The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1894-05-09

The Kansan whose vote was contest
ed on the ground that he served in the
Confederate army, and thus disqualified
himself, has won his suit. Kansas is
getting too busy to care about mans
past, says the Kansas City Times, 30 long
as he behayes himself In the present.
"A plan that will sometimes destroy
large number Of rats is to fill barrel
partly full of water and cover it with an
inch or so Of meal, A hole is bored In
the barrel little above the meal and
the rats enter, sink through the meal and
find watery grave. In catching rats In
steel traps great care is required to de-
ceive the rodents. Traps need to be W. ell
covered and everything done to avoid
raising the suspicious Of the "var-
mints." Often when rats refuse to eat
poisoned bread and butter they may be
baited with poisoned crackers, cheese and
meat.
The Rev. J. T. Shelton, we'll known
in Little Rock, in recent sermon made
use of the following language: "Labor.
ing men will remember that during the
strike of 1886 I predicted from the
pulpit Of the old Scott Street Christian
Church the present turn In the warfare
for the recognition Of the rights of the
individual. Again, in 1890, prophesied
every movement that has taken place
since and all that will be, in general
way, until 1900. The present movement
Is fermentation of conflicting thoughts.
Look out for hell and fury in the next
six months, with more to follow until
1s99."
- Special Officer George Labolt, of the
Reading railroads police force, tells an
Interesting adventure that recently hap
pened TO him. He was walking through
deep wood one day when he was star
tied by the appearance of rough-l0ok-
ing fellow, who presented revolver at
his head and demanded all his valuableH.
"Well," said Labolt, "all the money I've
got Is $35 and watch my father gave me-"
"Hand all over" said the highwayman.
The officer complied with as good grace
as the circumstances allowed. Then he
said to the highwayman ''I work for a
farmer near by who gave me that mon
ey to buy cow with He won't believe
that I've been robbed. Can't you shoot
few holes through my coat" and in a
jifIy four holes were shot through 1t.
Seeing that there was still one bullet left
in the revolver. Labolt took Of his hat
and persuaded the fellow to fire 8 bullet
lu6 CEO#us 1uou u6 LID
own pistol and lodged him In Jail at Car
Isle, where he received ten years. sem
tence.
Says Philadelphia special: "The
men engaged In counting the 10000, 900
silver dollars that lie in the recently
opened vault G Of the mint had an excit.
ing experience yesterday afternoon, and
narrowly escaped serious injury. The
bags, containing each 1000 silver dollars,
have rotted so much during the four
years they lay in the vault that 40 per
cent. of the bags have been found unfit
for their contents. When the men began
work in tho vault they were careful,
knowing the erratic ways of coin In bulk,
to construct dam across the front Of the
piled up millions, and they built 1t se-
curely. With the dam in place they felt
reasonably safe. Several men were on
the mountain of silver yesterday after
noon and directly at the dams base were
several clerks weighing the bags. Sud-
denly bag beneath the foot OF man
above burst. The men on the silver
mountain started to come down. The
bags broke by the half dozen, and before
the men in the vault knew what was
coming, over 100000 silver dollars were
pouring down upon them In cataract.
They jumped and ran, for there was no
knowing but that the millions above
might follow. Fortunately no one was
caught in the food aud no injury sustain
ed."