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.?TO THINE OWN BEIiF BE TRUE, AND IT MUST FOLLOW AS THE NIGHT THE DAY: THOU CANST NOT Tff?UN BE FALSE TO ANY MAN." By STECK, SHELOR & SCHRODER. .{? ?J? ?J? ?J? ?J? ?J? .Jo ?J .fr 4* .fr .fr .fr 4 v .fr .fr 4? 4? 4? .fr 4 FEED S We have our ed with Corn, I Appier Oats, Bra Feeds for Ohick< See' us before can make the p C. W. ?? J. E. Walhal IT PAYS TO E .I* ?J. ?J? .J? *|a ?J? ?J? ?] Money is Poi Lai? ? . You work a week for That ten dollars reprei work. You are a week months and years go by y exhausted; you have put y< What nave you done*'' you spent them as fast as y nave, you are poor indeed; a part of the dollars and ke in these dollars stored uj provide for you in your old How much better still put these saved dollars to v A good way to do this I good, strong bank. The Westmi Weatminsi is ia good place to ; W. P. ANDERSON, President. J. M. NORRIS, J NEWS NOTES FRO\ SENECA. Happenings in and Around Tova Colored Man Suicides. Seneca, Feb. 4.- ?pecial: WV P. Nimrrjnfl is moving into his hand some new store room on tho West end of tho business block, opposite the Citizens' Bank. Dr. J. S. Stribling is in Columbia seeing the corn show. Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Livingston have returned to Seneca after seve ral weeks' absence. Mr. Livingston has been on a business trip to Mis sissippi, and Mrs. Livingston and children visited in Anderson. Oscar Doyle and Thornley Cary will attend the corn show this week. J. W. Stribling, of Clemson Col lege, spent the week-end with home folks. The local lodge Knights of Pythias will give their annual banquet on the evening of the 21st of February. Mrs. W. P. Reid has returned from a week's visit to her sister, Mre. J. E. Breazeale, at Anderson. The Palmetto Literary Society held an open meeting last "Friday evening and a delightful program was rendered. A very interesting debate was taken part in by Misses Nancy Hines and Vivien Byrd on one sido, ? and Misses Mamie Morgan and Lura Perrltt on the other. The latter won the decision. The judges on this oc casion were Dr. J. S. Stribling, Rev. J. P. Inabnlt and M. A. Wood. Speeches and essays, (with music in terspersed, completed the program. Mrs. T. E. Stribling will go to Co lumbia this week, where she will meet,the presidents of tho various Presbyterial throughout the State, who will hold a meeting for the pur pose of forming the Synodical Union. She will be Accompanied by Miss Veruer, of Richland. R. K. Nimmons is in Columbia for a visit to the corn show Rev. Mr. Mills, of Clemson Col lege, filled the pulpit of the Presby terian church last Sunday, preaching an excellent sermon at the 11 o'clock service. Fractions Oambrell, colored, com mitted suicide at his home near town Inst Thursday by shooting himself with a rifle. No cause is known for tho doed, thc coroner's Jury render ? *l? ?J? ?I? ?J? ?I? ?J? ?J? ?TUFFS! warehouse load reed Oats, Seed ,n, Shorts, Purina ens. you buy. We ?rice right. BAUKNIGHT, la, S. C. >UY FOR CASH. .ver I or is Power ! $ J 0.00. sents a week of your life older, and as the weeks, our strength is gradually >ur strength into dollars, arith these dollars? Have ou earned them? If you but if you have spent only ?pt some of them, you have p energy and strength to age. is your position if you have rork for you I i is to deposit them in some inster Bank* ter, O., put these dollars. P. P. SULLIVAN, Cashier. Assistant Cashier. WAR IN TURKEY RESUMED. Hulgnrinns Huve Turned Deaf Ear to tlio Great Powers. London, Feb. 4.-The Turkish-Bal I kan war has been resumed. The I bombardment of Adrlanople began at j 7 o'clock Monday night and a small skirmish occurred at the Tchacalja lines. The armistice had lasted ex actly two months. Bulgaria has turned a deaf ear to the remonstrances of the powers, and unless Turkey yields to the Balkan demands the allied armies will now attempt to drive her completely out ?of Europe. Bombardment of Adrlanople. The terrific bombardment of the forts around Adrlanople ls pushed by t 100,000 Bulgarians and Servian troops. Not even the residential por tion of the city IB spared. Some au thorities look for a prolonged seige, but one dispatch says the fortress will f?ll within two weeks. The Bulga rians said more.than half a million men aro in the province of Thrace, and tho Servians have 45,000, to gether with a few divisions of Greeks Some quarters of Adrlanople are in flames as the result, of the bom bardment by the Bulganians and Ser vians. For a sprain you will find Chamber lain's Liniment excellent. It allays the pain, removes che soreness, and soon restores the parts to a healthy condition. 2f> and 50-cent bottles for sale by all dealers. adv. lng a verdict in accordance with these facts. Miss ivnnlo Reid, of Walhalla, is visiting Miss Stella Fincannon and Mrs. Ethel Ashe. The publie will be interested in learning that R. Anderson will re turn to Seneca econ and will open a largo stock of dry goods. Ho will occupy the store room vacated by W. P. Nimmons. Mrs. Ethel Ashe has resigned tho position of telephone operator. The position is filled by Mrs. Glenn Ab bott. Mrs. Ashe has many friends among the telephone subscribers who regret to see her give up the position, but the place will doubtless be most acceptably filled by Mrs. Abbott. LIQUOR ADVOCATES PREVAIL. Two-Dollar Road Tax for Oconee Glaze Won't Accept. Columbia, Feb. 1.-Editor Keo wee Courier: The third week of the session of the General Assembly has parsed away and there has not been very much work accomplished. It is annoying to me to see so many of the members, especially the old ones, wanting to adjourn so much, ana tor a long lime at that. Last night, af ter wrangling over an hour on tho question of adjournment over Sun day, the House finally decided to ad journ until 8.05 p. m. Tuesday, the 4th. At all times I vote to meet and work as often as possible, "but there is generally a majority against my wishes. But I shall endeavor to be contented with what comes. I ex pect to spend to-day, Monday and Tuesday working on matters pertain ing to the interest and welfare of Oconee. Mr. Shirley has introduced a bill making the commutation, or road tax, in Oconee county, two dollars, or, in lieu thereof, four days' work upon the roads of the county. This bill has been read two times and or dered to a third reading. It will no doubt pass both the House and Sen ate. This change from one dollar to two dollars commutation tax will take effect October 15, 1913; that is, this road tax will have to be paid some time between October 15, 1913, and March 15, 1914, and so on each year, or if it is not so paid, the per son liable to road duty will have to work the roads four days, some time after the 15th of March each year. Nearly every county in the State re quires two OT more dollars for road tax, and If it is not paid there is a > penalty that subjects those liable to ! I a fine in case they refuse to work. That ls, the law In those counties does not give them the optional righi to work instead of paying. Some wanted us to require all to pay in our county, but we thought that this would work a hardship on some. The delegation has recommended the following men for rural police men for Oconee county, to wit: For the district of Walhalla, Jesse Lay; Westminster district, James H. May son, and for Seneca, Wm. M. Alexan der. I don't know whether or not the Governor has commissioned theso gentlemen, but I understand he has promised to do so. l understand that the magistrates for the various places have been rec ommended by Mr. Verner, but I have not the names of them before me. This can be learned from the Sena tor. I have introduced a bill to "give the jury the right to consider, in cases of assault, or assault and bat tery, any opprobrious words or abu sive language as sufficient to bring on a difficulty." 1 intend to intro duce a bill next week to separate the Court of General Sessions from the Court of Common Pelas for Oconee County, and provide one week for criminal court and two weeks for civil matters. The Walhalla Bar has unanimously requested this, and say lt is essential. Mr. Epps, a member of the House from Sumter, and myself, will intro duce a bill the ensuing week to "give magistrates jurisdiction in all cases in violation of the dispensary law." 'It is doubtful whether or not this bill will become a law, but we are going to make a desperate light to make it so. Several of the counties, by their Representatives, tried to get a special act through the Legislature to give to them the right to hold special elec tions for the purpose of voting back dispensaries. Am glad to report that it failed to pass the House. Another liquor bill that caused more discus sion than any other was "A bill to give cities of more than fifty thou sand inhabitants, which means Char leston alone, the right to license any citizen for the purpose of selling li quor. Lt abolishes the dispensary in that chinty, and any person can sell whiske ' by procuring a license In the sum o? one thousand dollars, two thousand dollars and three thousand dollars, in the respective particular cases." The advocates of this bill claim that it ls the only satisfactory way for the solution of the whiskey question in Charleston. As for my self, I am opposed to the sale of li quor In any case, and did all I could to prevent the passage of this bill, but we could not muster enough votes to kill lt. It passed the Hr use by a vote of 60 to 53. It ls crrtain to pass the Senate, for the majority of the members in that branch of tu*> General Assembly favor the sak of liquor. The General Assembly last night received a communication from the Hon. W. L. Glaze, who was recently elected Judge of the First Judicial Circuit, stating that, becauso of ill health, he could not accept the judge ship. All were very sorry to learn that he could not accept, for he was no doubt the most able man we could get for the vacancy. An election will be held by the joint assembly next Wednesday for the purpose of filling the vacancy. Senator Dennis ls ? very promising candidate. He ran Mr. Glyaze a close race for lt the first time. Others are also being talked of for the position. The National Corn Show ls a grand exhibition. I hop? the people from my county will come down to lt. Sev eral already have come; others should follow. It wRl help any far mer to come. M. R. McDonald. WHISKEY QUESTION NOT DOWN. Legislation Moves Slowly -- Corn Show is Great-Oconeeans Scarce. Columbia, Feb. 1.-Editor Keo wee Courier: There is very little leg islation goiug on of general Interest, but lt appears that the whiskey ele ment is coming back into power again. The House passed a nill to give Charleston high license, while the Senate passed a bill to give cer tain counties the right to vote in liuquor at an earlier day than tho general law provides for. This whis key' question provokes lively debates as of old. I had hoped that it would be settled for a while, after tho pass age of the Carey-Cothran bill and the shutting up of tho old State dispen sary, but lt is as much in evidence as ever, and will continue to be so until wo have a State prohibition law. This we should have and must have if it takes woman suffrage to get it. Then the next step should be a nation-wide prohibition law, which coul bo effected by giving the wo men of our country tho right to vote. I think the bill providing for a State board of examiners will pass, carrying with it provisions highly beneficial to the country schools. The bill for a compulsory school law was reported "unfavorable" and will not pass. A local option compulsory school bill was imported "without recommendation," which means any thing or nothing. This gives any school district the right to vote on the question of compelling parents in such district to seno their children to school. I hardly think lt will | pass. Great things are going on here now at the corn show. A great lesson may be learned by a study of these Immense exhibits. I think the best corn is from Virginia, Missouri and North Carolina, In the order of States named. You know the farmer who grows and handles corn does not judge it like the so-called "experts." One thing is evident': The South has the greatest opportunity. It is equal ly evident that she does not use lt as effectively as the other States, judg ing by the care and taste shown In arrangement of the displays. This corn show is worth seeing, though I fear the people of this State are not coming in such numbers aa they should. I am disappointed that the people of the upper counties are iiot much in evidence, and especially so about our own county. A day or two here, studying the exhibits from about half the States would teach our people more than they could learn in many months reading and traveling at a much greater expense, and the most important and Impres sive lesson they would learn Is that there is no country like the South In two respects at least: Her oppor tunities, and our failure to embrace them. E. E. Verner. SAVANNAH'S $1,500,000 FIRE. Water Front Swept by Flnmes, Re sulting in Heavy Losses. Savannah, Ga., Feb. 2-Fast black ening heaps of smoking ashes, a quar ter of a mlle In length o nd 200 yards In width, are all that remain to-night of the wharves of the Merchants' and Miners' Transportation Company, which burned early this morning. The fire, which originated near the main entrance of the wharves, was discovered shortly after 1 o'clock, but spread so rapidly that possibility of saving the wharves was soon past. Within less than thirty minutes the Merchants' and Miners' wharves were destroyed and the flames had spread to the Planters' Rice Mill, which also burned. Seven warehouses, owned by the Central of Georgia, and leased to various companies, were destroyed, together with their contents. The entire loss will reach $1,500,000. A strong gale was blowing when the fire started, and the flames were fanned to fury that defied all efforts to stop their progress. An area com prising about Ave blocks along the river front was gutted, and firemen devoted their main efforts to saving adjoining property. Shortly before 4 o'clock the wind veered, and the wharves of the Ocean Steamship Company ware threaten ed, but the wind changed again and this property was ?pared. It was daylight before the Are was actually under control. No ships were de stroyed by the Ave. ? II -i?? . CONFEDERATE VETS TO MARCH. First lime in History-Nashville Company B Is Honored. Washington, Feb. 1. For the first time in history a band of armed Con federates will tramp down Pennsyl vania avenue on March 4th when Company B of Confederate veterans of Nashville, Tenn., occupy a place of honor in the inaugural parade, ar rangements having been completed to-day. They are to wear gray uni forms, carry rlAes and side arms which they bore in the Civil War; The organization was here before and during Roosevelt's administra tion, but d'.d not bear arms. Here is a message of good cheer from Mrs. C. J. Martin, Boone Mills, Va., who is the mother of eighteen children. MTS. Martin was cured of stomach trouble and constipation by nhft.mheTlaln's Tablets after Ave years of suffering, and now recom mends these tablets to the public. Sold by all dealers, adv. niNEWS FROM WESTMINSTER. Infant's Sad Death by Accident-lo cals of Interest to All. Wet-'.minster, Feb. 4.-Special: Tho many friends of J. M. Hull are j glad to know that he ls rapidly recov- , erlng from his recent serious Illness. L. A. Tannery is traveling in North Carolina for tho Wizard Floor Cleaner Co. Miss Sue Daly, of Seneca, is visit ing Miss Lila Reeder. M. S. Stribling has made some re cent improvements on his store build ing, which is soon to bo occupied by Mitchell & Reeder. It ls now one of the most attractive store rooms in our town. W. M. Smith, master mechanic for the Oconee Mills Co., ls erecting a handsome dwelling on the lot recent ly purchased from W. A. Smith. Miss Grace Russell, an attractive young lady of Russell's, S. C., is vis iting her sisters, Mesdames Breazeale and McLeskey. H. M. Hester has gone North for the purpose of buying new spring goods. Mesdames Stribling and McCarey, of Seneca, visited their sister, Mrs. McClanahan, last week. Mrs. McClanahan, who sustained very painful injuries from a fall a few weeks ago, is Improving. J. H. Hudson and wife are spend ing this week In Baltimore. Mrs. J. D. Witherspoon and little daughter, Phoebe, of Cross Hill, are expected here this week. They will probably spend some time In our midst. Mrs. J. D. Hull and three interest ing children, of Madison, spent Satur day and Sunday visiting P. P. Sulli van and family. David McClanahan is now employ ed by the Stonecyphor Horse and Cat tle Tonic Co. F. W. Cannon, J. E. Mason, W. E. Mason, L. H. V. Hobson and James C. Tannery attended the sales at Walhalla Monday. Linder Goforth is now working fer the Southern Power Co. on Coneross creek. H. M. Simpson, of Lavonia, was here last week soliciting subscrip tions for the Lavonia Times. He is working faithfully for tho automobile .to be given by the Times to the one procuring the greatest number of subscribers. * J. J. McLeskey, who has been suf fering with rheumatism and con fined to his room for rthc past three months, ls able to be on the streets again, to the delight of many friends. J. Carter, of Gainesville, was here on business last Friday. Mrs. C. L. McLin, of Florida, waa here last week visiting Mrs. Ellen Norris and family. Tho many Westminster friends of J. Tallie Comer, a commercial trav eler, were saddened to learn of his untimely death In Atlanta last week. He was well known here and had many friends among the busiuess men, having traveled this territory for the past ten years. The Southern Power Company, of Charlotte, N. C., are making a sur vey which takes in Westminster. This gives us hopeB of electric lights in the near future. Luther Prather, of Oakway, has the sympathy of many friends In the loss of his little four-year-old daugh ter. The child was playing around a wagon frame, which was leaning against a tree, and in some way the frame fell, crushing the little one to death. Rev. J. J. Payseur, pastor of the New \Yestmin&ter Baptist church, left Monday on No. 39 for Chatta nooga to attend the Laymen's Con vention, which convenes in that city this week. John L. Holly, of Seneca, visited his mother and other relatives here Sunday and Monday. Rev. A. P. Marett left t?i?s morning on No. 43 for his future homo in Ar kansas. Rev. Mills, of Clemson College, preached a very interesting sermon at the Christian church last Friday night._ HABEAS CORPUS FREES CASTRO. Venezuelan, Liberated Temporarily, Goes to i inti Avenue Hotel. New York, Jan. 31.-Cipriano Cas tro, former President of Venezuela, walked thc streets of New York this afternoon, temporarily a free man, under a writ of habeas corpus issued by Judge Holt in the Federal Court. Argument on the. question of mak ing the writ permanent will be heard on Friday next. Followed by a curious crowd, Cas tro wont immediately to a Fifth ave nue hotel, where he had engaged a suite. He was al. smiles and beam ing with happiness as he invited pho tographers to surround him as he po?ed for his picture. Before the habeas corpus proceed ings had been called the little Vene zuelan issued a statement bitterly at tacking the authorities at Washing ton .'or excluding him. "I am glad I have finally found a judge who is wiping to give me Jus tice," remarked Castro as he left the Federal building. His lawyers an nounced that he had acceptod an in vitation to speak on Wednesday night at a dinner of tho Northwestern Society, at which John Hays Ham mond is to preside, ind added that Mayor Gaynor had invited Gastro to pay him a call. AIKEN LOSES FAMOUS HOTEL. Piro Destroys Property Valued at Not Lees tlum $300,000. Aiken, Feb. 2.-Fire breaking out In the Hotel Park-ln-the-Plnes here* this morning at ll o'clock, burned the magnificent and palattal winter tourist hostelry to the ground, pro ducing one of the most spectacular, awe-inspiring and destructive confla grations in the annals of this famous little winter resort, and entailing an enormous IOBS that will mount into hundreds of thousands of dollars. All that remains of the central point of Aiken's winter season are smouldering embers and crumbling, fire-whitened chimneys, standing like gaunt spectres against the blue sky line. The o^'ossnl structure, In view of its material and the peculiar archi tectural arrangement of tho building, was doomed from the first. Tho blaze started In a thousand feet of fresh p!ne lumber Btored In tho base ment near the elevator shaft, and with incorcelvable rapidity the lurid tongues cf flame swept the entire basement and filled every room and corridor In the hotel with Impenetra ble, stifling black smoke, rendering it impossible for tho firemen to gain access to < "? flames. Two houic? after the alarm was first sent in the hotel was a mass of de bris. The building was the property of the MacArthurs, of Michigan, and was Insured for $140,000, with $40, 000 insurance on the furnishings. The IOBS to the hotel company was more than a quarter of a million. Personal Lossea Heavy. Practically nothing waB saved from the burning building. The forty-four guests stopping at the hotel lost personal effects to the ap proximate sum of $22,000, and $3, 000 would hardly cover the loss sus tained hy tho large corps of servants. Coi. A. E. Dick, the manager, a New York man, lost about $30,000; J. O. Macksoud & Brothers, of New York, lost $10,000 worth of expen sive costumes, laces and embroider ies imported from France. The total personal losses amount to something over $70,000, and this, added to the value of the building, runs the total destruction up to decidedly more than $300,000. Clerks Save Invalid Guest. E. Oppenheimer, of New York, had the narrowest escape of any. An In valid more than 80 years old, he had to be lifted from his bed and carried from the burning building. Oshea and Reardon, the two hotel clerks, who were assisting him, were almost' overcome by the smoke and dropped him, but caught him up again and blindly fought their way from the building. LIVES CRUSHED OUT IN PANIC. Women Trampled to Death in Mad Rush for Exit of Theatre. New York, Feb. 2.-A boy's cry of "fire" and the smoke from an ex ploded reel of a motion picture ma chine in an East Side theatre to nlgnt resulted in a panic among the audience of 400 persons and a rush for the exits, in which two women were killed and eleven other persons so badly Injured that they had to be sent to hospitals. The panic occurred In ono of the most densely populated sections of the East Side, and the thousands who poured into East Houston street, in front of the theatre, and rushed to the doors added to the confusion and to the number of injured. The two women, who have not been identified, were trampled to death in the crush of the crowd to reach the doors. The operator of the machine soon extinguished the burning film and the flames did not spread beyond the fire-proof cage in which he worked. PENSION BOARD MEET FEB. 15. Meeting Last .Monday Adjourned t) Complete Business Later. On account of the rain and waiters being so swollen it was impossible for part of the Pension Board to get here on Monday, and those members who were present adjourned to meet on Saturday, the 15th Instant, at 10 o'clock a. m., to finish up the work. Parties interested will please take I notice and govern thAmaAiye* ac cordingly. J. W. Holleman, Chairman. Ce vd from Coroner F toxi West Union, Jan. 31,-Eu Keo wee Courier: Please allow me space in your paper to explain to the peo ple of Oconee, that I liv? near New Hope church, about 9 miles north east of Seneca, and about 7 H miles east of West Union, and at any time I may be needed as Coroner of Oco - nee I can be found at my home, or In formation as to ray whereabouts may be had. I am ready to fill my office any time I am called for, and will not be responsible to pay any Magis trate to hold an inquest or to act in my place as Coroner unless I am un able to attend to the matter that may be Ja hand. Yours respectfully. Whit Knox, Coroner Oconee County. Just received a fresh car of mulos. Come to BOO us at once for bargains. Westminster Oil and Fertiliser Co., E.'C. Marett, President. adv.