KEOWEE COURIER
(E8TAUL18HBD 1849.)
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WAI HALLA, S. C.:
TUESDAY, VOVK.MItKK lil. HUI.
V Illili DOES MOST OA MAU E 7
I nu-- Strong Drink Hurt Youth ot'
Country Moi?- (dum Cigmvttes?
Editor Keowee Courier: While
lunch has been said -and written in
regard to thu liquor trafile and its
uwful consequences, it seems that
bol h ibo pulpit atol the press have
been silent in lenard to cigarette
smoking, which, I believe, ls doing
more real damage to the bodies and
minds ol tb" men and boy.-; of m-day
than ans Other one (bing. I admit
thal the liquor traille has been the
direct cause of more bloodshed, mur
der and violence titan cigarette
Kinoking. Liquor del hornes reason;
ii breaks the laws ol' (?od and man;
ii desecrates the holy Sabbath; it
tra ni pies under tool the tenderest
feelings ol humanity; ii is a moral
pestilence that blights tb?- very at
mosphere; ii is a dark slain upon
honesty, a blur upon purity, a clog
upon piogress. Wc go farther and
say that tin- liquor I rallie is an Incen
tive to falsehood, deceit and crime.
lt has bred d ru n ka rds. thieves, mur
derers and cowards; it blights
homes and .lannis souls; it corrupts
the ballot box. bribes legislation and
tampers with the courts ol' justice.
Jt says to the political party, you
straddle this question (this bill) and
stab :t. and the wriggle-back strad
dler, and stabs
The cigarette habit, we admit,
docs no: produce brain-storm, does
not have tli< effect upon the body
and mind as the whiskey; but it
does produce a deadening effect upon
the whole system, lt dries up the
blood, the foundation Of lite; it
fills up the cells of the lungs with,
poisonous nicotine; it clouds the
vision; it dulls t be brain; it be
numbs tbe mental faculties; it
weakens the vi tal lt; and kills om all
padiotism and courage; it blunts
manhood, takes the youthful, healthy
color from the lace, the brilliant lus
tre fioni the ives, makes one's face
swarthy and sallow, the eyes hollow
and sluggish; it will make you care
less and cowardly and as sure is
truth i; truth, smoking cigarettes
will ?hoi ten one's lifo.
"The Rook" says, "Your sins will
lind you out." ht does not matter
what sort ol sin we commit, nature
will wrl?e il in our face or upon our
belies. it is nlarming to see the
awful hanit of cigarette smoking and
coca-cola drinking. These two
things constitute thc greatest dual
cnrr.e thal confront-; the American
youth today. lt i?, more damaging!
lo tin young men and hoya than
whiskey, lt here is any one who
doubt* these statements, jost visit
the collen mills and ether places. |
ii-k j ei to go down,lo Horse-Creek
Valley, In Aiken county, win re there
are about eighl cotton mills on one
Fl roam, an I where ?here are hun
dreds 01 nett ind boys who are rea' I
< it! .1 : < ?: I e fiend:!, and thin loll nie I
what your verdict ls, I asked a man !
the ethe'- d i> il I i! did tu?: think
ci ga ret ti smoking was sapping away I
his Iii.-. " Vos." h . sahl bul I can't
quit i:." Well, I ..ul. are you golna.
to let .i i igareilc two inches long con
trol Nour will.' 1 am it' 'p.- opinion
tba! a tani who hi; been a ?lave lo
this I; il-it lon.; \?. o n,it mal.c a
good soldier on a b.iltlelloid; the
pl rain would be moro than ho could
rt-HI.
There u as ii mic m my life >\ hen
lt wie considered an act of Impolite
ness or a gentleman to smoke in the
presen ci of ladies. Not so now. l
have seen boys so very anxious to go
to pntniiK thal thej would no; walt to
get otu Ol the church of the Hvlllfi
Ood before they would be blowing
the smoke through their nostrils.
Hut ot course Hiere have been many
changes in nature but not in grace.
J. Russell Wright.
Johnston. s. c.
Don't Delny Treating Your Cough,
A slight cough often becomes seri
ous, lungs get congested, bronchial
tubes lill with mucous. Your vital
ity is reduced. You need Dr. Hell'?
IMne-Tar-Honey. lt soothes your ir
ritated air passages, loosens mucous
nnd makes your system rosUt colds.
(Jive the baby and children Dr. Bell's
Pine-Tar-Honey. It's guaranteed to
'help them. Only 25c. at your
druggist.-Adv.
A REVENUE OFFICER TALKS.
R. o. Merrick Tells of Conditions
Now Compared to Previous Vrais.
( Anderson Mall, 1 9th. ?
H (?. Merrick, general deputy col
lector of the Slates of South and
.North Carolina, is spending to-day in
thc elly In company with Mr. Brad
ley, one of the employees or agents
of the revenue department. They
came to Anderson on business con
nected with i lu? department.
Mt. Mel l ick is a native of Walhalla
and has visited Anderson on many
occasions. Ile has many friends here
who were delighted to see him again.
Mr. Merrick has been engaged In
thc government reveille department
for many years ind mis worked him
self up to the present position. He
talks interestingly about the condi
tions in the .meint, ins now as com
pared with conditions of scvor.il ?
years ago when blockade distilleries
were more numerous than school
houses and churches.
The blocki.de business in the
mountains is or the wane, as tue
records of the activities of revenue
officers will show. The number af
cases of this kind called every
months in Greenville when the Fede
ral Court convenes diminishes with
every term of court, and this is due,
probably, to the increase in the num
ber of convictions and the sentences
i inposed.
Mr. Merrick says that at the Octo
ber. HMS. term of the Federal Court
there wcl'e MM rCVOIIlie cases de
posed Of: at the next term of this
Conn in April, lill I. the number of
revenue eases dropped to pe, and ai
the recent October terni. MM I. there
were oiilv revenue case- There
wei:- probably 7."> cases in all a! I Iiis
tenn, hut only .".!. revenue ca.-es. and
Of this number :'.*> defendants cathe
forward and entered pleas of guilty,
12 were convicted when placed <>n
trial and the Court continued two ol
three eases.
Mr. Merrick says the section
known as the "Dark Corner" (Green
ville county) no longer maintains ?ts
repa ta! ion. "When I first went into
the business several years ago it was
a common occurrence for us to cut
up four or five distilleries a day in
our raids of several days. On one or
two days I recall we cut as many as
twelve stills." declared Mr. Merrick.
"Now, however, it is a rare instance
for us to cut a still in that part of
the country. I don't suppose we av
erage more than eight or ten stills
there a year now." j
Mr. Merrick tobi of the ex|>erlenee
he and his men had in locating and j
destroying some of the stills. Ile
told ol' one way up in the mountains
which was most d illicit ll to locate.
He said t hey had informal ion that 1
whiskey was bein;; distilled up thor
but they could no! lind any tracks:
leading to a distillery. "Finally,one
day we bearii a man over in thc
woods chopping. We went in his di
rection, and we noticed that thc
path out io where he was rutting
wood was slick, as if being used fre
quently. The path came to an end
in the branch right near when lii
was chopping wood, and the Hrs! im
pression we had was that the path j
led to the stream for water for thc
house," said Mr. Merrick. "The path
looked like it had been used too
much just to gel water, so we gol out
in the mid.lb- of the stream and no
ticed that on some of tho rocks ?ii'
midstream the moss had been worn
away. We noticed this as wc pro
ceeded up the stream. Finally, after
going np stream about lou yards, wo
found a slick path, similar to the one
we liad found when wo entered thc
.trenn. This path led across t he
mountain and to one of the most'
complete and hiriiesl distilleries I'
ever saw. The distillers used a <-ir
dillons route and one thai led
through the water for some distance,
hoping that the stream would oblit
?rale their tracks."
\ not lier incident Mr. Merrick tobi
of was the catching of Hen Ward,
Hamp Sui beria nd and hall Lee. three
well known men of the Panther Gnp
section, lust before the Vorth Caro
lina line is crossed up in the Chat
looga Uiver -cition. Mr. Merrick
says thal he had mn iced on several of;
his visits to that section before that
these tuen were mashing their apples'
liol storing hiern in vessels In their
buildings around the house. Ile sus
pect d that they were preparing lo
manufacture brandy, but they de
clared they were gelling ready to ?
make vinegar, and the government
laws lo not prohibit the making of
vlnegni. Mr. Merrick says that on
his last visit h. that neighborhood he
lound one of the men out in the
woods culling wood, which he car
ried down tho branch to a stlllhouse,
which bad been built only recently.
"I watchem the man go into ?he
stlllhoufe with the wood and I walk
ed up to the bouse while they we'?
engaged in making tho run at the
still. I had no ono with me to cor
roborate testimony, but 1 took a
chance and walked In. The mon
gave up without resistance-one of
them, Ben Ward's brother, skipped
out and got away. The other three
were haled into Court at Greenville,
and they each entered a plea of
guilty. Ward was given three
months, Sutherland one month and
I.IM- two months. The sentence on
i lu' drat offense is very light."
Following the crusade against the
liquor trafile made hy the city an
thon ti.- Mic govern men: sent men
hore to collect revenue li euses, and
several collections were ai.ide.
lt Heatly linos Relieve Khcuniatlsni.
Everybody who is aMIicted tiwi th
rheumatism in any form diould by all
means keep a bottle of Sloan's Lini
ment on hand. Tin- minute you feel
pain or soreness in a joinl or muscle,
bathe it with Sloan's Liniment. Do
not i n!' it. Sloan's penetrates almost
inime h.Hely right to the seit of pair.,
relieving the hot, tender, swooten
feeling and making the pari easy .md
comfortable. Get a hettie of Sloan's
Liniment for 25 cents of any drug
gist and have if in the house -
ngainst colds, sore and swollen joints,
rheumatism, neuralgia, sciatica and
like ailments. Your money back if
not satisfied, hut it does sive almost
instant relief. Adv.
Settling Itoiuidary Disputes.
Wash i nut on, Nov. 20. After de
elding in favor of North Carolina ;,i
the boundary controvert between
that State and Tennessee, the Su
preme Court has determined to pro
ven I t uri her disputes by drawing an
cxaci outline of the location ard not
relying upon verbal descriptions of
the line. The drawing, done !>:>
Justice McKeuna, will bc inserted
into the printed opinion, vvhiea will
he the fl rs I in a decade to be i'.lus
trated.
The Court has given tho State.; I'l
days in which to name commission
ers to mark the boundary line as es
tablished. Should the States he ti il -
. bio to agree upon offici rs. the conn
will selecl them.
Whenever You Need a General Tonic
Tuke Grove's
The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless
.hill Tonic is equally valuable as a
General Tonic because it contains the
well known tonic propcrticsof QUININE
and IRON. It acts on the Liver, Drives
out Malaria, Enriches the Blood and
Builds up the Whole System. 50 cculs.
Will Aid Foodstuff Daisers.
.Montgomery, Ala., Nov. I'.?.
There will be no money in Alabama
next year for farmers who v-Ant to
raise cotton, but there will be plenty
of money for those who want to raise
foodst u ffs.
This is the ultimatum delivered by
the Alabama Hankers' Conference, in
session here, lo the farmers of the
State. At the same time the bank
er;-, endorsed the Wade plan for car
ing for the surplus crop now on the
ma rkel.
Try this for Your Coughs.
Thousands of people keep coughing
because unable to get the right rem
edy. Coughs aro caused by inflam
mation of throat and bronchial tubes.
What you need is to soothe this In
flammation, 'lake Dr. King's New
Discovery, it penetrate the delicate
mucous lining, raises the phlegm and
quickly relieves the congested mem
branes. Get a 50c. bottle from your
druggist. "Dr. King's New Discov
ers rpiickly and compeltcly stopped
my cough," writes J. R. Watt.-. Ploy
dale, Texas. .Money back If not satis
lied, but it nearly always help-.-Ad.
(?en. (arbu.jal Killed.
Washington, Nov. li?.- Gen. Jose
Carbajal was killed in battle near
Puerto, Mexico, yesterday. Ile joined
Villa's troops ?md attacked Jesus
Carran/a, the Constitutionalist
chief's brother.
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and
Patented -f
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the first Corti
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Thousands of poultry raisers who UJ
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It's a Ll (rer Medicine.
Also a strengthlng Tonl<
CAPTURING STILLS ON COAST. |
Offlcere Now Engaged in Enforcing
the War Stamp Tax.
(Anderson Mall, 19th.)
W. L. Bradley, formerly of Abbe
ville, but now with headquarters in
<; emilie, where he is employed as
a revenue officer and internal tax col
lector, is in the city on a business
trip.
Mr. Bradley has just returned
from Horry county, (the conni y in
the extreme eastern part of the
State*), down on the coast, where ho
located and destroyed three of the
largest blockade distilleries ever seen
in South Carolina.
Thc general Impression is thal
blockade liquor is made only in tho
counties in the mountains and at the
foothills of the mountains. But Mr
Bradley says the work ls not con
tined to those counties.
I he three stills found and destroy
ed in Horry county were within two
miles of each other, and. Judging
from the .surroundings, they must
have been in operation for a great
many years.
Mr. Bradley came to Anderson to
moot R. 0- Merrick, one of the head
government men of this section. Mr.
Merrick raided a section of the coun
try known as ChattOOga Ridge, seve
ral miles above Walhalla, a few day ;
ago. and two stills were destroyed.
Mr. Merrick is expected to arrive
here this afternoon. He and Mr.
Bradley are now engaged in enforc
ing the war stamp tax. which be
came effective a short while ago.
Piles Cured in 6 to 14 Days
Vour druggist will refund money if PAZO
OIXTMKNT fails to euro nny ense of Itching,
Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Pilen ln6to M days.
The first application gives Ease and Rest, soc
Sheepskin is used as a substitute
for almost every ether kimi of lea
ther.
HAVE YOU
A CHILD?
Many women long for children, but because of
some curable physical derangement are deprived
of this greatest of all happiness.
The women whose names follow were restored
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ble Compound. Write and ask them about it.
Mrj Mose Blakly
"I took vour Com
pound and have a fine,
strong baby " - Mrs.
JOHN MIT^^ELL, Mas
sena, N. Y.
"Lydia E. Tinkham's
Vegetable Compound is a
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Mrs. A. M. MYERS, Gor
donville, Mo.
" I highly recommend
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ie it all year
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POULTRY
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I? a splendid cure lor liver
trouble, roup and chicken
cholera. Oiven regularly
willi the feed, In small
doses, it ?Iso makes an
excellent tonic
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Purcell. Okla.
25c, 5Oe and (l. per caa,
At your dealer*?._
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TKl'TIf TRIUMPHS.
WaUiaUa Citizen? Testify for the
Public Benefit.
A truthful statement of a Walhalla
citizen, given in Iiis own words,
should convince the most skeptical
about the merits of Donn's Kidney
Pills. If you suffer from backache,
nervousness, sleeplessness, urinary
disorders or any lorin of kidney ills,
use a tested kldnej medicine.
A Walhalla citizen tells of Donn's
Kidney Pills.
Could you demand more convine
ing proof of merit V
J. Et. Hughes, railroad engineer,
Walhalla, s. C., says: "For many
years I worked on a locomotive and
the constant jarring weakened my
kidneys. I had soreness in the small
of my back and through my should
ers. 1 felt miserable in every way.
As soon as I began taking Doa n's
Kidney Pills, procured at Dr. Bell*
drug store, 1 was relieved. lt was
not long before my health improved.
I don't think there is another medi
cine like them. I have publicly rec
ommended Do,m's Kidney Pills be
fore1, and I am pleased to say I
haven't bad any kidney trouble since
they cured me."
Price 50c. al all dealers. Don't
simply ask for a kidney remedy- get
Donn's Kidney Pills-the same that
Mr. Hughes bad. Eoster-Milburn
Co., Props.. Buffalo. N. Y. - Adv.
Program Inion Meet i Ul
The union meeting of the appel
division of Rea verdant Baptist Asso
elation will convene with Madison
Ha pl ist church next fifth Saturday
and Sunday, November 28 and
Program as follows:
Saturday Mot tiing.
I 0.30 to I 1 Devot ional exercises
conducted hy A. P. Duke.
I I to 12-The importance of per
sonal work in evangelism. .las. C.
Shockley, j. I, Vaughan, Thomas M.
Kl rod.
IL* to 12.30 The present condi
tion of the Bea ve fd a m Association.
Hound table, conducted by the Mod
era t or.
1 2.30 to 2- Dinner hour.
Saturday Afteilioon.
2 to The State Mission Hoard,
(a) What ii has accomplished; tb)
Its present condition; (c) Its aim
for the future. Kev. L. M. Lyda, J.
W. Shelor, Rev. D. F. Carter.
:i to ;!.:{() What should be the al
titude of our people toward the so
called holiness ideas being propagat
ed in our midst? Rev. M. G. Hol
land. Rev. W. T. Abbott. Rev. L. 1).
Mitchell.
3.30 to 4-What are the public
schools contributing to the religious
development of our children? Rev.
G. C. Mangunt, W. M. Brown.
Evening Session.
7 to 7.110-Song and praise service.
S o'clock-Sermon by Rev. J. H.
Clark.
Sunday Morning.
10 to ll-Sunday school exorcises.
11 o'clock-Sermon by Rev. L. M.
Lyda.
Visiting brethren are welcome to
come and help us to make this out
best meeting.
.7. W. Shelor. L. M. Lyda,
L. D. Mitchell, for Committee.
Deaf ness Cannot Re Cured
hy local applications, as they cannot
reac h the diseased portion of the ear.
There is only one way to cure deaf
ness, and that is hy constitutional
remedies. Deafness is caused by an
inflamed condition of the mucous lin
ing of the Eustachian tube. When j
this tube is Inflamed you have a
rumbling sound or Imperfect bearing,
and when it is entirely closed, deaf
ness is the result, and unless thc In
flammation ctin he taken out and this
tube restored to its normal condition
hearing will be destroyed forever;
nine cases out of ten are caused by
catarrh, which is nothing but an in
flamed condition of the mucous sur
faces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars
for any case of deafness (caused by
catarrh) that cannot be cured by
Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circu
lai i, free. J. Cheney <K- Co.,
Toledo, Ohio.
Sold by il ruge ist s, 7 ">c.
Take Hall's Eamil) Pills for con
stipation.- Adv.
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We can supply all Den
Bonds, Heavy, Light and Fe
quantity,
High quality Caroon Pa j
We represent locally a
Sales House. Best Silk Ribbc
machines with but little delay*
Orders for Supplies Han
PRINTING SSS
KEOWEE
WALHAL
TAX NOTICE.
County Treasurer's Office,
Walhalla, S. C., Oct. 6, 1914.
Thc hooks for the collection of
State, County, School and Special
Ta\es for the fiscal year 1914 will bo
open from October 16th, 1914, to De
cember 3l8t, 1914, without i>onalty,
after which day one per cent penalty
will be added on all payments made
in the month of January, 1916, and
two per cen! penalty on all payments
made in the month of February,
1915, and seven per cent penalty on
all payments made from the first day
of March until the 15th day of
March. 1915. After that day all
taxes not paid will go into execution
and be placed in the bands of tho
Sheriff for collection.
Taxpayers owning property or pay
ing taxes for others will please ask
for a tax receipt in each Township or
Special School District in which he
or they may own property. This is
very Important, as there are so many
Special Schoo. Districts.
'The tax lev> is made up as follows:
State tax .tl mills
School tax.mills
Ordinary county tax.7 VJ mills
Interest on bonds . \'-< mill
Total .17 milla
Special and Local School Tax.
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Poll Tax, 91. Dog Tax, 50c.
Every male citizen from 21 to 00
years of age is liable for poll tax ex
cept Confederate soldiers, who do not
pay after 50 years of age, and those
exempted by law.
Road Tax, $2.
Every male citizen from 18 to 50
years of age is liable for road tax.
except those exempt by law. This
tax is payable from October 16th,
1914, to March 15th, 191.r., after
which time four days' work will bo
required.
R. H. ALEXANDER,
'Treasurer Oconee County, S. C.
Oct. 7, 1911.
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