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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1914-02-04
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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1914-02-04
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-09
Reserve Board Complete

The Senates confirmation of Paul M. Warburg of New York and Fred eric A. Delano of Chicago Fri day night as members of the fed eral reserve board is a matter of much satisfaction in the business world, because both of these men, in addition to their high character, are exceptionally well equipped for their new work.
 MT. Warburg was a storm center in the Senate during five-hour de- bate. In his capacity as a great bank CT connected with one of the largest houses in this country, he had, as a matter of course, conducted many ex- tensive negotiations with corporations and especially railroads; but the Sen ate committee on banking, after a thorough hearing, found that his rec ord was clean, and therefore made a favorable report. The very fact, how ever, that he was a big banker af- forded certain demagogues in the Sen ate an opportunity to "play to the gallery" When the vote was taken eleven senators voted no. Of the eleven there was only one democrat, Lane of Oregon.
 MT. Delano's nomination aroused little antagonism. Although he was a railroad president, Senator Bristow cast the only negative vote. The federal reserve board should have been organized several weeks ago, and would have been but for the Senate's action. It will now be kept busy in setting in motion the new currency system. During the recent furry in the financial world growing out of the European war it could have been of incalculable service.
 While the money situation is now well in hand and virtually normal the federal reserve board will give close attention to it and will contribute to an absolute restoration of confidence
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-09
animals in Rostand's forest-drawn to the singing of Philomel.

animals in Rostand's forest-drawn to the singing of Philomel
 Out of the fulness of His love He satisfies all our desires. We have eyes, and He has clothed the world with beauty; we have ears, and He has given well nigh every bird a song; we have nostrils, and nearly every flower waves it's unseen censer of fragrance; we have souls, and He has given Himself.
 Even the untoward things of life, the snakes and toads in the garden. l doubt not, are the mysterious mes sengers of love. They may come as chastisement, to bring us back to the right; or as discipline, to train our powers; or as the inevitable antithesis and basis of being for the good, the true and the beautiful Or, they may even mean that the power of God suf- fers temporary limitation or neces sary abeyance, but they do not mean that His love is mixed with malice. God is love.
 Let them take away your property. Let them steal your books. Let them blast your health. Let them deprive you of your faculties. Let them rob you of your friends, your family. your life. But hold fast to your conviction that God loves you. It will be stay amid the wreck of time and the crash of worlds.
 HENRY M EDMoNDs
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-09
Tragic Incident Recalled

The happiest event in this history of the White House was the marriage of MT. and Mrs. Cleveland; the most sorrowful events, the deaths of Mrs. Benjamin Harrison and Mrs. Wood row Wilson.
 The most pathetie-the most tragic --incidept in the lives of women who were helpmates of men chosen to pre- side as President of the United States was the death of Mrs Andrew Jack son. She died even as her hand was extended to grasp the sceptre which the first lady wields-after the cleo tion of her husband but several months prior to his inauguration.
 Mrs. Jackson's life had not beer so happy that she could readily foreg, the pleasure and the opportunity whicl comes to the wife of President. Sh had lived unpleasantly with her frs husband. Her subsequent marriag with Jackson furnished an excuse fo the insolent tongue of scandal t. wag-for Jackson had been instru mental in securing her divorce. As result of vicious gossip, in none O which was there truth, the old herr fought his memorable duel with Henr, Dickinson. As a result of that due and the death of the reckless younI politician, Mrs. Jackson became tn subject of general discussion through out Tennessee and Kentucky, and thi undesirable and unjust notoriet,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-09

caused her retirement from all social life.
 In the presidential campaign, out of which the hero of New Orleans emerged victorious, Mrs. Jackson, all though without that publicity which attends the efforts of wives of presi- dential candidates of today, played her part. In the glamor which sur rounded her husband following his success, all the dark pages of the vol ume of her existence were virtually obliterated. And then came the biting frost which nipped her life.
 Today when America is mouring the untimely end of Mrs. Wilson, it can not be other than reminded of the most tragic figure in the annals of the presidency.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-09
Gods Love
God is love" l John 4, 8.

God IS love-" I John 4, 8.
 John might have written, God is justice; or, God is power. But the characteristic, which stood out most in God, as he had seen God in Christ. and as he had felt God in his own life, was love.
 Science and philosophy used to say: There is no God. Then they said: There may be God, but He is the Great Unknowable. Then they said There may be God, but knowledge of Him is in the province of Faith. Then they said: There is a God, and the souls deliverances concerning Him are of philosophic and scientific value Now they are beginning to say: There is God, who is power not only, but love.
 But it matters not what science ano philosophy have been saying, the hearts of men have these centuries been chanting, been singing, beer lpaeaning, as sort of majestic, un- thinkable triumph song, God is love l Trite it is to say, God loves us Yet what a mighty change this thing has wrought in men. From a feariny cringing, and thereby dying world we have come to be reassured, hon ing, and thereby blossoming world Lo, I see them coming disconso late, having discovered rainbow ii his tears; the prodigal, the music O his Fathers house in his ears, the ligh in his eyes; the lonely, the disap pointed, the earth-pressed like tn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-09
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

From the Cincinnati Enquirer
 Every time you get into a crowd you are reminded of the fact that there is too much cheap talcum powder and not enough soap sold these days.
 Exercise is great stuff. The man who can walk on the golf links five hours with club in his hand is usually too weak to walk a bedroom floor for five minutes with d baby in his arms. The old-fashioned woman who used to get out of the house about once every three years when someone died now has a daughter who is out so much that when she does get home she has to look into every room in the
 house before she can locate the kitchen. When two men are working side by side and one is doing piecework and ! the other gets paid by the week. you |. never hear any trouble locating the pieceworker
 War is h-l. A fellow who likes
 French German. Russian arM Hunga-
 rian dishes will have to ascertain the nationality of the waiter before he can order a meal in safety.
 The old fashioned woman who used to keep her coin in a sock under the
 mattress now has d daughter who is
 mad all over because her town didn't
 land regional reserve bank | No man ever uses more than three or
 four keys. But he doesn't imagine he | looks important unless he carries about four pounds of junk on his key ring. | The fellow who seems to enjoy your jokes is always so busy laughing at
 them that he forgets to do any order
 ing and let's you do all the buying l No man ever has the big time he
 expected to have when his wife goes out of town
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-09

I rope each power is seeking position. IL is a game of chess
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 In our news over here Germany Is at a disadvantage There are none but English and French cables
 Every line sent out is censored. It must be as directed by the govern ment from whose country it is cabled or it don't go.
 The German cables have been cut and only that which comes from England or France can leak through Russia has a cable line via Japan but noth- ing comes except censored news.
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 If you have ever been a modern war correspondent and know what censor ing means you can appreciate it. "A very graphic story" says the cen sor, "a clever writer you are Yes. Come in tomorrow
 That's ths finale of your story. When you see it tomorrow you will think the high school boy cub reporter writing a school composition committed 1t to manuscript No. You don't want to cable it. Thus ends your story even by cable or mail until months later you get out alive and bring it back home.
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 Not to mention an experience in the Orient during the tail end of the Chi nese-Japanese war, I happened to be in Austria last year when the Balkan war was in progress The American, English and French newspaper cores
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-09

Compensation Law

A good example of the advantages derived from a compensation law for the benefit of workingmen's families was recently afforded in the state oil New York. A man who was employed at salary of $5 day was killed by falling from a building. A commission acting under the terms of the compen- sation law awarded his widow $30 a month for life unless she remarries. A 4-year-old daughter will receive $10 a month until she is 16 years old. In less than three weeks after the acci- dent which deprived them of their breadwinner the widow and her child had been provided with Alpport.
 There were no tiresome appeals in a prolonged law suit for damages and no lawyers fees to pay. The bene- ficiaries will also receive their money in regular installments instead of a lump sum, and this will protect them from the wiles of interruptions men who are always on the lookout for a chance to persuade woman to risk her money in unsound investments. The accident co<pany in which the employer of the working man was in sured made no protest against the commissions award, which seems to be just and fair.
 If damage suits could be done away with entirely the business of our courts would be greatly expedited and such an arrangement would no doubt be welcome to large employers of labor, provided they were protected from unjust awards. With the majori- ty of corporations employing large numbers of men, particularly in man. ufacture, it is case of just one dam age suit after another. They are not to be blamed for hiring the best law yers to defend them, for in majority of cases the damages sought are out of all proportion to the injuries re- ceived
 In the south negroes lend, a willing ear to the suggestions of lawyers who make a business of working up dam age suits. If negro gets his ankle sprained while working about some plant he's apt to appear in court and ask S5000 damages.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-09
FIND HIM

come. The postillon was ordered to take the coach down the Pouilly road and when being attacked put up a stubborn resistance, his hand being found hacked in four places The mail was then hurriedly rifled and the hap less bodies were thrown, Audebert' S into spinney and the courier's into a corn field.
 The next morning the horrible dis covery was made by the Pouilly mail S postillion.
 The foppish youth whose name was Courriol, the next day went to Paris. to return the four horses. This being noted, he was traced and was arrested with a criminal. Richards. who knew of the robbery, and had shared in the plunder. Tn spite of his bad character, this man was acquainted with many him, Joseph Lesurques and Guenot They were all four arrested.
 Two witnesses from small inns were sure of the youth Courriol, but to the surprise of everyone. they also charged Lesurques and Guenot as being two of the four who had committed the crime. They, however, set up an alibi to the effect that On the Sth Lesur- ques had spent two hours in the morn ing with a jeweler, one Legrand, and in the evening with Guenot and a painter. Hilaire Ledru. But the pres ident calling for the entry book of the jeweler found that it had originally been 9th and then erased.
 The president was then sure of Les urques guilt. and although Courriol was persistent in his protestation of his own guilt and the innocence of Les urques they were both convicted The other two prisoners proved their in- nocence Many people testified to the Innocence of Lesurques, but all was Of no avail. for Lesurques, after writing public letter to Dubosc, the real mur derer. together with Courriol, was ex- ecuted.
 The passenger on the mail, whose real name was Durochat, was arrested short time after,- and being Ndenti- ned, confessed and implicated the ring leaders, Dubosc and Vidal, and how having feigned sleep most of the way the crime was carried out as before described, with the aid of Vidal, Du-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-09
Very Large Brenm Caught

The largest Dream that has been caught in local waters, was caught the past week at East Lake" said a Nimrod It weighed Officially 1A pounds"
 Now, I don't like to tell tales o,,t ot school, but Dick Burt. the lxinp of Dou,- aslac fishermen, got down on his knees Tn the picnic pavilion and fshed through crack The Dream was so large twas necessary to tear up a plank to get it or course Dick never calculated on such a catch, but all the same the story is true In detail. for I was there.
 This is the third large bream rve caught out of the East Lake water. have also seen two very fine rock bass taken there'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-09
Amateur Aeronaut Gets pue1,no

While the balloon exhibitions were be- Ing given at East Lake two amateurs LOOK flights, but only one has gotten his exploit and experiences in the newspapers. The one who got tucked must have been overlooked said Percy Clark
 I. W. Steele, an attache of the park an all round utility man, wise and serious looking, hence dubbed Judge Steele when interest was lacking and something needed 10 happen out of the ordinary, volun- teered to be the victim of hot-air wind ana water so up he went The balloon. evidently possessed of bowels on the old Hebraic idea, when it had mounted some hundred Feet heavenward, sailed out over the lake, discovered the stranger on her par and immediately dropped to the sur lace Of the water, dropping Judge Steele, Tor an unexpected bath The balloon then proudly mounted to higher attitudes and sailed far away. Having spewed the hot ar out after duclSing Judge Steele. if collapsed and came to earth. Seyera, times since Judge Steel has sent up large paper balloons to study air currents. ex- hausts, etc: but he remains on the ga rtb and dry land at that, while studying aero nautics.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-09

It is estimated that more than so nm men and women have been thrown tenn porarily out of employment by the clos ing of the New York stock exchange II the war in Europe lasts long a great many of these workers will have to seek some other kind of employment. some of the larger brokerage houses are trying to keep their organization intact and hundreds of clerks and stenographers have been sent away on vacation. It is thought that a decision will be reached in month as to whether or not the exchange will be reopened The Stock Exchange Elm ployes association contains $500 nem- oers, and the men who are dependent on the organization for a Livelihood. though not affiliated directly with it. almost doubles that number. Nearly l0,0O0 women are said to have been thrown out of work by the closing of the exchange. There are 25O pages, 80 telegraph operators and $50 men clerk & employed on the floor of the exchange itself. There are also 500 branches of brokerage houses outside of New York employing large number of men and women who are idle as a result of the tieup in stocks
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-09
Russis's Army

hussias part in the present Euro pean crisis must very seriously affect her plans for the rebuilding of her army remarked young student of current events. "The day her battered ranks left Mukden all Russia began new campaign-the regeneration. the Recreation. indeed, of the Czar's inn perial army. Experience had pointed out the weak places and suggested the plans for reorganization.
 The Duma took inventory. The unit should be one soldier from each 100 of the country's population. From lS0,00o,000 people there should be eas- fly furnished 1.S00.000 soldiers The Duma passed the new law. Enforced en- listment was fixed at three years TOT the infantry and four years for the other branches of the service
 But in resources other than men such great amplitude does not obtain. While rich in forests, Russia's mineral wealth Is unknown Her railroad con nections with the frontier have re- mained wholly deficient. Her airship equipment is only rudimentary Natur- ally, development of these phases, for the present at least, is at an end
 "On the other hand, the present sit uation must Inevitably tend to unify and solidify national patriotism among the great heterogeneous mass of Rus sia's people. The 20-odd races-Poles Films, Roumanians and orientals oi every tribe-must come from this sec ond crucible essentially changed ana vastly moro fit for the making of the new Russian army that is to be-"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-09

'" HE courtyard of the postoffice
 of the Rue St. Martin was, on
 April 27, 1796, filled with an ex- citable crowd of people, many of whom would rush to the end of the rue and look eagerly up the boulevard along which the overdue mail from Brest traversed. The highways of France at that time were overrun by highwaymen and robbers and the people of Paris had been terrified by the number of atrocious thefts which had been com mitted.
 The Brest mail would change couriers here and would then depart for Lyons. Napoleon at this time was fighting in Italy and in reply to his appeals for money, valuable consignment of spe- cie was to be dispatched by the gov ernment
 The government courier.l Jean Excof- ion, who was making his last journey, breathed sigh of relief when the mail an important looking vehicle with three horses drew in safely. The courier and postillion, Nanteau, now compared notes and made everything safe from any unexpected attack. One passenger who was to travel by the mail,< and who gave his name at Laborde, was settled inside, and the coach with more than 7.00o,000 lives under its basket-shaped hood, clattered off in the direction of Villeneuve St. Georges, where the horses were to be changed.
 As the mail pulled up, we'll dressed inn, Id. and galloped off in the direction of Me- lum- Having changed horses the Ly- on's mail moved off once more. Here Nanteau was relieved in the saddle by Etienne Audebert The next morning a postillion of the Pouilly mail was amazed to see the great Lyons mail standing in the road scattered papers and bloodstains being mute evidence of the dastardly murder that had been perpetrated. further investigation revealed the bloodstained bodies of Ex- coffon and Audebert. But nothing was to be found of the passenger Laborde The story of the crime is as follows Hardly had the coach with its valu- able cargo passed Lieursaint when the figures of four mounted men appeared and the leader imperatively ordered lAu- debart to stop. He was made conspic- uous by the smart little mare which he rode and the fair wig he wore Close beside him was a man of flop pish devil-may-care appearance. An other, fierce looking provencal and the third a crafty looking Italian Ii was now quite dark, and the Italian striking Gas he thought), at the cou- rier, Excoffon gave the other inmate Laborde, nasty scratch
 What are yon doing?" angril, shouted the latter. throwing off hi. cloak: We are here for robbery ant not for butchery"
 The Provencal (Vidal by name). tn, Italian Rossi. and Laborde, then fierce fly attacked Excoffon, who was. al though he fought bravely. soon over
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-09
Tomorrow; Triar of Judge Terry
SUNDAY WORK IN. WALL STREET


 From the New York Times
 The Wall street district resained some thing of it's usual Sunday calm after the strenuous week. but not all of it The clerical forces of numerous houses which had been especially busy in foreign ex- change operations worked at their. books from early until late, and a great many brokers were forced to keep their men busy to catch up the loose ends of trans actions on the stock exchange. The fact that some firms had become undermanned for rush work during the previous months of dullness accounted for much of the extra labor required
 No gold was received at the subtreas- ury, although it was expected that. further consignments from other branchesN of the treasury would arrive today. The day of idleness was taken advantage of to bring the institution into closer touch with the authorities at Washington. Western Union linemen were busy in the afternoon rigging attachments for di- rect telegraph wire to the treasury de- partment, and it was understod that the orders were to have the connection ready for business early today.
 Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo will make his headquarters at the subtreaGs ury while here and the wire was put in to keep him in constant communication with Washington.
 The extraordinary developments in financial circles evidently lent an added interest to the street for the visitor from out of town. Lower Broadway WalL Broad and William streets were lively with pedestrians, and the stock exchange was the marked centre of attention of those who realized the significance of the stock markets forced inaction under the stress of war in Europe