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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-04-07

= The use of corn for fuel is attract.
Ing much attention in localities in the
West where wood is scarce and coal Ia
not g. ae found. 1t is said to be superior
foy 4eoies to anything but hard coal.
T'co or three acres of corn would supply
an ordinery family with fuel for q year.
Regarding tho sentimental feeling against
burning food, il ia aptly said that it ia
better to use what it only takes one year
to produce than to destroy the growth of
scores of years, as in the use Of timber.
= The total production of gold
throughout tho world in 1880 amounted
to $llS100,o coo ($89,000O00 Of which
was produced in America; of silver
$39 200 600 (of which S76,O00,0O0 was
produreu. in Americaj; total OF both
$2l2,0OO,0O0. The largest production of
any one year was in 1865 of gold,
1896, ,0oO, 900; silver, $49,OO0,000; total
of both, 1896, 100000. Since that year
the annual product of gold has dimin-
ished one.half, and that Of silver has
nearly doubled,
-fPostm astsE- General James does not
propose to spend any time in accepting
invitations to dinners in his honor until
he has got "the hang of the shop"
Eighty of the, leading business men of
New York on the Och Inst. rendered him
the compliment Of dinner, ,at Mr.
James declined, saying: ~ must re.
member tbst 1 am siill untrieai in my
new position. cannot appropriate
compliments or rewards which / have
not yet earned. One who spoke with in.
spieea wisdom warns us: LET not him
that putteth on his harness, boast as he
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The meat oeturkeva ,bo, orc ko

= The meat Of turkeys that are kept
supplied with charcoal during the period
OF fs.tening is said 10 be superior in
point OF tenderness and flavor.
= The total recognized debt Of Mexico
is $l42, ,l8l ,546.59 The sister Republic
10 occasionally given 70 the practice Of
"feadjust'''o" her outstanding obliga-
tions. v
The parasites which affect canaries
may be got rid Of by merely placing
clean white cloth over the cage at night.
In tho morning twill be covered with
very minute red spots, almost invisible
without microscope. These are the
,vermin so annoying and so fatal to the
birds.
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CHICKENS LuXUnIousLY RAISED
w. Z. Baker, of Crosswell, N. j., is the
larges. artificial poultry raiser in the
world, and, after spending $50, 600 in ex-
perimenting and getting established, now
has gross income of $50, 900 year, and
raised 100000 young chickens during
1880. He is enlarging his accommoda-
tions to keep $500 laying hens of the
best varieties, bat still has to buy eggs.
Both hens and chicks arc housed and led
in luxurious systematic style, the hatch.
ing being done In two Nincubating cham
bers, capable of holding $1,000 eggs each
in tiers of shallow drawers, where they
are warmed by gas made on the place,
and turned daily by women in attend.
ance. The young chick is taken to the
breeding house sHame hours after 1t ia
hatched, where isis kept till three weeks.
old, and creeps underin n hen mother of
hollow zinc filled with hot water, and
lined on the outer side with blanketing.
lfter three weeks tho lusty young fowl
is put amongHthe laying hens or in the
craming house, where each one is con-
fined in small bex and tfIsd for two
or three weeks Gill ready FOR market :;
Dufchess Fdrmes.S$ ES e fG8s Na9s IS
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..YuAr ,ay LovEn SAID.

By tho merest chance In the twilight gloom.
In the orchard path he met rae-
AID drf trIed tI to o. pass bht he msde 40 room.
Oh. tried. but he would not let me-.
So ! stood and blushed till the grass grew red.
with my face bent down above II.
While he took my hand as he whispering said
How 't tho 10 clover love ilted each pink, ST lead
TO listen 20 all that my lover said
OH the clover In bloom-I love- ~
In the high. we. grass went thc.path to hide.
And the low. wet leaves hung over. II
But could NOT pass either side,
For found myself when valnly tried.
In The arms of my steadfast lover.
And he held me there and ho raised my head,
While he closed the path before me-.
Aud he looked down into my eyes and said--
How the leaves bent down from tho boughS o'er-
oh the leaves hanging loVly DER me-
Had he moved aside but little vsy
could surely then have passed him.
And he knew never could wish 70 stay.
And would not have heard what he had TO say.
Could o1ly aside hare cast him.
II was almost dark, and the moments Sped
And the searching night Wind loupa us
hut he drew me nearer and softly said
How the pure, sweet wind grew still instead,
10 listen TO eli tina. my lover said,
Oh! the whispering wind around us.
! am sure he knew when he held me last,
That mu,t be all unwillingi
As the night. was como with It's deas ct last.
And the sky with It's staIs v9s Gllipg; arr,
Aul he made me hear his story,
And his soul came out from hiH itIN and enid---
How the stara crept out when ,he white moon led,
To listen to all that my love: said.
a. oh the moon aud stars IN glory.
know that the grsas and the lsav Hill nct tell,
And Pm sure that tho wind. precious rover,
VIII carry his secret so safely and well
That no being shall ever discover
One word OF the many that rapidly fell
From the eager lips Of my lover
And the moon and the stais that looked over
Shall never reveal what o fairy-llke spell
They wove round about us that, night In the dell
In the path through the deg.laden clover ;-1sikl
Nor echo tho whisperB that made my heart swtll
.-.As they fell from the lips of my lover.
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-''I think we'll have an early spring."
remarked ca Oil City woman as she no.
tieed her husband In the act of sitting
down oi the bnsihess end Of q carpet
- Young Malony DeSmith, who ex-
Terminates melody with o fiddle, met old
Colonel NoEthcote yesterday and said 70
him (: Colonel, you must be on hand to.
night ae the DeSmith mansion. want
you to heayy sotle really good musiose I
VII give 8 fsw sSolos on tho violin To- q
few Invited guests. and afterwards, at 8
o'clock, wo win have some reffeshnetts
oysters, wine, cigars, you know my
dear boy, 1 viii be on hand just little
after9. Rely on me-"
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4 "a poor old nd sum tfe lacy bajd 20
her physician; "Oh |! dnctos, doctor, I
ssifsr SO much with my hapcg and feet r.
q 30 patient, dear madam, - he 500 thingly
responded, "yon'd suRer & great deal
moro without them. !"
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ANECDOTE OF WAsHINGToN.--It has
often been remarked of Washington that
no one was ever in his presence without
being strongly impressed with reverence
for his dignity. But it seems by tho
following anecdote, which:is repeated BY
the correspondent of the New York paper,
tina: at leas. there Was one exception !;
"When the President .wao procuring the
grounds for the city which was to be the
seat government, he had but little diff
Guilty in obtaining the necessary releases,
except in one instance. Mr.. Jamea
Byries was the owner of lot or tract of
land which it was advisable should be
included In the plan. The General had
various conferences with Mr. b., who was
specially obstinate, and resisted all the
reasoning and persuasion of the great
man. Indignant at being thus opposed,
Washington turned upon him with great
severity, .".Mr. James ByTnes, what would
your land have been worth ifI had not
placedttiis city on the Potomac?" Byrnes
was undismayed, ,..and very coolly turned
to him and said, "George Washington,
What would you have been worth if you
bad not married the widow Curtis?"
Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-11-19
oAMsErTA's POLICY.

Gambetta, in his speech to the Chamber
of Deputies defining his policy, has given
ample assurance of peaceful and enlight-
ened course. 1t is true that he does not
hold out a very distinct hope of speedy
reductions in the naval and military ap-
preparations, for his declaration of pur-
pose to seek without impa;ring the de-
'fensive power of France, the best method
" forces the burdens of the country, Z"
does not furnish this promise. If the
defensive power of France is not
to be impaired, neither will the army
and navy be reduced. Gambetta, how
ever does undertake :" to maintain with
=" frmness order at home, and with dignity
"from abroad" and this certainly sounds
very reassuring. His general outline in.
deed is comprehensive and and satisfactory.
He indicates a purpose TO maintain the
supremacy of the State over the religious
orders; purpose which his choice of NJ.
Paul Bert for Minister of Public Instruc.
tion and Worship has indeed sufficiently
emphasized. He proposes to "entirely
relieve the financial burdens upon agri-
"culture," which statement will bereceived
by the farmers with enthusiasm, no doubt
He wishes 'to fix by treaties an economic
"regime of various industries, which may
be interpreted as meaning reciprocity with
England. And he seeks "to give greater
"impulse to the means OF production,
transportation and exchange, and the pro-
motion of social thrift :" which suggests
railroad and savings-bank legislation and
currency reform. There is only one point
wherein he touches upon a delicate sub.
ject in rather dubious way. 1t is where
he says: "The Government has testified
:" to its desire to place, by constitutional
laws, one of the essential powers of the
State IN more complete harmony with
the democratic nature of our society,""
The tendency to interfere with the second
chamber is one which all young DEM
ocracies have experienced. 1t is natural
and perhaps unavoidable, yet it is
very dangerous tendency. The upper
chamber is always liable to become
unpopular, whether it is ultra-con-
servative or not. In such a gov.
ernment as that of England it's princi-
pie is hampered by the fact that it is arbi.
trarily composed. France has avoided
that embarrassment, but she is not the less
inclined to bring her second chamber more
under popular control, and in this she is
proceeding unwisely. Such body, to
be of any use, must be virtually independ.
ent. 1t must be as far removed from the
people as the American Senate is. It must
be beyond the possibility of coercion. If
it is wanting in any of these qualifications
it will eventually become mere adjunct
OF the popular chamber, and when it be.
comes necessary to put on the brake, it
will be discovered that there no longer
exists any such mechanism. A popular
second chamber would be distinct menace
to the republic, and Gambetta should com.
prehend this.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-11-19
THE GUITEAU TRIAL.

As the trial proceeds Guiteau's behavior
appears to become more eccentric, but
though superficial observers insist on i'm.
agining that he is only following a con-
certed plan in these methods, there is
really no warrant for any such conclusion.
The fact is that the mans whole history
shows him to be wanting in mental balance.
He is certainly not insane in the sense of
being irresponsible, but as certainly he is not
sane in the sense that Judge Cox is sane.
The circumstances in which he now finds
himself are well calculated to make much
better balanced man nervous and exeitable,
and therefore he is probably more demon
strative than usual. But he has thus far
neither said nor done anything which a
skilled alienist would accept for moment
as proof of insanity. He is man of in
ordinate conceit, and it is this conceit which
is manifesting itself now. He thinks that
he is better able to conduct his case than
Scoville or Robinson are. He wants to
direct them in everything, and will brook
no opposition. All this is evidence OF an
dll-balanced mind, but it is not insanity.
In fact the more we see of Guiteau the
more firmly we are convinced that he is
@Guite sane enough to be hanged.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-11-19
THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF vaNIcs.

It seems possible that before long the
Queen OF the Adriatic will have ceased to
possess those picturesque attractions which
have made it SO celebrated in the past. 1t
is said that a steam-tug company has
obtained the right to ply on the canals,
and that the gondolas viii consequently be
driven off And upon the heels of this
comes the still more dreadful news that
the authorities of Venice propose to fill up
a number of the smaller canals, and make
streets of them. OF course all these inno-
vations are calculated to infict great pain
upon esthetic souls. We can well under
stand that Mr.. Ruskin must be terribly
shocked at the Philistinism of the Venetian
magistrates. No doubt he wonders that
the very "Stones OF Venice do not cry
out against the sacrilege. To the noble
army of artists and travellers the new
projects signify only distinct degrad-
alton of the venerable and famous city.
And yet there is another side TO the ques-
tion. Venice, after all, is, from the Vene-
tian standpoint, a city whose inhabitants
must make their own way in the world
They cannot exist on contemplation of the
past glories Of their burgh. They are
bound, as commonsense mortals, to do with
it that which will be most profitable
to themselves. If the artists and esthetes
were willing to pay for the preservation of
the ancient Venice without change, and
did so, the case would be altered. But no
obligation rests upon the Venetians to
maintain conditions which have long since
ceased to be the most convenient or COM
Portable, merely because a number of peo-
pie who live in other parts of the world
admire the obsolete arrangements. And
we are by 10 means sure that the world
has not more to gain than to lose by the
destruction of such altars of the Dead
Past as old Venice has long constituted.
The worship of the dead past can only
paralyze the living present, and it is well
to remember that the very excellencies we
prize in the works of the old architects and
sculptors and painters and metal workers
were due to their emancipation from their
predecessors, and therefore speak to us
only of love of originality which our art
critics have done too much to repress. The
root-forms of every magterpiece are to be
found in Nature, and Nature never ages.
If then modern art is not less virile than
that of far lower grade of civilization, it
must possess the power to build up from
this ever,open treasury creations surpass-
ing alike in conception and detail the
works over which SO undiscriminating and
profuse praise has been lavished.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-11-19
SURPRISED sFALwARrs.

1t is said that President Arthur has
surprised many stalwarts by turning a
deaf ear to their suggestions that SUCH
and.suc ofice-holders should be dis
charged because they were not "good
"Grant men," To these applications the
President is said to have replied that the
term "good Grant men" had no meaning
for him now. That he represented the
entire Republican party, and that he
could not entertain any proposals for the
ousting of men against whom no cause of
ofense was shown. If President Arthur
really said this he showed capacity for
rising above faction which is, to say the
least, encouraging. 1t would be good news
to hear that he had gone farther, and
recognized his obligation to rise not merely
above faction, but above party. He is the
President of the United States, and this
includes a great deal more than the Repub-
lican party. When the President realizes
that, the country will have approached
very much nearer Civil Service reform
than it has vet succeeded in doing.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-11-19
This is good suggestion. though not per.

This is good suggestion, though not per.
haps for the reason Mr.. Hopkins would
give. The truth is that the custom of giving
advanced wages to seamen is one of the
most powerful supports of a system Of
virtual slavery, of which the seaman is the
victim. On going ashore the seaman is
instantly pounced upon by the sailor board
ing-house keepers class of wretches
who live by robbery. and who are curse
to every port they infest, throughout the
civilized world. They have no title to be
regarded as decent or law-abiding citizens.
Their business consists in chicanery and
swindling of the vilest kind. They first
make their victims drunk. Then they
fabricate heavy charges against them.
Then they take them before the Shipping
Commissioner, ship them, and obtain the
advance note, out of which they perhaps
provide five or six dollars worth of cloth
ing. Now the average trip of a sea going
vessel between ports does not exceed three
months, and thus it often happens that
poor Jack is working dead horse" all
the time. He is in fact sold into slavery
by the boarding house keepers, and when
he makes the port for which he waa shipped
the chances are he has nothing, or next to
nothing, coming to him. He is injured
by the greed OF the villainous boarding.
house keepers in another way. Frequently
they put him ON board ship without any
outfit at all. In that case he must have
recourse to the "slop-chest kept by the
captain, and as the latter expects to make
a handsome proi5 on his investment, the
seaman has to pay four prices for his boots,
sou'wester, dungaree clothing, oilsl1ins and
tobacco, and SO again his wages are de.
pleted. The custom of paying three
months wages in advance is most emphati.
cally against the interest of the sailor, in
fact. 1t is beneficial to the rascally board
ing. house keepers alone. and Jack ought to
be protected against these voracious land
sharks. But the seaman has no protection
anywhere. He is given over-he gives
himself over-an easy prey to the thieves
of all kinds and both sexes that lie in wait
for him from the moment his ship lets 90
her anchor until he signs articles and goes
aboard on his next voyage. 1t is the in.
difference of governments to the welfare of
the seafaring class that has so degraded it
of late years. Good seamen are becoming
harder to find every year. The truth is
that no man with a grain of self-respect or
ambition can put up with the atrocious
treatment to which they are subjected,
both afloat and ashore. Indeed, if the
present state of affairs lasts much longer it
is possible that shipowners will have to
man their vessels with Chinese. Such a
change would have at least one salutary
consequence. 1t would prove the ruin of
the present class Of sailor boarding, house
keepers.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-11-19
WILLIAM RATHBoNE GREG.

William Rathbone Greg, whose death
the telegraph announced recently, was a
writer who made his mark broad and deep
upon the thought of the Engliah-speaking
peoples. He was frequent contributor to
the Pail Mall Gazette, but his reputation
rests upon his published works, which
are full of advanced ideas, set in very
powerful style. Perhaps the book of his
which has attained the widest circulation
is that entitled "The Greed of Christen.
dom Its Foundations and Superstruct-
ure )" in which he examined the Chris
tian religion in very temperate and
friendly but at the same time acute and
convincing way. This book has been re-
published in the United States, and has
found an ever.increasing sale for several
years past. His other works were "The
Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-11-19
SAN FRANCISCO SUPERVISORS.


The San Francisco Board of Supervisors
have been washing their dirty linen in
public. sAt their last meeting one of their
members accused the majority of being a
set of scoundrels," said that it would yet
be necessary "to hang them as high as
Haman," and told them in so many words
that they had been bought to do what they
were doing. OF course this stirred up
unpleasant feeling, and another member,
being evidently too angry to measure his
words, retorted that his colleague always
denounced the steals to which he had not
been admitted. 1t is seldom that so
hideously candid confession as this is
made. There are steals in the San Fran
cisco Supervisors, then, and the members
do not deny it. But they think it con-
temptible conduct for colleague to de-
nounce steal merely because he is not
Sin it" We wonder what the people of
San Francisco think of their Supervisors
Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-11-19
WANTsD-A CHRISTMAS STORY.

The REooRD-UNION will pay fifty dollars $50 7
the best Christmas Story, not less than ten nor
more than fifteen columns in length. To assist
competitors in gaugisg the length of their compost
tions, we may as well state that column of the
type in which the story is to be set contains about
1,6O0 words, and that legal folio contains 100
words. Those who wish to compete for the prize
Will be free to choose their subject and to place
their stories wherever they please. The stories
must be delivered at the RECORD UNION office by the
18th OF December in order to allow sufficient time
for their examination. This is a good opportunity
for aspiring authors who feel that they would be
the better for little extra pocketmoney at Christ
mas
Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-11-19
TEE RENEGADE SCOUTS.

The trial of the renegade scouts for their
conduct at Cibicu appears to have resulted
in the production of evidence which quite
clearly convicts them of having fired upon
the troops. The scout who killed Captain
Hentig has been identified, and also one
who killed Private Livingston. There is
no more heinous offense in military matters
than these men have been guilty of, and
they will no doubt be sentenced to death.
Treachery among the Indian and half.breed
scouts must be speedily punished, or it
will be impossible to employ them again in
the pursuit of hostile Indians.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-11-19

i" Enigmas of Life" a singularly thought
full and suggestive inquiry into those ques-
tions which every man has at some time
pondered, regarding the reasons of existin 8
anomalies in life Rocks Ahead, or the
Warnings of Cassandra, " volume in which
he endeavored to point out the COM
mercial and manufacturing dangers Of his
native country, arising from foreign
rivalry and the spread of socialistic doc.
trines among the working classes and a
volume on Mistaken Aims of the Work
ing Classes" which dealt with cognate
topics. MIR. Greg was a very robust and
conscientious thinker, and all his books
are wholesome and pregnant with new
ideas. He lived to good old age, and
died knowing that he had done the work
that came to his hand, faithfully and well.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-11-19
The I,von county fNevl Tim

The Lyon county New Times says a
party of capitalists and engineers have
been studying the engineering possibilities,
and the probable financial success of a
scheme to tunnel into Lake Tahoe and
conduct its water to San Francisco. As
the lake is owned equally by the States of
California and Nevada, we of this State
will have something to say for or against
the project. As the water from the lake
all flows into Nevada through the Truckee
it will be hard to ask business men and
ranchers situated along its course to give
up their rights, and it will take some very
unpopular legislation on that subject.
[Reno Journal.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-11-19
TIE WEEKLY UNION

Is paper Of special value. 1t is issued in semi
weekly parts, each of eight pages, and appears
Wednesdays and Saturdays. It is thus the freshest
weekly paper on the COST, and the only one which
goes out TO its readers twice week II is journal
OF the highest character Tor news, literary merit
and general information. It contains all the special
departments Of the DAILY BEoORD-UEIoN, and IS,
without exception, the best family newspaper on
the Pacific coast The WEEKLY UNION is mailed
post paid for s. so per year.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-11-19
SEAMEN'S WAGES

Mr.. c. 7. Hopkins has read a paper before
the San Francisco Social Science Associ-
alton, in which, among many very foolish
and crude ideas, we find the suggestion
that the prsctice of giving three months
adTanse : gssto <es.zsen should be stopped.
Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-11-19

SUFFERERS from constipation should make
ene trial of Kidney-Wort and be cured.