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fe_._. SOME STRANGE WAR TALES. Peculiar 'Horrors Happened to Appli cant? for Federal Pensiona. ($ Every ailment known to medioal soience aud some that are entirely original, if not imaginary, are in cluded in the oategory of. a ill ic tiona which seek amelioration through the United Statee pension commissioners. No matter how unreasonable may appear the stories contained in these applications for pensions, each re ceives a thorough investigation by the Beeret service of the bureau, an .organization which shrinks from ad vertising its exploits, although its members Could tell hundreds of tales of interesting variety. Pension Com missioner Warner has deoided ob jections to publioity being given the secret work of the office, but a leak will occasionally 'occur. Not infre quently the applications show dearly the earmarks of fraud, and some times a shrewd detective is sent thousands of miles to gather facts as to the claim. Often both men and women stretch their imagination as well as conscience in their persistent efforts to be placed on Uuole Sam's pension rolls. Some of the oases are as old as they are interesting.. Here'B a fellow who wants a pension for a "total wreck :" ^ "I fust got to be a total wreck frum liver and kidney trubbles and the.) I was totally wrecked by con sumption, whiob come on me sud? denly like, and now I am more totally wrecked by army troubles, sprains and hard marohing." An ox-soldier in Ohio wrote : "1 don't exactly know what disease J am Buffering with, but I do know , that I deserve a pension, as I am suffering the pains ef death all ovei my body and legs and feet. Make it a good one for I fought hard foi the flag." A hen-pecked husband, who evl dently ha* JO use for his wife, sayi in his application : "I got blooc poison by being hit with a hen's egf which waa not good. When yoi send my pension I want it made tx as my wife won't get any of it, fo: she in the one who tbrowed the egg.' A veteran in West Virginia think be should receive a pension beoaus< he fell off a thirty-foot bridge durinj the war, whiob resulted in a "genera breaking np of my entire system.' A veteran of the 4th W?BOonsii infautry was salivated by reason o excessive ?BO of salt pork during hi arm- career, and applies for a pen sion on the ground that he "got sal vatton in the army." The following extract is an excel lent example of an injury whlol made itself known after an interva of more than forty years : "The wa; I got my war injury was catching hog. Our captain wanted her fo forage, an' he was ohasin' the hog and she orawled through a hoale ii a rale fence. It was a big hoale at I thought I was about the size of th hog, an' I tried to orawl thro,' but Btuk an' trying to wiggle out throde the rales off, an' one hit m on the bed and knocked me sense lesB. I don't think the ketch in' c the hog bad anything to do with m line of duty, an' I wants a pensioi The hog waa never ketohed." A veteran in Howard count] Maryland, Bent the testimony of neighbor, who no doubt meant we enough, but did not know how t express himself. The latter swot to the statement that he had know the claimant for twelve years, an that "ho would not work unless con polled to." The witness reall meant to say that the claimant, whil really unable to work by reason < his physical infirmities, WSB frc qnently compelled to attempt labe in order to sustain himself. As oompanion pieoe this will do : "I ai a native of Miseouri. I ' want a jo in your office, then I won't ask fe no more raise in pension. I oler O. K., but I can't labor. I conl boss the other clerks and make thei stand around rw.d raise duly entitle pensions, keep them from loafing an whispering in office honrs, and st that things worked right. I coul show them how." A rather remarkable deolaratio was made by a Miohigan voterai Ile stated under oath that he picke up a shell on a battlefield of the wi derness and took it into his ten While holding the missile betwee his knees, examining it, the shell ei ploded, "badly shattering my nen ons system," but miraculously caui >?'?. '>.'.. v ', ' .'. < Letter to G. G. Jayncs, Walnalla, 8. C. Dear Sir: You may like to know what you pay for the paint in a gal lon of "paint," asRwming the pure paint part of all "paints" to be all alike; which it Isn't, and worth $1.75 a gallon. Of a paint adulterated 10 per cent, the pure paint part brines $1.94 a gallon. ?6 per cent brings $2.08 a gallon. 1 25 per cent brings $2.33 a gallon. 33 1-3 per cent brings $2.62 a gal lon. 50 per cent brings $3.50 a gallon. 75 per cent brings $7.00 a gallon. The average adulteration of paint ; in this country is about cue-third; so, you see, the average price the Ameri can people are paying for paint ls about $2.62 a gallon. lt ls a game of wita. Adulterators are always too sharp for the' bulle of consumers. People won't pay $1.75 a gall?n for paint. So they pay $f .62 a gallon for paint and something that looks like paint mixed with it. (They pay the painter besides, from $2 to $4 for palating those useless gal lons.) Why do they do it? They don't know Devoe. Yours truly, 18) F. W. Devoe & Co. P. S.-J. W. Bell, Walhalla, and Seneca Mercantile Co., Seneca, Bell our paint. . ing no other injury. An ex-can noneer of the regular batteries olaimB that he stopped a oannon ball with his abdomen and has since been badly troubled with stonaaoh dis orders. The ball, he says, was a spent one, and came bounding along, striking him squarely on the exterior of the inner man. From Tennessee a widow writes : "My husband waa terribly bloated in his stomach. He couldn't stoop over or straiten np without helpin' him self. To ham, beans, pork, eggs and cabbage his stomach waa repulsive. His reum?tica was the kind oalled plumbago. His dropsy was terrible.'' A neighbor of one Orville Jame son, who asked for a pension because of dropsy, wrote: "I believe that Orville Jameson is fatiged from ar oin' bia li vin' beeos he's too fat an' ways 200 pounds or more. The naighbors think he have dropsy, but I know he have no dropsy, becos he'd bust if he had more inside him than he now have. He are without vi trou s habits or references." The widow of a man who shoul dered a musket in the Pennsylvania reserves wanted a pension and she was asked if her husband was ever wounded. ?'Oh, yee," was the answer, "he received an ax wound of the left foot." Being asked to explain the circum stances surrounding the wounding of her hotter half, she said he out his foot while splitting .vood. It was not during the v/ar that this oc curred, but in 1899, at their home in Pennsylvania. The pension attor ney wanted to know what bearing this had on the pension law, and the widow answered curtly : "Well, Mr. Smarty, the ax he out his foot with is the same one he brought home with him from the war. It was an army ax." But there are stories of broken hearts, desertion, double lives and family troubles of all kinds. The sad side of life is given as well as the hnmorous. One woman to her letter adds a postoript. Here it is : "P. 8.-When my husband got home from fighting rebels I sup ported him on my needle till he went and died." One Gioranna, a member of the well-known Garibaldi Guard, recited in his application for pension that he was "probed" by a rebel bayonet at the Bull Run fight."--Kansas City Star. About 150 whales are captured yearly. Eaoh whale averages 2,000 gallons of oil. State of Ohio, City of Toledo, Lucas County. Frank J. Cheney makes oath that lie ls senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co..doing business in the City o f Toledo, County and State aforesaid, und that said firm will pay the sum of one hundred dollars for jach and every case of catarrh that .?innot be cuied by the use of Hall's Catarrh Cure. Frank J. Cheney. Sworn to before and subscribed n my presence, this Cth day of De iember, A.D. 1886. (Seal.) A. W. Gleason, Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure ls taken Inter lally, and acts directly on the blood md mucous surfaces of the system, '?.nil for testimoni?is tree. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O. Sold by all druggists, 76c. Tako Hall's Family Pilla for conso lation. MOONSHINERS PASSING OUT. Comparatively Little Illicit DistllUn* Ia l)one i<?ow. [ Washington Dispatoh] "The Passing of the Moonshiners" might well be the title of a story whioh has been written in offloial reports to the government during the past half century. In that story is written mnoh of romance, poesy and tragedy. As a tale, it is die tinotly American ; and it tells the life history of many a venturesome mountaineer and the members of his family who have fought for what they believed to be a principle. The midnight of the illicit dis tiller has been sounded. He is pass ing into the shadows of a romantic history and in a few years he will be known no more forever. In the year?, particularly since the ol vii war, he has given the govern ment more trouble than many con flicts with foreign powers would have caused merely because he thought he was right. No man who ever came into personal contact with a manu facturer of "mountain dew" could fail to be impressed with the idea that the moonshiner felt that he was well within his rights as an American oitizen. In the fastnesses of the mountains, into whioh he was driven by tl IOHO whom he regarded ss perse cutors, he thought the whole matter out for himself and became con vinced that the government had no right to pursue him and prevent him from manufacturing whiskey from the products of the soil whioh he raised himself. He could not be made to understand why he should be compelled by the government to pay an internal tax on a produot of corn or rye while a miller was not compelled to do the same. As a result, the moonshiner un slung his long rifle and, with powder and lead, fought the ad vaneo of the revenue agents. It was life for life, and the frightful tragedies whioh have occurred in the South, where most of the illicit distilling was car ried on, would make volumes of vivid reading. The day of the moonshiner, how ever, is done. The recordn contained in offioial reports to the government indicate that the work of illicit dis tilling practically is ended. Curi ously enough the end, whioh has oome slowly, is not entirely due to the activities of the agents of the revenue servioe, but rather to publio opinion in the South. The belief is growing in that section of the coun try, whether right or wrong, that a solution of the race question is de pendent on the stamping out of the manufacture of whiskey. It is felt that so long as whiskey may be ob tained easily by the negroes, race trouble cannot be eradicated. The general result of this senti ment, whioh has permeated the Soi-.th generally, is the enaotment of the most stringent liquor laws by the Legislatures, and in some in stances reoently to be noted, the en aotment of absolute prohibition laws. That those laws are to be enforced by the State authorities is evidenced by the attitude of the judges who hoar liquor oases brought beiore them. One judge alone, in Georgia, has been oooupied for nearly twenty years in disposing of oases of illicit distilling, and it has been his duty to impose reoently sentences on men whose grandfathers, years ago, went to prison for similar offences. In the opinion of the government officials, the day of illicit distilling of whiskey on any considerable scale has passed and it is expeoted that in a few years the moonshiner will have disappeared as completely from the South as from any other part of the Union. Warning. If you have kidney and bladder :rouble and do not use Foley's Kidney 3ure, you will have only yourself to linnie for results, as it positively ;ures all forms of kidney and bladder Iisea8e8. Dr. J. W. Bell. Tho Color of Them. (From the Philadelphia Press.) 3rass widows may, of course, be blue, Rut I have never seen, \'o more has any one of you, A single ono that's "green." "When I married you you said that 'd never want for anything." "Did I say that?" "You did!" "That shows how little I knew of vomen then."-Detroit Free Press. o 4L ei T ?r> xi. x Jk\ ? Baan th? J* The Kind Voa Haw Always BongJI Ode to the Automobile. You make rae tired, Von badly unwired, You back-kick-fired, You fiend inspired. You seldom run, You break for fun, You're always undone, You son-of-a-gun. You promise a ride, . You humble my^ pride, You buctopen wide, You hypocrite snide. You go to the shop, You limp and you hop, You jerk and you Btop, You exploded May-pop. You run up a hill, You may even kill, You give me a spill, You make me 111. You make many breaks, You are full of mistakes, You cause many aches, You collection of fakes. You run like a rabbit, You are wrong by habit, You heat in the babbit, You repair shop inhabit. You bust your tank, You odor rank, You taste uaw Trum th? bank, You blame crazy crank. You break in the sprocket, You rob my pocket, You stick In the socket, You In cylinders knock it. You crazy cantankerous, bug-house cuss, You keep me and my folks In a con tinuous fuss, You should swap yourself off for a broken down 'bus, You devouring, desructve, mechani cal muss. -M. B. H. Atlanta, Ga. Hay Fever and gammer Colds. Victims of hay fever will experi ence great benefit by taking Foley's Honey and Tar, as it stops difficult breathing immediately and heals the Inflamed air passages, and even K it should fall to .'ure you it will give in stant relief. The genuino ls in a yel low package. Dr. J. W. Bell. YorkvLtle New Era Suspenden (Front the Rock Hill Herald.) The many admirers and friends of the New Era, of Yorkville, will be sorry to learn that that paper will be no more. E. G. Sandlfer, the editor, was in the etty on Monday morning en route to Columbia and stated to us that on account of such poor sup port along advertising lines, and be coming discouraged from promises from mon who proposed forming a stock company in his behalf, with none of the promises ever material izing, he felt It best to close down. Editor Sandlfer is a forceful writer, and many people throughout the county will regret to learn that he will not be In our midst any more. He had worked up a seemingly good business, having a circulation of over a thousand, and from all appearances he Beemed to be doing a good busi ness in the journalistic field. The advance In the prices of printing ma terials ls, perhaps, more than any thing else, responsible for *he con dition of the paper. Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup ls sold under a positive guarantee to cure constipation, sick headache, stomach trouble, or any form of indigestion. tiik "liiiiulacturers refund nr money. What more can anyone do? Dr. J. W. Bell. Prohibition is Coming. (From the Augusta Chronicle.) There is no more chance to Install a dispensary In North Augusta than In the vestibule of one of the Augusta churches. The prohibitionists, the liquor men, the teetotalers and the half-and-half ers of that beautiful little suburban home of women and children, to a man, say "No!" The board of con trol would not, if it could, slap a booze shop among those babies and ladles for the accommodaion and edification of drunken Edgefield and Aiken negroes. Besides a dispensary there would not be worth a snap, In a money way, prior to January 1, the date prohibi tion ls effctlve In Augusta. January 10, 1908, the South Caro lina Legislature Is going to vote out liquor from South Carolina, lqck, i?tock and barrel. HELP IS OFFERED TO WORTHY YOUNG PEOPLK Wo earnestly request all yoting persons, no matter how limited their means or education, who wish to obtain a thorough business training und good posi tion, to write by first mail for our great half-rate offer. Rucees?, independence and probe bio fortune aro guaranteed. Don't delay. Write today. The Ga.?Ala. Easiness College, Macon. Ga. N.B.-300 requests for telegraphers now filed; men or women. Salaries $?O to $70 per month. EES LA CONTAINS HONKY Al An Improvement o\ system of a cold by estlsffictlon or monti Sold by DR. J. W. BEI ' / J \rf?Ir&BKsMsflBSsH ?N ?cgetable Preparation Tor As similating lUcFoodandRc^u?i lir.g thc Stomachs anftBtowcls of JcVi <t-K rsv ( UI-L-I>KI:N Brr! Promotes DigesllonXhcerPuh i, ross and Host. Contains neither ?I Opiiim.Moit>l?ne nor>tmeral. "NOT "NAR C OTIC . Av? mf OM Pr SAMUEL PITCHER ?tx . Sr* rn* * {CorktU* Stitt - V,. A perfect Remedy for Constipo nor?. Sour Stoti^h,Diarrhoea Worms .Convulsions .Feverish ness and Loss OF SLEEP. Facsimile Signature of KEW YORK. Allj (i nt 1111,-* i.ld J j DOSI S J ?J C i rs I s ll EXACT COPY or WRAPPER. Tlie Mountain Association. Madison, August 15.-Special: The Mountain Union Singing Conven tion convened in annual session at Unity Baptist church in July, 1907, and was in session two days, with Rev. Robert Cobb, Sr., chairman. There was a large attendance and a number of singers of the uDper division of Oconee county and a num ber from other sections. The following named ministers were present, opening and closing the sessions with prayer: Revs. Robt. Cobb, R. J. Vinson, D. F. Carter.Mas siah Cobb and Henry Long. The professors of music wore John Bearden, Ervin Long, Burt Lee, Wm. Ables, Bunyan Phillips, David Ra uiey, Wm. Black, D. Black, Andy BiacK. A long table was set near the j church, loaded down with everything good and nice to eat. prepared by the good ladies of the community. About two years ago the Mountain Union Singing Convention was organ ized by Rev. Robert Cobb and Profs. John Bearden and ErvIn Long. These gentlemen were joined by Revs. D.F. Carter and R. J. Vinson and many singers and citizens, until the Moun tain Association of singers has re sulted in much good and great im provement in church music through out the mountain country. I had the pleasure of addressing the convention . for fifteen minutes, and with good work I hope the Moun tain Singing Association will reBult in much good to the cause of religion. O. M. A. Ten Warn in Bed. . "For ten years I was confined to my bed with disease of my kidneys," writes R. A. Gray, J. P., of Oakville, Ind. "It was so severe that I could not move part of the time. I consult ed the very best medical skill availa ble, but could get no relief until Fo ley's Kidney Cure was recommended to me. It has been a Godsend to me." Dr. J. W. Bell. Twelve-Mile Evangelistic Services. Rev. W. M. Walker, evangelist, of the Twelve-Mile River Association, will hold revivf.l meetings in said as sociation as follows: Salem-August 25 to September 1. Little River-September 8 to Sep tember 15. Pleasant Hill-September 15 to September 22. Golden Creek-September 22 to September 29. T. H. Stewart, J. S. Fox, Frank Heaton, Committee. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of XATIVE COI ND TAR. CONFORMS TO NATION r?r many Cough. Lung and Bronchi acting aa a cathartic on th? bowels r refunded. Prepared by PINEULB r fiL, Walhalla. ^ W. J. Ll r For Infants and Children. rho Kind You Have Always Bought Bears Signature of Thirty Years TM* ci HT* un ro?MN?. H rv? ?OR? Orr/. B. A. BENTLEY, Manager. K. T. J A YNES, Attorney* SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO collections ID the County. Try us. Address all communications to B. A. BENTLEY, Manager, _Walhalla, a a THREE PAPERS A WEEK FOR $1.60 By a olubbing arrangement with the Charleston Semi-Weekly News and Con rler we are offering that paper and The Keowee Courier for $1.CO per year. The Eeo wee Courier is recognized not only as the best paper in Goonoo county, bnt it is rated among the best county papore in South Carolina. The Semi-Weekly News and Courier ia an oxcollont jour nal, published on Wednesdays and Satur days, gives the detailed news of South Carolina as a speoial feature, and carries the full Associated Press dispatches from all over the world. The combina tion of the two papers at $1.60 gives our present readers, as well as new sub scribers, an opportunity to seoure two of the bent pa >OIH in the State (three papera a week) for CO cents more than the regu lar ju ice of either. Let us send you two of the very best papers in South Carolina for almost the price of one. Kl LL THE COUGH AND CURB i ? LUNGS WITH Dr. King's New Discovery FOR C8?&13 .?? AND ALL THROAT AND HiNQ TROUBLE?, GUARANTEED SATISFACTORY OR MONEY REFUNDED. BLUE RIDGE RAILWAY CO. BETWEEN BELTON AND WALHALLA.. Time Tobie No. 14.-In Eject May 6,1907. EASTBOUND 12 10 8 LyWalhalla. Lr West Union. Argeneoa. LvHeneca. LyMordanla Junction Lv*Adauia. Lv?Cherry. LvPendlelon. Lv ?Antun. Ly*Denver. ' . ~. st Anderson_ A..? .'' irson-PaMD?p LvAnderson-FassDep Lv'Anderson-FrtDop ArBelton. A M 8 86 8 40 8 58 9 00 9 IS 9 18 9 80 9 38 9 4? 10 00 ?? OS 10 08 10 19 p M 2 27 2 82 2 CO 2 63 3 08 8 ll 8 28 8 31 8 89 8 51 ?'??.I 4 00 4 26 P.M. 1 46 2 01 4 40 4 46 6 08 5 12 6 46 6 00 6 15 6 86 6 46 20 18 AK 8 80 8 93 ? or? PM 7 00 7 03 7 86 WESTBOUND L vile] ton. L* ?Anderson-Fr't Do ArAnderson-Pass De LvAnderson-Pass De Ly ?West Anderson.... Lv?Donver. LVAntun. LvPendleton. Lv*?Chorry. LT* Adams....... LvMordanla Junction. Ar He wc a. LvHeneca. Ly West Union. A r Wal li .II i. ll j 9 j 7 PM 4 30 4 67 fi 00 6 oe 6 20 6 28 5 86 5 48 6 51 C 04 ? 07 6 25 t; ;<o 19 A M 8 20 8 80 8 60 9 05 9 86 9 60 9 66 10 20 10 26 11 26 11 65 12 06 AM 10 48 11 22 ll 26 28 PM 680 7 02 7 OS * Flag stations. Will also stop at the following stations to tait? >n and let ol passengers: Phlnney's, James's and landy Springs, Toxaway, Welch. Nos. 9,10, fl and I2.flrst olass passenger,dally: So?. 7 and 8, ?lally except Sunday: No?. 18,18, 20 ind 23, mixed, daily. A. B. ANDREWS, President. J. R. ANDERSON, Superintendent. IGH SYRUP AL PURE FOOD AND DRUGS LAW? al Remedies, because It ride the . No opfete*. Guaranteed to aire MEDICINE CO., CHICAGO, U. 5. A* JNXEY, Seneca. . vMMto-t ?/