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?BUJ?TAOT IT MUST FOLLOW AS TUB NIOHT THU DAY, THOU OAM8"f KOT THBN BB FAL?? lt) AMY MAN. WALKALLA, SOUTH CAROLINA. NOV- ll. 10?8. NHW SHRUBS. NO. ???.-TOL?MB LUX-NO. 40. ? CLOTHII E HAVE A BK BOYS' OLOTI of Clothing, an a fuss with. You v let us show you thr We bought some short lots wh wholesale cost on them-NIC them, and we closed out the lower than you ever saw. less than the other fellow piid around to see us and we will 8 ; . got them so cheap-buying W 1 Legal Advertisements. Notice of Registration. THE Registration Books will be open at C. W. Pitohford CO.'B store from Ootobor 21st, 1003, to January 13th, 1004, for the municipal election to be held January 18th, 1004. Bring your county registration certificate and tax receipt. 8. N. Pitchford, Supervisor of Registration. Ootober 14, 1008. 41 Money to Lend. T OAN8 Dogotiated on mortgage of Jul real enlato at 7 per cent in sums of $1,000., a**d ever, and 8 per cent on less ina ii $1,000. Borrower to pay for papers, but no commissions oharged. No loans less than $800. Loans made only to one third value of improved farms. J A YNES A SHELOR, Walhalla, 8. C. October 1,1903. 39-52 YALU ABLE LAND FOR SALK THE UNDERSIGNED is authorized to make salo of the Connors land, near Walhalla, 8. C., to wit: Ono tract or lot of ten acres, fronting west on tho public road from Walhalla out by Col. R. A. Thompson's to Coonee Statiou; adjoins Wm. F. Ervin, Mrs. Henry Biemnun and others. Also ono traot of 107 acres on ^Jan?^Creek; adjoins Wm. F. Ervin, W. I A. Strother, J. W. Holloman and others. \ Price and tonen reasonable. S. P. DENDY, Attornoy, ' 40-52 Walhalla, S. C. y, ! 18 THE BEST CLOTHING j na WYLER, ACKERLAND & CO., Makers? Cincinnati. Ask VMf DMltr or Writ? for Booklet. LAND FOR SALE. IDE8IRE to sell, at private salo, the following valuable farming lands, to Vit: All that piece, parcel or traot of And, situate, lying and being in tho wunty of Ooonee, State of South Caro ona, on waters of Little River, contain ing two hundred and fifty acres, moro or less, adjoining lands of Mrs. M. E. Huu nioutt, Mrs. L. K. Knox, P. A. Brown and others. There are about seventy aores in a high state of cultivation, also good tenant houses, splendid water power; well timbered, convenient to good sobools and churches. Located on rural mail ionic. Fur moro particular de scription, termR, etc., oall on or write J. FULTON HUNNICUTT, Agent, R F. D.-No. 1, 86 44 Wost Union, S. C. /CITATION NOTICE.-THE STATK OF SOUTH CAHOMNA, COUNTY OF Oco WEK.-^ON THKCOUKT OF monATK.)-By *~rrA; Smith, Esq., Probate Judge. Whereas, William E. CIICHWOU has nade suit to me to grant him Lot hra of Administration of tho estate and )ffeots of Sarah R. Cheswell, deceased These are tboreforo to cite and admon sh all and singular tho kindred and creditors of tho said Sarah R. Cheswell, "eoeased, that they be and appear ^ro me, in tho Court of Probate, to be at Walhalla, 8. C., on Saturday, -er 14,1003, after publication hore aro o'clock in the foronoon, to show thirtyiy they lia ve, why tho said ad and con should not be granted. Irk^vndor my hand and seal this Lsith'dny of Ootober, Anno Domini 1003. la^TT? D. A. SMITH, Judge of Pro ) ) bate? Ocouee County, S. C. Published on the 28th day of October, 1003, In The Keoweo Courior. 43-44 jtice to Trespassers. NOTICE is hereby given to all porsons not to trespass on any of our lands In any way whatsoever-by hunting, fishing, digging roots, cutting timber, setting out fire, hauling pinn, or tres passing in any manner whatsoever. Par ties entering said lands after publication of this mil icu will bo dealt with to the fullest ox tu.id of the law. W. A Bowen, Ernest. F. Cochran, W. U. Phillips, L. O. Phillips, 11 on ry Walker, Miss Alice Phillips, (Mrs.) Graco G. Cochran. Ootober 21, 1U03. 42 45 Summons for IVelief. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, I COUNTY OF OCONBK. J In the Court of Common Pleas. Maggie Brown, Plaintiff, against Thomas Bleckloy, Arie Bleckloy, Jaspar mookley, 8am Bleckley, Joe Bleckley, Frank Bleckley, Oussio Bowers, Ella Honk and John Neville. Defendants. Summons for Relief-(Complaint not Served.) To the abovo namod Defendants in this action : YOU are heroby summoned and re quired to answor the complaint in .his action, which is filed in tho offlco >f the Clerk of the Court of Common Meas for the said county, and to serve a >opy of your answer to the said com taint on the subscriber, at his offlco, at mrtanburg, 8, C., within twenty ys after the servico hereof, exclusive the day of such service; and if you I to answor tho complaint within the no aforesaid, tho Plaintiff in this action ./ill apply to the Court for tho relief demanded In tho complaint. STAN Y ARNE WILSON, Plaintiff's Attornoy. Walhalla, S. C., Ootober 20th, 1003. it. 8.1 C. R. D. HUH NH, C. C. P. The Defendant, Gussie Bowers, will .akevnotioe that unless within twenty lays ?fter service hereof application ls (nade for appointment of a guardian ad lltom for her herein, snch application Will, in her behalf, be made by plaintiff. 8TANYARNE WILSON, Plaintiff's Attorney. Ootobor 21, 1003. 42-47 a STOCK OF ME] UNG. We are now td we have a line we viii hear from it all ough. IT PAYS TO ile in New York, and we can sell you E, NEW, NOBBY SUITS-only th PANTS? We PAN IX f bought this lot of for * them, nud yet ur how you that IT PAYS TO BUY F OOL GOODS IN SUMMER AND P . BAUKNIOH" Hot Supper Near Anderson. The negroes had a hot supper last week on Stonewall Watsou's place, four miles above Anderson, and, of course, a shooting serape took plaee. One negro, whose name oould not be learned, was promoting the fes tivities with a pistol. He fired two shots, which went wild, but the third bullet ploughed its way through Jim Dennis's cheeck and struck Henry Aiken in the mouth. Aiken caught the bullet between his teeth and spat it out on the ground. Neither of the negroes is badly hurt, but tho bullet was battered out of all resem blance to its original shape. - . ?? J. Bishop killed his wife in Louis ville and narrowly missed . being lynched by a mob. He was saved at the point of pistols by officers whom he tried to shoot. NOTICE TO STOCK RAISERS. NED, tho Morgan and Blaok Hawk Bay Stallion, will .stand at my stables, near Westminster. Service guar autoed. Fee $10. His weight is t,000 pounds. li. H. SMITHSON, 30 44 Westminster, S. C. Executors' Sale ol Real Estate. WE will sell, to tho highest bidder, in dont of the Court IIouso, at Walhalla, Oooueo county, So. Ca., during tho logal lu m rs of salo, on salcsday, Mon day. December 7tb, 1003, tho tract of land situato on Keowee river and thc Southern Railroad, and known as tho Liddell homo tract. It has been divided into tbreo tracts. Tract No. 1, next to tho river, aud which contains a line body oj river bot tom, with good dwelling and roomy barus and throe tenant houses, contains, as por recent survoy, t-iiiI acres, bo tho same moro or less. Tract No. 2 adjoins No. 1 and contains 75 acres, moro or less. Tract No. 3 ai1 joins No. 2 and South ern Railway ana contains 164 j- acres, bo the samo more or loss. Plats of samo can bo aeon by calling on li. F. Sloan, Seneca, S. C., until day of sale. Torms of sale will bo ono-half cash; balance in twelve months, with interest from day of sale. Tho credit portion to bo secured by bond of purchasor aud mortgage of the premises. Purchasor to pay for papers aud has privilege of anticipating payment. li. F. SLOAN, J. E. LIDDELL, Executors of Will of John T. Liddell, deceased. November 4, 1U03. 44-48 FOR CHEAP RATES TO , TEXAS, ARKANSAS, LOUISIANA, OKLAHOMA, INDIAN TERRITORY, CALIFORNIA, COLORADO, UTAH, WYOMING, OREGON, MONTANA, WASHINGTON, and Other Points West, Horthwest and Southwest, Write or oaU on J. G. HOLLBNBECK, Dluti tot Passenger Agent, Louisville and Nashville R. R. No. 1 North Pryor St., Opposite Union Depot, Atlanta, Ga. MILLINERY! I have just returned from Atlanta with a full line of JZ> Fall Millinery JZ> including all tho latest styles in HATS, BIRDS, FEATHERS, RIBBONS, BELTS. BABY CAPS, and everything to bo found in a first-class Millinory Estnblishmeut. PATTERN HATS A SPECIALTY. All my old customers and friends are cordially invited to call and inspeot mv stock beforo buyit.^-and don't forget THE AMERICAN BEAUTY CORSETS -AT COST. COME ONE I COME ALL ! Mrs. Nannie Barron, Westminster. Mimi Martie ai Westmine ALL KINDS OF MONUMENTAL DESIGNING. WE GUARANTEE SATISFACTION. Rattan", Ea Itali Barre, Qninc Pneumatic satisfaction estly solicit prompt ant C ES* < JOB PRINTING Send yom tlonery an ter to Th? The liest iw Alws JOTHING ST'S, YOUTHS' and making a specialty i are going to make around. Gome and BUY FOR SOAH. Good Suite for less than the oy had but a dozon or two of and styles-and the prioes are Pants so we cnn sell them at iako money on them. Come OU CASH. TbHt is bow we AYING CASH FOR THEM. , MERCHANTS. Contempt of Court. In the oase of a famous oriminal trial in a Southern State last month the attorneys for the State treated one of the witnesses to such injus tice in a severe crus? examination that the judge sent the jury from the room that he might express his disapprobation. He protested that if such oross-examinations were al lowed "no men of delecate fooling will dare to come luto this court house as a witness," and he expressed tho opinion that the method of the oross-examination was simply part of "a plan to browbeat and beat down every witness offered." He said : "If tho witness oomes into court he has a right to protection by the court, and I shall attempt to proteot him, otherwise every man that comes in the court will run the risk of having his charaotor blackened." The judge should not have stopped at talk. He should have punished for contempt of court, either by fine or otherwise, the offending attorneys. One of the greatest drawbacks to the adminis tration of justice to-day is the con tempt into which the courts have como by permitting browbeating and badgering not only of witnesses, but also of talesmen for jury service. Respectable men hesitate to perform their duty to the Stato as witnesses or as jurymen because of the license in handling them permitted to at torneys, tho majority of whom nar rowly escape shysterism. Many judges who arc extremely sensitive about contempt of court in other particulars permit officers of the oourt, to-wit, the lawyers, to treat the court with contempt. A bit of respect for itself in this particular, manifested in fine, imprisonment or disbarment of offending lawyers, would increase the reaped of the common people for the courts. W. A. Horron, of Finch, Ark., writes: "I W?BII to report that Foloy's Kidney Curo lina euron a terrible case of kidney and bladder trouble that two doctors bad given up." Sold by J. W. Boll, Walhalla. Carolina Regiment at Gaines's Mill. At thc battle of Gaines's Mill, fought June 27, 1861, Orr's Rifles, tho famous regiment from South Carolins, curried 537 men into action. Of these 81 men were killed, 284 wounded and 4 missing, making a total loss of 819 mon. The regiment was commanded by Col. J. Foster Marshall, who said in his report of the battle that in front of the place where the regiment fought there were 253 dead Pennsylvania Buck tails and 32 dead Zouaves, and that 23 wounded mtn wero captured by tho regiment. Speaking of the ex cellent firing done by the regiment, Col. Marshall says that in his front there were no bullet marks on the trees less than three feet nor more than six feet from the ground. The editor of the Medium was upon the detail to bury tho dead and tho view of the battlefield was certainly appall ing.-Abbeville Medium. -- ' Foley's Honey and Tar for coughs and Cobla; reliable, tried and teated, safe and sure. Sold by J. W. Bell, Walhalla. Governor Rey ward has ordered an election on tho question of the crea tion of a new county from Edgefield and Aiken counties. The now county, if established, will lie along the Savannah river opposite the oity of Augusta. The new county is to be known ns Hammond. The election will tnke place on the 16th day of December next. [?I Branite ff ?&M itor, &m C?? DEALERS IN ist Dorset, Manchester, Pittsford, an and Georgia Marbles, ' -AND y, Westerley and Oilesby Granites. Tools used in the works, and absolute i guaranteed. Correspondenoe earn ed. All orders and inquiries given I careful attention. GrRAY, Proprietor. ? orders for sta rt Advertising Mat ? Courier and get tym the <Jliea.pe&t. FOR LAW ANO ORDER. Legislature Will be Asked to Allow Towns to Vote on Dispensaries. [Greenville Mountaineer.] The following is a condensed re port of the proceedings of the oonference held in Columbia on Wednesday night, October 28th, in which all the people of Sooth ' Carolina are interested, whether or not they become mem bers, of the organization proposed by this conference. The work in contemplation ought to appeal di rectly to every law abiding citizen, and it will be* seen whether public sentiment approves of the effort to place a check upon orirae aud law lessness in this State. The general admission that something ?B needed to enforce the laws and diminish the prevalence of cr imo hos called into being this organization, which is along non-political lines and simply means that ita work will be direoted, as the name implies, to the promo tion of tempor?neo, the enforcement of law and the preservation of order. The organization cannot fail to com mand the respect'and confidence, of right-thinking persor ., but to make it effeotive there munt be a generoua oo-operation throughout the State. The conferenoo'oalled by a com mittee of oitizens was held in the hall of the Y. M.C. A. Col. James A. Hoyt, of Greenville, waB requested to act as chairman, and Thos. J. LnMotte, of Columbia, as secretary. Tho ob jeot of the conference, as was stated by the chairman/ was to initiate s MIK? practical measure on non-par tisan and non-political lines to im prove the present condition of af fairs in the State, and to concentrate into Borne |klnd of organization all the clement ? that are willing to work for the destruction of those forces that tend to perpetuate and enlarge the sphere of intemperance and the reign of orime in South Carolina. Law is a mookery and order is be ing turned into chaos under present conditions, it'is oharged, and surely the men and women of South Caro who aro lina worthy of tho past and mindful of the future staud ready to make needful sacrifice for the better ment of our condition. The chairman announced that tho meeting was open for a full and free conference, aud there were no re strictions upon the members present. This was followed by an offering of suggestions as to the method of pro oedure, remarks being made by J. W. Hamel, J. S. Beasley, P. L. Sturkey, II. Morrell, W. L Herbert, Vernon I'Anson and others. Under a resolution the following oommittee waa appointed to report a imitable name and plan of organiza tion : LaMotte, Sturkey, Beasley, Hand and I'Anson, whioh subse quently reported as follows : "Your committee recommond that an organization be formed under the name of 'The South Carolina Tem perance, Law and Order League.' "That this conference elect a chairman, and a sccrotary and treasurer, with an executive com mittee, consisting of ono member from each Congressional district, of which the officers shall be members ex cilicio, and that organizations be made in eacb county, tho chairmen of which shall be ex-ofiicio mem bers of tho State executive com mittee. "That the county organizations shall consist of a. chairman, neenaary and treasurer, with such executive oommittee as may be deemed proper." Under tho foregoing plan of or ganization the following officers and members of the State executive com mittee were elected : J. W. Hamel, of Kershaw, chairman ; Howell Mor rell, of Horry, secretary and treas urer. Executive committee-First Con gressional district, Simeon Hyde, Charleston ; Second, George H. Bates, Ham well ; Third, P. L. Stur key, Greenwood ; Fourth, Thos. J. LnMotte, Columbia; Fifth, W. C. Thomson, Lancaster ; Sixth, II. H. Newton, Bcnnettsville ; Seventh, Joel fi. Brimson, Sumter. A resolution was adopted that the executive oommitteo bo authorized to prepare and promulgate a consti tution and by-laws of this organiza tion. Also, that tho executive com mittee be empowered to fill all va cancies in their body. Mr. Hamel offered tho following resolution, whioh was adopted : That tho executive committee memorialize the Legislature to ennot snoh legislation ns may be necessary to give the voters of t? municipality the right to vote a dispensary out of their community. The conference was harmonious and earnest throughout tho proceed ings, and the point was stressed by several speakers that this was an effort to organize the citizens without roference to politics and solely for the improvement of present condi tions, upon a broad and non-partisan baais. An address will be issued to the peoplo of the Stato when the constitution and by-laws have been framed by the exeoutivo committee. Foley's Iloney and Tar always stops the cough and heals the lungs. Refuse substitutes. Sold by J. W. Hell, Walhalla. WW. C. T. U.*l Bitt??i1?tfflfflfMMM ttWfrfllMlslD'Mt'^^ Masters Made Slaves. Edward W. Bok, of the Ladies' Home Journal, says : "One thing that led me to make up my mind never to touch liquor was thu ruin which I Baw it bring to Borne of the finest minds with whioh I have ever como in contact. I havo Been, even in my few years of profes sional life, some of the smartest literary men dethroned from splendid positions, owing to nothing else but their indulgenoe in wine. I have known men with salaries of thousands of dollars a year come to beggary from drink. "Only recently there applied to rae for any position I could offer him one of the most brilliant editorial writers in the newspaper profession -a man who two years ago easily commanded one hundred dollars for a single editorial in his special field. That man became so unreliable from drink that editors are now afraid of his articles, and, although he oan to day write as forcible editorials as at any time during his life, he sits in a cellar in one of our oities writing newspaper wrappers for one dollar per thousand. That is only one instance of several I could reoite. I do not hold my friend up as a 'terrible example.' He is but one ol the type of men who convinced me, and may oonvinoe others, that a cleat mind and liquor do not go together. "I know it is said when one bring* up such an instanoe as this, 'Oh, well, that man drank to excess. Oneglasc will not hurt anyone.' How dc these people know that it will not' One drop of kerosene has been knowr to throw into llame an almost hope less fire, and ono glass of liquor may fan into flame a smoldering spart hidden away where we never knevs it existed. Tho spark may be there and it may not be. Why take thc risk ? Liquor will never do a health} boy or young man the least partioh of good ; it may do him harm. A man who will wittingly tempt i young man whom he knows has : principle against liquor is a man foi whom a halter is too good. "Then as I looked arouud nm came to know moro of people anc things, I found the always unanswera bio argument in favor of a young man's abstinence ; that is, that th? most successful men in America to day arc those who never lift a wiix glass to their lips. Boooming inter ested in this fact,'I had the ouriosit] to inquire personally into it : I fount that of twenty-eight of the leading business mon in the country, whosi names I selected at random, twenty two never touched a drop of wine I made up my mind that there wa some reason for this. If liquo brought safe pleasures, why did thes men abstain from it? If, os som' Bay, it is a stimulant to a busy mar why do not these men, direoting th largest business interests in thi country, resort to it? And when saw that these wero the men whos opinions in great business matter were accepted by tho leading cou cerns of the world, I concluded the their judgment in tho uso of liquc would satisfy me. If their judgmoti in business matters oould commun the respect and attention of th world, their deoiBion as to the use e liquor was not apt to be wrong." # # * Drunk Vs. Sober. Tho accounts of tho destruotion c Corvora's squadron reveal one roaso why tho Spanish man of war's me could not hit anything smaller tha tho Atlantic Ocean. They wei drunk. When picked up by 01 sailors they showed it plainly. Sue men can do nothing with model naval fighting machines. Oppose to them were cool heads and stead norves. Liquor has boen founel wort than useless to explorers in tho Arel region or in Africa. It is not pe mitted to engineers or other railrof employees, nor is it served to ot navy. Tho English campaign Egypt demonstrated the benefit i total abstinence, and hero again Santiago tho utter folly of drunko: ness becomes clear. Pretty soon, this country, at least, laws will 1 tho only thing wo shall dare to lea' tho making of to men who drink ale holio liquor.-Kind Words. How's This ? Wo offer Ono Hundred Dollars Rowa for any caso of catarrh that cannot oured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. , P. J. Chonoy A Co., Props., Tolodo, Wo, tho undersigned, have known J,.Chonoy for tho last 1!> years, and 1 Hove him porfectly honornblo in all bm noss transactions and financially ablo oarry out any obligations made by tin firm. Wost A Truax, Wholesale Druggis Tolodo, O. Wabling, Kinnan A Marvin, Who salo Druggists, Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Curo ls taken inb nally, acting dirootly upon the blood a: mucous surfaces of tho system. Prh 75o. per bottle. Sold by all druggis Testimonials free. Hall's Family Pills aro the best. In five years the number of appl exported from this eontinent to E rope bas inoroased from twenty-fi thousand to more than a million ai a half barrels. Somebody must ha taught Europeans to make apple p Texas Farmer's Advloe. rHouston Post.] To my fellow farmers throughout the cotton growing regions, if we ever expect to hold our own with other callings, wo must organize. The lawyer, doctor, merchant et al., organize for mutual benefit and pro tection, and why not us, as we are the carcass upon which all others feed and grow fat ? Why should we not enjoy the fruit of our own labor? We oan if we will. I understand that the mill men are willing to pay 14 cents for cotton if we will make it a standing prioe. In my judgment this is tho right course of prooedure. Say we have one price, no more nor less, it would cure all the evils to whiob we are exposed. It would knock dealing in futures higher than a kile, because there would be no chanco for fluctuations of the market which is the basis for dealing in futures. It would also obliterate speculation in cotton, which is another oanse of extreme fluctuations to which we have been subjected of late, and there would not be any more millions pocketed by greed by corner ing the crop and thus extorting from the people unjustly. It would give the farmer a ohanoe to pay for his home. Of course cotton goods would necessarily be higher, but he would sci' a great deal more than he would buy back ; hence his advan tage. The man who mortgaged his cot ton would be all right ; he would know what be was going to get for it. There would be no suoh charges as "speculators run the price down until mortgages are lifted," but it would be like our money, it would pass for 100 cents on the dollar. It is no doubt that 14 or 15-oent cotton would encourage ootton grow ing in other countries, but that would cut no figure, as the boll weevil will ourtail production throughout the United States. Therefore it will be necessary to broaden the field of pro duction to supply the world's re quirements. Mr. Weevil is here to stay. Hight now, fellow farmers, is the time for you to act. The people, no doubt, are ready to enlist. All that is needed is for some one to announce a meeting for organizing, stating with the announcement the object, and they will come. You oan or ganizo a club of 100 in more than a week if it is known that something is going to be done. It is said that farmers won't work together. That is a mistake. When they see some thing to be accomplished they will work together. Let some one in your community start the ball to roll ing and form a nucleus. Get a list of ginners from the Agricultural Department at Washington, send a notice to eaoh one that they are ap pointed to organize their customers into a dub to hold our cotton until a contract is made with tho mills for a standard price-say 14 or 16 cents for middling cotton-and it will go like wildfire Now, this is possible. Will we be lords or dupes ; will wo make our sons and daughters slaves to the greody money-shark or will we put them in the first rank, where they rightfully belong ? Soloman said there was nothing bettor than for a , man t? enjoy tho fruits of his labor. If the fruit of labor was righteously i distributed there would be plenty for all, and just so long as we sit still wo will bo subjeot to tho scalp ing knife of greed and avarice. Will wo organize or will, we not? Let me soon here that you are moving. I want all papers friendly to thc farmors to copy this until it roaohef all over the South. 1 W. H. Rodding, 1 Gross, Grimes county, Texas. i -?-.?? A Cough ls Only a Symptom. i A cough is not a disease, but a sump tom of disease. A cough always indi 1 eal en that either tho throat or lungs ar? \ atleoted. When the mucus lining of tin throat or lungs booomos inflamed the ir ' ritation causes coughing. Don't negloo ) a cough. It may be the symptom of se rious throat or lung disease. Kydalo'i ' Elixir hills tho germs that causo tin . trouble, soothes the irritated muon membrane, gently stimulates the norvei I that cont roi the respiratory organs am . thus helps nature to speedily reston normnl conditions and healthy action i Sold hy J. II. Darby, Walhalla, and tb - Sonera Pharmacy. i An Historic *Pape7Weight. ! The paper weight which did servici ; on tho desk of the prosiding officer o . the secession convention at St . Andrew's Hall, on Broad street, do Btroyed in tho big fire of 1861, ha boon returned to the St. Andrew't Sooiety, being formally prosentod t< ' tho sooiety by Rov. Alex. Mitohell 5 of Greenville, through Major R. G Thomas, of the South Carolina Mili . tary Aoademy on Saturday night. The paper weight was among th< " effoots saved by Capt. Ward Hop J kins, of the Sumter Guards, at tin time of the fire. The relio has sino , boon in the family and for a lon; time it has been the intention ol Rev. Mitohell to^return the relic ti - its proper custodians. This oppor I tunity was taken advantage of at th . meeting on Saturday night. Tb relio is a common looking iron weigh without any speoial design upon il 1 The St. ?Andrew's Society no\ owns the table, six ohairs, the gave j and paper weight which did servio 3 in the historio convention.-Charlei . ton Post. l?ducatiorial I Touchers are Born, Not Mada. AB the country school is the ques tion of the day, I should like to speak a few thoughts on the subject. What teacher among us does not reeognize that rural teaching is the ideal teaching of all? Just for a moment picture the little square school room, with tho teaoher iu thc center, and the merry obildren com ing in, with faces all aglow, ready to do or say anything that the teaoher might tell them. True enough, the teacher is seldom exercised in more than bis aoademio branches, but the dear country children's minds and hearts are so flexible that it is lovely to teach them. Now, from my experience in coun try teaching, I believe the pressing need of to-day is, not so mueh the teaoher who has taken an A. B. course in college, as the teaoher who ha? natural ability to impart his knowledge of the studies used in the country school. Teaohers are born, not made. It is ray privilege to know several good teaohers who have never fin ished the oourse in any college ; jet their minds, their hearts, and their strength are so absorbed in their work that very satisfactory results are being obtained. To have fin ished sohool is no objeotion-it is a help ; but understand me when I say, using my own experience as my guide, that it is no essential element in the country teaoher. I once had a schoolmate who could translate page after page of Latin with the greatest ease, but had she been re quired to help the blunt pupil see the beauties in compound propor tion, it would have been almost an impossibility. Teaobing is a Divine gift, and the higher and nobler should be sought therein. It requires something be sides a knowledge of text books tc take the little modest sohool ohild and probe it sufficiently to bring to observation the hidden treasure which lies buried in thousands ol these unpretentious ones, who might be pronounced by tho unskilful teaoher to bo stupids. "Lot. us thon bo up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Loam to labor and to wait." -w. A. J. # # # Tho Elephant Problem. When Ah Chung, a Chinaman,died it was fouud that he had left hit property by will to his three sons, at follows : One-half to the oldest, one third to the next, and one-ninth t< the youngest. When the proport] j was inventoried it was fouud to cou sist of seventeen elephants. Her? was a dilemma, for it was impossibh to divide the property according t< the terms of tho will without chop ping up the seventeenth elephant Finally the heirs applied to a wisi lawyer, Sum Punk, for advice, whicl they promised to act upon. Sun Punk had an elephant of his own He drove it into tho yard with th seventeen and said : "Now, we will suppose that you father left theso oighteen elephants Furn Hum, take your half and dc part." So Furn Hum took nine elephant and went his way. "Now, Nu Pin," tMd the wis man, "take your third and depai also." So Nu Pin took six elephants an went. "Now, Ding Bat," said tho wit man, "take your ninth and begone, So Ding Bat took two elephant and disappeared. Then tho lawyer took his own eh phant and went homo again, feelic very well satisfied with himself. "One-half of the world knowet not how the other half liveth." Tl population of India is almost thr< hundred millions. A careful est mate by Sir Robert Giffen puts tl aggregate annual income of all tl people at four hundred and sixt eight million pounds sterling. Th would make their average earninj seven dollars and eighty cents year, or two and one-seventh cen a day. Another authority, a writ who presents reasons for his opinic that Sir Robert's estimate is t< high, puts the gross inoome of tl people of India at two hundred ai ninety million pounds sterling, whi< works out at one cent and ono-thi a day. It should be borno in mir that the popnlation of India is agi cultural, that the people live for tl most part on the produce of th? soil, and that their need of clothii and fuel is small. Visitors to t country do not find that they a in abjeot poverty.-The Youtl Companion. ? ? - Sir Frederick Tr?ves, the farao English cargoon, who has just retire established a record in performlr 1,000 consecutive operations i appendicitis without a death. \ 13 n?M '"'"Rh Syrup. Tiutoj OoudV Cue Mt In time. Bola by drugglnU. Kf THE OLD RELIABLE Absolutely Pura THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE .i - . ., - 1 An Extraordinary Session. According to the Constitution, the President "may, on extraordinary oc casions, convene both houses" of Congress, or ?ither of them. The President, who is the sole judge whether the occasion is extraordi nary, has called Congress together a month earlier than the usual time of meeting. Extraordinary sessions have often been held, and some of the most im portant measures have been enacted at suoh sessions. President Cleve land summoned Congress to meet in August, 1898, beoause of the preva lent distrust and apprehension con cerning the financial situation. In response to his urging, the silver purchase clauses of the aot of 1800 were repealed. The Congress which President McKinley called in speoial session in Maroh, 1897, passed the Dingley ta riff bill. For three years the na tional expenditures had been greater than the national reoeipts, and some thing had to be done to inorease the revenues. It is neither to inorease the reve nues nor to prevent domestio finan cial disaster that Congress has been called together this time, but rather to fulfill tho national pledge to assist a dependent republio. In urging the adoption of reciprocity measures the President, in June, 1902, said to Congress that this country ought to help Cuba as "it struggles upward along the painful and diffioult road of self-governed independence." But Congress failed to act. Then the President, in his annual message in December, said that we were "bound by every consideration of honor and expediency to pass commercial meas ures in the interest of her well-being.'* Still nothing was done. Now Con gress is urged for the third time to keep faith. It will indeed bo an ex traordinary session, and whatever may be the result, the faot that it was oalled at all roust always redound to the national credit.-The Youth's Companion, November 6. A Policeman's Testimony. J. N. Patterson, night policeman of Nashua, Iowa, writes: "Last wintor I had a bad cold on my lungs and tried at least a half dozen advertised oough medi cines and had treatment from two physi cians without getting any benefit. A friend recommended Foley's Honey and Tar and two-thirds of a bottle eurea me. I consider it tho greatest cough and lung mcdi..inc in tho world." Sold by J. W. Hell, Walhalla. 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