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RY"CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 1901. VOLUME XXXVI-NO M\ ! How to v?rtise fl ATUTMP CTHDE I LU 1111IXVJ MIM. The difficulty is peculiar, unique without precedent. It is created by the always increasing, ever expanding growth of our Clothing Business." Several seasons since, the stock in elegance, excellence and variety passed the point of com parison with any stock in this town. And now an innova tion in stock-keeping and showing. Those handsome and large show cases, have you seen them ? and noted the kind of Furnishings* they contain % If | you haven't yon don't know what yon have missed. What an advantage they are to both of ns. How much better the stock is kept, and how at a glance yon can see such a nice assortment, where by the old method the styles seen were limited to those shown by the salesman. Gan we advertise this Best Clothing Store by telling you we collect at all times the best Clothing, Hats and Furnish ings to be had? What we want is L at only to tell you about our stock, but we want to show yon the goods. THE SPOT CASH CLOTHIERS WHITE FRONT. Driving WELL ushered in by the mild weather usual at Easter, should*turn your Noughts, your feet and your eyes towards our Carriage Erriporixirn. ! Ifte veiy iateat in comfortable; C m voyances will greet your vision h?re. You will be astonished at the beauty of the Vehicleas, the low figures we ask for | If you want to have the best Garden yon ever had in your life, try our od .he jre roi this year. H8LL-ORR DRUG CO SOME BARGAINS ! I HIVE t FEW MHOS. Of the very highest grade ?nd latent stylos, SO GO AT COST ?OB A FEW DAYS. Thia ta an opportunity of a llfe-tlmo. l?tLb?v* thr bit^lmprovftd bali-brnrin? WSW ff OME SBWIMO M> l&Bfll Vibrator B&andard Maohine only $28.00. .BGABfS CHEAP. HM,. Wi 1,1.19, South Main Street, Anderson, fi. f* FROM THE NATION'S CAPITAL. From Our Oton Correspondent. WASHINGTON, I). C., March 24,1901. .Jcet now a howl ia going up about the new Maryland elcotion law, by the terms of which illiterates of whatever color are disfranchised. It is charged that it ia ? democratic ?MU? io recap ture the State from the Republican and fearful threats are made that the next Congress will certainly "enforce tho l itli Amendment" and cut down Mary land's representation in consequence all this in sp i to of tho fact th nt the new Maryland law is almost a copy of that which has been enforced in Massachu setts for years and has won universal commendation for its workings, lt is semi-officially announced hero that the Republican managers and the Repub lican Congressional Committee have their eye on Maryland and are viewing with "undisguised alarm" what is going cn there. Chairman Babcock, of tho Republican Congressional Committee, says that Congress must be influenced by the action in Maryland to take action reducing tho repreannfatics of Maryland and all other States where the negro is eliminated as a voter. Mr. Babcock further delivers himself of a plaintive lament over tho prospective advantages to result to the Democratic party from negro disfranchisement. This is the whole story. Not a Repub lican newspaper and not a Republican politician anywhere would give utter ance to one sen til vmt of protest or re monstrance but for the apprehension of benefit to the Democratic party. Possibly the next Congress may en force Mie 14th Amendment but the chances are decidedly against it, as since the subject was mooted last year it has been found that such enforce ment will cut both ways. If the South ern States should adopt the syBtom prevailing in Connecticut, for instance, where ten Republican white voters often outweigh 500 Democratic ones, there might indeed be serious canse for complaint. Even government officers here are disposed to criticize the order applying General Weylor'a methods to the island of Marinduquo in the Philippines, where the concentration of all nativt s in five garrisoned towns has been or dered, all disobeying the order being then declared disloyal. "The severest kind of warfare" is directed against them, their property is to be destroyed and the interior of the island is to be "devastated." The inhabitants of the island are said to favor these drastic measures. The country has not for gotten what Hr. McKinley said of tho Weyler proceedings: "It is not Civiliz ed warfare; it is extermination. The only peace it can beget is that of the wilderness ind the grave." Here he is now, however, conducting through his lieutenants the same sort of war fare-crowding the non-fighting conn try people into a few towns and sweep ing the interior with fire ard sword. It is the peace of the wilderness and the gravo which be is begetting over there. His own words can be taken for it. A most astounding bulletin has been issued from the Department of State in reference to the appointment of a successor to Consul Hay, who has wearied of well doing at Pretoria and is about to return to the United States; The State Denartment is therefore confronted with the necessity of either leaving the post vacant or of being forced to decide whether the new con sul shall be accredited to Oom Paul or to Edward VII. In this dilemma it ir?R put forth the following extraor dinary statement. "It is the rule to recognize de facto administrations, and it is pv.'Nsumed that when a change is madlin our consular representations in South Africa tho application for an exequatur wilt be made to whatever authority happens for the moment to be in de facto possession of the place to which the consul is accredited." This is particularly astounding because it emanates from the United States, the pioneer of self-government, ot human liberty, of free political institu tion?-from a nation whose seat of government has been in po? session of an enemy more than once, and to which au application of this remarka ble rule would at those times have been fatal. The British occupied Philadelphia and New York during a Seat part of the Revolution, and ter, after we bad won our indepen dence and had it recognized by all the civilized powers, Washington was, in the war of 1812, seized by the British and subjected to a brutal vandalism such as England is practicing now in South Africa. If the European courts hod then accepted England as the de facto government; sent hither ti^ir official representatives accredited to England, and generally united in ignoring the American republic; denied our national existence, ?nd admitted only England to their commercial and political scheme iu North America; suppose in brief, that the treatment now proposed for the Boers by a United States administration had then been accorded us by foreign governments what would have been our predica ment? It certainly seems that something moro than a denial is required from Representative. Mudd, of Marj land, who is charged with complicity in the census frauds in hie district. When Abell, the dishonest enumerator, was first arrested, ho talked very freely of the whole affair, volunteering the statement that he understood the law to direct the enrollment of men who had been dead not more than a year and to leave to the enumerator's judgment ibo enrollment of men who had been dead a tonger period. When asked by whom the law bad been explained, he Said, unhesitatingly: "My cousin, Enoch Abell, the clerk of the Circuit Court at Leonardtown; Jack Ching, a lawyer down there, an? Mr. Mudd." This waa said more than once, and with ap parent confidence. When Mr. Mudd appeared at police headqnarterc, how ever, Abeu's recollection changed. HA . expressed his randiness to deny that Mr. Mudd had had any part in his in structions, though admitting every other detail of that interview. Again, when Mr. Mudd announced that ho had not known Abell before his ap ?riutment to the local police force, bell took that position also, although on the day of bis arrest ho declared he had seen tho Represen tatt re often and talked with him on political subjects At Leooardtown and elsewhere. A bell's earlier statements can be-and will be ?worn to by a dozen witnesses. STATE NEWS. - Tho Citadel cadets will encamp this year at Darlington duriug the Inst two weiks c" June. - General Edward MeCrudy's third volume of South Carolina - history has just boen published. - Senator Tillninn bn.g bees elected anniversary orator of tho Commence* ment of Erskine College in June. - A correspondent of the Laurens Advertiser nominates C. C. Feather j atone, of Laurens, for Senator to suc ceed Me Lim vin. - Alex. Bowers shot and killed Jim Howard, in tho Dark Corner of Green ville county. Too much illicit making of whiskey and telling on each other. - Sumter suffered frotu adieastrous fire a few nights ago which destioycd 10 buildings valued at about $40,000. It was the most destructive tire the city has had in many years. - Cal Greer und Jacob Foster, white boys, convicted of manslaughter at Greenville in 1898 and sentenced to so\en years imprisonment, have been pardoned by the Governor. Both have consumption. - Thomas T. Breeden, a member of a prominent family of Marlboro coun ty, committed suicide. He was sick with grip and pneumonia. Ho killed himself by cutting his throat and then shooting himself. - A petition is being presented and generally signed by the lawyers of the second circuit, recommending Capt. Claude E. Sawyer, lc te solicitor of that circuit, for appointment to a judgeship in the Philippines. - William Ford, a negro, entered the store of Samuel Schwan, at Charleston, knocked down the proprietor, break ing his arm. Ford was captured and a lynching would have resulted, but for the timely arrival of the police. - Space at the Charleston Exposi tion has been set aside for exhibits from tho Philippines, and it is expect ed that some valuable and interesting relics from these historical ?BICH will be on exhibition at this exposition. - Southern train Na. 84, northbound, smashed into a double team near Seneca and killed a fine horse snd mule attached to a wagon. The team be longed to Dickson & Dickerson. They were in charge of a colored boy. He escaped unhurt. - Miss Henrietta Welsh, of Flor ence, who is to graduate at Winthrop College this year, has been recomend ed by President Johnson to the U. 8. government as. one of the teachers to go to teach the Filipinos in the publie schools. She has been accepted. - Trainmaster C. J. Youngblood, and de tee ti ve Witzel), of the Plant sys tem, were shot at Ashley Junction, near Charleston. They were pursu ing some negro thieves who had been robbing the station and ono negro shot them. Both men are badly hurt. - Es-?ecrotary W. C. Whitney and Thomas Hithcock, Jr., have set aside a valuable tract of land at Aiken for racing purposes. The land cost them $7,500 and is now valued at $100,000. Mr. Whitney will bring several of his noted horses to A.iken next winter. - John lt. Ashc, president of tho York Cotton Mills, of Yorkville, Com mitted suicide by jumping ina well. He had been greatly depressed over the embarrassment of the business of which he was the head and it was to this that his unfortunate act was due. - Governor Mcsweeney and the Charleston exposition committee of arrangements have received most en couraging letters from Governors of States, municipal corporations and pri vate individuals. Subscriptions are going in liberally and the buildings are going up in a most satisfactory manner. - Morris Switzer, a Polish Jew, was arrested in Greenville on the charge of attempting to burn his own store, in one of the best business blocks of Greenville. At midnight tho police found a burning candle in a paper box surrounded by combustibles saturated with kerosene. Switzer had $0,000 in surance on his stock. - Manuel Haygood, the negro who escaped from tho guardhouse in Green wood by burning the door, bas been recaptured. 11 ay go on has been identi fied as the negro who assaulted 'Miss I Hattie Hall io Augusta some time ago. I The identificationTns made by a negro who was brought from Augusta to Greenwood by the girl's father. Re quisition papers are being prepared for tho fellow's extradition to Georgia. - The State board of pension com missioners will meeton theist of April. It will thon apportion tho amount of the pension fund to go to each of the classes and take up such matters as como before it. There are six counties from which no report has yet been re ceived, and if tho reports from these connties^long since doe, are sot receiv ed, the unfortunate pensioners may not get auy thing on account of the delays of the county boards. - Governor Mcsweeney has issued 9 proclamation revoking all commis sions of commissioners of deeds for South Carolin? that were issued prior to January 1,1800. The revocations go intoe?Sect January 1,1003. The Gov ernor takes this action to clear the re cords. As these commissions hold until revoked, there aro hundreds of names on the books of men who are dead or nave removed to other States. There are about twice as many com missioners of deeds of this State as in Georgia or in any other State. To get new commissions will cost $3.21. UKNEltAL Nl?WS ITEH5. - In tho United Staten about twelve thousand perseus are engaged making lamp chimneys. - Tho Massachusetts Legislature re jected tho proposition for extending tho suffrage to woaien. i - Seventeen members of tho fifty- i sixth congress have died and three i bave lost their minds. 1 - There aro fewer mortgages ou tho j Southern farms than in any other sec- \ tion of tho United States. i - At the Kansas City stockyards a i Hereford cow was recently sob' for i $3,700, tho highest price on record. j - There are a little over 700 cotton i factories in the Southern States. With- ? in two years there will be more than i 1,000. - Tho Delaware Legislature adjourn- ' ed without electing United States Sen- i atora to fill the two vacancies in thc State. i - A Berlin estimate shows that 254 i foreign and 30,000 native Christians were killed in tho Boxer troubles in ! China. j j - Tho legislatures in 27 States have 1 ? spoken in favor of the election of Unit? ed States Senators by a direct vote of the people. - Former Senator Roger Q. Mills is said to be receiving an income of $15, 000 a month from the oil wells on his Texas farm. - Colored women iu Kansas have taken Mrs. Nation's occupation from her. They aro smashing saloons to beat the band. - Mrs. Mary A. Wright, a member of tho recent legislature of Idaho, hns been unnnimoutly elected chief clerk of the present legislature. - General Fitzhugh Lee U said to havo expressed bia intention to make 1 his home in tho West, now that ho bas been retired from the army. - The president has 400 applications i for the 23 vacancies in chaplaincies in 1 tho U. S. army. The pay is $1,500 with an increase each year until it reaches < $2,400. , i - All American troops will bo with- 1 drawn from China next month, except a Legation guard of 150 men, that will 1 be kept to protect tho U. S. Minister in 1 Pekin. i - The indications point to the BUS- 1 pension of two millions of spindles in ' the Fall River district. Thetis they 1 will suspend part of the time so ns to 1 curtail the output of the mills. 1 - The demand for postage stamps 1 daring the past three weeks has been 1 so great as to reduce the reserve in 1 Washington below the figure fixed by law. This is held to indicate phenom enal business activity. ? - C. B. Nelson, of Cadillac, Michi- < gan, carries a bullet in his perjcradium > which was shot into him in 1896. He is hearty and strong and suffers no 1 pain or inconvenience from it. - Andrew Carnegie, according to report, intends to give $22,000,000 for ' a technical school at Pittsburg, Pa. It 1 is also said that hu has offered $1,000, 000 to St. Lo'ds for a public library on conditions similar to his other library gifts, - The war department is considering the reduction of the army in the Phil ippines owing to tho surrenders in Luzon. The term of service of 30,000 troops will expire in the next few months. - It isn't safe to offend Uncle Sam. Chas. E. Howard was arrested in At lanta a few days ago for sending ob sceno matter through tho mails 13vears ago. Officers havo been hunting him ever since. - Ex-President Harrison would have been 08 years old if ho had lived until the 20th of August next. Grover Cleve land is now the only living ex-Presi dent, and he was 64 years old on Mon day, March 18th. - The census enumerators in severn! districts in Maryland added many names fraudulently to the census. They have been discovered and will be punished, but the figures will have to go in tho official returns. - Cotton mills in Fall River, Mass., operating 350,000 spindles, closed down the 18th to wait for better times. Others will follow, and it is said there will soon be two million spindles idle in Fall River alone. Is this a' speci men of McKinley prosperity? - After tho most interesting of any bearing held b?.!;or? tho Mnino Legis lature for years tho House by tho de cisive voto of 84 to 34 refused to resub mit to the people of Maine, the prohibi tory amendment to the Constitution. '.?. he Senate will concur without debate. - A bill has been introduced in the Pennsylvania Legislature which pro vides that every qualified voter shall vote at all primary and general elec tions or bo subject to a fino of $5 or 10 dava* imprisonment. Sickness or ab sence from the couuty are tho only ex cuses that will stand. The object, of course, is to bring out a full expression from the voters and thereby presum ably to secure better candidates. - On a ?sTss .r. West Virginia an cl op ha nt. probably the only one in the United S ta tea so employed, is used in farmwork. With the swaying beast j hitched to a plow his owner can turn moro ground than any of his neighbors with a team of horses, and when it comes to hauling logs, the elephant ia a record-breaker. He eats little more than a horao and does the work of sev eral horses. Ho carno from a skip wrecked circus and wa?out to work aa an experiment. Jola News. "Gentle Hpi ing is hore nguiu, Bringing mirth ami gladness, And the singing birds have conic Chasing gloom and sadness." lt seems that everything is begin ning to put on new life. Tho Howers, nature's most beautiful gift, are begin ning to peep out, mid thu hum of the bco eau bo bee rd UR it tlils from on?! to mother gathering in its sweets; even tho tired and dusty farmer seems to be in tho best u? spirits. Farm work is itill progressing nicely and another week will see about all tito cotton land prepared for planting. Some have al ready planted their upland corn, while Huers aro waiting for the weather to moderate. Tho health of most of our people is kory good, though wo have some sick ness. Mr. Foster Mitchell has been very sick with malarial fever, but is improv ing. lola's two merchants, Messrs. W. \V. Smith and J. hi. Horton, are each do ing a very good business. They aro always ready to serve their friends and neighbors. Miss Beulah Thompson spent last week with her aunt, Mrs. W. W. Thompson, of Hopewell. Mrs. Thomp son has been very low with pneumonia but wo are indeed glad to know that under tho skillful treatment of Dr. W. S. Hutchinson sho is on thc road to re covery. Messrs. Welbon? and Horton aro kept busy sawing lumber and other building material for their customers. M.. James Pressley, of Pickens County, was visiting in this community a few days ago. He is traveling for tho Century Manufg. Co., of Philadel phia, Fa. With the uso of tho pniuter'H brush Mr. C. E. Duckworth has greatly im proved the appearance of his now resi dence. Tho Lebanon roller mill, with Mr. A. J. Smith proprietor, is making somo of ns lino flour aw was ever put on tho market in Anderson County. In tho issue of tho 13th inst, un arti cle appeared relative to tho conduct of some school boys in a certain school r.Qar the city. An impression has gone forth among tho good citizens of that community that an intentional injus tice has been done both patrons and teacher of the school. Now, in order to give justice to the patrons and teach er of said school, we wish to exhonor iue them from any blame or knowledge of the conduct of which these boys were guilty. Mr. J. H. Hutchinson went to Wil liamson last Saturday on a visit to his laughter, Miss May, who is attending Behool there. Dr. J. G. Duckworth, wifo and daughter, Miss Birdie, have returned borne from their Northern trip. Tho Doctor went to New York somo months nr;o to take a special course in a medi cal college. Mrs. Duckworth and M?BS Birdie joined him there about two months ago. More corn will be planted in this section this year than has been planted 9foro in several years. It will not do tojudgo tho cotton acreage by tho Amount of fertilizers that havo been nauled out, ns a largo part of it will bo iscd to manure corn. No "dashing young sports" have been visiting us lately, consequently news is scarce. The time is soon coming by piophets foretold, When tho hoes, with our hauds, wo will all take hold; Then dig, dig, dig, from sun up till down, We will strive to make something for tho people in town. W. C. BARNETT. loin, March 23. - i- > - - Union Meeting. Thc Union Meeting of tho second di vision of the Saluda Association will meet with the church at Bethany on Saturday before the fifth Sunday in March. 1. Devotional exercises, conducted by IsaacSaylors, at 10:1?? a. m. 3. Organization of the Union. Topic for discussion: Aro we living in a form of Godliness, denying tho power theic of or why is it that we would seem to be growing better morally and tho ?ios p seem to bo less powerful iu its ef f. :? Speakers, A. Ii. Cox, Kev. J. A. Martin, Rev. M. McGee, Kev. Henry Martin, L. E. Campbell. . Adjourn at pleasure. Sunday morning-Sunday school mnss meeting at 10 o'clock. Verbal report from each school. Address by CH. Holland, Missionary sermon by Hov. G. W. Bussey at ll o'clock. Committee. Honor Roll of Mountain Spring School for March. Advanced Department- Edw'd King is 4-7, May Wigington 98 1-7, Lillie Murphy 98 1-7, Herman Smith 97 5-7, Mourning Moore OG 4-7. Primary Department-Addie Bogers )7, Nettie Black 97, Ezekiel Stegall 90, Dtto Stegall 90, Jesse Brown 90, Hamp ton Wigington 95, Abbie Smith 95, Janie Smith 95, Weston Moore 95. Miss NELLE WALTERS, Teachor. - Tho salt production of Michigan Inst year filled 4,820,865 barrels, a gain >ver the preceding year of4,5iG bar els. P?r?man. Lct?er. Tho "uielancholly days" aredajHof th? past. Theao bright Mardi days muBt bo UH much a covering for the spired and cupolaed metropolis of Anderdon RH fc-r the hamlets of ino county and tho broad sun-swept, promlno-lald fieldH of the country. Wben the sun shines we all know lt, and wo feel li!.o telegraphing to the fartboat neighbor of tho outermost limit and asking: "DOCH tho HUH shine in your sky to-daj?" Just ??we aro too apt to remark, "how rainy it i*; bow cold; how miserable!" If wo could only forget the rainy days, tho cold dayH, the miserable day H, earth would bo all heav en. Sunshine, tho type of heaven, baa a wondai ful iolluonco on the minda and Uvea of people. Few crimea aro commit ted under sunshine, fow team that will not dry upon th? wet cheek nmier the sun shine, few enemies can meet each other under tho light of tho sunshine and not smile-perhaps reach out tho baud. It is strange If ever H capita1 penalty can be executed-under the sunshine- where God's face ia looking down between thc bare ci hcaveu. Perhaps these inflictions occur in the morning before the sun washes its taco in gladness sud comes out to smile. The inlluenceof the sun on a child's mind is eloquently illustrated In an Incident known to tho writer. The little child-a boy about fonr years-was looking out his window into a clear April sky. Ills elbows were resting on a table and bis chin in bia hands. Ile had been meditative fora long time, andu Indy, his aunt, was Bitting beside him. Final ly he Htm tied her by asking: "Auntie, is mammal sky bright?" The question waa strange and poignant; for, a short timo before, the "mamma" had lost her only stay in tho world-the child's father - and was then about three hundred miles away Beeklog to make a living for hc-rsslf and little boy. Doubtless then a pall of (lethseuoano bad settled under that April sky, shut down, round about the farthest horizon, mullllng out the sunshine. Her world WSM vary dark within; but the little innocent heart asked: "Auntie, ls mamma's eky bright?" Tbat was the meditation, the sublimity, tbe ideality awakened in the child's na ture, cultivated by the sunshine. "Is lt dark without us, Darker still within? Clear the darkened windows, Open wide the door, Let a little sunshine in ; Let the blessed sunshine in." This, perhaps, is not a "Letter" from Portman; "letters" ahonld be full of news, excitement; occurrences that draw away tbs attention from the only repeat ed annoyanoes and commonplace hap? , pening* of the day; bnt ?re here in Port man are fairly good citizens; we sea more than crops, and soil, and toil, and stone. There ls a soul in nature in spring time and lt gets into our hearts through the beauty In our eyes and the fragrance in our nostrils, and when we are filled to Inspiration with thia we care little for social and political disturbance* and family annoyances. They are not worth to ?B their space on paper or their time in leading. Fortunately we have no deaths to chronicle, though it is often ad mitted there are ''misfortunes" worse than death. The INTKLMOKNOER, how ever, lacaing its Piedmont correspon dence last week, wai not apprised of the death of a highlv estimable citizen of Piedmont, James II Simpson, one of tho "fathers" of Slrnpsonville, Piedmont. Mr. Simp;oa was wealthy and influen tial lie retired from hip labors March 17th to reap from the harvest of a well spont life. Behind him he left in charge of bis sorrowing wife their youngest daughter, Miss Ads, who from the malady of the grippe, in Its worst consequences, was hovering between life and death. The correspondent bas not been apprised of the recent condition of the suffering young lady. Mr. Simpson waa interred at Shiloh under the Masonic honers. The Church was unable to contain the num bers who paid their last tribute of respect to the deceased. Some DPwo on the light of an intelli gent future reaches us here from Moun tain Springs High School, where the young teacher, Miss Walters, Is deter mined to make a name and future for herself and pupils. Debates of no smalt imp?rtanos are stirring np tbs ambitious intellects of the youths, and from Mr. Edward King, son of the well known teacher ot Shiloh school, Mr. D. E. King, oom ea to the correspondent and a gentle man of Piedmont, Mr. W. F. Lee, an in vitation to be present at a debate of un UMual interest. If the honor of attending falls to the lot of the correspondent the readers of Piedmont who wero not so for tunato as to be present shall know what an enthusiastic high school joint debate sonnds and looks like. Another trifle of news that comes from Piedmont is that Mr. Jetse Adkins, of Shiloh, was the fortunate discoverer of a treasure trove on tbe Richardson prop erty, where be reside?. A pot of gold, we ba vs board, ls buried there. We do not kn? w the truth of this or the truth of Mr. Adkins* discovery, butwedoknow that congratulations have been pouring in upon him even from far away Pelzer. In tho beginning of thin letter, spank ing cf sunshine, we bave six degrees lees of its warmth on the hills at Portman than in tho vadnya beneath. The wind blows tho warmth away, probably, for when the wind is briskly stirring in tho low placo9 it is excitedly rampaging among the trees and curls of smoke on the bill top?. It s known to tear up things pretty generally, delighting in tho mad monody of "I'm mon?rch of all I aurvoy." Enterprising real estate men, seeking a paradise for CharlestonianB, might not be at all Imprudent in casting a glance over thc hills at Portman 8hoal*. An acquisition to tho social clrole hers ls Mrs. J. M. Devine. The lady's hus band, because of his ability in faultless stone mavin ry ls, as foreman, a valuable aid to Mr. Lea, Inspector of the work. Patronizing Mr. Lee, as guide and navi gator, two distinguished parties of An dersc~ians honored him tue early days of this week. The motor boat, supplied by Dr. Orr to Mr. Lee for peregrinations across stream-during tours of inspec tion-was never in merrier mood, and the parties shot up and down and across stream, partaking in the same exbll ra tion. Messrs. J A. Brock, B. F. Maul din, Robert E. Llgon and Rev. J. B. Campbell; and the second party. Mr. and Mrs Hurry Orr. obild and maid. Miss Mary Orr and Miss Enor HUI. In honor of the boat and motor's good behavior, Mr. Leo thinks of awarding lt wi'b tho bunting of tho Crftfederata flag, but bis wife, who once lived higher thau the Mason and Dixon lino, nrfwsgemlv fora copartnership of tho stars and stripes. R. R. ti.