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^f^KSCAlES ft LAK?STCp 'Ai. ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 14,1902. VOLUME XXXVTT...NO 4.7 At some Stores this means absolutely nothing at all. iPhey will tell you when you ask for your money that it is imply advertising, and they could not give money back, as t would ruin them. At other Stores it means tfyat if you ask for your money pou are shown something else, and if you still insist it is riven you, but only after a long argument, and then with a 'rown that makes you feel mighty bad. Here, it means just your money back, and without a tv-ord. No frowns, no bad feelings. It is handed you with as mich pleasure as when j ou exchanged it for the Goods. It might, as some Clothiers say, ruin us if every custom er came back for his money. I UT THEY DO NOT COME BACK ind ask for it-at least not many. Somehow our Clothes and the moderate Prices we ask for [hem please the trade so well that they do not want their jnoney -they prefer the Goods. This is the way it should be at every Store, but you know [here's as much difference in Stores as there is in men. If |ou have not already found this out you will-pretty soon. If you want to buy Reliable Clothes! lothes that if not found as represented you can get your boney back, this is the Store for you. there you can get more for your money than you can find any Credit Store in this or any other town. The Clothes, Shoes Hats, urnishings ge eell are tfv&.best to be had for the prices asked. It will pay you to get acquainted with us, and it may ty us to get "on showing terms" with you. m c. he Spot Cash Clothiers v'"lll"MWiro?irwMBMfc?lm STATE MEW?. - Within the put month Biz doo* tors have looated in the town of Union. - The name of Highland avenue in Greennille has been changed to Hamp ton svenue. - Wu Tin? Feng, the Chinese min ister, will visit the Charleston expo- ! cition on May 26. ! -- Tho earth caved in on a negro working in a gravel pit near Newberry last week and killed him. - A plan is under consideration looking to the building of au elec tric line between Augusta and Colum bia. - Greenville ia making extensive preparations for the State Reunion of Confederate Veterans in that city in August. - Work on the extension .of the Seaboard from Augusta . to Charleston will begin in 60 days and it is tobe completed in a year. y - The small town of Cross Hill, Laurens county, has a newly estab lished broom factory. The product of tho factory sells readily. - Aooording to the will of the late Mrs. Dr. Maxwell of Greenwood, For man University comes into possession of her extensive and valuable library. T- Marshal Melton and Collector Koester are hanging on the ragged edge of despair. The former will not be reappointed and the latter will not be confirmed. j - The board of trustees of Colum bia Female College will meet at the college June 2 and consider proposi tions for the enlargement or removal of the college. - Grant Stuart and Jonathan Stuart have been placed in jail at Gaffney on the oharge of having raised a $2 bill to $20 and passed the same at Gaffney last Wednesday. - Three young cadet? of the King's Mountain Military Academy were drowned on the afternoon of May 6th, while bathing in Black's mill pond, two miles west of Yorkville. -- At her home in Florence Miss Ruth Whitlor was accidentally wound ed by a pistol whioh fell on the floor and was discharged. The ball struck her ankle and shattered the bones. - A negro burglar entered the Oro fut residence in Beaufort a few nights ago, and was f: ghtened away by a lady who pointed her hand in his di rection and he thought she held a pistol. - The aggregate claims for rebate tobacco taxes for this State is $44, 993.80. Collector Koester has receiv ed the first installment and tho money will soon be turned loose in South Carolina. - Bill Jaokson was . accidentally killed by Andrew Muldrow in Flor ence county Wednesday night. , Mr. Muldrow was shooting fish and the negro was taking them out of the water for him. - A commission has been issued to a colored insurance company to be established in Colombia. It is to be known as the Capital Insurance Company and will have a oapitai stook of 35,000. - Hon. S. G. Mayfield, Senator from Bamberg County, haB yielded to tho persuaion of bis friends through out the State and has concluded to make the race for Lieutenant-Gover nor in the coming eampaign. - The postoffice at Prospority HOS entered Monday night ana the safe was completely wrecked by the usa ot explosives. Th? robbers scoured about $300 in money and stamps, and left ho clue as to their identity. ' > -Tho governor has'commuted the sentence of Wm. H. Hughes, convict ed in Ooonee cou? ?y of violation of the dispensary law and sentenced to three months' imprisonment or $200 fine, to three months or $50. The petition was largely signed. . - Dr. John C. Kilgo, formarly a member of the faculty of Wofford College, and now president of Trinity college, (N. C.,) has given to the Pres ton Literary Society of Wofford Col lege, a sum of money sufficient to have a handsome portrait of Bishop W..W/; Duncan, made. - On Sunday night at Camden the building of the Camden Electric Light, Water and Ice Company and two warehouses of commission merchants were destroyed* by fire. The loss of the company is about $40,000, not cotted by insurance; the other build ings were partly insured. - A well known insurance com pany has hit upon a new scheme to solioit business in Columbia. A ver satile young woman has been employed to do the work that is usually done by a male a^snt. The idea is somewhat a novel one, at least in a southern city, and the experiment will be watched with interest in insurance circles. - The Wares Shoals Company, whioh owns the Wares Shoals Water Power aud 1,300 aores of land on both sides of the Salada, is said to have perfected arrangements to proceed to the development of the power. A rail**} will be built to Donalds, on tho Southern, for whioh rights of way have been obtained, an eleotrjo plant will be installed and a mill built to )o run by electricity. - The governor has granted a par don in the case of Mallison Jenkins, a negro conyioted in Piokecs county of assault and battery with a recommen dation to mercy and sentenced to three months on the gang. J. P. Carey, of Pickens, wrote the governor that this negro had beaten a worthless negro who had insulted his daughter and that a pardon was eminently proper. The governor promptly acted. GENERAL NEWS. - Snow fell in Buffalo, N. Y., on Fi'doy, 7th inst. - South Amerioa contains 30,000, 000 people who have never seen a Bible. *r? A bill ia pending in congreso io admit Arizona. Oklahoma and New Mexico as states. - The day for the opening of the St. Louis Exposition has been changed from 1903 to 1904. - Several cities in India have been swept by a tornado. Over four hun dred were killed at Dacca. - Ahoy ll yesrs old has been ar rested ia Atlanta charged with caus ing the death of a child of 6. - Three tragedies within twenty four boura in Johnson City* Tenn., stirred that place into a fever of ex citement. - Dr. B. M. Palmer, a noted Pres byterian divine, was knocked down by a trolley car in New Orleans and seriously hurt. - President Roosevelt has ordered a oourtmartial in the oase of Major Glenn, accused of using the "water care" oa Filipinos. - Eight men loBt their lives at Steelton, Pa., on Tuesday night by being caught in a pit of melted metal which had bulled over. - The price of silver on the market today is lower than ever before. The bullion value of the silver in a dollar is about 36 or 37 cents. - Three members of Congress died in four days. They were Cummings, of Now York, Otey, of Virginia and Salmon, of New Jersey. - E. A. BarrowB, a disbursing clerk in the census office at Washing ton, has been found short $7,400. He says he [speculated with it and lost. . - Congress will pay the funeral expenses of President MoKinley. The amount will be $50,000 of which 831, 000 will go to the doctors. - The Philadelphia Evening Tele graph soys that John D. Rockefeller has given $1,000,000 to the cause of popular education in the South.. - An attempt at Kansas City to secare evidence against the beef com bine brought out the faot that the butchers ?re afraid to testify against the packers. - Mrs. Mary Roberts of Paris, Texas, was convicted on Friday ox complicity in the murder of her hus band a year ago and sentenced to seven years in tho penitentiary. - Moat is so scarce in England, and the price so high that there is fear of a meat famine during the coro nation. The American beef trust is blamed for this condition of affairs. - In the Western vernacular, the beef trust "bit off mere than it could chaw." The consumption of' meats has fallen off about 37 per cent, since it went into the wholesale grab busi ness. - H.C. Thurston, of Missouri, is the tallest Confederate veteran and perhaps the tallest man in the United States. He is 7 feet and 7J inches tall and attracts much attention at the reuni?os. - H. Gr. Squiers, secretary of the legation at Pekin, has been selected by the president to be minister to Cuba, and Gen. E. S. Bragg of Wis consin, has been selected as consul general at Havana. - Admiral Wm. T. Sampson, re tired? died at his home in Washington on Tuesday, 6th inst. Ho had been in had health for two years and his last days were embittered by the con - troversy ovor the credit for the San tiago viotory. . ' - The number of Congressional speeohes now being prepared for distri bution before the eleotion next Novem ber breaks all records. There are at present in stock, ready for the use of the oampaigo committees, 300,000,000 copies of speeohes at this session. - A life prieoner in the Michigan penitentiary, after serving eighteen years, died a few days ago. with $6, 000 to his credit, earned by working over time. It was invested in govern ment bonds. His heirs haven't put in their claims yet, but they will be heard from. - A strange case is that of Mrs. Mary Elvira Gillespie, who at the age of 84 has just been admitted to a hos pital in Denver, j She is tho mother of thirty-seven children, including fifteen sets of, twins, but all have drifted away from her and she knows not the address of one of them. - George Vanderbilt's estate, Bilt more, Asheville, is to have a rival. Sergius Minkiewinek, a day laborer, of that city has fallen heir to a for tune of $2,000,000 in Germany. Mink iewinez promptly raised $200 by giv ing a mortgage of $10,000 on his pros pective wealth and left for the old country to prove his title to the in heritance. -The-family of James W. Col bert, of Portsmouth, Va., were notified a few days . ago through Attorney J. S. B. Colbert, of Norfolk, that' their share of the estate, of the late William Bradford, who carno to this country on the Mayflower in 1560, amounts to between $750,000 and $1.000,000. The settlement has beep pending for more than one hundred years. - Governor Davis, of Arkansas, has parioned a ' convict on quite a nov.M condition, namely, that thu negro *,ake up his residenoe in Masse . chusfetts. The Governor says that he has recently heard in that state so many expressions of sympathy for the j ''poor, oppressed negro of the South," 'he concluded that they should have : an opportunity to reform a certain portion of the negro population. FROM THE NATION'S CAPITAL. From Our Own Correspondent. WASHINGTON, D. C., May 12, 1902. Democratic Senators have not said that they would not allow the Philip pine WU to be voted upou unless it is ! amended to meet their views. There is yet no reason for them to announce any decision on that. What they do say, and what they intend to live up to, is that they wilt agree to no dato to vote upon the bill until every Demo cratic Senator who desires to speak upon tho bill has been heard. It is, of course, not surprising that the Repub licans should bo anxious to cloao a de I bate that has been as disastrous to j them ns that on tho Philippines has been. This week, under orders from Mr. Roosevelt, they have been seeking through their best speakers to coun teract the bad political effect the Dem ocratic showing up of Philippine affaira has had. Not being able to refute the facts put before the country by tho Democrats, the Republican Senators have entered upon nu elaborate and labored defence of our army as a whole, which every intelligent person knows has not been attacked. It is the Republican politicians who control the War Department nud the policy of this government in the Philippines who have been at eked aud who will con tinue to bo mtacked so long ns the present bad policy is pursued. Re publican yelling nnd beating of tom toms will not alter facts. Nor will the shaking of the "bloody ahirt''-thiE time McComns was the shaker-nc matter how warmly it may cause Southern Senators to talk, serve tc make the people forget the shauiefu policy thia government has pursued ii the Philippines. Senator Turner, in a speech agninsi the Philippine bill and the genera Philippine policy of the Republicans did some plain talking. He referrec to Gen. Jacob H. Smith, of kill am burn infamy, as "a monster in hnmai form." Mr. Tomer said he felt keeulj the perfidy involved in our conduct ii the Philippines; that no more unjus war ever had been waged than tha which we are waging against thosi people. Of tijat war he further said ''Lust of dominion, greed of conquest overruled the sober judgment of th? American officiais nnd drove us int< this war." In conclusion, after urging the Philippine committee to sn namoi every witness who could po8sibl3 throw any more light, Mr. Turner said "In view of the bloody stain on thu American ensign, if you do not shec light on this situation, it will be be cause you dare not. You canno escape the responsibility if you would but yon can make partial atonement i: you will." T. S. Allen, of Lincoln, Nebraska who is visiting Washington, thinks thi next governor of that State will be i Democrat. He said: "The Republicnni in Nebraska will probably meet defea this iu ll in the gubernatorial fight Four or five men are talked of for th? Democratic nomination. C. J.Smythe of Omaha, formerly attorney-genera of the State, is among the men who art talked of by the Democrats. Congress man Stark is also a probable candidate and Hon. R. D. Sutherland, of Nelson former member of Congress, is ni BI mentioned in connection with th< Democratic nomination." Justice Bradley, of the Supremi Court of the District of Columbia, ha decided in a suit brought for an in junction to compel the Postmaster General to restore several publication to second class mail privileges that ha< been deprived thereof by his ordere that the Postmaster-General exceedei his authority and that his act wn practically an amendment to the law There are a lot more cases of the sn nv sort, and the litigation over them i likely to continue until one of the case is passed on by the United States Su preme Court. Senator Hanna is trying to get Mr Roosevelt to order a new trial for hi friend Rathbone, who was convicto* of participation in the Neely embezzle ment of Cuban postal funds and sen tenced to serve a term of imprison ment, before Cuba is turned over t the Cubans. It is understood that Mi Roosevelt intimated to Hanna tba Rathbone might be pardoned and tha Hanna said he did not want a pardoe but a new trial at which evidenc could be produced that would vindi cate Rathbone. If Mr. Roosevelt ist act he mast do it quickly. . Another ex-Rongh Rider captured desirable office this week, when th nomination of Alexander O. JJrodyt be governor of Arizona was sent to th Senate. . Although it has been officially de nied that Mr. Roosevelt requestedth French government not to carry on its intention to give the crossof Legio: of Honor to Gen. Miles and Admire Dewey, in connection with the unveil ing of the Rochambeau statue, ii Washington, those who ought to kno* fire very confident that Mr. Roo?evel olid, probably indirectly, prevent th decoration of the two officers unmet It was necessary for him tb make a rc quest. Tue barest diplomatic hin that th*edecoration of Mile? and Dewe wonld not be pleasing to this govern ment would have sufficed, and, it i probable that hint was given. Washington's enterprising paten lawyers. Swift &. Co., announce a bi cat for a short time in the price for ot taining patents. A word to the wise inventor is sufficient. Bear Admiral Scaley has made new friends by his conduct since the death of Rear Admiral Sampson. Aa soon an he heard of the death he requested that the presentation of the Cristobal Colon silver service to him by Ids friends of Baltimore, which waa to have taken place Wedoe day night? be postponed for a time. Of the death Admiral Sckley said: "I regret very much the death of Admiral Sampson, and I sympathize with his family. No otro has ever heard me utter ono un kind word about him." Since Senator Hoar introduced his nv: Isthmian Canal hil1., it has been trequently asked if he has joined tho obstructionists. His bill authorizes tho President to choose tho route tor the canal and to go ahead with its con struction, making ?10.0{H),009 available for that purpose, and limits the cost of the canal to $180,000,000. It is now snid that the Republican ".steeling" committee of the Senate has decided to go back on the promise that the Niga ragua canal bill be taken up after the Philippine bill is disposed of and de cided that the Cuban reciprocity bill i shnll be taken up instead. isult of Clemson Trustees Meeting. Calhoun, S. C., May 10.-Tho hear ing in the matter of the reinstatement of thu Sophomores of Clemson College was concluded last night. Tho case against President Hartzog was set for 0 o'clock this morning, but after tho meeting was opened the cadet com mittee nnnounced that they wero will ing to leave the matter with the trus tees. This nctiou was brought about by the statement, semi-officially made, that President Hartzog had sent in his resignation a week ago to take effect at the pleasure of the board. It is understood that the board will act on his reoiguation at the June meeting. The meeting this morning adjourned early and the trpBtees \ held a secret session to make np their verdicts in the two cases tried. In the first, that of Cadet Thorn well, who was suspend ed, the decision was that he be rein stated and the punishment remitted. In the Sophomore case the entire clasB was given permission to apply for i ein - statement nnd will be received as stu dents in good Btanding with no punish ment attached. Adjournment followed immediately and most of the board left on the 1 o'clock train. The trouble is consider ed ended. The cadets feel that they have been fairly treated by the board and are satisfied. The committee of Sophomores have decided to advise their class to return to college at once and have themselves re-entered. The decision of the board of trustees waB unanimous and the statement which was prepared by a committee ol the board was read oat to the audience by Senator Tillman. The report Of *hs bosrd of trustees thus announced contains a severe reprimand of the faculty because of their hasty and un considered action in the Thornwell case. Senator Tillman, commenting upon the report, said that the trustees had been putting the screws to the faculty because of the lax discipline which had become prevalent; they had certainly by their action in this mattel reversed their policy and had gone to the other extreme. The report, however, while admitting the Sophomores, to apply for reentrance to the college, condemns the clasi severely for insubordination and the who.J student body waa given tc understand distinctly that in thc future their proper and only course in the matter of grievances was to sub mit them to the board of trustees, and that hereafter such conduct os bad been indulged in by the Sophomore' would not be condoned even if it be came necessary to take such action ac would induce the whole student body to leave the college. In treating ot the case of Cadet Thornwell individually, the report goes on to say that it is apparent from the evidence, that Thornwell wac guilty of nothing more than an indis cretion, and his act had heretofore not even been considered an offense by thc members of the classes; that usage had macle it the rule for students to gel their supplies ns Thornwell was obtain ing these test tubes, and that thc faculty acted too precipitately without a proper digestion of the facts. The report, while condemning thc action of the Sophomore class ns an act of insubordination, recognized witl approval the generous sympathy witl their comrade which had prompted it The act of insubordination, tho repor says, would be condoned in -this cns< because it was the first offense nnd be cause of its being the impulse of youth ful impetuosity.-Greenville News. lola Dots. All the clouds have rolled away anc it seems very much like winter thi morning. Mrs. Lawrence Kay and two chil dren, of Six-and-Twenty, visited he: daughter, Mrs. Will McClelland, lani week. Miss Lizzie Mitchell suffers ver] mach pain with a scalded foot which causes her to be confined to he room. A good rain is needed very much ii this section. Mr. Plummier, of the C. A. Reec Music House, was in our section las week. David Burress has gone io Charles ton, where he will remain for somi time. A nnmber of our young people at tended church at Concord last Sunday Adolphus and Miss Benlnn Holde have been on the sick' list for severa days. Will McClelland has been very illfo: some time, but we are glad to see hin up again. New6 scarce and work plentiful. A Maiden. Another Trip to Texas. Piedmont, 8. C., May fl, 1002. The remarks in "Oar Trip to Texas1' >y tba Intelligencer'* senior editor, Mr 3Unk*o%les, drew from another veteran af the veterans the according remark that Mr. ClInkBcales' "honest opinion" on that country w*s conscientiously correct. These opinions of a brother veteran are from Mr. wm. F. Lee. In a letter pre ceding his return home, dated April 22. he wrote ; "The trees aro- full of grown leaves, corn and cotton -re up big enough to work, and some have their corn plowed and hoed out for the last time. Somo of the corn is as high my shoulder. Rose bushes are in full bloom. We had new Irish potatoes for dinner and shall have beans in a few dav?. It ls very dry here. The climate at Tanglewood, about 310 north latitude, a lit"? south of Charles ton, is very hot. Some of the land is the rlahest 1 ever saw; the whole country ought to be rloh In wealth: but I would give a large part of the finest of it juBt now for a good drink of water, which I have not had since I left Carolina. There ?re several bundods of acres In single unbroken crops of cotton and corn ana a great deal that looks very enticing as a tine country, but I have not seen any ftinco yet that I would take for my own ittle place in Piedmont." Mr. Lee, on his return, Bald tho coun try was yet In a state of speculative en terpiise. People scarcely knew what they wanted. They wanted wealth, but had no straight, definite purpose toward wealth; their enterprise was notsunport ed by judgment. Their way to gain was to grasp a great deal, and their way to lose was like the boy and the nuts, who In the fable, grasped too many and lost all. Their cattle and boruca were thickly spread upon the Texau ranches as the j Patriar cb i an herds upon the plains of ' Chaldea, but the herds of the "Texacans" were raw-boned and sadly in need of fodder. Thoy had no thought of stall or domestic feeding of animais, and all tho overly-abundant lands could not find for food or drink they must be content with out, unless an blgera occurred, which carried great numbers to the cattle's Mecca In Indian Territory; and, regard ing the cattle being borne there, Mr. Lee said he counted from his window at his friend's house from 10 to 15 train loads a day. The trains averaged each about 20 cars, and eaoh esr carried SO to 40 ani mals, probably 500 to 800 on a train or 8 000 to 10,000 head of cattle each day. He had been told tlr.d happy flight of the animals V> now pastures had now been goiDg on about two months. Bmall children from '0 to 13 begin their youthful sports dangling with the young steer as a child here dangles with the minnow. They bee a lasso from then? father mount a trained charger, whip him oat to the bellowing herd where, with fore and hind feet stuck fast in the ground, the animal polia backward, arawlng in with bia might the pawing and rambling captive, who has had the noose of the lasso around bis neck, and the little hero on bare-back "ropes bim in." Apropos of cattle, the wild species ls n^. the only attraction there, nor espe Oi. 'y would lt bo to the young farmer's wife, who complains that John or Henry would do the milking for her only-only -well, you know they can't, his Angers are too long. The good man of the house where Mr. Lee was guest obliged with a tape line his accommodating wife who was enthroned upon a milking stool be side a red Durham.. She measured around one of the appendages from which the white fluid was flowing in a current thick as the Anger: "Eight inches," said she. The udder was the bulk of half a bushel. The animal weighed from 1000 to 1200 pounds. Yet, again, was an other curiosity that wu uki be worth something ' to the deborner. A pair of horns detached that measured from tip to tip six feet five inches, and around tho crook of the horns, across the head seven feet. They are few who cultivate flue stock; no shelters, no barna-jueta great trust in Providence and the survival of the Attest. There are few dwolllogs in the country worthy the name. The boards nailed up lengthwise and no strain of Imagination whatever after the neat or aesthetic. "Money, money, is all their cry: How to make !t, how to ase lt, How to spend lt, how to lose it." Moreover, the women baye learned to grow old and not friraoeful-that ia, as a majority. Like the ill-tended stock they are lank and lean. The hard winds, it ls said, are coconota bl o for this. A man is well prepared for Texas weather when be sallies out bearing overooat and linen duster, felt hat and straw hat, light shoes and overshoes, a fan and an umbrella. He does not know whloh he shall need moat during his outing. Then "Tb' Texas Norther comes sodden and soon, At the dead of night or the blaze of noon." There ls no fruit to speak of. What seems like luxuriant apple trees are what are known here as the "mock" or ange. These trees are very abundant, r.nd preclude fruit. The wood is very i^ard and commands a high price for pav ing streets. Tales of travel are abundant and amus ing. The gold brick this time was not in it with the oil well. A guileless soul from Arkansas related to Mr. Lee that a most worthy veteran^?) as they were in all (liaauisee, wanted to interest him in a "Beaumont gusher," said he had nome photographs of the wolle at his "place" and would the Arkansas brother come andfeee? Tbs brother did. He was asked to allow himself to be treated to something good, but the brother did not drink. He was offered sod*, guilelessly took it-no harm, however. He was ask ed to bet on dice, but ho did not bet. In fact, he was going, to be unprofitable to the oil magnate. Then, as a last resort, he was asked just to guess how many spots there were. "I will guess," said he, "twenty-one." "Right you are," said th? joggler, "here is your ton dol lars. Guess again," thrusting a $10 bili into (be guesser's hand. "It is not my ten dollars," said the man. "I did not win it, and I'don'.t want it. I guess I'm in the wrong place." S" he escaped. An old and once poor Piedmont boy, whom Mr. Lee met after ten years' real denoe in Dallas, and by whom entertain ed over night was John Allison, who has a comfortable home and accomplished Canadian wife. Mr. Allison 1B earning from $4 t" $4.50 a day at plastering or stucco work, a flue specimen of his art being In portions of the Carnegie library in Dallas. Another Piedmont boy, ab sent thirty years and prosperous in Howe, Tex., was* James Dixon, brother of our Pat Dixon of R. F. D. and Mrs. J. J. Hannon. He asked for all his friends in Anderson County. Mrs, Wm. F. Lee. A good Hoe ls needed by every farmer. Sullivan Hdw. Co. have a lino of Hoes that comprises six distinct patterns, each pattern lu ail widths. Their Hand-Forg ed ?Toe ls the most serviceable Hoe ever placed on the market. The blades and nhauks are of highest quality steel ; the handles straight, well seasoned and of just the proper size to suit the weight of the blades ; the set Is suoh as every farm er will pronounce perfect as s.mn as he places the Hoe in his hand. The price is just so low that lt cannot' fall ta please you.