The Anderson intelligencer. (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, July 13, 1892, Image 2
BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON.
ANDEKSON, S.O., WEDNESDAY MOKNING, JULY 13, 1892.
VOLUME XXVIL?NO. 2..
VINEGARS !
We have in "Vinegars the very Best Qualities obtainable and at
Reasonable Prices.
Apple Cider Vinegar?four years old.
WMte Wine Vinegar?extra quality.
Clisret Vinegar?for table use.
Wast India Spiced Vinegar?our specialty.
Our Spiced Vinegar is made from Pure Grape Wine Vinegar, boiled down with
West India Spices. The combination of imported Spices for the production of this
Fine Vinegar has been skillfully made, after many years of experiment. The result is
an absolutely perfect Spice Vinogar, retaining the delicious flavor and delightful fra?
grance of West India Spice* It is the only Vinegar you can heat, warm or boil that
will throw off the'same fragrar.ce and flavor as when cold. Especially desirable for
Heats and Vegetables. When used to make Spiced Beef or Spiced Onions it will satis?
fy the most fastidious taste.
TAYLOR & CRAYTON,
40 Granite Row.
? TO CLOSE
SPRING AND SUMMER GOODS,
In order to clear out all kinds of Goods to
make room for a new Fall Stock.
*vYE have decided to make the people of Anderson an
offer to secure good, first-class Good&_
AT AND BELOW COST.
WE MEAN JUST WHAT WE SAY-all SummeT Goods
to go regardless of what they are worth.
Embroideries, Laces, Lawns,
Mnslins9 Bedford Cords, Challies,
And, in fact, a nice clean Stock of Spring Goods.
A big lot of REMNANTS, all kinds ot Goods, to close.
Now is your time to get the Childrens* Winter Clothes
cheap.
t&* Come and, see me.
W. A. CHAPMAN, Agent,
Next to Masonic Temple.
LITERALLY WASHED WITH BLOOD.
Police do their Duty without respect to Persons.
The Wail Still Covered with Bloody Gore.
' The fight was on South Main Street at the Bazaar and Ten Cent Stores of C. S.
Minor & Co. It was an attack of the combined forces of seven other merchants
on the famous C. S. Minor. They fonght in defence of their prices, which they
claimed had been crushed out of all respectability by the said C. S. Minor, and
they fought with desperation to restore the former prices, but down they go in the
dead of the fight, and their blood on our Store-front only is left to tell a pitiful
tale of woe.
Stranger than Strange.
One man claimed that we had reduced the price of Pants to 25c. and 50c. per
pair?less than cost to make. We don't care. Another claimed that we sell the
best quality Mason Fruit Jar at less than he can buy the second quality. We don't
care for that, either.
Another said our 10c. Hosiery was the same that he had to sell at 15c, or two
pair for 25c, and that we sold his 15c Suspenders at 10c, and bis 25c Suspenders at
15c. Well, what of that ?
Another man believes that we are selling hi 3 40c Cups and Saucers for 30c, and
his 85c Plates at 25c. Why should we care ?
A certain millinery man thinks we have knocked him out of more than a
hundred sales. We don't have to pay a milliner, and he don't believe we pay for
our goods. What concern is that of his ?
Another man claims that we sell Tobacco at a starvation price. Has he any
right to object ?
These are some of the complaints made against us. We ask you whose busi?
ness is it, if not that of onr customers and ourselves ? Can't we make such figures
as we see fit without being hounded down and forced to fight for our lives ? We'll
fight to the death?we'll put their blood on our walls and their scalps on our doors,
and their customers in possession of undoubted bargains. Say, would you wash
that blood off the wall, or would you let it stay as a warning ?
Yours for Spot Cash,
C. S. MINOR, THE BAZAAR and the 10c. STORE.
CAM ILLS, EVAPORATORS A! COTTON GINS!
WE are agents for the Celebrated Kentucky Cane ?Kills and Hall Self
Feeding Cotton Gins. It will pay any person to call and see our Ma?
chinery and get our prices before buying, as we feel assured we can save you money,
and can sell you on easy terms. We can bottom and repair old Evaporators, making
them as good as new at a small cost.
We also manufacture Smoke Stacks, Spark Arresters and Suction Pipes, which
every dinner should have, as it saves time, labor and expense.
Oar Stock of Stoves, Tinware, Crockery and House Furnishing
Goods is complete.
We have a large supply MASON FRUIT JAR3 and TIN CANS which are going
chein. It will pay you to buy as soon as possible, as Fruit Jars are going to be scarce
and k;gher latter part ef season.
Call and see our Cherry Seeders, Apple and Peach Pealers?something that every
household should bave. It saves much time and labor, and are so very cheap.
When you come to Town be sure to call and soe ns. We will make it to your in?
terest to buy your Goods from ns.
We still buy RA.GS, HIDES and BEESWAX.
All kinds ROOFING and GUTTERING done on short notice, and in a thorough
workmanlike manner. Yours very truly,
PEOPLES & BURRISS.
SEASON OF 1892.
Womens/ Misses' and Childrens' Fine
OXFORD TIES!
Duchess, Langtry, Brighton, Elite, Souvenir,
Theo, Adonis, Everett and Southern Ties.
Juliet, Strap, House and Opera Slippers.
YACHTING and LAWN TENNIS SHOES.
JAS. P. GOSSETT & CO.,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Boots and Shoes,
Anderson, S. C-, under Hotel Chiquola.
All communications intended fo
thisOolumn should be addressed to C
WARDLAW, School Commissioner, An?
derson, 8. C.
MEMORY GEMS.
"It is not all of life to live."
There i3 a life beyond.
The Summer schools are opening.
We have tbe names of several good
teachers. Any vicinity wanting a teacher
should apply at once.
We would be glad if every teacher
would notify us when he or she will open
and close the Summer school, so we can
arrange our plan for visiting the echools.
We have a letter from Miss Hubbard,
who is assisting in Institute work in the
lower part of the State. She is doing
good work we know, for she always does.
She is enjoying her work.
We publish this week the graduating
speech of Mr. H. E. Richbourg, of Pan
ola. S. C, at tbe Commencement of the
P. M. I. Read it and you" will be well
paid for tho time.
THE TOWPVILLE HIGH SCHOOL.
By Limfe 6bakt.
You know I told you a few weeks ago,
That of our sobool I would tell something
more; <?
We haven't very much to tell you to-day,
But hope it will interest you what we do
have to say,
As its about our school, that we prize so
high,
And that closes on fifteenth day of July.
Nearly all the other schools are already
vacated,
But ours continues, as I have already
stated,
Nor any of us are sorry, for we all like to
go.
The boys like it much better than to have
cotton to hoe;
To go to school this season is the gSrl's
great delight,
For after studying all ^ay, they can rest so
well at night.
But soon tbe day will come when our
i school must vacate,
Then we'll lay away our books and our
slates,
But with not as much pleasure as you all
may suppose,
For it makes us feel sad for our school to
close.
Of course, we are glad to get to rest for
awhile,
And onjoy the sweet breezes of our cli?
mate so mild.
We have news to tell you, that we know
will make you glad.
We are going to have the best time we
ever have had,
For our teacher told us that on the very
last day
We might have a pic nie before we all
soatter away.
We want all our school mates to be sure
and be there,
And if we don't have a nice time, we shall
certainly think queer.
There you'll meet all of your old school
mates so dear.
Who are being tni'iwi with tho tenderest
care.
We want ad iho |?*r? n!.s to be present, too,
For it will nwkt- us fcdl merrier than if
there wie mi \ h f*w.
So come with jour b:??k< i* fithtl np to the
top
But gliiSs you will have to thin out the
"chicken crop."
We hope our teacher will enjoy the day,
too,
For he ha* "learned us as much as any
teacher could do.
He used so much patience when we were
stumbling along,
Trying to distinguish tbe right from the
wrong,
We thank him so much for his close at?
tention,
And many other things too numerous to
mention.
We all wish him a pleasaut vacation,
And hope he is pleased with his new situ?
ation,
Enough ko any way to teach for us again,
For of his work this year, we've heard
no one complain.
So now if you'll give ua space in your pa
J per this time,
Twill be some time again before weworry
you with another rhyme,
THE WILL
Mental philosophers have divided the
powers of the mind into three grand de?
partments, tbe intellect, the sensibilities
and the will, but it is not my purpose to
treat of the "will" in regard to its phi?
losophical or metaphysical relations to
the several other facilities, but in its in?
fluence and bearing in regard to practi?
cal life and individual conduct.
Its importance becomes manifest when
we know that it is the basis and founda?
tion of all character and of all success.
We find that wherever this power is
worthily exercised it generally leads to
success, and the end in view will be
accomplished.
Take a profession if ycu choose, it
matters not what, and this power will be
the underlying principlo, the main
spring of action wbich lead? to the high?
est success and the upbuilding of those
noble principles wbich characterize the
hero in either action or endurance, and
make the masterful man.
Here stands a man of whom the world
might be proud; a born genius whose
name ought to shine in the literature of
his age. His pen might be wielded with
the power of a Shakespeare ; his oratory
eight even surpass a DemostheneB, but
alas! What a sad, sad pity that such
genius should be wasted, thrown away as
It were, and the bright, young life which
gave it birth a failure, and all for the
want of proper energy, of "will"?the
main focus?the pivot about which all
the other powers revolve.
Hero on the other band stands a man
who is not a genius, but who has deter?
mination and "will" about him. He is
persevering, firm and inflexible as a rock.
He has steadily advanr-ed, notwithstand?
ing the many vicissitudes and adverse
fortunes which he encounters, and which
requires such indomitable courage and
"will" to overcome. Jus', as sure as the
sun will rise in all his resplendent
beauty and glorious majesty to ehed
light and radiance over this Bleeping
world uf ours, so sure will such a one
Continus to advance. It is impossible
that his life should be an utter failure.
He may stumble and hi!, he may be
overthrown time and again, but does * hat
constitute failure? Not by any means.
It only moves him to renewed energy,
and causes him to exert more freely tbe
power of his "will," and in the end he
will come forward in triumph, and the
victory will be won. How important it
is for us to have this power 1
Why just look around you over this
grand and beautiful American continent
?the type of civilization and enlighten?
ment?yes, and over tho whole world if
you choose, and view tho thousands and
tens of thousands of poor, wrecked and
ruined human beings who are even now
vainly struggling in the meshes of the
net prepared by the Evil One. You ask
one of them what has brought him into
sucu a miserable condition ? and he re?
plies the Arch Fiend Drink. Why do
you not stop it and maintain first your
self-respect, then the respect of your
family, your neighborhood and your
country? I can't do it, he replies. I
have tried it over and over sgain, and
just about the time I think I have cured
myself of my weakness, or I should say
curse, bore comes along one of my so
called friends, and nothing will do but
that I must take a drink with him ; just
one for his sake and for the remembrance
of "Auld Lang Syne," and not having
the "will" to resist, I have fallen until
now there is no hope.
The cold winds of winter are rushing
in chilly blasts across the continent.
The dark clouds have gathered and
poured out their contents upon the earth,
and now the glistening icicles are hang?
ing from the trees, and from the eaves of
tbehouseB, while the ground is every?
where covered with snow. The two
great armies have gone into winter quar?
ters. The American cause has been
given up by almost everybody, but not so
with WashingtoD, that grand man whose
name U dear to the heart of every true
American. See him as he comes from
his encampment at Valley Forge, and
though his soldiers are bare footed,
clothed in tatters and xsgs, poorly armed
and suffering from the pangs of hunger,
they have confidence in their com?
mander ; they know the power of his
"will" and determination, and they
cheerfully cross the frozen Delaware at
his bidding, and soon the British foes are
swept from the Jerseys. Numerous
ot'jer men could be named who have
won renown by the exercise of this
power. Look at Jefferson Davis, always
a knightly hero, and never more so than
while basely confined a prisoner in For?
tress Monroe by his vile and malignant
enemies. Look at Hannibal, the great
Carthagenian General, crossing the rug
g'Mi pea rs of the towering Alps and hurl?
ing bis hardy legions down on Imperial
Rome. Look at Napoleon Bonaparte,
that mighty General of whom Haven
says: "Obstacles, difficulties insur?
mountable to other men, established
usages, armies and thrones were all
swept away by the energy of that mighty
"will," tbat determined purpose, as a
wave driven before the storm clears for
itself a path among the rocks and shells
that lie strewn along the shore."
We can now form some eetimate of the.
importance of the "will," and that it is
important for us all to have this faculty
well developed. Then why not have it?
But yon Ask how may we obthin it ? I.
reply it may be trained just as the other
faculties of the mind by due exercise.
Then l<t us begin at ooce the exercise
and Hi- training, each one for himself,
for lie who cor.querd himself is more than
a? C'?i.qu?rrnr of other*. PerbapB we
sarjfce cigarettes, chew tobacco or neglect
the faithful performance of our daily du?
ties, or indulge ourselves in other bad
habits which, by the due exercise of this
power we can overcome, and thus the
foundation will be laid, and we can enter
into larger and broader fields, where
more and greater victories are to be won ;
new and far distant worlds are to be con*
q.ie.red, and when all these have been
accomplished we can enter victoriously
into the realm of light, plant our feet
firmly upon the rostrum of eternal glory,
where all is brightness and sunshine, and
where a halo of light is thrown around
you by the reflection from the golden
city, for even this bright and happy con- j
summation is offered free "without mon?
ey and without price" to every one of us,
aod the Saviour has distinctly said
of eve 7 one who fails to obtain it in its
full lraition"Ye Will Not."
Inventor Cooly's Airship.
Middletown, N. Y., May 5.?John
F. Cooley, an ingenious and enthusiastic
inventor of Penn Yan, N. Y., thinks he
has Bolved the problem of successfully
navigating the air. A company of capi?
talists of his town, with H. K. Philips as
President, has furnished the money to
put the invention to a practical test, and
has contracted for the building of one of
the airships at an Elmira shop.
The ship will be cigar shaped or in the
form of a double-cone, and about 300 feet
long and thirty feet in diameter at the
centre. The principle material to be used
is aluminium. There will be no car or
apparatus hanging beneath, as the pas?
sengers and machinery will be carried
within the body of the Bhip.
The buoyant power will be hydrogen
gas contained in twenty separate cham?
bers. The propelling power will be ob?
tained from a chemical compound, the
nature of which is one of Mr. Cooley's
secrets, and which will operate propellers
weighing only one pound to the horse
power at the rate of 8,000 revolutions a
minute.
Mr. Cooley expects a machine of the
size indicated to carry ten passengers and
all needful machinery and supplies, at the
rate of from 100 to 200 miles an hour. He
maintains tbat bis perfected airships will
at once put an end to all forms of war,
because no body of armed men and no
fortification could exist for any length of
time against a rain of dynamite shells
from an airship.
? There is more Catarrh in this sec-1
tion of the country than all other diseases
put together, and until the last few years
was supposed to be incurable. For a
great many years doctors pronounced it
a local disease, and prescribed local rem?
edies, and by constantly failing to cure
with local treatment, pronounced it
incurable. Science has proven catarrh
to be a constitutional disease, and there?
fore requires constitutional treatment.
Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F.
J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the
only constitutional cure on the market.
It is taken internally in doses from 10
drops to a teaspoonful. It acts directly
on the blood and mucous surfaces of the
system. They offer one hundred dollars
for any case it fails to cure. Send for
circular? aod testimonials. Address
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props.,
Toledo, O.
|^?Sold by all DruggistSj 75,
BILL ARB'S TALK.
Tho Georgia Pldlosopher At Vlotshurgaud
Natchez.
Atlanta Constitution.
Vicksburg, Miss., June 26.?Thirty
years ago the gunboats of Faragut and
Porter opened fire on this historic city.
Just thirty years ago. For a month they
poured shot and shell by day and by
night over and into the bluffs, but it was
at loDg range and the batteries here gave
them better than they sent and finally
forced them to abandon the attack and
to retire from the field. Later on in the
war they renewed the assault and after
terrible sacrifice carried and captured
the city with its noble army of defend?
ers. I rode out to the beautiful ceme?
tery that is but a mile away and it is cer?
tainly tbe most lovely spot I ever visi?
ted. It is the peaceful, tranquil home
of 16,000 of the federal dead who fell
and died in the long assault. After
life's fitful fever they sleep well. Beau?
tiful lawns and evergreens and flowers
and gravelled roads adorn the ground
and the stranger is impressed with awe
and fear of the power of government
money. A feeling of exclusion comes
over us as we walk and wonder?exclu?
sion?and the unconscious thought arises
that this great government is for the
north not for up. Our dead are not
worth caring for. How long the north
will continue to make this great mistake
we know not, but if peace and good will
is worth anything, how eaBy they might
have made it?how easy they might make
it yet by giving our dead soldiers the
same care as their own. A soldier's
cemetery is an American institution and
is unlike any other in the world. It is a
modern institution, for our forefathers
did not have them. There is none for
the revolutionary war of 76; none for
the Mexican war of 1846; none for
Jackson's war of 1812. A few monu?
ments can be found?monuments to the
officers?but nothing to the privates who
fell in the fight. A soldiers graveyard is
peculiar because there are no graves for
women or children. None even for old
men or boys, but here in these guarded
graves at Vicksburg are sleeping 16,000
men?strong men who were in the vigor
of manhood. As they stood up in com?
panies and regiments when in life bo
they lie down and sleep with their mar?
ble headstones as Btraightly lined an when
their officers said, "Look to tbe right and
dress."
Vicksburg is a beautiful city?beauti?
ful for its heights and its views and its
high commanding overlook of the great
river that is always calm and placid as a
lake. We read of tho great flood and
imagine that the swollen river was full
of raging torrents, but the eye can hardly
see the water move. It just rises?that's
all?except where it breaks a levee
somewhere ar;d rushes through theopeu
ing. Tbe people talk about a creva.-se
about like we talk ib.iut a frost that kills
the cotton. They ^ay now that the le?
vees were a great mistake and that when
the river gets very low again t-.ll the le?
vees ought to be cut and let tbe water
overflow all along the line in a thousand
places and it would not materially dam?
age anybody and would recede quickly
after tbe rain and would enrich the lands
it bad overflown.
From Vicksburg I dropped down to
Natchez, a hundred miles below. They
claim as many people as Vicksburg and
perhapB it la growing as fast or faster.
There is more style here and more old
time people who live and talk and look
like like old patricians. The old south
is here with its culture and refinement
and enough of its wealth to keep up ap?
pearances. All around the suburbs are
the same beautiful homes with tropical
trees and grassy lawns and a mansion
that was built before the war?a mansion
with broad halls and winding staire and
spacious verandas and fluted columns
with corinthian caps. Not since the war
have I Been anywhere so many of these
ante bellum homes. Not since the war
have I found a community that has pre?
served so much of the old refinement and
culture of the southern patriacians.
Natchez is an old city?very, very old?
older by two years than Savannah, Qa.
While the English was colonizing ihe
Atlantic coast the French came around
and took possession of the Mississippi
country and Natchez was the first place
they settled. In 1717 Count Pontchar
train settled here and named this place
Rosalie in honor of his beautiful and
lovely wife. It kept that name as long
as it kept its morals and its manner.-',
but in the course of time they got to
fighting with tho Indians and massacred
them, leaving but a scattered remnant,
that fled to other tribes. The desperate
and bloody battle seems to have shocked
the womanly pity of Rosalie and the
name was changed to Natchez, the name
of the Modock tribe, and that is all that
is left of it.
1 rode out to tbe 'old Prentiss man
Bion?the home of the greatest orator of
the south. Daniel Webster said he was
the greatest in the world. I look upon
his grave and ruminated. He came from
Maine wben a youth and cast his for?
tunes with the south and never deserted
her. Bishop Soule came from there, too,
and did the Bame thing. He seceeded
from the Northern Methodist Episcopal
Church because tho church suspended
Bi?hop Andrew from preaching until he
should free his Blaves. That bigotry bo
shocked Soule that he left his home and
his church and came south. Mr. Pren?
tiss and Jefleraon Davis were born the
same year and lived near together.
Vicksburg and 'Natchez were then tbe
favorite political battle grounds between
tbe whigs and tbe democrats. Prentiss
led the one and Mr. Davis the other.
Their Srst great batttle wa9 here at
Natchez, where Mr. Prentiss lived and
where Mr. Davis married his second
wife. It was just before bis second mar?
riage that he had his first tilt with Mr.
Prentiss. The democrats had tried in vaiu
lo find someone who would dare to meet
him, for he was in the zenith of hia
fame and his eloquence and magnetism
carried everything before it. As a last
resort they asked Jefferson Davis, who
w?B then only thirty seven years old.
He never hesitated a moment. "Yes,"
said be, "I will meet bim. I fear no
man when I am firmed?armed with the
truth and justice of our cause." They
mot. No one expected Mr. Davis to
cope with Prentiss, Many expected that
he would be utterly annihilated, demol?
ished, ruined, but he was not. Calm,
conscious and dignified, he held his
own in that memorable conflict and
when he retired from the field he had
his colors unstained, aod as they said,
brought off his dead and wounded and
was ready for battle again on the morrow
The result of the encounter lifted Mr.
Davis up as an orator and debater, and
he was by common consent placed at the
head of the party and kept there. His
brilliant service in the Mexican war
that came on soon after added to his fame
and nothing that he ever did lessened
the regard and the affection of the peo?
ple for him. The two men, Davis and
Prentiss, were Mississippi's idols. What
the latter would have been we know not,
for death cut him down early. He died
when forty-one years of age, and Mr.
Davis lived to eighty-two, just twice as
long.
Natchez is fast growing in architectu?
ral beauty. They have just completed
a manificent hotel and opera house that
would do credit to a large city. They
have established a public library whose
moving spirit is the gifted authoress Mrs,
Walworth, who has written many charm?
ing romances founded on Mississippi
life._Bill Arp.
Millionaire and Paoper,
In one of the great London drapery
ware houses an old man, dressed in
shabby clothes that were fashionable
years ago, is wandering aimlessly about.
The ware house has developed into one
of those gigantic concerns whose transac?
tions are world wide.
The shabby old gentleman has a pencil
behind his ear and a small book in bis
hand, and as he walks about he moves
his lips as if he were casting up a Bum,
Every now and then he stoops to pick up
a pin or a piece of paper from the floor.
The pin he sticks io his coat and the pa?
per he sticks in his pocket.
Few people know tbat this shabby and
miserable old man is the founder of this
mighty house; that he is a millionaire;
that, though long past work, he comes
down to the ware house when it opens
and stays till it closes, and that he per?
forms the duties of door keeper and re?
ceives a salary of $7.50 a week, which he
carefully hoards up.
This mighty merchant, this millionaire,
is haunted day and night by the thought
that he is a pauper and that he will come
to the work house.
To ease hi3 mind his sons employ him
and give him $7.50 a week, and this be
hoardn up so that he may h?"o enough
to bury him decently.
Fifty year* ngo the world was before
him ; he was young, strong and clear
headed, and he deterrciaed to make a
fortune. He married and children were
boru to him in the days before bis grra*
prosperity came.
By the time be was a middle nged man
he had distanced most of his trade rivals,
and the name of his firm was widely
known as ouo of the most flourishing
houses in London.
Even then be was not satisfied. His
sons were partners in the firm, aod he
might well have retired and let tbem
manage it. But no, his establishment
only filled one side of the street; he
wanted the other half.
His turnover win four millions yearly;
why not make ii '-ight? His firm was
second in importance in the eyes of the
trade; why shouldn't it be the first? He
would devote another five years to the
task and then retire.
Five years passed away, and he con?
fessed himself satisfied. He would re?
tire. The deeds should be prepared, and
in six months he would begin to take his
well earnest rest, leaving his bou in abso?
lute control of the business.
When five months of the six had yet
to run he had a fii in the counting house,
and was carried home to his West End
mnnsion. He rose from his illness an
imaginary pauper. His mind was gone,
and he was possessed with an extraordi?
nary mania.
He thought he was ruined, that he had
lost every penny, and that he was com?
pelled to work for his living. As soon
as he could move he wandered down to
the warehouse and solicited employment
of his sons. With tears in his eves he
begged to be taken on to do anything?
he didn't care what. Acting on the doc?
tor's advice the sons employed him.
He actually believed he would die in
the work bouse. At home he would not
sit in the grand rooms, but slink away
into the kitchen among the servants the
proper place, he said, for a poor man.
?His family tried all ways to dispel the
illusion. One day they kept him at J
home. He tore his hair and moaned that
he should be discharged, and would have
to go to the work house. They were ob?
liged to let him out.
? Wbat is lacking is truth and confi
? dence. If there were absolute truth on
the one band and absolute confidence on
the other, it wouldn't be necessary for
the makers of Dr. Sage'3 Catarrh Reme?
dy to back up a plain statement of facts
by a $500 guarantee. They say?"if we
' can't cure you (make it personal, please,)
of catarrh in the head, in any form or
stage, we'll pay you $500 for your trouble
in making the trial." "An advertising
fake," you say. Funny, isn't it, how
some people prefer sickuess to health
when the remedy is positive and the
guarantee absolute. Wise men don't put
money back of "fakes." And "faking"
doesn't pay
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? There has been a curious dispute
among the biographers regarding the age
of Grover Cleveland. By some of the
campaign historians he is said to be fifty*
seven years old, while others make him
fully five yearo younger. Mr. Cleveland
himself, in answer to numerous inquiries
sent him some time ago, is reported to
have gi?eo hi? age aB fifty-five.
SEE WHERE THE MO>EF GOES.
One Hundred and Sixty Million Dollars for
Pensions;
Xew York Herald.
Washington, June 13.?One hundred
and sixty millions for pensions! This is
the estimate of conservative authorities
for the next fiscal year.
Customs receipts for the present year
are about $175,000,000. Nearly the whole
amount will go for pensions.
The entire burden of McKinleyism is
put upon the country?not to pay the ex?
penses of the postal service, nor to pay
the salaries of public officials, nor to im?
prove the public waterways and light them
in storm?but to pay bounties to a million
men who are no longer doing anything in
return for the burden they impose upon
the people.
When is tbe drain to stop ? Nobody
knows. If anyone is fitted to tell it is
Representative Enloe, of Tennessee, who
has made a special study of the pension
problem and has been Raum's chief pros?
ecutor in the pension investigation. He
gives it up. He knows that i: worrt stop
soon, but will go on increasing. I said to
him to-day : "The appropriation for the
next fiscal year is $134,825,000. Do you
think this will be sufficient to cover the
disbursements for that period?"
I "No, I do not. The commissioner of
pensions estimates that there will be a
deficiency of $13,000,000. That sum
would swell the amount to $147,000,000.
My impression is that the Commissioner,
at the rate he is adjudicating pensions,
considering tbe number of claims pending
before the bureau, will run it up to $160,
000,000."
"If that be true the pension list, as the
Herald has repeatedly stated, is steadily
growing from year to year, inasmuch as
it will bo necessary to appropriate for the
next fiscal year $160,000,000 at least, and
this will be largely in excess of any appro?
priation in the past, will it not?"
"Yes, the list is repidly growing, and
there seems to be no disposition on the
part of Congress to enact any legislation
which will check the increase. It will be
remembered that Mr. Garfield, when
chairman of the appropriation committee,
some fourteen or fifteen years ago made a
statement to the House that he thought
the pension list had then reached high
water mark ?"
"How much was it at that time?"
"It was $25,000,000. Congress has en?
acted legislation making the system more
liberal from time to time. The board of
pension appeals continue to interpret the
law in a more liberal way, and thus is
maintained a steady growth of the pen?
sion list. The last Congress, by passing
the dependent pension bill, caused a great
increase in tbe number of pensions, and
in the amount carried by the pension ap?
propriation bill. There is still a demand
for broader legislation ho as to provide for
every soldier without regard to the ques?
tion of dependency or disability.
"The 51st Congress appropriated $525,
000,000 at the second secsion, of wbich
the pension appropriation Lil carried
$135,214,785. That appropriation was
for the year 1802, and was in accordance
with the estimates submitted by tbe com?
missioner of pensions. In tbe last few days
he has submitted estimates to the commit?
tee on appropriations for an urgent defi?
ciency appropriation amounting to $7,
674,000 to complete the pension for the
year 1892. The appropriation has al?
ready passed the House. That carrie
the total for pensions for the year 1892 to
$142,889,117."
"Now, Mr. Enloe, how greatly in ex?
cess of the appropriation for 1891 is this
appropriation of $142,889,117 for the fis?
cal year 1892 ?"
"It is an increase of $34,680,874 in one
year. Now let us go back another year
and see how much larger the appropria?
tion for the year 1891 was than the year
1890. The records of the bureau show it
to have been $22,092,695. This will give
you some idea bow the list has swollen
since Garfield's supposed "high water
mark of $25,000,000 fourteen years ago to
nearly $150,000,000 at the present time."
"How much of the money now appro
priated for pensions is wasted ? In other
words,what sum, in your judgment, would
be necessary to give every soldier a pen?
sion who incurred disability in the ser?
vice?"
"I think to come within the limits in?
dicated by your question would reduce
the amount at least one-third?that is to
say, $50,000,000. We are paying in the
neighborhood of $30,000,000 per annum
to persons who are not strictly entitled to
pensions under the interpretation hereto?
fore given to tho implied contract between
the Government and the soldier.
"The original intention of Congress in
providing for a pension system was to
compensate tbe soldiers for any decrease
in their earning capacity on account of
disabilities incurred in the service. It
was never intended that pensions should
be given as a grat: .? or as a reward for
patriotism, but in these latter days tbe
system has been constantly liberalized
until now there has grown up a demand
for pensions to soldiers who not only
never incurred any disabilities in tbe
service, but who are not at present labor?
ing under any preceptible disability.
There are plenty of ex-soldiers now on
the pension rolls who are financially in
independent circumstances, while there
are many other soldiers who need pen?
sions and are denied them because o;
some defect in the record of their service
or in tbe proof necessary to establish
their claim."
"You speak, Mr. Enloe, of the contin?
ued liberalizing of the pension laws. In
what way is this done, and what is the
purpose of it?"
"It has been done by legislation, and
by the interpretation of the law. The
board of pension appeals has broken
down the established rule which obtained
under the general law. I speak of the
general law in contradistinction to tbe
Act passed by the last Congress, which
provided for dependent pensions, maki?g
the granting of a pension dependent on
the need of the soldier rather than upon
tne origin of his disability, Until
the pension system was debauched by
dragging it into politics in tbe last fifteen
years it was necessary for the Boldier to
trace his present disability back to his
service and show its origin in the ser?
vice.
"If he was claiming for a disability on
account of injury received in trje service,
it was necessary for him to show that it
was received in the line of duty. The
board of pension appeals, which is sort
of hybrid law factory attachment to the
pension office, has practically abolished
the rule requiring the soldier to provo
that the disability is the result of injuries
received in the service and in the lines of
duty. Their decisions go to the extant of
holding that a soldier was in the line of
duty if he was hurt in a drunken brawl,
robbing a hen roost, or stealing whiskey.
You ask what is the purpose of this
charge of policy. It seema manifest, as
I have before indicated, that it has been
done for political reasons; done on the
idea of using the public money for the
purpose of influencing the political ac?
tions of those who are to be the bonefici
aries."
"To return again to the question of an?
nual expenditures. If, as you estimate,
$160,000,000 will be necessary to cover
the disbursements for the next fiscal year,
where is this extravagance going to stop ?
Will $160,000,000 be the maximum
amount, or will it go to $170,000,000?
And if it does go to $170,000,000, isn't it
likely to go to $200,000,000 ultimately ?
And if this be the case where shall we
get the revenues with which to meet these
paymente? The treasury is practically
bankrupt now."
"It the pension office," replied Mr.
Eniloe, "is to be continued tobe used as a
political machine no man can tell where
it will stop. But from present indications
I would e ay that it would not stop as long
as a soldier can be found in the country
who is willing to put a price upon his
patriotism. I have had an occasion to
give the matter some thought, and in a
discussion on the floor of the House I
expressed the opinion that the present
rate of adjudicating pensions, in view of
the number of applications now on hand,
it would not stop short of $200,000,000
per annum, It will be necessary to eith?
er limit Government appropriations to
the salary list in support of the army and
navy and the payment of pensions, to the
exclusion of everything else, or to find
new sources of revenue. The revenue
might be increased to some extent by
abolishing prohibitory duties and bring?
ing the tariff down to a revenue basis, but
I doubt if it would furnish sufficient rev?
enue to cover the expenditures. I think
we will be forced to adopt the income tax
to pay pensions. I think the imposition
of a graduated income tax on all incomes
over $5,000 would be the easiest and most
equitable way of raising the money to
pay pensions. I think it would be '.. .for
to place the burden of taxation of those
who are able to bear it rather than im?
pose it on the labor of the country,
which is already overburdened. The sys?
tem would not be so injurious as it is if
the pensioners were equally distributed
throughout the country. As it is now
some localities have few if any pensioners.
Such localities are consequently drained
of a part of their earnings, which is as
completely lost to them as if destroyed by
fire or flood, because it is taken from them
and distributed elsewhere, never to re?
turn."
"When will the pension office investi?
gation close and what will be the result
of it?"
"The investigation is drawing to a close
for this session and the report will prob?
ably be submitted to Congress within the
next ten days or two weeks. I intend to
ask the Committee not'to adjourn finally
until next session, so that certatn matters
which they have not time to investigate
now may be inquired into when Congress
meets again. I think it would hardly be
proper for me to express any opinion as
to what the report of the Committee will
be. I think, however, that the report
will be satisfactory and will be fully sus?
tained by the evidence taken. I shall
urge the propriety and the necessity of
taking the pension bureau out of politics.
I hope the Committee will recommend its
transfer to the war department, where it
properly belongs. I believe if that bureau
was placed in charge of a regular army
officer it would cease to be a political
machine. That would do much to correct
abuses in the system. I also think that it
would be wise to confer upon the Secre?
tary of War the power to thoroughly
overhaul the present pension list, with
authority to eliminate from it all who are
not legally entitled to pensions, and all
whose circumstances are such that they
don't need to be pensioners on the boun?
ty of the Government. I think every
true soldier and every right-thinking cit?
izen would be willing to trust the army
officers with the exercise of such power.
The regular army officers have been
trained and educated to a high sense of
honor and lofty patriotism. They would
naturally sympathize with a soldier who
had suffered misfortune or injury in the
service of his country, and would be pre?
pared to do full justice, while they would
entertain a righteous contempt for the
fraud, the sneak, the deserter and tb"
bounty jumper. Their sense of hono*
would be a safeguard for the public treas?
ury and a guarantee of justice to the sol?
dier."
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? The Chicago Tribune sarcastically
remarks: "A man in Barry, III., whc
fired six shots at his wife with a re?
volver, was fiued six dollars by tho in?
dignant justice of the peace before whom
kis case was tried. It is lucky for him
that his gun was not a seven-shooter. His
fine would have been seven dollars."
? A pair of infauts has been present?
ed to Harrison Breedlove, who is 70
years old, by his wife, who is 63, who live
at Carson, Nevada. They are believed to
be the oldest couple on record who have
been favored in this way. It is pro?
posed to send the father, mother and
children to the world's fair as samples of
what is possible to he done in tho far
West;
All Sorls of Paragraphs.
? Few criminals of any kind live to
be old men.
? Plants grow faster between 4 and 6
a. m. than at any other time during the
day.
? The young lady without an engage?
ment ring ha3 nothing on hand to speak
of.
? The best farm in the promised land
is always the one which has the biggest
giants living on it.
? If sunshine had to be paid for, there1
are people who would declare that candle
light could beat it.
? The blindest people are those who_!
never rind out that they cannot be happy 1
in their own way.
? A "Poor Richard Almanac" of 17681
sold for $35 at an auction in Philadelphia
a few days ago.
? Massachusetts was the first of the
American colonies to adopt slarery.
Georgia was the last.
? It is never too late to mend. This is
why the cobbler never has your boots
done at the time promised.
? The negroes are not dying off rapid?
ly. They have increased from 3,000,000?
in the emancipation days to 7,000,000. %
? Grover Cleveland, tariff for revenue
only, no force bill and honest money is
what the Democrats of South Carolins
want.
? The first commercial transaction,
that is recorded in secred history, ia
Abraham's purchase of the cave of Mach?
pelah.
? The percentage of women who suc?
cessfully pass the examination for gov?
ernment positions is greater than that of
men.J
? A New Jersey minister married fif?
teen couples within sixty minutes the
other day. Fifteen knots an hour isn't
bad. -4
? ? One of the glorious privileges of ev?
ery American citizen is his right to be a
candidate for any office within the gilt
of the people.
? There is to difference in the mind of
God between the man who breaks the
Sabbath and the one who sells goods by
a short yard stick.
? Washington authorities report "a
new and dangerous counterfeit." As it
represents a $50 bill, it is not dangerous
to newspaper men.
? An Ohio man carried his jug to the
wheat field and pal. it under a shady tree.
Ic got broke and a cow and one chicken
got gloriously drunk.
? Emma?Father, don't you think we
want some new gaa burners ? Father?No,
That young man who comes to see yon
every evening is gas burner enough for
me.
? Two lovers at Wilmington, 0., com?
mitted suicide by taking Btrychnine Sun?
day morning, June 26. The young lady's
mother objected to the match and they
preferred death to separation.
? There are more idle men in this
country to day than thero has been at any
previous time during its history. The
four years of Grover Cleveland's ac
istration were ones of unprecedenf
prosperity.
? Do not think of knocking oat;
other person's brains because he diST'i
in opinion from you. It would be
rational to knock yourself on th#3*
because you differ from yourself ten:
ago.
? Tbe money order department of the!
Pittsburg (Penn.) Postoffice is exclusive
ly in charge of Miss Mary Steele, and the
receipts, almost $2,500,000 last year, mark]
it as ore of the largest business handled]
by any woman in America. 41
? With the desire of giving her hus-4
band a true picture of herself, a woman!
in Atchison, Kansas, had her photograph]
taken as she appeared at daily housework
in her kitchen dross with a baby on omfl
arm and ?. broom and dustpan on thJ
other.
? Husband?Where is the hatchet %
Wife?In the attic. "If you Baw it Irs
the attic, why didn't you bring it down?'
I didn't see it." "Then who did ?" "N(
one that I know of." "Then how ii
creation do you know it's in the attic?'
"I heard yoit up there yesterday driving
nail."
? A paragraph is going the round o
the press, explaining on scientific grou:
why a girl cannot throw a stone. If Bom
scientist would kindly point out rgj
the safest position the bystander can
cupy?whether behind or before?wh?
she attempts it, he would be to some ex
tent a public benefactor.
? Professor Lors, the Greek rifle,
is attracting much attention by^
of shooting a glass ball from h.
The trick is performed by shootin,
trigger of a rifle held in a frame, witC
muzzle sighted at a glass ball dangling
a string directly over the markman
head.
? Miss Wellalong (who hopes by m
ing light of her years to be thought qui
young)?Really, I prefer to look on.
am getting too old to dance, you kno
Mr. Affable (who prides himself on a!
ways saying the right thing)?Oh, com
now, you are not old. I don't believ
you are within ten years of as old as yoj
look.
? This from the Southern Giurehmafi
is too good to skip: A good answer wq|
made by an old Christian, who, when L
was asked what his business was, sah
"To serve God; but I pound iron to pa
expenses;" and there is in this answrj
the key to the best results possible toeac
one of us, whatever ourc^ iition or suj|
roundings.
? A Deer Isle man has a c riosity |
the shape of an egg, which haw on o 3
end a cap-like excrescence, whichj^beloj
lifted, showed a full aixed cranbe:
between the cap of the shell and the
ner lining membrane of the eggv 1
wants to know how it got there, and
anyone ever saw or heard of the like b<||
fore. It is a novel way to raise beans,
least.
? In Rockland, Me., is a dog that is
born thief. Its favorite plunder is clotl
ing, and in daily excursions about
neighboi hood during the past winter
has pilfered enough to stock a shop. 'SM
other week it went into an opera ballvrn
picked up a costly muff and started "fj
home, hotly pursued by a man and.fr
excited women. The owner got her mt?
and the dog got a beating.
j