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KEOWEE COURIER (EsUbllMllOd 1840.) Published Kvory Wednesday Morning Subscription Si Ter Annum. Advertising Kates Reasonable. -Ky BT KOK, SHELOK Sc S?IIRODKR. Communications <>f a personal character charged tor as advertise in en ts. Obituary nones ana tributes of respect, o? liol over 100 words, will b.> printed free ol charge. All over that number must be paid for at tho rate of one cent a word. Cash to accompany manuscript. WALHALLA. S. C.: WCONKSKAV, DCCKMKKK Kt, UH? SHOKS ItfiSO PKR PAIR. i I.nibargo on Leather or Cud ol' War Only HOIK-? foi* Relief. Lynn. Mass.. Oct. G.- Ai a confer ence of slim- manufacturers and re tailers to-day. called to demand a Conm esisona 1 int|liil> Ol' t be shortage i and high cost ol leal brr. it was an no.riced thal leather had advanced I.' cents a fool since a week ago to na;?. Similar advances within th" next few weeks would compel retailers to! charge $110 a pair tor shoes new sell- ' inc at hall thal price, il was slated. in resolutions to be sent io Wash ington il will be staled thal (ive: vi;.rs ugo most ot the shoes made in \'e\\ langland were retailed at to ;i pair for tnedium grades for men. aid from $(', to $10 a pair for wo llt? Roughly speaking, prices ot -li<><-: have doubled during the '.asl liv- years, tho sharpest advances be in: since the war. With an embargo placed on lea llnr experts, those at Ibo conference In-day declared prices would return tn normal. Manufacturers must soon run OH half lime, says a statement by Albert M Creighton, president, ol' the Lynn sin*- .Manufacturers' Association. Und of the war or an embargo can alni,' relieve tho situation ho de rla res. Clayed Willi Pistol-Head. Moult rio. Ca., I iee i;. Berna rd. tin I' year-old son of Mr. and .Mrs. ; T. W. Watts, who reside several miles , west of here, shot and instantly kill- j ed himself while playing with a pis-j toi yesterday. The boy, with one or ; two other small children, had been left in tin? house liv his parents, who j were looking after some duties out ol doors, when he went to the bed and removed the pistol from beneath a . pillow, where il was kept. He re-: moved all of thu cartridges hut ono ] and was snapping it when it was dis charged. Tho bullet entered his mouth and lodged in his brain. I Heath was instantaneous, Attracted by the shot Mr. and Mrs. 1 Watts rushed into the house and \ found the little fellow lying on the j floor dead. One hand held the pistol and the Other clutched the five load ed cartridges. Suicide Made Complete .lob. Atlanta, Ca., Dec. ii. Of all the suicides committed in Atlanta, prob ably tho most horrible and shocking on record was thal yesterday of a man whose name is thought to have hoon Louis Slagon, and whose body was burned to a cinder by dames from his idol bing, which had been saturated with gasoline. Purchasing a five-gallon can of ?he inflammable liquid, the man weal into an alley on West Peachtree street, near the emiter of Ibo eily, drenched himself from head lo foot, replaced the stopper in Ibo can. then VU I ked lo the street and deliberately struck a r deli and ignited his cloth ing lu a mass of Haine, he ran head long into the street, dashed blindly Into Ibo rear ot a rapidly moving trolley ear. and 'ell on the track in a writhing torture. liefere aid could reach him Ibo man was burned io a cinder, beyond recognition. Doth his identity and his motive for the strange and horrible deed uro enveloped in mystery, Kev. Abercrombie io Picketts. ( Picken , Sent ?ucl. i Be\ c. R. Abercrombie, of Salem, luis boughl a place at Six-Mile, and win move lhere in lite near future. Mr, Abercrombie now preaches at Mountain View, Salem, Cheohoe and Pleasant Ridge. -? . Inncitivity Causes Constipation. Lack of exercise in tho winter isa frequent cause of constipation. You feel heavy, dull and listless, your complexion is sallow and pimply, and energy at low ebb. Clean up this condition at once with Dr. King's New Lifo Pills, a mild laxative that relieves the congested intestines without griping. A dose before re tiring will assure you a full and easy movement in the morning. 2."?e, at your druggist.- - Adv. 2. THFJ LESSON OF THF AGES, WHICH THF UNITED STATUS SHOULD NOW TEACH ANEW TO TUM POWKIIM OK KIJEEHINU MUKOI'H. "Whatever enables ns to go to war secures our peuce."-Thomas Jefferson. ' (), tho striking! 'J'he sink ing! When men shall he blown about as moths In the wind ! A nd then Allah shall erv unto Hell, 'Arl thon lilied lui rr And Hell shall cry to Allah. 'More! Clive ino more! " ( Prom At lauta Georgian. ) The Arabian prophet, Mahomet, was not only a great reformer and a great teacher and a great statesman, but he was also a groat poet, lu one of those cataleptic trances to which be was subject he saw a sublime vis ion of the Day of .Ind?ment, and al tered ? rhapsody ol' which these words here (ploted aro the terrille conclusion, Spoken more than ?1 thousand years ago. with what power do these amaz ing words brinn home to the reflect ive mind tho condition of mankind (bis rory day. after nearly two thou sand years Ol Christian civilization! "1 have stood." said Lloyd George i t>w weeks ano, aller his return from the Somme battlefields, "and seen live hundred thousand men fed into the mouth of that burning hell.'' The dreadful vision of the Arabian seer, after more than a thousand years, had become ? dreadful reality before the eyes of a matter-of-fact Welshman gazing Into that ghastly hell of death and woe which is thc ultimate achievement of twenty cen turies of human thought, human ex periment, human endeavor and lite religion, laws, institutions ami gov ernments Of thc civilized pimples of i he earth. And still Allah cries to Hell. "Art limn filled rilli?" And still Hell clamors unto Allah. ".More! Give me more! " " The saddest thing of all." said a thoughtful and observant man who hui lately returned from journeys in Prance, in longland and in Russia, "ls the dreadful callousness with which human slaughter has come to he regarded. Europe is revert iii", lo ba rbarism." ' W hat we have to do," wrote au Englishman of letter;;, "is to kill Germans and then keep on killing more Germans until there are no more to kill." "The hardest thing to hear," says a German, writing home from the front, "is thc terrible smell of the decaying corpses between us and the enemy trenches. There are thousands of them lying out lhere that neither side dares to try to bury. Day be fore yesterday we had good success and killed many hundreds more in a bomb attack." "The day I was wounded." relates an American who returned on fur lough the other day to see ? college foot ball game. "I had gone up to meet a German llier and got my man. It is great sport." Great sport! To cross the seas and risk life and limb, not for one's own people and the dear sake ol' native land, but the mere lust of killing other human beings! Great sport! To hurl another hu man being lo an awful death, tc widow some wretched wife, to orphan poor, weeping children! Good friends, this dreadful war has made savage beasts of men-tigers and hyenas, ranging each other's throats, dripping with human blood exulting above the slain and raven ing. ts it were, among the rostering heaps ol' mutilated Mesh that bul yes lerda v were living bodies, made ii t he i mage nf God. The chivalry ol' thc olden wars has departed. These millions are mur 1er*',I bj machinery, slain by mathe m a I lea I formulas, butchered by tin combinations of the laboratory. Meantime, while tho fields ol bal tie and the burrows in which I host cavemen of tho modern world lurk ii readiness to kill and lo be killed rui with streams of blood, other r?gion beyond tho thunder of the guns am the tumult ol the fighting r eso un with the groans and cries of titos who suffer and die in the agonies o starvation or under the brutalities n int ailing hordes. "Art thou tilled full, (> Hell?" Vnd Hell cries still. "More, giv me more! Are there not yet the W< men ami (he lillie children ami th I ender halws?" In all ilia? vast region." declare alt American who has returned I make report of hi= mission to Pi land, "there is not a living child Ul der live years Of age. They have ti mccumbed to exposure and famin to the number of al least two ml HOPS." Men and women of America, h; there not been enough of this devil work (ione while we have stood by silence consenting? Are not these poor, agonized, to moated, helpless, starving, dyit creatures our brothers and our si tera, to whom wo owe every obliga tion ot rescue and succor that (Sod and humanity can lay upon the con science of civilized people? ls it not true that men are right fully members ol one great family, knit together in tho bond of univer sal brotherhood? And can we stand excused and guiltless before the judgment bar of tho ngOrf if we continue to consent to all this woe and agony of the other peoples-nay. worse, if we continue to provide the menus ol more slaugh ter, to make prom of accumulated agonies, to coin the blood and tears of humanity into gold that is as ac cursed as the shekels for which Judas sold the ('brist to the tormentors? There lies before us as a nation, dear friends, tho plainest path of manly and courageous conduct that ever beckoned a people's feet to splendid and glorious achievement. We are a strong people, a very strong people indeed, and in a just cause and with our hacks to our homos and our wives and our little ones, wo might face the world in hos tile arms, and trust that we should not be beaten and trodden under enemy feet. We are a very rich people) and without I he stores of our granaries and our warehouses to load the ships that come io our shores, it would go bald with many of those who tue slaying and destroying instead of creating and producing. \bovc our strength ?md numbers and riches we possess a far more splendid possession, which ls the moral prestige that not even these two uubaiipy years have been able to shake from its seal ol' power and In fluence among the nations. And our most noble and most -Mo rions opportunity is to employ all the accumulated and compacted Weight and potency of out strength', our numbers, our wealth and our moral prestige and Influence to promote speedy peace in distressed and sad dened Ku rope. Lot us all, with one accord) urge upon our own President that he speak, in his great place, to I he war ring governments the words of medi ation and friendlies! concern which ire in the hearts of all American men and American women who are wor thy to wear the bright badge ol citi zenship in this, our dear country. Certainly, it is our right to offer mediation. If we have sinned in some ways, wc have nobly and unselfishly played ii righteous part in other ways. We have not closed our ears to the Appeals of thc suffering. We have 51 veil freely of our wealth, and made io question of race or creed. We lave avoided quarrels and sought mace, and if some among us have italned their hands with the price of )lood, for the most part we have done what we could to bind up the wounds if the peoples and to succor the ago ll/.ed and despairing. Therefore it ls that our President las the indubitable right, and, in our Ixed judgment, is in duty bounden to speak the sentiments of his fellow Mtlzcns in an earnest and weighty .ppeal to the warring powers to ac !0pl *Ue friendly offices of our great lotion, to the end thal war may .ease among the peoples and peace .eign over them. What a happy, happy Chritsmas his would be il the herald angels !OUld Indeed and 1? truth, on Its dossed eve, sing above the rejoicing vorld the song the shepherds heard is they kept their Hocks long, long igo beneath the stars that shone on bethlehem town: "Olory to Cod in Hie highest' On earth peace, good will to men." He fore tho war there were son,nun io vern menl employees In the french 'epuhlic. faepinglburselfWeU THE FIRST STE? Usually thc first indication of a lowering of health is found in the bowels and liver. Something goes wrong-wc cat too much, or work too hard-and thc bowel action weakens or thc liver is sluggish. That heavy feeling on arising in thc morning, dryness of thc throat, with bad taste, a slight headache, dull eyes-all show that food has fermented in the intes tines, and that thc body is man ufacturing poisons instead of good blood. Clear it all , eut. Give the stomach and bowels a fresh start. Encourage thc liver to go to work. Manalin does all ot this, without griping or weakening. It's thc ideal laxative and liver tonic, because it follows Nature's plan, without discomfort, inflam mation or forming a habit. Con stipation may bc overcome with its usc. fdqubl o r tablet form. T li o Tab lets taste Uko candy. Children Uko them, and they ure safe. 10 and 26 cents. Tho l'or II ii a Co Columbu?, O. STATUE OF LIBERTY ABLAZE. Symbol ot' American Llliorty Illumi nated from Top to Bottom. Now York. Doc. 2.-At a signal Hashed by wireless by President Wil son from the yacht M ay Mo wer in the harbor here, the Statue ol' Liberty was bathed in light at ti o'clock to night. Bartholdi's lamons symbol of American fret dom, which for IB) years has boon a token of welcome to tim United States to millions of immigrants from every land, will ho illuminated every nigh! hereafter from top to bottom. Funds to install tho permanent lighting system for the statue, the gift to thc United Slates ot 100.000 citizens of France, were provided by public subscription in this country. "I light this statue," said thc; President, "with the thought that it may always stand as a symbol of our purpose to throw upon liberty, out of our own lifo as a nation, a light which shall reveal its dignity, Hs serene power, its benignant hope and spirit ol' guidance." Oro liped around the President upon the Mayflower's deck as he Hashed the signal were Mrs. Wilson, .lilies .1. Jusserand, ambassador of France. Madame Jusserand, high of ficers of thc army and navy and rep resentatives of several nations. Big (?tins Boom. Thc great guns of a division ol' the Atlantic Meet ancho rod in thc harbor as a guard of honor, boomed as the ? statue d ished into view, outlined in | white light. The whistles of count less harbor craft shrieked in unison I and Hires of red light blazed up along the New York and New Jersey shores. There was a flash of Hame high 1 above the statue, and Ruth Law, in ber aeroplane, added a spectacular touch to the ceremonies ol' illumina- ?j I Hon. spouting sparks and lire from' the tail of her machino as she circled | the lower end of Manhattan Island, j A roar ol' cheers from the thousands . gathered in Battery Park greeted hm as the letters " L-l -B-F-R-T-Y" out lined in electric lights were revealed on the bottom of the aeroplane. Powerful Searchlight. The course of the Mayflower was marked by the rays of the most pow erful searchlight in the world as the yacht's anchor was hoisted and tho President's party headed for the battery to disembark for the motor car parade which preceded a dinner in honor of Mr. Wilson and Amhassa- . dor Jusserand. Leaving the statue behind, tho party on the Mayflower looked out upon a city of light. New York's skyline was literally ablaze. Electric lamps gleamed through countless . windows in scores of "skyscrapers." j A searchlight played, upon a proudly, Moating Mag atop the White Hall building, almost at the tip end of i Manhattan, and golden lights gleam- j ed along the seawall of the battery, i haven of immigrants. Close behind tho Mayflower steam ed the Yankton with Secretary of tho Navy Daniels aboard, followed by tho j U. S. S. San Francisco carrying mom- I hers of M i/or Mitchell's committee of 200 and other invited guests. The | passengers wore discharged at the , battery, where electrically propelled | motor cars were waiting to carry j them up- own. (li max of Art. I The illumination of the statue is j regarded by tho electrical experts as tho climax of development in tho art j of Hood lighting. For tho bronze 1 torch which Liberty has hold aloft was substituted a glass torch, held j together by the same rivetted lines.; To put "life" or n "quiver" into the i simulated Hame of the torch fifteen j .*.-candle power gas lilied electric' lamps were placed upon a series of ( "Hashers." The sources of the light which will illuminate thc entire sta! ne are fifteen batteries ol' projoc tors. The curren: is carried by sub marine cables under thc channel. The funds which provided the lighting plant were raised through popular subscription by the New ; York World, which aiso raised tho money ?10 years ago for the construc tion of the pedestal upon which the statue stands. Other Speakers. Besides tho President tho speakers at the dinner to-night, were Ambassa dor Jusserand. former United States Senator Chauncey M. Dopcw, Mayor Mitchel, Ralph Pulitzer, of the New York World; Henry L. Doughterty. president of tho Society for Electri cal Development, and Col. John Mil lis, Corps of Engineers, ll. S A. The Prench ambassador, after reading a message from tho Presi dent of Franco, dwelt at length on the friendly relations existing be tween his country and the United States. Ile detailed tho history of the events which led to the modeling of the statue by tho contributions of his countrymen, and laid stress on the fact that Bartholdi, the sculptor, evolved the idea as a result of the impression left upon him by tho war of 1870, which deprived him of Al sace, his native land, and enabled imo wu m co crBinB With the "ALL WINTER READING" Club is our Biggest, Best Bargain? Fin? 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Route. .State. Amount $ .Date. Send The Courier $2 for 4*AII Winter Reading" Club AimiT'/'AI IlVK KOK FLOUR. product sis White us Wheat Flour, . Says Clemsoii. Clemson College, Dee. 8.-One of the most interesting exhibits at the Orangeburg county fair was Abruzzi rye flour. The flour is as white as high grade wheat flour, and makes a moro superior bread than the ordi nary rye Hour. It has a slight sour taste, but thia slight sourness eau be eliminated, if so desired, by the use af the proper yeasts, baking sodas or similar alkalies. This flour is most promising, especially In the face of the present high price of wheat and wheat flour. Ahru/.zl rye is so easily grown and with very little attention yields as liigl) ns 30 bushels to the acre, lt is grown now only as a win ter cover crop. Since this grain can he grown so easily and still produce such a flue grade of Hour its use should be encouraeod. The Slate market agent is making arrangements to.lind markets for this Nour. No is also making arrange ments with the Home Kconomies De partment of Winthrop College to give Ibis Hour a thorough trial. An electrically operated coffee mill so small and light that the whole out lit could be lucked in an overcoat pocket is used to grind coffee In the home. him lo find "libertv at its bes!" in this count ry. liaised to An Ideal. "Not to a man. not to a nation was the statue raised; not to n man fa mous and useful as he may have been; not to a nation as great as she may bo." the ambassador said. "lt was raised to an ideal, an idea! gretaer than any man or any nation, greater than France or the United States-(he ideal of liberty. "Still bleeding from recen I wounds, France, then n republic, thought of the other republic on the opposite shore and said: 'Stator, let us raise au emblem to what, in the midst of the conflict of appot'tos, desires and missions, is up per m or? I in our minds liberty. 1 am the older country; yo.i are Ibo older republic. 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The temperature officially record ed here today Is five below zero; at Anchorage 33 below. The cold wea ther hogan December 1. Plies Cured In 6 to 14 Days Your druggist will refund money If PAZO OINTMENT (alls to cure any ense ot Itching, mind, Weeding or Protruding Pilen in GtoDdnys. The first application gives l?ase and Rest. 50c.