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"BYTCLINKSOALES & LANGSTON., ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10. 1900. VOLliME XXXYI-NO 16 FROM THE NATION'S CAPITAL. From Our\Otcn Uorrtepondeat. WASHINGTON? D. C., NOV. 20? 1900. Speed vriil bo the ruling idea in the House ot' Represen inti voa this winter and Ute right of the minority to discuss the measures on which the House is to pass will be sharply curtailed in the process. Not timi* it wakes much dif ference, however, for the Honse, aa organized by the Republic aus, is about as perfect a machine for registering the ideas of half a dozen leaders as could well 1>? devisA?T Hence, there is e very promise that in the three weeks before the holidays the House will dispose of a vast amount of legis lation. All tho chairmen of important committees arriving in town announce their platiB to have the notable^meas ures of the session prepared cither ns soon as Congress meets or within a few days thereafter, and in all probability as soon as tho President's message has i icen read, the House will settle to hard and continuous work. Last year t he Republicans were proud of passing the gold standard bill and one or two appropriations billa before the holiday recess. This year tho bill for the re duction of the war revenues takes, the hill for the reorganization of the army, the river and harbor appropriation bill, the oleomargarine bill, the Indian appropriation bill and some of the ap propriation bills will probably be be fore the House not later than the be ginning of the second week of the ses sion. It need not bo surprising if most ot ttiese measures have been sent to the Senate before the holidays. With thc cloture rules in force lt will be en tirely feasible for the House to dispose of all these billa in two or three weeks, and thus clear the decks for the eight or ten largo appropriation bills that would remain to he disposed of in January and the first half of February. There will, it seems, be some oppo sition to the ship subsidy steal on tho Republican side, but probably not enough to enable the Democrats to side track it. Representative Burton, head of the Rivers and Harbors Com mittee, who is the Representative from Senator Hanna's home city, hoB de clared himself against it, saying that he does not believe that it can be passed, but ho stands entirely alone so far in expressing this opinion. The provisions of the bill are, of course, scandalous. If adopted, it will be adopted in the teeth of the report of the Republican Commissioner of Navi gation, who, curiously enough, is in i'?vor of the bill, although his report contains in every line facts that provo thc prosperity of American shipbuild ing and disprove the necessity for the bill. He soys, for instance, that for E TWO THINt One should be the se euri] The other should be to g< When a merchant offers 1 merchant is being well paid fo You can't get something you. You thought you were g We sell everything for 8] value for your money than an j At $5.00? At $7-50 sty w At $10.00 g At $12.50, $15 Our line of Suits will con that our price is about onc-thii It's a duty you o .re to yo \ White Fr> the first time since the Civil War the documented tonnage of the United States exceeds 5,000,000 gross tons. On June 80, 1900, American documented tonnage comprised 28,833 v?asela of 5,164,839 tone, an increase of 800,000 tona over the previous fiscal year. British shipping now amounts to only 14,201,000 groes tona? and tho tonnage of American shipping is thoa about one-third of that of the great British Empire with its far-reaching colonies audits splendid sea-going traditions. The exports of the United States, for whoso carrying subsidies to American ships are so loudly demanded, require Only abonfc nntt-flfih nf *hn TVOrld'C tonnage, whilo British imports require a far greater amounts Finally on Au gust 15, 1900, 08 merchant steel steam v?asela, aggregating 278,000 tone, and 47 naval vessels, 113,000 tons displace ment, were building or contracted for. This work taxes the ship yards to their utmost, and many other vessels will be began as soon as there is room for them on the docks. Nevertheless, tho Commissioner clamors for "encourage ment" for the ship builders. Senator Davis, of Minnesota, will be sadly missed in the coming session, where his sturdy Americanism would probably have routed tho attempt of our Anglomaniac Secretary of State to commit the United States to British domination of the Nicaraugan Canal. As will be recalled, the Hay-Paunce foto Convention is modeled on that for the construction of the Suez Canal, which contains a clause especially pro viding that tho Sultan can take such steps for the defence of the canal as he may consider that tho safety of his dominions requires. This clause alone, out of all the rest, was omitted in tho Hny-Pauncefote convention and in its place was substituted another express- | ly prohibiting the United States from fortifying the canal. That is to say, the treaty proposes that the United States should build the canal and leave it free and unprotected to be seized by the overwhelming might of Britain's navy if trouble should ever arise be tween the two nations. Senator Davis discovered this fact and reported to the Senate an amendment putting the ^defence" clause omitted by Mr. Hay back into the treaty. His advocacy of this will be sadly missed when the instrument is taken up this winter. Commander Lucien Young, who has charge of the work of removing tho wreck of the Maine from Havana 1 nu llor, hos issued a circular asking bids for tho work, to be opened at Havana at 12 o'clock noon on December 15, 1900. The uso of explosives will bo prohibited, and all material pertain ing to the wreck and all accessories for the removal of the same must be re moved from thc harbor by April 1, 1001. Specifications and all available information will be furnished upon GO TO BU' 2S SHOULD DOM! ng of the kind of 8 tut you wan ?t full value for your money, to sell you a Suit of Clothes am r those sixty days, and you are for nothing, no matter how mm etting something for nothing, b pot Cash. No book-keeper to pa r Credit Store can possibly give. 1 ?w a line of Suits, made up witb iriety of colors. These Suits ar< w some ver jr strong values in %. orsted at this price is one of th< thow, possibly, our best values i s are made well, and you'll be k they are doing well to show s .00, $18.00 an< ipare in make and fit to the Sui d less than the tailors. ur income to inspect our line of i s? Q ft El i %3B la out. application to Commander Young. A certified check for 81,000 will bo re quired to acconiynny each proposal as a guarantee of good faith, to be re tained to the unsuccessful bidders upon the award of tho contract. Tho successful bidder must give bond for $10,000 for faithful compliance with tho terms of the cont??vt. Il is Captain Sigsbco's idea thr.t a coffer dam might be constructed around tho wreck, thus affording easy means of removing it without much work on tho part of the divers and without employing explo sives. The removal of tho wreck is awaited with the keenest interest for the promise it uilbrus of set tiing be- 1 youd disputo tho cause of thc disaster. Population by Counties of the Palmetto State. WASHINGTON, NOV. 34.-The popula tion of South Carolina, ns oin Hally an nounced to-da , is 1,840,310, against i 1,151,140 in 1800. This is an increase since 1800 of 180,107, or 16.4 per cent. The population in 1880 waa 005.577, showing an increase of 155,572, or 15.0 per cent, from 1880 to 1800. The population by towns will not be ready for somo days. Tho population by counties are as follows: Abbeville. 33,400 Aiken. 30,033 Anderson. 65,728 Bamberg.17,200 Barnwell. 35,504 Beaufort.-. 85,405 Berkeley.1. 80,454 Charleston. 88,000 Cherokee.21,859 Chester.28,610 Chesterfield. 20,401 Clarendon.r. 28,184 Colleton. 83,452 Darlington .32,888 Dorchester.10,204 Edgefleld. 25,478 Fairfield. 20,425 Florence. 28,474 Georgetown...-. 22,840 Greenville . 53,400 Greenwood. 28,343 Hampton. 23,738 Horry. 23,864 Kershaw. 24,600 Lancaster..-.21,811 Laurens. 37,382 Lexington.?g. 27,264 Marion.T... 35,181 Marlboro. 27,030 Newberry.80,182 Oconoe. 23,634 Orangeburg. 50,663 PickenB.10,875 Richland. 45,580 Saluda.18,000 Spartanburg. 05,500 Sumter.51,237 Un iou.25,o?i Williamsburg.31,085 York.41,084 i A SUIT 0 NATE YOUR EVER t, the make and the ti il gives you sixty days to pay ii the one that's paying for those >h you figure. The sixty day G ut you weren't. No man is in ty, no lo jses by bad debts. The Suits! i good linings, well sewed, cut li & the $6.50 kind at Credit Stor For?t.sds, Cassimere and Chevic sse Suits that can't be matched n a variety of Worsteds, Case surprised at the values you uch values at from $11.00 to $1 I $20.00, ts sold by the best tailors. Thc ' Clothing before buying. ll A MO 0 VHlld Ol HTML.'- ^ ?_- * ?f^ rfc a' 732 Pounds of Cotton Picked in One Day. Tho world's record for cotton picking bas been broken, and to a sixteen-year old boy belongs that honor. Master Warner S. Hale, of Good Hope, Ga., celebrated his sixteenth birthday a few ?lays ngo by inviting all of bis young frienda to attend a cotton picking con teat. During tho day young Halo picked 732 po un els of cotton, astonish ing even himself. At the close of tho day Halo dcclnred that ho was no moro tired than usual and was ready and willing to go to weak again tho next day. Hu decimos that ho will exceed this record next year by 150 pounds. Champions on other lines have been heard of and their acts and. deeds ap plauded by au admiring public, but young Halo hos started in a lino nil by himself and so far is away ahead of all others. Log rollings, cuno grindings and quilting bees, so long in voguo in the Southern States, will now be relegated to tho rear ranks and when farmers, their wives, daughters and sons desire to furnish amusements for the neigh borhood, and at the aamo time gather a cotton crop quickly, Master Hale will be invited and tho other lads in the vicinity bo given an opportunity to ti y and beat him in his eli osen Held. Atlanta Journal. Half Rates to Richmond, Ya., and Re* tur.T. un a?count of the annual convention Southern Educational Association, Richmond, Va., December 27-20,1000, Southern Railway will sell round trip tickets to Richmond, Va., and return, from all stations on its lines at rato of ono first-class faro for round trip, plus $2,00 membership fee. Tickets will be sold from Washing ton, D. C., and points in Virginia and North Carolina, December 20th and 27th, with final limit December 'Mat, 1&00, inclusive; from points in other i Southern States, December 25th and 20th, with final limit January 2nd, 1901. Southern Railway oilers best service over afforded to Richmond, Va. Fast timo and convenient schedules. Through sleeping car between Bir mingham, Atlanta, Greenville, Spar tnnburg, Charlotte and Richmond. Hotel dilling cars on all through trains. For detailed information as to rates, ' reservationr, etc., call on or write any I Agent of tho Southern Kail way or its connections. S. H. HARDWICK, A. G. I*. A. Atlanta, Ga. - Tim list, nf immigrants at thc New York station is expected to run up to about 450.000._ ?Y ACTION. t in-just remember that the \ days. i were, in truth, never given business for fun. ?refore, we will give you better ke Suits should be, and shown >ts. ~A~5eavy, all wool Black 1 in this town. iimeres and Cheviots. These can get here. Credit Stores 3 only difference you'll find is h Clothiers? GESEICH? NEWS ITEMS - Parties ure contemplating tho erection of a muslin factory in At lieu?, Ga. - lt is said that Nicarnuga is now anxious for tho United States to build tho canal. - Cuba is trying to make a constitu tion, but the Convention makes baste very slowly. - lt is estimated that it costs $530 000,000 every week to run the railways of tho world. - Un the basis ol* tho recent census Virginia, Alaine, Kansas and Arkansas will each lose one Congressman. - Frank M. ft row u, the assistant cashier of the German National bank at Newport Ky., stole "?200,(K)0 and skipped. - They will not lot Bryan alone. The Anna Held theatrical comp any has offered him $?0,000 a year to associate himself with tho company. - It is said that the two candidates for mayor in Augusta spent a small for tune each on tho election. It is said that votes were bought shamelessly. - Tho Georgia veterans have made a demand on the legislature of that State that a home be provided for the ' disabled of their diminishing numbers. - Mrs. Nancy Holl fiend, said to have been tho oldest woman in North Caro lina, died at Elieuboro, N. C., a few days ago. Her ago is given nt ; figures rauging from 110 to 121 years. - Tho official count in Nebraska gives tho Republicans a "Majority of live votes on joint ballot, it was wiso in Bryau to declino being n candidate for tho United States Senate. - A Wall street broker has failed for more than a million dollars and his assets aro nothing. Fortunately he owes bis wifo $509,575 borrowed mon ey, and she will never ask him for it. - Hoke Smith of Atlantn, has pre sented traveling libraries to fourteen counties in Georgia. The booka are intended for tho school children and aro to mako tho circuit of the schools. - A car-load of insauo negro soldiers from the Philippines is en route to Washingron City. Tho causo of tho insanity of so many Philippine sol diers is puzzling tho army medical corps. - Tho legislature of Alabama, now in biennial session, wit most likely enact a statute providing for tho hold ing of r constitutional convention with the primary object to regulate and re strict tho suffrage. - Receipts of undelivered mail mat ter last year increased nearly 10 per cent. There were 7,530,158 letters sent to the Dead Letter Office. They con tained $41,140 in cash and $1,134,041 in drafts, notes and mouoy orders. - After spending forty hours at the bottom of a well under a heap of sand, Thomas McPhetcrBwas rescued at Sul livan, Ind., recently little tho worse for his long imprisonment. A t wo-inch rubber hose was used to convey water and food to him while ho was being dug out, - The national report as to the av erage yield of corn has been published. The departm^.i? of agriculture sent out its monthly bulletin stating that the yield was 25.8 bushels per acre against S3 81 last year and a ten-year 1 average of 24.1 The quality is about as usual. - One of the horrors of war was to be seen in Atlanta recently in tho pass ing through ot sixteen soldiers from the Philippines who had lost their minds.- Thc eight was most pitiable. The ?surgeon in charge said that the chief cause of insanity was excessive drinking. - A committee of experts has been exploring the regions around Biltmoro and Asheville and it is said that these gentlemen in their report to Congress will endorse the idea of establishing there a national park and forest pre serve to be known os the Appalachin National Park. - Two aged women who lived near Charlotte on a public road were mur dered, their bodies burned in their house and the pre ni i sc s idled by bur glars a few nights ago. It was pretty well understood that tho old ladies were rich and kent their' money hid about the house. - Tho Republicans carried the Ne braska legislature which will elect two United States Senators. There aro six Republican candidates and the Demo crats and fusionists are trading wit' one of these and in this way hope ' o securo enough Republican votes to elect ono Senator a Democrat. - The leading committees of Con - gress aro preparing for the work of the next session. The Island possessions will call for wisest counsel and action. Tho Nicaragua canal bill, passed by the House at the last session, wit.' como up in the Senate the first week. Leg islation for the army and navy will be very important. There will be work enough to call out the best that is in the members. - At Bartow, Fla., John Carter and Oliver Moody, two turpentine mon, be came involved at their camp over a woman, to whom both were paying at tention. Thoy agreed to fight it out with guns and, deliberately planning for the duel, fired simultaneously. When the smoko cleared away it was found that tho aim of both men had been true and that both were killed in stantly. Officers were sent for bnt there is no evidence that there were any other parties to tho affair before or daring the shooting. STATE NEWS - Clinton is boring nu artesian well, j - A Catholic convent ia being built at Florence. - Another rieb gold mine is being opened in Saluda county. - Smallpox has a pp o ure d at Danta 1er in Oraugoburg county. - A lumber trust ha.-, ben; organ ized to control all the timber in South ' Carolina. j - Tho Port Royal dry dock is in bad condition and it will take $(?,000 to re- ! nair it. - T. Q. Donaldson, Jr., ol this State, has been "promoted Iront lieutenant 1 ? captain in tho regular army. He is ut Fort Kiley. Kan. - The executors of the hilo Govern or Ellcrbo have sent tho attorney gen eral a cheek for $213.13, the amount the Governor was found to be due the State penitentiary. - Another big mill is to bu estab lished in Spartnuburg county. It is to be at Inman and the new mill has some of the most prominent citizens of Spnr tauburg and elsewhere backing it. - There aro several hundred negroes abont Beaufort who are drawing pen sions to the amount of about $20,000 front the United States government, for alleged services during tho war. - Burglars entered the store of J. B. Gilliam, at Lees, Harnwell county, aud blew open the safe with dynamite, wrecking tho office. The robbers se cured $50 in money nod $20 in stamps. - Horso stealing is becoming quite prevalent nrottud Sparenburg. Sev eral persons have had their horses sto len just lately and tho thieves have not been caught nor the horses recov ered. - ll. W. Anderson, of Annapolis, Md., and Miss Julia Lincberger, of Gastonia, accidentally met tn Lau rens on Monday, became acquainted, and on Wednesday were married in Columbia. - Columbia is arranging for the en tertainment of tho State reunion ol Confederate veterans, /which organi zation will meet there in May. Co lumbia wants to do the thing right, and iias started in time. - The report of the State dispensary ! for tho quarter ending August .'ilst, which was tiled with the Governor Tuesday, shows a net profit of $2.">, ? 270.30. This amount passes to the credit of the school fund. - Henry Buggs, a thirteen year old son of Mr. nut! Mrs. K.L. Hoggs, was struck by a falling tree on the 8th in stant, three miles above Newry factoty, while hauling a load of cotton to the gin, and died on the 13th instant. - Mr. Houston Joyner, of Eustnvor. Richland county, shot nttd killed his brother-in-law, Wash Hodges. Mr. Joyner went to Columbia and surren dered to the sin rill". All old feud seems to have been the cause of the killing. - A Greenville tuan has invented a burglar-proof padlock to which ho has applied the principles used in combi nation locks, and ho has inado it such a valuable invention, that his patent has comma i>ied large offers from man ufactures* - Hon. John A. P. Lancaster, of Glenn Springs, gathered his Bweet po tatoes last week and made 500 bushels. Tho variety is tho bunch or vineless yam which ho considers the best and which command tho highest price on the market. - Tho Governor of Maryland has appointed a commission to look into the matter cf having that. State make an exhibit at the Charleston exposition. That commission has addressed^ strong appeal to the people of that State in the interest of ?he exposition. - The Clemson tenra defeated the Virginia Polytechnic team in a game of foot ball at Charlotte last Saturday. To-morrow Clemson closes Jin season by a game with the University of Ala bama team at Birmingham. Clemson has not lost a gamo this season. - A party of New York and Boston capitalists have been making a tour of the South Carolina mills in which they are interested. This party re presented about 8100,000,000 and were in charge of Dr. M. V. Richards, land and industrial agent of tho Southern Rail wn>'. - Tho Court of Common Fleas, which is in session at G ree ti wood, was interrupted by fire Wednesday. Thc tiro originated in thc basement, and when discovered had burned?through tho floor of the grand jury room. It was promptly extinguished with a loss not exceeding $100. - Tho corner stone of tho Charles ton Exposition Building will bc laid December ll. Tho speakers will ho Governor Mcsweeney, Governor Cand ler, of Georgia, and Senator Tillman. A pnrty of twelve prominent gentle men from New York, including archi tects, newspaper men and magazine writers, will attend tho ceremonies. - Henry Williams, a farmer of Pick ens county, who was in Greenville the other day, is hale and active, with ? remarkable history. Ho Z?R 03 y.>ars old, never ?rank any liquor in his life, never uttered an oath, never used to bacco in any form, was never Vated or never sued any one; married twice, now a widower, keeps house and does his own cooking, manages his own farm and says ho oxpects to live to bo 100 years old. He raised eight chil dren, and tho youngest, 50 years old, was with him. Five of his sons wero in the Confederate army t*nd two wore killed in battle. Antun Items. Wo have had some, rather wann weather tor tho season. Kain hos chocked tin- progress of wheat and ont sowing. Miss Josephone Richey has gone on nu extended visit to friends and rela tives in Abbeville County. Thanksgiving Day will soon bc here, and quite a number of our people are anticipating a fine day's hunt. This may be a very practical way of exhib iting our thanks, but it seems that this would inculcate a very unthankful mood in the game kingdom. Arnold Uro?, gave a graphophone and moving-picture entertainment on Factory hill last week. We will have a most beautiful and - attractive moving picture when Mr. I John ll. and one of Wild Hog's most dazzling helles unite in matrimony, which will bu very soon. "Against slander there isno defence" says our friend. <>, what an awful world this would bo if wc were left at: the mercy of ?ithers. Drawn up by this one, or thrown down by that one, with no possible means of resisting either. That we must accept whatso ever is luccted unto us with no knowl edge of a plan whereby wo might ex act justice. To imagino such unmeth odical conditions is absurd. We could with equal propriety, say: "Against stealing there is no defence." Which would bo beyond absurdity. True, against the act of stealing wo aro de fenceless. We have no adequate means of becoming proof positive against thieves. Hut should such an overt act bo propagated against us, there is a tribunal to which we can re sort, and bring tho culprit faco to face with justice. So, UIBO, if wo mistake not, there is on tho statutes a law against slander. Therefore, wo are not absolutely defenceless against this cri.ie. Uar opponent says our friends and enemies, by tattling, eau imprint a blot on our lives that can never be erased. How absurd! It is ont own acts that stamp unerasable blots. It is an utter impossibility for anyone, by a word, to form a blot that will eliugto you or tuo "never to be erased." It is truth alone that makes tiuerndicatiou. Au error will soon disappear forever. "Truth, crushed to earth shall rise again; The eternal years of Cod aro hers; Hut error, wounded, writhes in pain, And dies among his worshipers." Tattling words, unless libero is truth tit tho bottom ol! thom, canlform no hurtful imputation. Wo hopo wo have made it clear that wo are not defence less against slander, and with hret wishes, iemaiu, Hon AMATEUR. - mmm c - - Neal's Creek [Items. Kev. ?. J. Copeland lilied his pulpit us usual last Sunday and preached an excellent sermon. Tho rain came [on and it seemed that we had to swim rather than rido homo. Tito farmers are now busy sowing small grain. Miss Allie Major and mother have re turned from Atlanta, whero the latte j had been to have her eyes treated. Among the visitors here last Sunday were Miss Julia Gray, of Anderson, Mr. Jesse Gordon, of Duo Wost, and Mr. James King, of Possum Kingdom. Misses Dorn and Mary Copeland? of Cedar Grove, worshipned hero Sun day. Mr. Clarence Smith, who bas been very sick, is improving. The school at this plac?is still im* proving under the management of Miss Anderson. Cotton will all soon be picked out. Well, cotton has gono up to ten cents again, and our farmers aro selling it fast. Ono of our boys says ho is going to get him a cook for next yenr. Look out, girls ! Mr. Jack Poore, of Big Creek, was in our section recently. There must bo somo attraction over here for Jack. We are all well. Oui HILL. Burned to Death. Saturday evening about i? o'clock, Mr. Donald McQueen, a well known citizen ot Columbia, was lying in bis bed room reading by tho light of a lamp. Ho fell asleep and his wife went in tn gee what he waa doing and find ing him asleep turned tho light down und lett him. Ten minutes afterwards the lamp exploded and Mr. McQueen was burned in such a horrible manner that ho died Sunday afternoon. Mr. McQueen was a native of North Carolina, but had. lived in Columbia for 28 years and was freight agent for tho South Carolina rnilway for moro than 20 years. Miss Helen Gould says wealtb'is a great responsibility. And so is poverty. At least, wo have heard as much inti mated by those who are in n posi t ion to How's This. We ofter Ona Hundred Dollars reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot bo cured by Ilsll'? Catarrh Cure. " ? _ We, the undersigned haye known ?. - . Cheney for tho last 15 Tears, and hnll??? Kl;?. psr?K?y Honorable In all business transactions and finan cially able to carry out?ay obligations made by their firm. . _ . . _ Wurr 4 TKCAX, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. WxtDiK". KiHHAJf 4 Ummftm, Wholesale Druj oiata To??jdo, O. " Hall's Catarrh cure la taken Internally. aeUnz directly upon the blood and mueoua surfaces of the system. TesUmontals sent free. Bold br IlrtiiMrUta. .?s. Eall'a ?'iaiuT pUhJiMCibe beat.