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KEG WEE COURIER (Establish'^ i H Hi. ) Published Every Wednesday Moralng Subed ipi ion $1 l*er Annum. Advertising Hutes Reasonable. -Ky HTECK, SHELOlt .V SCHRODER. Communlcatioii'i of a personal character charged for aa advertise ments. Obituary notices ana tributes of respect, of not over 100 words, will bo printed freo of charge. All ovor that number /mist bo paid for at tho rate of ono cont a word. Cash to Accompany manuscript. WALHALLA, S. C.: WEDNESDAY, JUNE at?, 11>18. Buy Them And Help Win The War FOR SALE EVERYWHERE LEND, NOT k GIVE In Mking people to inrest in War Savings Stamps, tho Government ls not Raking; thom to contribute money. It is morely asking fur the imo of money, abd willing to J pay liberally for it. The Government simply wiflhos to employ your money And pay flor Un servlcos just AB lt would employ you and pay you for your services. ? You will got your money baok with Interest - oom i pound fnterost at the rate of ? 4 per cont par annum. The ! stamp? mulina In Ave years, but you can cash thom any timo you wish before the date of maturity and still get mtereat-at three per cent. If you need the services of i your money before five years. ? til? savings stamp handed to ! the postmaster will be tho letter of resignation, and you'll get your money bacv with additional payment for th? tim? the Government has unod lt. Thor? la no red tape, no bother, no unoortalnty, no worry, ft (g tho simplest, safest, and moat satisfactory investment you can maka. ! -_.__ Sugar .Money to Hod Gross. (Atlanta Constitution.) Twenty thousand dollars has been donated to the Ked Cross by Jaburg Brothers, a halters' and confection ers' supply concern, at 10 Leonard street, New York City. This contri bution was made at the suggestion Of the New York food administration, in Hon of further action on charges ?)f selling sugar at excessive prices. Jaburg Brothers offered two ex cuses- first, Ignorance, claiming that they did not understand that the reg ulations applied to bakers' supply houses; second, thal even at the pricos charged, the linn made little or no actual profit on its sugar trans actions. MAMMA ! DON'T YOU SEE YOUR CHILD IS SICK, CONSTIPATED ? Look at Tongue! Move Poisons from Liver and Dowels at One?'. Mother! Your child isn't naturally cross and peevish. Sei! if tongue is coated; this ls a sure sign its little stomach, liver and bowels need a cleansing at once. When listless, pale, feverish, full of cold, breath bad, throat sore, doesn't eat, sloop or act naturally, has stomachache, diarrhoea, remem ber, a gentle liver and bowel cleans ing should always be tho first treat ment glvon. Nothing equals "California Syrup of Figs" for children's Ills; give a teaspoonful, and in a few hours all the foul waste, sour hilo and fer menting food which is cloggod In tho bowels liasses out of the system, and you have a woll and playful child again. All children love this harm loss, delicious "fruit laxative," and it never fails to effect a good "in sldo" cleansing. Directions for ba bies, children of all ages and grown ups aro plainly on tho bottle. Keep lt handy in your homo. A little given to-day saves a sick child to-morrow, but got tho genuine. Ask your druggist for a bottle of "Cali fornia Syrup of Figs," thon look and see that lt ls mado by tho California Fig Syrup Co.-Adv. .J, .J. ?J. .{? ??? ?I? -I? ?J? ?I? ?I? ?I? ?I? ?J? ,?. "THE KID IX BLUF." .{. 4? (Hy J. A. S.) * *I* .!* *I* *I* 4* .!* *!. *I* *?* *?* "I* "I" *i* *^ A few days ago While on a train that waa late And was making up time That had been lost On account of a wreck ahead On a freight train, I no Iced an old man I felt sure ho was An old Confederate Veteran Cot on the train, helping His aged wife to a seat. And the old man Kat lu the seat just, behind His good wife. And I wondered Why he did that. And I watched a while, And I noticed pretty soon That the old man eyed closely l?vory soldier lad that came Up or down tho aisle. Everybody spoke to the Soldiers except the old man, And he looked them over .lust as though be was Studying them carefully. Hut presently there came along "Tho Kid in Blue," I And he didn't get past The old Confederate Veteran Because the old gentleman douched ont his still strong Hight hand and pulled "The Kid in Blue" right down Into the seal besldo him. And Diey talked a while, And while they talked 1 wondered what they Were talking about, but I Couldn't hear a word that Was said because tho train j Was making such an infernal Noise. But 1 know I The old man was saying j Something worth while to "The Kid in Blue," Because the kid, when he Wen? away, looked different. Somehow, from the way He looked when he sat down By the Old Confed. And I'm wondering yet What the old man said to "The Kid in Blue;" But the kid knows, and That's enough. And I'll Bet something that what The old man said Was worth while listening to. And 1 wondered, too. If thc blue of that kid's Uniform-ho was a "jackie" - Had anything to do With the Old Confederate's Picking out the kid for a Talk in preference To all those boys In khaki. I'll bet the blue reminded The old Confederate Of the "Boys in Blue" That he had fought back in The sixties, and his Croat big heart just had To be opened up To "Tho Kid In Blue." And the kid'll be a Better man for what waa Said to him by his aged Friend, whom he didn't know From anybody else So far as a name went. It did me good, And lt did good to others On tho train, just to See that Old Confod. And "The Kid In Blue" talking There together On that noisy train. * * * I apologizo to K. C. H., Whoever ho may be, Or wherever he ia, For stealing his style. 1 til ink it's tho best Style Imaginable To use when a fellow Has something to say, And somovvhosv can't say What he wants to. It leaves so rna ny Little rough ends to the Typo lines, over which Thc nonsense and the errors Just seem to slip And lose themselves, Leaving tho sense, If any, In full view and so easy To understand. And 1 know that you Aro wondering, just Uko I do. what the old man said To that "Kid In Blue." But really 1 don't care much, And neither do you, l ocalise I am sure, And so are you, That lt waa worth while For bim to have said it. I thank you, To Fly Across Atlantic. Washington, Juno 21.-Big Amer can airplanes should be flying aero the Atlantic to reach tho front 1 next summer, Major Con. Brancke of tho British air ministry, said t day In a formal statcmont to tl press. He believes that tho plone trans-Atlantic flight should be fl tempted without dolay. It ls o pected an initial flight will bo mai this autumn in a British machine Buy War Savings Stamps. A UM Y ASI* NAVY M KN IN GRAFT, Employees of Those Departments In* dieted-Many Aro Confessing. Washington, June 19.-Employees of the War and Navy Departments wore drawn into tito net set hy the Department of Justice for war con tract brokers through indictments re turned by a Federal grand jury charging four men with trying to collect on a duplicate bill for $ I s7, 000 submitted by a dry dock com pany for inpairs to a government vessel. The case docs not involve contingent foe profiteers, but ?row out of the Investigation Into their practices. The four indicted aro Clyde C. Walt tn an, yeoman in thc Navy De partment's bureau of supplies and accounts; Chas. E. Wattman, his brother, a business man of Victoria, Va.; Benjamin W. Peake, a soldier at Fort Meigs, Wash; formerly of Boroau, N. C., and I). Malvin Mow er)', a stenographer employed in the signal corps office, formerly of Lan caster, Pa. To Pay Same Bill Twice. Clyde C. Wattman and Mowery, who are room-mates in Washington, are alleged to have conceived a sehome for getting tho Navy Depart ment to pay the same bill twice, and to collect ono of the payments | through a confederate in tho offices j of the companies rendering thc bill. ? They successfully tested the plan twice, it is charged, but did not try to actually collect the money, and the linns returned the duplicate pay ment to the government. Finally, with free access to Navy Department flies, they were said to 1 have obtained a bill for $1 87,000 ren dered April lill by the Morse Dry' Dock Company, of New York, for re pairs lo the government vessel Can- ! andauga, between March 1 and March lo, this year. After tho bill was al leged to have been taken from the liles, the company was told lt was lost and was asked to submit a dupli cate, which was paid. Before the men presented tho original bill for payment they were arrested. The scheme failed, it is said, be cause the men tried through Peake to get in touch with a confederate In the offices of the dry dock company, and an unnamed soldier who heard of the plot informed the government. Chas. E. Wattman becamfe Involved through some correspondence with his brother on the siihjftct All four men have been arrested and released on bail. The significance of the disclosure, officials explained, lies in the suspi cion that similar attempts to de- ; fraud the government may have been j planned by others who are expected : to take warning of this alleged con spiracy. Many Grabbers Confess. Many self-acknowledged contin gent fee agents appeared to-day at i tho Department of Justice to explain i their op?rations and to ask leniency i in any action tho department may i take to break up t he exposed system Of defrauding contractors and the j government out of millions of dol lars. Many of these agents heretofore had been unknown to the depart ment, and this fact promoted the im pression that the system of making commissions out of war orders ls even more extensive than officials had believed, All documents shedding any light In the awarding of contracts for air planes or parts found In these papers were reforred to Chas. E. Hughes, who is conducting a special Inquiry Into aircraft production. Lieut. Jas. C. Staley, under arrest I In New York on charges of accepting a bribe from a raincoat company for his influence on the company's be half, will bo tried immediately by a court martial, and the Information he has furnished regarding other im proper practices will bo used to run down persons Implicated. Depart ment of Justice officials to-day de clined to say whether any further ar rests are in contemplation. Thc Fees Were Heavy. One Washington firm of contingent foo agonis negotiated $10,000,000 worth of contracts for Its clients, lt was disclosed to-day by examination of the linn's papers, sei/.od by secret service agon ts. Another firm, also maintaining business headquarters in Washington, had received $100. 000 in commissions. Most of these fees were paid In Installments after receipt by tho contractors of checks from thc government In payment for goods delivered or In process of man ufacture. As a corrective measure, Attorney Gonoral Gregory is planning to ask heads of departments letting con tracts to assist In co-ordinating their contract work. This ls not expectod to change radically tho systom of placing orders, or to result In tho formation of a contral government purchasing agency, but lt may havo tho effect of eliminating much of the secrecy now surrounding many War Dopartmont contracts. Close scrutiny of all shipbuilding It Is Tl! Thc wisc protect himself a thc first-line tren his second or thi In like man himself behind a OLD LINE which will safeg of the enemies o manent disability his first-line tren< LET u: you can provide life income for y MAIL TI Without oblig "A Life Inco Name_ Occupation . Address_ Beneficiary's The Pacific N J, W. DICKSON, State Age B. H? DEASON, District A? contracts has been under way at the shipping board for two months, under the direction of'Miles Dawson, a law yer, of New York, who was associated with Chas. E. Hughes in the insur ance investigation. Commission agents undertook to negotiate some contracts for shipyards, officials said, and a general overhauling of the do tails of all contracts was decided upon to make certain they compiled with tho law. A bill to prohibit "cost plus" con tracts and to annul government con tracts secured by payment of prom ises of a commission or use of Influ ence was Introduced to-day by Sena tor Poindexter, of Washington, and referred to a Senate judiciary sub corn mittee. Lieut. Held on $10,000 Ball. New York, June 10.-Lieut. Jas. C. Staley waived examination and was held in $10.000 bail to await ac tion by a Federal grand jury when arraigned before the United States Commissioner here to-day on a charge of having accepted a bribe to influence his official acts In connec tion with a contract for furnishing raincoats to the army. GIRLS ! WHITEN SKIN WITH LEMON JUICE Moko a Beauty Lotion for a Pew Cents to Remove Tan, Freckles, Sallowness. Your grocer har. the lemons and and drug store or toilet counter will supply you with three ounce? of or chard white for a few cents. Squeezo tho juico of two fresh lemons into a bottle, then put in tho orchard white and shako well. This makes a quar ter pint of tho very best lemon skin whitener and complexion beautifier known. Massage this fragrant, creamy lotion dally Into the face, nock, arms and hands and just seo how freckles, tan, sallowness, red ness and roughness disappear and how smooth, soft and clear the skin becomes. Yes! It ls harmless, and tho beautiful results will surprlso you.- -Adv. .Hm ('mig Bank Eva miner. Columbia, June 20. - Governor Manning to-day appolntod James II. Craig, of Anderson, State Baux Ex aminer to succeed Col. O. K. La Roque, who resigned to enter tho Army Y.M.C.A. work ovorseas. Tho appointment of Craig was made on tho recommendation of the Bankors' Council. Buy War Saving? Stamps. me to In soldier prepares several lines gainst thc assaults of thc enenv) ch is not sufficiently strong, he rd, etc. ncr thc wise provider for his far n ! LIFE INCOM1 ;uard him and loved ones agair f his earning capacity-sickness Yt loss of limbs or eyesight, deatl :hes, consisting of real estate, stoc S TELL YOL insurance protection for your ourself, IIS COI PC ations on my part, mail me an With Doufc me Policy" \ \ Without ; Age lutual Life Inusuran OF CALIFORNIA. nt,-Anderson, S. C. yent, - - - Greenville, S. C. ?J??J...J??J.,.J.?J?.J??|?oJ?.J? ?J? ?J? ?J? ?J? ?J? .J. .J? .J? .J* ??. AROUND SENECA. .J. .j? ?j. ?j? ?j? ?J??>J??J??J?> ?j? ?j? ?j? ??j* ?j? *!? . j? * J**J* (Farm and Factory, 20th.) Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Jones are re ceiving congratulations on the birth of a fine little son, Monday, Juno 16. Ile has been named William S. Hun ter. Hugh llolleman has purchased from J. L. Marett the house next to F. S. Holleman's, on Fair Play street. Mr. Tlolleman will move to his new property this fall. J. J. Cromor has also bought tho Shanklln house, near Farm and Factory office. Lightning bit the Livingston house, occupied by Supt. and Mrs. J. P. Coates, Wednesday afternoon. A chimney was partly demolished and two mattresses on a bed in the sec ond story were burned. Mr. Coates' hand was cut when ho smashed through a window to extinguish the Hames. Mrs. Eugene Runion received the sad news Friday evening that her brother, Ralph Lea, of Fort Worth, Texas, had been drowned that after noon. No details of the accident were given. Mrs. Runion and her father, Mr. Lea, loft at once for thoir former homo in Mississippi, where tho body was sent for burial. The sympathy of the entire community goes out to the father and sister of the deceased in their great bereave ment. Farmers in town Saturday report that tho prospects for a 'bumper crop in Oconeo this year were never better than at tho pre&ont. The weather, they say, has never been hotter for growing crops than lt has boen thia reason. The hot nights have caused young cotton to fairly "hump," they say, and tho oxcellent seasons have caused the corn and other farm crops to get set for a probable drought. Crops oro clean and all hands are well up with their work. Mayor Jas. L. Lowry has received a letter from his son, John Lowry, in which it is mentioned that the young man is now in a hospital In France. The nature of Mr. Low ry's ail mont is not stated, and lt is presumed that the ear drums have been injured by reports from big guns. Ho was ono of the drat Seneca mon to leavo the Mexican border for France and he has boon "up front" many timos since the American? ongaged tho Huns. It ls hoped that Mr. Lowry will bo en tirely recovered soon. of trenches to r, ?fi In case may retreat to nily intrenches E POLICY ist the assaults !, accident, pcr l-even though ks, etc., are lost. r HOW family and a yjS NOW! outline of ?ling Benefits - Age.-I Lee Company, REFERENCES : RANK OF WALHALLA, Wall.Jilla, S. C. MR. O. C. LYLE8, West Union; S. C. News from Whetstone. Whetstone, June 18.-Special filie Moore, of Greenville, was a vis itor at the home of Mr. and Mrs. dry Cobb last Sunday. I. W. Henry and M. L. Uamby oro on a business trip to Athens, Ga., this week. The young people of this section enjoyed a singing last Sunday after noon at tho homo of Mr and Mrs. Austin Gregg. The farmers of this section are get ting along nicely with their work. Thomas Hamilton is In f^om tl e West and has been visiting at tho home of his niece, Mrs. J. D. 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Tho usual wrench I lng strain, benrlng-down nnd strcUutng , alas i aro counteracted. Tho system ls prepared I for tho coming event, and Its uso brings i rest, reposo and happy anticipation. fly tho regular uso of Mother's Friend dur ing tho period tho muscles expand easier when baby arrives, and naturally tho pain nnd danger at tue crisis ia less. I Mother's Fi lend ls prepared after tho for I mtlln ?if a noted family doctor by tho Ilrnd I field Regulator Co., Lamar Bldg., At lanta, Ca. It is for external uso only; is ! almoiutcty and entirely safo mid wonder 1 fully effective. Wrlto them for their instrue . tho nnd Interesting "Motherhood Hook." I Tlioro la n wealth of Instruction nnd com ! fort to bo derived in reading this llttlo I book. It is plainly written Just whi.t every ! woman wants to know nnd will In? a splen did littlo text book of guidance, not only I for yourself but will ranko you helpful to ; others, and In tho meantime obtain n boltln I of Mother's Friend from tho druggist, and thus fortify yourself against pain nnd dis [ comfort.