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KEOWEE COURIER (HSTAIILIHHHI) 1810.) Published livery Wednesday Morning Subscription $1 Per A.mi. Advert Ising Rates Reasonable. -Ky BTI-X'K, SIIKLOH & SCH ROOKH. Communications of a personal character charged for as advertise* tnents. Obituary noll 'os and tributes or respect, ol not over ?ur hundred words, will he printed free of charge. All over that li'.'inhor inusl ho paid for ?I tho '"ale of ono pen! n word. Cash to accompany manuscript. WAI<IIAA, S. C.: WKHNKSDAY, FHRRUARY US, 1!H(> WK CAN CO'tPMTK Wi l li WORLD Corn und Hogg Cnn ho Produced in South Cheaper Miall lllsewliere. ( l Mon ress i ve Funner.) SVe contend that coin, mea!, fruits and l?gumes, and many other crops which we might mention, can be grown by thc Southern farmer for bss iban any other people on earth can produce ihoill foi him, and that, therefore, ho should produce these crops for Ills own use and for sale. ICven ulule'- present conditions it has been demonstrated, time and again, that the Southern farmer can produce hogs ul from three to four cents ii pound, live weight, nnd make money on them. Il this be so, and it ls, heil why should ho not rejoice nt tho fuel thal live hogs are selling ai eight cents a pound, and by grow ing hons as ii money crop reap a rich harvest ? We need ill versification because it is necessary or .it least conducive, to Increasing soil fertility, and because wi can produce many ol* these things cheaper (lian we eau buy thom. We do nol need to mow everything we use. bill WO do need lo grow those things of which we use larne quan tities, ami which we can produce cheaper than other people can pro duce for US. Ol these crops we stand pul en corn, meats and fruits. We eau compele with the world in the growing of I hose crops, and as long as we buy them at from two lo three times tho cost at which wo can produce Hiern, we are not using good fanning 01 business sense. I J MT TUM I ?K UN I MM ON III). Scienc,. Overreaches Itself in Klhub nal iiig Characteristic Pucker. i New York Wolrd. i lt could not fail lo arouse dire foreboding anions tho sturdy Amen can pioneers, ii they Knew of it. to barn ol' the proposed elimination ot the pucker from thc persimmon by the United states Department of Ag riculture. They would vi-JW with alarm tho enervated taste of tho a and ask if a doplorahlo softening ol" the national character had not taken pla? e. Those of us who have known Hie persimmon in its native lair aro com pelled to grieve nt Ms threatened do mestication. Take away the punker and you have taken away tho tnng of the. hush, the odor of the wild wood. Its individuality lias been de stroyed, for untampered with hy man, no two persimmons are alike. ll is the most temperamental ol" fruits. Crowing on Hie same t re?, ripened by the same amount of sun light, brought lo epicurean perfec tion by tho same frost, one persim mon will draw the mouth until Hie unlucky devourer looks Uko an imi tation ol i pike; Hie twin brother, sugary and luscious, will melt away softly liken dream. Hui puckeiioss, whal was formerly a gastronomic ad venture be onie . ;is lanie a perform ance as eating n tomato Science sometimes overreaches it si If. lt has un reverence, lt has no respe, i Tor tradition. Those of us who knew and lovel the puekery per simmon in th.? div., when autumn meant something besides a change in iindei wear should rally lo tho de fence m thc threatened fruit. Wo must take our stand and say to the enc roach lng experimenter," Ma l<e sn r gorj painless, jhc rose tho rn less, do your worst on the human species, hut come no further thc persimmon mut nol bc don atti i ed." "better by (?en. Sherman, i ( Mileage Daily \< w . i in I ile "I lome I .ol lei's from (len. Sherman" ls a -.ti lt im; passage writ ten from Vicksburg, .lune 27, IStl'l: "I doubl if history ii (To rds a parallel to Hie deep and biller enmity ol' tho women ol' Hie Knuth, fs'o one who sei them ?md hoars them hui must feel Hie inleiisil y m then- hale. N'ol a ni.in ls seen; nothing hut women wll hon es plundered, Melds open to cattle and horses, pi skels lounging on every porch and desolation sown broa least, servants all gone and wo men and childi-.ul bred in luxury, beautiful and accomplished, begging willi ono breath foi thc soldier's ra tion and In a not bei praying that the Almighty or Joe Johnston will come and ! ill us, Hie despuliera of their homes and all that ls sacred. ' '.' rhy ca ?i not i hey look hack to the day and tho hom when I, a s rang er in Louisiana, hogged and implored thom to pause in their careel-, that sere sion was death, was everything fatal, and thal their seizure of the public arsenal^ was an insult that the mo-1 abject nation must, resent or pass down to ful ure ages as an ob ject of pity ?ind scorn? "Vicksburg contains many of my obi pupils and friends; should it fall into our hands I will treat them with kindness, but they have sowed the wind and must reap Hie whirlwind. Cnlll tliey lay down their anus and submit to the rightful authority of the Government thoy must not appeal to me for mercy or favors." Ono of tho first, telephone ex changes in this country was oponed in Mow Haven, Conn., in 1878. HAPPY WOMEN. Plenty of them in Walhalla, and <?01 xl Headen for it. Wouldu't, any woman ho happy. After yonrs of backache suffering, Days of uilsory, nights of unrest, The distress of urinary troubles, She finds relief and cure? No reason why any Walhalla reader Should suffer in the face of evl doiu o like this: Mrs. lt. D. Oelkors, West Main street, Walhalla, S. C., says: "I hope that other persons suffering from kidney disease will try Donn's Kid ney Pills. I speak fro s personal ex perience when I say that they are al most reliable remedy. For some, time 1 sintered from headaches and pains across the sinai' of my back. I felt weak and nervous and tho kid ney secretions were Irregular in pas sage. I finally procured Donn's Kid ney Pills at Dr. J. \\ . Hell's drug siore, and the relief ? derived from their use was entirely satisfactory. I am still using them and feel that it will only be a short lime before I am entirely free from kidney complaint." For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Mllburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name Dean's and take no other. While it is Yet 'l ime. t Greenville News. ) The stale Department ot Insur ance has undertaken no more Im por tant work than that of looking to I the safe-guarding of school buildings against the dangers of lire incident to their outbreak. After inspecting the buildings of the State with ref erence to tire protection and fire es capes, the inspector reports to Com missioner Mc.Master that be found "comparatively few school buildings in the State properly protected willi ? fire extinguishers and fire escapes." i and calls attention further to the fact that "lhere art> st hool buildings in I South Carolina packed to their full est capacity with human souls lhati either have no lire escapes, or the lire j i -cape., are so inad?quate thal in the event of a conflagration during' school hours, il would be almost, If not impossible, to empty such build lugs ot their occupants without seri ous lo.-s of human life." As dreadful as ibis may seem, it will not come as a surpris,, to many people. Bight here in Greenville we have conditions which should not be allowed. The only reason there bas i not been a horrible sacrifico ol' life and limb is because there has been no Outbreak of lire. The conditions at ! several places are not lacking from n I standpoint of danger. There is no no need for us to specify the people of the community as a whole have long since realized just whal we are saying here. shall wo wait until a fearful holo caust overtakes us, or set about to safeguard against one while there is time.' The insurance department will perform a signal service to the citizens at large If it succeeds in causing our schools and oilier public buildings io be converted from Ure traps to places of safety. - The shooting, tearing pa by excitement of the nerve pain. Sloan's Liniment, a son stops neuralgia pains at one that feeling of numbness \ paralysis, and by its tonic muscular tissues, gives pei ate relief. One Application 1 Mr, J. C. I.F.K, of i too Ninth St " I advised a lady who was a great sufi men!. After one application the pain with it since." is the best remedy for R Joints and Sprains and al At All Druggists. Price 2BC.? Rlonn'a Trout Ino on tho Horno ?t DR. EARL S. SLOAN, B .fT^lOMANCKS OF OLD COINS^. . ?J* ?I? . Colu collecting Ia tho most ancient hobby In tho world. Aa soon as man kind began oxchanglng bits of stamped metal Instead of bushels of grain or heads of cattle for his seeds the coln collector appeared. Archaeologists have found traces of him In the most ancient ol' the ruined cities. Most numismatists, however, care more for tho rarity of the coins they father than tivy do for the ro mantic associations connected with them. Thora are a few coln collec tors, nevertheless, who regard their pieces ol' uold, or silver, or copper, from tho imaginative Ks well as the historical viewpoint, says tho New York Press. There are certain coins which are considered unlucky to possess, al. though they may he extremely rare and valuable. Thc most luckless of money over minted cannot be found in any collection. They are the lld pieces of silver which .Judas received. They were common collis at that time, but are said to have boen taken from the body of Judas after he had hanged himself and to have boon stamped With a peculiar mark. I3e cause these coins were the price of treason, and having been staken from the body of a suicide, It was thou gb I that any superstitious lear of them would bo removed If they were stamped with the oldest symbol ol' good luck known. In lhe Orient tills symbol is called the swastika, ami in longland the fyl fot! cross. Because of their rarity and historical value tradition says the thirty pieces of silver soon dis appeared from circulation. Doubt less they were hoarded by the col lectors ol' King Herod's time. Rut it was not long before the ancient numismatists, who were a most su perstitions lot of people, began to whisper that those particular coins wore accursed, or that they left a trail ol' ruin. One by one the coins were buried in the earth or hurled into the sea. There ls no authentic record ol' one of these thirty pieces ot silver having been seen for more I han fifteen hundred years. lhere are hundreds ol' different varieties of coins, some ancient and some comparatively modern, of willoh bul a single specimen exists. There are none of these, however, that pos sess more than a historical interest, and they are valued so highly be cause they are so unique. One ot' these is a 20-stater piece in gold of Kukratides. King ol' Bactria, which is in the British Museum. lt. was found in India and is valued at about $25,000. This is one of the most highly prized coins in existence. Thc possession ot' pirate's gold is I supposed to be unlucky, bul so far as can be ascertained none ol' the , Collectors ol' coins who own pieces ol' illus description have been exception I ally unfortunate, There is oin? man . in New York who has a gold pis!oit? of Ibo reign of William ll of longland that was coined tor the use of the j merchants trading along the Spanish main at the very beginning of tho eighteenth century. This was dug up accidentally near Ipswich, Mass. lt is supposed to have been buried there by old Harry Main, one of the lesser buccaneers, who. alter a ca reer ol' piracy, smuggling, blasphemy and dissipation, became a wrecker, and by means of false lights lured vessels lo destruction on tho Massa chusetts coast. Tile legend is that after he was hanged his soul was sent lo do penance on Ipswich bar, where lie had wrecked many a ship. Some Pains ins of neuralgia are caused s. Sciatica is also a nerve .thing external application, :e, quiets the nerves, relieves vhich is often a warning of effect on the nervous and .marient as well as immedi Relieved the Fain. ., S. li., Washington, D. C., writes : - tier from neuralgia to try Sloan's I,inl icit her and she lias not been troubled n's teni hcumatism, Stiff 1 Pains. , COe. and $1.00. int Free Addroit IOSTON, MASS. i .^LOAN &: UNIMENT say that ho ls doomed thero forever to twlno ropes of sand. When they break, tho chlldron believe, his roars of anguish can bo heard for milos. Their mothers toll them, though, that ls only the fury ot tho storm or tho beating of the surf on tho bar. The Imaginative collector who owns this gold pistole adds still fur ther to the romance of Its Unding by saying that thc man who dug thore did so because he had dreamed that he would lind ll}e pirate's treasuro lu that particular spot. While ho was at work, by lantern light, and had just uncovorod this first and lust of the gold pieces that ho was to I Hud. ho suddenly noticed that he was surrounded by at. army ol' black cats, who were glaring at him with fiery eyes. Ol' course he screamed "Scat!" and threw hi.; lantern among them as he took to his heels. At any rate, he was never able to find the place again, although he spent much time stimulating Ids memory in the tav erns ol' Ipswich. Another numismatist has a Massa chU80ts shilling, coined about 1652. Ile claims that it wa? found in a cre vice ol a liri place ol an ancient house near blast Hampton, L. I.i ?nd which was ?oin down some twenty years ago. and tells this astounding, lalo ol' bow il got t?tere: . "An old miser lived in thi:; house 150 years ago, and one night was sil ling before the fireplace wondering what he could do to net ?nore money, ile had just made the usual remark ihat if he could get enough he would seil lils soul for lt. Tito next thintj he knew he awoke from the drowse he had fallen into and saw a thin Inn lo rn-ja wed man standing beside bim. holding a live coal in his Hilgert in front of Hie face ol' the clock on tho mantelpiece. This thin gentle man remarked thal he would make the lins! I lampton man the richest person on Long Island if he wonk sign a certain imper (hal ho presen e< to liim. Tin? old man demurred a llrst, bat finally agreed, stipul?t lng thal he should be paid two boot luis of Massachusetts shillings on tin night of Ibo first ol' each, month. Hi was afraid to take gold because 1 might excite much suspicion amoni Iiis neighbors and specified Massa cbusets shillings, as they were th? coln furthest above par in tims? days. Of course the thin gentlomni was (lie devil. ile instructed Hr Mast Hampton man to hang his bool on the crane in the fireplace when li w< nt lo bed. Tlie old man did sn I but Hist cut Hie soles from the boots Tlie result, was that lie found so niue money In thc fireplace next morn i n and worked so hard iii ding it a wa that lt brought on an attack of fevo from which he died quickly. Tbl shilling that the collector now ha is the sole relic ol' this Long Islnn man's ill-gotten wealth. Among tlie numismatists in Xe' Orleans are preserved a number r gold maraved?, a Portuguese coi thal has not been minted for ovi a century. According to Ibo bes ?radii ions they should be oxtrnord narily unlucky, for they wore gaine by piracy and murder. Cap:. Dan was one of the pirate band wli worked under tho guidance of tl Ladites when they had their maraiu lng stronghold In Barataria Bay. Ol night the people in the village ( Pass Chris!ian saw a ship burning I the Gulf. They attempted to roset the people on board, but before thc (onld reach Ibo vessel it had sun Next morning Capt. Dane and ii n his crew readied the shore and 1 brought a big chest of gold with li i i I Ile decided to quit the sea and sr tie at Bass Christian. He bought house there and established hlins( in what was luxury for those da) One by one his crew died shortly forward of yellow fever, and in thc ravings they betrayed tho story of t horrible things they had seen thc captain do on the high seas. i Insl act had boon among the mc atrocious Iho capturing of a sm; Portuguese vessel, with several ri passengers and much treasure board. Ho killed his captives in I most shocking manner. The peo| of Pass Christian,although they wc accustomed to trafficking with piral began to look askance? at their m neighbor, One; morning they fou Capt. Dane dead from a stroke lightning beneath a great oak. had gone there to bury what rema ed of his gold, and the chest lay op beside him. As there was no one o lo claim it, thc villagers divided I contents] among themselves, and Iii It was that fl few of these old Por i geese ?oins have come to bo prose I ed in the New Orleans collections, Pare coins are found in tho mi unexpected places, a's well as bel tho r< ward of sys!email'- search. T expeditions of archaeologists a j their excavations of the pl'OllistO buried cities ol' Asia have brough! light some hitherto unknown sp( mens ol' Hie earlies! kinds of mo I -mero lumps ol' metal, crud stamped. Oilier rare coins pf mi modern mintage have been found neath tho (orner stone's ol' old bul lugs in Europe, A still smaller qm j lily of numismatic treasures ls <-o Upon by chance when .some bur and forgotten hoard ls discovered,;i j -torit s are founded UpOU some pol i borhood tradition about which m 1 of tho romances ol' coin collecting j woven. These stories, while I hey interesting enough, generalis j founded upon some noighborhi tradition thal has sprung up regs ing tho over-fascinating sub Jed o j bidden treasuro. As tales ol' this ! scriptiou add nothing lo the sale ; j \alue of Hie coins, they usually I regarded lightly by the prof?salo I collector, and lt is only when an 'aginative amateur ls encountered t ! they have ever been heard of. E. A. Kelley, Belvidere, 111., wi ns: "I am an ex-engineer with years' active BOrvico lo my ero About Hi ree years ago my kid n were affected so that I had to f up my engine. First I was trout with severe, aching pain over hips. Then followed Iiiflaminatloi Hie bladder nnd specks appeared fore my eyes. A sam plo of Fol Kidney Pills that. I tried so benef mu tluil I bought iiioiu, I con tin to take thom until now I can sa testify they mudo me a sound well man." J. W. Bol wnw?-? -?-???????--. How Do You Feed Yo" Crops? D O YOU KNOW just what your cotton and corn need, and are you furnishing it in such quantities as required and In such shape that the plant can use lt ? Suppose you should put the food for your stock in a box, nail it up and place it in their trough-would you ex pect them to thrive and grow fat ? Hardly ! Well, did it ever occur to you that when you use lumpy, badly mixed fertilizers you are putting this same proposi tion up to your crops-offering them plant food in such shape that they can't get to it? Fertilizers, to do your crops any good, must dissolve in the soil waters. These arc constantly in motion, rising to the surface during the day and sinking at night-passing and repassing the roots of the plant, which absorb the food contained ill the water-and this is thc only way in which the plant can feed. Therefore, when you buy fertilizer, you should do so with the idea of furnishing food for your crop and on the same principle that you should purchase food for your stock. It should not only contain the necessary Ammonia, Phosphoric Acid and Potash, but above all else these should he In soluble form-the mechanical condition of the fertilizer should be such as to permit the plant to absorb every particle of it, and the goods should be manu factured from materials that will not give up their plant food at one time, but furnish a steady supply throughout the entire growing season. This is the fertilizer you should have and can ?ct in only one way. It is impossible to produce a goods like this by thc dry-mixing of raw materials, whether you do this at home with a shovel and a screen or buy it from someone who has made it the same wa\-the only differ ence being in thc quantity. These materials must be ground to a powder, and it re quires machinery costing thousands of dollar.-, to do it properly. They must then be so manipulated that when complete, you have a compound, each ounce of which is exactly like every other ounce, and not a mixture, one part of which would contain too much Ammonia and too little Potash, while another part would he exactly the opposite-and all of it contain plant food locked up and not available. Remember that the chemical analysis of a fertilizer is no test of its crop growing qualities. The chemist can pul verize lumps and by the use of various means search -out the plant food ; your crop can't. You can take an axe, break open the box and get the corn ; your mule can't. Don't risk a crop failure ! Insure your peace of mind as well as your croo by using .mow s Animal nmoniateca izers Manufactured hy Armour Jr erfefeser .y ATLANTA, GEORG?A Locals from Cashiers. stable Manure thc Cheapest, Cashiers, X. C., Keb. I S.-Special : Tho weal lier hore is cold, with tho thermometer hovering about /ero. snow is lying half a log dcop, but Is beginning to thaw in the middle of tho day. Yes, pretty lough weather In the Valley. livorythltlg is sc arce in this section and cotton seed meal and corn are soiling high. Mrs. C. (!. Rogers ls on the sick list. Wo hopo for nor speedy recov ery. ,i. NV. McCall, of Ocala, X. C., was in Iowa to-day. Wo are glad lo see Judge Honet KOtt 1 i ii ;c down to quiet life Ile has moved Into the P. W. Colo residence, in full \ lew of Moule Vista. Tlie saw mill in White Side Cove, which ls under the able management Of ,T. S. Calhoun, ls not making lilUcb headway on account of tho extreme bad weather. Nathan Hogers, of Salem, S. C., aa herc to day. G. S, Thc Machine Femenino. (Louisville Courier-Journal.) "Hubby, did you bring home my new switch?" "Yep." "And my puffs?" "I did." "How about my face powder?" "Here's your complexion. Now get busy and assemble yourself." ( Progressive Kariner.) The economy of feeding a great part of the crops grown on the land to live slock, Of gelling Hie full fCod ing value of these crops and then of returning from two-thirds to three fourths of the fertilizing elements in them to tho soil in a readily availa ble mid permanently helpful form, must bo apparent to any one. Thon when it is remembered thal cultiva tion always has a tendency lo reduce tho humus supply In the soil, that this supply mus? lie kept up If tho producing ability of the land ls to be maintained or increased, and thal, commorcinl fertilizers do practically nothing toward keeping up this sup ply, the folly of any one's engaging In g?n?ral farming without paying due Attention to holli the production and the care of stable manures would scorn to bo too evident lo be over looked. - Linie Tarheel Also line Grandparents. Cashiers, N. C., Keb. 18.-Special: Little George w. Rogers, the seven m'ontbs-old son of Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Rogers, of tills place, ls tho haopy possessor of three grandparents, lour great-grandparents and two groat greal-grandparonts-all living. R. FOLETftHONE^TAR ferchUdrent *afo, ?ur?, No opiatmm ?