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KEOWEE COURIER (ESTABLISHED iii**.) Published Every Wednesday Morning Subscription $1 Ber Annum. Advertising Hates Reasonable. -Hy ?TECK. SI1ELOR & SCHRODER. Communications of a personal ehar scter charged for HM 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 at the rate of one cent a word. Cash to accompany manuscript. WALHALLA, 8. C.: WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER ?, 101 I. PARCEL POST ACROSS SEAS. Service Resumed Except to Belgium, Turkey and Parts of Ernnoe. I .\< ws and (-ourler. 4th.) instructions were yesterday receiv ed by Postmaster Poulnot from Post master General Rurleson directing him, pendine, further notice, to ac cept for mailing to Germany ami Austria-Hungary all packages which conform lo tho proscribed conditions of the international parcel post ser vice. This service between the Putted States and the countries uamed had boen suspended because .>! LICK of I ra II s po rt a I i on facilities Jue to the war. Resumption of the service will make it possible to semi Christmas gifts to European coun tries which would otherwise have been Impossible. Parcel post packages are now mail able to all countries with which the Fulled Stales has parcel post connec tions except Hclgium, Turkey and northern and northeastern France, .vlieie military operations prevent the resumption ol the service. Shortly after the war began Ger many, Belgium 'and Prance asked that the service he suspended. Aus cro-!!ungary did aol rennes! suspen sion, but the war caused a practical stoppage of the services. Try lilis for Neuralgia. Thousands of people keep on suf fering with neuralgia because they do aol know what lo do for lt. Neu ralgia is a pain in the nerves. Whal you waul to do is to soothe the nerve i self. Apply Sloan's Liniment to the surface over tho painful part do aol rub ii in. Sloan's Liniment pen etrates very quickly to (the sore, irri tated nerve and allays the Inflamma tion. G?i a bottle of Sloan's Llnl : teni for :'."> cents at any druggist ?nd have it in the bouse against colds, sore and swollen joints, ltim hago, sciatica and like ailments. Your inono> hack if not satisfied, bul ii does give almost instan! relief, ad. Farewell Sermon al Norris. ( lOasley Progress. ) Having served liv i. years as pastor, Rev. li. \V. 11 lott preached his fare well sermon n Norris church Sun day. Uro, Hioit ins been elected jud will be tho pastor of the Mount fannel church near Easley another year Ile is a good man and a splen did preacher and Norris' loss is Mount Carmel's gain, Cutes Old iioros. Other lui..-. Vf Won't Cu^ '. : ? worst cnnos, no multi r c?( ho ? long HtutiJ.it! . ur cured l>v the wotiuVrhil, oM reliable ! i. I s Antiseptic Kettling Oil. lt relie > s I ..m and Heals at thc sn inc tittie. 25c, 50o, $1. > Che rent.-al olllco of the Parker Milts, ai Greenville, will bo abolished, Mills ill the several groups will he operated separately after the flrsl of una ry. A WARNING TO MANY. *?ome Interesting Facts A bout Kidney Troubles. Few people realize to what extent heir health depends upon the condi ".ion of the Kidneys. The physician in nearly all cases of serious illness, makes a chemical inalvsis of the patient's urine. Ile knows that unless tho kidneys are doing their work properly, the other r>rgans cannot readily lie hi ought back to health and strength. When the kidneys are neglected or ihused in any way, serious results ire sure to follow. According to xealth statistics, Bright's disease ? ich is really an advanced form of ? due; I rouble, caused nearly ten ? md deaths in lill:! in the State >f New York alone. Thereto ie, it be hooves us to pay more attention to he health of these most, important organs. An Ideal herbal compound thal has had remarkable success as a kidney remedy is Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, ..he great Kidney, Liver and Bladder Remedy. The mild and healing Influence of t&tS preparation, in most eases, ls ?wu realized, according to sworn statements and verified testimony of those who have used the remedy. H you feel that your kidney? re quire attention, and wish a sample Dottie, write to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y. Mention this pa per, enclose ten cents and they will gladly forward lt to you by parcel post. Swamp-Root is sold by every drug gist in bottles of two sizes-? Oe. and 41.00.-Adv. THE PRESENT ( AN! W. P. Anderson, Formerl did Address Before tl the Bankers of Ocone Greenville Counties. KA M vii lt AND FA UM Kit ALLUM*. Tribute to Forefathers of (Mir Stur dy Furniers-Piosoiit-dny Citizen- | ship Tolled from Higher Ideals hy Pulse Doctrines of Politicians mid Demagogue?, Wo print below Hie address of Wm. I'. Anderson, formerly president of the Westminster Hank, and om- of Oconee's stanchest and hesl citizens of thc past. wp.ich was delivered be fore thc gathering of South Carolina (Oroup No. l > bankers, whoso session was Judd in the city of Creen ville on November 17th. The division known as "Group No. 1" comprises the hank ers of the counties of Oconee, Plck ons. Anderson and Greenville. ICnterlng with his usual enthusi asm thc theme on which he was to speak -"Tho Present Crisis and the Lessons it tirings to tho Country Bankers ol' the Piedmont" Mr. An derson spoke as follows: Mr. President and Gentlemen: Tho conditions existing in the world to-day are new and strange to us all. and the whole world, of both politics ?ind ll nance, seems lo bc out , of joint, and tho grenl body of our people, like tuen on an unknown sea V? i i hon i cha rt or com pass. To such an extent do these condi tions exist that all kinds of peculiar j and strange, and many of them wild, ! schemes are being proposed for their betterment. I will not in the brief time allotted me attempt to take up these world, nation, or ov:en State-wide conditions, but contine myself as far as possible io conditions existing in that part of the Piedmont count ry covered by the four counties represented hy you gen tlemen present. Nor will I try to cover thc varied Interests of even our i ? own limited territory, but will talk I t;> you as a country banker with a ! business experience of one-third of a ? century with the country people \o < country hankers who must for the next i|uarter of a century deal with and finance for these same country I people; and. therefore, I will try to make what I "nave to say largely ap I ply to you in your relations to your farmer customers. I vant to say at the outset thal I do not believe there exists under the shining sun a sturdier or more hon-j est citizenship than the farmers of tl.e four counties which yon repre sent. Mj lon?; experience in dealing | villi them land my bank has heen largely a farmers' nnnk) has taught me to honor and respect them, and I count my best and truest friends! among tho splendid manhood of the farmers of Oconee; and the fact that in the loni; visits of my hanking ca reer, in which my total loans to them ! aggregated over two millions of dol lars, on which my losses were less than one thousand dollars, speaks louder of their honesty and thrift thai) any eulogy I could deliver, were I the silver-tongued Bryan himself, and what I say of them I feel applies equal b to all the counties repre sented hy you. Descended almost exclusively from a Scotch-Irish ancestry, our people have been horn and bred among Hie foothills of these beautiful hine mountains. They have for almost two centuries maintained the sturdy character and habits of their noble ancestry, and no misfortune or ca lamity has been able to destroy their independence of character or their sterling virtues. Many misfortunes and much adversity have heen their portion, yet they, like the everlast ing hills which surround them, Kiew stronger under every misfortune. They fought at Cowpens and King's Mountain, and in that long seven years' war no truer patriots espoused the cans?' of liberty than the ances tors of tho men who compose the customers of your banks to-day. When South Carolina seceded and the great War Pel ween the States was ushered upon thc arena of time, the people of our counties had few slaves and their natural interests would have led them to abstain from that bitter and bloody war, bul they were true patriots and forgot their own Interests, and no braver men followed Hampton, Jackson and Lee than the fathers of the men whose names are spread UIKUI your lodgers ir, day. Tliey returned from this cruel and dev astating war with everything gone save honor, their matchless climate and rich soil. Their lands wore overgrown with briers, broomsodge and pines. Did they ask any favors of their conquerors? No, they went :RISIS D ITS LESSONS. y of Oconee, Made Splen ic November rVleeting of e, Pickens, Anderson and brave!} lo work to repair their lost fortunes, although no people (the French not excepted) ever paid such a war Indemnity as our people have in the shape Of pensions. .Many other trials have come-tho Carpet Hag Itiilc. tho panic ol' 1 S7:?. the distress ing conditions of the eighties, follow ed by the panie of 1893, which left them almost bankrupt- bul thal same spirit, that same courage born of a versify saved them, and from IS'.il u, 1 ?w0 there was a slow hut steady progress made. Helier tools were bought, he'ter farming was done, schools were opened on every hill, and our hoys and girls began to gel a chance to develop their minds. The meat cotton manufacturing in dustry, which Col. Hamme! and Capt. Smythe stiartcd cit Piedmont and Pelzor, and which has spread all over our coiini ies. brought home markets for cotton and produce, and a wave of prosperity has come to our sec tion of which our father- never dreamed. Our lands have grown ill value and a new era has come to our country. So great has been our prosperity in the last len years, c insed hy the large crop.- and re munerative price for cotton and the rapid advance in the price of real es tate, thal our expansion has been TOO rapid. Competition ii business of every kind has been keen, and credit has bei ?une too cheap. We have forgotten about pay day, and our farmers, like the rest of us. have spread out too much, and our vorv success lias weakened our sinews, What adversity could not do om great prosperity lias accomplished and the fanners of our country whom adversity could not injure have berni injured by fawning politicians, demi gogttes and misguided friends. Th? politics of the last 30 years has had too much of appeal to class and class prejudice In ?:. Wrong ideals havi been taught uiiiil these ideals hfl VI permeated our whole political am business structure, and we see to-daj the sons and grandsons of the mei who carno home from Appomattox and who spurned to accepl anythinj I hal their own strong arms coull not j; et thom--we see the sons o these brave men nursing a new. am to us a strange, ideal to their hos oms, that dangerous and subtle doc trine, "Paternalism," wb'"h, if le grow to maturity In the learts am minds of our people, will poison am eventually destroy every semblanc of manhood. That this idea has grown is show: by the feeling (hat exists in the mind of our people that the State ought ti protect them against loss ill persona venmres, until now. in this good yea of grace 1914, when, although w lind our Acids and orchards yleldin great abundance of every kind, iarge crop of cotton, a great crop c corn, and unprecedented i ropa C oats and wheat and hay. ami a ero of fruit that has supplied our want to the fullest nil summer and ha tilled every pantry to the runnin over point; and at almos) ever farm house porkers are ready t be or have been butchered. Plent abounds! Clemson and Winthrop aro rm ning over with the sons and daugh era of our farmers; every grade an high school in our count rv is ?axe for room. We have tho best road the best nuiles and best farm I mp li meiits ever known in our land. Tl mountains on which wo have gaze since childhood are as blue, our w; ter is as good and the sun shines ; bright as it ever did, and yet, no withstanding all this, you see to-di a strange sight. Commerce, whit ordinarily is at its busiest stage this time, is at a standstill. y0i bills receivable, which should now I small, are larger than al any tin during . . v..ir; your cotton no cases are .nil Of past due pape your lolls payable are unpaid; yoi doctors, preachers, merchants ai dealers of every kind unable to me their paper. What is the matter? Your farmers have declared moratorium; the war has come; t years of unexcelled prosperity ha hit a bump; cotton has gone dow our farmers wno have just pass through a political campaign, whe they were promised everything, a walting for a delivery of the good and, besides, fourteen years of grt prosperity have taught them to POOH LOSERS. They are layi down on tho proposition and for t moment forgetting how their actio will burt the people they owe. iii aro stunned; they feel that they f ruined; thoy honestly feel that one over suffered as they are suffer ing now. Now, are these men dif ferent from their fathers or di Itere nt from what they have been? I say most emphatically, No! They are the same honest men, but their ideals have been changed; and unless they wake up and see their mistake they will have their Ideals so much changed that lt will destroy the liner and nohier instincts of their nat ti res. For this situation we are all to blame, and we are dangerously neut to changing from an Independent people to mere wards of a Paternal Government, which, If carried out, will bring to us that degeneracy which no amount of adversity in the past has been able to accomplish. That these baneful ideas are abroad in thc land is evidenced by the fact that we have only to look at what has transpired in our country in tile last 90 days. We see some of our members in Congress trying to get legislation passed, which, if it had been sueco sful, would have risen up in future years to curse us; and, be sides, we have seen our own Legisla ture, composed of some of the ablest and best men of our own State men whom we honor and respect so complot edy lose their heads that they actually passed a bill for the State to vote on a proposition to pay to the farmers .".0 per cent more for i heir cotton than its market value and saddle a debt upon our people that would go down to our children's children as a souvenir of the great wu r of nat ions. Wise men say that Europe has gone crazy, and that that is the rea son ol' this awful war. Have not we. too. lost our heads? Aller what has berni proposed and done ill Sou Lb Carolina In the last 90 days, I understand nullification. I no longer wonder at secession; nor are some other things which hive t ome to us in later years so hard to understand. We have made the im pression upon the world that we are at starvation's door. Let me read you these lines: New York. Nov. 13.- The cotton "ball, given under the auspices of "the Soul bern Society last night for "the benefit of the fund to aid South erners in need and increase the use "ami popularity of cotton fabrics, at tracted a large assemblage." "The Ch l ist ian Observer circulates "In the Southern States, and a large "proportion of its subscribers are de "pendent on cotton. Many of these "are hard pressed for ready cash, " and we are glad to wait on them "for payment of their subscriptions "until I hey have the funds. We "count it a privilege to co-operate "with them in this emergency." What do you think of them? Do any of your people need the help from the Charity Hall in New York? ls it necessary for any poor church paper to do without its money on account of the poverty among Hie customers of your hanks? If 1 were Extra He house ; happen to y SMOV Cold snaps have i extra heat needed comfortable. Burn Perfection Heaters : At hardware, furnit Triangle Trade-Ma STAND. Washington, D. C Norfolk, V?. Richmond, Va. a sport im; man I would like to lay j a wager that I could take any four of you gentlemen in my car and on a drive from hero via Wasley, Liberty, Central, Seneca, Walhalla, Westmin ster. Town ville. Anderson, Wtlllatn Ston, Pelzer, Kork Shoals, Fairview, Fountain Inn, Simpson ville and back to Greenville (this covers all your territory) and stop at nine out of any ten of the hundreds of country homes on the road and give the good lady ol the house one hour to get supper and guarantee you a better supper than any of you had at Home last night; and I don't believe that one of you would be fool enough to take the bet. 1 do not know conditions in other portions of the South, but 1 do know that while the farmers In the counties from which you come may be SK k and In the hospital, they lack a whole lot of being charity patients, and all of this hue and cry about our condi tion is hurt'ng our credit and will keep away from us the friends we now need so much. We ?ill agree and know that the farmers will lose a great deal on ac count of the decline In cotton, and it will hurt some of them badly, for which no one sorrows more than 1; but let us not lose our self-reliance, let ns not mope over it and feel that of ?ill men we are the most misera ble. Let's not get to pitying our selves. Whenever ?( man begins to pity himself he ha.i three pnrts lost out. lt jus! simply won't do. lt ls foreign to the trndl ions of our .in cest ry. Other men have lost money. There has been more money lost on cotton mill stocks in the counties you repre sent In the past three years than the losses would be on cotton this yea r If the entire crop was sold ?it five cents a pound. Kverhody gets left some time, and all our people are suffering now. We have our lands they are the same good lands. We I have health and sun and rain-yes, and food to eat. Let's quit grumb ling, forget the war, make a virtue of our losses, and start in on a new 1 track and help feed tho world. They i can do without clothes, but thej must have bread. Our lands are much better adapted j tr> grain than tn cotton. May it not j be to us ;, special providence from God to pu' us into greater and better things? We can never compete with i the true cotton belt. lt is only when high prices come that we can profit ably make cotton in our section. If this change is to come it must begin with the bankers of the Pied mont. You must advocate it and finance the people while the change is being made. It is for this reason thal I have gone into existing condi tions. Co-operation among the ">'> banks located in these counties can I bring and desired change. Will you ; do it? And again, will you make your hanks ."><) schools where the doc trine of Paternalism will be decried. at, Just When Yoi 'erfection Smokeless Oil I you are safeguarded wh our heating system. io terror for you, for thc Pcrfcctioi to make bedroom, bathroom or sittini s kerosene-easy to handle and inexpei arc portable, heat quickly and are smok ure dealers and general stores cveryvvh rk. A.RD OIL COI (NEW J ERSE YX BALTIMORE and Influences started which will de stroy these damnable ideas, and Hie old Independence of the fathers brought back into tho hearts and minds of the people where each man, by virtue and thrift, build fui himself and for his children that will come after him on the true founda tions ol' manhood and self-help? You can do no greater real good for your country patrons. He who would really help his fellowmen can do it best by helping them to be real self-contained men. Before closing 1 want to say a few words to the younger men present. Whatever this depression may bring to the general public, or even In tem porary loss to your stockholders, to you it is the time of times. Your education as executive olllcers in your banks consists In the study of men, for however well fitted you may be in other ways, you must know men. The last ten years have been poor years in which to learn them. Any man makes a good soldier on dress parade; everybody is honest in good times. But now the chaff separates from the wheat; now the rascal shows his hand-and don't forget that the honest man shows his hand, too. And you younger men ', can in the next year or two get a line on the patrons of your hanks that will be invaluable to you and your ! institutions for the next 20 years. lt is tile testing time. Learn well your lessons n >w. and you will save thousands for y ?ur banks in the years to come. Only the older men here j those who entered business prior to 1X03 have had tlx* opportunities for learning your business that you now enjoy. These are privileges that this time brings to you. and they are great indeed. This time also brings great responsibility. Are you bank ers ready to assume them? In your hands rests the weal or woo of this beautiful section. Thrift must he taught the people; credits must be restricted or expanded as conditions demand; you must teach the people (Concluded on Seventh Page.) HABT RUINED LITES Hundreds can point to the use of calomel as the cause of physical de cay. Its strenuous effects upon liver, kidneys and even the heart are known to every practicing physician. Medical science has found a vege table compound that eliminates tho poisons from Hie liver and accumu lations from the bowels in a safer and saner way than does calomel and loaves no ill after-effects. This, remedy In the form of GRIGS BY'S L1V-VER-LAX ls a proven suc cess. lt is for sale in 50c. and $1 bottles by Norman Company, Wal halla, S. C., who guarantee to refund purchase price if you want it. lt is always protected by the likeness of Li. K. Grigsby.--Adv. i Need It I cater in the en accidents ON TERS rt supplies just the 2 room warm and isive. clcss and odorless, icrc. Look fot thc vlPANY Charlotte, N. C. Charleston, W. Va. Charleston, S. C.