Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-03-23

enough to pay for three legislative
sessions.-Abbeville Medium.
If you would lift me you must be
on higher ground.-Emerson.
Georgia has paid in pensions since
the war over eight million dollars.
There are now nearly fifteen thou
sand pensioners on the rolls.
The annual convention of the
South Carolina Bankers Association
will be held in Spartanburg Tues day
and Wednesday, April 26 and 81
The editor of the Southern Guilt
vator predicts that cotton will sell
for six cents next fall If it should
turn out good yield, the increased
acreage would abundantly supply
the market.
Now that the Legislature has adj
journed wen all have to find some
thing else to jump on. BY the way,
what's the matter with Russia /?
That country is fair target and
seems TO have few friends.
There was time when pubic
school trustees did not have TO pay
poll tax, but now they have to do it.
They are exempt, however, from
>ad duty. AS valuable perquisite
2get $1,000 worth of cursing
/year.-Edgefield Chronicle.
fhe inter urban line between Green
ille and Anderson seems now to be
a certainty. Quite number of local
I capitalists have become interested.
Attorneys are endeavoring to secure
a charter, while the work of locating
the line is nearly completed. a
construction company will soon be
organized to begin work.
The farmer who fortifes himself
behind full-stocked and we'll
managed hog pen can bid defiance
to all meat trusts, but we don't know
how he'll fare when it comes to the
operation Of the anti monopoly laws.
But the laws should not bluff the
farmers from experimenting with
hog-pens in South Carolina.
Mrs. Rebecca j. McElroy, wife of
II. A. McElroy, died very suddenly
of apoplexy Oh the 3d instant at her
home at Pelzer, aged Sc years. She
was most excellent woman and her
death is deeply regretted by wide
circle of friends She is survived bv
her husband and several sons and
daughters.-Anderson Intellgencer
The State Board of Education has
adopted list of 200 books for use
in the rural school libraries of this
State. From this list the trustees
can select their books after their dis
trict has raised $40 and $40 has
been contributed by the county, the
other SO being given by the State.
The Board also received PROPOSE
tlons from the various publishing
houses to supply the books.
The Greenville Mountaneer wants
a Southern man for President and
nominates John Sharp Williams, the
Democratic leader in Congress, for
the place. Why not? Congressman
Williams is more fit for the honor
than some other men we could name,
and it. is time that the South should
be recognized. However, we scarcely
expect that recognition will come in
this form for some time to come
Sumter Herald.
Law-abiding citizens of the town
of Saluda, constituting large
majority of the citizens, last fall ap-
pealed to the powers of the dis
pensary for relief from the breeder
of drunkenness, rowdyism and mnr-
der established in that town. No
relief was allowed dispensary peo-
pie insist that the people shall drink.
AS direct result of the dispensary
in Saluda another young man has
been slain. There can be no doubt
that it is demoralizing the young
men; manufacturing drunkards and
murderers.--The State.
Coant the mile posts, boys, and be
sure to not give your companion a
drink of whiskey within one mile of
a voting precinct. If you do, you
may get on the chain gang. Socia-
b'ity is a thing of the past, so far az
election days are concerned. AS
further precaution, wouldn't it be a
good idea to send some fellow to the
Legislature whose duty it shall Oe to
see that all roads are properly posted,
80 as the convivial country voter
won't be taken unawares.- The
Lawrenceville Herald.
The Boston Herald tells an inter-
esting story about a dry goods clerk
in the town of Pittsfeld, Masaa-
chussetts, whose employer served
notice on him that he must not eat
onions at his mid day meal. He
wrote to the Society Editor of the
Springfield Republican for counsel in
his extremity, and was told to quit
eating onions during business hours,
and to eat them only for the evening
meal. The Herald says: "This
seems TO be neat way ont of the
difficulty without depriving the clerk
of the true JOY of eating the best
vegetable that grows" There is a
very distinct note of disloyalty in
the Herald's statement that the onion
Is the best vegetable that grows.