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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1914-02-04
3NlTREsTING TENAs LETTER.
Geo. w. Abbott Quite Ill-Oconeeans
i'm Texas Prospcring.

Weatherford, Texas, r. F. ID. No. .,
Jan. 31.--Dear Old Courier: We
missed you last Saturday, and this
made us a little more crazy than
usual so we began to look around
and study, coming to the conclusion
that it could be our fault. Our eX-
cuse it that we have had sickness at
home. First, Mrs. Abbott had an at
tack Of grip, which lasted three
weeks, and there being oniy two Of
us it kept me tramping around. She
is better now.
George w. Abbott, my brother, is
and has been sick or feeble for the
past year, and has been seriously
sick for the last three weeks. (That
is the cause Of our neglectD
We are lost without the good old
Keowee Courier, which enables us
TO keep up with our old friends. We
missed seeing the ad. or notice Of the
penitentiary being for sale, suppos-
ing it is Of no further use. 1t would
save transporting prisoners to Co.
lumbia to be turned loose.
! suppose we have some friends yet
in South Carolina who would like to
hear from us, and not being able to
write them separately, will say that
| have passed my 18th birthday, but
still able to harness pair of horses
and plow if | want to (rde Of
conrse).
Our country was very dry last
year. Wheat and oats were light;
corn failure, with only half a crop
OF cotton. 1t began to rain in the
fall and great deal of small grain
was sowed, which has furnished some
fine pasture all winter. No stock is
being fed except milk COWS and beef
steers, and these only for profit. A
great many beef steers are fed in our
locality. We have creamery at our
town (Weatherford) that paid out
$4,000 to farmers last. year. This
country is going wild on silos. My
neighbor, Mr.. Mcfarland, built eight
OF concrete last year. He is the larg-
est cattle feeder in our settlement.
There are three McFarlands who are
engaged as cattle feeders, also
Messrs. Estleman, Shaw, Milburn,
Kaughman, Woodhouse, Martin and
w. II. Kuhtman. We live in fine
settlement-good, moral people
Sunday school anu church-going peo-
pie. We have daily mails, and every
body has a telephone. Roads are
fine, and great many Of my neigh
bors have autos. One of my sons re-
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1914-02-04
"puRNED OrF AGAIN."
An Annual Occurrence i'm the Case Of
WalhaIla's Magistrate.

Walhalla, Feb. 3.-Editor Keowee
Courier: Turned Off Again." This
has been an annual occurrence since
does not appear to love me as we'll
as he would if | had been convicted
of some crime and sent to the chain
gang or the penitentiary. For some
reason, best known to himself, Sena-
tor Werner has ignored the primary
election and recommended my re-
moval as magistrate. They are to be
congratulated upon the appointment
of a gentleman and true Democrat
One who is not subservient to dem
agogues and cranks. | am sure he
will make an efficient and conscien-
tious officer.
| have held this Office for ten years
and in the discharge of my official
duty it has been my constant desire
and intention to consider the rights
OF htigantS in cases brought before
me, on their merits, and to decide
the issues submitted fairly, impair
TALLY and in accordance with Justice
as it appeared to my mind. ! do not
claim perfection, or that have never
made mistake, but | do claim that
! have endeavored at all times to seek
for truth and justice, and that with
out fear or favor Of any man.
take this opportunity to thank
my friends for their many express
Sions of confidence and their vaiua-
bic assistance in the bitter struggle
Tor the past few years against the
powers that be. A. p. Crisp.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1914-02-04
Tug Rammcd by Steamship.

New York, Jan. 31.-The steam
ship Concho, OF the Mallory Line,
outward bound Tor Galveston, to-day
rammed the tug Dinsdale, off the
Statue Of Liberty, sinking the tug
almost Immediately. The captain
and engineer Of the tug were picked
up by passing craft, but two deck
hands were drowned. The Concho.
unchanged, continued on her way,
after rendering what assistance she
could.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1914-02-04

Gently visited us, coming in his auto
400 miles. Our children are all do
ing well
Well, Bro. Steck, ] could say more.
but fear worrying some one. viii
say, however, that | hope to get the
good old paper next Saturday. | en-
close 50 for two more years. May
the great God of Heaven bless you all
is our prayer.
j. Ben Abbott and Wife.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1914-02-04
Charlton's Trial Postponed.

Como, Italy, Jan. 31.-Porter
Charlton's trial for the murder of
his wife has been postponed until
June, at the request Of the Judges of
the tribunal, who ordered a minute
investigation into the prisoners
mental, moral and physical condition
and the declaration that his wife was
seXually abnormal, possessing a dual
nature.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1914-02-04
Box Supper at Cross Roads.

There will be a box supper at the
Cross Roads school house next Fri
day night, February 6. The pro-
ceeds will go towards buying patent
desks for the school Oysters will
be served free Of charge Immediately
after the sale Of boxes. Public cor
daily invited
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-04-27

entered heart and soul into the gaieties
that the capital provided for the Set in
which she moved.
Eleanor Wilson was n success from the
FIRST. Immensely popular and talented
she was received with open arms by the
young women of the Charmed Official
Circle" and she proved an acquisition
from the outset she is approachable
and sirlishiy simple in her manner. She
cares little for the diplomatic niceties for
which hide-bound and Official Washing
ton placesSso much store by. and fur
thermore she is the only member of the
White House blessed with a nickname,
for ''Neil' she Still is to the family and
those closely identified with it.
In appearance. she is tail above the
average, and slender, with a willowy,
girlsh figure. and walks with a light
swinging gait which denotes strength.
extreme good health and buoyant spirits
She has beguiling smile, fine teeth
which are prominently shown, through
large but well shaped and expressive
mouth, blue eyes, in which the light of
good humor wrinkles, topped with rather
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-04-27

music. She is the possessor of
charmingly sweet and highly cult
waited voice and her recent appear
ance in New York in the Bird Play
won her rounds of applause that war
accorded purely in appreciation of ar
tistic merit.
The Bride Elect an Artist.
The bride-eleet. however, is not. with
out her accomplishments and cannot in
any sense of the word be looked upon as
a society butterfly" despite her inter
est in things OF social nature. She, too,
inherts her mothers love of art and
studied for several years at the PhiIa-
delphia Academy of Fine Arts, where
she did exceptionally good work in oils.
Coming to Washington as she did In the
first blush of young womanhood she
made many friends Ties We're not as
binding upon her as they were with her
sisters, who had practically decided upon
their respective careers before leaving
their Princeton home. Miss Eleanor, or
Nell" as she is more affectionately
called by her intimates, made many
warm friends in Washington, and she
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heavy brows and fringed with long.
sweeping lashes. She was a fine, clear,
white skin. the bloom of health showing
in the splendid coloring that rises to her
fun, soft cheeks and quantities of brown
hair
ExceIs in All Sports.
Out of door sports have. always APP
pealed to the white House Baby"
Aside from playing a strong game of
tennis, in which Mr.. McAdoo and Am
bassador Jules Jusserand. of France, are
almost invariably her partners. or oppo-
nents Miss Eleanor rides and swims
wen, and is unusually graceful as a dan
GER, Like her sisters, she is fine lin
guist and speaks German and French
with an almost perfection of diction and
fiuency of vocabulary,
The 18th bride of the White House will
be but the sixth daughter of a President
to take her vows in the historic struc-
ture. If Mr.. McAdoo remains in the
Cabinet after the ceremony his bride
will. ON state occasions. enter her
fathers home second in Importance only
to the wife of the Secretary OF State. AS
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;, Mrs. McAdeo, she will preside over one
4 of the handsomest homes in Washing
I ton This stately mansion is located on
Massachusetts avenue. where, since Mr..
McAdoo's advent into Cabinet circles, his
daughter, Miss Mona McAdoo. whose de-
but occurred three years ago and shortly
before her mothers death has been the
hostess at all functions
Miss Mona McAdoo is within a few
months of the age of the young woman
her father is soon to marry. and some
believe that she will not smilingly con-
sent to take back seat I'm the establish
ment she has SO gracefully presided over
since coming TO Washington to live
Others, however, declare that that tact
for which the Wilson family is so nota-
Bile. will prevail, and that Mona and
Nell will continue the good friends
they have always been.
The McAdoo Children.
Miss SalIie, u years old and at present
at school In Washington. is the baby of
the McAdoo family. An older sister mar
ried Mr.. Charles S. Martin and resides in
Prescott, Ariz Mr.. Francis Huger Me
Adoo recently married Miss Hazel Nc
Cofmack, dauShter OF MIS-. isaac v.
Emerson. OF Baltimore He is the eldest
son. There are two more boys, William
G., Jr., and Robert Hazelhurst McAdoo,
the latter student at Princeton.
Not only wifi the future Mrs. McAdoo
have beautiful Washington home, but
the country place of the McAdoo's at
Irving-on- Hudson is one of the show
places OF that beautiful section. The
immense house is designed for solid COM
fort, and its treatment is colonial in
every particular. Its spacious lawns
overlook the majestic Hudson, and about
il is scattered one of the most delight
full social colonies in the envirens of New
York.
Mr. McAdoo is Georgian by birth and
lawyer by profession. When he came
to New York City he was practically un-
known and like every newcomer con
fronted with that Herculean task OF
carving. out future. He conceived the
idea that a tunnel. or series of tunnels
for that matter, beneath the Hudson
River thereby connecting New Jersey
with New York City. would he master
stroke. At first Mr.. McAdoo was looked
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upon as a dreamer and capitalists were
prone to ridicule his dream. "rhe man
is a hundred years ahead of his time"
said one.
But. undaunted by the discouragfng
reception with which his advances were
received, McAdoo kept steadily at work
on his scheme and at last a firm of
bankers was found who agreed to finance
the scheme. Bonds were issued and
from the first they were eagerly pur-
chased. The Manhattan Terminal Com
pay was formed. the Hudson tubes were
built, the two immense terminal build
ings in Church street erected, and from
the start the tubes not only proved a
boon to New Jersey and New York alike,
but further plans formulated by McAdoo
are under way by which their scope will
be greatly widened.
( The Tunnel Builder" as he was called.
sprang into instantaneous popularity,
and from the day the tunnels were COM
pleted, William Gibbs McAdoo became
one of the real big men of New York.
Championed the Wilson Cause.
When Woodrow Wilson demonstrated
his ability as Governor of New Jersey
to combat the most notorious and most
corrupt political ring that ever existed in
New Jersey. thereby RELOCATING Jim
Smith," who sought to return to the z.
S. Senate, TO back seat MeAdoo came
forward as one CT the original hailers of
Wilson as "our next President" He
worked increasingly until his boom took
definite and concrete form and he never
relinuuished his efforts until his nominal
ton was effected. AS Vice-Chairnan OF
the National Democratic Committee he
rendered valiant service at the New York
headquarters, and there directed one end
of the fight. Josephus Daniels who also
was rewarded with Cabinet berth, also
was at Headquarters. he taking personal
charge of the publicity end of the fight.
And now the relations between the
President and his Secretary of the Treas
ury are to be oemented by even closer
bonds. The marriage has struck a re-
sponsive chord IN the hearts of the pub
lie and a bright future ard no end OF good
wishes and calculations are being show
cred upon Mr.. McAdoo and his BRIDE
elect May they live long and prosper
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-04-27
SPARKS FROM MAINE WIRES.
Near Jail Delivery at Harrington.


An attempted Jail delivery was as
covered Friday at Pennington py
Sheriff w. 3. Small, and as result
Arthur Williams, who claims resi-
dence In Brockton Mass, is uhuer III
rest Wednesday night Williams was
allowed a nights lodging at the jail at
his own request. His actions aroused
suspicions, but careful search or MS
clothing failed to reveal anything con-
troband. He left the Jail after break
fast the next morning. James Weleh
of Pennington is serving six months
for alleged liquor selling, Friday, con-
fessed, so the sheriff says, that VIII
liams Struggled a hacksaw into the
iail. which was TO be used In cutting
the bars on the windows. The saw
was found in a mattress on the bed in
Williams cell.
Accepts Call to Machias.
Rev. Charles H. Croker, kenne-
bunk, has accepted a call TO the Bap-
fist church at East Machias. He as
sumed charge Sunday.
Disastrous Forest Fire at Freeport,
A forest fire which started al Todd
Brook, in the western part of Free
port, Friday afternoon burned over an
area one mile square and destroyed an
unoccupied house, barn and eutbuild-
ings on the farm owned by John w,
Donaldson of Boston; barn, together
with 100 hens, belonging to GustaVus
Peterson, and a portable sawmlll
owned by John T. Griffin, The total
loss on the buildings is about $4,000.
Buildings owned by Capt. John Pay
son were saved with difficulty,
Jesse c. Savage Drowned at Bath.
Jesse C. Savage, aged 30, fell into the
Kennebec river from the south end of
the wharf Of the Eastern Steamship
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-04-27

stated; "AH women's pains whether
headache. sideaehe. backaehe or pain of
any description CAUSED by suppressed or
irregular menstruation yield to-two anti
peated in two hours. Every woman
should have some of these tablets on
hand" Ask Tor AK tablets ADJ
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-04-27

Co. at Bath Friday ana was drowned.
The body was soon recovered, AS It
appeared to be a clear case of acci-
dental death, no inquest was held,
Savage was q son of Jesse A. Savage
OF Bath. His home was in Bruns-
wick. He came 10 Bath Friday
morning expecting TO go 10 work with
a crew of stevedores on a. pulp barge.
For several years ne had been well-
known figure In pugillstic circles and
was often secured for preliminary
bouts. a widow and one child sur
vive.
$4,000 Fire at Cape Elizabeth.
The house and farm buildings owned
and occupied by Howard C, Hanna
ford on Ocean House road, Pond Cove,
were destroyed by fire Friday fore
noon, Mr.. Haanaford was burning the
grass in the front OF the house, and
although he used every precaution, tn
some way a spark crept through tho
walls and into the house, The f,irni-
ture in the front lower part of the
house was removed, Including the pia-
no, but that in the back end of the
house and the upper part Is praotf-
cally total loss, The fire swept
through the house which was enc OF
the finest in Cape Elizabeth, into
the garage and shop and then into the
large stable, all of which were burned.
Flying sparks ignited the vegetable
house about 300 feet TO the west, and
destroyed that. and practically ruined
the hot house, Close by $4,000 cabbage
plants and tomato piants DeInE Qgr1-
pleieiy destroyed. Mr.. Hannaford
estimates his total loss al Sl5,-
900 with about $4,000 insurance.
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and insists that this announcement
will come close on the heels of the
McAdoe wedding.
All interest cefters now on the ex
act location of this ceremony. OF
course all agree that it will be per-
formed at the White House. Whether
the nuptials will be solemnized in the
stately East Room, where Jessie Will
son became Mrs Sayre. or in the gar
dens, remains to be decided. Doubt
less those concerned have long since
solved this all important problem. but
so far the public has not been taken
into their confidence. II must be re-
membered that President Wilson and
Mrs. Wilson have an innate delicacy
in refraining from discussing publicly
those matters which concern only
themselves. Their occupancy of the
White House has been notable for
these reasons. Good taste and good
breeding have been so apparent in
all they do that even prying public
hesitates before becoming TOO insist
ent in ascertaining facts bearing on
a matter so intimate as the marriage
of the daughter of the First Gentle
man and Lady of the Land"
But wedding in the White House
gardens where Dolly Madison and
Abigail Adams and Harriet Lane took
the air; a wedding in the gardens
where Nellie Grant whiled away many
girlhood hour: where Alice and
Ethel Roosevelt romped as little girls;
where Helen Taft spent four happy
years of carefree girlhood and as
sumed grown-up responsibilities, too;
and where her mother and her father,
the President, stood to receive the fe-
llcitations of their host of friends
upon the twentyfifth anniversary Of
their marriage furnishes sentimental
foundations for many a beautiful
castle.
All Washington a FIutter.
When the proper time arrives all
these important points will be settled.
And those who know Mrs Wilson best
assert that the time and place for
the wedding ceremony will not be
known outside the immediate family
circle until the invitations to the we'd
ding have been sent forth. And
speaking of invitations they are caus-
ing much apprehension and many
ueetilpuiHS III olilcidi washington just
now. VIII the wedding be strictly
private affair? Or will the President
and Mrs. Wilson let the bars down
md open wide the doors of the White
Houes to those who feel that my po-
sition demands and entities me to an
nvitation|'
These fears are even being in
iulged by members of the Diplo-
matte Corps, some of whom have
ieard that the wedding is to he so
purely a family affair that even the
gold lace and gorgeous trappings of
he ENJOYS from Old World Capitals,
,ver attractive scenery for any we'd
ling, Will not be a sufficient incentive
c throw open the gates.
The bride elect, as the White House
3aby. has gone in for the social whirl
md its attendant round of gaieties
With far more enthusiasm than her
lder sisters. Mrs. Sayre was ever
eeply interested in settlement work,
nd it was in this field that she was s
brown so much with the man who
ater won her heart and hand The I
idest daughter Miss Margaret Will
on, inherits her mothers artistic ten {
encies. and devotes much time to
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-04-27
Hints of a Third Wedding.

Just now official Washington is
busy gossiping over the possibility of
still third romance In the Wilson
family, and although repeated denials
have been made Of any engagement
existing between Miss Margaret Will
son and young Princeton professor,
WASHINGTON Just will not be denied
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-10-03
CONSIDER THE BOY PROBLEM
Matter Of Question Whether II Ever
VIII Be, or Can Be, Success
fully Solved.

Wars come and go, rulers fall from
power, but the boy problem is ever
in the public prints. Reading the
continuous lamentations with earnest
attention, it seems that the boy is
always in danger Of growing up and
becoming a man and that he must
be watched very closely. On the
other hand, some of 'em become sis
sizes, a fate that is distinctly more to
be regretted, although the uplifters
say nothing about it. Assisting this
pernicious instinct is the boys own
ardent desire to be a man. And
that is only excelled by his desire,
when that happy estate is reached,
to become a boy again. The great
joke on every boy is the exchange of
boyhood for manhood, and to this all
men contribute, more out of a spirit
Of cynicism and revenge than any,
thing else.
AS a matter of fact, the boy of
fourteen and sixteen knows more
things worth knowing and fewer
things that are best left unknown
than the man of forty or sixty. The
wisest thing in the world is the boy
in his early teens, and his only folly
at all is growing out of them. Life
is thoroughly complete for the boy,
and if only there were no men to
encourage an ambition toward man
hoods privileges, all would be well.
1t is while he is Christopher Column
busting around in those early days
that he learns all the human nature
there is. Relationships are very di-
rect and associations intimate. There
is little equivocation, and subtlety
has the frankness of earnestness in
stead of the duplicity of deceit. I'm
pressions are vivid and the way to
make a good, steadfast, lifelong en-
envy is to give needless offense to a
boy of ten years old.
The boy of today knows far more
than his father will ever suspect,
but, under careful tutelage and
great patience on the part of the son,
the fathers are doing better right
along, and, taken as a class, are i'm
proving distinctly and with as much
CELEBRITY as can be expected.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-10-03
sTERILIzINe SOIL BY STEAM.

Growers of tomatoes, cucumbers
and similar vegetables for the Lon
don market have for some time been
injecting steam into the soil with the
intention of destroying certain in
sects and slugs. 1t is said the plan
works very well for that purpose, but
the practise brought to light an I'M
expected fact, namely, that the soil
thus treated increased greatly in fer
tility; so greatly, in fact, that the
ordinary amount of manure cannot
be used afterward.
This effect has been explained as
being due to the sterilization pro-
duced by the steam, which kills the
phagocytes or protocol which in Or
dinary circumstances keep down the
number of bacteria in the soil whose
operations are beneficent in turning
organic nitrogen into a form suitable
for plant food. 1t may be, however,
that the large amount of steam
destroyed life has contributed its owr
store of nitrogen.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1914-10-03
PHILOSOPHIC VIEW OF AGE
Looked At In Its Proper Aspect It May
Be Greatly Robbed of Its
Terrors.

AS the body ages, and it ages rap
idly, of course, it is subject to null
titude of infrmities, most of which
are rare in its youth. We have grown
accustomed to associating these in
firmities with age, therefore, and
are quite likely to view their pres
ence as a demonstration of advan-
cling years. Such, indeed, it is, but
only in relation to the body. 81 feel
DID," is very common expression,
but one which is very far from the
exact truth. To illustrate: | notice
that the rheumatism grips my shout
der quite frequently of late, espe-
cially in damp weather, although
such an attack was quite unknown
in the first sixty years of my life.
Old age? Of the body, perhaps, but
not of me. Tom had the rheumatism
when he was barely. fifteen. The sem
sation was to him precisely what it
is to me and the treatment differed
very little, if at all. l need spec
tacles now, but many children need
them, too. My step is not as sure
as it used to be, but as far as 1 can
observe, it affects me as it would
have done had some weakness at
tackled my legs fifty years ago. My
hair is thin and white, but l know
many bald heads under thirty, and
young men have turned gray over
night.-U. V. Wilson, in the At
lantic.