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t m BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY^ JUNE 26,1901. -----1- - ? _:_:_' . VOLUME XXXVH--NO. 1 h or A MUI H I1LH0UI1 IT! THE kind of CLOTHING wc sell, coupl? wiih the MODERATE PRICES asked for thom, io the reason this Store is succeeding. Our success was 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 ont each time they buy Clothing, and if we didn't give more for the Cash dollar than others g? ve oh Credit, we wouldn't get the trade. Not only do we tell yon 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 yon. The proof of the pudding ie the eating. Where our Goods are not satisfactory we cheerfully refund your money. B ANDERSON, S. C., The Spot Cash Clothiers A Tip to the IToung Men ! WHEN IN NEED OF AN UP-TO-b?TE HAT Or, in fact, any thing in the way of And especially my beautiful line of UNDERWEAR, for HOT weather is coming. Call?n C. ?- R<E?-SE9 THE FURNISHER. Opposite the Post Office, No fl li Main Street, Anderson, ?. V. Deering Light Draft Ideal Mowers. THE ONLY MOWER made with only two-piece pitman. Ha? adjustable ding bar and light draft We have the genuine, tbicfc centre Terrell ?feel Sw*sp thai bas jus. toe right ser. ??so, all sizes pf the Victor Sweep Wings. If you will come to see us will make it interesting to yon and will ESTA yo? ?ome mor,c-y. BROCK HARDWARE C0. Andereon, S. C. I.. FROM THE NATION'S CAPITAL. From Our Own Correspondent. WASHINGTON, D. C., June 22,1001. There ie little doubt that another perversion of justice is to be added to the long list of thoso that have been perpetrated iu the course of our deal ings with the Indian tri?es. The lost Congress surreptitiously passed, as a rider on a bill ratifying a treaty with one tribe of Indians, a clause ratifying another with th? Apaches, Comanches and Kiowas, by which these tribes agreed to accept landa in severalty on their reservation in Oklahoma and to allow the rest to be thrown open to settlement. Later, after Congress und adjourned, it developed that this treaty had never been accepted by the Indians under the terms of the existing treaty made in 1808, and "Lone Wolf and other Indians brought suit in the Dis trict here to have tho new law set aside. Now, however, Justice Bradley has denied the prayor, holding in effect -what has often been held before that no treaty made by the United States is bindiug if Congress chooses to negative it by a later act of legisla tion. The Constitution says that treaties and acts of Congress shall be the supreme law of the land-one equally with the other. Hence Justice Bradley held that if the act were vio lative of the treaty of 1808 the remedy rested with Congress, not with the ju diciary. He said that the right of the Indians to the reservation was a pos sessory one only; that the wrong threat ened by the execution of the act is a wrong to the tribe as a tribe, and that the suit cannot be maintained by mem bers of the tribe as individuals. Now that the case is decided it is believed thnt the President, in ahont 10 days, will issue his proclamation opening to settlement the Kiowa, Comanche, Apache and Wichita lands. Not content with attacking Russia with a causeless imposition of a coun tervailing duty on sugar-in direct opposition, it is said, to an official opinion handed down by the Attorney General of tho United States, Secretary Gage has recently gone farther nnd forced retaliation by imposing duties on Russian petroleum coming by way of Great Britain. Naturally Russia has taken fresh umbrage at what seems to be a premeditated assault on her trade and has taken, and will take, f nrther steps to get even, lt is a most significant fact that the laws under which Secretary Gage assumes to act including that under which he has just barred italian sugar-have been in force for over three years, and have never been enforced against either Russia or Italy. Their sudden enforce ment provokes inquiry into the cause thereof and it appears that Russian sugar has just begun to menace the profits of the Sugar trust, and that the Standard Oil Company and the Rust i au oil people, who had an agreement to divide the world between them, have just fallen out and are now fighting each other tooth and nail. Poss!; My Secretary Gage knew nothing of these facts and then again possibly he did. . Scandals in connection with the work of Fred W. Peck, at the Paris Exposit tiou, will, it seems, never cease. The latest arises out of the attempt of A. S. Capehart, who drew a salary of $400 a month from the Government for edit ing the report on the Exposition, to extort about four times its value by peddling copies of it. Mr. Capehart hos sent out a circular about these in which he Bays: "In ordering this report to be printed Congress did not pr?vido copies for general public distribution. Under tho law which permits a citizen to purchase not to exceed 250 copies of any public document from the Public Printer by ordering in advance of printing and paying cost of production pins 10 per cent., I have secured this number of fall sets of the Paris Expo sition report. These copies I am hav ing bound in silk cloth, gilt lettered, appropriate for library purposes. Owing fr> the limited number of im pressions of this six-volume, highly illustrated publication, the cost of pro duction has been considerably above the average." He then offers the set of six volumes at $20 a set, although it is stated at the Government Printing Office here that the cost of printing is only $3.00 a sot. This seems to be an unusually bungling a*, erupt to sell at an extortionate prie a very stupid report. Senator Jones, of Arkansas, has given out an in tor vi? rv in which he outlines what he believes will be the issues of th ? nexf- Congress and then: bearing on the next election. He thinks that, the chief issue will be the Philippine question, which he says the Supreme Court bas by no means set tled. "The Supreme Court," he says, "simply declared that Congress will have to deal with the Philippines. As soon as Congress meeta it must take np the whole problem, and therein will bethe opening skirmish of the cam paign. Until tbs Supreme CO?H ooiou, ?the question was : 4D? ea the Constitu tion follow the flagf The question now is : 'Ought the Constitution to follow the flag V If the Republican majority in Congress, which will be responsible for all that is done, shall by ita action declare that the Constitu tion ought not to follow tho flag, I think that there will be a day of reckon ing at the polls which will surprise the Republican leaders. I cannot assume to speak for the Democratic party, but for myself, I do not believe that we have the right to hold any people ns vassal** and subjects. I believe Jbh$? any people coming under the control of the United States have tho protec tion of the Constitution and caa enjoy all the rights and privileges which that document a iib vd e. Unless they have these rights and privileges we have no right to bring them under our' s-abjec ticn. I tu?uk, therefore, we ought to give the Filipinos our eavneBt, sympa thetic, and material support in their effort to establish ?* government their own, and should then set them free and stand up for them against the whole world. Are the people of the United States more imperial as ? whole than they used to bo 7 It would seem so from tho calm acceptance of things that a few years ago created great excite ment. It will be remembered how that when President Cleveland took a trip down tho Potomac upon a Govern ment vessel, he was savagely criticised by the Republican press, which de nounced him for such flagrant use of Government property for 'Iiis personal pleasure. A few weeks ago the Presi dent of the United States tva voled all the way across the continent .and buck at the expense of the transcontinental railways, whieh spent some $40,000 in order to give the President proper facilities and entertainment. Without a penny oE cost to himself the Presi dent and his party were taken across the continent and back in regal style. Yet no one hos offered any criticism. Appalling Disaster in West Virginia/ BLUEFIELD, W. VA., June 23.-This entire section has just been visited by a flood, the extent of which in all prob ability will equal or exceed that; of Johnstown in 1809 so far as the lot a of property is concerned. Early yesterday morning, shortly afte*3aifetaight, a heavy downpour of raifcn||B, accom panied by a severe elecHflnHbiTO, ana steadily increased in violence until 10 o'clock in the morning, then ceasing for several hours and beginning again with renewed violence. This^continued throughout the entire day and . night, and at 10 o'clock this morning, while the storm had abated the'lowering clouds indicated another terrific down pour at any moment. Many n>lles of the Norfolk and Western railroad track, bridges and telegraph, li^?s are entirely destroyed and communication is entirely cut off west of Elkhorn sq that it is impossible to dearin the f uji extent of tho loss of life and' property, but officials of the coal operation?;, located in the stricken district have sent out messengers to Elkhorn, the terminus of both telegraphic and rail road communications, and have,receiv ed a report that a conservative esti mate of the loss of life will easily reach 200. Some of the drowned are among the most prominent citizens of the coal fields. - The Pocahontas field is located in a basin with high mountain ranges on either side. Tho Elkhorn creek -Sows through the centre of the basin which ranges from one-fourth io'one milo iu width. Prom Ennis, V7. Va., to Vivian yard, W. Va., a distance of .? iO^rotlee, miners1 cabins, coal company 'commis saries and coke plants line this basin. Elkhorn creek being fed by numerous small streams coming from the moun tain sides rises very rapidly and this water spout came so suddenly, that the entire basin between the two mountain ranges was flooded, and before the ter ror stricken people realized what was upon them they were carried down by the flood, which swept everything in its path. The little town pf Keystone, with a population of about 2,000 seems the greatest sufferer, practically the entire town jeing washed away. This town is the principal one in the Poca hontas coal fields and is located near its centre. It was to a great extent headquarters from which the mining population purchased supplies and was also the only place in the field where, whiskey could be purchased. " At this place there were some 12 or 15 saloons, all of which washed away. The report comes that the mining population are sow occupying the banks of the streams below, catching the merchandise and barrels of whiskey and beer as they float down. A great number of the coal and coho throughout the' Poca hontas field ato reported practically de stroyed and sn stonie instances entirely washed away. On acco H of the very high water which lins ? odod the re gion and p?-evented c^mm?nication, anything lis&a correct estimate of the loss of property is impossible, but from the best information obtainable at 2 p.m. Sunday the lo RS to property will reach easily $2,000,000. . -, --, A Bloody Duel With Knives to the Death. BRAIDBH, FLA., Jurf? 2tf.-News reaches here of a bloody duel to the death near Miakka, in Manatee county? Judge Seth E. Stevens, a county justice anda wealthy farmer, and John A. Webb, a neighbor? also prominent in county affairs* met O? th? ro*ii tbr?? miles from Miakka and renewed an old feud that existed botween them. Webb was riding when overtaken and asked by Stevens to stop and settle then and there, the dispute between them. Ho did so, telling his driver to go ahead. When the driver proceeded several hundred yards he looked back co see both men grappling in the road. (?He returned to find Stevens dead with $ bloody i oifo in his hand and Webb seriouttly ntabbed in several, places. Webb is y et alive and may recover. Troubte with th? Striking ?Anchin?sts in Columbia. COLUMBI*, S. C.? June 28.-The Southern railway shops in this city were attacked about 8:80 this morning by a mob ot several score men. No damage to property was attempted ox- j cept to break through tho high fe?co QurrouncUng the yarda. The strikers were after the uo J -union laborers and made for a car in which twenty wore sleeping, A man. -r/hese naaa^jus sa?d ;to be Meyers was on guard. Ho fired both barrels of his gun into the crowd, receiving himself a 82-caliber bullet in his forehead, but the skull was sot penetrated. > : ' The mob iired a great many bullets into the car in which the men wore sleeping. None of che non-unionists wire wounded, but after they had been dragged out of the car were pretty roughly treated. They were marched up the railroad track soveral miles and ordered to travel on north. Later in the day al) but one of these men were brought back to tho city by on expedition sent out from tho shops. . It was not nntil this afternoon that it w.aa known any of the rioters had been wounded. Close inquiry developed tho fact that the wounds of four* men, at least one serious, had been dressed thia morning by two physicians. Tho doctors said they did not know the names of the men. The strike leaders and the head men in the labor bnionsthat have supported the striking machinists, regard the at tack this morning as most unfortunate from the standpoint of the strikers. A number ol' the most influential strikers did not know, so it ?B said? of the contemplated attack. A half dozen police are stationed at the shops to night, ont no farther trouble is antici pated, for the present nt least. Cotton Seed Trust. PHILADELPHIA, PA., Juno 23.-The North American 'to-morrow will, pub lish a story to the effect that a syndi cate of capitalists ?B planning a combi nation with $100,000,000 capital to con trol the eht? reproduction n?'.?-)u|e with-r in tho'UniteJl Slates of the v?rio?s pro ducts and by-products of cotton seed. ;Theroaro!00 cotton oil plantain the ? United States, of which tho American t Cotton ; Oil Company, with a capital of $80,000,000, owns 45, and the Southern Cotton Oil Company,-, with bend offices in this city, owns 10, The others ore ; operated largely by cotton planters. Tho North American says tho syndicate } f?mowj^ tho V stock of'the; Southern1 Cotton Oil I Company. Tho negotiations uro being j conducted fot the Southern Company ' by Henry C. Butcher, president of the ! company. : To pl nco "Him in position to not, tho ar??lo. Bay's, tho holders of about three-quartern of the $3,000,000 stock nave given Mr. Butcher options to sell their holdings at a figure close to the present market quotation. '?. --; nm ia. if*.' i v. ^ . A Boy Preacher. A boy only nine jenrs of ? ago ia ae < Histing Key. J. E. Pounds in a series pf ?v^vivul,meetings being held at the B?p ' t&t church at Flo villa, Ga, ' Tho boy preacher is Metz Joyner, of Denison, Texas. Ho preached his first sermon at that place Monday night 17th ? instand has delivered sermons every \ day- and night since. Despite tho in clement weathor, large crowds have ". ^attended . each service, coming from i tmfUfl to.bear this wonderful boy. When ho rises to speak a death-like stillness pervades tho vost audience, who are eager to catch every word that falls from his lips of this Christ-like child. His thought is wonderful, his language correct and his oratory is ex ? collent. His manner is tho essence of politeness* and his voice is cl ear and ?distinct. He has strengthened the > hearts of thc Christiano. Border Miseries. KANSAS CITY, June 21.- Thousands bf people, mon, women and children, camping on the border of the Kiowa? Apacbe-Comanche; reservations in Oklahoma, awaiting the opening of that land,to settlement, are in destitute circumstances, according to Dr. J. X McKenna, who has just returned from the scene. Twenty thousand, men, women and children ure massed on the border, and half ot ?hem aro utterly destitute. Said Dr. McKenna : "Only a small percentage have even tents to sleep in, but huddle under wagons and trees. At least 5,000 of them* nave- been there a year and a half. They went with possibly $200 or $800, and have mada nothing since they arrived. Simply waiting-wait ing. "There aro hundreds of desperadoes on the border, who ? have picked out claims and will not scruple to kill the successful ones in the drawing, in case they have a lottery.'.' -:-' * ?. -..-~ Kitted by Lightning. -T W:;?T2tSArr, A?.A., Juno ^J.-After a diligent search for four days the bodies, of Abner Thompson, son of one of the wealthiest stockmen In Florido, his hone and do|f-were found to-day in the woods on tho Thompson ranch hore, having been killed instantly by lightning during. the electric storm Wednesday afternoon. The storm came op white he waa out Not re turning tho family begnu a search and had covered nearly every foot of the 7,000 aereaTwhen they came upon the" dead bodies. ?TATE HEWS. - Greenville ha? just floated $31, 000 four per cent, thirty year bonds at par. - The ladies of Marion have begun to raise funds to erect a monument to Confederate soldiers in the court house square. - "ion i wi.-ni Moutague, of Kurraan, has just received and declined a call to the hoad of one of the large t univer sities in the southwest. - Tho annual meeting of thc Wo man's Foreign Missionary society of th" South Carolina conference will bc hold in Newberry commencing July 14. - Tho Insurance Press, published in Now York, says that thc sum of $1,124,543 was paid out to beneficia ries of life insurance policies in South Carolina in 1U0O. .? - it is said there are (53 cotton seed oil mills in the State. Of these 50 aro independent and the others are under thc control of the Southern Cot ton Oil Company, Thc State Teachers Association was in session last week at Spartan burg, and resolutions were adopted in favor of compulsory education and ex ert supervision of the public Bohools. On the third Sunday in July Rev. A. A. James will oelebratc the fifteenth anniversary of his pastorate of the Fair Forest Presbyterian Church in Union County. . A passing train'set fire to a ware house at Liberty last Friday aud de stroyed the building and 175 bales of cotton, entailing a loss of about $7,000, partly covered by insurance. - The reports of tho condition of the crops throughout thc State are gloomy. Cotton is in a very critical condition, while the corn crop has een injured, some of it, beyood hope of recovery. -J. C. Simms, formerly of Lancas ter county, in this State, is prominent ly spoken of as the next Democratic candidate for the governor-ship of California. He was private secretary to Gov. Hampton. -Tho Southern Railroad, since January 1, bas built or contracted for $27,600 worth of side tracks in Colum bia. The growth of tho wholesale business in Columbia has a great deal to do with this demand for increased trackage. - Lollio. the 10-ycar-o!d son of W. F. Stubbs, had his leg severely crush ed while trying to board a swiftly moving train in the Seaboard Air Lino yards at Abbeville Monday. Doctors were called and the leg amputated just below the knee. - Two negro farm hands near St. Matthews, got into a dispute about ten days ago and ono out the other to death in the presence of a B nuibor of other negroes, none of whom made any effort to prevent the tragedy or to pre vent the escape of the murderer; - Governor MoSweonoy haB recent ly received sn invitation to deliver ah address in Tammany hall, New York, July 4, in celebration of the one hun dred and twenty-fifth anniversary of American independence. Governor McSweeney findf it impossible to at tend. ~ A serious wreck occurred on the C. it W. C. nine milos below Spartan? burg last Thursday afternoon. As a result six mon were injured, one prob ably fatally and two others seriously. The damage to the property on the road was extensive.. - "Walsh's new city directory for Columbia has been issued. The pub lishers state in their preface that the directory, based upon a careful can vass of the oity and immediate su burbs, shows the population to bo not less1 thsn 32,000. - ? matter of gratification to Meth odists is the Consent of Dr. Jumes H. Carlisle, who has been president of Wofford College for twenty-five years and is seventy-five years old, to serve in that capaoity for one year. more'. He had decided to resign* hut was per suaded not to do so. Mr. N. H. Williams oaya lie has a curiosity St hie house in the shape of an animal which io half rabbit and half oat. Tho fore part is like a oat and the hind part looka like a rabbit. It is about sixwoeks old, and he sup poses it to be the result of tame rab bits and cats breeding together.-liam herg Herald. ..- Floyd Burnett, six year old son of Mr. James Burnett, of Greenwood County, was accidentally shot with a pistol last Thursday afternoon by his uncle, Maxwell Barnett. The ball en tered the left breast just below the heart, passed through tho body and lodged under tho skin. Dr. Neel cut the ball out, and the child is likely to recove: from his dangerous wound. - Governor MoSweeney announced Some days sgo thst it was his inten tion to call a "Good Roads" conven tion to meet some time during August. The correspondence with oounty su pervisors has been favorable to the convention idea. The State geologist and his assistants, who ar? familiar with the aspect of economical devel opment'', will be consulted before a date for the convention is made. .^-Little Voinon, the two year old son of Mrs. E. D, Humphries Union, passed through an experinoe reoently which caused his parents con- . siderable uneasiness for the time being. He was playing with a four penny wire nail and his mother notic ed him gagging and trying to got some thing from, his throat. Sho know h? h?d'swallowed the tail, but she could do nothing. The nail passed down and the parents were very uneasy for the four di ya it remained in the oh?ld. j They were over joyed *hen they k ne w the child w&s relieved of the danger. It was sharp pointed, and the child had a narrow escspc. , ? Portman Letter. - If women of the West and Northwest, >fwhom we've been reading this week, Lfaveso mach need or "Rights," there must be something wrong with the men. Wherever a woman has need-to shout for her right.-, tbsre ii maui ines?; lacking somewhere, as a Behool boy who ?nda it necessary to contend fer hie eohool satch el would find something wrong in his parents. ? womanly woman riooa ont ask for rights at all; they are Riven ta her or Hbo does without them. When they aro. given to her, she sets up in her heart a' certain hero; and it would just make him blush-what she thinks about him; he does not feel worthy of it. When ?ho does not get her rights there ls some man who has boen knocked on"his pedestal so low it would hurt him ir he know it. A. man cannot live all his life without grafting or allowing a woman har rights ' ancrfeel happy. She looks ii, she alums it, she throws it in his ovos and In his teeth with every motion of her bead and every turn ol* her eyo. I lo does not know what is the matter with her or himself, but he 1B not happy. Ile think perhaps lt ia a way of her's-he does not think it is a way of bis-and goes ou thinking and thinking till some ?no morning she bas everything so truly her own way the novelty overcomes her so that Bhe Hes down and dies; then be thinks If Bhe j ust hrid a littloof this way long ago sho might have lived and be boon happier. Some men think they are giving their wives "rights" when they knook and abuse them, and the women, if they were sensible ar. the man is, then would take the abuse without * murmur aa their rights for ever marrying him. Women feel belittled if they must ask for their rights as a rose would should it be compelled to ask for its oolor, and man feels BO belittled If be has that sort of a wife. Men are proud of a proud wife-that 1B gentlemen are-and when they resent being belittled, the men scratch their chook foolishly looking for something to say a, * reproo', bot can't find it and go on the more proud and more loving of her. There are two great rights which are wronga when women don't receive them. One has reference to an unjuot govern ment and one to an unjust husband-the right to vote and the right to speak. A ' country who does not know what a fair and beautiful thing lt is to see a woman vote misses half Its life, anda man who has never heard tho clatter and babble of a woman's tongue misses half his know ledge of life. :.A woman, when she arrives on the ros trum, now that we expect , hoop skirts, and six women would AU a stage, when she reaches her snowy atm but and lota ber angel sleeve droop on the desk close to the water pitcher and says : "Ladies and gentlemen: Ahem, I, I, I'm so glad to see you-O, slr, please, you down there with the handsome mustache, will you please bring me my handkerchief I dropped in the lobby?" Why the coun try would go wild over the unsophistica ted eloquence, the oratory, the gesture. It would veto that she stay there forever -stay while they had gone out to supper,. and be there when they came back; there never was or could be such enthusiasm,. and woman would be the crowning ef fect of a Nation. A Senator, or some Senators, would net misa this for, say 96,000 a year. This is the great Kiralfy spectacular which the country misses to-day through un just government. And, of course, wo men loses her vote Then the man who has never per min ted a woman to unclasp the fastenings of her brain, to deport the burden of har wronga on the sliding gangway of her tongue and watch that member lowered and adjusted on its ropes till on the prop er level to discharge the freight of ita cargo, watch the ease and pleasure of its unloading and the joy of every animated thing that skips or rolla off it into the airy woi'd. A man who ha? never seen this baa missed half tho development of his own brain and she-her right to free speech. It is said that a gentleman visiting President Lincoln one day, while con versing with him in private, noticed a peculiar twinkle in his eye, and the door of th? apartment opened when in walked bis wife. She stepped sprightly over to Mr. Lincoln and putting his head within ber hondo gave it the most agitating shaking, bobbing up and downland side to side the visitor had ever seen. Mr. Lincoln was toussled and wooled in a grievouB manner, and Mrs. Lincoln, when she had thns beat the burden of her nerves upon the capillaries of tba Presi dent's uialn, retired in high spirits. The visitor was abashed at being present dur ing the connubial demonstration, but the President said calmly,: "If you just knew bow mnch g">od that did my wife, you would wish lt was yourself Instead of me." Now, there was a great man with a great mind and, a great woman with a Sreat purpose, both of whom together ved beautifully-bo had hi? pleasure and she had her rights. ? ? . > A woman ?B easily pleased i f tho ra an learns how, and adds t" this "patience', long suffering, gentleness*; goodness, faith, meekness," ?^c. This letter Issn Innovation oh Portmau, bat as one beeoro?? ti rei -cf sake sad sweet?, a little bitter pickle stimulates the palate. lt.-II. L. Fourth of Joly Excursions. Southern Railway announces rate of one and one-third first-class fares for the Sund trip from all points on ita linea to l points east of the Mississippi river and South of the Ohio and Potomac river,, account Fourth of July excursions. Dates ?fnate Jnly 2, 3 and 4, good to re turn until July 8. For detailed information oell on or ad dress an < Agent of-ibo Southern Railway or connection. ' ' W. H. TAYLOE, A. G. P. A., Atlanta, Ga. & %\ : ? ' ' 'fr'-'"IM-,,