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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-07-22
Strength and Diet.

The Roman soldiers, who built such
wonderful roads and carried a weight of
armor that would crush the average farm
hand, lived on coarse brown bread and
sour wine. They were temperate in diet,
regular and constant in exercise. The
Spanish peasant works every day and
dances half the night, yet eats only his
black bread, onion and watermelon. The
Smyrna porter eats only little fruit and
some olives. He eats no beef, pork or
mutton, yet he walks of with his load OF
800 pounds. The coolie, fed on rice, is
more active and can endure more than
the negro fed on fat meat. The heavy
work Of the world is not done by men
who eat the greatest quantity. The fast
est or longest winded horse is not the
biggest eater. Moderation in diet seems
to be the prerequisite for endurance.
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'CHUM PS"
Who Gather in the Ducats at the
EXPENSE of Suffering Humanity.
The GIaring Gall Exhibited by Non
Professional Frauds.

The country is flooded with bogus med.
icine men, and in few cases heavy
capital is all they have to sustain their
prestige Numerous cleyerly concocted
certificates are forced upon the unsus.
pecting, purporting to have "snatched
from the grave" some poor victim of
blood poison or other disease, when to
our knowledge the Identical persons lay
groaning in agony while the public were
reading of their remarkable recovery.
Another serious offense is the publica.
ton of erroneous statements concerning
various drugs, such as are daily pre-
scribed by our best physicians, declaring
them to be deadly poisons. Iodide of
potash, which seems to receive their
greatest condemnation, when prescribed
by physicians and in the proper combina-
ton with certain compounds, is not only
harmless, but forms one of the most pow.
erful antagonists to blood poison known
to the medical world. B. B. B. botanic
Blood Balm) contains iodide of potash.
This company hold hundreds of genuine
certificates from persons who have been
cured of various diseases arising from an
impure state of the blood by the use Of
B. B. B. The question now is, if iodide
of potash is such a terrible enemy to
health, why is it that the Blood Balm Co.
have made within two years the most
gigantic sales and cures ever before made
on American soil? Wherever introduced
it takes the lead of all Blood Remedies
for the cheap and speedy cure of all
Blood. Skin and Kidney Diseases, Scrof-
ula, Ulcers, Rheumatism, etc.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-07-22
Louisiana Sugar Plantations,

The sugar planter requires for his
cane plantation warm, moist climate,
with intervals of hot, dry weather, with
little danger from frost; soil not too
rich, containing lime and magnesia, and
of good drainage; and the benefit of sea.
breezes, salt in the air being better for
him than salt in the soil. The sugar
plantations of Louisiana find these con-
ditions in the aluvial soil of the lower
Mississippi Valley. In laying out an
estate, drainage must be carefully provid.
ed for, and in some countries irrigation
is much used. From one to four cuttings
are set out together in holes about Two
feet apart As the canes grow they must
be we'll weeded and "thrashed," I. e., all
dry, dead leaves removed. They begin
to grow in Louisiana in February, and
are harvested from October to January.
After the first cutting of the new plants
the stole or stoole left sends up another
growth of cane, called "ratooDs," which
with each cutting grow smaller in size
and closer in joints, and are said to yield
sweeter juice and finer sugar. The one
planting will last many years, but Louis
lana sugar.growers reckon only on three
years product, planting third of the
sugar ground anew each year. Rats,
white ants, lice, "borers," and some min.
ute animals producing "rust" and "must,"
fight against the growing plant, as also
do wind and frost. When cutting time
comes, the cane Is cut with hatchet
close to the stole, the top is chopped of,
and the leaves stripped; the canes are
then bundled up and carried to the
mill, often, on the large plantations, on
narrow donkey railways, or placed in
windrows, on the field, so that the juice
may not ferment until they can be han
died.
Louisiana plantations, when the crop
is in full vigor, are indeed lovely sight,
with their broad expanse of leafy cane.
Some Of them are of great extent, the
Magnolia Plantation, now owned by ex-
Governor Yarmouth, which claims to be
one of the banner plantations of the
State, having 1872 acres in cane last year.
In 1884 over 173,400 acres of cane
we're harvested in the State, the total crop
of 5000 tons of sugar, being one Of
the best made in the State but in 1SS4-5
floods spoiled SO much of the crop that
only 1850 acres were harvested, produc.
ing. $4,000 tons of sugar. The crop of
1866 is estimated at 10000 tons;
About 10000 freedmen are kept busy in
the sugar fields and mills. The planta-
tions are expected to yield from twenty
to twenty-five tons Of cane pei. acre,
though the average of the State In the
short crop of 1884-5 was but seventeen
tons. A good crop should produce
100000 tons of cane, and be worth to
the State from S12,500,G00 up. To this
Texas and the FIVE other States which
dabble in cane growing add little over
ten per cent.
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Old Enuland Outdone.

soDDY, Tenn, Nov. 8, 1884.
1 have had bad ulcer, or running sore,
for 20 years, which no doctor has ever
been able to heal. I was afflicted before
leaving England, and the doctors over
there could not cure me- For some time
I have been using B. B. B., and the
effects astonish every one, and I enclose
several pieces of bones which it has
worked out My health is rapidly i'm.
proving, ulcers nearly all healed, and l
am far better than I have been in 20
years. / will send you certificate soon.
Mrs. JENNIE WILLIAMS,
Near Chattanooga, Tenn.
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How Horses are Sometimes Trained.

s''As for Rarey, the most of his business
was trickery done by locusting and load
ing. Horses are awfully fond OF locusts
and carrots, and they will do almost any,
thing for them; but loading is the great
trick"
"What is loading?"
Loading is slipping about an ounce
weight of lead down the ears of the
horse. You slip load, to which a small
piece of string is attached, down the
horses ears, and no matter how vicious
the beast may be, it becomes dazed and
stupid when the load plugs its ears The
horse does not understand what has hap
pened to the world when he cannot hear
we'll, and he becomes as docile as you
could wish. When horse is loaded you
can yoke him or do anything you wish
him and he will not object 1t is thou-
sand times more merciful and far more
effective than the horrible plan of putt
ting twitch upon the ear or upon the
nostril, practice still INDUCED in by
some horse coupers. Leaden weights are
made for the purpose. Any small weight
will do, but it is better to have one made
to ft."-Interviea aciM a Trainer.
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aLone Star State"

DEXTER, TEXAS, June l6, 1885.
One of our customers left his
bed for The frat time in six months, after
using only one bottle of B. B. B. He
had scrofula of q terrible form, that had
resisted all other treatment. B. B. B.
now takes the lead in this section.
LIEDTKE Bros,
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She Ia Mot Dead.

It has been reported that I was dead
but am not. For four years I have
been afflicted with q severe case of Blood
Poison, Rheumatism and Neuralgia.
My flesh shrank away, my muscles seem.
ed to dry up and form into little knots,
joints were swollen and painful, and all
concluded / must die. I have used five
bottles of B. B. B. and have gained GO
pounds of flesh, and am now as sound as
any woman.
BELLE DUNNAwAY, Atlanta, Ga.
Send to Blood Balm Co., Atlanta, Ga,
for their Book of Wonders, free.
FOR SALE BY HILL BROS,
Anderson. S. @.
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- If you haven't decided where ] to
spend the summer, make up your mind
at once not to spend itlip Jail.
= The world may owe man a living,
but it is always best to 60 out and collect
it by little hard work. s.9
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MOTHERS FRIEND

Not only shortens the time of la
Dor and lessons the intensity OF
pain, but it greatly diminishes the
danger to life of both mother ana
child and leaves the mother in a
condition highly favorable to spec
dy recovery, and far less liable to
alarming symptoms incident to
slow or painful labor. Its wonder
full efficacy in this respect entities
it to be called "Mother's Friend
and to be ranked as one of the life
saving remedies of the nineteenth
century. s, a,so :,
will of course be understood that
we cannot publish certificates con-
cerning this remedy without woun-
ding the delicacy of the writers.
Yet we have hundreds of such tes-
timonials on file.
Send for our Treatise on "Healtll ant
Happiness of Woman" mailed free.
fuE BRADrIELD REGULATOR Co.,
For sale by wILHITE G. WILHITE It;
A nderson s. C.. w
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Keep carefully out ola quarrelsome
persons way, and still more carefully out
of-his ways.
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= "A number of Philadelphia ladies
have formed an association to do all
kinds of mending for bachelors. They
will find it difficult matter to mend the
boob a1oro, hahits
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= The slander of some people is as
good a recommendation as the praise Ct
Others.
Exercise caution in laying your
plans, but be bold in carrying them out.
- Mamma, why is papa bald?" II
am his fourth wife, darling"
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For sale by w1LHIrE 6 wILHILTd;E, HIT;
Anderson, S. C. VI
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kidney Diseases, Rheumatism, Etc.
4 :, s:,IEJDACuhAl
CONN ASTERG

Arc tho b,s. known remedy for hard and soft
cor,is aut! never full to cure. Price, 25 cents.
1cnHcu3a sMcnIEc
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The Indian is unable tosseparate the
soul from the body. with him death is
sMplg she,ssqpl5ing ofmot tions 1.-THE blow:
inslaMa%of the breath and thesgond out
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to be considered the greatest Spirit with
most of them. Ifan Indian be surround
ed by his foes, If aome friend orkin is at
the point of death, he will call, in this
time of sore need, upon this greatest and
most; mysterious force of: f:nature for aid,
promising to subject himself to physical
Suffering and torture, fasting and mutila-
ton, if succor is accorded him. He will
sometimes promise, to kill, as sacrifice,
his best horse.
This pledge is religiously kept, but I
have been told that frequently the Indian,
after escaping from danger and misery,
will make very judicious selection in
pickingpH the best horse from his herd.
One more ILLUSTRATION of the happy
way in which the Indian meets the grave
question 1as to- his:own and the white
mans futqre-life. a, ,ts..!.s5. 80
a methodist clergyman, accompanying
commission, and not only anxious to
spread the good seed, but curious, as: well,
to learn from the lips of the wild Indians
their views of the hereafter, asked the
chief to tell him what we're his beliefs in
regard TO the life after,death. The chief
gave him the usual picture of the pleas.
ant fields, white tepees, clear waters, and
abundance of game in the Indians heay,-
en, and tBen ID turn asked the minister
to,describe the white mans heaven, which
was done in glowing colors. The streets
Of f,gQld, - the gates of pearl were duly
depicted, but not stopping there, he went
on and pictured the flames of hell, and
described the lot of. the transgressors,
which would surely be FIRE and birthstone.
The chief stopped him and asked, "if
TWAS really true tnat all the whites who
played cards, swore, drank whisky, lied.
stole, ETC., would surely 60 to this place"
When answered in the affirmative, be
observed, with a smile Of satisfaction:
"Then won't be troubled with any OF
them in the next world; they will all be
burnt np.n s@
/ TIC minister had included all those
whom the chief had ever seen.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-12-24
FLORENCE AVER.
Her Sad Experiences and Their
Happy Termination

HERE is often seen
in human experience
an equity % pleasing
that it form 8 q
charming picture in
the great moral col
lection That justice
which is seen in Mac
beth or ShylOck is
not now IN mind; but
rather that in Gin
-y:s~~~o. 1o1 hnr
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from city, and had set forth in the morn
ing with too much confidence in himself.
At these words the kind widow brought
ample refreshments, but was not slow to
inform the visitor that there was too much
humanity in their cottage to admit Of her
taking money from such polite and edu-
Gated stranger. Martin made his best bow
and expressed the wish that this humanity
he had found could only cover all the
world.
But the hunter could put on only the form
Of q hungry man, for there came along the
porch toward him and his dog being Of
wonderful beauty. There seemed NO ele-
ment Of loneliness wanting. The hair was
fine, abundant, light-colored and only loose
ly caught up. The face had both physical
perfection and soul beauty Martin stood in
the presence Of q wonderful combination Of
thought and features, peach-blOOm and
education, large bright eyes and deep
sentiment, angelic form and faultless dis
position. He saw, as though magnified
thousand times, the child-radiance which
had long ago charmed him. With him con-
versation was almost impossible, but as she
placed her hand upon the head Of the dog
he said:
"The dumb animals seem to know what
q friend they have in the cultivated
woman"
The girl replied that If the dumb animals
could shape the education of both man and
woman they would make it the developing
Of good heart-a heart which should carry
the one wish-the happiness Of all hfe.
"You must pardon me, lady, if express
surprise at finding such a thoughtful girl liv-
ing here in seeming solitude. What is around
you to create or cheer such o wOmanhood
az YOU seem to DOSSesSg
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'That accounts for i'll Abner Jones,
you've been wasting your time and stock
making Christmas Jlmcracks for some
,ody's young 'unsl No wonder you hain't
got my rent ready, and I've got to go sup
PEERLESS to bed for the want of It'll But I'll
sue you-yes, I'll begin suit this very after
nOOnP'
The wagon-maker laid down his brush,
wiped the spots Of red paint of his fingers
with q handful of shavings, and then took
six dollars from his vest pocket and laid
the money down on the bench under old
Scarvin's nose.
"What! You going to payl Had it all
ready for me! Haven't tried to work in a
lad bill on me, ehl Say, Abner, mebbe /
was little hasty."
Mr.. Jones paid no attention to him.
Making cart, seel As yur haven't
got any young 'uns Of your own it's for
some one else"
cts for that widow Browns little girl,
Sarah"
Then you are q bigger fool than
thought for! The wilder Brown has had
two new dresses since her husband died,
and I've heard she was talking of q new
bonnet. You shouldn't encourage such
folks, Abner Jones-shouldn't do it."
ats the child, you know
"Oh! fudge! This making great hula
baloO about Christmas and presents and all
that thing is all bosh! Children don't ap-
preciate it, and it makes 'em vain and ex-
travagant. Well, must be going. This
weather is terrible on the wood. believe
burned all Of five sticks to-day. think
I'll come down after basket of blocks and
shavings."
"You are welcome to them"
"But the rent won't be any the less,
mind that, and shall want it the very day
it's due. You mustn't try to work off any
excuses on me, Abner Jones, for l won't
hear to 'em. said six dollars month for
year, and the SIX dollars is due the 18th of
every month at exactly midnight. Don't
try to cheat me, Abner Jones'"
"Peggetty, peg-leggetty, Leg" he
stumped down the street toward home.
When he had covered half the distance a
man opened a store door and called after
him, but at once excused himself by saying:
"Oh, it's you, is itf"
ayes, it's me! Thomas Green; did you
want to pay me that interest moneya~
"No; it ISM due until January 1st"
"And If you don't have it then you need
expect no mercy from me. oughtxo have
made out the papers so as 1t would come
due sooner, but I'll be around on time It's
duo at midnight on the 3lst, and don't you
forget thati II don't come at midnight
it's because am tender-hearted and don't
want to drive poor man to the wall.
What did you call me forf'
took you for Larkins."
"Oh, you didi What did you want Of
hint"
1--WE are making up shake-purse to buy
Christmas presents for the children at the
orphan asylum, and Lwanted him to chip
in. OF course wouldn't think Of asking
you."
ut wouldn't do you any good if you did
ask. don't 60 throwing my money away
on jimcraclks, and warn you again to have
that interest ready. itb $l4.75, and don't
throw OF > cent It's due at midnight on
the S1st-remember thats'
''Peggetty peg" he continued on his way,
and - he walked he soliloquized:
'Whas IN internal pack Of fools people
hes got 70 be, and how the country Is being
ruined by this extravagancs They amt
got nothing out Of me, however, and I don't
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move his body so that he could get better
view. The effort brought such sharp, cut
ting pain, that he moaned out:
s.GOod heavens! but must have a doc
tor! Won't you run down to the corner for
met"
mo, sir! A year ago, when Chips, the
carpenter, fell of a scaffold and was laid
up for three months and couldn't pay the
interest on a loan to you, you wanted to
take his very bed away, saying that it had
all come from his carelessness. You have
been careless; now take the conse-
Quences"
'sBut shall diev'
eOf course you will! And what if you
doa Let's see; it would be the proper thing
to toll the bell. The sexton, John Cham
bers, is good man, but he has been IN
fortunate. Two years ago he lost his three
children by scarletfever. His friends
made up o purse to help him out. When
you were asked to contribute you said
blankets were good enough to bury chill
dren in. Think ye John Chambers will
ring your years on his church bellf"
Old Scarvins uttered groan for reply.
"Your corpse should be dressed for the
grave. Tell me the name Of one single
man in this whole county who will volun-
teer for this workf"
Scarvins was silent.
"There should be watchers beside the
corpse. Tell mo the name Of one single hui
man being who would watch beside yours,
even for payf"
There was NO answer.
II can tell you how it will be-" continued
the stranger, carefully seating himself on
q rickety chair. You'll die alone and un-
cared for in this gloomy old house. It will
be days and days before you are missed, for
no one cares for you. When your body is
found the town will take charge Of it; the
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-12-24

"Ah,my dear sir, we children Of the woods
have always been schoOl-going children,
and are not our books like your books, full
of the souls of the great! Perhaps we have
in these hills more time than you city
youths enjoy for drinking in the spirit OF
genius. We commit to memory what you
perhaps only rapidly read"
Martin had at last no good excuse for
remaining longer, and acted as though he
was about to resume his sport in the fields;
but the dog had lain down in the glorious
sun Of an Indian summer noon, and after
false motion or two his master sat down
on the steps not far from the girl and her
mother. The mother had resumed some
kind Of needle-work, while the daughter
was standing as though wishing for more
exchange of thought with the genteel and
pleasing guest His face was manly, his
bearing soldierly, and his conversation full
of courage, and yet modesty. Martins
heart could hold its peace no longer. He
slowly took from his pocket the letter
which this beautiful woman had written to
him when both were children. He arose
and, with much emotion, handed it to its
author, and asked her to read it and tell
him whether the sentiments were still her
own. The girl, amazed, opened the old
worn sheet and read. When she came to
the words:
"Our hearts so bound together
VIII be thus bound forever"
she turned to her mother and uttering tho
words: " Martin Robinson" she went into
the parlor and falling by the sofa, cried
out: "Oh, is this dream or reality"
1t was many minutes before any one Of
the three could utter any but little SEN
fences, and these were broken by signs and
tears. But this was the end Of the mis-
fortunes of Florence Aver. On Christmas
morning she was married to the rich and
romantic hunter, and, having removed to
Cincinnati, she passed to all the happiness
which love and education and wealth can
bring.
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Wanted to Grind Her Axe First.

Wanted to Grind Her Axe First. ~
Rignold- Sister, think I'll ask pa TO.
night if he will buy me that flve-hundred
dollar chronometer we saw at Benediot's for
q Christmas present. I've been playing
goody goody for over month now.
Sister Arabella-I wouldn't tonight, Il
were you, dear. Pspa's had toothache al
day, and you know he's cross as q bear
when any thing ais him.
Rignold II he's got toothache
I'll put it OF q week.
= .
Sister Arabella In tie library rtA pa ts,
ssissstes ldter)-O you dear, darling pa; you
are 30 tired. You should take some recrea,
ton; you need it 80 much. Why don't you
drive out in the afternoonl and il you viii
buy me that seal-skin sacque I could e
with you.
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With the closing word the Gypsy led
Florence to the door Of the tent and, push
ing her gently, told her to cherish no fear
of the coming world festival, but face her
good destiny.
Away fastened all the group, each one
laughing over the folly Of the visit, but
each enjoying the mystery Of the place and
language. Martin Robinson, having left
his horse in the care Of neighboring
farmer, hunted for time and at last drew
near the soughtfor cottage, and, with As
much Difference and humility 6 became .
hunter and a stranger, he offered the
mother abundant pay if she would bring
him some simple lunch and some food for
his dog. He was 80 little accustomed to
hunting that he had become exhausted far
beyond what be had expected. he was