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KEOWEE COURIER (Kata hi Uhed 1849.) Published Every Wednesday Morning Subscription %l Ter Annum. Advertising Ilutes Reasonable. -Ry BTUCK, 811101*011 & SCHRODER. Communications of a personal character charged for as advertise ments. Obituary notices ano tributes of respect, of not over 100 words, will too printed froo of charge. All over ihat number must ho paid for at the rate of one cent a word. Cash to accompany manuscript. WAMI ? ULA, H. C.: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY ?, 101 H. PEACE IN SIX .MONTHS ? ?Kroiichmuii Sees Allied Victory-Hurd Period .lust Ahead. All Atlantic Port. Jan. 2.--The en tente allie? are entering tho hardest period of tho war, hut a period which will prove richest in decisive results. "If we know how to play a good gamo its issue will he decided in tho next ?ix months," according to ('apt. An die Tardieu, French high commis sioner to the United States, who re turned to this country yesterday. Ile will go lo Washington at once. 'l in' commissioner llrst arrived in this country Inst May. He returned to France in November and his gov ernment decided lo continue his of ficial title for a period of six months. \Vhil<> Capt. Tardieu pointed to the possibility of a strong (?orman attach on the western front dining tile winter, lie is "absolutely con II tlonl thal il will ho another Verdun," ho declared in a statement. The urgoncy of an enormous eco nomic effort was emphasized by the French representa! iv?? in this state ment : "Thc l?attli> is not only on the bat tlefield. I have told the Kreuch, with completo frankness, what America expects from them in the way of re strictions and new sacrifices. 1 am coining hack to explain here the nec essary sacrifices that France and her nllles are expecting from America for victory." "Men, wheal, oil, ships and loco motives are the things most needed and which A tn rolen is able to give," Capt. Tardieu said. Hy way ol' tribute to Col. 10. M. House, who headed tho American mission to Paris. Capt. Tardieu said: "Thanks to the presence ol' Col. /louse and his associates the inter allied conference has done oxcullent york. It wjis necessary that the gov ernment ol' the United States should ' assert its will and its capacity to luke, in lOurope, tho part which be longs to America in tho direction of the war." The French army has never been more mngnifloent, the British army "is equally superb," and "the Ameri can army ia increasing day hy day," Capt. Tardieu said, In speaking of the morale of the allied forces. That he might retain his commis sionership to the United States, Capt. Tardieu declined to accopt a portfolio in Premier Clemenceau's cabinet, he said, because ho believed "nothing is more urgent and moro necessary" than the work to be done through this co m missioners!) lp. KHI ? CA I,OM FL MAKES VOU DEATHLY SICK Stop Using Dangerous Drug liefere lt Salivates Von! Ifs Horrible. You're bilious, sluggish, constipat ed and behove you need vile, danger ous calomel to stan your liver and clean your bowels. Here's my guarantee: Ask your .druggist l'or a bottle of Dodson's Uiver Tono and take a spoonful to night. If i- doesn't start your liver and straighten you right up better than calomel and without griping or making you sic!; | want you to go back io the store and got your um rey. Take calomel to-day and to-mor row -on will fool weak and sick and nauseated. Don't loso a day's work. Take a spoonful of harmless, vegeta ble Dodson's Uiver Tone to-night and wak*- mi foeliug great, lt's perfectly harmless, so give il to your children any time, lt can't salivate, so let them eal anything afterwards.-Adv. Will Man? Five More Riolers. Ran An ionio, .lan. '2. I'M ve of the Tiegroes I "led by the last court-mar tial in connection with tho Houston rioti' Jiavo been sentenced to be hanged, according lo court announce ment by Major/len. Ruckman this morning. Tho execution of the sen tence will 1)0 suspended until the enso is reviewed at Washington. Three of tho fifteen tried were sen tenced to ten years at Leavenworth and soven others to sovon years each. EARTH NEARB THAN Kummer ol' MM 7 .Most Peculiar In Memory of oldest inhabitants. With No Heat Radiation and Strange llehnylor of mids and (Ironing IMunts. : a (Wm. I?. llOUSOal, in Tho State.) Tho dominer ot I DI 7 lias been more peculiar 111 meteorological con ditions than has hoon witnessed by any one now living on the globe. At first thought this may ho a bold as sertion for one to make whO.'inay not bo as learned in the science of as tronomy as others who will no doubt not accept tho above statement as correct, but who will view lt with a critic's eye and a very severe critic, too. The writer waa convinced more I than three years ago that astronomi cal phenomena were fast approach ing one of its grand periodical cli maxes, and that it would occur In thc year Itt 17. This observation of the onward movements of tho mem bo l's of tho solar system which tend ed in this direction caused him to look with a groat degree of appre hension upon the period embraced in the vernal equinox and the sum mer solstice of 1017 as to problem atical direful effects which the cli max might /havo upon the productiv ity of the earth in supplying the hu man family with necessary food. The writer acknowledges his gratification that conditions in* this respect have really been more satisfactory than there was cause to expect and results not therefore altogether detrimental lo the bes! interests of the human family. Upon the basis of conditions which have prevailed during the past sum mer the writer made the forecast that cooler nights would prevail dur ing the entire spring and summer of 1 i? 17 with fewer exceptions than is usually tho case. lt is to be noted that this forecast was verified in the most accurate manner concerning the cool weather in May and frost has occurred every month of the year so far except July and August even south ol' parallel 34 and within 2~> miles of Columbia. lt seems that the most ordinary observer of meteorological conditions ! during tho past summer would have j discovered that something very pe-' cuitar was occurring In natural phe nomena. The writer has held many interviews along this line during the past summer with people of various avocations from all parts ot South Carolina and even from tither States. He would describe the state of the atmosphere, foliage of trees and plants and the soil. Invariably when existing peculiar conditions were called to their attention the writer's observations would he corroborated in every respect by the evidence these visitors to Columbia would furnish thal the spring and summer were breaking the record for strange weather and its "effects upon soil and crops. The writer has not been out of Co lumbia during the past summer ex cept on three occasions-June 3, June 2(5-29 and September 20-21. Ile has not seen a single farm in the process of cultivation, but only knows from personal experience, In cultivating a kitchen garden In tho effort to add to the food supply in a period of national preparedness for the war, that these strange condi tions were manifested in a most-re markable degree. * Karly in June? I Peculiar conditions began to he manifested most evidently on June 1 when the foliage of nearly al] va rieties ol' trees was attacked with rust and tinged with yellowish color from which they have never recover ed. We are. accustomed to behold with pride the verdant foliage of Southern forest trees, especially the many varieties of oak and elm. Tho rusty, stained and tinged foliage of those trees show that they have been nourished neither by soil nor atmos phere in the proper material manner this year. Some trees other than the trees mentioned above, with more potash in their fibre, have been less affected, However, the buckberry even began to shed Its foliage (?0 dr vs al ler i( budded lu ASjril, not withstanding thc soil was well wa tered by abundant rains up to that time. The abundant rain on May 7 should have naturally penetrated tho soil in such a manner that lt would have been readily pulverized by the appli cation of the plow. Such was not tho case. The soil was hardened by the rain and when plowed lt became so lidified again without any precipita tion having occurred-as would havo been perfectly natural-and even af ter having boon cultivated as fre quently as possible lu any condition of wind or weather tho soil would settle almost solidly again. Neither application of wator or common sense seemed to produce any natural R SUN f IT^HQULD BE results. Everything terrestrial' and ustrenornicnl soemcd to he out.of.po sition. Tito surface of tho soil as sumed a cold, tireless appearance, even after tho abundant rain of July 20 and lt nujde no difference as to how much or \o\v littlo tho ra in Lull, the same conditions prevailed and puzzled the farmer especially no lit tle. The radiation of the heat o? the sun'i rays upou the surface of the . earth has hoon entirely absent during the entire spring and summer. Speak , lng for this section of the globe, no j ono has seen it during tho past sum j mer, and if it was ever absent to such ; extent in any other summer no one j has ever rofcrredTto such a fact. It is not supposed any different condl ? Hons have prevailed elsewhere. The absence of heat, .radiation is a most remarkable occurrence, for upon lt depends Hie fertilization of the at mosphere so necessary to plant life, especially when deposited by rain. The attention of scores of farm ; ors has been directed to the entire absence of tho antics of "Lazy Law rence" (torin colloquially applied to radiation of tho sun's rays) anti bc has not been seen tho past summer dancing over fields of cqrn or cotton. Only the reflected rays of the sun have been observed and no effect ot heat radiation, has been observed even upon the paved streets of Co ! lumbla (as hot as vlsitors.erroneous . ly declare the city to be, in summer, judging by the radiation of heat on j Main street.) and scarcely has the i bitulithlc pavement been indented by horses' hoofs, not even considering the fact that ordinarily the dainty high heel of a woman's slipper would sink deeply into tho aforesaid pav ing on a hoi summer's day even as her tripping of her light fantastic step would cause a strong emotion in the heart of the sterner sex. All forms of vegetation have been affected In a phenomenal manner. Corn grew from one to two feet higher and the ear climbed up In pro portion on tho stalk. The ears ma* tared at one-third their normal size, and tho prediction is ventured that it will take more ears to make a bushel of corn this year In most sec tions of South Carolina than has boen the case in a century. Corn planted July 4 mid woll <M\-Htvatod j and nourished frequently with city i water produced only popcorn ears i two months later. Fast Growing Corn. Farmers report invariably that corn grew more rapidly than ever before observed and cotton cached its maturity exactly on the contrary In its slow growth, with tho top pro ducing few bolls. Butter heans which the writer saw planted beside a porch In Columbia can even now scarcely be distinguished from the morning glory vine Exceptions have occurred, how ever, in vegetable growth, bul they only prove the truth of those Ener vations. Abundant yields of vegeta bles wore produced in many gar dens in Columbia because In many Instances the soil had not been culti vated lu years and was rich In vege table matter. Tho best yields of all kind of vegetables and other crops were obtained from the spring plant ing because the temperature was more fnvorablo for growth and the sun rays had not yet assumed their more baneful aspect. This applies to the Immense potato crops of the low country. A certain Held of cotton which the writer saw will produce a hale per aero because a crop of crimson clo ver planted last fall was plowed un der as fertilizer. The Held of cot ton of an adjacent farm received no such good treatment and will yield only half the quantity on the. same quality of soil. A great underlying causo is re sponsible for all these abnormal con ditions and unusual aspects in the physical world. These conditions can have but one cause, and lt ls tho fact that tho rays of the sun have como Into contact with the atmos phere of the earth 2 3l/& degrees be yond the South Pole, or in' other words, when tho earth assumes its normal position In the autumnal equinox and the win tor solstice ls 3,000,000 nillcs nearer tho sun than on Juno 21, when its distance from the sun ls 04,500,000 milos. Thus 1 believe that the earth has been pro pelled an unimaginable distance nearer tho sun than has been tho case slnco 1816, which is generally known ns "tho year without a sum mer," and which was a year when killing frost occurred throughout sections north of parallel 34 and to some oxtent oven south of this paral lel in all months except midsummer. Shown by Shadow. ^ Tho observation or tho shadow cast by any object on tho eartV (house or treo, for cxamplo.) showed, a wide difference when compared to othor years. Au observation mado in the middle of August Bliowed the shadow a difference of about two feot as com , pared to tho same minute and hour , of the same day of 1916 and other : years. Tho obsorvor who reported this fact to tho writer Inquired the cause and was given the opinion herein set forth. This observer bad noticed a most unusual thing and ho was correct. Farmers' households would havo suffered many Irregular ities it they had to still depend upon a certain indicated spot for the sun's I shadow to appear at noon. The din ner horn would Rave been sounded ! possibly an hour too soon at an bom t '? supposed to be noon. ! Tho question may be asked. Is ll possible for the earth to assume i ' such a seemingly abnormal posit io i , in its revolution around tho axii\'? Tho answer to this question ls thai i tho earth in its motion througl ' space is Independent of Its r?volu , Hon around the sun. The earth doei not move In the same path aronui the sun each year any ipore than ai j Inhabitant of the earth walks exact ly lu tho samo line on the road whei ho goes to and fro in his business 01 the earth. Man is a little world li himself and he is Influenced to di 1 things very much after the patten land example of Mother Barth, lt is the opinion of tho noted as tronomer, Garrett P. Servlss, that a I far as can be determined the motloi of the earth In Its revolution aroun the sun is virtually straight awa I through space with less curvatur than that ot* a projectile from a high ? powered gun. lt is certainly not j revolution around a center, so tba j every year the earth must be passin : through a part of the space which i has never penetrated before. This fact is all the more remark-' I hie in connection with conditions i ?1917. when it ls known that th .earth in Its diurnal movement (mal^ lng our day of 2-1 hours) has ll greater flight through space and th rate of this motion is not less tba . 12 miles a second, or about 400 mi : Hon miles a year-or to he more o> act, 378,000,000 miles. The orbit t the earth changes slowly in form an position, although in the long run makes no chango as regards til length of Its own axis or the duri Mon of the year. So it is posstbl for the earth to change its court nearer the sun and only the tempert turo of its atmosphere be affected r has been the case this summer i coming into contact with the rays < the sun. i \ These variable movements of tl earth are called "secular" chang? j and they are due to planetary lnfli j enees called "protuberances." Wei lt not for the action of the plane ? upon the earth in this particular, tl ? earthy would move In the same pat i In Its orbit around the sun absolute . unaltered from year to year. ! Less Heat Produced. The strange position thus asaur ed this year by the earth In its orb around the sun, in my opinion, e I plains the strange effect of the sun . rays and the earth's atmosphere upi ! all forms of life on our sphere. Tl sun's rays becamo weakened ai i neutralised in their more obliqi ; course, thereby producing less he j to the square of the earth' surfac i This marked difference when coi j pared to the normal vertical rays I the suu is further exaggerated i the absorption., of the heat in t earth's atmosphere because horizo tal rays traverso much greater thlc ness of air before reaching t earth's surface. This fact expiai I the entire absence of the radlati which should have been produced friction between the earth's atnie j phere and the sun's rays when th come in normal contact. The peculiar effects upon plant 1 has only been referred to so fi Hirds made their nests two mont later In the latitude of Indiana a in this latitude partridges hatch their young and were seen with tlr young brood In tho cotton and CC fields more than three months nf the. grain harvest. It has been < served that in the dental profess! cases were noticed where teeth yie ed to treatment more stnbhori than usual, the difference hoing fri two to six weeks. The human ho Uko plant life, had less resistance account of being sustained to so extent upon impoverished air, lt has been said herewith that propulsion of the earth In differ paths from year to year In Its oi around the sun ls due to tho act of the other planets upon its mo mont. I attribute thb strange i formnnco of Mother Earth in year 1917 to be due to the linnie driving power of the planot .Tup In thc last of its l i year period of own revolution around tho sun. pltor almost obliterated Halh comet, I am suro, seven years t and tho earth was Jupiter's next f ject. But there is no need for ala This ls a good old earth, and i hore for many more centuries man's habitation, and if man wit ! good, ho will have no other hal: .Hon when needs a ronewed and i ter world on which to spend eton \ Could Not Eat 01 Made Well By Mr. William TO Denny, 1023 Paz Ave, Spflngileld, Ohio, writes: "I find g?*eat pleasure In wrltin you and thanking you for what Pc runa has already done? for mo. have been troubled with catarrh fe years, and it bad affected my nea nose, ^.throat and stomach, that could not eat nor sleep with any eal Isfaction. "1 have Just taken three bottles, can eut most anything and am greatl relieved of nervousness, so that who I lio down I can sloop without th toast trouble. I reoommond it to a those who are sufferers of that dread tul disease, catarrh." Realizing that this year, the : American farmer will be calk tion of the peoples of The Ea readers to also receive The I ognize it as the South's leadii i doctrines of crop diversifica ! servation. So important have these pi ident that he has issued an a L feed^itself but have somethinj ! friends across, the Seas. As your patriotic duty equi and guidance of this stapda: one dollar a year and may bi amount named below, $1.55""? ? ; I! i ===== A VERY HOT SHOT. Husky Girls'Should Take a Course in Trained Nursing, (Helnette Lovewell, in Vigilantes.) j Ellie Perkins started in at business "college" last Monday morning. In eight months or a year she will be j ready for a job, and a pay envelope, j Then she will sit all day In an ofllce and tap out words on a type writer. Sho knows girls who have ' jobs like that-and they wear ten dollar shoes and Georgette crepe j blouses and white kid gloves. . J EiTle ls a husky girl, with bright : eyes'and a healthy pink skin. Her ? people have lived in the United j States more than 200 years and she ' has sung "My Country, 'Tis of Thee, Sweet Land of Liberty," ever since 1 she could Usp. j But-she is going to take a course in shorthand and typewriting now 1 in war times-when one of the great est needs of lier country is nursfes not volunteer nurses, but trained nurses, nurses who start right at the bottom as probationers in a hospital, and get real old-fashioned backache doing the hardest sort of manual la bor. Nurses whose uniforms become blood-stained; whose - fingers are eaten by ncids, nurses who get so tired that they drop asleep with their shoes on swollen feet. Nurses who learn how to lift unconscious forms in the grim white wards, to bandage and to bathe-to hold back death. Not only abroad, but at home are nurses needed. The country must above all things keep fit. There must be no waste for lack of Intelligent care-no lives snuffed out because the nurse on duty has too much to do and there is no one to relieve her. It's hard, stern, heart-rending bus iness compared to taking dictation in an ellice with a rug on tho floor, but lt's helping the United States of America to preserve her liberty and her Ideals In an hour of terrific need. There won't be much chance to wenr fluffy blouses and silk stockings, hut there will bo a chance for something mighty big and womanly-and Amer ican! The office ^jobs can wait-the hos pital wards cannot. Don't hesitate, girls! Frozen River Brings Fatality, Blair, S. C., Jan. 2.-While at tempting to cross ovor tho frozen river at Blair, Roland Thompson, a negro, was drowned and Hugh M. Anderson, whlto, Bon Thompson and Allen Thompson, negroes, escaped hy crawling out on tho leo. A largo aroa of Ice broaklng away and drift ing against and ovor the boat caused tho accident. Bdn Thompson, an old man, was rescued by others throwing planks on the leo and making a road to him and dragging bim out. .j ^ * Sleep PERUNA Catarrh For Years Can Now Eat and Sleep To My Satisfaction Those who object to liquid medi cines can proouro Peruna Tablets. YOUR HOME PAPER AND 10GRESS1VE FARMER next and the next maybe, the id upon to feed the major por rth, we have arranged for our Progressive Farmer. We rec ng exponent of the now vital lion and farm product con oblevms appeared to our Pres ippeal to tho South to not only g more for our sorely needing S \ p yourself by using the advice rd farm weekly which sells for s had with our paper for the ll Remittances to IE K KOW li 15 COURIER, WALHALLA, S. C. IlltOWX'S FERRY CASIO ARREST?. l\mv White Men Taken to Answer Charge of Murder. I Anderson, Jan, 2.-Sheriff Asbloy and Deputy Sheriff Sanders sprung a I surprise to-day by arresting four ! white men, all Georgians, charged with the murder of Will Pierce, ferry man at Brown's Perry, on the South Carolina side of the Savannah river, on May 12th. AU arrests were mado In Georgia. Two of the men, Charlie Craft and Luther Dudley, were lodged in the county jail here. Slim Rice, was placed in the Hart county jail, Bob Lee Jones was detained by the I commanding officer of Camp.Wheel er, where he is a soldier. Pierce was murdered by being struck on the bend with an axe and bis body was robbed. Supposition is that Pierce was murdered because he had knowledge of blockade liquor transactions of the murderers. Rewards aggregating $1,300 stand for the conviction of the guilty. Necks Broken, and Fro?en. iOdwardsville, 111., Jan. 2.-A dou ble Inquest will be held to-day Into , the deaths of Curtis Mackinaw, aged 20, and Otto Weeks, aged 24, who were killed yesterday when their auto turned over. Their bodies, fro zen and with necks broken, were found In a pond west of this place. i f "BEST MEDICINE FOR WOMEN" What Lydia E. Pinkham'a Vegetable Compound Did For Ohio Woman. Portsmouth, Ohio.-" I suffered from irregularities, pains in my side and wa* so weak at timos I could hardly get around to dd my work, and as I had four in my family and three boarders it made it very hard for me. Lydia E. Pinkham'a Vege table Compound was recommended to me. I took it and it has restored my health. It is certainly the best medicine for wom?n's ailments I ever 'saw."-Mrs. SARA SHAW, R. No. 1, Portsmouth, Ohio. Mrs. Shaw proved the merit of this medicine and wrote this letter in order that other suffering women may find, relief as she did. , Women who are suffering aa she waa should not drag along from day to day without giving this famous root and herb remedy, Lydia E. Pinkham'a Vege table Compound, a trial. For special advice in regard to such ailments write to Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass. The result of its forty year? exponento ?3 at your service,