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SUNSHINE RAYS. JJ We hope Oconee will have a big rally in August for education and will give our Sunshine Governor a warm welcome. Welcome home Oconee'a honored son. Our Governor ha? solved in office many hard prob lems, and our State is safe in his hands, for tho man who gathers his family together as the evening shadows fall and bends his knee in prayer can be trusted. No one is more anxious that this j^mpalgn should be a success than JK writer ot' this column, who six ^^ars ago was sent out by Governor Hoyward to wage a campaign and see if the work would do enough good to keep it up. That summer four young ladies and severf.l men took it up, and this summer the whole Stnte is Working to drive from our shores the greatest enemy-Ig norance. Now, go to that rally and catch the inspiration and go home and build up your schools; work and pray for the intellectual devel opment, moral and financial devel opment. I often think we putv too much stress on the financial devel opment. Taxation alone does not make schools, they need the best men and women to push the work Build up true sentiment and moue;, will come. Patrick Henry said, "Give me lib erty or give me death." Give us better teachers is what modem Henrys are crying. What is a good teacher? Thring said, "A toucher is one who has liberty enough, time eAugh, head enough, heart enough, to! be a master In the kingdom of life." No teacher to-day thinks of teaching without studying and read ing largely and keeping up with modern methods. Did I say modern? I should have said old methods made new, for we find the first k'ndergar ten teacher on the Sea of G ..Bee, for He always taught by methods. I found a teacher while out on that campaign, and she asked me, "What would you do to keep the children from shutting you out the last day?" She did not walt for me to answer, but said, "They were in there so soon that when I got there, I just said 'I will treat,' so I bought the candy." I replied, "I treat my children the whole year, and when time comes to close they bring me , flowers and are too sad to bar me out. I treat their heads-not put desires In their stomachs greater than their heads. Something hlghet should be taught, yet they shoufd have some candy all along." I teach my "children parents" higher senti ment. I have never taught a school, but try to road and study and go to teachers' meetings In order to helli my pupils, the parents. I will tell you two stories from which I think you cnn get a point and do take it: The Hoosier schoolmaster was shut out. Gracefully he submitted to it, while the children enjoyed thc fun inside, but at last his fun came He climbed up on the house and dropped a flour sack of sulphui down on the fire. They came out. Alexander the Great found a man who had been courtmartialed. Ht fjjpefi him his name. "Alexander/ Mufti the reply. The great warrloi sam, "Change your action or youl name." So you do likewise. It is the aim of,the Sunshine So clety to start teachers' libraries ir the offices of all the county superin tendents of education, where teach era can get tho best books or teaching. We trust some teacher a the rally will begin the work. You will never regret working foi your country. We want the chll ^fen who Compose the societies it churches to write, by Septembe f>, a paper on Slr Galihad. We wil print the paper the judges thlnl best. We ask the children of the Pres byterlan church to draw the seal o coat of arms of the church and writ us a paper on the menning of lt. w< will also print the best essay. Som ill by September 5. Have you read Van Dyke's "Tb Other Wiso Man"? Have you rea? "Bushy"? lt ls so fascinating yoi cannot stop reading until you finish It is tho child life of Mrs. Alden Send to Sunshino Society and secur a copy; cost is 85 cents. We some times wish wo could roll back tim and be a child again, for there ai so many nice books to be read h children. Fred McKlttrlck's pastor's wlf sends him monthly a box to cheei This shut-in ls so thankful he send Miss Shelor a dime every time sh writes him. Fred ha? a charmin mother, and ho ls taught, to do lovol deeds, and his sweet life is dolo much for saving souls. ivfltoter Riser, a noble young ma wlm is doomed to bo a shut-in, ls s i charming he is called a general I I the Sunshine army. Arthur Whltt Is a boy who wa I not so fortunate as the other as t j have a happy home and uplifting er TUB CLEMSON PRESIDENCY. Iloaitl Meets on 12th-The Outcome is Uncertain. (Anderson Mail.) On Augubt 12th the board of trus tees of Clemson College will meet at the college to consider the resigna tion of President Mell, Which was submitted at thc regular session of the board last month. Senator Till man, who is making addresses in Ohio, has said that he will be pres ent, as will all the other members of the board. There are several unfin ished matters also to be considered, among them the election of several professors. It is rather hard at this time to even conjecture what will be the action on* the resignation. It ls known that the majority ofthe mem bers of the board are Meli sympathiz ers, and these are wont to decline the resignation. In case the resigna tion Is.accepted there will be several applications before the board, as sev eral prominent educators have ex pressed their willingness and desire to assume the presidency of the col lege. Next to the disposition of the res ignation in importance will be the election of a director of th*-; agricul tural department. Prof. Barrow submitted his resignation to the board last month. This Is about the most important department at Clem son and the board Intends to exer cise due care and precaution In se lecting a man. Dr. Barrow resigned to accept a similar position with an agricultural and mechanical college lu the West. Items from Cashier's Valley, N. C?. Cashier's, N. C., July 26-Special: Everything seems to be on a boom in our beautiful up-land country. Far mers are looking prosperous and are making the best use of the good weather now. C. W. McDade, Esa-, has bought the Adams Hotel and property from R. P. Potts, and will conduct au up to-date hotel this summer. N. Rogers, of Birch, S. C., paid us a pleasant visit yesterday. He returned to-day. B. 1'. Rogers is spending a few days in the valley with friends. Rev. R. A. Hudson passed through town yesterday en route to Yellow Mountain, where he will conduct a week's meeting. Qeo. R. McCall and wife made a pleasure trip- down towards the South Carolina line yesterday. Judge W. C. Benet has fish for breakfast every morning except Sun day. He enjoys catching them. J. M. Rochester, of Ocala, N. C., was in town Saturday on business. R. G. C. Don't think that piles can't be cured. Thousands of obstinate cases have been cured by Doan's Ointment. 50 cents at any drug store. Dots from Anderson County. Double Springs, July 28-Special: A large crowd attended the singing here Sunday and every one seemed to have a jolly good time. We are quite sorry to report that Mrs. J. C. Sullivan ls not much im proved. She is suffering from a light form of appendicitis. W. O. Marett and Miss Carrie Cro mer were happily married Sunday afternoon at the home of the groom's sister, Mrs. Sam Milford, Rev. W. W. Leathers officiating. Miss Hortense, Will and Harmon Taylor and T. M. Gantt, of the Woli Stake section, visited nt the home of Mr. nnd Mrs. Austin Sullivan Satur day and Sunday. B. E. vironments, but no one has improved more. If I could tell to the public his once saddened life I am sjure they would all want to lend a hand to this now happy boy. I have a lot of shut-ins on my list, rich and poor, and they ail write such sweet letters and never com plain of their life. Our sunny Congressman sent a big check and paid off the society's debts. If tho people who helped buy tho chair could know how happy the boy wat* they would want to help get another ono for someone else, The Wise and Otherwise Circle ls doing so many lovely deeds and scat tering Sunshine. I want them to go to the convention of the world In New Orleans next May and let "Bushy" see them Tho societies of Richland sent Mr Burns a hundred pound box. Don't forget the Sunshine conven tion August 28 (Saturday), at Rich land. Misses Lillian and Marion Kel ley will present tho gavel and it will have an interesting history. An aged minister in Florida had fever; his daughter's husband was murdered, and she returned to his home; his wife fell and broke her leg, then his house was burned, and I an appeal was made for him, and tho Sunshine Society wrote far and wldo for him. Tho ladies of tho Westminster Presbyterian church sent bim $5. Sunshine work Is growing In Oco nee. Despise not the day of small things, for if you work with the small things great ones will come. Seek first God's kingdom, learn of him, and add to virtue knowledge and good work.? Maryo R Shelor. MODKIJ KAUM IN CHF.STKR I M \ rr-i.' ?ilion I : Villi pli lilli on Col. T. J. Cunningham's Pince. A dispatch from Chester says: Col. T. J. Cunningham ls one of Chester county's farmers who is always en deavoring to find and apply the best und most modern ideas In farming, and a visit to his farm a little inure than a mile west of the city, is al ways interesting and refreshings It was the writer's privilege to accom pany Col. Cunningham over a large part of the plantation and seo what is going on. Col. Cunningham is, above alli things else, a scientific farmer-not. a farmer who jumps from one Idea to another In mad succession in the futile hope of finding something more successful than the old beaten tracks -but a farmer who ls actuated by good, sound reason, and who plants one crop one year and another the next on the same piece of land, be cause the soil demands a certain suc cession of crops, and because certain crops following each other In a cer tain succession build up the soil. It follows, therefore, that one sees 01? this farm no vast acreage of cotton, and cotton alone, but diversification and a general assortment of the crops thnt this section of the South ls best adapted for. Col. Cunningham ls giving his attention largely this year to hay, and the many acres of fertile meadows on his home place and the 2 7 fi acres that he ls farming on the opposite side of the road are yielding him a golden harvest of fine hay. He is confident of retting 200 tons of hay this year, and a very conservative es timate would place the yield at much more than that. The sei ond cutting is now In progress, and the uncut portions of the lush meadows show how fine the yield ls. Col. Cunningham is not much of a believer In terracing. His method for eradicating gullies and washes ls by planting cover crops, which not only stop the washes, but at the same time lay the foundation for a fertil ity. He is putting this idea into op eration on what have been heretofore badly washed fields, and already af ter only one such crop the fields show a noticeable improvement. The cotton patch that Col. Cun ningham ls conducting under the di rections of the Agricultural Depart ment at Washington is showing up nicely, while two patches of corn that are being worked under the direc tions of the experiment station are also showing up well. One is being worked with the hoe alone, while tho other ls being plowed. Other condi tions are the same. At this stage there is not much difference between the two, the advantage, If there is any, resting with the latter patch. Col. Cunningham ls also making use of some of his fertile meadows as pastures for a large number of cattle that he will put on he mar ket this fall. He also has several Chester county raised horse and mule colts that are growing fast and give promise of making hue stock. It is his idea to make his farm self supplying as much as possible, and the intelligent and orderly conduct of affairs, coupled with his past suc cess, shows that he will succeed. TRAIN PLUNGES INTO MISSOURI. Six Dead and Many Injured-Road bed Undermined by Flood. Kansas City. Mo., July 25.-Six lives were lost, three persons were probably fatally injured, and some 50 more were hurt in the wreck of a Wabash passenger train that plunged into the Missouri river 30 miles cast of Kansas City last night. The dead were members oj the train crew and one passenger. Of Hie eight cars in the train, five coaches and the locomotive are. now In tho river. A chair car and two Pullmans remained uninjured. For days floods undermined the roadbed, making it too weak to hold up th*? heavy trains. As li? .inssenger train was run ning only 14 miles an hour, the im pact of the cars was not great. But there was great confusion as the cars slipped and rolled Into the murky water. Bight mall clerks were saved by the fact that the roof of their car was torn off, allowing them to get out and swim to tho bank. All wera Injured. In one sleeping car E. T. King was holding his little son when tho crash came. The child was In stantly killed and Mr. King was un conscious when found. The locomotive of a local freight train, which was just behind the wrecked passenger train, was attach ed to the three intact cars of the ill-fated train, and all the passengers were hurried back to Kansas City. Thirty-one of the injure 1 are now in a hospital. . Kennedy wns Convicted. Columbia, July 29.-Chester Ken nedy, a prominent Barnwell county man, was found guilty to-day, with a recommendation to the mercy of the court, on the charge of hiring Qultman Johnson, a negro, to kill a man by tho namo of Hol land-Perry Ussery being shot by mistake. Sensational development* are expected. The Jury remained out all night. This was the second trial. .'.?J? .g. TRl'TH CAN AFFOKI) TO 4. WAIT, ?M* |t*H?4?4^ Editor Keowee Courier: Wo no ticed recently n tributo In The Cou rier to Linceul. We como with one to the great chief of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis. We have often thought how slowly truth travels, and how swift a falsehood can go almost as swift as the eagle that splits the air. lt has taken England one hundred years to And out that Napoleon Bonaparte was really a great mau. The vicious spirit of war falsified the true character of Napoleon as a man, a warrior, and a ruler. Jn the last few years the late great head of the English army. Lord Wolseley, In one of the leading magazines, sums up Napoleon's qualifications and remurks thut they "mndo him the most remarkable man that the Almighty ever made." Other English writers of late have acknowledged his genius In glowing terms. Hew different are the history ac counts lately written concerning the Civil War between the States, from those recorded up to ten years ago. The truth of history travels slo.vly, but when lt once arrives Its sway la eternal. Truth can afford to wait. It cannot be discerned In passion or in prejudice, ll must walt, for these to subside. On the Gulf of Mexico, where the wild waves wash the white sand, there rises an humble cottage whoso lowly roof once sheltered the light form and snowy head of a poor old man. His race has long since been run ; he ls part of the past, and cannot be separated from lt now. Memory cunnot part company with him; history will not surrender him. The parchment on which Jefferson Davis's last act of love and grace ls Inscribed will become the heir loom of the American people, and future generations will read and ponder the pardon of Jefferson Davis, while the world stands lo3t lu won der and admiration. Poetry, song [and history have brought their rich est treasures to perpetuate his undy ing fame. Tried by the Ares of three wars, and not found wanting; stand ing in the United States Senate amid the storms of debate and con flict, he was not eclipsed by the prudence of Pitt nor the policy of Napoleon. When war was declared with Mexico lie commanded the im-' mortal First Mississippi Regiment on the field of strife. It is a fact of his tory that his courage abd leadership in the very crisis of the Battle of Buena Vista won for lils country her proudest victory upon foreign fields of wars. The spirit of Jefferson Davis still lives, and lt remains for* posterity to judge the righteousness of the cause for which he suffered and died-the wonder of the age and the glory of the Anglo-Saxon blood. He never deserted his convictions nor feared death. Through ail the vicissitudes of Ufe he bore himself with a lofty dignity and composure worthy of lils exalted manhood. He kept his faith In men and women, and, con quering himself, he forgave his ene mies. Years after tho fall of the Confederacy, "when failure had set tled upon its banners," and its brave armies retired from the field of bat tle, with its great hold upon tho Southern people, he was still the rep resentative of a cause "which el?c trified tho civilized world by the grandeur of its sacrifice and the dig nity and rectitude of Its aims." Disfranchised ns a citizen, old and poor, after a seclusion of twenty-one years, he emerged to make a tour of the Southern States amid ovations which are only paralleled in the his tory of kings and conquerors. "Such homage ls startling," was the lan guage of one of tho Northern critics, "and lt ls needless to attempt to dis guise or evade the conclusion that, there must be something great, and noble, and true in him and in his cause to ovoke this homage." And now tho daughters of the South, whom ho honored and re membered In his last labor of love, when tho shadwos of tho evening were gathering about his lifo, as then, they so each May to Holly wood with beautiful flowers to. offer that tender tribute which grateful, loving nnd loyal hearts can bestow, and to keep alivj the memories of his grand and unapproachable life as they gather about our hearts and P. F Mes Marvelous Cures in Blood P. P. P. purifies the blood, bulk strength to woakonod ?ervos, expels 1 happiness, where sickness, gloomy fcelil In blood poison, mercurial poison, and skin diseases, like blotches, pim load, we say without fear of contradi purifier in the world. Ladies whose systems are poisonod ditton due to menstrual irregularities, derful tonic and blood cleansing prop Root and Potassium. F, V. LIPPMAN. tremble ou our lips. Reader, have you read the account of his last trip from the Gulf to Hollywood In hts little dark house, by A. B. Williams? If not, gel it and read lt. lt took nearly forty years for Mr. Sballenberger. of Ohio, to proclaim to the world this great truth: He said, "The Battle of the Wilderness and Spottsy?vania, where tho Rebels resister* an assault for some days, ind Grant's loss was 9,774 killed, 41.150 wounded and 13,254 missing -64,178 in all-more than twice as many as had ever before been killed, wounded and missing in any baUlo on this continent. And this," he said, "was achieved by an army of Southern gentlemen, directed by the best generals In the world." J. Russell Wright. WANTS HER LETTER PUBLISHED For Benefit of Women who Suffer from Female Ills Minneapolis, Minn.-"I wa? a great sufferer from female troubles which caused a weakness and broken down condition of the system. 1 read so much of what Lydia E. Pinkham'B Veg etable Compound had done for other suffering women I felt sure lt would help me, and I must say it did help me wonderfully. My pains all left me, I re w stronger, and within three months was a perfectly well woman. "I wart this letter made public to show the benefit women may derive from Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound."-Mrs. JOHN G. MOLDAN, 8116 Second St.. North, Minneapolis, Minn. . Thousands of unsolicited and genu ine testimonials like the above prove the efficiency of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, which is made exclusively from roots and herbs. Women who ?uffer from those dis, tressing HU peculiar to their sex should not lose sight of these facts or doubt the ability of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to restore their health. If you want special advice write to Mrs. Pinkham, ut Lynn. Mass. She will trent your let terns st i iv ?ly confidential. For 20 years she has been helping- sick women In this way, free or charge. Don't hesitate - write at once. PLAGUE TO MAN AND BEAST. Thousands of Animals Kir-Eight Humans .Stricken. Lake Charles, La., July 25.- Char bon, a deadly and loathsome disease, which afflicts cattle, and which has hilled thousands of valuable animals lu Louisiana, has attacked human be ings now, and many men are under treatment. In Leesburg, the county seat of Cameron parish, olght hu mans have been attacked. Up to date no deaths have resulted. Charbon liss afflicted cattle for cen turies, but has seldom visited this country. It was known to the an cients in Egypt and often scourged the Asiatic and Oriental countries. It ls caused by a germ, which enters the animal's skin through an abra sion. - It multiplies and causeg an Inflammation which, turns Into a tu morous or cancerous growth, which terminates In blood poisoning. The disease first made Its appear ance about June 1 In two localities in Southeast Louisiana, along the Mermentan river, near Lake Arthur, and at Iowa, near Lake Charles. It was not detected In time, and spread rapidly over neighboring parishes. Germs from the dead cattle infested the ground upon which the cattle h.ul died and were thus communicated to other victims. The United States Government, alarmed by the Inroads the disease has made, has sent an ex pert from the bureau of animal In dustry to assist local veterinarians In fighting the plague. They are urg ing cremation of infected animals and the vaccination of all others. Once an animal ls infected, there ls no known remedy, but vaccination seems effective in making them im mune. 1 Will Address the Ked Shirts. Senator B. IL Tillman, Judge Rob ert Aldrich, of Barnwell, and former Governor John C. Sheppard, of Edge field, have accepted Invitations to deliver addresses at the Red Shirt re union to be held In Anderson on Au gust 24th and 25th. P. ? Poison, RtaMtism and Scrofula. ls up the weak and debilitated, gives disease, giving the patient health and igs and lassitude first prevailed. malaria, dyspepsia, and in all blood pies, old chromo ulcers, tetter, scald ' lion that P. P. I* the best blood and whoso Mood !? in an Impuro cen are peculiarly bonefltted by^ho won ertles of P* P. P., Prickly Ash, Poke SAVANNAH, GA._* NOTICH OF SPECIAL ELECTION. Notice ls horoby given that pursu ant to an order of the County Board of Education, nn election will be held in Earle's District, No. 71, at tho Schoo? HouBe, on SATURDAY. AU GUST the 7th, for the purpose of voting upon tho question of levying ah extra Two-Mill Tax on all the real and personal property in said district, for school purposes, in ad dition to that now collected ag pro vided by law; t&at said election shall be conducted as provided for the conduct of general elections, that at said election each elector favoring said proposed additional levy shall caHt a ballot containing the word "YES" written or printed thereon, and each elector opposing said levy shall cast a ballot contain ing the word NO" written or print ed thereon. T. B. ABLES, J. A. PATTERSON, LON BOLEMAN. Trustees of District No. 71. July 28, 1909. 30-31 NOTICE OF SPECIAL ELECTION. Notice lg hereby given that pursu ant to an ordor of the County Board of Education, an eloction will be held in South Union Diatrict, No. 7, at the School Houso, on SATURDAY. AU OUST the 7th, for the purpose of voting upon the question of voting out of the Center High School Dis trict, No: 1, and also to vote off the Special Tax for High School now be ing levied In said district; that said election Bhall bc conducted as pro vided for the conduct of general elec tions; that at said election each elector opposing snld High School shall cast a ballot containing thu words "Against High School" writ ten or printed thereon, and each elector favoring remaining in said High School District shall cast a bal. lot containing the words "For High School" written or printed thereon. At the same time and place each elector opposing the Special Levy as now collected, shall cast a b?llot con taining the word "NO" written or printed thereon, and each elector fa foring said levy shall cast a ballot containing the word "YES" written or printed thereon. T. D. MARETT, J. B. HARRIS, j W. F. CASEY, < Trustees of District No. 7. July 28, 1909. 30-31 WANTED-Second-hand bags and burlap; any kind; any quantity, any where. Richmond Bag Co., Rich mond, Va. 28-37 DR. D. P. THOMSON, DENTIST, Heneca-Walhnlla. OFFICE DAYS: Walhalla- Seneca Mondays. Tuesdays. Wednesdays. Thursdays. Fridays. Saturdays. W. M. FENNELL, Lnnd Surveyor, Route No. 1, - - Walhalla, S. C. QUICK SERVICE-GOOD WORK. REASONABLE PRICE. June 9, 1909. 35* '_ DR. W. F. AUSTIN, Dentist, Seneca, South Carolina. Office over J. W. Byrd A Ob. t E.L.HERNDON, A ttornoy-at-L?w, Walhalla, South Carolina. PHONE No. 61. J. P. Carey, J. W. Shelor, Plckens, S. C. Walhalla, S. O. W. O. Hughs, Walhalla. CAREY, SHELOR A HUGHS. Attorneys and Counsellors, Walhalla, S. C. Practice in State and Federal Court?. R. T. .IAYNES, A ttorney-at-Law, Walhalla, South Carolina. Practice In State and Federal Courts. Bell Phone No. 20. BLUE RMI RAILWAY CO. BETWEEN BELTON AND WALHALLA, Time Table No. 7.-In Effect June 6, 19C9. EASTBOUND- W 10 r.vW?!hai!a. LvWest Union. LvReneoa. 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Wllbaleo stop at the followlnjr stations to tait? on and let off passengers : Phlnney's, James s ?na Toi away, Welch. A. B. ANDREWS, President. J. R. ANDERSON, Superintendent. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy Cm t? Colds, Croup and Whooping Cough, j