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? MAYOR BROWN MARKS BKl'I'Y. End of Controversy in Matters Per taining to Municipal Affairs. Editor Keowce Courier: Will you allow rae space in your paper to re ply to some of the charges you make in last week's issue of The Courier in "Past, Present and Future"? , In regard to the question of the "City Hall" being out on the side walk: lt seeniB to me that you have absolutely failed to show the Coun cil, or the public, any evidence to lead them to believe that you were in any sense justified In making the broad assertion that you did in "Public Improvements." You st>t out, In very postlve terms, that the City Hall is three feet and seven inches out on the sidewalk, nnd in last week's issue you set about in some way to prove this assertion, and say that you found certain irregularities existing at this place, and that 1 knew of these irregularities, from the fact that I went to you and got you to help me to establish my lines, both on the front and on College street, and thai we moved the Une, or found that lt liked about two feet (and of course you gave me the two feet). And then you say "I's lt not strange that he did not break forth with criticisms of gros- negligence"? To this I wish to say that Mr. Harri son was there at the time, and if the editor's memory has not played bini another of those mean tricks he will remember that we did not move my line one blt. but decided that the old fence was about as near right as we could get lt, and if lt was two feet short why did you not give me that? That was mine, and especial ly as 1 was a new-comer to your town, and should have had a fair deal. And as to the breaking forth with criticisms: I did not know how to criticize until the infallible editor got on to the Council with both feet, and you can make most any one kick a little If you put your heel down hard enough. Hut I think the edi tor lets the cat out of the wallet In the next few words. You say: "Was his attention called to the matter? Knowing his prof OU rd fondness for me, and the fact that our ideas on some subjects wore so widely diver- j gent, I hesitated to make a sugges- ! Hon, and instead of going personally ' to him, requested a mutual friend to , do so." Here the editor unwittingly . shows the cloven foot. If we were not friends, whose fault was it? Who made the breach? But for all that, 1 am surprised that the editor would make such a flimsy excuse, when I have gone, on two different occasions, Into the editor's ofllce and talked over matters pertaining to the Inter ests of the town, and why should he fear to approach me on any subject that he felt was for the best Interest of the town? Talk about timidity and modesty, but this is the finish of the LIMIT. Then this mutual friend' Wonder who he was? Surely not a mutual friend, for if so, when you requested him to see me and- not let me ruin both myself Kttiu Hie town, he surely would have done BO. Inn no ope came in my hom ol dlstr^vs! N'o one came to any thal l was very kindly being remembered hy h.? good fd i io i . too bad, ?ou';. Now let's see about, how you ar rive at the corner so correctly: Let's see. Three feet and seven Inches out on the street! Well, that's pret ty close for guess work. 1 had al ready measured the block on which the Citj Hall stands, and thought that I was about right before I put the paving down on College street, and thought that I was doing about as well as 1 could. Since you have called my attention to the matter and have made so much stock of it 1 want to tell you that, you are very much mistaken about tho way you say the blocks measure out. The block on which I live measures Its full 120 feel. So you seo you were good to me after all. and the block east, and on which tho City Hall is located, measures out IIS feet. This is the block that was three feet and | seven inches too long: hence, the necessity for moving the building. (Hadn't you heller retract this state ment, as well as the statement that wc should follow your grade line esablished grade?) You have misquoted me hy saying "He lays to my credit, or to my dis credit, tho making of the sidewalk near the Hine Ridge railway right of-way." This is a mistake. I did not say that you built (or made) a sidewalk, for I have long past found that you are unconditionally opposed to either building up or cutting down thc: walks, but are content to just let them go along right easy, except when you bael the wall pul up that I mentioned in my answer to "Publie Improvements." There was some arbitrary cutting of trees then. I say "arbitrary"! 1 say thal because some one came very nearly sliding down the breech of tho editor's nose, and I guess he did not have any per mission, Ol' al least not from all the people. Bul WO did not hold this against the editor, for in thal par ticular case I think ho did right, and had he done? more of thal kind of work I rather think he would have? been better satisfied with his past ad ministration. Njfittfe my friend Sleek lonches o IW) and condition Of tho sidewalk -a Main street and speaks of bis calling attention to its dangerous and lum Why Women Are Mon is a millionaire many times ovct nn is not quite so rich, for scientist.-: have lion - thc woman only four nnd n hall mill A decrease in number of red blood ci fnct.is anaemic, the blood docs not get tl disordered. Dr. H. V. P ?cree found yeo rs njjo th Oregon ?rape roots, queen's root and blot thc assimilation of thc food in the stomac woy increase the r called Dr. Pierce's leting the food cate takes on n rich re of thc starved ncr (cd on rich red bl O inj?s, sleeps well at " I Wlli attacked wi n disordered stomach i bum. Tonn., Houli! ?, I tho host physicians RI Gonion Medical liincov caso hail run BO lonj?, it a permanent cure, But I h?K>ily recommend it i n i i vi i v Kir. further advise Alling' n U- "VBMT, i.HQ. disease! tiavo run BO I Dr. Pierce's Medical Adviser, 31 stumps, bled down condition. Well, possibly you did. We would not say that you did not. But you did it in a clean way, and not as you have criticised us in your editorial of June 6th. In this last statement you say that lt was caved off from one to three feet in places. We do not deny this elth e *. Wo did not build the high wall, nor did we throw it down, and yet lt was wider at the worst place than the sidewalk just west of it that the edi tor wants ?B to model after, and con tinue this kind. "Did anybody fall?" I think so. I have been told that peo ple have been falling off this walk from time immemorial, and that no previous council has ever done any thing to relieve its dangerous condi tion. The old high, jagged wall was there when the editor was a little boy, and during all your long and prosperous administration , Mr. Steck, did nothing to relieve this dan gerous condition, but waited patient ly for his suce8sors in office to do the work, while he got in behind them, and hollers that we aro arbitrarily cutting down the streets and walks, and by our cutting down the walk j we have, Incurred your displeasure, I and given you a chance to shoot your vindictive arrows at tho Council. (But really aiming to hit one W. M. Brown.) But "He who of old would rend the oak, Dreamed not of Its rebound." Now, getting around to our towns man, and 'I think I can safely say, "our mutual friend," whoso wall does not exactly Hue up with the one on the opposite side of the street, that i was so accurately laid out by the edi- j tor: Suppose he ls a good man, and suppose ho is an ex-Councilman, j Does that, In any sense, excuse you \ for not having done right? Suppose i 1 should go over there and have him j tear his wall down and rebuild lt, and ? put lt the proper distance from the i other! Does two wrongs make one j right? And you aro the man who started the question of accurate and inaccurate work, and yet you seem ; to think in your article of 19th in-? slant that you had found a loop-hole I which you would slip through. Well, j we will leave that for tho people of | Walhalla to decide-as to whether I you get through face foremost or the other way. Your admission as to tho width of Main street seems to me to show about, how much you really know when tho matter is to bo thrashed! out; and, as for my part, I very j much doubt if you really know bow wide any of the streets are. But one j thing you failed to explain: How | did you And out that the south side i of Malu street had priority rights over the north side? This ls another ? of those very broad statements, and reminds me of a little story I once | heard. It goes like this. Two dar- , kies met up one bright morning, and one said to the other, "Say, Sambo, j we got a little baby down at our ? house, and I bet you can't guess whe ther it's a girl or a boy." S: Sambo propmptly said "lt's a girl." But his dusky friend assured bim that ho was mistaken. "Well, then, It's a boy." t To which his friend replied: "Some body n^on telling ,'r>" dat " thinlr ?.omsbody jji ...(. been tolling you ' "dat," because ah j unbiased, tin- j prejudiced man., wh> I j von In Wal,-' halla, knows thai iii I ?j i.? absolutely: uol Hu cas?, Mid we th nk thal li. is presuming quite a blt on our good- ; ness to think that at this late date,1 and after being established by the Emperor, to think that we will dis gorge ourselves of our holdings. We were established by the Crown Head,! and who shall undertake to say that j ho can make any mistakes? Talk about tho infallible, start kicking, because out of justice to ourselves, have shown the way in which you hove handled tho town affairs, you have seen flt to dub us as the infalli ble, when there is absolutely not a single utterance in what wo said in answer lo "Public Improvements" that any ono, except the editor, could construe in that way. Now about tho mud-hole In front of Messrs. W. H. Cary's and S. K. Dendy's: To keep a mud-hole very long at this place would be like try ing to keep water on a duck's back, for, as every one knows, this is the highest hill in Walhalla, and 1 have boon out there and have absolutely failed to lind the last bit of trace of this mud-hole, and as for the one at the depot, well, the editor knows very well that lhere ls no mud-hole there. lt is true that while lt is pouring down rain, Uko lt has boen doing for several months past, you can go right, out on Main street during one Of our big rains and get In the witter four or live inches deep. Now, I am again surprised that the editor of Tho Courier and tito Mayor of Walhalla for nearly live years, I would undertake to say in print that there was no mud-hole in front, of Mrs. Maxwell's residence, anti that it | was never called to his attention. I Again, 1 want to say that this asser tion reminds nu? of a little conversa tion that look place In a crowd of' people just after the Charleston j earthquake. One of tho party was; saying that the night of the earth-! quake was one of tho most trying j that he had over experienced; that he hardly knew what to do - whether to try and run away, or to fall on his knees and pray. A tall, gaunt-look ing fellow, with a little goatee on his chin, ?poko out and sa id : "You wasn't afraid, was yon? The first speaker replied that ho was. "Well." said the tall man, "I wasn't scared'a Not RICH. . in the possession of blood celia. Worn? proven thal thc normal ninn hus five mil lion to n cubic millimetre oi blood. :>rpusclcs nm! 0 person " looks pale "-in ic right food and probably thc stomach is ittt n glyccric extract of golden seal and xlroot with black cherrybark, would help h, correct liver ills and in Nature's ow? ed blood corpuscles. This medicine ho i ('olden Medical Discovery. By assimt ;n the .system is nourished and thc blood d color. Nervousness is only " thc cry ves for food," and when thc nerves aro od thc person looses those irritable feel? ni).ht and is refreshed in thc morning. th n fi ovo rc nervous disenso, which wns canned hy md livor," writes MK. JAS. 1). LtVRLY, of Wash {ox Xi. All my friends thought I would dlr nm! ivo mo np. I was advised to try Dr. Pierce's ?ry, and derived much lieneflt from snmo. My lind In-come BO chronic that nothing would effect Fir. Pierce's medicina har. dono much for mu mid . I heartily advine itn ice as a spring tonic, find copie Ul take Dr. Pierce's medicines heforo their outr that lhere ls no chnnco to ins cured. to pay for wrapping and mulling only. bit." A lad, standing a little ways off, looked up with a twinkle in his eye nnd said: "Say, mister, you say you wasn't scared?" "Why, no I was not." "Well," said the lad, "you might make yourself believe that, but you can't make anybody else believe it." I asked a very old man If he could remember anything nbout a mud-hole ; in front of Mrs. Maxwell's at any j time, and he replied that he could ? not remember the time when there wns not one there. Wonder if the editor's memory has not played him a mean trick? Mr. Steck says that one W. M. Brown lived bard by. Now I am frank to confess that I do not un derstand just what ho means when he says "hard by," and then goes on quite at length about my being too modest to mention the fact to the mayor. Too modest to set up a kick! Too modest to try to array one part of the town against the other! Too modest to let our little town alone in peace and happiness, but write long articles in The Courier and tell the j people in one breath that they are spending all their money on Main I street and leaving off all other work, when they pay taxes and should be looked after, and then In the very next breath give us hail Co lumbia for doing anything on the side street without his permission, or that of "our mutual friends." (and our mutual friend never showed up). Well, this 1B tho first time that I have ever been accused of having an over-abundance of modesty. But 1 want to make a confession: 1 am too modest (or have boon) to write long articles in tho paper trying to create j an unrest among tho people, and to criticise everything that the Council did, and not (ind in all their work one little blt that I could have a kind word for, and I would be the last man in town to be calling up the mistakes of tho ox-.Mayor, for I real ize that I will make some mistakes. I make them in my own business, and 1 will make some for tho town. "One W. M. Brown lived hard hy!" One J. A. Steck has an office hard by! Just the same distance from Mrs. Maxwell's that I am. Now, If he means a block away when he says hard by, then we both live at the same guilty distance. Now just a word about the ceme tery: I am ready to confess that up to this time the Council has not done anything to Improve the awful con ditions that Mr. Stock has so graphl ' cally described, since that wonder I ful arraignment of our neglect to ! tile dead, and lt was neglect, and wo ought to have a real good pounding, ! but we have that same old excuse we ? had when a boy, "We just did not 1 think about it." We have not. had I charge of this work so very long, you i know, and our "mutual friend" did not say one word to us about this work, and I guess we are guilty, and from the description of Its neglected condition 1 am almos' afraid to go. We might see "ghosts" out survey ing their awful surroundings. But I ! have made some little Inquiry nbout j the matter since lt has been called to i our attention, and to all tboso whom 1 ask about the mai ter, say thal they I cannot remember that there was ever anything done c flu cemetery (lur ia;', tb" aduilniKtration oil oho J. A: Steck, notwithstanding he hay ties) thal .- hon ld J him, li may be rather Immodest in me to say this, but would it not have been much nicer in the editor to have made this 1 resting place of tho dead a thing of beauty, a regular Chinese dower gar-' den, while ho was in office, and not to have waited on those whom he know not to bo very fond of him? Now, Mr. Editor, I had thought last week that I would do no mon1 writing on this subject, and now I am through. This is tho last half of tho second inning, and we both have had our say. Von began tho very un pleasantly, and while I would have been very glad ol' the editor's sup port, nevertheless, ho is perfectly I'ree to do and to say what, he likes, lint we are going right along, whe ther you go with us or uot. With apologies to the public for imposing on them in this long article. I beg to remain. Yours truly, W. M. Brown, Mayor. THE END. In closing tho controversy that has arisen hy reason, I think, ol' Mayor Brown taking undue exceptions to what I have said editorially as to certain conditions that obtain in Walhalla, and as to my feeling that methods other than those adopted would have boon bettor, I shall have but little to say-nothing, in fact, with regard lo the conditions called to the attention of Council save that the criticisms were made regarding things ol' the Immediate present; that they exist to-day as they existed When attention was called to them, and that the conditions stand for t hemselves. With regard to the long-standing question of correct location ol' Hie CO rn ere ?it College and Main street, north side. I can lint say, as I said before, that, lo the best ol' my recol lection ol' the conditions there, suffi cient doubt exists to cause careful survey and location of linos before doing permanent paving on tito side streets. Mr. Brown informs us that, ho has made tho measurements re cently and linds them materially dif ferent from my recollection ol' the mader. I can lint say, thou, l hal evi dently I was mistaken. Hie measure melita as ho gives thom being practi cally the reverse of my recollection. The recognized aron ol' each (own block ls, ?ts l understand ii, four acres square, thus giving a frontage ol' practically 117 feet, and this is my recollection of Hie standard of measurements some four years ago. If measurements then woro incorrect, wliy perpetuate the error? If the more recent measurements aro cor rect as to frontages shown, one block having 120 feet, the oilier 118, ls that liol evidence ol' inaccuracy? That particular Intersection of streets has boen questioned tis to accuracy of corners for years before either Mr. Brown or I gave tho matter a thought. Tho town owning tho cor ner of ono block and the other block 1 ivlng no building erected at. either Main sti t corner, ls it unreasonable to suggo the propriety of settling this long-standing question? My friend tho Mayor has taken of fense where no offense was Intended, and certainly I am not In the posi tion he seems to (bink when he In t/MM WISHHS TO HAVE KAILHOAI). Townvllle Will Muk? Survey In July. Willing to Hol? Themselves. (Anderson Mail, 25th.) E. C. Asbill, of Townvllle, who when not engaged In hts official du lles as cashier of the Bank of Town vllle, 1B boosting Townvllle nnd An derson county, is in the city to-day talking a railroad from Anderson to his elly. The slogan of his metropo lis of the western hills ls "Townvillo ls Mine." Mr. Asbill bas secured a promise from the Interurban management to have the route surveyed, and they have promised to have this done, be ginning between tho 15th nnd 25th of July. , The people of Townvllle are not begging. Tiley are willing to help themselves. "There is one man in Townvllle who says he will glvo $10, 000, and he has the money," says Mr. Asbill. lt will cost only $100,000 to build the road. Townvllle has raised $000 for the Improving of the road to seneca, lt is cloven miles to Seneca and 18 to Anderson. Seneca will also give $600. Most disfiguring skin eruptions, scrofula, pimples, rashes, etc., are due to impure blood. Burdock Blood Bitters as a cleansing blood tonic, is well recommended. $1, at all stores. Hits of News from Townvllle. Townvllle. .lune 25. - Special: Misses Kate Shirley and Marie Gaines, who attended tho Normal and Industrial College at Asheville, N. C., aro spending vacation here with homefolks. Mrs. P. S. Mahaffey and Gertrude Mahaffey attended the W. M. U. Con vention at Chester. Clarence and Preston Bruce, who attended the University Of South Car olina and Clemson College, respect ively, are spending vacation with their rather, L. O. Bruce. Mrs. \V. P. Reid, of Seneca, last week visited her daughter, Miss Mary Julia, who has a music class here. L. O. Bruce, Jr., of Washington, spent a few days with his father, L. O. Bruce, recently. Mrs. Susan O'Neal, of Pendleton, spent Monday here with lier aunt, Mrs. H. Harris. Miss Lois Hunt is spending a while with her sister. Mrs. Lewis Ligon, of Knoree. Mrs. W. T. Burwell and daughter Willie, who have been spending a while with her sister, Mrs. Way mon Boggs, have returned home. J. M. Pant, of Belton, visited his brother, .1. K. Pant, last week. Mr. Earle, of Spartanburg, spent Sunday with Ed. Karie. Miss Alice Smith is attending the teachers' institute at Seneca. The infant son of Eugene Mays was burled In the Presbyterian cem etery here Tuesday. Wo extend sympathy t.) the bereaved parents. The MI?'??" TT'i"1 ? ' ' *.!.?. i re spending .? while with their uncle, I), . WT I lui,I Jj i". i o[:i;s bas purchased au au? tOUlld'il'. ?Mru, Pankhurst Goes Free. London, Juno 24.-Mrs. Emeline Pankhurst, the militant suffragette leader, who was sentenced on May 22 to linc months' Imprisonment cm the charge of conspiracy and inciting to malicious damage to property, was released to-day because lier health broke down after the hunger strike which she ami her imprisoned fol lowers recently began. The other prisoners, including Mrs. Pethlck Lawrence, one of the editors of Voles for Women. who was sentenced al the same lime as Mrs. Pankhurst, are being forcibly fed. For earache, toothache, pains, burns, scalds, sore throat, try Dr. Thomas' Eclectic Oil, a splendid rem edy for emergencies. Arrested for Stabbing Husband. Greenville, .lune 26.-Mrs. Annie Patterson was arrested here late last I night charged with having cut her husband's throat in Anderson. Mrs. Patterson was carried to Anderson to-day. lt. appears that soon after she cut her husband she boarded a train for Greenville, where t'.io has relatives. fers that 1 can see no good in his j work. In both instances where I' differed from him I gave full credit j for his good work, merely suggesting | Hint I thought certain different points could well have been considered. In the mal ter of criticism of condi tions at. the cemetery i have no apology to make, and, as he suggests, I have, to my deep sorrow, a personal interest there. 1 had besides, during my administration, a public Interest j therein, and the records will show: for each of the three years during pari of which I endeavored to serve the town-(not nearly live years, as my friend has twice asserted in his articles) -that. moderate expendi tures were made for the purpose of keeping the public cemetery clean. This. I think, ls better evidence of care than ls the present hearsay evi dence of neglect. As to priority rights of property, I would judge that a town block hav ing on each corner an old landmark would he considered as having prece dence over a block opposite with no building al either corner thereof. This may ho wrong, hut to me it seems reasonable. One of the old landmarks of the town has recently been removed from the south side of Main street a! his point, and it would, I think, be well to locate thc corner here now, thus giving the owner notice of his lines, and If, in the absence of the Mayor or some member of the Council, he fails, when he builds, to follow the markings, ho will have no one bul himself to blame for results. I am well aware of the fact that my administration was by no means faultless, and Mr. Brown well says that no may make mistakes. Fortu nato indeed mav he consider himself if his frieda Shall do him the kind ness io call his attention to such at.a time \yjien y,oo.j'niay ne accomplish ed, and not walt until years after to lind fault. .1. A. Stock. ?HOW FI08 ON A LA IKS ?0 ,CALE. Fi ve-A ero Celestial Fig Farm to lie Situated Near Charl-oston. (News and Courier.) O. D. AUmnn and C. M. QrliTlng hnve been commissioned a board of corporators by the Secretary of State to open books of subscription to tho capita' stock of the "Orchards Com pany." which purposes to promote commercial fig growing lu and around Charleston. Mr. Grining, of Jacksonville, Fla., ts said to be the first and foremost "fig man" of the country. He is sec retary of tho Grilling Bhothers Com pany, ol Jacksonville, who have big holdings and extensive nurseries, not only in Jacksonville, but In Macclen- I ny and Miami, Fla., Port Arthur and ' McAllen, Texas, and orchards in other places. i Philis of the Company. The capital stock of thc "Orchards" i will bo divided imo 500 slimes with j a par vaiue of $100 per share. The home olllce will be tn Charleston. The company will plant land In tracts of five acres, Bet to 1,000 celes tial fig trees, and will sell those tracts on the monthly instalment plan. The company's farms, which will contain 1.500 to 2.000 acres, will ho in the vicinity of Charleston. They propose plain inc, from 1O0 to 500 acres of tho land this winter, whe ther a contract ls sold or not. To i tu i id Preserving Plants. Tho company proposes to erect preserving plants on thc grounds to take care of the output oi' these or chards. These will he necessary the second or third year. The Charleston fig is lo the fig lov ers of this country what the Smyrna fig is to those living across the seas. The Charleston section and her Is land territories embrace the finest fig lands tho world over and there aro unlimited possibilities for this industry, which the "Orchards Com pany" proposes to introduce on a worthy scale and foster until lt bo conies one of the recognized indus tries of Gio world. 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'vi iuy, dgner Ot thn'urdltip'he? cn* secession* with Cha los Potts the sage and philosopher; with Calvin I lcm phill, whose knightly pen ls as clean and true as was the lame of tin1 Crusader; with N. 0. Ostoen and G. M. Harman, who have gloriously illustrated South Carolina purity and patriotism far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife for gain, is an honor well worth ?ill Hie wear and worry and broken hopes ol* tho al most .'"? years that we have tried to keep the faith. Rheumatism is the mos ing and discouraging of all > Nine cases out of ten ca hy using Noah's Liniment. Where there is no sv fever a few applications w you. Noah's Liniment penetrt not evaporate like other rer Requires very little rub Ll NI p uk NOAH'S LINIMENT Relieved Thl suffered with rheumatism In my right arm nn<) shoulder, complicated witt? 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Cald well. .!()(. Washington street, Monti cello, Illinois. , One way lo relieve habitual con stipation is to take regularly a mild laxative. Dean's Regul?is aro rec ommended for this purpose. 2fie. a box at all drug stores. ConorosH and Community. Coneross, Juno 24.-Special: Tho layman's meeting was held willi Con eross church yesterday afternoon. Rev. Wilkins, of Greenville, Stato secretary of layman's work, address ed a large and attentive audience. There were several other Interesting talks, which were very much appre ciated. Allen Marett and son, C. D., or Fair Play, were week-end visitors at the home of W. O. Alexander. Hoy M. Abbott, of Plckens county, sjient Saturday and Sunday with Hov. and Mrs. W. Abbott. Miss Lucy Patterson loft Monday for Anderson, where she will spend some time with her sister, Mrs. Dora Archer, and family. She will also visit at Ninety Six and Pendleton. EhoCh M ve ?./ralo an\V 'daui;hle"r--fil . ?av.. Mrs. 13. D. 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