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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-03-23
Five Forks Items.

The farmers are pushing their work
and are getting along finely.
The small grain crops are very prom
ising.
Mr.. Tom. Martin, we regret to say is
very i'll at this time. We wish him Il
speedy recovery.
Mr.. j. 2. Tins, who has been couined
to his room with severe attack Of rheu-
matism, is able to be up again we are
glad 70 say
Mr. Gus. inns is wearing happy
smile It is Il girl.
Mr. s Il. Tins is doing nicely with his
ns" mill.
Mr. s. j. w Tins, OF Cannon, O.. has,
been visiting his brother. y. i.
i.o death penalty is rarely enforced
in Germany, Austria or Denmark. In
New York eleyon out oiiwelve murderers
escape without any punishment, aud in
the United States only one murderer IN
fifty suffers capital punishment.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-03-23

= The advice to Southern farmers
to plant for plentiful food supply
this year cannot be reiterated too
often. The farmer who heeds it will
be happy next winter, while the farm
er who disregards it will bemoan his
fate, especially if there be war.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-03-23
new SCHEDULE: !! T!

Coupon SYSTEM of selling foods. The
Coupon Book System is the only correct
way, according to my opinion, of conduct
ing a small retail business. The pass
book is out of date. Coupon Books are
used the same as mileage books Sc univer-
SALLY used by all Railroad Companies.
Customers purchase book which run in
denominations of 81, 50. So and SIS, &C., to
as high as $50. The Coupons range in
values OF lc to 81 AS said, this is the
only correct system. No charging, no
change to make. no forgotten charges"
no disputes Customer once, always a
customer Coupon Book from 81 to $50.
Coupons from lc. to 81. These books are
sold for cash, with discoun. from two to
five otf for cash, or you can give your
Note, payable to Bank in 50 many days
as agreed upon. shall give the head Of
every family IN the City an opportunity
Of purchasing one OF these books by call
ing on them in person and explaining the
many advantages of the Coupon Book,
giving them, the privilege Of buying one
for cash, with the discount, or will sell
them on credit with an approved Note,
negotiable and payable at Banks of City
for SO days. OF course, those sold for Notes
have no discount. and In no instance VIII
a book be sold for longer than thirty days.
Parties holding Coupon Books moving
out OF the City can have them returned
On proper presentation. 1t is useless 10
90 into detail, but | have found out "rone
TOO soon" that small dealer selling his
goods TO every Tom D;ck and Harry will
nit the ceiling SO hard some day that bis
tail will crack like a Christmas gun.
Thanking those that have patroniZed
me in general way, and that may he
able TO wipe cat old scores and start b Isl
ness with you ON business principle, feel
ing satisfied that il you try the Coupon
Book" system once You will be more
than pleased, and until [ cal to SEQ you
| beg to be
Yours for business,
+. NJ. BUTLER
,r; 80, 1vuv nu
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-03-23
TALK is CHEAP.

tits the trouble is
Il
Stock SHOES which
which would place them b the price Sno
when we nave not
nobbest line of SHOES Town. This
show the direction of the wind
DRY GOODS, JEANS AND COTTONADES
a
DEANS PATENT FLOUR.
double shuttle
times better
HIGH GRADE GUANOS ALWAYS ON HAND.
DEAN g. E2ATLaEFE,
Dealers in a Wholesale Prices.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-03-23

A. EvINs BROWNE, Adjutant.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-03-23
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March 223. 1898 80
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-20

The reason Judge Day retires from the
office of secretary of state is that he is a
poor man and cannot afford to hold the
position. Whether or not the relatively
small salaries paid by the United States
to it's official family a matter to be
proud of as a mark of republican simplic-
ity it is certain that their limitations are
at times a drawback to the public service
To man on a farm who handles little
money in the course of a year, yet has all
his needs supplied a salary of $1,000 a year
seems ample for any reasonable require
ments and a greater outlay to imply wild
extravaganza. To salaried man in a city
the limitations of $500 are easily under
stood While under certain conditions it
would mean luxury for family and a lib
eral margin left for rainy day, the condi-
tons are not those of official life in Wash
ington where certain social position must
be maintained and much entertaining done
The social obligations of members of the
Presidents Cabinet are numerous, but rest
with particular weight upon the secretary
of state, who is expected not only to fol-
low the usual routine, but in addition to
entertain deliberately the representatives of
foreign governments at the capital He
must, OF course live in manner BETTING
his dignity lie gives up his business or
profession for four years. He has, perhaps
children to educate. He has innumerable
expenses that only one VINO has had ex-
perience in official life can have an idea Of
His $500 diminishes rapidly, and if he is
not in debt by the close of the year he is
remarkably fortunate. Many men of but
moderate means have held Cabinet posi-
tions, but if they were to tell their expert
ence it would not be of kind to encourage
in other poor men an ambition TO follow in
their footsteps. The honor of the position
proves to be empty in face of the struggle
to make ends meet. 1t thus becomes almost
a necessity that such an Office as that of
secretary of state shall go to man who is
able to spend more than his salary. To the
credit of American common sense, wealthy
members of the successive Cabinets have,
undue display of their riches, but have
lived unpretentiously and nave given no
room for unpleasant contrasts between
themselves and their less fortunate asso-
ciates. AS statesmen the rich men have
proved no less able than their poorer
brethren. Wealth should not disqualify a
man for high Office, but neither should the
poor man of talent be debarred from serv-
ing his country. Higher salaries for men,
bers of the Presidents Cabinet would rem
edy the difficulty, and, considering the in
creased cost of living, should not be held
as marking departure frora the traditional
simplicity of the fathers.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-20
COUNTRY IS PROSPERING
BUSINESS OF POSTOFFICES IS IN
CREASING RAPIDLY.
Advances from Fourth to Third Glass
This Year Promise to Exceed
the Record of 1896.
Special to the 1ndianapolig journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.-The advances
in postoffices from fourth class to third
class and those relegated from third to
fourth class give, perhaps, as true index of
the condition of business throughout the
country as be found. The number of Of
fees advanced, based on business for the
year ending July, 1897, is, by quarters: jan
uary, 1898, SO; April. %; July, g. Those adj
vanced, that will be effective Oct. /. are
based on business done for the fiscal year
of 1898, and up to date, number 81. AS there
are remaining twelve days in the month in
which advances can be made, the total num-
Der is sure to exceed the high-water mark
of 1896, when they reached So. Advances in
1893, fixed by the wonderfully prosperous
year of 1892, numbered 229, while in the first
year of Cleveand's last administration they
had fallen to III. Advances for 1895 were 15S
The total number of advances for 1895 was
229, while the number of delegations was 80,
or about one-seventh. The number of adj
vanceS in 1894, when the Democratic admin
istration was in full swing, was III, while
the delegations to fourth class numbered 49,
or more than one-third of the advances.
But by far the best test of business is found
in the RELOCATION of third-class offices to
fourth class. The delegations for 1894 were
40. That exceeded any year. the next high
est being AZ. in 1897 the last year of Cleve-
lands administration. The delegations for
1898 are only II, less than half that for any
previous year. There are advances and not
one relegation in the current year for Indi-
ana. An office relegated to fourth class, say
on July l, 1898, becomes eligible for rein
statement in the third class on Oct l, 1894
fifteen months from the date of its rele-
cation, provided that receipts and compen-
sation of postmasters are equal to amount
required by law namely. H,gOO per a mum
quarters, respectively.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-20
CHARGES AGAINST THE ARMY
ORGANIZATION.

Washington dispatches indicate the prob
ability as soon as practicable. of an Off
cial investigation of some branches of the
army organization with view of ascertain
ing what foundation there is. if any, for
the charges of incompetence or neglect. If
an investigation is ordered it will probably
include the commissary and quartermas-
ter's departments, the first with reference
to insufficient rations and the second with
reference to inadequate supplies and trans
portation. A little while back there was
talk of an investigation of the medical de-
partment also, but the conclusion seems to
have been reached that those in charge of
this department did the best they possibly
could under the circumstances, and that the
apparent failure in some emergencies was
due TO circumstances they could not con-
troll. Perhaps it was due in some degree
TO lack of experience in field operations and
the inevitable confusion and clashing of au-
thority incident to war operations. Further
inquiry may develop that the charges
against the other departments have no bet
ter foundation. 1t has often happened that
en- army organization established in time of
peace and theoretically perfect has failed
when war came. 1t was so with the British
army in the Crimean war, with ours in the
civil war. and has happened in other coun-
tries. In fact, it is very apt to be the case
in any army that is not kept constantly
on a War footing. There was a great deal
of difficulty of this kind at the beginning
of our civil war, and it was some time be-
fore all the departments reached their high
est state of efficiency. 1t must be remem-
bered the recent war lasted only three
months, scarcely long enough for the
Various departments to get fairly to work.
much less to discover and remedy defects
The best military organization would
naturally be somewhat rusty after thirty
odd years of peace, and could hardly be
pected to prove at once equal to the sudden
demands of war. Yet, if an investigation is
ordered it will probably be found that the
charges against the departments referred
TO are greatly exaggerated and that the
troubles to which they relate have been
due as much to the inexperience or incom-
petence of field and line officers as to bad
organization or administration. In other
WOiuS, II VIII piOOdUly NC AOullu tlldl WIiiC
there are some defects in the present army
organization and some lack of business
methods in the purchasing, transportation,
delivery and distribution of supplies, tent
age and subsistence, these defects have
been intensified by the ignorance or care
lessness of volunteer officers and, to some
extent, by the recklessness and wasteful-
ness of the men. All of these defects ought,
if possible, to be remedied, and for that
reason an investigation of the present army
organization in all its parts and of the cur
results If it is to be done, the sooner the
better, because the charges will soon sub
side and the evidence, pro con, will be
difficult IN obtain
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-20

when first reported was not generally be-
lieved. The man charged with the offense
is represented as being refined in appear
ance and of gentlemanly manner-the last
person, indeed, who, on general principles,
would have been suspected of such ghoulish
tendencies. There seems to be no doubt of
his guilt. however. His purpose seems to
have been to secure some bones, or, per-
maps, complete skeleton, as a CHASTITY relic
of his visit to a battlefield of the civil war;
Severe punishment will doubtless be admin
istered to him for the outrage; the verdict
can hardly be made too severe.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-20

either side could change the conditions
thereby established. We do not say this is a
correct view. but it is plausible enough to
sustain a Spanish contention. and might
possibly be sustained by international au-
thorities. There may also be some doubt
as to whether the surrender of Manila car
ried with it that of the whole island and
group of islands. But, however this may
be, there can be no doubt that Spanish du-
thority in the Philippines is for the time
being paralyzed and the United States is the
only power there that can preserve order
or protect life and property. 1t is a case
in which might makes right
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-20

When Rev. DIR. Henry Dixon Jones, pas
tor of the Episcopal Church of the Interces-
sion, New York. sent his servant girl out
to buy newspaper she asked for cents
with which to make the purchase He told
her one was enough, but she insisted upon
two and then they had a little fracas. The
girl has had him arrested for assault and
battery, but he says he merely held her
hands, fearing she would assault him. Evil
IDENTIFY the girl was in the right. She knew
that man in her employers position had
no business with cheap newspapers. All the
trouble grew out of his lack of the same
sense of propriety
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-20

The punishment imposed on Captain Car
shows the terrible possibilities of military
law. For the crime of which Carter was
found guilty, that of defrauding the govern
ment out of a large sum of money. civil
law could have imprisoned him for long
term of years and disfranchised him, but
under military law, in addition to this. his
sentence is to be published as an advertise
Inent in the local papers of his former home
-and any army officer hereafter speaking or
writing to him will be subject to trial for
scandalous conduct Such punishment is
worse than DEATH yet it is none too severe
for the offense
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-20

The Madrid correspondent of Paris
paper says: Little Importance is attached
to the chauvinism prevailing in the United
States with regard to the Philippines" For
the information of Americans who may fear
that chauvipism is a contagious disease it
may be stated that it is anglicized French
thusiasm. 1t is not a proper designation for
American patriotism
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-20

The report from the little town of Hills
four days on the question whether it is
right to use musical instruments in
churches debate listened to by thousands
of people, is enough to cause The average
citizen to rub his eyes and ask himself if he
is living in the latter half of the nineteenth
century or in the first The report does not
indicate the proportion of listeners who
showed sympathy with the speaker on the
negative side of the question, but that the
thousands are there at all is proof of deep
interest on both sides. And it really is near
the close of the nineteenth century when
this curious thing happens.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-20

Another Western tourist has found that
the buffalo. which once roamed in vast
herds over the plains, is almost extinct, and
raises lamentation thereat. Why any one
who has ever seen one of the moth-eaten
beasts should wish them to be more num-
erous is mystery. New times, new cattle.
There are other herds to pasture the plains
now; herds that furnish better beef and
that are far more pleasing to the aesthetic
eye. The buffalo was going toward the sun
set at a rapid rate when the Indiana state
seal was made, and no one hereabouts has
ever mourned his departure.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-20
Charles Lyman Promoted.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.-Mr. Charles
Lyman, chief of the stationery division in
the Treasury Department, has been ap-
pointed chief of the division of appoint
ments. to succeed Maj Fred Bracket, re-
Gently appointed by the President secretary
of the Paris exposition commission. Mr..
Lyman for several years was a member of
the United States Civil-seryice Commission.
and his present appointment is regarded as
a lust recognition by Secretary Gage of his
long and efficient service in behalf of civil
service reform He will be succeeded in the
stationery division by Mr.. George Simmons,
for many years prominently connected with
that office
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-20

The naval parade at New York to-day will
be IN some respects unique. A much greater
peaceful naval reviews, but never before an
equal number so recently engaged in a
great naval engagement and with the marks
Of battle still upon them. The procession,
consisting of Admiral SIMPSONS flagship
New York the cruiser Brooklyn and the
battle ships Oregon, Iowa, Indiana and
river as far as Grants tomb, where they
will salute and turn. The pageant will be
one long to be remembered, and the popular
demonstration will doubtless be worthy of
the heroes who are honored
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-20
National Life Underwriters.

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, Aug 19.-To-day's
session of the National Life Underwriters
opened with an address on THE Relations
Between the Solicitor and the Examiner
by DIR. j. w. Fisher. medical director of the
Northwestern Mutual Life at Milwaukee.
The al nual contest for the Calef loving cup
was settled by the awarding of first place
to the essay of George W. Johnson, agent
Of the Mutual Life at Cincinnati. The Sec
ond prize essay, by Robert l.. Foreman. of
Atlanta. Ga was also read. Buffalo was
chosen as the place for the next convention.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-20

1t is announced from Madrid that the
Spanish government will insist that the sur
render of Manila after the signing of the
protocol shall have no effect in the peace
negotiations unfsvorable TO Spain. The an
nouncement is not surprising. 1t may as
well be understood first as last that Spain
will take advantage of every point TO pro-
long the peace negotiation, in the hope OF
saving something out of the wreck. and
there is enough in this point to justify a
contention. There is some plausibility in
TIE claim that the protocol became binding
on both parties the moment it was signed,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-20

1t is very hard to please all the people.
When 1t was announced that John Hay was
to be made secretary of state and White
law Reid sent to London, Western paper
made a snappish remark about Day. Hay
and Reid being Ohio men. Now. 1t is re-
porsed, protests are being made against the
appointment of Reid on the ground that too
many honors have already gone to New
York Mr.. Reid, though born in Ohio. is
resident of New York, ii is true, but, 10
doubt. he will be glad of chance to get
away from there, and that should be ac-
counted to his credit. Let the President
alone: he has enough to attend to without
worrying about appointments.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-20

SELMA Ala. Aug. l9.-Alex. Walker,
negro living near Pleasant Hill, was called
from his cabin late last night by a party
of white men and carried to the woods.
Here ne was strapped to stump and beaten
with buggy traces. lie was released and
managed TO crawl back to his home, where
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-20

Il. p. Sargent, grand master of the Broth
erhood Of Locomotive Firemen, has notified
the President that he will accept an APP
pcintment on the industrial commission
created by the last Congress, and he will
accordingly leave the organization named
above. Mr.. Sargent is one of the most con-
servative of all the labor leaders.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-20

No more pleasing incident has been re-
lated in the Journal in long time than that
of the reunion. at Morristown, Ind, of the
former pupils of DR.. Fitch a school teacher
of sixty years service, of which fifty were
in Indiana. Many communities have teach
ers with honorable records, but few can
point TO such as this. A teacher who, at
the age of eighty, is visited by hundreds If
his former pupils of more than ore genera
ton, who come to do him honor, may feel
honored, indeed
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-20

Boston paper has discovered that there
are numerous attractions for summer tour
lists in the way of natural scenery in the
far West and Northwest. There are indeed
and it so far surpasses New England in
grandeur and beauty that that seems like
toy country by contrast.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-20

Three members of the Northumberland
fifty-ninth indiana are important witnesses
against Captain Duncan. of the Twenty-sec-
ond Kansas Regiment. in the court-martial
proceedings for grave robbery in Virginia.
One OF the Indianians testiies that he dis
covered a Masonic design on the tomb
stone at the head OF one of the two graves
tempered with. and thereat protested
against the dissertation with redoubled
vigOr. It Is very revolving case. and
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-20

The complaints from the soldier boys,
especially when such complaints come in
wholesale lots, should be taken with a good
ly allowance of salt, for the one good rea-
son that some day the boys who make the
complaints will be delighted to know that
not every one took them seriously in their
letters of grumbling that were written
more or less hastily
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-20

Representative Dingley, chairman of the
ways and means committee, thinks some of
the war taxes may be retained permanent
ly, and that the stamp tax will be the first
TO be done away with. probably inside of
two years
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-20
The Cheerful Idiot.

Eat any rate said the Cheerful idiot,
that fellow who married the ossified woman
was no Mormon
why not?" asked the landlady, as all of
the boarders declined to help.
'They believe in plural marriages, but his
was singular
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-20

WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.-The attorney
general has rendered an opinion in which
he holds that the word goods" In the new
war measure as applied to packages sent
by express or freight includes packages of
money. and therefore the bill of lading
given the sender must have q revenue
stamp affixed thereto.