The Anderson intelligencer. (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, December 04, 1901, Image 1
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BY CI^KSGALIS & I.?N?STON. ~~ ANDERSON,!. C.WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1901. VOLUME XXXVII-NO. 24. .
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This is what wo have been telling you for some time, and
srs have, wo believe, been the cause of lots of people; paying
us cash for Clothing and saving money.
But there are lots of people who are too high-strung or
too shcrt-siglrted to buy from us.
' The Clothing man who gives them cr?dit is their only
friend and price cuts no figure..
They labor under the impression that when the bill comes
4ue money will be plentiful, but, alas ! how often they are
disappointed.
Then comes the tug of war, Th? Clothing man insists on
being pajj}. *
You'll then look back and see how much better it would
have been had you fcaid in Cash and bought the same, Goods
for less money. '
We can and do sell reliable Clothing at a smaller margin
of profit than Credit Stores can afford to.
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 h?ve no bad debts;
No losses to make up.
We have no book-keeper to pay,
AiiJ then we always do the square thing, whether the
sale is 25c. or $25 00.
Compare our Goods and prices with those of Credit Stores.
Then trade where your judgment tells you.
We don't want your trade unless you are fully satisfied
that you'll be better treated here.
Bemember the place?on Granite Row, be Ween Brock
3ros; and Wilhites'drug store.
, S.. C,:
Clothien
We have juBt received one Car Lo?d of
Fancy Winter Grazing Oats.
Come quick and secure some of them before they _are
all sold. a v
?. D. ANDERSON & BRO
IF YOU ARE A PURCHASER OF
Oui* Prices and iiho?s will' surely Tempt You.
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have aiwnys giv< n good values in this line, h? d there U no reason
why we should not d ? tho i-tuno for you. In buying Shoes you want to look
at the quality as well as the price. Ours stand ibe closest inspection and are
t??ll made and durr.ble. x
We use the itroost /i&ution and buy only those Shoes h hieb we absolutely
/ Itj?ow to'be of the very best-quality. We do not experiment with various j
Hues but stick to those which havo the manufacturers as well us our guarantee
behind thorn, and should by chance any imperfection in workisauahip or
leather occni', yon will always fitd ns ready to satisfy you.
THE BIOKT SHOE FOE MEN. -
Th?s '.u the most reiao-.ubly priced H gh Grfede Shoe on the market. We
feave them m alLthe variom leathers and styles.
' STATE H?W8.
' ?- ? camp of Spanish war veterans
has bean formed at Union.
? D. W. Ramage sold two hoge at
Lauten s one day last week for $66.
? Smallpox prevails among the
negroes in York and Chester oountios.
? Mrs. Dr. John&too, of Louis
ville, 6a., has given $2,000 to Er?kiae
college.
? Ben Tillman. says the roasts he
gets from tho newspapers advertise
him "and advertising pays." j
? Two judges will be elected by
the Legislature tbis winter. They
have some good men to select from.
? Tho contract for wiring the pub
lio buildings in Columbia has been
lot* and will aggregato nearly $10,000.
? Willie ClayVon killed Ed Youugi
ner with a pocket knife in Columbia a
fewdays ago, Both wcro young white
men.
-? W. R. Bradley, principal of the
Abbeville eity schools, has resigned
and will go to the Philippine islands
to teach.
, ? Gov. MoSweeney has denied
specifically and emphatically that ho.
will be a candidate for congress from
tho second district.
?Eighty thousand dollars W?rth of
paintings arrived in Charleston from
New York last week. These aro for
the Exposition*
? Rev. O. E. Todd, of J>uo West,
has accepted the agenoy of the 20th
century fund of the A. R.?P. ^Church
and canvasser for Erskine college.
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? Smith and Dennis, two whito
men charged with burning the town of
Timmonsville recently, have been
granted bail in the sum of $3,000
each..
Two trains ran into each other?
a heud-end collision?at: JeacSvi??e
near Union, Wednesday morning.
Five persons were slightly hurt?^no
one seriously. '
? A switch engine and freight
train collided at Greenwood on the
Seaboard Ai.r Line. A negro train
' hand was killed and several cars, .were
badly damaged.
? Tho war department announces
that the magazine rifles are available
for the militia of South Carolina and
the exchange df Springfields will com
mence, as soon as possible.
? Ten .irresIs bave followed tho
killing of Mrs. Raohael Powell and de
molition of the home in the mountains
of Ooonee county. The accused par
ties are oonnccted with well-known
families.
? The governor baa appointed Goo.
I). Bryan probate judge for Charles
ton to succeed Judge Bolger, deceas
ed. The appointment was recommen
ded by the Charleston delegation in
the general assembly.
? Dr. Jas. 0. Moore, a yonng phy
sician of Bennetts ville, is being prose
cuted for practicing medicine without
a license. He is a graduate of the
Charleston Medical College and claims
to be entitled' to practice under the
new law.
? Miss Sarah Hin es, 20 years old,
enraged jealously, shot her admirer,
Thomas Still wan, in Charleston, Wed
nesday night. After shooting him
she put three balls into herself and
her condition is now serious. She
says she i? a love story novel fiend.
? Mr. D. G. Crimm, of Woodford,
who wss a gallant defender of the
Lost Cause, has the old camp spoon
he used during the war. It is a com
bination affair, having spoon, knife
and fork all attached to tho same
handle. Mr. Crimm values this old
war time relie very highly.
? Monday two negro children of
Hillary Cope), in N?*wberry county
near Jalapa, were bu.ned to death.
About 11 o'clock the mother shut
them in the house and left them.
The house caught fire and burned to
the ground. Ooo of the children was
about 10 years old and the' other
about 3.
? A colored man named Limerick
Glax, left his house looked up San
day night, at Lidc's Bridge, near Dar
lington. The house caught fire and
three children were burned to death,
the oldest 11 the youngest 4. The
three were buried in the f-amo box.
Verdict of the coroner's jury was crim
inal carelessness.
? The governor has received a piti
ful letter from a woman in Piokeos
?ouuty asking him to close a govern
ment still operated by a man named
Wiley Moody. She says that her
husband buys liquor there, becomes
frenzied and tries to take her/ life.
Other neighbors buy it nt the s tili" on
Sundays. Thogovernor has sent a
man to look after tho distillery.
? II. H. Crura, commissioner of
the State dispensary, is winding up
the work of tho fiscal yoar, which
closed last Saturday, He thinks chat
in tho bulk of liquor sold there will
be little difference in the business
this year and last year. But- oorn
liquor cost six cents a gallon more Ht
times this year, and the retail price
was not changed, so there may ne
some falling off-in profit*. s
? According to information from
Scran ton a shortage of $2.500 bas
been fonnd in the affairs of the post
office at Benson in. Williamsburg eoun
ty. A postoffioo inspector made an
investigation last week. It xs stated
that a. systematic ?chemo has been
Worked on the department for several
years, and it was only by th? closest
investigation that the crookedness
was found. The revelations made by
the inspector has caused a sensation
on aceoiint of the esteem in which
I the alleged short paymaster has been
' hold hccK-ofore.
GENERAL NEWS.
? Chattanooga bad an eighty thou
sand dollar fire a few days ago.
? The United States has bought
the San Juan battlefield from Cuba,
for $15,000.
? Georgia proposes to debar the
children of poll tax delinquents from
the publie schools.
? A Ne? Jwrnuy man has brought a |
damage suit against a judge who de
cided a case against him.
? A mob of negroes took a negro j
murderer from a white officer uear
Shreveport, La., and lynched him.
? The matter of the reduction of |
the representation of the Southern :
States is to bo revived iii congress.
? Orders have been issued by the j
war department sending 5,000 more
American soldiers to the Philippines, j
? Alexander Anderson admitted \
stealing a bible in Chicago, and was ;
fined $25. Ho said ho was a religious ;
enthusiast. |
? Joseph Brown, a young New :
\ orker, wrote- his sweetheart 1,800 i
love letters in five weeks; ho was de
clared insane.
? An electrical apparatus is n)w
used by the United States department
of ugrioulture to determine the char
acteristic of all soils.
? It is said the President's deter- j
mination to make army promotions
solely on merit is likely to creato frio
tion with-the Senate. \
? Alexander D. Anderson, of
Washington, a distinguished lawyer
aged 58 drowned himself in the Poto
mac river on Monday because of bad j
health.'
? The annual report froni the post
office' department shows that the in
crease, in postal revenues has bean
such n? to make the department self
sustaining.
? The lato Governor Piogree, of I
Michigan, kept all the printed com
ments about himself, ami-bis scrap
books contain 45,000 columns of news
paper comment.
? A young lady in Pittsburg, Pa.,
started a fire with kerosene, with the
result that four persons were burned j
to death, four others injured and the
residenco burned.
? Wautagua hall of tho North Car
olina Agricultural college at Raleigh j
was burned last Friday night. Loss
$10,000, insurance .$6,000. Fifty
students will havo to return home. j
? There was a head end collision on
the Wabash Railroad, about 70 miles
from Detroit, Mich., last week which
caused more than fifty lives to be
lost and a great many seriously wound
ed.
? The report of the Southern rail
way shows $26,601,804 of gross-earn- !
ingsfor tho year, which is a gain over
last year of $1,804,979. Other rail- !
roads in t!te South show a like in- !
crease in gross earnings.
? Francisco Gamba, ohairman of
the Cuban commission that has come
to Washington to try to secure favor
able trade relations, says that 90 per j
cent of the business men and proper
ty-holders of Cuba uesire annexation
to the United States.
-? The joint committee on constitu
tional amendments in the Georgia
l?gislature have prepared a bill pro
viding that the. taxes for public!
echopls be divided between the whites
and the blacks in proportion to tho
amount paid by each race.
?- W. J. Vaun, a white man 50
years old and married, was found
dead in a tree top by 'possum hunters
atLuverne, Ala. . He bought mor
phine and strychnine the day before,
saying ho had family troubles and was
going away so that no one would ever
hear from him.
...? Buddhism seems to be making a
fair number of converts in this coun
try. California now has three
churches and San Francisco a society
which, though only three years old,
has a membership of more than throe
hundred, and that without any heal
ing attachment.
? A schedule of the estate of
President McKinley ha ? been Bled at
Canton, Ohio, by the appraisers. It
shows his estate to be worth about
$200,000. He carried $60,000 life in
surance, including properties in her.
own name Mrs McKinley will be
worth half a million.
? There is a rush.for divorces in
the District of Columbia where over
400 applications have been filed in the
past six month". A new law goes
into effect in January which elimi
nateu about a half dozen causes,hence
the rush by the ill-paired to take ad
vantage of the prosent law. '>
? "The meanest man" died in
West Virginia not long ago. deleft
a fortune of $10,000. To his wife
and nine children he bequeathed si
each, and directed that thu remainder
of the estate be devoted to the build
ing of a water-tight vault for his body
and the erection of a beautiful monu
ment to his memory. *
? The firut American flag raised
over Santiago after its capture has
been presented to the State of Ala
bama by General Joseph Wheeler, and
is nnw at tho capitol in Montgomery..
It will float from a mast taken from
the l&ttleship Gquendo, also present
ed.by General Wheeler and soon to be
planted on tho capitol grounds.
?''The Daughters of tho Confeder
acy in Baltimore are in ccstaoy over a
baudkerohief which Mrs. Roosevelt,
wife of the president, has sent them
to be disposed of at a fair which they
are getting up for tho purpose of rais
ing fued? with which to build a monu
ment to the memory of tho Maryland
er* who Idit their lives fighting for
the Confederacy.
FROM THE NATION'S CAPITAL.
From Our Own Correspondent,
Washington, D. C, Dec. 2,1001.
Democratic Senators nud Represen
tatives arc expecting that Una will be a
very busy session of Congress lor them
nnd that it will he productive of am
munition that will give tho party a
Congressional victory in next year's
campaign. They Viin probably light
for practical and .substantial trade re
ciprocity that will benefit American
consumers us well ns producers; for
tarif revision, especially on articles
con rolled by trusts; for retrenchment
in \mblie expenditures, which grow
mon extravagant all the. time under
Republican rule; for legislation for tho
suppression or control of trusts, aud
for a reduction in the war taxes, which
arc piling up a Treasury surplus that is
an incentive to extravagant expendi
tures. Perhaps none of these things
may be accomplished, but they are live
issues, aud their agitation by the Dem
ocrats in Congress will keep them be
fore tho people, und cannot fail to be
beneficial to the Democratic party. In
addition to lighting for this much
needed legislation, the Democrats in
Congress will bo on the alert to expose
all the jobs brought forward by the
majority.
Although it has been repeatedly
denied that Secretnry Root promised
the Cubans tariff concessions ou their
sugar nud tobacco, the developments
of this week made it quite certain that
he did, and that the administration is
doing all it can to iunke Congress re
deem tho promise. Secretary Root
j argues for these concessions, in his an
nual report, both for material and
j moral reasons, and endeavors to add
I strength to his argument by implying
that Mr. McKinley was in favor of
! these concessions. But ho overlooked
I one of the strongest arguments, with
1 the average Republican Senator and
Representative, in favor of these con
cessions?they are demanded by tho
sugar trust.
Hon. David B. Hill was in Washing
ton this week aud mado an argument
before tho U. S. Supremo Court. Ho
courteously but firmly declined all.in
vitations to submit to an interview on
tho political outlook, on tho ground
that he hud nothing to say on tho sub
ject at this time. But to his personal
friends ho spoke very hopefully of the
prospect, from a Democratic point of
view, and mndo several predictions
that would make sensations if printed.
Sonator Millard, of Nebraska, who is
new to national politics, signalized his
I arrival in Washington by giving out a
I newspaper interview" predicting that
Hon. William J. Bryan would be the
Democratic nominee for Governor of
that State uext year.
Mr. Roosevelt is still wrestling with
the problem. of whether Secretary
Hitchcock shall boss tho distribution
of Federal patronage in Missouri or ho
shall look around for a now Secretary
of the Interior. It seems to be a tight
to tho death with the Missouri Repub
lican factious, both of which are large
ly represented* in Washington this
week.
The Spnuish Treaty Claims Commis
sion is proving no exception in tho
matter of expense to tho usual govern
ment commission. The appropriation
for this commission for the current, fis
cal year was $50,000, but it has spent
money so freely that one of the first
things Congress will be asked to do
will be to mak? a deficiency appropria
tion of $13,000 to cany the commission
through the year. Some idea ">ay bo
gathered of the extravagance of this
commission, which it must bo remem
bered is only temporary, from the fact
that it spent for office Uttings aud fur
niture 810,000.
Representative Cowherd, of Missouii,
says of tariff revision sentiment in his
section: "It is growing every day.
We want to reach out for more mar
kets and our merchants are demanding
lower tariff duties. Missouri is a low
tariff State, and let me inform you that
Kansas is also inclined that way, in
spite of its Republican Representatives
in Congress. Yoa< don't hear high
tariff talk iu Kansas. If the Republi
cans do not act this winter, I want to
soy to you that tho tariff will be the
burning theme of the coming Congres
sional campaign'."
Mr. Roosevelt has made several Sena
tors very mad by turning'down their
recommendations for the promotion of
some of their nruiy favorites, and he
rubbed salt in the raw places by telling
them that it was useless for them or
for anybody else to make recommenda
tions concerning that''class of promo
tions. In private some of these Sena
tors are making vague threats about
hanging up Mr. Roosevelt's army nomi
nations.
Spenkingof tho army, Adjutant Gen
eral Corbin has had his way, and an
order has' been issued that all officers
on duty at the War Department shall
wear full uniform and tho insignia of
their rank. Th- .esult is a lot of dis
gusted officers on tho one hand, who
do hot sco tho necessity for making
themselves conspicuous while perform
ing civilian, duties, and a lot of sur
prise on the part of. callers at tho War
Department who had no idea there
were so many officers engaged in that
class of work.
The Chinese Minister to tho United
States has upon several occasions, nota
bly during the troubles in China last
year, shown himself capable of doing
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impudent thing,s but he never did a
more impudent thing thau when ho
cniled on Mr. Roosevelt this week for
the purpose of trying to persuade him
to aid in preventing the re-enactment
of the Chinese exclusion law, that will
expire next May. For much smaller
offences foroign ministers hnvo been
given their passports, but the Chinese
Minister scams to be a privileged char
acter with this administration, as ho
was with the last. Eye h a school boy
knows that it is a violation of diplo
matie usage tor a diplomat to call on
the President about business; also that
diplomats have no business to meddle
with legislative matters in the countries
to'which they are accredited. It docs
not lessen the Chinese Minister's j
offence-that Mr. Roosevelt.is already
committed to re-enactment of tho Chi
nose exclusion law.
i It looks as though tho Panama Canal
lobby bad recognized tho fact that tho
choice of tho Nicaragua route , by Con
gress was inevitablo and had thrown
up tho spongo. At least that is the
construction placed upon tho departure
of M. llutin, president of tho French
Panama Canal Company, who has been
directing tho lobby for Franco. Ho
called on Secretary Hay to say goodbye
and added that he might return after
ho attended a meeting of bis company
in Paris. He will save money by stay
ing away from Washington.
Portman Lcller.
There are extenuating circumstances
that draw tlie mantle ot charity over
many grcivous offences. Here we sit
to-day, encamped among tho debris of
soap dishes, cigar boxes, toothbrushes,
pepper boxes, salt cellars, diahpnns,
shoe-brushes, toothpicks, table nap
kins, pincushions, hammers and axes.
Is it a grevions oU'once, asking tho edi
tor if wo way indite this letter with
pencil?
Put a short lime ago tho office of
The Intelugenckk was enthroned
among tho ravage of moving a printing
office. Did j't learn then that mercy is
one pf the sweetest virtues of sympathy
?thitt it it* as blessed to g?v??Mercy
as receive? and that it is prone any
time under like social ravages to have
pen stubs and slivers r? pencil wrapped
up, so to speak, incorporated in tho
manuscript that seeks admission
through tho editorial door? If it has
so learned, then "sweet are tho uses ot
adversity." I looked for my pen and
ink to-day and was told I might probr
bly lind them among tho dinner dishes
or among tho table linen, as they were
where they would surely bo cared for;
I doubted tho probability of such a
"lind," but fonnd them later, I was
told, in n bor that was under a stove.
1 never minded, but looked under tho
house, where among some broken glass
I luckily discovered tho sweepings off
the desk, where wero a couple of pen
cil stubs inch long which, in the inven
tive emergency of Robinson Cruso, I
sharpened with the glass splinters, and
while tho men wero hauling things
around, like Patience on a monument,
I sat on a chair and scribbled. To bo
able to turn one's mind instantly from
one engaging subject to another, with
out lackof cahyness, and with supreme
self-control, is ono of the absorbing
psychic studies of tho day. This I
practiced while the lumboriug rumbled
on nnd perceived in my stub pencils as
much dexterity as in the most pliant
Ensterbrook or Rank Point.
Tho editors say: "Don't write with a
pencil." No wonder! What mistakes
we make with our Ms nnd Ns and Us,
and how tho words rambl over a lino
like a straggling vino over a fence, so
that lue poor compositor who must
mind his Ps and Qa, or rather his
"ems"?which are measurements with
him?goes nearly crazy, and the proof
reader, who does not wish?as I saw it
once in a grocer's advertisement?to
allow Rolled Cats to take the place of
Rolled Oats, he or she to save life and
position among the straggling pencil
lines, often of bad spelling, grows gray
nnd haggard before a growth of pa
tience is experienced. But nearly, as
Kipling hath it, this is another case,
and pardon may bo requested whpre
thero is no intent and no escape from
causes.
We might bo asked, "Does this mean
1 tho Anderson Intelligencer's correspon
! dent is leaving Portman?" Wo answer
"yes," the present correspondent is
I leaving and leaving behind, too, a
largo part of! our heart for Portman: .
4,1 love thy rocks and rills,
Thy woods ".nd templed bills;
My heart with rapture thrills
Like that above."
I have never been weary of the
rugged exterior, which, likened to
character, is picturesque because rug
ged, and sublime because the bights
are as high as tho depths arc low.
Many a pleasant memory nnd solemn
thought came to mo between tho
shadows of tbo hills, and while I look
ed at tho stars that spanned tho blue
vault many a thought of tho Creator
m oui de jentiments in my heart, whoso
relied ion shall brighten my soul never
to bo extinguished or dimmed. Could
I say a parting word to those whoso
gracious preseuco it was my pleasuro
to know I would say, there arobeauties
in those depths and psalms on those
bights that aro not to be found in the
cathedral of tho Holy City, and that
night and day, when work and worry
are not conspiring to blind and deafen
rtho faculties of adoration, (J id is in
His Holy Temple among tho hills, and
the waBte plaoeA of Portman are a
Mount Zion. A few good Christians
whom it was my benefit to meet inti
mately: Mrs. N. O. Farmer, tho elder
Mrs..Win. Bolt, Evangelist Bushy and
wife, will bear me out in this and per
haps occasionally visit Portman aud
worship.
Leaving a place means going some
where, as there is no termination to
existence, aud the main question in
departure is: Is it h?tter or worse?
In this instance the "somewhere" in
view is better, because it is home, aud
of the two?the pleasure I am aban
doning, and the one 1 am about to.,
enter, I would say: It is not that L
lovo Portman less but Piedmont more. A
I shall leave the quiet haunts of this
little place for the busier encounter
with life duties as they surround us all
where the interests of homo are to bo
guarded. 1 shall see the same days
and nights, the same suns and stars
set in the. firmament, the same big
round moon, or silver sickle looking *
mo dreamily in the face. I shall hear
the birds sing iu the home woods; tho
same thoughts shall como to mo, the
sanio pictures of the past, and all ten
derly as the suntlowcr toward its east
ern god shall turn any face toward tho
"breezy hills of Portman." For tho
present 1 bid their loveliness adieu!
l?. R. L.
Denver Dots.
7h?uk>glving D^y wts more generally
obst rvttl hero tUsn hoton*. Minrly all
ceased trotii labor and enjoyed tn? day '
by hunting and (casting. A party of
j young people took a long hok-Hoback ride,
I which afforded them much pleasure. Mr.
! and Mrs. Wm, Elrod gave a dinner party
! on that day, which wo had tho pleasure
j of attending. The company k&h jovial
and genial, and the dinnirwr? periecr,
; from the 35 Jb. turkey to the 3?.lb, lus
> clous watermelon, which had been kept
I to grace that occasion, \mong those
I present wore Mr. and Mr?. Wm. Bolt,
i hrom i:ear Asbury, Mr. ami Mrs. Arthur
j iluch<<uati und iamily, ol'Autun, Mr. and
Mrs. J. T. Busby aud children, of Port
I man, Mrs Anr.a Ddrrieott and Miss
Browne, of Denver, Mr. and Mrs. 13. M.
Browne, of Jolly Spring-, and Mr. rmd
Mrs. Albsrt Farmer, of Anderson, and
their bright little girl, Alberta. Many
thanks are duo Mr. and Mrs. Elrod for
the waiters loaded with good things Bent
to ihwo wir? were tumble to accept their
kind luVltaUoi*.
Tho Denver High School celobtated the
day by decorating their school rooms
I with tho products of the farm, orchard
aud garden, and the 'display showed
plainly tiiat we had aiMcti to betlpmkful
. for.
Prof. W. P. Holiaud la at pr??eut suf
I Idl ing with no attack of the grippe.
I Miss Matlie Eikew is quite ill with
grippe and asthma. She la fortunatein
having such a kind and experienced
nurse as Misa Cenith Ilembree.
Mr. A. E. Browne has been suffering
for two weeks with grippe, which oame
very near being pneumonia. Several
others in tho community have bad colds,
which border on grippe.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E*kew, of An
derson, visited relatives here Sunday.
Mr. Oscar Hembree and brother,
Rufus, of Salem section, have been visit
ing rotatives in Denver recently.
MIbs Anna Watsou and brother were
guests of Mr. W. D. Garrison and family
kLn the 28th ult.
w Cadets Garrison and Rothrook came
home from Clemson last week and spent
a few days with their parents.
The freight train last Thursday ran
over and killed two fine yearlings ne*i?
Handy Springs. Thoy belonged to Mr.
Robert Milam.
Mr. Joe Majors is moving this week to
his f*rm near Bix and Twenty trestle,
and Mr. Wm. Eskew and family are
moving into the house which he vacates..
There seemH to be much moving and
changing about this fall, which we hope
wid benefit all parties.
Does the Order of Cincinnati still exist?
Jr. wai founded in 1793 and only officers
of the Revolutionary army and their
lineal descendants wero eligible to mem
bership. ' Not long since wb noticed that
some lady recently had written the life of
Phillip Freenun, the poet of the Revolu
tion!*" I wfsh some of your readers would
tell us where we could obtain the work.
We have a volume of Freenan's poems,
which, on the title page, says was first
Eubllshe-d in 1797. In tho back of the
ook is a Hut of tba subscribers, headed
with the names of James Madison, Pr?si
dent United States and Thomas Jefferson,
Monticello, Va. The list contains the
names of many men of prominence at
that time. Incognita.
Robbed the Miser's Chest.
Greenwood, S. C, Nov. 30.?News
has reached here of a robbery which
took place on Thursday, 28th inst,
near Hibler, in this county, by which
Mr. John Drennan. an old man of
misorjy habits, lost $1,500 in cold cash
and many vnluable papers, titles and
mortgages of real estate.
Tho old man was known to have
money hid nbout his premises, but has
never been molested. He was advised
often to deposit his money in a bank
hut ho always refused.
On the day ho was robbed ho loft tho
house to go to a certain place on his
farm, and returned in a few hours to
find that ono of the strongboxes con
taining money had been broken open
and 81,500 taken out ns stated above.
The report did not reach here until
to-day. Apparently there is no clue to
the robbery. It is said by those who
knew him that, if the robbers had not
been in a hurry and had only taken
the trouble to loot further, they would
have found at least 84,000 more.
Railroad Rates For the Christmas Holi
days.
Tho Southern Railway announces
Christmas Holiday rates between all
i points on its lines ono and one-third
first-class standard one-way fare for
the round trip. Tickets to be sold I)e
, cember 23rd, 34th, 25th. 80th, :ilst, 1901,
: and Januarv 1st, 1902, final limit Janu
arv 3rd, 1902.
i To students of schools and colleges,
; upon presentation and surrender of
j certificates signed by Superintendents,
Principals or Presidents of the various
institutions, tickets at these rates will
1 be sold Decora ber 10th to 32nd, 1901.in
, elusive, with final limit January 8th,
1002.
For detailed information call on any
Agent of the of tho Southern Railway,
or apply W. H. Tay loo, A. G. P. A.,
Atlanta. Ga.; R. W. Hunt. D. P. A..
Charleston. S. C. or J. C. Bean, Jr., D.
P, A., Atlanta, Ga.