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"BYTCLINKSOALES & LANGSTON., ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10. 1900. VOLliME XXXYI-NO 16 Evans' s ' s i . ? Sil .-s ^?^?GE??m?*Qc Did you ever try a pair of these Shoes ? They are the best Shoes for $3.50 that are shown in this town! Strong talk, maybe, but we know what we are talking about, and we believe you'll say ?he same thing if you give these Shoes a trial. Sometimes we have a pair that don't give satisfaction} but every time this occurs we make it satisfactory. We had a pair of these Shoes returned to us yesterday. They were not as good as they should be-not as good as we said they were, so we gave the customer a new pair. That's our way of doing things. If anything we sell you doesen't give ycu satisfactory wear we are here to make it do its full duty. There's a deal of satisfaction in trading here, anyway. THE SPOT CASH CLOTHIERS. WHITE FRONT THESBEAUTIES OF THE COUNTRY Reveal themselves in no way so attractively as to the occu pant of an open BUGGY, SUEEEYor TRAP, Of which you have a choice at my Bepository. This year the variety is greater than ever, the Vehicles -in every-way bet ter, and the cost for equal grades very much less. We trust you will favor us with a visit. - JOS. J. FRET WELL. If you want to have the best Garden you ever had in your life, try dur New Seed \ thia year. KILL-ORR DRUG CO. mm SOME BARGAINS ! ISSw I HIVE 1 FEW PUHOS. R7 l^^SHflHBSBT 0t tho very highest grade and latest style?, K^HSDKL TO 60 AT ?0ST 70R A FEW DAY8> ^'>ffl^VwflR0 rpfcig i8 an opportunity of a life-time. ftt.??l? h*VM thft 'ato^'Improved haU-boarlntr NEW HOME SEWING H> T?1NI5S far ?SO. Vibrator Stsndaia Macwne only $28.00. M. fi.. WILLIfl, *' Sooth Mein Stroit, Anderson, F. & FROM THE NATION'S CAPITAL. From Our Own Correy*indent. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 15,1001. When Senator Hoar introduced, and Congress adopted, a proviso to tb J Philippine amendment to the army ap propriation, bill, declaring that no fran chises were to bo granted and no tim ber disposed of in the islands it thought I that it was really prohibiting the dis j position O? th'io Umber, j usc us on co I before it had thought that it was pro I hibiting the army canteen. On the former occasion, however, Attorney ! General Griggs, by a method of rea I coning of fearful and wonderful com ! piexiiy, decided that it really endorsed the canteen, nud Secretary Hoot has I now followed his example by deciding that instead of prohibiting timber loot ing Congress really endorsed rules already in force providing for tho dis position of this timber. Mr. Koot, however, has not had the nerve to heit forth the reasoning by which ho reach ed this conclusion, thus saving himself from the ridicule that overwhelmed Mr. Griggs. Of course, tho advisa bility or inadvisability of the legisla tion is not tho question in either case but merely the matter of obedience to the plain words of Congress. Now that this dictum bas been promulgated, an influential Western Congressman, who was forced to admit on the floor ? of the House that bc was speculating in Philippine timber and who had re mained in Washington until the order ! was made, lins set out for tho Philip pines to inspect the enormous public wealth that has been thrown open to him aud his friends. The meat exporters of the United StateB have recently beon thrown into a panic by the report that Great Bri tain has at last joined Germany and other continental powers in nttneks on American meats . They have tele graphed to tho various executive de partments hero imploring them to take action in defense. Tho immediate capo for panic is found in tho decision of the British Government to exclude foreign beef from army contracts, ob taining instead Australian or Canadian animals. Thc really surprising thing isthat Britain-should hu ve been pa tient so long, tho manufacturers of tho United States having been running along on the assumption that it was not necessary for them to make any concessions to foreign powers in ex change for tho concessions received from them. Secretary Hay, it is said, has practi cally concluded with Lord Pauncefotc the draft of a new canal treaty, which will bo taken to England by that dip lomat when he leaves in Juno to pre sent his respects to his now Sovereign. Jost what the new treaty provides is not known, bat it is said that tho chief changes arc in the line of definitely fixing tho means by which the United States may exercise "tho right of tak ing measures necessary in its own de fense," and of inserting clauses by which tho United States specifically agrees not to assume dominion ov jr any part of South or Central America. The Secretary, it is said, has taken enfiioient note of public opinion to re frain from agreeing to trado any moro Alaskan territory for concessions else where. This is fortunate, if he hopes that his treaty will be acceptable to the Senate and to the country. . Despite the effets of General Mac Arthur to minimize and suppress the newB of the defalcations in tho Philip pines, it has transpired that they are very serious, and' are further, almost exactly those of which warning was given by N. E. Guyot, of Colorado, acting auditor at Manila', later by quartermaster's clerk Cole, and still later by Editor Rice. All these warn ings, though circumstantial and given by responsible mon, were ignored and their sponsors punished ns far a s might be. Editor Rico actually haviug been expelled from tho island in the effort to suppress his testimony. It is, of course, not surprising that out of thou sands of men some should be dishonest, but it is certainly astonishing that the Administration should seek to punish tho men who discovered it and sustain those who were guilty of it. * Tho closing of tho army canteens has had n most deplorable effect nt Fort Moyer, jost across tho river from this city, as it has had at other places. Before the canteen was established there were large groups of saloons and disreputable houses outside the reser vations nt the entrances to tho arsenal and Fort Meyer. When tho canteens were opened and tho soldiers had an attractive placo of resort where they could obtain pure beer at cost price, with games, newspapers, magazines, and other diversions to occupy their minda when they wereoff duty, the low dives entirely disappeared, the keepers being compelled to close and go else where, because of lack of patronage. Within a few days after the canteens were closed they were all reopened in increased numbers and appear to be doing an active and profitable business in the salo of vile whiskey and other liquors. As attractions they have bil liard and card tables, and numerous disoluto women who lio in wait for the soldiers OM they como frons the reser vations, and entice them into tho drinking places. The night after the last pay day. these places were a bed lam beyond tho control oj tho police. Such disorder has not been seen for several years. As a result, the savings deposited with tho paymaster by tho soldiers, usually amounting to fifty per cent, of the tot-.? pay, nave sunk to almost no th hiv. The W. C. T. U. should bs congratulated on its work. . STATE NEWS. - Kock Hill has refused a dispensary ky a vote of 50 to 170. - Work has begun on tho "million dollar mill at Lancaster. - Work is to begin on tho Charles ton naval station at once. - Tho Abbeville cotton mill has in creased its stock from halie a million to $700,000. Mr. Thomas Randolph, cf Lamar, Darlington county, died April Otb, at tile age of 102 years. - The board of health cf Union is going to fight mosquitoes with oil this summer. They propose to put kero sene in all pondo, hike* or vessels in which mosquitoes breed. - Senator B. R. Tillman will deliver tho literary address, aud tho Kev. D. N. McLaughlin, of Chester, will preach tho sermon at the] commmeucemcut exercises at Clemson in Juno. - There is a strong prospect of the publication of a Republican daily news paper at Columbia. It is uuderstood that Mr. W. B..Smith-Whaley tho cot ton mill magnate will bo iu charge. - Tho Seneca cotton mill is rapidly approaching completion, and President L. W. Jordan has reason to bo proud of the work, as it bids fair to be one of the most thoroughly built and equipped mills in the State. - Senator S. G. Mayfield, of Bam berg county, had tho misfortune to lose his house and nearly all it con tained by lire the other night. He lost his fine library which had some very valuable works in it. - Near Bowman, Orangeburg coun ty, a negro and his second wife were arrested ou the charge of beating an 8-year-old-child by a former wife to death. The circumstantial evidence is strong agai.-jt them. - Miss Florence Lorysa, oue of tho Winthrop students, while sitting watching tho Saturday evening play o? her companions, suddenly collapsed add before any aid could bo given her had breathed her last. - W.S.Lee, a crippled merchant who keeps store nt a small station near Union was called up by an unknown party last Friday night and murdered at bis storo door. The object ?B thought to have been robbery. - During reunion week thc Daugh ters of the Confederacy of Columbia vnro to present to members of Camp Hampton, medals known as the South ern Cross of Honor, the presentation to take placo ou memorial day. - The April showers raised tho Con garee nt Columbia higher than it has been for ten years. The electric power house, furnishing 0,000-horso power, was stopped. Several small tornadoes twisted things around near Charleston and tho coast. - Governor Mcsweeney has receiv ed a paper in a novel case. Tho peo p?o of Saludn held a primary election to nhmo a dispenser. Tho county board ignored the primary n ,mince, and ap pointed a man of their choice for dis penser. The people ask the Governor to withhold his signature from the com mission . -- It is announced by those in posi tion to know that a railroad will soon be built from the Toxaway Ford, near Sapphire, N. C., to Seneca, S. C. Re cent surveys have been made by en gineers, and tho actual work of con struction will begin within a month. Tho Toxaway Company, of Sapphire, are behind the enterprise. - The twin City Power Co. will build an immense cotton mill and pow er plant at Ring Jaw shoals on Savan nah river, near McCormick. It is pro posed to furnish power for several towns. D. M. Mackayo, who is direc tor of ono of J. Pierpont Morgan's New York banks and whom Bradstreet rates at $5,000,000 is at the head of thc enter prise. - Governor Mcsweeney has become suddenly interested in that "bunch of money" that is lying idle iu England waiting for several thousand heirs to qualify and r.pend it. Mrs. Mcsweeney was a Miss Porcher of Charleston, and tho governor has been notified by one of the heirs who is looking up records that Mrs. Mcsweeney comes in for a share of $149,000,001?. - George P. McCloy was sentenced iu tho United States circuit court in Charleston to six years in the penitcn tentiary. McCloy waa a, pension agent who was shown to have been engaged in swindling tho Federal government for years. He obtained pensiono for negroes who did not deserve them or clso for people who did not exist nt all. The papers in both cases would bo forged by himself and his accomplice, Solomon P. Brown. Brown turned State's evidence and was acquitted. McCloy's operations covered the entire lower section of tho State. - Last Wednesday about noon two mules belonging to December Gadsden, a well-to-do colored man living m Walhalla, were killed by a singular ac cident. He employed a man to cut and haul wood from a place about two miles from town. The moles were hitched in the woods a short distance from where a large tree was being cut down. Jest as tue tree was nboutto fall a heavy wind began blowing from the direction ia which it waa intended the tree should fall and blew it down, the tree falling across the back of one mule and tho neck of thc other. Tho neck of the one was broken aud it died immcdititoly and the other lived only a short timo. The team cost Gndsdcn $200 only a short while back. GENERAL NEWS ITEMS. - American, manufacturera | sold a million pnir of shoes in Great Britain in 1900. - A national prohibition conference has been called nt Bult'alo, N. Y., in August next. - Tho man choseu by the fugitive Filipinos to succeed Aguinaldo is also a captive in American hands. - Tiic number of idle factories in Germany is giviug tho government ns well ns tho philanthropists great con cern. - Congressman Fleming, democrat, of Georgia believes the silver issue is dead and w?nts tho party to *rop it and take up some live issue. - King Oscar of Norway and Sweden linn accepted tho post of ar bitrator , 'ho Samoan claims of the United Su?tes, Great Britain and Ger many. - C. M. Schwab, manager of the I steel trust, has paid $7.*)0,000 Cor a lot in New York city upon which, he will build a million dollar residence. His salary is just a million a year. - James M. Barr, late vice-president of the AtchiRon. Topeka and Santa Fe system, has been elected vice-president of the Seaboard Air Liuc. V. E. McBce remains general superintendent. - California js tho only placo in the world where salt is harvested by plow ing. Nature has made an inexhausti ble depositon the surface ot' tho ground in tho heart of tho Colorado desert. - Acco-iding to Mr. R. Dodge, statis tician of tho department of agricul ture, thero aro 0,500,000 agricultural workers in tho United States, of whom 0,000,000 are "independent farmers.1' -- Causer Booker, said to bethe oldest colored mon in the world, lives near Washington, Ga. It is said that ho is 130 years old. Tho Buffalo Exposition wants him to exhihit ns one ol' their novel attractions. - The divorce business is prosperous in Rhode Island, where non-supp?t I is the favorite charge. Tho judicial sta tistics of that little State show that 373 divorces wore granted in the year 181)7, 400 in 18?18, 412 in 1899 and 400 in 1900. - Foi tho first time in tho history of Havana, it is reported, tho month of of April began without a singlo caso of yellow fever in tho city and Major Gorgas, chief sanitary officer, is confi dent that there will ho few eases dur ing the summer. - George W*. Boyer, one of the jurors in tho caso of John Brown, who was hanged at Harper's Ferry in 1859, has just died at Charleston, W. Ya. But one member of that famous jury now survives-William A. Martin, who lives at Deleplane, Ya. - General Wood, governor-general of Cuba, doesn't like cartoons, and be cause tho Discussion, a Cuban paper, published he and McKinley and label ed them ns thieves, who are robbing Cuba of her independence, ho closed up the shop and forced thc management out of business. - A South Taris (Mo.) mau recently secured a prize in the form of a horse which snores so it rattles the dishes in the pantry. The owner of tho horse has io turn out in the middle of cold nights and go down to the stable and feed the horse so ho will stop snoring and the family can sleep. - The famous Okeefonokee swamp in Sonth Georgia has been sold to Charles Hobard & Sons, of Michigan. The consideration, it 1B nndorstood, is $275,000. The swamp contains 354,000 acres and its circumference is 137 miles. The sale carries with it tho land, tim ber, water courses and game with which tho swamp abounds. - A new cotton mill ?B to bo estab lished nt Athens, Ga., with a capital of $300,000. most of which has been sub scribed by homo capitalists. Thc now mill will be operated by electric power, generated at Tallusec Shoals, eight miles from Athens where n big electric plant is now being constructed. - Hon.*?). B. Stevens, State Commis sioner of Agriculture, says ho lins form ed tho opinion from observation and information received in tho sections he hus recentlyjvisited than tho fumers of of Georgia are not planting any more cotton that they did last yenr: notwith standing the increased sale of fertil izers. - Of Aguinaldo's age there is groat doubt. Tho estimates range from 27 to 32. Ho himself doe* not know tho year in which ho was born, but 1874 is believed to bo tho correct dato. Ho is 5 feet, 4 inches i.i height, an accom plished linguist, and as a general has been called "Filipino Napoleon." - Major Johnson, ot Fargo, N. D., who has been on a trip to Norway and Sweeden, expects that twenty thous and Scandinavians will come to Amer ica this year. He is quoted ns saying that they evidently do not take any stock in the cry of militarism in the United States, for the Scandinavians are leaving their native land in order to cecape the system of military con scription about to be established. - Mrs. Ella Downey of Fontanelle, Ia., seeks divorce on altogether un precedented grounds. Her husband, Frank Downey, suffered the amputa tion of an arm last fall and has kept the dismembered limb over since. This was bad enough, but whenever ho gets in a tantrum ho brandishes it around tho house, knocking dishes oft' tho table and boating the dog with it, thereby severely shocking his wife's nervous system. Wherefore the lady neck? ?loonrntion and alimony. Iola Locals. With thu wiitin}; of this, Mr. Editor, wo wish to hid you und tin? muny rend ers ot thc INTKI.MUKNCKH farewell for I a few weeks. Therefore we will leave ! the small Apace in this paper that has i been consigned to na to be tilled by more fluent writer?. The health of our people is very good ! at tho present writing, though wo are never free from some little sickness, j Mr. Tom Hire and family, of Hurt- ? well. Ga., and Mr?. Sallie Whitten, of Marietta, Ga., have been visiting friends and relatives in this ami adjoin ing communities. Farm work has been progressing nicely for tho past ten days, but wc ave having Boitte rain to-day that will stop work a short while. The shower is very acceptable, as it will help tobring up the corn that was planted some time ago. Some of our people have begun planting cotton seed. The young people throughout this section meet every Sunday afternoon at some neighbors house and spend two or three hours in singing. Wo think I this is a i ood thing, ns it is better than going about from house to house and spending the time in frivilous conver sation and fun. Ina few weeks thc people in this section will have the luxury of free mail delivery, but we fear that they will not lind it as convenient ns it is thought to be. Mr. and Mrs. U. A. Welborn and daughter, Miss Hosa, have each had a severe attack of grip, but are now con valescent. Last Friday afternoon we had the pleasure of listening to Borne niee reci tations by some of the pupils of the Iola school, and also of witnessing the "egg hunting" engaged in by the school. The eggs were hidden by the teacher, Miss Uussie Welborn, and it was indeed interesting to see t he pupils hunt for them. Miss Gussie knows how to make her pupils enjoy going to school, as well as instructing them. A few days ago Dr. J. G. Ducwoith, assisted by Dis. Townsend and Harris, of Anderson, performed an operation on a negro woman living on the plan tation of Mr. W. W. Smith, successful ly removing two tumors wcighiugfiftv two pounds. The woman is on a fair road to recovery. A large number of out' people attend ed the Carnival ut Anderson labt week. The majority of them pronounced it a very poor thing. Tho high dive wa? considered the best partid! the show. Miss Cora Brooks is visiting tho fam ily (d* her uncle, Mr. Henson Urooks, of the Whitefield community. Mr. W. T. Link and family, of Willis Chapel, visited relut ives in this, sec tion last week. Mr. Adolphus Holder has returned from a business trip to Elberton, Ga. It is hoped that tho fruit that has not already been killed is out uf danger, though some predict frost in May. It is gratifying to know that the young ladies are taking a great inter est in the lola Literary Society. Very good cs?*vya wero read last Saturday uight by the following girls: Misse? Lizzie Mitchell, Lessie Wilson, aud Beulah, Mattie, and .Sammie Holder. One of the hardest trials of those who suddenly fall i rom riches and hon or to poverty and disgrace is the dis covery that the attachment of so many in whom they confuted, was a pretense, a mask, to gain their own ends or was a miserable shallowness. Sometimes, doubtless it is with regret that tho trivilous followers of the world desert thoso upon whom they have fawned, but they soon forget them. Flies al ways leave the kitchen when the dish es are empty. Tho parasites that clus ter about tho favorite of fortune, to frather his gifts and climb by his aid, iugcrs with the sunshine but scatter at tho first signs of a storm, as the leaves cling to the tree in Bummer weather, but drop off at tho breath of winter and leave it naked to the stinging blast. Like buzzards settled down for a feast, and suddenly scared by a noise, how quickly aro these superficial earthlings, at tho first sound of calamity, mere specks on tho horizon. But a true frienp sits in the center and is for all time to come. Our need only reveals him more fully, and binds him moro closely to us. Prosperity and adversi ty are both revealers, thw difference be ing that in tho former our friends know us, in tho latter we know them. But notwithstanding the insincerity and greediness so prevalent among men there is a vast deni more of esteem und fellow-yearning than is ever outwardly shown. There nra more examples of unadulterated affection, moro deeds of silent love and magnanimity, than is usually supposed. Our misfortune brings to our sides real friends who were before unknown. Benevolent im pulses where wc should not expect them, in modest privacy, enact ninny a scene of beautiful wonder amidst tho plaudits of augels. With many a good wish to thc editor, correspondents and readers of the ?NTK1 l.lGF.NCKIt, solong. W. C. BAIINKTT, April ly, 15)01. lola, S. C. Southern Ballway thc Official Horde to Chickamauga and Memphis Kr tho unveiling of Sou I h Carolina Monument. Chickttuiauga L'ark, May .'7ih, nnd United ConledHratu Veterans' Bennion, Memphis, Tenn., May 28tb, .Shit aii? 30ttl, 11KU. Speolal reduced r-?t*H via Southern Butt way for buth these occasion?. Rate for tba round trip : From Ander non. 8. C., to Chat ai.ooga and return, 18.25; from Anderaor, H. C., to Memphis i nd rel u ru, f ll If?. It ?und trip tioketa from Chattanooga to Lytlo Mutton (Cbtckamauga) twenty-live eents (26c). Tick etc to Chattanooga and return, ac count or unveiling c?r?monie*?, on KJk'e May 24th, 25tb and 2i?:0, good ici et urn until May 30 k, 10M. Tickets to Memphis and return, ao eni:ut Confederate Reunion, on saie May 25>b, 20th and 27U.,good to return until Juno 4th, 1801. Tbese tioketa may be -x tended until June 10th by deposit at Memphis with tho Joint Agent and pay ueutof a fee of Atty cents (50.*.) at timo of deposit. A stop ovflr n? one day will oe permuted at' Chattanooga, Tenn., Hither on tho going or return trip, to na bte tho S >uth carolina Veterans to ve.it Chiokamuuga Park to witness the . nvetliug and dedication of the South Carolina Monument hose ticket.-" will li? sold hy ntl prin cipal agents of tho Honlbern H ?il way. Contp.r with m arct San tu? rn lt-.11 way *gent, or wm R W Hunt, IV 1' A., Charlsftton, 8, C. ; H. II ni wick. (1 P. A , Washington, D. C. ; W. E. Metice, T.P. A., Almurta, Qa.; W.H. Tay loo, A. U. 1?. A., Atlanta, Qa. Portman Letter. Momo W?KO person 1IHB paid to this of fed: "in order to write wo?, nover at tempt to write uutil you have something lo tay." To -day whiio foroo of habit baa been urglnu: to tho usual weekly correspon dence, a benevolent memory bas said: dont, you bavo nothing to nay. A few faces, however, that ?re dear to me, arise In sweet expression and say: why don't you write that lotte?? When you don't, we look tho piper through and aro disappointed Not. long since, a friend said: Wo have boen taking tho INTELLIGENCER fur yearn, aud ealisiicd with it; but now aomo way if that Port man letter ii missing Ibero id something lost to us?, aud I don't tako the tamo In terest in tho rest of tho paper all week." Ii is for such kind loaders as those, that tho h itor must attempt to appear, if even for no further gratification than its bow before tho footlights, which ia o matter of appreciation tor tho audience, and not talent ot its own. Mot possesing tho requirements of a writer In especial KOUSO, the correspon dent, knowing that many persons, kind in their intention might undertake the aalutrry eorreetloa of lltorary criticism, decided-with rospocis to tho?o friends to retire in namo from tho subject of the let tor. Too old now to loam, too lethar gic to aspire, criticism would hurt with out improvlug und instruct without teaching. The lotter, plain, simple, and In fellowship with the large-hearted gen erosity of simple folk was intended from the beginning to ontertaln these gracious peoplo, vhoso envlablo talent ls to ap preciate what ls well mean*. The letter U for Portman, from Portman, and for all Portman friend?. These simple friends, and thosu.specially who wished aomo one would write for them a Portman letter, will sytnpatbi/.a when they know that last week a couple of these returned let ters were rocolvcd from a friend with tho following correction tVong tho margine t I'Bawaro of mixed metaphors; your moaning H not clear;" 1 fall of the wator' should bo 'impact';1' "bid, Vfiry bad, your hyperbole is ovcratralned aud be i conies bombas?;" "ibis poriod is too long; Htudy u mixturo of long and short poriods; this rel ie von tho mind of irksomeness and entertains by adiversity of impressions;" , ' too obscure, too involved, not apposite;" "thia introduo3s an idea wholly foreign to tho impression and ruins all;" "bad grammar."' The general reader will now understand why the writer wishes to re main unkuown. Of cour.-c, the criticisms are correct aud the writer is wrong; but whore Ja tho usi?' Tho samo errors will be committed over again in manuscript and in print will appear like oil under a hot iron. Tho writer knew an author who never looked at bis own works when they came from tho press. They dis couraged bim. with their inaccuracies. Nono f aw these nearly cr? woll as ho did. Ile closed his .es, saying: 'tho public may not HOO the errors as I do; but if I am again conscious of them I shall never ba able to begin another pige." A gentleman from the Fork re >ntly believed bo extended a compliment when ho said: "I havo found out who writes the Portman Utter." "I have not inquir ed any way about it," said the correspon dent, "only thoro teems to bo little nowa in them." "Ab." said the gentleman, "but thoy make Portman known, and wo think they are very good. I've been reading tho ANOKBSON INTELLIUENOEU sinos a small boy, when after the war my father commenced taking the paper. Every column seems mine and now this Portman letter seems to give me an ex tra page." How gratifying by compari son ?B this. No expansive erudition sep arates the lordly learned from the Bim f>!e unlettered. The sweet unction of bo ng able to please a few l?|far more profit able in spirit than perusing tones of criti cism which, like the author, would pre vent from ever again beginning another page. Thoro are honest and hopeless mistakes, some time like literary inaccuracies, and Ibero are remedial mistakes like that v.- Inch last week made the wires each be tween Portman and Arderson carry 4,000 volts of electricity instead of 11,000. Re gret waa inferred that if by any Sabbath law the workmen wore p.evented aetttng the wiroH on Sunday when the mills were closed they would on week days be sub ject from each wire to the fatal shook ot ?t ooo volts. Too legislation allows 1,700 volts for logal electrocution. 4,000 is not so damagable, but 11,000 from each is dan gerous. During tho week Dr. S. M. (?rr and wile, Sam'l Orr, Jr , and Miss Euor Hill visited Portman. On Sunday last Mrp. Joy Busby enter tained Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Buchanan and BOP, li. A. Buchanan, nf Antut?, Misa Leila Buchanan, Miss I."ila Car wi le, Messrs. Sam Jackson and Sylroster El rod, Mr. J. P.. Busby and Mr. Noah Sharp. Miss Claudia Pr?vost and Miss Lucy Cihmer were also guests of friends at Portman. R. F. L. mm ? m Aaron News. Tho sunshiny days of tho past week havo been taken advantage of by the farmers, as they have lost no time in planting and prenaring for cotton and corn. Mr. Hebert Gentry, of FurLihu Uni versity, spent a day or two w .th home folks last week. Mrs. J. W. Whitten, of Marietta, Ga., visited relatives in this section recently. Little Miss Mario White, who has boen very tdck, wo aro glad to ssy is rapidly improving. Tho school at Hopewell is flourish ing under the management of Mr. Lewis Mahafiey, assisted by Mies Balah Slringer. Tho prayer meeting at Hopewell is well attended, and is conductcd'overy Sunday evening at early candle light. Mr. Lawrence Jones or Wa? it Hill, Go., and Miss Lucy Williams? of Sop tus, S. C., were happily united in the holy bonds of matrimony nt the home of tho bride, April 7th, by Roy. T. P. Lido, of Pendleton. Wo extend our sincere wishes for their future happi ness. I Our clever blacksmith, Mr. Levi i Jones, is kept quito busy now. OUSEJIVKR.