The Anderson intelligencer. (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, June 19, 1901, Image 1

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"BYTCLINKSOALES & LANGSTON., ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10. 1900. VOLliME XXXYI-NO 16 A RF A MN ri IlLflUUIl F faff! ITI run i ! ! THE kind of CLOTHING we sell, coupled with the MODERATE FB?CES asked for them, is the reason this Cf/M*A ia ?riGcesdi??ff. Our success waa not attained in a day or night, and if we didn't give a full dollar's worth of Goods for a dollar we would have been snowed under long ago. Most people don't like to pull the Cash out each time they buy Clothing, and if we didn't give more for the Cash dollar than others give on Credit, we wouldn't get the trade. Not only do we teU you we can SAVE YOU MONET on your Clothing, Hats and Furnishigs, (the good kind, mind you,) But we do it, and we can easily prove it to you. The proof of the pudding is the eating. Where our Goods are not satisfactory we cheerfully refund your money. ANDERSON, S. C., |The Spot Cash Clothiers A Tip to the Young Men ! WHEN IN NEED F AN UP-TO-DATE HAT Or, in fact, anything in the way of id especially my beautiful line of UNDERWEAR, for HOT 'eather is coming. Call?n C? ? . REESE, THE FURNISHER. Opposite? the Font ?HI cc. North Ulalu Street, Anderson, S. t. Deering Light Draft ideal Mowers. THE ONLY MOWER made with only two-piece pitman. Has adjustable drag bar and light draft We have the genuine thick centre Terrell Heel Sweep that has just the right set. Also, all sizes of the Victor Sweep Wing?, If you Will come to sse u a will ouvre it interesting to you and will save you some money. BROCK BBOS, Anderson, 8. C. FROM THE NATION'S CAPITAL. From Our Own Correspondent. WASHINGTON, D. C., June 15,1001. The Cubans have yielded to the might of the United States and adopted the Platt Amendment without the explanations made by Mr. Koot-for which he refused to stand officially when put in cold type-wi ii now no doubt be much pleased to leam that the President has discovered reasons for a further delay in evacuation and that the troops will remain until Congress meets and decides whether to make further demands on the people of the Island. The Electoral hill, which must bo adopted by .the convention at Ha vana before adjourning, is, it is said, already drafted and ready for sub mission to the convention at any moment. Secretary Root has seen this bill, and approved of its provisions, and it is thought that the Convention can tuspose of it in a week or two, and by so doing complete the labors. Tho electoral act must be published for a period of ninety days before tho neces sary elections can be had. This will pince these, at the earliest possible moment, at a date somewhere in tho latter part of September, permitting the new government to be installed in October. However, the President has again become conveniently doubtful of his powers and anxious to avoid taking responsibility and will defer withdraw ing the troops until after Congress meets. It is shrewdly suspected that this unwarranted delay has something to do with the desire to force Cuba to agree to such a commercial treaty as will be moat favorable to the protected interests of tho United States. The third Assistant Postmaster Gen eral, Mr. Madden, has announced that the order will soon be issued depriving of the privileges of the second class mail rates, all publications that give premiums with their papers. He has asked some 400 papers what they thought of such a rule, being careful to query only such as gave no pre miums. About three-fourths of these endorsed the idea, and Mr. Madden says that this proves that the country is overwhelmingly in favor of it. He takes no account of the opposition of snell publishers as lite Century, Har per's; McClure's, Life, Jleview of lie views, The Churchman Company, Outing Publishing Company, Congre gational Work, Evangelist Publishing Company, Christian Work, New York Observer, E. L. Kellogg Company, Funk & Wagnalls Company, New York Weekly Witness, Orange Judd Com pany, Phelps Publishing Company, Public Opinion. The highhandedness of this proposed rule is shown by the fact that in his circular Mr. Madden a-mits frankly that Congress has been asked three times by the Department to so restrict the second-class rates and has three times refused to do so. Now the Department discovers that it can act without a special law in the case, and proposes to work a "reform1' that Congress has three times refused to bring about. . According to Minister Leischman at Constantinople, - the porte has again promised to pay those missionary claimn, and, it is added, this time seems sincere in its promise. Four United States Ministers during the last nine years have been trying to collect this indemnity without success. Minister Terrell flrst took it up, then Minister Angeli pursued the question, then Min ister Strauss, and later Minister Leisch man, lately appointed. The Charge d'Afiairs, Mr. Griscom, of Philadelphia, has &J?o played an important part. The ni i fcter was rovi ved just before the election last year and tho impression given that tho porte had made payment through a cruiser it had purchased in this country. This, it was alleged, had been brought about by the insistence of the United States and Secretary Hay took great praise therefor-thus securing a part of the missionary vote for McKinley. After the election, it turned out that tho Sultan had done, and would do, nothing. Recently France secured payment for her losses at the Bame time as ours, and thero is of course nothing for the Administra tion to do but to secure another prom ise to pay. The matter will probably end here-until it is necessary to get another promise. Former Senator Chandler has had a good deal of fun of late at the expense of Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts. ?It has cost him $100 but he no doubt considers it well worth the money. Mr. Chandler, it Will be remembered, was one of the band of free silver Re publicans who stood by McKinley on account of the pledge io the Repub lican platform which, after the refer ence to international " bimetallism, added the words ?strich we pledge ourselves to promote." . Mr. Chandler, having failed of re-election, offered a reward to the person who added those words to the platform.. A number of claimants insisted upon the credit for that declaration but Senator Foraker found the final draft of the platform anti it appears that the words-which we pledge ourselves to promote" were interlined in pencil in the handwriting of Senator Lodge. Senator Chandler in inclosing the check to Senator Lodge says: "AU wise men know that Mc Kinley and Hobart wonld not have been elected if the platform bad not, while declaring opposition to free silver except as the result of an international agreement, also declared that the Re- i publican party favored such an inter national agreement if it could be secured. That immortal declaration twice made Mr, McKinley President, and the fidelity with which the pledge hm been fulfilled the worid knows." The word has gone forth from the Ad ministration that Senator Cullom must be the next Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, not only to keen Senator Lodge, with ?us radical ideas about abrogating the Clayton Huhvor Treaty, away from that post, but also because Cullom has taken a strong stand for reciprocity and Lodge is opposed to it. Though there has been no open publio avowal on tho part of the Administration of what the Home Market Club would call "backsliding," the suspicious of the Protectivo Tariff League which are finding expression appear to be well founded. A determined contest be tween tho Administration forces and the most stubborn protectionists of the party ia expected over the question of reciprocity on tho opening of Congress. Tho conflict is not confined to tho question raised by Representative Bab cock, who proposes to piace products of tho Steel Trust on the free list, but extends to the policy of opening new markets and of fostering trusts as means of underselling rivals in foreign markets. The President holds the opinion with which he is credited that there must be some flexibility given to the tariff system-through reciprocity -to facilitate the fulfillment of his dream of commercial supremacy. Some of his Cabinet believe that the country has outgrown a part of the needs of protection nnd that to find markets is now the thiug - mr o m Free Scholarships. Thc attention of all South Carolina Club-women is called to tho fact that the Scholarships belonging to the South Carolina Federation will be open for competition on July 12th, 1901. Wo are very fortunate in securing such valuable gifts from tho leading educa tional institutions in tho State, and we should use our best influence to see that these Scholarships are filled. The Scholarships aro as follows: 42 of free tuition at Converse College, Spartanburg, S. C., one for each Coun ty in tho State. Ono of free tuition at Winthrop College, Kock Hill, S. C., open to the State at large. One of freo tuition at the Presbyte rian College for Women, Coluiubin, S. C., open to tho State at large. One of free tuition at Mrs. 1. A. Smith's School for Young Ladies, Charleston, S. C., open to thc State at large. One of free tuition at Miss Ida Mc Collough's School for Girls, at Walhal la, S. C., open to the State at large. One of free tuition at the Alumnus Clnb School of Domestic Science, Louisville, Ky., open to the State at large. Any Club-woman wishing further particulars in regard to any of these Scholarships will please apply, before July 1st, to the Chairman of the Edu cational Department, Miss Christie H. Poppenheim, 81 Meeting St., Charles ton, S. C. Writing with Both Hands. The Columbia State, in noticing tho application for pardon of Chapin, of Greenville, convicted of killing Grube, tho conviction resulting in part from evidence that Grube was left-handed, says that it is now plain that Grube was ambidextrous and that the Gov ernor's action depends very much on his being satisfied that such was the case. This circumstance causes the State to further remark as follows : "One of the remarkable cases of ambidexterity is Senator B. R. Till man's ability to write with either hand -or with both hands. He can use his left hand os well as his right, and he can use his right very well. It is said that once when he was Governor he had a .great many papers to sign. He used both hands then, signing his name twice at the same time." The late Samuel C. Black, of Charles ton, had the same nccnmplishment. He learned to write with his left hand during fio war, at a time when his right hand was injured, and when his right hand got well he found ho could write with either with equal facility. The gentleman who furnishes the information about Mr. Black remarks that double-faced opportunists in this State would probably find this double handed accomplishment of great uso in writing their double-meaning speeches.-New and Courier. Program for Union Meeting. The Union Meeting of the Third District will meet with the Baptist Church at Pendleton on Saturday be fore the fifth Sunday in June. M. Devotional exercises for 80 minutes at 10:80 o'clock, conducted by H. S. Shumate. Introductor/ sermon at ll o'clock by Rev. J.D. Chapman; alternate. Rev. W. W. Leathers. Recess fer dhmer. Afternoon session. Organization. Query-The benefits to neighbor Churches in having the same pastor. Speakers: Rev. J. D. Chapman, A. J. mtton and T. T. Wakefield. Open for general discussion. Sunday, at 12 o'clock, missionary sermon by Rev. W. GL Hawkins; alter nate, Rev. J. B. Herrbn. 8. P. TATK, B. F. M AILIHN, Committee. Grand Jury's Presentment. To His Honor J. C. Klugh, Judge The Grand Jury bega to submit it? presentment as fellows: We have passed upon all bills pre sented us by tho solicitor. During tho interval sinco the last meeting of the court a rom mit too of our number, con sisting of J. N. McAllister. T. M. King and James A. Shirley, inspected the county chain gang and report as fol lows: That we visited the camp and prisoners on May 7, and as no ouo con nected with tho camp knew of our coin ing we lound tho camp ia its normal condition. On our arrival just at noon wo found nn abundance of food, well cooked, tor tho convicts. The cloth ing of tlie convicts was washed remark ably clean. After questioning t!>o con victs privately and closely wo found that they are required to do good vork, but are not"ul>used, tho lash beiu* sel dom used; that they always get plenty to eat and speak in terms of praise of Cant. Vuudiver's treatment of them. Only one complaint was made, that of a convict who wanted another pair of shoes, but who said ho had /nm out two paii during tho winter. The mules were in excellent condition. Wo Baw noevidenco of waste or extravagance in feed or provisions. Wo wish to commend Capt. T. M. Vaudiver for his good judgment and work in laying out and making roads. Messrs. Karlo and Snellgrove aro always faithful in the discharge of their duties as guards. We aro glad to KU bm it this favorable report to tho court. Our committee on visiting the coun ty homo nnd the jail, consisting of Ed ward Whitten, If. H. Gray and J. W. Palmer, report that they paid separate visits to the county homo and farm and carefully examined the same. They found the inmntes of tho homo well provided for and well satisfied with their treatment and cordial in their praise of the superintendent. Tho committee directed our attention to the fact that tho water supply at tho couuty homo is insufiicient; that a lot of valuable machinery and farming im plements is exposed to tho weather on account of tho lack of shelter, and that a lot of gears and harness was found lying upon the ground instead of being hung up in some suitable place. Tho teams used in running? tho road ma chines are frequently housed hero and perhaps some confusion has resulted from the exchange of harness, etc. We recommend that the county board appropriate a sufficient amount to build such shelters rs may be necessary at this place and to furnish nn adequate water supply. Tho committee visited the county jail also and found it un usually well kept. They conversed with the prisoners and found that they had no complaint to make of their treatment. The committee appointed for that purpose spent several days in examin ing the offices and books of the various county offices and we find from their report that the books are being kent in a most excellent manner. The clerk, auditor, county superintendent of edu cation, probate judge, supervisor, sheriff ana treasurer were all found to be gradually improving tho system of keeping books, and this was especially true in the office of the treasurer, who kept certain books in addition to those provided by law and who had his nc counts so arranged as to be of very great assistance in checking over the nooks and vouchers of tho other offices. In the supervisor's office we found that the clerk receives a salary of only $150 per year, a sainty that is tar from being commensurate with the amount of his work and the responsibility of his posi- j tion. His salary IB fixed by law and we hope that the delegation will take an opportunity of examining into the char acter of his work and fix his salary at $300 so as properly to compensate him for same. The committee did not have time to examine fully the accounts of the dis penser and they ask the expert to com plete that work and hand his roport to the foreman at a later day. The dis Itenser has not complied fully with tho aw in the matter of having the blank applications for liquor properly tilled out and signed, both Mr. J. T. C. J ones, the dispenser, and Mr. W. T. Mc Gregor, the clerk, stating that on busy days it was impossible to have the ap plications tilled out and signed as re quired by law and nt the same time serve all customers, and that they have at such times served the customers in stead of complying with the law in that respect. Wo insist that the dispensary officials should comply with the law in every particular. In view of tho valuable services of the blood hounds now kept at the jail by our deputy sherill', J. A. Billingham, we recommend that the county com missioners purchase two blood hounds to bo kept at the jail and fed at the ex pense ofthe county. We further recommend that tho board of county commissioners take thc proper steps to stop certain leaks in theroofing or coping of the court house which aro causing the outer walls to becomo stained and discolored, and also to have the court room made more comfortable by placing in tho court rooms a requisite number of electric fans if in their judgment this can be done at a reasonable cost to tho county. In conclusion we beg to extend our thanks to his honor, the presiding judge, to the solicitor and to the va rious other court officials for their as- j sistance to us in the discharge of our duties. Respectfully submitted. R. A. SULLIVAN, Foreman. June 13. 1901. A Card of Thanks. EDITOR. INTELLIGENCES : Through your columns we wish to thank the friends who were so kind to us daring .nd since the illness which resulted in the death ot our little one, Juliette. We sincerely appreciate tho services, visits, und letters of condolence. T. T. WAKEFIELD AND FAMILY. Sepias, S. C., Jane 18, 1001. Union Meeting Postponed. ?The Union Meeting ot the 2nd Dis trict, Saluda Association, has been postponed nntil the fifth Sunday in September by request of tho Church at Broadmouth on account of sickness and several bridges being washed away in that community. L. E. CAMPBELL, Moderator. STATE NEWS. - The law department at. tho South Carolina college ?A to have an assistant professor. - Two young soldiers at Port Koyal drank blind tiger bitters a few days ago and died. - Since January Int fifteen lunatics have been sent to thc State Hospital for the Insane from Sumter County. - It is announced that Mr. M. R. Cooper, now Secretary of State, will be a candidate for governor next year. - The li year oid son of S. O. Hurst, of Camden, while baching some days ago, was seized with a cramp and drowned. - A commission has beeu issued to the Mollohan Manufacturing Co. of Newberry. This is to be a $200,000 cotton mill. - Tho railroads pay one seventh of the taxes in the State. The full value of railroad property in the State is now nearly $26,000,000. - Ex Governor J. C. Sheppard has been elected vice director of tho su- ! promo lodge, Knights of Honor, in convention in Milwaukee. - Jim McGrath, Jr., a young whito man, fell from the top of a fr eight car ; in Greenville Friday and received in juries from which he died four hours later. - Tho State farm in Sumter suffer ed grcal loss by recent floods. Two hundred and fifty acres ol' oats were destroyed aud 700 acres of com were much injured. - The young lady graduates of Winthrop college aro iu demand ns sc.iool teachers. Thirty-three gradu ated, and nearly every one has a posi tion for next year. - Winthrop College will open again on October 9th. The trustees of the institution have decided to pu* into operation a complete canning outfit. An effort at poultry raising will also bo made. - It is interesting to note that J. C. Sims, formerly of Lancaster county, but now of California, has been sug gested for governor of that State. Mr. Sims was Secretary of State under General Hampton. - The April and May planting of rice in Georgetown County have suf fered very severely, first from cool ohanges and then from freshets. It is estimated, at this timo, that 40 per cent, of thc early planting was lost. - A fly wheel of the Gas and-Eleo trie Light Company of Charleston, weighing about 18 tons, broke into many pieces the other night. Apiece weighing about a ton was hurled 350 feet into a oabin and killed a colored woman. - Mr. Ike Hughes, a Laurens school teaoher, has been convicted of assault and battery in a magistrate's court. It was proved that he punish ed a 14-year-old pupil outrageously beating her with stout switches. The school teacher has appealed the case. - A novel theft occurred in Cher okee county near Wilkinsville a few nights ago, when a thief entered on the premises of Mr. B. S. Weaver aud st, ilea beegum full of honey. The gum and the bees were found on the roadside some distance from the house the next morning. - Dr. Jas H. Carlisle has consent ed to rem&rn president of Wofford Col lege for another year, at the urgent solicitation of the board of trustees. The dootor hobson connected with the College since its foundation in 1854, for the last 26 years as President. He is now 76. - George W. Syfan, the oldest lo comotive engineer in the State, died at his residence in Abbeville on Sun day, 9th inst., aged 80 years. He hauled thc von and laid thc track of the Abbeville branoh and ran as engi neer on the road until a few years ago, when he retired on a pension from the Southern. - Governor McSwoency has par doned a Greenville woman who was sentenced to nine months imprison ment on the ohargo of adultery. She bas served five months of her term, aad says she wishes to homo to take charge of her seven year old child by a dead husband, and to care for her mother. Solicitor Boggs recommend ed thc pardon. - Ono of tho remarkable cases of ambidexterity is Senator B. lt. Till man's ability to write with either hand-or with both hands. He can use his left hand as well as his right, and he can uso bis right very well. It is said that once when bc was Govern or he hau a great number of official papers to sign. He used both hands then, signing his name twice at the same time. - In Sumter last Friday Frank H. Winn was shot and killed by Edward Edwards. Both are young men, popular and well connected. Charles Smith, who was acting as peace maker, was wounded by a stray shot. The killing was the result of a suit in the magis trate's court for a small debt whioh Winn won. Later the two men mot, had warm words, whioh ended in a fight and a street duel. Several shots were fired. Winn was hit twice, one b/>; crashing in his skull, the other entering his breast. Edwards did not reoeive a wonnd. - During a severe thunderstorm in Spartanburg last Friday afternoon Robert Tillottson, young white msn about eighteen years old, was struck by lightning and instantly killed. Tillottnon was car clerk at Spartanburg Junction, just outside theoity limits, and it was there tho aooident hap pened. He was standing on the front veranda of a building used as an office by the railroad company between two other men when the bolt descended. Tho two men were entirely unharmed. T J.-XIV/. fJC. Portman Letter. Like tho migratory swallow the drift nf the correspondent's motion is often weather-aped homeward. The Seneca river which, lo Anderson County, con trols a monopoly on elemental attraction permits not air or vapor to escapa its domains without issuing to them com mand Tor iueir entertainment; last week, the command foiled not to provide the inhabitants of Portman with a copious supply of rain, whioh, we trust, has im buod us with a proper degree nf reap*?! for the thoughtfulness of river. The course of a stream, like the life of an individual, unless occasionally milled by clroumetanoe, lacks tour. The placid water is beautiful, reflecting hillside and Hky, hut the beauty like the tint of the I rone will pale. The agitation of winter if only for tho swaying of the rose's sterr imparta to tho beholder tao magnetism ot action which compels interest in tho be holder. This in most instances will be more fascinating and the charm more en during than observation of a passive scene whose allurement is only "ASidln as a painted ship upon a painted ocean." When Seneca becomes agitated it be comes fascinating, and no cause but profound necessity in other sources could compel us to abandon the sublimity of our useful river. When we say useful, wo do not prohibit beauty, hut both to gether Insure us the most interesting attraction in Anderson t'ounty. At this writing a 'neeting of the stock I holders of the Anderson Water, Light I and Tower Company is arranged to take placo on the 18th inst, in Portman. Great I satisfaction no doubt will accrue to each I tnomher, as all will soe where the large I sum of money already expended bas I gono for the mutual benefit of all. More j than half of the wall of the dam is built, and new machinery set up and running I where superior advantages are not found j ir the United States. Dr. Orr, the presi I dent, has lost no opportunity for pushing j to completion the entire work; and it is I not denied that his skillful financiering knows how to adapt all delay in the I work to the just compensation of the I stock member*. Ecoentrlctties of weatb ! er and the UBual moods of talented con I tractors have interforrod so far with the completion, but there seems to bs no rip I plo of agitation anywhere to mark dls ! appointment, and tho gentlemen who I know all and have infinite hope that I all is operating for the best are saying the leiat. Many thanks are extended the correa I pondents from other locations who have I promised a visit to Portman. Three I years will be acknowledged to have I worked great changes and a trip this time I more Interesting. On our way to Piedmont last week we bad the good fortune to become acquaint ed with Mr. Barnett, from near Harris Bridge, whose son, Mr. W. C. Barnett, ls the esteemed correspondent from that seciPjii. We were surprised thal Mr. Barnett, Jr., was such a yonng man boyish almost in youth-as his commun ications give the impression of mature years. This is the gift of superior men tal endowments. The caution inoluded here is well meant-that of Informing young lady correspondents that this talented young man ls a Benedict. Itittle more can be said this week as we are still trying the care for our our weak eyes. It. B. L. News From Mountain Springs: It looks as if we had forsaken Moun tain Springs, but we've not. We have been so busily engaged in a battle with General Oreen that we have not had time to write up the nowa. Mrs. Mattie Paris , wife of Mr. J. T. Paris, died at her home near Shiloh tho 10th inst. Her remains were laid to rest in Mountain Springs Cemetery the day following, ishe leaves a husband and fonr small children to mourn her death. The family have the sympathies of the oommunity in their sore bereavement. M*- J.J. Moore has been on the sick list. Tho re?oi t heavy rains have ruined scores of acres of bottom corn. The land that is net washed away is so wet it can't be replanted. We had the pleasure of attending the Children's Day exercises at Shiloh the second Sunday. The program was nice ly arranged and was carried out equally as well. Some of our young people attended the singing at Mt. Pisgah last Sunday and report a nice lime. Mountain Springs must be an attrac tive piace, or at least some ol the young men from PickeDs, Siloam, and Pierce town say they find groat attractions there. The girl that threw kisses at the red birds sometime ago still looks pleased. The up-to-date way of carrying girls buggy-riding is to carry them off from home and leave them to walk back. OLD Bu.I.. If you are in tho market for a Mower, Reaper and Binder, call at Brook Bros. aud buy tho Deering, the most durcblo, lohtest draft and bast adjusted machino on the market. Iron King Stoves are considered the best. Buy one. Osborne A Osborne Solo Agent?. Those farmers who have used the cele brated old home-made, seven-finaar Counts G run ??radies, will truthfully tell you that they are without equals as grain-savers. They are perfectly set and the stocks being out ont by hand from well seasoned timber, they will alway? retain their set. They are fitted with blades of only highest quality. Sullivan Hdw. Co. are exclusive selling ?genta for this section, of these match lea Cradles. Health will give what wealth cannot bay-happiness. Cycling being a pleas ant, comfortable exercise is the greatest known health promoter, and just as pop ular as our wheels, Columbia, Rambler, Cleveland, and the Hartford aro the greatest favorites among discriminating wheel judges.