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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-04-29
Suit Over Cotton.

The case of Inmau d Co. against Wal
halla Cotton Mills was tried in the United
States Circuit Court, Judge w. Fl. Braw
Icy presiding, at Greenville on Monday
and Tuesday of this week. 1t was SUIT
oD. cotton contract, the issue being as to
ii. 'elivery and non-delivery of 800 bales
of c<Nton bought by the mill to be de-
livered in April and May, 1901. Inman
q Co. claimed that they delivered in ac-
which the mill denied. Under the charge
and construction by the Court, the jury
rendered a verdict against the mill for
$500. The case will be carried to the
Circuit Court Of Appeals at Richmond,
Va, for review at tho next October term
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-04-29

g. I'll. Sims, the Joung collection clerk
who stole more than $4,000 from the
Capital City National Bank of Atlanta
has plead guilty and been sentenced to
years in the Atlanta Federal prison.
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''0ne Dose Convinces." "

Mozley's Lemon Elixir acts gently on
the bowels without any unpleasant effect.
1t is perfect liquid laxative. 80 cents
per bottle at all drug stores
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-04-29
EVERY CHURCH or institution

supported by voluntary contribution will
be given liberal quantity OF the Long
man & Martinez Pure Paints whenever
they paint.
years. Sales: Tensjof millions of gal
Ions; painted nearly two million houses
factory. The paint wears for periods up
to eighteen years. G.inseed oil must be
added to the paint Done In two min
utes) Actual cost then about $1.25 a
gallon. SampleS free. Sold by our agents.
@. w. PNCHFORD COMPANY,
1919 Walhalla, s. G.
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The Artificial Limb Fund.

The Clerk of Court desires us to state,
for the information of pensioners, that
the artificial limb fund cannot be drawn
Gil BY par ties receiving guiar pensions,
nor by those who were beneficiaries Of
this fund last year. Only those not on
the pension roll, and who have not re-
ceiyed anything for artificial limbs, are
entitled to draw from it.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-04-29

1t is desired that every business man
interested in the upbuilding of the town
and surrounding country join in with
the Board of Trade and unite their
efforts in a movement to better existing
conditions and add new enterprises that
will be Of benefit to the wage Garner
and offer inducements for the investment
of capital BY men of money. The Board
of Trade wishes to increase its member
ship by the addition Of names to it's roll
from the ranks of business men, as is
shown ~ another clause of it's constitu-
tinn
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-18

to make his debut. His voice is a full,
rich bass, capable Of sending forth notes
of immense volume, or those of the
most tender quality His appearance
giant. with fair skin and blue eyes, and
his stage presence Is imposing. -Four
years after his debut he created the part
Of II Re in Catalanfs "E1da,H and Mas
sanet entrusted to him the creation of
lie Roi de Lahore when it was pro-
duced at La Scala in Milan. He also
created the part of Carlo v. in Mar
chettfs don Giovanni d'Austria1 and
gagged in London during the seasons
from 1880 to 1884. He has many friends
in England for he has q weakness for
everything connected with sport, in the
best sense. Notwithstanding the many
parts in which he has made the greatest
success. his assumption OF the role of
Ndephistopheles in Faust" more than
any other, Established his reputation as
a great lyric artist, and he is generally
conceded to be one of the greatest
bassos of the century. he has held en-
gagements with Grau for several sea-
sons and has never before appeared in
anything but grand opera This will be
his first season in concert and his first
appearance in a dress suit.
Jenny Osborn Hanna is we'll known
among American sopranos. Several
years spent abroad in study in concert
work under the greatest European
teachers, have broadened her already
established reputation. Her appearances
in Paris have been greeted with enthusl-
asm, the musical critic of Figaro re-
ferring to her as one of the most sue
cessful singers ever heard in the French
capital.
one of Americas foremost contraltos
IS Miss Mabelle Crawford. a singer of
wide reputation and experience. She
studied with the greatest masters of
Europe and America. later touring with
the leading orchestras of the country.
Some of her more important engage
ments of this season include appear
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LIZ s.: :ss . Bss@S S osa5ss g. D ss: &.

F. Hall portrayed the character of
pany is one of the best
season at popular prices. This is not to
shows but the company makes a speci-
are adapted and the productions given
compare. with the higher priced attrac-
tions.- At this engagement the prices
will be 10, 20, and 80, and on the OPEN
ing night any lady viii be admitted
free when accompanied by person
holding a 30 cent paid ticket.
Strenuous life, as we find It in our
metropolitan cities, has a faithful por-
trayal in the third act of IAN Orphans
Prayer" the great pastoral play which
will be seen at the Crawford matinee
and night next Saturday. The locale of
the scene is New York's Down Town
District with a church. a saloon and
a slky-scraper office building In the
latter is shown the great vault robbery,
where a real vault door is drilled, filled
with giant powder and blown in true
burglar fashion A sneak thief enters
the vault for the purpose of theft and
is unconsciously locked in by the owner
who locks the door preparatory to his
home going. The sneak's accomplices,
who are on watch. crack the vault
to release their pal" The undertaking
is successfully carried out, but the un-
willing prisoner pays a fearful price for
his liberty. for the force of the explo-
sion, together with frightful powder
burns, marks him for life.
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and Richelieu.
7 like Shakespeare. too, but, worse
and worse, desire to be original. Why
should an actor, because he plays trag-
edy, ignore every humorous point in
character? Shakespeare is full Of COM
edy; Shylock brim full of tremendous
laughs and bitter satire on the Jew, full
of the intense prejudice of that age,
and yet how seriously the average actor
plays him. Shakespeare's c1lara cters
are marvelously human; why couldn't
they be played without the old tradi-
tional staginess?
.tShakespe arean ventures are costly,
but if we always stopped to count the
cost in this life, I'm afraid our achieve
ments would be very small. I remem-
Der a number of years ago. when I first
commenced starring, 7 met. of course,
with the usual difficulties that come to
all stars and money was anything but
plentiful. 1t was at the close of my
season. 1 went to. the Garden theater,
New York, to see a new production.
After the play, I met the manager
and he offered a very large sum to me
to abandon my tour and play the lead
ing character in the play had just wit
messed.
of course I refused. He asked me
the same question: If had stopped to
count the cost. told him had weigh
ed carefully every burden, every sigh,
every struggle that went to the making
of a star and 1 was willing TO pay the
penalty freely if I could only realize my
ambitions"
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plays curtail the salary of a stage
manager by rehearsing in person. and
avoid the extravaganza of leading
lady by assuming the chief roles her
self. How the venture of this female
Pooh Bah VIII turn out promises TO be
an interesting study. Miss Baker, un-
ike Mrs. Osborn. who is a fashionable
dressmaker, has had considerable ex-
perience in the theater
she was an infant phenomenon on this
stage and abandoning infancy she
formed the Baker Stock company.
leased the Criterion theater, Brooklyn.
and had some success in the revival Of
old plays However. Brooklyn, although
included in New York, separated from
New York only by the East river, is a
thousand miles behind New York The
Brooklyn people are strange. occult,
mysterious and abhorrent to the ways
and manners OF Manhattan In the
neighboring borough there Is a certain
Mrs Spooner who runs a theatar and
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ances with the Chicago Apollo club;
William Sherwood Recital Chicago;
Chicago Mendelssohn club; Dedication
St. Nincents church. Chicago; Mes
siah" with the Philharmonic club. Min
neapOlis; Messiah" with the Choral
club St. Paul; and Arian society, Mil
Waukee.
Glenn Hail, the splendid young tenor,
is receiving many complimentary no
tees from the eastern press. He sings
with the Boston Festival orchestra
spring tour, and is already booked for
more than eighty engagements in con-
cert. oratorio and recitals.
Mr.. Croxton the young English basso.
has, since his advent to this country
lass than two years ago, proven him
self one of the our foremost concert and
oratOriO singers. His voice, a full, rich
bass, is especially adapted to the work
in which he is engaged
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Physicians are calling attention to the
fact that influenza or grip has come to
stay. In the larger cities there has been
a marked increase in diseases affecting
the organs of respiration, which increase
is attributed to the prevalence of inf1u-
enza. Persons who are recovering from
grip or influenza are in a weak condition
and peculiarly liable to pulmonary dis
ease.
DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
cures coughs, bronchitis, lung trouble +"
and other diseases of the organs of res
piration. It is the best tonic medicine
for those whose strength and vitality
have been exhausted by an attack of grip.
It purihes the blood. cleansing t of
the poisonous accommodations which breed
and feed disease. It gives increased ac-
tivity to the blood-making glands, and
SO increases the supply Of pure blood,
rich with the red corpuscles of health.
"A word for your Golden Medical Discov-
cry writes Mrs. E. A. Bender Of Keene
Coshocton Co, Ohio. I'VE have been using il
as family medicine for more than four wears
As cough remedy and blood purifier there IS
nothing better. and after having the grip Dr.
Picrce's Golden. Medical Discovery IS lust the
night medicine for a complete brecing up.v
Accept no substitute for Ct Golden Med
ical Discovery There is nothing e Just
as good for diseases Of the stomach.
blood, and lungs.
The sluggish liver is made active by
the use Of DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets.
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supplied almost its entire company out
Of her own family
Between the acts of a tragedy she
sends out a one-legged man to sing
comic songs. She and her family play
everything from Shakespeare to Chas.
Hoyt with resolute purpose and no ap-
babies, as if they were umbrellas, and
slows them away materially while
their mothers go shopping. If George
Washington was the father of his
country. Mrs. Spooner is the mother of
Brooklyn. and her theater is crowded
every evening and at the matinees. Al
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Cured
My Wife of Heart
Disease and
Myself of Nervous
Dyspepsia With
DR.. Miles Heart Cure
and Nervine.

eff ] had but known what medicine and
what physicians were reliable | would be
about 1000 ahead today, For years my
wife had been troubled with futtering and
palpitation of the heart accompanied BY
weak, nervous spells. We consulted several
different local doctors and tried nearly every
patent medicine l heard of and my wife had
almost given up in despair vixen my druggist
advised her to give DR.. Miles Heart Cure
and Restorative Ncrvine a trial. After TAX
ing one-half bottle of the Ncrvine sh felt
better than she had in twenty years. She
bought three bottles of each and is today err
loying better health than she did in all her
life. / know It is all due to DR.. Miles Re-
storatlve Nervine and New Heart Cure, I
think Restorative Nervine is the best medi-
cine on earth. AS a stomach remedy Ii can
not be beaten. 1t cured me OF nervous dys-
pepsla and II from any cause | feel nervous
and think my stomach is going to trouble
me Just take few doses of Nervine and
Nerve and Liver Pills and soon feel all
right again. DR.. Miles ADti-pain Pills are
the best remedy for headache and pains I
have ever used I always keep a box IN my
house One Pain Pill will knock any pain
in thirty minutes. 1 have been using DR..
Miles Restorative Remedies in my family
fifteen years and think they are the best in
the world. isaac HEADLEY, Station Mas
ter. Santa Fe r R., Wichita, Kan.
All druggists sell and guarantee first bot
lie Or. Miles Remedies. Send for free book
on Nervous and Heart Diseases. Address
Dr. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind
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dy staged for several seasons. It has
good story. clever lyrics, excellent cnarac-
ferization-the types are also 50 real tllat
one fancied the author might be Gus
Thomas-and lifting music But best OF
all there was a professional manner IN
the performance that has been Sadly lack
ing in the se7ni-amateur productions we
have had hereabouts for four or hVe
years.
Concerning the company and The stage
mana cement only the most coro1af COM
mendation can be uttered at no period was
there evidence of insufficient rehearsal
and the fact that the final curtain did not
fan within the three-hour limit was
caargeable to surplus of material IN BOOK
and score. not to draggy handling Of the
scenes
when he was seen in THE Explorers,
wrote the book. staged the piece and as
surred the leading role: in every capacity
he did the best work Of his career HiS
performance as Prof. Zachary PeIuDone,
who is champeroning bevy of young wo-
men IN a tour Of the wild west. IS uncosn-
monty well balanced. never crosses the line
of clever travesty into broad bunoonery-
IT is rather odd, too, that he reslsts temp,
tation to seek the center of the stage and
remain in IT.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-18

EoA 9 ~ 4A41 ne pc
pie forget their
burdens. to lift
them with laughter
until they feel that
life is sparkling
with sunshine and
& a On e SIS, TIL a t
seems to me truest
art, and yet, I con
fess t h e awful
truth am yearn-
ing to dip into
tragedy, to play
Matthias in its en-
firefV o41iS XI
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will begin a fresh
page in its strange.
eventful history I'M
der the direction of
Edith Ellis Baker.
Miss Baker means
to save in all ex-
penditures of the
house. and by this
economy she hopes
to win fortune. She
viii cut of auth
or's royalties by
writing her own
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mires her performance, gets her to
check its babies and gives her an op-
portunity to emulate her example at
the Circle theater in this town, but it
came to disaster. Brooklyn is individ-
ual, Incompatible and extraordinary,
and as Miss Baker is a product of
Brooklyn her venture at Mrs. Osborn 5
playhouse is a problem not unmixed
with anxiety.
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house Monday. Tues
day and Wednesday.
They viii produce
THE Pulse of Great
er New York" a
melodrama in five
acts and the three
act comedy drama,
THE Governor" and
the story Of the Ken
lucky hills, "A True
Kentuckian " The
Lincoln Journal of
A-.f1 Oh e-~~e4. tsFTff-l
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argument in the
lobby between the
acts of THE Sultan
of Sulu. and final
~ each pulled out
a roll Of money and
shook it in the 9TH
er's face.
III bet you five
it ISL exclaimed
one
Go you ten to
five it isn'ti" re-
Joined the other,
still louder.
L say you're
wrong" repeated
the first. who wore
+1,o r-.15Forr-1 nf a
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Theatrical Notes.

Aubrey Boucicault will be starred next
season by the Shuberts in Broadhursts
The Garden of Lies
Henry " Esmond, the successful Eng
lish playwright author Of When We were
Twenty-one'' recently produced for COPY
right purposes play called Fools Of Ma
ture"
It is doubtful If Mary Mannering viii
have a new play next season In the first
place there Is the difficulty Of finding one.
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ter the performance she serves tea and
mullins on the stage and invites every
body to step up and get acquainted
with the actors in general and the
Spooner family in particular.
This amiable, matriarchal and unique
woman is regarded with great serious
ness and applause by Brooklyn which
drinks her tea, eats her mullins. adj
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Douglasville, Ca, May II. 1902.
| have been travelling for nearly two years
and have suffered very badly from indigestion
and dyspepsia. I tried several physicians and
all kinds Of patent medicines, but Kodol is the
first and only remedy that has done me any
good whatever; now | have only used two
small bottles and to my surprise II has cured
me sound and we'll. w. WATTERN.
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past there has been
a tendeney(and seem
ingiy a necessity to
treat these musi-
cal performances on
Randolph street with
leniency. But in
the present instance
there is no demand
for charity
THE TenderfOot"
is the freshest,
brightest, most legit-
innate musical come
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COMING 10 THE rHEArERs.
AL G. Fields Hinstrels Will Be at the
Grand April 80.

The next big attraction at the Grand
will be Al G. Field and his minstrels
on April 80. Field is a favorite in To-
peka and he seldom fails to play here
during a season.
The Thurston-Leonard company will
be the attraction at the Crawford
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RICHARD oARLE's SUCCESS.

Produced a New Comic Opera in
Chicago Named The Tenderfoot."
No one in passing an opinion on THE
Tenderfoot," which had its first test on
any stage at the Dearborn last Monday,
need hesitate to declare it an emphatic
success says the Chicago Pest. In the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-04-18

company is remarkably well balanced
and made the most of the opportuni-
ties of the plays. Florence Leonard was
at her best as Stella Douglas while
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ANOTHER WOMAN MANAGER.

Edith Ellis Baker VIII Be a Competi-
tor of Mrs. Spooner.
Another woman manager has taken
a lease of Mrs. Osborn's playhouse in
New York and that unfortunate theatar
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Recent experiments. by practical
tests and examination with the aid
Of the x-Ray. establish it as a fact
that Catarrh Of the Stomach Is not
a disease in itself. but that It is 9
condition resulting from repeated
attacks Of Indigestion.
The stomach and allmentary
canal. or digestive tract, is lined or
coated with q mucous membrane.
Studding the surface Of this mucous
membrane are the gastric glands.
Here, also. are the terminal branches
of the pneumogastric nerves, and
many branches from the sympa-
thetc system
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Thomas Jefferson. who is starring in
RIP Van Wrinkle, was talking temper
ance one day in PHILADELPHIA when a
bystander interrupted him to say that
his GRANDPA Their. who was 81 years old.
had been a steady dTinker all his life.
How do you explain that2s' demanded
the man. You say that whisky de-
stroys the health
We'll, there are two ways to account
for it." replied Mr.. Jefferson. One is
to say that the recording angel believes
that your grandsire drank himself to
death years ago, and has forgotten to
send the death angel after him. The
other explanation, and the one prefeR
is that the old man has such good
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COMEDY SERIOUS 10 MURPHY.

Famous Comedian Would Like to
Try Richelieu for Change.
Comedy is very serious work to me"
says Tim Murphy. THE average heart
is so full of sorrow. so weighed with
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THE WEEKLY GR1sr.
The Funny Stories Prepared by the
Theatrical Press Agents.

Two men at Wallack's theater the
other night became involved in a warm
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" KOdol Digests What You Dad .

constitution if he was a teetotaler he
never would die, and it would be necess
sary to knock him in the head to get
action on him on judgment day."
Talk Of quiet endings. reasonable eli
makes" so-called, and the precedents of
the late James Herne, could anything
be more placid than the ending of tbs
first act of The Optimist" which Mr..
E. S. Willard is playing:
fifty.
Jossan-IIow do you know 1 don't
play better than your
De La Baudiere-I don't know. but
I'm so happy I insist upon giving you
ten in fifty
Jossan-I'n take you. and give you
De La Baudiere-Oh, 1 don't know.
Then the curtain falls
In the west Sam Morris. who was at
one time member of a local stock
company playing in Hopkins theatef.
Chicago. is being starred in The Ped
dler's Claim and telling stories.
One of these relates to an occasion
play a part in Hopkins and was re-
uuested to make his entrance on horse
back. Morris had the role of his negro
body servant. The unusual entrance or
something ratified Gilmore on the open
ing night. He arrived in the center OF
the stage all right. but to save his life
he couldn't remember his lines.
For Gods sake. what do I say
SAM" he whispered
Say anything replied Morris.
well. here I am began Gilmore,
and there he stuck
Yes. sub, hyah you is" answered
Morris, taking up his negro role, and
now Use gwine ter take yeh away
ergin,' and he gravely led the horse.
with Gilmore seated thereon. through
the closest exit.
Gilmore made his Remittance almost
Immediately. endorsed. but refreshed
mentally, and the audience apparently
thought it was all in the play.
Occasionally it appears as absolutely
heart-rending, the way IN which Rich
ard Mansfield has been maligned. The
public has gained, through the efforts
of the rapacious press, an entirely errc-
neous idea of the meek and lowly,
though always great, actor.
In Brooklyn the other day he was re-
hearsing his company, when a young
woman from a town paper advanced
for an interview. She was dumbfound.
ed, according to report. to find the actor
quiet and unassuming, walking up anc
down the stage, listening to the line
I delivery of his company, and ever and
anon gently reproving a player, by
cracking Joke or touching the person
on the arm
That isn't Mr. Mansfield. is it?" in
CURED the reporter.
''Yes'm. If is said an actor.
Why. he doesn't seem brutal anG
duarrelsome-
No He isn't now But-whisper-
he doesn't know there is a reporter in
the house