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KI? "TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE, ANO IT MUST FOLLOW AS THE NIGHT THB HAY: THOU OANST NOT THEN BE FALSE TO ANY MAN." By STECK, SHELOR & SCHRODER. WALHALLA, SOUTH CAROLINA, .WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1010. Cotton St j We have 100 Seed Meal to warehouse is o\ cial price in ton you money. G. W. & J. E. ) W AJLH AI IT PAY8 TO Bl CUT OFF FINGERS TO xESCAPE Army Service-Two Sevier Roys Aro Given Terms In Penitentiary. (Greenville News.) Records o? recent courts martial held at Camp Sevier contain some in teresting verdicts, among them two sentences to considerable terras of imprisonment for self-mutilation to escape military service. Private Lark L. TrJplett, Company M, 119th Infantry, whose home was at Granite Falls, N. pi, was sentenc ed to four yearsVimprisonment in the Federal prison at Atlanta for cutting off three fingers of his left hand. Pri vate Edward J. Causey, Company L, 119th Infantry, who lived ut Dover., Tenn., was given soven years for re moving a like number of fingers from his right hand, the court holding that the right hand is moro important in rt military way, and consequently that the offense was moro serious. Other recent cases, with the sen tences fixed, are: Corp. Oscar J. Gregory, Company C, 118th Infantry, desertion and lar ceny, ten years in the Atlanta Fede ral prison. Private D. M. Aldersea, Company II, 117th Infantry, larceny; dishon orable discharge and five years at Fort Fay, N. Y. * UNION 61 (WINSTON-S To the Farmers of Please take nc tilizer business he: by Geo. A. Harris resenting the above manufacturers, \yil Baylis W. Harrison ford. We will car stock at the old He at Blue Ridge depo DON'T FORGET UNION Call, phone or formation to BAYLIS W. C. W. PITC1 ;ed Meal tons of Cotton movej as our rerloaded, Spe lots. Can save BAUKNIGHT, -(LA., S. O? JY FOR CASH. Private Louis H. R. DeWitt, deser tion and enticing others to desert; ten years in the Federal prison at Atlanta. Private Hyman H. Christmas, But tery B, 115th Field Artillery, for gery, obtaining money under false pretences and absence without leave; five years. Fund foi* Armenians Grows. The funds for the relief of the Ar menian sufferers has grown consider ably since last week, when tho report showed only $4.55 contributed. The showing to-day is as folllows: Acknowledged last week....$ 4.55 Miss Nettle Jones, Tamassee. 1.00 Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Zachary, Seneca, Rt. 4. ... 1.00 South Union Sunday School, (S. L. Burris's, Supt.).... 9.CO Rev. S. A. Tow, Walhalla, Rt. 2-Individual . 4.00 Total to date.$20.21 Card of Thanks. Bd i tor Keowee Courier: We wish to thank our kind friends and neigh bors for the kindness shown us In the hour of sorrow at the death of our darling baby, little Ruth Alice. We pray that God's blessings may JO with them all through life. Mr. and Mrs. Sloan W. Martin. Seneca, R.F.D. No. 5. t IAN0 CO., AXiEM, N. C.,) 3RADE m i Z E R Oconee: >tice that the Fer ret?fore conducted oo, deceased, rep named well-known il be conducted by i and C. W. Pitch ry at all times full trrison Warehouse t. THAT THIS IS GOODS. write for any. in HARRISON, IFORD, Walhalla, S. Cv. AMERICANS IN LORRAINE LINE. Connans Seem to Ho Testing Out . / Thelv Newest Foes. With the American Anny In France, Foti; 3.-American troops now aro occupying a sector on the i Lorraine front. The military censor has permitted publication of this an- \ nouncement. The whole American sector is re sounding with the boom of gi?"?. Airmen became exceedingly active along tho American front on Satur day. Enemy snipers wounded two Americans slightly early this morn ing. A shift, of the wind to-day cleared away the mist which has hindered aerial operations and other activities for several days. A number of bat tles In tho air were fought by patrol ling planes, early this afternoon. In one Instance tho French aviator de feated an attempt of German filers to, cross .behind tho American trenches. Artillery and Stripers Active. The artillery and snipers also have, become Increasingly active. Ameri can 75's are harassing traffic behind the enemy trenches. The Germans are continuing the fire largely to the American trenches. Throughout Friday night machine guns rattled ceaselessly from Ger man positions. The French commander of a sau sage balloon squadron, who was an artillery officer at Verdun during the heaviest fighting, and also participat ed in the Sommo offensive, declared to-day that the work of certain Amer ican batteries at the front is "almost l>erfect." He was particularly pleas ed with the work done "by American guns in firing on a German position in a wood, which ho observed from a halloon. - <v Where Americans Aile Stationed, The fact that American troops were in the trenches in Lorraine was revealed by the German war office three months ago. . At that time, ac cording to an official German an nouncement, the Americans were on the front at the Rhlne-Marne canal, which intersects the battle line near the German border, due east of Nancy. This announcement was made in the official report from Ber lin of the first German raid on the American positions, in which three Americans were killed, five wounded and twelve captured. The Oasterntend of tho battle line in France and Belgium runs through French and German Lorraine. French Lorraine, is which is the American sector, is included' In the depart ments of the Meuse, the capital of which is Verdun; Meurthe-et-Mo selle, whoso capital * is Nancy, and Vosges, with the capital at Epihal. The length of the front In French Lorraine is about 150 miles. This section of the battle line ex tends into the Meuse from the Marne near St. Menebould, and runs eastward to the north of Verdun, south to St. Mlhiel and east to tho German border.. There it turns to the southeast, and almost parallels the border to the vicinity of Leintry. Below Leintry it cuts across a sec tion of French soil, past 'Badonvlller and Se??nos and to the east of St. Die, and again across the Gorman border at a point west of Colmar. The remainder of the line to the Swiss boundary ls In Germany. Since the battle of Verdun there has t>ecn no fighting of groat import ance along this front. For the most part lt runs through high and broken country. Since the-present battle line was established early In the war there has been comparatively little activity on the front to the east of the Verdun sector, the nature of the country making large operations Im practicable. Entertainment at Flat Shoals. There will be a public entertain ment given by local talent at Flat Shoals school house Friday night, February 8, beginning promptly at 7.30 o'clock. A generous program is being ar ranged, consisting of short plays, monologues and a drill by tho pri mary grades. M,lfdc will ulso bo given. Refreshments, consisting of hot coffee and chocolate, tea with cakes, Will be sorvedt s An admission foo of 15 and 25 couts will ho charged. Come, every body. RUPTURE EX PERT HERE. Seeley, World Famous in Tills Spe cialty, Called to Anderson, F. H? Seeley, of Chicago and Phila delphia, tho noted truss expert, will he nt the Chiquola Hotel and will romain in Anderson Friday only, February 15th. Mr. Sreley says: "Tho Spermatic Shield will not only retain any case-of rupture perfectly, bufe-eewtracts the opening in ten days on tho average case. This instru ment recoivbd tho only award in Eng land and in Spain, producing results without surgery, injections, medical treatments or prescriptions. Mr. Sooley has documents from the Unir tod States Government, Washington, D. C., for inspection. All charity cases without charge^ of*if any inter ested call, he will be glad toi show same without charge or flt them If desired. Business demands prevent stopping at any other place in this Boctlon." P. S.-Every statement in this no tice has been verified before the Fed eral and State Courts.-~F, H. Seeloy. -Adv. 7* . HFJil) PENDING INFORMATION. lohn Fountleroy Taken lu Charge on ( Suspicion ut Westminster. Sheriff .las. M. Moss was notified the other day of tho appearance on the roaciNbetwoen Richland and West- I minster of a man whose actions gave i riso to suspicions as to his purpose < in the vicinity in which ho was takon I In charge. Ile had stopped over | night at a home in tho Richland com- I munity, and- decided in the morning I to make an early start toward the Georgia line. Ile gnvo his name, ; when Deputy Sheriff B. R. Moss first interviewed him, as Sir .lohn Fount loroy, and ho states that ho ls a na tive of Virginia. Ho Is evidently a man of considerable education, and knows not a few people of promi nence in South Carolina. He slates that for some time he has been- on a visit to friends in the Blltmore sec tion of North Carolina, and was mak ing his way to Georgia at tho time he was taken in charge. A telegram has been sent to a brother in a dist ant city, and Fountleroy is being" hold pending a hearing from this message. There is no charge against him, he being held morely under sus picion of possible connection with some espionage work. / When taken in-charge'hy Deputy Sheriff 'Moss he had in his possession a sack full of letters and papers, in many of the papers there hoing some kind of powders, all of which, so far as ascertained, aro absolutely harm less. Fountleroy ls a great writer of letters, and this feature of his de meanor gave rise to suspicion, as he woulcl_8lt up practically all night writing one letter after another, put ting them away in a sack which he carried. In response to a query as to his nationality, his reply was quick and emphatic. "Oh, American," he said, "American for 200 years back, though, as my name Indicates, I am of French extraction." Ho felt sure, ha said, thal his predicament wan duo to the unsettled condition of the country, any little peculiarity giving rise to suspicion. He holds no ill feeling toward the local authorities on account of his incarceration; in fact, his references to both Sheriff and Deputy Sheriff Moss andv the lat ter's wife are most complimentary. "They are so nice," ho said, "and ! haw treated me with every consider- | atlon- possible ? under tho circum stance's." He is satisfied, ho said, that ho will bo released just ns soon as the Sheriff's telegram of inquiry Is answered, "and then," he said with a smile, "I will gp on my way rejoicing, for I have nothing to con- ? coal and have told the truth; 'tis j 'truth that sets us free'." Fountleroy is quito an Interesting person to converse with. He has'a I good face, pleasant countenance and j ls as affable and open, to all appear- j anees, as any man could bo. Sheriff j Jas. 'M. Moss ts Impressed with the man to such extent that he feels sure ' also that the answer to his inquiry will Justify his release. Under the circumstances, however, ho will be held until all the little peculiarities of the situation have been cleared up. Aoof her Case of Interest. ' Interest will center locally in tho following dispatch from Augusta, Ga., one of tho parties having but re cently been In Walhalla, whoro he entered into some business prospect ive deals with Deputy Sheriff B. R. Moss, at whom tho party giving his namo as Serdenberg gave evidence of wishing to purchase some lands. Mr. Moss was somewhat suspicious of the party, but was unable to draw from him or observe anything about him that would warrant detention. The dispatch ls as follows: } "Augusta, Ga., Feb. 2.-United States Assistant District Attorney Wallace Miller, of Macon, made a public statement to-night completely exonerating Dr. RT; Li Rhodes, who ls a lieutenant In the medical ofll eers' reserve corps, ij.S.A., and was charged with' 'tipping off* George R. Serdenberg, alleged Gorman spy, that the 'secret serviert men were after him'." Mr. Moss noticed the very nervous condition of Serdenberg when he was ' herc, and thought something was j strange about tho man, but could brlpg nothing to the surface to jus tify any action on his part. Serden berg left here, and evidently made lils way pretty directly to Augusta, where jie landed In a hospital. The Dr. Rhodes mentioned, who was at tending Serdenberg whllo In tho hos pital, hearing that secret service men were looking up Sordenberg's rec ord, thoughtlessly remarked to his patient that he, tho doctor, under stood that secret service men were investigating him. Thin gave rise to the arrest of Dr. Rhodes for giving Information of this fact to a man who was really under survellance of tho ofilclnls, and this, it Is said, is the ground upon which tho physician was arrested. His release is based upon his uniformly 'patriotic demeanor, and the ascertaining of the fact that the remark he made was tho result of an impulse to joko with a patient of whom ho liad not tho slightest suspicion, Dr. Rhodes ls a member of the medical reserve corps. To water trees on city streets a Gorman forester has invented a per forated rlj?g to be burled in tho ground above their roots, an opening extending abovo tho ground to re ?oive the water. j N'F.GRO KILLED HY KLKCTRlCITY. I'ut4's Trolley .Jumps and Lands on I2,:*00-Volt Wiro. (Greenville Nows, 4 tli. > Geo. Su'bor, colored, was killed, ?nd Hlcliard Hill, a young white man, suffered a severe shock yester day morning When a holt lino car ol* the Southern Public Utilities Com pany, In making the turn on Pendle lon streot, had its trolley to jump tho trolley wire and como In contact with a heavy voltage wire running Alongside tho track and carrying cur rent to operate the cotton mills In the suburbs. The trolley which, to ruh the car, was accustomed to car rying only 5 50 volts of electricity, hitting the power wire, became charged with 2,.'100 volts. This heavy charge was taken to the cbn trollers on tho front and rear of the car, and bad not .tho motorman In front thrown tho controller he was operating into neutral only a mira cle would have saved him from being Instantly killed. It was by coming'in contact with the controller on tho rear of the car that the negro lost his Ufo and the white man, HUI, was badly shocked, though not seriously hurt. * According to reports received at the omeo of tho Utilities Company yesterday, the trolley came In con tact with the high voltage wire In the manner stated above, and the negro, S?ber-, who occupied a seat In the extreme rear of the car, got up and went-to the rear plutform. When he reached the platform ho laid his hand on the controller which was charged with the 2,300 volts from tho power wire. Death was Instantane ous, and so firmly did the negro grip the controller that lt required con siderable force to get him loose. When a person grips an object which ls ?highly charged with electricity ho is quickly drawn to that object and his hold becomes superhuman. Stren uous efforts w^ere made by Motorman Vaughn and Conductor Blggerstaff, who were In charge of tho err,,to re suscitate the negro, 'but without avail. Officials of the company stated that Hill, who was sitting well up toward tho front of the car, left hie seat also and went to tho roar plat form, 'where he, too, laid his hand on tho deadly controller. .Ile was snatched away before his grip be mno as strong as tho negro's was ind although badly shocked ls not thought to bo fatally Injured. Pr. J. B. HUI, who was on another street car a short distance away, hurried to tho scene, rendered medical aid to him and rushed him to thc City Hospital, where lt was stated last night he is resting well and has a good jhance for recovery. The'only damage done to the car was that the controller on both the front and rear wore burnt out and rendered useless by tho high voltage they received. Traffic was delayed on the belt Une for 2 0 or 30 min utes. 14 German ?Manes Bugged. Rome, Fob. 3.-Fourteen enemy airplanes and a captive balloon were brought down yesterday on the Ital ian front. Heavy artillery fighting IB In progress along the Lower Plave river. Following ls the official ac count of these operations: "There was moderate artillery ac tivity from Stelvlo to the Plave river, and more severe artillery fighting along the lower, reaches of the river. The enemy exploded mines without success in the Pasubio area. Patrol encounters took place on tho hills northeast of 'Monto Grappa. "Favored by fine weather, our ae rial forces, with the effective co-ope ration of our naval planes, engaged In considerable activity against ene my military objectives. Our aviators yesterday bombarded concentration points and crossings of highways along the enemy Unca of communica tion on the Asingo plateau. Our bombing machines last night dam aged tho plant operating the nerlai cable Une between Caldonazza and Mono Revere. "ICight hostile machines were brought down yesterday. Six others ..vero shot down hy British aviators/ who also set fire to a captive ba' loon along the Plave." Notice to Oconee R. S. I. A's. AU Oconee Rural School Improve ment Associations wishing to com peto for any of the State prizes are requested to send In thoir applica tions, along with reports, photo graphs of buildings, grounds, etc., that they may havo on hand, and that may bo of any assistance to tho prize committee in determining tho prize-winning schools. Send your applications direct to Miss Madeline Sp}genor, Columbia, S. C., Stnto R. S. I. A. President, or to me. If sent to mo please send as soon as possible, as my mall is apt to l>o dolayed on account of bad roads, etc. Report blanks, etc., can bo found at tho office of the County Superin tendent of Education. Those schools having already cent in their reports have neglected to Bend in -*lhelr prize application. Pienso write an application, stating what you accompllslted this year, and send to rae. I will forward to Co luriibla. Mrs. S. G. Smith, County Organizer. '.Valhalla, S. C., R.F.D. - ( Farm and Factory and Tu ga. loo Tribune please copy.) PILOT AND CAPTAIN RLVMP.D l'or Horror in Halifax Harbor4- in ?He!monis for Manslaughter. Halifax, Nj S., Feb. V--Blame fot the collision between tho French mu nitions shin Mont. Ulano?and the Bel gian relief ship Imo, resulting in th* explosion of'tho former vossol, which destroyed a largo part of Halifax, ou Decombor 6, was plaeod upon Pilot Mackay, of Halifax, and Cnpt. La Modec, of tho French ship, itt a Judgment irnnouncod to-day by the government commission which lnve* togated the collision. With the announcement ot the commission's judgment, Pilot Mac kay was arrested charged with man slaughter, tho commission having recommended that ho be criminally "prosecuted sud bis license cancelled. The commission ateo recommends to the French authorities tho cancel lation- of tho license of Capt. LaMo dec and "that ho be dealt with ac cording to the law of his country." Capt. LaModec was also arrested. Charged with manslaughter. Fifteen hundred persons wore killed, several thousand Injured and an area of two and a half square miles adjacent to tho Narrows was laid bare by the explosion aboard ' tho Mont Plane. Pilot Mackay wa? bringing tlio Mont Blanc Into pori when the vessel was rammed amid ships by tho imo, outward bound. Tho weather was clear aud ag the ships passed In the narrow channel signals wore confused, lt was Bald, "and the crash came before the pilot of the Imo. now dead, waa able te have her swung about into free wa ters. Tho accident set fire to tanks of benzol on the dock of tho Mont Blanc, and Instantly groat volumes of smoko shot skyward. Realizing the danger, 'Mackay, Capt. LaModec and the ship's crow took to the boats and proceeded at top speed toward shore. As they landed they continued to run. They were more than a mlle from tho water when tho ship blew up. Tho commission hold that Capt. LaModec, and the pilot violated the rules of tho road. Pilot A uthoritlcs Censured. Capt. LaModec and Pilot Mackay are in ad(|itlon found guilty by thc commission of neglect of public safe ty on tho ground they did not take proper steps to warn tho Inhabitants' of tho city of a probable explosion. The commission further "considers the pilotage authorities deserving of censure" for permitting Mackay to pilot ships since tho disaster. Moro Men to Move ?ii?d, Washington, Feb. 1.-Provost Marshal "General Crowder to-day an nounced that tho movement of tho last Incrementa of mon selected in the first draft will begin on February 23d and continuo for a period of Ave days. This will complete tho opera tion of tho first draft, as all States have furnished their full quotas. Tho movement will bring the strength of tho national army up to tho 685,000 mon contemplated In tho llrst draft. Tho number of men which will he started to the Southern cantonments on February 23 aro: Camp lyce, Va..'.3,000 Jackson, S. C., (negroes) . . . .3,383 Gordon, Ga., (negroes) t.2,800 Travis, Texas, (negroes) ....7,558 'Pike, Ark., (negroes) .2,000 West Virginia will send 1,520 men to Camp Meade, Md., Instead o^ to Camp Lee, Va. .V PATRIOTIC M RIOTING FR I OA Y NIGHT. As announced last week, there will bo a patriotic meeting at tho Wal halla High sSchool building Friday night of this week, February 8th, at 7.30 o'clock. Tho public is urged to attend, this invitation being to all citizens, young and old. There will bu something of Interest to all. A program ls l>olng arranged, bul has not boon completed ns yet. There will, however, be a number of inter esting features of tho mooting, and no ono who has tho interest of our country at heart should bo. absent. Let everybody keep the date and hour, in mind and ho on hand promptly; There will be several speakers prosent, among them hoing Dr*. D. W, Daniel, of Clemson College. Dr. Daniel ls too well known here to need any introduction, and it goos without saying that ho will have something both Interesting and In structive. The children of tho school-some of them- wlll; have a place on the program. They have been given somo vory interesting work to do, -and their work will not end with the closing of the program Friday night. There will be no admission fee charged. The entire program ls pa triotic in its nature, wita no charge to enter, and none to leave. Attend ance will cost you nothing. Como ont Friday night! . .? Townsend Ctiosen Judge. Columbia, Jan. 30.-W. T. "irlown Bond was to-day chosen Judge ot tho Fifth Circuit to succeed Mendel Li, Smith, who recently resigned to ac cept a commission In the United States army with tho rank of major. Judge advocate. ?Mr. Townsend was .elected on the second "ballot, getting ?t> out of rttotal ot 14G voto., cur