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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1919-02-26
Death and Injury by Explo iul,

Mobile, Ala, Feb. 21.-Orp man
was killed and seven more pc les
seriously injured in the explosion OF
main boiler Of the Mobile lIIrctri.
Company power plant in the nnHrl
of the city here tonight. Tto aAad
man was pinned beneath the creek
age Of the boiler room, which was
wrecked, some Of the concretn base.
weighing several tons being blow
across the street The sire gas
left in darkness. but cars COZ. lIcr
to run. The blast shattered Mi0#nw.
for a block and was felt az g.. o,
three miles in the residence ! .ric;
Theaters In the downtown dis, r.. r..
ported that panics were r.. .,wiy
averted.
Four Of the negro firempr ~.-t
taken out Of the building 8, .riN
after the explosion, when es, jl.
steam had been exhausted to Sd. IA af
extent that city firemen anG .rit -.
teers could approach the INna
Three other employees were b., oF
from beneath the debris half a. 10.
later and may be fatally ini
Fire broke out in the plan it}
after the explosion. but ", kin
guished. A large steel Cir, .rc.,
rhe plant was blown through wnt
and through an adjoining 1T ...
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1919-02-26

I'd" ~ .,ttt Wa E.aI.I.. i. COCOON in
1918. The farmer can, if he will ex-
tricatc himself from his unfortunate
POSITION each farmer can pledge
himself. and for his renters or ten
ants. Il full onc-tllird reduction Of
acreage. lie and his renters or ten
ants will be benefited if he and they
.;cep the pledges made. The move
ment is not merely State wide it is
to be carried out all over the cot
tOnproducing States
But the mere signing Of pledges to
reduce acreage will not change the
situation materially. There will not
be any appreciable rise in the price
or cotton because the producers sign
pledges to reduce acreage That has
been done before under conditions
similar to the present conditiona
though not so acute. The cotton
growers are going to have to wait
months before their pledges will be
regarded as more than mere scraps
or paper Have not pledges been
'igncd before that reduction OF acre
age would be made. and have not
the passing OF seasons proved to the
world that scarcely one pledge OF the
thousands was kept?
The cry OF "The wolf! The wolf"
l
is unfortunate that we are dis
credited. but the fact remains that
we are. Now is the time to show
that we can-AND WiLi.-kcep a
pledge. The reduction plan should
receive the hearty support Of every
cotton producer and every business
man in the State and in the South
The strength of the plan will be
tested right here at home-in Oconee
Just as surely as it will be tested
In the very heart Of the cotton belt
IT the pledges are signed and are
not kept. there will be no virtue i'm
them. and financial losses will stare
us in 'h" face next fall to an extent
that "" DO not even contemplate now
from lhc Immediate threatened crisis
!hc disaster can be STAYED Off now
Ten months from now will be the
decisive moment II the pledges are
made and kept tn" disaster will have
hcch aV"rtcd ana prosperity will
smile upon the cotton -prOducing
States. II tie pledges are made and
brokC'I there is bat one result pos
Sihlr financial loss and hard ,jmns
next fan.
In l9I". 10 an extent that has
EcVcr before been possible, the cot
ton farmer may be said TO be the
arbitcr OF his own fortunes lie has
his cotton on hand and ready for
i.c spinner when the price Will iuSti-
IS his selling, ana he can devote his
energies largely this year to the
:lnking Of food and feed crops with
profit, for It is wcll known that tho
world is short Of fcOd Of all kinds
-Four years OF fighting and non pro.
dTctiOn have settled that proposition
Thr year 1919 looms large. in Oui
opinion. With the choice for tho
southern farmer between big cot,
ton crop with ruin at the end Of tn,
year, or larger and more practical at
lcntion to food and feed crops viii
prosperity sure at the end Of tn,
present twelve month.
II is the Southern farmers privi
lege to choose between these two
conditions. The proposition reduce:
itself to the simple question. "Wil
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1919-02-26
Gets Officers Training Corps.

Clinton. Feb. 2l.-Dr. d. NJ. Doug
IS, president Of the college, has re-
eived notice from the War Depart
hent that his application to estab-
sh reserve officers training corps
4 the Presbyterian College Of South
arolina has been favorably acted
pom. and that the unit will be cs-
lblishcd at once. Major Frederick
T. DerOhan has been detailed by the
Fhr Department us professor Of
hillary science and tactics.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1919-02-26
Bishop w. \. Gucrry Back.

New York. Feb. 22.-The United
states cruisers Montana and Kansas
md the transports West Durfee and
Nrtcmis docked here to-day with
i.?S9 troops. The voyages were
stormy.
The Rt. Rev. W. \. Gucrry, Pro-
'Cstant ESpicopal bishop Of South
Carolina, returned Oh the Montana
lie was in the Y. NJ. G. A. service
DVprSCaS.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1919-02-26
,238,831 Have Been Dis,

Washington. Feb. 22.---TL
interview with Gen. March .
staff, having been dcferr.
holiday. the War Dcpartm .l
ublic to-day the usual stat .l
view Of the progress Of dc ..
ton. showing that a total ug
c!hccrS have either rcSigne %
discharged from the arr o.
|, lGi.ilS men have been rel
Orders issued mp to E'chru
provide for the dcmobiliZaI,..
rrONimalcly | 10000 ado
mon, 2l?.oUO OF whom arc ,u
jurIcd from overseas.
The table OF discharges pr
showed that on the basis o. o..
turns from ih" camps, fuw.
were released during the vvr.
.vg to-day chan amy week ai,
mbcr -, The discharges /,
".OO9 against 5000 the prr
week, and l3%.OuU for thc
week Of December II.
The tabl" showed that tn,
600 men listed as rotusurL 4
overseas did not include | nN
miSSiOncd officers, but al
81. 300 claSScd as sick and ,g0r
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1919-02-26

...t .AC--.--. =! ..G freedom % lrput
20 seek employment in any corrrGrv
Such freedom is directly oppose hv
the American labor represe ives
as conflicting with the propo%jt,,0 "a
restrict the immigration of ioaiLft
labor to America.
The American labor c0mmiss ncr.
were in consultation with the ln,rvi-
can delegates to the peace couser.
cnce to-day seeking advice aut in
StruCtiOnS.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-23
"The Highwayman"

nRDIEARILY in reading historical
- romances we react to past, some
times dead one and sometimes one that
lives and glows, but it is unmistakably
the past In The Higkuaymdn Mr.. II. c.
Bailey, instead of bringing the past for
ward, has lifted us bodily and taken. us
back to the dangerous days of good Queen
Anne. He has kept his history in the
background with singularly good taste
without sighting the Queen, tho Duke of
Marlborough or the Pretender, and he
has made of the romance between Alison
Lambourne and Harry Boyee as pretty
and absorbing an affair, as you can well
imagine.
Harry Boyce. when the story begins,
was employed as tutor TO young Godfrey
Waverton, a position looked upon in the
.Waverton household as somewhat akin
20 that of domestic animal. He had a
placid, ordinary face, EYES which differed
slightly in color and a pair of admirable
legs. The legs we're the only attractive
thing about him, except perhaps the fact
that he bore being laughed at well Every
thing was wrong about his dress His
shoes had strings where buckles should
have been, and mere black heels-lOw
heels at that. He could walk at round
pace with them-a preposterous, vulgar
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make Us feel that We cannot justly cast
the book aside In the case Of Harold
Stearns's Interlsdes A Prayer most of all
relieves the generally commonplace tone
of the whole and offers hope for the poets
future 1t is placed second In a group
of war poems dedicated to "Lester,
Brother and Soldier:
"They 20 with ringing laughter on their
bps,
They 20 with iron and glory in their
hearts,
They go-our hope-down to the hungry
ships,
And all the fields are lonely and the
marts. ..
ave cannot know the horrors they are
near,
Nor dark and evil tides their might must
o days, be fairi o night, be sweet and
clearl
o hours that creep toward peace, be
kind to themw
MERE MELODIES. BY EDWIN MEADE
ROBINSON. David Mckay. $1.25.
THE FLYING PARLIAMENT. By Ed
VIVA STANTON BABcoCK. James Terry
White. s1.25.
INTERLUDES. By HAROLD CRAWFORD
-SrEaEEs. James Terry White. $1-25.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-23
"Christ in the
Poetry of To-day"
BY CONSTANCE MURRAY GREENE
6ARTHA FOOTE CROWS Christ

BY CONSTANCE MURRAY GREENE
M ARTHA FOOTE CROWS Christ
1Vl il he Poetry Of To-day, now
brought out in a second and fuller edition,
is the result Of thorough and diserim-
inatingly appreeiative study Of modern
verse. Such book has, Of course, a Pc
culiarly intimate appeal at this time, and
it is reassuring to find SO large q number
Of our poets obeying the urge of sacred
as well as of profane literary expression.
Comforting, too, IT is to turn from the
hot torrent Of eroticism into this sheltered
temple. Such a book suggests an interest
ing study Of modern poetic inspiration.
Mrs. Crow, in an admirable forcword, ad-
mits her own surprise when her investiga-
tons confirm the truth of a casual re
mark about the return to Christ that is
now taking place.
In this collection one looks, naturally,
for the work of Louise Imogen Quincy,
Joyce kilmer. T. A. DAILY, Thomas
Walsh and John Tabb-none of it in these
selections essentially Rornanistic, just as
We should be surprised not to find the
names of Edwin Markham, Henry van
Dyke. Margaret Widdener, May Riley
Smith. Florence Earle Coates, Clinton
Scollard, Theodosia Garrison, Amelia
Josephine Burr and many others to whom
the religious motif is familiar We should
hardly look for Richard lie Gallienne, Ed
win Arlington Robinson or George Wood
berry, and should never think of Mere
dith Nicholson, Of Hermann Hagedorn, or
the short story artist Maxwell Struthers
Burt, or, least of all, of mat bacchanai
bard Harry Kemp, from whom there are
four selections.
Our expression is politely yelled when
we come upon Edgar Lee Masters, be-
cause he doesn't hike to be associated with
atheism. These little songs of Bethle
hem seem strange upon the lips Of that
high hearted pagan Edith Thomas, so used
to the Hellenic theme, nor do we look for
the sweet scented pungency of Lizette
Woodwork Reese. Anna Hampstead
Branch turns aside from her surprisingly
untrodden ways to follow the crowd of
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-23

pilgrims and Sara Teasdale's lovely tones
are heard in the Carpenters shop.
William Vaughn Moody, Richard Wat
son Glider, Sidney Lanier, Sophie Jew
EFT, Margaret Sangster, Elizabeth Stuart
Phelps and Father Tabb are the only
poets not living who contribute to this an
thology with the exception of Joyce Kill
mer, who says 30 much in the eight lines
of Kings. A Christmas Poem in WGrtiS'e:
Kings of the earth are men Of might,
And cities are burned for their delight,
And the skies rain death in the silent night,
And the hills beleh death all day!
But the King of Heaven, who made them
al,
Is fair and gentle, and very small;
He lies in the straw by the oNen's stall
Let them think of Him to-day"
CHRIST IN THE POETRY OF TO-DAY:
AN ANTHOLOGY FROM AMERICAN
POETS. Compiled by MAETHA FooTE
Crow. The Wonlans Press. s.,
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thing And so on the morning with
which our story opens Mr.. Godfrey
Waverton being i'll of cold and Mistress
Alison LambOurne being attacked by ban
dts on the highroad, he walked right into
his romance At later time Mr.. Benson
says of Alison:
at was cursedly impertinent in her to
be such joy to the blood. There was
life and laughter in that calm Greek face
and the vivid, delicate color Of it mad
dcned hin. The great crown Of black
hair was just what her brow needed for
its royalty. He could find no fault in the
irksome weneh. And she knew of her
power too. There was q mocking con-
tidenee in every line of her" -...-
What methods she used in winning him
the very pen blusAes to describe. Ger
tain it is that if the vivid, delicate color
of AisOn's face maddened Harry she
was equally maddened in turn. When
she had Married him she treated him badly,
after the manner of beautiful young YAM
pires. She lost him as it was meet she
should, having gained him by such low
methods, but being his wife, she had an
other chance, happy one as it fell out
Harry's father, Col. Boyee, a high
handed, attractive sneak of I fellow,
turning up at odd and opportune mo-
ments, furnishes touches OF humor be-
s,ies proving useful in the plot.
"Egad, Harry, but You must
have money" he says.
"The family motto, | suppose. Well,
sir, l write for the press
"Good God, not for the newspapersf
You have not fallen to that?"
Standing fer the Pretender won for
Harry a diamond studded watch and two
sword thrusts through the body. Being
durable, however, he did not die or we
should not like the book so well. The
sword thrusts in this novel, ike spices in
minee pie, merely add flavor. To assure
you of its happy ending we give. you
HaI1y's last words to Alison:
bah, you will never be a wife. You
have too much imagination. But you
make mighty fine lover, my dear so.
THE HIGHWAYMAN. BIZ II. C. BAILEY
E. p. Dutton & Co. $l.60.
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Eleanor Kilmer Sceva, or Donald Peat
tic, or both, are guilty of this story from
George II. Doran's Office:
\ plate of soup was served to sailor
blinded in the war and, one after another,
three thoughtful nurses passing by paused
silently to salt it for him. He tasted it
and asked what it was. Soup said some
one.
"Oh, soupi Funny thing! I've been
sailing on that for the last ten years
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-23
Bare Survival of
Some Fittest Verse

NOW that spring is here the poets are
' sharpening their wings. James
Terry Whites little red and gold books
are again in evidence. Third rate ser,-,
songs COVER under the protection of the
American eagle and on the green and gold
covers of dignifed volumes the Tyre is
rampant. Mere Melodies, by Edwin
Meade Robinson, may be unfortunate in
title and appearance, but it is full of I'M
pretentiOus musical verse of the cOnserva-
tive school, but with certain newness of
thought and manner. While a number of
selections might have been omitted with
advantage to the collection, such poems
as One Good Dream and 4 Notion satisfy
us that Mr. Robinson is not to be over
looked. He is to be congratulated, more
over, that his book contains none of the
mediocre war poetry with which the spring
volumes are so heavily weighted. We
quote from A Notion, which shows him in
one of his most poetic moods:
"The heights have longed for, but Grip
pitu have sbopptu dI Tic rdSey
The battle ungained, and the far, un-
attainable goal
The things have gained are but chattels
that laugh in my face,
But the things ! have lost are the things
that have fashioned my soul!'
Edwina Stanton Babeock is responsible
for The Flying Parliament, which drags
its slow way through sixty-seven pages of
a small book of fairly creditable verse.
The long poem consists of a conversation
in which an American war correspondent,
an Italian child and an old woodcarver
offer their views on the war. In a sepa-
rate group of war poems Miss BabcOck
has chosen to include several descriptions
of Nantucket perhaps because it was once
threatened by Uboats, and description
Of Masefield which impresses us as worth
quoting. She has called it The Interpre-
ter:
"Iast night heard Masetield,
Heard that voice cold as a moonhl tomb
Reading old plays and Mosques
And gypsy drama Of old England
Il saw strange eyes fickering-sad,
Set in face recording vigils,
Moody, unfellowed prowlings
Vague contemplations and wandering
81 saw his face, dream magnetic,
Pale, withheld, until he told
Stories as odd as coins in a sailors chest !;
Then mischief, like leaves, danced on his
brow,
And smile like water shook on his face"
Often one or two poems in a volume
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-23
Ships in Harbor
By David Morton.

l have not known q 9uieter thing than ships,
Nor any dreamers stepped in dream as these;
For all that they have known disastrous seas,
And winds that left their sails in tagging strips,
Nothing disturbs them now, no stormy grips
That once had hurt their sides, no crash or swell;
Nor can the fretfu harbor quite dispel
The quiet that they learned on lonely trips
They have no part in all the noisy Moons;
They are become dreams of ships that 20
Back to the secret waters that they know,
Each as she will, to unforgot lagoons,
Where nothing moves except her ghostly spars
That mark the patient watches on the stars.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-23
Some New Verse by American Poets
The Silent Folk
BY Charles Wharton Stork.

By Charles Wharton Stork.
Oh, some will praise the silent folk,
To me they only seem
Like leafless, bird abandoned oak
And stark, unfnendly stream
I want the leaves to talk and tell
The joy that's in the tree.
And water nymphs to weave a spell
Of pixie melody.
These dumb, glum souls may be sincere
As bards Of old have said,
But, anyhow, they're rather drear
And maybe, too, they're dead.
Copyright, 1919. AH rights reserved.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-23
Peace and Victory
By Marquette Merington.

Great work hath victory 10 do
And stern the silent battles peace must wage
If we would see hfe's visioned truths come true,
Fulflment of wars deathless heritage.
Cast down old landmarks reared in pride,
Dynasties, eitades, that time de6ed.
Lord give US grace when we would build anew!
o peace, with priceless ransom paid
In toll of vine at bud and rose half blown;
o victory that sees our first born laid
In sacrifice upon Gods altar stone,
Lift, hold US to the altitude
Immortal where our standard bearers stood,
So make us, keep US, worthy of our own!
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-23

nRDINARILY in reading historical
- romanees we react to a past, some
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-11-12
. Life at Sea

The house of representatives the other day
passed by unanimous consent an amendment
to the so-caled seamans act, which would have
the effect of reducing the safeguards placed
around passengers at sea. The matter is now
before the senate committee on commerce.
Would it not be we'll for the senate to inquire
a little into it before accepting without ques
ION a proposal which may open the way to
o.her Titanic disaster?
Section IA of the seaman's act provides that
passenger vessels shall have certain number
of lieboats and liferafts, the Titanic and other
catastrophies having shown that shipowners
would not adequately provide for safety at sea
unless compelled to do so by law. These boats
and RATS are not of much use unless there are
men on hand who can lower them and manage
them in rough sea. Accordingly the law pro-
vides for certain percentage of able seanen
on each vessel and also established certain
standard of skill. The standard specified in
the law is the British standard, broadly speak
ing. The British standard for able seamen calls
for an experience of IS months in a merchant
vessel with reduction in case the seaman has
had previous experience in training vessel or
fishing vessel.
Now the house amendment cuts down this
standard of experience to six weeks in train
ing vessel or nine months in merchant vessel.
Thus if this standard were adopted, shipload
of passengers light find themselves in crisis
in the hands of an unskilled crew-a certain
way to invite Observation-Disclosures Post.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-11-12
UeVELVET a..
HAMMER 5aaT~~.e'5M Y
BIZ Arthur Brooks Baker nuygsSM "fwM
CHARLES EDWARD BLACK.
81 Hrthur BroOkS Baker

When Adam recognized the need for put
ting something on besides the purple twilight
and the pumpkin-colored dawn, the clothing
business thereupon achieved its early start,
progressing upward day by day till now it is
an art which aids the human male to walk
abroad upon the earth without exciting Every
mucf) the sad beholders mirth.
When Charles was young and incomplete
he gave his time and pains to selling simple
coverings for simple human brains, thus evil
dencing for himself certain sort of lack and
winning him the sobriquet and handle, Hattie
Black" but now his learning has become more
broadened and discreet and he can deal with
lack of clothes from collar bone to feet.
But Hattie" says let others clothe the mass
and hoi polloi. He decorates the chosen in
habilaments of JOY. The males who stroll
through gates which swing to social COM
petence, and those who hang around and hunt
the weak spots in the fence, the lads who dress
as Solomon was never yet arrayed, all have
their names upon his books and boost his help
full trade.
He sees the great and solemn point in this
distinguished sphere that man is less important
than he wishes to appear; and as official hu-
morist at banquet far and wide, he pricks with
gay and sprightly wit the pompous human hide;
for mortals often prosper with their large and
empty bluff till humor strikes the bubble and
betrays its fragile stuff.
Next Subject-Joseph Hopkins Millard)
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-11-12
In the Berger Case.

Several interesting points are presented in
the case of Victor Berger who has just been
denied seat in the house of representatives to
which he was elected from Milwaukee. His
election does not turn on the fact that he is q
socialist, for he once served term in con-
gress, representing the same constituency. Be-
fore he became candidate in 1918 he had
grievously offended against the government.
As a leading member of the socialist party, he
directed the proceedings at St. Louis where
the pro-German antiwar resolution was
adopted. A great many members left the party
on account of this, but Berger persisted in his
course, and in Chicago and elsewhere did all
he could to hamper the government in its ef-
forts at raising an army and carrying on the
war. When given chance to address the
house he declared that he would retract nothing
he had said nor change anything he had done,
but would say and do it all again under the
same circumstances. To permit such man to
sit in congress would affront the intelligence OF
the world. Expulsion from the house is not
sufficient punishment for his offense, but con-
gress can go no farther. 1t is up to Milwau-
kee to see that he is not returned.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-11-12
Money for Medical Research.

Just now, with all the outcry against proht-
GERS, predatory wealth, plutocratic oppression,
and similar hubbub, it is grateful to note that
the one who is above all target for missiles
of criticism has not forgotten the work he set
on foot some years ago. John D.. Rockefeller
has just handed over another $lO,O000OO to
support the medical research work of the great
institute that bears his name.
This magnificent donation will insure that
the world is not to be deprived of the benefit
Of the scientific philanthropy so nobly en-
lowed Men Of science will not only seek the
cause and cure Of physical ailments, but will
spread the knowledge throughout the world
that all may benefit thereby. Better use for
money could hardly be imagined, nor is it con-
ceivable that such an enterprise is possible I'M
der government auspices when set on
foot by a despot. Continuity Of the undertake
ings Of these investigators demands that they
be freed from even the remotest interference,
from public or private, that the mutations OF
polticals or individual whim may not disturb
them at any time This latest gift provides
the means to make the work selfsustanng
and independent. 1t will go on, and in time its
fruits will be enjoyed by all
odd Jawn D." and his colossal fortune will
stand as a text for soap-boxers and target for
uplfters, but the solid chunk Of money he has
put behind a great agency for human better
ment and the amelioration Of living conditions
suggests that he is neither all bad nor wholly
Se16eh