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BYICLINKSCAI.ES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1903. VOLUME XXXIX-NO. 27 Just teighfjfl wa did the Largest Business of apy November in the history of the Howse !:::::::::::: - ? i ,3?4??#?^?^??<B? For 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 "human nature to have pride ia the Store where you trade. Now, there must be some good reason for this increase in .our business. People don't come here to trade because they like ns. If they could buy the same Goods at the same prices on oredit they wouldn't come here and pay us cash in advance. No, the only reason they pay us the Cash is because we eave 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 smailes margin of ^profit than any Credit Clothiers can afford. No doubt about it. We have told you this before, and we mean ever? word .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. ?very ?ale is Cash. We don't hare 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 trade. Our Fall Clothing is Here I READY FOR YOUR INSPECTION. Here are some of the Values we offer $5.00 Ie the low price we place on a big line of Hen's and Young Mon'ftSuitSi Blue and Blaok Cheviots, also CaBsimerea in Shooks and Plaids. Every one of them are excellent vaines, and we doubt if a Credit Store can match them for a dollar '.l?Mona? $7.50 gs the amati price we place on an excellent line of Men's Suits In Blue and Black Worsteds, Bluo and Black All Wool Ch* vlcts. ?lso Cassimera in Stilpes, Ohe^ s and Plaids. These Suits are not usually sold at $7.50. &rat here you eave at least a dollar to a dollar and a halfen them. p A* $10.00, $13.60,3*5.00, $16.60, $18.00 and $20.00 you -will find an assortment that would do credit to a much larger city? Tlie Snits have to be seen to be appreciated. But yon ?an take ons word for it that there's a saving for you at each ANDERSON. S. G. The Spot Gash Clothe STATE NEW?. - W. D. Morgan has been ro-eleot- ! ed mayor of Georgetown for the thir teenth term. - The South Carolina Methodist conference decided to meet in Tarling ton next year. - Tbc latest reports estimate that the Chinese cotton orop will bo 70 per cent, of the average. - Mendoza Higgins, of Hodges, sold 93 turkeys in Greenwood on Wed nesday at 10 cents a pound. - The earnings of the railroads in South Carolina amounted to over thir teen million dollars for the year just ended. - The Winthrop College girls will have only one day for Christmas, but an abundanoe of cake and pickles j will be theirs. - Under the finding oflthe supreme j oourt in the Spartan mills oase the mills will have to pay a sum of about 030,000 in back taxes. - The state dispensary broke all records in whiskey buying, and has been shipping out more to oounty dis pensaries than ever before. - Gov. Heyward hsB revoked the commissions of a number of notaries publio in the lower part of the State for fraud in insurance oases. - A negro has been sent to the Ssnitentiary for twenty years from iamborg oounty for whipping his oiok child, a daughter, so that she iliad M.ww? - A writer io the Aiken Journal and Review, signing himself "J. M. B," has nominated the Hon. Frank B. Gary, of Abbeville, as a candidate for governor. - The Spartanburg Journal says an Indiana olergymaa has sent a cir cular letter to his friends asking them to help him find "a good wife who has a few thousand dollars." - The barn of H. 8. Lipsoomb, at Paoolet. together with 18 horses and two mules, two cows, three hogs and $2,500 worth of forage were destroyed by fire last Thursday. - A negTO on trial in Saluda coun ty last week for murder wanted to plead guilty but was not allowed to do so by Special Judge Weloh. The negro wont on trial and was oonvioted only of manslaughter. - The boll weevil hsB made its ap Searanoe in the Pinewood section, [r. R. H. Witherspoon was in town last Monday aol he told us that on his plac? iu? pest has gotten in its work.-Manning Times. - Capt. John G. Capers still re mains the boss io Republican politics in this State. The protest of Deas and others against him as a member of the national committee was con temptuously turned down by the com mittee. - Merchants of Charleston are Bending large shipments of shoes to Summerville by express as a matter of economy, the freight rate between these points being 33 conta per 100 pounds, while the express rate is but 30 cents. -Calumet Manufacturing Com pany; of Liberty, has applied for a charter. It io to do' a cotton manu facturing business on a osoital of $150,000. H. L. Clayton," B. H. Cs?ahsu, J. S. Wilson and H. ?. i Shirley are corporators. . - Billy Harris. :Of the Catawba In dian reservation, has written to Comp troller-Goneral ?Jones asking that the annual appropriation for the Catawbas be increased ty $2,500. Billy does not think that the stipend of $800 which the State allowa annually goes far enough. - At a meeting in Columbia last Thursday the sinking fuud commis sion disposed of 900 au roo of land io Piokeos county ito C. G. .Drake for sixty-five cents an aore. This land is up nesr the North Carolina line and the strange feet in connection is that it has never been granted anyone nor bas there ever been any olsim filed for it by any individual which gives an idea as to its value. ' 'The land was found to be in the State's possession some time ago by Secretary Gantt and Land Agent MeLaurin on a resurvey of the county. . - -.The vault of the Courtenay Man ufacturing company at Newry, about four miles from Seneea.was blown open Monday night, 14th inst., by profes sional burglars, who secured some thing over 02,500 in money and de stroyed many valuable napers belong ing to the company. 1. uera is no eine to the guilty party or parties. It is supposed to be three or four in a gang t or an organised band of the tafe blow ers that have been operating in the State for the past year. T&e suppo sition is that the veult was blown open with nitro?glyoerico aa no ore on the factory hill heard the explosion ? and there are several houses within a few yards from the office where the explo sion occurred. - In the Supremo Court a few days ago the ease of Judge O. W. Buchan an, former Circuit Judge, against the Sute Treasurer and the Comptroller General was: argued. Assistant At torney General TownB?nd appearing for tho State and Mr. B. W. Shaad fer Mr. Buchanan. Mr. Buchanan claims that by the salary reduction Act approved December 22, 1833, to go into effect January 1, 1834, tho ?.-dary Of a circuit judge Was reduced from 18,500 to $3,000. This oase has been before tho Isgblature and before tho f circuit Judge and Anally comes before tha supreme oourt for settlement. No decision wat ;rendered. The State' takes tho position that there are no funds in the treasury to carry such a ?claim and that the aot reduoing the salarien applied to Judge Buchanan although he claims that the office was assumed before it Went <nlo effect. GENERAL SEWS. - Tho Republican National Con vention will meet in Chicago Juno 1st next. - Tho riots continuo iu Chicago growing out of tho reoont strike on the street railway. - The wages of 30,000 men in tho Connorville, Pa., coke regions have been reduced 17 per oent. - Tho suicido rato in tho United States has increased in ten years from 12 to 17 per lOO.OOu population. - lu the city eleotion in Boston the Democrats elected tho mayor by 27,000 majority and also every alder man. - W. C. Dean, a young man of Bainbridge, Ga., has invented a tele graph key which he has sold for $25,000 down and $2,000 a year for 17 years. - Daniel J. Sully, leader of the bull in,.ton movement, is credited with having oleared six million dollars in two days by speculation in spots and futures. - Henry Dixon, of Pittsburg, Pa., described as "a splendid youngman," killed himself on Thursday in Macon, Ga., where ho had been living for the past two months. - In one of tho congressional dis tri?te under the new apportionment in Texas there are fifty-five counties. The entire vote of the distriot, how ever, is only 22.000. - While putting wood in a stove in her room, the dress of Miss Nettie Gower, of Atlanta, oaught on fire and she was burned to death. She was only 16 years of age. - New York girls to the number of 2,000 employed in the manufacture of petticoats have formed a union and demand a general ' crease in wages. A strike is antioipav^d. .t - Three Americans and seven na tives were blown to pieces by the blast of 46 tons of dynamite in a quarry near the entranoe to Manila bay in the Philippines. - The automobile principle ha9 been applied in Paris to baby car riages. The nurse sits behind and regulates the speed, whioh doos not exceed a moderato figure. - Great Britain is stirred over the cotton situation and an imperial grant in aid of cotton growing in British and West Afrioa will be proposed dur ing the coming session of parliament. - At Brinkley, Ark., Sunday morn ing a white man who had out a police ?nan to death was lynohed by a mob composed of less than fifteen people. The coroner's jury returned the usual verdiot. - Out in Indiana a youth stole a ham so that he would be arrested and sent to jail. He said that he wanted to break himself of the habit of smok ing cigarettes and thought thia a good way to do it. - A party of twenty people from South Dakota, Iowa, Michigan and illinois, have bought 24,000 aores of grazing land and 48,000 aores of tim ber land in Puerto Principo province, Goba, and moved there, - Joseph H. Thibadeau, aged S1B stood in front of a minor and shot himself in his hotel in Washington because of financial straits. He was a Georgian, but had been in eoe of the departments at Washington. - John Jonesand Albert Lewis, tramps, robbed a store at Molino, Fla., and carried cfit the 12-year-old boy who had beeo. ltftin oharge of the store. The mea wore captured and are now in jail rt Po cs ac ol a, charged with robbery and kidnapping. - The Supreme Co art of Nebraska has decided that dogs are good wit nesses. Blood hounds had trailed a man from the place where a burglary was committed to his home where a stolon purse was found, and on the unsworn evidenoe of the dogs he wan found guilty, - The United States grand jury at Omaha, Neb., has returned twenty two- indictments in oonneotioo with postoffioe bribery easel and illegal fenoing of government lands. Tho indictments are against ex-State sena tors and other prominent persons. There will be other indictments. - Olarenee Lee, a colored student of Harvard university, Cambridge, Mass., has been arrested on the chargeB of forgery oed theft. Ho ob tained $2,5003 from. Harvard students and express oompanicQ by forging re ceipts and by downright stealing. He says he is from South Carolina and ie a son of a former oolored congress man. - According to estimates given by a number of leading dealers 60,000 Christmas trees will be used in New York this season. The pri?e range from 75 contato $25. Nearly all of the trees come from the Maine forests. There is a good demand also for ever green rope and mistletoe and holly, whioh is Ming sent to the metropolis ! in large quantities. - After having been bound and gagged by a negro thief in the residence of Mes. B. A? Barclay-on Grand Boule fard, Chicago, a plucky 16-year old girl employed as a domestic, burn ed the acids fron her wrists and chased the intruder from ?the boase with a carving knife. This is the story as related by the girl, whose name is Anna Hastings. Opening the cellar door in response to a knock, she says, a negro seised her by the throat, dragged her to the kitchen and after tyoing her. forced a napkin into her mouth, while' ho proceeded to ransaok the honse. The girl dragged herself to the range and succeeded in freeing herself, receiving severo burns in the operation. To Protect Birds and Trees. Among tho bills to bo introduced nt the coming session of tho Legislature none will interest lovers of true snort as much as Representativo L. W. Haskell's act to protect non-game j birds. Mr. Haskell contemplates ask ing the general assembly to make it u misdemeanor to kill or injure tho hun dreds ot harmless birds which, while not edible, are still ruthlessly slain every day. In this category are in cluded tho doves, hawks, mocking birds, red birds, thrushes, sparrows, etc. Many of theso birds aro song sters and all aro active in ridding the country of the insect pests so destrne- | tive to tho crops. It is said that tho blight of Texas-tho boll weevil thrives in a country where tho birds have been indiscriminately trapped and killed. Along this line it is said that a bill may be introduced to better protect the forests of tho State. They are now being wantonly cut without regard to tho science of forestry and as a result in many sections it will be years beforo the country is over wooded again. In the cities the telegraph and telephono companies have destroyed many of tho valuable trees and particularly so it is said in Columbia. Recently tho hordes of small negro urchins who have been collecting mistletoe havo broken tho trees in their ravages. The country around the city is plentifully supplied with mistletoe which might be easily obtained without breaking tho trees within the limits.--The State. Boll Weevil Permanent. Washington, Doc. 17.-Prof. L. 0. Howard, chief entomologist of the department of agriculture, in his an- ? nual report for 1003 saya that there ie no proba? iii ty that tho cotton boll weevil will ever be prevented by either artificial or natural checks from reach ing all parts of the cotton belt, but that it is possible to make cotton growing Srofitable in spite of the weevil, ana y no other means than a few simple expedients in planting and managing the crop. These expedients, ho says, consist of a careful selection of seed, early plant ing and thorough cultivation of the crop, and enabled the department to produce, at Cal vet t, Texas, without any appreciable extra expense, a crop of one bale to 1.5 acres. The average production in the United States is one bale to 2.8 ncreo. Prof. Howard adds: .. "The work against the Mexican cot ton boll weevil in Texas will be car ried on during the whole of the fiscal year. An additional field assistant baa been appointed and $30.000 will bo expeudea in tm? work on the cotton inseots. Dog Has $200 Funeral The body of Dane, an Irish setter dog, which bad been embalmed, lay in a satin lined coffin this morning in the home of Mrs. William C. Larson, in West One Hundred and Fourteenth street. From far and near came mourners to seo the animal before the final removal and interment in the dog cemetery near White plains. The casket in which Dane was hur ried cost $76. The entire expense of the funeral will cost $200. Standing in front of the house on 114th street Mr. Larson stopped passersby to tell them of the sad death of his pet. It did not take long for a crowd to collect and since the embalming on Tuesday his ruoms were crowded with curious sight-seers. So great was the throng that the police reserves had to be call ed to keep order and allow the funeral to be conducted. There was no formal ceremony.-New York telegram to Baltimore Sun. Col. McCullough Stricken. Honea Path, Dec. 19.-Col. John W. McCullough, of the lower section of Greenville county and well known throughout the State was stricken with paralysis at thia place today. He ia being cared for at the home of his brother-in-law, P. W. Sullivan. At 0 o'clock tonight there was no change in bis condition, and while his friends are hopeful, it is not possible to say just how badly ho io afflicted. Up to the time he was attacked Col. McCul lough was apparently in the best of health and tho news was a shock to his friends here. He hat; a splendid con stitution, which may aerve him well in bia affliction.-Greenville News. Millions a Hay la Cotton. Two milliona of dollara a day is a snag sum for the total receipts from the sale of a aingle agricultural pro duct ia a single country, even suoh a country as the United States. That ia the figure shown by statistics to be the value of the cotton exported from the United States in the month of October, 1903. The value of cotton exported in the month of October was $60,283,412, against $42,000.000 in October, 1902 ; $46,000,000 in Ooto ber, 1901, and $60,474,437 in October, 1900. The total quantity exported in October, 1903, was 594,540,872 pounds, being an average price of 10.1 osnts per pound. ? This figaro of $60,000,000 rooeipts for cotton ia a siti?le mooth is not equalled in the history of cotton ex Brts except in tho month of October, 00, wheo the total vaia? of cotton exported was $60,474,487. Even the figures of 060,883,412 for che of October, 1903, are subjeot to a -light prospective increase, aa this preliminary statement of fae bureau ; of statistics does not inok-.de the fig ures of certain dictant porto through which email quantities Of cotton are exported; It should not be understood from the above statement that the Talus of cotton exports of the United States averages $2,000,000 per day the year ronna, although it has averaged $2, I 000,000 per day during the Smooth of October. Taking tho entire year, it may be said, however, that the value of cotton exports now averages $1,000, 000 per day for each business day of tho year.-Harper'a Woekly. :.v>-.>- . *.<''. ' -V?."? v. . i ..?S?r'>. * . . k I I I T T' L, J J.. JnL JlLa Has Changed Base on account of Needing IVCore Room -FOR OUR Growing Business I Prom Now On Will be Found At IK TEMPLE ill WITH more Clothing, More Dry Goods, More Shoes, A.T LESS PRICE than any Store in Upper South Carolina. WATCH US ! We are going to sell them CHEAP ! Your loco if you don't give us a look. Satisfaction guaranteed to everybody. Come to see us in our Nev Quarters and you will continus to come. Yours to please, ?UIUVD fin uu. EVERYBODY IN TOWN IT SEEMS IS COMING TO The Magnet - FOR TOYS AND DOLLS, And it's perfectly natural that they should, for the biggest stock and best f; values aro hero. : : : : : : I : : |j PRICE8 REDUCED ON ALL TOYS. J tamT Bee the great line of MECHANICAL TOYS. P War* Bee the complete line of TOY RAILROADS, 25c to $2.00. j Oar immense stock of Toys, direct imported from Germany, includes tho best values ever seen in Anderson, but beginning to-morrow prices will hp still further reduced, and you can secure the Toy Bargains of your life da*' ring Thursday. Doll Tea Sets and Drums reduced also. S SANTA CLAUS will hold a reception ia the Toy Department next THU RS DA Y. A Christmas Present for Your Wife ! j One that will make your home-life more pleasant, and lighten your bus* dent. What could yon get that would be mon appreciated by her than ono of our- . LEADER STOVES OR RANGES? Wishing you all a Merry Christmas, we Yours always truly j JOHN A. AUSTIN, THE MAGNET^ - The 5c. and 10c. STORE, The Man down noxt to the Poatoffi.ce that selle the Beak