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Ay . ~ . ' KEOWEE COU KIER (ESTABLISHED 1840.) Published livery Wednosduy Morning Subscription, $1.00 Per Ann um. Advertising Bates Housouable. -uy 6TECK, SH i l / Ht & SCHRODER. Communications of a personal character chart? I for aa advertise ments. Obituary notices and tributes of respoct, of not ovor one hundred words, will bo printed free of charge. All over that number must bo paid for at tho rate of one cent a word. Cash to accompany manuscript. WALHALLA. H. G.: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1010. CONVERTING TUE CHINESE. Attraction of Sex Predominates, Not Hint of Religion. (Harper's Weekly.) In the matter of the American girl teacher, Elsie Slgel, who was mur dered by her Chinese lover, no bel ter sense has been spoken than ls at tributed by the papers lo Miss Helen Clark, of tho Clark Mission in Worth street. For Hf leon years, Miss Clark says, slie has protested against white women attempting lo Christianize Chinese, and she declares that there are more women missionaries de graded by Chinese men than there are Chinese converted. Miss Clark goes on to say: .lt ls the attraction of sex that predominates in both cases, not that of religion. Despite all that ls tn thc papers, tho publie does not see the other side-Hie Chinese side. Tin- pictures that I have seen are of young, vain, frivolous white women deliberately Hilting with and leading on their Chinese pupils. "Hut consider what a puzzle such a woman must be to Hie Chinese, of a race totally unaccustomed to any freedom for women, ls it strange that (bey misjudge behavior that e\cn an American man would ques tion ? "As to what subtle attraction causes thc downfall of the white wo man missionary I do not know. Tilt1 Chinaman is a mystic, but not ro mantic- - not in thc sense that would appeal lo women. "The only light I can see is in what might be called the gallantry ol' the Chinese, their kindness and gentleness to women. 'Does any one realize that more than half of the women of the under, world who come to Chinatown and make their homes there, are there because Chinese are more kind to them than white men? lt is true. 1 have seen it; seen Cliine.se practi cally married to these women, the slaves of opium, treating them with patience and consideration. Maybe lt is Ibis gentleness which appeals, I know not what else." Practically all the Chinese In tills country are living isolated from the women of their own race. They are about as dangerous associates for vomit; girl missionaries, and the girl missionaries are about as dan gerous company for them, as could be conceived. For American women who art? interested in the Christtani zation of tho Chinese thc place to work is in China and among the Chinese women. There is a vast dea' to do, bul among ino Chinese men who live here thore ls no work In which young women may safely en gage. Ol' ull the Eastern count ides China is in these days die most at tractive to missionaries of discern ment and devotion. In Ibo Chinese they see Ibo bes! and strongest hu man material in Hie East, and the race thal promises under Western In flueiioo and loading to develop tho greatest clllciency and (he highest cha rael nr. Westernize, Christianize Cl na i?.v all means, she is ripe for it and need-, it. Hm keep American girls oui ol Chinese missions in this country. Mss Clark ls right about that when she -ays: "White women lintot leave the lives of Chinese alone." Nut icc (o Soldiers mid Widows. To Confederate Veterans and their Widows: I will attend in th0 Audi tor's oHlec every Saturday in Janu ary, 1910, for thc purpose of prepar ing applications for those soldiers and widows who are legally entitled to some who are aol already on the roll. These applications will go be fore the County Pension Hoard,which will meet al the Court House on the first Monday in February, 1010, to pass upon the same. No attendance is required of those who ?ire already enrolled. The Pension Hoard will meet on the first Monday lu February with out any further notice. J. W. Holloman. Pension Commissioner. fOLEYSKHMEYCWtfi Makes Kldi oyo and Bladder Right <;<>Ki><>\ A NOTED CHAUAOTEll. Ho Was Accused of Complicity in tho Killin:' nt' Abraham lilucoln. (Jackson Special to Memphis News Scimitar.) Sought at one time hy the Fede ral authorities under a reward of $10,000 for his capture, dead or alive, for alleged conspiracy in the murder of a President of .the United States and now appointed as a mem ber of tho legislativ^ body of that cou i, try, ls the strang'1 experience of Col. James Cordon, of Okolona, who has been named by Governor Noel as successor to the lato Senator A. J. MeLaurin, of Mississippi. Col. Gordon was one of the several Confederate leaders suspected ol' be ing in conspiracy with J. Wilkes Mooth to kill President Abraham Lincoln. Ile escaped arrest and prob able death only through the Inter vention, it ls stated, of a Yankee col onel with whom he had crossed swords lu a tight In Virginia. D?ring the earlier years of the war Col. Gordon bad formed an intimate friendship with Booth, and after the assassination of President Lincoln the reward of $10,000 was offered for his capture. Col. Gordon went to Canada and lt was several months after the close of hostilities before he found lt safe to return home. During one of the campaigns in Virginia, Col. Gordon had crossed swords with the colonel of a New York cavalry regiment. Both were wounded in the conflict, but they af terwards became fast friends. Col. Gordon wrote a letter to this New Yorker denying that he bad any part in the Lincoln conspiracy, and stating that he desired to return to his home. The former foe took the matter up with Gen. Dicks, then in command of the army forces lu New York, and the latter sent bim a passport and an invitation to come to New York and surrender, which be did. He afterwards satisfied tien. Dicks that he knew nothing of the Lincoln conspiracy. He took the oath of allegiance and returned to his home in Chlcasaw county. Mississippi, where be has since resided. Tin: STATE'S IMH/K WIN NEK. What a Farmer in Calhoun County Did this Your with Corn. .lames M. Moss, of st. Matthews, has been awarded the first prize of $200 hy the State Corn Contest Coin mission. His yield was 000.5 bushels on live acres. He made 72.2 points out of the possible 100. We get these facts from our exchanges, and are delighted to note these evidences of an agricultural awakening all over the State. Mr. Moss is an illustration of the fact that it is the man behind the gun that counts. His present planta tion, which is acknowledged to be one of the most fertile and product ive in tile entire State, and which in cluded Hie land on which the corn was planted, was acknowledged to be one of the poorest plantations in that section when Mr. Moss purchased lt a few years ago. The fertility of this land is due to the fact that he uses quantities of home-made compost and rotates his crops. His farm is also thoroughly drained by underground tiling, and ls now a garden spot, and in every seilst? of the word a model farm. Ile not only raises all of his supplies, hut derives a handsome profit from the sale of asparagus, corn, oats, wheat and hay, cotton, and also hogs, sheep and cattle. Mr. Moss is one ol' the few farm ers of tile State who keeps a detailetl book- account of the cost of every crop be raises. There is a big de mand in various sections for his seed oats, cotton seed and other of his farm crops. .Mr. .Moss is a man ol' considerable means. He has a large family of boys and girls, to whom he has given the very bes I college education; all of which goes to provo that with the right man farm life in South Caro lina is not only a most independent lite, hut a most remunerative ono. Townvllle Masonic Of lice l's. At a regular communication of Townvllle Lodge, No. 209, A. F. M., held December 2f>th, the following officers were elected and installed to serve the ensuing Masonic year: I). 10, Dalrymple, W. M.; .1. Walter Dickson, S. W.; Janies (J. Sears, .1. W.; John I'. Ledbettor, secretary; J. N. Trlbble, treasurer; J. D. Babb, S. D.; J. D. Compton, J. D.; E, B. Far mer and J. Ii. Morgan, stewards; J. 11. Price, tiler. Hog, Corn and Cotton. Alvin Derrick, who lives near Johnston, S. C., killed a hog a few days ago which weighed 610 pounds net. This pig was 20 months old. Mr. Derrick obtained 170 pounds of lard from ono hog. Mr. Derrick ll\ s at home and alw \ys baa corn to sell and makes a bale . r cotton per acre. ACillKTI/ri'KIO WORK IN H. O. Secretary Wilson Writes of Growth of Depart mont in this State. James Wilson, secretary of agri culture, has written the following lot. ter to Commissioner Watson regard ing tho work of hi? department tn this State: "I have been considering the re ports that como from South Carolina with regard to the past season's ac tivities of your people In co-operation with this department. "Tho Southern States generally aro giving critical attention to the pro duction of farm crops, for which there ls great need. The South has raised the greatest corn crop In Its history, and wp are now sending bul letins by thc hundred thousand to Southern fanners, suggesting meth ods by which they eau conduct swine culture along breeding and feeding lines so that the people of that sec tion can produce their own meats. I need do no more than mention the large Increase tn the corn crop of your State. You kt'ow more about that than wo do here, but lt is very gratifying to us. "The department is particularly active in helping the people on the west side of the cotton-growing States to grow cotton in defiance of the boll weevil. We are also helping to get rid of the cattle tick, so that the. South may do more along meat producing lines, which will compre hend the use of their own cotton seed meal and their own animals, in stead of sending lt all over the world, and this will result in furnishing to the soil the best fertilizers known to agrctllture. Your pasture conditions and your dairy Industry will be ex tended, diversified agriculture will result, and you will grow larger crops ol cotton than you are growing now, on less land. "Our co-operation with the South Carolina people lias been very satis factory and very pleasant to us and I hope it. may continue with Increasing valuable results." The fussing of n Pioneer. Anthony Murphy, aged 80, a pio neer citizen of the South, and one of the two men who pursued and captured the famous engine "Gene ral," when Gie latter had been seiz ed and carried off from .Marietta, Ga., by Federal raiders during the Civil War, died in Atlanta on Tues day ol' last week. Murphy was horn in Ireland and came to this country when 20 years old. lie became one of the construc tors of the Western ?c Atlantic rail road, but when the war broke out, entered the Confederate service, and because of his skill in mechanics was assigned by Governor Drown, father of the present Governor of Georgia, to assemble men to make guns. On April 12, 1862, the Federal secret service arranged to seize a train at Marietta, cut off the engine, j run it from Big Shanty, Ga., to Chat tanooga, Tenn., burning bridges and cutting wires between the two places, and tims cutting the Confed erate line of communication. The plan was carried out almost success fully. The Federal officers boarded the train at .Marietta, Ga., and while the passengers and crew were al breakfast at Big Shanty, seven miles north of Marietta, cut off the en gine and started on a mad race of destruct ion. Tile action of the Federal party, who posed as Southern refugees anx ious to join the Confederate army, aroused the suspicion of Mr. Murphy, who was then foreman of the West ern & Atlantic round house at Dig Shanty. When the "General" start ed on its wild race, .Murphy and two others started on foot in pursuit, seizing a hand car later, ran lt to IO to wa h, Ga., where the engine "Texas" was impressed. For fifty one miles the race continued to Itlng gold. Ga., where the "General" was captured as the mon in charge at tempted to burn a bridge. Several of the Federal officers were summar ily executed. Hui the plan of the Union forces to cut the Confederate communications was defeated. Although the engines were of a crude type, most of the race was made at tho rate of 60 miles an hour. Murphy was ibo engineer and Jeff Cain, tho train engineer, and Capt. Fuller, the conductor, fired for him. Thc war left Murphy penniless, but he set to work again cheerfully, and when he died bad amassed a fortune of half a million dollars in the saw mill and lumber business. Foley's Kidney Remedy will cure any case of kidney or bladder trou ble that ls not beyond tho reach of medicine. It Invigorates the entire system and strengthens tho kidneys so they eliminate the Impurities from the blood. Bael'acne, rheumatism, kidney and bladder troubles are all cured by this great medicine. J. W. Bell. On the farms of longland last year there were 1,494,080 horses em ployed. New Y' R?solve? trading with G get what I war Resolve? you can get pol and that is at C io v iou vi CARTER KILLS WAITRESS; SHOOTS SELF. Tragedy Took Pince in Indiana Hotel Dining- Room. Peru, indiana, Dec. 30.-A man who registered at the Bearss Hotel as L. H. Lambert, ot Chicago, shot and killed Dora Chappell and then killed himself in tlie dining room of Hie hotel soon after noon yesterday. The woman, who was a waitress In Hie hotel, bent over Lambert to take his order for dinner, as lt appeared to Hie other waitresses In the room. Lambert put his arm around her, as If in jocular affection, and drew her close to him. Shot Woman in Brennt. Suddenly, with his other hand, he drew a revolver from his pocket and shot the woman in the left breast. Then he let her dead body slip to the lloor. As Sumner Han, a son of the pro prietor of the hotel, ran into the room Lamber! shot himself in the heart and fell from his chair, still clinging to the revolver. Tlie waitresses ran from the build, ing in a panic. There were no other guests in the dining room at the time of tlie shooting. Declared He Would Kill Her. Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 30.-The man who shot Dora Chappell in the dining room nt the Bearss Hotel at Peru, Ind., yesterday was Hoy Mc Kinney, of tliis city. McKinney's fa ther and motlier said that he and the Chappell girl became acquainted and fell In love with each other when she was employed here. Her father separated them and McKinney, they said, had declared he would kill bel an d himself. Itch! Itch! Itch!-Scratch ! Scratch! Scratch! The more you scratch the worse the Itch. Try Dean's Ointment, ll cures piles, ec zema, any skin itching. All drug gists sell it. Killed Himself and Wife. Xew Orleans, Dec. 27.-Because his wife had expressed a desire to go to her parents' home to spend Christ mas, J. R. Blakeley, a railroad fore man, shot and instantly killed her and himself in Algiers on Christmas day. Tlie four-year-old son of the couple called neighbors to the house, told them of the fatal quarrel and showed his parents lying dead on the floor. Tf yon are sick, you w Of course you do. You wii misery, and bc happy aga li' your illness is cans can quickly get the right Cardui. This great modi lieved or cured thousand! you from some female troi For Won Mrs. Tannie Ellis, of Fostci years. Head her letter about Care seven years with female trouble. !dic with my head and back. I t< cured. Cardui is a Qod-scnd to i AT ALL DB 7 ?vW? rv ear Resol d, That during the Year 19 JO 1 arter & Co., Walhalla, where ] it, and that at a reasonable price d further, That the place to tr lite and courteous treatment and barter & Co.'s. 'HING GOOD TO EAT AND NICE TC & CO., WAI ? ? ? ??ta ?? @&? ? ? ? @ @i CHURCH DIRECTORY. ^ ???????@??????? Presbyterinn. Rev. Geo. M. Wilcox, Pastor. Walhalla Church-Preaching 2d and 4th Sabbath. Morning servi e, lia. m.; evening service 7.30 p. m. Sabbath School (weekly) 10 a. m. Prayer meeting Wednesday after noon at 4 o'clock. Bethel Church-Preaching 2d and 4th Sabbaths. Preaching service, 3.30 p. m. Fifth Sabbath, ll a. m. Sabbath School, 3 p. m. Ebenezer Church-Preaching on 1st Sabbath at 4 p. m. Richland Church-Preaching 1st and 3d Sabbaths. Morning servico, 11.30 a. m. Sabbath School, 10.30 a. m. Lutheran. Rev. T. P. Eptlng, Pastor. English services every Sunday morning at ll o'clock; Sunday School at 9.45 a. m. Missionary Society meets on Wed nesday after the first Sunday in each month. Dadles' Aid Society meets on Wed nesday after the third Sunday in each month. A cordial Invitation ls extended to all to worship with us. NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT AND DISCHARGE. Notice is hereby given that tho undersigned will make application to D. A. SMITH, Judge of Probato for Oconee County, in the State of South Carolina, at bis office, at Walhalla Court House, on THURS DAY, JANUARY 27th, 1010, at ll o'clock in the forenoon, or as soon thereafter as said application can be heard, for leave to make fin."I settlement of tho Estaco of EZRA CROMER, deceased, and obtain Onnl discharge as Administrator of said Estate. J. J. CROMER, Administrator. December 22, 1909. 51-2 T. E. ALEXANDER. The Land Man WA lill ALLA, S. O. B. S. LOOK. Heating Stoves, Cooking Stoves. Tinware. All kinds of repairing. WALHALLA. S. C. Chamberlain's ??Sn$! Never fails. Uuy it uow. It may save life. ...... 1 Well ish to get well, don't you9 di to bc rid of the pain and lin. ed by female trouble, yon remedy to get well. It's icinc, for women, has re 3 of ladies, suffering like Libio. ten's Ills J to, r, Ark., suffered agony for seven lui. She writes: "I was sick for Every month I would vtry nearly 5ok 12 bottles of Cardul and waa Buffering women." Try it. ira STOKES [ will do my [ can always adc is where fresh goods, > WEAR. ENGINEERING, SURVEYING, TE R RAC I NO, LEVELING AND DRAINING. TERMS REASONABLE. v* 5fcV R. C. DICKSON, ' R. F. B. No. 2, WESTMINSTER, S. C. M. C. LOMO, Walhalla, S. c. j. A. MCCULLOUGH, Greenville, S, c. MCCULLOUGH & LONG, Attorneys nt Law, Walhalla, South Carolina. Olllco Over Oconce News. E . L . H E RN BON? Attorncy-at>Law, Walhalla, South Carolina. PHONE No. Ol. J. P. Carey, J. W. Shelor Pickens, S. C. Walhalla, S. C. W. C. Hughs, Walhalla. CAREY, SHELOR & HUGHS, Attorneys and Counsellors, Walhalla, So C. Practice in State and Federal Court* ll . T . J A Y N E S , A ttorney-at-Law, Walhalla, South Carolina. Practice in Stato and Federal Court?.. Boll Phone No. 20. DR. D. P. THOMSON, DENTIST, SENECA, SOUTH CAROLINA. OFFICE OPEN EVERY DAY. BR. W. F. AUSTIN, Dentist, Seneca, South Carolina. Office over J. W. Byrd A Co. WE WANT our friends and patrons to leave their Printing and Engraving orders with us. Prompt attention and best service. Call and sue our lino of samples. THE KEOWEB COURIER, Walhalla, S. C. DANIEL* E. GOOD, - Walhalla, S. C. * HA RRISON'S VALVELESS, Wlckless Oil-Gas Stoves. Roofing, Guttering, Painting, Etc. Repairing of All Kinds. All Work Attended to Promptly. Satisfaction Guaranteed. PAINTS-ALL COLORS SUMMONS FOR RELIEF. THIO STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF OCONEE. Court of Common Pleas. lOtl/.aboth R. McCarter, Plaintiff, ?% against v/ C. H. Roxford, Defendant. Summons for Rollef-(Complaint Not Served.) To the Defendant Above Named: You are hereby summoned and re quired to answer tho complaint In lids action, which will be filed In tho ofhco of tho Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for tin; said county, and to serve a copy of your answer to the said complaint on the subscriber at bis ellice, on Hie PUBLIC SQCAUIO, at Walhalla Court House, South Carolina, within twenty days after tho ser vice hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and If you fail to an swer tho complaint within Hie time aforesaid, the Plaintiff in this action will apply to tho Court for tho rollet domnnded in the complaint. Datod this 29th day of November, A. D. 1909. (Seal.) JOHN F. CRAIG, C. C. Po R. T. JAYNES, Plaintiff's Attornoy. To 0. II. Rexford, Absent Defendant: Please take notice that tho com plaint In tho above entitled action will bo filed In tho offlco of th? Clerk of tho Court of Common Pleas of Oconeo County, South Carolina, within twenty days from this dato. R. T. JAYNES, Plaintiff's Attornoy. 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