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h\tfitU %kttttezt fcstablishr? 1335. J. L. MIMS,_Editor. Published every Wednesday in The Advertiser Building at $1.50 per year in advance. Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at Edgefield, S. C. No communications will be pub lished unless accompanied by the writer's name. Cards of Thanks, Obituaries, Res olutions, and Political Notices pub lished at advertising rates. Wednesday, August 7. On with the German retreat! Let it be unconfined. Don't you envy the man who has a sleeping porch these nights? State by State is ratifying the John Barleycorn is almost as un popular as the Kaiser. If it takes hot weather to make cotton, the biggest crop cm record' should be made this year. "Killed in action." These three words tell a tale of vicarious sac rifice that will not go unrewarded. Things seem to be "going from bad to worse" with the Germans, and we are shedding no tears over their reverses. Here and there over the State gold stars are appearing on service flags. Thus far Edgefield county has been spared. In visiting the battlegrounds of France this week, Mr. Hoover has set foot upon sacred soil-soil made red by the blood of American sol diers fighting for the freedom of humanity. Compliment to Columbia and State. The decision of the War Depart ment to double the capacity of Camp Jackson Is a compliment to Colum bia and to South Carolina. Before locating a permanent camp, the gov ernment makes a most searching in vestigation into conditions, satisfy ing itself that nothing harmful ex ists in the imm?diate environment of the proposed site. Camp Jackson has been occupied nearly a year and the government is so well pleased with the results obtained from this camp that land has been secured and plans made for doubling its size. This act of the War Department speaks louder than words as a com pliment to Columbia and South Car olina. From the standpoint of health social and moral conditions existing in Columbia, it is an endorsement that any city should covet. Exclude Boys in Teens. Thc next registration is a topic of very general interest, everybody being eager for a definite conclusion to be reached as to the age limits of the registration. We trust that eighteen will not be fixed as a mini mum, age. We believe the necessary army can be raised without taking young men who are yet in our schools and colleges. We do not like to see men volunteer for military ser vice before they have reached full develepment and maturity, and we are still more opposed to forcing them into the army at the age of eighteen. If a young man's educa tion or programme of equipment for life is interfered with at eight een he, in all probability, will never complete his education, thus chang ing entirely his destiny or place he would otherwise fill in the world. If the limits should be fixed by congress at 18 and 40 years, we feel confident that some light form of training would be provided for these boys and gradually develop them along military lines'until they have attained to their 21st year. Let us trust that congress will'take a mean course and not force boys of tender years into military service. We have an abiding faith that when ever a definite conclusion is reached it will be satisfactory. However, let us all pledge ourselves in advance to uphold the men in Washington in whatever they decide upon. They are in a position to take a deeper and broader view of the situation than we can. Present Prices Not High. When we say present prices are not high we refer to products of the farm. The unthinking man reaches the hasty conclusion that all of the difference between the present price of agricultural products and the pre war price is all profit, forgetting that rents are higher, seed for plant ing are higher, livestock is higher, labor is higher, implements are higher. When the cost of production is taken into consideration the net profit to the farmer now is but lit tle more than it was before the war began. The labor situation has been acute in many sections this year but not so acute anywhere as it will be in 1919. The continued drain through operations of the draft law, togeth er with idleness brought about through the monthly checks that are being received from the govern ment, will of necessity make the la bor situation more and more acute until the armies shall return home and take their accustomed place among us.This increased cost of la bor will make farm products more and more expensive to the consum er but the increase will not be prof it to the farmer. Cotton at thirty cents is not high priced cotton. Cold Spring Dots. We have had some refreshing showers in the last two weeks, which made the crops look better and made everybody feel better. Most of the crops around here are tine. Mr. Kesterson held a tine revival meeting at Antioch last week. He was assisted by Mr. Davis from Hendersonville, N. C. Miss Mamie Holmes attended the meeting at Antioch, l?ein<r the guest of her brother Mr. Walter Holmes. Miss Birdie McClendon bas re turned to Edgefield after spending two weeks at home. She *'ill con tinue her work in the Corner Store. Dr. A. L. Holmes from Camp Sevier spent the week-end with home folks, coming Saturday and returning Sunday evening. Misses Lera ie, Betheal, J. W. and Bernard Graves rrom Lincolton, Ga., is visiting their uncle, Mr. Rufus Johnson. We are glad to report little War-1 ren McClendon is well again after being quite sick. Miss Lydia Holmes has returned from Edgefield after spending a week with her brother, Mr. C. V. Holmes. We were alad to have Mr. Davis to preach for us Sunday morning, we had a large crowd to hear him. Mrs. Fannie Bussey has returned home after spending two pleasant weeks with her daughter in An derson.? Our revivaj meeting will start third Sunday morning. There will be only one sermon on Sunday and all other days there will be a ser mon in the morning and one in the evening. Dinner will be served on the grounds Mr. Hogan from Mu Cormiuk will assist Mr. Kesterson. Mr. Clarence Mathis lost one of his hogs eleven days ago and lound it in an old well. It was still liv ing. The Unconquerable Soul. Nero fiddled while Rome burned. In the lurid ?ames his maddened brain wrought pictures pleasing to his vanity. Yet in the burning of a city he but destroyed the handi work of man. Another Caesar the German kaiser-razes cities, towns and country sides; whole na tions even, that in their places yawning graves may terrorize the world and bear witness to unspeak able German crime. Kaiser Wil helm, out-Neroiny: the Roman Caesar destroys the handiwork of God. As the world's master-killer, he crowns himself emperor of the dead. lu all of it the Prussian soul rejoices. "Read and tremble" is j at once the substance and inspira tion of lhe Prussian sonir of hate. The loathsome refrain is but the vapor of the putrid dead, arising from the soil wheresoever the foot of Prussian conquest has trod. Civilization, halts at the edge of an abyss-and wonders. , There is no need to wonder, long. There is such a thing as an uncon querable soul, L'pon this the Prus sian lust of conquest had not count ed. Yet of all the world's forces it is the mightiest. It trembles but not with fear. Beneath the despot's heel rt may suffer long; terrorism may for a time prevail. But there comes a day-the time is marcning swiftly onward-when the soul of the people, aroused in its might, will sweep like an avalanche into a bottomless sea, all effigies of power conceived in treach ery and born in despotism. Where once bore down the frowning brow of ruthless might the soul and sword will extend the boundaries of human right. And when the war is over the world will be given to know, the Germans with the rest, that might makes right only when might is rif?ht. Americans ask nothing more. Upon this creed hang all the laws and prophecies of liberty. Ameri cans refuse to live as bondsmen to a German prince. Born in glory, the unconquerable poul of America lives in glory. It will die only when glory bas ceased to be.-Farm and BYRNES SOUGHT A LETTER FROM PRESIDENT, BUT DIDN'T GET IT. Sent Congressman From Virginia to the White House, but Failed to Get What He Went After Produced a Letter From Vir ginia Congressman, Which Failed to Convince. In a desperate effort to defend bis position-attacked as he is by bis opponents on the question of loyalty, because of his vicious and venomous attack upon the Selective Draft as a means of raising au army to fight German y-Congressman Byrnes produced a letter at the campaign meeting Thurs day, and read it for the edification of the crowd. lt had been rumored about thaf Byrnes had a letter front President Wilson, in wi)ich the President said that Byrnes was to be con sidered a loyal man, and that his services in Congress were accepta ble to the administration. Of course nobody believed that; but there was atmosphere of expec tancy when Byrnes uufolded his letter and read it. It was not from the President at all. The "letter, was from Carter Glass, a Virginia Congressman. lt seems that Byrnes, very much perturbed, sought a letter frotn'the President, which, however, the President declined to give. After nearly eight years in Con gress, Byrnes did not t?o in person to the White House in search of the letter he wanted for reasons of his own; but he called upon a Vir ginia Congressman, whose loyalty to the administration was never in doubt, and who perforce, would be welcomed at the White House. Congressman Glass went to the White House and, as the story goes, asked for a lettei endorsing Jim Byrnes. The Virginia Congressman wrote Byrnes that he did not secure such a letter-that the President did not feel himself called upon to give such a letter, or words to that effect-but that the President said this, that and the other thing. The idea Byrnes sought to con vey by the letter was that, while the President declined to give a let ter endorsing him, he, Byrnes was considered a loyal man. As Byrnes spoke last none of his opponents had opportunity to ask him why, if he was considered loyal and true, if he was considered a valuable man by the administration, the President should decline to- give him the letter he so eagerly sought through a Congressman from an other State. When, several months ago, Con gressman Lever had entered the race for the L'uited States Senate, the President wrote not one, but two letters, endorsing him, and urging him not to leave the House of Representatives. Byrnes' record-particularly his deflection on the Selective .Draft, and his denunciation of the Presi dent's plan for raising an effective army tu light Germany-was laid bare by Mr. Toole, who spoke tirst, Mr. Evans of Edgefield, and Mr. Croft. At Barnwell a day or two ago, Byrnes charged T. G. Croft with having endorsed C. E. Carman for. postmaster, and because Mr.. Car man had been a Republican, since he came here from a Republican Slate, and who served very accepta bly for many years as postmaster, with having thus gone on record as endorsing "negro politics." At the Aiken meeting, Mr. Croft, in a very effective mauner, showed how Byrnes had sought to gain an advantage in another county by un derhand methods. He produced papers to show that many of the most substantial citizens of Aiken signed a petition, asking that Mr. Carman be retained as postmaster at Aiken. Some of these gentlemen were in the audience, and Mr. Croft asked them before the crowd if by signing that petition they meant to endorse "negro politics." Of course they answered that they did not, and the beautiful charge of Byrnes crumbled into nothingness but a boomerang. Mr. Toole played Byrnes on his record, and made a strong speech. Mr. Evans delivered a stirring, pa triotic address and urged his hear ers not to vote for him unless they wanted to elect a man who was 100 per cent. American and 100 per cent, loyal. Byrnes, who spoke last, sought in his usual manner, to explain the charges against him, simply by dodiring the issue,-Aiken Staud ard. [Advertisement.] now To Give Quinine To Children. PKBRILINE tsth* trade-mart name elven to nn improved Quinine. It is a Tasteless Syrup, pleas nnt 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 .t the next time you need Quinine for any pur pose. Ask for 2-ounce original package. The tame F1?BRII.IKK is blown ia bottle. 25 ?eat* CE FLAGS Are officially recognized as denoting that a member of a household is in the country's ( service. Those who have been trying to secure a Service Flag we will be glad to show them our line of One. Two and Three Star Service Flags from 35 cents up to $1.75. Recently received a shipment of Trench Mirrows, but theV have all been disposed of. Another shipment is now on the way via express, and will be here iii a few days. In stock now for the soldiers Comfort Bags, Trench Combs, Scissors, Bath Rags, Needles, Thread, Straight Pins, Safety Pins and Cotton Tape. A small assortment of Service Pins received. THE CORNER STORE The store that always says, Thank You WANTED FOR War Purposes We bought a few mules in Edgefield on July 25, but we want more of them. Sell us what you can't * use this winter and save food. We will be in Saturday, August IO At Jones' Stables Wanted mules from 4 to 12 . years old, weighing 900 to 1200 pounds, not under 60 inches high, Come and bring your mules and get the CASH for them The Fretwell Mule Company WALL & WISE, Buyers