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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
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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]
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VALHALLA, S. C
THE CROSS
MAKES LIFE'S
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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
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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