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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-05-30
IsRITIsH TRANSPORT IS SUNK,
Alb Lives LIost--French Liner Also
Sunk, 40 Being Lost.

London, May 24.-The British
transport Pennsylvania was tDrpp-
doed on May 4 with the loss of ia
persons.
The Transylvania was torpedded IN
the Mediterranean. The following
official statement was given out to-
day:
The British transport Transylya-
MIA, with troops aboard, was torpe-
doed in the Mediterranean on Nav a
resulting in the following losses:
Twenty-nine officers and 373 OF other
ranks. also the ships captain, Lieut..
S. Bruell, and one officer and nine
men of the crew."
Inc pennsylvania, an Anchor line
steamship of 1875 tons gross, had
been in the service Of the British gov
ernment since May, 1915, when her
sallings were cancelled. There have
been no recent reports of her move
ments. When she was first taken
over by the government she was en-
S"SSu Ill transporting troops 10 Galn-
poll
The Pennsylvania was built In
1914. She was constructed especially
for passenger traffic between New
York and Mediterranean ports. She
was 54S feet long and had accommo-
dations for 2,45O passengers.
45 Lives Lost on Liner.
Paris, May 24.-it is officially an
nounced that the French liner Son.
tay, bound for Marseilles from Sa-
loniki with 344 passengers, was tor
pedoed on April 16 with a loss of 45
lives. The steamer sank rapidly in a
heavy sea, bit the prompt and me-
thodical manner in which the small
boats were launched saved the ma
jority Of those on board. Cant.
IMAGES went down with the ship.
The Sontay was vessel of 7,247
tons and was built in 1908. She was
owned in Marseilles.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-05-30
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Tune nYnnIxca nOo.llc

(From Boys Life.)
Old Kaiser Bill, one summer day,
Was feeling kind of breezy
Says he, II guess I'll lick the world
| think It will be easy"
Chorus
Wallop him with peas and beans,
Paste him with potatoes,
Hammer him with cabbages.
And soak him with tomatoes!
(Chorus)
And then this chesty Kaiser Bill
Conceived another notion;
He built q thousand submarines
And thought he owned the ocean.
(Chorus)
"No ships with food, said Kaiser Bill
"May come across the water;
My submarines will send them down
TO Davy Jones locker!"
(Chorus)
"Fricnd Bill" said Uncle Samuel,
"That's going pretty strong, sir
And If you try stunt like that,
You'll surely get in wrong, sir!'
(Chorus)
Then Uncle Sammy filled a ship,
With -four and beans and lumber,
A submarine let drive at her
And blew her all to thunder.
(ChOrus)
CAN right" said Sam, If you want
war,
BY gum! you'll get your f1ll, sir!
l'll call two million fighting sons
And make you take your pill, sir!"
(Chorus)
And now his boys are coming in
From Maine and Minnesota,
From Florida and Idaho,
From Texas and Dakota.
(Chorus)
They're practicing with aeroplanes,
With guns they're getting handy;
They'll teach the Kaiser not to fool
With Yankee Doodle Dandy!
(Chorus)
And we will take our crack at Bill
BY getting out and sowing,
BY pulling weeds and catching bugs,
BY narrowing and hoeing.
Chorus
Wallop him with peas and beans,
Paste him with potatoes,
Hammer him with cabbages,
And soak him with tomatoes!
The Cave Scout.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-05-30

South Carolina can produce at
home four of the most valuable con-
centrate feeds, peanut meal, soy bean
meal, cotton seed meal and velvet
bean meal If the Northern dairy
men who purchase these feeds in
large Quantities can make profit out
OF them, the South Carolina dairy
man should be able to make much
greater profit, as he can secure the
feeds at much less cost.
A mans ideal Is tho guardian angel
OF his life.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-05-30
ITALIAN OFFENSIVE REopENED.
Report Claims 5000 Austrian Prison.
ers Are Taken First Day.

Rome, May 24.-Italian forces yes
terday broke through the. Austro-
Hungarian lines from Castagnavizza
to the sea, taking more than 5000
prisoners, says an official statement
issued to-day by the Italian war de-
partment.
The Italian war Office announced
that Italian forces had occupied part
of the area South Of the Castagna-
vizza-Boscomalo road, had passed
Bosccma!o and had captured the
town of Jamiano and strong heights
east Of Pietrarossa and Bagni
Italian airplanes numbering 1870
dropped ten tons Of bombs on the
Austro-Hungarians. The British bat
teries co-operated with the Italians.
5000 Prisoners in May.
Paris, May 24.-German counter
attacks in the region of the Vauclerc
plateau were repulsed last night with
heavy losses, according to an official
statement issued by the war office
French have taken $500 prisoners in
this district. The statement follows:
"On the Vauclerc plateau at $50
O'Clock last night an attack by the
Germans, made after a violent bonn
bardment, was checked Immediately.
The Germans We're driven back to the
trenches whence they came after suf-
fering heavy losses. Prisoners taken
In this region in the operations Of
May % belong to six regiments from
four different divisions. Since May
l, $500 unwounded Germans have
been captured by our troops between
Soissons and Auberive.
In the Champagne there was ra-
ther active artillery fighting on the
Moronvilliers range. On the remain
der OF the front patrol encounters
aid intermittent artillery fighting oc-
Gu red"
Hot After Air Craft.
Berlin. May 24.-To-day's army
headquarters statement says:
yesterday ten enemy airplanes
and one captive balloon were brought
down. Lieut.. Schaefer shot down his
2Sth and 29th opponents. Lieut..
Voss reached the same number of air
victories by bringing down machine.
During the 21st and 22d instant
the British and French lost five air
planes in aerial battles and through
anti-aircraft gunfire.
Eastern Front: Fighting activity
has revived at several points. East of
Tukum in the neighborhood Of the
Baltic coast, Russian accommodating
parties were driven off,"
The statement says there is moth
ing Of Importance to report from the
Macedonian front.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-05-30
HAS PAID THE PENALTY.
Elcctrocaited at Sing Sing for Murder
Of Aged Mr.. Peck.

ossining, N. Y, May 24.-Dr. Ar
thur Warren Waite was executed at
Sing Sing prison at lilo O'Clock to-
night for the murder Of his father
i in~taw, John e. Peck, OF Grand Rap
| ids, Mich.
The young dentist walked calmly
and with firm step from his cell to
the death chamber, accompanied by
Rev. A. N. Peterson, Protestant chap
lain Of the prison. He faltered, how
ever, as he neared the electric chair,
, but recovered quickly and nodded to
the group Of physicians. prison off,
! cials and Others who had assembled
| as witnesses.
Waite submitted quietly to the or
deal of being strapped into the chair
and went to his death without word
OF protest or goodbye. Three shocks
were administered within four min
utes.
The two hours before his death
Waite spent with his spiritual ad-
wiser. Just before II o'clock the
clergyman asked the condemned man
If there was any one to whom he
wished to send message Of farewell.
mo, thank you, DOCTOR" Waite re-
piled with a smile. "there really Is
no one I know to whom care to
send a farewell message"
"Not even to your mother?" quer-
| led Mr.. Peterson.
mo, sir, to no one," was the an-
swer.
The chaplain declared that Waite,
who confessed that he had poisoned
his wealthy father-in-law in the ex-
pectation that his wife would obtain
large share of the wealthy Mr..
Peck's estate, seemed to look upon
his approaching doom as a wonderful
adventure. Not once during the day
did DR.. Waite lose his composure. He
maintained the same smiling indiffer-
! ence that has marked his stay Of al
most year in the death house. DR..
Waite said farewell to his brother,
Frank A. Waite, at o'clock. The
brothers had spent nearly the entire
afternoon together talking over fam
lily matters.
All that DR.. Waite said at parting
was: well, goodbye, Frank"
They clasped hands for a moment.
Tears sprang to the brothers eyes,
but Waite's eyes were dry and there
was a smile on his lips
Frank Waite returned to New York
after making arrangements with an
undertaken in Ossining to take DR..
Waite's body after the execution.
DR.. Amos G. Squire, the prison
physician, examined Waite in the af-
ternoon and was astonished to find
his temperature and pulse exactly
normal. Dr.. Squire said this was the
most remarkable instance of nerve"
he had ever seen in a condemned
man. and he has examined more than
forty on the day before they went TO
the chair.
N"itS was d"dheHeu al y CLOCK
this morning after a night of sound
sleep. During the day he ate three
hearty meals. At supper time the
principal keeper asked him if he de-
sired any special dish in view Of the
fact that 1t was to be his last meal.
"No, think not" Waite replied
after some deliberation
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-05-30
Hoover Sets Up Office.

Washington, May 24.-Herbert G.
Hoover, chosen by President Wilson
as food administrator under pending
legislation, was installed in his new
offices here to-day and soon will name
assistants, who are expected to work
without pay.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-05-30

and stayed four weeks but when came
home I would faint just the came end
had the same pains.
A friend who Is nurse asked me to
try Lydia r. PinSham's s Vegetable Com
pound. began saI::ag IL thatverv day
for / was suffering q great deal. thas
already done me more good than the
hospital. TO anyone who is suffering
rs was my advice is to stop in the frs {
drugstore and get n bottle of Lydia e,
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound before
you 60 home. - Mrs. w. C. BROWN,
2844 W. 18th, ST., Cleveland, Ohio.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-05-30

An hour of work counts for more
now than at any other time of year,
1t is true, but as much can be accom-
plished by eight hours of energetic
work as by twelve hours Of half
hearted labor
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-05-30
South Cardinals Quota
Bad Colds from Sudden Changes.

Spring brings all kinds Of weather
and with it come colds and the revi-
yal Of winter coughs and hoarseness.
DR.. Bells Pine-Tar-Honey will head
off new cold or stop the old one,
the soothing balsams relieve the soro
throat and heal the irritated tissues.
Get bottle to-day and start treat
ment at once. At your druggist, Csc.
Formula on the bottle.-Adv. I.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-05-30
FOUR weeks
in HOSPITAL.
No Relief-Mrs. Brown Fin
ally Cured by Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound.
Cleveland, Ohio. -" For years I su1-
fered 80 sometimes it seemed as though

/ could not stand
it any longer. 1t
was all in my lower
organs. At times +
could hardly walk,
for If l stepped on q
little stone ! would
almost faint. One
day I did faint and
m y husband W q 8
sent for and the doc
tor came. ! was ta-
ken tn the hospital
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-05-30

When window and door screens are
painted white you can't see through
them into a room.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-01-28
Corrected His Lawyers.

James Engle, former judge of the Randolph county circuit court, was once called on to defend, at Winches- ter, the owner of melon patch who had shot ap invader. The only possi- ble defense for the prisoner was self defense. The trial had proceeded to the point where the defendant was on direct examination by Engle. "Now, Sam," said Engle, "you say you shot Tn self-defense. Just tell the jury all about it ill your own way" "No, sir, Jim,' said the witness. You got that wrong. l didn't say that. It was just like told you in your office before we came down here. I didn't shoot him in self-defense; shot him in the back as he jumped the fence" ce."-Indianapolis News.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-01-28
NORMAL SCHOOL
 WORK PRAISED
 BY LAWMAKERS
Industrial Training Being Given Colored Students
 Meets Commentator.

Amazed, astounded, and frankly de lighted with what they saw, four members of the lower house of the
 state legislature yesterday made a formal visit of inspection of the branch normal college for negroes were entertained by tie chamber of commerce, were given an automobile
 ride through the city end on some of the modern turnpikes leading out of it, and left for Little Rock last eve ming. avowcdly with the intention of appropriating every dollar possible for the upbuilding an' extension of the normal dollege for negroes here Representative Johnson of Sebas tian county. Emerson of Van Buren county, Limbarger Of Sevier county and Wade of Logan county. made Up the party of official visitors. State
 Senator Creed Caldwell spent most of the day with them at the branch normal. and accompanying the legis
 lators were Miss Flossie White of this
 city ard Miss Collins of Sebastian
 county. perk an1 stenographer, re-
 spectively. for the educational com
 mittee Of tho house.
 The visitors were met at the station
 by Secretary E. B. Bloom and Thur man Louthan. representing the cham
 Der of commerce, and were driven in automobiles to the branch normal
 grounds, with Senator Caldwell.
 Luncheon was tenderc.l the visitors at the Hotel Pines, by the chamber of commerce, and after a second visit
 to the branch normal, the city and adjacent territory was viewed by the visitors.
 At the college. talks were made to the faculty and student body by the visitors. and the students demonstrat- cd the training they are receiving. X
 new hothouse. just belng completed and hot-air heated all the work of
 the students, was one item of partiQu,
 lar interest to the visitors, as was also the wagon. mentioned yesterday
 by Senator Caldwell, the practical
 work in householl economies and
 agriculture, and the general intellli-
 gent and energetic appearance of the student body, said by the visitors to
 rank them with the highest type tf their race. If the entire leg stature could come here and sec what I have seen am epntident the pockets of the treasury would he turned inside oUt for the branch normal college" said Representative Johnson.
 The other members of the inspce- ton committee echoed his views l Representative Wade stating that he did not want to come to the branch normal, but now that he had como "l'd rather have come here than gone with any other committee. and I now pledge myself to get every dollar e l appropriation that 0an, for thl | benefit of the college
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-01-28

 JURORS FOR LINCOLN COUNTY.

Star City, Jan. 27.-Grand and pet it jurors to serve at the term of cir cult court to be convened here Feb ruary 12 by Judge w. B. Sorrells fol- low:
 Grand Jurors: w. w. Douglas, T. s. Lovett, R. A. Collins, M. M. West, E. A. Shook, L. F. Johnson, J. G. Rim go, J. M. Lyle, A. B. Carter, w. E. Free, B. D. Mead, A. M. Richie, Floyd Fryar, B. F. Boren, T. w. Dean, E. E.. Norris. Alternates: R. E. Lake, A. w. Nobles, J. H. Owen, J. w. Scifres, E. E. Huffstatler, Jack Ross.
 Petit Jury: s. A. Wood, Ed Youn. .:, Fred Holthoff, J. T. Morgan, T. N. Scifres, Jack Dean, John Tucker, Joe Fish, T. R. Stone, Wm. McGehee, Lon Young, Fred Grumbles, E. c. Norton, c. E. Wood, J. E. Knox, w. s. Full bright, John Culpepper, l. R. Wick, ". A. Joyce. D. l.. Bennett, M. s. Bush, w. A. Echols, T. w. Johnson. Alter mates: J. F. Bush, T. J. Bailey, W. M. Rogers, J. s. Patterson, H. A. Nobles, & l. ClOWcrS
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-01-28
OLD "MAMMY" CARRIES
 OFF GIRL SHE REARED
Chicago Police Searching for Colcred Woman and White Child Whose
 Custody Court Considers.

Chicago. Jan. 27-Search of the negro quarters of Chicago was being made by the police today in an at tempt to find Marjorie Delbridge. a IA year~old white girl, and Camilla Jackson, the negro nanny" wno reared her from babyhood Accord ing to the police the Jackson woman through ruse, last night took the 'Qlild from the home of Mrs. Louis Brock, in whose custody she hal Nbeen placed by the juvenile court.
 Marjorie has been football of for tune in the Chicago courts for sev- 'eral months, since inspectors of the department of public welfare urged that she be taken from the Jackson negress and negro environments and plad,d in white home It was shown in the courts that the girl was given to tho negro woman to rear as her own by the mother, an actress, anl that tho woman had faithfully full filled the trust for If years. Recently the Jackson woman 1nnounce1 tha'. her funds being exhausted, she had given up the legal fight to retain Marjorie, and the child was placed in the Brock home pending a final hear ing on the case today.
 The police expressed the belief that the negro woman being unable to re- d3ncile herself to the possibility of a re,manent separation from the child persua led Marjorie to accompany her to some prearranged hiding place. The two were last seen, the police said, leaving the vicinity of the Brock home in a motor car.
 A census of the volcanoes in the world shows there are 572 in all, ot which 275 are active.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-01-28
Sentenced a Boyhood Friend.

When they went to school together they called each other Jim and Al. But when they met in the Wyandotte county district court it was Judge A. J. Herrod and James Sexton. confessed check toreer The judge looked down from the beach at the prisoner, who fumbled his hat and looked at the floor. Jim had admitted to Al that he had forged the name of Daniel Stumpf to eight checks he cashed at the Commercial National bank, Kansas City. "Ten years on each count" the judge said. They turned to lead Jim away. Al looked up from his docket. Make 'em run concurrently," he add ed. Ten years is a long time, you know."-KanSas City Star.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-01-28
MARKS NATHAN'S WIDOW
 IN OLD PEOPLES HOME
Rcliot of PhilanthrOpist Who Gave Away Huge Fortune Regrets Only
 They Had Not More.

Chicago, Jan. 27.-Mrs. Marks Ma tEan, widow of the man who estab- lished, at 2 cost of $150,000, the Marks Nathan Jewish Orphans, Home of Chicago. and who built, at a q ost of $50 coo. a number of II odel tenement houses in Jerusalem, was discovered tcday a charity inmate of the B, M. z. Jewish Old Peoples Home here. Ap- preaching her three score and ten years, she said she was very happy and cnly regrettei that she and her husband, who was one of Chicago s wealthiest citizens, had not had more to give to charity.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-01-28
NEW SHOES WON'T
 HURT AFTER THIS
Cincinnati Man Tells How to SErivel
 Up C0rns So They Lift Out.

Ouch! ? t! !! This kind of rough talk will be heard less here in town if people troubled with corns will follow the ismple advice of this Cin- cinnati authority, who claims that a few drops of a drug called freezone when applied to tender, aching corn stops soreness at once, and soon the corn dries up and lifts right out with out pain.
 He says frcczone is sticky sub stance which dries immediately and never inflames or even irritates the surrounding tissue or skin. 4 quarter of an ounce, which will cost very lit- tie at any drug store, is said to be sufficient to remove every hard or soft corn or callus from ones feet. Millions of American woraen will VOL come this announcement since the in- auguration of the high heels.-Advt.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-01-28
Improvement on "Skis.v

An increase of several wards in thp Jump of ski-runners is :; rather su.. prising result of the process of metal lizing objects by means O. d spray. h Switzerland, q coating of aluminium of the thickness of thin cardboard is be ing applied to the ski-b;ates by this method, and this not only adds greatly to the durability of the bearing surface but 1t also very materially lesseN friction, and tends further to prevent caking of snow on the blades. It is the diminished friction that lengthens the jump.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-01-28

A census of the volcanoes in tn world shows there are 572 in all, o which 275 are active.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-01-28
Insure Against Crop Failure.

The Peruvians have a system of in- surfing against failure of crops; and in addition they burn offerings of drugs images and bury these in the fields for the benefit of the crops and the herds.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-01-28
Finest Sugar From Queensland.

The finest sugar in the world is said to come from Queensland, Australia. It is stated that the production is a pure, fine-grained. first-class quality, Oil the other hand it is stated that there is great drawback owing to the scarcity of transport and refineries.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-01-28
Don Game First

Miss Pansy Pyetin's father had to go without his necktie last Sunday. Pansys pellinese dog needed new ribbon for his neck.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-01-28
Thread of Interest.

"This cook book ought to be popu lar" "Why so?" 'There's a love story mixed in with the recipes."- Louisville Courier-J Journal.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-01-28

Robert $. Orr, one of the best known electrical engineers in the country, died at Pittsburg, Pa. He was vice. president of the National Electric Light association.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-01-28
Select the Best Always,

Life is short-too short to get every thing. Choose you must and as you choose, choose only the best-in friends, in books, in recitation, in everything.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-01-28
Appalling Ignorance.

Il dunno how that boy of mine got through college" Didn't he learn anything?' 'Why, he can't even read the Latin on his diploma" Louisville Courier-Journal.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-01-28
FIRE AT CARTHAGE
 BURNS FIVE STORES

Carthage. Jan. ?. - Five stores were destroyed by fire here at s o'clock this morning. resulting in a loss estimated at more than $2o.00o, with about $11.000 insurand,. Tn" fire is said to have originated in bar Ter shop owned by J. L. Wells. Its origin has not been determined. The following are the losses and insur- ance: A. !. Womack. general store, loss $6,000, insurance $2,O00: M. L.. McGraw, drug store, loss $2,500. no insurance; J. l.. Wells, barber shop, loss $500, no insurance, P. K. Wyle &; Son, general store, loss $11 ,000, ir- surance $S,425; Purdy warehouse, loss $500, insurance not announced.
 The king and queen will reopen the British parliament February with out the customary state ceremony. A procession of naval and military char acter will be substituted.