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Evening star., 1904-03-19

BANKRUPTCY COURT-Justice Anderson
In re Marcus Notes; hearing on applica-
tion for confirmation fixed for March 81
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-06-01
Summer School for Teachers.

The following faculty aud conrse OF
study for the Oconee Summer School for
Teachers, commencing June 18th and
ending July 9th, 1904, have been secured
and arranged:
j. b. O'Neall Holloway, history and
civics; B. E. Geef, grammar and litera-
ture; Mics Kate j. Stock, arithmetic and
algebra. n
Lectures on school management will be
given during the term.
Text books to be used: Chapman's
South Carolina, and Lees United States
History; Petermap's Civil Government:
Buehler's Modern English Grammar,
Enoch Arden; Wentworth's Practical
Arithmetic and Wentworth's New School
Algebra; Whites School Management.
There is an increasing demand for bet
tor teachers. and 1t will pay those who
want the best positions and longest terms
to attend this, the best summer school
we have ever had. The lowest possible
rates for board will bo occurred, ,ana- while
it may cost you $40 or $16 to attend, it
will pay you good interest by way of self
improvement and greatly increased sala-
ries Several of our teachers, who, only
a short time ago, were working for $40
per month, are now sought for at $40
and even $50 per month. The beauty of
being good teacher is that the school
authorities hunt you. while a poor or
moderately good one has to seek posi-
tion, and when he gets it, it is because
they could not get any one else
We have an excellent faculty and a
good course of study and It will pay all
the teachers to attend.
@. L. Craig, Co. Supt. of Ed.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-06-01
Profits on a 0ne-Horse Farm.

The Anderson correspondent OF
The State says ]. III. Cox, who
lives between Bolton and Honea
Path, is successful farmer. His
success last year was 80 great that
his neighbors have prevailed upon
him to give some figures to your cor
respondent for publication.
Mr.. Cox runs one-horse farm.
lie owns his own land. Last year
his work netted him over $1,000,
and the expenses were not over 5000
or $3.50. His farm shows what can
be done by intensive farming. Here
are the figures as furnished by him
self :
200 bushels corn, 5000; 1000
bundles of fodder, $40; $50 bushels
OF cotton seed, $75; nine bales OF
cotton, $494.77; truck and vegeta-
bles, $417.58; peas, 1925; total,
$1,233.6O,
Mr.. Cox employed one negro
during the year at a cost of $65,
outside of his board. He com
pounded his own fertilizer and used
five tons of cotton seed meal, acid
and kainit, at cost of $40.
Some of the land he worked had
been brought up to high state of
cultivation previously, but most of
1T was ordinary poor land. He made
$10S.60 on one acre, the yield being
three one-horse loads of onions and
7O7 pounds of lint cotton. Mr.. Cox
planted the onions early in the
spring, sowing them in rows five
feet apart, and later planted cotton
between the onions. The onions
matured and we're gathered before
the cotton needed deep blowing, so
Mr.. Cox made two paying crops on
the same ground.
He made 70 bushels of his corn on
one and one fourth acres and the re.
naming 200 bushels he made on II
acres of poorer land.
When farmers can do that well in
Anderson county there really seems
no reason in the world why ANYBODY
should 60 TO Texas or anywhere else
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-06-01
Boil WeeviI Will Bull Cotton.

Some magnificent official predictions
regarding the ravages of the boil weevil
are made in report soon to be issued by
the Department of Agriculture at Wash
ington, and written by w. D, Hunter,
who has charge of the chronological
part of the boil weevil investigation in
which half hundred experts are now
engaged.
Mr.. Hunter says that conservative au-
thorities agree that unless contingencies
at present unexpected occur the pest
soon will cause an increase in the price
of cotton throughout the world. By
living within the fruit of the plant the
weevil ia we'll protected from any poisons
that might be applied it, occupies but
fourteen days for development from egg
to adult, and the progeny of single
dividuals; it adapts itself to climatic
conditions and is remarkably free from
parasites and diseases, all combining to
make efforts and control difficulties.
The report estimates that the presence
of the weevil practically doubles the
area of land required to produce bale
of cotton and that the weevil caused the
Texas planters loss of about $15 200, ,OOO
in 1908. Assun ing $500,O0O,OO0 as the
value OF the normal cotton crop of the
country, Mr.. Hunter says the probable
ultimate damage when the pest has be-
come spread over the entire belt would
approximate $250,O0O,O 900 annually, pro
viding nothing we're done to check it.
Planters, however, are adopting
changes in the methods that tend To
avoid so much damage. The report pre-
diets that the weevil eventually will he
distributed all overithe cotton belt, a..
vancing into new territory at the rate OF
approximately 500 miles decade and IL
probably always will be as destructive in
a series Of years as 1T has been in Texas
since 1894. The reports suggest that
the probability of it being carried to
West Africa or elsewhere abroad is not
at all remote.
In case the seed happens to be sacked
or even shipped in bulk there in nothing
to prevent the weevils from being car
ried long distances on shipboard as the,
are able to adapt themselves successfully
to climatic conditions.
1t is pointed out, however, that the
danger could be avoided by fumigatior
or by leaving the seed sacked in store
rooms, isolated from new cotton for
| year previous to shipment.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-06-01
wALaALI "A. SOUTH oAEohINA. JUNE 4. 1904.
Farmers institutes.


The following announcement has
been made relative to farmers insti.
tuts, conducted by the faculty of
Clemson College:
sLooal institutes will be held by
members of Clemson College faculty
on the invitation of not less than
fifteen farmers, each of whom shall
sign his own name to the invitation
or petition. Those desiring insti-
tutes must have their petitions In
the hands of the president on or
before June 10, 1904. These petit
tions must designate suitable place
for holding the institute, and will be
expected to provide either suitable
building or seats in some grove for
the comfortable accommodation of
those who attend the institute.
"By authority of the Board OF
Trustees, Institutes will be held in
the lower counties of the State next
winter and iu the upper counties
during July, beginning on the first
Tuesday, 5th.
"There will be farmers insti-
tute held at the college from August
Is to August 12. Distinguished
spe skers have been engaged to dis
cuss subjects on animal husbandry,
such as how to raise dairy and beef
cattle; how to make butter and
properly handle milk; SUBJECTS of
general agricultural interest, such as
how to reclaim worn out soils, grow
ing fruits and vegetables, insects and
diseases injurious to plants and ami
mails, how to make and apply ferti-
lizers, the Importance of labor-saving
implements, and number of other
of like subjects, important and inter-
esting to farmers of South Carolina.
"The indications point now to a
very large gathering of people on the
occasion of the institute, and in or
der that the college may provide
quarters for those who are inter
ested in the work of the institute, it
will be necessary to apply to the
president of the college for accommo-
dation, otherwise the parties arriv-
ing at the college without this ap-
plication having been made may be
unable to secure quarters during the
progress of the institute.
"P. H. Nell, President"
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-06-01
North Caroiina's Anti.Jug Law.

The anti-jug law in North Carolina,
passed by the Legislature and affirmed
by the Supreme Court, has put the wet
towns mighty nigh out of business. No
town in North Carolina can ship Jugs
into any other town in North Carolina.
Good Lord, give us such a law in Georgia
and If our coming Legislature don't do
something for us, am going to pray the
Lord to reward them according to their
works. The old North State is forging
to the front, not only in her manufactur-
ing interests, her growing towns and
cities, hut she is coming to the front in
men and manhood, temperance and de-
cency, and no better evidence of this
than her anti.jug law. When stand at
the depot of dry town in Georgia, and
see the dirty old jugs piled off of an ex-
press car, it makes me so mad that I
could turn into stick of dynamite and
blow the whole business into the other
side of nowhere. Sam Jones.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-06-01
"rHE,R WORKS DO FOLLOW THEM"
How Thoughtful Word will Bear Good
Fruit for Many Years.


The following letter has been re-.
ceived by The Courier for publica-
tion. 1t shows what good fruit may
be brought forth by the speaking of
few thoughtful words. 1t must be
pleasure indeed for the aged gen.
tleman, S. S. McJunkin, to learn, in
the evening, as it were, when life's
sun is sinking toward the western
horizon, that these words of his,
spoken years ago, are remembered
and cherished and have borne good
fruit. The venerable gentleman to
whom this letter is addressed regrets
deeply that failing sight makes il
impossible for him to reply to Mr..
Pitohford's letter, which he greatly
appreciates and desires to preserve.
The letter follows:
Tahlequah, 1. IT,, April %, 1904
s. S. McJunkin, Esq, South Union,
s. C.-My Venerable Friend:
noticed in The Keowee Courier of
the last issue that you recently cele-
brated the 92d anniversary of your
advent into this world. i also note
that The Courier hopes that you
may add many more years to your
age. In this can hardly agree, for
the reason that one who has followed
the life that you have, and who has
done as much az you have done to
advance the teachings of the Meek
and Lowly Jesus, should at the ear
lest have the reward to which he is
entitled.
1t does me good to look upon your
life and contemplate the good you
have done while you have lived.
When the question was first raised
in Oconee regarding the sale of liquor
your voice was heard from the house
tops against the sale of the death
dealing stuff. While you may have
forgotten the occasion, yet it is fresh
in my memory. J. w. Holleman
and myself spent the night with you.
At that time | was tax assessor, and
l shall never forget your talk ON the
subject of using liquor in elections.
While you were in advance of the
times you have lived long enough to
see that only the sober, the temper
ate, the moral man need aspire for
office. Perhaps you little thought
of what you were saying on the occa-
sion speak of, yet it has had con-
trolling influence upon my actions
ever since, and wish to thank you
now for the good you did me then.
l have been through many exciting
times since that time, but l can
truthfully say that the impressions
you made on my mind that night
have remained with me through life
up to this time, and l will be per-
fectly satisfied if know that, when
l come to lay down the burdens of
this life, have done as much good
as you have done.
Some day when you feel in the
humor | would be pleased if you will
take the time and write me a few
lines. Perhaps you have forgotten
me. l am the Oldest son of Wesley
Pitchford, formerly of Walhalla, and
my brothers, Charles and Sam, are
now there in business.
Hoping that may be as well pre-
pared to respond when the final sum
mons comes as you are, remain,
Yours respectfully,
Henry Pitchford.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-06-01
Camp Meeting Notice.

The annual camp meeting of the South
Carolina Conference of the Wesleyan
Methodist church will convene at Cen.
tral, s. G., August Sd and continue until
August 15, 1904.
The tent will be located on the holt.
ness school grounds, about half mile
from the incorporate limits of town. All
preachers of the conference are urgently
requested to be present on the first dsy
Onr ministerial brethren of other de-
nominations are cordially invited to be
with us. A general invitation is given
to all who may feel disposed to meet
with us. at this annual gathering. Every
one, both preachers and others, will be
expected to bring blankets, sheets and
pillows. A restaurant will be on the
grounds. All the preachers and regular
workers will be entertained free of
charge. The restaurant will furnish
meals to all others at reasonable rates.
There are hotels and boarding houses in
town where more ample accommodations
can be had by those not desiring to stay
on the grounds over night
Parties desiring to sell Bibles and reli-
gions papers will be expected to confer
with the camp meeting committee. Let
all who can bring their cloth tents and
covered wagons and stay on the grounds.
The object of this meeting is the con
version of sinners and the entire sanotif.
cation of believers. Prominent ministers
of other conferences will be invited.
Committee,
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-06-01
julius caeser Conquered.

GA certain friend of mine," re-
marked Irving Bachelor, the novel
ist, the other day, "was entertaining
some bachelor friends at his home
one evening. The hosts wife did
not appear at the party which was
entirely a stag affair. After the
high balls had held sway for an hour
or 30 the topic of matrimony fell
under discussion. Many views
were expressed. The host, when
his turn came, pounded his fist on
the table and said
"Boys, when you get married,
follow my example and be Julius
Caesar in your own home !"
"Just then there came a voice
from up stairs:
"Julius Caesar, come to bed-im-
mediatelyp
"And he went."- New York
Times.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-06-01
800 REWARD 500.

The readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at least one
dreaded disease that science has been
able to cure in all it's stages, and that Is
catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure Is the only
positive cure known to the medical fra
ternity. Catarrh being a constitutional
disease, requires q constitutional treat
ment. Halls Catarrhis Cure taken inter.
nally, acting directly upon the blood and
mucuous surfaces of the system, thereby
destroying the foundation of the disease,
and giving the patient strength by build
up the constitution and assisting nature
in doing it's work. The proprietors have
have SO much faith in its curative pow
ers, that they offer one hundred dollars
list of testimonials.
Address, f. j. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggist, 75c.
BalPs Family Pills are the best.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-06-01
On a fiiteen.aore Farm.

The Philadelphia Record tells a
very interesting story about the sue
cess of X. III. Hertzog, young
farmer of Lancaster, Pa, who owns
a farm containing only fifteen acres,
and made on it last year, besides his
own and his family's living, 81, ,279.6O
net. MIR. Hertzog has on his farm
90 apple trees, 400 peach trees, 40
plum trees, one acre of raspberries
and one-quarter acre of strawberries.
He also raises poultry for market, his
net profit from this source last year
amounting to $538.76. He also
keeps three COWS and sells some but
ter and milk. The Record gives the
following itemized statement of
what Mr.. Hertzog made on his toy
farm last year:
941 boxes raspberries at 10 cents
per quart.
$50 boxes blackberries at 7 cents a
box.
100 boxes huckleberries at 10 cents
box.
Is boxes gooseberries at 5 cents a
boz.
2S boxes currants at 7 cents box.
BOZ bunches onions at three cents
bunch.
40 bushels onions at 80 cents a
bushel.
IL bushels green beans at rs cents
a bushel.
800 lunches radishes at d cents a
bunch.
baskets peaches at 81 so a basket.
a bushels plums at SO per bushel.
bushels pears at IS cents a
bushel.
80 bushels apples at 25 cents a
bushel.
1000 pickles at 81.
400 dozen roasting ears corn, 10
cents a dozen.
2 tons sweet corn $12 per ton.
Fox, chicken and Concord grapes
at $3.50 for lot.
10 boxes persimmons at S cents a
box.
40 bushels tomatoes at 60 cents a
bushel.
40 bushels soup and other beans at
81 bushel.
15 bushels artiohokes at rs cents
bushel.
Patch of tobacco valued at $40.
123 bushels potatoes at rs cents a
bushel.
10 bushels sweet potatoes at SO
cents bushel.
9 bushels walnuts at SO cents a
bushel.
2 bushels hickory nuts at $l.75 a
bushel.
l bushel Paragon chestnuts at 80
cents a quart, or 5000 per bushel.
Il bushels chestnuts at 1S cents a
quart.
s dozen ounces at SO cents a
dozen.
100 bushels field corn at 60 cents
bushel.
Hay and corn fodder to feed one
horse and three COWS.
1t is said that Mr.. Hertzog does
not spend all his time on the farm.
but is regular attendant upon the
market at Reading, where he per-
sonally superintends the sale of all
his farm and poultry products. He
-"Ne oi'ho w iOau luS udlty news
papers, agricultural journals and
leading magazines of the day, and
generally finds great deal of en-
couragement and happiness in life.
With such industry and intelli-
gence as he has shown in Pennsyl-
vania, we are sure that the young
man could do a great deal better in
South Carolina. We would like 10
have statements from some of our
large or small farmers to show what
can be done in this garden spot of
the world. If we would only tell
what can be done on the farm in this
State it would not be long before
every vacant acre would be under
cultivation. Immigrants would flock
hither from all parts of this country
and the world, and even Mr.. Hertzog
would pull up stakes in Pennsylva-
MIA and come to South Carolina
Charleston News and Courier.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-06-01

The summary of the appropria-
tions made for 1905 by Congress is
given out in detail by the Chairman
OF the Committee on Appropriations.
1t shows total of $781, ,574, 1929. 90.
The largest item is for the post office,
$172,574, ,998.75. The next is for
pensions, with $98,0O5, ,14O.O4. That
of the army is $77,070,3O0.88. Com
pared with the past it is the largest
sum for any single year except 1908,
when the total was $8OO,624, ,496. 6.35.
If it had not been Presidential
year, the appropriations would most
assuredly have hit the billion mark
for this one session.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-06-01
Long Journeys Made by Whales.

The whales that swim about the
islands which lie off the coast of
Norway and Finland, in March and
April, travel immense distances. In
May they turn up at the Azores or
even at the Bermudas and some
times pay visit to the Antilles.
They swim fast, for in June they are
back again off Norway. Some of
these whales have been known to
bring back evidences of where they
have been, for harpoons of the
peculiar kind used off the cost of
South America have been found
stuck in them.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-06-01

A Kentucky Colonel has recently
declared before pure food conn mis-
sion that much of the whiskey sold
in the United States was unfit for
human consumption, and the effect it
has on the mind and the morals of
the men who drink it abundantly
proves the assertion. No whiskey,
he declared, was fit to drink until i
was eight to ten years old, W hich
would rule out 90 per cent of the
stuff sold in and by this State.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-06-01
FOLEYSffOlJE YAu6r AIR
Cures GoldsB Prevents Pneumonln

Greenville Herald, May 25: "W.
A. Talley, of Jesse post Office, in Sa-
luda township, was in the city yes
terday and reported that the boil
weevii had made its appearance in
his neighborhood. 1t is too early as
yet to tell TO what extent the result
tant damage may be, but it is hoped
that the pest may be taken in hand
at once and put out of business. No
one seems to be able to account for
the presence of the boil weevil here
unless the bug came in seed ship
mentS.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-06-01

While crossing a river in canoe,
near Greenville, N. O., last week, +,
Allen Forbes and his son and Henry
Arnold were drowned. The other
two occupants swan to the shore
The load was too heavy for the canoe
and it capsized in mid-stream. Ar.
mold and Forbes were drowned while
trying to rescue young Forbes, who
was cripple.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-06-01
Ridiculous lmposslbilitlos.

A gentleman the other day handed
as the following letter, which we re-
pro luce, omitting names. The letter
is dated Concord, N. O., February
l9, 1904, and as you will see, was
addressed to "Dear Bill" 1t was
neatly typewriter on stationery used
by large cotton milling firm of that
place:
Dear Bill: Your letter asking me
for loan of $500 to hand. | am
sorry to say | cannot let you have
it. as / have not got the money.
Since writing this letter l have bor-
rowed $50 from a friend of mine and
will let you have the five, but will
have to wait until my next letter, as
have already mailed this one and
cannot get it out of the postoffice.
You say you are surprised to hear
that l am alive, as you heard | was
dead, but it was another fellow.
knew it was not me the moment
read it. Speaking of deaths, your
old friend, Con Murphy, was muir
dered last night in bed for his money,
but lucky for Con, he put his money
in the bank the day before. We have
reasons to believe he is not killed
and will not believe him dead till we
hear it from his own lips.
l thank you for the elegant pair OF
boots that you sent me, but they are
entirely too small; l do not think !
can get them on until / have worn
them several times. In return fol-
the boots l have sent you by this
days express, a fine Irish freeze
overcoat and as the express company
charge by freight l cut the buttons
Off to save expense. You will find
the buttons in the top pocket of the
coat. For fear you have not q
hatchet handy to open the box with
l have packed one with the coat.
Your uncle Mioky Dew died very
suddenly last night after a lingering
illness. The doctor who attended
him said he never had patient who
took medicine any easier than youl
uncle, and he himself said he had az
soon take the medicine as whiskey
provided it has the same taste. The
old man said if he could only get
well he was sure he would feel better,
but after he breathed his last the
doctor gave up all hopes of his re.
covery.
1t would have done your hear,
good to have heard the funeral ser.
mon they preached about him.
have since thought what pity i,
was that he did not live a little
longer 80 he could have heard it him.
self.
1t is very important that yor
should get this letter, so if you have
moved from the house you are now
living in be sure and have it for
warded to the place you have moved
to, and if you don't get this lette1
let me know and will write yor
another.
Yours affectionately,
| With the Urnafa ast on ir,oo;t,,
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-06-01
Man Dead, Woman Dying.

Angry because she would not re-
turn to Tampa and live with him
again, Jasper D. Carter, former sta.
tion agent for the Atlantic Coast
Line at Cosmo, Fla, shot Gentry
McKnew, 20 years old, of 16 Collins
street, Atlanta, on the night of
May 23d, then sent a bullet through
his own brain. Carter is dead and
the chances for the recovery of the
woman are considered slim.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-06-01
Interesting TO Asthma Sufferers,

Daniel Bante, of Otterville, Iowa,
writes: ~ have had asthma for three or
four years and have tried about all Ehe
cough and asthma cures in the market
and have received treatment from physi-
clans in New York and other cities, but
got very little benefit until tried FOley's g
Honey and Tar, which gave me immedi-
ate relief and | will never be without it
in my house. l sincerely recommend it
to ALL Sold by j. w. Bell, Walhalla
w. j. Lunney, Seneca.