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.' ^ ~ --~". ; ' " ... ? ?_. ~'""M- ' . Z I^rSSSo??S ci n T?T?TvxTuaTkAv MAPntr IQ IQAQ VOLTO?E XXXVin-N0.39. ght Kind of *H1'JH IK* XlotfEUig* ^heie's a certain time in life when the youth' outgrows the fashion in Clothes which are intended for boys and is too young to dress in the garments designed fox men. We have had these young men particu larly in mind thia Spring, and now~ we are ready to show you an elegant assortment of Suit? in eizea suitable for just such young men. We have made provisions for the boy who ls a man in size and a youth in girth, and for the stocky young fellow who has not much height-in tact,;for any young man whose chest measures 80 inches or more. Although these Young Men's Suits are weil tailored and give you just the same style and fit as the high-grade Suits built for men, they cost no innre than the ordinary kind of eaid-to-be Boys' Clothes that have no fit or shape. If you are one of the many young men who have hereto fore had so much trouble in getting a Suit that would fit, COME HERE and your trouble will end.' ANDERSON, S. C. The Spot Cash Clothiers Fertilizers ior i We are selling the old reliable Wando Fertilizers. There is nothing mde that gives so universal satisfac !?on QB goods manufactured by this Company. We carry ia stock at ali timed a amp?ete line of these goods. Wando Soluble Guan? 8-3.3. Wanfo Soluble ??ano 8 i?2-2,2 1-10. Wando Disolved Bone 18 ^ar cent. Wando Bissoved Bone IS per cent. Wando Bono and Potash IO-4. Wando Bone and Potash 10-2. German Kainit, Muriato of Potash, Nitrate of Soda, &e. Our prices are always ae low ft* the lowest. Way nofbuy the BE8?. Ten wlU ?ave to pay no moro them. TRUTHS ABOUT your Coffee, are you ? Can't find the sort te ?a?r '">] CauH get it aniformly good ? Try BOLT and your Coffee trouble lacease, ?ace I keow the Icjttd your palate approves I eau give you just .all the Mme. With White Star Coffee, and right CoKce maki&g, you aro bound to have ieo satisfaction. Tho Coffe?s are unbeatable, pure; genuine, and sold nader right names. No substitutes allowed bora. White Star Coffees are put ins four grades from 25o to 40o a pound. I am exoluaive agent for tbsp* [ees hereabouts. A. Grad?, 40o a pound, an extra fine blend of rare, rioh and costly Cof i of the very highest grado, fine flavor, delicious in the cup and suits the iee critic. The Coffees in it are never sold by some dealers because of their *. i h oso who want a No. 1 Coffee recognise its betterness at onco. No. 1 Grade, Mooha and Java, 35o a pound. Another palate pleaser. ?oth, rich, fragrant, with drinking qualities hard to surpass. "Can't bo Pissed," nany folkajahtip>, Genuine Mocha and . Java, and not Kio or :r8ortj masquerading under assumed names for profits sako. No. 2 Grade 30o-No. 3. 25o- Both gdv? and popular where medium .ed Coffcee are desired. Honest toffees at honest prices. Blends of high sorts and. please most palates. Money saved if you like them. C. KR?HE- BOLT, 'She Cash Grocer. STATS NEWS. ".-The prooident has reappointed i W. L. Harria postmnater et Charl** ?vu. ? i.-i - TL a Citadel cadotB will probably bave an encampment in Book Hill this Bummer. - Work haa began on tbe new Je rome botel in Columbia and it will be completed by October. - Ella Williams was stabbed to death in Timmonsville on. Thursday night by a negro man. Jealousy was the cause. - The constables made a big baal in Salada county on Wednesday night. About 500 gallons were oap tared and wasted. - A negro named Dook Delarge ohot and killed his wife in Oranger burg on 8atarday night. He claims it was an aooident, - Mn. Jane Hopkins, of Union, will receive $143,000, the ostato of a Californian whose life was once saved by her first hulaed. - Jos. A. McCullough, Esq., of. Greenville bar, will preside at a ape ciel term of court at Greenwood to be oonvened on April 27th. - The Lookhart mills ia Union ooaaty will more than doable its ca pacity, increasing its capital stock from $650,000 to $1,300,000. - The treasury department has paid part of the Charleston exposition appropriation, bat additional evidence is needed before the other part oan be paid. -' Gol. Frost ia making arrange ments for an encampment of the State troops next Bummer and Charleston is putting in a Jbj??or tho encampment ??i ih-j xBxo OT Palms. - Rev. L. M. Roper, of Spartan burg, has deolined to accept the presi dency of Forman on tho. ground .chat his duty to his Spartanborg congrega tion is a higher one. - The growth of tao tobacco in dustry in Sooth Carolina has been phenomenal. The Darlington market clone reports sales of more than 7, 000,000 pounds of the 1902 crop. ' . - The body of a colored boy about 14 or 15, was found near Greenville last week. The body was mangled by dogs. Neighbors buried him. His name was unknown as was the manner of his death. - Gov. Heyward has ordered sev eral of the constabulary force in Char leston to be mounted in order that they may be able to oatoh the liquor haulers who try to drive over the con stables on foot. - Brownfield ,V negro, who was con' vioted of murder in South Carolina in 1698 and who appealed to the United States supreme court, must pay the penalty of the law, the court of last resort so deciding. , ' . - The State Baptist convention held last year in Greenville created the office of state evangelist, and Rev. H. P. Fitoh, of Paoolet, was eleoted to that position. He has accepted and has begun upon his work. - Saturday evening in Blaoksburg Rich Hale and Will Barratt, both nc groes, became,- involved in a difficulty alo-t ten oan^s, the result of which was .that Samttont Hale with a knife, from the effects of which he*died ina few moments. - On 'Jonday night, on 8. M. Meares' farm, ia Fairview Township, twenty miles from Greenville, Henry Turnball shot and killed Robert Pitts, both colored. The two negroes were gambling and' became involved in a quarrel over a wager made between them. -i A deplorable affair occurred in the cotton mill at Enoree. Juc. Byaro stabbed- his brother-in-law, Herbert Glenn, in the shoulder. The blade of the knife was broken ici tho bone and so far the doctors have been unable to get it out. It is feared that it will provo fatal. * fr - Prof. D, A. DaPre. of Woff?rd College, bas received a oheok for $500 from a friend of the college in Char leston. The money is donated tobe need aa a loan fand to aid deserving yoong men who .wish to attend the college. The donor in his letter request ed that hil name be withheld- from, the public. c>. . - W. L. Croft, a white man who lived at Fairfax, Barnwell county, this State, wal shot and instantly killed, from ambush near his home. Suspic ion strongly points to a negro, Frank Strange, whose wife Croft had be friended by giving her a home after *er husband had driven her from his house. - A terrible affray occurred at Mount Pleasant, & oolored Baptist church vory near Philippi iu Edge field county. Two factions in th(j church, one upholding the pastor in charge, the other opposing him, fell into a violent and unbridled alterca tion, drew firearms and shed blood. Joe Hammond, a good negro mac, opposed to the pastor, * as shot dead by James or Jake Henderson of the other side. A sen of Hammond's was also very Seriously wounded, besides .av?rai young negroes, TA statement was recently pub lished in a northern paper to the effect that the Confederate seal was in the keeping of the secretary of state of South Carolina. Mr. Gantt says it is an old story, bnt he freqaontly re ceives inquiries about it. His office has a fao-?imilc of the seal, struck by the late John T. Pickett, which is kept in the relio room and this gives rise to the statements like the one referred to.. It is said that the origi na* seal was thrown into the Savannah rivery in Abbeville county, when President Davis passed through t^?t county immediately after the surren-' der. ?ENEKAL NEWS. - The extra session ot the i?enato is expected to close next Friday or Saturday. -f Professor Tizsoni of Rome be* lieves he has diaoovered a serum for curing pneumonia. - Mrs. Catherine Dance has been arrested in Philadelphia, charged with poisoning her husband. - It is alleged that the Standard Oil men are planning to seoure con* trol of the American cotton trad * - The situation in Honduras has become so grave that a squadron Of American war ships has been ordered thither. T- Ten thousand head of oattle are said to have died during the recent blizzards in Kansas and Eastern Colorado. v. - - Eight men were killed and a number of others wounded in a fight between negroes at a turpentine camp in Florida. - J. M. Webb, a prominent farmer of Floyd county, Virginia, was shot and killed by his son in an alienation between them. ' x?.\. -Ira D. Sankoy, the world-re nowned evangelist and singer, tfias been stricken with blindness at his home in Brooklyn, N. Y. - Advices received from Yokohama states that the United States battle* ship Oregon recently narrowly escaped being destroyed in a storm. - Forty thousand birds, mostly sandpipers, are reported to have been killed recently oe +.he North Carolina coast for millinery purposes. - Teachers of Logan County, Ohio, have formed a Teachers' Unios, by which they agree not to work for less than $50 per month. About half have already signed. * - Negroes, members of a gang of railroad hands On the Dallas Division of the Texas and New Orleans rail road, engaged in a free fight last week, in which seven were killed. - William G. Hussey a prominent young man of Wasaw, N. C., com mitted suicide by taking an overdose of laudanum. Disappointment io love was the cause of the affair. - The North Carolina legislature appropriated $10,000 for au exhibit at the world's fair at St. Louis next year. This sum is expected to be doubled by oity and private subscriptions. - Bandits attacked the Potam and Torrin stage, running alon? tt e Yaqui river in the state of Soooia. Mexico, and, murdered the driver ana six pas sengers and stripped their bodies of everything of vaiuo. -- The government is to call in the new issue of 2-oent stamps, and pr!ul from another design. The new stamp bas not pleased the public. It is said to be too elaborate and heavy and the picture of George Washington is not admired. - A small boy aged eight has con fessed that he plaoed the obstruction on the track of the Seaboard Air Line railroad which caused the wreck at Evergreen, Fla. He assigns no reason except that he wanted to see what would happen. -- The largest judgment ever ob* tained against a railroad for the loss of life has just been paid by the New York Central road to the widow of Henry G. Dimon of New Rochelle, N. Y.-$60,000, besides $6,667 for in terest and costs. . ? ' -? Safe blowers oracked the safe of the office of the Standard Oil company at Atlanta, Ga., early last Friday morning and secured $500 in eash and $2,000 in cheeks. Nitro glyoerine was need by the men in opening the safe. There ls no olue to the robbers. - A family reunion vas held up in Maine recently. The heads ' of the family were Mr. and Mrs. Truoworthy Thurston, aged 84 and 79. They had six sons and two daughters, seven* teen grandchildren. 'The remarkable thing about the family is that there has not been a death in it for fifty-six years. - The forty-eighth session of the Southern Baptist Convention, the largest deliberate body in the world, will be hold in Savannah, Ga., this year, beginning May 8th, ot 10 o clock a. m. Its sessions will be held in the First Baptist church there. It is an ticipated that between 2,000 and 2,500 people will be in attendance. -At Orange, Texas, March ll. Mrs. Ella Russell was shot and killed by Daniel Richardson. It is said that Mrs. Russell had forbidden the uso of a portion of her lot for the passage of the Richardson family to and from their home. When Mrs. Richardson attempted to go through the lot it is said Mrs. Russell fired on her with a ?hot gun, whereupon Biohardson fired twice, inflicting fatal wounds. The dead woman has four sons. - James Stottauer, ? multi-million aire of Chicago, died at Denver, Col., from blood poisoning, the resnlt of a but while being shaved a week ago. The? barber, . while shaving the back of his neck, by accident eut a small Simple. Inflammation and some pain rilowed, but Stettaner paid no atten tion to it. Two days later symptoms of blood pofsoni?g developed, he be came dangerously ill and was removed to a hospital, where he died, i - A Montgomery, Al- - dispatch of Maroh7th says: "Mrs. Marsylla Keith today celebrated her 116th birthday with religious services at her home. Mrs. Keith was born in South Caro* lina brut has boen living in Alabama since a child. Sho has lived in thrco oenturies and has vivid recollections of inoideots before the war of 1812. Though in ill health for six years her faculties aro not in the least impaired. She- is the mother of thirteen chil dren." Colored Colonists. j Georgia Anderson, a colored woman, alter spending six years in Afrioa as a me ruber of a party of colored colonists from the South, is io Savannah organ ising another party of emigrants. So far she has reoeived great encourage ment in her work, she says, and has no doubt that when she is ready to re turn to Monrovia, whioh will not be later than September, she will have a large number of people to make the trip with her. The woman is a native of Anderson, S. C. She sailed from Savannah iu 1895, being one of the largest party that ever sailed from this section of the country, 233. Of these she PayB but twenty died during the six years she lived &mong them. The remain der are all prosperous, she says. Each married man, upon his arrival, waB given twenty -five aores of land, and ea oh single man ten aores, and these lots they have since lived on and cul tivated. Tho land, it is said, is extremely fertile, requires hardly any cultiva tion and grawB in abundanoe all sorts of tropical and semi-tropioal f ruito and vegetables. In addition, game of cer tain sorts is quite plentiful. In this category are included squirrels, 'pos sums, groundhogs and various deex and boars. Tho emigrants are all satisfied with ?MW.? ..*>*>, -J?*--e> - ---ow ---.??" prosperity, and with muoh loss laboi than was required of* t oem in thu country. Georgia Anderson, who has been t missionary for several years, returnee to this country in the interest of ai industrial training sohool whioh is tc be eptablished at Freetown, Siern Leona, and she has now been here i year or so working for suoh an institu tion. The school is intended for thc benefit of the heathen children. : The effort to secure emigrants hal just been started. The promoter ol the enterprise says she has no person al end in view and has taken up thc work only because she wishes to sec her raoe benefited. Tho greatest trou ble she has had to oontend with BO fai has benn overcoming the prejudice ol those persons who have been swindlec or duped by oonoeros that claim to b< emigration sooieties. In consequence of this feeling th< missionary has found it advisable t( arrange for satisfactory and choaj transportation from Savannah to Nev York and thenoe to Monrovia before she goes on further with the work ol occuring people to make the ?trip.5-Sh< is now engaged in this work ?and hopei to have her plans completed shortly ---Savannah News. As to the Sale of Meal. The following Aot passed by tin general assembly at its reoent sessioi is both JP tere s ti og and important tc dealers and to the public: Seotion 1. The standard weight o a bushel of corn meal, whether boltec or unbolted, shall bo 48 pounds. Seo. 2. It shall be unlawful for an: person or persons to paokfor sale, sel or offer for sale, in this state, any con meal exoept in bags or packages con tainiog, by standard reight, two bush els, or one bushel, or one-half bushel or one-fourth bushel, or one-eightl bushel, respectively. Eaoh bag o package of oom meal shall have plain ly printed or marked thereon, wLethe the meal is "bolted" or "unbolted,' tho amount it ?contains in bushels o: fraction of a bushel, and the weight Provided, The provisions of this seo tion shall not apply to the retailing o: meal direot to customers from bull stook, when prioed and delivered bj aotual weight or measure. Sec. 3. Any person or persons guil ty of violating either of the foregoing SAOtioos of this aot shall be deemed i misdemeanor, and on conviction there of, shall be punished by a line of not exooeding ono hundred dollars, or bj imprisonment, not oxoceding thirtj days, or both fine and imprisonment, in the discretion^ of^ the o oort. - April 21 is. the anniversary of the foundation of Converse College al Spartanburg and Governor'Hey ward has been invited to deliver an address on the occasion. At the same time memorial exercises in honor of the founder, D. E. Converse, will be held. It is not yet certain whether the gov ernor can attend or not. . - The smallest baby alive in In diana is tho child of Mr. and Mrs, John Mitchell of Camden, O. The child is now 6 weeks old and measuros ezaotly ten and one-hall inohes from the top of its head to the tips of its tiny feet. It weighs bul four ounces over a pound. The moth er died, but the child is healthy and gives promise of living. Its delicate hands are not much larger than au ordinary man's thumb, and the mid get could easily be placed in a sugai bowl. A Shake of the Hand, And a Slap on the Back* Used to sell a bill of Goods-now the customer looks for VALUES, and right here he'll find them ! To close-buying' customers are as thick and numerous about our Store as flies around a molasses barrel on a warm day? These prices bring you more interest than a Savings Bank: 187 dozen Ladies', Men's and Children's Hose, big 5c val ues, for one week only, two pairs for 5c. One oase of Huck Towels, worth 10o each, for 5o each for one week only. Forty Bolls Japan and China Matting, 12 l-2c to 25c per yard, worth double this price. COME TO US ! Brown's Mule Tobacco, per' box. 28c lb. Schnapp Tobacco, per box. 38c lb. Bed Elephant Tobacco, per box. 82c lb. Early Bird Tobacco, per box. 38o lb. Apple Jack Tobacco, per box. 43c lb. Boee Mary Tobacco, per box. 3lo lb. Firat Step Tobacco, per box. 3ic lb. Cracker Jack Tobacco, per box.? 33o lb. Big Demand Tobacco, per box. SOo lb. Labes Choice Tobacco, per box... 21o lb. Yours always truly,. JOHN A. AUSTIN AND THE MAGNET. And the 5o and 10c Store-The Man down next to the Post Office that Sells. the Best. SOMETHING NEW FOR Dresses and Shirt Waist New Skirtings,1 In the season's popular "Cloths and newest shades. " New Goods : Coming in daily. * Watch ourladvertisements for the new ideas in Woman's Apparel. Send us your orders.^Samplesfsont on request. McCall Bazar Patterns.