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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1902-07-30
Negro Insanity Increasing.

Physicians in this State, according
to Charleston dispatch to the New
York Sun, are greatly concerned over
what they believe to be the alarming
increase of insanity among niggers.
Years ago this disease was almost un-
known to the colored population but
it appears to be spreading. Accord
ing to estimates made by DR.. Babcock
Superintendent Of the State Lunatic
Asylum, this condition now is worse
than ever before.
Many reasons are assigned; but it
&c :hc opinion Of leading physicians
that the common use of drugs and
bad whisky is in large measure re-
sponsible. Ten years ago the suicide
of negro was such rare occurrence
that it attracted universal attention.
Nowadays such an occurrence is un-
noticed.
There are probably more insane ne
groes in the State institution at Co.
lumbia than at any other time in its
history. They are sent in from all
sections of South Carolina, the major
ity going from towns and cities. In
Charleston crazy negroes are picked
up almost every day, and while many
of tAoul are released after brief
tern. IN the hospital, q considerable
number develop such violent symp-
toms that it is found necessary to
ship them to Columbia. It is seldom
that the asylum negroes are cured,
and many of them die after violent
suffering. The State authorities give
the colored people the most humane
treatment, yet it does not seem possi-
BILE wholly to restore their minGs.
One Of the Oldest physicians Of
Charleston told the Sun correspondent
recently that in the days of slavery it
was almost uncommon to find an in
sane negro. The spread of the dis
ease he attributes to rough living, IL
quor and drugs. Along the coast the
negroes are addicted to the use of OPT
ates, cocaine being the drug which is
most commonly used. Among the
thousands Of vicious negroes who work
in the rock fields, opium is popular
drug, and almost any form of "hop"
is relished. The left arm Of black
prisoner, captured recently, was fear
fully lacerated by continued jabs from
a hypodermic syringe.
The bad liquor is sold in the blind
tigers. The police mere believe that
Bill Simmons, negro who killed his
wife and then attempted suicide sew
eral days ago, was victim Of cocaine.
He had been using the drug steadily
for days, and while under its nfluence
he drank pint Of corn whisky,
which made him q maniac for the
time being.
Usually, when a crime of this K. I'd
is committed the first impulse of the
negro is TO escape. Simmons did not
move. He turned the pistol to his
head and fred and vas trying to put
bullets in his body when the weapon
was seized by bystanders.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1902-07-30

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everything could think of; was nearly
ready to give up and then some one told
me Chat DR.. Pierce's medicine was rood.
50 began taking his Golden Medical
Discovery have taken seven botties Of
that now and am as stout as ever, and en-
3oytng health ns much as ever bcfo1c. I
worked oil summer and this winter as
1 much as any one. Ny case waa liver dis
medicine has cured me. In 81 stcfi,bcr
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The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-13
SOME MORE REFORM.

Those who thought or hoped that the representatives of the small towns in the Constitutional Convention didn't really mean what they did on Tuesday were fully convinced yesterday that they did. Yesterday by a vote of 1O6 to 42 they passed a resolution providing that the House of Representatives shall consist of only one representative from each town. They also voted in favor of "a senate based upon population locat- ed in contiguous territory and elected by districts, provided that no town shall be divided except for the purpose of forming more than one district within said town"
 A motion to adjourn is now in order, and it ought to be made and unani- mously carried. Connecticuts Consti- tutional Convention isn't yet quite as antic and ridiculous as that of Virginia, but it ought to go home before it is.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-13
CUNSTII UJIONdL.
anything,

Do you think smoking is injurious?" asked the careful friend
 I'm sure of it," answered Mir. Meek ton. Nothing is worse for lace curtains than smoking, w Washington Star.
 For a Rainy Day,-He-I don't see why woman shouldn't lay something by for a rainy day as we'll as a man. l She-Why they do. I have a lovely rainy-day skirt-Philadelph Evening Bulletin.
 What is an inventor?" asked the teacher.
 An inventor" replied the inventors son promptly, lis something designed by nature for the use of q promoter"- Chicago Post,
 Gratitude.-Mrs. Tunner-My dear professor I cannot thank you enough for this absorbing course of lectures. While hearing you speak, I have actu- ally been able to entirely forget my sick baby.--Brooklyn Life.
 Ahead of the Game-Miss Graspit-- Oh, mamma, what do you think? Clara Upperten has eloped.
 Mrs Graspit-How fortunate! Now we don't have to send her q wedding present.-Chicago Daily News.
 Teddy-Mamma, Tommy knocked me down on the way home from school to- day. (After a pause.) But I gave him a bat in the eye!
 Mamma-Before he knocked you down, Teddy, or ard?-Someryille (Mass) Journal.
 And so you're married Jack said dear old Aunt Polly. Il hope she is a good housewife"
 Well" replied Jack Ritchie, she's been good fashionable hotel wife most of the time since our wedding. "-Phila- delphia Press.
 Inexperienced and anxious young mistress-The new housemaid, Maria, is 8 Roman Catholic but I hope you will not allow any religious controversy in the servants hall
 Cook (with much dignity)-You needn't have any fear, my lady In really igh-class families religion is never mentioned!-Punch.
 Sympathetic.-Dagg have you know, sir, that my ancestors were blue blooded.
 Diggs-Too bad; why didn't they take something for it?-Ohio State Journal.
 Photographer-Now, I want you to look as if you were not having your picture taken.
 Customer-Then you'd better give me back the deposit l made in advance Life.
 My dear she said to her invalid | husband, you haven't forgotten that | sealskin sacque you promised me have you?'
 How can you think of such things" he protested, with death so near to | me?'
 But, my gracious! sealskin is quite | fashionable for mourning g"-Philadel- | phia Record.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-13
OUR WEST INDIAN PURCHASE.

It is no triumph of diplomacy-this securing of more West Indian property to administer. We are taking what is gravitating irresistibly in our direction tered at a loss by nations that have several centuries of colonial experience behind them. It will make our school atlases look more attractive to have larger area under our flag, but let us not imagine for g moment that we are adding to our value as a productive and conquering power by taking of the West Indies any more than is essential for one or two coaling stations But if we have the matter settled for us, if we car no longer he dissuaded from this bargain, then let us tackle the future difficulties in a buslness-like manner.
 The beginning and end of successful colonial enterprise in the tropics is to understand and control native and alien races. To do this successfully we must pick out men when they are young and enthusiastic, and train them for their peculiar sphere oc activity.
 We must give our colonial official ad- equate salary, steady promotion ac- cording to merit, and, above all, give him the assurance that when in the course of years his health has been i'm paired by exposure he will be retired on a decent pension. Our official intended for the Philippines should spend two-
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years probation learning Chinese and Spanish, and one or more of the native dialects-living the life of the people and fitting himself for the very dttfi- cult duties that will confront him.
 Our task in the West Indies is sim pier, for we can gather an idea of the negro within our own borders But we should not forget that nearly every West Indian island, including Santa Cruz has had to suffer from q negro uprising, accompanied by considerable massacre and destruction of property, The negroes of the West Indies are not fit for manhood suffrage, nor is it likely that they ever will be. At any rate, for the rest of this century they will require an administration such as reflects to some extent the needs of their race, namely, some form of personal govern ment. They know little of legislation or law or constitution, but they under stand allegiance to chief, obedience to a master, and it is of the utmost inn portance that the man whom we select to govern them should be one whom they can respect, as well as fear--a man who comes to spend his life at the work of administration. This type of man is not reared among professional politl- clans; he is like a good railroad mana ger, or that seldom heard of but su- preme power behind things" the man. aging editor of a successful publication the product of much experience and careful election.-Poultney Blgelow in Golfers Weekly.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-13
the Sale !:

The sale made necessary by the retirement of certain int terests is still in progress, and much remains of value and interest to the person who would buy an object of lasting value. A few of the special articles may here be enumerated;
 A bow-knot brooch of Paris mounting, contains 34 diamonds and whole pearl center. The price on this has been reduced from $200 to sl50.
 A brooch of 15 fine diamonds, re- duced from $26O to s200
 A diamond and pearl brooch from s12O to s95.
 A diamond and sapphire cluster ring of ten stones, reduced from $200 to $50.
 A diamond sunburst, brooch and pendant, very fine grade, reduced from $275 to $220.
 Antique gold brooch and pendant of five large pearls and 16 diamonds, with finely wrought gold necklace, reduced from s175 to $135.
 A butterfly diamond, emerald, opal and ruby pin and pendant, reduced from s100 to s65.
 A diamond brooch of seven stones, reduced from $130 to S100.
 All articles in the retirement sale at reductions of 20 to 50 per cent.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-13
PRUAES ENOUG II.

"The last prune is sold." is the joy full cry which is sounding and resound- ing throughout the Santa Clara valley in California. It appears that when the California prune crop of 1901 had been marketed there was left on hand considerable portion of the crop of 1900, which amounted, all told, to 126,- 000 900 pounds The sale that has just been made amounted to 12,000000 pounds, or two hundred carloads, and rids the bins of leftover fruit. There fore the way is cleared for the disposal of next autumn's prune crop.
 This is good news all around. The prune growers of California are reliev ed, and with 12,000000 pounds of prunes pressing on the market the price of prunes to the consumer is not likely to rise. California prunes are good, and it is cheering to know that they will be plenty until the next crop, which prom ises to be large, and then they will per- haps be so plenty that there will have to be another big prune sale, and more big prune eating.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-13
NO NEW WOMEN. {"
Olive Schrener Says That we Have Merely Adopted a New Ideal, the An

Olive Schreiner Says That we Have
 Merely Adopted a New Ideal the An
 cient Teuton.
 But tAe truth is, we are not new. We are that old, old Teutonic woman hood which twenty centuries ago ploughed it's march through European forests and norasses beside it's fellow male, which marched with the Cimbri to Italy and with the Franks across the Rhine, with the Varangians into Russia and the Alamanni into Switzerland, which peopled Scandinavia and pene- trated shrines in German forests and gave the oracle for peace or war We are women of breed whose racial ideal was no Helen of Troy, passed passively from male hand to hand, as men pass gold or dust, but that Brynhild whom Sigurd found, clad in helm and byrne the warrior maid who gave him counsel the deepest that ever yet was given to living man" and wrought on him to the performing of great deeds who, when he died, raised high the funeral pyre and lay down on it beside him. crying, Nor shall the door swing to at the heels of him as I go beside him." We are women of a race that of old knew no fear, and feared no death; and if to-day we have fallen on evil and degenerate times, there moves in many of us still the throb of the old blood If it be on no physical battlefield that we stand beside our men, and on the march through no external forest or morass that we have to-day to lead, it is yet the old spirit that after two thousand years stirs within us: it is yet the cry of the old, free, Teutonic woman which sounds across the world to-day. Though the battle be now in the labo- ratory or in the workshop, in the fo- rum or the study, in the assembly and the mart, with the pen and not the sword, of the head and not the arm, we still stand side by side with the men we love, "to dare with them in war and to suffer with them in peace" as the Ro- man wrote of our old T'eutonic mothers. --Harper's Bazar.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-13
LOOKING AT 1HE R MA 4 ENS.

The delinquent tax list of Lake coun-
 ty, Indiana, is again attracting atten- ton. This list is said to be as large
 as the combined delinquent lists of any
 other fifty counties in the whole State,
 Lake county was the scene of one of the
 most successful campaigns which real
 estate sharpers ever carried out. Lots
 underneath Lake Michigan, or from six
 inches to three feet under the waters of
 the Kankakee river, were sold in 1892
 and 1893, to the number of some twenty
 thousand, from maps and prospectuses,
 to persons who expected an enormous
 development in this section because it
 was. so-called "an addition to Jackson
 Park, Chicago" and by token of it's
 name was likely to benefit from Chi cago's real-estate boom. All the way from $75 to $3, 900 was paid for the lots, according to location, and something like $3, 100000 in all was invested in this worthless land. The boom spread like wildfire and a number of other imagin- ary additions were laid out in the same region before the real-estate spectators found that their market was becoming cloyed. A similar boom and q like col lapse, also in Lake county Indiana, had Tolieston for its scene. This was the sequence of large land purchases by Chicago packers, presumably, as it was thought, in order to take the stock yards out of Chicago into Indiana. The mere fact of the purchases enabled 1 some shrewd real-estate jobbers to work up an excitement of high inten- i sity. So skilfully did they go about it, that not less than twenty thousand lots l were sold here at all sorts of prices. Ten thousand of these lots are now in | the delinquent list although the tax | levy is only about p cents each.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-13
ADVERTISING RATES.

Situations, Wants, Rents. and other smail advertisements. One Cent Il Word each lu- sertion. Five Gents Word for full week (seven times). l.,
 Display advertisements, per inch, one Tn itG sertion, Sl 20; each subsequent insertion, fo cents one week. $3.2O; one month, SlO; one year, $40. K
 Obituary Nouces. In prose or verse, l9 cents per line. Notices of Births, MalL, ages, Deaths, and Funerals, 50 cents eueil' Local Notices, 15 per line. .,,,r
 Yearly advertisers are limited 10 thGie 1,a own immediate business Gall matter 10 ne unobjectionahle). and their contracIs uo nv include Wants, To Let, For Sale, etc.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-13

The people who put their good money into these lands would have done well to wait for Amalgamated Copper, but we suppose they were in such a hurry to get rich that they couldn't wait for anything,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-13

District of New Haven, ss. Probate Court.
 February 10, 1902 ESTATE of EMIL CRISAND, late of New Haven, in said District, deceased.
 The Court of Probate for the District of New Haven hath limited and appointed six months from the date hereof for the credi- tors of said deceased to bring in their claims against said estate. Those who neglect to exhibit their claims within said time will be debarred All persons indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment to EARLLISS P. ARVINE,
 f11 St Administrator eta.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-13

The city of Easton, Pennsylvania claims the distinction of having the oldest superintendent of public instruc- tion in the United States. He IS Wll- liam White Cottingham, and he has been superintendent of the public schools of Easton since 1858.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-13

An irate Londoner who had managed to catch a bus after hard run said to the conductor as he scrambled aboard; Suppose I had slipped and lost leg then what?" "Oh," answered the con- ductor kindly. you wouldn't have to do any more running then; we allers stops for a man with a crutch.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-13

Engineer Rjevousky of St Petersburg has invented an electric motor blow which is said to make a furrow twelve inches deep, with a saving from five to seven per cent. in power as compared with the pony blow, with shallow fur row. It elicited great admiration at the electric congress just held in Mos COW.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-13

DELIVERED BY CARRIERS IN THE CITY 15 CENTS A WEEK, 50 CENTS A MONTH, $3 FOR Srx MONTHS, $6 A YEAR. THE SAME TERMS BY MAIL.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-13

has ever been reported by his squad ron commander for professional inca pacity.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-13

Philadelphia has a rival for Cornelius Vanderbilt as rich young man who works hard, says a Philadelphia man, land that is George Widener, son of F. A. B. Widener. George Widener works considerably harder than scores--yes, hundreds-of poor men. He is direc- tor in forty corporations and president of fourteen railway lines in Philadel- phia, He is in dozen or more big cor porations, and keeps in touch with each of them. He is not an inventor as is Vanderbilt, but he probably has as much hard work and as many business interests to occupy his time as the New York man has,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-13
THE HARD TfMES JN BERLIN.

Although it is believed that Germany has seen the worst of the depression which followed the highflying there the times are still hard for many. An il- illustration of the condition of things in Berlin is given by a correspondent of an English paper This correspondent called at the office of a friend who is in business in Berlin and asked him how much truth there was in the story of the great army of unemployed work CTS in that city. The friend had recent ly discharged one of the messengers at tached to his office, and said that he had advertised for some one to fill the vacancy. The following morning, on coming to his office, he was surprised to find the street practically blocked with applicants, many of them peas ants, who had been drawn into the city in the hope of finding employment and The man at the head of the line, who was given tho position, said that he had seen the notice in the paper, and had come at once to the office and waited there all night so as to be first in line for the position in the morning. This man stated that the labor unions of Berlin had on their list the names of nearly fifty thousand people who were seeking employment, and that this list was made up almost entirely of those who were associated with regular trades, and did not include many un- skilled workmen,
 This is a sad situation, but it is a part of the penalty which Germany must pay for overdoing things in the flush days,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-13

Albanys commissioner of charities and corrections has called the attention of the mayor to the fact that large num- bers of southern negro girls are being brought to Albany to act as servants, and that after four or six months they invariably become sick and apply for hospital treatment. The city and coun ty are thus put to great expense, he ed compelling the employers of such girls to furnish bonds indemnifying the city and county treasuries.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-13

Iceland is about to obtain home rule. King Christian of Denmark has called for an extraordinary meeting of the Althing next summer to consider a re- form of the constitution. plan to/be submitted is the appointment of min ister for Iceland, who shall be acquaint- ed with Icelandic and shall reside at Reikjavik instead of Copenhagen.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-13

The Chicago Telephone company has been encountering considerable trouble lately in finding that the numerous nickel and dime-in- the-slot telephones located in all parts of the city are be- ing operated by the means of slugs which are the exact counterparts of the coins for which the telephone is gauged. Some time ago man appeared on the downtown streets in Chicago selling cards with ten slugs sewed on each. The slugs were the size of a nickel and were perforated with three holes, and on the card were the following sen tences: "These are pants buttons. Do not use in the telephone nickel int the slot machines" He did a thriving bus mess for a time, but the company got after him and he left town.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-13

The Washington Post makes the fol- lowing interesting inquiries regarding the assignment of Admiral Crownin- shield to the command of the European station: Does the President know that our European naval station is to be kept without commander-in-c -chef of the proper rank for the next five weeks in order that Crowninshield may be- come an admiral and receive the much desired distinction of succeeding Ad- miral Cromwell, who was retired on Saturday? Does he know further that there are already about sixteen admir- aals entitled by rank and service tu this billet, and that on the 18th of next month Crowninshield will be No 22 in the list? Most of these twenty-one who will then rank Crowninshield were do- ing sea service during the war with Spain. Evans, Taylor, Wildes, Watson, Higginson, Rodgers, Barker, Cotton, Johnson, Glass and Wadleigh com manded vessels in the year 1898. Hig- ginson, Evans, Terry, Taylor and Wildes were advanced for gallant ser vice. All of them are Crowninshelds superiors in rank, and not one of them