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IiBON W. HARRIS HOME. Young Oconoean Who Saw Service ?veineas-Will Go to A ?dorson. Leon W. Harris, former Ocouenau, hut who volunteered for aorvlco from McCormick, whore he was residing at tho time he enlisted, was in Wal halla for v short whilo last Saturday, and he proved to be a most interest ing talker. Mr. Harris was in Europe for only about Ave weeks and did not get int? tho active fighting on the bat tle front, though he and his com rades had already been given Lhe regulation full equipment for the lighting lines and wore ready to march to the front when orders were reversed owing to tho signing of the armistice. Mr. Harris's outfit was in training at Napoleon's old bar racks, which is known aa Camp do Goetquidan. The old stone barracks i.sed by Napoleon's armies in train ing were occupied by that portion of Hie American forces with which Mr. Harris was Identified. Mr. Harris "went over" on the U. i transport Sobral, which vessel is callable of transporting from 8,000 to 10,000 men, and on her trip rt the lime Mr. Harris's outfit went overseas she was pretty well laden with human freight.-?about 8,000 wools, Mr. Harris supposed, includ ing tho large crew of sailors and those manning tho guns of tho trans port. The Sobral was ono of sovon transports that mude the trip over nt that time, and thene vessels were coavoyed out for two days and a half by one first class battleship, one latle crusier, six submarine chasers, throe biplanes and one observation balloon. The battleship and cruiser ceatlnued the voyage as convoy all the way over, and three and a half days out from Brest, their blading port, tho transports and coa voy ships were mot by a French I'eet of nineteen sub chasers, numer cus biplanes and warships almost without number. This trip took fi urteen days going over, while the lotvrn trip was made In ten days. ?fr. Harris was (and is still) a member of tho law Brm of Tillman, Mays ??c Harris, of McCormick. Knowing tliis, we inquired as to Onpt. Henry C. Tillman, of Green weed, and learned that Capt. Till man, as we know him, is now rank it ss major in the ?ttd Con Bi Av ti Kory. When he mitered th-.- sot ./icft be Was captain ol' Hqudqun rloril ?.'.un pa ny In tho same organisation^ Mfa for TH Ima h ls expected lo relu rn te the United States in April. "When tho transport on which Mr. Hat Ms wont over reached France they landed at Brest, from which pert they sailed on the return trip. Mr. Harris and his comrades landed at Newport Nows, Va., on December 2% and bis organizatiou was muster ed out of the military service at Camp Gordon, Atlanta, Ga., on Jan uary 9th, just oast. Mr. Harris came nt once to O ?onoe, and lias been visiting his mo .hor, Mrs. M. E. Har ris, of Fair Play, sinco. Mr. Harris will return to McCormick to wind up business mu.tiers thore, and after February ir,i)i will be located at Anderson, whore hiff firm will open aa office for the practice of law. Mr. Harris was among the seven or eight thousand men aboard the transport America (the confiscated Gorman ship "Amerika,") which was sunk in the harbor at Hoboken. This ship had aboard tho army pas senger list that waa taken overseas by the Sobral. The mon were got ton off the America as quickly as possible, and at the time she sank there were but about 500 mon on haard. Four soldiers and a number of sailors 'ost their lives, tho re rnainder of tho ft00 being picked up and rescued without serious injury Iry boats of various classes in the harbor nt the time of the accident. Thero is one peculiarity of the daily lifo of the French peasants te which Mr. Harris could never re concile himself. In that section in which his camp was located there were no othor buildings save onc stary farm houses, aud practically all of these were one room wide, with room after room extending hack. The pooplo, the horses, cows, nigs and chickens were housed un der the same roof, the peasants re siding to tho front of tho long build ings, the animals hoing housed In the rear. It was a daily wonder to ? rm and his companions lo get up aarTy and watch tho neighborhood resumo tho round of homo duties. Invariably, he said, tho good woman of each housohold would come to tho front door, open it wide and "BJIOO" tho chickens out at tho front, leaving them to take care of themselves until roosting time, when thby all returned "homo." Whether tho chickens hold A special place of ?.nor in the homos ho did not know, b*t thoy' cortainly had tho right of we^y through tho front each morn ing. Tho Boil In tho section In Vilich ho was billeted lr, rich and dr?m, requiring but little if any for tfti[por in making tko crops. ?Hr. Harris In enttknsiastic in his by"-and then appeared the name of the manufacturer or big-hearted job ber who had contributed the articles for thfi men. But the meu-in-arms got w^at they paid for, no more : nd tho prices were high, exorbitant -so much so that when they wanted praise of tho Rod Cross and the Salvation Army, both of which or ganizations did, and aro still doing, a great work among tho soldiers, 'i bo Y. M. C. A., however, ho did not think much of. though it had n won derful opportunity to serve. His ob servation was that it was one great, grand and glorious frolic, at good pay, for a veritable swarm of young mon and women, who cared little for tho men at the front or in train ing. Ono of tho galling things, he said, for all the men of the activo service was to see great boxes of various kinds, plainly labeled "con tributed for the men at tho front something that could not be had from the army kitchens nt meal times, they sought sources other than tho "Y" to get it. But Mr. Harris is not a croaker or a grouch over the matter. He smilingly said he "guessed it was all right, In a way, but it looked 'queer* to the men." Tho Cause of the War. (National School Service.) Was not commercial rivalry be tween Great Britain and Germany the cause of the war? No, the war had a quite different origin. lt arose from the conceit of German professors and journal ists, who taught that tho Germans wore tho "Chosen People" with a divine mission to Impose their government and their ways of living und thinking upon tho rost of the world; "hom the brutal thrlst for I war of the Prussian military caste; I from the fear of Kaiser and prince j lings that their powor would decline I unless they won some mighty suc ! cess at arms; and from the lust for ? land, mines, and exclusive trade I privileges which charaterized Ger I lunn "big business!" There were ' greed and envy of the whole world ' tn Germany. There was nothing ' akin to this in Great Britain. There ; was, however, a growing uneasiness at Gorman utterances and deeds, which threatened exactly what hap pened when in August, 1914, Ger many suddenly fell upon her neigh bors cand ?est. Honest men In Germany itself now admit thai the tyar wan .one of uKRionsion on tho uart of Rion* ruling Classes, the mis takes of whose leaders brought dis aster. Deadly Gas In Peaceful Uso. New York, Feb. 1.-The doadly phosgene gas, once used on the bat tle front in France, now has been employed in the peaceful pursuit of bleaching sand used in the manu facture of eyeglasses and optical lenses, according to Dr. David T. r ay, of tho Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institute. This gas is composed of chlorine, oxygen and carbon monoxide. It destroys iron oxide, which causes the rod and brown tints of sand, says the Ameri can Chemicul Society. It adds that the United States has a firm grip on the manufacture of phosgene gas, with which this country was prepar ed to overwhelm the German armies. This has given the United States an opportunity to manufacture optical glaBS which formerly was Imported, and it is announced that all the 121 varieties of glass now can bo pro duced In this country with ease. Ono Killed, Thirten Injured. Nyack, Nev/ York, Jan. 31.-Dur ing explosions and fire which wreck ed the Nyack plant of the American Antiene Products Company to-day, one man was killed and thirteen em ployees were injured. Several per sons have not boon accounted for. '1 ho property loss is estimated at about $1,00).OOO. Charles Would Discard Wife. Zurich, Fob. 2.-The Prague Tageblatt ls authority for the state ment that former Emperor Charles of Austria-Hungary intends to apply tor a divorce Charles was married in 11)11 to Princess Zita, of Bourbon and Parma, an Italian. From the union have boon born live children - -four boys and a girl. U. ft. .Soldiers Must Write Home. Paris, Feb. 1.-Every mombor of the American expeditionary forces will have to write a postal card and start il homeward in tho immediate future, according lo an order issued to-day. Tho order was found to bo necessary owing to the neglect of ninny soldiers to write to their peo ple al home. No Worms lu a Healthy Child All children troubled with worms hove an un hf alili v color, which Indicates poor blood, and ns n rulo, there ls moro or leas stomach disturbance. GROVE'S TASTELESS chill TONIC given regularly for two or three weeks will enrich tho blood, im prove tho digestion, and oct as a General Strength ening1 Tonio to the whole system. Nature will then throw off or dispel tho worms, and tho Child will be in perfect health. Pleasant to take.' 60c per bottle CHANGE SOLDIERS' INSURANCE Policies May bo Carried During Their Life-time. Washington, Fob. 1.-Conditions under which soldiers or sailors now holding government life insurance may convert these policies within hve years into other forms, which can bo carrlod with the government during their life-time, were an nounced to-day by Col. Henry D. Undsley, of the War Risk Insurance Bureau. Rates will bo made public soon, and tho new policies will not le available until then. There will bo six difforont kinds of. insurance-ordinary life, 20-pay Uient life, 30-payment lifo, 20-year endowment, 30-year endowment, and endowment payable at tho age of 62. All policies will contain clauses providing that in caso of pormanont total disability of the in sured man, the government will make monthly payments to him and premium payments will cense. This amounts virtually to old ago pension ing and disability insurance and in sures that no man who has sorved in the army or navy need be desti tute if he carries the government in- I su rance. All policy-holders will participate in dividends, and oarnins of over three and a half per cent from tho insurance fund will go into divi dends. Since the rosorves will bo invested in government securities, most of which will pay in tho neigh borhood of 1 1-2 per cent, it is said there will bo large dividends to be returned periodically to policy hold ers. Through Postmasters. Collections of premiums will be made through postmasters in each community. Although tho rates have not yet ??eon announced, Col. Inndsley stated to-day that they would bo so low | that officials of private insurance! companies which assisted in draft- i ing tiie rate schedule had admitted their companies could not compote with them. Any man now in military or naval service holding govern nient term life insurance can obtain new forms, but the amount will he limited to his present holdings, which in no case are moro than $10,000. The government urges all men to con tinue to carry their prosont policies, but to convert, these .. ; SOOI1 as thi > are financially able within tho nexj live yea rs. Tho government itself, and not private companies, will carry these converted policies, it was ohiphaziod to-day In denial of reports that the insurance business built up or: the bves of fighting men during the war would now be turned over by the government to private concerns. Thus will bo created a permanent government life insurance agency, tho biggest in the world, furnishing protection at cost to men who par ticipated in the war, and future members of the regular army or nnvy, with postmaster agents in every city and town in the United States. The War Risk Insurance Bureau to-day reported that 4,480,000 poli cies already have been issued to soldiers and sailors for insurance aggregating $39,232,000,000, or an average of $8,756 on each man. The volume of this business may be de termined by comparison with the $27,000,000,000 total of lifo insur ance carried by private companies In the United States, according to figures citod to-day by bureau officials. While the largest private life insurance company in the coun try last year wrote $316,000,000 of insurance, tho government wrote $336,000,000 of now policies this month, when business was declining. Up to to-day 34,960 awards had been made on deaths of soldiers or sailors for amounts aggregating $294,720,000. A War Between Systems. I agree with the Intimation which has been conveyed to-day that the terrible war through which we have just passed has not boen only a war between nations, but that it has been also a war between systems of culture- the ono system the aggres sive system, using scionce without conscience, stripping learning of its moral restraints and using every faculty of the human mind to do wrong to tho whole race; tho other system reminiscent of the. high tra ditions of men, reminiscent of all these struggles, some of them oli scare, but othors closely revealed to history,"of men of indomitable spirit everywhere struggling toward tho right and seeking above all things elso to be froe. The triumph of freedom in this war means that that spirit shall dominate tho world. Thoro hi a groat wave of moral forco moving through tho world, and evory man who opposes himself to that wavo will go down in disgrace.-President Wilson at tho University of Paris, December 21, 1918. . Cop? riebt lill kr R. J. Kr vnoldi Tobacco Co. fy* fy fy fy fy ... fy. fy. .j. fy. ! fy* Mom: AND PETTER FRUIT, ?fy .fy fy fy fy fy fy fy fy fy. fy fy fy Clemson College, Feb. 4.-Special: With tho return to the extension ser vie . P Hoffmann, extension horticulturist, and Oed. ic. Prince, \ assistant;- extension horticulturist, I i ?dh of whom have beeb in the army j fe IQ, increased attention will be given to fruit in South Caro lina, n ? injunction with county agents i campaign of winter prun ing and spraying is already on in Ole various counties, and attention is being given also to tho setting of new orchards. While fall ia usually considered ?ht desi niuo to plant fruits in the Sou tli, spring-planted trees will do well f properly cared for. There is still tim? ut order trees, but no time shouli! b< li.: : . Soled var, ties that will give you a succession - f fruit throughout the seaton. The following varieties are recommended for the Piedmont rogli >t; Apples (sui mer)-Early Harvest, feed June, Yollow Transparent, Horse, Red Astrachen; (autumn), Delicious; (winter), Stayman Wine sap, Terry Winter, Black Winesap. Rome Beauty, York Importal. Pears (autumn)-Flemish Beau ty; (winter), Magnolia, Ketffer. Cherries (sour)-Early Rich mond, Montmorency; (sweet). Tar tarian. Plums-Climax, shiro, Burbank, Wild Goose. Peaches ( May-Juno)-Mayflower, Greensboro; (June-July), Mamie Ross, Carmen. Belle of Georgia; (July-August), Elberta, Burk Cling; (August-Soptembor), Salway, Mat thews; (Soptomher-Octobor ), Eat on's Gold, Stinson's October. Figs-Celestial, Magnolia, Brown Turkey. Orapos ( muscadine ) --^Scu ppor "ong, Thomas, James, Eden, Flow ers. Grapes (bunch, early )-Moore's Early, Brighton; (mid-summer), Duello, Delawaro, Concord, Niagara; ?late), Ellon Scott, Catawba. Philadelphia Mayor Acquitted. Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 31. Thomas B, Smith, mayor of Phila delphia, tho last of tho principal ligures to l?o brought to trial in tho ll'th ward political row which result ed in the killing of a policeman at tho primary election in Soptcmbor, 1917, was to-day acquitted by a Ji.ry, of tho charges of misdemeanor in office and conspiracy to violate ?n election law which prohibits city office-holders from taking an active part in politics. Tho mayor was on trial niuo days and the Jury was out less than two hours In considering its verdict. Surrounded by friends and mem bers of his cabinet, tho mayor shook hands with tho jurors and wanted c address thom, but the court said it was not necessary. CAY, you'll have a streak of smokeluck that'll O put pep-in-j^our-smokemotor, all right, if you'll ring-in with a jimmy pipe or cigarette papers and nail some Prince Albert for packing 1 Just between ourselves, you never will wise-up to hlgh-spo?. . smoke-joy until you can call a pipe by its first name, then, to hit the peak-of-pleasure you land square on that two-fisted-man-tobacco, Prince Albert ! Well, sir, you'll be 30 all-fired happy you'll want to get a photo graph of yourself breezing up the . ike with your smokethrottle wide open! Talk about smoke-sport ! Quality makes Prince Albert so appealing all along the smoke line. Men who never before could smoke a pipe and men who've smoked pipes for years all testify to the delight it hands out! P. A. can't bite or parch! Both are cut out by our exclusive patented process ! Right now while the going's good you get out your old jimmy pipe or the papers and land on some P. A. for what ails your particular smokeappetito t You buy Pr inc* Albert evorywher* tobacco lt told. Toppy rod bag; tidy rad tint, handtomt pound and half pound tin humidor*-and -that cla?ty, practical pound cryttal glatt humidor with toonga molttontr top that httpt thm tobacco in tach ptrftct condition. R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Winston-Sa!env. N. G. There is nothing better than our Fish, Blood and Meal Fertilizer, and our customers are already writing for it and coming after it. Fertilizer got scarce last Spring, you know, and at the last there was a scramble for it, you remember. A shortage and a scarcity is freely predicted for this spring. You can get it now. It is a good scheme to haul it out, while thc ground is too wet to plow. What is the use of putting it off and running the risk of not getting what you want? And besides, later you will be very busy plowing. NOW IS TT IE TIME. You can't improve on Fish, Blood and Meal Fertilizer. Anderson Phosphate & Oil Co., W. F. FARMER, Secretary. flJj??** SEE C. P. Walker, Walhalla. J* F. H. Shirley, Westminster, T. B. Jones, Seneca. SOME FINK TRACTS OF LAND FOR SALE. THREE THOUSAND ACRES OF LAND on Stumphouso Mountain has boon sub-divided into tracts of ono hundred acres each, and is now ready to bo sold. I will bo glad to show tho same to parties desiring to purchase. Will take Liberty Bonds or War Savings Stamps in payment H. R. MOSS, Agent for Owners, Walhalla, S. C. 5 2-tf electors as return real or personal property for taxation, and who ex hibit their tax receipts and registra tion certificates as required in gene* ral elections, shall be allowed to vote. Polls will bo opened at 7 o'clock a. m. and will close at 4 o'clock p. sa. .1. S. BARRETT, J. L. CROW, GEO. HEAD, Trustees of Flat Shoals School i>,s trict, No. 46, Managers of Electioa. Feb. r?, 19 lil. 6-Y NOTICE OF SPECIAL ELECTION. In accordance with Section 174 2, C'.vil Code of South Carolina, 1912, and pursuant to an order of tho County Board of Education of Oco nee County, South Carolina, notice ls hcroby given that a Special Election will be hold at the school house In Flat Shoals School District, No. 4 6, on Saturday, February 1 Ti th, 1919, for tho purpose of voting on tho question of levying an additional tax of 4 mills on the roal and personal property of said district to be used for school purposes in Flat Shoals School District, No. 46. At said election each elector favor lng the voting on of said special levy of four mills shall cast a ballot con taining tho word "Yes" printed or written thoroon, and each elector op posed to said levy shall cast a ballot containing tho word "No" printed or written thereon. At the Bald election only such CITATION NOTICE. The State of South Carolina, Coua ty of Oconeo.- (In Court of Probate,) -By V. F. MARTIN, Esq., Probate Judge.-Whereas, Mrs. E. C. Clark has mado suit to mo to grant her Letters of Administration of tho HB tate of and Effects of W. A. CLARK, Decoasod These are, thcroforo, to cito and admonish all and singular tho kla drod and creditors of tho said W. A. CLARK, Deceased, that they bo a?d appear before mo, In tho Coart of Probate, to bo held at Walhalla Court House, South Carolina, o? Monday, tho 17th day of February, i919, after publication hereof, at ll o'clock In tho foronoon, to show cause, if any thoy have, why tho sale administration should not bo granted. Given under my hand and seal this 1st day of robruary. A. D. 1919. (Seal.) V. F. MARTIN. Judge of Probate for Oconeo Co., B.C. Published on tho ftth and 12th days of February, 1919, in Tho Koe wco Courier, and on tho Court Houso door for tflio time prescribed by law. Feb. 5, 1919. 6-7