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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-07-03
TWO KILLED BY GOOD NEWS.
LAsoRER, HEIR 70 sIoo, 900, DROPS DEAD
ANOTHER HEIR BROWNS HIMSELF. "

Washington, Pa, June 27.-Wil-
liam Breene, day laborel of Wash
ington, was 80 overcome by the news
that he had inherited an estate valued
at 100000 that he fell unconscious
and died half hour later in local
hospital.
AT noon Chief of Police Delaney
showed Breene letter in which it
was said that his father had died on a
farm in Ohio, leaving his entire
wealth to his son.
"You're not fooling me, chief ?" he
asked.
He was assured that bis wealth
was bona fide. Breene seemed dazed,
and, then throwing up his hands, fell
unconscious to the pavement. He
never regained consciousness. There
are no near relatives to claim the
estate.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-07-03

Hundreds of people yearly 60 through
painful operations needlessly, because
they never tried ManZan Pile Remedy.
1t is put up in such form that it can be
applied right whore the trouble lies. 1t
relieves the pain and inflammation. 1t
is for any form of piles. Price 80 cents.
Sold by DIR. j. w. Bell, Walhalla; w. j..
Lunney, Seneca.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-07-03

Headache and constipation disappear
when Rings Little Liver Pills arc used.
They keep the system clean, the stomach
sweet. Taken occasionally they keep
you we'll. They are for the entire fam
lily. Sold by DR.. j. w. Bell, Walhalla; :;
w. j. Lunney, Seneca.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-07-03

Pineules for the kidneys strengthen
these organs and assist in drawing poi
son from the blood. Try them for rheu-
matism, kidney and bladder trouble, for
lumbago and tired, worn.out feeling.
They bring quick relief. Satisfaction
guaranteed. Sold by DR.. j. w, Bell,
Walhaila; W. j. Lunney, Seneca.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-07-03
Stimulation Without Irritation.

That is the watchword That is what
'Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup does.
Cleanses and stimulates the bowels with
out irritation in any form. Sold by DR..
j, W. Bell
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-07-03

Pineules for tho kidneys and bladder.
They bring quick relief to backache,
rheumatism, iumbago, tired worn-out
feeling. They produce natural action of
the kidneys in fi'tering waste matter out
Money refunded If Pine les are not sat
isfaotory. Sold by DR.. j. w. Bell, Wal.
halla; w. j. Lunney, Seneca.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-07-03

l.. w. Perrin, the oldest member
of the Abbeville bar, is dead. While
watching base ball game from a
buggy he suddenly became uncon-
scious and expired in few minutes.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-07-03

If you suffer from bloating, belching,
sour stomach, Indigestion or dyspepsia,
take Rings Dyspepsia Tablet after
each meal, and overcome the disagree
able trouble. 1t will improve the appe-
tito and aid digestion. Sold by DIR. j. w.
Bell, Walhalla; w. j. LMnney, Seneca.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-07-03

South Norwalk, Conn, June 2S.--
When informed that he had fallen
heir to $4,000, Frank G. Randle went
out and drowned himself in the Nor.
walk mill pond.
1t is thought that JOY unbalanced
his mind after having been informed
by the administrators of his fathers
estate as to its amount and his share.
Randle, who was thirty. five years
of age, entered the little store where
his father had labored for more than
half a century and sat in thought for
some time. Then, saying he was
going for drive, Randle drove to
the mill pond, where he removed his
clothes and plunged into the water.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-07-03

The community of Avondale, Pa,
is intensely wrought up against Irwin
Lewis, charged with the murder OF
his little step-daughter.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-07-03

During the summer kidney irregulari-
ties are often caused by excessive drink
ing or being overheated. Attend to the
kidneys at once by using Foleys Kidney
Cure. Sold by DR.. J. w. Bell.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-07-03

Quick Relief for Asthma Sufferers.
Foley's Honey and Tar affords imme.
diate relief to asthma suffers in the
worst stages and if taken in time will
effect cure. Sold by DR.. j. w. Boil.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-07-03

Mrs. Henry Reynolds, of Arion,
Ga, jumped in front of passenger
train on the Central of Georgia road
and was ground to pieces.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-22
OLD ORCHARD MAY
 BE MADE PRODUCTIVE

Washington, Sept. H-(SpeciaD-F. II. Ballou. of the Ohio experiment station. maintains in a report to the department of Agriculture that old neglected orchards which have been overgrown with weeds and brambles and become not only worth less but menace to new, well cared-for orchards, may be renewed so that they may be a valuable source of fruit, es- peclaly while new orchards are coming Into bearing
 Instead of these orchards being destroy ed to prevent the spread of disease and obnoxious weeds to newly planted orch ards, he explains how they may be renewed in such a way that the injurious insects and diseases may be effectively controlled, and the old trees made to pro- dnce fine fruit for home market while the young fruit trees are growing.
 MT. Ballou explains at the outset that renewal is a reversal of the generally prevailing idea of pruning up old trees It is distinctly process of pruning down."
 "The type of trees with which renewal is not practicable is that type whose heads have been formed at an extreme height from the ground and whose naked branches, from that elevated point of di- yergence, extended many more feet up ward and outward, with no intervening smaller branches" says MT. Ballou Us
  moderately low and whose lower branches are in good condition can be successful renewed.
 "Cut out the topmost branches the first season of the renewal, leaving all healthy side branches The next season these horizontal branches may have their ex- tremitles topped back with the pruners In such way as to promote a uniform well-rounded. symmetrical head.
 Tt will be necessary to saw large branches first on the under-side, than on the upper-slde, a few inches further out or up the branch in the direction of it's growth. This allows the branch to break off without splitting the part remaining. second cut at an angle can then be made without difficulty, leaving smooth, clean-cut stub.
 All wounds should be dressed few weeks after cutting. with a thick paint made of pure white lead and boiled linseed farm oil. The benefits of heading
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-22

a young man or young woman thorough ly versed in the mechanism of the piano and the organ, cannot expect to earn in excess of a thousand dollars a year.
 On account of these and many other openings, although the chances of the person of average talent for stage ap- pearance are none too many, and for attaining great prominence on the operat- ic stage are very few indeed, yet nearly all the graduates of high-grade Ameri- can music schools seem to be reasonably certain, If possessed of ordinary common sense. to make their way in the world. When Colonel Savage advertised for a flower girl chorus for his production of "Parslfaf' in England more than a thou sanl young Americans presented them selves. But the plethora of American beauties was undoubtedly due not SO much to the magnihcence of the compen- sation offered as to the general glamour of the stage and the particular desirabil- ity of appearance in so famous a produc- ton.
 Men in the United States are gener- ally less ready than women to take the musical profession seriously. This is par ticularlv true of the educated classes from which the ranks of the other pro- fesslons are recruited. There is, however, a. tendency now TOT cOlleRe pred young men to think of music as something which they may take up instead of law, ministry. medicine or engineering. Some, like Fredericl. S. Converse, a young Har- yard man who entered upon a business career but found the call of music too strong to resist, have discovered in mu- sical composition a very interesting field. Since the production or his opera, "The Pipe of Desire" by Conservatory stu- dents in Boston two years ago, MT. Con- verse has had several introductions to New York audiences and has become re- cognized as one of the coming composers.
 Another graduate of Harvard who has became very popular in New York is Francis Rogers. who has added techni- cal power to the manner in which he used to sing glee and college songs and has met with great success on the con cert stage. Herbert Witherspoon is an other collegian, a graduate of Columbia. who has gained great professional and social favor as a singer The attention that is now paid to music in the colleges particularly where such an alliance as that that has been concluded between the oldest of American universities, liar yard. and the New England Conservato- ry of Music. by which work done in the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-22
SCIENCE STUDIES YOUR BABY And Says It Should Triple Its Weight
 In Its First Year.

Science takes a large and compre- hensive interest in modern babies and baby statistics, says the September Delineator.
 The average weight of boy babies at birth is seven pounds; girls about six and a half pounds. During the first three days the child loses weight; after it is week old it steadily in creases.
 A child should increase in weight two pounds for every addition of an inch in height between three and four feet, and two and one-half pounds for every inch between four and five feet
 The healthy baby triples It's weight at birth in one year, doubles this in six years, quadruples this weight in thirteen years, and at twenty-one a man weighs twenty-one times his weight at birth. These are the figures resulting from the averaging of many thousand cases under investigation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-22
COMPLICATIONS
 ARE CONDEMNED Result of Many Years of Par Iiamentary Debate SERVED NO GOOD PURPOSE Were Useless as Military Defense of Paris-The Daring Feat of
 the Young Countess
 Amelia d'Orb.
BY PAUL VILLIER.

Special Cable to The Age-Herald. Copy
 right, 1907, by W. R. Hearst.
 Paris, September 21.-After many years of debate in Parliament and negotiations between the municipal council and the government, the fortifcations which sur round Paris have been condemned to de- molition and the stevedores pick is now plying merrily. As a defense they, of course served no military purpose and have been condemned for years by the authorities.
 The "fortifs'' as they are popularly called, have been the harbor of par ticularIy infamous class. They are occa- sionally raided by the police, and 1t fre- auently occurs that criminals wanted" for years by the judicials authorities are discovered.
 The other morning at o'clock N. Ham, ard. chief of the criminal investigation department assisted by innumerable po- lice agents and representatives, made gigantic roundup. Four hundred arrests were made.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-22
he Opening Days, A Comprehensive Showing

The silks shown in the opening have provided every need silks for the dignity of grand occasions silks fit for the ing of the genewoman
 Transparent silks and daphanous silks the choicest prod ucs of Lyonsthe foanhead of silk refinement and beauty Modesty priced considering the beauty
 But please remember it is opening day too for silks of moderate prices Dressmakers have gone estaces the showing of silks ranging prices from 50c or so to $1
 Take, for example, these New Imported Messalines, 59c, 75c and $1.O0 New Plaids 69c; New Checks, 59c Pekin Stripes 59c. New Colored Taffeta; newest shades, 59c and 75c Black silks of every and wanted weave.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-22

back will be lost in time, unless the work be followed up by annual discriminate thinning of the new shoots, and cutting back of those selected for future fruit bearing"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-22
The PECK" Clothing and
 CRAWFORD" Shoes.

Peck line from S19.50 to S40.O See our 2 SPECIALS, S19.50
 and $14.50 Suits. A complete line at each price. JOHNSON & M'COY GO.
 221 North 20th Street.
 WANTED-A good clothing man with experience. Do not apply unless you have had ex- perience in salesmanship and stock keeping. Apply Monday at 5 pm.
 JOHNSON & M'COY co.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-22
Burger Dry Goods CO.

Conservatory can be counted toward liar yard degrees-is helping. undoubtedly, to induce more and more of the educated young men of the country to compete for the very considerable financial and ar tistic rewards of the musical profession.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-22
A Story of Strange Names.

From the New York Globe.
 The parents of Judge Kenesaw Moun- tain Landis had rare taste in names" said man who had Just got back from a summer in Connecticut. but while I was up fin the Nutmeg state 1 ran across a bunch of cognomens that had the Chi cago jurist's beat to light frott..
 "A man came into the hotel and reg istered as Kansas N. Bill I was intro- duced to him and asked him. jokingly. if his middle name was Nebraska. To my surprise he said it was. Then he told me that his father, one of the real old-fash- toned Yankees, had named his four chil- dren for famous measures passed in the national Congress. Besides Kansas Ne braska Bill, there was Lecompton Con- stitution Bin, and the two girls, Missouri Compromise Bill and Louisiana Purchase Bill
 Now. I know this doesn't sound like true story but you just go up to Bill Hill. little beyond Old Lyme. and hunt up K N. Bill and ask him if it isn't so. =
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-22

The taetas of c. J. Bonnet Cie head the list There are Messanes Marqusettes Calcium and hundred others the cearest deepest black you Prices range from 50c to $500 yard.
 DRESS GOODS The Showing Gives The Depart
 ment the Right to be Called Headquarters
 Voiles Cloths, Chevios Serges and Panamas 50c yard and higher Black Voes 5Oc to $200 Coloed afea Cloths 45lnch, $l Novelties and Mixtures all combinations 75c yard up.
 There is much to and to learn from the display that hours could be spent here with profit Welcome to it's enjoy ment and teaching
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-22

The reasonable certainty that there is living in teaching music Is unquestion- ably what induces many a hard-head American business man to spend money on his children's musical education. city like New York, where there are two thousand or more mllionaires, and many times the number of families with in- comes in excess of s1O0,000, supports thou sands of wel-pad music teachers. It is said that four women students out of five, even of those who are determined at the outset to become foremost opera singers or concert performers. end up by teach ing. Boston rather than New York has always been the great source of highly trained teachers of music. Of the more than 2600 students at the New England Conservatory last year, of whom a large majority were women, it is probable that most will be teaching few years hence.
 There is no occasion to pity them. worse condition than that of the success full music teacher in a comfortable Amer ican community can be imagined. In lar ger cities there are teachers of piano or voice who earn as much as sl0.000 a year.
 In emaller places those who are thor oughly competent get at least a better living than they would have been likely to secure if they had become, say clerks, stenographers or bookkeepers. Again, the openings for teachers in private schools and seminaries at salaries ranging from d fes hundred to three thousand dollars year are numerous and steadily increas- ing. More than 100 colleges in the Unit ed States have music departments. Again not few young women have taken Con servatory work in piano tuning and have discovered that there is a lucrative field of usefulness in this line. Indeed, it is said to be impossible to meet the demand for expert tuners. There is hardly any American city of 5000 inhabitants where
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-22
MANY MUSICIANS HAVE B|G SALARIES America is the MuSiCian'S Fl
 Dorado PAY FOR EVENINGS WORK Is Often Paid More for One Days Work Than Average Amer
 ican Earns in
 Year.

New York, September 21. (SpeciaD-With an energetic New York impressario plan ming to distribute grand opera houses in half a score of the larger cities of the United States, and with another purveyor of entertainment contracting with sin- ger for a few songs at a round price of S3OO00O, 1t looks as if Americans will shortly be listening except those in the box seats don't always listen-to more high-priced music than ever before. All ready this country has acquired repu- tatlon for paying musicians as they are paid nowhere else in the world. Ameri- cans may not be a musical people. There are some who say not. But the people of this country clearly have the price when something comes along which is believed to be worth listening to. Music and mo- ney ought not, perhaps, to be intimately associated; but, as things are, the people who have the money generally get the best music.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-22

A considerable number of men musi-
 clans, singers and instrumentalists, also
 do remarkably well financially, earning bigger salaries in a short season than
 most bank presidents in years work 1 Thenr chances, of course, are greater in America. Thus it Is reported that much advertised pianist not long ago played for S60 recital at Nuremberg and then received $10,000 for a series of forty re- cltals in the United States. Considering the opportunities here, it is not strange that so well informed a musical critic as Henry T. Flnck wrote recently in "The Nation: "The rewards of success in music are indeed so great that 1t is a wonder so few men compete for them"
 There is, to be sure. another side to the story. Beneath the ranks of the very successful are thousands of profess sional musicians who, even in this coun- try of high prices, manage at best to get only modest living and sometimes hardly that. Still 1t Is doubtful if they are worse off than the generality of the moderately successful in other walks of life. The small salaries of orchestra play CTS are sometimes referred to as show ing that there is little money in music Yet, if it is true recently asserted, that the average earnings of certified doctors of medicine in the United States are not more than $500 for a whole years worE, the average compensation of play CTS in the permanent orchestras of the United States certainly exceeds this in a comparatively short season; and they have chances to supplement their income by summer work, by teaching throughout the year, and by occasional engagements.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-22

Hon. w. A. Covington, of Georgia, will speak against whisky this afternoon at Jeffer- son Theater at 3::30 o'clock. All men urged to come.
 The prevailing idea of our store is to give the best values for the least possible price writ the most satisfactory serVie Get your suit of us.
 MARLEY & BAUMAN.
 1924 First Ave.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-22

With two grand opera combinations in competition and with the permanent or ehestras of several American cities feat uring distinguished instrumentalists and vocal artists in their concerts up and down the country. it is impossible to say whether the supply of distinguished for eign musicians will keep up with the de- mand: and it is certainly not remarkable that American girls in greater numbers than ever before are studying for the operatc stage. The prizes in the musical profession become greater and greater each year; as for the blanks, why, of course, youth argues that these are nu- merous in every profession. What all lures is the undoubted fact that prices have advanced far over those of earlier days when $10O night was regarded as excellent pay for the singer or instru- mental performer.
 Although musicians receive much bet ter compensation in England than on the continent of Europe, they get, 1t Is gen erally understood, more than twice as much in New York as in London. Melba, for example, according to statements that have not been denied, Is paid in the British capital about $500 an evening but in New York she has $500. Calve, whose compensation is the same as Melba's in Covent Garden, is fabled-or perhaps it is the literal truth-to receive 5000 for each performance In New York city. Lehman is popular in Germany, where she gets $25O a night-a very high price for the thrifty music lovers of the Fatherland to pay; her American rate is 5000.
 So it goes through the whole list of the grand opera favorites. Nordica, Lou | ise Homer. Geraldine Farrar, Emma Flames, and the others, are all said to receive compensation In America which
 they could not expect to get abroad
 Consequently, 1t is no wonder that Amer
 ican maidens from Maine to Mexico cove
 the opera singers career.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-22
Opening of Outer Garments

Opening days days of triumph for the ''ready display of all that has been declared beautiful and right for intelligence and Burgers seeking the best and careful sitting and seeco the styles that appeal to the Birmingham
 All in a is show of that will attract thousands this show of tai lored suits that all inclusive of trues prettiest interpretations of fashions Tailored Suits range in price from $10 to $75. Goats, both street and dress$750 to S65 Waiss-Net Silk Lingerie and Linen$25Ot to $25O0 Skirts Voie Cloth and Panama-$50O to S30
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-22
Burgers Fall Opening
Opening of Millinery

will prove the successful of of the past proud of) The hats pcuTespvate pictures, private the of Birmingham and the becoming.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-22
Hats From Paris Burger Hats

the Mes represented by their che With these side side Burgers hats They beautiful than they have seemed
 You will when that
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-22
The Hats are BecOmi

The idea of throwing the hat from the aceand the placing of the r rear--wl add considerable youth to womans face
 The beautiful Empire Models have the preference but the will be popular Really there of doing b words We extend right hand of welcome 70
 Burgers hats range in price from 25O to $35OO
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-22

The most famous and highly trained of American orchestras, one which New Workers always hear with pleasure, is the Boston Symphony. The salaries are said to be modest in this organization, which is kept together only through the guarantee of Major Henry L. Higginson to make up the annual deficit; but, on the other hand, the positions are permanent for men who continue to advance profess sonally, the summer months are easily made productive as well as pleasura ble, and a very considerable number of the members of the orchestra receive sala- ries as teachers at the New England Conservatory of Music, the oldest and largest of American schools of profess sional study in music, to which their fame as virtuosi annually attracts many students who would otherwise go abroad for their musical education.