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^ T-TTrTtTT AL T A mn orriAxi ! ANDERSON. S. 0.. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 21. 1903. VOLUME XXXIX-NO. 18. Jost finished we did the Largest Basilicas of any November la the history of the House ! : : : : : : : : s : : : TOT the eleven months of 1903 the sales have mounted to a height never before attained. This may interest some of yon who have been trading with ns year after year, for it's Smnran nature to have pride in the Store where yon trade. Now, there ?must be some good reason for this increase in ?fur business. People don't come here to trade because they like us. If they could buy the same Goods at the same prices ?on credit they wouldn't come here and pay us cash in advance. Ho? the only reason they pay us the Cash is because wo ?ave them money. They have found out that it pays them to trade here, and it'll pay you, too. We are selling GOOD CLOTHING at a smallez margin of profit than any ?Credit Clothiers can afford. No doubt about it* Sf A liaVA 4 rt lil tr/tn 4"V% ? o tiafAVA nnil WTA mnn v. AWTAM ?-???O/I ??TM ""Y'* i Viii V VIA lUl*n tfV'iV?W{| uuu rt w wv mt 11 v T VA v TV XS* IA of it-every word. If we weren't doing this very thing, in stead of a large and prosperous Clothing Store you would find here simply an empty space. Every Credit Clothier has a certain amount of losses by bad debts. Then there's a high-priced book-keeper to pay. Here we have no losses. No book-keeper to pay. Every sale is Cash. We don't he re to add on a certain per cent to our Goods to cover losses by bad debts and to pay book keepers. If we can't save you money we don't want your trude. Our Fall Clothing is Here I HEADY FOR YOUR INSPECTION. Here ar? ? orne of the Values we offer $5.00 ls the low price we place on a big line of Men's and Young ? Men's Suits. Blue and Black Cheviots, also Cassimeres in Cheeks and Plaids. Every one of them are excellent values, ?nd wo doubt if a Credit Store can match them for a dollar mire. $7.50 fe the small price we place on an excellent line of Hen's Suits in Blue and Black Worsteds, Blue and Black All Wool Che viots. Also Gassimers in Stripes, Ched? s and Plaids. These .Snits are not usually sold at $7.50, but here yov?. save at least & dollar to a dollar and a half on them. - . ' . - . . ' . At $10.00, $12.50,115.00, 816.50, $15.00 and $20.00 you will find an aflsortment that would do credit to a much larger oity. The Suits have to be seen t# b? appreciated. But you *?n take ?ur word for it that there's a saving for you at ^aoh psic*. % ? ANDERSON, ac. - : Tbl ?pQtCasliClo STATE HEWS. - The gross liquor business for the year ending December 1st was $3,000, 000 exceeding that of tho preceding year by $317,000. - Attorney General Gunter has given out an interview in whioh ho favors the county oourt plan as a re lief from the congestion of the dcelc ets. - V.'he Gaffney Ledger says there are about a hundred easer of small pox in that city and thaw no precau tions are taken against the spread of the disease. - Ben. F. Perry, son of ex-Gover nor B. F. Perry j has again been ar rested, this time in Spartanburg, ehar ted with selling liquor. Perry gave ond i J the sum of $500. - A charter has been issued the Calender Olook company, of Darling ton capitalized at $5,000. The com pany will manufacture and put on the market clocks of all kinds. - The superintendents of the oity sohools in this State will hold their annual meeting, for the discussion of subjects pertaining to their work, in Columbia the 28th and 29th in stant. .-Robert Smith, a negro lately par doned out of the ohaingang, set fire on Thursday night to a restaurant in Greenwood beoause of a fuss ho had with the proprietor. Several frame buildings were burned. '"=Tbe Spartanburg grand jury, in itB presentment made reoently, sug gested to the Spartan burg delegation that it work for the formation of two additional circuits to relieve the con gested condition of the courts. - Chao. B. Johnson, aged 33, not ing as brakeman, was run 07?r and killed by a car in the Southern freight yards in Columbia on Tuesday, 8th inst. He leaves two orphan girls ??id four and nine, his wife having died two years ago. - AoDon Arnold, a colored farmer of means, was enticed from his home near Greenville on Thursday night and murdered. He had just drawn some money from the bank and that was stolen from his person. Three negroes are under arrest for the crime, ana the evidenoe ie strong against them. - Last week Henry MoMahan, an old negro thought- to be 112 years old, died at his home near Mt. Tabor. He was the stage eoaoh driver betwAAn Newberry and Yorkville in the days gone by, and for seventy-three years was a irembor of the white Presby terian Church at Mt. Tabor.-Union Progress. - The Baptist State convention at Sumter oallea upon tho churoh the coming year for $75,000 as follows: State missions, $20,000; home mis sions, $13,000; the orphanage, $14, 000; axed ministers, $4,000, and min isterial education $2.000. This is on the basis of 10,000 inereass 'over the year just closed. -= Thc property of Larkin M. Rico, colorad, ox Union county, was adver tised for ' sale on salesday nuder a judgment obtained at the last' term of oourt by a negro woman who sned Rice for a breech of the promise of marriage and got a verdict for $2,500. Rice claimed his homestead and the sale was postponed. - W. W. Irby, of Fairfield county, was married 1 est week to Mrs. M. T. Fuller, of Raleigh. Mrs. Fuller was Mr. Irby'B nurse in a hospital in Co lumbia this summer^ where the inti macy began. Mrs. Fuller started for her home in Raleigh Saturday even ing but when she got to Winnsbo.ro Mr. Irby induced her to remain over and they were married. - Monday morning before daylight a gang of hunters succeeded in halt ing and killing a bear at Landrum in 8partanburg county. : This animal had been tracked by dogs shortly after dark on. Sunday until next morn ing.when he was brought to bay and killed. He was a fine specimen of the black mountain bear and drifted down from the mountains perbaps on acoount of the forest fires whioh have been seen on those rugged summits of late. - By thc will of the late Charles Logan, whioh was admitted to pro bate last week,, the oity of Columbia receives legacies aggregating $60,000. The Columbia hospital and St. Peter's church each receive $5,000. The legacy to the oi&y soho ol o includes four acres of the race track at the fairgrounds and $40,000 in money. There is mother bequest of $9,000 to be used by the oity for the prevention of cruelty to animals. - By a strange coinciden oe Mr. Charles Muller, an aged Confederate veteran, who died at Winnsboro .last week f?om injuries received,, from burning, waa buried in the same grave with a man who in the great conflict wore the blue. Th? lot selected for his interment was overrun with tines and the persons to whom was entrust ed the digging of the grave dug into the grave of c Yankee soldier who died a* Winnsboifo while there with ari encampment in 1865. So in the same^ravo tfeebluo and gray s1?<?$ - The grand lodge of Masons, of South Carolina, ?n session in Char leston, elected the following officers ?? Wea?muay; Grand Master-John R. Bellinger, of Bamberg; Deputy Grand Master-F. E. Harrison* ot Abbeville; Senior Grand Warden-Jf. li, Michie, Of Darlington; Junior; Grand Warden---James R Johnson, I of Charleston; Grand Chaplain-W. E. Thayer, of Rook Hill; Grand Sec? retery-Charles Iuglesby, of Charles ton; Grand Treasurer-Zimme rm au I Davis, of Charleston. GENERAL NEWS. - Negotiations havo been begun among the powers looking to interna tional oontrol of Macedonia. - Two Greek steamers collided in tho Mediterranean sea on Wedneaday and fifty passet ^rs were drowned. - A plan to corner the Dcoomber wheat market in St. Louis by buying up all possible insurance is said to be contemplated. - The citizens' oommittco that has been endeavoring to settle the street oar strike in Charlotte have failed in their efforts and given up. - The United States government crop estimate created quite a stir in England, and there is talk of moving their mills to this country. - Andy Montgomery, a colored man, aged 117, died at a home for aged colored people at Atlanta, Ga., recently. His age is verified by the records. - James M. Edgo, alias Kane, was arrested in Memphis, Tenn., on Mon day charged with embezzling $100, 000 from the First National bank of Patterson, N. J. - President Roosevelt receives $30,000 and two of his children, $5, ?U0 each from the cn ta to of the late J. K. Gracie, of New York, an uoole by marriage of the president. - The polioe aro ofter a band of ghouls who for weeks past have been opening graves in Greenlawn oemetery in Newport News, Va., and robbing the dead of jewelry, shrouds and olothiog. - A oall has been issued for a meeting of the Democratic national committee in Washington on January 12, for tho purpose of deciding upon the time and place of holding the national convention. - Last year if an average were made every man, woman and ohild in the United States received sixty-one letters, thirty-one newspapers or periodicals, and fourteen packages; and every sixth person registered a letter. - Toronto, Ont., has a church whioh does something whioh probably no other churoh in the world does. It io, of oourse, exempt from taxation, yet it insists on paying taxes each year. It is the Jarvis atreet Baptist Churoh. -- Gov. Bliss, of Michigan, has re linquished his pension of $12 per month, and han ">i"??t?d thc Com missioner of Pensions to drop his name off the rolls. He doubted the propriety of continuing as a pensioner when he was not in need. - Two thousand petitioners were made Knights of Pythias, at one time, in the great convention hall in Kansas City a few nights ago. One thousand of them wera from Kansas City and the remainder from neigh boring localities. Over 5.000 mem bers witnessed the ceremonies. - E. S. Peters, president of the Texts Cotton Growers' Protective Association has telegraphed to large producers of ootton stating, that the bureau of statistics estimate of the crop io over the indicated yiold. He urgoQ growers not to part with their holdings at less than 15 conto. - In the Distriot Court of Chero kee county, Texas, Allen Brown, a negro convicted of attempted oriminal assault, w<iS sentenced to 1,000 years in the p ..OJ.entiary. Under the law the jur> cooli not impose ? death sentence. At tho time of his arrest Brown norrowlv beaned being lynch ed. - Tho long cherished dream of the Daughtera of the Confederacy-the occuring of ''Beauvoir," the old Mis sissippi JomeBtead of Jefferson Davis, as a home for indigent Confederate veterans-has at last beep realized. The home was formally opened, with heooming ceremonies, last week, fully a score or more of veterans taking up their abode therein. - Sixty-two years ago ar man named Jones moved from Kentuoky to Dade oounty, Missouri, taking with him his family of ten ohildron. At a reunion reoently held at Everton, 1,016 of his descendants were present and there are a few who were unable to attend. ' Almost all his desoendahta have mar* ried and aettled in the same neighbor hood in southwestern Missouri. -- Demoorats in the town of Berks ly, Va., drove Oounty TreasurorLyons from his office where, it was alleged, he was registering negro* voters. A riot waa j narrowly avoided but the affair seems to have passed over with out other serious result than the as sault of the tee:surer while sitting at a table in police ?tatiou with a negro councilman. The man waa pretty roughly handled. - . - An explosion of a oar of naptha lathe town of Greenwood, Del., last week and the fire oaused by tho ex plosion io jared dwelling houses to the exteat of more than $70,000, totally destroyed two freight traine and their contents, ia believed to have inciner ated three trampa who were riding ia a box cw near where the explosion oc curred and of whose bodies nothing hia been found except some unrecog nisable bones, aaa injured many others. Fran Fischer, a Hon tamer, waa torn to pieces by four liona, ia a menagerie cage and in sight of a g-eat orowd of people at Dessau. Germany* ' She was trying to make a lion spring through a hoop, whereupon the animal leaped upon uer and disembowelled he- at one stroke. The woman shriek ed and the three other lions joined tn tho attack and fought among them selves for fragments of her flesh. Thora was a frightful panio among the spectators aaa many person were injured., THO GREAT COTTON QUESTION. ls South's Ability to Raise Cotton De* creasing ? Baltimore, December IO.-Tho Man ufacturera' Record iu nn olaborate re view of cotton production during the last thirty years, gives among other facts the average yield per acre for each ye-vv as a basis for tho discussion of questions affecting the future, such as the claims which have been made by some of the deterioration of aced by reason of selling the best seed to the cotton oil mills, the deterioration of the soil by reacon of tho negro ten antry system, and tho insufficient sup ply of farm lr.bor, because of the rapid growth of the industrial emplovmont, to enable the South to materially in crease its cotton yield. Pointing out how the abnormally low prices which prevailed from 1801 to 1898 had been as unprofitable to Southern farmers as the low priceB of wheat and oom some years ago, when in some places it was moro profitable to barn corn as fuel than to ship it East, were to Western farmers, the .Manufacturer's Record shows that since the upward trend of cotton prices a few years ago the total value of cot ton and cotton seed for the last five years has been $2,575,000,000, against $1,775,000,000 for the preceding five years, or a gain in the last five years of $800,000.000 over the amount re ceived by the South for its cotton crop in the preceding five-year period. These stupendous figures indicate something of what the higher price of cotton means to the welfare of the entiio South. Tho value of tho cotton j crop cf 1902=03, including seed, was $605,000,000. Tho value of the present crop, including seed, may be Bafely estimated ot $025,000,000; but added to the very great increase in the value Of the South's cotton crop is the fact that it raised probably the largest corn crop whioh it ever produced, the value of which is many million dollars greatev than the corn crop of last year. The $800,000,000 received by the South for its cotton during the last five years is nearly twice RS much os the entire capital invested in all the cotton mills of the United States in 1000; it is more than the present market value of the entire property of the United States Steel Corporation, more than the mar ket value of the Standard Oil Com pany and more than the entire capital of all the national banks of the United States. For the first two or three years of this five-year period the South ern farmers used their increased earn ings to pay np debts; then they began j to accumulate a little, and this year they will be in ehape to spend more freely than for many years. In the last one hundred years there j have been onlv two periods, one f tom 1840 to 1845, and the other from 1891 to 1899. Thcz tho ?V?rag? yrice xor che year in New York was not over ten cents a pound, except one year in which it was a fraction less. Review ing the average rield per acre in thrco Iear periods, beginning with 1871, the lonufacturers' Record says: "These figures, showing the average yield per acre, indicate that for the three-year period, ending with the crop of 1878-74 to the similar period ending with 1891-90, covering twenty one years, there were no material changes in the yield whioh would in dicate any permanent increase or de crease in the productivity of the soil. The average yields for three-year periods daring that time fluctuated between 191 pounds per acre and 158 pounds; but beginning with the three year period from 1892-93 to 1904-95, when the average waa 195 pounds per acre, or more than the average for any similar period during the preceding twenty-one years, there was a very marked in?rense in the yield per acre, reaching 228 pounds in the three-year period, 1895-96 to 1897-98, so far above any yield prior to that period, except for a Bingle year since 1871-72, that it ! stands ou* a-one as a period of pheno ; menai production per acre. The next three-year period showed a small de crease, but was still much higher than in any preceding three-year period since 1871-72. For the two 'years end ing with 1902-03 the average was 188 pounds, a further decline, bot still above the average for the twenty-one years from 1871-72 to 1891-92. The yield for this year will probably be much smaller than for many years, but the weather conditions were so abnor mal that no fair deductions as to the productivity of the soil or seed can be based on this. "If we look back for six years only we see a steady decline in the average yield per aero-a decline that would by itself seem so alarming as to command the most serious attention of the coun try; but if we go back of that for twen ty years we find that the high averages ! between 1895-96 and 1900-01 were ab normal, and, therefore, the decrease [ in the production per acre may not be so serions as it looks on its face. On the other hand, these high averages for the whole South between 1892 and 1898 may in part be dne to the heavy open ing np of new and fertile soil in Texas, Indian Territory and Okla homa, offsetting a decline in the older sections. "At any rate the cotton situation is one which demands the videot investi gations hythe National Government and the experts of every agricultural college in the South. The welfare of the whole conn try, the vast foreign commerce based on cotton, the enor mous cotton-manufacturing interests of America and Europe are at stake. If thero is no danger, the world needs to know it beyond the possibility of any error; if there is danger, then no sum, whether it be one million or one hundred million, is too large for the National Government to spend in over coming it, for in the long run the best interests of the South, aa well as of the world's textile interests, will be advanced by a very great increase in the cotton production of the Southern States, audit la altogether probable that within the next five or ten years, with the growing consumptive re quirements of the world, there will be need of A crop of 14.000,000 or 15,000,000 bales in the South." -?Some people are so naturally wicked they don't get any worse even when they go into polities." - An open confeasion may be good for the soul, but it is a bad thing for the lawyers for the defense. - The largest farm in the South west, it is claimed, is in Oklahoma. It is No. 101 in the Ponca reservation and con tai ? a 50,000 sores. THE KET Has Changed Base on account of Needing More Room -FOR OUR Growing Business ! From Now On Will be Found At WSTU i? i . More Clothing, More Dry Goods, More Shoes, AT LESS PRICE than any Store in Upper South Carolina. WATCH US ! We are going to sell them CHEAP ! Your loss if you don't give us a look. Satisfaction guaranteed to everybody. Come to see us in our New Quarters and you will continuo to como. Yours to please, TO PLEASE YOU Is our desire, for to please you pleases us. Tte serr i re offer will certainly please you if yo? will only let us prove to you our methods of do* ing business. : .: : : : : : r FRY US NEXT TIME. Two things we are justly proud of- p? One is the best COOKING STOVE on the market, justas "The Leader^ J is the best STEEL RANGE. J. \ THAT is what our customers say, and we think they have got it down*' about right, as they are using them. Better buy one. We guarantee thens < to give perfect ea tis faction or money will be refunded. . I .:. We wish to announce that our TOYS are arriving in great quantities daily, and that we will soon have them opened up for your inspection. Wei are HEADQUARTERS FOR SANTA CLAUS.? h Everything you can imagine or want is here. EVERYTHING for Boyd and EVERYTHING for Girls. Come select yours earlyj j ; But we cannot tell yon about all the things we have to show you. Yo* must ?ame ?nd ste for yoossalf. You'll fiad th? best CHRI8TA?AS GOODS aft the lowest pri?es her?. OUT PEICES To dose out DRY GOODS, SHOES, ?e., to make room for the largest stock of TOYS and FANCY GOODS ?ver exhibited in the City of Andes* son. Yours always truly, JOHN ?. AUSTIN, THE MAGNET,: The 5c. and 10c. STORE, The Man down next to the Foatofflce that selle the Beak.