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KEOWBE COURIER ( lOstablisliod imo.) Published ICvery Wednesday Morning Subscription 91 Vcr Annum. Advertising Hutes Housonable. -Ry ?TICOK, HM 1:1,01t ?i SCHRODER. Communications of a personal cbaraeter charged for as advertise ments. Obituary notices ana tributes of respect, of not over 100 words, will bo printed free of charge. AU over that number must be paid for at the rate of ono cent a word. Cash to accompany maim sc ri pt. WALHALLA, 8. C.: WEDNESDAY, SUPT. 2?, 11)17. AN AIKMIKAHLIC SCI HOM IC. To-day our government ls urging tho Incroaesd raising of stock in every section of our great country. The appeal conies to our fanners and stock-ralsors to produce more cattle for food purposes because the supply of meat, not alone in the United Slates, hut in tho whole world, is siqdly depleted, and the meat short age is becoming alarming. lt seems lo us that this appeal should strike with force the land owners and Cn miora of Oconee. Our climate is such (luit cattle cull he raised al a minimum of cost; and with bul little extra expenditure in the way 01' seeding waste lands to grasses mid ?'lovers, callie here iran lie brought to a maximum of ef llcieney, both for beef and milk. There is enough "roughage" wasted in this section every year good feedstuffs that are not and cannot be readily harvested and stored-to win ter thousands ol' head of cattle, which in normal times would com inan?! mind profits on the markets, hui under presen! conditions would represen! small fortunes. As a sim ple matter ol' fact, until wo realize the importance of cattle on the farms, wc1 cunno! he truly successful fanners. The more cattle5 there are on a farm the more elli clent and self sustaining will he the farm, and the more independen! the farmer. Cat tle form not only a source of revenue from the meat, milk ami huller mar kets, but they stop, to a large extent, the serious strain for commercial fer tilizers. No farmer in this section of the State should make a dollar of expenditure for commercial fertili zers for the building up 01 lils soil. Ile may spend a life-time "building ii))" soil with commercial fertilizers, and in the end ho will fail. Commer cial fertilizers were never Intended to build soil and improve farms per manently; they contain plant foods, and they should he used for no other purpose than to "food" Ike crops as Ihey grow. Stahle manure docs build soil, and " stays in and with the soil year after year. The more sta ble ma 11 uro available, the greater the efficiency, the more permanent the fertility, ?ind the less will be re quired I" the way of commercial crop stimulants. Let us learn the value of feeding our soils by feeding first to cattle, then lo the soil. The boys of this section are going to forge far ahead of their daddies in their pursuit of agriculture, and it is to the boys we must look for the adoption of many of the more ad vanced methods of fanning. A bank over in Thoinasvllle, Ca., has caught ?his idea, and it is to the action taken by this bank that we wish to call at tention, in the hope that similar ac tion may be laken by somo or all of the banks in Oconee. Wo reprint here a brief dispatch that contains a mos! admirable application of the principle of mutual helpfulness: "Thoinasvllle, Ca., Sept. Ki. To stimulate the raising of line cattle lr. Thomas county, and to enable every boy In tho county to get a good start in this Industry, the People's Saving Hank, of this city, has inaugurated a 'Hoys' Yearling Club.' The bank has made arrangements to dunnee the purchase ot" a Shorthorn cow for every hoy who desires one. faking bl? note for the purchase price." Oconee has six enterprising hanks. Could not the bank presidents vif Walhalla, Seneca and Westminster get together, pool their energies in a light for more and better cattle In our county, anti thus prove lo our tanners the true value ol' cattle on the farms? We believe in the, prop osition so strongly that we stand ready to join with the bankers In whatever move they make in the matter, and we will undertake, free of charge, for the benefit we know will accrue to the farming Interests of the iresent and futuro, lo .-ive all necessary publicity through Tue Cou rier ?0 gol a plan of this kind well before I lie people ol' Oconee. Can the boys ol' tin; Oconee farms see something worth while in a prop osition ol' this kind? Can the hank ers 01* Oconee soe something worth while in lt--in more and better cat tle, more money in tho hands of the fannel:., in increased business and added prosperity? We can seo all ol' this, and more. It is a certainty thal wo see-or we are as blind as a bat. What can be done in tho interest of more and better cattle on the farms Ot Oconee? Wo leave the (incition to the farmers and bankers of our county, and we pledge our heart) support to any move that may he made in that direction, Probably no lime In-recent years has found Walhalla with her coal supply KO depleted, and not a few are wondering where their fuel supply will como from. Tho govornmout, "1110 COAL PROBLEM. however, ls working dally on the coal problem, and lt looks now as though something tangible is reasonably to bo expected in tho very near future, ({econHy prices for coal at the mines were fixed, these ranging from $1.86 to $2.20 per ton. Present Indica tions are, however, that these prices will be authorized by the government to be slightly raised, but we are as sured that the raise will not be great. When these prices have been defi nitely fixed, the consumer should be able lo ?et coal for necessary use -- not an over-supply or for "hoarding" at least at not un exborbitant Ug uie. Thc following Information has been sent out from Washington: "A general readjustment of mine prices fixed recently by Presi dent Wilson will be recommend ed by Dr. Garfield within the next lew weeks. It is regarded as likely that many of the prices, based on cost of production figures furnished by the Federal Trade Commission, will bo Increase 1 slightly. "?Retail prices will be fixed for every community in the country possibly within two weeks. The t)rices will be llxed on recommen dation of the local committee. The new retail prices will represent a considerable reduction tn costs to the consumer. "To enforce regulations to be drawn up, Dr. Garfield Intends to license not only coal producers, but jobbers and retailers as well." With the price of coal fixed at the mines, there should be little difficul ty in arriving at a fair price to the consumer. Ker instance, let us sup pose that the coal costs the retail dealer $2.10 at tho mines. We will suppose that $2.15 will cover trans portation from the mines to the re ! tailer. Then add, say 25 per cent . Tor profil. $1.07. and $1.00 for deliv ery from retailer to consumer. There . wo have a total- and lt seems lo us. reasonable - cost to the consumer of $0.32 lier ton. These figures would be varied up or down in ac cordance with whatever variation there might be between the prices and rales wo have assumed to bo substantially correct, but the varia tion will not amount to a great deal. We do not know just what.coal prices at the mines were last fall, but we have Information that lt was bought and delivered into people's homes in Westminster at $4.85 per ton. At the same time wo were paying much mor?> here, later in the season $1 1.00 pe? ton being demanded at the time when the car shortage made coal hard lo get. No such conditions should be permitted to exist here again. With government control of prices, any such manipulations and taking advantage of the people's ne cessities would constitute extortion, and tho culprit would be readily amenable to the Federal authorities. The government in making its dual recommendations will, we believe, arrive at a conclusion at once just lo the producer, the transporter, the dealer and the ultimate consumer. Richland Decal News. Richland, Sept. 18.-Special: Geo. Shelor, of Seneca spent the week-end ; with his mother here. .lohn Davis bas been confined to his bed the past week with fever, but he is improving daily, and we trust j that ho will be well again soon, j Wayne Wyly also had a mild at ! tack of fever the first part of tho week, but he is able to be up again i now. Stiles Stribllng left this morning I for Lebanon, Tenn., where he is to teach agriculture and chemistry and be military assistant in the Castle Heights School. Robert Davis is at home from his teaching at South Union for several weeks. Ills school opens again In November and be will continue there as principal during the winter ses sion. Mr. Patrick, a young seminary stu dent, who preached nt Pelzer during the summer, preached an excellent sermon hore Sunday morning in Mr. j Wallace's absence. Homer Hallenger and Miss Coo added to the service with a well-rendered vocal duet. Miss Hello Stribllng left this after noon for Greenville en route to Rock Hill to resume her studies nt Win throp College. Misse? Grace Vernor and Carrie McMahan expect to leave Wednesday to re-enter Lander College at Green wood. Homer Hallenger made a business trip to Charlotte last week. Hruce Stribllng leaves to-morrow to resume his studies at Clemson. Ile will be in the senior class there this year, also in the senior division of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps if the district board will grant bis plea for temporary exemption. Farmers of Greenwood county held a mass meeting recently and took steps looking to secure a Federal government cotton grader, to be lo cated at. Greenwood. UGH I CALOMF.L MAKKS YOU DEATHLY SICK Stop Using Dangerous Drug liefere it Salivates You! H's Horrible. You're bilious, sluggish, constipat ed and believe you need vile, danger ous calomel to start your liver and clean your bowels. 1 lore's my guarantee! Ask your druggist for a 50-Cent bottle of Dod son's Liver Tone and take a spoonful to-night. If it doesn't start your liver and straighten you right up bettor than calomel j nd without griping or making you sick I want you to go back to the store and get yeur money. Take calomel to-day and to-mor row you will feel weak and sick and nauseated. Don't loso a day's work. Take a spoonful of harmless, vege table Dodson's Liver Tone to-night and wako nj) feeling great. It's per fectly harmless, so glvo lt to your children any time. It can't salivato, so lot them cat anything afterwards. -Adv. fy Aiu?: WK HEADY ? fy fy fy fy fy fy fy fy fy fy fy fy fy fy (By Lewis C. Harrison, Chief Clerk, Camp Quartermaster, Quarter master Corps.) Headquarters Thirty-Ninth Divis ion, Calnp Beauregard, La., Sept. 14, li) 17.-Editor Keowee Courier: So much luis been written lately con cerning the entrance ol* the United States into the European world struggle that I hesitate to attempt to give my version of what I actually see and am experiencing through daily contact with thc various de partments of camp activities. Though there are several similar camps now in process of completion within the borders of South Carolina, and many of thc readers of The Courier have learned to marvel at the wonderful rapidity with which the government is building and equipping same, 1 beg your Indulgence for a short article concerning the camp at which I am stationed and which is comparatively similar to the others. Camp Beauregard, La., (named af ter the famous Confederate general). ls a picturesque type of the tn; ny camps now being established throughout the United States. The camp ls located among tho hills of Central Louisiana, In tho midst of a largo turpentine area of pine trees, and ls not far from the banks of Ked river, and about four miles or so from the city of Alexandria. Approx imately everything has been com pleted and the troops are fast com ing in, ready for the vigorous train ing awaiting them. There are some thing Uko 200 or more frame build ings, among which are the mess halls, numbering 100, which if put in a straight line would cover a dist ance ol" three miles. Here the hun gry boys ol* Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana will feast on spuds, spaghetti, cabbage, and the usual army loaf bread, which is baked by our own boys here in the Held ovens. There are ten huge warehouses for the storing ol* miscellaneous supplies. Three army Y. M. C. A.'s with a seating capacity of about 1,500 each arc ready and welcoming the boys, and hundreds of sacks of magazines have arrived, which the good people all over the United States are send ing tn to the various camps for the soldiers. A very interesting feature ol* it all is to see the great amount of activ ity on every hand, speed apparently being the consuming desire. W are houses and other buildings spring up during the night where before there was scarcely a spot to lay a board, every night Unding some shift of workmen busy: and Sunday can hardly be called a day of rest for the present. A weekly pay roll of $100.01)0 to about 3,000 laborers is turned loose for the city of Alexan dria to reap the benefits, and it is taxing tito city to measure up to the occasion. Many interesting features are to be seen, among them the huge truck train of Of ty brown trucks of about two tons each busily running here and liiere, loaded to capacity, and driven by soldiers, who form what is known as the motor truck company. Then there is the remount depot, which is being established to care for about 8,000 animals; also there will he a large base hospital; In fact, there is no scarcity of room for building, as I understand the lease calls for 06,000 acres, which should be enough ground Indeed for all the drilling, target practicing and such, as one could desire. Subsistence is a task that must be met. In plain words, that is ration ing or feeding the soldiers. With this in view already something like the following has been purchased, and some of it already here for the sol dier boys to feast upon: Two million pounds of potatoes, half million pounds onions, one to two million pounds frozen beef, twelve to twenty live thousand pounds of butter and a like amount of oleomargarine; ten thousand pounds yeast; also many cases of jellies, pickles, canned goods and such; then In enormous quanti ties all kinds of miscellaneous sup plies must be bought in such large volumes that it is overwhelming to enumerate. As I write this, from my ellice win dow 1 can now see about a thousand ol' the troops busily engaged in the art of learning intensive warfare, and very shortly they will he Joined by thirty or more thousand other comrades, and there will be thc rhythm of marching feet from early morn until dusk, broken only by the brisk commands of the o III cc rs and the bugle calls for rest, each nagel and willing to do his part, knowing soon he will join the great Pershing and his advance guard among thc Northern hills of France. The Quartermaster Corps of an.\ camp plays a very important part yet I deem it not good policy lc praise one department to the disad vantage of another, for, one and all they work together and bring aboul the combined result. In the Quarter master Corps we have at presen I about 8."> men and equally as man] telephones, typewriters and the othei modern "trouble makers", and everj 'device imaginable to aid in the hug< volume of statistics and clerical WOtV which must be turned out hy thll branch of the service. There an many departments in the Quarter master Corps, headed by tho person ucl, which is the personal recor( branch and pivot of the other depart ments. Then follow nuance, sub sislence, transportation, sales, etc All men in the departments are en listed men ranging from privates t( captains, tho captains being the beac of each individual department, wltl tho exception of the personnel dc pari ment, whose hea/d is tho cami quartermaster and whose rank I major. I was fortunate enough t< be selected by the major as his chlo dork. We work very hard, though almost from morning until night and then more; but everything I running smoothly and wo expect ti continuo the fight and see that th soldiers are well fed and the govern mont's money accounted for and wei spent; In the meantime keeping th records up to the inlnutc so as to b ready who? tho call comes: "On t Franco!" Summarizing, allow me to sa that, whllo no ono knows how noa I or how far thc end may bo, tho Uni ted States again goes on record as being tile leader of the world, and sets the pace for world-peace and democracy. Hy her entrance into the gigantic .snuggle, the death knell of German autocracy is sounded, the power of the Kaiser is on the wane, and though France is bleeding, Eng land weakened, and Russia devas tated from the brutal warfare of the German army, the United States goes Tort h Into the fray eagerly and vigor ously, hacked by a solid nation, and the outcome is Inevitable. Peace again will soon come to our hearts and our country--the greatest peace of all, that in knowing our fellow kindred people of the world are freed from a yoke of degradation which, beginning at the North Sea. was fast approaching the fair shores of the Mediterranean. So the call of France, England and our own Pershing, who has gone be fore to plant the Stars and Stripes among the banners of the world, comes to us to-day In clarion notes, "Are We heady?" and the answer ls wafted back across the blue: "We Are Coming!" MOTHER! YOUR CHILD IS CROSS, FEVERISH, FROM CONSTIPATION If Tongue ls Coated, Breath Bad, Sto mach Sour, Clean Liver and Bowels. Give "California Syrup of Figs" at once-a teaspoonful to-day often saves a sick child to-morrow. If your little one ls out-of-sorts, half-sick, isn't resting, eating and acting naturally-look, mother! Seo if tongue is coated. This is a sure sign that Its little stomach, liver and bowels are clogged with waste. When cross, Irritable, feverish, stomach sour, breath bad or has stomach ache, diarrhoea, sore throat, full of cold, give a teaspoonful of "Califor nia Syrup of Figs," and in a few hours all tho constipated poison, un digested food and sour bile gently moves out of its little bowels with out griping, and you have a well, playful child again. Mothers can rest easy after giving this harmless "fruit laxative," be cause it never fails to cleanse the lit tle one's liver and bowels and sweet en the stomach, and they dearly love its pleasant taste. Full directions for babies, children of all ages and for grown-ups printed on each bot tle. Beware of counterfeit Hg syrups. Ask your druggist for a 50-cont bot tle of "California Syrup of Figs;" then see that it. ls made by the "Cali fornia Fig Syrup Cc?npnny."-Adv. The Thorn well Orphanage. The Thorn well Orphanage, located at ('linton, is the name of the home for orphans under the care of tho Presbyterian churches in South Car olina, Georgia and Florida. lt has 35 teachers and matrons for its 2 1 departments and cottage homes, In .which are sheltered above 800 or phans. The home receives children I lom ?ny part of the Union, and from any denomination. During July and August 82 applications were receiv ed, of whom only 19 could be accept ed. Above 200 are on the waiting list. These are all supported by the generosity of the Presbyterian pub lie. We hope the friends of the school will do as all the other or phan homes are expecting, observe "Orphan Work Day" on the 13th of October. The observance consists In sending your day's wage for that day to the institution you favor. The Thorn well Home has Ulled up every vacancy, notwithstanding the war and high prices and will shortly erect another cottage. The pupils of the home have the best of schooling and manual training and are very care fully taught. None but orphans aro received. Contributions should he sent to Rev. J. B. Branch, Clinton, S. C. The life of the institution has been 12 years, in which time more than a thousand boyg and girls have been made into useful and educated citizens. Catarrhal Deafness Cannot Bo Cured by local applications, ns they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There ls only one way to cure catarrhal deafness, and that ls by a constitutional remedy. Catarrhal deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian tube. When this tube ls in Hamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed, deafness ls tho result. Unless the inflammation can bo re duced and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be de stroyed forever. Many cases of deafness are caused by catarrh, which ls an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. Hall's Catarrh Medicine acts through tho blood on the mucous surfaces of the system. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of catarrhal deafness that cannot bo cured by Hall's Ca tarrh Medicine. Circulars free. All druggists. 75c. (adv.) F. J. Cheney ?fe Co., Toledo, O. Il II II gu tin II for Peace, Copenhagen, Sept. 20.-Count Ka roly!, president of the Hungarian In dependence party, according to a Budapest dispatch, declared at a meeting yesterday that ho would agi tate for an carly peace between thc warring countries. Ho said ho had been invited to participate In a peace conference at Berne in October, and would leave for Switzerland, not withstanding tho violent attacks thal probably would be directed against him. .J? .J. ?J? ?J? ?J? ?J? ?J? ?J? ?J? ?J? ?J? ?J? fy fy OPEN LEITER fy fy TO SOLDIERS' PARENTS. fy fy fy fy fy fy fy fy fy fy fy fy fy fy (Dr. Lee Davis Lodge, In Gaffney Ledger. ) My Dear Friends: Will you per mit me to say that I sympathize with you in this dark hour. The word sympathize, you remember is derived from two Greek roots, and means to suffer with. That is an exact state ment of the tact: 1 suffer with you. My own dear boy has volunteered I? the aviation corps of the regular army. My heart is wrung by the same agony that convulses yours. All this summer the thought of the terrible perils that he must soon face has hung over me like a black pall. In the busy hours ot the day the hideous spectre of death ever and anon touches me on the shoulder and says: "I am come!" But in the silent watches of the night the same dread portent rouses mo from slum ber and terrifies my imagination with images of horror. At all times an awful fear gnaws at my heart. "My son! O, my son, my son!" Like the scenes of a moving picture film my memories of his babyhood and boyhood flit before my mind. Now I see him In his cradle-and now In his first pair of trousers-and now as he bids me goodbye at the train that is to take him off to college. O, heartache! O, heart-break! Dear friends, don't you suppose that I have felt lt all? And so 1 say, /fl sympathize with you." And yet, friend, I would not have it otherwise, not for a moment. My boy has answered thc call of Iiis country; he has answered the call of the South, he has answered the call of his blood. He is doing what I have taught him to be ready to do from the lime that he first ! could talk. God forbid that my boy, j or your boy. should shrink and slink ! and shirk when civilization is in peril; when the dagger is aimed at ; the heart of freedom; when the ! honor of woman is menaced with j ruthless violation, and when all the , arts and enginery and implements of i hell are let loose upon mankind. J Your boy and thine have gone ? forth to light against a foe that aims lat nothing less than the destruction Jot* our democracy, the enslavement Of humanity and the domination ol' the world. Our boys, yours and mine, are fighting for democracy .against autocracy, for freedom ' against despotism, for truth against i falsehood, for honor against treach ery, for civilization against savagery, , for right against might, for God j against the devil. They are going to cross the water ; themselves to keep the war from 'crossing the water. They are going I to fight tn France to keep South Car [ olina from being another Belgium. I They are going to face horror , abroad In order that you and I may not be forced to face horror at home. ! So I am willing for my boy to go. 1 j want him to go. Our fathers fought j to win for us this very freedom that j we now enjoy; this very freedom for which our boys are fighting now. If ? French soldiers had not crossed the ocean to fight In America, our fath ers would never have won the War of the Revolution. A man who will not fight for free dom ls not worthy to have freedom. Our boys, yours and mine, are now going to" fight for the very same great, undying, priceless principle for which the Confederate soldiers fought in 1861-the right of self government. These boys of ours are worthy of their blood, worthy of the proud traditions of the South, wor thy of the high ideals of America. God bless and keep them and send them In safety back to us, if -lt bc His holy will! Let us not mourn because they go, Let us rejoice rather that they arc j doing a man's part in their country's peril. Let no word or look or ges I ture of ours sadden thom as the) I go. Let us bid them goodbye wi tl : brave face and love-lit eyes and ten 1 der embraces, while we commit then to God, their country and freedom. With affectionate sympathy, Very truly yours, I.#ee Davis Lodge. American Steamer Sunk. London, Sept. 19.-The America! steamer Platuria was torpedoed by ? German submarine on September I fi Forty-live survivors have been land ed by the Italian steamer Andre.' Tho master of the Platuria and elgh of the crew were drowned. The Platuria was a tank steamshii of 3,445 tons gross register, ownct ? by the Standard Oil Company, ant was formerly known as the Diamant She left Newport News, Va., In .Inly with a cargo of oil for Italian port: ? and was commanded by Capt. Jobi i Leslie. i Capt. Leslie lived in Jersey City ! N. J. All told thero were 41 mom I hers of the crow and 13 naval gun . tiers. Among the crew, Includinj tho captain, thero wero 16 Amerl , cans, Including R. S. Falls, Sd assist ant engineer, Portsmouth, Va. NEWS FROM TOWNY I Ll ?E. Sud Death of a Child-Many Go U> Collego this Year. Townville, Sept. ID.-Special: Tile Townville school opened with a full corpa of teachers and an in creased attendanco of pupils on Mon day morning. Supt. Camak, who \ formerly taught at Starr, in Ander son county, is principal, and is as sisted In tho high school department hy Miss Fannie Droyles. vMisses Ros sie Cllnkscales, Darby, Sharp and Wingard are the grammar school teachers. Townville has Rent the following young people to the different col leges this fall: Misses Bessie Hanks and Lila King to Anderson College; Misses Amanda Earle', Susie Shirley and Carrie Bowie to Demorest, Ga.; Misses Janet Bolt, Wilhelmina Broyles, Eunice Gantt, Helen? and Lois Hunt to Lander; Miss Winnie Grubbs to Winthrop; Sam Earle to Dalilonega, Ga. Edward and Virgil Ledbetter returned to Furman Uni- / verslty, where they are studying for tho ministry. Each of them preach ed several times in the Baptist church during the summer, and were received with much favor by their home people. The many friends of Dr. and Mrs. J. D. Chapman sympathize with them In the death of their little girl, Lu cile Clarke, who died on September 7th, after a short illness from ty phoid fever,. She was only eight years old, and a child of unusual charm and intellect. She will bo much missed, not only lu the home circle, but among her many friends wherever her family have lived. On Sunday, September Otb, Dr. Chapman baptized '215 converts as tho result of a few days' meeting held in the Baptist church recently. His own little girl had joined also, but was summoned higher before time for the baptizing. By his earnest ness and his devotion to his church work as well as by his fine Christian character Dr. Chapman ls leaving his impress on the whole community. The friends of Mrs. T. C. Llgon are glad to know she is improving after an illness of several days. Dr. S. A. Wldeman and family aro visiting the former's parents In Due West for a few days. Arlie Holland and Royston Led better leave soon for Camp Jackson, being called from Anderson county. They are followed by the good wishes and prayers of the commu nity. .Miss Paule Chapman leaves soon to accept a business position at Simpsonvtlle. Mrs. W. R. Earle and young son have returned home after a stay of several *w<?eks in Anderson with Mrs. J. A. McCurry. fl LADIES J A Ak TMir BriMMlM for CI.l-cHK'.VItR S DIAMOND SHANI) PILLS in RRP and, Oo> n inetnlUu bose.,, scated will? Hine Ribbon, T.\KB NO OTIIKR. Buy oi your' nrtiffffNt and auk for < ll I < M K H. rI. K S DIAMOND nit AND Pl I, Ii A, ."or twenty-five yea re rc-nrd^! tvi Rc8t,8.i{eet, Alway? Reliable SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS TRIBU EVERYWHERE TASTED Card of Thanks. Editor Keowee Courier: Kindly let us have space In your paper to extend to our many friends in Wal halla the sincere appreciation that we feel for their ninny acts of kind ness and words of sympathy during thc illness and at the death of our loved little one. Words fail to ex press the thankfulness we feel. We can but hope that, when tho dark hours that must come to all, come to those friends, they may have the aid and comfort of friends as true as ours. May Cod bless each and every one is our earnest prayer. Mr. and Mrs. Il D. Knox. Walhalla, Sept. 17, m 17. Wood's Seeds Rosea Rye Tlie most vigorous grow inf? rind productive of Seed Ryes. Stools out better, su perior quality of grain, and destined, in our opinion, to take the place ot ali other Rye. Wood's Fall Catalog Gives full description and informa tion, and also tells about the best SEED WHEAT, OATS? RYE, and Other Seeds for Fall Sowing. Write for Catalog and prices of any Seeds required. T. W. WOOD & SONS, SEEDSMEN. - Richmond, Va.