Keowee courier. (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, August 26, 1908, Image 7

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OA KW A Y OBSERVATIONS. Personal Paragraphs About the Peo ple on the Ridge. Oakway, Aug. 17.--Special: Pro tracted services were held at the Bap tist church last week. Rev. Herron was ably assisted by Rev. Graham, ot Tokeeha. There were many addi tions to the church, and wv trust much and lasting good was accom plished. Geo. Bagwell and bride, of Corona, Ala., accompanied by bis mother, Mrs. B. Bagwell, and brother, Broadus, of Bounty Land, were guests of the fain ily of W. N. Bruce for several days laBt week. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Suber, of New berry, are visiting their kinsmen, S. B. and J. S. King. Mrs. W. K. Lindsay, of Central, spent a part of last week with the family of J. W. Bearden. Mrs. M. J. Haley, of Greenville, and Miss Eula Haley, of Westminster, were guests of J. S. Beardeu and fam ily last week. Miss Alice Gaines, of Seneca, spent last week wi a friends in our town. Mrs. Guy Meredith and children are visiting relatives in Anderson. Geo. Edwards and daughter, Mrs. Bullock, of Texas; Mesdames Sam Dickson and ernest Grant, of West minster and Seneca, respectively, were guests of the family of W. N. Bruce the latter part of last week. Leard Moore, of Greenville, ls at home for vacation, and he and his cousin. Miss Gertie Moore, have re turned from the old soldiers' reunion at Greenville. Grundy HUI, of Horse Cove, N. C., made a recent visit to his daughter, Mrs. W. W. Bearden. Mrs. J. C. Beard? n and children, of Atlanta, are spending the summer here and at Westminster. Her L's band was with her part of last we3k. Miss Rosa Foster spent part of last week with relatives In Seneca. Waymon Mason and wife, of West, minster, are on a visit to his people. Frank Foster has returned from an extended trip through South Geor gia. Misses Ha and Cordelia Bearden, of Six-Mile and Holly Springs, re spectively, were with homefolks last week. Miss Jodie Haley Is expected home soon from Alabama, where she has been visiting for several weeks. Walter Wright and family, of Spartanburg. are now on a visit to their kin, Mesdames Moore and Cain. Prof. McCraw, bf Cross Roads, spent the week-end with friends in our town. Duo. World's Supply of Cotton. According to the figures of th*? Fi nancial Chronicle, the world's visible supply of all kinds of cotton up to August 15, totalled 1,863,296 bales, against 2.537.208 bales a year ago and 1,972,000 bales two years ago. The visible supply of American cot ton totalled 1,050,296 bales, com pared with 1,508,208 bales a year ago and 993,024 bales two years ago. The amount of cotton that came into sight during the week previous to Augu.-t 15 totalled 60,732 bales, compa:<"J with 52,266 bales for the corresp Hiding week last year. The into-sight for the season to date aggregates 11,417,113 bales, as against 13,396,434 bales for the cor responding period last season; North ern spinners' takings at 1,905,931 hales, compared with 2,652,191 bales last season. Exports from the United States for the week totalled 29,708 bales, as against 7,646 bales for the corres ponding week last year. The amount of cotton on shipboard last week, not yet cleared, was placed at 33,65 6 bales, compared with 21, 027 bales a year ago and 36,572 bales two years ago. The world's takings of American cottor for the week were placed at 128,364 bales, as against 145,226 bales for the corresponding week last year. For the season to date takings of American cotton total 11,696,601 bales, compared with 12,786,382 bales for the corresponding period last year. Thomas Kane, aged 52, known as the "king of yeggmen," was arrested in Philadelphia last week. He is wanted In many countries. I rom Old Pic kens. Old Plckens, Aug. 18.-Special: Crops are not so good through this section, but we hove plenty of fruit and melons. Kev. C. D. Mann preached at Old Plckens church last Sabbath to a large congregation. There will be a meeting Saturday, August 22, to clean off the grave yard. We have a good school at Norton, under the care of Miss Rubye brant. Miss Clara WiiJiman, of Greenville, is visiting her unrd?>, l?dward Gantt. Mrs. Stephen King and daughter, of Greenville, have returned home after a week's visit to hor slater, Mrs. J. S. Craig. A good many of the boys took in the reunion at Greenville last week and report a nico time. C. L. Bear Swamp Locals. Bear Swamp, Aug. 18.-Special: The people of this community are now busy pulling fodder. Misses Fannie and Julia Hawkins, of Seneca, were the guests of Miss Florena Burley last week. J. L. Burley, of Anderson, spent Saturday and Sur < ay with his father, W. W. Burley, ai J family. Miss Mettle Abbott, of Spartan burg, has been visiting nt the home of her uncle, Marshall Abbott. The young folks of Bear Swamp spent Monday at tho tunnol. All re port a nice time. Wade Burley left this morning for Jonesville, where ho will visit his sis ter, Mrs. L. L. Chandler, Miss Mamio Burley, nephew and niece," Eugene and Edna Parker, are visiting In Grover, N. C., for a short while. Clyde and Lloyd Brown, of Wal halla, were In the Swamp Sunday. Miss Gena Fennell has gone to tho mountains with Luthor Allison and family, who will bo gone a week or ten days. R. THE DEPOT AT SENECA. Railroad Commissioner Sullivan Says Improvements are Needed. Recommendation haB been made by Capt. J. M. Sullivan, of the Railroad Commission, that improvements be made upon the present accommoda tions for travelers at Seneca. Capt. Sullivan has submitted the following report upon his investigation into the state of affairs at that place. The report is made to B. L. Caugh man, chairman of the Commission, and is hs follows: "On August 17th, complaint hav ing roached me, I visited Seneca, a junction station on the Southern and Blue Ridge railroads, for the. pur pose of Investigating the depot situa tion at that point, and found serious need there of Improved facilities for handling passengers and baggage moving over the two roads above mentioned. "The rules of this commission as to supplying wholesome drinking water and keeping waiting room clean, are constantly disregarded; often dis courtesy is shown to passengers, and the public frequently fails to procure important information as to ticket rates and train accommodations, that should be supplied readily by almost any agency. "The Southern Railway Company and the Blue Ridge railroad has each a mau in the ticket office to sell tickets and check baggage, each man's duties being confined to his own road, neither assisting the other, and when either or both of them are out of the ticket office, engaged in checking baggage or other outside duties, no one is left in the office to sell tickets, exchange mileage, or give information. "From information obtained at Seneca, I am thoroughly convinced that there is a serious want of sys tem on the part of the employees In connection with the passenger ser vice, which demands a prompt rem edy. It appears to me that, one com petent joint ticket agent there, v hose duty should be to keep the office open at all reasonable hours, and one competent baggage man to check baggage, with the necessary help to handle the baggage, would simplify matters very much, and give the public better service over both roads. "The commission has heretofore noted the need at Seneca of a larger union passenger station. This neces sity of late has increased, and I am satisfied lt ls the duty of the com mission to take the necessary steps at once for procuring such a union passenger station at Seneca as a pro per regard for the safety, comfort and convenience of the public re quires. "The white waiting room in the present passenger station is entirely too email to accommodate the travel. Passengers are dally forced to And seats In the adjacent park. During the severe winter months or In rainy weather this, of course, cannot be done, and travelers suffer the discom fort of being badly crowded In the (usually dirty) waiting room, with out anything that can be regarded as a convenience. "Tickets are sold in a little nook in this depot too small for one man to work In, though 'wo men are re quired there. This old passenger de pot ls also used as a telegraph and express office, when lt ls really too small for a strictly passenger union depot at Seneca. "Seneca is a junctlonal point of sufficient importance to require the j endance of a stewardess or ma tun, whose duty it should be to look after the comfort of female passen gers and children, ns well as the mat ter of Are and water supply. Also to keep the station waiting rooms clean and lights burning when need ed. "I hereby recommend that the commission take such action as it deems best towards securing the re lief needed at Seneca. "Respectfully submitted, "J. M. Sullivan, Commissioner." NEW YORK IS FOR BRYAN. That is Mle Opinion of State Senator Tin. Sullivan. A Chicago dispatch says: State Senator Timothy Sullivan, of New York City, called on Chairman Mack to-day and spent an hour looking over headquarters and in meeting the heads of the various hureaus. Sena tor Sullivan is returning home from a visit to Seattle, Wash., where he attended a convention of the Eagles "Everywhere I have been I found the sentiment strong for Bryan," said Senator Sullivan. "New York? will be for Bryan, and will elect a Demo cratic State ticket from the Governor down. 1 don't know who the Demo crats will nominate for Governor, but I hop. lt .Will bo Lieutenant Gover nor Chanler. I heard reports out West that Tammany Hall would not be for Bryan. That is not so. The Hall ls always regularcw Hall is always for the Democratic ticket and that Is the secret of lt? strength. Tammany Hall will never teach Its voters to scratch a ticket for It might come back to plague us." NOW TO MASSAGE HEART. Surgeon Opens Body to Perform the Remarkable Operation. Washington, Aug. 23.-News of one of the most remarkable opera tions, performed by a surgeon at the Emergency Hospital here, is just made public. A youug colored boy had succumbed while under tho in fluence of chloroform during an ope ration for an Infected knee. His pulse died and after resorting to artificial respiration without result the surgeon opened the body and for seven minutes massaged the heart with his Angers. Finally the heart pulsated gently, and aftor eighteen minutes the surgeon had the heart pulsating normally. For a day and a half following the operation the boy remained in excel lent condition, but blood poisoning set In from the infected knee, caus ing his death. The operation is regarded by med ical students as unique in the annals <-f medicine and openB up a new Aeld of surgery where persons expire un der the InAuence of anesthetics. DEFECTIVE DEFLECTORS. Devices Used Do Not Come Up to Re? quirementfl of the Law. Columbia, Aug.v22.--The Railroad iConiiuiuMion hag directed a letter to the Southern Railway calling atten tion to the fact that tho road has not complied with the law passed by the General Assembly requiring the rail roads to put cinder deflectors upon all windows of passenger ?coaches when the windows are open. Tlii?? law was to be In force by July 1, 1908, tho penalty for viola tion of same to be not less than $500 nor more than $1,000. The deflec tors now used are not "the same as are used on Pullman coaches," nor are they deflectors as will effectually keep cinders from engines entering the cars so as to protect passengers when the windows are ruised. ' It is stated in the circular that the deflectors now used are small and fall considerably short of the Pull man deflectors In length and width. They are difficult to detach, often de tach themselves from windows and are lost. The commission has ruled that unless the Southern Railway Company compiles with this State law within fifteen days it will feel warranted in proceeding to enforce the law required by the Statute? cf this State. Weak women should read my "Book No. 4 for Women." It tells of Dr. Shoop's Night Cure. Tells how these soothing, healing, antiseptic suppossitories bring quick and cer tain help. The booa ls free. Address Dr. Shoop, Racine, Wis. J. W. Bell. HUSBAND AND WIFE QUARREL ?And Die - Wife Thought Husband Had Left Uer. New York, Aug. 19.-Believing that her husband was about to leave her forever, Mrs. Edward H. Hacker committed suicide to-day by shooting herself. Her husband, who had bade her good-bye after a series of alter cations and started from the Hague Court apartments, where they lived, heard the shot and ran back to the flat. Upon beholding the lifeless body of his wife he was overcome wk i grief and remorse, and, locking the door of the apartment, he picked up the revolver with which she had killed herself and ended his own life by shooting himself three times. When the superintendent of the building and employees broke down the door they found the husband and wife dead, Hecker with his arms clasped about his wife's neck and bis Ups close to ber cheek, as though he died while trying to kiss her. For a day and a night Hacker and hts wife had been quarreling. They bad been married a little less than two years, and lt seems Hacker was Insanely Jealous of his wife. Hacker was employed by the McCall Pattern Company, and Is said to have been well-to-do. Many years ago Eastern farmers sold their farms at high prices to buy cheap Western lands. Now some far mers in the West are selling high priced land and are buying the cheap and abandoned farms of the l?ast. Massachusetts and Connecticut, it is said, have plenty of such farms, and that enterprising Western farmers are the purchasers. NATURE AND A WOMAN'S WORK! ss 'LYDIA E, F?NKI-L Nature and a woman's work com bined have produced the grandest I remedy for woman's ills that the | world has ever known. In the good old-fashioned days of our graiiumothers they relied upon the roots and herbs of the field to I cure disease and mitigate suffering. Thc Indians on our Western Plains to-day can produce roots and herbs for every ailment, and cure diseases that baffle thc most skilled physicians who have spent years in the study of drugs. From the roots and herbs of the field Lydia K. Pinkham more than thirty years ago gave to the women of the world a remedy for their pe culiar ills, more potent and effica cious than any combination of drugs. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is now recognized as the standard remedy for woman's ills. Mrs. Bertha Muff, of 616 N.C. St. Louisiana, Mo., writes : Complete restoration to health means so much to me that for the sake of other suffering women I am willing to make my troubles public. "For twelve years I had been suffer ing' with the worst forms of female ills. During that time I had eleven different physician* without help. No tongue can tell whet I suffered, and at times I could hardly walk. About two year? ago I wrote Mrs. Pinkham for adrice. I followed lt, and can truly say that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound and Mr?, Pinkham's advice re stored health and strength. It la worth mountain? of gold to suffering women." % What Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege table Compound did for Mrs. Muff, it will do for other suffering women. WHICH WILL PAY MEST ? To Plant 100 Acres In Cotton or to Plant Corn and Grain ? ' (Southern Cultivator.) There has always been a tendency among many farmers to argue and figure that it pays to grow cotton and buy all supplies. It figures out well though human experience does not corroborate these figures. The above query was put to us last week by a very successful farmer with the re quest that we answer it. We will try to be Just and fair, and we are going into the proposition not knowing how it will come out. We do not wish to see a one-crop system of farming, and wo are glad to state that the one putting the ques. tion grows his own food stuffs and some to sell. As our friend puts lt, so we will figure it. The result would be something like thia: Cr. 100 bales cotton @ 10c. ..$5,000 00 90 bales cotton seed'? $6. 540 00 $5,540 00 Dr Now the cost will be: 4 hands and feed @ $200..$ 800 00 Feed of 4 mules @ $120 58 bushels corn, 4,000 lbs. of hay. 480 00 50 tons fertilizer <0> $22. . 1,100 00 Extra labor hoeing cotton, $2 per acre. 200 00 Extra labor picking cotton. 525 00 Blacksmithing, repairs, etc 200 00 duning, bagging and ties. 175 00 $3,480 00 Giving a profit of.$2,066 00 Now let us take the same 100 acres, plant 50 acres in cotton, 25 in corn and peas, and 25 in oats, to be followed by peavlne hay. Then we would have something like this: Cr. By 50 bales cotton @ 10c.$2,500 00 By 4 5 bales of Beed @ $6. 270 00 By 600 bu. corn <fj> $1. . . . 600 00 By 1,250 bu. oats ?> 75c. . 937 50 By 75 tons hay ? $15. . . 1,125 00 $5,432 50 . Dr. To 3 hands rf?> $200.$ 600 00 To extra labor hoeing cot ton .. 100 00 To extra labor picking cot ton . 200 00 To blacksmithing and re pairs . 150 00 To 50 tons ferli'izer <Q> $22 1,100 00 To ginning, bagging and ties . 87.50 $2,237 60 Profit.$3,195 00 Now, our friend admitted that it would require 1,000 pounds of fer tilizer per acre to get the bale of cot ton. We prefer to uso this same amount on our crops, and with this our yleldB are not too high. We do not know how he figured the results, but if we are not fair we stand open to correction. We counted nothing for food or peas, but we have taken off the former and allowed all peas grown In the corn to cover the latter. We thought cotton would figure out best, but If other crops are given same land and same amount of ferti lizer, you can figure all you want to, and at present prices they will bring just as remunerative prices as cotton and any crop can be grown-cheaper. You ca i grow a crop of oats and pea vines for less than a cotton crop. Served as coffee, the new coffee substitute known to grocer's every where as Dr. Shoop's Health Coffee, will trick even a coffee expert. Not a grain of real coffee In lt either. Pure healthful toasted grains, malt, n'-'s, etc., have been so cleverly blend.as to give a wonderfully satisfying cof fee taste and flavor. And It is "made In a minute," too. No tedious 20 to 30 minutes boiling. . A. P. Crisp. 1HHJBLE TRAGEDY IN SALUDA. Ernest Rowe Accidentally Kills Cou sin; Afterwards Slays Himself*. Saluda, Aug. 14.-One ?-f the most shocking tragedies that bas ever happened in this county occurred this afternoon about four mile., from thia plaee, when Ernest Rowe acci dentally shot and killed his cousin, Miss Jessie Rowe, 18 years old, and afterwards shot him self, inflicting a wound from which he died within 30 minutes. Young Rowe was with Miss Rowe at the girl's home and was playing with a gun he thought was unloaded. In some maner tho weapon was dis charged, the load entering the girl's mont, , killing her Instantly. Shocked at the accident, young Rowe begged some one to kill him, saying that the horror of what he had done was more than he could bear and that If no one else would shoot him he would take his own life. No attention was paid his pleadings, but soon after a report was heard outside the house and on rushing out, the crowd found him in a dying condition. He had placed the muzzle of the gun under bis right Jaw and fired lt, the charge tearing away the right side of his head. He died half an hour later. Finest Rowe was 19 years of age. He was the son of Bud Rowe. Miss Jessie Rowe was the daughter of J. T. Rowe. There Is no doubt that the killing was entirely accidental. TORXA. ?The Kind Yon Hare Alwajrs Bou?M Georgia Man Get? Fortune. Rome, Ga., Aug. 19.-?T. H. Lit tlejohn, an old citizen of Floyd coun ty, hns fallen heir to a big fortune. His uncle and ramoaake, T. H. Lit tlejohn, of Brooklyn, N. Y., han Just died, willing him his en ii ? fortune, contenting of $30,000 In ca^h ?nd a number of buildings s:l!raated to be worth $100,000. Mr. Littlejohn is 52 years old and has a wife and sev eral children. He 1?? a farmer llveing about ihreo IttllCd from Rome, Ga. Ho will leave for New York to look after his new possessions. El Ff* "F pi fi THKBKSTFOB h?Z^SS*l*?L B1LIOUHNKKH BITTERS AND KIDNEYS. The Kind Ton Have Always Bought? and which has been in use for over 30> yean? has horne the stgnatnre of j^J? mi aml has been made under his per T^PLJ/j?^?^7+-7?Z., sonal supervision since its infancy? '-wc****** Allow no one to deceive you in this. All Counterfeits, Imitations and "?Tust-as-good" are but Experiments that trifle with and endang-or the health of Infants and Children--Experience against Experiment What is CASTORIA Castor In is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil. Pare florie. Drops and Soothing Syrups* It is Pleasant. It contains neither Opium? Morphine nor other Narcotia substance* Its age ls its guarantee* It destroys Worms and allays Feverishness* It cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation and Flatulency* It assimilates the Food, regulates the Stomach and Bowels? giving healthy and natural slru^fe The Childrens Panacea-The Mother's Friend? GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS Bears the Signature of The Kind You Have Always Bought In Use For Over 30 Years. THC ciNTAun COMPANY. Yt MURRAY ?meCT, Net? ve?*? orr?. IjCWSO KINO FOUND IN BIRD NEST Diamond Circlet is Found by Woman While Walking in thc Woods. New York, Aug. 19.-Miss Anna Dodge, of Brooklyn, who ls visiting friends in Caldwell, N. J., while in the woods in that vicinity with some friends, found a diamond ring val ued at $350. Her attention was drawn to a bird's nest at the foot of a tree, and thinking lt had been wan tonly thrown to the ground by some small boy, she picked it up. In the nest was the ring. It is set with four diamonds of rare brilliancy. A jew eler says lt is worth $350. The nest was that of a blackbird, and it is supposed that the bird carried the ring there. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of What n Boor Boy Did. (Cameton Observer.) David Rankin, the noted Missouri corn grower, will be eighty years old this month. He was so poor when a boy that he went barefooted a great part of each summer until he was twenty-eight years old. He paid his last dollar to the preacher who mar ried him in 1850, but now he owns 85,000 acres of good land, and last year raised more than 1,000,000 bushels of corn. He ls worth over $3,000,000, and made lt all by farm ing and cattle dealing. To Sv im English Channel. Pittsburg, Aug. 25-Daniel T. Kel ley, a clerk in the North Side Bureau of Fire, announces that next summer he will endeavor to swim the Eng lish Channel from England to France, a feat accomplished only by the late Capt. Webb. Kelley is twenty-five years old and an expert swimmer. He has repre sented Pittsburg (dub' in aquatic contests in New York and other cities. He is practicing dally in a swim ming pool, and expects to keep this up through the winter and until he leaves for England. Kl LL TH* COUGH ?NB CURB TM? LUNC8 wT Dr. King's New Discovery FOR C%m* AND All tt'lOAT AND LUNQ TROUBLES. GUARANTEED SATISFACTORY OB MO*TT? REFUNDED. C. R. Houchlns. WE ARE DETERMI? LIVERY B FOR THIS COMMUNITY. COMB ON AND GET YOUR TEAMS. HAULING TEAMS, SINGLB AND DOUBLE BUGGY TBAMS AND SADDLE HORSES, ALWAYS ON HAND. Prompt and polite service at rea sonable prices. Teams sent out a ti any nour, day or night. 'Phone IQ or ll for quick teams. _i HOI ( li I NS ? KING, 1 Walhalla, 8. 0. ] P1M1 BK W. J. CARTER, M. D., Dentist. Office two doors above the Bank, la Carter's Pharmacy, WESTMINSTER, S. C. DR. W. P. AUSTIN, Dentist, Seneca, South Carolina. Office over J. W. Byrd & Co. DR. D. P. THOMSON, Dentist, Walhalla, Sooth Carolina. Office over C. W. Pitchford Co's Store Phone No. 36. DR. J. H. BURGESS, Dentist, Seneca, South Carolina. Office over Witsell Bro.'s Store, Clinkscales-Harper Building. Office Hours:-9 A. M. to 1 P. M. 2 P. M. to 6 P. M. ?BL?YSK??NEYCUR? Makes Kidneys and Bladder Right E. L. HERNDON, Attorney-at-Law, Walhalla, South Carolina. PHONE No. 61. J. P. Carey, J. W. Shoior, Plckens, S. C. Walhalla, S. G. W. C. Hughs, Walhalla, CAREY, SUkMX>R & IUTGU4V Attorneys and Counsellors, Walhalla, S. G. Practice in State and Federal Courts. R. T. JAYNES, Attorney-at-Law, Walhalla, South Carolina. Practice in State and Federal Courts. Bell Phone No. 80. J. J. Mc S W A 1 N , Attorney-at-Law, GREENVILLE, S. CAROLINA. M. C. LONG, Attorney-at-Law, i (Office Over Post Office,) Anderson, S. G. Will practice lu all Courts In South Carolin?.. 46-'03 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 KEOWFE COURIER, Walhalla, S. 0. Louis A. King. TOD TO DO THE ?USINESS A