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KEOWEE COURIER (Established mi?,) Published livery Wednesday Morning Bubscrlption $1 Per Annum. Advertising lottos Koosonable, -Hy bTTIOOK, KIIIOIiOK & SCIIltODKK. Communication? of a personal character charged for as advertise ments. Obituary noticcH ana tributes of respect, ol' not over 100 words, will tie printed free of charge. All over that number must bo paid for at tho rate of one cent a word. Cash to accompany manuscript. WAIillAI-IiA, S. C.: wi. ONUS DAY, NOV. a?, UH?. FOK TUM CA .WA ICI N IWKI?IT. Postmaster N. Kaili has been re ceiving contributions this week for th? Democratic campaign fund deficit. The deficit amounts to about $800, 000, and efforts are being made by tin National Democratic headquar ters olllcials to wipe out this debi at .une. The following contributors iia 00! One Dollar Kadi Dr. .1. .1. Tliode, ll lt. Hughs, M. <'. Dorm. VV. J. Ki 'under. S. I.. Veiner, ,1. 1). Vernor. W I.. Vernor, (5. A. Norman. (Seorge Seaborn, Dr. W. lt. Craig. VV. Old rtdgo White. K. h llerndoti. ,1. M. s. Dendy. I?. I.. Sleek. S. K. Dendy, W. A SI roi her. T. H. Alexander, .lames M Moss, A. I". Crisp, T. A. Smith, I). A Smith. Koo wee Courier. Chas. (!. .Invites, .lohn A. Ansel. N. Knut, C. W Pitchford. W. II. Jones, C W. & K Hmiklligllt. II. K. Mays. M. lt. Mi Donald, I.. K. Heard ?:i I 00. Ki fl j Cents Knell Arthur Drown D Kayonsky, J. A. Moody, \. s. Sose : . M rs. A. Oolites, \V. T Maxwell $:s.oo, .Cash" i j ><.. ii? cents Pout I. $:t I. lt). i'hi^ II mount will bo - eui to t ho j i nimbia Slate to-day (Tuesday), j HANK KICl'llKS IN'CltKASIXU. rhreo mouths agu when the banks t)eonee published their statements DM ligures representing deposits for (he .-ix banks whose statements we . : ii i showed an aggregate of $1.10 1, ". lt?.t?S. To-day lite aggregate for Du f ix banks ls $ !.i>s.<>o i.xr. an increase of $ 10;t, I SS. I S, These i noun ts on deposit in Hie banks are d . ?dod as follows: !n September l ii posit s : ubjeol lo cheek.? I'?.:.:. , u :;r, Time ceri Mientes U00.7 ir?.?"> Demand certificates ... ??..179.27 Toni.? i.i oi.r? m.us in November Deposits sub joel to check .$ SOS.OH 1 .OH Time certilicates ... I?0t?,2S4.7"i Iwinaud certilicates .. ?1,058.1*) Total.? I ,r>08.00 I.8? This, it seems to us, is a mighty good showing for the banks of our county. The ligures of the banks have boen gradually climbing higher and higher until they now represent quite a magnificent sum in the aggre gate. These ligures ?how a growing con fidence in the banks on the part of the citizens of our county, and this fact is further evidenced by the al most universal use of thc bank pass .?nd check hook.-, by the fanners and people ol' the rural communities. The hanker and the farmer re . .o<e business friends these days, whereas, a few year.-, back, we can recall the fact thal the farmer as ll rule regarded the banker as hi- natu ral enemy, almost afraid to enter his place ol' business. Things have changed, however, and i; is a chango for the helter. There ure few farmers m nur county wno lu not i.ou ca rrj pass books with them and paj their bills with a writ ten slip of paper, 'l in- old tin can iii which the money u .ed to ho buried b a Iking of t ho pa t. Von can so lo chu roll Thursday ind i>e thankful itt course you can also ho thankful and tsaj .it home. Hui attend church, as urged by our (.Sovernor ami our President, keeping in lench with :i vorj appropriate na tional custom. :uul help lo make some orphan thankful by makin;; your Thauksuivitig contribution ?is liberal ns possible. We have been sending lo our sub scribers statements oi arrearages on The Courier. Some ??ave responded (|Uito nobly, for which fad we are duly lhanklul. li you have received one of these statement, wv ?,.,,) siiro thal it will be bul a very few days before you, too, will give us your at tention. Kor tins we will be very lhanklul. Kvery maa who can pay Iiis debts ought lo he thankful and he ought to got busy paying them. The (Ireenvillo Dally News, after an absence from our office of more than a year, has again been received as an "exchange." That s some thing to be thankful for, and we aro -. . mcmnseiy so Wo note many gi t imp?o.eui , |n the paper s? we saw it I?, i. lt looks pros jt s. and we know that the pub 11 are Minikin' tor prosperity. T e's lots to be thankful for if wo * ut think t litte Why, we're V r 1 that .vo'ro lising. "Our boys" from the border-at least some of them-will bo hack homo to-day. That's something to bo thankful for. They haven't had to cross thc border and light. That's something more to he thankful for. silt IIIKAM MAXIM DEAD. Inventor of Autolimita System of Firearms-Born in U. S. London. Nov. L'l.-Sir Hiram Maxim, inventor ol' tho automatic system of firearms, dio<l at his homo hero early this morning. Sir Hiram .Stevens Maxim, Amer! can-born, was one ol tho most fam ous inventors, civil, mechanical and electrical engineers of Groat Hritain. Ho waa most widely known a? tho in vontor of tho Maxim machine gun, which makes tho recoil of tho weapon serve as the power for reloading, and which is tho weapon largely used in th?' IO uro pou ll war to-day. Ho was horn at Satigorvillo. Maine. February r>, 184 0, tho son of Isaac Weston and Harriot M. Maxim, and received only a common school edu cation, hut ho acquired scientific knowledge by reading and attending j lectures. Ho wont to longland In j 1881, and had resided there ever since, ile was?knighted by Queen] Victoria in I 90 I j His son. Hiram Percy Maxim, is a ! won known inventor in tho united ? States, known particularly as the in- j ventor of tho Maxim silencer. For many years Sir Hiram was il director in the linn of Vickers" Sons & Maxim, hut resigned that post in I 1 !> 1 1. For mote than thirty years he , experimented in aeronautics and in vonlod Hying machines. In tho light ul the present, war, willi it.-> tinnier-j o is Herman airship raids in longland, it is roniarkahly interesting to recall ; thal oiglll years ago Sir Hiram took ?tho Hritish nation hy task for its small interest in aeronautics, and ?pointed then, at a time when aero planes were in their infancy, that longland was ia gravo danger of hom ! hard moni by airships. "Doe.s an\ une doubt for a mo ment.'' said ho. "that in case we lind j ourselves al war willi a continental power, airships will be used for bom barding lOtlglisIl towns, both oil the coast and inland" The city of Lon don within a your's Hine can be ai ta -hod without our enemy needing 'o | fea r ; Ito boasted Hritish Heel Following lite success of the Wright biplane. Sir Hiram renewed Ills long continued interest in avia tion and in HMO perfected a machino which he declared had certain advan tages over tho Wright's, lt was he who, willi others, interested tho Brit ish government in beginning its or- I gunization of an nerlai navy, and, though ho was TD years old, ho lived to soe tho groat war bring air light ing to pass in even greater measure, probably, than he himself had drea mod. tn addition to Iiis gun and aero plane, ho patented many electrical inventions, including Incandescent lamps, self-regulating cuiront ma chines, several pieces of ordnance and a smokeless powder. Tho aged inventor took a koon in terest ill tho war. and from Hmo to time there wore unconfirmed reports ol' his invention ol' devices to moot tho needs of the war. ono of them be ing an apparatus to counteract tho effects of the poisonous gases which the Hermans wore first to bring into uso. In I il 1 ."> he was appointed a member of the inventions board of tho Hritish munitions depart mont mulei' Lloyd-George. Sir Hiram applied himself so stren uously to science throughout his long life thal even his recreations were givoti by Illili as "reading scientific books and studying tho abstract sci ences." Ho wrote many i m po ria lt I articles and an autobiography, ".My Life." in HM.".. He was a chevalier of the Legion of Honor, a member ol' Ibo American Society of Civil Engineers, the Dova] Socle t> of Arts, tho British Associa tion for the Advancement ol' Science and numerous other scientific bodies. < HA IT I Kl US W10 BIO BANDITS. Called "Scorchers" Because They Burned Feet ol' their Victims. ( Indianapolis Nows. ? Tho lorin cha Uff Oil)' as applied lo tho professional driver ot a motor car was not specially made to lit thai oilier*. The word was in popular use in Fraiun and throughout 10 uro po more than Hui years ago to designate a particular kind of bandit. ('lia u Ifen rs or "scorchers" wore so called bec; uso they wore accus tomed lo hold tho soles of 1 hoir vic tima' feet in trout ol a fierce fire to make them reseal tho hiding place of their property, The chan ff eu I'S were greatly in ev idence in t'io Rhenish provinces, thc borderland between Franco and Ger many, whore they committed every kind ol' atrocity. lOach band had a camp or rendezvous with linos of communication throughout a partic ular district. Tho posts Oil those lines wore generally poor country taverns, and tho landlords wore in league with tho band. These bands SATURDAY ONIA Dec. 2d, 19! 6. We will give a Mar FREE with purchase We have a spier CLOTHING to sel running from $10.0C to $18.50 values. Come and see th? age of our offer, whi SATURDA L. Blumentha Westmin arc said to have oxlcnded from Hol land lo the Danube. Tho brigands concocted for their ' own uso a jargon, or sl ing, composed of Kreuch, (.?crinan, Flemish and Me brew. Schinderhannes, otherwise "lohn 1 thi> Scorcher," was the most famous of all ih<- leaders ol' these robbers. His real name was .lohn Sucklet*, i Like Hobin Hood, he often befriend ed the poor ai thc expense of tho rich, but unlike the hero of Sherwood Korest, he was often cruel, The ca- ! leer of Schindeihannes virtually tor minuted May .',1, 1802, when he was' captured near Limburg. Ile was' tried and convicted in tho closing days ol' October, ISO!!. This chauf feur had a number of so-called wives. One named Julia, of whom he was fond, was with when he was cap tured. When the moment of judgment drew near his fears for Julia shook him like an ague. He frequentb cried out, "She is innocent! The poor, young girl is innocent! It was I who misled her." Julia, by the humanity of the court, was sentenced iirst. Schinder haunes embraced her with tears of joy when he heard that her punish ment wes limited to two years' im prisonment. His father received SUNDAY SCHOOLS OF ST ATM. Central Committee (Jives Idea of the Work Accomplished. Spartan bu rg. Nov. 2 1.- In the ef fort to bring definite, practical help to the Sunday schools of the State, splendid progress has been made In county organization and in improved methods of work, according to re ports submitted at tho semi-annual Central Committee meeting of the South Carolina Sunday School Asso ciation in Spartauburg on Monday, November 2o. Honorai Secretary H. I). Webb made a report showing a remarkable amount of held and of fice work done by the throe employed workers. During tho six months, the two held workers, according to this report, have visited counties from one to four times each, attended 143 district and county conventions, de livered L?'IS addresses to representa tives of 1,303 Sunday schools, and travelled ivs 17 miles. Krom the office il, I S3 letters and 7,702 leaflets on Sunday school methods have boen sen! out. The report showed that ::s of the i Ir> counties wore organized, two of these, Fairfield and McCormick, hav ing hoon organized since tho State convention in May. The counties re ported as at present unorganized are Samberg, Sarnwcll, Darlington, Dil lon, Dorchester, Georgetown, Marl boro. The efficiency Of the various county organizations was indicated to some extent by the county standard for which they wore working. Five counties were reported as standing still. Thirty-throe counties were re ported as ? ither doing or planning some donnito work thal would enti yoars of fetters. He himself, with 10 or his band, was doomed to the guillotine. Tho eexcutlon took place Novem ber 21, ISO.'!, when 20 heads were cul off in 20 minutos. Aftor the death of Schindorhannos these bands of chauffeurs quickly disappeared, lt was tho firm hand of Napoleon 1 that brought an end to this brigandage. ATURDAY ONLY Dec. 2d, 1916. Hat l's Hat, $3.00 value, of a MAN'S SUIT, idid line of MEN'S ect from, and are ) for all Wool Serges sm, and take advant ch is on Y ONLY. LFS bargain Store, ster, S. C. tlc them to he ranked us "banner" counties. Eighteen o? these -Ander son. Calhoun. (J reen wood, Lancaster, Orangeburg, Sumter. Berkeley, Clar endon. I lampton. Newberry, Salud;'., Union. Hean fort, Colleton, Jasper. Oeonee, Spartanbnrg. Williamsburg ? were reported as working for a still higher standard, the "gold star" standard, and one of these. Calhoun, is at present making strenuous ef forts to become a "front line" county, the highest standard set hy thc State association. The general secretary's report in- 1 dilated some definite results ol the i work in many counties, sueh as the organization of cradle rolls, home de partments, teacher training classes, adult Bible classes, the grading ol' the schools, and the use of graded ; lessons. A remarkable growth in the j circulation of the Sunday School Bro- j tooter, the State paper, was reported. I the subscription list having increased j from 700 in September, 1915, to] 4,500 in November, l?llfi. The re-j port stated that this paper is self- I supporting. j According to the financial report ; submitted, the standing of tho vari- j ons County Sunday School Associa- ? tions was indicated as follows: Class '"A," composed of the coun ties whose past your's pledges are paid in full, and also their pledges for the present year are paid in full. The following counties are In this class: Calhoun and Williamsburg.! (The latter was organized in 191 fi.> j Class "li," composed of counties | that have paid their 19ir>-10 pledges, and also part of their 1016-17 pledges. In this class are Chester, j Hampton, Jasper, Laurens, New-' berry, Orangeburg, Colleton, York. Class "C." composed of counties \ that have paid in full their lOlf.-li;' pledges, hut nothing on 1016-17 ?'ledges. To this class belong Abbe ville. Aiken, Berkeley, Charleston, ? Chesterfield, Cherokee, Clan inion, | Marion, Oeonee, Bickens and Spar- i tanburg, Class "IV composed of counties whoso 1015-16 pledges have not yet boon paid in full. In this calss aro: Anderson, Edgofield, Florence, Mor ry, Hrccnvillc, Lancaster and Cition. . The last two mentioned have re cently made substantial payments.) Class "K," composed Of those counties that paid nothing last year, and so far have n adc no pledge for I fl i',-| 7. To this class helene Bain berg, Barnwell, Darlington Dillon, Ka i ifield, Georgetown, Lexington. Mn ri boro. The plans of work for tho year, as outlined hy tho genera! secretary, were approved. A committee con sisting of H. I). Wehl?. Rev. \V. H. K. Pendleton, lt. IO. Bogg*, N. L. Homar, and .Mrs. S. N. Burts, was appointed to prepare the program for "Come to Sunday School Day." February ll, I!'I 7. a day on which (ieorgla. Ala bama and Florida will join willi South Carolina in a concerted effort to double the Sunday school attend ance In these lour States. The same committee will have charge of the program for the State Convention in Spartanbnrg, May l-l?, 1017. A finance committee consisting of Rev. W. I. Herbert, Rev. \V. H. K. Pendleton, S. T. Reid, T. M. Lyles, R. IO. Hoggs, was appointed to assist in raising additional funds for tho support of the State work. i { SPECIAL By a special trip wc have replenished our stock of Dry Goods, Ladies' Suits and Shoes and weare prepared to show many,new things not shown before. We have some Specials in LADIES' SUITS that were shown in $12.50 lines, now $ \ 0.00, and some that were in thc $20.00 line at $16.50. Special new patterns in Sport and Long Coats, Ladies' All-Wool and Silk Jersey Jackets, specially priced. Also, Misses' and Children's. New linc of Cloakings for the Baby at 50c. to $1.00, and AU-Wool Jeans and Kirseys to keep the "old man" warm, at 50c. to $ 1.00. Come and sec. HUNTER'S, Seneca? s- c IF you want to make grain profitably, or if you want to make corn and cotton profitably, or any other crop profitably, usc Anderson Fish and Blood Goods. You know Fish and Blood makes better Fertilizer than anything else. It is cheaper than Meal and Acid, and is better. Anderson Phosphate & Oil Company. SEE MOSS & ANSEL, P. P. SULLIVAN & CO., Walhalla, S, C. Madison, S. C. J. G. BREAZEALE, Westminster, S. C. BUGGIES, WAGONS, HARNESS, Doors, Sash and Blinds. PAINTS AND OILS. Complete Stock of ^ GENERAL MERCHANDISE W. P. Nimmons, Seneca, 5. C. The Boll Weevil Is Coming. If it isn't bore next year the chances arc it will be here the year after, ?and it is just good business, it is just common prudence on the part of every fanner to raise his own food stuffs for man and beast at home. Thc farmer who has his wheat and oats, corn, hogs and molasses cane at home will not be hurt so much by thc boll weevil. Thc man who has these things lo buy and pay for them out of a crop of colton will bc in trouble when'thc boll weevil strikes him. Now is thc time to sow wheat and oats. If you really want to make j^iniii. if you are in cai nest about it. fertilize it when you sow and use thc Anderson Fish and Blood Goods. That takes the "ifs" out of making grain. Now is the time. Anderson Phosphate & Oil Company. SEE MOSS & ANSEL, P. P. SULLIVAN & CO., Walhalla, S. C. Madison, S. ?. J. G. BREAZEALE, Westminster, S. C.