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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1908-03-04
Observed washingten,s airth,,sr.

Earle's, Feb. "a. Special: The
Earle's school observed Washington,s
birthday Saturday afternoon, using
the following program:
Song, ''America.''
Words of welcome, Gertrude Os-
bornes
Recitation. 'fWashington's Birth
day." Guy Osborne. gs3
Recitation, Speak the TRUTH,
Robert Tompkins. 81
Reading. IAN Incident of the War"
ID. Kay.
Recitation, "a Boys Protest" Gra-
Gle Smith
Recitation, "The Good Old Days.
Roxie Mcdonald.
Recitation, What was the Secret?"
Genora Tompb IS.
Song, &c Double o D." (good),
Recitation, '"The Little Boy Who
Laughs" Blanche Richardson.
Recitation. "My Dolly" Abbie Sim
mons.
Memory Gems" by Gertie Rich
ardson, Iva Cain and Myrtle Rider.
Recitation, "a Boys Troubles"
Oyd Cole.
Song, Sunshine"
Recitation, "The Red, White and
blu6, May ADl6S. t-.3ett5..
Recitation, II love YOU" Lena
Richardson
Recitation, when Huldy Specs
Her Beau" Beatrice Cole.
Dialogue, Teaching" Bonnie
Tompkins, and five small tots.
Reading, "The Boyhood of Wash
ington," Annie McAlister.
Recitation, "Playmates,' Genora
Tompkins.
Memory Gems on Building, by eight
boys and girls.
Song, Building"
Dialogue, 81 Would Tell" by four
boys.
Recitation, "The Truthful Boy"
by Arthur Lollace.
Recitation, "Samanthy," Bonnie
Tompkins.
Recitation, "washington's Dates"
by four girls.
Dialogue, Spelling the Name
Washington" by ten girls in white
aprons, blue caps, red sashes and
letters.
Song, Washington" by ten girls.
ValedictoIy by Thos. Osborne.
Two visiting girls, little Nora
Campbell and Grace Ables, also said
pretty little pieces for us.
Cordelfa Bearden, Teacher.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1908-03-04
TELLS HOW TO MIX N.
Directions to Prepare Simple, Yet
Remarkable Home Mixture.

A well-known authority on rheu-
matism gives the readers of large
New York daily paper the following
valuable, yet simple and harmless
prescription, which any one can easi-
.ly prepare at home:
Fluid Extract Dandelion, one-half
.ounce; Compound Kargon, one
ounce Compound Syrup SarasaOa-
rilla, three ounces.
Mix by shaking we'll In bottle,
and take In ateaspoonful doses after
each meal and at bed time.
He states that the ingredients can
be obtained from any good prescrip-
tion pharmacy at small cost, and, be-
ing of vegetable extraction, are harm
less to take.
This pleasant mixture, if taken
regularly for a few days, is said to
overcome almost any case of rheuma-
tism. The pain and swelling if any,
diminishes with each dose, IT'LL per-
manellt results are obtained and
without tnjuring the stomach While
there are many so-called rheuma-
tism remedies, patent medicines, ETC.,
some Of which do give relief, few
really give permanent results, and
the above will, no doubt, be greatly
appreciated by many sufferers here
at this time.
Inquiry at the drug stores OF this
neighborhood elicits the ilforma-
tion that these drugs are harmless
and can be bought separately, or the
druggists here will mix the prescrip-
tion for our readers il asked to.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1908-03-04
Closing Of Fall Branch School

Salem, Feb 81 Snecia,. IN tba
afternoon of sat,rdny hagin,,ne ai
3 o,clock the natrons ana friands ~
the Fail Rrancb scbonl tanoht hv
Miss Addie Grogan' sniov.d an enter.
tainment Mt tbe school house n ha-
ing th. c!nse nf thc ..hcs1 s's
The program rendered. wac 90 fol-
lows. ~ -
Onenne address nv Alma Holden
Recitation "Mr Tonpman MotIin
Alexander
Recitation. "a Stranger Ered
Holden.
Recitation. "Iittle Patriotn samr
Murphy.
Dialogue. "Flower Girls" bv four
little sirls.
Recitation. "a Question Danie,
Murphy
Recitation GA Letter" Mamie Al
|exander
Recitation, almost a Man. Major
Murphy
recitation, "Those 7 Love" jamie
Alexander
Dialogue. "Tbe Dead Bird" two
girls.
Recitation. "Maud's Birthday nv
Pearl Holden.
Recitation, "our Flag" James Bill
Kingsley.
Recitation, Don't Tell" Luc,ndy
Alexander
Recitation, Temperance Boy."
Walter Murphy.
Dialogue, ''Holidays Convention"
by four girls
Recitation. ,,Bunny Did It," Frank
lin Alexander
Recitation. "NIother Almos, Crazy"
Bertie Porter.
Recitation, Books" Bee Alexan-
der.
Recitation. "a Piece of Calico"
Mertie Porter.
Dialogue, "Flcwer Service" nine
sirls.
Recitation, Boys" Clara Grogan.
Recitation, winter joel ALer
cromt,ie,
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1908-03-04

also used Tor covering sacred OBJ
Jects, such as curtains In the temple
The process of manufacture, with
The exception that It was woven on
hand looms, was about the same then
as 1t is now.
Ireland is famous for flax the cli-
mate suits 1t SO we'll and the water
possesses d peculiar property that is
for bleaching. The
most beautiful sight any one can see
In Ireland is,a field Of flax in flower.
The thickly growing, graceful bend
ing stalks, tipped with their blue
bells, look as II they were ready to
ring out some message from the fa-
ries.
The stalks after being taken from
bogs so that the bark will easily
come Off of them. They are allowed
to stay there ten days or two weeks.
according to rhe weather and flax
In Belgium 1t Is taken from the field
and put ina slow-running river i'm
stead of boys. The same treatment
is ncs used I'm Irealnd, because the
government will not allow the rivers
used for this purpose. When the
flax is taken from the rivers or bogs
1t is not a pleasant sight to see and
not pleasant to be in smelling dist
ance, for the odor is over-powering.
After 1t has been exposed. to the air
and sun, you can get nearer to 1t
with more pleasure. Then 1t Is ready
to be carried to the seutch mills,
where 1t is cleaned from bark.
After 1t is woven 1t Is ready to be
carried out to the bleaching ground,
where it stays for six or eight
weeks to slowly grow white in the
sun. /Sg
The largest linen mill in the world
is I'm Belfast, on York street. Around
this and all other mills are large
bleaching grounds.
Here are few words to show how
much care the European women
take of their linen. 1t is hot uncom-
mon to see a woman using a table
cloth or sheet that her grandmother
used, and she expects to leave it in
good condition for her daughter. 1t
is not good to iron linen with hot
tlat-iron, for 1t will make the threads
weak and brittle.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1908-03-04
The school-C Child Up to Date.

(Elsie Duncan Yale, in "Life.'D
Make haste to school, my little child,
Or else you will be late;
Your books are all aseptfc now,
And here's your sterile slate.
Your pencil has been boiled an hour,
'Tis germless, now, hope;
And don't forget to wash your desk
With this carbolic soap.
And lest about the schoolroom floor
Some pnseer microbes lurk,
Just sprinkle formaline around
Before you set to work.
You'd better put. for safety's sake,
Bichloride in the ink;
And water that haa not heen boiled
You must not dare to drink.
OF course, when recess comes around
Some food you'll want to MUNICH;
So in this dlsinfected box
Is predtgested lunch.
And since 'tis said that in kiss
Bacteria may dwell,
may not give you, as I'd like,
A mothers fond farewell.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1908-03-04

One hundred dollars paid by DR..
Shoop for any recent case of grippe
or acute cold that a 25-cent box of
Preventics will not break. How is
this for an offer? The DOCTORS SUI
preme confidence in these little Candy
Cold Cure Tablets-Preventics
certainly complete. It's 500
against 25 cents-pretty big odds.
And Preyentics, remember, contain
no quinine, no laxative, nothing
harsh nor sickening. Pneumonia
would never appear II early colds
were always broken. Safe and sure
for feyerish children. 48 Preventics
Csc. j. w. Bell.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1908-03-04
Long Greek Locals.

Long Creek, Feb. 25.--Special ::
The farmers of this section are badly
behind with their work.
Perry Moore, of this section died
on February 18th.
Enoch Moore died February 23d.
&, Miss Della Phillips visited Dave
Ramey and family Sunday.
j. HI. Cannon made a flying trip to
Georgia recently.
We will soon have another black
smith shop In our little town.
Miss Lena Phillips visited her fa-
ther and mother recently. G.. H.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1908-03-04
(Joe e. King.)

Thousands of years ago, before
the pyramids were built, Egypt was
famous for its linen making. The
earliest mention of fax by any au-
thor appears in the plague of hail
which destroyed the fields of flax
King Solomon brought horses from
Egypt and flax yarn. Isaiah makes
mention of "that work in fine linen"
In Joshua we are told of woman
named Rahab who hid two Hebrew
spies under the stalks of fax on top
of her house. In Proverbs mention
Is made of the woman who "seeketh
linen and wool and worketh willing
ly with her hands
To show how strong this linen is,
we are told that the Egyptian mum
mics were wrapped in it, and parts
of 1t are still strong and in good con-
dition, although 1t was woven some
two or three thousand years ago.
Herodotus, the ancient writer,
tells us that most of the clothes the
Egyptians wore were made from
linen or cotton, as the priests would
not have clothes made from
wool, because they thought they
W re unfit for holy men. Linen was
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1908-03-04
HOW LINEN rs Made.

& = = s> :
These compositions were written
4 by seventh grade pupils of the Taber
school after hearing two successive
from one Of the numbers OF McCall,s
Magazine, and having before them
an outtlne9 OF Tie ESuUJecl.y9
Greta Gaines, Teacher.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1908-03-04
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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1908-03-04

Farmers, mechanics, railroaders.
laborers rely on DR.. Thomas Elec-
trio Oil. Takes the sting out OF
cuts, burns or bruises at once. Pain
cannot stay where it is used
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1908-03-04

Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup is a
new remedy, an Improvement on the
laxatives of former years, as it does
not grippe or nauseate and is pleasant
20 take. 1t is guaranteed. For sale
by all druggists.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-19

in operation. At Ensley the Tennessee aoal, Iron and Railroad company's great steel plant has not only been in operation all the while. but since the first of Jar uary 1t has been making new high rec erds Nearly every day this month has been reeord-breaker at Ensley. There was never anything like so great activity at the works there as there is today.
 At North Birmingham. beehive of manufacturing industry, all the plants, SO far as I am informed, are in opera ton. Both of the cast iron pipe works at North Birmingham are scenes of busy life. and if some of the other plants arc running light, they have never stopped a day except Sundays.
 "It is provoking to think that ignorant people or jealous people in other cities ever startse the reports that Birmingham was st 8 standstill. I am afraid that much of the n1isinformation is due to the loose and careless way that some of our own people have of exaggerating the least It. tie sign of slack business All years can- rot be as prosperous as 1906 and 1907 but 1908, while not up to normal as measured by last year. 1t will turn out to be far from bad"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-19

or to the bottom of the sea, and in it's stead we have a compound of steam and electricity and thousand meehan- ical details. All these have worked tremendously in the 16 battleships and in the auxiliaries also, and the certain ties of the test have been almost mar velous
 Besides the genius in machinery the fleet now lying in Magdalena bay is demonstrating the American skill in gunnery. A nation that possesses mechanical genius and can shoot fast and straight can have great navy. and those nations that are deficient in these respects cannot have one. Rus sia probably belongs in the latter cate gory, and Japan as well as the United States in the former.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-19
Upward Turn In Trade

Bank clearings and railroad earnings are no longer decreasing. Industrial plants are starting up, and the evi- dences of returning confidence are accommodating. They may be accumu- lating slowly, but they are accumulat- ing. Even Wall street Is becoming hopeful, and stocks have been ad- vanced all through the list The Knick- erbocker Trust, in which s52000,000 is tied up, is to be reopened next week, and this fact has been discounted, and it has done no little toward the res toration of confidence in Wall street.
 After all, it is not, far now to the November election and to the results of the four big crops-wheat, corn, cot
 ton and oats. We have not named them in their cash order, for cotton is our chief export crop-the crop that does more than any other to give us a favorable balance of trade. When we know what these four great crops are to be and the political tension is re- lieved and perhaps abolished, then there will be no reason why general business should not become normal again and confidence be restored. If the crops grown this year should be large activity would be restored also. All things come from the earth in the last analysis, and activity and prosper ity and confidence may spring from Mother Earth next fall soon after the November election is past and gone.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-19
Silver Sets On Warships

The discovery has been made that no one owns the valuable silver serv- ices presented to the various warships by home friends, and yet they cost fully s250,000 No federal law protects them. They are not government prop erty. They have no standing in the courts or in the navy department. They are but waifs, and the stealing of an article from one of them could not be punished as could the stealing of any piece of government property.
 It is proposed that Congress shall authorize the Secretary of the Navy to accept these gifts of admiring friends at home to our war vessels, and this would afford protection to these silver services, and solve a problem of owner ship that has really become confusing if not embarrassing. Nothing short of an act of Congress can give the war vessel silver the full protection of the law.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-19
SAFE HAULED AWAY
 IN X WHBELBARROW

Centreville, March 1S.-(Special)- day night the storehouse of w. F. Mer- chant at Wick, small station on the Mobile and Ohio railroad. three miles east of Centrevile, was burglarized and robbed
 The small iron safe in the store was ta- ken out and carried about 200 yards on @ wheelbarrow into field and there broken open and all the money 1t contained was taken. It was evidently not the work of experts, as axes and other crude instru- ments were used.
 Besides the money In the safe. which amounted to about $40, several guns, a number of watches and other articles were taken from the store.
 In addition to being used as mercan- tile establishment the postoffice at Wick was kept in the store. Immediately upon being informed of the robbery Deputy Sheriff Oakley went to Vick, but up to this writing no trace of the robbers has been found.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-19
Street sprlnkIina.

'The city sprinkles the streets very well during the summer but I have seen few sprinklers this week, and as the weather Is now hot and dry every thor oughfare in the business district should be treated as if it were June or July said First avenue banker. With the least wind blowing the dust is not only disagreeable but unsanitary.
 Strangers who come to Birmingham compliment the city on its street paving. They should be able also to compliment us on well-swept and well-sprinkled streets. I am not knocker, as a gen eral thing, but do hope the city author tiles can find the means of operating sprinklers on every dry day from now until next winter
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-19
Cruiser Birminuham

The warship that bears the name of this city Is not a turbiner. She is equipped with reciprocating engines, but those engines seem to be the best of their class. She can go further without coaling than the Chester, a cruiser of similar construction, and the report of Admiral Clover puts her at the head of all ships of similar con struction in our navy.
 Her strong point Is a maximum of speed from minimum of coal con- sumption. This gives her "a steaming radius greater than that of any other naval vessel in the world" On her trial trips she showed that she could run from New York to Alden in the Red sea without stopping for coal. This is glory enough for our name. sake.
 The Birmingham is a scout cruiser and her coal capacity and her economy in coal consumption will give her an unexampled radius. She may not be capable of the speed of some other ships, but a superior radius of opera tion is better than speed in scout cruiser
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-19
PROFESSOR ALBRIGHT IN RACE.
Announces For Superintendent of Edu-
 cation of Lee County.

Phenix City. March 1s-(SpeciaL)-Prof. J. A. Albright, principal of the Phenix City schools, announces as a candidate for superintendent of education of Lee county making the third candidate In the race. The other announced candidates are w. N. Mum and J. N. Johnson.
 The office of county treasurer will hard ly go vacant, as there are eight candi- dates to date. They are Clayton T. Grif- fin, James F. Edwards, J. E. Hutchinson. w. F. Boazman, Warren Williams. J. K. Ambrose, J. H. Harris and Milton M. Dunn.
 There are two candidates for tax col lectorr, Henry c. Peterson and w. M. Bass, while w. T. Andrews and J. T. Harris are candidates for tax assessor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-19
BLOODHOUNDS SENT
 TO CHASE A NEGRO

Jackson, Miss, March 1S.-(Special.)- Governor Noel received call over the telephone from Forest this afternoon for a negro who had shot and mortally wounded Baxter and Rufus Burns, at Burns, Smith county The governor dis patched a messenger on horseback to the convict farm in Rankin county, seven miles east of here, with orders to ship the hounds to Forest. No particulars could be learned save that there was a great deal of excitement over the shooting of the two farmers who are said to be relatives of United States Senator McLaurin, and a lynching Is probable.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-19
Industrial Activity.

Tt never occurred to me until recently that the impression had gone abroad that everything in Birmingham was shut down as a result of industrial depression" re- marked prominent mine operator. Those of us who come in contact with the business world and keep up with conditions in manufacturing centers know that in the Pittsburg district and In all other populous sections many wage-work- CTS are idle but that the number idle here is relatively no larger than else- where The situation is probably a little better in this district than in northern centers
 Tn the past few days, however, have met people from Atlanta and Mobile who have expressed surprise to learn that there was any industrial Activity at all hereabouts.
 "A little paragraph which appeared in The Age-Hersld as clipping from the Columbiana Peoples Advocate gives pretty good idea of the misapprehension under which our friends away from here have been .laboring. The Advocate says: The Birmingham district is beginning to operate furnaces again, and 1t won't bs many months before every industry in that district will be In operation
 '"There never was a time when blast furnaces in this district were not in op- eration. Many of them, but not all, were shut down during the holidays. Since the first of January five idle stacks were lstaxtAd up again and today about 20 arc
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-19
NEW JURY WANTED
 TO PROBE DEATH

The four brothers of the late w. A. Smith, who was mysteriously shot about ten days ago on the Southside, have addressed a letter to Coroner W. D. Paris in which they call attention to the fact that the jury empaneled to in- vestigate the death of their brother was composed of patrolmen, with one ex- ception.
 The letter requests that a new jury be empaneled to investigate the shooting, the members of the jury to be others than patrolmen. The letter states that no re- fiection is intended on the men who con- ducted the former investigation, but 1t is the belief of the brothers that it would be more appropriate to have others investigate the killing. The letter Is signed John w, T. J., A. F., and N. W. Smith.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-19
VERY FEW PoPULisTs.
The Party Has Almost Died Out In
 the State of Oklahoma.

Guthrie, Okla, March 1S-Only a few delegates of the populist party were on hand today in response to Chairman Jacobs call for state convention to se- lect delegates to the national convention at St. Louis. The party in Oklahoma has almost ceased to exist, there being no county organization in many of the coun- ties, while many who believe in the tenets of the party question the validity of the call. Delegates will be selected and a platform of principles adopted at this afternoons and evenings sessions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-19
High Musical Authority.

Tn looking over a Kentucky paper I was greatly interested in the an- nouncement that the Rev. Dr. John Barbour, pastor of the First Presby- terian church of Maysville. and for merly pastor of the South Highlands church of Birmingham, had been in vited to deliver a series of lectures at the Princeton Theological seminary on the importance of music in the culture of the ministry" said music lover. "Dr. Barbour also has been asked to preach in the chapel of the seminary before the faculty and students. I am told that few men who have filled pastorates here have been so well equipped for pulpit work as the min ister to whom allusion Is made Dr. Barb our Is a scholarly man as well as a consecrated pastor, and when 1t comes to music there is scarcely any one in or out of the pulpit better able to discuss this important branch of culture than he. Along with Benjamin Guck enberger Dr. Barbour did much to promote the cause of artistic music in Birmingham. He is musically edu
 cated has thorough knowledge of the theory of music and was church organist before he studied for the ministry. His lectures at Princeton will be not only free from such technical blunders as often mar lectures or pa pers by persons outside of the musical profession, but they are almost sure to be both informing and stimulating. YThey will have the charm too of lit erary flavor and poetic fancy. l hope they will be published In book form"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-19
BAUM TRIAL DRAGS
 ALONG IN COURT

Meridian, Miss, March 1S.-(Special)- J. At the conclusion of the cross examina- tion of Dr. N. l.. Clarke. dean of the Mississippi Medical college at noon today. the lunacy trial of Mrs Sidonia Baum took a recess until tomorrow morning. The leading counsel on both sides were pallbearers at the funeral of W. L. Ows- ley, one of Meridian's most prominent cit- izens, whose death occurred last Sunday at Camden, Ark. There are several more witnesses to testify for the defense and a number will be introduced in rebuttal by the other side, still it is the opinion of the attorneys that the case will be con- cluded by the end of the week.