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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-03-06
An Act to Regulate the Bonds Of Officers.

The following is an act to regulate
the bonds of public officers, and to
provide penalty for any person who
assumes or attempts to assume the
duties of any Office without giving
the required bond:
Section l.. BE it enacted by the
General Assembly of the State of
South Carolina, That bonds of county
officers, or other officers having local
Jurisdiction or authority, shall be
recorded in the Office of the Clerk of
Court or Register of Mesne Convey
ance of the county of which the
aforesaid officers are resident, and
shall immediately thereupon be
transmitted to the Secretary of State,
who shall file them in the Office of
the State Treasurer.
Section 2. The bonds of State,
District or Circuit officers shall be
filed with the Secretary of State, and
shall be recorded by him, without
charge, in suitable books kept by him
for the purpose; and when so re-
corded shall be filed as aforesaid
with the State Treasurer: Provided,
that the bond of the State Treasurer
shall be fled with the Governor.
Section 8. The bonds of county
dispensers shall be recorded as other
county officers bonds, and when 80
recorded shall be filed with the State
Board of Directors of the Dispensary
by the Secretary of State.
Section 4. A copy of a bond, duly
certified by any officer with whom
bonds are required to be filed or re-
corded her. ', shall be good and
sufficient ev Ice in all suits insti-
tuted on such bonds in any of the
Courts in this State.
Section S. That it shall be unlaw
ful for any person to assume or at
tempt to assume the duties of any
office of which bond is required
without having given the bond re-
qulred; and any person assuming
or attempting to assume the duties
of any office as aforesaid shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall
be subject to fine Of five hundred
dollars, or imprisonment for not less
than three months, in the discretion
of the Court.
Approved February 18, 1901.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-03-06
Can't Gust the Ball.

The Puritans and the Round
heads can't GUST the State ball.
When the usual pharisacal rcsolu-
tion prohibiting the use Of the State
House for balls, ETC., came up in the
House Of Representatives, Mr.. Moses,
of Samter, said the resolution was
unnecessary, and moved to indef-
nitcly postpone the resolution, which
was done by a vote of 43 to II, and
the perennial resolution against the
State ball wac buried.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-03-06
To Raise the Maine.

A dispatch to the New York Sun
from New Orleans says: The steamer
Morgan, just arrived from Havana
brought back five of the American
contractors who went down there,
accompanied by divers and others,
to bid on the contract for raising the
wreck of the American battleshir
Maine. There were twelve bids in
all, that Of Chicago firm being
accepted. It's offer was to raise the
Maine at its own cost and give the
United States government 3 pei
cent of the proceeds.
All tho contractors agreed that the
Maine could be raised, but that the
job would be difficult. A Golfer dam
must be built entirely around the
wreck. 1t will be constructed of
long pilings, and then embarked
with dirt, making it water tight.
Then the water can be pumped out
of the enclosure, .eaving the wreck
exposed in the mud. d, .cks and
powerful lifting machinery will then
be brought into use and the hull
lifted from it's bed of mud. If it
can be patched up so that it will
float, that will be done. If it cannot
be raised it will be torn to pieces,
while the Golfer dam keeps back the
water.
The divers found that the wreck
had settled some forty feet in the
soft mud, the bottom of the ship
being sixty feet below the low tide
mark. The cost of raising the YES
sci is estimated at from 100000 to
100000. Its value when raised
cannot be estimated, but some of the
contractors thought it might be
worth 100000. One of the con-
tractors thought that if the vessel
could be floated it would be worth
$1,oo0,0OO0. The general impress
sion was that it could not be floatcd
The divers found two magazines
in the vessel containing 300 tons of
powder intact and uninjurcd. All
the divers and surveyors agreed that
the Maine had been blown up by a
mine set off from a land battery.
The lingering cough following grip
calls Tor Ono Minute Cough Cure. For
all throat and lung troubles this is tho
only harmless remedy that gives immo.
diatc results. Prevents consumption.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-03-06
Mixing Fertilizers.

A few farmers are buying tho
principal ingredients of fertilizer
and mixing to suit the crops and the
land. Harvie Jordan, of Georgia,
was asked by a farmer who had
red clay or mulatto subsoil for ad-
vice. lie had tried the ordinary
commercial fertilizers, but they were
not paying well. Mr.. Jordan says
Your land is evidently deficient
in phosphoric acid, which element
causes the plant to fruit. Red clay
lands do not ordinarily require
fertilizer analyzing as high as 4 per
cent potash. You need high por-
ccntage of phosphoric acid, and the
following mixture will make up
about what is needed
Muriate of potash ........... 80 lbs.
Cotton seed meal 1855. 49,. 500 lbs,
In place of the muriate of potash
you can use 800 pounds of kainit,
which will give same amount of pot
ash. Such mixture will analyze as
follows
Per cent.
Phosphoric acid (available). ..1O.65
Ammonia. ....... .......
Iotal.................. .......14 65
This formula, if made of such
material as suggested will give good
results under favorable seasons on
the land described and distributed
at the rate of $50 pounds per acre.
If the farmer has lot and stable
manure he will have TO purchase
little ammonia for the crops to
which that is applied. If he has
good pea stubblc there will be
enough ammonia in the soil. But if
he is depending on commercial
manures alone, it will be cheaper to
buy acid phosphate, nitrate of soda
and kainit, or muriate of potash. II
he has cotton seed meal he need not
buy the nitrate Of soda. Remember,
that potash, phosphoric acid and
ammonia are all that is needed for
Piedmont soil. If you wish good
fertilizer for cotton, mix
1400 lbs. - to IA per cent A. r.,
t5(l) lbS nitrate nf SoSo
800 lbs. muriatc of potash.
This would give you 81 per cent
phosphoric acid, per cent potash
and 8 per cent ammonia. The cost
would be about 500. According
to the land, put on 200 to 400
pounds to the acre. If you wish to
use the same ingredients for corn.
put
1900 lbs. acid phosphate,
5OO lbs. nitrate of soda,
3O0 lbs. muriate potash.
If you have cotton seed meal and
kalnit, good cotton fertilizer
would be
1000 lbs. acid phosphate,
3OO lbs. cotton seed meal,
500 lbs. kainit.
This mixture would cost about
sl7.25, and would analyzc u, 81,
- -Four hundred pounds OF this
mixture ought to give 10 to IS
bushels of corn extra to the AGRA
and, also, aid the pea crop some
what.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-03-06
BILL ARP AS AN INSTRUCTOR.
He Helps the Young People In their Search
for knowledge.
lAtlauta Constitution

Atlanta Constitution
feel pleased and honored to re-
ceive letters every day from young
girls and boys over the South asking
for information on some subject or
for help in school debate or for a
start in composition-just q start.
These young people are generally
from the country, where books are
scarce and their eagerncss for knowl-
edge and mental Improvement is very
gratifying. l wish that I was three
or four men so that | could respond
to all their letters and comply with
their requests. | reply to as many
as | can, but | cannot take time to
write compositions, even it was right
to do 80. One boy begs me to write
him a speech, humorous speech,
and winds up by asking me please to
write two, so that he may take
choice.
we see that some of the good
ladies of the Atlanta Woman's Club
are moving to supply the country
schools with small libraries of good
books and the Southern Railway has
donated neat book cases for them.
This, Of course, is for Fulton county,
but it is move in the right dircc-
tion and will, no doubt, stimulate
the ladies of other towns to do the
same thing. 1t is the very best
thing | have heard of woman's club
doing. The desire for books to read
is almost universal among the young
people Of the rural districts, and they
should be encouraged. Books are
cheaper than ever before known, and
cheap book cases can be had for a
few dollars each. am not at all
intimate with Mr.. Carnegie, but if
was | would whisper in his philan-
thropic ear and suggest that he turn
his attention for awhile to the towns
and villages and let The big cities
alone. Our Cartersville Woman's
Club is struggling hard to keep up
their little library, but are not en-
couragcd by the men Of the town,
Their books are out all the time, and
are read and rcrcad by many Of the
children whose fathers do not give a
dollar to help maintain the library.
This may be thoughtlessncss, and so
| have suggested that the ladies go
around and see who will give SO
cents or rs cents, or even 10 cents a
month to keep up the supply and
pay their room rent and incidental
expenses. OF course the character
OF the books must be thoroughly
considered. Nothing sectional or
trashy or sensational; but only those
that "point moral or adorn a tale"
Every public school should have a
burning committee, such as they
have at Forsyth, Ga. W.
a bright boy from Alabama writes
that his name is John Jones, and
wants to know when and how he got
it; says his father and grandfather
had the same name, but they died
without telling where they got it.
lie says his school-matc is named
Will lliqginbotham and he, too,
wants to know where his name camo
from. ] admire their eager curiosity,
for our name is our sign-board and
every boy ought to know who put it
up and what it reads. OF course it
is too big n thing to tell much about
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-03-06
An Act

70 require County Commissioners
to show nature of claims in pub
lished reports.
Section |. BE it enacted by the
General Assembly of the State of
South Carolina, That in all counties
in this State where County Boards
of Commissioners publish reports of
Claims approved by them, said re-
ports shall show the nature of claim
or the service rendered, as well as
the name Of the claimant and amount
allowed
Approved the Sth of February, A.
ID. 1901.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-03-06
A TEXAS WONDER
llalPs Great Discovery for Kidney and
BLADDER Trouble.

One small bottle of Halls Great Dis.
covcry cures all kidney and bladder trou-
blcs, removes gravel, cures diabetes,
seminal emissions, weak and lame backs,
rheumatism and all irregularities of the
kidneys and haddc" il; both men and
women. Regulates bladder troubles in
children. IL not sold by your druggist.
will be sent by mail on receipt of Sl.OO.
One small bottle is two months treat
mcnt, and will cure any case above men
toned. Dr. +. w. Hall, sole manufac-
iurcr, P o. Box go, st. Louis, Mo.
Send for testimonials. Sold by all
druggists.
st. Lonis, Mo-, February 27, lNOO.--I
am using The Texas Wonder, liall's
Great Discovery, and am greatly bcne-
fitted, and ohccrfulIy recommend it to the
public, j. ii. Lee,
At Lindcll Barber Shop.
Gl3 Washington Avenue,
Quite cOmmotion has been aroused
in the Nebraska Legislature by prayer
uttered by the chaplain in tho House of
Representatives. 1t was in this wise /:
SO Lord, wo thank Thee that tho Nom
bcrs Of the Legislature can como and go
between their homes and their lcgisla-
tive halls with such ease and such little
expense to themselves" This cut at
Solons who travel on railroad passes has
reused great Indignation.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-03-06
S
Be.. eagsls aoashT hTsslaS syIaSa Is! lI,AIS. l,S ~ @

Minister Conger is coming homo
from Pekin on sixty days leave of
absence. Commissioner Rockhill
will conduct negotiations during his
absence,
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-03-06
Changes in the Jury System.

The most important change in the
jury system will be that brought
about by the measure introduced by
Mr.. Croft, of Aiken. 1t merely
regulates the method of striking"
names from lists prepared in trials in
the Court of Common Pleas. This
act, which was approved by the Gov
ernor February Is, reads
Section l. That in the trial of all
actions at law in the Courts Of Com
mon Pleas, and issues ordered to be
framed by the Judge in equity cases
in said courts, it shall be the duty of
the clerk to. furnish the parties or
their attorneys With list of 20 Of
the jurors to be drawn and selected
by ballot from the whole number of
jurors who arc in attendance, the
names Of said lists to be numbered
from to 20, and be stricken off by
numbers in the same manner as the
regular pannels Of jurors in said
courts have been heretofore formed,
from which said lists the parties or
their attorneys shall alternativcly
strike, until there shall constitute
the jury to try the case or issue. IN
all cases the plaintiff shall have the
first strike; and in all civil cases
hereafter tried in the Courts of Com
mon Pleas Of this State any party
shall have the right to demand a
panel of 20 competent and impartial
jurors from which to strike Jury.
When the list aforesaid is prepared
by the clerk and presented to the
parties or their attorneys, objections
for cause must be made before strk-
ing, and if any objections are sus-
tanned the clerk must fill up the list
before stricken.
Section 2. Should the jury charged
with any case be delayed in render
ing their verdict, so that they could
not be present to be drawn from in
making the list to the parties or their
attorneys a list to form second
jury, then the clerk shall present to
the parties or their attorneys list
containing the names of ~ jurors to
be drawn by the clerk from the re-
naming jurors in the same manner
as provided in Section |, from which
list the parties or their attorneys
snail alternately strike, as provided
in Section | Of this act, until IL are
left, which shall constitute the Jury
Section 3. In all cases of default,
where it may be necessary to have
the verdict of jury, or in the trial
Of cases when the parties or their
attorneys shall waive the right to
strike jury, the clerk shall, under
the direction Of the Judge, draw and
empanel a jury, who shall pass upon
such matters as may be submitted to
them in default cases, or The trial Of
such cases, when the parties have
waived the right to strike the jury,
as lated in this section.
Section Il. This act S, II 90 into
effect and be Of force on the first
day of September, 1901.
Section s. All acts or parts of acts
inconsistent with this act be, and the
same is hereby repealed,
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-03-06
HOM,S This z

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward
for any case of catarrh that cannot bo
cured by lIall's Catarrh Cure.
f, j. Cheney & Co., Props, Toledo, o.
We, the undersigned, have known +.
D. Cheney for the last l5 years, and be-
licvo him perfectly honorable in all bust
ness transactions and financially able to
carry out any obligations made by their
firm.
West & Truax, Wholesale Druggists,
Toledo, o.
Waldng, Kinnan & Marvin, Whole
sale Druggists, Toledo, O.
Halls Catarrh Curo is taken inter
naily, acting. directly upon tho blood and
mucous surfaces of tic system pricc
a5o. por bottle. Sold by all druggists
Testimonials free.
Hairs Family Pills arc tho best
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-03-06

1t is said that Mrs. Nations first bus
band drank himself to death. No won
der, but what of the second Mr.. Nation {;
Is no booze proof
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-03-06

When you are bilious use those famous
little pills known as DoWitps Little Early
Riscrs to cleanse the liver and bowels.
They never gripo. j. w. Bell.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-03-06

Il westbound passenger train, on
the Wabash railroad, ran into a
sleigh load OF passengers at Gadsdcp,
Indiana, last Saturday and killed
three persons.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-03-06

Like Oliver Twist, children ask for
moro when given One Minute Cough
Curc. Mothers endorse it highly for
Group. 1t quickly cures all coughs and
colds and every throat and lung trouble.
1t is q specific for grip and asthma and
has long been a wcllknown remedy for
whooping cough. j. w. Bell.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-03-06

Rov. w. Il. Capcrs, for many years
rector of Grace Episcopal church at An
dcrson, has resigned. lie has accepted
q call to the Episcopal church at Vicks.
burg, Miss.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-03-06

o.,,a the m lingering cough following grip
all throat and lung troubles this is tho
only harmless remedy that gives immo.
diatc results. Prevents consumption.
I w Roll.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1901-10-26
A DYING THIEF CONFESS
Frank Aker, a Montana Lew
Dying, at Helena, Conisss
His Misdeeds.

Helena, Mont, Oct. 39.-fzaAs 4
is lying at the point Of DEAN Y
city jail, the result Of wou9 NJ.
ceived in a street duel Wlln X
Flannery, Farnum and Deputy NJ "
Scharrenbroch, at midnlghA
night. Realizing that DEAN W. I.
Aker acknowledged that ne ass
a saloon on Main street, fIlosJ
in which he, masked and slns'
ed, compelled the bartenass
customers to deliver Their W.
He also admitted that he hsla
Butte saloon previous to eel's'
Helena. Aker, in his Confess
ed that he had intended Y
another saloon when the ol
peared and the fatal slle0a'
Cured.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1901-10-26

Grover Cleveland thinks 1t would be
better for the world If there were less
Of this mad fortune-chasing and more
fishing. But anybody who has been
rs successful in chasing fortune as
Mr.. Cleveland has can afford to go
fishing.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1901-10-26

II is not generally known that the
empress of Germany is year older
than her husband. There has been
considerable comment on the fact
that the kaiserin, with her gray and
almost snow-white hair, looks a much
older woman than the emperor, who
does not look his age, which is 43.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1901-10-26

The family Of Hayes, the Connecti-
ent murderer, are now trying to prove
that they have. known him to be an
insane epileptic for many years. But
they never thought of locking him
mp, or even warning anybody about
him, until after he had killed Miss
Cooke and put his own life in peril.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1901-10-26

santos-Dumont's trip around the
Eiffel tower and back seems to be re-
garded by the admirers of the young
Brazilian as convincing proof of the
practical value of the airship. 1t may
be said, however, that the proof is
rot yet complete. The fact is that
the trial was made under exception
ally favorable conditions. What sue
cess the airship would have in a
strong wind cannot be conjeetnred.
Last Saturday the wind was unusually
light and even then it was easy to see
how quickly the balloon felt its in
fnenca.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1901-10-26

Levi P. Morton and ]. Pierpont Nor
gan have bought in France consid.
cradle collection Of. Lafayette sou.
senfrs. worth about $4,000. Thes
wish % make = present Of IL to the
congressional library. But before
they can get Il into the United states
they win have 70 pay customs duties
80 The amount 81 nearly SO, 1000
Whatever books and manuscript
there may 1e = the collection win not
have to ray duty. The other 81
1I1ies viii hare 20. although no Amer
1ss6 Indnstft would Be harmed i the5
1seE& . s. admitted free.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1901-10-26
TRAGEDY DUE TO ~
Luther EsteeIe shoOts
ana Girl and Conlna''
n1 Hot SPRINGS

Hot Springs, s. D, e.
Of jealous rage Luther ga.
oned man, shot and
Clyde McMains, 9 white WE
shot and critically WOMB
~, a white girl. EAses's
himself, dying At ones
ployed at the Evans 10
and the girl were slss'.
the yeranda Of the he'z
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1901-10-26

Joseph l. Thompson, Of Franklin,
n. H.. who Is now in the eighty-fifth
year Of his age, has taught school in
that town and vicinity for 65 years
He says, as one thing learned in his
long practice Of his calling, that one
third Of teachers time is taken up
In maintaining order.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1901-10-26

Why build great ship nowadays to
eail only 16 knots an hour? Perhaps
for economy oflfuel. We're the Celtic
! fast liner. she would burn double
the coal she now uses and the gain in
the time would be only two days in
. voyage across the Atlantic. After
All, isn't il almost nDaccountable
that people travelling abroad, gener-
ally for recreation, should be 30 ner-
vous 70 save day or an hour2
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1901-10-26
SHOT AND KILLED NEIGH
Ben Kimber, Montana e.
kills Joseph Tenaser'
bor and surrenasts

Townsend, Mont, ct
Kimber, a rancher residins
surrendered himself to sns'
Sunday night, saying he h ,'''s'
killed a neighbor NAMED
ager. The men had been Y AZ
over the right to q iepss
quarrel ensued, resulting Y
shooting Tenager. Both n's
known,
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1901-10-26

The republican party forced the
vice presidency on Theodore Roose-
welt against his win, and now the
presidency has come to him in way
which he profoundly regrets. For
the new president the past year has
been filled with mutations and an
fitheses. Col. Roosevelt is unique
figure in American politics.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1901-10-26

Edgar Jay Briggs, who hanged him
self at his home near Sherman, Conn,
recently, was the last member Of a
once influential Connecticut family
that has been eliminated BY suicide.
Lying In suicides graves in the viii
iage cemetery where Edgar j. Briggs
was buried are his great-grandfather,
grandfather, father, brother and two
sisters. Since the suicide Of Edgar
Briggs, 50 years ago, % of his de-
scendants have taken their own lives.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1901-10-26

President Roosevelt win add few
words 70 those already supplied BY
she accommodating correspondents
and his first message to congress win
be complete.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1901-10-26

a monument TO the memory OF
John Ericsson, the inventor Of the
first armored warship. the Monitor
and Of the screw propeller, has been
unveiled In Stockholm, Sweden.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1901-10-26

When his present term expires IA
leo5, M. Allison, Of Iowa, viii have
heen . United States senator for %
consecutive years.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1901-10-26

The laat Japanese diet passed .
law which forhids the use Of tobacco
~ persona under 10 years OF age.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1901-10-26

Charles NJ. Hayes, who recently sur.
rendered five years contract as
president Of the Southern Pacific rail-
road at the request of Il. II. Harri-
man. is said to have received a check
for $155,O0O as payment in fun for his
services. His yearly salary was to
be $4,000. He served ten months, and
upon his acquiescence in the wishes
Of the Hartman syndicate that he re-
sire, q fun years salary and bonus
of 100000 were paid him. This is
che largest sum ever paid railroad
man for q like term of service.