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NEW LIBRARY BOOKS.

In the past month many good
books have been given the Library,
the friends of the institution being
interested in its progress. The fol-
lowing books are now at the call
of the public:
Boy Scouts, by Fletcher.
Laddie, by Gene Stratton Porter
given by Billy Long.
Eight interesting books for young
girls, by L. T. Mead, given by Miss
Mary Louise Dargan.
The Lost Viol, by M. P. Shell.
When Love Speaks, by Will Payne
The Eternal City, by Hall Cain.
The Calling of Dan Matthews, by
Harold Bell Wright, given by Mrs
W. A. Harris.
Prisoners, by Mary Cholmondeley
Cynthia of the Minute, by Louis
Joseph Vance.
Roadside Glimpses of the Great
War, by Arthur Sweetser, given by
Mrs. T. G. White.
Beltane the Smith,-Jeffery Far
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afternoon with Mrs. ]. r. Haddon.
Miss Willie ,Richey spent Satur-
day night with Miss Lila Morrison.
Mr.. Eugene Higgins spent Sun.
day with Mr.. Mack Wright.
Misses Mary, Annie and Louise
Kay visited Misses Lizzie and WI
lie Ables Monday evening. :
Miss Marie Boyd spent Saturday
night with Miss Margaret Ables-
Miss Myra Pettigrew and little
brothers, spent Tuesday with their
sister, Mrs. R. B. Haddon.
Misses Marie and jamie Belle
Boyd, Margaret and Sara Mae Ables
spent Sunday at the home Of Mr..
Joe Ables.
Mr.. Allen Palmer left last Wed
nesday for Camp Jackson. His
many friends will miss him but wish
him God speed and q safe return.
This is a very busy week with the
farmers cutting their grain.
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sANTUc NEWS.


santuc, June 5.ZMr. Henry Nc
Gee and family Of Bolton, motored
down and spent Saturday night
with Mr.. M. B. Kay and family.
Master Miles, Clarence and Lois
Morrison of Columbia, spent the
weekend at Mr.. w. E. Morrison's.
Masters James, Joe and Jack
Ables spent the weekend in Able
vile with their aunt, Miss Gussie
Ables.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry MCGEE and
little Martha and son, Edwin, and
Mr.. NJ. B. Kay and daughter, Miss
Mary, spent Sunday very pleasantly
with Mr.. and Mrs. J. A. King OF
Cold Springs.
Misses Lizzie and Willie Ables
called on Mrs. Link Saturday even
ing.
Mr.. John Link, MI. and Mrs. S.
C. Link motored up and spent Sun
day with Mr.. and Mrs. Lindsay
Link.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. C. Kay attended
service at Long Cane Sunday morn
ing and took dinner with Mr.. and
Mrs. w. F. Kay.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. F. Kay, Mr.. c.
c Kay and family spent Sunday ev-
ening with Mr.. M. B. Kay and fam
lily and had the pleasure Of seeing
Mr.. H. n. MCGEE and family.
Mr.. Lindsay Link fell from his
mule about three weeks ago and
broke his leg but glad to note he is
getting on nicely at this writing,
and his. good neighbors are working
his crop for him.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. B. Haddon spent
the weekend with her parents at
Antreville.
Edwin MCGEE returned home
Sunday after a weeks visit to Roy
Kay.
Mrs. E. ]. Bolts spent Tuesday
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mol, given by Mrs. Lewis Perrin.
= Perch Of the Devil, Gertrude Ath-
erton, given by Mrs. W. P. Greene.
These Twain, by Arnold Bennett,
given by Mrs. L. W. White.
From Tuesday, the 11th,; the
doors of the Library will be open
from nine in the morning till halt
past twelve.
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E CROSS NEWS.

On account of the hot weather,
the work-rooms in the surgical
dressings department viii be open
in the mornings from ten to one
o'clock. The following ladies are
chairmen for the month of June:
Tuesday-Mrs. D. r. Riser.
Wednesday-Mrs. Ellen P. Nor
wood.
Thursday-Mrs. c. 81. McMurray.
Friday-Misses oney and Caro-
Morse. l.,
Saturday-Mrs. F. B. Gary.
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when he is attacked. Let US also
do the part it is given US to do
when we are called on, and not at
a more convenient season, and let
us defend the soldier at the front
even as he defends US at home.
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SOCIAL NEWS.


Mrs. M. B. Davis entertained a
few friends Tuesday evening very
DELIGHTFULLY."-: They we're: Misses Mae
Hinnant. Mae Welborn, Lily Clark,
Elizabeth Edmunds, Daisy Maxwell
and Mrs. Gertrude Sign.
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FOR SALE-20o bushels of col
the shuck, at $500 per 81
T. n. CHEATHAM. 6-4-|
FOR SALE:-Two good milk
with young calves.
g. PARKER & Rec
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BIRTH.

Born-Near Abbeville, S. c., on
June 5, 1918, to Mr.. and Mrs. Julius
H. DuPre, Jr., a daughter.
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WANT-TO SELL-One five
old mare colt, well broke,
one good mule 500. /.
BLACKWELL, Due West,
6-4-3t.
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FOR SALE.

Ribbon and Orange Cane
Ninety Days Velvet Beans
kinds of Peas at lowest market
stiff. +. hOorN1
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FOUND:-One light bay mule
white spots on right side Of Z
J. D. LEWIS, Abbeville, s.
Star Route. 5-s
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FOR SALE:-Porto Rico, Nal
Hall and Triumph potato M
$3.50 per thousand, five thous|
and over 1926. F. O. o. AM
son. Cash with order. ]. Z. MAJ
5-28-1mo. Anderson, 3.
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VITAL STATISTICS.

January 1st to June LIST,
43, deaths As, for the city of
vile.
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Committee on Cutting.

Committee on Cutting.
Mrs. C. &c. Gambrel, Chairman,
Mrs. A. B. Morse, Miss Bessie Lee
Cheatham, Miss Mamie Bowie, Miss
Fannie Stark.
Mrs. J. G.. Ellis,
Supervisor, Surgical Dressings.
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TOR RENT:-Two nice furnish4
upstairs rooms, with all eonve
fences. Apply to Mrs. R. 6. "
son. IT,. 4-zol
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Al SAW MILL MAN-with col
engine, and teams to do loggi1
to saw several hundred thousa|
feet lumber IN eLowndesv
Township. I win furnish saw 4
and cut timber. N. p. AcCAL4
Lowndesville, s. c. 5-81-2J
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rines. A not unexpected condition
~confronts the American Govern
ment, and the work of dispatching
troops across the Atlantic must still
20 on. The U-boats have come over
to block or interfere with the trans
portation of reinforcements, inciden'
tally to sink merchant ships. Con
VOWS must be made stronger. Thu
navy has been preparing for tht
emergency and is already hunting
for its quarry.
The war is no longer 5000 mile
away; it is up and down and close u
our coast, and the roar Of guns will
be heard alongshore, it may be OF
Long Island, or Nantucket, or Bar
negat. The Germans could not nav
chosen a surer way to stir the wa
spirit in every American breast an
to raise patriotic fervor to teve
heat. At the same time, there Is n
special cause for concern. The wa
has come to us, and we must &c
used to the experience.-The Ne'
York Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-23
TURKS LAND BLOW
Despite Armistice, Ottoman
Troops Attack Russians.
Seize Platana, Black Sea Port,
and Cut OFF SIav Retreat.

London. Feb. 23.-The Turkish
ARM in the Caucasus has begun an
offensive, a correspondent of the Ex-
change Telegraph company wires from
the headquarters of the Russian west
ern army.
The attack was started before the
expiration of the armiStice. The
Turks occupied Platana and paralyzed
the evacuation of the Caucasian corps
which is now grouped along the coast.
Platana is a small Turkish port on
the Black sea coast in the vilayet of
Trebizond, fifteen miles west of the
city of Trebizond and 100 miles west
of the Russian border. At the height
of their success in Turkey, the Rus
slams pushed considerably west of
Platana and also well to the south,
occupying all of Turkish Armenia
Agreed to Evacuate Turk Territory.
Long after fighting had ceased on
the Russo -Galician front the Russian
troops IN the Caucasus kept up the
campaign but for several weeks no
reports from this front have been re-
caived. The Russians agreed at Brest-
Litovsk to evacuate Turkish territory
and the withdrawal was under way at
he time of the new Turkish attack
Occupa ion of Platana would cut off
the retreat of Russian forces along the
coast west of that point
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UP GOES Wheat?
President To Proclaim Increase
in Price, Is Forecast.
Is Empowered To Fix 1t To En-
courage Increased Acreage.

Washington, Feb. 23.-There were
indications today that the price of the
1918 wheat crop would be increased
soon by presidential proclamation.
Under the food control law, price
for wheat of the 1918 crop was set
at So a bushel, but that is construed
to be a minimum and that the presi-
dent has authority to increase the
price if he considers conditions war
rant it. Upon recommendation of
special wheat committee headed by
DR.. Harry A. Garfield, the presid ent
last August fixed s22O a bushel as the
price for wheat of the 1917 CROP now
being marketed.
Several bills are pending in con-
gress to raise the price of the 1918
wheat crop, some of them proposing
to put it as high as $2.75 a bushel
1t was pointed out today that an
obvious advantage in fixing the price
of the 1918 crop at s220 would be
that it would release quantities of
wheat which might be held in the ex-
pectation of a higher price beir> fixed
by congress and would encourage
planting by farmers who are inclined
to delay. feeling that the price might
only be 81.
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Not More Than That Number of
Germans in Invasion.
Slavs Base Sole Hope in Guer-
rilla Warfare Against Huns.
INVASION SLOWING DOWN
Fear Russians "Might" Spring
Unexpected Counter Attack.
Small Forces of 100 to 200 Ad-
vance Without Resistance.
BY J. w. T. MASON.

New York, Feb 23-It is i'm
probable that Won Hindenburg has
more than $4,000 men actively en-
gagged at all points in the German in
vasion of Russia.
The slowness of the Teuton advance.
in view of the absence of opposition.
has now undoubtedly become inf1u-
enced by the increasing possibility that
the Russians may organize a trap for
the numerically weak invaders Won
Hindenburg is taking no risk of suf-
fering heavy casualties and causing
renewed unrest within Germany. The
bulk of the German troops on the
RUSSIAN front are quiet. For the first
time the German general staff has
definitely abandoned its former ruth
less policy of risking large masses of
men, regardless of the losses
Won Hindenburg Using Precaution.
The Russians are now organizing
for guerrilla fighting. There is as vet
no suggestion of a concerted move
ment of a great Russian army against
the Germans. Tactics on so preten-
1ous scale are not to be expected
Tor the moment, with Russia in its
present disorganized state.
But, the undoubted fact that Won
Hindenburg is not striking with an
immense force makes it possible for
the Russians to engage in guerrilla
warfare with excellent chances Of
success. Swift, sharp attacks by small
| bodies of highly mobile troops have
not been possible hitherto in the war.
| But these guerrilla operations are
| now wholly feasible against the Ger
mans who have left their trenches
and are moving in column formation
| against Petrograd.
Germans Open Vulnerable Spot.
The whole German front is not ad
Vanclng In unison with the drive
| against Petrograd. In effect. the Pet
| rograd offensive is making the most
Vulnerable salient of the war out OF
| the German east front 1t is open r.,
highly dangerous flank attacks and IL
Cossack troops, skilled in guerrilla at
tacks, can be brought into the north
ern operations, Won Hindenburg may
yet retreat to the Riga line.
No Peace Negotiations in Sight.
London, Feb. 23.-Peace negotia-
t1ons with the Russians will not be
resumed Immediately by the Germans
ana guerrilla warfare probably will be-
| instituted by the Bolsheviki to Impede
| the German advance which apparent
| ly is not moving as swiftly as in the
| first days of the week. The Germans
| however, are meeting with little re-
| slstance on the long line and Austrian r.
| and Ukrainian troops are approaching
| Kiev.
1t is announced mi-officialIy from,
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LEARN ALL FACTS
Government Makes Survey OF
Santa Fe Plants Here.
Working Conditions in Shops
and Offices Investigated.

In connection with a national in
vestigation, the federal railroad wage
commission is this week beginning
survey in Topeka railway offices and
shops of working conditions, and wage
scales Data on the Santa Fe offices
and shops are being compiled in the Of
flee of E. H Bunnell, auditor of dis
bursements for the Santa Fe here.
The wage commission appointed by
Director General McAdoo, is asking
all American railroads for informa-
tion as to the number of employees on
their payrolls. the average wages paid
different classes, and for information
concerning overtime work and the
scale of pay in such cases. This plan
of survey is being followed here.
To Increase Wages?
While the wage commission, in it's
request for data from the Santa Fe,
did not state the purpose for which
they will be used, it has been stated in
dispatches from Washington that the
commission will use such an investi-
CATION for the purpose of increasing
wages of certain classes of employees
and in establishing a more uniform
scale of pay.
In compiling the data it is neces-
sary to form the different employees
into groups, and it is likely that re-
arrangement of wages will be made
on the group basis.
To Get All the Facts.
The survey covers both unorganized
and organized labor. When the data
are in the hands of the wage commits
sion the government will be in pos
session of one of the most complete
invoices of its railway hired help
that has ever been compiled. Uncle
Sam will know how many machinists
and stenographers, and other trades
and crafts experts it can count on. 1t
will know how much private control
has been paying them on each road
and it will be in possession of refer
ences that will provide a concrete ba-
sis for establishment of uniform or in
creased wages, working hours and
conditions
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PLOT IN A CAMP
Death Penalty Probable if Four
e. S. Soldiers Are Convicted.
AuStrianS Threaten To Kill Of
ficers and Join Enemy.

Camp Lewis, Tacoma. Wash. Feb.
23.-The death penalty probably will
be inflicted on four soldiers under ar
rest here if a courtmartial sustains
charges that they plotted to shoot
their own officers as soon as they got
into action in France and to join the
enemy.
Altho no formal charges have been
filed. the cailp judge advocate an
nounce1 these accusations and de-
clared the disposition of the cases
would await the receipt of further or
ders from Washington. The names of
the men were not announced but it
was stated all are AuStrians.
If they are not courtmartialed and
shot they will be dishonOrably dis
charged from the army and interned
for the ;-eriod of the war as alien enc
mics These men were arrested when
intelligence officers learned of threats
they had made in conversation. The
intelligence has been kept busy re-
Gently discovering, arresting and dis
missing enemy alien soldiers, 200 hav-
ing been discharged since the camp
opened.
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DANA is AT REST
DIR. Estey Paid Beautiful Trib-
ute to Beloved Jurist.
Friends From All Walks OF
Life at Funeral

Glowing tribute was paid to the late
Judge A w. Dana today by DIR.
Stephen S. Estey of the First Presby-
terian church. Hundreds of friends
and associates of the man, who had
feen a citizen of Topeka since 1887,
were present at funeral services held
at 2:30 o'clock at the First Presby-
terian church.
Doctor Estey dwelt on Christs In
depreciation of death, described by
Him as merely an incident in life. He
spoke of Judge Dana as a man de-
voted and self sacrificing to his fam
Ey, quiet man who performed his
good deeds with little ceremony, q
student and an attorney high in his
profession.
All employees of the court house at
tended the services in a body as did
members of the Shawnee County Bar
association. Beautiful floral offerings
from court house employees, the bar
association, personal friends and nu-
merous associations were in evidence
Music was furnished by the First
Presbyterian church choir.
Those acting as pallbearers were:
Judge George H. Whitcomb, L. S. Fer
~, George w. Parkhurst, John J.
Schenck, ]. B. Larimer and L. l.
Kiene. Supreme court justices acted
as honorary pallbeares. Sloan lodge
No. 225. A F. & A. M, officiated at
the grave.
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Gives McAdOO BrOadeSt POSSi-
BILE Powers for Control.
Predict Speedy Favorable Ac-
ton in Lower House.
M'ADOO LOSES ONLY ONE POINT
AS Passed by Senate, 1t Includes
Short Line Railroads.
Retain Three Year Average as
Compensation to Stockholders.
BY. L. C. MARTIN.

Washington, Feb. 23.-Within ten
days Director General McAdoo will be
armed with the broadest possible pow
ers to run the ceuntry's railroads.
This appeared certain today as the
house continued to hurry the railroad
control bill to final passage. The
senate passed it late yesterday without
roll call, after a long day of wrang-
ling. As the measure left the senate,
it appeared certain that it will not
take long to reconcile the differences
between the house and senate bills in
conference. The house is to pass the
bill early in the week and the confer
ence will take few days.
The bill as passed by the senate ex-
pressed the views of the administra-
ton faithfully on every point save one
treatment of small competitive rail-
roads. Kicking over the traces on
that, even the senators in charge of
the bill voted to bring all short-line
competitive roads under the benefits
of government control to save them
from disaster.
Complete Victory for Administrator
The administration wishes to in
clude only those actually needed by
the government, but upon everything
else the senate went along with the
president and gave him practically un-
initiate rates, make regulations. to
lend money, buy securities; in short
to do anything he deems necessary
thru the director general to make gov
ernment control a success
The utter rout of forces opposing
| the administration wishes with re-
gard to basis of compensation, power
to make rates. length of government
control and other points was expected
| to be followed by similar victory In
the house.
What the Measure Comprises.
The chief provisions of the senate
bill follows:
| Empowers the president to make
agreements with railroads for pay
| ment of annual return equivalent to
| the average operating income for
| the years 1915, 1916 and 1917.
! Provides appeal to the court of
| claims to settle disputes on compen-
| sation.
Authorizes the president to lend
| railroads money for improvements
and equipment.
| Provides s500,00O,000 for this
purpose.
Authorizes government purchase
| of railroad securities.
| Provides the preSid ent may ini-
tiate rates and make them effective
Immediately, subject to revision by
| the interstate commerce commits
| sion.
Includes every short line competi-
| tive railroad in the country under
| federal control, whether designated
by the director general or not.
Until 1S Months After War.
Terminates government control
| eighteen months after the end of
| the war, but gives president power
| to terminate it at any time he may
| deer advisable.
/ fv,1l IN
| set aside existing laws that hamper
| effective government control.
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End DRAFT, JUNE?
Date Not Officially Announced
Few in First Call.
$4,000 of First Draft Begin
Moving to Cantonments.

Washington, Feb. 23.-The second
big draft will be made in June. ac-
cording to present plans, it was learned
vost marshal generals office today.
The number to be included in the
call and mobilization planned is to be
determined by the war council of the
war department, it was stated.
Unless some great emergency arises,
no nation wide calls of men will be
made under the second draft. The
present plant provides for a continu-
Gus stream of men moving from civil
ian life to army camps and from the
caps to France. Comparatively small
numbers of men will be ordered from
certain districts to camps just as rap
idly as men now there start across
the sea.
To Call Tradesmen and Clerks.
The formal call authorizing some
definite number will be made merely
for the purpose of allociating the dis
trict quotas.
Many more special and industrial
calls, such as the recent ones for
bricklayers and accountants with
the second draft, it is believed. For
this purpose an elaborate card index
system, showing the occupations of all
registered men, is being compiled.
Commencing today, about $1,000
men of the first draft will begin NOV
ing to the training camps. This mo-
bilization will be completed within five
days. On March 3 about ten thousand
more will be sent and this will leave
only about per cent-approximately
100000 the first who have not been
inducted into service
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Matter of Choice Between Two
Evils in Russ Capital.
Fear Outbreak of Uncontrolled
LOOting and Murder.
MILITARY LAW is SUPREME
Clear Now Germans VIII Not
Reply to Peace Plan.
Russians Evacuate Reval, but
Soldiers Take No Part.

London, Feb. 23-The inhabitants
of Petrograd await coming events with
an outward calm. according to the
latest dispatches received here and
continue to pursue their ordinary busi-
ness life, seeminly unconcerned over
the great interests at stake. The
Daily Mail correspondent in a dispatch
sent las. Thursday repeats a statement
thai the majority would welcome the
arrival of the Germans, fearing an
outbreak of uncontrolled anarchism
witt riot and murder. The bulk of
the population, the correspondent
say is tired of revolution, tired of
..unger an6 disorder and tired of the
uncertainty perpetually overhanging
them, declaring that they are expert
encinP all Of the disadvantages of the
cars regime without any of its ad-
vanta ges.
The London morning papers are for
the most past without news from their
Petrograd correspondents and the
only Information of current date re-
ccivad here consists of official pro-
noUncements.
The Petrograd correspondent of
Reu,er's limited, sends an official
statement that the council of the peo-
ple's commissaries has appointed
special general staff and has issued a
decree reiterating its warnings that
martial law must he used mercileSSly
to repress criminal attempts" and ex-
tirpate the counter revolutionary ele-
ment
Mobilize Population for Defense.
Measures it is officially declared
have been taken for the registration
and distribution of foodstuffs and the
mobilization of the entire population
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