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KEOWEE COURIER (ESTABLISHED 1840.) Published Every Wednesday Morning Subscription $1 Ber Annum. Advertising Hates Reasonable -By STECK, SHELOlt & SCHRODER. Communications of a personal char acter charged for as advertise ments. Obituary notices and tributes of re spect, of not over ono hundred words, will be printed freo of Charge. All over that number must be paid for at tho rato of ono rent a word. Cash to accompany manuscript. WALHALLA, S. C.: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST Ki, UH 1. EXCURSIONISTS THIS EVENING. The excursionists from the lower par! of the Stale will reach Walhalla this . -.(iiing. and they will be most, cordially welcomed by the people of Walhalla. ll is expected that the crowd this year will be quite large, the extremely hot weather of the low country having a tendency to drive many to the upper part of the State for a h i ea th ol' fresh air. Those who have selected Walhalla as their objective point will find cool nights and a warm welcome awaiting them. WON UNDER DIFFICULTIES. In making note last week of the winning of the Clemson scholarship by 11. I). Harker we were in error as to his being from the Coneross sec tion. Mr. Harker is from the Beth lehem section of Oconoo. and his se curing ol' tho Clemson scholarship came as particularly gratifying Infor mation to those who are familiar with his record made in the Wal halla High School last year. Young Barker's circumstances would not permit of bis taking regu lar board at a hotel or boarding house, so he rented a room and did bis own cooking during the session of school, walking lo Iiis home, some twelve miles distant, every Friday evening and returning in time for school Monday morning. He was In dustrious and determined to have an education, and in spite of circum stances under which few boys would have made the effort to attend school riv? oil pi Ui : . ? placed, and The Courter congratu lates this young gentleman upon his attainments. He has but begun his education, of course, but he is in a fair way to advance steadily, and we hope that he will. He is worthy dT it. Sometimes young men who start well become unduly "inflated" with their importance and lose out, but we have no fear for our young friend Barker. He has too much good com mon sense for that, and we believe he will continue the commendable course upon which be bas started. There are few things worthy of at tainment to-day that are picked up off-band or gained by haphazard ef forts. Things that are worth while must be secured by concentrated ef fort and the determination to make each success morely the stepping stone to something higher and nobler and better. A few more years and Oconee will he looking to the boys of to-day to take hold of her affairs in all walks of life, and those who now "learn to labor and lo wait" are the ones whom Oconee and other counties, South Carolina and other States, are going to call to high places in IHM- citizen ship, in her industrial, educational, financial life. Our young men should realize this and lit themselves as best, they can to take some place in t lie affairs of the future worthy of their best endeavors. Our young friend will pardon, we hope, this personal reference to him in dealing with generalities. His example, however, is worthy of emu lation, and wc sec around us every day so many young men growing up in idleness and worthlessness that young Barker's record, just begun, strikes us forcefully, not only as de serving commendation for him. but as being well worthy of having at tention directed tu ji that others may profit thereby. THE GOVERNOR AT REI/TON. Quite recently Governor Bloase paid a short visit lo tin- good old town of Belton that is to say, he stopped over in that busy little city '.between trains," but long enough tc? at least do a very foolish thing, which, by the way, lt inner lakes him very long to do. The story as it was told to the Bel ton Times was to tho effect that Gov ernor Bloase went to the railway of fice to buy a ticket from Belton to Columbia, presenting two mileage books with mileage Insufficient In the two to exchange for tho ticket to Co lumbla. He was walting for a train due about an hour from tho timo he presented his request for a ticket, and the lady ticket seller asked him to step aside and permit her to tlrst wait on those who wished to purchase tickets for Ciro? nvlllo and intermedi ate points, that train being duo in ton or llfteon minutes. Hut the Gov ernor did not ace lit to stand aside, ?md instead he forthwith began to tell the young lady to whom she was speaking. "I am Cole L. Ulease," he said, and the Helton Times reports (bat appended to this information was added "Governor ol' South Caro lina; l*VO got a right to buy a ticket ?my time I eal! for lt. ?md you've got lo sell it to me," and tho story goes thal be took occasion to inform the young lady that "if he hadn't had to, he never would have ridden on her old Southern road," further promis ing her faithfully thal he "would write her up to her superintendent." Tho Times very naturally conclud ed that tho Governor had been guil ty ol' "conduct unbecoming a gentle man," lo say the least, and spoke right (Hit in meeting, so to speak. This made the Great and Good Gov ernor mad, and he proceeded to tell UH* editor of the Helton Times what various and sundry kinds ol' a liar, pimp, skunk, etc., etc.. he is. Where upon Mr. Willis, the Times editor, secured affidavits from the young lady in question and also from oth ers to the effect that what the Times had said was true. All these "facts and hud lugs" have at last come to be known as "Tho belton Incident," by reason of which the Great a d Good Governor has seen fit to annul tho commissions of ono notary public who made affidavit to the truth of the incident as re ported, and of two others who so far forgot themselves as to permit affl davits to bo attested before them. If the Governor had neither done nor said anything in the matter beside this one small act of annulling these notaries' commissions, that one act alone would, we think, have con vinced a large majority of the people of tho State that ne was In error all along the line. His annulling act was characteristically small. His defense, however, is peculiar. Ho was not accused of drinking or of liping drunk, yet he goes out of his way to assert, "I was perfectly sober; was feeling good; had just left a large crowd of my friends; was on my way home In the best of spirits, and remember very distinctly waaf l0<Mr "I...... *. \\T\. . - .- , . . ] ? <ub<?f wit ni (fol accused, ol bo) tg ?i hr I ;<'.;;?. ' tie might lia ve saved the j I p?otd?-, ol 'i Sh '- Cl it humiliation ?>.is perfectly sober on this occasion, it leaves the outside world to judge that the Great and Good Governor must needs inform his constituents, and oilier citizens, of those occasions upon which this much-desired condi tion prevails. On the whole, had Mr. Hlease taken simply what was com ing to him from "The Helton Inci dent" he would have shown up in much better light than he does now that he has explained the situation moro fully. He speaks truly when he says every man and woman in South Car olina knows that "Cole L. Hlease is Governor of South Carolina," and lt is not necessary for him to add that Information. There ?ire many who know and recognize that fact with regret. Tho merchants of Dalton, Ga., have organized themselves Into a protec tive association, the object being pri marily to tight the "dead beat." Not a had idea. There is no reason why a merchant should feed a dead beat, nor ls there any reason why a dead beat should have opportunity to "work" every merchant In a town before his "source of supply" is taken away. If there is any satisfaction at all to he gotten out of a lynching the South should certainly lind it in tho one (luit took place in Pennsylvania a few (lays ago. lt at least shows tlint the mob spirit ls not confined to the South, if it shows nothing else. But, reading between the lines, we feel sn iii in saying thal it shows con clusively that if the same conditions prevailing in the South obtained at the North, the latter section would give more frequent demonstrations of the mob spirit than does the for mer. What the mob spirit ?it the North lacks in frequency of outbreak is abundantly made up in atrocious ness. Ai l ress' Trunk Blew Up, Pittsburg, Pa., Aug. II. -Hun dreds of commuters al Wliklnsburg were thrown Into a panic ?md nar rowly escaped injury this morning when a trunk owned by a vaudeville actress blew up on the platform. Baggageman A. .). Graham was bruised by tho dying debris. A wo man was ?ashed by glass. Chief of Police Scott investigated and decided that a bottle of peroxide caused tho explosion. ?-- -? . - ' Wife (lot Tip Top Advice. "My wife wanted me to take our boy to tho doctor lo cure an ugly boll," writes I). Frankel, of Stroud, Okla. "I said 'put Hueklen's Arnica Salve on lt.' She did so, and it cured the boil in a short time." Quickest healer of burns, scalds, cuts, corns, bruises, sprains, swell ings. Host pile euro on earth. Try lt. Only 25c. at all druggists. PIRKS ON LONDON RIOTERS. Situation ill England Threatens Cleat Labor Revolt. Loudon, Aug. 14.-To-night there appears little hope of averting a great railroad strike, which will probably bo accompanied by a gone ral labor revolt that will have a tre mendous effect on tho trade of the United Kingdom. At a meeting held in London to day hy the managers of all railroads having ternillas here lt wa? resolved that the time had arrived to resist the men's encroachments. To-day's meeting was unanimous that the only way to terminate con stant dislocation of business would be to take a linn stand and refuse all concessions to the men. Ono mana ger, in an Interview, expressed the fear that there will bo grave troubles on all the raliway systems before the present week. lH ended. After tho rioters had wrecked prop erty in (Jrent Homer street the dis trict troops were called out and or dered to Uro. Several volleys were tired. The mob hid in courts and threw bottles at the soldiers, who made bayonet charges In the dark ness and tired up the courts. Six soldiers and two policemen were in jured. The casualties among the rioters is not known, (lon. Mackin non Wood directed the troops. The rioters were hoodlums, no strikers being among them. The strike committee at 12 o'clock to-night declared a general strike of all transport workers, Including the railway men, who, up to the last, had refused to go out. The strike will be effective on all the local steam boats and the Mersey ferries. Seven thousand dockers struck to-night at Birkenhead. DEDMOND'S PELLAGRA CURE. Dr. Dcdmond Claims Has Greatly Im proved Nearly 100 Cases. Belton, Aug. 12.-A company call ed tin' Dedmond Remedy Company has been organized to prepare and place on the market the remedy that Bdw. Dcdmond has discovered for the treatment of pellagra. It is claimed that numbers of cases have been cured already, and the new company ls so confident that the remedy will do what they claim that they sont the following telegram to Dr. Babcock, superintendent of the State Hospital, In Columbia, to-day: "Will you give Dr. Dedmond's remedy a trial on one of your cases of pellagra? Answer." Nearly one hundred cases have boen greatly Improved by the use of this remedy, Dr. Dedmond claims, and he has numbers of testimonials as to the cures effected. He has moved to Belton, and the offices of the newly organized company will be located here. Falls Victim to Thieves. S. W. Bends, of Coal City, Ala ho? n Justifiable grievance. Two thieves ?lob lus health PoJ yp????. They wftre a liver and kidney trott hip. Thon Dr, King's New Lifo Pil> throttled t henri He's well now; Vt\\ rivaled fbi ?oiiKt|patlon, ma! . - v., headache, dyspepsia 2??c; vi! druggists. A Good Meeting. Oak Grove, Aug. 15.-Special: Rev. J. L. Singleton closed a very successful meeting at Bothel Metho dist church last Saturday night, 21 having united with the church. At the request of the pastor we will meet at the church next Sunday morning at 10 o'clock to organize a Sunday school. Everybody Invited to come and help Us to have a good Sunday school. Governor Commutes Sentence Columbia, Aug. 13.-Governor Blease has commuted to a fine of ton dollars a sentence of thirty days on the chain gang, imposed by Judge Sease at Walhalla last month on A. M. Gilstrap for assault and battery. Flood Sufferers Selling Children. Victoria. B. C., Aug. 14.-Floods have caused the loss of hundreds of lives and great suffering in China, where several of the livers have over flowed along the Yang-Tse. Arrivals from Shanghai by tho Empress of Ja pan, state that the distress which fol lowed the Hoods ls so great that chil dren are being offered for sale. QNSUrVSPISON In the euro pf cotuumpg^n? concentrated, easily digested nourishment w necessary. ?.For 35 years . Scott's Emulsion has been* tho standard, world-wide treatment for Mm^nm^^ AMDi-sht> NOTICE TO DEBTORS A ND CREDITORS. All persons indebted to tho Es tate of .lames Martin Swafford, de ceased, are hereby notified to make payment to the undersigned, and all persons having claims against said estate will present the same duly at tested withlu the time prescribed by law or be barred. J15 PT H A H. TAYLOR. Executor. Tiger, Georgia. August I 6, I't I 1. 33-86 NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND CREDITORS. All persons Indebted to tho Es tate of S. P. Strlbllng, deceased, are hereby not Hied to make pay ment to tho undersigned, and all per sons having claims against said os tate will present tho samo, duly at tested, within tho timo prescribed by law or be barred. (MRS.) S. J. STR1BLING, Administratrix. August IG, IOU. 33-30 MASTER'S SALE. STATE OP SOUTH CARO' "VA, COUNTY OF OCONEE. In Court of Common Pleas. Pursuant to decree of the afore said Court, in tho case named below. I will offer for salo, to the highost bidder, in front of tho Court House door, at Walhalla, S. C., on Monday, the 4tU day of September, 1911, be tween the legal hours of salo, the tracts of land below described: Thc Hank of Walhalla, a Corporation Created by and Existing under the Laws of South Carolina, Plaintiff, against J, ll. Butt and Mrs. K do O. VanDi viere, Defendants. All those two pieces, parcels or tracts of land, situate, lying and be ing lt? the County and State afore said, the one containing ono hundred acres, more or less, adjoining lands of M. H. Lee. Estate of S. P. Dendy, Kass Smith and the Butt lands, on waters of Brasstown ('reek; tho other containing two hundred acres, more or less, adjoining lands of Mrs. Kate VanDlvlere. Russ Smith, the tract above described, Clift' Vincent and others, and being the same con veyed J. IL Butt by Mrs. Kate Van Diviere. Terms of Sale: Cash on day of sale. That in event of failure ol' purchaser, )r purchasers, to comply with the terms of the sale forthwith, that the Master do resell the said premises on the same day, or do re-advertise and resell the said premises on the fol lowing or some convenient salesday thereafter, at tho same place, and on the samo terms as hertofore set out, at the risk of the former purchaser or purchasers, and that he do con tinue so to do until he has found a purchaser or purchasers who comply i with the terms of sale. Purchaser to pay extra for papers. W. O. WHITE, Master for Oconee County, S. C. August 1(5, 1911. 33-35 MASTER'S SALES. In pursuance of decree of Common Pleas Court, passed hy Ills Honor R. C. Watts, July 10, 1911, in the ease of J. H. Barris vs. Carolina Mutual Fire Insurance Company, l will r^ell, to the highest bidder, on salesday, September 4, 1911, within the legal hours of sale, at the Court House door of Oconee County, the follow ing real estate: 1. One lot, containing a 2-story, shingle roof frame building, occupied i by W. W. Sanders June 20, 190(1, as livery stable, on Main street, at Cour tenay side-track, adjoining property of D. Go8nell on west side, on R. F. D. No. 2 from Seneca, Oconee County, S. C. Sold as the property of W. VV. Sanders. For record of lien see Hook "BB", at page 208, ofllcc of Clerk of Court for Oconee County. 2. One lot, containing 1-story, shingle roof frame dwelling, occupied October 2, 190(1, by Mrs. Sallie M. King as residence; 1-story, board roof cotton bon??* 1 ?story sh' pf Cranie tenant house and stables <i tommi house; 2-story shingle root brame beni ami sheds: crib ann seed \*.Von house; . si . ui.?.?'d oh Anderson fC'o road, itt Sondea, Oconee County, S .' Ij i . .;.J? J'J.... v'v hitliutu tn?! others. Sold as property of Mrs. S. M. King. For Hen see Dook "BB," page 227. 3. One lot, containing 1-story, shingle roof Lame building, occupied November 6, 1906, by E. M. Dixon, as renter; 2-story, shingle roof frame barn, or stable and sheds; storage house and seed cotton house; situ ated on west of Old River Road, at Fair Play, Oconee County, S. C., ad joining property of Mc.lunkin Estate and Mary Malone. Sold as Mrs. M. E. Scott's property. Sec Book "BB," page 22 4. 4. One lot, containing 1-story shin gle roof frame dwelling, occupied Oc tober 23, 190(5, by J. W. Gibson as ddencc; 1-story dairy; 2-story, gie roof, frame barn, or stable, ai. sheds; crib, seed cotton house anu storage house; all situated on Route No. 1 from Townvlllo, Oconee County, S. C., east of Andersonvllle road, adjoining property of E. T. Earle and J. R. Zachary. Sold as properly of J. W. Gibson. See Hook "BB," page 228. ii. One lot. containing 2-story, shingle roof, frame dwelling, occu pied December 5, 1906, by J. R. Bruce; 2-story, shingle roof, frame barn; 1-story, shingle roof, frame tenant house; 2-story, shingle roof, frame barn; situated on north of Townville road. Townvllle, Oconee County, S. C.. adjoining W. T. Hunt and H. O. Bruce. For Hen record see Book "Hit," pago 239. (!. One lot, containing 1 % -story, shingle roof, frame building, occu pied November 5, 1906, by M. H. Me Junkin as residence; 2-story, shingle roof, frame barn, or stable, and sheds; and granary; situated on Old River Road, Fair Play, Oconee Coun ty, S. C., adjoining J. I). Stonocypher and L. A. Thomas. Sold as property of M. IL Mc.lunkin, For record of lien see Hook BB, page 234. Terms of Sale: Cash, purchaser to pay for papers. ir any purchaser fails lo comply, premises will be sold at risk of such defaulting purchaser, on subsequent salesday. S. T. LANHAM. Master Spartanburg County. August 16, 1911. ;{.'{-:?r, NOTICE OF FI NA li SETTLEMENT AND DISCHARGE. iNOtlce ls hereby given that tho un dersigned will niako application to D. A. Smith. Judge of Probato for Oconee County, in the State of SoiUh Carolina, at his olllce at Walhalla Court House, on Monday, the 181 h day of September, 1911, at ll o'clock in the forenoon*-or ns soon thereafter aa said application can bo heard, for loavo to make lina' settlement of tho Estate of S. P. Stribllng, deceas ed, and obtain final discharge as Ad ministratrix of said estate. (MRS.) S. J. ST It I SLING, Ad mlnlstratrix. August 16, 1911. 33-36 SOUTHERN STATES LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY. L, E. BEARD, Local Agent, Walhalla Hotel, Wnlludla, S. C. FOR THE FARM WE SELL ALL KINDS OF IMPLE MENTS USED. LOOK AT OUR MAKES AND PRICE OURS. WE WILL THEN DO BUSINESS WITH YOU. WE'LL GIVE YOU A SQUARE DEAL. MATHESON HARDWARE CO. Westminster, S. C. ?V leather Knickerbocker has an] eye open for comfort. He's just built the Williamsburg Bridge, a short cut between New York and Brooklyn. It saves New Yorkers a good many weary ?teps, A not her short cul to comfort .<s^u r.KOSSi'Y ? sh..<\ Like l(i \ >vnti.,..m:buif? Bridge, it .. 4^W.'^. V^!rI*.!:'::: ;Vi..... ? saves w^n- neos. Ki's wearer's GROSSET! SHOE -MAKES ?1FES WALK' EASY" walk with the free, easy swing that only a well fitting shoe can give. . - ? $4 to $6 everywhere. LRWIS A. CUOSSBTT, Ino., Maicera / North Abington * Mat?. m C. W. PITCHFORD Genend Merchandise Walhalla 4* 4* 4* 4* 4* 4* 4* 4* 4* 4* 4* 4* 4* 4* 4* 4* Hf* 4* 4* *!. 4* 4* 4* 4* 4. + 4 4 4* OIL STOVES ! 4? -- FOR - - J JULY AND AUGUST. % _ 4 - * 4? During the hot days ot July and August 4? your wife would feel a whole lot better ^# if instead of bending over the hot wood 4? stove, she had one of our * * 4 * 4? That we will sell at very attractive prices until .j. * * 4 4 4 4 Cement Front. Walhalla, S. C. * 4* 4 4 4 4 4? 4? 4* 4* 4* 4? 4* 4" 4? 4? 4* 4* 4* 4? 4? 4? 4* 4? 4* 4? 4* 4? 4* 4? 4? GASOLINE OR KEROSENE STOVES. THE 10TH OF AUGUST. MOSS & ANSEL,