Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1900-02-22
A Gold Brick.

The Solemn Quakcrs of Philadcl-
phia rcrpctratcd a huge joke on the
Republican National Committee and
| incidentally disposed of a gold brick.
The 100000 certified check which
Philadelphia used to charm Mark
Hanna, President Mckinley and the
Republican National Committee last
December turns out to have been
only an attractive bit of paper that
had no more commercial value than
an Office bIottcr. Mark made this
discovery when he visited philadcl-
phia on Saturday last to collect 500
600 of the 100000 for immediate
use in the preliminary work of the
! campaign. lie found that not only
was the check drawn by a man who
never had any intention Of permit
ting it to be cashed, but that the
Philadclphi" committee had done
. absolutely nothing in the direction
OF raising any part of the purchase
price guaranteed the national com
mlttce. llama, Dick, Payne Of
Wisconsin, Comptroller Dawes, Joe
Manley Of Maine and other men,
bers of the committee who were in
Philadelphia were dumbfoundcd.
They knew Philadelphia Republicans
had made fine art Of stutiing ballot
boxes and manipulating elections,
but they supposed that they would
at least be honest with the national
committee. Mark got the mayer
and number of other members of
the local committee into room and
read the riot act to them. He said
that their failure to pay the 100000
rs agreed upon would be a national
disgrace. The mayor said that
solicitors who had visited business
and hotel men had been turned
down upon the plea that their
resources had been too heavily drawn
upon by the Grand Army encamp-
mcnt and other matters within the
! year to admit Of considerable contri-
buttons on their part of the 100000
fund Of the Rnnuh!;can convention.
Mark is reported to have replied
that if the committee had had the
least doubt about getting its money
/ 1t would have selected Chicago.
"Our only excuse for selecting Phil
adelphia," he said, "was that we were
going to get 100000 for doing So"
The upshot Of the conference was
that Hanna on behalf Of the national
committee consented to scale the
contribution from 100000 to $780,
600. lie secured Il part Of this sum
from the leaders of the local com
mittcc, but the amount was so much
less than he expected to receive
before he left Washington that nc
has not yet recovered his good
nature.
The fellow who asked for a lock
OF his girls hair was informed that
'it cost money, hair does"
Drinking glasses, called tumblcrs,
owe their names to The fact that they
are the successors of little round
silver bowls, so perfectly balanced
that, which ever way they were
tipped about On the table, they tum
bIcd into : sition again and there
remained with the rim upward, az if
asking to be rcillcd.
lie came home from his daily
grind at the Office, and falling into a
chair said "What have you got to
read? I'm Just in the mood to read
something sensational and Startling
something that will make my hair
stand ON end" 70 which his other
half responded swcetlv, "llcrc's the
bill for my spring dress, darlins."
Here is 4 true case Of hcroism and
devotion. y boat in which were a
Long Island man and his wife was
overturned in the sound. The man
directed his wife to cling fast to the
boat, and he would swim ashore for
assistance. The distance he had to
swim took him nearly an hour. lie
succeeded, however, in getting ano-
thcr boat and returned to his wife,
who was still clingimg to the over
| turned craft.