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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-02-09

post, jumped into the Miriam and
without a word to me pushed hel
away, seized the tiller and the sheet.
and off we scudded.
''The captain!' I cried, pointing
at the approaching cloud in the cen
ter of which I knew the redoubtablu
mariner to be.
"Plague on the captain!' growled
Archer. Then he added, more soft
ly, "Get to windward, please.
But there he is now, (" l eXpostu-
lated.
Archer looked a-ound. Standing
on the string piece of the wharf,
violently waving one arm above his
head, while with the other he point
ed seward, was Levi Skullcarp. The
sentimental man at the catboats :
helm waved hand to imply that he
saw the speck of a sail to which the
captain was pointing and turned to
the business of navigation. Away
we went in pursuit.
When the Miriam had at length
settled down to work and was with
clocklike regularity sticking her
nose into the solid green waves and
then saucily throwing them up in the
air again and sending the water
skirting along the rail or flying over
me, my new companion broke the
silence by appearing for the first
time to recognize that was human.
Mister-r-ri"
Kemp" I answered, bowling
stifly.
My name is Archer.
81 think have seen you about the
hotel
''This must seem Il strange pro
ceeding to you,' he said, laughing.
Evidently the popularity had just
dawned Gu him.
Rather l replied, thawins just
enough to smile.
"And perhaps an explanation is
due. " SAL he
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-02-09
ATLANTIC COAST LINE.

TRAFFIC. DEPARTMENT,
WILMINGTON. N. c., Dec. 20, 1897.
Fast Line Between Charleston and Col
umbia and Upper South Carolina, North
Carolina.
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NOTICE FINAL SETTLEMENT.
IN The undersigned, Admin1stsator of
Essssse Of Margaret Mccullough deceased,
hereby gives notice chat he win on the
26th day OF February, 1858, apply to the
Judge of Probate for Anderson County for
a Final Settlement of said Estate, and
d:aabeage Hom his Office as Admsnistra-
Tor.
A. W. MCCULLOUGH, Admir-.
Jan 2S. 1895 ri
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-09
BRIGHT BITS.

Early Depravity-"Let it alone, WILLIE"
said the bad boys mother. Don't try to
tear it open. 1t viii be beautiful butter
fly next year"
"Mebby it will and mebby it won't" re-
piled the bad boy, proceeding to dissect
it. AN cocoons look alike to me"-Chi-
cago Tribune.
-Historical-The inner diplomatic his
tory of the late war is soon told. Goa
htionw proposed Spain, to the powers of
Europe. You ask to much" these replied
Coal, thenr' exclaimed Spain, desperately.
But even this the unhappy nation was not
suffered TO obtain.-Detroit Journal
THE public is warned" says a pro-
nounced lingo contemporary, against
agents now in our midst claiming to have
for sale Complete History of the United
States The work, which we have not
seen, must be a delusion and snare. be-
cause the United States is still making its
history, and il Won't be completed for
some time to come "-Harper's Bazaar.
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schooi-noy Love-Making.

A heart-rending case of youthful affec-
ton brutally nipped in the bud has just
been related to me by the mother of one
Of my boy friends, says the Washington
Post. The boy friend poor fellow, is the
hero. He is in the eighth grade of one
of the city schools, and he adores, as only
a boy of that age, mores the pity, can
adore, a girl in the same school, a pert
little snip of thing, who draws in her
belt a hole or two on the sly, and is just
beginning to use hand-glass in making
her toilet The boys hadn't the courage
to tell her the state of his feelings in
person, but he wrote her letter. a Won
derful letter, which began Dear Friend
Lulu and contained an ardent declara-
ton of undying devotion. He didn't like
to trust the precious missive to the post,
hut he knew where she lives. He passes
the house on his way to and from school,
though it takes him quite three blocks
out of the way to do so. One dark even
ing he slipped to the door slyly, laid the
letter on the step, rang the door bell, ana
scampered away. Her father came to the
door, looked out, saw nobody, and shut
the door again, leaving the letter lying
where the boy had put it, Again the
young lover mounted the steps and again
he rang the bell and fed. The father
appeared again. and again withdrew with
out seeing the letter. The boy determined
to make one more trial, but even as his fin
ger was on the bell button the door flew
open and he was dragged into the lighted
hall.
I've caught you, have I?' snorted her
irate father. I've caught you, you young
scoundrel This is the third evening this
week I've been annoyed by you imps ring
ing that bell, and I'm going to whale your
smart Aleckiness out of you"
Several blows fell before the boy could
gasp out his explanation and all the while
in the parlor, there she-she sat and saw
and heard il all. And oh, a few minutes
later he walked down the steps, with
lump i'm his throat and a hot feeling all
over him, and a wild thankfulness that
it was dark and a bitter desire to go
somewhere, where nobody could ever see
him again the longest day he lived The
very street lamps seemed to know and to
wink derisively. Home he went and
straight to bed, where an hour later his
mother found him, all his pretense of big
boyishness vanished. sobbing his heart
out in the dark. Even mother couldn't
help him, poor boy! Her father and her
mother, yes, and his father and mother,
too, have laughed about it uproariously.
but his cheeks burn with mingled pain
and humiliation whenever the horrid spec
Ter of it looms up over his lesson book
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-09

Some of the habitues of the Waldorf-As-
toria are telling a good story at the ex-
pense of a young Englishman stopping
there and now on his way home after a
tour of the West, says the New York
Times 1t relates to the American system
of baggage checking, such a simple
thing, you know" that now the Britisher
wonders why he did what he did.
II was several weeks ago when the
young man arrived here with a compan-
ion, who had looked out for him on the
way over AT New York the friends sep
arated, the young fellow going to Chicago.
AT the Grand Central station he found his
way to the baggage room, with the IN
junction 10 the employees 10 send his
"bawxes" TO Chicago. To his surprise
two baggage checks were thrust into his
hand.
What are these for?' he asked, in a
surprised sort of way.
What am to do with these?" the
young fellow inquired but no one an
sWered
'Cawnt imagine he soliloquized. Then
he was struck by bright idea. He walk
ed into The Enclosure, strangely enough no
one pursuing him, opened one of his trunks
and carefully deposited The checks there
in. After that se felt considerably re-
lieved
Twenty-six hours later much-bewilder-
ed young foreigner confronted a burly
baggageman in Chicago.
Send me bawxes to the Auditorium -
he said, indicating his trunks.
Give me yer checks was the business
like answer
Me checks" was the puzzled ejacula-
lions. Checks? don't owe anything.
paid me transportation. Besides, l Gavin t
draw a check here
Il didn't say noth.n' bout payin' moth
in" impatenly rejoined the baggageman.
Show yer checks or yer don't git no
trunks. Don't know what checks is? Must
be green. Here, see these brass things"
And the man held a check up TO view.
A light broke upon the Englishman, and
he exclaimed:
"Oh, me brawses. IT'S me brawses you
want. Why, l locked them In one of the
hawkes."
The baggageman looked startled Then
he broke into a laugh, and the claimant
of the "bawxes" laughed
Presently the Englishman opened his
trunk and got his checks, while the bag
gageman explained the American check
ing system.
Now that l know your American ways
better" said the Englishman, as he told
the tale with the joke on himself sit
seems very funny. But 1 give you me
word it took a long time to find out what
the chap meant by a lulu
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surrendcr nr TeIenhnne.

The town Ponce, Porto Rico first sur
rendered to Ensign Curtin, OF the Wasp.
then to three officers who strayed into /,
by mistake, then to Commander Davis and
finally to Gen. Miles, writes Richard
Harding Davis in Scribner's.
Ensign Curtin landed with letter for
the military commander, which demanded
the surrender Of the port of the city. The
captain of the port informed him that the
military commander was a. Ponce but that
he might be persuaded TO surrender if the
American naval officer would condescend
to drive up to Ponce and make his de-
mands in person. The American officer
fairly shook and quivered with Indignation
"Zounds!' and "Gadzooks' and Dam
me, sir" would have utterly failed TO ex-
press his astonishment.
How long viii it take that military
commander TO get down here if he hur-
ries?" demanded Ensign Curtin.
The trembling captain of the port. the
terrified foreign consuls and the custom
house officials thought that a swift-mov-
ing cab might bring him to the port in
a half hour
Have you telephone about the placer"
asked the Napoleonic Curtin.
They had.
Then call him up and tell him that IL
he doesn't come down in a hack in thirty
minutes and surrender l shall bombard
Ponce"
He turned his back on the terrified in
habtants and returned to his gig Four
hacks started on a mad race for Ponce
and the central Office OF the telephone rang
with hurry calls.
on his way 10 the ship Ensign Curtin
met Commander Davis on his way to the
shore. Il shall extend his time another
half hour" said Commander Davis.
Ensign Curtin saiuted sternly. making
no criticism upon this weak generosity on
the part of his superior officer, but he
could afford TO be magnanimous. He ar
least had upheld the honor Of the navy
and he viii go down in the history of the
war as The MILDLY who demanded and OBJ
tanned surrender by teIephone.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-09

At o'clock this morning the conclusion
to be drawn from The returns received up
to that hour was that the result Of the
congressional elections was favorable to
! the Democrats. They made gains in quite
! a number Of states. There were gains in
/ Pennsylvania, Virginia Maryland and
| North Carolina, and there We're indications
/ Of gains in other states. on the other
1 hand there was nothing to show that the
Republicans had made gains in any state
except Ohio, and it was not certain that
they had made any there. Later re-
turns may have changed the situation.
! with regard TO the legislatures in the
doubtful states, nothing was stated def
initely. II viii not be known, probably.
before the returns are all in, whether or
not the Republicans have succeeded in
getting majority in the Senate The in
ference from the returns at 1 O'Clock was
Chat they had MOI.
The election of Roosevelt in New York
causes no surprise. The Democrats were
by no means confident that they would
carry that state Their hope was that the
people would revolt against the corruption
of Republican rule, as shown in the canal
frauds. Roosevelts majority may be a lit
Tie larger than was expected Ii is doubt
full if GOV. Black could have been re-eIect-
ed. Roosevelts war record made in the
Santiago campaign, and the feeling that
if elected he would not tolerate canal
frauds. undoubtedly pulled the Republican
ticket through
There seems to be no doubt that the
Democrats have gained magnificent VIC
tory in North Carolina. If they have, The
country has something to be thankful for
The race troubles there will likely be
speedily brought to an end
In Pennsylvania, where a very remark
able and spirited campaign was
conducted against the Quay po-
litical machine, the Quay pro-
gramme seems TO have been carried
through successfully The Pennsylvania
Republicans do not appear to be ready yet
to desert Senator Quay. Notwithstanding
the charges which have been made against
him.
In this state all of the Democratic can
didates for Congress were elected. Tie
contest in the Eleventh district did not
amount TO much The Republican candi-
date does not seem to have received much
assistance from the Populists They evil
IDENTIFY concluded that they did not wish
to assist in bringing about condition of
affairs in this state like that in North Car
olina.
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Personal.

Howard Conkling, candidate for Con-
gress in the Twelfth New York district,
is a nephew of the late Senator Roscoe
Conkling.
In speaking of the late Mrs Lee, moth
er of Gen. Fitzhugh Lee Judge Riley of
Virginia said TO the Washington Post:
Mrs. Lee came of the best stock of the
Old Dominion. Her great-grandfather
was the illustrious George Mason, who
was born in Fairfax county, Virginia, in
1926 1t was this George Mason who wrote
a tract against British taxation and sec
commended a Congress of the colonies. In
l776 he drafted the declaration of rights
and constitution of Virginia. He was a
member of the committee of safety and
a delegate to the continental Congress.
In the convention that met to frame the
United States constitution he favored the
election of the President of the United
States by a direct vote of the people
Though a Southerner, he considered sla-
very great evil and opposed that clause
in the constitution prohibiting the aboli-
ton of slavery. His opposition was so in
tense that he refused to sign the instru-
ment, and objected to its ratification by
the state In view of his noble services
he was elected the first United States SEN
ator from Virginia, but declined and re-
tired to private life and died at Gunston
Hall, his estate on the Potomac"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-09
ATTACKING CIVIL SERVICE RE
FORM

The country is beginning to think that
the President is not as good a civl SER
vice reformer os Il thought he was. He
has been listening to the politicians who
want more Offices to distribute among their
henchmen. He is just beginning to hear
from the people-those who have no axes
10 grind, but who are profoundly interest
ed in having capable and conscientious
men in the offices, be they big or little Of
fees.
The alleged purpose of the President to
so change the civil service rules as to
take from under the Jurisdiction of the
civil service law several thousand offices,
does not please tnem at all The President
is hearing from them. If he persists in re-
stricting the scope of the civil service
regulations he viii make enemies of a
very iarge percentage of the peope.
The civil service law has been found TO
be productive of excellent results The
men in that service are far more efficient
now than they ever were before. Between
them and those who filed the offices under
the Spots system. there is a striking con
trast The ofilceholders under the civil SER
vice law are SO much better that it Is a
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-09

The New York Herald deals in a very
sensational way with the few cases of
yellow fever which have recently appeared
in Havana. The thought it throws out is
thai the movement of troops will have to
be delayed until the fever is stamped out.
OF until it IS determined whether or not
there is going TO be an epidemic in that
city. As a matter of fact, there is yellow
fever in Gavana all the year round Az
this time of the year, and during the win
Ter months, there are, as a rule, only a
few cases at time, but unacclimated
persons are liable to contract il at any
time, winter or summer OF course, the
danger Of contracting it in the winter sea-
son is very little in comparison with what
ii is in the summer
If no troops are moved to Havana until
all danger from yellow fever is removed.
il win be a good long time before any part
of the army of occupation reaches there
There is no probability of an epidemic of
yellow fever in Havana at this time of
the year. If a large number of unaccli-
mated persons go there there will I'M
doubleday be good many cases of the
disease, because there win be a percentage
of them who viii not take the precautions
necessary to avoid contracting the fever,
and there are some sure 10 contract it, no
matter what precautions they take.
1t is not the plan of the war department
TO keep soldiers in the city. They will be
quarterod in healthy places outside of the
city. Hence there is not much danger that
they would contract the fever at this sea-
son of the year. If. they should be per-
mitted TO enter the city whenever they
asked permission to do so, the chances
are that there would be some cases of
yellow fever among them.
Gen. Wood has been very generally
praised for keeping yellow fever out of
Santiago BY cleaning up the city he has
undoubtedly made it much healthier,
but IL Is all nonsense TO assume
that the sanitary work that he has done
there is sufficient to protect the city from
an epidemic of yellow fever. Let a sickly
season come ana the yellow fever Will
make its appearance there as promptly
as il has ever done. The place will have
to be provided with a thorough system of
house and surface drainage before it win
be yellow fever proof
The two or three cases of yellow fever
which have appeared at Havana within
the last few days do not justify the Her
aids hysterical outburst relative to send
ing troops to that city.
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rEACE coMMIssION DIFFERENCEs

I
| The American and Spanish members OF
the peace commission are wide apart-so
wide that it is difficult 10 see how they
are going to get together, unless Spain
gives up about everything for which She
| is now contending. If the dispatches
state the situation correctly, the Spanish
| commissioners demand S20O,0OOO0O for the
Si0.OO0OOO We have seen no authentic
statement that our commissioners have
made any such offer, but it seems TO be I'M
derstood that they are authorized TO Of
fer that sum. The difference between the
commissioners is therefore Sl5OlOOO0OO The
Spanish commissioners have certainly
made a big enough demand if they intend
TO accept the amount it is said the Ameri-
can commissioners are authorized to offer.
The reason for thinking that the Amer-
can commissioners are not authorized to
offer any such sum as that mentioned is
the pretty generally expressed opinion, as
presented in the newspapers, that the
Senate wouldn't ratify a treaty that called
for that amount of money sor the Philip
pines. few days ago we published the
names of a number of senators who de-
ciared that they objected to paying a cent
for the islands. They don't consider them
worth anything. They have always been
a drag on the Spanish treasury and have
been a potent factor in corrupting Spain's
public men. In the way of trade We
could not get anything more out of them
than Spain has been able to get, and that
would not be enough to pay for good
government for the Filiplnos.
1t is safe to venture the opinion that
if our commissioners should bring from
Paris treaty which provided for paying
Spain $4O,00O000 for the islands the Sem
ate would hesitate long time before rati-
Tying it, and II might not ratify 1t at all.
The President has been at great pains
to find out the sentiment of the people
in respect to the Philippines, and it may
be that he knows what it is, but it is
doubtful if he has yet found out what
the sentiment of the Senate is relative ia
paying $4O,00OOOO for the Philippines. In
order to avoid serious and embarrassing
blunder ii would be wise for him to ger
from the senators their views relative to
the purchase of the islands before agree
ing to pay any price whatever for them.
His position would not be an enviable one
II the Senate should turn down the treaty.
because OF provisions in il approved and
even proposed by his administration.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-09

The Herald has a cable from Santiago
which quotes naval officers" there as Sc
verely criticising the commander and crew
of the Maria Teresa for her loss. They are
quoted as saying that if the craft had
been properly handled, there is no reason
why she should not have reached the
United States safely. 1t has been suggest
ed that the loss of the vessel would fall
upon the wrecking company. 1t appears
aboard of her and in command. This, it is
claimed, took the ship out of the hands of
the wrecking company and abrogated that
part of the contract requiring delivery at
a port of the United States.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-09

Do not for moment suppose, because
The Maria Teresa was abandoned at sea
and the government has given up work on
the Colon, that there will be no ex-Span-
ish war ships in the American navy.
Dewey has looked out for that. He has
got a whole string of them over at Ma
Mia; the Callao the Luzon, the Cuba, the
Asturia and two or three others. The YES
sells named are about The size of the Ma
chias and the Yorktown. 1t would be graf
flying to have one or more of SPANS big
craft in our navy, but if that cannot be
done we can take comfort in the fact that
Dewey has hoisted the Stars and Stripes
over fleet of vessels which once flew the
flag of blood and gold.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-09

The latter days of the campaign develop
ed some oddities in elecuoneering. A few
days ago several prominent politicians,
candidates for office. went down in the
coal mines of Cherokee and Crawford
counties, Kansas, and made speeches to
the miners. On one occasion, while 800
feet below the surface, the candidates
crawled through tunnel and made
speeches while on their hands and knees
because of lack of space to stand up in
The campaigners spent week in the
mines, working among the 10000 miners.
only coming out into the open air at
right.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-09

The New York school board has declared
war on married women as teachers in the
public schools. A musty Old law prohibit
ing the employment of any except unmar-
ried women as teachers has been dug up
ana put into force. The law goes TO the
extent Of saying that the marriage of any
fema4e teacher shall be taken as a resig-
nation of her position" JUST why this law
should ever have been passed no one
seems to remember. No embargo is placed
upon male teachers; they are at liberty to
marry or not as they please, but as soon
as female teacher jumps the broomstick,
she must get out. No statistics are at hand
10 show how much Of a discourager Of ma
trimony the law has ever been.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-09

The absurd inequalities of the election
laws was Illustrated yesterday in the fact
that soldiers at Manila and soldiers on
transports en- route 10 the Philippines vot-
ed, if they wanted TO. while the Second
Texas Regiment, stationed at Dallas, was
prevented from voting Notwithstanding the
fact that some of The men were at their
home precincts.
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The Emperor in Turkey.
From the phnadelphia Ledger dnd

One of the latest rumors about EN-
peror Williams visit to Palestine is that
he formed an alliance with the Sultan. If
this is true, England has a crow to pick
with Germany and Russia one with Tur-
key. William is rather fond of stirring
up trouble, but he may have brewed TOO
large a mess Of it this time.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-09

An amusing incident of the New York
campaign has been the strong opposition
of the New York Sun to Amos Cummings.
one of its owners and formerly one of its
editors. Cummings first went to Congress
as a Democrat when the Sun was Demo-
cratic. The Sun has changed its politics,
but Cummings hasn't.