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"BYTCLINKSOALES & LANGSTON., ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10. 1900. VOLliME XXXYI-NO 16 CUIDTQ omn i o STYLE PLUS PIT, PLUS COMFORT, And to this add MODERATE PRICE -, k S ? ? The total ii our rang? bf i Handsome, tasteful patterns, carefully and honestly made. . Some will cost yon only 50c, and for others $1.09 to $1.50 will be necessary, but whatever you pay you get Shirt Fit and Shirt Value. On view any time. If you need a Straw Hat You should see what we have. We have cut the prices on them. ANDERSON; S. C., The Spot Cash Clothiers Why not Enjoy Riding; When You Go ? You cannot do it in an old, rattling, r ugh-riding Buggy, but you can enjoy it when you ride on the wings of the I celebrated GOODYEAR TIKE. You have no noise, no sfough roads when you have ^TJT33BE j=e? TIDIES. Why not join the roany who now enjoy the pleasure given them by using the Rubber T/ires. Call on us and lot us show you the advantage of uaing them. Church Street! Opposite Jail. FRANK JOHNSON & CO. Deering Li Mowers. THE ONLY MOWER made with only two-piece pitman. Has adjustnbldrag bar and light draft We bave the genuino thick centre Terrell Heel Sweep that ba? just the right set. Also, all sizes of the Victor ?weep Wings. If you will come to see us will make it interesting to you and will eave yod some money. BROCK CO. Anderson, 8. C. ?. C. EVANS; JR., ft CO,, N?DLifa?i, a. c. POLL UNE OF Buist's Garden Seed>, , 5 Paints, Oil, Varnishes, Gasoline, Drug?, Medicines and Chemicals, Fancy and Toi'rt Articles, Perfumery, Toilet Soap?, Sponges, etc. A supply of Peruna, Maralla and Lacupia on hand. ?&" Physicians Prescriptiona carefully compounded. ?08 FROM THE NATION'S CAPITAL. Fr OTT. Oaf Own Correspondent. WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 5,1001. While pretending to bo fair, thc Navy Department, as represented by Rear Admiral Crowninshield aud As sistant Secretary Hackett in the ab sence of Secretary Long, is doing it? very best to annoy and ' hamper the friends of Admiral Schley. Nothing else, of course, was to be expected of Crowninshield but better things had been hoped for from Mr. Hackett. The latter, however, feas refused the request of Schley for a modification cf the fifth precept, which assumes tho disputed question of disobedience to orders, and refused it in langnage that is little less than insulting. In his reply to the Admiral, Mr. Hackett still assumes that the disobedience was a fact, but admits that possibly Schley "did not wilfully disobey" orders, or th ct ho might have been "justified in disobeying them1' and therefora refers his objections to the court. This, how ever, is only the beginning ol thc petty persecution to which Captain Parker, Schley's representative here, is being subjected. He is at work on the log books ot' tho Spanish .war, occupying for that purpose the office of Secretary Long, which is otherwise entirely un used during the absence of tho Secre tary. Nevertheless, Crowninshield re stricts him to a small table in one cor ner of the room, refuses to allow him to reoeivn visitors, and has stationed two sentries to keep a close espionage on him to Bee that he abstracts nothing from the logs. Captain Parker is a re tired officer of the Navy and such treatment was never resorted to before when counsel for an officer sought in formation from the filos of the Depart ment. The valuable logs of the Civil War per io i1 have been open to persons without the espionage of officers acting as private detectives, and it is contend ed that in so important a case the honesty of the counsel should not be impugned by the scrutiny given his work through officers detailed by the Department. Recent consular reports to the Slate Department, which are being held in the secret files of the Government un til the close of the South African war, show that increasing bitterness is mark ing the course of that struggle, the chief causes being: The hanging of "Cape rebels" by the British; the burning of Boer houses and the gath ering of the Boer women and children into concentration camps; the use of Kafflr8by tho British; the charges of killing wounded men in cold blood. Thus a conflict, which at its beginning W8B marked by exceptional humanity, is taking on some of the bitter and cruel aspects of prolonged partisan warfare. The use of Kaffirs as scouts by the British, as stated in Lord Ki teb in er's latest dispatches, is full of dire possibilities. Heretofore both the Boers and British have used Kaffirs as camp servants, hostlers and in a few other menial capacities. There was a tacit agreement on both sides that they should, not be employed in military duties, if this is to be violated and the tens of thousands of natives are to bo drawn into the struggle, murder is likely to replace the less barbarous code of recognized warfare. The re ports giving descriptions of tho recon centrado camps in South Africa are so plain spoken that the Administration does not doro to. allow them to beeomo known. It will be interesting to wateh and see whnt becomes of the cases of gross extravagance in the Army transport service recently . disclosed in reports by the Inspector General's office, and referred to tho Quartermasters Department for explanation. It will be remembered that during the Span ish war, General Breckenridge, the In spector-General, was hampered in every possible way by General Corbin, and not allowed to make complaint of the many cases of maladministration that were rife. Since the war, the situation has been a little better, but not much so, the interests of those who fatten on Government extravagance being powerful enough to hamper any close investigation. One of the alle gations io that the transports are over manned, one officer, saying that each transport has twice a? many men as are actually needed. Extravagance i B also alleged in the matter-of supplies and repairs, and attention is called to the condemnation of 100 small boats, the seams of which were open at the time of purchase. Government contractors, especially those who are building the war vessels of the Government, seem, for some reason that can only be guessed, to consider themselves authorized to lay aside the work on Government vessels whenever there is any pressure on them for men to fill the orders of their pri vate customers. They seem to be con fident that the present Administration will not enforce Ute penalties for delay i made andr provided for in their con- j trac Vs. Accordingly, most cf Uncle; Sam's ships are about two years behr.Ol time, thus causing further delay in planning other vessels in which it is desired to include the novelties incor porated in tho earlier ones. Thus, tho value of the Sampson double turrets which were placed on the Kentucky and the Kearsargo is not decided, owing to the delay in finishing the former uhipsand the lack of time since, fora prolonged test. However, are cent report from tho United States naval attache at London throws some light on the subject. There have been some recent tests there in which a tur ret containing two 18 -inch guns be longing to tho Can opus wns li rc il upon. The resalta of the snots llred at the turret were carefully noted and a plat of their effect has been sent to Wash ington. Taking the area within which the projectile strack mid applying it to the space presented as. a target by the double deck turrets of the Kentucky and Kearsarge, tho naval experts lind that of the 104 0-inch lyddite shot? fired no Ives than eighty of them took I effect. If the same attack had been made on either the Kentucky or Kear sarge fifty-eight of the shots would have hit the 13-inch turret and the re mainder the upper turret containing the 8-inch guns, any one of which would have put both turrets and all four guns out of action. The views of wkol jaie dealers in tobacco and cigars on the etfect of free trade with Porto Rico upon their busi ness are extremely varied. Some be lieve that the competition ot' the cheap labor of Porto Rico with tho better paid cigar-makers of the United States will lead to tho removal of American cigar manufactories to the island and tho reduction of wages of cigar-makers in the United States. The popularity of Porto Rico tobacco is not regarded as a sure result of its general sale in the United States. Many dealers think it does not meet the requirements of American taste in tobacco and will never do BO. Others believe that a few mouths will see established in Porto Rico factories where American-grown tobacco will be made up into cigars and sold as Porto Rico stock on its re turn to the United States. As a mat ter of fact, the conditions existing in the trade with regard to Porto Rican tobacco products are so new that all is surmise and no positive predictions are made, all the country can do is to wait and see what will happen. Bride Danced Herself to Death. MOKEESPORT, PA , Aug.2.-Mrs. Anna Bradowicz, 22 years old, and a bride of twenty-four hours, danced herself to death at her wedding feast hero to-day. She was married yesterday morning to John Bradowicz, one of the leaders in the Polish settlement. The celebration of a Polish wedding usually lasts several days. This was scheduled to occupy the remainder of thiB week. It is customary at theBe celebrations for every malo guest to dance with tho bride, which honor costs the guest $1. In this way sev eral hundred dollars are usually raised to pay for the celebration and help the newly married pair start in house keeping. The dance is a wild whirl about the hall in which the festivities are held, and the bride is passed from one man to another as rapidly as the round of the room 1B made. Mrs. Brudowicz had finished the ninety-fourth round of the room with os many different gueBts when the company was called to supper. Tho bride complained of feeling Bick and almost immediately dropped over in a faint and died before medical assist ance could reach her. Pbysiciaus stated that death was due to heat pros tration caused by over exertion. The young husband is almost pros trated over the death of his bride and is being closely watched to prevent him from committing suicide. Good Health in Havana. WASiirxiiTOX, July 31.-The official reports to the Secretary of War from the sanitary office in Havana present a gratifying show of progress in re deeming the city from the unthrifty and neglectful state in which it was kept during Spanioh occupation. For three months there has not been a sin gle case of yellow fever-something that Las not happened before since the year 1701. The death rate for Juno from all dis eases was twenty-thiee in the thous and, about one-third what it used to be. No city or tropical or sub-tropical latitude bas such a record. The result is due to tho able administration of the sanitary office under Major Gorgas, en couraged by the hearty co-operation of Governor General Wood, who has taken up aa a personal study the causes of infection and the remedial condi tions necessary to establish the immun ity of the city from the usual fever menace. During the past three months it ap pears yellow fever has three times been carried to Havana from the out side; once from Tampico once from an army transport that had vlsi ted several coast porta and once from a case com ing from an interior town. The effi cient quarantine service took these cases out of the zone of infection and no spread of the disease occurred. Beginning in- February the sanitary office h .-.s based ita management of yel low fever on the theory that the dis ease was Bpread by mosquitoes and the results are strongly corroborative of this theory. The health authorities hope to be able to go through the sum mer without the usual epidemic of yel low fever. There has been no small pox in Havana since July, 1000. For merly there was no month in the round year when there were not scores of cases. There wero in New York last month 1,870 cases of smallpox. In fact, the chief danger of infection from this disease is from steamers coming from New York and New Orleans.-P/w?<fri p?da Ledger. Gist Kif ks Survivors' Association. Tho nineteenth annual meeting Gist Ritles .survivors' association was held in Spring Park, Will minston, S. C., Augusta, 1001, President R. V.Acker in the chair, Wm. F. Leo Secretary. The meeting was called to order by the president ami opened with prayer by Rev. G. M. Rogers, after which tho regular order of business of tho Asso ciation waa assumed. The roll of sur vivors was called, following members beini? present: R. V. Acker, Wm. F. Lee, Wyatt Mattison, W. M. Mnyfleld, David Moore, I. W. Pickons, T. P. Taylor, John V. Whitt. Minutes of last meeting rend and adopted. Election of officers for ensuing year. Followiug officers elected: R. V. Acker, president; I. W. Pickens, first vice president; J. V. Whitt, second vice president; J. F. Hendrix, third vice president; Wm. F. Lee, secretary and treasurer. The following members of other commands were enrolled as visitors: Col. J. N. Brown, 14th S. C. V., Mc Gowan's brigade; David Garrisou, Co. F, Hampton Legion; Simeon Eskew, Co. C, Hampton Legiou; E. W. Lee, Co. K, Orr's Regt., McGowan's brigade; J. T. Smith, Co. K, Otb S. C. Cavalry; M. T. Smith, Co. I, Palmotto Sharp Shooters. The treasurer's report being read tho Association was shown to be indebted to the treasurer $1.80 cents. Collection was taken to the amount of $1.00 cents, leaving, when all debts were paid, a balance of 10 cents. The names of four members were reported having died since last meet ing in August, to wit: J. S. Newton, R. T. Elrod, M. P. Allen, W. H. Maul din, A. J. Stringer. On motion it was ordered that a blank pago in secretary's book be dedicated to each of them. No reports made by any of the stand ing committees. Mention being made about publica tion formerly of the names of those who from this county participated in the first battlo of Manossas, July 21st, 1801, it was learned that names of some members of Gist Rifles had'/ inadvert ently, been omitted. After some ex planations from Col. J. N. Brown]he moved that, a full list of all men of Gist Rifles who participated in tbat memorable battle bo furnished the county newspapers. President Acker said he had a complete list of the men, and would furnish it to the papers at an early date. Motion was made and passed to re sume tho question started in caucus meeting by the members present last year to erect a monument lo the Gist Rifles. The following committees were appointed: I. W. Pickens, Jas. F. Hendrix, Wm. F. Loo. Ladies, Mrs. Eula Cry raes Wilson, Miss Eva Stringer. Letters were read from Comrades Lieutenant R. R. Hudgins, (1st Lieut, of the Company at its organizatipn in '61.) J. V. Herbert, Gist Rifles, Col. B. W. Ball, Adgt. of the Regt, from its' reorganization in 1802 to 1804; Lieut. S. E. Welch, acting Adgt. ot the Regt, at the close of the war, all sending re gards and weil wishes for tho old vet erans of Gist Rifle survivors, and ex pressing regrets at not being able to attend the meetings of the comrades. No further business being in order, th?) Association adjourned to meet next first Friday in August, 1002. Dinner was served by tho ladies present, Col. J. N. Brown invoking tbe blessing of God upon tho refreshing repost. A spectator might have said that "tho boys" had not forgotten their ample duty to a good dinner, render ing this obligation ns only a Confede rate soldier cnn. Following upon dinner was inter esting talks by Col. J. N. Brown, re lating in his graphic manner and fine phraseology some thrilling adventures of himself and his men in the cam paigns of Virginia 01 to 05, and Com rade I. W. Pickens describing mem orable experiences of a soldier's life. A poem written for the occasion by Mrs. Wm. F. Lee, was- entertainingly read', motibn being made by Col. Brown' that resolution be passed to gain permission from Mrs. Lee for pub lication of the poem in the newspapers. Following with the above minutes is' is the poem which is intrusted' to the ANDERSON INTBT.LIGENCEK: We hftvo met nineteen years 'neath the shade of the trees Refreshing in song and in story, Tho opooha that laureled our lives' victo ries When ws followed Wade Hampton and glory. Nineteen years while brave lives like the leaves from a tree Were fluttering to earth's darkest region, We have mourned the drooping of Com pany ?, Who were thinning the ranko of the Legion. No honor ls ours that ic feble sppssrs To-day, as we link with each other. But the hsr?io m em'ri ea of thirty-six years, While brother drew nearer to brother. Sixty-one. sixty-five, with their struggle^ arise Our pride and our sorrow reviving, For the Veterana passed to their home in the skies, And the old Gist Rifles surviving. Tn the dsrkness of night when thc winter roll high. With its rain, its hail and Its bluster. We think of our our pi 'neath the snow rifted sky, And the hardships of many a muster. Bot wo followed Wade Hampton wherever ho led, As he oharged the blue columns before him. And we kuew when we locked on iim face of our dead. They had honored tho mothers who bore them. In the long heat that burned beneath the Tod mi II, Oor heart? knew no fear or complaiu ?og. And we traced no weak footsteps to mark a Bull Run, While ballets around us wero raining. How we hungered and thirsted, but ; never a faint, Our spirits grew braver and proiulor. As wo followed Wade Ilatnption, our ; patron saint, And learned to jell all tho louder. So we fought and we yellod to the end of the game, Through four long years' conflict of brothers, Then fainting with joy to tho old home wo came, To weep with the tears of our mothers. Well, today weare here lu tho shade of the trees, Old Time has swept gallantly o'er us, Weare young ns our hope lu the long centuries, With our comrades who passed before us. For we think not of age, and wo speak not of care, And the light lo our hoart? burns brightly, And some day taps will sound to the last camping ground, Then we turn to our graves as lightly. We have yet one roll call, when our souls will respond, With the Legions unnumbered ever, We will meet our Great Captain who '?alts UH beyond, In a Brotherhood none can ?ever. ' j Mus. WM. F. IiKB., Whitefield News. We are ueeding rain badly at this lime. We aro having nico weather for our protracted meetings, although it is pretty warra and dusty. Meoting be gan nt Whitefield last Thursday night. The attendance is good, but as yet no one has presented themselves for mem bership. Mr. L. W. Harris, with a party of friends, left for the mountains last Wednesday. Mr. Cecil Keys and his mother visited her daughter, Mrs. J. G. Griffin, in Picken?, last week. Mr. and Mrs. Berty Jones, of tho BriiBhy Creek section, visited relatives in our community Saturday .and Sun day. Mr. D. J. Tucker created some ex citement on the 4th Suuday evening by unthoughtcdly Betting some trash on fire in his yard. Mr. Johu Bowlan and Mita Maggie Cox eloped and were united in the holy bonds of wedlock at Belton last Sun day afternoon. Mr. John is ono of the nicest young men in this section and his many friends congratulate him on Winning such a handsome and witty companion. Their marriage was a sur prise, as they did not put themselves to tho trouble to tell any ono. BM I: JAY. Married by a Woman. An amusing incident occurred at tho noted 'Squire Bailes' some days ago. Mr. Bailes is noted as the "Marrying Squire." He has a house that stands partly in North Carolina and partly in South Carolina, and as tho latter state has no license law, he does a rushing business. Not long ago the 'squire was away from home, and a couple drove up to the house and wanted to be mar ried at once. The'squire's wife thought, as she attended to tho business of tho plantation during her lord's absence, she could attend to this, also. So she married the couple in duo form. They were satisfied. But a few days later the father of tho bride heard that Mrs. Bailes was the officiating clergyman, soto speak, and be drove to tho county sent, procured a license and had the couple mnrricd over again by a minis ter. And Mrs. Bailes is not yet con vinced that the knot was not tied ex actly right.-Haleigh correspondence Norfolk Landmark. Murder and Suicide. CHARLESTON', Ang. 3.-At two o'clock this morning Lewis Hackerty, a private in the 10th company of ?he United States artillery stationed at Sullivan's Island, killed his wife and immediately afterward shot himself. His wife had been originally Miss Hastie Harvey of this city and subsequently Mrs. Capt. Harry Lewis. She was a very at tractive woman and niven much to society. Jealousy which was probably more than justified, was the cause of Hackerty's rash action. He shot his wife through the head killing ber in stantly. The special object of his jealous rage was a fellow soldier named Messer. Tho dead soldier's body was token charge of by the military author ities but that of his will be left for burial at the public expense. Pot Plants and Cut Flower? for ?ale. Tiargo and small Palma a epoclalty. Mr?. J. F. minkie-!cs, 242 Norla Main Sr. Portman Leiter. Heading in last week's ?BBUO Miss Betty Marlo's Colorado lotter quite compensated for the pleasure foregone in not having been able to supply to the Intelligencer the unual Portman weekly. This correspondent had boon over most of the ground so graphically-in an agri cultural sense-depicted by the Colorado writer; uoticed all the reflecting beauty cf tree and grass and well matured sur face, but noticed also other attractions and Indeed what might he dttr?.ctions if possible-and diatractiona in fact-to ward which digression Miss Karie in ad dition to her agrarian views and impies sions had little spacj in print. The cities, especially, aro not new to the present correspondent, but they are always impressive. They apotheosize man, they Hf. his feet out of the mire and clay of common structure, and set him upon a rock of creative impulses. They i lift his head from the common atmos phere of baser consciousness and place it ! among tho stars. Never have we been brought beneath the dome of a spire pierced sky, within tho ooniines of great bauked phalanxes of stone, guarding as sentinels their street thoroughfare from extinction, of towers of brick that rise like Pisa the illumination of (multitudes at night, of crushing, massing, creaking, straining, vibrating monsters of ma caiuory that from basement to oupalo wiud and wrench and turn the affairs, the finance.3, the accidental or predestined destiny of perhaps c million people but we have said, "How wonderful is man!" The genius, MAN, basa large amount of small things about him; he may be an ant hil), or ant mountain sometime; but ho lu a hill or mountain the name, and he will never cease to be this until the Creator reconstructs his organization. Man is great in spite of himself. He tries to tv little, to bring himself down to the le* ol of the beasts; but God who will not U . without a representative In earth sa\ ja the species asan earnest of what men may beaome in the City not made with hands. This view of the olty and man in con junction with each other has always been a sublime and pathetic coincidence-a morial fact that raises man to such a supreme hight, his works to such dig nity in spite of himself. There is noth ing visible in the country that deifies a man as the creation of a city. Then St. Louis, the lady in her letter mentions this city. In print how pleas ant would have been her impressions of that vast railroad terminus through which she passed, how from its sublime groined arches it would seem that cen turies were buzzing their sympathetic message to the present day. That pro gress was the tenor of the tune that was I vibrating through the steel and iron girders, through the frescoed domes and the Interminable, Incessant movement of night unto day, and day unto night, In side and out Its 300 feet track frontage. The tunnel also a mlle long-that'is recalled. The trains run through this under hundreds of thousands of tonBof brick and granite buildings ao l granite paving in the city. Daring day or night the uninitiated wonder why in even the closer] atmosphere the train of?loia) comes in and with hurried aotlon tightly CIOBGB overy window and transom and in tho daytime the apartment lights. Soon the mystery is explained by the dumb vibration of walls, and roofing overhead, and in spite of all precautions a smother ing sensation of smoke In eyes and nos trils and an ushering as into eternity into a hollow in the earth and what without lights would be thick darkness. Once in the daylight, however, there is soon a joyous sensation of crossing the greatest steel bridge of its kind in the world and looking down upon lae Father of Waters, that is never clear and whoso heavy, Blow, pacing body looked as though it was carrying all the waters of North America. All those achievements are wonderful works of man that relieved from his play ground on the farm reveals unto himself his greatness. There is something not worth remem bering, especially if memory partakes of feeling, and that ls the journey through the southern portions of Indiana, Illi nois and Kentucky where the slow coach train drags literally through fire and smoke. Here L " thc coal regions where flames thick with carbon as a smoking lamp throw their smoke splotches large as mosquitos all around from ear to mouth, where everything is coal .and coke and black-faced white men or ne groes with lamps In their caps to light them down the coal shafts. The streams or drains which are thick pour along their little gullies like oil from a hot pan and are a brown red, floating Iron scum on their lepelling surface. The cabins in the regions are the poorest, their win dows stuffed with raga or framing the most miserable faces of no pronounced nationality-when not negroes. Yet a few of the prettiest blonde-haired, lily complexioned, blue-eyed girls ever re membered were laughing with compan ions, showing that beauty and plainness "from no condition rlae" nor typify any State. R. R. L. kiOed his Neighbor. ROANOKE, VA., Aug. 3.-Two farmers named William Mallory and Zig Jones, residing near each other at the head of Thomson Valley in Tazewell County, started homo together from a distillery at Little Valley late Thursday night. After having gone 15 miles tho two men aro supposed to have quarrelled and in a difficulty which ensued Mal lory whs shot to death. Jones made his escapo across tho State lino into West Virginia. ' ? Mallory's body was left in tho road until yesterday evening. A quantity of whiskey was found nt tho scene of tho murder. Mallory was a highly re spected farmer and leaves a largo I family.