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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-05-11
The Blood, Wars Of the Anolsn,s.

In ancient times when men fought
with battle-axes, swords and spea.s,
and with bows and arrows, it was
necessary that armies should come 10
very close quarters In order to get
within range. An open field was
usually chosen, within which both
armies lined up in mass form 70 op-
pose each other. Then men entered
the fray like a lot of ravenous wolves.
The battle was decided less by skill
than by sheer brute force and the
power of numbers. Defeat then
meant annihilation. There were no
means of covering retreat. When
the battle began to turn, the enemy
was already at the heels of the van
quished and in position to cut them
down without mercy, while yet fren-
zied with the fury of the fight. 1t
was not infrequent then that half
the numbers engaged were killed.
One hundred thousand Persians fell
in day before Alexander. Hanni.
bal slew at Cannae, 216 b. c., forty
eight thousand Romans out of sixty
thousand. In the great battle in the
Valley of the Marne, in October,
451 A. d., between the combined
Romans and Goths, and the Huns
under Attilla, the allies slew the in
vading barbarians at the rate of one
hundred thousand a day for three
days. That was the bloodiest battle
in history. That bloody job stands
pre-eminent as an instance of iustifia-
BILE homicide. 1t saved Europe from
savagery and rescued civilization.
1t is estimated that Caesars wars
cost more than two million lives. His
war bulletins did not report long
list of wounded and short list of
slain. They were death. lists-so
many killed. The number of
wounded was insignificant.
When firearms were introduced
tactics were changed, and armies
were no longer hurled bodily upon
each other, stalking everything upon
the issue but for long time the
firearms were primitive and would
not shoot very fast, and the tactics
were but modification of the older
and simpler methods of the hand to
hand fighting.-Hudson Maxim, in
Woman's Home Companion.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-05-11
100000 Libel Suit.

Dr.. r. V. Pierce's Company, The
Worlds Dispensary Medical Asso-
citation, of Buffalo, N. Y, has
brought suit for libel against the
publishers of the Ladies' Home
Journal, of Philadelphia, for $780,
600 damages. The sworn complaint
has been filed in the Clerks office, at
Buffalo, N. Y. 1t appears from this
that The Ladies' Home Journal in a
recent number published an attack
on patent medicines. This article
charged that the well-known remedy,
called "Doctor Pierce's Favorite
Prescription" contained seventeen
per cent alcohol, also certain drugs,
and that these ingredients made the
medicine harmful and dangerous.
The sworn complaint shows that the
above statement is wholly and abso-
lutely false in every particular, and
that the medicine contains no dele.
torious ingredients whatever, and
none of the ingredients stated in the
article 80 published, being made of
certain extracts of medicinal plants
and roots-harmless to the most deli.
cate constitution.
When called upon, DR.. V. Mott
Pierce, an officer of the company,
said:
"In a recent article, The Ladies'
Home Journal made this wholly un-
founded attack upon our remedy
The charges made against our medi-
cine are absolutely false, as the COM
plant in our suit shows. We find it
hard to understand how a reputable
magazine of the high standing and
enormous circulation of the Ladies'
Home Journal should make such a
damaging statement without taking
pains to ascertain the facts. The
remedy, Or. Pierce's Favorite Pre-
scription,' is 80 well and favorably
known, and has such a wide sale,
that we could not afford to allow
Rucb a charge to pass unanswered.
The fact is the 'Favorite Prescrip-
ton is composed of extracts of me-
dicinal plants, roots and herbs,
which would not harm the most deli
cate system. 1t is false and un-
founded attack upon the good name
and repute of our company"
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-05-11

Hos Seven Gisls Hsng the Man
Who Flirts With Them All-Mr.
and Mrs. Gus McPkail and six girls.
Cbildren's Parting Song,
Daring the two sessions that Miss
Bruce has taught the Pine Grove
school the yearly enrollment has i'm
Creased by more than one third and
Of course the proportionment ac-
cordingly.
This year the school has won
prize of ten books from the Sunshine
Society and a set of picture of the
Sunny South, besides being the first
school in Oconee to take advantage
Of the State appropriation for public
school libraries, and thus secured a
$50 library. All this goes to show
what "R. 8. l." teacher will do for
a school. ~
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-05-11
Honor Roll Westminster Graded School.

The following is list of the names of
those pupils in the Westminster Graded
School, who are entitled to appear on
the Honor Roll for April, 1904:
First Grade-Walter Reaves, Arthur
Fortune, Hattie Simpson.
Second Grade-W. p. Anderson, Jr.,
Veattie Miller, Margie Williams.
Third Grade-Maida Watkins, Marie
Hall, Olive Parker, Allie Miller, Jack
Williams.
Fourth Grade-Augusta Smithson Myrl
Fits, Dewitt Miller, Annie May Ander-
son, Robbie Parker, CASTOR Hall.
Fifth Grade-Frank Anderson. Bessie
Simpson, Lee Stribling, Fred. thinner
man, Walter Ballenger, Ottaway Marett,
Annie Kay.
Sixth Grade-Mary Reeder, Beaulah
Mcdonald, Annie Miller, Ida Martin.
Seventh Grade-Gussie Martin, Daisy
Foster, Sarah Anderson, Jessie Martin,
Avalona Alexander.
Eighth Grade-Margie Stribling.
II. M. Holland, Superintendent.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-05-11
Mother
Lost Reason After
LaGrippe.
Daughter Had Ere.
quent Spasns.
DIR. Miles Nervine Cured
Them Both.

DR.. Miles Neryine Is a specific for nervous
oisordefs. IL removes the cause and effects
aspeedy and permanent cure.
x feel 1t is my duty to let you know that
your medicines have cured my little girl of
nine, OF spasms. She commenced having them
at the age of three. Oar family doctor said
she would outgrow them but she did not.
We took her to another physician who said
her trouble was epileptic fits in mild form.
He did her no good either. She was SO
nervous she could hardly walk. AS I had
already used DR.. Miles Nervine and found
1t good remedy for myself commenced
giving 1t to my child. gave her in all ten
bottles OF the Neryine and one of the Blood
Purifier That was over two years AGO and
she has not had an attack since we csm-
menced the treatment She Is no longer
roubled with nervousness and we consider
her permanently cured. enclose her pic.
ture. My mother-in law lost her reason and
was insane for three months from the effects
OF LaGrippe. Six bottles of DR.. Miles Ner.
vine cured her. My sister has also taken IL
tor sick headache with good results, We ali
thank you very much for your good medi
cines and kind advice. don't think there
is any other medicine half so good I send
my dsuRhters photograph 50 that you may
see what a sweet little girl lives ont h
Arkansas" MRS. HANNAH BAsKrrT
Springdale, Ark.
= All druggists sell and guarantee first bottle
Dr. Miles Remedies. Bend for free book
on Nervous and Heart Diseases, AddSeas
or- Miles Medical ca, Elkhart, Ind,
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-05-11
|Edu ucatiOmal|
S!s SS:. N.
"a Band Of Mercy

My friend, Miss Wood, in Massa,
chusetts, has sent me q box of beau.
tiful books to be given to the Oconee
schools. One book attracted my
attention and read it, closing the
book and saying, "Roll back, Time,
in your flight, and make me a child
again, for there are 30 many nice
books to read and lovely deeds q
child can do" This book is entitled
"Friend and Helper" compiled by
Sarah l. Eddy, and can be secured
from CHM g. Co., Atlanta, at small
cost. 1t tells of birds, oats, etc. Iu
the back is chapter for "The Band
of Mercy" This Bands duty is to
be boys and girls of strong and
brave characters. The way to BE-
thus is to learn to protect the weak
and helpless.
When young people learn to love
and care for birds, animals, trees,
etc., they will learn to respect each
others rights, and crime of all kinds
will be diminished. The Bands Of
Mercy are valuable in teaching
young people the highest ideals Of
life, and in showing them that the
universal law of love is the only law
which brings what we desire, "Peace
on earth and good will to men,"
The teachers should either have
Band of Mercy or Sunshine Society
in each community. Longfellow
said
"Wbene'er noble deed is wrought,
Whene'er is spoken noble thought,
Our hearts, in glad surprise,
To higher level rise.
''The tidal wave of deeper souls
Into our inmost being rolls
And lifts us unawares
Out of all meaner cares"
Those interested Gall live teachers
are) in either of these societies can
get information by sending stamp to
the corresponding secretary of o. R.
S. l. A.
We are glad to report that the
Sunshine Sooiety is doing a grand
work and new branches are springing
up daily. 1t is common saying
"What Improvement in our schools
our houses are better; our yards
beautified." We are glad to see the
attentive trend to the rural school.
Parents, the time is now at hand to
work have only the best teachers,
and your school will prosper.
Our heart was made sad the other
day when we heard that the pupils
of school we loved were talking of
barring the doors and shutting out
the teacher. This custom has been
practiced for three years in this
school. We hope this will never
occur again. 1t is our duty to re-
port to the committee the condition
of our schools, and those who work
best and keep the property well, will
get aid some time in the future. The
duty of the Band of Mercy and the
Sunshiners is to aid the teacher in
every way-not to give him trouble
and to love God and His creatures.
Marye r. Shelor
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-05-11
Negro Lynched In Alabama.

Birmingham, Ala, May IA special
to the Age I'll erald from Prattsville, Ala,
says: News reached here this afternoon
that Gaines Hall, the negro who as.
saulted Mrs. Josiah Owens Yesterday
morning. was caught at Kingston late
yesterday afternoon by posse who took
him to the scene of bis crime and tied
him to tree. The body was then rid
died with bullets. Several persons have
visited the place and report the lifelees
body still there. 1t Is said that tho
negroes refused to take the body down
and bury it. 1t is also reported to-day
that he accomplished his fiendish pur-
pose yesterday and that Mrs. Owens is
in very critical condition. The town is
quiet, but it is said excitement ran high
l8st night
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-05-11
rheumatism.

Rub the swollen, painful joint or
muscle with Elliott's Emulsified Oil Lini-
ment. Relief will come in few minutes
and permanent cure result if its use is
persisted in. Elliott's Emulsified Oil
Liniment is very penetrating and sooth-
ing. 1t quickly relieves inflammation and
disperses congestion. 1t cures lameness,
stiffness, soreness of joint or muscle,
bruises, swellings, contusions and
sprains. Full half-pint bottles, 25 cents.
Walhalla Drug Company, Walhalla
Seneca Pharmacy, Seneca.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-05-11
The Cause OF the Blues.

Nine times out of ten that mental con-
dition which results in depression, de
spondency-the blues-is caused by a
torpid action of the liver. In fact, the
conditions described above are usually
liver. If the attack continues, saiiow-
meas vii! seen appear. The next time
you feel "blue" take Rydale's Liver Tab
let's. You will be surprised to see how
quickly the blues will vanish and how
bright and cheerful you will feel. Ry-
dale's Liver Tablets make the liver
healthy and keep it healthy. They regu-
late the bowels and keep them regular.
Fifty tablets for 25 cents. Waihalla
Drug Co., Walhalla; Seneca Pharmacy,
Seneca.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-05-11
Are Your Lunns Sound Z Z z

Rydale's Elixir cures weak lungs. If
you think you have a bronchial affection,
or if you fear you have consumption,
rely on Rydale's Elixir. This modern
scientific discovery kills the germs that
cause chronic throat and lung diseases,
assists nature to restore these organs to
health. Rydale's Elixir is also a certain
cure for acute throat and lung trouble,
such as coughs, colds, hoarseness, etc.
Rydale's Elixir is splendid family
remedy for young or old. Walhalla Drug
Co., Walhalla; Seneca Pharmacy, Seneca.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-05-11
T eachers' Examination.

FVNHE next teachers examination will
Il be held at Walhalla Court House
on Friday. May 20, 1904. The examina-
tion will begin promptly at O'Clock,
and no one coming later than 10 q. m.
will be admitted. Teachers will please
examine their certificates and see il thew
expire before next examination, and gov
ern themselves accordingly. All persons
not having certificates, that expect to
teach this summer, will please attend
this examination. C. l.. CRAIG.
County Supt. of Education.
April 81, 1904. 1920
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-05-11
q "A. - III @ R EA.
Bears tho II The Kind You Haze Always Bought
Signature Of NeNazIzx

Any thinking person who has fol-
lowed the trend of politics in South
Carolina cannot fail to realize what
is to be the main issue in the coming
campaign, and most likely for some
years to come. We have had in the
State in the past forty years military
rule, Radical rule, negro rule, Till
man rule. Shall we wind up with
whiskey rule p-Summeryille News.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-05-11
GAS STORIA
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
signature rsssa sao Of &ta1Ag1z6(
Fatal Floods In Texas.

Austin, Texas, May 5.-As a re-
suit of the cloudburst in Central
Texas and this section not train
has moved to the north. About five
miles of the International and Great
Southern tracks have been washed
out north of here. Five children
were drowned in a creek five miles
from this city. Fields are under from
four TO eight inches of water to the
south Of here for fifteen miles.
Rivers and creeks are swollen far
beyond their banks.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-05-11
Folk Shoots His Mother.

Columbia, april 9.-Mistaking her fcr
a-burglar, Capon Folk shot and probably
fatally wounded his mother at / o'clock
this morning at their home in Brunson.
Folk had retired about midnight Hear
ing a noise, he reached for his pistol,
opened the door of his room, and seeing
some one standing at the front door and
lingering the latch, he fired. Instantly
his mother, Mrs. Henrietta Folk, spoke
and he realized the dreadful fact that he
had shot her.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-05-11

Baptist Courier, May 5th : "Con.
tributions from South Carolina to
the Foreign Mission Board up to
April 15, were $14,698.56. ONLY
two other States were ahead, Geor.
gia with $23,174.14, and Virginia
with $2O,6l3.72. Kentucky was only
1888 behind South Carolina. The
total from all the States was $146,-
1876"
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-05-11
Sour Stomach-Heart.Rurn.

Heart burn results from an acid or
sour condition of tho stomach. This
acidity is caused by indigestion. The
food is only partly digested, the indi-
gested portion ferments, producing acid
and gas, these produce heartburn and
sour stomach. Ryaa!e's Stomach Tab
They neutralize the acid and food, re-
storing normal conditions. Rydale's
Stomach Tablets CURE all forms of
Stomach trouble. Walhalla Drug Co.,
Walhalla; Seneca Pharmacy, Seneca.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-05-11

W. j. Bryan controlled the Demo-
cratic Convention in his home county
last week, and platform re. affirming
the Kansas city platform was
adopted. No names for the Presi-
dental nomination were mentioned,
the convention voting to adopt the
unit rule and practically agreeing
to act as Mr.. Bryan thinks best 10
the national convention.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-05-11
And L. J. Williams's excellent. ,

And l.. j. Williams's excellent re-
cord and service as chairman of the
State Board of Dispensary Direc-
tors at "S400" year were not suffi-
clent to send him to Congress. Th e
voters of the Second District are O
be congratulated on their good iud g.
ment.-Y Yorkville Enquirer.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-05-11

Liquor constables held up two car
loads of liquor in Columbia on the
4th instant, consigned to ak" The
wagons of w. II. Sellehs, an alleged
wholesale "tiger" were caught in the
act of hauling off the stuff. A re-
cent decision of the Supreme Court
prevents the constables from seizing
the liquor until it is removed from
the cars.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-05-11

Baptist Courier, May s: "Dr. r..
). Willingham writes to say that
South Carolina gave $19,738.54 for
Foreign Missions, an increase of
$2,338.78 over last year. This ia
very good indeed. We congratulate
the brethren of the State, and in the
name of The Board extend sincere
thanks. DR.. Willingham adds: sWe
are out Of debt but fails to state the
full amount raised"
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-05-11

The President has appointed Wendell
Phillips Stafford, OF Vermont, as Justice
Columbia to succeed Judge Pritchard
appointed to fill Judge Simonton's posi-
tion.
Aunt Dinah, when she put the eggs in
the saucepan, invariably began singing
"Rock of Ages" and sang through two
verses. "Aunt Dinah," asked the man
who tells the story, ''are there not three
verses in that hymn?" Oar is, massa,
but sings only two when wants 'em
soft, and three whom | wants 'em hard -
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-05-11

Capt. S. S. Ross, who owns tin
mine in Cherokee county, shipped a
car load of ore to Wales not long
ago and received $4,000 for it.
Captain Ross has refused 100000
for his mine.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-05-11

The father of Rev. r. r. Dagnall,
of the South Carolina Conference,
died in Atlanta last week at the adj.
yanced age of 93. He was in the
Indian war in Florida iii 1885.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-05-11
oA % TO RIA.
Bears the q The Kind You Hars Always Bought
Signature af &HAzIzm
q - S T q

The Congress which has just adjourn
ed appropriated $2S, 1000 more than
the preceding Congress. And nobody
seems to know what became of the
money.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-05-11

Rev. A. J. Cauthen, Of the
Methodist church, died at Ninety-Six
May l. His was long, useful, sue
cessful and lovable life.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-05-11
WIN. J. STRIBL1Ne. : {E. L. HERNDoN.
Notice for Election Of
School Trustees.

nNHE County Board of Education of
Il Oconee county hereby requests the
patrons and qualified voters residing in
each School District to hold an election
at the school house of such district on
Saturday, the 14th day of May, 1904, in
the afternoon, between the hours of
three and six o'clock, for three pers sons
to be appointed Trustees of such School
District
We hereby request the present Trustees
either to act as managers of election or
appoint three persons as such managers.
and that, with reasonable diligence. thew
certify the result of said election to this
board.
We earnestly request the patrons and
voters OF every School District to give at
tention to this important matter and
take part in said election. The Trustees
thus elected will be commissioned on the
lst day of July, 1904, for term of two
years. Q. l.. CRAIG,
II. II. JAYNES,
M. g. BARTON,
Members County Board Education.
April 20, 1904. 1919
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-05-11
Notice to Trespassers.

NOTICE is hereby given to all persons
l-N not to trespass on any Of my lands
IN any way whatsoever-by hunting fish
ing, digging roots, cutting timber, setting
out fire or trespassing in any manner
whatsoever. Parties entering said lands
after this notice will be dealt with to the
fullest extent of the law.
JOHN O'LEARY.
May 4, 1904. 1S21s
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-01-12
G. am't Eat.

You certainly don't want to eat if
you are not hungry. But you must
eat, and YOU must digest your food,
too. If not, you will become weak,
pale, thin. Good food, good appetite,
good digestion, these are essential.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-01-12
GREAT FIRE HORRORS

Seldom history pancs places pub
lie has the list equaed Of tho
late terrible disaster in Chicago life but far less
horrible its tragic details the burning OF the Brooklyn Theaer
the night of December 1876 when in mad rush for the exits
34 persons crushed smoered death
table long unidentified copses lying
Chicago Nogue that after the Brooklyn disaster only the bod,
identified such dentfcaion made
OF the bare descriptions the bodies being cOrched almost
crisp,
Brooklyn Chicago house. audience
mad realized danger witnessing pathetic play
Of The Two Orphans when bit OF the stage scenery caught fire and
burst blaze Miss Caxon Star of stage
and beechd audience rolled
forth the crowd began wild struggle for the doors Men and
eaped from the gallery the dress circle where they stamped
and crushed until life people fought
other in desperate reach the
knocked down and killed outright while trying escape Others
were smohered by the dense clouds of black smoke which filled the
blazing roof fell down upon Like Chcago disaster the majority
those who their lives people gallery balcony The
stairs leading them became ogged higher steps
literally crowded the heads of those below that there became
wrhng jam from which escaped Two in the
those who lost their lives" The building burned the
ground
years ago g. 1897
by the of the terrible cOnagrauOn which consumed the Bazaar
Charlie Paris I43 beings The flower
the French aocracy had gathered at fancy TAR given IN behalf OF
charity when suddenly fire broke booth presided by the
Duchess The panic dreadful than Brook
Ign fire or the in the roquos lheater yesterday Titled noble
beat down with their vain effort to
the entrances cogged with the dead and dying OF the 1900
pie IN the building at the time the blaze started nearly all were injured
in the panic The building became OF flames and the majority
those who death burned beyond recognition Almost three
ourhs of those losing their lives and them
the beautiful Duchess d Aencon.
Ten years prior this fire Paris visited by deatdeang oo
when May 25 1887 the Opera COmque burned the
ground and about 200 people persisted The horrible scenes this fire
similar when crowds people have become
panic stricken and fought ady themselves from approaching
death.
There many who yet remember the descriptions OF the scenes
which marked the burning heater Boston March 1868
when 200 persons met death in the panic which ensud
On February H. 1860 Wheatey Theater destroyed and
twelve ballet girls tpped in their dressngrooms bruned ID
death.
The fire Pixies OpeahOuse Cincinnati in March, 1866 was
heater fire but luckily lost their lives
although number Of buildings destroyed
The only conagaon amusement house where the number
said be greater than Chcago conagraho
1896 building St Petersburg occupied by Le
mans Circus burned and 800 people said to have persisted
This total, however, verified
audiences be said that proper
United States the pancs ensuing
other country in the world