Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1910-01-19

the slump in futures. Actual cotton
to-day is as good as gold" futures
to the contrary Notwithstanding.
Nevertheless. while our farmers
are saving wood and saying nothing,
there's big acreage in wheat and
oats In Oconee that looks good to u.s.
Cotton may still be king, but the
farmer Is no longer his slave.
Charles II. Heike Is the diStin-
guished parsonage who has been fig
uring SO prominently in the Ameri-
can Sugar Company fraud cases as
'the man higher up" And now the
Federal Court has hiked him higher
yet.
a correspondent Of the Anderson
Mail, giving the result Of the recent
municipal election in Walhalla,
closes by saying: "The issue was
pig pens 1t may be. therefore, that
the former Mayor and Aldermen will
yet occupy niche in the local tenn
pie Of fame as "the little boys that
the SOW ran over
Nepotism at Clemson is no new
disease. nor is it necessarily fatal,
though somewhat contagious. The
Legislature is making a start toward
quarantine. A description Of the dis
ease, in its NOSE virulent form, that
everybody will understand is, "Me
and my wife, my son John and his
wife-us four and no more"
The whiskey question is still being
discussed in the State Senate And
some supposedly very brainy men are
working overtime trying to get up
a more slazy. threadbare argument
than that "proh!bition does not pro-
hibit." But they'll never do it. When
man shoots "prohibition does not
prohibit at YOU, You can know he's
all in. It's the limit
Yesterday more than two hundred
physicians, life insurance officials and
representatives of various organiZa-
tions met in Atlanta to study the
hOok-worm. Let us hope the noble
200, with John d. at their head, and
$l,000,0O0 at hand, will be able to
tell us how to cXterminatc this nasty
little son-of-a-gun, which is estimated
to destroy $27.000.00O of good
Southern energy every year.
s~s
The killing OF the bill for increased
salaries OF Judges in this State will
meet with approval by the general
public. 1t should be followed I'D by
similar action all along the line when
the salaries OF the State officers are
brought up. With 1.-The people
struggling against the daily increase
in cost OF living 1t is folly to tax
each Of the many little more in
order to fatten the purses of the State
officers.
Correspondents will please observe
the rule that requires the writer's
name to be signed to an article. AS
we have said before, we do not want
the name for publication, but we do
want to know who the author Is. We
have a good big waste basket handy.
and II catches many an article with
merit enough to justify publication,
but the omission Of the writer's name
makes its appearance impossible. "A
penny saved Is a penny earned" so
II you cannot sign your name to
what YOU write save the 2-cent
stamp. Economy, too. is Il very ad-
mlraDlc TRAIT.
Dr. George Brown, Of Georgia. is
absolutely nothing il he is not frank.
In an interview last Monday he
says: 81 have the misfortune to be
member of the Georgia Legislature,
and have the prof0undcst contempt
for that body. If you had a drove of
Kentucky iackasscs in the Capitol,
and offered prize for the one that,
being prodded. could kick the long
est. YOU would have fair idea Of
the mental attitude Of the last Leg
lSlature OF Georgia." Let Gorgians
hereafter speak respectfully Of South
Cardinals makers. If we are
ever forced to the barnyard for some
thing to liken our Legislature to. it
won't be anything worse than the
old blind nag that don't know where
shes at when she gets there"
1t seems that there is going to be
something doing in Clemson circles
before long. The Legislative commit
tee has reported. and included in that
report are some rather salty state
mcntS by EX-Presidcnt Nell, from
which statements it appears that
about all Clemson needs 70 put it in
good--and permanently goods shape
is for everybody connected with the
institution to thoroughly understand
who's who. and what's what. And.
as we see 1t, the president ought to
be Who's Who, and his orders ought
to be what's what. incidentally the
trustees might look after the institu-
tion's interests at stated intervals,
and mind their own business the bal
ance Of the time. and Clemson will
be all right.
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