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The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1904-10-19

Whatever evil or menace there may
he i'm trusts and combinations of CAPT.
tai, the people will take notice that the
Republican party is the only one that
has attempted to break up Illegal com
hinatiOns of capital. During the two
administrations that the Democratic
party was in power it did nothing. The
Republicans passed the Sherman anti
trust law, and all the suits under II
have been instituted by Republican
administratIOns-the railroad injunc.
ton suit, the cotton pool cases, the
beef trust cases and others. The Dem,
ocratic party has done nothing but
talk
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-07-20
ACCORDING TO Law.

This story is being told of Ger
tain New York politician: He had
succeeded in securing for a friend of
his position as tax assessor at the
cost Of considerable exertion. Not
long after the friend had begun
work in his new position the politi-
clan was surprised and grieyed to
see that he was taxed, under "per-
sonal property" $24 as the pos
SCISSOR of one goat. He called on
his friend the assessor for an ex-
planation, accusing him of ingrati-
tude and forgetfulness of favors re-
ceived.
'But I couldn't do less than obey
the specific details of the law" pro-
tested his friend. Look! Here's
what it says" and he read from his
papers, "For all property bounding
or abutting on the highways, $12
per front foot" "-Harper's Weekly.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-07-20
Liquor and seasiekneas.

Regarding seasickness traveller
says: "Before sailing it is just as
well for man not to take too many
farewell dinners and not to start
out with q head on him. One of
the worst cases of seasickness 1 ever
saw was accumulated by a man who
had never been seasick before and
had sailed all over the world. But he
was sailing from Honolulu and the
day before had been to a farewell
1uau,' where he had eaten poi and
raw fish mixed with great deal of
trapped champagne. His friends
came down to see him off and hung
many floral leis about his neck.
They also poured more champagne
into his neck. AS result the acute
case Of seasickness which he devel-
oped alarmed even the si,i2's sur
geon. - s s,s.s 5y;s... il. p. Il. ~ # ~
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-07-20
AN OLD TYPE FAKIR.
The Trick That Held the Crowd Until
He Had Sold His Wares.

The Trick That Held the Crowd Until
He Had Sold His Wares.
Back i'll the early eighties of the
last century / had my first expert
ence with the fakir of the old type"
said man at one of the hotels,
"and the experience ran through
an entire afternoon. / was living in
eastern Arkansas at the time in one
of the small but progressive towns
of that section of the country. 1t
was in the fall of the year, when
everybody had money. Cotton was
being picked and marketed, and the
negroes were rolling in wealth on
Saturdays, and they flocked to town
to spend it. Of course the fakirs
took advantage Of the season. The
artist have in mind was selling a
vast number of things, but curious
little whistle that would make all
kinds Of noise was the main thing.
He would charge 25 cents, only a
quarter Of q dollar, two dimes and
nickel, for the whistle, and, just to
show that he was generous, would
throw in bar of soap, collar but
ton, comb, watch chain, 'as good
as gold,' and few other things.
Honestly, the fellow was giving
away 30 much stuff in order to sell
his whistle that / looked upon him
as q sort Of philanthropist.
thought he was losing money right
along. But the main thing that at
tracted me was the fact that the fell
low kept on threatening to swallow
long knife he had. The knife was
as long as his arm, rusty, desper-
ate looking thing, and every time he
moved it and announced that he
would swallow it in a second the
crowd would congest around the dry
goods box the fellow was standing
on. He would always want to give
away few more bundles of jewelry
before performing the feat, Of
course. I tried to leave the place
more than dozen times during the
afternoon, but every time I started
to walk off tho fellow would yell
that he would do his renowned trick
by forcing the long knife he had
down his throat, and this blood
curdling announcement would stam-
pede me, and I would make break
to return. Before I knew it the
afternoon had slipped away from
me. I wasted all the time watching
the fakir shove his wares off on the
negroes who had gathered there and
nursing the vain hope that after
awhile he would swallow the knife.
It is curious what deep impressions
will sometimes be made by these
trifling experiences in a country
boys life. l have been a skeptic
since that time, and all because the
fellow deceived me on the question
of swallowing a butcher knife. p
New Orleans Times-Democrat.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-07-20
Not a Bake Shop.

ri want a removal sign painted,
and Pm il . dreadful hurry said
the physicians wife as she hustled
into/a Sign painters establishment.
II want plain tin sign; painted
black, with white letters, and I'll
wait for it."
'eVery well, madam said the
brush handler. ''Did you bring your
lunch?"
"Why, no. I thought you could
do it in very few minutes"
1T may take several hours to
dry"
stBut can't you put it in the
oven?" asked the woman impatient
ly.
Madam" said the painter, with
dignity, "this is a paint shop. We
do no baking here"
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-07-20
Poetic Justice.

He was chuckling gleefully.
"Tom," said his wife, ''what's the
matter with you? For the last Ten
minutes you've had something on
your mind, and now you start
laughing. What is it ?"
"My dear, I cannot 60 through
life with 30 terrible a secret from
you. Do you remember that coun-
terfeit SO I got year ago?"
eyes. 1t was the only money you
ever managed to save"
"Well, it's gone"
"Gone?"
eyes. It's paid out"
"Why, Tom, how did your con-
science ever allow you to do such a
Il thing; Ing and an hoy can you laugh about
"That's the worst Of It. I can't
feel bad. I try to be ashamed of
it, but I can't. You see, I used it
in settling your milliner's bill."-
Philadelphia Press,
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-07-20
ORIGIN OF THE MUFF.
At First 1t Was tho Exclusive Property
OF Venetian Mobiles.

At First 1t Was tho Exclusive Property
of Venetian Mobiles.
DO you know that the color Of
muff once betokened the rank of
the wearer?" said furrier the 9TH
er day as he stroked beautiful
sealskin mnif. ''In the days of
Charles TX. no le@y could have
worn this fur, for black was decreed
by the king to be the badge of the
common people, and the court fol-
lowers were restricted to the colors.
"Muffs have gone through more
styles than it woli id seem possible to
invent for such q simple article of
convenience. It has been long and
narrow like a sheaf and again large
and round. At the beginning Of
the last century the test Of size was
to Try the muff in -four barrel. If
it went in without much trouble,
then that muff was too small to be
really fashionable. At the present
day almost anything is proper, but
those enormous cylinders would cer-
tainiy draw much attention. One
of the most curious styles was that
of Louis XIV, called the tchiens
mauchons,' because they were made
to convey little dogs in.
'eThe muff when first introduced
was the exclusive property of the
nobility and originated in Venice.
These muffs were very small and
consisted of single piece of velvet,
brocade or silk, lined with fur, and
the openings fastened with rich
jewels. Such arrangements came in
during the early part of the seven
teenth century, but in the previous
century the ladies frequently car
ried q piece of rich fur, which they
used either as q muf or neck piece.
sThe muf reached its highest
point in the reign Of Louis XIV,
when the productions were exqui-
site. Then fashion declared for q
cloth muff instead OF fur, and the
furriers made great uproar. They
petitioned the pope to excommuni-
cate the wearer of a cloth muff, but
to no purpose. Finally some in
genious merchant bribed the heads
man to carry a cloth muff on execu-
ton day. The women shrank from
such association, and the fur won
the day. We now associate the muff
only with cold weather, but in the
old days it was a regular part of
woman's dress and was carried in
all weathers. As late as 1880 q
muff and a straw bonnet were not
deemed incongruous." - Shanghai
Times.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-07-20
LEARN SELF RELIANCE.
Do Not Be Continually Appealing to
Others For Advice.


Others For Advice.
No greater evidence Of weakness
of character can be shown than a
continual appeal to friends for ad-
vice. AT times we all need the coun-
sci of good friend, but to con-
stantly ask fo- it is like constantly
borrowing. Better make mistake
once in awhile from too hasty de-
clsion than to form the habit of in
decision. It is the first milestone on
the road to failure.
Never permit yourself to be pull
ed hither and thither by q half
dozen conflicting opinions regarding
the course you should pursue. Your
friends may be wise, kind and un-
selfish, but they cannot live your
life for you. You must work out
your As~n destiny. If you are VIC
lst5g principles and breaking laws
Of God and society, every moral and
decent citizen has right to object
to your course of conduct, because
it interferes with the universal we'll
being of humanity, says the Phila-
delphia Inquirer.
But If you are simply pursuing a
line of work or following course
Of study or setting forth on q career
which seems to you the one desira-
BILE thing in life, do not allow your
convictions to be Influenced or
shaped by the advice of others.
Do everything that you know
must be done as quickly as possible,
not hastily, but with dispatch. When
the ocean tide is coming in, it's
waves sweep forward with resistless
force, one after the other, and break
higher and higher upon the beach
until it's work is done, then turns ite
force in another direction.
That is the way to accomplish
things-put one task out Of the way
and make room for another. Do not
spend hours, weeks or months in
trying to plan out the way to do
things. Do them. Make small
beginning and keep going. Put moth
ing off. More failures are the re-
suit of caution than of rashness.
If you have tried certain course
Of life, believing it to be the right
one, and then find you are in error,
change your methods boldly and
fearlessly. Do not wait to talk the
matter over with all your acquaint-
ances to find out their opinion. 1t
does not matter what they think SO
long as you are convinced what is
the right thing to do.
Only by leaning on yourself and
not on others will you ever amount
to anything in this life.-Exchange.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-07-20
After All, Only an illusion.

Speaking of consistency" said
Professor Royce, F'there once was a
Hindoo sage who said that every
thing was illusion. So one day
when he was in the middle of a
field his friends let bad elephant
loose. The sage ran at the top of
his speed and climbed tree. When
the elephant had been secured, the
wise mans friends gathered under
the tree and said:
"'We thought you said every
thing was illusion?
"I did, said the frightened but
still true philosopher.
"eAh, but you ran fast enough
when the real elephant pursued
you
"eYou are mistaken again. said
the sage. There was no elephant,
sad I did not run. It was all IL
lusion.' Boston Record.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-07-20
Tho Roason of Hor Devotion.

He (after marriage) - I don't
know why you are not as consider
ate of my comfort as you used to be
of your fathers.
| She-Why, my dear, I am.
He-How do you make that out?
When I come into the house, I have
to hunt around for my slippers and
everything else I happen to want,
but when I used to court you and
your father would come in from
town you would rush about gather
ing up his things, wheel his easy
chair up to the fire, warm his slip
pers and get him both head rest
and foot rest, so that all he had
to do was to drop right down and
be comfortable.
She-Oh, that was only so he'd
60 to sleep sooner.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-07-20
Her Secret.

a woman can't keep a secret" !"
declares the mere man.
ooh, Il don't knowl r tetorts the
f1utterytwoman. sI've kept my age
a secret since I was twenty-fonr."
Eyes, but one Of these days you
will give it away. In time you will
simply havesto tell3it."
We'll, I think that when a wo.
man has kept q secret for twenty
years she comes pretty near know
ing how to keep it. Judge.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-07-20
An INDIGNANT Romeo.

One Alexander, manager Of a
Glasgow theater, who was also a
very bad actor, when he had become
an old man was playing the part of
Romeo one night, the Juliet being
young girl. After swallowing the
poison he was lying dead when the
grotesqueness of the situation evok-
ed applause from the gallery. Alick
(the name by which he was uni
versally known) felt this was meant
for mockery. Rising to his feet, he
came to the front of the stage and
said: "You think I can't play Ro-
meo, but 1 can play Romeo. I have
played it before" naming some peo-
pie of distinction, "and I shall play
it again" He"then lay down and
died second time.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-07-20
Mexican Railways,

The rails Of the Mexican Cult
railway are laid on mahogany sleep
zers and the bridges built Of white
marble. In west Mexico is a line
with ebony sleepers and ballast Of
silver ore drawn from old mines be.
side the track. The engineers con-
structing these railways had no 9th.
er material on the route and found
it cheaper to use these seeming ex.
travagances than to import the or
sdinary material. y
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-07-20
Tho RuIina Spirit.

A Paris journal relates that a
celebrated speculator, who had
reached the age of eighty-five and
still preserved a lively interest IN
the market; was told one day !:
9Eyidently you are going to live
to be q hundred years old.5 ;W
- N ono, he said. I'm going
to die very soon. I know it. $50
e.What makes you think SO ?"
.sa "What makes me think SO? Do
you suppose death is such q fool as
to take me at 100 when lie could get
me at eighty-fve 2" ri 4.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-07-20
Frankness.

cam I the first girl you ever
wanted to marry"
"Ill be frank with you. You are
not. But you're the first girl I
ever asked. Am I the first man you
ever accepted?" 2"
eI'll be equally frank with you.
You are. But you are not the first
man ! would have accepted if any
Of the others had asked me. st.
Louis Republic.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-07-20
Hia panlnna on chaon..

A dry goods merchant was ex-
planning the situation to the new
traveller he had just engaged. "Your
predecessor" he said, 'ehas got his
business all tangled up, and if you
take his place you vii! have diff
cult task in getting order out of
chaos" 81 d.
.1sI don't know who Chaos is,'
cheerfully replied the newly ap-
pointed traveller, 'Fbut I'll bet you
I'll sell him some goods if I have to
hang on to him weekl''
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-07-20

More worry is caused by the
money people have than by the money
they haven't,
When the curtain drops between
the acts man is reminded that he
needs q Few drops.
# ~ By the time a wise guy is rich
enough to marry the fool has children
big enough 20 support; him.
y A mans idea Of hard work is any
kind at whish he can't sit down and
smoke. ss,; s.; s54 553:.. 5
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-07-20

- Shut your eyes when you look at
the fsults Of friend.
- A woman is always pretending
that she never pretends.
- Nearly every time man displays
his temper he loses it.
81 "A man may mind his own business
and still be narrow minded.
"a crank is the discoverer of a
theory before the public is ready to
pay for il.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-07-20
The Usual Way.

!: q ""What about Mrs. Cheapleigh 2"
esks the city editor, who is mapping
out o Sunday article on social lead
,ers. Is she one of the inner cir
Gle 2' ,. si:f i5s$
NssI should say So : replies the old
society editor: Thy, for five years
she was doing her best to get her
name in the society column, and for
the last five years she has done her
best to.keep it out !; Chicago Trib-
une. ts 81
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-07-20

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to suit your case, will b sent In sealed letter.
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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-07-20
LIvv I[|!!]li1y y !
Bone or Back Pains, Swollen Joints
G. u e 60
THROUGH THE BLOOD


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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-07-20

our auARA nvEE.--Iake large bottle OF
Botanic Blood 9am( Q. o Jas directed on label.
a 'n o sh snnn sS euro
yslll pfemotlY DO seilhdad Without argument. i
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-07-20
.Etnssaslrleiats.

sS Patience here is great differ,
8ence between engage ements. s
Patrice on mean between an
engagement of arfiiies and / an en-.
sgagemeEt ofSa man and woman Z a,
ess sssi f3sS
lot much difference. The men
always claim TO get the worst Of it."s |"
onkerss s. tatesmaIl II SsSs
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-07-20

A woman has simply u got % love
sorasshins, Avon IS 40 ID only q man. . y
Bisbee daily review., 1904-02-26
WORLDS FAIR NEWS NOTES.

Indiana day Il .iiz world 5 fair has been changed from September 1s ,o September 1.
 The Southern Normal university. of Huntingdon, Tennessee. will send ser enty-five cadets 10 the worlds fair 70 camp from June 27 to July inclusive.
 The Y. RI. C. A. Of Chicago has or. ganized a worlds fair club, the mem bers of which will attend the exposi- tion cn an excursion.
 The American Poultry association and the American Leghora club will meet at the worlds fair curing the poultry show. October 2s to November inclusive.
 Mississippi day at the worlds fair will be July '. The date is the anni- versary of the meeting of the first con stiutional convention which paved the way for the entrance of Mississippi into the Union
 The largest searchlight in the world has been completed and tested at an electric plant at Lowell, Massachu- sets. The machine weighs 1000 pounds. is of 5.250, ,o00 candle power. and projects beam of light seven feet in diameter. It will be used for ad- vertising purposes at the worlds fair
 Kansas City will be represented cn the Model Street at the worlds fair by building Of the Casino design. |, will consist of two structures con nected by a colonnade. One building will be used as club house. and will contain bureau of information, regis try office, post office, buffet. bath room, writing and reading room. etc, while the other will be used for exhibits.
Bisbee daily review., 1904-02-26
U. s. Naval Force Is
 Bone of Contention
IS ON, LED eY TIRE
 MINORITY FOR REDUCTION.

Washington. Feb. 25.-The building program cf the navy contained in the pending naval bill. occupied the atten- ton of the House throughout the day, an1 the fight is by 10 means over yet. The minority members of the naval committee. under the leadership of Meyer, of Louisiana, first gave en- dorsement to the measure. and are now campaigning for a reduction in the number of ships to be authorized. The amendment to strike out one bat tleship, made yesterday by Burton. of Ohio was defeated. The cruisers were put to the test, and enough friends were found to secure their re tention.
 An amendment requiring one col Her to be built in the Government yard was adopted.
Bisbee daily review., 1904-02-26
HAS SUBMARINE BOATS.

A Russian officer who lately re turnedfron the far sest is aloted hy the Moscow correspondent of the New York Times to the effect that the Rus sian Pacific squadron possesses at least two submarine boats. They were built on the Black sea, carried east in sections and fitted together at Port Arthur where they now are. The off, cer also states that the mouth of the Amur river is heavily mined and that the river is equipped with light craft, each patrolling about sixty-six miles and carrying light artillery.