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The Huttig news., 1907-12-14
WET SUNDAYS LEAD TO POKER.
Pastime Of Thouehtess Youth in New
 York City.

Its funny" said the stationery man, you're the fifth man that's come in here today asking if we had any poker chips. I'll bet you some friends have dropped in for a while and you thought you would have a quiet, cozy little game instead of going out in the wet y When cold, drizzly Sunday like this comes around we always look for sudden rise in the demand for chips. never knew it to fail. It looks dreary outside, you get tired of reading, and you wander around gloomily woFder- ing what you are going to do. Then some friends drop in, and directly some one says, Why not have little game? Every ybodys face lights up and you get out your cards only to find that the man whose chips you had bor- rowed came and got them.
 Tt is to meet little emergencies like these that we always keep a few boxes of chips on hand They're the cheap kind, because we know that the regulars always have an expensive set on hand. Last week 1 forgot to get in fresh supply, and so today we had only three boxes in stock They were gone soon after the rain set in"-N. Y. Press.
The Huttig news., 1907-12-14
New Color for Army Uniforms.

After a series of experiments last ing over several years the Austrian military authorities have definitely de cided upon the introduction of pike gray colored uniform for the infantry, instead of the present blue uniform.
 The lessons of the Boer war and the Russian-Japanese campaign have more than ever convinced the Aus trian war office of the great impor, tance of selecting color, especially for foot soldiers, which shall be as nearly as possible invisible in the field. These last two wars have had much to do with bringing about the change. The new pike gray color cloth W II be made up as fast as the present stock of uniforms is ex hausted.
The Huttig news., 1907-12-14

m Chicago on a Sunday night. Look Ing over the advertisements in the newspaper she decided to see we'll Known comedy written by a widely known playwright She sat in a box, and directly below her in two orches- tra chairs in the fifth row were seated an aged couple who bore every mark or the rustic type. Both, it appeared before the play had progressed very Tar, were very much interested, but the old gentleman was hard of hear ing, and depended on his wife for the repetition of many of the lines that escaped him.
 A well-known actor, who shall be nameless in the light of what follows, but who is swollen up with an idea of his own value and artistic achieve ment, had the leading part, and finally came to line that read:
 I'm rotten; rotten all through"
 The old gentleman turned to his wife and said quite loudly: What does he say?"
 The old lady leaned toward him and replied so shrilly that half the house heard her: He says he's rotten all through"
 So he is. So he is," returned the old man, with deep conviction.-Bo. hemian.
The Huttig news., 1907-12-14

The force of the patent examin- CTS in the patent office is composed of technically educated men. As soon as they become versed in patent office practice, their ser vices are at once in great demand by the large manufacturing con- cerns, and also by the patent at torneys in the country. These outsid firms and corporations are
 willing to pay much better salaries than the government gives them in their present situations. The re- suit is that each year there IS a large number of resignations. Last year over fifty skil'ed examiners
The Huttig news., 1907-12-14
Heart Strength

Heart Strength. or Heart Weakness means Nerve Etrength or Nerve Wen kness-notl ing more. Pos itvely. not one weak heart in hundred is. in it. Self. actually diseased. It is almost always 8 hidden tiny little that really is all at fault This obscure nerve-the Cardiac. Heart Nerve simply needs, and must have. more power, more stability, more controlling, governing strength. Without that the Heart must continue to fail, and the stomach and kidneys also have these same controlling nerves.
 This clearly explains why. medicine, Dr. Shoops Restorative has in the past done so much for weak and ailng Hearts. Dr. Shoop first sought the cause of all this painful. palpitatng suffocat- ing heart distress. Dr. Shoop's Restorative-this popular prescription-is alone directed to these weak and wasting nerve centers. It builds; 1t strengthens it offers real genuine heart help.
 If you would have strong Hearts. strong di- gestion, strengthen these nerves re-establish them as needed, with
The Huttig news., 1907-12-14

resigned from tHe service. to enter into the employ of private con- cerns. at a large increase of salary. The government finds it almost impossible to keep these places filled. and the result has been that the work of the patent office has been put to great inconvenience by having to wait a long time be- fore their applications are passed upon.
The Huttig news., 1907-12-14
Peculiar Shrine in Burmah.

There is in Burmah a shrine built by a rich man as an offering to his favorite god. It is on the apex of a balancing rock" The material was transported to the rock on the backs of men and pulled to the top by means of a rope. To reach the top requires stout limbs and steady nerves, for only tiny steps have been cut in an almost perpendicular wall, and a slip means a fall to certain injury and perhaps death.
The Huttig news., 1907-12-14
Smith-Upshaw.

On last Wednesday afternoon pr. J. L. Smith, of Lapile, and Mrs. Anna Upshaw, of this place, were united in marriage, Rev. J. H. Gathright officiating. Their many friends join The News in wishing them prosperity and happiness.
The Huttig news., 1907-12-14
Romance of Modern Trade,

The fact that man today can sit down in a restaurant overlooking the Thames embankment, or at a table under the trees at the edge of the Thiergarten and dine on fresh salmon brought from the waters of California. Oregon and Alaska shows graphically how industrial efficiency has given TO- nance to mod arn trade. remarks 8 London paper.
The Huttig news., 1907-12-14
FARMERvILLE 6 SOUTHERN RY.
LODGE DIRECTORY.

ROWLAND LODGE No. 594 F. & A. M.meets every second and fourth Satur- day evenings at 7:5O o'clock. Visiting Masons always welcome.
 w. R. MAUsER, w. M. w. H. WHEELER, Sec. HUTTIG LODGE No. 548I. o. o. F. meets every Tuesday evening. Visiting brethern cordially invited to attend.
 E. R. CARLTON, N. G. w. B. WooD. Sec.
 SWEET BAY CAMP No. 41lW W.O. w. meets every first and third Saturday eve nings. Visitors made welcome.
 s. FARMER, C. C. E. L. ADAMS. Clerk.
The Huttig news., 1907-12-14

The Government crop report for November, 1907, states that the average yield of Irish pototatoes for. this year is 95.5 bushels z bushels less per acre than in 1906.
The Huttig news., 1907-12-14
Easy When You Know How.

Haven-"I tell you what, Young; I have the sharpest wife you ever saw in your life. Why, the other day I gave her just barely enough money to go out and buy one dress, and if you'll believe it, she came home with two." Young-"That is sharp. How did she manage it?" Haven-"Why, she bought one, and the other she had on when she went ut."-Stray Stories.
The Huttig news., 1907-12-14
Almost a Nature Eaker.

Woodbie Riter.-You say my story is not true to life. Will you show me a single illustration of that?
 Publisher-Sure. Here where the lovers quarrel the girl says, Take back your ring!' Young man, it's very evident you don't know what you're writing about.
The Huttig news., 1907-12-14
NO ROOM FOR CONTROVERSY
Old Gentleman Fully Indorsed Actor's
 Declaration.

Like other actresses Miss Jessie Busley delights in seeing a good play, and takes advantage of every occas- ion, when she is not playing herself, to visit one or another of the theaters in the city where she may happen to be. Two years ago she chanced to be
The Huttig news., 1907-12-14

J. M. McDaniel, of Fremont, La., was here this week the guest of his brother, Planer Foreman o. s. Mcdaniel, ard family.
The Huttig news., 1907-12-14

Marshal E. M. Cabiness, who is one of the leading candidates for sheriff at the coming primary. is home from a trip over the west end of the county in the interest of his candidacy.
The Huttig news., 1907-12-14

J. H. Palmer, who is now located at Arcadia, La,, was here the first ofsthe week on visit with friends and relatives.
The Huttig news., 1907-12-14

J. M. Bradshaw and wife left Thursday for Fort Smith to visit friends. Tttey will go from there to Oklahoma and Indian Territory to visit with relatives.
The Huttig news., 1907-12-14

Geo. A. Fish, of Springfield, I'll was here this week the guest of his brother, Auditor A. G. Fish, of the Union Saw Mill Company.
The Huttig news., 1907-12-14

stare Comnander-of the Macca- bees J. T. Lyles. of Little Rock, will be present at the next regular meeting. Friday evening, Decem- Der 20.
The Huttig news., 1907-12-14

L. H. Berry and wife and Mrs. H. K. Collins returned to their home at Fl Dorado Monday.
The Huttig news., 1907-12-14

Miss Mossie Jones, the popular telephone central girl at Fl Dorado, was here Sunday he guest of Miss Eva Richardson.
The Huttig news., 1907-12-14

John H.sSehon and daughter, Miss Etta, of Janis, 1. T.. are here on a visit with relatives and friends.
The Huttig news., 1907-12-14

You will find a corrected time card in another column of this is- sue of the changes made in differ ent schedules last Sunday
The Huttig news., 1907-12-14

The family of E. E. Wilson have joined him at Junction City, where MT. Wilson has engaged in the saw mill business for himself.
The Huttig news., 1907-12-14

N W.'Hoskinson and family left Sundayafor Hot Springs.
The Huttig news., 1907-12-14

J. M. Adams was an Fl Dorado visitor Monday.
The Huttig news., 1907-12-14

Sam Lowery now has charge of the electric plant at nights.
The Huttig news., 1907-12-14
Be--
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 Typewriter The Standard Visible Writer.

You can write any of these things yourself if you do not happen to have stenographer,
 For you easily learn, with little practice, to write just as rapidly and as perfectly as expert operator on the OLIVER. Because the OLIVER is the simplified typewriter. And you can see every word you write. About 80 per cent more durable than any other typewriter, because it has about 30 per cent less wearing points than most other type writers.
 80 per cent easier to write with than these other complicated. intricate machines that require hu- morng"-technical wledge-long practice and special skill to operate.
 Than machines which cannot be adjusted to any special space with which it is impossible to write abstracts, insurance policies, or odd size documents except you buy expensive special attachments re- quirng experts to operate
 You can adjust the OLIVER to any reasonable space-you write any reasonable size and thickness of paper, right out to the very edge, with out the aid of any expensive attachment special skill. and your work will be neat appearing legble and clear,
 For the OLIVER is the typewriter for the doctor. the lawyer. the insurance agent, the merchant the hotel proprietor, or any man who does his own writing.
 Write us for our booklet on the simplifed features of the OLIVER
 The Oliver Ty ewriI Go. The Oliver Tyr riter Building, Chicago, Iilansae
The Huttig news., 1907-12-14
Baptist Church.

Service every week, Sunday Schoo at 5 o'clock p. m. Midweek service ev- cry week w. P. DARLINGTON, Pastor
 E. R. SIMMs. Supt
The Huttig news., 1907-12-14
RAILROAD TIME TABLE.
LOUISIANA & PINE BLUFF.

LITTLE ROCK & MONROE BY.
The Huttig news., 1907-12-14
Colord Column
Lodge Directory.

lOuyc UiTeCtOFy. GOOD LUCK LOT GE No. 25e F. ( A. M meets Second and Fourth Tuesday
 R. MCCORMICK, w. M. w. H. DAVIS, Sec.
 BLUE LIGHT LODGE No 155 K. ofP meets First and Third Tuesday in eac month. A. w. KELso c. C. PETER JOHNSON, K.R. s. EAST LAKE LODGE No. 6562 G. U. o. of o. F. meets First and Thir, Thursday in each month
 A. w. KELso, N. G. J. E. BoYD, P. s.
 If you want to cultivate you voice to singing and enjoy yourself attend the singings at the Firsl Baptist Church every Sunday af. ternoon at $50 clock.
 ADAM LEWIS, Pres. JULIoUs JONES, Asst.
 Colored Methodist Episcopa Church, of Camden District preaching fourth Sunday. Roht.F FAIRcHILD, Recordings teward E. L. WELLS, Supt.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-08-21
Items from Ramsay's Creek.

Ramsay's Creek, August 12.-Special:
The school at Cross Roads is progress
ing nicely with Miss Lou White as
teacher. She deserves much praise.
w. D. Barnett is teaching school at
Mount Zion this summer.
Thos. Bibb, who lives near Westmin-
ster, spent Saturday night with friends
near Pleasant Hill.
The wifs of VIM. Watkins died Tues
day and was buried Wednesday at
Pleasant HILL She leaves husband and
several small children.
The pastor, Rev. A. p. Marett, ably as
sisted by Rev. j. A. Bond and j. II. Far
mer, conducted an interesting series OF
meetings at Pleasant Hill last week,
which closed Sunday. There were
eight additions to the church-six by
letter and two BIZ experience. w. D. :
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-08-21
Happenings at Hopewell.

Hopewell, August IL. MIR. and Mrs,
r. L. Davis and little Miss Ruth King, OF
Greenville, are on short visit with
homefolks.
Oscar Land, Of the Chauga section,
boarded No. 80 for Texas again.
Misses Mamie Davis and Alpha Jen.
kins, two of Hopewell's charming young
ladies, spent few days in Madison last
week visiting relatives and friends.
Miss Mary Hardin is on the sick list.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. Z. Davis, of West.
minister, are on visit to the latter's
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. M, McAlister
Miss Alpha Jenkins is spending few
days on the Georgia side this week.
Mrs. w. M. Barrett and Miss Gracia
Jenkins are also on the sick list.
Eddie and Freddie Pickens and Clyde
Jenkins are on a visit to relatives In
Pickens county. ,,... ~ I
George Ellis, of Pickens, and Miss
Matte MoWhorter. of near Gainesville,
Ga, visited the family of Mr.. and Mrs..
jenkins recently. NJ.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-08-21
Bounty Land Locals.

Bounty Land, August 12.-Crops are
looking fine after the nice rain VA had
Friday night.
n. NJ. Morris and son, Lawrence, have
been visiting friends In Salem.
Miss Lillian Mcdonald entertained a
large number of friends at birthday
dinner on Friday, August 9th. She re-
ceived some very fine presents.
Wade Lumkin and sisters, Misses
Lula and Emma, visited Corinth section
Sunday.
j. G. Mcdonald and family, of Bolton,
are visiting his father and brother, w
81. and w. j. Mcdonald, for few days
Arthur Mcdonald and brother, Frank
of Prosperity, ore visiting relatives and
friends for q e:,w weeks. w, A. M,
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-08-21
Strange Custom Of Silence.

The Korean woman who speaks or
even mods on her wedding day immedt-
ately becomes an object of ridioule and
loses caste. Neither threat nor prayer
must move her, for the whole household
is ever on the alert to catch single
muttered syllable. Her period of silence
often lasts for a week or more and when
complete silence Is broken she only uses
her tongue for the most necessary uses.
Some sixty years ago native of Penn.
sylvania undertook, for wager of 80
pounds, to remain mute for the first
month IF her marriage. Her husband,
not b. ing in the secret, left her, only to
return later, when he was apprised of
the real reason of her silence.
A Brussels couple named Dupont
quarreled so bitterly on their wedding
day that the wife vowed that her hus.
band should never hear her voice again.
His entreaties went for nothing, and to
her dying day she kept to the letter of
her oath.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-08-21
-Four Killed--1OO Injured.

Boulder, Colo, August 10.-Four per-
sons tonight are dead as result of an
explosion of dynamite at the Colorado
and Southern depot yesterday.
Fire started in the depot, and spread.
ing distance of 100 feet, enveloped a
powder house containing 1000 pounds of
dynamite, which exploded, injuring
about 100 persons and breaking the
plate glass in every business house in
the city as we'll as the windows in hun
dreds of residences. The property loss
is estimated at $3.50, 900. The fire is be-
lieved to have been incendiary. .
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-08-21
FOLEYSMON YAr6TAR
stops sho cough and 1AoA1e 1umas
Two Men Wounded i'm Duel.

Augusta, Georgia, August lin
formation was received from passen-
gers on the incoming Georgia train last
night to the effect that James w. Free
man, living near Waynesboro, engaged
in a quarrel with his brother in-law,
Jethro Robinson, at the home of the
latter last night, as result of which
Freeman is said to have been mortally
wounded, and Robinson SO seriously
wounded, that there is doubt of his re.
coyery.
The cause of the trouble is not known,
but 1t is understood that there has been
i'll feeling for some time, :.::and that the
mon, after quarreling, practically fought
duel,ein which bothlIevidenced good
aim.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-08-21
BLACK HAND KDNAPS CHILD
Little Girl is Carried OF from Under
Her Fathers Eyes.

New York, August 12.-All day and
all night distracted father and mother
sought through the streets of the lower
East Side for their lost baby girl, only to
learn yesterday, from letter slipped
under their door, that the child was in
the power of the dreaded Black Hand
Band.
After receiving two previous notes
telling him that his child would be kid.
naped unless he parted with a sum OF
money, Rocco Valarde, well-to- do
Italian merchant, found that the band
had carried out its threat.
In broad daylight, on one of the bust.
est corners in a crowded district, little
Dominica, five and one-half years old,
was playing with number of children
on Tuesday morning, in plain view OF
her father. A few minutes later the
child had disappeared.
Valarde owns and conducts a fruit
and green goods store at No. 2i Monroe
street.
orly one day before tho child disap-
peared Rocco had received the second OF
two letters from the Black Hand
Band, marked with the familiar skull
and CROSS bones. In it he was told that
unless he gave $500 to a man who would
call upon him, one of his children would
be kidnapped. No man had called, and
Rocco at once connected the disappear.
ance of the child with these letters.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-08-21
TERRIBLE EXPLOSION.
Many Killed and Wounded.--A Town
Almost Wiped Or Map.

Detroit, Mich, August 10.-Two mon
were killed, three, more probably fatally
injured and scores of people were
slightly hurt by the explosion of half a
car of nitroglyoerine at the Michigan
Central Railroad station at Essex, Ont,
to-day. Practically every building in
the little town of 1900 people was in
jured, many of them bcing blown to
pieces. The shook of the explosion was
plainly felt for twenty miles around Es-
sex. 1t was 30 heavy in this city that
windows were broken in an automobile
garage.
Everything for radius of 300 yards
from the depot is in ruins.
Brakeman MoNary to-day discovered
that the nitroglyoerine was leaking in
the car. He started to open it and stop
the leak, when, without warning, the ex-
plosion occurred.
McNary's mangled body was found
200 feet away from the tracks in a field,
and Brakeman Conlon was dug from
under GOAL car dead.
Fireman Manglan lay near the ruins of
his engine, and the other two members
of the train crew and the station agent
were dug from the wrecked station badly
hurt. E ry
The town Of Essex is tonight under
police restrictions, resembling martial
law. Fifty guards are patroling the
streets to protect property exposed by
the destruction of buildings in to-day's
explosion, and ali saloons in the neigh
borhood closed. s. mi. ag
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-08-21
How He was Cured of Baking.
[From the Nashville Tennesseean. ]

From the Nashville Tennesseean.]
"a balky horse is the meanest thing
this side of Memphis" said A. l.. Nich-
OILS, of Brentwood, Tenn. IT had horse
one time that baked on all occasions.
lie would balk If you whistled, balk II
you laughed and baked if you looked
from the corner of your eye.
"One day he baked and could not
make him move forward to save mo. An
old negro man happened along and sup
piled remedy. Going to the side of the
road, he pulled handful of dog fennel
weed. Taking this, he rubbed it under
the horses nose. The animal shook his
head once or twice, raised up his tail and
started down the road in the merriest
trot you ever saw. That treatment of
dog fennel cured the horse of baking.
He never made another attempt to act
ugly after that"
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-08-21
A DASTARDLY CRIME.
Fiend Enters an Asheville Home and
Attempts to Fire Bed.

Asheville, N. c., August 12.--When
the family of j. A.. Wild, living on Hill
street, awoke yesterday morning, it was
discovered that some fiend had entered
the house during the night, administered
chloroform to Mr.. Wild's daughter and
attempted to set fire to the bed on which
she slept. Nothing of value was taken
from the house except watch, which
belonged to Henry Wild, son.
The family did not retire until after
midnight, and when Mr.. Wild arose yes
terday morning he found the doors Of
his house open and the place strongly
filed with the odor of chloroform.
Upon going to the room of his daughter
he found her in deep sleep and had
much difficulty in arousing her. On the
bed was small bundle of rags thickly
saturated with chloroform, while her
clothing and hair smelt strongly of the
deadly drug. A large number of half
burnt matches were strewn on the bed
in which she slept and the bedding was
scorched in number of places.
A bloodhound was taken to the scens
of the attempted crime and apparently
found strong scent, which led tho off,
GERS through a nearby oornfleld, where q
watch fob was picked up, which had
been attached to the watch stolen from
Henry Wild, which indicated that the
miscreant had passed that way. The
trail was later lost, owing to many peo-
pie having crossed and recrossed it,,
thus interfering with the dog.
No further clue has been discovered,
although the search still continues.
Should the miscreant be discovered, his
life may pay the penalty for his daring
Crimo,