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'RYC?JINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C.. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 14. li)(>:i. vm.VTMw YVYVH. HA ?? ' When we find a Shoe that compares favora bly with our - Keith's Konquer $3.50 Shoe ! We also find the price from Fifty Cents to a Dollar more ! - - - If you are a good judge of Shoes we believe you'll agr?e -with us. If you are not a good judge take our word for it, and if the Shoes are not right in every way We'll Make them Right. We stand back of you, and the manufacturer stands back of us, What more could you ask 1 . 0. Evans & Co. ANDERSON, S. C. The Spot Cash Clothiers Fertilizers lor 1903. We are selling the old reliable Wando Fertilizers. There is nothing made that gives so universal satisfac tion as goods manufactured by this Company. We carry in stock at all times a complete line of these goods. Wando Soluble Guano 8-3.3. Wando Soluble Guano 8 1-2-2,2 1-10. Wando Dissolved Bone 13 per cent. Wando Dissoved Bone 12 p6r cent. Wando Bono and Potash 10-4. Wando Bone and Potash 10-2. German Kainit, Muriate of Potash, Nitrate of Soda, &c. Our prices are always ao low as the lowest. Why not buy the BEST. You will have to pa; no nore for them. ?.G.BROW fl & BRO. TRUTHS ABOUT COFFEES. HAVING trouble with your Coffee, are you ? Can't find the sort to your [Sf il Can fc ?efc ifc oniforDQ,y ?ood ? Try BOLT and your Coffee trouble IfouldI ceas.?. Onoe I know the kind your palate approves I can give you just I ??at. \ the time. t 1 ff ^^'^ 0 ^tar Ooffee, and right Coffee-making, you are bound to have -o.icc satisfaction. The Coffees are unbeatable, pure, genuine, and sold under teen- right names. No Bubotitut.es allowed here. White Star Coffeoa are put o a 6 four Shades from 25o to 40o a pound. I am ezolusive agent for these toffees hereabouts. ~~ fe ^rac*?? 40o a pound, an extra Lae blend of rare, rich and costly Cof *ea of the very highest grade, fine flavor, delicious in the oup and suits the ; 'ce critic. The Coffees in it are novor sold by BOODA '-calera beoause of their v ^00B0 wno W?*nt * No. 1 Coffee recognize its betterness at onoe. s No. 1 Grade, Mocha and Java, .35o a pound. Another palate pleaser, smooth, rich, fragrant, with drinking qualities hard to sarpasB. "Can't be -urpaased," many folks olaim. Genuine Mocha and Java, and not Rio or titer sorts masquerading under assumed names for profits sake. . 2 Grade 30o-No. 3, 25o. Both good and popular where medium priced Coffees are desired. Honest Coffees at honest prioes. Blends of high Tdo sorts and please most palates. Money saved if you like them. ?. FRANK BOLT, The Cash Grocer. STATE NEWS. - Three alleged widows are suing for damage for the death of a negro fireman at S par tu nb ur g. - Mrs. Caroline Dun dropped dead in the Baptist church ut Langley on Thursday night while attending a pray er-meeting. - The cigar factory ii Charleston is now turning out 12,000 cigars per j day. Within tho next GO days the j output will exceed more than 24,000 \ per day. - Edward Lipford, aged 60, was found frozen to death near Jus home at Waterloo, Laurens county. Ho was a bachelor and lived with his brother. - All the citizens of Chap?n, malo and female, have signed a petition to the Stato board of control to have the di sperr *ry removed "from their midst." ~ The fifth annual session of the Tri-State Medical Sooiety of Geor gia, North and South Carolina will meet in Columbia on the 25th of February. - Constable Bateman captured 300 gallons of oom liquor at the Southern depot in Columbia. It was in 60 kegs, from Salisbury, N. Cy, consigned to numbers of citizens of Columbia under fictitious names. - A calf died in Prosperity the other day of hydrophobia. It was bitten by a mad dog the first of De cember. The dog also bit a colored boy, who so far has not shown any signs of the disease. - President Roosevelt has notified Representatives Finley and Johnson that he will veto the bills providing for United States courts at Kook Hill and Spartanburg on the ground that there is no necessity for this addition al expense. - At a preliminary hear'?g held in Columbia last week, the four white men recently arrested, charged with robbing postoffices in various parts of the State, were oommitted to jail in default of bond for $10,000 eaoh. The authorities feel sure they have the right men. - At the spring meeting of the State Fair association held in Colum bia on Wednesday night R. P. Hamer, of Marion county and A. W. Lov?, of Chester county were elected president and secretary to Buooeed President A. H. White andSeoretary Thoa. W. Holloway, who both died the same day, Jan. 20th. - Court of general sessions was oonvened at Monk's Corner Wednes day by Judge Watts. The docket was looked over and it was found that there was but one case to be tried and the solioitor was not ready with tb at so the oourt adjourned sine die two hours after convening. - Last Saturday morning on Hen drick's farm, five miles from the oity of Spartanburg, the body of Ed Bomar. a negro, was found ia a cotton p toh. He had lain down to rest while in toxicated and froze to death. The coroner investigated the case and re ported that death was due to alcoholism and exposure. - A perpetual charter has Seen granted to the Farm Home, a char itable organization of Charleston, the purpose of which is to provide employ ment for men temporarily out of work to provide a home for destitute wo men and to adopt and take eare of children who are without parents. - S. R. Johnson, judge of probate, was found dead in his office Saturday night at 10 o'clook in Winnsboro. His family did not think strange of his not coming in earlier, as they thought he had stopped at the store of one of his sons. Not ooming in with them they returned to his office, where he was fount', in oold death. - Governor Heyward is in receipt of a number of telegrams informing him of the existence of smallpox in various parts of the State. There aro not many cases in any one looality, but oases exist in widely separated dis tricts. The usual notification is promptly sent to Dr. Evans, secretary of the Sute Board of Health. - C. E. Williamson, H. J. Hughes. F. J. Hughes and R. W. MoClelland spf Omaha, Nob., are in Charleston for the purpose of investigating the feasi bility of a very important undertak ing whioh they are planning. They propose to bring a'colony of farmers from Nebraska and have them settle in territory contiguous to that oity. - Sixteen blind tigers were convict ed in Charleston and were fined $50 each for the violation of the dispen sary law. In no case was a trial by jury held. Several of the violators demanded a jury trial but before the other cases were finally disposed of they stepped forward and consented to have the oourt pass upon their guilt. - E. M. Pinokney. a negro physi cian of Hilton Head, charged with making false ^ affidavits in pension cases, was carried before United States Commibiicner Sanders in Beaufort for a hearing. The evidenoe against him was sufficient to warrant a committal. Pinokney gavo bond for his appear ance before the United States circuit oourt in Charleston at the April term. - The Walhalla Cotton Mills have reoently purchased 175 new Lowell looms and five thousand spindles, whioh will be installed as soon as tho machinery is received. This will make the plant a 15,000-spindlo mill, and will oall for a considerable in crease in the operating foroe. The mills are on a sound basis, the plan being to increase the oapaoity and out put. The new maohinery will prac tically fill all the available floor spac ' of the extension {made two years ago GENERAL NEWS. -Heavy rain and wind storm has done considerable damage in Tonnes* see. - A goneral outbreak of hostilities is threatened in Central America among the republics. -. Severe earthquakes have been felt in Mexico, and eighteen buildings wore destroyed in Chihuahua. - Ono thousand miners are on strike in South Dakota, and iu consequence several mines have shut down. - The Methodists will colebrate the two hundredth anniversary of John Wesley's birthday on June 17, 1903. - Two negro prisoners in Philadel phia had a quarrel about religion and when one was asleep the other cut his head off. - The smallest watch ever manu factured in this country ha? iustbeen completed. It is thc size of a nickol five cent piece. - Citizeus of Birmingham have given fifty carloads of oil to the city of New York for distribution among the poor of the oity. - Banks Miller, a young white man of Winston-Salem, N. C., shot and killed his wife on Wednesday and then committed suicide. - Judge William R. Day, of Ohio, has been offered and accepted tho po sition of associate justice of the Uni ted States supreme oourt. - An Athens, Ga., negro who tried to break open a torpedo with an axe is nor nursing the stub of a nose that the explosion left on his face. - Congress has passed through both houses tho bill to erect a million and a half building in Washington for the department of agriculture. - The sons of the Confederacy at Jackson, Miss., have subscribed ?10, 000 to purchase the old home of Jef ferson Davis at Beauvoir, Miss. - The plague in Mexico is still doing its deadly work. During the month of January 10" deaths occurred in Mazatlan-a city on the Pacific coast. - The house of representatives of Alabama has passed the bill to prohi bit the sale of cigarettes or cigarette paper in the State by the decided vole of 61 to 35. - The negroes of Ki dimond, Va., held a public meeting and repudiated the incendiary language used by thc negro lawyer Hays at the negro meet ing in Washington. - The war department is to supply the militia with the new rifles order ed by congress. A plant is being in stalled by the government to expedite the manufacture of these rifles .- The game wardens of Ohio are prosecuting milliners for having in their possession insect eating and song birds, with whose plumage they decorate ladies' hats. The penaltiei are very severe. - North Sweeden ia suffering from a terrible famine. The natives are in need of immediate relief. America has responded nobly to the cry of the starving thousands, but the supplies sent are inadequate to meet the needs. - Captain Richard P. Hobson, ol Merrimac fame, has tendered his resignation as a naval oonstruotor, giving a? a rjason that he oonsidcra himself unfit for the duties of his position on aooount of weakness of the eyes. - In denying a rumor that he would accept a placo on tho United States distriot oourt bench Senator Baoon, ol Georgia, declares that he "would not abandon the position of senator from Georgia to accept any other office un* der the government." - August Emmet Maxwell, of Pen sacola, Fla., and G. G. Vest, of Mis souri, are the only two living senators of the Confederate States Senate. Maxwell has just retirrd from a judge ship and Vest from the United States Senate. Maxwell is 83 and Vest 72. - An unknown contagious disease is prevailing among the plantations around Pine Bluff, Ark., causing the death of a number of herds of oattle. it affects them in the baok and causes death in thirty hours. One planter has lost all his oattle and another lost thirty within a fow days. - Ono of the leading English iu Buranoe companies now insures against appendicitis. For a premium of five shillings the insured, should he under go the operation, will have all his direct expenses paid up to $1,000. In the event of his death during or after operation a similar sum will be paid. - Texas has a farmers' organiza tion composed of 3,000 negroes who own 50,000 acres of land, 8,000 head of cattle and 7,000 mules and horses, and the object of the organi zation is to eradicate the crop mortgage system and improve the methods of farming. This is tho sort of a negro movement whioh deserves commends , tion. - A letter of George Washington, written October 19, 1785, to his friend, Patrick Henry, Governor of Virginia, was sold at a collector's sale by quotion in Boston recently for $580 to a New York man, acting as agent. Its sub ject matter relates to a grant of money by the Virginia Legislature to Wash ington for reward for his services in the Revolution and his refusal of tho same. - Heinrich Peterson, recently a professor in a Baptist theological seminary in Hamburg, Germany, is acting as a motorman on a trolley line in Chester, Pa. Prof. Peterson, who speaks five languages fluently, carno to this couutry a few weeks ago expect ing to rcoeive an appointment in a theological seminary. Ho was disap pointed and immediately went to work fer the trolley company. Bolenian News. We are having sumo rniuy weather ' now. Earl Harton, nccompunisd by his lovely sister, Mis? Km in ie, visited Mieses Paulino and Myrtie Barton last first Sunday. Tupaloo Bolemnn, of Jefferson Tex., visited friends and relatives hero re cently. Mrs. J. M. Jolly was called to tho bedside of her daughter, .Viss Maymie, who was taken very ill while visiting her sister, Mrs. C E, Skelton, o? Au gusta, (Ja. Wo are glad to sny she is now improving fast. Sumpter Harton is attending tho High behool at Fair Play. C. E. Maret and wife, of Seneca. S. C., visited tho former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Maret, recently. Miss Hem io runner, one of Bolo man's most charming young ladies, has gone to Atlanta, Ga., to study type writing and shorthand. Miss Pallin Harton, of Broyles, bas charge ot' tho Tugaloo High School. She is a line teacher. Wo aro sorry to say Maj. G. W. Maret is no better. Smallpox is prevalent in this com munity. News is scarce. Three Girls. Feb. 7. Confederate Veterans Want Reunion Badge. New Orleans., Feb. 7.-The Confed erate reunion committee has decided to offer a prize of $25 for (ho ?design for tho emblem to bo placed on thc badges which design shall bc appropriate for tho reunion in this city. All the committee reported nt the meeting last evening, audj1 arrange ments were found to be proceeding rapidly. A committee will have charge of feeding and lodging Confed erate veterans who como without pro vision for their stay. Thc Jplaus for the big parade on thc last day of thc reunion aro being made by Captain J. C. Dinkin's committee, and thojparade will bo one of the biggest ever seen Adjutant General Mookie has an nounced that General Gordon is much better, and will start at onco on a lec turing tour in the north. Cocaine and Railroad o Wrecks. A grand jury investigation show that the cocaine, habit is widespread in Chicago. Five druggists have been indicted for selling it without pre scriptions. Wilhelm Bodeman, of tho State board of pharmacy, testified before {thc 1 grand jury that in his opinion thc many wrecks on tho railroads oould be ! traoed to the use of cocaine by the em i ployces of those companies, and out of this statement grew the investiga tion that has revealed the widespread use of tho drug. He said: "Railroad men are not allowed to drink. They fear to break this rule, for tho odor of liquor would soon lead ' to detection. So in seeking a substi tute many of them have become co caine fiends. The stuff is easily car? i ried concealed in their pockets and oannot be detected until tho user hae been for a long time addicted toit. ; "Many girls have pleaded with me i for oooaine with tears streaming down i their oheeks. I advised them to go tc hospitals and many of them havo gone and they are now respeoted and loved. Bill Introduced to Pension Ex-Slaves. Washington, Feb. 4.-Senator Han na to-day introduced**^ bill granting 1 pensions and bounties to all ex-slavee who were freed by the proclamation of I President Lincoln during tho Civil war. It provides fhat persons over 50 i years of age and less thao GO, whether male or female, shall receive a e u a bounty of $100 and monthly pensions of $8 per mouth; persons between GO and 70 years old a bounty of $300 and a pension of $12, per month and-person over YO years old a bounty of $500 and a pension of $15 per month. The bill alto provides for tho payment of the bounty and pension to relatives who may be charged with the care of ex slaves. President Mitchell, of the National t idustrial council, at whose request tho bill was introduced, issued a state ment to-night to the effect that no ono has authority to charge the petitioners who will benefit, should the bill be come a law, any money to further its passage. More Money for Judges. Washington, February 5.-The con ferees of tue two houses of oongress in tho bill increasing the salries of Unit ed States judges readied un agreement to-day generally accepting tho salaries fixed by the bill as it passed tho house. The measure as agreed upon, and as it will become a law, fixes the salary of the oheif justice of the supremo court of the United States at $13,000 per pear and the associates at $12,000 each, the salary of circuit judges at $7,000 and the salaries of district jud ges at $0,000. SPECIAL EMBROIDERY NO I CONTINUED. Down-Right, Simon-Pure, Embroidery Bargains. VALUES that will quench the thirst of tho most rapacious Bargain Hunter. If you have never bought Embroideries of us suppose, injustice to yourself, that you attend this Bale. Give us a trial order for the purpose of comparison. When you see tho Goods you eau readily tell whose values are better. We have the up-to-date Goods, the styles that sell. Look into our window if you please. See a splendidly strong line, specially pood range of Patterns. Ever)' piece a money-saver. Every piece a piece of quality. WTo were the acknowledged Embroidery Headquarters last seasou, and we are farther ahead this season than before. May wo have a chance at your business ? Never judge Embroidery values by their width-a narrow Embroidery is often worth double a wider one. Fair quality and 1} inches wide, special sale price.2c yard M (? Wove Work 1, l?, 2, 2?, 3 inches wide.special price.. .3ic yard " " 3, 3}, 33 inches, worth double the price, special price... 5o yard " " Same width as above, only wove work, special price.... 6c yard " " 4, 4?, 5 inches wide, close work, special sale price.7ic yard " M 6, 7, 7i inches wide, specially good, Bale price.10o yard " " 8, 8 J, 9 inches wide, best value, special sale price.15a yard " " 9, 9}, 10 inches wide, excellent for Coraet Covers, special sale price.20c yard " " 10,10?, 12 inches wide, worth 35c to 40c yard, special sale price. .25 yard We mean what we say when we tell you that these are the biggest Em* broidery Bargains we have ever offered. If you are looking for Bargains look no farther, for you cannot find them better than these. We predict some lively selling, so come early." Trusting to be favored with your presence, we are, Yours always t.ruly, JOHN A. AUSTIN AND THE MAGNET. And tho 5c and 10c Store-The Man down next to the Post Office that Sells the Best. C7J ?3 ? Just opened up o pretty line of NEW REMNANTS in Percales, Piques and Madras** THE PRICES : 500 yards Percale Remnants, yard wide,. 500 yards Madras Remnants, yard wide. 500 yards Pique Remnants, 32 inches wide. These are the best values you can find. New White Goods of all kinds,! New Ginghams, Chambrays Madras Cloth, Etc. ASK CO SEE THE RAIN CRASH SKIRTING. SOMETHING ENTIRELY NEW. Also, stacks of other New Goods now ready. All popular priced. Remember the WHITE SALE at reduced prices. HAVE YOU A SHOE MEED. We have them, aa guaranteed. Send us your orders. Samples sent on request. McCall Bazar Patterns and the "Hacker Bootee" for men. Moore, Acker&Co. ......at 5c. per yard at 10c. per yard ..... .at 10c. per yard