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THE ANDERSON INTELLIGENCE? fublished every Wednesday. J. V CLIKKBOALEe, X EDITORS AND V. H. CHESHIRE, < PROPRIETORS. 'IK RMS; ONE YEAH. - - - - $1 50 SIX MONTHS, - - - 75 WEDNESDAY, AU(I. 1, 1'??'"'.? THE paragraphers should not take Unele Russell Sage's death too much to heart. Aunt Hetty (?reen hasn't gone anywhere yet. Senator Tillman\s poor memory of faces may haven disposition to make Representative Nash <>f Spartanburg feel ismall, l>ut his coarse plea makes him l'??k infinitely smaller. TIM; Hartwell Sun is fast pushing to the front. Editor McGill is still grind ing out his wit, and with the installa tion of a Simplex, we believe Uncle John will paralyze the public with read ing matter. GEN. Wilie Jones' validation of Com missioner Tatum's statement proving the solvency of the dispensary was well timed and most essential to the case.' The statement itself is not full nor clear, but we shall have to take it on faith. m m mm - MR. Lyon can point to a distinguish ed precedent in favor of his drawing double pay for his services on the in vestigating committee during the ses sion of the legislature. Senator Till man will doubtless not attack him on this point, though. AN autopsy on the body of Race Mizell, the Mo. ile man who died last week under suspicious circumstances, has disc'osed poisoning, and his wife, the mother of seventeen childr n, has been arrested charged with the crime. Evidently not a case of race suicide. - - . i - AFTER laying down the principle that figures do not lie, a Georgia man loBt his mind last week in trying to harmonize the campaign claims of Clark Howell and Hoke Smith. Our analyti cal contemporaries are warned against a too ardous study of Commissioner Tatum's statement. Those wise in the ways of South Carolina politics are still predicting that Mr. Ansel will be the next Gov ernor of this State, the straws on the current of the present State campaign which ends with the primary election August 31st, still pointing in that di rection._ LET every business man and every laboring man-merchant, lawyer and farmer join in the effort to make the County Fair z howling success. It is due to the city and th? county. Show your interest by ? liberal subscription to the Association stock. 'Twill yield big dividends in results if not in direct dollars._ EDITOR Wallace, of the Newberry Observer, is having his hands full in hin efforts to keep the Columbia Record straight. From the viewpoint of an observer holding a commanding and elevated position it would appear that all the Columbia paper needs to com plete its perturbed entanglements is a little more. rope. IT would be interesting to know the identity of the "one or two gen tlemen" of philanthropic mold who, being favorable to the dispensary, went down into their jeans for the price and paid up in advance subscrip tions to the Columbia Record to be sent to "variouspersona in the State." It is difficult to determine whether in this act there was a predominance of philanthropy or of patriotism-or of 'self interest. THE following from The Chester Reporter meets with our approval: * 'Not a few voters and citizens gen erally have suggested that there be a special box provided at the approach ing primary for a vote in some shape or form on the good roads question. There is no doubt that our citizens recognize the importance Of good thoroughfares. The few miles of good roads in the country must have had an educating effect, and it is believed that if the question were only put be fore the people in concrete shape there wo ?id be a public determination to take up the subject and push it to a successful compta IT is to be hoped that the sublime faith exhibited by thoBe Georgia peach growers in praying the Almighty to work on the railroads to induce them ; to provide refrigerator cars will as sume the dimensions of a mustard seed. Beside the task of inducing railroads to provide for the pressing needs of their patrons, the removal bf mountains into the depths of the sea becomes a matter of mere moonshine and a light and exhilarating exercise. THE Greenville Mountaineer has this ' i to Bay of one of Anderson's candidates for the. Legislature: "Among the can didates for the Legislature in Anderson County is Hon. E. M. Rucker, Jr., ' who was ? member of the last house. Mr. RuckerV friends are. insisting on running him tot the speakership, should ?he be re-elected; and we feel sure^the Anderson voters are going io >?Send [him back, as his services in the House for several years have been v?l .uabit. '3&'; Rucker ?B a man of abil ity, of: pronounced - views ,ori public 7 questions and .'he is not afraid to Bay exactly what Jhe 4binks. We believe he would make a first-class speaker house." Our contettipo . v^r?ry^i? . assured .that Mri , ?to^?r -ia; SENATOR TILLMAN TOMORROW. SENATOR Tillman, who has been invi ted to speak here tomorrow, i.s the guest of the city and county, and, as a United States Senator, will be accord corded every courtesy within thc gift of the people. Many of v? may have differed with him in the past wi.en he was a factor in State politics, but we do not believe we misstate the case when we ?say that his course in the Senate is unanimously endorsed by the people of the county who recognize that lie hassleveluped remarkable force in the shaping of legislation in national affairs and that it would be a national blunder for him I ?> be retired from I he i Senate ?it this time. The desire <>f the citizens of the county and city to hear him*at*.this time is not boin <.i a will ingness to have his suggestions as to whom we should elect lo offices in the State. On the contrary, thu citizens of Anderson County are free and indepen dent and need no suggestions from any one, nor would suggestions be in order or taste from a guest to a host on an occasion of this kind. Of course, it is unnecessary to make a suggestion of this nature to a gentleman of Senator Tillman's sense of propriety, and the only reason for alluding to it is the ap parent uneasiness felt in some quarters that he is going to make a political speech based on State issueB. We are not acquainted with the form of 'the invitation extended him by the commit tee, but we assume that it was the committee's intention and desire that he discuss national issues and not inter nal affairs with which he could have no proper interest. Our people already have a clear insight into the leading features of the great questions with which he has had to grapple in Con gress nnd which have made for him a name and a fame that will never per ish. We want to become more closely acquainted with the principles for which he stands and which will be the living principle of the party in national politics for years to come and which should lead the party to victory when the final struggle comes. South Caro lina wants a place in the picture and she wants to prepare herself for the pose in order that the picture may do South Carolina full justice. THE STATE TRAFFIC ASSOCIA TION. WHAT is regarded as one of the most useful organizations of recent years and the one that will yield largest re turns for the investment is the State Traffic Association which has gotten its policy mapped out and its objects thoroughly defined. Quite a number of private individuals and commercial bodies of the State have already be come active members, and the enthu siasm with which the organization has started operations and the eagerness shown by the rapidly increasing mem bership places it upon a permanent and business-like basis. The Associa tion will meet with a hearty response on the part of the traveling public as well as the receivers and shippers of freight. It has been demonstrated that the Railroad Commissioners' hands are tied in the matter of forcing a cor rection of the abuses from which the people of the entire State are suffering. This condition is due to the lack of au thority vested in the commission and doubt existing as to the rights of the commission to enforce the laws already vested in it. The purpose of the traf fic association is to consider with care what additional legislation is needed to carry out the urgent needs of the pub lic and to strengthen the hands of the commission to thiB end. It is not thought that with the Ynediation of a friendly but powerful organization, it .will be necessary to invoke the power of the legislature in securing from the railroads due and proper redress of the grievances complained of, but if it should become necessary to take ex treme measures the association's attor neys will consider the necessary legis lation, and tho proper committees will urge the passage of the same by the legislature. This being done every legal step will be taken to enforce the laws in favor of the members of the association and of the public. It will be part of the association's duties to secure a regulation of passenger sched ules and freight rates and a strict ob servance of the present laws regarding delayed freight shipments. The Cham ber of Commerce has very wisely taken a membership in the association. THE MAIL ORDER CITIZEN. Gov. Jos. W. Folk of Missouri has an excellent conception of citizenship. Hear his estimate of a certain class of citizen with which every section of the country is afflicted today: "I do not believe in the mail order citizen. If & place is good enough for a man to live in and to make his money in, it is good enough to spend hiB money in." Still there are scores of people who stand fairly well in tho" estimation of their neighbors and who are good, quiet citi zens along ordinary lines but who fail entirely to come up to the standard of usefulness ?as a factor in building up tba town and county in which they live. As a rule it may bo said that the man Who patronizes the mail order house to i tba exclusion of hin home merchant is ! never interostod ir. thc development of j hts home town or county, is not public spirited, but on the contrary ia narrow and selfish, and for that. reason never enjoyatoo v?aS? confidence and *&mm of his neighbors. You can readily spot him aa being a man of suspicious fears and narrow prejudices who believes'* dowri in his narrow soul that all mer- j chants are an organized band of. Con apira tor s to cheat and def raud the peo- I pie* of their mst penny ; he believes ] that by reason of that supposed organ!* izatlon^ prices of all merchandise are tu the individual merchant, and that the only salvation of the country, himself in particular, is to throw himself on the mercy of the mail-order house and with sweet, simple and child-like faith to send his money away from home to huy a "pig in a ?joke," or something he has never seen nor had the opportunity to examine. You'll find him circulating a petition to Congress to establish the "Parcels Post," and, strange to say, he seems surprised if his home mer chant] declines to sign it. And then when trouble comes, as it cornea to all - it may lu- his hain is burned with all his stock the home merchant is the I first man who is asked to give up a "free-wiii" offering in testimony of I his sympathy for this "worthy citi " The mail-order merchant, who pays nu taxes, helps to build no burches, dispenses no charity is. the model citizen in the eyes of the mail >rder patron. May the good Lord de liver us from them both, even unto the ids of the world. DON'T MUDDY THE WATERS. IF Mr. Manning is not depending on the Raysor-Manning- bill, the dispen sary votes and the influence of Senator Tillman to elect him, what is he de pending on.-Charleston News and Courier. Hold on, contemporary, lest you contribute to the obscuring of real issues. Tillman is not an issue in this campaign, has no part in the picture and should not be lugged into it. We have no quarrel with you on the real issues, but we do object to the injec tion of extraneous issues that have no relevancy to the question at all. We are opposed, too, to Mr. Manning's platform but it's the platform and not his supporters that we are fighting. ANSEL AND MANNING. MESSRS. Martin F. Ansel and Rich I. Manning in their canvas for the office of Governor are looming into the lime-light in a most favorable manner and show up in a most dignified and creditable way. The former is an ad vocate of local option between prohi bition and county dispensaries while thc latter believes in the saving grace of the reformed State dispensary. They are both clean, honest, high toned gentlemen and have made friends all over the State where they 'nave spoken. Mr. Ansel is the idol of the people of the Piedmont and will distance all competitors like a race horse. Col. Manning has many friends all over the State who admire his firm ness of conviction, honesty, devotion to principle, and independence of thought and action. Either of the two would make the otate a model suc cessor to the present model occupant of the Executive Mansion. THE NEW LICENSE ORDINANCE. WHILE it will be several months yet before the council will have to grapple with the annual puzzle of framing a satisfactory license ordinance, it is not too early for the ordinance committee immediately upon its appointment to go to wcrkjtc weed cut the objection able features in the license ordinances of the past two years, and to broaden the scope of this measure of taxation so that it will apply to all alike. If it is taken up in due time, and proper study is given to the application of the ordinance so that it will fall with equal force upon all classes and trades, there can be no excuse for the wholesale criticism that ia annually hurled at the council. In the framing of such an or dinance to inspire equality between all classes, it is hoped that the new coun cil will set. the seal of its disapproval upon an ordinance that is part flesh and part fowl-a flat rate to certain inter ests and an ad valorem rate on other less favored interests. Let it be one or the other, anything oise would be a discrimination and manifestly'unjust AS T0 B?CKET SHOFS. IT is a significant feature of the abuse of the marginal system of pro tection of Intimate trades hi cotton and grain that an annually increasing demand for the abolition of bucket shops should be heard from every walk of life. There was a time when it was a legitimate transaction to buy or sell what is commonly termed futures as a hedge against a spot transaction in or der to clinch the profit figured on that transaction, but .that privilege has been greatly abused of recent 'years by speculators who never for one moment contemplated an actual delivery of the commodity in which they were trading, and who could not pay for one-tenth of the contract if actual delivery were tendered. The abuse has * grown to such stupendous proportions that while the South makes only twelve million bales of cotton, there were sold on the various exchanges of the country dur ing the past year the tremendous amount of five hundred million balea. H er it will be seen that the specula tors of the country sold the cotton crop ox the South forty times while tho planter Worried ' arid struggled and strained bia credit in trying to sell it once at prices that would net him coat of production. Incomprehensible aa it may seem, the retort grower of tho Smith has been, and la at?L contribut ing to this nimous condition of Ms business by patronizing these same \ bucket shops, and he fom*s a large percentage of those who have beeb selling his crop forty fold, thus lessen- [ < imf the value ot Wa actual product But suppose he argues that he in not j j selling it but is buying it and is ther eby j ? contributing to the advancement of the " price of Ma crop ' lahdcr ' the principle that the demand nrakes th? price. His argument might have a basin of reason but. for the fact that overwhelming; majorityo< :$t?f^ mted in a bucket shop and therefore are lot listed on the New York or New Orleans exchanges where the demand creates the price. Every price marked jn a hucket shoj. board is stolen from the New York and New Orleans ex changes and represent the record of trades on those exchanges, and no order given hy a customer of a bucket shop can ever see the light of execution on any legitimate exchange. So it will be seen that even though the whole South should hand together to buy five mil lion hales of cotton in a bucket shop it would have no appreciable effect on the cotton market because the transaction is purely a "bucket" one uni nobody known of the transaction outside of thc office of the hucketer. Their system being one of matching one trade against atiother, they are thus enabled to maintain a semblance of equilibrium, hut tho moment that there are more buyers than sellers or vice verBa the bucket shop is a gambler and is specu lating on its own hook against the un wary speculator. Now the question at once arises, where does the difference come in . and where should the line be drawn between such gambling ano legitimate trading. This io a questior that must settle itself for it has prover too deep for students that have beer poring over the subject for many years, and for this reason we applaud th? action of the lower house of the Geor gia legislature in passing a stringeni law against not only bucket shops bu against all marginal business for futur* delivery. This may appear to work ? hardship on mills and spot cot ton dealers, but the operation of th< inter-state law with reference to th( execution of their orders sent direct t* brokers in another State will relieve the embarrassment along this line an< will not v/ork any permanent disadvan tage so far as we are able to foresee If such a law is enacted all over th South it will save the Southern peopl a hundred million dollars every yea that goes to feed the insatiate greed o speculating sharks. Let the Soutl Carolina legislature at its next sessioi follow the Georgia lead and protect it citizens from this growing evil arv vice. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Negro Committed Awful Crime.' Canonsburg, Pa., July 30.-Eime Dempster, a nineteen-year-cld negrc was taken today to the Washingto: County jail, charged with the murde of Mrs. Samuel Pierce and two chi] dren and the shooting of a third chi! last evening at Pierce farm. The woman's husband had left th place, leaying Dempster to look afte the stock. The only things missinj from the Pierce home are $12 and revolver with which Mrs. ^Pierce an the two children were murdered Robert Pearse, three years old, th only survivor of the awful tragedj who was shot through the body, ma recover. ^ Dempster is said to have confesse that he attempted assault on the four year old daughter after thc departur of Pearse, but was frustrated by th mother who went to the bureau to ge the revolver to shoot him. The negr says that he secured the gun first an after killing the mother and shootin, the children, set fire to the house t hide his crime. -t Cblckamanga Encampment. Chattanooga, Tenn., July 30.-Th encampment of regulars and Nations Guard at Chickamamf a National Park opened formally today. The troop new there are the Twelfth cavalry Seventeenth infantry, Third and Fourt field batteries ox the regular army an the Seventy-first Virginia infantry, an Third South Carolina infantry of th Nacional Guard. The first period o instruction ends on Friday next and o: Saturday , the militia regiments \yi] leave for home, their places tobe take: by other commands. ' '? ]. The field hospital equipment has no yet arrived, although it started 12 day ago from washington. . There are sur geons, hospital nurses and noncommis sion ed officers-of the department ii sufficient force, but they are' withou ten tage and appliances. The troop are4 in camp, the regulars in one bod; and the militia in another, a short dis tance apart, near . the hill On. wMcl Gen. Lyttle was killed in the battle o Chick am auga. . ;* Seneca's Zephyrs, Water, Bosky Msi dens and; Monntain Dew* (From the Seneca Farm and Factory^ A whit? of Seneca's "ozone 'ladet breezes, struck the editor of. the Ander; son Im ?lligencer last week. He "sa* up and took notice' ' jj for the first tirii< in a long while. - The man who.'cai "sling ink? like he did in his prefatory remarks concerning ; Seneca's climate from the mere perusal of a short, item, v/hat could he dd if he lived in, Sen?cc and had those life-giving.inspiring ain whistling soft and cheerful melodies oJ health and -inspiration through the multifarious ducts .and cells of ' hu heaving, manly chest. , v ; * ? ? Come up. Brother, sit an evening in the park, hst tb the rythmic splash of mountain water, glad^n* its joyous free dom from erstwhile confining pipes ; Hare your noble brow to the soft caresa o? those Alpine zephyrs, and levd re tentive ear ; whilst they discourse of dusky maidens fairy formed, who, in the ases past, exampled them in gen tleness and purity. ? Then, take out your pen and by the soft enfTooding light of Oconeo's bright moon, watcJi how the ink leaps forth upon the p?gep transcribing thoughts that flow from out the vittuzed brain.; . >"':--???'* J?egro Snoots V/aito Family. Macon, Ga., July 30.- Joe Morris, a negro youth, age about 20 years, today made an attempt to take the lives of the entire Bloodworth family at their home near Macon. Morris timed his plan for attack when the family waa seated at the supper table. As the meal was being con sumed he stole up to the house and, placing the barrel of a shot gun in an opening pulled the trigger. Over 60 shots struck the face of George Bloodworth and nearly as many struck his wife, who was seated at his side. Mrs. Bloodworth had her infant I daughter in her arms at the time, but none of the shot struck the baby. After firing, Morris dri pped his gun, turned and ned. As quickly as he re gained his consciousness Bloodworth attended to his wife and spread the alarm. Neighbors organized and are in pur suit._ ANNOUNCEMENTS. AUDITOR. I hereby announce myself as a candi date foi* the office of County Auditor of Anderson County, subject to the action of the Democratic primary elec tion. JOHN A. MAJOR. I hereby announce for the office ot Auditor ?pr Anderson County, subject to the ruleBof the Democratic primary. C?XiMA O. BURRISS. . I hereby announce myself aa a can didate for Auditor of Anderson Coun ty, subject to the rules of the Demo cratic primary. JAB. H. CRAIG. JUDGE OF PROBATE. I hereby announce myself as a candi date for the office of the Judge of Pro bate for Anderson County, eubject to the rules of the Democratic primary. J. N. VAN DIVER. The undersigned respectfully an nounce himself a candidate for the office of Judge of Probate for Ander son County, subject to the rales of the Democratic primary. W. PLUMER NICHOLSON. I hereby announces myself a candi date for the office of Probate Judge for Anderson County, and will abide the result of the Democratic primary. D, H. RUSSELL. COUNTY TREASURER. J. M. PAYNE is hereby announced as a candidate for re-election as County Treasurer, subject to the rules of the Democratic primary. SUPERVISOR. I hereby announce myself a candi date for re-election as Supervisor foi Anderson County, eubject to tho Demo cratic primary. 8. O, JACKSON. GEORGE M. REID ia hereby an nounced aa a candidate for County Supervisor, eubject to the rules of the Democratic primary. SENATOR. J. E. BREAZEALE ia hereby an nounced as a candidate for tho senate from this County, subject to the rules of the Democratic primary. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, The friends of JOSHUA W. ASH LEY hereby announce him aa a cand?* date for tue House of Representatives* subject to the rales of the Democratic party. I hereby announce myself a candi date for re-election to the House of Representatives for Anderson County, subject to the mles of tbe Democratic primary. - J. A. HALL. I respectfully announce myself s candidate for re-election to the House of Representatives, nuhjeet to thoac?ot ofttBDmOCrT?'FcKklt Jr. _ We>re authorized to announce W. *. Li Lit; aa a candidate xor the House of Representatives at the nest election, subject to tho action o? the Democratic primary. ? ' ' - V, 1 hereby announce myself aa a can DRY GOODS, CLOTHING and SHOE STOCK of ANDERSON, S. C., -Going at a Great Sacrifice. -.- ? t-'?-1-' ? * The nowa o! the Big 'Salo 'has gone from month to month, house to house, town to town, until everybody who is anxious to save big money is on their way to the Big Store. Don't Miss It--Just Follow the Crowd. Biggest sale ever held in AuderEJou now being oonduoted* by the DAVIS SALVAGE CO., The World's Greatest Bargain Givers, On the entire Stock of THE BEE HIVE STORE of Anderson, S. G. You will be amazed. Yon will be astonished. We have put thia entire Stock at the mercy of tue people, and for thia rea son alone all Gooda will be ruthlessly sacrificed at lesa than whole sale coat of raw material in many cases. The prices we quote are the lowest ever reoorded in mercantile annals in Andereon. Now let the glad tidings flash to all parts, and we will fill every home within a radiuB of many miles with the Greatest Money Saving Value o that has ever been placed before the people for quiok selling. v '.: . No limit. Everything must go. Nothing reserved. Terms of Sale-Strictly Cash, and strictly one prioe to all. Everything marked in plain figures. % THE BEE HIVE, SELLS FOR LESS. .