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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1916-09-27
Old Industry Revived.

Connellsyille, Pa, Sept. 25.-
Quantities of Eastwood are being cut
in this vicinity and shipped to New
England paper mills. Twenty-Five
years ago this industry occupied the
time Of large number Of men, the
wood being used by nearby mills.
Eventually all the available timber
was used, but recent Investigation
showed that trees large enough for
pulp have again grown.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1916-09-27
Noted Detective Dead.

London, Sept. 25.---Alfred Ward.
chief inspector Of Scotland Yard, died
in hospital this morning. Inspec-
tor Ward had charge of the police
investigation into several OF the
most sensational crimes Of recent
years. He visited the United States
last May to bring back Ignatius Tit--
bich Lincoln, the former member OF
Parliament and self-confessed Ger
man spy. Lincoln was extradited on
the charge Of forgery.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1916-09-27
OCONEE COTTON MARKET.
Wednesday Morning, 1880.

NEWltY-(Courtcnay Mfg. Coz
Cotton, per pound $3.50
Seed (per tom $4,000
WALHALIA-(C W. Pitchford.)
Cotton, per pound ......l6 3/4
Seed, n"r ton $4,000
Es'rMlNSTER-(J. &. Breazeale.>
cotton, per pound rs 3/4
Soe"' pei lol $49.OO
StNECA-( -(Rarron-Nyrd co.,
Cotton, per pound 3/4
Seed, per ton S49.O 90
WEST uNlON-- tSthOtl,cr Il Phinney)
Cotton, per pound 3/d
Seed, per ton ... $500
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1916-09-27
Cotton Seed Oil Blaze.

Jacksonville, Sept. 22.-Fire at
the plant Of the Florida Cotton Seed
Oil Mills tonight destroyed one Of
the large buildings, quantity Of
cotton seed and five box cars loaded
with cotton seed on a side track
alongside the building. The loss Is
estimated at $4,000, fully covered
by insurance. The company will at
once rebuild. Origin Of the fire is
unknown
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1916-09-27
Grant Reunion.

The Courier is requested to pub
lish the following notice:
All relatives and friends are invit-
ed to attend the reunion at the home
of Samuel Grant, Sr., near Oakway,
on Westminster r. T.. D. No. 3, the
18th Of October, 1916. All come
and bring well-fi!led baskets.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1916-09-27
Meeting Coneross Farmers Union

COnerOss Local Farmers Union,
No. 7G, will meet In regular session
Saturday afternoon, September 30th,
at 2.30 o'clock sharp. All members
are requested to be present, as there
will be business of Importance to
come before the members.
j. w. Alexander, President.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1916-09-27
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Anthracnose (rotten cotton) is do
ing considerable damage to cotton in
all parts Of Oconee county, and un-
less farmers take proper steps in Sc
Letting seed 1t will do considerably
more damage in the future.
County Agent G. M. Barnett will
work with farmers interested in Sc
lecting seed free from the disease.
Drop him a card if interested,
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1916-09-27
Liquor Causes Trouble.

El Paso, Texas, Sept. 25.-A Car
rama sergeant OF the Eel Vale, Chi
huahua garrison, was shot and kill
ed Friday night by an American
trooper of the Fifth Cavalry, who is
being held prisoner, according to a
report brought to Columbus, N. NJ,
to-day from field headquarters. The
Carranza commander at El Vale re-
fused to surrender the prisoner af-
ter Gen. Pershing sent a messenger
requesting release. The American
is said to be held incommunicado on
a charge of murder.
According to the report, eight
members Of the Fifth Cavalry visited
a saloon at FL Vale. Seventeen Car
rama soldiers entered later with
side arms. During the drinking, the
Mexican sergeant is said to have pro-
posed toast to the United States
which was objected to by the Ameri-
cans. The shooting is reported to
have followed.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1916-09-27
ZEPPELINS TOOK HEAVY TOLL.
Raid Over London Results In Two
German "ShipS" Wrecked.

London, Sept. 24.-Of the twelve
big Zeppelins which invaded the
British Isles last night to deal death
and destruction from the skies, two
to-day lay stark and black masses Of
steel and aluminium in the little vii
lage of Mangold, Essex county. They
fell victims Of the anti-aircraft de-
fenSes or London and outlying dis
tricts.
One came down a naming torch, as
did the Zeppelin L-21. destroyed
three weeks ago, while the second,
disabled by gunfire. effected land
ing which saved the lives of the
crew. who tonight are prisoners in
England. The crew of the first raj
der died in the consuming flames Of
their own ship, but were not so ter
ribly charred as their predecessors.
Thousands Saw Zeppelin Burn.
The death and burning Of the first
Zeppelin was witnessed by tens Of
thousands Of London's residents but
the wounding and descent OF tn sec
ond raider was a matter OF ioubt
until to-days official statements we're
given out. Few details are available
of this second raiders condition, but
1t is reliably reported that the crew
surrendered 10 special constables.
Many who saw the shrapnel burst
ing like sky rockets about the invad-
er, which subsequently caught fire,
think there must have been several
direct hits. Many aeroplanes were
aloft and attacked the Zeppelins
from all sides.
Took Heavy Toll.
The raiders took heavy toll of
lives before their destruction, 28
persons being killed and 80 wounded
In the metropolitan district of Lon
don. Two persons were killed, prob
ably four, and II wounded in the
provinces.
The property damage, while wide
ly distributed, is confined for the
most part, to small suburban dwell
ings and shops, although one railway
station was damaged, some empty
cars being destroyed and part Of the
tracks torn up.
Roar of Dropping Bombs.
The roar of dropping bombs was
heard In many districts where the
raiders were invisible. 1t is not be-
lteved that more than two or three
invading Zeppelins which crossed the
east coast succeeded in reaching the
environs OF Lond II, and that two of
these paid the death penalty gives
the greatest satisfaction to the mill
tary authorities. Apart from the
loss Of material, the casualties Of
the last two raids, it is believed, will
have a depressing effect on the Yep
pelin crews in the future.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-27

interests to finance campaigns. Cam paign publicity laws and the investiga. tions which have been and are still be- ing conducted into the affairs of big corporations make this method, so preva. lent at times in the past inadvisable now.
 Tt costs a man some money to run for a county office and a state office, especially one of the big ones, is many times as expensive. The travelling ex- penses and hotel bills, incident to visiting all the counties and most of the towns of the state will run into several thou sand dollars. To get out a couple of let ters to all the voters will amount to some thousands more
 Then there are the items of headquar . ters in the principal cities of the state, offices and office forces to be hired for many months. To properly put his views on public questions before the people of the state, it is also advisable for a man to use some space in most of the news papers and that is also a heavy ex- pense when he takes in all of them. In spite of the effort of the lawmakers to make 1t possible for poor men to run for office and the stringent corrupt prac- tice acts, it still costs thousands of dol lars to make a state campaign for an important office. A man can still spend a fortune and not let one cent of it go for any improper purpose"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-27
Lumber Rusiness Off

The lumber business is considerably off at the present time" said Beverly P. Head of Tuscaloosa, secretary of the Raul Lumber company, who was in Bir- mingham yesterday. "On account of the decrease in the export trade there was big decline in the lumber market for some months after the war in Europe be- gan. However, when the market recov- cred there was much activity and it seemed that the lumber men were about to enjoy some well earned prosperity. Prices scared and the mills were kept busy to fill their orders Future deliv- cries were booked at good prices and the outlook was most favorable.
 But it seems that the field looked too tempting to countless men with small timber tracts or with small capital and everybody with few trees and a smoke stack went into the lumber business. The output soon began to exceed the demand and the prices fell Price cutting on the part of many of the wet weather con- cerns, which had been tempted into the business by visions of immense and im- mediate profits, became more or less general and the slump which we are now having was the result It is hoped that it will not be long before there will be a revival but just how soon it will come cannot at this time be forecast
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-27
Rafded The Age-HeraId

''The drive" of the Alabama National Guard to the mobilization camp at Mont gomery "raided" The Age-Herald before its departure and nine faithful employees left to serve under the Stars and Stripes.
 Well, nine of the boys left for Mont gomery," said Paul Cook, "and if Presi- dent Wilson issues a call for volunteers 1t appears that the rest of the young men of The Age-Herald will enlist. Capt Charley Mandy and William Russell of the editorial rooms; Charlie Russell of the typographical department; Walter Blackman, Jr., and Ed E. Matthews of the engraving depart ment; Roy Murphy of the advertising de- partment, David ('Pompey') Emanuel and Clarence C'Red'0 Patterson of the mailing department, and Fred Bynum of the cir culation department, are The Age-Her- aids quota to the present mobilization of the militia forces of the country, and more are threatening to enlist every mo- ment. As the above nine were faith ful and aggressive in the discharge of their duties at The Age-Herald there is no doubt that they will give an ex- cellent account of themselves if serious trouble develops in Mexico"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-27
SUBJUGATING MEXICO

wait for two months for reinforce ments By the time he was ready to start 30,000 Mexican troops had been drawn up to defend the City of Mexico
 General Scott's march from Vera Cruz occupied six months. Against superior forces at the gates of Mexico City he won an overwhelming victory. While estimates vary as to the num- Der of men engaged on the Mexican side, 1t is the opinion of army officers that only about 5O,OO0 men were en- gagged on that side. while on the American side, guarding the border and including the troops at Vera Cruz. nearly S0O.O00 soldiers were used all told during the two years of warfare
 It is probable that Mexico at the present time could raise 100000 trained soldiers. The American army Is small CT now that it was in 1S47. Mexico City is better fortified today than 1t was in the earlier war and so are its various approaches. It would be no easy struggle that would confront the United States in case of war. but with out doubt the American army. backed by the National Guard and the volun- teer troops. which would be called for, would be equal to the emergency.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-27
Effects of War

Neither the United States nor Mexico really wants war; yet conditions are such that catastrophe of this sort seems i'm minent," says Henry Clews in his week. ly financial review. '"To the United States the consequences cannot be serious, ex- cept in the unnecessary loss of life. Neither the creation of an army of 1OO- 900 to 100000 men, nor the expenditure of a few hundred millions of dollars will make any decided impression upon the vast resources of the United States. The ratio Of costs and losses in a war with Mexico would be very much less than in case of the European war, and no such corresponding outlays for munitions and transportation would be necessary. No serious international difficulties are threatened by the Mexican crisis.
 War or intervention might revive the jealousies of South American states, which we have been sincerely trying to avoid with partial success, and which should pass away entirely as our south ern neighbors acquire a better under standing of our intentions. War might raise some questions concerning our re- responsibilities to other nations which, like ourselves, have large interests in Mexico that would be vitally affected It is too early. however. to intelligently discuss such problems, and for the time being we are chiefly concerned with immediate action.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-27
EMMA EAMES, LINK

From the New York Globe.
 Mime. Emma Flames arrived in Boston Thursday of last week wreathed in smiles and announcing that she had lost the jinx that had been trailing her for nearly year. The loss occurred be- tween Bath. Me, and the Massa chusetts no, the universal, Hub. It followed on a train of other losses.
 In company with her husband, Emilio de Gogorza (whom the Boston Herald, awestruck at the loss of the jinx, denom- mates like herself. a member of the Metropolitan Opera company" which, as matter of fact he neither is nor ever has been), Mime. Flames was cover ing the road from Bath to Boston by mo- tor. Passing through the wicked city of Lynn she discovered that her pocket book, stocked with the sum of $1OO in bills and several papers described as
 valuable" was missing. With her un- failing self-command the former singer began telephoning back from town to town along the route she had travelled in search of the vanished possession.
 Meantime, in the ancient city of witch craft, Salem, schoolboy trudging along. by name Power O'Connell, had picked up a pocketbook containing $100 in bills and some papers. The honest urchin, trudg- Ing alone, after getting expert oopinions from companion. name not given, and a wagon driver called Smith, took the purse to newspaper office, whose edi- tor promptly telephoned the police to ac- quaint them with the find. When in a few minutes the call of distress from Mme. Flames came humming over the wires the guardians of Salem's peace were enabled to direct the lady to the newspaper office, where she shortly ar- rived in her car, and at the sight of the purse is said to have shown unmistak- able signs of the emotion known as over joy.
 It was not so much the money-$20 of that she gave at once to Smith the wagon driver and s1O to each of the boys, on a principle of division that we have not the data necessary to determine, and most of the rest she scattered among some little girls she met selling tags for St. Joseph's school-it was because at last. in ancient Salem town, she had succeeded in eluding the jinx.
 'It is just that my chain of losing things has been broken, declared the former singer in her overjoy Tt started in the fall of 1915, when the steamship bringing my household furnishings and treasures from Paris burned in mid ocean, This winter in New York lost $15O0 necklace, and oh, lot of other little things. Today it was my pocket book. But I've got it back and I guess I the losing things chain is broken" We hope the former singer does not | lose her guess We trust the jinx is ever lastingly confounded. We revel in the 1 thought of spirits that once held Salem
 in horrid spell now converted in their
 superearthly powers to good. Lastly, we point to the prima donna luck thai l brought the loss in holy Salem, though
 the discovery befell in sinful Lynn.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-27
"UNCLEAN! UNCLEANp

extinction of all that makes existence
 worth while in a blackness of anguish and horror. All over this land of ours we poke the lepers food at him lat the end of long pole.'' With faces blanched and averted we ''hire some underling'' to serve, fearful of contagion to ourselves Yet there at Molokai, it appears, is a vast unutilized '1eprosarium'' standing vacant when we might be sending our | own lepers thither for the same ameliora- tive treatment the Hawaiian lepers enjoy. While Superintendent McVegh and pr. Goodhue are at their wits end to provide for the lepers of the archipelago, great stores and the latest scientific equipment because the federal authorities pay no attention to the plant that was built at a cost of $S0O.OOO.
 Politics, and again politics MT. London filings over the Pacific the pointed query:
 why not let Jack McVeigh grab the plunder and use it for his own people?"
 Is this valuable plant to crumble to ruin, like a leprous body, while the pol iticians are making up their minds to
 permit the mainland to send the lepers thther and to pay for their maintenance? Assuredly it is a cruel and piteous thing that some boss here at home is allowed to frustrate measures for the well
 fare of the most miserable of human be- ings, following the dog-in-the-mange
 policy of allowing neither the Hawaiian
 lepers nor those of the mainland to use
 the facilities that will do most to restore
 to them the semblance Of the light and
 life denied.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-27
Campaigns Are Expensive

"Of course under our democratic form of government, any man within the state can run for governor or senator. but it certainly costs to make state cam paign.' said John D. McNeel, collector of internal revenue, yesterday.
 "The legal and legitimate expenses of a statewide campaign run up into thou sands of dollars and no poor man can afford to spend the money necessary un- less his friends are willing to help hin meet his expenses. It has practically reached a point now where man cannot afford to get his camDaign expenses from any of the interests and it is becoming almost impossible for any of the big
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-27

From the Washington Post
 IN the war of 1s47 the beginning of
 the struggle between the United A States and Mexico was not unlike the present preliminary clashes. Gen. eral Taylor in his arduous campaign against Monterey had 1000 men, but even after the capture of Monterey and the victory of Buena Vista, he was confronted with such difficulties in the southern advance that it was finally decided to abandon the cam paign in that quarter, Shortly after ward Taylor's forces were reduced to about 5000 men and the real invasion of Mexico was made by General Win field Scott by way of Vera Cruz. An army of 12,O00 men captured Vera Cruz after siege lasting 20 days Fewer men were used to capture the city two years ago and the siege lasted only a few hours.
 The march into the interior was de- layed for a month because Scott s army was deficient in transportation facilities. The first battle fought at Cerro Gordo resulted in victory for the Americans. Scott pushed on to Pueblo. where he was compelled to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-27
AN HISTORICAL MYSTERY

Persons who have seen the $1o ma tional coin certificate say it bears the likeness of one Michael Hillegas. That. at least, is the name legibly written un-
 der the portrait. Is anybody in the
 history class prepared to raise his
 hand and explain who Michael Hillegas
 was and how his portrait comes to
 adorn our larger pieces of money? s Biographical dictionaries and ency- clopaedias know him not. But wait the coin certificate also says he was the first Treasurer of the United States. With this clew the scholarly Boston
 Transcript has looked him up and finds he was wealthy sugar refiner who helped finance the Revolution. That in formation somewhat changes the form of the inquiry. Will any member Of the history class now raise his hand and explain why MT. Hillegas, being a wealthy sugar refiner. was not made vice president?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-27
TOBACCO AIDS SOLDIERS
pm the London Chronicle.

From the London Chronicle.
 The benefcent effects of tobacco at the front were affirmed by the Lancet as long ago as 1870, when the question was being discussed in connection with the Franco-Prussian war. '"The soldier" 1t was said, 'wearied with long marches and uncertain rest, obtaining his food how and when he can, with his nervous system always in state of tension from the, dangers and excitement he encoun- ters. finds that his cigar or pipe enables him to sustain fatigue with comparative equanimity. For the wounded it is probable that tobacco has slight an- odyne and narcotic properties that enable the sufferer to sustain pain better dur ing the day, and to obtain sleep during the night"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-27
HOW LONDON CREW
I the New York Telegram.

From the New York Telegram.
 Britain's great empire has grown just as the great city of London grew. You ride on bus from Hampstead to the Strand. and you pass at least four High streets. each one the main thor oughfare of a former village" says Samual P. Orth. in the Imperial Im- pulse. London is only fortuituus ccl- lection of villages. It was never planned. It has no community of inter- est save trade. It was never governed as municipality.
 For years each parish had its own government; today 1t is governed by a county council. It is an amorphous aggregation of novels. shops and pals aces, with no limits 9r plan to it's spreading. E
 Like terrible Brobdingnagian ameba. it pushes its tentacles hither and thither, prompted only by the in- stincts for food" Ea
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-06-27
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 IVY HEN Robert Louis Stevenson MI hurled the terrible grenade o1

' roHl tne Pnlladelphles Public Ledger.
 IVY HEN Robert Louis Stevenson
 W hurled the terrible grenade of
 the open letter in behalf of Father Damien at the snug, sleek churchmanship of Dr. Hyde of San Fran cisco, the worlds fugitive attention was drawn to the leper colony of Molokai. The world then learned-for the first time in the case of most of us-that there was one place where the expatriated ''unclean," the men without a country except the heavenly, and often without a friend short of God, could go as to a camp of refuge and find themselves treated not as monsters, but as men, not as the pallid, ulucerous phantoms of hu- manity they seemed, but as creatures only asking a little sun and earth and the same right to breathe with the rest of us Sometime later sympathetic thrill pa ssed through those who have the sense that Is touched to compa ssion by such tales when the story came of the death of Dr. w. R. Brinckerhoff, who went from the Harvard Medical school to give his life to the plight of the lepers, and literally gave it, in a little while, be- cause he contracted the loathed disease in a malignant form from his unsparing ministra tions.
 Now Jack London has written to the Public Ledger of what he has seen and knows of Molokai. He pleads as though with fire and tears, but first he tells a story that is bright with hope. It is a story of life and not of death, of daunt- less courage and not of despair, of re- newal of the joy of living and not of an