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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-11-04
The Proper Time to Keep Silence.

Has enough been said about the
Tillman verdict? Enough will have
been said when some good has been
accomplished ; not until then. When
the people of the country are raired
to sense of their responsibilities,
when juries try the causes before
them according to the law and the
evidence and not according to preiu-
dices or preference, and when they
give their verdicts without fear or
favor and feel that they are che
representatives of the majesty and
the dignity and the honor of the
country, leaving the judges and the
pardoning power of the State to
exercise their own functions and to
consider such matters as in equity
might modify the rigors of the law.
Then it will be time for the press
and the pulpit to keep silence
Florence Times.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-11-04
HOW he BECAME a LAWYER.
The Story OF Jokn sherman's Unusual Ad-
mission to The Bar.

Gen. "Jack" Caseman, the veteran
railroad builder, who fought during
the civil war with Gen. Sherman, and
who was his intimate friend until the
latter's death, tells the story of John
Sherman's entrance into the practice
of the law, as related by his warrior
brother, says the Washington Star.
When John Sherman was quite
young he was taken into the law
Office of his brother, Charles, at
Mansfield, Ohio, to help about the
office and make himself generally
useful. One day when he was in
his 21st year he took Charles one
side and asked him quietly for a loan
of $50.
"What!" Charles exclaimed.
"What do you intend doing with so
much moneys"
81 am going to Columbus to be
admitted to the bar" John replied.
Charles was greatly surprised, as
John had never asked him for any
advice regarding the profession, nor
had he ever appeared TO be inter-
ested to any extent in the study of
law. "You can't be admitted to the
bar without some knowledge of the
law" said Charles.
John maintained that he knew
more about law than some others,
and assured his brother that he would
try and raise the money. somewhere.
"You know" he added, cit will be
necessary for me to have respectable
clothes and money enough to pay
my travelling and hotel expenses"
Charles finally ordered the clothes
and provided him with the necessary
money. AT Columbus, on the day
he became of age, John was admitted
to the bar. On his return he said to
Charles:
81 am going to Iowa to practice
law"
Charles demonstrated with him.
"There is room for both of us to
practice law here in Mansfield,"
Charles told him.
They then and there became part.
ners and continued to practice to-
gether until the formation of the
Republican party, when John was
sent from the Mansfield district as q
Representative to Congress.
Later he was elected to the United
States Senate and the balance of his
life became a very interesting and
important part of the history of the
country
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-11-04
wAIMALhA. soUTH oARoLINA. NOV, 4. 1905.
FIss conyIess Esays ios Atlanta Prison.

4 T. \
Five prisoners, sentenced at the
recent term of the United States
Court in Greenyille, were taken to
Atlanta Thursday. These unfortu-
nate human beings will be placed in
the Federal prison at the Georgia
metropolis to serve out the time
allotted to each by the court. Hart,
the young man who plead guilty to
having robbed the Spartanburg post
office, was handcnffed to Haywood,
or Arrowood, as the mans real name
seems to be, who was convicted of
raising the value of bank note.
Hart is intelligent looking and from
his frank, open countenance it is
hard to believe him guilty of the
crimewhich he himself acknowledges
that he committed. Not so with the
man linked to HarL's wrist. His face
was dull and expressionless. 1t is
such face that battles those who
attempt to discern the innermost
thoughts of the man. There was In
deed suggestion of sadness in the
eyes, melancholy cast about the
face.
Van Freeman, convicted of man
slaughter for taking the life of Hol-
land Durham, at distillery iii the
upper part of the county, was the
next prisoner to enter the car. He
was well dressed and carried small
travelling satchel. Freeman is ma
tive of Pickens and comes from a
respectable family. He was not
handcuffed or chained in any way
and had all the appearance of a we'll
to-do traveller.
Two negro women from Union
county brought up the rear of the
little procession of criminals. They
were convicted of forging postal
money orders. They were ordinary
in appearance and seemed to possess
neither the intelligence nor boldness
commonly supposed to exist as an
attribute to such class of criminality.
To them imprisonment means little
more than deprivation of personal
liberty for time. There is no sting
of modification for such as these.
The little negro who stole the let
ters from the rural deliverer was
taken by deputy marshal to re-
formatory in Maryland. He showed
plainly what imprisonment meant to
him. His ebony face was the picture
Of hopeless despair, and the sting of
loneliness and longing for home and
familiar faces was already bringing
tears to his eyes, that streaming
down mingled with CRIME and dirt
on his face. If there is anything in
reformat es he gives promise o.
being be ooy at the end of hit
three years of confinement.-Green-
vile News.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-11-04
Summons for Relief.
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
COUNTY OF OCoNEE.

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, |
COUNTY OF OCoNEE.
In the Court of Common Pleas.
Maggie Brown, Plaintiff,
against
Thomas Bleckley, Arie Bleckley, Jaspar
Bleckley, Sam Bleckley, Joe Bleckley.
Houk and John Neville, Defendants
Summons for elief-(Complaint not
Served,)
To the above named Defendants in this
action;
VOU are hereby summoned and re-
III auired to answer the complaint In
this action, which is filed in the office
of the Clerk of the Court of Common
Pleas for the said county, and to serve a
copy of yonr answer to the said COM
Spartanburg, s. c., within twenty
days after The service hereof, exclusive
of the day Of such service; and II you
fail to answer the complaint within the
time aforesaid, the Plaintiff in this action
will apply to the Court for the relief
demanded in the complaint.
STANYARNE WILSON,
Plaintiffs Attorney.
Walhalla, 8. c., October goth, 1908.
H.. 8. G. II. ID. BURNS, @. @. p.
The Defendant, Gussie Bowers, will
take notice that unless within twenty
days after service hereof application sis
made for appointment of guardian ad
litem for her herein, such application
will, In her behalf, be made by plaintiff
STANYARNE WILSON,
Plaintiffs Attorney.
October 81, 1908. 42-17
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-11-04
BsaseaoAM ASSOCIATIONS.
The Body Inausura,es New missionary Work
Whereby Weak Churches will be Benefted.

AT the last meeting of the Beaver
dam Association a resolution was
passed ordering meeting to be held
at Conneross church in September,
composed of two delegates from each
church, to consider the advisability
of continuing the work of mis-
sionary in the association.
AT this meeting the condition of
the field was fully discussed, and the
sentiment prevailed that it was not
best to continue the work as last
year, putting missionary to work
over the whole association, but that
more practical good would result
from helping the weaker churches
support such pastors as would do
effectual missionary work in these
churches, and 80 appoint them mis-
sionaries in their respective fields.
Reasons for this were fully discussed
and the meeting adjourned to meet
at Westminster on Friday before the
third Sunday in October, at which
time the following resolutions were
adopted:
Resolved 1. That it is thessense of
this body that our State mission
work be continued and enlarged if
possible.
2. That our executive committee
be authorized to advise the appropri-
alton of the funds received from the
churches in supplementing pastors
salaries where needed and in organ
izing new churches where advisable.
BY this method it was hoped to
stimulate these needy churches to
the support of live, energetic pastors,
full of the spirit of missions and of
progress, by cooperating with the
State board through the executive
committee.
We hope all the churches and pas
tors will heartily cooperate with
this plan, and 80 help in making the
work success. Churches needing
this help will make application to
executive committee through f. M
Cary, chairman, Seneca, S. 9.
J. X. n Moore; Mo@e;;.o Committee.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-11-04
wv. G. Il. U.s.
A Plea to Peace.
rBv Ella Wheeler Wilcox.l


When mighty issues loom before us, all
The petty great men of the day seem small.
Like pigmies standing In a blaze of light
Before some grim, majeeic mountain height.
War with Its bloody and impartial hand
Reveals the hidden weakness Of o land
Uncrowns the heroes trusting Peace has made
OF men whose honor is thing of trade,
And turns the search-lght full on many aplace
Where proud conventions long have masked
disgrace.
Demand great men, and great men shall arise
To do thy bidding. Even as warriors come,
Swift at the call of bugle and of drum,
80 at the voice of Peace, imperative
AS bugle's call, shall heroes spring to live
For country and for thee. In every land,
Demand the best, oh Peace, and teach thy sons
They need not rush in front of death-ch charged
guns,
With murder in their hearts, to prove their
worth.
The grandest heroes who have graced the earth
Were love-flled souls, who did not seek the
fray,
But chose the safe, hard, high and lonely way
OF selfess labor for a suffering world.
Beneath our glorious flag, again unfurled
In victory, such heroes wait to be
Called into bloodless action, Peace, by thee.
Be thou insistent in thy stern demand,
And wise, great men shall rise up in the land.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-11-04
A Better Gift Than a Sword.

One of the pleasing features at
West Point Military Academy is the
annual presentation of Bibles to the
graduating class. This year sixty
six members chose the King James
version, while the others preferred
the revised version. 1t is one of the
most solemn and impressive hours in
the entire school year at the academy,
when those young men who have
been educated at the expense Of the
government to become officers in the
army file into the chapel to go forth
in possession of the inspired Word
furnished by the Christian people of
America. It's said that the unwritten
code for conduct among the cadets
requires each man to keep and treas
ure the gift reverently, and with that
true Difference without which no SOL
dier can ever become a hero.
In presenting the Bibles this year
the Rev. John Fox made short
address, which was listened to atten-
lively by all the cadets. His words
about the Good Book are we'll worth
the sttention of other young men al
well as our coming army officers.
He said
"What better gift can man give to
his fellows? 1t has stood the test OF
time, has nourished and nodded man.
hood through many centuries, and il
the choicest residuum of all literature
ancient and modern. Mr.. Choato,
our ambassador to England, calls il
'the only book for thinking readers
scholars and speakers To the
trained soldier the Bible is full o
military suggestions. Moses PENN
sular campaign around Sinai, joshua
tactics in the conquest of Canaan
and David's splendid chivalry are no
out of date. And the New Testa
ment uses military analogies to en-
force spiritual truth. The day mus
come when men will beat their sword
into plowshares and turn miitar,
academies into agricultural colleges
But before that we must learn tn
epirit of high and noble manlinesf
No book teaches so well as this tn
highest call of conduct becoming al
officer and gentleman. Youni
lPeople's Weekly.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-11-04
HOw's This Z

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward
for any case of catarrh that cannot be
cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
F. j. Cheney 6 Co., Props, Toledo, O..
We, the undersign I'd, have known r.
j. Cheney for the last Is years and be-
lieve him perfectly honorable IN all busi-
ness transactions and financially able to
carry out any obligations made by their
firm.
West 6 Truax, Wholesale Druggists,
Toledo, O.
Walding, Kinnan g. Marvin, Whole
sale Druggists, Toledo, o.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken inter
75c. per bottle. Sold by all druggists.
Testimonials free.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-11-04
TiEKsySNs CURE FOR,
81 CURES WHERE All HSE Halls. FEN
n Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use
ri In time. Sold By dlugglats, ~
= SSASJERsSg ION u

A young lady who lives on Polk
street was told If she walked down
stairs backward, ate four sour apples
and quart of hickory nuts and then
swallowed glass of water without
taking breath, she would dream of
her future husband. She tried the
prescription on Thursday night, but
was not gratified with her success.
AS far as producing dreams it was
all right, but she declares that she
would not marry the man she saw in
her visions if he wore coronet and
had more money than a Vanderbilt.
Mail and Breeze.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-11-04
Miss WiIIard's Notices.

After one of the great National
w. @. II. U. convent ons the delegates
went to visit Nj iss Wizards home in
Evanston, Ill. Many of the women
who had this privilege we're deeply
impressed with the notices fastened
to the walls of Miss Wizards study
and sleeping room.
In the "Den" was this motto,
which explains, in some degree, why
Miss Willard accomplished 80 much
work: "For who knows most, him
loss of time most grieves."
In the sleeping room, inscribed on
small white banner, suspended
from the head of the bed by a silken
cord, was this:
"Sleep sweetly in this quite room,
Oh, thou, whoe'er thou art:
And let no mourntul yesterdays
Disturb thy quiet heart.
Nor let tomorrow scare thy rest
With dreams of coming ill:
Thy Maker 10 thy changeless Friend
His love surrounds thee still.
Forget thyself and all the world:
Put out each glaring light;
The stars are watching overhead,
Sleep sweetly, then : Goodnight"
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-11-04

urine scalds the flesh or II, when the child
reaches an age when II should be able to
control the passage, II Is yet afflicted with
bed-wetting, depend upon It. The cause of
the difficulty Is kidney trouble, and the first
step should be towards the treatment of
these important organs. This unpleasant
trouble Is due to diseased condition of the
Kidneys and bladder and not to a habit as
most people suppose.
Womon as we'll as men are made mis-
efable with kidney and bladder trouble.
and both need the same great remedy.
Tic mild and the immediate effec, OF
Swamp-Root is soon realized. II Is sold
by druggists, In fifty EskTr
cent and one dollar dgsgIIgSJkIk $$s:ss
sizes. You may have v
sample bottle by mail I.ssl,.E ~
free, also pamphlet tell gomo Of swamp Root.
Ing all about 1t, including many OF the
thousands Of testimonial letters received
from sufferers cured. In writing DR.. KilYner
& Co.. BiEghamton, NJ T., be sure and
mention this paper.
Don't make any mistake but remem.
ber the name-Swamp.R Root~-Dr. Xii.
mers Swamp Root, and the address,
Binghantop, n, Y.--on every bottle.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-11-04
VALUABLE LAND FOR SALE.

TIME UNDERSIGNED is authorized to
IL make sale OF the Connors land, near
Walhalla, s. c., to wit: One tract or lot
of ten acres, fronting west on the public
road from Walhalla out by Col. r. A.
Thompson's to Oconee Station; adjoins
VIM. f. Erwin, Mrs. Henry Biemann and
others. Also one tract of 1877 acres on
Cane Creek; adjoins Vim. f. Erwin, w.
A. Strother, j. w. Holleman and Others
Price and terms reasonable.
S. p. DENDY, Attorney,
1852 Walhalla, s. G.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-11-04
Notice to Trespassers.

NOTICE is hereby given to all persons
IN not to trespass on any of our lands
in any way whatsoever-by hunting,
fishing, digging roots. cutting timber,
setting out fire, hauling pine, or tres
passing in any manner whatsoever. Par
ties entering said lands after publication
of this notice will be dealt with to the
fullest extend of the law.
w. A Bowen, Ernest f. Cochran,
w. III. Phillips, l.. o. Phillips,
Henry Walker, Miss Alice Phillips,
(Mrs.) Grace G. Cochran.
October 21, 1908. 42.45
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-11-04
Does Education Pay1

Some years ago my father, a
natural genius in some respects, but
uneducated, was day laborer in a
factory located in a Northern State.
Four sons were born and reared in
the humble home of that uneducated,
unframed day laborer. They all
learned their fathers trade.
was the Oldest son and / used
every opportunity to get little edu-
cation, attending the winter school,
as did all my other brothers. All of
US grew to manhood and all learned
our fathers trade, as i said above.
still continued my education largely
by home reading. But for several
years l worked at my trade only a
few months of the year and with the
money | earned attended school. My
two brothers next of age seemed not
to care for an education, nes ected
the common school, and too the
first opportunity to leave it forever.
succeeded in encouraging my
youngest brother to remain in the
common school until he completed
its course of study. In addition to
this common school training this
brother secured term or two OF
normal school training.
My education soon enabled me to
secure foreman's position in the
factory, but my two brothers, natu.
rally as gifted as myself, had to re.
main laborers because they had not
enough education TO take higher po.
sitions. From foreman's place
rose to be manager of the factory.
now manage number of factories
and am director in several large
corporations. My youngest brother
whom I keptin school is one of M,
foremen and is earning good salary
My other two brothers now work fol-
me. They are still day laborers
They cannot get higher because they
have no education. During the past
ten years ] could have put both o.
them in positions paying from
$1,000 to $4,000 per year, if they had
had even thorough elementary
school education.
| TThe editor by request withholda
the name of the author of the above
biography. Allthe statements, how
ever, are literally true aud speak
their impressive lesson. II may ado
something to this story to know that
it's author and all concerned now
live in the South.--Editor Southern
! Education.]
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-11-04
Death Of Mrs. L. Q. C. Lamar.

Macon, Ga, October 27.-Mrs. l..
Q. @. Lamar, wife of the former
justice of the United States Supreme
Court, died tonight at her resi6 once
in this city. Mrs. Lamar was formerly
Miss Henrietta Dean, daughter of
James Dean. She later married Col.
Z. q. @. Lamar. Mrs. Lamar was
reared in Vineville, suburb of
Macon. Her health has been failing
for some time.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-11-04
NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT

NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT
in AND DISCHARGE. = Notice is
hey given that the undersigned will
make application to d. A. Smith, Esq,
Judge of Probate for Ooonee county,
in the State of South Carolina, on
TUESDAY. the 10th day of November,
1908, at 10 O'Clock in the forenoon,
or as soon thereafter as said appli-
final settlement of the estate of John
II. nj. Brucke, minor, and obtain final
discharge as Guardian of said estate.
WIN. j. STRIBLING,
Guardian of the Estate of John r. NJ.
Brucke, minor.
October Z, 1903. 40-44
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-11-04
He Could HardIy Gef lin.

p. H. Duffy, of Ashley, ILL.,, writes:
"This is to certify that have taken two
bottles of Foley's Kidney Cure and ii
has helped me more than any other medi-
cine. tried many advertised remedies,
but none Of them gave me any relief. My
druggist recommended Foley's Kidney
Cure and it has cured me. Before com
mencng it's use was in such shape
that could hardly get up when once
down." Sold by j. w. Bell, Walhslla.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-11-04
LAWYER VINO WAS 4 TERROR.
Strange Character Of John Taylor, Of the
Early Arkansas Bar.

At the last meeting of the Arkan-
sas Bar Association, says Law Notes,
the President, George b. Rose, de-
liyered an interesting address on
"The Bar of Early Arkansas" in
which ne set himself the task Of res
cuing from oblivion some memories
of the early leaders of the bar and
rcconstructing the conditions under
which they worked. Among them
is presented the curious figure of
John Taylor, whose picturesque and
terrible character might we'll furnish
70 hint for Sir Waiter Scott, if we
were fortunate enough to possess a
successor to the great novelist:
.John Taylor was only a sojourner
in Arkansas from 1887 to 1874, but
he was so remarkable a man that he
should not be forgotten. = y
Everybody who heard him agreed
that in capacity for invective, for
whitening, clustering, envenomed
eloquence he excelled any human be-
ing that ever spoke, and that he
seemed possessed of a demoniac
power. He was tall, lank, red
haired man, repulsively ugly, with
little green eyes that glistened like
those of a snake, and with fashion
of licking out his tongue that was
strangely serpentine. He talked to
no one save on business.
"When he settled in Little Rock,
whittier he had come from Alabama
after he had been defeated in his
candidacy for the United States
Senate, all the bar called on him, but
he received them with repelling
coldness and returned no visits. He
had wife, but nobody ever saw her
wonderful thing considering the
small size of Little Rock at the time.
During the seven years of his So
journ he never crossed any mans
threshold and no man crossed his.
In riding the circuit he always rode
alone, permitting no companionship,
and while in attendance upon Court
he would, if the weather permitted,
live in tent pitched in the neigh
boring wood, where he might not
have to look on the hated face of his
fellowman. Yet this modern Timon,
a thousand times more embittered
and malignant than he of Athens
was devout Christian, assiduous in
his attendance at church, and always
speaking with intense religious con.
viction. But his strange, invisible
wife did not appear even on the Sab
bath. AS lawyer he was a terror
His knowledge of law was prodigious
and his memory of authorities almost
superhuman. He spared no one anG
feared no one but while he never
suggested resort 10 personal vlo'
lence, he always carried two pistols
in the pockets of his long black coat
in readiness to repel any attack
n In 1855 he appeared one
day in our Supreme Court, mucl
aged, but still erect, proud, scornfu
and malignant, and on looking around
on such of his old opponents as sur
vived, departed without speaking t,
any one, and went forth upon hi
lonely way, whittier no man knew
There is no cough medicine so popula
as Foley's Honey and Tar. 1t contain
no opiates or poisois and never fails t,
cure. Sold by j, W. Bell Walhalla
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-11-04
A Pollceman,s Testimony.

j. N. Patterson, night policeman OF
Nashua, Iowa, writes: Last winter
had bad cold on my lungs and tried at
least half dozen advertised cough medi-
cines and had treatment from two physi-
clans without getting any benefit. A
Tar and two-thirds of bottle, cured me.
consider it the greatest cough and lung
medicine in the world" Sold by j. w.
Bell, Walhalla,