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WA COUNTY APPOINTMENTS. AUDITOR, TRTASURER, TOWNSHIP AND TOWN ASSESSORS, MAGISTRATES. Columbia, Jan. 25.-The following are recommended aa Town and Town ship Assessors in Oconee county : Center-E. B. Keese, H. L. Ver nor and W. L. Thomas. Koo wee-W. M. Barker, Thos. A. Qrant and Edward Gantt. Chattooga-K. W. Hunt, L. A. King ?nd W. H. Mongold. Pulaski-D. P. Carter, W. N. Rholetter and Geo. Matheson. Seneca-J. W. Byrd, T. S. Strib ling and W. M. Campbell. Tugaloo-A. Zimmerman, S. C. Smith and J. A. Knox. Whitewater-D. O. Sheppard, D. E. Nicholson and A. L. Whitmire. Wagener- W. O. Alexander, J. D. Perry and C. A. Burton. Soneoa (Town)-J. J. Cromer, T. M. Lowery and J. M. Barron. Walhalla-G. A. Norman, C. G. Jaynes and J. H. Darby. Westminster-W. L. England and W. S. Haley. The following appointments are recommended for Oconee county : Treasurer-W. J. Schroder. Auditor-Richard W. Grubbs. MAG IHTIt ATES : Walhalla-A. P. Crisp. Seneoa-B. F. Sloan. Westminster-S. H. Marett. Oakway-W. M. Lemmons. Fair Play-J. D. Sheldon. Taber-J. E. Singleton. Holly Springs-R. J. Vinson. Long Creek-Gus C. Arve. Salem-J. li. Graut. High Falls-P. A. Brown. Little River-I). D. Alexander. Townville-J. L. McCarley. J. R. Earle, Senator. Two days treatment freo. Hing's Dys pepsia Tablets for impaired digestion, impuro breath, porfect as.emulation of i food, increased appetite. Do not fail to avail yourself of tho above offor. Sold by Walhalla DTUK (Jo.; W. J. Lunney, Seneca. Death of Mrs Fred W. Auld. I Klherton (lia. ) Star, January 3.J All occurrence this Week which brought sadness to many hearts was the death of Mrs. Fred W. Auld wbioh took place at the Presbyterian hospital in Atlanta, where she had been carried for medical oare. Mrs. Auld'? friends are familiar with the terrible accident, wbioh precipitated her from the train on the Southern road Christmas morning, just before it reached Westminster, S. C., where she was going to visit her mother. Mrs. Auld was found lying beside the traok in an unconscious condi tion ; everything was done that hu man skill could suggest for her re covery, but after nearly a week of terriblo suspense and anxiety to those who loved her, peacefully and quietly she fell asleep, to awake with the re deemed, in the smile of the Father's face. It was a sorrowing body of friends who met the husband at the depot in Elberton and went with him to his bereaved home, and then on Tuesday morning many hearts were boweil down in grief as the house filled with those who had come to pay their last tribute of love and re spect to one who had so recently beon among them. Very sweet and comforting waa tho prayer by llev. Brewer Board man and equally so were the words of Rov. C. 1. Stacy, as tenderly he pointed out to the stricket? family the loving caro of the Heavenly Father. Mr. Stacy spoke of the beautiful mansion prepared by the great Master Builder in the country where the loved ones had gone and in many other beautiful thought? ex pressed the hope and joy of Christ ians in the Saviour, who has himself Ind the way through the grave to tho glory beyond. Many beautiful Howers were sent as an expression of the love and esteem in which Mrs. Auld was held, also as a token of sympathy to the sorrowing luisband. From the offi cers of the Presbyterian church came an exqusite wreath, from the Ladies' Aid Society a handsome piece and from Georgie Sorosis, of which Mrs. Auld was long a member, a lovely bouquet. A great many other flow ers wero also sent by individuals and after tho concluding services at the cemetery, the grave was covered with the beautiful Moral tributes. This sad accident has removed from Elberton one who had long made this place lier home, and who wa? one of the most popular women I in the city. She will bo sadly missed in her home, the oburob, of whiob ehe has always been an aotive mem ber and in the social life of the town. To the family, husband, tnothor, sis ters, brothers, children and others the sympathy of hundreds of hearts goes out in the sad hour of their affliction and may it please the Father to pour balm into the wounds that only He oan heal. Your money refunded if after using three-fourths of a tube of ManZan you are dissatisfied. Return the balance of the tube to your druggist, and your money will be cheerfully returned. Take advantage of this offer. Sold by Wal halla Drug Co.; W. J. Lunney, Seneca. Discovery of Mnmm.cSh Csv?. In 1809, nearly a century ago, occurred the discovery of the Mam moth Gave, of Kentucky. Its dis closure probably resulted from the quest for "petro dirt," as soil found in limestone caverns, containing lime nitrate, was called. Legend gives other versions of the historical disoovery of the world's greatest cavern, but faot is more potent than folklore, says the Van Norden Magazine, and to the searoh for coves with suitable dirt for salt petre manufacture we probably owe the discovery of this great wonder. The feverish anxiety to find petro dirt was the direot result of the em bargo bill passed by Congress in 1807. That bill forbade American vessels to leave for Europe, and for eign vessels could not land cargoes here. We were getting on toward tho war of 1812 and needed gunpowder. To make gunpowder we must have saltpetre. Wo had been getting it from Italy and Spain, but the em bargo act stopped that. There was no American supply of che substance. A roving chemist, Dr. Samuel Brown, had, at Lexington, Ky., shown how by crude, but efficient, processes salt-petre, or potassium nitrate, could be obtained from "cave earth." Wood ashes, when lixivi ated and boiled with the leached product of the tine silt of limestone caverns, would furnish the preoioue produot on whioh depeuded a na tion's life. And so the quest foi oaves was begun and it was assidu ously continued. When Mammoth Cave waa found every part of the great cavern wat searched for cave earth. From pit, dome, byways, from crystal-bedecked avenues slaves carried the heavy loads of petre dirt to the leaching vats. Many thousands of tons oi soil were thus treated and the rude ohemistry of the day produoed some thing like 100,000 pounds of salt petre within two years. Heaps of leached soil, scores oi feet in length, a score in height, greet the visitor's eye for the first two miles of the great avenue which the visitor enters. But these do not tell the story. Many thousands ol tons of looso rocks were to be re moved and then replied, in ordei that the real bottom of the cavern might be reached. And nearly all of this was done with slave labor The compact piles of mud yet show tho hoof prints of patient oxen, ac well ns hub marks on the used piles What is Money? To the query, "What is money anyway?" the following answers art made : Money is the loudest sound in th( voice of life. The most effective substitute foi brains. A provider for everything bul happiness; a passport to everywhere but heaven. Something that always get? thc :dad hand. Money is the most difficult road tc cultivate. The best talking machine. That which women look for whil( nen sleep. A curse to some that have it ant \ onree to all that haven't. What the rich don't need and th( poor can't get. Tho breath of business. The antidote for poverty. That which speaks a language w< .mi all understand, but in which fevi ire able to convorse.-New Yorl Times. Nearly 70,000 tons of cork an leeded for thc bottled beer ant lerated waters consumed annually ii britain. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy Cure? Colds, Croup and Whooping Cough. ? Pointers on Altalfa. There are some truths about al falfa that all who grow . it should know. Cattle and sheep ought to be gradually accustomed to it in the green state ; other ise they will be very apt to get bloated. There are other orops of which this is true. Especially is suoh the oase when the alfalfa is wet with dew, rain or frost. The disorder arising in this way demands prompt puooturing with the knife or trooar. Here we have a great attraotion. Of courue the early disposition to eat it to excess can readily be guarded against. The good qualities of alfalfa are thus authoritatively stated : "Either greon or oured as hay, the nutritive qualities of alfalfa are sur passed by few other plants, red olover not exceeding it in protein or mus ole forming elements. "Farm animals of all kinds relish and thrive, and, in many instances, actually become quite fat, upon the dry hay alone, and cows kept upon it demonstrate its value for milk-mak ing, in both quantity and quality of product. It is an admirable crop for soiling purposes." Then it is a great enricher of the soil. Also it lives and flourishes for a long timo and is very productive. These are statements of truths to which several additions may cor rectly be made. CATARRH CURED AT HOME. READER: You have had Catarrh for years-have uboui doolded that you connut be cured. Kor tho first time you are ottered a reliable, simple home cure for Catarrh. HERRING'S CA TARRH CURE-$1.00 a bottle. Get a bottle from your drug store on our promise that If lt doesn't help you, you can have your money back. For sale by THREE PAPERS A WEEK FOR fl.50. Hy a clubbing arrangement with the Charleston Semi-Weekly Nows and Cou rier we are offering that papor and The Keowoo Courier for $1.60 per year. The Keowee Courier is recognized not only as the best paper in Ooonoe county, but it is rated among the best oouuty napers in South Carolina. The Semi-Weekly News and Courier is an excellent jour nal, publishod on Woduesdays aud Satur days, gives the detailed uewH of South Carolina as a speoial feature, and oarrioa the full Associated Press dispatches from all over the world. The combina tion of the two papers at $1.50 gives our ;>renent readers, as well ns new sub scribers, an opportunity to secure two of the best papers in the .state (three papers a week) for 60 eon tn more than the regu lar price of either. Let us send you two of the very best papers in South Carolina for almost tho price of one. The Velocity of I.IKIH. Light moves with tho amazing ve locity of 185,000 milos u second, a speed a million times ns great as that of a rifle bullet. It would make tho circuit of the earth's circumference, at the equntor, seven times in one beat of tho pendulum. For a long time tho light wns thought to bo Instantaneous, bot lt Is now known to have a mens urable velocity. Tho discovery was first made by menns of tho eclipses of. Jupiter's satellites. Jupiter, like the enrth, casts n nhndow, and when his moons pass through lt they aro eclipsed, Just ns our moon ls eclipsed when pnsslng through tho earth's shadow. Jupiter's shadow fnr sur passes In magnitude that of the earth. Ills moon revolves around him more rapidly than our moon revolves around tho earth, nnd their orbits nro nenrly In the plane of the planet's orbit. Consequently they nil, with the excep tion of the fourth and most distant satellite, pnss through the plnnet's shadow nnd nro eclipsed nt every rev olution.-ITesperlnn. Fireproof i'ollnlofd. A process lins recently been Invented for rendering celluloid nonlnflnmmn ble. In Its broad principles tho proc ess may bo snld to consist of Introduc ing Into the mass of celluloid when lt )ms roached the highest degree of fluid ity during Its manufacture a certain qunntlty of a salt, such ns phosphnte, bienrbonnte of ammonia or mngnoslum or still others. These snits possess tho property of giving off under the Influ ence of bent n grent quantity of gas. which stops the progress of tho com bustion. It Is claimed thnt quantities of uninflammable celluloid cnn bo man ufactured by the new process Into any form and alzo desired.-Scientific Amer ican. Wealth In Corncob*. The department of ngrlculturo re cently sent two chemists to Hoopeston to make experiments nt a large can nery there. They have BTK ^edod by simple methods of fermentation In get ting a yield of olevon gallons of alco hol from a ton of green cobs and by similar methods In getting six gallons of alcohol from a ton of green corn stalks. NEW TUNNEL SYSTEM. Shell Wall* Made ot Re-enforced Con crete Instead of Steel. A now systein of tunnel construction contemplates tito use of re-enforced concrete In the walls of the shell In place of cant Iron or steel. Tho sys tem ls for use with tho Hastings tun nel shiel.l, which was used so success fully In tho construction of 4,180 feet of the twenty-four foot nine Inch hors on the main conduit of the Chicago In tercepting sewer system. The foundation of the re-enforced tunnel lining ls to consist of a series of metal re-enforced segment blocks molded by a new metho? without pres sure or tamping, placed by a rotary segment hoist connected with th? shield and forced Into position by tbs hydraulic jacks that shove the shield forward. Waterproof pads will he used In the Joints and seams of each ring of segments, and the Inner sur faces of the blocks will be coate*! with waterproof material, after wbl**h a re enforcement of circular steel beams, a NEW TU NM Bli CONBTnOCTIOK. beam to each ring, will bo placed. These circular beams will bo braced by connecting longitudinal bars at tached at equal distances around the circumferential beams, says tho Iron Age. Over this foundation and at a suit able distance from it will bo laid a heavy wire netting, and over tho net ting will bo applied a conting of ce ment concrete, completely imbedding the metal. Tho Interior surface will be troweled smooth. This form of con struction ls said to bo durable and of moderate first cost compared with oth er systems of building. Cnlcluin Nitrate Prom Air. The world's greatest store of nitrog enous plnnt food-tho nitrate of sodn, or saltpeter, beds of Chile-is expected to become oxhnusted within a third ci a century. To provide a now supply ls therefore a problem of Immediate con-, cern, nnd for a number of years elec tricians have been striving to solve lt by using the electric spark for oxidis ing or "fixing" tho nitrogen of the air. Last year a factory wns started nt No todden. In Norway, for making calcium nitrate from air and limestone by means of the electric are flames, and this has given results so promising that new works, using 80.000 horsepower, will soon be opened. The calcium nitrate, which proves equal to the soda saltpeter as a fei tlllEer, ls now produced at a factory cost of $20 per ton. Where Colore Con? From, The cochineal bug furnishes many of the most brilliant colors, including the bright carmine, crimson, purple lake and scarlet. Tho cuttlefish gives the sepia, and Indian yellow comes from tho camel. Ivory chips produce Ivory black and bono black, and the exqnlslte Persian blue was discovered accidentally by fusing horses' hoofs and other refuse animal matter with Impure potassium carbonate. Crimson lake comos from tho roots and barks of certnln trees, blue black from tho charcoal of the vine chnlk, and Turkey red comos from the root of the madder plant found in Hindustan. India Ink ls made from burned camphor by tho Chin?se. New (. liiNsnm l? 1 MK Prorena. Tho new glnssnmklng process of Fourcault of Belgium combines some of the advantages of plate glass, which ls finished by rolling fiat upon a smooth table, and of ordinary window glass, which ls blown in large bubbles and cooled on n flat surf nco. In the new method the molten mnterlnl ls drawn upward through a system of rollers ris ing In n tier of seventeen pairs. The thickness ls regulated by the distance apart of the rollers In the pairs, and tho glass produced Is perfectly Ant and beautifully polished, Swallow" I"'"" From I,ami. During the recent exploration of tho Snrgnsso sea bj' his royal highness tho Trinco of Monaco five American swal lows were soon nt a distance of 840 milos from the nearest continent. The birds visited tho Princess Alice, tho ship that carried tho explorers, and made the vessel their headquarters for a time and then disappeared. No gulls or petrels were seen nt tills distance from land, and what the swallows were doing or whither they wore bound would be bani even to guess. Yellow Olnanea For Weak A > , H. Tho use of yellow or orango tinted glasses by persons who desire to pro tect sensitive eyes against brilliant light Is recommended by a French ophthalmologist. Mot?is of Angers, who rend a paper on tho subject boforo tho Paris Academy of Medicine. M. Mot?is has been using theso yellow glasses for fifteen years. I'nper Made From Reedit. A dispatch from Bucharest says an Austrian Inventor has discovered a now process of making paper from common marsh reeds. It ls asserted that the paper ls far superior to that made from wood pulp or esparto grass and almost the equal of that made of rags. The Courier-57th*year-$1 por year. Big Hog ID Georgia. Bowdon, Ga., Jan. 26.-J. R. Vanoe, residing near here, killed the largest hog perhaps that bas ever been killed in Carroll county tbis week. It was a cross between the Polsnd China and Berkshire, and was 28 months and 6 days old when killed and weighed 875 pounds gross and 808 pounds net. Dade's Little Liver Pills thoroughly olean the system, good for lazy livers, makes olear complexions, bright eyes and happy thoughts, a Sold by Walhalla Drug Co. ; W. J. Lunney, Seneca. PAINFUL Life often seems too lo fers from painful period: down, headache, backache dizziness, griping, cramps dreadful. To make life w Woman' It quickly relieves inila riches the Wood, strength permanently cures all disea weak women suffer. It is matchless, marvel* At all druggists' in $l.Q WBJTX US A LETTER freely and frankly, fa strictest confi dence, telling us all your symptoms and troubles. We will send free ??r?os (tn plain seeled envelope). AMrees: L? ele?' Advisory Dept.,The Chaitanooea Medicine Co., Chattanooga, Teno. Soll-Made Boy. The professor-You are better fed than taught ! Stout Student-I reckon you're right! You teach me, but I feed myself. WHITE'S Cream Vermifuge THE GUARANTEED WORM REMEDY THE CHILDREN'S FAVORITE TONIC. oiwAnc or IMITATIONS. THC GCNUINC PRCPARIO ONLY BY Ballard-Snow Liniment Co? f?T- I.OO!??., MO. WALHALLA DRUG COMPANY. W. J. LUNNEY, SENECA. Tho Atlantic ocean is crossed yearly by not less than ono thousand ships. SIO??M For Cough,Cold.G SoreThroat.StifiN Rheumatism and Neuralgia At ?II Dealers Price 25c 50o 6 HOC Sent- Free "Sloan's Book on Horses ^ Cottle, Hogs 6 Poultry 7 ' Address Or. Earl 3. Sloan \6\b Albany St Boston.Mass. I ire is moro than one way to get :rops to market. There is only ono o be sure of a full crop of smooth, sized, mealy potatoes. Nine per cent, of Potash e fertilizer is necessary, ble manure alone makes scaly, B and irregular shaped potatoes t with Potash, a larger yield of a - quality is a sure result. ?w to apply Potash, the reasons jplying it, and other vital points of issful potato growing, all aro dis .d in our booklet. "Why not havo [t costs you nothing but tho asking. OF* RM AN KALI WORKS fork W Nassau Mraat, or Attests. Gs. :22+ Cu.miu ColMlng Senator Russell A. Atgsr Osad. Washington, Jan. 26. - United States Senator Russell A. Alger, of Michigan, died soddenly at his home in this oity at 8.45 o'clock Thursday morning. There were practically no premonitory symptoms that the end was near. At 8.30 o'clock the Sena tor had a pleasant ohat with Mrs. Alger. A few minutes later the Senator suffered a reourrenoe of the heart trouble from whioh he had suf fered for a long time and death came quickly. PERIODS ng to the woman who suf s. Trie eternal bearing )) teucorrhea, nervousness, and similar tortures are or th living, take (anliii s Relief immation, purifies and en ens the constitution and sed conditions from which ous, reliable. O bottles. "I 1?I7ZXKD OIKATLY," write? Mrs. L. E. CUveager, of Beits view-, H. C., "at my atootttiyperiod?, all say His, but th? fat bottle of Car do! tara rn? wonderful rabef, ?ad now I am la better haakh than I have been for a long tune." Cowboy Kills Six Mexicans. Douglass, Ariz., Jan. 24.-In a single-handed combat at a Southern Pacific camp, 6 miles from Monte zuma, Sonora, Moxico, Bert Zelay, an Arizona cowboy, yesterday shot and killed six Mexicans. He killed three each in two separato fights and escaped. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought In joint assembly of the South Carolina Legislature on last Wed nesday Solicitor John S. Wilson was elected Judge of the Third CircuiL-Bj. over Representative T. B. Frn/.idf ?}) by a vote of 84 to 76. Mr. Wilson*^ succeeds to the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of judge lt. O. Purdy, of Sumter.