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'RYC?JINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C.. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 14. li)(>:i. vm.VTMw YVYVH. HA ?? ' GRAND ILE Han Schaffner & Marx Hind Tailored ?k^?rf Kt* I?k Our Semi-Annual Clearance Sale is on. Twice a year-Jan uary and July-we have these Special Sales. People who have been here before at one of these sales will be sure to come again. If you have not been one of the fortunate ones in the past, do not put it off j this time. You may regret it. Our only reason for these sales is that we do not wish to carry Clothing from one sea son to another. We cannot afford it. We prefer making deep cuts in the prices of Suits and Overcoats so as to get rid of them. Then we invest our money in New Clothing every season. This sale includes all of our NEW FALL AND WINTER CLOTHING. This season's best and mest popular Suits and Overcoats, all go at these reductions-nothing reserved. Is the phenomenal low price we place on all of our $7.50 Men's and Young Men's Suits. Blue and Black Serges, also Worsteds and Cassimeres, in Cheek?, Plaids and Mixtures-every one of them excellent value at their iormer price. $7.85 Is the email pnce we place upon any of our 810.00 Suits. These Suits were the very best values shown in thia Town at ?10.00. Now you will only have to see the Suits to appreciate their value. $9.45 For any $12,50 Suit we have in stock. These Suite have an air of elegance that cannot be found in any 812.50 Suits elsewhere. $11.75 Buys any of our $15.00 Snits. 812.90 buys any of our 816.50 Suits. 814.50 buys any of our 818.00 Suits. These are the* Suits which are so much like your high-priced tailor's best ones, the kind he will charge you at least one half more than our regular prices. Now is the time you should need an extra pair of Trousers. You are in lock if you do. Eveiy pair of Trousers in this house is included in thia sale. Better burry. Here ?B what we do for them 81.55 for Trousers that we have been selling for 82.00. 81.95 for Trousers that aro i jgular-priced 82.50, 82.25, for any of our $3.00 Trousers, 82.75 for any of our 83.50 and 84.00 TrouBera 83.75 each is the prico we place on our fine line of 84.50 and 85.00 Trou sere. BOYS' KNEE PATNS SUITS. $1.55 for any of our 82.00 Knee Pants Suits. 1.95 for any of our 2.50 Knee Pants Suits. 2.25 for any of our 3.00 Knee Panta Suits. 2.75 for any of our 3.50 and 4.00 Knee Panta Suits. 3.75 for any of our 4.50, 5.00 and 5.50 Knee Panta Suits. OVERCOATS ! You remember how cold it was laat year about this time. The weather pcojile say this month will be cold, and tbe way it's starting out seems aa if I they're right. Here's eonie interesting prices for the man who wanta an Over I coat : 83.75 for any of our 85.00 Overcoats. $5.25 for any of our 87.50 Overcoats. $7.85 for any of our 810.00 Overcoats. $11.75 for any of our $15.00 Overcoats. 812 90 for any of our 016.00 Overcoats. 614.50 for any of our $18 00 Overcoats. IThe cuts on the above Gooda are deep, but they are genuine reductions. No fake business here. We have al way a stood square up to our ada in the past, and we will not this late day misrepresent Goods to make sales- So "ou can come here knowing beforehand that what you see in this ad will be aore than substantiated when you see the Goods. Yon had better hurry, hough, aa you know the beat things alwaya go first. First come, first served, is the rule here. vans & Co. ANDERSON, S. C. he Spot Cash Clothiers STATE NEWS. - Tho Postal Telegraph company expects to open sn oflioe in Greenville this month. - The Orangeburg bar have unan imously endorsed ex-Judge James F. Izlar for associate justice. - M. M. Harley, a white farmer, disappeared from his homo near Co lumbia aud has not been heard of since. - A man died in Columbia tho other day who is said to have drunk two quarts of liquor a day for some time past. - The Spartauburg Journal says thc local dispensary sales of that city the day before Christmas amounted to three thousand dollars. - Tho old Gilreath opera house of Greenville will be torn down aud a modern building put in its place, thus removing an old landmark. / - A negro hov six years old shot and killen his sister, aged four, near Clifton. The killing was intentional and was the result cf a quarrel. - Gov. McSweeney has been asked tn remove a notary public at Branch ville on thc ground that the notary | gets drunk, and while in this condi Lion is likely to cau?e trouble. - The Comptroller General's re port show an increase in tho taxable I value of property in the State amount ing to $6,203,952. The figure* are: 1001, $189,333,100; 1902, $195,537,061. - It is said that there are not lesa than a thousand men in this State who are ambitious to serve as dispen sary constables, and they arc piling up petitions and endorsements of their applications for presentation to Gov. Heyward. - A charter has been issued to the Independent Oil Company of South Carolina with headquarters at Char leston. The company represents a merger of various independent oil com panies of the State. The capital stock is io be $1,000,000. - Two negro children living near Converse, in Spartauburg county, were playing with a pistol when the weapon was discharged and the youug er one was shot through tho heart. The parents were away from home at the time. On account of the youth of the other boy nothing was done with him. - Dr. Augustus Corley , a young dentist of Edgefield, was doing somo work when his patient's pistol, a sort of Edgefield toy, fell from his pocket and was discharged. The ball made for the dentist's diaphragm, but strik ing a silver dollar the bal1 was de flected and did no damage except to the clothing. - An association has been formed in Charleston for the purpose of ini tiating the prosecution of swindling money lenders. This association is composed of those white people and householders who have suffered great and annoying evils because of the fact that their servants were in the dutches of these fellows. - In Lexington county, about three miles from Columbia, Wesley Spires shot and killed Charles Hutto. There had been bad blood between the two men on acoount of Hutto's attention to Mrs. Spires. They met in tho woods near Spires' house. It is said that Hutto opened fire with a rifle when Spires pulled down on him with a double-barreled shot gun, killing him dead. Spires went to Lexington, reported to the sheriff and went to jail. - Geo. W. Williams, secretary and president of the Carolina Savings bank and widely known as one of the vvealthiest men in South Carolina, died of heart failure at his Meeting street residence in Charleston at 3 o'oiook Tuesday morning, 6th inst. Mr. Williams was 83 years of age and had not been in good health for some time though he was in his office as usual Monday. The fortune that he leaves is variously estimated at from two to three million dollars. - The Baptist State Mission Board was in session in Greenville last week, mapping out the missionary work for the year, which is upon a basis of $20,000 by order of the recent con vention. The Board has already ap propriated nearly $16,000 and other expenditures are yet to be made. Rev. H. P. Fitch, of Pacolct, was chosen as State evangelist and will shortly enter upon his duties. The election of a Sunday School Secretary was postponed, whioh is discretionary with the Board. - Prof. Patterson Wardlaw has aubmitted to the board of trustees of the South Carolina College a recom mendation as to the department of pedagogy. He deolares that too little inducement is offered young men to fit themselves as teachers in so far as the South Carolina College ia concern ed. The girls are abundantly provid ed for in thia respeot at Winthrop aa are some young men who have benefi ciary oadetships at the Citadel. Prof. Wardlaw suggests that a scholarship fee of $40 be offered in this depart ment in each county. - PoBtoffioe Inspeotors Gregory and Palsifier have arrested Tom Nolan, Chas. Howard, Edward Duggan and Wm. McKinley on the charge of breaking into the poBtoffices at Cam eron, Enoreo, Bowesville, Hartsville, Hineman, Mount Morenoi, Batesburg and Keno, breaking into the safes and robbing them of money and atamps. The arrests were made in Columbia in the tenderloin district. All the par ties are white and have been living fast and recklessly in that city for some time. The arrests created con siderable excitement in Columbia. The parties havo all been committed in default of $20,000 bond each. UENEltAX NEWS. - The American soldiers aro dying ' in tho Philippine Islands with tho cholera. - Now Hampshire will vote on the ; question of giving women the ballot in j that State. - The alarming news of a coming , whiskey famine is telegraphed from Kentucky. t- A collision of two railway trains in Ada. O., caused tho death of four . meuand injury of fourteen others. - The United States has let con- ' tracts for $9,000,000 worth of war .ships to be ready in forty-two months. - Distress is widespread through out Europcau Russia and tho govern ment has taken steps to feed the hun gry. - Two lynchers were released from ' tho Marshall county, Tenn., jail on [ the night of .Jan. Gth by 30 masked ! men. - Three of the largest coal compa- ' nies in the 1? ni ted States have formed a combination, with a capital of $34, 000,000. - Walter Haley, j>gcd 10, shot and killed his father at Jackson, Miss., because the father had punished him for running away. - A wreck on the Southern railway in Alabama resulted in the death of the engineer aud the injuring of twen ty-seven passengers. - Fifty-four negroes from Irwiu county, Ga., sailed from New York on Wednesday for Liberia-32 men, 12 women and 10 children. - The mayor of San Juan,!'. H., has been arrested on tho charge of embezzling funds belonging to the city water department. - A disastrous fire occurred in London, Ont., in a factory, caused by a boy dropping a lighted match in a vat of oil. Loss $300,000. - Congress has been asked by thc Philippine commission to make an appropriation of $3,000,000 to relievo the distress of the natives. - The new Chinese minister to tho United States is to marry a cultured woman, who was educated abroad aud speakB English and French. - Fivo uen entered tho First National bank, of Galesburg, Ul., last Saturday night, gagged the watchman, blew open the safe and secured $48,000 in cash. - Bud and Walter Brower, bro thers, of Mongomery county, N. C., had a fight in which the former was shot and killed and the latter badly cut with a knife. - The twelve-year-old boy of Jona than Manning, of near Patterson, Ga., I having been punished by bis father, committed suioide by blowing the top of his head off with a shotgun. - Nutes Johnses, colored, was con victed in Augusta, Ga., on Wednes day of assaulting a white woman and was entenced to be hanged on b'th day of February. His trial lasted 30 minutes. - Traffic has been entirely blocked on the Northern Pacific railroad on account of high waters. At one place nearly a mile of track is gone and sev eral trains are at a standstill with their passengers between washouts. - A locomotive boiler exploded near Bedford city, Va., Saturday while the train was running 30 miles an hour. The fireman was killed and the engineer seriously hurt. The passengers were shaken up but not injured. - A machine lias been tested in Mississippi which pioks 97 per cent of the open cotton. It also gathers leaves, stems and trash generally, but the inventor is sure he ean remedy that. It works as well at night as in day time. - The European powers aro about to get into another Chinese row. They insist on China paying the indemnity in gold instead of silver, which she has the right to pay in silver under thc agreement. The matter may be referred to tho Hague tribunal. - Freight rates on nearly all com modities transported by Western rail roads are to be raised in tho next thirty days, and if the scale at present contemplated goes into effect thc rev enues of the roads will be increased during 1903 by at least $100,000,000. - The Daughters of the Confed eracy in St. Louis propose to raise a fund for the proper marking of the graves of 1,308 confederate soldiers who died as prisoners of war in the Alton (Mo.) penitentiary. Permis sion will be asked for the placing col lection boxeo for this objeot in all of the government buildings at the Lou isiana Purohase Exposition. -* James LeGrand, a young man of Rockingham, N. C., was accidentally killed while returning from a bird hunt. The young mon were standing talking at the time when in some way Dookery tripped backward, and in his effort to balance himself, it is thought he clutched the triggor of his gun, both barrels of which were disoharged. Young Dookery is overwhelmed with grief. - Levi Eioher, aged 95 years, and his wife, residir j in Springfield town ship, have been tortured by masked thieves, says a Press dispatch from Con nella ville, Pa., until they told where their money was hidden. The robbers held a lighted lamp to Mrs. Eioher'a feet and burned them until the flesh fell off before she would con pent to show them the strong box where $225 in bills was hidden. They thou bound their victims to their bed with ropes and left. OUR COLUMBIA LETTER. COM'MUi \, .IAN. 12, VMi. Superstitious legislators may appre hend trouble lunn tia fact that the General Assembly begins its session? on the thirteenth day ot! thu mouth, j lithe session has disastrous r?sultait may bo attributed to tho i:i hoodoo. liut this will not prevent tho assem- ? bly from beginning business to-mor row, lt isa now Legislature and there arc niai.y new members, hut enough > familiar ?ares will ho in thu capitol lo mako it scorn liku tho sanio old thing. Lieut. Gov. Tillman will call tho Sen ate to order and preside until Iiis suc cessor, Col. .lohn T. Sloan, is inaugu r?t eil. Clerk K. li. Jlemphill will bo in his place ami will stay lhere ?luring thia session and tho next it hu lives, lor there is none to oppose him. The minor officers w ill hu tilled in thu usual way, some elected and some appointed by tin? new Lieutenant-Governor. Senater John C. Sheppard, ot' ridge field, will doubtless hu again selected as president pro tem., a position for which his exp?rience and ability make him eminently tit. The House of Representativo will hu called to order by Col. Tom. C. Hamer, ' Clerk ot tho last Mouse. A temporary Speaker will bo named and then the. election for Speaker w ill bugin at once. Thu former Speaker, NV. P.Stevenson, of Choraw, ran for Attorney-General, and hene?is not now in thu House. Thu leading candidates for tho place aro T. V. Williams, of Lancaster, M. L. Smith, of Camden, and Hainsford, of Edgcliold, with a dark horse or two chewing his bit. .Mr. Williams is con . I siilcred to have thu best chances; hu is young and looks younger, hut has io ! years' experience and plenty of ability. Col. Humer will he re-clouted Clerk. , Thu work ol' thu Legislatura will : amount to very little thu first week, as j ia always tho casu willi a nuw L?gisla ture, l'util the committees are organ - . izud anil until they consider and report j upon tho hills introduced nothing can bu accomplished. Thu composition of ; thu committees is a most important 1 matter. Thc? Senate electa its /commit tees while tho Speaker appoints those of thu House. Thc House will lose ; some ol' its strongest ami most reliable members as well as BOinu ot thu pic , turesquo ligures who have been hund I ed down itown from tho uprising of a decade ago and have been, holding over ever since. Thu Ways anil Means . Committee is hy some considered thu j most important working body of tho ' Legislature. There will bu a number I ot names erased from this committee's roll this session. Thu chairman. Col. Harvey Wilson, was a candidato for Secretary of State; Georgo E. Prince aspired to succeed Congressman Lati mur;U.J. Kinari! and J. C. W?lling ran for Railroad Commissioner; and the following also will not return: Cos grove, of Charleston, West, of Spar enburg. Weston, of .Richland, and Estridgo, of Lancaster. Altamont Moses, of Sumter, is the senior mem ber of those who will return. The Judiciary Committee is also ono of the most important, and here, too, there will be marked changes. Seven of thu leading mein hers will not return. These aro the courteous chairman, Mr. Bacot, of Charleston, who waa a can didato for Congress; Mr. Croft, of Aiken, who was elected to Congress; C. P.Sanders, of Spartauburg, F. P. McGowan, ci Lauren?, and T. 15. But ler, who now becomes Senator from Cherokee, Mr. Spears, of Darlington, of free pass fame, and Mr. Bostick, of Bamberg. Of those who will return T. Yancey Williams is the senior mem ber of the committee. Unless there is another hard fight on the "child labor bill"-and there doubtless will be-it is likely that there will be no spectacular proceedings thia session, although it is usually the un expected that happens in the legisla tive balls. Senator J. O. .Marshall, of Richland, the original advocate of legislation to restrict child labor, is prepared to renew tho contest, and ho will have plenty of assistance. The fact that tho last State Democratic Convention demanded a law prohibit ing the employment of children under 12 years of ago in factories, etc., may smooth the way for the passage of the I measure, which was defeated last year by such a close vote. It is certain, however, that there will be vigorous opposition. And any measure of tho kind will bo met with a bill providing for compulsory education as a com panion reform. The really important legislation, which is absolutely necessary, relates to the reformation of the State's pres ent system of taxation. This is a very knotty problem and it will require much wisdom to effect a satisfactory solution. The State's affairs are con ducted on avery unbusinesslike basis, thu State Treasurer every year borrow ing money to pay current expenses. How to increase the revenue and how to keep down appropriations without diminishing tho efficiency of tho gov ernment in any of its branches-that is the problem. The various appropriations, consider ation of which is always unwisely left to tho last days of tho session, never fail to produce moro or less acrimon ious and moro or less able debate. It is on these themes that tho politicians can display their regard for and devo tion to "the peonlo." The pension ap propriation, $200,000 for tho last year, is always an excuso for oratory. The day for the inauguration of Governor-elect D. Clinch Hey ward has not yet been fixed, but will probably occur about tho 20th or 21st, when all tho other State officials will be aworn in. Gov. McSweeney^s last message will be read to-morrow. The retiring governor's plans are not yet fully de fined but he will return to his home in Hampton for the present. Strongpres oure is being brought to bear upon him to become a citizen of Columbia, where he has business interests and any num ber of warm personal friends. Lieut. Gov. J. H. Tillman will be succeeded by his former opponent. Col. John T. Sloan, of Columbiu; Secretary of State M. H. Cooper by his chief clerk. JesBeT. Gantt; Attorney-Gen eral Bellinger by his assistant U. X. Gunter, Jr.; Comptroller J. P. Derham by his clerk, A. W. Jones; Adju tant-General J. W. Floyd by his assis tant, Col. John D. Frost; Superinten dent of education John J. McMahan by Prof. O. E. Martin. Stat? Treasurer li. H. Jennings is tho only official re elected. Railroad Commissioner Hanks jj Caughman has already taken the place of J. C.Wilborn. Of tho retir ing officia's not.one will hold omeo af ter relinquishing their present posi tions Tillman was defeated tor Gov ernor, Bollinger and Floyd for Con gress, McJ/abnn for re-election. The othera "retire." Jas. A. Hoyt, Jr. On Sept. 2nd, 1901, we unfuiiea our Banner to tho Trade to Seil Good Goods Cheap. PUSH cuused II? to handle Ililli Gnuie Goods. PLUCK says soil ilium LOW. PERSEVERAMOS kept moving. Tlie result of which we have won ti phenomenal trade. For this prosperity wo wish to return our thanks to you. Wo thank you heartily for your nid and support, which wo ah al I OP doa vor to maintain by a continuance of our Push-. Pluck, Perseverance Policy. May joy, peuce and plenty lill your heurts and brighten your hornea, aud make glad tho years that may bo given to you and yours. This is what we mean when we wish you ii happy, prosperous Now Year. Remember that THE MAGNET will continuo to be tho Store where prices are absolutely the LOWEST. In proof of this fact wo have inaugu rated A THREE P'S SALE, (which moans Push, Pluck and Perseverance Prices,") commencing Thursday m .ruing, January 8th, and continuing for ono week only, Thursday.night, January 15th. Bo sure and attend this Threo P's Salo. It. will be your New Year ?tart to success. One week only, IP's PRICES. Ladies' Kip Polka Shoes, every pair warranted ; these sold tor 90c. pair ; wo oiler them for this sale OOo. pair. Ladies' Kangaroo all solid, au extra value at $1.25 pair, for this sale 81 00c pair. Misses' Pebbled Grain Shoes, pood 75c. values, for ibis sale we make them 40c. pair. Boys' and Misses Coarse Shoes, sold for 65e. pair, your choice for ??no week only, 50c. pair. Outing Flannel*, never soiil under 5c. and tlc. per yard, now reduced to 3Jc. yard. Flannelette Waisting*, in a charming selection of colors, fashionable and universally used for waists, otc, prices down from 123c. to 7e. nor yard. Flocorme Cloth-tho showing we are making itt this now fabric is unsurpass ed, used for Dressing Sacks, Wrappers, Dresses, &c, sold ia larger cities for 16c. yard, for this sale only 12ic. per yard. Here is tho greatest Dre3sGoods Bargain in our history, news of the most interesting sort to every lady who is looking for a new Dress or Waist ; this lot consists of Melrose and Pebbled Cheviot and Silk Cord Goods, &c., &c, a good assortment of lovely colors these Goods are selling right here in Anderson at 35c. per yard ; for this sale we offer them for only 21c. per yard. Four doz. Men's White Unlaundried Shirts, well worth 75c, for this week only, at 39c. per Shirt. Knitting Thread, blue, brown and black, sold for 25c. lb., our Threo P Price while it lasts only 18c. per lb. Axe Handles, your pick for 5c. Good Luck Baking Powder 4c. Can. Celluloid Starch three packages for 10c. Arbuckle^' Codee, for this sale, one Package for 9c, two Packages for 20c, three Packages for 33c, and we ain't crazy, either. Thia Sale includes many other Goods, but we have not space to mention all of them. Come to The Magnet, realizing that we cannot, must not, and will not be undersold. Come to see us. Yours always truly, JOHN A. AUSTIN AND THE MAGNET. The Man down next to the Post Office that Sells the Best. P. Fi.-Ladies' Cloth Waterproofing and Repellant, 56 inches wide, never sold under 50c. per yard, but wo, and we only, make the price for this sale 39c. per yard. We place on middle Counters for January our Stock of Embroideries, Insertings, Laces and White Goods, To be sold at GREATLY REDUCED PRICES. In every piece thero's a bargain, and nowhere can you find such values as we offer. We have reduced the prices so close on these Goods, and our profit is so little that we have to ask for cash purchases. Send for Samples and Prices. When in Town see us- .. - BEFORE PURCHASING Anything in Winter Goods of all kinds. 1 Moore, Acker&Co. Royal Worcester Corsets and McCall Bazar Patterns. ?