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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-03-30

A large lot SAMPLE HATS at NJ.
wholesale prices, and job lot below cost.
If you want bargain call on me. Am
receiving large lots Middletons and Bre-
mers Fertilizers. See me before you buy.
G. A. REED Agent
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-03-30

BUGGIES Amy person wanting good
vehicle should not fail to call on REED &
STEPHENS, whose long experience ena-
bles them to select the most reliable West
ern Bugges at lower prices than any one.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-03-30

BLAcKINo.-Best thing in Backing is at
Whites Drug Store. Ten cent boxes SELL
ing for five cents. Equal to any on the
market.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-03-30

White & Wilhite have large supply of
fresh Garden Seed and Onion Sets from the
most reliable seed growers in the world.
Buist's seed are warranted.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-03-30

Go to Whites and get can of con-
densed milk. 1t makes just as good milk,
and is cheaper and better than keeping O
cow. Try it. Ask those who have used 1t.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-03-30

Aladden Oil-150o fire test-does not
smoke lamp chimneys and gives better
light than any burning oil in use. Received
highest award at Centennial Exposition.
For sale by Wilhite G. Wilhite.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-03-30

Among the little items OF personal com.
fort and economy are Ayers Pills. They
are the ready remedy which defeat many
disorders, if taken in season, and should be
kept in every family
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-03-30

SHEET MUSIC, Vocal and Instrumental,
full size, elegantly printed and by the most
popular composers, for sale by Arnsten e.
Rose at &c copy; usually sold from Soc to
Soc
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-03-30

Pans Dyes for Easter Eggs, at Wilhite &
Whites.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-03-30

Frank SidIall's Soap is the best Laundry
Soap in use. Tryit For sale only by VIII
hite & Wihite.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-03-30

The harsh aspect of the autuinnal gray
which betokens the shady side of life, Is
easily modified by the use of Ayers Hair
Vigor.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-03-30

Bring me oil the CONFEDEFeA ATE
MONEY (not Bonds) and / will pay You
we'll for it.. J. a. DASrF1s
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-03-30

$4,000 would not purchase from Inc
what 5. S. S. has effected i'll my cure"
Thus writes Archie Thomas, editor of the
Republican, Springfield, Tenn. A few bot
ties OF this simple vegetable remedy. s. s.
rheumatism cannot remain in the system
after the blood has been purified. Price,
$l.0O and $1.75 per bottle.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-03-30

Bust's Irish Potatoes (Seedlings). selected
for garden planting, at Whites Drug
Store.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-03-30

FOR SALE OR TO RENT A good
secondhand Piano in A No. 1 condition. D
J. II. voN HAssELN.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-03-30

Use Laxative Fruit Lozengcs, at Wilhito's.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-03-30

Garden Seeds at wilhite & whites.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-03-16
The Divorce Business:

Augusta Moore says in the Eraage-
hst: 81 took up daily paper one day
and saw nineteen divorces in it. [ took
up another and saw five. l went to q
certain church and found there, in full
communion, a woman who had two
husbands. visited the house of a lead
ing member in church, and found
there minister who has divorced one
wife Ga virtuous woman, and is mar
ried to another. know of minister
who married a doctor to II woman for
whom he had divorced his excellent
wife. This was in Clinton, CT. Time
would fail me to particulariZe the cases
OF this sort thatI know, and live among
the best people that there are in this
world. These cases are as plenty every
where as they are about me-indeed,
much more SO in many localities A
friend writes to me from California that
1t IS hardly safe to say divorce so
many OF the very nice people have two
or three husbands or wives living Now,
is not this an encouraging state of
things? Is it any wonder that some
ministers are telling us how fast the
world is growing better, how the very
millennium is upon us? 1t is to be fear
ed we can hardly exert just the moral
influence that is needed over the Nor
mons till the States are reformed. Pro-
fessor Austin Phelps says: we are not
half awake to the fact that by our laws
of divorce and our liberation of the So
cial evil, we are doing more to corrupt
the nations heart than mormonism, ten
fold.''
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-03-16
Poison In Every Day Food,

Committees of experts tell of adulter.
alton in food that is simply appalling
Were the ingredients which are mixed
with food innocuous it would still be 8
very great hardship; but when it is
known that the most violent poisons are
employed it is marvel that the whole
country does not rise up and put stop
to such practices and punish all dealers
who sell poisonous articles of food. Ii
confirmation of these startling statements
We're needed one has only to read the
facts recently brought to light in Chica-
90, where it is impossible to find pure
sugar and where not ten per cent. of
the milk is good. In that city the bread
without exception, is poisonous; the teas
were never imported, but are made OF
leaves ''faced" with Prussian blue and
chromate of lead. Seventy-five per
cent. of the cream of tartar is white
earth, and the coffee is coated with lamp
black. But Chicago is no worse than
other cities. Baking powders are large
ly composed of alum. Picking fluid is
diluted with sulphuric acid, alum and
verdigris to give it peculiar flavor.
The manufacture of great deal OF
our confectionery should be punished as
q crime, for much of the candy sold to
children is simply lump of white earth,
made attractive to the eye with arseni-
cal paint, and sweetened with glucose.
Costly spices are counterfeited in ter
ribly grotesque manner, the t1avoring
being given by the rankest poisons In
these and other adulterations arsenic
plays the largest part. We import an
nually 100000 pounds of this deadly
poison-one cents worth of which would
kill $500 people-and the bulk of this
impsrt is used in the preparation offood
and clothing.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-03-16

Mimicry in birds is a faculty of which
we have many examples, but mimicry
in snakes q. e., of one species by an
other) is curiosity in nature A writer
in the Naturalist says, the question
''Does the fox-snake mimic the rattle
snake?" recalls an experience of mine
that occurred several years ago, when
collecting plants in the vicinity of Pa
nola, Miss.
A snake of an unknown kind running
along in the low grass was pursued to
some rails that lay in loose pile on
the ground where it had fed for safety.
By means of stick of sufficient length,
after finding it, held it fast to the side
of a rail, when was surprised and
startled by buzzing sound from its
tail.
The first thought was that l had q
rattlesnake, but glance at the tail and
the color of the skin at once disproved
this. Feeling safe from being bitten,
the hold was kept, and the phenomenon
observed. The tail, vertically fiattened
either naturally or for the occasion, was
thrown into rapid vibrations from side
to side.
The snake was very angry at being
held, and | thought this its mode Of
showing its spite. The sound seemed
hardly as acute as that made by rat
tlesnake, but may have been somewhat
modified on account of the beating of
the tail against a rail, as it did from its
position. 1t was, however, close
enough imitation to cause one, on hear
ing it, to get out of the way of harm.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-03-16
When, Where and How to Secure Western
Farm Homes,

Do not 90 West with family, unless
you have money enough to make fair
start.
Do not borrow money to go West.
The majority of those we have met in
their Western homes, who have failed,
have been those who came on borrowed
money, or without enough funds to en-
sure send-off.
After reading this article, select such
region as you think you will like best.
People generally prefer to keep in the
same latitude they have lived in.
G. Go in the & Spring and get acc aesllmated, N ee5r
heirlooms as possible. They cost mon
ey for freight, and in addition are apt
to be an incllmbrance in II new home.
If you are able to do 50, you better
first go out and explore before taking
your family with, you.
Do not attempt to explore too much.
We have met people beyond the Mis-
souri, river who had visited nearly all
the land grants, and the more they had
travelled, the more unsettled they were
as to where they should locate.
Decide upon your climate and local
ity, and then select your land. Ii you
wait too long, you are apt to become
very much unsettled.
Do not go West if you have sick
family. Change of climate may benefit
them, but it is not worth while to take
the chances.
Do not go West expecting not to be
homesick for your mountain scenery,
your forests and your streams, which
present such contrast to the monotony
of endless prairics. 1t may be very
lonely at first, but you will soon plant
your own trees, have pleasant surround
ings and near neighbors.
Do not 90 expecting to become rich
Immediately. Several years of good
crops may be required to place you i'll
easy circumstances.
If you are clerk on small salary in
the city, and have Il few hundred dollars
ahead, give up your clerkship and
strike out for the Western lands. There
is no very great amount of experience
required in cultivating these prairies.
If you have abundance of money, set
tie ON the lands in the near West. L
! your funds are comparatively limited
90 on still further, where as good band
can be purchased at lower figures,
| american A0ricsltUriSt.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-03-16
About Spelling.

Mark Twain has his little fling at those
peculiarities of English spelling which
retard the proficiency of dull scholars.
He says: There are one hundred and
fourteen thousand words in the una
bridged dictionary. | know q lady who
can spell only one hundred and eighty
of them right. She steers clear of the
rest. She can't learn any more.
So her letters always consist of those
constantly recurring one hundred and
eighty words Now and then when she
finds herself obliged to write upon SUBJ
ject which necessitates the use of some
other words, she-well, she don't write
upon that subject.
| have relative in New York who is
almost sublimely gifted. She can't spell
any word right. There is agame called
Verbarium. A dozen people are each
provided with a sheet of paper, across
the top of which is written a long word
like kaleidoscopical, or something like
that, and the game is to see who can
make up the most words out of that in
three minutes, always beginning with
the initial letter of the word.
Upon one occasion the word chosen
was coflerdam. When time was called
everybody had built from five to twenty
words, except this young lady. She had
only one word-caif. We all studied q
moment, and then said, ''Why, there is
no in cofGerdam." Then we examined
her paper.
To the eternal honor of that unin-
spired, unconscious, sublimely-independ-
ent soul, he it said, she had spelled that
word-caff! If anybody here can spell
calf more sensibly than that, let him step
TO the front
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-03-16
Some New Anecdotes of Lincoln.

The lecture consisted chiefly of aneo-
dOtes illustrative of Lincoln's character,
and many OF the stories were heartily
applauded by the audience. On one
occasion after the battle of the Wilder
ness, Lincoln said to Mr.. Colfax: "Why
are we called on to suffer defeat after
defeat and reverse after reverse? Could
we have avoided this bloody struggle?
Was it not forced upon us? VIII it ever,
ever end?' But shortly afterward he
frightened up and soon was cracking
jokes and telling stories in his usual
way.
When Lincoln was prOStrated with
the smallpox he said to one of his at
tcndants: Tell all the Of1icC-seckcrs to
come to me now; for | have something
to give every man"
When Il certain general and some
mules were captured and the news was
brought to the president. he remarked
that he could make another general in
five minutes, '.but those mules cost us
$3.50 = piece"
Several stories were told illustrative
Of his well-knoWn disposition to lee mor-
ciful, which prevented his singing the
death warrants found by courts-martial.
in one instance, when IN aged father
was pleading for the pardon of bis son,
who was in General Buffers army, Lin
coin read the following message:
E'Mr. President | implore you not
to interfere with the Judgment of our
cOurts-martial. You will utterly ruin
the discipline in my command"
B. + BUTLER
When the message was read the old
man fell ut the presidents feet heart
broken. Lincoln looked down at him
moment and grasping his pen aud paper
eXclaimed; ''Ben Butler or no Ben But
Ter, here goes" He wrote note and
handed it to the old man, whose face ut
once lighted up with hope. But his
hope once more vanished when he read
the following words:
''Gen. Butler:-John--i is not to be
put to death until further orders from
me.n A. LINCOLN.
''Ah, Mr.. President" said the man,
81 thought you were writing out par
don. but my son may be executed next
week.
Mr.. Lincoln assured him that if his
son never died until put to death by his
order, he would live to be older than
Methusaleh.-De Free Press.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-03-16
Stau at Hnna

You are looking forward to marrying
in the spring, my dear girl; but if you
value happiness don't 90 to Europe for
your wedding tour. Think of being
seasick on the Atlantic as the beginning
of your honeymoon! Imagine the awful
necessity of coming on deck with lurch
and a groan and q tumble as you surge
toward your deck chair. Fancy the ex-
perie2ce of leaving all your bangs and
frizzoUin your stateroOm, and appearing
before your bridegroom with your face
tied up with flannel scarfs on account
of a dreadful neuralgia. You are sure
to have neuralgia when seasick if ever
you had it in your life, and very likely
to be afflicted with it if not subject to
the disease. Of course you won't care
at the time; no one cares for anything
human when suffering with seasickness.
But think of the disenchanting effect
upon your new husband, particularly if
he is not i'll himself. Then there are the
wretched delays in the Custom House
where you land, and no mortal bride
likes to have her trunk opened and
paved over by some rude men. There
are draughty stations, and stupid SER
wants in hotels, and myriad beggars,
and a million other veXations of travel
which the bride who sets forth upon a
tour of Europe will always find to try her
soul. And then she will learn that her
beloved isn't always a paragon of pa
tience, and she will see that it would
have been far wiser to have stayed at
home and made her husbands acquaint-
tance before starting forth with him up
on a tour of Europe. An old married
couple who understand each other per-
fectly might make the experiment; but
it is very risky work for bride.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-03-16
Little Johnny's Conundrum.

"Mom," said little Johnny Periwinkle
the other day, addressing his maternal
parent. ''what does aesthetic mean?
l heard Mrs. Mobby say yes day that
you was a disciple of their aesthetic
SCHOOL,
"Esthetic, my son." said Mrs. Peri
winkle, as she dished Mr.. Periwinkle's s
red flannel shirt out of a wash-b boiler,
'is an extreme love of the beautiful;
the too, too utterly intense all-butness of
everything that is lovely. Obi" she ex-
claimed, clasping her hands rapturous-
ly, chow supremely divine is the study
OF this noble science?n
"Well, mom," said Johnny. 'Tye
got a aesthetic conundrum fer yer
What's the difference between this nut
Pm holdin' in my hand and A No. 1
salute from a William goat? Give 'er
up? Why, one is a butter-nut and the
other is an utter butt. See?''
Johnny studied ''the science of the
beautiful in the wood-shed.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-03-16
A Woman After Railroad Passes.

ii want to show you this" said the
Colorado Railroad Superintendent. ''lt's
a real curiosity as 4 sample of feminine
check 1t is from n woman in Ohio.
Read it"
.,NIv dear Mr.. - it began, in a
stiff. eorset-like style of writing, Il am
organizing II party to 90 to Colorado this
spring, and | write to you for a favor,
which feel assured you will grant with
out hesitation. The party will number
sevcnty-tive people, most OF whom will
be ladies. l have already found sixty
eight who have expressed willingness
to 90. What | desire is passes for the
party Many of them are real nice
young ladies and perhaps they will re-
main in Colorado # they like the country
real well. Most of them are from very
rich families, and they are very intelli-
gent and well educated. We will travel
in conventional tourist fashion, and IN
tend to have Il perfectly lovely time OF
it if the country suits us, and we think
it will. Please make our passes good
for six months. ! never had the pleas
ures of meeting you, but | understand
from a gentleman friend who knows
YOU that YOU are very kind to ladies.
He told me that you would not hesitate
in giving me passes for the party. l am
not much acquainted with Colorado.
and hear that it is very wild and dan
gerOus country for women to travel in
without protection. When you send the
passes, please also write me full partlc-
ulars concerning tho country, the peo-
pie, how they act, and which is the most
comfortable attire for ladies out there.
Some people say it is very cold in Colo
RADIO. BY the time hear from you
shall have made all my other arrange
ments."
"Immense, isn't it?" queried the off
cial, as the reporter looked up from the
scraWl
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-03-16
How Pilgrim Weakened,

It used to be said of Pilgrim, who was
a. resident of Clinton County, Mich, for
thirty years, that he never paid a debt
in his life, and further, that no one ever
found a way to make him. The nearest
he ever came to such climax was when
a neighbor found him mired in a swamp
in the woods, two miles from any house.
Pilgrim was over his knees and slowly
going down when accidently discovered,
and the situation offered the neighbor
just the chance he had long wanted.
Taking a seat on log near by he said:
'EPilerim, you owe me $16.'
''It's outlawed," was the reply.
II can't help that. 1t was Just debt,
and you've got to payit or I'll leave you
to sink out of sight
81 never pay outlawed debts" was
the grim answer.
"Then down you CO." said the creditor
as he started away.
OF course he did not mean to leave
old Pilgrim to die, but he thought he'd
give him scare He therefore hid in
the bushes where he could see him, and
during the two hours he was there the
debtor went down until only head and
shoulders were above the swamp. 1t
wanted only an hour of sundown when
the creditor came forward and said:
''Pilgrim, you are in bad fix
Eyes, rather bad"
''Unless you have help you'll be out of
sight i'll two hours"
Looks that way to me, too"
CHOW, then, will you pay that debt"
E'It's OutlaWed. -
Il can't help that, you owe me SIG.
Will you pay it if I'll help you out?''
Pilgrim glanced around at the dark
ening forest, and seemed to fully realize
his situation, but after moments re-
Election he called out:
''HI tell you what FL do. I'll wait
till 90 down to my chin, and then if
no one else happens along, OF the boys
don't come this way after the cows, I'll
give you my note for $40, payable in a
year. HOw's that?"
'rll let you 90 down and be hanged
to you!" roared the creditor as ne moved
away.
''Hold on! hold onr' called Pilgrim.
81 forgot to say that the note must be
drawn without interest, and you must
agree not to sue on it.
He was actually down to his chin
when the neighbor returned with help,
but he was not in q debt-paying mood.
On the contrary, when he found that
his boots had been left in the mire be-
hind him he growled out:
81 don't say as [ shall sue any of you
for the value of them boots, but l won't
agree not to bring in claim if we ever
make hoss trade. ."-Detroit Free Press.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-03-16
Fasting for Ninety Days.

A religious mendicant of the Jain caste
has just completed q ninety-one days
fast at Pahlanpur. An eyewitness de-
scribes in Surat paper the appearance
of the man on the last day of the pen
ance. ''The saint" says the writer,
underwent u fast of eighty-six days
last year, and has been more or less
accustomed to this form of infiction.
When seen on the ninety-first day of the
recent fast, his veins were much swollen,
and he seemed to speak only with great
effort. He was seated on a blanket in
corner, and had near him the sour water
of curdled milk, which he sometimes
drank. He seemed, however, to be
capable of physical exertion, and up to
the last day procured the curdled-milk
water for himself. He was all along
engrossed in prayer, and held no COM
munication with other men, except on
religious topics. The man spent his
life in strict asceticism, and has denied
himself all food and luxury save what
may be got from the milk water, bread
and yellow rice His bedding consists
IF an ordinary blanket and nothing
more. Many Jains undergo penance in
5he shape of fasts and other self-intiic-
ions, but it is said tt ut this mans eff
torts in this direction are unapproached
oy even the most devoted co-religionists,
and he has drawn to himself large
following of Shrawaks. He accepts,
however, no presents and no fees"
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-03-16
Polite Conversation in Queen Anne's Time.

''Sr, want a wig; want it the col
or of my eyebrows. 1t is to be long; it
is to be made of live hair" The perru-
quier's replies share the interest equally
''Shall it be Il full-bottom wig?" he asks;
"a campaign wig? a Spanish wig? or a
bob?'' ''The foretop of this one,' says
the customer, sis a little too low, the
hind-loclI of this other is a little too long;
it is too dear, also; it is "a, and will it
not be enough to give f3 10 shillingsP''
The perruquier declares that this small
er sum would not be enough; not if the
purchaser We're his own brother; for the
wigs hair is a round hair; it is as strong
as horse-hair it combs out easily; it has
a buckle at the bottom; it becomes the
gentleman, too, if he will but see him
self in the glass. So the gentleman says:
Il give the "a. Here are guineas;
hand me the change. Thank you; here
is my old wig; it is to be mended; it is
to have drops put to it and twist; it is
no matter that twisted pigs are out of
fashion; my wig is only a campaign
wig; | only use it when l ride on horse
back for ''campaign' meant the coun-
try, and when gentleman had been
some hours in the saddle, in Queen
Anne's time, his wig and all his clothes
showed the journey had been done, and
hence it was such a mark of hurry and
disrepect to appear in company ''travel-
stained. AL the Year Round.