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Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-06-29
SECRET SOCIETIES

A,O. P.-Ancient Order Pyramids meets
I'm i. d. o. F. Hall on the first and third Fri
day evenings of each month. Visiting Pyra-
mids cordially invited to meet with us.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-06-29

Hot Springs Encampment No. 80, I. o. 9: F;
Meets at i. q. o. L. hall on the LIST and Bird
Saturday evening of each month. Visiting
Patriarchs cordially invited to meet with us.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-06-29

AZ. 4 A. M.-Harmony. Lodge meets at
Masonic Halt on the second Friday of each
month. Visiting brothers cordially invited.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-06-29

10. o. Eliot Springs Lodge No. 1l2 meets
every Wednesday evening at /. 90. F. Hall:
Visiting brethren cordially invited to meet
with us.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1900-10-10
An Irish Judge.

Lord Morris, always wit, and
now a distinguished Judge, comes
from Galway, an hos never lost the
mellitluous bro, vi West of Ire
land folk. This characteristic makes
the groundwork of story which the
London Telegraph tells of him.
One day Lord Morris was sitting
at the -Four Courts as Lord Chief
Justice of Ireland, when young
barristcr from the North rose ner-
vously to make his first motion. The
Judge had declared that no one
listening to himself would ever take
him for anything but an Irishman,
which was perfectly correct. But
Galway could not understand An
trim. The Lord Chief Justice leaned
over to ask the Associate where the
barrstcr hailed from.
"County Antrim" was the re-
sponsc.
Then asked his Lordship OF the
official: "Did yc iver come across
such frightful accint in the course
of yer loifc ?"
at another time it fell to his lot
to hear case at Colerainc, in which
damages were claimed from vctc-
rinary surgeon for having poisoned
q valuable horse. The issue de.
pended upon whether certain nun
Der of grains of particular drug
could be safely administered TO the
animal. The dispensary doctor
proved that he had often given eight
grains to man, from which it was
to be inferred that twelve for a horse
was not excessive.
"Nevcr mind yer eight grains,
docthor," said the Judge. eve all
know that some posons are cumu-
lativc in effect, and yc may go to
the edge Of ruin with impunity. But
tell me this: The twelve grains
wouldn't they kill the divil himself
if he swallowed them ?"
The doctor war annoyed and pom
pously replied: 81 don't know, my
lord never had him for patient" :"
From the bench came the answer ::
can, no, docthor, yc nivcr had,
more's the pity The old bhoy's
still aloive."
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1900-10-10
Mob only Wanted a Negro.

COLUMBIA, October 4.-Willic Wilson,
a negro, was brought here tonight from
Orangcburg by W. III. Dukes, deputy
sheriff of Orangcburg. 1t was reported
to tho Governor that an attompt to lynch
him would be made. Wilson is tho negro
who drove into j. III. w. IIydrick's vchi-
clio Sunday. llydrick has since died from
the effects of tho collision, and his wifo
is badly hurt. 1t is said the negro was
drunk. lIydricR has been member of
the General Assembly. His brother is
now Senator from Spartanburg. At II
O'Clock tonight 800 armed mon entered
Orangcburg and met and searched tho
Southern train cn route to Columbia for
Wilson. Tho party wouldn't believe tho
man had been sent to the penitcntiary
on the Coast Line via Sumter in tho
early evening, and insisted on searching
the Jail.
Authorities proposed that committee
from tho mob, unarmcd, search the iail
The mob insisted that the whole crowd
should be admitted, armed, but as there
were two negroes under sentence of
death in tho cells, the Shcrilf demurred.
Trouble was avertcd by DR.. IIydrick,
brother of the deceased, he assuring tho
crowd that Wilson had been taken away.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1900-10-10
TilIn. n Plies a Pitchfork.
October 8, 1900.

a special dispatch to the Philadel-
phia Press from Carrollton, ILL.,, said !:
One Of the statements with which
Senator Benjamin II. Tilman, of
South Carolina, opened the campaign
in a Democratic mass meeting here
recently was his bold assertion that
Mark Hanna had raised $2,OOO,OOO
or S3,000,000 from the armor plate
makers and was using it in the cam
paign.
"Ihore are two concerns in the
country which make this armor plate
Carnegie and the Bethlehem" he
said. eve had a contract on which
we bad been holding them five years.
We had been keeping them down to
$500 ton. This year, on the last
day of the session of Congress, Mark
Hanna took charge of it. He went
in and ordered his henchman to give
orders to the Secretary of Navy to
make contract for armor plate at
what he saw fit. I'll swear that
Mark Hanna, to the best of my be.
lief and knowledge, had an agree
ment with those two firms to give
him S2,000,oOO or 100000 for the
Presidential campaign"
The pitchfork Senator concluded
that, in pursuance of Lincoln's war.
time policy, the South had had 1O,-
100000 "niggers" turned over to it
to shoot and kill, and that now the
country was getting 100000 more
for the North to shoot and kill.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1900-10-10
As Bryan Advised.

The premature fight being made on
Senator Mclaurin is causing his friends
to speak out in his behalf. For instance,
the Abbcvilc Press and Banner this
week says:
Senator McLaurn's SHINING, We be-
licvc, consisted in adhcring to Bryan's
expressed opinion that the Paris treaty of
peace should be ratified.
"rhs newspaper agrees with Bryan
in that opinion, though differing from
him in other matters. Senator McTaurin.
from conviction. At any ratio, he did
not favor throwing away tho valuable
islands which we had acquired. He did
not want the government to dishonor tho
soldiers who won such glorious victory
llo took the proper view of tho whole
situation and voted for the right re-
gardlcss of what his political enemies
thought
believing that N1cLa,nin acted
Dravcly and rightly in tho ratification of
the Paris treaty, this newspaper expects
to support him against the field in the
next election. We know very little rs to
his strength or his popularity, but we
believe that a majority of the people
favor expansion and that they will stand
to the man who has the courage to vote
FOR the right and face the unjust clamor
which was raised against him at the time.
Expansion is good Democratic doctrine.
Tho Democrats have annexed all the
territory which this country has acquired
except Alaska and the islands which we
took from Spain. There is neither sense
nor reason in Democrats throwing away
The best work OF the Republicans, and
if Bryan was elected he would not favor
so foolish proposition"
That strikes The Record as n fair and
conservative estimate of tho situation.
IT is not known yet who will be Nc
l'aurin,s opponent or opponents, but
when tho expansion question is thor.
"nnghly discussed, the junior Senator may
be expected to take good.carc of his end
of the debate. When the issue is thor.
onghly presented and u vote taken, it
will be found that majority of tho
Democrats of this State favor sticking to
the good old Democratic doctrine of ex-
panSion.- Columbia Record, October ttb
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1900-10-10
River Over Fifty Miles Wide.

TAMPIco, MEX, October THE
Panuco and Tames rivers, which
empty into the Gulf at this place,
are OH one of the biggest rises in
their history and great damage has
been wrought by the floods in the
populated and cultivated valleys
above here. At one point, near Chila
station, on the line of the Mexican
Central Railroad, the Tames River
is over fifty miles wide and has swept
to destruction hundreds of houses
occupied by Mexican farmers and
laborers. Many cases of drowning
are reported. All the tributaries of
these rivers in the southern and
eastern parts of the State of San Luis
Potosi are out of their banks and
have washed away whole villages
and ruined thousands of acres of
growing crops.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1900-10-10
Tillman Making Votes.

Capt. Ben rilman'S tongue has not
lost its cunning and it has been getting
IN some of its finest lickS in Missouri
at Trenton in that State he said that
Democratic Senators were bought to
vote for the ratification of the treaty OF
Paris and that "thcy would roast them
in the next worldn Meanwhile the
Captain is roasting them i'm this. lie
said that "thc pension department is a
rat hole into which millions Of dollars
are annually poured and wasted" and
no made this graceful appeal to the for
cign- born voters: "ThcIc is one Scmti-
mcnt which is ground into my very bones
and mixed with the lime: America for
Americans and to he'll with all others"
Capt Ben must be making votes, but
perhaps he is not making them for his
OWL, side. New York sun
Kruger, the brave but unfortunate
leader OF the Beers III South Africa, has
given mp the cause, and will take refuge
in Holland. lie is an old man and viii
not survive the downfall Of his country
long. He deserves and will have the
sympathy Of every lover OF national lib
erty the world over
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1900-10-10
MR.. A. c. mERRIck NOMINATED
For Congress by the Republicans Of the Third
Congressional District.

Tho Republican Third Congressional
District Convention WAS held here yes
terday. The convention decided to put
a candidate in the field for Congress and
A. C. Merricls, of Walhalla, was nomi-
mated by the convention as the Repubn-
can nominee from the Third District.
At6 'clock yesterday afternoon the
delegates from the various counties III
the district assembled at the Enterprise
colored store near the public square.
Thcro were present full delegations from
~ tho counties. Anderson was repre-
sontcd by nine delegates, Greenwood
sent four, Ncwberry five, Abbeville nine,
Oconco three and Pickons threo, making
a total of twenty-nine. Anderson, OF
Greenwood was elected Chairman of tho
Convention and T.. B. Churchwell, col
ored, of this city was made Secretary.
j. w. Tolbert, of Greenwood, was re-
elected Chairman of tho Third Congress
siona District Executive Committee and
each county was represented on tho Ex-
ccutiyc Committee, elected as follows: A.
H. Barton, Pickcns; A. G. Mcrriok, Oco-
nce; j. S. Adams, Anderson; A. p. But
ler, Nowborry: J.S Lomax, Greenwood,
and Alfred Allison, Abbevillo. The con-
vention lasted about three hours and was
a quick affair with only eight or ten
present in addition to the regular dole
gates.
After the convention adjourned the
Exccuti vo Committee met in executive
session. 1t is understood that the COM
mittccmen decided to inaugurate an &C
tive campaign in every county in tho dis
trict.-Andorson Daily Mail, October 9th.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1900-10-10
Exposition Day.

4 ~, 4,
IIo. woodsmcn of thc cmo,,nto;,.s;d,,
IIo. dwcllcrs in thc volcs,
Ilo, We who bv thc chaIino tidc
Have rouohcucd in tho o,los,
Leave barn and byrc leave kitb and kin
And hcarkcn TO NV lay
Columbia sends her summons ont
For EXPOSITION Day,
The stranger shuns your sunny land
Because he knows it not;
Your fertile fields neglected stand,
Your barns and homcstcads rot
Give up your aniiquatcd ways,
And learn to advertise;
Charleston will tell you how it pays
Charleston is growing wise!
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1900-10-10
Chained the Train Fast to tho Track.

NEwBERRY, October 6.-To-day
Sheriff Buford served an execution
on the Southern Railway in the case
Of II. II. Milan, of Clinton. Mr.
Milan sued the railroad about three
years ago for damage on carload of
horses and got Judgment. The dam
ages, costs, ETC., amounted to 1928.
The sheriff levied on freight train
No. S62, going west, and locked it to
the track. Sheriff Buford extended
the railroad all courtcsies possible in
the discharge of his duty, by permit
ting them to do all their shifting,
etc, before lcvying. About four
hours later the damages were paid
and the train released.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1900-10-10
Women Meet al Clemson.

CLEMSON COLLEGE, October 4.ZWith
the meeting of tho Woman's Missionary
Society have como gentle showers and
the weather is delightful. Tho meetings
on yesterday were devoted to routine
work and tho discussion of interesting
topics which had been previously as
signed to the societies of the various
churches The reports show consilera-
bio progress.
The session last night was for tho pub
lie and was interesting. Tho choir was
full and tho music fino. Tho duet by
Mrs. II. N. Brackett and Miss Rosa CAL
houn and tho solo by Miss Ellio Ravonoll
woro excellont.
DR.. j. Lowrio Wilson, of Abbovillo,
delivered the first address, basing his
remarks on tho following passage from
the Songs of Solomon: "Who is sho that
looketh forth as the morning, fair as the
moon, clear as the sun and terrible as an
army with banners" Tho interpreta-
ton, illustration and application were
clear and beautiful and earnestly pre-
sented. The preacher said this was II
life picture of the bride of Christ painted
by himself as typical of tho church. The
church must look forth and movo for
ward, working not sclfishly, but for
others. The moon having no light of it's
own reflects tho light of tho sun 70 the
dark part of the earth. Tho church hav-
ing no light of its own must stand in
RI tnl
tho Son Of Righteousness to tho dark
side of the world. Tho sun is cclipscd
when tho moon gets between it and the
earth. Christ is hidden when the church
pretends to substitute forms Tor faith,
crocds for charity The moon is eclipscd
when tho earth comes bctwcen it and tho
sun. The church loses its power when
it becomes worldly. There must be no
mixing of the affairs Of the kingdom of
God with the affairs of tho kingdom of
men. Tho banners of the army indicate
the divisions, yet tho divisions mako one
church of Christ-"Distinct as tho bill
lows, yot ono as the sea-"
Rov. S. l.. Wilson gave history of tho
Woman's Missionary Society Of the
South Carolina Presbytery. 1t was or
ganizcd on July 4, 1900, at Anderson, S.
c., six churches being represented. Mrs.
Il. \. Brackctt was made president and
Miss Sallio Burgess secretary. There
arc now nine societies, eight of which
arc represented at this meeting by nine
delegates. Mr.. Wilson thcn spoke at
length of tho great work that woman
has done towards carrying the kingdom
of Christ to tho hcathcn. After this adj
dress n collection was taken
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1900-10-10
Burned at tho Stake.

TRENTON, N. D., October G.-Eddie
McBride, eleven years old, was burned
to death at the stake by the hands of his
nlayma tcs. After school he played with
several companions dressed rs Indian.
Their part of the gamo was to lot him
escape from the other lads who imper-
sonated savages of Il trbc guarding the
prisoner in a big open lot, tho scene Of
the fun which proved a sad tragedy.
The youngsters cut ropes and bound
him and started from the mock Indians
village. They flung him to the ground
and tied him to a stake, and against him
piled wood and lighted it. Tho flames
gained too much hcadway. Tho boys
tried to put it out and throw what they
supposed was water on Mcbride, but it
proved to be gasoline. Tho flames
sprang higher with roar, and tho boys
being scared ran away. Passers-by
heard the ycls and cut the boy loose,
but he was half roasted and unconscious,
and died before he reached tho hospital.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1900-10-10

dram powdered nux vomica and half
dram quinino, dissolved in quart of
water. Dronch by tho mouth. Then
give threo times a day powder made of
four ounces sodium sulphate and thirty
grains quinine, to which add twenty
drops tincture aconite root. Keep tho
animal In cool place, give plenty fresh
water and little soft or green feed.
Extensive experiments in Texas and
Missouri show that cattle may be inocu-
lated so as to prevent their having this
disease. Preparations are being made to
inoculate n lot of cattle at Clemson Col
lego and thon expose them to tho ticks
and 500 if this remedy is success.
Stock buyers should always keep tick-
free and tick-infestcd cattle separate.
G. E. NEsoM,
State Veterinarian.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1900-10-10
Tho Voters Know Him.

The Columbia Record says: Tho at
tompts of some papers to undermine Nc
Laurin's strength so far before the actual
opening of the Senatorial campaign of
1902 is having tho effect which might
have been expected. 1t is provoking a
series of replies from newspapers of tho
State which show that the Junior Scna-
tor is not fricndlcss and alone as his
dctractors would have had the public
believe. The Record has published what
the Abbcvillc Press and Banner said on
the subject. The Yorkvillc ENQUIRER
also published that editorial and made
it the text for the following rcmarks
This has the ring of good, sound
sense. Senator McLaurin is one of tho
few Representatives that this State has
had in Washington since the war who
considers right and the welfare Of his
people above party cxpcdicncy. All
along hc has worked consistently and
fcarlcssly for South Carolina and about
all the opposition there ever developed
against him comes from small, dsaf
fcctcd, selfish snappcrs who arc unable
to appreciate true breadth and patriot
ism i'll real statesman. There arc thou
sands of people who would like to have
the Senator's place for the money and
honor there are in it, and there arc many
who really believe that they could rem
der great service to the State; but in
our opinion there is not much proba-
bility Of a change. The voters of South
Carolina have learned lots in the consid-
Grafton of Senator McLaurin's character
and ability, and there will be time dur
ing the next two years to learn great
deal more"
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1900-10-10


r. X. Scott, but he was the only one
of the regime who used it. The gay
and festive Moses lived during q
part of his term at what was for
merly known as the Preston man
sion, now the "College for w Women,"
on Blanding street. Mr.. Daniel H.
Chamberlain lived in his own house
not far from the Executive Mansion
on Arsenal hill. Governor Hamp-
ton did not occupy the official resi-
dence during his term of Office, and
it was not used again until after
extensive repairs were made when
Gen. johnson Hagood became tho
Chief Executive of the State"
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1900-10-10

S. a. Mcintosh instantly killed G.. N.
Mckinney Thursday night near Bor-
dcaux, in Abbcvillc county. Jack Has
kcll colorcd, is charged with aiding and
abctting Mcintosh. The trouble seems
to have been prccipitatcd by Mcintosh
accusing son of the man who was killed
of Stealing some cotton. The evidence
at the coroncr's inquest showed that n
controversy took place between McKin-
ncy and Mcintosh over tho alleged steal
ing, and the former offered to put his
son on the chaingang if ono witness
could bc produced to swear that he was
guilty of the theft Upon this Mcintosh
said no, this will settle it better, and
lcycling his pistol fred, the ball enter
ing Mckinncy's mouth. Mckinney, tho
dead man, is said to have been pros
porous and peaccablc citizen. The SLAYER
OF Mckinney is well educated and veal
my and was Confederate soldier Nc
Intosh killed a man some years ago, was
FOUND guilty of manslaughtor, and was
pardoncd 10y Tiliman or Evans. IIc is n
kinsman of Tillman.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1900-10-10
Republican State Convention.

AT the Republican State Convention
held in Columbia last Wednesday even
ing the white leaders in the State were
given rear seats. Deas, negro, was
elected chairman of the State Commit
tee, and Gen. Robert Smalls vice chair
man.
Chairman Dcas nominated Dir. Crum
and l.. w. G. Blalock as the two electors
at large. They were elected unani-
mouy. The other electors were nomi-
mated as follows:
First District, George Holmes, Beau
fort; Second District, II. A. Odom, Edge
field; Third District, j. w. Tolbcrt,
Ninety Six; Fourth District, H. III. Eel
tom (whitc); Filth District. r.. p. Rob
Holloway, Marion; Seventh District,
George W. Murray, Sumter.
ihc platform was unanimously ad-
opted, though one man wantod some
thing said about lynch law.
Dickcrson said that in the spring tho
convention had spoken on the subject
and there had been no lynchings since.
Giant, oi Charleston, offered tho fol-
lowing:
eve, the Republicans of South Caro-
lima, in convention assembled, recognize
the nee ccSSity Of uniiicatiOn and soliditied
efforts along all lines; and
Whereas, tho Rev. w. w. Beckett has
been nominated as candidate of the Re-
publican party of the First District to
the l1fty'seVcnth Congress, that district
having been conceded to the Rcpubli-
cans by the Democratic party; there.
fore, be it
"Rcso lvcd, That wo heartily endorse
tho nomination of tho Rcv. w. w. Beck
cit and would urge each and every NOM
her Of the Republican party of the First
District to give him their loyal and sim
ccrc support in his struggle for Justice
and liberty and defense of the princi-
pies of Rcpublicanism.'
These resolutions, after some vigorous
speeches, were adopted.
Dickcrson wanted u few words sent
to the people of the North He said
some colorcd man North has said that
Republican success meant no more than
)cmocratc success. In the North thoy
had gone to the Democratic party. All
these had been sent back to the Repub-
lican party by the race trouble rcccntly
in New York. He would advise them
to go to Mckinley. Bryan represented n
certain class OF men in this State from
whom they had nothing to expect. Those
who were in the North should vote for
Mckinley.
Tho committee on nominations then
reported as follows through Gen. Smalls:
"Thc committee on nominations for n
State ticket beg leave to report that thcv
nave considered the cxpedcncy of plac-
ing State ticket in the field, and, after
careful consideration, they arc unani-
mouSly of the opinion that it would bo
lmprac ticablc and inadvisable at this
time to make nominations for State oni
GERS III view of the fact that the present
unjust and unfair registration and clcc-
hon laws practically disfranchisos nine
tcnths of the Republican voters of this
Statc.'
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1900-10-10
A Minister Suicides.

JASPER, Tenn, October Grey.
X. |. Prittlc, Cumberland Prc.sby-
terian minister, committed suicide
this morning in the Presbyterian
church by hanging himself with the
bell rope. Dependency owing to
the lack of work is supposed to have
been the cause.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1900-10-10

Train is Wrecked.

RIDGEI.AND, S. c., October 5..-Engin-
ccr A. G. Gooding, whitc, Fireman
Harvey Tompson and Brcakman Ben
White, both colorcd, were killed in n
wreck on tho Charleston and Savannah
railroad Tuesday.
a freight train running as extra 3l7
had just pulled out of tho Bulow spur
track on the main line, when tho engine
and several cars jumped tho track and
tumblcd down an cmbankmcnt, killing
tho three men. They were killed in
stantly.
Conductor Symmes, who was in charge
of the train. and the other members of
the crew escaped without injury.