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BT CMNKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C, "WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1905. VOLUME XXXX---N0. 33. ?. - - OP JANUARY SALE IS OVER, But we still have some excellent Bargains in Copyright 1904 by Hart Schaffner fcf Marx *0 TO OFFER YOU. fi So if you have a This is the Store for yon. All Overcoats we have left we will continue to sell at a dis? count of 25 per cent until they are all sold. It will pay y ou to buy one of our Overcoats when you can get them at this saving, even if von do not wear it at all this winter. Buy one and save it for next winter. You can't invest your mon ey in anything that will pay you as well. By thev way, just Want to tell you that our January $aie wan the most successful one we have ever known. Our sales isbunted to a height never before reached in any pre* -vious January. THE SPOT CASH CLOTHIERS. ! WE have^juas received a tremendous shipment of our new "Star Brand" Shpjae, and in order to malte room fox them we are going to sacrifice some of the boit values in Shoe* we ever han dled. ;They must be sold atonco, and in osrder to do eo, wfeSir^ going tr> put a price on them never before hekrd df in Shoo viroles. Former prices are to be disr?gaided, for they?- ^ v Ct?.t a $1.25 Shoo Tor 75o. ..- > A $&??Sa?e!-for $1.15. T^ed? sro ati -genuine-', montu^ent*? Bargains, ^ad THE r. t? you ?^.awiee Wjf?ry merchant or^V'ybti W?U jj?ii yoi?r The Farmers' Educational and ?o-Operativ? TJnlon of America. CONDUCTED BY d. O. 8TRIBLINQ. Commuloet!onb intended for this department s'r?uld be addressed to J. C. Strtbling, Paidleton, S. O. T Ii I gggg Warning to farmers holding- cotton: Pat all cotton nnder cover; it cotton gets damp daring warm days in Feb ruary, it is euro to blue. Farmers, you now have more friends and you are better fortified financially than everbelbre. Stand to your gans and 'show the world just who K kind of stuft' you are made of. While the spinners are running on short, time boles are wearing in every body's shirts, and all babies are still being born naked and must havo swaddling'to wrap them up in. "A string of wagons containing 200 bales of otton passed through Brown wood, Texas, the other day?not to the cotton yards, bat from the cotton yards back home," because the own ers could not get their priceo. Steady, there, farmers! Don't waver tho least. Botter suffer inconvenience and even want, actual want and hu miliations, and many other bard things for thia one reason than to fall and go down in despair again for years to come.. We see it reprinted in papers here in South Carolina that tho farmers in Texas and other western States are letting their cotton and ssii?? wes tern papers say that the Carolina and Georgia farmers are turning loose their cotton. Now, the writer of this is in cloBe touch with farmers in all the cotton States, and is in poBitiou to say tdat all this stuff is deliberate Hob, and is published to scare holdere of cotton. You cannot make a shirt ont of "wind cotton." Wind cotton won't stick together. ' The spinners must must have real cotton, and no the cot ton holders have in their hands the real thing, how in the name of rea son can the speculator get real cotton unleBS men holding the real stuff sell it? Buyers can Bpin long yarns out of wind with their tongues, -but such bluff-gas, won't spin a shirt that Will j hide nakedness or keep one warm. We have a- hint from headquarters that there is a scheme forming to raise prices soon to about 60. It is thonght by the buyers that 8c. will draw enough cotton out of tho weaker holders to keep the spinners going for a time, and their plans are to forco prices down below 7c again, to remain there for awhile in order to scare a tew more weak brothers to let go a few more baleB on the next r>.ise to 80. Farmers, do not let a bale go for lees, thr.u lOo. The same effort that forces prices to 8c. will carry it to 10c, which will give the farmers a reasonable profit. We have a letter from Mr. J. W. Shaw and requests from a number of our best farmors on the same line, urg ing the importance of notifying other farmers that there is a move among them not to make any trades for guano at present prices, unleBS to be paid for with cr "on at lOo, due first December. We ha.a had but little to say on this line, for the reason that all i????iigent farmers know enough about business .to understand that there is absolutely no possible chance for a farmer to get. out on fertilizers at present prices and cotton at 60. Now, there is not space in our column for every letter or rer quest that'comes to us, but we give a synopsis of all requests that come in, and urge farmers to keep up a constant communication with their committee. In these we get at tho popular ideas of all farmers, on any matters of vital in terest to all. y Since we have had charge of this column there has been little effort to encourage. fermera to produce large Crops of cotton, or how to make two bales where one grew lost year* for in this lies our misfortune, so long as Others price our producta. We far mers strive-to make; big crops, and just eo soon as it ia apparent that we have.accomplished our purposes, we .begin to fear misfortune that may come from low prices, which is sure to como so iong as. we allow others to price pur products for ua. Farmers, como together and price . your own products. . " ): " v. Robert E. Lee's Birthday. As Robert E. Lee faced the rains of battle in the days of the Confeder ate war, ao did the Daughters of the Confederacy and the women of the sixties face last Thursday's fog and and rain and asBembl? at Mrs. W.. Ii. Oolemaa's to do honor io the memory of our lmmorUl unstained Leo to re member.the day that his spirit breath ed the breath of life and give Qp4 thanks that our southland could boast pf so noble a peraonage worthy pf eveiy.hon?r. Mrs. SylvesterBleokley, of Anderson, was the honored guest of the Occasion and was introduced^ by the president, Mrs. J. H.: White. Mrs, BJeckley having vipUed this .Motion in her young ;^ys; took pie are in calling the names of residents here and in KdgeQeld who though to day are sleeping in their graves yet their noble posterity is here this afternoon assembled with me to do honor to this oecnsioo, the birthday of Itobt. K. Lee; All that was ?;lor?oU? and good sho said of Lee ter oloBing remarks wore in praise the 5ooal chapter for the grand efforfe they had undertaken in building ? c?nfaderafee tc?in^t io the memory of tae Confederate Private and eaootttt Iaged tha?? to go forward. The ad dress Was beautiful *nd stirrimj^pf was only one of those many literary ferns that the Anderson women have afore given and yet will give* ( A t\e>;.bottelnttiou: of she /' address' 1 touobiag, the ladiea repaired to I? dinlog Yoom where a delicious lunc j was spread.?Johnston Newa. tfTATE KEW8. ? Joe Wade, of Berkeley County, bas boen sent to the penitentiary for 10 years for wife beating. ? Jim Wilson, colored, was kill? d by being caught in the shafting of the Chester oil mill on Wednesday. ? There are 'thirty-four cases of smallpox in the pest house in Colum bia and fourteen oases in isolated resi dences. ? The city counoil of Charleston has adopted a resolution opposing tho removal of the Citadel Academy from Charleston. ? The barn aud stables of S. P. Clinton, of' Chester County, were burned a f aw nights ago, with a horse, two mules and bis orop of corn. ? There is an epidemic of meas les prevailing throughout Lancaster County, says the Review, in sotno instances entire families being down with it, t ? Thomas M. Hill, railroad agent at Groers, has been arrested charged with embezzling money to the amount of $3,000. He says it is from bad book keeping. ? A dispensary at Cbapin, has suspended beoause the building it 03 oupiod was sold and it had to vaoate. No other building iu the town was available. ? The plant of the Southern Cot ton Oil Co., at Bennetts vi lie, was de stroyed by fire on Wednesday, result* iog in a loss of about $100,000, par tially covered by insurance. ? Th?r/? have boss t%t?h incendiary fires within the last three weeks in Lancaster County, and the people of that section are beooming muoh alarm ed. Three arrests have been made. ? Thieves are getting in their work in day time in Greenville. They are very bold and scorn to understand their business. Keep front doors looked and lookout for strangers about the hou?o. ? Melton M. Wells was foaud un conscious about two miles from Sum merton on last Friday, and died abont four hours later at the home of his brother. Tho cause of his death was not known. ? There were five persons lynched in South Carolina during the past year, and only two executions accord ing to law. Two of the five were lynched for murder, one of whom waB a white man. j, ? At Sum tor last Wednesday the 5-year-old daughter of R. W. Peebles was killed by her brother only one year older. He was playing with his father's gun. The baok of the little girl's head was blown off. * ? A Mrs. Bayne sued the oity of Columbia for $25,000 beoause she stepped on a looso briek on the Bide walk and hurt herself. The oase was tried in tho United States eourt on Wednesday and resulted in a mis trial. ? A house to house' canvass is being. made in Edgefield County by townships, each farmer white and black being asked to sign a pledge that he. or ?he will reduce cotton sef??ge and the use of fertilizers 25 per cent each. ? A white man named John Taylor was tried before Magistrate Kirby at Spartanbnrg for using profane and obscene language on the publie high way in the presenoe of white men and a young lady. H? was oonvioted and fined $20, whiobjae paid. ? The State Constables seem to have been getting in. some fine work in the Glassy Mountain teotion of Greenville County the past week. Two of them captured three large dis till aries and destroyed several thous and gallons of beer and mash. -T-- A negro woman living on the outskirts of Greere bad some salts in a bottle at the bottom of which there was a little nux yomioa. The woman took the last of the salts from the bottle, gave, some to her . child and took the rest herself. Theohild died, and the woman is very-il I. ? Among tho recent contributors to Thons w ell Orphanage is George Oroft, a traveling representative of the Croft, Moesbaok Co., of Cincin nati. Mr. Oroft; recently secured a prize of $100 as the most suooesaful salesman in the establishment! and at onee sent the. check, endorsed to the, Clinton Orphanage. ? Eleven barrels of illicit oorn whiskey were seised in Columbia one day last week. They were being float ed down the Great Pee Dee riv?r from. North Carolina iMo this State. The barrels b>d been fastened together by ropes, and the flotilla of booze was ae? jsbmpanied by men in canoes. ..V-r-'A shocking accident happened in Nowberry Couuty a few days ago. iCn?re had been a. shooting match hear Mr. Jesse Swygert's. This was over, and the gunb ware left standing or lying promiscuously around. Whon no one was particularly notio'ug, some boys began to ?'play war" with. the "ompty" guns. Unfortunately one in the bands of Roland Lowman, aged twelve; years, Vas not unloaded until it was discharged into the breast and neck of "Pat* Harmon, a boy still younger. The ohild died instantly. -r- ? fire in Union late Wednesday afteraoon destroyed property < to the amount of $50,000. At one time it was feared that the lostf would cioeed Kjalf a million dollars. 'Among those suffering the greatest Josses were the Peoples ; Supply Co., Maso ni o Lodge, Union Carriage Works, Wi T. Bosses, Bailey Lumber Co m pany, Mr s. Emma Brandon, Jeff?r??s building; Uoder-1 taker Bailey, T. T. Traoey and W. N. Smith. The IosbcS aggregate $50,000,1 ;witfc 631,000 Insurance GENERAL NEWS. ? Tho applo crop of tho United Slates last year ?eouoted to 71,000, 000 barrels. ? ? fire i.t'Jioux City, la., on tho 23rd inet., d??"troyed property worth about one million dollars. ? Seven meu wore buried a'ivo by a oavo-in on tho Gurney and Fort Smith railroad n^ir ?ntoino, Ark. ? Reason and Brico i'owcrs, twins, recently celebrated their ninetieth birthday at Anderson, Ind. ? Tho farm products of this oout try yielded tho enormous sum of $4, 900,000,000 during tho year 1904. ? Charles Lockhart, a Standard Oil king, who may have left ?100. (100,000, is dead in Pittsburg of Old ago. ? The emergency, appropriation bill of Congress contains an item of $100,000 to be used in lighting tho boll weevil. ? A collision between two freight trains at Shawnee, Tenn., resulted in tho death of four mon and injury of four moro. ? Within threo months four of the most powerful armored cruisers ever built will be put in commission in the United States navy. ? The report of the State board of heplth of Virginia says there is small pox in ten oountieB of that State and diptheria in nearly all of them. ? The Tallulah Falls railroad is to be extended to Franklin, N. ?., and the rumor is on? ?hat the Southern is to build from Knoxville, Teno., to Franklin. ? Threo nesroos were oonvioted in Tallahissee, Fla., of murdering W. W. Eppe, superintendent of public instruction .if Leon County, last Au gust and sontenoed to hang. ? William Jennings Bryan recent ly paid President Rjosevelt a visit. He had f a interview with him, duting which b j declared himself in favor of government legislation of railroads. ? Colonel Duke Goodmr ^ major general of tho Texas Divito. United Confederate votoranB died of heart disease at his home in Fort Worth, Texas, Wednesday, aged 62 years. ? Misa Carrie DaviBon, of Detroit. Mich., who has just been appointed olerk of the United States District Court at Detroit, is the only woman in tho United States honored with such an office. ? Seorct?iy Hester's last weekly cotton statement shows for the twen ty dayB of January a decrease under last year of 178,000, and a deorease under the seme period year before last of 128,000 balee. ? A Georgia editor has had to loave home because ho said in'his' paper he was going to hold his cotton. He had a sweetheart named Sarah Cot ton, Rid her father chased him out of town with a shot gun. ? liant h Elias, a hogroBS, is being sued in a New York oourt by en aged white man, John R. Platt, for the re covery of a half million dollars which he charges her of extcriisg from him during the association of twenty years duration. ( ? While attempting to arrest Rob ert and James M?Bryde on the streets or.Tuskegee, A!*., Sheriff T. F. Mo Connell was perhaps fatally stabbed, Deputy Sheriff George Lamar was dangerously Btabbed and the two Mo Brydes were shot to death. ? Governor Vardmcn, of Mississip Si, arrested a negro on the train Sun ay night himself. The negro was charged with double murder, and on being told that he was on tho train the governor borrowed the conductor's revolver and arrested him. ? Mr. John Hollaud, of Terrell County j Ga., mafo last year on ono acre of ground three bales of cotton, each weighing 500 pounds. He thor oughly prepared the ground, need 1,400 pounds of guano and cultivated the cotton with much care. ? During the' reoent automobile raeas on . the Florida beaoh between Ormond and Dayton an Englishman Arthur E. MoDonaid broke the world's record for a five mile run making the distance in three minutes and 17 seeonds fiat. The record had been previously held by W. K. Vander bilt. ? In the orop report just issued by the Government for 1904, Kentucky is j shown to yield mpre than a third of the total amount of tobaooo pro duced in the United States. Two hundred and twenty-seven thousand font hundred and nine acres wero j cultivated which yielded 228,243,000 pounds.. ? The Czar owns 100 palaces and chateaux eoattored all over Russia. It' takes bb?ui 55,000 men servants to care for them, and their salaries amount to ?4,000,000 a year. In the stables are more than 5,000 horses. 8ixty-two of these royal residences the Csar has never seen. Ji ? farmer in Monroe County, Ohio, who invested $528 in sheep last fall is said to have sold $227 worth of vool, now has 143 Iambs that will average 80 pounds when ready for market, whioh at four cents a pound, makes them worth *4o7,70. The total income from this flock of sheep has been 1864.70 and he still has the sheep. ? A report from Kansas state's that a Kansas editor has been killed by Marshal J. H. Tillmau. The trouble started byTillmio whipping the son of the* editor .for being out after the Iringing of \ourfelf bell. The editor replied by an editorial whioh Tillmen considered personal. Tillmao went to.the editor's office, shot him, and thon suicided. To See the Prettiest and Most Complete Line of? , DRESS GOODS Ever shown in Anderson, at Prices that DEFY COMPETITION, come to ?k A m> Jk< ^^m, m*??*dm A ^ rfk A riV A (km ? A m ? JL?. , The Racket Store. <y *v V v v W"W~W vv ?"V v v^f nrvvvy T TgJ Our Bayer has jaat returned from the Northern markets, and values in Goods are arriving daily that prove to the most fastidious dressers the result of careful selections. See our Stock of the Celebrated? * StrouLo & BroB. High Art FALL AND WINTER CLOTHING, Which rill interest those who wish to dress well and SAVE MONEY. A new and complete line of? OXFORDS, Men's, Women's end Children's, at prices unequalled else* where. j We extend to all a cordial invitation to visit our Stores, inspect our Goods, and*>e convinced that what we say is true* MORROW-BASS CO., Succoasorlto Horn-Bass Co,, 110,116,120, East Benson Su, - - - * Anderson, S. C Steel Plow Shapes, Plow Stocks, Single Trees, All of these Goods handled by us are manufactured by The Towers and Sullivan Mfg. Co., and are unquestionably the best on the max ko t. Every Flow is properly set, perfectly tempered and mau? ufactured from the highest grade of Steel. A comparison of these Goods with the others on the mai* ket will convince you of their superiority. We have been handling this same line of Goods ever since we began business, and we have yet to receive a eom> plaint or have a dissatisfied customer* We have everything in the line of? AGRICULTURAL HARDWARE Required by the farmer at this season. We have always made a close study of this Department of our business? and the large trade that we have established is good evidence) that we have the lines of Goods that the farmers want. We believe in handling? :?Hp V ( That are high quality. -wCkC.Cl ^1 Tiiat possess merit. ",uu^?ll**t will give satisfaction. We would like to supply your needs. r ?1 Sullivan Hardware Co. i