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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1909-09-29
S. s. MEETING AT FAIR PLAY.
Center Township Convention Will b.,
Held Tuesday, October 18th.

Following is the program of the
lnterdenominational Sunday School
Convention of Center Township,
which will be held at the Presbyte-
rian church, Fair Play, Tuesday, Oc-
tober 18th, beginning at 10 a. M:
Devotional exercises, by w. F..
Thompson. ..
1O.15-Address of welcome Miss
Louise Sheldon.
10.30--Response-Edgar Mears.
O.5O-EnrOllment Of delegates.
11.2O-Reports from Sunday
Schools. .'
11.50-Organized Adult Bible
Glass, led by K. w. Marett.
12.30-General discussion: "The
Sunday School Secretary; His Office
and Work.. Nj. Way.
p. m.--Adjournment for dinner.
p. m.-Devotional eXercises-W.
p. Barton.
2.15-Duties of older people to
the Sunday school-Rev. /. e. Nc
David.
2.3O-The Sunday School Teacher
Miss Cordelia Bearden.
2.45-Round Table,. M. Way.
3.1O-"How to Teach Pupils to
Give Liberally and Systematically"
Rev. ME. Peabody and Dr.. j. II.
Burgess. M.
3.30-Open discussion.
4.00-adjournment.
Executive Committee.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1909-09-29

"Do you know of any who ever received any
benefit from taking Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Com.
pound?"
If any who is suffering with any ament peculiar
to her will ask her neghbors this question: she will be
surprised at the result There is hardly community in
this country where be found who have been
restored to health by this famous old remedy made
exclusively from simple formula Of roots and herbs.
During the past 80 years have published thousands
of letters from these grateful who have been cured
by Lydia E. Pnkhams Vegetable Compound, and never
in all that time have published testimonial without
the writer's special permission. Never have knowingly
published testimonial that not truthful and genuine
Here is oe just received few days ago. anyone doubts
that this is true and honest statement of woans expert
ence with Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound write
and ask her. ..
Houston, Texas-"when began taking Lydia Pink
sick three with troubles dyspepsa
liver trouble had tried doctors
nothing did me any good.
"For three medicines thought would
get WELL when read adverment of
hams Vegetable Compound, and advised to try it,
"NIy husband Compound, dia
much continued o
and enjoy the best of health t." 7
advise suffering troubles to give
Lydia E Pinkhams Vegetable Compound o They WON'T
regret it, for 1t will surely you."Mrs
$40 Cleveland ST., Houston. su., l5.r- =
Any who is sick and suffering foolish surely
not to give such medicine this trial Why should Il
not do her as much good as it did Mrs. Hicks.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1909-09-29
LABOR HAS FAT OF THE LAND" !"
Average Laborcr To-day Lives Ret
ter Than Queen Elizabeth Did.

Washington, Sept. 26.-"The aY-
erage laborer Is to-day living better
than Qeen Elizabeth did in her
time" said Secretary Wilson, Of the
Agricultural Department, this week
on his return from months vaca-
ton on his farm in Iowa. He was
discussing the prosperous condition
of the farmers of the West and the
high wages of the workingmen in
the East.
Take the meat bills Of the labor
ers in Washington to-day" he con-
tinued, land you will find that they
eat meat three times day--most Of
them--and what is more, they are
not content with any kind; they
want the best cuts. They can afford
them. AS a result the price OF meat
Is away up. While the farmers are
producing more beef every year, they
are not producing enough to meet
the increase in population. l do not
look for the prices to decrease ma
terially soon"
The secretary was asked If the
Western farmers were really invest
Ing such large sums of money in au-
tomobiles.
"There Is too much truth in those
reports he responded. THE far
mer is out OF debt. He has paid for
his farm, his fences and his machin-
cry. He has money in his pockets,
and big crnns continue tn COMO A..
He Is afraid to invest In Eastern Sc
curities lest a year might bring trou-
BILE there. AS a result he puts his
money in luXuries. Why folks in
the East do not know what luxuries
are; they must go West to find that
out"
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1909-09-29
Ninth i}cutIl from reIIngra.

Charlotte, Sept. 24.-The ninth
death from pellagra since the prev
alence of the disease In this commu-
nifty was announced, occurred to-day,
the victim being Ella Boyce, colored
The woman was 20 years old. All
the cardinal symptoms noted in pre-
vious cases were present There are
now six cases under treatment in
Charlotte.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1909-09-29

DR.. Abernethy, the great English
physician, said: Watch your kid
neys. When they are affected, life
is in danger" Foley's Kidney Rem
edy makes healthy kidneys, corrects
urinary Irregularities, ahd tones up
the whole system. J. w. Bell, Wal
halla; Stonecypher Drug Co., West
minister
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1909-09-29

Baby won't suffer five minutes
with Group II you apply DR.. Thomas
Eclectric Oil at once. 1t acts like
magic.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1909-09-29

Impure blood runs you down
makes you an easy victim for organic
diseases. Burdock Blood Bitters pu-
rifles the blood-cures the cause
builds you up
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1909-09-29

Contains the old-fashioned ingredients of
liniments used by your grandparents, and
it also embodies the latest and up-to-date
discoveries. 1t is therefore the advantage
over remedies that have been before the pub
lie % or so years, in that it is up-to-d date in
it's ingredients, it is Triple Strength, and the
Most Penetrating, therefore Most Effective.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1909-09-29

A Dutchman out in Texas has been
making, for several years, a profit Of
round two hundred dollars the
acre raising castor beans.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1909-09-29

Best for All Nerve, Bone and Muscle Aches
and Pains. 1t strikes almost instantly into
the cords, muscles and nerves in any part of
the body, giving relief more quickly than
any other remedy known, because of it's pc
culiar penetrating properties. Absolutely
pure, for internal and external uses for man
and beast. For All Creation. Try it, 25c.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-16

we shall find that is the best RENE
dy for u.s.
Bell tried to shake off His torpor
and help his comrade, while DR..
Clawbonny undertook to go and
fetch the sledge and the dogs.
will you 60 with him, captain ?"
asked Johnson.
mo, my friend" said Hatteras,
In gentle tone, IF the doctor will
kindly under take the task. Before
the day ends ] must come to some
resolution, and I need to be alone
to think. Go. Do meantime what
ever you think best. 1 will deal
with the future"
Johnson went back to the doctor
and said:
Its very strange, but the cap
tain seems quite to have got over
his anger. l never heard him speak
so gently before"
so much the better" said Claw
bonny. Believe me, Johnson, that
man can save us yet"
And drawing his hood as closely
round his head as possible, the doc
tor seized his iron tipped staff and
set out without further delay.
johnson and Bell commenced dig
ging hole in the heart of great
block of ice. 1t was not easy work,
owing to the extreme hardness of
the material. However, this very
hardness guaranteed the solidity of
the dwelling. and the further their
labors advanced the more they be-
came sheltered.
(COntinued.)
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-16

1t was bold project of Captain
Hatteras to try to push his way to
the north pole, and gain for Eng
land the glory Of its discovery. But
he had struggled for nine months
against currents and tempests,
shattering icebergs and breaking
through almost insurmountable bar
riers.
In an unprecedented winter he
had outdistanced all his predeces-
sors and accomplished half his
task, when he saw all his hopes
blasted. The mutiny of Ills worn
out crew mad left him and his little
band of three men in a terrible sit
uation-helpless in an icy desert,
$500 miles from their native land
their ship a wreck, blown up by
the mutineers.
However, the courage of Hateras
was still undaunted. The three men
which were left him were the best
on board his brig, and while they
remained he might venture to
hope.
Of the Forward, the brig they had
SO carefully built. not vestige re-
manned. Shapeless blackened frag-
ments, twisted bars of iron, cable
ends still smoldering, and here and
there is the distance spiral wreaths
of smoke-that was all. Books, in
struments and precious collections
were in ashes.
Clawbonny, the surgeon, and
Johnson, the boatswain, surveyed
the wreck. Bell, the carpenter, lay
insensible on the ice. Captain Hat
teras stood apart, arms folded, his
faithful dog beside him.
Poor old brig!" exclaimed the
doctor. l had grown to love her.
loved her as one loves house,
where he has spent lifetime"
"Ay! it's strange what hold
those planks and beams get on a
fellows heart" said Johnson.
And the long-boat-is that
burnt?" asked the doctor.
THE mutineers carried it Off"
And the pirogue
"Shivered into thousand
pieces!"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-16
A FEW CALM POLAR
OBSERVATIONS.

her address.
Everybody is from Missouri now.
Everybody is saying that ought not to doubt the
statements of men like Peary and Cook, even in matter
where the acceptance of them makes for fame and wealth
and chautauqua engagements, and doar-a word offers
from the magaznes-but, the other hand, everybody
suggests that matter of form only any svers of the
pole which the intrepid explorers may have about them
may just well be shown necessarily for publication and
not at all as guaranty of good faith
The postoffce address of MFR. Common People will be
for some time to at Springfield, Gainesville
some other Ozark mountain point in Old Mzzoura and he
is calling for the cold facts about the pole He has known
that it cold and ICY and snowy, and hard reach
Some of him used to believe in the Symmes Hole theory
that there is opening there into the interior of
the earth, and good habable country where the wild
geese breedbut that long For thing they
found the real breeding grounds and for another the
porers have been close enough heretofore to develop
fact that the pole is mighty cold proposition where
backward spring is perenniay merged into early fall
to the end that the icecap grows thicker annually.
To the purely utilitaran mind the game scarcely
worth the candle. Away back in 1885, Bill Nye, in
tioning the explorations of Nadddodr the viking who dis
covered Iceland in A. d. $780, expressed surprise that any
viking should around in the cold nosng frost
bitten Eskmos when he could just we'll remain at home
and vke
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-16

The McKees Rock strike
has been settled by the
granting of practically all
that the workmen demand
ed. But this should not
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-16
T]&f7ll|2 k6
By JULES WRk|

Then we have nothing but the
Halkett boat?" =
Yes, we have that still, thanks
to your idea of taking it with you"
That isn't much" said the doc
tor.
And we have dying one to
look after"
"A dying man?'
Eyes, Captain Altamont, an
American navigator, whose ship,
the Porpoise, was stranded some
where to the north. We found him,
half starved and frozen, on the
ice,' said the doctor.
Johnson muttered an exclama-
ton of pity. But his mind went
back at once to his own desperate
situation.
-Then we have no fuel what.
ever" he said.
No" ~
"And no provisions?"
NO"
"And no ship to make our way
back to Epgtland?"
1t required courage to face
these gloomy realities. After a
moments silence, Johnson said
again:
We'll, at any rate we know ex-
actly how we stand The first
thing to be done now is to make a
hut, fro we can't stay long ex-
posed to this temperature.
Yes, but we must first revive
Bell" replied the doctor, Then
go and find the sledge, and get the
American"
Bell lay on the ice almost mani
mate. Johnson had to take vigor-
GUS measures to rouse him, but at
last, by dint of shaking and rubbing
him with snow, he succeeded.
Come, Bell" he cried, don't
give way like this. Exert yourself,
my man; we must have a talk
about our situation, and we need
a place to put our heads in. Come
and help me, Bell. You haven't for
gotten how to make a snow hut,
have you? There is an iceberg all
ready to hand; we've only got to
hollow 1t out. Let's set to work:
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-16

A hoodoo is pursuing the Lisle
Box.
I'm now beginning to see some
of the rough edges of the bloomer
girl base ball career.
In the first place rain postponed
three games for us within a week,
and the treasury Is SO slender that
Mr.. Splash can carry 1t In his vest
pocket without 1t showing a bulge.
Then some OF the crowds we run
mp against are the limit. What
from hearing. ooh you, Minniei"
and BEAT It out, Drighfeyes!" and
rHey, she's hiding the ball in her
raj. and such coarse comedy, I'm
begfnntng 10 think that the popula-
Hon Of some dumps we have play
= ~ per cent village cut-up and
n 81 rural ROME. had to hat
ever tleacherites for getting
&sh, fhen our team Is all
They~ bad TO put IN =
- a1nkIs6Wn Or chorus
man 49, k1t(I(o W thks ealome Nc
Nabb's plscn - arS1na base. ana IL
Nhrows the IN too hard Also
every time the Isle sox COP 4
game tIts cruwd efe6ifs fhis rny
Nith the win Our tossor. Cupid Ia
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-16
THIS Is NOT THE TINE
TO STOP.

close s'the Incident,
Ihe federal government called into the matter.
There were grave charges of peonage official tyranny
the part of the police and of graft and the federal
ties started investigation.
II there is any industrial community in the land wherein
workmen are made slaves by any and Systematically
robbed OF their wages the of the whole nation
and the national authorities devote their efforts
better purpose than Wpng out such pest holes and
ishing the guilty.
AT the inception of the trouble President Hofstot of
the Pressed Steel Car Co. declared here is nothing to
aTbrate He had got thousands of poor workmen at his
business. A little publicity and the discovery that his
operations subject to government investigation made
Hofsot change his tune and he has inferentay admitted
have at the of life and risk of starvation of their
wives and children.
No. indeed, this is not good time to say that the Incl
DENTS closed Somebody is guilty guilty of punish
able baseness and will not be justice to all the of
the country if the drops this matter sim
ply because one side to it is temporarily satisfied
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-16
In Little Old New York
At the Fashion Show
BY NORMAN

The press agents for the fashion
show at Madison Square garden
outdid themselves, and rather out.
did the show. It's very much like
big room full of show windows
with mems and women's outer and
underclothing on display, and that
is about all there is to it.
There are few interesting lit.
tie things, however. One Of them
is the Sherlock Holmes safety
pocket" for mems clothes. 1t is
so simple a device to foil pick
pockets that one wonders it has
not been exploited before.
The scheme is simply a double
pocket, the edges of one being fas-
tened together with little snaps,
while the other remains open. You
put your money, or watch, into one,
and button it, and when the pick
pocket dips in he, of course, slips
his hand into the open side.
There are all sorts of resersible
clothes for men, which may be
worn either side out. Coats, waist
coats, and neckties are among
them. For the women, the biggest
novelty is the directoire sweater, a
jersey-fitting garment which ex-
tends to the bottom of the skirt
and has buttons from neck to hem.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-16
BY NORMAN

NEW YORK, Sept. 15.-Ambu'
lance chasers and dealers in arti.
ficial limbs was the unique COM
bination of businesses which paid
pretty good dividends to Harry and
Theodore Mercer until they got too
greedy.
1t was the custom of the Mercer
brothers to seek out persons who
had been injured in railroad or
street car accidents and induce
them to bring suit for damages. If
the person had lost a foot or a
hand or an arm or a leg, then the
Mercer brothers could supply the
deficiency with bit of fine cork.
1t all worked very finely until the
MERGERS, acting for shoemaker
whose daughter had been badly
hurt, got the shoemaker to sign a
release OF claims, sold the release
TO the City Railway Co. for $4,000
and went west with the $4,000.
They were caught in California.
They will probably go free, under
suspended sentence, because they
gave evidence leading to the con-
viction and disbarment of a scala
wag lawyer who worked with
them.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-16
FROM DLANA,S DIARY
DIpickes Joins 6Ioomer Girls Pursues
Her Ambition to Make Home Run.
FRED ScHAEFER

Loup, has Charlotte horse, and her
delivery is usually slammed all
over the lot. My fingers are get
ting crooked and ugly, and the 9TH
er day / was put out of the game
for sassing a hick umpire and had
to look on from the bench, doing
fancy work-and me not yet with
home run to my name.
And the limit is that we had to
beat it out OF Sorghum Corners
without our street dresses. The
manager led us out of the hotel
about cock crow. He insisted
that we skip in our field toys SO we
could play Sugar Beet Siding and
send back money to get our trunks
out.
Yes, I'm getting NAL de mer
which ia drawing rm ofor home.
sick, amt IT.? Huh?
ITO be continued.)
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-16

The Deer Park state bank and
w. +. Irish. its cashier, have been
made defendants in suit for $4,000
damages for false arrest, filed in
the superior court by Hiram w.
Hogg. The bank had Hogg arrested
for the theft of team Of horses a
year ago. but he was acquitted ut
the hearing.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-09-16

1t must be a surprise to
DR.. Cook and Commander
Peary to find on returning
from the pole that every
body has changed his or
The Washington bee., 1909-11-06
How She Knew.

i do think" exclaimed Mrs. Tolk,
er, Indignantly, that Mrs. GadabOut is
the most aggTaVatingIy inquisitive
woman, if | must say so, ever knew,
Why, l never pass her on the street
but what she invariably turns her
head and staTes back at me to see
what I've got on and how it sets from
behind"
"How-er-that is, was wondering
my dear, how you found out that the
mean thing looked back. Some one
tell you?" inquired Mr. Tolker, limo,
Gently.
And Mrs. TOlker straightway turned
the stream OF her Indignation, seeth
ing hot, from Mrs. Gadabout to her
'insinuating wretch of a husband" as
she fondly termed him, and after the
first pyrotechnic outburst steadily re
fused to speak to the unfortunate man
for the rest of the evening.
The Washington bee., 1909-11-06
SHOW THEM YOUR TICKETS
This Will Surely Relieve the German
Railway Guard of His
Sadness.

Whenever a German railway guard
feels lonesome, and does not know
what else to do with himself, he takes
a walk round the train and gets the
passengers to show him their tickets,
after which he returns to his box
cheered and refreshed. Some people
rave about sunsets and mountains and
old, old masters, but to the German
railway guard the world can show
nothing more satisfying, more inspir-
ing, than the sight of railway ticket.
Nearly all the German railway Of
ficials have this same craving fo-
tickets. If only they get somebody
TO show them a railway ticket, they
are happy. 1t seemed a harmless
weakness of theirs, and B. and / de-
cided that it would be only kind to
humor them in it during our stay.
Accordingly, when We saw a Ger
GAl railway official standing about,
The Washington bee., 1909-11-06

looking saG or weary, we Went up to
him and showed him our tickets. The
sight was like a ray of sunshine to
him; all his care was Immediately for
gotten. If we had not ticket with US
at the time, we went and bought one.
A mere single third to the next sta
ton would gladden. him sufficiently in
most cases; but if the poor fellow ap-
peaTed very woe-begone, and as if he
wanted more than ordinary cheering
up, we got him a secOnd-class return
jerome X. Jerome, Diary of a Pill
grimage"
The Washington bee., 1909-11-06
Conducive to Speed.

Farmer Nubbins-I wuz Teadin' a
piece in one of these air comic pa
pers t'other day, Maria, which allowed
that dude couldn't run. Said t'wa'nt
in him to travel faster than a walk.
Mrs Nubbins-Well, Hiram, hev ye
seen anything to convince ye to the
contrary?
Nubbins with reminiscent chUckle)
-HeY /? Waal, jest wish the editor
of that comic paper had bin out in the
field with me a spell ago an seen that
air city dude who boards with the
Hankinses sa'nterin' across the pastur'
lot ahead of my two-year-Old bull!
The Washington bee., 1909-11-06
CONUNDRUM MAN ONCE MORE
This Time He Has Fine One About
Policeman and Civil Service
Clerk


Clerk.
Say" whispered the man with the
iridescent whiskers and the green
handkerchief, leaning over the desk
of the man with the bashful bald spot.
I've got a dandy for you today. You
can use it if you want to. It's moth
ing TO NE. believe when a mans a
friend of a man he ought to give the
man the benefit Of what good ideas
come to him from time to time. Live
and let live is my motto"
We're not handling notices to-day.
What is the other thing?" asks the
man at the desk, absent-mindedly
trying to sharpen his fountain pen.
what is the difference between a
policeman who got his appointment
through the influence of a bTOther-in-
law who is in cahOots with an alder
man and who is detailed to arrest peO-
pie who have no vehicle license upon
their wagons and carriages, and a civil
service clerk whose duties consist in
registering the descriptions and mum
bers of automobiles
Why is a policeman who arrests
three dozen hObOes less four like a
man who happens up an alley and
finds a chunk of dynamite behind a
handbook shop?" asks the man with
the hiatus on his head. Because he
has located bum 81 Good morning"
Very WELL" Kisses the man with
the luminous whiskers. Very well.
The answer to mine is that one nabs
the tagless and the other tabs the nag
less. but l shall give it to some more
meritOrious liteTateur."
And the door closed, shutting off the
breeze
The Washington bee., 1909-11-06
Enough Talking Already.

Stebbins new congressman
of our'n don't amount to much; why,
all he does is to set thar an vote an
let the rest do all the talkin'. He
amt offered to make a speech yet.
Snoggins-Hain't Ell? WAL If
that's the case we orter keep him thar
right along. We're gittin' plenty of
chin music from congress now with
out havin' him chip in.
The Washington bee., 1909-11-06
Business Mans Failing.

THE policeman says you stole a
pie" remarked the magistrate, what
have you got to say?"
Its my busy season" explained
Tired Tim, and / was so rushed at
the noon hour I'd only time to run out
A~<t @=4atcb = E.la LUNCH"