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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-08-28
FREAKS or THE YANG-TsE.
Peeuitarlties Of the Great MUDDY Riv.
or Of China.

Peeuftarlties OF the Great MUDDY Riv.
or Of China.
The Yang-tse, the great muddy
river of China, is one of the greatest
OF rivers, and its valley is the most
densely populated and closely culti-
water river basin on the globe. It
crosses the whole empire in its 5000
mile course to the. sea. The
Yang-tse has a different name in al
most every province and pours
flood Of diluted mud through half
its valley, tingeing the ocean for
more than q hundred miles off
shore. In s'China, the Long Lived
Empire" Mrs. Scidmore describes
many interesting features of this
most interesting stream.
When the SHOWS melt in Tibet
and the monsoon pours its annual
food on the watershed, the Yang-tse
rises 80 or 100 feet at Chnngking,
70 or 80 feet at Ichang and 40 or
90 feet at HankaM, egeeninS e
fierce food from June to October
and then falling as rapidly as foot
day.
Strange things happen along this
"river Of fragrant teafelds" when
all the landmarks and boundaries
are submerged: some of them match
anything from the ssPeterkins" or
comic opera.
One year passenger steamer
found itself aground in ricefeld
far from the river bank and the
water fast subsiding. The rice
farmer ragged, talked Of trespass and
ground rent, forbade any injury to
his property by trench digging and
finally forced the shipowners to buy
the field as q storage place for the
vessel until the next years food
should release it. Then the river
rose in sudden and unparalleled
after food and foated away the i'm.
pounded ship.
Meanwhile a war junk, which had
been sent for to quell the riotous
people, ran aground in another field
while seeking the besieged ship, and
the mad country folk, cheated Of
their winter prey and profits, set
upon the dread engine of war with
pitchforks, drove off the braves and
the commander Of the battleship,
looted the junk Of every portable
object and made winter fuel Of its
timbers.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-08-28
Locust PoraIdae.

The everyday life Of Basuto
village is q very simple affair when
compared with the life of a British
village. Take, for instance, the
food supply. Porridge is made of
mealies and thickened and favored
with sour milk (mafi) or herbs, end
it is seldom that Mosuto-Basuto
in the singular becomes Mosuto-
comes to his meal leaving his appe-
tite behind.
Another standard dish is locust
porridge, plentiful supply being
kept up by the constant showers Of
locusts, which are veritable god
sends to the natives in country
where food is very scarce. The Ba-
suto collect tons and tons of these
insects and carefully store them,
first pulling off the heads and
wings. AS occasion requires, they
place quantities in large pots and
boil them until soft and pulpy, fla
voring the porridge with fat and
making it savory with salt.
The locust to an unprejudiced
European is not unpalatable, closely
resembling the shrimp in taste,
though scarcely SO nice. Greatly
as the Mosuto appreciates stewed
locust, he likes still better the young
green maize stewed and served with
melted butter, and certainly not the
most fastidious could desire a more
delicious food.-Chambers' Journal.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-08-28
i A Long twenty.

Professor Figgers (who has just
run across an old acquaintance at
the reception) ~ am so glad to have
stumbled upon you in this way, my
dear. HRS. Goodwin. How long it
asibeen since re met! But / must
say time has dealt very lightly with
you. Who could imagine that you
have q daughter as old as Miss Pru-
dence there? And little Prue--well,
just think Of her having "come out"
alreadyi
Mrs. Goldwin-Yes, professor, I
can't realize these things myself.
Prudence is 90 today.
Professor Nggers--Why, my dear
Mrs. Goldwin, you don't tell me sol
And only ten short years ago I re-
member her so we'll as q romping
little chit at 1Gi Well, well, how
marvelously these girls do growl
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-08-28
Tho Shelter Of tho Dock.

A knavish looking fellow was
once charged before a magistrate
with stealing pair of trousers.
The evidence against him not being
strong enough to convict him, he
was acquitted after patient in
vestigation Of the case. The ac-
cused, however, to the surprise Of
everybody, remained in the dock.
Thinking he could not hear or did
not understand the magistrates de-
cision, the lawyer who had been de-
tending him told him he was at lib
erty to go about his business If he
had any. The man, however, shook
his head slightly, but did not move.
"You are discharged. Why don't
you go p" asked the lawyer.
By this time, the court was nearly
empty, and the accused, leaning for
ward, whispered to his defender:
II can't leave the dock until all
the witnesses against me are gone"
3Why?" asked the man Of law.
Because Of the trousers" an
swered tbs ether. ;:Don't you
understand"
sMost certaitly I do not!" said
the solicitor. "What about the
trousers?"
"Only this, eir-1'ye got them
onl"-London answers.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-08-28
Put Yourself in His Place.

How would you like to be your own
horse? Would you work yourself six
or seven hours without water when
the temperature is in the nineties2 ?
Would you let the head of a rivet
stand twisted in the harness till it
tore the skin off? Would you put a
bride on yourself that had loose
binder which Tapped you in the eye
every time you made step? Would
you tie yourself up with a lazy or
slower horse which made you pull
more than half the load? Would you
give yourself water out of shiny box
or mudhole in the creek where the
pigs ana poultry bathe? Would you
feed yourself dry corn seven days in
the week, cnd hay that smelled of rats,
in manger on which the hens roost?
Would you stand yourself at feeding
time ankle deep in your own excre-
ment, to fight q million flies bred in
your own filth?
What would you DO if you,were your
own horse?-Nebrasko Farmer.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-08-28
THE FRENCH CAGE.
A Sample OF Royal Tyranny IN the
Eighteenth Century.

A Sample Of Royal Tyranny On the
Eighteenth Century.
Dubourg's real name was Victor
de la Cassagne, journalist of Hol-
land, VINO had taken the liberty of
censuring the aets OF the king of
France Louis Xv. This criticism
appeared in public print at Frank
fort. Although he was living be-
yond the borders of French terri
tory at Leyden, in Holland, he was
not safe from the emissaries of
Louis. The agents of the royal DO
lice succeeded in gaining possession
OF his person and conveying him to
Mont st. Michel. There he was
confined in the cage.
Touched by his supplications, the
prior of the abbey consented to
send a letter to his wife at Leyden,
the mother of four children, ac-
quainting her with the fact that ne
was alive, but entombed in the cells
of Mont st. Michel. He was GER
tainly entombedl Overcome by de-
spair and by the sufferings and pri-
vations which lie had endured, Du-
bourg died in the night of Aug. 27,
1746. In the morning his body was
found almost devoured by a legion
Of rats.
The state papers contain an ac-
count Of the burial of 'sthe body of
a man named Dubourg, aged about
36 years, who died in a cage situated
in the castle Of the town, where he
hld been detained by the order of
his majesty" It is creditable to
the humanity of Charles x that
when he visited the island fortress
as Count d'Artois in Ivy he order
ed the cage to be destroyed. This
command was not carried out
though the cage was no longer used
as place Of confinement until
Louis Philippe visited Mont St.
Michel in 1887, when he caused it
to be broken up before his eyes.
The preseze cage is q restoration
and exact representation of this
ancient relic Of barbaric tyranny
Gentleman's Magazine.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-08-28
THE KosEs OF OLD.
They Were Popular Flowers In Eng.
!sna Before the Christian Era.

They Were Popular Flowers In Eng.
!sns Before the Christian Era.
Roses as we'll as lilies were great
favorites in the middle ages. They
figure together in the accounts Of
the royal garden at Westminster in
1875. The annual rendering of
rose wac one of the well recognized
forms of quit rent in the olden
times. They were also the COM
monest of oil flowers for weaving in
to wreaths and garlands.
Also on his heead was eette
OF roses redde c chapelette.
The rose is the one flower con-
corning which public opinion has
never wavered. It's popularity dates
back to the Roman occupation.
Chaucer wrote, 'I love vel sweete
roses redde," and, although at one
time Englishmen were divided as to
the color they preferred, it was only
a question of badge of either Ian
caster or York.
Wniie many still love the oil
fashioned roses which graced and
adorned the gardens Of our fore
fathers, modern rivals have sprung
up which have largely Tend I'd to re-
place them. The rose G iica, the
Provence varieties, End the damask
rose arc the Oldest, from which
many h,ge been derived, while the
teas, monthly end several other
kinds, have sprung up from rose
introduced about 100 years ago. All
the SNOWY hybrid perpesuals have
been evolved during the last SO
years.
In the fourteenth century they
had both the single and the double
varieties. The poet preferred the
double because they were the most
lasting. A gentle lover of every
thing beautiful, the subtle influence
of the flowers appealed to him with
that suggestiveness Of association
which is always the possession of
the man whose heart is responsible
to the inner soul of nature. And
Chaucer was a true nature poet
Gentleman's Magazine.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-08-28
The Absent Treatment.

''This Christian Science business is
all right" announced the fat man. as
he slipped his cooling drink through
the medium of straw, "and the man
who says it ought to be abolished
doesn't know what he is talking about.
That's right. I was opposed to it
when my wife took it up, but at that
time l didn't see the possibilities in
it that l do now. Before the lady be-
came convert to the fad it was be-
ginning to be difficult matter for me
to get night off without exciting her
suspicious, as all the old gags were
about played out. Got new one now
and it's 8 beau! When I went home
to-day for dinner, I announced that
had violent headache and would re-
main home for the rest of the evening,
although important work on my books
needed my attention at the Office, and
that by good right should spend the
evening working on them.
Nonsense replied my wife,
there is no such thing as headache; /;
it is all Imagination. Now you go
right down to the Office and I will give
you absent treatment while you are at
work, and the suddenness with which
your headache will leave you will
startle you.'
II pretended to protest; but she
fairly pushed me out Of doors and
here 1 am with my headache ell gone
and the night ahead Of me. But, say,
the head I will have on me tomorrow
will not be imagination! Get us two
more barkeep." "-Detroit Free Press
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-08-28
PUNISHED AND PARDoNED.

Last night my little sS, was sent
Unkissed 10 bed. wito angry eyes 3
And lips that poutcd williul wise.
This was his mothers pwlshment;
A gentier woman doea not live,
But yet abe tarried to forgive.
The childish fault. the passionate deed.
They must be checked; SO in the gloom
He stumbled to his little room.
Ho was too proud to weep or plead.
saw his mothePS eyes gFow dim,
In tender yesrning following him.
But in the silence whxn hs slept
Undried the tears Lay on his cheek;
The little face seemed very meek.
How piteously, perchance, he wept
Before &c so0k 30 Hlunabeflsnd
The grief he could not unZerstandi Il,
Then tfpderIy his mother smoothed
Ths fair tossed hair bach from his brow
And kissed tde lips SO pensive now.
But woke him not, since he WIS soothed.
And there beside his little bed
She kneit and prayed awhile t.s.esa.
Alb, 90. dear 0cd, when at the last
We lie With closed and tear stained eye3
And lips too dumb for prayers or s,shs,
Sorry and punished for the past,
Surely thou wilt forgive and bleza,
Being pitiiul for our diatrecz
Boston Gazette
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-08-28
No Doctor's HllIs In japan.

When rich man calls III a physi-
clan, he does not expect that he will
be presented q bill for medical serv-
ices. In fact, no such thing as a
doctors bill is known in Japan, al
though nearly all the other modern
practices are in vogue there. The
doctor never asks for his fee. The
strict honesty Of the people does not
make this necessary. When he is
through with patient, present is
made to him Of whatever sum the
patient or his friends may deem to
be just compensation. The doctor
is supposed to smile, take the fee,
bow and thank his patron.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-08-28
HE WAS NOT REMOVED.
Because No One Would Be Willing 70
TsLe ..!s' Place.

Because No One Would Be Willing to
Tsk> s:!s Place.
James G. Blaine at one time in
his career was, as regards consular
officers, in favor Of a limited tenure
of Office. Mr.. Blaine sat in his rom
at the state department. one day
discussing different matters Of pub
lie interest with Mr. Evarts, then
his immediate predecessor in Office.
"Now, here" said ne, els case
in point. This man has been con-
sui at Un-Hung for 20 years. He
went there at the time Of the war
and has remained there ever since.
It is time he came home and got ac-
quaiated with his own country be-
fore he grows O cue. IL he stays
much longer, he will have Chinese
bias in his eight. I shall remove
him at once"
'I wouldn't remove him, Mr..
Secretary" replied Mr. Evarts
quietly.
"Why not~
II am afraid it will be an un-
pleasant thing to do"
my mind is made up" replied
Mr.. Blaine. Gas soon as I can find
good live man to take his place I
shall remove him."
scBut think you will have grave
difficulty u anahig q good live man
who would =. be willing to take his
II anticipate no such difficulty.
But will you explain to me, Mr..
Evarts, why there will be any Diff
culty?"
because the man has been dead
and buried these six months, Mr..
Secretary"
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-08-28
Great kcueduct Builders.

It is probable that the ancient
City Of Mexico had better and
purer supply of water under her
ancient rulers than she has today.
When Cortes invaded Mexico, he
found a splendid aqueduct con-
structed by Montezuma and carried
across the lake on a causeway. The
ancient Peruvians carried their
works for hundreds of miles from
the high mountain regions to lower
arid ones less favored.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-08-28
How, Is Play Tlrornlbones.

There is. o story on record Of a
certain colonel Of an English regi-
ment to whom, BY long training, alb
solute exactness and uniformity
had become second nature, and who
complained to his bandmaster on
one occasion that the trombone
players were spelling the appearance
ofthe entire battalion. on must
see, he said, Gin future that the
men move their sliding things In
and out togetherin
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~JII Coz


Coffee drinking is much more
modern custom than tea drinking.
1t was first practiced in Arabia
about the middle of the fifteenth
century, when the story goes that
the chief of a company of dervishes
noticed that his goats frisked and
played all night long whenever on
the previous day they had eaten of
a shrub growing wild in the neigh
borhood. Finding it difficult to
keep his disciples awake during their
evening devotions, he prepared a
beverage Of the ]oaves or Ic.-11ies of
this shrub, and it proved so helpful
to the midnight piety of the der
wishes that from that time coffee
came into use.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-08-28

Foreify the body to resist malarial
germs by putting the aystem in per
.fect order. Priokly Ash Bitters is a
wonderful system regulator. Evans
Pharmacy.
- The American Bible society is
preparing to issue editions of the
Scriptures in 20 different Filipino dia-
leots.
Keep the bo15 healthy at this sea-
son by using Prickiy Ash Bitters. It
is a necessary condition to successfully
resist malarial germs. Evans Phar-
macy.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-08-28
COULD NOT FOOL CUvlER.
= Ghost That Had No Terrors For tho
Great Naturalist

- S'SSs 'as tVdo sNO FOr tu0
Great Naturalist
Cuvier was the first naturalist to
make q study of the prehistoric
beasts, birds and reptiles which once
inhabited the globe and to attempt
restorations of their complete selves
from stray bones and fossil foot
prints.
Most unpleasant and terrific ami
mails many of them turned out to
be, and the idea occurred to jocu-
lar student of the university that it
would be good fun to appear at
Cuvier's bedside at midnight in the
character of the outraged and
vengeful ghost Of Que of them, dis
pleased at the efforts of puny man
to construct its remains.
So said, so done. The clever
youth arrayed himself in frightful
costume. with scales and tails and
glaring eyes and horns and hoofs,
and secretly effecting an entrance
into the naturalists house, stole
softly to his chamber. He was sleep
ing peacefully. The intruder intruder
wakened him by setting two hideous
fore hoofs. upon the counterpane;
then, as he stirred, blinked and
started up, it remarked in hoarse
and ghostly tones:
"Cuvier, Cuvier! I've come to
eat you'll"
But not even when half asleep
could Cuvier be mistaken in the dis
tinguishing characteristics of a
carnivorous animal. He looked at
the monstrous thing again.
"Humphp he muttered with
sleepy contempt. "Horns-hoofs-
graminivorous. You can'tw
The extinct monster retired, more
extinct than ever, and the scientist
returned triumphantly to his slum-
bers.
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ResourcefuI.

sMurdstone, lend me $3.50. will
.you?"
"What for, old fellow?"
= want TO pay my wife's funeral
expenses"
1tCertainly."
(Writes check, for the amount and
hands it over.)
"Sorry to hear of your wife's
death, Gagson. When did she die p"
"About a year and half ago.
The young woman I'm going to
marry tomorrow says that bill has
got to be paid first. Ever 80 much
obliged to you, Murdstone. Chi
.cago Tribune.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-08-28

= When girl knows that man
does rot smoke Ssho ought to find out
what other queer ching there is about
h;s, that would make her miserable if
she married him.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-08-28
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT.
To the Public.

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uegree, and the loss in bad acc ,unts, and
,ne time and attention It requires to col
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The stand we have taken is one we have
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- Coal is dearer in South Africa
than IN any other part of the world.
Il is cheapest in China.
New York banks pay out in in
.terest ana dividSrds every quarter not
far from $3.50, ,0OO, 900.
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This signaturo "a on every box or ths genuins
Laxative Br0aaosQ QuiGine Tablets
tho remedy that cures q Geld an one day
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-01-06
SUGGESTS Soothing syrup.

To the Editor of the Register.
see by last Sundays issue of your
valuable paper that some of the Bell
aire boys are not taking kindly to
the preference shown by the ladies OF
that city for the young men of Wheel
ing Now in the first place the boys
from Bellaire are outclassed by the
Wheeling gents in every way, and
should expect to take a back seat
when the boys from Wheeling put in
their appearance. But there is an
other point which | will mention
When a gent from. Bellaire wishes to
make an engagement with his lady
friend he tells her to go to some hall
or other place of amusement and after
the young lady has made arrange
ments to go and pay her own way the
wise man from the eouth sneaks In
and makes his excuses and apologies
So boys we advise you to take bot
tie of Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup
and make up our mind that you are
not in it. TWENTIl tn CENTURY
Wheeling, January 5th, 1901.