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-G?\5 YOUR Dwellings, Furniture, Barns, system Gins. Also, Life Insurance on Mules and Horses. J?"* Representing only the best and strongest Companies. CITIZENS INSURANCES AGKNCV. ?. N. C. Boleman, Tree, and Treas. M. M. Mattison, Vice Pre* Q. Frank Johnson, Secretary. D. S. VANDIVER. J. J. MAJOR. E. P. VANDIVER. VANDIVER BROS. & MAJOR, -DEALERS IN - "Vehicles etncL Harness ! SEE US ON BUGGIES WAGONS HARNESS If you owe us past due paper be sure to see us promptly. : : : : Yours tiuly, VANDIVER BROS. & MAJOR. and Harness! , Now is a good time to buy a new Buggy and Harness, and we want you to look at our large stock of the latest and best up'to-date styles, and it will be no trouble for you to make a selection. Our work is all sold under guarantee. We have extra bargains to offer. Give us a trial. Our prices are \n^r and terms to suit. THE J. S. FOWLER COMPANY. P. S.-We have a few last Fall's Jobs to go at Cost. MASTIC MIXED PAINT. We Want lo Sell You Your Paint. Come in to see us, and let us tell you all about it. We have sold th?B Paint for many years, und all have been pleased who need it. We have a fine selection of colors, and will gladly give you a card showing them if you will call in and request same. Also, a full line of Varnishes, Stains, Floor Paints, Furniture Polish, Paint Brushes, Etc. ORR, GRAY & CO., Next to Bank of Anderson. Beliable Druggists. D. S. VA. NDIVER. OFF?OES OB* E. P. "^.VN DIVER. >IWMM BIO AGENTS FOU ARMOUR'S GUANO AND ACID. - ALSO,* Cotton Seed Meal, Ealnlt and all kinds off F?rtil i z ors FLOUR, COFFEE. TOBACCO; Bast grades for least money. W Tour patronage appreciated. Vjftv Your truly, VANDIVER BROS. "rt???fi?t HiiYfVftfai ?Hinniinni Hftral ? una, DH H mw T?te Establishment has been Selling Wy ANDERSON tot i?ore than forty years. Daring all that time competitors ' have come and gone, but we have remained right here. We have always Bold Cheaper than any others, and during thoso long years wo have not had one dis satisfied oustomcr. -Mistakes will sometimes ooour, and if at any time we fonnd that a customer was dissatisfied we did not rest until we had made him satisfied. This polioy, rigidly, adhered to, has made us friends, true and last ing, and wo oan say with pride, but without boasting, that we havo tho conn . i, dencoof tho people of this section. We havo a larger Stock of Gooda this season than we have ever had, and wo pledge you our word that we have never . , sold Furniture at as OIOBC a margin of profit as we aro doing now. Thie le proven by the faot that wo are 'selling Furniture not only all over Anderson County but in every Town in the Piedmont section. Come and see tis. Your ip' ? . . parontB saved money by buying from us, and you and your children can save jjoney by buying km Ho. Wo carry EVERYTHING in tho Furniture lino, C F, TOLLY & 8QN, Depot Stout " $he Old Reliable Furniture Doblero '. y -':r " ? ? ?jp jp . " : il ' A LONG LOOK AHE?D A man thinks it ia when the matter of life inaiirance suggests itselfr-but dreutiastan- - : <_ .', ces of late have shown how life hangs by. a thread when war. flood, hurricane and fire ki& V ^ . . a?dd?aly ovextak.^ yot?, ?md l^o bxiiy Wfay igfeiCV1 " ' A,v!s' ' ? tobo st?ihit your fhmily is protected ia " "y . case of cala> lifr overtaking you is to In? ? ? V The Mutual Benefit life Ins. Oo.,; ; > ..,.*,.>..'. '?. .? : . ' <^^0M{: ' STATE A?E5T, ^l^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ank Building, ANDBRSO?Sf^^^ WAR SI Cradle of Seonssion-( markable Di?tri Augusta ( 000 of the most remarkable QUI till areas of country io tho Union io respect of the large number of dis tinguished men that has been pro duced, everything considered, is that comprised in a circle of about 30 miles radius lying about the city of Augusta, Ga. The centre of the dis trict would probably lio a few miles above Augusta, up the "Savannah Valley." It is not a congressional district, embraeing both Georgia and South Carolina. It l?os among a splendid a<jseioblf?o of productive hills, that risc with their granite foundations, irony red cloy subsoils, and well watered, grassy sides, above the monotonous sandy stretches going out from Augusta to tho sea. Tho district ic point does not include tho city of Augusta properly, but is al most wholly rural;, the largest town in it today has only 10,000 iobabitants, and tho next largost 2,000. Formerly the urban population wao much less, As we consider it, it is composed almost wholly of plantations. There aro thickly populated districts, prob ably studded with towns of as small general area in the Union that have mothered as many tall sons, but it is doubtful whether any other stretch of as rural territory eau in such respect bo compared with this. Here have arisen men who had an earthquake tread. It is not intended to debate whether these mon were right or wrong, or whether many of them de serve the permanent title of greatness; but that upon this little real stage of life have been enacted scenes of great national interest, by strong men scenes whoso areas of interest have stretched beyond the seas, and whose afterclaps have shaken (though they have sometimes shocked) this coun try cannot be gainsaid, In this district were born, reared and hero labored the following men John O. Calhoun, who twioo became vice president, twioe secretary of war once seoretary of State, and for a long time a senator; widely regarded as the most robust character that has ever risen np from the South; William Harris Crawford, who came nearly being president in 1816, was once seoretary of State, onoe minister to France and for a long time senator; Alexander H. Stephens, vioe presi dent of the Confederacy, long time a member of congress and a man of singular ability; Robert Toomba, the "Thunderer,*' who was the leader of the Soqthern party with Jefferson Davis during tba per'od j uni, proceed* tho war and who, following the ?le? vat ion of Stephens to the vuonnd sta? tion in the Confederacy, became the Confederate seoretary of State; Howell Cobb, who was speaker of congress in 1849, at the ego of 34, secretary of 1 he treasury and president of (he Con f< derate constitutional congross; U*.. vga Washington Crawford, seora* taiy of State Under President Tyler; Armiatoad Burt, who served as speak er in 1848, after .the retirement of Winthrop Preston Brooks, who won an unsavory national reputation from his caning of Charles Sumner; Heres?, ob?i W Johnson, who was . the vice presidential candidate of tho Doug las ticket io' 1860, and Henry Grady, the oratorical saint of the. Sooth) Bishop George F. Pierce, the most ?loquent man in the Methodist pulpit in his day, and whose great speech in the Moth ot) ist Co nfc ronco at B alti more, in defense of slavery, in 1844, perhaps caused the separation of th? Northern and Southern Methodist Church, also lived in tbls district. It is the district today - of Tom Watson and Ben Tillman, who,' whatever else be said of them,, were, not wi th at and ing tho two most dramatio and striking figures in the Southern - political field during the national campaign of 1896. Watson and Tillman of tho present day aro neighbors, one living 28 milos in a westerly and tho other 23 milos In a northerly direction from AuguBta. T.bV home; of Watson ? is within 20 miles of the old home of Alexander Stephens. The homo of Toomba is only ; 20 , miles from. .. the homes of 8tophens an<J Wats?u, W, ; ^ Craw ford and Watson were born in -th's samo county, though later Crawford lived higher np the valley and opposite and almost in sight of Calhoun. Cal houn and Crawford (two- c?uig.almost, nco each other's backva-d across the river,) were''rivals for the presidenoy iud either ooov. but \fo> ^?t??r^j might have^attained:.;thc.:??&yf,? birtnplacebj" Calhoun i^^ from the home.'^ from those of Stopliens' ?ni?^at?on arj^ 4? from th?t o aro of a oirole. But was born in Till?: mso's county, end Priori Brook's frau* wi thin a few talles^ ^??mafi'ii i.' B?tttOea th? uoracR o? thoao ann? - merited, all of whom have undoubted ORIES )ne of tlie Most Re els in .A.merica. Chronicle. ly ploughed deep furrow? in their country'? held, others of secondary importance or less prominence, but well known to tho student of history, who have come from this district aro Franois Wilkinson Pickens, who was United States ministor to Russia from 1850 to I860, aud who was conspicu ous as the war governor of South Car olina. It was Governor Picken o who demanded of Major Anderson the sur render of Fort Sumter and ordered tho 6re upon tho Star of the West; Geo, j McDuffie, who served in the house and senate with Clay, Webster and Cal- I houn-a ?inan of (,reat argumentative | and oratorical ability; James Henry Hammond, United States Senator | from South Carolina, who made n na- ; tional reputation as "Mud-sill Ham mond," for his reference in the de-j bate on the Kansas quostion to the slaves or negroes as the necessary "mud-sills" of society; tho Butlers, who have for three generations served South Carolina in the national House and Senate-Major Gen. M. C. But ler, in the recent Spanish war, lives in Tillman's county; Major General Joseph Wheeler, born within five miles of Augusta on the Georgia side. Two of the major generals appointed j from civil life in the recent war | sprung from this productive soil. I James Longstreet, the Confederate lieutenant general, was born BIZ miles from Augusta, in tho county of Till man and Butler, and six miles from the birthplace of Tillman, William Lowndes Yauoy, who was a powerful member of congress in ante-bellum times, a man ci singularly, great ora torial gifts and well remembered by tho older part of the present genera tion for his spec oh es in Cooper Union. Faoeuil Hall and throughout the north in the campaign of I860,1 was born and reared near the homes of Stephens and Watson. Louis ?'rezo vant Wigfall, United States Senator I from Texas, and among the expelled senators in 1861, was born and reared in the distriot, and he it was who, on April 13, 1861. upon seeing tho flag of Sumter descend, rode out to the fort and made the final demand of surren dor to Major Anderson. J.h. M. Curry, United States minister to Spain in 1884 and director of the Peabody and Slater educational funds, came from a county adjoining Wat son's. Hillary A. Herbert, recent secretary of the navy, was born in this district, at Laurens, 3. G.,tbs same town in which President Andrew Johnson conducted tailor shop. SH Whitney, though northern boro, lived for some years at Augusta, and hero invented and perl coted his cotton gin, the greatest achievement eyer made for the agricultural and commer cul South. Peculiarly worthy of observation, and a fact that has coi bean widely noted; is that Thomas E. Watson and Hersohel V. Johnson were frp?i tnis tho BP mo--district; the two men who, ona in ;^6^ and the;other in i860, in similar great convulsions of Bomoorat ic . party, reee?v?d nominations for the. v?co;?,'pi??l4?n?y|;.-\?pd thereby, prob* ab?y; tn both instances defeated the darling wishes of the Bsmoeratio party. Jt is remarkable tha^|$$^ country should have g^ne to exi^tt^ tho same jollity, to-wlt, a narrow a(&rjp'yfs$T undesighedly so,, for vico/president^ isl oandiidates in;;thoB&ti^crises;^nd; for tho only two vice presidential oan* didatos-that have been t ak o n f r o m t h e Sottth sinoe 1859* : john son. . lived' within, thirty miles of the homo' of Waison. / ; This little district has been from the beginning of the government th? birthplace bf the South; it is the New England ortho. South in this respect, fiore ''NnlUfi^ cation" v and '^>V8?W?jiai:biii",< ^-ii jk4;?-tli?ir ? - -.. xiii\JJLXJIQ O President Davit?, accompanied by Mr. Benjamin, nooretury ?.f Slate-; Mr. i ?reekiaridgo, secretary of war; Mr. Mallory, secretary of the navy, and Mr, jResgan, secretary of tbs treas ury, (see Presiden'. Davis' book,) ar rived at Abbeville on the retreat on May 3, 1865. That night a meeting of the cabinet was held in the hoase of Mr. Bart. The next morning tho party proceeded toward Washington, Ga., the home of Toomba. After oro8sing the S-wtanah river, about 20 miles from Abbeville, hearing cf tho prc oonoo of Federal troop? in the neighborhood, and on account of tho general fatigue, the party divided. Here says President Davis, Secretar* ies Benjamin, Breokinridge and Mal lory ?eft him, and he saw them no more. Secretary Reagan alono of the oabinet, accompanied Mr. Davin to Washington, and Mr. Kuuguu . w?s? j with bim several days afterward, when ho was captured a few miles South of Macon, just without . the limits of the district under desorip" tion. Mr. Davis was carried to Au gusta, where Vico President Stephens was being held in waiting. This was the last of the Confederate govern ment. Mr. Davis and Mr. Stephens were put aboard a steamer, together, and eosveyed, enc to tbs Beaton har bor, and the other to Fortress Mon roe. Thus died the Confederacy at tho homo-in the very house-of its birth. As the district furnished . the "isms" before the war, it io worth noting that it still continuel to coin them, Mr. Watson started tho first brandi of the Populist party in the South in his district in 1890, though the Populist party bad its birth siz years before in South Carolina, whon Senator Tillman started his agrarian movement, the success of whioh in spired the general agrarian movement of tho country, and caused the naming of a Populist party in Kansas. When tho Populist party by name reaohed South Carolina, however, Mr. Till man skilfully kept his people within the Demooratio party, so well so, that South Carolina was the only State in the Union that did not have a dele gate at thc St. Louis .Populist conven tion in 1896. The dispensary system of State liquor control, now enforced in South Carolina, and destined to play a larger part, was born in the Georgia part of the district, in the municipality of Athens, and appro* priated by Senator Tillman. Woman suffrage has more adherenta in South ; Carolina than in any Stato of the jj South, and ita chief'advocates are in this little district.' Tho district hag flways dominated pol?tica in South Carolina and likowiBo in Georgia un til recant times. ><i Among men of letters, though ibo South has been poorly productivo in this, respect, it ia doubtful whether any other . locality pf tho South' has had eooti??ioni?y ' quite so many con tributors to the higher literature of theeouiitryas this, Pani; HamUten Heyne, who competed in the popular mind with .Sidney jbspisv (himself born just outside th? district, at Ma con, Ga.) for the*palm aa the greatest poet yet produced by the Sou tb,rj^sjfe within fifteen miles of Augusta, out ; among the Bands and pines.; Riobard. Henry Wilde; the author of that im mortal little olassto,| "My Hf a is Li ke the Summer Rose," waa born and lies buried in \ Augusta, James ?. Ran* dall; the anther of the 8bttt^*?XjSS*?: ^rar poemi and probably her greatest poet (unless father Abram Ryan be that one) lived and work?d in . Ahgusta.for > number of years after the War 'for iSbuthern Independence, and ^'n<v^ located in Louisiana, ';.?^,;e^??^/;Iof)V^>?p.^p?r?-. ? Father Ryan'4iyed forV'iquarfcerpf^M century^ .djiiring hiB prime in Aug?st^ 'Tb- e earlies! piece-; of 'wor'tfiii^^uoT?^ mm oenone! ?cf ' the earliest inf. th? South, VGeorg??; Soen?si" " stiilvia A Civil War Story. "J iras ap ia thc northern y ir t of Maine the other day and heard a story which was a little oat of the ordinary line of civil war stories I have read about," said a Near York drummer whose territory is in New England. "I noticed a funeral in the town, the turnout of which indicated- that the deceased must have been a prominent man in Ha life time. "A citizen said in answer to my inquiry that the man had retired from business several years before his death. The eitisen added: 'His fa? notai is muoh largor than it would have been some years ego.' . "I theo heard the story. "When Lincoln called for troops there were few mon in the State of Maine who opposed coercion of the South. This man was an exception. "Although a Now Englander from a colonial family whose, history goea back to the colonial wars, this man was, at the call of troops, what was known in the North as a copperhead. He was an officer in the militia at the time of Lincoln's election. Every man in his command esoopt him volunteered in answer to Lincoln's proclamation. "Ho not only refused to go out, but he boldly contended that it was an outrago to oppose the secession of the Southern States. He was ostracized socially and commercially. His busi ness dwindled away. . "During the second year of the war he left the community. Nobody scorned to care where'he went. "Two y ear a later he returned. Ho was a physical wreck. The feeliog in the community was not quite BO bitter as in the beginning of the war. However, the mah was not cordially received. "He had not been baok long when it was heard that, he had been in the Confederate army and was discharged on account of bis inability to do duty. Thia information did not tend to in crease his popularity. "Ho carno into possession of con siderable money after his return. Meanwhile some of tho shattered rem-, nant 3 of the Mai no companies began to drift home. Most of them were bro ken in health and some were penni less. . "This man began contributing to the relief of the needy. .'" A.;' Majority of the beneficiaries did'not know tho Bouro? of their help/ "After the war waa over it leaked out little by little, that the benefactor waa the mah who had been ostracized. To the credit of many he was again ad coi tie ii to f'-'Howship, ?nd hi* hol ness ^Vg?q io thrive. He bec* OJO in dependent. "A few years later ho waa ejected to office on the Republican ticket. The nomination oame to bim an so?gui. ?Jp to that timo lie Lad never affiliated with the party that elected him. "He served his term of office, but whenever there was a township or county election he voted the Demo cratic ticket. This was understood to he his right. It was never ques tioned. "Before be retired from business he was on one ocoasion visited by. a man from the South who had been the colonel of the Confederate regiment of which he was a. membor. The ex Confederate was down at the heel in every way; ? "No ono knew what happened dur ing his visit in Maine, but a few years ago it beoame known to * few people in the vioinity that the Maine man helped bia old commander to recoup his fortune. That man until 1001 trap a successful broker and banker in his city, and his silent partner for" nearly fifteen years was the Maine Yankee who as a Demo orr, t held a Bepublioan office. "I have traveled all over the United States, and,met all sorts of people but I have'never heard a civil war story that was anything like this. My in formant is at the head of a big indus try in Maine; ho told me that only a few persons knew the facts as I have stated thom." FOR'S?LE, One of the moat desirable placea in up per South Carolina-Tao Old "Sf ax well Plantation''-on the Seneca River, 6 miles from Pendleton. !4 miles from Cherry Station, Blue Ridge, B. R., near Clemson College. 250 acres in good state ot' cultivation, 100 acres ri vor bot tom, 100 acres timber land, a portion of it virgin forest, a nearly new dwelling house, 7 rooms. Largo barna, stock ana tool sheds* 7 tenant, houses, all in good repair. An Ideal Opportunity for the in vestor. The timber on 100 acres will, when out and put on the marked, pay entire coat bf place. .100 acres of the bot tom land can be sold ot ?50 per acre, and there ere plenty of rentera at one-third of everything, .standing ready, to contract for coming season, Will sell w.ltb farm 7 mules, one yoke of nattle? wagons, caris and farm imple ments, a good saw mill. bogs, vonng cattle and ised of all kinds for stock for a yoar. Two publi? roads cross the place. Good water for house and/ stock, vue plentiful. Fi?e fishing and hunting on the plac?. A charm4 og place for a sum mer residence. ?23.00 per ace. - ' Torma-One-third C*sh-Bilanoo on easy terms. ; . . : For farther particulars s-nriv to ; li. F. T). Pendleton, br BDW. E. BANKIN, A gent, Piedmont, 0. P. Nov 29, 1005 : 24 - Iii sar?lfir-.'th?VBest:'--'Cr?nai raided tt?s^ tirsos irti? iali?II?iiii