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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1909-07-07
Old FASHIONED CoNcERrE
And Spellinge Bee at PitchfOrd's
Hall Thursday Night.

Ye old fashioned concerto and
spellinge bee will be held In We big
town hall-Pitchford's Hall-at u
past s of ye clock, Thursday night,
July Sth. Come one, come ALL
Ye MEME and We womenne folkes
will miss ye jolliest Of evenings and
an opportunity to help swell the
funds of We Womenne's Civic I'M
provement Association of We home
towne If ye fail to be at We big door
at earle candlelight.
Ye Guide Board---Ye Part First.
A big synge of We old fashioned
songes by all ye MEME and wo-
MEME folkes, with musick by We old
fiddle and guitar.
Old Folkes at Home--a big synge
Every one to join.
Bonny Blue Flag-Solo.
Old Black Joe-A big synge.
How Can l Bear to Leave Thee
Solo.
Massa's in the Cold, Cold Ground
"A big synge.
Flow Gently, Sweet Afton-Duet.
Aud Lang Syne-Solo.
We Parte Second-Ye Spellinge Bee.
Words from Ye Old Blue Back
Spelling Book, and again we big
synge by all ye meme and womenne
folkes.
Comm Through the Rye--Solo.
MY Old Kentucky Home-ye big
synge.
Annie Laurie-Solo.
My Country, 'Tis Of Thee-Ye big
synge.
Juanita-Duet.
Thnrp'G N hn III
synge.
Tenting on the Old Camp Ground
Duet. -
NY Darling Nellie Gray-Solo.
liome, Sweet Home-Ye big
All persons who do come to this
great synge and spellinge bee will
tie lO cents in ye corner of We pocket
handkerchief to pay We name at We
doore, and also bring FIVE cents in
We bottom OF ye pocket to buy We
big treate-fce cold lemonade and
ginger snaps
fe good WOmenne below named
Mistress Dendy, Mistress Bell, Mis-
tress Herndon, Mistress Stoddard,
Mistress Kennedy, Mistress F.E. Har-
rlson and Misses Ansel, Walker and
M. Moss-will make ye all welcome
and see that ye MEME and ye wo-
menne shall be suffered to sit to-
gether.
N. Bye young MEME are re-
minded to aVoide We too constant
looking at ye womenne singers, as
they are shame-faced and modest. If
We should like to have some of We
songes times ye may clappe We
hands. Children under ten years
admitted free.
Ye money obtained at We doore
Will be used by We Womenne's Civic
improvement Association for We
making of We home towne beautiful.
Help for Those Who Have Stomach
Trouble.
a flor tn,,i,, Co.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1909-07-07
WEATHER REPORT FOR WEEK
Ending Tuesday, July 6th-Omcial
Weather Record.

observations made at $50 D. m.
on Midway Hill, Walhalla, S. c.:
DaV Tamn Srpcb;,o Dy~e. n
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1909-07-07
Help for Those Who Have Stomach
Trouble.

Trouble.
After doctoring for about twelve
years for bad stomach trouble, and
spending nearly five hundred dollars
for medicine and doctors fees, |
purchased my wife one box of Cham
berlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets.
which did her SO much good that she
continued to use them and they have
done her more good than all of the
medicine | bought before.-Samuel
Boyer, Folsom, Iowa. This medicine
is for sale by DR.. J. w. Bell, Wal
halla, and w. J. Lunney, Seneca.
Sample free.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1909-07-07

ay. -Iemp.-- Sunshine. R'nfall
High. Low. (Per Ct) Inches
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-07
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY ', 1909.

! Young man or young woman" says The Dothan Home Journal.. '1f. you have mother living. love her. one little rose to her while she. is living as worth vastly more to her than all the flowers you can pile on her comm after she Is dead. One little Kind word ia worth moro to her than all the money you can expend at her fu- neral. Your mother may be growing old. if so. love her, be kind to her. She loves you and will do more for you than any other person living, so take her as the best friend you have or will have" True words these and they should be read and needed by all the youths of the country who are bless ed with good mothers. Filial love and Kindness are of little use if they are withheld until after the grave has closed over one who spent the best of life caring for her children. The time to exhibit and practice these virtues is always the present.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-07

Rarely have we seen an editorial in Northern newspaper which we consider better worth republishing en- tire than Is the following from The New York Tribune:
 However the people of the country may differ as to the issues involved in the Civil War, there can be only one opinion regarding the bill intro olina providing for a monument to the women of the Confederacy. Full rec ognition of the heroism of these wo: men has been unanimously accorded CTS, and 1t is fitting that future gem erations should have a visible remind CT of the self-saerifice of that part of the population which did its heroic the inspiring music of the. military band or in that excitement of the bat tlefeld which leads to self-forgetful- ness, but on the deserted plantation, in the midst of almost inconceivable hRrdships.
 Tn any war the women are called upon to carry fully as large share of the burden as the men. 1t Is not they who bear the arms and who hear the whistling of the bullets oker the field of battle, gray with smoke, but 1t is the Women's ears that are strain ed for news from the front, and the
 
 never to return. For them there is none of the inspiration which a united host creates; they must carry not only their own burdens, but in many in- stances are compelled to pick up those laid down by the men who have gone to the front.
 Ali that the North suffered during the war the South. suffered twofo1d. men to an extent hardly conceivable In the North. Not only were the women left to carry on almost all the work of their country, year after year, with from the negroes who had remained faithful to them, but they were to 8 large extent deprived of the means with which to perform the simplest over again the crops they had planted and hoped to harvest were destroyed and their fields laid waste. Their homes were in many instances pre- empted by their enemies. and many of them spent their days in nursing not only their own soldiers, but also the suffering men in blue. No one will be- grudge the women of the South the monument which the men of the South are proposing to erect in their honor. It Is one more merited tribute to an example of heroism which has few equals in the history of civilization"
 Time with healing on its wings has banished much of the bitterness en- gendered by the great war between the States, and has brought instead a wide feeling of tolerance and charity to each side. We of the South who firmly believe that our contention was right and that our position was fully justified can continue in that belief without offence or injury to any fair minded person On the other hand our Northern brethren who stood by the Union and fought for 1t can adhere to their conviction that they were right, and we have no cause to take offence because they cannot see as we do There were two sides to the shield and those who looked on one side were as conscientious as were those who saw only the other side.
 But. as The Tribune argues. there can be but one opinion as to the sui
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-07
LET HIM ALONE.

Among the prophets and other pre- dicters of future events The Brooklyn Eagle is disposed to award the chromo to the groundhog. "There are" it says. many infallible signs of an ear ly winter. among them the goose bone. the rabbits fur and the coal bill but the groundhoK is the original and only spring prophet. The robin. the blueblrd and the poet occasionally dis pute his pre-emlnence, but they are belated harbingers and get around only when the pussy willows begin to fuzz and everybody with half an eye knows what's doing. Why the ground hog should look upon bright sun as ominous or a beclouded sky as aus pieious nobody knows except Ernest Thompson Seton and the Rev. William J. Long. and they will not dare tell until after Mir. Roosevelt goes to Af- rica and they are safely out of hts range"
 Some people appear anxious to learn how the groundhog knows how to tell what sort of weather is coming. but that is wrong. Where ignorance is bliss 1t is folly to be wise" the poet tells us. and 1t would destroy an the interest of CandIemas Day. so far as the groundhoE Is concerned, if there were no mystery about him. If we could know how he foretells weather futures we would have no curiosity or wonder about how he does it It would take, away all the romance. and we would have no more interest in the lit. tie fellow than we have in any other small animal. Let him continue to maintain his mystery. and let human beings be satisfied with the knowledge that he knows what he is about and will go at his job in his own way.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-07
DiUorces in The United States
By Frederic ]. IiasEin.

Iup to SIS. Afkansas leads the South with sss. and Texas is not tar be- lhind. California is said to hold the record for granting divorces In quick Ter time than any other state More women obtain divorces In the North than in the South. despite the iatter's large negro population. This 10 attri-
 buted by the statistictan to the fact, mat the woman of the North have. In dependent than the women of the South, and more capable and more anxious lto provide for themselves if given
 their liberty again. The average length Iof the married life Of the people who lafterward obtain diyorces fs ter, years. and one couple out of every i've who were divorced migrated rom the state h which they were married into some other before obtaining their dserees of The allegation that actors are. as la rule. much married and much d. lvovced. Is sustained most positively by this report There is one divofcel actor to every six married. ones. The commercial traveller ranks next fn tho list with . ratio of one 10 twenty. Musicians are next and are followed in order by physicians. bartenders. tefe-
 spite the Presiderts' fnquiries that are Eexpected to result in an upiift, for the IJlfe or the farmer and his wife. the laivorce rate among farmers is far below the average, there being one ones - The more closely home ties gre Kept, lanI the more intact the family cir- lcie is held. the better the ultimate manhood and womanhood of the ehiid- Iref of that home. An exaninatiors into tthe records of the reformatories and loLner penal institutions of the lana III show that 50 percent of the Inmates
 nAVe come ffem homes that have been broken by divorce. If all suits fn- lyoiving domestic troubles could be lAried away from curious court. room
 rowds. in courts such as hear chifl- lren.s cases. t is safe to assert that a surprisingly large percentage of d. lvorce seekers would go home, willing
 to try married life little while longer.
 Tn about two divorce cases out of five there are children concerned. AS a
 suie, the mothers are given the custody lof the children. This is considerea X. ldetriment to the fathers seeking tii- Ivorce. The mother is always extremely
 reluctant to seek divorce when there
 are children to be considered. uniesa her husband be . drunkard.
 | There have been several rat,onnr
 meetings to frame uniform divorce
 aw for the various states ana terri-
 ories, but the movement as a whole
 has not made much headway. The
 special census report of,fsss first opa,, :, ed the eyes of the nation to the neea lof such laws. Tho advocates of d. lxorce rsform gre stiii optimistic, and
 should laws like that frarne,, 6% rsah- bino De enacted, better moral status. where marriage ts concerned, rnav IA acquired by the nation.
 Copyright 1908. by Frederic J. FsAz- kin)
 Tomerxov--EAe whaling Industry.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-07
raray Jr.tIes AttemUteS.

Memphis NeWS-SclmItet. -s-
 An effort is being made In Kansas 70 do justice to q man who for many years was sadly and painfully mtstreated. When the Andrew Johnson impeacn- ment trial was on. Colonel F. G. hoss was a senator from Kansas. Ills vote was cast against Impeachment and was fine vote that prevented what would have been the greatest Of political out rages. Senator Ross paid dearly Tor ltriotic act. He was forced by public continent to resign his position and was practically outlaWed: He went 10 one of the territories and 3ied there a few years ago. in loneliness and In poverty. A few days ago Representa- I've Lambertson introduced In the Kan sas house of representatives a reso- Ihtion providing for an official recog- Iuition of Senator Ross services to his state and the nation. and 1t is said that he is prepared to make vigorous oe-
 fanse of his action. The resolution re- cites the salient facts In that great
 fagedy in the senator's life. and recom-
 mends that the executive council be in
 structed to obtain bronze tablet boar
 ing a bust figure of Ross, with an ap-
 propriate inscription, to be placed Tn
 nroursatine s25o for the same.
 Renresentatiye LambertSon is quoted
 as saving: "EIistorians everywhere
 give Senator Ross credit for prevent Ing the impeachment Of President Johnson They also declare that 1t was a great patriotic duty he performed. and that he is entitled to much oredlt. lstiil. khe fact remains that Senator Ross was ostracized by the people Of Kansas and was forced to seek a homo lin d distant part of the country Now we should right the wrong.
 Though tardy In taking up the mai . ter, Kansas would io a gracious . $st' tn Justice, by passing the AAmDertson lfeEolutton,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-07

There were giants in the earth in those days" is the way the Mosaic ac- count refers to the early inhabitants of the earth, and we suppose literal giants were meant. Two recently re- ported discoveries serve to substanti- ate the statement. One is that a skel- eton was unearthed by the recent earthquake at Messina which meas ures nine feet in length. Then comes a report that a human skeleton fifteen feet in length has lately been found in Mexico. Were these some of the inhabitants referred to by the Bible! If so. 1t would be interesting to know how long it has been since they walk ed the earth.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-07
Musical French Politicians.

London Globe.
 The members of the French Cham Der of Deputies include poets. dramat- ists, actors and artists of more-or less eminenee while as regards music. the Chamber contains sufficient talent to form a very creditable orchestra, though a wag might suggest that chamber music would be more ap- propriate. NJ. Moline relieves the te- dium of looking after the agricultural interests of his country by playing the violonce1lo. He would find a very good acompanist in General Picquart. who, 1t is said. Is a better pianist than a Minister of War, M. Clemenceau is not particularly devoted to music; but there is one notable who has been be- fore the public gaz9s lately whom one would least suspect of being a devotee Of the gentle music. It is M. Deibler. or NJ de Paris as he is familiarity known, who performs on the violin with no mean ability when not performing on another instrument.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-07
PRESIDENT ELIOT AND
 HIS SOUTHERN TOUR
Harvard Bulletin.
 PrpsidAOf Eliot

Harvard Bulletin.
 President Eliot leaves Cambridge him through Tennessee f. Arkansas, Texas. Louisiana, Mississippi. Alabama. Georgia, South Carolina, North Caro- lima and Virginia. During the course of his travels he will be able to study the civic. industrial and educational conditions In cities from Nashville to Galveston, from Galveston to Atlanta, and from Atlanta to Richmond. He will visit colleges and universities in Tennessee,, Texas. Louisiana, Alabama. eGorgia, the Carolinas and Virginia He will have therefore an opportunity to learn at first hand conditions in the South from men, leaders In the pro- fessions and in business. who are de: along the line.
 President Eliot's excursion Is only another piece of evidence of the grow ing interest over the entire country their recent rapid development. One result of the Spanish War, as has fre- quently been observed, was to bring the North and South and West Into sympathy and understanding. The soiourn of Mir. SIft and President Eliot In the South willi do much 10 make thls community of interest, be- gun ten years ago, closer and dernite-
 It is indeed, especially ntting that the President of Harvard University, a typical product of New England. should include among his last omcial duties a visit to the South. for in spite times seemed to keep New England and the Southern States irreyoeably apart, they have always had for one another a profound interest and re heroic cooperation in theedays of the revolution. And, furthermore the re-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-07

- N-. ssr: ss. ss,. s..s ss.: ana ana ts ss:s s No Hnrvard man can feel . stranger many soutbernsfs who have been and msrest glance at the iist Of Harvard men who served in the forces Of the names; the Lees. and washingtone of stts. and Rhssts he s'G os South casoiina: Atn the Eustises Of Mfssissfppi, the LAbouisses of Lcuisienas and many others. all have. q friendly and familiar ring 70 sensrsticn % % forget Hau the esn ssrvicss ice tc the bnivsrsity of Edward Henry strebsi Of South Carolina, of David 0ofdon Lyon of Alabama. and Of Crawford ence exercised in Various parts of the South for many years by William Car rott Brown of Alabama, by Robert F; Msados Of georsIs, bya Day,d s:i 1. 2: z. E. Mezes of Texas, by John s, Bryan of Virginia. by Edward !. Sanford of Tennessee. by Augustus E. wiilson of Kentucky by the three Cansedernts Benjamin Morgan Hsrrod and Carleton Hunt of Louisiana, and by the scores of younger men who are doing admir- abie. work wherever there is work to
 Among the many difacuis problems which the South has had to solve. .per- haps the most difacult IS the problem of education. In this subject President Eliot Is recognized as the leading aus thority in America. His Interest Is equally keen in municipal government, in which the South has made such notable experiments. and In the prob Iems presented by labor end capital. President Eliot. however. does not 70 to Texas or to Georgia or 10 virginia to preach on these subjects He goes to observe. to, study, to learn, and to help, if his help be needed and asked tinguished representative of the civtli- zatfon Of New England and of Harvard; but he goes 70 the South, not prirllar- fly as New EngIander or as liar. citizens of America devoted to the cause of education and 10 the many complex problems of the American people.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-07


 ferings. the endurancs. the ssif-sacri- Aces and the heroism of the Women of the confederacy.. None but those whose active iives formed part of the history of those wondrous days can realise or even imagine what hard lot, mentally and physicaiiy the wo. men endured during those troubIous years. Hardly . woman of that time could be found who had not one or more loved ones in the ranks Of the great gray army. Fathers and sons, husbands and brothers we're away. and the women could do nothing but wait In continual fear and dread that each succeeding day might bring to then, the heart-breaking news that one whom they dearly loved had gone down to glorious death. It was . time when bad news came each day to women. telling them of a Bereavement for which there was no compensation.
 And mental suffering was not all they endured. nor can the people of the North fully understand or appre- ciats all the privations through which our women passed in those days. While 1t is true that there were in- conveniences and perhaps want in some cases in the North. 1t was only 1.-the of what was so widespread in the confederacy that it was almost universal. Many q Confederate soi- dier's wife suffered grievously for want of the actual necessaries of life. Many soldiers wife or widow saw the pinched faces of hungry children pleadingly appealing to her for the food she as poweriess to give them. Thousands and thousands of delicate women whose lives had been lives of ease and plenty were compelled to do mans work in field and elsewhere in order to keep the wolf of starvation from the door.
 Yes, 1t Is we'll that monuments be erected to the Women of thp confed- eracy. There has been too much delay in this respect already. As the veter- ans who fought are dropping off on every hand. so the women whose rec ord for endurance and sacrifice has never been equalled are also going to their long homes. Soon there will be none of them left and those who are wei with ua should have their hearts gladdened by the knowledge that they are not forgotten. While no monu- ment that can be designed or erected can fully do honor to the noble wo- men Of the times made glorious by their endurance and the mems hero ism. 1t is right and proper that all should be done that can be accomp- lIshed. South Carolina is proposing to do what eJery other Confederate State should do.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-07
tsstsrs 10 ths Edissr
Troy. ss'ss Ala. 2. Fss. 5. isos.

Troy. Ala. Feb. '. isos.
 Win Win you ou anosr'ns,' allow ms to make a few commsnts on your editorial under the sspsaon e. 4 .Assoanding Dseresss in cesn- gun nss y sss~ssn sams shss the 'ss ssisesoPs of January. 1908. and 1909. being e2 per esnt. From . financial point cf view it is q heavy loss. but where is
 ms snff ,s gSu'd sow n i the re o crime and disgrace Eor even that large sum. Then think of t. MT. Editor. that money that is paid out for the ot of fhe st ssies the Drss on " drnRs 10 enormous. andssthen when. we iuok we don't see thing to show Tor money thus spent. but on the other hand the man is drunk he loses time. health. money, friends and his good name, credit, 'and everything worth living
 The best of all about this revenue license and liquor Is now left in the pockets of the people to be put to so much better use. So don't grieve about q great saving. for the license money and the money that 1t would take to buy the liquor win all be left with the people to be put to good use. ,,..,... drinkers to have. to pay enough to make 1t possible for the liquor dealers to pay such vast sums for a license privilege to sell liquor, then the liquor is still to pay for. Joseph Bell.
 tNotwithstanding the. fact that The Advertiser has published no editorial whatsoever on the decrease of reve. nues by means of prohibition and not. withstandiug the fact that The Ad- vertiser has already printed q similar letter to the one above from Mir. Bell. his second letter is published.
 Noting for only a moment the fai. lacy of Mir. Be1iss zeal and position, it Is to be observed that the municipal, county and State governments must go on. The expense must pc met somehow. The cost must be paid in observed that estimating Mir. Beli's rhetoric at it's full value, he offers no solution of an economical and govern. mental Questfon.--Ed. Adyertfser.)
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-07
In Respect of . CuriOus speclea.

= AA keeskSSe SA S~~S~@
 Why is 1t that gentlemen i.laying,' for other gentlemen, or more Eo1ten It is only one gentleman that Is being yariabiy, travel in .pairs7
 Now there was the case of Mr. Oscar Hammerstein: not one but two gentle men proceeded to wait on him at the Which n thew manassd to do with emi- Inent success. When, in an earlier and more serious case, the two Coopers met MT. Carmack In Memphis and MT. car9Ss sSs ,o wss cOonera eIsH were together MT. Carmack. like Mr. Hsmmerstein: Iwaa alone, When the two sons os Iof The Montgomery Advertiser, Mir. lCylass was met by the two young lComers---and again the heating up was a complete succesa. except Tor paltry fine of sls; which was Iss regptISSc tSS Iyoung Corners had is considered.
 It is an interesting question TOT or specuiation: Who do these affairs or
 rssent" rU"vrt indiEnities I offered to them selves or to members of their families, almost invariably result in one gen tleman being assaulted or shot oy two have been traveting in a pair all day ficuity.'
 believe that tho two were trying to make sure of the one. or even to hazard line thought that the two gentlemen were afraid singly to tackle the one, Ito ayenge these insults to their honor,' lare not made of that kind of stuff. FsWho's afraid?'' It must be that these duplex fighters are simply peculiar fly gregarlous species of the human genus. That's all