Keowee courier. (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, July 28, 1909, Image 7
WITHDRAWS STATE CONTROL ?
It lu Suggested tlmt Life Trustees
Alone Manage Clemson.
( 'Taxpayer,'' In The State.)
Fourteen years ago the dispensary
was a Slate institution and the State
had fourteen years of scandal and
trouble. Then Carey and Cothran
got up the Carey-Cothruu law by
which the State unloaded the trouble
some dispensary upon the counties
and got rid of lt, and the State has
had peace ever since; no more do
politicians howl for liquor; no more
jg* the militia called out to protect
Whiskey spies, and no more does/the
Legislature waste valuable time
quarreling over who shall buy the
booze. Hut the dispensary lives yet.
In the early t)0's the State estab
lished Clemson College, and Clemson
has been throwing Hts periodically
ever since thci -students in .rebel
lion, military commandants huffy at
scholarly professors, and scholarly
professors sore at each other and at
the students. Senators, Governors
and the Legislature have devoted
time and close attention to Clemson
and Clemson still gives trouble. Now
Clemson's last row has brought to
light the fact, heretofore overlooked,
that Clemson ls not a State Institu
tion, Mr. Clemson having by his will
founded the college with certain life
trustees, with perpetual succession,
giving the State only enough trus
tees to Impose upon the State the
burden of providing a living for
Clemson.
Senator Tlllamn comes forward
now with a plan to appropriate a big
JPTpum of the people's money and buy
out Mr. Clemson's heirs, getting rid
of those Hf trustees and making the
college wholly a State institution.
Cannot the Senator profit by the
State's experience with the dispen
sary? Cannot the Senator see that
the college has been a living sore
only because the State has tried to
control it, and that it will continue
to be a sore so long as "we people of
South Carolina consider ourselves re
sponsible for the college's good be
havior? If the State must spend a
big amount of money on Clemson,
would lt not be only sensible to
spend lt with the dlsthict understand
ing that the State shall never be
bothered with Clemson's antics
again? Here is the sensible plan:
Instead of buying out the Clemson
heirs and abolishing those life trus
uhut cost, n thal \i wjii have an
assured llvir.g ?uni be (Irmly estab
lished, :?.id ir- nose ? Cl ..1
luge wl?ollj u?t?ui the v.o..cu. o>
those life trustees with perpetual
succession.
There ls nothirg novel in this sug
gestion. The grea'. English universi
ties, Oxford and Cambridge, are not
dependent on Parliament. Each ls a
free corporation, free of fitful poli
tics, living on the fees of students
and on the income of estates it holds
as an endowment. It r ?ems to be a
fact that the Charleston dedical Col
lege was once a State institution, and
good lawyers do not understand how
It became a free college, but lt ls
free, lt ls firmly established, and lt
goes on with Its work turning out
?ood physicians, and plenty of them,
very year, and the Stato ls never
pthered with lt.
It would take an enormous appro
priation to endow Clemson, as much
or more than lt would take to buy
out the Clemson heirs. It might
take an Issue of bonds to raise that
much money, but lt would be money
well spent. The college would be
firmly established, no longer tnngled
up with changeable politics, and the
State would be clear of a nuisance.
.nstead of buying more trouble, as
enator Tillman suggests, how much
more sensible it would be to buy our
selves free of a pettish and turbulent
burden.
Officers Save Negro's Lifo.
l ita, Ga., July 22.-Tho brav
ery of Sheriff McKinney and three
lone deputies, who, with drawn re
volvers faced a mob of 1.000 angry
men at Vinnings, Ga., yesterday,
saved the life of Will Webb, a negro
charged with criminal assault. Webb
had just been Identified by his victim
ns the negro who assaulted her Tues
day. Ho had not yet left her resi
dence after the Identification when
the armed men and boys, many 01'
whom for two days had been ranging
through the woods tn search of him.
determined on a lynching, surround
ed the house. t They shouted that
the negro's life was theirs, that the
sheriff must hand Mm over. Out
came the revolvers of tho four offi
cers and with a rush they charged
through the mob and leaped into a
big automobile which they had in
walting. Shouting: "Stand back" to
^le mob and leveling their revolvers
upon Its leaders they hurried out of
danger and rushed the negro to At
lanta, where he was placed In the
town prison for safe keeping.
NEVER RODE ON TRAIN BEFORE.
Nlneteen-Y?ir-OI<l Youth from the
Mountains "Came to Town."
(Anderson Intelligencer.)
A nineteen-year-old youth from
In the mountains of North Carolina,
near Brevard, yesterday took his
first ride on a train, riding from
Easley to spartanburg. A newspa
per man saw the hoy on the train
hut he refused to-give his name, ex
cept that he lived near Brevard.
He walksd with his father from
his home across the mountains to
Easley, a distance of over a hundred
miles. He visited friends and rela
tives in the mountains during his
trip. When train No. 42 pulled into
the station at Easley the boy's eyes
looked as though they would Jump
out with terror. His father had trav- j
eled before and was used to the
sight.
Ile was nearly scared to death
while the train was moving and
crouched low In his seat as though
in terror. "What makes that bump
ing noise." he asked the newspaper
man. "What are they stopping
for?" "Do you suppo.-o she'll wrack
to-day?" What he meant hy wrack
was that he hoped the train wouldn't
run off the track and be wrecked.
The newspaper man asked him If he
ever went to school nny in his life,
and he answered, "Went to school
most two weeks." "And what do
you do?" asked the newspaper man.
"Work all year getting bark for the
tract mills." That meant that he
got bark out for the extract mills or
for tnnnlng purposes. Oak and
chestnut bark ls ground up into
powder for tanning purposes. "And
what do you raise?" the newspaper
man asked. "Raise apples, chest
nuts, and h- sometimes.''
He was asked how he liked riding
on the train and he replied, "A
devil of a lots better than that old
ox wagon bumping up and down all
the time."
Notes from Town ville.
Townvllle, July 19.-Special: Miss
Kate Compton and sister, of Green
ville, are visiting relatives here.
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Felton visited
the former's father, J. B. Felton, Sr..
of Anderson, recently.
Born, unto Mr. and Mrs. Justin E.
Woolbrlght, on July 13, a son.
Mrs.. J. A. Burgess, who has been
quite ill with fever, is able to be up
again, much to the delight of her
many friends.
Quite a number of young people
attended the singing nt Double
Springs Sunday,
Mr. and Mts. S. W. Dickson, of
Westminster, spent Sunday with the
latter's mother, Mrs. W. N. Wool
bright.
Born, unto Mr. and Mrs. Eugene
Mays, a son.
Preston Bruce spent last Wednes
day in Westminster.
A lawn party was given at the
bor"" v r-' M . T ? f?i\n
bell Tn onda) i!i(?i\t, .hi ly I ;
Prof. j ?.dm . Iford will iou dm-t j j
ten day?' sim ni Behool t>< the Hair ?
~t chu i? h. he ., u i i . -. Mond >
L lil h.
J. E. Campbell spent Thursday In
Anderson. C. F. M.
Foreign mid American Labor Clash.
Butler, Pa., July 17..-Violence oc
curred this morning at the plant of
the Standard Steel Car Company, at
Lyndora, Pa. Several foreigners
were injured, one seriously.
Sheriff Caldwell has sent an ur
gent message to Harrisburg for State
constabulary. It is feared that riot
ing will take place.
Tho foreign workmen at the plants
struck for higher wages yesterday,
necessitating a general suspension of
the large works and affecting seve
ral thousand American workmen op
posed to the strike.
When the mill gates were thrown
open to-day the American workmen
began entering the plant ns though
there was no trouble. Several hun
dred foreigners endeavored to stop
them and a fight followed.
The foreigners are ugly and obsti
nate. All the saloons at Lyndora are
closed.
PAINT PROM COTTON SEED.
By-Product Heretofore Thrown Away
Proves to Be Valuable.
A Macon, Ga., dispatch says:
A. S. Ross, representing the South
ern Cotton Oil Company, Is in Macon
for a few days doing missionary work
for an industry that ls to add more
value to the cotton seed. The Sa
vannah i limit of the cotton oil pro
ducing concern ls being given credit
for putting a fine quality of paint on
the market that will hardly cost halt
the amount of similar grades of
standard make, and tho durability
against rust, heat, atmosphere, acids
and other wearing elements has been
sufficiently tested to assure the mill
operators that they have In n by
product a .very valuable material thal
has heretofore boen thrown away.
The paint? are made from a gum
my substance left In the refining of
cotton seed oil. lt is dark ano
spongy, and has elasticity. It ad
heres in the paint compounds HO that
those who have given it severe tests
claim it a very flue material.
Kills Law and Order leaguer.
J. Cannon, a law and order league
leader, was shot and killed last Wed
nesday at Flat Creek. Ala., by Geo.
Alexander, v/ho runs H soft drink
stand there. The men met near the
commissary and began quarreling. In
a few minutes the shooting llegan.
Staunton Votes*Otlt Liquor.
Staunton, Vn., Tuly 22.-Church
bells ringing and Immense cheering
crowds on tho streets and speak
ing I rom the cornors announced
that the city had gone dry in to
day's election, the majority being 20
voles.
DRY FARMING
Reduced to u Science and Acrom
plitdiitig Great Results.
All (he science there ls to arid far.
ming U so simple that one wonders
how lt could have remained unknown
?0 long, says Collier's. Dr. Wldtsoe
called lt to my attention In the fact
that alongside tho road, where wag
ons M)metlme8 stirred the surface
soil In turning out to avoid mud
holes in bad weather, the deserted
weeds were greener than farther out
where the ground was never stirred.
Among the growing wheat he point
ed out again by showing a sample of
ground that had gone unprepared,
taken eight Inches below the surface.
It was so dry and dusty that lt could
be blown from the hand with tho
breath. Ten feet away another sam
ple, taken within the zone of village
at the same depth, was so damp that
lt could be rolled Into nu adhesive
putty ball. "All that we have
done," was Dr. WIdtsoe's explana
tion, "has been to open the land
with our plows In the fall to receive
the moisture and then to seal lt over
with our harrows, so that the capil
lary ducts, by which the water works
Its way to the surface, have been
brokeu and the land covered by a
separate stirred surface coating that
acts as would a blanket. Wherever
there ls over twelve Inches of rain
fall a year lt will produce a crop If
properly conserved. Almost all our
desert has more than this amount of
rain."
Dry farming crops now are many
in number and range from cereals,
that are well established, to fruits,
melons, corn and potatoes where the
status of the crops may still be said
to be experimental.
In 1905 six State experiment
farms were established In Utah to
demonstrate what crops can be
grown there.
^mm*.
Foley's Honey and Tar not only
stops chronic coughs that weaken
the constitution and develop Into
consumption, but heals and strength
ens the lungs, lt affords comfort
and relief In the worst cases of
chronic bronchitis, asthma, hay
fever and lung trouble. J. W. Bell,
Walhalla; Stonecypher Pharmacy,
Westminster, S. C.
Virginia's (?rand Old Man l.Vad.
John Goodo died in Norfolk July
14. He was affectionately known in
late years as the "Grand Old Man of
Virginia," and was without doubt at
the time of his death the most con
spicuous man in the State in point of
years and honors. He was sole sur
vivor of the Virginia Secession Con
vention and the oldest ex-member o?
the National Congress. He had the
distinction of being a member of the
convention that framed the constitu
tion of Virginia, and 60 years later
he was pr?t'dent of the convention
that frameu the present constitution.
Mr Got rt? born fll Redford
com.ty. Virginia, May ' :. 1^:?'.'.!
Wliei ie ivnchod thc agi ol 2.1 ho
A ar- .i member of Virginia Legls
; * ire,* He served t b' native eon it;
?. : . . . ?doti Couvwi lion
later entered the Confederate army
as a member of Gen. Earle's staff.
While on the Held of battle he was
elected to the Confederate Congress.
After the war he moved to Norfolk,
where hewpractieed law. He served
three ternis In Congress from the
Norfolk District, being the first Dem
ocratic Representative from that dis
trict after the war. During Presi
dent Cleveland's first administration
Mr. Goode was appointed Solicitor
General of the United States and
served with distinction for some
time. At one time Mr. Goode was
president of the Virginia Bar Asso
ciation. Ile was author of "Recollec
tions of a Life Time," a work of
great historical Interest, and subse
quent series of articles entitled, "Civ
ilian Chieftains of the Confederacy,"
descriptive of prominent men of the
Confederacy. Some of his speeches
In Congress brought him national
reputation, but his oration nt the un
veiling of the monument at York
town in 1881 probably will remain as
his masterpiece of forensic eloquence
SHAKE TN?*Y01 SHOES
Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder, It eure? painful,
smarting, nervous feet and Ingrowing nails, and
instantly takes the sting out of corns and bun
lonb. It's the greatest comfort discovery of tho
age. Allen's Foot-Ease makes tight or new
shoes feel easy, lt ls a certain cure for sweat
ing, callous, swollen, tired, aching feet. Try lt
to-day. Hold by all Druggists anil Shoe Stores.
Hy mall for 25c. in stamps. Don't accept any
substitute. Trial package FREE. Address, Al
len S. Olmsted, Le Roy.N. Y.
Two Union Men Die In Fight.
Cleveland, Ohio, July 21.-In a
fight growing out of a strike of em
ployees of the lake carri?re, Richard
Brown and William Woods were In
stantly killed here Saturday night
and one mnn was shot In the arm.
James P. Purvis, 62 years old, a mar
ine engineer of Detroit, was later ar
rested. Union cards were found on
both the dead men.
ORINO
Laxative Fruit Syrup
Pleasant to take
The new laxative. Docs
not gripe or nauseate.
Cures stomach and liver
troubles and chronic con
stipation by restoring the
natural action of the stom
ach, liver and bowels.
Refuse substitute*. Prloe SOO*
J. W. KELL, WA Lil A iiL A.
Stonecypher Pharmacy, Westminster.
CH KIM) KK KR Will. BE PAID.
Af tor Seventy-Five Years iiovern
ment will Distribute sr,,nod.ont?.
Washington. July 20.-A $5,000,
000 melon that has been ripening
for nearly 75 years ls nt last being
sliced by the government for distri
bution among the Cherokee indian "
It has been a standing claim of
the Indians against Uncle Sam since
J 8:55. tn that year the government
owed (ho Cherokees, for land pur
chased, tho sum of $1,100,000, vl.lch
lay In the treasury to their credit
with interest at 5 per cent.
Then one fine day an error wau
uiade in the auditing department of
the treasury and lt appeared, accord
ing to the books, that the Cherokees
had nothing to their credit. Their
head men took up tho matter, hired
lawyers and for 65 long years labor
ed to cst ?tu i i sh their claim. They
tried the executive officials and be
sieged Congress, but without making
an Impression worth a cent, to say
nothing of the millions they were af
ter. They were told that the books
showed they had nothing coming,
and government records being infal
lible, there was no ground for argu
ment. So lt was, year after year, as
the Indians made their pilgrimages
to Washington.
About ten years ago the aspect of
things changed somewhat when U.
L. Owens, an attorney of Muskogee.
1. T., was given charge of the claim.
He was a member of the Cherokee
nation through his mother's side,
while his father was Robert L. Ow
ens, a Virginian, and president of
the Tennessee Kallroad. Attorney
Owens was highly educated, he hud
wit and judgment besides, and he
proceeded to make things move. The
first thing to do was to get permis
sion from Congress to proceed
against the government In the Court
of Claims, and prove that the rusting
dollars ol* the ancient Cherokee fund
really lay in the vaults of the trea
sury. He got lt and afterwards re
peated the achievement, two hear
ings In the Court of Claims being
necessary to prove up the claims of
the Indians. lu the seven yeard'
Campaign he conducted Mr. Owens
Induced Congress to pass three bills
and two resolutions necessary In his
work. Anybody feeling that it ls not.
much of a job to get that much ac
tion out of the greatest legislative
body in the world has never under
taken any little old task like moving
the Rocky Mountains.
Owens's final contest was to move
the case Into the United States Su
preme Court, and he succeeded In
that in 1906 as he had in all that
went before. The record he submit
ted to the court consisted of 2,700
printed pages. He argued the case
against the skilled lawyers in the
government service and he won a
Judgment that the original fund,
1 swelled by accumulated Interest to
$5.000,000. belonged to the living
Ol- ? ?
'i'b' OOH J . awarded him a iee of I
i $200,ooo, which approximatif the
record for stipends foi legal sei ...<
even lu Ui.' Supt vine ''nutt
?' ..'h pit_u u*iu:i tho gov
ernment officials the stupendous task
of ascertaining who was entitled to
the money, of seeing to lt that none
having rights were overlooked and
that imposters did not get a ??lace nt
the .counter. A person having one
sixty-fourth part of Cherokee blood
was a legal member of the Cherokee
nation and the search through in
volved family ties threatened to be
almost endless. The list of those
entitled to a share in the fund has
now been completed, however, and
contains 35,000 names, ll was made
up from an army of 85,000 appli
cants.
The man who won the big fight
and was rewarded with the princely
fee now represents Oklahoma In the
United States Senate.
Delay In taking Foley's Kidney
Remedy if you have backache, kl?
ney or bladder trouble, fastens the
disease upon you and makes a cure
more difficult. Commence taking
Foley's Kidney Remedy to-day, and
you will soon be well. Why risk a
serious malady? J. W. Bell, Wal
halla; Stonecypher Pharmacy, West
minster, S. C. .
Paya Expense of tluj Farm.
(Salt Lake City Telegram.)
The history of cotton seed oil ls
one of the wonders of the last gen
eration. Fifty years ago cotton seed
was' a nuisance to the planters. At
last the experiment was made to
press the oil from the seeds, the
thought being It would be good, per
haps, for live stock, but when it was
done, an oil expert refined some of lt
and found lt was equal to the very
finest olive oil, and now the oil from
the cotton seeds, as a by-product,
nearly or quite pays the expense of
planting and harvesting the cotton,
leaving the staple as profits.
This ought to open investigation
in many ways; this ought to bo an
Incentive to our agricultural schools
to experiment on different plants.
Every one knew all through the years
that there was plenty of oil In cot
ton, but for a full century the
thought that lt might bo made of
value never entered man's mind. We
saw a few months ago that paper was
being made out of the cotton stalk,
and that's something which the
schools might all practice on, to see
If there ls not some plant which
grows in abundance and is not of
much value that could be manufac
tured Into paper.
The anion, t of trees used up for
paper making ?very year amounts to
a great forest. There ought to be a
substitute, either hemp or flax, or
corn or cotton, or something else,
out of which paper could be cheaply
made. Tho amount, of paper used In
an ordinary metropolitan dally paper
ls so great that a chango of two cants
a pound for lt might make a differ
ence between a profit and a loss In a
year's business.
WANTED-Second-hand bags and
burlap; any kind; any quantity, any
where, Richmond Rag Co., Rich
mond, Va. 28-37
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THIS WESLEYAN J AMI' HHETIN? !
Will Bo Held ni C< ntral hi ti . uly
28th to August 8th,
The annual camp meeting of the
Wesleyan Methodist Church of Amer
ica will he held at Central S. C.,
July 2Sth to August St h.
The management have been fortu
nate In securing for the occasion the
services of Rev. W. H. I. McLaurin,
of Latta, S. C.; Rev. N. B. Godby, D.
H., of Percyville, Ky., and Rev. F. M.
Graham and wife of Greensboro, Ga.
All the preachers of the South Car.
olina Wesleyan Methodist Conf?rent
are expected to attend. All the con
ference preachers and all those espe
cially invited will be entertained
free. There will be a hotel on the
grounds where visitors and camp
ers can get board and lodging at a
reasonable price. Those wishing to
secure rooms had better write to
Mrs. C. A. Dunwoody or Rev. M. T.
Hartsoe. Central, S. C.
Everybody is cordially invited to
attend this camp. We are expecting
a great meeting. We have a large
wooden tabernacle, where the meet
ings will be held.
Rev. M. T. Hartsoe, Chairman.
Rev. L. W. Johnson, Secretary.
Our Biggest Soldier Killed.
Newport News, Va., July 19.- Pri
vate G. E. Hedgepath, a member of
the 14th company, coast artillery,
stationed at Ft. Washington, Md.,was
killed at Fortress Monroe to-day hy
falling beneath the wheels of a dum
my train. Hedgepath, who weighed
318 pounds, and was said to be tho
largest man in the army, ls survived
j by a widow and pix children, who live
al Fort Washington.
B. S. LOOK.
Heating Stoves, Cooking
Stoves, Tinware.
All kinds of repairing,
WALHALLA, Si C.
Electric
Bitters
Succeed when everything else feils.
In nervous prostration and female
weaknesses they are the supreme
remedy, es thousands have testified.
FOR KIDNEY, LIVER AND
STOMACH TROUBLE
it is the best medicine ever sold
IbHaMHHSMMBHHHIBKtfCHHBMBH
W. M. FENNELL,
Land Surveyor,
Route No. 1, - - Walhalla, 8. C.
QUICK SERVICF-GOOD WORK.
REASONABLE PRICE.
June 9, 1909. 35*.
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W . F . AUSTIN,
Dentist,
Seneca, South Carolina.
Office over J. W. Byrd St Co.
E. L. ll ERNDON,
A ttornoy-at-La w,
Walhalla, Hourn Carolina,
fi IONIC No. 61.
J. P. Carey, J. W. Shelor.
Bickens, S. C. Walhalla, S. 0.
W. C. Hughs, Walhalla.
CAREY, SH Kl/OK A HUGHS,
Attorneys and Counsellors,
Walhalla, 8. O.
Practice In State and Federal Courin.
R. T. JAYNE8,
A ttorney-at-Law,
Walhalla, South Carolina.
Practice in State and Federal Courte.
Bell Phone No. ftO.
BLUE RIDGE RAILWAY ~?.
mcTwi?KN HELTON AND WALHALLA.
Time Table No. 7.-In Kffect June 0, 1909.
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LvWest Union.
LvHenoca.
LvMordanta Junction
Lv* A clams.
LvBCherry.
LvPendleton.
Lv*Autun.
LvBandy H?rings.
Lv#Deiiver.
Lv*West Andenion -
ArAuderson- -PassDop
LvAnderson-PassDep
Lv'Anderson-FrtDep
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8 4ft
8 60
9 08
9 10
9 2ft
9 28
9 40
9 48
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8 5?7
3 32
8 50
8 52
4 07
4 10
4 22
4 30
4 83
4 38
4 52
TM
5 00
5 27
8 18 20
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1 30
1 60
6 26
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5 47
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6 02
6 13
6 17
6 33
6 46
6 56
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8 M
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19
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Lv?Anderson-Fr't De
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LvAnderson-Pas? De
LT*Went Andorson....
Lv? Denver.
LvBandy Springs.
Lv*Autnn.
LvPondleton.
Lv?Cherry.
Lv* Adams.
Lv*Jordanla Junction.
LvBeneoa.
I.vWest Union.
ArWalhalla.
PM
5 4ft
6 ll
6 14
6 20
6 33
0 ?8
6 41
6 49
6 69
7 02
7 20
7 22
7 40
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9 56
10 00
10 06
10 20
10 86
10 40
11 06
12 06
!2 80
12 40
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7 20 2 1ft
7 47|2 48
I 00,2 4ft
. Flag stations.
Will also ?top at the following stations to taks
on and lot off passengers: Pblnney'e, Jauios'aana
Toxaway, Welch.
A. B. A KD REWS, Prealdont.
J. R. ANDERSON, Superintendent.
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy
rurea Cold?, Croup and Whooping Cough, >