Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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-fx-1-,-I LETTER FROM FAR MICHIGAN. Sonic?hin- About tho Country In tho Snow?bound North. GaleBburg, Mich., May 9.-Editors Keowee Courier: PerhapB your many readers would enjoy reading -a few lines from the Northern States, where th? gentle breeze ever stirs and whis tles .through the trees as lt drives the blinding snow from lake to lake. May opened up very cold, with snow storms, followed by cold rains, con tinuing cold up to this writing. As you know, Michigan ls bounded by lakes and dotted with many, which makes the cold very piercing. April and May of 1907 and 1908 were as cold as your winters are. We have ? heavy snows and ice-covered streams and lakes the winter round, breaking in April and May. There's quite a lot of manufacturing, while a con siderable amount of farming is done In Michigan, such as raising corn, wheat, cabbage and an immense amount of Irish potatoes and.fruit are grown; ?Uso, apples, raspberries, blackberries and peaches. Farm land 1B about twice the price of South Carolina land. Farm wages range from $20 to $28 per month aud board. They farm by machinery here, hours from 6 to 6, one hour for noon. Public works pay for ordinary Jabor $1.90 per day; skilled $3 to $6 per day. I The people are very sporty-I must say, some are too much so in regard to fishing, huntlnj; and base ball playing. Not later than Sunday last Kalamazoo and Galesburg high schools played a match game. Such ls frequently done In many of the Northey and Middle West States. By the way, In this match game be tween the two high schools, in Kala mazoo's team there were two ne groes. One was a pitcher. Colored and white attend the same schools, while there are colored officers In the State. As a whole, the people live faster than we of the South, and everything Is on a rush. The States here are most as full of railroads and electric lines as South Carolina ls of running streams. They have remarkably line church and schopl accommoda tions and compulsory education. The Catholics and Methodists are the leading denominations. This country is full of foreigners to its sorrow, as many are outlaws. They have found ?vhat they call the "Black Hand," the members of which threaten the rich with their lives that they may appease their desires to live without work. If the amount de manded ls not promptly paid they readily assassinate their victims. In the Northern part of the State there is quite a lot of large game wolves, bear and deer. The laws are pretty much the same as In South Carolina, with the ex ception of the saloons, which are nu merous. There Is no capital pun ishment, and the marriage license and divorce laws are of force. The government is Republican, Real es tate ls high; taxes also. They have State, county, district, township and city taxes. Ten persons were killed and thirty injured lu a head-on collision of the Michigan United Railroad last Thurs day near Yipsilanti, Mich. A mix-up of orders was the cause given. The Detroit automobile endurance contest, which passed through here Friday, was quito a success. W.M. Dist minti the Congregation. The person who disturbed the con gregation last Sunday by continually ooughing is requested to buy a bot tle of Foley's Honey and Tar. Sold by all druggists. As Little Sister Saw lt. It was big sister's wedding day, and mother was in the kitchen help ing the cook, says the New York Press. Little sister was there, too, and added frayed nerves to the ex citement by demanding to know every other minuto what a marriage was. Finally mother became exasper ated. "If you speak again," she said, "I'll show you what a marriage is," and little sister sat down very meek ly. Bui little sister had caught the excitement and could not keep <iuid. Just as mother and the cook were busiest she asked her quentlon again. For a full minute the kitchen re sounded with walls and then mother placed little slater on, the ch.nr again. "Now," she said, "you know what marriage is." That night the clergyman stood under the marriage bell in the par lor. Into the room c?mo big sister on the arm of har father. Half way up the stair? little sister watched through the door and cried softly. Finally she could stand lt no longer. Just as the ceremony was about to begin a form Came flying dovvn the stairs and little sister burst into the room. "Oh, Milly, Milly," she cried, con vulsively, "don't yon get married or you'U get an awfUl spanking!" "WHEN LOVE GROWS COLD." Men Do Not Realize the Full Import j of the Situation. . It is not until a man realizes that he is tired of a girl, and never really was in love with her, that he also realizes how foolishly he has acted, says the New York American. It amazes him to find that he has gone so far as to be considered the fiance of the maid, whose whole attontion has been given him for a long time for many of these affairs result In au "understanding" that is the equiva lent of a proposal. Then, not knowing how to get out of the tangle in which he has become enmeshed, he falls back upon th i unmanly method of neglecting the ! .girl he has hitherto courted and flat- ! tered. t'rue, this ls little more fool- ! ish than the former recklessness of j his conduct, but it cau:;os a good deal I of suffering to a woman who has j loved Innocently and foo well, end 1 is deserving of better treatment. i Having no real reasou to give for ? his coldness, except the bold KU.le nient that he has made a mistake, he shirks the issue. He knows that If he tells the truth he has to account for many statements that seem to prove the contrary. A ulan's methods are often cow- ' ardly in dealing with the'woman for. whom he has ceased to care. He tries to force her to break with him I by giving her ample grounds for complaint, but a woman is usually too generous and too loving to take advantage of his devices. Her cry is: "Why are you to changed?"! ' She cannot, understand why the lover who has left her with a fond bood-bye can go away aiid put her out of his mind. She writes him frank, open letters, then pleading, Imploring ones, begging all the time that he will tell her what she has done to vex him. He cannot tell her without putting all the blame on hlniLeif, without showing that he has i not acted a manly part. But even If he could und ls not dlcpoacd to, his j conduct should show her that his love ls dyiug. The signs aie unmis takable. ls there a woman who being thus j treated does not know the truth at the beginning? She does, but she will not admit it. Yet all the time, j from the moment when the first j doubl arose in her mind, she has known it. There ls only one thing to do when | a man's love is dead, and that ia to j let him go. To "win back his love" j is next to an Impossibility. It ii a! i pathetic sight to see two people, one j I madly in love with the ot uer, and 'the other unable lo reciprocate. And, yet, "try to forget" is Lie only ad vice that can be offered. A man shows it plainly enough when he has ceased to love. Ap pointments cease ? to be sacred, he cannot summon up courage to write letters, he is moody, and silent, and shows in his manner all that his tongue refuses to say. If he can get an excuse to go off somewhere away from his fiance, he endeavors to bring her to an under standing of his views by preserving a strict silence. Should she not see things ns he wishes her to, she may be angry with him. and he will cense this pretext to bring about a rupture between thom. Anything to save him from con fessing that he has not acted well. Usually the disappointments of wo men are the outcome of man's infat uation and false promises. Were a woman not so honest and so blind In her love, she would see through many of the protestations of affection made by man, and know lils vows for what, they are worth. The silliest thing a woman can do is to cling to the man who wants to have done with her, and to try to bring him around u> reciprocate her affection. If he is a sentimentalist he may be Influenced, and vow that he really does love her, just to please her. But this will riot alter his affections. He will shirk the marriage and put it off. Should he go so far as the altar, she is no better off, for doubtless, after marriage, he will state plainly that he doesn't care for her, aud that he only married her because she worried him into it. Certainly men have queer ways, and should be brought to book about their misde meanors. It ls not wise to surmise that a man's love ls dead and treat him ac cordingly. Be sure of lt. Bring him to the point of saying so. It will pay you to do this, much as youN regret the parting, for a man In love can bo gentleness Itself, while he who loves not can be cruel as the grave. St. George to New York in Auto. St. George. S. C., May ll.-Gen. M. S. Connor, of this place, is plan ning a trip to New York city in July by automobile. He will take along with him three of his friends, and they have the prospect of an inter esting trip. Gen. Connor, who ls acknowledged to be one of the best managers of an automobile in this section, says that he anticipates no difficulty at all and feels sure that he can make the trip in five days, pro vided the weather Is favorable and the roads not too bad. A good deal of Interest is heing taken, in this trip/U Pray? for the Country. A leading American politician re cently took lils Itt tie son to Washing ton, where they paid a visit to the Senate/* \ i Dr? Edward* Everett Hale specially Interested the boy, and his father ex plained that Dr. Hale was the chap lain of the Senate. "Oh, he prays for the Senate, doesn't he?" said the lad. "No," said the politician, "he gets up and takes a look at the Senato and then prays for the country." POISONED LITTLE GIRL. Strychnine Enough to Kill Four Men on the Piece ol Cake. Philadelphia, Pa., May 8.-Pois oned last week by a man whom she met In the street, Grace Welsh, the pretty five-year-old daughter of Wil liam Welsh, of 1421 Kerbaugh street, ls in St. Luke's Hospital with scarce a chance of recovering. The police believe the child is the victim of one of those persons whose insanity takes such strange freaks as cutting women's hair, slitting dresses or murdering young girls. Who he is they have not learned, though his crime has stirred tlje entire police department to action. Grace left her home at 5.30 In the evening to meet her father on the street on his return from work. She returned alone in half an hour, suf fering intense pain and hardly able io tell what had happened. The po lice were called and removed the child to St. Luke's Hospital. Stranger Gave Her Poison. Later the child explained that she had met a man on the street whom she did not know. He patted her on the head and told her she was a nice little girl, then offered her a cake. It was a small knickknack. She ate half of lt and became sick almost Im mediately afterward. She was still holding half of the cake In her hand when she ran back to her mother. An examination of the cake show ed that it was covered with strych nine, and the physicians at the hos pital said that the little girl had swallowed enough to kill four men. A stomach pump was used as soon as the little patient was admitted to the hospital, and at a late hour to night she was still alive. The police believe the child's story of meeting a strange man on the street. They have no description of him, for Grace is not in a condition to help them. They know that in sanity fakes strange turns in crimi nally inclined minds, and is mani fested in such crimes as were com mitted by "Jack tbe Ripper." "Health Coffee" ls really the clos j est coffee Imitation ever yet pro I duced. This clever coffee substitute ! was recently produced by Dr. Shoop, ! of Racine, Wis. Not a grain of real I coffee in it either. Dr. Shoop's i Health Coffee is made from pure toasted grains, with malt, nuts, etc. Really lt would fool an expert-who might drink it ?or coffee. No 20 or 30 minutes tedious bolling. "Made in a minute," says the doctor. Sold by A. P. Crisp. The Cause of Pneumonia.. Chicago, May ll.-The announce ment of a new theory as to the cause of pneumonia, and the discovery of a remedy for the disease was made last night by Dr. H. Manning Fish. Dr. Fish said that the seat of trouble in pneumonia cases was not the lungs, but in the small cells in the bony framework at the top of the nose. ' "From these cells/' said Dr. Fish, "the disease works rapidly down to the lungs, and to all appear ances these organs Immediately be come the seat o'f the trouble. How ever, the fuel which ls feeding the flames of disease still is being fur nished from the cells at the top of the nose. The simple remedy con sequently ls to draw this dangerous pus from these cells. That ls what was done in the case which I have described, and in 24 hours the dis ease disappeared. The lungs, of course, were still affected, and it took days before the patient finally was able to leave his bed." For a mild, easy action of the bowels, a single dose of Donn's Reg ul?is is enough. Treatment cures habitual constipation. 25 cents a box. Ask your druggist for them. A Fight with Robbers. Slaverlck, Pen.?., May 9.--Robbers blew open the safe of the post office early yesterday morning, and all but two got away, after a running fight with constables, in which one robber was caught while helping a comrade who was wounded by a bullet of the local officers. The explosion awak ened the town and the men chased ;the robbers a mlle or more. They got only a few dollars. Rooster Kills a Child. Chattanooga, Tenn., May 9.-Max Crqskett, Jr., fifteen months old, is dead at Lewlaburg of wounds inflict ed by a rooster. The child fell In the yard and th? rooster attacked him, sinking ito ?purs repeatedly into the child's head. !< 1 'T>V ** '^_| A New Orleans Because the du nourishment from h She took Scott's Result: She gained a pound ALL DRUCC1! JOKE ON MISS LEE. Court Chamberlain Sent Invitation Addressed to Mis? Grant. (Washington Post.) Like the rest erf the world, all Washingtonians love a good story, and a very good one has Just drifted across the Atlautlc. Some years ago Miss Mary Custhv Lee, the only surviving daughter of Gen. Robert E. Lee, WU?? traveling through Europe, went to Berlin. She ls known throughout this country as an activo partisan of the South, and Bhe has a very positive way of speak ing of the late unpleasantness be tween the States, being a Southerner of the Southerners. , During her stay in Berlin invita tions were Issued to a magnificent court ball. Miss Lee heard of the proposed ball, and, wishing very much to attend lt, she wrote as fol lows to the court chamberlain: "You are probably not aware that the daughter of America's most dis tinguished general is now stopping In Berlin. She would be much grati fied by receiving an invitation to the court ball." She immediately dispatched this unsigned note to the court chamber lain, and some lunns later she re ceived the desired invitation; but the CB rd was addressed to-Miss Grant! Mrs. S. Joyce, 180 Sullivan street, Claremont, N. H., writes: "About a year ago I bought two bottles of Fo ley's Kidney Cure. It cured me of a severe case of kidney trouble or sev eral years' standing. It certainly is a grand, good medicine, and I heart ily recommend it." Sold by all drug gists. On May 1st the books of the State Treasurer showed that tax had been paid on fertilizers at the rate of 25 cents per ton to the amount of $160, 885.87, lacking only a little less than $100 of the total amount paid in last year, and about $20,000 In excess of the tax paid up to the same date of last year. This woman says that sick women should not full to try Lydia R, Plnkham's Vegetable | Compound as she did. Mrs. A. Gregory, of 2:156 Lawrence | St, Denver, Col., writes to Mrs. Pinkharn : "I was practically an invalid for ala years, on account of f emu le troubles. I underwent an operation by the doctor's advice, but in a few months 1 wus worse than before. A friend ad vised Lydia E. Plnkham's Vegetable Compound and lt restored'me to perfect health, such us I have uot enjoyed io ruuny years. Any woman suffering ai I did with backache, bearlng*down pains, and periodic pnins.should not fal) to usc Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound." FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN. For thirty years Lydia ??. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound, made from roots and herbs, has been the standard remedy for female ills, and has positively cured thousand s ol I women who have been troubled v/itb | displacements, inflammation, ulcera tion, fibroid tumors, irregularities, periodic pains, backache, that bear ing-down feeling, flatulency, indiges tion, dizziness or nervous prostration Wliy don't you try it? Mrs. Pinkharn invites all sick] women to write her for advice, She has guided thousands tel health? Address, Lynn, Mass? A Rock Hill correspondent reports the recent catching of a 117-pound sturgeon at Jones* old mill on Ca tawba river. The monster fish was caught in a trap and was'afterwards exhibited in Rock Hill. The catch ing of such fish in Catawba and Broad rivers ls not altogether un precedented. lt happens from time to time; but sturgeon are not seen near so often in these waters as in the old (*ays. The sultan of Turkey has over come his objections to the telephone, and these instruments are now to bo' Introduced in Constantinople. woman waa thin. ifr i not extract sufficient ? er food. Emulsion. I a day in weight ITS i SOe. AND $1.00 Tic Eirad You Have Always 1 ia use for over 30 years, Ali Counterfeits, Imitations Experiments that trifle -witi Infants tiud Children-Bxpc What is C ?astoria i? a harmless sub; Boric, Drops and Soothing contains neither Opium, fit substance* Its age is its gu and allays .Feverishness. It Colic? It relieves Teething and Flatulency. It assimil 8 to mach and Bowels, gi vin; The Children's Panacea-Tl GENUINE CASI sj Bears the The Kind You Ha In Use For 0 THl OtNTAUB OOKMN?, TT M Union Meeting. Ahe Union meeting of the Twelve Mile River Association will meet with the Cheohee Baptist church on May 30th and 31st, 1908. Follow ing is the Program: Saturday morning, 10 o'clock, in troductory sermon by Rev. B. P. Murphree. Query 1, (ll a.m.)-How shall we overcome the world? Rev. D. Littleton, Jesse Lay, Jr. Query 2, vx2 m.)-What ls tho first thing to do to become a Chris tian? Rev. J. B. Collo}. Taylor H. Stewart, Rev. J. L. Hud ion. Query 3, (1 p. m.)-What does love and selfishness do in Christian work? Rev. B. F. Murphree and Rev. L. M. Lyda. Ministers' conference will he held at f> p. m. Ah preachers and the public are invited. T. H. Stewart, Frank Heaton, B. Alexander, Committee. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Kl LL THE COUGH AND CURB THC LUNGS WITH Dr. King's New Discovery FOR o%m? ,a AND ALL THROAT AND LUNG TROUBLES. GUARANTEED SATISFACTORY OK MONEY REFUNDED. LOTH'S STOVES AND RANGES, CHICAGO AND COLUMBIA AIR TIGHT HEATERS. TINWARE, ENAMEL AND STOVE WARE. KITCHEN FURNITURE. GENERAL REPAIRING AND TIN WORK. -CALL ON yjyrou? ! C. R. Houchins. WE ARE DETERM LIVERY I t w ? . ' * '."?0 Bounty &n? which ho? boca has horne tho signature ot LOS hoon made undoer his p*&~ supervision since its Infancy* t no ono to deceive you in this* and <( Just-as-good" are hut; li and endanger i li o health of ?rlence against Experimento ASTORIA sritute for Castor Oil, Pare Syrups. It is Pleasant. It orphlne nor other Narco th* arantee. lt destroys Worms ; cures Diarrhoea and "Wind Troubles, cures Constipation ates the Pood, regulates tho g healthy and natural sleep? ie Mother's Friend. rORIA ALWAYS Signature of ye Always Bought >ver 30 Years. UN KAY .miCT, Ntw von H o ITV. PROFESSIONAL jj W. J. GARTER, M. ]>., Dentist. Office two doors above the Bank, ID (?artor's Pharmacy, WESTMINSTER, S. C. DR. W. P. AUSTIN, Dentist, Seneca, South' Carolina. Office over J. W. Byrd & Co. DR. I). P. THOMSON, Dentist, Walhalla, South Carolina, i Office over CW. Pitchford Co's Store Phone No. 36. DR. J.H. BURGESS, Dentist, Seneca, South Carolina. 1 Office over Witseil Bro.'s Store, Clinkscales-Harper Building. Office Hours:-9 A. M. to 1 P. M. 2 P. M. to 6 P. M. W. M. FENNELL, Laud Surveyor, Walhalla, S. C., R. F. D. No. 1. PROMPT ATTENTION. E. Ii. HERNDON, Attorney-at-Law, Walhalla, South Carolina. PHONE No. 61. J. P. Carey, J. W. Shelor, Pickena, S. C. Walhalla, S. O, W. C. Hughs, Walhalla. CAREY, SHEuOR A HUGH-I, Attorneyr and Counsellors, Walhalla, S. O. Practice in State and Federal Courts. R. T. JAYNE8, ' Attorney-at-Law, Walhalla, Month Carolina. Practice In State and Federal Courts. Bell Phone No. 20. J. J. McS WA IN, Attoriiej-at-Law, . GREENVILLE, S. CAROLINA. 1 M. O. LONG, Attorney-at-Law, (Office Over Post Office,) Anderson, S. 0. ? WU! practice in all Courts In South Carolina. 46-'08 WEDDING and other invitations. Announcements, etc., either printed or engraved, as your taste may re quire. Only first-class work; any style; best stock. Call or write THE KEOWEB COURIER, i Walhalla, S. O. i i lill Louis A. King. I NED TO BO THE 3 USINESS FOR THIS COMMUNITY. COMB ON AND GET YOUR TEAMS. HAU LI HO- TEAMS, SINGLE AND DOUBLE BUGGY TEAMS AND SADDLE HORSES, ALWAYS ON HAND. Prompt and polite service at rea? sonable prices. Teams sent out at any. hour, flay or night rhona IS er ll for quiok teams. HOL( INNS * KING, /M.. - A. ? .Walhalla, 8, a j