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Intelligencer. Fublisfted evert/ Wednesday. J. F. CLINKSCALES, ? EDITO RS AND O. C. LANGSTON, S PBOI?KIKTORB. I Ji l? A! ?i i ONE YEAH. - - - - $1 CO 8IX MONTHS. - - - 75 WEDNESDAY, APRIL ll, lim. Thc husband has some rights lift in Pennsylvania. A Philadelphia judge haB decided that a wile han no right to take her husband's pay enve lope. John Sharp Williams wants to re duco the tariff on bides seventy per oent. so that shoes may be cheaper. Southern Democrats always look kind ly after tho interests of the poor fel lows who have to walk. The latest from tho White House is that President Roosevelt is not try ing to dictate to Congress, but if Con gress doesn't give h.m the kind of rate bill he wants he will make Congress sweat for it-that is, in special ses sion all Bummer. The Spartanburg Journal very truly says that it is unfortunate that the law doos not allow tho aol giving old Confederate soldiers immunity from licenses to conduct business, to be operative. The old soldiers aro fast passing away, and many of them are not finding the ond of the journey strewn with rosen. The Brazilian Qovernment having offered a honorarium of $2,000,000 to any one who will produco a euro for consumption, there seems to be no reason why somo struggling genius in this country should not soon be rolling in affluence. Hardly a day passes that we do not hear of 6ome infallible cure for consumption; thus it would seem to be merely a matter of who can make the speediest trip down there to filo his claim. THE ALL-COTTON CONFERENCE. Great good to all cotton interests may be expected from the conference to bo held in Washington May 1st, in which every branoh of tho cotton in dustry, from the planting of tho seed to the conversion of the staple into its most highly finished products, is io he represented. Representatives of tho ootton grow ers and of tho ginners will be brought into close communication with those of the cotton manufaotureiB of this country and of Europe and with rep resentatives of tho Cotton exobangos of New Orleans, New York and Liver pool. In such a conference much may bo dono to reduce the limit of risk and uncertainty both in the growing and the manufaoture of the South's great staple. Tho problem of first importance to the grower is to come as oear SB possible to making just so muoh ootton as the spinners will take at remunerativo pri?es. For tho man ufacturers the first thing is to get all the raw matosial that they can work up and sell at good profit. Of courso, the millennium will nev?f o erne in whioh tho man who grows the ootton will not want the boat possible prioo for it. or when the man who works it up will not want to buy it as cheaply aa he oan. But free exchange of view and exporienocs will help eaoh to a better understanding of what he oan do. With respt'ot to the baling, ware . housing and transportation of the crop, the men who gin and ship it may learn much that will be worth while i rom those who reoeivo and open tho bales. Since the ootton grower first assert ed himself, kb out a yesr ago, in a well*mansged business organization, the entire commercial and manufac turing world of cotton haB realized that he is a man to be reckoned witb. Ia a conference such as is planned for May there are possibilities of learning muoh as to the best ways of using his power. Tho fundamental faot in tho relation between grower and manu facturer is that each is neoeesary to the other; and both, want to cut out the speculator. An Address to the Lawyers? Colombia, 8. C., April 9. "The drat volume of my "Bench and Bar" havir ? been completed, which contais ^ etches of the lives of our li J?ujges, the second volume now being prepared ie to contain sketches of our Lawyers in the great Confederate War. ? Forty-one years ago today the law yere, who survived this terrible con flict, left their arma at Appomattox, to return to their rained homes, where a great many found the chimney a of their once beautiful homes standing ns Silent sentinels reminding them of the terrors of.war. - . . what could eur people have done without the ala of ra?vJawyere to pro . tect them ir the Courts* when they ruthlessly dragged frpnr ?heir homes, op the slightest eh argo of the most un ?^p?1?V Vw*atch- diiHog- the dark ?Saja from 18t? to 1877! WWm?P the" Jaugeage . of ; an ; elo quent and gifted Judge: *'the great lawyers dd notlive in - tory; Unless their cod tv m pore nos . Chronicle their?:pattimi&ucr?</tffr6j /airmen pf ibooghr, ?fed* ?peech who ?\- elect! if y au; audience? ?ive unwearied study and prepar? ?u? ?O f. cs$r,-ssS^-.: great arguments which Uro in the numoriea of those who hear them amt, di? with the generation. The groat labor, the earnest thought tin? day and night study that makes them to pro duce the severe logic, tho magnificent burst of eloquence, tin? argument that convinces the lilied and eleetrilieii the jury and tho audience, pass away with the occasion ami only I?wo in tho mem ories of those who heard them, and can no more he produced. Ho could not do it himself because the inspiration in gone, and no ioportet- eau do it be cause he coi?ld ??n!y write tn? words but never give a picture id the niau no he stood glorified in his burning clo* qiiclife." Shall Hie I5ve? of such men not be recorded? I earnestly beg tho law? ye rs who wore the gray in thc; sixties to iiid us in lins great work and tell us ol the gallant deeds ol tho lawyers who dit'd on tho battle Heida, in the I hospitals and in cold and cheerless Northern prisons. Kvery Conn i y in ibo o?ate has pro- ? dticed great lawyers. Tho learning, eloquence and high character of tho bar of this State is well known al ready and constitutes one of '.he brightest pages in her history. U, ll. Hrooks. Mr. Lyon is Provoked. (News and Courier.) Columbia, April 0.-The sub com mittee of the dispensai}- investigating committee, consisting of Messrs. J. Fraser Lyon and N. Christenden. Jr., which haB been most active and ef fective In its work, does not like the insinuation made in the "Address1' of Senator Tillman on the dispensary sit uation. The members of this commit tee have worked an no others have ever done in connection with the die fiensary meas. They have been fear ess and painstaking in their efforts, and even a mild insinuation is unde served. Mr. Lyon, of Hie sub-com mittee, has written a letter to ono of tho attorneys, who is at work on a claim against the dispensary, in which he has some very sharp things to say, which makosome of tho liveliest litera turo in connection with the dispensary. The letter reads as follows: Abbeville, 8. C.. April 13, 1000. Your two letters of recent date were received by me upon my return home yesterday, after an absence of about two weeks. You will, therefore, un derstand why you have not had an earlier reply. While it is true that 1 do not think there is any good reason for withholding payment of the claim of tho Cook &. liernlieimer Company, of New York, still, as I have said heretofore, 1 will not give roy consent to the payment ol' this or any other dispensary claim now held up until the matter of such payment is discuss ed at a public session of our commit tee. I feel sure that you will appre ciate my position in this matter, es pecially since the publication of Sena tor Tillman's "Address to the People of South Carolina," in which he says: "Is there not plenty of opportunity for more graft and secret transactions in regard to the settlement of these ac counts? Will not the Legislative com mittee be suspected of corruption if it does not get in the middle of the road, and stay there; that is, stand by the law, obey it itBelf and require others to do so? Why BO much delay?" Yon see this additional reason for my posi tion. lt is unfortunate for your clients to have had dealings with an institu tion which no ono cnn oven investigate without having it suggested or insinu ated that be may bu a grafter, or at least has a good opportunity to steal. While 1 regard this reference to our committee as only a shrewd attempt to shake public confidence in us, and in tended to obstruct and interfere with our work, which is evidently becoming distasteful to roany of those who are irrevocably wedded to the dispensary, ?till, when I see this proneness to criti cise us, I wish to b? especially careful not to put myself in a position that could, with even a color of justice, be Ctiticised. In your letter of March 20 you poe tically asked the question ana sincere ly, "Why so much delay!" I know no fact that I have learned in the dispen sary investigation that I shall inten tionally withhold from the public. Sometimes I do not think it best foi the success of the investigation to re veal facts and suspicions aa soon M they come to me, or to disclose oui p?aos for the future, so in this easel will answer your question only BO fal as I thiele the present status ot the in Vestiffation justifies. We are trying t< get the facts in regard to se vend ?us Eldons matters which we think shouh e investigated. Among them is tin statement, ns I recall it, of Senato: Tillman that he returned certain re bates to a distillery. We wish iu dui the credits on the books of the distil lory, showing the amount bf rebate: which Senator said he returned as i frift for the gratitude ho foleto th? iquor concern crediting the State o South Carolina. Besides this then has come to my ears a tumor, tnt source of which I do not now recall but which I think should be looke< 'into, that Senator Tillman, wnen uov ornor, was presented with a piano by i liquor concern, lt may bo that re ceints may be ehown for the rebate which may have been returned, am for payment of this piano which ma' have been received, as waa rumored ti be the satisfactory explanation in th caBo of the Towill horae matter. Still, we do not know the facts in re gard to these things and think thi Legislature intended for us to investi gate buch transactions as these, as wei as other vague and uncertain matter to which common rumor gives eur reney. We must do our duty iu look lug into theso things and you ma: judge by the above samples that wi must have much time in doing it Furthermore it ia not expedient, and ] would not approve of tho committei holding a public sessio \ every timi Senator Christensen and I have dom all we can in examining each claim. J recognize the fact that we may bi chasing a will-o-the-wiap in all oj these matters, and that your client! may sutler in the meantime, but wheth er our efforts be such a chase or not it seems certain that io all event? om committee must walk through thc mire. . . The opinion is ao prevalent that thc dispensary baa been a breeder of BC much corruption that no one cac touch it without the suspicion of some? one being aroused. Unfortunately, ic tho cose of our committee, the Insinua* tioo^of this Bueuicion is cast upon ut in to? pabilo prints by one who, abor? all others, may know of the innermost affairs of the dispensary as transacted by its officers since ita inception. ? trust, however, that we will unnltj emerge from onr distasteful task mer i ting the coniidecce asd approval of all honest citizens. Believing that thu will patiefactori?y explain our delay, ? am yours very truly, v J. Fraser Lyon. . The Bub committee has been at work for some ilma investigating so counts." . : -.v.- . : :. A. K. . Car dbfTftaoks, : Mr. Editor: Please give np space ii your paper to express our si neen thanks. to onr neighbors and friend' for their many acts of kindness kak ty mopthy shown ne during tho pro tracied illness and death of ont;be loved husband nnd father.. . May :h< richest blosaibg of Heaven i est or .ibero. Mrs; is. COwcu. iii . .:i>.j.:.pw?n: Conference That Alte?is Cotton. Probably thc most important cottou conference ever hold will take piaec in Washington about the Grut of next month. The conference will be be tween the spinners, representing prac tieally every mil' in thc world, and tho officers of the ?Southern Cotton Association. Mr. H. D. Smith, pres ident of the South Carolina brauch of thc association and member of the executive cf'.umittec, was in thc city Saturday. In regard to the meeting Mr. Smith said that he believed that the coufereuee would mean more to the farmers of the South than could bc imagined. "The farmers are now in position to dictate to tho spinner," said Mr. Smith. "He is not going to hold up tho mill man or the consumer but he is going to demand a fair price for his cotton. I am satisfied that tbe mill men who attend this conference will see exactly the position of the cotton planter and will readily agree to fix a price or deal with the cotton planter in a way that will take cotton entirely out of tho speculative mar ket. I am going to advocate doing away with the middle men and com mission men altogether and selling direot to the mills through represen tatives of tho cotton association. It is muoh better to deal direct, and when one stops to think how unbusi nesslike the methods of tho Southern farmer have been since cotton was first planted it is a wonder that no move like this was made before." Io speaking of the general outlook for the farmer, Mr. Smith said that tho only discouraging feature of the year was the faot that too muoh hay and other stock foods were now ship ped from the West instead of being raised at home. Tho members of the association aro doing all, they can to ! urgo tho farmers to diversify their crops, and Mr. Smith said that tho article in The State by Mr. Mciver Williamson on corn planting had bcon widely circulated. Mr. Williamson has aided tho association by deliver ing a number of addresses to the i farmers in his sootion of the country I showing them how to diversify their crops and illustrating his syBtem of corn planting. Altogether Mr.' Smith thinks that the coming season is the brightest in the history of the farmer and that if the rules of the association are ad hered to the prices wanted will be ob tained.-The State. Clemson College Trustees. Greenville, April 9.-At the annual meeting of the trustees of Clemson Agricultural College, held today, it was decided to expend $66,000 in the way of improvements at the institu tion during the next few months. Besides extensive repairs to the building and grounds, a printing de partment will be added to the oohool's facilities. The mooting today was attended by Senator B. B. Ti?lman. who will prob ably retara direot to Washington. ? i-i -m Shouting at Brooks, Ga. Brooks, Gs., April 9.-Last , night A. L. MoKneely, of this place, shot and killed hf s own nephew, Robert Morrow, seriously wounded S. A. Putnam, a neighbor, and a twelve year-old boy, and was killed by J. T. Hin8on, while in the aot of aiming a gun at Mrs. Hinson. Tho amputation of Mr. Putnam's left arm beoame necessary from his wound, although it is nos, believed the result wi!! be fatal. , MoKneely, it is said, was intoxi cated and started out to avenge some differences that had arisen between bim and his noighbors. He shot his nephew, evidently believing him tb bo, J. T. Hi neon. Notloe to Demooratio Clubs. By order of tho 8 tato Democratic Com mittee, at a meeting'held on April Sib. 10C0, a convention of the Damoeratlo party of South Carolina ts called to toko place on>nfay 16tb, 1906,. In efeordano* with the provision of the Constitution of tb*? p?rtr. .. /. Jr .. Tue Fi eal J eu te of tho several D?mo cratie cl nba of Anderson County aro di rected to assemble their clubs on Satur day, April 2Stb, 1006, for the parpo** of electiog delegates to tho County Con vention, which will assemble May 7th, 1006, for the purpose of electing defer a o > to tba State Convention. AU ainu? should meet, reorganizo and elect dele gatea on April 28th, aa above directed, In urder to be entitled to representation in .ho County Convention, aud ir. ordt.r to be-represented by voting preclnita lo the coming primary. 1 H. H. Watkins, County Chua'n. E. WV Lrwg, Secretary. ? ? Judge of Probate's Sale. STATIS OP SOUTH CAROLINA, |f ' -, In ?As Court of Common Pleas. Linra WiUlamann, Plaintiff. .ys.;Ix>opia! Washington. Marion Washington. fo*Si Richie* Jel??-^Bt^l&Vtek-. tto*I?v Madie Richie. Baulah Richie, Tea Ktcbie. TM'*^fy *!^F!S?b** ton and Fanni? Lnwhs, Defendant*. Paradant to an order of aale grout ed horelo,- I will adi on Salway io Me*t-:J^i?*W^^'???. Hotwx in the City ot Anderson, a C. TUESDAY. APRIL IO. 1906. At 9 o'clock, we put on Salo the Grandest Array of New and Up*to-Date Silks ever shown in Anderson. Lot No. 1 at 30c. Several hundred yards of Fancy Bilk?, bought from fjrced sales, cheap at 50c, new patterns, sale price.. 30o Lot No. 2 at 35c and 39c. Nico assortment pretty patterns 24*inih Flowered China Siike worth 50c yard, at. 35c Big lot of Foille Brilliants, in pink, blue, white, champagne, black, navy blue and new grey, cheap nt 50o jard, sale price. 39c Big assortment 27-inch China Silks, much heavier than one in our last tale at 39c. This is a good 60c value in pink, blue, gar net, new grey, champagne, black, white, navy blue, Alice blue, sale price the yard. .39}o Lot No. 3 at 49c and 50o. Several hundred yards of pretty new designs in new greys and a general assortment of new patterns in Fancy Taffetas, neat stripes, etc. This is a genuine 76c high grade Bilk, at the yard... 49c Nice lot of Persian designs and pretty new black and white stripes, worth 85c yard, at. 50c Lot No. 4 at 60c. Nice lot of New Greys and Assorted Cobie in the best 85c grade of Fancy t?? i kp, cheap at 85c yard, sale price. 60o One piece Large Flowered Silk, newest thing out, best $100 grade, at.;. . 75c Lot No. 5 at 85c and 99c. One lot 36-inch Changeable Silks and 36 inch Black Taffetas, best 81.00 grade, our sale price. :. 85o Big lot of 36-inch Heavy White Taffeta Silks, worth 31.25 yard, at.;. 99o Nice lot of 36-inch new Light Greys, and nice, fine checks in pretty shades of green, blue, black and white, reseda, etc., cheap at 81.50 yard, our price the yard. 99o ESP Remember, there are a great many Silks in the lot we can't mention. Your seeing means your buying. CST Remember, the tale commences TUESDAY, APBIL 10th, and continues till they are sold. Come and look them over. You will go off talking about them, if you don't rrisL to buy. THE BEE HIVE, G. Hm BASLES. ROOM! ROOM! WE MUST HAVE ROOM ! We are opening np tho larg?tt; inost complete and stylish array o?- }\ We ever carried, for the immense Stook of Shoes we now have, rather than %.s^ cramped that we cannot display .t?iem?;a* they deserve we nAve decided opon a plan of reduction that W?U move tnem ont pf ; A ooiBt ns something, to he s?re^ but we ??nie that we will he the jgainew in th? end, fdr we rnean that every Shoe that, we tell on this apeciaV r?duction ?^e shall make us a r^rmanent e^ bf the superior merits of our Shoes. We have ?? bid s?^ WIK rAflSLT BR?NO I at a aerifico several months ago to get it out ol *%??&r J?5***? a_v I because our prices are cut into the cjuick the EFIL iSnW*I goodi are necessarily old or unsalable. Oa tho iz?l$&p -J Fvffl contrary, we have the newest and cleanest Sfip| C??^~>-~~7) W&fc of Shoes in the market, having learnt^ by dear .234.., . experience the folly of allowing, stale !?o^B| ^???F^ forit^ea^^ fi-, pay you to lay ia your supply of .?boes for eev ?SST 3 ? W^^%dyhnz* ttt the prices we are Wht?w jeu need any Sho?a cow or^hoV " ?j/Sy ;'. . v'^ESpp pSpd ?et-us eaplahvour proposition to ^a? i ?|2BR*$ ^I^?^? ;'?*? ???.?w?ii'i ara given only on .4S^? CS??s^ O^?H F?ROHASES-chai^e ?*?lc?. be l?.VTr^,, ,,,,, , : c^rged a|^^ Origtedtore and Sole XUstrihntora of t BY CLINKSC?LES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL ll, 1906. VOLUME XLT-NO. 4.%