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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1900-11-14

In the case of Ella e.. Whitmirc and Lii.
lie Whitmirc, by her Guardian ad
Item, Josiah tIoden, Plaintiffs,
against
John Whitmirc and Walker Whitmirc,
Defendants.
All that certain piece, parcel or tract
of land situate, lying and being in Oco-
nee county, State of South Carolina, on
the west side of Little River, adjoining
lands of f.. A. Perry, X. II. Whtmirc, a
b. Grant and others, and supposed to
contain two hundred acres, more or less.
TERMS: One. third cash on day of sale
and balance in two equal installmcnts,
payable in one and two years. Credit
portion to bear interest from day of sale
and to be secured by bond of purchaser
and mortgage of the premises, with
privilege to purchaser to anticipate pay
mcnt of the whole or any part of the
credit portion at any time. Purchaser
to pay for papers and stamps.
November IL, 1900.
j. w. IIOLLEMAN,
Master Oconeo County.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1900-11-14

When you want paints, oil, glass, har
ness, drugs, patent medicines or any
thing else that is to cat or wear come tt
j. e j. S. Carter, Westminster, S. G.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1900-11-14
The Destruction OF Chestnut Trees.

Editors keowcc Courier: Sojourning
for short time last August in Horse
Cove, n. c., my attention was drawn to
the fact that many chestnut trees were
dying. accordingly secured some of
the twigs and leaves and submitted them
to Prof. a. p. Anderson, Of Clemson
college, for his examination. lie has
kindly furnished tho following informa-
tion relative thereto. u. II.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1900-11-14

Chambcrlain's Stomach and Liver
Tablets cure biliousness, constipation
and headache. They arc easy to take
and pleasant in effect. For sale by DR..
j. w. Bell.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1900-11-14

OF tho original Mckinley cabinet at
the beginning of the Presidents first
administration, only the following arc
still in office: Lyman j. Gage, treasury
John d. Long, navy department, and
JAS. Wilson, department Of agriculture.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1900-11-14
Women as Well as Men
Are Made Miserable by
Kidney Trouble.

Kidney trouble preys upon the mind, dis
CouraGes and lessons ambition: beauty. vipor
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1900-11-14

Tho Commissioners of Elections
Oconee county met at the Court Hou
yesterday and tabulated the vote of d
election held on November Q. The Dem
cratic ticket was an easy winner, as Il
following figures will show:
STATE TICKET.
Total vote cast. ,S88
Governor
M. b. McSweeney ............SG .SG8
Lieutenant Governor
j. Ii. Tillman. 1860
Secretary State
M. X. Cooper. ...........s 1851
Attorney General
G. d. Ballenger. .s01
Troasurer--
r. II. Jonnings. 1851
Comptroller General
y. L. Doriiam. .S6i
Superintendent of Education
j. j. McMahan. ........ 1851
Adjutant General
j. w. Floyd. Observation-Disclosures .s61
Railroad Commissioner
j. II. Wharton. 1851
Solicitor, Eighth Circuit
o' II. Doggs. ................ 853
Amondmont-For bonded in
oootedness. ...277
Against amendment. t..........275
ACCOMMODATIONS drainage. ..26S
Against Amendment. .....330
TIE COUNTY TICKET.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1900-11-14

Sixteen million American citizens
voted on Tuesday, larger number of
electors than participated in an elective
contest in this country before or in any
country at any time.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1900-11-14
Masters S Sales.
TIE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
OCONEE County.


IN COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
PURSUANT TO DEGREES OF TIE
l. AFORESAID COURT. in the cases
mentioned below, | will offer for sale,
to the highest bidder, in front of the
Court House, at Walhalla, S. c., on
MONDAY, the 3D. day of DECEMBER,
between the legal hours Of sale, the
tracts of land below described:
In the case of John G. Micklor, Plaintiff,
against
George w. !Saddlcr ct al, Defendants.
All that piece, parcel or tract of land
situate, lying and being in the State of
South Carolina, County of Oconcc, in
the town of West Union, containing one
and 36/l0O acres, more or less, being the
tracts or lots conveyed to said George w.
Saddlcr by said J. G. Micklcr by deed of
conveyance bearing date the 18th day of
January, 'S7S.
TERMS: Cash Purchaser to pay for
papers and stamps.
November l3, 1900.
j. w. IIOLLEMAN,
Master OcOnec County.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1900-11-14

About 800 Tennessee people have ar
rived in Columbia to work in the now
Olympia mills.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1900-11-14

Many people worry because they be-
licvc they have heart disease. The
chances are that their hearts are all right
but their Stomachs are unable to digest
food. kodol Dyspepsia Cure dgcSts
what you cat and prevents the formation
of gas which makes the stomach press
against the heart. 1t will cure every
form of Indigestion. j. w. Bell.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1900-11-14

Rev. A. j. lIcnslcy, pastor Of tho lick
Dry Grove Baptist church, Yorkvillc, S.
G., last Sunday initiated some preachers
in large cities and created big scnsa-
ton by making charges of immortality
against several business men i'm town,
indicating 4 certain block Of buildings
on Main street, in which six merchants
were conducting business. lie declared
that it was a disrcputablc section Of tho
town and no fit place for decent people
to visit. The preacher must have been
shooting near the mark, for five Of the
merchants had nothing to say, but Dr.
a. +. Scroggins, druggist, and the
only unmarried man implicated met Mr..
llcnSlcy on the street last evening and
asked if he was included. The preacher
SAID he was and refused to rctract any
thing. ScroGginS proposed, as both
were Of n size, that they fight it out.
The preacher agreed and they fell to hot
work, while several looked on The
preachers wind soon failed and he was
knocked down. Scroggins pounded him
on the ground until the reverend gentle.
man cried "Oh, Lord, take him on
don't let linn kill met Tho people
in,crlcrcd, but Mr.. IIcnslcy declares he
rctraCts nothing.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1900-11-14
DEMOCRACY SWEEPS ocoNEE |
Tho Primary Nominees Elected Unanimously.
Only Slxty-Nine Republican Votes.

Tho Commissioners of Elections for
oconee county met at tho Court House
yesterday and tabulated the vote of the
election held on November Q. The Demo
cratic ticket was an easy winner, as the
following figures will show:
The age-herald., 1900-04-15
Why Roberts Does Not Move

The Boers mounted on acclimated horses are able to dash in here and there an moving the British forces, but never offer Ing battle, or risling capture. They have not been able to cut the single rail line of communication leading southward from Bloemfontein, and every bridge and cnivert on that line is strongly and firmly heid No interruption of moment need be expected in that rail line, and otherwise the rowing bands of Boers can do no dam age. while they may wear themselves out.
 Lord Roberts does not move because Lord Landsdowne and the lords of the war office have not been able to see an inch beyond their joint nose. Winter is coming on in South Africa; it is frosty, pneumonia breeding weather there now. The soldiers are clad in Khaki when they should have wooden clothing. They lack, too. remounts and draught animals. The forced march to Bloemfontein killed 1100o horses These horses fell victims to the tse-tse fly and other features of a strange climate. The lOTuS Ol lile war OlllCe III l1OuuOn ndu no reserve supply of horses ready, and now when they are hurrying to do what fore sight should have had ready at Capetown or Port Elizabeth. there is lack of rolling stock. It is, in a word, the war office that is not ready. When the war office catches up with it's duty Lord Roberts will move He must have horses and wooden clothes first. It will be indeed strange if the En- glish people do not hold a system of aristocratic selection to a severe respon- sibility for the distressing situation. A winter campaign is now inevitable.
 It may be full month before Lord Roberts is ready. Neither he nor Lord Kitchener can be induced to move until they are ready They are veteran cam paigners They will not move an inch un- til they are ready to march to Pretoria.
The age-herald., 1900-04-15
Two American Stories.

An American writer who can spin de- ightful romaEces concerning our colonial period, as Mary Johnston has done in "Prisoners of Hope" and ''To Have and To Hold" is something to be thankful for Miss Johnston is of an old Virginia family and so deeply inlbued is she with the his tory of her native state that the atmos- phere of the colonial period blooms and blossoms again in her fine stories.
 While gro Have and To Hold is not a distinct step beyond the first book, yet 1t comes well up to the measure of a strong, readable and dramatic story. The back ground-that little settlement at James, town, the primeval forest with the Red man lurking in its depths-is extremely picturesque. and gives full scope to rich imagination. Indeed. Miss Johnston's great est charm is found in her remarkable de- scriptive power, and the book abounGs in -tino passages of this nature:
 "The color of the leaves deepenej and
The age-herald., 1900-04-15

the postoffice by special messenger: in- vitations gre received almost hourly from all parts of the country; portrait painters and other artists, including the famous Chartran, who painted the pope. are ap- pealing to both the admiral and his wife for sittings; souvenirs of all kinds are coming in from every direction; the let ters and telegrams are extremely compli- mentary, and to Mrs. Dewey it looks as If the admiral is as good as elected president already although she is quite put out be- cause. Theodore Roosevelt declined the second place on the ticket with something that sounded very much like scorntui sheer.
The age-herald., 1900-04-15
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT
 ALABAMIANS AT WASHINGTON

An election for congress in the Eighth Alabama district should be called at once. General Joe Wheeler will not be permitted to take his seat in congress. This has been decided. He should be reelected to congress, or somebody else should be sent to represent the Eighth district.
 I was in Washington last week and learned that General Wheeler had made a formal call upon Speaker Henderson re- gently and notified the speaker that he in- tended to appear before the bar of the house to be sworn in as a member.
 Speaker Henderson, who has for many years been an admirer and close personal friend of General Wheeler advised him not to do so. stating, "If you appear be- fore the bar of the house asking to be sworn in, I shall be compelled to order you to stand aside"
 It is understood in Washington that General Wheeler may. in June, accept an appointment in the regular army as brig adler general. About the first of June General Merritt will be retired and Gen eral Otis is to be promoted to a major generalship, which will leave vacancy in the brigadier generalships, The president has offered to appoint General Wheeler to this vacancy. In the event of this ap- point, General Wheeler would be retired immediately thereafter on account of hay ing reached the age limit He would then, under precedent established in the General Dan Sickles case, be entitled to hold a seat in congress and draw both the retired army officers salary and that which goes to member of congress.
 General Wheeler himself, I understand has not yet determined what he will de His resignation from the volunteer army has not been accepted and probably will not be until June, when, the indications are, he will receive an appointment in the regular army. Whether he will then de- eide to run for congress again is not known.
 Certain it is now that the Eighth con- gressional district of Alabama is not rep resented in congress and all indications are that it will not be until another elec- ton is held in the district.
 The Dewey boom for president has not taken hold in Washington. It would seem to have no backing among the men in &C., tive political life. Colonel Hilary A. Her bert of Alabama MT. Cleveland's secretary of the navy, and one of the most promi nent members of MT. Clevelands last cab fret, well Mir. Cleveland himself, are said to be those who are urging the admi- ral in his candidacy for president. Will liam c. Whitney is the man put forward to manipulate the delegation for Dewey from New York state to the Kansas City con vention. The New York Herald is actively supporting Dewey, and Town Topics, which is owned and edited by Colonel R. D. Mann formerly of Mobile, is rampant for Dewey as the democratic nominee. The World is likewise giving Dewey half handed support. The New York Journal, however, is outspoken and enthusiastic for Bryan, and I found in New York nearly all the Tammany district leaders outspoken for Bryan. They say the New York City delegation to the New York state conven-
The age-herald., 1900-04-15
THE ONLY DallY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
Lessons of the Primaries.

Senator Morgan's victory is complete He has secured the necessary 67 votes, and has many votes besides. The long contest over the senatorship brought out the de- verdict is, Let the veteran senator hold his seat to the end of his days" He may be candidate in 1906. His vitality is won derful. and he holds the confidence of the people. although he is innocent of prac- tical politics. He does not know how to be a politician.
 This remarkable contest shows three things. The first has already been men, tioned, namely, candidate for high office need not be a politician He need not him. self utilize the 'well-known methods of this country. Senator Morgan did not. It also shows that appeals to the intelligence of the state are more effective than appeals to the ignorance of the state. In the can vass just ended the lines were distinctly drawn, and intelligence defeated ignorance. It shows in the third place that any con- tempt for or opposition to the democratic or white mans party of the state will be discountenanced by the people. Senator Morgan stood throughout the long cam paign for the organized democracy of the state. He had no words of bitterness for its organization: he was its friend. He asked for the votes of the intelligent He refused to descend from senatorial dignity to low political methods. He won.
 The story carries it's own moral, and the Age Herald has no desire to repeat it. The time has come to put bitterness aside, to get together as democrats, to heal all wounds, and to ask that all get ready in the intervals of business which is a big ger man than politics, to support the nom- inees of the democratic party from Will Ham Jennings Bryan down to the selec- tion of beat constable. Be a democrat first last and all the time. This contest has vim dicated the democratic party That is ;ts eest and enduring feature.
The age-herald., 1900-04-15
MILL NOT PuNCH-13

From the New York Press.
 Many men who use the Union ferries to reach New York buy cards which are good for sixteen trips, the marginal num- bers extending around the sides and ends. There is no saving to amount to anything, except in time, which is all important to a business man. At each trip number Is punched out by the gateman. An obsefV- ant citizen had learned that no gateman can be induced to punch 13 out of it's turn although any other number can be forced on him in the rush. The man at Fulton ferry started off last week on new ticket and punched in order 1, ?, g. 4, 16 b. H. the three larger numbers being forced oh him; but thereafter he jerked the hcket out of the owners hand and careiuliS avoided 13. This lucky old number VIII DC the last to go
The age-herald., 1900-04-15
VICTORIA

From the Detroit Free Press
 Good Victoria is a ruler only by grace of tradition and heredity. She is the nominal head of democracy. Her influence in governmental policy is limited to the ex- ercise of prerogatives that are potential only. as they carry the influence of a true womans nobility No sovereign in history has been more completely shorn of dic- tatorship.
 Ireland knows this Civilization knows it. She has been more than sixty-two years upon the throne. There has never been any considerable interval of that time when her subjects were not fighting in one quarter of the globe or another Interruptions in the series of campaigns have never amounted to a restful vaca- tion, and now what is probably the most serious war in the list has an indetermn- ate time to run.
 But in all this the queen has had no de- ciding voice. She is a lover of the peace she has never enjoyed. She mourns over the wrong and suffering that it was be- yond her to avert. Never has she steeled her heart or withheld her sympathy. She Is a sovereign in name and of the noblest type of womanhood in fact. The queen except an anomalous figurehead, de- serves nothing but kindness and com mendation from the world.
The age-herald., 1900-04-15
HOW IT FEELS TO DIS
cs4,.Io,.

From the London Standard
 Death by burning, perhaps the most nor rible of all forms is rendered painless at an early stage by suffocation. which also alleviates the pain of many who die from disease, the shortness of breath and yearn- ing for air, though painful enough, being relieved by suffocation at the moment or death. In cases of acute feverish disease the poisonous action of bacteria works so depressingy on the nervous system that, with full consciousness to the last mom- ent, apathy sets in, rendering it matter of indifference to the patient whether he dies or not. That is to say, the desire Of life gradually sinks to the vanishing point, and death is physically and psychologlcally nainleSS.
The age-herald., 1900-04-15
DISPUTE AT DECATUR
Charges Made Against Johnston as to
 Preparation of Ticket

New Decatur, April 1I-(Special1-A heated dispute arose here at the polls to- day between some of the friends of Gov ernor Johnston and Senator Morgan.
 It was charged by Morgans friends that the list of delegates to the county. copvep- ton, as printed on the ballot, was a deep laid scheme of the Johnston forces to de- feat Senator Morgan, the list of dele gates as printed was prepared by the ex- ecutfye committee, and did not meet with the approval in toto of the Morgan forces, and there were no blank lines left on the ballot in which to write other names as delegates as is required by the state law
 It is charged that large sums of money have been used throughout the county to defeat Senator Morgan for reelection to the United States senate
The age-herald., 1900-04-15
< SPRING TIME

By William Dean Howells. One knows the spring is coming
 There are birds; the fields are green; There is balm in the sunlight and moon
 light;
 A dew in the twilight between. But ever there is silence,
 A rapture great and dumb, That day when the doubt is ended
 And at last the spring Is come. Behold the wonder silence!
 Strange as if wrought in a night-A The waited and lingering glory
 The world-old, fresh delight! s4-l o blossoms that hang like winter, Drlfted upon the trees, O birds that sing in the blossoms,
 o blossom-haunting bees O green, green leaves on the branches
 o shadowy dark below, O cool of the aisles of orchards, Woods that the wild flowers know O air of gold and perfume,
 Wind. breathing sweet and sun, O sky of perfect azure Day, heaven, and earth in one. Let me draw near thy secret.
 And in thy deep heart see How fared, in doubt and dreaming,
 The spring that is come in me. For my soul is held in silence,
 A rapture great and dumb For the mystery that fingered.
 The glory that is come!
The age-herald., 1900-04-15

ton will be solid for Bryan, and they bee lieve that the delegation to Kansas City will be for the Nebraskan.
 Dewey has no political friends in Wash ington-that is. supporters who are now in the active political councils or the demo- cratic party.
 All indications in Washington are that Senator James K. Jones of Arkansas will again be chosen by unanimous vote as chairman of the national democratic com mittee in charge of the next campaign Senator Jones will be assisted by Ex-Cfov- ernOr Stone of Missouri, who will probably be chairman of the executive committee: and by James c. Johnson of Kansas one of the most level-headed and shrewd men in the democratic party.
 I much impressed ir "'
 with the work and standi hams congressman. No congress on either the de publican side stands so we -Har D. derwood Indeed in par councils he ranks second to Richardson. U Tennessee, tho democratic leader. By a unanimous vote of the democrats Mir Underwood was chosen as democratic whip" that is, the liitudStI ol dli party lHdltSTS dIu poilltdi votes on the democratic side. Yet Mr. Un- derwood is only serving his third term in congress. He has served on the judiciary committee, but was recently promoted to the ways and means committee-the lead ing committee of the house and commit tee to which every congressman aspires.
 MT. Underwood has the thorough confi- dence of the democrats and the respect of the republicans. He Is going ahead with wonderful rapidity and is in full line of promomtion to either the chairmanship of the ways and means committee or the speakership of the house, in time. In years to come, when in the natural course of events, the great and able representa- lives of Alabama at present in the United States senate, shall have passed away, should like to see Underwood in the sen- ate. I don't know any man in Alabama who would fill one of the seats with more credit to the state. Underwood is able. clear-headed and young man of splendid judgment The newspaper correspondents in Washington, who are always good judges of men, declare him to be one of | the most thoroughly equipped democrats in congress. They say he is always atten- tive to duty and is possessed of the neces- sary wisdom to know when and how to act
 Underwood has bright future before him, and he will deserve each and every promotion as 1t comes to him.
 By the way, speaking of Alabamians in congress, my old friend, Senator Pettus has already risen to the front ranks of democratic leaders of the senate.
 That old man from Alabama" said a western senator to me the other day, pointing to Pettus, Ifs one of the shrewd- est wisest and a5est men who has ever held seat in this body. He is man of wonderfully good judgment, hard horse sense, and can say what he wants to in d manner perhaps not equalled by any other democratic senator. He certainly succeed ed in knocking young Senator Beveridge from the golden pedestal of oratory upon which he thought he had gracefully mounted. Since the Pettus speech, Bever- idge has been dead cock in the senator ial pit