Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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* KEOWEE COURIER (ESTABLISHED 1849,) Published Every Wednesday Morning. V* Jaynes, Shelor, Sndth & Stock. Subscription, $1.00 Per Annum. Advertising Rates Reasonable. Communications of a personal character charge \ for as advertise ments. Obituary notices and tributes ot respect, of not ovor one hundred words, will be printed free of charge. AU over that number must be paid for at the rate of one cent a word. Cash to accompany manuscript. WA Id IA LI. A, 8. C.: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1008. THE PAST AND PRESENT IN THE WOULD OF NEWSPAPERS. 3 m * Italy the Birthplace of * Newspapers. When Ben Franklin confided to his mother that he was considering the establishment of a newspaper, tho worthy woman exclaimed:"What can you be thinking of, there are two newspapers in America now!' As a matter of fact, there were five papers then, but three of them were printed in places so remote * from Philadelphia that the Franklins had not heard of them. The United States now glories in some 25,000 journals of various descriptions, which is ten times as many ns were in existence fifty years ago. When the Declaration of Independence was signed there were only thirty-four newspapers In the thirteen colonies, and now there are more that? that numbor of dallies in New York city alone. No other phase of American development has been so phenome nal as tho growth of its newspapers. If the New York World had attempt ed in 1840 to issue a Sunday paper such as it now prints each "week, with the equipment then in use, the press would be still running and tho edition would not be finished. The newspaper ls an Italian inven tion. The first regular publication of a bulletin containing informa-? tion for the public was undertaken in Venice In the latter part of the sixteenth century. It was not print ed, but was written on large sheets and displayed in a room. Those who desired to read them were admitted upon the, payment of small coln. They were called "gazotta," from which comes the word "gazette,* common In tho newspaper world of to-day. The war between the Vene tians and the Turks, and tho popular clamor for information concerning it, was the reason for the birth of this first newspaper. The files Of 60 years of its issue are preserved in a museum in I> iorence. The first printed newspaper ap peared in London on July 23, 1588. It was called the English Mercurio, and was a religious publication of which Lord Burleigh, was the patron. The earliest real newspaper printed from type, ono designed to give the news, was the London Weekly News, which appeared in 1619 from the print shop of N. Newberry. It proved so popular that six years later Ben Johnson wrote the first newspaper play, satirizing the novel venture In a piece acted on the London stage under the name of "Staples of the News." In 1641 the Parliament first permitted the newspapers to publish a report of its proceedings. In the next nineteen years there were two hundred papers started in London, but all of them failed for want of support. . First Paper Suppressed. In the United States the first at tempt to establish a newspaper was made in Boston on September 25, 1690. It boasted of four quarto pages, one of which was blank. It /evidently took a lively interest in politics, and its editor must have be longod to that claes of journals now known as muck-rakers, for 1: was suppressed. The Legislature oin dally described lt as a "pamphlet which came out contrary to law, and contained reflections of a very high nature." Boston came again, and In 1704 John Campbell, a native ot Scotland, and postmaster, began the Issue of the Boston News-Letter. It had two pages, twolvo by eight inches each, and appeared first with this an nouncement: "This News-Letter ls to be continued weekly, and all per sons who havo any Houses, Lands, Tenements, Farms, Ships, Vessels, Goods, Wares, or Merchandise, otc, to be sold or let; or Servants run away, or goods stole or lost; may have acco- nts of the same Inserted at a reasonable rate from twelve pence to five shilling, and not to ex ceed, who may agree with John Campbell, postmaster." When this weekly was fourteen years old lt had a circulation of 300 copies week " ly, and announced that lt would is sue an extra half sheet fortnightly, as the editor was behind on printing tho nows from Europe. A year af terward he announced that he had caught up eight months ot the news, and that in Ave moLtht more ho would have all arrearages of intelltr gence from the Old World "needful to be known In these parts." The American, W?e^ly Mercurio came out in Philadelphia in 1719, and the New York Gazette appeared In Manhattan in 1726. The weekly paper by that time had become a profitable venture in the larger towns and soon spread through all the thirteen colonies, unt?l in 1776 there were thirty-four which main tained regular issues. Tho deter mined opposition of the crown repro sentatlves in the South prevented the foundation bf several papers,and th* first successful one was the Weekly Virginia Gazette in 1736. Grosse? Alleghenies. ? afore the end of the eighteenth century the newspaper business had crossed over the Alleghenies, the urst being the "Kentucky Gazette," published at Lexington, Ky., by John and Fielding Bradford in 1787. This was followed soon by the Knoxville Gazette, at Knoxville, Tenn., in 1791, and the "Sentinel of the Northwest Territory," at Cincinnati, Ohio, In 1793. The Increase became so rapid that in 1839 the United States with only thirteen million people had moro newspapers than all of Europe with its 190,000,000 population. In 1833 the one-cent paper made its appear ance in New York, but was not suc cessful. Then came the New York Herald founded by James Gordon Bennett In 1885, the first of the mod ern dally newspapers, which placed more Importance upon news than politics. Three years before George D. Prentice had started tho Louisville Journal in Kentucky. It became the first of the great personal journals, and Prentice the first of the great editors of that remarkable type which controlled the thoughts of the people of America for a generation, and who would have been supreme In power it they had been united. No story of early newspaper life in America is more interesting than that of Matthew Lyon. Lyon was born in Ireland, and when a mere boy ran away to sea. He was sold as a slavo to a Vermont farmer in exchange for a yoke of oxen. After several years he contrived to buy his freedom. He was sent to Con gress from Vermont in 1797. tn Washington he got ideas and went back home to establish a newspaper Which gloried in the nama "The Scourge of Aristocracy and. Reposi tory of Important Political Truths." 'i his paper was red-hot and for pub lishing an article attacking Presi dent John Adams, Lyon was fined $1,000 and sent to jail for four mont hs. under the allen and sedition laws. While in Jail he was re-elect ed to Congress. Later he went West and founded the town of Eddyvllle, Ky., which is in Lyon county, named in honor of the old Irishman. He took with him to Kentucky the press and type which he had used in Vermont, and sold lt In Louisville for the establishment of the first paper there, "The Farmers' Library," by Samuel Vail. Newspaper readers are sometimes heard to complain that "the papers are all advertisements." They are better off than their grandfathers, for in the beginning of the daily Af ter stiffer in g for seven years, this woman wan restored to health by Lydia E. Pinkliam's Vegetable Compound. Read her letter. Mrs. Sallie French, of Paucaiinla, Ind. Ter., writes to JMrs. Pinkham : I had female troubles for seven years - was all run-down, and so ner vous I could not do anything. The doctor? treated me for different troubles but did me no good. While in thin con dition I wrote to Mrs. Pinkham for ad vice and took Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege table Compound, and I am now strong and well." FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN. For thivty years Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound, made from roots and herbs, has been the standard remedy for female ills, and has positively cured thousands of women who have been troubled with displacements, inflammation, ulcera tion, fibroid tumors, irregularities, {>criodio pains, backache,-that boar ng-down feeling, flatuleney,indigcs tion,dizziness,ornervous prostration. Wliy don't you try it ? T>on't hesitate to write to Mrs. Pinklinm If there is anything about your sickness you do not understand. She will treat your lot terinconfldcnce and advise you free. No woman ever regretted writing her, and because of her vast experience she bas helped thousands. Address, Lynn,Mass Your Passing Shadow J-24 newspaper growth in this ?uu?try' each paper devoted three 'Si Its four pages to solid advertising, and the fourth page was not always sacred from the encroachments of the busi ness office. When the New York Tribune was the mist powerful agency in the United States, next to the Fede.pl government, it' was a Bmall affair which printed about one twelfth as much reading matter as does the Tribune of to-day. In the old times the size of the papers was just four pages, what ever happened. When business de manded lt, the size of .he paper was Increased. , Thus came the "blanket sheets,!' of which the Cincinnati En quirer still reminds us. During the civil war the papers bogan to print "double sheets" and "triple sheets," that is to say, eight and twelve-page papers. Thou eight pages became thc accepted size, and so remained until ten years ago. The average metropolitan dally now has sixteen pages, but lt may run to forty-two and no one will be surprised. The Sunday paper is twice or three times* as large. The enormous circulations attain ed by American papers are not pos sible in any other country of the world, because there ls no other na tion which has so many people who can read. The New York Herald in 1835 reached what was then consid ered the almost incredible circula tion of 26,000. Ten years later the telegraph was invented and the cir culation of daily papers in the coun try was soon trebled. The civil war was the most sanguinary contest ever fought between two armles'speaklng the same language, and having the same interests, yet it was good only for 160,000.copies a day for the best newspapers of the time. That was in the sixties. Thirty years later, when the United States fought a lit tle war with Spain, two of the most enterprising New York papers, the Journal and the World, ran their cir culation up to a million and &t quar ter a day, which remains the high water mark for newspaper circula tion. The statistics of the newspaper business under the present high de velopment reached in this country, are almost unbelleveable.* To pro vide enough papers for the use of either, one of several of the largest. New York papers, ten acres of spruce forest must be cleared and fed into paper making machines every 24 uours. To increase the size of one of these papers, say from 12 to 14 pages, means an increase in expense for that edition of at least $460. If this increase in size were maintained through all the editions of one week alone, the additional expense for white paper would be $5,400. Sev eral New York papers, week in and week out, use $20,000 worth of pa per a week. It requires seventy tons of metal to make the stereotype plates for one of the big modern Sun day editions. The total weight of the paper in the Sunday edition of several of the larger New York pa pers is nearly three hundred tons. Thirty extra large express cars are required to carry the Sunday morn ing editions of the papers of Manhat tan to out-of-town readers. If you would like to fool some wise coffee critic, who "knows fine coffee on taste and flavor," quietly make for him a batch of Dr. Snoop's "Health Coffee" and serve it piping hot. It deceived Mrs. Shoop. and will, I believe, deceive any one. And there ls not a grain of real coffee In it. Health Coffee is made from pure toasted grains, malt, nuts, etc. Made in a minute-no 20 to 30 minutes tedious bolling. 1% pounds 26c. . A. P. Crisp. Maxim Invents Noiseless Gun. New York, Feb. 26.-Hiram Percy Ma viin. son of Sir Hiram Maxim, in ventor of the machine gun which bears his name, has secured patents for a silent fire-arm. It ls announced that by the use of the device patented, the discharge of any fire-arm, from the smallest pis tol to the largest gun, ls rendered practically noiseless. The Invention consists of the use of a device simi lar to tho "muflier" used on auto mobles to deaden tho noise of the constant explosions by which the gas oline engtno ls operated. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Dava Always Bought Bears the Signature Women's troubles thro\ Make yours into a passing sha order of which has caused yow backache, nervous spells, drag Wir Mrs. R. H. Lawson, of doctors} they did no good, so 11 better than In 20 years." Sol WRITE US A LETTE HANGED AT CHATTANOOGA. _ j Kentucky FeudJst and Wife Murderer Went to Scaffold Without Tremor. Chattanooga, Feb. 27.-Ed. Tur ner, the Kontucky feudist, was hang ed in the county Jail here at 4.60 o'clock this evening. His neck was broken by the fall, and he was pro nounced dead in eleven minutes. He went to the scaffold without a tremor. , Turner killed his wife, Lillian Turner, on this side of Lookout Mountain on the afternoon of April 2, i;07. He cut her throat from ear lo ear with a pocket knife. On his trial Turnor made a confession. Turner is the second white man ever hanged In Hamilton county. Counsel for Turner received a tel ephone message this morning stating that Governor Paterson refused to Interfere In any way with the execu tion. In his petition for clemency Tur I nor roclted, among othor things, that he had been roared In a godless coun try; that his father and mother had died when he was very young; that he had been thrown among the most, lawless people of the Kentucky mountains; that ho had never had an opportunity to attend church or Sunday school, and that he had little advantages of education. He fur ther recited that he loved his wife, and was driven to his desperate deed by her wickedness. He requested that his body be burled at Shoulder Blade, Ky., by the side of his mother and father, who died mysteriously many years ago. -? No Case on Record. There ls no case on record of a cough or cold resulting In pneumonia or consumption after Foley's Honey and Tar has been taken, as it will stop your cough and break up your cold quickly. Refuse any but the genuine Foley's Honev and Tar in a yellow package. Contains no opiates and is safe and sure. For sale by all druggists. They Were Good Eaters. One day Dr. Norman McLeod, who was a large and healthy man, and one of his burly elders went to pay a visit to a certain Mrs. McLaren of the congregation who lived over the Scotch hills.. She vas a frugal wo man, but since she knew that a call from these two meant that they{ would stay to supper, too, she de termined that they should have the best in the house. So she piled the table with jellies and Jam and pre serves and shortbread and all the delicacies of the season, and, the journey having been long, they par took unsparingly, and after the meal the elder said to her: "Mrs. MacLaren, were you at the kirk Sunday?" "Oh, aye," she said, "I was." "And what did you think of the treatment of the miracle?" The ser mon had been on the loaves and Ashes. "I thought lt was good," said Mrs. MacLaren. "And what ls your idea on the sub ject, Mrs. MacLaren?" persisted the minister. "Losh," said their hostess sudden ly, "I'm thlnkln' that If you and the elder had bin In the congregation there wadna bin twelve baskets of fragments for the disciples to gather up !" This ls Worth Remembering. Whenever you have a cough or I cold, Just remember that Foley's Honey and Tar will cure lt. Do not risk your health by taking any but the genuine. It is in a yellow pack age. For sale by all druggists. SEQUEL TO SLOCUM FIRE. Captain of tho Ill-Fatod Steamer Goes to Sing Sing Prison. New York, Feb. 26.-It was a pit iable spectacle to-day when Capt. William Van Schalk, of the ill-fated excursion steamer, General Slocum, which burned with the loss of over a thousand lives, passed within the gates of Sing Sing penitentiary to I serve a ten-year sentence. Tho old man tried his best to walk erect and ?control his trembling limbs, but fall I od miserably. His wife accompanied him to the prison door and will live near him. Capt. Van Schalk Is 70 years old, and probably will not survive hie long sentence. Seven thousand peti tions have been sent throughout the country for signatures, asklni: fer his pardon by the President. Cures Coughs, Colds, and Laing Troubles. P 7 a cloud over their lives, which neglect dov by taking a medicine that nets dire* r womanly troubles. . The right remedy {lng pains, Irregular functions etc.? ls ie of Ct Sprott. Abu, vries: I suffered with lei took Wino cf Caidui I have taken 18 i by all reliable druggists, In $1.00 bot tl RWrite **t*y for ? frc* copy of v?!uablo M-w ID? Ad vic?, ??acribe your symptom?, ?Utlrur ???. A AMTOMI Ladt? Mvteory Cwt., Tb? Ch?tuno< II For a Little While. (Chicago Record-Herald.) Let us for a little while Chase the frown? away; Let us try'the cheerful smile, Maybe lt will pay. Let us cease a while to think Of the 111B we bear; Why look Into every chink Fort the trouble there? Why not pass the word of cheer Since Its cost is so small? Why let jealousy appear, Why bear hate at all? Why not for a day or two Wear a hopeful smile? It will not be hard to do If you try a while. $500 FOR ONE WORD. That is What the Semi-Weekly At lanta Joiirnnl Proposes. Send In the missing word and take tho prize. With every yearly sub scription to the Semi-Weekly Jour nal you are entitled to two trials at tho missing word. A sentence nas been selected from a well-known an.1 widely read work of fiction. From this sentence a word haB been drop ped, leaving a gap. This word ls English and not a proper name, and can be found in any ordinary dic tionary. Here J* the sentence: .'They can't get anything hut now, sir. Everything else ls gone." What Is tho word? For full particulars of the contest write The Semi-Weekly Journal, At lanta, Qa. A severe cold that may develop into pneumonia over night, can be. cured quickly by taking Foley's Honey and Tar. It will cure the moBt obstinate racking cough and strengthen your lungs. The genuine ls in a yellow package. For sale by all druggists. Figures on Cigars. - (Chicago News.) Smokers in Chicago "sat up" to day when they read dispatches fron New York saying that King Edwarrj VII had ordered, in that city, 60( cigars at a cost of $1,600. They an eight Inches long, too-a kinglj smoke. Other kingly smokes have not been figured officially In inches yet, but e statistician in tho city hall sat down to-day, and after chewing his pencil some, decided that, as Great Britain and its colonies have more than 392, 000,000 Inhabitants, the Czar whe bosses only 131,000,000 or so ought to smoke a cigar a little less than half a? long as Edward's and that Kaiser Wilhelm, with 73,000,000 odd ! ought to-and he does-smoke elga j rettes. HEALTH INSURANCE The man who insure? his Ufe li wise for bis family. The man who Insures his healtl ls wise both for his family an* himself. You may Insure health by guard ?. g lt. It ia worth guarding. At the first attack ot disease which generally approache through tho LIVER and mani tests Itself in innumerable way TAKE_^ Ms Pills And save your health? THREE PAPERS A WEEK FOR ONLY $1.50 By a elubblng arrangement wltl the Charleston Semi-Weekly New and Courier we are offering that pa per and The Keowee Courier fo $1.50 a year. The Keowee Cou rle ls recognized not only as the bes paper In Oconee county, but it I rated among the best county paper In South Carolina. The Semi-Week ly News and Courier is. an excellen , JourneJ, published on Wednesday and Saturdays, gives the detalle news .of South Carolina as a specla feature, and carries the full Assc elated Press dispatches from all ove the world. Tho combination of th two papers at $1-50 gives our pr?t i ent readers, as well as new subsorlt ers, an oportunlty to sectrre two o the best papers in the State (thre i papers a weelc) for 60 cents mor than tho regular price of either. Lc i us send j ou two of the very best pa i pers in South Carolina for almos the price of one. Croup, La Grippe, Asthms Tevents Pneumonia and Con? SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. may causo to become permanent itty on your womanly organs, the dls for you. when you have headache* irdui male troubl?e for "i? yea?; Wed 4 bottles'feel greatly relieved and am BS. Try lt strated Hook for Women. If voa need Medic*! md reply will be sent ita pleirCiseeled envefjpe. Medicine CA. Cl_U?noo_?.T?nn. NOTICE OP PINAIi SETTLE MENT AND ? DISCHARGE-Notice ls hereby given that the undersigned will make application to D. A. Smith, Judge of Probate for Oconee County, in tbe State of South Caro lina, ut his office at Walhalla Court House, on Friday, MARCH 6th, 1908, at ll o'clock In the forenoon, or as soon thereafter as said applica tion can be heard, for leave to make ?nui settlement of the Estate of G. H. CONLEY, deceased, and obtain Anal discharge as Administratrix of said Estate. ALLICE CONLEY, Administratrix. February 12, 1908. 7-10 ESTATE OP P. W; PIEPER, Dec'd. On 9th March, 1908. ?it 12 o'clock M., I will apply to tho Probate Court for Oconee County, South Carolina, for my ilnal discharge as Executor in matter above named Estate. 6-10 J. F. PIEPER. REAL ESTATE. We are offering, for a limited time, some sn l; BARGAINS IN LAND I 170 acres at |6 per acre. Will cut In half to suit purchaser, D. F. Nicholson 2-acre lot. Will cut in lots. If all sold at once you get better price. Small farm three miles'from Wal halla. A bargain. 2 Vit acre lot and house and out buildings, In Midway. All Bargains for quick purchasers. BURTON & BENTLEY, Walhalla, S. C. KILLTHS COUGH AND CURE THE LUNGS WITH Dr. King's New Discovery FORQ 0N8UMPTI0N Price 0 UGH Band 60c & $1.00 OLDS Free Trial. Surest and _t> lokest Cure for THROAT ana LUNG TROUB LES, or MONEY BACK. 6 O Y BARS* EXPERIENCE PATENTS se.it free. Oldest Menor ti Patents telen through ____ _ rpttuxi not (c., without charge, ta the Scientific American. A handsomely Illustrated weekly. lernest olr enleUon of ?ny aeientl?o Journal. Terms, t?? ?our; four months, tl. Sold by all newsdealers. taN&Co?e'B^ Kew York Brauch Offloe. fi- 9 BU Washington. D. C. Card of 't hanks. Editors Keowee Courier: Please allow us space in your columns to express our heartfelt thanks to our friends and neighbors for the kind ness show: us through the sickness and death of our dear father. May God's richest blessings rest on them all la our prayer. (Mrs.) T. P. Moore and Children. Weak Women To wonk and el Uni wemen, there is at least one way te help. But with that war, two treatments, most bs combined. Om Is local, one ls constitu tional, but both are Important, both essen rlsl Dr. Snoop's Night Core le tbe Local. Br. fthoop's Restorative, the Constitutional. The former-Dr. Snoop's Nicht Curo-ls m topical mucousmembrane suppository remedy, white Dr. Bhoop's Restorative ls wholly an Internal treat ment. The Rostorativo roaches throughout the catiro system, see-In* the repair of aU nerve. PIMIV 1J-WW-ll Sj sF-V____e9 v?o IO^SM all tissue, and all blood ailment*. The Nicht Cure", aa ita name I: work while you sloop. It soothes i ed mucous surfaces, beads local 1 discharges, whllo the Restorative, eases nervous excitement, gives renewed vfgov and ambition, builds up wasted tissues, bringing about renewed hnplle*. docs lu _. soothes sore and inflam ed mucous surfaces, b<*Js local Weaknesses and e the Reston bringing al>_. strength: vigor, and energy. Take Dr. 8hoop . Rostomti ve-Tablets or Id <i a t d-as a. gen era 1 tonio to tbe system. For positivo local help, tue as weil Dr. vShoop's Night J. W. BELL i, Throat sumption THE ORIGINAL LAXATIVE HONEY and TAR In the YELLOW PACKAQH _________ r; ' Vi ' __f__Ks__-------M----_-_-r