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Sfiiablishr? 1B35. *? - /. L.W MS,.Editor Published every Wednesday in The Advertiser Building at $1.50 *per vear in advance. Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at Edgefieid, S. C. No communications will be published unless accompanied by the writer's name. Cards of Thanks. Obituaries, Resolu tions and Political Notices published at dvertising rates. Wednesday, August 15 Corn, corn, corn, corn everywhere in Edgefield county. Members of exemption boards are .doing trench duty here at home. Wonder how many American schools and colleges will teach the German language after the war? Bare-foot, knee-pants school boys, only thirty days of fun and frolic are left to you. Make the most of the last leg of vacation. Wonder how many farmers in Edge field county, finding no other cause for complaining, will complain because the large herves'. "strained" his ground? In the dim, distant future, when the United States shall again send an am bassador to Berlin men will not fall over each other in their efforts to secure the job. The place will rather seek the man. 4'No fodder for cattle in Germany", says a headline. Well, after the fod der gives out not many people stand up to the rack. So we're expecting to hear of further defection among the German masses. If you don't believe cotton is bring ing a good price, just ask the price of cotton goods at the dry goods stores. But the man who receives above twenty-five cents for his cotton should not complain of the price of the shirt he wears. Some are suggesting two fish days a week, instead of two meatless days. Why, bless your life, most of us who have only about one fish day in a year would heartily welcome two fish days a week as one of the war's bless ings. But who'll furnish the fish? Should Tax Soft Drinks. In crder to offset the loss of revenue sustained through the curtailment of distilled liquors, congress is considering levying a tax on soft drinks. When ?pecial le^'es are necessary in order to realize an increase of revenue The Advertiser has always advocated plac ing a larger tax on luxuries, instead of placing a tax on the necessities of life. And it is upon this ground that we fa vor taxing soft drinks. It is better to levy a tax on soda-water and bottled drinks than to place a tax on tea and cof fee. In fact, it would be a blessing to humanity, instead of a hardship, if some of the drinks served at soft drink stands were taxed out of existence. The soft drink habit is harmful to the . constitution as well as to the purse. - Germany's Unspeakable Atrocities. Before the war was precipitated, like a bolt of lighting from a cloudless sky, merchandise bearing the imprint "Made in Germany" was universally popular. As a rule, consumers found that such merchandise possessed merit and superior quality. But as Germany has lost the confidence of the world it will be many decades after the war has closed before merchandise "Made in Germany" will again meet with favor. Aside from the prejudice that will prevail for a long time against every thing that bears German ear-marks, people have lost confidence in the Ger mans who have over and over again proven themselves to be unreliable and unspeakably cruel. Added to the crimes of dropping bombs upon non-combatants, including women and children, sinking hospital and passenger ships without warning, shooting nurses, ruthlessly destroying cathedrals, taking the life of women and children with poisonous gas, a Ger man commander is guilty of a more recent act of heartlessness that would shock the sensibilities of a barbarian. A short time ago the captain of a Ger man submarine ranged forty men on deck who were taken from a merchant vessel and after taking the life-pre servers from the men deliberately sub merged his vessel and drowned them. Such heartless acts are too horrible to contemplate. Red Cross Box Shipped. On Tuesday afternoon a committee from the various units comprising the Woman's. Service League met at the waiting room at the depot and packed a red cross box which was sent to Atlanta to the headquarters there. The box con tained the following articles contribu ted by the units as designated: Bald Eagle1. Chapter children of the Confederacy/ Fifteen rolls of band ages, 5 dozen hospital sponges, 14x14, knitted; 3 dozen and eight hospital handkerchiefs 18x18; 2 dozen napkins 10x10; one and a half dozen cloths odd sizes, and a large bundle of old cloth. Edgefield Chapter U. D. C. One hundred and seventy-five pillow cases, 12 knitted wash cloths, one large bun dle of bandages. Civic Association, 25 pillow cases. D. A. R. Chapter, 25 pillow cases. Eight Weeks Club at the Mill, 25 pillow cases, and 12 ice bag covers. Woman's Christian Temperance Union, fifty pillow cases, 3 dozen knitted wash cloths, 3 dozen knitted sponges, 4 dozen hospital napkins, 2 dozen hospital handkerchiefs. There will be other contributions sent from time to-time. The Civic League has already con tributed $25.00 to the Red Cross, and the D. A. R. is knitting some valuable articles for the sailors. The box was valued at $66.00, Self-Explanatory Letter Receiv ed by Hon. N. G. Evans. To the Chairman, County Councils of Defense. Gem lernen: At to-day's meeting of the State Council of Defense, several mern bers reported that lawyers in differ ent parts of the state were charg ing drafted men fees for drawing up exemption applications. The Council expressed itself unanimously, that provisions should be made to see that no profit should be made out of the necessities of the drafted men. There are many lawyers, business men, and notaries who will attend to this matter with out charge, for the men. Please arrange for a committee of qualified men to attend to this service. The lawyers' services are not required, and will add nothing to the merit or effectiveness of the exemption claims. Please have a representative of your committee constantly in at tendance at Board headquarters, to explain, render assistance, and di rect the men who may properly seek exemption, to a member of your committee who will handle the matter for them. Please give publicity to this let ter through the press, as it is a matter of great importance. I am directed to send this letter by unani mous action of the State Council of Defense. Yours verv trulv, D. R. Coker, Chairmau. I will be in my office during the sitting of the Board and will gladly assist all drafted men in filing their papers, and will have a notary present, who will take the affidavit free of charge. The Board will furnish necessary blanks. N. G. Evans, Chairman Council of Defense. Five Canning Rules. 1. Keep water ata jumping boil and do not allow fire to die down for an instant while cans are in the canner. 2. Keep cover on canner every moment of the processing time. Steam plays a large part in cooking contents of can. 3. The quality or grade of the pack depends on the number of whole fruit or uniform pieces of fruit in the can, the color of the fruit, the weight, and the flavor. 4. The flavor is often injured by letting peeled fruit stand too long before cooking. Prepare at any one time as many cans only as can be processed immediately. 5. "Straight from vine to can" should be the motto. Never can stale fruit.-Mrs. Jane S. McKim mon in Progressive Farmer. "Grandma," asked si^-year-old Paul, 1 what makes I ' ^n such a pretty little girl?" "She is pretty, grandma replied, "because she is such a good little girl." "But, grandma," Paul protested, "you are awful good."-Philadel phia Ledger. REGISTRATION DAY for the women is Aug., 21. We want every woman in the county to sign the Registration card. We must do our part to help win this war. While our boys are fighting abroad, we must enlist to fight the problems at home. SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT. (Continued from First Page.) counties in South Carolina can these suggestions be of value. In nearly all our counties the county super intendent of education is the only supervisory officer. In recent years the work connected with the hand ling of the business details of the office has increased to such an ex tent that the officer who looks after these well has no time for actual supervision. A? much as possible he visits schools, but his visits are of so short duration and are so sel dom that it is practically impossible for him to do the supervising that needs to be done. "City schools have had this kind of close supervision for years and the pupils have profited by it. Country teachers and schools should have similar assistance. This can be done by giving to the office of couuty supintendent of education proper Organization in salary and supervisory assistance. Longer de lay in this matter further retards the educational progress of country children." Instructions for Those Who Se cure Signatures to Hoover Pledge Cards. First: Try to get the Chamber of Commerce or your county paper to donate such a number of Hoover cards as will be necessary for the white and colored women of your county. Second: This is a request from your president of the United States. . Third: Be courteous and friend ly. Avoid controversies. Make it your business to reach every woman and cook who has charge of a house hold in the section assigned you, also every restaurant and hotel keep er, and chef. Fourth: The county should be gub-divided into townships with a chairman in each township and let her in turn select her township com mittee, who could either collect the women at the churches and' school houses in each township, or make a house to house canvas, whichever method in their judge ment seems best. Fifth: Cities should be divided into wards, precincts and blocks, and placed in charge of captains, and each group of women given a certain number of blocks. Sixth: Women should go out in twos in canvassing homes. Seventh: Have plenty of women so that the work may be done quick ly. Before sending them out get' them all together and explain why we are asked to sign these cards, and to what it will lead. Eigth: In the country, automo biles should be provided by patriot ic men and each section definitely assigned to some group of two women. Ninth: Remember this is a most important task in which you have the privilege of assisting. South Carolina must make a good showing in pledging its women for the con servation of foods. Tenth: In getting women to sign the registration cards make a brief explanation in each case that the country needs the services of women during the war just as much as the services of men, and that patriotic women must be willing to do whatever they can to help their government. Eleventh: Push the signing as rapidly as possible when ounce it is begun. Twelfth: Work should begin at once, as soon as your county is thoroughly organized and ready to go ahead. , Thirteenth: Have the cards sign ed in your presence and bring them to the chairman of your Woman's Committee, who will turn them over to the Chairman of the Coun ty Council of Defense. Fourteenth: The Chairman of the County Council will then express the Hoover cards to Herbert Hoov er, Food Administrator, Washing ton, D. C. Fifteenth: The registration cards shall be turned over to the chair man of each county and retained by her at the county seat. Summary copies in duplicate shall be sent to Mrs. J. L. Visanska, State Regis trar, Charleston, S. C., who keeps one summary and sends the other to the National headquarters of the Wo man's Coturnilt.ee, 1814 N St.,| N. W., Washington, D. C., BO that if the services of the women regis tered in diiferent departments are needed by the Government, they will know definitely where to find those qualified for service. Of coarse this service is voluntary, not compulsory. Mrs. F. Louise Mayes, Chairman. South Carolina Division, Woman's Council of Defense. WANTED-To board three boys who will attend the Edgefield High school. 15-2t W. W. Fuller. (rained 25 Pounds By Taking Tanke, Perry Declares he is Now Well and Strong Again-Took Friend's Advice. NASHVILLE MAX SA VS HK WAS NOT FREE FROM SUFFERING A SINGLE DAV FOR THREE YEARS. "I don't reckon there ever was anybody in a much worse fix than I was when I bogan taking Taniac, but Fve actually gained 25 pounds since I bepan taking the mecicine and now I feel as well and strong as anyone could wish," declared S. M. Perry, an employee of the City of Nashville Tenn., who resides at 522 Grace St., that city. "On5 day about three years ago," continued Mr. Perry, "my stomach became all swollen up and sore and I began to have pains in my chest. I took medicine and used ! i ??mente but they did me no goud and there was never a day during those three years I was free from suffering un til I took Taniac. I had no appe tite for anything to eat, and every thing I did eat was sn heavy on my stomach I could hardly endure the pain. I had nervous indigestion and the gas would get up into my chest and almost cut off my breath. I was in such a bad shape that the least excitement would shock my nerves so much that my heart would jump and flutter and I was so weak I could hardly tote the baby. Some mornings I would start to work and my heart would stark to flutter tering and Pd get so weak I could hardly breathe and would have to sit down and rest and then go back home. I would be so weak and worn out after trying to work all day and would be so long getting home my wife would become afraid I was dead somewhere along the way. Many a night I suffered so I was just up and down-mostly up-unable to sleep at all. I took every kind of medicine I heard of and nothing did me any good and ljust kept going down hill. "Finally a friend of mine who knew of ray awful condition told me I needed Taniac and I got a bottle and began taking it. It gave me a fine appetite and I felt so much better I got another bot tle, and after taking it I felt per fectly well and as strong as a mule. I have taken six bottles in. all and. as I said before, Fve gained. 25 pounds in weight, and when meal time comes I am as hungry as a ; wolf and can eat just anything I want. I have none of that jumping and fluttering of the heart now and I can breathe as free and easy as I ever could. I sleep like a log every night and go to my' work every morning whistling and feel ing fresh and fine. When I hear Customer the F I desire to announce t will operate the ginnery as You will find in my si less Hulls at all times. J\J and Feedstuffs. To those who have in each and every one, and have not in the past given business with them. Give 1 expect to hold your busi will use every effort to pie My gins have been gi results than T. My price use 2\ to 2j pound bagging your plans to gin with me ciated. For the convenience c A book for you to keep a eveiy bale ginned, all seed and ask for your book; the at results. Always before selling money. Telephone 100 i anyone around complaining, I tell them they ought to take Tanlac." Tanlac, the Master Medicine, is sold bv Edgpfiold, Penn & Holstein. Cold Springs, H Ernest Quarles. Edgefield,R F D No 2, J. H. Reel. Johnston, Johnston Drug Com pany. Modoc, G C McDaniel. Parksville, Robertson & Com pany. Plum Branch, J W Bracknell & Son. Plum Branch, K F D No 2, E P Winn & Bro. Trenton. G W Wise. The Gray Legions of "Dixie" Takes Nation's Capital as its Honored Guest. Editor Advertiser: For weeks I have been looking for Nick Broadwater and General Mobley to write up the great reun ion held in Washington. Up to this date they have written "never a word;" therefore, I will give you a few thoughts about this gathering together of the North, South, East and West, the Gray and the Blue, ray flag and your flag, my country and your country; the gray legions of "Dixie," the blue hosts of the Grand Army of the Potomac. Fifty-six years ago a hostile army in gray besieged the nation's capital. Yesterday that same army in gray, thinned by death and hallowed old age, repeated its march upon Wash ington; captured the seat of govern ment without protest or battle, and today are the nation's honored and distinguished guests. Never in the nation's history have the battle Bcarred veterans from the Southland celebrated an anniversary of the Confederacy in the city which half a century ago spilled its blood and sacrificed its all to repel their march northward; and never in any city have they received a warmer wel come. Guests now-a united na tion. Today the men from "Dixie" own the city. The great desire of their lives has been realized-to hold a reunion in the capital city of this great country of ours. Streets, avenues, hotels, lobbies, parks, gov ernment buildings and private homes fairly swarmed with tho gray host last night. Special trains, one after the other, rolled in from ''Dix ie" throughout the day and night, carrying their precious burden of United Confederate Veterans, sons of Confederate veterans and grand children of veterans. Some wore the gray, some wore the blue, but all were eager to see "their" capital and sing the praises of "One God, one flag, one country and one people!" Never before has such a gather ing of people from North, South, East aud West assembled to pay homage to the "Stars and Bars" of the grand old Confederacj'. J. Russell Wright, -TO THE s of the Oi! 'ublic Gene hat I have leased the plant frc heretofore. I will buy seed :ock both Feed and Fertilizer [y prices will be in line with p the past patronized the Oil M earnestly solicit their continu the Mill their business, I sha] ? me a trial is all I ask. It is ness. 1 fully understand this, ilse you. ven a complete overhauling, ai for ginning wrll be as LOW t1 T, which will be furnished at ; if not your entire crop, any ] ?f my customers I have had m complete record of your cottoi sold and every bale sold. Gi re is one here for you. Keep seed or buying feed, get my i Choked Trafic Keeps Flour Up. B. R. Cooner, president of the Adlnh Milling Company, yesterday cancelled an order for 1,000 barrels of flour, placed several weeks ago. Congested traffic conditions has caused a prolonged delay in making the shipment. Fi rst patent flour is now quoted around ?812.75. Mr. Cooner ex pects the consuming public to pay prices much in excess of this amount- Several factors will con tribute to an advance in prices, he says. One of these is the tremend ous traffic exactions that will con tinue to be made on the railroads. The pending food bill, which fixes a minimum price of $2 for wheat for the 1913 crop, and the alarming shortage in the present cop are causing the wheat producers to store their grain in anticipation of $3 wheat. Should wheat be- sold at ?2, flour couid be sold in Columbia from ?10.30 to SH.30 a barrel, Mr. Cooner says. Dealers are buying in small lots only just now, pending the final issue of the congressional food bill. Other grains have followed close ly in the trail of the sharp advances in wheat. Milling corn, No. 2, is selling above $2.50 a bushel. Chica go has fixed the price for corn for September at $1.65, but dealers can not alford to buy heavily now for deliveries within the next few weeks. A considerable loss would be entailed on all corn or corn pro ducts after the decreased prices ob tained. Spot oats are quoted at $1 and $1.05 a bushel with Septem ber deliveries quoted at 75 and 80 cents. Another factor in the continued up-heaval of corn prices is the heavy purchasing of corn by liquor manu facturers. Manufacture of "hard liquors" will be prevented 30 days after the passage of the food bill by congress. Distilleries are being pressed to their capacity now and will continue to "drive" during the 30 day limit, Mr. Cooner em phasized. Quotations for feeds are 100 per cent, above figures of one year ago. Feeds with a large grain co?tent are quoted at $60 and $65 a ton. Low grade feeds without grain pro ducts sell from $5* to $60. Wheat bran and shorts can hardly be pur chased, as these feeds are being garbled up greedily in the milling centers bf the West. Also the screenings or faulty wheat are pur chased readily for feeds. Meal is selling at $5 for a bag of . two bushels. Mr. Cooner sees no prospect for an immediate improvement in traf fic conditions. To the movement of the grain crops, including oats and corn and also bay in the West,, must be added the shipment of cot ton and cottonseed, just at the time when the nationwide movement begins to mobilize the National Ar my and its equipment.-The State. I Mill and rally )IYI the Addison Mills, and and sell meal and hulls. Meal ; also, loose and Lint revailing markets on Seed ill I wish to thank them ed favors. To those who 1 appreciate a chance to do up to me to satisfy you if , and with this in view I nd no one can assure better LS the LOWEST. I will reasonable prices. Make part will be greatly appre ade a lot of record books, n crop-every bale picked, n your first bale with me your record, don't guess prices. I will save you J. G. ALFORD, Edgefield, S. C.