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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-02-18
Smallpox Preventive.

A friend from North Carolina sends us
the following clipping with request to
manity. We gladly comply:
From Col. Il. l.. Ritch the News has
received a formula for the prevention
aud cure'of smallpox, which, it appears,
has proven 10 be all that could be de.
sired. 1t is a very cheap and simple
formula, bottle full costing only 25
cents. 1t consists OF sulphate of zinc,
one grain; powdered digitals, one grain
teaspoonful sugar and four ounces of
water. Teaspoonful to be taken every
hour. Col. Ritch says that last winter
M. Boyce Bell, a well knowI resident of
Steele Creek Township, seven miles
south of this city, had eleven persons on
his place "a negro woman and ten chill
drenl cured of virulcnt and malignant
smallpox with this remedy in few DAYS.
1t was also taken by all the others on the
place afterwards who never contracted
the disease. Col. Ritch is responsible for
its Introduction here. 1t came originally
from a Paris medical journal.-A. II.
Presbyterian.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-02-18
An Advance Step In Education.

write a line to caution you against
various reports circulated around the
country on so-called educational topics,
seemipgly the outcome of very vivid
imaginations.
AT the recent meeting of the trustees
OF the Peabody Educational Fund, in
Washington, it was deemed advantageous
to the twelve Southern States for whom
the income Of the fund has been devoted
Tor thirty.five years. on certain lines,
that an advance step should be taken to
meet the new conditions in Southern
edncation--now far ID advance of gene
ration ago.
IL is determined to create the "George
Peabody College for Teachers on
higher educational lines than have ever
before been undertaken in the South: a
committee has been appointed to study
out and present, this most interesting and
important matter to q future meetinp of
the trustees; it will require the most
mature thought, time and large sun, of
money to make the proposed change in
administering the Peabody fund ON tbis
new line, and it follows of course that
the trustees are not going away from
their educational work in the South.
The considerable sum of money re-
quired for this large and important edu-
cationai advance liz believed to be in
sight, and the intelligent composition of
the committee gives tho assurance of n
highly satisfactory result.-Wm, A..
in News and Courier.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-02-18

News of bold highway robbery
reaches here from the vicinity of Mount
vile, town on the S. A. l.. Railroad
Dr. Frank G. Fuller, one of the most
prominent and wealthy citizens of Lau-
rens county, who resides three miles
west of Mountville, was the victim of a
highway robbery recently. He was re-
turning home on horseback just at night
fall when about mile from the above
named town, two men, apparently mu-
lattoes, suddenly approached from either
side, seized the doctor aud rifled his
pockets without removing him from his
horse. The doctor had nothing but a
riding whip with which to protect himself
which he vigorously applied to the fell
lows faces and shoulders
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-02-18
The State Press Association.

The Executive Committee of the State
Press Association met in this city last
evening for the purpose of arranging for
the coming annual meeting of tF~ asso-
citation. Among the members present
were President e. I'll. Aull, Secretary G.
=. Langston, of Anderson, Treasurer
August Kohn, Editor j. g. Darlington.
of the Spartanburg Herald, editor E. n
DeCamp, of the Gaffney Ledger, and
Editor j. M. Knight, of Sumter.
The committee decided that the annual
sessions of the convention should he
hold on July 8, 8, 10 and IL next; and the
action OF the last gathering as to the
Piace--the White Stone Lithia Springs
was confirmed. Proprietor Harris has
offered special rates at the hotel for the
editors and the members of their .fami.
lies.
At tho meeting last evening the com.
mittee decided to invite one of the most
distinguished men of the country to
deliver the annual Grafton, but the name
VIII not be announced until the gentle
man has been communicated with,
The committee took initial steps also
looking to the annual trip of the mem
bers of the association. This year the
com mittee is thinking seriously of max.
ing California the objective point.
The arrangement of tho programme
for the annual meeting was entered upon,
subjects upon which members will be
asked to present papers.
The association will meet at White
stone on Tuesday evening, July Z, at s
O'Clock, and remain until Friday night
following. The annual address will be
delivered at the banquet on Thursday
night, July 0.
The following programme has been
arranged:
The Advertising Agents'-A. G. Kol-
lock, Darlington News.
Scraps of South Carolina journalism"
Yates SnOwden, The News and Courier.
Circulation Building"-W. w. Ball,
Laurens Advertiser.
"A Daily Newspaper in Small City,
III. L.. Watson, Greenwood Index.
''The Job Office in Conjunction with a
Country Newspaper"-A. w. Knight,
Bamberg Herald.
''The attitude of the Press Toward the
Office Seeker"-R. Il. Jaynes, Reowee
Courier, Walhalla.
Cash in Advance System vs. Credit
System"-J. w. Doar, Georgetown Out
look.
Newspapers as Lawmakers"-W. ii.
Wallace, Newberry Observer.
"Fhe Editorial Column"-J. C. Gar
lington, Spartanburg Herald.
The Religious Press'-Rev. w. p.
Jacobs, D. d., Our Monthly, Clinton.
Ethics of Journalism"-Paul M.
Brice, Columbia Record.
docs it Pay the Manager to Work in
Mechanical Departments'-J. G. Mace,
Marion Star
What Value are Correspondents to a
PaperT'-J. M. Knight, Sumter Herald.
Higher Ideals for the Country News
paper"-John X. Aull, Newberry Herald
and News.
The full programme will be issued by
the secretary of the association as soon
as possible, giving full information to
the MEMBERS State, February 9th.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-02-18
Elurdsr IN a penIisatla.y.

Philadelphia, FebruSry A. e-For the
third time in the history Of the Eastern
penitenuary that institution was to-day
tne scene OF most brutal IN murder. The
victim was James Pratt, a negro, aged
~ years, who was serving sentence of
twenty years for burglary committed
iase August. The crime was perpe.
trated by Cornelius Bush, 81 years old,
also coiored, sentenced to two years i'm.
prisonment for assault and battery. An
oyerseer who carried breakfast to the
men found the decapitated body OF
Pratt wrapped in blankets aud sheets
lying In corner. On small table the
head OF the murdered man was found
tied up in an old shirt Bush said Pratt
and himself had quarreled all last night
aoout religious matters. Finally Pratt
lay down on his bunk and, after he had
fallen asleep, Bush crushed his skull
with stool. Then with the knife that
ooth had used at meal times he severed
his victims head. After wrapping up
the head and body Bush retired and
slept sonndly.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-02-18
Electricity Captures a Burglar.

Florence, February H. Mr.. James
Hughes, Western Union operator,
has been missing some of his fine
Plymouth Rock fowls recently.
Yesterday he placed al electric bat
terry at the door of his coop and con-
nected it to bell by the side of his
bed in his residence by an under
ground wire. About midnight last
night the bell began to ring and Mr.
Hughes, in company with Mr.. Nell
Hatchel, slipped out to the coop.
They found no one at first, but
shortly after noise was heard and
four men and two women were cap
tured and carried to the. station
house. This is one of the largest
"hauls" ever made of this kind here
abouts.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-02-18
A Story OF Mrs. Roosevelt.


A charming story, relating to Mrs.
Roosevelt, is told by Harold Mabin,
in a Washington letter to the Mus
catine Journal. Mr.. Mahin says
"After number of distinguished
guests had been received by Mrs.
Roosevelt, woman, beautifully
gowned and conducting herself with
an air of distinction, was presented.
After the usual formalities the lady
passed on to join a group of ladies
whose husbands were i'm the same
cirCie as her own. A frigid nod from
one and naughty reply from the
other made it all too plain that she
was unwelcome, for some one had
recognized her as a former sales
woman in a large store in New York,
an establishment where, prior to her
fathers death, she had been one of
the most valued and esteemable
patrons. With consummate grace
she withdrew from the circle and
was about to leave the parlor when
Mrs. Roosevelt, with her character
istic tact and discernment, stepped
to her side and extended her hand
and said: Il think we ha.dly need
to be introduced as we are such old
friends. | am 30 glad to meet you
here and placing her arm around
the young woman who had 80 often
supplied her wants at the New York
store, Mrs. Roosevelt led her to a
sofa and chatted with her for fifteen
or twenty minutes in the charming
manner which is inherent in the wife
of the President of the United States
and which has endeared her to the
people of this country"
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-02-18
Drifted Down Creek in WAGON.

Birmingham, Ala, February IL
Ishma Strong, his grandmother, Mrs.
Davis, and his aunt, Mrs. Dinsmore,
had thrilling experience in Shades
creek, near Bessemer, yesterday.
They were driving in a one-horse
wagon to visit ncighbors on the other
side of the creek. The creek was
swollen and the horse was drowned.
The wagon then went sailing down
the creek. The occupants were in
the wagon unable to get to shore for
five hours and were finally rescued
after much difficulty. The wagon,
in which the party remained, lodged
against tree, to which ropes were
thrown. During the voyage down
the stream Mrs. Davis, who did not
expect to survive her experience,
wrote her will and carefully tied it
to a piece of drift wood so that it
would be found in case she was
drowned. The ladies' are much over
come by their experience.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-02-18
Badly
Sh att G r ed NJ eryeS
and Weak Heart.
Too Nervous to Sleep
or Rest.
DIR. Mile s Heart Cure and
NerVine Cured Me.

a shattered nervous system nearly always
leads to some affection of the heart, espec-
tally where the patients heart is weak from
hereditary or other causes. DIR. Miles Heart
Cure is not only great heart regulator but
1t Is blood tonic which speedily corrects
and regulates the hearts action, enriches the
blood and improves the circulation. 1t will
build you up just as it did Mr.. Crawford
whose lette. follows and greatly improve
your general health:
"I have been so greatly benefited by DIR.
Miles Neryine and Heart Cure that freely
recommend them asNthe best remedies for
the diseases they are recommended to cure.
When ! began taking these medicines /
weighed scarcely I4o pounds, my nerves
were badly shattered and my heart troubled
me great deal had pain in my left arm
and shoulder, had difficulty in sleeping on
my left side, had frequent smothering spells
and my heart would hutter and palpitate.
could eat scarcely any kind Of food without
suffering great distress, and was so restless
and nervous that slept little night or day
Now | am never bothered with my heart,
my nerves arc steady as a die, sleep we'll,
eat well and weigh 1863 pounds am happy
now and am trying to make back the money
spent for doctors who did me no good
while was HIT. Il. CRAWFORD, Center,
Texas.
All druggists sell and guarantee first bot
tie Or. Miles Remedies. Send for free book
on Nervous and Heart diseases. Address
DIR. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-02-18
Grover Cleveland Is Modest.

Cincinnati, February 10.-In re-
sponse to direct inquiry as to
whether he is candidate or would
accept another nomination for the
presidency, the following has been
received from former President
Grover Cleveland by the editor of
the Times-Star:
"Dcar Sir-I have received your
letter of the 4th instant, asking me
on behalf of the Times-Star for an
expression regarding my intentions
as related to the next Democratic
nomination for the presidency. |
cannot possibly bring to my mind
the belief that a condition or senti-
ment exists that makes any expires
sion from me on the subject of the
least Importance. Grover Cleveland" ="
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-02-18
Trying to Get all Negroes to Go to Africa.

- Atlanta, February 6.-Bishop III. M.
Turner's plan to transport the negro
population of this country to Liberia has
received substantial encourageme mt from
that government
Through Bishop Turner the small re-
public of Liberia, West Africa, has do
mated to the Colored National Emigra.
ton and Commercial Association of
Tennessee, the sum of $25,OO to assist
them in purchasing steamship to ply
between America and West Africa.
rms shall be both for emigration and
commercial purposes.
Dr.. W. III. Heard is president of this
association and Bishop Turner treasurer.
Bishop Turner is enthusiastic over this
practical encouragement. He says the
association will raise Sl25,O00, and as
treasurer, he is determined that not one
cent of it shall be used for any other
purpose than the removal of the negroes
from the South.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-02-18

The smallpox situation is getting to be
so bad and the loss of time so great that
Governor Hayward is anxious to expe-
dite the work. AT present reports of
smallpox are sent to Governor Hayward,
and he then advises DIR. James Evans, at
Florence, who is the secretary of the
State board of health, having these mat
ters in charge. Governor Hayward begs
that cases of smallpox be reported di-
rectly to DR.. James Evans, at Florence,
and this will save great deal of time
and accomplish the same result, only
more expeditiously. He begs that all
smallpox reports be made directly by
wire to DIR. James Evans and not to him.
He does this simply to save time and ex-
pense, and time is q decided element in
the handling of smallpox.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-02-18
Ben TiIiman to Aid His Nephew.

Columbia, S. c., February 12.-
There has been considerable spncula-
tion as to what part Senator Tillman
would take in the case of his nephew,
James ii. Tillman, now in Richland
county Jail under charge of murder.
1t has been known for years the
Senator and his nephew have been
on bad terms. Only few days ago
Senator Tillman wrote a letter,
which has been published, in which
he said there were Two kinds of Till
mans, and that his nephew had op.
posed him politically for the last ten
years. In the last few days j. II.
Tillman has appealed to his uncle,
and as a result the Senator stopped
over in Columbia on his way 10
Edgefeld. His movements were
known to but few people. He drove
din Iectly to the Jail and spent several
hours with his nephew, going over
the line of defense with him and
making suggestions. 1t is given out
by attorneys for j. Fl. Tillman that
the Senator promised to give him
any assistance in his power.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-02-18
License for Gypsies.

Columbia, February 12.--Both
Houses have passed bill which re-
quires gypsies and other itenerant
horse dealers to pay a license to trade
in horses, the license being fixed at
$500. Bands of gypsies are not SO
common about the State as they used
to be, but if they are compelled to
pay the license they will be seen
about no more. AS is well known,
they are the slickest Of slick horse
traders, and it is likely that some
constituent of the author of the bill
got worsted in horse trade ; hence
the bill. As one legislator re-
marked, there are other slick horse
traders at large who are not required
to pay license.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-02-18
Texas Veterans Approve Ex.SIave Bill.

Fort Worth, Texas, February 10.
AT a regular meeting to-day of r..
E. Lee Camp, United Confederate
Veterans, resolution indorsing
Senator Hanna's bill to pension for
mer slaves was introduced by the
State historian, Judge g. G. Cum :
mings, and passed'by an almost unani-
nous vote. The resolution urges
that Texas representatives in Con-
gress support the Hanna measure to
the extent of rcwarding all ex. slaves
who remained at home within the
ages set forth in the bill, or those
who went with their masters i'm the
war of local independence, but that
those be excepted who were enlisted
in the United States volunteer ser.
vice and are already on the pension
list.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-02-18
Jim Tillman'S Pistols.

Gen. II. r. Hemphill, editor of the Alb
beville Medium, writes from Columbia
TO his paper as follows: Last Friday
afternoon ] went around to the office of
j. Frost Walker, Clerk of Court, to see
the pistol used by Lieutenant Governor
Tillman when he shot Editor Gonzales.
1t is known as a magazine pistol and
made in Germany. The balls are put in
the stock or handle of the weapon. The
barrel is nine inches long and is of blue
steel color. The stock is rather fat and
gives better hand hold than if it was
round. 1t will snoot ten times and it is
said will kill a man 2,20O yards distance
if it hits him. The Colts pistol is also
i'll the hands of the Clerk of the Court.
1t is a short one and is fully loaded.n
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-02-18
Mrs. Rooseselrs ltaadkerehlo, Makes Trouble.

Dallas, Texas, February PA
handkerchief, sent by Mrs. Roose-
welt TO be sold at festival for the
benefit of the Dallas Free Kinder
garten, has raised tempest in a tea
pot here--all because of the quality
OF the gift, which the members OF
the organization say is very inferior.
AT mass meeting indignation was
expressed at the machine-made gift,
and, unless the ladies' vote to recon
slider their action, the handkerchief
will be sent back to Washington.
Mrs. Jefferson Dayis's hand made
handkerchief was received enthusi-
astically.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-02-18
aDoNr sUck.v
Some Good Advice fer tko People Of 0conse
County and Perhaps Other Counties.

The following timely article we find
going the rounds of our exchanges aud
transfer 1t to our columns:
Ii your neighbor is prosperous, let him
prosper.
Don't growl, grunt or grumble.
Say q good word for him aud let him
90 at that.
Don't be kicker.
Your turn will come.
No one Is q whole show.
IL you SEQ the town is moving along
rapidly feel good about it. {
Help things along.
Show q little push.
Try to get some of the benefits your.
self.
Don't stand around like chilly cada-
yer and waste your time feeling sore be-
cause some fellow has more sense and
success than you have.
Doa little hustling yourself, and II you
can say good word for your town or its
people say it like a prince.
III you are full of bile and disposed to
say something mean, put paddock on
your mouth and keep 1t there until YOU
can get hypodermic injection of the
milk OF human kindness.
Don't be a kicker.
No man ever made dollar kicking bu,
professional base bali player.
No man ever got rich miuding every.
body's business but his own.
No man ever helped himself M per
manently by kicking his neighbor down
Give others kindly word and give il
literally and gracefully.
III won't cost you a penny, and, re-
MEMBER you may want good word
yourself some day.
You may have thousands to. day and
morrow 1f
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-02-18
O "a - T @ RIA.
Bears the The Kind You Have Always Bought
signature as &rNAzlzw
JeH2Davis's Prison.

Newport News, Va, February 6.-The
work of tearing down the old Carroll
house, at Fort Monroe, will be com
menced in few days. Upon it's site,
just within the ramparts of the fort, a
new mess hall will be erected. The
building is said t. have been the first
structure erected on the reservation. 1t
has further claim to historic interest
from the fact that it was occupied by
Jefferson Davis while the President of
the Confederacy was awaiting his trial
on the charge Of treason. The house
was built in 1910.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-02-18
Marc0ni System a Success.

London, February 1O.-The At
lantic liner Minneapolis, which ar
rived at Tilbury to-day from New
York, reports that she received
Marconi bulletins giving the news of
the world throughout the voyage.
The passengers pronounce the scheme
a brilliant success.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-02-18
The Law as to Trespass,

The following is the law regarding tres
pass. Cut 1T out and past in your scrap
BOOK for future reference: Every entry
upon the lands of anothe notice from
the owner or tenant prohibiting the same,
shall be misdemeanor, and to be pun
ished by a fine not to exceed one hun-
dred dollars or imprisonment with hard
labor on the public works of the county
not exceeding thirty days: Provided,
That wherever any owner or tenant of
spicuous places on the borders of any
lands, prohibiting entry thereon, and
shall publish once week for four sue
cessive weeks, such notice in any news
pape circulating in the county where
such lands are situated, proof of the
posting and of publishing such notice
prior to the entry, shall be deemed and
taken as notice conclusive against the
person making entry as aforesaid for
hunting and tishing.'
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-02-18

a dispatch from Vienna, Austria
Hungary, says that the crown prin-
cess OF Saxony, in wild despair at the
refusal of her family to allow her TO
see her sick son, has attempted sui
eide in the sanitarium to which she
has been taken. She fired two shots
at herself, but, being highly nervous,
both missed. Before she could re-
peat the attempt the attendants dis
armed her.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-02-18

The fifth annual meeting of the Tri-
State Medical Society of Georgia, North
Carolina and South Carolina will be held
in Columbia, S. a., on the 25th and 2Gl h
of February. Many papers Of interest
and importance will be read and dis
cussed. Physicians and surgeons of
South Carolina, North Carolina and
Georgia constitute the membership of
the TriState Medical Society.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-02-18
Wife Carves Husband.

Monticello, N. Y, February 0.-Mrs.
Lafayette Taylor was lodged in Jail here
to-day after confessing to the CHASTITY
murder of her husband at their home at
Centreville, Sullivan county. Although
she says her sixteen-year- daughter
helped her, the girl has not been arrested.
Mrs. Taylor said her husband came home
drunk on January 81, and with revol-
yer, which she had purchased few days
before, she shot him in the head, killing
him instantly. She cut up the body, put
it in the fire and fed the bones to the
chickens. She says he deserved his fate
and cher conscience is unhurt."
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-02-18
Clemson's Full Baseball Schedule.

Clemson College, S c., February o.
Ma ager Joseph III. Wyse has arranged
the following schedule for Clemson's q
baseball team:
March 25-Erskip, at Clemson.
March 2S-Presbyterian College of
South Carolina, at Clinton.
April 4-Davidson, at Clemson.
Athens.
April 11-Georgia Tech, at Atlanta.
April 13-Auburn, 1T Auburn.
April 14-Mercer, at Macon.
April 21-Wake Forest, at Clemson.
May 1-Wofford, at Spartanburg.
May 2-Newberry, at Newberry.
May 9-Furman, at Greenville.
Games are also under consideration
with Cornell, Newberry and the Presby-
terian College of South Carolina, to be
Played at Clemson.
Football games have been arranged for
next season with the University of Geor-
gia, University of Nashville, and the
Georgia Tech.