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"?TcLINltSCALEa 4, LANGSTON. ANDERSON, 8. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 1901. VOLUME XXXYI-NO. 49. The Men Who ? V MJLK? jm^Jt** Vm+km-W 19 ? fi Hart, Schaffner & Marx Kl Tailor Made Clothes HART. GCHA?FNE? U MARX CHtCAQO GET New, Nobby Clothing ; up-to-the-minute in style and priced fairly. Ours is not an old, out-of-date, job lot of (Nothing, made up end bought for Bale. We won't handle that kind of Clothing. v7on't let it into our house, not even at the back door. If yon want Clothing that's New, Nobby, Up-to-2>ate, siade by merchant tailors, Clothing tba', fits, Clothing that has the right set, and Clothing that carries a guarantee of satisfaction or your money back, we've got the kind of dotaos you wauk Com3 ia and see th? sort of Clothing we sell. It's not asnal that you'll find sueh a Mg Stock to select from. Ten'!! so Blessed with the make, the fit, and the price will be leas than, you expected. ITOU MEN. No Firr -. attempts nowadays to sell a better Shoe than ve do for $3.50. Our competitors will tell you they have as good a Shoe as ours, and will try to make you take theirs as a substitute. Don't let them induce you to take something jost as good, when you yan get the best $3.50 Shoe in town from us. . Evans' $3.50 Shoes are made in the following leathers : Box Calf, willow Calf; Enamel Calf; Patent Calf, Patent Yici said Viol Kid. All rises, all styles. One price, and that is $3.50. Give Evan?' $3.50 Shoe a Trial. R 0 Fvaue?Tn SJ. Ve L'UUU H VU? THE SPOT CASH CLOTHIERS. Whitefield Ne??. Well, Mr. Editor, it looks as if we are going to have as much rain aa we did Last spring, bat we hope not. Mr. Wade U. Watson is doing some hard work on his bottoms os Big Bea verdau, the recent hard raine ?VXTv?ig broke his levee and filled some of the ditches. The grain crop ia good in this com munity. Mr. O. J. Kay expects to bar veac lO Dubhe I? of wheat off of 8 aerea, though the average is some better. Mr. J. B. Watson passed through this section on hi8 way to Pelzer on a busi ness trip lase Thursday. Mi. Juy Kuy visited rneilds nenr Pendleton Saturday and Sunday. Health is good and ne .vs acareo at this date. BLUE JAY. Broyles News. We had another good rain on last Saturday night and Iras been cloudy and drizzling since. We would be bet ter off now with a little sunshine. Generally we have good atonda of cotton now since the raina, but it is go??g to be ?ate. The wneat crop in this section is right good, though in jured, I believe, by the recent wet spell. Mr. Curtis Hay and sister, of Hart well, Ga., attended church at Smith's Chapel la?t Sunday. Mr. George Shorbe, who baa been visiting tho family of his sister. Mn. Walter Dickson, also attended church here last Sunday. Messrs. Foster Routh and Wayman Holland, of Clemson College, and Miss Grace Routh, of Cherry, spent last Saturday and Sunday in this commun ity with relatives and friends. Prof. Harbin waa over with us last Sunday and treated us with a few of his songs. We would be glad to have him oftener. Mr. Sam George is going to put in a new roller-mill down at the Broyles old mill, which will be of great benet! to the people of this community, aa many of them haul their wheat to An derson and Westminister to get it ground. Mr. N. 0. Farmer is putting up an arraugment by which ho can draw water from his well with water power developed several hundred yards from his house by means of n dum across a branch and a small overshot water wheel. Tho work is beiug done by our efficient blacksmith aud wood-work man, Mr. C. H. Smith. The health of the community is com paratively good at present. Prof. W. A. Dickson visited his old friend, Mr. H. C. Routh, at Che ry last week. Mrs. M. A. Broyles has just returned from a visit to her son in Anderson. E PLURRIBUS UNLM. Newa from Aaron. We have had a very pleasant rain and all vegetation is assuming a glow ing prospect. Mr. Levi Jones and wife attended tbs picnic at Coolers Bridge Saturday* 10th inst., and visited relatives at Bel ton Saturday night and Sunday. They report a very pleasant time. School etosed at Hopewell Friday, 17th inst, on account of the illness of the wife of the efficient teacher, Mr. Lewie Mahaffey. We regret to note that she is no better. Miss Hattie Guy ton has been wrest ling with chills for the past week. Your humble scribe was on the sick list also for a few days last week. A negro woman, living on the planta tion of Mr. Henry Jolly, was shot and very seriously wounded by her fifteen - year-old brother last week. They claim it was an accident. S ho is doing very well under the treatment of Dr. W. S. Hutchison. . We wish to thank the Portman cor respondent for her kind invitation to visit as beautiful aplaceos Portman. We are sure it would be a delightful trip. We hope the young man of Waco that has purchased the "new buggy" has not forgotten his promise to extend an invitation to this writer. Miss Maggie Kay, of Belton, baa been on a two weeds' visit to the family of her grandfather, Mr. A. W. Guyton. Come again, Miss Maggie, yon are always welcome. We are glad to welcome Mr. Claude Harria in our midst. (. . ? ? Mr, L. W. Gentry, we C?O glad to note, is rapidly improving. Mr. Jndge Goolsby and Mr. Banister, of Las von ii?, Ga., were the guests of Baking Powder Makes the bread more healthful. Safeguards the food against alum? Alum baking powders are the greatest mcnacen to health of thc present day. _BOYAL BAJCWO rowoan 00., HEW YOm*._ Mr. Hamp Leach recently. Mr. Dan Jones, of Belton, spent a few days last week with his father, Mr. Lori Jones. Owing to the daonge caused by the recent heavy rains to the famous rock dam at Watson's Mil!, many of our people have been inconvenienced about their accustomed milling, and you know, Mr. Editor, hov? bad it ia where the meal becomethlow in the barrel. Bot we are happy to chronicle that tho wheel is going again. OHSERVKR. South Carolina Monument at Chickamauga Unveiled. Chattanooga, Tenn., May 2?, 1901. Tho monument erected by tho Stuto of South Carolina on tho battlefield of Chickamauga was dedicated to-day. Governor Mcsweeney and S tato of ficers accompanied by a Regiment of infantry arrived at an eniiy hour this morning. The train bearing General Walkor nnd the South Carolina division, U. C. V., waa delayed and did not arrive un til 1 o'clock, at which hoar the entire party proceeded to Ly tie station, where tho party formed into a column escort ed by the infantry and marched to the monument, which ia located at the foot of Snodgrass hill. Governor Mcsweeney acted aa pre siding officer and made an eloquent speech in which in which he extolled the virtues of the American soldier. Rev. John Kershaw pronounced the invocation. Addresses were then made by Gen. C. Irvine Walker, Hon. D. S. Hender son, Col. J. Harvey Wilson and Bishop Capers at the conclusion of which tho cords that held, the winding shoot were pulled by four young Indies. Governor Mcsweeney turned tho monument over to Gen. H= V. Boynton, who made an appropriate speech in re ply. The monument was only completed Sunday night. The bronze palmetto tree which sur mounts it was made in Massachusetts and.was delayed en route. It was for warded on a special train from Cincin nati Saturday night und placed in posi tion Sunday. Tho total height of the monument is thirty-three feet. Tho base and shaft is of South Carolina granito. Clemson College Notes. Tho bnse ball Beason for Clemson is over, and she is proud to havo won tho State championship. Conch He i sm au did fine work for the team, and Mana ger Hill and Captain Hunter havo a right to be proud of their team. The artillery masquerade ball is scheduled for the night of May 81, and ?iromises to be a most amusing and es ovabie affair. President Hartzog will soon have ready for publication circulars giving frdI information regarding the Farm ers' Institute to bo hold here in Ang ? net. Last year's Institute waa a great success, both in point of numbers and character of instruction. There ic ovory indication that the gathering this year will be larger, and strong ef forts will be made to make the meet ing uteaaaat and profitable. An ob serving business man remarked recent ly that the farms in Carolina had im proved wonderfully in the last five years. These institutes are bearing fruit. The outside work of the new chemi cal laboratory ia about completed. The building is a handsome one. Interstate Firemen's Tournament, New berry, S. Clune Sth-sth. 1901. The Southern Railway announces re duced rates to Newberry, S. C., and re turn from all points within the State, of Sonth Carolina, including Augusta, Ga. One first-class fare for the ronnd trip for individuals, and still lower rates for firemen and bras*, jands in uniform, ten or more on'one ticket. Dates of sale Jnne 4th and for trains scheduled to arrive at Newberry prior to Doon of June 0th, final limit June 8th. Firemen's apparatus to be transport ed free. For detailed information address any Agent of the Southern Railway. W. H. Tayloe, A. G. P. A., Atlanta. R. W. Hunt, D. P. A., Charleston. W. E. McGee, T. P. A., Augusta. - Money is being raised in Colum bia fora soldier's home. - The State of Kansas will need 20, 000 men from beyond her borders to help harveat her wheat crop. - - Husband-I should very mnoh like to know, why it ia that you are so much more amiable to the servants thsn you are with mc? Wife-Why, you great stupid, if I wasn't, they wouldn't stay with me. The "Confederate Veteran. '? Low CLUB RATES GIVEN WITH TUB INTELLIGENCER.-The growth of the Confederate Veteran, published by S. A. Cnnningham, at Nashville, Tenn., is remarkable. Its circulation of eigh ty-four issues, monthly, aggregated to Januar v. 1000.1495,459 copies. Aver age for 1898, 7,638; 1804, 10,187; 1805, 12,916; 1898,18,444; 1897,10,175; 1898,19, 100; 1899, 20,166. Subscriptions for the Veteran will be received at this office. It and the In telligencer will be sent for a year ? at the club rate of $2.16. By application to the Intelligencer copies of tho Veteran will ba sent to onr veteran friends who aro unable to subscribe. STATE NEWS. I - Senator MoLaurin has been in vitad to address a meeting at St. Louis on July 4. - It is said that George Johnstone may enter the race for tho senate against McLaurin. - Some negroes near Clinton, pur sued a hunte thief and shot him. Ho died from the wounds. - Bib Harris fell from a railroad trestle in (1 reen ville Thursday and died from injuries sustained. - Tho watermelon growers in tho lower part of tno State report poor st?nde on th;: carly plumed iiuids. - A new order of clubs has been or gnized in Spartanburg, styled the shirt waist club. Tho gentlemen ure not in it. - The time WUK when it was believed that lightning never struck twice in tho same place. A tree in Newberry was stripped of its bark one day, and splintered the next. - George S. McCravy, tho lately appointed ll nited States deputy mar shal, bad a fisticuff nt Laurens with Clerk bf the Court John P. Holt. They were arguing politics. - Speaker W. F. Stevenson, of the house of representatives, announces that he will probably run for attorney general. Ho has no intention of enter ing the senatorial race. - A boiler exploded near George town, killing two men and wounding several others. The men who were killed were blown a distance of 100 yards and every bone in their body broken. - A alick scamp representing him self as a preacher in good standing re cently went to Greenville and by im posing on the credulity of the people got a call to two churches, but ho fled when he was exposed. - Levi Boll, of Langley, while on a visit to Columbia recently, fell back ward and oft'a porch, a distanco of fif teen feet, got his head badly injured by coming in contact with a nail stick ing in a plank. - Chief Architect Gilbert of tho Charleston Exposition lins issued an oilicinl statement which promises de finitely that tho exposition will be opeued on December 1 ns announced. Some reports to tho contrary has been circulated. - "Uncle" Willinn Kose, the Gov ernor's messenger, u veteran of three wars and n man, who in spite of his black skin, held a position of high re gard in tho hearts of tho people of the State, died at his home in Columbia last Friday night. - It is likely that additional dormi tory room will be provided at Clemson College. The building committee, Chairman Simpson, Senator Tillman and J. E. Bradley, recently visited the college and decided that in view of the increasing attendance additional room should be provided. - Frank Bumgardner was drowned near Clifton while seining with a party of friends. He could not swim and while drawing the -eine, he stepped into deep water and drowned before his friends could save him. It was night and he was not seen by the other seiners until he was sinking the last time. - All county boards of control have recived a circular letter from the State board, conveying information of the passage of a rule to the effect that county dispensers must not employ their own relatives or those of mem bers of the county board. This rule was passed at the last meeting. - A party of men hunting a bear that had attacked a dog in the yard of a neighboring farmer a few days ago, found a large den of wolves in the swamp of the Pee Deo. They captur ed a number of young cubs. The old ones escaped. There were a number of bones of chickens and other animals around the den. - Rev. L. D. Bass, a native of Wil liamsburg county, now living at Wash ington, D. C., has been convicted of using the mails to defraud and senten ced to three years in the penitentiary at Mounds ville, West Va. Hois pas tor of two churches in Virginia. He has taken considerable interest in South Carolina politics. - Forty-six applicants for medical certificates applied to the State board of medical examiners for certificates but there was only one of the recent class of the Charleston college. Cases will be entered against each one of . that class who engage in the practice without a certificate. The names will be give*i to tho solicitor of the circuit. - Carter Crane, an educated negro, got in a piece of work at Greenville a few days ago. Crane is a painter. He is well educated, and bas borne a good character. At the time mentioned he received a check from the trustees of the graded school for $7. Being an expert penman, he found ne difficulty bi raising the check from $7 to $75. He found no difficulty in drawing the money. The raising was discovered later, and Carter was arrested and is now in jail. - A negro man by the name of Press Smith was drowned in Broad river. Newberry connty, on Thursday night. He was crossing from the Fairfield to the Newberry side. When near the bank the boat ran into a willow bend ing over the water. Smith being un able to swim, sank and was drowned. There were two other men and two women in tho boat, but they ail es caped, the mon rcscuring tho women from a watery grave. GENERAL NEWS ITEMS. - There is now over $300,000 in tho | government conscience fund in Wash- ; ington. - Fifteen hundred persons have been made homeless in Tennessee by the Hoods. - Five cadots at West l'oiut have been expelled aud six suspended for a year for subordination. - Oil has been found in Wayne coun ty, Kentucky, and ono well is sending up 100 barrels a day. - A premature explosion of blasting powder at Champion, Mich., killed one man and seriously injured seven. - The State of Georgia includes ten Keim?ls in their University system In all there are 2,0(il students. - China says sins can pay only ten millions a year. At that rate ii will take '.)',) years to pay the indemnity. - A manuscript Bible, richly illumin ated, ol about tho year 1410, waa sold at auction in London for about $6,000. - George Q. Cannon, tho Mormon leader, left his children only $3,000 each. Hut, then, there were 43 of them at the m?t mundup. - Speculation put tho price of corn in Chicago last week up to 60 cents a bushel, the highest ligure since 1802, when it brought 61 cents. - Farmers near Greensboro, Ala., aro much disheartened. Sumo havo planted tho third timo and do not havo a stand yet. - John McKinley, a first cousin of President McKinley, Ins been con signed to tho poorhouse of Marshal couuty, Kansa*:. - Hester's cotton statement at the close of last week showed 0,546,101 bales against 8,718,645 last year at the snme date. - William Edward Collin of New York has tiled a petition in bankruptcy in which he places his liabilities ut $4,000,000 and bis assent H at $25 cash. - A New York woman is serving a lifo sentence for murdering ber hus band who was u soldier. She is now applying for a pension as a widow of a soldier. - A Kentucky couple, William Hen derson, Hi, and Mrs. Martha Janes, 61, eloped from their homes in Lawrence county into the State of Ohio and were married. The giddy young things. - The alligator will soon follow the M?llalo. One Jacksonville linn has shipped two thousand live alligators to New York this season, and has not supplied tho demand. - The indications are that Jackson ville will arise from her ashes to bo a strong' r, cleaner and moro beautiful city than over. Stately brick build ings will supplant tho low wooden huts. - Con. Henry C. Corbin, adjutant general of the army, will sail for thc Philippinea on the transport Hancock, which leaves San Francisco June 25. He intenda to make a general inspec tion of the military conditions in the islands. - The Cotton Manufactures Com mission company bas been organized for the pnrpoae of handling the cotton products of coothero mills and will soon be ready to begin its work. Its oblect ts to avoid the northern middle man as at present. - The Standard Oil directors have just declared another dividend of 12 per cent. In March last they declared a dividend of 20 per cent. Thus far in this current year, 1001, they have divided profits of $82,000,000 on theil $100,000,000 of alleged invested capital. - Andrew Carnegie has been very liberal to his native Scotland, where he now is for a visit to his old home. He has given $rm000 to establish free libraries in Glasgow and $10,000,OOC for free education in the four univer sities of Glasgow, Edinburg, Aberdeen and St. Andrews. - Reports of the recent storm con tinue to come in. The mountain dis tricts in North Caroliua suffered heavi ly. Magnetic City was destroyed, six teen residences and a church were washed away in Bakers ville, and two people were drowned. Many houses in other towns wero washed away. - A sensation waa caused in San Francisco by the discovery of a dozen sticks of dynamite in the basement ol u thoater, which the Presidential party had been invited to visit. Enough ex plosives were there to demolish thc block. Besides the dynamite was a quantity of insulated wire, and elec trical apparatus, apparently to be usc? in setting it off. - At the last election in Cumberland County, Maine, the liquor men nomi nated a preacher for sheriff, moro aa u joke than anything else. He accepted, made the race and waa elected. Since that time the liquor men have aeon no peace. The preacher-sheriff hos been enforcing tho law. He aaid a day oz two ago that he had indirectly received an offer of $40,000 if he would resign, or take a vacation to Europe for the remainder of hia term. - Perry Taylor, of Santa Ana, Cal., ia one of tho few human beings from whom doctors have successfully re moved an entire lung. The patient, who is 26 years of age, was stricken about four years ago with what be be lieved was galloping consumption and waa treated accordingly by tho phy sicians consulted. Fully 240 cysts were removed in ono operation, and then it was decided that the whole lung would have to como out. Tho operation wae ' successfully performed and Taylor has recovered hi8?*rength. Denver Dots. When "it rains lt pours" ls an old adage whloh has proved true within the last ten days. But while we have had rain In abundance, this section has been blest lu not being damaged to any extent by lt, although bottom lands were ovor ilowed and some corn will have to be re planted. The rain has been of great ben efit to 8pHng -own oat?, which would have been veryaorry without it. Wheat, too, will he heavier headed and better tilled, aud farmers are looking forward to reaping a good harvest of grain lea low weeks. There will bo a mah of work for the next six weeks in cultivating tho crops planted, and reaping the numil grain, and farmers will have to stir early and late. Hut they aro happy all tho fame. Work. glv*s u good appetite and sweet sleep, and they aro already looking ahnml to ' laying by" time, when they r.Au rest from their labors and go visiting. Thur? la a pleasure in ralaiDg your own "hog and hominy," and eating home made bread and your own fried chiokena and fresh vegetables, that people who get their living out of paper bags know nothing about. W. T. Browne, of Fairdeal, visited rel atives bere8unday. Mr. and Mra. Dawson Heid, of Anton, ' were In Denver Sunday afternoon. I Mra. Leila MoConnel and little daugh ter, Sadie, accompanied by Mles Corrie Rlohersor, of Anderson, visited Mr. A. E. Browne's family last week. They re turned home by way nf Jolly Springs ?nd took a look at Mr; Edwin Jolly's fine flower*. He Is an expert in flower rais ing, and can hardly supply.the demand for potted plants. Kev. R. E. Staokhonse nad family and Mra. Auld, of Greenwood, were guests of . Mr. J. W. Major's fsEi?y Saturday. Misa Ella Sherard bas finished her ' term aa aaalatant ia the Denver High High and will leave for her home at Moffattaville soon She has made many friends here who will regret to see ber I leave. Mr W. D. Garrison, accompanied by bis little a:m, Tom, and grandson, Ray mond, visited his aged father In Green ville County last week. I The Sandy Springs Sunday School held n picnic on the grounds on tho 18th. Af ter partaking of the bountiful and deli cious dinner, furnished by friends and patrons, they marohed to the Cemetery and decorated the graves of all the Con federate soldiers who were burled there. It is but meet that children should be taught to honor and revere soldiers of the "Lost Cause," whether living 'or dead. Mm W. A. (J. McWhorter leaves to day for a few days visit to her daughter, Mra. Sam. Harris, at Belton, S. C. ? INCOGNITA. I Midway News Our efScisct Cu po ri ut ena or, Mr. Wil liam Maddox, who has been sink for a few days, ls able to be out again. Tbe elder persons seem to enjoy fishing . and seining equally as weM as tbs small boy. Mr. Dan Jones, one of Belton's pros p?rons yonng men, was in oar midst last Sunday. , \ The rains wera very heavy In this seo ' tien, bet did sot d?u?ga thc &?sssrc a? . much ss was expected, t The bugs have declared war with Ute i Irish potatoes and are about to gain tbs vlotory. Cotton has osma np to a good stand i every wha. ? now, and tbs farmers will have to hustle to gat it thinned and try to kill "General Green," who has made , bte appearance. Fortune taillait seems to be tbs mag net at "Aunt Cindy's," as some of the , fair sex are frequently visiting her. On account of tho organ being out of fix has prevented ns from having sny mus.c > ; at our Sabbath Sohool, bot will try and have ir in good order by next Sundsy. We aro B?rry to know that Mrs. Annie 11 Pruitt, wife of Joshua Pruitt, IQ very ill, I and hope she will bs well again In . few . days. . Avery body asama to be proud of their 1 small grain, whloh ls very good and will be a considerable help to the farmers. TH? ONE. LowndesvlUe Locals. , Prof. T. C Walton, Superintendent of the Anderson Graded Sohools, delivered * a lecture before the patrons and their i friend? of the LowndesvlUe High Sohool on Friday night. Prof. Walton's subject was popular education, which is thu uub I 1 feat nearest his heart. While, owing to L a misunderstanding by Prof. Wilton as i to what waa expected of bim, the talk - waa raths>r??hort, U abowed deep and orlg ' inal thought, and waa expressed In very pure and elegant language. As previously announced the sohool ' picnic carno off Saturday, but it was * thought best to have lt In the grove just . beyond the Methodist Church, the re I cent heavy rains having made the ground 1 on the ri vor too wet. Arrangements had been made to play 1 a game of ball between the Antrevllle nine and the aohool aggregation of heavy hitters, but the Antrevllle team did not i como, and In tte afternoon the sohool played tbs town nine a very pretty game, the victory going to the town, 1 however. Mr. ErvIn, of Antrevllle, was present at the plonlo with his daughter, Min i Eunice. Miss Blanohe CUnkscalee, daughter of . the well known planter of Montery, Mr. James Cllnkbcal*a, spent the latter half of the wfek in town with her friends, 1 M?as L'la Fennel and M?as Eliza Kay. Mr. J. J. Johnston, formerly of Lown desviiie, but for several years a book keeper for the Daniel Pratt Gin Co., . roached here Saturday night from Pratt , ville, Ala., and la stopping iv Ith Dr. Jss. B. 'Moselev. Dr. Thomas O. Kirkpatrick returned Sunday from Hones Path, where hs had . been to aee his brother, Arthur, who had been severely Injured by his horse. 1 i Miss Bessie Jonea and Miss Bortba Wnite lett for their homes st Ridge >1 Springs and Abbeville Monday morn ing. These youfg ladles have made ' many warm frier:da during their a'ay in 1 j our midst aa teachers, and it ia with ra , ' grot that wo give them up. : Mr. J.r. Aller, the principal, will be 1 hero a few day a longer. ?JoDAVlD HORTON.