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"BYTCLINKSOALES & LANGSTON., ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10. 1900. VOLliME XXXYI-NO 16 / gEBB HA?T# OCHAJf NI/I ft MA? 53^^ OMWAOO Our business for this May was by far the largest we have eyer had in any preceding May, and it was all for SPOT CASH, too. People are finding out that we can supply their- * Clothing Wants Hore satisfactorily than any other Store. By our way of doing business they find they can get well made, good fitting Clothes for the same price they are asked for the inferior kind.] We believe that we sell the best fitting -Clothes sold in this Town, and we know our Prices for the same Goods can't be matched at any Credit Store. We don't sell shoddy Clothes, however. We sell only the good kind. The lund that will give tbs customer entire satisfaction in fit, make and wear. . We are so sure that we can fit you better than the other fellow, and that our Prices for the same Goods can't be matched at Credit Stores, that we will Give You Your Money Back If you don't think as we do after you have traded. Don't you think that a fair proposition ? It seems to us it's as fair as it can be made. And We wish to say that there will be no ifs and and's when you come back for your money ; no back t*?k. You'll bo given your money back and thanked for the trouble you have oe en put to. One of our customers said : "3. 0. Evans & Co. do as they advertise, and I consider them the most reliable Clothiers in town." That's what we want you to say of us, and we believe you'll say it, too, if you have ever dealt here, ANDERSON, S. C., The Sjpot Cash Clothiers FROM THE NATKA'S CAPITAL. From'Our Oum Correspondent. WASHINGTON, D. C., June 10,1901. By some marvellous aberration of intellect the President bas come to the conclusion that he can govern the Philippines civ illy under military law. At least he has decided to do so and let the Su preme Court ovorruJe him if it will-in which case the money collected in duties under his military tariff law will be refunded. The Spooner law will be Bot asido as not authorizing anything and as sanctioning everything. By this means it has been figured out that an extra session can be avoided. The President came to this conclusion, it is announced, after a solem ri discussion of thc matter with his Cabinet officers and in consequence of an opinion hand ed down by tho Attorney General. Vhere aro people here, however-and politically "wise" people, too-who assert that the alleged solemn confer ence was cooked in advance; that the President never had the slightest idea of calling an extra session, and that ?U the late tiddlededee was gone through with for the sole aud express purpose of leading the country to believe that the President was anxious to avoid anything that might give force to the charges of imperialism. It used to be said that when one of tho Roman augurs met another he would wink. Certainly, when a member of the Mc Kinley Cabinet meets another he ought to wink. Chauncey Depew has come to tho front again as a member of the claquo which wishes President McKinley to be a candidate for re-election. Mr. Depew says: ' A third term for a President of the United States is not a bogy to be frightened at simply be cause no precedent has ever been Bet. There is absolutely nothing against such a plan. So far os I have been able to discover there is no prejudice among the American people on the question of a third term for President McKinley. The rule has been that a man is elected to the head of the nation so late in life that he cannot live many years, and this has operated to pre vent third terms." On the other hand Senator Harris, of Kansas, has this to say On the subject: "There will un doubtedly be a number of claqueurs and toadies who will soon begin sug gesting the third term-nomination of President McKinley, but I cannot be lieve that the President will be a party to the movement. The sentiment against a third term is very strong in the country and especially so in the Middle West. While I do not believe that the President will seek a third term or that his name will be seriously suggested, I can readily understand that the business element, which is en tirely without sentiment, may say that it is worth while to keep M- McKinley in the White House." In other words, Senator Harris is opposed to a third te: m but admits that the money inter est runs things in this country nowa days. After beating about the bush, feeling pulses, and so forth, the high pro tee t io nia ts in the Republican party have made up their minds that Representa ti ve Babcock's tariff reform ideas have not enough following in the Republi can party to make thom at all danger ous, and has decided to make such an example of him that no one will dnro to inaugurate such u movement as his again. The weekly publication of tho American Protective Tari il* League, in the issue of May 81, had this.to say about Mr. Babcock: "Mr. Babcock has leaped into fame nt one bound. So did Benedict Arnold, among other? There is fame ar. i fame. But what about Mr. Babcock's relations with the Republican party? Ho is the Representative-elect bf his district in tho Fifty-seventh Congressand cannot bo unseated prior to March 4,1903. Ho can, however, be omitted from the House com mittet on Ways and Means when the Committee assignments are made next December and ho can fail of re-election as Chairman of the Na tional Republican Congressional Com mittee. As the responsible author of a bill whof.o provisions aro in direct con fl let with the platform of the Republi can party, as an avowed enemy to the policy of protection to American labor and industry, is he entitled to remain ought he be permitted to remain pseudo-Republican member of the HOUIM Ways and Means Committee? Sfeanld he again be honored and trust ed with the Chairmanship of the Ka tional Republican Congressional Com Baking Powder Makes the bread Safeguards the food against alum? A!ttm baking powders are the greatest menacer* to health cf the present day. WOY M. fcucma (owe* co.. NEW rom._ . . '?J,'."-:. / :? \ y \ .-. nitteeT Tho obvious answer is No. I'o retain Mr. Babcock in either posi ion would be to bestow a reward upon lisloyalty and treachery. Mr. Bab cock must go." From a party stand point this, it is said, is altogether fa vorable to the Democrats; for if the Republican party had followed Mr. Babcock's anti-trust and tariff reform lead, it might have controlled the elec tions for years lo coin?. Without this lt certainly cannot do so. Some Southern leaders consider that the political situation has changed in. regard to ne?ro disfranchisement as a result of the remarkable decision of the Supreme Court, it now be?utf ubso- | lately necessary for the RepubhcauF to retain control of both Houf>?.s of dil gress at least until 1004, iu order that they may can A .int their schemes un fettered. By ?.Le end of President Mc Kinley's term, it is argued, automatic colonial system will be so thoroughly saddled on tho country that an et a of Democratic rule would not seriously disturb it. On the other hand, if tho Democrats should gain control of tho House next fall, the results to tho President and his policy would be mest serious. Therefore, it is believed that they will stick at nothing to mako themselves safe-even going so far as to cut down the representation of tho South as a means. Representative Livingston, of Georgia, inclines to this view. The Post?nico Department proposes to promulgate a rule which will exclude from the UnitedStateB mails as second class matter those publications for which subscribers aro obtained by the distribution of premiums. The initia tive was taken sometime ago by Edwin C. Madden, third Assistant Postmaster General. April 13 a circular letter was sent to 372 publishers, inviting each to submit his opinion of the justice and elf ency of the rule which it is proposed by the Department to adopt. Uf course only those papers were selected which were known to be friendly to the De partment's view, hence tho replies re ceived were just what the Department expected to receive. There is really no valid reason for the promulgation ot such a rule. What the Government loser by reason of any abuse of the pound-rate privilege, it gains in reve nue on the other class of mail duo to correspondence between newspapers and subscribers and the transmission through the mails of the premiums. Besides, the Administration could con vert tho Postoflice Department into a money making institution by cutting down the enormous amounts paid to the favored railroad companies. Here is whore the leak comes in, but the poor, struggling newspapers, which are trying to get up a circulation by offer ing premiums, must go to the wall to satisfy the greed of tho railway corpor ations. Sale of the Blue Ridge Road. The decree issued by Circuit Judge Goff for the salo of the Blue Ridge Railroad was received here yesterday and flied in the United K Otes Circuit Court. The Bale will take place at Anderson on July 15 next. Mr. Thomas P. Cothran, of Greenville, is appointed special Master to dispose of the prop erty at public auction and the upset price is fixed at $100,000. The road will be bought in by. the Southern Rail way, which controls the property, and forth? purpose of obtaining a deed. The line will be operated as usual, although the Southern will extend thereafter from Charleston to Wal halla, instead of from Charleston to Anderson. Frederick M. Colston is named as complainant in the suit, which is brought against the Columbia and Greenville Railroad, now the property of the Southern. Tho Columbia and Greenville Railroad holds judgment against thc Blue Ridge for moro than $2,000,000. The salo will include all of the rights, properties and franchises of the Blue Ridgo Railroad, extending from An derson to Walhalla, a distance of nbout thirty-three miles. The Blue Ridgo Railroad, of Georgia, the namo of the company which started to build across the mountains from Walhalla, a dis tance of seventeen miles, and tho Ten nessee River Railroad, in North Caro lina, surveyed for seventy-four miles, are included under the decree. These bitter properties, however, were never used, although there has been talk from time to time that eventually the through line, would be cut over the mountains. Of late years ?he Blue Ridge Railroad has figured extensively in railroad ru mors, and it was hinted that the line was being sought by r. company which contemplated building from Port Royal to Knoxville, the Boone Railroad, as it was more commonly known. For the past few years the Blue Ridge has been under the management of Receiver H. C. Beattie, and it has been operated as a branch of the Southern. The line was owned by the Columbia and Greenville, by reason of the heavy judgments outstanding, and when the Columbia and Greenville passed into the hands of the Southern this latter road naturally assumed the judgments. The prime object of the sale is to give the Southern a deed to the Blue Ridge. The Blue Ridge is one of the oldest roads in the State and has kept its in dividual organisation and name longer than many other of the smaller rail roads in South Carolina. The outright purchase of tho line by the Southern will doubtless give uni versal satisfaction to tho towns along the route, and a good train service will bc operated ns heretofore,-Ntic* and Courier. ?TATE NEWS. hi el \v h u a f< r? w ii tl C it 0 Ot - Ia Edgeiield County last woek u negro 1>oy was struck by lightning and instantly killed. - Nearly a million dollars has been spent* in Darlington in improvements within tho past year. - The striking machinists at Char leston refused to accept the terms of fered ana are still out. - Colonel Grittln's friends have em ployed J. A. Mooney, of Greenville, to assist in tho prosecution of 1). B. Evans. - Commissioner Vance says tho phosphate business is brighter and moro men are now employed nt the mines. Freight rates have also impro ved. - The Grand Jury of Greenville county, in their recent presentment to tho court, says among other things that crime is on the increase in that comity. - Although tho Tillman-McLaurin episode is a thing of the past, tho ver satile northern correspondent is still grinding oat columns on tho situation in the State. - A colored man at Latta this year sold $200 worth of strawberries from one acre of grouud. He got them on tho market and sold them ns high as 40 cents a quart. - Tho State Press Association has about completed arrangements for the trip to tho Buffalo Exposition. They will go via Norfolk, Now York and the New York Central. - William Bowen and Flanders Bos tick, an old man eighty years old, both of Marion county, got into a quarrel last week when Bowen struck tho old man with a hoe and killed him. - A rice kitchen will be operated by the Southern rice growers at the Char leston Exposition, lt is intended to demonstrate tho food value of rice and will be in charge of skilled southern <voks. - All the dispensaries in Charleston, which have been closed for sometime on account of complications arising out of a legal technicality, are now open and doing business at the same old stands. - lt has been officially announced, according to the Columbia State, that Mr. M. R. Cooper will be a candidate next year for Governor on the plat form of a rigid enforcement of the dis pensary law. - In a recent lire in Columbia ono of the most valuable paintings in the South was dentroyed. lt was a lifo size portrait in oil of General Robert E. Lee, measuring 0?x5 feet, and sur mounted by a massive gilt frame. - A negro in tho Cromer country has a pet snake that comes to his call to be fed. The snake is not kept in confine ment, but goes whore it likes out of doors, and comes as readily to the man's call naif it were a cat orchicken.-New berry Observer. - Adelaide Dogan, a negro woman about 70 years old, was burned to death near Pacolet. She wu6 left alone in the house by her grand daughter and it is supposed her clothing caught fire, it was evident she endured terrible agony before death came. - James Mc/vlister, a native of this State, was killed at Jacksonville, Fla., on Thursday by his landlady, Mrs. WoBt. She was making an attempt to commit suicide and ho tried to wrest the pistol from her when it went off killing him almost instantly. - A fishing smack arrived in Char leston with the left arm of a negro man. Tho arm was taken .'rom the belly of a ten foot shark killed 13 miles below tho city, lt is believed tho arin wtis that of ono of the crew of fifteen who were lost last week while fishing. - Tho dry good3 store of D. E. Byrd at Blacksburg was broken into a few days ago. Tho safe was blown open and $100 taken therefrom. Tho bur glars effected ingress from the front door in some manner, and escaped through the rear, leaving the back door open. No clue as to the daring safe crackers has been discovered. - A charter has been applied for to allow tho North Augusta Electric and Improvement Company to improve property which it owns on the Carolina side near Augusta. It is proposed to build an electric railroad from Ham borg to Aiken, going by several mili towns. The company is said to have a capital stock of a million and a half dollars. - The duty of getting up an exten sive project for tho Charleston navy yard which is to take tho place of that at Port Royal, has been committed to a naval board of which Capt. Taylor is the presiding officer. This board is now meeting at the New York navy yardin connection with tho proposed new naval station at Olongapo, in the Philippines, and as it har. n?sdc z study of tho requirements of a naval station it has been deemed desirable to have the Charleston project acted on at the same time. - Mr. Daniel Wallace, who lives at Hickory Hill, Marion county, on the Pee Dee river, forty miles from George town lu?? discovered a brick building nnder ground, supposed to bo a struc ture built by an Englishman before the Revolutionary war. Mr. Wallace has found a number of household articles. He has taken out of tho ground from 600 tc 000 brick, but still dies. The brick is small, dark red and smooth, and supposed to bo o? English make. The building was put together with the best mortar and by experienced bricklayers. UENEUAL NfcWS ITEMS - Tho boys nud girls of Atlanta ave organized a vigorous anti-cigar- ?n tte league. wi - A college girl in Greenwich, Conn., 01 out into mourning ou tho death of ll< er pug dog. wi - Oil bimbeen found in Wayne couu- A r, Kentucky, and enc well io scuding ~~ p 100 barrels a day. 80 - The American Medical Association J? t St. Paul has endorsed the movement >r reinstating tho army canteen. . . - On April t, the attendance at the aguiar Indian schools in the country vi as 25,800, showing tho largest annual T ?crease in ten years. M - Under tho Illinois inheritance tax l? io ostate of tho lato Silas Cobb of w hicago is required to pay the State an ^ iheritnnce tax of $58.072. N - Now York City's debt is now $2851,- ?< 4:1,000. Tho debt of Chicago is $20,- ft 90,000, and of Boston $50,000,000. The a ldest cities have tho largest debts. - An aero o? ground sold the other tl lay at Beaumont, Texas, for $40,000 h hat six months ago could have been " ?ought for less than $ 10. The oil lind * lid it. h - The President and members of w ho Cabinet have decided after full h liscussion that an extra session of 8 Jongress to consider the Philippine a lucstion is unnecessary. n - Out in California five men were ? ynched for burglary and petty larceny. a kalvin Hall, aged 72, and his three ? ?nlf-brced sons, and a man living with I n lim, were swung up by a mob of 50 n mon. t] - Lnte tests made at the Kansas ex- 1 p?riment station prove conclusively ? that tho smut ears on corn aro fatally fi poisonous to stock. Thus when the a x>rn is husked all such ears should be 1 gathered and burned up. ^ - A switch engine in the yards of t the Southern Railway shops near the c 2 i ty limits of Atlanta dashed into a * passenger ?rain ns it was passing, kill- \ ing three passengers and injuring 10, ? three of them, it is feared, fatally. - There aro fewer contested seats in t tho fifty-seventh Congress than in any ' previous ono for ninny years. There J ire practically no contests in the Sen- ? ?te, though the session will open in December with Delaware, one of tho * jr i gin ni States, with no representative, i - Tho Democratic State Convention c in Ohio to nominate a candidate for [ governor and other State offices, is to c be held at Columbus on July 0, and G there aro already indications of a re- ? vival of the old controversy between ? the democrats in northern and southern c Ohio. a - France still holds the record for national debt. ' "ie owes $151 per t capita. Great Britain stands second c md owes $01 per capita. Germany is ? third with a debt of $05 per capita. 1 Tho United States has the smaller 6 lebt of all the great nations, and owes a inly $28 per capita. c - Daniel Decatur Emmett, the noted c minstrel and author of "I Wish I Was in Dixie," and other famous songs, is reported to bc dying at his homo ?eur Mount Vernon, O. Emmett is 80 years o L>ld, and for a number of years has lived a hermit's life, with a dog as his 8 anly companion.-Atlanta Journal. - In India, China, and Jnpan and idjncent countries are about 100,000,000 ^ people who rarely eat meat; yet they ire strong, active and long lived, s Darwin is authority for the statement ? that tho Andean natives perform twice i the work of ordinary laborers, and ?ubsist almost entirely on n diet of j bananas. . f - In tearing efl" the roof of an old i farmhouse near Eldorn, Iowa, last * week, Marvin Finster lound a barrel H af money and to his astonishment was ? il mont buried by the rain of silver dol- J lars. It is believed that some old miser t \t an early dato hid tho money, as the c lates on tho coins are some of them Jj ju i to old. [ - The auditor of the war d?pannent t?as prepared a statement showing the * ltnount claimed by each State and Ter- . t ritory for fitting the volunteer troops c for tho Spanish war. Tho total is ? nearly $0,000,000. Three and a quarter B Billions have been allowed and paid. T Texas is the only State whose claim ?vas allowed and paid in full. - Tho Texas oil field is a laige one. \ strong "gusher" has been opened at Sour Lake, 20 miles from Beaumont. y lt sends forth 15,000 barrels a day. It oi s believed that several counties in 1; Texas and some of tho districts of " Mexico will furnish oil. Portions of " \labama and Mississippi belong to the ti lame formation and oil nay be found ix n those States. ? - A tobacco company contributed 'or thc comfort of the Confederate vet-10, ".nus during their recent i junior at c< Memphis, Tonn., 2,000pounds ot amok- i< ng tobacco, 10,000 pipes and 10,000 ? loxes of matches. The tobacco alono ^ vas worth 00 cents a pound, jobbing tt ates. The 2,000 pounds was divided i nto 10,000 rations. Another company ai rave the veterans 14,00?) rations of "hewing tobacco. - Some men aro twins in late, T vhether twins by birth or not. Tb*re s an illustration in the case of And*ow Trina and Alexander Summers, weal- Av hy cattle dealers in West virginia, ? vho died recently on the same day, A iged 84 years. They were born on tho tamo day, married sisters on the same lay, lived on adjoining farms all their ives, and died of tho same disease nt fl be same hour. 1 ti Portman Letter. What a relief for social pleasure and ental profit to peruse a newspaper in bioh politics have not the predomi moy. The leading papara ts a reilec )n of the t?tate's mental color are vivid 1th lurid political phase?, while TUB N DH uso N INTELIJIOENCEU alone drops i "tc SCS?G q?i?t c-Oiuor iu ita mikon, o thing man and says: "Let tb? heathen fte and the people imagino a vain lng, my readers are safe here." The only distressing color of a war that past was in its pages laut week and ell worth the reading, Miss Simpson's duable article on "Our Women in the rar." Women may read ibis at their se and thank heaven for the ease that theirs now; but, also, thero Are women bo will read it and grow as Implacable : some of the vindictive writers and ?adorn of present politics. That the mthorn women can ever lorgive or .rget ia a marvel of divine grace and not feat of human virtue. Wilhall this the scraps of homespun, ie old lomon and spinning wheels will ave a new and revered memory. The mo checks and plaids that tearful eyes rove into the home made fabric will ave a sacred meaning. There are no ' romeo like the 8outhern women. Their eroism bas not found parallel even in ncient Sparta. Their nobility will be an pothegm when North sud South as a ?emory shall go down ia the dishonor f suppressed history. The war, if re membered in futuro goneratloDs, will be Bm em be red a? HU instance in which to neall the heroism of the Southern wo ien. Yet, the Bons and daughters and ear kinfolk of these women are living a-dav and we pay no more attention to bem'tbau if they were common beings, 'hoy are of the blood royal, of royal con lection. The stamp of arlstooraoy ia n their blood, the Insignia of distinction ;lowa outward on their forehead. They bould be respeoted most highly. The >laok brand of amalgamation which 'ears ago Bought to Infuse itself into the Southern spirit and to ourrapt Southern ilood, may in a few instances have auo leeded, but the South, the Southerner, as i principle, ia inaccessable. Thora can be io reconstruction, except that ot divine ?tty for foes; but the two metals, South" im chivalry and Northern oom merdai - sm, will never blend. So much for the sentiment awakened >y reading a patriotic paper-this isas ar apart from pol lt len, Indeed, as the s'orth is from the South. Politics is base md tram plea upon patriotism. 11 is such i dark isaue to the truth. The correspondent waa not intent upon ending in an artiole this week, our ?yes, the correspondent waa informed, leed very careful treat ?ont, and a plat if white before them is injurious. A toupie weeks ago when late then for a tearing the orbs that admit daylight and > bs euro the darkness ref caed to open ?lad ly to the sun's rays, repelled against dasBes and artificial light, and we made hem a pacific promlse|we would not be ovore with them in the future. An old mn tie-good as she was black-came ilong and said : "Yo* eyes don* look bright dis mo'n." .'No. auntie." I remarked; "they take hat after me." "Sho? weil, well, now." sho looked ompllmentlngly incredulous, "D'yo iver bea' dat seein' some un yo ain't seen n a long time ls good fo' de sight o' yo yes?" "No, auntie, but I wish I could see ome one nov. -some one who would ure them." "Sho? Well, did yo' ever try gympal um?" "No." "Nor capay cum?" "No." "Well, go try gycapsicum an' capsy um, an' bile 'em-" "Which shall I bile flrat, auntie?" I >sked. "Honey, yo biles em hof first" "Honey good for the eyes?" I asked. "Um, aon' know; houoy good io'sore rout but yo sore eyes-don' know. Yell, yo gt>? H ho m ak or nox." "How r;,iob of him, auntie-of the hoemaker?" "O. right smart piece; bile 'om, aa' lon' fo' nuffln put more'n a thimbleful n each eye, more'n dat jes spiles ali." I assured her. "Dis am sure eure. My auntie's hus >an'H great granmother abo done got lt 'in Lady Washinton'H cook. M's wasb ngtou, ber oyes HO sore in wintertime vhen da kep lot o' kempany, an' de cook he stan' roun1 wbt>n Gen. Washinton ay:- 'Marr?, what's de matter wit" yo lyes?' en she say to de General so much L (un puny, da keep do kivers fm Per dat tight an sho kotehed cold, au' de General ell her all 'bout de gympsioum, an'de apisum, an' shomaker, an' de cook she ol' it to de great grandmother o' my .untio'a husban an HO lt cum down to iroBperity. Up to date wo don't know whether we mt more than a thimbleful in our eyes r not. We think though we kept to the aeasure. Yet it ia Bure we cannot dis ern bacteria without a microscope and ur eves are sore. If some weeks we do ot appear in print lt is be eau BO we are tili trying the cure and having the IN 'KT.LloKNCBn read to us H. R. L. In Memoriam. PKKDI.BTON, S. C., Juno 1Kb ,1901. Our loving Heavenly Father took Juliette, .jungest child of Mr. and Mrs. T. T. Wakefield, f Sept us, H. C., to himself on Sunday, June 9th, D'.. That fell disease mentngotls was God's mca ngor and servant to do His bidding, lt did its ork in a little -nore than two days. The little ody was laid in lia final earthly resting piece in ie Lebanon Cemetery on Monday. A large nu m - er cf sympathizing friends attended the services inducted by the pastor. Rev. T. P. Lide. Juliette waa four years of age last September. . bright, beautiful child she waa a joy and a pet r the household. The sympathies of the entire immunity aro with the sorrowing ones. Heaven lema acatar. Another tie binda na to tbs "homo ot made with hands.'* The blessed Savloirr said i bia disciple?, "What I do thou knowest not now it thou shalt know hereafter.*' "Now we see trough a glass, darkly; but then face ta face: now know in part; but then ahall X know eren aa ao I am known." k>metlme?wben all Hie'* lessons have been learn - cu, nd sun, and stars fororer more hat e set, he things which our weak judgment hore have, spurned, The things o'er which wo grieved with linke ? wet, 'Ul fla**, before us out or life's fify^^p* a stars shine In iao>t daaper Ita ?.?y1^* > nd we shall seo ho?? .!! Qed's p?su ?rc ??jul And how wlist teemed reproof trai"; iojo' mott true." L* W. II. Shearer Sarveyor, You will od me nt Dean & Kat ii HOM. hong dla moe Phono at my residence.