The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1883-05-10
STICKING TO THE OLD,
People Who Cannot Keep Step to tho
Music OF Time.
dUdntd Constitution.


AS the world grows older mankind be
comes more liberal in opinion and lea,
welded 20 prejudice and superstition
We rub against one another 80 close
nowadays, and talk so much and read 80
much that our conceit is weakening, and
we think more and think deeper than we
used to, and are more ready to absorb
knowledge. A man don't dare nova.
days to say anything is impossible. fol
many imp0ss;bi!ities have already been
performed. and we now live in state OF
anxious expectation as to what big thing
will come next. Still. there are some
folks who atubbornly refuse to fall into
line, and they stand by the old land.
marks. Not long ago passed by n
blacksmith shop away off in the country
aud there was horse doctor cutting the
hooks out of horses eyes to keep him
from going blind, and he get rery ;ndiE.
nant when / told him that the horse
books were all against it, and said Il
ought to be prohibited by law. heard
an old hardshell arguing against this
idea that the world turned over cvery
day, and he declared it was against com
mon sense and Scripture, and he wouldn't
let his children 60 70 school 70 .caru ar7
such nonsense, for he knowed that the
water would all spill out If you turned il
upside down, aud the Scripters said that
Joshua commanded the sun to stand still
aud it stood still, and he asked me how I
was going to get over the like of that. I
saw that the crowd was against me and
so replied: "Jesso. Jesse, my friend
And right then the wonderful change
took place. The sun used to 20 around
the earth, of course. but Joshua stopped
it and he never set it to going again and
it is there yet"
This weakened the old man little
and unsettled the crowd, and got away
from there prematnrely for fear the old
man would send for his Bible. Answer
fool according to his folly is O good way
sometimes. DR.. Harden told me about
his father raising rumpus a long time
ago in old Watkinsville by asserting that
all horses had bolts in 'em, and it was
according to nature and the bolts were
not disease, and a horse never died or
account of 'em. Old man Moore kent
the tavern there and he swore that Har.
den was luniack and 80 one day when
they were playing checkers in the tavern
storm came up and terrible crash was
heard, and pretty soon a darkey came
running in the house and told his mas.
ter that the lightning had struck his iron
grey horse and killed him. Old man
Aloore thought as much Of that horse as
he did of his wife, and the crowd all
hurried out to the lot to see him.
Moore was greatly distressed and used
bad language about the catastrophe, and
after he subsided little, Harden" says
he, "now Moore if you say 80 I'll cut
open that horse aud show you the bolts,
and l reckon that will settle it," So
Hoore agreed to it, and when he was OPEN
ed, and the bolts begin to cut their way
out and worm around, Harden looked at
Moore with triumphant satisfaction and
paused for reply. Moore had his hands
crossed behind his back and was gazing
intently at the ugly varminte, when sud-
denly he exclaimed, Harden, was
powerfully mad with tho lightning for
killing old Selim, but amt now, for If
the lightning hadent struck him I'll be
damned if them Internal bolts wouldn't
have killed him in thirty minutes"
Moore had q big 6ghting stump tail dog
by the name of Ratler and one day
little Italian come along with an organ
and monkey aud as the crowd gathered
around he asked the man If his monkey
could fight. "Oh, yes; he fight" said
the Italian: "Will ho fight dog9" said
Moore. "Oh, yes; he fight dog-he
whip dog quick" said the Italian.
h1oore pulled out five dollar bill and
said, "I'll bet you this that I've got q
dog he can't whip" The little fellow
covered it with another five and the
money vas banded over &c q stakeholder
and they went through to the back yard,
followed by half the folks in the little
town. There lay the dog on the grass
asleep, and at the word the Italian tossed
the monkey upon hiN. II less than
jiffey the little brute had his teeth and
his claws fastened like vice in the stump
of that dogs tail and was scTeeching like
a hyena. The dog gave but one aston.
ished look behind as he bounced to his
feet and made tracks for another country.
The monkey held on until Rather
sprung over tenral fence at the back
of the garden when he suddenly quit his
hold and set on the top rail, and watched
the dogs flight with chatter Of perfect
satisfaction and danced along tho rail
with delight. The crowd was convulsed.
They laughed and roared and hollered
tumultuously, oil but old man Moore
whose voice could be heard above all
others as he stood upon the fence and
shouted. "Here Ra.ler here. here; Here
Ks.'er, here Here Ratler, here" But
Ra..er wouldn't hear. Ratler ratified on
and on, across field after field. until he
got to the woods and was gone from hu.
man sight. The little Italian shouldered
his monkey affectionately, and walking
up to Moore said: "Your dog not we'll
to.day maybe your dog gone to hun.
'rsbbeet. Your dog no like my monkey
he not acquaint Maybe ven I come
again next year he come back and fight
some more. Ven you look for heem to
come back 2" Moore gave up the wager.
but he asserted solemnly that Rather
would have whipped the fight if he
hadn't have run. "The surprise was
what done it," said he, "for that dog has
whipped wild cats and bear and q she
wolf and every dog IN ten miles Of Wat.
kinsville." And all that evening aud
away in the night aud early next morn
ing an inviting mournful voice could be
heard at the back Of the garden calling
Ratler, Here, Ratier, here" and three
days after man brought Ratler home,
but he had lost his Integrity, and ne.er
could be induced to fight anything more.
Some men never give up a thing, and
some give up too much. Judge Bleckley
Gays that he is in the cautious, credu!ous
state about everything, and justlives along
serenely and waits for events. He says
that if man can hear the voice Of q
friend from New York to Boston by the
aid of telephone, why shouldn't ali the
other senses DO aided In like manner by
some invention, and hints that he
Wouldn't be surprised at an Invention that