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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-10-11
Southern csitoS Mills.

In the last I'll 90 years 483 cotton.
mills have bson erected, and of this
number 405 have bsen constructed
south of Mason and Dixon's line.
This has had much to do with the
marked changes in the conditions
connected with the manufacture of
cotton goods, a change which was
the chief topic of discussion at the
recent meeting of the New England
Cotton Manufacturers Association
at Atlantic City. Members of tl'e
association discussed at great length
the necessity of action looking to
the enlargement of the market for
the product of the American cotton
mills and frankly exchanged figures
and experiences showing that the
mills of the South have led in the
progress of manufacturing in the
last few years and have made it
necessary for the New England mills
TO look to the foreign fields for their
products. The concession is, a re-
markable tribute to the spirit of the
new South, which is no longer con-
tent to plant and pick cotton, but
now raises, markets and manufac-
lures cotton. The Northern spinners
for many years had all they could do
to supply the demands of the home
Market but now the South, with it's
materials at the doors of the mills !;
with its coal fields, timber forests
and magnificent streams, furnishir g
cheap and never-failing supply of
fuel, water and power; with its
cheap labor, owing to the cheaper
cost of living, with all the natur al
and artificial advantages that may be
profitably employed in the mauufac-
ture OF the homegrown crop, is find
ing welcome in the home marke is
and forcing the New England mills
to scan foreign fields for an outlet
for their surplus. That they have
been successful in this search is
shown by the fact that exports of
cotton manufactures for the year
ended last June were in excess of
$50, 100000, an increase of 800 per
cent in ten years. The resources of
the South are just beginning to be
understood and developed. Her in
evitable prosperity can hardly be ex-
aggerated by Washing
ton Post.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-10-11

Pedor Alyarado, the mining king
of Mexico, will build monument
of Italian marble and silver over the
grave of his wife, who died recently.
Two tons of silver will be used, and
the monument will be enclosed in
steel cage. The output of Alvarsdo's
mines is 100000 week.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-10-11

Nellie was visiting at the seashore
and seeing the waves rolling for the
first time, exclaimed ooh, mamma,
what are those big, gray-haired
Jumps bobbing up and DOWN."
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-10-11

One man was burned to death and
two were fatally injured in a livery
stable fire at Warren, Ohio, last
week.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-10-11

The birthday of the late Frances
E. Willard was celebrated by the
Woman's Christian Temperance
Unions all over the United States
last Thursday.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-10-11

August Belmont, the New York.
banker and millionaire. is critically
iii with appendicitis in that city.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-10-11

Automobiles are used by the
Street Railway Employees union in
Chicago to convey passengers when
there is a strike.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-10-11

Burglars dynamited the vault of a
bank at Springfield, S. d., last week
and made their escape with $4,000
in cash.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-10-11

Bolton Poor, of Woodstock, Ca,
accidentally shot and killed himself
while hunting last week.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-10-11

A seat on the New York Stock
Exchange was sold last Thursday for
$4,000, new high record.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-10-11

Ex-Congressman Jerry Simpson lie
critically i'll in Wichita, Kas.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-12-01
Japanese Dwarf Trees.

In Japan are some very remarkable
trees. They are hundreds of years
old and not hundred inches high.
The most marvellous collection is in
Count Okuma's garden, near Toxic.
Here are pine trees that started to
grow in the seventeenth century, that
at the dawn Of the twentieth century
are not too large to be carried in one
hand, pot and all. Others, whose seed
was planted about the time when Co.
lumbus sailed for America, are already
outstripped by saplings planted year
before last.
In another place is grove Of lili-
putian plum trees, gnarled and knotted
and twisted by centuries of wind and
weather, that are none of them too
large to grace a dinner table, as they
often do when in full bloom. More
marvellous still, there are other little
trees, probably planted in the early
Sixties" that are still thriving cit is
too much to say "growing') in tea
cup, while others planted before Cleve-
lands last term in Office have not out
grown lady's thimble.
The Japanese are past masters in
the art Of dwarfing trees. They nip
off the trees roots and pinch it's limbs
and starve it with little soil and let
it 60 thirsty and dry, but at the same
time keep the breath of life in it. I'M
til it becomes the veriest travesty of
a tree, manikin vegetable, with the
wrinkled face of an old man on the
legs of a little boy. Infinite patience
and skill and time are given in order
to stunt and dwarf into these gro
tesque growths.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-12-01
Huge Precious Stones.

Prior to the discovery of the South
African diamond a few months ago,
weighing in the neighborhood of a
pound and half, the largest perfect
diamond in the world was that which
was exhibited in Paris, having a value
Of one million dollars. This was the
most valuable stone in the world; the
largest and best ruby in existence is
owned in London, and is valued at
$4,000. 1t has no parallel, even in
the Crown Jewels, and it is related
that it was once carried all the way to
st. Petersburg for the Car to have a
look at. The largest and most beauti-
full cat's-eye in existence weighs one
hundred and seventy carats and is in
sured for 10000 rupees. The biggest
emerald in the world weighs 1880
carats, and is in the Imperial Jewel
Office in Vienna.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-12-01
CAPT. ALEX. MAC LEAN,

not be in position to guard their in
terests. and a raid on the Russian seal.
ing islands was the real object of the
cruise. Great Britain, Canada and~the
United States have an agreement to
prevent pelagic sealing, so that appar-
emily to protect the ships owner from
prosecution under either United States
or British laws. the ships name was
changed to Carmencita and registry
PAPERS taken out in Mexico.
Thirty Devils at Beck and Call.
On May she headed for the north
>ern islands, MacI.ean sitting aft, thirty
reckless .dare-devils forward and cases
of repeating rifles and ammunition IN
the captains cabin. She had cleared
for Victoria for a cargo, but instead
sailed for the little islands in the Der
ing Sea, where it was understood
new rookery was discovered. =,
Captain MacLean has had a varied
experience with the authorities, not
only on the Carmencita, but on other
vessels of which he was master: Al
one time revenue cutter ANNOYED MIN
by demanding that his papers be sent
on board for examination. Upon MS
refusal the revenue officers threatened
to open fire on him.
Invoked the Stars and Stripes.
MacLean hearing this, ordered one
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-12-01
FREEDOM FOR RUSSIA.
UNDER CZAR'S RECENT MANI
FESTO, LAST ABSOLUTE NOM
ARCHY DISAPPEARS.
The New Empire Promises to Be .
Regime of Constitutional Liberty
and Representation-V of th>
People Widely Celebrated.

As an outcome of the tremendous
agitation which has been shaking Rus
STA to the very core, the Gar has sur
rendered and has granted right.
which if consummated, will result l.
civil liberty.
1t seemed for a time as though tho
history of the French revolution woulG
be repeated; that the aristocracy anC
the bureaucracy driving ahead in
their arrogance and self esteem, would
fail to recognize the overwhelming
force of the volcano Of public senti-
ment surrounding them, and by their
refusal to recognize conditions, plunge
the whole empire into civil war and
anarchy. But the handwriting on the
wall was recognized and the Gar
compelled to practically capitulate his
imperial throne. True, promises are
thus, far more in evidence than fulfill
ment, but Count White has apparently
been made the real Russian leader and
much is hoped and expected in the
way of peaceful reform.
In old Russia, the Russia of last
century, of last year. of last week, the
Car was all powerful. Russia was
the last remaining absolute monarchy.
The policies of the government were
created and enforced by the Gar and
his Grand Dukes.
Popular representation was fragile
promise. Free speech was under the
ban; freedom of the press was I'M
known. Even all private mail was
subject to censorship. The prisons
were filled with political offenders.
Imagine casting a man into United
States prison because his political acts
were not relished by the government!
A system Of public espionage fol-
lowed every mans move.
Old Russia was divided into two
classes, the nobility and practical
slaves.
Education Of the masses was worse
than a farce.
What is promised for Russia?
The abolition of the rule of the Ro-
manoff House.
Freedom of speech guaranteed ard
freedom Of person inviolable.
A limited monarchy similar to that
Of England with a guarantee of popu-
lar government, with a cabinet respon-
sible to the people, and with suffrage
made almost universal, and with provi-
sion for a representative parliament
and for general educational system.
The right of habeas corpus recog-
1ized and the freedom of the press
assured.
Following the Cars imperial mani
.esto outlining the proposed regime of
liberty, all Russia celebrated. In st.
Petersburg and Moscow the day was
me such as the Russians never before
lad seen. The Slavic people, who dur
ng the long war just closed and the
nxious period preceding the an
louncement Of the new era of consti-
utionalism, seemed self restrained
gloomy and apathetic. gave themselves
ully to the exuberance of the mo-
nent and spent the entire day in pa
AIDES and assemblies which for the
irst time in the history of Russia were
RELY permitted.
It was stated as a significant omen
hat after a fortnight of gloomy and
depressing weather, symbolic of the
lays of the great strike. the sun shone
ut brightly on the date of the Cars
manifesto. bright and radiant In
ian-summer day.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-12-01
Will We'd for Love Only.

Princess Victoria of England, the
only unmarried daughter of King Ed
ward, declares that if she marries at
all it will be for love. She is thirty
seven years old, and for twenty years
has refused to consider every marriage
proposal suggested by her father, the
King.
eff I marry, it will be to the man Of
my CHOICE. she is reported to have
said. Father, mother, and govern
ment shall not choose for me. I will
love the man marry, if ever marry"
This bold declaration by the daughter
of a king has shocked royal and aristo-
cratic circles all over Europe, but 1t
has been read with delight by the
English people, and it appeals equally
to Americans.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-12-01
The aromatic Havana.

Apropos Of the real enjoyment of a
cigar Cauthorne, the newspaper cor
respondent, in that most fascinating
story Of "The Tallahassee Girl":
If you will permit me- I will
smoke" said he. taking out curious
cigar case Of very fine workmanship.
ut does not even amount to kind.
ness on my part" she answered: "for
/ enjoy the fragrant sweet of good
cigar"
THANK you, can never fully appre-
ciate an open air chat without the
company of this Indian luxury. But
really am no great smoker. Two or
three a day are all I take"
You must be an exception. Papa
smokes twenty pipes full a day, and
most gentlemen are always INDUCING"
Eyes, they lose sight of the equisite
part Of the thing which is a subtle
pleasure coming only to those who use
tobacco Of the finest quality and SPAR
ingly"
Sometimes abstain for several days
in order to get the full benefit of a
slow burning Havana"
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-12-01

ed that The great amount of money dis
played on that occasion must have
come elsewhere than from the fund de.
rived from the sale of skins. The gov
eminent agents believe that several
men now under indictment in the West
in connection with this poaching trip
furnished the funds.
Always Eluded the Law. I
MacLean's movements were conduct
ed so cleverly that he could never be
held until now; he always made the
technicalities of the law cover his op-
erations, but the Department Of Justice
has been gathering evidence through
the personal direction of Chief Wilkie
of the Secret Service and it was this
evidence that led to his indictment
in San Francisco short time ago. So
now the piratical course of Captain
Alexander MacLean seems at IN end
and the stern hand of the law holds
him in its grip. 1t remains to be seen
whether his luck will again serve him
in good stead and enable him to sail
away to the great white silence"
where the treasured fur-bearing ami
mails are found, or whether the govern
ment's evidence will be strong enough
to shackle him.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-12-01

of his men to run up the flag" The
Stars and Stripes were hoisted and
Big Alec" as he is known, yelled out,
Now fire and be ID to you" The
revenue cutter dipped it's flag thrice
and turned away. Several times this
bold navigator has had set-tos with gov
eminent authorities. but short time
ago the Carmencita made a raid on the
copper islands and had brush with
the revenue patrol, one of the crew be-
ing wounded and sent to Seattle, Wash,
Tor treatment.
The attention of Mexico having been
called to the illegal acts of the Car
mencita's crew. that government on
November l, 1904. cancelled the Mex.
lean registry. With this taken away
from him. MacLean had the name of
the schooner changed to the Acapulco.
1t is understood that when he dropped
into Drake Bay for supplies he had
only 100 skins on board taken from
the sealing preserves Of the Arctic so
that government officials have suspect
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-12-01
HUGE IRRIGATION DAM.
ROCK BARR4GE ACROSS NARROW
CANYON IN MOUNTAINS OF
WYOMING.
Government Works Will Store Flood
Waters For Fertilization of One
Hundred and Fifty Thousand Des-
ert Acres.

l A quarter of century ago the
home of the buffalo, and later a cat
Tie and sheep pasture, with an occa-
sional ranch house, the Big Horn
basin in Wyoming is now the scene of
a great activity incident to the build
ing of one of the largest of the govern
ment irrigation works. Some years
ago Colonel Cody, better known as
Buffalo Bill, made Il survey of the
Shoshone canyon, and i'll connection
with General Miles, projected a COM
pany to construct a dam and irrigate
some 10000 acres. The necessary cap
ital however was not forthcoming and
when the national irrigation law was
passed, the government took up the
proposition, and large party of en-
gineers has since been employed on
the preliminaries of a great work Of
desert reclamation.
The Shoshone River dashes down a
narrow canyon, with jagged and per-
pendicular walls, and at its narrow
est point the government has begun
the construction of the highest dam
ever built. 1t will cement together
the two canyon walls for 24O feet
above the strear. bed, and it's founda-
ton will go below the water line S6
feet additional, down to the solid bed
rock. The stream, where it passes
between these granite canyon walls, is
but 65 feet wide, and the dam will
form a great lake Of 5000 acres, with
a watershed of 1,2J0 square miles,
and storing enough water to irrigate
100000 acres through seven miles of
14foot tunnels bored in the solid
rock.
Little Chance For Land Grabbing.
This will cost about 50, an acre to
be paid back to the government by
settlers, under the business-like pro-
visions of the irrigation law. The land
flood and then boiling over great rocks
itself is free under the homestead act,
and has been reserved by Secretary
Hitchcock from entry under the
Desert and other land laws not requir-
ing actual residence and home-build-
ing. /
Few such picturesque and wildly
beautiful scenes can be found as this
Shoshone canyon. The river is sue
cession of foaming. rushing rapids, the
water coursiEG along in deep green +
flood, and then boiling over great rocks
and bOClders in white surge. Only
for few hours each day can the s'1n
find its way to the bottom of this
leeply-cut gorge, the mountain sides
towering into the clouds two and three
thousand feet. From above the dam
site as one looks down at the engin-
GERS working on the foundat tons,
tircctly underneath, they appear like
mimic men.
Giant Forces Of Nature.
This Shoshone canyon and it's sur
mountains, are one of
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-12-01
a Giant Fire Cracker.


A Giant Fire Cracker.
Watching the government engineers
cutting a road along the side Of the
canyon for the transportation of sup
plies to build the dam-6O,OOO barrels
OF cement alone will be needed-the
writer observed the explosion of big
charge of dynamite, which burst with
a roar. echoing up and down the can
yon with deafening reverberations.
Immediately an oblong granite rock of
some 100 tons weight was torn from
its base and hurled down into the river
Il hundred feet below. Skaters Of
rock new In all directions, and great
splash of water rose like gevser ont
OF the black depths of the CANYON.
Yet this huge block of granite was
but a baby addition to the family of
loulders which had been detached nv
more giant forces of nature. and
thrown into the river bed. A few
hours before we had crawled directly
under this rock in our canyon "expIor-
ation." Returning, we were fain TO
accept the assistance of one of the
read builders in getting across this
place, looking down the while into the
river boiling below among the rocks.
The engineering credit for this
great project with it's great dam
ITS enormous spillways, its noun.
tain road building and it's miles of
canals and huge tunnels bored
through the solid rock is due II
Jeremiah Ahern "a government dis,
trlct engineer who, almost cut off from
the outside world, has taken up his
residence for several years in this wild
canyon, once faStness of the Sho-
shone Indians.
The Government Irrigation Program
What does all this great irrigation
work OF the government throughout
the west signify? Simply that the
hation mas decided to use the money
ueiived from the sale of western
PUBIC lands to make its desert soil of
value, and furnish many home-build-
my opportunities. 1t means that
many men will find employment in
the construction of dams and canals
III every western community, and that
finally, as the works are comnleted
one by one, new farm homes will no
established. adding to the nations
wealth and balancing our population
now inclined cityward.
For a thousand years longer this
splendid dam site would likely stand
idle before private capital would de-
velop it to its magnificent full capac-
lty, for the difficulties in the way of
the engineers are many and unknown:
but the government will meet all OBJ
stacles and overcome them, and finally
turn over to thousand farmers a
perfect job Of engineering, compare.
BILE to the great works of the Peru
Wan Incas, the Egyptian Rameses or
the British engineers of India-an en-,
during monument for all time to the
wisdom Of the present generation Of
America.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-12-01
a modification

order, though really modification
Of the Empire.
1t is a delight to watch the doctor
move about in her brisk, energetic
way. Her body, sensibly clothed,
and beautifully poised, with that fine,
straight line beloved of physical cul-
turie's. from the head to the heels, is
responsive to the many demands of
her busy life. 1t would be impossible
for her to accomplish her work, she
says, hampered by the usual style Of
dress.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-12-01

prosperous homes for themselves and
FAMILIES, and raise an annual product
Of couple or three million dollars.
In the canyon proper the great
forces Of nature have wrought wOn-
derfully. Enormous granite boulders
have detached themselves from the
mountains and rolled down thousands
OF feet, crashing their hundreds ana
thousands of tons into the rocky
gorge. Here the river continually
plays upon them, searching out the
seams and splitting them up, and
wearing them away and polishing
them smooth.
The Rock Pile of the World.
In the canyons middle, below the
dam site, the jungle Of rocks in the
harrow river bed appears as though
thousand blasts of giant powder had
rent the mountain sides and tumbleu
every rugged projection into the
depths below. There is no dirt or
sand in this river bed; everything is
rock. The imperishable granite, gray,
pink, and vari-colored, oldest of the
geological formations, made by the
welding Of various substances when
the globe was a molten mass; the
later limestones and black volcanic
rocks, congiomeratcs also melted by
great heat, the hard red sandstone ana
its white and brown contemporaries,
formed from the grindings of other
rocks subjected to enormous pressure,
and lastly the geyserites and sulphur
rocks, soft and hoi.Hycombed, the re-
suit of ceaseess spoutings of steam
and hot water from the earth's bowels
all are found in wonderful profu-
sion.
Below the canyon where the river
runs more peacefully, all these forma-
IONS are represented in the huge beds
or cobble stones and smaller boulders
over which the water plays. The cob
Dlestones were themselves once Jagged
rocks, detached by wind, water. frost
and sun from their mountain bases.
and rolled and ground by river force
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-12-01

natures great handiworks. All has
been cut out by the silver stream,
rushing in its bed below. For count
less ages it has eaten it's way through
granite and limestone. wearing, wear
ing, wearing away. For centuries and
ages it has flowed. ceaselessly and
likewise uselessly on its way to join
the food Of the Missouri; now it is to
be harnessed and made to produce for
man. A thousand farmers will make
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-12-01
DRESS REFORM FOR VOMEN,
Advocate Of Practical Walking and
Working Garb-ReIief From
Heavy Skirts.

DR.. Cora Smith Eaton, of Minneap-
)lls, Mlni., beneves ina, H.An, g.. inc
aches and ills from which women
suffer are the direct result of the
clothes they wear. She says that in
her professional capacity she tries to
impress upon her women patrons the
need of dress reform. Not the old
time hideous bloomer costume of
years ago." laughed the doctor, but
Il rational, sensible and beautiful
adaptation of our clothes to our
needs"
And what are our needs,' was
asked.
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