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The Cordova daily times., 1917-10-09

ton of musical instruments aboard manned by amateurs. One doughboy who had recently returned from serv Ice in Hawaii had brought ukelele along. and he went big. for the boys liked those dreamy tunes. It is strange thing about a soldier that he does not sing the stuff written for him. but prefers the tear jerkers and sentimental ballads. The soldier | songs In France will be about back home and not about beating the boches. Yet these boys were going to the trenches and that hell with smile and song. If any reformer kicks on that crap game he ought to go himself. The men are gambling their lives. Why not | their money?
 The Rookie Who Talked Too Much. Most of the soldiers knew and had served with and seen General Persh- ing. He sees more of the doughboys than most major generals and gets in closer contact with his men. Yet they talked little of him except to show they had faith In him. He seemed to be a sort of distant person who spent his time in some indefinite place. The captain is the soldiers friend.
 There was much speculation as to what they would do when they reached France. and all were eager to get into action. They wanted to try 1t anyway.
 We may be fed up on it year from now declared one fellow who had been watchfully waiting several months in Mexico. but hope we get some action soOn."
 I was beginning to think 1 would see the trenches myself and half hoped so. l knew I wouldn't be scared, and l felt l was part of the expedition by this time. Nothing would have suited me better than to have climbed into ditch beside Corporal John Carter, U. $. A. I had caught the spirit of the crowd and had half got my husband to consent to let me go along as far as l could make it. was happy.
 Then one morning without any warn ing a talkative rookie, who had been seasick. but was now better and fresh said:
 Did you hear there is a woman aboard?"
 You don't sayT' answered. "Where the devil is she?
 'I don't know. I can't make her." he answered. Eve been looking every body over. All the boys on the ship are talking about it."
 Some men would make better old maids than women" I replied and turned on my heel and walked away.
 There was lump in my throat. The old timers knew enough to keep their mouths shut. but these rockies were natural gossips. The officers would hear sure and begin a search Had 1 come all this way in vain?
 Gro be Continued)
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eff they're fussy what boat you get in at such time. I'm going to Russia to enlist, where there's some freedom, if they don't drown me and don't care if they dO."
 The alarm was on, tended as q night drill, and We WeIp soon ordered back to quarters. l trailcd along with the rest, almost boldly. because there was little danger of detection in that inky darkness. I rolled into my bunk and was soon as sound asleep as any body. As dozed off l knew I was not afraid of submarines, for the alarm had not scared me at all. and l thought we had sighted sure enough U boat.
 After that We had many of these drills at all hours. Most of the men soon became calloused to the danger of submarines, and some of them got so they would sleep through the alarm that is, they would sleep until the ser geant, whose duty it was to see that every one was out, came along and stirred them none too gently from Slumber. A few began to think they would miss one of the sights of the trip if they didn't meet a Dutchman and looked forward hopefully to the prospect.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-10-09
SAMMY PAYS TEN DOLLARS
 FOR PACKAGE OF "MAKiNs'

PARIS, Oct. S-During a recent to- bacco crisis in the American train ing camp in France several Sammies in Paris were similarly affected A certain lucky Sammy found two pack ages of tobacco in his kit, shinned up a tree, auctioned them off and re- ceived s10 piece for the packages.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-10-09

On her last trip south the steamer Alameda was over an hour landing at the Juneau dock, and finally succeeded in landing, but not until she had ram med the dock of the Alaska Supply Company and carried about ten feet of 1t away.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-10-09

The large pumpkins and spuds re- gently shown at the fair at Anchor age have been sent to Seattle and are on exhibition in the windows of the Bon Marche, where they are attract ing much attention.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-10-09

A twelve foot vein of excellent coal was uncovered recently at the head of Moose creek, on leasing units Nos. ? and 3, in the government coal fields. The lease is held by Henry Baxter and associates of Anchorage.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-10-09
Disappointed Through Failure to
 See U Boats.

However, these Optimists were doom ed to disappointment, for our ship did not see "German porpoise" the whole voyage, nor did we hear a gun fired.
 Since returning to the United States l have heard of the attack on some of the ships of the transport fleet, but 1t was not on the part of it we were with. It would have been impossible for us 10 have been attacked and not to have known of 1t. As say, lots of the boys were disappointed because they could not write home to the folks about the marrow escape from the subs, and the eoughboys are great letter writers. Perhaps some of them did, anyway, so as to let those at home know they weren't missing anything.
 By this time 1 felt almost like sol dier and had learned to smoke tailor made" cigarettes, although I had tried it only once before this trip as an ax- yc.iment whon '-"0 o' ".' >~' HEd had @JanGOuel l. alter couple Of puffs. In the privacy of my bunk I devoted a whole lot of time to trying to roll them with as much carelessness and real economy of tobacco as are shown by the U. S. soldier l had acquired the "makin's" and spent hours at the task. ...'. ..-. About the third or fourth day out I felt was pretty proficient and got out my brown papers and tobacco on deck and went to 1t. Near me was a sailor of one of our biggest battleships who was in the gun crew assigned to defend the transport from attack. He was of duty, and I saw him watching me closely as rolled the pill. Finally he sidled up. Say" he asked. you're Jane. ain't youf"
 What are you doin'-kiddin' mer I asked him.
 "I guess you're kiddin' me-" he an swered. II begged you by the way you wrap up one of those pills. No re, cruit is so raw he can't roll one better than that They wouldn't let him iu the army If be couldn't But wha, you're doing on this joy ride Is none of my business, sis. Don't be afraid I'll tip you of. I'm in the navy, and wha. the army does ain't my affair so long as we get you over there all O. K.'
 l didn't admit I was girl. but he knew. He was nice boy. who had come from Iowa originally, and I goi real well acquainted with him later He was one of the few people on the transport on the way back, sad and lonesome trip for me, and we became quite chummy. I saw him only the other night here in Hoboken.
 "Well," he remarked, its hard luck they got you. The other two girls aboard could roll them better than you and slipped through all right"
 More power to them if they did," answered. q hope they made it."
 Of course there were no more girls on board. He was trying to kid mt and get my goat
 Life on shipboard.
 was pretty happy and contented fol the next couple of days, and I guess became too sure of myself. Most ol the boys were getting over their sea sickness by this time, and the inev itable crap game that follows the army was in progress. You could hear tht men calling for Little Joe' and Jim my Hicks" after they got out the 'ho and colds" and they made plenty o noise.
 The officers were not very stric aboard ship and let the crap game zui
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1917-06-07

causes irritation and heat and if con-
tinued, produces inflammation. 1t
has the same effect upon the mucu-
Gus membranes. If taken III large
quantities, appetite is lost and nau-
sea appears, and the digestive power
is suspended.
Sir William Osler, late of Johns
Hopkins University, Professor of
Medicine at Oxford, McGill and
pennsylvania Universities and one
one of the worlds greatest physi-
clans. says of alcohol that it produ-
ces acute inflammation Of the stom-
ach, hemorrhage of the pancreas,
heart disease, cancer of the stomach,
brights disease, fatty liver, harden
ing of the arteries, and a multitude
OF other Affections Of the body. 1t is
reasonable to presume that where a
vital organ like the stomach has it's
delicate tissues constantly irritated
as is done by the steady use of alco-
mol, that the way is opened for what
ever pathological change may take
place wherein diseases are given a
chance to manifest themselvec.
The researches Of Beebe of Cor
nell Medical College, New York.
show that alcohol may not onlv
break down the defences of the BODY
against disease but really causes dis
ease by its interference with the
functions of the liver. The liver
burns up and destroys much pois-
onous waste matter generated in the
system. When alcohol is in the blood
the HVel appears to attack it first as
poison easily burned, consequent
~ waste matter is left undone as the
oXldatlng power of the liver is linn
ltcd. Thus poisonous waste matter
returns into the circulation and rem
der the blood impure.
One of the more recent discover
les of science is that alcohol, like
ether and chloroform, has a tendency
to dissolve lipoid material of the
blood cells. There is more of this del
icate lipoid material in the brains
than in any part of the body, hence
the brain is very easily disturbed
by alcohol.
In hot weather the alcohol drink
er invites sunstrokes.
DR.. J. Wallace Beverdge, of the
Cornell Medical College, says:
The heat center is located in the
fourth ventricle in the brain. By arti-
iicially stimulating this, we can low
er or raise an animals temperature
Alcohol through the blood, by virtue
of its toxic effect has direct action
on this center.
Alcohol has been found direct.
unquestionable cause of mental dis
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1917-06-07
Fourth Grade-Margaret Bivens, Ruth

Fourth Grade Margaret Bivens, Ruth
Gravley.
Fifth Grade Lois Hames, Louise
Hutchings, Athalie Hallum, Helen Grif-
I'm, Roy Herde, Mable Finney.
Sixth Grade Edna Willis, Mamie
Norris, Don Roark. Katie Cureton, Joe
Robinson.
Seventh Grade Eleanor Mcdaniel,
Norman Yongue, Bonnie Henderson,
Robert Roark, Fannie Finney, Mary
Halium, Emily Thornley,, Sara Mae
Freeman.
Eighth Grade = Ethelyne Can't, Nita
Hames, Melenec Thornley,.
PERFECT ATTENDANCE AND pUNCTU-
First Grade Mary Gravley, Eleanor
Mauldin.
Second Grade Annie Mae Stewart,
David CAN'T, Frank Partridge.
Fourth Grade - Ruth Gravley.
Fifth Grade Daisy Bivens.
Sixth Grade-Katie Cureton, Don
Roark, Mamie Morris.
Seventh Grade Robert Roark.
PERFECT DEPORTMENT
First Grade : Marjory Allen, Otis
Cauly, Ora Hughes, Elsie Hester, Fred
erica Hallum, Mary Looper, Virginia
Lewis, Frances McFall, Eleanor Maui
din, Charlie Craig, Clay Newton.
Second Grade Mildred Baker, Fran
els Cureton, Ila Johnson, Irene johnson,
Amy Porter, Annie Mae Stewart, David
Can't. Oliver Hughes, Claude Sea-
wright, FAINT Thornley,
Third Grade Wyatt Stewart, Nan
Newton, Margaret Richey.
Fourth Grade Marshall Hughes, Ruth
Gravley, Lucille Hallum.
Sixth Grade Mary Morris.
Eighth Grade-Neta Hames.
Tenth Grade Margaret Aiken
HIGHEST SCHOLARSHIP
First Grade Frederica Hallum, Vir-
ginia Lewis; tied.
Second Grade Annie Mae Stewart,
FAINT Thornley,; tied.
Third Grade-Wyatt Stewart.
Fourth Grade-Ruth Gravley.
Fifth Grade-Essie Stewart, Athalie
Hallum; tied.
Sixth Grade Edna Willis.
Seventh Grade Eula Stewart
Eighth Grade Melenee Thornley,.
Ninth Grade Ellen Finley.
Tenth Grade--Joe Frank Freeman
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1917-06-07
From Amber Section

The crops are in very good condition,
tho late.
The Sunday school at Amber is still
in flourishing condition. with Bro. ].
K. Connolly as superintendent. He is
also one Of our best singers, and with
Miss Susan Connolly at the organ our
music is second to none. We had sew
eral visitors yesterday. Among them
were Messrs. Henry Edens and Dean
Stansell from Oolenoy, l.. p. Simmons
and Bertran Anthony from Griffin, and
Misses Verona Mae Anthony and Ern-
estine Hendricks, also of Griffin.
Mr.. and Mrs. Beco Watson visited A.
G, Smith and family Sunday afternoon.
Ernest Trotter visited one of the
fairer sex of Amber Sunday, but this
has become of his regular Sunday tricks
Mrs. Esley Lynch and little son re-
turned home yesterday, after few
days stay at the home of her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Freeman.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ebert McJ unkin visited
his parents Saturday and Sunday.
XVI
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1917-06-07
eases in from ten to forty per cent.
of all cases Of insanity.

eases in from ten to forty per cent.
OF all cases of insanity.
Science proves by delicate instru-
ments of precisions that a person un-
der the influence of alcohol thinks.
sees, hears and acts more slowly
than the one who doesn't use alcohol.
Before the recent disturbance
which called large numbers of our
young men to the border, recruiting
stations were turning back sixty
five per cent. of all applicants as
physically unfit, the vast majority of
them as the result of diseases for
which alcohol is directly or Indirect
ly responsible.
The verdict of the civilized ma
tions of the world and of the worlds
greatest physicians is that alcohol is
q terrible destroyer of human life,
efficiency and happiness. 1t de-
bauches character, blights hopes ere
ates criminals and lunatics.
king alcohol will be banishcd from
our midst.
May young and old profit from the
sad plight of Robert Burns, who,
speaking from experience, said:
Brandy, brandy, bane of life,
Source of tumult and of strife :
: Could l but half thy sorrows tell,
The wise would wish thee,
Safe in He'll"
MARY HALLUM.
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1917-06-07
Along Marietta Route 2

Will give you few dots from this
section since we have been blessed with
the glorious rain and beautiful sunshine.
While the rain of the 22d was heavy in
this section, yet 1--WE were more than
glad to see it come.
G. w. Bowen is giving the roads of
this section dressing out which will be
much appreciated by all of u.s.
Herbert Williams, who has been con-
fined to his room for some time, is, we
are glad to say, able to be out again.
The IL months old child of Jas. A.
Edens, who has been real sick, is con-
valescent now
Our section was visited by good rains
again on June 1st.
Rev. J. E. Foster filed his regular
appointment at Mt. Tabor on last Sun
day, good attendance am rice behavior,
no evidence Of ''booze.'
Miss Snowey Williams os Easley is
visiting relatives and friends in this sec
tion this week.
Here's wishing that our own Wood
row Wilson would reduce the prices on
flour, corn and so on so that we could
bread our vegeta tables.
Crops are looking reasonably we'll
since the copious showers came, al
though the stand Of much Of the cotton
is poor. But we can't eat cotton no
way.
Mrs. l.. S. Edens and children visited
her mother, Mrs. Mira Turner, of Da-
cusvile route / last week.
Mrs. w. A. Edens and son. Marshall,
visited at Mr.. VIM. NJ. Edens' last
week.
j. =. Robinson visited his sister, Mrs.
j. ID. M. Keith, Of Oolenoy, who is still
seriously sick. OH last Wednesday.
The contractors will soon have the
w. O. w. Hall for Bula Camp No. 9lO.
completed, which will add much to the,
convenience Of Woodmen of this section.
0. A. Crenshaw made a business trip
to Pickens Thursday.
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1917-06-07

The following attendance, punctual-
ity, department and scholarship records
Of Pickens school pupils cover the en-
tire school year:
PERFECT ATTENDANCE
First Grade : Mary Gravley, Elsie
Hester, Virginia Lewis, Eleanor Maui
din, Clay Newton.
Second Grade Edith Hames, lla
Johnson, Irene Johnson, Annie Mae
Stewart, Ruth Sutherland, David CAN'T,
Frank Partridge, Claude Seawright.
Third Grade Linnie Cantrell, Nan
Newton.
Fourth Grade = Ruth Gravhy.
Fifth Grade :. Daisy Bivcns. Meta
Belle johnson.
Sixth Grade Mamie Morris, Katie
Cureton, Don Roark.
Seventh Grade Eula Stewart, Rob
ert Roark.
Eighth Grade Austin Nealy.
PERFECT pUNcTUALlTy
First Grade Mary Gravley, Frederica
Hallum, Eleanor Mauldin.
Second Grade : Francis Cureton, Heller
Langston, Annie Mae Stewart, Marga
ret Valley, Connie Finney, David CAN'T
Frank Partridge, Fant Thornley,.
Third Grade Margaret Richey, Hes
ter Tongue, Webb Yongue.
The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1917-06-07
PRIZE-WINNING ESSAY

The following essay won the first
prize of $500 given by the Pickens w.
c. r. U. for the best essay on "Alcohol
and the Human Body" and competed
for by members of the seventh and
eighth grades of the Pickens high
school. The essay was written by Miss
Mary Hallum, daughter Of DR.. and Mrs.
j. N. Hallum of Pickens. The Senti-
mel hopes to print the other two prize
winning papers in early issues:
ALCOHOL AND THE HUMAN
BODY.
Alcohol is subject which may
well engage our earnest attention
because of the wave of protest
against it that is now sweeping over
the whole world.
We first want to know what alco-
hol is. Its friends say that it is
stimulant and liquid food. We sub
nit that alcohol is the greatest men,
ace Of the race.
Modern science declares that it
has yet to be proved that the heart
muscle can be stimulated by alco-
hol, that alcohol is a narcotic, water
absorbing anesthetic drug--a poison.
1t must be classed with opium, co
caine, morphine and other appetite
forming poison drugs. 1t cannot be
taken with any degree of frequency
without deterioration to the human
tissue and it affects maliciously all
cell life. One drink of Intoxicating
liquor disturbs the disease-germ-d de-
stroying white blood cells of the
body--they stagger. With the germs
of typhoid striking in on the bowels,
with tuberculosis germs striking in
on the lungs, the sluggish, impovcr-
ishcd white corpuscles of the drink
cr's blood are insufficient for their
! task and fail in the hour of physical
crisis. Thus it is that pneumonia
has death mortgage on the drunk
moderate drinker has but one chance
in two for recovery from disease and
for long life as compared with the
total abstaincr.
Just let us glance for moment at
the physiological action Of alcohol
1t causes lowering Of the body tenn
perature Of from one to three dc.
grees. At first it increases the heart
action, but lowers the blood pressure
through the dilation of the blood
vessels. 1t affects the nervous sys
TEN directly through the blood. i
has been found present in the bloot
stream fifteen minutes after taking
1t causes q tremendous flow Of bloot
to the capillaries and small bloot
vessels that supply the stomach.
The materia medica says, alcoho
when first applied to the skin give
J. a cool sensation, but afterward i
evaporation be interfered with
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Notice will try to be sent out cv-
erywhcre, but to be sure that you
know the exact date call or see on
next Monday June 18th.
LORENA TAYLOR.
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Pickens Produce Market

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Valdez daily prospector. (Valdez, Alaska) 1905-1918, 1917-08-30
TURKS SET FIRE ~ 40
rt And DESTROY JAFFA


NEW YORK. Aug. 30.-The town
of Jaffa, in Palestine, formerly the
port of Jerusalem, virtually is In
runis, according to information re-
ceived from Cairo, Egypt, by the Am
erican committee for Armenian and
Syrian relief. Jaffa was set on fire
by the Turks and burned after many
buildings were dynamited, says the
message received by the committee,
which adds that of the villages and
harllets within twelve miles of Jaffa
nothing remains but heaps of ruins
and ashes.
From a line extending three miles
north of Jaffa to the judah noun
tains, not an inhabitant remains nor
a dwelling" says the message. "All
government records have been taken
to Damascus and Naglus. The people
who were spared from massacre were
exiled to Hebron"
Jaffe formerly had a population es-
timated at between 10000 and 49,.
900. 1t contained several mosques
churches, and converts, a bazaar, hos.
pitfalls, hotels and fine gardens. 1t is
connected with Jerusalem by a rail-
way line 4 miles long.
Valdez daily prospector. (Valdez, Alaska) 1905-1918, 1917-08-30
MAYOR ACCUSED OF ------' - =
AIDING THE STRIKERS

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 30.-Dif-
ferences between the San Francisco
Chamber Of Commerce and Mayor
James Rolph, Jr., over police protec-
ton for the United Railroads, against
which there has been a strike for
some time, eliminated yesterday
when the Chamber of Commerce paid
for newspaper advertisements charg-
ing the mayor with failing to protect
life and property. The advertisements
declared that striking street railway
men and their sympathizers has used
violence against so-called strike
breakers and had destroyed cars of
the railway company and that the po-
lice had made no serious effort to
prevent such disorders. Mayor Rolph,
the advertisement stated, by his fail
ure to preserve the peace, was siding
with the strikers.
The mayor today declared that law
and order had been and would be
maintained despite the hatred and
bitterness aroused in the community
by the Chamber of Commerce, which,
it was said, wanted to subserve ev-
cry interest to the advantage of the
street car company. The police, stat
ed the mayor, would be viligant to
see that neither the strikers nor the
company violated the law.
Valdez daily prospector. (Valdez, Alaska) 1905-1918, 1917-08-30

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