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The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1912-1921, 1918-07-13
POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENT.

To the Voters of West Virginia:
l respectfully announce my candi
dacy for the Democratic nominatio
for United States Senator, subject
the primary election of August 6
1918.
CLARENCE w. WATSON.
% :,
New-York tribune., 1918-05-19

only piece of real French army SLANG ,h..
has been taken over bodily, or that is AMI
to stay taken over. f'
Armies to-day are SO made I'm of sn..;.,
lsts so divided into units of sncc;.l;s,,
that to find universal language. a SORT ~
KHAKI Esperanto that will go anywhere ;s
exceedingly hard. Engineers, for examine
Will have expressions of their own that w;li
be Greek and Arabic and Hindustani to the
humble lnfantryman, while the douphbov,s
lingo will contain many terms unknown n
the allegedly highbrow engineer. adv.
namiter," in engineer parlance, is the Min
degree of knocker, crabbcr, kicker, sourbsl
poison oaker' is about the same thing
again. And as for the aviators? Ther
speak the language of the spheres.
Speech That Transcends SIanr
The cavalrymans and muleskinner,s 70.
cabulary is, of course, thing apart.
thing which cannot be considered here. To
be sure, it contains some expressions also
current in more fortunate branches of the
service particularly when employed on
X. r. and fatigue), but those expressions.
when used by the trooper and Missouri
nightingale propeller, develop a fervor. at,
intensity. an exalted emotionalism utterly
unattalnable by the outsider. No, the nrnot
OF those who have to deal with our four
footed friends-hay- burners and as-burn-
ers (for the chauffcurs share the same COM
mon speech)-cannot properly be classed
as slang.
The s-"leathernecks" as they call
themselves and allow us to call them-haye
a nautical language that smacks more Of
the crows nest than the observation post.
Some of us have tried to talk to them in
plain U. S. and have come back baffled by
their replies. They were courteous, kind
and considerate; they brought forward
those OF their number who had been n
Gently enlisted (and who therefore knews
little unadorned English) to act as inter-
prefers, but all to no avail. What slang
they had we couldn't quite make out. but
as they seem to have everything else. thew
must have that too. They seem to have
falr speaking acquaintance with all the lam
guages of the globe, from coon Haytianese
to the real Castilian; but their patter of
United States talk was unintelligible to the
lay doughboy.
Each Has Own Shop Talk
Artillerymen, medical corps followers.
supply train tenders-what's the use? They
all have their pet expressions, their own
shop talk slang as we'll as their pet virtues.
There is, as far as we can find, no really
Annex slang vocabulary worthy the title of
universal code. But, in the meanwhile,
we must make our way from outfit to out
TIT, hearing in one the "you-all" and "two
bits" of the South, in another the az swan
and get me" of the North, in still another
the peculiar diction of the great city which
is New York. Universal slang in this mans
Army is as hard to attain as universal
peace in this mans unr1d
New-York tribune., 1918-05-19

Hard their lot and sad their ways
Little love on them was lavished
From those early August days
When the Hun their countrysravished.
Till the time when strangers came
Kindly folk but still outlanders-
Working, in the Sacred Name,
For those helpless tots of Flanders.
So. to, keep the flame and sword
From our children and their mothers,
Forward then, with one accord,
North and South, allied as brothers,
East and West, as one unite!
Bring to naught the Prussian's yearning-
Then may children's eyes be bright.
Unafraid at our returning!
New-York tribune., 1918-05-19

This is what we're fighting for
That the girl on mothers knee
May not know the scourge of war,
Shock on land and.shock on sea;
That the little boy may read
On and on of Fairyland,
Undistraught by Teuton greed,
Safe from blow of Teuton hand.
Other little children fare
Not so peacefully as these;
Mothers have they none to care,
Fathers have they none to please.
Wracked by horror, caked with CRIME
Have they been these weary years,
Ever since the German crime
Made their land a vale of tears.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-19
FRANCE CHICKERING'S

NV. Honenzollern of Potsdam, Germ, is
doing his spring shelling these days
'.'Cpl. ---- was seen -
day on the streets of - He was look
ing finely. his folks may be interested in
learning.
'.@There is lots and lots of news these
elegant days, the censor will tell you.
's'Quite few was down to the depot last
eve, watching the train come in.
I've scribe went to see a show last
night enjoying same, despite it being in q
foreign tongue. Well, there was many an
actress at home we couldn't understand,
also.
'.sMore anon.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-19

British ceased to sing it long ago, and the
Americans haven't revived it. Then who
does sing it? The poilus. What is more.
they render it in English Not more than
half of them know what it means, but that
matters little. For it is al evidence in
music of the brotherhood of the Allies :
and that means considerable
New-York tribune., 1918-05-19
"STRIPERS"

When you see an American naval officer
strolllng around town and you want to know
his rank don't look for the indication Of
1t on his shoulders or his collar, but count
the stripes on his sleeve. In nautical cir
Giles an ensign, corresponding to second
lieutenant in the army, is lone striper."
A lieutenant, Junior grade, who ranks with
an army first lieutenant is A onc-anda
half striper." And so on up the line.
two striper" Qieutenant, senior grade)
New-York tribune., 1918-05-19
A FIELD Note BOOK
MOTHER MARIE's WELCOME

When the Huns broke into Mother Marie,s
cottage she was tending three wounded
French soldiers. The Huns ordered her to
get out.
will you take care of my poilus9" she
pleaded
"No!"
Then | must" she insisted
She tended them three days and nights:
then the Huns put her under guard for dis
obeying orders.
Last week she was repatriated. The rela-
New-York tribune., 1918-05-19

tlvcs of the men whose lives she had helped
to save met her at the station and gave her
royal welcome
She is going back in few days from
Paris to her old home When she gets
there she will find the houses rebuilt and
re1'rnshed. and a notice about a cyoic
de nMe;'re on the parlor table.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-19
PRECIOUS SCARS

We were sitting in the inn courtyard of
the Pink Owl in Beanville,
Some day." nv friend observed, "the
scars on these walls will be of real COM
mercal value"
"Why?"
Because tourists from America will flock
here; some of them ex-A.EF. men. some of
them the folks back home who now so
New-York tribune., 1918-05-19
Men Have Already Taken
Words From Tommy
and POilu
CL0D TAI z TNI Quinn
lnfantryman, Engineer, Redeg, Marine, Each Speak.
Individual Language

Has the A. E. F. in France a language of
its own? That is, has it developed its slang
to such an extent that an outsider would
find it hard to understand typical section
Of A. E. F. talk? Has its experience in
France added to its already large stock of
shortcuts in language or does it still en-
ploy the old slang of the Army and the
slang of the parts Of the States from which
it hailed? -.
These are hard questions to answer, and
we would like the help of our readers in
answering them; for we have been asked
them time and again. For our own part,
we find that for all usual conversational
purposes the men of the A. f. F. continue
to use the "plain United States" as it grows
in their particular home town portions of
that beatific region What purely "Army
stuff they use has been handed on to them
by the grizzled old veterans who took part
in the 1916 tour of border duty.
"Get by" "get away with it." "bull"
"bull-con," "beefing"-all the good old
phrases are heard on every hand as one
walks through an Adrian barrack building
or back of company as it stands at rest.
Occasionally one hears a little Mex talk
a man referred to as good hon,bye. or an
evening salutation of buemas nockes. And,
of course, interspersed with all these pieces
Of language there is little left of the talk
OF the old Army; with prominently in the
vanguard the old, old axiom, you're out of
luck!"
Borrowing From Tommy
Grabbing" for grumbling or knocking,
was perfectly good Americanese before that
fateful day in April, 1917 1t has not given
way to "grousing," as employed by the Tom
mics. But from the Tomnies has come
"fed up" Garry on and-in few outfits
more than usually exposed to British infec-
ton-such patent Anglicisms as "gaw-
blyme" and-er, and the rest of them, in
cluding mot 'arf" and "strike me blind"
Their use has not become general, however,
nor is it apt to become so in the near
future The only really permanent acquisi-
ton thus far from the British linguistic
treasure house is the expressive "dud"-as
applied to bomb that won't go off, for cx-
ample.
Perfectly good French, in the mouths of
Americans, has passed for a sort of slang.
II by slang one means a shortcut in ex-
preston, handy way of describing some
thing which cannot be tersely described any
other way, more pungent way of saying
an old thing. AlleS-uous-en, so much like
"Arragh g'wan" of our Celtic neighbors, has
sprung into favor in some localities, and is
apt to spread. Tout de suite is quite as
satisfactory as sin jif," and is so used
now and again. But alleS-vous-ey and
tout de suite are not French slang; they
are dlgnlfed by enrolment in dictionary
supplements, printed in good Italc type, as
slang is not dignified. The poilu's je MEN
fche, which amounts to 81 don't give ~ ~
whatever one doesn't giye-is about the
New-York tribune., 1918-05-19
The Official
Newspaper
of the A. E.sE.'
The Listening Post
ICE CREAM SODA

(Note.-1ce Credm Soda IS q decoction
popular in the United States
Of Americd.)
You may talk of uin and bicre
When you're quartered over there
In New York or Abilene Sleepy Hollow,
But when belts are growing tauter,
It is ice-crcam soda water
That you'd give a dollar-nincty just to swal-
In the well-known U.S.A.,
Where we used to work and play,
Attending to our pleasures and our biz,
OF all the liquid crew
The finest drink I knew
Was our brmming glass of icecream soda
fizz.
It was fizz fzZ! fzz
You foamin' glass O. chocolate soda fzz!
Gimme strawberry, vanilla,
Coffee, peach or sarsaparilla--
Gimme any kind O. ice-cream soda fizz!
We have tasted of Bordeaux,
Sampled Dubonnet and Eedu,
We have had a glass of port in a pagoda;
But we'd give large amount
OF kale to see a fount
Shooting foam into a glass of ice-cream
soda
There is nothing like the SAVIOR
OF the soda clerks "What favor"
And your telling him. politely, what it is.
There is nothing there at home
That is nobler than the foam
Az it tops brimming glass of soda tizz.
Then it's fzz! tizz! fig!
Oh. you gracious, carbonaceous soda
izz!
When / reach certain nation
At the port of debarkation
How ri beat it for an e-cream soda
fzz.
You may miss that noble institution, the
American drug store, but you don't have to
buy postage stamps, the telephone or
the directory, ask where the Whoozis
family lives All you really miss is the
soda fountain.
Most of the soda fountains are now being
manned, as you might say, by women.
BLESS HIM!
man like
Is Serg. McHale;
He never shouts:
Fall in, detail"
MEDICAL MIQUE
lad we love
Is Private Yost;
He sends in stuff
TO the Listening Post
There are-oh yes, there are-unreason-
able demands made in the Army sometimes.
We wonder whether the man who wanted
to know why the toothpicks weren't pointed
on both ends has Joined the Army yet
You may remember his sster-the one :.
who bought pound of animal crackers and
asked to leave out the elephants, because
they scared the baby.
When you haven't had letter in more than
three weeks
And you look over the mail, expectantlv and
hopefully
And, finally, a letter addressed to YOU
comes along
AND you take it away in a corner
And open 1t. alone and unobserved-
And 1t contains a package
FROM our Congressman, containing some
seeds
Labeled Pennisetum RuppelaniYp,-
amt that grand and glorious feeling
Or amt ito
New-York tribune., 1918-05-19

eagerly ere pcring over the war news. The
Plrk Owl has 49, scars, disfigurements now,
but after the war every one of them will
90 its bit to attract the attention and the
trade o. the romantic minded tourist"
SOUNDS highly probable, doesn't it?
New-York tribune., 1918-05-19

rates with the army's captains "two-and-
a-half striper" with majors. A commander
is three striper," captain equivalent
to coloneD "four striper''
New-York tribune., 1918-05-19
GRAND CHORUS
4 FANCY

There was man who fancied
That by driving good and fast
He'd get his car across the track
Before the train got past;
He'd miss the engine by an inch
And make the trainhands sore.
There was man who fancied this.
There isn't any more
Harvard Lampoon
There was Boche who fancied
With many a German curse,
That he would run this planet and
The whole darned universe.
He'd crush all those who said him nav
And dip them in their gore
There was Boche who fancied this.
There isn't any more.
They aren't allowed to send stuff to us
any longer unless we ask specifically for It
Well all right. Ship over two pieces Of
old-fashioned strawberry shortcake
Yes. the other piece is for you.
f. P. A.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-19
A MERRY BALLAD OF THE EN-
BUSKED CIVILIAN AND HIS
WILD LIFE IN GAY PAREE

WILD LIFE in GAY PAREE
not at all;
He is never called upon to fight the foe;
He can live in Paris gaily, eating ten-franc
dinners daily,
He can put in blithesome evenings at
show
True, while toying with dessert,
He may hear the wild alertc
Shrieked by sirens which they call the
Number 2,
And while. blindly cropping home,
May receive upon his dome
From a Gotha overhead this billet dour.
CHORUS
!!!M!'''''''.. '..s$---!!!
But, in the main, civilian life in Paris has
its charm;
Now the chestnut-trees are budding in
the squares;
You can stroll along the boulcvards and
seldom come to harm
That is, if you will mind your own affairs.
True, while idle and distrait
The canon q Tongue portee
From the woods of St. Gobain may
launch a shell,
Which may very we'll decide
To remove you in your pride
TO a duller world where blooms the
asphodel.
GRAND CHORUS
!!,,!!i!'".'...
Zig
'.'!'l' fstte
s.-ft.
Suggestion to Paris chauffcurs: Why not
blow the horn once in while?
These French billiards. parlors arc all
right, but they make you long for game
of quel'e est poule
New-York tribune., 1918-05-19

ENCORE TIPPERARY
One still hears "Tipperary" being sung
near the front as marching song. Yet the
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1918-11-13
Buy the sanitary line, McNess
FOODS. r. Il. Reese, Westmi., ter, s.
= adu dR-dQ -------

Buy the sanitary line, McNess
goods. r. Il. Reese, Westmi. ter, s.
C.-adv. 46-49.
We are requested to announce
that Zion school will open next Mon
day, November 18th, with Miss Eva
Manning as teacher.
The Local Board is in receipt, this
morning, of lengthy telegram, which
in substance states that the Board must
continue to complete classification of
registrants between the ages of nine
teen and thirty-seven, inclusive. Also,
that questiOnnaires will be sent i'm
mediately to those who were eighteen
on Sept. 18th, but not to those between
thirty seven and forty-ilve.
After a suspension OF meetings
for several weeks the Paul Hayne
Circle had the privilege of meeting
at the home Of Mrs. l.. M. Brown last
Friday. Only few OF the members
were present, however, owing to sick
ness In so many homes. There were
several interesting readings by Miss
Taylor, Miss Smith and Mrs. j. B. S.
Dendy. A selection on the Victrola
was enjoyed by all. after which the
meeting was adjourned. A tempt
Ing salad course was then served by
ter, little Miss Dorothy.
Mrs. Robt. A. Miles, OF San An
tonic, Texas, spent short while last
week In West Union with the family
or Mr.. and Mrs. j. G. Shockley and
among other family connections. She
WIS on her way to her Texas home
1rom washington, ID. c., and stopped
over for a brief visit. We were
pleased indeed to have opportunity
to meet "Bob's" wife-Bob, of the
old Courier force, of whom we often
think and whom we will always re-
member pleasantly. Mrs. Miles was
accompanied on her visit here by
Mrs. Poore, Of Abbeville, this State.
The later Is pleasantly remembered
here by many as Miss Bette Miles.
1t will ge learned with deep re-
gret: by many in Oconee that Charles
Bryd, Of the American Expedition
airy Forces, is among those who have
made the supreme sacrifcafor free
dom Of the nations of the earth. Mr..
Byrd was about 21 or 90 years of
age, and was a son of ]. w. Byrd, of
Seneca. The young man volunteered
for service early, going into service
about the time of the declaration of
war by the United States. He was
member Of machine gum company
and had seen much service on the
other side. No particulars; have so
far been received, so farSas we are
Informed. other than thesannounce-
ment that came to the Young mans
father last week through letter
from Charles nurse inta British
hospital, which stated that the young
man was brought in with the wound
ed one evening and died the next day.
Mr. Byrd was a splendid young man,
and the announcement of his death
will bring genuine sorrow to many.
TO the bereaved ones The. Courier
Joins with other friends in extending
sincere sympathy. *
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1918-11-13
CITATION NOTICE.
(In Court of Probato.)

The State of South Carolina
County of Oconee.-By v. F. Martin,
Esq, Judge Of Probate.-Wheres B.,
j. T. Johnson has made suit to 2
Mrs. Alice Mulkey has made suit to
me to grant her Letters Of Admins
tration of the Estate Of and Effects
Of j. M. Mulkey, deceased
These are, therefore, to cite and
admonish all and singular the kin
dred and creditors Of the said
J. NJ. MULKEY, deceased, that
they be and appear before me, in
the Court Of Probate, to be held
at Walhalla Court House. South
Carolina, on Saturday, the 30th day
Of November, 1918, after publication
hereof, at I o'clock in the forenoon,
to show cause, If any they have, why
the said administration should not
bo granted.
Given under my hand and seal this
l 11th day Of November, A. d. 1918.
(Seal.) V. T.. MARTIN,
Judge Of Probate for Oconee County
South Carolina
Published on the 18th and goth
days Of November, 1918, in The Keo-
wee Courier, and on the Court House
door for the time prescribed by law
Nov. 13, 1918. 46-47
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NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT
AND DISCHARGE.

Notice Is hereby given that the
undersigned will make application
to V. f. Martin, judge OF Probate for
Oconee County, in the State OF South
Carolina, at his Office at Walhalla
Court House on Thursday, Dec.5th,
1913, at II o'clock in the forenoon,
or as soon thereafter as said appli-
cation can be heard, for leave to
make final settlement Of the estate OF
Fl. l.. Brandt, deceased, and obtain
final discharge as Executrix OF said
estate. Mrs. MENA G. BRANDT,
Executrtx Of the Estate Of II l..
4514S Brandt, Deceased
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Il i Il .l' !. !. !. j. i. i. !. 4. i.
!. NOTES FROM THE i.
j. WAR oEEICH.lSsss8Iyt- =.
i !. !. i. !. !. !. !. i .s.A .
Classified by Local Bohh.d,

Classified by Local Board.
Following Is a list OF persons clas-
siiied by the Local Board OH 6Novem-
Der 7th:
Glass Ia. T.. 81
Madger Henry Adds. Westminster
Rt. 4. @
NJ. Frank Alexander. Salem Pt. ].
iste tmnIsmhmh min mhrm mhlnm
W. w. Allen, Fair Play Rt. 1
John Benson, Fair Play 1t. /.
Jas. B. Berry, Senec., TT 4.
Victor D. Blackwell, Westminster,
Star Route.
Sam j. G. j. Blassengame, Seneca.
Dock U. Boggs, Seneca RE.3.
VIM. C. Bottoms, Mountain Rest
Curtis A Brewer, Seneca Rt. &.
r. NJ. Bryson, Tamassee
e. p. Burdett, Westminster Rt, /.
Sam r. Cannon, Westminster Rt. 5
r. B. Black, Westminster Rt. l.
T. w. Clark, Westminster Rt. 5.
VIM. A. Clark. Westminster Rt. 4.
Ben Cleveland. Seneca Rt. 8.
Frank Cobb, Westminster.
Towns II. Cobb, Madison Rt. 1.
Jas. Jesse Crumpton, Walhalla
Henry G. Duke, Westminster, Star
Route.
julius w. Dyar, Seneca Rt. Q.
Dudley G. Freeman, Westminster
Rt. s.
Sam A. Fretwell, Walhalla Rt. 1
Thos. p. Ferguson, Westminster
Rt. 1.
Daniel Elisha Good, Walhalla Rt.
John w. CAN'T. Clemson College.
Paul Eugene Gambrell, Westmin-
ster Rt. 4.
Patrick Henry Gambrell, Westmin-
ster Rt. S.
Allen Vance Galloway, Salem Rt. 1
Wilton Dewey Grant, Townville Rt
No. 1.
James Manley Heaton, Salem.
Martin Luther Haley, Westminster
Rt. 3.
Milton Lewis Harbin, Westminster
Rt. 2.
Eugene Harris, Westminster.
John Mark Harris, Westminster
George Carnegie Harvey, Walhalla
David J. Hembree, Westminster,
Rt. 3.
julius d. Hesse, Westminster Rt. 4
Lee Alexander E1olbrooks, Wal
halla Rt 1.
Carey Cazie Honea. West Union
Walter Weston Hoxit, Richland.
Grover Cleveland Hubbard, Rich
land.
Furber Lexington Hubbard, Wal
halla Rt 3.
Jas. Mercy Hughes, Westminster
Rt. Q.
Shirley Hunter, Madison Rt. 1.
G.. D. Jackson, Seneca Rt. 3.
Ed. Jackson, Seneca Rt. 4
Noah James, West Union Rt. 1.
Samuel James, Westminster Rt. 4.
Virgil Franklin Jenkins, Westmin-
ster Rt. 5.
Sam James Isbell, Walhalla Rt. / :.
Glass DC
Bright A. Lowry, Seneca.
l.. A. Martin, Westminster Rt. 8.
d. A. Smith, Chief Clerk.
Walhalla, S. c., Nov. Z, 1918.
STAMPS
WAR SAVINGS AND THRIFT.
BUY THEM TO-DAYi
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LOCAL AND PERSONAL. .

Good one-horse wagon for sale.
4. f. Alexander, Walhalla.--adv.
For Sale-One Ford Roadster.
600 John II. Kaufman, Walhalla, S.
C.--adv. 4G-47+
The wars over-"ire's OUT
and the Kaiser has made a swift trip
to H-h-h-olland. Knock the Kaiser!
WANTED. At Oncc-5O Turkeys or
more; also Chicks, Eggs and hides
For Cash. a, the Rowland Stand, Up-
town, West End, Walhalla. Il. ID.
Oelkers-Adv.
-Rieppe Biemann, OF Rock Hill.
spent several days here this and last
week with his sisters and among his
many friends.
Miss Edith Foster, who has been
very Ill with diphtheria. Is improv-
ing. Her many friends hope that
sho will soon be entirely we'll
Read the advertisements in The
Courier this week. They tell you
where to buy and save money. The
"live ones"s advertise--don't waste
time on dead ones. Watch the col
nmns OF The Courier each week and
goi the benefit OF what the merchants
have to offer. Our limited force Is
about "swamped" this week with
work Of all kinds incident to getting
out the paper and taking care OF the
ads. as best we could.
Grown tenders for Ford cars. w.
M. Brown & Son, Walhalla.--Adv.
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SEALED BIDS FOR POSITION OF
STEWARD OF OCONEE
POOR FARM.

NOTICE is hereby given that the
Board Of County Commissioners of
Oconee County, South Carolina, at
their next meeting, to be held on
FRIDAY, December 9Th, 1918, will
elect a Steward of the Poor Farm for
to the lowest responsible bidder
the year 1919, the position to be let
Applicants must file sealed bids with
the Board by IL o'clock noon, on
Friday, the 9Th day Of December,
1918, stating in their bid the salary
per month asked, the names, ages and
number Of persons in applicants
family.
The Board reserves the right to
reject any and all bids.
s. N. HUGHS,
Supervisor of Oconee County.
NJ. R. MCDONALD, Clerk of Board.
Nov. II, 1918. 40