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THU FOREST CONVENTION. Walli lilla's Representative .to the Meeting Telle What was Done. West Union, Jan. 20.-Editors ot Keowee Courier: Please allow space tor just s few lines as to the forest convention, held in Atlanta on th? 16th instant. It waB my privilege and pleasure to attend this convention as a rep resentative of the town of Walhalla. Two meetings wero held, one in the afternoon, the other in the evening. Both were largely and enthusiasti cally attended. There were present delegations from hoards of trade and other organisations from all over the fjtate of Georgia, and from vari ous parts of Alabama, Kentucky.Ten nesseo, North Carolina and South Carolina, and the people attended en masse from the city of Atlanta. The valions woman's clubs of tho city formed a good part of the gath erings, and lent zeal and enthusiasm to the cause of the convention. Ev erybody seemed deeply interested in the interesting and instructive pro ceedings of the meetings, and by these proceedings all Beemed to have edge added to their enthusiasm and determination to have our Appalach ian and White mountain forests pre* ' served. Governor Hoke Smith, of Georgia, presided over the convention, and made a stirring address before the afternoon session, forcefully setting forth the many advantages that would follow the passage of the Ap palachian and White Mountain pre serve bill, now ponding before Con gress. He deplored the appathy of the people in tho past In this matter, but hoped n w that we were going to have a stirring reign of enthusi asm, which would force the bill through Congress during the present session. Governor Smith emphasized the importance of the measure from the different view points, and then stressed the point that we should throw aside orr indifference all along the line; matre our wlBhes known to our representatives in Congress in no uncertain way, and GET THE BILL PASSED. It was a matter of keen regret on all sides that South Carolina's Governor could not be with us at the convention, but he will still have other opportunities to help advance the cause for which the meeting was held, and Governor Ansel can be de pended on to do his full share. The afternoon meeting was also I addressed by Prof. Akerman, who occupies the chair of forestry In the University of Georgia, Charles Wad dell, of the American Institute of Electric Engineers, and C. P. Good year, of Brunswick, one of Georgia's staunchest supporters of the scheme for Inland navigation. All these ad dresses, along their respective lines, were highly Interesting, entertain ed and instructive, and carried with hem good, sound, convincing argu ments why tho mountains of the Ap palachian range should not be reck lessly denuded of their beneficent forests. The evening session, for tho most part, was taktn up by most admira ble addresses by Dr. W. W. Lan drum, of the First Baptist church of Atlanta, and expert forester, Hon. Enos A Mlllisi of the Federal Bu reau of Forestry. Dr. Landrum made a strong and telling appeal for posterity, eloquently portraying the distressing neediness of futurity as Kt timber and other blessings con served by properly preserved forests, if something is not done, and right soon at that, to check the injudicious "lumbering" now going on In our Appalachian chain of mountains. Mr. Mills's address was peculiarly interesting. Much of his life has been spent among the forests, and he has grown to love trees and birds that prey upon their insect destroy ers. He commended the pecker wood as a very desirable citizen, and spoke In poetic praise of it co-work ers in the woods. Much of Mr. Mills's address was poetic, but none the less true for that, for it abounded throughout with Important facts, and Irrefutable reasoning. He pre dicted, and adduced statistical fig ures to bear out his prediction, that if something ls not done we will have a timber famine within the next fifteen or twenty years. Mr. Mills seemed thoroughly conversant with his subject and handled it In a way that delighted his every hearer. After Mr. Mills's address several other addresses came from different members of i ie audience,, all of which showed enthusiastic interest In the purpose of the meeting. Before adjournment, the souse of the convention was shown by the ad option of the following resolutions: "The Appalachian National Forest Association, in convention assembled, representing a membership through out the Southern States, with accred ited delegates from the Atlanta sec tion of American Institute of Elec trical Engineers, the Georgia Feder ation of Women's Clubs, the Atlanta Woman's Club, and chambers of commerce or boards of trade In At lanta, Macon, Athens, Brunswick,Co lumbus, Cornella, Dublin, Romo, Ga.; Newberry, Charleston, Belton, Spar tanburg, Walhalla, S. C.; Huntsville, Mobile, Birmingham and Opellka, Ala.; Nashville, Tenn.; Louisville, Ky.; Asheville, N. C.; tho Greater Charlotte, N. C., do resolve as fol lows: "Whereas, official statistics show that tho people of the United States face within a decade a lumber fam ine, due to the wasteful and extrav agant use and wanton methods of lumber and forest Aros; and, "Whereas, our Appalachian for ests are now being rapidly depleted and are about our only remaining sources of hardwood supply; and, "Whereas, we recognize that for est coverings are essential not only to our timber supply, but are of su preme importance to climate and ag" rlculture, to water supply and navi gation; and, "Whereas, the cutting already done has shown its baneful effects throughout the South, and demon strates forcibly from many stand points, the necessity of the conser vatism of this source of our natural wealth; and, "Whereas, the perpetuation of our forests can only be done by the natu ral *voalth; and, be lt "Resolved, That the Appalachian National Association and affiliated \ bodies, earnestly urge upon the Con gress of the United States the cstab llshment of national forests, in the Appalachian region by the prompt passage ot the Appalachian-White Mountain bill. "Resolved, That the Governors of all the Southern States be requlrea to appolui at once delegations of not less than twenty members from their respective States to attend the hear ing of the Appalachian-Whltv Moun tain bill on January 30th before the House Committee of Agriculture, and that the Governors of the State's tuemselves h4hd their respective del egations. "Resolved, That Govrnor Hoke Smith, of Georgia, be requested to use nls good offices with the Gover nors of the other States in order to insure their prompt action in this vitally important matter. "Resolved, That copies of these resoluticoB be sent by the secretary of this convention to all Congress men and Senators from the Southern States, requesting their hearty and active support, and their votes for the measure." Jas. F. Neville. .100 Reward, $ 100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learu that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that ls catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure ls the only positive euro now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional dis ease, requires a constitutional treat ment. Hall's Catarrh Cure ls taken Internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the'foun dation of the disease, andglving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative power? that they offer one hundred dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio. Sold by druggists, 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for con stipation. Ebenezer Items. Ebenezer, Jan. 21.-Special: We are sorry to know that Mrs. J. S. 'Collison, who has been sick, is no better at this writing, but we wish for her recovery at an early date. The pound supper, given at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Tollison, Saturday night, was eujoyed by all present. Mrs. Bruce, of Bounty Land, spent Saturday and Sunday with relatives here. Miss Bertha Bmrke, who has been sick for the psst week, is Improving. Mr. and Mrs. Bud Galbreath, of Cateechee, visited in this community last week. Wo are sorry to know that Mrs. C. H. Whitmire has been very sick, but wish her a spoe-?y recovery. Mr. and Mrs. Will McDonald and little daughter, of near Seneca, vis ited nt the home of Mrs. Ella Chan dler Sunday. Married, at the home of W.J. Hunt, the oinciatlng notary, on January 19, Wm. C. Wald and Miss Senle Dea ton. Their friends extend congratu lations and best wishes. Success to The Courier. E.S.G. To stop that pain In the back, that stiffness of joints and muscles, take Plneules. They are guaranteed. Do not suffer from rheumatism, back ache, Kidney trouble, when you get 30 days' treatment for $1. A single dose at bedtimes proves their merit. Get them to-day. Sold by J. W.Bell, Walhalla; W. J. Lunney, Seneca. If you haven't the time to exer cise regularly, Doan's Regulets will prevent constipation. They Induce a mild, easy, healtM':1 action of the bowels without g) lp!r.?,. Ask your druggist for them. 25c. Snicide Stops Divorce Snit. Alberquerque, N. M., Jan. 22. The trial of the divorce suit of Mrs. Pearl Turner against Mark C. Tur ner, a Federal clerk, was discon tinued to-day when the court was .?otlfled by telephone that Mrs. Tur ner had shot and killed herself at tho home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mausard. Mrs. 1'urnor left a note to her mo ther In which she said she could not endure to face the charge made by her husband that she was not mor ally fitted to raise their child. She hud sued for divorce on tho ground of cruelty and non-support. ASKH US TO lit! NT IT. Tells How to Preparo a Simple Mix turo to Overcome Dread Disease. To relieve the worst forms of rheu matism, take a teaspoonful of ,the following mixture after each meal and at bed time: Fluid Extract Dandelion, one-half ounce; Compound Kargon, one ounce; Compound Syrup Sarsapa rilla, three ounces. These harmless Ingredients nan be obtained from our home druggists, and aro easily mixed by shaking thom well In a bottle. Relief is gen erally felt from the first few doses. Thia prescription, states a well known authority in a ('loveland iiiornlrg paper. forc-*9 tho clogged up, inactive kidneys to filter and strain pom the blood the poisonous waste matter and uric acid, which causes rheumatism. As rheumatism is not only the most painful and torturous disease, but dangerous to life, this simple ^cipe will no doubt bo greatly val ued by many suffi -n-n here at home, who should at once ? epare the mix ture to get this relief. It is said that a person who would take this prescription regularly, a dose or two daily, or even a few times a week, would never have seri ous kidney or urinary disorders or rheumatism. Cut this out and preserve lt. Good rheumatism prescriptions, which re ally relieve, are scarce, Indeed, and when you need lt, you want it badly. Our druggists here say they will either supply these ingredients or make the mixture ready to take, if any of our roadors so prefer. o o o o o o o o o o o o PANICS AND o 0 LEGISLATION, O o -o- o o Frederic J. Haskln, in Atlanta o o Journal. o ooooooooooo This country expects Congress to make some changes in the existing financial laws at this session. Fi nancial legislation follows financial panics as night the day. When there is no money trouble and business is sailing along smoothly, any attempt to chauge the financial laws, how ever much that change may be need ed, is met with determined opposi tion from almos' every quarter. But let money get (ig*?t and the fear of a general pAulc seize the people, and then here is a unanimous demand for new flnanoial legislation. . . * . . Many remedies are suggested and many theories ar?" presented. A central national bank . of issue; an asset currency issued under a heavy tax to insure retlreemnt when the bank notes are no longer needed; a system of federation reservo banks in each geographical section; a credit currency under control of tho individual banks; a guarantee of the integrity of deposits In national bankB, are some of the proposed plans. All save the last mentioned look to the establishment of that ?long-desired reform-an elastic cur rency which will expand and contract automatically according to the needs of the country. The guarantee of deposits looks toward the preven tion of panics by removing the cause for that psychological phe nomenon, "a run on the bank." The relation between financial pan ics and financial legislation is as old as money and law. The money len ders In Egypt caused financial strin gency by the simple method of charging usury. Therefore, Egypt ian law and Mosaic law condemn the practice of usury. The Bank of Amsterdam was the first great financial institution. It was established in 1609. Its pur pose was to provide a uniform cur rency Instead of the verylng coln values of the day. It received de posits of coln and bullion and issued receipts of the weight of the depos ited metal. These receipts circulat ed as money, Just as gold and silver certificates now circulate In the country with the exception that the bank money was better than coln, because it did not lose by abrasion. It,therefore, commanded a premium. For more than a century this bank Cluck to honest methods. Then lt entered into speculation and advanc ed the bullion, which it had pledged to keep In Its vaults, to the Dutch East India Company. The govern ment was a party to the enterprise and there was no public inspection of the affairs of the institution. Af ter fifty years the true stato of af fairs waa discovered and the groat bank's money went far below i ar. Since that failure every government has in some fashion exercised the right of Inspection of banks. ***** The use of credit made possible by modern systems of banking was not discovered until the latter part of the seventeenth century. The Bank of England was founded in 1694 on plans suggested by William Paterson, a Scotchman, and lt grew out of a loan to the government of $6,000,000. Paterson afterwards floated the ill-fated Darien scheme and w?:s the first victim claimed by the frenzied finance o' the Isthmus of Panama. The Bank of France was organized a few years later, In 1716, by John Law, another Scotch man. Law founded his bank on the prospects of the millions to be made In developing the Mississippi valley and Canada. When the Mississippi bubble burst the bank, went with it, after a brief career of four years. Legislation always following, the laws of France would not permit the establishment of another bank for nearly sixty years thereafter. ***** It was after the collapse of the ill fated schemes for exploiting the ter ritory of the new world that govern ments everywhere stepped In and imposed conditions upon the ban!' ing business for the benefit of the public. The banking business never has been entirely separated from the government, and history shows that constant vigilance on the part of governments is necessary to protect hanks from bringing ruin upon them selves and disaster, upon the /people. The history of American financial legislation is a history of panics and their results. The Issue of almost unlimited amounts of paper money during the Revolution caused a fi nancial anarchy In the newly inde pendent Thirteen States. The ^rst consideration of the governme: c un der the constitution was to p ovlde some remedy for existing flranclal evils. Alexander Hamilton's plans were approved and tho national cedit was placed upon a firm basis. A charter was given to a Bank of the United States which was entrust ed with all fiscal business of the government. The charter expired in 1811, and wns not renewed. The approaching war with England Boon threw the country Into a panic and immediately after tho severe strin gency of 1814 the second Bank of the United States was chartered in 1816 for a period of twenty years. Another panic in 1831 caused a demand for financial change and President Andrew Jackson's oppo sition to an extension of tho bank charter was supported. His fight against the bank ls one of the most thrilling chapters in American polit ical history. The charter was not renewed. Then the State banks be gan issuing money almost without limit, inar> ot them being organized for no other purpose than to print bank noten. This caused he great panic of 1837. The people then regretted their opposition to the Bank of the Uni ted States and at the next election Jackson's party was defeated and William Henry Harrison was elected President. He died after a month's service and was succeeded by John Tyler. Congress did its best to fol ? TRAD! REGI S' low the panic with *he usual legisla tion and passed bills to recharter the bank. Tyler vetoed them and pet his face against the policy which Harrison undoubtedly would have pursued. Until the last few months there have been few men in public life brave enough to face the ghost of Old Hickory and declare for the establishment of a central govern ment bank. The smaller panics of the ante bellum period were all followed by chang?e in bnnking and coinage laws. The civil war produced a financial panic five yeare long, which was eon8tantly reflecting Itself In finan cial legislation. The "greenbacks" were of that vintage. The present national bank system was born In 1863 of the brain of Salmon P. Chase, Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury. The advance of gold over the legal tender notes caused wild and disastrous gold speculation dur rlug the war. This became so bad that after the sharp panic of 1864 Congress decided to stop gold specu lation. Therefore on June 17 it passed a hill prohibiting contracts for gold for future delivery. On that day gold was worth $196. By June 30 it had gone up to $250, the law having had precisely the oppo site effect from the Intention of its sponsors. It was repealed on July 2, after having been in effect fifteen days. The State banks were subject to as many different systems of law as there were States, but in almost every State there were "wild-cat" banks at one time or another. These issued money without limit. Every man carried In his pocket a "detec tor" which was a printed list of forged and counterfeited notes. The newspapers each day carried long lists of bank note quotations, for one could not tell whether a five dol lar bill was worth five dollars or five cents until he looked up that particular bank's rating in a relia ble Hst of quotations. The tax of 10 per cent on the Issue of bank notes by State banks put an effec tual end to the "wild-catters," al though the constitutionality of the act ls still doubted by some of the leading lawyers of the country. This tax was inipissed at the time of the passage ot iud national bank act in 1863. . . . . . The panic of 1873 is associated closely with a certain bit of legisla tion sometimes called the "crime of '73." At any rate, the coinage laws were changed in that year and silver has never been the same since. The panic of 1884 was attempted to be met by a tariff bill, the people then believing in commercial rather than strictly financial remedies. The panic of 1890 caused another change in the coinage laws and the silver purchasing clause of the Sherman act was put on the statute books. The much greater panie of 1893 caused the calling of an extraordi nary session of Congress to repeal the same purchasing clause. TboBe two bits of legislation awakened the whole country to talking of fi nancial legislation and that interest was fanned into white heat in the campaign of 1896. The Republicans, being successful in that campaign on a bl-metalllc platform leaning to ward the gold standard, placed a law on the statute books which only partly pleased the extreme gold par ty, but which was enough to settle the question. Since that time the need for cur rency reform has been talked of in every Congress. Tho last Congress passed the Aldrich bill without so much as causing a ripple on the sur face of a becalmed sea of public opinion. But the necessary quality of elasticity in our system of cur rency ls still lacking and the trou ble has been recently demonstrated. Everybody ls now awake to the fact that something ls wrong with finan cial conditions when the most pros perous country in the world at the most prosperous stage of its whole history can go to bed at night with plenty of money for every purpose and wfke up in the morning with out enough to pay car fare. . * * . ? The/business of the modern world must tte conducted on a credit basis. There Xis far more business than old time fish gu F. S. Royster Guano Co. there can be money of a kind that will be recognized aa money every where-gold. lt ls only , by confi dence In the bp aka that confidence can be sustained in the use of credits and of representative money. The banking system is the one business system upon which the whole com mercial and Industrial structure of the world stands. The panic just over was not a particularly disas trous one and probably will be re membered in the future as only a flurry. But if lt shall result in leg islation which will work a cure of tho evils and supply the deficiencies of the present American banking system it will be worth while. Fi nancial legislation is not possible in clear financial weather. A Card. This is to certify that all druggists are authorized to refund your money if Foley 'a Honey and Tar falls to cure your cough or cold. It Stops the cough, heals the lungs and pre vents serious results from a cold. Cures la grippe coughs and prevents pneumonia and consumption. Con tains no opiates. The genuine is in a Sollow package. Refuse substitutes, old by all druggists. Smlth-Fendlcy. Salem, Jan. 23.-Special: Avery pre ..ty home wedding too place De cember 28, 1907, at the residence of the bride's father, W_E. Smith, near Salem, when John Fendley, of Fall Creek, lcd Miss Ida Smith into the parlor, and they were happily mar ried by Rev. B. F. Murphree. They were greeted by hosts of friends with well wishes, and all were invit ed into the dining room, where the table was spread with an abund ance of nice things. The young cou ple Will likely make their home in Oklahoma. We wish the young couple a long and happy life. F. Dr.KIng's New life Pills The beat tn the world? Plain Talks < A Talk to F You use a fertilizer of course, but do you use enough ? The yield per acre, and the profit therefrom increases in far greater proportion than the cost ofadditional fertilizer. What is an increase in cost of 22.00 to ?10.00 per acre for fertilizer when the returns therefrom show an increase of ?50.00 to ?260.00 per acre? The big Magnolia Fruit Farms at Durant, Miss., tested the well-known Virginia-Car olina Fertilizer in different IP quantities o n their straw berry crop. Result : when 1,000 lbs. per acre were used the profit was $75.00 moreptr (ure than when 500 lbs. per acre were used. This is modem intensive cul ture, thc method that M doub ling and trebling the crops of all kinds of fruit in either good or in poor and worn-out land all over thc country-and in good soil, too. AFTER THE RASCALS. Crime to Gire Ont Crop Figures m fore Time. Washington, Jan. 22.-An amend ment was added to the penal code at the close of business in the house yesterday, making it a crime for any employee of the government to give out or expose any statistics, figures or information regarding crop esti mates or conditions before'they are regularly published by the proper authorities ai the proper time. The. amendment was made by Burlesori, of Texas. Representative Ollie James caller* up. and had passed in the house to day his resolution to' prevent the government crop statistician from giving out false llgureB about crop conditions. PlneBalve Carbolized acts like a poultice, draws out inflammation and poison. Antiseptic, healing. For chapped hands, lips, cuts, burns. Sold by J. W, Bell, Walhalla; W. J. Lun ney, Seneca. Mysterious Figures. Put down tho number of your liv ing brothers. Double the number. Add three. ' Multiply result by five. Add number of living sisters. Multiply result by ten. Add number of dead brothers and sisters. Subtract 160 from the result. The right-hand figure will be the number of deaths. The middle figure will be the num ber of living sisters. The left-hand figure will be the number of living brothers. Strange freak of figures, isn't it? -Dixie Homo. O?BTOmX, Bolitho vf Ito Kind You Haw Always Bought Blgnatwo rf yfTheKlndYosHawAlwaisI MI Fertilizers ruit-Growers The yield will be according to the amount of plant food you give your trees or plants - you can de pend on it. The better they are fed the greater and more valuable will be your crop. Fertil ize sparingly and you reap sparingly. Th? fact that over a million tons ot Virginia-Carolina Fertilizer were sold last year proves them to be without equal. Every fruit farmer, no matter what method he now uses, should get the Vir ginia - Carolina C o mp any's new year Book or Almanac. It is free to all who are inter ?s ted enough to write for it. Address us to the nearest city below. tim .?. v VIRGINIA-CAROLINA CHEMICAL CO. Richmond, Va, Durham, N. C. Nortel... Va. Charleston, S. C. Columbia, S. C.' Baltimore, Md. At?anti. Gs. Columba?, Ga. Sav'annalt, Ga. Montgomery, Ala. Memphis, Tenn. ' Shreveport, La.