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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1896-09-30

Mr.. C. S. Minor, of the firm of G.
S. Minor & Co.,, was born in Hancock
County, Ca, in 1864. He lived on a
farm until he was II, when, with his
father family, he moved to Milledge-
Vile, attending the schools and grad
uated from the Middle Georgia Agri-
cultural College, department of the
State University, in 1887, receiving a
medal for oratory and one for scholar
ship. He afterwards taught school in
Georgia, and then travelled for tomb
stone house. Later he was connected
with the firm of Wood & Co.. of Gads-
den, Ala, and in 1889 moved to An
dcrson, where he has been in active
business ever since.
Mr.. Minor began business in this
city on small scale, selling nothing
higher than ten cents, and conducting
his affairs on the plan of one price
and short profits. The demand for the
higher priced goods compelled him to
add this feature, which increased the
volume of his trade. He has now
nearly everything in stock, which is
estimated at S25, 900. His stand on
the South side of the Public Square,
occupies three floors, and every bit of
space in his establishment is filled.
Mr.. Minor makes speciality of glass
ware, tinware, crockery, jewelry, no
tions and novelties. He also carries
dry goods, wooden and willow ware,
and a splendid assortment of house
hold hardware. In the last two or
three years he has done considerable
wholesale business, selling to the
merchants near this city. This de-
partmcnt of his establishment is rap
idly growing.
One of the clements of Mr.. Minors
success has been the treating of every
customer alike, and always has the
same things that he advertiscs.
Mr.. Minor success has been phc-
nomcna. Nine years ago he left col
lcge pcnniless and in debt, but with
stiff backbone and lots of pluck and
patience he has pushed his business
during that time with 4 vim seldom
exhibited and never surpassed. HIS
motto has been never to allow the
business to push him but to push the
business. He never acts on the de-
fcnsivc but invariably on the offensive.
Another of his mottos is to undcrbuy
and to undersell, ''and hcw to the
line, letting the chips fall where they
may.
MIR. Minor buys everything on an
extensive scale. such as one hundred
dozen brooms. 80 cases of lamp chin
ncys. &c. He makes big contracts
far ahead, which is big risk, but by
this means he manages to ret goods
at a much lower rate than otherwise.
Quick sales and small profits has been
the one reason of his great success,
and to day Mr.. Minor does one of the
largest and most profitable business
in the city of Anderson.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1896-09-30
THE EVANS pHARM ACI.

Mr.. George W. vans, who is at the
head of the firm ,own as the Evans
Pharmacy, is y lang man who has
made great succa@ is in the line Of his
life work. He began work as a drug
clerk, and showing remarkably
aptitude for the business was soon
promoted from one position to anoth-
er until to-day he owns one of the
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1896-09-30
JOHN II. CLARKE.

Mr.. John II. Clarke, the leading
merchant tailor Of Anderson, was
born in this city in 1915, and was a
son of the late Mr. J. B. Clarke, who
for forty years conducted merchant
tailoring business in this city.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1896-09-30

Mr.. Clarke spent his early boyhood
days in Anderson and received good
English education from the teachers
of the day. Ut an early age he vol
untccrcd in the Confederate service
and was u member of tiarys brigade
OF cavalry: in Col. y. c. Haskell $
regiment. Afterwards he joined
Trenholm 5 squadron, and served on
the coast of South Carolina. and later
in Virginia. He was with Lee S army
when it surrendered at Appomattox,
and when his soldiers life was finish
ed he returned to Anderson, and at
once began in business with his faith
er. He was partner with his father
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-06-25

ARNOLD-In this city, June %, Freder-
ick s., son OF Thomas A. and Fanny
Arnold of Arlington, Cranston, aged
% years and % days.
Funeral at his parents residence. 992
Cranston street, Arlington, Friday at 2
y. m. Relatives and friends are invited
to attend. Burial at the convenience Of
the family.
BARNEY--In Attleboro, June %, Jona-
than Barney, aged 70 years.
Funeral from the residence Of his son,
Jason NJ. Barney, Friday, June 26, at II
a. m. Relatives and friends are invited to
attend.
BENEDICT-In this city, June %, Sarah
A., wife of the late Joseph Is. Bene-
dict, aged 72 years.
Funeral from hor late residence, 81
Seekell street, Friday, June 20, at IL
a. m. Relatives and friends invited to
attend without further notice.
BEAvEN--In this city, June %, Nath-
aniel Beaven, aged 81 years, month
and days. $500
Funeral will take place Friday, June
26, at D. M, at his late residence, 80
Cottage row, wsnskuck. Relatives and
friends ale invited to attend, Please omit
flowers.
COLLINS-1n this city, June "a, Daniel
j., son OF Daniel and Bridget Collins.
Funeral from his parents residence. II
Collins court, Friday, June rs, at $3.50
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in the division, thus encouraging many
voters In the support OF correct political
principles and at the same time relieving
the rate-payers. This may be called \
special instance, but It indicates that eva
SION OF the corrupt practices act is at least
possible. One other fact which / derive
from official returns seems to be of more
general application. For the week end
Ing July 10 the increase OF the revenue
from beer (there having been no change
In the law) over the same week OF the
previous year was 337, 900 pounds, indi-
eating an increased consumption OF about
one million bsrreis. The first pollings
Of the general election took place on July
13, and continued for about three weeks.
The liberals charged that their opponents
ware giving free beer to the voters, and
this extraordinary rise in the reveuuejust
at election time seems az least to indicate
that the consumption OF beer increases
marvellously in England when voting 10
to be done.
There ia nothing certainly in these
facts and figures to indicate that free
trade hasa depressing or lowering effect
on election expenditures. But in making
a omparison with our own expenditures
i Will limit myself tC the totals OF the
official returns, which are very far from
representing the amount of money actu-
ally spent. According to those returns
-
possible one dollar for every voter. On
that basis we were entitled, IL we follow
ed the English example OF moderation in
election expenditures, to have spent in
the last campaign $12. 164, ,642. As mat
ter OF fact there bas never been cam
paign in which the national committees
OF the two great American parties have
spent between them three million dol
lars. Allowing, however, three million
to the two national committees, and two
million more to cover all that is spent in
tees, wo have five million dollars for
the expenditures OF an American Presi-
deatisl election. This IL an excessive es-
innate, for most of the money of the
national committees Is sent to the poorer
States and Congressional districts, in
very few of which, indeed, candidates
are to be found who can afford anything
like the average expenditure OF an Eng
lish division. Taking, then, i've million
dollars as the expenditure OF the Presi-
Dental election, we ind thst 1t Is just
about the amount actually spent at
general election In England aud only half
what we should be entitled to spend IL
we took the scale OF the English official
returns per vote as our standard OF ex-
pendltures When, in addition, u is
remem bered that in this country we
have great distances to cover, which are
unknown in England, and which add
euormUusfyto the expense of campaign
ing, Ii will be seen that in the United
states, despite the corrupting Influences
OF protected industries, we do not spend
half the money which we should spend
il We lived up TO the English stan dard.-
From "English Elections" by the Hon.
Henry Cabot Lodge, in Hasper's Nigga
zine for July.
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CHAT.

Ice cream sandwiches are among the
newest things.
Speaking OF precocity friend reminds
me that, according to scripture, Job
cursed the day he wGs born.
An acquaintance of mine turns up his
nose at all this new tangled apparatus
for home gymnastics that is such fad
In these days OF physical culture. lime
was when he used 10 have chest weights
and dumb Tells anG no end OF gear in
to take salutary exercise between bath
and breakfast each morning.
He Is authority for the statement that
nothing OF all the products of invention
equals the natural apparatus commonly
at hand in so many we'll regulated house
holds. He says that when he gets up in
the morning no throws the baby up in
the air ten times in succession. This
practice develops large lot of back,
shoulder and arm muscles, and contrib
utes to alertness of vision and quickness
of mental process. Then he lugs two
buckets of coal up stairs from the cellar
splendid exercise for leg development.
After that such light gymnastics are
available as working the lawn mower and
backing his shoes.
Some folk that | know have place for
everything and everything is always in
it's place-but the place is constantly be-
ing changed.
The proverbial fact that fool and his
money are soon parted materially helps
TO keep the circulatory mediums In cir
culation. That's a compensation for
everybody but the fool
Mems hearts are rarely broken. But
not infrequently fellows good opinion
of himself gets badly ruptured.
The mysteries OF life are not worth
bothering much about so long as the
glaring facts present so many complicst-
ed problems for solution.
A word to the wise is sufficient. But
alasl how few OF us have wisdom.
Every dog has his day. The cats seem
to have n monopoly of the nights.
William McKinley's portrait in the
gallery of Presidents will he harmoni-
Gus with those OF the ante .bellum days.
Up TO Lincoln and with the exception OF
Van Buren,, who cultivated "side lights
every President was clean shaven. Since
Lincoln with the exception OF Andy
Johnson, no President has "worn"
smooth face
A new periodical entitled, "success"
is TO be started in Boston. 1t will tell
young men how to succeed in life. Men
who have not succeeded will naturally
be frequent contributors for none Will
know better about what things ought
TO be avoided.
l met a man tho other day who said
he read "Chat."
lie was wondering why he did.
The CHATTERER.
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A FAMOUS HOTEL.

Twenty years ago the Brunswick Ho-
tel was the most elegant hostelry in New
York, surprising all other metropolitan
hotels In a way that none can claim to
DO today. 1t was the first hotel to go
up on Fifth avenue.
II has he'd q struggle for existence re-
Gently. New York has an amazing num-
ber OF hotels as fine as the Brunswick, a
few very much finer, although not one
30 far superior to it's fellows as was the
Brunswick in it's hest days. Folks who
wanted TO see and for time live in the
choicest hotel In the country used to put
up at the Brunswick. Now they can put
up at any one of half dozen hotels in
New York and argue about its rating In
first place.
Not many hotels in New York today
are more choice than the Brunswick, de-
spite its age But there are too many
choice ones. They cannot all live. The
Brunswick has followed the Victoria and
the OLD Brevoort and has closed its doors.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-06-25

Harper's Magazine for July opens with
a comprehensive and most readable review
of the war of the revolution, by Pofessor
WOODROW WILSON, told with General
Washington for its central figure. Sena.
tor Lodge tells American folk how badly
and how well their British cousins con-
duet their elections, with particular
design to inform the mugwumps who
"point with pride" to English methods.
President Thwing OF the Western Reserve
College writes of Ohio-about the most
interesting bit Of territory in the country
just now. The "Love Letters of Super
fine Gold" is a charming bit from the
overfiowing Chinese note book of Julian
Ralph. John kendrick Bangs delightful
conceit about young novlist who
couldn't restrain his heroine is concluded
and was just long enough. A new novel;
ette "Two Mormans From MucdIety, {"
by a son of DIR. S. Weir Mitchell is tcy1n.
1t begins well, and Is beautifully ilids-
trated. Poetry, pictures and short stories
are numerous and goud. In the August
mum ber Mark Twain begins a new novel,
"Tom Sawyer, Detective and we shall
all be glad TO renew acquaintance with
the chap who, when he was boy,
traded the privilege of whitewashing the
fence for marbles and tops, the marbles
and tops for Sunday School "merit''
tickets, the "merit" tickets being In turn
trapsfera ble for a Bible, and the honor
thus achieved resulting In disaster and
collapse Of prestige.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-06-25
MELINITE SHELLS.

The French government has pretty sat
isfactorily demonstrated that melinite
shells are terribly destructive.
-Four shells fred at the srmored hull Of
an anchored vessel tore through tha ship
aud the pieces few TO almost every part
doing great damage. The explosive
force was tremendous over wide range.
What would happen to modern man
oi-wsr struck fairly by one OF these shello
may be con!ectured. what would happen
II one of tie shells exploded while boinz
hundfed may also be conjectured. Shells
charged with Delinite wcuid appear to
be about rs dangerous as shells losocd
with dynamite-too dangerous 10 be car
ried about to hurl at an enemy.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-06-25

a. m. Relatives and friends are invited
10 attend.
CAR1ER-In Pawtucket. June %, John
W.Cartar, aged o. years.
CHACE-In Black Rock, Phenix, June
%, Ruth, widow OF Nathaniel T.
Chacc. aged So years. eE
Funeral Friday, June 26. at 2 p. m,
from her late residence Relatives and
friends are invited TO attend. Please
omit flowers.
FIELD-In Pawtucket, June 23, Albert
X. Field, aged "a years.
GAGE--ln Pawtucket, June "a, Eliza-
beth, wife OF tre late Daniel Gage.
aged 70 years.
INGRAHAM-In Attleboro June 2S, Ezra
X. Ingraham, aged 81 years.
Funeral Friday, June 26, from his late
residence. North Main street. Relatives
and friends invited TO attend.
MERRILL--In this city, June %, Benja-
min B. Merrill, aged so years.
Prayer at his late residence, is Consti-
tuition street, Thursday, June rs, at 10;S0
a. m. Burial at Taunton, Mass.
McLEOD-In this city, June 22, Mary
Frances, daughter of Daniel +. and
Annie L. Mcleod, aged / year,
month and % days.
SIMMONS d this city, June "a, Archi-
bald ID. Simmons, aged 66 years.
sEAGRAVE - At Forest Hills, Mass,
June 2l, Caleb sesgraye, aged 64
years.
<services at 157 Hope street, at IL m,
Thursday, June 20. Kindly omit flowers.
TIILINGHAST - In West Wrentham,
Mass, June 10, Frederick Augustus
Tillinghast, aged 62 years.
TENNANT-In Phenix, June %, Clara
Greene, wife of DIR. George &. Ten.
nant.
Funeral at residence, Saturday, June
q, Mt p. m. Relatives and friends are
invited to attend without further notice.
WINSLOW-ln Roxbury, Mass. June 20
Miss Almira Fenner Winslow, aged so
years, IL months and 16 day..
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An Incurablc.

Awe tried everything.
B--I suppose you've had millions Of
suggestions.
A-Oh, yes. I've got a friend who boil
sters, or trys to bolster me up with those
But, Lord. what good are suggestions.
B-Did you ever take a course of pea
nuts?
"A What?
B-l mean aid you ever eat peanuts to
relieve the distress"
A-Oh, pshaw About 10 years ago
thought i had dyspepsia. Well, as a
matter of fact, all had was little in
digestion. 1t panied me enough, though,
then, you bet. Well, sirs, l ate peanuts
l guess must have eaten on an average a
bushel a day. And 1 finally got rid of
my Indigestion. But, Lord. sirs, that
pain wasn't in 1t with the pain now
have every day of my life. All .he pea
nuts, / might say all the Italians, in
Chrstendom couldn't do my case any
good.
C-Pardon me, sir, but sympathize
with you sincerely. More so from the
fact that have an aunt who used to have
q trouble somewhat in your line. She has
now fed for four months, and is still
feeding, on milk. Doing her sight OF
good. No doctors bills, no nurse. In
fact nothing but milk.
A-Bosh. I've patroniZed milkmeu--
C-Ah. There you have the whole
story. You don't want TO patre nize milk
men. You know what milkmen are as
well as l do, and as well as the milk in
spector does. What you want to do IL to
get out into the country and patronize
the original animal.
B-Pardon me for interrupting, but did
you ever try DIR. Blacks Cure-all?
A-Patent medicine? i guess have.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-06-25


The Democratic delegation from the
great state OF New York will 60 to the
Chicago convention armed with reed for
the fight for sound money.
The financial plank adopted at Saratoga
yesterday is long and limp. OF course it
refers back to THOMAS JEFFERSON.
Everything Democratic Is referred back
10 THOMAS JEFFERsoN for an endorse
ment. Nothing much that the Democ-
rarcy has done since JEFFERSON de-
parture from life is tangible enough to
cling to. But Jefferson ian ism may al
ways be depended upon. At the grave
OF JEFFERSON on the occasion OF that
memorable pilgrimage In the spring,
Ex-Governor RUSSELL of assachusetts
ayerred that that great statesman would
undoubtedly have been a gold bug were
be alive today. senator DANIEL OF Vir-
ginia was equally pronounced in the
opinion that JEFBFERsoN would have
been 16 to ! silverite. The platform
adopted at Saratoga yesterday begins
with declaration attributed to JEFFER-
SON that "The monetary unit must stand
on both metals"
Tie platform then proceeds to arraign
the Republican party for depriving silver
"of its equality with gold for
which the Democratic party was In no
wise responsible" and goes ON TO state
that the issue today Is the "restoratio ion
of the equilibrium of tho two metals
thus disturbed" This latter statement
is calculated TO shock the business men
of the Empire State who have expressed
the opinion that the present issue is
gold VS.. silver outright and stripped OF
any fapdoodle about "restoration OF
equilibrium.
Then after a declaration that the free
coinage of silver would result in silver
m monometallism, this extended Demo-
cratic plank resolves that 1--WE are in IA
vor of gold and silver as the standard
money of the country" that the party
in New York is opposed to gold mon
ometallism on the one hand and silver
monometallism on tho other hand"; hut
that pending international concurrence
It favors the "rigid maintenance of the
present gold standard"
The last declaration is saving sop.
But the currency plank In its entirety is
as wabbling straddle as could well
have been devised. II the Democracy OF
the Empire State can do no better than
this, what is to be hoped for from the
Chicago convention?
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-06-25
Tried TO XIII Parents

Clinton, Conn, June 25>--Edgar Stew.
ems, aged 20, who was mildly insane fof
a number Of years, assaulted his mother
with pair of large tailor shears yester-
day. striking her several times in the
body, and her death is momentarily ex'
pected. The father of the young man,
who rushed TO protect his wife, was also
severely injured, but not fatally SONS
neighbors coming 10 his assistance. Tho
son was placed under control ard taken
TO the insane asylum at Ni~t,et wa
yesterday afternoon.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-06-25

Scribnor's Magazine for July is mighty
entertaining for what il Is as well as for
the glorious proposition IL offers in its
annual August "fciion mum ber. (" Julian
Ralph, the versatile and prolific, writes
of Coney Island, and the article Is beau
tifully illustrated. A cooling chapter is
furnished by the story of "Ihousanf
Miles Through the Alps" One more bit
from the pen OF the late Hjalmar Hjortl
Boyesen is welcome. There is an infJfrr :
ing article on ;axIdermy, fn art that
threatens to become fad 10 Judge from
the attention Just now being given to IL
In print. The departments" efervescl,
the pictures are Particularly attractive,
there is some choice poetry and tnat
most fetching OF current tales, ''Senii-
mental Tommy" pursaes its .delig htful
course in way that makes US Itch for
the end but dread to have it come. q
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-06-25
pRExY ANDREWS AND SILVER.

Rhode Islanders are never surprised at
anything the President OF Brown Uni
vcrsity may write or speak. PRExY AN
DREws has the courage OF his convic-
tions, and tie courage Is made the more
conspicuous because the convictions are
usually opposed to those held by the
great majority of his fellow citizens in
this neighborhood.
The President OF Brown has kept At
tingly quiet for the past winter. He has
not'attended any anarchist reunions or
made any addresses before political clubs
or in his old time ways sought to parade
his views before a public that finds little
sympathy with them. Possibly he has
had fewer Invitations than formerly.
Possibly he has developed tact enough
to keep quiet under pressure. Whatever
the cause, however, his silence has been
refreshing to majority OF his fellow
citizens. When PRExY ANDREWS keeps
his breath for the purpose OF roofing on
Iipccln Field the town gets along with
him nicely. But be has recently written
a letter. 1t is dated Brown University,
June %. 1896.
We reprint 1t without comment be-
cause President ANDREWS doesn't care
for comment, end as for most of the
balance of us comment Is unnecessary.
Here is the letter:
STEPHEN W. NIcKERsoS, Boston, Mass.
My Dear Sir In yours or the 20,h
INST, after adverting to CernuschPs lat
est position touching the policy of the
United States In freely coming silver at l6
tol without waiting for an International
agreement, you ask what. IL any, Oh
leotions would urge against this policy.
L reply that L would urge none. The
vaat new output OF gold In recent years,
ns compared with that OF silver, impress
es me that free coinage by us alone
would not lead to the displacement OF
our gold; that, therefore, free coinage
would be safe. IL IL Is safe, II is GER
tainly dfsirabl OF course, no one
can be absolutely certain that we could
proceed with silver free coinage and yet
retain our gold. Therefore do not dog
matize, but leave that to the gold men.
10 my mind. however, the overwhelm-
ing probability is that gold would stay
with us. l have noticed OF late no seri-
Gus argument TO show that it would not.
Cordially,
Il. BENJAMIN ANDREWS.
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Ii is the Democratic Brooklyn Eagle
that allows; "Really, the Repub blicsn
candidate was for four years a creditable
soldier, for IA years q Congressman Of
distinction and for four years a sstisfsc-
tory Governor of great state In all his
political career he hss-been serious, sr-
csptabio and forcible advocate OF bis
psrty's ideas lie could not be written
up into his fame lie cannot be written
e~~n out Of IT,"
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-06-25

The lady on the bufi cover OF the Ladies'
Home Journsl for July is distinguished
from the many preceding ladies of the
and Disposed 10 stockincsa. She wears n
look approaching dismay IN contrast to
tho accustomed ait OF either sassiness or
extraordinary naivete that commonly
marks the cover laoies. She looks as
much surprised 10 be caught t6crc as wo
are TO find her. The themo she repre-
sents ~ "Aidsummcr Eve, F" Within the
kttractive cover ia more than the usual
wealth ct illustration. Timely articles
treat Of Joan OF Arc. oi Bobby turns,
and things OF interest 60 young men go-
ing out into the world. Hszekiah But
terworth tells 20 still anctner generation
new tale Of trook farm. kx. President
Harrison continues his interesting 81, ies,
and there are other good things.