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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1896-01-08
Eng land and Germany are now shak..
Srg their fists as each other, on account
oGa letter written by Emperor William.

The sebels ID Cuba ara gaining ground
avery day, and II is sid Spain Is about
ysady ID give mp the fight. Hurrah for
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1896-01-08
OTATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
y ANDERSON County.

Jan 8, 1S06
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-07-15
Good When Genuine.

The slim, blue eyed young man who
teaches school had been reading the
comic periodicals and waxed apprehen-
sive.
"I'm really afraid" he said, "that
this new woman idea is going to cut
more of figure than we think it is
"What makes you afraid?" inquired
the old gentleman with rugged features
and kindly eyes.
"Why, there are getting to be SO
many new women, you know
''And I'm glad to see it. I go to ev-
cry high school and seminary COM
mencement. Those are the places to see
the new woman in her perfection. She
is unfamiliar with all but the poetry of
life, and she sees things with the eyes
of the idealist. She believes in the best
and thinks that everybody else is going
to help her hustle this world right along
into the millennium before it knows
what has happened. Young man, don't
you be worried about her. Tt ism It the
new woman-the genuinely new wom-
all who is likely to raise disturbance.
It's the old woman who is trying to be
fresh. detroit Free Press.
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ELSIE's GRANDMOTHER.

Though her noble features seem
The embodiment of rest,
Like the saints OF whom we dream
In the heaven of the blest.
Yet she's wearyl Many day
Has she marched with life's gay throng;
Those she loved have dropped away
Why must she live on so long?
Wearied of unrighted wrongs
Frightened by the world dark frown;
Life's last act is done; she longs
For the nurtain to go down.
Slowly with each peaceful breath
Days and years crept toward their sum,
Yet she never asks for death;
When God w}'ls it, let it come.
Dearest, are you near the endP
Are your loved ones dying fast?
Have you not one little friend
Who will love you to the last?
Oh, when life's great eddyiDg whirl
Leaves me stranded somewhere, too,
May have some little girl
To love me as l love you'll
Robert Beverly Hale in Youths Companion.
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Their Hobbies.

Some gossip in Cassell's Magazine
tells what are the hobbies or amusement
Of some Of England's great men. Mr..
Balfour INDUCES in golf, bicycles and
philosophy, and he once played Ham
let; Lord Salisbury studies silence and
tries experiments with test tube; Mr..
Cham berlain raises orchids; Mr.. Glad
stone, of course, used to chop trees, and
now reads Greek when he feels the need
Of rest; Prince Bismarck drinks beer,
smokes and reads Du Boisgoby; the
Prince of Wales is fond of bowling; the
Duke of Devonshire, Sir John Millais,
Andrew Lang and William Black are
expert fishermen, while Mr.. Toole finds
something funny to do or say almost
every hour Of the day. Once he sent a
package Of chocolates to a little boy who
sat in stage box and was disturbing
him with his astonishingly loud laugh
ter. The attendant delivered the packet,
"With Mr.. Toole's compliments, and
would the young gentleman who laughed
so heartily kindly eat these during the
performance?''
Wasting Water.
Professor Boggs of the Arizona STA
ton at Tucson says:
Perhaps the most common way in
which water is wasted in Arizona is
through the multiplicity of small lateral
ditches The usual custom in this To-
cality is for each individual to have his
private lateral from the canal to his
land In some places as many as three
or four Of these bitches will be found on
each side of a public road. AS these are
sometimes Of great length, generally
carry but a small head of water, and
are always used Internationally, their ag
gregate loss Of water is enormous. Much
could be saved by a number of neighbors
forming an association and maintaining
single lateral for their common use,
and when the water supply is low adopt
ing the time system of prorating.
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Followed Natures Law.

"That was curious case of Kadger's.
He married the eldest daughter of the
Bingler family, outlived her, married
the next eldest, outlived her also and
then married the youngest. "
"Why didn't he begin with the
youngest and marry the eldest last?"
"Well, I suppose he naturally fol-
lowed the line of least resistance. 80
Chicago Tribune.
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A REDEEMING ACT.

Dave was a coward and he had al.
ways borne the reputation of arrant
cowardice ever since he had crawled
over the side of his dugout cradle to
wallow along with the underfoot world
on the white sand before his parents
cabin door. Though country born and
bred, passing thunderstorm struck
him with terror, and the sight of the
black waters of the "crick'' caused
remarkable agitation of his knees. He
was a coward pure and simple. The
bristling of coon routed him uncondi-
tionally, and a determined possum could
rob the henroost before his very face.
Indeed, Dave was a coward, and his
cousin, Sue Spivey, laughed uproarious-
ly when the poor fellow perpetrated his
initial and only act of boasting. He
had said to her one day very solemnly
and no doubt sincerely:
"Toe purtec yo' honah an happiness
I 'ud tn 'ow away my wuthless life"
Ordinarily Dawes speech was unpol-
ished and provincial, but on this occa-
sion it rose to the dignity of what he
felt the occasion demanded.
Sue knew full we'll his timorous dis
position and would have thought it safe
to count on his poltroonery in any
event. But day was sadly near which
proved to her the full worth of the poor
fellows grandiloquent assertion.
Long before the late unpleasantness
and until this day Honeypath was only
a siding, where occasional trains took
water and passed each other. Two or
three log shanties, without special pre-
tensions to any architectural dissimi-
larity, marked the site of the town, dis
tinguishing it from the vast area of i'm
penetrable swamp that backed it and
the arid waste Of sandy bottom through
which the glistening, polished rails of
the grand trunk line writhed and sinu
ated Along that glowing metal high
way troops Of both armies passed and
repassed, gazed at curiously by the few
old women and senile males left in the
village, but exciting no other emotion
than a blank curiosity that died out
even before the white mist of the fine
sand stirred by the soldiers feet had
settled behind the retreating bands
Dave was a native of HOneypath and
lived with an aged father in one of the
shanties. Sue dwelt with her mother in
another near by. Dawes father was a
hot blooded southerner, whose patriot
ism answered to the first call to arms
but Dave was timid, fearful of the smell
of powder and refrained from action
preferring to suffer the opprobrious cpl
thets which were literally bestowed up
on him and the contempt Of the county
generally to facing he knew not what
horror upon the battlefield. He was not
philosopher and could not plead in ex-
tenuation of his neutrality that the
martial slaughter Of his brother man
was crime and that the wholesale sac
rifice of human life was immoral.
Dave was simply coward and accept
ed meekly the obloquy which the con-
dition imposed, not even the taunts and
cutting sarcasm of pretty Sue Spivey
being able to rouse the instincts Of bat
tie in his craven soul.
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race OF dying god.
Poor Dave! Though coward all his
life long, he had earned the reward Of
heroism at the very end. Greater love
hath no man than this, that he lay
down his life for his friend Detroit
Journal
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was gathered to her final rest, being
put out of sight in the little sandy
graveyard, with only the comment OF
the two remaining neighbors And then
Dave and Sue toiled early and late in
order to wiring from the starving acres
an UNMARRIED livelihood of yams, corn
bread and bacon, more often the corn
bread without the establishment of po-
tatoes and bacon, particularly during
the weeks after hungry foraging party
had passed that way.
One day Dave was working among
the young potato vines in an open arid
field behind the cabin, when Sue ran
out to him in troubled haste
ooh, Dave, I'm pow'ful skeered!"
she painted.
"Skeered O. what?" he asked. with
out intermission of the bent labor.
"Some-some soldiers just went down
the road, an they spoke to me-sassy
like She hesitated, and Dave looked
up to see her pretty face scarlet and her
brows bent together in angry lines.
"Well, what did they all say?' he
demanded in his accustomed slow drawl
after waiting in vain for her to proceed
''They lowed they all was a-comin
back. :"
"Who was they ennyhow?'' he asked
uneasily, his face blanching i'll antici-
patton of the martial visit.
"They was Mosby's men, lowed,
an they was five Of 'em.
"Our fellers?'' little surprised and
Strengthening his back. "Come on back
to the house, Sue,'' and, shonldering
his hoe, he trudged stolidly on before.
Don't you be skeered," he continued
as they reached the yard. 81 reckon
they won't do nothin.
Of the two it would have been mani
fest to the most casual observer that he
was the worst "skeered, - but he walk
ed on till they reached the house, and
Sue cried out:
"Yonder they come now-all five."
Dawes face blanched to sallow
whiteness, but he pulled her quickly in
side the door.
"What you gwine to do?" Sue asked
nervously, keeping near her cousin, but
he apparently did not hear. He had
taken down a rifle that had belonged to
Sues brother, who had also offered up
his life on the altar of the cause, leav-
ing his weapon to his sister as a means
of defense in just such emergencies as
this.
"What you gwine to do, Dave?" the
girl persisted, coming closer and laying
her hand on his arm. Dave shook sever
al cartridges into the cylinder Of the
winchester and waited in silence, ap-
parently not aware that Sue had touch
ed him. Only a few more moments to
wait and then the last act in the COM
monplace little tragedy A loud pound
ing at the rickety cabin door and de-
risive, imperative voice demanded:
eli, in there, open up, Or we'll
make splinters of yer ole door. y The
| threat was garnished by several strong
explosives and accompanied with more
vicious pounding.
Then for answer went the spiteful
snap of the winchester, followed by a
surprised howl of pain, more voluble
profanity and footsteps in rapid retreat.
Dave went to the window, and
though knothole in the shutter review
ed the situation of the enemy. Then
though the aperture the rifle again spoke
with decisive, leaden emphasis, and
when the smoke cleared away the man
inside beheld one of the besiegers lying
prone across the freshly hoed potato
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game of hide and seek among the rot
ting rails of the old snake fence.
The trio had disappeared into the
swamp and Dave calmly refilled his
rifle, waiting as though lost in thought.
Presently from the rear of the cabin
came the harsh command:
"You cowardly bushwhacker in there,
come out an fight like a mani If We
don't, we'll burn ye an yer shanty an
the gal with ye. -
There was no opening in the rear Of
the cabin, the logs were thick and the
chinks were well stopped with clay, so
that Dave could not return a leaden an
swer to this brutal challenge. He fin
gered the rifle nervously and looked at
Sue.
ooh, Dave, don t open the door, b" she
pleaded, meeting the earnest look bent
on her face from beneath the brim Of
Dawes frouzy SLOUGH hat. II amt afeer-
ed toe burn.
His lips blanched, his knees were
wobbly with fear, but he had not for
gotten the one boast of his poor, pinch
ed life. uttered so long ago. "Toe pur-
tee yo' honah an happiness 'ud throw
away my wuthless life. He uttered
the words again monotonously, finger
ing the rifle that was held Imply in
his shaking hands.
Poor Sue! There was no answering
laughter in her soul now for those gro
tesquely sententious words which broke
in husky monotone on her hearing like
a last prayer.
In that moment Dave, who had al
ways been a coward, who had all his
life long borne meekly the scorn and
opprobrium attached to the character,
he whom heretofore nothing could
arouse to a sense of his degradation
calmly arose to the very pinnacle of her
oism.
"I'm coming out" he called and
shooting back the bolt he stood on the
cabin step before them.
''Fall back and give him show; he's
coming out, boys!'' She chung to him,
pleading: "Dave, don't! There's four to
one. Don't go!" But he pushed her
gently backward into the room.
'Bolt the door behind mel" he said
and passed out
Sue stood motiOnless in the center of
the room waiting for it to begin. Dave
pulled the trigger of his gun and turned
the corner and instantly four weapons
barked with one voice
Sue heard something heavy fall
against the side Of the cabin; then in
stantly the sharp clear utterance of
winchester answered the carbines again
and still again. One carbine only an
swered; then all was still; only the fret
full warbling Of wren in the nearby
Cherokee rose hedge breaking the tense
silence of the drowsy afternoon hush.
Anxiety conquering terror, Sue drew
back the bolt, throwing the door wide
OPEN A broad stream of yellow light
and rush Of heat met her, passing over
figure on it's knees that always trem-
bled at the sight Of deep water. Dave
was gasping his last breath. Bleeding
and shattered, he crept to her feet, aft
er the manner of faithful dog, to die.
In the grave gray eyes that were raised
to hers there was the light Of the exal-
tation of passing spirit. triumphant
over the shadow of death which already
darkened them His lips moved in the
contortion Of a smile that broke into an
articulate murmur.
81 done said that toe purtec' yo'
honah and happiness l would th'ow
away my wuthless life-an done hit "
And Dovo with tho ori m CON or1O,ex7 of
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A Modern Definition.

Teacher--What is pedestrian?
Johnny--A person who doesn' It ride
bike. London Answers.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-15
IN bAB0R,S REALM

How is it that movements which are
almost universally recognized to be for
the betterment of humanity take so
long to develop into practical realities?
There is the TorrenS system of regis
tering land titleS-dealing with a sub
ject of vital interest to every man who
intends to purchase a home, or who
has ever done so. No one but recog
nizeS the abominable condition which
this legislation proposes to remedy.
No one denies it's efficacy to accom-
pliSh the end sought. Why, then, is
its enactment delayed? 1t is a strange
commentary on the inertneSs of Amer
ican public opinion that such condi-
ton should exist so long in the pres
ence of an acknowledged preventive,
and stranger yet when we consider
the reason. That a small body of in
terested men, actuated by purely self
lsh motives, should be able to block
the way of a recognized public good
Is astounding. Yet such is the case.
The public welfare is not to be con-
Sidered for a moment when in con-
flict with the interests of the legal fra
ternity, whose craft would be en-
dangered' and whose perquisites would
be infringed upon by the adoption of
reasonable system for registering and
transferring land titles 1t is stated
on good authority that 95 per cent of
the litigation of today arises from dis
puteS over real estate. and the vultures
are bitterly opposed to a system which
will lessen the number of carcasses,
no matter how conducive to the pub
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-15
TRADES ASSEMBLY.

The Work of the Meeting on Friday
Evening.
President bennett presided at the
meeting of the Trades and Labor as
sembIy Friday evening, and he ruled
with an iron hand" The recommen-
dations Of the committee on joint en-
tertainment were concurred in. Mr..
Beck, from Anderson, Ind, was ac-
corded the privilege of the floor. He
represented that he was a member of
the glass workers association, and that
the organization to which he belonged
was Waging a war against manu-
facturer of glass bottles ETC., in Penn
sylvania; that he was here to ask the
moral support of all labor unions and
that he should endeavor to dissuade
certain firms in st. Paul and Mime
apolis, who are now handling the boy
cotted bottles, from doing so in future.
=
A vote of thanks was rendered In
spector McNamee, Supt. Gilbert and
the board of education, for their efforts
in securing the adoption of the free
text book system.
The delegation from the hack and
cab drivers union requested all pres
ent to call for cabby's 'labeP' when
they see fit to indulge in a ride.
A vote of thanks was given the city
council for the use of Market hall for
the Mills lecture.
Delegate Becker, despite his vehe-
ment protests to the contrary, was
elected committee of one to prevent
the importat ton of highly colored labor
when the city fathers begin to pave
the streets.
The grievance committee, James
MorroW chairman, reported progress
In bakers difficulty
Assembly indorsed the action of
topographic No. 13, in its trouble with
the Voikszeitung.
The cigarmakers' attitude in their
trouble with a local firm was indorsed
by the assembly.
The matter of the brickIavers, oriavonoo
was brought to the attention of the Trades
ana Labor assembly Friday night and a mo-
tIe the capitol commission endeavor to secure
the employment of union labor on Minneso-
ta's capitol building was unanimously car
this this bodv Gbcb vii vii also be presented to
nearly every workingman in the city, urg-
ing 1t to insert clause in the contract pro-
Duluth unions will also be requested TO take
action in the matter. Messrs Franklin
hughes Christopherson. Powers and Gerber
were CHOSEN tc present organized labor's side
of the question to the commission
The executive board of the printing trades
council met Thursday evening and made ar
rangements for the Joint meeting of the nrint
ing trade unions on April g. An invitation to
attend is extended to every member of these
organizations: Non-union Offices is to be the
for
prove an interesting meeting Inability to
come to an agreement with the Volkszeitung
was reported and Topographic No. 13 an
nounced its determination to renew the how
colt.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-15

working places rendered free from water and
impure air; to establish an eight-hour work
day; to demand a bi-weekly pay day; to ad-
just differences with employers by arbitra-
tion, ana to do away with strikes; to secure
the passage of an employers liability bill; to
choose their own physician, although contin-
uing to pay 81 month per miner for medical
service; and to obtain the establishment of
state mine inspectorship, with inspector for
each county. Numerous local unions are be-
ing organized all over the range.
One of the shortest strikes on record was
that OF the painters and decorators of Pitts
burg and Allegheny. They went out Monday
morning, demanding uniform wages of SO, nine
hours as days work, and so cents an hour
Tor overtime. Before night a majority Of the
hrms interested had conceded the justness of
their claims, and work resumed Tuesday
morning. Over 1000 men were involved.
The Rocky Mountain News, of Denver, is
in favor of the initiative and referendum, and
the labor unions of Colorado are doing all in
their power to swell its subscription list.
musical instrument mandatory at Elk
hart Ind, in which profit-sharing has been
in vogue since 1892, has already disbursed
over $58,000 among its employees.
In Saxony horseshoers are compelled to pass
public examination before they are permitted
to work at the business. In addition they
must thoroughly understand the and
treatment of a horse or they cannot obtain
license to shoe them.
Henry D. Lloyd evidently believes in taking
time by the forelock. He suggests that ma
and social reform be held to prepare for
unified and universal demonstration on the
first day of May, 1901.
The cigarmakers unions of Chicago have
declared an assessment of % cents per men,
Der for the benefit of unemployed cigarmak-
ers of that city.
Eugene v. Debs is meeting with large and
enthusiastic audiences in Georgia, and in sew
eral cities of that state overflow meetings
were held.
The San Francisco unions are taking steps
for the enactment of law prohibiting the
employment of Pinkerton detectives in that
state.
Five hundred machinists in Chicago unani-
mously voted in favor of a national strike for
an eight-hour day on and after May l.
The trades unionists of PHILADELPHIA have
raised $15,00O with which they will put up a.
building of their own.
The supreme court of California decides that
person working by the day cannot recover
on mechanics lien.
their own electric light plants. Six years ago
there were but twenty.
The Detroit (Mich) tin and cornice workers
will ask for increased wages and a nine-hour
day after May 1.
The unemployed printers at Davenport, TO-
nave established cooperative daily paper
called the Union.
New Zealanders are agitating the subject Of
pensioning all male inhabitants over seventy
years of age.
The Saginaw CIich.) central labor organi-
zation will shortly begin the publication Of a
paper.
Tailors are requested to keep away from To-
ronto, Can; Columbus o., and Savannah Ga.
Forty printers on the Denver Times will be
displaced by Merganthalers.
The Chicago clothing cutters have gained
two important victories.
St. Paul daily globe., 1896-03-15
HUMAN FLESH AS A RELISH.
Cannibalism More Largely Practiced
Than Supposed.

Cannibalism More Largely Practiced
Than Supposed,
Washington Dispatch to the New York World.
Cannibalism has been made special
study recently by the bureau of ethnol-
ogy. Data on the subject have been
gathered from all parts of the world.
which are particularly interesting, in
view of the discoveries pointing to the
conclusion that this horrible practice
is far more widespread than was i'm
agined. Stanley claimed that 10000, 900
cannibals dwell in the basin Of the
Congo today-people who relish human
flesh above all other meat. Perhaps
the most peculiar form of cannibalism
is found in certain mountainous dis
tricts of Northeast Burmah, where there
are tribes that follow a life in all i'm
portant respects like that of wild
beasts. These people eat the CONCEALED
blood of their enemies. The blood is
poured into bamboo reeds, and in the
course of time, being corked UP. it
hardens. The filed reeds are hung