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"BYTCLINKSOALES & LANGSTON., ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10. 1900. VOLliME XXXYI-NO 16 That oar competitors consider themselves lucky when they lose no more than from five to fifteen per cent, of their sales each year by bad debts., . Of coarse somebody must stand* this loss. It's not the intention that it shall rest on the Credit Merchant. The old-fashioned way pf charging much more than we ask for the same Goods provides very nicely for even fifteen per cent, losses. The men who pay these bills and buy of Credit Stores stand all these losaos? by simply paying much more than we ask for the same Goods, and merely to secure credit-a few weeks credit. a. so-called advantage in buying from other Clothing Stores in Anderson is credit-long credit, six months or a year. ? - They have to give something in exchange for the large prices demanded. If that's what you want you can't buy our Goods, but we give you everything else they do, and more Your Money Back ! If You Want It ! Bve-v Cash Dollar spent with us will purchase more than, a promise-to-pay dollar will buy anywhere. / When we say we can SAVE YOU MONEY on your WE MEAN EVERY. WOUD OF IT ! and can easily prove it. All we want ia a chance ..,,. ... n .i.'-; Ju ? . . ;. ;, -,, ? , ; \ To Show our floods And Quote the Prices on them. You caa then decide for yourself if we are troth-tellers er tratfe-elaysza. ?H? SPOT GASH CLOTHIERS. PROM THE NATION'S CAPITAL. From Our Own Correspondent. WASHINGTON ( D. C., May 20,1901. It seems practically certain nowadays that the chief question which will con vulse Congress and the nation next winter will be that of the tariff, both in its relation to trust-mado goods and in connection with thc reciprocity Li cu tios which wero so unceremoniously buried last winter. Tho matter will probably como up in connection with Cuba, which will negotiate a recipro city treaty with the United States as soon aa its government is organized and capable of making any treaties ut all. President McKinley has promised to urge the ratification of this upon Congress by evey means in his power, and will probably keep his word in view of his well known sentiments on the subject. Put the piotected inter ests aro alreadyup in arms, the beet sugar men of the West taking the lead. They have threatened to fight the pro posed reciprocity to a finish.' Tho to bacco men do not care so much, as they say Cuban tobacco ?oe? not com? ??U> competition with the American product except in an indirect way. Senator Flatt's own State of Connecticut raises a great deal of tobacco, and while tho Senator says that he has not yet heard of any objections to reciprocity with Cuba, nevertheless his State would be falso to her record if she did not pro test bitterly- sooner or biter, it being Connecticut which was chiefly respon sible for the abandonment of "plain duty" and whose influence prevented the consideration of the French recip rocity treaty. According tn Senator Platt it is not proposed by any ono to give Cuban products free admission to the United StateB. But the home sugar growers are not willing to make any concessions whatever, and they are already appealing to other interests which are not involved in the Cuban arrangement to stand by them. Their argument isihat an attempt is tobe made to lower all the important tariff schedules by means of reciprocity trea ties, not only with Cuba, bot with most of tho leading nations; therefore tho whole proteotivo system is involved, they say, and it behooves all who are interested to make a test case of the Cuban treaty and beat it if possible. Interest in the subject is steadily grow ing, and both sides are lining np for a battle royal next winter. Tho War Department has awarded contracts for the removal of the Con federate dead from the cemetery at the Soldiers1 Home and from other local graveyards to. the National Cemetery at Arlington, where they will be grouped on a beautiful plot of 3& acres. The graves will be arranged within a circle surrounding a mound upon whieh will be placed flowers and shrubbery, the remainder of the plot being planted with similar growths, including trees nativo to Southern eoU. A bill appro priating the money necessary for the removal of tho bodies was passed by Congress some time ago, and the work -would have been carried ont last fall, had it not been for some opposition that was aroused in the South. Ac cordingly, the removal was postponed for several months, to allow time for the li?t of the dead to be published in the South with the statement that if the friends of any particular person desired to take their dead elsewhere, they were at liberty to do so. No re sponses have been received and the Department is therefore now carrying ont the work. us .fudging from 'an article by Robert T. Hill, who has made a careful study of the subject? Porto Ii ico may well shrink from hoing kept under a perma nent colonial government, as thu islands pf tho West Indies, beautiful and healthy and fertile as they are, have been ?-educed almost to absolute ruin by that .sort of management. As Mr.- Hill points out, there are eight European, colonial government:; in the smaller groups ot islands composing the Leaser Antilles. Each of these groups, with the average area of an American county, has an administra tive establishment as large as that of an American State, and each official draws a salary from two to five times ?a great as. that paid tho average American public servant. Tho expen ses and revenue of Jamaica, for in stance, are exact} v the same as those of the State of Texas? which has seventy times the area and five times the popu lation of this British dependency. The population and wealth of .the islands are not sufficient to support more than one small and.efficient -administrative av iking Powder Makes the brea? more healthful. Safeguards die food against alum* A?WOL baking pcrv&z* sse the greatest menacer* to health of thc present day. ilium fnif-i^?? "^TP*!?* W*ii**TiJ?ii>iM. II force, bat they are' taxed to support eight governments, for places must bo made for political favorites and young er sons who cannot be cared for in their native lands. Porto Rico has already had a taste of this, tho result being evident already in the misery that ex ists there.. The Supremo Court will meet only twice more before adjournment for tho snmmer, and yet Ibero is not thc slight est indication of a decision in the colo nial cases being handed down. "NVhilo no one wants to hurry the Court un duly, nevertheless tho impression is gaining ground hore that some decision shoniu be rendered. Tho Porto Rican act was passed moro than two years j ago. lt was based on tho theory that tho Constitution does not follow the j ling; that our new insular r urisitions are not under the Constitu?.an; not in tegral parts, but colonial dependencies of the United States. That theory has shaped oar policy for more than two years. Meanwhile, cases have been pendiag in the Federal Courts-most of the time in the Supreme Court-in volving the validity of the Porto Rican act and; cosse?jueni?y, thc constitu tionality of the government's insular policy. The most momentous conse quences hang on tho deferred decision, and it certainly seems desirable that it .should not bo postponed for another six months. , Counterfeiting seems to be becoming one of tho lost arts. So far this year only four counterfeits have been dis covered, and but six weeks of the fiscal year remain. This breaks the record for dullness in tho counterfeiting busi ness. Last year nine counterfeits were discovered, tho year before that seven teen, while in still earlier years from twenty to forty was the usual number. Counterfeiting does not pay any more. The. Secret Service men say it is os easy to pass a bogus bill now as it ever was, but they think the good times and pleut i tude of employment has in duced a great many of the old-time workers to tarn honest. A Small Man. Greenville doubtless has tho distinc tion of being the resident city of ono of the eninllcBt men in the country. He is & living cariosity. His nemo ia Jim Manldin, brocher of W. L. Mauldin, a carpenter who lives at 310 Rut lier ford street. Jim is 33 years old and is only 34 inches high. He pulls tho scales at only 50 pounds and wears a number ten children's shoe. Ordinarily Jim is in splendid health, but his face is rather pale and his strength is not equal to that of a boy seven or eight years old. He is a son of Mrs. George Manldin, who lives in Anderson Connty. Jim came to Greenville about two years ago with his brother and has ' mee lived with kim. -Mrs. Manldin says that Jim is a splendid nurse, giv ing every attention to her baby and caring for it in the most'tender man ner. Besides caring for the baby, tho only other duties Jim has to employ bis mind and body is to bring in stove wood and similar little odd jobs around the house. In Mrs. Hauldin's family are three brothers and a sister younger than Jim, ail of whom are well developed, stout and fnll grown. Jun knows his letters and can read primary lessons. Ho has an impediment in his speech and finds it a little difficult to talk. He is very active, amis ? cns about the house ns a five-year-old boy. . Occasionally Jim comes down town with his mother or father and enjoys watching the electric cars, looking into the display windows and other things that interest children .-Green ville Nara. Russia's Great Cotton Crop. WASHINGTON, May 17.-It is expected that Russia will soon be able to supply her own needs in cotton, according to a report received at tho State Depart ment from Deputy Consul General Hanauer, at Frankfort, Germany. She is ono of ? the few countries which levies a tax on imported cotton. A tax amounting to about two-thirds of the value of the stapto is imposed. The importation of cotton diminished over 73,000,000 pounds in 1800, while thc production increased 34 per cent daring tho same year. Groin fields in Russia are now planted with cotton, for the cultivation of tho fibre is much more profitablo than that of wheat. Wild Hog Items. Mr. Almond Gambrell is sporting a new buggy. Look oat, girls, you may get a chance to ride. Frniftift plentiful ia this community The young people of this community enjoyed themselves at a singing at the residence of Mr. John Rhodes last Son day evening. Mr. Fletcher Graham and wife spent last Sunday near Tow m il lo visiting his mother. The farmers ic this section will har vest % large yield cf grain. General Green and his army aro about subdued. But, lo, when it rains he will bc re-enforced to some extent. - Mr. Jahn Buttles is building a piazza to his residence, which helps its appear ance a great deal. VINE? AU Jun. - There are still four widows of soldiers who fought in tko Revolution apon tho pension roils, ?nd they re ceive $800 per year. MT ATE MEWS. - Several millions of young simd are bein j,' put inte tho rivers io. tho lower part of tho State. - Work on the State llouso in Co lumbia is progressing satisfactorily, having reached the domo. - Hon. S. C. Stark of Elberton, Cn., died a i'ovr day a ugo. l?o was the father of Mrs. 13. It. Tillman. - Two white men and a uegro were killed by a boiler explosion at a saw mill in Georgetown county tho 10th. - John Baldwin, 17 years years old, was accidentally killed near Green wood an *'io 15th by tho discharge of a shotgui - Smallpox in a very aggravated form is reported in Brookland. Tho State Hoard of Health has charge of tho situation. - Col. McCravy, successor of Brook's Sligh, ?rot hot while talki ,g politics with Clerk Bolt of Laurens, and a light of short duration eu sued. - Dr. J. H. Thornwell of Fort Mills will mako tho address at tho laying of the corner-stone for tho new Prcaby \ terian church at Clinton tho 38th. - Aspirant? for Gov. McSwceuey's place are looming np already. Congress man Talbert, Gov. Sheppard and Lieut-Gov. Tillman are already spoken of. - A three and a half year old boy, in Korry County,- found a bottle of whiskey a few days ago and took a large drink. He died in convulsions 34 hours later. - Philadelphia will havo a big ex hibit at the Charleston exposition. The city will appropriate $80,000 and will send the liberty bell and other in teresting relics. j - John Gosline, a colored soldier in the regular army, died in tho Philip pines not long ago of malarial fever. Ho was from Abbeville. Ho left his widow $3,000 in cash. - Captait' Tunes Evans, ono of tho oldest piloti ;.!> Charleston anda sur vivor of the Confederate croiser Ala bama, died at his homo in that city last Friday morning. - Tho Sutro Cotton Mill, York ville, is tobe sold at auction. The com pony has becu financially embarrassed for a year or more, partly as n result of an unfortunate cotton deni. - A system of waterworks will bo put in at Walhalla. A company with largo capital is behind the scheme. A survey is now being made for the best route from Stnmphouse mountain, four miles away. -Handsome monuments have re cently been erected at Tabernacle Cemetery about three miles from Cokesbury, to tho memory of Gen. M. W. Gary, Mrs. Gary, tho general's mother, and to Capt John Gary. - Port Royal will probably bo se lected as one of tho three torpedo sta I tiona to be established along tho At lantic Coast. She will also get tho naval training station and is in luck all rc. und. . - Governor Mcsweeney has received from Ambassador Choato a letter of thanks ordered sent by King Edward of England in response to the resolu tions of sympathy passed by the last legislature in regard to th- death of the Queen. - The negroes are starting a move ment for the aid of the negro depart ment of the Charleston exposition. They will raise fands and contribute also to the exhibit. The negro depart ment, it is said, will be the most com plete and attractive of any ever given atan exposition. ' - The certificate of the South Caro lina Inter-State and West Indian Ex position with the groat seal of the State attached and signed, F. W. Wagener, president, John H. Averill, secretary, has been sent to Mrs. Virginia D. Young, appointing her chairman of tho the Woman's Department. - Senator John L. McLauriu has ac cepted an invitation to make an ad dress at the fireman's tournament in Newberry Jnno 0. Senator Tillman has accepted an invitation to address Newberry College ono week later. There is also an effort being made to got Tillman to reply to McLaurin at Gaffney. - Mary McDaniel, a colored girl about eleven years old,' was killed by lightning at Lykesland, in Richland county. She was with her father and some brothers and sisters in an open field. It was remarkable that all of them should bo so close together and that no ono else was hurt. The others were not oven shocked. - In Colombia last Wednesday night Rev. Robert P. Pell, president of the Presbyterian College for Wo men, found on tho front porch of the main building of the college a basket in which waa a baby abont tbreo weeks old. It was a girl baby, pretty and neatly, but plainly drossed. Dr. Veil sent it where it could bo cared for. The baby is supposed to have been brought to town on a late train and deposited on the first inviting door stop. - There is a prospect now of a rail road being built from Blacksburg, S. C., via Newberry and Saluda to John ston, in Edgefield county. Several engineers have been over the route in the last two or three months, and last week W. H. Wells, chief engineer *5f the Southern, went over the line for the purpose of making a report of tho route, and he will recommece. the building. Ii it ls built it is claimed it will shorten tho distance between tho North and Florida by abont sixty miles. GENS.KAL NfcWS ITEMS. - There are 310 vessels and over 2000 men engaged in tho sponge fisheries in Florida. - Fire destroyed several cotton ware houses in Augusta, (ia., causing a loss ot* about $100,000. - Three persons were killed by light nmg at Cordele, Georgia, during a thunder storm last week. - All the watch factories ol' the coun try aro to be united in a trust by J. 1'. Morgan &. Co., of New York City. ? .- Texas is counting on having a big ger cottou crop in 1001 than it gather ed in 1000. Its acreage for 1001 is Wt per cent, greater than that of HMM). - George Vanderbilt lins stocked his pig farm at Biltmorc, N. C., with;? Berkshire pigs from England that are valued at $8,000. All of these pigs aro pr i zo winners. The military authorities in the Phil ippines are teaching tho natives thc history of the United States.9 Tho book is published under tho direction of Gen. Mc Arthur. - R. N. Pollock, cashier of an Ohio savings bank, committed suicide a few days ago. Ho left life insurance poli cies on his life to the amount of sixty - live thousand dollars. - Dr. Josiah Strong estimates that more than oue half of the rural popu lation of this country aro non church goers. This statement he makes after careful investigation. - An Indiana cattle company hus purchased 177,000 acres of land in Southern Georgia near llonnersville. They expect to uso the timber then sugar cane, cotton and cattle. - The jurors in a lighting case at Muncie, Indiana, while trying to reach a verdict had a light among themselves. The jury room had to bo broken open by the constables before the light could be stopped. - Some of the progressive Southern mills have adopted thu plan of selling operatives" cottages on easy payments, instead of renting them. A mill whoso h ami s owned their own homes would be suro of its help; - Tho women of Sau Jose, Califor nia, presented Mrs. McKinley tho 15th with the largest bouquet on record, lt was 05 feet in circumference, 2.*) feet high, and its stem was a telegraph polo planted deep in tho earth. - The thirty-third annual conven tion of tho National American Woman Suffrage Association is announced to meet in Minneapolis on May 50 to June 5, inclusive, and "all friends of truth and liberty are especially invited to attend." - It is reported from Denver that an oil field has been discovered in the western part of Rio Blanco ninty, Colo., extending over into Utah, which bids fair to create as great excitement in that section as that in tho Beaumont fields of Texas. - An Arkansas plauter is making arrangements to start a kangaroo ranch. Tho hides are valuable und the tendons much more so. The lat ter can be split extremely fine, and are the best thing known to surgeons for sewing np wounds. j - On the battleship Maine, sunk in Havana harbor, are 1G2 complete en gines, and the contractor who is raising the wreck ia confident that all are un injured. The ship is worth $2,000,000 if she can be patched up, and half as much as old material. - At the beginning of the century the newspapers published in the Unit c'ri States numbered 200-one for each 20,400 of population-while at the pres ent time the total of regular publica tions slightly exceeds 20,000-ono for each 8,500 inhabitants. - Here's a good one on the Philippine question: "Spain hada tiny little lamb, the meekest lnmb around; she sold the lamb to Uncle Sam for twenty million down; then Sam ho took it by the tail ? ! to lead it home you know, the mutton ' rare turned out a bear, and Sam cannot let go." I - Millions of destructive insects i suddenly swooped down on Hartford, ] Maine, last Saturday, stripping in an hour or so every t ree and growiug plant of all green foliage. Thc weight of the insects broke ott many limbs of trees. The insects or bugs were dark green in color and about tho size of the common squash bug. - A carrent statement that electric power "has been successfully transmit ted 140 miles to a suburb of San Fran cisco, tho longest distance it has ever been successfully carried," is interest ing for two reasons. Thc first is ob viously the success of tho experiment, and the second that a part of San Francisco distant 140 miles is described ns a suburb." - A telegram from Raleigh, N. C., under date of 10th inst says: "Tho worst of the unusually numer ous hail storms this month occurred this afternoon in the Now Berne sec tion. Its path was two miles wide and eight miles long, and it is declared it did $100,000 damage. Hail was two inches deep. Thu rainfall was also two inches, all in an hour. - Maryland i? trying a new election law. The names of all candidates aro printed in alphabetical order and the offices they desire opposite their names. There is a square for pencil mark so that the voter may check off tho names to be voted for. If ho cannot read ho only one ticket and noone is allowed cannot vote. Each voter is allowed any assistance unless he ia blind or unable to make a mark. Portman Letter, WiiUe wandering round tho fragrant ground, Whero Good and Beautiful abound To consecrate tho very sound That chants tho word of "Portman," We wouderod If tho Anderson Intelligencer non ld bo Wun To print a leder just for fun That rhymes tbo lines of Portman. We asked them onco when fate was hard, And we were but a struggling bard - If they would sometime buy a yard Of poetry from ''ortman? I hey did not say that rbymo was rot, They simply said that it was not Tau fuel that noonest boils the pot For oven bards at Portman. And HO, since then we clung to prose, While out, and 'tween its columns flows Tho purling streams that comes and goes Of happenings at Portman, Until to-day; the words will rhyme; They glide, and slide, and frolic time; To slay these lines would l<e a orime. . Please! Editor for Portman. And yet. one word to utter herc The MUBO called Poetry ls near, 'T would cot alarm if she Bhould rear Her Hall of Fame at Portman, For Rf st is but another name To guild the olasslo dome of Fame; And rest or fame, 'tis all the same To those who Uve at Portman, For mark yon ! ICvlls neath the Bun For whioh thoreV, cure or there is none; See, how the aiokemy is done By those who live at Portman: They sit upon the hillside green. They dread not aught that comes again, Nor aught that is, or might have been; They take their ease at Portman, They wonder when the day is o'er, And love leads to the cottage door, Where is the toil they felt before In other sites than Portman? At ones they form their willing mind If Providence should be so kind To ne'er again leave far behind The home-loved hills of Portman. So, come you now from lands of care. From oltles. towns or anywhere Where troubles fester In the air; Coma breathe the balm of Portman; Come from your heart sickness away, And learn to slog, to laugh and play; Come; spend one whole life-happy day Within tbo:e vales of Portman. You hear the blrdlings in the trees, You hear tho laughter lu the breeze Of brooks that babble to the seas Par, far away from Portman; Your head with radiant sunlight crowned, Your spit its dee with sight and sound To Bwing their {oyons cirole round The breezy billa of Portman. Now be it not with sordid thought Supposed that there ls Sold, or Bonght, To Let, To Rent for aught or naught Within these lines for Portman. We are not agents in disguise, We have no land to advertise; There Is no premium, boom or prizs In all these lines for Portmar If cubic tons of purest air That elevate your soul for prayer, If springs aa olear as they are rare Are any boon for Portman? We land our hamlet to the skies, At once we aim to advertise That these are free-if you are wise To call for them at Portman. If you are married, and your bride Seeks yon from all the world beside, Jnst?take her spite r f tim . i nd ride To some green nook In Portman; Or if yon are not married, sLr, Just take ber mother and take her; Walk down the vales, her heart will stir To honor yon at Portman. And yon from all the country o'er, From Piedmont, Shiloh, Holland's Store, Prom Denver, Broyles, Invest your lore In loamed notes on Portman. From Mountain Springs and luobanon, From Alice, Roberts, Pendleton, From Midway, New Hope, Anderson Enjoy yourselves at Portman. From Bethany and Lowndesville, From Aaron, Waco, Conter ville, From Trinity and s cantonville ? one one and all to Portman. From Richland Creek, from Brushy Creek. From Oak Grove, Friendship, Neal's Creek, From Had lor'H Creek and Corner Creek; We welcome you at Portman. And Big Creek, Wild Hog. Eureka, And Belton, Shady Grove, Fair Play, Pelzer, Z ?ri I np; come away A boll 'ay for Portman. From Prospect and Equality, From Septus, B'g Spring, Monely, From IKdenaan, CrtvtoD, Au u , we Are here for you .tit Portman. And Guyton, Townville Fork, for you Our Portman sky will linger bine; Fur Harris Bridge, Iola, too, Are many treats at Portman, Come, cast your cares of life away And visit UH some time in May, Or yet in June-come any day; 'Tia always fair at Portman. Hones Path and Piercetown see T-taugle, Zion, happily With Toney Creek and Inez, flee Wiib.-i tbey can meet at Portman; And Sandy Bprings whoso Church call rlofjs To nea" and farand gladness brings Wc hope for you whore welcome sings, Your coming hero at Portman. Our cards are out, and Portman now Relaxes honors with her bow, Bright garlands wreaths ber pretty brow, The sunny brow of Portman. And wondering if the Anderson Intelligencer can be wen We send our letter-now, 'tis done, In Hues that rbvme of Portman: R. H.' li. ADC - DA.- 'rho pieasnro was accorded the correspondent of participating with '..Lr. and Mrs. Wm. F. Lea in entertaining their son and daughter of Piedmont? Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Lee, and their pretty ohildren, Mar'e and Wm^lv. Junior. Mr'. Lao ia charmed with the "bowling wilderness," but thinka it was intended for men of talents rather than women of taste. R. R. L..