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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1909-03-24
The Rat as a Fighter.

Rats have been known to kill and
eat babies, and as they are not
afraid to attack full-grown men they
would probably make short work Of
dogs and cats when their numbers
were as great as they were in Hame-
lin. For it's size the rat is one of
the fiercest of animals, and 1t multi
plies SO rapidly that 1t is no wonder
it got the better of the poor people
of that town.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1909-03-24
w. Nj. Browns
Livery, Sale and
Feed Stables.

Plenty Of good Mules and Horses
that need to be sold.
Buggies, Surveys and Wagons;
Saddles, Brides, Collars and Blan-
kcts, Whips, Robes, etc.
Just received a car load of High
Point Buggies and Surveys.
This Is the incest lot Of Buggies
and Surreys ever shipped to Wal
halla. Every one a Beauty" and
they are sold under my personal
guarantee.
l also have a special line of Light
Two-Horse Wagons-in fact, any
thing in the Buggy or Wagon line.
Brown has 1t, or Brown gets it.
Come and let me show you before
buying. ] make the prices and terms
to suit
w. M. BROWN,
WALHALLA. s. q.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1909-03-24
Aged Minister Dies.

Pinewood, S. c., March 1S.-Rev.
j. Nelson Brown, local Methodist
preacher, died yesterday about five
O'Clock. A devout, loyal Christian
man has gone to his eternal reward.
For fifty-four years he went about
homes of many people, where he
preached the Gospel. Mr.. Brown
was entering his 81st year.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1909-03-24
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s*ss.s,s s;ss. sss ~ The Kind w Hay: AWAY: S'''
Three Killed; Ten Houses Wrecked.

Parkersburg, w. Va, March 10
Three persons were killed, three 9th
ers probably fatally injured, and
many more slightly hurt, and ten
or more houses completely wrecked,
and forty more badly damaged, when
the two large water tanks supplying
this city with water burst early this
morning.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1909-03-24
Gray Hairs I'm the Cabinet.
Detroit Free Press }

IDeCTOIC FTVG TTUSS.
Somewhat in contrast with the
men who have sat around Mr.. Roose-
velt's council table, the new cabinet
will be a gray-bearded and gray
haired or bald-headed cabinet. Like
Mr.. Taft himself evcy member Of
the new ministry is more than fifty
years Of age, with the single excep-
ton Of National Chairman Frank H.
Hitchcock, who is forty-four, and
who becomes Postmaster General.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1909-03-24

That our American rorests abound IN
plants which possess the most valuable
medicinal virtues is abundantly attested
by scores of the most eminent medical
writer's and teachers. Even the untu-
tored Indians had discovered the useful.
ness Of many native plants before the
advent of the white race. This informa-
tipn, impaired freely to the whites, led
the latter to continue Investigations until
to-day we have a rich assortment of most
valuable American medicinal roots.
DR.. Pierce believes that our American for
ests abSe,pd In most valuable medicinal roots
foH the cufeNQt most obstinate and fatal dis
eases. IL wewonSd properly investigate them;
and ip toAifraaf ffSn Of this conviction. he
porfse>with prideS1 the almost marvellous
cures effected- by bis Golden Medical Dis
coyery, , which has proven Itself to be the
most eftlcient- stomach ionic. LIVER inYigor--
E.-heaCt tonis and regulator, and blood
cleanser known to medical science. Dyspep-
sia, or Indigestion. torpid liver. functional
and even valvular and other affections OF
the heart yield to its curative action. The
reason tphy 1t cures these and many other
affections. Is clearly shown In q little book
OF extracts from the standard medical works
which is mailed free to any address by DR.. r.
v. Pierce. Of Buffalo. N. Y. TO all sending
request for the same.
Not less marvellous. In ther unparalleled
cures It is constantly making OF woman's
many peculiar affections. weaknesses and
distressing derangsments. is DR.. Pierce's
Favorite\ Prescriptions as Is amply attested
BY thousands of>NpEoNcIf Ifed testimonials con-
fributed byESdteful paflentS who have been
cured by Il Of catarrhal nelYIc dralGs. paIniuf
periods, irregulaTities. prQlapsYs and otheT
glSplacsmsnts- sl -ca9ss4- Yeskness. ulcer
alton Of uterus and Kindred Injections, often
after many other advertised medicines. and
physicians had failed.
- - -
Both the above mentioned medicines are
wholly made UP from the glyceric extracts OF
native. medicinal roots. The processes ON
ployed i'm their manufacture were original
with DIR. Pierce, and they are carried on by
skilled chemists and pharmacists with the
aid Of apparatus and appliances specially
designed and built for this purpose. Both
medicines are entirely. free from alcohol and
oil other harmful. habit. forming drugs: A
full list Of their ingredients Is printed on
each hottle-wrapper.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1909-03-24
Foley$
Honey
and Ia z

Will cure a cough or cold no
matter how severe and prevent
pneumonia and consumption.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1909-03-24

Washington, March 1S.-Lieut. S.
Taft, was probably fatally injured
late to-day while riding with several
other naval officers in Rock Creek
Park. His horse stumbled and fell
upon him, crushing his left thigh
and injuring him internally
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-10-01
SWEET LAVENDER BACK AGAIN
Revival Of Old Fashion In Scent Is
Certainly One Of the Most
Welcome.

An old fashion that deserves the re,
viVal it seems to be having is the use
of lavender. Lavender, sweet laVen-
der" used to be carried about the
streets in English towns, and is be-
ginning to be sold again, both in Lon
don and New York.
Laid away among the folds Of cloth
ing, lavender, 1t is said, will keep out
the moths, and how much pleasanter
the scent is than the smell of moth
balls Some women make quaint lit
tie bags to put the dried lavender
leaves in. The bags may be embroid-
cred in cross stitch, in designs show
ing baskets filled with bright flowers,
wreaths inclosing a name, a mono
gram or motto, or spray of violets
A delightful toilet water is made of
white wine vinegar and lavender flow
ers, Steep the lavender, handfulls of
it, IN the vinegar, using stone jars.
Keep the jars for three days in g mod
erately warm. place on the stove, after
which strain and bottle it.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-10-01

ert-fOr what was to be done with
dry, unirrigated alkali-covered waste?
Eastern farmers were incredulous, but
westerners were eager, for it was
their neighborhood; and so it fell to
the lot Of Prof. H. w. Campbell to
investigate and illustrate the princi
pies of dry farming, or the rendering
fertile of arid lands without irrigation.
His theory maintained that by cult
waiting the top and subsoil of the al
kali deserts, every particle of mois-
ture falling on the land could be held
in the soil, and surface cultivation the
year round would tend to produce a
profusion Of flowers and grain.
The first methods we're crude and
expensive, but later developments
have rendered dry farming no more
costly than other kinds. The land is
plowed year before any crops are
planted. Disk subsoil plows break the
soil and pack it into firm bed, leav.
ing sort of hard pan through which
the water cannot slip. This we'll.
packed subsoil also prevents the pow.
erful, blighting salts rising by evap.
GRAFTON. The surface soil is then pull.
verified and cultivated until it is very
fine. This powder-like mulch holds
the rains and SHOWS of the wet sea-
son as they fall, the moisture cannot
leak through the hard pan, and thus
evaporation is prevented. The soil is
worked until it is sponge-like and can
hold the moisture. After each rain
the soil must be worked anew, until
the plants are large enough to hold
their own. Immediately after har-
vesting the soil is prepared again and
then allowed to lie fallow until the
next seasons crop.
Giant machines have been prepared
for the work Thirty-two horse pillow
engines drag behind them II l4-inch
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-10-01

with N once more. and 30 ID the
plated skirt with plain front panel.
which has long proven its usefulness
and grace for walking purposes. Then
there Is the ancient coat sleeve which
goes into the armhole with the barest
suspicion Of top gathering, and the
skirt band that, after overskirts and
before them, divided the jupe IN two
pieces. The semiprincess effects
with jersey-like upper portion and
plated bottoms that these gowns dis
play, are widely approved and exceed
ingly becoming to slight young figures.
There are hints that the waistband
will get tighter, but so comfortably
loose are gowns still at this point that
one need not fear a swift return to
tbs old wasp waist, which emphasized
the size Of the hips and was always
unsuitable for young girls. Dresses
cut-all-in-one for misses sometimes
show almost wrapper looseness,
these giving an added sweetness to
rounded young bodies, and showing
often the simplest band trimmings.
Misses coats follow to a great ex.
tent the. same looSeness, many an odd
garment, or the top jacket that goes
with q jumper frock, revealing al
most the same cut as the brothers
top coat.
It is vain to hope that the adult
feminine Of ultra smart taste will be
guided by reason in choosing her au-
tumn or winter hat; but let US de.
voutly pray that the mothers of daugh.
tiers who have not reached their full
growth will exercise some of their own
wisdom in the matter of buying the
headpiece.
Reasonableness from every point
governs the frock shown lin the illus
tration, which would make an excel.
lent classroom dress If a good, wiry
serge turned out the skirt, and a pref.
ty flannel, introducing the skirt color,
formed the waist. Both pieces are in
the newest designs for such garments,
and both are too simple to present any
terrors to the home sewer of even av-
erage gifts.
Schoolgirl sweaters Of genuine
splendor are in red, pale blue, white
and light gray, as usual, but the bot
tom line has descended until at times
it almost comes to the knees. Class.
room aprons that are altogether girl
ish and charming are sometimes made
Of black taffeta silk with a narrow
edge Of gaily-fowered ribbon. The
same ribbons, running through the
headings, form the belt and strings of
these deliciously feminine skirt pro-
tectors.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-10-01

together, and the reconstructed, gar.
ment suggested still more good strv'
Ice to come. q.
One dressmaker's idea was 10 make
the sleeves detachable. To all intents
and purposes, they were seWed In the
garment but in reality they were held
on with safety pins. a bias piece az.
tending beyond the armhole gathering
for this purpose. Q
First madam puts on her sleeves.
fastening them at the shoulder and
under the arm with PIN. After that
on goes the coat, whose shoulder por.
tons, however, must be longer than Is
common, to hide evidence Of the make
believe. The sleeves, In many IN
stances, were close at the top and fell
in becoming bell over the hand. ,-,
The first new coats to appear with
the young season are generally Of q
practical nature, such as hip-length
garments as would be used for walk
ing, or the long lengths which suggest
rain and chill winds. Every wool coat
material hitherto seen is repeated in
these models now in every shop, and
not uncommonly the upper garment OF
tailor gown will follow the exact
lines Of the old coat.
Browns and grays, Of course, pre-
dominate, as always, for odd coats, az
these colors suit themselves to any
gown. But numerous novelties In
mixed materials are also seen, these
admitting Of dressy braid and velvet
. trimmings, which the plain cloth or
cravenette coats In the best taste
rarely show.
The sleeve Of the new coat is, unfor-
tunately, too close to admit Of entire
comfort except with the highest un-
dersleeves, but the mannish finish Of
most of the neclIs gives plenty Of
ease there. The shawl collar in single
piece Of velvet, satin or silk, is a
favorite neck finish for a number Of
coats both for misses and women.
The dapper little garment sketcbed,
whose very plainness Is its chief
charm, depicts the smartest topcoat
Of the season for women. A soft shade
OF brown covert or that with a green
ish tinge-a pure tan would be too
light for autumn use-is the preferred
material; and if the coat is lined with
farmers satin or a stout quality Of
twilled silk, 1t would do service far
into the winter. The lining is a very
important point in the smartness of a
coat, and the best effects always are
obtained by having the doubling match
the outside color as nearly as pos
sible.
However, a coat In pale cream cloth
may be lined and trimmed with black
satin, for Paris models set the stamp
of possibility on such freaks Of fancy.
But other French coats will show the
garment and lining in one color,
though Powered figure in the Inning
may deepen the tone. 20.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-10-01
TURN DESERT INTO GARDEN
Dry Farming Movement Proposes to
Do This by the Simple Laws
Of Nature.

At the edge of the American desert
the government has built expensive
irrigation plants, but these cannot
reach the interior of the area nor can
they make ready the land without
enormous cost. The dry farming
movement proposes to convert this
desert into a garden by the simple
laws of nature. 1t has demonstrated
that 40 acres, properly cultivated,
will support a family OF from three to
five. From IS to SIS bushels of wheat
per acre are possible to this dry soil.
The great Russian wheat, durum, from
which macaroni is made, is raised on
soil very similar to our desert soil;
and its importation has transformed a
foreign product into domestic. To
day, in this country the total output of
durum wheat is about thirty millions,
and most Of it is raised on dry lands.
The demand is growing and machinery
for grinding the hard wheat is being
produced. The American desert Is fast
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-10-01
losing its reputation for aridity and
becoming a factor in our national
riches.
Make the Home Beautiful

The object of planting the home
grounds to trees, shrubs, flowers and
grass is to make the home scene beau
tiful and restful in every sense. in
order to accomplish this the plants
must be definitely grouped and ar.
ranged in reference to the house and
to each other. A yard may be literally
full Of a variety of the very choicest
of decorative plants and yet be abso.
lutely ugly from home point of view.
Decorating the ground with plants is
similar to decorating the human body
with clothing or room with fur.
nishings. Arrangement counts for
more than anything else.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-10-01
Mohair VIII Wash.

A mohair skirt is a mighty prac-
teal investment for the reason that 1t
can be laundered with perfect success
and does not have to be sent to a
professional cleaners when 1t needs
to be cleaned. The home laundress
who undertakes to wash a mohair
skirt must remember two things. One,
that white soap Of good quality must
be used with a little borax which is
not only cleansing, but gives certain
stiffness to wooden materials.
Another thing to remember is that
the use Of very hot iron Is fatal to
wooden goods. 1t may not apparently
scorch 1t, but 1t win rot the threads
20 that the goods viii crack on the
nrst or Sacond wearing
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-10-01
MAKING OVER WINTER FROcKS
Belts Of All Kinds Are Used to
Give Requisite Touch to
the Bodice.

What will we do with our last win
ter's frocks?
There is hardly an evening or after.
noon gown made last winter that has
not a short waist. OF course, II we
have plenty of material 1t is easy
enough to fashion a new bodice. II
we have not, the problem is to find
some way Of frightening 1t without
making the gown look patchy.
Deep belts are being used for this
purpose, made peasant bodice fashion.
Fortunately the sash is in the hey
day of its popularity, and it covers a
multitude of difficulties.
On evening frocks, wide girdle,
studded with semi-precious stones, or
Jet, or tiny sparkling beads may often
be used, not only to lengthen the
waist line, but to give character and
variety to the frock
Black sashes with draped ends are
seen on all sorts and descriptions OF
smart gowns.
On one the girdle was made entirely
Of supple Jet with ends hanging down
In front, on which were long tassels
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-10-01
FLOWING FOR FALL GRAIN
Should Be Done Immediately After
Harvest and Cultivated to
Conserve Moisture.

When wheat follows wheat or some
other grain crop a suitable seed bed.
may be prepared by early blowing.
In country the blowing should
be done as soon after harvest as pos
sible and the fields should be cult.
waited with harrow or disk at inter-
walls until seeding time in order to
firm the soil, conserve the moisture
and destroy the weeds. When the
blowing is done just previous to SOW
ing it is we'll to follow the pillow with
the sub-surface packer and harrow in
order to pulVerize and pack the soil
at the bottom of the furrow and leave
a mellow, even surface.
This packing and pulverizing OF
the furrow slice is especially neces.
sary when the soil is plowed dry or
when stubble, trash or manure is
plowed under, because if the furrow
slice is left loose and unpulverized,
the capillary connection of the soil
with the subsoil is largely broken
on and the soil water will not rise
into the surface soil to supply the
terminating seed and feed the roots
OF the young plants, hence the seed
fails to terminate we'll or the plant
is often stunted in growth, and in
such a seed bed the crop is likely to
freeze out or burn out. Because of
these results it is not safe to pillow
under coarse manure or a heavy
growth of weeds or stubble in pre-
pairing a seed bed for wheat or Other
small grains or grasses.
If the soil is in good physical con
dition, not too dry or too wet, an
ideal seed bed can be prepared by
blowing Immediately before seeding,
provided the soil is repacked and
we'll pulverized but this is often a
more expensive method than the
disking or early blowing method. 1t
is also often a good plan to disk the
ground previous to blowing. If plowed
at once the loose surface is in
better condition to more readily
connect and reunite with the sub
soil when the furrow slice is In.
Verted.
If the blowing is delayed the
ground will remain in good condi.
ton for blowing for a much longer
period during dry weather than land
which has received no cultivation.
1t is often possible when the land has
become too dry to pillow, by establish.
ing soil mulch with the disk harrow
and retaining the water in the soil,
to so improve the moisture condition
OF the surface as to bring it again into
good blowing condition and it may
even be advisable to practice early
dishng rather than early blowing
where both cannot be accomplished.
The surface mulch Of soil produced
by disking not only retains the water
in the soil but offers a favorable sur.
face to absorb the rains.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-10-01
Pretty Bedroom Set.

A sleeping room set may be made Of
woven linen brocade in French de-
signs wherein soft blues and pinks
and green mingle in dainty flower and
ribbon patterns These sets cost a
little more than those of Dutch print,
and some are designed to agree with
certain wall and ceiling decorations.
They go well also with plain unlimited
walls and ceilings and with both the
heavier and the lighter makes of bed.
room furniture.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-10-01
TWO IDEAS OF REAL VALUE

Ny son made four very useful book.
racks from one soap box 16 inches.
deep, says a writer In the Boston
Globe. He detached the bottom and
cover, sawed the frame that was left
according to the diagram(1). There
we're then four frames like this (2).
He whitfield the ends into shape
(2), then sandpapered the surfaces
so they were free Of marks and very
smooth.
He next cut and hattened out tin
cocoa cans, heating them in the stove
till they had the appearance Of iron.
He cut them in strips about an inch
wide, nearly pointing or rounding the
ends, and fastened them on the
frames with tacks or screws thus "a,
The clamp goes on the end and also,
underneath. He finally gouged a de-
vice on the outside Of each end, and
stained and oiled or vanished the
whole frame. We find these articles
neat, durable and very useful.
The Dripping Pan In the oven.-Just
one very disagreeable experience, re-
sulting from the boiling over Of the
juice Of a baked BURBERRY pudding
in my oilrange oven and Is dripping
down through the holes around the
edge on the chimneys below, where
1t burned on instantly like enamel,
was enough to teach me the wisdom
Of putting a dripping pan Of the re.
quired size into the oven to heat and
then placing the Juicy article y drip
ping pan. II the Juice would boil out,
1t ran over into the dripping pan. l
find this device saves me much annoy
aDcs and labor
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-10-01
WHEAT ONDRYFARM
How Scientific Cultivation Is
Rapidly Becoming ReCou-
nized in West.
First Methods Were Crude, But Later
Developments Have Rendered II
No More Costly Than Other
kinds-manner Of oper
akinna
atoms.


Dry farming may sound like a for.
lorn joke to the poor fellows whose
acres of corn are being soaked every
afternoon about four by these good,
hard, drenching spring rains; but real
dry farming" has grown to be a sub
ject very worthy of attention from
farmers interested in the development
OF their profession. 1t is important
enough to have called forth a gov.
eminent pamphlet and to have estab.
lished societies through the west for
its economic application.
The farmer 50 years ago hooted al
the cultivation of those arid acres in
the west known as the American Des.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-10-01
Girls to Wear Awnings,

The smartly dressed girl, instead of
carrying an umbrella to protect her
new hat, now stretches an awning
over it. This continuance she can
make in soft rubberized silk, in at.
tractiHe- colors. 1t is to be hooked
around the brim, and around the
crown there are draw strings which
shirr II up into soft drapery effect,
which, topped OF with bow, gives q
very graceful effect
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-10-01

ploWs, clod breakers, harrow, and
pulVerizers. Drillers and clod spread.
ers follow later. Thirty-fve acres Of
land can thus be cultivated at a cost
OF 80 cents an acre, where it cost the
pioneer farmer at least IS. Contin.
uously dry farmed" land-where ev.
Grey particle Of moisture is retaineL-
requires only IL quarts Of seed to 20
as far toward maximum crop pro-
duction as 30 or 40 quarts in the or
binary wheat belt. Every grain finds
fertile lodgment.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-10-01

silk or satin, which have so elegantly
covered thin frocks and been such dis.
tinctive features of the past season will
continue to wear them up to the last
moment, with the addition of loose
sleeves Of a contrasting material, set in
under the ornamental armholes. Some
coats doctored in this way showed
sleeves of silk with cloth and others of
a heavy lined lace with silk. In every
case the two materials were effective
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-10-01
TO MEET THE CHILL
QUESTION OF AUTUMN roPcoAI
10 IN ORDER
Materials Of Serge Or cheVIot ct
Reasonable Cost May Be franc
formed Into Really prsssy
Fall Garments.

Almost the first garment to be con.
sidered with autumn wear is q topcoat
OF some sort, for with this covering
many a summer gown may be worn
until actually chill weather.
Those who are provided with the
handsome sleeveless coats Of cloth or