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J? un BT CLINKSCALES ? LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1901. VOLUME XXXVn-NO. 10. Gs Neckwear AT ii?tr mut ! i ' A it ,:<...?? i'-.';, " . WE thought our Neckwear at 25c. to be the best found in any Store, and it was, but our buyejr while in market picked up some short lots of Silks under price, had them made up, and instead of the price being 50c. (which is their real value) we have them in our window You should supply yourself at once if you are short on Ties. You eau get two for the price you expected to pay for one. They are made in Windsors, Four-in-Hands, Tecks and Imperials. j I-f;, j . LET US SHOW YOU THE LINE. . - .? i j fri'" -(J H'- ' ' ' " B. 0. Evans & Co, ANDERSON! S. C., The Spot Cash Clothiers 1?S1. _ 1901. GREENVILLE. S. C. A* P. MONTAGUE, FH.B.,'LI<.D., President. TWO Courses are offered loading to the degte&i of Bachelor o? Arts (B. A.) and Master ol Arts (BI. A.) Library and Reading Room. Che m ice 1 sud Physical Laboratories New -Tndscn Alumni Hali, containing Auditorium and So ciety balls. Dormitories on campus. New Forty? Boom Dormitory. Ex penses reduced to a minimum by rae*a system. Next session begins September 25. catalogues and olronlars of information on request. Address DR A. P. MONTAGUE, Greenville, 8. C. For rooms apply to Prof. H. T. COOK. Greenville. S. CV_ 0-8 Why hot Enjoy Riding When You Go ? ytf^sllflfc, ' /??B?&??&. ^ou camiot d?lt lQ 'xu 0,(1? rattl??g. / \ \ rough-riding Buggy, but you can enjoy / \ j \ it when you ritlo on the Nving^a of the (T?* ',- - . You Lave no nn?E?. no rough roads DR/TTBIBIEIE?? TIRES. Why not join the many who now enjoy the pleasure given them by using the Rubber lires. Call on us and let us show you.the advantage of using them. Church Street. Opposite Jail. FBANK JOHNSON & CO. 8 c. c. c. ic. [c. lea 14c. fte.) iee I S4C.I lSc| ?Sci oelT nm? Deering Light Draft Ideal Mowers. THE ONLY MOWER made with only two-piece pitman. Has .adjustable drag har and light draft We havs the genuine thick contre Terrell Heel Sweep that bas just the right set. ' Also, all sizes of ike Victor Sweep Wings. If you will come to see us will Maako it interesting to you and will eave you'some money. BBOCK HAEDWARE CO. Anderson, S. C. ? STATE NEWS. - ? tourist hotel may be built at Batesburg by northern capitalists. - An Orangeburg County farmer made 139 bushels ot oats on ooo acre this season. - Sam Farrow, a negro, near Daw kins, murders his wife, father-in-law and mother-in-law. - Army worms have appeared in large numbers in a few eastern coun ties and aro destroying much grass. - The Illinois buildisg cs the Charleston Exposition grounds is going up and it will he a handsome one. - The pottal authorities promise to make material extension of the rural free delivery in this State, in the near future. - Arrangements aro being made to have a grand I'emoeralio mass meet ing sn Abbeville some time next month. - Reports show that tho various suramor schools held throughout the State this year were unusually well attended. -- Giles Irby, a negro oonviot from Laurens county, was accidentally kill ed by a guard at a convict camp near Columbia. - Rev. John O. Willson, editor of the Southern Christian Advocate, has gone to London as a delegate to the Ecumenical oonferenoe. - Governor McSweeney has issued proclamation making an earnest re quest that Monday, September 2, 1901, be recognized as labor day throughout the State. - A number of soldiers, among them a South Carolina boy, Henry C. Watson, were killed by the explosion of a cartridge at target practice at Fort Myers, Kansas. - Reports sent out by Washington correspondents state that Senator Mc Laurin intends in the future to be "hands off'' in the distribution of federal offices in this State. - The Baptist church at Denmark was destroyed by fire a few nights ago. It is supposed to have been tho work of an incendiary. There was about $1,000 insurance on the building. - The present outlook is that the cotton mill property in the State will reaoh $25,000,000, whioh is very near ly as much as the railroad property of of the State, and in round numbers tho total assessment of tho property of the c?ate is only $173,000,000. - The Southern Railway machin ists at Columbia and Charleston, who struok for higher wages and shorter hours, can now repent at leisure. New coiners have taken their place and the old hands have had to break up their homeB and hunt work else where. - Two negroes were killed at Chero kee Falls, Cherokee County, by a pre mature explosion of dynamite. They were preparing for a blest is reek and a spike fell in the dynamite. The charge went off with a terrific explo sion and both negroes were killed in stantly. - Mr. N. M. Venters, a magistrate pf Williamsburg county, sent in his resignation last week. He gave as his reason that no man could fill the job honestly when he got only $2.08 a month for his services. He is an honest man certainly, but there will be others to fill his job. - A representative of Boston capi talists eame to Gaffney about a fort night ago and bought a site just east of Gaffney for a faotory to manufac ture cotton mill supplies. He im mediately -let the contract for the buildings and material for same are being placed on the grounds. - James R. Jordon, ex-city treas urer of Aiken, is short in his financial accounts with tho oity in the sum of $2,215.40. The amount of the defi cit is fully covered by indemnity bond. Jordon is an eHerly man, nearing his seventieth yea , and had been treas urer of the city of Aiken for fourteen years. - In Greenville County William Gardner and Mack Dixon, both white, auarreled over somo small matter, lardner drew a pistol and shot three balls in Dixon's abdomen. Then Dixon knooked Gardner down, took the pistol from him and shot the two remaining balls into Gardner's body. Both m?n died in a short while. - The government has taken pos session of the property of Charleston upon v hioh the new naval station at that place is to bo constructed. Cap tain Longneoker and Paymaster Skeld ing have notified the', department that the last of the purchase money was paid and the property taken posses sion of. The purchase pri?e was about $90,000. - The Governor has been inform ed of an act of vandalism most hor rible in Darlington county and has offered a reward of $50 for the ' appre hension of the party or parties who maliciously and fiendishly desecrated the graveyard at the Gum Branch Baptist church. The rascals threw down some of the headstones, broke others and deported themselves in a generally outrageous manner. - ?bero seems to have been a mis understanding relativa to the re-open ing of Winthrop College. Aa waa an ri?uucod at the close of the session. the wrk this year will begin October fr, and by that time the new dormi tory will be open and ready for the young ladies who receive the neoes aary certificates. The oponing has been delayed until October so that the old and new dormitory may both bc opened simultaneously and the maximum number of students may be accepted and all begin work at the same time. GENERAL MEWS. - Tho pensions to tho survivors of the Spanish war are now nearly two millions. - Alabama has reduced thc tag tax on fertilizers to tho aotual cost of in spection. - .The interest on the national debt for the last year cost each person forty-four cents. - A prophet in Omaha, Neb., has set December 13th as the date the world will CO lu ? Lu au cud. - The crops have failed in Euro p?ern Russia and over forty million people are in danger of starvation. - A Georgia woman, now living in Pittsburg, Pa., killed a peddler who had attacked her and another woman. - A trolley smashup near Atlan ta, Ga., resulted in tho killing of one person aud injuring nineteen others. - The carriage manufacturers of Cincinnati have discharged all union men and will run their plants non union. - The Texas mob that was after a negro for criminal assault caught their man and humed him at the stake' near Red Ranch. - Commissioner Poolo, of Ala bama, reports that the wind has great ly damaged cotton by blowing it down in the fields. - Farmers in Mississippi are send ing agents to the cities and towns for labor to help gather their crops. La bor is growing very scarce. - Mrs. Natiou is about to overdo the sensational aot. Her friends aro seriously considering the proposition to look her up in an asylum. - Dr. Gatling, of rapid-fire-gun fame, has invented a motor plow by which he expects one operator to plough thirty acres in a day. - The threat is made by certain in fluential citizens of Cuba that if they do not get oertain concessions Cuba will ffjk for annexation to the United States. - Confederate veterans had a grand time at their reunion at Lexington, Ky. It is estimated that there were over ten thousand of the old soldiers present. - Many vessels are tied up in tho harbor of San Francisco for want of men to load them. The strike of ship loaders and employes on shore is still in force. - In Wy the county, Va., Miss Ola Neff, 18 years old, shot J. L. Waxel baum, of Georgia, because of improper proposals made by him to her. The wound is not dangerous. - Northampton County, Va., ha;, a population of 13,000 people, who made and sold this Summer 550,000 barrels of potatoes, realizing over two millions in money for that one erop. - Daring the progress of the trial of Otto Johnson at Reynolds, Miss., for seduction, a nistnl was fired, snd the firing of pistols soon became gen eral. Three men were probably fatal ly injured. - Two negroes were taken from jail at Pierce City, Mo., bj 1,000 in furiated citizens and hang and then their bodies were riddled with bullets. These brutes had assaulted Miss Ca rella Wild and then killed her. - Indiana has a genuine snake farm, developed without the aid of stimulants. It is a commeroial en terprise, the garter snake being pro pagated and fattened for the sake of its oil, which is cxtraoted by running tho reptile through a press. - Charlos J. Preston, a wealthy citizen of Waterbury, Conn., is seek ing a divorce from his wife because she is a< kleptomaniac. She steals thc neighbor's ohiokens and flowers, and anything of this kind which she de sires, though amply able to buy all she wants. - A burglar attempted to enter t creamery at Benton, Wis., the othei day through a trap door in the roof. Ho had i bottle of nitroglycerine ic his hip pocket, and the ?.rap door, fall ing, struck him on the hip. He wat literally torn to pieces by ?ne foroe of the explosion which followed. -7- Chas. W. Nordstrom was hangee last Friday at Seattle, Wash., for th< murder in 1891 of William Mason This celebrated ease has been in th< courts for nine years through the tact and skill of his lawyer, James Hamil ton Lewis. The doomed man had tc be strapped to a board to be hanged - Lightning saved a little girl fron beiag buried alive in Kansas theothe; day. The bolt struck the hearse, spli the casket, killed thc horses and stun ned the drivers. When the mourner: came to investigate they found th< little maiden roused from a swoon sitting in the ruins, crying for he mother. - R. B. Weddington, a Unioi County, N. C., farmer, who died rc cently, was not troubled by the "raoi issue." He lived in the kindliest re lations with the negroes and in hi will he gave three tracts of land t< three of his faithful eolored servants leaving money to others. The remain der of his estate,, amounting to 1,60 acres, he bequeathed to tho Method i o Churoh. - The people of Pierce City, Mo. have determined to drive every negr from the tetra. Already many negroe have been driven out and they ar hiding in the surrounding woode while others have gone greater dit tances for safety. In the past te years the negroes in that city hav committed many foul crimes-, an J. th mob of 3,000 white men say that i future no negro shall live in Pi ere City. Already three negroes hav been Jynohed, one for assault and mu? dering a young lady, and two othei for complicity in the deed. FROM THE NATION'S CAPITAL, j From Our Oten Correspondent. WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 20, 1001. Tho developments in tho S ch Icy caso still servo to draw much attention, tho prevailing interest being in waiting to seo what tho Navy Department will do next to hamper and annoy Schley and bis counsel. The latest in this line is the act of Assistant Secretary Hackett, who, prompted by Adnera! ?rowniu shield, Schley's bitterest foe, i cf used a day or two agoto inquire from Admiral Howison whether ho did or did not inuko the statements attributed to him in a recent sworn-to interview in n Boston paper . In his most extraor dinary answer, refusing to submit tho question, Secretnry Hackett most in geniously pat Scaley into a position where he can hardly fail to give offense to Admiral Howison, thus prejudicing his case if that officer sita on the court. As a matter of fact, tho request of Ad miral Schley morely was dcBigned to elicit from Admiral Howison a denial or atlirniation of thu language iu ques tion in order that, if ho assumed tho responsibility for it, ho might withdraw before the court convened, thus saving time. As the court has not met, aud therefore no "challenge" could be en tertained, it would be beyond the power of Admiral Schley to issue such a challenge at that time, lt is under stood that Admiral Schley also pointed out that Admiral Howison lins not dis claimed the views attributed to him, as lils general denial of having pub licly expressed his opinion was made prior to the publication in question. From the latest developments, it seems that Sampson not only delayed for seven days in neting on the positive informa tion sent to him by General Greeley to the effect that the Spanish fleet was at Santiago, but that he was warned through General Shnfter on tho very day before the Spanish made their sor tie that a message had been received from the city statiDg that the fleet was expected to leave the next day. Cu riously enough, the original copy of the dispatch on which General Greeley based his notification has disappeared from tho War Department records. While the authenticity of the dispatch is admitted and copies of it aro found in the reports, the original, which in of special value, is gone. It is said that General Greeley superintended tho translation of tho secret dispatches himself during tho war, and was in tho habit of placing them in his pocket when he considered them of unusual importance and carrying them to the Secretary of War, or tho Navy, or to the President, as the case might be, retaining the originals, but leaving copies on Ale. He did not confide originals even to his assistants. In this caso the original is of great im portance, aa it ia presumed it has on it an indorsement of the names of those to whom its contents were communi cated. Since the outcry ob the subject of slavery in the Philippines ha* grown so pronounced, the War Department announces that it is determined at least te break up the traille in children which has been going on in certain parts of the Philippines, which consti tutes one of the gravest problems with which army officers in that section have to deal. The tr ali ic comes as a result of tho improvidence of the peo ple, families who have been stricken by famine not hesitating to seek relief by the sale of their children. Kindred questions which confront tho military authorities in that section of tho Phil ippine archipelago is the state of slavery existing under the Moros, with whom onr paciiic relations can only be maintained by the most adroit and dip lomatic negotiations. Slavery, it ap pears, having been confirmed by solemn treaty with President McKinley, can now only be abolished in one of two ways-by war or by purchase. In all districts the slavery question ia a con- j stant source of trouble on account of fugitive slaves escaping from one mas ter to another. When a vocation re lating to slaver, comes up, the owners aro compelled to provo their slaves be yond donbt, and in case of n flaw in their title the alleged slaves receive freedom papers. In case no flaw can be found, however, tho slaves have to be surrendered under tho treaty with bhe United States, negotiated and ac cepted by the President. The number of pensioners from the civil war is still increasing, although JO year? have gone by ".ince tho close of that struggle. During the fiscal your, the roll for that war shows a net increase of 1,044; further, there wero about 95,000 altogether new claimants whose demands were awaiting action it the end of the year, while upwards af 225,000 now on the roll were de manding increases on various pleas. The net increase in tho roll during the last year from all wars was4,200, bring ing ft up to the enormous total of 997, ?35 persons, who drew over $188,000.000, ?.bout the samo as the average for the past eight years. Since the beginning Bf the government, $2,703,350,000 has been paid in pensions. Ono person in T5 of the present population of the :ountry now draws a pension; one in 32 of the population as it existed at the Limn nf tho civil war di ii WH a pension; md about ono in 25 of the population from which the soldiers were drawn [the South being excluded) draws a pension. Toffee figures call for no ?omment;'tfffrfr simple recital being as appalling aa anything ever heard of. Congrearap Hull, of Iowa, Chair man of thar House Committee on Mili tary Affairs, is realising the troubles that must inevitably arise from the military Frankenstein he has been so ic ti vc in creating. The average Amer ican has always known that tc put a little gold braid on a man with the lSBiirauce that it should remain for life, had the extraordinary effect of giving him an exaggerated sense of his own importance. Whether it was hazing nt West Point, or in rough rid ing those unfortunate enough to como . in contact with him, the "courtesy" ot* the average army ofilcer towards tho ' average civilian hns always been most i marked. Mr. Hull,however, feeling him- ; soif almost an ofilcer by virtue of hispo- ! Hition. did not realize this until recent experience in tho Philippines, accounts of which are just beginning to como in. It seems that at the inauguration of Governor Taft on July 4, ulai, a special .siand was provided for the officers of the army and their t'a mil irs. so that these might ?ol bu forced to rub i shoulders with tho civilian canaille. Mr. Hull, attempting to get on this stand with his family, was driven away and compelled to sit with mero clerks and other civilians tn his great wrath, and threatened retaliation. Thu inci dent is regarded here philosophically by Democrats, who wonder which ia the moro remarkable : Mr. Hull's feel ing of humiliation at beiug compelled to mix with tho common people, or thc military presumption in utterly ex cluding all who are not within the?r favored circle. At auy rate, Mr. Hull has had an object lesson in military tact and courtesy, which, it is hoped, will bo profitable to tho country. Confederate Soldiers' Home. MK. EDITOR : We scarcely soc tho theme Soldiers' Home launched upon thc ocean of minds of our State before the small minnows-thc cheap dema goguery politicians have begun to nib ble at tho large bait that has hoon cast upon thc waters for big fish. It is too largo for them to swallow; this subject J is ono for broad, patriotic minds and big honest hearts. j One of theso small minded men would build tho Soldiers' Home by cutting off some of the appropriations 1 to our colleges, while another would have our public office i ? contribute one fourth of their salaries, nnd so on. Now we think we speak thc senti ments of ?jvery bravo and true soldier and noble citizen of our Stato when we say we do not want a Soldiers1 Home built out of the carcass of any other Institution of our State, or tho salaries that we have promised our servants or any shoddy stuff Whatsoever. We want it made out of solid good material, just such as our Confederate Soldiers were nindo of and they were of good clay, for they stood the crucial test of seven times through the fire yen, many of them stood tho lire of seven times nud they arc with us yet, some of thom decorated in tattered rags before they will undergo tho humiliation and disgraco of dwelling in poor houses. lt will bo remembered that the ma jority of our indigent Soldiers were men of small means when they joined the army-they owned no negroes, bank stocks, cotton mills or farms; they fought for their sentiments, principles,' honor and duty to their country-while very many men of means and influence found bomb-proof positions under a subterfuge of a thousand forms. The sentiments and principles that prompt ed these brave men to leave their happy homes and face the terrors of one of the greatest wars the world has ever known now makos these grand Old Heroes shudder at the thought of spending their last days in a poor house. Taxes-Oh, that great bugbear- how the cheap politicians do try to dodge the straight issue and attempt to poluto the minds of honest and noble people with their prejudice. We need no apologies to ofter a grate ful and patriotic people when wo ask thom for good sound money for a good sound obligation. Wo have taxed these veterans to stand up against a powerful invading enemy of our common country for four long years-half fed, ragged, and at times could be trailed through the snow by the blood from their bare feet, and they paid it. We have taxed them to stand guard on picket when they could hear the freezing trees burst and crack like the sound of a rifle, or lay sweltering in the trenches for days under the boiling midsummer sun, and they paid it. We have taxed some of thom to pay out a finger, a toe, a foot, a hand, an ann or leg, or from ono to n dozen bul let hole? through their bodies, and they have paid it. We have taxed some of them with a broken constitution of disease and they have been paying those taxes of suffering every day for nearly forty lona; years. Wo have taxed the poor wife tho lifo of her husband, of the daughter the life of her father, of the mother the life of her)>eloved son, and they paid it. It behooves every well to do old sol dier (or his son) who has been blessed with means above want to look after their indigent heroes-for a country without heroism will surely dio the death it deserves and loso its prestige and honor aa well as its treasure of dollars if loft exposed to thieves with out lockers. As we need great iron safes to lock in and protect our dollars so dowe need heroism-the iron minds of brave and noble men to throw around and protect our people from the robbery of other people, countries and nations, who may at any time break in and squander Our fortunes and fame, for until the days of the millennium, tho brutish nature that ia still left in man may assert itself and rise up out of its hibernating retreats under a favorable season like the sleeping seven headed monsters, and destroy tho progress of cur now prosperous, patriotic and chivalrous people. J. C. STRimtLiKu, For Carno 1,000, U. C. V. Pendleton, 8. C., Aug. 20. 1901, Portman Letter. While preparing these few linea for THE INTELLIGENCER we havn an inter eating occasion-watching the rain. For about two weeks the rains baa been watching us and refused to retire behind ita windows in the ?ky. The >Torth and Weat have been praying for rain and the answer seems to have arrived in Port man; we would, now that ?uf?icicncy u?a HatlaUed our own desires, gladly parael up the gilt and redirent it to the suffering t?tulos who are parched, their cropa noom ingly useless. A joke waa pretended to be played upon na a few days ago. lucently a couple of - friends from the North visited and are now remaining with us. Desiring to Hbo w oil" HO ruo of the best points of Port man whilo the iriuuda and ourselves are hore, wo took advantage of what seemed a ce?aetion of weather hOBtilitiea, and in gay trappings of feminine uniform and brushed up oquipage, we rodo beyond ! the pickot lines into tho grounda of the enemy, or where the clouds aeemed to be reserving force for a more formidable battalion than ourselves. The sun shone upon us deligtfully, and we were con gratulating ourselvea on a diBpenaation that should be acknowledged with thanksgiving; but tho "hostilities" catch ing us within their linea opened their batteries and we wero permitted to return alive, but badly liddled. We were drenched from face to toe, and our trap pinga, like the young Casablanca, "O, where were they?" Our horse appeared to be iaaulng fire and flame and steam from his nostrils, and the indignant ex pression in his eyes said : ''Don't you know any better than to RO out a day like thle?" Our friends said: "You brought rain home with you. If you folk had staid home it would not have rained." We thought they were prophets of evil, and to show them their evil machio nations had no control upon the weather we sallied out the next favorable day with colors flying o H?ring defiance to the enemy. We returned demoralized as previously, only more ao. The result was our friends were nailing up packing boxes and inditing letters to the Gover nor of Kansas, informing him that ata reasonable price-say 91,000, he paying the freight-they would send him a cou ple rain-makers, guaranteed to drench the fields of Kansas and remove the stigma of "dry" from the country. We have since remained at home, not know ing whether the dread inspired has been fear of Portman rain or the Kansas Gov ernor. Our feminine friend from the North, and who never before saw red soil, amuses herself from the 'window speculating on the Yankee trick of bot' tiing up the drains for ketchup. We are reminded, of course, of the Yankee trick of grinding ont wooden nutmegs and selling them to the Canadians, and of the other trick of tba Yankee who protested that he could play no Yankee trick, but oqe thing he oonld do, he could draw coro liquor from one end of +he farmer's whiskey barrel and peach brandy from the other, and to convince the farmer had him bore a hole in earh head of the bar rel, stooping down, placing a floger at each aperture to prevent his liquor escaping, the Yanke J rlend filling hla Jug from the "poach" dide to test lt, end with the jug in his hand, running round to bis saddle bags for faucets, then gal loping away, leaving the farmer orouoh ed till noon time with a finger at each side of the barrel to prevent the ca capo of his liquor. | However now, jokes aside, we are as? sured that the Yankee farms aro burned to a crisp. Our friends ruy the corn hnng dead and pitiful on tho stalk, the leaves on the trees and the grass are brown, or turning to dust with no semblance of life in any of the burned vegetation. The sun's rays poured down grievously hot for long days upon days, no rain nor ves tige of moisture to cool the suffering crops or make life worth living to man or beast. We are delighted to present our friends with the rain; but we are prevented from another presentation which we promised them and by which we inveigled them to the Sunny South. We want oar delight ful al on j-sphoro, our cloudless sky, our pleasant drives through fine oaks, vine draped and numerous fragrant shrubs, our rambles through r?sinons pine?. We have promised our friends all these, and on word of honor are bound to comply. We have not mentioned a suapicion of innocts or reptiles, of files, mosquitoes, winged and unwinged bugs, beetles, bees, yellow jackets, chiggers, snakes. These, like the rain, are to be diaoovered. Wo have said nothing of the enormous tblnga that Hy into the lamp light at night, that seems so large when they set tle in our back hair, that bat or night mare, clawed or winged creature reaem bles them not, and we leave to the naturalist the puzzle of their identity. We bavo settled one point, at least, that a katydid makes its obstinate assertion about Katy by ita mouth and not by saw ing its edged legs upon its wings. Wehave seen a gentleman pinion one of these creatures to a tree, lift if. ont on the point of a pin upon which lt revolved rapidly, ita wings extended from ita body and Its month uttering the kr-r-r, kr-r-r which, performed at night, is Interpreted as "Katy did." The problem of rain we also hear set? tied in thia manner: When the rain drops are ' hanging on the leaves it will rain more, at least the rain will not cease until the drops disappear. When the wind ls blowing from the east or north east it will rain, and olear weather need not be expected till the trees ahow the blast from the opposite direction; and one gentleman ha? actually said that ?h? tlnv hubble on the cuutro of his coffee in the"saucer or. the cup indicates rain, and If the bubble retires to the edge of the china the rain, if threatening, will oeaao before many hours, leaving a clear dav. It. It. L.