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REFLECTIONS FROM OLD PICKERS. TH? BEAUTIES ANO PLEASURES OF COUN TRT LIFE VIVIDLY PORTRAYED. Old Picken*, Joue 9.-On Sunday afternoon, 3d instant, this section wa? visited by a hoavy down-pour of raiu, accompanied by considerable wind, much thunder and vivid lightning and some hail, resulting in places in muob daraago to growing crops by reason of tho washing of rolling lands whero not proporly torracod, overflowing of small streams and destruction of fruit trees by tho wind. Since then "o havo had seve ral gent?o showers and crops are growing nicely under the benign iuiluenco of warm nights and warmer days. Grass and weodB never fail to como abundantly under such conditions, but t.b?v am hoing overcome, as every ono seems to bo working in obedience to that divino mandate which dociaros that in tho Bwoat of his face mau shall eat bread. Gardens aro nourishing and abound with beans and Wish potatoes, boots and radishes, onions and okra, cucumbers, tom atoes, win te headed cab!) ige and ot her vegetables. Strawberries and raspber ries, cherries aud currants aro about gono, but the luscious dewberry is here and the nover-failing, ever-welcome blackberry is donning hie red coat and will soon bo ready for use. After that will come tho delectable poach, pear and apple, the delioious watermelon, sweet flavored cantaloupes and smiling candi datos, thon grapes and muscadines, a fow successful and many defeated candi dates. Noxt the barvosting of the crops and tho fruition of tho rewards of toil nil culminating in that joyful day which celebrates tho birth of tho Saviour of the world. At this season of tho yoar, when every thing on tho farm is so abundaut and full of promise, wbon uaturo in all her beauty and abundance proclaims the love and goodness of tho Father in heaven, it is hard for mo to undorstaud how any meditativo mind can prof or tho crowded, boated city, with its noise and bustle, vices and temptations, to tho quiot country homo, with its lovoly Howers, umbrageous trees, delightful bree/.es, puro, ico-cold spring or well water, swet-singing birds, growing crops and molitluous fruits, to say nothing of tho humming of tho boo aud its honey, the lowing of tho cattle, tho bleating of tho lamb, tho squealing of tho pig, tho crow ing of tho rooster, tho cackling of tho hen and her progeny, tho quack, quack of tho ?luck, tho yelp of tho turkey, tho voieo of tho cunning guinea, and then .? thoso spareribs and backbones and that { sausage, which never saw a titi can and Were not shipped from a slaughter pen in Chicago, besides well lilied granaries, barns cornea ?bs and smoko houses. In some places it pays "to go a Ashing." Thanks to my friend of tho Hoar Swamp for recommending a new bait and for good wishes. Wonder if ho succeeded with that batt and if his "catch was mar velously beautiful!" I was reading in thu Atlanta Constitu tion tho other day whero Senator Pot- ; tus, in the SOth yoar of his age, when asked by a young man if ho "had his lifo to go over what vocation ho would fol low," said, "I would buy a well-stocked farm and spend my lifo in tho cultivation 1 aud improvement of tho soil, rearing of lino stock aud in tho contemplation of nature, amid such scones and domestic enjoyments as only country lifo eau afford." If a statesman, so years old, having enjoyed nearly all tho honors and emoluments within tho gift of his people thus speaks of country lifo and tho farm, who can fail to com mond tho young man who ohoOBOS for his lifo work tho voca tion of a farmer'.' Tho infant of Mr. and Mrs. Leo Maxcy, of Newry, was buriod at Old IMckens on last Tuesday. Mrs. Rachel White, widow of tho late James M. White, is seriously sick at tho home of her son, O. C. White, but it is hoped that under tho skillful treatment of Dr. J. Wi Wickliffe and the tender nursing of Mr. and Mrs. O. C. White, sho will ho restored to heall h. Tho friends of William Perry, of Six Mile, will ho sorry to loam that he is a verysick man. On last Sunday morning Isaac Morgan, aged 72 years, tho oldest colored mau in this community, diod at his home, near Old Piokens, after a long and painful ill ness. "Uncle lko," as we all called bim, deserves more than a passing notice. Ho was born the hlavo of Thomas Morgan, on Little river, in this county, and so faithful was ho that the family never parted with him until emancipation. With tho exception of two yoars ho spout tho whole of his long lifo within five miles of the placo of his hirth. Ho was honest, peaceable and industrious and had been a member of the Baptist church for many years. Ho was respected and well thought of hy tho whito peonlo and by his own race, although ho dit?orod with most of thom lo politics. Ho was . Hampton Democrat in 1870 and alway . voted tho Democratic ticket. I havo ofton hoard him say ho knew his frionds and when he wanted a favor ho wont to bis "homo whito folks and not to a Northern carpot-baggor nor Southorn scalawag." His remains woro buriod at Rocky Mount in tho prosonco of a largo concourse of coloren pooplo and some whito frionds. Ono hy ono thoso faithful old ante bellum darkies aro passing away and thoso of us who know and loved them in our childhood and romom bor their devotion to us during tho try ing days of that cruel war when fathors, husbands and brothers woro on the dis tant b.ittle field, cannot fail to shod a grateful tear and drop a flower upon ?hoir graves. N. H. Cary. Don't oo fooled and made to bcliovo that i he. u&tism can bo curod with local appliance. Hollistor's Rocky Mountain Toa is tho only positivo euro for rhonma tisra. U?c, toa or tablets. J. W. Doll. IN Msmory el Jonah N. Phillip?. It has pleased God in His all-wise providence to oall from our midst, to himself, our friend and brother, Jonah N. Phillips. He died peace fully at bis home, near Long Greek, June 9th, 1906, about 4 o'olook p.m., after an illness of about fifteen years, from chronic diseases of thc stomach and spinal affeotion. He had been confined to his bed a large portion of this time. Hut God, in bis divine wisdom, does all things well in the eyes of all that love and trust bim. Gn Sunday (the day following his doatb), after a hymn was sung, and prayer by Bro. M. L>. Lee, at the grave, his body was gently laid to rest in the family burying ground at Lam el Springs church, in the pres ence of a large concourse of sorrow ing relatives and friends. Mr. Phillips was a son of the late Nathaniel and Mahala Phillips, and was born October 21, 1863. He is survived by two brothers and three sisters-P. K. Phillips, Westmin ster; CV J. Phillips, Anderson, and Mrs. G. C. Arve and Misses Mary A. and Minerva Phillips, of Long Creek. On the fourth Sunday in Janu ary, 1885, he wsB happily married to Miss Martha A. Holmes, daughter of Andrew and Naroissa Holmes, Kev. G. W. Smith officiating. Unto this union four ohildren were born-three boys and one girl-who, with his wife, survive. To them, in their be reavement, is extended the sincere sympathy of all. The deceased had been a consist ent member of Laurel Springs Metho dist church for. twenty yoars. It will bo remembered that the last time he attended services he had to lie down most of the time. While telling some of his Christian experi ences, tears wero brought to the eyeB of nearly all present. He bore his alllictions with Christian persever ance. In his death we should be re minded of tho uncertainty of life and that we should over be ready to ap pear before the Judge of all the earth. Ile was loved by all who know him ; was trustworthy, upright and honest ; Christlike in his every-day life ; a true Christian of an unex celled type; a devoted and loving husband ; a kind and affectionate father; a good man has gone to his reward. The funeral sermon will be preached at Laurel Springs church, by Kev. E. S. Jones, of Walhalla, at some convenient time in the near future. A Friend. Cures Old Sores. Westmoreland, Kans., May 5, 1902. Ballard Snow Liniment Co. : Your Snow Liniment cured an old sore on tho sido of my chin that was supposed to bo a can cer. The sore was stubborn and would not yield to trcatmont until I tried Snow Liniment, which did tho work in short ordor. My sistor, Mrs. Sophia J. Carson, AllouHville, M iilin county, Pa., has a sore and mist i nuts that it is a cancor. Pleaso soud her a 50c. bottle. Sold by Walhalla Drug Co.; W. J. Lunney, Seneca. Ocean Steamers May Run Up to Oconee. Washington, JuuoS.-People of upper South Carolina, living along tho .Savan nah, Tugaloo and Seneca rivers, boliovo thero is a prospect for navigation on those waters, and have filed with Repre sentativo Aiken a longthy petition in which they claim, on account of en croachments on these rivers, their Inter ests aro hoing seriously interfered with. They also state that tho Legislatures of South Carolina and Georgia have granted permits for dams across these streams by private parties and corporations to tho detriment of private property along thom. These permits, they say, aro being granted by tho Legislatures of tho States named without making provision for the free navigation or free exercise of privi leges UKiially had. Il is also sot out in tho petition that ferry boats crossing theso rivers are often delayed, and that because of tho holding back of water by many dams at power plauts their inter ests aro hoing soriously crippled. Mr. Aiken has tiled tho petition with tho Committee on Rivers and Harbors, but it is hardly probable that anything will bo done in tho matter during tho present session of Congress. Tho old time method of purging tho system with cathartics that tear, gripo, grind and break down tho walls of the stomach and intestines is superseded by Dado's Little Livor Rills. Tnoy cleanso tho liver and, instend of weakening, build up and strengthen tho wholo sys tem, roliovo headache, biliousness, con stipation, otc. Sold by Dr. J. W. Bell, Walhnlla, and W. J. Luunoy, Soneca. Speaker Cannon has surrendered on tho Statehood light and will con sent to tho passage of tho bill for Indian Territory and Oklahoma, without Arizona and New Mexico. PISO'.S CURE GOHRTENIIY'S GIHJO CHARLESTON. FOUR HUNDRED PRICELESS VOLUMES AND NUMEROUS HANDSOME PORTRAITS. [.Cha ri CH ton News ?nd Courier.] In the recent history of tho Charleston library Society many valuable and highly appreciated do nations have oheered the nearts of its members and added materially to the almost priceless treasures con tained in its cases and weighting its shelves with knowledge. Tho Wil liam Poroher Miles Alcove of Shake spearean literature, the Joseph J. Legare Library of Art Works and General Literature, the Trenholm Collection, aud nmny other excep tionally valuable gifts have marked a new era in its historio life. But the magnificent donation of books and portraits by which the Hon. William A. Courtenay has made memorable the One Hundred and Fifty-eighth Anniversary of the Sooiety possesses some features which give it a unique character and individually, so to spoak, which places it ir a class cf benefactions altogether its own. For a long time the deop and abid ing interest of this public-spirited citizen in the welfare of the library has been manifested by frequent gifts of rare books, of which the seventy-five volumes of the Jesuit Relations in their handsome case are a striking example. But only a favored few have been aware of the faot that for more than sixteen years Mr. Courtenay has been quietly de voting his time, his rare literary taste and aoute instinct of research, with 8 lavish expenditure of money, to thc acquirement of a specialized collec tion of rare and otherwise unattain able works, largely, if not entirely, of local historic interest, with ihn 3ole purpose of presenting them t< the Charleston Library. With char ac! cristie singleness of aim and in domitable perseverance in the fae? of obstacles, Mr. Courtenay has pur -uni his object to ultimate success ind wisely recognizing the uncer '.ainties and unsatisfactory charade >f posthumous generosity, he has ii living personality delivered his gif ?nd secured tho infinite reward o seeing f e accomplishment of his lifi ?mrpoae. The gift consists of four hundrec volumes, a large proportion of whicl ?re rare editions of still rarer bookf >f pamphlets arranged and assen] bled into volumes, and bound unde Lhe donor's personal supervisior .overing in minutest detail tho whol period of South Carolina, and espe pially Charleston history ; four Es Libris volumes, containing Englisl French and Irish book plates ; bool relating to the pre-Columbian dil .'overies of America and to ant juarian research ; a complete set Hfty-one volumes-of the Historic! Magazine ; Public Records of Sout Carolina ; Memorials, remarkabl full and interesting, of the Hoi James Louis Petigru, and many moi volumes of like character and valu The Timrod Collection-which is ( follow at some future date-is simp] beyond any computation of valu ?nd is contained in a special cabine \ handsome photograph of which hi been prepared. It is surely accon ing to thc fitness of things that th complete and unique memorial Charleston's sweetest singer shou be one of the most cherished tre juresof the Charleston library. Wi Lhe books arc cases specially mai for their keeping, upon tho shclv af which each volume lias its desi tiated place. Tho portraits, most of which A! Courtenay has had painted for t library, arc those of Hugh S. Legal William Crafts, William Gilmc Simms, William Honry Tresc William James Hivers, William drayson, Edward AlcCrady a Henry Timrod, all repr?sent?t) men of thc literary life-history Charleston. But, oh ! tho pity of all! With judgment and cauti< fully justified by tho circumstanc Mr. Courtonay has made but c condition to his gift, and that is tl no part of it is to enter tho crowe and unsafe building in which 1 Charleston Library Society is cc pelted by poverty to risk its alrot almost priceless possessions ; and a room has been secured in Gibbes Art Building, in which store, securo from danger of lire, costly donation, until such time tho generosity of Charleston si provide a library building safo fi Thc new Laxative that does not ?ripe or nauseate. Pleasant to take. Li fire as modern science can make it and worthy in its fitness and ita ar chitectural dignity of the literary wealth whioh it contains. And, meantime, the careless striking of a match in some adjoining house may bring swift and irretrievable de 8truction to a oolleotion, one single item of which-the alcove of news paper volumes-has been recently appraised by expert testimony at a money value of at least one hundred and fifty thousand dollars I If Mr. Courtenay's public-spirited munifi cence should be instrumental in bringing about the prevention of such terrible disaster, surely he will have builded better thau he knew; and the children's children of thoee whose names shall be inscribed aa donors on the walls of the new li brary building shall rise up and call bim blessed. Stimulation Without Irritation. In osse of stomach and liver trouble the proper treatment is to stimulate these organs without irritating them. Orino Laxative "Fruit Syrup aids digestion and stimulates the liver and bowels without irritating theso organs like pills or ordi nary cathartics, lt does not nauseate or gripe and is mild and pleasant to take. Dr. J. W. Bell. Butchering Russian Jows. Bialystook, Russia, June 14.-A Jewish anarchist threw a bomb among the Corpas Christi procession whioh was in progress here to-day and killed or wounded many persons. In consequence the Christians at tacked and massacrced the Jews and demolished their shoos. Hundreds of persons were killed or wounded. Anarchy prevails in the city. Every form of distressing ailment known as pilos originates internally. Tho roal cause of the trouble is insido. Man/an is put up in collapsible tubos with nozzle, BO tho modiciue can bo ap plied whoro it will do tho most good, aud do it quickly. If you are suffering with pilos you owo yoursolf. tho duty of try ing ManZau. Sold by Dr. J. W. Boll, Walhalla, and W. J. Lunney, Soueoa. Ex-Pugilist Peter Maher has been angaged to box in Anderson at an early date. Heart Weakness Thc action of the heart de pends upon thc heart nerves and muscles. When from any cause they become weak or ex hausted, and fail to furnish sufficient power, the heart flut-. ters, palpitates, skips beats; and in its effort to keep up its work, causes pain and distress, such as smothering spells, short breath, fainting, pain around heart, arm and shoul ders. The circulation is im peded, and thc entire system suffers from lack of nourish ment. Dr. Miles' Heart Cure makes a heart strong and vigorous by strengthening these nerves x.\d muscles. "I had palpitation and pain around my heurt, nnd tho doctors said it was incurable. I don't believe lt now, for after taking six bottles of Dr. Miles' Heart Curo, three bottles of the Nervi ne nnd thrco boxes of tho Nerve and I.Ivor Pills I am entirely cured, and feel better than I have for live years, and lt is all duo to those remedies. I want you to know that your medicines cured me. lt relieved in? fruin tho first dose, and I kept right on till tho pain in my chest was grono, and I kept on feeling bettor even nftor I quit taking ll/' JOHN II. SHERMAN, lidding, Mich. Dr. Miles' Heart Cure ls sold by your druggist, who will guarantee that the first bottle will benefit. If lt fails he will refund your money. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind Notice of Final Settlement and Discharge. NOTICE is horoby given that the un dersigned will make application to I). A. Smith, Esq., Judge of Probate for Oconee County, in tho state of South Carolina, at his oflice at Walhalla Court norna-, ou MONDAY, the Otb day of July, 11)06, at ll o'clook in tho fore noon, or as soon thereafter a', said appli cation can bo hoard, for leave to make final settlement of tho estaU) of F. Brown low Oelkors, minor, and obtain final discharge as Guardian cf said estate. ADELENA/0ELKER8, Guardian of the estatoof F. Brownlow Oelkors, minor. Juno 0, WOO. 23-20 To Gui Toke Laxative Bron Seven Million boxes sold In post 13 nv Cures Stomach and Liver axative Fruit Syrup Chronic Constipation. For ?ale by J. W. Bell. List Your Farms With fie. J. H. Darby, Real Estate Dealer. WALHALLA, 5. C. Office: People's Bank. Choice Farm, Business and Resident Property for Sale. BLUE RIDGE RAILWAY CO. FOlEYSHONET?oTAR forchUdrant *mf0? mr?. Mm BETWEEN BELTON A ND WALHALLA. Tim? Table No. 10.-In Eff-jct April 29,1908. EASTBOUND LT Walhalla.... LT West Union LY Seneca. LT "Jordania Junction LT ?Adams. LT .Chert y. LT Pendleton. LT .Ailinn. Lr ?Denver. LT ?Wost Anderson.... Ar Anderdon-PassI> jp LT Anderson-Paos'Jen LT . Anderson-FrtOep Ar ?elton. WESTBOUND LT Belton. LT .Andorson-Fr't De Ar Andorson-Pass De LT Anderson-Pass Do LT ?West Anderson_ LT ?DenTer. LT ?Autan. LT Pendleton. LT ?Cherry. LT . A il [OHM. LT ?Jordania Junction. Ai Seueua. Lv Seneca. LT Weat Union. Ar Walhalla. . Flag stations. Will also stop at the following stations to take on and lot oft paMenuers: Phinney's, James's and Sandy Springs and Toxaway. Nos. it ana r?, first class paMonger, daily; Nos. 9 and 10, daily except Sunday; Nos. 0 and 6, Sunday only; Nos. 7, second class, mixed; daily except Sunday; Nos. 3 and 8, mixed dally; Ko. 18, passenger, dally. A. B. ANDREWS, President. J. R. ANDERSON. Superintendent. I AM DETERMINED TO DO THE LIVERY BUSINESS for this community. Come on and get your teams. Hauling Teams, Single and Double Buggy Teams and Saddle Horses, Always on hand. Prompt and polito Borvico at reasona ble prices. Teams sont out at any hour, day or uight. Phono 10 or ll for quick foams. C. It. 1101 < III NS, Walhalla, S. C. SAVE MONEY! Linseed Oil rotails at 65c. per gallon. House paiuts retail at $1.65 per gallon. rVhy pay $1.65 for Linseed Oil sealed up in a paint can, when you oan buy it from ?he barrel at 65c? Buy Wadsworth Semi-Paste Paint at $1.05 from your dealer; tdd a gallon of oil to a gallon of paint for three-coat work, and reduce the cost of ho paint ready for uso to a little more than ono dollar per gallon. Don't take a lubstituto for Wadsworth. It has no substitute. J. & J. S. CARTER, Dealers, Westminster, S. C., -OR King,Paint Manufacturing Co., Brooklyn, N. Y.^, CLARKE & BUTT, Cotton Factors and Commission Herchants, 843 Reynolds St., Augusta, Qa. Bagging, Ties and Best Fertilizers. LIBERAL ADVANCES. CHARGES REASONABLE. PERSONAL ATTENTION TO ALL BUSINESS. Special Attention Given to F. 0. B. Sales. JOB PUTING Sond your orders for Sta tionery and Advertising Mat ter to Tue Courier tum got THE BESf Tito 13est is Always the Cheapest. THREE PAPERS A WEEK FOR $1.50. Hy a clubbing arrangement with tho Charleston Somi-Wcokly Nows and Cou .ior wo are Ottering that paper and Tho Kcowoo Courier for $1.50 por year. Tho Koowco Courier is recognized not only is tho best paper in Oconoo county, but t is rated among the host county papers n South Carolina. The Semi-Weekly News and Courier is an excellent jour ial, published on Wednesdays and Satur iays, glvos tho detailed nows of South Carolina as a special feature, and oarrios tho full Associated Press dispatches from all over tho world. The combina tion of tho two papers at $1.50 gives our present readors, as well as new sub joribors, an opportunity to socuro two of thc beat papers in the State (throe papors ? weok) for 50 eonts more thau the regu lar prico of oitbor. Let us sond yon two of tho vory host papors in South Carolina for almost tho price of one. THE SOUTHERN RAILWAY. TH HOUGH SEHVICE EVERY DRY ALL IDE HIGH-BACK COACHES. Drawing-Room Sloopors -and Southern Railway Dining Cars. FINEST CAPS ! FASTEST TIME t Convenient Schedules on Local Trains. For full information, consult any Southern Railway Agont, or R. W. HUNT, Division Passenger Agent, i inn-lenton, S. C. BROOKS MORGAN, Asst. Gon. Passenger Agent, Atlanta, Ga re a Cold in One Day IO Quinine Tablets. >e ns A ?nth?. This signature, S/rxtfr Cures Crip in TwoPgya^ oi\ every* box.25?