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/. L. MIMS, Editor Published every Wednesday in The Advertiser Building at $1.50 per year IQ advance. Entered as second class matter at be poatoffice at Edgefield, S. C. No communications will be published aptess accompanied by the writer's dame. Cards of Thanks. Obituaries, R?solu tif and Political Notices published at advertising rates. Wednesday, April 25 Germany is now having her Ham burg riot. _ John Barl?ycorn is falling back fas ter than Hindenburg. The Germans seem to be in need of forty years more of preparation. When it takes two nickels to buy a loaf of bread somebody is going hungry. _ _ In making a selection from the va rious forage crops, think of the V's in VelVet beans. If the average dinner pail were weighed, it would be found wanting in variety, if not in quantity If you can't do guard duty for your country, you can do gardening duty, which is almost as important. Dr. W. T. Kinnaird will officially hang out his sign this morning. Won der who will get prescription No. 1? It is to be hoped that the severance of our relations with Turkey is only temporary and that the normal status will be restored by Thanksgiving. In the first half of the war MIGHT predominated but in the latter half RIGHT will prevail. However, we can not say" All is well that ends well." If our congressmen can fight as well as some of them can debate and d?lay legislation, every man of them should be sent to the front. As President Wilson can do almost everything else, we wonder if he can converse fluently with Premier Viviani and Marshall Joffre in their own tongue? Do not allow an idle plot of ground on your premises in 1917. Make every available spot produce some life-sus taining crop. Better grow vegetables than weeds. Relief ships, hospital ships and war ships all look alike and meet alike fate at the hands of the Germans. Their heartlessness permits of no discrimina tion. Some of the wise ones say the war will last for years and years. But here's hoping that "Uncle Sam" will find a peace proclamation in his Christ mas sock. Some automobiles claim to be blue blooded and turn up their noses at other machines. But, if we mistake not, all of them descended alike from them wheel-barrow or jinrikisha. The latest type of submarine is an L-boat. Have we got to run the en tire gamut of the alphabet with sub marines before the war closes? If so, hasten the christening of the Z-boat! The slump from four quarts to one will make only one drink possible in future where four were taken before. Yet the whiskey people say prohibi tion does not curtail the consumption ? of whiskey. The high coat of living seems to have brought a new word, kitchenette, into existence. It probably means a diminutive kitchen, which is better .suited to the diminished supply of our Apantryette. Distillers admit that they have 211, .900,000 gallons of intoxicants stored in ?bonded warehouses. Then why make more grain into whiskey when the entire world is suffering from hunger or high prices of foodstuffs? As much as the old Kaiser appreci ates the firm resolve of; the German people to "stand by him" to the end, we have a sneaking notion that he pre fers for them to stand in front of him in this emergency. The people of the goodly town of Anderson never do things by halves. For example, an Anderson lady re cently purchased the entire bond issue of a school district, amounting to $8o, 000. As for that, the people of Spar tanburg never do things by halves either. For example, Col. Harold Booker of The Journal never stops at a half-gallon of buttermilk. Wonder what the old moss-backs, who seem to want women to hide their light under a bushel, will say of Gov ernor Manning's act of selecting some intelligent women to work along with the men, some of them effective speak ers, in the campaign for food pre paredness. Should Close Distilleries. In advocating and legislating in fa vor of national preparedness, by both conserving and increasing the food supply of the country, President Wil son and Congress will be inconsistent if they fail to close the distilleries and breweries of the country that are an nually destroying, rendering unfit for food, enough cereals to feed nearly 8,000,000 persons an entire year. According to a statement given out by the distillers and brewers them selves, the enormous quantity of 050, 000,000 bushels of grain is annually made into beer and whiskey. Why urge an increase in the production of foodstuffs and then not stop this wan ton waste? Granting that the people need and must have intoxicating li quors, which is not true, there is now stored in government warehouses suf ficient quantity to supply a normal de mand several years. Therefore, the closing of distilleries and breweries du ring the period the war lasts will not work a hardship on anyone. Those who are now employed in these plants can readily find employment in other lines. The cry is for men everywhere; not only by the government for ser vice at the front, but by corporations all over the country that have more orders than can be filled. By diverting the grain that is now consumed in making intoxicants into other channels, prices can be held at a lower level through this increase of grain available for food. Let's stop the making of corn into liquor, - in or der that the people may have more meal for making bread. Unless the government places an embargo on grain consumption for this purpose, as one of the first war measures enacted, it will be grossly inconsistent and grievously negligent in safeguarding the people's interests in this time of unprecedented strain and stress. Corporations Often Misjudged. It used to be said, more than now, that corporations have no souls. But the making of a sweeping charge or statement, including all corporations in one class, is manifestly unjust. Cor porations reflect the men who manage them, being altogether what these men make them. Those that are man aged by men who are unreasonable in their requirements, arbitrary and un scrupulously exacting in their dealings with men, deserve to be classed as hav ing no souls. But we believe only a small per cent, rightly belong to this class. Most corporations of to-day are conducted upon broad, generous lines which cause them to deserve, and there fore should receive, favorable rather than unfavorable criticism. The very generous aid that cot ton mills are giving their employees in the various phases of welfare work shows that these corporations have souls, or at least their manag ers have more than "a spark of di vinity" in them. The aid that railroads give in free transportation and in various other ways when human suffering is to be relieved at home and abroad indicates \,bat many of these large corporations are not altogether devoid of the milk of human kind ness. The way in which some banks and other corporations are co-ope rating in the food preparedness campaign likewise disproves the sweeping assertion that "corpora tions have no souls." Unfortunate ly, some corporations are manned by men of dwarfed and shrivelled souls who take no thought of the welfare of others, their greed for gold, and then more gold, shutting out everything but the advancement of their own selfish interests. Such corporatins are never helpful to any except their selfish owners. How ever, these are in the minority. Card of. Thanks, We tase this privilege of ex pressing our sincere thanks and ap oreoiation to our friends and' rela tives for their many acts of kind ness, during the recent illness- and death of my husband and our father. Mrs. S. L. Roper, Mrs. J. G. McKie, Mrs. W. H. Moss, Mrs. Joseph Ripley, Mrs. W. E. Ousts, Mr. A, H. Roper, Miss Lula Roper, Miss Sue Roper, Miss Lila Roper, Miss Anna Roper. Your cash money will go a long ways toward supplying your needs at our store this week. Special values in dry goods and slippers. Do not miss these bargains. The Corner Store. A Trip to old Gilgal. It was on the occasion pf the burial of Mrs.Clarissa Strother (Cla rissa Bowles she was), who died yesterday. She was the daughter of old Major Isaac Bowles, who years ago surveyed and made a map of the entire county of Edgefield." The writer remembers to have often sppnt the night at their hos pitable home, before Miss Clarissa's marriage, when I was their pastor, the pastor of old Gilgal. There, it was my privilege to marry her to Mr. Strother of Saluda county. She died at the home of her sister, Mrs. Dean in South Greenwood, and her remains were taken today to Gilgal. While the occasion that called me there was sad, yet it was a plea sure for me to go with the bereav ed family and to meet so many old friend*, many whom I had baptized and married. Mr. Pomp Cheatham was <me of these. He asked me if I remembered how long it had been since I married him? No, I could uot think. He said it had been 34 years. Then Mr. Carr Williams and the several other Williamses aud Grif tises and Moigans, Corleys, Byrds, Dr. Self and the Stroms, etc. It was pleasant, indeed, to be there. Memories of former days were sweet, mingled with the present day sadness, in the death of our sister. Dr. Josh Bell of Blythe. Ga., who married a sister of the deceas ed, who is now a member of the Georgia Legislature was over to at tend the burial and funeral. Then, there is also another reason that makes this old church a sacred place to me, and that is, it is where my sainted mother was baptized when she was a young lady, before her marriage. She was baptized by Rev. James Childs. Mrs. Strother was 69 years of age and was remarkable for her quiet, Christian life, having joined the Gilgal church when quite young. G. W. Bussey. Richard Carroll to the Colored People. Mr. Editor: The Civic Preparedness commis sion, colored, working under and in cooperation with the white commis sion, Col. D. R. Coker, chairman, was given instructions by Col. Cok er, and urged to go immediately to work and prevail upon our people to plant plenty of foodstuffs, econo mize and act at once. A chairman from each county was appointed and instructed to work in coopera tion with the white people and farm demonstration agents white and colored. Mr. Sparks, secretary of the commission, with headquarters in The State company's building, Columbia, S. C., is ready to give information to colored county chair men. The time to do effective work is short. Colored people should call meetings and organize on qr before April 28. Here is a chance for every colored leader, preacher, teacher to show bis interest in his race. There is no money for the leaders in this movement, as I know of, and nobody is promised any money, but every Negro that is interested in his race has a chance now to show himself loyal by giv ing voluntary and grateful service. The white farmers can do erreat good by giving instructions to the colored people and disseminating the information they get in the communities where they live. The colored people would do well in the few remaining Sundays in this month to pro" V. the full gosptl salvation of soul and body. The Newberry patriotic meeting on the 17th was the best I know,' of and the most effective and far-reach ing. The white farmers came to the court house on the day o* the meeting bringing with them the colored farmers to hear the speech es on Preparedness. I believe that the negroes in every county ia the State will see more clearly their duty if the Newberry example is followed. Every negro preacher, teacher and pastor should get busy with both tongue and ?pen. What ever time I have to give to this work, I am giving free of charge and I ara not asking anybody to do what I am not doing. If anyone wishes to do so, come to my place in Kendal ?town when I am at home and you will see that I am giving free ot charge and ? am preaching along this line. I leave on the 28tb for Alabama to spend one week and I am urging our people between now and that time to get busy and plant every vaeant lot in something to eat for man and beast. RICHARD CARROLL, Chairman Negro Civic Prepared ness Commission for South Caro lina. How To Give Quinine To Children. FEBRILTNEisthetrnde-mnrk name given to on improved Quinine. It is a Tasteless Syrup, pleat', tint to take and does not disturb the stomach. Children take it and never know it is Quinine. Also especially adapted to adults who cannot take ordinary Quinine. Does not nauseate nor cause nervousness nor ringing in the head. Try it the next time you need Quinine for any pur pose. Ask for 2-ounce original package. The name FEURILINE is blown ia bcUle. 25 cent* Tribute to Mr. Samuel L. Roper. [Written by Miss Anna Roper.] How well do I remember The days in which I roamed When I in glee was pratling Around my father's home. When he in joy would greet me With smiles in pleasant form And to his heart would press me While holding in his arms. T'was then I knew no sorrow That lasted over a dav For smiles of precious father Would drive them all away. For I was then unconscious Of what I'd have to meet When I would be no longer Around my father's feet. But days and years kept passing Until that awful day That father heard the summons Th'it called him far away. T'was April the nineteenth ' Of nineteen and seventeen That brought the saddest day That we had ever seen. But we could not resist it, For t'was God's call of love That took him from our presence Into his home above. And now he is done with sorrow With aches and pains and grief For in that parting hour He found a sweet relief. But oh, my precious father, I miss him here below Though he was old and feeble His steps were faint and slow. Yet precious was his presence To have him by our side And hear his words of council To help us o'er life's tide. Yet nott since he departed His voice I still can hear Though far away in distance It seems that he is near. His body now lies quiet In Horn's Creek church yard With nothing but the angels His silent form to guard. But again he wiil awaken And from the dust arise To greet again his children Beyond the vaulted skies. And then there'll be no parting With papa any more And we can dwell together On Canaan's happy shore. Card of Thanks. We adopt this means of express* pressing our grateful appreciation to our neighbors and friends for their many kindnesses rendered du ring the illness aud death of our father. We are more thankful than we can express in words for these many thoughtful acts of kind ness, and hope that some day we may be able to render some service to these friends that will in a measure repay them. Mrs. G. A. Talbert, W. R. E. Winn, W. A. Winn, W. L. Winn, W. E. Winn, T. C. Winn, J. E. Winn, R. M. Winn, E. P. Winn, Miss Maggie Winn. Honor Roll Edgefield Graded and High School. Seventh Month. First Grade-J. R. Timmerman, Fitz maurice Byrd, Mazie Kemp, Lois Cog burn, Ned Nicholson, Maxcie Holston, Carolyn Dorn, Byrnes Ouzts, Wilber Moore, Alice Hume. Advanced first Maurice Rubenstein, Ralph Quarles, Mary Thurmond, Margie Prescott. Second Grade-Effie Allen Lott, Frances Louise Townsend, Martha Thurmond, June Nicholson, Milton Swearingen, Sarah Hughes, Mary Lynch, Orlando Morgan, Margaret Strom, Frances Wells, William Cog burn, June Hume, Elizabeth Johnson. Third Grade-Julia Strom, Elizabeth Bailey, John Curran Feltham, Albert Rainsford, Kathrine Stewart, Luther Johnson, Hansford Mims, Renand Shannonhouse, Janet Timmons, Carrie Dunovant. Fourth Grade-Allen George Thur mond, Robert Tompkins, Jack Feltham, Odel Holston, Rhett Morgan, Mary Rives. Fifth Grade-Elizabeth Lott, Isabel Byrd, John Wells, Gladys Lawton, Al len Edwards, Wallace Sheppard, Ben jamin Cogburn. Sixth Grade-Lillian Pattison, George Tompkins, Mitchell Wells, William Strom, Raymond Folk, Eleanor Mims, Robert Ouzts, Mattie Saunders, Helen Nicholson, Gertrude Thurmond. Seventh Grade-William Folk, Rhae Timmerman, Dixon Timmerman, Ed Sar Padgett, William Jones, Mary ficholson, Ruth Paul, Thelma Jack son, Elizabeth Rives, Raymond Dun ovant. High School. Eighth Grade-Carolee Cogburn, Frances Jones, Reba Cogburn, Sarah Lyon, Fannie Ouzts, Edith Ouzts. Ninth Grade-Margaret Blocker, James Sharpton, Hob Byrd, Ilene Har ing, Edwin Folk. Tenth Grade-Margaret May, Willie Peak, Neta Ouzts. Eleventh Gr ade-Ouida Pattison, Em mie Broadwater, Pearl Quarles. Collett & Mitchell PHARMACISTS Large stock of Drugs and Drug Sundries always on hand-fresh from the leading manufacturers. Prescriptions accurately compounded from drugs any hour of the day or night. A Share of Your Patronage Solicited i Spring and Summer Warm weather is here, and we must lay aside heavy clothing of all kinds and don what the season demands. In supplying your needs for warm weather garments come in and let us show you through our large stock of Spring Clothing, Shoes Dry Goods, Notions Underwear, Hosiery Hats, etc. We placed large orders early and are in a positions to make as close prices as any merchant in this section. If we haven't in our large stock what you want we will order it for you. Come in to see us. Daitch Bros. Bargain Store j Next Door to Farmers' Batik J F. E. GIBSON, President LANSING B. LEE, Sec. and Treas. FARMERS, MERCHANTS, BUILDERS, If you are going to build, remodel or repair, we invite your inquiries. COMPLETE HOUSE BILLS A SPECIALTY. We manufacture and deal in doors, sash, blinds stairs, interior trim, store fronts and fixtures, pews, pulpits, etc., rough and dressed lumber, lath, pine and cypress shingles, flooring, ceiling and siding. Distributing agents for Flintkote roofing Estimates cheerfully and carefully mane. Woodard Lumber Co. AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. Corner Roberts and Dugas Streets, Our Motto: S FARM LOANSI Long-Term Loans to Farmers a Specialty. Your farm land accepted as security WITHOUT ENDORSER o other COLLATERAL. Unlimited funds immediately available in der nominations of Three Hundred and up. Established 1892. JAMES FRANK & SON, Augasta, Ga. Our Edgefield Friends are invited to make our store their headquarters when when in Augusta. On our first floor we carry a large stock of Cloth ing, Hats and Furnishings for boys and men. We buy from the largest manufacturers, therefore we show the most stylish and the best of everything. See our large assortment of Underwear, Shirts, Hosiery, etc. On our second floor we have our Ladies' Depart ment, showing the latest in Tailored Suits, Evening Dresses, Waists, Skirts, etc. We invite the Edge field ladies to visit our store. A cordial welcome will be extended them. J. Willie Levy Company Augusta, Georgia