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TO THINK OWN SKLF BE TBUB AND IT MUST FOLLOW AB THB NIGHT TDJS DAY, THOO* CANtTT ?OT THKN BB FALSB TO ANY MAN. HY J A YNP.H, BUB LOK, BM1TH ? 8TE?K. W ALiHAJbJ .A, SOUTH OAltOLIN A. JUNE 1, IIMML NEW SBJBUBU9, HO* 822.-VOLUME LIV.-KO. 82 LADIES SHO of. merit for over Ital fa cen tury. 6ew*ri of Imitation?. ff*] 6ee tyed the word^\XUw3?XU QYV ?4 ?lamped on each ?boe to insure ?enuirverxeaa. WE SELI U?e Crossen Shoe for Wbiob ie, without a doubt, the Stro the market. We have the new thing? in Patent Viol, Patent Colt, Vlei Kid, and tl World Renowed Battl We also sell the World Renowned 1 cannot be equalled at the price, and whei the Shoe you may buy it and know you h Ladies* Shoes^Queei In Ladies' Shoes we sell Queen Qm Shoe to bo had at the price. Oxfords, $2 Dittmann's O. K. Oxfo We aiBo have a large stock of Dlttt Dittmann's O. K. $1.50 Oxford is, withou made, and more extensively advertised tl sell you a good Shoe for $2.00 or $3.00, bi made on the very newest last, und a good to find, but we Bure have it in Dittmnnn'i ??Cy-It pays to buy for cash. C. W. & J. E. BAUKNIGH" CLOTHING! We have just received a large assortment of Medium and Light Weight Suits. Crash Suits, Coat and Pants Suits, Serges, Alpacas. DRESS GOODS A FULL AND COMPLETE LINE. LINENS, MUSLINS, SWISSES, LAWNS, CRASHES, ORGANDIES. NOTIONS. One thousand dollars' worth of Sample Notions at wholesale cost, in cluding Neckwear, Hosiery, Shirts and Underwear. A few Men's and Children's Suits and about 250 pairs of Pants. These goods have been handled very little and great values at the prices. W. P. NIMMONS, SENECA, S. C. The Oconee Steam Marble and Granite Works, Westminster, S. <J. DEALERS IN ALL KINDS OK MONUMENTAL DESIGNING. WE GUARANTEE SATISFACTION. Rutland, East Dorset. Manchester, Pittston!, Italian and Georgia Marbles, -AND Barre, Quincy, Westerley and Dgjesby Granites. Pneumatic Tools used in tbe works, and absolute satisfaction guaran teed. Correspondence earn estly solicited. All orders and inqniries given prompt and careful attention. O. GRAY, Proprietor. Dr. W.F.Austin, niiNTIST, SENECA,.S. C. Office Over J. W. Byrd <fc Co. I AM NOW IN MY OFFICE V VE lt Y DA Y. PHONE NO. 51. Dr. G. C. Probst, JO E N T I S T , Walhalla, S. C. Office Over C. W. Pitchford Co.'s ; : : Store, : : : HOURS : 8.80 A. M. TO 1 p. M. AND 2 TO 6 P. M. March 24. 1898. DR. J. "H. BURGESS, Dentist, SENECA, 8. C. OFFICK OVF.I NIMMON'8 STORK, DOVI.K BOILDIHO. Office Hours: 0 A. M. to 1 e. M. " ** 2 Pi M. tO 0 P. M. April 20, 1004. 10-tf WM. J. STRIBMNO. } ^ E. L. IIKHNOON. Attorneys-At-Law, WALHALLA, 8. 0. PROMPT ATI P.NTION GIVKN TO AM, BUBI NKHH BNTRUSTKD TO TliKM. January 6. 1808. JOB PRINTING Send your orders for Sta tionery and Advertising Mat tor to The Courier and get The Uest 1? Alwayi the Cheapest. _ SHOES. Men, ingest Line of $8 50 and $4.00 Shorn or the Crossett Line of Oxfords, Bluohei io Swellest Tnn to be bad. e Axe Shoes. tattle Axe Shoe for wear, style and flt. Ii i you soe ' Battle / xe" on the bottom ot ave got tho best one to be bad for the prloe, m Quality* dlty, which, we also think, is the greatest .50; Shoes, $3.00. rda. minn's Oxfords at $1 00, $1.50 and $2.00 t a doubt, the largost selling $1.50 Shoe ian any other $1.50 8hoe. Any ono oar it to buy a good, honest, solid Oxford, looker as well as a good wearer, is hart' i O. K. $1.50 Oxfords. CASH sj MERCHANTS. Vois Out the Dispensary. Poplar, May 81.-Editors Keowee Courier : As thore is so muoh being said in regard to the dispensary, the profits going to educate the children and so on, I would like space to give my views. First. A few years ago I voted for Prohibition, but got the dispensary. I was ooutonted with it and tried to uphold it as the best solution of the liquor question from tho fact that our public, schools got the beuofit of part of the profits. From July 1, 1902, to July 1, 1903, we enrolled in Brewer School District, No. 64, 78 children, and the profits from tho the county dispensary were $41.70, and from the Slate dispensary were $40.88, making a total of $82.58. So you see we got $82.55, which would pay our teacher three months, and we still havo $7.58 to buy wood and chalk, etc But when I go to Wal halla or Seneca and see young men and old men swarming around thu dispensary, and hear the oaths they let roll upward, and see them get in trouble, it makes my heart ache to know thore is a good and fond wifo waiting at home to see her husband brought homo at some midnight hour, or come reeling in. cursing nor and driving ber and the little chil dren from their home ; or maybe it is a young man who has a fond mother with gray looks clustering about her neck. She waits until 9 o'clock, and her son is not at home. , She wrings her hands and wipos tho tears from her cheeks ; she goos to tho door, but no sound of her boy can bo heard. Sho waits in anxiety until 10, ll, 12-then at 1 she hears voices. What does this mean? Some one has brought her son homo. Ile went to the dispensary, took 16 cents, got a half-pint of 1-X corn, drank that and met up with A, B and C, from tho same neighborhood. Like boyB do, they smell whiskey on him. A likes a dram, so he says to B, "Let's have a quart." B has but ten cents, so he puts that up. A then goes to C, who gives 15 cents, and their neighbor boy, who is feel ing his half-pint, puts in some, and then A goes and gets a quart of 1-X corn, and they go around behind some store and drink it all up, each trying to get tho worth of his money ; so the boy who bought thc half-pint is drunk. Ile may get put in the guard house or he may get in a fight with his best friend beforo be gets home, or may be killed. I think, for the protection of our county, and thc protection of our mothers, wives and daughters, each man ought to bo willing and ready to vote tho dispensary out. We havo a lot of people in the country who will drink whiskey as long as they live and as often as they can get it. So it is the duty of every true Christian of the country to try to put whiskey out of their reach. It is a duty they owe their county, their State and their God. Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging, and whosoever is deceived thereby Ts not wiso. (Prov. 20 : 1.) Be not among wine bibbers, among riotous eaters of flesh, for tho drunk ard and tho glutton shall come to poverty and drowsiness shall clotho a man with rags. (Prov. 23: 20-21.1 Read tho 29th, 30th, 81st and 820 versos of same ohapter. Read Romans 14: 21; also Gal. 6: 7-8. There is a lot of teaching against whiskey, and we all know that no individual has ever prospered by sell ing it and the same fate will como to a country. So let every man who has the welfare of the county at heart not wait for a man to como to his houso to get him to sign a paper that wo want a chance to vote on the dispensary, but go to those who havo the papers and tell them you nre anxious to sign it. c. II. W. $100 REWARD $100. Tho rondors of this paper will bc ploaAod to learn that thoro is at least one dreaded disease that scionco has boon able to euro in all ita stages, and that is catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Curo is tho only positive ouro known to the medical fra ternity. Catarrh hoing a constitutional disoaso, requires a constitutional troat mont. Hall s Catarrh ia Cure takon inter nally, acting directly upon tho blood and mucuous surfaces of tho system, thereby destroying tho foundation of tho disoaso, and giving the patient strength by build up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. Tho proprietors have havo so much faith in its curativo pow ers, that thoy offer one hundred dol?an for any case it fails to euro. Send foi list of testimonials. Address, F. J. CIIKNKY A Co., Toledo, O, Sold by Druggist, 75o. Hall's Family Pills aro tho boBt. While crossing a river in a canoe near Greenville, N. C., last week. Allen Forbes and his son and Henry Arnold woro drowned. The othei two occupants swam to the shore The load was too heavy for the canoe and it capsized in mid-stream. Ar nold and Forbes were drowned whilt trying to rescue young Forbes, whe was a cripple. Bishop Kieloy, of the Catholic diocese ' Georgia, han mailed to eaob one ol m ohnrohes in his jurisdiction a lettei Jireoting that under the recent order ol the Pope, the use of female voices ii: Catholic choirs should cease. Tb? ohange must be effeotive by January l 1905. "THEIR WORKS DO FOLLOW THEM." How a Thoughtful Word will Bear Cood The following letter has been re ceived by The Courier for publica tion. It shows what good fruit may be brought forth by the speaking of a fow thoughtful words. It must be a pleasure indeed for the aged gen tleman, S. S. MoJunkin, to learn, in the evening, as it were, when life's sun is sinking toward tbe western horizon, that these weds of his, spoken years ago, "are remembered and cherished and have borne good fruit. The venerable gentleman to whom this letter is addressed regrets deeply that failing sight makes it impossible for him to reply tc Mr. Pitohford's letter, wbioh he greatly appreciates and desires to preserve, 1 he letter follows : Tahlequah, I. T., April 28, 1904. S. S. MoJunkin, Esq., South Union, 8. C.-My Venerable Friend : I noticed iu The Keowoe Ci urier of the last issue that you recently oolo advent into this world. 1 also note that The Courier hopes that you may add many more years to your age. In this I oan hardly agree, for the reason that one who has followed the life that you have, and who haa done as much as you have done to advanoo the teachings of the Meek aud Lowly Jesus, should at tho ear liest havo the reward to which ho is entitled. It does me good to look upon your life and contemplate the good you have done while you have lived. When the question waB first raised in Oconoe regarding the salo of liquor your voice was hoard from the house tops against the salo of the death dealing stuff. While you may have forgotten the occasion, yot it is fresh in my memory. J. W. Holleman and myself spent the night with you. At that time I was tax assessor, and I shall never forget your talk on the subject of using liquor in elections. While you were in advance of the times you have lived long enough to see that only the sober, thc temper ate, the moral man noed aspire for office. Perhaps you little thought of what you were saying on tho occa sion I speak of, yot it has had a con trolling influence upon my actions ever since, and I wish to thank you now for tho good you did mo then. I have been through many oxciting times since that time, but I 'can truthfully say that the impressions you made on my mind that night havo remained with mo through life up to this time, and I will be per fectly satisfied if I know that, when I como to lay down the burdens of this life, I have dono as much good as you have done. Some day when you feel in thc humor I would be pleased if you will take the time and write mo a few lines. Perhaps you have forgotten mo. I am the oldest son of Wesley Pitchford, formerly of Walhalla, and my brothers, Charles and Sam, aro now there in business. Hoping that I may be as well pre pared to respond when tho final sum mons comes as you are, I romain, Yours respectfully, Henry Pitchford. ? ? ? - Interesting to Asthma Sufferers. Daniel liante, of Ottervillo, Iowa, writes: "1 have had asthma fur three ur four years and have tried about all ?he cough and asthma cures in tho markot and havo received treatmont from physi cians in Now York and ot hoi* cities, but got very litt lo honollt until I tried Foley's I louey and Tar, which gave me immedi ate relief and I will never bo without it in my house. I sincerely rocommeud it to all." Sold by J. W. Boll, Walhalla; W. J. Lunney, Seneca. Anderson Mail, May 20: W. J. Addi?, a former resident of tho uppor part of Anderson county, is now living in Husk, Texas. A relativo has received a lotter from him tolling of crop conditions in Texas, l'art of tho letter is given below ; "Crops up to this timo are almost no thing, lt has just rained and rained until people can't, got in tho fields to work at all. Corn is inst drowned out on lovel lauds. On rou lands and hill sides where tho water could get off it is looking very well-about knee and waist Ililli. I have corn in roy gai e'en high ns my head, but crops aro generally poor, about as bad as I ever have seen. It is ao cold and wet that what little cotton that has como up is nearly all dead. Some people are uow planting the third time, this the middle of May, when cot ton ought to havo squares on it. News papers report that Texas is threo weeks earlier than last year, but I am hero to see for mysolt and tho crop is just ns late as last year and ns late as I ever saw it. People planted throe to four weeks earlier, but with few exceptions they havo had to plantovor and if it rains any more in the next fow days and don't turn warm they will have to plant again if tliey oan got seed to plant. Tho weather is almost like winter. Wo slcop under three quills ul night and tho temperature nearly down to tho frost period ovory morning. Thore is no hopo for a good crop of anything this year. It is gotting thick cloudy now and will probably rain again before morning and tuero aro num bers of farmors now t hat have not plowed a furrow in two weeks. The ground is so wet i hey can't got in tho (lolds. I hoard one man say last Saturday-a truthful man, too, and a good farmer raised in Georgia-that he (lid not have any moro prospeot for a crop now than ho had tho first day of January. Said when the land got dry so he could plow he was going to plant ovory bit of his m op over, both corn and cotton, but he had low, lovel wot land whore tho water could not run off, hut all of that kind of land is in tho same fix." Perry Mai tin, in Hock Hill Herald, says: "I spent tho 10th day of April with a son-in-law. and whllo there witnessed an usual sieht. Two hons with biddies wero in tho yard nedor tho dining room window, and as wo wore at dinner a hawk made a dive for thom. Ono of the hons met him and knocked bim down, and thou both jumped on and hold him down long onoueh for my son-in-law to jump out the window and put his foot on tho hawk's hoad and kill him. Thou the hens called their biddies, as if they know danger was all over. Beat this, ? those of you who can." CONTINUE Those who are gaining floah and st rene th by regular treat ment with should continue tho treatment In hot weather? smaller dose and a little oooH milk with lt will 1 i do away with any obleotlon r i whloh ls attached to fatty pro ducts during tho heated Fruit for Many Years. Scott's Emulsion Farmers' Institutes. *fhe following announcement bas been made relative to farmers' insti tutes, oonduoted by the faculty of Clemson College : .Local institutes will be held by members of Clemson College faoulty ou the invitation of not less than fifteen farmers, each of whom shall sign his own name to the invitation or petition. Those desiring insti tutos must have their petitions in the hands of the president on or before June 10, 1904. These peti tions must designate a suitable place for holding tho institute, and will be expeoted to provide either a suitable building or seats in some grove for the comfortable accommodation of thone who attend the institute. "By authority of the Board of Trustees, institutes will be held in the lower counties of the State next winter nnd in the upper counties during July, beginning on the first Tuesday, 5th. "There will be a farmers' insti tute held at the college from August f to August 12. Distinguished sprMeera have been engaged to dis cuss subjects on animal husbandry, suoh UH how to raise dairy and beef oattle; bow to make butter and properly handle milk ; subj?ots of generul agricultural interest, such as how to reclaim worn-out soils, grow ing fruits and vegetables, insects and diseases injurious to plants and ani mals, how to make and apply ferti lizers, the importance of labor-saving implements, and a number of other of like subjeots, important and inter esting to farmers of South Carolina. "The indications point now to a very largo gathering of people on the ocoension of the institute, and in or der that the college may provide quarters for those who are inter ested in tho work of the institute, it will bo necessary to apply to the president of the college for accommo dation, otherwise the parties arriv ing at tho college without this ap plication having boen made may " be unable to secure quarters during the progress of the institute. "P. H. Mell, President." Chronic bronchial troubles and Bum mer coughs can be quickly relieved and cured by Foley's Honoy and Tar. 8old by J. W. Bell, Walhalla; W. J. Lunney, Seneca. -^ Camp Meeting Notice. Tho annual camp mooting of the South Carolina Conforonce of tho Wesleyan Mothodist church will convene at Cen tral, S. C., August 3d and continue until August 15, 1004. Tho tent will bo located on the holi ness school grounds, about half a milo from tho incorporate limits of town. All preachers of the contereneo are urgently requested to bo present on the first day. Onr minist ei isl brethren of other de nominations aro cordially invited to bo with us. A general invitation is given to all who may feel disposed to meet with us .it this animal gathering. Every one, both preachors aud otbors, will bo oxpocted to bring blankets, shoots and pillows. A restaurant will be on the grounds. All tho preachers and regular workers will bo outurtainod free of charge. The restaurant will furnish meals to all others at reasonable rates. There aro hotels and boarding houses in town whore moro ample accommodations can ho had by those not desiring to stay ou tho grounds over night. Parties desiring to soil Bibles and reli gious papers will bo expected to confer with the camp meeting committee. Let all who can hi ing their cloth tents and covered wagons and stay on the grounds. Tho object of this mooting is tho con version of sinners and tho entire sanctifi cation of believers. Prominent ministers of othor conferences will bo invited. Committoo. Ten Years in Bed. B. A. Cray, J. P., Oakville, Ind., writes: "For ten years I was con tl ned to my bed with disoaso of my Kidneys. It was so severe that I could not move part of tho timo. I consult ed tho very best medical skill available, but could got no reliof until Foley's kidney Cure was recommended to me. It has been a God-send to mo. Sold by J. W. Bell, Walhalla; W. J. Lunney, Seneca. Boll Weevil Will Bull Cotton. Some magnificent official predictions regarding the ravages of the boll weevil aro made in a report soon to bo issued by the Department, of Agriculture at Wash ington, aud written by W. D. Hunter, Who has Charge Of tho' entomological part of the boll weevil investigation in which half a hundred oxnorts are now engaged. Mr, Hunter says that conservative au thorities agi ce that unless cont i ngencie." at present unexpected occur tho pest soon will causo an inoreaso in the prico of cotton throughout tho world. By living within tho trait of the plant the v. ce vi 1 is well protected from any poisons that might bo applied it, occupies but fourteen days for development from egg to adult, abd tho progeny of a single pair in a season may reach 131,000,000 in dividuals; it adapta itself to climatic conditions and is remarkably froo from parasites and diseases, all combining to make efforts nnd control difficulties. Tho report estimates that the presence of tho weovil practically doubles the aroa of land required to produce a bale of cotton and that the weovil caused the Toxas planters a loss of about $15,000,000 in lim:;. ABSUII ing $500,000,000 as the value of the nor mal cotton orop of tho country, Mr. Hunter says the probable ul I incite damage, when the pest has be, como spread ovor tho entire belt would approxi ms te $250,000,000 annually, pro viding nothing wore dono to check it. Planters, howover, aro adopting changes in tho mci hods that lend to avoid so much dam ago. Tho roport pre dicts that tho WOOvil event nally will bo distributed all over/the cotton belt, tu vane mg into now territory at the rate of appi ox ?malely 500 lu iles a decade and lt probably always will bo as destructivo in a series of years as it bus been in Toxas si nco 1K01. Tho roports suggest that tho probability of it hoing carried to West Africa or elsewhere abroad is not at all remote. In case tho seed happons to bo anoked or even shipped in bulk there is nothing to prevent tho weevils from being car ried long distances on shipboard as they aro able to adapt themselves successfully to climatic conditions. It is pointed out, however, that the danger could bo avoidod by fumigation or by leaving tho seed Bnckod in store rooms, isolated from new cotton for a yoar previous to shipment. There is a very serious complaint around Augusta in both Georgia and South Carolina ovor tho lack of rain. Tho crops aro coming to be fast dried up and in many cases them is no cotton above the ground at all. There is a great deal of tho seed planted, but it is coming un so slowly and the stands aro looking so parched that many believe a short oro]) is hound to result. This is i i ce all over tho district. M ci chants sholl ld be more prompt in presenting their billa. A merohant in Yoakuni, Texas, carried a man in that town a bill that was two years old and in tho Orst part of the bill was a charge for a box of chocolates, and on the latter end was a charge for one nursing bottle. How time does fly. On m Fifteen-Acre Farm. The Philadelphia Record telle a very interesting story about the suo oess of K. H. Hertzog, a young farmer of Lancaster, Pa., who owns a farm containing only fifteen aores, and made on it last year, besides his own and his family's living, $1,270.60 net. Mr. Hertzog has on his farm I 60 apple trees, 400 peaoh trees, 401 plum trees, one acre of raspberries j and one-quarter acre of strawberries. He also raises poultry for market, his ! net profit from this source last year I amounting to $588.76. He also j keeps three cows and sells some but ter and milk. The Record gives the I following itemized statement of what Mr. Hertzog made on his toy farm last year : 041 boxes raspberries at 10 cents | per quart. 650 boxes blackberries at 7 cents a box. 100 boxeB huckleberries at 10 cents | a box. 75 boxes gooseberries at 5 oents a | bo:. 23 l oxes ourrantsat 7 oents a box. 80b bunohes onions at three oents a bunoh. 40 bushels onions at 80 oents a bushel. 14; bushels green beans at 75 cents | a bushel. 800 bunches radishes at 2 A oents a bunoh. 8 baskets poaches at $1.50 a basket. ? 4 bushels plums at $2 per bushel. 4 bushels pears at 75 cents a| bushel. 50 bushels apples at 25 oents a bushel. 1,000 pickles at $4. 400 dozen roasting ears corn, 10 oents a dozen. 2 tona sweet corn $12 per ton. | Fox, chicken and Concord grapes at $4.50 for lot. 10 boxes persimmons at 5 cents a box. 40 bushels tomatoes at 60 oents a bushel. 40 bushels soup and other beans at $2 a bushel. 15 bushell artichokes at 76 cents a bushel. Patoh of tobacco valued at $40. 123 bushels potatoes at 75 cents a bushel. 15 bushels sweet potatoes at 50 cents a bushel. 6 bushels walnuts at 50 cents a bushel. 2 bushels hickory nuts at $1.75 a bushel. 1 bushel Paragon chestnuts at 30 cents a quart, or $9.00 per bushel. H bushels chestnuts at 18 cents a quart. 5 dozen quinces at 36 cents a dozen. 100 bushels field corn at 60 cents a bushel. Hay and corn fodder to feed one horse and three cows. It is said that Mr. Hertzog does not spend all his time on the farm, but is a regular attendant upon the market at Reading, where ho per sonally superintends the salo of all his farm and poultry products. He finds time to read tho daily news papers, agricultural journals and leading magazines of the day, and generally finds a great deal of en couragement and happiness in life. With such industry and intelli gence as be has shown in Pennsyl vania, we are .sure that the young man could do a great deal better in South Carolina. We would like to havo statements from some of our large or small farmers to show what can bo done in this garden spot of the world. If we would only tell what can be done on the farm in this State it would not be long before every vacant aero would bo under cultivation. Immigrants would flook hither from all parts of this country and the world, and even Mr. Hertzog would pull up stakes in Pennsylva nia and come to South Carolina. Charleston Nows and Courier, Profits on a One-Horse Farm. Tho Anderson correspondent of The State says : J. H. Cox, who lives between Bolton and Ilonea Path, is a successful farmer. His success last year was so great that his neighbors have provailod upon him to give some figures to your cor respondent for publication. Mr. Cox runs a one-horse farm. He owns his own land. Last year his work netted him over $1,800, and the expenses were not over $200 or $260. His farm shows what can bo done by intensive farming. Here are the figures as furnished by him self : 200 bushels corn, $200; 2,000 bundles of fodder, $40 ; 250 bushels of cotton seed, $75 ; nine bale? o? cotton, $494.77 ; truck and vegeta bles, $417.58 ; peas, $6.25 ; total, $1,233.60, Mr. Cox employed one nogro during the year at a cost of $65, outside of his board. He com pounded his own fertilizer and used five tons of cotton seed meal, aoid and kr.ii.it, at a cost of $70. Some of the land he worked had been brought up to a high stato of cultivation previously, but most of it was ordinary poor land. He made $108.60 on one acre, tho yield being three one-horse loads of onions and 707 pounds of lint cotton. Mr. Cox planted the onions early in the spring, sowing them in rows five feet apart, and later planted cotton between the onions. The onions matured and were gathered before the cotton needed deep plowing, so Mr. Cox made two paying crops on the same ground. He made 70 bushels of his corn on one and one-fourth acres and the re maining 200 bushels ho made on 17 aores of poorer land. When farmers can do that well in Anderson county there really scorns no reason in tho world why anybody should go to Texas or anywhere else. The State Democratic Executive Committee under a new elcotion law has seleoted a rooster as the emblem lof tho Democratic party in Ala bama with words above "white, su premacy," below "for the right." Ridiculous Impossibilities. A gentleman the other day handed us tho following letter, which we re pro luce, omitting names. The letter is dated Concord, N. C., February 19, 1904, and as you will see, was addressed to "Dear Bill.*' It was neatly typewritten on stationery used by a large cotton milling firm of ttfat place : Dear Bill : Your letter asking me for a loan of $5.00 to baud. 1 am sorry to say I cannot let you have it, as I have not got the money. Since writing this letter I have bor rowed $50 from a friend of mino and will let you have the live, but will have to wait until my next lotter, as I have already mailed this one and oannot get it out of tho poslolllco. You say you are nurpriscd to hoar that I am alive, as you heard I was dead, but it was another fellow. I kuow it was not me the moment I read it. Speaking of deaths, your old friend, Con Murphy, was mur dered last night in bed for li in money, j but lucky for Con, he put his mouey ! in the bank the day before. We have reasons to believo he is not killed and will not behove him dead till we hear it from his own lips. I tbauk you for the elegant pair of boots that you sent me, but they are entirely too,small; I do not think I can get them on until I have worn them several times. In return for the boots I have sent you by this day's express, a fine Irish freeze overcoat and as the express company charge by freight I cut the buttons off to save expense. You will find the buttons in thc top pocket of the coat. For fear you have not a hatchet handy to open the box with I have packed one with the coat. Your uncle Micky Dew died very suddenly last night after a lingering Uness. The doctor who attended bim said he never bad a patient who took medicine any casior than your uncle, and he himself said he had as soon tako the medicine as whiskey, provided it has the same taste. The old man said if ho could only get well he was sure he would feel better, but after he breathed his last the doctor gave up all hopeB of his re covery. It would have done your heart good to have hoard the funeral ser mon they preached about him. I have since thought what a pity it was that he did not live a little longer so be could have heard it him self. It is very important that you should get thjs letter, BO if you have moved from tho house you aro now living in be sure and have it for warded to tho place you have moved to, and if you don't get this letter let me know and I weill write you another. Yours affectionately, With tho greatest animosity, Kid. P. S.-I hopo you aro enjoying yourself and coining money. VVrite to mo occasionally. What about that suit!-Batesburg Advocate. OABTORIA. Bears the J) Nw Kind You Have Alway "r?fete Clever Church Swindler. It is alleged that Wm. Davidson, who was recently arrested in New York for having collected nearly $50,000 from church people, would appear at a Presbyterian or Baptist church, attend services regularly for a time and then develop a consump tive cough. Soon be would appeal to the members of the congregation for aid in seeking another climate and generally mot with generous aid. During the summer, kidnoy irregulari ties aro often caused by excessive drink ing or being overheated. Attend to the k iii ne ys at once by using Foley's Kidnoy Cure. Sold by J. W. Doll, Walhalla; W. J. Lunney, Seneca. Man Dead, Woman Dying. Angry because she would not re turn to Tampa and live with him again, Jasper D. Carter, former sta tion agent for tho Atlantic Coast Line at Cosmo, Fla., shot Gentry McKnew, 20 years old, of 16 Collins street, Atlanta, on the night of May 23d, then seut a bullet through his own brain. Carter is dead and the chances Jor the recovery of tho woman aro considered slim. No good heall 11 untoss tho kidneys are sound. Foloy's Kidnoy Cure makes tho kidneys right. Sold by J. W. Holl, Wal halla; W. J. Lumley, .Seneca. A Kentucky Colonel has recently declared before a pure food commis sion that much of tho whiskey sold in the United States was unfit for human consumption, and thu effect it has on thc miad and tho morals of tho mon who drink it abundantly proves tho ass3rtion. No whiskey, no declared, was fit to drink until it was eight to ten years old, w hich would rule out 09 per cont of the stuff sold in and by this State. On tho first indication of kidnoy trou" bio, stop it by taking Foloy's Kidnoy Curo. Sold by J. W. Holl, Walhalla; W. J. Lunnoy, Soueoa, North Carolina s Anti-Jug Law. Tho anti-jug law in North Carolina, passed by tho Lcgislaturo and ailirraod by the Supremo Court, has put tho wet towns mighty nigh out of business. No town in North Carolina can ship jugs into any other town in North Carolina. Good Lord, givo us such a law in Goorgia, and if our ooming Legislature don't do somothiug for us. I am going to pray the Lord to i e waul them ncoording to their works. Tho old North State is forging to the front, not only in her manufactur ing interests, ber growiug towns and cities, but she is coming to tho front in mon and manhood, tempor?neo and do cenoy, and no better evidenco of thiB than her anti-jug law. When I stand at the dopot of a dry town in Goorgia, and see the dirty old jugs piled off of an ex press oar, it makes mo so mad that I could turn into n stick of dynamite and blow the whole business into tho other side of nowhere-Sam Jones. OA.BTOTII71.. Bean the Tilt Kind You Haw Always Signatare of A table of tho number of pension ers for tho year 1004 as compared with 1908 shows an In?rense of 270. I Tho totals are 8,520 and 8,250. Summer School (or Teachers. The following faculty and courue of study for the Oconee Bummer School for Teachers, commencing June 13th and ending July 9th, U04, have been secured and arranged: J. B. O'Neall Holloway, history and oivioa; B. K. Geer, grammar and litera ture;-Mies Kate J. Steok, arithmetic and algebra. Lectures on Behool management will be given during the term. Text books to be used: Chapman's South Carolina, and Lee's United States History: Petorman's Civil Government; Buehler's Modern English Grammar.' Enoch Arden: Wentworth's Practical J> rithmetio and Wentworth's New School A igebra; White's School Management. There is an increasing demand for bet tor teaobers, and lt will pay those who want the beat positions and longest terms to attend thia, the best summer school we have ever bad. The lowest possible ratos foe boajrd will bo oeeurodi Md irblle it may coat you $10 or $15 to attend, it will pay you good interest by way of self improvement and greatly inoreased sala ries. Several of our teachers, who, only a short time ago, were working for $20 per month, are now sought for at $40 aud even $50 per month. The beauty of boing a good teacher is that the school authorities hunt you. while a poor or moderately good one uas to seek a posi tion, and when he gets it, it is because, they oould not get any one else. Wo have an excellent, faculty and a good courso of study o:id it will pay all the tcachem to attend. C. L. Craig, Co. Supt. of Ed. julius Csessr Conquered. "A certain friend of raine," re marked Irving Bacheler, the novel ist, the other day, "was entertaining some bachelor friends at hin home one evening. The host's wife did not. appear at the party whioh was entirely a stag artair. After the high balls had hold sway for an hour or so the topic of matrimony fell under discussion. Many views were expressed. The host, when his turn oame, pounded his fist on the table and said : "Boys, when you got married, follow my example and be a Julius Caesar in your own home !" "Just then there oame a voice from up stairs : "Julius Caesar, come to bed-im mediately V "And he went."-New York Times. Long Journeys Made by Whales. The whales that swim about the islands which He oft" the coast of Norway and Finland, in March and April, travel immense distances. In May they turn up at the Acores or even at the Bermudas and some times pay a visit to the Antilles. They swim fast, for in June they are back again off Norway. Some of these whales have been known to bring back evidences of where they have been, for harpoons of the peculiar kind used off the cost of South America have been found stuck in them. --a??--? The candidacy of William Jen nings Bryan for the United States Senate has been announced in the higher councils of the Nebraska Democracy and the leaders responsi ble for the movement say that Bryan has approved the plan. An old lady who had never ridden on a railroad oar reoently visited a station and was shown into tho wait ing room. She took a chair and prepared to enjoy herself. After sitting quietely for half an hour she reached over and, touching a stranger on the arm, remarked : "It rides real easy, don't it?" FOLEYSH?W^TAR Cures Qotdsi Prevente Pneumonia Greenville Herald, May 25 : ?W. A. Talley, of Jesse post office, in Sa luda township, was in the oity yes terday and reported that the boll weevil had made its appearance in his neighborhood. It ?B too early as yet to tell to what extent the resul tant damage may be, but it is hoped that the pest may be taken in hand at onco and put out of business. No one seems to be able to aooount for the presence of the boll weevil here unless the bug came in seed ship ments. Tho summary of tho appropria tions made for 1905 by Congress is given out in detail by the Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations. It shows a total of $781,674,629.99. Tho largest item is for the post office, 1(172,574,998.76. The next is for pensions, with $98,005,140.04. That of the army is $77,070,800.88. Com pared with the past it is the largest sum for any single year exoept 1903, when tho total was $800,624,496.36. If it had not been a Presidential year, the appropriations would most assuredly have hit the billion mark for this one session. Women as Well as Men Are Made Miserable by Kidney Trouble. Kidney trouble preys upon the mind, dis courages and lessens ambition; beauty, vigor #^H^ ?J and cheerfulness soon A'?) ? ffliLLPff disappear when the kld rtiu1ia?y*T?y My* 4ra out ?f order ~VlUimivfJ^^^= Kidney trouble has ? WWrjj^KTT_become so prevalent * jfftil?w ll H Ta*n *s no* uncommon r/i\^^^tJ\j-^JI *or * c^i\d t? oe born /V VsV^Wff^n afilicted with weak k,d" ^Ji ?Wie neys. If the child urln ?Sag yPtf*1** ates too often, If the urine scalds the flesh or if, when thc child reaches an age when lt should be able to control the passage, lt ls yet afflicted with bcd-wfatlng, depend upon lt. the osuno or the difficulty ls kidney trouble, and the ftrat step should be towards the treatment of these important organs. This unpleasant trouble Is due to a diseased condition of the kidneys and bladder and not to a habit as most people suppose. Women as well as men are mude mls erabh with kidney and bladder trouble, and both need the same great remedy. Thc mild and the Immediate effect of Swamp-Root ls soon realized, lt ls sold by druggists, In fifty cent ana one dollar sizes. You may have a sample bottle by mall free, also pamphlet tell- som? et SWMOP-ROO*. lng all about lt, Including many of the thousands of testimonial letters received from sufferers cured. In writing Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y., be sure and mention this paper. Don't make any mistake, but remem ber the name-Swamp-Root-Dr. KhV mer's Swamp-Root, and the address Binghamton, N. Y.-on every bottle, \