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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1900-02-15

and "" shall see what we shall see i'm the
future ct the diSprnsary system.
On Thursday the House refused by 4
vote OF ~ to 70, to strike ont the enact
ing words Of the bin to provide for the
com I'irii"n of the dormitory Of Wintili.p
Normal COLLEGE" at Rock Hill, and thirty.
NV" thousand dollars is appropriated for
Tins purpose, besides the usual expense
fund of thirty thousand dollars for lun-
mlng ih" college the current year. Surely
tie fIIrndS of higher female education in
South Carolina can have no Ground for
tlmnp College, the crown Jewel Of the
system Of higher education of our State.
The general appropriation and supply
hills presented by the Committee ON
Ways and Means passed the House and
wrr" ordered sent To The Senate during
the past week. TIA" appropriations EoG
the South Carolina College and the Mill
lmY Academy, usually designated and
known H> the titadcI, at Charleston, pro-
vokrd The usual annual heated discus
SION, but the full amounts recommended
hy the committee were appropriated as
heretofore. Pending the discussion Of
til" above appropriations to the colleges
the friends Of the institutions of higher
education in tn" State were charged with
discrimination against the pub lie free
schools Of the State, ANA were twittcd
with using parliality to the colleges.
They diSrlaimrd il, holding that they
"rIr the friends rF both the colleges and
The age-herald., 1900-06-11

cities, and they will naturally hold the elections when their vote can be boiled
 The impression widely prevails that an other conservative house of commons would be chosen. and there is also feel ing that the aged premier would thereup- on retire from office, and that hisH suc- eessor would be none other than the in domitable secretary of state for the col onies, Mir Chamberlain. There is not in British politics today a more forceful char acter. "Pushful Joe," as he is popularly called, is the son of a Birmingham screw maker He was born in that smoky town 6i years ago, and his active years have been conducted on the strenuous plan that Governor Roosevelt has the credit of in troducing in definite form to the world. He married an American woman, and he is in all respect a born leader of men, a resourceful politician, thorough believer in Greater Britain, and an advocate of the closest possible alliance of all English speaking countries.
The age-herald., 1900-06-11
THE BURDEN ON MIR. LONG

From the Washington Times.
 A few hours after the adoption of the Hanna armor plate bill Wednesday even- ing all of the armor plate lobbyists in Washington assembled at fashionable uptown restaurant and celebrated their great victory at a sumptuous dinner, and then made merry around the flowing bowl until ''the gloom shivered off when the light crept in.'' There was nothing in their manner indicating that the bill was a triumph over the armor plate trust, as the administration organs are now claim ing in shrill cries and wild alarms. In point of fact, experts in legislation are agreed that the bill gives to the armor plate people even more than was original ly asked for by them The bill shifts re- sponsibility from the party in power by placing upon the secretary of the navy, gentleman of probity and high sense of public and private honor greater burden than has ever before been placed upon any cabinet officer. With MT Long it is left discretionary as to the price he is to pay for the armor which he must buy for the fourteen ships he has been peremptorily ordered to build. If the trust demands more than the price which congress at tempted to fix, the secretary will have to pay it. It is true that he is authorized and directed to construct a government plant for the manufacture of armor plate if in his judgment that is the only means by which the material may be obtained at a reasonable price, but, of course, it is ridiculous to claim that this threat will deter the trust from charging whatever it pleases for the armor plate which he must purchase within the next year. It would be impossible to build the proposed govern ment works within year and half, even if the plans for their construction, to- gether with the site and other appurten- ances, were now in hand Meantime the armor plate trust will proceed to do bus- ness with Uncle Sam, and in return for the opportunity thus afforded will come down liberally when MT. Hanna lets it be known that certain funds are needed for the Me Kinley campaign It was Mir. Hanna's strong fight that pulled through the bill which the armor trust lobbyists cs,s5sa.Sed in such rotous fashion Wednesday even ing.
The age-herald., 1900-06-11
THE CANDIDACY OF OTIS

From the Philadelphia North American.
 The effort to boom General E. s. Otis for the second place on the republican ticket is silly. The candidacy of Otis for any i'm portant office would be preposterous. He unknown to the people before he was sent to Manila, and the knowledge of him that they have acquired since is not of a character to inspire them with confidence in his judgment administrative ability His name is not associated with tlle yic- tories won by American arms in the Phil ippines, so there is no glamor of military glory around him. As a hero-candidate he would be the apotheosis of the ridiculous.
 Otis is a commonplace and unusually ob- tuse old gentleman, who trotted around in a peck measure in Manila, seeing nothing clearly, doing nothing effective himself and fussily interfering with those who sought to do things. The mention of his name in the republican convention would excite not good -natured amusement but amazement al the folly of his sponsors.
The age-herald., 1900-06-11
Possibly a New Parliament.

The present house of commons was or
 ganized in 1895, and it has therefore two
 years of possible life before it; but poli-
 tcans in Great Britain rarely let house run to its legal limit if in the meanwhile they can see an opportunity for success full appeal to the country. The conserva- tives believe they see such an opportunity in the patriotic feeling aroused over Lord Roberts victorious course. and the annex alton of the two Afrikander republics. It is believed a general election will be brought on either in July or October, as the conservatives will not care to hold an election in the harvest season. They are stronger in the country than in the
The age-herald., 1900-06-11
Alabama Wheat

Sheffield Reaper: MT. P. J. Karg, a prac- tical farmer and mill man, estimates that there will be 300, 900 bushels of wheat thresh- ed in this county this year. He also told us that Mir. F. R. King, of Leighton, has a 100-acre field of wheat that will yield an average of twenty-five bushels per acre. Wednesday Isaiah Long, one of Colbert S most thrifty and industrious colored farm CTS, presented us some of the finest purple top summer turnips we have seen this year. Besides a fine garden, Isaiah has fine growing crops of corn, wheat and cotton as any one in the county, everything con- sidered. He has twenty acres of wheat on thin white" clay land which will yield from twenty to twenty-five bushels per acre.
The age-herald., 1900-06-11
WAKING AT NIGHT

Mabel Dearmer in the London Spectator. When I wake up alone at night
 l feel as if 1 had no eyes; l stare and stare with all my might,
 But only blackness around me lies. I listen for the faintest sound,
 And, though I strain with either ear, The dark is silent all around
 It's just as if 1 could not hear. But if l lie with limbs held fast
 A sort of sound comes like a sigh Perhaps the darkness rushing past,
 Perhaps the minutes passing by; Perhaps the thoughts in peoples heads,
 That keep so quiet all the day, Wait till they're sleeping in their beds,
 Then rustic out and fly away! Or else this noise like whirring wings,
 That dies with the first streak of light, Maybe the sound of baby things,
 All growing, growing, in the night. Children, and kitty-cats, and pups,
 Or even little buds and flowers, Daisies, perhaps, and buttercups,
 All growing in the midnight hours. And yet it seems of me a part,
 And nothing far away or queer It's just the beating of my heart,
 That sounds so strange as lie hereg do not know why this should be;
 When darkness hides the world from sight feel that all is gone but me
 4 little child and the black night.
The age-herald., 1900-06-11
TRE ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER Ia ALABAMA
No Economy at Washington.

The appropriations of the session just ended foot up $7O9 729, 476; and the chairmen of the two appropriation committees take great credit to themselves for the economy which they say is displayed therein. But the economy is more apparent than real. It is chiefly the result of postponing ap- propriations until after the November cleo tion-of throwing upon one year the burdens that belong to the previous year. The Nica- ragua canal appropriation is a conspicuous example of such trickery legislation All know that the canal is to be built, and an expenditure of $40, ,OOO GOO is to be author ized. This authorization should have been included in this years bills. The rivers and harbors of the home country were ignored for like reason, thus throwing upon next year an appropriation of SIG, ,OOO, ,0OO that be- longs to the fiscal year that will be begun on July l. Public buildings and grounds and outstanding claims were put over, thereby keeping out of the years appropri- ations about s13,OOO,OOO more but without saving to the taxpayers single dollar These postponed, but not thereby lessened appropriations aggregate about $17O,000,OOO, and when this amount is added to the sums actually appropriated, a total of $S79, 729 476 presents itself. And this is the true total of the session, and the other is merely the paper or legal total.
 In very truth, all department appropria- tions were increased even over the extrava- gant ones of last year. Representative Liv- ingston publishes table in which he makes this plain. The claims of Senator Allison and Chairman Cannon are baseless. There has been no economy in public expenditures, and there will not be any while the repubn- can party remains in power. Such a course would impeach it's entire history.
The age-herald., 1900-06-11
Mr, Bryan and the Trusts.

The attempt to make MT. Bryan an advo- amendment did not in fact call for a dis claimer on his part at all, for his position was well-defned in the Nebzraska plat form of last August, which was undoubt- edly written by him. That platform says:
 I've demand the enforcement of the present federal law, the enactment of such new legislation as may be necessary and a constitutional amendment If the present constitution is construed to pro- tect trusts, to the end that the monopo- lizaton of industry by private corpora tions may be absolutely prevented"
 This should be considered as a full and clear statement of MT, Bryans position as to the all-important and dominating question of the present campaign. It covers the ground, and there are no flaws in it.
 The trusts will become the chief issue of the campaign because they are the great est evils that afflict the people at home the most heartless taXgathererS of pres ent time. They have even beaten Death which had been up to the formation of trusts the one democratic institution of the land. By forming trusts death becomes a mere incident, and the wicked work of the trust-maker and organizer goes on un- checked and undiminshed. Death has been robbed of its democratic power Perpetu- ity is secured through an artificial crea- ton of the law, and security in the process of robbery is guaranteed by the Dingley tariff
 MT. Bryan proposes to attack these con trivances of the strong against the weak, first, by exhausting the law making pow CT of the federal government; and if the supreme court renders that power insuf ficient, then he would have recourse to a constitutional amendment To say that no remedy exists, is simply to hand over consumers to the most merciless set of plunderers any country has ever known.
The age-herald., 1900-06-11
UoALpRICEs ATFEoTTRADEINE EUROPE
From the Paris Herald

So closely interwoven are all forms of human industry in this age that disturb ance of values in any one necessarily ef- fleets a change in all others. The price of coal goes up and the railways, which are the largest consumers of coal, to make up for the greater expense, now consider ing an increase in freight rates.
 Every business man who sends or re- ceives anything by rail will have to raise his prices to make up for the increased cost. The retail merchant will not be long in fol- lowing his lead, and so on down the line, until it comes to the ordinary consumer, who will find the struggle for life harder in consequence.
The age-herald., 1900-06-11

Iotal ...... ...... COG. .$iS6OlS,3 ,302
 Let no one say after seeing these figures that we are building too many cotton mills, for we cannot build too many until our entire crop of cotton is put into yarns, thread or cloths-into yarns at any rate. Here where fuel is cheap and water DOW CTS numerous-here amid the fields of cot ton-here where labor is abundant and reasonable in price-here is the true place to spin and weave the great staple. True the Dingley tariff and absurd navigation laws stand in the way, but these draw backs must not be permitted to overcome the advantages that nature has bestowed. Mill after mill should be built. Too many cannot be built until the capacity of the spindles exceed the crop they are to ma nioulate. That is the only limit that we should recognize. In the form of yarns the whole world is our market, even Eng land itself.
The age-herald., 1900-06-11

From the New York World.
 Johannesburg and Pretoria are now both in British hands. No organized Boer forces remain Tn the field that are at all capable of reversing the judgment of force that has been clearly pronounced against the two republics. Further resistance on the part of the Boers would under these Grcum- stances be insane.
 Guerrilla warfare is only form of bar barism by which the Boers can gain noth- ing for themselves or their country. There fore the best friends of the South African patriots everywhere will advise them to accept the inevitable and close the war on the best terms that Great Britain will con- cede to them.
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fled for membership of the board would seem to vitiate all the boards proceed ings."
 Alderman Gus Camp says that the work of improving Capitol park is to be begun this week. possibly today. The fence around the park will be entirely removed, the crude bandstand will be replaced by neat structure, and otherwise the park will be greatly improved Alderman Camp says that the removal of the fence will add very materially to the appearance of the park causing the space to look much larger and more attractive. A gardner will be kept constantly on duty. The public will greatly appreciate these improve ments.
The age-herald., 1900-06-11
KEFLECrIoNs OF A BAcuELoR
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press
 There never was man who had softening of the brain that didn't think he was in love.
 There is something in being a poet or a woman that makes them hate to kill a mousse
 Every man, at some time in his life, has treated some one woman so badly he ought to be scalped.
 There ought to be society to punish men who wear chin-whiskers by making them presents of diamond studs.
 Love after marriage is about as much like it was before as the colored vegetables you see in the seed catalogues are like the ones you raise in your own back yard.
The age-herald., 1900-06-11
The Raging Warrior

The Tuscaloosa Gazette: The river was S7 feet high at dark yesterday evening, and rising at the rate of or inches an hour. This is beginning to be very serious over flow. Twenty-Five feet puts water over much of the river bottom land and great quantities of corn and cotton just up are inundated. This will all have to be planted over again, and as farmers were necessar- fly late in planting at first, the damage done, both by delay and otherwise, is con- siderable.
The age-herald., 1900-06-11
Identified as a Train Robber

Kansas City, Mo-, June 10.-J. w. Fish beck. the man who robbed the cigar stand in the Coates house lobby of $1,5O0 in dia- monds and money, has been positively identified as the leader of the gang that held up the passengers on a Missouri Pa cifc sleeping car at Nearman, Kan, on the night of December b last. The identi- fication was made by E. w. Stewart, trav- cling accountant of the Missouri Pacific railroad.
The age-herald., 1900-06-11
Precedent In Bankruptcy Proceedings

Kansas City, Mo, June 10.-A precedent in bankruptcy proceedings was established in the federal court here yesterday when Judge Cortland ruled that companies en- gagged principally in mining are not sub ject to the law, inasmuch as they are not "engaged principally in manufacturing, publishing, trading or mercantile pursuit, as a section of the law provides must be the occupation of persons, companies or corporations to be subject to bankruptcy prOceedings
The age-herald., 1900-06-11
Harry Dci.ker Kills Himself

New York, June 10.-Harry DehSS-. well-known promoter of western railroad properties, shot and killed himself last night in his apartments in this city.
 While the nature of the wound indicates a suicide, other circumstances point to an accident.
The age-herald., 1900-06-11

lated another scandal but an additional one of small dimensions will make no diff ference.
 Majah Rathbone is mad "clear through" <" and so are the American people. The boxers and Adam-zad are supposed to be in partnership
 @-- The pigtail is now a feature of interna- tiona1 politics.
 Dom Paul has left his wife, but not his pipe in Pretoria.
 The rand will have to foot the war bill, after all.
 A crisis in China is an everyday affair. Bobs may live to fight again-in China.
The age-herald., 1900-06-11
Diplomatic

From the Philadelphia Bulletin.
 Mrs. Dudd seems always to have her own way"
 That's because when she can't have 1t she pretends that the other way is hers"
The age-herald., 1900-06-11

When the New York Herald observes that in the Philippines repose side by side the wearers of the gray and of the blue, At for gets that in the Confederate army at least the only known private lives at Tupelo, Mississippi.
The age-herald., 1900-06-11

Hanceville Hustler: On Tuesday evening" during the severe thunderstorm, MT. Char lie Hearn, living west of Hanceville, had the misfortune to have two fine horses killed by lightning.
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Lightning in Alabama

Oneonta News-Dispatch MT. Jack Miller, aged p years, of Snead was struck by a bolt of lightning last week and killed n- stantly. A MT. Thomas was blowing near by, and his mule was killed and he was badly shocked
The age-herald., 1900-06-11

St. Louis must have sent a posse comi- tatus to Washington when it secured s5, Snn
The age-herald., 1900-06-11

After waiting six years Senator Martin of Virginia rose in the senate to discuss a bridge appropriation across the Potomac.
The age-herald., 1900-06-11

Neely's generosity to the Cubans, to whom he gave half of the postoffice re- ceipts, is surprising as well gratifying.
The age-herald., 1900-06-11

The Empress Dowager An is up against the powers, although it is thought that she and the czar understand each other
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Talladega News Reporter; man was killed by lightning last week near Gads- den, and the dispatches careful to state that he wasn't married. The correspondent probably inferred that if he had been a little thing like bolt of lightning wouldn't have affected him.
The age-herald., 1900-06-11
Some Alabama Vegetables

Oneonta News Dispatch: MT. J. J. Saxton of the Chepultepec neighborhood presented Postmaster Mprphree with turnip last Saturday that measured 201A inches in cir conference, and was grown in six weeks.
 Tuscaloosa Gazette: The Gazette man had present yesterday of some record-break- ing vegetables. These were some onions and beats, the former measuring 10 inches and the latter Il inches in circumference. These beauties were brought in by Mrs. Jordan, who raised them on the old Kehoe place.
 Citronelle Times: The Times office has on exhibition some freak radishes from the garden of MT James Bottom. One meas ured 24 inches in length and inches in girth; the other is not of such sylph-like proportions; with its length of 13 inches 1t supports a body but inches smaller. These are altogether the most gigantic rad ishes we have ever seen, and if only the vegetable world should start a dime mu- scum these would be in demand as first among the freaks.
The age-herald., 1900-06-11

Our Bobs will have to undergo nearly everything except a presidential boom, when he goes home from the war.
The age-herald., 1900-06-11
WITH THE EDITORS
 OF THE STATE PRESS
Alabama Fruits and Flowers

Brewton Banner; June is month made beautiful by it's deleetable luxuries. The peach, watermelon and blackberries are among its specialties. But goodness grac- lous, the grass grows too fast for the farm CTS to grow fat in enjoyment
 Frank Keidinger, aged 13, while gather ing wild cherries in East Brewton last Monday forenoon, had the misfortune to fall from a tree and fracture his right thigh. The limb was set by Dr. L. NJ Me- Clendon.
 Falkville Chronicle: Provision is very scarce in this community" so some say Let us look forward to the time when the delicious fruit may be plucked from the vine and bush, which will be in the near future.
 Russellvile Times: Fruit crops are fine, especially peaches.
 Talladega News Reporter: J. o. Adams favored us with another box of strawber- ries,- many of which, without exageration, were as large guinea eggs
 New peaches, first of the season, Mon- day.
 Cftronelle Times: Mr R. A. Mckle is being awarded the medal, by those who have seen, for "the prettiest sight in peach trees laden with ripe fruit, of any one round about.
 The hydrangeas are now in the perfec- ton of their bloom. This is another of the flowers to which we are indebted to Japan. Usually the bloom is of delicate pink, and about the size of a snowball; but, here again, are we of Citronelle, favored in that the soil gives to the blos- som the most exquisite shade of blue; oc- casionally it lends itself to beautiful hel- iotrope, and again is found in pure white. The mass of the blooms are, however, blue and the size enormous
The age-herald., 1900-06-11

Monroe Journal: Four thousand women with twelve thousand trunks are attending the General Federation of Womens clubs in Milwaukee. Evidently the assembly will be something in the nature of an exhibi- tion of milliners creations and wardrobe toggerY. as we'll
The age-herald., 1900-06-11

Butler Herald: One of our enterprising merchants was seen vending his way home last Tuesday afternoon, dragging a large turtle, and wearing a smile as broad as cabbage leaf He said the hard times had no terrors for him at that particular time, and judging from the energetic man. her in which he jerked his turtleship on- ward, he intended to have a feast and with little delay. This was not one of "Un- cle Andy's' turtles.
The age-herald., 1900-06-11
Joy and J Jest of Editors

Hamerville Hustler: Mr. J. w. Duren paid his best wishes to the Hustler in a round, ringing wheel.
 The way of the transgressor is hard and bumpy, as young man will find if he drinks too hard and drives too fast
The age-herald., 1900-06-11

Brewton Banner: Brother M c. Lamont of Durham, Ala, will accept thanks for "a nice lot of subscribers.
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Corn whisky is used in the manufacture of smokeless powder, thus giving it power at long as well as short range.
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More Cotton Mills Needed.

The exports of this country in iron and steel and the manufactures thereof are be- coming year by year satisfactory and even pride-compelling; but all conceit in in dustrial direction is knocked out when we see the figures of exports of cotton goods. Although we grow the raw material in the greatest abundance, and although every condition Is favorable to the manufacture of raw cotton into goods, yet our exports of the latter are less than those of little Switzerland. where a cotton boil never grows, and not much above those of Brit ish India or Holland. We give the figures of for ha