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KEOWEE COURIER (ESTABLISHED 1840.) Published Every Wednesday Morning Subscription $1 Per Annum. Advertising ltntes Reasonable. . _______ STECK, SIIELOR & 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 bo printed free of charge. All over that number must ho paid for at tho rate of ono cont a word. Cash to accompany manuscript. WALHALLA, S. C.: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1912. LET THE EARMEH THINK MOKE. Sonic Facts That Aro Worth Serious Consideration. Oak way, Dec. li S.-Editor Keowee Courier: For some time 1 have been thinking of writing a few lines to my brother fanners through your valua ble columns. Another year is close upon us. Have we farmed tills year at a loss, or have we mndo some clear money? I doubt if one in ten can tell what, it cost to raise this year's crop. Ono thing we do know is that we raised too much cotton and not enough corn, wheat and oats. We could ralso our syrup, meat and lard a great deal cheaper than wo can raise cotton to pay for them at the present price. There aro several things we farm ers do that wo ought to stop, to some extent at least. 1. Wo ought to cut down our guano bill ono half for 1912, and when we haul IL home have it in spected at once, and if it does not como up to guaranteed analysis then don't pay full price for it. 2. When wo buy cotton seed meal we ought to get meal and not hulls. Some of our oil mills aro putting a lot. of bulls in the meal. I bought one sack last, spring that had one-half bushel lint, cotton In it and a lot of hulls. Test the meal. Take a hand full, press it just as littlo as you can; If there are any hulls in it it. will swell up; If not it will remain com pact. 3. We ought not lo sell our cot ton seed for less than $20 per ton. It will pay us better to put them on our land. A good way to do ls to run up our cotton stalks and put In fifteen bushels per acre. Do this just as soon as possible, then In the spring ridge on them and put In from 50 to 100 pounds of good guano per acre with tho seed and we will make just as good cotton and corn as we have .been making with 300 or 100 pounds per acre, and at a less cost. Try Bomo broadcasted-lf> bushels to the acre-and turn them under, then use just half the guano you used this year. I toll you, brother farmers, the time has come when we have got to use moro common sense and good judgment, and learn what our lands need. We ought to sot apart, one day In each week in the fall and win ter months to haul pine needles or leaves to litter our stables, and have a place fixed to put the man uro when WO take lt out of the stalls. It would pay us better than any other day In the week. Wo ought, to make our land rich and raise everything wo need to eat and plenty for our cattle and mules and some to sell, and then all the cotton wo can. Let us try and make 19 12 the ban ner year for supplies and not make any moro debts than ls absolutely necessary, and next fall we will get a fair price for our products. W. H. Cole. Westminster, R. F. D. No. 2. -m+m Fistol (.'oes Off; Raby Dead. Klor> nee. Dec. 28.-Tho little baby boy of Mr. and Mrs. Crawford Hutch inson, of tho Effingham section, was brought here Tuesday night and taken to a local infirmary for treat ment for a gunshot wound, tho result of an accident at its home. The lit tle fellow died yesterday from Its injuries. lt is stated that a young gentle man visitor at the Hutchinson home was handling a pistol in tho ho;.se. Nearby sat tho mother holding Hu Child, when suddenly the pistol fired and it was found that the child had been shot in tin? head. The b illot entered tho side of tho hoad and ran around tho scalp, lodging Itself near or on tho brain. Tho parents rushed tho child herc; with a hope- of caving its life, but without avail. Charles Durham, Lovlngton, 111., has succeeded in finding a positive euro for bed wetting. "My littlo boy wet the bed every night clear through on the floor. I tried soveral kinds of kidney medicine and I was In the drug store looking for something dif ferent to help him when I hoard of Foley Kidney Pills. After he had taken thom two days we emu ld seo a chango and when ho had taken two thirds of a bottle ho was cured. That was about six weoks ago, and he has not wet In hod since." J. W. Hell. "CAR OP MERCY" CAUSES MOT. Pastor Ruy? Auto on Salary of $20 Per Week? New York, Dec. 2?.-?Modern methods ;.B seen anti applied by a pastor who got his training for tho pulpit in tho worldly realms of busi ness, liavo caused as much excite ment tn tho llttlo village of West wood, N. J., as if the Erle railroad, which carries tho botter part of the population to and from New York city every day, had boosted tho price ol* commutation tickets. Kev. Carl Abren, who brought matters to a crisis recently, when In tho pulpit of the Calvary Baptist church in Westwood, ho character ized tboso in his congregation "who have been opposed to tho march ol' progress" as "modem Eves" and "Judas lscariots," (according to sex), said ho contemplated an appeal to tho courts against tho "calumniat ors." Hitherto tho hand of tho law has been shown in tho affairs of tho church only In the attendance of vigi lant constables al meetings and ser vices. The pastor's newly acquired second hand automobile, tho latest addition to his stock of modernistic parapher nalia, has played a big part in the strife. Tho pastor says there has been gossip to tho effect that the $500 paid for tho machino, which bo calls a "car of morey," had boen left with him In trust for his 14-year-old nephew. He accuses Mrs. J. Herbert Hate, until recently ono of tho lead ing members of tho congregation, of having expressod this opinion, and plans action against her for slander Tho hornet's nest has boen stirred up In church and village, but has not discouraged tho business-man pastor with a life of labor in tho vineyards of tho Lord. Ho told a reporter for The Post in periods of res pi to from his exertion of cranking up tho cranky "car of morey" that ho is feel ing much stronger than over the call which led him to glvo up a $50-a wook postion to become a $15-a-weok minister. "If I had been a minister all my life I probably shouldn't havo been able to buy this automobile," sal ? Hov. Mr. Ahron8, drawing a pair of fuzzy gauntlets as the motor began to bark. "Until I was thirty years old which was about five years ago-I was a business man. I had raised myself in lifo until I was looking at things from the right side of a roll toi> desk as assistant superintendent, of The National Valve Company's plant at Bridgeport, Conn. Although there was every indica tion that tho future would bring fur ther advancement in tho world of business, I could not resist, tho call of tho ministry. When I was a child it was my mother's prayer that 1 be como a preachor of tho Gospel. I wasn't able to acquire tho necessary education in the regular way, for we were poor. From early youth I havo bad to support myself. "I tell you, a business man who has been a successful business man is better lltted for tho pulpit than any graduate, of any theological seminary. Of course, I wish I had tho technical knowledge one receives In tho con ventional training for tho ministry, but If I had to prepare myself over again 1 should do it in business. "Did I have myself and my per sonal comfort particularly in mind when 1 bought that automobile? No, sir; I procured lt. to bo used as a car of morey. With it 1 have brought happiness into tho lives of poor peo ple who might othorwiso have never had an opportunity to ride In a mo tor ear. "Every Sunday I havo carried an invalid woman to church and during the week my machine has boen at. tho disposal of many deserving families. Of courso thero aro only threo or four members of the congregation who have motor cars, and that has caused a certain amount of jealousy to form in worldly minds. "When I caused punk sticks to bo distributed among tho congregation last summer because the mosquitoes wen? thick, 1 was criticised by somo, but that samo act caused mo to bo blessed by many. I showed moving pictures In tho church to get a larger attendance, and that, made a fow poo ple who get all tho entertainment they want, at card parties and dancing parties disgruntled. But scoros were thankful. "I have applied In my work the ideas of a business man, and by so doing I have increased our 'trade.' And just because I havo got myself an automobile they're cutting down my salary form $20 to $14 a week." "Will you quit?" asked tho re porter. "No, slr; not necessarily," answer ed tho "fighting pastor," quickly, and his jaw stuck out. as it. had when ho was matching tho physical strength against, tho pervt?rso englno. 'Such a move would only strengthen ino In my rosolve to do tho work of the Lord on earth. It would show mo there is just that much moro to bo accomplished." Then tho pastor bopped nimbly in WATSON AND GOVERNOR OLEASE Text of Lotter? AH to Col. Watson's Trips Out of tho State. (Columbia Record, 28th.) Tho following correspondence was given out at tho ofllco of Governor Hleaso Thursday afternoon, on tele phoned instructions from tho Gover nor: 10. J. Watson, Commissioner of Agriculture, Columbia, s. C.-Dear Sir: In my opinion, you were ap pointed Commissioner of Agriculture for South Carolina and not for the United States, and I would advise you as a friend to romain in tho State an 1 quit running about as you are doing. If you do not discontinuo this con tinual running around over tho coun try, I will bo compelled to put some ono In your place who will not neg lect, tho duties thereof. 1( you make another trip out of tho State without my permission, an officiai order, de claring your otflco vacant, will bo made and your successor appointed. Very respectfully, Colo L. Blouse, Governor. Columbia, December 15. Mr. Watson's Reidy. | Commissioner Watson's reply is as follows: Dear Governor: I have received yours of evon dat? with uttor aston ishment, for I have boon absolutely unconscious that I 1 ave boon doing anything in contraveitlon of the ad ministrativo policy. God knows I have honestly, sincerVly and without tho remotest thought of self-interest, dono all in my power to advance tho material Interests of our State and hor people, and In just the same man ner-as 1 told you In Atlanta I want ed to do-1 have endeavored to work in perfect harmony with your policy. When I have gone out of tho State this year, lt lias been with no idea of self-advancoment, but always after something I felt would do the State tho greatest amount of good, and lt has been but seldom that 1 have gone. I believe that I have lived up lo my promise to you to accomplish, the hardest year's work of my life. I talked with you, as you will recall, of the objects of tho recent trip to Chi cago, and urged you to be there, and I had not the remotest idea that you were in any way opposed to my going A word from you would have kept mo hero. Tho contents of your letter will most gladly bo observed to tho letter, for If I have unconsciously erred, 1 want you, as a fair man, which I have evor regarded you, to believe my absolute sincerity when 1 tell you lt could only spring from overzeal ousness in my work, to tho success of which T have sacrificed everything. I can only ask you to carefully con sider your opinion of me and give mo credit for honesty, sincerity, fidel ity, and completo subservience of self-interest. If you doubt this ls true, simply ask any one, who has questioned mo as to how the Gover nor has treated myself and this de partmei t. Very truly yours. E. J. Watson. Columbia, December 15. Makes Kidneys and Bladder HI nh* to tho machine and whirled away In a cloud of dust, through streets lined with bewhiskered natives who in tho last month have beheld for the first timo a Westwood clergyman in a motor car of his own. 1 Wanr fort. A hardly ] Get a Heater, ar fortable in your home, no mal 'Hie Perfection give? a etrc quickly. It U always ready for i filling-no more trouble than a lat no pipes, no wire?, no flue? ; no si Tho boater tba gives complete ?Mi Thu year'? Perfeclion ?i hnuhed h trimming? ; light and ornamental, yet ?hon eacily cleaned. Automatic-locking flame Dealer* everywhere i or Standard O (Incorj ?h.i...,. .-/..?i*. GRIEF KILLING THEIR MOTHER. Pastor Declares Mrs. McNamara Dy ing of Broken Heart. Mrs. Mary McNamara, mother of John J. and Jamos B. McNamara, convicted dynamiters, is in a serious condition at lier homo in Cincinnati, Ohio. Sho had planned to leavo for California soon to see her boys and learn tho real truth from their Hps, but tho thought of their confession and their conviction lias so preyed upon bor mind that sho has boen obliged to 'postpone her trip. She docs not leavo tho house, denies her self to all visitors, and, in the opin ion of Rev. John Hickey, bor pastor, who visits her constantly, abo ls slow ly dying of a broken heart. "She may Improve and bo able to take tho journey," said Eather Hickey, "but tho shock of their con fessed guilt and tho condemnation they havo received has broken hoi spirit and lt would be a wonder if she survives it very long." DAYS OE DIZZINESS Come to Hundreds of WuUuilbi People There aro ti..ys of dizziness; Spells of headache*, langour, back ache ; I Sometimes rheumatic pains; Often urinary disorders. All tell you plainly tho kidneys aro sick. Doan's Kidney Pills aro especially for kidney lils. Can Walhalla residents doubt this statement: ?Mrs. Mary M. Hunt, South Broad street, Walhalla, S. C., says: "I suf fered a great deal from weak kid neys and my back and head ached. I was subject to dizzy and nervous spells, and I seemed unable to got relief until I ohtalncd Doan's Kid ney Pills at Dr. Bell's drug storo. They soon made a marked Improve ment, and I contlnuod their uso un til all tho symptoms of my trouble had disappeared. My experience with Doan's Kidney Pills has been so satisfactory that I can rocommend tho remedy highly." For salo by all doalors. Price 50c. Fostor-MI thurn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole -.gouts for the United States. Remember tho name-Doan's and take no other. Pipe Drips Corms. -. I Lincoln. Nob., Dec. 23.-A pipo, its uso and source unknown, but with ono terminal opening into the larg est of tho wells which supply the city with water, ls believed to be the causo of an epidemic of gastro-ln testinal disease resembling cholera, which has attacked 500 persons In Lincoln. It ls blamed, too, for tho j epidemic of typhoid fever which ; caused a score of deaths In tho city last August. The pipe wns discovered yesterday to bo dripping contaminated mattor into thc well At previous investiga tions lt had been dry and tho water authorities bad not suspected lt was tho source of disease. Charged With Girl's Murder. Lyons, Ga., Dec. 28.-Charged with the murder of Miss Magglo Nowsomo, ten miles from here, in this county, five white mon, "Bub" Bason, John Toole and his son, James Mason, Jr.. and a man named Faltor, are held at the Toombs county jail hero. A coroner's inquest was held yesterday at tho scene of tho killing. Tho girl was killed Monday night by a pistol bullet while on tho way to a party, In company with tho flvo men. Considerable mystery sur rounds tho affair. itial to Comfort PERFECTION ith is essential to com a you grow older, it ia ess essential to health. Perfection Smokeless Oil td you keep warm and com? tter what the weather without. mg, widespread heat, and" gives it nae and bums nine hours on a ?ingie np. It can be carried anywhere ; moke, odor or dirt. ?if action. i either blua enamel or plain steel j nickel g and durable as can ho mada. AU part? spreader prevent? smoking, wrhn (oany agency ol th. il Company ?orated) Insoluble plant foods arc cheap in the We feel good when we hear that thc so crops, but wc feel tired when we discover it available. We will bc converted into POTASH ? 8 little soi! Potash becomes avallnblo yearly,bi Crop3 hove two periods of Potash hunger, when starch formation is most rapid -when requires ampio nvailaLlo. Potash at these per Potash fays. Scud for our pamphlet on ma German Kali Continental BoJMIof, Baltimore Moudnodi Bl? GKICH.WTLLHS HOHHIBLK CHIMU Woman Pound in Hod With Head lia id Opon Hy An Axe. Greenville, Dec. 27.-In ono of tho mill villages of Greenville to-night tho coroner is holding an Inquest Into "'c death of a woman who was found i,\ her bed at daybreak with hor head split open with an axe and her 2-year old babe, imniorsed In a pool of blood, by her sido. Tho woman's husband is locked in a cell at tho county jail, and finger nails hearing blood stains uncleansed by water used In erasing other traces of the foul crime point at him as the guilty man. At 6.30,o'clock this morning She riff Poolo received a call from Bran don mill, and in rospondlng discov ered ono of the most hideous crimes that has stained the pages of Green ville's criminal history In some years,. In their throo-room apartment the sheriff discovered Mrs. Alice Camp bell, wife of Lafayette Campbell, grovelling In her bed in a pool of blood. Her head had been mutilated somo time during the night with some Instrument, a huge gash lay ing open the skull over tho temple. A horrible bruise on ono cheek and other wounds about the face almost blotted out her Identity. Tho woman was not dead, and by her sido lay her babe, unharmed. Physicians wore called to tend tho woman, but after removing sections of lier skull and a. major portion of brain, she died this afternoon shortly after 4 o'clock. Tho Husband Suspected. Immediately tho sheriff and his as sistants wont to work to apprehend tho person guilty of Ibo crime. Liv ing In the house was another family, but none of them had heard any dis turbance during tho night. The hus band pointed out tho bed In which he said ho had spent tho night, but lt was In another room from that in whi h his wlfo slept. Going on Into tho kitchen the officers discovered an axe leaning against tho wall and resting upon a cow chain which had been piled on the floor. The chain Itself was bloody, but the axo had been washed of all but. a few stains of crimson. This led tho officers to believe that Immediately after the commission of tho crime tho bloody axo had been stood upon tho chain; that later lt was taken up and the 'blado of lt cleansed, then stood oner, moro upon the chain. Tho officers also found an old sack in tho kitchen, which, though freshly washed, showed traces of blood. In the stove they discovered scraps of burned rags bearing traces of blood. Later in the day suspicion began to point to tho woman's husband and traces of blood on his finger nails hui tho sheriff to placo him under arrest and carry him to tho county jail. Victim Had Been in Court. The murdered woman herself has been In tho courts of this county. Some year? ago while defending her husband from an attack by hor own brother sho secured a revolver and fired four shots into the latter's body. Vor a long limo lt was thought tho woman's brother would (ile. The case dragged through the courts for some time and finally woro Itself ont with out any ono being convicted. Merger of Telephone Companies. Atlanta, Dec. 28.-lt. is a settled matter that W. T. Gentry, of Atlanta, is to be president ol' tin; new mer ger of telephone companies in Hie Southern States, by which the Cum berland Teolphone and Telegraph Company and the Southern Hell Tele phone Company aro to lie joined. Tho headquarters of tho merged companies will bo In Atlanta, and lt Is understood that big improvements will follow. Mr. Gentry ls now presi dent of the Southern Boll Company, and ls being congratulated by his friends on this big step forward in his already successful career. Foley's Honey and Tar Compound ls a reliable family medicine. Give it. to your children, and tako it your self when you feel a cold coming on. It checks and cures coughs and colds and croup and prevents bronchitis and pnoumonln. J. W. Hell. '?'"?JHWIIIIIII?ilillii'llllll ?ps Avaiiable Potash beginning but may be dear in the end. il contains enough Potash to raise 5000 that it will take 1000 years or so to make plan*, food ourselves long before that. Tho acids derived from green mnnuro may nako Insoluble phosphate of lime moro avail bio. But tho icldspathic Potash in the soil s tess soluble in theso acids than In tho lightly alkalino waters of tho best soils. A it not enough to provide for profitable crops. One just after germination and tho other tho grain is filling. Rational fertilization tods nnd if you pr?vido it you will find that king fertilizers. Works* Ino. >di, Chicago 93 Nauta Stott, Nov/ York vinnHnwjBBSRmkranavAiaHaaHMi BLIZZARD IN THE NORTHWEST. Dig Drop in Temperature Reported in All Sections of Country. Chicago, Deo. 27.-A cold wave, sweeping down from tho northwest, bas reached tho lake region. Slnco yesterday noon tho tempera ture hero bas fallen from 41 to 22 de grees above zero. It was said at the government weather bureau that tne temperature probably would fall 10 degrees moro In this section befe ve to-morrow. Heavy snows aro reported In Wis consin and parts of Michigan Ef fects ot tho storm may be foll in all parts of tho Central West, according to tho weather bureau. In the Canadian northwest the tem perature ranges from 2 to 26 degrees below zero. Reports from Northwestern States In this country show tho range to be from G above to 14 below zero. Dig Drop in Missouri Vnlle%*. Kansas City, Dec. 27.-Bringing tho first low temperatures of the sea son, tho thermometer to-day showed a drop of from 16 to 20 degrees In tho Missouri Valley States and an average drop of about 10 degrees in tho Southwest, where readings rang ed from 26 at Little Bock, Ark., 18 in Oklahoma City and 20 at El Paso, to f> at Amarillo, Texas, and 2 below at Dodge City. Kans. Cold Wave Stops Rainstorm. Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 20.-The ad vance guard of a cold wave this morn ing has put a quietus on a terrific rainstorm that burst yesterday over much of Mlddlo Tennessee. Near Nashville a bridge on tho Ten nessee Central Railroad went out of line lu tho afternoon and stopped traffic. Tho Nashville, Chattanooga and St. (Louis Rlallroad's Lebanon train ran Into a washout and the en gino and tender were separated. A number of narrow escapes have boon reported and several horses w?re drowned In swollen streams. Lato yesterday afternoon twenty five persons living in Trimble Bot tom, this city, whoso homes were flooded by an overflow from Brown's Creek, wero rescued by firemen. A party of campers thero headed for Hopkinsvllle, Ky., were taken from tho tojis of their wagons. In Nashville the rainfall was 4.10 inches, tho heaviest on record for De cember. Tho Danger of I/a Grippe Is Its fatal tendency to pneumonia. To cure your la grippe coughs take Foley's Honey and Tar Compound. R. 10. Fisher, Washington, Kansas, says: "I was troubled with a severe attack of la grippe that threatened pneumonia. A friend advised Foley's Honey and Tar Compound, and I got relief after taking tho first few doses. I took three bottles and my Ila grippe was cured." Get tho gen uine, In tho yellow package. J. W. Bell, Walhalla. Over 1,000 gallons of whiskey wero delivered by tho express com pany to the people of Greenwood on [saturday beforo Christinas. IS YOW BABY SUFFER Fill? SKIN DISEASE ? Ho would he a Heartless father in deed, who did not allay baby's suf fering as did li. M. Bogan, of Enter prise, Miss. Ho says: "My baby was troubled with break ing out, something like seven-year Itch, Wo used nil ordinary remedies, hut. nothing seemed to do any good until 1 tried Hunt's Cure and in a few days all symptoms disappeared and now baby is enjoying the best of health." Price 50c. per box. Manufactured and Guaranteed by A. IL RICHARDS MEDICINE CO., Hhermnn, Texas. 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