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KEOWEE COURIER (ESTABLISHED 184?.) Published Every Wednesday Morning Subscription $1 Per Annum. Advertising Ilutes Reasonable. -By STECK, simeon & SCHRODER. Communications of a personal char acter charged for aa advertlse ments. Obituary notices and tributes of re spect, of not over ono hundred words, will he printed free of charge. All ovor that number must be paid for at tho rate of ono cent a word. Cash to accompany manuscript. 3_ WA MIALLA, H. C.: GONZALES TESTIFIES ETHICS. S. (J. editor Appeals ut Witness in Sub A gains! (hillier's Weekly. Washington, .lune 11).- -('apt. W. H. Gou/.illCS, editor of tho Stat?', was a witness yoslerday In thc District Supreme Court ia a sui.', against Col lier's Weekly for $150,000 by a pub licity agent alleged by Collier's tobe furnishing "tainted" news. Mr. lion ?/ales wa- a wit.ness for tho defense, giving expert testimony as to t lu? et hies of journalism, both from tho standpoint of editorial management mid correspondence. Associated with the .Vow Voil? attorneys in tho (.ase are two well known South Caro linians who have made a great suc cess at the Washington bar, Chas, A. Douglas and his partner. Mr. O boar Mr. Con/.alos is in Washington for a day or two en route to llultimoro, where he will bo at the headquarters of Governor Wilson, taking part in thc preliminaries Incident to tho Na tional Convention. Made Money While Prisoner, I A dispatch from Atlanta says: Tho story of how Chas. W. Morse, behind tho bars of the Atlanta Code-j ral penitentiary, pulled wires thal set ' deals In motion in Wall street and ?brought a stream of gold to his cell door, is paralleled in Georgia's own convict system by that ol' Wood C. Campbell, of Columbus, who had ".... ti serving a sentence for man slaughter since 11107 until il was re cently terminated hy a commut?t inn. During bis imprisonment ho worked I in a convict camp like other Georgia convicts, but was a "trusty" and found opportunity to m..ko hundreds of dollars by dealing in cattle and negotiating loans. Campbell is ibo ex-convict who has made charges against Hill C. Toggle, charging I hal the former prison inspector defrauded him out of $505. *--*-* Ju CLEMSON EXTENSION WORK J. I *-*i* --?I* Heniitifying tho Home Grounds. Attractive grounds add more than any other ono feature toward beauti fying the home, bc il in the country or in thc city. Xo tarin or city home can alford to be without a few trees and shrubs around (ho honst?. ll seems strange indeed with all our natural advantages that ornamental planting is not more observed by those who wish lo make life in the count i.?. worth while. Money ex pended in this direction is well in vestid not oui) from thc fad of its' creating pleasant surroundings, but because Ibo beautifying of a place enhances its value atol renders it ? salahh often at a handsome profit. 'I lon again on the other hand money cannot buy the satisfaction which ono derives from watching the growth and development of orna mental vegetation. Among the beautiful hardy shrubs that i . ipi i re lillie al I en I iou 1 wish to enumerate a few that grow io perfec tion in our State. Til cse plans are easily obtainable and aol expensive. Tho allin a or rose of Sharon Howers freelj with us dering [ate summer when few other shrubs arc lu blos som, lt has beautiful white, pink and purple double Howers. Tho azaleas are very go"geous and range in eolio- from intense crimson to lemon yellow. They ate covered willi blooms in early spring before theil leaves appear. Deut/.las have masses ol' snow-white (lowers and are early bloomers, spireas flower pro fusely during early spring. They pro duce a profusion of white Howers. Forsythia or gonion hall has graceful, drooping yellow (lowers. The mag nolia grandi flo ru. the evergreen type, is one of the best of the many mag nolias, ii grows beautifully with us and ls ti grand sight. Of the many beautiful climbing vines that should grace our po iv h es and arbors there is nothing better than Cu w Istarlas, willoh c an bc had In purple, lavender and white. The immense drooping racemes of bloom are trulj a grand sight. The climb ing roses, th? clematis, english ivy, Virginia creeper all grow to the great? ; perfection, li' member thal before von get ready lo plain sketch ?ml your grounds, locating all buildings drlv.-s, walks and plantings. c. c. Vincent. The waste lands lying idle after the wheat, ive. oats, potatoes and com are harvested are craving for something to produce. A good seed ing of winier vetch, crimson clover or rape will improve the soil and give early pastures for next year. . ^ _. Death of a Colored Woman. Rebecca Steward, colored, wife of Rev. .1. S. Steward, died .lune 1 Uh, at her homo near West Union. She had been sick for several years, she was 48 years of age, and held the confidence of those who know bor among both whito and colored, Fun eral services wore conducted Satur day following her death at Pial Rock, whore tho burial took place. Old RicKlar INCIDENTS C CONNI THE PAST AND PROCEEDINGS OF Address of Welcome, i si iles Strlbling.) Teachers, Pupils and Friends of Richland School: In the great Stale of South Carolina, in the beautiful, picturesque and fertile county of Oconee, near thc foot-hilis of tho Mine Ridge mountains, two streams rise some miles apart and wend their way southward, gradually nearing each other until they tinnily unite in the southern center of the county. These streams, long years ago, took thc names Coneross ?md Richland. Cor years they have noiselessly horne along, locked iii their bosoms, messages ?md greetings of fertility, wealth ami contentment. In llie junction ol' these streams, and for several miles bach and on either side, for nearly a century, luis been a section of country called ! Richland noted in song and story : for its beauty of nature, its surpass j inn climate, its wealth ol' soil and its ! splendid and cultured typo and I mould of churchmen and noble citi zenship. The very atmosphere here seemed impregnated wit li noble thoughts ?md high aspirations. The Richland mothers, as they nursed and nestled ami rocked their little ones Io sleep, quieted and en couraged and nerved them by telling and singing to them of their high ideals and noble lives yet In store for timm. The Richland fathers, as they awoke their sons from their morning slumbers, bade and urged them to be men, high-minded men-men the greed of ellice could not taint, men that money could not buy-men that dared to do the right or die. With all these forces of nature and grace to guard and guide .ind inspire this "Kden ol' America," this "Pearl of the Piedmont," this "Carden Spot of Oco nee," still lt was far from complete it was as a ship without a rudder, ?i landscape without a stream, a des ert without a spring-yes, it was a world without a sun. Listeners, do you ask nie what it lacked? About three-quarters of a ?.en tu ry ago, back on the bills be tween these streams, on a somewhat disputed spot, was erected a small log hut. This building was dedi cated as a temple of learning by the mime of Richland School. This lit tle well-spring ol' knowledge at once began watering the desert around; this building gave the ship a rudder; from this small spring a tiny stream (loweri forth that beautified the land scape in the picture--the rays of knowledge and wisdom radiating from (his diamond in the rough, soon supplied this world with a sun. Prom this humble birth and crude surroundings bas evolved the load stone ol' education, culture and re finement that has drawn together and cemented and uplifted and land ed in the front rank this Richland section In primary and higher edu cation, material prosperity, high classed citizenship, statesmen of royal type and churchmen of the humble and Chrlts-llke mould. To-day this old Richland school is only a hallowed name, a cherished memory, a stream of Inlluence that luis Mowed onward and outward ?ind upward in its ceaseless course uni il to-day it kisses the early rays of the morning sun ?is they strike the shores ol' the Atlantic on the east. Its ten der touch has helped to soften the wild borders ol' Texas and Mexico and the Pacific on the west. Kveii the dreamland of Florida luis fell its magic touch on the south. Long since this influence has been felt in tho great capital of our nation on the north. To-day my mind is too .vonni; to think, my tongue untrained to tell, my voice too soft and youth ful to herald this ever widening In lluence thai ls yet to gush forth and How down Hu- endless stream ol' t i me. Some twenty-five years ago the citizens ol' Richland caught up with tile spirit of building the New South, raised their stakes and Journeyed southward a short way and pitched their educational tent on the spot where I now stand, on this command ing hill, In this grove of stately oaks, and erected this building near which we are now assembled, and it was at once christened the New Richland School. Al once a new stream of knowledge, culturo and in fluence gushed forth, and the old and new school, like the natural streams that mark their boundary, converged toward each oilier until they were united and locked In each others' embrace, and so stand united to-day. There is no marking lo show where the old quit off and Hie new began. Tho old Som li and tho Now, the Coneross mid the Richland, the Old School and the New School - united we stand. Wo could not separate thom if we wini ld; we would not separate them it we could. Then since w?' arc one inseparable, undi vided school all glory in the ame and achievements, all proud thal wo sprang from one common source, all glad .(> wander back aga 111 to where wc used to play and drink from this old spring of knowledge then it ls not inappropriate that I. born on yonder Richland hill, of n long line of Richland ancestors, with whatever I am or univ be due largely to (rain ing in tho Richland school, .should stand before you to-day, and in the name of all that is dearest and best In i he old school, and all that is real and promising in the new school, In tho name of the Richland people, old and young, to greet you and herald to you with Inviting tongue and per suasive' voice a hearty welcome - - reach out to you a hand of good cheer. Welcome one! Welcome all! Teachers and pupils and friends, come back to the Richland mother bosom once more and be cherished, bo embraced and comforted again. Ibero's a charm in the old home school that ls ne'er met with else where. Tho Richland mother-heart swells and beats with emotion at your prosonco and to make you hap id Academy >F INTEREST ?CTING THE PRESENT. rHE \9 U MEETING. py to-day. If thc world has hoon kind to you and made you happy, may this day's happiness surpass any of the past. If the world has frown ed upon you, may that frown he transformed into a smile for you to day. The Richland minds aro thoughtful for your welfare; our hearts swell with pride at your presence and our homes aro open to you and fairly groan with their load of comforts for you. Come and receive a fresh blessing from tlie Richland parental knee. All hail to the home-coming of the Richland school. I {espouse to Address of Welcome. ( By Rev. T. M. Stribllng.) As a pupil of tho Richland school, who has made his homo in the Great Wost, I desire to record my appreci ation of the words of welcome so warmly spoken hero to-day, und in behalf of those pupils who cannot be present I know I voice their senti ment when I say they are all loyal to the old school and their hearts and host wishes aro with us. In behalf ol' those present I will say we are glad Indeed to be on our native heath again and to mingle and have fellowship with our friends of former days. Many of tho pupils of the Rich land school are now holding posi tions of trust and responsibility In various parts of this great, country, and wherever they may be found they always retain a warm spot In their hearts for old Richland and her gen erous people. We appreciate these words of welcome, not because they are necessary to make us feel at home, but because they are the ex pression of tlie real feelings of this nohle community, and It does our hearts good to bo with you and to enjoy your hospitality once more. To the Richland school we all owe a debt of gratitude and probably a greater obligation than most of us are conscious of. When our fore fathers braved the terrors of the deep and carno to this beautiful country lt was that they might en joy greater liberty, both civil and re ligious, and we find some of the hardier ones forging their way from the coast country up Into tho foot hills of tho mountains--into this pic turesque country known now as the Piedmont section. This was then a wilderness roamed by tho Red Man, and abounded In tho dangers Incl- . dent to a frontier country. But, un daunted, they built their homes, not the proud mansions some in this sec tion now enjoy, but moro modest homos, such as they were able to construct out of the logs of the na tive forest. 1 hese were real homos where hive reigned and where chil dren came to bless their firesides and to he reared and trained for useful citizenship. These pioneers bravely maintain ed their homes under great difficul ties, for they loved their homes and were ready, if necessary, to die in defense of their homes and their loved ones. Next we find them 0reeling houses of worship, where they might enjoy that religious liberty which was so dear to the early settlers of this country. Their religion meant more than a mero form of words and a vain show; It was tho expression of tlie deepest sentiment of their souls, and its exorcise was necessary to their existence. They also sharp ly realized another need, for hard by the (dinrob we lind the school house, in order that the rising generation might not he reared In Ignorance. They rightly judged that religion and education ought to thrive to gether, because religion without edu cation hreeds ignorance and super stition; while education without re ligion fosters rationalism and athe ism, hut where tho two go hand in hand, there we lind tho well bal anced citizen and the noblest people ol' which an\ country can hoast. Hore wc have tho true type of the American home, where the children are taught to love their Saviour, their homes and their country. Wo find Richland and Rock Springs churches, with their faithful pastors to caro for tho spiritual needs ol' this generous people, and we lind the Richland school, wit li her cultured and relined teachers, lo educate and inspire tho young with those high ideals which atc necessary to the host citizenship These agencies have worked together for the up building and strengthening or this splendid community. Happy indeed is that neighborhood where godly ministers, true teachers and loyal parents co-operate foi' tho common wollare. Such has hoon the history ol' this seulement, and Hie results are not disappointing. Tho Richland com munity has a reputation for morality, progress and good citizenship that any people might covet. The sons and daughters of this school have taken positions ol' honor and trust wherever they hnve gone, and eter nity alone can reveal tho good that has been done in these sacred pre cincts. We are thankful that such is our heritage, and lot us seo to lt that no backward stop ls taken. We cannot afford to rest on our laurels for this ls a busy age and there is progress on every side. Tho old school has made good and wo have abundant confidence lu the now. Then with gratitude for what has been accomplished, and with faith lu our future, let us press forward with renewed vigor an energy, and with tho determination not only to keep abreast with tho progress about us, but that we will continue to load I lu all that ls noblest and best, an'' Hoit makes for true progress. "Tlie Boy* of Richland." (By Chas. G. Jaynes.) Ladies, Old Boys, Boys, and Baby Boys: Wo must take the word boys In Its broadest sense on this occa sion, for we have with us the bare foot boys of three score years and ten, GO, 25, 10, 5, and 2 years and 1 year. I do not mean to say that all you fellows who aro hero bare headed are bare-footed. I simply mean to let you know this particular kind of animal has been growing around here lo these many years, and tho end is not in sight. You will notice I did not say all the boys are with us to-day. I wish 1 could; but If the roll was called varied would be the notations. We would find them scattered from the Atlantic to the Pacific aud engaged In almost every honorable vocation of life, and very few in their old home community. You would also lind crepe has played Its part, telling to the world that mother and sister have stood by the open grave of ano ther Richland boy. Crepe is on the programme of life for the rest, and may each one's ideal be to live well this life, so when our names are erased here they will be enrolled above, and I believe they will, for about the worst thing they are guilty of doing is having left old Richland. This ls grave enough within Itself, but I do not lind it in the catalog, of sin. If I did, I believe they have so thoroughly repented they are en titled to forgiveness. Kor years, without number to us, boys have roamed these old hills llrst the Indians, then our forefath ers. Kach were loved and cherished by their mothers. One was taught to tish and hunt and the rudiments of war. to aid in pilfering and steal ing, that selfish greed might be sat isfied. The other was taught to love and labor, that no tuan liveth to him self, that God might be glorified. We find one has acted his part and pass ed without leaving the world any better. We lind the other still act ing well his part, and I believe we could truly chisel on the grave-stone of every Richland boy: "Ile left the world better by having passed through it." This ls tn behalf of those who are dead. I am not endorsing for we fellows who are alive, for we know too much about each other. I'll tell you something about h\c daddies of the Richland boys: They were one time boys themselves, you know, and most of them boys of this community. This older crowd surel> had lt ground into them that Car lisle, the Scotch writer, put it well when he said: "An Idle brain is the devil's workshop," for they put their boys to work early, either in tho school room, in the Held or to cut ting wood, while they rested, for they believed lt' the devil caught their boys idle he would put them to work, furnish them with tools, and before long pay them their wages. They knew loafing around, doing nothing, was the open grave of the living youth. They said: "Remem ber, boys, every day the sun comes up affords an opportunity to improve yourself, for every day people are horn, some die, some marry, some bato, but more love." It is just 141 years ago since two tiny little baby boys were horn. One fond mother nursed a little toothless tot In Old Corsica, and the other loud mother, at the same time, press ed her little babe to her breast In old Ireland. Forty-six years later these two boys met around a farm house, each with a large army under bis command. The Corsica lad was the greatest general In the world be fore the battle. After the fight he had to take second place and go to St. Helena. The military history of the Rich land boy is diff?rent from that of Napoleon, the Corsican lad, for r>o years ago we lind them on their way to battle occupying second (dace, for they were not verseil in the rudi ments ot' war, but ll? years ago they came home occupying firs! place; not ll) so taras final results are recorded, but In the main. They went to the front with true principles; they re turned with them magnified. All who went did not return, but those who did brought back that true and noble spirit that has always kept Richland community in tho forefront, and it blossomed forth into churches and schools. Pence and happiness was restored; tne community was one; the two churches made the one school; the one school sent the boys back to their respective churches to love and labor, the churches sending them forth into the world fully pre pared lo help lift mankind higher. So runs the tale until a few years ago, when we find the death angel invading tho camps. Since then ils visits have been thick and fast, until most of us have a tie in the ceme tery. While their bodies have been consigned to mother earth, their no ble principles still live, and their boys stand up to call them blessed. They were what you call self-made boys; they relied on themselves, fought their own battles, dug their own potato patches and stood ready to lend a helping hand. They told their boys the way to get first place was by racing lair and square, and not by using their daddies' backs as a spring-hoard; that no one will help you, as you can help yourself, for no one will bo interested in you as you should be in yourself. They said the first step may seem long and hard, hut in carving your own wnv up the mountain you make each stop lead to another, and enable you lo stand linn while you chop ?mother. Richland has never sent out a poet, bul th - oidor boys could tell their boys how to work and bow to drink, and prescribed the following: "Roys, to put your name above the door, And have it known forevermore, Requires som . work, some push, some grit, Perseverance, and lots ot it." "And, boys, when you strike your feather bed Always strike it with a sober betid, Whether you dress in cotton or silki Let your strongest drink bo butter milk." But, going back to the serious side of tho question: 1 can assure you the Richland boys always loved, lookr ' up to, and respected their paren , and to-day I can seo young Richland looking up to old Richland asking that those true principles with which they met both friend and foo, and the delicate sense of cbarac tor with which they dealt with State and church, might remain with them. I can see old Richland looking down-on young Richland and saying: "My hoy, I gladly entrust these prin ciples to your keeping. May you never take from, hut ever add to. them, and as time goes on may they bo magnified through the still younger boys of old Richland. We have fought a good light, we have kept the faith; the way has been long and hard, but we have en dured for our hoys' sake, (?od bless our boys." ' The (Jills of Richland." (Ey Mattie Vernor Strlbling.) I want to thank tho members of the committee for the pleasure and the privilege of addressing you to day on the subject "Tho Girls of Richland." The subject is naturally very dear to me, in fact you could not. have given me one which would have appealed to me more forcibly unless, Indeed, it were "The Roys of Richland." In fact I have boen a little mixed because of conflicting statements in the papers, whether lt. were the "Girls or Roys of Rich land." hut as I knew them, In the days of which I shall speak, the terms were synonymous, and whe ther 1 were to talk of the girls or the boys, the other would bc natu rally Included--"useless each with out the other." When a school girl at the old Richland Academy I was at the most impressionable age. lt was there and then that Cupid made his first onslaught, and I, therefore' date my first love affair to that period. What could afford a keener relish to these reminiscences than this very fact? Yes, it was then that Marshall car ried my books for me to and from school and a little later I carried Paul's! Rut to my subject: "The Girls of Richland." I shall consider them tis types, and not ?is individuals, tak ing my typos, however, from indi vidual characters whom I enow then. First, let me give you a pen pic ture of tho girl of thal day and time, and contrast her with the present day girl. Then she was reared for the God-given sphere of wife-hood and motherhood, and woman's rights and race suicide were unknown quantities. As Max O'Rei I says, "She had all her own rights and took the others." I want to say right here that I have no patience with the now wo man, and the profoundest pity for tho new girl, whom I look upon as Ibo unfortunate link between two periods, the big exclamation point marking the half-mile stone between the old and tho new-fashioned girl, being either, both, or neither, a trav esty on the creature "nobly formed and divinely planned." My advice to you, therefore, girls of the present day, is to marry a good mae If you can, but marry! We A WOMAN'S GO Depend on her general health and frccdoi before her time because of those irrcg Starting from carly womanhood, she sui li that upset her womanly health. H she agc without wrinkles and crowfeet about It is invariably the rule that such womer derangements which sap tho health and I and suffering. Dr.R.V. Pierce,thc famou n prescription in Ids early pn;ot ?e that hood-oiled the machinery, as it were, of I to pass those painful periods that scar-line the well-known Di benefited thousand and suffering at dif MRS. IIAHKBI.Y E. " I nm now ft well won with sovcral dllTcrcnt ont. lind tlic Inst ono, I said I WAS Buffering cancer, mid Mid I w ated upon right away, consent to tlio oni-rnt last, throush tho advt after uulmr two bottl felt a chango. 1 als eight boxea of I/otlor I'lerco's medicines to medicines aro all they Mus. PIKHC*. they have helped mo. Fiiled to the brim with cold, clear purity-no such water nowadays, g back the old days with )ottle of ?f everything that's pure elightful. Bright, spark )alate joy-it's oaken bucket. v booklet, r of Coca at Chatta king. >c as made by OLA CO <;.\. owe it to bim, in the fulfilment of the divine plan, for it was said of bim that "lt was not well for him to be alone," and many a poor fel low lias been cheated out of his birthright in not having a good wo man to manage him, and who can reckon the number of redeemed ones who had the good fortune to many a strong-minded, good wo man! 1 say lt with the deepest rev erence; for our foremother, but if Eve had had a less perfect man to deal with she would not have had any time to hunt forbidden fruit to feed her Adam upon. Madame de Stael, In the conceit of her own superiority, asked Napo leon who was the greatest woman in France. And Napoleon, who con quered kingdoms and empries, re plied: "She, madame, who has borne the most sons to France." Were I to ask one of you older men who was the greatest woman in Richland 25 years ago, what would your answer be? But, to my girls! My tirst, a rare type either in that day or this, dainty, petite, refined, a veritable Lady Clara Vere de Vere. I remem ber her as she sat on the the old school house door, of her dainty garment all but touch ing that of the youth by her side. She was the only girl 1 ever saw who could look over, through and all around a man, and never see him! As chaste as an icicle and evi dently as cold as one. Sue mastered everything between the lids of her text books and was, therefore, an ideal student. Can you imagine this girl leading a poodle around by a string, and yet she led the finest hoy in school everywhere by the nose. She is long since married, and so far as 1 know ls still leading him. 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