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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1915-06-16
WATCH WHAT YOU FEED STOCK.
Veterinarian Attributes Many Dis
eases to Improperly Cured Feed.
(AnderSon Daily Mail.)

DR.. j. C. Mitchell, veterinarian
attributes the diseases prevalent
among all kinds Of stock to the
mouldy condition of food being used
now. He says that this time of the
year the owners of stock are feeding
last years hay and fodder, which in
many cases has been damp, due to
rain, and which has been allowed to
go through a sweating process. He
says also that the condition Of some
of the cotton seed meal being used
is not up to the standard; that this
meal was manufactured from seed
from dog-tail cotton; cotton that
was allowed to stand in the fields
through the winter seasons.
The doctor says that these kinds
of feed cause cryptogamic poisoning,
which affects the spinal cord. The
stomach is torn up and the disease
becomes generalized and affects the
nervous system, causing dizziness,
blindness, staggers and laziness. DR..
Mitchell says this disease is more
prevalent among mules and horses
now than among COWS, because COWS
are now being fed green grass as a
rule. DR.. Mitchell says he finds
more sickness among the stock now
than has existed in some time. He
attributes the diseases to the condi-
tion Of the feed almost entirely.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1915-06-16
a PRIIE-WINNING LETTER.
a Fathers Terrible Confession and
His R0nlOISp

His RcnOrSe.
The American Magazine has been
offering prizes for the best letters
entitled, "The Meanest Thing I Ever
Did, In the June issue the prize
winning letters are published. The
first prize was awarded to the follow
ing letter--a fathers terrible confess
sion:
"A great, strong Swedish farmer
told 1T to me-this story Of the mean
est thing-told it to me with tears
and sobbing, after a lapse of eigh-
teen years.
You know my son Christian?' he
began. 1T happened when Christian
was ten years old, and Peter was
only eight.
Every night all summer long,
Christian and Peter had brought the
COW from the pasture and had kept
her out of the lucern lots where
fences were down along the way.
On the 5th of October the school
teacher took them to the hills to
gather flowers and autumn leaves.
They came home after dark, tired
out, and finding no one at home,
crept upstairs and went to bed,
They were sleeping soundly when
their mother came a few minutes
later, and she had not the heart to
ask them to get the COW.
1 helped Rasmussen dig the last
ten feet Of his well that day, and
when we had finished he invited me
to supper. After that we sat for a
long while enjoying our pipes and
stories, so it was II o'clock when |
got home.
When | came to the kitchen
saw that the milk had not been set
in the window to cool. Then I was
angry. | took the. pail and went out
to milk. The COW was not in the
barn. Now, | was furious.
4 took up a loose halter strap
that hung over the stall and rushed
up to the boys bed room, muttering
and banging doors as | went. NV
wife in her night dress, stepped be-
fore me at the head of the stairs and
tried to explain. pushed her aside
and badc her hold her tongue. ain
ashamed to tell it, how |, a great big
brute Of man, stood over those two
crying, pleading, trembling, writh-
ing, helpless little boys, my own
flesh and blood, and whipped them
lash upon lash.
When | paused for breath Peter
sobbed, "Father, what is it for?"
What is it for?" | repeated
savagely, "Come, will show you
what it is for!"
"I dragged them from their bed
by the arms, one in each Of my mon
ster hands, down the stairs, out into
the night and mile away, down to
the pasture bars.
The COW stood at the bars, and
when I had let her out the two little
fellows freed their hands from mine
and drove her home.
In the morning Peter did not
get up. / had relented by this time
and ordered that he was not to be
awakened till noon. At noon he was
in burning fever and talked delir-
iously about the COW. Doctor Davis
came and said it was pneumonia. A
week later we laid him away.
Christian did not get whipped
any more, and he has forgiven me
years ago; but I would give my life
and all that I possess to know that
at the last I could clasp little Peter
in my arms and know that lie for
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1915-06-16
Your Cough Can Be Stopped

Using care to avoid draughts, ex-
posure, sudden changes, and taking
treatment Of DR.. Kings New Dis
covery, will positively relieve, and in
tlme Will surely rid you of your
cough. The first dose soothes the
irritation, checks your cough, which
stops in a short time. Dr.. Kings
New Discovery has been used sue
cessfully for As years and is guaran-
iced to cure you. Money back if it
rails. Get bottle from your drug
glSt; 1t costs only little and will
help you so much.-Adv. 3.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1915-06-16
A Medicine Chest for ORC.

In this chest you have { Il excellent
remedy for toOthache, bruises,
Sprains, stiff neck, backaChe, neural
gia, rheumatism and for most emer-
gencies. One 25c. bottle Of Sloan's
Llnlment does it all--this because
these ailments are symptoms, not
diseases, and are caused by conges-
tion and Inflammation. If you
doubt, ask those who use Sloan's Lin
iment, or better Still, buy a 25c. bot
tie and prove it. All druggists.
Adv. 3.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1915-06-16

tlag Saon Anderson (Freigh
Sy springs Atun cherys Crossing Adamss Crossing,
to
passengers: We"h Toxaway, Phinneya, James.
J. r. ANDERSON. Super dent
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1915-06-16
TO Drive Out Malaria
And Build Up The System

Take the Old Standard GROVES
TASTELESS chill TONIC. You know
what you are taking, as the formula Is
printed on every Label, showing 1t 10
Quinine and Iron in tasteless form.
The Quinine drives out malaria, the
Iron builds up the system. so cents
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1915-06-16
Plies Cured in 6 tof Davs

your druggist will refund money if pAZo
OINTMENT ON fails to cure any case of Itching,
biind Bleeding or Protruding Piles in to II days.
Inc hfst application gives Ease and Rest SOC
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1915-06-16

Nothing makes a man so quickly
forget that he has been Tilted as the
society Of another woman.
Carthage courier. (Carthage, Tenn.) 1913-current, 1915-06-24
IDLENESS.

Idleness can go hand in hand
with hard work. Hard work may
not keep us free from the failure
of idleness. For some of US who
know what hard work is unfor-
tunately sandwich in longer or
shorter periods of idleness be-
tween our working spells that
sadly mar the product as a whole.
1t has been said that That man
is idle who does less than he
cam Not what we accomplish,
but what we fail to do that we
might have done, is the test of
our industry or idleness. We
must, of course, take times of
recreation and relaxation, rest
and sleep; that is not the idleness
that handicaps a life. But are
we habitually doing less than we
can? IF so, we are idlers; and
God can free us from this failure.
Sunday School Times.
Carthage courier. (Carthage, Tenn.) 1913-current, 1915-06-24

which such check, draft or order
is drawn, sufficient funds to pay
the same when presented, unless
such check or draft is paid or
accepted when presented. shall
be prima facie evidence of fraud
ulent intent.
BE it further enacted. That
all laws and parts of laws in
conflict herewith be, and the
same are, hereby repealed, and
that this Act take effect from
and after its passage, the public
welfare requiring it..
Carthage courier. (Carthage, Tenn.) 1913-current, 1915-06-24
THE RURAL MAIL CARRIERS.

The following article, entitled
The Rural Mail Carrier" was
recently written by Jewell May
es, Secretary of the Missouri
State Board of Agriculture, and
is soon to be published in that
organizations 1916 year book:
The rural mail carrier is a
forceful factor in the develop
ment of better methods of money
making on the farm-he is a vi
tai force in the country life of
this State and nation!
The rural mail man is the
right hand bower of Uncle Sam.
Carthage courier. (Carthage, Tenn.) 1913-current, 1915-06-24
A MERTTORIOUS MEASURE.

A good measure passed by the
recent legislature was an act in
tlicting severe punishment to
parties guilty of issuing checks
with fraudulent intent. The act
was designed and passed for the
purpose of supressing a practice
from which merchants and bust
ness men have suffered at the
hands of professional check
writer's" Following is the act:
BE It enacted by the General
Assembly of the State of Ten
nessee, That any pelso who
shall obtain, with fraudulent in
tent, money or other property
which may be subject of larcency,
or who shall obtain credit with
like intent, by means of a check,
draft or order. of which he is the
maker or drawer, which is not
paid by the drawee, shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor if the
amount or value is thirty dollars
or less, if the amount of value is
more than thirty dollars he shall
be guilty and punishable as in
case of larceny of such money or
other property, or of anything of
value obtained on such credit,
unless payment of such check,
draft or order after giving seven
days written notice mailed to the
drawers last known address,
and the fact that such maker or
drawer did not have on deposit
or to his credit with the bank,
person, firm or corporation upon
Carthage courier. (Carthage, Tenn.) 1913-current, 1915-06-24

pride. when once destroyed, can
bold peasantry, their country's
never be supplied. Few far
mers realize the Importance of
their vocation. They dom seem
to realize that theirs is a scien-
tific work, as much so as that of
any art. Up until recently only,
the art of farming was consider
ed a mean, rough way of making
a livelihood, but nowadays the
real strength and stamina of the
country are to be looked for
among the cultivators of the
land. From the labor of the hus-
bandmen comes everything that
goes to make a metropolis and
everything that increases the
wealth and glory Of our country.
Without the produce of the far
mer, the wheels of progress
would cease. Kings are fed
from the farmers hands, as it
were, and the same bread which
nourishes the tissues of the most
lowly, nourishes the tissues of
kings and queens. Farming is
the backbone of civilization and
the prop against which all hu-
mainly is leaning. Take it out,
and see how quickly civilization
will crumble into a state of de-
lapsation. Therefore, farmers,
wake up to that realization, and
know that He that by the pillow
would thrive, himself must eth
er hold or drive"
Too. what is so sweet as the
life of the husbandman. "a life
fed by the bounty of the earth,
and sweetened by the airs of
heaven. Farmers, while you are
Far from the madding crowds
ignoble strife, don't allow your
sober wishes to learn to stray
along the cool. sequestered vale
of life, keep the noisefess tenor
of your way" Many are sor-
rowful prodigals from the farm,
and are on starvation in the mad
ding crowds ignobIe strife. The
admonition of the whole world
Carthage courier. (Carthage, Tenn.) 1913-current, 1915-06-24

Federal appropriations in deliv-
ering the mail to the door Of
every home and every place of
business in every city in every
state-and nothing was thought
of the inequality to the farmer.
1t was believed that the business
man should have his mail de-
livered daily to his desk and to
his home free by the govern
ment-but the farmer. the real
business man, didn't get
square deal. The country man
was left without his mail except
as he journeyed to town once
week or so while the city mans
mail came free to his desk four
times day.
Blessed be progress, for to- 1
day the rural mail man driving
his gray horse, his bay team, his
long-eared Missouri mules, his
motorcycle as loud of smell as it
is of noise, or his own automO-
bile as full of growls and fumes
as frog is of croaks, turns in at
every mail box every day at
every country home on nearly
every public highway in these
forty-eight States, carrying JOY
and sorrow, sunshine ana sha-
dow, laughter and tears, bright
ening the days and glorifing the
years of the busy millions of
real producers of wealth.
So wonderfully organized is
this rural mail system that in
millions of homes the farmers
reset their clocks by the sight
of the carrier as he drives down
the road, as regular as the mas
ter mechanism on the tower of
the national observatory.
IF you are a true booster, if
you are true friend to man,
you hold in high regard your
carrier-and you prove it by do
ing we'll your part, and more, all
through the live longyear in
keeping his road and your road
drained, graded and dragged.
If you are in love and fellow
ship with every unselfish slave
to duty you will write the name
of your rural carrier high at the
head of the loyal list of faithful
folks who are silently solving
our country life problems, day
by day, In practical way"
Carthage courier. (Carthage, Tenn.) 1913-current, 1915-06-24

Electricity is the light of the
world in a material sense, just
as our Savior is the light of the
world in a spiritual sense, that
is, the light of all the world, ex-
cept Carthage. a town over a
hundred years old, and big
enough and wealthy enough to
have every sort of modern con-
venience, Carthage can be easily
compared as "a dungeon horri-
bic on all sides around as one
great furnice famed, yet from
these flames. no light but rather
darkness visible, served Only to
discover sights of woe, regions
of sorrow, dolefUl shades. {" It's
so dark here, though, that we
can't even see sights of woe.
Ours is darkness which may
even be felt. Some nights it's
so dark that white appears black
in comparison with the dark
ness. And when night darkens
the streets, then wander forth
the sons of Belial, flown with in
science and wine" How long
will we allow our town to remain
a dungeon horrible on all sides
around" caused by the inability
of the people to see the beauties
all around. How long will we
remain in a state of morbid
drowsiness and lethargy lin this
regard, and our mental vision
incapacitated to see other towns,
not near so large and wealthy as
ours, with electricity and water
works? Carthage people, it is a
pitiful shame that this old, big
town should be destitute of
modern conveniences. Let's wake
up, and at least start a neucleus
of desire for them.
Carthage courier. (Carthage, Tenn.) 1913-current, 1915-06-24
HUSBAND RESCUED
DESP AIRING WIFE

| had eottel, 10 weak could not stand,
aad ! gave up In despair.
At -. my husband got me bottle Of
Cas6u. the woman's tonic. and COM
fenced taking It. From the very first
'dosas could tell II was helping me. /
can noM walk two miles without its
tiring me. and ann doing all my work"
n you are aIlNrpn down from womanIy
troubles. don't eivs,up In despair. Try
cardd. the woman'stOnle. Ithas helped
more than q million women. in Is 80
years OF continuous success. aud should
surely help you. too. Your druggist has
sold cardd for years. he knows what
Il win do. Ask hiz.. He win recOmS
mend n. Begin taking cardui today.
WSSss 70. ChattanooRa MedIeins Co.. Ladies.
Advisory Depe.. Chattnnooga. Tenn.s for SgecsG1
InserSscSiosS on your case and 64-paga book. Homo
TeaaanaaA eos W0mam." seat In plata vTaapsss b-6s
Carthage courier. (Carthage, Tenn.) 1913-current, 1915-06-24
THE TILLAGE OF THE LAND.

Daniel Webster once said:
When tillage begins, other arts
follow. The farmers, therefore,
are the founders of human civiIi-
cation. !" At the same time he
said: Let us never forget that
the cultivation of the earth is
the most important labor of man.
Princes and lords may flourish
and fade; breath can make
them as a breath has made; but
Carthage courier. (Carthage, Tenn.) 1913-current, 1915-06-24

County Superintendent E. L.
Huffines was in Carthage Friday
and expressed himself as being
delighted at the result of the
examinations in this county.
While he had never entertained
any doubt about large majority
passing, he hardly expected the
failure of so small a percent of
the teachers who were examined.
This is a splendid showing, and
will, no doubt, compare most
favorably with any teachers in
the state. Intact it is very
doubtful if the teachers of many
other counties will come up on
the average to the record made
in Smith county.
Carthage courier. (Carthage, Tenn.) 1913-current, 1915-06-24
After Few Y.srs q QiSeOurasina
Csnditions, Mrs. BuHOcE cevs
UphDe.pair. Husband
Came 70 Rescus.

Canon. Ky.-ln m Interesting letter
lrOm sais place. Mrs. Bettie bullock
writes a. follows: 81 suffered Icr Som
years. with womanly troubles. and during
this dine. could only sla up for littie
whils. and could not walk anywhere At
ali. At times. ] would have severe palms
in my LEFT side.
Tbs doctor wa called In. and hin treat
mene relieved me for q while. but was
soou confined to my bed again. Afses
that. nOthlGg seemed to do mo any good
Carthage courier. (Carthage, Tenn.) 1913-current, 1915-06-24

Is o stay In THE little
smiling cottage! where at ever
you meet your rosy children at
the door. prattling their well
comes, and your honest wife,
with good brown cake and bacon
slice. intent to cheer your hum
ger after labor hard. =
Carthage courier. (Carthage, Tenn.) 1913-current, 1915-06-24
BEAR YE ONE ANOTHFRS BURDENS.

bEAR YE ONE ANOlf1ER,S BURDENS."
In a recent issue of the Courier
appeared a poem, entitled Did
You 1t contained questions
of whether or not you are bear
ing the burdens of others as you
would have others to bear your
burdens, and whether or not you
are doing your duty in regard to
fallen man and woman; whether
you are helping him back up the
hill or kicking him further down.
did you give him your hand2
He was slipping down hill, and
the, world, so | fancied, was
treating him III" 1t is by far
easier to fall backward than it is
to climb forward, and when one
starts slipping down hill, itseems
to be the tendency of humanity
to give him a kick downward,
instead of giving him lift up
ward. We don't seem to know
what it means to receive a clasp
of the hand, when a man has
borne about all a man ought to
stand" Only those who have
fallen, and have been haunted
with the frowns of his fellow
beings. can fully appreciate a lift
upward instead of a kick down
ward. Many of our fellow-beings
are now wallowing in the mire
of licentiousness and shame. and
perhaps we, either by silent
negligence or overt action, help
ed place them there. All of us
are guilty to some extent in this
regard either of the sin of COM
mission or omission. We either
helped put some one of our fell
low-beings there by the sin of
commission or are helping keep
him there by the sin of omis-
sion. Start a nucleus of disgrace
concerning ones character or
reputation, and see how quickly
gossip and runner take it up. and
magnify it until someone's char
acter is blackened; someone's
soul made unhappy, and life of
usefulness :anihilated. Oh! that
those who are on top, happy and
successful in life would only do
their duty in regard to the up
lift o f their fallen fellow
beings; that they could and would
realize the awfulness of silent
negligence in regard to bearing
the burdens of the degraded and
disgraced, and execute that re-
alization in the extension of a
glad hand to him who is unhappy,
unsuccessful and on the bottom.
Carthage. we fear is too negli-
gent in this regard. Once a
person starts down hill here, few
there are in this town to pull him
back up. His burden of shame
and unhappiness is borne silent
ly. unmolested by the kind words
of his fellow neighbor, uninter-
ferred with by a manifestion of
those on top for him to sin no
more, and come back and be one
among them.
did you give him lift? He's
a brother of man, And bearing
about all the burden he can. !"
Let US all Know that it is more
blessed to help than it is to be
helped, and constantly labor
under that impression, and es-
pecially during the revival that
is to begin here tonight. Let's all
work up to, during and after the
revival, and many souls will be
lifted up, and made Cody and
happy, like those of us who have
already seen the right wav.-
Carthage courier. (Carthage, Tenn.) 1913-current, 1915-06-24

His labor CT love should not be
underestinated. To him is due
a mighty need of praise for
what he is doing in carrying daily
to millions of farm homes the
local news and world informa-
tion, the market reports, the mi
nor means of transportation, and
a thousand other things too num-
erous to mention.
1.-The rural reuter- is quietly
yet bravely playing his patient
part as soldier of the common
good, III every neighborhood,
every working day of every
month of every year, through
sun and through storm Is
making brighter, buster and bet
ter the daily life of every farm
err, every farmers wife, every
farmers son, every farmers
daughter!
THE carrier is a potent power,
beacon light across the surging
sea of the pleasures and prob
lens of country life. Whatever
his name,- be it Sam, Will,
Frank, Kelsey or what not-he
is practical sociologist, a true
friend to the man by the side of
the road, a sympathetic advo-
cate of the country waman, and
real helper in every time of
.need-not an uplifter, but dali
ly co-worker with every member
of every farm home.
Iu this greatest and best of
nations the rural mail carrier is
the hardest working and the
poorest paid when you consider
the cost of his equipment, the
length and burden of his hours,
his dangers from wind and the
weather. He deserves substan-
tial recognition at the hands of
the wage establishing law-ma-
kers of this nation-and that
without years of redtaped delay.
What limo vation of three de-
cades has done more than this
revolutionary reform in the Fed
eral mail service? 1t was first a
joke. It's rebuffal at the start
sustains Sam Jordan's Crimson
Trail of New Idea. Its speed
was slow but purity for some
time-but it was right and it
went. 1t was dream at first,
then a project, then trial, then
success. Today daily mail is
a necessity. and everybody takes
it for granted.
For generations the country
people of these United States
have paid their share of the
Carthage courier. (Carthage, Tenn.) 1913-current, 1915-06-24

thousands OF American flagS
fioated over this city Monday,
June IA, in cele Iteration of the
138th anniversary of the adop-
ton of the Stars and Stripes by
the Continental Congress as the
dag of the nation. Patriotic ex-
ercises, in which the President
of the United States, members
of his cabinet, other officials of
the government and citizens OF
the District had prominent part.
were held at several of the exc
cutive departments and bureaus
and the schools and churches of
the city. And men, women and
children pledged their allegiance
to their country and their devo-
ton to the flag. The ceremon-
les were made more impressive
than in past years, due to the
crisis which This country is fac
ing in connection with its for
eign relations. Many of the
speakers dwelt upon the fact
that at such a time every true
American, native born or for
eign born, must do his full duty
to the country and the flag.
Although the United States
government for the last two
weeks has been absorbed in the
German situation, the interim OF
a fortnight or more that will
elapse before a reply comes from
Berlin undoubtedly will draw at.
tention again to political develop.
ments in Mexico. Gen. Car.
rama has issued a proclamation
claiming that having control of q
large territory and having insti.
tuted civil administration there.
in, he is entitled to recognition.
Gen. Villa has sent a note tc
this government favoring Presi.
dent Wilson'S suggestion of q
union of the Mexican factions
for peace; and has made over.
lures to Carranza. But the opin.
ion is general in Washington that
the administration cannot long
tolerate the present trend OF
affairs in Mexico. Just how long
the President will wait before
acting no one seems to know, as
he has not discussed the Mexican
question for more than a week