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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1890-10-23
The Morrill, bill for the increase,

The Morrill, bill for the increased
endowment of agricultural colleges
is now law, having received
the assent of the President.
1t appropriatcs $4,000 for each
college for 1890 and an increase
of $1,000 annually until tho sum
reaches $4,000 per year, where it
remains fixed. ~ a judicious
amendment the new grant is to be
applied only to instruction in agri-
culture and the various branches Of
mechanics, mathematics, and the
physical, natural, and economic
sciences, which appcrtain to agricuI-
turc. No doubt much of the present
usclcssncss of some of the colleges is
due to the neglect of the farmers
themselves, who take too little intc-
rest in their management. Faults in
management can be rcctified by the
farmers if they will make themselves
heard, and the most effective way to
be heard is to avail themselves of
the benefits of the colleges by send
ing their sons to them for education.
If the common schools arc not man
aged to the satisfaction Of the pa
rents of the scholars rcmonstrances
are soon heard by the teachers, and
if the same method is applied to
these colleges, which arc c%onspicu-
ously i'll managed, the evil will be
quickly rcmcdicd. The farmers can
control this matt"r if they will, and
they should, and tlsy may by making
use of them. =.
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Epoch.

Tho transition from long, lingering and
painful sickness to robust health marks
an epoch in the life Of the individual.
Such u remarkable event is treasured in
the memory and tho agency whereby tho
good health has been attained is grateful
ly blessed. IIcncc it is that so much is
heard in praise of Electric Bittcrs. SO
many feel they owe their restoration to
health to tho use Of tho great Alternative
and tonic. II you are troubled with my
disease of Kidneys, liver or stomach, of
long or short standing, you will surely
Sold at 50c. and 81 pcr bottle at Norman
Drug Co.'S store.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1890-10-23
Tie King of the Plow.

A.rnt.sl
4 The wosd is rs4sheeathed In Its scabbard
Tho rife hangs sesa on ~ : Wells {
&esiNoionpa~-ry IuaiiIatt Inc hanging
rsSS RUSH Of the raYenous bali;
The Warscloud has hurled Its last light
Ri ming, {
Its$ last awful thundess' are stu,
MSWhile;the demon Of conflict in Hades
Lies fettered III force rs In will:
Above. tho broad fields that no ravaged
What moEarch rules Llissfuily nowa
oh Drown him with bays that are blood
less,
The king, the brave king Of tho plowl
"a king ayl what ruler moro potent
q Has ever swayed earth nv his nodp
"A monarch! yea, more than a monarch,
A homely, but bountiful GoalA
He stands whore in earth's sure protec
tion
To upriso in serene resurrection,
Whom spring ersoft trumpet hath blown
A monarchl yea, more than a monarch,
Though&toil!drops arc thick on his brow
Oil crown him with corn-leaf and wheat
\ leaf, .t. 49,
The king, tho strong king of tho plowl
Through tho shndow and shine Of pas!
ages
while ~tYrants wore Blinded with blood,
He reared the puro ensign of Ceres
BY meadow, and mountain and flood;
And the long, leafy gold of his harvcsts
The earth. srrites and ~air-spritcs had
spun, r. &
Grow rhythmic when swept by tho breczcs,
Grew, royal, whom kissed by the sun;
Before the stern charm of his patience
What rock-rooted forces must bowl
Comel crown him with corn-leaf and
@SN wheat-lcaf,
y king, tho bold king of tho plowl
Far, far in tho carth's uttermost future
AS boundless Of splondor as scope
i see the fair angell-fruition,
Outspeed his high hcralds Of hopo;
The roses>of JOY rain around him,
Tho lilies Of sweetness and calm,
For tho sword has boon changed 10 the
p~lowshare,
The lion lies down with tho lamb!
Oil angol-magcstic! Wo know thee,
Though raised and transiigurcd art thou,
This lord of lifo's grand contamination
Was once tho swart king of tho Plowl
Paul Hamilton Hayne,
the South Carolina Poet.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1890-10-23
\ Democrats"

Judge Haskell and hia followers
olaim3t to be "as good Democrats" as
there are III tho State.
What do they mean by the word
"Democrat"
They have left the regular Demo.
cratic organization, repadiated iii
a!cts and opposed its nominees,
They claim to be in limo with the
Democratic party of the country,
but they know their position and &C
ton must weaken it. They can not
fight the Democratic nominees on
tho State ticket without injurina the
prospects of tho Democratic lomi-
nees for Congress and taxing the
risk OF costing tho party two or
more seats in tho Federal House OF
Representatives. They know-if
they take tho trouble to think long
enough to know anything-that we
can give tho electoral votes of the
State for the Democratic nominee
for President only by having n strong,
compact, aggressive Democratic or
%ganization in tho State. They are
doing all they car to weaken that or
g%anization and to make the Republi-
can vote a strong and active factor
in IL politics.
They arc acting ~squarely against
the two great Democratic principles
Of majority rule and white suprc-
macy. They have arrogated to
themselves the right to review the
acts Of the great majority of their
party, to scorn and put aside tho dc,
cision of the majority of their own
faction of that party and to appeal
to the negro vote to help them put
their W conclusions and opinions
into effect. They virtually declare
that white supremacy is a failure,
that the white man is incapable of
conducting tho affairs and clcoting
the officials Of tho State and that
the aid of the negro and Radical
are needed to secure for South Caro-
lima an honest and efficient govern
mcnt.
Any mar can call himself a Demo-
crat. Malone proclaimed in Con-
gross that he was as good a Demo-
crat as Ben Hill. McI.ane and
Walker Russell in this State claimed
in their first oanvass that they were
the only pure and real Jcffersonian
Democrats.
Words arc cheap and anybody can
use them. They mean moth lg when
contradictcd by acts. Let no man
be deceived by them. Let every
MAJ understand clearly that he may
vote for the Haskell ticket if he likes,
but that in doing so he is voting
against tho Democratic ticket and
party and voting to help the Radi-
Gals. There is no way around that
fact and no middle ground. The is
IL is plain and is squarely presented.
- GaeenUtM Mews.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1890-10-23

Experts say that there will be
scarcely any apple crop in the apple
belt of Western New York, which
usually ships 1,OO0,OOO barrels, with
but half a crop of winter fruit in
the famous Annapolis Valley of
Nova Scotia, Southern Ontario and
Michigan.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1890-10-23
Buck len's Arnicn Snlye.

Tho best Saivo in tho world for cuts,
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rhoum, fever
sores, %tottor, chappcd hands, c%hilblains,
corns, and all skin oruptions, and posi-
lively cures piles, or no pay required. 1t
is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction,
or money refunded. Price, 25 cents por
box. For salo by Norman Drug Co.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1890-10-23

A doctor in an institution with
many children declares that nothing
lrritates n cough more than to cough.
lie brihed the children in ono Of the
hospital wards to hold their breath
when tempted to cough, and was
himself nstonishcd at the speedy re-
lief Of some Of them.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1890-10-23
THE NEW SCHOOL DISTRICTS.

The following are the Districts
adopted by the Board of Examiners
at their recent meeting, viz:
NEVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT, NO. IS.
Beginning at the brid., % on the
Negro fork creek, near John Nor
gan's, thence the road by Darby's
and Pooro's residences on to John
W. Abbott's, thence n straight line
to the East end of tho Poor noun
tain, the top of the mountain to the
old Blue Ridge Railroad route,
thence down said route to a point on
said route opposite Moses Cantrclls
residence, thence n straight line to
and excluding J. S. Floyd's resi-
dence, thence n straight line to the
beginning point.
wALHALI.A SCHOOL DIsTRlCT, NO. 26.
Beginning on the Burnt lanyard
road, near Munson's residence, thence
H<straight line to and including the
Law house, i'll Midway, thence a
straight line to the two mile post on
the Walhalla and Westminster road,
thence to a point where Conncross
School District crosses Negro fork,
thence said fork to Morgan's bridge,
on said fork, thence a straight line
to and including j. S. Floyd's resi-
dencc, thence a straight line to a
point on the old Blue Ridge Rail-
road route, opposite Moses Cantrcll's
residence, thence said old route to
and including Joel Boards residence,
thence n straight line to the begin
ming point.
WEST UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT,
NO. 81.
Beginning on the Burnt lanyard
road, near Munson's residence, thence
said road to Ivester's bridge, thence
down the creek to Cane creek, thence
down said creek to Steel's old mill,
thence n straight line to the four
mile post on tho Walhalia and Rich
land road, thence a straight line to
the two mile post OH the Westmin-
ster and Walhalla road, thence n
straight line to the Law house, in
Midway, thence 9 straight line to
tho beginning point.
SPENDS CREEK school. TRrc
NO. 20.
beginning st Livingston's old mill,
on Conneross creek, thence up said
creek to the nearest corner of the
Seneca Graded line, thence said line
to Martins creek, thence down said
creek to a point opposite the Caro-
dine old house, thence a straight line
to and excluding Robt. Goodies resi-
dcncc, thence a straight line to the
hcadwatcrs Of Birchficld branch,
thence down said branch to the
beginning point. 5sSn
FRIENDSHIP SCHOOL DIsiRIdr, NO. 20.
Beginning at tho mouth Of Birch
field branch, on Conneross creek,
thence up said branch to its head
waters, thence n straight line to and
h;~nol,,1;n,8 I2nht CiSoIo,, .o,;Jn.,
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1890-10-23

The pension department at Wash
ington has upon its rolls the names
of twcnty-seven widows OF Rcvolu-
tionary soldiers who have been rcgu-
larly paid pensions up to the present
time. Three of them ore 97 ycara
of age and, two SO. The youngest is
II years oftagc. -..
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1890-10-23

THROUGH CAR S%EnvIoE.
Nos. 8, 4, 80 and 81 daily except Sunday. :
Main line trains 81 and 90 daily between CO.
lumbia and Aston. VIZ, -.
Daily except Sunday between Aston and
Hot Springs, N. c., daily, without change, on IS
from Augusta, connecting with q. 81 G. 81.
Tickets on sale, Mt principal stations to all
points. ~ u. CARDWELIn
4 Division Passenger Agent,
Columbia, s. g.
JAS. l.. TAYLOR,
General Pass. Agent.
SOIL HAAS, Traffic Manager.
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TEACHERS COLUMN,

fGS' All COMMUNICATIONS intended
for this column should be addressed
to S. p. Stribling, School Commits
sioner, Walhalla, s. g.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1890-10-23

DlGdll hlglltS dill bUlGrS,
Mill Gearing, Vertical and Hori-
zontn Cane. Mills, Grist and
SAW MILLS OF ALL SIZES, HOUSE
FRONTS, RAILING FOR GARDEN
AND CEMETERY LOTS.
Prompt and Special Attention
given to Repairing Of Ma
chinery.
1 would call tho attention of tho public
especially to the fact that my CIRCULAR
SAW MILLS have taken tho first prizo at
overy State Fair in Columbia when OH ex-
hibition, and that I make a specially Of
CIRCULAR SAW MILL, combining
great simplicity with durability and
strength in their construction, and there
by [ am enabled to put on tho market an
article which rivals any other in price as
we'll as effectiveness. 1 have Oh ale many
testimonials from the foremost sawyers
mills to thcir perfect satisfaction.
l am enabled to furnish House Fronts,
Railing and all Architectural Work at
short notice, having q large variety of
patterns; and, besides, tho experience of
many years in the trade, so that I can
suit customers i'll ovcry manner to their
taste as vol as to prices. My experience
chincry by this timo Is vol known
throughout tho State, and will warrant
to overy ono that lic can DO suited by mo.
l pay close attention to Repairs of
Steam Engines, &C., whom ordered, so
that they arc promptly filed and no loss
occurs to any customers by delay.
Parties desiring any article in my line
will find it to their bost interest to call or
correspond with me.
Write for Circular and Prico List,
which will be furnished on application.
JOHN ALEXANDER,
Columbia, S. G.
May 2, 1880.
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u on - III
Solid Trains between Charleston an,
Columbia, s. G.
J. +. DIVINE,
General superintendent.
~. NJ. EN- RSON,
General Passenger Agent.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1890-10-23
SOUTH CAROLINA RAILWAY co,
D. Ii. CHAMBERLAIN, RECEIVER.

fN~oMMENoISa March 80, 1900. Mt 1.3n u. NJ,
Eastern limo, Trains will run as follows:
MAIN LINE TO AUGUSTA, DAILY.
Leave CharlcStGn .......... q 90 n 90 m
Branchvtllo ......... 8 b5 n IN 8 20 y m
Arrive Augusta. Of noon II 20 j. IN
AUGUSTA TO CHARLESTON, DAILY.
Leave nmgmsta;;i;' '...''' a 4 10 p m
Arrive Charleston. l 10 p 10 90 y IN
MAIN LINE n COLUMBIA DIVISION WEST, DAILY
nranchylilo ......:.. 8 sam BPm
Arrive Columbia :.:........l0 40 q m 10 05 p IN
(DhILY, EXCEPT sUNDAY)
Cainucn go. ........11 30 q m 10 30 d m
COLUMBIA DIVISION AND MAIN LINE FAST, Daily
Leave Camden daily except
, Sunday) 8 bnam 445pm
Golnmbin ........... O 10 q rs IN
E. " BranchYillo ......... g s. m 40 j. m
Arrive Charleston .........n 63 q 80 j. IN
CONNECTIONS
Made at Union Depot, Columbia, with .. so X.
X by train arriving ut i0.i3 A. n. and departing
at 5.6 Z. NJ; also with e., G. & A.. II. II. by same
train to and from oil points on both roads: also
with S,,u IL {. X. Il. by train arriving Mt 30 r.
NJ. ana departing at 100 a. NJ.
Passengers take breakfast ut Columbia and
Supper Mt Branchyille. "
At Pregnal's to and from all points on Eutaw.
vile Railroad; Mt Charleston with steamers for
New York, Jacksonville and points on ST. Johns
River on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays;
with Charleston and Savannah Railroad to and
from Savannah and nnints " Florida daily.
At Augusta with Georgia and Central Railroads
VILE to and from all points on Barnwell Raj. oad.
Through tickets can be purchased to all points
q. y. MILLER uu..'Tf a, Columbia.
9. j. PICKENs, General Passenger Agent.
q. III. WARD, General Manager.
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Atlantic Coast Line.

Passenger department.
Wilmington, ~. c., January IL, 1890.
Fast Line Between Charleston and Co.
lumbia and Upper South Carolina
and Western North Carolina. =:
T.. Condensed Schedule.
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.Daily except Saturdays.
tDaily except Sundays. =. ,.. .
SI.EEITNG CAR SERVICE,
On trains 90 and 81, Pullman Huffet Sleoper
between Now York and Atlanta.
Hot Springs. 80
On trains SO and 60, Pullman Buffet Sleeper
between Washington and Montgomery; WASH
lnRtOn and Augusta, Greensboro end Richmond
Greensboro and Raleigh. '''
Through tickets On sale at all principal sta
tiOns to all points.
For rates and information, apply to my Agent
OF tho Company, or JAS. IT, TAYLOR,
General Passenger Agent.
Washington, d. q.
SOL. HAAS, Traffic Manager,
.'.,. Washington,D g.
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.C0NGAREE IRON WORKS,
Lady Street, near G. 81 C. R. R.
Depot, Columbia, S. c.,
Steam ENGINES and Boilers,

-MANUFACTURER OF
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-05-15
citation, as will also F. M. Sanborn. of
Massachusetts, Minneapolis Evening Jour-
nal.
Warden Allen, in his annual report Of

Warden Allen. in his annual report of
the affairs of the Maine state prison, says
among other things: lone cause of re-
ported crime is the fact that discharged
convict finds the world his enemy. We
have lately had some painful experiences
of this kind, where men who were trying
to do we'll found the avenues to honorable
work closed against them. 1t is my duty
to protect such men in every way; indeed,
it is cheaper for the state to try to save
such men when they. leave us than again to
support them. AS one way of helping this
class, have this year compiled the tables
in my annual report in a new manner. l
have omitted the names of present conviets
and those who have gone from US. and SIM
ply use their office number. This practice
is followed in nearly all the states. Those
who have studied this problem earnestly
desire that all publicity shall be avoided. F"
Mount Desert Herald.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-05-15
The Saltwater PRISON MIRROR is one

The Saltwater PRISON MIRROR is one of
the brightest exchanges on our list. In an
editorial this week it remarks: "If The
PRISON MIRROR should publish criminal
news with all the details, as do most of the
leading dailies. the public would demand
its immediate suppression" There is con-
siderable food for reflection in those few
lines. 1t will soon be necessary for the
head of family to have Russian Censor
of the Press outfit and blot out about half
the contents of a newspaper before he can
take it home for his family to read. 1t is
claimed by many editors that the reading
public demand it, but it is a depraved taste,
at the best, and the more newspapers pan
der to it the more depraved it will become.
1t is pity the aid of the law in regard to
obscene literature cannot be invoked to stop
the circulation of the mass of filth that is
daily dished up in the newspapers of the
country.-St Paul Saturday Evening News.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-05-15
In ssThe Good Time COming.,,

An old writer once said: II care not
who makes the laws for a people, so long
as l make their songs!" 1t is in their pop
ular. everyday ballads-the songs of the
home circle, the workshop and the field
that the true spirit the sentiments which
animate them and color their daily life, are
displayed. A pertinent illustration of this
fact is afforded by the author of the we'll
known and popular melody, There's a
Good Time Coming'-Mr. Mackay. 1t
was written at time of great commercial
depression and social trouble, when the
Australian gold fields were first discovered,
by a man, who, with his wife and young
family, had sustained the most grievOus
and almost overwhelming disappointments
and disasters that loss of property, destitu-
ton, sickness and calamity could inflict.
He was lying invaded and helpless on a
miserable couch in a cherries. freless
apartment in close companionship with the
corpses of two beloved children, who had
recently expired, the victims of want and
exposure. The pillows of suffering and de-
spair had we'll nigh crushed his energies
and powers of endurance, when his patient.
toll worn wife entered with a letter in her
hand, from an influential friend in the Gov
eminent service. Offering him a position
which would secure him and his loved ones
from want. so soon as he should be recOv-
cred from his sickness The effect on him
was magical. Feeble and emaciated as he
was. the fire Of hope kindled in his wearied
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-05-15

The United States will have no official
representative at the international prison
congress to be held at st. Petersburg War
den Wright, of the Western (N.Y. peniten-
tiary, has received letter from Washington
saying the government had determined
that it was not eXpedient to have an official
representative at the congress, and that full
instructions had been sent to Charles EN-
DRY Smith, the minister at St. Petersburg,
relative to the wish of the government in
this matter. Warden Wright had intended
going in case government representative
was decided upon. He says W. F. M.
Rowns, of New York. now in Europe, will
attend as representative of prison asso-
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-05-15
TO THE PUBLIC.

lished in the Minnesota state prison. All matter
published in its columns is contributed by the
inmates. except that properly credited Its sup
port must come from the outside as every inmate
is given a paper without cost. 1t is published in
the interest of the prison library and after paying
for the printing outfit contributed $3.50 to the
library fund the first year. Its objects to en-
courage individual intellectual effort, provide a
healthy journal for the inmates of this and other
prisons and. above all. to acquaint the outside
world with the needs of the prison by rejecting
its inner life and thus aid the Of moral ad-
vancement and prison reform.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-05-15
BRICKS WITHOUT MUD.

A few weeks ago the New Orleans Plea
yune published long acrimonious edi-
tOrial denunciatiOn of the pardOning power
with the manifest purpose of fOrestalling
the action of the governor in some promi-
nent case. From beginning to end it
breathes motive which the writer dares
not openly declare. 1t is not hard to dis
cover when pen is driven by personal
hatred even though the writer. the object
of his malice and its cause are totally I'M
known to the reader Nine times out of
ten under such circumstances the writer is
illogical. And such is the case OH this Oc-
caSiOn. For instance. in one place the
writer says that criminals ''are not sent to
state prison to be reformed. nor to have a
good time; but to be punished. They are
enemies of society, they have proved the
fact by their crimes and they ought to suf-
fer. We repeat, that a prison for adult
criminals is not a refOrmatOry nor is it an
asylum. 1t is a place where the guilty
must be made to suffer. not only shame and
modification, but hardship and physical
pain" Mind, those are reasons given
against the exercise of the pardoning
power. but the writer farther on admits
that there are circumstances which justify
the granting of pardOns: for instance, in
cases where the ''crimnal' is found to be
innocent or that there were mitigating
features that were not brought out at the
trial" How magnanmously just the
writer would be-, especially to the innocent.
Now. where the incongruity comes in is.
that he would have the Imprisonment eff
fective yet not reformative. 1t may be
that this seeming paradox finds it's eXplana-
ton in the many unmarked graves near by
the convict camps of Louisiana and other
southern states 1t cannot be that the ed
itOr of the greatest newspaper of the south
is so profoundly ignorant of human nature
as not to be able to see the fallaciOusness of
his teachings. Does not the history of the
treatment of criminals, in fact of any class
prove that the lower they are degraded the
more vicious and lawless they become? HUI
man nature is not like brute nature that it
can be made submissive by brutal treat
ment. Men grow like their surroundings
Self-introspection should teach any sound
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-05-15
CharlestOwn, Mass.
RObbing the Regular Policeman of
His Income.

First New York POlceman-Did We read
in the Wurruld. Denny, about thin bogus
detectives that whit around among the Aist
Side saloons and made the prOprietOrs put
up hush money for kapin' the side-dure
open a Sunday?
Second Policeman-Faith. did, Pat. an
1 wish l had the handlin' of the scOundrils,
nterfarin' wild our regular business. -.
The law ought to sind the blaggards till
the pnatinshary. whn they are caught 1t
is hard enough work for a dacent pOlace-
mon to make livin' off his bate. widOut
these bogus detectives interterin' and chatin'
us out Ov our honest incomes. It's takin'
the bread-and the beer, toO-right out of
our mouths.
Right you are. Pat. and whin we git our
eye on wan O. thin robbers Shaking his
club significantly let him luck out for him
self, that's all.-Texas Siftings.