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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1904-10-23

ga light purse Is a heavy curse's
Sickness makes light purse.
The LIVER is the seat Of nine
fenthS of all disease.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1904-10-23

500 Dozen pure white Pearl But
tons. in three of the most popular
sizes, the grade that sells in every
good store for sc dozen, our price in
this sale only 2Iac per dozen.
100 good quality Smyrna Rugs,
size 36x72 inches, great variety of
pretty patterns. Sold by some stores
for $3.50. Our price So.
Five hundred Pillow Cases, full
regular size, regular price l5c. Our
price | &c each.
2OOready- made Sheets, full regu
lar size, The sheetiug alone used in
these sheets would sell for 03C. To-
day our price for the sheets made ACC
One lot of the heaviest Sheeting.
40 inches wide. the regular price Ioc
our price in this sale at 712C per yd
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1904-10-23

At =OC worth soc, SO inch La
A. ON~ dies Cloth in black and
all the leading shades, These goods
would sell readily at SOC making
them worth just half more than our
price-5Oc yard,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1904-10-23

so inch water proof Granite,
BLACK and cOIors; regularly sold at
SI.25, at 0Sc per yard.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-02-03
An Energetic Woman.

The following is from last weeks Alb
beville Medium: Mrs. John Clinkscales
was in the city last Friday with another
lot of her splendid butter which is al.
ways sought after by our people because
it is among the best ever brought to the
city. Mrs. Clinkscales lives in peace,
plenty and comfort in a happy home,
near Monterey. She looks after every
thing about the home. She milks nine
COWS twice every day and makes ten
pounds of butter a day Last year in
tho city of Abbeville she sold more than
$3.50 worth Of butter and about $50 worth
near home.
She has $50 beautiful Plymouth Rock
hons and every year raises 800 or 90C
chickens. AT Christmas she sold 81
dozen eggs at 35 and 40 cents a dozen.
Before tho holidays Mrs. Clinkscales
killed four hogs and from them made 81
gallons of lard. She has on hand u
beautiful hogs of the Essex breed.
AT the home place she looks after
everything, and her husband, who is q
fine farmer, works the Wardlaw place
that belongs to him. He mado last year
5000 bushels of corn and peas enough to
plant Abbeville county.
There is not more energetic woman
in our county. She has good Judgment
and Is prosperous and happy,
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-02-03
Troubles OF the Alliance Exchange.

Columh hia State: Petition has Lacn
filed with the United States District
Court, Judge Brawley presiding, to de-
clare as bankrupt the Farmers and Me-
chanics' Mercantile and Manufacturing
20. of this city. The petition is submit
ted by numerous attorneys of this city.
who represent out of town creditors of
the firm, to the extent of about ST 900.
1t is claimed that many of these 40
cunts have been outstanding for months 9
and that the concern has not paid them,
but has extended payment to the banks.
which hold a large amount of paper
from the company. 1t is said that
about $4,000 will cover the liabilities.
while the assets approximate $40, 200.
whether or not the attorneys for the
company will resist the petition is not
known THE matter should be argued
within twenty days at the utmost" said
one OF the gentlemen connected with
the case last evening. The company
was organized about the middle of the
last decade by a number of South Caro-.
lin'ans, some of whom were also inter
ested in the now defunct Farmers AL.
lance Exchange, which, however, was
entirely independent of the Farmers
and Mechanics Mercantile and Mapufac-
turing Company except In that rounda-
bout fashion, though the latter has often
been called the "Alliance Storep
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-02-03
Rev. J. D. Frierson Exonerated.

The Spartanburg Herald says:
The committee on investigation of
the charges against Rev. J. d.
FrlersOn, pastor of the Methodist
church at Pacolet, Friday afternoon
reached the decision that there WIS
NJ ground for Mr.. Frierson's being
tried before the District Conference.
The committee retired on Thursday
at twelve O'Clock and the decision.
was reached late Friday Afternoon.
This committee, consisting of Rev.
N. X. Melton, chairman, Rev. j. w.
Shell, pastor of Bethel and Glendale
churches, and Rev. b. M. Robertson,
pastor of Cherokee circuit, acted in
capacity similar to that of grand Jury
in the civil court--that is they con
sidcred the charges and the testimony
presented to sustain the charges.
They decided, as stated above, that
trial of Mr.. Frierson was not neces-
sary. Mr.. Frierson is now at Paco-
let, he having been given no work
by the recent conference on account
of the charges against him. The
charges were of slander and falsehood
of such nature as is of nc public in
terest.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-02-03
Thirty Injured in Street Car Collision.

More than thirty persons were in
jured, some of them fatally, in ST..
Louis last Wednesday, when two
north bound street cars collided.
The cars were going in the same
direction, but dense fog prevented
the motormen seeing each others
cars. The front car was stationary,
owing to quarrel with passenger
over the fare.
The second car crashed its way
through the rear of the front car
until it reached almost the middle
of it. The dozen or more passengers
on the rear platform of the front car
were jammed together under the
rear car. The other car was crushed
and the passengers inside were
thrown about on the floor and under
wrecked seats, while showers of
broken glass fell upon them. Jurlgin
the motorman, caught the full force
of the collision. He was cut and
crushed and his back broken He
will die. A panic ensucd on both
cara and in the fight for escape chill
dren and women were trampled on
and the weaker ones were beaten
against the wreckage by the stronger.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-02-03
NEW sERrns. NO. soS. vonUmEh NO 5.
10 Mako Sahara a Sea.

French engineers have declared il
is perfectly feasible to convert the
desert of Sahara into a vast lake,
thus opening to commerce great
regions of the interior of Africa,
which can now only be reached by
long, tedious and dangerous caravan
journeys. They say that a large
po. tion of the desert lies below the
level of the Atlantic, and that by
digging canal to let in the waters
of the ocean the great change could
be effected easily and at cost which
would be small compared to the
benefits which would accrue.
If the whole desert lay below the
level of the Atlantic, the flooding Of
it would create sea more than four
times as big as the Mediterranean
but as the Sahara is composed OF
elevated plateaus, mountain ranges
and dcpressions, only part would
be covered with water when the
waves of the ocean were let in, and
the new sea thus formed would be an
irregular body of water, probably Of
about the same size as the Mediter-
ranean. Great commercial cities
would at once spring up on it's
shores and trade and civilization
strike at once to the heart of Africa.
London Answers.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-02-03
Inveuts aS Cotton Picker.

A Memphis man, who has for
some years been at work on pneu-
matic cotton picker, has been granted
patents on several improvements on
his machine.
The invention of a machine that
will pick cotton--one that can do the
work which negroes are called upon
TO do--has been the goal of many
an inventor for nearly half century.
Many thousands of dollars have
been spent in trying to give to the
cotton States picker that would
pick. This machine was tried last
season, minus several of the improve
ments for which the inventor has
just been granted patent, and did
good work. The picker tried dur
ing the present season had most of
these improvements and did work
highly satisfactory to the inventor
and the capitalists who are backing
him.
The machine is called pneumatic
cotton picker. 1t is mounted OH a
high arched frame, something like a
wagon. This wagon covers one
row. Hose, attached to different
parts of the machine, allow the men
operating it to pick two rows on
each side of the machine, which,
with the row under the picker ma
chinery, give total of five rows
that can be picked at one trip.
The speed with which the cotton
can be gathered. depends on the skill
Of the men who have the handling
of the hose. There are four lines of
this hose directly connected with a
26-inch blower, which pulls the cot
ton from the bolls through the
blower and dumps Into a large bag
attached to the bed of the machine.
Power to run the blower is obtained
from a six horse power gasoline en-
gine at the front of the picker frame.
When the end of q set of rows is
reached all that is necessary is for
the driver of the two mules to turn
around and go back over another set
Of rows.
One of the operators or the man
who drives the team is supposed to
watch the bag, and when it is full
unhook it and attach another.
These bags, owing to the force with
which the cotton is sent into them
by the powerful blower, are packed
tighter than they can be "tramped"
by the old.time method.
Five men are required to operate
the PICKER. 1t is declared to have a
capacity of from 1000 to 5000
pounds Of cotton day Of ten hours,
more than four times the amount
that can be picked by hand.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-02-03

Among the papers of prominent
citizen recently deceased there was
found an itemized bill for supper
served on notable occasion in a
Massachusetts, village in the year
1895. The provision of food was
lavish, and the turkey and roast pig
were washed down with twenty bot
Ties OF wine, a quart of brandy, four
bowls of "sling," eighteen large
glasses of punch and twenty-four
glasses OF bitters. Twenty three
clergymen drank the liquor, and the
supper followed asminster's ordina-
ton. 1t is well to recall such things
in days of encouragement, and to
measure social progress by the fact
that drinking men no longer find
countenance in the example of moral
leaders, Youths Companion.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-02-03
A Faithful! Dog.

Here is a pathetic story told to my
informant, the venerable Judge N. A.
Patterson, by his father, as an iuci-
dent of which be knew, says writer
in the Springfield Republican:
In the early days of North Caro-
lima man rode long distance on
horseback to collect debt of seve-
raj hundred dollars. He took with
him for company and as a protection
against robbers, dog to which he
had long felt much attached. He
collected the money, all in silver dol
lars. These he tied up in a strong
sack, lashed it to the saddle behind
him and started for home.
When they had travelled about
half of the homeward journey the
dog manifested a great deal of un-
easiness, to which he gave express
sion by nervous barking and frequent
dives at the horses forelegs. The
man was sorely puzzled, and watched
the dog for some time to see if he
could find an explanation of it's
strange conduct. His reluctant con-
clusion was that it had been bitten
by mad dog and was the victim of
hydrophobia. Aud 80 to save his
horse and to put the poor dog out of
the misery he supposed it was suf-
fering, he drew pistol and shot it..
Not wishing to see it die, he applied
the spurs to his horse and rode rapidly
for some distance. The thought
came to him, 81 would rather have
lost the money than to have been
forced to kill that good dog"
Thus reminded of the treasure, he
put his hand around behind the sad
de, to see if the bag was safe, but it
was not there. He turned and rapidly
rode back. When he reached the
point where the dog first commenced
to bark and plunge at the horses
legs he found the bag of coin, and
the poor victim of his cruel mistake
dying there, with his paws resting
patiently on either side of his mas
ter's treasure. He had tried so hard
to make the master understand, but
had failed, and paid his life as the
price of his fidelity.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-02-03
wAlHALhA. sorTn oAKon,sA. FnB. 3. ,oo4
ROOSEVELT GIVES UP FIGHT.
Negro Woman No Longer Posimlsiress D
lndIanola, Mississippi.

Washington, January 29.--The
white peot g of lndiarola, Miss, won
out in their fight against negro
postmaster in that town, as the
President has appointed VIM. D..
Martin, white man, as postmaster
to succeed Minnie Cox, the negro
woman who was asked by the white
people to resign and who refused to
do 80. The alleged threats against
her remaining as postmistress caused
the President, more than 9 year ago,
to order the post Office a. lndianola
closed. And il has remained closed
ever since, although the Cox woman
has continued to be postmistress,
while the people of the town re-
ceived their mail at Greenvillp, Miss,
and sent mail carrier, privately
employed by them, to that town for
mail.
The official statement given out
at the White House is that the Cox
woman had refused the re-appoint-
ment as postmistress, but had rec
commended VIM. B. Martin, one of
her bondsmen, as successor. Her
recommendation was agreed TO by
the President and Martin was nomi-
mated. When he is confirmed the
Office will again be opened. Martin
is understood to be Democratic, al
though he was good friend to the
Cox woman when she was in trouble.
This solution of the matter will be
considered a great victory for the
white people of Indianola.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-02-03
The "Dsath plcs. ("

The German Emperor has pre-
sehted to the Hohenzollern museum
the "death dice" with which one Of
his ancestors decided difficult case
in the seventeenth century. This is
their history, told by the Taller:
A young girl had been murdered.
Suspicion fell upon two soldiers,
Ralph and Alfred, who were suitors
for her hand. Both the accused men
denied their guilt, and even torture
failed to extract a confession from
either of them.
Then Elector Frederick William
decided to cut the knot by means of
the dice.box. The two soldiers
should throw for their lives, and the
loser should be executed as the MUIR
derer. The event was celebrated
with great pomp and solemnity.
Ralph had the first chance and
threw skies, the highest possible
huthoer. Inc Qlce-b0x was then
given to Alfred. He fell on his
knees, and prayed aloud:
almighty God, Thou knowest I
am innocent. Protect me, i beseeoh
Thee"
Then he rose to his feet, and threw
the dice with such force that one of
them bro''e. The whole one showed
six, the broken one also gave six on
the larger portion, and the fragment
split off showed one. This was q
total of thirteen, one beyond Ralph's
throw. The audience held it's breath
in amazement.
"God has spoken!" cried the
prince.
Ralph, appalled, by what he re-
garded as sign from heaven, con-
fessed his guilt andswa sentenced to
death.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-02-03
Catarrh Cannot be Cured

with local applications, as they cannot
reach the seat of the disease. Catarrh is
a blood or constitutional disease, and in
order to cure it you must take internal
remedies. HalPs Catarrh Cure is taken
internally, and acts directly on the blood
and mucous surfaces. Halls Catarrh
Cure is not quack medicine. 1t was
prescribed by one of the best physicians
in this country for years, and is regu-
lar prescription. 1t is composed of the
best tonics known, combined with the
best blood purifiers, acting directly on
tho mucous surfaces. The perfect com
bination of the two ingredients is. what
produces such wonderful results in cur
ing catarrh. Send for testimonials, free
+. j. Cheney & Co., Props, Toledo, O..
Sold by druggists, price 75c.
Halls Family Pills are the best
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-02-03
Biennial Sessions.

Columbia, January 27.-In the
House to-day the joint resolution
providing for biennial sessions was
finally passed by barely the consti-
tutional number of votes required.
There was a hard fight and at one
time it looked very much as if the
resolution by which the question of
biennial sessions is to be submitted
to the people would be defeated
simply because of the absence of
members. 1t all turned out well in
the end, however, and the resolution,
which has already passed the Senate,
has now gone through its three sue
cessful readings in tha House by the
constitutional requirement of S3
votes, and the resolution has been
ordered to be ratified looking to BIZ
ennial sessions after 1906, and the
people will have the opportunity of
voting upon the question at the nsxt
general election.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-02-03
Big DistiIlery Seized.

Greenville, January 27.-The reg
i'tered distillery operated by T. F.
Trammell at Marydell, 16 miles from
Greenville, was seized to-day by
Deputy Collector Scruggs. In addi-
ton to the plant, which is valued at
about $4,000, there were 80 barrels,
or 1,S0O gallons of liquor, confiscated
and tomorrow will be shipped to
Columbia. Trammell is charged
with violating the internal revenue
law by removing liquor from the
cistcrn room.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-02-03
ElE3sx sIyESa9aRsYS 4
@ po., ggatS WHERE All Else FAILS, al
m nest Songh syrup; Tastes Good. Use kmA
skSGSKSKglNH IsESIS
Regret to Lose Mr. lee.

Our good blacksmith, j. w. Lee,
and his family moved back to Wal.
hala last week. The community
regretted to see them leave, but wish
them health and prosperity in their
old home among their kindred. Our
farmers would be glad for some
other sober, industrious and skilful
blacksmith to come In and occupy
the place left vacant by the removal
OF MIR. Lee. He could get plenty of
work to do from good paying Gus
toners, and would find this q desira-
BILE location.--Denver Cor. Anderson
lntelligencer.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-02-03
High Prices Certain.

O. p. Heath is one of the leading
cotton merchants of Charlotte. He
is interested in cotton mills and is in
touch with the cotton mill side of
the question as well as the side of
raw cotton. On being asked to
give an opinion of the cotton market,
Mr.. Heath said:
cit will be long time before we
see cheap cotton again. The factories
have taken thousands of families
from the cotton fields. Cotton
ought really to have gone up in price
before it did. The supply has been
scant for several years past, but the
trade didn't realize it. Here at
Charlotte we've built city of thirty
thousand people. Most of these
have come from farms. All over the
cotton States factories have been
established and cities and towns have
been built. Where did the people
come from to do this? Not from
the North or from Europe. They
came from the cotton farms. The
present price is reasonable in view
of these changes"
,, How long will the present stand
ard of prices last 2' was asked.
"Till conditions again change.
This will take time. l can see no
promise of low prices for five years
to come. The manufacturing popu-
lation are not going back to the farm.
Where are new farmers to come
from TO take the places of those who
have gone into manufacturing If
they come from the North it will
take time-years of time to come
and get settled. If they come from
Europe there must be time for them
to come in numbers, to learn the
language and learn how to cultivate
cotton. | have no doubt we will get
people in time and that we will have
far larger production than a,
present in time, but | speak of high
prices now and for five years to
come"
"But," asked the newspaper man,
"suppose we have a big crop per
acre next year. Wouldn't the South
supply the demand at lower prices Z"
"If we have big crop next year
prices will still be high by present
standards. We haven't the labor 10
gather a big crop per acre. Leave
out the boil weevil, which may be a
factor, the world is needing more
cotton all the time. Last year we
were short. This year we will be
short again. A big crop next year
wouldn't make up the losses. There
fore big crop will not put prices
down to anything like what we Or
dinarily consider low prices"
Assuming these views of Mr..
Heath to be correct, the situation
makes very promising outlook for
the farmer and for the merchant WI O
furnishes the farmer. And there's
the commercial fertilizer man whose
prospects would seem brighter than
for long time in the past.-Char-
lotte Chronicle.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-02-03
A Thousand Dollars Thrown Away.

W. w. Baker, of Plainview, Neb.,
writes: my wife had lung trouble for
over fifteen years. We tried numbers of
doctors and spent over a thousand dollars
without any relief. She was very low
and we lost all hope, when friend sug-
gested trying Foley's Honey and Tar,
which l did; and thanks be to tho great
remedy it saved her life. She is stronger
and enjoys better health than she has
o o, known in ten years. Weshall never
be without Foley's Honey and Tar aud
would ask those afflicted to try it," For
sale by j. w. Bell, ,Walhalla.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-02-03
Little River Doings.

Little River, January 28.-Mrs. J.
S. Holden has been on the sick list.
We are pleased to see her out again.
Mrs. Jennie Perry has been con-
fined to her room for the past two
weeks from another fall. She is suf-
fering severe pain. Mrs. Perry has
passed her 91st milepost. This is
more than the most of us will pass.
We hope for her speedy recovery.
Mrs. E. "A. Perry is suffering from
the grip, and is quite sick at this
writing. We hope she may soon
recover.
There is good deal of NOV
ing in this section. j. S. Can
trell and family have moved to their
farm on Keowee river. We will
miss Mr.. Cantrell very much in this
section, but wish him great success
in his new home.
j. B. Burgess, Jr., has bought the
Moody place in this section, and will
move to it in the near future. We'll
come to Mr.. Burgess in our commu-
nifty.
We are glad, too, to welcome w.
G. Whitmire and family back from
Tamassee to our section.
ID. Fl. Owens will move with his
family to some part Of North Caro-
lima. We wish him much success
wherever he goes.
Misses Roxie and Rode Alexan-
der have gone to the Walhalla Cot
ton Mills. Some of our boys whis-
per they are going, too, and that
pretty soon. Hold on this is leap
year, boys.
Stiles Alexander found his fine
hounds in foul play with A. C..
Smiths sheep. He did not ask for
help, bat made short work with his
gun.
w. Fl. Talley has just completed
his two-horse wagon and drives
around whistling like mocking bird.
J. q. Madden has his face all
wrcathed in smiles over their first
child, and it only weighed 124
pounds.
The brethren of Little River
church have been doing some effec-
tive work on the seats in the church,
put in stove, hung the doors and
sash and built a nice stand. This
sp' AXIS well for the good people.
Rev. G. l.. Craig, of Walballa, is
onr preacher for this year. He is a
good worker for the Master.
Supervisor McAlister and Com
missioner Phillips passed through
this section last week looking after
the roads aud bridges. They have
had double work to do in these
parts owing to the June freshet.
They ave done better than we
thought they could at the outset and
deserve a great deal'of praise.
Grnmbler.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-02-03
Georgia Seed Sent to Texas.

Athens, Ca, January 90 Yesterday
six car loads of seed for the cotton sec :
tion of Texas that was devastated by the
boil weevil last year were shipped from
Athens by buyers at this point This
was simply one of the numerous ship
monts that have been made recently and
that will continue to be made until
enough seed from Georgia and few
other States in this latitude are shipped
to give the farmers enough to plant their
next crop Of cotton.