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Washington Hears Uprising Report From Germany. Washington, March 14.-Cables from London and Paris reporting the uprising in Germany reached the state department today, but the only direct word from that country mere ly confirmed the press reports of the arrival at Dresden of President Ebert and some of his associates in the old Berlin government. The department did not make public the Dresden mes sage in text or the reports from the British and French capitals which were said only to contain summaries of the press reports published in those cities. Pending direct advices and a clear er understanding of the situation in Berlin, and the scope of the new movement, officials would not com ment. Silence was also maintained at the war department although it was regarded as probable that a definite summary of the new situation as it affects allied and American troops holding the Rhine bridgeheads was soon to be expected from Maj. Gen| Henry T. Allen, commanding the American forces. The fact that a council of the military commanders on the ' Rhine had been called, coupled with the report from Paris that Marshal Foch had gone to at tend the meeting was regarded as significent. Any steps contemplated hy the allies and involving the use of troops, it was thought, would find their origin at this conference. On Different Footing. What part American troops might play in the situation appeared highly doubtful. It was pointed out that the American forces in Germany are on an entirely different footing from the French or British as the United States technically is still at war with Germany. Armistice conditions gov ern the American forces while the al lied commands are under the terms of the treaty of Versailles. General Allen has more than 13, 000 American troops under his com mand. The total number in Europe on March 9 was 17,081, but a num ber of detachments are scattered in various parts of France engaged in closing out war time enterprises. The force on the Rhine is com posed of two brigades, the First at Coblenz, composed of the Eighth in fantry, First battalion of the First field artillery, First field signal bat talion, Companies A, B, D, of First engineers, two provisional troops of cavalry, and the usual hospital, trans port and supply units; and the Sec ond, commanded by Col. William H. Sage at Andernach, about 35 kilo meters down the Rhine from Coblenz. The Second brigade includes the Fifth and Sixth infantry sent over to carry out zhe American part in po licing the Silisia plebescite area. When this was prevented, due to the fact that the United States had not ratified the treaty, the brigade was retained in the American area on the Rhine. An unusual feature of General Al- j len's command is that it is completely motorized, including the artillery, j Defense af Area. Whatever may be the outcome of the military conference on the Rhine it was believed by officers that Gen eral Allen's function would be lim ited to defense of his area only. As a war measure, it was suggested, the president could direct such opera tions as he deemed necessary to com pel the carrying out of the armistice terms; but it was added that nothing had developed in Germang so far as now known which could be clearly re garded as a violation of the armis tice. Paris reports of uprisings in cities along the Rhine also attracted atten tion as they were taken to indicate the probability that General Allen soon would come directly into touch with the new situation in Germany. His action, as reported from Coblenz, in informing Socialist leaders in his territory that if they could not pre serve order, American troops would, was taken as indicating that the American commander's course would be to concern himself only with see ing that no disturbances occur in his territory. War Department Converts Ve hicles to Agriculture. Washington, March 13.-Approxi mately 24,000 motor vehicles intend ed for war purposes have been turn ed over to the department of agricul ture by the war department for dis tribution among the state highway commissioners for use in road building, allotments being based on the amount of federal aid for roads which the states receive. Already 12,000 have been delivered to states and the remainder will be distributed as fast as railway cars can be secured for their transportation, which will be probably two or three months. This equipment promises to be f great aid in carrying out the large road building program for 1920. SOME MORE ABOUT POE Correspondent Gives Interesting Poem Clipped Years Ago. To the Editor of The State: The recent discussion of Poe in your columns causes the mind to re vert to the pitiful picture of the fragile and sensitive organization "all touch, all - all ear," subjected to degrading . jice, the exquisitely balanced brain that a few drops of alcohol hurled from its poise into an abyss of madness in the storm of that dread night, during which he "sank beneath life's burdens in the streets of Baltimore." Surely the fight is over, and the vic tory won even in this seeming de feat. The long contest with diseased and, no doubt, inherited appetite, the courageous yet sadly futile struggle against poverty and malignity-all is ended now, and it is permitted us to hope, yes, and to believe 'Hat in a sphere more gracious th*, this as piring one and star-like soul has at tained the life it craved. The appended poem came into my hands above 40 years since. It was published in a New York paper, pur porting to be dictated to a spiritual istic medium by the dead poet. The verses are indeed suggestive of their accredited author in their imagery and music of rhythm. To Poe's unique poem they stand as a comple ment and are entitled to appear up on the page of fame beside that of the illustrious subject here so effectively impersonated. They will doubtless be read with interest by many of your subscribers. A. K. Smoke. St. Matthews. "Woman weak and woman mortal, through thy spirit's open portal I would read the Runic record of mine earthly being o'er I would feel that fire returning which within my soul was burning When my star was quenched in dark ness, set to rise on earth no more, When I sank beneath life's burden in the streets of Baltimore. "Ah, those memories sore and sad dening! Ah, that night of anguish maddening! When my lone heart suffered ship wreck on a demon-haunted shore, When the fiends grew wild with laugh ter, and the silence following after Was more awful and appalling than the cannon's deadly roar Than the tramp of mighty armies thro' the streets of Baltimore. "Like a fiery serpent crawling, like a maelstrom madly boiling, Did this Phlegethon of fury sweep my shuddering spirit o'er, Rushing onward-blindly reeling tortured by intensest feeling Like Promotheus when the vulture thro' his quivering vitals tore Swift I iled from death and darkness thro' the streets of Baltimore. "No one near to save or love me, no kind face to watch above me, Though I heard the sound of foot steps like the waves upon the shore Beating, beating, beating, beating now advancing, now retreating, With a dull and dreary rhythm, with a long, continuous roar Heard the sound of human footsteps in the streets of . Baltimore. "There at length they found me ly ing, weak and wildered, sick and dying, And my shattered wreck of being to a kindly refuge bore; But my woe was past enduring, and my soul cast off its mooring Crying as I floated onward, I am of the earth no more! I have forfeited life's blessing in the streets of Baltimore. "Where wast thou, O Power Eternal, when the fiery fiend infernal Beat me with his burning fasces till I sank to rise no more? Oh, was all my lifelong error crowd ed in that night of terror? Did my sin find expiation which no judgment went before, Summoned to a dread tribunal in the streets of Baltimore? "Nay, with deep, delirious pleasure I had drained my life's full measure, Till the fatal, fiery serpent fed upon my being's core, Then with force and fire volcanic, summoning a strength Titanic, Did I burst the bonds that bound me, battered down my being's door Fled, and left my shattered dwelling to the streets of Baltimore." We are making a run on SPRING FIELD PUMPS, come in and get one while they last at $3.00. YONCE & MOONEY. FOR SALE: Lumber Mill located about five miles north east of Edge field near the county home, five miles west of Johnston. See F. A. WEAVER. 2-25-3t WHISKEY AND BRANDY HAVE BEEN CUT AS MEDICINES: WILEY. St. Louis, Jan 30.-Whiskey and brandy have been eliminated as medi cines, it was declared here today by Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, president of the United States Pharmacopeial convention, and former chief of the bureau of chemistry, Department of Agriculture. No mention of the al coholic liquors as medicines will be made in the next.issue of the Ameri can Pharmacopeia, which is prepared every ten years, he said. This was de termined upon, Dr. Wiley asserted, several years before national prohibi tion became effective. Whiskey, instead of an effective remedy or preventive for influenza, is a positive poison in such cases said Dr. Wiley, adding: "In only one instance would I use whiskey for an influenza case and that would be where I wished to has ten the departure to heaven of the patient." No serum has yet been found to prevent influenza, he declared. $60,000 WORTH OF BOOZE EMP TIED INTO GREELY (COLO.) JAIL LAUNDRY SEWER. Mrs. A B. Copeland About twenty members of the Greeley (Col.) W. C. .T U. have been in jail, and strange to say, enjoyed ?. experience. But thereby hangs a ucie. A large amount of liquor had ac cumulated from court experiences with the bootleggers and it was to see the destruction of this booze that we were summoned to jail on January 20. At ten dollars a pint over $60 000 worth was turned into the sewer in the jail laundry. Each lady present was allowed to empty the contents of a bottle into a tub and keep the receptacle as a souvenir. We felt grateful to Sheriff Hall for inviting us to participate in the funeral ser vices for John Barleycorn in Greeley. Plans to lead the nation in an anti Jcigaret campaign are being laid by j the state of Kansas, which aims to j make a record for itself in this as it I did in the fight against alcohol. Dr. ?William A. McKeever, department ?director of thc Presbyterian Nation al Board of Temperance and Moral Welfare, is field secretary of the new movement, operating from his head quarters in the University of Kansas. He has helped to perfect a new or ganization, the Juvenile Defense So ciety of Kansas, whose purposes will include "the defense of the growr??y generation against the little white slaver." The membership includes all the superintendents and principals of schools of the state who are will ing to co-operate. Notice The Book of Subscription to the capital stock of the proposed Brick and Tile Company of Edgefield, will be opened on Monday, March 15th 1920 at 10 a. m. in the office of the Edgefield Realty and Auction Com pany. Proposed capital stock $15 000. W. A. STROM S. B. NICHOLSON M. P. WELLS JOHN HOLLINGSWORTH A. H. CORLEY L. J. MAUNEY. Frost Proof Cabbage Plants. For immediate shipment, extra fine stocky plants. Early Jersey, Charleston Wakefield, Succession, Flat Dutch. By express 1,000, $2.00; 2,000, $3.50; 5,000, $7.50. Prepaid mail 300, $1.00; 500, $1.50; 1,000, $2.50. Send for price list Sweet Po tatoes, Tomatoes and other plants. 2-25-4t PARKER FARMS, Moultrie, Ga. EXPERT Kodak Finishing Velos Prints The Aiken Gift Shop, Aiken, S. C. NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT The undersigned will make a final settlement as administrator of the estate of John McCarty in the office of the Probate Court at Edgefield, S. C. at ll o'clock A. M. on Satur day, March 20, 1920, and ask for a final discharge. All parties owing said estate will present same itemized and verified to the undersigned. j. s. MCCARTY, Administrator. 2-18-4t COTTON SEED! Record 4 bales per acre. Free from disease and weevil. It's a boll weevil masher. Write for facts. HEAVY FRUITER CO., Royston, Ga. WM mm mm Lars The season is about upon us when everybody who does not already own a car will want one, and we desire to inform the public that we sell Dodge and Oldsmobile cars. Both of these lines have been on the market a number of years, and have stood the severest test over all kinds of roads. We shall be pleased to give you a demonstration. ???1 Drop us a card or call on us. We also carry a full line of tires, tubes and ac cessories at reasonable prices. Our force of mechanics can do your repairing on short notice and in the most approved manner. Give us a trial. Reliable Motor Sales Co. Phone No. 69 Johnston, S. C. J. H. CANTELOU Attorney at Law Will Practice in All Court?, Office Over Store of REYNOLDS & PADGETT Telephone No 103. The Best Hot Weather Tonic GROVELS TASTELESS chill TONIC enriches the blood, builds up the whole system end will won derfully strengt_^n and fortify you to withstand the depressing effect of the hot summer. 50c Double Seal Piston Rings for Automobiles are Guaranteed We guarantee double rings to give entire satisfaction when a FULL SET is properly installed. If, within 60 days after purchase, the user should become dissatisfied with the rings, we will refund the money we receive for them upon receipt of the rings, and the origi nal invoice showing purchase. The rings should be returned through the channels received. Ask for "Keep Upkeep Down." Columbia Supply Company 823 West Gervais St. Columbia, S. C. 'OU, the buyers, are the real builders of wagons. You put the fir.al Okay upon the use of certain materials and con struction when you buy a wagon containing them-and refuse to buy a wagon that docs not. We want to show you how thc Thornhill Wagon ts built. Upon a plain statement of facts we arc willing to rest our case. We believe the Thornhill way would be your way if you should build a wagon. - For spokes and axles tough second growth highland hickory is used For hubs and felloes the sturdy white oak is preferred. This wood grows upon the mountain side. The ground is hard the climate severe. It has to fight for life. It has nearly _ twice the strength of oak and hickory that grows under softer conditions. Outdoors under shelter it remains for three to five years. The sap dries in it, giving it a strength that's kin to steel. Full Circle Iron Malleable Front Houn Plate Trussed Bolsters and Long Wear Beds Gears Solotera Can't Hang in Turning In turning and backing up, with the ordi nary circle iron, which is only a half circle, olsters run off the end of the track and nang. It is difficult to make short turns and back up. The Thornhill full circle iron gives a continuous track on which the bol sters can tum. The gears of Thornhill wagons stay in line for life. Instead of the usual front hound plate, a hound plate of malleable iion is used. It is a metal jacket braced at eight points that keeps geary from tier getting out of linc. On the front bolsiers of Thornhill wagons are heavy iron plates running along top and bottom-connected by rivets that run clear through the bolster. Strength and lightness are combined. Rear gears are strongly ironed. There are braces on both top and bottom that extend the full length of thc 9 hounds. Solid trust bars extend the full length of thc axles giving them double strength. If you examine the beds of Thornhill Wagons closely you will see at once thc superiority of the construction. The bottoms are re-inforced over front and rear bolsters. t Come in and examine this wagon for yourself. We will take pleasure and pride in showing you a Thornhill-The wagon made of tough highland oak and hickory-with futures all others lack. [610-N] BETTIS CANTELOU ?