Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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"BYTCLINKSOALES & LANGSTON., ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10. 1900. VOLliME XXXYI-NO 16 JUST WHAT YOU HAVE BEEN - - - Commencing this morning we offer our entire Stock of CLOTHING at a Uniform REDUCTION of. Our reason for this sale is that we want the money for the Clothing we have on hand. We believe it's good busi ness tc Jin ve a sale of this kind now and turn the Goods we have O/i hand into money. It's better than to carry our Clothing over until next Spring. THIS SALE (like all the previous ones we have had) is A GENUINE CUT PRICE SALE, And includes all Suits and Odd Trousers in our house. Noth ing reserved. $2.00 Odd Trousers now - - - - $1.50 3.00 Odd Trousers now - - - - 2.25 4.00 Odd Trousers now - - - - 3.00 5.00 Odd Trows ors now - - - - 3.75 5.00 Suits now ....... 3.75 7.50 Suits now ------- 5.63 * 0.00 Suits now.- 7.50 12.50 Suits now ------- 9.38 15.00 Suits now ------- 11.25 . 0. Evans & Co, ANDERSON, S. C., Tia** ftr^tf^clt f!lr*th I er** Why not Enjoy Riding When You Go ? You cannot do it in an old, rattling, r -ugb-riding Buggy, but you can enioy it when you ride on the wings of the celebrated GOODYEAR TIUE. You have no noise, no rough roads when you have TIRES. Why not join the many who now enjoy the pleasure given them by usine the Rubber Tires. Call on us and let us show you the advantage of using them. Church Street. Opposite Jail. FRANK JOHNSON A CO. Deering Light Draft Ideal Mowers. THE ONLY MOWER made with only two-pieca pitman. Has adjustable drag bar and light draft " Wc have the genuine thick centre Terrell Keel Sweep that has just the right set. Also, all sizes of the Vic tor Sweep vWings. If you will'come to see us will make it interesting to you and will save you some money. BROCK HARDWARE CO. Anderson, S. C. E. G. EVANS, JR., ? PENDLETON, 8* ?. FULL LINE OF , Buist's Garden Seods, Paints, Oil, Varnisher, Gasoline, . Drug-:, Medicines and Chemicals, Fancy Mid Toilet Articles, P&rf?uiery, Toilet Soaps, Sponges, etc. A supply of Peruua, Manalra and Lacupia on hand. Physicians Prescriptions carefully compounded. Oa9 SSS 'kfiMHMa1 ? STATE MEWS. - The farmers instituto at Clem son College was most interesting and well attended. - A disease known as blaok eye has appeared among sheep in various parts of the State. - Heavy rains are reported through out the State and muoh damage to growing nr?na bees susui?cu. - Edgefleld is making an effort to secure connection with AuguBts, Ga., by means of an electric railway. - A site ha* been purchased for the hospital at Winthrop College to be built by Captain and Mrs. W. L. Roddy. - W. H. Smith, a Sumter farmer, was so depressed by bad orops and the poor outlook that he committed suicide. - Florence count}' has suffered to such an extent from rains, that she is forced to borrow $6,000 to repair highways and replaoe destroyed bridg es. - W. C. Ivey, editor of the Sum ter Freeman, has btao arrested on a charge of running a blind tiger in Georgia several years ago. He gave bond. - The bleachery for cotton goods at Aiken has started up. This has been an enterprise long wanted in South Carolina and in the South gen erally. '- Water will be supplied the Char leston exposition by three artesian wells over 400 feet deep. A salt water system is provided for fire pro tection. - It is said that William M. Bird, a prominent and highly esteemed wholesale merchant of Charleston, will be appointed postmaster of that city through Senator MoLaurin's influence. - The snit to settle the validity of the old Blue Ridge bond script will bc brought in the United States court in Charleston. The suit has been filed. It is H. S. Robinson vs. T. B. Lee. - A negro woman living on the plantation of Mrs. Sallie Dicks, in Ellenton, gave birth, a few day? since, to five children, the aggregate weight of whioh was 47 pounds. All are alive and thriving. - South Carolina last year made 20,000,000 pounds of tobacco and an English firm which handled a total of 30,000,000 pounds say their best hogshead of tobacco came from South Carolina. This is enconragiog news. - The municipal primary election in Greenville resulted in the choice of Dr. C. C. Jones for mayor without opposition. He will succeed Mayor James T. Williams, who haB served four terms and declined to ran again. - The Governor has received a letter from some one in Ohio saying that if "Old One Eye," meaning our senior Senator, goes to Ohio and talks of lynohing as he did in Wisconsin he would be sent back to the State in a box. /- Letters in the interest of the pardon of Col. W. A. Neal continue to he received at the executive onus*. Gov. MoSweeney has not yet taken the matter up formally; as no appli cation for pardon has yet been re ceived. - The patients of the late Dr. R. B. Rhett of Charleston will raise $50, 000 to take caro of his widow and or Shan s and to ereil a fitting memorial to is memory. It is proposed to en dow a room in one of the city hospi tals in his name. - Assistant Attorney General Gunter has handed down an opinion that school trustees cannot employ a teacher beyond their term of office. That is. if a trustee's time expires on the 30th of June he cannot employ a teacher to teach beyond that time. - Hon. W. D. Evans, of Marlboro, has been appointed trustee of Clem son college vice Hon. Stackhouse re signed. This appointment has met with very general approbation. Mr. Evans was one of the earliest work ing friends of this college and of in dustrial eduoation generally. - T. J. Cunningham has been elected phosphate inspector, to suc ceed the late Colonel Vance. There were about eighteen candidates and the commission balloted thirty-five times before the election was had. Mr. Cunningham is well known in the State and was .formerly president of the State Agriculture and Mechanical society. The position pays $1,200 a year. - The Charleston counoil has pass ed an ordinance practically re-enacting the dispensary act and providing for the trial and punishment of the vio lators in the recorder's oourt. The bill was passed unanimously, and at the meeting in September the aot will be ratified and it will then be in order for the police department to take an active part in the enforcement of the law. - Othello Fuller, of Columbia, once well-to-do, now a pauper, declares that his wife, Alice, is the daughter of a sister of Josiah Wesley Fuller, the Australian who has left $50,000, OOO to heirs in Georgia and Alabaras. Elf rs. Faller was a Georgia girl and her maiden name was also Faller. The poor people are very muoh stirred sp and i-?vo secured a lawyer to undertake an investigation.. - A terrific electrical storm visited Greenville a few.days ago, and did much damage at one of the cotton mills: A sir-room boase was struck sod Miss Victoria Levi and Miss Bus bee were almost instantly killed. Cliug ham Ward was also struck, but is still living-, elthoagh his condition ia serious. Four children of the Rus sell family who were occupants of the house wore also shocked, remaining unconscious several hoars. GENERAI* NEWS. - The Fall River, Mass., cotton mills have reduced wages fourteen per cent. - Chipley, Fla., has been noarly bumed down as a result of the work of incendiary negroes. - The new steamers that are to cress thc Atlas ti o ?? fuur and a half days will burn Texas oil. -. Hon. A. J. Montague has been nominated for governor of Virginia by thc Deniouratio convention. - The missionaries of tho Ameri can board will return to North China to resume work in the early fall. - A bloody fight occurred between whites and blacks near Jackson, Ohio, in which many woro seriously hurt. - Spain had 'only one battleship left at the end of the reoent war. She is now building ix new war vessels. - There is no material change in tho strike situation, though it is said tho advantage is with tho mill owners. - Negotiations arc in progress by which the output of window glass of tho world will be controlled by one corporation. - Six*y of tho four hundred teach ers going to the Philippines full in lovo with one another and were mar ried at Honolulu. - Tho Western Union Telegraph company, through its operators in New York, is implicated in a gigantic greon goods swindle. - Georgia's first bale of new crop cotton for the year was sold at Coch ran August 12th, at 10e. Alabama re ports first bale same day. - Colombia is about to whip Vene zuela. Colombia's army is about 40, 000 men and her population about twice that of Venezuela. - About 2,000 persons and 300 ves sels are employed in the sponge fisher ies of Florida. The profits last year are estimated at $850,000. - Eive masked men held up a Mis souri, Kansas and Texas train near Caney, I. T. The robbers got little booty and have been arrested. - A young lady of Chicago, Miss Amelia Smoke, attempted to smoke a cigarette when a spark dropped upon her dress and she was burned to death. - This seems to be au unlucky twelve-month for towns named Gal veston; one in Indiana of that name has been almost wiped off the cap by a fire. - A remarkably rich vein of gold has been discovered in Wilkes coun ty, Georgia. Out of 1,407 pounds of ore 1,785 pennyweight of gold was taken. - The annual report of the Mis sissippi River Commission recom mends an appropriation of $3,000,000 for each of a half dozen successive y caro. - David Nation, husband of Carrie, has entered suit for divorce. He al leges that his wife has held him up to publio ridioule and neglected her fam ily duties. - Reports from the west show that the damage done by the prolonged drouth is less than was first supposed. Good rain9 have fallen, and fair crops will be harvested. - It is oharged that custom apprai sers at New Y ork have beon bribed by silk importers and undervalue goods, and that the government has been de frauded of millions. - Bobby Waithour, the Southern bicycle rider, made a world's record on a six-lap track in Providence, in a j 25-mile race. The reoord now stands 38 minutes, 9 ueoonds. - By an explosion of dynamite in a saloon in Chicago, one man was kill ed and many others injured. It is thought this was an effort to destroy the place by dynamite. - An Alabama sheriff backed out a mob of would bo lynchers at Tusca loosa with a shotgun. They wanted tho negro that was to be* lynched very badly, bul did not want to get hurt. - Thc biegest wheat crop ever made in the United States was in 1891, when it amounted to 675,000,000 bushels. Thc crop of 1901 is expected to exceed that by from 50,000,000 to 75,000,000 bushels. - Whitecaps have made their ap pearance at Goffstown, N. H., and have tarred and feathered a young blacksmith for paying attention to a widow whose husband had been buried only a few weeks. - The British government has had an agent in this eountry for the past two years purchasing horses and mules for service in South Afrioa. In Kan sas City alone the agent expended $5, 000,000 for needed aoimals. - Gen. G. Moxley Sorrel, of Geor gia, who was adjutant-general on Longstreet's staff in the Civil war, died at Roanoke, Va... on Saturday aged 64. He was well known to the old soldiers of the Confederacy. - Great floods caused by the over flowing of the Yaog Tse have eaused the death of many thousands in China. The river has risen forty feet, and for hundreds of miles the eountry is a great lake with only tops of trees and an occasional row of houses showing. - Dun dc Co., ie their weekly re view of trade, say the South is in bet ter condition than ever before and that the yield of cotton will be large. They say the banks will not have to draw heavily on New York banks to move tho crop. - Alabama is the first of the Southern States to allow women prop erty holders to voto in municipal elec tions involving bond issues. It ex tends suffrage to women residents of oities owning $500 -4&rth or mere of real estate when bond election? are held. FROM THE NATION'S CAPITAL. From Our Oom Correspondent. WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. IO, 1001. The Navy ring is gottiug alarmed ! Since Scaley asked fer a court of in quiry, evidence in his behalf has EO multiplied thnt it has become evident timi uniese tho Department has some very strong cards unknown to tho pub lic up its sleeve-a thing almost impos sible to believe- the court viii practi cally change into one of inquiry into the methods of tho Department itself, and into tho conduct ot' the West In dian war campaign by Sampson. It will be shown, for instance, from offi cial records that Sampson know for eight days that tho Spanish licet had been positively reported at Santiago by United States Signal ouicors before he either notified Schley of their wherea bouts or went there himself. 11 will bo shown, also, that the code for commu nicating with the insurgents at Cien fuegos was given out through the tieot after Schley had left for that place, and that no etiort was made to follow him up and inform him ot' it, despite the fact that he was the only officer who at that time really needed it. It will be shown, also, that tho blockade rules at Santiago, on which Sampson relies for his claim to the victory, were copied word for word from those es tablished nt Havana by Watson and given by the latter to Sampson nt his express request. In short, tho chances are that the investigation will strip Sampson of all his borrowed plumes. It was the realization of this fact that led the Department to at first decide not to call him as a witness-a decision it would have maintained had it not been for the very universal outcry against it. Ex-Senator Chandler, now head of the Cuban Claims Commission in this city, is oat with an nppeal to the repub lican party to regulate the trusta. Mr. Chandler speaks up os loudly as though he were not as utterly alone in his par ty in advocating such ideas as is Mr. Babcock in advocating tariff reform, He rehearses the evils tbat have arisen and are arising through the formation of these gigantic monopolies, conclud ing UB follows: "What is the remedy for the threatening evils ? lt is easy and BU re : Tho exercise of legislative control over corporation organizations. No nbolition of competition in any bus iness can take place through agree ments of individuals or partnerships of individuals alone. Corporate powers are indispensable. Bonds and stocks must be issued and thrust upon tho markets. But the Legislatures can de cide what shall be the quantities of bonds and stocks a?d can iimit the business w hich each corporation may do. Congress <&a absolutely control the interstate'commerce railroads. The State Legislature caa also govern them and all other corporation monop olies and force them back to the an cient ways." it is an extraordinary tribute to the virility of the Democrat ic principien that men like Babcock and Chandler, life long Republicans both, should find themselves forced to come over to the Democrats for reme dies against the growing ills of monop oly. The pity is that they do not dare to change their party emblem any more than McLaurin dares to change his. Employers who want cheap labor and who are therefore hostile to the Chi nese exclusion law, which terminates by limitation next summer, are en deavoring to create the impression that there is a strong party on tho Pacific coast, which hopes that Chinese will bo admitted under the snmo condition as other foreigners in the future. This class, they say, does not dare commit itself to this position, because of po litical fear, lt is stated by fruit grow ers and those engaged in agricultural pursuits in California nnd tho Pacific coast States that more Chinamen are badly needed to aid in farm and or chard work. Other labor cannot be obtained a large part of the time. ? Treasury otlicials say that merchants J and manufacturers throughout the ' country who hope to increase trade with China are likely to have something I to say as to a renewal of the ex ! elusion act. It is hoped hy this class of people pointed out that cordial com mercial relations cannot be established if there exists a law which Chinamen the world over regard ns a direct affront to their country. While, doubt less, there are peoplo who would like plenty of Chinese hore, even if they swamped tho whites altogether, this eine?? is cvidontly very small, or it would have the courage of its convic tions and speak out for them. Organ ized labor is already at work urging that free immigration bo forbidden, as during the last ten years, and will con tinue its demonstrations. A number of petitions have been sent to the White House declaring that the work ingmen are opposed to Chinamen com ing to this country, but not one in favor of it. Even individuals who secretly favor it, prefer net to put themselves on record in black and white, a conclusive proof that they are very few in number-even though they may be very influential in Republican circles by force of tho enormous amounts of money they are able to command. The Republican leaders generally seem to have como to tho conclusion that no steps shall bo taken for some time to come in the direction of reduc ing the represen tat inn of the South on account ot' negro disfranchisement there. The platforms, both State and National will continuo to denounce this but that will bo nil. Efforts by tho radicals, who insist on every action tending to cripple the South, will bo routined for some years to pushing a case in the Supreme Court designed to test the constitutionality ot mo so-called grandfather clauses of several Southern States, with tho iden that if these are found unconstitutional, it will then bo easier to secure legisla tion from Cougress. Tho Atlanta con vention especially has brought matters to a focus, tho new constitution of that State being specially caudid in its ef fort to establish a color test. It will take several years to get the ease through tho courts. Another instance of tho rottenness of the Navy Department's management during the Spanish war, aud of the enormous sums that favored parties were allowed to inako by means of tho exaggerated prices paid for vessels, appears from the selling price of tho transports Terry and McPherson, which wero bought for $850,000, cost ?500,000 for repairs and alterations, and wero sohl the other day for less than $40,000 for the pair. Obviously,somebody profi ted by these extortionate prices. If the Government bad chosen to exercise its right of eminent domain, which ex tends over ships in port, it could have taken theso vessels at its own price, I and could still have been generous, without being lavish. Hut then, tho members of the ring would have lost their commission. Boleman News. Rain, rain! Oh, how it does rain! If it continues very much longer it will injure the cotton. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Maret are visit ing relatives in Ilonea Path and Cray ton this week. Mrs. C. E. Skelton and children, of Augusta, Go., are visiting relatives iu this section. . Miss Emmie Simmons, ono of Crny tou's charming belles, is visiting rela ? ti vc? in this community. I Purinna Holmium and his lovely sis ter, Miss Annie, of Anderson, are vis iting in this burg. Clarence McGee returned to his homo in Atlanta, Gn., last Thursday, after a pleasnnt visit with his uncle, Mr. J. M, Jolly. Misses Paulino and Myrtie Barton visited friends and relatives at Fair Play last week. B^b Price, ono of Yoe's dashiug gents, was seen in our burg last Mon day. Mrs. J. M. Jolly, accompanied by her daughter, Mrs. C. Skelton is visiting at Oakway. John I. Holland, of Anderson, was in our burg last week drumming for the Sullivan Hardware Co. Aldino Hombree, of Piedmont, has been visiting here. Rev. J. S. Thames, of Edgefield, passed through here last Sunday on his way home. Mr. Thames was liked very much by the people of the Fork for such a short acquaintance. Misses Gertie Mahaffey is attending tho teachers1 Normal. Harrison Erchburgar, of Reed Creek, Ga., was sporting in our burg last Sun day afternoon. Lee Sanders, of Prospect, was in this community recently. Just ask ono of the Alpine boys about turning over his buggy Inst Sun day night and throwing out one of our fair maids. Messrs. Skoels W. and Larry B. Mar et, of Pair Play, visited here recently. Como back again, for you aro always welcome. Geo. VV. Jolly, of Anderson, spent a week with home folks recently. Miss Bernie Farmer luis gone to Mi*.s Mary Bowen's wedding at Abbeville. Mrs. Floyd Cole has been quite sick, but wo are glad to say is convalescing With this exception the health of the community is very good. MoitNiNc GLORY. August 17, 1001. In Memoriam. Happy in perfect resignation to the will ot her Divino Master, secure in her faith and blessed in the consummation of a well spent life. Mrs. J. T. Morgan died at her home at Moseley on Suu day, August 11th, after an illness of two weeks, caused by a lightning stroke. Her 12-year-old son, who was stricken nt the same time, died in stantly. Mrs. Morgan was Miss El mina Katherine Stevenson, and was born Fob. 18th, 1851. On Nov. 20th, 1H71, she was married to Rev. J.T. Morgan. Mrs. Morgan wan converted in 1807 and joined Union Church, aud in her death tho church has lost n most faithful and e.ilicient servant, the com munity n. dear nod valued friend and the family a devoted, pious Christian mother. Besides n bereaved hiiBbaud she leaves five children to mourn her loss. "On the margin of the river, Washing up its silver spray, We will walk and worship over All the hanny golden day." A FRIKNO. Old Stone Church Association. There will be a meeting of the Old Stone Chnrch Association on Saturday, Aug. 24th. AOdresseawill be made by Col. W. S. Pickens and othors who are well versed in tho history of tho Old Stone Church. All members aro urgently requested to como and bring their friends that we may enlarge and perpetuate this Association, whoso object is tho caro of this hollowed spot. J. J. LEWIS, Pres. H. P. Sn TON, Sec. and Treas. Portman Letter. Now, that cojointly with our country ;hool syetem, the educational features >f the coming political campaign will also soon be upon UP, we wonder sometime if the wrong liquid may not be poured into the wrong bottle. Wo have heard of educated monkeyH, educated donkeys, educated horses, hogs and dogs; but these, being morally irre sponsible, are only interesting and amus ing. When either of these animals, through education being poured into him, takes upon himself the honorable form of a human being, then the "legion of . fiends" in the man in Scripture is more harmless than he. Education should be tempered to the shorn lamb; when a boy,|through his own wilfulness or negleot of parentB, is shorn or moral responsibility, when birth has not clothed him in some decent fragments of a right mind, then tho ermine of edu cation makes him not a foolish king but tho king's fool. Many a boy is harmless when let alone, but when educated he plays pranks for Satan. This ls no plea that boys should not be educated, but many an uneduca ted boy makeH a better farmer than he would make a citizen when educated. Education is like any chemical, it works differently with different solutions -baking soda, for instance. Bicarbonate of soda is very mild when in solution with water, but place it with vinegar and it forms a rushing agitation and consider able of a fuss and noise. The man who likes fuss and noise may say: "Well, I don't see what use that little mild soda and water lol" Hut ask the man with gas Moating on his atomaoh and he will say: "Well, I don't-know of anything that neutralizes the acid In my atomaoh as well as a little baking soda and water." But education-the three R's, reading, 'rt lng and 'r?thmotto-is aa muoh the di 11 JO right of the American boy aa earth, a. i and water. Yet not the education he L .s as what will he do with it that pos sesses the uneasiness or annoy anco of the county or State. Where ?ducation Beta a boy or man to villifylng, depredating up? on the good sense of the unwary, simple minded, honest people, the use of the ed ucation in this way should ba deprived him by the State as the use of whiskey should be deprived a man, when the whiskey is the ruination of those around him. Many a boy turns to idleness when hd turns to education; his head, normally large, grows ls burdensome as a boiler upon hiB shoulders, and all hts time and Ingenuity as required to preuerve the vessel in balance. The boy would have been a good farmer, carpenter or black smith, but a3 a professor, au orator or some other thing way up in the oity or State, he is a trickster, an imposter, and deludes the orndnlous audience with the contemptible ribaldry of a mountebank. There is the only harm in education placing it in the wrong bottle. It ia the smattering of education that hurte, when hurt ia accomplished. The boy of whom lt had been said aa he grew . up: "He will never mike a farmer; he doea not take to trade-nothing but booka," and that boy had been educated, a good, all-round scholarship, from one school to another, from one course to an other, that boy will be the professor whoae own brilliancy will link the world with light and, if on a spiritual plane, whose own strength will empower the world for good. But the smatterer, the education that scums over the debris of foul intentions, that ls gained as a amart clap-trap were with to show off to advantage the ugly wares of the human heart, this smattering is the pitchfork wherewith Satan lifts into an inglorious heap the many who, hearing with their earn do not under stand with their hearts, and BO are de ceived. Perhaps this implement of a farm, ' this trident of war between a Neptune of tbe fluids and a Cicero of tho rostrum, may, with an alteration of the poet's line, point tho moral that adorns the tale. We have not boen beating about tho buah when pointing that education in the mind of a bad man Is a bad thing. There is no man can do so much harm as the educa ted man; if he has money and influence at band all the worse for those rao are injured. When we know that this educa tion it>. nv like a blast of blight covering every young and green thing in the State of South Carolina, it is time, as people pray for rain, to pray for some blessed sunlight, some chemical of God's spirit that Rhall save the tender growtb of truth in the hearts of God's Door people. If the masses would know that no man who strikes at the prosperity of their homes by striking at the Creator who gave them a home, and in whoae hands are their souls and bodies; and who strike at God's Word, the message to the poor wherein tbe Father tells them: "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you reBt;" and who strike at God's house, wherein the fami lies-the parents and children-should worship one day in seven to gain Htrength for the coming week, and that by com plying with these requirements of a re spectable family and children of God they will draw around themselves a fortifica tion of blessedness as a result of the promise that them who honor God, God will honor; if the people would consider that no man who opposes all this can be the mouthpiece of the Ix>rd, and that his wisdom ia wickedness, they would not for a moment let his oratory steal away their h carta nor let k into their children's ""The great majority of the poor do not know muoh by way of education, but they want to do the best they can, and they have a clear conscience that if they do barm to themselves or others In a matter where people are led, they were led or drawn by tho oratory of a man more no wert ul than they, whoso strength will be short-lived because evil, in that ha fears not God nor regards man, only wherein man empowers him with money and position There are humble citizens today unlet tered in AB C's but exalted In cbaraoter, and there are men manufactured from colleges vf bose doom on earth teems to bo like tbe tall of the Great Dragon, "to draw the third part cf tho stars of heaven after them into perdition." R. R. I?.