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Esiablislti? 1S35. J. L. MIiV.S,_Editor. Published every Wednesday in The Advertiser Building at $2.00 per year in advance. Entered as second class matter at the postoflice 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, January 1. Why frown because you still write 191S? It is a common failing. Do not longer worry over the mis takes of 1?? 18 but try to profit by them in 1019. Large numbers of troops are com ing home and great shiploads of cot ton proina overseas-a double cause for New Year rejoicing. Such a combination of figures as 1919 comes once in a hundred years. Nobody now living remembers the last similar combination-ISIS. This is indeed a New Year. The j old world has been born again and the present generation have the privilege of living in its infancy, the greatest privilege that has been ac- j corded mortal man. One year ago Might was in the as cendency, stalking the earth with iron tread. To-day Right's in the as cendency, going about as a minister ing angel, serving the weak and down trodden of the earth. Do we who are living in 1919 half way realize that "We are living, we are dwelling, In a grand and awful time. In an age on ages telling, To be living is sublime." There are already diversity of o- j pinions expressed among the fe^re-1 sentatives of the leading nations that will be represented at the Peace Con r ? i i - -1--*--i prevail in the end. Because they are ; right-based upon high, unselfish ground. Viewing the year 1919 as a huge! granite boulder in the tough fresh from Nature's quarry and each indi- j vidual an artisan carving by his j daily acts upon this stone, wonder what the finished product of each will be at the c'ose of the ?G?th day? j The finished product will be deter- I ' mined by the ideals of the artisans. ' Are yours hl<*h or low? _Prohibition Prohibits. _J One needs no stronger endorse-1 ment for prohibition than the splen- j dill deportment of the large crowds that gathered in Edgefield before and at times during the holidays. We did ? not see a man under the influence of whiskey during the festive season. There were very few quarts shipped here for .'medicine" or personal use. ' It is probable that within a short time a sufficient number of States, thirty! six, will . have ratified the Federal ? amedment providing for national pro hibition, but whether that be or not, whisi.ey will never again be legally sold in Edgefield county*. In fact, very little, if any at all, is sold now j illegally. Were the question submit ted to a ballot in Edgefield county, we dc not believe that one man in ten would vote for the return of whiskey. It has gone, and gone forever, from the borders of Edgefield county. Yes, prohibition does prohibit. Good Roads. Much is being said and written up on the question of ?rood roads, and we believe that some results in the form of a definite " plan to improve the highways of the State will come from the present agitation. Several plans of a State-wide character have been suggested providing for a bond issue, but this is a matter that must be decided by the people. No bonds should ever be issued for public im provement without the consent of a majority of the people expressed at the ballot box. The people who pay the taxes should always decide the matter of issuing bonds. One thing is certain, we can never have better roads in South Carolina without more money. It requires the cash to build roads and the most equi table way of raising money for pub lic improvements of any kind is by floating bonds. Whenever a bond issue is voted, if one should be, there mould b-2 provided at thc same time x sinking fund th:it will in time re :ire the bonds. A bond is nothing nore or leas than a long-term loan at i low rate of interest. Better roads is a State-wide need ind we believe that- sooner or later some way will be devised for im proving our highways on a large scale. Miss Florence Minas Writes From Boston To the Advertiser: On Friday afternoon, December 13th, I went to Symphony Hall to near one of the two or three greatest orchestras in the world. They told me that Monnet was to be the soloist. I went not caring especially to hear him, as I had never heard of him be fore, but I learned later of his world wide fame. The Symphony Hall is very vast, so fug that it would swallow two ordi nary buildings, and still enclose more it seems to me. It is oblong with vast j galleries on the sides and back. The i orchestra consists of one hundred j pieces, the performers being artists ! themselves. The conductor #s a 1 Frenchman. There is one very inter esting fact conected with the orches- i tra. There are no Germans in it. Af- | ter America declared war, all of the German members were removed and some Americans or Allies put in their i places. Above the platform hangs the ' "Star Spangled Banner," and every > performance is begun by the-orches tra playing the National Anthem. Though the performers are seated for every other number, for this one I they all stand. While I was sitting in the hall I waiting for the performance to begin j I felt some one pulling my sweater ; from the back to get my attention. 1j turned around and saw Miss Row land, one of the voice teachers at Co ker College, whom I had known for three years. Besides Ruth Tompkins, Miss Rowland was the only person I have seen since I have been up here that I had ever seen before. On the following Sunday after noon I went to the Museum of Fine ' Arts. Since there is such a mixture there of every conceivable form of Art, from so many countries, I would not have tried to describe anything, if I had not luckily found a new ex hibit that had just been opened to the public on the 13th of December. What I saw there interested me, and I know it will interest you. Hung around tho walls of a very extensive hill! BtflXfl nirinrnr- pniatoJ iV f were on leave. These pictures were being sold for their benefit. As I saw the crowds of people intensely study ing these works of art, it seemed that if all of us in America could study those pictures that they would speak more eloquently for the next Liberty Loan drive than any words. Some of them portrayed the whole war-its desolation and horror-in the face of one poilu or in a stretch of a few feet in No Man's Land. Un der two groups of pictures was hung Wilek silk, mourning for the painters who had died, one on the field of bat tle, and the other from wound receiv ed in battle. The largest and most beautiful of the paintings were by George Scott. The picture of Joffre decorating the soldiers on the battle field was very realistic and inspiring. The most valuable one in the whole collection, also painted by Scott was a picture in color called "Poilus of France." Around a cannon were a group of poilus and above them was a group of lovely flags. In their faces might be seen the grim determination and undying hope that made the "Hs ne passerant pas" at Verdun come true. One little picture showed a tiny French girl kneeling in front of a lit tie grave on which was a cross. One arm was in a sling-the other hung by her side. Under the picture was written, "C'est sa main"-it was the ?rave of her hand, cut off by the Ger mans. I wandered over the gallery for a long time and came back to the room that I had started from-that if the wounded soldiers of France, for though a critic might have criti cized some of the technique of the Deductions, he could not deny the 'act that the soul of France and the spirit of brotherhood shone through ;he pictures and reached from the ?eart of France to the heart of A nerica. Florence Mims. Stolen! A new "Continental" bicycle was itolen from in front of our store Christmas eve by a colored boy. Re vard of $10 wHl be paid. Stewart & Kernaghan Lost. A black mare mule, shod all ?. .ound, strayed from my farm De rember 25. Reasonable reward. B. L. Still, Saluda, S. C. R. F. D. G L-l-2tpd. Wounded Soldier Returns Mr. Henry Wise, a son of Mr. J. H. Wise of Trenton, arrived at Trenton Tuesday night from Camp Hancock on a short furlough. He was in sever al very severe engagements in France and was wounded in the lc.? near the knee and was sent back to the States in advace of his company. He has al most recovered from the wound and hopes to receive an honorable dis charge in a short time. ?Mr. Wise is the first Edgefield boy who was wounded to return from Europe. A lar^re number of people met the train at Trenton last night and gave him a very affectionate greeting. HEARD IN EDGEFIELD How Had Hacks Have Been Made Strong-Kidney Ills Corrected. Allover Kdgtfield you hear it. Dean's Kidney Pills are keeping up the good work. Edyclleld people are telling about it-telling of bad hacks made sound again. You can believe thc testimony of your own towns-people. They tell it for the benefit of you who are suffering. If your back aches, if you feel lame, sore and miserable, if the kidneys act too frequently, or passages are painful, scanty and off color, use Dean's Kidney Pills, the remedy that has helped so many of your friends and neighbors. Follow this Edgefield citizen's advice and yivo Doan's a chance to do the game for you. J. G, McNeill, Battle St., Bays: "Six years ago when I was living in Greenville, 1 was afflicted with a lameness in the email ol' my back, which was undoubtedly caused by my kidneys. My kidneys didn't act right, being slngglish. I got a box of Doan's Kidneys Pills and used them and they removed the trouble." Price GOc. at all dealers. Don't simply ask for a kidney remedy get Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that Mr. McNeill had. Foster-Mil burn Co., Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y. For Sale: A six-room house, large lot, servant's house, good well, large garden, etc. Apply to 0. Sheppard. 12-18-tf. Citation. State of South Carolina, j Couuty of Ddgefield. \ By W. T. Kinnaird, Esquire, Probate Judge. tera of Administration of the estate of and effects, of William Traylor Briggs. These are Therefore to cite and admonish all and singular the kin dred and creditors of the said Wil liam Traylor Briggs, deceased, that they be and appear before mo, in tho Coori of Probate, to be held at Edgefield C. H., S. C., at my office on ISth of January next after pub lication thereof, at ll o'clock in tho forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said administration should not be granted. Given under my hand, this 1st day of January, Anno Domini 101W. W. T. KINNAIRD, Probate Judge, E. C., S. C. Published on the 1st. Sth and 15th days of January, 1P19, in The Edgefield Advertiser. Red Cross Annual Meeting. On Friday, Dec. 20, the Edge field Red Cross held tr.eir annual meering for the election of officers and the gathering in of the year's report. Previous to tho time ap pointed for the meeting in the Opera Hons*?, decorated automo biles wern 'alhering from every directif". 'presenting the various anxil'ir f the town and county? in which rode representatives of the Ked Cross work. The cars were decorated in Hags of our country and Red Cross flags and emblems. Rev. R. G. Shannon house chairman of the Edgefield chapter and Miss Sarah Collett vice chairman, riding in the first car, other officers and auxiliaries following. From the depot to the Opera House, the parade was preceded by the Machine Gun Band from Camp Hancock, going around the public square. On the platform were seat ed, the chairman, Rev. R. G. Shan nonhouse who presided over the meeting, Miss Collett vice-chair men, and representatives of aux iliaries and chairmen of the various departments, the Executive board and the following officers from I Camp Hancock: Majors Blanton j Leonard and Scott and Lieut. Sey- j mour, and the Ministers of the I town. Reports were made by the Tren ton auxiliary, through Mrs. J. D. j Mathis; the Civic League, Mrs. B. j L. M ?ms; D. A. R. and ?. 1). C., j Mrs. Woodson; Episcopal Auxiliary, ' Y. W. A. of the Baptist church j and the Junior Red Cross. Mrs. J. L. Minis made report ! iii We hate to sec you #0, because we have much to thank you lor. Just look at what you have brought us-"Peace," and what more could one have wanted of you. Again we all say good-bye. Here's to the New Year all bright and new. Here's hoping that it has much in store foi us all. May all the joys of the coming year come to our customers one and all. Mak a New Year resolution and keep it. 0in resolution for the coming year is to piense our customers better, and we are going to strive to keep it. THE CORNER STORE "(L'tr^:-:, , from the department of Civilian Relief, and Miss Sarah Collett from the department, ol' Woman's Work and country auxiliaries. Miss Hor tense Padgett gave the secretary's report. M.ijor Barton gave a lew re marks on the work of the Ked Cross, and between the numbera the band played beautiful selections The benediction was pronounced by Rev. H. (4. Lee. Immediately after the meeting adjourned, all the officers and the executive board repaired to the court house, where a delightful luncheon was served to the Machine (inn Hand. The luncheon was served in three courses with coffee and whipped cream, the tables dec orated in the colors of the Hag with holly and mistletoe, suggestive of the Christmas season. At the Hose of the luncheon, the hand played a number of the most popular patriotic selections before their train left for Augusta. For Sale One good yoke of oxen. ApplyTo W. P. Brunaon, 1-1--3t Cleora, S. C. For Sale 150 three-pound cans of tomatoes, "-1-H" brand, guaranteed to be full weight and good quality, at 20 cents per can. Miss Eugenia Brunson, l_l_4t. Cleora. S. C. n m L ras. pi f SSS* w WE WISH A Prosp TO AL We thank them forUhe/Iiberal patronage^during the past year, and jr?omise every effort on our part to merit a continuance of their favors. \ / 7 \ \ / /' / \ Isreal Mukashy mm