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. ' ; ^^^^^^ _ ffrCEINI^^ ' - ANDERSON, S. C, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1901. VOLUME XXXVH---NO. 23. -v'; " ; ????-" This is what we have been telling; y?? for go??? time, and we haye, we believe, been the caxwo of lots of people paying fis cash for Clothing and saving money. But there are lots of people who are too high-stmng or too short-sighted to buy from us. The Clothing man who gives them credit is their only Mend and price cuts Ll figure. They labor under the impression that when the bill cornea i due money will be plentiful, but, al&sl how often they are ^disappointed. Thon comes the tug of war. The Clothing man insists on being paid. You'll then look back and see how much better it would have been had yon paid in Cash and bought th? same Goods for less money* Weoan and do m^U??^SM^ *f profit than Credit Stores can afford to. a It's a plain business proposition, and here are some of the reasons: We get the Cash for every article sold. We trust no one. We have no bad debts.; No losses to make up. We have Tio book-keeper to pay. And then we always do the square thing, whether the ?aie is 25o. or $25.00. Compare our Goods and prices with those of Credit Stores. Then trade where your judgment tells you. ' We don't w; nt your trade unless you are fully satisfied that y pull be better treated here. ?emember the place?on Granite Bow, between Brook Bros, and Wilhites' drug store. If ; < - < : - ;'* We have just received ono Car Load of Fancy Winter Grazing Oats. Come quick and secure some of them before they are all sold, O. P. ANDERSON Sl BRO. IF YOU ARE A PUE^HASER OF Onr Prices ami $<>? wt?t:>ur*?Jy T?nipt You. We huv? always.giyrn good valuer in this line, ai-d there u no reason why we6hou!d not d? the *ame for you. in. buying,(Shoe* you-want to look at tiie quality as well as tlm price.. Ohm stund che cl?dt-at inspection and are ynell triadezzi? durable. Wo. use the .? truest caution and buy only those Shoes which we absolutely know to be of*the' very bf-st Quality. We do not experiment rith various Hues but etick to those which have the manufacturera as well as our guaranis behind there, and should by chance auy imperfection in workmanship or leather occur, yon will always fled us ready to satisfy you. THE BIO? SHOE FOB MEN. This is the rao3t loasonsbiy priced H?gh Grade Shoe on the market W? feavo them in.all\iio various leathers and styles. STATE HEWS. ? Barn burning is too common. In the last ten days four or five have been burned in the Piedmont. ? H. S. Bose, of near Florence, lost his stables and five fine mules by fire, the work of au inoendiary. ? S. T. Baker, a Confederate vet eran, of Beaufort, was fouily robbed and murdered in Colonial Park, Savan nah, Ga. ? Two Mormon ciders have been warned by citizens of Saluda county to leave. Some of tho citizens do not like them. ? The next session of the Cotton Spinners' Association of the South will bo held in Charleston some time in May, 1902. .? Paul Preacher, a nugro root doc tor, was found dead in the woods on the out skirts of Columbia. The man had starved to death. ? A negro- named Henry Nichols ' has been lodged in the Lauren.s jail charged with murdering his wife, while in a drunken frenzy. ? Bev. 0. E. Todd of Duo West has accepted the agency of the 20th century fund of the A. B. P. church and canvasser for Erskine college. ? In Florence county last week the ginnery of Mrs. F. H. MeColl was burned. Loss about $1,500; nO in surance. A tobacco barn in the same county was burned. ? John Love, of Greenville, basa ?istol 129 years old. It was made in England. The trigger and hammer are under the barrel while the handle is at right angles to the barrel. ? Bev. W. H. Campbell, D. D., for the past 29 years reotor of St. Paul's Episcopal church, Charleston,.died on Saturday, aged 78. He was one of the signers of the Secession ordinance. 1 ? One of tho white men employed in the Seaboard yards in Columbia wrote an insulting letter to another man's wife and was beaten nearly to death for it by the indignant hus band. ? The Mayor* of Book Hill, j. J. Waters, has written tho governor earnestly requesting the State author ities to look carefully after the small pox said to be prevalent in York County. ? Sam Carter, caught with molds and counterfeit money, and accused by his father-in-law, has been commit od for counterfeiting at Union. It is thought he had been operating for some time. ? The Twin City Power company will establish an electric plant at Bing Jaw shoals on the Savannah with 30. 000 horsp power, They expcot to fur nish power to AugUBt?, Elb?rton,' Greenwood and other towns. ?^ Safe crackers were in Jone' illo last Wednesday night and blew open the safe in the postoffioe, making away with about $175 in money and stamps.- The store was robbed of some pistols and/other things. ? Florence Robinson, a negro of Beaufort, subject to fits, fell in the fire and was " horribly burned. She was kept under the influence of drugs until death oame. Tho unfortunate woman's eyes were burned out. ? The State Superintendent of Education complains that his report is delayed through ihe gross ignorance of many of the county superinten dents, who cannot add even three col uins of figures without errors and make other mistakes. ? ? coffin salesman who passed through Yorkville last week, said that the death rate in that section, and in the whole Piedmont, is less than it has b?.en for a number of years past. He based his statement on the number of coffins that are being sold by his own and other firms. ? Senator Tillman, who recently returned from quite an extensive tour of the nortli west, where he delivered a number of addresses, has again gone into that part of the country on a similar mission. Senator Tillman was muoh pleased with the reception acoordod him everywhere on his last trip. ^ Next Sunday the Charleston Ex position will open with a religious ser vice, in which all denominations will take part. An elaborate musieal pro gram will be rendered under direction of Madame Barbol, opening with an ode especially written for the occasion by George Herbert Sass and set to music by Professor Theodore Saul. ? Captain Rich ,iODd Pearnon Hob 60n, tho man who sank the Merri'mao at the mouth of Santiago harbor dur ing the war with Spain, ami whose marvellous daring on that occasion challenged the admiration of the world, has-been detailed by the Navy De partment to take charge of the Naval Exhibit at tho Exposition in Charles ton. ?t Dr. Carlisle State? that *bc South Carolina College was chartered" 100 years about the 18th to the" 20th e' ileoember next. Fifty years after yhat date, almost to the day, Wofford jpollege was chartered. The South Carolina College began its teaching in 1804; fifty years after that date, in 1S54, Wofford began its work. So in 1904 both colleges onght to have a big celebration. ? The governor ha> received a piti-. ' ful letter from a woman in Piekens County asking him t? close a govern ment ?tili operated by aman named Wiley Moody. She says that her hus band bus6 liquor there, becomes fren zied and tries to take her life. Other neighbors buy it at the still on Sun days, as well as week days, and it is a" menace as well as a nuisance. The governor has sent a man to look after tho distillery. GENERAL NEWS. '? Albany, Ga:. bad a hundred thousand dollar fire the 18th. ?The North Carolina cotton crop is reported 180,000 bales short. ? Cuban railroads are compelled by their charters to earry mails free. ? Ten Atlanta .coal dealers have bees fined for giving light wuight. ? New Orleans now ranks a? tho second exporting city in the country. -r Tho board of visitors at West Point aoadotny recommend that it bo j entirely rebuilt. ? In North Carolina and Louis iana only three persons out of every i four can read and write. ?: A bronze statue of President MoKinley to cost $8,000, is to be erected in Cleveland, Ohio. ? State troops have been 6ent to the coal mines at Providence, Ky., to quell the disturbance there. ? Tho bookkeeper of the bank of Liverpool, England, has embezzled funds to the amount of $830,000. ? Tho commercial apple crop this year was only half of what it was last year and one-third of the crop of 1899. ?- Land in Hay ward oounty, N. ?., does not go begging. A 250-acrc farm not far from Waynesvillo was sold last week for $9,000. ?- The vote cast in Ohio at tho last eleoffon was 100,000 less than at the eleetion in 1889. The stay-at-homes were principally Democrats. ?: Boston, "the negro-loving town," is to the front with a sensation. A Boston barber has just been fined $20 for refusing to shave a negro. ? Jos. L. Hunter, of Abingdoo, Va., was killed by his ten-year-old son. He was beating his wife when tho boy shot hitn through the head with a pistol. ? In Gettysburg park there ate about 500 monuments. In addition to this patriotic ornamentation there aro 325 mounted cannon and over 200 monumental tablets. ? It is said that many Southern cities and towns will send delegations to Washington shortly after Congress meets to press the passage of the river and harbor bill. ? The Bev. Dr. David Brunner has retired from the ministry of the Baptist, ohurch at Burgin, Ky.. at tho age of 93, after^a service of three quarters of a century. ? Tho story tl?at a conspiracy ex is t8 in Alaska to form a republio is discredited by army officers. They think the story was hatched to secure return of soldiers to Alaska. ? Elizabeth, N. C, has a sensa tional disappearance of a young wo man. Her sweetheart was arrested but nothing in the way of a crime co.'iM be shown against him. r ? A Chicago firm is endeavoring to corner eggs. Eggs are now retailing at 17 cents. Armour & Co. are putting them in the' cold storage and expect to get a big price in January! ? A monument is to be erected to Sir Walter Baleigb, and it is to be placed at Baleigb, N. C. Gen. J. S. Carr, the ex-tobaeoo manufacturer, is at the head of the movement. ? Dr. B. D. Stallings, of Carroll county, Georgia, has been convioted of counterfeiting and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for five years and pay a fir.o of $300. ? The first shipment ;f pig cop per over sent out of t'ao S~utb, went from Ducktown, Tenn., to New York oity last week. This is a'new and very important industry of the state. ? Nine cases of tetanus developed in Camden, N. J., from vaccination, and seven deaths resulted. A thor ough investigation has been ordered, and in the meantime vaocioation will cease. ' ? The now Hay-Pannoefote canal treaty has been signed. It allows the United States to construct the canal and guarantees her oertain exclusive rights not secured by tho former treaty. ? President T. S. Hanna, of tho Liverpool Cotton Exchange, has just completed a tour of the Southern States and is oonvinoed that thii year's cotton crop will fall considerably be low 11,000,000 bales. ? When Congress assembles the Canal, the- Monroe doctrine, Ship Subsidy; a government telegraph from Pacific Coast to our Oriental posses sions and the purchase of the Danish West Indies will be live questions. Deer hunting in Wisconsin is as dangerous as cotton gins aod football. Eight hunters wero killed in that State during, the first six days of the hunting season. Two were knocked out'Saturday. Smokeless powder, and long-range rifles do thowork. -? Severo earthquakes occurred at intervals recently at 8alt Lake City and other points in Utah. Much prop?ity was damaged. At Bich field it is estimated at $100,000. No lives were'lost as yet recorded but there wore some miraculous escapes. ? Immense deposits of coal have been recently 'discovered in Alaska, said to be enough to last the world for many years. They keep on find ing things in Alaska. Not long ago they disoovr cd in one of the islands great deposits of marble, aafine as tho best Italian r \rble. * ? Unusual warmth has prevailed in tho rctic regions this year, and consequently an enormous number of icebergs have boon* set free and driven to tho middle of the Atlantic. The reports of various transatlantic steam er captains state that their vessels have met with dozens of icebergs, some over 100 feet high, Our Cotton Experts Blamed. To the Editor of the News and Cou- ] rier: Your cotton men do not know their business. Herein Hamburg and Horn well counties a number of farmers are planting a hybrid cotton with a very soft, silky libre dud New England mills are taking it readily now at 18? ceuis the pound. I made a small shipment of this cot ton to a well known cotton linn of ! your city some time ago and they class it as ordinary cotton. Cotton planted from ihn seed grown upon the sumo acre last year, taken from the same seed pile this spring, grown under the same conditions and of no better grade, sold hi New England a few days ago at lay cents. I have ordered the fuctor to ship this cotton to Now England and unless a mistake has occurred that factor will open his eyes when he hears from it. Tho name and fnme of this cotton is spreading like a forest Uro in a dry time. Thousands of acres of it will bo planted uext year and every bale will go to New England. In ten years this cotton will bo growing up to the city limits of Charleston and no doubt will bo shipped direct from farm to factory. Charleston factors I fear are too much interested in sea island cotton and fear that a good grade of upland long will injure tho value of sea island. A prominent New England firm wrote me last spring that the above class of ?otton wns being purchased because sea island was scarce and high and was being consumed in the place of sea island. The average Yankee knows a good thing when he sees it. Two years ago he conld get all the Egyptian long cot ton ho needed at Alexandria at 81-8 cents, yei he tooK all the above men tioned cotton he could get at 14 cents tho pound. The ruling price last year for Egyp* tian on tho Nile was 12 cents, yet the New England mills took ours at 14} cents. This season Egyptian cotton has declined, yet Carolina upland long sells at 18} at the Northern mills. Therefore prices warrant mo in say ing that we have an upland cotton hero tjh.it is superior to Egyptian and is being uscdin the place of sea island. Your cotton men may condemn it, but that is not going to stop the planting of this cotton. The experimental stage has been passed, the Rubicon crossed and, as tho armies of Caesar overrun Britain, so also is this cotton going to invade it and drive out in a measure the half million bales of Oriental long cotton sold there yearly. Can we over-stock the long cotton mnrketT The world produces now about 1,200,000 bales of long cotton of 500 pounds. Egypt produces' over 00 per cent of this cotton, a low grade brown cotton. The planters there barely can live at present prices and it would not be a hard job to drivo them entirely out of the cotton business. I dc not pose as a prophet, but! pre dict that in the next decade the South Carolina farmer is going to drive the farmers of the land of the Khedive out of tho long cotton market also consid erably cheapen the values of sea island cotton, and that he will stand upon a business footing as solid as the rocks of Gibraltar. This is no dream, no sinister scheme for personal aggran dizement, but a fact fraught with blessings and freighted with prosperity. A. W. HUAMIAM. Kearse, Bamberg County, Nov. 18. Colony of Consumptives. Denveu, Col., Nov. 20.?The Rocky Mountain Industrial Sanitarium, or ganized by Denver professional and business men last spring, is now in successful operation. On a 10 acre tract, 5 miles from Den ver, 15 or 20 patients in the early stages of consumption are under the plans of the promoters, virtually taking care of themselves. The. rules of the institu tion compel a continuous outdoor life to be maintained summer and winter. Each patient is provided with a roomy tent, plenty of warm clothing and blankets and :i small stove to be med in extremely cold weather, Expe riencehas proved that with proper food and clothing and a life in the open air and sunshine, artificial heat is unnes sary and becomes absolutely unbeara ble to the patients, who, without ex ception, aro gaining rapidly. The hope of the physicians and oth ers back of the enterprise is to form a great colony of nil consumptives who come to Denver and thus take them oft' the streets of the city and out of the hotels nnd boarding houses where they conld never recover and where they are a constant mennco to tho public health. An*Original Suicide. Denver, Coi?, November 24.?News has just reached here of tho suicide of Judge M. A. Rogers, formerly of the Snpremo Court of Colorado,and one of the ablest lawyers in tho State, on Wednesday last at Steamboat Springs, Colorado, where he had been all sum mer with his wife. The manner of suicide wan unuanal. ludgo Rogers lay dews on th?? ground with a stick of dynamite under him, and lighting a cigar, fired the fuse from it and calmly smoked until the shock of the explosion ended his life. Tho act was committed among some willows near Bear River, jost inside the town limits. No cause is known for his taking his life. Another Narrow Escape. Legislators and other public authori ties, who insist that the danger of liv ing burial is too much to require care ful and specific provisions to prevent the possibility of such Beeret horrors, will be instructed, again, by the report of the nreidentr.l aversion of au iucl dont of the kind which was telegraph ed from Decatur, Alabama, yesterday. The dispatch rends that James Winn*, a blacksmith, narrowly escaped being buried olive at that pln.ee two days ago. "Ho was supposed to he dead, and after tho funeral services his colli n was oponcd at the grave?when he was seen to moy?. He was hurried back home, wboreVho revived, and ho is now under treatment. Ho had been pro nounced dead by physicians, and lay apparently dead for two nights nnd a day." It was nobody's fault that he was not consigned to tho most dreadful of nil deaths. He was "supposed to ho dead," ami "pronounced to bo dead" by the physicians, who were supposed to bo infallible in their judgment in tho matter, and that was enough. His friends and his family accepted the judgment?at his risk. Ho was coffin ed aud borne to tho edge of tho grave. A few moments moro nnd all would have been "over"?for his sorrowing friends and relatives. His revival and tho horror that followed would have remained forever an unsuspected secret to disturb nono of those whom it con cerned. He was supposed to bo dead and had boon pronounced dead. Why take any measures?why wait a few hours, even?to make suro that ho was dead? It is a question of some interest, nnd it concerns every mortal man, how many such incidents with less acci dentally happy ending, occur in this country every year ? A few have como to light, here und there. In the nature of the caso not many can come to light, and some "narrow escapes" are rcpoi ed nearly every year. How many occur, in the darkness and silence to which thoy uro'committed by loviug indifference and legislative or other official incompetence? There is' one way nnd ono only, it is to be repeated, by which those who are responsible for tho determination of tho fact of death can determine it, in existing conditions of law and knowledge on tho subject. The begin ning of the process of dissolution is ah unerring and Unmistakable evidence. It should bo required, nothing lens should fee accepted, ih ev< ry case of death Where a shadow of doubt can obtain.?News aud Courier. Confederate Daughters. -r The Unitod Daughters of the Con federacy closed its eighth annual con vention Saturday, 10th inst., in Wil mington, N. 0., to meet next year in New Orleans. All of the reports mmin from the national officers and State presidents were very gratifying and indicative of a healthy growth of the organization for the past fiscal year. One hundred and forty-five chapters were represented in tho convention. Mrs. Stonewall Jackson was elected an honorary president with Mrs. M. C. Goodlette of New York for life. An interesting feature .was the report of tho Jefferson Davis Monument As sociation. It showed that approxi mately $13,000 was collected during the past year. The monument will cost not less than $50,000 nnd will bo in the form of an arch spanning Twelfth and Broad streets, Richmond, Yn., June8,1005, was settled as the date for tho unveiling. Of the amount needed for tho arch, $88.000 iu already in bank. The convention adopted resolutions condemning the promiscuous granting of titles by Confederate camps and re stricting tho number of sponsors and maids of honor at Coafederate re-un ions. A Battle Park in Cuba. Santiago, November 24.?During his recent visit hero Gen. Wood bought for the Government tho principal por tion of tho San Juan battlefield, in cluding San Juan Hill, tho site of tho block house nnd Bloody Bend. The tract comprises two hundred acres and cost $15,000. It will bo considered n United States reservation. The Gov ernment intends to lay out a beautiful park ou the battlefield. Opposed to Soldiers' Home. pelzer, S, C., Nov. 25th, 1001. Mr. Eimtok : Please publish tho fol lowing resolution in your paper and oblige Camp Kershaw, No. 748, U. C. V: Resolved, That it is tho unanimous sentiment of this Camp that we are opposed to tho establishing of a Sol diers' Home, cither State or County, and that we will not support any can didate for State or County oflico who favors tho bnilding of a Home. Wo are in favor of an incieaso in pensions and lot the old soldier die at homo with his family. Yours respectfully, T. A. McEi.uov, Adgt. Camp Kershap, U. C. V.. - m 4? - ? Profit is always honored even in its own country. ? Tho uudraped truth doesn't al ways show up ia the bear story. Lowndesville News. The Lowndesville High School boasts of 81 scholars, with two teachers, who ore also assisted by Dr. T. O. Kirk patrick in the lino of anatomy and hy giene. Mr. Gordon Speer is now under the eiupioy o? tho linn of Cooley & Speer. Rev. Mr. Daniels left last Tuesday to attend General Conference, which meets at Columbia, S. C. Miss Florence Milford, of Abbeville^ is teaching t'no Diamond Spring school, which began last Monday, the 18th. Mi8sAnnio Whnrton, of Iva, S. C, is visiting her sister, Mrs. T. J. Row- ~ man. Mr. and Mrs. ,f. i'. Young, of Ander son, spent the latter part of last week visiting relatives in and about Lown desville. Misses Laura and Mamie Raskin spent a few days in Lowndesville re cently, but sinco have returned to their homo in Anderson. Mr. \V. A. Latimcr, of Augusta. Ga., spent a few days last week with his brother, Mr. J. T. Latiraer. Miss Leona Hlake is at present in Lowndesville canvassiug for Abbe villo's exhibit in the Charleston expo sition. The 2nd route of the rural free de livery in this city will begin Monday. Mr. W. W. Thompson and J. Marion Latimcr are the two young men who deliver mail to the rural districts from this city. Mrs. E. P. Williams, of LaGrange, is visiting Mr. T. Baker. Mr. J. J. Johnson has returned from Abbovillo. Mr. T- C. Liddell graced the streets of Abbeville by his presence last Mon day, the 25th inst. Tobie. - m I m ?? Corner Creek Comments. In our recollection we don't remem ber ever having seen a more beautifnl fall. It hnB been fair weather for about two months, and the farmors will doubtless never see just such an other lovely autumn for gathering their produce. We have not had any rain scarcely since August, but now the dark clouds seem to bo coming-back again, sp wo may expect a lot of rain this winter. Our fanners have put a considerable amount of wheat in the ground, and we must note right here that Borne of them have taken no little pains with it either. Several of our farmers have turned their land with a two-horse . turn-plow," .followed by a subsoil with two horses to it. After going through this process, they harrow thoroughly, then put in their fertilizer and sow.the oafs and then harrow again. We firm ly believe that thoBe who have pre pared their land this way will make more grain to the acre than the way they have been putting it in. Yes, Mr. Hunnicutt, we have broke the "hard pan." ,. ' lost of our people will observe Thanksgiving, which we deem very appropriate, and think all should rest and give thanks on that day, but some work on just the same. , We very often hear yonng people re mark, "I got lef t,y or "I got it in ihe neck." Well, yve all get left more or less, but the best joke we have heard recontly was on two of Calhoun's prom ising young lads, who had engage ments with two of our fair young la dies a few evenings previous. It was a very blustery evening and th? lads didn't venture out, bo you see it was somewhat of a disappointment to the girls, who were "diked" and eagerly awaiting tho arrival of the young gents, b;*t, alas, they did not come. Say, boys, ib chat tho best you can do? Wister Bigby, of Greenwood, was here last week visiting relatives. There will be quite a number of vis itors in our midst on Thanksgiving. There will also be a party and a gay time is anticipated. Misses Helen Latimcr and Lou Aus tin, two of Broadniouth's charming young ladies, were in our midst Sunday eveniug miugling with friends. Messrs. Ralph Geer and Dock Gam brell, two of Bolton's popular young sports, pnid our community a pleasant visit Sunday. Come again, friends, for we are hlways glad to have you among us. The llonca Path High School is in a prosperous session, under the efltcient management of Prof. J. B. Watkina and his three noble assistants, Misses Carrie Williams, Marvin Quattlebaum and Jennie Erwin. It is our pleasure to boa student of this grand institu tion of learning, and we must note that the school is as large as we ever knew it to be, and the teachers aro doing an excellent work, which is being goner ouslj'received, and is very gratifying also. We are all well. Tyro. Same ^Id Story. Darlington, Nov. 25.?A colored man, named Limerick Flax, left his house locked up last night, ni Lido's Bridge, near Darlington. The house caught lire and three children "were burned to death, the oldest 11, the youngest 4. The three were buried in tho same box. Verdict of the coroner's jury, criminal carelessness. Newiikkry, Nov. 25.?To-day two negro children of Hillary Copel, near Jalnpa, wore burned to death. About 11 o'clock the mother shut them in the house and left them. Tho house caught tire and was -bnrned to the ground. Ono of the children was about 10 years old and tho other nbout 3.