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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-03-18
SuperStiti0nS.

If the sun shines while it is raining it
is sign that Satan is whipping his wife.
1t is bad sign for q cat TO get into a
cradle.
1t is bad luck for deformed cat to be
born on the place, unless it is drowned
at once.
When dog dreams before fire it is a
sign that q witch is trying 10 get in the
house. The way to keep the witch out
is to throw salt in the fire.
A horseshoe nail stuck in crack will
keep witches out.
If sparks fly out from the fire place it
is sign that your enemies are conspiring
against YOU.
If 4 chunk Of fire rolls out on the
hearth strangers are coming.
II ~ twig or bush gets caught in wo'
ma,l'~ ,.ress and is dragged after her it is
y siga tli:,t she has asweetheart.- Youths
Companion.
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Temperance i'll the South.

Ex.Gov. John P. St. John,- of Kan
sas, late prohibition candidate for the
presidency, delivered temperance ad-
dress in New York recently, in which he
gaze a glowing description of the pro-
gress of that cause in the South. He
confessed that, having been reared in the
cradle of abollionism, he grew up with
what he considered an eternal prejudice
ard hatred of the South, and particularly
of southern slave owners and democrats,
and he admitted that these impressions
would have lasted through life but for 8
recent tour through that section. In
Kentucky his meetings were attended by
immense audiences, and there he learned
that the Legislature had enacted law
that no liquor saloon could be tolerated
within four miles Of any school house.
In several counties where he expected to
find whisky saloons at every cross'road
he found the law Of prohibition in full
force. lie found pretty much the same
state of affairs in Tennessee. At Corinth
Miss, he found that there was not a
liquor saloon in the place, and all over
the State he found the majority of the
people, both white and black, in favor of
prohibition, and according to population
about one saloon to ten in the North. In
Alabama the outlook was most promising
while in Georgia out of 1874 counties, III
had enacted prohibition laws. Mr.. St.
John conftsses that lie "rever met a
more generous hearted or hospitable peo.
ple," and that his "prejudices have given
place to admiration" and lis "life.long
hatred to love for such people"
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The Cost of Drinks.

Temperance advocates tell us that if
everybody would stop drinking beer and
whisky, business would Immediately re-
vive. That sounds like an overdrawn
statement, but it has often been shown
that those who drink pay more money
into the Golfers of the saloons than the
whole country pays in taxes. If it were
M! so evident that the appetite clouds
the reason it would appear amazing that
men, who will haggle over few cents
ir the price of a pair of boots, which are
sold at very small profit, or will buy
adulterated coffee because it is o little
cheaper than the genuine, will pay im-
mense profits on the beer or whisky they
drink without a thought of the way in
which they are imposed upon. The fol-
loving statistics are quoted to illustrate
this drain upon the drinker: A glass
of beer costs five cents. There are $40
glasses in barrel, so that the retailer re-
ceives sS2 for every barrel of beer he
draws. The profit is something like 400
per cent. at least 100000 barrels of
beer were consumed in this country last
year, for which the drinkers paid the ag-
gregate of s4SO,O0O,oOO. Whisky and
other strong drinks average seven cents
glass, or S4.4S a gallon at retail.
About 100000 gallons were imbibed
in this country last year, the drinkers
paying therefor nearly $350,o0O,o0O.
Imagine the hullabaloo that would be
raised if the retailers of groceries and pro-
visions charged such tremendous profits
on their goods. Nov supposing this
SS00,OOO,0OO spent yearly for drinks that
do no good were saved or spent for articles
of use and real comfort. That vast sum
would buy good suit of clothes for
every man in the land, give every woman
a decent dress and bonnet, and clothe
and shoe every child. The economic use
of sSOO,0OO,Oo0, put where it would do
the most good instead of where it does
the most evil, are incalculab!e, and those
who tell us that business would at once
revive il everybody stopped drinking do
not appear to be very far out of the way
afte- all.-Springfeld Union.
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A Cowarlly, Contemplate Saying.

"a woman is at the bottom of every
mischief"
So say legion of noodles who know
not what they say, and who think they
think, when they only repeat what they
have heard others say before them.
Do these faddists ever reflect that there
are two kinds of people in the world,
male and female, and as they generally
associate together, it is probable that
every occurrence will directly or indi.
rectly involve some individuals of both
sexes?
But unfortunately for the faddists there
are some conditions of life in which their
theory can be thoroughly tested. In
the Californian and Australian gold min
ing regions they had no women, and yet
if our memory serves US right their days
and nights were not altogether passed in
halcyon simplicity, but on the contrary
their camps were scenes Of fighting, stab
bing, gouging, shooting, lynching and
bloody murder generally.
On board ship they have no women to
make mischief, and yet they are not
entirely lamblike in their relations, living
together in brotherly love and harmony.
The soft answer is often Delaying pin,
and the hand of fellowship is frequently
at the end of a yard arm.
Now, if the opposite were the popular
expression that "there is a man at the
bottom of every trouble" it would be
much more difficult 10 disproye.
No, the oft-quoted saying is 3 false,
cowardly and contemplate one, and q
disgrace to the whole male sex. 1t shows
that men are ashamed to assume the
responsibility ftheir own evil deeds, and
meanly try to shuttle them off on the
shoulders of poor weak women.-7ccas
Sviinys.
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Jackson ut Manassas Junction.

E, All this time we had the vaguest no.
tions as to our objective; at first we had
expected to strike the cnemy's flank, but
as the march prolonged itself, a theory
obtained that we were going to the valley.
But we threaded, Thoroughfare gap,
heading eastward, and in the morning of
the third day (Aug. 27l struck q railroad
running North and South-Pope's cline
of communication and supply" Ma
nassas was ours
What prize it was! Here were long
warehouses full of stores; cars loaded
with boxes of new clothing en- ronte to
Gen. Pope, but destined to adorn the
"backs of his enemies;" camps, suffers
shops-"no eating up" of good things.
In view of the abundance, it was no easy
matter to determine what we should eat
and drink and whcrewithal we should be
clothed; one was limited in his choice to
only so much as he could personally
transport, and the one thing needful in
each individual case was not always read
lily found.
However, as the day wore on, an
equitable distribution of our wealth was
effected by barter, upon crude and
irregular tariff in which the rule of sup.
ply and demand was somewhat compli.
Gated by fuctuatiug estimates of the i'm
minence of marching orders. A mount
ed man would offer large odds in shirts
or blankets for a pair of spurs or o
bride; and while in anxious quest of a
pair of shoes I fell heir to case Of cav
airy half.boots, which I would gladly
have exchanged for the object of my
search. For change of underclothing
and a pot of French mustard l owe
grateful thanks to the maj'r of the
Twelfth Pennsylvania cavalry, with
regrets that could not use his library.
Whisky was of course, at high premi-
um, but keg of "lager"-a drink less
popular then than now-wcnt begging
in our company.
But our brief holiday was drawing to
close, for by this time Gen. Pope had
some inklipg of the disaster which lurked
in his rear. When some time after dark,
having set fire to the remnant Of the
stores, we took the road to Centerville,
our mystifcation as to Jackson's plans
was complete. Could he actually be
moving on Washington with his small
force, or was he only seeking escape to
the mountains? The glare of our big
bonfire lighted up the country for miles,
and was just dying out when we reached
Centreville.-Alan G. Redwood IN the
Century.
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A s2o,ooO,oOe Gift.

Senator Leland Stanford, of California;
has decided to increase his contributions
to the college which he founded in Cali
foruia in honor of his dead sons memory
to the enormous sum of $20,0O0,0 900.
This, if true, will be the largest endow-
ment ever made to any college in this or
any other country. The Senator's gifts
to the college already aggregate one.
fourth of this amount. He has no other
children, and the death of his son has
left him in condition of mind where
he thinks only of making his boys mem.
ory great. The son was promising
young man. Hehad imbibed his fathers
grasp of great enterprises and was pre-
pairing to make himself a name and fame
when he was taken down with his fatal
illness. The scheme which he had
undertaken was to build a railroad from.
Constantinople, through Turkey in Asia,
and down. the historic Valley Of the
Euphrates to the Persian Gulf. Such q
road will some day be built by England
as a military necessity, to secure the
nearest possible communication with her
possessions in India. II would BRING
London within six days of Bombay, and
revolutionize the entire Indian trade.
Senator Stanford had exertcd his perso-
nal influence and political relations to-
secure for his son the necessary cences
sons and grants from the Sultan, with
the encouragement of the English Cow
ernment and capitalists, and there was a !
lair prospect that the enterprise would;
have taken shape this year. After young
Stanford's death the Senator laid the
project before Gen. Grant as offering az
opening for one Of the Generals sons to
distinguish himself and make a fortunes,
but the Generals financial troubles cans
on him before anything could be done iriS
the matter.
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Indignant Mormon Women.

SALT LAKE CITY, March IA large
meeting Of Mormon women was held in
the thcater yesterday. Many speeches
were made and protest adopted. The
speakers uphold the right Of women to
go into polygamy, ard said that the
thousands of disreputable women in the
East would be glad 10 be made wives,
such as the speakers were. They main
tanned that the government had no right
to say that women should not marry, and
it might as we'll take the opposite course,
compel virgins from the cloister to marry.
Such social preferences should be re.
spected, and the government had no
right to interfere. The protest declares
wonanhood had been outraged in the
courts by questions about expected ma
ternity, the fathers of children, etc. The
suffrage was declared to be the vested
rights of women here, and should not be
attacked. An emphatic denial was made
that they voted otherwise than according
to their free will. The "roble women
who had refused to answer the questions
propouuded by the courts were eulogized,
and the action of Judge Zane and United
States Attorney Dickinson, in requiring.
testimony from legal wife against her
husband in the unlawful cohabitation.
cases, was condemned. The wives and
mothers of the United States were called
upon to come to the assistance of the
women of Utah in their resistance TO Y
interference with their rights. A COM
miitce was appointed to memorable the
president. One enthusiastic speaker was :
desirous of knowing whether the Feder|
al officers and courts would persist in tKirA
present course after reading our protest"
Another speaker said she held the 'horde
of petty officials" in contempt.
In four days more the Legislature
must adjourn: and no progress has yet
been made toward assimilating the laws
of Utah with the national statutes. ALL
the propositions tend in the contrary
direction. The deadlock between TIE
governor and the Legislature is still
unbr0ken.
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deal of trouble and anxiety Sill :e the war
for his new { lrdians made a fool of him,
but now there are forces at work that
will sooner or later settle him down
where his nature and interests assign him.
1t is slow process but it is sure-the
mills of the Gods grind slowly.
One thing is sure, the negro has done
and is now doing vast amount of uscfr',
progressive work at the South. He does
all the heavy work of building railroads
and canals, and mining for ore, and
cutting timber, and making cotton and
rice, aud sugar cane. He is willing
worker and makes no strikes and has no
envy of the rich. He is the only crea.
ture that is absolutely without envy of
the rich. He will steal to crafty imme-
diate wants but not from envy. He has
no communism in his nature. Iu fact,
he has more respect for rich man than
for poor one or for himself. The great
issue between capital and labor does not
concern him or disturb him or disturb
his slumbers. I have great respect for
our white laborers, our farmers and
mechanics. ALI the sympathies OF my
nature are with them, but when read of
their exactions and denands-as made
upon Mr.. Mccormick am disgusted
with labor unions. When they tell him
he must not employ anybody outside of
their union, it shocks the judgment of
mankind. I admire his spunk for shutting
down and turning them all out. l saw
Mr.. Sam Noble do that once at Rome.
The union sent committee to wait upon
him and notify him to discharge an ap-
prentice, and will never forget the tow
ering rage and Indignation that took
possession of him.. They got away from
there quick and he discharged the whole
concern for insulting him with such
demand. Labor and capital have got to
work together iu harmony and each must
be reasonable. If capital was always
kind and considerate there would be little
need Of unions. If labor was never
imperious nor unreasonable it would
always get the sympathy of mankind.
But we will not solve the negro prob
lem right away. Let us wait few days
longer. The chaingang is diminishing
in numbers, and yet saw convict on
the train last week who was going for.
three months for stealing blacksmith's
punch that cost ten cents. For the like
of that we could have almost half the
race in shackles within the next twelve
months-and we could thin out the
white folks powerfully if all their little
cbeatings were punished. We are mean
enough all round, but if had the dead
sure proof on that darky who stole Carl's
gun Christmas while I was away of in
Florida, I wouldn't bother the courts
with him but I would tie him up behind
the barn and give him forty lashes save
one, and he would let those gun alone
the next time. We are morally certain
who did it and have reason to believe he
intended to bring it back after he had
his big rabbit hunt with the other Mig
gers, but he got scared and don't do it.
He didn't mean 10 steal it, but the gun is
gone all the same. A good whipping
gives more satisfaction all round than the
chaingapg, and costs less time and less
money. BILL ARP.
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"A Disguised Soldier.

An Irishman serving in the United
States army in Texas and belonging to
the infantry was in the habit of standing
with his toes pointing inward, to remedy
which the sergeant continually addressed
him while on parade with, "Stick out
your toes, Patrick" 1t took Patrick
years to acquire the habit of sticking his
toes out. Just about the time lie had
succeeded he was transferred to the cav
airy, where his habit of sticking out his
toes interfered much with his usefulness
as horseman. The sergeant was con
tinually calling to him: "Stick in those
toes, Patrick" much to his disgust, and
he exclaimed with some emphasis I:
"Plague take such a sarvice. For five
years it was nothing but stick out your
tnes PstricE, and now lis stick in your
toes, Patrick There is no pazin' tie
backgu.rds."
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Stepping Stones to Success

Learn your business thoroughly.
Keep tt one thing; in nowise change
Always be in haste, but never in q
hurry.
Observe system in all you do and un-
dertake.
Whatever is worth doing at'all is worth
doing well.
One to-day is worth two to morrows.
Be sei:-rcliant; do not take too much
advice, bu: rather depend on yourself.
Never r:.il to keep your appointments,
nor to be panctual to the minute.
Never be idle, but keep your hands or
mind usefully employed, except when
sleeping.
Use charity with all be ever generous
in thought or deed help others along
life's thorny path.
He that asc"nds the ladder must take
the lowest round. All who are above
were onci. below.
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= An old farmer observes that "a fast
walking horse is Of much greater value
practically TO every farmer and to every
man who has much use for horse than
a fast trotter." 1t is strange that there
are not moro premiums offered for fast
walkers.
- Absolute s.agnation does not exist
anywhere in the ocean, not even at the
greatest depths.
Want of care DOS more damage
than want of knowledge.
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Mr.. EDITOR: Your reference to MIR.
Kennedy in the Teachers Column re-
minds me Of an incident that occurred at
old Thalion. "Old Boss" was in the
habit Of opening school with prayer, and
on this occasion one of the students,
standing in the rear and not having the
fear Of God and "Old Boss" before his
eyes, thoughtlessly inserted his finger in
the locks of "Old Boss's" hair, and,
almost before he had time to think, the
old gentleman whirled and brought him
such slap as to upset his centre of
gravity. He thought, perhaps, that
lightning had struck somewhere in his
vicinity.
When fights occurred between any of
the students, it was sold Boss's" custom
to call in the entire school and give the
matter thorough, judicial investigation,
and when he had satisfied himself who
was to blame, he would give the offender
the choice of taking his hand or OF leav'
ing the school. The writer has often
seen him soundly box the ears OF grown
ycrcg men on such occasions. He was
stern aud rigid in his discipline, and yet
out of the school room he was exceed
ingly polite and courteous toward his
Students.
cold Thalion" stood on the land OF
Dr.. J. w. Earle, just at The 18th mile
post from Anderson, and just in front OF
it we're Eve or six little studios, as they
we're called, with chimneys to them,
built for the use of the students. Time
has wrought great changes there. There
is not vestige of the Academy LETT
EXCEPT mound of earth where one of
th. chimneys stood. Where the studios
were is pine thicket, and part OF the
old background is cotton patch.
One OF THE STUDENTS.
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"A remark made by Gen. Logan
when he heard of Gen. Hancock's s death
seems almost a prophecy when thought
of in connection with Senator Miller's
death. Gen Logan said: Death has
been too busy in the ranks of the Demo.
cracy for lis TO escape much longer.
Some of us must 60 next"
: Father" asked little Johnny, "w!y
i it that they always begin the legisla
tive session with prayers p; Il don't
know, my son." replied his father, Gun
less it is to sort O. blind the eyes of the
Lord to what is done after the prayer is
ended"
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= Court your girls mother, father and
sisters aud find out what they are. 1t is
just an accident il you get a first rate
wife Gu; of third-rate family. Now,
put that down. Some of us here are
raising wives for somebody that will be
Tartars. The man who gets your daugh.
ter may be like the Irishman who said:
eff l die thore will be one fellow that
will regret my DEATH" "Who will that
bc?" at will be the fellow that gets
my widow. ."-Rcu Sam Jones'
: At ReJdich, Germany, $4,000 per-
sons are engaged in making needles
The total production Of needles in the
word is 2Oo,OoO,COO per week, or 10000
100000 per year.
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Naked and Starving.

LONDON, March 10.-The Government
has placed gunboats at the service of Mr.
Tuke in his work Of relieving the distress
among the Inhabitants of the islands.
along the Western Irish coast. hide.
scribable distress has been developed
among the people inhabiting the Arrani
Isles, off Galway, who, besides having
hardly anything but moss and sea grass
left to eat, are without fire and often
without clothing and shelter. tits not
rare to find girls of seventeen and eigh-
teen kept in enforced hiding during the
day time because bereft OF every thread
of clothing, long ago bartered away for
seed potatoes or roots to feed the smaller
children. Fishing Inspector Brady re-
Gently went among the miserable people
of Arran to distribute relief furnished by
an organization of Irish police. His
funds ran short to-day, and he still had
so much pitiable wretchedness 10 relieve
that he appealed to NIr. Bussey, who is
charged with the distribution OF the fund
raised in America through the New York
Sun for the impoverished fishermen Of
Achill and BoAin Islands, and begged him
to divert part of his store for the benefit
of the Arranese. This Mr.. Bussey was
permitted to do, and he reports that in
order to save the lives OF scores ofpeople,
now dying of starvation in those Western
islands, it is imperative that relief "a a
large scale be at once organized.
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= Tom Dickson is San Antonio
youth of about seventeen who has not
yet grown mustache. He is also very
small physically He has been paying
considerable attention to a young lady
and finally he proposed: "Miss Mary, 1
love yau", he said, sinking down on his
knees. "You had better speak with
your pa and see if he will give his COL.
sent" was the cutting reply.
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= Judging from the remark of the
Pawnee Press the prodigal sou business
is certainly played out in Nebraska. 1t
report. rat young son of Il rich farmer,
who ran away from home and became a
hog tender. was recently eaten by his
charges while asleep in a strawstack.
= The United States Government
issues four thousand different books q
year.
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|, FEW EXAMPLES OF QUAINT say
INGs IN THE SOUTH.

Some years ago Richard Grant White
wrote delightfully."- interesting book on
Americanisrs. He might well havo
.di. :ded the subject into two parts: Yau,
skesjsns and southernisms. Absolute
rrectness in pronunciation, or in the
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Il hope for resurrection, not from
any power in nature, but from the will
of the Lord God omnipotcnt, who made
nature and me. He created man out of
nothing, which nature could not. He
can restore man from the dust-nature
cannot. And hope for holiness ard.
happiness in future life-.not from aHy
thing I have said or done in the body
but from the merits aud mediation Of
Jesus Christ. He has promised his in
tercession to all who seek it, and He will
not break His word That intercession
ooce granted cannot be rejected, for He
is God and His merits infinite. A mans
sius are but human and finite. Him
that cometh to me l will in no wise cast
out" eff any man sin, we have an ad-
vocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the
Righteous, and Ee is the propitiationfo for
our sins."- Charles Redde.
A tramp went into house in
Missouri and spit On the parlor carpet.
The woman was sick in bed, but she got
up and broke his collar.bone and ran
! him to the woods.