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* ^nVOLINKSCALES & LANG8T0N. ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1903. VOLUME XXXVIH-NO. 31. GRAND ; \ i) \ Mri; eur ? ? -- Our Semi-Annual Clearance Sale is on. Twice a y ear-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 this time. Tou 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. Thea 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 most popular Suits and Overcoats, all go at these reductions-nothing reserved. Ia ?be phenomenal low price we place on all of our $7.50 Mon's and Young Men's Suite. Blue and Black Serges, also W orsteds and Cashmeres, in Checks, Plaids and Mixtures-every one of them excellent value at their lormer price. $7.85 Is the small price we place upon any of our 810.00 Suits. These Suits were the very best values shown in this Town at 310.00. Now you will only have to see the Suite to appreciate their value. $9.45 For any $12.60 Suit we have in 8tock. Theee Suits have an air of elegance that cannot be found in any 812.50 Suits elsewhere. $11.75 BuyB any of our 815.00 Suite. 812.90 buys any of our S? 6.50 8uite. 814.50 buys any of our 818.00 Suite. These are the Suits which are io much like your high-priced tailor's best ones, the kind he will charge you at least oner half more than our regular prices, TROUSERS. Now is the time you should need'aa oxtra pair of Trousers. You are in luck if you do. Every {mir of Trousers in this house is included in this sale. 'Better hurry. Here ia what we do for them 81.55 for Trouser? that we have been selling for 82.00. 81.95 for Trousers that are regular*prioed $2.50, $2.25, for any of our ?3.00 Trousers. . 82.75 for any of our $3.50 and 84.00 Tremere. 83.75 each is the price we place on our fine line of $4.50 and $5.00 Trou ?era. BOYS' KNEE PATNS SUITS. 81.55 for any of our 82.00 Knee Pants Suite. 1.95 for any of our 2.50 Knee Pants Suite. 2.25 for any of our 3.00 Koee Pants Suits. 2.75 for any of our 3.50 and 4.00 Knee Panta Suite. 3.75 for anv of our 4.50, 5.00 and 5.G0 Knie Pants Suits. OVERCOATS ! You remember how cold it was last year about this time. The weather people say this month will be cold, and the way it's starting out seems as if they're light. Here's tome interesting prices for the man who wants an Over 83.75 for any of our 85.00 Overcoat*. 8?.25 for any of our 87.50 Overcoats. 8V.85 for any of our 810.00 Overcoats. 811.75 for any of our 815.00 Overcoats. 812.80 for any of our 816.00 Overcoats. 814.50 for any of our 818 00 Overcoats. The cuts on the above Goods are deep, but they are genuine reductions. ?o fake business here. We have always ttood square up to our ads in the past, and we will not this late day misrepresent Goods to make sales. Bo you can come hero knowing beforehand that what you see in this ad will be more than substantiated when you see the Goods. You had belier hurry, ^ough, as you know the best things always go first. First come, first served, is the rule here. B. 0. Evans & Co. ANDERSON, S. C. The Spot Cash Clothiers HHS MM HM ?TATE MEW?. - A fire in Bamberg on Thursday morning destroyed three stores. - The Federation of Women's clubs will be held in Columbia in the spring. - The Senate bas confirmed the nomination of J. F. Richardson as postmaster at Greenville. - There is a prospect of reviving the old C. K. ?? W. railroad from Greenville to Knoxville. - Jos. W. Napier, of Langley, was married recently to Miss Burkhalter, aged 20. The groom is 65 years old. - It is said that tho whiskey trust will offer to lease the dispensary from the State at $750,000 per annum for a term of years. - According to khe State Treasurer tho appropriations by the legislature ast year exceeded the income by more than $100,000. - The Board of Trustees of tho South Carolina College have eleoted Prof. Benjamin Sloan as president of that historic institution. - Policeman Lake Smith, of Paco let, was shot and killed on Wednesday night by Will Davis, a negro, who fled and has not been caught. . - One hundred and fifty oases of smallpox are reported on Edisto Is land, off the coast of South Carolina. The State Board of Health will take charge. - The State Treasurer's report shows that the total receipts from all souroes for 1902 waa $3,973,999.99. Of this amount $2,113,821.75 was from the dispensary. - The public schools at Liberty, in Piokens county, have been dosed, at least for a time, the prinoipal and his assistant both having tendered their resignation. - Starling Horton, a prominent farmer living near Lancaster, split his foot opec with an axe recently and it will be weeks before be will be able to walk again. - Cholera has broken out among the hogs in Lexington County. One gentleman had 35 hogs to die from this disease, another four, and all the hogs of another are sick with it. - The safe in the postoffice at Greers was dynamited last Saturday morning between 1 and 2 o'elook by unknown parties who secured some thing over $300 in cash and stamps. - The Bamberg Cotton Mill was sold at auotion under foreclosure pro ceedings. It was bought for $50,000 I by ten Bamberg men, who will reorg anize the company und.enlarge the mill. I - A negro man died of smallpox at Barksdale, Laurens oounty, on Saturday. There are from 50 to 75 negroes and one white man that have the disease, which is'for the most part mild. - Up to Deoember, 20, Darlington had handled 6,950,000, pounds of to bacco. It was predicted at tue first j of the season that tho market would handle 7,000,000 pounds and that num ber is already assured. - It is said that the fertilizer in dustry of Charleston will be at least 20per eent more this season than at any lime in her history. She will ship in neighborhood of 400,000 tons whioh will require 25,000 oars. - Rev. Joel I. Allen, the finanoial agent of Furman University, has se cured $5,000 from twenty men in the Pee Dee Association towards the $100,000 endowment to be raised thia year, and it required only ten days to get this amount. - Passenger train No. 40 on the Southern was fired into by parties un known near Easley at 7 p. m. Satur day, breaking windows and splinter* ing portions off the coaches. Several of the bullets lodged in the window easing. Nobody was hurt. - A negro who whipped a little crippled white boy in Aiken and was released on his promise to leave town, was caught by indignant citizens and severely thrashed. It is not said what the indignant oitizens did to the authorities who released him. - Jobey Williams, colored, was killed in Chester oounty on Monday night, his throat being cut and (ead crushed with an axe. His wife and a negro named William Sterling have been arrested, although there is no positivo proof of their guilt. - The organization of the Indepen dent Cotton Oil Coiiipany, whioh has beon completed in Charleston with a capital stock of $1,000,000, and eight mills in operation and profitable man ufacture, marks once more the impor tance of this industry in the South. - Gene. Baker, oolored, of Easley, who about a {year ago assaulted and gashed up Will Sittton with a knife in a frightful manner, and who was con victed for the offense, at the Maroh term of court last year, and sentenced to three years on th? ch oin gang, has been pardoned by the Governor. The ?ardon was recommended by ex-Judge Sennett before whom Baker was con victed, and by Soliotor J. E. Boggs. - The death of Chief Justiee Mc iver leaves living today only six of the 169 members of the momentous seces sion convention, whioh was followed by the war between the north and the south. In May, 1901, at the timo of the Confederate reunion, there were ten survivors of this famous body. Since that time the Rev. W. H. Camp bell, Capt. John H. Kinsler and Chancellor W. D. Johnson have pass ed away. Now eomes the death of Judge ftjclver, leaving only six sur vivors. They are, L. W. Spratt. of Jacksonville, Hon. Peter Stokes, Col. Joseph Daniel Pope, Dr. James H. Carlista, Col. R. A. Thompson and R. C. Logan. GENERAI* NEWS. - John D. Rockefeller gavo away ! over $5,000,000 last year. - It is said there aro over two hun dred canes of smallpox in Elbert coun ty, Ga. - Bets are being made now by pool that Roosevelt will not be .oominatod for tho presidency. - Six persons were fatally burned in Johnstown, Pa., by tho explosion of a keg of powder. - Nearly seventy thousand people are starving in northern Sweden, as a result of the famine. - Gen. Luddington says that 30, 152 Confederates died in Federal pris ons during the civil war. - An Atnerioan soldier in the Phillippine Islands, who was captur ed, was roasted to death. - Recently a Chinese professor in a government college made application for fifty English Bibles for use of the students. - It is said that there are now more girls than boys preparing for col lego in the United States. By and by the sweet boy graduate will be a rara avis. - Thoa. A. Donahue, a young New York millionaire, while crazed with typhoid fever, jumped from a sev enth story window Saturday and was killed. - Many towns and cities are pass ing through a coal famine, and with the mercury hanging near the zero point the Buffering is somewhat ter rible - While a party were skating on a pond in Washington city on Wednes day the ice gave way precipitating twenty persons into tho water. A young woman and two young men were drowned. - Policeman Mann kill-d a burglar in Atlanta, Ga., on Thursday night. He caught the burglar in tho act of blowing open a safe. The burglar turned on tho officer with a revolver and thc officer shot him. - Because his brother refused to give him a oigarette paper, Pink Groves, a young man living at Grove Park. Fla., plunged a knife into his brother's heart, killing him instantly. Groves was arrested and plaoed in jail. - James H. Bobin, president of a hank at Silverton, Ohio, committed suicide because he had taken large sums for speculation and could not re turn them. The haste to get rich may be put down as the causo of the rash act. - The State game wardens of Ohio are raiding the millinery shops and summoning the milliners to answer the oharge of selling the bodies oi insectivorous and song birds oontrary to the law. $25 is tue price they arc paying. - The largest mule on oarth, ? three year old jennet, belonging to Michael Murray, of Hereford, Mo., will be exhibited at the World's Fair, St. Louis. She is eighteen hands,or six feet high at the shoulders and weighs 1,705 pounds. - There is a deadloek in the North Carolina legislature over the emotion of a senator to succeed Senator Pritch ard. Following are the candidates being voted for in the order of their strength: Overman, Watson, Craig, Carr, Alexander. - R. A. Rigsby, professor In a "business college," waa shot and kill ed in Mason, Ga., by Mrs; Effie Car oon, a teacher of telegraphy in anoth er "business college. It is said that Rigaby had made remarks detrimental to her character. - Mary Gallagher, sixty-five years old and ^ worth $50,000, was found atarving in a hovel at Englewood, N. J., the other day and taken to a hospi tal. She had several thousand dollars in monay on her person but declared j she could uot afford to buy food. j - General Davis, in oommand of tho army in thc Philippines, has made an unfavorable report on the plan to colonize nagroes in the Philippines. He argues that they would not like the different conditions there and that thoy would not be likely to leaven the Philippine lump. - Arthur Jennings, aged 27, o resi dent of Florence, Col., has negotiated with an Eastern medica1 institute for the purchase of his hea< I. Jennings' head is almost twice the normal size. According to the informant, the price is $1,000 down and an additional $1,000 to bo paid to his relatives at the' time of his death. His head measures thirty-six inohes in circum ference. - Joseph Kirspaoh was taken into a Philadelphia hospital recently suf fering from what was supposed to be a bullet wound in the right temple. He had placed a revolver to his head and fired. Mr. Kirspaoh was seeming ly unconscious, bat after the surgeons had washed the blood from his face they found no injury save some pow der burns and abrasions of the skin. It was then discovered that the cart ridge used by Kirspaoh was a blank one. - Miss Stella Ewing, one of ?he ossified women who for ten years have been living wonders to physicians and scientists, died Wednesday at Rome, N. Y., aged 30 years. At an early ago ehe was afflicted with inflamma lory rheumatism, whioh physicians failed to relieve. At the age of 25 she lost the use of her limbs and emi nent specialists said she was gradual ly turning to stone. During the last ten years of her life, Miss Ewing was totally blind and unable to move a muscle. A sister, Mrs. Emma Ewing Palmer, is afflicted in the same man ner. Harris Bridge Happenings. Mr. anti Mrs. John Greene,of Green- ! ville, have been visiting tho former a old home. We wore sorry to learn Mr. j Greene got very badly hurt while working ou th? railroad. Miss Amanda Elliott has returned to ! her home iu Anderdon, alter spending a few days with lier aunt, Mrs. John Browne. Webb Campbell, of Seneca, has boen i visiting his uncle, Thomas Campbell. Mr. Campbell is a handsome young j man and is very popular among tho i girls. Mrs. Leila Harris, of Newberry, who ha? been visiting lier uncle. Mrs. E. J. , Buchanan, lins returned to her nome. ? J. A. Welborn, of Williamston. pur- ' chased tho Hush place and moved his : family into our community. Mr. and Mrs. George Wyatt, with 1 their two sweet little children, of Omega, visited the latter's brother, J. ) . Holder. Wo aro sorry to learn John HarriB is on the sick list, and hope he will soon be restored to Rood health. J. J. and J. P. Wilson have been on I business trip to Oconee. j Last week invitations were sont out for a musical and eake party at Mr. ) and Mrs. J. C. Holder's home on Jan. 14, when all the invited guests were ! assembled. Some line music was ron- I dered on tho violin by John Harris, } accompanied on tho organ by several I others. Some nice plays wore plaved j which made everybody lively. Then came tho delightful time about 8 ? o'clock, when the dining room door was opened and all were invited to partake of tho nice cake and jellies. After all had eaten heartily the guests returned to tho parlor and enjoyed some nico games and more fino music. About ll o'clock all tho guests returned to their homes feeling their hours well spent. Tho occasion will long bo remembered. Nearly all tho sweet girls were dressed m white dresses and green Howers, which made them look moro sweeter. Wo return many thanks to tho ladies of the house, Ai isses Mattie und Beulah, for their hospitality and kindness. A Guest. Piedmont News. Wo aro having bitterly cold weather here, but tho mill company is taking care that all in need havo coal, and the farmers are rushing in the wood supply. J. D. Nesbitt has returned from a visit to his old homo and friends at Byhalia, Miss., where ho owns a plan tation. His Bister, Mrs. Susan Chal mers, returned with him for a visit among friends in Greenville and Lau rens counties. Many business changes have taken 8lace during tho weokjuBt past. Dr. ?. T. Richardson has sold ins exten sive drug buBinoBS to Dr. W. M. Lone, who comes here from Cateechee, S. C., where ho has been engaged in tho practice of medicino for tho pa?t B?X years. Tho new doctor will bo most heartily welcomed by our people who have known him ns boy and man for many years. A new mercantile business has put in a stock of staple and fancy groceries in the annex to tho Mahon &. Arnold store. Georgs W. Walker of Ander? son, will bo tho manager. Tho enter prise is by Pelzer parties. The Farm & illili Mercantile com ?any have organized and bought out ho entire stock of W. N. Trowbridge & Co., and will conduct A geneva! stoic at the old stand occupied by the Trow bridge company for 20 years. J. T. Long, superintendent of the Oil mill, will bo president of the new company and Robert Robert Sampson manager. In the transaction Mr. Trowbridge se cured possession of a valuable farm of nearly TOG acres near Pendleton on the Seneca river, including 70 acres of very fertile bottom land in the vicinity of Cherry's Crossing on tho Blue Ridge Railroad, where he will seek rest and recuperation in looking after bis farm ing interests. W. C. Bubb has purchased the fur niture and undertaking business of H. M. Geer and will take possession February 1st. Everyone ia sorry to lose Mr. Geer from our business cir cles, as he has always been an ener getic, successful merchant during his five years' stay in our town. -Sir. Babb ia a vt?ry pleasing young man to meet and has already created a good Impres sion among onr people. V, A Narrow Escape Perhaps From Death. Little Kathleen, the bright and beau tiful one year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. N. L. Fant, of Midway, met with what might have terminated in a seri ous and perhaps fatal accident on last Saturday morning. In toddling over the floor she picked up a loose steel heel tap, about an inch long with two Eron ge or teeth on ono side, which nppened to be lying in her way, which sho put in her mouth and rando au attempt to swallow, but fortunately its mother, who wa? nearby, discover ed the child was choking with some thing and ran to its relict, and thrust ing her fingers in the child's mouth found tho heel tap lodged in its throat, the prongs of the tap hoing caught in the tonsils. In pulling tho lire*- ap ont the child's throat wassligntly lacera ted causing tho injured parts to bleed freely for a short while. The little one is all right now, and of courso is in blissful ignorance of the miraculous escape it had perhaps from death. J/rs. Fant of course was terribly frightened during tho ordeal of getting tho heel tap out of her baby's throat, and her nerves were very much unstrung for several hours afterwards. Her advice is to keep dangerous things out of tho baby's way.-Keoweo Courier. Brushy Creek News. The weather is very cold, but batter that than so much rain and mud. Tho members of Pleasant View Bap tist Church, colored, is preparing to erect a new Church building. With Mrs. Rowel at the head our school is getting along nicely with its one hundred scholars. Mr. and Mrs. S.L. Edens are visiting the latter's relatives, near Anderson. R. B. Dilworth and family, of Green ville, visited in our midst Sunday. Our friend, Gaston Payne, starts for Texas to-day ; wo suppose, for the pur Eose of making a fortuna. We wish im much success. Gordon Williams, who has boen west for the past pear and a half, has re turned homo, it is said, to stay. Jack Richey, who has been very ill with pneumonia, is said to be improv ing. Tenderfoot. Jan.19. NO CLAPTRAP, NO HUMBUGGING ABOUT US. Plain, Open, Fair, Square, Above Board Dealing. WK mark our Goods in plain ligures. If it is worth one dollar we mark it one dollar, not H Y K. What do you know about H Y K, whether it is one dollar or one dollar and a quarter. ? UNDERBUY-UNDERSELL. Many claim to-few do it. Thia UNDERBUY business is all rot ; ono merchant eau buy Goods as cheap as another. UNDERSELL 1 This part is all right if you strike a merchant who has PUSH, PLUCK and PERSEVERANCE enough to do it, but they are few and far between. UNDERSELL-WE DO IT ! We don't ask you to take our word, Uncle Sam's, Aurt Jane's, Cousin Sally's, or anybody's word. They might not be judges of a good value. Come and see for yourself ; be your own judge ; take the same Goods and compare them. We are nat afraid of comparison ; they will stand it and we know it. These prices will show you what we can, and not only can, but will do : 25 pairs Jeans Pants, nil wool-come and see them with your own ?yes, and feel them with your own fingers-worth $1.00 per pair, now 50c pair. 35 pairs all-wool Cassimere Pants, been sold right here in Anderson at ' $1.98 pair, our underselling price $1.25 pair. i 10 dozen Men's Soft Felt Hats, broad and medium brims, value 50c and I 75c, this is the price now 39c. 60 Children's Caps, fancy stripes, satin lined, yours for one dime and a j nickol. I 10 dozen Ladies'Felt Hats, this is a job lot, but are all right to wear j around home, and are really worth from 25c to 75c each, but we make the j price 10c each. 15 Cheuillo Table Covers, 52 inches square, got no tables for them, so j hero goes, 39c. 5 pieces double-width Ladies' Cloth, 56 inches wide, all wool, and you i never bought it for less than 50c yard, but now you buy it at The Magnet for 1 only 39c per yard. 10 dozen pairs Children's All Wool Mittens to close out quick only 9c. 10 pieces Dress Plaids, all right for mokine evory-da y dresses for the children, worth moro money, but we don't wear frocks, 3$c yard. 6 dozen Glass Syrup Pitchers 5c each. 5 dozen Glass Syrup Pitchers 10c each. 4 dozen Glass Syrup Pitchers 15c each. Nothing delights us more than to dig under tho fifth rib of a fellow who is fooling people with a so-called snap. If you don't believe that we are dig ging into their prof!li try us on your SPRING SUIT when you get ready to buy it. We have Bargains for everybody-every day in the year, except Sunday. Our Three P's Prices advertised last week will be continued on DRY GOODS, SHOES and UNDERWEAR ono week longer. We do this for the benefit of our country friends who were kept away on account of the cold weather. We truBt you will be interested enough to avail yourselves i of this sale, and kind enough to show this add, to your neighbors and friends. Now for some lively selling. Yours always truly, JOHN A. AUSTIN AND THE MAGNET, And the 5c and 10c Store-The Mau down next to the Post Office that Sells the Best. P. S.-Seven Plugs of TOBACCO for 21c. We place on middle Counters for January our Stock of Embroideries, fnsertings, Laees and White Goods, To be sold at GREATLY REDUCED FRIGES. In every piece there's a bargain, and nowhere can you find such values as we oiler. 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- i BEFORE PURCHASING Anything in Winter Goods of aU kinds. fl Moore, Acker&Co. Boyal Worcester Corsets and McCall Bazar Patterns.