LOCAL NKW8 FIIOM TABOU.
pieu did Entertainment at < lie Homo
of ii Musical Family. |
Tabor, Feb. 3.-Special: The far-]
mers are getting along very slowly j
breaking up their land. I
Miss Lena Abbott spent, two weeks
with her sister, Mrs. J. S. Colley, re
cently. She has returned to her
home near Walhalla.
Miss Vada Perkins, of Avalon, Ga.,
is visiting Miss Eva Tannery.
Miss Maggie Abbott and brother,
Eugene, spent Saturday with their
sister, Mrs. J. S. Colley.
Miss Estelle Craig, of Pleasant
Grove, spent Saturday and Sunday
with her uncle and aunt, Mr. and
Mrs. P. P. Owens, of Tabor.
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Knox spent a
few days last week In Westminster.
A pound supper was given at the
home of Mrs. A. L. Tannery Satur
day night. It was a great success
and enjoyed hy all. Those present
were: Carl Bryant, Edmund Cleland,
Ben Cleland and Jack Jones, Madi
son; Albert, and James Martin, of
Retreat; Miss Eva Tannery and
Vada Perkins, Vinnie Singleton, Es
telle Fricks, Lola King, Joe King, Ira
King, DeWitt King, Alfred Tannery,
Homer Tannery, Misses Lena and
Maggie Abbott, Beulah, Daisy and
Mae Tannery.
On Sunday, January 30th, there
was a happy gathering at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. B. E. King, when
splendid music was enjoyed by a
large number of friends. Miss Mae
Tannery and Lester Tannery are or
ganists and E. C. Tannery leads.
Miss Mae ls a sweet little lady and
loved by all who know her. Her
voice ls like that of a nightingale,
lt. does one good to visit the home
pf Mr. and M,rs. E. C. Tannery and
bear them sing. Lester sings tenor,
..nd Misses Beulah and Daisy soprano;
Miss Mae alto, and their father leads
for them. That ls a happy home, and
may God bless them. Mr. Tannery
has one son in Texas and one daugh
ter married. Mrs. W. E. Huff.
Irvin King, of Pendleton, ls vis
it in ir at the home of Mr. and Mrs. B.
E. King. T. D. S.
More people are taking Foley's
Kidney Remedy every year. It ls con
sidered the most effective remedy for
all kidney and bladder troubles that
medical science can devise. Foley's
Kidney Remedy corrects irregulari
ties,builds up the system and restores
lost vitality. J. W. Bell.
Items from Wolf Stake.
Wolf Stake, Feb. 2.-Special: Ne
ville Bros., of West Union, have re
cently erected a nice dwelling In this
section, which adds greatly to the ap
pearance ol* our community.
Our farmers are eagerly waiting for
good weather so that they can get
down to their farm work In earnest.
There ls going lo be a meeting at
Wolf Stake school bouse on Saturday
night, February 12th, for the purpose
of organizing a camp of Woodmen of
the World. All of our men between
the ages of 18 and 52 years are
urged to attend promptly,
We are Informed that Mrs. R. C.
Emerson recently received $r>00 from
the Soverolun Camp, W. O. W. This
will be a great help to her, and we
are glad to know that the Woodmen
came to her rescue so promptly.
L. L. D.
A variable stroke petroleum en
gine has been designed, intended to
overcome the difficulties which pre
vent such engines being applied di
rectly to the shaft ol* a vehicle, ns lu
the case of the steam engine.
For
Lame
Back
An aching hack is instantly
relieved by an application of
Sloan's Liniment.
This liniment takes the place
of massage and is better than
sticky plasters. It penetrates
- without rubbing - through
the skin and muscular tissue
right to thc bone, quickens the
blood, relieves congestion, and
gives permanent as well as
temporary relief.
Here's the Proof.
Mr. J A M KM ?. I.KK, of 1100 Ott) St.,
B.K.,Washington, J>.C.,.wrItes : "Thirty
year? ago I roll from a scaffold and seri
ously Injured my back. I suffered terri
bly at timos ; from the small of my bank
all around my stomach was just as if I
bad been boaten with a club. 1 unod
every plaster 1 could get with no rolief.
Sloan's Liniment took the |>ain right
out, and 1 can now do a? much ladder
work as any man in tho thon, thanks to
Sloans
Liniment
Mr. J. 1?. K VA NS, of Mt. Airy, ?a.,
?ays: "Aftor being nfltiotod for throe.
?ears with rheumatism, I used Sloan's
.initnent, and WM curod munni and
well, and am glnd to say I haven't boen
troubled with rheumatism lineo. My
leg was badly swollen from i II y hip to
my knee. 'One-half a Lottie took tho
pain and swelling out."
Sloan's Liniment
has no equal as a
remedy for Rheu
matism, Neuralgia
or any pain or
stiffness in the
muscles or joints.
dices,26c, 50c. ami $1.00
Nlnun'a hook on
llorara, cuttle, sheep,
lind poultry tent
ii <.> . Aildrcaa
Dr. Earl S, Sloan,
Boston, Mass., U.S.A.
?"-'wan ? ??'? ? MwiiMiniai .?J I
AS TO CHOP MOHTGAGKK.
Various Pitases, I'ro and Cou, Fully
Discussed mid Reviewed.
(Greenwood Index.)
As will be seen by tho summary of
the work of the General Assembly
i he status quo or crop mortgages will
not be disturbed this year.
, Representative Hydrlck wanted to
amend the section providing for crop
mortgages by providing that no such
mortgage should be good unless said
crop was up and growing at the time
the mortgage was made. His bill
was killed.
Some how or other the popular
Idea has been that this was the way
the law read now, but lt does not at
all. lt may be that a test case be
fore the Supreme Court would so al
ter the status of Section 3005, but aB
yet no such lest case has been
brought, or seems likely to be
brought, and to all Intents and pur
poses tho system of credit, based on
unplanted crops as security, remains
Just exactly as lt was before the re
peal of the lien law, no more, no less.
The common question ls then, Why
the Hen law at all? One would bet
ter ask, to be logical, why the crop
mortgage act? The Hen law was en
acted first, lt was Intended to cre
ate a system of credit for a broken
down and impoverished people who
had nothing upon which to base their
applications for credit other than a
crop, "to be planted," their "promise
to pay" would have been as good as
gold if they had had the gold or any
other wherewithal to pay, but that
was rather uncertain. To aid them
In getting credit and getting on their
knees so they could get on their feet,
the Hen law \vaa enacted In 1878.
The Hen law had some dellclencles
and developed some abuses, of
course, and lt. would appear that an
effort to cure some of both of these
was made in 1891 when the crop
mortgage act was passed. See 20th
Statutes, S. C. This crop mortgage
act limited the contract, to one year
and further made |t obligatory to
accurately describe the lands on
which the crop or crops were to be j
grown. Doth laws remained on the
statute books until last year when
the General Assembly, in Its tradi
tional wisdom, repealed the Hen law,
but did not so much as touch with its
sacred fingers the crop mortgage act, |
which stands to-day as lt has done
since Its passage In 1801, and as lt
ls likely to stand for many, many I
years to come. At least lt would ap
pear so from the decided vote re
cently when an effort was made to
I limit lt to crops "up and growing." I
I As The Index stated when the agi
tatton first began to repeal the lien
law, the wisdom of it was doubtful,
or at least there was good argument
on both sides, lt would seem now
that this system of credit is so natu
ral with our people that they cannot
live without lt, just as the morphine
eater, or better perhaps the coffee
drinker, cannot live without the long
used stimulant, and as in the case of
the coffffee drinker, while in some
cases, maybe many cases, the Indi
vidual would be better off without i
the stimulant, lt does not seem to
weaken him perceptibly. If at all, and
he goes right on living and doing the
day's work as well as any one else.
As stated last week, the repeal of
the lien law has done one good thing.
lt has opened the eyes of the land
lord to his rights, and as one of the
objects aimed at in the repeal of the
lien law was to bring about better
control of labor on the farms, this
good is not to be overlooked, and the
repeal of the lien law should have
full credit for this much,
As a basis of credit for a merchant,
either a Hen or a crop mortgage with
out other security and without? re
leases from the landlord is an ex
ceedingly risky thing. Few If any
merchants depend upon it. alone.
Certainly they cannot get much in
the way of bank loans when such
papers are offered a? collateral, so
chattel mortgages are taken as addi
tional security, and landlords are re
quired to waive their statutory liens
for rent and for advances by all mer
chants with good business judgment.
The practice will have to die out
of itself. Times will have to so Im
prove thal no man, white or black,
I will have io fall back on his unplant
ed crop to get supplies ere the prac
tice will be obsolete. Certainly lt
J will be some time before legislation
will seek to restrict the right to a
growing crop and lt can never lake
away the right to mortgage the crop
after it is in existence.
.lust as Many Clouds Kohl.
( Yorkvllle Knquirer. )
There will be just as many goods
sold on time this year as usual, and
there will be as much cotton raised
under the advance system as there
would have been If the lien law had
not been repealed.
Some of the wisest members of the
General Assembly said last year that
all the hullabaloo about the repeal of
the Hen law was nothing but politics.
Sore Lungs and Haw laings.
Most people know the feeling, and
the miserable state of ill health lt
indbaies. All people should know
I hat. Foley's Money and Tar, the
greatest throat ?'sd lung remedy,will
quickly cure the soreness and cough
and restore normal conditions. Ask
tor Foley's Honey and Tar.
J. W. Hell.
. -???fr --
win I'sc Electric Power.
President .1. M. Geer, of the Fnslcy
Cotton Mills, signed a contract last
week with the Southern Power Com
pany for 2.*,o horse-power of electric
ity, Ol' as much more as he may de
sire, with which lo supplement tho
power, used to run the lOasley Cotton
Mills and also to light the mill vil
lage. The Southern l'ower Company
will go to work at once extending ihe
line from Greenville to Fasley. The
municipal authorities will also, no
doubt, take advantage of this oppor
tunity to light the city of Qasley. it
ls thought that the line will be fin
ished by the ll rsl of April.
Chlldron Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
O A S X O R I A
OLD FIGHT IlKNKWEI).
An Klfoi*. ls Again Being Made to
Get New Federal District.
(Washington Cor. News and Convier)
The old light to divide the State
of South Cs ralina into two judicial
districts and to provide for the ap
pointment of a district judge has
been revived here by the introduction
of such a bill In the House of Repre
sentatives hv Mr. Johnson, of Spar
tanburg, and already there are ru
mors that several attorneys in differ
ent parts of the State will get on tho
good side of Mr. Taft.
If this bill passes, and it will unlCBs
the old fight of four or Ave years
ago is resumed, when Chester, Spar
tanburg, Greenwood and other towns
in upper South Carolina fought the
measure to Its death, lt will place
in the Western District the counties
ot Oconee, Bickens, Anderson, Green
ville, Spartanburg, Laurens, Abbe
ville, Greenwood, ?dgefleld, Saluda,
Newberry, Union, Cherokee, York,
Chester, Lancaster and Fairfield.
The Kastern District will comprise
the other counties of the State. In
addition to the appointment of ano
ther judge the President would also
have to appoint a district attorney
and a marshal In the event of the
mensure becoming law.
By the framing of this bill the
present district judge and marshal for
South Carolina would have jurisdic
tion In the Eastern District only, so
i that a new man or judge would have
to be chosen from the up-country.
Flimflam Gallie at Westminster,
(Cor. News and Courier.)
On last. Wednesday a nicely dress
ed couple appeared on the streets of
Westminster and began to make
small purchases. They went to L. A.
Tannery's cash store and made a
small purchase and handed the cierk
a $10 note to change. The clerk gave
the change, but the lady immediately
discovered that she had a nickel and
requested hat her bill be returned.
. As soon as the woman had departed,
the clerk discovered that she had
been flimflammed out of $5 In the
deal. Mr. Tannery nt once began to
search for the offending persons and
learned that others had been treated
In the same way. A complete search
was made and the couple was located
between Westminster and Richland.
Just as they were boarding train No.
4 0 for Greenville Police Officer Will
Mitchell, hom Westminster, arrested
them and brough! them to Westmin
ster, when- they were fined $50 by
Mayor Zimmerman.
Dyspepsia is America's curse. Bur
dock Blood Bitters conquer dispepsia
every time, lt drives out Impurities,
tone? the stomach, restores perfect
digestion, norma) weight and good
health.
Marred "Old dory."
(Greenville News.)
An amusing incident occurred In
the operating room at a local hos
pital the other night when Thomas
Poole, who had. in a row in the sub
urbs, been slashed three times across
the abdomen with a carving knife,
was under the hands ol* two physi
cians. In the mixup In which Poole
had been involved, the other party to
the controversy having been found
dead In a nearby ditch, a bullet had
lodged somewhere in Poole's chest.
The physicians found lt necessary to
remove a certain portion of the skin.
On this part of Poole's body there
had been drawn by an old sea dog,
many years ago, a miniature Ameri
can Hag, in all Its brilliant colors, the
work having been done aboard a man
of-war wlwn Poole was enlisted In
the navy. Poole refused to take an
anesthetic and appeared much inter
ested In the operations. Presently
one of the physicians ran a little
knife through Old Glory, marring the
picture forever. Poole made a "pass"
at bim, but the doctor warded off the
blow. In his convalescence Poole
swears he will seek damages In the
courts, even if he linds lt necessary
to take his case to Congress, and
haul up i he doctor for desecrating tho
American Hag.
If the wives who are obliged to at
count to their husbands for every
cent they get were to turn the tables
by demanding an audit of the tobac
co and beer expenses, things would
be different.
.P. P.
, will purify and vitalize your
db m, 1, errat <. a K<'< ?I appetite and give, your
wholesystcm tone and strength.
A prominent railroad s?parlntandont at
8avannnh, suffering with Malana. Dyspep
sia, nnd Rheumatism says: "After laking
1*. P. P, ho never felt BO well In his lifo, ana
feels aa if ho could live forever, if he could
always got P. P. P."
If you ?retired ?ut from over-work and
close confinement, take
P. P. P.
If you are feeling badly tn the spring
and out of sorts, take
PPP
Tf your digestivo organs need toning up,
take
P. P. P.
If vou suffer with tieadarne, Indigestion,
doblllty and weakness, (alto
'. P.
If you suffer with nervous prostration,
nprves unstrung and a general let down
of tho system, take
P. P. P.
For Blood Poison. Rheumatism, Scrof
ula, Old Borea, Malaria, Chronic Female
Complaints, take
P. P. P.
Prickly Ash, Poke Root
and Potassium.
The best blood purifier In tbs world.
V. V. L1PPMAN.
Havannah, ? . Georgia.
SOUR MILK 1>I< INK. CHA ZK.
Clipping Britons In Hope of Attala?
lng Old Age.
(London Cable to Houston Post.)
The fashionable craze of the mo
ment ls neither rinking nor aviation,
but the drinking of sour milk or the
munching of specially prepared tab
loids charged with sour milk bacte
ria. The craze began a little while
ago with the publication of Dr. Rein
hardt's book, "One Hundred and
Twenty Years of Life," in which he
detailed from Prof. Metchnlkoff's
theory that sour milk prepared ac
cording to the Bulgarian plan 1B the
real elbir or life. Dr. Metchnlkoff,
the famous pathologist of the Pasteur
Institute, of Paris, was much struck
when visiting Bulgaria to find that
in many of the country parts the pro
portion of centlnarians was greater
than anywhere else. He started to
Investigate the cause, and came to
the conclusion that the long life of
the people was due to the faet that
they used sour milk In their daily
dletry. This milk, prepared by means
of a living culture of lactic acid form
of bacilli, destroys putrefactive or
ganisms tn the human stomach, so at
least Dr. Metchlnkoff maintained.
This theory, which has since been
supported by Dr. Osier, has caught on
amazingly.
Every chemist shop ls full of sour
milk lozenges and chocolates. Every
careful wife ls urging her husband
to drink especially prepared Metchnl
koff milk that ls sold hy the lending
dalry companies at fabulous prices.
Cooks have a fresh burden ndded to
their lives by being asked to prepare
sour milk at home, a process taking
many hours and much careful regu
lation of temperature. Meanwhile,
the folks to whom un expenditure of
from $2 to $5 per week per head for
specially prepared sour milk Is Im
possible, cnn obtain much the same
result by drinking the once-despised
buttermilk.
Does Not Look Kail*.
These are the sections of the stat
utes on which Senator Tillman ls re
lying to retain custody of the ?hildren
deeded to him by his son, B. R. Till
man, Jr.:
"Section 2089. The father of any
child or children, under the age of
21 years and not married, whether
born before or after the death of
such father, or the mother of any
such child or children, the father be
ing dead, whether such father or mo
ther be under the age of 21 years, or
of full age, may, by his or her deed,
executed and recorded according to
law, or by his or her last will and
testament, made and probated ac
cording to law, dispose of the custody
and tuition of such child or children
for and during such time as he, she,
or they, respectively, remain under
the. age of 21 years, to any person or
persons, in possession or remainder.
"Section 2090. Such disposition of
the custody of such child or children
shall be good and effectual against
all and every person or persons claim
ing the custody of such child or chil
dren, as guardian lu socage or other
wise."
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
CASTORI A
No More Holl Weevil Money.
An unsuccessful effort was made
by Southern Congressmen In the Na
tional House of Representatives last
week to have the appropriation for
the study and demonstration of the
best, methods of meeting the ravnges
of the boll weevil, the foe of cotton,
Increased from (215,000 to $f>00,000.
The proposition was defeated by a
vote of SS to 1 1 B.
Mr. Clnytoiti of Alabama., made a
speech favoring Hie increase of ap
propriation. In the course of lils re
marks be said :
"You Yankees want cheap cotton,
but If you let the boll weevil eat up
our cotton you will have to pay 40
cents a pound for lt."
Another effort lo Increase the ap
propriation, this time to $800,000,
was defeated by a vote of 96 to 108.
An attack of the grip ls often fol
lowed by a persistent cough, which
to mr ny proves a great annoyance.
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy has
been extensively used and with good
success for the relief and cure of this
cough. Many cases have been cured
after all other remedies had failed.
Sold by Dr. J. VV. Bell. Walhalla; C.
W. Wickliffe, West. Union.
Freedom for Avant Pending Appeal.
Columbia, Fob. 4.--By a decision
of the Supremo Court Wednesday W.
H. Avant, who was convicted in
Georgetown several months ago on
the charge of killing Mrs. Ruth Crisp
Ulginuli, and who has been held at
the penitentiary for the past several
weeks, will be liberated pending an
appeal to the Supreme Court, pro
viding lie can furnish bond In the
sum of $o,000. The opinion is by
Hu gone H. Cary The husband of
Mrs. Blgham wag convicted at the
same time.
Al the instance of the State Farm
ers' Union a bill bas berni introduced
in the General Assembly requiring
gin ne i's to number the bales of cot
ton ginned from I, consecutively on
up, and on the 16th of each month to
report to the Commissioner of Agri
culture, Commerce and Industries of
this State, the number of bales
ginned during the previous thirty
days. The same bill also requires
colton dealers to report on the if?th
of each month the nil tuber of bales
bought during tho thirty days previ
ous.
An attack of tho gil]? ls often fol
lowed by a persistent cough, which
to many proves a great annoyance.
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy has
been extensively used and with good
success for the relief and euro of this
cough. Many cases have been cured
after all other remedies had failed.
Sold by Seneca Pharmacy; L. C. Mar.
tin, Clemson College.
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?3 KILLED IN COAIi MINIO.
Drakesford (Ky.) .Mino HUH Explo
sion-Many Injured.
Thirty-three miners are known to
have been killed, two are missing and
fifteen more or less injured as a re
sult of tile explosion in the Hrowder
mal mine, near Drakesford, Ky., last
Wednesday.
There were one hundred men in
Ute two wings of the mine at. the
time of the explosion, but the fifty in
the west wing were uninjured and
easily escaped. Those In the cast
wing, however, felt the full force of
the explosion, and it is believed the
Hst of dead will total thirty-five. One
or two of the Injured are in a criti
cal condition. The dead miners wore
nearly all residents of the immediate
section In which the mine ls located,
about half being whites and '.he re
mainder negroes. There wer ; no for
eigners employed at the mine.
As a result of thc disaster nil of
the mines In the vicinity closed
down, the men offering their services
in rescue work.
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terials used, ?
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PROMINENT PHYSICIAN KIDLIID.
Dr. ni dui um, of Augusta, Found
Demi-Robbery WUK Motive.
Augusta, Cn., Feb. 3.-Dr. Chas.
W. Hickman, one of the most promi
nent physicians In the South, was
found dead from gunshot wounds at
I 0 o'clock last night on the streets In
Summerville, the fashionable sub
urb of Augusta. The Hickmans live
lu Summerville, and Dr. Hickman
had been at lils brother's home, leav.
lng there shortly after il o'clock.
There were two wounds, ono in tho
head and one in the'body. The pock
ets had been rilled and Dr. Hickman's
watch had been torn from his vest.
A number of* letters from the dead
man's pockets were found scattered
along the street. It ls not known by
the family whether Dr. Hickman had
valuables or money In any extent on
his person. Some think the bullets
that killed the doctor were intended
for another man, and that there was
no robbery.
Two negroes are being held on sus
picion, they having been found In
the neighborhood of the killing.
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d when for the
a few dollars
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plant at one
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"oyster brands
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Twenty-five
ice in making
hern crops has
know what is
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MARK
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