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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1906-05-30
News from Liberty

Liberty, May 1S.--The commencement
exercises, which were very beautiful and
interesting, are over aud the children
have laid aside their books to enjoy the
summer vacation. The teachers worked
so diligently in training their pupils that
every part was success.
Friday evening, May 1lth. we were in
| vited to the auditorium of the new school
building and were delightfully."- enter
tained by the pupils of the primary de-
partments. On the interesting program
for the evening was the Tom Thumb
Wedding, which was enjoyed very much.
Sunday morning Rev. p. K. Taylor
preached the commencement sermon TO
large and attentive congregation. His
text, Remember now thy Creator in the
days of thy youth, while the evil days
come not nor the years draw nigh when
thou shalt say nave no pleasure in
them," was very appropriate for the oc-
casion.
Again, Monday evening we were in
vited to attend the exercises of the ad-
vanced departments The most interest
ing part of this program was the Husk-
ing Bee.
Then Tuesday evening Prof. Hughes,
OF GTeenviife, gave us an interesting
lecture on "The Usefulness of the Use.
less"
Last, but not least, were the class
exercises, which were as follows:
Oration-"The patriotism of South
Carolina" by Claude Borroughs.
Essay--"How to Make Life Success"
by Olga Richardson.
Essay-"A Chance to VIM" by Tillie
Ford.
Essay--''Y outh is the Time for Prepa-
ration" by Christine Boggs.
Essay-"The Life of Girl" by Gladys
Boggs.
Essay-"The Responsibilities of To-
day." by Zola Hutchins.
Essay-"Home Influence" by Ger
trude Boggs.
Essay-"Class Prophecy" by Viola
Moore.
Valedictory. by Gertrude McWhorter.
AT the close of the exercises Rev. P. f.
Crawford stepped forward and presented
W IIol. SoBUuTu UehutiIul present
from the class, showing their apprecia-
tion of his faithful work during the year.
The auditorium was beautifully deco
rated for the exercises.
Misses Eta and Josie Boggs and Miss
Kennemore. of Easley, visited Miss Cor
rie Boggs during last week.
Misses Ina and Maka Boggs, of Pickens.
visited the family of G. T. Hutchins last
week.
Miss Chapman, of Saluda. visited Mr..
and Mrs. b. s. Cogburn during COM
mencement.
Erwin Moore, of Oakway, spent part of
last week with the family of Mrs. Il. H.
Moore.
Glenn Sheldon, of Westminster, called
to see his best girl last week.
Miss Corrie Boggs will leave in few
days for Brevard, N. c., where she will
spend the summer.
Mercer Crawford made flying trip to
Greenville last week.
Carl and Oscar Myers, of Oakway, Wis
tied the family of G. Il. Hutchins part of
last week.
Claude Borroughs has returned TO his
home. He made many friends during
his stay here, who regret to see him
leave. Friend.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1906-05-30
StuntIng Corn.

Stuntthg Corn.
Will Mr.. Williamson reply?
Now, if Mr.. Williamson's stunting
process proves with all of us to be as
profitable and satisfactory as it has
with Mr.. Williamson, we can then
see what fool we have all along
been for losing 80 much sleep over
the stunting corn habit of our free
negroes and some of our white ten
ants, too. We have watched this
seemingly unavoidable stunting pro.
cess going on about ue more or less
every year, with a great deal of dis
pleasure, counting the apparent loss
as we passed by. But if Mr.. Will
liamson's success in this stunting
corn practice proves to be as good
with others as with himself, we can
truly say to one another along the
line, "farmers, what fools we mortals
be-"
Mr.. Williamson, we do not once
doubt, has been thoroughly convinced
that his stunting plan is all right or
he would not practice this plan, let
alone advocate it in public print.
But what we want to know from
Mr.. Williamson now is, how does he
know that there is more in the stunt
ing of his corn than there was in the
side application of the fertilizer?
Did Mr.. Williamson make repeated
comparative tests upon different soils
and different seasons by the actual
weighing of the different yields and
actual measurements as to the area
under his comparative test ? or did
he form his conclusions, like many
of us have done before, by the mere
looks of the thing?
We would like to hear from Mr..
Williamson on this subject, as many
of our people are making these
pointed inquiries of our bureau about
these tests.
With the Aldrich system of plant
ing corn and cotton after the double
row alienation and rotation plan of
Mr.. Williamson, and the breeding of
new varieties of COW peas to suit our
different purposes, by Mr.. Brabham
and DIR. Mason, we feel very much
like there is something doing along
the right line by our farmers, which
is gratifying to the whole progressive
family of our farmers.
This progressive turn of the minds
of our Southern farmers away from
the all-cotton system to the more
sensible rotation plans and the in
clination to build up the land upon a
permanent plan of rotation is like
the dawn of bright new day for
our Southern farmers. 1t looks like
our people were about ready now to
call the farmer that can make rea-
sonable profitable crop from his land
and leave the land richer than before
he grew the crop, the best farmer of
the future that is the kind of
farmer that the whole country must
now look to to turn the tide of the
long practiced robber system of skin
ming tho land by continuous crops of
its soil for present gain and future
devastation.
Cheer up, farmers, you are on the
right road.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1906-05-30

The residence of VIM. E.. Nc
Clintock, of Ora, Laurens county,
was burned down on the 21st instant,
the origin of the fire being unknown.
The loss was about $1,000, with no
insurance.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1906-05-30

In sowing peas on stubble land
last season we tried to plow piece
of land with two. horse plow, but
after blowing strip across the field,
concluded to wait until it rained.
When the rain did come we got into
a hurry and plowed in all the field
with one-horse plows, running right
across the strip plowed deep with
two-horse plow, and the result was
that the deep plowed strip had 8
richer color all tho season and the
peas grew about one foot taller than
the one horse blowing.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1906-05-30

A good weeder run over cotton or
corn just at the right time kills out a
vast amount of young weeds and
grass and will pay for itself every
day over again when used with good
judgment.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1906-05-30

Simon Miller, who was convicted
in Saluda with his brother and Rus
sell Mccormick, of killing an old
negro named Truesdale and sem
fenced to ten years on the public
works, escaped recently from the
chain. gang, which was at work at or
near Chappell's, has been recaptured.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-01-25
Discovery of Lost Arts.

There was time not so long ago
when wonderful achievements of the
ancients were CLASSIFIED under the
heading of 'slost arts" and referred to
as accomplishments which all the arts
and sciences of the twentieth century
found it impossible to duplicate
1t was quite commonly asserted not
many years ago, says writer in the
Scientific American, that modern
worken could not quarry, or, having
quarried, could not handle stones as
large as the monoliths of Egypt; and
the writer has heard a public speaker
of note assert that it would be impos-
sible to handle, with modern nipple
ments, such large stones as were used
in the pyramids, or to Join them as
perfectly as they are Joined there;
yet, when occasion arose, larger
stones than any of these were quarri-
ed in Maine, and some of the larger
monoliths themselves were transport
ed, not only to the sea, but across it,
and erected in England, France and
America: and there are individuals to-
day who might, if they chose cause
the transportation to and erection in
this country of the largest pyramids,
or build new ones ten times larger
and more durable. Pyramids are not
being generally built, nowadays, be-
cause thy are not in line with the
trend of modern ambition; that's all
1t is doubtful if Damascus blade
would stand half as severe usage as
modern bandsaw blade, or even as
much as a spring of 40 cent clock;
while the ornamentation of those
wondrous blades, so far as mechanical
execution is concerned, can be excel
led by apprentices and amateurs of
today.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-01-25
HARsiNeERs OF SPRING.

With the excitement of the holiday
season over and done with for another
IL months, the shops are turning their
attention-and incidentally that of
their clients-to the dress fabrics
and trimmings that are to rule the
fashionable world during the coming
spring and summer months.
1t assuredly does seem a trifle in
congruous to purchase sheer organ
dies, batistes, linens and the like when
the snow is on the ground. 1t seems
not only like taking old Father Time
by the forelock, but by the whole
scalp as well.
However, it Is the early bird that
gets the worm, or the early shopper
gets absolutely the cream OF the nov
elites.
The counters are piled high with
shimmering stuffs, and the first thing
that strikes the eye of the fashion
wise is the fact that there is quite a
high luster upon each and every fab
ric, whether 1t be wooden or silk or
cotton.
The chiffon broadcloths show not a
sign or even a hint Of waning
vogue. despite the fact that there are
several seasons of popularity behind
them, They are, If that were possible,
even softer and thinner and sheerer
than ever before; but the dull, dead
suede finish that ushered in the pio-
neers in this fascinating fabric is
missing, and in it's place there is quite
rich shimmering satin finish.
Paris is waxing most enthusiastic
over what 1t calls the fire and fam
beau shades. Those might well be
translated as the yellow-reds and the
red-yellows--just that glamour of tints
that one observes in a fire fame. Cor
geous, indeed, are those colorings, and
they are literally employed in both
silk and woolens for all sorts of pur
poses. In broadcloth one or the --latest
productions is a changeable fabric
that shows these shades; and it is no
q whit less fascinating In the mahog
any reds, the rich reddish puppies and
plums. and some novel tints in greer
that are well-nigh indescribable by
tongue or pen.
Rough and bouretted surfaces are
conspicuously absent: and there is ;
delightful air of richness and ever
extravaganza about even the least ex
pensive of all the new showings. Tn,
woman of limited purse w. welcom'
, some of the novel cotton production
that AFFORD all the charm Of an eSpen
sive silk. Feel. finish, fabric and col
oring are each and all equal to a silk
and the cost is but a fraction of wha
! the silk salesman pencils on his sill
when he foots up the price OF pun
. chase.
} For the tailor mades, that are sue
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-01-25

body. The fact came out, though, that
the tea after "hot water" was poured
over 1t, frequently stood on the stove
whereit boiled if it would until me
man" had come home.
Mrs. Mccarthy upstairs got tea for
twenty-five cents a pound, "and sure it
wasn't fit to give me pig, if he was
dyin' av thirst" twenty-five cent tea
is sold in many :. grocery ON the
East Side. Z 1t looks like combination
Of the coarsest China green tea, with
many bits of twigs. and the cheapest
grade of India tea, which notoriousIy
contains the greatest amount of pos
sible tannin- 1t smells like a mix
ture of hay and tobacco and its taste
is as bitter as gall, even though made
according to the strict letter of the
rules, quoted above. When it has
simmered all day on the stove in the
eternal pot, it's taste can be better
guessed than imagined.
In it's attractive cheapness is its
danger. Out of pound of tea three
hundred cupfuls may be distilled, I'M
less unusual strength be demanded.
twenty-five cent tea, then, furnishes
to its devotees, twelve cups for
cent. Upon such terms the answer
is more obvious to the question of
how the other half lives. For the
cheaper the tea the better it destroys
the poor mans burden, which is ap-
petite, with it's everlasting open NAV
to be filed.
Against these conditions, the medi-
cal profession is waging a long fight
Nowhere is the fact that poor food is
the root of most physical evils
brought more keenly home to the
student than in New York, for no
where are its results more varied or
more numerous. tuberculosis, the
greatest of all the tenement scourges,
is being fought at the post graduate
by scientific feeding and all over the
city physicians and missionaries are
striving to spread the gospel of
sane diet.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-01-25
Some Tea Drinkers Little
Better Than Topers
Chinese and Englishmen Use Six Pounds
Annually.

heart of a large tenement district,
would have had no trouble at all had
their bodies been properly Eourished.
AS it is, a tiny cinder or a speck of dust
breaks through the enfeebled tissues
and the complications that follow call
for the skill of the best surgeons in
the city. OF nervous ailments, easily
traceable to diet of stimulant instead
of nourishment, there are even a
| greater number of cases.
The poor do not come to the hospi
| tai, however, until they have some
thing more definite to complain of than
the general effects of malnutrition, and
when they do arrive the immediate
occasion of their presence may be any
one of the hundred things so pressing
in its demand for prompt attention as
to overshadow the original cause One
of the men whose work gives him the
most direct view of the havoc wrought
physician of the post graduate medi-
cal school, whose daily rounds take
him into one tenement after another.
One woman he found, the other day, in
a condition of ultra nervousness, an
habitual tea-drinker, living upon it al
most to the exclusion of everything
else She was thin and sallow and
likely to collapse at any unusual occur
dence. When the doctor demonstrated
and ordered a change OF diet, the wo-
man said, "Ah, but with tea, you
know, doctor, the bills go down for
everything else. We poor folks can't
be getting all the delicacies in the
market, and, when | have tea l don't
want anything else"
In another family the dinner table
was found graced with an enormous
teapot holding pretty nearly a gallon
Tea? Sure-the grandmother drank it
all the day long, though to be sure she
liked hers with a "drop'in it. The
Oldest boy in the family, young me-
chanic, drank four and five cupfuls at a
meal-at every meal. Altogether the
family used two pounds of tea week
at thirty-five cents a pound.
A young mother in another tenement
drank six pint bowls OF tea every day
and ate nothing. Her tea, she proudly
asserted, was paid for at seventy cents
a pound and in consequence OF its price
to her immoderately extravagant--
she did not see how it could hurt any.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-01-25

organization and work are in the
hands of trusted members OF the Sc
cret service, especially detached for
the purpose.
After letters are opened and read,
and sometimes photographed, they
are put back into their envelopes, re,
sealed and delivered to the addressee
without his being any the wiser, the
delay in delivery seldom exceeds a
single post.
The means used to open letters vary
but little in the various countries
above mentioned and an official OF
ordinary intelligence soon acquires
dexterity in opening and manipulating
letters.
| When it is desired to open an ordin-
airy envelope the flaps of which have
been sealed down with gum the OPP
GRAFTON is a very simple one The en-
velope is placed, with the address
downward, on a table The narrow
end of tapering peaholder, or even
the sharpened end of a thin pencil, is
inserted under the flap in the top left
hand corner.
A gentle pressure is then exercised
and the pencil or penholder is turned
slowly downward with scew-like ac.
ton. AS it moves it separates the
gummed edge from the paper below,
and with each turn this gummed edge
is raised, without tearing the paper,
until the middle of the envelope is
reached. The pen or pencil is then
Unanswered on the lower side of the
flap, which in nearly every envelope
is only lightly gummed, and, therefore,
is more easily separated than the up.
per or gummed side of the flap. Once
the flap is undone it is pulled cut and
it becomes an easy matter to hanile
the contents of the letter.
If, however, as occasionally hap
pens, the envelope is so strongly
sealed that there is danger Of tearing
the paper, recourse is had to steam.
ing the envelopes over a kettle. The
kettle used is, as often as not, an ordi-
nary kettle, over the spout of which
the envelope is held by means of
spring, so as to receive the full force
of the steam. Sometimes a bron-
chitis kettle with long spout is used.
In dealing with letter sealed
down with sealing wax long, very
thin and flexible steel blade is used.
This is heated sufficiently for the pur,
pose, and is then deity passed under
the seal until it is lifted from the en-
velope. 1t then becomes a compare,
lively easy matter to open the en-,
velope by proceeding as before. When
the letter has been closed again the
seals are gummed back in their place
with strong gums.
A good deal of practice is required
in opening these letters, and the man
ipulator practices for long time on
dummy envelopes before he becomes
perfect and is allowed to operate up
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-01-25
New Ideas in BIouses.

There is promised a return of what
is neither more or less than the or
nate silk or velvet blouse which now
is worn under the name of dinner
jacket. Pale yellow velvet was the
material used in one of these waists
which was worn with the white lace
skirt, which, by the way, is the skirt
de riguer to be worn with separate
waists.
The emerald green blouse in thick
satin is another revival. and there
are also seen satin blouses in many
shades of purple, dead brown, buff,
and the paler shades of yellow. Or
chiimauve and deep ivory with white
still leads in popularity, although il
one possesses the treasure of a lace
skirt the contrast of the PompadouI
colors is especially attractive.
In the white waists liberty silk
crepe de chine, and a thick white
surah are taking the lead, while in
cotton there is revived as the fancy
OF the moment soft, thick ribbed white
pique.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-01-25

an essential to the most extravagant,
clined, there are all sorts of charming
effects in checks and plaids, both
mixed and broken; and some novel
stripes are sure to meet with an en-
| thusiastic acceptance. There are some
new siciliennes that, while somewhat
coarse in weave, are so exquisitely
| finished that the coarseness is merely
an added attraction; while as for the
new mohairs, they are back again in
force, and more charming than ever.
The chiffon quality that commended
| them last season to the woman of
taste and discrimination where dress
| is concerned, is even more conspicu-
Gus in the new goods, and the weight
of 10 or IL yard skirt-and Dame
Fashion threatens to increase even
this limit-will be as feather in
those and similar goods. Indeed, the
in such fabrics as those, for the ma
terial falls so softly and Grapes so
prettily that any attempt at curtail-
ing the design is bound to result in
perceptible degree of failure.
The vogue of a costume all of one
fabric, to be worn with a distinctly
separate wrap, will give strong fillip
i to the dainty henriettas and nuns
veilings. One sees quite good many
voiles on the counters, chiefly of he
silk-warp variety; but they are far
closer of weave than they were before
and they display a delightful tend
ency to the use of all silk or ribbon
borders.
White mohairs and sergeS are bound
to be in enthusiastic acceptance and
white broadcfoth is having a most
even now. That 1t will be much used
for modish gatherings later on, rae
ling and coaching parades and the
like, one may be very sure. 1t is far
too dressy, and far too universally be
coming to be lightly laid aside; add
ed to which it can be worn with pro-
lpriety long ere the calendar hints al
white froclls of other fabric.
The silk counters are not whit be
hind the others in displaying their
many attractions, ana one notes that
there is a goodly gathering of taffetas
wherever silks are ON view. 1t is the
figured taffetas. though, that claim the
position of novelty, and there are
lothsrs with tiny embroidered sprays
lin both self and contrasting color
ings that are most fetching. Louisine
too. is in high favor, and there are
charmingly old.fashiored looking lit
tie stripes and small checks and hair
lines in this that irresistibly recall tbs
days when our grandmothers wore
crinolines beneath Just such silks.
Crepe de chine, however. OF all the
silken weaves. exhibits a tendency e
increased rather than to diminishe,
/ weight. The raw silk weaves, too. ar
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-01-25

on letter sealed down with sealing
wax.
The most difficult envelope which
the black cabinet operator has to deal
with is that with a small lead seal
armed with teeth which are bent on
the inside of the envelope so that il
is impossible to open the envelope
without cutting or tearing the paper.
In such cases as this the manipula-
tor takes the bold course of Sitting
the letter open by passing a razor or
! an exceedingly sharp knife close along
the edge of the flap. This has to be
| done carefully or the contents of the
letter may be damaged. In reclosing
the flap of an envelope opened in this
manner strip of gummed paper is
fastened to the inner side of the flap
| that has been cut open.
The gummed paper is wetted and
the flap is put back and pressed
down very carefully, so that unless
the envelope is closely examined the
fact that it has been cut open would
escape notice. OF course, if the re-
ceiver of the letter were to scru-
| tinize the inside of the envelope he
would perceive the strip of gummed
paper.
In many cases where the envelope
is sealed down with sealing wax or
special kind of seal without being
gummed, and it is possible to pass
an instrument inside the flap, a long
thin pair OF pliers are passed through
the aperture of the flap to grip the
contents, which are then rolled
round the pliers and Withdrawn. After
being read the letter is replaced in
the same manner by being unfolded
in the envelope