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^ T-TTrTtTT AL T A mn orriAxi ! ANDERSON. S. 0.. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 21. 1903. VOLUME XXXIX-NO. 18. ?Tuai ?niftiiod we did the Largest Business of any November In the history of the House ! Tot the eleven months of 1903 tho 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 in 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 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. fifo, 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 smallex margin oft profit than any Credit Clothiers can afford. No doubt about it, I We heve told you this before, and we mean every word j of it-every word. If ws 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 ha 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 trade. BtL ? W iHartSduffnerj P> vrSSmmi - Mar TB 9 ISsiSSSl ^WT^^f^^^L^^^^A asas" ******** Our Fall Clothing is Here 1 READY FOR TOUR INSPECTION. Here are some of the Values we offer : $5.00 . ' I Is the low price we place on a big line of Men's and Young Men's Suits. Blue and Slack Cheviots, also Cassimeres in Checke and Plaids. Every one of them are excellent values, and w*e doubt if a Credit Store can match them for a dollar I more. .50 Is the small price we place on an excellent line of Men's Suits in Blue and Black Worsteds, Blue and Black All Wool Che viots* Also Cassimers in Stripes, Chees s and Plaids/ These Suits are not usually sold at $7.50, but here you save at least a dollar to a dollar and a half on them, At $10.00, $12.50, $15.00, $16.50, $18.00 and $20.00 you will find an assortment that would do' credit to a much larger city. The Snits have to be seen to be appreciated. But you <$an take our word for it that there's a saving for you at emoh taft*. ?s m ^tm A D.U. evans a to ANDERSON, S. G. we Spot Cash Clothier! STATE HEW?. - A negro was killed in Newberry by a sky rocket Thursday night. Ho was hit in the head by the rooket. - Garwin Uamby, a mill operator IC years old, was found dead in the wouda near Oreen ville. It is believed that ho was murdered. j - James A. Willis, a Gaffney law yer, got a vordiot for $500 against the Western Union Telegraph oompany because a mossage to him was not de livered promptly. - Tho Spartaoburg ?Tournai say? there has been a good deal of oottor. stealing going on in that oounty. A number of the thieves have boen caught in tho sot. - John Farr, a oolored section hand, fell under thc wheels of a loco motive at Spartanburg while trying to recover his hat whioh had blown off, and was crushed to death. - Smallpox prevails about Gaffney. The disease causes little alarm there. One physician said last week that it was generally lighter than measles and the results were not as bad. - Andrew Wilson, a negro brake man, was killed in Darlington on Sat urday by being run over by a train. His body was ground to pieces by the oars and mutilated beyond recog nition. - Col. Thos. Taylor, ono of the oldest and most prominent nativo male citizens of Columbia, died on Tuesday afternoon, 22nd inst. He had been a member of the legislature j. president of the State Agricultural society, and master of the State Grange. He was inspector of phos phates under Gov. Hampton. - It was learned in Columbia Satur day morning that there is a probabil ity of a contest arising from the ro er -it election for Hammond oounty, in whioh the proposition waa defeat ed. ThoBO who are in favor of the movement are dissatisfied with the result, though it is not known upon what grounds the reported contest will be made. - The annual report of the pension department for the year ending De cember 31 has been issued. It is a complication of over 200 pages and contains the following subject matte;: Letter of transmittal, rules of the State board laws, disbursements of appropriations for pensions, list of pensioners by counties, and lint of those participating in tho artificial limb fund. - The State newspaper reports that negro farmers' near Hupkiati, Wes ton and Congaree, in the southern seotion of Richland oounty, arc des-? tituto and on the verge of starvation on account of their erops being wiped out by a series of weather conditions starting with the big nood of last June, hail storms whioh ocourred later and early frosts. The State makes aa appeal for charity. - T. W. Summer, of Peak, bois trestle builder on the Southern road, was killed on Saturday beyond Alston. He and some hands were on a push oar with sooie lamber, and while going along at a pretty rapid speed his fool caught against a cross-tie and he was thrown off and under the oar and his body bsdly mangled. He died in a few minutes. Blr. Summer leaves e ; wife and seven ohildren. He had I decided to quit the railroad the first of January and go into other business. -The Bamberg Times says W." J. j Kemp, v?ho lives about half way be-1 tween .Samberg =sd Densa?was held ! up by a negro a few nights ago. He was within a 100 yards of his house when the negro sneaked up behind and oaugh t him around the waist. Then it was when a lively tussle took glace, and the negro tried to wring Lr. Kemp's pistol from his hand, but the latter proved the best man and the negro was finally thrust aside. As the negro was running away Mr. Kemp tried to shoot him but it was found that the pistol was broken dur ing the scuffle. - Kelly Good, of Greenville, was convicted and sentenced to two years for a??ault and battery. He has cor ved one-half the term. The evidenoe against him was circumstantial and on the recommendation of the solici tor and the judge a pardon hao been granted. William Sullivan, of Lau rens, waa convicted for the same offense and received the same sen tence. He has served one year and on the recommendation of the snlioi I tor and the judge a pardon was also ? granted him. ! - J. D. Batohman; flagman for the Seaboard Air Line railroad at thc Gervais street crossing, in Columbia, was run over by a shifting engine Saturday night and. instantly killed. His head was completely severed from the body and both legs crushed. It appears that he left his post a few minutes before the accident and walk ed down the track as if to oross the street. A negro who was riding on the rear of the engine ssw Batohman's danger and cried ont r io an effort to warn him, bat waa too late. - Constables Boll and Whitmho. ol Green vii lo, on Tuesday seiaad and deatroyed a large illicit distillery plasta located aaar Highland postofice in the Dark Corner ?attie, of ttaa oonaiy. Tao plank consisted cf a .till af n fallon capacity, a oap end werai, elavest fermenter? and 1.000 gallo?* af beer and mash. The pla ot waa io full operation when the ofSeers ani7?? on the premises aaa-liquor waa flowing freely. ' Wade MoKfnoey. ? colored, i??d a chite maa wera found engaged in operating the still. Wade McKinney was arrested but the white mun succeeded in making his .escape. MoKinnoy was taken to Greenville and after a preliminary hearing was bound over to court for trial. GENERAL NEWS. - Four ohildren were burned to death in Augusta in ono week. - All efforts to settle tho strike of livery drivers in Chioego havo failed and it ia said a fight to tho finish is on. - A literary realuso of Louisville has bequeathed to tho University of Virginia his library worth $100,000. - Mrs. Mollie White, of Lanett, fell down tho steps at hor home and tho fall broko her neok. It is sup posed she was fainting and caused tho fall. - Judge Pope Barrow of tho super ior court of Georgia was seized with vertigo while trying a oase in Savan nah and died a short whiie after wards. - Tho new Williamsburg bridge aoross Fast river, at New York City, which has been in course of struc ture for about ten years, is now open for passage. - Joseph Phillips killed his threo motherless ohildren and then himself at Hudson, N. Y., beoauseof his in ability to purchase Christmas gifts for his ohildren, ? - Nicholas Miyo, aged 63, shot and killed Tony Laoho 23, and his bride in Philadelphia on Wednesday because Laobe had married the young woman he was in love with. - Four little negro ohildren were burned to death in Oconeo county, Ga., on Wcdnosday night. Their parents had gone off and their house ? burned down in their absence. - Nicaragua has recognized tho Republic of PsS=3E by appointing a consul at tho city of Panama. This is the first recognition of tho republic by a Central American nation. - Eugene Mustin, of Augusta. Ga., has been arrostod, charged with illicit manufacture of whiskoy in a cellar on Broad street. The whiskey was label ed "Nerve and La Grippe Cure." - An agreement has been reached between General Taft and the friars of the Phillippine Islands by whioh the United States will acquire tho friars' lands for the sum of $7,210,000 in gold. - A sensation has been caused in Alabama religious oiroles by the withdrawal of Rev. C. L. Chilton from the Methodist ohuroh and his declaration that Methodists havo de serted their old-time principles. - John Melrose, the driver of the St. Paul police ambulanoe, had chick en for dinner the other day and in the crop of the fowl sacrificed for tho purpose he found a diamond valued at fl25. - Robert Burchett was murdered at his home at Mas Meadows, Va., and suspicion points to his wife and another man. His wife was found washing blood stains from the floor. The body had been dragged some dis tance from the house. - The fast through train from Pittsburg to New York on the Balti more and Ohio railroad ploughed into a pile of lamber near Dawson, Pa., with the result that sixty-three per sons were killed many injured and the train virtually demolished. - The president has appointed Gen. J no. C. Black, of Chicago, on the oivil servioe commission in placo of Jno. R. Proctor, deceased. Gen. Black is oommaoder-in-ohief of the Grand Army of the Republic, was commissioner of pensions under Cleve land and is a.demoorat. - Miss Florenoe Graham Off ut, of Lexington, Ky., where she is a di reo ?.r??? cf physical culture !*? ? gir?? academy, has broken off an engage ment to wed a young man of good family because he insisted that after marriage sho should abandon her oc cupation. - The be?t paid official in the world is said to be the grand vizier to the Saltan of Morroooo, Ben Hammed, who held tho office for twenty years previous to his death, which occurred recently, left a store of gold coin, ab solutely his own, amounting in value to $20,000,000. , - A successful trial of a firing ma ohine was made on Thursday near Kitty Hawk, N. C., by Wilbur and Orrville Wright, of Dayton, Ohio. The machine flew for three miles in the face of a wind blowing 23 miles an hour and then gracefully descended in the spot select rd for it: - During a joiot debate at Hope, Ark., between the three candidates for the democratic nomination for governor, a personal encounter oc curred between two of the candidates, Governor Jeff Davis and Associate Justice Wcods. Neither gentleman was hurt and both were put under boud to appear at the police court. - An engineer on the Georgia road reoently succeeded in stopping his train on a trestle within six feet of an old man and five ohildren who were crossing the trestle. A curve on the track shut off the view of the trestle until almost too late to stop the train. The stop was so abrupt that the pas sengers thought there had been a col lision. - Capt. John H. Ph arr, the wealthy sugar planter and lumberman, who died at hie home in Berwick, La., i th? other day, ot tho age of 7ft years, ??#th? leadlas fl|e*? ?=t ess s? ihm stosa excition electoral floatest? ?var held in Louisiana. In 1898 ha waa i nominated for governor by tba repub licans but waa defeated bj Murphy J. 'Foster, the d?mocratie candidate, though the race waa very close. Capt. Pb arr alleged that Foster had won by fraud perpetrated in the negro par ishes and carried the oase before the legislature, declaring that he would take the governorship by force if Sronondoed elected. The legislature, owever, declined to go behind the returns. i The Cotton Situation. Editor Atlanta Journal : During this fall and winter tho people of the South have beon treatod to a new kind of discussion oonccrning cotton. Tor tho first time agitation is going for ward, seeking to unito tho manufactu rers in an effort io curtail their uso of cotton iu order to depress the price. Wo havo beforo us tho further re markable speotable that all throughout New Kugland tho wages of the em ployes have been reduced because of tho high price of ootton. Until tho building of ootton mills in tho South the pries of tho product V7G? admittedly fixed in Liverpool, and the only influenoing intercut, in this oountry was in Now England. The cotton growers then had nothing what over to do with fixing the price. Now, the nrico is fixed in the South. Cot ton, to-day, is higher in New Orleans than it is in New York, and tho Southern farmer is in a position of in dependence incomparably beyond any thing that has over been known in the past. The only figure that Liverpool now outs is to howl about tho high prioe. With this tremendous object lesson brought homo to every farmer and bus iness man in tho South, I do not be lieve that it would bo possible for tho agitators and misguided enthusiasts to force upon tho ootton mills of tho South tho adverse legislation which has boen attempted in the reoent past. The Southern cotton mills havo neither individually nor collectively out tho wages of their employes. The Southern ootton mills, while anxious io iuuk.0 money for their stockholders, havo not joined in any effort, by threat or otherwise, to depress the price of cotton, by agreeing to ourtail production or otherwise. Every thinking man must rooognizc the fact that we have different condi tions here in the South in regard to tho manufacture of ootton from what thoy are anywhere ehe in the world. We both raise and manufacture the oot ton. We are on both sides of the questiou. The stockholders who own our Southern mills bavo a dual inter est in ootton-their business interest in othor lines makes them glad to seo high priced ootton, as it makes all other business, in the South prosper ous, while they oan manufacture it as cheaply and make a profit aa it oan bo handled anywhere else in the world. Wo hear a groat deal about the mag nificent laws passed to protect the la borers in these very ideotioal States where we have but recently seen the wages of the employes out 10 per oent because of the high price of cotton. Au long an the farmers and business people stand together with the mill men of tho South, we will see no such speotaole as that here. Instead of trying to hamper and harass the mill men by these pestifierous laws, and to aid a sot of agitators who we now see in the'city of Ghioago will not 073O allow the dead to be buried, the con servative, substantial farmers and business men of the South should combine with the mill people and man ufacturers in seeing that the lines of transportation, which are unfortunate ly owned in the east, do not put un just and unequal burdens upon all of us down here, in order to offset the natural advantages which our section possesses, and to see that our compet itors ?o not get all our Southern coal mines into great combinations and put the prioe of coal up as a means of overcoming our natural advantages. We seed co operation for protection in these matters, and for proteotion against allowing them to come down herc asa Uictste cur isws so ?s to break down these great natural advan tages existing in our favor. I have devoted pretty muoh all my life to ootton and the ootton mill bus iness, and I believe now that the South has the grandest future before her of any section of our common oountry. With the application of plain business principles to our exist ing situation, the prosperity of the South in the next decade will surpass the fondest dreams of any of us. The matter is in our own hands, and it re mains to be seen whether we will util ise it for our own interests or in favor of our compactors. J. S. Turner. Industry is Declining. Columbia, Deo. 26.-There will be a meeting of the Phosphate board on January 6, for the purpose of prepar ing the annual report for the legis lature. As is well known, tho indus try has been declining0 for several years and this year's report is moro discouraging than evor. About ten years or so ago this industry brought into the State treasury nearly $300, 000. This year the total revenue is only $15,133 97 and this is a dcoreaso of $12,157.68 from the amount re ceived the year previous. There. are five companies in the field, but this year they did not mine muoh more than half what was taken out the year previous. There is one cause which has operated to kill this industry in this State more than any thing else, and that, waa the discovery of a superior grade of rook in Florida and elsewhere, whioh could be mi ned and marketed muoh oheaper than Ike South Carolina variety. Thea it is said that the deposita of thia State aro being exhausted thereby increas ing the eoet of getting ii ont. What ever the cause, the State treasury suf fers very serions losa. -- We ate too prone to nae subtrac tion When figuring our bleaiinge and multiplication when figuring our sor rows. ' --.We often wonder if some women do nat think of heaven as a place where there are no dishes to wash or stock ings to darn. THE JACKET STO? Has Changed Base on account of Needing JVLore Hooxix -FOR OUR Grrowixig Business! From Now On Will be Found At I WITH 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 continu?:* to come. Yours to please, ?iuiiirDA?? uU. EVERYBODY 8N 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 values are here. : : : : : : g : : PRICES REDUCED ON ALL TOYS. See the great lino of MECHANICAL TOYS. See the complete line of TOY RAILROADS, 25c to $2.<jfc? ' Our immense stock of Toys, direct imported from Germany, incjhiu je lae) best values ever seen in Anderson, but beginning to-morrow prices will be still further reduced, and you can secure the Toy Bargains of your ' lil ?i du ring Thursday. ? Doll Tea Sets and Drums reduced also. - ? SANTA CLAUS will hold a reception in the Toy Department, next THURSDAY. A Christmas Present for Your Wif <* I One that will make jour horae-life sao** nhMfant and lighten j&n w> dens. What could you get that would be more appreciated by her than ana of our LEADER STOVES OR RANGES? Wishing yon all a Merry Christmas, we are Yours always truly J JOHN A. AUSTIN, THE MAGNET,: The 5c. and 10c. STORE, The Kan down next to the Postofflco that sells tile Besa