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Eatahlisfe? lf?35. J. L. MIMS,_Editor. Published every Wednesday in The t Advertiser Building at $2.00 per yeai in advance. ' Entered as second class matter at the postoffice at Edgefield, S. C. No communications will be pub lished unless accompanied by thc writer's name. i Cards of Thanks, Obituaries, Res olutions and Political Notices pub lished at advertising rates. "Wednesday, October 30 Haddon Johnson Te?6 of France. The following very interesting let ter was published in the Aiken Stan dard. Haddon Johnson is well known and highly esteemed in Edgefield hav ing, graduated at the S. C. C. I. and visited our town on successive occa sions (While the following letter from Captain Haddon Johnson to Walter E. Duncan is of a personal nature, be cause of Captain Johnson's populari ty in his home town it will be read with the greatest interest.) France, October 1, 1918. Dear, dear Dunc: Believe me when I tell you that next to my baby's picture and letters from my wife and mother, the most precious thing I have received since I reached France was a big bundle of Aiken Standards that came Sunday. I got these around me and proceeded to enjoy a most riotous revel. Every bit was good! I even read the Tanlac, Castoria and Lydia Pinkham ads; and studied with great gusto the numer ous "Summons for Relief" that J. B. Salley is. always sticking in. It was all fine. Keep it up. Yo\i can never know just how much that means to a fellow over here. It's like running across an old pressed flower that re calls something you thought had grown away from you, and found tc be very sweet. It's no uge trying to tell you just how wonderful it feels to realize that I am at last in France-something 1 have yearned for for over a year. But knowingyou as I do I am sure you can appreciate to a large degree the sen sations I experienced, the emotions that crowded thick and fast when with the stars and stripes fluttering above, the band playing the French anthem and the French calling wild ly, we placed our feet on French soil! Dunc, it was worth everything. And somehow, one could feel only glad and very, very proud of the privilege. And all the days since nave been equally wonderful-constantly some new experience. And in the minds of the French there is nothing too good for the Americans, And, I am glad to say, the Americans feel there is nothing too precious for France not even life itself-for France is a wonderful, beautiful country of wonderful people. I sometimes think "that their favorite hymn must be, "In the Cross of Christ I Glory," be cause at least they are very religious, and along every cow trail and at every cross-roads there stands, wea ther-worn, patient and centuries old, a marble sculpture of Christ on the cross; sculptures that were standing, some of them, before the American nation, whose soldiers now pass, was born. Here we stand, side by side, en old nation, a young, young na tion, and both with but one supreme passion-freedom! Ah, Dunc, a man has to be here to feel it. He has to see the women going about in black, and smiling; he has to take the fath erless little children and hold them close and listen to their childish "Par ley-voo;" see the young girls who be come old so quickly because a holo caust of sad and terrible things comes so swiftly to the blue eyes and the .golden hair and the rosy cheeks. And yet they always laugh-laugh to hide the tears; but sometimes a hollow bit terness creeps in and sometimes you hear a sad and horrible story. Still, they prefer to smile; to go about % helping where they may. Their pas sion is to give more,more,more,al ways more ?That is best illustrated by the following: 1 One lady had three sons at the front. One day an officer came and said: "Madame, hn. brave." She stiff ened a Bit and in a cold, calm voice, asked: "Sir, which one of my sons is dead?" The officer turned away sad* ly. "All three of them, Madame," he replied. And in a oroud voice, the woman said : "Thank God I have with me here four more boys that I can give. Sir, they will take the place of the dead." And she sent these other youngsters away. That's not a fable, Dunc. That's the story as I got it from the woman's niece, a girl who :new much, too much of the war, .v.io laughed alv. Cj 3 und sought to make people happy. I tell you, the Americans are to be here. And thejy don't w?n leave until the peace is a right peace and the Prussian menace i: moved. And I'll tell you, ?nings : tarni? are looking^ up now, ai . they? Good news alPthe time, an course everybody is gloriously ha All we've got to do is to keep pou it into them, not a single mom! rest. Keep 'em running while 1 are at it, and when they get t ? jus prod them a little and see t : run some more. That's what we doingj to the Hun. Write me whenever you can ? give my love to all your folks. Yours, HADDON. ? Haddon Johnson. Captain 318th F. A., American Expeditionary For Miss Watson of Ridge Spr Writes of Life as Y. W. C A. Hostess in French Coast Town. Nothing brings the war more vi . ly home to us than to read the leti I from our own South Carolina b . who are over in France, but few us realize that we have some So Carolina women over there, too, A I ure forming the second line of " fense, for it is' very seldom we e . hear of them and to read their lett . is a rare privilege. Miss Sarah P. Watson, daughter Col. R. B. Watson of Ridge Spri and recently one of the faculty Coker college, is one of these patr: ic women who volunteered her s vices to the Y. W. C. A. for overs ? service. She received a great cc ; plirnent of being accepted and s ? overseas at once, though she had 1 ; no previous Y. W. C. A. training, a teacher of history at Coker, he ever, she had taken an active inter . in the Y. W. C. A. work there a was very successful in her associ?t: and influence with girls. Miss Wats . had been educated at Greenville Y\ man's college and at Hollins Ins : tute where the morale among 1 . girls is at its highest. Later, aftei i few years' teaching in the cour ; i schools of this s:ate she went to N . I York and took a Master of Arts < [Igree at Columbia University, speci i j izing in history. Afterwards s taught at her alma mater at Grec . ville and was teaching at Coker c . lege until she went to France h ? spring. . In France Miss Watson has be acting as hostess for a group of S: nal Corps girls at a lovely town ?I the coast of France. Her duties a ?various and she writes most amusin .?ly and cheerily of the difficulties ?French housekeeping, finding ai (keeping both house and servants. B j she also gives many pathetic ai . heart touching instances of our bo over there, -as the first extract fro ber letter shows: "Yesterday I went to the Ame] ?can cemetery to take some flowers f a boy that stopped me on the stre ?one day and asked if I would bi ? some flowers and take out there f< !his friend's grave. The place is ke] 'very nicely, there is a caretaker ther ?There are wooden crosses at tl 'graves with the boy's name, compan land date of death. In one case thei 'was a marble cross, with the inscri] tion, ^Erected by his comrades.' Th French decorate their graves wit wreathes and other designs of art ficial flowers. I had difficulty pei suading the caretaker to remove thes to the side of the grave and let m put the four pots of daisies that little French boy and I had carried "There were men working the roai I all the way out there, others clean jing out ditches-it is just off one o I the main roads-and I was impressed ? as I am more forcibly every day, tha war isn't some romantic, excitinj time, as you may think from readinj the papers, but it is endless, hard, dis agreeable routine. Especially tryinj. is it on these men and boys who have to do menial tasks-peel potatoes sweep roads, dig graves-and the offi cers who have all the monotony ol work, all of them far removed from the scene of action, and with nothing stirring to keep up their spirits, but their own' vision of the cause and the realization that the first line, while it is more thrilling, is no more valuable in attaining results: in fact, is dependent for results on the back line." Elsewhere Miss Watson says: "You see it is most difficult to cook for 15 people on a stove about 25 inches square, and also to have lunch at ll for one girl, for five at 12, and for the rest at one. Now I have al ways scorned people who talked con tinuously of food and servants, and now I am worse than any. I can talk of nothing else, and scarcely think of anything else. In between seeing j to the house here and making ar rangements for the new one I play ragtime for the girls to sing and dence. Never let me hear, when I come horne, " Long, Long, Trail," or "Missouri Waltz" or "Mother Mach X ~ee" to mention only a few of those -hat must bc played sentimentally innumerable times each day. Miss Gordon, the Y. W. C. A. woman out at the hospital, said the other day, chat when she went home she didn't want to hear any ragtime music or see any men except her brothers for years ?nd years. I have never been so graceful for anything as being able to play the piano a little, I can't imagine how I should have got on without it. It enables me to do some thing for the girls-that none of them can do, and which they are anxious to have. Then I have interesting ?x periences with many kinds of folk. Yesterday as a sample, I played a few American songs at the house where I was looking for an apartment for the girls who will come soon-found a nice place next door with/harming French people, a lady and her daugh ters in the afternoon. I played for a private, who is a beautiful violinist, later around at the new house played "Beethoven's Fifth Symphony" with my madame there, last night made ar rangements to play with the French officer who is commander of the French troops here. My private wants me to play with him all around the country and I was invited last night to dine with a French family at St. Marguerites, a lovely little town on the beach several miles from here. I was to go out on a ^heel and be brought back at nigh't in a car. I couldn't for \ve went around to the Knights of Columbus to a party. There was a band of about 5 Opieces and we danced and talked. The gar den there is quite the loveliest I have seen here, grapes and pears growing over the old grey stone walls and all manner of lovely shrubs and flowers growing in the beds. One very inter esting thing is an ash tree that was allowed to grow about 5 feet tall. "I have been riding four times with some of the girls on wheels; they are quite the style over here, and ev ery one rides. The roads are wonder ful and the distances are not great. On Sunday afternoon we rode down to Bornichet, and from there along the beach almost to La Baule. Coming back, we came the shore road, right along by the ocean. The road runs up and down hill. I should like to have a wheel, and if I find that I am to stay here for a time, I think I shall ask for one, or buy one myself. It would be great fun ta ride all through this section of France. "A letter from Paris the other day says that Mlle. Millet has turned ov er her famous cottage at Barbizon for eight months to_ the Y. W. C. A. as a rest place' for ."the -secretaries. It is right by the Forest of Fontain bleau, so I want tb go there for a few days some time. . "The trip to Paris to attend the Congress of Allied Women on War Service was a very wonderful experi ence. The -speakers were good and the spirit of unity that prevailed among the more than 100 organiza tions represented was an inspiration. I wish you could have seen the vari ous uniforms-every color and style; Probably there were pictures in the papers and magazines at home. The garden party at the president's home was like being in a grand opera, the. gorgeous palace, the magnificent foot man who waved you in, the beauty of the garden with a band playing and the" women in the motley uniforms and speaking many languages wan dering about, the marvelous:food, oh, it was wonderful and I wished for you many, many times!" The epoch making conference to [which Miss Watson refers, brought tdgether women of 128 organizations. Women of France, America, Great Britain, Belgium, Russia, Roumania, ['Poland, Serbia, Montenegro South America, Asia and Africa were weld ed into one great whole by a common cause-a body of free women work ing to back up the men who are fighting for world freedom. The above communication appear ed in Sunday's State and will be of interest to friends and relatives of Miss Watson in this section. Special Notice of Arrival of Cartons in Which to Send Christmas Gifts to Soldiers Overseas. The cartons for the Christmas box es have arrived at the Red Cross chapter rooms and the chairman of the Trenton branch and chairmen of the county auxiliaries are notified to come for their quotas of the cartons to be given out in their communities. They have to be given out at once as all packages must be turned over to the Red Cross for mailing before November 15. R. G. SHANNONHOUSE Chapter Chairman. NOTICET Notice is hereby given that all trespassing in every form is forbid den upon the lands owned and con trolled by the undersigned. The law will be enforced against all who fail to heed this notice. This means ev erybody. Abner B. Broadwater. 10-23-8tpd. j Why the Government Wants to Fix the Pri?es Something must be done to put a stop to the rising scale of prices, and the sooner it is done the easier it will be to re-adjust business af ter the war. Price fixing is the only remedy that'can be applied to a rising market now almost beyond control. And wc'believe that the majority of the merchants are willing to abide by anything that the Government wants done. If fixing the price of any article is going to help win the war, then they are for it, and they don't care how soon the arrangement is put into effect. We all want to see the war brought to a successful conclusion, so that we may begin living a normal life in a much better world. The War Industries Board has a tremendous task ahead of it, as all merchants and manufactures operate on a different cost system, and it will take some time to arrive at a just price. You will find that the prices we are asking for our fall goods, for their quality and workmanship, won't have to be changed to any great extent when the Government gets ready to fix the price. A pretty line of Agate ware and Wall paper just received, and is going fast. Better come in Und see what we have if you want any thing along this line. THE CORNER STORE Now Ready for Delivery As the time for fall sowing is here, we lia ve purchased a large stock of reliable seeds: ? * ' Blue Stem Wheat, Red Stem Wheat, Dwarf Essex Rape, Hairy Vetch, Abruzzi Rye, Crimson Clover - Now is tlie time to purchase these seed while you can get what you want. Good seed for planting is scarce. , Large shipment of RED RUST PROOF and FULGHUM OATS. Let us show you our GRAIN DRILLS and CHALLENGE PLOWS, all sizes in stock. AVe have recently greatly increased our stock of FANCY GROCERIES, (.'an supply you with everything you want for , your pantry and table. Come in to see us. lt will be a pleas ure to serve you. . W. Adams & Co.