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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1895-06-19
ANDERSON s.. c., WEDNESDAY MORNING. JUNE 49, 1895


Ine sadueSJ case was presented TO me
by a friend some time ago. He said
there lived in that city man who was
once very prosperous business man.
lie was a gentleman of the highest
type and integrity. He built him
palatial home. His wife and children
were the joy of his heart, but he got to
drinking and drank and drank until
his business melted away, his fortune
squandered and his property all sur
rendered to creditors. Still his wife
clung to him, until from the kicks and
bruises and neglect she finally took
her children and went to the home OF
her father in another state.
He said one day he saw this man ap-
parently sober sitting down near the
depot alone. lie walked up to him and
sat down by him and said to him: "Mr.
-, 10 you ever now think of your
once prosperous and happy life? Do
you not often think of the happy home,
sweet wife and nice children you once
had?" eyes," he replied. ~ often
think of my prosperous days, Of my
good wife and Of my sweet children
and of my pleasant home; but don't
want any business now, I don't want
any wife, don't want any children, I
don't want any home. I don't want
but one thing in the world and that's
whisky"
In this case we have the elimination
of d1unkard's life-patriotism, love OF
home, devotion to wife and interest in
children, al sacrificed on the burning
altar Of an unquenchable thirst for
liquor. The universe drowned in a
wine CUP gulped down the drunkards
throat at one swallow.
The most horrible picture Of heathen-
ism is that picture Of woman who
carries her sweet babe to the banks Of
the Ganges and tosses it on it's turbu-
lent waters, watches its murmuring
lips sink beneath its tide; but here in
Christian America we watch two hun
dred thousand year, hopeless drunk
ards, take their wives and children and
throw them into the turbulent waters
of drunkard's life.
The saddest comments on our civiliza.
ton are the internal laws that license
and foster and furnish police protec-
ton for it.
The next article in this series will
be devoted to the part our government,
national and state and municipal, plays
In this matter of drunken men.
SAM P. JONES.
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.Good Whisky or None"

Ireckon no doubts by this time you
have heard some tell of Boady llaw-
thorne. lie is one of the best and big
gest men that the Rocky Creek country
has ever brung up and turned out to
preach the gospel to lost and ruint
world. He went Oh from good to bet
ter and still more of it till finally at last
he got to be as big rs the biggest in the
whole discovered country. In the
main time, you understand, he has
broke out of the woods for good and
all, and the last news got from him
he was preachin in some tremendous
big city back there in Georgy.
But when Boady started out on his
first legs he use to come around now
and then and preach to the people over
at old Bark Los church. Old Squire
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rba FEATHER Bed Was There.

Patient and long-sufferin reader, have
YOU ever been in clost place, when
YOU felt the savin grace of that onseen
feather bed
Irecollect oncst upon a time-it was
the next year after Igot married and
settled up and then settled down-me
and Mother took the baby and lit out
for the Panther Creek settlement to see
the old folks. I had hooked up pair
of mustang ponies, which for speed and
bottom could hold their own with any
thing that ever flung shadow or left
a track for forty miles around. I had
nut out to male the long drive in one
day, and was feelin my oats and keep
ina whole tremendous big lot about
that time anyhow. Sol give the horses
all the slack in the ribbons and told 'em
to earn their corn and fodder. Way
down there nearly to the ten mile
branch I got,busy playin sweethearts
with mother and praisin up the baby.
In the main time you understand, them
ponies was fairly burnin the wind,
whilst the buggy was hittin the high
places only, when all OF a student the
team SHE'D off to one side Of the road
and hung front wheel On a stump.
And right then and there the whole
shootin match come to dead stop
quicker than a flash. Me and mother
both fell in pile as far as the dash
board. and when looked around there
vas the baby right down there under
the traces and swingletrees and
amongst the horses heels. The horses
they was dancin and tremblin all over
and loozin like as If they didn't know
whether to run away or pitch in and
l,iok the whole shebang into doll rags
and kindlin wood. And mindyou now,
we hadn't been married but little the
rise of one year and that was the only
est baby we had of our own.
Well, about that time lost my mind
lest naturally went blind stavin cru
zy-and till yet can't remember any
thing for certain about what come to
pass in the space of two or three min
nits. When at last come back to my
senses mother she had jumped out OF
the buggy anu 1uInIe @uo W."
in there holdin the baby with one hand
and the horses with the other. Mother
SAYS went right out over the dash
board and right down under the horses
and brought the buby out, but as am
an honest man don't recollcct blame
thing about that.
In the general smaslup and confu.
sionmcnt knocllc; two fingers out o1
lint and mother she sprained her ankle.
but there want scratch on the baby
from head to foot.
Now maybe you mought think it was
monstrous strange that the baby didn't
git killed on the spot. But it looks
plum natural and right to me. The
onseen feather bed was there.
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0rhe Most strancest Death. {"

have seen and heard tell of many
and many a strange and pecurious
death, you understand, but I am bound
to tell you that the most strangest
death have ever saw or heard tell OF
come to pass in the case of little Jim
Dargin.
It was along in the last days OF
March, if I don't remember wrong, and
one mornin the widder Dargin put lit
tie Jim on horse and started him off
down in the Flat Woods to look after a
yoke of oxen which had strayed and
struggled off with the dry cattle. On
their way back home the horse got
skeered, or jest naturally took up fool
notion, and run away. He throwed lit
tie Jim where the ground was mon
strous hard, and when the neighbors
got there the boy was dead.
reckon it was plum natural for the
horse to git skeered and run away, and
it want to say no ways uncommon
strange for him to throw the boy, you
understand. But it was strange and
marvelsome past all understandin for
the boy to gitkilled. Maybe no doubts
such wonders have come to pass some
where's in the world before, but SO far
back as the records run the case of lit
tie Jim Dargin is the first and onlyest
one that ever took place in the Rocky
Creek country.
The boys down here in this strip OF
Gods own country are about like the
common run Of boys, and reckon lit
tie Jim must of been right smart kin
to all the rest. They all play marbles
and go in swimmin and swap knives
snd ride horses, and the like OF that.
If I had brought on second class fu'
neral every time horse has run away
with me, or fell down with me and
Shrowed me off, or turned wagon or q
buggy over with me, bless goodness
there wouldn't be room enough in the
Cool Springs church grounds to hold
the graves. But have always helt to
the doctrine, and I maintain till yet,
that whensomever yearlin boy gifts a
bad fall the good Lord spreads down
what you mought call His onseen feath-
er bed right under the boy to catch him
and to save him from all harm and dan
ger. To be certainly of course it stands
to reason that there must OF been a
slippunce and the machinery jumped a
cog somewheres in the case of little
Jim Dargin.. But at any rates to me it
was about the saddest as well as the
most strangest death that has ever
come to pass in all the regions around
Rocky Creek.
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= When boy gets too old for his
mother to wash and lather him, his
neck and ears never get good wash
ing until he falls in love.
The earth at the equator moves
at the rate of mile in 3.6 seconds,
four-tcnths of second slower than the
velocity of cannon ball.
-Quack-So you prefer me to DR..
Phil? Mrs. Mulligan-Och, indeed,
docthor dear, ye're dale bctther than
the other ould 'umbug.
TO live peaceably in society, we
must open our Dyes to the qualities
which please us, and shut them on the
follies or caprices which shock us.
1t is estimated that over 5000
women in the United States act as
postmasters. The largest number tor
any one State, 1853, is in Pennsylvania.
= A great Photographic camera for
taking full-length, lifc-size portraits
has been made and used with much
success in Dublin. The camera atakes
plate seven feet high and five feet
wide. = II
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"sapIn sukey" Mixed Up.

"One of these new-fangled preachers
has been down through the Panther
Creek settlement here lately preachin
some mighty strange and pecurious
doctrines amongst the people," said
Aunt Nancy Newton to me the last
time she was up to our house. Then
the dear delightful old soul kept on
talkin:
'The mainest pint that the new-fan-
eled preacher makes is that Saturday
and not Sunday is the seventh day in
the week-the day we ought to remem-
Der and keep it holy as the Sabbath.
1t ruther seems to me like he is jest a
leetle bit late in spreadin the news.
The folks down there are too dead sot
in their ways to spile out and start over
now. The men folks still go to town
and swap horses and drink whisky on
Saturday, and most everybody takes a
day off and rigs up and goes to meetin
Sunday. We have been turnin the wa
ter on that way so long till / reckon
the old mill wouldn't grind marry lick
if we was to pitch in and change things
now.
but the new-fangled preacher has
got Sukey Sellers-Savin Sukey, as we
all call her-powerful bad mixed and
muddled up in regards to her Sunday.
She won't say he is right and she won't
say he is wrong. I rally don't think she
knows anything for certain about it.
But she is so skeered that the new-fan-
gled preacher is right and other people
wrong, or that other people are right
and the preacher is wrong, till bless
gracious she now keeps two Sabbath
days holy instid of one. She puts in
soon Saturday mornin and runs her
Sunday slap through till Monday morn.
in. Everybody to their own notion, as
one old woman said when she kissed
cow, and if it suits Savin Sukey it is
perfectly all right with me-"
RUFUS SANDERS.
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CAMEO CARVING.
An Accomplishment for Clever
Beauty-Loving Women.
a Simple Art and One Easily Acquired
Tools Tint Arc Nacessary.-The
Process from Start
to Finish.

Gravers and scoopers and other
mysterious little instruments have
crept into the modern maiden's den.
1t sounds quite formidable-cameo
carving-but in reality it is quite
simple. First you provide yourself
with working table, it need not be
large; then, at any art store buy
half dozen gravers and scoopers OF
varying degrees OF fineness; the next
outlay is for a shell upon which you
are to cut the cameo. Black, red
and yellow helmets, as the shells
are called, are required, and they
cost from three to five dollars each,
but from q good shell several ovals
or rounds can be cut.
After it has been cut the required
size and shape. it is then fixed with
hot cement upon holder-a little
block that can be held in the hand.
The upper surface Of the she'll is
made sufficiently smooth to take the
design, which is then traced upon it,
as one traces on china; all the white
part beyond the design is cut away,
leaving the pattern on the dark
ground to be, by degrees, cut into
form. The thickness and quality of
the white stratum cannot be known
until the shell is cut. 1t varies a
good deal so that sometimes the
figure will stand out in much higher
relief than was at first anticipated.
Sometimes when a particular design
is to be made several shells are cut
before q suitable one is found.
The skill of the artist is shown in
the arrangement of the design so as
to make the best use Of the shell.
For instance, the foliage must be ar.
ranged to come where the white is
thinnest and figures where the thick.
ness of the white will give roundness
to the limbs.
1t naturally follows that the one
who understands the arts Of draw
ing and painting and all about lights
and shadows will make the greatest
success as a cameo engraver.
To take out any scratches made by
the graver, the cameo or she'll must
be polished by rubbing it with
pumice stone and water, after which
it must be washed in warm water,
when a'second polishing follows with
pumice dust and. oil, and with a
small lockwood stick. Then it must
be washed again. The third and last
finish is given with fine rotton stone
and sulphuric acid; o very high de.
gree of polish is thus obtained and
behold your cameol Perhaps not,
at first, the success you dreamed,
but still fairly satisfactory, while
with practice you go on toperfection
and in time have choice bit to offer
friend.
"Whatl a cameo, and you cut it2"
eyes, oh, that's nothing. I've
done dozens of them" and so forth
and so on, while you in turn initiate
your friend in the mysteries of cameo
cutting and feel sufficiently reward
ed for your labors in her exclama.
tions of surprise at your great clev-
erness.
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Soups for Warm Weather.

When summer comes 1t is a good
plan to begin a luncheon with fruit,
or with a fruit soup. The latteris
also sometimes served at dinners.
The fruit may be large, choice straw
berries with the bulls on, grape,
fruit, or mixture Of fruits served
ice cold in the skins Of oranges or
grapefruit, or the inside of q cocoa.
nut or pineapple. Sometimes these
fruits are dashed with sherry or q
liquor.
Orange soup, indeed most Of the
fruit soups, are best cold, and there
fore are best suited to a hot day.
To make quart of such soup, q
quart of strained fruit juice is neces-
eary. Put over the fire in q double
boiler, add to 1t half cupful OF
granulated sugar. Moisten two
tablespoonful of arrowroot with a
little cold orange juice or with water
and add to the hot juice. Stir until
perfectly smooth and begins to
thicken. Cool and add two table
spoonfuls of curacao, the flavor OF
which will blend most perfectly with
the soup, as it is, as you probably
know, cordial favored with orange
peel, cinnamon and mace. Cool be-
fore using, and serve in punch cups,
putting in each piece of ice the size
OF an English walnut before serving.
IN. Y. Evening Post.
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Lobster,s Fenr OF Thunder.

One of the Holsters queer feats is
that of purposely amputating his
enormous and almost useless claws in
time of real or fancied danger. BE
breads thunder above all things, and
when the peals are uncommonly loud
or frequent he deity drops his claws
and takes to deep water with all pos
sible speed. It is also said that any
thing irritating will cause similar ex-
hibition of this peculiar power. Boys
who are acquainted with this. curious
fact in natural history often frequent
the fish stalls Of the larger cities, and
with straws tickle the imprisoned
Holsters until they have the appearance
of having been through q thrashing
machine. Lobstcrs thus deprived OF
their limbs soon grow others, faculty
possessed by but few living creatures.
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Wilson was Twin in the settlement then

wilson was llv1n In the settlement Lnen,
and Boady soon made an almighty big
mash on the Squire.
Now if Squire Wilson ever had any
particlar weak pint in the flesh it was
with regards to whisky. And at that
time Boady Hawthorne was about the
strongest and most terriblcst temper
ance epistle, you understand, that l had
ever heard or saw. He fought the whis-
ky devil with coat and gloves off-com-
in and gwine-from the woodpile to
the clearin. He jumped on the whisky
soaks with both feet in mighty nigh
every sermont he preached and tclit-
orally moppcd up the ground with the
"dirty damnable traffic" He use to
hit Squire Wilson center shots reglar
and constant, but the old man never
finched. Whensomever Boady Haw-
thorne held forth anywheres around
in forty miles of Rocky Creek you could
bet your side whiskers and your Sun
day boots that Squire Wilson was there
every clatter-.right up in the dress
circle of the Amen corner-and seems
like he enjoyed every performance
through and through.
A great word with Boady Hawthorne
at that time was mean liclser." Any
thing and everything in the way of
spirits was "mean Ticker" with him,
you understand. Looks like as if he
never had seen anything but sorry
goods in the whisky line, and every
time he would jump on 'mean Ticker"
Squire Wilson would nod his head and
smile and say 'Amen."
But what pestered me and the whole
settlement was that Squire Wilson had
got 80 dead stuck on Boady Hawthorne
as preacher, and yet he wentright on
with his hard drinIin, comm up drunk
steady and constant as ever.
By-and-by it come to pass that Boady
Hawthorne had to play quits with the
old settlement and move his washin off
to some great city. BE was in town
one day shakin the partin hand with
his friends and tellin everybody good
bye. Squire Wilson comr along-about
three sheets in The wind and the other
one flutterin-and took him off &c one
side for private talk.
$50 you are goin to leave us are you,
Boady ?" says the Squire.
Eyes, my dear brother, and my heart
is sad and heavy in the thought" says
Boady.
"1Vell, I couldn't let you go away
without holdin a little confabulation
with YOU" says the Squire" / want to
tell you how have enjoyed your brave
fight agin mean Ticker. And I want to
thank you in particlar, Boady, for the
good you have done me, pore weak
and wayward sinner. May the Lord
bless you for the good you have done
me-"
IF the Lord has blessed my labors
in this settlement" says Boady, 81 am
more than glad and thankful. But
Squire, want you to tell me how and
wherein I have ever done you any
good"
"Well, BoadY, 'says the Squire, 81 have
sot my mind that I will never drink an
other drop of mean Ticker as long as 1
live, so help me. Henceforwards, here
after and forevermore hang my cats if
don't drink good whisky or none"
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Astonishing Alabama Discoveries.

FLORENCE, ALA, June 7.-Some par
ties living near Barron, Ala, claim to
have made remarkable archaeological
discovery along the bluffs of the Tennes.
see river between Sheffield and Riverton
At the point where the discoveries are
said to have been made the bluff has the
appearance of q solid wall Of rock. The
party of prospectors who recently went
over the ground claim to have discovered
traces of q mans handiwork in building
the bluff, and closer inspection, they say
proved conclusively that portion of the
bluff at that point had been put there by
people who knew how to build smooth
wall aud firm one.
With crowbar and pickaXe the pros
pectors, after much work, succeeded in
removing large, almost square stone
The aperture thus made proved to be the
entrance to cave which had evidently
been cut out of the wall of rock.
Within the cave the prospectors claim
to have found human bones in such an
advanced state of decomposition that they
crum bled to dust when lifted, and relics
of q prehistoric race-vases and pottery
quantity and curiously carved, entirely
different from those found in the Indian
mounds of this section.
From the position OF the human skel,
etors and the articles which were around
them, the prospectors are inclined to be-
lieve the cave burial place fsr people
long ages extinct.
The prospecting party carried num-
Der of the relics home with them and say
they will submit thom to some learned
archaeologist to determine, if possible,
the age and race to which they belonged.
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Tn Janan there are more than 1,2O

- In Japan there are more than 1,2OO
places where Christianity is taught, more
than 1000 Protestant schools, and aoout
from these schools into the life of the
nation.
In Polk county, North Carolina, two
brothers named Gibbs had fight last
week. They fought "fist and SKULL" for
three hours, Finally one got the other
down and beat him TO death.
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Few men get their life labor oc-
complished without some sore heart
aches.
to pay the expenses Of the armies of
Europe.
According to Professor Attvater,
butter has the greatest fuel value as
an article of food, and contributes
more than any other in maintaining
the heat of the body.
If there was but one potato in
the world, a careful cultivator might
produce 10000, 100000 from it in 10
years, and that would supply the world
with seed again.
= Eminent medical authority de-
clares that the people least liable to
take colds are those who keep their
mouths closed, unless when they are
talking, eating or drinking.
= A man will counsel his wife to
be patient and avoid a neighborhood
row when the neighbor slaps one of
her children, but he won't listen TO
any talk about patience if a nelghbor
kicks his dog,
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round O b o u t
proniscus. Lit
tie Jim Dargin,
which got killed
in q runaway
scrape this last
spring, lies bu-
ried there. One
day last week !
come along by
Cool Springs on
my return back
$home fr o n a
trip over in the
hill cOuntry.aud
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FRESH FROM OLD ROCKY.
Rufus Sanders Once More Unto
the Breach.
The Sad and MarveIsome Death of Little
Jim Dargan--"The Onseen Feather
Bed Was There'--Boady Haw-
thorne and Squire Wilson.
Copyright 1so5l.

Over there at old Cool Springs church
there is little new grave, with the
hog weeds and the daisies CROWN
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"A Dispatch from Philadelphia yes
terday announces that several negro
families who sailed from Savannah on
the steamship Horsa for Liberia. as part
of the colonists of that country, returned
to-day on the steamship Kensipgton from
Liverpool. The negroes said that Liberia
is unsuited to unacclimated Americans,
and that death from fever probably will
be the fate of many of the colonists." {"
This is bad report, but dispatch from
Kansas City the same day gives very
much worse account of the condition Of
the white settlers in Oklahoma. "The
entire population of Grant Counay," it
says, "are actually starving. The un.
fortunate people have not the wherewithal
to leave the county, and 80 they remain
to suffer-" From which it appears that
the colored settlers in Liberia are at least
better off than the white settlers in Okla
homa. The plain explanation in both
cases is that a good many people have
gone to both places who were not fit for
the hardships Of life in new country,
The matter adjusts itself. Those who are
in haste to get away should not have
gone in the first instance. They proDa-
bly, would find it hard to make living
anywhere.
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the sight Of that grave put me to think
in about little Jim and the marvelsome
way in which he come to the final forks
| of the road.