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' ^^^^^ z^^/^^ * ' BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON. S. C.. WEDNESDAY. JULY 3. 1901. VOTJTMR Y*YVTi___i?n ? From Our Gum foo -respondent. WASHINGTON, D.jc., April 7,1902. Tho most audacious open evasion of the civil service law that has occurred ?nco the occupancy ?of the White House by a professional reformer was pulled off this week hy Postmaster Gcneral Payne, the chief engineer of tho Roosevelt machine. To do so Mr. Payne assumed legislative power be longing to Congress and created a new oftice- Confidential Secretary to the Postmaster-General-with a salary of $2,000, and filled it with a man who has been associated with him in politi cal work in Wisconsin abd for the Re publican National Committee-H. H. Hand-and who will presumably be assistant engineer of the Roosevelt machine. Mr. Payne desired to make Rand chief clerk of tho Postoflico De partment, but that position is covered by tho civil service rules and is filled by a holdover Democrat from the Cleveland administration. He first sought to have that office taken from under civil service rules, but there were reasons why that was not practi cable. So an office was created with out authority of law, civil service or any other kind, and Band put into it, and it is understood that he is to perform all the important duties of chief clerk of the department. Friends of the Irrigation bill having agreed to amend that measure to meet Mr. Roosevelt's objections to the bill as it passed the Senate, Speaker Hen derson has promised that the bill shall be voted on in the House. Senator Hanna is In a bad humor these days. He is inclined to resent the criticism of his efforts in behalf of Maj. Rathbone, who. was convicted of participation m the Cuban postal steal 1 ing along with Neely and Reeves, and j he is "cussing" mad over the attempt ? of some of the Ohio Republicans to compel him to vote for the Oleomarga rine bill, which baa just been passed by the Senate. The latter was the result of the publication pf at story saying that Hanna was opposed to the bill. When asked about it, he said: "I will not bo bulldozed into voting for any measure. I have not said how I would vote on the oleomargarine bill, but if I had been disposed tobe friendly to ward it, my inclination now would be to vote against it." Another "son of his father" has land-' eda juicy official plum. Young Mr. Garfield, of Ohio, wno has been "per suaded" to give, up "lucrative" private business to accept the salary and peraB. of a Civil Service Commissioner will doubtless do as well in that position as he is expected to do. A prominent Re publican who lives in the same Con gressional District was ?sked what the folks at hom. 'bought of the appoint ment. "Oh, they are all glad he got it," ne replied. "We "will be pleased to see bim shelved for awhile in Wash ington.'' Senator Debee, o? Ky., makes no bones of accusing Civil Service Com missioner Proctor, who is from the same State and -who enjoys chum rela tion with Mr. Roosevelt, of being- one of the liveliest spoilsman in Washing ton. Proctor's efforts to head off the appointment of J. H. Happy, recom mended for postmaster at Mayfield by Mr. I")oboe, caused the latter to say: "That man Proctor has been doiug bia best for yeait to kill my appointments, and I am getting tired of it. Asa matter of fact, ho is the most active politician in Washington, in spite of the position he holds." Although it ia an open secret in Washington that Sneaker Henderson and tho Republican bosses of the House are opposed to the Omnibus bill pro viding for the admission to Statehood of Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma because of their belief that two out of the three would certainly send D?mo cratie Senators to Washington and the third would probably do the same, friends of the bill claim that they have promises of enough Republican votes to pitt it through tue House if they can Set it voted upon. They have asked peaker Henderson to allow the Com mittee on Rules to report a rule for the consideration of the bill and he ho? 8remised to let them know in a few ays. If he refuses, they will endeavor ! to get the bill up by a direct vote of the House. I Senator Blackburn this week pre sented a petition from R. H. Fuller, the legislative representative of the Brotherhoods of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen and Railroad Trainmen, and the orders of Railway Conductors and Telegraphers, against the bill which purports to limit the use of re straining orders and injunctions, bui which in reality does the contrary, which concluded with the following words: "We cannot now afford to ac cept such a mischievous subterfuge mischievous because it will not only furnish no relief, but on the other hanc will give Federal judges affirmative and new grounds upon which to base their objectionable writs. And rathei than 'take Senate bill 4558 wowoult pref er none at all. for it is only a mat ter of time until publie opinion wil settle this question and settle it right.' Notwithstanding the columns of BIUBI printed about Mr. Roosevelt's Ameri canism, he this week appointed an En 6Rahman who had been butler in hit rother-in-law's house to fill a vacancy in the staff of White House ushers, anc there were a score of American appU cants for tho place. Ushers at tin White1 House are not considered ser vants in any sense of the word, but Mr Roosevelt's theory in this case seems t< have been that a good servant wonk make a good usher, unless it was mere ly a case of oblige-my-brother-in-law But surely such an apostle of civil ser vice reform wouii not make an ap pointment just to oblige a relative, aw a relative by marriage at that. Peris! the thought! ' . -?. It is now admitted ~i>/ 'ninny Repnb Ileane that' no attempt is likely to b made to-force the Snip Subsidy bil through the Hesse at this session o Congress, for fear of the effect it wouL bave upon the Congressional elections This does not, of course, mean that th ?ob is to be abandoned-only that th roters in those sections where there i nach opposition to it shall be allowa to think that it has been abandoned. ?TATE NEWS. - An old negro woman died in Darlington last week who claimed to ho 105 years old. * - It is said that Colombia is soon to have a door, sash and blind faotory which will cost $75,000. ~ The new mill at Newberry will be in operation by July 1 and the orig inal capital stook, $200,000, is to ho doubled. - Dr. J. O. Rust a distinguished Baptist prcachor of Nashville, will j preach the commencement sermon at i Converse college. - The State has reoeived from the privilege tax $64,828.55 since the first of the year against $76,650.68 for the same time last year. - Mrs. Harriett Beal, daughter cf the late James G. Blaine, had a $3,000 necklace stolen from her on a Pullman oar between Jacksonville and Colum bia. - There aro only four inmates in the Poor House of Greenwood county. Oae of these is white and three col ored and none of them ?re able to do any work. - The State against the Virginia Carolina Chemical oompany to test the anti-trust law will be heard by Judge Buchanan ia Richland court this month. - A contract has been awarded by E. W. Robertson to a Louisville firm for erecting a 12-story building in Co lumbia where the Kendall building now stands. - A hundred thousand dollar hotel is to be built on Hobkirk Hill, Cam den, by the Camden Land and Invest ment oompany. It will be a winter resort for northerners. - Three negro barbers were con victed inYorkville of running a blind tiger. A curious part of the affair is that they ail voted ia the recent elec tion fer the dispensary. - The Courtney Maniac turing com pany at Newry have advanced their annual dividend from 7 to 8 per cent, payable semi-annually. April and October. Four per cent, was paid on the 1st inst. - By reason of "W. F. Stevenson, vho was appointsd to preside over ;he extra term of- the court for New jerry, being an attorney for a corpora ion, those interested have requested .hat the extra tenn be not held. - There are several oases of small pox in Yorkville. A pest house is ? be instituted sud vaccination has teen made compulsory for persons bo ween the ages of 1 and 60 years. Fbo smallpox patien;B are all negroes. - The governor bas offered a reward t $100 for the arrest and conviction f the party br partier, who burned tie barn of J. B. Husbands in Flor noe County. This is the third time a the last two years that a fire has eourred on the place. - Cows, hogs and r horse have died ia Spartanburg as a result of a mad dog's bite. - There Booms to bc a mania in tho Evans family for the offioe of rail road commissioner. W, 1). Evans held thc office sis years and was a candidate for re-election. B. B. Evans tried twice to get the job, and now W. Boyd Evans wants it. - A mob of eotno 50 white men ap peared at tho Chesterfield jail Sun day night demanding the person of Will Brewer who killed Albert Mann in that county some time ago. Sheriff Douglass refused to give up tko pris oner and by his courage prevontod a lynobing. - The dead body pf Dia?-plullen der, a whito man, was found in a gull; by the roadside.' in Cherokoft; county, on Thursday morning. Tho verdict of tho coroner's jury was that he had fallon in the gully while draak and died from tho effects of whiskey anc exposure. - Governor MoSweeney . receivei daily from half a dozen to a score o letters recommending parties for ap pointment to plaoo on the State con 8tabul*ry. The governor has on fil applications from 100 or mora strenu ons citizens who would like to oatol i the wioked gleam of the baleful eye c thc blind tiger. - W. L. Collins, a farmer of Edgi field oounty, was assassinated by negi highwaymen, five milos from, August in Carolina last Wednesday afternooi George Woods was driving with Co lins and resisted a hold up when tl negroes fired upon them, killing Co lins and slightly wounding Wood The negroes escaped. Tho Govern has offered a reward of $200 for thc arrest. - On Sunday, Maroh 30th, a neg inmate of the Ooonee County po house by the name of Buswell Bru was burned to death. He had bei at the poor house enly about thr weeks. On Monday morning wh the Steward-went to his home to oar him his breakfast he found him in t corner of the room dead with his he and upper portie of body badly bm ed. The negro had evidently le down before the fire where his clot ing accidentally caught fire, oausi his death. , - There has been filed in the off of Register of Mes no Convoyan oe Ooonee county for record of a deed Col. B. E. BoWen of Piokens. S. ( to Benedict Love Company, of Nat ville, Tonn., oonveying 20,086 aor tn consideration of $35,150.50. t hi B purchase 16,830 acre a bel Onged the estate of the lato William Duffie, deceased. The land lies me ly on Keowee and Whitewater riv in Oconcd oounty, and Laurel Fi Creek and Tos away river in Piok< jounty. The purchasers are la nanufaaturers of lumber and hi sought those lands principally ,heir timber. GENERAL SEWS. - George Smith, of St. Louis, nave by his will $450,000. to Harvard Uni versity. - A nogro who criminally assault ed a young lady in Romo, Ga., was lynched by unmasked men. - President Roosevelt has vetoed a number of pension bills recently whore efforts were made to put deserters on the roll. - It is estimated that over 4000 buildings will be erected this year at j Birmingham Ala., at an aggregate j cost of $4,000,000. .- An explosion of gas ina coal mine at Dayton, Tenn., resulted in tho doath af 22 men and the serious 1 iujury of many others. - Mrs. Luoy II. Robertson has just been elected president of GrcenB boro Female college, North Carolina, to succeed Dr. Peacock, rcsigucd. - Kansas reports that tho pros poets indioato only half a wheat crop, or 40,000,000 bushels. Oklahoma is down for two-fifths of last year's crop. I - It ?3 now pretty well known that Cuban independence will have a stout string attaohed to it. and that the end of the string will bo in Washington. j - Arthur Smedley Greene, of I Greenwioh, Conn., has started a move ment which has for its object thc pur chase of the Holy Land by Christian people. - Seventy-five Georgia raised fight- J ing uooks will be taken to Dallas, Tex., during the reunion to compete against all comers from tho western States. - The Hatfields are still killing revenue officers in tho mountains of Pike county, Ky., and go tiing killed. Th e.last engagement resulted in two dead on each side. - Tba result of the flood in Ten- J neBsee was more disastrous than at first thought. Twenty-five persons lost their lives and the property loss is placed at $5,000,000. - The residence of Philip Mitohel of Johnstown, Pa., was burned carly 1 Wednesday morning on the outskirts of the oity. The father and five ohil dr on were burned to death. - The '.'John Wesley treo" at Thunderbolt. Savannah, was out down recently by a steel railway oompany. The tradition for a hundred years has been that Wesley frequently preached under the tree. -- Tho name of Lieutenant Charles | Carroll Wood, a nephew of Jefferson Davis, appears a? the first on the roll on honored dead on Canada's memor ial statue io' Halifax to her soldiers who have fallen in the Boer war. - Eighty-five pound chunks of gold are not turned up very often, but that is the weight of a nugget said to have been found in the Wichita mountains in Oklahoma, a few days ago. Eighty three percent of it was pure gold. YUI?U - Tho agricultural department has | sont GOO bushels of seed oom to far mers in Arkansas who are without funds to buy owing to the failure of j thoir crops last season. This is a form , of seed distribution highly commend- < able. l - United States District Judge J Thomas Leopold of Montgomery. Ala., j will deliver thc Memorial day address ? at Grant's tomb this year. Ho was 1 ono of the Confed?rate soldiers who j surrendered to Gonoral Grant at Ap pomattox. , - Kcal cstato is not "dirt cl.cap" ? in Atlanta. Ono of the Kimball house ? lots was sold to Hugh T. Inmr.n for . $25,000. lt fronts 27 feet on Wall ? street and runs back 107? foot. That ! is $925.02 a front foot, or $8.82 a , square foot. - A Marysville, O., dispatch runs: Charles Hemming, a farmer, a few ' days ago tapped fourten sweet apple treos, and today bad obtained seven barrels of sap that is far superior to that taken from maple trees, lt is said that it will make more and better sugar. - Charles T. Condon, once a res pected business man of Oakland, Cal., is reported at Denver a tramp and lunatic having lost his reason as tho result of an amateur attempt at bal looning. A boy was caught in tho ropes and fell to death from a height of 2,000 feet. - Gen. T. M. Burlington, tho Gov ernor of tho Cherokeo nation, meas ures 6 feet 0 inches in his stockings and weighs 275 pounds, and is not overburdened with superfluous flesh. Ho wears a No. 8 hat, No. 12 shoo, and dresses after thc most approved business fashion. - Rev. Dr. Riohtor was deposed from the Presbyterian ministry in Minneapolis, Minn., and expelled from tho Church, for writing artiolos for tho newspapers in the interest of saloons. He admitted thc charge, but contended that his action was not in consistent with his position as a minister of the gospel. - An automobile truck is now em ployed for moving iron safes, says tho Philadelphia Ledger. It has two-pro pelling motors, and a third elevates the safe to its place in tho building. It requires three men and six and a half minutes to placo a safe on a seventh floor. Formerly it required eight men two and a half hours. - School authorities in a number of New York towns havo been somewhat dereliot in observance of the law relat ing to the purchase and display of United States flags. State Superin tendent Charles R.s Skinner has there fore issued an order to 275 school dis tricts to purchase at once a flag, flag staff and necessary appliances, and to display the flag during school hours ana at such othor times as may be HU? xxxvn-NO. 42. Pardoned by the Governor. Last Saturday the Governor granted a lardon to W. K. Parker, who waa con victed of forgery at the February term of 2ourt and Kontoncod to tho Penitentiary or two years, but who waa ?till In lall lending a inotlou for a now trial, The jardon waa granted on tho condition that t'arkor leave tho State, and lt ra? given wa reward for an net of tho convicted nan, which ia oxplaiued ii? the followlug <?ttor to tho Governor from Solicitor Hogg*: . Dear Slr: Io the maller of tho petition \sklng the pardon of \V. lt. Parker, con vluted of forgery at tho last tnrui ol tho Jourtof Amloreou County, I bog to re joualdor my recommendation. 1 have l?verai lottere from citizens from Andor iou throwing additional lighten tho rnat 'JT willoh ruakea it clear that it le highly proper to graut the psrdou on the terms Hierein HU? forth, iieeldoa, it baa boon brought to my attention thats conspiracy had been formed by three pr leonera in jallat Anderson to kill Mr. Ollllngbam and escapo from prison. Their plana were perfectod and W. K. Parker, who I think Heidom sleeps, wau by Home moana apprised of tho desperate dood and promptly and secretly slipped a note to tho sherill and warnod him of tho ap proaching danger. Thus forewarned it waa very easy to {ail tho conspirators. The sherill' thinks there ia no doubt that thia noble act of the felon saved the life of bia best friend and bravest aid. While I think the defendant waa justly con demned, I now think he deserves a olvlo crown and the pardon for which he askB. The following letter from Sheriff Green to Solicitor Bogga waa alao seat the Gov ernor: Dear Sir : I write io ask you to do me a favor in the matter of W. ll. Parker. I refused to algn politl?n for pardon at lirat, but now I want to ask aa a apeala! favor to me that you usk the governor to pardon him. Ile has just done me a great service and saved ibu Ufo ot one of the bravest olllcora in tho Slate. Three negroes had planned to break jail, had torn looae their bunks, had a large iron bar which they Intended using on Mr. Dlllingham then serving. Parker slipped a note out I got lt, went and found irons taken out and saved Dlllingham, and have aomo good banda for ohaln-gaugj is ow you ace my reason for asking thia favor. I think ho la entitled to some thing, and aa he la to loave ua for good, I think hi? punishment la autnolent, ao I hope you will Bee lt aa I do and will help him. Denver Dots. Our community ls saddened to-day by tho death at 0 o'clock this a. m. of Mrs. Li. A. MoWhorter, the aged mother of Mr. W. A. G. MoWhorter. Mrs. Mo Whorter had been in bad health for some time, having had a alight stroke of pa ralysis early in the winter, but no one thought tho end waa so near. She was In her 73rd year and had been a widow over forty years, Mr. Wm. MoWhorter being her only child. A good woman and a mother in Israel has ontered into rest. She had been a Christian and a member ot the Methodlat Church from childhood, and dally lived the religion ehe professed. Her remains will be burled Wednesday ut Sandy Springe at ll o'clock. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Harria and little son. Harold, of Belton, visited Mr. Wm. MoWhorter's family Saturday. They little thought it was the last time they would see alive the dear old grandmother who had loved them BO well. Mr. S. L. Eakew and family were the guests of Mr. W. D. Garrison's family Sunday and attended services at Wel come. Mrs. S. E. A. Major bas returned from her visit to relatives at Piedmont and WilllamatoD. and is quite slok at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Marshall Blackman. Handy Blackman, the eon of Mr. Mar shall Blackman, who had bia leg broken in two pisces by a tree falling on lt some time hook, ls not getting along weil. The limb had to be reset, and it is feared that leg will be muoh shorter than the other. Mr. Blackman has quita an af flicted family, aa besides the oases of bis son and mother-in-law lu ot mentioned, his daughter, Misa Minnie, has an attack of heart disease, and hla son Joe has measles. The family have the sympathy of all their neighbors. Mles Della Burrias, who has been visit ing relatives in South Georgia and Florida this winter, returned home last week very much benefited in health by her trip. Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Harper were the guests of Mr. A. E. Browne's family last Tuesday. Mr. BrowneiB still quite fee ble. Muses Maggie and Josie Rankin, two charming ladies of Slabtown, visited Miss Blanohfl Browne last week. Cadets Will Garrison and Will Erwin were home from Clemson Saturday and Sunday. Incognita. Denver, April 8. Confederate Veterans and Their Friends. The round trip ticket from Anderson to Dallas. Texas, will he 820.60. Stop overs will he allo\> ed at all points both going and returning. We have ar ranged for cars to run through without change via the Blue Ridge Railroad, through Atlanta, Birmingham and Memphis, leaving Anderson April 18th. at 10 a. m., and arriving in Dallis April 20th, at 6.25 a. m. ThoBo who desire to go and have not yet handed their names to the under signed, should do so at once. Full information as to procuring tickets, stop overs, side trips, etc., upon application to J. F. Clinks eales,-If. P. Tnbble, or R. T. Thornton, Ticket AgfMlt. _ One Cent a Mlle to Texas. On account of the Confederate Veteran Reunion, April 22nd to 25th round trip ;loketa will bo sold to Dallas, via the Cot on Belt at a very low rate of one cent a nile. This rate la open to everybody, rickets will be sold April 18th, 10th and 20th and will be limited to May 2nd for return, but will be extended to May 15th f desired. Stop overs will be silo wed at iny points in Arkaneaa or Texas on lither going or returning trip. Low rate ?ide trip tickets will be sold from DMlas c all parts of Texas, Oklahoma and ln lian Territory. The round trip rate from Anderson will be ?J20.60. LY you ever ex pect to visit Texas thia will be the chance >f your life to do so. For rate and aohed ile from your home town and for haad omely illustrated pamphlets describing Arkansas and Texaa write lo N. B. ?aird, T. P. A., Atlant?, Ga. ipeclal Tuesday Rates to the Exposition. Commencing Tuesday, April 1st. and m every Tuesday thereafter daring the nontb of April, the Charleston and Wat rn Carolina Railway will sell round trip loketa from all stations atone half the ?gular first-class flore one way. This is i considerable reduction from the ratea at authorised, and will ?nabis ?very ly to take in the Exposition at a noml i*l coat. Tickets sold at thees low rates rill be limited to three days from date of atc. Call on Agenta for foll Informa lon. ' >v\ J. Craig, G. P. A. BTEl-TT YOU'VE probably learned by this time that when you want the best clothes in town, you must come to us to get thehi. If you haven't yet proved it in your own exp?ri ence, you will, sooner or later. Notice the looks of our custom ers; ask them what they think about the clothes we sell; better, look in here yourself and seethe array of Spring suits and over coats which we have gathered together for our great Spring Opening We will show you the swellest lot of clothes you ever SAW. Spring overcoats, long, short and medium, in a great variety of fabrics, arid priced in a way to make every one of them a bar gain. Suits for Spring andSum mer wear which are certai the nobbiest and most attractive j we have ever shown. Hverjr question you *?*ill want tc aslv about style, qu?lity, ta??ring^ etc.* is answered beforehand by the fact that the goods are made by Hart Schaffner ?5? Marx who make the best clothes, ready-to-wear, you ever saw, in this or any other town. We want you to see these goods, " whether you buy any of them or not; we like to show them to people, just for the fun of it rn? M $10.00, $12.60, $15.00, $18.00 and $20.00 we show a line of SACK SUITS that will interest any wearer of Clothes. They are made as good Clothes should he, giving yon as good if not a hotter fitting Suit than you have ever worn. These Suits have H. S. & H. on them. If you have worn any of these Snits you know all about them. If not, you have lots to learn shout ready-to-wear Clothes. This is the. Store where you can come in and look at the Suits, try them on, and even if you don't buy y ou'll bo the better off for having aeon what's new and how much better our Clothes fit than the usual ready-to-wear kind. We have other good Suits at $5, $6, $7.50 and $8.50, and at every price. We show the best Suits to be had for the price? B. B. EVANS & CO.