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? _"TO THINK OWN SELF BE TRUE, AM) IT MUST FOLLOW AS THE NIGHT j?lL HAY: THOU OA^ST NOT THEIsT BE FALSE TO ANY MAN." By 8TECK, Hil IO IX) H & SCHRODER._WALHALLA, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDXESl?gi?Y, APRIL 1, 1014. New S?ri?e No. 8tt?7~ Vol moo LXV.- i?." Durable Thin Hosiery r\t?L r\ D' Ji Pairs guaranteed 2 QC- aPair? ?+ for Four Months Do you pay 25c. a pair-for hosiery-on its appearance alone? Why not get GUARANTEED DUR-; ABILITY as well as fine appearance by asking for J* ~* ** Buster Brown's DARNLESS . GUARANTEED HOSIERY For Men, Women and Children Seamlessly woven from yarns spun from the longest staples of Sea Island Cotton. Reinforced at wearing parts with two, three and four ply linen thread. Foi- Sale tty \ C. W. & J. E. Bauknight, g Walhalla, S. C. Do You Ever Envy Your Employer? If you have the ability tb succeed, thou it is up to your judgment. The opening of a Bank Account is ono of tho first steps to success. Train yourself to save regularly anti systemati cally. With a portion of your earnings depos ited in bank ouch week, you will rapidly accu mulate money sufficient for a business of yo r own. START A BANK ACCOUNT TO DA)'! Westminster Bank. Shock Felt at St. Louis. St. LOUIB. March 29.-A violent earthquake, lasting one hour and 24 minutes, was recorded on the seismo graph of St. Louis University to night. ' The Instrument indicated that tho disturbance occurred about l.oOO miles southwest of here. It ls the belief of officials at the university that the earthquake was in the south ern part of Mexic? or in Central America. The tremors began at 6.4C and ended at 8.10 p. m. The shock was also recorded at Washington, D. C., Mobile, Ala., and at Cleveland. Ohio. News from Poplar. Poplar, March 30.-Special: The farmers of this community are very busy getting ready to plant. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Sanders visited in Anderson tho latter part of the week. Quite a number of people from Poplar attended the Sunday School Convention at Coneross Sunday. Born, unto Mr. and Mrs. Hoke Fanner, on March 18th, a son. Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Smith, of Stamp Creek, visited at the home of J. H. Lee recently. ' BAKING POWDER ABSOLUTELY PURE Insures the most delicious and healthful food By the use of Royal Baking Powder a great many more articles of food may be readily made at home, all healthful, de licious, and economical, adding much variety and attractiveness to the menu. The" Royal Baker and Pastry Cook," containing five hundred practical receipts for all kinds of baking and cookery, free. Address Royal Baking Powder Co.; New York. WATER FLOODS JACKSON, MISS. Five-Inch Rainfall Sends Creek Out of Hunks Int?) Business Section. Jackson. Miss.. March 28.-Fed by five inches of rainfall within 4S hours, a creek running through .lack son broke out of its hanks to-day, and the business section of the city was Hooded. At noon the rising water was two feet deep in the lobby of the Royal Hotel, the principal hostelry of the city. $75,000 Du mage ls Done. Damage so far done ls estimated to be at least $75,000. As far as known, no person has been hurt. The water rose so rapidly that the merchants did not have time to move their stocks from basements and first floors. The Illinois Central freight depot is Hooded and freight dam aged. The plant of the Capital Light and Power Company has been put out of commission, ami prospects are that a good portion of the city will be In darkness to-night. Rivers Hage in Ohio. Columbus, Ohio. March 28.-With the Creal Miami and Whitewater riv ers raging, the Scotlo climbing a foot an hour and the Muskingum out of its banks along the lowlands, anxiety was felt during last night of a recur rence of the disastrous Hoods of March 20-28, 1913. A cessation of rainfall, followed by colder weather early to-day. how ever, has checked the rise. Damage so far reported has been confined to the southwestern sections of the State, where bridges have been wash ed out. A LEGISLATOR IN TROUBLE. It I? Charged Uint He Gave Checks Withouti Funds. (Columbia Record.) Sheriff John C. McCain has re ceived from T. G. Allen, constable for Magistrate J. F. Wingate, at Rock Hill, a warrant for the arrest of Representative Norman C. Creech, of Barnwell. The giving of a false check Is the charge In the warrant. As Sheriff McCain only recently sent to Barnwell for service another war rant against Creech, he was unable to render the constable any service and will , return the warrant. Con stable Allen wasuiud-ox .-inc impres sion that the Richland sheriff knew where Creech could be found, but he was mistaken In this view and the warrant will be returned to Rock Hill. The warrant from Magistrate Win gate alleged, specifically, that on February 14, at Rock Hill, Creech made a purchase at the store of Diel & Moore and gave In exchange a check for $9.50 drawn on the Pal metto National Bank of Columbia. The check was returned by the bank with the endorsement that there were Insufficient funds to protect lt. The warrant was issued at the Instance of L. C. McFadden, a member of the flirn from whom Creech made the purchase. In his letter accompanying the warrant, Constable Allen Informs Sheriff McCain that the Rock Hill firm is determined to puah,the pros ecution and that payment of the amount involved In the check will not be accepted as a compromise. Mr. Creech, of the Barnwell dele gation in the General Assembly, ls the youngest member of that body. He fared badly In several "bad check" operations, warrants having been issued against him at the in stance of Heyward's Pharmacy for false checks aggregating $18.50, and the Lower Main Street Bank for $10. The checks were paid by his father and prosecution was dropped. Yes terday Sheriff McCain sent to the sheriff of Barnwell a warrant for the arrest of Creech In which Mrs. L. I. Kaniiner. proprietor of tho City Hotel, alleged that he left the city owing her a board bill to the amount of $83. ELECTION LAXNESS SCORED In Supreme Court Decision Affirming Lexington DIsjMUisary Vote. Columbia. March 27. - In a decis ion to-day the election in Lexington county In favor of the dispensary was declared by the Supreme Court to have been legal. The opinion was written by Associate Justice Hydrlck. Mr. Fraser dissented, all other Justices concurring. Calling atten tion to the general laxity in the ad ministration of the election laws in South Carolina. Associate Justice Hy ilrlck issues a note or w??rning. "It may not be out of place to say, fl s a note of warning to those intrusted with the administration of [he election laws, that the evidence in this caoe and others which have iOme before this Court shows such * laxness In the administration of those laws, and such flagrant viola tions of them, as ought to startle any houghtful citizen. It ls fraught with he greatest danger to good govern ment and may result disastrously Alien much graver issues are at ?take." Dispensaries will now be opened In Lexington county. Candidat? Kills Himself. Tallapoosa, Ga.. March 29.-W. L. Duke, candidate for tax collector lore, to-day arose from the dinner able, walked into an adjoining room, and shot himself dead with a revolver. Friends and relatives at ributo the act to despondency. Drought on by Illness. IT Ti|Ri ;s Sonnt?! HIM* A CERTAINTY. fepassed Measure With Pools A mcmhncnO Out. Waaihigton. March 28.-Friends of the Ont ton futures bili, re passed by the Sefjfto to-day with the timcnd menta fbgalf/.lng cotton pools stricken out, prgflcted to-night lt would pass the Hojfte berore adjournment. Its course1T the House was smoothed over, ifyis claimed, by the action of the Sente In striking out the pool ing a fremont clauses on reimest of Senatof*fcmith, of South Carolina, au thor q?hc original measure. Senafcr Smith to-day said he would seek ln;th<> agricultural appropriation bill to [obtain $100,000 to place on every Mi ma ry market in the South sample&f of the government grades and b?wd by the bill, and also sam ples o {fara rn spun from the various grades*? Aftefeenator Kenyon called un his motion, for consideration of th? bil! to-dayvfj[he offered to withdraw it upon tlie assurance of Senator Smith, of Souls Carolina, that the pooling amendaient would be eliminated in the Howe. Senator Borah, however, contended that the Senate would strike j itt thc amendment, and Mr. Smithy]Beelaring that the pooling clause .?yris not pertinent to the body of tho ?lill, asked for reconsideration and mtj??d to then strike out the ob jectionable feature. This done, the altcredOTueasure was passed by a nun ni naur* consent. Passage of the bill was a sequel to yenr8 ?endeavor on the part of the Ser<ntofc'froni South Carolina. It provld?? that no person connected with aftexchango shall send through the malfc matter promoting enforce ment OlfUture delivery contracts un less the exchange requires all such [tons to comply with certain 8, among them that con st porvide for delivery with lit of agriculture standards. ld require exchanges to 1m ondition, In future transac t If the cotton sold is mid asie grade, and the deliv he.other grades, then the 1 difference in value must At present the Now York ins In vogue a fixed differ of grades. . f - State Executive Committee Set? Date for Meeting in Columbia. Columbia. March 28.-The State Democratic Convention will be called to meet in Columbia May 20 by the State Executive Committee. The constitution of the Democratic party says: "Thc State Convention shnll be called by the State Executive Com mittee to meet every Presidential or State election year on the third Wed nesday in May, and the county con ventions shall meet on the first Mon day In May of puch years." This means Jiat the county con ventions will meet May 1. The Dem ocratic clubs will meet on the fourth Saturday In April, or April 2.r>th. Innnedlptely following the meet ing of the State Convention the Exec utive Committee will be called to meet hy John Gary Evans, of Spar tanburg, chairman, for the purpose of preparing the itineraries for the State and Senatorial campaigns. As has been the custom, a meeting will be arranged for each county in the State. The attempt to place safeguards about the primary system failed at the last session of the General As sembly, and lt is said that the move ment will be carried to the State Con vention. It is said that the fight on the primary reform will begin in the club meetings and carried on through to the State Convention. The question of reforming the rule? and regulations governing pri mary elections In South Carolina ws:-. brought up at the 1912 convention, when a special committee of seven was provided for in a resolution to Investigate the matter and report back to the next convention. Just what lias been accomplished by this committee has not been announced, although lt Is said that the members have been at work, and will submit a report at the 1914 convention. The first primary will be held on Tuesday, August 25th. COUNTY FARMERS' UNION. Quarterly Meeting ti> Ile Hehl at Con cross Friday, April IOth, The Oconee County Farmers' Un ion will meet in regular quarterly session with Coneross Local. No. 70. Friday. April 10th, at 10 a m. A full delegation from each local In the county is requested, as there is some Important business that will bo brought before the meeting. The meeting will be held nt the old school house at Coneross church. Remember the place and be on hand promptly at the hour fixed. 1. W. Alexander, President. J. H. Garrison, Secretary. Hough to Die In Chair. Columbia, March 28.-The Su preme Court to-day affirmed the sen tence of the lower court In finding John IC. Hough guilty of murder. Hough, a prominent white man of Kershaw county, shot and killed his father-in-law. He was convicted of murder and sentenced to die In the electric chair. The Kershaw county court will fix the date for Hough to be electrocuted. MK. HOLLAND TO THK FARMER. Some Advice ns to Crops, Fertilizers and Other Mattel's. Editor Keowee Courier: I would like to advise that our fanners give special attention to cover crops. He sure to harrow with a cutaway or disc or spading harrow, until :<1! turf is thoroughly cut up, then use a turner. If the rye gets 20 Inches or two feot high you should use the mowing ma chine and then a harrow. I would also like to get the atton tlpn of those who have low or wet bottom lands. .1. P. Strtbling, who lives on Coneross, carried out a dem onstration last year on this class of soil that is worth while He laid off his rows nine feet wide. running them with the stream. At the lower end he had a ditch. With a two horse turn plow he bedded out this land in these wide rows, and every third water furrow he cut through at the end Into the ditch. At. planting time die runs a harrow over these beds and lays off two rows on top of each bed about two feet apart. He kept the beds as much elevated In cultivating as possible. Py doing this one can make fairly good crops of corn on very low lands If there ls no overflow. I hope to meet the county boatd soon In the interest of better farm animals. In my judgment we could not spend In the county three thou sana? dollars In a better way than in purchasing three jacks. Say put one on the poor farm, one at Oak way and one above Walhalla, and we already have one at Clemson. I feel quite sure that we would within five years begin to see our way clear. As lt ls. we get In a woree condition regard ing stock all the time. It would be a great liolp to Oconee county If tho public roads had the much-needed' drainage. There arc a great many places where, If there had been a bank; terrace or dam, or some obstruction to subdue nature-just some kind of way for the water to get out-the roads would be good where they are now almost impassa ble. Where this is the case it is un fair to the public, and we should not be so narrow and selfish as lo tram ple on the rights ?of the general pub spirit. Better roads, better schools and better churches will give us an ideal county. Are you mixing youl own fertili zers, or are you paying the other fel low $5 per ton to do it for you? Will "King Cotton" bankrupt you this year or will you help to feed the world with corn, potatoes syrup, melons, vegetables, or raise pigs or cattle of any kind? He sure and plant good seeds. I hope to meet the farmers at Re turn school house Friday nigh.' at S o'clock. M. C. Holland. P. S. -To all who have not applied nitrate of soda to small grain I would like to advise that the sooner it ls done the better results you will get. I learn thal the price of 10 lie'1 cent acid phosphate ls from $13 to $10 |ier ton to the best men in the county. Something wrong some where. . M. C.. H. TWO KILLINGS AT FLORENCE. All Parties Concerned Were Negroes. One Mun, One Woman. Florence, March 2 9.-At a negro dance on the plantation of Mack Gregg, about three miles east of this city, last night Anthony Scott shot and mortally wounded .lames Conner, his cousin. Conner walked Into the yard and attempted to get over a fence and fell dead. The wound In flicted was from a pistol shot that entered near the heart. Scott, his slayer was arrested and is now In jail. At the last terni* of court Scott was tried for the killing of a negro woman and was found not guilty. On the old Goose Pond road, about two miles from the city, Leila Smalls was stabbed hy a negro supposed to be one Fred Melton. The Smalls woman was rushed to the city and carried to the police station, dying soon after reaching there. The Smalls woman was stabbed In the left breast and the wound was an ugly one. Melton, the supposed slayer, made good his escape and has not been seen since. Too much liquor is said to have been the cause of both tragedies. ?HANGE ON RURAL ROUTE NO. % iVnlJmllu's Second Route to Undergo Changes .Sought by Hat rons. The following letter ls self-explan itory : "Washington. D. C., March 27. Hon. Wyatt Aiken, House of Repre sentatives.-My Dear Mr. Aiken* With reference to your letter of the iOth instant requesting early atcion >n a petition for a change In Rural ?{onto No. 2, Walhalla, S. C., I beg to ?tate that a change in thc route, is requested by J. J. Deatoa and Ubers, will be authorized, effective \pril 10, 1914, the earliest practica tic date. "Sincerely yours, "Jas. I. Rlamlee, 'Fourth Asst. Postmaster General." The Courier is not advised as to the extent or nature of the contem plated changes on Route No/ 2, but it la generally supposed that tn3 ser vice will ho somewhat extended, slightly increasing the number of na tron s served. \ SEC UHRS DUKEDOM OF DOCTOR. Friends of (lon. VIIlu Fear Ho lin* Lost Torre?n i ? i . .. 11 ;. ashing! on. March 3 0.-Dr. Lam hort, an American physician, arrested hy Mexican authorities at Los Mochis after a Constitutionalist officer upon whom ho had performed an operation had died, has been released as the re sult or the energetic action of Secre tary Daniels. On Hie recommendation of the vice consul at Nogales, Mi. Daniels order ed Rear Admiral Howard to send n warship to Topolohampo. The cruiser New Orleans steamed at once and Dr. Lain bert was released. Charge O'Shaughnessy reports also the release of three Americans Gotdschmtdt, Donahue and Cross-* thwaite-held on charges of aiding; the rebels. Huerta freed them. Though the Constitutionalists here tofore lia ve been fairly successful in maintaining order in Sonora, raiding and pillaging by marauders are re ported. No News from Villa. Chihuahua, Mexico, March 30. For seven days Francisco Villa, mili tary loader of the Constitutionalist revolution, has waged his battle against Torre?n. The fight has been the bitterest and loss of life the heav iest lb recent history of Mexico, .judging from the meager press dis patches received from the front and the stories of the slaughter told to day by many of the 088 wounded veterans of Torre?n who are in hos pitals here. Constitutionalist sympathizers atld rebel officers In Chihuahua again have become anxious as to the fate of their military leader and the rem nants of the 12,000 men who march ed to Torre?n With him to engage In the revolution's .first decisive battle. No word from Villa came early to-day to relieve the anxiety which obtains throughout Chihuahua. Reports that heavy re-enforcements were hasten ing to relieve Cen. Refugio Velasco" the Federal commander at Torre?n, who has made a resourceful reslet ance against the rebels, were received here with misgivings. But the fact that no news of Gen. Villa's progress has been received for many hours is ilj^iiiiiiilii^iltlMg^ been with the rebel leader In the past free access to telegraphic communi cation was given newspaper corre spondents at the front, but when he met. with reverses Villa would allow no news sent over the Wires. TWO KILLKD IN WRECK. Heed, on Collision on Sea I nm rd-TWO Men Seriously Injured. Abbeville, March 28.-Engineer W. E. Williams and Fireman Boyd were killed and Engineer VV. G. Cun ningham and Fireman Frank Purse ley were Injured In a head-on collis ion on the Seaboard railway near Carleton, Ga., this morning. Boyd was killed instantly and Wil liams died in about an hour. Pursely Is seriously Injured, perhaps fatally. Cunningham will recover. Both were freight trains, and a misreading of orders is said lo have been the cnuse of the wreck. A wrecking train wan sent at once from the shops here and a little later a special with physicians. Engineer Williams was the father of Miss Margaret Williams, a student In Anderson College. All parties are from AbbevMto. ? ' - CONERO88 AND COMMUNITY. Meeting of Sunday School Convention Was Great Success. Coneross, March 30.-Special: Tho Sunday School Convention held hero Satu .lay and Sunday was very In teresting and much enjoyed by all present, and we want to thank those who gave such Inspiring talks on Im portant subjects for their efforts in making tho convention enthusiastic, and also to thank the convention for meeting with us. We feel that lt will he an uplift to our Sunday school and church. The assistance In music rendered by Messrs. Dur ham and Murphy was also much ap preciated. ii. M. Hunnicutt spent yesterday with his father, .1. M. Hunnicutt. of Seneca, who is quite Indisposed. We hope he will soon recovei. Mrs. Lizzie Bearden, of Tallulah Falls, Ga., spent las' week with her mother, Mrs. Mary Dllworth. Mr. Bearden Is also with her at present. J. S. Abbott and family spent last Thur-uJay at Return with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Asa Wood, of New Hope, visited at the home of Mr. and ?drs. S. M. Hunnicutt and attended the convention Saturday and Sunday. Mrs. M. Abbott, who has been quite ill, is much Improved. Paul Marett, of South Union, vis ited W. O. Alexander and family re cently. Miss Julian, of Clearmont, silent several days last week with Mr. and Vira. .1. S. Abbott here. Mrs. Jim George spent last weok with her parents, Mr. and Mr*. Thomas, of New Hope. Mr. Steward, from above Walha ia, lias reecntly moved Into our com munity, the output of tungsten ore for thia country during 1913 was 1,526 tons, valued at $640,ROO. A large portion if thin new metal lr. used ?Q nicking mazda lamp fllamonts.