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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1909-10-27
She Was Pleasantly Surprised.

Miss H. p. Bell, Wausau, Wis,
writes: Before I commenced to
take Foley's Kidney Pills / had Sc
we're pains in my back, could not
sleep, and was greatly troubled with
headache. The first few doses Of
Foley's Kidney Pills gave me relief,
and two bottles cured me. The
quick results surprised me, and can
honestly recommend them" J. W..
Bell, Walhaila.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1909-10-27
Harper's Neck Saved.

Atlanta, Ga. Oct. 22.-Governor
Brown yesterday commuted to life
Imprisonment che sentence OF John
Harper, who was to hang to-day for
the murder of Sheriff Keith, of Muir
ray county, committed two years
ago.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1909-10-27

Dyspepsia is our national ailment.
Burdock Blood Bitters is the ma
tional cure for it. 1t strengtl.e ems
stomach membranes, promotes flow
of digestive juices, purifies the
blood, builds you up.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-21
RISKS IN BALLOONING

Aviation, as yet scarcely born, has
already become a favorite sport with
women. In this country, it is true,
woman aeronauts are few, but there are
enough of them in Paris to form a good
sized club, and elsewhere in Europe the
love of aerial sports is gaining ground
rapidly among women. In fact, as Nine
Louis Bleriot, wife of the intrepid avi-
ator who crossed the English channel
on July 25, puts it, Aviation has con-
quered les femmes simultaneously with
the air."
"It is mistake" Nine. Bleriot says
in an article published in a Paris paper
after her husband had crossed the
channel, ito suppose that women are
timid. Their love of novelty constrains
them to love danger also. They love
movement and originality, and avia-
tion promises to give them all this"
The Hon. Mrs. Assheton Harbord Of
England does not agree with Nine.
Bleriot in thinking that the danger of
aviation appeals to women. On the
contrary, she maintains that, so far as
ballooning is concerned, there is no
danger, but that most people think
there is, and women who risk their
lives daily in motor cars are afraid to
trust themselves in the air.
"Ballooning is neither so dangerous
nor so expensive as motoring" says
NlTSs I1diDOIu LII IdCls VIII OIQllldIy
care 1t is an absolutely safe recreation.
OF the several dangers that present
themselves to the mind of the novice,
think the most common is the fear
that the balloon may burst or get torn.
1t would, indeed, be a dreadful disaster
( it, when one was several thousands of
feet above the earth, the balloon were
to burst, but probably this Is a danger
that is non-eXistent. When the mouth
of a balloon is open there is no pres
sure upon it, and it is simply impos-
sible for it to burst. And if by some
strange mischance a balloon were to
get torn, it would not really imperil
the safety of the occupants of the car
for it would simply descend slowly to
the earth instead of falling, as many
people imagine, like dead weight"
Even an electric storm need not cause
fear, Mrs. Harbord thinks. She got into
one once, when crossing the channel
and the lightning played about the car
in a most magnificent and terrifying
manner, but she went through it with
out mishap. Once, when obliged to
descend while travelling at high rate
of speed, the members of the party
were thrown rather violently out of
the car and entered Holland on their
heads, but all escaped with no more
serious injury than a severe shaking.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-21
Society Gla1bs

q UCCESS is in the blood There are
men whom fate can never keep
~ down-they march forward in a
jaunty manner, and take by divine
right the best of everything that the
earth affords. But their success is not
attained by means of the Samuel
Smiles Connecticut policy. They do not
lie in wait, nor scheme, nor fawn, nor
seek to adapt their sails to catch the
breeze of popular favor. Still, they are
ever alert and alive to any good that
may come their way, and when it
comes they simply appropriate it and
tarry not, move steadily on.
Good health! Whenever you go out
of doors, draw the chin and fill the
lungs to the utmost; drink in the sun
shine; greet your friends with a smile,
and put soul into every hand-clasp.
Do not fear being misunderstood, and
never waste a moment thinking about
your enemies. Try to fix firmly in
your own mind what you would like to
do, and then without violence Of direc-
tion you will move straight to the
goal.
Fear is the rock on which we split,
and hate the shoal on which many a
barque is stranded. When we become
fearful, the judgment Is as unreliable
as the compass of a ship whose hold
have unshipped the rudder; and If ever
we stop to mediate on what the gos-
sips say we have allowed hawser to
foul the screw.
Keep your mind on the great and
splendid thing you would like to do;
and then, as the days go gliding by
you will find yourself unconsciously
seizing the opportunities that are re-
quired for the fulfillment of your de-
sire, lust as the coral insect takes from
the running tide the elements that it
needs. Picture in your mind the able,
earnest, useful person you desire to be,
and the thought that you hold is hourly
Transforming you into that particular
individual you so admire
Thought is supreme, and to think is
often better than to do.
Preserve a right mental attitude-the
attitude of courage, frankness and
cheer.
Darwin and Spencer have told us that
this is the method of Creation. Each
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-21
Great Sin of ThOughtIeSSneSS

selves when we call such bloodless sell
fishness by the mild name, Thought
lessnesS."
A music teacher in my acquaintance,
whose position as the adored friend
of her dozens of pupils gives her wide
influence, forces herself to use that
influence to it's full value.
She is a very busy woman and it
often means burdensome demands on
her time, but she says, Il have no
right to do otherwise"
Her wealthier pupils quite frequent
Iy fail to use their season concert tick
cts. Through the music teacher those
chances find their way to some starved
little music lover among her poorer
pupils.
A pupil mentions that her father is
looking for a private secretary. The
music teacher walks a mile to tell
struggling young stenographer of
the chance.
The family of one of the wealthy pu-
pills is going abroad and they are look
ing for some responsible person to
keep the house open. By the music
teachers efforts a poor little music
student and her mother graduate,
from hall bedrooms in lodging house,
to comparative heaven.
She gave generously of her money
but this gift of herself seemed to me
even more generous.
Look back over your own life and
remember how much meeting the right
opportunity meant to you.
If you chance to know of any op-
portunity, have you the right to fail
to do everything in your power to
bring it to the man or woman whose
golden gate into happiness 1T may be?
RUTH CAMERON.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-21
Musical

THE Boston Symphony orchestra
is making more than usually ex-
l. tensive plans for the coming
season, which is its twenty ninth.
Manager Ellis has so far arranged a
total of Iii concerts, to which 1t IS
expected at least two more Will be
added. These concerts will be given
between October 8, when the first
public rehearsal of the Boston series
will take place, and April 80, when the
last concert is played.
The orchestra will give its usual
twenty-four public rehearsals and
twenty-four concerts in Boston, ten in
New York, eight in Cambridge, five
each in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Wash
ington and Brooklyn, four in ProVt-
dence, three in Worcester, Hartford
and New Bedford, while other cities in
New England to be visited are Brock
ton, Springfield, Waterbury and
Bridgeport. The western trip will be
concerts will be given on successive
evenings in Buffalo, Detroit, Cleveland,
T. lie, Rochester and Syracuse Max
Fielder will again be the conductor.
An unusual honor was paid Pad
erewski last summer when the French
government made him an officer of
Ln6 Legion OIL f1OnOI, lIllS DSllS PlOD-
ably the first time an individual un
connected with diplomatic or govern
mental services has been appointed
an officer of the Legion without first
having been a Chevalier. The rules of
the organization demand that the can
didate for officer must have been a
Chevalier at least seven years and an
other rule is that the candidate for en-
trance to the Legion of Honor must
h nj
bring his sponsors forward. Pader-
ewski had not made application and
the first grade was ignored in his case.
His chief sponsor was Camille Saint
Saens.
madame Olga Samaroff is once
more in America, preparing for a tour
of the country under the management
of c. A. Ellis of Boston. Last year
she spent in Europe, where she met
most gratifying success in the larger
cities of the continent and in London,
both with orchestras and in recital.
She attracted considerable attention
from the fact that she had been con-
tent to win the appreciation Of the
American public before seeking that
of Europe, and in her case once more
it was shown that the American
music public is discriminating and
sound in judgment, for Europe more
than indorsed this brilliant young
artistic. Nine. Samaroff's season opens
with a series of seven concerts under
the Ellis management, in which she
will be associated with Miss Geraldine
Farrar of the Metropolitan opera
house. 1t is an interesting fact that
these two young artistes have been in
innate friends since their student days
in Berlin, and in giving this brief con-
cert tour thew are merely carving ont
plan formed years ago. Mr.. Ellis re-
ports that Madame Samaroff is booked
solidly up to the first of the year and
that she will have between sixty and
seventy engagements during the
season.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-21
Measure Your Ice
Pay for What It Weighs

The careful housekeeper is anxious to
get value received. She has never
known what she was getting on the
ice question until we inaugurated our
new system.
Now she is glad to get her ice of
the "Orange Wagons" for their driv-
ers are perfectly willing to be checked
up on weight, according to the table
and rule we furnish on request. They
mean to give value received" in
weight of ice, and in courtesy.
You will find Orange Wagon" ice
service satisfactory in every way. And
if you have any cause for complaint
we shall appreciate your giving us the
opportunity to correct it. Telephone
us, Home 10053; Sunset. Main S191.
LOS ANGELES ICE AND COLD
STORAGE co.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-21
&Nmsde, Gha2
Edited by
M. N F. Bridgham
Health and Success Synonymous

animal has evolved the parts it needed
and desired, The horse is fleet because
he wishes to be; the bird flies because
1t desires to; the duck has WeD Ioot
because it wishes to swim. All thlngs
come through desire and every sincere
nraver Is answered; we become like
that on which our hearts are fixed.
Many people know this, but they DO
not know it thoroughly enough so that
1t shapes their lives. We want trlends,
so we scheme and chase across lots
after strong people, and lie In wait lor
good folks-or alleged good folks
hoping to be able to attach ourselves
to them. The only way to secure
friends Is to be one. And before you
are fit for friendship you must be able
to do without 1t. That is to say, you
must have sufficient self-reliance to
take care of yourself, and then out OF
the surplus of your energy you can
do Cor others.
The individual who Graves friendship,
and yet desires a self-centered spirit
more, will never lack for friends.
If you would have friends cultivate
solitude instead of society. Drink In the
ozone; bathe in the sunshine; and out
in the silent night, under the stars, say
to yourself again and yet again, L am
part of all my eyes behold"
And the feeling that will come to you
IldI you are tlO illNCAAOPSA ~
tween earth and heaven; but you are
a necessary part of the whole. No harm
can come to you that does not come to
all, and if you shall go down 1t can
only be amid a wreck of worlds. -.
Like old JOB, that which we fear Will
surely come upon us. By wrong men
tai attitude we have set in motion a
train of events that ends in disaster.
People who die In middle life from dis
ease, almost without exception, are
those who have been preparing for
death. The acute tragic condition is
simply the result of a chronic state of
mind-a elimination of a series OF
events.
Character is the result of two things,
mental attitude and the way we spend
our time 1t is what we think and what
we do that make us what we are.
By laying hold on the forces OF the
universe. we are strong with them. And
when you realize this all else is easy
| Elbert Hubbard.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-21
Facts About the WeH-Bred Girl

gumentative; nor is she noisy, gigging
nor artificial The girl who Is well
bred knows the poor taste or making
herself conspicuous either by her man
ner, her dress or her conversation.
She does not size up her friends and
regulate her agreeableness by what she
can draw" True politeness is seltiess-
ness-or at least has that look. To be
pleasant only because it is worth while
is a mask that gets unexpected rents
She never develops a love of family
skeletons-either her own or her
friends. 1t is equally bad taste to pa
rade, your own "black sheep" and spot
those of your friends.
She does not boast. There are many
faults that the presumably well bred
woman is forgiven without losing
caste, but Dragging is not one of them.
She is not "easy" either in her con-
versation or in her actions. She will
no more permit familiarities than she
will take them, and to do questionable
things or tell questionable jokes is out
of the question for her.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-21
For Mldwlnter Festivities

F. The society girl will be interested to
know that there are four new dances
which will be introduced this fall. MISS
Eleanor Finn, who has just returned
from the dancing masters convention
in New York, said that she Thought
some of the steps would be introduced
here and become popular.
The barn dance, which has been SO
popular for the last few seasons, has
a successor in the garden dance. which
is a modification of the barn dance.
The tarsalgo, she thinks, will become
popular. The word is Hungarian and
means society dance. 1t is a Hunga-
rian dance which has been written
for American people and has been
adapted to their needs, the pure Hun
garian manner of dancing being much
too vigorous for Americans.
The blue bell is also a society dance
which is a new version of the schot-
tische, and the polonalse waltz is a
graceful variation of the waltz, which
is also new.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-21

k6nH, 1 just didn't think" most of
us say of the kindly thing we
" failed to do.
And we fancy that wipes the slate
clean-but 1t doesn't.
If there is justice in the Great
Bookkeeper's accounts - and there
surely is-sins of omission are writ
ten down quite as black as those OF
commission.
And chief among them all, 1 fancy,
is the failure to pass along oppor-
tunities.
Whenever you know of an oppor-
tunity of any kind it is your abso-
lutte duty to make every effort possl-
BILE to think up the person who hts
that opportunity and to bring 1t TO
him. ..-.
By opportunity 1 mean great many
things-an empty seat in an automo-
bile, an unused ticket for the concert,
or lecture, or play, chance to meet
some interesting person, or an open
ing into some channel of work-es-
pecially the latter. :,
A girl came to me recently bewall-
ing the fact that she had not heard
until too late of a vacancy in the
teaching corps of a town where she
was especially desirous of teaching.
And the worst of it is" she ended,
that Grace says if she had only
thought she would have written me,
for she knew about the position all
along" .,
No one has a right not to think Of
such things.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-21
MOTH PREVENTIVE

Housekeepers and others will be In
terested to know of a paper that is a
preventive of moths, also all kinds OF
insects, including the white moth. 1t
has a pleasant, clean odor, not unlike
sandalwood, and is laid on the shelves
or used to line boxes or trunks, or laid
on the surface of woolen rugs when
they are put away.
1t has been used previously by hotel
keepers for lining rooms in when
heavy hangings are placed for the
summer thus doing away with dnotn the
thorough packing necessary hereto
fore. and by dyers and cleaners for
protecting the goods of their custom. pm.
ers against moths and moisture put
it can now be bought at retail in the
single roll, believe. eu4
The paper will not stain the hnest 81
fabric or injure it in any way. 1t Is
also n-poisonous.
For wrapping books that are to be
placed in storage or packed away, l
am told, it has no equal, being mols-
ture proof as we'll as insect PROOF.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-21
JEWELLERS IN GLASS HOUSES

Here is a suggestion for people who
live in glass houses, and In TINS Gay
of apartments with windows Whlch
are only a few feet away from the
windows of ones neighbors, there are
not a few such.
A contributor to a current magazine
saws that she has solved the problem
of the dressing room and bathroom
windows, which are unpleasantly near
to those of her neightor, by covering
the window with tilmy Japanese nap
kins. They do not shut out the hght
but serve to make the glass perfectly
opaque, so affording the desired pri-
vacy to those within. Aside from this,
if some of the really pretty ones are ere
attractive
When soiIed or torn, a thorough
sopping with warm water will remove
every trace of the paper covering ana
a clean set OF napkins may be put up.
The idea seems absurdly simple, put
it would doubtless work very WELL
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-21
THE SONG DESIRABLE

Give us the song with the SAVIOR of joy in It,
Tickling the heartstrings and tingling the
toes.
Life has too much of leaden alloy in 1t;
Tighten 1t then of its burden Of woes;
Wan, wailing measures may sound more poet
ical.
who really cares for such sorrowful throes?
daughters the thing for US peripatetical
Poets who cannot be present-day Poes.
Ripple of brook with magical rune in 1t,
Chuckle of raindrops that dapple the pane,
Even the sunshine has sort of a tune in it,
Dancing along to a cheerful refrainl
True, there are songs of timbre more ter
rible,
Songs of the storm the laundering main;
But storm songs for life make a prospect un-
bearable-
Give us a rollickng measure again.
Deuce take your song with tragedy big in i'll
Plague take your rhythm that's reekng with
ruei
Give us an air with regular jig in It,
Something to titillate when we are blue.
Iilt us a lyric of fun and frivolity'
Rhyme us a snicker at care and her crew,
Trol us carol of jubiant jollty;
Wanted: The Poet Of Joy-Is it you?
-Berton Braley In Puck.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-21
Pumpkin Cups for Ices

Dainty individual cups for serving
ices at a Halloween supper can be
made by surrounding squat glass
lemonade cups with a tissue paper
frill to represent pumpkins blossoms, s,
This may be easily done by cutting
orange tissue paper into strips SIX
inches wide and long enough to MT
around the top of the cup. The DOT
tom is made plain and the top cut
into long, slender petals like those
of the pumpkin blossom.
A narrower strip of green tissue
paper is put on the outside OF tne
orange and cut into broader petals
to represent a calyx, both are tied to
the glass with narrow green ribbon.
The glass, which does not show at
all, is filled with ginger ice, coloreu
deep yellow, with orange coloring'
to represent a pumpkin.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-21
Watercress Jelly

An odd flavoring for gelatine, from
an American standpoint, is water
cress. A German housekeeper de-
clares it makes a delicious variety,
much appreciated by her family.
The gelatine is made in the usual
way and while still hot the juice of
three or four large handfuls of fresh
Watercress is poured into it.
Pound the cress in a clean mortar,
aid half a glass of cold water and
squeeze in jelly bag or cheeseclotn
to extract all the juice.
If the plain taste of the cress is
thought too insipid the juice of one
lemon can be added.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-21

~ HE never appears conscious of her
~ clothes. To feel yourself tine as
~ fiddle" and show it means
either unaccustomedness to good
clothes or inordinate vanity.
She will not get intimate at short
notice. Most persons worth knowing
are worth testing. Rushing INTO
friendships shows lack OF social
knowledge if not of innate good breed
ing. 5o
naughty, disagreeable manner is d
snobbish cloak too often by the would
be we'll bred and sometimes untortu-
nately mistaken for the real thing.
She does not shirS her opilgatlons.
You rarely find 1.-The real lady" slipping
up in her engagements because some
thing more interesting turns up, or
neglectful of her shabby friend When
more socially important guests are
present.
She is not blatant or boastful or ar
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-21
SPEEDING TO DREAMLAND TOWN

There's a touring on four small wheels
1t is going to Dreamland Town;
The chauffeur mild is your mother, child,
BY her side you must cuddle down.
You music lose your eyes; there's golden dust
On the road to Dreamland Town,
The sandmen ride and glide aside
Policemen they in brown.
We are going fast in our touring car,
We are nearing the Dreamland Town
And the hand you feel will turn the wheel
And run the bogieS down.
A speed law, dear, for our big, big car
We are entering Dreamland Town,
And the tiny wheels meath your little heels
Are slowly running down.
New York Times.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-21
HER CATS WEAR JEWELS

A little pink Persian kitten sat for
it's photograph today in the studio of
a well-known photographer, wearing q
gold crown on its head and gold or
der around its neck, says London
correspondent. The pink Persian came
from Windsor castle and now belongs
to Mrs Anita Comfort Brooks, presi-
dent of the Gotham club of New York
who is on a visit to London. This
crowned kitten enjoys a perfumed
bath every morning, and one of its
favorite pastimes is to paw the keys
of a grand piano.
"I was the first cat lover to think
of giving a cat diamond earrings"
said Mrs. Brooks today. Bangles
and necklaces had become so very
hackneyed, and wanted my cat to be
unlike anyone else's, so I had the ears
pierced and bought my cat pair of
fine diamond earrings"
Mrs. Brooks always names her cats
after celebrities. President Roosevelt
was the one who rejoiced in jeweled
ears. Governor Hughes, another pet,
wears pinlS corsets, pink shoes and pink
stockings, and Admiral was fine fig
ure in a navy blue coat, striped trous-
ers and an admirars hat.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-21
For the Traveller

semi-invalid would appreciate leather
or willow travelling case holding two quar-
bottles of the sort which will keep the peei
tea or milk placed in them at their Original
temperature for a long time.
Any woman would welcome a covered
japanese tea basket large enough to hoid
pot and two cups of plated silver
"Prinkey' cases containing an alcono
lamp. tube and iatiron are of rattan ana
pigskin. and clothes, hair and hat brushes
are in substantial bags of elephants hide
Portable clothes hanging sets, which may
be folded to fit a trunk Of ordinary dlmeI-
sions, include six hangers and a rou wH.tn H.
may be extended at right angles to the
inner side of a door. and to go with these
are wire rests to keep the fluffy orim OF
the hat from resting directly on SMELL
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-21
A Good Scheme

In Shakespearean days they used to
label the scenery. They hung out pla-
cards stating that "This is a wood or
"This is a CASTLE" We don't need to do
that now.
Still we might use the scheme to ad-
vantage. 1t would help sometimes to
see an alleged Thespian bearing the le-
gend "This is an actor."-Louisville
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