, Liberty Stoves, Peerless Iron King Stoves, And other good makes Stoves and Ranges. A big line of TINWARE, GLA8SWARE, CROCKERY and CHI NAWARE. Also, anything in the line of Kitchen Furnishing Goods?such as Buck\ ets, Trays, Rolling Pins, Sifters, &c. Thanking our friends and customers for their pa9t patronage ami wish ing for continuance of same Yours truly, OSBORNE & 08B0BKE.