Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-07-27
THE NEWS IN Brief FORM.
Items OF News OF the Past Week Gathered
from Various Sources.

The New York World says that
Hearst spent $1,400,000 in his Presi,
dental campaign. Now if he will
only spend that much to elect Parker
all will be forgiven.
Judge Parker passes the contribu-
tion plate in church every Sunday
lie will soon be able to watch the
managers of the campaign pass the
contribution plate every day in the
week.-Wa Washington Post.
The old Charleston Hotel was sold
on July 20, with fixtures included,
under the order Of the Court, for the
sum of $4,000, the purchaser being
Samuel Wilson. Mr.. Wilson pur.
chased the place for a syndicate
composed of p. III. Gadsden and a
few others. The bids were started
at the very low price of $4,000 and
run. up to the final sum, which is
much short of what the property
ought to have brought on the block.
William G. Pettifore, of Trenton,
n. j., has just lost by death the
the twenty sixth child Of his family
of twenty-seven boys and girls.
Mozell, the dead boy, was three
years old. The twenty seventh child
was born a year ago. Pcttifore, the
father, was born slave tifty-two
years ago on the plantation of Col.
Edward Iennison, of North Caro-
lima. He came north after the war
and later located in Trenton. lie
has been married twice.
Many lawyers of long experience
at the bar hold that the natural and
proper remedy for the congested con-
dition Of dockets in this State lies
not so much in the need of more
judges as in the lack of concentration
of energy and conservation of time
in the court room that there would
be no more room for complaint if the
judges were vested with the author
lty to limit the time of trials accord
ing to their Importance and thus
compel the lawyers to confine them
selves to the real issues of the case
The State.
Interesting archaeological discov-
cries have been made by NM. De
Kerviler and LIE Pontois during the
excavation of an ancient tumulus on
the estate attached to the chateau of
Kerusseaux en- Oueven, near Lorient.
The psychologists found the extremi-
ties of two galleries, formed of par
allel megaliths six feet high, and two
vaults which apparently constituted
the metropolis of an ancient tribe,
among whom incineration and inhu
nation were practiced concurrently
In addition to a pile of human re.
mains there were found pogniards
and knives in silex, axes in fibrolite,
and some fine specimens of spherical
pottery. M. De Eervicr estimates
the date nf the tumulus 1000 years
B. G..
Here is Number One: "Four hours
after the nomination of Judge
Parker, Mrs. August Harms, of Shell
byville, Ind, gave birth to a promis-
ing boy and named him Parker.'
This is the first, but there will be
others. Every man who has been
elected to the Presidency of the
great nation has had his name car
ried to fame by fond parents who
give most practical evidence of their
admiration by naming sons after him
There will be Alton B. Parker
Smiths and Alton B. Parker Joneses
galore after the votes are counted in
November. But of all the Alton b
Parkers, this little Harms youngs,er
must be accorded first place. He
was Johnny On-The- Spot.-Atlanta
Constitution.
1t IL not a pleasant thought that
the brilliant white note paper which
your hand rests upon may have in il
the fibers from the filthy garment oi
some Egyptian fellah after it has
passed through all the stages of decay
until it is saved by a rag picker from
the gutter of an Egyptian town and
yet it is a fact that hundreds OF tons
OF Egyptian rags are exported ever,
year into America to supply oui
paper mills. At Mannheim, on the
Rhine, the American importers have
their rag-picking houses where tho
rags are collected from all over
Europe, the disease infected Levanl
not excepted, and where women and
children, too poor to earn a better
living, work day after day, with wet
sponges tied over their mouths, sort
ing these filthy scraps for shipment
to New York. Our best papers arc
made of these rags and our common
ones OF wood pulp, which is obtained
by grinding and macerating huge
blocks from some of our soft. wooded
forest trees.--David G. Fairchild in
the National Geographic Magazine