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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1909-05-19
CAPT. HAMS is SENTENCED.
Eight to rftcen Years i'm Peniten-
tiary for the Officer,

Flushing, n. Y, May 17.--Capt.
Peter G. Hams was to-day sentenced
to serve an 'rdeterminate sentence
for the killing of William e. Annis.
The sentence reads: "At hard labor
in State prison."
Hams counsel moved for a new
trial on the gro and that the verdict
was against the weight Of the evil
dence and contrary to law. The court
denied the motion. The question of
jurisdiction was also raised, which
the court declined to consider.
Hams seemed dazed when called
to the bar for sentence. The judge
said the defendant had had fair
trial and was ably defended and
that the jury found verdict COM
mensurate with the requirements of
the law.
Gen. Gains and Major John p.
Hams, father and brother of the
prisoner, who were in court, dts
played much emotion when the cap
tain was sentenced. Hams was given
"a hours in which to file an appeal
and was remanded to the custody Of
the sheriff.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1909-05-19
NEWS FROM WESTMINSTER.
Town i'm ThrOcs of Commencement
Time-Personnls- Hero.
(By A. l.. Gossett.)

Westminster, May 18.--Special:
Special services were held in the
Presbyterian church Sunday morn
ing, the occasion being the COM
mencemcnt sermon delivered before
the Westminster High School by
Rev. w. A. Massabau, of Greenville
Rev. Massabau chose for his theme
''The School of Christ" basing his
remarks on Matthew 1929: Take
my yoke upon you and learn of me. "
His sermon was able and edifying
and was listened to with rapt atten-
tion by the large audience during
the 45 minutes of its delivery. Mr..
Massabau said in part: "By a close
reading Of the Gospels we find that
those who listened to the words Of
Jesus were amazed. The notes of
authority and the personality of the
Lord Jesus Christ had a marvellous
effect and influence on the minds Of
the multitudes. The perfect mind,
and the perfect mind alone, can set
the standard in the realms of the
good. 1t was not His methods, but
His notes Of authority, that had the
marvellous effect upon the multi
tudes as a great teacher in the school
of character. There are certain OBJ
this school. The scholar will have
to lay aside his prejudices and will
have to 60 to a higher source to find
the truth. When the truth has been
discovered he will have to have cour-
age to stand by 1t. If ! was going
$to become a lawyer | would not go to
Va doctor to study law, but If | wished
Fto become proficient ! would find
some master Of the profession and
sit. at his feet. If a boy wants to
make great character let him go
to the Master Of Truth, the Lord
Jesus Christ, who speaks with au-
thority. Take my yoke upon you
and learn Of me- Light will then
become more effulgent and will glow
in the pathway. l shall never forget
the modest and unassumin@ master
of village school | attended when
a boy. | shall never be able to esti-
mate what | owe to that modest
3man. Whatever l have accomplished
Fin life is due to that humble teacher
He moved to one State and | moved
to another. The earthly ties of
teachers and scholars must be
broken. When the scholar enters
the school Of Christ the Great
Teacher, and sits at His feet, there
becomes a relationship that will not
he broken through life. In success
and in disappointment he still fol-
lows the Lord Jesus Christ, and will
lind peace and pardon in this life,
ana N the life which is TO come,
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1909-05-19
Young Girls are Victims

of headache, as we'll as older women,
but all get quick relief and prompt
cure from DR.. Kings New Life Pills,
the worlds best remedy for sick and
nervous headaches. They make pure
blood, and strong nerves and build
up your health. Try them. 25c. at
all druggists.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1909-05-19

white head cabbage on Sunday, May
9th. Mr.. Simpson has a very fine
strawberry patch. and he is furnish
ing our housekeepers with some
mighty nice berries these days.
Thomas Wiley returned this week
from visit to his youngest son,
j. II. Wiley, of Greenville. Young
Mr.. Wiley was married In Green"ille
on Easter Sunday to Miss Annie Diz-
zler, of that city.
Miss Bessie Simpson, who has been
assisting Miss Allie Stribling in the
Providence school, is at home, the
term having closed.
Toccoa defeated Westminster in a
match game Of base ball, played at
the former city on May 10, by the
score of 8 to 6.
Frank H. Shirley, of Anderson,
was in town this week, to the de-
| light of his many friends. This was
| Mr.. Shirley's first visit here since
January.
Mrs. ]. v. johnson and little
daughter, OF South Georgia, arrived
| Friday and will spend some weeks
with Mrs. Maggie Adams and other
relatives. Mrs. Johnson Is remem-
bered as Miss Eva Adams.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hazel Smith return
ed Wednesday from their bridal trip
to Cross Hill and are occupying their
new residence.
,, Miss jamie Gaines, of Townville,
was the guest OF Mrs. j. S. Carter
last week.
Mrs. Belle Myers, of Atlanta, is
visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
:. j. Haley.
Protracted services commence in
the Methodist church Sunday even
ing, May 80. Rev. J. l.. Singleton
| will be assisted by Rev. J. II. Graves,
of Clemson.
w. p. Anderson leaves tomorrow
| for Savannah to attend the General
Assembly of the Presbyterian church,
which convenes in that city May 20.
States l.. Hunter sold 60 gallons OF
| strawberries last week. He thinks
his sales will reach near $50 this
year.
Mesdames W. NJ. Peden and II. G.
| T2den arc at Lavonia, Ga, for the
commencement exercises Of the La
vonia High School. Miss Hattie Ma
son graduates tonight.
Mrs. Charles Traylor and little
babe arrived yesterday from Jack
| sonville, Fla, and will spend some
time with Mr.. and Mrs. G. w. Tray
| lor.
Capt. J. A. Cook, Of Madison, was
in town yesterday.
Ross Mitchell, who has been run
ming saw mill at Modoc for the
| past few months, is in town. He
| took his family there when he left
| Westminster, but with the intention
of moving back in the summer.
Thos. o. Parker went to Cedar
| town, Ga, yesterday for the purpose
! Of looking after the shipment Of the
machinery for the ice facotry.
Miss Myrtle Zimmerman will re-
! turn home to-day from Lexington,
| Ky, where she has been student i'm
| the ampbell-Hagerman College.
Miss Myrtle has been away from
| home since September, and her re-
| turn will be the source Of great plea
sure to all her friends and relatives.
j. A. Collins is moving to Ander-
! son to-day.
Mrs. \. Zimmerman, who has been
at Sewaunee, Tenn, the past four
| weeks, is expected home to-day or
! tomorrow.
Miss Mary Reeder is at Lavonia
| for commencement.
A. b. Weathersbee, of Barnwell, is
| with Carter's Pharmacy
Mrs. r. Galloway has returned
from Atlanta, and will put on big
sale of hats, flowers and ribbons next
week. Look out for her ad.
Young Girls are Victims
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1909-05-19

An old chair can be refinished and
made to match other furniture by
applying one coat of Campbell's VAR
nish Stain. Any one can use it and
do good work. Carter Hardware Co.
'sellS 1t.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-08
RATES.:

times interchanging productions, hu'
generally keeping them distinct-an
average of twenty plays a season. This
season the number is much larger, but
ceaseless activity has been twenty.
"A regiment of plays, written by
regiment of authors, working in as
many moods and fancies! These bound
manuscripts extend over the entire
gamut of playwriting-all down the
line from musical comedy and farce to
straight comedy, drama and tragedy.
Not all of them have been successes
far from it. Charles Frohman con-
siders himself lucky if he succeeds in
six cases out of ten. There have been
seasons where he has scored eight
out of ten, which is the highest at
tainable average for a manager that
attempts twenty or more productions
in a season.
Mr. F'rohman frankly says that the
successes are not all good plays nor
the failures bad ones. In fact he does
not at all divide them into good plays
and bad If play fails he takes the
failure in good part; it is all in the
days work-so long as it fails right"
with himself, the author and the ac-
tors all doing their best. 1T is when Il
playwright goes wrong and Mr.. Froh-
man goes wrong that he feels both
must pull themselves up.
A right wrong"-in the sense Of
popular failure, when all hands con-
cerned gave of their best selves to the
endeavor-is only another reason FOL
fresh endeavor. But wrong wrong
in the sense of popular failure when
all hands are not keeping to their
best standards-is a very different mat
ter.
In these terse phrases Charles Froh
man states the whole philosophy of
theatrical management.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-08
"IN ,DREAMLAND."

Starting out like a ten-twenty-
thirty melodrama, In Dreamland
ended last night in a manner that
SURPRISED even the most sangulne
Those who left at the end of the first
act were justified in doing so by what
they saw, for the premier spasm OF
the show was as poor as cou be
imagined. But in the second Things
warmed up, and the third act was
good. Very good, one might say.
The fantasies of mems mind In
dream formed the basis of the show.
1t was a play, not unlike in theory
"a Message From Mars" Its theme
was much the same. that of showing
Sc fish, erring mortal the error of MS
ways, through superhuman agency.
And it succeeded in much the same
way 1t has not the power that mas
"A Message From Mars" neither was
the cast as good as that seen here
in the other play, but it was enjoy
abe, to say the least. Besides snow
ing selfishness, it showed how out
landish are some of our customs,
when viewed apart from ourselves.
Emmett Dewey as Bob Hammond
was quite good and took his part
well He surely ought to, for ne
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-08
Facts About Orchestras.

The Philharmonic Orchestra of New
York which has existed since 1912 has
been reorganized, under the leadership
of Gustav Mailer. The business basis
is a Guarantee fund This orchestra
under the name of the Philharmonic
society has hitherto been managed OH
a cooperative plan, by which the play
ers were members of the society and
shared in the profits. It's history is a
remarkable one. but cannot be entered
into here
The orchestra founded in 1878 by DR..
under the name of the New York Sym
phony society, with Walter Dam
rosch as leader. Forty guarantors
subscribe to the guarantee fund for a
term of six years. The orchestra con-
home, but on tour it is reduced 20 be-
tween IS and 70. About fifty concerts
are given III New 10TH anu bioohiy Il
1t is interesting to know that now
Minneapolis, ST. Louis, Seattle and
Walla Wlalla have orchestras. In Sc
attic the players so far are not paid.
In Walla Walla the director of the
orchestra, as we'll as the players are
not paid, all working for art for arts
sake
The seventh orchestra concert of the
symphony will be given at German1a
hall, Tuesday evening, December a.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-08

spread of literature by a summary ar
rest. There was very little talk be-
tween policeman and prisoner on the
way TO the police station. Each was
confident of his rights in the case.
Each disdained to enlighten the other.
The first was, as usual, acting under
ond. Paste, paper and paperer were
quickly hurried away to the station
and there as quickly lined up in front
of the desk sergeant. Then ensued
what sounded like four or five sides
from the manuscript of a vaudeville
sketch
Don't you know this is against the
law" asked the sergeant, with a
thoroughly official glare.
Yes" answered the paste singer
"Well, you haven't got a permit.
have you?" asked the sergeant
YES" was the surprising answer.
who told you you could post this
paper"
Detective Sparkes" answered the
bill man.
Never heard of him." answered the
sergeant.
well, you will before you die" was
the grinning rejoinder.
What precinct is he in?" continued
the sergeant, in the base possibility
that some undreamed of influence
might be behind the bill posters bold
front.
But upon this point the stolid silence
of the prisoner was too much for the
sergeant, who stepping into another
room, quietly called up Police head
quarters and asked for Detective
Sparkes.
Don't know him, must be a new
man." was the disquieting answer.
Nov, see here, you tell me VINO
this Detective Sparkes is or I'll lock
you up" roared the sergeant at the
still grinning bill poster.
It's all right; here he is answered
the bill poster. And at that. New
York's greatest big little manager,
William Newman of the arrick thea
ter, entered the station ready with
bail for his over-zealous employee.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-08
GOING AWAY
DR.. Darrin Announces Leav.
ing W ALA Walla First
of Next Week.
Positively the Last Chance to Consult
This Successful Specialist

Only a few days more remain for
the afflicted of this vicinity to avail
themselves of the skilled services of
the well known specialist, DR.. OAR
rim, who has announced that he will
positively close his offices in the Hotel
State next Sunday, Dec. 9TH, and re-
turn to his head office on the Sound,
where he is permanently located.
1t is not by any means too late to
have free consultation and to treat
with DR.. Darrin, for the reason that
he has a successful method of home
treatment for those who have been
unable to place themselves under of
flee treatment, whereby the suffering
may be favored with his latest modes
of cure, which in many instances give
instantaneous relief and soon effect
a permanent restoration to health,
which includes building up and reor-
ganizing the whole constitution. I'M
der this system of treatment the doc
tor keeps in constant touch with his
patients by correspondence until each
case is cured.
No matter what the nature. of the
disease or ailment, no man or woman
should hesitate longer to avail them
selves of the advice or services of this
successful specialist.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-08
AnuSenlentS
"The Third Degree"

1.-THE Third Degree" the latest play
by the author of 1.-The Lion and the
Mouse" comes to this city on the 18th
of December fresh from a run Of sew
en- months at the Hudson theater New
York, where under the management OF
Henry B. Harris.
Charles Klein, the author has en-
deavored to present series of stage
pictures dealing with certain social
conditions that have for years attracted
the attention of thinkers, and by
reason of the powerful story built
around certain poignant situations,
most interesting play is the result.
To begin WITH the story deals with
a crime, which by reason of the quick
and impulsive judgment of the police
heads, results in fastening the guilt
on an innocent man. Finding that they
must make good their first suspicious,
they bend every effort to the one end
the fastening of the chains of their
victim. The methods of the police de-
partment, together with the powerful
influence Of the press, are wildly
shown. For the first time in any play
the audience IS treated to a series OF
photographs for the actual working Of
the detective department of a large
oif al iCfi
were the workings of powerful finance
and political bodies shown in ''The
Lion and the Mouse" so are the meth
DDS employed by the police depart
ment discussed even in more vivid
and interesting manner.
Running throughout the play is g
delicate love story of such beautiful
character that it must appeal to all
by reason of it's virility and vitality.
The worth of a woman is shown as
help mate to her husband how valu-
able she is to any man when she lends
ment of character, and her power to
detect the false from the true, even
though skllfully and adroitly hidden.
A cast of superior excellence has
been engaged, which includes Paul Ev-
erton, Fernando Eliscu, T. l.. Coleman,
A. H. Summons, Francis Bonn, e. A.
Eberle, Alfred Moore, H. H. Forseman,
Ralph Ramsay, and Margaret Drew.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-08
Saved BY a Name.

Great excitement was caused at the
Fifty-first street police station, New
York, lately by the arrest of a clever
bill poster who nearly, escaped deten-
ton by the ingenious ruse of laying his
wrongdoings at police headquarters.
With paste bucket, brush and paper
he was working with a will providing
that staid residential section with
enough reading matter to last 1,
through the winter, when a blue-coat-
ed public guardian interrupted the
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-08
Novel Ending to "Arsene Lupin."

William Courtenay as the thief in
Arsene Lupin'' the detective play now
being performed at the Lyceum the
alter, builded better than he intended
at recent performance by sending
Sidney Herbert, who plays Guerchard,
the detective, up an elevator that did
not pretend to, but really did stick
between floors. The use of an actual
elevator that runs from the cellar OF
the Lyceum theater to half way up the
proscenium arch, occurs in the last
act of "Arsene Lupin.'' In accordance
with the drift Of the play the detec-
tive is supposed to be decoyed into
the elevator and sent up instead of
down Considerable trouble was eX-
perienced with the elevator during re-
hearsals, but since the first perform
ance it has worked smoothly until late
ly. The other night it was sent up as
usual with Sidney Herbert as the de-
tective, but the trouble was that it
remained up for the balance of the
performance The play thereby was
given an ending not intended by the
authors and much less by Charles
Frohman.
The audience, at first perplexed at
the unexpected sight of an entirely
empty stage, soon realized what had
really happened. The murmur that went
over the house rapidly became a laugh
and finally into the beginnings of a
rough house. The stage was quickly
crowded by a crew Of stage hands
dushing to the rescue of the i'm
prisoned Mr.. Herbert, who indeed
pounded the floor of the elevator, as ne
is supposed to do. but that night he
pounded in vain, although displaying
great realistic fervor. In the confu-
sion of the moment the stage manager
forgot to ring down the curtain, so
rare delight of seeing a great detective
rescued from an obstinate elevator by
means of an ordinary theater ladder.
The mechanism of the elevator, which
has been pretty much of the hand
made variety, will forthwith be changed
so that going up will mean what 1t
says and going down. will happen
when desired.
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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-08
A REGIMENT of Plays.

Four hundred plays, all bound in
rich morocco and occupying six shelves
of a bookcase that stands. just to the
right of the great roll-top desk in the
Charles Frohman's private office, are
of our only international manager. 1t
was only the other day when the man
uscript of John Drew's new play,
"Inconstant George, came back from
the binders, that Mr. Frohman himself
realized how many plays he has
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Since his first success, shenandoah" :,
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CITY TREASURER's NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that the as
sessment roll for Local Improvement
District No. SO, under the provisions
of Ordinance No. 1874 of the City Of
Walla Walla, entitled IAN Ordinance
levying a tax to pave, gutter, curb and
improve Isaacs avenue from the North
westerly line of East Main street to
the East inc of Bellevue avenue, the
same being Local Improvement Dis
trict No. SO and providing for the is
sue and sale of local Improvement
bonds on said district to pay there
for" is now in my hands for collec-
ton and that any assessment therein
may be paid at any time within thir-
ty days from the date of the first
publication of this notice without pen
atty, interest or COSTS also that each
property owner is hereby notified that
the first installment of each assess
ment is due and payable at the Of
flee of the City Treasurer on the 3rd
day of January 1910.
All property owners interested are
hereby notified to appear at my Of
flee in the City Hall and pay the
r. G. PARKS,
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First publication in Evening States
man Dec. 3. 1909; last publication
Dec. 10, 1909.
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Walla Wdlla Passenger Train
Schedule
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NORTHERN PACIFIC r. E.
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DAYTON. Waitsburg (Mixed) 3 80 p. NJ.
Eureka and Pleasant View, Sunday
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ATriCdls From
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DAYTON and Waitsbdrg (Mixed) 0 100 A. M.
Eureka and Pleasant View, Sunday
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Departures For Time
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oyrop, PomerOy, Colfax and Spc-
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ArriCdts FROM
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wrote the part to suit himself. His
support was fair. The scenic effects
were good, and in the last two acts
the novelties of the supernatural
world were interesting and quite
c.ever. Incidental v, the show takes
a fall out of spiritualism, which seems
to be its main object and excuse
But aside from that. and eaving that
contention out of the question. it
went well, although the house was
light.