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r EOWEE COURIER (ESTABLISHED 1840.) Published Every Wednesday Morning. Subscription, gi.00 Per Annum. Advertising Hates Reasonable. -By STECK, SHELOK & SCHRODER. Communications or a personal character charged for as advertise ments. Obituary notices and tributes of respect, of not over one hundred words, will be printed free of charge. All over that number must be paid for at the rate of one cent a word. Cash to accompany manuscript. --- WALHALLA, S. G.: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 1008. TWO THOUSAND LIVES LOST. Typhoon and Mining Disaster Work Havoc in Japan. _ Victoria. B. C., May 28.-The steamer Shlnono, of the Japanese line, which arrived yesterday,brought news of another disaster through a typhoon at Sankow, following on a disastrous freshet, which involved a loss of more than 1,000 lives, with the wrecking of 1,000 junks and the stranding of many steamers, Includ ing several of the foreign river craft. The typhoon came suddenly, and In a couple of hours reduced hun dreds of boats in the Kan river to splinters. Steamers broke away from their moorings, and only those that could get up steam quickly es caped. Tho shores were thick with the corpses of river people. Hun dreds wore recovered before the steamer left Shanghai. News was also brought of a great coal mining disaster in Kwang SI, where over a thousand lives were lost when a mine took fire. MUSIC AW A CURE. Physician Claims that Stuttering May Be Overcome by Melody. (Julius Chambers,tn Brooklyn Eagle) Melody is prescribed by Dr. E. W. Scripture, in the Medical Record, as the linal and only sure cure-"spe c.itlc" would be the word were it a drug-for hyperphonla. Any number of people who do not know what "hyperphonla" ls will be glad to learn that a sure cure has been found for another ill to which Buffering humanity is heir. The singing cure for stuttering ls urged as an advance upon the time honored device of whistling when a difficult word arose; in a stutterer's vocal path. One of the sweetest stories I ever listened to is that which ls partly told and partly sung by the brilliant man who led tho singing at Plym outh church on the occasion of Jo seph Howard's funeral. He antici pated Dr. Scripture by at least one decade. A wonderful picture was exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1 S79, depicting the attempt of a choir of monks to cure with music the famous Flemish artist, Hugh van der Weyd. He had gone mad, and the tradition was as old as medicine Itself that mental troubles could he soothed hy sweet melody. Whether stuttering can he relieved and ultimately cured by melody is highly doubtful. Playing upon tho Jew's-harp might be efficacious; but the music of a stringed orchestra or a pianola will not glv?? relief. Stut tering is both a nervous and mental trouble. Aphasia has much to do with it. Loss of memory of the word ls quite as noticeable as a fear that, when recalled, the patient cannot pronounce lt. Whether the word he monosyllabic or polysyllabic makes little or no difference. Stuttering arises from lack of self confldence. Lisping Is a different thing, it oftenest is due to want of proper attention on the part of thd physician who attends the child at the time of hirth. About one-quar ter of all infants born aro "tongue tied," and tho physician or nurse who doesn't attend to detaching or cutting the underside of the baby's tongue from the lower jaw is con niving at the production of a lisp ing human creature. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Judging a .Man. Don't judge a man by his clothes. God made otu* and Hie tailor the Ot her. Don't judge a man by bis family, for Cain belonged to a good family. Don't judge a man hy the house lie lives In, for tho lizard and rat often Inhabit the grander structures. A man dies and they who survive ask what property there is left be hind. The angel who bends over tho dying man asks what Mood deeds ho has sent before him. W. R. Ward, of Dyersburg, Tenn., writes: "This is to certify that I have used Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup for chronic constipation, and it ha;; proven, without a doubt, to bo a thorough, practical remedy for tiiis trouble, and it Is with pleasure! offer my isclentloufl reference." Sold hy ali druggists. POLITICAL PALACE TRAIN. It ls Estimated Hull Tammany's I \ - I M . II si - s Will Rv ?115,000. (New York Evening Mall.) It was estimated in th? Fourteenth street wigwam Monday that the cost to Tammany of the Democratic Na tional Convention at Denver will he at least $115,000. Arrangements have been complet ed for the trip. Five special trains will carry 650 braves to the great powwow. Two trains will go over tho New York Central, two over the Pennsylvania, and ono over the Erle Railroad. All will be made up of cars de luxe. All will leave between 9 and 10 a. m., Saturday, July 4, and are due to arrlvo'in Dei?', ?r at 8 p. m., Mon day, July 6. The convention begins the next day. Upon arriving in Denver the Tarn many men will parade with martial music before going to headquarters at the Brown Palace Hotel. They expect to make a fine appearance, headed by Big Chief Charles F. Mur phy. The cost of transportation for each brave will bo $60 the round trip, with $22 extra for a berth. It ls estimated that each man will eat and drink- $18 worth, . Tho total cost of transportation ls figured at $65,000, with $50,000 more to make a big show in Denver. "Tom" Smith, secretary of Tam many Hall, the most, famous man of that name east of Pike's Peak, has charge of the excursion. The Federal Pension List. (Virginian Pilot.) Forty-three years have passed since the ?'all of the Confederacy. Yet there are still more than a million names on the Federal pension list, or ?100.000 more than wore enrolled from first to last In the armies of the South. The approprltlon for support of these pensioners aggregates for the coining year $160,000,000, or nearly six times greater than they were thirty years ago. The bounty has been extended to collateral ob jects from time to time till now the hulk of it goes to persons other than the vetorans. In a New*England vil lage of to-day a survivor of the Civil War who ls unmarried is sought after by the young girls of the vicin ity as though he were a youthful Adonis; for when he totters to the grave, already yawning before him, the widow will fall heirto hlsannulty and can then seek a union with her real sweetheart. We are told that in that section a superannuated soldier stands no more chance of escaping the clutch of one of these rapacious Hebes than a junebug would of es calio when thrown into a coop of turkeys. No one objects to support ing the men who actually fought the battles of thc Uuion; but lt ls pretty hard to be taxed for the benefit of substitutes, bummers and lately made wives, and widows and ficti tious descendants. By a Norwegian process sap Is forced out of green tree trunks and dye Is Injected In its place. This ls claimed to give colored wood for fur niture and finish that will not warp and is much more durable than the ordinary wood. Will Hold the Cotton. St. Matthews, ?May 29.-With ali the comment pro and con on the prices of cotton, the following Indi cates somewhat tlie direction the wind la blowing, or rather going to blow: To-day one of St. Matthews' most prominent cotton planters, who held a large lot of cotton In the warehouse at this place, sold out his entire holdings at 11% ce..ts. The buyer, John Cort, of Orange burg, ordered the cotton to be im mediately restored, thus showing his confidence In a future rise in price. lt is perhaps well to mention that Mr. Cort ls one of the largest Indi vidual cotton buyers In the State. 8700,000 for ..education. New York, May 28.-Gifts to edu cational institutions aggregating more than three-quarters of a mil lion dollars were announced by the general education board to-day. The largest single gift of the board was $1 25,000, granted to William Jewell College, Liberty, Mo., and the next In size was one of $100,000, this made to Davidson College, at David son, N. C. Spellman Seminary, At lanta, received a grant of $12,000, and Hampton Institute, I lampton,Va., and Tuskegee Institute, at Tuskegee, Ala., each received $10,000. The board also made grants of $80,000 for farmers' co-operative demonstrative work in the Southern States, and of $20,000 for special high school agents In connection with State universities in the Southern States. Announcement was also made that President Charles W. Elliott, of Har vard University, and Andrew Carne gie have been added to the member ship of the board, making the total membership sixteen. THE APPALACHIAN HKSERVE. Storage Reservoirs to Prevent Floods and Aid Navigation. A plan has been proposed to stop forever the costly spring floods at Pittsburg and other places along the rivers which drain tho Appalachian mountains. These annual devasta tions are so certain in their recur rence that they have come to be con sidered almost inevitable. All tho erTorts of the government with dams, restraining walls, and other engi neering works have proved inade quate to control the streams when they have been swollen with the melting winter snows. On the other hand, tho government projects have proved unavailing to maintain these same rivers at a depth great enough to permit unhampered navigation later on in the yoar. when the flood water? have spent themselves. This latter trouble possibly causes a greator financial lobs to the South than the floods, but as lt is not con centrated in to a brief spectacular outburst, less ls heard of it through the newspapers. It was, indeed, the problem of navigation that gave rise to the present scheme. It is now proposed to go to the seat of the evil-to the headwaters ot the rivers-and apply there two remedies: First, tho maintenanco of a forest cover which will keep the ground porous so that lt will not shod all the water from its surface at once, but will soak lt up and re lease it gradually; second, to estab lish storage reservoirs at strategic points which will retain surplus flow when lt is not useful, but only does damage by being allowed to run free, and will pay lt out, little by little, later on, when lt is sorely neoded. The United States has spent $30, 000,000 to Improve navigation on the rivers which have their upland sources In the Southern Appalach ians, and work already undertaken will cost at least $56,000,000 before it is finished. This does not Include the Ohio proper, which ls largely sup plied with water from these sources, on which moro than $6,000,000 has boen spent. Despite this outlay nav igation is so precarious on many of these rivers, especially In the upper stretches, during several months every year that steamboat lines have to suspend operations and many com panies have abandoned the field be cause with the light draft * vessels they are forced to use they cannot compete with railroads, although steamboat transportation is normally much cheaper than railroad rates. The government has striven for a 4 foot depth or even, In some places, for a 3-foot stage and been unable to maintain it throughout the year. Experts from thc Geological Sur vey,with the storage reservoir scheme lu mind, last year made a careful study of the rivers which flow from both sides of this watershed, located reservoir sites, computed the amount of water they would hold, the heights of the necessary dams, and the pe riods during which the rivers could be maintained at various depths above their low-water levels during the dry seasons. The results of this study are published under the title "The Relation of t hp Southern Appa lachian Mountains to Inland Water Navigation," as Circular 143 of tho Forest Service, and can be obtained freo by writing to the Forester at Washington. The initial cost of these reservoirs would be greater than the works under the present system, but the authors of the circular say that tho storage reservoirs would give the relief, both in regard to navigation and to floods, which the present pro jects fall to supply and they point out that the relief so gained would be permanent, whereas under the system now In operation there ls a continuous expense in dredging the channels which become clogged with sand and silt washed down by the spring floods, especially from the un forested areas around some of tho rivers. In the long run the storage reser voir method would be cheaper as well as more effective, for, as one of the sponsors of the plan says, lt ls bet ter business to add to the tops of the rivers and get what you want than to keep digging out the bottoms In an attempt to get a river deep enough to float a boat. OASTORIA. Boan th* ?* TIM Kind You Hate Always Bought Will Pay No More Fines. . _ * Carrie Nation has been arrested again, this time In Pittsburg. This is the thirty-third time in her adven turous and checkered career that she has been in the hands of the police. Carrie Nation's latest offense was al leged disorderly conduct, in that she ls charged with giving four men a tongue lashing in public for some thing that displeased the doughty crusader. She was released upon payment of a $30 forfeit for her ap pearance In court. After her release she declared that she would not pay another fine, but would serve out whatever penalty she received In Jail. Stop That Cold To check euri y co?.ls or Grippe with "Preventics" means sure defeat for Pneumonia. To stop a cold with Preventics ia safer than to let lt run and be obliged to cure lt afterwards. To be sure. Pr? venues will cure even a deeply seated cold, but taken early-at the sneeze stage-they break, or head off these early colds. That's surely better. That's why they aro called Preventics. Preventtcsare little Candy Cold Cures. No Quin. Ino. no physic, nothing sickening. Klee for the children-und thoroughly salt too. If you feel chilly, if you snooze, If ron ach? all over, think of Proventlcs. Promptness may also savo half your usual sickness. And don't forget your child, ii there ls feverishness, nlghtorrtny. Herein prob ably Hes Preventics' greatest erlleloncy. Sold In 6o boxes for the pocket, also In 2oo boxes of 48 Preventics. Insist on your druggist? (lying you Preventics J. W. BELL Carter Walha Have a large Sto Lawns, Cambrics out at prices to ? Also a comp] Low Out Shoes Children. CARTE v IMPORTANT GATHERING JUNE 5. Call for Meeting of the Executive Committee for Oconee County. The County Democr&Hc Executive Committee is hereby called to meet In the office o? J. W. Shelor, in Wal halla, at 2 p. m., on Friday, the 5th day of June, 1908, to arrange for a campaign of the county and to consider such matters as may come ui> looking to the primary election to be held on the last Tuesday In Au gust next. We hope to see every member of the committee present, as business of Importance will be con sidered. J. W. Shelor, County Chairman. A "Merry Widow" is She. The fifth wedding of the widow of John Ludwig Ernest Jancke, aged 60, of Baltimore, was to have taken place Wednesday preceding the fune ral of her fourth husband, which was to be held Thursday, but she was finally persuaded to postpone it until after the obsequies. Jancke, a vete ran of three German wars, died Mon day. He was burled Wednesday af ternoon, and that morning a license was obtained for the marriage of his widow to George P. Peter. She finally agreed to postpone the mar riage for a week. Of Infarta! To Woiticm. To auch women na are not seriously out health! but who have exacting duties perform, either in the way of house hold caresVor In social duties and func tiinl^ifihXseriously tax their strength, aiiwen?Too murslng mothers, Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription has proved a most valuable .upMTtlng tonic and invigorat ing nervine. By lt? timely use, much msrlpu* signes* ?MU? ?53535 mav B avoided. Tho operating table ?nd tho surgeons' kfilfe- would, jt is h?l|cve<r. seldom have to be employed If this most Valuable 555&fl5 BBSS. Wf>ty resorted t?j n "good time, \ The "Favorite Prescrip tion" has proven a great boon to expectant mothers by preparing the system for th? I coming of baby, thoroby rendering child- | birth safe, easy, and almost painless. - Bear In mind, please that Dr. Pierce's Favorite Proscription is not a secret or j patent medicino, against which tho most . intelligent people are quite naturally ; averse, because of tho uncertainty as to their composition and harmless character, ' but is a MEDICINE OF KNOWN COMPOSI TION, a full Hst of all Its Ingredients being printed, in plain English, on every bottle wrapnor. An examination of this list of ingredients will disclose tho fact that lt ls non-alcoholic In Its composition, chemic ally puro, trlple-rollned glycerine taking tho place of the commonly used alcohol, in Its mako-up. In this connection it may not bo out of placo to state that tho "Favorito Prescription? of Dr. Pierce is the only medicine put up for tho cure of womaivs peculiar weaknesses and ail ments, and sold through druggists, all the ingredients of which have tho un animous endorsement of all the leading medical writers and teachers of all tho several schools of practice, and that too as remedies for the ailments for which ?Favorite Prescription" ls recommended. A little book of these endorsements will be sent to any address, post-paid, and absolutely free If you request same hy postal card, or lotter, of Dr. It. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. Dr. Plorce's Pleasant Pallets euro con stipation. Constipation i the causo of many dlseasos. Curo th') oause and you cure tho di so ase. Easy to take as candy. Death of Little Hiram Gibson. On Tuesday, May 19th, there fell over tho home of Mr. and Mrs. Wal ter Gibson a pall of sadness when the angel of death came and snatched from the cradle their darling baby. He was eighteen months old, and a sweeter, brighter child could bo found nowhere. All who knew lt loved lt. All that could be done hy loving hands was done to save it, hut the one that doeth all things for the best saw flt to call lt home, atvd how much better that God should call him out of this sinful world to a happy land, whore temptations never enter. To those hcarta sorely be reaved we would say, as to any other homo where such sadness has come or shall come later, Hebel not against (lori's will, for He has power to give and to take away, and all things work together for goori to those that love the Lorri. The remains were laid to rest In the South Union cem etery, the funeral services hoing con ducted by Rev. S. A. McDaniol. I). H. M. Don't let the baby suffer from ec zema, sores or any itching of the skin. Donn's Ointment gives instant relief, cures quickly. Perfectly safe for children. All druggists sell lt. & Corr lia, South Ca ck of Laces, Embro i and other Summe mit the times, lete line of Brown'i for Ladies, Gentle] R & COIV VALHALLA, S. C THE CROSS MAKES LIFE'S FOR S/l CW. Pite! WALHAL CAN FRUIT IF YOU CAN. A Good Way to ?are Money and to Make lt. Oakway, May 28.-Editors Keo wee Courier: As the time for can ning fruits'and vegetables is nearly here I want to say a word or two to the people of Oconee county. You can, with a very small capital, put up enough fruit and vegetables to do you all the winter, and what is bet ter than to have nice fresh beans, fruits, and all kinds of berries? This can be accomplished at a very small cost. Let us count up the cost on 500 3-pound (or quart) cans: Cans and caps, $12.50; canner, tobe used on stove, $5; six bushels of to matoes, $2.40; (that is, if you buy them at 40 cents per bushel, and if you raise them $1 will cover ex pense.) This will put up 108 3 pound cans, which would cost you $5.10, where you bought the toma toes. Now, at $1 for your day's work and 25 cents for wood you would have $6.35, and If you wanted to sell you could get $10.80 for them -a profit or saving of $4.45 in one day. Beans will make twenty cans to tho bushel, so your profit on beans will be as good as that on tomatoes. Sweet potatoes are nice canned. Where parties have not got a po tato house lt will pay well to can potatoes-about sixteen cans to the bushel. That would pay much bet ter than feeding them to hogs or letting them rot In the banks. Did you ever fhlnk what a loss the people of this county sustain every year In letting their fruit and vege tables waste or rot in the field, whet by a little energy and good manage ment they could save thousands of dollars? I don't mean for every body to go In the canning business for the market, but for their own use; and of course a lot of people will not can, and you can dispose of some of your goods at a nice profit. Above ail things, put up good quality and measure, and our mer chants will exchange cloth or flour or anything we want for them. Our merchants will order 250 to 500 dozen from Baltimore or New York at 90 cents per dozen, f. o. b. cars, and send a check up In the hundreds of dollars, and If we order a cheap suit of clothes from the Baltimore Bargain House they say we ought not send our money off, but spend lt at home. So let's stop them from send ing North for canned fruits, berries and vegetables. Last year two or three car loads of tin cans were shipped to Westmin ster and disposed of, and I have been reliably Informed that four cars have been bought for this year and will he shipped soon. Let everybody get In shape to can a lot of fruit this year. It will be a great saving, and money saved ls money made. W. H. Cole. "Had dyspepsia or Indigestion for years. No appetite, and what I did eat disirc-Baed me terribly. Burdock Blood Bitters cured me."-J. H.Wal ker. Sunbury, Ohio. A jury in the superior court in Atlanta has declared the negro K. of P. order to be a fraud and enjoins lt from using the name and emblem of the white organization. ?j? Rickets. rfc Simply the visible sig > are not forming rapidly js Lack of nourishment Scoffs Emutdrl jr entire system. Stimulai ^ Exactly what baby n f?\ ALL DRUGGISTS t 60e. ?x?<r><0"0"0"0"fr<o>?"e>e<i rol i na, idery, Insertion; r Goods to close s Star Five Star men, Misses and 1PANY, ETT SHOE ! WALK EASY. N .LE BY hf ord Co.. LA. S. C. The City Market, Walhalla. The City Market ls the place to buy fresh and palateable Groceries something that will do you good. Below will be found a Hst of nice things, from which you can select a splendid breakfast, dinner or supper. v Look over the list and phone us your order, and goods will be delivered promptly. Everything In the market ls clean, fresh and of the very choicest. BEEF, PORK, MUTTON, HAMS, BALOGNA SAUSAGE, FRESH AND SALT FISH, CHICKENS, (Hens end Fries.) CABBAGE, KRAUT, BEANS, PICKLES. (Swoet and Sour.) BREAKFAST BACON, LARD, CHEESE, CRACKERS. SYRUP, JELLY, PRESERVES, LEMONS, APPLES, FLAVORING EXTRACTS, EGGS, Etc. ICE IN ANY QUANTITY. WE HAVE THE COLDEST DRINKS IN TOWN. THE CITY MARKET. NOTICE We buy Dry and Green Hides. Highest prices paid for Good Beef Cattle. We want one thousand FRYING CHICKENS. We always pay more for these than any one else. When you have produce to sell call on us first. Sad Death at Return. Return, May 27.-Special- On Thursday morning, May 21, at 3 o'clock, the angel of death calmly and peacefully bore away the spirit of Mrs. Dehlia Moore King, wife of John King, Her death has cast a gloonf*' over the whole community, as lt was peculiarly sad, though not unexpect ed to her loved ones and friends, as she had been confined to her room four months with that dread disease, consumption. She bore her suffer ing with Christian fortitude and res ignation, always mindful of the com forts of those around her. In early lifo she united with the church. She was In her thirtieth year. Thirteen years ago she was happily married'to John King, mak ing him a loving, devoted wife. She is survived by her husband and fl\o_ little girls, her father, mother, elf sisters and ono brother, and a he of relatives and friends. On Friday, tho 22d, a largo con course of sorrowing friends followed / her remains to Oakway Wesleyan ' church, whore her frail body was committed to mother earth to await the glorious morning of tho resur rection, the funeral being conducted by Rev. Janies Mason. To the grief strlckon husband and little children and bereaved parentB is extonded the sympathy of many friends. F. B. M. It you will make inquiry it will be a revolution to you how many suc cumb to kidney or bladder trouble in one form or another. If the pa tient ls not beyond medical aid, Fo ley's Kidney Cure will cure. It never disappoints. Sold by all druggists. n that baby's tiny bones enough. mfa is the cause. #>. Oft nourishes baby's t^Mg :es and makes bone. <y ^ eeds. Wf AND $1.00 Of