THEY'RE AFTER JAKE COOK. He Has Invitation to Georgia, Rut Must Ile Careful. Clayton, Ga., Dec. 2 1.-Editor The Courier: We notice what Mr. Smartle Baye In regard to the roads of Oco nee and the road oiliclals. We also noticed a sketch nome time ago in which an airship was mentioned. Now, if we had seen the airship we would only have thought that lt was ihe air from Mr. Cook's lungs going off, and would have considered the source and let lt go by. We also note what he said of the officials being on their knees at Clemson College, begging Clemson not to flop over to Anderson county. We are not surprised at that, but-if -we had heard that they were on their knees beggiug him (Cook) to remain In Oconee we would have been sur prised indeed. We also note his petition to An derson county. It would have suited Mr. Cook better to have been on his knees begging the mercies of God rather than that of Anderson county, as we presume he stands more in need of them. And In regard to the ?iteel bridge being built over the spring branch, we only say we hope Mr. Cook will want to cross this same spring branch in a hurry some time when it is swollen by summer freshets. When Anderson county takes the bad roads and the road officials of Oconee county it will not be com plete without a "Sr.,?.rt Alec" to write up their roads and blow off lils hot air in big blasts. Now, Friend Cook, yoi* take through the woods and come to Georgia to see us. But be sure and go below that big hole on Tugaloo, for we don't want you to get killed. We don't see what Oconee would do In case it was to lose you. (Signed) Two Daughters Of the Road Officials. Wolf Stake Items. Wolf stake, Dec. 30.-Special: Mrs. H. W. Harbins, of near Picket Post, visited her mother, Mrs. 0. M. White, this week. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. White visited the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. P. B. Kelley, of Picketts county, last week. Miss Hassle Glazonor, of New Hope, visited Miss Pearle Brown the lat ter part of last week. John J. Reeder, who has been fore man of an up-to-date country news paper at Springneid, Ga., for the past year, is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. M. White. We welcome Mr. Reeder back to Oconee. He was born and raised in our county. School opened last Monday morn ing at Wolf Stake, the children hav ing had a week's vacation. All of them wrote co Santa Claus, telling him they would study their lessons hard if he would bring them what they asked for. and of course dear old Santa did, and now they are ready lo fulfil their promise. Mike White, one of Oconee's most popular young men, visited Iiis uncle, Robt. White, of New Hope, last week. Mrs. G. M. White has been on the sick list for the past week, bul we are glad to say she is Improving. S. (Milson luis Abandoned Appeal. Laurens, Dee. 30.-Official papers committing young Wade Cothran Pinson to the State Penitentiary for S term of two years were mailed to Superintendent Griffith yesterday by .lohn F. Bolt, Clerk of the Court in Laurens county, and thus upon his own request and of his own volition in abandoning his appeal to the Su preme Court, young Pinson begins paying the penalty imposed for the killing of Thornwcll noyce on the night of November (Rh of last year. Pinson willie to his attorneys here requesting the commitment papers, doing this after he had already re ported at the penitentiary, .lils at torneys knew nothing of their client's intention of abandoning bis appeal, Two Killed in Hot Supper Row. Greenwood, Dec. 20.- TWO negro brothers. Pass and Joe Horn, are dead, and three oilier negroes. Henry Wharton, Wess Fisher ?md Luther Lomax, are badly wounded, as a re mit of ti general row and light at a bot supper near Verdrey early this morning. The hot supper was given at a ne gro bouse on the place of Moffat i ?rennen, about three hundred yards from the depot. About two o'clock this morning the fight, mw and shoot ing began, and soon "bloodshed, mur der and sudden death" resulted as above stated, lt was so sudden and SO violent a squall that those who were present and participating do not .-oem to be able to tell Just exactly who started lt, what lt was about or who did the most of it. Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S O ASTORIA SI,A IX IX NICARAGUA. How 01*000 and Cit ll HOI) Met theil' Kilto at tho Hands of Zohiya, Recent reports that the Americans, Croce and Cannon, were tortured be fore being shot in Ntcuraugua, ure untrue. The facts were in Hie pos session of Hie State Department at Washington a month ago, and it was generally supposed that any details of the tragedy had been given publicity through official channels. As lt ls, advantage has been taken of the op portunity in some Instances to paint a picture that was more Interesting than truthful. The glory of Capt. Anibal Chaves, who refused to obey an order to take command of the tiring squad, ls dim med somewhat by the light of known circumstances. Gens. Toledo, Medi na und Irlas bad Implored Zelaya to abandon his purpose of shooting the Americans. Zelaya, however, could not be In fluenced and Geu. Toledo finally or dered Capt. Chaves not to assume command of the squad. Chaves chose to obey Toledo rather than the presi dent, and as a consequence was ar rested and held in jail for six weeks. Upon his release Chaves made the most of the episode. Story of Execution. Croce and Cannon were notified ol' the death sentence imposed upon them at 10.30 o'clock on the night of November 15. They were executed at 10 o'clock the following morning. As they were marched out of the for tress a drizzle of rah fell. On the way to tlie scene of execution they passed 'bo open graves that had been prepared for them. At one time Croce stepped out of the line of mardi and pleaded with Hen. Medina. "Do not shoot me; 1 am a brother Mason," he said. Cannon quickly seized ills companion and pulling him back into line said : "Brace up, old man. We have no chance under Zelayu's orders." Standing in the center of the square, formed by 100 soldiers, the two men heard their sentence read from the four corners, together with the usual warning In such cases: "Any one displaying evidence of sympathy \'i!' be shot in a similar fashion." Mon are Blindfolded. The hands of the condemned men wert; bound and their eyes blindfold ed. Cannon shook bis head, attempt ing to prevent the bandage being placed over his face, hut his protest was unavailing. They were seated on a low bench side by side. The tiring squad was made up of twelve sol diers, who advanced in three rows within six feet of their victims. Capt. Constantino Saenz was in command and introduced two soldiers at the right to fire upon Crace, and two sol diers at the left to lire upon Cannon. All four bullets were effective. Groce was shot through the heart and death was instantaneous. Tho bul lets intended for Cannon tore the breast and abdomen, lt.? survived Iiis wounds ft few seconds. When the body of Groce was buried n blanket ititi the features, but the body of Cannon was buried without any pro tecting cover. '1 Scrofula disfigures and causes life-long misery. Children become strong and lively when given small doses of every day. The starved body is fed; the swollen glands healed, and the tainted blood vitalized. Good food, fresh air and Scott's Emulsion con quer scrofula and many other blood diseases. FOR SAI,I{ BY AM. DRUGGISTS Semi 10c., nam? of paper nnd thin ad. for our beautiful Savings ll.ink and Child's Sketch-Took. Kath l>ank o m tams a Good I.uck I'enny. SCOTT A. BOWNE, 409 Pearl St.. N. Y. Repeated "Amens" Caused Arrest. Fairmont, W. Va., Dec. Si.-Be cause, it ls alleged, he worked him self into n frenzy, and the volume of his repeated "Amens" came near breaking up several sessions of a re vival meeting of the Methodist epis copal church of Helena Run, Thomas county, K, M. Snyder, a prominent fariner, was arrested and held in $.',00 bond to await the action of th grand jury on a charge of disturbing religious worship. COMET'S il O Y WAVE IS FELT. rail ??r tho Halley Wunderer ls Al ready "Cuttinn Up." (London Cable to Washington Post.) The tall ol' tlie groat Halley comet, willoh, according to M. Camille Flam marion, the French astronomer, may make every one ale lu a delirium of joy or in an agony of suffocation as lt brushes past the earth, has already made Its humorous influence felt at G reen wich Observatory. A wave of amusement has Just been recorded by the delicate Instru ment? there, and the astronomer royal and all his assistants were seen to be snilling for some abstruse rea son as they peered through their ?jreat telescopes. This may be the first sign of the paroxysm of mirth and delirium in which M. Flammarion says the hu man race may perish on or about May 18, wh?n the 50,000,000-mlle long tail of ".alley's comet envelopes the earth and snatches away all the nitrogen from the air, leaving us only the two exhilarating oxygen to breathe. Whatever may happen when Its tail arrives, the astronomers at Greenwich are agreed that Halley's comet, which ls making a return visit to the earth after 7 6 years' ab sence, ls the most wonderful of all celestial pyrotechnic phenomena. Wonderful "Skyscapes." Already they have taken many photographs of it, although it is not yet In sight of tho naked eye, and the pictures they hope to take next April and .May will, it is expected, be tho most wonderful skyscapes ever obtained. Londoners should have a line view of the groat comet, the best they have boon abie to obtain since 1006, when William the Conqueror and Harold both thought lt was an onion ol' victory. Next year again, as Tennyson wrote, "lt glares in heaven and flares upon the Thames," as it did in Harold's time, and will be eas ily visible from Blackfriars bridge. Halley's comet has still, however, a long way to come, lt is traveling on Its ?90,OOO,000-mile journey in great haste, and has won the long distance record ol' 188,r>o0,000 miles in 7 7 days. Its present paco in the direction of the earth is roughly estimated: 2,500,000 miles a day, 1,730 miles a minutos, 29 miles a second. At prese/t the world and the comet are rushing toward each other. The earth is swinging on through space with the yearly motion of its orbit and tho comet, with a constantly accelerated motion as it approaches ibo sun. By the middle of next May the comet will be at its nearest to tho sun, and will then be a mere trille of 10.1-16,000 miles from the earth. In .lune it will be only 10, 000,000 miles away! The Chinese astronomers have a record of the comet's actions for the last 2,000 years, and there are parch ments in Hie College of Mandarins at Canton ol' 28 authenticated appear ances during that period. Tim Comet in History. lt has always played an important j pari in history. The famous Bayeux tapestry shows a curious scene when "tho hairy, fiery comet" was seen in 1060 by the conquering Normans. A group ol' warriors, seemingly convulsed with laughter, aro seen gazing at a strange shape In the sky, supposed io be Hu; comet, but more nearly resembling a gigantic cockade from a coachman's hat. Some scientists cheerfully predict it will be the comet and not the world that will dlr-. Dr. H. H. Tur ner, in addressing the British Asso ciation, said : "Its probable end will be by dis persion into a swarm ol' meteors. "Some ol' these outlying meteors our earth may encounter at linios, and so he lit up for a few moments by the expiring fragments of what was once a terrifying comet." Astronomers the world over are preparing for tlie coming of the comet. At the Solar Physics Obser vatory, South Kensington, the mir rors have been resilvered and the telescope room put in readiness. Fnglaud and America are keenly competing for the fullest records. It ls a groat astronomical race, for at present al. the discoveries of plane tary satellites since the seventeenth century aro equally divided between Hie two nations. Each country claims eight discoveries. (Exp?ditions have been equipped In both Fngland and America for tak ing observations of the comet dur ing the total eclipse of the sun In May, 1910, The best positions will be In the Antarctic regions and in Australia. Mr. McLean, the English astrono mer, ls traveling in Tasmania for this purpose, and au American party will go lo Honolulu to watch the skies. The first honors have fallen to the Lick Observatory In California,where . spectrum of Halley's comet has j been ol tained, but the composition of the tail has not yet been decided. FAKMEKS CKGKD TO KEFOKM. j _ Plunkett Says lanni Waste in Ameri ca Will Cause Food Shortage. Now York. Dec 20.-rQifford Pin cho! to-day found supi.orl in his con troversy with Secretary Ballinger from an unexpected quarter. Speak, lng before the Economic and Histori cal Association Sir Horace Plunkett/ of Dublin, wiro has brought about almost a rural revolution In Ireland, ' and is said to know more about the resources of the United State? than 00 per cent of our own citizens, said: "I greatly regret that I have Just received a telephone message from Gifford Piiiehot that pressing busi ness keeps him away from the gath ering. What that business ls 1 shall leave you to imagine. I must decline to enter into any controversy, but 1 should like to say that 1 regard Mr. Piuchot as a very remarkable public servant. He is not only a man who ls doing lils work with a great affec-1 Hon for lt, but he ls trying as well to broaden his administrative position." I Warning Uttered by Hill. Slr Horace expressed surprise that the warning repeatedly uttered by, James J. Hill bad not been better heeded in this country. He thought that perhaps we were so much Inter ested in the trusts and in municipal regeneration that we blinked at the ' sure approach of a more distant, but also a more Important, problem. "I see a rapidly Increased cost of living," he said. "At the end of a j century, as .Mr. Hill has told you, ; there will be a vast Importation of food-stuffs into America If your far ming methods are not changed for, the better. Such a situation calls for j urgent action by Congress and by ; State Legislatures. As an allen, 1 have no right lo say what such ac- ; Hon should be; but, If I may not j prescribe, 1 may describe. Most Wasteful System. "The system ol' agriculture in the j ('entrai West, or that part of it set tled thirty years ago, was the most wasteful 1 ever saw. The so-called farmer was not a farmer, but a land speculator. He went into the coun- i try knowing that the land was sure to rise in value. So he bought all the land be couhl get and then robbed the land to meet Ills' obligations until lie could realize his eventual sure profits from a sale. There has got to be a change. I believe there will come, in this country, eo-operution between farmers-which was long ago forced upon the farmers of older countries by the competition of the then virgin soils of America. In Ire. land, the farmers are getting to- , gether for their own good and for j Hie good of their country, and they; ar?; making a new industrial Ire land." D IX I IO OVFH YANK FF DOODLE. Music Director Said "Dixie" Was More Prominent and Patriotic "ls "Dixie' more popular than 'Yan kee Doodle".'" This question, apparently, has di vided the country into two camps. The innocent assertion of Otto G. T. Sonneek, chief of the division of j music ol' the library of Congress,1 Washington, in a publication on American national songs, that "Dixie" was more prominent In pa triotic popularity than "Yai kee Doo dle," has stirred up a hornet's nest, : and even resulted in threats o? death 1 to Sonneek, says a Washington dis patch. His office in the Congression- ' al Library has been swamped with letters from various parts of the country, In which the writers take ex ception to the statement about "Dixie." Some of these letters I threaten Mr. Sonneek with dire pun ishment, and ..lr. Sonneek has re quested the suppression of further i mention in the newspapers of his work on American national songs. COLLETOX MAX KILLS HIMSELF. j Joe Harris, Charged with Murder, Out on Loud, Commits Suicide. | Walterboro, Dec. ?to.-Joe Harris, a young white man, 28 years old, who was out on bond, charged with murder, committed suicide at the home of his uncle, Joe T. Garrie, near Williams, in the upper part of the county, yesterday, lt will be re called that young (?arris and two other young men were charged with killing Israel Manigault, a negro, at the Coileton Cypress Company's mill on October 27th, and were to have been tried for this killing In Novem ber, but the case was continued by the Solicitor. It ls possible that he was brooding over this affair and his mind became unsettled. The shooting occurred about 8 o'clock at the front gate of J. T. Gar. riv, and from the report given by Heber Padgett, who was at Mr. Gar rett's at. the time, there ls no light thrown on the tragedy. Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CASTO R I A LYNCH INCH FOH YEAH I00l>. Ilocoi'd shows the Number lo Ht* 7<>. 11 Whites und 5? Hincks. According lo a report Issued from Wushlngtou n few days- ago, lynch ing*- In 1909 have numbered 70, the highest number recorded since 1904. The victims numbered ll whites and 59 negroes. The lynchings occurred in twelve States and one Territory New Mexico. As in previous years, crimes or alleged crimes against white women and murders caused most ol' these summary executions. One case, occurring In Cairo, 111., combined both causes and resulted In the placing of the city under mili tary control for several days. The Cairo lynchings were the only CUSCB of the kind that occurred north of the Ohio river during the year. Sev eral double lynchings occurred at various points in the South, and Ok luhonm I m ulshed a quadruple lynch ing, with four cattlemen a? the vic tims. In the following record the word "lynching" has been held to apply only to the summary punishment in flicted by a mob or by any number of citizens on a person alleged to have committed a crime. By States the 70 lynching cases here recorded are classified as follows: Georgia . ll Texas. 10 Florida . 8 .Mississippi . 7 Louisiana . 7 Alabama . G Oklahoma . 5 Kentucky . 1 Arkansas . ?1 South Carolina . 3 New Mexico . 2 Illinois . 2 Missouri . 1 West Virginia . 1 What to Rend. "Tedi me what a man reads and I will tell you what he Is." said a wise writer; for little by iittle the things flint we read become our thoughts, and make the very texture of the mind. During the last few months the at tention of the American people has been aroused to the consideration of pure and impure foods. This agita tion has done good, for with the abundance of good food there is lit tle excuse for using any food which is harm lui. The time has come when the American family must give hot ter attention than in the past to ano ther matter-the choice between good and bad reading. We have read enough about wickedness In both public and private life; too many stories of criminal transac tions; too much about the evil and not enough about the good of life. Let us have the bright and clean side of our American life only. Let us read stories of heroes who are both brave and noble, and not. vulgar and confessed criminals. The mis sion of the press is to help the reader, not drag him down; (o sug gest high, not low ideals. At this season the average Ameri can family selects periodicals for the next year. Let tho choice be only for clean, wholesome, patriotic periodicals. Send for the prospec tus of the 19 10 volume of the Youth's Companion und see what an amount ot' tho best reading selected from the world's abundance of every sort can be had for only $1.75-52 splendid issues. Every new subscriber receives in addition to the 52 issues for 1910, all the issues for the remaining wonks of 1909, and the "Venetian" calendar, lithographed In thirteen colors and gold. The Youth's Companion, Companion Bldg., Boston, Mass. The Keowee Courier and the Com panion one year for $2.25. Send In your subscriptions at once to The Courier, Walhalla, S. C. (?ladys Hillery Leaves Jap Husband. Gladys Emery, daughter of Arch deacon John Emery, of San Francis co, whose marriage to a Japanese servant named Gunjiro Aoki caused Comment all over the world last March, has left her husband and la thoroughly disillusioned. The couple have been living in tho suburbs of Seattle, Wash., nnd were practically in want when the young woman wrote to her father begging to be allowed i to return home and bring her child with her. Mrs. Aokl said that since , the birth of the baby her husband had been lazy and shiftless and had ? neglected her In every way. Dr. Em ' cry went to her aid. When Miss Em j ery and her mother left ('orte Made j ria, where they lived, to go to Wash I Ington, where the State law would j permit the marriage, they were fol I lowed by a hooting mob. Miss 10m I ery had issued a statement declaring ? her love for the Japanese boy, and j she was promptly ostracized. PJF Mes Marvelous Ceres in Blood P. P. P. purifies the blood, bul Strength to weakened nerves, expels happiness, where sickncHH, gloomy fceli In blood poison, mercurial poison and skin diseases, liko blotches, ph head, wo say without fear of contrae purifier in the world. Ladies whose systems aro poisoned ditton due to menstrual bregularitiei dcrful tonic and blood cleansing pro '.toot and Potassium. F. V. LIPPMAN, INCREASE OE SALARIES. Governor Ansel Will Make Recom mendation to the legislature. , Governor Ansel will again recom mend to tin* General Assembly that the salaries ol' tho State ofllelals and the members of tho Judiciary he raised so as to meet the demands of the present increased eost of living. This recommendation has been made before by lovernotf Ansel, but the Legislnture did not see Ht to take ac tion upon the question. In a previ ous message he said: "The salaries of the State officers mid Supreme Court and Circuit Judges should be raised to at least what they were a few years since. It costs more now to live than formerly, and the officers should be paid a sal ary commensurate with tho work they have to do and the dignity of tho position tliey hold. Compare the salaries of the officers with those paid by other States of the South to its officers of like rank and the dif ference will be manifest. "The increoBC will not effect me, or the other officers now holding of fice, but it ls due those who will come after us." The other State officiais are of the same opinion as Governor Ansel and there are several after serving terms in office and feeling the responsibili ties attached do not think that the Job is worth the quest, that is finan cially. Just what action the Legis lature will take on the recommenda tion of the Governor is a question. Kev. I. W. Williams Testifies. Rev. 1. W. Williams. Huntington, W. Va., writes us as follows: "This is to certify that I used Foley's Kid ney Remedy for nervous exhaustion and kidney trouble and am free to say that Foley's Kidney Remedy will do all that you claim for lt. J. W. Roll. (?room ls Killed on Leaving Altar. Strlcklan, Ga., Dec. 27.-Near Lynn Station, .loe Jackson Is reported to have shot and killed Gabriel Len just after the marriage of Len to Rose Lee Butler. The cause for the killing is'unknown, but is supposed to have been jealousy. The slayer ls still at large. The sheriff and dep uties, with their bloodhounds, are making an effort to apprehend the guilty one. Warrants have later been sworn out before Justice T. E. Rich for Henry Johnson, who is said to have been accessory to Hie crime. The oldest living school teacher in Delaware county, New York, Miss Ar villa Blair, who is Dd years old, and has taught school 7 0 years, ls now Without funds. While teaching she received an average salary of only $3.50 to $4 per week, but managed to save a little, though now it has been swept away. :>|ty>' u TIV-?*---?.??? Umm UIHNUMUM_ -c-ar vu nrf-WJ^tiMMifu Ililli? AND AUTHftOAT?MD UIKCTROUfllESL pswwu muiAXranuiti; mt J .. o * i III uni? mm ?M Gt/AA'AK?CC.O SAT/SrACTOfty I " CP MO Nev I THE BL CH H IDG H RAILWAY CO. Between Helton and Walhalla. Time Table No. 8.-Effective No vember li, 19 09. KAHTIIOCND 10 18 20 I 8 Lv Walhalla. LvWost Union. DvSoneca. I.v*Jordanla Junction I. VA (I, i mn. Lv*Onorry. LvroniHctoii. Lv*Autnn. LvSandy Sprints. I.v* Denver. Lv?West Anderson_ Ar Anderson -I'assDon I/v Anderson-PassDep Lv* Anderson-FrtDep Arliclton. \VKHT?OUNI> LvBolton. [.?.Anderson-Fr't De Ar Anderson-rans De Kv A inlet son-l'ass De Iw^Wost Anderson_ Lv* Denver. I.vHandy Springs. Lv'Autun. LvPondleton. Lv*Cherry. I,v#Adams. L.T*Jordanla Junction. LvHoneca. LvWost Union. ArWalhttlla. A M . 8 '20 8 26 ! 8 47' 8 DO ? 051 1? 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P. ls the best blood and whoRo blood Is in an impuro con aro peculiarly beneflttcd by tho won pertles of P. P. P., Trickly Ash, Poko SAVANNAH, CA.