Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-06-22


secret she wants 10 tell.
It's the love Of She other fellow
for your money that is the root Of
all evil.
Fifty thousand lives are lost in
this country from typhoid fever
yesrly.
One trouble with people who have
excuses is that they can't always
think of them.
1t was probably some married man
who first discovered that troubles
never come singly.
Only after repeated failures to
catch on does girl announce her
decision never to marry.
As the wise man knows he ia n
fool he is miserable; the fool imag-
ines he is wise and is happy.
A man thinks he knows a woman
when he asks her to become his wife,
but after marriage he discovers his
mistake.
Believe that you can do your
work better than anyone else, aud
you will put forth greater effort to
accomplish that end.
1t is said that John ID. Rockefeller
has discovered that coal oil will kill
boil weevils. John always has an
eye to business!
A loggerhead turtle, caught by a
negro in Barber creek, near Watkins.
vile, Ca, was found to contain 1926
eggs, one full grown, the size of "a
marble, and the others ranging from
the size of a shot up to the full de-
veloped egg.
No farmer can be successful with
out system-and lots of it. Milking
should be done at regular hours, by
the same person, in the same way.
Feeding and watering must be con-
Quoted Systematically. Clean stables,
clean hands, clean utensils, and clean
clothes are absolutely essential.
The value of "succulent food" can
not be over estimated on a dairy
farm. Some otherwise careful farm
ers make the mistake of thinking
that "anything nutritious and filling
will do for cows" Such course
may do fairly we'll for the COWS, but
it won't do best for the milk pail or
the butter profits. Roots, ensilage,
pumpkins-succulept food of many
kinds-are appetizers that bring
extra dairy dollars.
Work horses need bath every I'd
hours or oftener. Don't laugh. We
mean it. But the s'bath" needn't be
given with soap and water in tub
it can be administered with a curry.
comb and brush in the barn. If YOU
allow the minute pores of a horses
skin to get clogged with dried per-
spiration, both the skin and the gene
raj system of the animal become dis
eased.
Telephones are revolutionizing life
on the farm. The women folks are
no longer afraid to le left alone
the little box hanging on the
sitting room wall is always ready to
summon company" or help. And
the farmer does not now have to
"guess" at his selling or his buying
operations. All he has to do to- day
is to call up the outside world, "feel
of the market" and act accordingly.
There is no other friendship so
helpful as the friendship of Jesus,
for He gives us daily strength for
daily needs; help for the special
emergencies which come into our
lives help at all times and under
all circumstances, and, best of all,
help, through His redeeming grace,
so that we may safely pass through
the "vaIley of the shadow of death"
into the light of His glorious pres
ence forever.
Angora goats would be of great
help to many farms. In what way I?
TO clean up the land, first; to ferti-
lize the land and to grow, inciden-
tally, and thirdly, a nice crop of
"mohair" for profit. These goats
will eat or destroy all the under
brush, weeds and undesirable growth
on fields that need such attention,
and, as their fleece grows while they
work, they are a double. purpose
machine of great utility.
A dispatch from Cairo, Egypt,
says great swarms of locusts have
almost destroyed all the young cot
ton and other crops in Egypt this
year, and the situation is 80 serious
that the government has called out
the Carvee to organize for the de-
struction of the pest, if necessary,
by forced labor. The locusts are
descending upon the country in solid
masses two or three feet deep and
several miles long, and they do not
leave green leaf wherever they go.
A girl residing in Lake Michi-
gan town has recovered $500 dam
ages from a steamboat company for
naming a boat after her without her
permission. An exchange says she
took offense at marine item stating
that "Kitty Marshal, having been
thoroughly SCI abbed, painted, refitted
with figure-head and new boilers,
will hereafter serve as mail carrier,
and poke her pretty nose into the
lake business for al. she's worth"
GA 9T REA.
B., Bears the l1h' Kind You Have Always Bought