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BY OLINKSC?J?KS & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1901. VOLUME XXXVI -NO. 33. A eiinproonii OUUbLOoi UL 0 Ai r OHLL. This 25 per cent Discount Sale of oura has brought us more business than any sale we have ever had. Each Janu ary we usually have a Cut Price Sale to rid our Stock of Winter Clothing, but Ibis sale has been the most successful of all our January sales. Hore Goods nave gone out of our Store and more new customers is the result. It isn't guess work or chance that has made ibis sale such a success. It's simply our way of doing business that has convinced the people that we are telling the truth about our Goods. They know that there is a genuine reduction when we say so, and they act accordingly. We have always been very careful what we write in our ads, but it has paid us well. People know that what we say is so. We wish to remind you, however, that this Sale won't last much longer, and if you wish to take advantage of the saving you had better hurry, $ 5.00 Suits and Overcoats now $3.75. 7.50 Suits and Overcoats now* 5.63. 10.00 Suits and.Overcoats now 7.50. 15.00 Suits and Overcoats now 11.25. This is a good time to get acquainted with our Boys' Clothing. Such a large and well-selected Stock of Seasonable Boys' Clothing as we are now offering at 25 per cent less than regular prices is something very unusual-something that every parent of a boy or boys of from 3 to 16 years should take right home to .themselves. $5.00 Knee Pants Suits now $3.75. 4.00 Knee Pants Suits now 3.00. 3.00 Knee Pants Suits now 2.55. 2.00 Knee Pants Suits now 1.50. THE SPOT CASH CLOTHIERS. WHITE FROMT. If you want to have the best Garden you ever had in your life, try our . New Seed. this year. HILL-ORR DRUG CO I When you are buying a Vehicle that life depends on at times, buy a good one. If you don't know what maker to choose from, buy from a reliable dealer whose word is his reputation. I have a splendid assortment o\ light-speeding WAGONS, FAMILY CARRIAGES, FANCY TRAPS, [and are made by the best manufacturers, at prices that will pirprise you. Come to see me. _ -, . U JOS. J. FRET WELL. H SOME BARGAINS ! EggSSn I M fl If C ft criai p'*"*.? B? TTHHHflff ' ?! th0 VPry "'Shoat arad* and lateat stylos, ^?*T^H^^^ Thia Ia an opportunity of a llfo-timo. 'Hl?pe ?Vl??^lnt0^.Lmprove<1 Wl-lwiHbrJBW HOME SEWING Xft> tnr 030. Vibrator Standard Machino oniy $28.00. "ROANA CHEAP. ' . 19. Si. WIldLI?. South MalnStrof t, Anderson. 8. Ct Death of George D. Tillman. COLUMBIA, February 2.-George D. Tillman died this morning at hie home in Edgefield. Funeral to-morrow at Clark's Hill. George D. Tillman was born on tho 21st of August, 1S20, at Curryton. I Edgcfi?m County. Ho was the son of Benjamin Byan Tillman, for whom his brother. Senator Tillman, was named. His mother's name was Sophia Han cock. He received his first education at home, but when quite young ho was sent to an agricnU?ral co!lego at Pen field. Georgia. Afterwards he went to Greenwood, S. C., where he was pre pared by a private tutor for Harvard College, where he remained only for one session. Ho then read law, and was admitted to the Bar in 1847, and the next year opened his law office at Edgefield Court House, und continued the practice of his profession until ; 1860. in 1800 and 1801 he planted and in 1863 he entered the service aa a pri vate and a member of the4th regiment of State troops, and afterwards of the 2d Sooth Carolina artillery, which did splendid service on John's Island. He took part in thu battle of Averysboro and a number of other of the later bat- i ties of the war and several artillery duela, surrendering under Gen. John ston to Gen. Sherman. In 1854 and 1855 he had represented his county in the Legislature, and he said at that time he was considered a French anaichtot because of his fight to abolish the pm ."sh system, his ad vocacy of smaller counties and tho election of Presidential electors and State o iii ce ra by the people. The prin ciples ho advocated then he continued to fight for and, to a considerable ex tent, has seen his views carried ont. In 1864 he was re-elected to the Legis lature while he was in the army, and in 1865 was elected Senator from Edge - Held County. In this year he was largely instrumental in overthrowing the parish system, winning the fight by only ono vote. Ho wns elected to the Constitutional Convention of 1865, whose acts were annulled by Federal bayonets, which also ejected him from his seat in the State Senate. In 1876 he was sent to Congress from his district, and at each succeeding election, until 1893, he was elected to succeed himself. In that year be was defeated by a small vote by the incum bent, the Hon. J. W. Talbert. In 1898 he made an unsuccessful cam paign for ti o vernor.-Neivsand Ooureir. The Sons of Veterans. Col. Walter H. Hunt, commander of South Carolina division, U. S. C. V.f desirer, every camp to have full repre ser/.ation at-the Stato reunion, U.C. Vk, to be held at Columbia on May 8. Tho constitution of the Sons of Veter ans provides for full delegations from every camp in South Carolina to attend i the reunion in this year. Columbia is j a delightful place for such a gathering, its central location is convenient for all and in addition to these considerations, Commander Hunt begs the sons of veterans not to forget the great re sponsibilities that devolve upon them in this matter. The Sonth Carolina monument on the Chickamauga battlefield will be unveiled on May 27 and the grand re union of the U. C. V. of the entire old Southland begins tho next day at Mem phis. Gen. C. I. Walker,commanding the South Carolina division, U. C. V., extends a cordial invitation to the sons of veterans for this great and interest ing occasion. Gen. Walker especially desires tho sons of veterans to accom pany their honored and heroic fathers on thia journey and to take part in the exercises and ceremonies of the day. Commander Hunt is glad to extend this invitation to every member of his division and to nrge as many as possi ble to bo with him and his s tail at Co lumbia, Chickamauga and Memphis. Col. Hunt will much appreciate such publicity as the Stato pi ?BB can con veniently give this matter. He urges the commanders of every camp in the State to begin work now, oh these several matters. Any com munication addressed to Commander Walter IL Hunt, Spartan burg, S. C., or to his adjutant and chief of staff, ! Col. J. E .Norment, Darlington, S. C., ' will receive immediate attention. $60,000 for a Horse. NEW YORK, Feb. 1.-Sixty thousand dollars was the price paid for the great stallion Hamburg by William C. Whit ney at the salo here in Madison Square Garden. Thia ia the second highest price ever paid for a horse at a public auction in this country. Tho highest was $100,000 paid by Charles Bced for St. Blaise a few years ago. St. Blaise was a failure. John ?. Maddin did the bidding for Mr. Whitney. There had been rumors that James R. Keene and Mr. Whitney would fight for possession of the turf wonder, therefore when Hamburg wns led into tho ling things began to hap pen early. "Forty thousand dollars," sang out Madden. Juba mucky seated next to J. B. Hag gin and taking orders for him, bid $41,000. Madden curled his mustache, raised his hand r<nd called ont : "Forty five thousand!1' There waa another lr.ll and Mackey raised him $1,000. Madden retorted with $47.000. ?.And Til give $50.000." said Mackey. "Andl'll.givo $56,000," replied Mad den. Afterward ho raised th a bid to $00,000 and Mackey quit. STATE NEWS. - Slot pacbinca h wo been seized I by thc police of Charleston as gam bling machines. - Joo Munday, tho noted evangelist, formerly a showman, is holding a meet ing in Florence. - Mrs. Jennie Crane died nt her homo in Pickcns County on thc 27th ult., aged 104years. - A car load of telephones, mado by tho Sumter Telephone Manufacturing Co., has been shinned to Cuba. - Tho Governor of Maryland has appointed a strong commission to ro prebent tho State at the Charleston ex I position. - The first, term of the United States Court at Florence under tho new Act of Congress will be held at that place, beginning March 5. - The Sumter Cotton Mills, Sumter, have declared a four per cent, semi annual dividend. The report for tho year shows net earnings of 18* per cent. - Dr. A. P. Montague, the president of Furman University, was the first man to send a contribution to Wofford College to rebuild her alumni ball i which was destroyed by fire. - A marble quarry is in operation hear -Cross-Keys, - Union county, and the quality of the marble has been pro nounced by experts to bo of the best. The supply is said to he enormous. - A franchise has been granted by tho city council of Union toT. C. Dun can and associates to build an electric railway in that city. Work is to com mence by July 1,1001, and bo finished i in a year. - Columbia is to have a new ten story, steel frame office building, like unto the sky-scrapers of New York and Chicago. This is only one of the many evidences of tho rapid growth of the capitel city. - At Camden between March ll and 14 there will bo a grand polo tourna ment, which will take place on tho grounds of tho Camden club. Some of tho most noted polo teams in tho coun try are to take part in the tourney. - W. K. Powers, who killed John Richey in Oconeo county, in 1800, has been taken to the penitentiary for a life time sentence. The circumstances of the killing were peculiarly atrocious. Whiskey was said to be a main cause. - Tho local board of trustees of the recently burned Alumni Hall at Wof ford have decided to rebuild at once. The $5,000 insurance gives them a fund to start with and it is thought the friends of the college all over the State will respond liberally. - The re-union of Confederate Vet eranB and Sons of Veterans, will he ; held in Columbia, May 8. On May 27, the S. C. monument at Chickamauga ? will bo unveiled, and a full attendance is desired. On May 28, the great Con ! federate re-nnion will be bold at Mem I phis. - A deplorable accident is reported from Magnolia, Sumtertouuty. Albert, tho 0-year-old son of Mr. Lewiston Lane, got hold of a gun, thought to be unloaded, and while playing with the other children aimed it at the baby, pulled the trigger, blowing off tho hack part of the child's hoad and pain fully 'wounding another child. - ""he Confederate Home and Col lege Association, of Charleston, met last week in the 83rd annual session. Thia Association m ai ut DB a home and j school for the daughters of deceased or indigent. Confederate soldiers. About 42 girls and 20 widows of soldiers are given a homo there, and education is I given those outside. The expenses for ! the past year were $4,254,67. - The twenty-fourth Annual State I Convention of South Carolina Young ' Men's Christian Association will bo ? held at Sumter, February 14 to 17th instant. All delegates will he enter tained by the good people of Sumter, : and tho Railroads will give reduced ! rates. All Christian men will be gladly welcomed whether members of the Association or not. S -Mr. W.C.Roberts, of Buffalo Town ship, came to the office of the County Treasurer to file his application for a pension. Mr. W. C. Roberts, of West Wateree, came into the same place at the same time for tho pnme purpose. Both men eyed each other, the recog nition wan instantaneous, 11 xcy shook hands for tho first time sinc.3 they enme out of prison in 1805. Both were captured in tho same battle, and were confined in the same prison. Both ap plications went before tho Board of Pensions and both applications were approved at tho same time.-Camden Messenger. - A little, ragged, dirty, typical negro boy was riding an old wornout, broken down mule that wouldn't trot if a locomotive were to push it along. The hoy held a bundle in his hand and ' was using his coat as a saddle. Tho mulo had almost stopped in tho muddy Street and in his efforts to coax the the animal ho dropped his bundle and j his coat fell into the mud bei ow. A I prominent hank president of Green ville was on the street nearby at tho time and noticed tho discomfiture of the black African. With Lae kind and tender heart, characteristic of a true Southerner, this moneyed man waded through mnd and with tho same mo tive ho .-ould have had had he been waiting on President McKinley handed thia little coon bis bundle, assisted him arranging his coat und with tho aid of a switch managed to coax the mal? on. Thia act of the well known bank presi dent is worthy of imitation.-Greenville Wcics. UENEUAL NEWS ITEMS. -- Tho Southern railroad company has secured control of tho Mobilo and Ohio road. - Indiana towns are making war on negro vagrants, and not encouraging j negro citizens. - Tho Tenuessee legislature has ? passed a bill to prohibit the co-cduea- j tion of thu races. - Tho City Council of Omaha, Neb., has offered a reward of (5,000 for Pat j Crown, the kidnapper, drud or alive, ' making the price on Crowe's head now $18,000. - Because an engineer was asleep live poisons wero killed, ono fatally injured, and thousands of dollars w . th of property destroyed in a wreck on tho Baltimore and Ohio railroad. - Four hundred textile milis were established in this country last year. This is moro than double the annual average for tho past eight years, and is 40 per cent, above the record of 1892. - Reports from Kentucky cities aro to the effect that tho State is being flooded with raised c5 bills, lu Louis ville nearly all tho banks have been swindled by the raising of a $1 silver certificate to $5. - There comes a story from Cleve land, (>., that a rheumatic in that town Who could barely walk took to his heels and can like n deer when ho was held up by footpads, and since then he claims that he is free of his malady. - Cigarette smoking is a sufficient ground for divorce in Wisconsin. In Milwaukee tho other day a woman do ! manded a divorce on the plea that her husband was an excessive smoker of cigarettes and tho court granted tho decree. - Ono of the measures before the Legislature of North Carolina provides that all criminals condemned to capi tal punishment shall bo removed from the county jails, immediately upon conviction, to the Stato penitentiary to await tho execution of their sentence. - In North Carolina al"'ll has been introduced in tho Senate to create a Stato Board for tho examination of barbers, like medical or pharmacy boards. Tho bill contains provisions regarding tho prevention of contagious diseases at barbers' hands, lt was referred to tho committee on public health. - Tho farmers of Woodstock, Ga., aro battling with an army of crows, numbering thousands, mid the battle is going on day and night. It takes them only a short time to devour a field of wheat, and tho farmers say they will have to be destroyed before spring or there will bo no corn raised in that section. - The Now York World claims to have secured an interview with Agui naldo in which he Rays ho will not trust tho American people any more, since Dewey, Otis ar-?' other American Generals have violated their solemn promises to tho Fi lippi nos. He says the war will last "till his peoplo win their independence. - The o?ate Suprome Court of Ohio has affirmed tho constitutionality of the Act authorizing county commis sioners to regulate the width of wagon tires according to the loads carried. Aoting under its provisions the prose cuting attorney of Wyandot County sued a violator. The Court of Com mon Pleas declared the Act unconsti tional, but this decision was overruled in the Supreme Court. - Queen Victoria is said to have been profoundly religious. She believed in the efficacy of prayer. She was a rega lar Bible reader, and frequently used a well-worn Bible that belonged to Gen. Gordon, and was presented by his sister to tho Queen, who acknowledged tho gift in an autograph letter. At the same time she did not permit her religious convictions to influence tho subtle intricacies of Statecraft. - The Daughters of the Confederacy and the Forrest Statue association of Memnhis, Tenn., are disylaying great energy in securing subscriptions to the monument proposed to be erected in that city to Gen. N. B. Forrest, tho great cavalry general. It is hoped at least to huvo tho cornerstone laid be fore tho coming annual reunion of tho United Confederate Veterans in that city. Subscriptions to tho monument aro coming in daily, and there is pos sibility that tho legislature may make an appropriation to help tho enterprise. - Prof. Robert Gersuny, an eminent surgeon of Austria, is credited with an important discovery in tho scientific world, It consists of tho uso of a mix ture of paraftiue and vaseline in curing physical deformities, and filling in cavities caused by thc removal of por tions of bones. Tho mixture is inject ed beneath tho epidermis at a temper ature of 104 degrees; it hardens quickly and is said to bo in no way harmful to the blood. It has been successfully used infilling out hollows in the human frame and concealing deformities of tho face. -? Th ero was plenty of fun at a poul try shew held at Wilkcsbarre last week. During tho absence of the Superinten dent a mischief-maker fed the ducks with whiskey soaked corn. They nat urally became intoxicated and pro ceeded to engago in a desperate com bat. The uproar excited all of tho fowls in tho neighborhood of the drunken ducks and for j**vinio it waa feared that the show would have to end. But tho ducks wero soon sub dued nnd after some bromo seltzer had been mixed with tho driuking water they be carno as peacetui m, ever? Compliment to Gen. Hampton. A few day? ago Gen. Wade Hamp- | ton received the following lotter ac companying which waa a beautiful marble bust '>r hiinsdf; tho bust is I now exhibition at the request ot* the j friends of the general at the Columbia Dook company's store in the Y. M. C. A. building; tho compliment is one that the general and his Friends appreciate: My Dear General : Those win? served with, you in tho i'niied States senate, desiring to give expression t. their high personal re*, ml, and to their sin cere appreciation of those elements ol' J character-which have endeared you to them, have by to-day's Adams express, forwarded to yoi. a marble bust which wo hope you will accept as a testimo nial of our carr est friendship and high personal esteem. It is intended to rep resent you ns wo knew you about the date of your retirement from the Uni ted States senate. We. believe tho art ist has thoroughly preserved in mar ble thu kind, genial and manly features that were so familiar to us in the days long gone by and which we value so highly. With the hopo that your useful lifo may bo spared for many years, and that your wiso counsel may, in the fu ture as in tho past, be given and listen ed to by tho people of your section, ? remain as ever, Your sincere friend. Chas. J. Faulkner. Mr. Faulkner is n United States senator from tho State of West Vir ginia. In thia connection it is worthy of note that the handsome portrait of Gen. Hampton, now in tho State sen ate chamber, was presented to tho Stato by friends of the general in tho United State senate.-Volu nt bia State. Costly Mo.iament. CHATTANOOGA, Jan. 20.-Col. Gar nett Andrews of this city, prominent ns a member of the United Confederate Veteransand well known throughout tho South as one of the foremost law yers of this section, is at work on the details of a plan, which ho will present to tho next encampment of tho United Confederate Veterans, looking toward tho erection of the most costly monu ment in tho United States to commem orate tho valor and fidelity of tho Con federate women. The agitation among Confed?rate Veterans to build a great monument to the Confederate women had its be ginning '-icro on decoration day, two years ngo, when Colonel Andrews, tho orator ot the occasion, made it tho theme of his address. Afterward N. B. ForreBt camp (local) and the general convention at Louisville of United Confederate Veterans approved tho undertaking, but no plan of action was adopted. An Associated Bress reporter called on Colonel Andrews aud requested his views as to tho progress of tho work, thc necessity for it, plans of organiza tion and h: y le of monument. "My idea of whet should be done can be told in a few words. Collect at least $500,000 or more; 1 believe it can be had; no man would refuse for an object so sacred and popular. With it build one monument-not several inferior ones-but one, BO grand in size, rich iu material, artistic in design and execution and faultless in location, that tho world would applaud and thousands would como to revere the memory of so great a womankind, "I believe in a single working ma? clanery with few officers, for expedi tious accomplishment. "An executive head of one to three, tho fewer the better, should be pro vided, with pov/er to appoint sub-olli cers and canvassers. Allow them rea sonable compensation, otherwise they cannot afford to devoto themselves to the work. Get speakers here and there, canvass every county in the South, and, in my judgment, the $500, 000 would be in tho bank within a year." Colonel Andrews stated that ho would prefer to leave tho matter of location of tho monument to the United Confederate Veterans, and that he had no suggestion to mnko in that re spect. The Tide Turning. The tide that has recently turned from the cities and is carrying the peo ple baek to the farms, a tendency in the thought of action of to-day which has been commented on before in tllCFO columns, seems to bo approaching its flood. Everywhere in congested centers tho cry is going up, "Back to the soil." Tho leaders of thought, quick to catch tho drift, aro already endeavoring to account for the chango that is coming over tho people. It is pointed out that tho native born Londoner becomes ex tinct in tho third generation. Com menting on this significant fact, H. Bider Haggard says that "if tho raoo is to thrive and Britain ren.?iri mighty in years to come, say good-byo to towna and get back to tho land which bred your fathers." Henry O'.Lloyd, thc authorof Wealth vs. Commonwealth, now makes tho prediction that cities will entirely dis appear and tho people "he educated back to tho soil again." Such extreme statements, though absurd, emphas'zo tho taming of tho tido and show tim di if I ut opinion. Congestion in great cities undoubt edly tends to swallow up tho individ ual and rob man of his independence of thought and action. It makes of him a machine, dependent upon the mercies and whims of great corpora tions and employers who never come in contact with their employes and, worse than this, places him within thc sphere of temptation in which rum, poor food and all aspects of vice play so important !? part. -AtUintu Kew*. Portman Letter. /.oro weather, sharp winds and bad roads have been tho order of tho past week. Weather and wind of any Hort will from thu iniud ?ore HH it passes from the sky, leaving the mental atmos phere elear; but tho roads -tho memory of bad toads-never. There aro no clear poht, marks or chalk lines about those road?-bet?re or aftor bad weather. In the tirst place there are no roads-only a placo wlmo the roads ought to be, some places a poor attempt even at that, as civil engineering, whether io mathemat ics or in the brain, has made woeful mis takes as to location, making a man and bis vehiole travel twenty miles where they should have traveled fifteen or so, and tediously drawing them over hills where they could as well travel around the foot; but that was-or is-the engi neer's affair and not the business of an Idle wanderer. Speaking of tho roads-what miserable troughs of bogg?, soggy, cloggy clay! What roads for Indians, much leas for white peoplt ! The writer is a stranger to roads of this sort, aud oan truthfully Bay thia portion of South Carolina takes the booby prlza for remarkable roads. With out understanding the loner workings of outer elfects or the private purposes of public creations, and being expressed In wisdom, the correspondent innocently expected an answer to the question: "Who is ht fault for these ronds V : It seemed as If ovory man had his hand pressed against his mouth, lost he should answer, and the foo'.lah questioner found the interrogation bad struck a hornet's nest. The roads and public improve ments seem to bo a closet skeleton, and so many are requlrod to hold the door to lest the odor escape, that it ia presump tions to expect more thau a glance of pa 11otico from tho custodians, Tho ques tioner, therefore, relapses to tho Yankee recreation of "guessing." Men sometimes aro more ashamed to confess to mistakes of judgment than to eirors of action, and from what the writ er can observe, the mistakes expended io the matter of good roads, were they converted into macadam, would supply the country with highways fit for a king. To write further of tboso highways would draw tears from the eyes of suf fers who have had their hearts jolted out through their mouths. A situation; but tuen they have endured it so lons:, and why not continue? Life is as cheap one way as another-by jolts and fresh air as by perpetual seclusion within doora. Portman is the terminus of bad roads in one direction, Anderson in another, and perhaps a few survive that trough of yellow dough at Watkins' Mill, on tho Piedmont road. The electric company hero at Portman are now conveying a piece of machinery from Pendleton, laying and shifting their own plank road in the way beicre the thirty-two horses who unitedly are drawing the load. It ls one-half an arm ature weighing 26,000 pounds, the oth er half, weighing 24,000 pounds, remains at Pendlet*.n for future transportation. An energetic official like Mr. Long, un der the directions of Dr. Orr. will see that future and present shall have as lit tle space as possible between) bat when we think the present piece of maohlnorfr bas been two weeks coming about ?v? mllbs we must be patient and sympa thetic. When the entire machinery is in working order, 1,666 horse power more of electricity will be supplied the mills of Anderson. Tho new school house at Asbury is about finished and calls for the applica tion of a good teacher. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. P. L;ehave return ed from a trip to their home at Piedmont. Mr. W. S. Leo, engineer at Columbus, Qa., and his bride, visited Portman. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Buchanan, cf Autun, remained last Sunday with Mr, and Mrs. William Bolt, Mrs. Buchanan's parents. R. R. L. Prospect Notes. Mr. and Mrs. Kubanks, of Ohio, spent afew days with relatives in our midst last week. Misa (i?rtis and Mr. I. ?vis Sanders vis? i ted friends rioar Belton recently. Miss Ora Browa his returned from a visit t > Townvillo Miases Webb and Miss Per.rl Long, of Flat Rick, wore the guests of Mrs. J. R. E*kew recently. A p'irty of Prospect's young people, consisting of Missos May Campbell, Eu la and Iva Tate, Ella McClain, Sam Campbell and Geo. Tate havo just re turned from a very pleasant trip to Cen tral and Clemson College. The health of the community has been good. Forty-six pupils are in attendance at tho Prospect School. The Sabbath School which meota at 2 p. m. has a good attendance for midwinter* Though many important items may have been omitted, thea? few only have roached SILVIA. - A San Francisco millionaire lins tho credit of paying tho largest sur geon's foo on record for a successful operation for appendicitis. Thirty thousand dollars was this tidy anni, representing uno man's gratitudo to his physician.