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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1909-08-18
Lowell Mills Get Army Contract.

Washington, Aug. 1.-THE con-
tract to supply S25, 900 yards of olive
drab cotton cloth at % cents yard
for the use of the army, to take the
place of the old style khaki, has been
awarded to Smith, Hogg & Co., of
New York, selling agents for the Mas
sachusetts Cotton Mills, Of Lowell,
Mass. Proposals will be asked to
furnish 100000 more yards OF the
same kind Of cloth. The bids will
be opened March |, 1910.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1909-08-18
Two Young Women Drown i'm Pond.

Miss Rebecca Womack, aged II
years, and Miss Ella Freeman, aged
l6, were drowned while bathing in a
mill pond one-half mile from Miss
Womack's home, near Amsterdam,
Ga, last Wednesday.
Miss Womacks body was discov-
cred at O'Clock in the evening
floating on the water, which led 70
the recovery Of the body of Miss
Freeman
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1909-08-18
Chance for Oconee Farmers.

South Carolina has been asked to
take part in the National Corn En-
hibition, which will be held in Oma-
ha, Neb., from December to IS. All
States have been asked to partici-
pate. The premium list of the expo
sition amounts to $4,000. To the
farmer exhibiting the best ear of
corn a breakfast food manufacturer
offers 81 900 gold and silver tro-
ply cuD
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1909-08-18
Robbers Hold Up Illinois Bank.

The Farmers and Merchants
Bank of Franklin, ILL.,, was robbed Of
$4,000 last Thursday afternoon by
two armed men, who entererd the
bank and forced the cashier to hand
o"t the money. Immediately pur-
suit was made, resulting in the cap
ture of one of the robbers. The
other, having the money in his pos
session, Is still at large.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1909-08-18
COTTON CROP REPORT.
Marked Improvement is Shown Fast
of Mississippi River.

Memphis, Aug. 16.-The weekly
cotton crop summary of the Com
mercial Appeal to-day says:
In practically all of the territory
east of the Mississippi river there
was marked improvement in the
condition of the cotton crop. The
showers that fell were moderate and
beneficial. The plant Is small, and
still late. hut is growing nicely and
is we'll fruited for it's size. Many
correspondents note that the pros
pective yield is better than was at
one time though possible.
In this territory conditions are
best in Georgia and South Carolina
and poorest in Mississippi. Rainfall
was scattered and deficient in Ar
kansas and Oklahoma. There are
sections where no rain has fallen in
five or six weeks, and the plant is
shedding, but while this is true other
sections of these States have had
rain and prospects are fair.
Rains in Texas were frequent and
rather general during the week The
crop is on the road to improvement
and If these rains are supplemented
during the coming weeks by fur
| ther precipitation, the crop outlook
Will improve materially.
Rains have retarded opening of
| the bolls and as the plant is growing
rapidly, picking will not become s,H
| eral for fully two weeks yet.
Alabama Report.
Montgomery, Ala, Aug. 15.-Re-
ports to The Advertiser from the cot
ton-growing counties of Alabama in
dicate varying conditions of the crop,
but on the whole the past week has
brought improvement. The eX-
tremely hot weather in some sections
has retarded the plant and nearly
all reports speak Of it's spotted
condition. Insects have not appear
ed and the fruiting season is well on.
1t is not expected that the real
movement Of cotton will begin until
| the middle Of September.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1909-08-18
Five Fatally Hurt i'm Wreck.

In a wreck of a fast passenger
train on the Southern Railway, near
Midway, Tenn, last Thursday, five
were seriously, If not fatally injured,
including Engineer Samuel Busch, of
Knoxville; his fireman, the baggage
master and postal clerks. The en-
gine and four cars left the track, the
engine and two cars turning turtle.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1909-08-18

Bristol, Tenn, Aug. 6.-At Erwin,
Tenn, last evening, Solomon Ed
wards was shot and killed, his son,
w. a. Edwards, was wounded, and
Frank Miller received a pistol ball
in his breast. Frank and Jake Mil
Ter, brothers, are charged with hav-
ing done the shooting. Both ara in
Jail. The trouble arose over a game
OF cards.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1909-08-18
Station Agent AssaSsinatcd.

]. c. Engleman, agent of the
Queen and Crescent railroad, at
Kings Mountain, KY, was assinated
in his office last Wednesday night.
He was shot in the back Of the head
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1909-08-18

Corn, corn meal, corn Cnops,
hay, bran and shorts, meal and hulls,
and -four for less at Jaynes'
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1909-08-18

Guaranteed and Sold by DR.. j. w.
Bell, Walhalla; w. j. I.llnncy, Seneca
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-08-06
EASTERN LEGEND :OF: THE TEA
First Brought Balm. TO MAN In the
. Fifth Century, 4: D. % Shores .
"a; OF NO100s I.

VI Tea, says an eastern legend, first
brought balm to man long ago in the
fifth century, A. D., when the son of
aIpowerful Indian rajah first stepped
from his boat on to the shores Of
China. The young man was pos
sessed Of a desire to live in religious
solitude. His food was to be the nuts
and roots and herbs of the forest; his
drink, the cool-running water of the
streams.
Among his strict vows was one that
he would never thereafter close his
eyes. But so great was his exhaus-
tion that he fell asleep in spite Of
himself when he reached the shade
of the row of trees that bordered the
coast. And great was his sorrow
when he awoke. To punish himself
for having broken the VOW, he slashed
off his eyelids with his knife, and cast
them on to the ground. -.
The next day he chanced to pass
by the spot where he had succumbed
to sleep. What was his surprise to
see, in the spot where he had thrown
his eyelids down, strange bush
growing. Radma tasted the leaves.
He found them deliciously fragrant.
Then, to his joy, he learned that by
simply chewing these leaves he could
readily keep awake, no matter how
great bis fatigue. And this quality
of stimulation from sleepiness tea has
always retained, the legend concludes.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-08-06
EVERY FLAG HAS ITS STORY
Others Talk, as Was Done by Signal.
ing During the Civil War, by
Making Motions.

Every flag that a country uses tells
little story of it's own. Thus, Old
Glory, with its 13 stripes, told of the
nations beginning; when Washington
first unfurled it at Cambridge it had
the English cross on it's blue field, but
later it was replaced by a cluster of
stars, which keep a tally of the num-
Der of states Of the union. Corps, d.
vision and brigade flags also tell a
little story of their own. But the real
talking flags are the signal flags.
Signal flags talk by motions. A key
or code is constructed in accordance
with which these motions are made
and interpreted; it is like a long-dis-
tance deaf and dumb alphabet. The
flags are given bright colors mainly
that they may be distinguished against
different backgrounds and can easily
be distinguished by the person to
whom they are addressed. For in
stance, a white flag, even though it
had a red center, could not easily be
seen against the sky as BACKGROUND.
In such a situation a black flag was
necessary.
These talking flags of the signal
corps we're much used during the civil
war, sometimes in reporting the move
ments of troops either of the north or
of the south. They were, indeed, the
invention, in 1854, of Surgeon Myer.
who became first chief signal officer
Of the United States army.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-08-06
LITTLE ITEMS OF INTEREST.

In a Canadian horse race recently
third place was won by a jockey 1O3
years old. He has ridden in more than
5000 races.
On the west coast of India are
found oyster shells six inches in di.
ameter and so transparent that thew
can be used as window-glass.
AS shown by the camera, a flash of
lightning is made up of innumerable
small flashes, each one following the
other by an almost imperceptible ne.
riod of time
When the body Of a starving AMI.
NAL, including man, loses two-fifths of
its substance, the inevitable result is
death.
The flesh Of the small shark COM
monty known as dogfish, is said to he
extremely palatable and more nutr,-
tious than beef.
In Tasmania no person under II
years of age is allowed to. smoke IN
a public place.
Camels can carry load three times
as heavy as can horses.
Lemon trees in Sicily bear as manv
rs 10000 lemons a year.
The ancestor of the fox was an ami.
NAL clothed with horny scales.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-08-06
Good Work Among Children.

According to a statement of the
National Association for the Study
aIf1 Prevention of tuberculosis over
2.5OO,000 of the 100000 school
children enrolled in the United States
have during the school year just
closed been systematically instructed
concerning the dangers of consump-
ton and the methods for it's cure and
prevention. Besides the 2,500,000 chill
dree thus instructed in their schools,
thu National Association estimates
that fully 100000 more have re-
ceivcd instruction at the various
tuberculosis exhibits held in all parts
of the country or through separate
classes and organizations.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-08-06
SKIN ERUPTION CURED.
Was So Sore, Irritating and Painful
That Little Sufferer Could Not SIeep
Scratched Constantly.
cuticura's Efficacy Clearly Proven.

When about two and a half years
old my daughter broke out on her hips
and the upper parts of her legs with a
very Irritating and painful eruption. It
began In October; the first I noticed
was a little red surface and a constant
desire on her part to scratch her limbs.
She could not sleep and the eruptions
got sore, and yellow water came out
of them. I had two doctors treat her.
but she grew worse under their treat
ment. Then bought the Cuticura
Remedies and only used them two
weeks when she was entirely well.
This was in February. She has never
had another rough place on her skin.
and she is now fourteen years old.
Mrs. R. R. Whitaker, Winchester,
Tenn, Sept. %, 190S.'
tetter Drug Chem. Corp, Sole Props. Bostoa.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-08-06
No Atonement to the Dead.

There is no more pitiable beine in
the world than man who, really lov-
ing, or really believing that he loved.
yet inflicted upon the living-per-
haps in the fire of anger, or perhaps
in the froth of thoughtlessness-that
for which he cannot ask the pardon
OF the dead. The hurt may have
been slight, If you choose to call It so.
but it takes on mortal character. in
the retrospect. There was a duel Of
natures or war of words; there was
an hour stained with red which has
dyed the memory through and
through; they who. loved became as
they who hated-and wounds slashed
where caresses had been; and per-
haps the dead forget, but the living:
God pity him! remembers.-Harper's
Bazaar.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-08-06

Westward from the Cascade Of
Nunobiki, through the ever-shiftine
tracery-work Of pines and wild aza.
leas, you can see, If you would climb
quarter of a mile. on a spring day,
stretch of land that looks more like
a dream than the actual solid footstool
of God.
That was her home; there we saw
her. Her environment was common
ner dress, her cottage, the people
ABOUT her,-yes, the people especially.
But all these common things, because
or her, seemed to me as If I saw them
on the canvas of Millet or Rembrandt.
She was part of the landscape, and
II we say of the ensemble that it is
Just like picture. do not know
whether 4he Higher Artist would take
1t as a compliment or not
Describe her? Better ask me to pet.
rify a dEsam. Her lips? Oh!-one
folds his hands on his left side when
he speaks of them.
Not satisfied with her success in
this, her fair masterpiece, Nature
placed her in the rustic surrounding
to heighten all the charms of the girl
through the touch of that potent ma
gician called surprise. Yes, candidly
I was surprised, and so was Mr.. Sid
ney White, who was with me. Mr.
White is an American who has spent
more years OF his life in Paris and
abroad than under the roof Of his
mother. He was an artist,-an ar
tist who, as he confided to me once
was trying his best to fall as much
In love with q woman as he was with
Art. Take my word for it, he had
that something that goes into the
making of IA true artist, that allah
sorbing something which made him
by turns a fool and a god: he had
that idolatrous alteration for the beau
tifnl; that contempt of everything
common. In order to picture his
meeting with the girl, you must fanc,
an artist facing Art made flesh anl
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-08-06
MOTHERS FOND OF OFFSPRING
Every Anin,a, Gives Proof Of a Won.
derfui and Beautiful Love for
Her Young.

We have all seen instances of the
affection and care which. most animals
give to their helpless or nearly help
less offspring. The cat spends nearly
all her day coiled up in some quiet,
cozy corner with her family of kit
tens, and when she leaves them for
a few minutes, to stretch her limbs
and seek some refreshment for her.
self, the least squeak of one of her
children will bring her back to it's
side.
The hen struts about the farm
yard surrounded by her chicks, and 1t
the least appearance of danger the
brood runs for shelter under her
wings
When the lamb In the field strays
from it's mothers side she is soon
alarmed, and shows her fear by her
anxious bleating, which does not
cease until the lamb returns to her.
And thus it is with nearly every
animal, tame or wild. Each gives
proofs, if we could only see and under
stad them, of wonderful and beauti-
full love for her young.
This motherly care is not quite like
the ordinary friendship which one
animal may have for another. A cat
and a dog may be good friends all
their lives. But, though the cat loves
her kittens before all things while
they are young and weak, later on,
when they are sufficiently grown in
size and strength to take good care
of themselves, her affection gradually
dies away, and she becomes indiffer.
ent to their wants. Sometimes she
will even drive them away from her.
Another feature of this parental
love is what might Amoat be called
its unthinking strength. The mother
animal feels her affections so strong
that she cannot restrain them, and
she often bestows them upon the
strangest animals, along with her
own young ones, or when she has been
deprived of her own offspring.
A hen will hatch ducks eggs, and
take the same care Of the ducklings
which she would have taken of her
own chickens. A story is related of
a hen taking charge of three young
ferrets for fortnight. They were
placed in her nest because their own
mother had died, and she took to
them at once and nestled down over
them just as If they had been chick
ems. They were too helpless to fol-
low her about, as chickens would have
done, and she had to sit with them
almost the whole time. She combed
out their hair with her bill, Just az
she would have preened the feathers
of chickens. The ferrets were fed
by their owner, and they were taken
away from the nest before they were
old enough to do the hen any harm.
An even stranger instance of this
misplaced affection on the part of a
parent has been seen at a railway
station recently, according to the
newspapers.
A cat in the freight shed had three
kittens, which she was bringing up
in the usual way. Soon after the
kittens were born some of the rail-
waymen found a young jackdaw and
put it with them. The cat made no
objection, but received the bird kind
ly, and gave just as much care to it
as to the kittens.
The workmen fed the bird, while
the cat took every other care of it,
and even washed it. in its turn with
the kittens.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-08-06
Law Of Attraction.

The attractions of men to women
and women to men are full of the most
perplexing inconsistencies and contra.
dictions imaginable. 1t is, for instance,
a physical law that magnetism is not
simple attraction of one thing for an.
other, but the difference of two oppos.
ing forces of attraction and repulsion,
of which the former is the greater
The same law holds in relation to the
attraction of men and women. for each
other, in which, as a rule, the mascu.
line is the superior force.-T. P.'s
Weekly, london.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-08-06
The Editor Had "a auoh

While making the rounds for news
this week we noticed a card on tho
wall of one of the physicians offices.
which read: 'The leg of the stork is
long, the leg Of the duck is short; you
can't make the leg of the stork short
nor the les of the duck long. Then
why worry?" We had to laugh. Do
you ?-Bedford( 1a.) Free Press.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-08-06
LABYRINTH PUZZLE.

A boy started from New York to
visit st. Petersburg Tin upper left
hand corner), Paris (in upper right
hand corner), Peking Qower right
hand corner) and Egypt Qower left
hand corner). Can you follow his
travels and find where he stopped?
The black line indicates the road he
followed.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-08-06
Army Movable Kitchen.

Two thousand movable kitchens
have been ordered for the Austrian
army. Each kitchen consists of a
four-wheeled vehicle drawn by two
horses and weighing about half a ton.
The equipment of each includes four
coppers, an oven, cupboards, tables,
and various other facilities for cook
ing in the field.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-08-06
THE ROLLING MARBLE.
axe ! marble

. axe / marble
and place it on
a smooth surface,
the top of a table
will do. Ask. some
one to cross their
first and second
fingers and place
them on the mar
bic as shown in
the illustration,
says Popular Me-
,chanics. Til en-
have the person
roll the marble
about and at the
same time close
the ovoo NJ 1ooL
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-08-06
Completely Shared.

Completely Shared.
Belle-Who is the handsome youns
man talking with Miss Antique?
Belinda-Oh, he's chance acouaint.
ance.
Belle-Well, that settles it. He'll
have no chance now that she has
shared him.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-08-06
Have No Use for Pins.

All American exporters concerned
are warned by Consul General DENLY
that they'll never get rich by selling
pins to the people of Shanghai. "The
Chinese have no use for pins" he
says, 'strings and knots and loops
meeting every requirement of male
and female, young and old, to keep his
or her garments securely and neatly
fastened"
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-08-06
Best Clubs for a Ye3t:,.

They tell a story in Wall street
that Mr.. Morgan once replied to a
young friend, who had asked him
what were the best clubs to belong to
in New York. Young man. the very
best clubs to devote your time to are
Indian clubs" -; -
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-08-06
A Poor Memory.

Have you forgotten that you owe
me seven dollars?"
:: Dear, dear, l. had forgotten. NY
memory isS miserable but wasn't Il
only }e.39?". -Fliegende Blaettar.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-08-06

Starch, like everything else, is be-
ing constantly improved, the patent
Starches put on the market Is years
ago are very different and inferior to
those of the present day. In the lat
est discovery-Def1ance Starch-all
Injurious chemicals are omitted, while
the addition Of another Ingredient, in
vented by us, gives to the Starch a
strength and smoothness never ap-
preached by other brands.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-08-06
Al 4 Last Re2orf

Uncle-Johnny. wouldn't you like 70
be an angel? :. 81
Johnny-Hot az long as there's 4
show for me to become a&bastbsll
pitcher or q. circus clown.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-08-06

Dear little May in the garden stood
ANT spoke to O rosebud near:
IT |t;iink you just the loveliest thing.
a perfectly sweet little dear. =
"You're only a wee tiny bit of bud,
But you'll be big rose some day,
And I'll come to see you quite often then.
Whenever I'm out to: play.
"Blt no one shall pluck you from of
tt; stem,
You shall live your whole life, you see.
To its very end and enjoy yourself,
For. tht3 garden belongs to me-
And the rosebud smiled and nodded low.
A nd SAID: You're a rosebud. too.
And shall enjoy a long, long life
If it gives any pleasure to you."
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-08-06

It. is mothers duty to keep constantly
on hand some reliable remedy for use in
children. Hamlins Wizard Oil can be
| depended upon for just such emergencies.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-08-06
The Only Way,

my wife never opens letters that
are addressed to me-
'You have 'em all sent to your Office
address, do ?''-Cleveland Leader.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-08-06

Mrs. Windows Soothing Syrup.
For children teethng, softens the gurus reduces I'm
nAmmation, allays pain, wind c0liC 2c bottle
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-08-06

PERRY DAVIS PAINKILLER
for NIL sorts of cuts, bruises, burns and strains
Taken internally 1T cures diarrhea and d. dysentery
Avoid substitutes. 2Sc. Csc and Soc
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-08-06
IN the EdItoria1 e.nctum.

Editor-I like the last verse Of your
poem the BEST - ~ -" "
Poet-Ah!* And why?
Editor-well; principally because 1t
I. the laSt.-Judge.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-08-06

o Tome was her name. o Tome
became an object of study to Sidney
Then, short time afterwards, the
object of study-not only artistic but
also-From the very start o Tome
was a thing of beauty to him, and in
the course of time a joy forever as
we'll. When, therefore, about q
month afterwards l went up to his
studio l was not surprised to see it
converted into huge multifaced mir.
ror of O Tome every pose of her
figure, every expression of her fea.
lures, the innumerable blendings of
her many moods, were caught in all
the conceivable cunning of colors.
Am l really as pretty as that.
White-san?"
VERY, very much more beautiful.
mademoiselle!"
And my hair-and oh, but my eyes,
are they softly dreaming as they are
yonder?"
THAT? Why, that is nothing but
shadow; that is nothing but a pic
ture, like a picture on temple wall,
"a picture of a goddess, you know.
One can look at a picture, not the
goddess-the original is too daz-
zling!"
0 Tome, who was not sure whether
she understood this poetic ambiguity
of the artist, smiled as if to say.
THE best thing can do for you is to
pretend that l believe all that YOU
say
But, really, White-san, does your
humble maid please her master,
then?"
Hush, sweet one; you should rath.
er say that your slave worships his
IDEAL"
What do you think l have found
now, old man." he asked me one day
as he burst into my den. Dropping
my brush at the suddenness of his
entry and Interrogation, I answered: !:
Hello! you? Why, I have not tho
slightest idea"
We'll, she is not beautiful study,
but she is as bright as Buddha's 8
eyes, Ilcdu ucl u1nu. 4Ou CuSQt
to come and see her."
Yes, found out that she had
learned El:ny an English word.
Say the first sentence taught you
for US, O Tone-san," White said In
Japanese.
Then the olive velvet of her cheeks
became a warmer color, and a smile
made her lips like an opening bud.
Then slowly she said,-
"1-love- e-you,-Sidney."
The last syllable was In the merry
ring of her laughter.
saw him often teaching her Eng
lish and French. In those happy
hours he looked like a male mother
mad with ecstasy over the first falter'
ing words of his baby. He was very
proud of her; and day by day she
rewarded him with, the discovery OF
the hidden treasures Of her simple
heart
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-08-06

in another direction. The person will
imagine that there are two marbles
instead of one.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-08-06

The wastes of love bring greater
riches than the wisdom of greed.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-08-06

He who honestly seeks to save an
other finds himself.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-08-06

With a smooth iron and Defiance
Starch, you can launder your shirt
waist just as we'll at home as the
steam laundry can; it will have the
proper stiffness and finish, there will
be less wear and tear of the goods,
and it will be a positive pleasure to
use Starch that does not stick to the
iron.
The Virginia enterprise., 1909-08-06
COMFORTING.
:|NlE4Ml y

Man in the Water-Help! Help!
I'm drowning!
Drou Gent-What! you don't need
lelD to drown. man.