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The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-02-10
Why Not?


Will any living man explain why
the government should not issue all
our money direct to the people? Why
should we have banks of issue, STAGE
Or national? Is not the government
the best backing of currency that
we have? The present national
banking system gives no guarantee of
safety to the depositor. 1t simply
says that it will redeem the notes it
issues, in silver, gold and green
backs. Nobody asks the national
banks to redeem their notes, because
the government is behind them, and
the people are satisfied. Why should
the government money be sifted
through private hands, for the ben
eft Of private parties, when it could
issue money direct by taking up it's
bonds, and let the depositor depend
upon the character of the bankers,
with whom he deposits money, just
as is now virtually done. The
Farmers Voice does not deposit in a
national bank. It deposits with a
private banking company simply be-
cause the character of the men who
are back OF the bank are q guarantee
Of safety.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-02-08
A Big Indian In the House.

There was an amusing scene on the
floor of the house to-day before Congress
assembled. About II 30 o'clock Frank
German, chief of :he pages, appeared on
the floor with big Indian in tosR. The
Indian was in full war paint, with feath.
ers and many colored blanket, and car.
risd in his hand a red feather duster.
After looking around the house, the In.
dian was conducted to the Speakers desk
and placed in the chair, amid tremendous
applause from the members on the foor.
The pages were amply delighted, and
gathered around md gazed, with open
mouths. at the chief. When the Speak
er's gavel was handed to the Indian, he
thought it was pipe of peace, and tried
to smoke it, but finally, when shown his
mistake, he raped with it so hard that
Jerry Simpson remarked: "Wby that's
the first savage whe has been in the chair
since Tom Reeds times"
After sitting some time in the speak
er's chair, Chief Wolf, for that is his
name, and he is from Washington State,
was taken down on the floor to Bourke
Cockran's seat. When he sat down there
was general round of applause as some
one remarked: "fhere is a Tammany
brave in Cockran'H seat" The Indian
did not seem to mind the crowd gazing at
him, but calmly sat and famed himself
with his feather duster. The pages got
in line and filed psst him and he shook
hands after the regulation dude fashion,
holding his hand and elbow high. When
the boys got through Mr.. Holman went
over and shook hands with Chief Wolf,
and then Jerry Simpson again came for
ward and remarked: "Why, Mr.. Hol
man, you don't speak Indian, but In.
dians," and both laughed at the joke,
but the Indian looked bored.
When the time came to clear the floor
they had hard time in getting the In
dian out of Bourke Cockran's seat.
Finally he was induced to go into the
gallery and let the Tammany leader
OCCUPY his chair. As Wolf left the floor
he remarked: "Heep big times here. Me
like it."- Washington Letter to Baltimore
,Gln
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-02-08
4 Story Told By Watterson.

"That was queer story Henry Wat
terson told in his lecture about defaca-
ton case at Louisville" said a gentle.
man who heard the eloquent journalist
at Entertainment hall, to a St. Louis
Republic writer. "He said that seve-
raj years ago a gentleman holding a
commanding commercial and social po.
sition in the Kentucky metropolis had
used the funds of the corporations Of
which be was the trusted financial head,
and when the day of accounting came
be found he was short in his accounts.
The time was too brief to make the de.
fcit good, and his own funds were in
such shape that he was inextricably en-.
tangled. he was an honest man, but
in moment of over confidence had per.
mitted himself to deviate from the mar
row path just enough to use the firms
cash as temporary loan, promising to
return it at once and promptly. AS is
always the case he failed to keep his
promise, and the delay was dangerous
when the time came he could not. In
stead of waiting the inevitable discovery
he called a meeting of the directors,
made straightforward confession, re-
signed his position, threw himself upon
the mercy of the court, 80 to speak, and
pledged himself to pay every dollar il he
were not exposed and prosecuted. An
animated discussion followed, and a
large majority were in favor Of giving
the delinquent chance. His hitherto
high standing and undoubted business
ability we're in his favor, not to mention
that be might have skipped if he had de.
sired. Two of the directors held out.
They thought it would be compromising
felony, and it was an awful thing to
let such man loose upon the unsuspect'
lDS CouuuuAIy' ou1 tAoy "oi0 out"
voted and the defaulter was given an.
other chance. he is now prosperous
and wealthy business man cf Louisville.
Two years after his misfortune one of the
two men who had objected to his release,
was fugitive in Texas charged with en-
bezzling, and at the end of another year
the other fled to Canada to escape arrest
on the same charge. In the whirligig ol
time this prosperous merchant, whose
early misfortune these two men had en-.
deavored to turn into disgrace and ca
lamity, said Col. Watterson, was the fore
man of the grand jury that indicted tht
two fugitives: Beware the first fals'
step, continued Col. Wattersop, but don
always condemn the victim without Civ
ing him the benefit Of the doubt"
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Not a Hypocrite.

The following from the editorial COL
umns of the Washington Daily Ms,cs g
one of the best temperance lectures ever
written. 1t was written by the gifted
Wait. Mason, now on the editorial staff
of that bright, newsy paper:
"Severe things are said of whiskey, and
a great many of them are deserved; but
it would be we'll to do justice even to
wbiskey. 1t posts its warning every
where, and it is mau's fault if he doesn't
profit by them. Wherever you see rags,
squalor, wretcheduess, you have encoun.
tered one of whiskey's warnings; when
you visit the papers corner ofthe grave
yard, and look upon the nameless
mounds, you find them there; whiskey
is fair; whiskey hangs its banners on the
outer walle; whiskey haunts its emble'
matic skull and CROSS bones in the broad
light of day do whiskey justice. The
man who wrestles with whiskey will be
downed; sooner or later bis shoulders
will 90 to the floor, and the referee will
award the diamond belt to whiskey. But
whiskey wrestles fair it does not gauge ;
it does not strangle; it simply crushes
its victim by superior weight Moral: ::
Do not wrestle with whiskey."
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-02-08
Didn't Take Quite all.

Senator Carlisle is comparatively q
poor man. He was never able to save
moncy, snd the pay of Cabinet officer
-SS, ,O0O-pays about one-third the ex'
penses of the Secretary of the Treasury.
When Senator Lamar, who had just mar.
ried young wife, was appointed Secre-
tary of the Interior by Mr.. Cleveland
his bride spent week house hunting,
and finally found what seemed to be q
suitable residence for cabinet officer.
She drove to the Senate, of which Mr..
Lamar was still a member, to tell her
husband the news of her discovery. His
FIRST question was:
"What is the rent dear?"
"Seventy-Ave hundred year."
The Senator lapsed into deep thought
and the young wife said, rather nervous
ly:
"Do you thiuk it extravagant"
'It is not that" returned Lamar slow
ly. II vas just wondering what l should
do with the other $500 of my salary"
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Lamar's Lash.

The death of Justice Lamar has recall.
ed his well-known devotion to the Con.
federacy, and his love for tie leader of
the losr cause was productive of one Of
the most dramatic scenes in the history
Of the Senate. The Mexican pension
bill was Under consideration and an
amendment pended extending Its provi-
siens to all veterans irrespective of their
course in the war between the States. It
was near adoption. Congress, it was
said, could best shcw it's desire to forgive
and forget by extending the benefits OF
the measure to those who had once borne
arms against the common County. The
amendment was near adoption, when
Senator Zach Chandler came to his feet
with short speech, in which he said
that while in the main be agreed to the
general tenor of the amendment, yet
under its provisions even jeff Davis
would be restored to cit zenship. "And," ("
be added, III am not prepared to 60 80 far
as that"
Lamar arose. His intense excitement
was evident. Between him and Chand.
Ter strong personal antsgonism exist
ed. IA outburst was expected and it
came.
"Mr. President" said the Mississip-
plan, with outstretched finger pointing
at his foeman, his tall form trembling
with emotion, but his voice bell like in
its clearness and without a quiver in it,
"When Prometheu lay bound to the rock
it was not the king of beasts who avled
himself of his distress. IL WIS not any
other of the nobler brutes of the field or
birds of the air. 1t WAS the vulture, the
scavenger of the animal kingdom glut-
toning upon carrion, which preyed upon
his vitals, knowing that in defenceless
man, who could move neither hand nor
foot, he had one into whose vitsls he
could dig his beak."
He sat down amid stiffness so pro-
found that the rustic of paper sounded
harshly. Chandler WAS deadly pale.
Drops of perspiration stood upon his
forehead and he cIinched the arm of his
chair until the strained wood creaked.
It was expected that he would reply.
Twice he half rose then sank back. He
did not reply.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-02-08
The Cat Saved q HOuseful.

A black and white cat. which couple
of weeks ago was driven from its home
in tenement house st l4S Bedford ave.
nue., Brooklyn, after purring on it's hearth
stone for two years, came back at $3.50
Yesterday me. ai'g a.d saved the lives Of
eight families.
Hugh O'Neii., fifteen. .year-old boy,
Is an eastern district telegraph messen-
ger and usually reaches his home at an
early hour in the morning. When be
returned from his work and entered the
door of the kitchen the cat sprang at
him. The cat was thrust aside repeated
", hut it returned to new and rub
against his leg Repeatedly repulsed it
became desperate and tore at the leg OF
his trousers with open claws. About the
room were pieces Of wood and paper,
which had evidently come from behind
the stove, where Mrs. O'Neill had left
them to light the morning fire.
Hugh's suspicious we're aroused and
then he noticed smell of burning wood.
Almost at the same time he saw smoke
issuing from between the cracks of the
fire boards at the rear Of the stove. he
aroused the inmates, and as his father
tore the boards loose out burst the flames
and smoke. The house is four-story
brick tenement, and every room was
crowded. The eight families number fifty
persons.
Af1er the flames had been subdued the
cat jumped on the open window and then
out into the snow.
The fragments of paper and kindling
wood scratched away from the stove by
the cat showed where it had tried to get
at the fire. A search for the cat found it
shivering in the snow, looking up at the
windows of the home out of which it had
been rudely thrown on Christmas eve.
Now it is the hero of the neighborhood
and has throne on the cobbler's hearth.
where it purs almost incessantly.
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Woman's Physical Superiority.

True, she cannot sharpen pencil, and
outside of commercial circles, she can't
tie package to make it look like any
thing save a crooked cross section of
chaos; but see what she can do with q
pin I believe there are some women
who could almost pin glass knob to a
door. She cannot walk so many miles
around billiard table with nothing to
eat, and nothing Ito speak of to drink,
but she can walk the floor all night with
a fretful baby, without going sound asleep
the first half-hour. She can ride FIVE
hundred miles without going into the
smoking car to rest land get away from
the children She can 60 to town and
do wearisome days shopping, aud have
a good time with three or four friends,
without drinking q keg ofbeer. She can
enjoy an evening visit without smoking
half dozen cigars. She can endure the
torturlng distraction OF house 1nil t1
children all day, while her husband cuffs
them bowling to bed before he has been
home an hour. Every day she endures
dress that would make an athlete swoor.
She is afraid of a mouse, and runs from
cow, but book-agent can't scare her.
She is the salt of the church, the pepper
choir, and the life of the sewing society,
and about all there is of young ladies'
school or a nunnery. A boy with sis
ter is fortunate, young man with
sweetheart is happy, a fellow with cou-
sin is to be envied, and a man with
wife is thrice blessed more than they
all
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-02-08
What do the People Say Z?

Attorney General Miller came from
one of the old interior towns of New
York. To reach the place yoi leave the
railroad at STATEN and take an ancient
vehicle for mile or two over the pike.
Some time ago Attorney General Miller
visited the scene of his early manhood.
As he left the train there was the "bus,
looking just as he remembered it, and
there was the driver, little older, q
little more stopped about the shoulders,
but otherwise the same monosyliabic
philosopher of the front seat. Mr. Miller
climbed into the back end and shifted
his nose and encountered the we'll re-
membered odor of the stable. The
Attorney General reintroduced himself
to old Dick, and, as be was the only pas
seuger, be opened conversation while the
"bus" ratified. and bumped along the
pike.
"Doesn't seem to be much change here,
Dick ~ suggested Mr.. Miller, with the
rising infection.
"Nope," replied Dick.
"You look about as you did the last
time was here" was the next thing the
Attorney General fred at the back of the
old drivers head.
"Yep," said Dick, carreasiDg the flesh
of the off horse with the buckskin snap
per.
SCOT the same old bus, haven't your"
asked Mr.. Miller, looking at the holes in
the seat cushions.
"The identical same," answered Dick,
never turning around.
"Town improved much since I left ?"
ventured Mr.. Miller.
"Nope," was Dicks disccuraging re.
sponse.
people changed any ?" was the next
query.
Gall jes' about the same," said Dick,
refusing to take the lead and unbosom
with the local gossip.
"I suppose you know I'm in the presi-
dents cabinet" said Miller, after little
pause, in v hich he decided to make one
more effort to start Dicks tongue.
$50 heard" was the lseonic reply.
"What do people say about 2" was
the last effort.
"Don't say nothin'; jes' laugh" said
Dick.
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He Kept His Word.

a man who is constitutionally incapa-
BILE of telling the truth is difficult sub
ject to manage. He requires such dras'
tic treatment as Colonel Cockerill, the
managing editor of the New York World,
once administered to q man who never
told the truth when a lie would answer.
Cockerill was then editor of struggling
weskly in a Western town, and one
morning fellow walked into the Office,
saying: "If you'll send me your paper,
III bring you load of wood next week"
The editor suggested that he would pre-
fer to see the wood first.
ooh, that'll be alright" said the sub
scriber. "Just you send me your paper,
and"
"See here. How an I to know that
you are going to keep your word Z"
"Easy enough. If that load of wood
ain't here by next Saturday you'll know
that Pm dead. If I'm living I'll bring
it myself, or I'll send it, one or to'lher'"
alright, I'll send the paper, and take
the wood"
The paper was sent. A week passed,
aud no wood came. Another week went
by, and still no wood.
The editor wrote glowing obituary of
his delinquent subscriber. He paid a
touching eulogy to his manliness and in
tegrity.
He said that his word was his bond
and that In all his dealings be WAS relia'-
bility and honesty personi6ed. There
was not degree of praise and exalta-
ton that the editor did not use upon the
subject.
The next morning Editor Cockerill,
looking through the Office window, saw
the corpse" approaching, with fire in
his eye and copy of the paper in his
hand. The editor suddenly became
busy. The door opened. In walked Mr..
Delinquent
"Say there |" he exclaimed.
The editor turned and stared in amaze
ment. "Whstl" said he. "You alive :?
I thought you were dead. Let me con-
gratulate you"
"Of course I'm alive. What do you
mean by this internal article in your pa.
per- ?"
"Oh, thatY" said the editor blandly,
"Thet? Why you told me that if the
load of wood you promised was not here
in week, you'd be dead, and I took you
for man of your word"
The fire faded out Of the delinquent's
eye, and going closer to the desk he said
"See here, young fellow, its no use try
ing to get head Of you. will bring
that wood next Monday, if it rains brim
stone and pitchforks."
And for one once in his life he KEPT
his word.-Ex.
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Auaersoa gutelligentsr,
The European Plan.

1t is all right to conduct hotel on the
European plan, but We must draw the
line somewhere. We do not want the
European Sunday, nor many other feat
ures of foreign morals, manners and GUS
toms.
1t strikes US that ne are rapidly COM
ing to death, as. we'll as life, Oh the Euro
pean plan. ,rhe stories of the suicides
reported in our news columns would have
excited unbounded horror fifty years ago,
but now they attract little attention. Yet
they are as thoroughly un American as
anything can be. They read like chap
ters from the daily history of Paris or
Monte Carlo.
Only yesterday we, published an ac-
count of q Memphis tragedy in which an
ex merchant poisoned his two children
and himself, leaving letter in which he
stated that it was nobody's business how
he and his children died Financial
embarrassment Was the explanation.
1t is inexpressibly horrible when one
thinks it over in the proper frame of
mind. We have reached dangerous
point in our progress when life and death
depend upon the state of a mans 6nan-
ces. What long days and nights Of
torture this broken down Memphis mer-
chant must have endured He must
have been prosecuted by creditors as
fierce as wolves, and his fellowmen must
have shown their worst side to him before
he deliberately resolved to carry his two
children with him to confront evils posi-.
bly, worse than those of this lie.
The suicide said that it was nobody 3
business how he and his children died.
He was wrong. 1t is somebody's busi-
ness. In this Christian land We cannot
afford to have people take up the idea
that their only way to meet misfortune is
to commit self:murder. Our population
is not SO crowded, competition is not 80
close and poverty is not 80 general as to
make it necessary for men to rush into
the grave when they fail in business OF
find their pockets empty.
There would be fewer suicides if We
had less of mans inhumanity to man
1t does not help US to build more churches
unless we have more kind hearts to carry
on the work. We are retrograding tc
the European plau when we lose all in
terest in our fellows, view their suffering;
with Indifference and fippautly comment
on their self destruction. We are al
more OF less responsible for this epidemic
of suicide. Expensive living, the grew
ing worship of money, and our lack O.
genuine sympathy and helpfulness ere
making this very cold world for tht
man who is on the losing side. And ye
our ha d-hearted business philosophy II
all folly. People can be good to each
other and lose nothing. Such men 81
Abbott Lawrence, Peter Cooper, Georg'
". Chiids and others have shown tina
men con prosper and still follow the
promptings of their kind hearts. FIJI
the world with uuch men, loving theil
neighbors, and carrying their religion
into their daily walks and the sum o
human misery would be vastly decreased
But if we are going to adopt Europear
ideas of life we must expect to see lifi
held in light esteem, and death vii
become only jestipg matter.-Atlantt
| Constitution.
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An OPEN LETTER !.

MR.. EDITOR:
I wish to inform my friends, and all
who wish to buy goods at and below
COST, to call on me. I have lot of
Misses Shoes at 25c, SOC, 75c and $1.e0
per pair-worth more than twice the
price asked for them.
Hats from 1Oc to 50 00-worth 25c
to So 90.
Horse and Mule Shoes, Nails, Knob
Locks, Butts, screws, Tacks, Soap, Soda,
New Crop Rice, Finest Tea and Golden
Rio Coffee. Best New Orleans Molasses,
and Muscovado at SOC per gallon.
I keep a fine assortment of Wall
Paper and Canvass at low prices.
A. B. TOWERS.
P. 81 have other goods ut named
above.
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-Anson County, North Carolina, has
queer lot of officials. The treasurer is
badly crippled, the coroner has but one
arm, the register of deeds is one legged,
as are two commis,i ,ioners the keeper of
the County hcme is minus one arm and
the constable bears the distinction Of
being the fattest man in that position in
the State,
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NEW TAILOR SHOP
B. R ~ 2GRF =, Proprietor.

N,HE undersi., led has opened Mer-
Il chant Tailoring Establishment on
Whitner Street, one door above Auditors
Office. Having graduated from first. class
Cutting School Of New York City, I am
prepared TO give you perfect fit. Entire
satisfaction guaranteed in every instance.
Cleaning, Repairing and Altering done
on short notice and at reasonable rates.
Country Cutting at One Dollar per Suit.
A full line OF Samples for SuitiDgs al
ways on hand
All ask is trial for anything you wish
done in the Tailoring line, and will guar
antee to treat you right. Remember the
place--one door above Auditors Office, on
Whitner St. Respectfully,
B. r. CLARKE.
Jan 1S, 1893 u 3ul
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THE STAT OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
County of Anderson.
IN TUE COURT OF PROBATE.

IN lh II COU W. RODH Ne
Ex Parte samucl aicCrary, Administra-
tor with viii annexed, In Re. the Estate
of Thomas l. Reid, deceased petitions
for Final Settlement and Discharge.
To C. L. Reid, Esther Garrison, Nancy
Eskew. Sallie A. Riley, Mary N. Nc
Crary, Darwin l.. Reid, Elizabeth =.
Reid, G. w. Darby, M. C. Darby, Carrie
Phinney. II. N. Reid, W. P. Reid and
T. B. Reid.
TAKE NOTICE, That the undersigned
Il will apply to the Judge of Probate at
Anderson G. e., s. G., on Friday, the 18th
day OF March. A. D. 1898, at i o'clock
8. m. for Final Settlement of the Estate
of Thomas l.. Reid, deceased, and Dis
charge from the office of Administrator OF
said Estate with the Will annexed.
Dated 3lst day of January. A. D. 1898.
SAM'L. McCRARY.
Admir-. with Will annexed.
To H. N. Reid, W. P. Reid and J. r.
Reid, legatees residing beyond the limits
Of the State:
TAKE NOTICE, That the Petition for
the Final Settlement of the Estate OF
Thos. L Reid, deceased, was filed in the
office of Judge of Probate for Anderson
County. at Anderson G. H., s. c., on the
10th day Of January, 1893.
Jan. 81, 1893.
SAM'L. McCRARY.
Admir-. with Will annexed.
Feb !. 1893 81
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= "Isn't Miss Bolivar aging rapidly 2"
eyes, but she had to catch up, you know.
She Wss twenty for thirteen years.
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SAVANNAH SHORT LINE.

Connections at Augusta for Atlanta and all
points west.
to all points at cheap rates and baggage checked
to destination.
Palace Sleeping Cars from Spartanburg to So
vannah.
For any other information and apply or write.
". F. SHELLMAN, W. j. CRAIG,
Traffic Ma agcr, Gen'l Pass Agt
Savannah, Ga. Augusta. ga.
r. L. T. DID, T. P. A.. Augusta, Ga.
T d ESNT tport