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ANDERSON, S. C, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1901. VOLUME XXYVT?NO m That 25 Per Gent Is certainly bringing business to os? Crowds of people have been in to look and buy. They find that what we advertised is true, and they are taking advantage of the saving. You save $3.60 on a $10.00 Suit of Clothes. 'Worth sav ing, isn't it 1 Or for 75c. you get $1.00 worth o? Clothing during this Sale. ' $ 5.00 Suits, 25 per cent off, S 3.75. 7.50 Suits, 25 per cent off, 5.63. 10.00 Suits, 25 per cent off, 7.50. 12.50 Suits, 25 per cent off, 9.38. 15.001 Suits, 25 per cent off, 11.25. Our Odd Trousers come in this Sale also at the same cut. Good time to get a new pair. $6.00 Trousers, 25 per cent off, $4.50. 5.00 Trousers, 25 per cent off, 3.75. 4.00 Trousers* 25 per cen^ off, 3.00. 3.00 Trousers, 25 per cent off, ' 2.25. 2.50 Trousers, 25 per cent off, 1.88. You can't afford to let this opportunity pass without an investigation. Come in and see if what we say is true. It will take only a few minutes of your time. THE SPOT CASH CLOTHIERS. WHITE FRONT. When you are buying a Vehicle that life depends on at times, buy a good one. If you don't know what maker to chooselfrom, buy from a reliable dealer whose word is his reputation. I have a splendid assortment of light-speeding WAGONS, FAMILY CARR? ACES, FANCY TRAPS, Aud are made by the best manufacturers, at prices that will! surprise you. J Come to see me. JOS. J. FRET WELL. DONT FAIL TO SEE Now being shown by the Evans' Pharmacy. All kinds, all prices. Huyler's Candies-Fresh. Get the first look and you will find what you-want. EVANS' PHARMACY. SOME BARGAINS ! I HAVE A FEW PU80S. Of tho very highest grade and latest style*, TO GO AT COST' FOR A FEW DAYS. This is an opportunity of a life-time. niSW*?et^]^^Amprov5d ballbearlnR SEW HOME BISWIHO Hl> t!trH - Vibrator Standard Machine only $28.00. ORGANS'CHEAP. M. !> WILLIS, [South Mafn Street, Andtmou, S. O. FROM THE NATION'S CAPITAL. From Our Otcn Correspondent. Washington, D. C, Jan. 28,190?. The ?bip subsidy bill will pas? tit this session or there will be an extra session to-consider it. There is no longer any real do?ut ul iiiia. , 1 he extra session, 1 however; will not be called to consider this matter. If it is found that the ship subsidy bill cannot pass, one or mon appropriation bills will probably also be held up on one pretext or an other and permitted to fail and tho extra session will be called to consider thciu, thus freeing the President from the unpleasant task of summoning Congress to give away Government money. If it should be thought better not to block an appropriation bill, the extra session will be called to consider the Cuban constitution or to pass laws for the Philippines as soon as the Su premo Conrt shall have handed down its decision. There will be plenty of pretexts, and on whichever one the callis based, Congress will be free to take np the shipping bill. The eager ness of the subsidy hunters to get their job voted on is discovered to be due to the fact that its chief beneficiary, the International Navigation Company, will get a bounty on two vessels, ag gregating 24,520 tons, now building, if the bill is passed before the vessels are completed, but will not get so much if the ships are completed before the bill is passed. Under the Act of 1801, Sena tor Frye states, this company got an nually on extra sum.of $757,000 on four ships, but under the bill now being pushed it would get on the same ships $1,190,000. On its whole fleet of ships the company would get, it appears, a bonus of $3,882,024 yearly for being so good as to continue in a profitable business?this, too, without undertak ing to give additional facilities to our commerce, either in character of ser vice, number of trips or lower rates. An obligation is imposed on the com pany in the bill to build 12,000 tons of shipping in this country, but this seems to be a sham obligation, since the ves sels already under construction here? if not completed too soon?can bo need to offset the statutory obligation. Of course the same end could be obtained by delaying the completion of the ships until the summer of 1902 and passing the bill next winter, but the company is unwilling to let the extremely profi table trade of the next year pass with out being able to use its new ships, although Mr. Hanna states they are now run at a loss. The enemies of General Miles, who include pretty nearly all the members of the staff department of the army? the men who were so bitterly scored by him for dereliction in duty during the Spanish War?as well as the mem bers of the embalmed beef ring, re cently congratulated themselves that they were to have their revenge at last. The army bill had been sent to conference so drawn that it would be possible for the President acting under it to degrade General Miles and appoint the incompetent Otis as Lieutenant General of the Army. Unfortunately for them, they talked too much of their coming triumph and the conference committee amended tho bill so ac to block the little game. The bill now reads: "Nothing in this Act shall be held or. construed so as to discharge any officer from the regular army or to deprive him of the rank or commission which he now holds therein." This provision, as amended, will require tho appointment of General Miles as Lieu tenant General of the United States Army. The provision ob originally inserted in.the act omitted the word "rank." As Lieutenant General Miles has no commission as "lieutenant gen eral," merely a certificate assigning him to tho rank as the senior major general, the President would have had the power to have nominated any offi cer he saw fit to this office as created by the proposed law. The idea was to appoint Generals Otis and Brooks, re tire them and then appoint General Corbin Lieutenant General. Another session of Congress is nearly at an end without any attempt even being made to correct the outrageous ills that the country is suffering from the knocking out of tho Interstate C< mmerce Act by tho courts somo two oi three, years ago. As matters stand now, tho railways can make and un mako rates at their own sweet will, and they do not hesitate to exercise tho privilege. Statistics in tho possession of the Interstate Commerce Commis sion show that 1,717 changes in classifi cation mado by carriers during the year, 1,589 produced raises and only J28 reductions. In over half, the in crease was over 40 per cent., and in less than one twenty-fifth it was as little as 15 per cent. In a number of coses the rates were doubled, while the average increase was nearly third. By these changes in classification, there fore, rates upon a considerable part of freight traffic in all portions of tho United States, many of them applying on the most common articles of mer chandise, wero very materially ad vanced. These changes were admit tedly made, not because of any ine quality in th? ?laisi?cat?ca bat simply because the railways had determined to increase their revenues. There waa no claim of any unusual need of reve nue. Not for years had traffic been so heavy or gross receipts so large, bnt it was insisted that the coat of operation had been enhanced and net revo- j nues would therefore bo decreased, j Comparisons show, however, that ope rating expenses were less in proportion to earnings and not profits were greater in the fiscal year ending J une, 1000, than they have been for any year In tho last ten. Slili, the Republican Congress takes no action. Tho Uoniihlicn-? press baa ?uy? re markably silent editorially in regard to the disgraceful language that passed between Senators Hawley and Chand ler on the floor of the Sesate recently, in which tho former denounced the ! latter as a liar and tho latter declared j that the former was senile. Had Southern Senators beeu concerned Ja this discreditable episode every Re publican newspaper in New England would have gone into hysterics over it, and newspapers of the same faith in every other part of the country would I have preached homilies ou "planta-1 tion" manners. As- it is no remon strance has escaped from these sources, and they have been just as dumb over it as they have been over the lyIlch ings in Indiana, Colorado and Kansas. The Chickamauga Shaft Commission. Yesterday afternoon' there was a meeting of tho Chickamauga Monu ment Commission in the executive chamber at the capital. Gov. McSwec ney, Gen. Walker, Gen. Floyd, Col. J. Harvey Wilson and Mr. Henderson werQ present. The commission was in session several hours. Tho work on the South Carolina monument and the markers for the Chickamauga battlefield wnsreported all done, except the bronze palmetto tree, which cap? the large monument. This last is well under way and will soon bo casts All will bo shipped and erected in ample time. The day for tho unveiling wns fixed for Monday, May 27, 1001, tho day be fore the Memphis reunion commences. The veterans attending tho Memphis reunion will have the opportunity of taking part in the ceremonies. It is proposed that the trains carrying the veterans and others attending, cither to the Memphis reunion or the unveil ing ceremonies only, will leave this State on Sunday afternoon and arrive at Chattanooga on Monday about 7 o'clock. After time for breakfast there the trains will be run dowu to Lyttle'a station, which is about half a mile from th? position of the South Carolina monument. The trains will return to Chattanooga in the afternoon and the visitors will either go on to Memphis or return borne. . The railroads will be asked to sell tickets from Friday, so as to allow any who wish to go in advance to do so. The following order of exercises has been decided on : Gov- McSweeney presides and opens tho moating and after prayer by the chaplain of tho South Carolina devision ?tho Rev. Dr. Thornwell?the gover nor will state tho object, etc., of the gathering. Historical address by Gen. C.Irvine Walker, commander of the South Caro lina division United Confederate Vete rans, and one of South Carolina's gal lant officers, who served on the battle field. Address by Senator D. S. Henderson. Address by Representative (Col.) J. Harvey Wilson. Address by Gen. (now Bishop) Elli oon Capers. Unveiling by four young ladies, one representing each Kershaw's brigade, the Tenth and Nineteenth South Caro lina regiment, the Twenty-fourth South Carolina regiment and Culpepper's battery. Gov. McSweeney will then turn the monument over to the Chickamauga Park Commissioners and it will be re ceived by Gen. H. V. Uoynton, chair man. Arrangements had been perfected to lay the cornerstone in advance of the unveiling, by the. Grand Lodge A. F. M. of Georgia, but the committee de cided that there would hardly be time for the proper Masonic ceremonies and it was decided that they would he obliged to omit this function. Tho Senate and House of Representa tives of South Carolina were invited to take part in tho ceremonies Lad tho formal invitation will bo extended by the chairman and secretary. Invitations to tako part in the cere monies wMl in due time be extended to all the citizens of .South Carolina, .to the veterans of South Carolina, and to Gen. Gordon and all the United Con federate veterans and to tho South Caroliua Congressmen. A special invitation will be sent tho South Carolina volunteer troops, through Gen. Floyd. Itis hoped many companies will bo enabled to bo pres ent on this spot sacred to the valor and bravery of their fathers. Gov. Candler, of Georgia, will also bo invited. The Chickamauga and Chattanooga Military Park Commission will be most cordially invited. All arrangements which could bo made at this meeting of the com mission have been mado and everything prom ises a most successful occasion. . South Carolina, through tho' liberality of her Legislature, pluces in eternal form tho tribute to her sons who fought and died at Chickamauga.?State, Jan. 26. ? Camden, is vi eing with Aiken as a winter resort and tho record for this reason is very encouraging. STATE NEWS. ? More than four million dollars arc on deposit in tho four banks of Green ville. ? Greenwood County is on her good b?luivior, as there is but one trans gressoi in jail. ? An inexhaustible tiutury of tho finest marble lias been found at Cross Keys, Laurcns county. ? Two vessels sailed last week from Georgetown with over a million feet of Carolina lumber consigned to Hos tou. ? The press of the State was nearly unanimous in its opposition to the bill I extending tho time for the payment of t taxes. ? Owing to tho good financial condi tion of the State Fair Association, a State appropriation will not bo need ed this year. ? The Excelsior Knitting Mill of Union will shortly double its sizo. It will then be the largest mill of its kind in the South. ? Gen. J. W. Moore has been elect ed to tho State senate to succeed \V. H. Mnuldin, deceased. General Moore has before served in the senate. ? Oconoe is ono of tho smallest coun ties in tho Stute. Under Senator Shcppard's bill it gains a representa tive, giving it three. Edgetield loses ono. ? Tho Vesta mills of Charleston will bo move to Gainesville, Ga. This was a mill that experimented with negro labor and found it unsatisfactory in tho cotton mill. ? W. C. Flonniken, a very promi nent young business man nnd society leader of Columbia, accidentally shot and killed himself while getting ready to go bird hunting. ? For many years there has been au iuter-denomiuational church ou Sul livan's Island, all using it. Recently the government has bought tho pro perty and the island has no church. ? The city council of Charleston sent condolences to London on hearing of the Queen's death. Her message to Charleston on tho earthquake calamity is fondly remembered in Charleston. Members of her family visited Char leston iu 1880. ? President McKinley has granted a pardon to John Hognn, who was con victed of forging a postal money order while secretary to tho postmaster of Orangeburg. Ho wns serving n sen tence of two years in the United States penitentiary at Albany. ? The governor has received roports of smallpox in the counties of Dar lington, Beaufort and Newberry, all new. He has followed the usual course nnd referred tho reports to Dr. James Evans of the State Board of Health, with the request that ho look after them. ? The report of tho Secrotary of State is out. A new feature is tho pub lication of tho names of every otlicer from United States senator to notary public, the date of their appointment and the date of tho expiration of their terms. It will provo a great conven ience to all concerned. ? J. C. Chandler, who lives a few miles from Walhalla, is a "gentleman of family." He is 43 years of ago and tho father of eleven children, tho old est being 10 years of age. Mrs. Chan dler is 84 years of age. Four of the children are boys and seven girls?all living, hale and hearty. ? Capt. J. H. Brooke, member oi the house from Greenwood, is a brother of tho Congressman Preotoa Brooks, who caned United States Senator Sum ner, which came near precipitating the civil war a year or two earlier than it commenced. Captain Brooks repre sented Edgefieid in the house in the session of 1805-0, but has not since been a member until this session. ? In view of tho change made in the date for the holding of tho genera) annual reunion of Confederate veter ans at Memphis, Tenn., General Wal ker liaB written the governor suggest ing that the date for the unveiling of South Carolina monument on the bat tlefield of Chickamauga bo changed to May 28. July 1 had been selected as tho date. A stop-over will bo arrang ed for those going to Memphis. ? Wednesday evening, Jan. 23rd, several of Mr. Lowiston Lewis' chil dren who live near Magnolia in Sumter county, were playing together in ono of the rooms of his home, when tho 0-year-old son picked up a gun which was standing in the corner, and point ing it at the crowd, pulled the trigger. Tho gun went off and ono of tho chil dren was killed instantly, nnd another painfully wounded. Of course the little fellow did not suspect tho gun wok loaded. ? The lightning rod swindlers uro abroad in tho land. A reputable far mer in this county has been imposed upon by tho agent of a lightning rod company, who proposed to give him 135 feet of rod if he would pay for a few feet more, nnd induced him to sign a paper upon which other men have since demanded full payment for 145 feet. It is tho old game of se curing a signature to a document which contains a clause underneath in lino typo that repudiates any vrai contract which tji? agent may make. It is a barefaced swindle, nnd farmers ought to bo on the lookout for tho swindlers, who are taking advantage of them by proposing to givo them a lightning rod at a very small cost in order to get their intluonco in tho neighborhood.? Greenville Mountaineer. UENEItAL NEWS ITEMS. ? Tho StaU? of Massachusetts in 181)9 collected $3,330,030.21 from franchise taxes on corporations. ? There arc220 colleges in this coun try that received last year gifta thnt amounted to SU?.?? t:t.:ti?-.>. ? The t?>wn of Glen Flora, Wis., bhs iost been Bold for the sum of $2800 un do; the foreclosure of a mortgage. ? Canada has made great Btridcs iu cotton manufacturing in recent years. It is said that her mills are prospering. ? Tho vnluo of tho Christmas tur keys eaten by tho American people during the late holidays is estimated ! at $5,000,000. ? The Humane Society of Illinois coutemplntes n series of lectures throughout tho State in tho interest of the horse especially, but looking to tho better treatment of all domestic ani mals. ? Cuba will send a representative delegation to Washington and nsk Con gress for a reduction in the duties on Cuban products, but they will probably get nothing except tho trip for their pains, as tho Republican leaders will not consent to a reduction. ? Hartford County, Md., is rejoicing over a bequest of $58,000 for road im provements from William Woolsey, who specified in his will that, the money must bo used in certain amounts on certain roads nnd within a stated time. Mr. Woolsey will have a monument 1 worth tho having. ? Tho idea that people who are con sumptive should be known seems to bo spreading. Tho Philadelphia hoard of health, at its last meeting, discussed i the question of the complusory regis tration of nil cases of consumption. Tho society believes this step will net ns a check to the disease. ? Two weeks ago New Tork City re ported 210,000 cases of grip under treat ment. In tho United States nt that dato two million people were said to bo under the weather with that disease, while 300,000 were laid up with small i pox. Of tho latter less than 300 died, while grip sent 80,000 to tho grave yards. i ? That intellect expands early in tho great west is shown by Miss Belle Fleraming, of Pauls Valley, Ind. T., who is only 1? years old and yet has been admitted to practice law at tho bar of tho United States Court of the northern district of tho territory. Miss Flemming has been amusing herself with Blackstono and Kent since sho i was 11 years old. ? The tallest man living is said to , .be Lewis Wilkins, who is now arous i ing great interest in the science circlcB i of Europe. Wilkins was born on a farm near St. Paul, Minn., in 1874. When ho wob but 10 years old ho meas ured six feet iu height, and now has grown to tho tremendous height of 1071-4 iuchcB?just three-quarters of au inch less than nine feet?and weighs 301 pounds. ? Frog farming is a new industry in Massachusetts. Adjoining the town of Ware a company has leased ten acres, with a running stream, ? series of artificial pools will bo con structed, where the eggs will bo hatch ed and the young frogs cared for dur ing the two years uecossary to fit them for market. Tho demand for frogs 1 comes from colleges nnd medical schools, as well as from restaurants. ? Simultaneously with the agreo ment to give $15,000 to Carson- Ne w nun college of Mossy Creek, Tenn., John I). Rockefeller proposes to give the same amounts to Des Moines, Iowa, 1 and Mercer university, of Macon Ga. ; All three colleges must raiso $00,750 each in subscriptions by Juno 1, of this 1 year. These amounts are to bo paid in 1 four annual installments. Tho propo sitions come through the Baptist Edu cational Society, of Washington, D. C. ? According to Sir Walter Dosant liquid air is the force of tho future. It is an explosive of a most dangerous kind; it may be used as an anaesthetic; ! it may bo used to purify anything. In a word, it is another giant caught, im prisoned and made to work tho will of man. "I have not tho least doubt," Mr. Besant continues, "thnt before many months are past liquid air will be captured by tho inventor and used for the destruction of a whole army many miles distant by tho hands of a drummer boy." ? Because Hiram Adams, nn engi neer on tho Delaware, Lackawannn and Western, was forgotten and left three weeks on a sidetraek the company will be asked to pay a handsome sum in overtime. There had been n wreck on the road that blocked tho lino and in structions wero wired to Adams to lay over aL Hampton Junction, Pa. These he obeyed and when time passed on and ho did not get orders to move, he wont to the hotel and engaged board. Tho days passed into weeks, and thrco weeks from the time the order was given he wob told to come on. ? An old man by the name of Wright, who was aent to the county poor house, at Scottsboro, Ala., last July, because ho was sick, and had no money and no relatives to care for him, had a stroke of good luck last week. Ho had been a soldier in the Union army, and had a claim tor a pension that had been hanging fire for years. Ho had about abandoned all hope of over get ting anything, when ho received noti fication that his pension had been allowed with $4,000 back pay and $72 r?er month for the remainder of his life. Ho immediately walked out of tho poor house to a comfortable home. A Portman Letter. "flaukin," tho contributor of Pied mont, has supplied a text for the lotler of the Portman correspondent. Ho re fers to tin: Child Labor Hill, saying it is better to let it alone until one-half the educational privileges enjoyed by children of tho mill management are extended to children in the country. That is true. The writer has little relatives living in country and town. In Piedmont are two little boys who work or play at pleasure?that is, they work in the mill or p??y with their fellows in the school yard; but tho sad fact is, they prefer working in the mill. The mill work is made so pleasant for them, and tho emolument at tho end of the day is so honorablo that they prefor being little meu to littlo babes. The parents lay no discredit on the mill schools, which are entertaining, and iuvaluablo to children with profession al proclivities, but in their children they see tho woik and tho man out grow the professional student and they I permit the children to work in the mill when they please and "play" in school when they please. The children are remarkably manly, bright, capable. Tho work in tho mill gives a deep col oring tone of efficiency to their charac ter. They see by the silver pieces in their hands on Saturday evening that tho world considers them worth some thing. They feel an honorable estima tion welling up within them. Their minds, by this strong self-homl, is made strong, broad, and capable of re I ceiving instruction. Attending school, they are liberated from the littleness of dependanco upon parents; d?pend ance, even in a child, makes and keeps it little, and its brain faculties narrow. They attend school with this ucw rela tion of largeness, to the world. They have no fear of teacher; they are cquul to tho lesson. Their minds and brains and hands have worked before. They learn iu the manner in which they have worked?with manliness. They again return to work with brain supplied, and brain fiber to digest what they have learned. Tho character of the boys is broadness of mind, solidity of understanding. This character never comes but through independence. Tho child who helps to support itsolf es teems itself a factor in tho world's pro gress. It is tho companion, and not the surf or slave of its parents. Its pa rents respect it because the child re spects itself. The usefulness in the mind aud body of tho child gives it this vast independence which no depend ence upon father and moU-er for a pen ny for a alato and a penny for a book can ever give. Tho child's independ ence is uot rebellion to parents but companionship. As tho child grows tho faculties of tho brain nre enlarged with the strength of tho body. Busi ness is stamped upon the young man from head to toe. Ho brushes with his employers manifesting an ease not in consistent with the ethics of the best "finishing school." No man is his su perior, aud nouo but tho mau of vice his inferior. This is child training of school and mill. None can judge best tho charac ter of work upon a child. If the work disagrees with tho child's mental and physical organization, he will soon say so; if it does not, he will continue in it and bo happy. Ho knows and knows best. If tho mill work disagrees with a child, tho parent is unwise to sond him to mill, but should send him to school, and await tho work till physique and boyhood is better developed. This ar ticle is not written to encourage peo ple in foolishness but to justify the mills in philanthropy. The mill uses no compulsory measure to force a child to work; it is compulsive rather on the other side?by the lovablcness of its school teachers, and the capability of their training. The mill has tho one modern fuult of minding its own busi ness, which Legislators, in their anom alous wny of earning a salary, have not yet learned to do. Ou the contrary, let us see the coun try child. A littlo relative of mine, who is studious, delicate, and far from schools, pines with his soul for the ed ucation ho cannot get. He works as arduously, as willingly as the child in tho mill, but it is farm or domestic work, and brings him nothing at tho end of tho day but weariness. No bright silver pieces iu his hand at the end of the week tells him that his littlo life is worth something. He must re tire feeling that with all his might over work toward which his heart rebels ho has not alter all paid for his food nor begun to pay for hi* clothing, and no doubt with many 'misgivings will ask for tho penny for slate or book. A child in a section of country like this must feel dependent, it owes tho breath of its daily lifo to its parents; it can never repay them; it is humble, fearful; thinks only of manliness as something to bo gained. O, so long time away, and on a road where child hood has been swallowed up in tho wretchedness of humanity aud discon tent. As it grows to manhood tho lit tleness instilled into its youth makes it fearful of enterprises, of progression, lest failure como upon its eltbrts, which would bo duplicating its youth when its efforts were failures then. Tho mothers in tho country are all that save the little fellows aud little ?:irls from growing up dunces. The athcrs want them to grow up learning to work, learning to bo strong; the mothers, true daugutv-s of I??e. firs I woman who ever sinned for knowledge, want them to grow up educated, refin ed. If only, for the sake of these no ble mothers and industrious fathers, some good man would build a mill in evcrv cotton field in the cdui.try! The Intelligences will please ex cuse lack of news this week as the cor respondent has been away from home.