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.J. .J* ?I- .J? .J. +1* .\* .J. rj. .J. 4. ?J. "J. ,?. 4. A SAILOR'S IDEA OF 4. .f* "HILLY" SUNDAY. 4. 4* 4* .!* .!* *i* .!* *?* .pv*l* ?i* .!* .I* Kev. M. O. Alexander recently sent The Courier his impressions of Mr. Sunday, the great evangelist, und promised to give our readers a sai lor's idea of htm. lt follows: U. S. S. Melville, Navy Yard, Doston, Mass., December 10. 1916, "Dilly" Sunday is on the level. He is often spoken of as a "grafter" and a "clever actor" and a man who is "out for the coin," but as he hurls his warnings at us we are impressed, most of all, by his sincerity. Ile is violent. He swings his arms as he talks, and rushes forward and from side to side with such energy and aggressiveness as to remind one of a skilful boxer. .No world's champion ever fought with more force and Ure than does Mr. Sunday in his daily buttles with the devils ol' indiffer ence and greed and lust as he linds (hem in the hearts of the thousands who daily crowd his tabernacle. His awful earnestness makes him speak with every muscle and (Iber. Ile so wants every one to feel the truth of his message that hands, arms, feet and body talk, as well as the voice. The whole man speaks. Dy some Mr. Sunday is character ized as "too violent" and "vulgar." Dut imagine how you would st i ain every muscle and use every ounce of strength to save your dearest friend from an enemy who would take his life. Think what you would feel should some bond try in your pres ence to pour poison down the throat of your boy, or attempt, before your eyes, to wreck the young life of your daughter. Would you not light? Would you then choose the most po lite combinations of the English lan guage to express your emotions? Mr. Sunday's eyes are open to the hun dreds of thousands of boys and girls who fall yearly-daily, hourly-be fore the mocking devil in the glass held out by the greedy liquor dealer (manufacturer or advertiser), and the viper, lust. Can the preacher be too violent In opposing these? Can there be found words so vulgar as thc evils themselves? Mr. Sunday has bellied many sai lors from the United States ships at the Boston Navy Yard. I know seve ral who have quit the booze, and who now "keel) their tongues with all diligence" lest they profane Cod's name; men who have new light in their eyes-the light of love, which would do good always to all men: and the light of courage, which will face Satan's host on land or sea, in storm or sunshine, cold or heat, trusting the great Captain and Pilot to give us victory and bring us to port at last-and not us only, but all on life's sea who will lake Him al His word and learn to obey His all wise commands. Edwin C. Millard. Yeoman ?Ul Class. I!. S. Navy. Salt Shortage Serious. t Orangeburg Times-Democrat. 1 .1. I'. McLaurin, of the linn of Mc Lanrln & Thompson, says the coun try is facing a salt shortage and he advises the farmers to be certain they can secure salt enough to take care of their meat before killing hogs. Mr. McLaurin says his firm is unable to buy salt at any price and that other wholesale grocers are facing the same problem. The most of tho salt used in this country comes from Europe, being sent over as ballast in ships that have no return cargoes, but the shortage of ships has created a strong demand for shipping room in trans Atlantic hot (oms and therefore the more expensive cargoes take prece dence over salt. The serious part of the situation is that there is no sign of relief as long as the war continues, and the longer the war continues and the greater the demand for shipping accommodations the more serious will become the salt shortage. There was a time during the Civil War when the salt supply became so scarce that people had to send wagons to the coast and extract salt from the sea waler. Habun'K Hog-Killing Sherill'. (Clayton Tribune.) J. D. Dockins, sheriff of Habun county, killed four hogs yesterday all the same age, about 12 months old. Two of them weighed 17 0 pounds each; one weighod 174, and tho other one 454, making a total of 1,880 pounds of meat. Some hog killing sheriff] Constipation Causes Had Skin. A (lull and pimply skin is due ton sluggish bowel movement. Correct this condition and clear your com plexion with Dr. King's Now Life Pills. Thia mild laxative taken nt bedtime will assure you a full, free, non-griping movement in tho morn ing. Drive out tho dull, listless feel ing resulting from overloaded intes tines and sluggish liver. Cet a bot tle to-day. At all druggists, 25c. adi A Japanese llorlst has been success ful in growing chrysanthemums un der cheesecloth. UP ON LITTLE RIVER. The Sparrows Have Been Talking. Personal Items. lt "avoidably Omitted Last Week.) Little Uiver, Dee. 15.-Special: Our people are well with few excep tions. J. IV. Alexander's many friends will be sorry to learn that his health is very delicate at this time. His en tire family circle, which is a very large one. have been with him dur ing his sickness. A. P. Harton is home from his work in North Carolina. We gladly welcome J. M. Holden and family back from Walhalla. They are occupying the John Moody house, in the Cheohoe section. Mr. and Mrs. J, S. Cannon were on a business trip to Walhalla re cently. Crate Alexander and family are moving to the Tamassee section. We are loath lo give them up. but wish thom much success in their new home. HHijah Chnstaln is spending a short time on business in North Carolina. The many friends of J. W. Reid Will he delighted to learn that his health is slightly Improved at this time, in so much that he is able to knock about some now. Prank Alexander, one of our pros perous young farmers, is Improving his premises by building a nice barn. Mrs ("has. tirant, of Cheohee. is spending a while with her mother, Mrs. ,1. L. Talley. .1. A. Orr will not grind corn for us next year, as he has decided to give up the mill work and will make bis home with .1. ll. Burgess. He has been thc miller at ,1. B. Alexan der's mill. Master John 1). Holden, ol' Cheo hee, is spending a while with his grandmother, Mrs. J. S. Holden. W. H. Lu sk killed a large hawk a few days back in his poultry yard. D. P. Grant and family have de cided to east their lot among the good people of Walhalla. We wish these good people much success in their new home. Mrs. Wm. Cox and son, of Plckens, were recent visitors in our section. Mrs. Cox's maiden name was Miss Lucy Madden. J.D. Burgess ls carrying his mail in his new ford and serving the public. We are very sorry to give up Tru man Rogers and family from our sec tion. They are moving to the West Union section. Success to them in their new home. Mr. and Mrs. E2, A. Perry were re cent visitors at the home of W. E. Smith, of Fall Creek. There they met Mr. and Mrs. Ii. M. Lovinggood, ol' Bowersville, Qa. Mrs. Perry and Mrs. Lovinggood are sisters. This was their first mooting for some time. Mr. and Mrs. Lovinggood will likely stay in Oconee during the holi days. The little sparrows must have been talking to the officers again from the way they keep going up the road and cutting down tubs, copper and beer. They destroyed a large plant in the Whitewater section tho past week. The many friends of Mrs. B. P. Coward are delighted to know that she is rapidly ?recovering from her recent illness. Melton Lusk has closed bis school at Whitewater and is teaching at Mc Kinney's Creek at this time. Our young friend is making good in the school room. I). M. Alexander, of Warrenton, Va., came in some time back and spent a while in the Cheohee Valley with his father and other relatives. During his stay he erected a most beautiful and expensive monument at bis mother's grave. Miss Mollie Nicholson, who luis been attending school at Walhalla, is home for a while in the Whitewater section, to the delight of her many f .lends. W. H. Talley and family, of Salem, .were welcome guests in the home of your scribe a few days back. Come again. William. Merry Chris!mas to The Courier and all its readers! Rad on Southern Negroes. (Greenwood Index.) Things are not going well with all ol the Southern negroes who have goviP North. A well known conduc tor on the Charleston and' Western Carolina Railway stated to some d reen wood men yesterday that he had counted so far .'iO coffins of dead negroes brought back from tho North In the last three months. The severe whiter is expected to be even more fatal to them J. Bowen Bailey, of Greenwood, who lives in Pittsburg, in 'a private lotter some days ?KO mentioned that things were not going so well with the Southern negroes who have gone to that city, attracted by big wages. He said 1 Cf? had been arrested and heavily fined the past week for being drunk and disorderly. Evidently the prosperity of big wages was too much for them. The winter has not begun yet and it is feared that not being AS VKTS. GO TO WASHINGTON They Will Make Trip Over Railroad They Constructed in Sixties. Coufedei He veterans who travel to Washington over the Southern Rail way to attend the annual reunion, May 2 S th-J une 2d, 1917, will ride over one stretch-IS miles in length -which was built by Confederate soldiers, and has remained as per haps the most permanent monument Of any work done by the Confed eracy. This is the line between Greensboro,-X. C., and Danville Va., now a part of the Southern's Atlanta Washington line. When the war began there was no railroad connecting live Richmond and Danville with the North Carolina system of railroads. The Confede rate authorities saw the strategic value of such a line and were able to bring to bear sullicient pressure to overcome the obstacles, which had previously stood in the way ol' the construction, owing to the rivalry of North Carolina and Virginia, each State seeking to protect its own rail way interests. The necessary rail was procured by tearing up other roads and when at tho close of the war the line was conllscj.tod by the United States as one of the assets of the Confederacy, there was prolong ed litigation before the Richmond and Danville secured undisputed j title. The origin of this line is remem bered in many local traditions and name?, among them "Tennessee Curve," said to have boen so called because the grading at this point was ' done by men of a Tennessee regi ment. Since the Southern Railway under took the extensive improvement-this entire line has been double-tracked, but despite the many improvements that have boen made, the location as determined by the war-time engi neers, has never been changed. So well did they do their work when the double-tracking was undertaken very few changes were found neces sary, and, in the main, the work was simply the construction of a parallel ! track. BOUNTY DA ND. (Unavoidably Omitted Last Week.) Owing to the extreme cold weather tho lecture at the school house last Tuesday evening by Rev. W. H. Fra zer, of Anderson, was sparsely at tended. Tho few who attended, how ever, were most delightfully enter tained. Refreshments wero sold af ter the lecture and the entire pro ceeds amounted to something over $15. Our improvement association is one of the few Uko organizations in the county which furnishes food for thought and mental development as well as humorous entertainment, in the way of lectures from able speakers, giving a regular lyceum course at a very low cost. We hope by this method to inspire and stim ulate interest in tho entire commun ity along educational lines. The latter pari of the week will be a general home-coming for this com munity. Misses Mae Hubbard and Lura Perritt, of Winthrop College; Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Hollins and chil dren, of Charleston; Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Skinner, of Augusta, Ga.; Miss Cary Doyle, of Oak Grove; O. H. Doyle, of Columbia; Miss Clyde Smith, of Iva; Miss Cora Hubbard, of Greenville, and probably many others will grace tho festal boards of their respective homes during the Christmas holidays. Are They Snakes or Worms? (Bamberg Herald.) J. A. J. Rice exhibited quite a curi osity a few days ago in Bamberg. We had two snakes, or worms, as you choose to call them, enclosed in a glass Jar. lie told a rather remarka ble story in connection with the rep tiles, or varmints, or whatever they are. Some time ago Mr. Rice possess ed a very line bird dog. The canine became ill, and failed to respond to any treatment given it. The dog gradually grew worse, until lt died. Thinking to lind what the matter was, Mr. Rice had the body dissected, .lust under the skin over the dog's heart was found a sack or pocket, and n this sack the two worms wore ou nd, One of the "serpents" was 27 inches in length and the other was aven longer. They were about the rizo of a lead pencil, and looked Strikingly like snakes. One of them was brown, and the other had a sug gestion of streaks upon it. They were not found in the cavity of the dog's body, but were imbedded in the flesh over the heart. Tho mystery is what are they, and how did they get into the dog's flesh? Whenever You Need a General Tonic Take Grove's The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless .hill Tonic is equally valuable as a General Tonic because it contains the well known tonic propertiesof QUININE and IRON. It acts on thc Liver, Drives out Malaria, Enriches the Blood and Builds up the Whole System. 50 cents. Wireless messages have been re ceived with n detector rnado of tho lend ot a broken pencil and two safety razor blades. used to such severe weather will be the cause of the death of many of them. Prince Albert smokers t? delight, becatt, --its flavor is so different and s delightfully good; - it can't bite your tongue; --it can't parch your throat; - you can smoke it as long and as hard as you like without any comeback but real tobacco hap piness ! On the reverse side of every Prince Albert package you will read : " PROCESS PATENTED JOLY 30TH, 1007" That means to you a lot of tobacco en* joymen?. Frince Albert has always been sold without coupons or premiums. We prefer to give quality I Oopyrlttit til? .y H .1. Rsynold? Tobacco Co. in goodness and in pipe satisfaction is all we or its enthusi astic friends ever claimed for it ! It answers every smoke desire you or any other man ever had! It is so cool and fragrant and appealing to your smokeappetite that you will get chummy with it in a mighty short time ! Will you invest 5c or 10c to prove out our say so on the national joy smoke? & J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO CO., Winston-Salleaa, N. C TU* fa 111? mm* a!do ot Ik* Printe Albof t lilly red tin. Read .Vb " P?t*n I ad Pro c ?MI " 1 >?!?? to-jr DU and realize wh? t lt mean* fal wir bi? Priaxe A Bb erl re awl le yew Ifefaa*. CANCER IS NOT HERJEDITA RY. Neither I? it Contagious-Dread Dis ease Takes Annual Toll of 80,000. Two years' study of original insur ance statistics indicate cancer is nei ther hereditary nor contagious, ac cording to a paper presented to the Association of Life Insurance Presi dents in New York one day last week by President Arthur Hunter, of the Actuarial Society of America. After referring to the animal toll of St),OOO deaths from cancer in the United States, Mr. Hunter said: "No sooner do we become interest ed in the wido prevalence of a dis ease like cancer, than we begin to wonder whether it is contngio'us or hereditary, Such questions must be in tile minds of hundreds of thou sands of relatives of persons who have died from this disease and of others who are suffering from it. ."There seems little to support the view that cancer is the result of con tagion. Twenty thousand applica tions for insurance were reviewed, and it was found that in 488 cases only one of the parents of the appli cant was stated to have died from cancer and in four cases both parents were stated to have died of that dis ease. There were 122 times as many cases in which one parent had died of cancer ns of those in which both parents had died of that disease. There could hardly be a stronger test than tho case of husband and wife." As to heredity, Mr. Hunter said: "My first investigation con.visted of cases of persons insured in six com panies, both parents having died of cancer prior to date of application for insurance. Of 172 grandparents ol the insured, the cause of death was given in 234 cases, of which two were from cancer; the cause of death was stated in 184 of these as "old age," the average age at death of which, was 82. in 7 2 of the grandparents the cause of death was not known, but the age was given, the average being 62; in 155 cases neither the age nor the cause of death was known, lt is reasonable to conclude that if only t wo died of rancor out of 231 parents of persons who died of cancer, that disease is not hereditary. "The possibility of heredity in cancer has generally been studied by experiments on animals. In the caso of human beings there has been no previous attempt, so far as I am aware, to investigate the problem in families where there has evidently been a cancer strain, if such a thing exists. In the present investigation ono of the groups consisted of cases in which both of thc parents had died from cancer; and in another of t tho groups, a parent, and a brother or a sister of tho policyholder, had died from that disease. It might be ex pected, therefore, that If cancer were hereditary, it would he shown very clearly in the famll) records of these persons, but thfg has not appeared. "Mon and women who are in aux CLUNKS C?KT IJS8S THAN IN 1H5S. Government Now Paya $ioo l^css tor Clerk ll ira tluui 03 Y eur? Ago. Tlie United States government now pays its employees $100 less a year than it did 62 years ago, Ethelbert Stewart, chief or the Bureau of La bor Statistics of tho Department of Labor, an authority upon the subject, has declared. This decrease conies nt a time when the cost of living has soared two-fold and three-fold from the levels of 1854, The salary scale of the govern nient clerks VMS fixed hy ict of 1853, Prior I te this there bad been no regulations lin pay for employees. A certain number would got, for instance. I ? 81 ;i per annum, another $837, oth ers $8fi!).."?0, and so Oil. Tho work of im hiding so many scattering items in Hie appropriation bill vexed tito com mittee, who decided in that year to put all of these in a lump appropria tion a? .>840. This is an example nf ?the pinn that was followed in tho Ax ing of the rates of governmental pay to its employees. These classes have not changed since that day, save by the creation of lower grades or pay. There were no $720, $650 or $510 per annum employees of the government at that date, as there are now. In 1851 no clerk got under $1,200 a year. Now clerks are listed at $8 10. There ave higher positions to-day than there were in 1871, but these are comparatively few and are occu pied mostly by experts. The chief increase in the number of govern ment employees in the District of Columbia is shown by the statistics to have been in the lower grades of the service. Drives Out Malaria, Dullds Up System The Old Standard general strengthening tonic, GROVE'S TASTKl.HSS chill TONIC, drives out M ul url fi,r ri riche s thc M vex] ,nnd builds np the sys tem. A true tonic. Poi adulto and children. 50c. Pay and Feed of French Soldiers. This is what the French govern ment has given to each of its soldiers to eat and drink during the first two years of the war: Dread, 1,008 pounds, the making of which took 094 pounds of wheat; po tatoes, 260 pounds; coffee, . 58 pounds; biitter, lard, etc., 41 j>ounds; wine, KIO gallons; tobacco, 3 2 pounds; stilt, 35 pounds; vegetables, 72 pounds; sugar, 86 pounds: choose, 4 pounds; macaroni and spaghetti, 14 pounds. This has cost the French govern ment an average of 4 0 cents a day per man for the men at the front, not in cluding an allowance of 5 cents a day that is made to each soldier to buy little "extras." For clothing the French govern ment has used up to date in the man ufacture of all the various garments necessary about 80,000,000 yards of cloth. Each soldier has also had four pairs of shoes, the greater portion of tho leather for which came from thc United States. The hulk of tho manu facture, however, was In France. ioty of mind on account of the ap pearance of cancer in their ancestry or immediate family, may dismiss stich anxieties, as there is no statisti cal evidence at the present timo that tho disease of cancer ?s transmitted hy inhciltance in mankind.'' I A M,ll Ki: AH A ?'AM'lilt CUHN, Hayn l*roinli.enf rttysiclnii, Hpcuklug ol' UNO of Itadiuiii. Af tor exhaustive tests upon rate, mice and guinea pigs, tho UBC of ra dium ns a cure for cancer and tumors has been found to he a failure, ac cording to the annual report of Dr. Francia C. Wood, head or the Crock er Cancer Research Fund of Colum bia University, New York, made pull lie last week. Forrases on which op eration is not possible, radium ls suc cessful ns a palliative only, the report states. "lt ls it Hilliest ?ona hiv possible to jirolong li e in h few instaures. Dr. Weed says, "and to make tho pa tients more comfortable by the Judi cious ami intelligent employment of largo quantities of radium. On the ether hand, i is equally certain that tho ir e of small quantities- say 20 to "?0 milgrnmmcH of radium ele ment often rosull in a rapid oxton .ion <>: tho tumor SO thal the pa tient's condition in worse than If lie hud h ce o loft alone." Tho Cowboy's Prodigal. (St. Louis Olobo-Domoerat.) A Texas preacher talked to a cow boy audience about tho prodigal son. He described In detail the foolish boy's extravagance and dissipation; bis penury and his husk-eating with the swine; he told of his return; his father's loving welcome, and tho pre paration of the fatted calf. The preacher in his discourse no ticed n cowboy staring at him very hard. Ile thought he had made a con vert, and addressing this cowboy per sonally, he said from the pulpit: "My dear friend, what would you have done if you had had a son returning home like that?" "Me?" said the cowboy promptly and fiercely. "I'd have shot the boy (ind rni?< d t ho calf." mn m Wm. 360 PICTURES 360 ARTICLES ?ACM MONTH ON ALL NEWS STANDS ts Cents POPULAR MECHANICS MAGAZINE MOTTEN M YOU CAN UNDERSTAND IT All the Creal Events in Mechanics. Engineering and Invention throughout the World, are described in an interest* lng manner, as they occur. 3,000.000 readers each month. , thea Netts so p*??* **fn isms toils?*** onufi www amfbetlsr wayetodothlngaln the ?hop, and how to m ? ho repairs at hom?. 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