Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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"BYTCLINKSOALES & LANGSTON., ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10. 1900. VOLliME XXXYI-NO 16 THAT FIT ! Hart, Schaffaef &Marx Taiior Made Clothes WE have secured the exclusive sale in Anderson for the celebrated line of Clothing made by Hart, Schaffner & Marx. Heretofore we have had a good line of Clothing? as go sd fitting Clothes as could be had in this town, but now with this line of Goods on our counters we are showing a line that ie head and shoulders above any Clothing ever shown here. Some of the new styles we have just receivod, so if you want Clothes that fit, that will hold their shape and that we guar antee to wear, give this line a trial. The high-priced merchant tailors are the only competitors we'll have with this lin?) of Clothing, and our prices are a third less than theirs. H. S. & KL Suits from $10 to $20, and other good Suits at $5.' $6.50, $7.50 and $8.CQ. B. O. Evans & Go., ANDERSON, S. C. Springtime Pleasure Seekers Will find here something to suit every taste in the matter of QU I FAG ES I It boots not whether you vote for the simple or the ornate as to finish. The running gear and the lasting qualities are the same in every instance, however much this, that or the other style appeals to your oye, to which this card is intended to appeal. JOS. J. FRETWELL. If you want to have the best Garden you ever had in your life,. try our New Seed this year. HILL-ORR DRUG CO Pl 5 ? SOME BARGAINS! I HAVE A FEW PIANOS. Of the very bl?hestgrade and latest stylos, TO GO AT COST FOB A FEW DAY8. Thia la an opportunity nf a life-time. . I nt?n have Uv? latett improved bal<-boarifa?r NEW HOSIE SEWING Rl> ' ?1NE8 ?O?? $Sd. Vibrator Standard Machine only $28.00. OBQAKS CM KA P. . M. I.. WIIJLYS, Sooth Main Street, And orson, B. P FROM THE NATION'S CAPITAL, Fron' 'Jtfr Oicn Correspondent. WASHINGTON, D. C.. April ?r 190!. lt is evident that General MacArthur and tho other authorities in the Philip pines intend to hiiBh up all misconduct "od dishonesty that muy o?eur lhere. They will punish it, of course, if tho offenders hare not too strong a pull, but they will not permit it to get into the papors. It is suggestive of this that tho announcement that Secretary Koot had sustained MacArthur for ex pelling Editor Iii CG foi publishing the details of frauds at Manila, should bo published only a few days bofore the news came that several olllcers had been arrested foe theso very frauds. Evidently, the fact that these frauds were announced in the United States is very unpalatable to General Mac Arthur, for, when notified that they had) been printed, he telegraphed to the War Department attempting to minimize them. Possibly, it would be as well that as little as possible should be published about such frauds in tho Philippines, where it is desired to im press the natives with the belief that all Americans aro incapable of dishon esty, were it not that it is only through publicity that soy assurance of due punishment can bo obtained. The re sult in Cuba, where neither Neeley nor Rathbone has yet been brought to trial for crimes committed a year ago, and where the force retained by the Gov ernment for the prosecution has re cently beon reduced to a minimum, ia evidence that men with n pull can escape. There is little doune that before the end of President McKinley's second term tho country will bo back on tho old spoils basis. This would bo bad enough from any point of view, but it is worst when tho President claims to be so devoted to Civil Service reform while nt the same time stabbing it in the back at every opportunity. During tho lust seven years tho consuls of the United States, while not altogether under tho civil service aegis, have yet been permitted to retain their places practically undisturbed. Tho result has been thnt they havo had time to grow familiar with tho language and work of their localities and to become valuable. A very large share of tho recent American expansion in foreign trade is duo to them. Now, however, Mr. McKinley has given notice that if the Senators from any State will bring sufficient pressure to bear on him, they can secure tho dismissal of any consul, no matter how valuable. He has be gun this new plan hy removing George Savvier, Consul at Glauchau, Germany, to give a place to E. A. Crevy, of Bridgeport, Conn., a politician, for whom the Senators and Representa tives from his State desired to secure an office. Thero are no charges against Mr. Sawter, who is described by Con sul General Mason, of Berlin, as ono of tho best men iu tho service. Tho opinion of Mr. Mason is indorsed by Major Williams, the special agent of the Treasury Department at Paris, whoso business is to prevent frauds upon tho customs; by Mr. Chance, chief of special agents of tho Treasury Department at Washington, and finally by Secretary Gago and Assistant Sec retary Spaulding of tho Treasury De partment, who testify cordially to his efficiency and fidelity as an officer. Nevertheless, ho is a Democrat, and Senators Hawley and Platt have de manded and obtained Ids scalp. Secretary Hay's "splendid diplo macy" has again obtained from the Sultau of Turkey a promise to pay these missionary cluims. Thero is no evidence that the promise will over bo kept, nevertheless Mr. Hay has tri umphed in again obtaining it. lt will bo remembered that on several pre vious occasions, Mr. Hay has gained the samo marvellous triumph. Tho fact is, His Majesty bf Turkey is au old hand at playing the game. Ho delud ed his Yankee brother into tho belief that the long-ovordueindemuity would bo paid in the form of an order for a warship to bo built hy a Philadelphia firm. U?elo Sam tossed bouquets at himself as a tributo to his superiority ns a claims collector and his heiid was swollen with pride. Then carno the awakening. Tho wily Sultan of Tur key gavo the tip to tho German Em peror, who is now his gr* ut and good friend, and tho latter gallantly came to tho rescue of tho champion of Moham medanism. Ho served a courteous in junction upon tho Saltan prohibiting him from buying any warships until Turkey's debt to Krupp for supplies sold to the Turkish army had been paid in full. Thus Uncle Sam was foiled and the Snltan has been doing all tho laughing of late. Tho Treasury Bureau of Statistics is trying to gloss over tho falling oft'in the United States exports of manufac tured goods that bas taken place in tho fiscal year that will end July 1, by sending ont a bulletin sta i ing that this is - due to tho fact that the exporters engaged in commorco with tho Ha waiian Islands aro now refusing to the Bnreau of Statistics tho statements of their exports as in formor yoara. hold ing i "nae their exports are no longer "foreign commerce;" that tho exports to Porto Rico are now separately classi fied and no longer included in the general statement of foreign commerce; and that tho exports to China have temporarily fallen off one-half by rea son of tho nnBettlcd conditions in that country. Tho wilderness of figures that follows servo lo eo confuse the reader that ho is apt to miss the fact that exports to other countries have also fallon off. This confusion, how ever,- is probably exactly what the Bnreau desired to cause. Free Rural Mail Delivery WA?HINC.TOK, April 0.-An important circular Ima been issued by the Post ?nico Department, Superintendent A. W. Machen, of thc tree delivery bu reau, containing instructions govern ing tho free delivery in rural sections of the country, lt also gives directions as to tho manner in winch a petition should bc prepared, and submitted for tho establishment of such rural free delivery. The circular directs that petitioners for tho establishment of such service shall bo thc bends of families, who shall show tho relativo population along tho route, character cf the roads, vocation of tho peoplo and tho distance each ono now has to travel to receive his mail. A map of the proposed routo j must accompany tho petition, this ho ing required. Tho petition must bo endorsed eitker by one ot the Senators from tho State or by tho Representa tive in Congress representing the dis trict in which it is proposed to estab lish tho route. The routo must be at least twenty miles long, and at least one hundred people must be served. Those desiring mail delivered must put up at their own expense suitable mail boxes for the mail and these boxes will be under the protection of the gov ernment. The carriers aro not required to de liver mail to houses standing from the main road; they may also carry other bu-inois besides tho United States mail. Patrons must co-operate hy keeping tho roads in good condition. The carriers will carry a supply of stamps, stamped en velones and postal cards, and aro required to cancel all letters they collect. Sergeant Jasper's Flag. Tho following communication to the I.'uion Progress calls attention to a matter that ought to bc of no little interest: Under tho heading "Sergt. Jasper's company," thc State of March 27th, 6ays: "In the valuable 'rubbish' at the Stato house there has recently been found tho original company roll of which Sergt. Jasper of Port Moultrie famo was a member. So thero is within possible reach ma terial for something more than an in teresting exhibit nt the coming Inter state and West Indian exposition in Charleston, and an opportunity for South Carolina to provo her apprecia tion of her glorious dead. In Ramsey's "History of thc Revolu tion," page 1G0, is found this footnote: ".On tho third day after thc action, the lady pf Col. Bernard Elliot present ed an elegant pair of colors to the sec ond regiment which had BO bravely de fended Fort Moultrie. Her address on tho occasion concluded thus: "I may not the least doubt, under heaven's protection, you will stand by these colors as long as they wavo in the air of liberty.' In reply a promise was made, 'that they should never bo tar nished by tho second regiment.' This engagement was literally fulfilled. Three years ofter they were planted on tho British lands nt Savannah. Ono by Lieut. Bush, who was immediately shot down. Lieut. Hume in the act of planting his, was also shot down; and Lieut. Gray in supporting them receiv ed a mortal wound. The brave Scrgt. Jasper on seeing Lieut. Hume fall took up tho colors and planted it. In doing so ho received n wound which terminated in death; but on tho retreat being ordered ho brought off tho colors with him. These wore taken at tho fall of Charleston, and aro said to bc now in thc tower of London. From tho above it is very evident that this Hag is still iu existence and thero is no doubt that, by proper effort, it can be obtained. Our Stato oflicers, members of congress and exposition authorities cnn unite their efforts and, with the support and influence of tho president of tho United States, can un doubtedly obtain through the British Minister at V* ashiugton, the loan or the gift of "Sergt. Jasper's Hag." Injustice to ourselves and our chil dren as *vell as to tho heroes of 1770, let us bend our energies to tho accom plishment of this act. Let this flag be brought from tho Tower of London, let its faded, perhaps moth-eaten, folds be unfurled over Scrgt. Jasper's com pany roll, let the true-hearted South Carolinians from tho seaboard to the mountains take their boys nnd girls by tho hand, and, standing in tho pres ence of these sacred relics, let them tell tho children over and over again tho thrilling story of Bush, and Hume, and Gray, and Jasper. Let them whis per it to the zephyrs and shout it ont to the winds thnt it may bo carried all over this broad land-North, South, East and West-for it is high time that justice bo done tho memory of these gallant men. All the world knows of Hunker Hill and Concord and Lexington, but in the year of onr Lord 1000 a southern lad, io deep chagrin, could write S rom a great^porthcrn city "These peoplo have never heard of Sergt. Jasper." Awake, South Carolinians, and make them hear bf him, and the many other southern heroes whose glorious deeds aro known and honored only upon their nativo heath. Mrs. Mary C. Clifford. Union, S. C., March ?0, 1001. - Pennsylvania and Virginia have had au April snow ttorin. STATE .NEWS. - KlVorts arc being made all over South Carolina to reduce tho cotton acreage: - Illinois has passed a bill appro priating $25,000 for representation at ?harl??tou. - Tho Governor continuos to receive reports of smallpox from different parts of the State. - John T. You oxblood, former treas urer of Picken* county, died suddenly near Picketts, Wednesday, - Hock Hill which has never had a dispensary is to vote on the question of establishing one on thc 12thinst. . - Tho recruiting sergeant at Colum bia has secured twenty-four men for tho United States armv nineo February 18. - James A. Higdell has been ap pointed sheriff of Saluda county vice M. A. Wittie, deceased. Tho new sherill* was chosen by a primary. - Senator Tillman has accepted the invitation to make tho address before the literary societies of Newberry col lege at tho Juno commencement. - Sumter's council recently put a liceusoof $5 on bicycles. A test case was brought and it has been decided that tho city has no right to tax bicy cles. - Mrs. Sallie McLauhclin of Union, while sitting in front of tho Ure, nurs ing her two week old grandchild faint ed and fell into tho lire severely burn ing herself and permanently destroying her eyesight. - Three Sophomores of the South Carolina college have been suspended for hazing a Freshman. Four other young men voluntarily confessed that they participated and similar action was taken ns to them. - The State peusion board finished examining all applicants, and after working nil tho week they left over for a futuro meotiug the other applica tions. Many applications will have to bc returned for correction. . - Among the recent graduates of thc Medical College of South Carolina aro Misses Emily Viettaud Miss Hosa Hirschman. These young ladies enjoy tho distinction of being the fust ladies to graduate from this institution. Ho th arc from Charleston. - Hon. II. M. Stackhouso slipped, fell and b.oke his leg last Wednesday night nt Clemson College. Ho was re turning from' a meeting of tho board of trustees in company with President Ilnrtzog and Dr. Sloan, who assisted him to his residence nenr by. - It is reported that tho dispensary at Adams Hun, Colleton county, is $505 short. Mr. Pate, the dispenser, has had his clerk, Fuller Beach, arrest ed and lodger! in jail, charged with tho crime. It is said Mr. Beach denies tho charge and lays it on Dispenser Pate. The bondsmen of Mr. Pate have paid up the shortage, - Tho farmers of Bamberg county aro tho first to acton the cotton acreage question. They have resolved not to increase this year tho cotton acreage and to "plant fully ns many acres in provision crops as they do in cotton" and that they will diversify their crops as much as possible so as to reduco tho acreage of cotton. - At a mooting of tho committco of the trustees of Wofford College, held Wednesday afternoon, it was decided to commence at onco tho rebuilding of thc Alumni Hall building, which was burned last winter. Tho raising of funds is going on and it is thought safe to commence operations. Tho local committee has charge of tho affair. --Camp Barnard Bee, U.C. V.? of? Aiken, has notified tho committee in charge of the coining Slate reunion that it will ha. o a large number of veterans at tho reunion and that nil of the men will bo uniformed in Confed erate gray. This has started a move ment looking to tho uniforming of many of tho camps to attend tho first Stnto reunion held in tho capital city. - Mr. A. A. Seigler, of Heaver Dam, who farms about nine miles north-east of Aiken, says ho has quito a curiosity nt his place in the shape of a hog with fivo feet. Tho hog is about eight or ten months old. Cn its right fore leg aro two well formed feet and on its left foro leg tho foot has fivo toes-one more than usual. Mr. Seigler pur chased tho hog of a darkey about a week ago and ho expects to put it on exhibition. - W. I). Starling, ono of tho mem bers of tho Stnto board of pensions, has been informed that a man, calling himself Dr. DcLeon has been going among thc pensioners in Orangcburg county, armed with a list of the county pensioners and representing himself ns an ngent of tho State board, has been collecting $3.00 from each pensioner, representing to each that it cost this amount to get the money. Of course "Dr. DoLeon" must be a fraud and those from whom ho has collected this Bum havo lost their money. - James Walker, a negro preacher, waa shot and almost instantly killed by Dan Smith, a negro rough, nt Cen tral, on tho Southern railway. Walker was standing near his church with n friend, when Smith and his compan ions carno along and bogan using vilo epithets to a woman related to Walker who was standing near. Walker re monstrated when Smith drew his pis tol and shot Walker, the bullet enter ing above the loft oyo, killing him al most instantly. Smith escaped. Wal ker is highly respected by whito and colored citizens. (?KNKIUl, Nh WS ITEMS. - Camden. X. .J., will put its police men in shirtwaists when tim wann wi a't her em?es. - Th? stamp tax has realized over At?8!.?H)a,00? In u tillie more than two years mid a half. - lt is slated that Memphis has rais ed $75,000 to entertain the old Con fed erated ut their reunion. - There will bea st like in the North Carolina cotton mills unless the opera lord agr?e to shorter hours. -- Hov. John Jasper, the negro preach er of Richmond who became famous foi preachiug that "the sun do move/' lias just died aged 80. - Col. Mosby of guerilla fame says tho South will::;? few years domi nate the nation and be tho most pros perous section io tho world, - Minnesota takes front rank on leg islation on cigarettes. The law in that State imposes n fine of Hf ty dollars on every man, woman or child whosmokcf a cigarette. - A young husband in New York if suing nu elderly man for $1,000 for twe kisses taken without tho young wife't consent. The jury has not yet ap praised tho damage. -- Tho Case heirs of Lexington, Ky., claim $20,000.000 worth of property ir Cleveland, O. Suit will ho instituted for possession. Thero are 5o0plnintiflV and 000 defendants. - lt is represented that game ii Maine is dying out by reason of tin long, cold winter. There have beet heavier snows in the State this yea than for a long time. - The department of agriculture es t?males that the value of the Icadinj farming crops in loot) wns $1,801,400, 000, or over $;t00,000,000 grcatei thai for tho previous year. - Lieutenant Richard Pierson Hob son, of Santiago and kissing fame, ha been presented with a thousand dolla silver service by his friends and neigh bois of Montgomery, Ala. - A Hoston man has (.Herod Si-err tory Root $50,000 for; 100 lectures b Aguinaldo, and is willing to put u $200,000cash bonds to insure thc Eil ipino's good behavior and safety. - Aman living in Des Moines, name Nation, lins been joked so much sine tho lady of that name sailed fort with her hatchet that he has petit ?one tho legislature to change his name. - In 1891) thc public high schools c the United States graduated 20,344 boj and :W,124 girls. Tho explanation ? offered that tho boys are taken froi school earlier than tho girls and put < work. - A copy of tho Genova Hiblo c 1588, which had belonged to Elizabet Minshull, John Milton'?? third wife, an on which Milton's rare signature ha been posted, brought $1,125 at ft Lot don book salo. - Mrs. Samuel Smith, of Nownrl has given birth to a perfectly forme baby girl who weighs just fourtet ounces. At least such is thc story th; comes from New York, audit is ni under an April 1st date lino either. - A provisional bankers' syndical with $150,000,000 resources has bc< formed for financing tho Panania can construction. Promoters say the wate way, inclusivo of purchase of frai chises, can bo completed for two hui dred millions. - Wo havo but ono living ex-pro.f dent, but there are now living tho wii owe of three former presidents of tl United States. Mrs. Harrison lives; Indianapolis, Mrs. Grant ipakes h home in Washington, nnd Mrs. <?n field lives in Mentor, O. - Tho women of a fashionnb church in Rayonne, N. J., are wipii ont the debt of that house of worsh in a novel and curious manner. Kai has her "self-denial bag," and whe over she thinks of new ribbon", cam or any other little luxury, sho deni herself tho pleasure and puts the pri of tho articles in the bag instead. It claimed that the church debt is [rapi ly diminishing. - In thc Pecos valley, south of Re well to Barstow. Tex., a distance 170 miles,there will be planted tl year 1,200 acres of cantaloupes, wi an approximate estimated yield 1,000 carloads of the melons, or som thing less than a carload to the aci The crop will be shipped direct Chicago and will have an average ci load net market value of $150-t minimum per carload being $?500, wi a maximum of $G00. - Senators and members of t House have left at thc Agricultu Department in Washington thousan and tens of thousands of addresses persons to whom packets of vegetal and flower seeds are to be sent. <) day last week not less than 1,200 mi sacks, each containing 200 packages seeds, were dispatched from tho Was mgton postofllco. It is estimated til tho total number of seed packages tl yeer will amount to 11,000,000 or 000,000 moro thnn last year. - At Win8toad, Conn., a ineeti was held last week of the promiut business mon to form si company breed black cats. Tho skins of jet lines aro quoted at 50 cents, and tin being no law to protect feline*?, a tho fact that they arc not subject taxation, lins led the promoters to I Hove that a good prolit can bo realh in breeding them. Au Angora C j company, capitalized at $20,000 1 ' just been organized in Winstendanc ii possible that tho two companies \i bo merged. Portman l etter. The days PISH hy willi Mich rapidity tbat sometime, ii is him! to id! when the uiiddlo of tho wet k br lugs tho ( ml to UH and sayf : here is tho elnso ?>!' '-c ur noun riayp. We scarce get limn to read well ovor thu many interesting portioi s ot'our Ax UKItSON INTKLMOKKCKU-which means ? very column-bofo re it ii time to begin our Portmsn letter Kvcry correspon dent, no doubt, realizes thia regarding time. Koaders of tho iNTKi.i.mr.NOEn should foel grateful tu t lioso obliglug wi ben from tho country at large whoso niuo must be so busily occupied with crops or household caro?. Like tho honey bee, they cheerfully gather, as they wander through the wholesome hours, all that is good and enjoyable, and send ii to their paper that, week after wink, readors may partake with thom in tho feast of roaaon and the How of soul. Usually thore li little to write about, but we notice that all tho contributors make tho moat of their little, and are grateful to their frlendB who supply them with nows. A newspaper links its readers iu beau tiful, benevolent ties. In its olear, ac centuated typo, it tells each of the other. It acquaints tho other with what each has said and thought kindly in his behalf; there is no "hallowed ground" that pre serves so many saored memories aa the pages of a newspaper, and subsc. '.bera should preserve f los of their papor as re cords of tho friendliness o? fr'.ends all tho year round. To look next year in some pat o of this year's paper and seo where so anti so has visited nc. And so and so in speaking ol' us to a nowspapor reporter, has called us the handsome, or dashing, or gallant, or pretty, or noble, Mies, Mrs. or Mr. Somebody, saying how hap py our visit has made everybody! Wo ?m H Vt lo have thoso tiles of newspapers to show we were living, and where we liv ed. As for tho mun who cannot or will not take a newspaper ol' his own, thore will be few records no doubt ol'tho noble things he has done, ami few will have enough interest In him to put his na md in tho local items. Wo rend "Breathes Ibero a man with i soul so dead wno unver to himself hath H>rUl, tills is my own, my nativo land." Wo wonder, breathes there a maa with soul so dead who never to himself hath said: I want a newspaper! Wo doubt lt. Wo have heard on authority that a clergy man, passing through tho heather of Scotland, mot an old woman, and never missing an opportunity for promulgating his faith, he asked hor of her soul. She 1 had not hoard of such questions before, 1 and did not know. "My dear woman," said he reverently, ' don't you know that ? Christ died?" "Naw, uaw," said Bhe, *'I dinna ken wha's a livia'or dod noe; ma husband naw tak' ma boom th' noos papvr." So much for the general kuowl L edge cr historic past that cornea or ro mains with the mau whose own soul is so dead he doe? not tak* boom the poos paper lo bia wife. , We are having "April weather," of [ course, at Portman. It's on the calendar i and Wa accuraey must bo recorded. With the bursting of eunshluo and frolic of ; blossoms some of us began looking around for a man who would cut up our heavy oak logs into stove longthB, and we began sweeping up and a.vay tho I laat pipe full of ashes in our sitting room (ire place, for it was time to putin screens! And we began folding away two or th roo winter comforters off our beds, and looklog through last year's effects for mid-season garment?; but as tho darkey said, "Mistah wintor, he com' long an' 883 : bea, boa now, you jes' put dem tings back whar Joy belongs; you put dem woods back in de d' place, aa' yo hivers on yo bed, an' yo dos' on yo ches'. I's not dun wlf yo yell" A story the writor hoard in childhood, and we have all hoard since. April had come. Tho father of the household said, i o r sobing the children wanting to discard shoesand ilanuels and muftisre;"childron, I will toll you a story: There waa once a mm who had a sick caw; he nursed this , cow through tho droarinoss of winter, thront;!) its cold and snow sud sleet and rain, and at tho ond of wiuter tho cow was saved. Ho nursed it into Spring, and tho month of April came to make glad his heart lio let the convalescent animal out in tho warm sunshine. Tho animal enjoyed tho bursting of sunshine ' and buds, but It experienced thia enjoy ment only ono week-tho first week of April kided il!" Tho writer always remembers this, aud takes litllo pleasure so far in tho bland ' Uhmenla of Mispah Hpring- paying con siderable rospuot to tbo cautiousness of > Miatah Winter. i In roforenco to a local item of Portman, wo notice that Dr. Orr's general manager , herp, Mr. lt. T. Loug, has about complet ed tho placing of tho wires between this and Auderson. He has had his mon, it ' is true, place them during Sabbaths, acd . censuro was not unusual ou managorand } mon for die regard of sacred laws. The good keepers of tho oommandmout, per haps, throughout the County did net know that the mills could only work at day time. Tho employes wonld not work at night. A workman putting up a wire 1 nt daytime betwoen this and Anderson would rtcelvo through his bndy from auy of'the Uvo wires which he must : t>uch, s shock of something like 4,000 volts of oleclricity. Would any good person ?ant to BOO a Christian mandie like that-oven on a wook day? i Mrt?. 1). L. Arthur, wifoof Mr. Tanny's general Huporintondant, who visited her i homo at Philadelphia, Pa , a few months a<o, lins relumed to gladden Hie heart* of All who remember her. Mr. ami Mrs. \rthnr have many friends aiunng tboen terprivlug onbatruotiontat* of North and i ->outh Carolina. lt. If. U -- Tho separation of church and state in Spain is demanded.