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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-01-03
SHEIsII|l' HAL ID. GRANT,
Three Men Have Held the Office
Within Span of One Week.

The office Of Sheriff is the only
county Office that is filled automati-
cally by succession in case of a va
cancy occurring. Owing to the death
| Of Sheriff John w. Davis, the Coroner
OF Oconee, Whit Knox, succeeded the
deceased official automatically upon
his receiving word that the Office was
vacant. Accordingly, last Thursday
night Coroner Knox came to Walhalla
and took the oath of Office as sheriff
OF Oconee, filling the Office for four
days. Hal d. Grant received his COM
mission last week as Coroner, and
came TO Walhalla Tuesday and was
sworn in as coroner. He also was
sworn In as sheriff Tuesday. and is
now acting i'll that capacity. He will
hold the Office until appointment is
made.
appointment by Governor.
The South Carolina Statutes pro-
vide for the appointment by the Gov
ernor to fill vacancies occurring in
certain county offices. The Offices Of
sheriff and supervisor are recognized
as among the most important in our
system Of county government. and it
Is therefore reasonable to presume
that Governor Manning will not delay
unnecessarily the filling Of the two
offices by appointment. 1t is equally
safe to suppose that he will not rush
with undue haste, prcferring to give
the matter that careful consideration
which it deserves.
There are various theories ad-
vanccd as reasonable modes of pro-
ccdure for the Governor. Some think
that he will at once fill the Supervi-
sor's Office, but that he will let the
matter Of the appointment Of She
riil stand for longer period. owing
to the fact that the present coroner
is acting sheriff by reason Of his au-
tomato succession to the Office. Ii
is our opinion that just as soon as he
lnds the two men that appear to
meet the needs Of the situation best,
Governor Manning will make the ap-
po'ntmont without hesitation.
he appointments are made with
out the accommodation OF the MEM
hcrs OF the General Assembly.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-01-03
Wesleyan Missionary Rally.

Oakway, Jan. 1.-There will be a
missionary rally at the WESLEYAN
Methodist church on the first Sunday
night, January 7th. Everybody cor
daily invited.
(Miss) Lille Carroll.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-01-03
$3.50 Is YET NEEDED.
Contributions Slow i'm Coming foi
Making Up Deficit.

FOLLOWING is statement Of con-
tributions received by Fred II. Domi-
nick to the 1000 fund for deficit iii
the treasury Of the National Demo-
cratic Committee Total receipts. by
counties, to Dec. 80, 1916:
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-07

! Also It calls attention anew TO fem
! mime weakness against which every
woman should guard herself, and eV
cry mother, in especial, should guarc
| her dGugEter.
And that is letter writing. Ink goes
to a woman's head like strong drink
and steals away her reason, her judg
ment and her good tas ;. Let a woman
| set herself down at desk with q
ream OF fair paper spread before her
al inexhaustible ink PIT and smooth
glowing pen, and the things she writes
she wouldn't believe of herself the
| next day, even when she sees it down
in black and white over her own sig
nature.
She hes tossed discretion to the
winds. She has kissed reserve, and
feminine coyneEi aud reluctance good
by. She has confided secrets she new
er meant to tell Ind written things
that she would have bitten her tongue
off before she would have said. Worse
still she has put tie loud pedal on all
of her emotions and sentiments and
exaggerated them to the highest de-
gree.
Why women do this only God who
contrived the puzzle Of feminine psy'
chology knows. Perhaps the best
guess at the riddle is that every wo
man is at heart a poet and a novelist
and that it is only in her letters that
she finds vent for the bubbling and
seething sentimentality and romance
that is bottled up within her.
She hasn't the nerve to express
herself in high fallutin' phrases in
face to face talk with anyone. Nor
in ordinary convers ton could she
rhapsodize over nature or paint lurid
pictures of her own soul hunger and
warnings after the whatness of the
what She knows people would laugh
at her. .-.." 3
But when she sits down to write a
letter all restraints are off. It's the
open season for a woman making as
big a fool of herself as she can and
going as far as she likes. Thus it
happens that a woman will write
man letters breathing the most pas
sionate VOWS of devotion when she
really isn't in love with him at all, or
she will pen discriminating things that
she has to buy back with good
money, not because she was swept off
of her feet by the Vaccinations of the
man, but by the fascination of writ
ing. ...
In neither case did she mean what
she wrote, but it just looked so good
on paper she didn't have the strength
of mind not to send il.
Hence these tears, and much Of the
thriving trade in blackmail. Nor is the
fatal folly Of letter writing confined
to women, as witness the missives
that form Exhibit A and Exhibit B in
breach Of promise cases in which cid
erly millionaires have signed them.
selves ''your itty bity little Boy Blue"
and have been guilty of other epis-
tolary rashness that the jury assesses
in hard dollars and cents.
In one of Rosa Broughton's novels
there is depicted a charming heroine
who was a great flirt, with whole bat
talions of lovers signing at her feet,
and it was this delightful damsels
wont to say: a.
mo matter what may have said to
a man, thank God there is not scrap
of my handwriting in the whole length
and breadth of England"
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-07
FRANCE FULL OF AMERICANS,
SAYS YANKEE SANITARY WORKER

Paris during the loading, but by the
time We got started the man who was
scheduled to take charge of the camp
got back from the Vosges and so he
had supreme charge, Of COURSE The
job was very satisfactory although
the arrival of Mr. Fisher took most
of the initiative off my shoulders.
Breakfast is any time from Z
o'clock to 10; lunch 1850 and dinner
at $3.50, but 1 missed lunch today and
it is very common occurrence. How.
ever, last Sunday l had lunch at II
and dinner at 1870 By the way,
established record that day when l
went until p. m. without realizing
that it was Sunday.
Il have just consoied myself by pur-
chasing a pound of bon, bons at the
village store. When We arrived the
store had no bon bons but the demand
created supply. We live on rumors
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-07
GENERAL PETAlN RAISES g,
BIG VEGETABLE GARDEN

PARIS. France, July 9.-The gem
eral in chief Of the French army 10
becoming the first gardener of France.
He is raising, under his own super
vision. enough vegetables to supply
the entire general staff.
When General Petain arrived at
the simple villa now serving as gen.
eral headquarters he found spacious
lawns and flower gardens. He OBJ
tanned permission from the lroprie-
tor to dig them up. Roses and othef
climbing plants have been replaced
by beans, peas, cabbage, tomatoes
and potatoes.
The general is out at daylight every
morning inspecting his crops and III
recting the work of soldiers VINO oc-
cupy their leisure off duty wedding
and cultivating the garden.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-07
MOLDS
PRISONERS into
Choir CHURCH

Trained by Father valentin for the
prison choir. certain inmates Of the
territorial penitentiary who are sery,II
ing various sentences for several
years, are paroled every Sunday In or
der that they can go out to the
Catholic chapel at Waikiki and sing
in the choir.
Two or three times each week
Father Valentin goes down to the
penitentiary to lead the prison choir
in practice. And then he goes down
there on. Sunday morning to conduct
the service at which they sing.
Two or three Of the men are pa
rolled to sing at his chapel In WAIKIKI.
and formerly, when there were many
good voices among the men In jail.
the entire choir would 60 to the
church on Sunday to sing in the choir.
for the priest who had devoted his.
time to them.
From s to IL o'clock each Sunday
morning services are held by six DIFF
ferent organizations IN the prison for
the inmates. Services are conducted
in Filipino. Of whom there are more
than Of any other nationality; in
Korean, in Japanese. and IN English
by the Y. NJ. c. A., Salvation Army
and Father Valentin.- Sometimes ser.
vices are conducted in Hawaiian.
When asked how we'll attended they
were, Sheriff William P. Jarrett stated
that often there were large groups at
tending. while at other times very few.
went. There are always enough there's
however, to conduct the service.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-07
GIRLS LETTERS.
BY DOROTHY DIX.
The Worlds Highest Paid Woman
Writer.

TITS good news to hear that the gen
eral government is Eoing to put
j stop TO the maudlin and pernicious
correspondence between women and
men convicts in ?enitentiaries and
jais.
Strange as it may seem to the aver
age healthy minded individual, so
ciety for promoting letter writing be-
tween respectable women and the
male inmates Of penal institutions
exists. II is called the Oriental ESQ
teric Literary League OF Washington
and il sends out circulars to women
drawing a pathetic picture of the sad
and lonely life OF the men behind the
bars. telling how greatly they would
be cheered and uplifted by receiving
letters from some pure young girl or
some woman with a warm, tender,
sympathetic heart and asking such
women to adopt" convict and write
TO him regularly. t.>
And all over the country thousands
of silly geese of females who think
only with their emotions have res
pended to this appeal and carried on
a heart-to-heart correspondence with
gentlemen whose permanent address
es are Sing Sing, or Joliet, or Leaven-
worth, or Atlanta, or Trenton, or
some other place which is a winter
and summer resort for murderers,
burglars and white slavers.
It seemed to these women that it
was such a little thing to write a let
ter and, of course, they reasoned that
IL must be terribly dull, being shut up
in prison, not being able to go to pink
teas and bridge parties and matinees
and so on, and it must be perfectly
lovely to get letters, especially from
strangers. So they picked out their
net convict and proceeded to cheer
him up with Hbations Of ink, without
ever stopping to think that the mere
fact that the men to whom they were
writing were convicted criminals was
of itself. an all sufficient reason why
no decent woman should correspond
with them.
Neither did they pause to reflect
on the trouble and danger they were
LAYING up for themselves. For natu-
rally the very first thing that the bur
plar or the white SLAYER would think
of doing after he served out his term,
would be of repairing at once to the
home of the gentle correspondent who
had manifested so warm an interest
in him while he was in prison and
who should stand ready, by all rules
OF logic, to extend him a warm well
come and a helping hand.
What such woman would really
do when her ex-convict appeared on
the scene with his prison pallor and
his furtive look would be to scream
for help. But it would not make her
sleep the sweeter to recall that the
man possessed thick packet gilmore
or less sentimental letters that she
had written him, which would prove
exceedingly interesting reading to her
dear five hundred friends.
That the law has to stop with its
heavy hand the correspondence be-
tween mice" women and criminals is
commentary on feminine fntelli-
gence that makes every sensible wo-
man blush with shame for her sex.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-07
"July Is, 1917.

Dear Mother: ......
Yesterday they moved all the in
habitants out of the village north of
here and today the White truck is
working carrying supplies. We hope
for some doings soon. All indications
seem to show that sometime the
French are going to return the gas.
The medicine division says we are
going to have much to do soon.
Last night Boche aviator made
a very daring raid on an aviation field
near here and got away with it. He
flew overhead very close as we could
tell by the sound, though we couldn't
see him" ... IL =" ..... 49,. -.
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on word from home"
July 81. 1917.
Dear Mother:
Il had my first blowout today and
it took me just three quarters of an
hour to fix it. That is not bad for
this style of rim. We had an inspec,
ton this afternoon which just missed
by coming here. l stopped a little
way back to lend cyclist my pump.
discovered the regiment coopera-
tive this afternoon so am now
munching mediocre French choco-
lates. Strangely enough l feel almost
satisfied tonight.
81 had to stop last night because
it became so dark. At $50 this morn
ing had a call and did not get back
until $3.50. Then l had a piece of
bread and cup of coffee.
"A few minutes ago a Boche avion
flew over. He was nearer than any
of the others l have ever seen: He
dove and twisted so that in spite of
all the shells, he got away with it..
Some shells certainly did explode
close to him. 49,.
You might send me some nice
strong flea powder if you find it con-
yenient. l do not know what bit me
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: on my wrist but it swelled so that I
had to let out my wrist watch band
two notches.,
Il am getting so that French gram
mar doesn't worry me in the least.
I just string along a row Of nouns
and verbs. A Frenchman has a par
ticular gesture for every thought and
emotion. When he talks about money
he rubs his fingers together. When
he talks about atrocities he shakes
his hands as we would if we touched
something hot"
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helped thousands, young and old.
They are the most widely used rem
edy for bad backs and weak kidneys
in the whole world.
when Your Back Is Lame-Re-
member the Name" DoAN'S BACK
ACHE KIDNEY PILLS. Sold by all
druggists at SOC a box (six boxes
$3.50, or mailed on receipt Of price
by the HoIIister Drug Co., or Benson,
Smith & Co, agents for the Hawaiian
IsIands.
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HonoIulan Gets Letter From
Cousin Who is Doing Her
Bit in Helping Allies

France is full Of Americans, accord.
by OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES j. B.
Clarke Of Honolulu from his cousin,
Lauriet LaLe, a member of the Unit
ed States sanitary section now In
France. The letter is one of series
sent by the young ambulance driver
to his parents and then forwarded
here.
ALI Of the le;ters are full of inter
esting facts concerning the life there
with bits occasionally deleted by the
censor. They show a remarkable
talent for observation on the part Of
the writer as we'll as the power Of
narrative and description. Bits from
them follow: 49,.
July IA, 1917.
Dear Mother: ... -.
you remember the letter / wrote
describing the similarity of my sit
uation to Bouldercroft. I am now in
the same place and it is u1Ore similar
for it is very hot and there are many
flies. I have just come back from
two and half days in Paris. In Par
is had a wonderful time, but strange
ly enough / found myself glad to get
back. While we were there the Ger
mans launched an attack near here.
The official communfque of July II
said north Of here.
They took some prisoners. The at
tack was for that purpose. They
wanted to find out if a fighting divi-
sion was opposite them. The attack
did not amount to much for us, merely
a days work for three cars.
81 stopped here to buy a briQuet, a
cigar or cigarette lighter that l shall
never use. Many of them are made
by the poilus in their spare time. l
paid five days for II days work. 1t
is a miniature helmet. l shall give it
away to some gentleman friend in the
states.
Il could tell you lots of interesting
things about Americans in France.
The most l can say is that France is
full of them. Across from me some
Frenchmen are making some portable
barb wire entanglements. ....
I'VE had a banquet this noon to
celebrate the 18th. The added at.
fractions we're lamb instead of beef,
white wine and individual American
flags
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-07
Ladies Read This

You are cordially invited to attend
the Grand Military Ball to be given
by Frederick Funston Post, Veterans
Of Foreign Wars, at the Armory, Sat
urday Eve, Sept. 8, 1917. Good music
an! perfect order assured. Admission
80 cents. Ladies free.-Adv.
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| commend this young woman as a
model to all girls. Say what you
please to men, but don't write it. Talk
sentiment if you must, but for Heaven
sake, dom: put gooey stuff down on
paper. Your own love letters may
read to you like poetry that has got
Tennyson backed off Of the library
shelf, but did you ever read anything
that was such silly twaddle as the
love letters that other girls write to
men and that men show to prove
what heart smashers they are?
Dear girls, that's the way your let.
tiers look to the cold dispassionata
eye Of the strangers who are permit.
ted to peruse them. And don't de-
lude yourself with the idea that only
the man that they are written to sees
them. He may not be cad enough to
deliberately show them, but all men
are careless and all men leave letters
around in old coat pockets and bureau
drawers and on the top of desks for
any prying office boy or chambermaid
to read who SO desires.
When you correspond with a man,
even when you are engaged to MIN,
let your letter be as brief and terse
as a military despatch. So shall you
save yourself from many regrets. And
never write a man but one letter to
his two. So shall you keep him inter
ested in the correspondence.
And when the temptation to slop all
over many sheets of papers with
hectic sentiments is upon you too
strong to be resisted, write it all out,
seal your letter and put it in the ice
box for twenty-four hours. So shall
you be prevented from making a fool
of yourself. for you will never send
it after you re-read 1t in the cold
gray light Of the morning after.
And never, never write letters to
strangers, or criminals, or anyone with
whom you have not some close per-
sonal tie, and whose whole history you
do not know.
Copyright, 1917, by The Wheeler Syn.
dictate Inc)
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Keep Young

Just as well be
young at seventy
as old at fifty.
M any people
past middle age
suffer lame. bent,
a ching backs,
an d distressing
urinary d1sor-
ders, when a lit
tie help for the
kidn eys would
fix 1t all up.
Don't walt for
gravel, dropsy or
Bright's disease
to get a start.
Use Doan's Back.
a c b e Kidne y
Pills. They have
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-09-07
Goo Manu
@-...
Operations
The Right Medicine in Many Cases
Does Better than the Surgeons
Knife. Tribute to Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound.
Doetor Said operation Or peath-But Medieine Cured

Des MONIES, Iowa.-stMy husband says would
have been IN my grave today had it not been for
Lydia E. Pnkhams Vegetable Compound. suf-
fered from serious female trouble and the doctors
said could not live one year without an operation
My husband objected to the operation and had me
try Lydia y. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
soon commenced to get better and am now well
and able to do my own homework. can recon-
mend Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound to
any woman as a wonderful health restorer. Mrs
BLANCHE JEFFERSON, 70S Lyon st, Des Moines, Iowa.
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Another Operation Avoided.

Richmond Ind-aFor two sick and weak from
female troubles that when going stairs had slowly
with hands the steps then sit down the rest The
said be thought should have operation
thought would live to into house My daughter
Lydia Pnkham Vegetable Compound
taken with good results did weakness disappeared
gained in strength moved into new home do all kinds garden
and raised hundreds of chickens and ducks
enough praise of Lydia Pnkham Vegetable Compound
NJ o. JOHNSTON, Route d, Box 19o Richmond, Ind.
OF course there are many serious cases that only "a
surgical operation will relieve. We freely acknowledge
this but the above letters and many others like Them
amply prove that many operations recommended when
medicine in many cases is all that is needed.
If Won want special Lydia Pnkham Medi.
cine Lynn, Mass Your letter opened
read and and held in confidence
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Copyright, 1917, blythe Wheeler Syn.
dictate, Inc.)
Dorothy Dix's articles appear regu-
larly in this paper every Monday,
Wednesday and Friday.
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July IS, 1917.
Dear Mother:

Dear Mother: ...t
'The day before yesterday, the
10th, drove steadily from II noon
to 1880 p. m, but l haven't moved
since. It is a fact that haven't seen
a shell exploded since I've been here,
except anti-aircraft Shells"
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July 20, 1917.
Dear Father: ."
THE place I went to was near
Meaux. ! had charge Of the squad in
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Misfortune is the bosom friend Of the man
who didn't think"-Anonymous.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-12-02
Arizona Copper 80 80
POductiOnsAbOUe
1916 Record So So

Continued From Page one.)
Bisbee daily review., 1917-12-02

roads should have the most considera-
ton ever given them. In this view a
number of chambers of commerce have
joined.
immigration Sought.
II has been urged upon railroads to
include in their advertising matter
special mention of the high wages and
good climatic conditions in Arizona
mining districts, together with good
living conditions, and the fact that all
Americans who can bring good records
are desired in these districts.
Even before the appointment of Mr..
Hoover, food conservation endeavors
were started through appeal to min
ers to stop wasteful lunch bucket prac-
tees, an appeal which had very good
results in some districts.
The activities of mining compa-
MES in securing larger crops, lands and
truck garden productiveness were Civ
en- wide prominence with result of
some magazine and much newspaper
comment. The attention of magazine
writer's incidentally is being drawn TO
the copper industry. with promise OF
considerable In results next year.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-12-02
JAPAN'S WAR COUNCIL
CAUSES MUCH SPECULATION

TOXIC. Dec 1.-The sudden con-
vening of the High Military Council
on October q has given rise to much
conjecture. The Council consists OF
the aged Marshal Prince Yanagata,
Marshal Kawamura, Marshal Okla and
Marshal Terauch. the premier, with
General Uyehara. Chief of the General
Staff and General Oshima, minister of
war. The conference was of unusual
length and, it was surmised that it
was connected with three mooted ques-
tons: China's request for an arms
and munitions loan; the sending OF
Japanese troops to the war front and
the organization of new army corps.
These guesses were denied by the au-
thorities who simply state that plans
have TO be made to enable Japan to
keep up with the general war situa-
ton and that nothing OF an urgent
nature was considered.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-12-02
Jewelry Gifts
Always
Acceptable

A eift of jewelry is something that
all are glad to receive. men as well as
women; for it is present that will
make the name of the giver cling
fondly in the mind of the receiver long
after the presentation of it is forgot
ten. Precious collections of rings,
brooches. stick pins. watches. chains.
laviliers. bracelets. etc, are here in
abundance to make selections from.
Bisbee daily review., 1917-12-02

Playthngs large and small assembled here tC
amuse and satisfy the paytime dreams OF children
Of all ages whose parents wish to crafty such yearn
ings; for Santa Claus has given assortment 81
large that should really bring the children