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A STATEMENT AS TO TICKS. In Correction* of False Reports Con cerning tho Pest. Clemson College, October 3.-Spe. lal: Stock owners have recently re ported the presence of Texas fever ticks on rabbits and dogs. Others claim to have seen them on persons, and a few state that they found thesn ticks iu woods and fields where cat tle have never grazed. These state merits are false, although In the ma jority of cases the persons making them were undoubtedly sincere. These reports have done some dam age, and for this reason persons should not circulate these tales unless they first examine tho ticks very care fully and prove beyond doubt that they are dealing with the true lexne fever tick. Many of these reports have been ?Investigated by skilled veterinarians, who report that they have found four distinct and separate species jof ticks, which might easily be mistaken for fever ticks, In the northern counties of this State. The fever tick is only found on cattle, and occasionally on horses and mules. It never attaches itself to dogs, rabbits or man; therefore, these animals need not be taken into con sideration wheu forming plans for . the eradication of this pest from pas tures. Eight different species of ticks re sembling the Texas fever tick have been found in the southern portion of the United State. Probably the most common tick In South Carolina is the "Lone Star Tick," so caiiecl because of tho white spot upon its back. This tick is often found on dogs, horses, sheep, hogs, cattle and man. Even a casual examination will enable an unskilled person to recognize these ticks and distinguish them from the fever tick, which has no star or spot on its back . Other common ticks are the castor boan and tho dog or wood tick, which are found on cattle, goats, sheep, dogs, cats and horses. The last men g tioned tick is very common, aud a ' v person's clothing ls often covered with thom after walking through woods and abandoned fields. Another common tick ls the "star tick," which ls found In the ears of horses, mules, cattle and other ani mals. These ticks are all blood-sucking parasites, but do not take any part in the transmission Of Texas fever, (commonly called murrain, distem per, etc). Reports similar to those just men tioned are confusing and discourag ing to cattle owners who want to eradicate this dangerous parasite. In a few Instances we have met farmers who have become discouraged and have given up in despair after finding ticks on rabbits, dogs and other ani mals. Fever ticks are never found on these mimais. I would be glad to receive ticks, resembling the fever tick, which are found on dogs, rabbits and other ani mals. M. Ray Powers, State Veterinarian. Saved His Boy's Life. "My there-year-old boy was badly constipated, had a high fever and was in an awful condition. I gave him two ?loses of Foley's Orino Laxa tive and the next morning the fever was gone and he was entirely well. Foley's Orino . Laxative saved his life."-A. Wolkush, Calmer, Wis. Sold by J. W. Bell, Wa'halla; Stone cypher Drug Co., Westminster. THIS RAILROAD TO BE SOLD. Elberton Air Line to l>e Put Up to Highest Bidder. Elberton, Ca., October 1.-The El berton Air Line Railway will be sold at public outcry to the highest bid der, for cash, at Elberton on No vember 3d. Hugh J. Rome, of Athens, the special commissioner ap pointed by Judge Newman, will con duet the sale. It is supposed that thia sale ls a sequel to th? suit filed some time ago by Dr. A. S. Oliver. In which lt was allegefl the road was doing business without a charter. It will be remem bered that Z. C. Hayes was appointed receiver by Jubge Worley. Later, by consent, the came was transferred to the United States court, and Hon. A. B. Andrews was named as re ceiver. It ls thought the salo will wind up tim operation of this road as an independent line, but this is uot cer tain. Of course, the Southern Rail way will buy lt In, as it is under stood that it already owns 998 out of a thousand shares of stock. Stomach troubles would more quickly disappear if the Idea of treat ing the cause, rather than the effect, would come into practice. A tiny, inside, hidden nerve, says Dr. Shoop, governs and gives strength to the stomach. A branch also goes to the heart, and one to the kidneys. When these "Inside nerves" fail, then the organs must falter. Dr. Shoop's Re storative ls directed specifically to these falling nerves. Within 48 hours after starting the Restorative treatment patients say they realize a gain. Sold by J. W. Doll. Georgin Cotton Crop Short. Commissioner of Agriculture Hud son, of Georgia, says: "The cotton crop of Georgia will be the shortest In years. A conservative estimate of the total yield ls 1,300,000, as against 2,100,000 bales last year." Accord ing to Commissioner Hudson's state ment the decrease for the year will be 800,000 bales. droning Made Easy. red f H Ma- (.f-i-tiirrJ by MOOTHING DION HEATER CO. f?mi Artix Sumter, S.C. M. Time and 'Saves Fuel, the Ironer. Only $2. Sand orders to JNO. T. BRYANT, Lev?! Land, S. C COUNTY AOCKT. DOWNWARD COURSE. Fast Being Realized by Walhalla People. . A little backache at first. Dally increasing until the back is lanie and weak. Urinary disorders quickly follow"; Diabetes and finally Bright's Dis ease. This is the downward course of kidney ills. , Don't toke thia course. Follow the advice of ? Walhalla cilium. B. R. Moss, living in Walhalla, S. C., says: "I am recommending Donn's Kidney Pills in the hope that others suffering from kidney trouble may learn of this remedy and be ben efited. I was never In a serious con dition, but for some months I no ticed that my kidneys were disorder, ed. I also suffered from pains through the small of my back and the secretions were irregular lu ac tion, and unnatural in appearance. I went to Dr. J. W. Bell's drug store, procured Doan's Kidney Pills, and it required but a few doses to relieve me. I am now entirely free from kidney trouble, and am pleased to give Doan's Kidney Pills my endorse ment." j For sale by all dealers. Price 60 cents. Foster-MUburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name-Doan's and take no other. Sweetness Long Drawn Out. Oh, joy, oh, bliss for the lover! Oh, life that goes like a song! Courting a girl in Lapland Where the nights are six months long. - Boston Transcript. A Hard Slap. "Very well, slr," cried Dr. Kwack, after his quarrel with the under taker, I'll make you sorry for this." "What are you going to do," sneered the undertaker, "Retire from practice?" Ten Killed ut Spencer. Charlotte, N. C., Oct. 1.-A pow der house at Spencer, forty-five miles north of Charlotte, blew up to-night, killing ten and injuring two score. Many buildings were wrecked by the terrific explosion. Are Vou Only Half Alive ? People with kidney trouble are so weak and exhausted that they are only half alive. Foley's Kidney Rem edy makes healthy kidneys, restores lost .vitality, and weak, delicate peo ple are restored to health. Refuse any but Foley's. Sold by J. W. Bell, Walhalla; Stonecypher Drug Co., Westminster. Times ure < 'hanging. (Sabetha, Kansas, Herald.) More and more we men, the lords of creation, resign our rights to the women. In passing through Mayette last week we saw a down-trodden Indian buck carrying the baby while his f8t old wife rubbered at the train. The United States submarine boat Octopus was last week operated at a depth of 107 feet below the surface of the bay at Newport, R. I. This Is the record for actual operations under water with a full crew. The back is the mainspring of woman's organism. It quickly calls attention to trouble by aching. It tells, with othor symptoms, such as nervousness, headache, pains in the loins, weight in the lower part of the hedy, that a woman's feminine organism needs immediate attention. In such cases tho one sure remedy which speedily removes the cause, and restores the feminine organism to a healthy, normal condition is LYDIA IL PINKHAM'S VEGETABLE COMPOUND Mrs. Will Young, of 6 Columbia Ave., Rockland, Me., says: .* I was troubled for a long time with dreadful backaches and a pain in my side, and was miserable in every wny. I doctored until I was discouraged aud thought I would never get well. I read what Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound had done for others and decided to try lt ; after taking three bottles I can truly say that I never felt 6o well in my life." Mrs. Augustus Lyon, of East Earl, Pa., writes to Mrs. Pinkham: "I had very severe backaches, and pressing-down pains. I could not sleep, and had no appetite. Lydia K. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound cured me and made me feel like a new woman." FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN. For thirty years Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegotable Compound, made from roots and herbs, has been the standard remedy for female ills, and has positively cured thousands ol women Avho have been troubled with displacements, inflammation, ulcera tion, fibroid tumors, irregularities, periodic pains, backache, that bear ing-down feeling, flatulency, indiges tion,dizzincsstor nervous prostration. P. BROWNIE, THE POET, Portlier Walhalla Boy Writes Poetry in Cuba. The Courier ls In receipt of the fol lowing from a former Walhalla boy: Trinidad, Cuba, Sept. 27.-Editors Keowee Courier: Please publish this poem In your paper: ? The roses nowhere bloom as white as in Cuba; The sun nowhere shines so bright as In Cuba; The birds Bing nowhere quite so tweet, And nowhere hearts so lightly beat For heaven and earth both seem to meet Down In Cuba. Tho days are never quite BO long as in Cuba, Nor quite as Ailed with happy songs as lu Cuba; There is nowhere a land sc fair as In Cuba So full of song and free from cave us in Cuba And I believe that happy land The Lord's prepared for mortal man Is built exactly on the plan Of dear old Cuba. I am enjoying good health and am having a good old time as usual. Respectfully, F. B. Oelkers. Co. K, U. S. Marine Corps. Impure blood runs you down makes you an easy victim for organ ic diseases. Burdock Blood Bitters purifies the blood-cures the cause builds you up. Girl Weds Dying Man in Hospital. Boston, Oct. 2.-As he lay dying at Somerville Hospital Walter Scott Sawyer, Boston real estate operator, married early yesterday morning Miss Ella Paige Adams, of Roxburg, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. F. Adams. The bride's father is widely known for his writing under the name Yawcob Strauss. Later In the day the bridegroom died. The wedding had been planned for last night and was to have been an ev mt of social Importance. While arranging the ceremony Mr. Sawyer was stricken on Saturday with ap pendicitis. As soon as the gravity of the illness was realized the wed wlng invitations were recalled. It was believed -yesterday morning that the patient might be improved if the ceremony could be carried out. The wedding took place In the presence of the bridegroom's mother and Ills brother, Henry Sawyer, and the bride's parents. Mr. Sawyer was a wealthy man and had built a beau tiful new home which was awaiting his bride. Served as coffee, the new coffee substitute, known to grocers every where as Dr. Shoop'8 Health Coffee, will trick even a coffee expert. Not a grain of real coffee In lt either. Pure, healthful toasted grains, malt, nuts, etc., have been so cleverly blended as to give a wonderfully sat isfying coffee taste and flavor. And it is "made in a minute," too! No tedious 20 to 30 minutes' boiling. Test it and see. Dr. Shoop created Health Coffee that the people might have a genuine coffee substitute, and one that would be thoroughly satis fying in every possible respect. Sold by A. P. Crisp. SUNDAY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION. Call for t!ie Meeting of the Schools hi WagOner Township. Following is the program of the second meeting of Wagener Township Interdenominational Sunday School Association, to be held with the Wal halla Methodist church, ou Cctober 8th, 190S: Morning Session. 9.30 o'clock-Devotional exercises, conducted by Rev. J. C. Yongue. 9.45.-Enrollment. 10.-Object of meeting, Rev. C. D. Mann. 10.20.-Use of Blackboard in Sun day School (Illustrated), by C. R. D. Burns. Song. 10.40.-Methods of Increasing Sunday School Attendance. Rev. L. T. Weldon. 11.00.-Teachers' Meetings. Rev. T. B. Epting. Song. 11.30.-Duties of Township Offi cers. Prof. T. W. Keltt. 12.00.-Benefits to be derived from Township organization. Dr. J. J. Harrell. Song. Noon recess. Afternoon Session. 2.00.-Song service. 2.10.-Miscellaneous business. 2.4 5.-Election of officers. Adjournment. Let every Sunday school in Wage ner township send ns many delegates as possible. Every officer and teacher should be on hand. The pub lic also cordially Invited to be pres ent. Work and pray for the meet ing that lt may be the means of much good. Dinner to be served no the grounds out of the well-flllea baskets that the good ladies are requested to bring. A Daily Thought. "If the day looks kinder gloomy, An' yer chances kinder slim; If the situation's puzzlln', An' the prospects awful grim; An' perplexities keep, pressln' Till all hope is nearly gone Just bristle up and grit yer teeth, An' keep on keepin' on." Why, Indeed? Spinster Jane was being condoled with because sho had no husband. "Save your i.lty," she said inde pendently. "I have a dog that growls, a parrot that swears, a lamp that smokes, and a cat that stays out nights. Now, why should I get mar ried?" The health authorities of Pennsyl vania are wrestling with what threat ens to be a State-wide epidemic of ! smallpox. s SWEET POTATOES MAKIO STAUCH glenison College Bulletin That is In teresting and Suggestive. Clemson College-Bulletin No. 136 of the South Carolina Experiment Station ou ''The manufacture of starch from sweet potatoes," has been issued. The bulletin ls by C. C. McDonnell, who conducted the ex periment here before accepting a po sition with the United States Depart ment of Agriculture in Washington. The bulletin discusses the history of the sweet potato, the climate and Boil necessary, the planting and culti vation, the harvesting, the yield, the cost of production and the composition of the potato, and then enters into a detailed exposition of the process of manufacture of starch from the potato. The chief Bources of commercial starch are corn, wheat, rice and Irish potatoes. Corn ls used almost ex clusively In the United States, though irish potatoes and wheat are used to a small extent. In England nearly ail starch ls made .from rice and wheat. The making of starch from irish potatoes ls carried on particu larly In Germany. The starch con tent of coru ls about 65 per cent, wheat 5 8 per cent, rice 75 per cent, Irish potatoes 18 per cent. The sweet potato contains a larger percentage of starch than tho Irish potato, vichis a heavier crop, and can be grown more cheaply; and in addition to these advantages, it has a vine which makes good food for stock, some varieties being very pala table. The development of cotton manu facturing in the South has created a demand, which is continually increas ing, for starch vised in "sizing" yarn and "filling" cloth. Experiments which have been carried out In many mills of thi'j State show that for uso on cotton goods the starch produced from sweet potatoes ls better than corn starch and fully epual to the best grades of Irish potato starch. The amount of starch produced from a good crop of sweet potatoes per acre ls from one and a half to four times that from Irish potatoes. The annual production of sweet pota toes in the South Atlantic and Gulf States ls about 60,000,000 bushels, which might easily be Increased ten fold,, The varieties most in demand for table use are not necessarily the ones best suited for the manufacture of starch, for the varieties containing the largest percentage of starch are likely to be too dry and insipid for table usc. The data accumulated ls yet insuf ficient to make any positive statement as to whether the making of starch from the sweet potato will prove a paying Investment; for at the present price of sweet potatoes their manu facture into starch alone might not be profitable. But, grown on a large scale, a number of expenses would be eliminated. At present only a frac tion of the crop ls disposed of, all un marketable potatoes being a dead loss and thei e being other losses through rotting, hiablllty to market the crop, etc. Grown for starch factories, all po tatoes could be sold, no expense of barreling or packing would be in curred; modern machinery could be used In planting, cultivating and har vesting, heavier yielding varieties could be grown, the by-products pulp, etc.-could be utilized. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature ot In special elections held In Indi ana last week to fill vacancies in the Legislature, the Democratic party made very large gains as compared With the Republican vote of two years ago. In one district a Republican majority was cut down from 3,000 to 236. B. S. LOOR. Tinware, Stoves. All kinds of repairing. Rooting, Guttering. WALKALLA, ?. C. FOE! ?GETI??I 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 make deliveries to any residence or place of business each day of the week In Walhalla or West Union. Wo will not sell Ice on Sunday, but in case of sickness will cheerfully give any person Ice freo of charge upon prescription from physician. Any patronage will be appreciated. LIVINGSTON ICE CO. 31-tf New Home Sewing Machines IN ALL STYLES. These Machines are not tho cheapest, hut they are undoubtedly the host. (Jail and see my many styles ; let mo show you tho fino mechanism of these machines, and convince you that what I say is ri gilt. D. S. ABBOTT, . Walhalla, S. C. Cramps Thousands of ladies suffer agonies every month. ! If you do, stop and think. Is it naturalt Emphati cally and positively-NO! Then make up your mind to prevent or cure this needless suffering I It Will Help You J 82 "I suffered 9 years" writes Mrs. Sarah J. Hos kins, of Cary, Ky. "I had female trouble and would nearly cramp to death. My back and side would nearly kill me with pain. I tried everything to get relief, but failed, and at last be?an to take Cardui. Now I can do my housework with ease and I give Cardui the praise for the health I enjoy." Try. AT ALL DRUG- STORES 28? SALOON'S CLOSED IN DAY. Prob ll monists Aro Getting to Be Numerous in Ohio. Columbus, Ohio, Sept. 30. Twelve counties voted yesterday un der the Rose law, and all went dry by majorities ranging from a few hundred to more than 2,000. The number of saloons affected ls 289. Most of the counties which voted yesterday are largely agricultural, but Scloto and Lawrence counties have a largo urban population in Portsmouth and Ironton, respective ly. Altogether 16 of the 88 counties in the State have held local option elections and all have gone "dry." The total number of saloons voted out ls 390. Six Killed in Train Wreck. O?.BT03aiA.. Cleveland, Ohio, Oct. 1.-Six lives .were lost and a number of persons wore Injured to-night when a Toledo & Ohio Central passenger train, car rying an excursion crowd from Bowl ing (.?reen fair Into Toledo, was run into from the rear at Sugar Ridge by a freight train. Up to a late hour only four bodies had been recovered from the wreck. The rear car of tho excursion train was telescoped and two others were jammed together. That more people were not killed ls remarkable. REAL ESTATE"" I FOR SALE. The Kind You Haw Always Warnings Posted on Gins. Farm Lands, Mountain Lands, Timbered Lands, "Water Powers. Call on me Huntsville. Aln., Oct. li-Night riders or persons who are represent ed to be night riders have posted I warnings on gins In the northern j part of this county and In Lincoln j county, Tennessee. "We warn you ! not to gin any more cotton until fur- I ther notice" Is the placard placed lk4" O CHPl!) TT*T TWT^ upon the door of the Rogers gin at JVJL. O. O 1 JVll>l_jJLlNO New Market, Ala. The same notice j was posted on the door of the Da- ' Seneca S C vldson gin in the southern part of w*u*w?, VJ. Lincoln county, Tennessee. Office Over Seneca Hardware Co. Metropolitan Styles and workmanship surpass. Small local tailors may have late style charts and fashion plates, published once every six months, but it's the Kg metropolitan tailors ?ho keep abreast ol every fashion move ment, and whose designers and tailors embody that nicety of shape and dash of snappiness to clothes that produce the neatest and most satisfactory garments. If you have our custom tailoring depart ment take your measure for a suit of clothes, it will be made up to the minute in style bf those well-known Chicago Merchant Tailors, Ed. V. Price & Co., who do nothing else but produce superbly tailored garments for the person who is to wear them. Cost to you will be only $25 to $40 the suit, from your own choice of 500 beauti ful fabrics, among which we call your ?pedal attention ! o Nos. 4404 L, 4398 K, 4389 J, 4363 J, 43061, 4276HH. By looking at designs Nos. 491,493, and 486 you will secure some novel ideas of original and exclusive fashions. Aa* ??OT? cost I-th Call and see our big line of Samples. Moss & Ansel, CEMENT FRONT, Walhalla, So. Ca. A Free Present for A beautiful piece China Glass and other protty Prosonts will bo given to each School Girl or Boy who registers their name at Norman's Store, buying all your Pencils, Tablets and School Supplies. Thc moro you buy tho better Present you got. Every time you buy thc amount will bo entered besido your name. Presents given on December 21st, 22d and 23d. NORMAN5Si WAIiMAJLtEiAt Sd? OAs