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Evening star., 1914-08-08
HEARD AND SEEN HERE AND THERE.
By Earl Goodwin.

The waitress in the black skirt and
white apron and with wonderful gold
tooth leans over and says:
"kawfy?"
And YOU say mournfully:
Yes. coffee.
And | know you to be member of
the brave band which has for years
been trying to find a waitress who can
remember that you asked for coffee
with your original order. For nearly
fourteen wears now / have been going
occa asionaIly into these white tiled,
open-fronted restaurants, where blond
and brunette mattresses give you the
icy stare and a paper napkin at the
same time. and | pledge you my SOL
emn word never have I found one who
can remember that you asked for cof-
fee. Only. as | said before, they call
it "kawfy.'
You enter the place. There is a rat
tie of dishes, which sounds something
like the Turkish navy at target prac-
tice, using crockery instead of shells.
The percentage of hits must be enor-
mous-something like 125 out of a pos
sible 100. Also you get clear idea
of what the foreman on the job at the
tower of Babel must have heard when
the Kibosh was dropped on the art OF
speaking:
Ham an Make it three. Beef stew
and a pair O. mullins. Two two min
utes' (this has reference to eggs).
Gimme small steak medium. Draw
one in the dark. Ice tea. Wheat
cakes" All yelled-shrieked-w the
accent of cursing furies. at pair of
lively young Greeks who slam food on
the broad marble counter with all the
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energy of a pair of tennis champions
returning a hot drive.
And you sit at long, clean table. a t
which other bank clerks. statesmen,
crooks, millionaires. business men, near
business men. never-will-be business
men and young business women
are sitting, each one minding his
or her own business. That's a
characteristic of those bathtub style
lunchrooms. A waitress in rubber
heels drops a knife. fork and a
spoon in front of you with all the
nonchalance of a striking miner throw
ing away his crowbars. She sinks a
glass of water into the table with the
precision of a bomb dropped from an
aerial destroyer. She flaps a two-cent-
stamp size plat of butter 20 by the
water and then. with one hand upon
Evening star., 1914-08-08

OF ali nations fearful lest the crook Of
monarchs finger might put them n the
class of ships subject to the prize rules
Of war. one would scarcely think that
little boys five and six years old would
be worrying about their own little az
fairs.
And vet the war and its effect on ship
ping weighed heavily on the hearts OF
two lads who We're going to New YORK
last week Their ,tmudder" was reading
newspaper in the Union station. eN-
planning to her sons how the ocean line rs
might be Intercepted. The littlest boy.
with a quivering lip. looked AT her a mo-
ment and then asked. in piaintive voice
viii the enemy stop the Coney Island
boats from running
Evening star., 1914-08-08

the scorn of that golden tooth, and
hoping you can get away without her
throwing back at you the ten-cent tip
you propose to give her. no matter
whether she serves you well or ill.
'Whatcha want"
Tis the second time she asks you You
did want to look carefully over the menu
card, which hasn't changed since the
Spanish-Ame-ican war Except to raise a
few prices), but the imperious woman,
and Is now resting it on the back of your
chair demands instantaneous results. You
wanted lamb chops. but you weakly order
beef stew. some sort of potatoes. some
ice cream-and you distinctly say you
want some coffee. You look at her plead
ingly as you say coffee. You love coffee
You always have coffee. You always sit
at that table and you always get coffee
from this queen of the golden tooth.
Whereupon You begin to eat the large
round stepping stones of bread they
leave for you, while Bessie is off singing
your order at the two Greeks
one order o stew: per-tay-toes.
She returns. laden with your things.
She places them upon the table. First
the stew. then the per rtay-toes. then the
little side things that go with it all and
some rolls. and. more than likely. she
brings the ice cream along with the rest
of the lunch: and then. having placed
them all in front of you. she assumes
that hip-and- scalp pose and says:
Want some kawfy?"
And you say. mourfully:
Yes. Coffee
They will never. never learn. Coffee
makes no impression upon their memo
ries. You could rattle off an order which
included everything to eat in the entire
lunchroom world and they will bring il
back to you without an error. But you
could stand up and yell at the top OF
your lungs, over and over and over
again:
81 want some coffee. Coffee. Coffee!
Coffee. Coffee!"
They would never pay any attention to
Evening star., 1914-08-08
Cow Problem Is Difficult.

The question Of keeping more than one
or two cows is something that would have
TO have careful consideration. That one
cow pays on a small place there isn't any
doubt. 1t probably is fairly certain that
two would pay on a place the size of
ours. with the additional ten acres which
Jane plans to devote to pasture and feed
growing. But when the number Is in
creased until 1t is necessary to buy the
bulk of their feed, the problem becomes
Evening star., 1914-08-08

entirely a different one 1t is generally
agreed among dairymen that keeping
cows can be made profitable in the east
only by the use of silage in the winter
and abundance of good pasture. With
only ten acres to divide between the two
there wouldn't be pastura2e or silage for
more than q couple Of cows.
This difficulty could be overcome in
part by growing root crops-such as
carrots, sugar beets and turnips-be-
tween the rows of small fruit. to be
used as supplemental feed for both
cows and chickens but that wouldn't
meet the requirements of roughage. 1t
seems to me that James program calls
for about thirty acres. in addition to
the eight of Sunny Knoll. Then. with
the additional ten acres in alfalfa. the
thing might work out successfully
one thing is becoming impressed
upon us more and more. If we are go
Ing to take up farming as means of
livelihood We have got to work out a
program and then stick to it. not waste
our time and energy and money trying
first one thing and then another. Here
is where inexperience handicaps us. A
thing looks good on paper, but We
can't be certain it will work out in
practice Yet if we wait to gain the
necessary experience before undertake
ing the line of work we intend to fol-
low we will have wasted precious
wears
Evening star., 1914-08-08

Our turn for amusement came later
She thought il would be quite interest
ing to pick some apples from tree with
her own fair hands and exhibit them to
her friends in town. But she made the
mistake of adventur:ng forth alone to do
it, The COW was grazing In the orchard
and when Mrs. Hamilton approached she
raised her head ard advanced TO extend
friendly greeting.
But Mrs Hamilton had never made
Evening star., 1914-08-08
Books Alone Not Sufficient.

OF one thing | have become thor
oughiy convinced: Farming cannot be
learned out of books ] don't mean that
ture are not of value. but they can only
be studied intelligently when theory is
converted into practice through day by
day experience. The most intellectual
man in the world could not become a
successful farmer by retiring to his
study and poring over text books. No
more could a man born and reared on
farm attain fullest development of
his business without the help of these
same text books
For newcomer in the country. as /
am, the most difficult thing to practice
seems to be patience have TO fight all
the time against jumping in and doing
things before 1 have learned whether
1t is wise to do them Yet with good
many things I can't get the wisdom
until l have tried it out.
We have started out on a good many
leads and followed a good many trails
back to our original starting point
chickens. Chickens, with cows as side
line. look like ready money. But always
there is before us the specter of the
dozens and hundreds of failures at
chicken farming. James pulleE, now
half grown, are about as pretty a sight
as I ever laid my eyes upon 1t is i'm
sand of them. A thousand pullets would
do one of two things: They would make
our fortune, or they would bankrupt
US. e. S. NJ
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friends with n cow and had no desire
to do so She let out a scream, waved
her petticoat and cried Shoo! shoo!
Lady s. had never been "shooed' before;
and she isn't a chicken. anyway. So she
kept on coming. to see what it was all
about. Mrs Hamilton let out another
scream and started to run. But the
house was an appalling distance away.
The apple tree seemed a surer refuge,
so up she went.
The absurdity of the performance nm
mediately appealed to gentle Lady,
and She entered heartily into the spirit
of it. Around and around the tree she
walked .mooing' and tossing her head'
while Mrs. Hamilton kept climbing higher
and higher.
Her screams attracted Jane. who drove
Lady away and invited Mrs. Hamilton
to come down. But Mrs Hamilton WASH
taking any chances. She refused 10
leave the tree until the COW had been
taken to the barn and the door bolted.
She was highly indignant that such
savage animals should be allowed at
large and really believed, / think that
she had been the victim of plot ana
had the narrowest kind Of an escape
from being torn and mangled and pos
sibly. eaten. -.
Jane Has Laughing Fit.
pitality. controlled her emotions as long
as she could. but at last her mirth over
powered her and she began to laugh.
Now. when Jane starts out to laugh
there is never any telling when she will
stop. She laughed until she cried, but
the crying didn't halt her. The harder
she tried to stop the harder she laughed,
until she became almost hysterical. Mrs.
A. 1V1y
until she demanded that she be driven
straightaway to the station. Jane tried
to apologize. but she couldn't stop laugh
ing long enough. so her guest departed
in high dudgeon.
Jane was very remorseful that a guest
should have been affronted, but the spec
tacle of any one climbing a tree to get
away from Lady was SO irresistibly
funny that a laughing fit comes on yet
whenever she thinks of it. ! didn't have
any very serious remorse myself. Our
visitor had deliberately made herself Of
fensive, and it seemed to me she got
just what was coming to her.
l devoted Tuesday and Wednesday OF
this week to serving as a carpenters as
sistant. That was my contribution in la
Dor to building a new house for Mrs. Jar
Wis to replace the one burned several
weeks ago. Money to buy the lumber was
raised by neighborhood subscription and
a carpenter was hired to superintend the
construction. The rest Of the work has
been done by neighbors as they could
spare time from their fields. Several men
who have large farms and were unable
to donate any of their own time have
hired substitutes. In this way the work
has been done at minimum Of cash
outlay, and the cash outlay is all Mrs.
Jarvis will have to assume in the way Of
an obligation. She insisted upon doing
that much. bat the loan is SO arranged
that no payments will fall due until VIII,
her oldest son, has had four years in a
manuSl training school and is earning
money as an electrician.
Evening star., 1914-08-08
A Novel Plan of Finance.

! So far as l know, the method in which
the Jarvis loan was handled is entirely
novel There was no insurance on the
house which burned and the Ave acres
Of land she owned would not have car
ried a loan sufficient to rebuild. But the
loss of the house was not the only one
the Jarvis family suffered. In the one up
stairs room in an old chest was $3.50. the
fruits of years of the strictest economy.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1914-06-17
(From the Clemson Chronicle.)

CURING the past summer
. it was my pleasure to
iii spend about two weeks
y III the picturesque noun
"A tains at and around
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1914-06-17

tors if there was anything / could
take to help me and they said there
was nothing that they knew of. | am
thankful for such a good medicine and
will always give it the highest praise"
Mrs. C. II. GRIFFITH, 1906 Madison
Ave, Cleveland, Ohio.
Hanover, Pa.-"I suffered from fe-
male trouble and the pains were SO bad
at times that | could not sit down. The
doctor advised a severe operation but
my husband got me Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound and / experienced
great relief in q short time. Now | feel
like a new person and can do a hard
days work and not mind it. What Joy
and happiness it is to be we'll once more.
L am always ready and willing 70 speak
good word for the Compound. Mrs.
ADA Wilt, 1856 Stock ST., Hanover, Pa.
II there are any complications you
do not understand write to Lydia E.
Pinkham Medicine Co. (cOnfdentiaD
Lynn, Mass. Your letter will be opened,
read and answered by q woman and
held In strict confidence.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1914-06-17
CLARK CONVICTED OF MURDER.
Florence Man Given Life Sentence
for killing Wife.

Florence, June 9.-Accepting a
verdict Of guilty of murder with rec
ommendation to mercy, Howard
Clark, of this county, to-day was
sentenced to life Imprisonment for
the murder of his wife, Anita Par
rott Clark, at their plantation near
this city last spring.
The case came to trial at the
Court Of General Sessions here to-.
day. At the close Of the testimony
of the State the attorneys for the de-
Tense offered to accept a verdict of
guilty, with recommendation to
mercy, without putting in any evil
dence. The attorneys for the State
agreed to this and recommended to
the jury that they render their YER
dict accordingly. Judge S. w. G.
Shipp then submitted the case to
the jury, who retired and after 10
or Is minutes deliberation eturn-
ed n verdict OF guilty, with recon-
mendation to mercy.
Judge Ship sentenced the a to
life imprisonment in the State peni-
Tertiary. Clark received tho :rW-
tence in his usual calm name so.
the least emotion did he show seeu
though Judge Ship spoke of to- re-
greet he felt in having TO per.or.n
this duty, on account Of friendship
for the young mans father, the late
Fred Clark, at n time Representa-
tive in the House from Florence
county.
1t was thought the plea Of the de-
Tense would be insanity, but this was
abandoned after a number Of eX-
perts had been called here to exam
inc the accused, among them being
DR.. BabcOck, Of Columbia.
1t is understood that the agree
ment as to the verdict was condi-
toned upon a further agreement
that there would be no attempt made
to secure a pardon. The Indictment
charged murder and alleged a pre-
meditated killing by means Of a pis-
tol shot and by %strychnine poisoning.
The testimony produced was sensa-
tional and revolving.
The court room was crowded to
its utmost capacity throughout the
morning.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1914-06-17
OPPOSE REQUEST OF TnLNIiN.


Columbia, June 10.-Mrs. Lucy
Dugas, the divorced wife Of 3. r.
Tillman, Jr., appeared before the
South Carolina Supreme Court this
afternoon and opposed the petition
or United States Senator and Mrs.
B. r. Tillman, hat they be allowed
the custody OF her two little daught-
ers, Douschka Pickens Tillman and
Sarah Starke Tillman, during the
months OF July and August, while
young Ben Tillman is absent from
the State. The mother said that
Senator and Mrs. Tillman had no
right whatever with the little girls.
No decision was ANNOUNCED by the
Court, which said they would take
the petition under ~advisement.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1914-06-17

Henry C. Tillman, of Greenwood,
a son OF Senator Tillman and bro
| Their OF young Ben Tillman, the ia
Their of the children, appeared and
made the request that the Senator
and Mrs. Tillman be allowed to have
the children for July and August, as
young Ben Tillman would be absent
from the State then, having accepted
a position as secretary Of the board
Of engineers which would lay out the
route for the government railroad in
Alaska. Under the decision of the
Court owe a year ago the children
were to be with their father during
the summer months. The Senator
and his wife asked to be allowed to
have the children. and Henry c..
Tillman said they were getting old
and loved the children, and they
made the request out OF justice and
humanity. My request is more 10
your human side than to the strict
law" said Mr.. Tillman.
Counsel for the young mother, in
opposing the request, said the father
gave up his right when he left the
State. She wanted to make q point
in the allegation that she alone had
contributed to the support of the
children since the separation with
her husband four years ago, and she
said he ought to be made to con-
tribute to their support by the Court.
The question OF support the Court
ruled out and held the iarties down
TO the II question whether the Sen
ator and Mrs. Tillman shuuld be al
lowed to have the children during
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1914-06-17
Senator Tillmun Wins.
Comfort to Stout PeODle.

Foley Cathartic Tablets are a spe
cially good little regulator that keeps
your system in perfect working or
der. No biliouSncss, no constipation,
no distress after eating, no greasy,
GaSSy taste. y stout person who uses
them constantly will really feel thin
ned out and more comfortable rs a
result OF their use. Bells Drug
StOrC.-AdV.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1914-06-17

expected to a to
undergo an opera
ton, bat the first
bottle | took of
Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Com
pound relieved me of
the pains in my side
and | continued it's
use until l became
and free
from pains. 1 had
asked several doc
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1914-06-17

Don't Lose Sleep Coughing at Night.
Take Foley's Honey and Tar Com
pound. 1t glides down your throat
and spreads a healing, soothing coat
ing over the inflamed tickling sur
face. That's immediate relief. 1t
loosens up the tightness in your
chest, stops stuffy, wheezy breathing,
eases distressing, racking, tearing
coughs. Children love it. Refuse
any substitutes. Contains no opiates.
Bells Drug Store.-Adv.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1914-06-17

human. The animal jumped at me,
but | stepped back and avoided his
blow. In my quick jump | lost my
light, and there ! was, face to face
with the beast in the dark. shot
again at the spot where | thought
the animal was, and again | heard a
cry of pain. | was becoming accus-
toned to the darkness by this time,
and ! coulC make ont the form of the
animal as he made ready to spring
at me again. | raised my revolver
and shot again, but he had already
sprung, SO | missed MIN. His blow
was well directed this time, and
was knocked down and my pistol
was knocked from my hand. | then
thought of the knife. | jerked it
loose from my belt, where it had
been fastened, and as the beast made
another spring at me, | aimed the
knife at his breast, and succeeded in
piercing him to the heart. The blow
knocked me down again. but this
time the beast fell on top Of me, a
Nfeless body. | was not long in
freeing myself from his body and
finding my light. flashed the light
on the ~lifeless body, and to my sur
prise, before me lay the body Of a
lean mountain panther.
The mystery Of Kalalanta had
been solved. Instantly | knew what
had become Of the little boy, why
the maiden had disappeared so sud
denly, what it was that had scared
the young; | also knew that the balls
OF fire | had cen were the eyes Of
the panther shining in the light.
knew that the hideOus cry was the
cry OF the lonesome panther wailing
for his mate. | was sure that he
was the only panther in that part Of
the mountain. | searcehd the rooms
and found what appeared to be the
skeleton of another panther. so /
concluded that either the boy or the
girl had killed the mate before they
were finally devoured. and that this
last panther, faithful to his mate,
oo'> 'iS louoS cNclS DlSnl
and sent forth that hideous, yet pitt
ful wall. So the entire mystery of
Kalalanta had been solved. re-.
turned to the cottage that night and
slept soundly till morning. When |
awoke the X morning | found that
in some way the news had got start
ed. and later in the day when | went
to Kalalanta, / found that a crowd
had gathered there-among the rest
a near relative Of the widow, who
said that the house would soon be
remodelled, as he intended spending
the next summer there. He invited
me to be the guest-of-honor at a
spend-the-summer party in celebra-
tion Of the solving OF the mystery of
Kalalanta.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1914-06-17
HOW WOMEN
avoid
OPERATIONS
BY Taking Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable
Compound.

Cleveland, Ohio My left side
panied me so for several years that |
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1914-01-06

cTsasing number of farmers increase
the amount Of products so as to pre-
vent a steady advance Of prices?
There IS a good deal said about
the increase OF wages TO match the adj
yancing cost OF living. Probably
there is just as much truth in the prop
Osition that the cost OF living advances
as a result Of the Increased wages, sal
aries and profits. The producers are
trying to get all they can, but they
take what they can get. Eighteen or
twenty years ago they were getting
small prices, but they did not go out
OF business Nor was there any tempta
ton to they to leave the farm and
seek the cities, for at thar time en-
pioyment in the towns was more diff
cult to get than employment on the
farms.
But since that time the country has
been highly prosperous, profits have
Increased and wages have Increased.
The consumers in towns are able to
lay more for their food, and being
able to, they have to; the Rigging OF
the market is very much to the ad-
vantage OF the seller when the buyer
has more money rafting around in his
pocket.
The greater ability to pay probably
has at least as much to do as any
thing with the greater prices people
have 10 pay But, Of course, it makes
things pleasant and easy for the farm
er whose crops and fcod animals were
worth twice as much in 1913 as they
were in 1899, though his production
has not kept pace with the increase
of population
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1914-01-06
PROBLEM OF FARM PRICES.

Tho following Is from the Philadel-
phia Record, which by the way Is one
Of the closest students of the farm
situation the prices and conditions
that make the price. etc. of farm pro
ducts in the country, The conclusions
reached by the Record Is logical one
and the subject is handled lucidly.
Here II is;
In announcing t. the country that
the value OF errors and animals raised
hy farmers this year was higher than
over belq ., and that the cash receipts
of tho farmers make new high rec
rd, the department of agriculture Is
careful To awaken no false hopes of
cheaper food, saying:
However desirable increased pro
lducilon on farms may appear TO be
iyom the consumers standpoint. II
does not follow that such increased
production would result IN any in.
t0rease in the cash income per farm or
per capita OF farm population, or that
prices paid by consumers would be
amy lower because retail prices are
promptly raised on a prospect of un.
reproduction, and are very slow to
deline If there is owe production"
We understand tolni4Dly well that
the high price OF food does not worry
The farmer at all. and Is no motive for
his increasing his production and giut
ting the market in order to let us IN
the towns have cheaper foed. But the
farmer is not one man; there are mil
lions Of them ard every year there
are new farmers, young men acquiring
farms by lease or purchase and join
ing in the army that is producing food
Tor people who are not farmers.
The farmers as class would prefer
40 Cultivate no more land and to pro
s.t,~s
duce no more grain or animals ion
s!eughter unless this can be done witt
ou, depressing prices. A small croI
ana nigh price is good enough fol
.aem, and ina; We understand perfect
b bul how does i happen than mat
;yra can be kept at this ideal point fol
ahe farmers, Why does not the IL