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The San Francisco call., 1906-08-18

expect to leave sb tly for Paris for a
few weeks stay, going back probably
to Lucerne. 1t is possible that they
will return here in the late. fall-the
end of November or thereabouts-or
they may decide to remain abroad all
winter.
Mrs. Samuel Welch, who was for a
time living in Berkeley, left about a
month ago for the East and is the
guest of her sister, Mrs. Fleming, at
the latter's home on Lake Geneva,
Wisconsin.
Mrs. Henry Clarence Breeden, who
has spent the summer with her
mother, Mrs. Butler, at the latter's
home in Santa Barbara, will return
to town about September I, to remain
during the winter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Willard F. William
son, who we're for time in Ross VAL
ley, have gone to Oakland and will
remain there until their new home at
Piedmont, situated next. the Buffers
and Barraclough places, is completed
They expect to make their home there
for the next few years, but will
eventually return to San Francisco
and build on their. property near the
Preside wall on First avenue and
Jackson street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur B. Watson
have returned from Mill Valley, where
they resided during the summer
months and are at their home, a5II
Pierce street
Mrs. William Grant Morrow, who
finds the climate of Sausalito. too
severe for her health and that of her
little sons, has closed her lovely home
there for the present and has taken a
house on the Berkeley hills for two
years.
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PAY THE DEBTS.

~ ARRET McENERNEY tells the relief committee that is
debts of ALL anything left
II build houses for the refugees Mr. McEnerney
undoubtedly right The relief fund be
udded away real schemes but be paid
immediate needs of the sufferers The creation corporation
pepetuty contemplating speculation real dealing
building is altogether foreign the purposes
and fraugh with the dangers from which
who ashy engaged this dubious enterprise
the chief sufferers.
Besides, the building houses. Crowley
his but the thinking 1t
would be the purpose what is due That is about
good form of rehabilitation be devised.
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FDTTnPIAT Of uGrsTS 9o

and it still holds. We find already condition San
Francisco doubt
proved in Baltimore.
We had bigger fire in San Francisco covered greater
Also having trouble collecting but
the result will be the here Baltimore take
time but inevitable because the location great cities
of chance They created by the
OF found in the
Chicago Baltimore devastated by
conlagrations
Board Works" is msnomer When one figures what it
from and gives the city ought Board
Cheerful Workers.
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AN ENCOURAGING EXAMPLE.

IHE example of Baltimore inspiring Two
years and half ISL in the heart of Baltimore
burned today per of the district
been rebuilt Few vacant lots remain and these will
be occupied
The Baltimore Sum- making report progress thirty
the that the buildings erected remarkable
architectural beauty and include
scrape splendid modern city has arisen i'll thirty
Closely following the fire period of remarkable activity
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-18

MORTGAGE-Subscri City. A
mortgage is but lien on land, not
withstanding that in form 1t purports
to convey a present estate to the mort
gagee. The legal title remains In the
mortgagor, subject to the lfen and
he may sell or dispose Of the same
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-18

Townsends Cal glace fruits ana can
dies az Emporium. Post and Van Nese
and 1908 and 1920 Valencia street.
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-18
In Answer to Queries.

COIN vALUES-SeveraI correspon-
dents. Questions as to the value of
coins are answered only by mail when
the query is accompanied by a self ad-
dressed and stamped envelope.
SOLDIERS HOMES-A. o. T., City
There are. Ave homes for ex-Confed-
crate soldiers. They are located at
Richmond, Va; New Orleans, La; Aus
tin. Tex; Pikesville, Md, and Nash
Vile, Tenn.
QUOTATIONS.. S. G.. City. Build
ers wrought with greatest care" is
from THE Builders" by Longfellow,
occurring in the following stanza:
In the older days of Art
Builders wrought with greatest care,
Each minute and unseen part;
For the gods see everywhere.
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burdened, however. by incumbranca
But while the mortgagor may perform,
any 'alld act relative to the property
and make any contract with reference
70 the title he can do no act which
shall be prejudicial to his mortgagsss.
interests or which may injuriousIy az
feet the mortgage lien
SEVEN WISE MEN-Suhser,h.-
Alameda. Cal Generally the seven
wise men OF Greece were Solon- ChtIo
Plttacus. Bias and Periander Gin place
OF whom some give Epinenides). Cleo
oulus and Thales. They were the an
thors of the celebrated mottos in
scrtbed In the latter days in the Del.
phian Temple. These were: "Kno~
myself. Solon: Consider the endS
Chilo; Know thy opportunity" Pitta.
Gus; Most men are bad" Bias: .sNoth.
ing Is impossible to industry" PERT
ander; Avoid excesses." Cleobulus- ana
"Suretyship is the precursor of ruin .
Thales.
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MIR. MOTT.

We can but regard Mr.. John R. Mott,
Of the Students Volunteer Movement.
with interest and admiration He i'm
presses us as one who has that order of
genius, that capacity for leadership,
which has founded empires; and the
courage and devotion which, in other
days, have made reformers and martyrs.
His chosen field of personal activity
seems to be the world itself, and right
well is he prosecuting the realization of
his worldwide dream.
These words may seem immoderate.
but if our approved historians can ap-
plaud the vanquishers of nations-the
men who have founded their immortal
fame on the desolations of empires-may
we not say something in praise of those
who are foremost in winning the hearts
of nations in willing allegiance to our
Lord-and winning them, as they must
be won, with the weapons of peace, the
persuasions of loving sacrifice?
Mr.. Mott has traversed all the CONT
mental countries of the world, organizing
scattered Christian forces and crystallz
ing, as far as man may do, Christian
effort and sentiment In these lands he
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1906-10-31
TAB (4)

One of the happiest features of each
meeting of the Synod is the loving greet
fngs Of old friends Fraternal relations
are well established.
Ministers wives are especially in favor
at the Virginia Synod. One lady came
In place of her husband, who could not
leave home.
1t is not surprising to us that all want
to hear preaching. Good preaching of
the wonderful Word is one of the Hottest
occupations Of men.
There has not yet been any consider
able debate. Nothing has been preached
that opens down into the depths, and it
is Presbyterian assembly to it's depths.
The work Of the Synod's Evangelistic
and Home Mission Committee is the pc
culiar work of the Synod, and most pros
porous and promising is the work at this
time.
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has come into contact and ASSOCIATE
not only with students, but leaders -
commerce, government, social life And
religion. Formerly he has made TOM.
OF Asia, Europe and Australasia. Mo,.
recently he has visited lands south =,
the equator. In South Africa he b,s
access to and welcome from all classes
widely differing as to race, Civilization
national and religious Affiliations. In
Cape Town the once obtrusive Briton and
defiant Boer met in fellowship on IN.
platform, received his counsel and pledp
ed their united sympathy and service fl
the cause of the worlds evangelization
At Lovedale nearly eight hundred stu
dents of the native colleges, composed Of
members from perhaps a dozen African
tribes, attended his meetings. and Of
these one hundred and fifty made pro
fession of their faith and fifty-sevep
pledged themselves for Christian mis-
sions among their respective tribes.
In South America, at Buenos Ayres
the largest city south of the equator and
composed of purely Latin population
he held enthusiastic meetings. At Sac
Paulo a Christian Association conven.
ton was held, with leaders from neigh,
boring and distant Cities
Other centers Of population were Wis.
tied with like results. We are told that
Mr.. Mott has seen visions of greater
things for the young men Of South Amer.
lea, and is impressed with the call for
doctrine in meeting our responsibility
for the spiritual liberty, independence,
security and happiness of Latin America.
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THE MINISTERIAL RANKS.

In the Presbyterian of Toronto, Can
ada, DR.. J. F. McLaren is writing on a
subject much discussed, certainly in the
English speaking part of the Christian
world, "The Decrease in the number Of
students for the ministry" He has
gathered statistics from the theological
seminaries, which show that this de-
crease is not local, but general He
thinks that the clue to the real cause or
causes lies in the unanimity of the re-
ports as to the date when the maximum
attendance of students in theology was
reached and the decline began. Both
in Canada and in the United States 1t
was in 1896 that there began a steady
decrease; and the question lies as to
what were the baneful influences that
at that time became so widespread and
continue. One of these he thinks is the
remarkable era of industrial and COM
mercial prosperity affecting every Chris
tan nation. With much to be thankful
for, there is much to regret. This ma
terial prosperity brought spiritual adj
versity. A mad pursuit for wealth set
in which lowered ideals and wrought
untold injury to the Church and to the
nation. Religion in the home declined
while family worship became a thinS
of the past and time was not given 10
private devotion. A direct result was
that young men were alienated FROM
the ministry. A farther result was tina
while better prices prevailed, wages ID
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1906-10-31
ARE YOU ENLISTED?

We sometimes speak of Christian SER
vice as warfare and the Christian Church
as an army. The metaphor is scriptural
and is expressive, If we only remember
that the weapons of our warfare are not
carnaL We bear messages of peace. we
are to overcome by the forces of peace
Our implements of conquest are the en-
blemS and the embodiment of peace. But
the conquest of the world, how formidable
|and how sublime the vision! While it
appalls it attracts; while it awes it fasci-
mates. 1t is overwhelming but it charms.
The conquest of the world! Yes, for
Christ and his Crown, that he may be
glorified in his saints. Are you enlisted?
Do you belong to this onsweeping, bat
ting but exulting army? Are you out
in the field where the battle RACES, where
the conflict is hand to hand? We wres-
tie against principalities, against powers,
against the rulers of the darkness of this
world. Do not say you are unaware of
the conflict and know not where the death
struggle is on. Do you not hear the
groans of the dying? Do you see the
gaping wounds that sin has made? Do
you not hear the wall of wellnigh de-
spairing hearts? Surely you know of
the danger and have heard the clash
of arms and the voice of the Commander
is ringing in your ears. He needs you in
the ranks. Where are you; in some
bower of ease, some retreat of fancied
safety? Where are you; laughing the
hours away, eating and drinking, heaping
up treasure? You are needed in the
ranks. The foe is pressing hard. He as
sails commerce; he debauches society; he
throttles governments; he invades the
home. Where are you to-day, that you
haven't Gods armor on? Do you sleep
while others watch? Do you play while
others toll or hide yourself while others
face the foe? Yea, are you led captive
by Satan at his will? Break your bonds.
o willing slave The opiate of sin be-
numbs you. You are like one that dreams.
The foe is upon you, will you not arouse
yourself? Your loved ones are imperiled;
are there no foes for you to face. Are
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you so Insignificant in Gods universe as
not to raise hand or mingle your voice
with the pleadings and praises of Gods
militant host? There Is yet much land
to be possessed, and how sublime the op-
portunity! The nations are to be en-.
lightened and purified, and our reli-
gion must do that. Literature art, sci
ence, government must feel the touch and
the mastery of Christ in truth Commerce
must be dominated by the golden rule.
The brotherhood of man must become,
not the poets dream, but the experience
and heritage of the race. To this end
the shackles of ignorance and vice, of
superstition and hate, of beastliness and
all moral deformity that bind the heather
must be broken. Avarice, envy, lust,
pride, treachery and hate in modern civ
ilization must be shackeled. In a word,
our perishing humanity is to be rescued
and restored. Have you a part in this
tremendous onset? Will you share in the
triumph toward which the Church is
your name on the roll call; there are
weapons to fit your hand Do you ask,
What can 1 do?" o, what can you not
do? You can wrestle and fight and pray;
you can believe Gods Word and testify;
you can give your sympathy, your pres
ence, your faith and love, your substance,
your strength of character, your unwaver-
ing allegiance, your child-like trust, your
example, your peace of conscience, your
assurance of hope, your fidelity to truth
and right. Will you not share in this
sublime contest while the. Master leads?
Shall your voice not mingle in those
shouts of victory that shall sweep round
the earth and sound through the heavens
when the Kingdoms of this world shall
have become the kingdoms of our Lord
and of his Christ?
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1906-08-15
Victim OF a ParIor Game.

According to dispatch to the New
York Times, the pecuniary losses
which caused the suicide of Congress
man Robert Adams, of Philadelphia,
were in part incurred at bridge whist,
and the Times correspondent declares
that short time before bis death the
Congressman paid large sum of
money to prominent society woman
of Washington city in settlement of
gambling debts due her.
Mr.. Adams a bachelor of SIS who
inherited moderate fortune was an
assiduous "society man" during the
thirteen years of his Congressional
career, and the most incessant of
guests at the functions given at the
National Capital.
There is no sense in becoming hys-
terical over the unpleasant fact that
men or even women of leisure and
money sometimes degenerate into
common gamblers. Thousands of
fashionable people are addicted to
gaming, and it is useless to hope that
the practice will at any time go into
complete decay. Nevertheless, such
terrible tragedies as this which has
closed the life of man who appears
to have had noble impulses and to
have been guided by high conceptions
of duty along many lines serve a
good purpose in bringing frivolous
and heartless society folks face to
face with the perils of their indul-
gences.
True, the great majority of those
who play cards for money are not
ruined by it, but it is perhaps equally
true that this same majority, be the
extent of their indulgence ever so
small, are deeply injured in mind,
heart and substance by it,, Gambling
at best is folly, and all the pleasure
which it has contributed to the gay
world of Washington is contemplate
compensation for the shame and dis
tress brought to poor "Bertie :"
Adams, his family, his friends and
the whole people of whom he was a
representative.-News and Courier.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1906-08-15
Crazed Negro Kills Fellow.

Columbia, August S.-James Ra-
born and John Barksdale, two vio-
lently insane patients at the State
hospital for the insane, became en-
gagged in frightful encounter in a
single cell, where they had been
locked on account of scarcity of room,
and Barksdale was killed at an early
hour yesterday morning. The mat
ter was not reported till last night.
Barksdale was literally stamped to
death by the other negro and his
body was terribly lacerated when
found by the attendants.
The hospital for the insane has
been greatly overcrowded for some
time and it has not been possible to
place each patient in cell to himself.
There are now 375 more patients at
the institution than there are accom-
modations for.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1906-08-15
A Fee OF s299, $50.

Pittsburg, August S.-Dr. G.. G.
Hendricks, of Atlantic City, entered
suit in the county court here to-day
against Mrs. Laura Bigger Bennett,
widow of Henry M. Bennett, a former
theatrical manager of Brooklyn and
Pittsburg, claiming $299,9sO for pro-
fessional services. DR.. Hendricks al
legged that he attended Mrs. Bennett
in his private sanitarium in New Jer-
sey for two years, and that he was
only paid $40 during that time.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1906-08-15
Georgia Negro Advises Northern Negroes.

Washington. August a.-Retc-s the
Negro Young Peoples Educational Con-
gress Thursday, A. j. Cobb, of Barnes
vile, Ca, in an address, said:
"You negroes in the North let the
Southern negro alone. He can take care
OF himself. He is friend of the white
man, and the white man is friend of
his. You discuss racial problems, never
forgetting to bring the white man in.
Let him alone. Stop antagonizing him
and mind my words, he'll be your friend.
Why, down South have actually forgot
ten that l was black man until / looked
into the lookingglass."
Rev. Fl. 81. Proctor, of Atlanta, dis
cussed "What Can Be Done to Eradicate
Prejudice" and said:
my advice to my racei is, save, ac-
oumulate, buy property; gold alone will
open to us the portals of equal oppor-
tunity."
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1906-08-15
THREE PAPERS A WEEK FOR $3.50.

by clubbing arrangement with the
Charleston Semi-Weekly News and Cou-
rier we are offering that paper and The
Kcowee Courier for $3.50 per year. The
Keowee Courier is recognized not only
as the best paper in Oconee county, but
it is rated among the best county papers
in South Carolina. The Semi Weekly
News and Courier is an excellent Jour
nal, published on Wednesdays and Satur-
days, gives the detailed news of South
Carolina as % special feature, and carries
the full Associated Press dispatches
from all over the world. The combina-
tion of the two papers at $3.50 gives our
present readers, as we'll as new sub
scribers, cn opportunity to secure two of
the best papers In che State (three papers
a week) for so cents more than the rogu-
lar prico of either. Lotus send you two of
the very best papers Ia South Carolina
for almost the price Of one.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1906-08-15
Abused Own Daughters and Killed Son.in. Law

Fort Payne, Ala, August S.-An
aged white man, named White, is in
Jail here charged with an atrocious
murder near Lydia, Ala. Wright
went to the house of his sons-in- law,
Sam Bailey and John Bailey. He
began to abuse his daughters, when
the others demonstrated. John Bal
ley's throat was cut by the old man
80 that he died almost instantly.
Sam Bailey, who was holding an in
FAINT in his arms, was also stabbed in
the throat, but will recover. Posses
went after the old man and he finally
surrendered.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1906-08-15

devil--cast them out, and let any fur
ther effort in their behalf be made to
an unrepentant sinner. It's easier to
convict a sinner outside the church
than inside. But an unsaved sinner
dying in the church is just as sure
of hell as an unsaved sinner in the
darkest jungle of African cannibal-
ism. While God makes no excuse
for a sinner dying in the church, in
my humble judgment He holds the
Christians in the church responsible
for the contamination of the church
by the sinner, whose membership the
church tolerated. The parable of
the wheat and the tares cannot be
argued to refute this idea, for Christ
stated plainly that the field was the
world, but that it was the church
that the angel meant when he said {:
"Come and will show you the bride,
the Lambs wife," Christ gave his
life on the cross that he might re.
ceive this bride at His second COM
ing in spotless purity. What a
thought for those who are striving in
humble sincerity to keep their lives
pure before God!
And, my brethren, what respon-
sibility 1t places on those whose duty
it is to keep the bride in spotless
purity, ready to be received by the
Bridegroom at His second coming
and at any hour.
If these ideas could be kept in
mind surely they would do much to-
wards improving the spirituality of
the churches. Let each member in.
dividually bear in mind the one great
fact, that Christ died for him just
the same as though he had been the
only man on earth, and let each re.
member that he is held individually
responsible for all he or she can do
to maintain the spiritual purity of
the church. And, above all, let each
member strive diligently to keep his
life pure before God, remembering
that all outward professions will avail
nothing, save as they are the express
sions of pure heart when time is
no more and God is the Judge.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1906-08-15
J. A. ShankIin Sells Fine Heard OF Cattle.

j. A. Shanklin, of Pendletop, has
just effected a sale of fine cattle,
which means much to this section of
the country. Mr.. Shanklin sold nine
head of cattle, including cows and
calves, to the United States expert
ment station at Clemson College for
$1,SO0. Some of the COWS brought
as high as $3.50 apiece.
Mr.. Shanklin has very fine herd
of Jerseys. He says his herd are
Virginia Shanklin Jerseys of the
"Tormentor" strain. They are said
to be very fine by expert cattle lovers
and that they will compare most fa-
vorably with the noted herds of the
New England States.
The raising of cattle has not been
carried on very extensively in this
State of late years and few farmers
have shown much interest in this
branch OF the industry. Mr.. Shank
Inns example in raising such fine
herd and of being so successful in
selling them at such good prices
should put the planters and others to
thinking along this line. Mr.. Shank
lin, it is said, derives good profit
each month from the products of his
cattle, too.
1t is said that the Governments
agent who effected the sale for the
Clemson College station was very
much pleased with the price paid,
which ought to intimate that more
money could have been realized on
the herd.-Anderson Mail, August 8.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1906-08-15
GREAT FLOOD DISASTER IN TEXAS.
FIFTY LIVES LOsr-TEN THOUSAND HEAD
OF CATTLE KILLED.

Fort Worth, Texas, August s.
Fifty lives were lost, 10000 cattle
killed, property worth millions de-
stroyed, and thousands of persons
rendered homeless Tuesday as the
result of flood in Southern Texas,
when the Colorado river was forced
out of it's banks by heavy rains.
The death list is growing hourly,
and it is believed it will prove to be
the worst disaster since the Calves
ton flood visited Texas. Relief
trains are cut off, telegraph and tele.
phone wires are down and the fate
of the inhabitants of several isolated
towns is unknown.
WHOLE FAMILY DROWNED.
The flood came without warning
and inhabitants at San Angelo and
Ballinger were forced to flee for
safety in their night clothing. An
entire family at Ballinger, named
Cook, were drowned as they at
tempted to leave their home on an
improyised raft, which strucl; an OBJ
struction. The Colorado river is
from four to six miles wide in places
and the tributaries south are out of
their banks. The Santa Fe track
bridges were washed out and traffic
is at a standstill. Persons made
homeless sought refuge in churches.
Provisions and clothing were rushed
to the scene.
HOMELESS AT BROwNwOOD.
Brownwood, Texas, August s.
Five hundred people are homeless as
the result of flood here. The water
is standing at the high water mark of
1900. A strip thirty miles long and
from two to four miles wide is cov-
cred with from three to ten feet of
water.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1906-08-15
Blue RIDGE RAILWAY co.

BETWEEN BELTON AND wALHALLA.
Time Table No. lO.-In Effect April 20, 1905.