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"BYTCLINKSOALES & LANGSTON., ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10. 1900. VOLliME XXXYI-NO 16 THE MEN WHO BUY GET New, Nobby Clothing-up to the minute in style and priced fairly. Ours is not an old, out of date, job lot Of Cloth ing, made up and bought for a sale. ' We won't handle that kind of Clothing. Won't let it into our house-not even at the back dcor. If you want Clothing that's new, nobby, up to-date, made by merchant tailors ; Clothing that fits, Cloth ing that has the right set, and Clothing that carries c guar antee of ?satisfaction or your money back-we've got the kind of Clothes you want. Come in and seo the sort cf Clothing we sell. It's not usual that you'll find such a big stock to select from. You'll be pleased with the make, the fit, and the price will be less than you expected. sa Evans' $3.50 Shoes for Men. No firm attempts nowadays to sell a better Shoe than we do for 83.50. Our competitors will tell you they have as good a Shoe as ours, and will try to makes you take their's as a substitute. Don't let them induce you to take something just as good, when you eau get the best $3.50 Shoe in town from us. Evans'$3.50 Shoes are made in the following leathers : Box Calf, Willow Calf, Enamel Calf, Patent Calf, Patent Vici and ViciKid. AU sizes, all styles. One price, and that is $3.50. ENE rac $3.50 mi I lilli. THE SPOT CASH CLOTHIERS. WHITE FRONT. A THOROUGHLY UP-TO-DATE VEHICLE oo I^V mo HT !s What You will Get at my Repository^ Whether you fancy a light Runabout or your preference is a Family Surrey or Rockaway. Rubber Tires and Dust Excluding, Anti-Friction Axles make modern Vehicles examplers of light-run ning, p?eaaure-giv?ng modes of conveyance unknown and undreamed "of by our forefathers. , It's worth your while to look .through our Stock.' Call on mo ' when tyou need anything in my line. JOS. J. FBETWELL. HOME HAPPINESS May be turned into desolation by the los? of husband and father when the provider ia gone. Don't be telfiiab. Put some of your earnings into a good solid Company like the Mutual Benefit Ufo insurance Go., of Newark, N< J, and in casa of your decease your wife >. . and little ones will not be deprived of] food or shelter. Let U3 insure you, and we will see that all claims are properly IdL ML. MATTISON, STATE AGEISTS, Peoples' Bank Building, ANDERSON, 8. C. M Ii. CARLISLE. L, H. CARLISLE. The Ly nchburg Chilled Plow ls gaining ground erery 4^yt WE have sold ono Car of the famous Plows this season, and tve have ?i??iner v'ir ?o>? of them ordered which we want to sail by January 1*>t. Wo fcave p?t<tho price of Plows and Points to the lowest notch for Spot .Lash. Buy one of eur Sied Beam Hillside Plows-the only Stael Beam Plow *n tho market. They are guaranteed to give satisfaction or your money re funded, G ABUSUS ?R?8. a Andersen, B.C. FROM THE NATION'S CAPITAL. From Our Oum Corresponde ni. WASHINGTON. D. C., Nov. 12,1000. . At Tuesday's election, tho Demo cratic ticket was absolutely snowed under, losing the Presidency, the House and making only trivial gains in lue Srnuio. Tho fact that they pro fited in this last is due to tho number of Democrats who scratched Bryan but voted their party legislativo ticket. In fact, tho di flo ronco between tho sum of tho votes polled in tho different States for Democratio governors and members of tho legislature, compared with the vote cast for Mr. Bryan is somewhat startling, the former being apparently about half a million votes larger that the latter. In othor words, Mr. Bryan was scratched by about half a million voters who stuck to their party ou tho 'ovate vote and would pre sumably have voted the straight ticket bit for their personal distrust of Mr. I Bryan. This is not intended as a dis paragement of Mr. Bryan personally, j bnt merely as a statement as to feeling ! in regard to him in the East-unjust and cruel aa it may be. Farther it is well understoad that when a voter flop 3 on the head of the national ticket he will nsna'ly flop also on the State ticket. There can be no question that thousands of Democrats who wanted to vote against Bryan simply cast a I straight Republican ticket instead of scratching a Democratic one. That is I to say, if the Democratic standard bearer had not been cut by bis party, the State tickets would nave received mach larger votes than they did, nt>d would have come that nearer winning. Then again, there can be no doubt that a good many populists, anti-impe rialists and silver Republicans who voted for Bryan failed to voto for the ! other Democratio nominee, showing that his strictly Democratic vote ran Still farther behind his ticket than is ! indicated by the figures of the State elections. In other words, if the party , had had a standard bearer who could have commanded thc entire strength of the Democratio party, he would ! have como very near indeed to being elected. The causes for defeat aro not far to seek in tho opinions of politicians in this city. Aside from personal distrust for Mr. Bryan tho prosperity issue was probably thc winning one. Men with jobs who did not believe that Demo cratic success would injure them, yet thought it just ns well to let well enough alone. As Ex-Senator Gorman says, McKinley wns elected by the votes of those who thought that "it would be unwise to disturb the pros perity of the present by experimenting with a new administration which was pledged to reverse and set aside all of the practical " usiness advantages now enjoyed by tho great mass of indus trious people." Tho coming session of Congress will be in many respects an exciting one. It will be a short one, expiring by limi tation on March 4 next, but will be crammed full of incident. Three im portant measures will be taken up-the ship subsidy steal, the army increase bill, and tho new Congressional re-ap portionment. Tho first named is un doubtedly ono of tho most shameless raids upon tho Treasury attempted since the bonanza of tho salary grab and the credit mobilier, thirty years ago. That bill, when acted, will be a heavy drain upon tho Treasury for years to come and will furnish the op portunity fer another gigantic trust to control shipbuilding and pecan trans portation. It will for years stand as one of ino obstacles in tho way of any redaction of taxation, and after it is firmly established its repeal will be de clared impossible on account of im pairment of "vested interests."; It is likely that nothing will stand in the way of the enactment of tho bill at this session. It was introduced last winter, but was allowed to go over on account of thc election. The arrant had faith of the Republi can administration is shown h$ the fact that While the votes wero being cast an order wi,s being prepared in tho War Department revoking all orders for the return of tho volunteers from tho Philippines. This, it was frankly stated, was to be issued no matter which side should win, and i Lilias now been issued. In other words, it was practically con fessed that ali the talk about retiring tho volunteers because tho War was over was merely pre-election gulf, intended to fool the voters and not to bo carried "out. Wu.iloitis not stated when tho instructions to begin thc transportation of volunteers home will be.renewed, it is expected that under present arrangements tho cntiro force will remain on duty in tho Philippines until February or March, and mean time it is the understanding of War Department officials that the coming session of Congress will adopt some law for tho increase of the army, so that it may not be necessary to retain the entire force. This mast bo done this winter, ac the army wiii bo re duced by existing law to about 27,000. on July 1 next. Tho theory , of Congress in passing the law, was that the conquest or tho Philippine Islande would be completed by tho time it ex pired. But tho strength and spirit of the people of those islands and their love of liberty wera underestimated. It is n>w necessary, if their conquest ia to be completed, to continue the army on a war footing possibly for an indefi nito period. Provision has already been made for the education ot a larger number of officers at West Point, thus indicating that the administration has uo expectation of ever reducing tho army to 25,000, which was the total before the Spanish war. There will be a bitter light over the new apportionment if any attempt is made to reduce Southern rep: o sen ta- i tion on the plea that the negroes have been disfranchised. Fortunately, it is extremely difficult to frarao a law that will hit tho South, without also injuring Northern States like Massachusetts, which disfranchises all illiterates. Probably, if it is resolved to attempt u> pass snell a law, the whole matter will be postponed until tho next Con gress, os the new apportionment will not bo used until the election of 1002, though it is desirable to adopt it Ob Tfoou as possible, so that the various legislatures mny redistrict their terri tory in accordance with possiKo changes in the number of their repre sentatives. A State Thanksgiving. Gov. Mcsweeney has issued tho fol lowing proclamation in reference to Thanksgiving Day : In the providence of God we have been spared as a people and a State for another year. Peace and prosperi ty, health and happiness have been vouchsafed to us. We have not been visited by a plague or pestilence. Tho labor of our hands hos been attended with success and the State has grown in material wealth. New manufactur ing enterprises have sprung up and we are fast becoming a great manufactur ing people. The husbandman has been permitted to plant and to reap, and en joys the fruits of his labor. There is good feeling among all our people and progress in all good and worthy deeds is evidenced on every hand. Education and Christianity go hand in hand; our colleges and schools are filled and tho cultivation of the head and the heart is keeping pace with tho material devel opment of the State. To the end, therefore, that wo may with thankful hearts show our appre ciation of the many blessings which we enjoy and tho tender care of our Heavenly Father, I, M. B. Mcsweeney, governor of tho State of South Caro lina, in conformity with tho proclama tion of the president of tho United States, do hereby appoint and set apart Thursday tho 20 day of November^ 1000, as a day of thanksgiving and prayer, to be kept and observed by all tho people of this Stat?. I advise that all public oiiices bu closed and all private business and labor of every kind cease, and that our people assemble in their respective places of worship and give thanks to Him who is the giver of every good and perfect gift, for the seed time and the harvest, and that they beseech Him in humanity to continue His goodness and gracious forbearance. That they also remember the poor and the father less, for we are told that it is more blessed to give than to receive, and every gift to these will go to our credit in tho great book of rememberanco. In testimony whereof I have here unto set my hand and caused the great seal of the State of South Carolina to be affixed. Done at the capitol, in the city of Columbia, this 10th day of No vember, A. D., 1000. By tho Governor : M. B. McSWRENDV. M. li. COOPER, Secretary of State. Bishop Capers. Bishop Cnv'irs ?s perhaps the most widely known and most universally beloved man in South Cnrolina. We do not mean to say that his being bishop over the Episcopal Church in South Caro'ina makes him thus, although as high and as btoad a Chris tian as Bishop Capers is more than apt to be generally appreciated and honor ed. It is the bishop's nobie record in the Confederate war, joined to his almost perfect personal character, that canses him tobe thus known and be loved on all sides. When tho bishop comes here, or goes there, it is not Episcopal.or Methodist or Baptist or Presbyterian, but it is "Bishop Copora is here," or "Gen. Capers is here," or "Bravo old Ellison Capers is here." And everybody wanta to seo him and hear him and shako his hand-old peo ple because they know and love him, and youug peopio because they honor and love the traditions; be ea usu ikey would greet a hero of faithful history. Tho good bishop-with Ilia head and mind as strong as his heart ia tender nnd true-was with his flocks of Tren ton and Edgefield ou Sunday lust. Large crowds heard him in forenoon and afternoon; and in tho evening, at the earnest request of President Bailey, ho "made a littto talk," as ho expressed ir, to the 120 boarding pupils of the South Carolina Coeducational institute in their chapel. But it was in reality a large talk, and a high and broad one, and delighted the young people to whom it was so lovingly addressed. Bishop Capers, however, does more than delight people. He helps them, strengthens them, comforts them. Would that we might see and hear him oftener in Edgefield.- Kilcgfidd Chronicle. How's Tbl*. y Wo oner One Hundred Dollarn reward for ?ny CM? of Catarrh that cannot ba Cared by Hall's Catarrh Cur?. n?. ?ia una em xn *a nave known k<?*. Cheney for tho last IS yean, and bellera him perfectly honornble In all bail nea.? transactions and finan dally able to carry ont any obligatio no made by thoir firm. WEST A Tao AI, Wholesale DrarrUU, Toledo, O. WALD ma. Kmux A ILASTM, W ?alende Drug gists, Toledo, O. Hali's catarrh Core is taken Internally, ?cling directly upon evi blood and raucous surfaces ot the erstem. T-etunonlala tent fro?. ?old by Druggist?. ?Sc ? Hall's Parally PlllsIaitCU?? best. / :'<' .':' STATE KEW?, - A wild cat tour feet in length was , recently killed in Newberry county. ! - People of Ninety-Six are talking of a $500,000 cotton mill for that place. - The sales of tho Columbia dispon . RnrieB during fair week was moro thnu $10,000. - The Daughters of tho Confederacy will hohl their annual convention in Kook Hill on the ?th nud 7th of Decem ber. - A dispenser in Greenville, who waa lately eouvicted of defaulting, has very recently bee? arrested fovrunuing ii blind tiger. - Major Thomas, a white carpenter, was rundown by a Southern passenger train on the Congaree bridge at Co lumbia and killed. - A company with a half million dollar capital is being formed in Co lumbi* to connect all tho independent telephone lines in tho State. - John Jacob Astor, of New Vork, will spend tho winter iu Aiken. Sev eral houses in Aiken havo been rented for the winter for from $1,800 to $2, 400. - The breaking out of smallpox in Laurens and Orangeburg counties ought to be a warning to all parts of tho State to act in time against, the pest. - Section Master Boyd and two hands were killed on tho Seaboard about thirty miles from Chcraw by a car breaking loose and running into their hand car. - The reformatory for juvenile of fenders which tho penitentiary direc tors are having erected across from Co lumbia in Lexington county will be finished by January. - At Society Hill in Darlington coun ty a negro working at a brick yard ac cidentally stepped into the feeder and before the machinery could bo stopped one of his legs was ground to pieces. Tho State Supremo Court will con vene for tho "November term" on tho 27th of this month, and will bc in ses sion until the Inst of January. The docket of thc seventh circuit will bo disposed of first. - In his annual report Second As ?datant Postmaster General Shallen berger says that tho box delivery of mail on star routes in South Carolina has worked satisfactorily and contracts hereafter will provide for such ser vice. - Tho Sell6rs-Haseldcn shooting af fair which occurred in Marion County last wiutcr, and in which it is 'alleged tho Haseldens wore breast-plates, will bo tried in court in a few days. All parties have been indicted by thc grand jury. - Miss Juliet Poole was committed to jail in Gaffney by Probiito Judgo Webster for lunacy on November 2nd and during tho afternoon sho toro tho waist string from a loose wrapper she wore, tied them together and hanged herself. - Soveral incendiary fires have oc curred near Beech Island, Aiken Coun ty, lately. Stealing has been preva lent also. Rev. V. I. Masters in the News and Courier says moro mission ary work and shotguns are needed in that section. - There aro about a dozen embryo candidates for United States Senate. Friends have been talking about J. C. Sheppard, Governor M. B. Mcsweeney, Col. J. G. Evans, Congressman Lati mer, Wilson and Talbert as proper men to succcd Senator McLaurin. - Tony Smith, the negro watchman at tho Oakley Phosphato mines, near Charleston, killed himself on Thurs day while playing with a forty-four caliber pistol. The pistol was discharg ed through careless handling and the ball entered the abdomen passing through tho liver. - It is stated that ?very member of tho South Carolina Conference, M. E. Church, wilt attend tho annual confer once at Chester, which meets on thc 27th. bishop Hargrave will preside. Homes have been found for all comers. Tho Methodists have lately finished a $17,500 church in Chester. - A York county preacher attacked a certain business block in tho town of Hickory Grove from tho pulpit, char acterising it ns disreputable. A young man doing business there went to the preacher on the streets and told him to apologize or light. The preacher was gamo and fought but he was licked and hereafter he will be less specific in his charges. - Tho reports of the various Stato ofiicials are now being made up and tho officers arc busily preparing them. As indicating tho progress made in the State, tho Secretary of State's oflico will show that about $10,000 has been turned over to tho State Treasurer on account of fees received for charters and commissions issued during tho year. Tho largest amount collected in recent years never went over $3,500. - There is a strange concidence con nected with the meeting of the Stato Baptist Convention in Newberry. Fif teen years ago the Convention was to meet in Newberry, bat cn a coo a ul v. the death of the pastor of the church, P.er. Luther Breadas, ia CcioW, just before the timo appointed for the meeting, the place was changed and the Convention met in Greenville. This year, on account of tho severo ill ness of tho pastor's wife, Mrs. Geo. A. Wright, the meeting is changed and the Convention will meet in Green wood.-Newberry Herald and New?. UENKltAL NfcWS 1TKMS. - Thc told wave has been general throughout the country the past week. - A boat has been launched in New York that is expected to make 50 miles an hour. - The census ligures foreshadows an in?rese of :? members to the House of Representativos. - - The Georgia Legislature is discus sing the question of holding a consti tutional convention. - McKinley is the first 1'resident since Grant to secure a re-election at tho cud of ids ?rat term. - in Mew York one voter died in thc election booth and another ?mm lia le ly after casting his ballot. - The battleship Kentucky will he sent to BTfU'o tho Moors into paying indciuuil foran American citizen kill ed there. - The Woman's Home Missionary Society of tho Methodist church ha? raised its $200,000 for the Twentieth Century Fund. - In throe out of four election riotf in Northern States negroes precipitate!] thc trouble-in Pennsylvania, in Dela ware and Colorado. - Tho enumerators sheets aro not all in ns yet, but it is already known that thc returns will show that there are in tho country between 5,500,000 and 0, 000,000 separate farms. - Tho Atlanta Journal will tako fi trainload of school children from thc public schools of Atlanta to Washing ton next March to witness the inau guration of President McKinley. - The Agricultural Department ol the United States has distributed r limited supply of tho Egyptian cotton seed with a view of dc term i nhl (j whether this cotton can be successful!) grown in the United States. - Senator C. K. Davis, of Minnesota is about to die, it is reported, from J curious cause. The dye from his sod got into a small cut on his foot, whicl resulted eventually in blood poironioj so Hint now his life is jeopardized. - Since 1800 tho fifteen Southon States have iucrensed their populatioi from 22,440,278 to 20/.330,307, a gain o 3,800,D21). While there has been mon or lees of this from immigration fron other States, there has been very litth from other countries. - It is said that 05,000 cabin pnsseu gers have crossed thc Atlantic to Eu rope tili? year. Assuming that thc av crago expenditure of this class of trav ors on tho other side is about $300-am it is probably more-that means nearly $30,000,000 paid to tho foreigner. - The Old John street Methodis church in New York celebrated it 182d anniversary recently. Among tin relics they have tho Bible Philip Em bury, tho first local preacher, and tin clock o? John Wesley, which is nov clicking oil' the timo all right. - For some timonegotintiatious hav been going on looking to a complet surrender of tho Boers in South Af rica. But General Botha and Pres ident Steyn ref uso to surrender. Thc; seem to believe that intervention wi] como from tho other powers very soon - Democratic Governor-elect Wil liam S. Jennings has informotion fron his cousin, William J. Bryan, that li will visit him athis home in Brooks ville, Fla., immediately after tho holi days aud bo present at the inaugura tion at Tallahassee on tho first Tues day in Jnuuary. - Tho Vermont Legislature, whicl is now in session, is about to consider bill which provides for tho nogotiatioi of a loan of $10,000,000-tho entire sur to be expended on tho improvement o the public roads of tho'Green Moun tain State during the next two ycart Vermont's debt is now but $334,000. - Secretary Hester, of tho New Or leans cotton exchange, in his repor says that tho month of October i ahead of tho same month last year ii round figures 420,000 bales. Tho totu amount of the cotton crop brought int sight for thc two mcnthr, ending Octo ber Hist is 3,051,320 against 2,801,23 last year. - Tho peoplo of Greater New Yorl have finished with one political cam paign only to plunge into another. Tb returns from the natioal election wer not in before the municipal campaigi against Tammany was opened. Th election occurs next Bummer and th prospects are that there will bo tl: liveliest sort of a campaign. - Christmas trees aro already bein; cut down in Washington county, Mo. and tho season's output from that sec tion will amount to 400 cai loads, will 300 bunches to a car. Each bund consists of from two to six trees. Th< trees are sent to New York where fliej will retail for about ten times as nine! as they aro worth on hoard tho cars ii Maine. - It is believed by tho engineers wh< are repairing tho Galveston-Mexic( cable, which was broke up by the Gal veston hurricane, that tho storm wai accompaincd by a submarine eruption Tho evidence of this eruption is fount in the twisted condition of the cable Tho sheathing is found to havo beei reversed, and the wires binding it t< tho core turned tho wrong way. \S ll?.- laAlronn A. t ....... ...... j .-.viv. r? ul Lill Confederate general, "Stonewall" Jack son, has boen at tho Church Homo nm Infirmary at Baltimore for more thai a month undergoing treatment fo neuralgia, from which she had sufierei greatly. An operation was porformet three weeks ngo, with complete?success and on Monday last the patient had s< far recovered as to be able to return t< ber hc:re at Charlotte, N. C. Mr. Bryan Makes a Statement. LINCOLN, NEIL, Nov. 8.-Wm. J. Bryan to-night gave out tho following statement concerning tho election : ..Tho result was ti surprise tx? mc, anti the magnitude of the Republican vic tory waa a surprise to our opponents as well ns to those who voted our ticket. lt is impossible to analyze the return? until they ure more cont pletc,but speak j ing generally, we stem to have gained in the large cities ?md to have lost in the smaller cities Mid in tin-country. "Tho Republicans vere able te sc tiekefs or pitseva for alt theil vo ters who were away from home, and this pave them considerable advan tage. We have no way ol' knowing at 1 this time how much money was spent in the purchase of votes anti in coloni zation. Hut while these would nc cotint l or some of tho Republican gains, they could not account for the wide spread aerease in tho Republican vote. The prosperity argument was probably the most potent ono used by the Republicans. They compared pre sent conditions with the panic times of 1893 to 181M? and this argument had weight with thoso who did not Btop to consider the reasons for the change. The appeal, 'Stand by tho President while tho war is on,' hud a great deal of influence among those who did not realize that a war against a doctrino of self-government in the Philippines must react upon us in this country. Wo made an honest fight upon an hon est platform, and having done our duty as we saw it, we have nothing to re gret. "Wc ore defeated but not discour aged. The fight must go on. I am sure that Republican policies will bc repudiated by thc people when thc tendency of these policies ure fully un derstood. Tho contest between pluto cracy and democracy cannot end until one or thc other is completely triumph ant." Concerning himself Mr. Uryan said : "I have come out of the campaign with perfect health and a clear con science. I did my most to bring a uc cc8s to the principles for which I stood. Mr. Stevenson did nil that he could; Senator Jones and the members of the Democratic, Populist, Silver Republi can nnd Anti-Imperialist committees did nil they could. Mr. Hearst und his associates in the club organization put forth their best efforts. Our newspa pers, our campaign speakers and our local organizations did their part aleo. I havono fault to find and no reproach es. I shalt continuo to take an active interest in politics as long as 1 live. I believe it to be tho duty of citizens to do so, and iu addition to my interest ns a citizen, I feel that it will require a life time of work to repay tho political friends who have dono so much for mo. I shall not bo a senatorial candidate before tho legislature which has been elected. Senator Allen deserves tho senatorship which goes to the Populists. Mr. Hitchcock and Mr. W. H. Thomson nro vowed candidates for the other senatorship. Thev both deserve well of tho party, and 1 am too grateful to them for past support to stand in their way even if I desired n seat in thc sen ate." Mr. ".ryan said he had no other plans at present than to remain nt home un til lie und recovered from tho fatigue of campaigning. He denied tho report that ho would remove from Nebraska nnd make Texas his home. Confederate Veterans Reunion at Augus ta, Ga. For the accommodation of the travel to Augusta, on the occasion of tho Re union Confederate v otorans, the Char leston anti Western Carolina Railway will have nain for Anderson sud ?nter mediato points leave Augusta at (1.00 p. m. on Nov. 14th, 15th and 10th. This train will leave Anderson at 0.85a, m. arrive Augusta 10.48 a. m. Returning, leave Augusta 0.00 p. m. This will give nil those who cannot snend tho night in the city a chanco to take in the Reunion and return to their homes tho same dny. In addition to tho Veterans Reunion, all during the week the Elks Grand Street Fair nnd Carnival of attractions will afford amusement for tho visitors. The t ates for the round trip are so low that all should not fail to take advan tage of them. Ask Agents for ?ivers giving the rates and schedule from all stations. W. J. CHAKI, General Passenger Agent. Thc Atlanta Daily l'institution - N??V Running a Special .Magazine Christ mas Oft?r. The Constitution, of Atlanta, Ga., is now ottering its Daily and Sunday edi tions completo for one year to new subscribers, includiug, in tho same price of $8.00, a yearly subscription to' hot h t he Review of Reviews anti Suc cess, two splendid monthly magazines published in Now York. * This Mam moth Magazine Oller, furnishing both of them really free, is limited to Christ mas, 1900, for its acceptance and applies only to new subscribers tb tho maga zines. It supplie? *he fullest amount of good rcad .ng matter, up-to-date nnd served in tho nest stylo possible, for tho money Thc Constitution's well known liberal policy in nU things is f ully borno <>ut in this last offer of tho year. No agents commission given. Orders must have full remittance ac companying. - At tho recent meeting of tho West Pennsylvania Lutheran Synod tho president stated that tho Rev. Dr. Daniel Hauer, of Hanover, had entered the 75th yearof active service in tho min istry, being now 95 years old, nnd per. haps tho oldest living minister in tho world in point of service. Ho was pas tor of se;.io Lutheran churches in Vir ginia in the early yearr. of.his minis* try. .