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jKEOWEE COURIER (ESTABLISHED imo.) \f\>MMn i\ Every Wednesday Morning ftabacrlptiou 91 Ter Annum. A<lv?*rt ixl og Rates Reasonable. -Ry IST I'M K, SHELOIt ? SCHRODER. Communications o( a |)ersonal char acter charged for as advertise ments. Obituary not li es and tributes of re spect, of liol over ono hundred vords, will bo printed free of . barge. All over that, number ?roust be paid for nt tho rate of one ! cont a woi d. Cash to accompany ; manuscript. WALHALLA, 8. C.: WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER IO, 101:1 TWENTY TEXANS MEET DEATH. Million-Dollar Loss Prom Tiirbiitenl Rivers in (cudal Te.xa.s. Dallas. Texas. l>?v. I. Kain con tinued to rall to-day over Centra! Texas Hood districts, adding menace io high waters, which already have ?est 20 lives and about $ 1,000,000 property damage. The area of over flowing rivers spread rapidly over night, the most important new point ? k-i be overflowed being San Antonio. The San Antonio river went ont of hanks and has flooded large sections Of the city. Many persons are being carried from their homes by rescuing parties. Much damage was done there, bul no fatalities are reported. The water this forenoon began to recede almost as rapidly as it had COUie lip, saving San Antonio from imminent danger of having its water ?supply shut off hy Hooding of the pumping plant. List of Dead. The death list caused hy the Hood was: At Relton, five members of the Polk family. Al Drownwood. I). Lyton. At Dallas. D. V. Lacy. At Grand Prairie, -. . Manly. At Highbank, near Martin, two negroes. Av Austin, three unidentified men Kcported drowned. The floods to-day covered portions of nearly every county in a line drawn northward from San Antonio almost to the Panhandle, and expend ing eastward from this line to include nil the important cities of North and t'entrai Texas. Houston, Beaumont ?iiaid Galveston alone were, not threat .ened. Thc territory affected was so wide spread that, although tho homeless numbered thousands, there were comparatively few of them In each district, so that no serious relief problems were presented. Trees standing in swift water presented a serious problem to the resc era. and sal least one person has lost his life -.from being swept against their cRlQkH. No ratall'les have been re ported from a.mong the hundreds Mvhe took to the trees The death Hst was pushed up to "20 to-day when seven negroes were drowned tit Hearne, when the Brazos river rise reached that city. Doats were out this afternoon at Hearne ?mwrjiing many persons caught in then hornes. Hearne is about sixty miles south of Waco. I tm/os River Floods Waco. Waco, Texas, Dec. ;{. The Brazos river Hood passed all previous ree ivKis |>ere to-day when it touched .'{(> fees ti inches, and still was rising. h'zuit Waco, the old portion of the rity, with about 10,000 inhabitants, had H> feel of waler in its principal Streets. This section began Hooding la**** night when a levee broke. Am plK warning lo move out was given before lhere was any danger ol lo.-;s >>r lifo. I looils Swoop Antonio. San Antonio. Texas. Dec I Vileods which have driven thousands .?f persons from (heir homes in other j>:\r1rf of Texas reached San Antonio to-day when the river here wont out ol' its banks and inundated several sections of the city. Rescuing par ties, hastily organized, began carry lag the marooned lo safety. The damage to properly was considerable. . life loss has been reported here. Loss of Life Reaches IO. Dallas, Texas. Dec. 7>. Five liiin -irod pe'sons are reported clinging to irees in the vicinity of Hearne, the cen te i of tho Hood district, to-day. Hundreds are said lo have tallen rel oge in cotton ginning buildings, which are I he most substantial ?moses on many plantations. Many Smnses arc washed away. The death 1 isl ls now Uno.va to bo about 10, perhaps much larger, as many bodies are reported (loafing down the Brazos river. The sil nat ion in North Texas i vBs proving. Finley Espato $185,000, Washington, Dec. !>. The late ?\.\. W. Finley, president of the Steojthem Railway, left au estate val ued .il $18f>,000, according to the Bill, made last March, and filed to 1 t. \ life interest is devised to his a?if??, Lillie Davis Finley, and at her ?rath it ?oes in ti ust to the five chil dren. Should Mrs. Finley remarry ''he ?rust created becomes immedi ately effective. Mr. Kinley explained in his will fttoaf. Ibis latter provision was in wertetl at the spec ial roques! of his wit* and not on account of any lack coff KSMnfidence. lu proof of this tho IfStulor in the following sentence ap awl/lied his wife as executrix. Real estate In this city and a farm i? Fauquier county, Virginia, valued M $ I 2ii,Ono and insurance. stocks Mri bonds, valued at $t;o,ODD, com (MH?se tho estate. To Cure a Cold lo Ono Day ?>Jtar tAXATIVK BROMO Quinine, it ?top? the V&t&tt and Headache and works off the Cold. tMmnti*t* refund money if lt fails to cure. ?E. V. GROVlfS elKiiatme on each box. 25c. UNION'S NEW LECTURER. President Karrett Announces the Ap pointment of Radford, of Texas. Atlanta. I>ec. 8.-President Bar rett, of thc National Farmers' Educa tional and Co-operative Union of America, has announced the appoint ment of Peter Radford, ex-president of the Texas Farmers' Union, as na tional lecturer, with headquarters at Kort Worth, Texas. Mr. Radford's department will do educational and organization work and he will han dle publicity work for the National Union, discussing, through the press, agricultural questions from the standpoint of tho men who follow the plow. PETER RADFORD, Ox-President Texas Farmers' Union. The National Union now has ap proximately four million active mein .el's, and has State organizations in !'l Slates and local unions in '.\'.\ Hates. lalifornia Woman Seriously Alarmed "A short time ago 1 contracted a overo cold which settled on my migs and caused nie a great deal of nnoyance. 1 would have bad cough ng spells and mj lungs were so ore and Inflamed I began to be seri msly alarmed. A friend recom mended Chamberlain's Coug'n Rem id J*, saying she had used it for years. bought a bottle and it relieved my ough the llrst night, and in a week was rid of the cold and soreness of ny lungs." writes Miss Marie Gerber, law tel le, Cal. For sale by all deal ers, adv. LNOTHER WRECK ON SEABOARD. .'reight Train and Switch Engine Col lido-Engineer Krinkley Killed. Columbia, Dec. 5.-Engineer O. L. | Irinkley was killed and the negro Ireman, Dixon, badly injured when . freight train on the Seaboard Air jine ran into the rear end of a switch uigine, which was hacking out of a witch at the end of the long trestle iver the Congaree river, in the city imits of Columbia, early this moril ug. Conductor C. B. Orrell, Engineer ). P. Cornewell and Flagman Mann, if the freiglit train, were all serious y Injured and were taken to the hos lital for treatment. The fireman of he freight train was among in ured. The accident happened early this norning and its cause lias not yet icen known. The long freight train vas just clearing the trestle, coming nto the station in the city limits, vhen it smashed into the switch en tine. The switch engine and teodor vere demolished. The engineer of he freight was hurled from the track ind the cab at cl one fiat car of limi ter demolished. The dead engi leer had been in lu' service of the company for seve al years. Death of Mrs. Susie Owen. (Anderson Mail.) Mrs. Susie Owen died In the hos lital at Columbia last Sunday aftcr loon. Her body was taken to Cen tral Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Owen was L'i! years old. She kv as a native of Anderson county. She was a daughter of the late E. H. Hopkins, of Senora, and about seven years ago she married J, B. Owen, a son of IC. Lee Owen. She was a strong member of the Methodist chu n h. She is survived by her husband and two small children, mother and two brothers, Frank and Jule Hop kins. Her remains were laid to rest in Mount Zion cemetery, Central. GIRLS! THICKEN AND BEAUTIFY YOUR HAIR. Bring Bark Its (?loss. Lustre, ('harm and (iel Rid of Dandruff-Try the Moist Cloth. To be possessed of a head of heavy, beau ti fbi hair: soft, lustrous, fluffy, wavy and free from dandruff is merely a matter of using a little Dan derine. lt is isy and inexpensive to have nico, p hair and lots of it. Just gel .-cent bottle of Knowlton's Dar . ? .ie now all drug stores rec ommend it apply a little as directed and within ten minutes there will be au appearance of abundance; fresh ness, fluffiness and an Incomparable gloss and lustre, and try as you will you cannot lind a trace of dandruff or falling hair: but your rea; surprise will be after about two weeks' use, when you will see new hair-fine and downy at first yes but really new hair sprouting all over your scalp - Danderine is, we believe, tho only sure hair grower; destroyer of dand ruff and cure for itchy scalp, and it never fails lo stop falling hair at once. If you want to prove how pretty and soft your hair really is, moisten a cloth with a little Danderine and carefully draw it through your hair, taking one small strand at a time. Your hair will be soft, glossy and beautiful in just a few moments-a delightful surprise awaits every one who tries this. adv. NEGRO SMOTHERED TO DEATH. II tul Gone to Sleep Beneath the Oil Mill Overflow Flue. (Anderson Mail, 5th.) Eug?ne Williams, a negro about ['30 years old, was smothered to death at the Farmers' Oil Mill some time Thursday night by being covered with about two tons of cotton Beed. Ile was missed this morning, and a search resulted in his being found at ? o'clock Friday morning beneath the overflow from the cotton seed flue, where lu- hat! apparently lain down to sloop, hoing covered by seed and smothered to death. Williams's body was removed, and Coroner .1. H. Hardin made an ?uves tigation. An examination was mide by a physician, and as a result of th's it was decided that an inquest was unnecessary; that the negro's death bad come as the result of his own carelessness in lying down beneath the overflow flue in tho oil mill. The negro had no near relatives lure who were interested, and will be buried at the county homo this afternoon, the oil mill and the county sharing the expense, lt is said thal he bad boasted that he had been ?rn lin- county roads seven times, and was not tied to any one. An uncle at Walhalla was notified of Williams' death, but declined to have anything .o do with the burial of the body. It is supposed that Williams was not awakened by the seed pouring in on him until tho weight was such thai lit* was unable to get out. Not Beyond Help a? 87. Sleep-disturbing bladder weak ness, stiffness in joints, weak, inact ive kidney action and rheumatic pains, are all evidence of kidney trouble. Mrs. Mary A. Dean. 47 E. Walnut St., Taunton, Mass., writes: "I have passed my 87th birthday, and thought I was beyond the reach of medicine, but Foley Kidney Pill? have proved most beneficial In my case." Bell's drug store. adv. 25 KILLED; SCORES INJURED. Victims Caught Like Rats in a Trap in Huston Lodging House. Boston, Oec. 4.-Twenty-five men were killed In a fire which swept through the upper lloors of the Ar cadia Hotel, a lodging house in tho southern portion of Hoston early yes terday. Others are missing. Scores were taken to hospitals suffering from burns and injuries received in jumping from windows. Nearly all the bodies were terribly burned and mutilated, making iden tification impossible. The victims were men in poor circumstances who had resorted to the place for a night's lodging. Caught in the crowded bunks on the top floor of the five-story brick building and in the small rooms on the fourth floor they were helpless. When they were aroused the stairways were in flames and there was a mad rush for tho fire escapes at the rear. Practically all the men were naked. Many were rescued by the firemen and police. Some escaped by walk ing a shaky plank stretched to an ad joining building or by jumping across a five-foot alley to neighboring roofs. The property loss is only $25,000. The Arcadia was located at the cor ner of Washington and Laconia streets. The lower lloors were occu pied by stores. No "Tohac" for Preachers. Charlotte, Dec. 1.-Preachers or dained hereafter by the Western North Carolina Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, will not be allowed to use tobacco, the conference at to-day's session taking this action after a hard fight. HAD CATARRH FIVE YEARS. Mr. John son of st. Elmo. Illi nois, was troubled five years with catarrh. The cat:.. rh was so severe in his case that his life seemed t h r eatened As he ex presses it himself, ho had "one foot in the grnve." Of course he tried to get relief. Many prac titioners were con sulted and a MR. S. S. JOHNSON catarrh St. Elmo, Illinois, specialist in St. Louis was tried. Ile got so weak end thoroughly run down that ho do i clares he could not walk more than I a hundred vards without resting. I Few peoplo understand ttiat entnrrp. ls a constant drain on the system, 'iii.: discharge of mucus which is j going on in such cases is largely com posed of blood serum, and bi a great ?waste. Sooner or later it will weaken the strongest man. i According to reports received ?'rom Mr. Johnson, he was In a desperate condition, but ho found relief from j his trouble. We will let him say how , he found it. His own words say: "My friends told me to take Pe ; nina, and I dbl so. I now feel that Peruna has saved my life. It ls tho I best medicine on earth, and I would . not be without lt." This seems almost too good to bo : true. No doubt there ore ??orne rcad> era that will think so. Tho abovo statements, however, can be verified : by writing Mr. Johnson. Every home should be provided with I the lost edition of "The Ills of Life," sent free by the Peruna Co., Colum ? bus, Ohio. ' Ask Your Druggist for Free Peruna Lucky Day Almanac for 1014. CLEMSON EXTENSION WORK Pren? Hu I let In No. 1*1-Farmers* Short Course In Agriculture. The four weeks' winter course in agriculture will begin January 13. 1914, and will continue until Febru ary 10. All who intend taking this course should report Monday, Janu ary 12. It is an established fact that a farm can no longer bo run success fully in the old-time, haphazard fashion. Science and brains applied to farming so increase the yield and improve its quality as to make some knowledge of the underlying princi ples of scientific farming essential to the successful farmer of to-day. While it is realized that the four-year course ls none too lon? to ?ive a boy a foundation which will insure suc cess in farming, it Is clearly seen that there are many practical farm ers who have neither the time nor the means to devote four years to Ihe college course, and who would he greatly benefited hy a few weeks spent at the college, lt is to meet snell a demand that Clemson College (liters this short course of four weeks. The work will he extremel) practical. Lectures will he given on cotton growing and cotton grading, rotation ot' crops, production of grasses and forage crops, the breed ing and feeding of live stock, dairy ing, fertilizers (their composition, application and home mixing); hog cholera and the use ol' hog cholera serum: tick eradication, control of contagious diseases thoth plant and animal). In addition to tlie lec tures, practical work will be given in judging live stock, testing milk, but ter making, budding and grafting, the making of cuttings, laying off the orchards and vineyards, the planting, pruning and treating ol' fruit trees, vines and ornamental shrubbery, the growing of vegetables, and the con struction of cold frames and hot beds. These courses will be supple mented with special illustrated lec tures given during the evenings by members of the teaching staff, and will include talks and discussions on plant diseases, injurious insects and methods of controlling them, plant breeding, seed selection, gulleying and its prevention; terracing, road making, etc. This course is open to all farmers and farmers' sons of South Carolina. There arc no entrance requirements except a desire on the part of those entering to increase their knowledge of farm operations and farm man agement. Tlie only expenses will be railwav fare and $10 for room and board. If more information is desired, write to the Director of the Agricul tural Department, Clemson College. "CA SC A RETS' ' A1 AVA YS STRAIGHTEN YOU UP. If Costive, Headachy, Bilious, Stom ach Sour, Breatii Bad-Clean Your Liver und Bowels. Get a 10-cent box now. You men and women who can't get feeling right-who havo headache, coated tongue, foul taste and foul breath, dizziness, can't sleep, are bilious, nervous and upset, bothered with a sick, gassy, disordered stom ach, or have headache and feel worn out. Are you keeping your bowels clean with Cascareis, or merely forcing a passageway every few days with salts, cathartic pills or castor oil? Cascarets work while you sleep; cleanse the stomach, remove the sour, undigested, fermenting food and foul gases; take the. excess bile from the liver and carry out of the system all the constipated waste mat ter and poison in tho bowels. A Cascaret to-night will straighten you out by morning--a 10-cent box from any drug store will keep your stomach sweet; liver and bowels reg ular, and head clear for months. Don't forget the children. They love Cascarets because they taste good never gripe or sicken. adv. A Beal Thanksgiving, fountain Best, R. F. D. No. I, Dec. 3.-Special: In accordance with a time-honored custom of our forefathers, and in compliance with the proclamations of the President of the t'nited States and of the Gover nor of our State, we gave thanks on Thursday, Novembei 27th, at the home of Rev. and Mrs. M. J. ?Moore. The services were conducted hy W. P. Darker, and Hiere were about 100 present. It seemed thal everybody present enjoyed the services and all went away rejoicing. Rev. F, T. Burton was present, and Rev. M. J. Moore and F. T. Burton have held services In the community each nighl since, up to Sunday night, when the services closed, with three accessions to Long Creek church. This is much to be thankful for. Baptism will he administered to the candidates on the third Sunday in December. Abbeville Supt. Ed. Resigns. I Abbeville, D.c. ;,. W. lt. Bradley, I superintendent of education for Ah I bovllle county, lias been appointed a j deputy collector under Collector of Internal Revenue Heyward. He re cently stood the civil service exami nation and was successful. Ile has resigned as superintendent ol educa tion. IS. C. Horton has announced his candidacy for superintendent of edu cation to succeed Mr. Bradley. Ms Pills will save the dyspeptic from many days of misery, and enable him to eat whatever he wishes, They prevent SICK HEADACHE, cause the food to assimilate and nour ish the body, give keen appetite, DEVELOP FLESH and solid muscle. Elegantly sugar coated. M. Take No Substitute. r\n PLANT BEFORE COLD WEATHER COMES. -PP-Sweet Peas. You can pick from five to eight hundred blooms a week from J 2c. worth. Anderson Floral Co., Anderson, S. C. Mrs. Nevitt Fant, Agent, Walhalla, S. C. It's a better car-sold at a lower price. Under all conditions-in every country-the FORD has proven itself the one car that will meet every test. And in first and after costs it saves money for its owner. Fivo hundred dollars is tho new price of tho Ford runabout; the touring car is five filly; tho town car seven filly-all f. o. b. Detroit, complete with equipment. Get catalogue and particulars (rom PIEDMOKf AUTO CO-, R. C. CARTER :-: W. A. GRANT Phone 34. THANKSGIVING AT OCOXKH INN. The New Host Gave Ills Patrons a Kino Hill of Fare. Those who were so foi Lunate as to dine at the Oconee Inn, Seneca, on Thanksgiving Day were treated to a royal spread hy Landlord Norman on ; that festive occasion. The menu, > given below, was all to be desired I and would have done credit to any : metropolitan hotel. Menu: Blue Points. Mixed Pickles. Queen Olives. Saltines. Cream of Tomato Soup. White Plume Celery. Roast of Native Beef Au Jus. Roast Oconee Tom Turkey, Stuffed with Oysters. Cranberry Sauce. Waldorf Salad. Banana Fritters. Vanilla Sauce. (In Orange Cases.) Carolina Head Rice. While Fotaioes Au Gratin. Candied Sweet Potatoes. Stewed Tomatoes. Boston Baked Heans. Escalloped Corn. Corn Bread and Butter Milk. White Bread. Ambrosia. Pumpkin Custard. Fruit Cake. Pound Cake. Cocoanut Cake. Chocolate Cake. Apples. Oranges. Bananas. Grapes Tea. Coffee. Milk. Nuts. Raisins. Cheese. Denver Snow hound-*.M Inches. Denver, Colo., Dec. 4.-Denver is snowbound to-night. At S o'clock tile weather bureau reported 24 in ches of snow had fallen, with no pros pect of cessation for ten hours. Since midday street car traffic has been blocked. Thousands were marooned In the down-town district to-night. Suburban and overland trains were hours late. Rheumatis Backache, Sprained An "I wnfi ill for fi lon? limo with n sovorcl; Liniment and now 1 nm nble to bo about i cause I think yon deserve ft lot of credit market mull Rind) nlwiiya take tiuic to Chat. Mouse, Uaitiniore, Aid. SLOJ UN? At all Df.a4er.-2ik , 80c. and $1.00. SI?. and poult i Address Dr. Earl S. Sloan, lac. TUM TOWNES-LOOPKR WEDDING. The Bride Well Known in Walhalla. Married linst Tuesday. Greenville, Dec. 4.-Special: On Tuesday morning, December 2d, at Hie residence of Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Risen, the bride's sister, the mar riage of Miss Eii/.a Keith Townes and L. E. Loope.- was solemnized. Two little dower girls, Mary Townes and Ailleen Tolbert, daintily attired in white and blue, and carrying bas kets of pink carnations tied with pink tulle, entered first; then the bride, with her brother, II. K. Townes; the groom with Dr. L. O. Mauldin. The ceremony was performed by Dr. Z. T. Cody and was an unusually beau tiful one. The bride wore a becom ing brown traveling suit and carried an exquisite bouquet of bride's roses and lilies of the valley. After the ceremony refreshments were served in the dining "oom. and immediately afterwards Mr. and Mrs. Looi>er left Tor Charleston and other points. The bride is a daughter of the late Col. Geo. P. Townes and Mary Keith Townes, and as Miss Lidie Townes was well known in social and literary circles. The groom is a native of Pickens, S. C., but is now located with the Canadian Railway at Win nipeg, Canada. Among tlie out-of-town guests were Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Tolbert, Miss Ailleen Tolbert, of Greenwood; Samuel and Doyle Looper. Capt. and Mrs. J. R. Anderson, of Anderson, and Mrs. W. I). Moss, of Walhalla. Millionaires Hunt Without License. Columbia. Dec. 1.-A nephew of Andrew Carnegie and a son of tho late Russell Sago were arrested by the chief game warden at Camden to day for hunting in South Carolina without a license. The cases were settled out of court on the payment ol' $T.n by each of the young men. rn, Sprains Neuralgia ter, that's good stuff. The pain in ll gone-I never saw anything work i Sloan's Liniment." Thousands of plc voice the same opinion. Herc's root'. Rclievod Pain In Rr.ck. wns troubled wilt? a very had pain in my lor soiiiv time. I went, to a doctor hut ho dill not. do QiO any Rood, so I purchased a bottle cf Sloan's Liniment, mid now I nm iv well woman. 1 always keep o bot' tl? of Sloan's Liniment in tho Rouse." "AM** Matilda Cotton, ... ; Mj'rtl. Aie., Urooklyn, N. >'. Sciatic Rheumatism. "Wc have used Sloan's Lini ment for over six rears sad found it tho best wc ever used. When my wife had sciatic rhenmat ir m the only thing that did her any Rood wiw Sloan's Liniment. Wc cannot praise lt highly enough." -Mr. "'"?<*. Oes Motaos, Iowa. kio itoHovctl. / sprained ankle. I ?rot a bottle of Sloan's ind can wall; a ?rent deal. I write this be for p ittiiifc such a fino Liniment on tho recommend Ur. Sloan's Liniment." -Mr*. MIS 4ENT mt'm instructive, hook on WM?, cattle, bos* rv ??Ot ire?, . ?a Boston, Ma***