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KEOWEE COURIER (ESTABLISHED 184?.) FabUsht-d Every Wednesday Morning .subscription #1 Tor Annum. Advertising Hates Reasonable. ~-By STECK, S HE LOR A 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 bo printed free of charge. All over that number must be paid for ?it the rate of ono ciiit a word. Cash to accompany manuscript. WALHALLA, S. C.: wi I'M:SII\V. SEPT. ?7. nu:i. EXPLOSION KILIiH ENG INK MEN. Two i i?' ?Ul Torpedo llont ( raven. Ihre?* Others Hurt. Savannah. Ga., Sept. IO.--A boiler explosion on the United States tor pedo boa! Craven, ?>ff Tybee, at I o'clock ibis afternoon, resulted in the death ol Chief Water Tender McCaf fraj and Water Tender Milton and serious injuries to Chief Machinist'.-; Male Sw i:in. Water Tender naughton ami Oib r Gabbilt. The Craven was steaming in under & good bead when the explosion hap pened. Ensign W. 1). Lamont was OH the ?.ridge when he saw steam shoo! ap through the bilitch es and heard the cries Of the men In the Bro room, who were being scalded by the Moiling water. The hatches were at once closed and tho pumps were set to work pumping the water and steam out of the com part ment. When the hat. ties were opened Water Ten der 1). B. Smith went down at the risk of his life and brought out the body of McCaffray. He v;>s badly scald? d and lived but a short time. Milton was dead when brought out. Soon alter the explosion the en gines of the Craven ceased working and sh? drilled helplessly until the pilot boat instill and tile tug Cynthia, bo'h of Savannah, wont to her assist ance. McCaffray died before the Cra ven reached Tybee. lt is believed by the officers of the Craven thal low water lu the boilers, caused by a defective water gauge, caused the explosion. Every man in tho boiler room at tli?" time of the explosion was either killed or injured. Ambulances met th?> Cia'en when she arrived al Ty bee and .-tarted al once to th?' post hospital at Pori Sere ven. lt is be lieved thal two will recover, bul the third is expected to die. The Craven will ho brought up the river to Savannah to morrow. The revenue .utter Y;iiii:ici';iw will ac company her here. The Craven was en route from ('harli - ion to Savannah when the ac cident iceurred. How t<? Cur? I Vu Hay. tT. li. Parker in Progressive Farmer. ) The ? riler has boen curing peavine hay for li", years, and sticks to the plan h.- lias Ivon siwcessful with all these years. His plan is thal of us ing sholl stack poles about ten feel long. Sol them ill tho ground some is inches deep, or cnonugh so the wind will aol blow them over. Nail two cross-pieces about live feet long at righi angles to ea. h other, about 1" or \ii inches above ground so as to prevent tho vines from laying on th?' gu-,md. The vines aro cut after the il? iv is well dried off and let lie until thc following evening, If the weather will permit, then rake into good ;-:/.?> windrows boforo tile vines become damp from dew and let them remain there until iii?- follow ing day when they are carried to tho stack with the hay rake, which is tl rapid process. The vinos are placed around tli<> stack pole and on Ihe cross-arms, without tramping, ii n t il about three feel high. Then nail on one cross-ana and pil?> on vines until about three feet more aro on. Then nail on another cross-arm at right angles to tho last ono nailed on and continue this unlit the stack is fin ished. 1 like to have the top of the stack ole pointed and a large fork ful of vines placed on this and ar ranged around tho stack umbrella lik?- so as to prevent water from running down the jade. When well cured and it is convenient to do so. we bale the hay and store it in the barn. We use pine poles, and by skinning them when first cut and taking them up and stacking away as soon as the hav is taken from them, we find they will last several reasons. Diarrhoea Quickly Cured. "I was taken with diarrhoea, and Afr. Yorks, the merchant hore, per suaded me to try a bottle of Cham berlain's Colic, Cholera and Diar rhoea Remedy. After taking one dose of lt I wa? cured, lt also cured others that I gave lt to," writes M. E, Gobhart, Oriole, Pa. That ls not at all unusual. An ordinnry attack ol diarrhoea can almos-. Invariably bt cured by one or two doses of tbi< remedy. For sale by all dealers, ad THK PRESIDENT MAY COMB. Mr. Wilson Invited to Attend State Fuir--Others Also. Washington. Sept. 10.-It is en tirely likely that President Wilson will be a visitor at the coming State Fair ia Columbia. To-day Senator Smith and Col. E. J. Watson called at the White House to invite the President to visit the fair and to make an address while there. While no ilellnito assurance was glv?'ii to the South Carolinians that the invitation v uld l>e accept ed, there is reason lo believe that this will be the case. As the fair will he held during the latter part of October, it will flt in excellently with plans which the President has for Visiting Mobile about thal tim?*. lt is now planned to make the trip lo Mobile for the purpose of attend ing the Southern Commercial Con gress about October L'Tth. T'ne President's train would have (o pass thrrough Charlotte and a (?nick run could be made from Char lotte lo Columbia and thc main linc of the Southern could then be again reached by tout bing it at Spartan burg, and thus very lew hours would be consumed in going to Columbia. "Very Satisfactory." .lust before Col. Watson left for Columbia to-night he sa i tl to The state's corresposdeni : "We had a most satisfactory Inter view with the President, and explain ed to him what kind of entertain ment and reception we propose to give him. lt will bo the greatest thing of thc kind since the days of George Washington. We had with us the State Geologist of North Car olina, who is heartily in favor of the President visiting Columbia, and that means that Secretary Daniels will also probably uso his influence to help us. 1 feel almost certain that we will succeed. , "After leaving the White House f saw Secretary Houston, and he said that while he could not visit the fair he would spend two w?>eks in Co lumbia in November. He will visit Columbia, Spartanburg and other places with me. looking into agricul tural conditions generally. "After this 1 held a conference with .lohn Hall, of Philadelphia, the inventor of the process of maturing frostbitten and poorly matured cot ton bolls, and he will be in Columbia in about two weeks. . .lohn Barrett, of the Pan-Ameri can Union, and Dr. C. J. Owens, of the Southern Commercial Congress, will b<> in Columbia on September 18, and I have made all arrangements with them for their presence in South Carolina. They will explain the ben efits of the Panania Canal and will urge the importance of a good at tendance upon the meeting of the Commercial Congress to be held at Mobile next month. "1 had a busy and satisfactory day,'' said Col. Watson, just as ho swung aboard a train for home. "I am to write the President further regarding the proposed trip lo Co lumbia anti to give him certain tie tails which I could not furnish to day, and you may say for me that I feel confident wo will get. him. Tin outlook is very promising." Negro (?ill Has Income of $112,000, Mu sk ogee, Okla.! Sept. 13.- A n< gro girl, ten years old, will pay tho largest income lax in Oklahoma. Sa rah Hector, who lives just west ol this city, has an income of more than ? 1 l 2,000 a year. lt is the old story of the lucky al lottee and tho oil well. Sarah ls the descendant of a Creek freedman. She had nothing to do with the selection of her allotment and probably has never seen it and does not know where it is. But it. is 1G0 aces ol land and upon it has been drilled the biggest producing well in the mid continent, field. This is what li known as the Jones gusher, near th< town of dishing. The well is pro ducing mort1 than $2,500 a day ant Sarah gets one-eighth as her share. This is just t'ne beginning. Ar rangements are already made to dril other wells. There is no doubt bu these will also be big producers. Hoy Accidentally Killed. I Pickens Sentinel. ) The eight-year-old son of Charl!? Borea, of Liberty, accidentally sho himself Tuesday morning while play lng with a pistol. The little fellov found the pistol under a pillow when a young man who was boarding w I tl them had left lt. The ball entere? the right temple and lodged In thi hick of his head. Medical attentioi was called and all was done tha could be done. He died Wednesda; morning and was burled tho day fol lowing at Camp Creek. Sulzer Iioses Fight. Kingston, N. Y., Sept. ll.-Su preme Court Justice Hasbrouck to ? day decided that Governor Sulzer I logally impeached and cannot oxer , else the powers of Governor pendln; . tria!. A TKIP TO OCONLC COUNTY. Farmers' Organization Which Ha? Not Missed Meeting in 29 Years. (K.'W. Uabba in Progressive Farmer) Last Friday the writer attended the annual rally of the Oeonee Coun ty Farmers' Union at Oak way, some six or eight miles from Seneca, and about the same distanco from the Georgia line. Up to within the past few years this section was known as "Nubbin Ridge." I was told that a good ride would have bought a 1. :ig's estate many years ago because the game was so abundant there was lit tle need to toil at the plow or with the hoe for a living, and the crops from the primitive methods were such that "Nubbin Ridge" was an ap propriate name. Not so now. Some as tine farm ing as I ever saw is being don?' on the line red hills of Oeonee. I saw very little washing in the lands now under cultivation. Deep plowing and rotation of crops has revolutionized the appearance of the farms and the crops show it. More than a thousand people were at the picnic, and carried home with them renewed determination to re vive the business in all the borders of the county. We revived the local union by restoring to membership some who had dropped out. and ini tiating four new members. A whirl wind campaign was planned to cover the whole county In tho next month, and the best of it is ?hat the local people made the proposition and will carry it out. That is the kind of work that counts. Hut to me the most interesting part of my visit was the narrative told me of the history of Bounty Land Union. In 1884 the farmers of the section between the Blue Ridge and Air Line railroads organized the Poplar Springs Farmers' Club. About 1888 it was merged Into the Rich land Farmers' Alliance, and about 1907 into Bounty Land Farmers' Cn lon, Hut the remarkable part of the story is that for 29 years they have never missed a meeting or failed to have a quorum at their monthly and sometimes semi-monthly meetings. That ls the kind of stuff that gives one renewed hope for the final suc cess of a farmers' organization. Two of the good signs of the times In Oeonee county are their Mutual ' Fire Insurance and Mutual Live ! Stock Insurance Associations, both of j j which are doing a good work. This is a matter that ought to he looked : into by every county farmers' union, ' and Is one of the surest ways of sav ing money to the membership. While up there I heard of efforts to entice the sturdy farmers of this semi-mountain county to Middle j ! Georgia farms by holding otu the in- I ' ducements of cheap lands. I never hear of such an effort without a feel- ! j ing of sorrow. And I am reminded ! ; of what an Anderson county farmer1 said on returning from a 9 00-mile | ! trip to lind cheap lands. When his j jauto reached 'he top of the hill from ' which his home could be seen four j i miles away, his son said, "Yon's the : I dearest place cm earth to me." The | father replied, "Amen!" and then 1 j said to himself, "You old fool, what are you thinking about, to want to ; h ave the land you cleared and the j home to which you brought your ? bride, and where till your children I were born, and from which some of them have married, and from your neighbors, to go away to strange people and ?at your age try to form new ties? And for what? To own a few more acres of land--you old fool, thank God for Hts abundant bless ings.*' I was told of ono of our Alliance tuen who was such an enthusiastic member that ho held two crops of cotton-kept lt lying around in his front, yard-until when he sold, something like 20 bales out of his * hundred was rotten. And he 1? antl ? union and anti-alliance from that day to this, with just about as much rea ' son as the Charleston county farm ers, who say they have built a $17, " ODO monument to the Farmers' Un ' ion in the defunct Mississippi Waro house Company. Just as if tho alli ance or the union could upset tito laws of nature by keeping sound and clean cotton bales exposed to the rains and snows of winter, and the sunshine of summer, or defy the laws of trade and commerce, by trying to cover the cotton States under the management of men who could not 1 successfully market the crop of one ? State. There is such a thing as business being too small to be economically R managed, just as a one-horso farmer nooda two horses to do the most ef ficient work. But there ls more hope of the success of the welding together of several small businesses than of organizing one big one, just as there is moro apt to be succe;>s In two one horse farmers doubling up their - power than In a one-horse man un - dertaklng to run a ten-horse farm. s In f partanburg, Greenville and Co . lumbla I gathered Information that :?? does not look much like the farmers are to receive proper consideration in ,.741,900 FJIOM EXPRESS SAFE. Largest Theft in the History of the . Southern Express Company. Savannah. Ga.. Sept. lt.-'Proba bly the greatest robbery in the his tory of the Southern Express Com pany came to light In Savannah yes terday morning when a scaled safe supposed to contain $71,900 in cur rency, consigned to Savannah, Bruns wick and Valdosta banks, was opened here and found to be empty. Of the stolen money $.r?0,000 was consigned to the Savannah Hank and Trust Company from the Chase Na tional Hank of New York. lt is not known here to what hanks in Valdosta and Brunswick the additional sum was consigned, as the j express company officiais refuse to talk. W. F. McCauley, president of the | Savannah Hank and Trust Company, I confirms the loss or tho $50.01)0. It ! was shipped out of New York on Mon day on train No. S9, Atlantic Coast Line, and should have reached here yesterday morning at 2 o'clock. When the sealed steel trunk In which it was supposed to have been shipped was opened i' was found that the money had disappeared. "All that 1 know abott! it." said President McCauley, "is that lue money was started to us from New York and that it never reached hore." v Horns Agency Hired. The Southern Express Company has hurried its best men to Savan nah to underta. u the recovery of the money or to locate the thieves. W. Hockaday, general manager of the company, and a representative of the Burns Detective Agency ot Atlanta reached Savannah this morning and are now working on tho case. The seals on the outside of the steel trunk, or safe, it is understood, did not show that they were tam pered with, but the sealed envelopes in which the money was contained when it left New York, were either slit open or otherwise tampered with. The shipment was sent, out of New York by the Adams Express Com pany and delivered to the Southern Express Company at Washington. Loss on Express Company. New York, Sept. ll.- 'Samuel C. ?Miller, vice president of the Chase 1 National Bank, in charge of currency ; movements, said to-day that his bank j had shipped a large amount of cur- ; roney to banks in Georgia by the Adams Express. "If this money has been stolen." he said, "and is not recovered,, the ; loss will fall not upon tho bank, hut upon the express company." Mr. Miller said that the $50,000 package was only one of those in the shipment made by tho Chase National Bank. He declined to give further details. The safe containing the $71,900 in two packages was delivered by the Adams Express Company to the Sou*bern Express Company in Jer sey City, according to W. W. Pendle ton. the general agent of the Adams Express Company. I The transfer was made last Mon day night, Mr. Pendleton said, and at i that time the safe and its contents ? were intact. The package contain ing $21,900, he added, was composed of a number of consignments to sep arate banks in Georgia, i A Little Talk on Food Values. (Progressive Farmer.) Briefly classing tho foods, they tare: ? I. Proteins-Tissue Builders-We I j get chiefly In meats, milk, eggs, ce . reals, heans and peas. II. Carbohydrates- Energy-Su gars and starches. Hf. Fat-Storehouse of body Oil, butter, fat meat, nuts. All of J these burn and therefore yield heat and energy. IV. Mineral Matter-Builds bone, j hair, tooth, fingernails, etc.. and nee- t essary to digestion of food-salt, I vegetable and fruits. V. Water. Food ls broken up in the mouth and mixed with saliva. Digestion takes place partly In the stomach, but mostly In the intestine; when thor oughly digested. it is absorbed through the walls of tho alimentary canal and ls carried by. tho blood over the body to ho assimilated. Williamsburg in "Wet" Column. Columbia, Sept. 11.-Williams burg county goes Into tho dispensary column, the State Board of Canvass ers having deadlocked .1 to 3 on thc action of tho county board In declar ing Williamsburg "wet," this acting ns a confirmation of tho county boaid's decision. It ls said that the prohibitionists plan an appeal to the Supremo Court. I For Weakness and Loss of Appetite The Old Standard general strengthening tonic, ORO VICS TA8TKI.BS9 chill TONIC, drives ou? Malaria and builds up the system. A true tonic and sure Appetiser. For adults and children. 50c. tho use that ls to be made of the^ treasury fund to bo deposited In cer tain bank:!. But this ls another story, and I am waiting further, de velopments. f When a woman suffering disorder is told that an operat frightens her. The very thought of the ho surgeon's knife strikes terror It is quite true that some of th< where an operation is the onl women have avoided the nece: Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetab attested by the grateful ?ettei health has been restored. These Two Womer Cary, Maine.-" I feel it a duty I owe to all suffering women to tell what Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound did for tue. One year ago I found myself a terrible. Bufferer. I had pains ia both sides ?ind such a soreness I could scarcely staighten up at times. My back ached, I had no appetite and was so nervous I could not sleep, then I would be so tired mornings that I could scarcely g-et around. It seemed almost im possible to move or do a bit of work and I thought I never would be any better until I submitted to an opera tion, l commenced taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and soon felt like a new woman. I had no pains, slept well, had good appe tite and was fat and could do almost Now answer this question i man submit to a surgical opera E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com it has saved many others-wi For 80 years Lydia E. Pinkli Compound has boon the standar male ills* No one sick with wt does justice to herself If she doe: mous medicine made from roo has restored so many suffering v BMfiE^Writo to LYDIA E.PIXKH/ \\\WW (CONFIDENTIAL) LYNN, M Your letter will bo opened, roati by a woman and held in strict c Sow Oats. ( Progressive Farmer. ) Tho sowing of oats should receive i attention this month. The crop re- , ports forecast high-priced corn and oats next summer. The Southern farmer can and should hedgo against the high prices that now seem bound to come. Prepare tho land well. Se cure the best seed oats obtainable, ' use a good commercial fertilizer, if : necessary, at the rate of 400 or fiOO pounds per acre and plant anywhere from two to five acres per horse. It is a cheap crop and should he grown more largely all over tho South. Put ' them in during September wherever it is possible to do so. Where corn ! is cut off the land can be prepared j and the e.its put In immediately af- ; ter tho corn ?3 shocked. They can ! also be put In cotton with the o|>en furrow method-about three rows of j oats In each cotton middle. A good acreage In oats, well prepared, well fertilized and sowed at the rate of two and one-half bushels per acre, will save the farmers of the South many thousands of dollars next year. MOTHER! GIVE CROSS, SICK CHILI) ONLY "CALIFOR NIA SYRUP OF FIOS." If peevish, feverish, tonguo coated, give "fruit laxative" al once. No matter what ails your child a laxative should be the first, treatment given. Look at the tongue, mother! If coated, it is a sure sign your "little I ono's" stomach, liver and bowels need a gentle, thorough cleansing tit once. When cross, peevish, listless, pale, doesn't sleep, eat or act. natu rally; If breath is bad, stomach sour, system full of cold, throat sore, or If feverish, give a teaspoonful of "Cali fornia Syrup of Figs," and in just a few hours all tho clogged-up, con stipated waste, sour bile and undi gested food wii' gently move out of the bowels and you have a well, play ful child again. ?Sick children needn't bo coaxed to take this harmless fruit laxative. Millions of mothers keep lt. handy because they know Its action on the stomach, liver and bowels ls prompt and sure. They also know a little given to-day saves a sick child to morrow. Ask your druggist for a 50-cent bottle of "California Syrup of Figs," which contains directions for babies, children of all ages and for grown ups plainly on the bottle. Beware of counterfeits sold hore. Got tho genuine, made by "California Fig Syrup Company." Refuse any other kind with contempt. adv. Clemson Opens With Many. Clemson College, Sept. ll.-Clem son College had a fine opening yes terday morning with about 450 of the old students In their places, about 98 per cent ot them. There will be nearly 400 new students to report op. the 16th. from some form of feminine ion is necessary, it of course spital operating table and the to her heart, and no wonder, sse troubles may reach a stage y resource, but thousands of ssity of an operation by taking le Compound. This fact is *s they write to us after their i Prove Our Claim. all my own work for a family of four. I shall always feel that I owe my good health to your medicine." -'Mrs. HAYWARD SO'WEUS, Cary, Me. Charlotte, N. C-"'I was in bad health for two years, with pains in both sides and was very nervous. If I I even lifted a chair it would cause a hemorrhage. I had a growth which the doctor said was a tumor and I never would get well unless I had an operation. A friend advised me to take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegeta ble Compound, and I gladly say that I am now enjoying fine health and am the mother ot a nico baby girl. You can usc tins letter to help other suffering women."-Mrs. ROSA SIMS, 16 Wyona St., Charlotte, N. C. f you can. Why should a wo ition without first giving Lydia pound a trial ? You know that hy should it fail in your case? iain's Vegetable d remet! v for fe tman's ailments % not try this fa ts and herbs, it ?omen to health. LM MEDICINE CO. ASS., for advice. I and answered orxfldence. Select Seed Corn in tile Field. Every year we ha;o complaints from buyers of seed corn that they did not get a good quality of seed. Tho sellers of seeds are as honest as any other class of business men, but as a general rule, seeds do best when planted under tho same soil and cli matic conditions in which they were grown. This ls particularly true of corn, but- If a man does not select his seed every year from the field he had better buy from som? one who does. He should buy as near home as pos sible and should in no case go far north or south for his seed; . but there are honest sellers of seod corn from whom he can get better seed, provided he is willing to pay for lt, than ho is likely to pick from his own crib in the spring. It. costs con siderable, however, to select seed corn in tho field, compared with crib selection, and the fact that buyers will not pay lor this extra labor ls largely responsible for tho poor crib selected seed so largely sold. If, however, a man has a good va riety of corn and will take the trou ble to inform himself how to select seed corn, and then do it. carefully, he is much more likely to obtain good seed than he is to wait, until it is wanted for "hinting and then buy such seed as is f nerally sold. If you have not a dtisfactory variety and your neighbor han, it is a good plan to make an arr.>.igement with that neighbor to allow you to select your seed from his field. I Mother of Eighteen Children. j "I am tho mother of eighteen chil ? dren and have the praise of doing moro work than any young woman in my town," writes Mrs. C. J. Martin, Boone Mill, Va. "I suffered for flvo years with stomach trouble and could not eat as much as a biscuit without suffering. I havo taken threo bottles of Chamberlain's Tab lets and am now a well woman and weigh 168 pounds. I can eat any thing I want to, and as much as I want and feel better than I have at any timo In ten years. I refer to any one In noone Mill or vicinity and they will vouch for what I say." Chamberlain's Tablets aro for sal? by all dealers. adv. Ilomb Injures Score. Chicago, Sept. ll.-More than 20 persons were Injured, many build ings wer? partly wrecked and win dows within a radius of half a mlle were shattered to-day by the explo sion of a bomb in the doorway of the private bank of Alexander Conforto, on South Halsted street. The explo sion was alleged to have been the work of black mailers. To Prevent Blood Poisoning . Dfly st once the wonderful old reliable DR. rOBXRB S ANTI8RFTIC H1?AT.IHO OIL.ltOr rica! dre<*ln* that relieves t>aln and beale at the eenie time. Not a liniment. 25c. 50c. fi.oo.