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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1883-10-11

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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1883-10-11

Quick Sales & Small Profits.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1883-10-11
Oats, Oats.

eD Snn Bushels Of Genuine Rust
so scVO Proof Oats for sale cheap
BROWN BROS.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1883-01-18
WORDS OF WISDOM.

He who knows much has much to
care for.l
1t is better to lend without interest
than to give aims.
Enterprise loses strength if its ef-
forts bear no fruit.
Those who know the least of others
think the most of themselves.
What we are at home is pretty
sure test Of what we really are.
The more an idea is developed, the
more concise becomes its expression !;
the mere tree is pruned, the better
the fruit.
lie is a good man, people say
thoughtlessly. They would be more
chary Of such praise if they reflected
they could bestow none higher.
Never swerve in your conduct from
your honest convictions; decide be-
cause you have seen reason for de-
cision. and then act because you have
decide.
When we are in prosperity we are
ready to think our mountain will
never be brought low; SO when we are
in adversely, we are ready to think
our valley will never be filed up.
Give your child sound education
and you have done enough for him.
See to it that his morals are pure, his
mind cultivated, and his whole nature
snbservient to the laws that govern
man, and you have given him what
will be of more value than the wealth
of the Indies.
A ship on the broad, boisterous
and open ocean needeth no pilot.
But it dare not venture alone on the
placid bosom Of a little river, Lest it
be wrecked on some hidden rock. Thus
it is with life. IT'S not in our open,
exposed deeds that we SO much need
the still voice of the silent monitor, as
in the small, secret, everyday acts Of
our life.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1883-01-18
Some Bad Effecis y nYerwnrk.

The following is an extract from
Herbert Spencer's Gospel of Recrea-
ton" in Popular Science Menthly: !:
What | haveseen and heard during my
stay among you has forced on me the
belief that this slow change from ha-
bitual inertness to persistent activity
has reached an extreme from which
there must begin q counter-change-a
reaction. Everywhere / have been
struck with the number Of faces which
told in strong lines of the burdens that
had to be borne. l have been struck,
too, with the large proportion of gray
haired men; and inquiries have
brought out the fact that with you the
hair commonly begins to turn some ten
years earlier than with us. Moreover,
in every circle 1 have met men who
had themselves suffered from nervous
collapse due to stress Of business, or
named friends who had either killed
themselves by overwork, or had been
permanently incapacitated, or had
wasted long periods in erdeavors to
recover health. 1 do but echo
the opinion of all the OBJ
servant persons I have spoken to,
that immense injury is being done by
this high-pressure life-the physique
is being undermined. That subtle
thinker and poet whom you have
lately had to mourn, Emerson, says,
in his essay on the gentleman, that
the first requisite is that he shall be a
good animal. The requisite is a
general one-it extends to the man,
tothe father, to the citizen We hear
a great deal about 4 the vile body and
many are encouraged by the phrase to
transgress the laws Of health. But
nature quietly suppresses those who
treat thus disrespectfully one of her
highest products, and leaves the
world to be Eeopled BY the descendants
Of those who are not so foolish.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1883-01-18
Big Things in Agriculture.

A potato grown by Benjamin Myers,
near Lancaster, weighs fully four
pounds.
The largest cucumber on record was
raised at Jasper, Ga. 1t weighed thir-
ty-fve pounds.
Fifteen acres of corn in Franklin
county, Mo-, averaged seventy-five
bushels to the acre
An ear Of corn raised by J. G. Scott.
Pike county. Mo-, had twenty-four
rows and 1920 grains.
In Elizabethtown, Ky, a beet was
raised that weighed fifteen and a half
pounds and was two feet long.
A crop Of apples grown by DR.. De
Wyl, of Jefferson City, weighed on an
average twenty-five ounces each.
A Texas farmer gathered 2,700
pounds Of cotton from one acre and
the field has to be picked over again.
Seventeen acres OF land, belonging
to Samuel Amsden, in Brown county,
Dakota, produced 65Obushels Of wheat.
A stalk Of Sea Island cotton, at
Bronson, Fla. was nine feet in height,
and hal forty-two branches and $50
bolls.
An apple tree near Minneapolis
blossomed three times during the past
season and yielded two big crops Of
fruit.
In Webster, Nd. b. B. Denham
picked three crops of beans from the
same vines last season and they bios
somed for the fourth time.
Thirty-two watermelons from q sin
gle vine were gathered by J. +. Smith,
of Greenville. Ga Some of them
weighed tiirty-five pounds each.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1883-01-18

were arranging the supper-table.
The old lady herself, in pearls,
point lace, and the palest Of lavender
silks, stood in the middle Of the room.
receiving her guests. Major Larking-
ton himself was there, looking very
stiff and military, and an old-young
lady in dress exactly of the same
pattern Of Miss Delayigue's.
"You are late, Tom and Muriade,.
said the hostess, beamingly. 1.-THE
marriage ceremony was performed
half an hour ago. The major thought
he would rather have it over before
the guests began to arrive. Stop |
Don't congratulate mel I'm not the
bride. This introducing the old.
young lady with the profusion of curls,
and the slight soupcon of powder on
her cheek bones, sis Mrs. Major Lark
ington, and my old schoolmate, Helena
Dove, who has given me great pleasure
by accepting my hospitality on this oc-
casion."
Delighted, am sure !" stammered
Tom, staring with all his eyes.
Many congratulations II faltered
Muriade, scarcely less amazed.
And then they took advantage of
stream of newcomers, who monopo
lized the bridal pair, and taxed Miss
Delavigue with her duplicity.
"Sold," said Tom, succinctly, com
pletelyr'
"Aunt, how could you deceive us
SOP" said Muriade.
II didn't deceive you," said Miss
Delayigue, laughing. II said there
could be old fools as well as young
ones, and say so still. And you your
self mentioned Major Larkingtonl 1
didn't feel myself called upon to go
into any disclaimers, although / knew
then that he was engaged to Helena
Dove; and the only point L gained
was the certainty that my dear niece
and nephew were not heartless for
tune-seekers, but loved me just as
well as if they believed themselves
my heirs, as well as the conviction that
Tom Whitworth loved Muriade just
because she was Muriade and not the
rich old woman's only relation"
Miss Delayigue made her will the
next day and left all her money tc
Muriade and Tom, because she was
easy in her mind at last.
at was regular conspiracy" she
said; "but it revealed to me exactl.
what | wanted to know Helen For
rest Graces.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1883-01-18
NUMBER 2l.
FUN.

Agricultural item: Never cultivate
an acquaintance with rake
Any girl win tell you that gold ban
giles are warmer than worsted wrist
lets.-Picayune.
The new French rife will carry over
Two miles. and the bullets win travel
nearly as fast as a scandal Baltimore
Neacs.
A cynic bachelor, learning Of a slight
difficulty which had arisen between
newly-1narried couple. spoke of II ay
she war Of the Union. Z Salesman
A lady who owned retriever
Shot ducks on the lake Of Generas
She bagged seven hnndred,
But blushedso and blundered
In telling it. none would believe her.
A New Yorker has invented a na-
chine for playing the piano. Good
heavens, are there not girls enoughf
Isn't it time to have a lynching p
Boston Post
The sodiacal sign for the opening be
winter is goat. The goat is i hard
butter, and hard butter is almost al
ways sign that the weather is cold
PHILADELPHIA Neacs.
Astronomer Proctor declares that
Jupiter is In the state that our earth
was 100000 years ago. Those who
an remember back 34.000,0o0 years
viii understand what this means.
Mind reading: l. Think Of mum
Der. 2. Add 3O6 to it. g. Multiply
BY 4-11-44. 4. Divide by 800, 5.
Square the product. 6. Extract the
cube root therefrom- and then take the
person who thought of the nEmber
aside, and ask him to kindly tell YOU
what number he thought Of If he
complies with your request, boldly an
uounce the aforesaid number to the
audience. If he refuses, better give it
up on the plea of not being en- rapport
with the thinker. Puck.
Fashionable women who are addicted
to dogs now make their little daTlings
robes of the same material as their
own dresses, so the pair are exacEly
matched, intellectually; and socially. a
man habitually tied 70 4 dog is
boundIess nuisance whom 'twere base
iattery to hit with club, but a woman
dogmaniac is infinitely worse. You
can kick a mans dog out Of the house,
but when woman make q social cali
on you with her dog. into The honse
that yelper comes. scratches the tides
and sleeps on the sofa and gnaws the
ottoman, and there's social reyolu-
ton unless You affect to eaisE it.--
Fozokeye.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1883-01-18

seemed no chance for us 60 advance
further without meeting certain death;
but it would be death all the same If
we did not-such was my thought and
conviction at that moment. just as /
reached this point there was mo-
mentary lull, which made it possible
to be heard. and the words I then
spoke, or.rather shouted, are remem-
bered by me as though it were but
yesterday: s.Men if we don't take
Chapultepec the American army is
lost. Let us charge up the walls !"
A voice answered: 'We'n charge
if any one leads us r another adding
Eyes, we're ready
At that instant the three guns on
the parapet belched forth their deadly
showers almost simultaneously. My
heart bounded with joy at hearing
them GO off thus together. 1t was our
opportunity, and, quickly comprehend
ing it, leaned over the scarp which
had sheltered us, calling out: Come
on I'll lead you p
1t did not need looking back to know
that / was followed. The men I had
appealed to were not the sort to stay
behind, else they would not have been
there, and all came after. When about
half way across the open ground | saw
the parapet crowded with Mexican ar
tillierists, in uniform Of dark blue
with crimson facings, each mus
ket in hand, and all aiming,
as | believed, at my own person.
There was a reason for their so con-
centrating their fires which / need not
here enter into. The volley was almost
as one sound, and / avoided it by
throwing myself fiat along the earth,
Just in the nick of time, only getting
touched on one of.the fingers Of my
sword-hand, another shot passing
through the loose cloth of my overalls.
Instantly on my feet again, 1 made
on to the wall, there to get tumbled
over by the bullet of an escopet, about
an ounce in weight, that went tearing
through my thigh. But only few
scattered shots were fired after, as the
scaling ladders now came up; some
scores of men went swarming over
the parapet, and Chapultepec was ours.
My lieutenant, Hypolite Dardonville, a
young Frenchman, modest as brave,
dragged the Mexican flag down from
its staff. He died some fourteen years
ago in the city of New York, without
any record of the deed or word said
about it-save in an obituary penned
by my own hand in an obscure maya
zine of which 1 was the editor.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1883-01-18
POPULAR SCIENCE.


Two hundred and forty-four earth
quakes, it is stated, are known to have
occurred during 1881, Of which eighty
six were in winter, sixty-one in au-
tumr, fifty-six in spring, and forty-one
in summer.
The record of thunder-storms kept
at the Pic du Midi observatory was re-
Gently examined, when it was found
that Of the 184 thunder-storms OBJ
served from 1873 to 1882, only twenty
three were produced at height above
200 feet.
The startling discovery has been
made by N. Pasteur that the saliva Of
a person fasting is venomous, as it
contains parasites which win inoculate.
Breaking the fast depriyes the saliva
Of its poisonous quality. as the pari-
sites are then taken into the stomach
with the food. The eminent biologist
gives for the present only the fact, and
makes no attempt at explanation.
In Eschershausen, in Germany,
farm, the soil Of which is rich in al
kalies, has for twenty years been ma
nured only with artifcials. The
crops have always been good, and only
falling off in straw has been no
ticed when "silica'' plants were grown
for four or five years in succession,
but the original yield has been OBJ
tanned when a lime" plant had been
introduced into the rotation.
In the course Of a comparison Of the
size Of the planets, a somewhat imagi-
native astronomer remarks: "Apply
the principle that attraction is in pro-
portion to the mass, and man who
weighs $50 pounds on the earth
weighs 396 C. Jupiter, and only fifty
eight on Mars, while on the Asteroids
he could play with boulders for mar
bles, hurl hills like Milton's angels,
leap into the ffth-story windows
with ease, tumble over precipices
without harm, and go around the lit
tie worlds at seven jumps"
A curious observation regarding
hailstorms has lately been brought be-
fore the Swiss Geographical society at
Geneva by Herr Riniker, the chief
forester Of Canton Aargau. He main
tains that hailstorms do not occur
where there are forests, and instances
the case of a small chain of noun
tains in the south of Aargau known
as the Lindenberge which arenormally
completely covered with trees. About
twenty years ago the forest was di-
yided into two places by wide gaps,
and Immediately afterward the val
leys were visited by frequent hail
storms. Fourteen years ago the larger
Of these two open spaces were
planted with frs, since which time the
hailstorms have entirely ceased. Herr
Riniker is inclined to attribute the
phenomenon to electric action. sug-
gesting that the hail and trees being
charged with opposite kinds Of cleo
tricity, their union gives rise to suf-
ticient heat to prevent congelation of
watery particles.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1883-01-18
Old Hickoy,s wife.


When General Jackson was candl.
date for the presidency, in 1923, sons
papers not only abused him personally,
but attacked the character Of his wife.
On one occasion anewspaper published
in Nashville was placed upon the ger
erals table. He glanced over it, and
his eyes felrupon an article in which the
character Of Mrs. Jackson was violently
assailed. So soon as he had read II be
sent for his trusty old servant, Dun
woodie.
SADDLE my horse" said he to him,
IN whisper, "and put my holsters "a
him"
Mrs. Jackson watched him, and
though she heard not word she saw
mischief in his eyes. The general
went out after few moments. when
she took up the paper and understood
everything. she ran out to the south
gate Of the Hermitage, by which the
general would have to pass. she lad
not been there more than = Jew Sec
onds before the general rode up with
the eountenance of a madman. ShE
placed herself before the horse and
cried out (:
"Oh. general, don't go to Nashville
LET that moor writer ive.D
LET me alone he replied; how
came you to know what was golnf
for9"
She answered: II saw 1t lin tk
paper after you went out: put up YOU.
horse and go back"
He ereplied furionsly: But 7 win g.
get out Of my way
Instead Of this she grasped Ill britl
with both hands.
He cried to her: !" say let 60
horsel The villain that Eeyiles-s
wife shall not live r.
She grasped the reins the tizht l1A
andrbegan to expostulate #ith hirH
saying that she was the &c Wieh
ought to be angry, butthat she forea' g
her prosecutors from the bottom aF-
her heart, and prayed for them In .'f
Ne should forgive il he hoped IN NJ.
forgiven. AT last. by reasoning Va N
entreaties and her tears. sheso WORK NE
upon her husband that he le'nfal'
Modified to certain extent. is
wound up hy saying Te
No- general, fo0 shall nut taan
the life Of my reTiler--yon dare rffle
10 it; for it is written. Yenezs
IS mine, l win repay, saith the Lord
The iron-nerved hero gave MVT
fore the pleading 0f his beloved m
and replied w
II yield to you but Had Ii w
been for you and tie words 81 E
Almighty. the wretch should mai '''t
lived an hour 2Rh
lU
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1883-01-18
She ubeyed an Impulse.

The following story, told in the
columns of the Baltimore american.
is said to be true. If it is, it shows
how much stranger than fiction is real
life: Fifteen years ago the daughter
of rich and prosperous man, living
in fine style on Fifth avenue, New
York, went out in carriage, osten-
sibIy on shopping expedition. At
Stewards store she left the carriage,
and her coaclman waited over two
hours, until finally, becoming anxious,
he made inquiries. The young lady
had disappeared, and though a great
deal of money was spent and much
effort made to discover her
there was no trace. Ten years
passed, and the detective who had
worked on the case, very faithfully
and anxiouslF, rose by degrees to the
rank of police captain. One cold night
just after Christmas, four or five of his
officers entered the station with eight
or ten intoxicated women in their Gus
tody. One or two were crying over
their arrest and the prospect of a
prison; others were fierce in their
oaths at the interference of the police
with their orgie, while others again
were sulky. Standing little apart
from the group of prisoners, the cap
tain noticed a tall woman Of about
thirty, and he saw that she had once
been beautiful. though now her face
was disfgured by bruise on the cheek
and a black welt under the eye. There
was, however, an air Of refinement
about the woman that attracted the
police captain, and he eyed her GU
riously while the sergeant recorded
the names Of the prisoners. Suddenly
the woman beckoned 10 him.
Captain, do you know me?" was
her question.
"No."
Didn't you once try to find Miss
Grace --? ?"
"Yes.v
Well, I'm she. / ran away just
out of pure deviltry, and I've had my
full share of it,
GOOD heavensl Why did you do it ?"
"Oh, / don't know. The notion
came into my head and I obeyed the
impulse
And whore have you been all this
time?''
Right here in the ward, under
your very nose. Ystt never suspected,
though saw you osten enough.
And | ase you not repented of the
step2"
Repentedi" and the word thrilled
in the captains ear like the wall Of q
lost soul. Repentedl Oh, God, yes
But it was TOO iate.s
It's never too late
!" Yes it is. But it's not too late to
die And before the captain could
prevent she had drawn a small pistol
and shot herself. The poor creature
lived for two days, and when she died
| it was in the arms Of her father. The
| = ~. 4 i. - : &. 49, 4 : = -. 4 =
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1883-01-18
FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.

Since l843 an average Of SIS earth
quakes year has been known to oc-
cur.
When elephants are tanned the tusks
do not grow SO long and the ivory is
not Of so fine quality as when the
animals are in wild state.
A superstition prevails in Devon
shire, England, that any one neglect
ing to kill the first butterfly he may
see for the season win have i'll luck
throughout the year.
In the Malay Peninsula traveller
found the smallest coin in the world.
1t is a minute wafer made of the juice
of tree. One such coin is worth
about the millionth part of a dollar.
The Roman Emperor Valens was
burned alive in 378 by the Goths.
He was wounded in a battle fought
near Adrianople, and sought refuge in
a peasants hut, to. which the savages
set fire.
The Egyptians seldom used lime
stone or alabaster for colossal or life
size statues, for which they employed
colored granite diorite, syenite and ba-
salt. Burnt and glazed clay was en-
ployed for small images.
The rate Of vibration Of the rattle
snakes tail has been determined by
DR.. 0tt to be sixty per second. The
method of experiment was to attach a
pen to the snakes rattles, the record
being received on a revolving drum.
On the back Of Miss Della Moncrieff,
of Boston, is burned in by lightning
representation of the large elm tree
which stands within few feet Of a
piazza, where she was sitting when
the house was struck by thunderbolt.
She suffered no injury whatever.
Professor Kaposi, of Vienna, has in
troduced continuous baths for skin af-
fections. The patient is placed in
them on mechanical bed, and remains
there for fifty or one hundred days,
not only taking his meals, but sleeping
while thus immersed in water. The
Progres Medical pronounces them sue
cessfnl and recommends their intro
duction into the Paris hospitals.
Pliny informs us that the art of
making glass was accidently discovered
by some travelling merchants who had
large quantity Of inter with them.
Not finding stones to rest their kettles
upon, they employed some pieces Of
inter for that purpose. The inter,
gradually dissolving by the heat of the
FIRE, mixed with the sand, and a trans
parent matter flowed, which was glass.
In ancient Egypt when cat died in
the house the inhabitants shaved
their eyebrows; if a dog died they
shaved their whole body. In Athens
one Of the laws Of Triptolemus de-
clared that no one had right to in
flict a wrong upon a living creature.
The Greeks were aware of the tender
and afTectionate care which the young
of the stork exhibited for their old
parents, and recorded that, when the
latter lost their feathers from age,
the young stripped themselves of
their down for them, and fed them
with the food they collected. This
was the origin Of the Greek law
called t" the law Of the stork.' by vir-
tue of which children were obligated
to take care of their aged parents, and
those who refused to do so were de-
clared infamous.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1883-01-18
The Burden Of the water.

The voices of brooks and of fountains,
The burden of h0untiful streams
The cataract hurled from the mountains,
With the rainbow's miraculous beams
How secrets of JOY and of sorrow,
The records of forest and fem
A language no poet may borrow
To read its rich meaning to meni
And when, through long distance undaunted.
The deep rivers roll TO the main,
And the sea-winds above them have chanted
Weird poems of passion or pain
The tides, in their rythmic emotion,
To the gathering waters unfold
The infinite grief of the ocean
On the breast of the pillows outrolled.
-Willidns II. Hayne.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1883-01-18

Dogs, under favorable circnm-
stances. live to be thirty years Old, Z
says an exchange. g Favorable cir
eumstances " probably means . family
without boys Or neighbors.