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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-04-17
WALHALLA, 8. G.
..sDNE~DAy. APRIL ~, 1907
Negro Hanged at Greenwood.

Greenwood, April 12.-The first hang
ing in this county passed off very quietly
to-day. The negro, Joe Evans, appeared
composed and resigned. He showed no
sign whatever of either fear or nervous.
ness. All the morning two negro minis
ters had been with him praying and
singing. These W preachers, Rev. j.
@. GOode, and Rev. John w. Swink, re-
manned with him to the last. Evans Gid
not eat any breakfast, although he ate 4
very hearty supper last night and slept
we'll. Deputy Sheriff Duke says Evans
has refraiped from eating every Friday
since he was sentenced.
Shortly before II o'clock Sheriff Nc.
Caslan had Evans made ready to leave
the Jail and said to him:
"Joe Evans, this is your last scene.
1t is the State of South Carolina that is
going to hang you and not the Sheriff of
Greenwood county. l am going to read
you my authority for hanging you"
The sheriff then read the sentence.
When he had finished Evans said:
eyes, SIR"
He was calm and seemed perfectly re.
signed. He made this statement:
II have made peace with the Lord. l
am glad that He allowed me time to
make peace with Him."
The march to the scaffold was then
made Standing on the platform, Evans
asked the sheriff if he could sing, and
upon permission being given, he sang
with steady voice a song, one of those
used by the negroes in REVEALS when
feeling is intense. There seemed no
special beginning or end to it. When he
stopped, Rev. John w. Swink, colored,
offered a prayer for the condemned man.
Evans himself prayed in a low tone all
the m the preacher was praying for
him. At the conclusion Evans offered
the following prayer of his own: 81 am
at peace with all men. | am guilty of
the crime, Lord. l thank Thee for the
time you have allowed me. Go with
Thy people who are standing around me.
i am 30 glad am allowed the privilege
to talk. Oh Lord, oh Lord, l brought
my sins to you and you have forgiven
me-"
The h%angman's black cap was then
lowered over his face and at II. SO D.. m.
h trap was sprung and IL minutes later
the negro was pronounced dead by Drs.
Hood and Owens. Rev. j. G. Goode,
the negro minister who prayed for the
negro who was lynched for the attempted
assault on Misc Brooke last summer, was
also on the scaffold with Evans and had
been with him during the morning.
At 1880 Evans's body was out down.
His neck was broken by the tall. His
body was turned over to relatives, who
carried him to his old home near Cor
onaca for burial.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-04-17
This Is "Graitlns" Some.
[Seneca Farm and Factory.

S. g. BigRerstaff was in town Wednes.
day. He says he has a lot of peach trees
dying with old age which have bloomed
every year, but have not borne a peach,
frost having killed them every year. He
is now preparing to graft his peaches on
willow stumps in his bottoms. He thinks
they will grow and stand the frost there.
Mr.. Biggerstaff will also attempt the ope-
ration of grating watermelon vines on
maypops in order to get q drought re-
sisting growth. Mr.. Biggerstaff is an en-
thusiastic and successful farmer. He
denies most vigorously that he is a half
brother to the man who crossed his bees
with lightning bugs in order that they
might work all night.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-04-17
Went Back Home.

~Spartanburg, April 15.-Miss Laura
Mclaughlin, the pretty and attractive
young lady of Kings Mountain, who was
taken into custody at the Southern rail
way station by the police at the request
of her parents, who thought she was
running away to get married, was only
stage struck and was Oh route to AshG-
willie to join a theatrical company show
ing in that city. After being held here
for several hours she consented to re-
turn to her home.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-04-17
Old Ohio Guard Has Rallied About Foraker

Columbus, Ohio, April Ex-senator
Foraker's visit to Ohio has galvanized
the "old guard" of Ohio Republicans as
no other incident in years has done. His
arrival here was the signal for the faith
full to flock to his battle flag, which they
state ia flying at the mast-head.
At Canton, when asked about the de-
c~laration Of Congressman Longworth in
reference to him and Mr.. Taft, he said:
81 don't think it's of the slightest i'm
portance what Longworth says about
anything; / have no time to waste on
him.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-04-17
Georgia Crops Badly DAMAGED.

Atlanta, April li.-As a result of the
coolest April weather on record, the
opinion is expressed by Commissioner of
Agriculture Hudson that growing crops
IN Middle and South Georgia. truck gar
deus all over the State, and fruit crops in
many sections, have been seriously hurt.
Cotton south Of Fort Valley" said
b commissioners, that is up, has been
killed and as much more which is not
yet np will never grow to maturity. The
warm weather In March led to extensive
early planting, hence the destruction
from the cold weather.
1T is difficult to estimate the damage
that has been done to peaches, but re-.
ports indicate thatit has been extensive"
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-04-17
EUREKA!
Yes, Have Found It at last.

Found what? Why that Chamberlain's
itching of the skin. / have been afflicted
for many years with skin disease. 1 had
to get up three or four times every night
and wash with cold water to allay the
terrible itching, but since using this salve
in December, 1905, the itching has
stopped and has not troubled me-
Elder John T. Ongley, ROCKVILLE, Pa.
For sale by j.. w. Bell, Walhalla; w. j.
Lunney, Seneca.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-04-17

Julian A. Selby, a veteran printer and
newspaper man of Columbia, died in
that city last Friday of heart disease,
aged Il years. Soon after the war Mr..
Selby established the Phoenix, the only
daily paper published in Columbia for
segera! years. Several years ago Mr..
Selby published a book called "Memora-
bilia,'" which incorporated many of the
anecdotes and stories of Columbia, for
which he was famous.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-04-17
Another Effort 10 Find North Pole.

Portland, April l4.-Commander Rob-
ert K. Peary, who has announced his in
tention of starting from New York on
July 1 for another voyage to the far
North in another attempt to reach the
pole, left for New York tonight, after
passing two days at his summer home on
Eagle Island, Casco bay. lie was accom-
panied by Mrs. PearY.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-04-17
Thaw Received Heavy Mail.

New York, April 15.-According to
the Tombs officials, who have kept a
record of all mail matter sent to Thaw
since he was brought to the Tombs, the
prisoner has received 1000 pieces of
mail. Three hundred of these were
sem to him on st. Patrick's day contain
ing shamrocks and wishing him luck.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-04-17

Convicted of the charge of cracking
the safe of the Enoree Manufacturing
Company on the night of November 20,
1902, and making off with about $4,000,
Charles Howard and Tom Nolan, white.
have been sentenced to serve ten years
each in the penitentiary.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-04-17

The Governor has pardoned John
Henry King, convicted of bigamy in
Pickens county and sent up for two
and a half years. King proved to the
Governor that his first wife died before
his second marriage, which he was una
BILE to do at the trial.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-04-17
Tabernacle Failure.

Atlanta, April l4.-Dr. Len G.. Brough-
ton to. day announced his Atlanta Taber-
nacle scheme was IN the verge of failure
as a. result of efforts of Presbyterians
hospital, thus draining the city of funds.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-04-17

w. A. Schrock, Of Camden, was given
a verdict on Wednesday, April 10, for
1925 against the Western Union Tele-
graph Company as damages for the de-
lay in delivering a telegram announcing
the death of his wife.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-04-17

Some of the whiskey at the State dis
peusary froze during the recent cold
Snall
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-04-17

building is of the purest gothic type,
built of brown stone, and cost 1920, 900.
1t was free from debt.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-04-17

The Columbia dispensaries made
9S.012.98 in March.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-04-17
Cotton Planters.

Side Harrows,
Little Joe Harrows,
Cutaway Harrows,
Weeders.
Call and see them.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-09-12
THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES.

II am not exaggeratinE things a
Bit said Representative Slemp In a
recent interview. when ! say that
Virginia might go Republican II
Roosevelt were nominated for Prcsi-
dent
That is a safe prediction, seeing that
Mr.. Roosevelt positively declares that
he will under no circumstances be a
candidate for another term. But sup
pose the Republicans should nominate
Hughes on conservative platform,
embodying the principles which he has
recently declared; and suppose the
Democrats should nominate Bryan on
a platform embodying his views; would
Virginia go Democratic? In all proba-
bility. yes; for the majority of voters
in this State are so affectionately af-
fliated with the Democratic party, and
are SO bitterly opposed to the Repub-
lican party. that nothing short of a
political revolution would tear them
from their allegiance. But in such
contingency as we have supposed. Vir-
ginia would be lighting ground for the
Republicans, and they would doubtless
make contest. The negro vote is now
out of the way. and there are more
Independent voters in this State than
ever before. The same is true of other
Southern States, and the national or
ganization will do well to consider the
changed condition before making a
platform and nomination. The South
is determined to take a part In the
proceedings next year. and Democrats
from other sections cannot afford to
ignore her, or draw the line of sec
| tionalism against her. II they do, if
they force upon the South a platform
and candidate that are not to her
| liking, they cannot safely count, as
of old. on the solid South"
We do not pretend to speak by au-
thority for the South at large. or for
Virginia, but our remarks reflect the
signs of the times.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-09-12

employer, or of any OF his slaves. IT
gives an air OF gaiets to the solemn
business of knitting the competitor
N. B.--rhe cue to lhngh is when the
boss makes his famous Joke about the
weather
NO satntering about the streets dur
ing tho noon hour without a hat. "
snacks OF the young ladies' seminary.
NO wearing of lingerie shirtwaists.
IT distracts the attention OF the men
In the Office
Gum giggling. hair-ribbons and
peekaboos thus go together at one
fell swoop. The jaw Of the Barrett
stenographer is, officially speaking,
forever silent; her scarlet lip is an
eternal stranger to the overwhelming
and hilarious litter; her Golf. severely
made. rears aloft no enticlng contrap-
ton of taffeta; her shirtwaist offers
to the observer solid and united
front. All day she sits. silent to taci-
turnity. her capable fingers (unringed),
jabbing away at the machine. her rlsi-
bes, once so very ready, now to be
titillated only by the ancient pleas
antries of him who provides her pay
envelope.
Poetry, charm. color and interest
have faded from stenography as ex-
by Barrett. That is undeni-
able. But enhanced efficiency, un-
rises up to take its place.
Who can doubt that hands which have
neither gum nor bows to arrange, nor
work and better work than the over
busted hands of the days before Bar
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-09-12
NAMING THE STREETS

AS compromise for the varied sur-
gestlons that have been made in re-
gard to remaining the streets west NJ
foushee, we propose for the consider
aton of the public and the Council
mat Foushee be retained as III.
diSiding line between east and west.
ana that the cross streets westward he
called avenues. We would retain tha
names of Adams, jefferson. Mac..on.
Monroe and Henry, but would dea. nate
the others by numbers. Thus the frs,
avenue 10 the west would be Adams.
the second, Jefferson; the third, Mad
lsoni the fourth, l1onroe. and the fifth
Henry Belvidere would then be Sixth
Avenue; Pine, Seventh Avenue: I,auroI
Eighth Avenue, and SO on TO tho limit.
TINS would avoid the terms east and
west as applied 10 the cross streets
and at the same time preserve the
historic designations.
The signs for all streets should he
OF enamel with white background and
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-09-12
SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS.
Lisa prummond an ,,nlovely Amer

Lisa Drummond. an unlovely Amcri-
can. practically declares her love to
1vor Dundas, only to learn that he Is In
love With her half-slster, Diana Forrest.
conversation. In which the Foreign
Secretary Offers Dundas mission
to Parls to carry nm important
package to MademoIselle Maxine de Rem
zle. noted French actress. who is
British political Spy. AS Dundas once
had filtration with Maxine 1t was
supposed that the true object OF his
visit would not be guessed. After
receiving the package for Maxine
md learning that her fance Is the
Foreign Secretary adieu. Lisa escapes
unseen. but manages before going to
sleep to extract from Diana the ndmis-
sion that Dundas had proposed that
night.
Acting under tho advice OF Lisa.
DIANA goes to the depot and meets
Dundas az he lis about to take tie train.
Dundas feels that he cannot explain why
he Is going to Paris. but admits that he
VIII geo Maxine. Diana, cut to tho
quick. tells him fatty that II he sees
Maxine he need never return to her.
The departure of the train prevents any
further conversation. and Dundas forces
nis way into reserved apartment with
three strangers. He paid little attention
% these men. for his thoughts were with
Dundas's pockets. and he did not feel
alarmed until he saw the two sporting
men keep glancing at tho small man,
VINO grew nervous AS the train pulled
up at the pier Dundas waited behind to
Keep away from the crowd and to watch
his Fellow travellers. In tho hurry to
get aboard the small man throws his
arms around Dundas. But the case
seems still safe in his breast pocket.
proceedings at once to his hotel in
Paris Dundas hands the packet TO Max
Inc. In the midst OF their Interview
police break into the apartment and de-
nand the package. of which Maxine and
iiuhdas nedy all knowledge. The police
begin n search. Slowly they searched
the room, and at last found In n safe n
leather case. II was not the packet
winch Dundas had brought but the po-
lice were satisfied. Maxine prayed them
not TO open it, saying 1t was a token
from her lover. from Durndas. Despite
her prayers tho police tore IL apart aud
there fell out diamond necLIaca
Maxine pretended to faint, but ms Dun
GAS caught her no felt her thrill with the
JOY OF life. The police departed apolo-
setic and crest-fallen, and then Maxine
asked Tor the real package. Dundas de-
ciared that he had no other, that he
must nave been robbed.
Maxine tells fvor that the racket
should have held secret treaty between,
Ian zee ana hussia. which she stole from
10 sell II to the English government
10 raise money to replace a diamond
necklace which belonged to the .Duch.
ess oe montpelier. and which had been
s,oien while In Raours Keeping. Maxine
,oin how she visited her fiance i'm Mis-
oliice ana got an impression of the KEY
70 me safe in which important state
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-09-12
Lee Cn1nn Choir

Editor Times Dispatch:
Sir,-I see from to-day's Times Dis
patch that many members of the Lee
Camp, Confederate Veterans. oppose the
plan for uniformed choir.
1t does seem to me they should not
only be allowed the privilege Of wear
ing the gray (uniformD, but be en-
in 1t. Have any women on
earth ever shown a more devoted love
or devotion for any cause than the no.
BILE women of our Southern land? They
have been t!reless In their efforts for
those who wore, the gray ever since
the war n thousand ways. and 1t
does seem to me 'as a Confederate
veteran" 1t would be the basest In
gratitude In any Confederate to oppose
this. which will give them so much
pleasure and which will contribute so
largely in making our reunions the
more pleasant
Would there have been one-half of
the monuments erected to our beloved
and honored dead had 1t not been for
their noble work-her self-sacriflces
and her prayers?
So, Confederates, look we'll to what
you are doing, or you may crush this
loving spirit.
w. W. PATERSON.
charlottesville, Va
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-09-12
OCEAN GREYHoUNDs.

According to wireless reports the
Lusitania is making a record breaking
voyage across the Atlantic. Sixty-nine
years ago the Great Western crossed
the ocean in fourteen days. which was
a record for that time The first Gu
narders made only eight miles an hour,
about one-third the speed Of the Lusi-
tana. In 1856 the Persia broke the
record between New York and Queens
town by making the run In nine days
one hour and forty-fve minutes. In
1866 the Scotia lowered the record to
eight days two hours and rorty-eight
minutes. In 1869 the City of Brussels
still further reduced the time to seven
days twentytw hours and three min
utes. This record was slightly low
cred from time to time, until 1882,
when the Alaska crossed in six days
eighteen hours and thirty seven min
rtes. From that time on the record
has been as follows:
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-09-12
WAGES AND THE COST OF LIVING

The Bureau of Labor in Washington
makes the encouraging statement that
in the principal manufacturing and me-
chanical industries the average full
time weekly earnings per employe We're
SO per cent. greater in 1906 than III
in repre- sentative workingmen's fami-
lies were 80 per cent. higher last year
than the year before. The conclusion
drawn by the bureau from this exhibit
is that as the advance in wages per
hour from 1905 to 1906 was greater
than the advance in the retail prices of
food the purchasing power of an
hours wages. as measured by food. was
year, In 1906 the purchasing power of
an hours wages as expended for food
WAS la per cent. greater than in 1905,
and the purchasing power of full
weeks wages was 1 per cent. greater
In 1906 than in 1905, or, in other words,
an hours wages in 1905 in the manu-
featuring and mechanical indus
tries of the United States would pur-
chase Ia per cent more food than an
hours wages in 1905. and full weeks
wages in 1905 would purchase / per
cent. more food than a fun weeks
wages in 1905"
ny This is fine showing on its face for
the Roosevelt administration and the
Republican tariff. But what does the
analysis show? First, that by the CEN
sus of 1900 the number of persons en-
ployed in manufacturing and mechani-
raj industries was 7,l12, 1857, whereas the
number of persons employed in all oc-
cupations was 29,2S5, 922. The bureaus
figures apply tojiess than one-fourth OF
the persons III tile United States en-
gagged in gainful occupations. What of
the other three-fourths? Again, in the
matter of food. from IS to 80 articles
were investigated including evaporated
apples and picked pork, and while the
average increase is found to be 20 per
cent, in December 1906, as compared
with December, 1908. butter advanced
10 per cent, lard 1873 per cent, fresh
pork 12.2 per cent. bacon Ill per
cent and ham 9,s per cent. In view
of such figures as these the bureaus
averages" are not very comforting. 1t
may continue to publish fattering
statements as TO the average wage
and the average cost of living. but the
average" housewife knows that she
has been compelled to call on her good
man for an increased allowance for
household expenses, and that she must
even at that stint and pinch and
sconomize at every turn to make botl
ends meet"
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-09-12
Shndy Business.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Mrs Augusta Hale Clifford. OF Portland
Me-. sister of Senator Eugene Hale, VINO
has spent much time in foreign lands, VIII
shortly begin the writing OF comprehen-
sive history of Russia.
DR.. Henry II. Rusby. dean of the New
York College Of Pharmacy, Columbia Uni
versity has been appointed official expert
in drug products for the United States
government.
lieutenant Colonel "Lige' Halford, at
the age of sixty-four. is now retired. The
place with which President Harrison re-
wardcd him for faithful service has made
him comfortable for life.
The Rev. DR.. E. C. Hughes father OF
Governor Hughes of New York has been
conducting services in a tent In that city
He is SO d-fashioned as to publicly dis
approve of tobacco. bridge whist and the
theatre.
Mrs. George West. formerly Lady Ram
doph Churchill. is about to write book OF
recolections Her literary talent is we'll
known, and she aided much in the prepara-
ton of Lord Randolph's biography, written
by her son, Winston Churchill.
Secretary Wilson, of the Agricultural De-
partment gave the visiting biologists from
abroad increased idea of our public
works when he told them that Congress an
nually appropriates $5000,000 for the three
geological bureaus of his department.
Kaiser wilhelm's mother was born the
Princess Royal OF Great Britain. This story
is told of her childhood days. I'm speaking
to her tutor she dropped the Mr. and call
ed him merely Brown. Queen Victoria, her
mother, threatened her with bed If the Of
Tense was repeated. When next morning
the tutor appeared his pupil said Good
morning, Brown and good might, TOO. for
now must go to bed
The German papers say that The new MILL
tary airship. which has recently been maxi
INK Successful! flights above Berlin. IL the
best OF Its kind ever made. In view. how
ever of it's sausa re like shape, we should
have expected 1t to be called the Wurst.-
Punch
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-09-12
Rhymes for To-Day
OSCILLATION. MEpIuNl-cnApE.

OSCILLATION, MED1UNi-GRADE.
fmrbe soui-l,jss has no relation to
lanv other i,iss or any earthly signifi-
Icnf,oe. r. is 'a,,iritunllstic In character
John Jenkins one day met medium
A lovely and languorous miss
y Said she. ITO relieve the dull tedium,
Quoth Jenkins: "Dear ma'am.
Trust me to sit ca M
Willie you, as you say, show the kiss
Said she: First ] conjure frenzy
Ills on me this minute. wis!
And then Orzon--Buddlia--
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-09-12

SINCE then the Deutschland and
Kaiser Wilhelm II. on the Plymouth
route have established the record for
speed, the former making an aver
age rate Of 20 knots all the way and OF
-4,ls Knots for one day. But IL the
Lusltania comes up to expectation she
VIII make an average of rs knots an
hour and reduce the time between
Queenstown and New York to four
days and eighteen hours.