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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-07-31
Special Election i'm
South Union, No. =.

NOTICE Is hereby given that an cleo
IN ton will be held at the white school
house in South Union District, No. 7, on
the Sd day OF August, 1907, between the
hours of and O'clock p. m. to deter
mine whether or not special levy Of
two (2) mills will be levied in said dis
tr.ct for the additi onal support of said,
Assembly.
At such election, the ballots shall read
"Yes'', if in favor of said levy, and "No''
If against said levy, and only such resi-.
dent electors in the district, as return
real or personal property for taxation
and who exhibit their tax receipts and
registration certificates, as required In
general elections, shall be allowed to
vote.
At this eleotipn the trustees will aot as
managers, and are hereby directed TO
hold said election on above-named day
and report the result of same TO the un-
deraigned County Board of Education
within three days thereafter, as provided
IN the General Election Law, and II q
majority of those voting shall vote eyes,"
then within ton days furnish tho County
Auditor with statement of the amount
so levied.
BY order Of the County Board of Edu.
cation. G. L. CRAIG, Chairman.
NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND CRED
IN ITORS AL persons indebted to the
estate of R. 0. Tribble, deceased,
are hereby notified to make payment to
the undersigned, and all persons having
claims against said estate will present
the same, duly attested, within the time
prescribed by law, or be barred.
r. M. TRIDBLE, Administrator.
p. o.: Seneca, s. @.
July II, 1907. 1882
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-07-31

$1.75 and $3.50 Star Brand Ok.
fords, the pair $1.25.
$1.OO and $1.25 Star Brand OK
fOrds, the pair Soc.
Only n few pairs left i'm the last
number, but in all the others we have
nice line to show you, and they were
cheap before the reduction.
MEMS SHOES.
CrOssett's $4.00 and $500 Shoes
and OXfOrds to close out at $2.O8.
The sizes are broken, but still a good
line to select from.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-07-31

Cotton seed meal and hulls at
the Newry Store.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-07-31

Big line OF Mems $4.OO Patriot Ok
fords, the best oxford built at the
price, all styles and numbers, the
pair S3.4S.
All Mems $3.50 and $500 Oxfords
to close out, the pair 81 .GS.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Big line China Cups and Saucers to
go cheap. They were low at the old
price, which was $1.OO. We are clos
ing them now at only 65c per set
$1.O0 Shirts, nice line. -. .78c.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1907-07-31
LADIES OXFORDS.

IH HD1ES' OXFORTS.
We have nice line Of Queen
Quality OXfords in the latest crea-
tions in Shoe building.
$3.50 Queen Quality Oxfords. the
pair, SS2.O8.
$500 Queen Quality Oxfords, the
pair $2.43.
$3.50 Queen Quality Oxfords, the
pair $1.0S.
$3.50 and $500 Star Brand OK
fords, the pair $1.68.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-05
SONG OF A JAYHAwKER.


This is an original poem written by a
Kansas girl living at Phoenix. Ariz.. and
recited by her at q recent reunion of Kan
sans living there.1
Oh. a Jayhawker boy from Jayhawker
Wears a Jayhawker hat on Jayhawker
pate,
Rides a Jayhawiker horse In a Jayhawker
In a Jayhawker state he is bound to stay.
am Jayhawker girl with Jayhawker
face, :
I wear. Jayhawker flowers with a Jay
hawker grace,
sing Jayhawker songs with Jayhawk-
And the .Jayhawker state is Of my own
free choice.
Oh, the Jayhawker skies and the Jay
hawker days,
Are bs the JsyhaEsers pride and the Jay
FoT a Jayhawker knows that Jayhaw-
kerS pains,
Fills the Jayhawker's barns with the Jay
hawker's grains
So the Jayhawker sows. and the Jayhaw-
And the Jayhawker sings and the Jay
hawker sleeps,
While the Jayhawker's steers and the
Jayhawker's shoats
Grow into Jayhawker gold and Jayhaw-
Neither Jayhawker winds nor Jayhawker
drough.
Stops the Jayhawker's heart or the Jay
hawker'S mouth.
For the Jayhawker's faith and the Jay
Are the Jayhawker's life and the Jay
hawkerS home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-05
CRIMINAL RECKLEssNEss

Recklessness, which is actually crimi-
nal in its nature, is INDUCED in by a
few of the automobiles of the city
after dark and particularly during the
late hours of the night when the streets
are deserted to certain extent. These
baneful activities are practiced not on
Kansas avenue, which is reasonably
well lighted and where an officer of the
law can be found occasionally, but on
the well paved streets leading from
this thoroughfare and also on some of
the north and south streets where the
pavement are equally good.
The offenders in this particular are
chiefly business or professional men,
whose callings keep them at their
places of business and offices until a
late hour. AS soon as their starts for
home are made the levers of their ma
chimes are pulled out to the limit and
the speed at which some of them gen
orally travel is really frightfuL
1t does not take them as long to
traverse an east and west block as 1t
would for feather to fall a foot Not
the slightest pretense is made by these
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-05
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.

IFrom the Chicago News.1
A crank is a genius whose theories
are impractical.
When reformer meets reformer
then comes the windstorm.
No, Cordelia, all trouble-brewers do
not work in breweries.
Some butchers supply homeless ham
straight from the shoulder.
Human nature with q safety-brake
attachment is an excellent thing.
The last drop of water will not
come to the man who waits by q river.
Listening to the troubles Of their
neighbors affords some people a lot OF
pleasure.
A woman is never satisfied unless
she has at least one article that her
neighbor can borrow.
If you can't resist the temptation to
gossip get in front of mirror and tell
It to yourself.
Perhaps you may have noticed that
the more money some men have the
easier 1t is for them to get a strangle
hold on their generous impulses.
If a man shoots putty balls at an
enemy he need not be surprised If
they come back as cobblestones later.
The only reason you can't fool all
of the people all of the time is be-
cause some Of the people are not built
that way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-05
THE sCAPEGoAT REPORTER,

Referring to the recent utterance
Of Supreme Court Justice Brewer
says the Atlanta Constitution, ito the
effect that President Roosevelt was
unfairly, playing hide and seek, with
the nomination, the Baltimore News
declares that: TT is gratifying to see
the justice stand up to the rack, with
out trying to crawl out by saying that
he was misquoted, or misunderstood
or that he was not talking for publ
cation, as some distinguished public
men do when they don't like the looks
in print of what they say
mot a newspaper in the country
but is acquainted with this rather dis
concerning trait on part of a few of
the salt Of the earth
"Of course, there Is an occasional
INSCRIPTIONS reporter who, for the
sake of selling lurid story or with
the objectionable instinct of the in
durable faker,' will willfully distort
the expressions of public men, or
abuse the confidence reposed in their
discretion and veracity.
But these instances are precious
few. We doubt If they are as frequent
as cases Of renegadism in other pro-
LESSONS.
AhO ACpOAlCA VI SOOQ VINO
knows his business and its code of
ethics makes it his supreme aim to
be accurate and just in his quotations
of public men and his account of
whatever news happening may be as
signed to his lot. The more impor-
tant the man, the weightier his utter
ances, or the larger the story the
more exactness and gertrude does he
strive to bring to the discharge of his
task.
I'm spite of these safeguards, there
are numerous instances wherein the
reporter plays the scapegoat when, as
the Baltimore News intimates, the
sentiments expressed by some public
man do not appeal to the public as
he thought they would, or when the
cold reason of daylight succeeds the
fervor of the post-prandial indiscre-
ton.
Then it is that he was 'misquoted,'
tion,' or that his expressions have
been perverted
'It is strange phase of Journal
ism, from which even the most care
full and conscientious newspapers are
not exempt.
Reporters learn, also, to locate
such men. The next time they desire
publicity, it is accorded them sur
rounded by such rigid safeguards as
will save the reporter from becoming
a scapegoat, and the impulsive states
man, sometimes, from the conse-
quences of his own lack of delibera-
tion.'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-05
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Glob

GFrom the Atchison G1obe.]
All people are not as busy as they
imagine they are.
Usually the things that are too bad
make the best terms.
A man does not wear his diamond
collar button on the back Of his neck.
Saying in Missouri: 1.-THE only way
to whip a Missourian is to kill him"
How nice a woman looks in a new
hat to the man who does not have to
pay for it!
So many people are not appre-
ciated; you should not mourn so
much over your own case.
A lost dog is easily found; anyone
who finds dog is glad enough to re-
turn it to its owner.
When a woman is too fat, she diets,
and reduces her weight A woman
can do it, but man can't.
No woman was ever so homely that
a man does not defend her looks after
he has heard that she admires him.
The hardest work a man does Is to
answer questions, and the easiest
work a woman does is to ask them.
What has become of the old-fash-
Toned man who said, when he wanted
to abuse a town: cit Is the jumping
off place!'
Treat everyone as though you ex-
pected him to become your enemy in
time. This course will save you
many a humiliation.
A man who is really studious never
says six or seven times during an
evening that he prefers electric light
to gas light to study by.
A newly married young woman in
Atchison does not even know how to
make pancakes round. (Note by copy
reader of The Globe: The above was
handed in by a reporter who was mar
T.ia sf weak
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-05
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

l. CFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
| Many a mans popularity begins and
ends with himself.
The man who always says tust what
he means makes few friends.
| Aside from the moral side of it big
amy is luxury that few men can az
ford.
Success is a rough road on which
many mans tire Of ambition has been
punctured-
| Even the vain turkey gives little
thought to how 1t is going to be dressed
for dinner.
When a man is regarded as beina
above suspicion he needn't get UP in
the air about 1t.
There is no reason why a cool head
shouldn't work In conjunction with
warm heart.
Some rich men are as crooked as the
dollar mark that distinguishes them
from the common herd
NellE''Miss Antique reminds me of
an old friend of mine" Belle-"TndeedI
I didn't know you had any friends that
old"
my boy" Harduppe-"Well. the only
thing it has ever said to me was Good
bye"
You're a liart' exclaimed the FIRST
man. you're anotherg' retorted NO. q
Calm yourselves, gentlemen" inter-
posed the peacemalxer. ut is barely
possible that you are both right"
Speaking Of marriage" observed the
Cynical Bachelor. the longer q man is
married." THE happier he is" broke
In the sweet young thing. 'I was goina
to say" resumed the Cynical Bachelor,
''taht the longer he IL married the less
he seems to mind it,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-05
FUNCTIONS OF THE HOUSE.

This house is the only institution
under our constitution where the will
| of the people may be expressed with
a fairness approximating to scientific
accuracy. Other departments of the
government have lofty and important
functions, but to this house alone be-
longs the peculiar, the delicate and
the all SURPRISING function of inter-
preting and putting in definite form
the will of the people,
Thus spoke Joseph G. Cannon of
Illinois, on his election as speaker OF
the house of representatives of the
Sixtieth congress. 1t certainly is a
succinct delineation of the functions
Of the popular legislative branch Of
the government. But how often, alas,
are these functions performed by the
men who are sent there? Everyone
knows the answer to this question.
Time and time again has the house
Of representatives been derelict in its
response to the expressed will of the
people on matters Of the gravest
moment.
Not only is this true but there are
many members of the body who will
go farther and say that on most prop
ositions the house does not even re-
spond to the will of majority of the
men who have been elected to par
ticipate in it's councils. It works along
the lines mapped out by the leaders
of the party in power and under set
Of rules which are autocratic, to say
the least.
So while in theory-never better
expounded than in the few words of
Mr.. Cannon-the house of representa-
tives should express the will of the
people, in actual practice 1t falls far
short Of its duty in this regard and is
only permitted to accomplish those
things which a few self constituted
statesmen think the people should
approve Of
Perhaps Mr.. Cannon intends to see
that things are run differently in the
Stxtieth congress. He has the power
to do 50 and 1t would be refreshing if
he would allow the members of the
house to perform the functions which
he says belongs to them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-05
JOURNAL ENTRIES

A good many persons are decidedly
out of their sphere when they eat angel
cake.
%
Could the hot air which is delivered
by Topekans be utilized in place of
natural gas-well, no one would have to
worry about a shortage.
e
If "uncles" were only as generous as
is nature in providing winter coats for
beasts, many men would be wearing
them these days.
Strange but true. All of the street
cars are comfortably heated.
& .
Should the nimrods keep their prom
ises to provide each of their friends with
a couple of rabbits, the genus lepus
would soon be extinct.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-05

automobilists to slow up at the inter-
sections of streets.
Much thought is not necessary to
realize what will happen Inevitably I'M
less some steps are taken to curb these
gentlemen, who humor to the limit
their seeming maniacal desires to see
just how fast they can drive their au-
tos. During the hours between 10
O'Clock and midnight there are not a
few pedestrians who are going home
on the cross streets, which are fire.
quented by these reckless AUTOMOBILE
lists. The average homegoers are think
ing of anything but an approaching
automobile and it is a frequent occur
renee for them as they are crossing
streets, to come within an ace Of being
struck by these huge machines In their
mad flight. Just as certain. as death
will this recklessness on the part of a
few automobiles result in fatal ac-
cident, unless immediate steps are ia
ken to put an end to these practices.
There is little hope that these care
less auto drivers will remedy this dan
gerous evil of their own volition. They
have been indulging in It so long as
to make it a habit with them. Arrest
and punishment of adequate proper
lions melted out to the offenders is the
only way to put a stop to this dan
gerous practice. And it is for the po-
lice to become active and see that it is
broken up. They might obtain good
results at the start by working along
Seventh street, west of the avenue,
between the hours Of 10 o'clock and
midnight.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-05
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
[From the New york Pre..

IFrom the New York Press.1
Genius is acting the way any mar
does who deeds calomei
When a man with req hair turns
gray he doesn't see any need of re-
storing IL.
A useful thing about building a
house is you learn better than ever to
do II again
A woman can brag about a relative
living abroad even IL it's to keep from
being arrested.
Unless a woman's letter from n
friend Is written criss-cross so she
can't make 1t out she thinks it isn't in
tercsttng.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-05

That action of Michigan's state
treasurer, a Mr.. Glazier in depositing
$6s4.00o of the states money. in a
small bank Of which he was president
and which Is now refunct. cannot help
but call to ones mind an almost SINH
lar condition OF affairs in Kansas
when T. T. Kelly went so freely to the
aid Of the First National bank with
over q half million Of the states
@rrS-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-05

In pledging ten thousand dollars to
aid In the construction Of the Topeka
Southwestern railway, the directors of
the Commercial club have taken steps
to plant some seed which will bring
forth golden fruit for the business in
terests Of the city. This line to Eskridge
and Council Grove will prove to be not
only big boon for Topeka but also
tor the rich and fertile country 1t will
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-05
FROM OTHER PENS
RELIGION.

General Booths statement that the
people seem to be firing OF religion is
based ON the fact that there are such
muItitudes of persons nowadays who
never enter church. Z But it would be
nearer the truth to say that they are
tired of what passes for religion In too
many churches and with too many church
people True religion is defined in the
Bible in many places where he who
knows the Scriptures at. all or how to
use concordance may read and under
stand-if he wants to. If the people
are really tired tof religion, how does
General Booth explain the growth and
rover of his own mighty organization,
the Salvation Army?-Pittsburg Pa-)
Sun. stE
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-05

platform. He ittingly says: why
should a judge. upon mounting the
bench, cease to become a citizen and
a man? I, for one, see no reason. I
hold the theory, and practice it. that
judge. no less than any other citizen,
may take an interest in human and
national affairs and may in all proprie-
ty seek to mold public opinion from
the speakers platform"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-05

Democratic representatives will have
a lot of luck, maybe, in forcing the
tariff question to the front during the
present session Of congress with Mr..
Cannon, the pre-eminent stand-patter
in the speakers chair, and with the
moral support the president has given
him in urging that no meddling be done
with tariff affairs until after the next
presidential election.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-05

So prompt and emphatic were the
deniaIs Of the reported matrimonial
engagement of the elderly Henry
Gassaway Davis of West Virginia to
a young woman, that a good many
people will be inclined to think there
is something in It.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-05
Married 10000 Couples.

I'tIt is claimed for E. j. Lupson. who
this month completes forty-four years
service as parish clerk of Great Var
mouth. that during this period he
fewer than 1880 weddings very
large number. even in forty-four
years. A correspondent also states
that he has given away more than
1.Soo BRIDES: e.. that more than 10
per cent of the brides are given
away by the clerk. Mr.. Lupson has
served under six Wears, only two of
whom are today alive.
I'm these unique circumstances he
has carefully noted many strange Or
Of them he embodied in a volume
published some time back, entitled
'Cupid's Pupils but he says he has
recorded many more.
"Odd pairs Mr.. Lupson has seen
matched included young woman of
twenty-five to negro; poor. weak
STRIPPING of a man to- a bride of six
foot three; clergyman's son to a
country laborers daughter; and q
a farm laborer, the bride being forty
two years his junior. English girls
he has seen welded to grooms of the
following nationalities: Norwegian,
Swedish. French. Dutch, Belgian and
North German.
Some bridegrooms have found
themselves almost in fainting con-
ditfon. others been 1achrymose, as If
attending burial rather than a mar
riage. Others have actually been
dying. The united ages Of the young
est couple totalled thirty-three years,
and of the most ancient 1852. A youth
of twenty-six was married to his third
wife, and a young woman of twenty
three to her third husband. A wild
over of ffty-six, married for the sixth
time, found a bride of seventeen
London News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-05
Domfnies Ring Up Fares.

In two weeks 25 college graduates,
four college professors and two
clergymen have become conductors on
Pittsburg street car lines They claim
they could get no other work. 1--WE
have excellent reports from every one
of them" says an official of the COM
pany. 1.-The ministers particularly
are doing WELL One runs a car after
midnight through the worst part of
the city. Last night toughs started a
fight, but the minister-conductor re-
stored order before any one was hurt"
Dispatch to New York
World. -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-05

Talk about wonderful perspicacity.
The Kansas City Journal, one of the
hand-organs Of corporate aggrandize-
Hlent and greed, sees in Mr.. Roosevelt's
failure to discuss the Wall street and
Incidental financial panic, in his mes
rage to congress. a tacit acknowledge
ment on the part of the president "of
the fact that he himself was in large
measure the precipitating cause of the
trouble" It is to laugh.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-05

News reports from all the large money
centers indicate that the banks have
been ''hoarding the money and that
they have much more cash on hand
than 1t is customary for them to carry.
This being so, what's the farther nee
essity Of clearing house certificates? In
fact there never seemed to be any In
this part of the country. Probably the
banks in the west just used them to be
fashionable"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-05

There can be no good reason why
the city council should not adopt
unanimously the ordinance suggested
by c. G. Blakely, councilman from
the Third ward, which seeks to pro-
hibit the practice of some Topeka
business men of having their side
walks swept and washed at a time of
day when the streets are crowded with
pedestrians.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-05

n 1t took the clerks In both branches
Of congress only two and one-quarter
hours to read the presidents message,
khsy must have skipped lot OF It, or
else no one could understand what they
Were reading.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-05

Were Mr.. TAFT quite as popular with
an OF the Republicans at home as he
appears to be with the people Of Rus
STA, there would not be much doubt
"a to who would be the next Repubn-
nan candidate for president.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-05

Some folks seem to think that It is
real smart to fool newspapermen by
telling them downright falsehoods, Of
ten without any excuse whatever. And
they are the first to criticize q news
pAper for an uuintentional inaccuracY.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-05

McCutcheon. the Chicago Tr1bune's
cartoonist, has an IDEA that the
camel would furnish a good emblem
for the Democratic party, rather than
its affinity the donkey. Why? Well,
because the camel can go so long
without water,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-05
A SIDE LIGHT.

Just as a side light on the issue:
Great Britain has postal banks. Every
money order Office is one. Deposits are
accepted from Is cents to $3.50, the to-
tai in a year from any one depositor
not to exceed $1,000. Interest at 21a
per cent is paid on deposits and money
may be drawn at any postof1ce bank in
Great Britain, no matter where ortg1-
nally placed. In 1902 there were 9,O0O,-
900 depositors and the deposits aggre-
gated 500, 900, 000.-Detroit Free Press.