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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1909-01-06
Bcncvolcncc of Red Cross.

Washington, Jan. IA prominent
Red Cross official late this afternoon
announced that 100000 will be ca
bled tomorrow to Italy for the earth.
quake sufferers. Seventy thousand
dollars was cabled there to-day.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1909-01-06
Oconee Station Box Supper Success

Oconee Station, Dec. 2S.-Special:
The pound supper given at the school
house on December 10th was a sue
cess In every particular. A large
crowd was present. All seemed to
enjoy themselves very much. The
neat sum of $12.25 was raised. This
amount will be used in the interest
of the school. We want to thank the
people for their attendance and libe-
raj patronage. j. H. l..
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1909-01-06

Torturing eczema spreads its
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stantly relieves the itching, cures 1t
permanently. At any drug store.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1909-01-06

Woman loves a clear, rosy COM
pleXion. Burdock Blood Bitters
purifies the blood, clears the skin,
restores ruddy, sound health.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1909-01-06
A Guarantee.

This is to certify that all
druggists are authorized to re-
fund your money if Foley's
Honey and Tar fails to cure
your cough or cold. Contains
no opiates. The genuine is in a
yellow package. REFUSE SUBSTITUTES
j. w. BELL, Walhalla.
Stonecypher Drug Co., Westminster.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1909-01-06
FoleY$
Honey
and Tar

Will cure a cough or cold no
matter how severe and prevent
pneumonia and consumption.
The Newtown bee., 1909-11-12
The Newtown Bee
 Newtown, Friday, Nov l2, 1909.
9asbinSr0A
MRS JOHN M. BLACK.

MtD JotiN Mt hi4htiA'
 ' Entered into rest on monday, October IS, Arminta Doty, wife Of the late John M, Black, aged sf years. A kind, thoughtful and true friend, a loving mother, a faithful and cheery house mother and home maker, she will long be missed by a large circle of friends, who always found warm welcome when they could come and visit at her home and those wno could not come to her will remember the many bouquets Of choice flowers and dainty bits sent to cheer the sick and s0rrowing and the deeds are as long as she was able to take an active part in life. Since the four score mark was reached cares were more of burden and since the death of her husband, some l7 months ago, she has been more or less of an invalid, What higher tribute can be given to friend than what can be so truly said of her those who knew her best loved her best. She leaves two sors by for mer marriage, w. Frank Kinney Of New Milford and Myron w. Kinney of Waterbury, and two grand chil- dren, Frank and Gladys Kinney. Her oldest son, Wixon, died in the Civil War. Her youngest son, George H. Black, only child of MT and Mrs Black, died IS years ago, aged 25 years-just as he had finished his education and was prepared to take up his lfe's work. His death was mourned to the last by both MT and Mrs Black.
 MISS FLEWELLYN--MR BEVERLY
 The nome of 4ur and Mrs George Flewellyn was the scene of pretty wedding on Wednesday, October 27, at 12 o'clock noon, when their only daughter, Coca Amelia. was lnited in marriage to Frank P. Beverly. The parlor was tastefully trimmed in autumn leaves. The bride and groom entered the room to the strains of Mendelssohn's we'd ding march, taking their places be- meath the wedding bell suspended among the decorations. Rev Robert E. Carter performed the marriage service and MT and Mrs Beverly re- ceived congratulations from all pres ent. A wedding dinner was served and mirth and good cheer followed until the bride and groom left for the afternoon train amid shower of rice, old shoes and the wishes of their friends that their life might be as bright and beautiful as the day was fair. The wedding gown was of white net over white and she carried white flowers. The going away gown was of brown. The gifts were both pretty and useful including silver, china, linen and handsome Mission clock. On their return they will live for the present with Mrs Beverly's parents, MT and Mrs Flewellyn.
 Mrs R. E. Dodge gave an enjaoy- able luncheon on Wednesday last, in viting the ladies for a social after noon. that they might meet her mother, Mrs James Dalton, also Mrs Ross of Sheboygan, Wis, who were her guests. We are pleased to note that Mrs Dalton, having lately dis posed of her home in Brattleboro, Vt., will make her home here with her daughter for the present,
The Newtown bee., 1909-11-12
Bethlehem.
WITNESSED THE PLAY "OLD
 HOMESTEAD"

WITNESSED THE PLAY "OLD
 HOMESTEAD"
 Among the people that attended the play, "Old Homestead," in Wat erbury, last week, were MT and Mrs J. w. Flynn, John Hollenback, Miss Ruth Hollenback, Miss Ina M. Lake, F. P. Hayes, l.. w. Bennett, Clark Bennett and Fred Judd. On his way home J. w. Flynn found a team near John Hollenback's, and on eXamina- tion found it the one that Fred Judd and Clark Bennett had driven to Watertown and left under a shed. Judd and Bennett did not find their team where they had left it and sup posing it had been stolen called Sheriff Peck up to help locate the team. They spent the night in Wat ertown and returned home next day. Moral: The extra time and money spent looking for team would pay several livery bills
 RECEPTION TO EX-REPRESENTA-
 TIVE o. C. HILL.
 Last week Friday evening about 50 of the friends of MT and Mrs o. c. Hill gathered at their home to give them a farewell reception, as they are soon to reside at 38 Willow Street, waterbury, where MT Hill will engage in dealing in antique furniture, china and other things. MT Hill has been in the business for several years and has large collec- tion of things now on hand. He will employ an assistant in the repairing department of his business. LET THE TAX PAYERS TURN OUT
 A special town meeting has been warned for Saturday, November 13, at 2 p. m.. for considering the appli- cation for state aid in improving our highways. It is a question of i'm portance and the taxpayers should get out to the meeting.
 TO PREACH FROM DR BELLAMY'S
 OLD PULPIT.
 Rev MT Maddox will preach next Sunday in the morning from the Bel lamy pulpit. Subject, "PulLits, An cient and Modern"
 Miss Bessie Green is spending a few days in town, among her many friends.
 Mrs Emma Judson Thompson has returned from a visit of several days with her sister, Mrs Frank H. Thom- as, in Woodbury. l
 MT and Mrs H. I. Smith of Mid dlebury spent a night, last week, with MT Smiths parents. MT and Mrs Smith will soon go to New York state to conduct a large boarding house.
The Newtown bee., 1909-11-12
Shermau.

Mrs Daniel B. Mallory returned, Monday night, after a visit of six weeks duration at Darien Center and Phelps, N. Y.
 Miss Lillian Mallory is at Phelps, N. r., where she is managing a mill linery business for lady there.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-01

hot. It is rpon this sedge trat the farm CTS family sit during the daytime, and there, sDravled ont side by side they sleep nt night. The houses are almost all small, but many have outbuildings which are Esed for the donkeys and ponies.
 The Orchids of Msnchuris.
 Among the villages. rising high over the houses. are many ragged trees filled with great punches of what at first thought were crows nests. Every tree we saw was full Of such nests: and I asked Director Chan as to the birds which made them. He replied:
 Those are not nests: they are punches of mistletoe. and air-plant which grows all over Napchuria- You will find thou sands Of such punches In every part Of the country. They are very destructive. and are even worse for the trees than are the orchids of tropical clirnes Indeed. they are the orchids Of Msncnuria-"
 Coming closer. I had 2 chance to ex- anime these trees. The mistletos punches are scattered all over them, and their yellow and red berries may be seen shin ing out Of the green. No rosy-cheeke0 American belle would dare 10 wander about fin Manchuria. She would be under the rnistietoe half the time, and her lips would surety wear out.
 At another place we stopped al a grain stack to watch the farmers thrash out the sorghum seed. They took the canes from the stack and cut on the heads and laid them on thrasfing floor. A stone roller, hauled by mule vas then driven round and round over the seeds until they were crushed of the stalks. The refuse was then winnowed in the wind and th. stalks were piled up for fuel Before ths seed is ready for food it must be again ground to get off the h1lls. Sorghum grain Is the staple diet Of the Nanchu It is the rice. wheat. corn and meat Of the people. The grain srows everywhere, and that on stalks twice as high as a man Indian corn grows equally well.
 Manchuria's New Farm School.
 Passing onward through scenes like these, we at last reached the school If consists of number of one-ztory brick buildings surrounding large court. in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-01

the fields after the crop is harvested They pull very stalk, leaving mother earth naked and the land as bare as your hand. This has been done from generation to generation, and twithstanding all this the soil is still rich
 Among the Parma.
 We drove about a mile from the hots, before we reached the city wall. This is 30 feet high. 1t has a great gate on the side of the town near which the farm lies. We wound our way out through this. and then went perhaps two miles further, passing many low tiled houses, until we reached the mud wall which incloses the suburbs. We were soon in the country and In the midst of such farming as is common in central Man ohurta. The fields have no fences, and their boundaries are marked only by stones The roads which cut their way right through the farms look more like ditches than roads, and turn this way and that across country. Now our droschxy was tilted at an angle of 45 degrees, and now we bounced high as we went over the drains crossing the roadway We frequently passed between great ditches, and I was told that the farm CTS dug them to keep the traffic from cutting out into the fields and destroy ing their crops
 I asked where were the houses and barns and was pointed to a farm vil- lage which stood on a little hill of by itself. The Manchus do not live on their farms. They herd together in villages of mud houses, and go out to the fields. There are no barns, in our sense of the word; and neither hay nor straw stacks About some of the settlements one sees ricks of sorghum cane and piles of bean stalks. Such stuff Is often corded up on the roofs and sometimes against the walls
 This stuff is not intended for food. It Is the wood and coal of the farmer All the heating of the home is done by the kang, sort of a ledge two feet high which fills one part of room, and which has series of f1ues beneath 1t. Theee fiues are heated by the kitchen fire. little bundle of straw or cornstalks send the aamss running through the dues. and make the brick ,edge quire
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-01
By Frank C. Carpenter


that the rows are never plowed straight. They wind their way over the fields with all the regularity of the undulations of a marcel wave. They are perfectly parallel and beautifully winding, but never straight Upon my asking Tartar farm CT why this was he replied that one could get more grain from a field of crooked rows than from one of straight ones.
 An Agricultural Empire.
 Few people have Any idea of the extent of these rich lands of Manchuria The country is enormous and at present not one-fifth of it is under cultivation, and that fifth Is not half farmed Manchuria, all told. covers, more area than ten states the size Of Ipdiaaa. It has more ground that dermany and France. and you could put the United KiRgdofn of Gseat Britain and Ireland into one-half of 1t and there would be lots of room around the edges It Is bigger than all New England, Dela- ware Virginia. Pennsylvania, West vir- ginia and South Carolina combined. It is more than twice as big as Japan, and bigger than the state of Ohio, Indiana, Iowa. Illinois. Wisconsin and Minnesota put together. This enormous territory has rivers running north and south. It has stream as big as the Mississippi, and, on the whole, 1t is fairly well wa tered. Professor Parker tells me that the grain area is probably as large as Iowa.
 
 crops will grow much farther north here than in the United States. Wheat sown in April natures six weeks sooner than that sown in the like attitudes at home. It is the same with Indian corn, which is ripe by September 1, or about two weeks earlier than in the United States.
 The soy bean does not grow at its best in our country above the cotton belt. Here in Manchuria 1t thrfves in such lat itudes as St. Paul and Winnipeg, and 1t is raised in great quantities.
 They are producing tobacco here as far north Canada, and the experts of the American Tobacco company say that if 1t were properly grown the tobacco would be as good as that of Virginia It is believed that the southern part of Manchuria will produce cotton. so that altogether this is potentially one of the richest lands upon earth. That it is not so today Is largely due to bad govern ment. bad transportation and ignorant farming, all of which evils will probably be remedied in the not distant future
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-01

, 1t. The hogs are the scavengers. They are seldom fed, and they root about through the mud and filth, eating all I sorts of vile stuff. As a result, they are black-bristled, -stomached, small-hammed. hungry looking anl- mals. They are much like our razor backs, but their flesh is by no means so good. They are very prolific, hav- ing from 12 to IA pigs at litter: and by cross breeding might be turned into excellent stock.
 The Bread Basket of Asia.
 As the result of long conversations with Messrs. Parker and Tomhave, and Of the greatest and most valuable sec. tions of undeveloped farm lands of the world lies right here. The whole of Manchuria has climate and soil fitted for good cultivation. and it will raise inconceivab1e supplies of wheat, corn and all sorts of hardy grains. The soil of the greater part of the province is just like the prairies of the Mississippi valley. Much of 1t compares well with the best parts of the wheat belt of Canada, and not little in it's fertility will surpass that of the Red river val ley. The country has some mountain ous regions; but there are wide val leys and rolling plains, so rich that they need to be only tickled with the
 
 The southern half of Manchuria Is now fairly well settled. Above Mukden the farms are widely scattered and there are huge acras of government land which the authorities are think ing of throwing open to immigrants The two American agricultural ex- perts tell me that they have travelled for days over land as rich as that of any part of America, which is now practically waste. They say the farm ing meth ods are crude that if em- ployed in the United States they would produce practically nothing. Ncverthe- less. the Manchurian land yields from 30 to 50 bushels of sorghum seed per acre. and 20 bushels of wheat. It produces about 50 bush els of corn, and with improved seed and cultivation similar to ours 1t would probably yield as much maize on the average as the corn belt of the United States.
 Where the Wheat To Hood.
 All crops here are planted in rows. just as we plant corn or potatoes. The rows are about IS inches apart and the land is thrown up in furrows each year. In the spring the grain is sown with the hand in tho old furrows of the year preceding, and the blow is then run along the sides to cover 1t. It Is tramped down by the feet of the farmers, and is plowed again and again throughout the summer. In this way the grain has to start from hard ground, which it's roots cannot easily pen citrate. Nevertheless, the crops are good In most places the grain is kept weeded, and in not few wheat and millet are hood as we hoe cotton.
 A curious feature of the farming Is
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-01
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on Long Island sound. All seemed to thrive
 The farm is experimenting on wheat, tobacco and cotton, as well as on othe vegetables and grains. It is raising sugar beets which are IS per cent sugar. This Is 3 or per cent more than Germany's 8 crop, and 1t is thought that the Man churian market may be eventually sup piled by the homegrown material. The difficulty is that the people prefer a cane sugar, and that unrefined.
 Stock Breeding.
 The Mukden authorities are attempting the breeding of fine stock They have several Ayrshire and shorthorn cows and bulls, and are crossing them with the na- tive cattle. They will try to breed better horses, and to imprqye the native hog
 Mir. Parker tells me that the chief cat qe in tids part 6f the world nov come from Mongolia. The motives use the wild prairie sandy uplends as grazing grounds, and also the low aJluvial soils farther down. They breed their cattle in central places where the bulls are kept, and when they have goodly flock drive them from place to place to find pasture. During this time their homes are round tents of hide, which they can set up or take down as they please. When the cattle are ready for the market they drive them to
 
 At the present time there is no great demand for meat in this part of the world. The Chinese live upon grain, vegeta bles and fish. with bit of native pork now and then. The Buddhists do not eat meat at all, and the demand is confined to the Mohammedan Chinese, to the Russians and to such foreigners as come into the country. The price for 6-year-oId steer is only s15 in geld
 The cattle are so poorly kept that 1t takes from six to eight years to fit a steer for the market. instead of three years at home. MT. Parker says that from my own travels over Manchuria, the animals are much like our old Texas long horns. They have large but not heavy frames and on that account they would form an ideal cattle to cross with our Hereford. He says their meat is ex- cellent. resembling the compact flesh of the grass-fed cattle of Montana but not at all like the corn-fed bullocks of Iowa The best markets today as those of Rus sian Siberia. Vladivostock takes consid- erable meat and there is a packing plant there with ammonia coolers and concrete floors. About 5000 cattle are consumed a month at Harbin. and droves are sent overland to Blsgoyestchensk on the Amoor. and also to other Russian stations with large military forces.
 As to the pork of Manchuria. no for eigner eats that if he can possibly help
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-01

1 ings are devoted to the class rooms, labo- l ratories and dormitories of the students, l They are well built. and indeed would be l quite respectable in any of the better l class agricultural schools of America | There are rooms for bacteriological work and plant breeding; and the lecture halls are equipped with maps and diagrams such as are used in the United Sta .es
 At present one-half of the instructors are Chinese, some Of whom have been l educated in America. The other half are Japanese, the latter having been chosen l through the pressure exerted by the Jap anese consul at Mukden.
 Tartar Boys Learning Farming. After s cup of tea Director Chan called in the commandant in charge of the school. and asksd him to put the boys through their drxl in our honor. He did go. There were altogether 15A ranging in age frorl IS to p. The older sf1Idsnts are big. burly fellows, and as they came forth, dressed in their uniforms, they looked strong enough 10 cope with almost any problem. military or farming. At the command of their leader they went through series of gymnastic exercises with as much skill as l have seen in the Japanese schools. and in their march ing they exhibited the goose step after the most improved manner of the German infantry. l understand that a military orill is now taught in all the modern schools about Mukden, so that the edu- cated Manchus will be nation of well trained soldiers.
 Director Chan tells me that the boys are greatly interested in their work. They enter the college for five years, having a preparatory course Of two years, after which comes three-year course in the academy proper. They are not charged for tuition or board. and the matter of entrance is largely by the favor of the after the idea that the institution will soon be advanced to the grade of first class agricultural college. in which in struction will be given by American pro- fessors.
 The Mukoen Experimental Farm.
 Leaving the school, we took d stroll over the farm. This comprises about 300 acres or sS good soil as any in southern Ohio. II has upon 1t mulberry plantations to raise leaves for the silk worms of a de- partment to be started next year. The trees are growing well, and, as wild silk Is already produced in southern Man cnuria, Director Chan thinks that an in- dustry furnishing good silk may be found ed. In another part Of the farm l was snow1 orchards of native fruit trees, to- gsther with several hundreds of apples. pears, peaches and other trees from the United States. There were walnuts from California and grapevines from nursery
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-01
Balm Of cIIead.

From the Philadelphia Bulletin
 The drug had q deiiicous odor. It smelt like a breath of fragrance from grove of sun warmed pines. The druggist said;
 Its a balm of Gilead. the real thing. I import 1t from Syria. It grows on low bush there and you get 1t by tapping. the same as you get turpentine or rubber.
 Balm of Gflead is costly, for the balm bush only yields few drops day in the tapping season Dyspepsia and mel ancholia are the diseases that the balm is usually prescribed for"
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1909-02-06
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Bear, ~ lH1eAihd You Have Always Bought
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The State National Bank of this
city, one of the Repositories of
the States funds, rece y
received it's quota, amounting to
31OO,OOO. The other bank in this
district is at Nap0leOnvi:le. All
bankers are not agreed that this
new system of the State will
prove satisfactory to all parties
concerned. 1t is unprecedented that
it 1t will not be \ desirable deposit,
for the reason that u Will be-
greatest when money will be gen
orally plentiful and It will be called
for when money markets are com.
parativcly bare. Several other
phases MAKE it al account hard
70 handle prOfitably.