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BOOTH'S * <OTI "Why He Assassinat Christian .'In this country tho assassination of Abraham Lincoln, one of thc purest, the most generous, and the ablest rulers that ever lived, was the result nf American slavery. It was slavery's attempt, in its death strug gle, to deal a stunning blow to the head of the nation that was crush ing out its life-a blow dealt in a desperate revenge for its having been compelled to submit to the triumph of liberty. It was slavery, in its dying throes, administering to itself its own scorpion sting, thereby rendering its own character doubly despicable, and its own death more oertain and ever lasting. Hcnoe, the cause (slavery) of Lincoln's assassination being for ever annihilated no such despicable crime can again spring from that souroe." Such paragraphs as thc above, which is taken from the Religious Telescope, of Dayton, Ohio, have re peatedly appeared in Northern reli gious papers. They do thc Southern people great injustice. No citizen of the Southern Confeieraoy had any thing to do with the assassination of Mr. Lincoln; nor was slavery in any way responsible for it, except in so far as slavery was an occasion of the Civil war. These writers have evidently forgotten the actual facts which led to the commission of this crime faots which are not stated in many histories. John Wilkes Booth, who assassi nated Mr. Lincoln, was a citizen of the United States-not of the Con federate States. He was at no time a resident of any of the seceded States. His Southern sympathies did not lead him to come to the South and make common cause with the South. It was not an ardent love of the Soutfh or of the Southern cause that prompted Mr. Booth's crime, but rather a spirit of revenge for the personal wrong that Mr. Lincoln had done in having Capt. Young Beall, one of Booth's friends, executed unjustly. Thc editor of the Christian Observer was acquainted with Capt. Beall. He was a native of Virginia, a member of a good family, a college graduate, a brave young man of attractive per sonality. In Riohmond, Va., we boarded at the same house, ate at the same table, and we learned to appre ciate his sterling worth. He possessed traits similar to those which during thc Spanish-American war made Rich mond Pearson Hobson the idol of the American people. And wh.en, in the fall of 1864, a man was wanted to lead a hazardous enterprise and make a diversion on Lake Erie he promptly responded to the call of the Govern ment. With a handful of brave sea men, he Beized a- steamboat on Lake Erie, made its crew prisoners, con verted it into a war vesoel, captured or sank one or more other boats, ter rorized the commerce of the Great Lakes, produced a panic in Buffalo and the cities on the Lakes, and thoroughly alarmed the Northern peo ple. In due time he. was captured. He was tried by a Court-martial and sentenced to death as a pirate. John "VVilkca Booth interested him self in his behalf; obtained from the Confederate Government at Rich mond, Va., tho evidenoe that he waa a commissioned officer in the Confed erate navy; he obtained also ?vidence that his acta were only those of legiti mate warfare, and that ho was acting under speeifie instruotions from the Confederate Government. Booth went to Washington armed with these documents and occured from President Lincoln the premiso that Capt. Beall should not bo put to death, but should be treated as a prisoner of war. Thia promise of Mr. Lincoln gave offence to Secretary Seward, who persuaded him, in the faeo of i&, to sanction Beall'a execution. And Capt. Beall waa hanged at Governor's Island, New York, on February 24,1865. john Wilkes Booth waa not a well balanced man at his best. Doubtless he inherited a streak of the insanity with which his father, though a great actor, waa fyea tims tc tims afilies ed. Be that aa it may, ho waa fear fully wrought up by the death of his friend, in auch circumstances. Be denounced tho killing ia. cold blood of a prisoner of war, after ho had sur rendered, aa "murder," and the doing it af ter ' tho President had given hie word that iv should not be done ea "falsehood" and "treachery" and vowed vengeance against the author? of this wrong. . At ones hs organised a conspiracy for the assassination of Pr?sident Lincoln and Secretary Soward; and cn the night of the 14th of April, 1865, only ieven weeks after Capt. Beall iras hanged, the plot was executed. Booth shot Mr, Lincoln at Ford's Fheatre, Washington, exclaiming "Sie souper tyrannie," and on th> lase sight,, PB???, on? of LSD fellow. VE PERSONAL Bd .A/braliam-X^ineoIrJu Observer. j conspirators, inflicted serious, but not mortal wounds, on William H. Se ward, Seoretary of State. The United States was fearfully aroused by the as?ussinaliou uf the President. At first it was suspected that the crime had been instigated by Confederates. Many prominent citi zens of the Confederacy wer,e arrested. The most thorough and searching ex amination was made. And it was con clusively proved that no representa tive of the Confederate Government and no one in the Southern Confed eracy had any part in it. It was as sincerely regretted and as severely condemned through the South as in the North. Mr. Lincoln was killed, not by a citizen of the Confederate States, but by a eil i ?.en of the United States -a partially devanged manxto avenge the wrong ho claimed had been suf fered by his friend at Mr. Lincoln's hands. During the nineteenth century slav ery was abolished by Great Britain, Sweeden, France, Holland, Brazil, Spain, Germany and Egypt. Even Russia abolished serfdom. By all these countries it was peacefully effected. Mr. Lincoln's statemanship waa exhibited in that in this country alone the emancipation of the slaves was made the occasion of the most ter rible Civil war of the century. His campaign speeches threa'tened incal culable evil to the slave-holdiDg States, in ease he should be elected; and his election was the occasion of the secession of the six cotton States; his demand upon the border States that they should furnish troops to engage in war under him against the cotton States drove the five border States, in which until that moment the Union eentiment had been over whelmingly strong, out of the Union. Then followed thc long war to drive them back into the Union. God's hand was in these events. And when Mr. Lincoln had apparently triumph ed and before there was opportunity for exultation, there came the start ling, fearful cringe which suddenly ended his life. If it be regarded as a judgment, it was from the Lard. The South Lad no hand it. Mexican War Veteran Attended the . Fair. An interested and interesting visitor at the fair, who has remained over until Sunday, is Capt. Matthew B. , Stanley, of Marion County, a veteran ' of the Mexican war. This is the first; time Le has atten'V 'he State fair since thc year I860, v. .hough in his 81st year, he has enjoyed himself with the freshness of a boy, not even hesitating to take the long walk to the fair grounds when the street oar ser- ! vioe failed. Capt. Stanley is a man of remark- j able information and memory, his teeto running especially to history ? and biography. There is hardly a family in the State of which he can not tell Borne anecdote or incident. Bora in Darlington County and living for the past 50 years in Marion Coun ty, he knows thc genealogy of the Pee Dee country with tho detail and accuracy of a MacDonald Furman. His recollection of who was Whig and who was Tory carries one beek to an earlier generation which still felt the partisanship of the Revolution. His accounts -of adventures of Marion and his men are as graphic as if ?he. had been a comrade in arms. Mneh thst gives life to his stories he has never read in history bot "got from the old people." He is much interested in the historical awakening in the Pee Dee seotion and Col. John J. Dargan'a proposed revision and republication of Gregg's history, and he has ten dered to Col. Dargan his s toro of faots obtained from the generation that talked face to face with the early patriots. t Speaking of the names on the Pal metto monument-the names of South Carolinians killed in the Mexican war -he recalls the time and plaee where this one or that one fell, who was next to Lia, and how they eared for bim and how he died. Bot in Mexico yoong "Mateo" Stanley saw not only muoh of death bot something of love; Its oame near bringing a Mexican mai den back to Sooth Carolina. 8c pleased is he with Colombia that he plans to return in May if (as he ex pects) the Confederate reunion is hold here. A man of perfect health and strength, he says he does not see why he should not live right on indefinite ly. Such an old man should be an example and inspiration to the yoong. Truly the elder generation of South Carolinians was made of noble stuff. Columbia 8tato. -;- , am9 ? mm --- - The less any man has to say shout thc high opinion he baa of Lim B elf ?he better. Successful Trip en Fifing Maehlue. St. Louis, Oct. 31.-After circling io every direction at a height of 2,000 feet above the cascades in sight of ?hc'-c-?ds of ouccrieg, enthusias tic spectators ou the world's fair grounds, A. Roy Knabonshue of Tole do, in command of Thomas S. Bald win's airship California Arrow, today returned to the place from which he started, covering three and one-half miles, part of thc way against an eight mile wind. Knabensbue started from the aero nautic course at 3.37 p. m. and return ed at 4.0f> p. m. On the return trip the air ship sailed slowly over the ex act spot from which it had risen 28 minutes previously and glided about 100 feet further west, where it settled gracefully to the ground. The descent of the Arrow was the signal for a great demonstration. Dozens of cager hands were upstretched to grasp the frame of thc flying machine which with its navigator was carried around the course on the shoulders of shouting men. The Arrow rose slowly and easily, its prow directed to the west. When at a height of 25 feet Knabenshuo turned the rudder, and the aerial craft, answering to ils helm, pointed south and continued its flight without interruption. Knabensbue at that time was not high enough to clear tho aerooautic fence and as he rapidly approached it the crowd held its breath, fearing that the craft would bo dashed against the barricade and the aeronaut injured or killed. But Knabensbue, waving his cap to assure those who were following his every move, moved toward the rear of the airship. The Arrow point ed its prow upward, and answering the pull of the propeller, soared light ly over the fence and rapidly gained an altitude of 1,000 feet. After proceeding about half a mile westward Knabenshuo turned the air ship about and again passed over thc concourse, at the same time increasing his altitude until he was 2,000 feet above the earth. Knabensbue continued in a general ly eastern direction until over thc cas cades, the centre of the world's fair grounds and about ? mile and a half in a direot line from the point of start ing. At about that time the barely per ceptible breeze that had been blowing from the west increased to about eight miles an hour and veered to the north. In order to return to the starting pointit was necessary for Knabensbue to breast the breeze. It seemed his first effort to turn the airship from a course before the wind was unsuccess ful, but Knabeushue after trying to turn to the left swung tho rudder sharply in the other direction and the Arrow oame into the wind, staggered a moment and then gaining power, came toward the concourse at a speed that caused the spectators to oheer and toss their hats in the air. The demonstration was observed by Kna beushue who leaned far out and waved an empty ballast bag in reply. When in a few hundred feet of the concourse KnabenBh?e moved forward in the oar, the' Arrow pointed down ward and Bailed toward the ground without any slackening of speed. Knabenshuo entered the concourse from the east at. a height of 200 feet and slowly the speed of the motor di rected the airship over the wooden frame that had supported the Arrow before the flight. The momentum was too great to admit of Stopping exactly ia the plaee from whioh he had made the ascent bmt the airship settled te the ground within 10$ feet of the dook. St. Louis, Nov. 1-The seeond sne eessful flight of the Baldwin airship was made at tko world's fair today, under the gwttefeee ea* A. B. Knaben* ?buo of Toledo, Ohio, who nianoeuver ed the "Califesasla Arrow" at will, high above tho western portion of the exposition grounds and descended in the stadium, adjoining the aerial con* eourse, amid the cheering thousands, after a flight of 36 minutes. Yester day Knabenshne took the airship np to an altitude of 2,000 feet and, cir cling around, deseended in the aerial ooneourse within 100 feet of his start ing point. Today he went mp to an altitude of about 1,600 feet and, after directing the course of his aerial ves sel at will, descending on the exact spot ?pen which he had decided ta ?and. < Satisfied with the demonstration of the airship over ?hort courses daring these two trials, Inventor Baldwin an nounced at the conclusion of the flight that Knabenshne will tomorrow un dertake a 16 mile flight over a desig nated eotnev the ehoiee of the course to he left to newspaper men, asd the flight to he made regardless of the wind conditions.. Darin? his flight today Knabenshne performed a series of menoeuvers, shooting in one direction for a short distance, turning quiekly and shoot ing off in the opposite direction, tra versed a letter * 'S" course, dipped and came down several hundred feet, tilt ed tV a plow and asoended again to the original altitude and completed the teries by turning the airship in ?neb jo short spaoe that it seemed' the ves . sel swnng roncd on a pi vol. Made ld'") Miles an Hour. Nev? York, October 20.-Once again the mail trains of thc New York Central Kaili oad bavo made ? red-!et ter mark in railway history. Robert I Butterfield, engineer of No 32, the | mail express from Albany to New | York, did the wholo distance of 143 miles between the two cuies in 142 minutes, a fraction over a mile a min ute, making an average of <>0 miles an hour. It was on Thursday, October 13, that tho mail train, consisting of six cars, made its record. Drawn by en gine No. 2.998, tho train loft Albany one hour and twenty minutes behind the schedule time. To land the mails for tho West Butterfield bad to make up all this lost time. Starting down the Hudson Valley at a steady mile-a mioute clip until reaching Tivoli, ho ran the 4.33 miles to Barrytowu tu three minutes, or S7 miles an hour. His ambition thus whetted, be let out another notch, and at tho 5.41) miles between Khinccliff and Statcsburg were "finished in four minutes, or 83 miles au hour. The engine had just a little mite in reserve but Butterfield reserved bis final eff jrt for tho straight ru-.i of 3 51 miles between Croton and Ossining, and the engine, let out to thc extreme limit, flew thc distance at 105 miles an hour, thc distance being covered in two minutes. When the train reached tho Grand Central all of tho lost time, save seven minutes had been regained.-Baltimore Sun. The History of Sheep. Of all domestic animals the sheep has from time immemorial, been most closely associated with mankind. An erudite author sixty years ago, having laboriously collated an assortment of allusions to sheep made by sacred and profane writers, conclude! that "thc history of these animals is so inter woven with the history of man that they never existed in a wild state at all. Biblical history from thc time of Abel is full of allusions to thc flocks which formed thc chief possessions of the Jewish people and their neighbors. Thc spoils of war and the tribute cf vassal Kings largely consisted of sheep. Thus we read that Mosha,' King of Moab, was a sheep master, and rendered unto thc King of Israel an hundred thousand rame with the wool. MOSCH after his victory over the Midisuiifis obtained as ioot no ICES thi\n f?75,00Q cheep, and long before the Christian era sheep were cultivated in Western Europe. Spain and Italy possessed them from an unknown pe riod, although long after Rome was founded thc inhabitants had not learn ed to sheer tho fleece; and, until tho timo of Pliny, the practice of plucking it from the skin was not wholly aban doned, so long that the humble shep herds of Syria preceded, in their knowledge of necessary arts, the future conquerors of their country.-R. Henry Hew in November Outing. - - ? m MONTH'S MKDH'IM: ON TRIAL. G onerous Offer to All with Weak Di gestion or Stomach Troubles. With every box of Mi-o-na sold Kvaus Pharmacy give the following guarantee bond, assuring tho pur chaser that the money will be return ed if after a month's use, the remedy has not niven satisfaction. :GUARANTEE BONI). We hereby agree to refund the : : money paid for Mi-o-na on return : : of empty box, if tho purchaser : : tells us that it bas failed to cure j : dyspepsia or stomach troubles. ? . This guarantee covers two boxes, . : or a months treatment. Price, : . 50c per box. j : (Signed). : Anyone whoso food does not digest as it ought, who has to take thought about when and what to cat should take advantage of this generous offer of Evans Pharmacy. Mi-o-na is almoBt invariably success ful in curing stomach trouble of all kinds, from an acute attack of indi gestion to a chronic case of dyspep sia. By its use new rich blood is made, thc weight increased and health restored. If Mi-o-na were not successful in 99 cases out of 100, an offer liko this would bc ruinous. This oller shows the great faith Evans Pharmacy have in the health-giving powers of Mi-o-na and you should begin its usc at once. Try it for a month anyway. If it fails to help you, thc cost is absolute ly nothing, while if it docs what is claimed for it, the expense is trifling. *fiArliA?iArfk?Ai> ?? ?m /h tik* A ?*k ?K A A j GET THE HABIT ! I To Buy Your Shoes AT THE BOSTON SHOE STORE WE have the strongest Hue of Boya' and Children's Shoes that eyer came lo Anderson. You find the best Plow Shoe to the very finest Drees qhoe. We sell only Shoes which we can guarantee. Why should voa buy others when you can get the VERY BEST wear at the very least money. Do not buy before you have seen our Shoes. Buy your Shoes in a Shoo Store. You get the right fit. y If yen have corns or bunions we cap shape your * Shoes so t> that you will be relieved of pain. We have a Shoe for Sunday. We have a pair for Monday for work. Surely we have a pair to plows you. Bespss4s\illyt ^ MARTIN 8ELIGMAN. Hext to tko Tamm and Merchante Baak. FOR FALL PLANTING ! Barley, 1 Bye, Winter Vetch, Crimson Clover, Bed Clover, White Clover, Bur Clover. Evans' ?Pliarmaov, rm D. 6. VANDTV?R. J. J. MAJOR. S. P. VANDIVSR. VANDiVER BROS. & MAJOR, - DEALBBS IH - BUGGIES, WAGONS AND HARNESS. We have a splendid lins of BUGGIES and HARNESS cheap, and want to sell you* We have some good WAGONS cheap. - ALSO, - |A PEW PINE HAY RAKES, At 8pecial Price. , COME TO SEE US. Yoirs truly, VANDIVER BROS. & MAJOR. Wanted to Buy Good, Flat Land, in good state of cultivation and well im proved. - - - -. Wanted to Sell? 152 8cres Rock Mills Township. Price $1200. 96 3-4 acre3 Broadway Township-well improved Price $2500. 87 1-2 acres V?rennos Township-improved. 200 acres Fonr Township. JOS. J. FRETWELL, ANDJEKSON, S. V MOTT'S PENNYROYAL PILLS 1 Baillll I law I Qh I jiaiB?V omissions, increase V?R,? !- or and banish "pains of menstruation." They arc "L.IFK SAVERS" to pirls at womanhood, aiding development of organs and body. No known remedy for women equals them. Cannot do harm-life becomes a pleasure. ?LOO PUR JJOX liY MAIL. Sold by druggist*. DU. MOTT'S CHEMICAL, CO., C.evelaud, Ohio. FOR ?ALE BY EVANS PHARMACY. 1>. S. VAN 1>I Vii lt. E. l\ VANDIVER. VAN DI VER BROS. General ]Vf erchants. COME TO SEE US J On anything in our lino ami we will make PRICES SPECIALLY INTER ESTING. We have a limited amount of Sound, Cheap Flour for Hog Feed, At 83.50 per barrel. Yours for Trade, VANDIVER BROS, ""Ssa IMPORTANT ! Shingles, Limo, > Cement, Lathes, TIBIT T Brick, Doors, INVESTIGATE when ir* ^Mantel?' need of any kind of ."TSSSSSff BUILDING MATERIAL. Oil, Turpentine, Hard Ou, Glass, See me. If I don't sell TOO EVEEYTH?NG RU MAKE TH0 OTHER ,EUOW ?S? THE BUILDER.! SELL YOU RIGHT. "W". Hi. BRISSEY, ANDERSON, S. (C. 2 0 < M M OD ? < O g ? * S o Q W M OD * a g - 2 9 il s m o O o W BD Oldest, BigJ|? M\ Tills Establishment bas been Selling IN ANDERSON for more than forty years. Daring all that time competitors . have come and gone, but we have remained right here. We have always sold j Cheaper than any others, and during those long years wt> have not had ose 4>s? ' satisfied customer. Mistakes will sometimes oeour, and if at any tinte wt found that a customer was dissatisfied we did not rest until we had made hine, satisfied. This policy, rigidly adhered to, has made ms friends, true and last ing, and we oan say with pride, but without boasting, that we have the ooafr denee of the people of this seetioa. We have a larger Stoek of Goods this* season than we have ever had, and we pledge you our word that we have never sold Furniture at as elose a margin of profit as we are doing now. This ie* proven by the fact that we are selling Fnrniture not only all over Anderson? County but in every Town in the Piedmont section. Come and see us. Your < parents saved money by baying from us, and you and yonr children can save - money by buying bite seo. We carry EVERYTHING in the Furniture line, ?. P. TOLLY & SON, Depot Street The 01d}Re!iable*FurniturelDealere nVCO^TIEID ? WE have moved our Shop and office below Peoples' Bank, in flout' of Mr. J. J. Fretwell's Stables. We respectfully ask all our friends that need any Roofing done, or any kind of Repair work, Engine Stacks, Evaporators* or any kind of Tin or Gravel Roofing to call on ns, as we are prepared to do it promptly and in best manner. Soliciting your patron-tee, we are, Respectfully, B?RRJSS & 1>IWER.