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' . 1 "BY CIIINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. c7 WEDNESDAY, FEBR?I?EY?3, 1901. VOLUME XXXVI-NO. 34. Need a. Few men don't. If carefulness in buying is needed any where it's in Hat buying. Perhaps th? shape you've seen on somebody else and admired wouldn't look so well' as som** other shape. "We have che "otho*" shape-we've every want able shape. Come here and try on all the correct Hats, and you are sure to find the one-best suited to you, and find it'll cost you less here than anywhere else, too. Hats from 50c, to $3.00, and at every price between. Evans' $3.50 Shoes for Men. It bas been cur aim to maintain the highest possible standard in these Shoes-to sell a Shoo unexcelled for the price. That we have been successful in doing this is proven by the increasing demand for Evans' $3.50 Shoes. These Shoes are well known by most of the men in this town, and for style, workmanship and service they can't be beat. Bettei? s:ive Eva xis5 $3 SO SI?OE? .A. TEI?L. . 0. Evans & Co, THE SPOT CASH CLOTHIERS. WHITE FRONT. If you want to have the best Garden you ever had in your life, try our New Seed this yeai'. HIL.I ORR DRUG CO T! ?IWhen you are buying a Vehicle that life depends on at ^mes, buy a good one. If you don't know what maker tc choose from, buy from a reliable dealer whose word is hie reputation. I have a splendid assortment of light-speeding WAGONS, FAMILY CARRIAGES, F AftiCY TRAPS, are made by the best manufacturers, at prices th*t will "?rpriseyon. Come to see me. _ JOS. J. FEET WELL. ???Sil SOME JARGAI?S ? ;S?SB I HIVE ? FEW raes. ".4r^)^^^^~ ' i Ol the very highest grade and latest styl.*, ?MLSM |K T0 00 AT COST FOR A FEW DAYS. H^s^SwEB?MT?? This is an opportunity or a life-time. Ho?i"!^have '?tc-O Improved ball-hearing NEW HOME SEWING M> _j "??ES lor $SO? Vibrator Standard Machino only $20.00. : ORGANS CHEAP. M. WILLIS, H ISouth Main Strosfc Anderson, S- <r I FROM THE NATION'S CAPITAL. From Our Own Correspondent. WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. ll, 1901. According to present indications, Congress is preparing to obviate the necessity of an extra session by adopt ing a resolution authorizing tho Presi dent to withdraw tho United States anny ii un?. Cuba and turn the island over to ita own people, as soon as cer tain conditions aro inserted in the new Constitution of the island. These con ditions include grants of nnval stations and formal consent to submit thc exor cise of the debt raising und treaty making powers of tho new government to the supervision of the United States. In other words, the Republicans seem to have about mr.de up their minds that they can do by indirection what they cannot do by direction; they hold that they cannot amend the Cuban Constitution but they insist that they can compel the Cubans to amend it ns this country may desire. This is cer tainly amazing in view of the following resolution unanimously adopted by Congress and signed by President Mc Kinley: "That the United States here by disclaim any disposition or intention to exercise sovereignly, jurisdiction or control over said island, except for tho pacification thereof, and assert their determination when that is com pleted to leave tho government and control of the island to its people." Under this resolution, it is difficult for any honest man to see what either Congress or the President has to do with the matter, further than to make sure that "pacification" has been brought about. The position of the Democrats in Congress, therefore, is that the President should withdraw from the island the moment a stable government has been established, irre spective of whether the United States has gotten all it wants or not. The overwhelming flood of special pension legislation will soon force Congress to take some means of dam ming it. Even Republicans express the opinion that the scope of Congres sional action in such matters had been overstepped entirely, and that under the present practice a pension bureau had been established under the dome of the Capitol. In the present Con gress there have been 2,183 special pen sion bills in the Senate, and with the general bille and Honse bills, the Sen ate Pension Committee had been asked so far to take np about three thousand bills. One Senator has introduced 162 bills and another 145. The business is already ci large as the committee can handle we."I and there is little donbt it will be doubled in the next Congress. This is due U. the fact that tho pension attorneys are advising soldiers that it is easier to get their pensions through Congressional action than through the Pension Bureau. Reference was made in this corres pondence some time ago to tho almost openly avowed intentions of tho Re publicans to resort to gerrymandering in the States receiving increased rep resentation under the new crnsuB, especially in any of which they had obtained temporary control by tho re sults of the Inst election. Few people, however, know how far this method of scouring members to which the Re publicans aro not entitled has already gone in the Northern States, rivaling io its effects, the most wholesale dis f ranchisemen I A negroes for which the South has ever been responsible. For instance, consider the following state ment prepared from official records by a Democratic member of the House: "I find," he Baid, "that a great dis crepancy exists in thc population of certain districts in the United States as compared with those for other dis tricts. I will givo you Homo figures to illustrate what I mean. The Fourth district of California contains 147,042 people, compared wiih 228,042 for the Fifth district; New York, Seventh dis trict, 114,700, abd Fifteenth, 223,838, a. difference of 109,072; Wisconsin, 230, 197 in the Fourth district and 113,455 in tho Fifth, a difference of 122,048; Con necticut, Second district, 248,542, and Third, 121,792, a difference of 120,792; Pennsylvania, Third district, 129,704, > and Fourth, 309,980, a difference of , 180,282; ?Rnois, Third district, 307,792, and Seventh, 130,123, a difference of ; 178,849." > Republicans aro feeling rather blue over tho continued failure of the Leg islatures of Delnwnro and Nebraska to choose Senaturs, and nie beginning to fear that no elections will bo had. In this case, what with the animosities engendered by tho contests, there is, they think, much danger that the States may go Democratic at tho next election and fonr Democrats may be chosen from them to the Senate. All party and personal influences possible to be exerted have been brought to bear on the Republicans members of the two Legislatures to reconcile their differ ences and send four men here to rein force the Republican side of the Sen ate, but unless some very unexpected developments occur, belief is now pre valent thea? appeals wiii not have the desired effect. Persons hero from the Qccnes of both Senatorial conflicts re port thero is no prospect that cither Addrieks in Delaware or Rosewater in Nebraska will permit ah election unies* lin is cse o? the Sonators. The Republicans will have n Inigo majority in the Senate after March 4th, and really do not need the Nebraska and Delnwa* men, but the election of four Dem?crata would he a heavy counter-balance even to their great majority. It is something of a question whether j tho War Department will dare to sus tain General MacArthur in his action of banishing Editor Hice tor maligning an army officer. Tho article on which tho action was based has been received in this city aud contains absolutely nothing timi tho most ardent advocate of Lose Mojeste could consider "trea sonable." It simply criticised tho ac tions of tho port oilicer and charged him with corruption-a charge putiis?. able, if false. ?9 criminal libel. Sena tor Teller has secured the adoption of a resolution calling ou the Secretary of War for information on thc subject. Speaking of tho mutter, Mr. Teller Raid that ho did not wonder that Rico was defiant, knowing Hint there was no law justifying his expulsion. Ho did not know whether Rice's paper had been suppressed, but ho had been credibly informed that fot??' newspa pers had been suppressed in Luzon by tho military authorities. Mr. Teller spoke o? the proceeding ns ono of im portance io uii, for Mr. Rice was a citi zen of the United States aud au offenco against him was an offenco against every other citizen of this country. Using His Pitchfork in the U. S. Senate. WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 0.-Sen ator Tillman, of South Carolina, crea ted a sensation in tho Senate to-day by swearing by the Eternal God he would not permit another pension bill to pass the senate until justice is done an old South Carolina veteran of the Mexican war, who is denied a pension because he rendered aid and comfort to the Confederate government darin g tho civil war. Scnntor Chandler took exceptions to the language of Senator Tillman, crit icizing the house committee on pen sions, when tho "pitch fork wielder" declared there is still sectionalism in congress, and demanded to know if the war is over yet. ''Wo, of the South, want to know if tho struggle is ended," shouted tho irate Senator, as ho uttered oaths to Senator Hale, of Maine, who objected to further debate. Senator Tillman went to Hale's desk and swore ho would "seo them in hell" before any moro pension bills should pass, if he could prevent it. Later he obtained the floor and re iterated his complaint against the house committee and refused to be dis ciplined by Senntor Chandler. Senator Tillman was furious and his speech quickly drew a crowd to the galleries and all senators to the floor. Senator Tillman demanded the re peal of tho law preventing tho pension of veterans of tho Mexican and other wars because they rendered aid to tho Confederacy. South Carolina Pictures. CLEMSON COLLEGE, Feb. 0.-Prof. Lewis is beginning a collection of pho tographs to illustrate tho physical geography and industries of South Carolina. Ile would be glad to have tho co-operation of teachers and others who may be interested in the under taking. It is his purpose to prepare lantern slides of a series of typical views; and ho will be glad to exchange either photographs or lantern slides for characteristic views of any part of the State, particularly such as show the relations of industries to gcogrngh ical conditions. Prof. Lewis would also Uko to have tho ?ames and ad dresses of photographers who offer views for Bale. It is a notorious fact that, for gene rations past, geography has been one of the worst taught subjects in our public ' school cur?enla. It is only within the past decade that scientific methods and principles have been somewhat generally applied to the study and teaching of this subject. Educators are also coming to realize more and more tho fundamental im portance of geography ns a foundation for tho best work in history, languages, and tho "humanities'' in general, as well as tho sciences. In this awakening a revolution is be ing wrought in methods of teaching. Instead of the empirical statement of a vast array of facts to bo memorized, ind to bo straightway forgotten, the true teacher now appeals to tho pupil's reason and understanding. In this work the n*ixt best thing to travelling and seeing tho world itself is tosco faithful representations of it in photo graphs and stcrcopticon viows. Thus it can ho shown graphically how the most elementary knowledge of a region furnishes a key to the understanding of its physical features; and these, in turn, account in a large mensuro for the geographical distribution of re sources and industries. It is this larger conception of South Carolina that Prof. Lewis would set before the schools of the State by the aid of photographs and lantern slides; and this: it is hoped, will pavo the way for the preparation of a rational geog raphy of tho State for use in the schools. Tho work of a geological survey, in dealing with tho knotty problems of age and structure, would greatly facili tate this undertaking in many ways, and it is hoped that snell a survey may soon bo organized and put into opera tion.-D. \V. J), in liewa-anti Courier. STATE NEWS. - Mart Williams, of Blacksburg, was killed by his horse running away. - A much needed oflico has boin created by tho State legislature, that of State geologist. - Three negroes wero convicted of murder in Greenville last week and sentenced to be hung on Mardi 20th. - Philadelphia and Baltimore will erect special buildings and furnish exhibits to tho Charleston Exposition. - Two negroes have been acquitted of arson in Hampton. A few months neo they narrowly escaped lynching for this alleged offense. - There are seven well developed oases of smallpox in tho town of Blncksburg. All patients, with ono exception, aro negroes. - A while man by tho name of Miluui, who killed an old negro man in Lau rens county a few weeks ago and es caped, has boon arrested in Alabama. - Little Mountain, now a part Lex ington county, voted unanimously to sccodo and go over into Newberry county, lt will carry about 1200 acres of land out of tho county. - Tho keepers of blind tigers in Charleston mo much excited nt pros pect of Mrs. Carrie Nation, tho Kansas woman who smashes saloons with a hatchet, visiting Charleston. - Beaufort takes tho cake for tho very shortest engagement on record. Abe Atlas and Miss Etta Farber wore married there week before last after an acquaintance of twenty minutes. - The American Ten Company, which proposes to grow tea for com mercial purposes near Rnutowela, on tho Charleston and Savannah road, is getting matters in shape for tho pre paration of the lands for tho planting of tea. - Thero is living in Sumter County n Confederate veteran who was at Ap pomattox when Gen. Robert E. Leo surrendered, and although this veteran has passed tho scriptual ago of throe score and ten, ho has never eaton ice cream. - A man named Steward, from Phil adelphia, was fatally hurt at tho Olym pia mill, Columbia, Thursday, by tho explosion of a steam pipe. Tho acci dent necessitated tho shutting down of tho mill and stopped all tho street cars for a short while. - Major Shachte, commanding tho Charleston battalion of the State vol unteer troops, has reported to Adju tant General Floyd that ho would carry at least three companies of his batta lion to Washington to participate in the inaugural parade on March 4. - The Harris Lithia Springs hotel property has been sold again, and this time it was bought by Messrs. Alexan der and Johnson, of Augusta Ga. These gentlemen will improve tho property and endeavor to incresso the salo of water. The price paid was $100,000. - An effort is being made to build an enormous hotel on East Battery, Charleston, to bo open by Jan. 1, 1002, early in the days of tho exposition. Thc capital stock is to be ?225,000. Some of tho richest mon of tho city propone to lake stock heavily and to buy tho bonds. - Architect Milburn, of Columbia, has boon directed to prepare plans and speciiications for tho erection of a now "Alumni Hall" on Wollbrd College campus, Spartanburg, to take tho place of tho ono destroyed by Uro a few weeks ago. It is proposed to build a better hall than the old one. - The little six-year-old daughter of Mr. Tom Kcrgamer, of McCormick, had tho misfortune to moot with quite a sad death Inst week. She was stand ing too near a fire built out in tho yard when her clothing caught fire and she was so severely burned before the lire could be extinguished that death re sulted. - A conductor on tho Coast Lint train near Florence mado tho mistake tho oilier day of taking n whito woman toben negress and ordered her inte the colored coach. Sho obeyed undci protest and when sho arrived at hoi station her son met her aud thc twe together gave him a pioco of theil mind nnd it is understood will en tel suit against tho railroad. - A shooting aflair look place on tht streets of Spartanburg Tuesday after noon, 5th inst. Chief Police Boyce Dean, shot his cousin, Ed. B. Dean, son of ex-Sheriff Geo. B. Dean. It 8t'fius to bo tho result of ill feeling which has existed tor several months, and politics is probably at tho bottom of it. Thc wound was only a ilesli wound in tho loft ann, and no serious result s?arc expected. - Tho Charleston Load Works, situ ated about four milos north of tho city, woro destroyed by lire last week, thu being tho second timo within tho short history of tho concorn that tho build ings have boon annihilated, tho entire place having been razed to tho ground in tho groat cyclone of 180.1. The plant waa valued at $40,000 and will bo ro built nt once. This was tho only en terprise of the kind in tho South. - Tho Southern Bail way was sued for damages in putting oil*a passengoi between Newberry nnd Helena, who refused to pay nu extra chargo ol tw?nty-live cents demanded by thc conductor because ho had not purchas ed n. ticket. Tho regular faro is tc? cents between Newberry nnd Htlenn, and tho distance is only a milo. Thc jury thought tho extra charge was ex cessive, and a verdict was rendered for $400 against tho railway. GENERAL NEWS ITEMS. - Ministers uf Marion, Ohio, have j declared against holding funerals on I Sunday, - The dentil list in the British army in South Africa during the past year has been 12,08*.). - New York's Utile gnow sturm tho other day rust only $75,000 to got it shoveled off tho streets. - Tho Pan-American Exposition, to bo held nt Buffalo, N. Y., will open on May I and close November 1, 1001, - New *i'ork city has the most ex pensive, water-works plant in the coun try. It cost, up to date, $115,520,748. - Popular election of United Stati s Senators is favored in a resolution adopted by the Pennsylvania Se?ale. - Fifty thousand horses and mules have been purchased for the British anny in South Africa. They ure ship ped from New Orleans. - A crowd of mad veterans in Forysth, Ga., tookn United States his tory issued by ('oilier, put it in a colli ti und lind a bon lire over ir. - Because Otto Groebuer, of Cleve land, Ohio, went home one rainy night turned his wife out of bed ami locked her in tho chicken coop he has lost her. She was granted a divorce. - A bill has been introduced in tin Minnesota legislature prohibiting thc marriage of women after they lum reached the age of forty five. - Ceylon is setting its house in ordei ngaiust the arrival of the plague, li the past year in Colombo the muuici polity hus had 00,000 rats killed. - The Tennessee nnti-eigarette bil lins become n law, und dealers in th? State will discontinue sale nndreturi their stock to the manufacturers. - The official report that 004 post masters died and 8,0(50 resigned durin, the past year seems to bo at varianc with the somewhat popular saying n to the adhesiveness of officeholders. - It is an open secret that tho lie publicans will at the next session o Congress again undertake lo cut dow tho representation of the South in th national legislature and electoral col lego. - Chicago's great builders1 strike ha involved, in fifteen months, n loss c $50,000,000 in wages and $75,000,000 i contractors' profits, while 18,000 me and their families have left the city t seek work elsewhere. - Nelson Miles, tho mau who pu Jefferson Davis in chains, has realize his lifo ambition. Ho has been mad lieutenant general of the army. Th position has had no claimant sine Grant's death. - With the approval of tho Seen tary of War, Surgeon General Stern berg bas arranged fer the imm?diat nppointmcut of thirty contract denti surgeons for service in tho army, t accordance with the provisions of th new anny law. - Fifteen thousaud dollars has bee raised of tho $100,000 desired to endo' a chair of economics at Wasbingto nnd Leo University to the memory < Williuni L. Wilson, the late Presiden of the university. - Robert G ear heart, who is 8-1 y cai old, recently walked from his homo i Brush Creek to McConnellsburg, Pn and back, making a round trip of . miles. He is tho father of 28 child rc and has never been ill in his life. - Three children wore born to Mr John Gnrviu, of Avoca, Penn., makin live within eleven months. The tri] < lets died within three hours. En February twins were born to Mrs. Ga , vin, and they lived several months. - Spain is to get $100,000 moro for couple of little islands in the Philij > pines that wero overlooked in tho ori< ? inal $20,000,000deal. Spain finds Une Sam so easy she will doubtless go c n voyogo of discovery for a few ino j islands. i - A damnge coso has boen settled i Tuscaloosa, Ala., for which no prec ? dents in law could bo found. O. 1 : Wilson wns talking over a tclephoi r during a thunder storm and was strm ? by lightning and killed. Suit wi brought for damages, and settled 1 : thc payment of $1,800 by the tclephoi company. j -The distribution of congrcssion gaiden seeds this year will be tl , largest ever made. It is said, tho a; , propriation for this purpose having i ; creased from $1:50,000 to $170,000, whii - will add .'5,000 packages of seeds to cai ( congressman's quota. Tin? seed in< i of the country are kicking against til ! seed distribution by congress. } - Knoxville, Tenn., dispatch of Fe mary :5: Dr. Nominan, surgeon nt tl United States recruiting station, bad ( j sensational experience when he wei i to examine an applicant to-day. Tl ; j would-be recruit proved to bea wornt in male attire, who desired to enli ) for service in Alaska. She gave as b [ reason that worner had joined the urn ; during the civil war without examin . t ion and she thought it could still 1 . done. Dr. Nominan secured the w man's name, with the promise not reveal it. - Mrs. Elizabeth Lily, 80 years ol , six times mai ried and five times divo ??ced, has been adjudged insane j Petersburg, Iud. She began her m trimonial ml ventures while oiiii agi i and she continued through lifediscar ing ono husband after another, hopef . that she would lind nu ideal one. . commission decided that this hopclc ambition was evidence of insanity ai ruled accordingly. Piedmont Happenings. Since our last communication our peo plo have boon pursuing the "even tenor of way" in entire disregard of the snarls of cunning politicians, and sore head edi tors, who have wasted wind and Ink in their vain and futilo efforts to convince tho world that our mill people at? -poor, down-trodden slaves," burdonod with illiteracy, and rearh g our children to walk in tho ways of ignorance and vice. A little oheap noloriely has boen gained, and their names brought forward M mis guided or jealous advocan s of * measure begotten of misinformation and conceiv ed In ignorance, ord which lias been rele gated to obscurity, t'.oroto romain. We are sorry for tho g:<.ntlouien. Such an opportunity to poso ns humanitarians, and public benefactors, will never como to them agail). Tho swamps of tho Ash ley und Cooper und tho pr?iidy wastes may c. ho to their wailing-.', and perhaps they may ho ltd to look nt home, and in stituto measures looking to tho civiliza tion and education of tho tackies, and children of the lower Counties. FallioK to do this wo jan seo nothing for them but to sink Into the doptlu of oblivion "unwept, unhonored and unknown." Wo aro proud of our Representatives from Anderson and <?reedville Counties. Who, 1 knowing tho right, duro maintain it." And our Josh Ashley may tear tho j king's English to shreds and tatters, and wreck every grammar produced in his talks, but wo uro "tied" to him and ks oau got "thar" ns many times as he wishes to go if our vote will put him there. His talk and voto is on the side of common) sense, "all wool and a yard wide," and the moths ol sophistry emi neting from the braiu of briefless barris ters on tho other side could puncture no holes in his web. T. A. Wiglngton la to move his foun dry and mncblue shop from Newell to this placo and will be located at tho old Piedmont Lumbar Co's, stand, which he has purchased and enlarged. There bas long boeu a neild of such a plaut here, and wo feel euro that succeaB will await the undertaking. J. Reed Payne and Sam Brown are home from Woodruff, where they have j bseu employed lu the construction of tho j now cotton mill. i y.'i-sos Lecota and Nellie Elrod were lu town visiting friends Sunday. Miss Denn Seaborne, from Walhalla, ie visiting her undo, R. D. Sloan, and Misa Suo Trowbridge, and making friends of all who aro privileged to meet her by her charming, winning manner and pleasing presence. J. E. Beattie, of Greenville, and .W. P. Walsh, of New York, are with ns to-day. B. Lewis, one of the representative men of Picken*, la with us again, and meeting the glad hand from every ona. Our mill authorities are improving Main street by putting up new fences everywhere, aud the houses are ali to be painted at an early date. By Easter we shall bo ready to put on more pride, and Btop high when we are showing our nice little city to strangers. Wo hardly dare tell how much our people wore pleased with the article in the INTELLIGENCER from tho pen of your Portman correspondent relative to ohlld libor. The Greenville Newe re printed il but failed to credit lt io you. Tho article in question was replote with good souse und to macy of us it was a now presentation of the merits of the la bor question and tho elevating effect of the ability and oppoitunity to provide something conf?re upon our youngsters, Wo do not wish to say enough in this matter td make our friend too proud but wo shall watch.for futuro emauations from her facile pen with great interest. RANKIN. Big Creek Item?. We have been having seme very un pleasant weather for the past week. Rev. Willie McCuen delivered a very forcible sermon lost, llrst Saturday. There were no services on Sunday, as it rained all day. Every ono seems to be delighted with the uew pastor. Mr. and Mrs. Callahatn and daughter, MUs Benin, moved their membership from Pelzer to Big Creek. Our Sunday School eeems to be pro gressing nicely. Every one seems to take an enterest in it and every member was present laut Sunday but two. There were several visitors. Mr. Burls Smith, of Bolton, was in our midst a few days last week on business. Mr. Patrick llindman went to Ander son on business last week. Our school seems to bo progressing nicily with Miss Ethel Weibnrn as teacher. Stio seems to be tho right one in the right place. Mr. Durham visited his son in Bolton last week. Mr. Arthur ("ox und wifo went to Pel zer ono day Inst week, accompanied by his sistor, Miss Lou Cox. Mr. Caliaham's litliodaughter, Eunice, has a severe case of tho sore oyes. Mr. T. W. Coaker, of Belton, visited his brother. Mr. Wm. Coaker, last Satur day night and Sunday. Mr. John Black visited his father at Greenville last week. Mr. and Mr9. R. A. Hlndm?r?. Mid chil dren, of Polzor, wero tho guesin of his parents Saturday night and Sunday. Mr. Burhaui, of White Plains, was tho guest of his sister, Mrs. R. W. Reeves, last week. Mr. Seagall was thoguost of Mr. F. A. Spearman last Saturday and Sunday. Miss Fannie Coker visited rolatlvcB at Pelzer Sunday. Ml?,r.c.5 Leila und tira Lee llindman visited rolatlves at Peizsr last week Mr J. N. Vandiver. ot Anderson, and Mr. J. J Vaughn, of Calhoun, wero her J last week on business. Mr. .LL. Hi nd mao, of Po'asr, spent Sunday \\ th his parents h< re. Mr. Fi ?II x l'o.no, of Toney Crook, was hero S ti nd.iv. NOBODY'S DARWINO?