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i^EowEE COURIER (KstablUliod IHH).) I*ubliNli<*I Every Wednesday Morning Nubs r i' 11 >i i o 11 si i??r Annum? Advertising Imites Reasonable. -By~ BTEOK. SUKLIII! & SCHRODER. Communications of a personal character charged for aB advertise ments. Obituary notices anet tributes of respect, of not over 100 words, will printed trw of charge. All over t'bat number must bo paid for at tho sate of one cent a word. Cash to accompany manuscript. WADU A DLA. H. C.: tV MON ESI >A Y, .1 ANUA HY 17, MM 7. * * * * * * * * * * * * .J. AN OI?EN LETTER TO -J. .J* JAM KS M. .MOSS. .J. * * * * * * * * -i? -i- * * * Mr. .lames M. Moss, Walhalla. S. C.- hear Sir: As a Southerner, aa Oconee eitl/.en and a kinsman of (lie late W. C K?ster. I wish lo thank yiiti heartily tor your recoilt loiter lo the Nev. York Times in correction of that patter's misstated article con cerning the horrible accident at K)i?abclh, New Jersey, which result - dj in tin' deaths of John VV. Davis und Win. C. K?ster. This was a trag edy thal lias bereli South' ('andina et bravo .uni elficienl tilllcers, thrown Oconee counts into deepest mon ru ing, made fatherless sis lender chil dren 't an ace when they SO Heeled 'I,, protection .md guidance of 'he v.c. loving, big-hearted fnth iii M*iK (hal those two so well exempli fied; .uh) who shall veal ure lo mons on the dark depths of woe iii.ii hnv< Mirged over t li?' hearts of 'hose no ble ladies, tin- bereaved widows, wi o ai'?? s" l.ravel.v st III ge, lilli: wi til tlieii ilicoiuparahle loss? lt is indeed a tragedy in which only a perverted mind ami calloused heart could see ought ot the comic or hurlcs'.|uc. A titling rebuke was your letter: col lei t and courageous. I hut echo not 0 til) Hie feelings nf nil relatives and 1 (lends of the two who have journey . il onward before ns, but also of the entire citizenry of the county and Wiatt* ns well as every true South erner, when I again thanh you for Omi letter, and commend the South ern pride. loy a Itv sud fearlessness that breathed in every line. Rich is Oconee! Rich In moino rion of brav?? and distinguished men, rich in tho possession Of manx more vet living, of whom shining examples ol the one are the late lamented ofll iors. and of the other, .las. M. Moss. Helio? e mo, you i's sincerely and appreciatively, Mayne L. .Martin. Seneca, S. C. To Cure a Cold in One Day Tnkc I.AXATIVK I1KOMO Quinine. It stop? the Cough nn<l Hr i\,Inc hr nilli wotk? O?? tile Colli. niuKtcists refluid money if it fnils to cure. J!. W. GKOVIi'S signnture on each lion. .'5c. Thrilling Dide in Dark. A young man bound for Walling ford. Conti., had a thrilling ride on a Pennsylvania railroad express train i he other night. ile got off th, train at Lancaster, ? a.. and when he cunio out of tin? sta ' ion the train Ail? mosing. Iii? luinp 4 tl and caught the hand irons on the lan; car, thinking he could make Mime one hear him. By the time he WAS through pounding on the door ike train was running so fast (hat be wa? unable to gel off with safety. The train made tile 2!l miles be tween Lancaster and Coatesville in .19 minutes, and during that time all ?be passenger's weight was on his .inns. ?relam? has SI.?SOO land holders Having plats not exceeding an acre: fl.7 Un who hold more than one acre and not moro than live acres: 113, ?r?t!t under fifteen and 130,018 not exceeding thirty. (il RLS ! DH AW A MOIST CLOTH THROUGH HAIR. DOUBLE ITS BEAUTY. fry This! Hair (?els Thick, Glossy, Wavy nuil Beautiful at Once. Immediate'? Yes! Certain.' t ?lat's tho joy nf it. Your bair ho cemos light, wavy, Unify, abundant and appears as soft, lustrous and beautiful ns n young girl's after a Dandeville hair cleanse. .lust try this moisten a cloth willi a little Dandcrino and carefully draw il I ll ron gb your hair, laking one small strand at a time. This will cleanse the hair of dust, din or excessive ol), and in inst a few moments you have doublet! the beauty of your bair. A delightful surprise awaits those whose hair has'been neglected or is scraggy, laded, dry, brittle or thin, [tosidos beautifying the hair. Dan dcrino dissolves every particle of dandruff; cleanses, purifies and in vigorates the scalp, forever stopping itching and falling hair, but what will please you most will bo after a few weeks' use. when you sec new hair - line ?ind downy al fi rs t yes but really new hair growing all over tho scalp. If you care for pretty, soft ?air, and lots of it surely get a 25 ?ent bottle of Knowllon's Danderint from any drug store or toilet tonntet and just try it.-Adv. .J? ?J? ?J? ?M ?J? ?J? ?J? ?J? ?J* ?J? ?J? ?J? ?J? .J. AN INDICTMENT. * * * * * 4? * * * * * * * * South CurolliiH Stund? Indicted on l-'i V<? Couti tM. I shall hiing these charges against thu ollbials of the State -the legis lative. the executive and the judi ciary tor the way they have treated the soldiers of tho Civil War. And in doing so I must, go hack to tho war Lo lay tho foundation of my com plaint, Alleged first-South Carolina raised more sand and cain in start ing tile war than any other State; that is an historic, fact, known to all America, in January, 1801, tho war-dogs from the mountains to the sea howled for war, saying that it would he over In three mouths; that we could whip the. whole business willi cornstalks; and some went so far as io say they would "drink all thu blood spilled iii the war," etc.. Hut that class never did get there! And when it came to Uro. sweat and blood, South Carolina did not do her duly to her soldiers on (lie Hold This is also a fact of history, and I can prove every allegation in tho com plaint, tl use titi' words South Car olina advisedly.) My complain! ls to the powers that he, and to them only. Now. th eso war-dogs that stood off and sicked tho others on never did hear ihe music of tile bul let showers ol' it battlefield, much less drink the blood, and whip the whole K?dern I army with cornstalks. My second complain! or indictment i thal South Carolina has signnll) failed io linne up to the other South ern si.ties on tho "pension" hill. These men who went to tho front und returned with wooden legs and I empty sleeves, and bullet scars on their bodies, are heroes of nobility, letters ol' patriotism and cour.me mon who for months and years biv ouacked on the ground, sleeping on fence rails, marching and fighting in heal uni cold, often pressing the Icc and snow with bare and bleeding feel. And now, aftor they have been buffeted hy tho storms ami conllh.ti ot life, they deeply feel ihe need of a helping band. ls tins State so poor thal he cannot do for her old vete rans what oilier Stales ari' doing? Xe; it's not (hat. lt is another "Pharaoh who knew no) Joseph," another melioration that never knew 'anything of the pain and -mffering that Mows ill tho wake, ol' war. M^' third complaint is against tho property iiualiliention embraced In the "pension" bill ol' this Stale 1 take tho un.und t and I think it toll able) !hat where a man went into the war, leaving everything thar vas garred and dear behind him, doing his dii'y on the battlefield, and got hack nome and went to work and ac complished a fortune maybe, by hon est toil, with bullet and saber scars on his body-I say he has tho same right to a "pension" as the fellow Cat lias never made anything. In my opinion tho property qualifica tion is absolutely wrong. My fourth complaint ls against the way thc "Old Soldiers' Home" is con ducted, l have visited the home of ten, and ii is always the same, as 1 see it. And I have said, and now say. .lat I lind rather die in a sheep pasture exposed to the fowls of the air and the beasts of the forest than at i hat 'home." And yet for I?1 1 "> there was an appropriation ol' $11), :t.i<l.7*) to run that institution. There is something dead up the creek -the fountain is not pure. 1 say, in the name ol' all that is holy, abolish the "home," give the old soldiers a good pension and let them live among their relatives and friends. My tiiti) complaint is against the way the Pension Hoard cuts down the pensions ol' the widows of dead soldiers., and I shall prove this alle gation, and will put onlj two wit nesses on the stand t I could put up two hundred) - namely, .1 W. Kid son and (!. W. Lott, deceased, of .lohnstoii, S. C. These men went hilo the arnij on tho Ml th day of April. I si; I. to light to the finish. N'o better soldiers over lived or died. They were members of the Seventh South Carolina Regiment. (! W. Doti left his left leg on the rocky .ides of Gettysburg; .1. W. Kidson left bis right leu on the bank of tho Chickamuuga; they both suffered for years without tiny help from the Slate. Filially they received the small sum of $72 a year $15 a mont li for serving three yeats in the war and giving a leg apiece. When these men died the cornily and Stale board r it down this S 7 J to fJil' a year not quito $2 a month-for their widows. After their bread winners were gone they needed it more than ever. I could toll of numbers who have been treated the same way. and it is a burning shaine on the State. Do you say. Tell it not? N'o; tell it in (lath and proclaim it in tho streets of Askelon; and from "Dan lo Boer sheba" and from "Beersheba" ba<k to "Dan." The State of Florida pays from Born! Southern Gentleman! II?II? Kl? ? e./$/t?. -Nevejnb?r &^ 190/ ; AH >-.';.J,v.'.V\?i?v*? It was midnight, cold and dark. The cal endar told the date-Monday, November 4th, 1901. They tell me I opened my eyes and blinked in the glare of the big electric lights. Around me were men in spotless v/hite talking in low tones. "Jim," one said, "we have been watching for this little fellow for a long while and now he's here/' Jim picked me up, looked me over, struck a match and took a long, deep puff. Then he took another. "Gentlemen,"he said,"He is perfect. Qual ity does tell. You can't fail to recognize good blood. His mother was a Virginian, his father an aristocrat of the Carolinas. He comes from the very best stock-the very sweetest, ripest, mellowest Virginia and Carolina tobacco, and we will raise him right in one of the whitest, cleanest, health iest homes on earth." Even then I was glad all over to hear his words. It is a great thing to have real breeding behind you, to know who your folks are. It starts a fellow right. We Folks of the Sotzth KNOW good blood. We Folks of the South KNOW good tobacco. That is why I just had to have heaps of friends down South here. I want you, Mr. Reader, for one of my friends, and it means a whole lot when I say I am guaranteed by ^^W^'"e^ -Buy me. If you don't like me return me to your dealer and j>;at your money back. I have said it. A Southern gentleman is known the world over for keeping his word, and I have given you mine. overei FOR THE GENTLEMAN OP THE SOUTH if $100 ot $150 ciu:\\ to her soldiers who are on Hie pension roll. The Confederate veterans will lie the jury in this case. "What say you. Mr. Foreman and gentlemen of the jury? Guilty or not guilty''" "Guilty, my Lord." So say yon all, Now, Mr. Editor, one moro para graph and I will close. i attended tho great peace celebration of tho Hine and the (?ray at Gettysburg, which did more to bring about a bet ter feeling between the North and Hie South than anything oise bas over done since Appomattox, lt was ?I li old-time ante-bellum Methodist love feast, showing .to the world lli?t bullet and saber scars arc not so deep as the reeling of American bro therhood. In May next the Confede rate reunion will meet in the city of Washington, (>. G., and a host of tho Grand Army of the Republic will be WHAT IS LAX-FOS is an improved Cascara (atonic-laxative) pleasant to ta (8 In LAX-FOS thc Cascara isimprov ?d hy thc addition of certain harmless (lem icals which Increase the efficiency! f the Cascara, making it better thou ordinary Cascara. LAX-FOS 19 pleasant t* take and does not gripe nor disturb sto: mch. Adapted to children os well ?s a hilts Just try one bottle for conslipatiour 50c. there to greet ns; and that will he another peace celebration. The rail roads will carry each one there and hack tor one cent a mile-less than half fare. Now I think the State of Sooth Carolina should pay to each Confederate soldier that one cent a mile--which would he about $10 to thc man. And I shall ask Harry lt. Hughs to introduce a bill to thal ef fect and make his maiden speech for its passage in tho General Assembly. You hear that. Harry? .1. Russell Wright Hichlund. S. C., Jan. I. Note. The above letter was sent to Tim Courier by hand. It failed to reach us in Hmo for publication at the time intended the first issue of The Courier in January. (?ot Kort y Yea in for lta|ie. Orangchurg, Jan. ll.--lohn Wil liams, indicted for rape, to-day was sentenced to 10 years in the State penitentinryi within ten days after the crime was committed. Ry agree ment Williams entered a idea of guilty and the jury recommended mercy Williams was charged with assault ort a prominent young white married woman. Ha is tho first white man ever convicted of this charge in Or angchurg county. All concerned are prominent parties. A telephone system is hoing in stalled by the Spanish government to connect up cities on tho Canary Is lands. WAS LAST Ol' IIISTOKIO IH>I>Y. Judge J. A. I?. Campbell, One of Orig iual Confederate Congress. .Jackson, Miss., Jan. IO.-Judge J. A. P. Campbell, Raid to be the last of tho li) original delegates to the Con federate Slates Congress who signed tie constitution of the Confederate States of America, died al Iiis home here to-llight. Ile was 87 years old. Judge Campbell was licensed to practice law in Mississippi when only 17 years of age, according to his au tobiography. When 21 he was elect ed to I tie Mississippi Legisltanro and was Speaker of the House ol' Hepresentatives Hvo years later, lie was a member bf the Constitutional Convention which adopted the Ordi nance of Secession and was an offi cer in the Confederate anny for three years, serving ?is captain, lieu tenant colonel and colonel. Vor several years he was Circuit Judge and later was appointed to the State Supreme Court, serving for ix years, when he retired. Ile was one of three commission ers appointed to codify the statutes of Mississippi in 1870 and in 187 8 prepared a now legislative code of neti ri y '2 00 sect ions. ---Your county paper, some good farm papers and magazines will af ford pleasure and profitable en tertainment these long winter even ings. It is also the proper time to set grape vinos. Send $2 to Tho Cou rier and got tho full selection. A Surprise for Visitor. Greenville, Jan. 12.-"I had never realized so fully how large was tho colton manufacturing Industry in the South." stated \V. A. Matthews, ot* New York, upon making his ll rat trip ol' inspection through a cotton mill. "And 1 must add that the conditions appear to he very good." he contin ued; "there seems io be a plenty of ventilation, circulation and above all the operatives appeared so happy. This ls somewhat of a contrast to conditions as they some time exist In New England sections, where every thing is made from a pin to a loco motive." Mr. Matthews further expressed surprise at the enormous amount of colton consumed hy the mills in ono day. .Monaghan mills use daily about !10 bales, SO per cent Of which ls raised in Ibis immediate vicinity. sloan's Lin I mont Eases Pain, Sloan's Liniment is first thought of mothers for humps, bruises and sprains that are continually happen ing lo children. It quickly pene trates ?ind soothes without rubbing. Clon uer and moro effective than mussy plasters or ointments. For rheumatic nobes, neuralgia pain and that grippy soreness af (er colds, Sloan's Liniment gives prompt rellof. Have a bott lo handy for bruises, strains, sprains and all external pain. For the thousands whoso work calls them Outdoors, the pains and aches following exposure are relieved by Sloan's Liniment. At all druggists, 250.---Adv. 1.