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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-04-22

GENERAL MAHoNE's pos1T1oN.-Thc
Philadelphia Eccning Ttlcgraph publishes
the following frou its Washington cores
pondent in regard to the position of United
States Scnntar:eleot Malone of Virgnia:
"a private letter has been received here
from General Malone, in Virginia, whiou
shows the serious political revolution thut
is now taking place in that State. General
Malone says that great Commonwealth,
with her vast agricultural and mineral re-
sources. has lived, politically long enough
under the resolutions of 1893 and 1899,
and instead of prospering under lhcm,
from year to year she has dcgcnerated po,-
lltically and grown poorer materially; that
the people of Virginia have already seen
enoug'i of the rcactionary policy of the
Democratic party to thoroughly disgust all
progressive men; that Virginia, and in
fact the whole South, has been acting long
enough for the benefit of few Northern
Democrats, and that it is now proposed by
himsof and his friends to take bold and
progressive step to unite the fortunes of
Virginia, and as far as possible, with the
prosperous element of the North General
Nlahonc's friends here say that he will lead
the future Republican party of Yirginia,
and chat he has received encouragcmcnts
from many of tho leading citizens of the
State who have hitherto uliiliatcd with the
Democratic party, to go forward in the
work of reform, and that they will fully
co operate with and sustain him."
No TIME FOR ANYTHING great
difficulty in this country is that we have no
time for anything. The very walk of an
American shows that he is 10 hurry. An
Englshman buttons his coat and goes to
business as deliberately as he goes to church.
An American business man flies after tho
car, struggling with his coat sleeves as he
runs, plungcs in head foremost, and pluuges
out tho other end without regard for his
neck. Chief among our accidents stand
those which occur beoauso people lump
upon flying trains or departing boats. To
wait ten minutes is something pever to be
thought OF. Dinner is not eaten, it is swa-
lowed whole, and when We come to the
desert, we find that the fruit was picked be
fore it was ripe. Everything is hurried
through from tho building of a house to tho
curing of ham. The women who work
on sewing machines stop before they como
to tho end of seam. The dress maker
scnds your dress home with the basting
threads in it, and no loops to hang it up by.
There is none of tho slow, sure complete
ness of the Old World about anything and
and even large fortunes are generally made
in hurry, and lost in tho same way. If
any man you know is "etting rich by the
slow and patient proc of saving, bo sure
he was not born on this continent. Yet
people live os long hero as any~hero else,
and the days arc the same length. Why
lie it we have no timo or anything7
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-04-22

SAN FRANoIsco, Call, April 14.-At
five minutes past ] o'clock today there
was experienced the hoayeat shock Of
earthquake folt horo for yearo The mo-.
tion was vortiolo; no damage is recorded,
although the buildings rocked SO that the
motion was plainly visible. Nevada block
apparently swayed o foot out Of tho pcrpcn"
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-04-22

4 Madrid musician, offended
by a fellow pianist, challenged him
to play the piano with him until
either oi''hcm should be compel
led by fatigue to dcsist. The ducI
lasted forty-cight hours without
either antagonist resting or tai
ing tho slightest nonrishmcnt
One Of them played, among othcl
pieces the Misercrc from Trova.
tore, over $50 times and was be-
ginning it again when he tell dead
from exhaustion. The other was
on the verge Of lunacy.
WHAT SHALL WE READ
When Voltaire was little boy he
committed to memory an infidcl
poem; which blasted his whole life
degraded his mental powers and
made him an inveterate encmy to
Christianity. Whom David Hume,
the historian, was Il boy he enter.
cd into a debate in favor of inf.
deity, and that debate settled his
young mind ever aftcrward in the
Nnrirol nrirci,,Io ~ ,,,GJ.J;+x
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-04-22

Brass is metal of no mean value 10
business point of view. 1t frequently
passes current for q great Gcal moro thoo il
iS wort H.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1880-04-22

ATLANTA, GA, April 13.--Considerah
excitement prevails in White County oycr
the finding of rich pockets Of gold in Ma.
coochcc Valley. Over ono hundred mug
gets were taken out in four days. one Of
which was shown in Atlanta to- day and
weighs over one pound. The yicldgrowg
richer as tho washing proceeds.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1880-12-18

The German language seems to be
treated la mother-in-law by the Board
of Public Schools in Denver. The
Colorado Journal writes the following
in relation thereto: We will give our
readers to-day little explanation how
the German language is taught and
public schools. In the Third Ward
school there teaches young school
| marin who, for an increase of her salary
of SIS per annum, teaches also German,
to the infnit pleasure OF the little Ger
man fellows who visit that school. The
young lady does not know anything
about the German language herself, but
she takes occasional lessons in
that language, and whatever
knowledge she acquires by them
she attempts to instill into the crani-
ums of her pupils on the following day.
That she makes mistakes, and very ridic-
ulous ones at that, every one will at once
perceive. For instance, breakfast" she
translates with sFrisstich' (Fruhstueck)
''pork" stands for ''swineheiss," and
''beef" for 'sreindheiss." That the little
German urchins who have to witness
these attempts at breaking grow ex-
tremely hilarious is natural; and that
the American scholars take it in as cor
rect and oil right is also natural, but
very much to be regretted. This system
of teaching German should at once be
abolished. Nothing will sooner destroy
the respect Of the pupils of public
schools than q teacher becoming the
laughing stock of the scholars.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1880-12-18

RAISING QuAILs II 4 TAME STATE
Henry Benbrook, dealer in game, re-
siding at Raritan, New Jersey, has sue.
ceeded in raising young quails, an opera
tion that has been tried in the United
States repeatedly, but which hitherto
has proved futile. Four years ago he
captured two Morris county quails, the
female being lowland and the male high
land. The female laid twenty-fou eggs
the first year, but could not be induced
to sit. The second year Mr.. Benbrook
was in Canada and nothing was done
with the birds. The third year the
female made its nest, laid twelve eggs,
and after sitting ten days, died. The
male then sat on the eggs and six quails
were Matched. They were all raised by
Benbrook and are still living. These
young quails began laying on May 21st
last, and up to July 31st have laid one
hundred and eight eggs, but they show
no signs of sitting as yet. Some of the
eggs were placed under bantam chicken
and six of them Matched, and the quails
are alive to-day. This experiment of
raising young quail has been under
taken by game societies all over the
world for years, but this is the first time
any one has succeeded, SO far as the
record shows.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1880-12-18
4 Folly Of the Age.


Hunting the North Pole has been
sort of mania with scientifically
disposed persons for good many
years, and especially so ever since
Sir John Franklin got ice bound and
took up his permanent abode some
where up in the hyperborean re-
gions, which means beyond where
the North wind comes from. Vast
sums of money have been expended
and several lives lost in the endeavor
to find the "Northwest passage"
though no one seems to be able to
give any reasons for believing there
is such a passage, and certainly no
one has shown that if there is, its
discovery would be of the smallest
possible benefit to mankind. The
idea of finding route practicable
for navigation north of the Ameri-
can continent, is surely one of the
greatest absurdity, as such a passage
would be nearly continuously OBJ
strueted by ice, and at all times
would be attended with great danger
to all who attempted to navigate it.
The latest disappearance in the arc
tic region, that of the Jeanette,
under command of Lieutenant De
Long, has furnished North Pole ex-
perts, both in this country and
Europe, with prolific theme for
speculation. The question as to
whether any of the crew of the
Jeanette are yet alive, is not so
much discussed as the probabilities
as to where the vessel is and
whether she will ever be able to
get back. Lieut.. De Long has al
ready passed one severe winter in
those frozen seas, and is now, if
alive, booked for another winter of
like terror and severity, for all win-
ters in those high latitudes are terri
BILE and severe. The numerous con-
lectures as to the absent vessels po-
sition and the discussions attending
them, have disclosed the remarkable
fact that no one seems TO know what
the plans of her commander were, or
which shore of Wrangel Land he in
tended to make for. By some it is
maintained that he attempted to
reach the eastern shore and became
frozen in by the ice known to have
been present in that region in inn
mense quantitirs; while others better
acquainted with the oanons of Arctic
navigation are confident that he
sought tho western shore and is now
there in safe harbor. If the former
supposition is correct the condition
of the explorers is perilous one,
but if the latter is true there is no
cause to fear for their safety. A
very singular part of it is that Lieu
tenant De Long lett no knowledge
behind him which shore he intended
to make. Next year il he and his
men are not forgotten it will be in
order to send vessel in search of
them, and the following year to dis
patch one after the first. Nothing
new has been added to scientific
knowledge by these Arctic expedi-
tions for years at all commensurate
with their cost, and it is time Amer
leans, as people of common sense
and practical ideas, had abandoned
them.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1880-12-18
Lawyers and Their Fees.

Lawyer Henry A. Glover, of st. Louis,
has obtained Judgment against that city
to the amount Of S13, 900 for services
st. Louts Gas Company. The AazeiqeT
mendous fee-bill, and asks:
What in the world has Mr.. Glover
done to demand such an outrageous fee
for his services in one lawsuit only? A
Judge of the Circuit Court receives
$500 per annum; Judge of the Court
of Appeals receives the same salary; and
why pay such an exorbitant fee to one
lawyer for services in one single case?
And the Illinois Stats Zeitung an
swers:
Yes; why? Simply because the law
yers Of the United States occupy about
the same position the priests do in So
called priest-ridden country; because the
United States is not country where
moneys are appropriated for the civil
lists of Kings. Grand Dukes, Princes,
and heirs apparent to the throne, but
where double and treble the money is
paid to-lawyersl Bismarck said once;
"If the Germans were rich enough each
one of them would have a King of his
own Well, this country is rich enough
to do it; but Kings do not suit, therefore
we keep our lawyers. They'll do, and
with o vengeance at that Our King
dom is called 'Lawyerdom, and that
costs us not only as much, but double
and treble the amount the Kings and
priests cost the people of Eu-
rope. For all that the lawyers devour
annually Of the earnings of the peo-
pie, we could comfortably support
half gross of Kings, Dukes, Princes,
Landgraves, Margrayes, and whatever
that trash of superfuous drones may be
called Such outrageous and exorbitant
lawyers fees are and remain a swindle.
These lawyers and judges cannot prove
and demonstrate that the mental labor of
lawyers is worth SO much more than the
brain work of an author, or teacher, or
an editor, for which they will charge,
perhaps, $40, while lawyer may de-
mand for easier work from $1,000 to 3d.
600. But this American Camorra, con-
sisting of lawyers and judges, has the
power to skin an honest and we'll mean
ing, but stupid and eowardly people. It
has the power as long as the people will
quietly submit, and that will be for a
good many years to come. The race
of asses never will die ont and,
as long as there are asses,
there will be lawyers in
America to peal the hides off them
hair, teeth, toenails, hoofs and all. And
these lawyers can be about as we'll COM
pared with European jurist as Spencer
of the State Savings Institution, with an
honest banker. But the ARzeiger says !:
tsWhat ia generally called in EuDropean
countries, the State and is termed in
America the law, should bring the peo-
pie relief and reform" Very good, very
true! But there is only one small cir
cumstance, which that paper seems to
have forgotten, viz: that our legislative
bodies-this coalition of lawyers and ex-
judges-have usually an overpowing ma
jority, and, as long as this is the case, the
people must be prepared to act MS anvil
while the lawyers play the hammerl
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1880-12-18

The Petersburg (Russia) correspond
ent of the Berlin Montagsbiaa writes the
following:
A few days ago DIR. Mershejewski, Pro-
fessor of Psychiatry at the Medico-Sur-
gieal Academy, introduced to his stud
ents very interesting case of idiocy.
The subject is q young man twenty seven
years of age, born in Archange1, where
he has resided until o short time ago.
The young man seems to be perfectly
idiotic, and is entirely devoid OF all ca
pability to think logically. The patient
plainly manifests all the symptoms of
total idiocy; but he shows phenome-
nal memory and the astounding faculty
to solve the most difficult mathematical
problems with the greatest ease and
without the assistance of guides or
tables. A few minutes times are sufi-
cient for him to raise any sum
to its second or third power. or to
draw the square and cubic root of any
sum, including all the running frac.
tions. Any poem, the reading of which
takes several minutes, he will immedi-
ately and fau1tlessly recite again. With
these one-sided performances the patient
astonishes every one. By what combina-
tion he arrives at the solution OF such
difficult mathematical problems cannot
be definitely explained. It is supposed
that he is himself unconscious Of the
performance, and that the activity of his
brain is entirely independent OF his will
power. In his youth he developed
splendid talents, but lost them after q
severe illness, retaining only his gigan-
tic memory, which developed more and
more as his other faculties gradually dis
appeared. Ever since his fourteenth
year he has led very dissolute life, and
he is now hard drinker.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1880-12-18
Farmers Daughters.

Here is a fact which may interest the
young girls who live in farm houses.
The London Pail Mall Gazette says:
England can no longer furnish her own
butter. The cheaper kinds come from
America, for Americans, even with their
rich pastures and improved stock OF
cows, cannot make the best grade The
high priced grades come to Southampton
from Normandy and Brittany. And
why is good butter not made in England?
Because the dairy maid, with her pail, is
q thing of poetry and the past. Because
farmers wives and daughters now think
dairy work degradation.
The Gazette proceeds to state the
enormous income which dairy farming,
carried on by women, has. brought to
France; the daughter of dairy farmer
often receiving dowerof S20, 600 on her
wedding day. Much of it is the product
of her own work. skill and management.
We might 60 on with the inquiry,
Why cannot Americans make the best
butter Because the business has gone
ont of the hands Of the farmers wife
and daughter, and is done by machinery.
Near Philadelphia, in the rich hill
farms, there are q few old Quaker danes
and their daughters whoare not ashamed
of this old time craft, whose yellow, fra
grant pats of butter, wrapped in leaves
and packed in tnbs delieately clean, are
known all over the country, and com-
mand 81 or 81 30 per pound n any city
market
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1880-12-18

There was Church fair at Muncie,
Ark, and photographs of the young
women who were to serve at the stands
were displayed in the windows of the
stores, including those who were in char
acter costumes. A travelling burlesque
company came along at the same time
and portraits of blonds in tights were
placed alongside the others. The pastor
hastily removed the pictures Of the
Muncie girls. Then the theatrical man.
ager placarded the actresses pictures
with: "These artists have no connection
with the amateur performances at the
Baptist Church and can only be seen at
Tabor Hail."
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1880-12-18
An Army Argument.

understand from the public prints
that the commission treating with the
Utes for the cession of their reservation
only demand the surrender of the Indi-
ans concerned in the murder of Agent
Meeker and his employees, and decided
that it would make no demand for the
surrender of those implicated in the as
sault upon Maj. Thornburgh and his
command. This discrimination / can
not but regard as unjust and unwise.
The Indians who murdered Agent
Meeker and his employees murdered Maj.
Thornburgh and the men who fell with
him. The one act was no greater crime
than the other Maj. Thornburgh was
on his way to the Ute agency, in obedi-
ence to Agent Meeker's request, to pre-
serve order and restrain turbulency. He
was not there to make war on the Utes,
and they knew it. The very evening
preceding their attack upon him
number of their chiefs had
entered his camp, as they had
previously done, partaken, of his
hospitality, and assured ham of their
friendship. The last message Meeker
ever sent to Thornburgh was to the effect
that the Indians. without provocation,
treacherously lay in ambusoade, and at
tackled the troops, with the results al
ready known To consider such beha-
vior an act of war, is to give new mean
ing to the term. It was nothing more or
| less than murder. Certainly it was as
| much murder as the killing of Mr..
Meeker and those employed under him.
To treat it as anything else is equivalent
to asserting that an Indian commits q
crime only when he kills the agent who
invokes assistance, but not when he way
lays and destroys the men who move to
| render the assistance asked for The
life of an officer and soldier of the army
is as dear to him, perhaps as valuable to
the country, as that of an agent or en-
ploye of any other branch of the Gov
ernment, and it will be bad precedent
to establish that the life of one may be
taken with impunity, while the other
must be accounted for by the delivery to
justice of those who destroy it. Gen.
Crooks Report
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1880-12-18
1 FOLDED LEAF.

A folded rage, old, stained and blurred,
found within your book last night.
did not read the dim, dark word
saw in the slow-waning light;
So put It back, and len II There,
As II IN truth ] did not care
Ahi we have all folded leaf
That ia Tims's book long ago
We leave; half relief
Falls on rs when we hide Il 90,
We fold Il down, then turn away,
And may read that page to-daya
Not you, my chfid--nor you, my wife,
Who sit beside my study chair.
For all have something in their life
That they, aud they alone, may bear
A tfifling lie, deadly sin,
A something bought they did not win
Ny folded leaf how the blue eyes CLEAN
And blot the dark brown eyes see;
And golden curls ct evening beam
Above the black locks AZ my knee.
All mel that Ieafis folded down,
And eye for me the locks are brown.
And yet, ] love them who sit by,
Ny best and dearest st--dearest now
They may not know for what sigh,
What brings the shadow on my brow,
Ghosts ct the best, so let them be,
Nor come between my life and me.
They only rise attwilight hour,
So light the lamp, and close the blind,
Small perfumes in the flower,
: That sleep that faded page behind,
So let It ever folded lie;
Twill be unfolded when l diel
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1880-12-18

An old lady of his flock once called
upon DR.. Gill with a grievance. The
Doctors neck-bands were too long for
her ideas of ministerial humility, and
after long harrangue on the sin Of
pride, she intimated that she had
brought her scissors with her and would
be pleased if her dear pastor would al
low her to clip them down to her mo-
tions of propriety. The doctor not only
listened patiently to her lecture, but
handed her over the offending white
bands for her TO operate upon. When
she bad cut them to her satisfaction,
and returned the bibs, it was the doc
tors turn. Now" said he, s'my good
sister, yau must do me good turn
also: Yes, that will, Doctor; what
can it be2" Well, you have something
about you which is . deal too long, and
eauses me no pend to trouble, ana I shonld
like to see it shorter. = Indeed. dear
sir. viii not hesitate; what is it2 Here
are the scissors, use them IS you please. r
Come. then, said the sturdy divine.
good sister, put ont your tongue.
The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1880-12-18
sCINTILLaTIOSS.

In cemetery q little white stone
marked the grave OF q dear little girl;
and on the stone was chiseled these
words: "a child of whom her play
mates said, 1t was easier to be good
when she was with u.s. It was one Of
the most beautiful epitaphs ever writ
ten.
Somebody gave little Augustus two
toys. "I will give this one to my dear
little sister" he said, showing the larg-
est. Because it is the prettiest2" said
the delighted mamma. "No," he re-
piled, without hesitation; because it's
broken
"Let the dead past lie. buried. 1T
was at a Galveston hotel table that q
child attracted considerable attention by
saying repeatedly, 81 want cake. !"
sYon have had five or six already" re-
piled the mother. s"Them's not the
ones want. want fresh one"
A diagonis of the. disease reveals the
fact that schoolboy's toothache gener-
ally begins at 8 A. NJ, reaches its highest
altitude at a quarter to 8, when the pain
is intense; begins to subdue at 8, and af-
that disappears with celebrity that must
be very comfortable to the sufferer, es-
pecially if there is any hope of his going
fishing.
A young girl while attending one of
our uptown Sabbath schools saw pic
ture of Cain and Abel In the lesson book.
She looked at the teacher and said, "Miss
-; man dead" "Well, Stella" said
the teacher, "what killed him?" Don't
know" said the bright young lady; ''run
over by the cars, suppose.
A litera1-minded little fellow visiting
on Cape Cod, who found the inscription
in the village church-yard, mot dead,
but sleepeth, ran to his mother and said !:
"We must go home right off; I won't
stay here all night. anyhow. They bury
people here when they go to sleep. saw
one of them out in the graveyard, and
do you suppose I'll sleep here tonight
and have them bury me?"
The family were telling riddles one
evening, and the fve-year old told this;
-Four little hopper toads sat on tree.
Two hoped off and then there were three.n
Nobody could guess it. "Well,' she ex-
claimed, lone of them hopped right back
again" "Who told you that riddle?"
asked mamma. Nobody" replied the
little one 81 thunk it up myself p