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Quick Relief for Asthma Sufferers.

Foley's Honey and Tar affords imme-
date relief to asthma suffers in the
worst stages and if taken in time will
effect cure. Sold by DR.. j. w. 2 i.
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The ticket Guard.

u Il 4
"All quiet along the Potomac" they
say,
Except now and then stray
picket,
Is shot, as he walks on his beat to
and fro,
BY a rifieman hid in the thicket.
IT'S nothing; private or two, now
and then,
VIII not count in the news of
the battle;
Not an officer lost--only one Of the
men,
Moaning out, all alone, the death
rattle"
All quiet along the Potomac to-
night,
Where the soldiers lie peacefully
dreaming;
Their tents in the rays Of the clear
autumn moon,
Or the light of the watch-fires,
are cleaning.
A tremulous sigh, as the gentle night
Through the forest leaves softly ia
creeping;
While stars un above, With their gilt
~ ter1pg yes 81,
Keep gua rd---fo the army is sleep
ing. = !,
There's only the sound of the lone
sentry's tread,
AS he tramps from the rock to the
& fountain,
As he thinks of the two in the low
trundle bed
Far away In the cot on the noun
tain.
His musket falls slack: his face. dark
and grim,
Grows gentle with memories tender
AS ne mutters prayer for the chill
dren asleep,
For their mother-may heaven de-
fend her!
The moon seems to shine Just, as
brightly as then
The night when the love, yet un-
spoken,
Leaped up to his lps-when low
murmured vows
We're pledged to be ever unbrokep.
Then drawing his sleeve roughly over
He oashes off tears that are we'll
ing,
And gathers his gun closer up to
its place,
AS II to keep down the heart
swelling.
He passes the fountain, the blasted
pine tree
The footstep is tagging and weary;
Yet onward he goes, through the
broad belt of light,
toward the shade Of the forest SO
dreary.
Hark! was 1t the night wind that
rustled the leaves?
Was 1T the moonlight so won
drously flashing.
1t looked like rife. "Ha! Mary,
good-by!"
And the life-bIood is ebbing and
FLASHING.
All quiet along the Potomac to-
No sound save the rush of the
river;
While soft falls the dew on the face
OIL the dead
The picket's off duty forever.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-07-31
Notice to Confederate Veterans.

The Confederate veterans will meet at
their usual places in each township on
Saturday, August Sd, at II O'Clock q. m. ,
and elect one of their number, who is not
an applicant for pension, non now on
the pension list, as delegate to meet at
Walhalla Court House at II O'Clock a. m.
on Monday, September I'd, to elect G
pension board for the county to serve
the ensuing year. j. w. Holleman,
Chairman Pension Board.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-07-31

DR.. and Mrs. William Mann
Irvine, of Mercersburg, Pa, have an.
nounced the engagement of Mrs.
Irvine's sister, Miss Florence Louise
Hart, to Archibald Hamilton Rut-
ledge, of Santee, s. G. Miss Hart
and Mr.. Rutledge are both .ineal
descendants Of signers of the De-
claration of Independence, and both
belong to noted Southern families.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-07-31
Notice, Sons aad Daughters si The coniedoraoy

The officers of the Ooonee Monument
Asaociation are asking for the names of
all soldiers from Oconee county who
were killed or died from Che effects Of
the war before the surrender. Any one
having such Q record, or any ono whose
kinsman died in tho cause, will please
take notice. This is important, as the
names will be used In the monument.
j. w. Holleman will receive all letters or
communications regarding the matter.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-07-31
RArTLhE Am KING SNAKE.
Story Of Strange Battle to the heath
on an Arizona Desrrt.

on an Arizona Dessert.
One of the fiercest and most san
culinary battles to the death between
large rattlesnake and kingsnake
ever witnessed took place in the edge
of the great palm forest south of
Xacca, Ariz., a few weeks ago.
r. p. Wheeler, superintendent Of
the Big Sandy Mining Company.
and two companions were driving
from Signal to Castenada's Well and
found the snakes in fierce combat in
the road, according to the Mohave
Miner. For more than an hour they
watched the tide of battle With nm.
usual interest. The snak, fou .ht
wearily, seeking advantage, like a
flash the kingsnake gripped the rat,
tier close to the head and was fold
ing itself, coil after coil, around the
body of it's antagonist. Near the
middle of the rattler the kingsnake
had formeL a running knot ot its
body like a figure 8, and in it's creepy
folds was coon crushing out the
others life.
With desperate effort the rattler
freed its head from the grip of the
kingsnake and, like flash of light,
was sinking it's deadly fangs into the
others body. Time after time the
rattler's head quivered and flashed
as it struck it's poison flecked fangs
against the sides of the writhing
kingsnake, until at last they became
fastened in it's body, requiring an
effort to loosen the hold. During
all this time the snakes were writh-
ing and beating up the sands of the
road into such cloud of dust that
their movements could scarcely be
followed.
Soon it developed that it was but
matter of little time until the
kingsnake crushed out the life of the
rattler, as he again had him in his
deadly folds and again gripped him
close to the head. The hour being
late in the afternoon Mr.. Wheeler
and companions placed the snakes,
still locked in their deadly coils, into
box and took them to Castenada's
Well, where they were dumped out
and the fight continued. Within an
hour the rattler was crushed into an
inert mass.
The kingsnake, realizing that his
foe was dead, proceeded to investi-
gate and smelled his old enemy over
carefully from head to tail. One of
the men had removed tie rattles
from the rattlesnake toward the last
of the battle and the stump was still
bleeding. As the kingsnake came
to the bleeding stump his body
writhed aud swelled and his head
raised and swayed from side to side
and then descended on the luckless
tail with an angry swish. Then,
without further ceremony, he pro-
ceeded to swallow his late enemy in
the most approved cannibalistic
manner.
The hard-fought battle had been
won, and the victor, having disposed
OF the spoil, sluggishly and wearily
dragged its battered and bleeding
frame into nearby bush, there to
digest the dinner it had go hardly
won. Four hours had been con-
sumed in the battle and deglutitiou
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-07-31
Farmers Mutual Association Meeting

Notice Is hereby given that the an
nual meeting of the Farmers Mutual
Fire Insurance Association will be
held at the Court House, at Walhalla,
on Tuesday, August eth. All mem
bers are urgently requested to be
present. j. b. Pickett,
President.
j. d. Isbel, Secretary.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-07-31
AunuaI Singing conveatIon.

The Annual Singing Convention will
meet with New Bethel Baptist church,
near Oakway, on August Sd and 4th, 1907.
Rev. O. d. Mann will preach the intro
dnotory sermon on Saturday at II o'clock
a. m. All singers are cordially invited.
j. F. Morton, President.
Norton Cox, Secretary.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-07-31

A building at Broadway and 5Sth
streets, New York, occupied by an
automobile garage, collapsed last
Tuesday. Several persons were
buried in the ruins.
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BLUE RIDGE RAILWAY co.

BETwEEN BELTON AND wALHALLA.
Time Table No. 14.--In Effect May s, 1907.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-04-04
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" " " " Fling a Hartman.



have swung around their chosen circles.
No circle was ever drawn with radius
anything like this.
We note one thing, however, about the
Taft itinerary distinguishing 1t from all
precedent and previous experience even
more signally than the matter OF mere
distance We refer to the paucity Of del
egates. In all these tens of thousands or
miles of campaigning we can discern not
more than eighteen possible votes In the
convention. and the recording angel we'll
knows that six of these are already
sworn for Cannon.
No delegates worth speaking or any
where between Gatun and Guam! That
is why we say this particular itinerary
has fascinating interest for the philo-
sophical mind.
Nobody at all acquainted with either
can be made to believe for one moment
that AFR Speaker Cannon. Mr.. Vice
President Fairbanks or ex-Secretary
Shaw could be induced to thus cut
himself off from the American voters
until the next national Republican con.
vention has passed into history True.
Uncle Joe is cruising in southern wa
ters, but he is not out Of communica-
ton with the boys for any consider
able length Of time.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-04-04
Not Specific Enough.

| The st. Louis Globe-D Democrat,
stanch Republican organ grinder, con-
tanned recently this hazy editorial par
agraph:
Our commerce with Japan amounts to
| $780, 600 a year. with exports and I'M
| ports well divided. One item like this Is
worth more than all the vague war talk
| Who talked the war talk? And was
| 1t so vague as the CD. would have us
believe? Not very much, provided the
public press can be depended on to tell
the plain, unyarnished truth. Colonel
| Theodore Roosevelt, president OF the
United States, and his coterie of syco-
plants are the persons who talked war
more than anybody else. They do say
| that when he was shaking the big stick
over the Californians at the White
House the picture of the Japs shelling
San Francisco which he drew for the
benefit of Mayor Schmitz and the Cali
fornia congressman and senators caus-
ed each particular hair to stand on end
! as quilts upon the fretful porcupine.
He bullied them into accepting the
i very thing which they solemnly swore
from the Golden Gate to the Potomac
| that they would die before accepting. If
the GID. will take the trouble to refer
to its own files, 1t will discover that the
war talk was anything but vague.
That is not the adjective which the
CD. should have employed. HDecep-
tivenl war talk Is the proper expression.
frhnra x1rac no danUaT nf war with
Japan for the simple reason that Japan
could not borrow the money to carry
on war, and everybody but the Cali
fornians knew it, Some day we will
have war with Japan. It will come
I just as soon as she can borrow enough
money. That is to say, we will have a
war with her unless somebody else
thrashes the big head out Of her before
she gets ready to fight us.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-04-04
Seems Certain.

Surface signs indicate that Mr.. Sec
rotary Taft is so certain that he will
be nominated for president that he
thinks 1t safe to be absent from "the
United States proper" God save the
mark la great deal, or he is 50 certain
that he will not be nominated that he
feels that there is no use fooling away
his time or squandering his energies
in an attempt to round up delegates
The New York Sun thus discourses on
his remarkable itinerary
The Intended peregrinations and official
gyrations of the secretary of war pos
sess much interest for philosophers. Mr..
Taft expects to start next Saturday for
Gatun dam and elsewhere. Common re-
port has in store for this diligent public
servant and intrepid traveller an amazing
series or succession OF iourneyings be-
tween now and the beginning Of the pres.
fdential year which will take him to
Panama, Colon. Cuba. Porto Rico, Cam
ada Alaska and the Philippines, Guam
and Tutuila. with brief intervals Of do
mestic employment.
Other candidates. active ri passive.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-04-04


certain outrages at ST Elizabeth's Iu-
natic asylum, had been appointed on
the committee and had prepared
speech on Tie subjecta first rate
speech ut that The report Of the com
mittee was delayed till the very last
days of the session There was no
chance to consider 1t in its proper Or
der. There hardly ever is any chance
to consider iii its proper order anything
which the niachinists do not want con-
sidered, but there is d rule, old as the
government that when the house Is in
committee of the whole on the state
Of the Union to consider a general
appropriation bill a member may speak
IN any subject whatsoever. So under
this rule Clark asked for thirty min
ntes. and the maehinists refused to let
him have It, Being well acquainted
with them personally, | went to them
and told them they would save time
by giving him his thirty minutes, but
they objected and started in to consid
err their appropriation bill, and that's
where they struck snag. There is
another rule which any one member
can enforce, and that is that there shall
be no new legislation on an appropria-
ton bill Now, it SO happened that
this particular bill had many items Of
new legislation IN it, ali appropriating
public money for new projects. Every
time one Of these new items was reach
ed Clark would raise the point Of order
against it, and short debate would
ensue The machinists would beg and
plead with him to withdraw his point,
but he was inexorable and stuck to
them like leech He kept up that
lick all one day and night and worried
them nearly into apoplexy. Inciden-
tally he saved several thousand dol
lars to the people, The managers were
In a panic, for if he held out and they
did not surrender the bill would not
get through for lack of time. So they
ran up the white flag and gave him
whole hour instead of the half hour
which he wanted in the first place. His
courage and tenacity won him great
victory It was one Of the most re-
freshing performances in my twelve
years service in the house 1t Is alb
solutely safe to say that hereafter
when Clark Of Florida desires time in
which to discuss an important matter
no machinist will interpose an objec-
ton.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-04-04
Affected BY Hot Weather.

The unreasonable hot weather lately
appears to have excited the cerebrum,
cerebellum and medulla oblongata Of
Uncle Shelby NJ. Cullom Of Illinois,
who looks like Abraham Lincoln on
the outside-to a remarkable degree.
Usually Uncle Shelby is mild as a
sucking dove but recently he has de-
elared that Mr.. Hartman deserves to
be hanged! That's most remarkable
statement to be made by such ven
cradle statesman as the senior and per-
petual senator from Illinois. If his col
league, Senator II. j. Hopkins, who
wears titianesque hair and has a red
hot temper, should say thing like
that. nobody would wonder. Or should
Billie Mason express such lurid
opinion it would be taken as a matter
of course. But for Uncle Shelby to do
SO Is a startling proposition. 1t will be
remembered that when Robespierre
was quite a young man he resigned a
judgeship rather than pass the death
sentence on a convicted murderer, yet
he lived to be so calIous as to order
scores of the finest heads in France to
be chopped off before breakfast every
morning. Uncle Shelby must certainly
be listening once more to the fascinat-
ing btizzing Of the presidential bee.
There is no telling what man suffer
ing from the presidential fever will do.
He has just begun his full fifth term
In the senate and If he lives has at
least six years more in which to ex-
plot his opinions, and 1t may be that
he made this ding at Hartman In or
der to bring the multitude focking to
his presidential banner. 1t must make
the cold ehills creep up and down the
spinal columns of Hartman ct i'd genus
omne to read such extreme talk from
the Nestor of Illinois Republicans. In
the meantime If Uncle Shelby Is a
presidential candidate he would do well
to watch Governor Deneen.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-04-04
[snecial washlngton Letter.l

Especial Washington letter.
aTSHE two most conspicuous figures
in America today are Colonel
Theodore Roosevelt and Colo
a mel William Jennings Bryan.
They have both been running for pres
ident ever since they learned that there
is such an office known among men.
Roosevelt has reached the goal, and
the chances are that Bryan will keep
on running till he reaches it. The 9TH
er day he was forty seven. He an
nounces that he will remain active in
politics till he is sixtynine, including
five more presidential campaigns. He
is too modest. There is Uncle Joe
Cannon, for instance, who is seventy
one and who is running for president
just us fast as he can Should Uncle
Joe be nominated and elected he would
be seventy-seyen when his first term
expired. So Bryan has set his final
exit from political activity at least
eight years too early judged by the
Cannon standard and some twenty
years too soon judged by the standard
OIL SENATOR 1Gttus VI AID pd1h1s
Colonel Roosevelt has as yet fixed
no limit to his political activities.
Were / to express my own opinion 1t
would be that death is the only limit
to the political activities of either Colo
mel Bryan or Colonel Roosevelt. They
both love the game, and they will ney-
er swear off-neyer.
While Colonel Roosevelt has not fix
ed the time to retire from politics,
Judge Theodore E. Burton OF Ohio,
who now appears to be cheek by jowl
with him and who is putting in all his
spare time boosting Mr.. Secretary
Taft. has stated in a public speech
lately that MIR. Roosevelt might be
looked to as national leader in 1912,
1916 or 1927 that is. according to
Brother Burton, after Taft has had his
day in the White House. President
Roosevelt may be nominated and elect
ed again-alI Of which is long range
shooting surely AS the French say,
Nous verrons!''
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-04-04

On dit that Hon William Jennings
Bryan has selected Hon Tom L. John.
son, mayor Of Cleveland. as his polit-
ical manager In the campaign now
impending That bit of news ought to
be marked Important If True" for as
general thing Colonel Bryan has
been his own manager He knows
more people than any other half dozen
men who ever aspired to the presiden-
cy all put together, and those Amerl-
cans whom he does not know already
be will probably know before the next
election.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-04-04
That German Tariff War.

The ghost of the tariff situation with
Germany has come back to haunt the
stand patters. On July of this year
the modus vivendi with Germany will
expire, and If no other scheme can be
Matched up to keep it off the new Ger
man tariff law will go into effect. That
law discrminates SO heavily against
American products in retaliation for
our high tariff law that experts believe
it will practically wipe out our export
trade to Germany. This is bad enough,
but a greater danger lies in the pos
sibility that England and other Euro
pean countries may follow Germany's
example. If we should yield to Ger
many and give her concession IN the
line of special low rates on her prod
ucts entering our ports, there is no
doubt that other countries will demand
similar favors on threat of raising a
maximum tariff wall against US. The
administration is greatly puzzled as to
what to do, and no wonder.
While the strong tariff reduction
sentiment within this country has had
no effect in driving the stand patters
from their stubborn and unreasonable
position. it seems quite within the
range of the probable that foreigners
may accomplish that which our own
tariff reformers find SO difficult At all
events, the .tarlff baronsp will find 1t
hard to resist the appeals of Americans
who have beef and wheat to sell and
at the same time wage tariff war
against all Europe. If Americans are
wise, they will take steps to reduce the
high tariff and avoid tariff war that
might destroy for time our foreign
markets.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-04-04
Boost For Taft.

The contamination betwixt President
Roosevelt and Governor Deneen Of Hi
nois as to Mr.. Secretary Taft's candi
dacy for the Republican presidential
nomination seems to have given Sec
rotary Taft a great boost. It would be
decidedly interesting to have an accu
rate stenographic report of Mr.. Speak
err Cannon's inmost thoughts when be
finds out what trick his own govern
or has been playing him. Uncle Joe
is not celebrated for gentle speaking
anyway, and he is quite likely to use
somewhat outre language when he
finds out that Governor D. has inserted
a poniard under his fifth rib.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-04-04
a BLOODY Eeud.

The fact that President Roosevelt
turned down both Senators Foraker
and Dick and appointed Hon. Theodore
e. Burton's protege as United States
judge for the southern district Of Ohio
proves two things, both very interest
ing-first, that Colonel Roosevelt pro
poses to fight Foraker and other re
dictionaries with every weapon at his
command; second. that Burton is going
after Dicks senatorial scalp. So. all ii
all, there IS quite likely to be lively
times among Buckeye Republicans fol
the next two years.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-04-04
TWO Oninions.

The other day two news items which
furnish much food for reflection APP
peared Ia the same column of the
Washington Post, independent. Here
they are:
Baltimore, Md.-Henry g. Davis, former
senator from West Virginia and three
years ago the Democratic candidate for
vice president of the United States, spent
the day in Baltimore He paid several
business visits and chatted for few
minutes with former Governor Frank
Brown at the headquarters of the Demo-
cratic Taxpayers association,
ssWho is your choice for the Democrat
ic nomination for the presidency next
year?o Mr.. Davis was asked
81 think Judge Gray Is a good man,
replied the senator. HE has long been
before the public. His record is well
known He has demonstrated that he is
broad minded and liberal As an arbi-
traitor in the labor troubles in the mining
region he proved by his decisions that
he was fair to the laboring man--in fact,
workingmen all over the country have
shown great Partially for him. While
Judge Gray halls from Delaware, which
is small state, he is more than Della
warean. He is a national figure He be-
longs to the whole nation. believe that
he is the favorite in West Virginia for
the Democratic nomination for presi-
dent
"Do you think the Democratic party
will be in position to win next year?"
Most assuredly, If the Democrats will
conduct a campaign on conservative Is
Sues
.fWhat has been the effect of the anti
railroad agitation?
mo doubt it has hurt railroad securi-
ties believe however, In the good
Al, A and I 1ec
lieve they viii demand fair play for the
railroads. There was a great deal of agl-
tation i'm West Virginia against corpora
TONS but the people are beginning to re-
alize that they invited the corporations
into the state and asked them to invest
their capital there. and they believe that
investments should be literally treated
borne their full share of public burdens
Speaking for my own railroad interests
might say that we have never protested
against the tax laws of the state
Mr.. Davis has passed the winter ana
spring in Washington, where he has been
in close touch with the most prominent
Democratic leaders Of the country in
fact. it may be said that there is a move
ment already on foot to bring about
Judge Grays nomination next year, and
1t now looks as though he will have the
support Of the conservative wing of the
Democratic party
Columbus. Off Bryan is nominated
for president he will contest every slate
In the Union. Ohio included said
Chairman Harvey C. CARRIER on returning
from Cincinnati where he met the Me-
braskan.
ssMr. Bryan needs no manager In Ohio
continued Mr. CARRIER. Tile told me that
he knew his friends In Ohio and wanted
all Of them to stay in politics preparatory
to next years great struggle In dis
GUESSING men he spoke OF Colonel James
KiIbourne and John J. Lentz of this city,
Mayor johnson of Cleveland and others
II he is a candidate the Democracy Of
Ohio will be unanimous for him.