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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1896-03-04
Queer Antics Of o Bridegroom.

The innocence of city ways by the
newly married from the country dis
tricts who come to Chicago on their
wedding trips serves to excite only a
languid interested with hotel clerks,
but yesterday the queer antics OF a
bridegroom at the Leland cause a
great laugh, says the Chicago Trib-
ne. 1t was the worst Manager Cobb
allowed he had ever seen, and Mr..
Cobb has been in Chicago hotels 30
years.
On Wednesday night a young mar
approached the counter at the Leland
and looked nervously around him.
care you the clerk p he finally
asked.
"Yes. What can I do for you p
was the response.
II want a ROOM
The clerk pushed the register to-
ward him and waited.
"What do you want me to do ? the
young man stammered out.
"Write your name replied the
clerk, who was becoming interested.
The young man wrote "Harry W..
Smith," and at the request of the
clerk added charley, ILL.," He was
assigned aroom. A few minutes after
wards the bell.boy reported there was
a woman with the new guest. When
lie r%eappeared the next morning his
attention was called to the fact that
he had not registered for his wife.
II was married only yesterday, was
his explanation, "and l forgot all
about her."
Then he registered from "New Len
nox," having given the brides maiden
name as his residence the preceding
evening. The couple spent the day in
sightseeing, not returning to the
hotel until evening. A bell-boy who
had sprinkled wet sawdust on the
floor of the rotunda was sweeping it
up. Stepping up to the bell-boy he
said:
"My wife wants a candle to friz her
hair with. If you can get one for me
I'll sweep while you are gone"
Taking the broom from the hands
of the astonished colored boy, the
bridegroom proceeded to sweep the
rotunda. His bride, an exceedingly
pretty young woman, evidently the belle
Of the village, stood watching him.
The rotunda was crowded, and the
broad smiles as the passing throng
stopped to look at her husband told
her that something was wrong. Hel
face became crimson. The bell-boy
was gone perhaps longer than was
necessary, by and the time he returned
the rotunda was we'll swept. The
pair then started for their room
They must have heard the laugh
which broke forth as soon as they
were ont of sight.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1896-03-04
Hints to Girls on the Treatment Of
the Hair.

A girls hair is one of her points of
beauty, and it should never be neg
lected. Regular, steady brushing of
the hair with a clean brush, fifty
strokes before going to bed at night,
twenty-five in the morning when
dressing, will keep the hair thick,
smooth, soft and lovely. Once a
month at least the tips of the hair
should be clipped off, just the merest
tip-ends at the edges, and once a
month the head should be carefully
washed, with tepid water and soap,
thoroughly rubbed and well dried. If
mamma has time to take this sort of
care of her daughter hair, she will
be repaid by seeing rich and flowing
tresses, or sisters may do it for one
another. Do not cut your hair in
bangs. It is very much prettier simply
parted and combed back plainly, then
braided in one or two long tails, and
tied with a ribon. Avoid essences,
oils and pigments the hair needs only
cleanliness and much brushing. Keep
your hair brush clean by frequently
dipping it into a path of hot water and
ammonia and drying it in the sun.
Everything used in the hair must be
scrupulously neat.-Harper's Young
People.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1896-03-04
Victims OF Politics.

Don't go into politics for fun. It
may be fun at the start but it is
crucif1ion at the last. The path
of politics in all lands are lined on
both sides with the bleached skeletons
of mighty men. "Hand us another"
Jays public life, as it pitches n man
aside and clutches for some promising
mar in law or merchandise or social
position. Politics must be reformed,
and if you have the martyr spirit 60
into them but if you undertake that
style of life for regalement and profit,
you make a mistake that cannot be
corrected. A United States senator
writes this advice to his boy: If |
were to express any regret or des-
ignate any great error of my life, it
would be that 1 had ever connected
myself with party politics, or accept
ed a political office. If you would be
happy or useful, or selfrespecting, |
would advise you to let party politics
and political positions severely alone.
The only safe spirit in which to en-
ter politics is the martyr spirit, and
then if you are sacrificed, you will
not be surprised. The fact that you
have great brains affords no safety.
That is the very reason why you will
be put down or v%iciously handled
Christian Herald.
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A Darlington Hero.

The following is an extract from the
speech of Hon. John l.. McLaurin be-
fore the veterans Of Horny county:
At the battle of Gettysburg a stall
wart lad from Darlington was bravely
advancing in the face of a hot fire
when a shot tore off his first finger.
An officer ordered him to the rear.
"No, sir was his reply, "they will
call me a coward if I 60 back for
that" A moment later a piece of
she'll took his arm off clear and clean
above the elbow. A comrade caught
him, and the poor fellow said, II will
go back now but I would rather lose
my arm than to be called a coward"
Two weeks ago there was a death in
the poor house. The bed was hard,
the walls bare, the wan face cold and
still, while across the breast was pin
ned the armless sleeve Of a pauper's
coat. The heroic soul Of Henry
Miller had winged it's flight to God, far
beyond the reach of want and ingra-
titude.
Oh, my friends, why honor the
dead, why build monuments of bass
and marble /? 1t is but a hollow
mockery when heroes like this die
%dishonored and in want.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1896-03-04
Crank Guests.

II cannot sleep in that room," said
a guest at a hotel in this city last
evening as he walked to the desk in
the Office and threw the key upon it.
"What is the matter with it p
asked the CLERK.
"There is nothing the matter with
it, except that the bed is in the wrong
place." the guest replied. "For more
than twenty years | have slept in a
bed with the head toward the north,
and it has become such a habit with
me that it would be actually impossi-
BILE for me to sleep with the head in
any other direction
ssIt will be impossible for me to give
you 4 room containing a bed with the
head in that direction said the
clerk. "The hotel is well filled to-
night, and I have only two vacant
rooms, but I will have the bed turned
for you" Calling a porter the clerk
instructed him to turn the bed in the
gentleman's room, so that the head
would be to the north. The guest
followed the porter upstairs, and as
nothing further was heard from him it
is presumed that he retired and slept
peacefully.
"There is no accounting for tastes
said the clerk, turning to the reporter,
''and the funny experiences we have
in the hotel business would fill a vol
ume. Before the night is over we
may have calls for beds with their
heads turned to every point Of the
compass, and, of course, we are oblig-
ed TO accommodate every one"
II remember an instance like this
several years ago. A man slightly
inebriated came into the hotel one
night, and, producing a pocket COM
pass, said that he wished a room
where the head of the bed should be
placed to the northeast. We sent
two boys with him, and they turned
the bed as requested. The joke was
that the compass was furnished with
a little stop, which held the indicator
in a certain position. 1t so happened
that the gentleman bed, which had
been carefully placed northeast &C
.cording to the compass, was in reality
placed with the head to the south.
The man discovered his mistake next
morning, and was cured of the fad"
philadelphia Bulletin.
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Only Que Could do it.

"Last Sunday" said the clergyman
to his congregation, "some one put a
button in the collection bag. I won't
mention names. I will merely say
that only one individual in the con-
gregation could have done So, and I
will expect the same member after
the service to replace the button with
a coin OF the realm
After church a well to do but close
listed individual sought an interview
with the clergyman in the vestry !:
Ger" he began, hesitating]y, Unjust
apologizefor the-er-button incident,
which 1 can assure you was an acct
dent. I happened to have the button
in my waiscot pocket, together with a
shilling, and took out the former by
mistake. However, sir, here is the
shilling"
"Thank you said the clergyman,
taking the shilling and gravely hand
ing him the button.
"By the bye, sir" said the man,
II cannot understand how you should
have known that it was | who-er-
committed observation-disclosures
GREETED mistake"
II didn't know" replied the clergy
man.
Didn't know? But you said, sir,
that only one individual in the congre-
CATION could have done so.'
"Just so. You see, sir it is scarce
ly possible that two individuals could
have put one button in the bag, is it
not ?" said the clergyman, with a
bland smile.
It was SO much easier for the but
ten contributor to say "Goodday'
than to answer this puzzling question
that he made his bow at once
Epworth Herald.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1896-03-04
The Brayest Man.

The bluff old majorfrom the Queens
army had listened attentively to the
campfire tales of his companions, says
the New York Mercury. He put a
fresh charge of fragrant tobacco in the
veteran pipe that ne had been smok-
ing and the three occupants of the
compartment lapsed into silence, wait
ing to hear from him.
"The bravest man I have ever met
was not on the field of BATTLE he be-
gan. "He was a soldier, but I know
little about his military record, and
yet when I say he was the bravest
man I eve knew think 1 know what
I am talking about. We were cam
paigning in India and for months the
command had simply been idling time
away. We were all throughly tired of
"a life of routine military inactivity
and finally a party of five of US secur-
ed a two week'sleave of absence which
we proposed to spend in a hunt for
big game.
Zone Of our number was a senior
regimental officer, who had been
through ten years service in India.
He had been the guiding sririt of u
expedition. Seated a few feet away
from him and to his left was a young
junior company officer who had but
recently Joined the command. We
had been eating fruit, which was of
a kind that bears a very peculiar
scent. 1t is a tradition that this fruit
has a strong attraction for several
varieties of venomous reptiles which
are peculiar to that climate. l, at
least, am convinced that there is
something more than tradition in it.
"As I have said, we were talking of
adventures, when, in a moment Of 81
lence. the bluff old regimental officer,
looking steadily at the young lieuten-
ant to his left, slowly said:
edo you think you could keep your
presence of mind under the most try
ing circumstances, when your life de-
pended upon your GOODNESS and cour-
age
"Dead silence followed the colonel's
question, and the young officer, look
ing quizzically at his interrogation,
said:
eyes, I think I could
"'Then the time has come when you
must be put to the test. Move not a
muscle until I tell you, or you are
a dead man..
"Then the bronzed old warrior slow
ly drew his pistol from his holster,
and, taking deliberate aim, he fired a
shot at the very feet of the man to
whom he had addressed his ominous
question. For the space of a second
we all sat like statues, then the
colonel, in a tone Of relief exclaimed:
cots all right now. boys; I've
killed it.
"We were all on our feet in an in
slant, eager to know what danger had
threatened our young comrade. At
his feet lay the coiling, squirming
body of a huge cobra, the most venom
Gus reptile that haunts the jungles of
India. I think the mar who calmly
faced that danger was the bravest man
I've ever met said the major, and
no one disscnted.
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Jos. J. FRETWELL.

NEwBERRY, s. c., Oct. l, 1895.
Mr.. NJ. NJ Msttison, Mgr. Mutual Ben
eft Life Insurance Co., Anderson, S. c.
Dear Sir: Replying to your favor of re-
cent date, asking my estiinste of the value
of q policy contract in the Mutual Benefit
Life Insurance Co., of Newark, n. j., l
would say that my attention was called to
the advantages of owning a policy in this
Company about seven years ago by a
friend of mine who was receiving % per
cent dividend annually on q new policy,
when I was only getting about 10 per cent
on my policy of $4,000 in the Equitable
Life and about IL per cent on my $4,000
policy in the New York Life. His o
tract and mine in these Companies being
about the same age. | gave up these poll
cies in the Equitable and New York Life
and took out two policies OF S 1000 each in
the Mutual BsnefG Life and the smallest
dividend they have paid me was 20 per
cent I carry $4,000 besides this in other
Companies, but I regard the advantages
offered by the Mutual Benefit superior to
n contract I have ever examined, espe
cially the guaranteed face value, the 30
per cent loan plan, the reputation for
economical management, the liberal e1
tension features and the large dividends
they nave credited me with for the past
six years. I would not hesitate to recon
mend it to any one desiring reliable life
insurance for the smallest cash outlay.
Sincerely yours,
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1896-03-04
Ben. Franklin's Kite.

1t was a square kite, not the coffin
shaped affair shown in story-book pic
lures. To the upright stick of the
cross Franklin attached his pointed
rod-a sharp wire, about a foot long
and provided himself with a silk rib
bon and a key the ribbon, to fasten
to the string after he had raised the
kite, as some possible protection-how
much he did not know-against the
lightning entering his body and the
key, to be secured to the junction of
the ribbon and string to serve as a
conductor from which he might draw
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1896-03-04
Sale of Valuable Stocks.

10y virtue Of the order of the Probate
I'D Court for the County of Anderson,
s C,I will sell at public cutlery before
the Court House door at Anderson, 8. c.,
on the 18th day of March. 1896, the follow
ing Stocks of the Personal Estate of Ed
wards B.. Murray, deceased, viz:
Five Shares Of the Equitable B. & L.
Association. of Augusta, Ga which has
run for 26 months, and on which has been
paid $50 90.
Two Shares of the National Railway B.
& L.. Association, of Atlanta, Ga. which
has run % months, and on which has been
paid $2s.4O.
Five Shares South Eastern Life ms
Co (B & l.. Stock,) which has run for
3s months, and on which has been paid
S12s. so.
Thirteen Shares Anderson Saving, Loan
& Investment Co. Stock, which has run
So months, and on which has been paid
S5l0.25
Terms of Sale-Cash.
MRS EVA. s. MURRAY, Adm'x.
Feb 26, 1896 35 z
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the sparks of celestial fre-if it came.

the sparks OF celestial hre-lt 1t came.
When the thunder storm broke he
went out on the open common near
Philadelphia and faced death-faced
the tremendous power of the lightning
stroke, before which all people of all
ages had quailed in terror; faced what
most Of the world then believed to be
the avenging blow of an angered God.
True, he believed that electricity and
lightning were the same thing, and
therefore had no different properties
or effects but he did not know it.
The best existing theory which &C
counted for electrical phenomena at
that time was his own. The laws of
electrical conduction or resistance,
now so familiar, we're not even sus-
pected. Who could predict that the
lightning would obey any law :? Be-
sides, he had produced tremendous
shocks with his Leyden jars in series,
and had killed birds with them. More
than that, he had been terribly shock
ed himself BY the same means-stun-
ned into inseusibility and nearly
killed. He had said, again and again,
that an electrical shock, if strong
enough, would blot out life, though
without a pang. If his idea was cor
rect,,if his conviction was true, he
was now about to face an electric dis
charge beside which that of the most
powerful of man-made batteries would
seem weak and Insignificant.
! Ali the world knows what happened.
The kite scared up into the black
cloud, while the philosopher stood
calmly in the drenching rain watch
ing the string. until finally he saw the
little fbres of the hemp raise them
selves. Theu without a tremor he
touched his knuckle to the key-and
lived. For the spark cracked and
leaped to his finger as harrnlessly as
did that from his old familiar e%lectri-
cal machine, and allowed him to charge
his jars with it with the same impun-
ity. He sent the story of what he
had done abroad. without a particle
of trumpeting. He was not a discov-
erer for revenue. No stock market
awaited the announcement Of his
claims no newspaper stood ready to
blaze forth his achievement in the
interest of the money jugglers. His
own narrative barely fills one Of the
little columns of the Gentlemam's
Maanzine for Oct. ~, 1852, and it has
at lis end only the initials B. F.
Casters Magazine.
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A Tramp's Rise and Fall.

SACRAMENTO, CAL, Feb. 19.-John
P. Harmens, a tramp, fifty years CT
age, who, by his own confession, re-
covered $40, 900 that was hidden by
train robbers a year ago is locked up
in jail in this city. For months he
has been living in San Francisco on
the money taken from the Overland
express near Sacramento by Jack Brady
and Browning a year ago. The pris-
oner has turned we to the police ST.
600, which he had in the German
Savings bank in San Francisco S.
900 in securities, a diamond ring and
a diamond collar button.
Harmens found the money under a
clump of bushes near Sacramento,
where the robbers who held up the
train had buried it.. 1t is known that
the robbers obtained $50, 900 from the
Wells-Fargo Company, but Harmens
did not find all Of the plumber. He
says that he obtained only $50. 900,
but it is believed that these figures
are rather under the exact amount.
The conclusion is based on the fact
Chat Brady, one of the bandits, con-
fessed and took the officers to the
place where the money was buried, but
only Sc, 900 was found. Harmans had
evidently taken the rest of the treas
ure before the officers arrived.
Harmens was arrested in San Fran
cisco Saturday and brought to this
city last night. Among his friends
he is known as Clutch Charley
After he found the money he went to
San Francisco, where he loaned a great
deal to responsible business men. But
he was not misery, as it is said that he
lived a life of luxury seldom dreamed
of by the average tramp. He bought
the most elegant clothes for himself,
making a trip to New York for the
purpose, and the tramp was trans
formed into a regular fashion-plate.
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READ, READ!

ANDERSON, S G., Aug. 26, 1895.
Mr.. NJ. M Mattlson, Mgr, Anderson,
S. C.-Dssr Sir: Your letter Of the 18th
inst to hand. In reply will say that I am
very much pleased with the policy I hold
with the Mutual Benefit, and I know Of
no other policy issued by any other COM
pany for which I would exchange mine
with you. My return premiums or divi
dends have been perfectly satisfactory,
amounting every year go far to more than
twenty per cent of my annual premium.
Yours truly,
Jos. J.. FRETWELL.
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Bucklens Arnfca SalTe.

The best salve in the world for Cuts
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum,
Foyer Sores, letter, Chapped Hands,
Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Erup-
tions and positively cures Piles, or no
a required It is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction, or money refund
ed. Prise 2'5 cents per box. For sale
nv Hill Bros
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GE, .

A SPECIAL meeting of Stockholders
IN of Anderson Cotton Mills is here
by called to be held in the Court House at
Anderson, S.. c., on TUESDAY, March
10. 1896. at II o'clock a. M, for the Dur
pose of voting on an increase of the Capi
tai Stock of said Anderson Cotton Mills
from $3.50 900 to $500, 900. 1t is earnestly
desired that as nearly as possible every
Share be represented.
J, A. BROCK, President.
Feb 8, 1896 80 4
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January 20, 1895

NOTICE FINAL SETTLEMENT.
IN The undersigned, Executor Of
the Estate of Mrs Nancv c Hawkins, de
ceased, hereby gives notice thai he will, on
the goth day March, 1896. apply to the
Judge of Probate for Anderson County for
q Final Settlem ent of said Estate, and q
discharge from his office rs Executor.
R. B A. ROBINSON, Executor.
Feb 10, 1896 81 s
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PER GALLON.
Pure Old Sweet Mash C,rn Whiskey So 90

Very Old Sherry at 81 so per gallon
Old Virginia Claret, per case one dozen
quarts $3.50.
Old California Sherry, per case one doz.
quarts, $500.
Old California Port, per case one dozen
quarts, $500.
Dixie Bottled Bier, ten dozen per Bar
rel, $500
My motto is to keep the best and defy
com petition, either in quality or price.
No charge for packing or boxing.
Goods shipped on remittance.
PAT MCINTYRE, Proprietor.
Feb S, 1876 81 3m
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The latest 1885, statistics show
that there are 152, 745 blind persons
in the United States and Europe, or
about IS per LOO, 900 inhabitants.
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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
COUNTY OF ANDERSON.
rOITRT f,F COMMON PLEAS


James Thompson, Stuart Thompson and Lizzie
Belcher, Plaintiffs, against Florence Lynch, Ren-
ben Thompson Jr.. Edward Thompson, William
Gambrell. Frank Townes. Anna Robinson,
James Townes, Jake Townes. Jr., and Vincent
Townes, observation-disclosures for Relief
Complaint Served.
To the Defendants Florence Lynch, Rueben
THOMPSON, Jr., Edward Thompson, William
Thompson, John Thompson, Jake Townes, Ida
Gambrell, Frank Townes, Anna Robinson,
James TONNES, Jake Townes, Jr, and Vincent
Townes:
TTOU are hereby summoned and required to an
9 the Complaint in this action, of which
a COPY /. herewith served upon you, and to serve
q copy of your answer to the said Complaint on
the subscriber at his Office, at Anderson C. H.,
S. c., within twenty days after the service hereof,
exclusive of the day OF such service; and II you
fail to answer the Complaint within the time
aforesaid, the Plaintiffs in this action will apply
to the Court for the relief demanded in the Corr
plant. -.
Plaiutifs' Attorney.
SEAL JNo. C.. WATKINS, C. C. G P.
To the Defendants Florence Lynch, Reuben
Thompson, Jr., Edward THOMPSON William
Thompson. Ida Gambreli, Frank Townes and
James Townes:
Take notice that the Sun and Complaint
in the above stated action was filed IN the office OF
the Clerk of Court for the County of Anderson, at
Anderson, 4. c., On the 25rd day OF January, 1886,
F. NJ. MURPHY,
t~laintifs' Attorney.
January %, 1895 81
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-"My DEAR said a dying hus-
band, "do you think you will marry
again when I am gone ?" II don't
know, john" replied the lady, with a
burst of tears. 81 haven't given the
matter very much thought as yet
= The Scotch have the heaviest
average brain weight-50 ounces.
The Eskimos of East Greenland have
the lightest-43. ounces.
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Ghicora High Grade Fertilizer

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