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KEOWEE COURIER (IO STA H 1.1 SI I I'll) 1840.) Published Every Wednesday Morning Subscription $1 Per Annum. Advertising Kates Reasonable. STECK, SHE?/OR & 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 bo paid for at tho rato of ono cent a word. Cash to accompany manuscript. WALHALLA, S. C.: WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER -<), IOU FELDER'S DOOK ON ?LEASE. Rumored that Atlanta Lawyer Has Carried Out Throats to Expose. (Sparlanburg Iierald.) The Herald has been Informed of a rumor, which, if verified, Is likely to provo one of the most startling polit ical sensations South Carolina has ever known. The rumor is that Thomas B. Felder, tho Atlanta attor ney, bas fulfilled bis promise to write a book concerning Governor Cole L. Please, and the volume ls now In the bands of the printers. lt is called " Felder on Bleaso," and ls said to contain revelations of a most extra ordinary character. Tho gentleman who mentioned tho rumor to The Herald is ono whose name is known to every well in formed citizen of tho State, and ls of unimpeachable veracity. Ho gave the story on hearsay evidence. He haB had occasion to travel all over tho State and asserted that he bad met several reputable people who claimed to have seen tho book or extracts from lt. In the book aro recorded many allegations concerning tho Governor. One of them, lt was Incidentally men tioned, concerned an alleged happen ing on a train between Spartanburg and Greenville. The date and hour of the occurrence, the number of the train and other particulars are given, .it is said. Thero is a great woalth of detail In the stories of all the incidents and events related in tho book. T. B. Felder demonstrated in cer tain letters which ho wrote concern ing Governor Bleaso last winter that he has a tadio pen, a ready vocabu lary and vigorous style. His book is said fully to sustain the reputation he mado with those epistles, lt is said to be a terrific and savage ar raignment of tho Governor. Mr. Felder was om ploy od by tho old dispensary winding-up commis sion to unearth evidence against the dispensary grafters. Ho rendered val uable service and was of great assist ance to Attorney General J. Fraser Lyon in tho prosecution of tho graft ers and recovery of money unlawfully taken fro? i the State. Governor Bleaso, it will be recalled, made e'.arges by insinuation against tho ivlndlng-up commission soon af ter ho took o til ce and asked the Leg islature lo make an investigation. The Legislature promptly adopted a resolution calling for such an investi gation. In his message to tho Legis lature Covernor Blease mado charges against Fehler, who vigorously re plied in terms most uncomplimentary to tho Covernor. Governor Blease soon afterward removed tho members of the wind ing-up commission from Office and appointed a new commission. Lieutenant Governor Smith ap pointed tho Senate members of the co m m Itt co to invest?galo tho old windlng-up commission heforo Gov ernor Blease had signed the resolu tion providing for the Investigation. When doubt was raised as to whether the Covernor would approve of tho investigation, even although be himself had asked for lt, Felder served notice that If tho Governor did not approve of tho bill within a certain time he would write a book exposing Rlcase. The Governor finally vetoed thc resolution for the Investigation or. the ground that Ibo Senators appoint cd on the Investigating committee were aostile to him. lt was about this time that Felder wiote vltrolic letters concerning the Governor, whom he invited either to prosee ute him for libel or to meet him in a personal en.-minier outside of South Carolina American Scouts Kill 12. Lanae. Mindanao, Philippine Is lands, Dec. LL Forty-two more out laws were killed III a.n engagement with a detachment of American scouts. There were iii) fatalities on tho American side. A series of sharp engagements with bandits occurred in the effort of scouts to disarm tho entire Moro population of Mindanao and Jolo. - A specific for pain-Dr. Thomas' Eclectic. OH, strongest, cheapest ll it i meet. over devised. A household remedy in America for 2f> years. PltODE DYNAMITE EXPLOSIONS. Government HUH List of 100 Explo ..ions In Various Cities. Indianapolis, Dec. l i.-After Fed eral investigation In many parts of tho country where there have been "industrial" explosions, tho govern ment grand jury .>egao hero to-day its Inquiry into an alleged dynamite conspiracy, with "onds" in 17 stands. A detailed list of 100 explosions In structures erected hy linns employ ing non-union workmen, as furnished to tho government hy the National 13rectors' Association, was prepared for tho grand jury. Tho explosions began two years prior to tho om ploy men t by the Mc Xamaras or McManigal, who, ac cording to his confession, blew his first building in Detroit in .lune, 11)07, "with 20 sticks of dynamite," and they extend Into the present year several months after the arrest ol' the McNamn ras. Tho last attempted explosion is re corded in tho list as having taken place October 18 this year near Santa Barbara, Cal., at a bridge erected three years ago. Dynamite was found near tho bridge just before the spe cial train bearing President Taft passed over it. Tho National Erector's Associa tion was organized by contractors In 1000. In pursuance of a plan to maintain an "open shop" they em ployed detectives to investigate the dynamiting. McManigal is to play an important role In the probe. Hero is a paragraph from the Mc Manigal confession: "On August 23 I pulled off tho Mc Clintlc-Marshall job at Kansas City. I did not seo J. J. McNamara, al though he was In town at tho time. From Kansas City I went to Peoria, 111. J. J. McNamara returned to In dianapolis on August 29 or 30, 1910. at which time ho paid mo for doing tho Kansas City job. I told him about tho bad luck I had on tho Pe oria and Kansas City jobs and he gave mo h- about not getting back the clocks that did not go off." Tho clocks referred to hy McMani gal were tho alarm clocks usod by him to regulate tho time of tho Igni tion of the fuse. Attached to tho winding keys to each alarm was a small sheet of copper, so adjusted that when tho alarm was released tho copper, in turning, joined two elec tric wires, which thus created a cur rent and caused tho spark that ex ploded the dynamite or nitroglycer ine. Quantities of correspondence taken from the office formerly occu pied by John J. McNamara, tho con victed secretary-treasurer of the In ternational Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers, woro In possession of the district attorney and former clerks and stenographers of McNamara were ready to go Into tho grand jury room. These Includ ed Miss Nora Haley, of Chicago, and Miss Mary Dye, of Pittsburg, who un til three years ago worked as confi dential secretary to McNamara. Indianapolis officials wero to be early witnesses to identify cor respondence; taken recently from tho iron workers' headquarters and also to narrate statements on April 18th, 1911, made by McNamara, and of tho finding of dynamite In the basement of his offico building on tho same day. Probe in Ix>s Angeles. Dos Angeles, Doc. 14.-'Following a trail which loads up and down tho coast with a twist east from San Francisco, the Federal grand Jury, In session hore, eontinuod to-day Its probe into tho habits and acquaint ances of .lames B. McNamara, tho dynamiter of tho Los Angelos Times. SCOTT'S EMULSION has helped countless thousands of thin, weak, delicate children-made them strong, plump and robust. It creates an appetite, aids digestion, fills the veins with rich red blood. After illness or loss of weight from any cause, it brings strength and flesh quicker than anything else. ALL OIWQQIBTH 11-16 A woman doesn't admire her pho tOgraph unless lt flatters her-or a man, either, for that matter. The Reformit Muy Eilig Nichols, I VionaaaanniBmvinaHmaBaaii On tho first of December tho Hall family mado out their Christmas lists. "Tho feast of S(. List," sixteen year-old Margaret called lt, and saw to lt that the family faithfully observ ed Its sacred rites. These lists were not lists of thc presents they were to give their friends; far from it. On tho con trary, each ono wrote down what he wanted for himself. Indeed, lt was understood that the record should be as truo and completo as If sworn to with uplifted hand, and ended with this solemn statement: "This is the truo and complete list of tho things 1 desire for Christmas." In accord ance with this declaration, lt was a family pleasantry to begin with the most extravagant desires and to pro gress to those within reason and the family purse. To Illustrate: Mr. Hall began with a touring car and ended with a cake of shaving soap. After the children were all in bed, Mrs. Hall sat at tho library table and read the lists. lt was understood that no one expected to receive every thing ho asked for, and all would bo grateful for whatever they received; but as tho mother studied the records of wants, she knew just what hopes and desires had prompted them. Sho know, of courso, that Eleanor did not expect that their cottago plano would bo exchanged for the baby grand with which she headed her column, but she felt sure that the girl did hope she would l'cceivo tho pony coat, which stood next in order. She was just as certain that Margarot, who had bogun with "A jeweled watch," which was quito out of tho question, felt in her heart that sho needed and deserved a new party gown. Twelve-year-old Hob's joke was a motor boat, and after that came "A double-runner like Dick Bel don's." Now Rob knew exactly what a double-runner Uko Dick Beldon's would cost-a goodly sum to pay for a boy's plaything, but he was getting to bo a big boy and he did not ask for "a lot of small truck, as the kids did." If he got his double-runner he would bo satisfied. Then there were the printed lists of the two lP.tlo boys -Jack and Alex-tho mother smiled as she read them-lead soldiers and trains on tracks. Bless them! They i should have everything they wanted. And last of all, in father's familiar scrawl, the list for baby Joy-her name was really Mary, for her mo ther, but sho had been "Joy" to the Hall family ever since tho day sho was born, when she almost decided not to stay with them, but, to their great joy, reconsidered. Baby Joy's list road: "I want, a new dolly. This is my true and complete list. Mary (Joy) Hall." Then followed a spot of Ink, and after it: "Her mark." Mrs. Hali sighed as she took up the pen to make out her own list. "A diamond necklace," she wrote me chanlcally. That diamond necklace had headed her list for five years. Then she stopped and a humorous look came Into her dark eyes. "I wonder what they would say if I should really make out a TRUE and COMPLETE list!" sho mused. "Queer how children never dream that their mothers care for the samo things aa they do. Peggy, now, so fond of pretty clothes, doesn't seem to think that. I care what I wear, yet at her age I was as fond of dress as she ls. and even now-" She glanced ar. herself in the glass, "Why, Mary Hall, I'm ashamed of you!" she said, and blushed at hor imago. It needed Just that touch of color to make tho sllm-dark-eyed woman In the glass, with tho wavy dark hair untouched as yet with white, look al most tho girl sho had been twenty years before. If she had not been a very modest little woman, she would have added, "And now I would be come pretty clothes as well as she does." What she did say was, "I be Uove I will make out a true list. I am tired of doing without: I should like to have-" Sho sat with her pen to her lips and considered. Then she drew it through the diamond necklace. "I don't want that, but 1 feel so cold this winter, I should like: "I. One fur coat. 2. A gray silk gown, made by Madam lo Orando (Madam was the best modiste In tho town.) 3. A supply of note and let ter paper with engraved address. 4. A dozen very lino handkerchiefs with my threo Initials embroidered in the corner. f>. A suit of hand-embroid ered undergarments. (5. A set of Browning, leather bound. In a box. 7. 'A pound of fine bonbons. 8. A chock for ono hundred dollars." She roread the list contemplatively. "Yes, that would bo a fair start," she told herself. Then she wrote at the bottom: '"i ..ls is a true, but In completo list of tho tilings I should Uko for Christmas. Mary Abbott Hall." The sound of the closing front door and tho r-lirk of a lock ns her hus band made all secure for the night, iff of Mother. lu Tho Housekeeper. warned her that lt was late. She crumpled the "true, hut Incomplete" list Into a little wad and tossed lt Into tho wastebasket; then she took a now slip and wrote: "1. A diamond necklace. 2. A pair of gray gloves, No. G Vt. 3. A box of writing paper. 4. A book. 5, A hatpin. 6. A ball of colored pins. 7. A tapo measure." The last two itoms woro temporod to the llnances of tho two little boys. She made the usual declaration, and added her slip to tho others kept on file on tho library table. "If you see a scrap of blue paper, anywhere, Nora, do save lt," Marga ret directed tho following morning. "1 have lost a very important ad el ress." "Yes, ma'am, I'll ho looking after lt," Nora replied. lt was general cleaning day. and ay Nora emptied tho wastebasket In the library, suro enough, there was a crumpled scrap of blue paper. She pounced upon lt and took lt to Mis? Poggy. Margaret gave lt a hasty glance. "Oh, no, that isn't lt." Sho started to toss it aside, but stopped, looked at it again, read lt through, then smoothed lt out and road lt tho sec ond time. "Como here, Nell," sho called, "mother must havo made out a fako list. Isn't this funny?" Eleanor poised herself on tho arm of her sister's chair, and leaned her smooth dark braids against Marga ret's fluffy locks. Sho also read tho paper twice, but she did not laugh. She only asked: "Where did you get it?" "Nora llshed it out of tho waste basket, i had asked her to be on tho lookout for a pico of blue paper this ls thc other half of tho shoot. Wasn't lt funny of mother!" "No, 1 don't think lt Is funny, Pog. Sometimes I think I know exactly how mo thor feels. I believe theso are the things she honestly does want. She's just a grown-up girl herself, a girl Uko us. Why shouldn't she like becoming things to wear, and a fur coat-havo you noticed how she hovers over the grate this win ter? Sometimes I think she isn't quito well." Margaret gave a start. Her straightforward logical mind went | directly to its conclusions. She know also that there was not money enough i just then for more than ono fur coat and one silk gown. Girlish van ity and desire were not frail ghosts to be exorcised by tho first generous impulso. "If mother ha3 all these things, we shall have to revise our lists," sha suggested. "As mother revised hors," Eleanor retorted. "Remember, she did not dream we would ever see this ono. Just listen: 'A pair of gray gloves, a box of writing paper, a hook, a hat pin, a ball of colored pins, a tape measure.' That ls what sho said waa her 'true and complete list.' And I should have given her tho gloves, and you the book, and Hob tho note paper; and father would have been too busy to look up anything, and would have given her a check for twenty-five dollars to 'get what she pleased with,' and she would havo pleased to get some extras for mo, and blue silk for a party gown for you. What blind bats we have been!" Thoro was a family conferonee that night while Mrs. Hall put baby Joy to bed. Secrets aro too common a fortnight before Chirstmas to arouse suspicion, but Mrs. Hall did fool a blt hurt tho following morning, when the girls announced that their father had invited them to come Into town to shop and lunch with him, and noth ing was said about her Joining them. They had always wanted her advice before. That evening, after Eleanor and Margarot had gono out and the younger children woro in 'hod, she in troduced the subject of Christmas gifts. "What about tho pony coat for Eleanor, dear? Do you feel wo can afford lt?" "No, I do not." There was no mistaking tho finality in tho tone. "And why should Eleanor, at eigh teen, havo a fur coat, anyway? How old woro you when you had a fur coat?" "Oh, I never had one, but-" "Then I think your daughter can got along a year or two moro with out one." Mrs. Hall's fingers flew all tho faster on tho dainty Ungorlo waist she was making for Margaret. "Tho child will ho greatly disap pointed, I am afraid." Tho father smiled, his eyes still gluod to tho evening paper. Tho mo ther sowed on In slleneo, till at last the paper was put asido; then sho vonturod : "What about Peggy's blue silk?" "Peggy's silk must wait for Elqa nor's coat," was tho verdict. Tho mother's face grew anxious. "Toll me, Robert-I have a right to know-has anything gono wrong in a business way?" "Not at all." There was no doubt ing that frank look and cheery face. "Why should tho children think that wo must glvo thom just what, thoy ask for?" "Because they know that wo lovo them so much, that we enjoy making thom happy, I suppose," tho mother meekly admitted. That ended tho discussion. Even In tho old days of much smaller moans, Mary Mall had never felt so cramped In her Christmas shopping. To bo sure her husband had given her a generous cheek, and told her to do what sho could with it to satisfy tho children's desires; but sho saw at once tkat lt would not cover tho moro expensive things. Sho could not hear to think of Christmas morning, and Margaret's and Rob's disappointed faces, and Eleanor's quiet acceptance of tho situation. In the Intervening days, sho mark ed In what high spirits tho family seemed. Eleanor and Margaret were always whispering to their father; and Eleanor made another trip to tho city for nothing but her own and her father's amusement evidently, for sho brought nothing back. Rob be came an animated symbol, locking his 'fingers In unnatural contortions. Baby Joy alono was happy. At last tho eventful morning dawn ed. Breakfast ended, they proceed ed to tho library, where under a trco their parcels woro awaiting them. Each exclaimed with delight over his gifts. And now Mrs. Hall's own turn had come. As she looked for her pile, the portiere waB pulled asido, disclosing a heap of boxes In tho 'Morris chair. Thoy dragged her forward between them. "See, mother; here, mother. These aro yours. We got them for you, mother!" they shouted. "Look at our presents to you first!" In dazed surpriso sho lingered the exquisitely fine handkerchiefs pre sented hy tho ono little hoy, while the othor held the engraved heading of some Ano note paper before her eyes. Then she sank Into a near-by chair, and Rob piled a dozen little red-leathered volumes In her lap. "Theso aro my present, and I earn ed tho money myself cleaning walks." "And this ls your new silk gown, mater mia," Margaret was saying be fore tho now bewildered mother had time to got her breath. "Madam le Grande has been engaged to make it this week." Mr. Hall had opened the largest box, and there lay, revealed in all Its lustrous length, a coat ol ?oft, glossy fur. But at the sight of lt, Its owner throw up her hands, then dropped aren TO CONSULT THIS HANK OP INVESTMENTS, THE PUHOI! OTHER FINANCIAL MATTER/ A HANKER TO KNOW ABOUT OUR SERVICIOS ARE El POSAL. NOTHING IS ATTENTION. YOU I liOSS. COME IN TO-I IT OVER. : : : The Bank ( Capital, $50,000.00. Deposits, ? Officers ant j. i). VERNER, President. S. Ii. VERNEI J. I). VERNER, W. L. VERNER, J. G. LAW, J. W. SH thom and hor faco la them on the arm of her chair. "O?i, how did you know? Where did you find that Hst?" she wailed. "I nm a selfish, wicked woman! I havo spoiled Christmas for every body!" "Spoiled Christmas!" cried the family In chorus. "You may havo tried to spoil it," Mr. Hall gibed, "but you wore de tected In tho act just in time to pre vent your carrying out your designs. You have been giving us all a prqtty thorough training in selfishness, Mary. You don't want to go down in history as the woman who corrupted her family, do you?" "Oh, no, ho, but it is too bad-" "No, not bad at all," interrupted Robert Hall as ho took his wife in his arms. "Hut a little weak at Christmas time, and you mean to re form, don't you, Mary? And listen, children, wo must help her all wo can. lt is really moro our fault than hors that sho has been growing wings at tho expense of our characters." There ls moro catarrh In this sec tion of tho country than all other diseases put together, and until tho last few years was supposed to be Incurable. For a great many years doctors pronounced lt a loeal disease and proscribed loeal remedies, and by constantly falling to euro with local treatment, pronounced lt Incur able. Science has proven catarrh to bo a constitutional disease, and there for? requires constitutional treat ment. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manu factured by F. J. Cheney & Co., To ledo, Ohio, is tho only constitutional euro on tho market. It ls taken In ternally in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. It acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. They offer one hundred dol lars for any case it fails to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials. Address F. J. Oneney & Co., 1 Toledo, Ohio. Sold by druggists, 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for con stipation. Ebenezer No. 2 Honor Roll. Following is the honor roll of Ebe nezer school, No. 2: Grade 7-Idelle Johnson 92, Lewis Thompson 98, Herbert Johnson 92, Arthur Thompson 97. tirade 6-.lohn Hall 9 3. Grade 4-Rubie Thompson 94, Herbert Thompson 9 2. Grade 3-Lillie Hall 9 5, Fanni* Johnson 98, William Thompson 99. Eugene Rogers 99. Grade 1-lone Hall 90, Pauline Johnson 90, Julius Morgan 90, Har wood Johnson 90, Hanlon .McCall 9 0, Marvin Hall 91. Itch relieved In 30 minutes bv Wool ford's Sanitary Lotion. Never falls. Sold by J. W. Doll, druggist. The young father thinks that the baby can't even have tho colic with out its being In a wonderfully smart way. ? ALL POINTS RELATING TO \SE OF BONDS, STOCKS OR 4. IT IS TUB BUSINESS OF ' THOSE THINGS. VTIRHLY AT YOUR DIS TOO SMALL FOR OUR HAY SAVE YOURSELF ?AY AND LET US TALK )f Walhalla, Surplus, $12,500.00. 175,000.00 1 Directors : Wi Ii. VERNER, Cushier, t, Asst. Cashier. J. Wi WICKLIFFE, J. W. BELL, C. R. I). BURNS, ELOR. '