The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-01-12
A man we'll up in dog lore counsel

intending purchasers of a puppy. to let
the mother Of the puppy choose for them.
In carrying them back to their bed the
first the mother picks up will always be
the best.
= When one family in every fourteen
in the United States is drawing Govern
ment pension paid by the labor of the
rest it is time for the rest to know whom
they are supporting. Publish the PEN
sion rolls
Mr.. G. W. Williams brought to our
office several ripe and well-matured figs,
which he gathered from the trees in his
yard Mr.. Williams says that these are
the fifth crop this year. While news
paper men are supposed to know some
thing about everything. we never knew
that trees ever bore as many as five crops
in one year.-RocheIc (Ga.) Nev Era.
Sam Knight, an authority on bees,
says: "Ifa stinging insect ever lights on
you, hold your breath until you can
brush itaway. Ifyou don't breathe the
insect can't sting. 1 wouldn't mind
walking into the biggest yellow jacket
nest in The world. I can hold my breath
for minute, and in that time could
kill the most of them and scare the others
away"
-"If was to stand on my head,' said
young Softleight, ~ suppose the blood
would all rush to my head, wouldn't it?"
"Of course ii WOULD replied Miss Cut
ting. "Then," continued the young man,
"Why doesn't it rush to my feet when
stand upon them ?' "keally, 1 don't
know" she replied, with peculiar
smile, "unless it is because your feet are
not empty"
"A Hartford gentleman learned to his
great sorrow that his small boy of - had
acquired habit of swearing, and he read
him a very serious lecture on the evils of
profanity. It was only the curiosity of
the boy which was aroused, for he eagerly
demanded: "How did you know Iswore,
papa?' "a little bird came and told me
about it" 'Aw! know. 1t was one of
them d English sparrows.'
= Benjamin f. Kelly has Just been
made town marshal of Fort Gaines, Ga,
for the third time, although the city
councils order that he change his uniform
of Confederate gray to one OF blue was
not obeyed. "You can defeat me you
like,S' YVES Mr.. Kelly's defiant reply,
"but am going to wear gray or give up
my job. The bluecoats shot oil my left
hand, and 1 will never wear uniform Of
that color"
The quantity of gold it takes to make
dollar is surprising to one not accus-
toned to handling the metal. So much
dust as YOU can hold on the largest blade
of your pocket knife is worth S. to $3.50,
says the San Francisco Chronicle. When
you consider that this small quantity is
the yield of thirty to forty pans, you can
imagine how little bulk there is to tie
gold saved in one pan. A coined gold
dollaris smaller than silver dime. Now,
if a minet can save in one painful of dirt
the tenth part of gold dollar he is max
ing fair wages.
Little Alfred LOTUS, aged five, Of
Cold Springs, Ind, is the hero Of mis-
adventure which came near proving
costly one. Alfred's father had dressed
50O-pound porker and placed it on large
table in the woodshed to cool. Little
Alfred's mother heard screams from the
woodshed and found the little toddler
inside the hogs carcass. He explained
that he was playing Jonah, and had
crawled inside the hog, Tapped the sides
over, and it was SO warm and nice he
went to sleep. When he awoke the
porker had become cold and sti(, and
little Alfred was held Il prisoner until re-
leased by his mamma, who had to pry
the sides OF the hog apart.
Here s mathematical problem which
the Boston Post observer heard bank
messenger putting to man of figures
the other day: GA banker found $40 bill.
At home he gave it to his wife, who paid
the butcher in settlement Of his account.
The butcher paid it to the farmer for a
calf, and the farmer paid it to the mer-
chant, who in turn paid it to the washer
woman, and she, owing the banker note
Of $40, went to the banker and paid the
note. The banker recognized the bill as
the one he had found and which up to
that time had paid $50 worth of debt. On
careful examination he found the bill
was counterfeit OF course the problem
is. Who lost in the transaction?
Mr.. SheppersoD says: "Unless prices
advance materially by January 10 there
will, Of necessity, be a very large reduc-
ton in the acreage of the next cotton crop.
AS soon as such an intended cnrtailment
of acreage is perfectly evident, the spin
ners will undoubtedly buy SO freely as to
speedily absorb the G75,00O bales Of indi-
Gated surplus and to advance prices to
much higher plane. In the meantime,
whether prices advance or not between
now aud the time for making prepara-
tions for the new crop, the experience of
this fall should make it perfectly clear to
southern farmers that they should next
year give less acreage to cotton and more
to food and forage crops" Therefore,
there i, money to be made this very
winter by ine very resolution to reform.
Good intentions will bring two dividends
in ls!> if firmly held.
ISucklcnS Arnica Salye.