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KEOWEE COURIER ( ESTA BUSH KO 184? ) Published Every Wednesday Morning Subscription $1 For Annum. Advertising Kates Kensonnblo. -Hy-" ST FOR, S11ELOK ? SCHRODER. Communications of a personal char acter charged for as advertise ments. Obituary notices and tributes of re spect, of not over one hundred words, will be printed free of ch a ige. All over that number must be paid for at the rate of one cent a word. Cash to accompany manuscript. WALHALLA, S. C.: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER I?, 11)12. VICTIM OF OWN INVENTION, Story ol' Tragi?' Romance Told of Englishman, rn Australia. A dispatch from London says: A story as full of tragedy as of ro mance is told of the death ol' a chem ist who has fallen a victim of his own invention. A short while bael? an elderly | man called on Mr. Rigney, manager of Ibo Silverton Rubber Company, Sydney, and stated that ho had suc ceeded in producing an artificial sub stitute for rubber-equal to tho na tural product in quality and general cha racterlstlcs. Now, chemists tho world over have for years been taxing their brains with this problem, and natu ralh* Mr. Rigney was keenly inter est*. . 'tlcularly as the man offered him the sole rights of his invention. "Let mc see some," the manager said, and tho visitor thereupon placed a specimen on his table. "I applied every known test," says Mr. Rigney In narrating the story ot the interview, "and could succeed in discovering nothing that could differentiate it from the natu ral product, lt was just as resilient, possessed the same elasticity, and suffered the same strain thal the na tural product does, and the only point of difference that an expert could detect was the smell when it was burnt. "The next question was terms. He demanded $25,000 down and a third of the profits. I offered $5,000 down and half the profits, but he stuck to his original offer, and 1 closed with h'm on those terms, pending the formation of a company to exploit the discovery. "Meantime I took the specimen along to "inothor rubber < ??pert and asked his opinion. At that i.tne the price of rubber per p. und was close OH 20 ^hillings. The expert put it to various tests and quoted the current market price for thc best rubber as its market value. "When I told him I had an offer of unlimited supplies at $1.20 a pound, he advised mo to buy it up. When I next offered him the same amount at 28 cents a pound he was .-1 a UL1 e ?"? 11. As a matter of fact, the cost price would have been just 12 cet ' per pound. The old man. it appeals, was an experimental chem ist, and had made the discovery af ter yeats of patient analysis and syn thesis. What the secret was he \io'i!d not divulge to me until thc money was paid over. Ile had not even committed il to paper. "Ile told me i : contained just three ingredients, one of w hieb had to he imported from Russia. Ileyond thai I could gel nothing from him: he was adaman!. I asked him to m ; i K . . me halt' a ton of Ibo stuff, but he explained thal, owing to the na ' II re et . h.. proi es . he cou ld not a p proach tlie task single-handed. Some, or a!!, ol' tlie Ingredients had such a pungent odor as to make the work actually dangerous, lu the end ho lllfde nie about or $10 worth. "vVith tins and the testimony of experts to work upon, I gol busy col lecting the necessary capital. In thc nish ol' affairs I lost touch ol' the old fellow. When I was all ready io meet iiiiii on Iiis own terms I lound ho wa> missing. "Inquiries elicited ?he information that lie had fallen ill through Inhal ing lie- noxious gases of lus Chemi cals, and bad been removed io a hos pital. "Institution after institution I vis ited and searched through and through, lui' no tree could I lind of my man. '"'"mn I learned of Iiis death in Prince Alfred Hospital. His secret had (lied with him." His s|(.h. At the wed,Un/, breakfast ibo bridegroom, an exceedingly bashful ,\ otlllg man. was e.il!,.,| ii,,ou to speak, in Spite ot' the tint, thal he had pleaded to bo excused, mushing to the roots of bis hair lie rose, intend ing to say thal le' was no ppecch mnker, but, unfortunately placing his hand on the bride's shoulder, he shimmered these opening (and clos ing) words: "This-or--- this thing has been thrust upon nie," JAMES MIIiWBE IS DNAD. Veteran Printer Set laust "Tttko" Km ir<] at Concord Church* (Anderson Mall, 8th.) James M II wee, known by the younger generation as Uncle Jimmie, died on Sunday morning, October 6, and was burled the following day at Concord church, three miles above the city." Tho funeral services were conducted by Kev. W, B. Lindsay, of Hie A. lt. P, church, of which he was ?i member, having recently been re ceived Into its fellowship, ile was converted during the war in a meet ing held specially tor the soldier boys in Virginia. lucie Jimmie was the oldest prin ter in tho State, and probably of many other States. I lc was in his seventieth year, and bad worked at the ease practically all his life. He was well known in many printing olllces in this State and Georgia. The hist work lie did a! thc printing bus iness was in the Daily Mail ofllce last December. He was taken ill and stayed in a boarding bouse in the city for several weeks. Mr. M il wee was about the last of the old-time printers, whose voca tion >vas to set type by hand. Ile will be sadly missed because of his kindly disposition and his rec ollections of old-time happenings, be ing thoroughly conversant with the .principal events of a generation or more ago. His fund of Information was almost inexhaustible, and with his death a lot of valuable history is forever lost. Ile was never married. One of the sad things connected with Iiis death was that he died and was buried before any of the print ing fraternity of tho city knew of it. Peace to his ashes, and may the world prellt by his example. Our Population. ( (5 reen ville Pied mont. ? According to tho State Department of Agriculture, Commerce and Indus tries, there are now 1,550,430 peo ple in the State. This includes Hleaseites, Jonesites, Bull M oosers, Republicans, Socialists, Prohibition ists, Suffragettes, Indians, males, re inales, boys, girls, infants, married, unmarried, Ed DeCamp, Charlie Mea ron. William Hanks, John T. Duncan, Brother Sims, Bill Gardner, Com missioner of Agriculture Watson, W. P. Beard, W. P. Stevenson, and also Dave Humphreys, of Donalds. LH'll TIM. ANT) THU VISION. Violet Hays Seem to Ht? Vigorous to the Eyes. In the rapid development of Illu mination, the production of light of great intensity has been sought, re gardless of tin4 effect upon eyesight and health. Mindi of tho light now used, it has been pointed out, is rich in violet and ultra-violet rays, and doubtless tends io produce eye trou bles, with much attendant misery. Realizing this, Leon Caster, of the Illuminating Society if England, bas proposed, among other things, thal the Kreuch government tppoint an Inquiry commission of oculists, phys iologists, factory Inspectors and oth ers. The purpose would be to deter mine what is good Illumination for the home, school, factory and o (ll ce; M studs tho character and influence of the various illuminants, and to show bow best to apply acceptable I lighting to sui) the differing require ments. An investigation of Impaired vision and the uses leading to il WOllld be include... Mr. Stimpson, before beginning a lecture :<> a class of medical students in Scotland, announced thal ho bad jUSt received news of his appoint ment physiclan-ln-ordinary to the queen. Bul the great discoverer of chloroform was shocked to hoar tho hov.- break Into tho national song,' "God Save tho Queen." *% ty ty ty ? I* ty ?4 - ty ty ty ty ty ?.?.. . J? ? J . ty ty ty ?.*? tyty tyty ty DUSKY i:\ i:. ty ty Hy 14. M. D. ty tyty tyty tytyty tytytytytyty ty ty tyty tyty ?l?'l*tyty E\ a, Uko Mot her |?Jv< of old, To sie;ii forbidden fruit made bold; Barefoot, with bucket in one band. Sh.- makes quick snides across the sand. And with nimble bands and feel she; (limbs Tho tree, entwined around whoso 1 i m bs Was the vine with ripe fruit holen. With squirrel-like agility She gains tho summit of the tree, And soon tho fruit, rlch-ripo and ls showered profusely on Hie ground. All thought ol' fear has vanished now ? Expectancy o'crsprends her brow Alas! for this dusky maiden. Descending now, from limb lo limb, She tills her bucket |o t he bri m ; Mer apron, too, she would have Ulled, If to have one on had ton une willed; Hut her one-piece garment, spar o und torn, Was scarcely more than Kve had worn . But hush! Wliat was't. she saw? Twa:; the young landlord of stately mien I Who now appeared upon the scene; With ashen faco the darky stood And thought to hie her to tho wood, But Satan still'his Imps supplies Apt ropartee, so sho quickly cries: "Cse des gitten dose yero fur yor ma!" IN TUM INTERNST OF ff?IBNOB. | . ' - I Two Hundred Physicians Agree to, (?ive Hollies to Science. To aid in educating tho public the necessity for more autopsies, 200 physicians of Brooklyn and Long Is land have voluntarily agreed to place their bodies, after death, at the dis posal of science, according to tho Brooklyn Eagle. i This action was talton at a meet ing of the Associated Physicians of Long Island, hold on Hoffman Island, at which tho question of autopsies was discussed. By allowing their bodies to be dissected after death, tho physicians believe, they will show the public in a practical way that autopsies, to which many have ex pressed opposition, ?ire really great aids to science. Especially are au topsies valuable, so the physicians believe, in studying diseases of mys terious and obscure origin. So Intorcstvd aro tho physicians in this matter that the mooting decided to send out 100 circular letters to physicians in Brooklyn and Long Is land, urging thom to induce relatives of patients who die from mysterious cotises to permit autopsies. Inside Information. Various doctors, among thom many specinltists, wore called as witnesses in a case in a San Francisco court, with a view to ascertaining wh.U kill ed a woman whose death was In question in an insurance litigation, says the Saturday Evening Post. They all tostitlod they had exam ined the woman professionally, and the consensus of opinion was that the dead woman bad suffered ' from an affection of the liver which caused that organ to shrink materially. Tho last doctor on the witness stand was a young hospital interne. Ho testified that instead of a shrunken liver the dead woman had an abnormally enlarged liver. "Ho you mean to sit there on the stand and swear that this woman had i an enlarged liver when all these em inent authorities have sworn her liver was wasted and shurken?" de manded a lawyer. "I do," replied the young doctor. "How comes it you set yourself up against those eminent practition ers-you, a young squirt of a doctor, with no practice and only a few months out of a medical school? How do you know this woman had an enlarged liver?" thundered tho lawyer. "I performed the autopsy," an swered tho young doctor. Dies When Beside nee Burns. Holly Hill, S. C., Oct. 10. - Mrs. A. T. Joyner died Monday night from heart failure caused by shock and excitement at the destruction of the Joyner residence by fire. As the family was about to retire the roar of the house was found In Hames and tho alarm given. Mrs. Joyner was recovering from a serious illness, and, as quickly as possible, she was removed to tho Methodist parsonage opposite, where slu> died without regaining the con sciousness that had left her al tho j first shock of the discovery ol' the lire. Belie ol' Abraham Lincoln. A dictionary, which belonged to I Abraham Lincoln, was given to the State Historical Society of Missouri last week hy W. W. (?lass, a retired tanner, ol' Maryville. Mo. The title ol' the book is "An Universal Etymo logical English Dictionary and In terpr?ter of I lard Words.'' A bullet hole can bo seen in t he : V, cover. Tho book was found in the at tac ol' nu old log house on a farm in Hancock county. KEEP IN PERFECT HEALTH. You owe lt to yourself, your family and your work to keep in the host possible con dition. If you have strong, ready muscles i-rich, heathy blood and a clear brain, you can do more and hotter work and really live, and enjoy living and bc a blessing to those yon love. Mach of thc etoroal grouch and many of thc aches and pains you seo every day are caused directly by a lazy, torpid, over worked liver, and all of that may ho abso lutely (aired by It. L. T. (Richardson's Laxative Tonic). Ono fifty-cent or dollar bottle of this magnificent tonic will provo to you that it is the finest laxative and tho quickest strength building tonic ever of fered sick, suffering humanity. (Jet a bot tle from your druggist today, and keep it always in the family medicine chest ready to |>nt the Liver right in one night or euro malaria, constipation, or bilious fevers in the shortest possible time. If not on salo In your town, write R. h. T. Co., Ander son, S. C. RL L.#T. A Perfect Tonic THE BEST LIVER MEDICINE IO* ft $1.00 per Bottle, All Drug Stores. SHOOTING OFF THE SOLID. Pernicious Practice Condemned by l\ S. Geological Survey. Much has been said and written In condemnation of the practice, too prevalent in some of tho coal-mining States, of "shooting off the solid" that is, of blasting down the coal without having previously undercut or sheared it. or "making tho powder do the work." According to Edward W. Parker, the coal statistician ot" the United States Geological Burney, all a nt beti ties agree that the prac tice is reprehensible in the highest degree. Tho heavy charges of pow der produce an un necessary quantity of line coal and render the lump coal so friable that it disintegrates in handling and transportation. The quantity and quality of tho mer chantable product are thereby mate rially reduced. These reasons In themselves are sufficient to call forth tho condemnation if the practice and the demand for Its abolition, bul a far stronger reason ls the increased liability to accident in a vocation that is hazardous enough when all precautions possible are taken to promoto -safety. The use ol* inordi nate charges of powder weakens tho roof and supporting pillars and fail ure to undercut or shear tho coal in creases the danger of windy shots, tho cause of frequent dust explosions. Kails of coal and roof in IOU caused almost one-half of the '2,700 or so deaths in the coal mines of the Uni ted States, and explosions caused 14 per cent Tho deaths from tho moro prolific cause, however, usually hap pen singly and are not reported out side of the localities where the acci dents occur, whereas tho less fre quent explosions Involving tho deaths of tens or hundreds of men are given prominence in tho dally and techni cal press. --a?c EAGLETHISTLE Estbllllte of State's Population. A dispatch from Columbia gives out tho following information: On a request from the Governor, who desires the information for the 1913 Issue of the World's Almanac, tho department of commerce, agri culture and industries made an esti mate of the population of the State for January I, 1913. They estimate that the population of the State will he 1,550,430. The actual population of the State, according to the last United States census, was 1,515,400, The esti mated increase for two years will be ?15,030 persons. In making the estimate the de partment took into consideration averages of increase for tito past years, and tho general yearly in crease. While the ligures aro only and can only bo approximated, yet they are most probably correct; for the department has accurate infor mation as to the population increase in the different counties, lt is only a case of tabulating thc returns of the counties to get an almost exact number of Inhabitants for the entire State. An Increase of 35,030 persons in the population of tho state In only two years, evidently shows that thc State is prospering and is calling immigrants on account ol' its adapt ability as a |ilace ol' habitation and opportunities. lt. ii. 'I', recommended und sold by N'orman's Drug Store. adv. Snakes killed 22,000 people 111 Africa last year. THE ONE GREAT EVENT. Tlie state Fair Which Everyone At tends-Tlie Dates, October '2H to November 1, Inclusiv?'. Tliere is uni' gala occasion on which all thc people of South Caro lina uni'e. One Hmo when they all Join in having a good time, lt is nt tho Slate fair, Thousands alu) thous unds of South Carolinians agree from year to year lo meet in Colum bia o ii ring tho State fair. This year they will bo in Columbia between October 2S and November I, inclu sive, liesidcs meeting their relatives, friends, acquaintances and sweet hearts, if they h?ve any. they will lind a better and greater State fair. Smith Carolina is progressing by leaps and bounds, her farmers want tho l>esl, and it is to lie shown at the fair. Never before have lhere been so many entries at this time nor such a demand for exhibit .space. President j. Arthur Hanks, S?c r?tai y .?. M. Canley and Superin tendent Watts are already In con stant tomb with the situation ur ranglng for tho details. Tb? dates of the fair-Octobcr28 to November 1, inclusive-are not in connie! with any oilier events In thc State. Cheap railroad rates have already been secured and special trains will be operated for tho convenience of the thouusands attending: tho State fair. tytyty tytyty tyty' Wtyty tytyty tyty tytytyty tytyty ?ty???? ty? ty? ty? tyty ty? ty? ty? tyty ty? ?? ty? ?overment Sale of Indian Lands. ABSOLUTE TITLE GIVEN. ?? NOTICE is hereby given that all the unallotted lands in LOVE COUNTY, in the CHICKASAW NATION, will be ?? ty? ?? ?? ty? ty? ?? lg Coffered for sale at PUBLIC AUCTION at 9gg tyty o'clock A. M., November 18, 1912. ty? Not more than 640 acres of land in any Nation shall be sold to any one person. This limitation includes land bought at any previous sale. The bid of a prospective purchaser may be submitted through an agent, but in such case such agent must present and file a power of attorney properly executed by the real per son in interest. TERMS: 25 per cent, of the amount bid must be paid at the time of sale, balance with 6 per cent, interest from date of sale as follows: 25 per cent, in one year and 50 per cent. In two years from date of sale. Full payment may be made at any time, after which deed will bc promptly issued. All pay ments shall be in currency or by bank draft or certified check payable to Geo. N. Wise, Disbursing Agent. Blue Print maps of Love County have been prepared showing the location of the unallotted land, each tract being outlined and numbered to correspond with the tract numbers appearing herein. These maps also show the location of the railroads and principal towns and the approximate location of the streams in the County. Such maps are for sale at the office of the Commissioner to trie Five Civilized Tribes for the sum of 50c. each. For further information apply to J. GEO. 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