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KEOWEE COURIER (Established 1810.) BMbHshed tiver/ Wednesday Morning Subscription $1 Pur Annum. Advertising Rates Reasonable. - Hy ?TECK, SIIEI/OK iVi SCHRODER. Oe ni ra unka Ito ti H of a personal character charged for as advortlse wientH. Obituary notices ano tributes of respect, of not over loo words, will Sx) printed free of charge. All over vJjat number must, bo paid for at the rate of ono cent a word. Cash to Accompany ma nu.seri pt. WALHALLA, H. C.: WEDNESDAY, MA V i?, 1017. WILSON APPROVES SMITH I'LA X. favors Scheme lo Bring Nitrates to I .'armers of United Stales. President Wilson bas given bis ap proval of Ibo plan ol* Senator K. I). Smith, of South Carolina, to use the shipping facilities of Ute government io secure nitrates for the farmers al <;OHI ?luring the war with Germany. The South Parolina Senntor had an .extended interview with the Presi dent and called his attention to the fact thal the resolution which be had introduced empowering the shipping hoard lo use go vorn in on I vosos I s lo briii!> nit mles from Latin-American ?countries was on the calendar and could hu called np at any lime. They agreed (hat a section of the urgent deficiency bill soiling aside a hun dred million dollars "for the national defense and security ol' tho nation" gave thc President ample authority to bring nitrates to this country with out Senatorial action, and the Presi den! assured Senator Smith thal everything possible was being done lo secure nitrates for the farmers at vost ?ind thal should it he found that the President did not have this au thority he world urge tho passage of Senator Smith's resolution. Things to Do this Week nod Next. < Progressive Partner. I 1. (let the grass before lt gets you. The best Hmo to kill grass and weeds is when they are small -Just as they aro coming out of the ground. 2. (letting good stands of the vari ous crops is of ibo greatest import ance. Break tho crusts if they threaten to keep the little plants front getting through. *.{. With drier weather and higher temperatures, there ls always danger of hard, cloddy lands. Wiso ls the farmer who follows the plow with the liar row. I. ISvery farmer should have a good pasture this year. Use the mower to gel the harmful weeds and the grubbing hoe or mattock to root out the shrubs and bushes (bat take valuable space and give no return. ">. Corn at $ 1 .SO a bushel looks good for the corn grower. Tho South should plant a mights acreage this year. ii. Time to put (he velvet beans in titi' corn now. ?'lani a big acre ige i hiv year. 7. Don't forge! ihe watermelons. A big patch, well fori ili/od. will be a meal thing along in .Inly. CAI.OM I I, SALIVATES A ND. MA HUS YOU SICK. Acts Like Dynamite oft a Sluggish Liver and Von Lose a Day's Work. There's no reason why a person should take sickening, salivating cal omel when .".M cetus buys a large bot tle of Dodson's laver Tone a por feel substitute tor calomel. lt is a pleasant, vcgolable liquid which will start your liver just as surely as calomel, hut it doesn't make yon sick and cannot salivate. Children and grown folks can take Dodson's Liver Tone, because it is perfect ly harmless. Calomel is a (langerons drug, lt is mercury and attacks your bones. Take a dOSO of nasty calomel to-day and you will feel weak, sick and nau seated to-morrow. Don't lose a day's rwork, Take a spoonful of Dodson's Livor Tone Instead and you will wake no fooling great. No moro bil iousness, constipation, sluggishness, headache, coated tongue or sour sto mach. S'our druggist says if you don't Pud Dodson's Liver Tone acts bettor 'han horrible calomel your money (A wailing for you.-Adv. NO UNTANGLING ALLIANCES. Itt ?tain an<) Franc? Trust Implicitly America's Honor. Washington, April 25.--Completo understanding ol America's altitude in tito war-unreserved co-operation in thc light ol' democracy against Hie Herman military menace without en tangling political alliances-was ex pressed hy 'Oi'eign Minister Halfour, head of the b.itish War Commission, In ?i statement to-day to newspaper correspond on ts. Thc foreign minister's statement was olllcially said to have boen made us a result of his conferences during the past few days with President Wil son and Secretary Lansing. It was generally regarded as disposing final ly of suggestions in some quarters that the United States might he asked to sign a treaty not to make a sepa rate peace. It was an eventful day for the llrit ish commissioners, marked hy a hearty welcome to France's illustri ous War Commission and tho deliv ery to Ambassador Spring-Rico of America's first loan to tho allies, $200.000,000. Mr. Balfour lunched to-day with the Italian ambassador, spout part of tho afternoon at the Treasury De partment with Secretary McAdoo and was entertained at dinner at the Brit ish embassy, where a reception at tended by the diplomatic corps and nigh \merican olilclnls followed. The foreign minister received the newspaper tuen during the doy at. the residence winne be is entertained as the guest of the nation. Balfour's Statement, When tho newspaper correspond ents bad been presented Mr. Balfour said: "(lentlernen. I am very much ob liged to you for coming here to-day 1 and giving me the opportunity of ex pressing to you personally, and through you lo thc meat American public, how very deeply wc, who lie long to this mission sent from Bri tain, value the kindness, tho enthu siasm, the warmth of welcome which we have received in litis Capi tal City of the United States. All our hearts are gratified and touched per sonally. We are even more deeply touched by it as being the outward and visible manifestation of sympa thetic emotion in carrying out and responding to a great call, which is the real security for our success. "No man who lias the opportunity which I have enjoyed tn the last few days, of seeing, hearing and talking to leading members of your State can for ono moment doubt the full de termination of the American people to throw themselves into the great est conflict which lias ever been waged in this world. Only hy Exp?rience. "I do not suppose that it is possi ble for you-I am sure it would not be possible for mo were I in your place-to realize In detail, in con crete detail, all that that war means to those who have been engaged In it for now two years and a half. That is a feeling which conies, and can only come, by actual experience. We on tito other side of the Atlantic have been living in an atmosphere of war since August, 1914, and you can not move about the streets, you can not go about your daily business, even if your affairs be disassociated with Hie war itself, without having evidences of the war brought to your notice every moment. The Lights at Night. "I arrived here on Sunday after noon and went out lu the evening af ter dark, and I was struck by a somewhat unusual feeling which at the first moment I did not analyze, and suddenly it came upon me that this was the first time for two years and a half or more in which I had seen a proper!, lighted street. There is not a street In London, there is not a Street in any city Of the Uni ted Kingdom in which after dark tho whole community is not wrap; ' . in a gloom exceeding that which mur1 have existed before the invention of gas or electric lighting. "But that is a small matter, and I only mention it because it happened to strike mo ns one of my earliest experiences In this city. War's Tingle Side. "Of course, the more tragic side of war ls never and cannot ever be ab seil) from our minds. I saw willi great regret this m?rlnng In the newspapers that the son of Bonar Law, our chancellor of the exchequer, was wounded and missing in some of tho operations now going on in Pal estine, and I instinctively cast ?ny mind back to the losses of tills war jin all (ircles; hut as an illustration li seems to me Impressive, 1 went over the melancholy list, and, if my memory serves mo 'ight, out of tho small number of cabinet ministers, men of cabinet rank who were serv ing the State when the war broke out in August, 101 i. one has boen killed in action, four at least have lost sons, and now Bonar Law's son is wounded and missing-not, I hopo lost to us, but still in a position from which he may return to his frlonds. Throughout tho IjUlld. "That ia tho sort of thing? that i havo happened in quite a small and narrowly restricted class of men, but it is characteristic of what is happen ing throughout the whole commu nity. "Tho condition of Franco in that respect is evidently even more full of sorrow and tragedy than our own, be cause we had not a great army, we had bul a small army when war broke out, whereas the French army was of the great continental type, Was on a war footing and was, from the very Inception of military opera tions, engaged in sanguinary conflict with the common enemy. Tribute to Joffre. I "We have to-day coining amongst us a mission from France. I doubt not-indeed I am fully convinced that they will receive a welcome not less warm, not less heartfelt than that which you have so generously and encouragingly extended to us. That was and certainly will bo in I creased by thc reflection that one member of tho mission ls Marshal Joffre, who will go down through all time as the general in command of tito allied forces, the successful gene ral of the allied forces, at one of the most critical moments In the world's history. Rattle nf tho Marne. "I remember when I was here there was a book which was given out in thc schools called the Fifteen Decis ive Hat ties of the World. I do not know whether they all quite deserve that title, but thei3 can be no doubt or questions whatever that among the decisive battles of the world, the battle of the .Marne was the most de cisive. lt was a turning point in the history ol' mankind, and 1 rejoice that the hero of that event is to-day com ing among us und will join us, the British nation, in laying before the people ol' the United States. 0ur grat itude for the sympathy which they have shown and are showing, and our warm confidence in the value ol' thc assistance which they are afford ing the allied cause. Cannot Ile Exaggerated, "Gentlemen, I do not 'believe that the magnitude of that assistance can by any possibility be exaggerated. I am told that there are some doubt ing cirtlcs who seem to think that the object of Hie mission of France and firent Britain to this country is to inveigle the United States out of its traditional policy and to entangle it in formal alliances, secre' or pub lic, with Furopean powers. 1 cannot imagine any rumor with less founda tion, nor can I imagine a policy so utterly unnecessary. "Our confidence in this assistance which we are going to get from this community is not based upon such considerations as those which arise out of formal treaties. No treaty could increase tho undoubted confi dence with which we look to the Uni ted States, who. having come into the war, are going to see the war through. If there ls any certainty in human affairs, that is certain. No {?etty Interest. "Two years and a half have gone since the war began, and the great public on this side of the Atlantic has been watching, with deepening inter est, the blood-stained drama going on across the ocean, and I am well convinced that as each month has passed, so has the conviction grown among you that after all lt is no small or potty interest that ls Involved in this war, it ls no struggle for so many square miles of territory, for some acquistlon, some dissatisfaction of small national ambition. lt was nothing short of the full conscious ness that the liberties of mankind are really involved in the issue of this struggle that was animating the allied countries. With Set Purpose. "With snell a cause the American public has always been In full sympa thy and now, after watching lt through all the months, you have found yourselves impelled to join in the great conflict. I feel perfectly certain that you will throw into it all your unequalled resoi ces; all your powers of invention, jf production, all your man-power, all the resources of that country which has greater re sources than any other country in the world, and already having come to thai decision, nothing will turn you from it but success crowning our joint efforts. "This expresses the sentiments with which I have been affiliated ever since I came to this city-my sentiment of gratitude, my sentiment of hope. I do not know that I have anything of value to add. "Allow mo to thank you most heart ily again for having come heve foi this brief interview, and to ox prose my gratitude for what you have done, any my firm confidence that ?Ul ol you will, wielding the great power you do, exerclso it in the convincing cause of justice, truth and peace." A mixture of liquid air and pow dered aluminum, used in mines lr Germany for blasting, has about twe and a half times the strength ol black powdor, without dangerouf fu mes. .j. .?. .j. ?|? ?|? ??- ?!* *?* ?J? ?I* ?J* .%* 4* .J. THU OLD HOMI'? AT ?fr .J. "TIIK OAKS." .!? .j? ?j? ?j? ?j. ?j? ?j? ?j? ?\- -i- .{- .?. *I* Editor Koo wee Courier: If you will pardon nu; for alluding to our family's record as soldiers in tile six ties, I will promise to be brier. .My father settled near Fruit HUI, In Edgofleld county, in ls:L">, in a thick forest on a beautiful elevation. At this home, "The Oaks." my father and mother reared thirteen children -four daughters and nine sons -to be grown! I hardly think that there was a family in Hie county of that number who enjoyed better health. Thc first death In the family was that .ol' my brother, who was killed at Sharpsburg, Md., September 17th, 1862. Nearly all the children were grown when, in 18(5 1, tho blighting hand of war spread its cold. Inky lingers over our land and stirred up Hie eagle's nest at "The Oaks," and as the bugler sounded thc call to arms nine brothers at. "The Oaks" answeied the call. Three were mar ried at that time. Three were killed on the battlefield; they fell in threo different States-one at Sharpsburg, Md., September 17, 18152; one in the battle of Atlanta, Ca., .Inly 2.'i. 1864, and one at Tho Wilderness (Va.), May (5, 1864. Three were wounded twice each, three went through un hurt, and those three died in 1011 within tilico days of each other. Three of us arc living, and we live In three different States-South Caro lina, Georgia and Florida. Three years ago my two brothers came to South Carolina on a visit. Hack Again at "Tho Oaks." While they were in the county, all three of us made a visit at the old home. ."Tile Oaks," which was to us one of tho most peculiar pleasures, mingled with a great degree of sad ness. This is where we first saw thc light of day. and this was the first time in 28 years that we three had met at "The Oaks." The friends who (hon owned the dear old home gave us all the liberty, and conducted us through all of the apartments This is where our mother first taught us how to pray, and father first set ut the example of Godliness; this h where we remembered our fl rsl Christmas and Santa Claus; and ai we wandered here and there over Hu many places where we all once roam ed and romped, we occasionally stopped and let memory run back tf childhood and boyhood days, pinyin; with the little Uah and frogs In th< brook as tho cows came from tin meadow, and where we would strol through the thicket listening to tin musical murmur of the bees, and th? harmonious twitter of the birds, am the rustling of the leaves, and th? song of the brook, and the whippoor will as he sent out his keen, niellov notes upon the night air; and th? big green frogs, with their bas: voices, at the "rushy pond" hard by So many happy associations cluste; about those good old days and th? dear friends that have long sine? gone to their reward! The statel; oaks that once shaded us from th? heat still stand ns sentinels of th? past. All these things called up un told melody-the sound of well known foot-steps, the suggestion o boyhood and girlhood days, and thi shadow of tender sorrows, and the re flection of ten thousand fond memo ries; the school days and their trials the boyish struggles with hard prob louis--all of which ask remembrance These things are 'but meniorie now - dreams of the past -but Hie ii re bright dreams. Tho touch o time and the linger of decay hav .boen felt at the dear old home a "The Oaks." A man's home ls wher he places his shingle and bakes hi ?.?.m d hut I si ill call the place or ni birth "home." I love the houst with its hallowed memories and it holy associations; I love every na in the walls; I love every tree an shrub and flower and blade of gras that grows there in field and in foi est. Yes, 1 still call the dear ol place "home." Home! Sweet I that word! What beautiful nssocl; lions cluster there; it quickens tb pulse, warms the heart; it whlspei and thunders and prays; it sprint up like n fountain, t li ri t ls like a son) and leaps like a flame, and sings UI< an angel! "Homo," sweet home! ,1. Russell Wright. Seneca, April 28. Don't liet Your Cough Hang On? A cough that racks and weakens dangerous; it. undermines yoi health and thrives on neglect. It Hove it at once with Dr. King's Ne Discovery. This soothing balsa remedy ?ionia the throat, loosens tl phlegm; its antiseptic properties kl the gerin and the cold ls quick broken up. Children and grown-ui alike find Dr. King's New Discovoi pleasant to take as well as effeetiv Have a bottle handv in your mod cine cliost. for grip, croup and ti bronchial affections. At druggist ?Oe.-Adv. 3, The heat usually wasted aft steam ls generated in a residen heating plant is collected lu a no boiler in such a way that it can I utilized to supply additional heat. CLOSING AT EARLE'S GROVE. Interesting Program Curried Out. Large Audience Present. Westminster, Rt. .*'.. April 23. Special: A large and appreciative audience attended the closing exer cises of the Karie's Grove Graded School, which took place at the school house Friday night, April 20. The following program was carried out hy the school: Song, "America"-JBy the school, the audience tinging with the pupils until tlie last stanza, which was sung softly hy the pupils. Recitation, "Welcome"-Blanche Hice. Recitation, "Kip Elbert"-Bessie Belle Smith. Recitation, "Sparking" - Clinton Ahles. Play, "Peggy's Predicament" Bessie Belle Smith, Nora Campbell, Lillian Rice. Mae Rico, Maggie Grant. Recitation, "Incident of War" Bessie Grant. Recitation, "Grandpa's 'Spectacles" -J. B. Bates. Pantomime. "Nearer, My Go-' to Thee"-Gracie Ables, Clara Carroll. Recitation, "Vacation" - Amos Grant. Recitation, ^'Tommy's Prayer Gracie Ables. Play, "Train to Mauro"-Bessie Grant, Grady Ables. Theodore Stev- ! enson. Recitation, "My Beau"-Viola Cal- ! la ha m. | Recitation. "Poor House Nan"- ! ('lina Carroll. | Play, "Dollies' Graduation"- By live lillie girls, their dollies, and one little boy. Recitation, "Curfew"--N'ora Camp bell. Recitation, "Papa's Letter"-Ber tie Swift. i Recitation, "Sister's Graduation" -Blanche Rico. ! Dialogue, "Marlamosclle's Mis take"- Gracie Ables. Cara Carroll. Recitation, ' Little Jim"-Beulah Ables. Recitation, "The Bossie Cow" Joe Stribliug. Monologue. "Steilin' a Wa ter 111 il illi!"-Clara Carroll. Recitation. "Time to Say Good Bye" ?Mossie Bates. . Recitation, "Au Revoir"-Impro- : vised by girls of 8th and ?Uh grades. ? and recited by Flora Callahan!. Song, "God be With Von 'Till We ! Meet Again"---Student's of princi- ! pal's room. At the close of the program the children were given their promotion certificates and honor diplomas. Four of the pupils getting on term honor roll received honor diplomas, as follows- Bessie Grant, Gracie Ables. Bertie Ables, Fred Cole. Honor Koli. Following is the honor roll for : month ending April 20: 31lt Grade-Bessie Grant. 8th Grade-Gracie Ables. Clara Carroll. 6th Grade-Bessie Belle Smith, Beulah Ables, Joe Strlbllng. 5th Grade--Lucile Callahan!, Flora Callahan). 4th Grade-Forest Smith, Hubert Callahan). 3d Grade-Bertie Ables, Fred Cole, Annie 'McDonald, Maggie Rich ardson, Viola Callahan). 2d Grade-Bernice Ables. Adv. 1st Grade-Louis Cole, Floyd Callahan), James 'Smith. 1st Grade-Amos Grant, Jasper Grant. Geo. Callnham. Clear Away the Waste. Bowel regularity is the secret o,* good health, bright eyes, clear com plexions, and Dr. King's Now Lifo Bills are a mild and gentle laxative that regulates the bowels and re lieves the congested intestines by re moving the accumulated wastes without griping. Take a pill before retiring and that heavy head, that dull spring fever feeling disappears. Get Dr. King's New Life Pills at your druggist, 2 5c.-Adv. 3. II. S. Schooner Sunk. Washington. April 2d.-The de struction without warning by subma rine gunfire of the American schoon er Percy Blrdsall, of New York, was roportcd to-day to the .State Depart ment. Time and place not announc ed. The submarine fired ten shots, seven of which struck the schooner below the water line, some of thom while Hie captain and crew of nine were taking to the boats. The sur vivors were rescued by a British pa trol boat after being in the boats about an hour and a half. Thc Blrdsall was of 1.127 tons gross, built In Wilmington, Del., in 1890, and was owned by Edward L, Holmes. Whenever You Need a General Tonic Take Grove's The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless ohili Tonic is equally valuable ns a General Tonic because it contains the well known tonic propertiesof QUININI? and IRON. It acts on the Liver, Drives out Malaria, Enriches the Blood and Builds up the Whole System. SO cents. Plenty Of pasture, potatoes, pea nuts, pens and pigs now will mean plenty of pork lor the planter noxt fall and winter. SAYS HARD ATTACK CAME WITHOUT LEAST WARNING TULLS OF AWFUL FIVE WEEKS HER DAUGHTER SPENT. 1t EM A ll K A It1 /IO IXTE KV1EW. .Motlier Says Young Greenville Wo man Seems None the Worse for Her Experiences. "A severe kind of rheumatism suddenly attacked my daughter last August and she had to stay in her or in a rocking chair for five weeks. 'She had an awful pain the back of her neck, around her shoulders and across her back." said Mrs. Fannie Alexander, of 30 Ninth street, Samp son, Greenville, ns she began on March 21st to tell of the remarkable results Tanbie gave her daughter, "fcjho was so nervous she would Jump at the least noise. Often she cried out during the night and sel dom did she get a good night's rest. From tho time the rheumatism at tacked her until she began taking Tatllac, she did not get a single good night's sleep. "She had no appetite and also suffered a great deal with indiges ? tion. She was under treatmetn for I a good while, but the medicine seem ed to do lier no good. "But in a week after she began taking Taillac, she had been made a different woman, and now she is in tine health. The Tanla? restored her appetite, she is not troubled with in digestion now, and those rheumatic pains have left her. She improved wonderfully after she began taking Tanbie. It certainly is tho tlnest tonic I know of for rheumatism, and she is back at work now. Tanbie is responsible for her being able to work now, and her income stops when she stops work. She is so thankful for what Tanbie did for her, and we all recommend it as the best remedy we know ol'." Tanlac, the master medicine, is sold exclusively by Bell's Drug Store, Walhalla; J. C. Cain. Oakway; Sa lem Drug Co., Salem; Seneca Phar macy, Seneca; Stonecypher Drug Co.. Westminster; Hughs ft Dendy, Bichland.- Adv. 124,000 Volunteer lo Follow Teddy. New York, April 2f>.-Approxi mately 123,000 men have applied thus far and been found to meet the necessary requirements for member ship in Col. Roosevelt's proposed anny division, it was announced here to-night at enrollment headquarters, which were opened some time ago with the former President's approval. Sixty per cent of the volunteers are from Virginia, North Carolina, South. Carolina and other Southern States. Only HO of the applicants, it was said, were under 25 years old. None be low this age are now being accepted. Of the total 10.000 are negroes. Catarrh Cannot Bo Cured with local applications, as they can not reach the sent of tho disease. Ca tarrh is a local disease, greatly In fluenced by constitutional conditions, and in order to cure it you must take an internal remedy. Hall's Catarrh Medicine is taken internally and acts through the blood on tho mucous surfaces of the system. Hall's Ca tarrh Medicine was prescribed by one of the best physicians In tills country for years. It is composed of some of the best tonics known, combined with some of the best blood purifiers. The perfect combination of the ingredi ents in Hall's Catarrh Medicine is what produces such wonderful re sults in catarrhal conditions. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. Cheney & Co., Props.. Toledo, Ohio. All druggists, 7.r>c. Hall's 'Family Pills for constipa tion.-Adv. A large shoe concern in Seattle. Wash., has had a groat increase in the salo of shoes since the State of Wash i ii ii ton became "dry" on Janu ary I, IP Hi. This company reports that the people are buying more shoes and better shoes, while the sale of children's shoes alone has in creased r>0 per cent under prohibi tion. WHAT IS LAX-FOS LAX-FOS IS AN IMPROVED CASCARA A DIGESTIVE LAXATIVE CATHARTIC AND LIVER TONIC LAX-FOS is not a Secret or Patent Medi cine but is composed of the following old-fashioned roots and herbs: CASCARA BARK BLUE FLAG ROOT S RHUBARB ROOT BLACK ROOT MAY APPLE ROOT SENNA LEAVES AND PEPSIN In LAX-FOS the CASCARA is Improved by the addition of these digestive ingredi ents making it better than ordinary CAS CARA, and tuns the combination acts not only asa stimulating laxative and cathar tic but also ns a digestive and liver tonic. Syrup laxatives are wonk, but LAX-FOS combines strength with palatable, aro matic taste and does not gripe or disturb the stomach. One bottle will prove LAX-FOB is invaluable for Constipation, Indigestion or Torpid Liver, Pt icc 50c.