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^ TEUTONS HOPE FOR TICTORY IN EAST I Riga Drive Has Significance. Success Would Help at Peace Table?Last Chance for Military Machine ; to Make Good ^ Washington, Sept. 3.?The evacua- | tion of Riga by the Russians ana the ; occupation of tlr.* bio: Russian Baltic port by the Germans could not be con- j firmed at the Russian embassy tonigat. i In well-informed circles here it waa cot doubted, however, that the repoit k was accurate. London, Sept. 3.?Riga is being i hastily evacuated by the civil popular L tion. Three big Teuton armies are' advancina on the city from as many I sides. Prince eopold of Bavaria is j personally leading the main rorce, I approaching from the southwest. :n; the southeast and west the Teutons are less than seven miles from tne city. To save the historic nuiicing, particularly the ancient cathedral from destruction the Russians are not ex-' pected to make a serious defense of the city. . The Teuton triple drive is fraught! I;; with one of the most important military and political possibilities of tn* I F war, a HIndenbHrg Determine? Germany has ventured apparently pon one of the greatest military campaigns of the war. In the three weeks of grace that are still left to thp high command before the reich8k stag carries out its threat to fore* A 8. show-down on peace terma, Hln;ll* denrnirg evidently plans to "deliver*' Pirh&t gt?7 man, woman and child expected of him when more than a -roar atm "hp vtur made chief of Staff. 4 The drive on Riga is the forerunner & of a supreme effort to realize his oftproclaimed maxim, "Russia must Pe beaten first." These, according to best informed experts here, are the conclusions to be deducted from the mass of cumula. tive eridp-nce offered bv official anc: unofficial reports and the political situation as created by the two main factors, namely: 1.?Russia's flat rejection of all sep arate peace bids and her unflinching villi to fight to a finish. 2.?The Pope's peace message. ^ Last Chance tk They are, in fact, these experts say. more than conclusions. They form A flie logical road to which a tfiousanT ;|| and one shreds of evidence, piecpG toil: eethpjv Boint. a<* the last cfianrp o? J Germany's military machne, a cnance that will be irretrievably lost by next .spring, when America w'll be going "over the top" in the west. Fo?lowine, then, is the brief summary of the consideration which. *n the oninion of close observers here, ^ have dictated the campaign now being \ uskeredNin before Riga. 1.?Pope Benedict in his peace mes sage -completed ignored Russia. It tvas this fact, ^hich, in turn, rrsulted in the Kerensky govemmen??? decision to isnore the message. Pope did. however, sn*oifically sttnu|:J|k late restoration of Belgium as a rundamental condition for peace. ?? 2.?Whatever the Berlin government I; W thinks of the Pope's views regarding restoration in the east, it is known || tc believe that America and the en tente are less concerned on that score. ?o long as Belgium and Northern jjfS France are restored. Only two days [ago Ex-Chancellor von BetiimannKollweg asserted that former Ambassador Gerard has given him the impression the United tSates would have no objections to German, conquest :n the east. 3?Her rream of the Flanders coast and of Antwerp fast dvin* in the pres 'ft sure from without an 1 '\ !f&in. Ger|B many is believed to be casing hor H eyes eastward for orizes of war 1? not t lioM yet to bargain with at the |B| pea: taM k Ris?>. 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IP AGENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE 2 Write for Particulars W B g EXELEMTO MEDICINE CO. ATLANTA, GA. | ff|; "'i-rr- - rrr' MwMftflKHMBBBir Dwinsk, heart oi' Russia's western railway system, and Odessa, the pulse i of Russia's world-wide grain trade, are alluring objectives. 4.?Scarcely ten weeks are left to i render possible large-scale operations j i in the west. Hindenburg is known 10 ; believe the brunt of this year's allied ; efforts on that front is spem. Supreme concentration of all available military resources tor the long planned. oft-postpone:l "death-blow to Rus| sia," would, therefore, to his mind i?e j sale. He is also believed to consider ; the Italian offensive stopped. He post poned his Riga drive three weeks :o await development on The Isonoz 5.?In the German high command's calculations, it is believed, the "psychological moment" for striding ::us- j sia fatally has arrived. With the drive I on Riga and beyond she means to influence Finland, the "Ireland of Russia," while far to the south a drive on Riga, already symptomized by ! Macken&en's thrusts northward fro: i J Braila, would pour oil upon the names of disaffection in the Ukraine. At the ' same time, die latter offensive would j Dut Rumania definitelv out or tne i war and forcefully incorporate that; fertile land in the Mittleeuropa! scheme. '-i? To Liberate Finland * isone here familiar with military j conditions believe the Riga drive is any immediate danger to Petrogras,1 919 milac +r? unrfhpa?f Rul ! miles to the north of Riga lies Hel- i singfors, capital of Finland, wHerc Russian troops are camping on th? j steps of the Finnish diet, preventing 1 by force the reopening of the parlla- j ment. With the Russian fleet pu: out of business a landing of Teuton troops !. "to free Finland," -would t>e an easy i operation, the consequences of whicn j would, indeed, seriously threaten Petrograd. v' I But far more immediate than these . possibilities are those presented by! the operations now under way. The ambition of the Hindenburg-Princti Leopold-Manckensen combination is believed to be nothing less than to ! bring about a complete cave-in of tne Russian front from the Baltic to tfie Black Sea, 1,000 miles in lengtn. SI multaneously with the Riga offensive there have been sudden Teuton atin tho rvf ihic tnmf linn in Volhynia and on the southern end, j in Maldovia as well as around Bralla. j Riga, a city of some 300.000 inhab!- ! I tants, one-half of -whom are German. lies on the Dwina river. five miles *>e- j how thp Hver's mouth, at the Gulf of 1 Ri^a. The city was originally German. at the beffinuin? of the Thirteenth o#ntnry. Mer belonged to Pb- I snbseouentlv to Sweden. an1 finally west to Russia i* 171?. Its j cathedral dates from the Thirteenth ] r>">? th^ many other hi?- ! Mr'f. stm^tnre* is the ^nroh of St. 3 ?rc?fp 44? feet hif?h. ! The OermaTiR *re advancing on t*i? forriTitin^." one a.rrn"^ "'ww fVi<-> i1-"^ cp?OT?<1 fro^i the re T^"?>"Trr>it -*n fhp SOTltTl W6St. j and the other northward 0T1 pa^t | V..-.-.7- r* * t*>a T>T;r?o Tlio flvst on'" ' 'T/? i rrr.ro thpfl ten r^i'Toei frOTT) PifTH ? % -> C* >? t> A n it T tfo f r\r\ i wTi f ^C^atehe^ -r>*o + ft^ Ti-/srn cfo<x1'1v ^IACI'ti0' T1 0?l + ?-> r\ AO /V *? V-v-% i * ~ I ' ? ~ ? ?. . _ >I"\ -V - IP' ? , r?icf?>n;f.o. 3 ecordins: to Petrrrrrad act-' . . I j ~i~~on. m*S2l~ ! EXPLAINING ELECTION ui i 'Jr^)> ? ; j Columbia, Aug. 31.?The masters or i the election of loeaKcotton weighers j i in this state has be^n demanding a ( i good deul of attention lately and tha I i attorney .qeneral's office has on several i occasion- be 11 called upon Tor a con- j ; struction of the law. In an opinion ( ! rendered today. ssistant Attorney 1 i General Sapp ^o^s into the matter j fully. Writing the intendant of Pros-! 1 perity, in Newberry county, in rc- j sponse to a request for an opinion, lie , says: "Columbia, August 31. 1917. i "Hon. E. X. Kibler, Intendant, | Prosperity, S. C.?Dear Sir: I am in ; receipt of your letter of the ??0th inst. | to the attorney general who is at pres- i j j ent out of the citv in attendance upon ; l l the Xational Association of Attorneys j i General in Xew York state. "You state that a public cotton > j weigher for Prosperity has recently j : been elect: d under a special act of the j ; legislature, passed in 1912. as has been j the practice cf the town council ever? \ : year since the passage of tiic act. and I , you further state that a private j weigher has been weighing cotton In j I the town o? Prosperity for a goo'l j | many years and that It3 now que?t?ons j ! the constitutionality of the act abeve i i j referred to which would prohibit cot- j { ton being weighed other than by the j public weigher, on the ground that it i is an attempt at special legislation upon a subject that should be covered by a general law. and you ask to be advised whether or not you should follow the terms of the statute. "Tn renlv thereto 1 beg to advise that in the ca&e of Bar field vs. Steph fflaHHHIHBMHHBBnHBSI TA/> Roniih\j Qprrpf X * IV w?n Ladies desire that irresi^tible charm?a good s5r j$M'J complexion. Of course J ^Ylji I they do not wish others /V to know a beautifier /has been used so they t & buy a bottle of Magnolia Balm LIQUID FACE POWDER and use according to simple directions. Improvement is noticed at once. Soothing, cooling and ~ c L- U--1- C 1 T.r, 5CUcamiifc- 4 icaio ouuuuiu, >?vK. Pink. White, Rose-Red. H 75c. a/ 'Druggists or by mail direct Sample (either color) for 2c. Stamp. Lyon Mfg. Co., 40 South Fifth St., Brooklyn, N.Y. ens Mercantile company, 8."> S C., 186, the court held an act regulating the ? :_i eiecuon 01 euuuii v\ex&iiei iui ucmuuc in Kershaw county to be unconstitutional upon the ground that it wa.i special legislation upon a subject properly to be governed by a genera: statute. The statute regulating the election of cotton weigher for Bethunc is very similar in its terms to the act above referred to which regulates tne ol<v*Hnn nf rntton \reisrher at Prosoer ity. "It is a well settled principle of law, however, that a special provision can be included in a general law, and the question of the ??nstitutionanty ot we act in question resolves itself into this question, is the act of 1912 providing for the election of a cotton weigher for Prosperity an amendment or special provision to the general law regulating the election of cotton weighers, or is it a special act on tiie subject? In the Barfield case the court, used this language, 'We think the act of February 2, 1906, 25 statutes, 137, cannot be considered as a special provision in a federal law or as amending a genera law a? . re was no general law on the * ct cover ing Kershaw county at ' ne of its enactment." "It will be observed, however, that the general law applicable to Kershaw county was enacted February 24, 1906, and the special provision or special statute regulating the election of cotton weigher at Bethune, in Kershaw county, was enacted February 2, 1906, from which it will bp seen that the a<ct providing for the election at Bethune was passed prior to the time that the genera! law was passecr. "In the case of the election ol a cotton weighe- Prosperity it will be seen that tne act was not passed until 1912?long a?ter the passage of tne (srpnpraJ law. as rontainftH in s?>cf!on 2343 of the code of laws of 1912, volume 1, was enacted, and there would, therefore, be a distinction between the Earfield case and the case stated by you and there is at least strong argument for the proposition that the rule laid down by the Supreme Court in the Barfield case would not apply | to the act providing for the election ol : the cotton weigher a/t Prosperity, ie I that it can at least be argued and up; on good ground, that the act In ques I ? i tion is a special provision in the gen: eral law and not a special act upon a I subject properly 10 be governed by tfie I general law. and I am of the opinior that the town council should proceed i to elect the cotton weigher at Prosper1 itv in accordance with the terms 01 i the act as they have heretofore done, : and if any private weigher should bo prosecuted for violation of the law requiring all cotton to be weighed by a public weigher, the test of the constitutionality of the act could then De made by him. it not beinz the function of the town council nor of this office to declare an act or acts of the legislature unconstitutional unless their terms are ^mi^taVably in violation X 1. uiereox. "Yourr T*nrv frnlv. "CT M't* V. SAPP. "Ar.^tant Attorn- ^^neraT." ? wmrr^tm P* SSI A >" DEFENSE i'lilX:'S ?), kfst Hour of Russia L ...JiU? 'lasses Terrorized, Expect Harcn I < retroq-rau London. Sept. 4.?Russia's crisis grows darker hourly. The Bavarian prince :s hard on the hervls of the Russian twelfth army, st.rir.king no>heastw?rrl from the captrjetfUiga with swiftness r>nd vigor. The counter revolutionists and worshipers of the fallen czardom are exploiting the grave mnuary -uuanon wiin nil rneir mi?ur. Their ??] -a5> fn 11 upon fertile soil with the pan;e-trieken mosses haunted by the fear of a German march on Petrograd. But the Keren sky srovernment Is watchfu1. The only member of the Komanoff family who enjoved full liberty after the revolution h*s been incarcerated. Hp is Graud Duke Michae! AlexandrovHch. brother ex-czar Ntcnojis. His wire also '>een arreste-1. Bo*h are tiharged with having had connection with the counter revolutionist plot that was nipped in the bad two days ago.' Another grand : duke. Dmitri P..aiov:tcli. I;us Deen } -put safe" on the same charge. ; f From faroff Persia, where the Rus- , 1 sians have been valiantly holding their . ! own since the revolt, came news to- j i dav indicating that the Turks have D?- i ! j f;uii men eiiccJi (.jauipciiftix iim-.eu a. , by Chancellor Michaelis in his maideif j speech in the reichstag. Headlone Roireaf I As for the situation on "Russia's ; northern front, the scope of the Riga : disaster can only be conjectured from j the official Petrograd admission that! i f V\ rv Anirmono KrAlrii + rnn o-V> rvn n frnrt I I uir uri iJJf'iio nil v/i. t u wn ct n vm ' \ ! i of nine miles and from the German j war office innonnre^orits that, "some 1 ; thousands" of prisoners and more than ; 1 HO gnns had been taken so far an: : f'^ot thp p?q?j!ons are in a headlong j ; retreat northeastward . j Moreover, tne Berlin statement. shows that Prince Leopold's troops ai-1 ! ready are 15 miles north of the Dwina, ' having advanced beyond the Great j Jaegel river. This, coupled with or- j ficial Russian admission of a retire- j ment near Kranzen (22 miles soutn-! east of Riga), and around Milder, half -1 way between Riga and Dwinsk, I)e- j ' speaks grave menace to the Russian j army at Dwinsk, the great railway. I city 140 miles south of Riga at tHo t I v ? gates of which the Germans have 1 stood for two years. Petrograd re- j ror^s artillery fighting on the DwinsK front. Indications are that the main for"e of th? German Riga army is j swinging or about to swing southeast- ] ward in a huge flanking movement i aimed at Dvrinsk. ; | For the Russians there is but one ! ray of consolation in the ^hole presj f-nt state of affair: The Cossack? ana ! Rumanians in the South are fully holding their own. Riga Afire j Riga was aflame when the Germans ' ontoroH Rorlin rprvirtcH tnHav T>ip ! city was taken, as was exclusively j ; foretold in these dispatches from the! west and southeast, the Bavarians! j who crossed the Dwina in the rear of 1 the big Baltic port achieving the lion's share in the success. I Not aid the Russian troops fled In 1 panic when the Teutons started their i drive. Some there were who fought to the hitter end with the traditional ' Muscovite heroism of the old days. They sealed their bravery with death. ! Their tragic fate filled even their foe with admiration. For indirect tribute | is paid these heroes in today's Geri man official statement?a sidelight not I given in the Russian report?whlcn i says that the Russian units launched i "deperate and sanguinary attacks'* to i . cover the retreat of their comrades, i Only after a "hitter struggle"' were ! I they overcome by the numerically su11 perior Teutons. j The immediate objective of thp Geri mans ia their northward; march from | Riga was the road leading to Pssoq, j 1 1 16.2 miles from Petrograd. They have ; | reached it, according to Berlin. Ger- j | main irarsfrips in the Riga bay are co- ! j operating with the advancing infan- i , 1, try, the naval guns raking the littoral j j ' j in an effort to clear it completely of Russians. J I The bulk of the Teuton army head-1 J I ; ing to the northeast and southeast ! from Riga consists of Bavarian vet- !' 1 erans, some of the finest fighters in : the kaiser's army. The Berlin report i " calls them "our experienced troops'* ! and characterizes their advance as - "impetuous." Of the Russian retreat : it says: i ' i "Dense masses of troops are crowd; ing along ail the roads from Riga in i a northeasterly direction, in both day : ( and night marches." j XEGliO TKOOPS TO THAIS IX SOl'Til r;v Jesse S. Cottrell. "V/k i i: n ftivri vt .1 That : ! tarv Taker lias changed his mind | about sending colored troops to tno | national guard c rimps of the south to i j he trained was an admission that t:i - ; j war Jio" '! marie today to Congressman j S. Kiiborf Dent. h\, chairman of the j house mi;.:t jvy affairs committee, \vlit> . j protested a; a battalion of negroes j from Ohio being sent to Montgomery and a larere number to Anniston. i While Mr. Baker did riot go into de- j ! tails as to the other points in the (le- ; | partment of the southeast from which j j protests have emanated as to the plan j to send negro guardsmen to the south j to be trained, he intimated that the? : j original plan to send them there would ] be carried ont. Mr. Dent told the seer- I j retary that Grneral Mann, while head j j of the militia bureau, had assured him j i no liocrnoo wnnlH lip <PTlf. f.O i ! Montgomery and to other southern ! | points. '"plli i Mr. Baker said that was true, but i \ ; j that hp himself had changed his mind i j on the subject nncl now that some ; were already in the south, he had ad- j vised their commanders to see that j they observed all southern laws, such j as the Jim Crow statutes and certain j customs as to privileges of equality. Secretary Baker said that the northj ern people would reseat sending the legroes to the north after they had ieen ordered south and that it might ik;n \ thf; raei*?l rtready witnessed serious outbreaks, md to send them north would can*rouble among the colored troops. Mr. Dent protested vigorously, but to no ?BB??I?M?M?BIN i w ^ To Recall tl Move the Ho When you mo1 up and down to rec prafnr what vnn re %/A U vvy A. } T ? AA V ^ Vf V* * ^1 on and off a si nal light on the sw J Of course, !wt the little switchboa too rapidly, like light, it may not gl It is important, move the hook SL light will glow an< know you are tryinj tiom. T17V1 \7 the* X iittl c TT 11J U1V call the operator is ceiver hook up and SOUTHERN BELL 1 AND TELEGRAPH I Ground Limesto I Your Fen | We have been made I over this section for a Li finely ground and this m It releases the potash an I corrects the acidity and j makes the soil very mui makes it easy to get an corn and grain by puttinj condition. * Order Early! Anfl^fsnn Pi* I? IbAA'fe/.&'WA. V >- _ Oil Co Andersc | W. F. FARM f>?%Zr- 'T?:!. :'-- " '*- .*;-i ^ ?T.<.1'.^Z^i&TT. ?_? A t' i I j An Ambition ai / j yHE needs of the South .\re / ! of the Southern Railway: the ?ro f J tise cpbuiidiajr of the other. ? J\ i The Southern Railway asks no fa f C J accorded to others. r The ambition of the Southern Ra . y i uniiy of interest lhat is born of co-op< f ' the railroads; to ?ee perfected that fair: ) ment of railroads which invites the I agencies; to realize that libtTaiity of ' to obtain the additional capital Deeded I > en!ar?ed facilities incident to the del \ service; and. nnjilly? / To take its niche in thf bo.-'v jo j other frcat industries, witb no more, i rights and equal opportunities. "The Southern Ser " avail. It is now expected that stt ? i colored troop? will be tratneor ca -1 1 c# I'Hh npJKALU AND NEWS <!&&&' '' .am fok ^1.50. ? ??"fflr * i { L r_ - - x' le uperaror ok SLOWLY! ? ve your receiver hook all the telephone op- / sally do is to turn / \ nail electric sig- / \ ritchboard before her^ ) I ten you try to turn j rd light on and off ! any other electric ow. j therefore, that you ! OWLY, so that the < d the operator wilt I to attract her atten- ! .. % quickest way to re- k to remove the re- I f down SLOWLY,> mi*. * ELEPHONE COMPANY ?ne Will Reduce I n*?i ' hlizer Bill. I the distributing agents mestone that is unusually takes it quickly available, d plant food in the soil, 1 pulverizes the hard spots, ih more productive and -? /% if early stand ot cotton, g th* soil in first class -Prices Right. losphate and I \ rnpany >n, 3. C. I ER, Secretary. ^ 5 ' ad a Record ;Y\ identical with the needs J \ wth and success of one meass 1 ^ # .vors?no ipecial privilege act J 1/ I llway Company 13 to see th*>t 1 : radon between the public ?id i md frank policy in the manage- ' j confidence of srovernmecal S treatment which will enable it ? * :or the acquisition of better aa4 (/\ naiid for increased and beacr ,/ \ litic of the South alongside o* J but with c-iual liberties. c*j?aC r yes the South*" ill way, System >