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The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1907-03-21
ODD OLD BELIEFS.
Superstitions Which Deal With The
Passing Of Life.

TaoStUS W
The superstitions which have
clustered about the closing scenes
of human life are almost innumera-
Bile. Some, perhaps the greater
portion, now seem to be meaning
less, but few had in early days
significance which they have since
lost. The stopping of the clock at
the moment death occurs in the
house is still practiced in many
families in this country and Eu-
rope and originated in the fact that
according to the laws of several Eu-
ropean states it was necessary to
have evidence of the exact moment
of births and deaths occurring in
the royal family. When king
died an attendant was always pres
ent whose duty it was to stop the
clock in the royal apartment at the
moment when death occurred, and
the timepiece was thus mute rec
ord of the event. From royal fami-
lies the descent of this practice to
aristocratic and finally to families
of low degree was easy, and many
persons adopted it as mere super
stition without knowing anything of
its former significance.
Turning the looking glass to the
wall is a superstition which is said
to have originated IN the country
districts of Germany during the
days when mirrors were novelties.
Mirrors of glass with quicksilver
backs are said to have been made
at Venice in 1900 A. D. and were
first made in England in 1878, but
did not come into common use
among the middle classes until the
beginning of the last century. At
first they were regarded with super
stitious awe, the idea being that the
reflection of the face in the mirror
was a sort OF specter,,S second
soul, of the individual.
When a death occurred the look
ing glass which the person was ac-
customed to use YVES turned to the
wall, lest his ghost should be dis
turbed by others using the mirror
before his spirit had finally depart
ed from the neighborhood, there be-
ing an idea that the spirit of the
departed fingered about the vicini-
ty for several hours or perhaps days
after it had separated from tie
body.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1907-03-21
Cotton Mil Man SquealS.

We have before our Farmers
Union Bureau letter to our Bureau
from cotton mill man that would
astonlsh many of our Farmers
Union men. Beyond doubt many of
our Southern cotton mills are in a
much worse tied up condition than
our cotton growers who spend lot
of their time cussing these same mill
men that are in ten times worse fix
and tied up subjects to their selling
agents than cotton growers are borne
down upon by Gew York Exchange
men. Cotton growers can pull
themselves out from under the har-
ness of cotton bears by growing
their own foodstuffs. But these
Southern mill meE who own the
minority of their mill stocks are
under the complete control of their
selling agents in Philadelphia, New
York or other places. who not only
dictate the prices that these mills
shall pay for the raw cotton, but
they also name the prices for the
mills products, the quantity and
quality of goods made and even
name the brands il many cases that
20 on the bales of goods and at the
same time these selliug agents are
said to get good rake off in the
way of commissions both going and
coming.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1907-03-21
THE farmers
union BUREAU.
Conducted by S. c. Farmers Union.
Address all communications intended for this
column to J. c. Stribing. Pendleton S. G.

Here are some good rules to paste
up in your books to be read out the
first thing at the beginning of the
business feature of your meetings:
1st. Are we Union men?
End. Do we know that to be
good Union men we must submit to
the will of the majority?
3rd, Have We come together for
the purpose of combining our
strength for the good of the fratern-
ity as whole, or have any of US
assembled for self aggrandisement
or pecuniary interest of individ uals
or cliqueS?
4th Have we come together for
the purpose of hunting up good
things to talk of for our benefit, or
we are hunting for more trouble by
talking over the mean things that
others have done?
9Th. When you want thing
done be sure to get very busy men
to do it for you; never think OF
of appointing men to do important
work for the Union that are not
now, uor never were, worth a cuss
for anything.
9th. Ifyou are out looking for
good you will be sure to find some
thing good, and if you are out look
ing for bad things you will find
more of this than you want very
soon.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1907-03-21

practical mans throat without
straining little. helieve it was
B Harris that made the suggestion
at our hog and hominy meeting that
1t would pay the owner of the farm
best to do the hog and hominy and
other diversified farming stunts and
sell these farm supplies to his fool
all-cotten-g growing renters who will
persist ia working themselves and
families down to rags and tags every
year trying to get rich growing cotton
while the other man out in the shade
makes the price and takes the profits
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1907-03-21
Gold Beating.

The process of preparing gold un-
til it is reduced to a thickness of
100000 of an inch is necessarily
elaborate. The gold is first cast
into ingots four inches in length
and one inch in width, which
weigh from ten to seventeen
ounces, according to thickness. 1t
is then passed between polished
rollers, worked by steam, until it
forms a ribbon twenty-eight yards
long and 1890 inch thick. These
ribbons are then cut into $50
pieces an inch square and placed
between vellum, and then the real
business Of the gold beater is begun
He beats for half an hour with a
twenty pound hammer, making the
inch square into three inches
square. Then these pieces are quar-
tered, becoming one and half
inches square. He beats again for
one and quarter hours until the
one and a half inch square becomes
four inches square. The four pieces
are again quartered and beaten and
finally cut to proper size-viz,
squares of three and three-eighth
inches, Of a thickness (or rather
<'thinness"0 of 1-280,0O0 of an inch,
and in this shape the leaf is lifted
into books Of tissue paper.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1907-03-21
Took IL For Truth.

"Why deny it?" he insisted. '1t
is because some gossip intimates
that I am not true to you that you
have broken our engagement"
ooh, no." she replied; cit is be-
cause I believe you truthful that l
am breaking it."
"How do you mean?"
"Well, you remember you have
frequently told me that you were
not worthy of me" - Catholic
Standard and Times.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1907-03-21
NATURES SECRETS.
Problems Of Life Over Which Msa
Can Only Theorize.


"You hear a great deal of talk
about woman not being able to
keep secret" said an agnostic who
dabbles in dilettante way in near
ly all branches of human knowledge,
"but a glance at the record Of old
Mother Nature will readily disprove
this time honored axiom. The mind
of man since the first faint dawn OF
time has sought to wrest from her
some of the things she knows, yet
her lips have remained as closely
sealed as those Of the sphinx. In
many things she is as garrulous as
any other of her sex, but in many
of her moods no amount of fiat
terry or cajolery sufices to get even
the faintest glimpse into her real
thoughts.
Owe might 60 back into the re-
motest period of history for exam
Piles, but few that are well known
of all men will suffice to illustrate
what I mean.
perhaps the greatest secret ma
ture holds is the mystery of life and
death. Apparently there is no rea-
son why a man who lives well reg
ulated life should not continue to
live indefinitely, but the stern fact
is that his time is certainly allot-
ted. Men have sought in vain to
solve this problem. But not one
year has been added to the sum to-
tai of human life by all the re-
searches of the scientists. Ponce de
Leon sought in vain the fountain of
external youth and Brown-Se-
guards elixir, that was to arrest the
ravages of decay, proved as unavail-
ing as De Icons search for the
fountain.
"Alchemists of old devoted their
lives to discover a chemical process
that would transmute the baser
metals into gold, but after centu-
ries of research only old Mother
Nature holds the secret of the for
nation of this precious metal. New
ton worked out the correct theory
of the law of gravitation from the
incident of seeing an overripe ap-
pie fall from a tree, but all the aero
nauts of all time have been unable
to discover way to overcome this
law, and we are still bound to the
earth as by iron chains as far as
practical purposes are concerned, as
airships and balloons are only dan
gerous toys and bid fair to remain
so to the end of time.
'Laplace mapped out the
courses of the stars and outlined
nearly all we know of the solar sys-
tenn, but not a single fact of real
benefit has ever resulted from our
little knowledge. We theorize, but
cannot prove, and nature only
smiles at our defeat. These exam
Piles might be multiplied indefinite
ly, but these few of the bigger
problems of life show that natures
secrets are safely guarded from the
prying eyes of man. We are but an
atom in the universe. We know
not whence we come nor whittier
we 60. All we know is that we live
and that our little life is ended with
a sleep."-Birmingham Age-Herald.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1907-03-21

Local Farmers Unions are some
thing like good crops; they thrive
best when planted on good soil in
the country and where well cultivat-
ed.
One reason for this is that when
local Unions meet 10 the towns
there is more or less business and
other ATTRACTIONS that draw members
away fiom the meetings in town
while there is usually no other than
Union business that come before
local meetings In the country.
No doubt you are getting sorter
<sfashed out" Oh so much cotton talk
and need a change. Better get up
q hog asd hominy talk at your next
local meeting. We had one in the
Pendleton Farmers Hall last Satur-
day and some of the boys got righ,
hungry before we got half through
with the sausage and hver pudding
subject. Mr B Harris stated that
he had grown grown pork at lees
than three and u half cents per
pound, and Bro. Richardson vouched
for the fact that he knew of a farm
er that had raised large family of
of the products Of a hog farm where
the common citron, grown In among
the corn, were the chief or principal
aog food used In growing hogs. As
many know that these common
citrons may b, housed and # /
, through the winter with better re-
Ssnlts than tue common pumpkin
and are many times more abundant
and y sure crop.
1t was the general consensus Of
opinion among the farmers at this
hog and hominy meeting that it
costs too much to undertake to grow
hogs on grain. Turuips. sorghum,
.clovers, barley, rye. cantelopes,
melons, vegetables and bermuda
pastures were used to grow The pigs
and the run of COW pea or soga bean
and. small grain fields and sweet
potato crops were all used to advad,
tage under different circumstances
for fatterning the hog in the fall.
Hogs will gather COW peas or soga
beans very much cleaner aud cheaper
than little niggers will do it, and
besides your hogs are always ready
for the job and will keep at it.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1907-03-21

THE RECORD wants correspond
ents at the following postoffices:
Cades, Greelyville, Trio, Gourdin,
Leo, Benson, Scranton and any
other Office where we ale not now
represented. Write for terms. If.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1907-03-21
ECZEr1A and PILE CURE

rnrr Knowing what it was tosuffer,
kRIt will give FREE of CHARGE,
I'LL to any afflicted positive cure
for Eczema, Salt Rheum, Ersypelas,
Piles and Skin Diseases. Instant re-
lief. Don't suffer longer. Write F
W WILLIAMS, 400 Manhattan Avenue,
New York. Enclose stamp.
-6l6-1 yr.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-02-13
Long Creek News.
[Too Late for Last Issue.]

Long Creek, Feb. 4.-Dr. Moore
was in this section last week to see
his patient, Miss Frances Moore, and
others.
L. F. Phillips, of Madison, has
been in this vicinity for several days
on business.
Lafayette Ramey, of MILESTONE,
visited his cousin, Andrew Ramey,
Saturday night and Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. jeff Ramey and his
sister, Miss Marlest Ramey, of
Chechero, Ca, visited the family of
Thomas Ramey Saturday night and
Sunday.
H. T. Shed gave a surprise party
to a number of young folks last Fri
day night and they all report nice
time.
Miss Lustie Watkins, of Ander.
son, is at home for a while. Her
many friends gladly welcome her in
their midst.
j. III. Elrod closed his school at
Poplar Springs last Friday, after a
long, successful term, and returned
to his home in Franklin county,
Georgia. His many friends regret
to lose him from this section.
A crowd from this section spent
Saturday bird hunting around Whet-
stone. We think they killed mostly
time and powder.
Willie Phillips and Johnie Thrift
made a flying trip to Atlanta, Ca,
last week on business.
Wedding bells will ring in this
section soon. r. v.P.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-02-13
Conneress Sunbeam Society.

Conneross, Feb. 7.-Editors Cou-
rier: Please allow me space in your
paper to give to the public the work
of our Sunbeam Society. The little
ones met with Mrs. Merrill Sanders
on Sunday morning, January 9th,
Many older people were also present.
The children read some nice pieces
for Mrs. Sanders which they had
chosen for .this meeting. Mrs. San
ders, who is blind, enjoyed this very
much.
In journeying through life we can
find many opportunities to help the
needy. Let us ever be willing to
lend helping hand. These little
children are always willing to do
what they can. We need more Sun
beam workers in this country. AS
these children meet they seem to
understand each others hearts and
thoughts as old tried and true friends
do, and the years that come and 60,
instead of drifting them apart, will,
no doubt, bind them more closely
together, for this kind of friendship
is very sweet. We all need one
another very much in this world, and
if we can make an idle hour glide by
more happily for one another, then
we have accomplished grand re-
suit. Life's cares and SORROWS press
upon US 30 heavily that we have
need of all the sunshine we can
crowd into it from day to day. The
children should strive to bring rays
of sunshine into every home they
may enter and to every heart they
come in contact with. Subscriber.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-02-13

survived the war-was known as
Traveller (spelling the word with a
double 81 in good English style), and
asking for his pedigree, which was
obtained, as above mentioned, and
sent by my brother to Gen. Lee.
"Capt. Robert E. Lee, Jr., young
est son of the general, in his .Recol-
lections and Letters Of Gen. Robert
r. Lee,' has much to say of Trsv-
eler. To an artist who wanted to
paint the horse, Gen. Lee wrote:
"If l were an artist like you /
would draw true picture of Trav-
eler, representing his fine proper
tions, muscular figure, deep chest
and short back, strong launches, flat
legs, small head, broad forehead,
delicate ears, quick eye, small feet
and black name and tail. Such a
picture would inspire poet whose
genius could then depict his worth
and describe his endurance of toll,
hunger, thirst, heat, cold, and the
dangers and sufferings through which
he passed. He could dilate upon bis
sagacity and affection and his inva-
riable response to every wish of bis
rider. He might even imagine his
thoughts through the long night
marches and days of battle through
which he has passed. But l am NO
artist I can only say he is Con.
federate gray"
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-02-13
Deafness Cannot be Cured

by local applications, as they cannot
reach the diseased portion of the ear.
There is only ore way to cure deafness,
and that is by constitutional remedies.
Deafness Is caused by an inflamed con-
dition of the mucous lining Of the eusta-
chan tube. When this tube gets inflamed
you have rumbling sound or imperfect
hearing, and when it is entirely closed
deafness is the result, and unless the
inflammation can be taken out and this
tube restored to its normal condition,
hearing will be destroyed forever. Nine
cases out of ten are caused by catarrh,
which is nothing but an infamed condi-
tiOn of the mucous surfaces.
We will give one hundred dollars for
any case of deafness Caused by oatarrh)
that cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh
Cure. Send for circulars free.
+ j. CHENEY & CO., Proprietors,
Toledo, Ohio.
Sold by druggisto, 100. Halls Family
Pills are the best.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-02-13

Lord Wolseley, himself a soldier
of distinction, declared that he had
met many great men, but Robert E.
Lee was the only man before whose
personality he ever stood abashed.
Said Stonewall Jackson "Lee is a
phenomenon. He is the only man
ever knew whom l would be ready
to follow blindfolded."
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-02-13

took great fancy to it. He called
it his colt, and said he would need it
before the war was over. Whenever
the general saw my brother on this
horse he had something pleasant to
say to him about my COLT as he
designated this horse.
Gas the winter approached, the
climate in the Western Virginia
mountains caused RoseDcran's army
to abandon its position on Big Sewell
and retreat westward. Gen. Lee
was thereupon ordered to South
Carolina. The Third Regiment of
the Wise Legion was subsequently
detached from the army in Western
Virginia and ordered to the South
Carolina coast, where it was known
as the Sixteenth Virginia Regiment,
under Col. Starke.
"Upon seeing my brother on bis
horse near Pocataligo, in South Caro-
lima, Gen. Lee at ouoe recognized the
horse and again inquired of him
pleasantly about his colt. My bro.
ther then offered him the horse as q
gift, which the general promptly de-
clined, and at the same time re-
marked: If you will willingly sell
me the horse, l will gladly use it for
a week or 30 TO learn it's qualities.
Thereupon my brother had the horse
sent to Gen. Lees stable. Gen. Lee
returned the horse, stating that the
animal suited him, but that he could
no longer use 80 valuable horse in
such times unless it we're his own
that if he (my brother) would not
sell, please to keep the horse with
many thanks. This was in Febru-
ary, 1862. Al that time I was in
Virginia on the sick list from a long
and severe attack of camp fever, con-
tracted in the campaign on Big
Sewell Mountain. My brother wrote
to me of Gen. Lees desire to have
the horse, and asked me what he
should do. Ireplied at once: IF he
will not accept it, then sell it to him
at what it cost me- He then sold
the horse to Gen. Lee for 5000 in
currency, the sum of S25 having been
added by Gen. Lee to the price
gave for the horse in September,
1861, to make up for the deprecia-
ton in our currency from Septem
ber, 1861, to February, 1862.
"In 1868 Gen. Lee wrote to my
brother stating that the horse had
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-02-13
MRS. Tombes Married.

A Greenville dispatch to the News
and Courier, under date of February
2, says: Mrs. N. M. Tombes, who
was the proprietress of the Palmetto
House, which was burned in the
Seneca fire, was married here to-day
TO u. @. Tillman, of New York, the
ceremony being performed at the
Blue Ridge Hotel by Rev. It. w.
Sloan. Mr. Tillman is a contractor
and boarded at the Palmetto House
while doing some work in Seneca.
The bride and groom returned to
Seneca this afterL ION.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-02-13

The relief of coughs and colds through
laxative influence, originated with Bees
Laxative Cough Syrup, containing honey
and tar, cough syrup containing no
opiates or poisons. which is extensively
sold. Secure bottle at once. obtain a
guarantee coupon, and if not fully salts
fed with results, your money will be re-
funded. Sold by Walhalla Drug Co.; w.
j. Lunney, Seneca.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-02-13
BOB LEES OLD GRAY NAG.
True History Of a Famous Animal Which Was
Almost Well Known Its Great Rider.

Gen. Lees favorite war horse,
Traveller, was almost as we'll known
to the soldiers of the army of North
ern Virginia as the majestic form of
the great commander himself. So
many erroneous descriptions and
stories of the old horse have ap-
peared in print that true history of
Traveller is of interest.
In 1886 Thomas l.. Brown wrote
the following article for the Rich
mond Dispatch, which was pub
lished August 10:
"He (Traveler) was raised by Mr..
Johnston, near the Blue Sulphur
Springs, in Greenbrier county, Vir-
ginia, (now West Virginia); was of
the Gray Eagle stock, and, as colt
took the first premium under the
name of jeff Davis at the Louisburg
fair for each of the years of 1859
and 1860. He was four years old in
the spring of 1861.
"When the Wise Legion was en-
camped on Sewell Mountain, oppo-
site the advance of the Federal army
under Gen. Rosecrans, in the fall of
1861, l was major to the Third Regi-
ment of Infantry in that legion, and
my brother, Capt. Joseph M. Brown,
was quartermaster to the same regi-
n. mt. I authorized my brother to
purchase good serviceable horse of
the Greenbrier stock for our use dur
ing the war. After much inquiry
and search, he came across the horse
above mentioned, and purchased
him for $175 (gold value), in the fall
of 1861, of Capt. James w. John.
ston, son of Mr.. Johnston first men,
toned. Who The Wise Legion was
encamped about Meadow Bluff and
Big Sewell Mountains / rode this
horse, which was then greatly ad-
mired in camp for his rapid, springy
walk, his high spirit, bold carriage
and muscular strength. He needed
neither whip nor spur, and would
walk his five or six miles of Western
Virginia with his rider sitting firmly
in the saddle and holding in check
by tight rein, such vim and eager
ness did he manifest to 60 right
ahead as soon as he was mounted
"When Gen. Lee took command of
the Wise Legion and Floyd Brigade,
which were encamped at the near
Big Sewell Mountain in the fall of
1861, he first saw this horse, and
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-02-13
HEALTH
House.

Means the ability to do a good days
work without undue fatigue and to find
life worth living. You cannot have indi-
gestion or constipation without it's up
setting tho liver and polluting the blood.
Such a condition may be best and quick
est relieved by Herbine, the best liver
regulator that the world has ever known.
Mrs. ID. w. Smith writes (April 8, 1902,)
81 use Herbine, and find it the best
medicine for constipation and regulating
the liver over used" SOC. Sold by
Walhalla Drug Co.; w. j. Lunney, Seneca.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-02-13
Chronic Constipation Cured.

One who suffers from chronic consti.
patton Is in danger of many serious all.
ments. Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup
cures chronic constipation, as it aids di-
gestion and stimulates the liver and
bowels, restoring the natural action OF
these organs. Commence taking 1t to.
day and you will feel better at once.
Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup does not nau.
seate or gripe, and is very pleasant to
take. Refuse substitutes. j. w. Bell.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-02-13

The editor of the Memphis, Tenn,
Times writes "In my opinion Foley's
Honey and Tar Is the best remedy for
coughs, colds and lang trouble. and to
my own personal knowledge Foley
Honey and Tar has accomplished many
permanent cures that have been little
short of marvellous" Refuse any but
the genuine in the yellow package.
j. w. Bell.