Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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SIGHTS AT 'I The Executive Henry MarJ?trU There are eight executive depart ments of the National Government. Each has a representative in thc Cabi net. The Cabinet is not provided for, either in thc Constitution or thc laws. It lives, as a body meeting I twice a week in ihe Cabinet room at the White House to confer with thc | President, simply at the will of thc President, who invites the heads of thc executive departments to assem ble in tlic.se meetings as a Cabinet. Any president could abolish thc Cabinet, as such, hy simply suspend ing indefinitely thc Cabinet meetings. Hut the custom of this bringing to gether his natural advisers, all ap pointed by himself to share with him thc responsibilities of government, as established by President Washington, has such obvious advantages that it bas never been interrupted except by President Jackson when he quarreled with the members ot his Cabinet. Besides, thc president who should dispense with Cabinet meetings would be aocused of imperialism, and this, of itself, will prevent thc change from being made. The titles of the executive depart ments, usually incorrectly published, arc given officially as follows, in the order of their creation: Tho Depart ment of tho State, The Treasury De partment, The War Department, The Department of Justicc, The Post Office Department, Tho Navy Department, The Department of the Interior, The Department of Agriculture. Tho heads of these departments who tako rank at the Cabinet table, and on all other official occasions in tho order of their departments, have tho title of The Secretary of State, The Secretary ri the Treasury, Tho Secretary of .'ar, Tho Attorney General, Tho F'jstmaster General, Tho Secretary of tho Navy, The Secretary of tho In terior, Tho Secretary of Agrioulture. The exeoutive departments occupy offices in buildings scattered through tho central portion of tho oily of Washington, mostly built by tho r>_? e__ .i. _ _ * i uuiviiiucuv lui mu puipunu. m though a number of buildings have been rented to pr?vido for tho over flow, as tho departments have grown with the increase of government busi ness, and without adequate provision of government buildings. At present the Department of Justice is living entirely in rented buildings, its old home on Pennsylvania Avenue, oppo site the Treasury Department, having been oondemned as unsafe and torn down to make room for a new one on thc same site. It is hoped by the supervising arohitcot and others that .Congress may buy tho whole of that square, whioh is on the right of La fayette Park, and also tho whole of the square on tho left of Lafayette Park, as ono facos it from the White House, so as to make Pennsylvania Avenue from Fifteenth to Seventeenth Street an executive avenue in faot, for it has already had that name. In stead of tho present inartistic collec tion of private buildings, good, bad, and indifferent, in these squares wo should then have two noblo publia buildings, one for tho Department of Justice and ono for somo other de partment, or for a much-needed fire proof hall of record? and archives; a building which would accord with thc park, on the other sido of tho avenue, inclosing the Executive Mansion, the Treasury Department, and tho State, War, and Navy Building. All the departments, except tho State Department-and it is crowded -have outgrown tho buildings pro vided for them and have had to build, bay, or rent, additional quarters. Tho exeoutive offices of tho Post Office Department a.e being mov ed out of the old Post Office Department building into the new and largo building of tho Wash ington city post office on Pennsyl vania Avenue, midway between the Capitol ?md tho White House. The Treasury Department, whioh is larger than any other, and, indeed, probably larger than all the others put toge thor, still has its principal offices in its his toric old building at Fifteenth Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, whioh is. next to the Capitol, the largest ana finest of the public buildings of the old order. Students of government could spend years iu examining the executive de partments, their organization, meth ods, duties, and functions, rcoords und history. No one, even among tho -1-*?flJ liast ??f??~?.? ~f ll-._ -VIVA*? BU .???? |fv3* .uiuiunju v>? VUU U?ViU vrh? work under them, knows all that ?s tn bu lrQO?f? ?bo?t them, and - life time study would not' exhaust the possibilities of snob knowledge. Yet the ordinary visitor can see in two days, and, indeed, in one day, enough of tjhem to get a very good general idea of their purpose and operations. They all are open to visitors from HB CAPITAL 3 [Departments. uni in l'onvnrtl. nine till two, and, as a rule, thc watchmen at the entrances are in structed to give information to visi tors; it is well, however, to have one of thc good twenty-five cent guidc ! books. In making a day's tour through the departments it would be well to begin at thc beginning; that is to say, at I tho Department of State, which shares with tho War Department and thc Navy Department the largest modern public building in Washington-an euortnous granite pile of composite architecture that lowers above its neighborhood, and covers four and one-half acres, lins two miles of corri dors, and cost nearly eleven million dollars. It is the farthest west of the large departmental buildings, and oc cupies the site just west of tho White House, where stood *lc historic old I buildings in which tho War Depart ment and tho Navy Department had their offices for seventy years, includ ing the period of the Civil War. The State Department has tho southern end of tho building, with a fine view over the parks to the Poto ; mao Uiver and tho Virginia shores. There arc many interesting documents, portraits, and relics, in thc State De partment, but most of them aro not for public view. The engrossed copy of the Declaration of Independence and thc engrossed copy of thc Consti ! tution, with the original signatures, or rather, iu the case of tho Declara tion, with about one-third of them, are, for urample, no longer shown be cause of the fading effect of tho sun !<i?ht. But visitors can soc in tho library tho original draft of tho Dec laration of Independence in the hand writing :* Thomas Jefferson, with the interlineations by John Adams and Benjamin Franklin, and also Jeffer son's desk on which it was written. Thorc, too, can bo seen tho sword of Washington and the staff of Franklin, with othor relics and curios. On the floor below is tho diplomatic room, whero formal conferences with foreign diplomats are held, and where treaties have been negotiated. This is the finest public room in Washington. It can usually bo seen by visitors, who will be interested in the portraits of Homo of the great secretaries of state as well as in the fine furnishings. ? If ono has an introduction to the Seoretary of State he may see the handsome oifioe whioh he occupies; and if ho ?B not there he may, per haps, see it without an introduction. There are no divisions in the build ing to mark where one department ends and another begins, so that one may walk right round the corridor to the right, if he wants to go to the office of Seoretary of the Navy, whose department has the eastern side of the building, or to tho loft, if he wants to go to the offioo of tho Secretary of War, whoso department has the west ern and northern wings. This de partment requires so much more space, not only becauso of the growth of the army, but bcoause of thc records of tho Civil War whioh aro in ita keep ing. Lea* ing tho offico of the Secretary of State and walking to tho right, ono comos, after passing the invisible boundary of tho Navy Department, to the interesting models of our war ves sels. These, each perfeot and costly, arc gathered thick under thoir glass cases round the entrance to the Secre tary's office. The Seoretary of the Navy does not uso the large, hand some room provided for his offioo ex cept as a reception room on oooasions, for ho does his work in the inner of two smaller rooms opening out of it, and, therefore, anybody can see the I largo room with its portraits of former secretarios of thc navy and its elabor ate furnishings. There is a cross corridor that lends dircotly from tho offico of tho Score *,ary of thc Navy, across the building, to tho offico of tho Sev.otary of War, whero thore is another largo and hand some room used only as an anteroom, while tho Secretary has his offioo in a small innor room. Any visitor oan see tho large room. It is made espe cially interesting by largo and impor tant flags, including that of tho Sec retary of War, and the flag whioh was draped over Lincoln's coffin. On tho floor below, and on the other sido of the building, in the northeast corner, aro the offices of the Commanding General of the Army. One enters undor an artistio arrangement of flags, I _i_?_r\___ _ i ?ar?i JL ?a ?. - I Wuv;io uo way BOO vjtcucrau iu.uo?, li iio j has an introduction; and if he is not in, he mr.y 56? uta large and handsome room, and tho portraits of his prede cessors. Coming out on tho north portico of thc building one sccs, across the street, tho old Corcoran art gallery, temporarily oooupied by tho United States Court of Claims and the library of ilic Department of Justice. Thc Attorney General's office, which has nothing to interest thc ordinary visi tor, is in a rented building several blocks to the northeast. Walking over in front of the White House one comes to the Treasury De partment, which is just to ?bc east of it, and after seeing thc sec;'/, servico museum of counterfeits and counter feiters, and the cash room, finished in fine marble, where the cash business of the Treasury is done, he may go to thc office of the United States Treasurer between tho hours of eleven and twelve, or between one and two, and bc iucludcd in a party escorted by a well informed messenger, who will show him thc bond and silver and gold vaults, and other money divisions of tho Treasurer's office, including the place where thc canceled notes are de sts'oyed. Thc visitor may see, in this round, where the Treasury keeps be tween eight aud nine hundred millions of dollars worth of gold and silver, currency and bonds. lt is well to go rliro??tly from tho Treasury Department to its Bureau of Engraving and Printing, which is in a large brick building in thc park south of it, and near thc Washington monument. There one may see the processes of printing tho notes and stamps and bonds of thc Government. It will be convenient to go from this bureau to the Department of Ag riculture, which is just east of it, where there is an interesting museum of agricultural products, illustrating also their industrial and commercial usos. The two remaining departments, the Post Oflico and the Interior, sro in two classic buildings facing one another at Seventh and F Streets, half a mile away from the nearest similar build ing, the Post Office building being just half the size of the other. It was long ago outgrown, and the Postmas ter General and his four Assistant Postmasters General have long had to do business in absurdly small quarters, but are now about to have large and fine offices in the city post office build ing. There is little to see in the Post Office Department, except the "dead letter office," with its interest ing processes of handling the eighteen thousand letters a day that come to it, and its pathetio and humorous museum of undelivered articles, in eluding many soldiers' and sailors' photographs mailed in war days. The building across F Street, where the Secretary of the Interior has his offioes, is popularly known .as the "Patent Office." and quite appropri ately, because it was built with money received by the Patent Office from fees of inventors, and the Patent Office occupies the larger portion of it. The Land Office is the only other part of the Interior Department, except the offices of the secretaries and the assistant secretaries, wuioh now re mains in this building. The museum of models of patented articles, whioh fills four halls on the seoond floor eighty thousand more are displayed in a rented building near hy-is a mag nificent exhibition of what American inventors have done, and greatly in terests most visitors. The Pension Office, the Indian Office, the Bureau of Education, the Geological Survey, and the Census Office, all under the Department of the Interior, are housed in buildings within a radius of half a mile from the Secretary's office. Cares Blood and Skin Troubles-Trial Treatment Free. Is your blood poor? Is it thin? Nose bleeding and hcadaohe? Prick ing pains in the skin? Skin pale? Skin feel hot and swollen? AU* run down? Is your blood bad? Have you Pimples? Eruptions? Scrofula? Eat ing sores? Itching, burning, Ezema. Boils? Ulcers? Cancer? Soaly Erup tions? Shin or Scalp Itch? Blood, Hair or Skin humors? Tired outwitl aches and pains fn hones and joints! Have you hereditary or contracted Blood Poison? Ulcers in throat 01 month? Swollen glands? Rheuma tism? As tired in morning as whee you went to bed? Have they resisted medical treatment? If you have ans of the above troubles B.B.B. (Botanic Blood Balm) should he taken at onoe, B.B.B, has a peculiar effect-diuoroni from any other blood medicine-il drains the impurities, poisons and hu mors that cause all above troubles out of tho blood, bones and entire system healing every sore, restoring to thc Skin tho Bloom of perfeot health, and making new, rich Blood. Trial treatment of B. B. B. free bj addressing BLOOD BALM COM PANY, Atlanta, Ga. Desoribe you: trouble, and we will inoludo freo med ioal advice. B. B. B. never fails t< cure quiokly and permanently, afie: all fails. Thoroughly tested for thii ty years. Over 3,000 voluntary testi monials of euros by B. B. B. Hill Orr Drug Co., Wilhite & Wilki tc, r u< Evans Pharmacy. - The highest price paid in greon backs for gold during the oivil wa was $2.85, the quotation for July 16 1864. The kidneys are small but impox tant organs. They- need help oooa sionally, Prickly Ash Bitters is ........L;.!..,.. i-: - ... i_A_ uuuvbaoi M. ?fcfctAiAujr ivuiu uuu OJDCCl regulator. It takes ? ?f?ti?i? of experienc to teach us that we are our own bea friend; that wo are our own won enemy.we never loam. The best method of oleansing th liver is to use tho famous little pill known as DeWitt's Little Early Risen Essy to take. Never gripe. Evani Pharmacy. Thanksgiving Day. WASHINGTON, Octobcr28- The State department to day issued the follow ing : "By thc President of the United States of America : "A PROCLAMATION. "It has pleased Almighty God tu bring our nation iu safety and honor through another year. Tho works of religion iinu charity-nave everywhere been manifest. Our country through all its extent has been blessed with abundant harvet ts. Labor and thc great industries of the people havo prospered beyond all precedent Our commerce has spread over tho? world. Our power aud influence in the cause of freedom and enlightenment have ex tended over distant seas and lands. The lives of our offioial representatives and uiaoy of our people in China have been marvelously preserved. We have been generally exempt from tho pepti lenco and other great calamities; and oven tho tragic visitation which over evident the sentiments of sympathy and Christian charity by virtue of which v;c arc one united people. "Now, therefore, I, William McKin ley, President of thc United States, do hereby appoint and set apart Thurs day, 29th day of November next, to be observed by all the people of the 'United States, at home or abroad, as a da; of thanksgiving and praiso to Him who holds the nations in the hol low of His haud. "I recommend that they gather in their several plaoes of worship and devoutly give Him thanks for the pros perity wherewith He has endowed us; for seed time and harvest, for the valor, devotion and humanity of our armies and navies, and for all His benefits to us as individuals and as a nation; and that they humbly pray for the continuance of His divine favor, for concord and amity with other na tions and for righteousness and peace in all our wayB. "In witness I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of tho United States to bc affixed. "Hone at tho city of Washington this 29th day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hun dred, and of the independence of the United States the one hundred aad twetn -fifth. "William McKinley. "By the President, John Hay, Sec retary of State." .mm t mm Decorative Peanut Vines. Few persons are, perhaps, aware that a thing of beauty is a common peanut plant, growing.singly in a six or eight inoh pot and grown indoors during the colder months. Kept in a warm room or by the kitchen stove a peanut kernel planted in a pot of loose, mellow loam, kept only moderately moist, will soon germinate and grcsr up into a beautiful plant. It is in a similar way that tho planters test their seeds every year, beginning even early in the winter, and thc facility with which thc seeds will grow in this way has suggested to many Southern flow er lovers tho possibility of making the useful peanut an ornamental plant for the parlor or sitting-room window. As the ->!?i t increases in size and extends its branches over the sides of thc pot in a pendant manner, there arc few plants of more intrinsic beau ty. The curious habit of the com pound leaves of closing together like the leaves of a book on the approach of night, or when a shower begins to fall on them, is one of the most in teresting habits of plant life. And then, later on, for the peanut is no ephemeral wonder, enduring for a day or two only, the appearance of the tiny yellow flowers and putting forth of the peluneles on which the nuts grow imparts to the floral rarity a striking and unique charm all its own. There is nothing else like it, and flor ists throughout che country might well add the peanut plant tb their list pf .novel and rare things.- Washington -Star. i House Work is Hard Work without GOLD DUST. B. HILLMAN, RECENTLY of Abbeville, who has opened the Store at NO. 18, BENSON STREET, deeires the publie to know his success in purchasing his Fall and Winter Stock of Men's, Boys' and Children's Clothing, Shoes, Eats and Underwear, At prices that will enable him to UNDERSELL any compelion. A tilal will convince everybody of the money he is able to save you. ? Specialty of Big Values in Three-Piece Suite for Boye from three to seven years of age. at prices to out to the hone. NECKWEAR, the latest styles. Finest Goods at lowest prices. B. HILLMAN. 18 Benson Street, Miss Lizzie Williams* Old Stand. SOME BARGAINS! I HUE A FEW PUNOS. Of the very highest grade and latest Btyles, TO GO AT COST FOB A FEW DAYS. This is an opportunity of a life-time. I also have tba latest improved ball-bearing NEW HOBIE SEWING MA C HIKES i<?r SSO. Vibrator Standard Machino only $28.00. ORGANS CHEAP. M. Ii. WILLIS, . _South Main Street, Anderson, S. C. SEND YOUR PRESCRIPTIONS. We have engaged the services of Mr. J. E. BRADLEY, an experienced Pharmacist, and we are now prepared to cerve 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 J mr Store and we'll do th? rest. Remember, only THE BEST AND PUREST DRUGS Are allowed in our Store. E. Gk EVANS <& CO., PENDLETON, 3. C. Clarke's Torrent Cutaway Harrow, Syracuse Chilled Plows, Deering Mowers and Repairs, Oils and Supplies. BROCKiBBOS, . Anderson,1 .0 The Kind Yen -tere Always Bought, sad which has beca lu use for over SO years, lias borne the Signatare of and has been made under his per? son?l supervision since its infancy. Allow no one to deceive you in thia, All Counterfeits, Imitations and ?? Just-as-goodM are bot Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and Children-Experience against Experiment, M What is CASTORIA 1 Gastorin is a harmless substituts tor Castor OU, Pare- jj gor i? b Drops and Moothing Syrups* lt is jrieaaant. it '| contains neither Opiun., Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. Its age is its guarantee? It destroys Worms and allays Feverishness. It eures diarrhoea ant? Wind Colic. It relieves Teething Trouble?, cures Constipation and Flatulency. It assimilates tho Food, regulates the otoo-acii and Bowels, giving healthy and natural Bicep, Tho Children's Pauacc. i-Tho Mother's Friend? GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS Bears the Signature of The Kind YouMe Always Bought In Use For Over 30 Years. z ccrrrauf i . I -.fir, ? . D. S. VANDIVEK. E. P. VANDIVER.1 Vandiver Bros. Only ask a chance at your Fall bill of SHOES, JEANS, SHEETING, CHECKS, PRINTS, mc. Large and splendid line of TOBACCO at wholesale prices. We can and will sell yon the best FLOUR made if yon "will let us. Tour patronage is highly appreciated. Tours truly, VANDIVER SRO*. P. 8.-Ton don't know how we would appreciate an early settle? ment of every account due us this month. j ' V. B. Anderson is Up-to-Date, so are the i vvpujo 1 UlllllUlAj VJ Uti They have opened np a large and well-selected stock of j Furniture, House Furnishings,! And everything that belongs to that line of business. Mk Ben. B. Bleekley and Mr. Noel B. Sharpe are the man? gtgers, and will take pleasure in showing everybody their] IMMENSE STOCK and CHEAP PRICES. Their stock was bought in oar load lots and from the bestl factories for Cash, and they feel sure that the most fastidious] can be pleased. Go to see them. They also have an elegant HE ABBE, and carry a full lino] Caskets and Coffins. FRUIT JARS? FRUIT JARS! How is the time to buy your Jars before they advance in price. There being a big crop of fruit all over tho country, Jaw will be BBC higher later in the season. I have a big lot of them on hand at a low p"c?? Fruit Kettles, Fly Fans and Fly Traps, and oil other summer goods. I have a lot of Decorated goods in odd pieces at a bargain. I am tue j ning out of stock at very low prices. Bring me your Bags and Beeswax. Your patronage solicited, JOHN -B?BBIS8J Buist and. TTerry's. Remember when yon gb to g?t your Seed to get &es?| ones. As tfeis is our first year in the Seed business we no seed carried over from last year. Yours,' F. B. GRAYTQM & CO. ?r_x?_v._A. r+ m _ "