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KEOWEE COURIER (ESTABLISHED 1849.) Published Every Wednesday Morning. Subscription, Si.no IVr Annum. Advertising Kates Reasonable. -By STKCK, SHELOll & SCHRODER. Communications or a personal character charged for as advertise ments. Obituary notices and tributes of respect, of not over one hundred words, wiM 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. C.: WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 0, 1008. THE CANDIDATES' PLEDGE. The attention of candidates is called to the pledge that each one was required to sign prior to enter ing the campaign. Very few have compiled with the latter clause of this pledge. Below we give the pledge in full ns signed by all the candidates. If lt has not been compiled with In full lt should be done a.. once: I, the undersigned-of the county of Oconee and State of South Carolina, candidate for the of fice of-hereby pledge that 1 will not give nor spend money, or use Intoxicating liquors for the pur pose of obtaining or influencing votes, and that 1 shall, at the conclu sion ol' the campaign and before the primary elections, render to the Clerk ol' Court (or Secretary ot' State MS hereinbefore provided), under oath, an itemized statement of all money spent or provided by nie dur ing the campaign for campaign pur poses np to that tinie. and I further pledge that I will, immediately after the primary election or elections that 1 am a candidate in, render au Item ized statement, under oath, showing nil further moneys spent or provided by me in said election. The latter part of the pledge, print ed here In black-face type, is the part that has not been generally complied with. If you were a candidate, look after the matter. The law prescribes a penalty of $100 fine or three months' Imprisonment for failing to Uh? said pledge. All candidates, whe ther elected or not, must file the pledge. Ullin:. TH HUE AM) YONDER. Oconee knocked un? black out of those .lohn Cary tickets all right, all right! hast .Monday was Labor Day, and ns usual we complied cheerfully, put ting ll) the full nine hours. ? * . * . The railroads are getting in pret ty good shape again, and one can now travel from this section to Co lutnbia and Charleston inside of a week. .lohn D. Rockefeller has succeeded In tracing family lineage back to the old French Barons. No wonder the old duffer got to be prince of the Standard Oil pirates. Congressman A. F. Lever, of the Seventh District, has "come across" with 75 big buck dollnrs for the Democratic campaign fund. Some Congressmen are still out In the back yard pulling the feathers out of the eagle's wings. For United States Senate ills JOHN GARY X EVANS Mark E. D. Smith. Wc are expecting to hear of Mr. Smith making HIS mark In Wash ington. Mr. Blease has already announced lils candidacy for Governor of South Carolina two years henee. He re minds one of the twelfth century troubadore, as he haunts Columbia, and, looking soulfully and longingly at the Executive Mansion, pipes, all out ol' tune and discordant, "Oh. promise me that some day you'll be mine! " ***** We have received a copy "The History of Pendleton Fanners' So ciety", a neatly bound volume 7 Ms by 8 '/_>, containing 208 pages and a number of splendid Illustrations. This volume contains much to in >crest all who are concerned in pre serving facts pertaining to the his tory ol' one of the most historic and interesting sections of the South Car olina Piedmont. While the arin body of the hook bears direct Iv .pon matters pertaining to the old Pendle ton Farmers' Society, still that his toric organization was so closely Identified with the growth and de velopment of Old Pendleton, which was then de centre of Interest and activity in the Piedmont section, that thc direct line of historic events chronicled in this Utile book, have a m. ch wider scope than the little vol ume would tit first glance indicate. It ls a volume that may well be pre served with the intent 'o supplement real history. The copy sent us ia greatly prized. Thre are ninny notes in the reports of tho meetings of this old Farmers' Society that have a direct hearing on scientific farm ope rations to-day as well as at thy time they were brought before the society for consideration. This book can be procured by sending ?1 to J. B. Har ris, Pendleton, S. C., who will for ward lt postpaid. NEWS PROM WESTMINSTER. (Continued from First Page.) Mr. Duncan was carrying It home from his father's home In Wost Union last Friday. Mis?es Beulah and Francis Ken drick, who have been the attractive guests of Mrs. Dr. C. M. Walker, returned to their home In Atlanta last Thursday. Miss Annie May Smith, after spend ing four weeks with her sister, Mrs. C. C. Moore, returned to her home at Fast Point, Ga., last Saturday. Miss Smith ls a charming young lady and made many friends and admirers while here . Thos. O. Parker has returned from a trip to Shreveport, La. M. A. Terrell has about completed a pretty and commodious residence on "Hill Top," near the home of W. L. England. Miss Rena Harrell left last Wednes day for Charlotte to attend the Pres byterian College of that etty. Mrs. W. W. Turner has gone to Rabun Gap, Ga., to spend a while with one of her sisters. From thcie she will go to her home at Athens. Mrs. Turner Is an exemplary Chris tian woman, and while in Westmin ster was helpful In Sabbath school work. Miss Ethel Marett, of the High School, spent Saturday and Sunday at her home In Fair Play. An Excellent Sermon. Rev. J, R. Mooro, pastor of the Baptist church, preached an elo quent sermon on "Woman's work and her sphere and privileges" last Sunday. Ills discourse was well con ceived and he paid a beautiful trib ute to the women of our land. All the songs for the service wore com posed bv women. "JOSHS Saves'* and . The Half Has Never Yet Been Told" wore sweetly rendered, as wore also tho duet. "I Have Never Known You," by Mrs. J. R. Moore and Mrs. I). I. Mulkey, and tho solo, "Over tho Lino." by Mrs. Dr. W. J. Carter. Following ait" some extracts from Pastor Moore's sermon: "In one brief discourse we could nc do jus tice lo woman, her sphere and achievements, lfbr Influence on the world's history, in war, In peace, in tho affairs of church. State, etc. His tory ls not wanting In record of deeds of chivalry and heroism of woman, but her chief power has over boen in shaping the lives of those who hold the rights of the ballot and fought the great battles of history. Those men, who in the recent pri maries In South Carolina, cast bal lots for men of character and nobil ity were only putting into use the principles morality demands for wise and good moral government. Inst Hi ed by their mothers. Thus the tooth ers and noble sisters were allowed the right of franchise moro than was generally supposed. Those men of greatness In the world's history owe much to tho women who had In hand i their early training, tho forming of youthful ideals. Thus, we see, the hand that tocks the cradle rules the world. There !>.p.vo been few called upon to stand out in public view as Florence Nightengale, but. many are they who have wrought as nobly in au humbler sphere. In fact, many of the noblest examples of true fem inine heroism have been unknown in history. Those women who kept the home while husbands, fathers and sons wont forth In armlos for their country's cause make truer examples of courage and heroism than those mon on the battlefield. Those were in crowds, led by worthy generals, to live or dip together. The women stood single-handed, alone In shat tered homes to 'stay by the stuff' and guard the precious lives of tho household, often in the lone hours watching through the days and nights some Infant life hanging in the balances between life and death, lu the affairs ot' church women have ever taken the lead In the matters of progress. The layman's move ment of to-day ls only the awaken ing of the mer. to realize what wo men have been working and praying for In woman's missionary unions and ladles' aid societies, etc., for a generation past. When the church seems dead and pastor despondent, be linds his greatest cheer In tho fact that the faithful women in their meetings for prayer aro remember ing him at the throne of grace, even while the men have been over whelmed in business cares. "Then woman plays her part In making social Ideals high or low. It ls to woman we must look for re forms along various lines. As an example, a woman who Is a great lover of fine bats fet a called upon to suggest In a magazine article the need of reformation In the matter of hoad dress for women In church. It ls time that women should awake to. the needs of the hour when tho double deckers that adorn (?) the hoads of women result In eclipsing tho preachers view of faces of both men and women at church . So. turning to tho Ideas of the scripture lesson, we see tho fact that in woman love stops not to count the cost, while scheming man, with thoughts of business, ls counting the financial extravagance. Contrast Mary and Judas, in the story. The poor widow who cast In the two mites ls com mended of Christ for casting In all that she had. And these deeds of loyal love Will be heralded where . ever the Gospel ls preached. Ex amples are cited of tho importunity ol' woman's determination that holds ! on when less persistent men would! give up the case and fall." Mr. Moore analyzed the fact that woman was admired for her beauty and man for his strength. A. L. Gossott. Ill from Insect's Bite. (News and Courier Special.) Spartanburg, Sept. 5.-W. I. Har ris, a well-known business man of this city, ls critically 111 as the re sult of having been bitten by a poi sonous Insect, two weeks ago. Mr. Harris was In the county campaign making the race for register of mesi.e conveyance when ho was bit ten by an insect and forced to quit the stump. Ho conducted bis cam paign by circulars and got Into the second race, but retired on account of bis Illness. It is feared that blood poisoning has developed, and his family have grave fears thal he may not recover. FOIHv/T FIRES IN MINNESOTA. Hair n County Huming-In.:. Cari Take People Away. . -. Duluth, Minn., Sept. 5.-Forest fires, arter burning ror three days, enveloped several towns near Du luth, rendered thousands or people homeless and destroyed millions ot dollars worth or property. , Chlsolm, Minn., a town of 4.000 Inhabitants, on the Mesaba Iron range, 90 miles north ot Duluth, was completely wiped out. nibbing, five miles trom Chlsolm, was surrounded by forest fires, and was saved only by the shirting of the wind. The entire northern portion ot Douglas county, Wisconsin, is on fire. Bonshaw, a village 25 inlier west or Duluth, ls surrounded by Hames and there I? no hope tor it. The larmers have been driven rrom their homes and as passage along the roadway ls difficult owing to the dense smoke and the boat, lt ls be lieved that some lives have been lost, although none have been reported. A fire at Bayfield, Wis., damaged two docks and n lumber company's property to. the extent of $700,000. For three days the woods have been on fire west and north of Chls olm and small bush fires were re ported to the eastward. At noon three walls of fire coming from dif ferent directions joined and swept toward the little mining town with a roar, licking up every tree, stump and vestige of plant growth and send ing up a hurricane of red hot brands that fell upon the town. The citizens of Chlsolm went forth to light the fire. Tho fire depart ment was not able to cover a large territory and although Intermittent blazes started by the falling fire brands were quickly extinguished the fire rolled onward toward the town and the citizens soon realized 1 that Its destruction was inevitable, f non the roads leading from the town were thronged with Hoeing peo ple in wagons, on horses and on foot. Conveyances were at a premium. A foreigner with a small wagon and one horse offered to take a woman and three small children to nibbing for $2 5. A man overheard the con versation and drawing a revolver pointed it at the foreigner's head, and then climbing into the rig, com pelled him to drive the party over the fire zone. Business men ran home to get their families and many separations occurred as they In turn Hed toward the business district. The (?reat Northern, the only road running into Chlsolm. took 15 box cars crowded with homeless people to nibbing to-night, where the citi zens are throwing open their homes and tents are being supplied to care for the refugees. The residence districts caught lire soon after the business portion was ablaze. The new high school, which was recently erected at a cost of $125.01)0. ls the only building saved. The loss on buildings at Chlsolm ls estimated at $2.000,000. Chls olm is in the centre of the greatest Iron producing area in the world. Refugees poured into Hlbbing to night until the population of 10,000 was almost doubled. Forest Fires Now Checked. Duluth. Minn.. Sept. 6.-Arter de stroying the towns of C'hisolm, on the Mesaba range, and burning over thousands of acres In St. Louis, Car leton and Itasca counties, In Minne sota, and In Douglass county, Wis consin, the many forest fires which have been raging In these regions were checked to-day. If the wind does not spring up again lt ls not likely that further damage will result. Tho subsiding of the wind enabled the Inhabitants of Buhl and Nash wauk to save these towns. Several buildings at the edge of Nasbwauk were burned, but by working all night 1,200 miners and citizens pre vented the flames from sweeping over the village. The town was sur rounded by a wall of lire ait' il. es cape was remarkable. Shlsolm pre sents a scene of ruin and desolation. Blackened and smoking pilos of charred wood, little heaps of gray ashes, scorched, gaunt skeletons of brick and mortar, all canopied with a dense pall of smoke, comprise what was one of the most flourishing towns of the great Mesaba Iron range. The only remaining build ings are l l.e new High School, a grad ed school, a Catholic church, the Italian church and a dozen dwellings In the southernmost part of the city. The damage to real property ls now estimated at $1,000,000 and that of personal property at $750, 000. The Insurance carried by Chls olm merchants was about $500,000. A Paying Investment. John White, of 38 Highland ave nue, lloulton, Maine, snys: "Have been troubled with a cough every winter and spring. Last winter I tried many advertised remedies, but the cough continued until I bought a 50c. bottle of Dr. King's New Discov ery; before that was half gone, the cough was all gone. This winter the same happy result has followed; a few doses once more banished the annual cough. I am now convinced that Dr. King's New Discovery ls the best of all cough and lung remedies." Sold under guarantee at all drug gists. 50c. and $1. Trial bottle free. Augusta emmi Contract Let, Augusta. Ga., Sept. 5.-('ontrads Tor repairing the Augusta Canal were .awarded last night to W. J. Oliver. The terms are that he shall be paid ut tho rate or 54% cents per cubic yard for replacing dirt In the breaks along the banks to the ex tent of 40,000 cubic yards; that within 30 days he sha^l have put the canal In shape to operate cotton mills and Wi. erworks; that within 0 0 days he shall have finished *.<? job, ex cepting hindrance by Provlu -ntlal In tervention. Champion Pnii|M>r Dead. Utica, N. Y., Sept. 5.-The diam pion pauper is dead after being a public charge ror elghty-flvo years. Hezekiah Monk was born In the Kerklmer county poor house, eighty five years ago, spent all his days there and died in that institution. "Stop Rocking the Boat" t The MON?Y PANIC is to bc forgotten. The WIFE has heard this cry long enough. Put a little sunshine in your home and at the same time put in your* kitchen one of our SUPERB STEEL RANGES with a linc of thc Blue and White Porce lain Kitchen Ware. We have them marked "Way Down." We bought them some time ago, and the prices on these famous and well-known Ranges will interest you. ??* f-"* ?A* ?j* ?J* a.* ?.** k/* Roof your barn with our Vulcanite Roofing. Paint you home with our guaranteed Water Proof Paint. Dress your horse with our "Washington" Harness* And last, let us furnish you with Doors, Windows, Nails, Locks, etc., for that Building. Wc have a larger stock of Rubber Belting, Machinery Supplies and Farming Tools than any other concern in our county. Call and see for yourself. We lead ; others follow. t> MATHESON HARDWARE CO, ?. WESTMINSTER, S. O. BUGGIES IRQ fi fi j [fi BUGGIES! We have a car load of the Celebrated Oorbitt Buggies, which we are selling at the right prices and terms. ^ We also have cheaper Buggies if you want them. <??e Birdsell and Thornhill Wagons, Har ness, Saddles and everything in General Merchandise. SEE US AND SAVE MONEY. TELEGRAPHING TYPEWRITERS. Sew Instrument Sends and Receives Without Making Mistakes. The latest device in telegraphy is telegraphing typewriter. lt can he attached to and placed under any ordinary typewriter, says the Elec trical World. When so connected lt becomes a complete sending and re ceiving telegraph instrument, and both sending aim receiving instru ments record the message. The only experience required ls that of an operator working a type writer. The message is sent in the same manner in which you would proceed to write a lotter on an ordi nary typewriter. This same message will be received on the receiving type writer exactly as lt appeal's on the sending one. In some respects lt resembles the familiar stock ticker and other print, lng telegraph Instruments, but un like these lt makes possible the use of capital and small letters as in or dinary letter writing. The receiving machine records the message just as written and gives what corresponds to a carbon copy made on the origi nal machine. There is said to be no chance for mistakes. The machine takes down the message just as sent. There, ls no human receiver to make a mis takes by faulty hearing or careless ness or neglect, as ls the case with the present Morse system of dots and dashes In use all over the world. A Tra ve ling Mali s Experience. "I must tell you of my experience on an east bound O. R. & N, H. H. train from Pendleton to Le Grande, Oregon," writes Sam A. Garber, a well known traveling man. "I was in the smoking department with some other traveling men when one of them went out Into the coach and came back and said, "There ls a wo man sick unto death In the car.' I at once got up and went out, found her very 111 with cramp colic, her hands and arms were drawn up so you could not straighten them, nnrl with a death-like look on her race. Two or three ladles were working with her and giving her whiskey. I went to my suit case and got my bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Di arrhoea Remedy (I never travel with out lt), ran to the water tank, puta double dose of the medicine In thc glass, lion red some water into lt and stirred it with a pencil; then I had quite a time to get the ladles to iel me give it to her, but I succeeded. 1 could at once see the effect and 1 worked with lier, rubbing her hands and in twenty minutes I gave hei another dose. Hy this time we were almost Into Le Grande, where I was to leave the tn.it>. I gave the bottle to the husband to be used In case another dose should be needed, bul by the time tho train ran Into Lc Grande she was all right, and I re eelved the thanks of every passengei in the car." For sale by J. W. Bell Walhalla; W. J. Lunney, Seneca. A beautiful piece China i will be given to each Behool G name at Norman's Store, buying School Supplies. The more you Every time you buy the amount v Presents given on Decemb NORMAN^ WAL HU 11 )(. IO TO LET. The Board of County Commission ers will let, to thc lowest responsi ble bidder, at the bridge site, on THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1908, at ll a. m., the contract to rebuild the Vernor Hrldge, over Conneross Creek. The Hoard reserves the right to reject any and all bids. D. p. MCALISTER, supervisor. September 9. 1908. 37-38 CITATION' NOTICE.- The State of South Carolina, County of Oconee. - (In Court of Probate.)-By D. A. Smith, Judge of Pro) r.te.-Whereas, J. Eustace Hopkins has made suit to me tu grant him Letters of Admin. Istration of the Estate.of and Effects of J. F. HInckle, deceased These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular the kin dred and creditors of the said J. F. HINCKLK, deceased, that they be and appear before me, in the Court of Probate, to be held at Wal halla, Court House, South Carolina, on Thursday, the 1st day of October, 1908, after publication hereof, at ll o'clock In the forenoon to show cause, if any they have, why the said ? administration should not begranted. J Given under my hand and seal this I ' th day of September, A. D. 1908. (Seal.) D. A. SMITH, Judge of Probate for Oconee County, South Carolina. Published on the 9th and lfith days of September, 1908, in The Keowee Courier and on the Court House door for the time required by law. 37-38 ICE! ICE! ICE! At thc coll llatlon of many of our Walhalla friends we have decided to open up an Ice Business. Our wagon, equipped wich scales, will mako deliveries to any residence or place of business each day of tho week in Walhalla or West Union. We will not sell Ice on Sunday, but In case of sickness will cheerfully give any person Ice free of charge upon prescription from physician. Any patronage will be appreciated. LIVINGSTON ICE CO. i-tf DR.KING'3 NEW DISCOVERY Will Surely Stop That Cough. ir School Children. jrlass and other pretty Presents Url or Boy who registers their * all your Pencils, Tablets and buy the better Present you get. ?rill be entered beside your name. ?er 21st, 22d and 23d. HALLA, CA. WANTED.-Second hand bags and burlap; any kind, any quantity, any where; we pay freight.. Richmond Bag Co., Richmond, Va. 33-43 B. S. LOOK. Tinware, Stoves. All kinds of repairing. Rooting, Guttering. WALHALLA, A. C. REAL ESTATE FOR SALE. Farm Lands, Mountain Lands, Timbered Lands, Water Powers. Call on me M. S. STRIBLING Seneca, S. C. Ofllco Over Heneen Hardware Co. New Home Sewing Machines IN ALL STYLES. These Machines are not thc cheapest, but they aro undoubtedly the best. ('all and seo my many styles ; let me show you tho fine mechanism of these machines, and convince you that what I say is right. D. S. ABBOTT, Walhalla. S. C.