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Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-12-30

the duodecimal instead OF the decimal
scale"
II Khorawazlmi had not stopped at
the ten place" In the numerical scale
his name would be called blessed"
by all the great modern mathemati-
clans. But he did stop and now his
successors as mathematical authors
all OF whom regret and bemoan the
untimely halt that he made-are striv-
Ing with all their might to create a
public sentiment that will cause the
universal adoption and Inauguration
NJ the great reform that he overlooked
the substitution OF the duodecimal
for the decimal system.
What success the scholars are to
have in their crusade for 1.-The duodeci-
NAL" In arithmetic Is problematical.
For centuries the duodeclmal has been
known In algebra and the higher math-
emaHcs, but what the great mathema-
tlcians want is the Introduction Of the
system into the arithmetics of the
schools and into shops, the counting
house and all the commercial and trad
ing institutions Of the people. In any
gathering Of mathematical teachers
may be found a strong sentiment for
the popular displacement of the deci-
NAL by the duodeclmal system.
Deep-rooted though the decimal sys-
tenn is in the practical life of the peo-
pie, the duodeclmallsts are not dis
couraged. They believe they see an
awakening. No less than FIVE of the
most eminent mathematicians In the
land who came together by chance the
other day at the University of Chi
cago expressed themselves as satisfied
that the time is approaching when the
public interests will become so enor
nous that the duodecimal system will
not only be conceded as superior to the
cumbersome decimal system, but will
become an actual public necessity
Chicago Chronicle.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-12-30
CHAPTER WILL

In the church the choir were already
assembled, and as soon as we arrived the
practice began. They sung right through.
first the chants and then the hymns,
both for morning and evening, so that
the practice took an hour and more.
sat on the porch and listened, watch
ing the fading light In the windows, and
the shadows falling along the alsles,
while the voices of the choir, uplifted,
rang out clear and true and echoed
around the walls Of the empty church,
and beat about among the rsfters Of the
roof.
The black clouds hanging low made
the evening so dark that outside the
porch one could see nothing. But the
lightning began to play about, and lit
up the grave stones with sudden CLEANS.
Presently, looking out into the black
ness, | discovered in one Of these flashes
man In the church yard walking about
among the graves. This was a strange
thing to see man walking among the
graves after dark. / waited for the next
flash Of lightning. When 1t came,
saw the man quite clearly; he was bend
ing over a headstone and peering into II.
as IL trying to read the name Of the per
son buried there.
Then the man left the grass, bly,
because he could no longer read any OF
the names, and began to walk along the
gravel walk toward the porch; perhaps
because he saw the lights and heard the
singing. The choir were Just beginning
the last Of their hymns:
LEAD, kindly light. amid the incircling
gloom;
Lead thou me on"
That's the voice Of George Sidcots,
said the stranger, addressing himself
He always sung the tenor. / remember
his voice well and that's the voice Of
Mary Nethercote; | remember her voice
too. That's Harry Rsbjahns, the black
smith, singing bass; a very good bass h'
always sung. Az; they are all there
they are all there"
"Who are your l asked. "Who ars
you to know all the peopleY
A sudden cash Of lightning showed ms
ragged man with a great beard, whom
knew not by sight
81 know you, too. l didn't see you a
arst. You are viii Nethercots." Hi
voice was hoarse and husky. you arr
the son OF lne fectOf. feheubeh JOi
very well"
81 am; but the rector is dead; and VIII
are your
Before l go on" he said-"before
70 on" be repeated these words as /
they bad some peculiar significance q
him, IL thought l would come here frs
and see his grave-his grave-ths plac
where they laid him; and l thought
would read what they wrote over him
how he died. you know-just out Of curl
osity, and for something to remsmber."
Laid ~homr'
81 should like to think that had seel
actually seen-his grave" he went on
But the night has turned dark, and
can't read the names. and haven't got
match upon me. VIII you tell me wher
they've laid himT
Laid whom. manl Who are you looG
ing forT
81 am looking for the headstone o
} Daniel Leighan. Old Dan, they used {
all him. Whc died six years ago. q
J fsrsahorus"
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-12-30

Jack Ardupp tried to borrow a dol
lar from me just now, but he didn't
get it. told him hadn't SOU"
Wasn't that stretching the truth
considerably
mot TT all. never saw one, in
fact. It's a French coin. isn't tip
Pittsburg Post.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-12-30

al never could understand" said the
giraffe, how the tortoise came to beat
the hare in that foot race"
Had him hoodooed," explained the
camel. you see, the tortoise came
and stroked my hump for luck before
he went out on the track. "-Clevelan
Taadpr
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-12-30

"Why don't you go to work."
mister" said Flooding Pete, 1--WE
talked for FIVE minutes tryin' to tel!
you a hard luck story that would win
a dime"
"You have"
AN If l kin hold yer interest, I'm
liable to keep on talkin' an den may
be not git a cent"
That's quite true"
"well, mister amt dat work p
Washington Star.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-12-30

Town children do not help their
parents much as a rule, but children
In the country work from a very
early age. 1t is related that an old
fashioned farmer once said to his SOM
you were an expense to me until you
wsra seven years old"
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-12-30

to take lessons In physical culture"
said the friend from town.
"Wa-all. yes" drawled Farmer ST.
las, IAN I've been bus. getting her
the necessary articles"
Indian clubs and dumbbells, I pre-
sumeT"
mo, a new washtub an a patem
ironing board"
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-12-30

Mr.. Biblets-Now, m dear, I'll tell
you how l happened to get home SO
late II you'll only listen.
Mrs. Biblets-All right. Turn of
the radiator before you begin, will
your
Mr.. Biblets-Wha' for?
Mrs. Biblets-Oh, 1t seems so ex-
traVagant to have steam and hot air
both going at the same time.-Kansas
City Independent.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-12-30

First Great FinaDcier-Do you-er
-ahem.-think 1t safe to continue 10
conduct the affairs of the company In
this way7
Second Great Financier-Why noti
Haven't we just been exposed?-
Punch.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-12-30

The most costly inter in the United
States. which represents $4,000 worth
OF jewels and precious stones is worn
by Bishop Horstmann OF the Cleveland
diocese Of the Roman Catholic Church
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-12-30

The longest-lived trees In northern
Europe are the pines of Norway and
Sweden. but $40 years is their greatest
period. Germany's oldest oaks live
only little more than 300 years.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-12-30

IL don't suppose It would be of any
use to ask you to stay to tea" she
said, as he was about TO depart.
mo" he replied, mot in .'Nat style
and tone OF voicer
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1905-12-30

The central markets Of Paris use
more than 10000 worth OF BASKETS
syery year.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-06-21
Now Is the Time to Subscribe.

1t is never safe to borrow the
newspaper to which your neighbor
subscribes and for which he pays.
Read the following account, given by
the Kansas City Journal, of what
happened to man in that part of
the country who kept ur with the
progress of events at the expense of
the man who took the paper:
GA man who was too economical
to subscribe for his home paper sent
his little boy to borrow the copy
taken by his neighbor. In his haste
the boy ran over 81 stand of bees
and in ten minutes looked like a
warty summer squash. His cries
reached his father, who ran to his
assistance, and, failing to notice a
barbed- wire fence, ran into it, break
ing it down, cutting handful of
flesh from his anatomy and running a
SIS pair of pants. The old COW took
advantage of the gap in the fence
and got into the corn-feld and
killed herself eating green corn.
Hearing the racket, the wife ran,
upset a four gallon chun of rich
cream into a basket of kittens,
drowning the whole flock. In her
hurry she dropped $25 set of false
teeth. The baby, left alone, crawled
through the spilled cream and into
the parlor, running $40 carpet
During the excitement the Oldest
,ughter ran away with the hired
man, the dog broke up eleven setting
hens, and the calves got out and
chewed the tails off four fine shirts
1t might have been worse.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-06-21
Suggestions as TO Drunkards.

DIR. /. A. McSwain, in a paper on
alcoholic insanity, read before the
Tennessee Medical Association, Of
Tered the following suggestions
l. The children of drunken and
debauched parents ought for obvious
reasons to be taken away from them
and placed in decent homes, or re-
moved to industrial institutions pro-
vided by the State. This would
check their hereditary tendencies to
drunkenness, and therefore reduce
che number being raised up to be-
Come a burden to the State in the
way of paupers, criminals, lunatics.
2. Young people who in early life
contract the pernicious habit OF
drinking should also be removed
&rom the temptation of their environ.
fnents, and placed in institutions in
which they should be taught some
useful employment and restrained
from vicious habits
8. The drinking mas, as soon az
he began his spree, before he was
.waeed by it, should be taken into
custody, not as nuisance, but as a
dangerous man or one likely to be.
come 80, because of insanity in the
lncipient stage.
4. The confirmed drunkard, the
chronic alcoholic subject, should or
no account be allowed to exercise
his personal liberty in the puroait O
delnsions which result from pro
fonged excesses.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-06-21
President Roosevelt Buys a Camp.

Richmond, Va, Juno 13-Presiden
Roosevelt has just purchased $50 acres
of land and frame house about seven
miles from Scottsville, in Albemarle
county. The place is one of the prettiest
in the beautiful County of Albemarle. 1t
is in the Piedmont section, and nearby is
a number of beautiful homes. At pres
ent the place cannot boast anything more
than magnificent site for q home. The
house now there ia comfortable, but it is
small and plain. 1t is understood that
the President will use it as camp. He
can reach it by going direct from Wash
ington to Charlottesville and driving
over, distance of sixteen miles. The
roads are fairly good.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-06-21
Clubbing 0tIer-Four Papers a Week.

On April LIST the Atlanta Constitution
began the publication of tri-weekly
edition-Mondays. Wednesdays and. Fri
days. We have made arrangements
whereby we can furnish our readers Tho
Keowee Courier and the tri-weekly edi-
tion of the Constitution-four papers q
week-for Sl.75 per year. awe: are now
able to furnish the Weekly Constitution
and The Keowee Courier at $1.4O per
year. Subscription to both papers to be
paid IN ADVANCE.
Try this combination and we think
you will be pleased.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-06-21
Pos. once Suggestions.

The following suggestions have
been mailed to us by subscriber
residing at Victoria, N. c.:
1. After your mail has been handed
out to you, please inquire if "tbat's
ALL" 1t sounds so insinuating and
pleases the postmaster.
2. When you fail to get mail that
you were expecting you should re-
mark, "Well, that's strange. 1t was
mailed to this post Office" Give
him to understand that you know
that the post Office system is so per-
feet that no mistakes are ever made
any where IN the whole business ex-
cept in this office. Then be will be
likely TO produce the mail in ques-
tion at once.
3. When you have mail that re-
quires stamps on it, just pass it in
and tell the postmaster to 'stick 'em
on" as the licking of two or three
stamps might make you sick, but the
licking Of fifty or more stamps a
day would not hurt postmaster.
No matter if it did.
4. When you mail a letter you
should tell the postmaster when and
which way to send it off, as the old
sap head would not be likely to
know unless you told him.
S. When the postmaster finds a
letter with the two "mystic" words
"In haste" written on the envelope,
he gets hustle on himself, and mails
that letter at once. The mail car
riers whip their horses into gallop !;
the postal clerks on the route fall
over one another in their hurry to
push that letter along ahead of all
the others, and the engineer of the
mail train will pull the throttle wide
open and rush that train along ninety
miles an hour.
6. When you have something that
you wish to get registered, or want a
money order you might come in early
in the morning to have it attended
to during the hurry of getting off the
mails or during the rush of receiving
and delivering the evening mails, or,
better still, about 9 O'Clock in the
evening after the books are closed.
1t will give you so much pleasure to
have to wait, at the hours above
mentioned, four or five times longer
than if you had called at any other
time of the day, besides, it is during
such hurried times that mistakes are
most likely to occur.
7. 1t is so very pleasing, too, to
those who are impatiently waiting
to get their mail, to see you standing
at the delivery window deliberately
looking over your mail, buying
stamps and passing in big bill to
get changed, all of which, with
proper regard for the rights of others,
should have been attended to at a
more seasonable time.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-06-21
Very Appropriate to the Season.

There never we're better people
than the people of South Carolina.
They have had bitter enemies and
they have been occasionally much
maligned, but when it comes to the
highest grace of all the grace of
loving kindness, they cannot be
beaten this side of heaven. Pardon
my partiality for really think so.
Now all this sweet talk has a pur-
pose-it is prelude to suggestion
to the people of this generous State
to set their generous hearts to a
task before the summer vacation be-
gins. And it is about to begin just
now.
Have you thought of your little
orphan brothers and sisters !? There
are two hundred of them in the
Presbyterian Orphanage at Clinton
(ThornwelD, there are two hundred
more in the Baptist Orphanage at
Greenwood Connie MaxwelD, and
there are nearly that many at the
Methodist Orphanage at Columbia
(Epworth).
know something of the condition
of these denominational homes, for
| have standing welcome at all of
them, and who ought to know them
better than I2 / know that at this
season of the year they arel always
sorely pressed for the necessities of
life, and this little love letter Ito my
brethren of the different denomina-
tions is to suggest that each one of
you send at once your check or a
barrel of flour, or rice, or molasses or
even sack of grits to the orphan
age you love best. June and July
are the best times to send. Every
body with heart ought to feel it a
privilege to do it. At any of these
homes nickle will give child a
good meal and five dollars will board
child for month. There are six
hundred of these children in your
church orphanages. And that does
not count the Episcopal and Catho-
lie homes in Charleston or the
Charleston Orphan House, supported
by the city, or the Colored Ind ustrial
Orphanages in Charleston aid Co
lumbia run by those two good colored
men, Jenkins and Carroll, who de.
serve the help and sympathy of the
white people of this State. And
do hope they will not be forgotten.
Now, sit down quickly, dear
friend, before you take your own va.
cation, and before you forget it, and
do something for the institution that
you love best. This is the season
when nearly everybody is fixing TO,
a good time. Your dear little
brothers and sisters at the orphan.
ages ought to have good time, too
| Your friend and fellow citizen,
| w. p. Jacobs,
! Clinton, s. g.
] Thornwell Orphanage.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-06-21

"Durn you and your old grocery I"
shouted the man who had backed up
against the fresh paint.
"Didn't you see that sign, Fresh
Paint I" said the grocer.
"Of course / did, but / have seen
so many signs hung out here an
nouncing something fresh that wasn't
that did not believe it,"
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-06-21
The clay" Microbe.

A learned professor claims to have dis
covered that ''laziness' is caused by a
germ. If the eminent doctor is right,
Rydale's Liver Tablets can rightly be
ways romove that tired, lazy, sluggish
feeling that has usually been attributed
to a torpid liver or constipated bowels.
Rydale's Liver Tablets are guaranteed to
cure constipation and all liver disorders.
They are small, compressed chocolate
coated tablets, easy to take, pleasant in
effect, reliable. Any dealer in our RENE
dies will return your money if you are
not satisfied with these tablets. so tab.
lets 25 cents. Walhalla Drug Company.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-06-21
Nothing Risked, Nothing Gained.

You risk nothing in buying Elliotts
Emulsified Oil Liniment, because you
get your money back if not satisfied.
Your gain is great, because you get the
matism, best for sprains and swellings,
best for use in the family and on your
stock. A full pint bottle, costs but 25
cents. No risk, all gain. Walhalla Drug
Company.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-06-21
Growth Of Prohibition.
baptist Courier, June III

The agitation that has been going
on for a number of years in favor of
prohibition is bearing fruit. The
sentiment in favor of temperance is
stronger than ever before. The
teaching in the churches, schools and
homes is producing happy results.
The friends Of this cause need not be
discouraged. Complete and perfect
victory may not come to any State
as whole, but the sale and use of
Intoxicating liquors will be greatly
lessened in many places. The traffic
in liquors, legal and illicit, is under
the ban. The use of liquor on the
part of employees is discouraged and
in many cases prohibited by large
corporations, business concerns and
employers. Every man, young and
old, making application in due form
for government position must answer
the question, "Do you use intoxioat-
ing drinks?" No doubt many an
applicant has been turned down upon
answering that question in the affir-
native. The drinking school teacher
is thing of the past; parents de-
mand sober teachers. 1t is rare
sight to see drinking physician; the
people wish a sober man to stand by
the bedside of their beloved sick. In
all the professions and occupations
the world is looking for sober men.
This is right. How important, then,
for parents, teachers and preachers
who have to do with training the
young to impress upon them the su-
preme Importance and necessity of
living sober lives. The growth of
the temperance and prohibition SEN
timent is to be hailed with delight by
all right thanking people.
We are pleased to find the follow
ing encouraging words and facts in
our worthy contemporary, the South
ern Christian Advocate, a paper that
uses its great influence in favor of
righteousness
"Few people who do not keep in
actual touch with the question of
prohibition have any conception of
the sure and steady growth of the
prohibition sentiment in the United
States. Figures may often prove
misleading, but the following facts
from recent authoritative report
are both encouraging and convincing.
The report reviews by statistics the
status of prohibition in thirty-nine
States of the Union, and shows its
relative strength. Three of these
Kansas, Maine and North Dakota
are prohibition States. In Tennes-
see prohibition prevails in all save
eight cities of over 5000; in Iowa
in all save twenty five cities; in Vir-
ginia and North Carolina local op-
tion laws were passed in 1908, and
in the former Richmond is the only
important city without prohibition.
In twelve other States, all Southern
with the exception of Pennsylvania,
and of 962 counties, sos, or more
rhan half, have prohibition, III have
partial prohibition, IL have dispen-
,saries, and only 337 allow the sale of
Intoxicating drinks under license. In
nineteen States, with the exception
of Mississippi, all Northern and
Western, 4,411 towns and cities are
wholly nrohibtive. While no report
is obtainable from the country dis
tricts, it is a natural inference that
with the prohibition sentiment 80
strong in the towns and cities, this
sentiment must be even stronger in
the country"
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-06-21
Dyspepsia or INDIGESTION.

The term Dyspepsia" means lack of
pepsin in the stomach. Indigestion is
rightly used when ever the food is not
properly digested, regardless to the
cause. 1t is immaterial whether you
call your ailment dyspepsia or indigestion
when Rydale's Stomach Tablets are used.
They are guaranteed to cure all forms of
stomach trouble. Buy trial box, (price
% cents) and be convinced. Walhalla
Drug Company.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-06-21
Belton Power Company.

The Bolton Power Company is making
rapid progress toward the completion of
the dam at Saluda river. They are now
working over 800 hands and hope to be
able to transmit the power to Belton and
WilliamstOn in September, when these
progressive towns will be lighted up with
eleotricity
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-06-21
Scholarships for Young Women.

Of the fifteen scholarships owned
by the South Carolina Federation of
Women's Clubs, only the following
are now open:
College for Women, Columbia
One scholarship for four years. aoa-
demic work in college.
Gieenville Female College-One
scholarship of free tuition for four
years.
Greenville College for Women
One scholarship of free tuition for
four years. Special rates for music.
Chicora College, Greenville-One
scholarship of free tuition for four
years.
The South Carolina Kindergarten
Association Training School, Charles
ton--One scholarship of free tuition
for two years.
Winthrop College, Rock Hill
One scholarship of free tuition.
Confederate Home College, Charles
ton-One scholarship of free tuition.
Clifford Seminary, Union-One
scholarship of free tuition.
The examinations for these schol-
arships will be held in each county
July Sd. All applicants must file
their names before June 25th with
Miss Annadora Baer,
Chairman Educational Dept. S. G.
Federation of Women's Clubs,
16 Bull street, Charleston, S. G..