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mother, is generous, with good deal of
strength.
1t is bitter fate that the stern clergy
man carves out for himself; and he is so
much the victim of his nature and his
training that every generous impulse in
us bids US rejoice when at last-nOt as
the result Of one easily written recon-
citation scene, but in the natural course
of events-he gets around to recognizing
Richards right to live his own life, and
is able to live it with him more happily
than our early meetings with him gave
US any reason to hope for. Nice things
can happen In life, even out of BnhOpe-
full premises, but some noveEsts are afraid
to let them shine out of the pages of their
books. Mr.. Marshall does not wrench the
logic of the facts of human nature.
Mr.. Marshall is strong on "conyersa-
ton" 1t is not quite right in a novel,
even a novel of realistic intent, to let
people talk exactly as they do in real hfe.
And it is all wrong if the author uses
them as mere mouthpieces for the utter
ance of his own ideas, instruments for
propaganda. This novelist gets just the
right result by refusing to let his per-
sons say everything they might be sup
posed to want to say; he selects the things
that they ought to be allowed to say to
US, SO that we may know just what is go
ing on-and that is art
Richard Baldock suggests to US a car
painted in quiet colors, catching the
trained and appreciative eye by the sheer
beauty Of its 'line"; driven by an engine
without bit Of noise and smoke, but full
of power. 1t rides easy. 1t has speed,
without violence. It gets you there with
out jolting- it isn't until, at journeys
end, you look at the road map, that you
realize how far you have come and how
fast you must have travelled.
RICHARD BALDOCK. BY ARCHIBALD
MARSHALL. Dodd, Mead & Co. s1.50.
ARCHIBALD MARSHALL: A CONTEM-
PORARY REALISTIC NOVELIST. By
WILLIAM LYON PHEPs.> Dodd, Mead G
Co. so cents.
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Four New Books of Verse

comes with a sense Of crudity and ugli-
ness, which must be met with a half
smile to be found even tolerable When
one has accustomed the mind to the ex-
ternal unpleasantness there will be found
much that is sincere and of a certain
promise. The author is Southern noun
taineer, who has come North for his i'm
pressions, and our instructive feeling is
that the Southern mountains would have
been finer inspiration than the dives and
horrors of which he writes:
Internationally stumbling on the dead"
to use his own words, more often than
need be. If he can do this with ordinary
dens and lobster palaces what uould he
do with trench?
As giving O touch of local color We
quote verse from Ten Minutes at Tea
Time:
$50 answers him, Richmond Rosie,
For all knows or cares,
Kin eat her fancy victuals
On Mrs. Hell's back stairs
The pale lads eye went CLASSY,
He kind O. thinned at the lip,
And saw his long white fingers
Amble around to his hip"
Fingers amble around to the hip SO
often through these pages and knives are
drawn so lightly and easily that the gen.
eral trend is distinctly murderous, but
hardly worthy of deep concern.
A new collection of the verse of Arthur
Guiterman is always pleasure. The
Laughing Muse, his last success, so amply
fulfilled its purpose that he has followed
it rather closely with The MirthfaI Lyre.
As is 50 often the case with this sort of
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publishing business, with most unusual
opportunities for advancement and the
winning of an Independent and influen-
tial position; or he can accept the kind
ness Of his friend, the Squire, and go TO
Oxford to be a gentleman, and ultimately
the writer of books for other publishers
to undertake" By very delicate analy-
sis Mr.. MARSHALL makes us quite sure that
as q writer the young man could never
have been a success, and we are not bit
sorry that he makes us certain also that
Richard Baldock would never have been
brilliant in Society. He turns out to be
a good deal of a man. He wins out in
love, as well as in business.
This is the barest skeleton Of the story.
In the book it has form and the breath of
life. Mr.. Marshall is master of most
refined art. He is not stylist; he writes
with admirable simplicity. Single words
do not flash out of the type there are no
startling phrases; but the writing is so
clear, SO clean and so strong that after
the book is read it leaves a pleasant con-
seious1ess of having been in contact with
really splendid mastery Of expression.
This is a point well worth noting in a
time when natural English is not much
met with in our fiction.
Persistent Personalities.
The remarkable thing about the Archi-
bald Marshall books is that through the
process of reading they hold the atten-
ton firmly, but the impression they score
does not take clear form till the reading
is finished. They "stay by you," in the
good old phrase of the vulgar tongue. So
it is with the character drawing.
In this book, for example, you do not
realize, as you march through the pages,
that you are getting acquainted with so
many people who are really worth know
ing and whom you shall not easily forget.
Even Mrs. Baldock, who speaks only in
the first chapter and dies in the second,
has defined personality, and holds place
in the final impression left by the book.
Aunt Henrietta is not bit fgureheadish.
Sarah, the old woman who takes care Of
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poetry, the book contains too many Sc
lections, but there is enough really good
material to carry the rest along. Oliver
HEREFORD, Carolyn Wells, Arthur Gutter
man and a younger poet, Anthony Euwer,
whose work is coming into general recog-
milton, form our best group Of humorous
poets, but Guiterman must also be counted
among the serious poets, fact which is
apt to be overlooked in our enthusiasm
over his lighter efforts. You must not
fail to notice The Idol Maker Prays, that
sonnet which is almost lost among such
things as the irresistible,
"The world is too much with US, much
too mueh,"
and his Penvoi To Hills, which closes:
$50 let me hold my way,
By nothing halted,
Until, at close of day,
/ stand, esated.
High on my Hills of dream
Dear hills that know mel
And then, how fair win seem
The lands below me.
How pure, at vesper time,
The far bells chimingl
God give me hills to climb
And strength for climbing
THE SAD YEARS. By Dora SlGERsoN.
George 81. Doran Company. $1.25.
MEMORY; POEMS OF LOVE AND WAR.
BY A. NEwBERRY CHOYcE. John Lane
Company. 81.
OUTCASTS IN BEULAH LAND. BY Roy
HELToN. Henry Holt and Company.
$1.30.
THE MIRTHFUL LYRE. By ARrHUR
GUITERMAN. Harper and Brothers. s1.25.
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By CONSTANCE MURRAY GREENE

BY CONS ANSE M VI kA1 GKEEN Z
TN a group of four books of verse We
i have The Sad Years, Dora Siger-
sons poems written in war time; Memory:
Poems Of Var and Lore, by A. Newberry
Choyce, Lieutenant in the Leicestershire
Regiment; Outcasts in Beuldh Land,
verse in the language of the street, by
Roy Helton, and Arthur Guiterman's
latest collection, The Mrthful Lyre, thus
running the gamut from tragedy to
humor.
Dora Sigerson (Mrs. Clement Shorter
is said to have died Of sorrow over the
events of Easter, 1916, her heart crushed
and broken by the tragedy which passion
ate love of Ireland made too great to
bear. She belonged to that famous group
of which Louise Quincy and Francis
Thompson were cOmembers, and was 80
beloved as high and beautiful character
that one scarcely dares the laying Of sac
religious hands upon her work.
AS poet she was widely recognized
before her death. There is in all that she
does deep feeling, exquisite rhythm and
expression, and that peculiarly Irish
quality of far seeing mysticism, combined
with the gift Of interpreting little homely
things. In no poem is her sorrow for the
ways of the world more potent than in
that inspired by the old proverb, at will
be all the same in thousand years."
which ends:
"This in thousand years
Payment of blood and tears,
Horrors we dare not name.
II will be all the same.
What is the value then
To all those sleeping men!
1t will be all the same,
Passion and grief and blame.
This in the years to be,
Ny God, the tragedyp
Lieut. Choyce's Slender volume" as the
reviewers like to say, takes its name from
the first poem, which is also its best.
His work bears the scars Of suffering and
Of remembered tragedy.
"And scarcely can Gods wide eternity
Have length to bring forgetfulness to me"
he meditates in Conralescsnce, and in Per
Ardaa:
"Sing a little song for me,
One short refrain.
And let it be melody
Of pain"
After such poetry as that Of Dora
Sigerson and Lieut. Choyce, Roy Helton's
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is'' owe tn
Hadc ID. Miller a to
Benz. +. Pigg to
f. B. McEachin 70 .
). Harley Spencer to2
Ernest Miller d to
Lr'c oulley q to 2
Henry B. Brock to .
Green Wall to .
VIM. +. Gulledge a. TO
Daniel G. Robinson 2 to I
Robt. G.. Atkinson to .
Horace Chapman 70 2
r. Began Baker to 2
John Gainey to
Ernest Rollins to-
John David Huntley to2
Mack lowers a to .
DOCK James Johnson . IN
Lee Broughton Sellers a TO .
VIM. Sowell to 3
March Fumphrics 4to2
Iivon Pegucs , to1
}. Curtis Parker to .
Bill Johnson to ,
water Hrooms 3 to
Otis II. Purvis 5too
Lewis J.. McFarlan to
Andrew Evans to >
Prospcro Mckay to ,
kcnnis Campbell . to !
BUford Robinson 3,oo
Cary Mex. Fountain 9 to
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DIAL AND RICE SPEAK

The Courthouse was comfortably
filled when Messrs. n. B. Dial and
James F. Rice appeared to tell the
people why they should be sent to
tn ''U. S. senate as Mr.. Rice put it.
Mr.. Rice read tame dissertation
on how to end the war. The key
note Of his speech was probably
reached when he announced "Epigram
No. 81, Peace to his ashes"
Mr.. Dial created q good ir,prcs-
sion and was frequently applaudcd
He cited his business success as proof
of senatorial qualifications and then
sailed into Blcasc and Tilman with
inpartiality.
He scored Blcasc for his disloya
! and unpatriotic uttcrarccs and at
tackled Tillman principally on ,hl
| score of his old age and feeble health
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WHAT HAVE you GIVEN UP7

Have you given up your job ant
let your business future take care OF
itself?
Have you said goodbye to you,
family and friends and all you hold
dear?
Have you begun an entirely new
career that may end, if you live, with
health impaired, an arm off, a leg
gone, an eye out?
Have you given up your business
future and said good-by and taken a
chance on coming back alive and well
and done it all with a cheerful heart
and with a grim determination to do
. all you possibly can for your coun-
try?
And do you only at times-in the
evening, perhaps, wlren the light in
the sky slowly fades away-feel so
homesick and so lonesome that you
are fearful you will not have cour-
age to do your part after all?
You have not done these things?
All, l see, you are not one of our
Army or Navy boys; you are stay
at-home person.
Well, there have to be 20 or moro
stay-at-home. persons for everyone
who goes, and so certainly no dis
grace attaches to being one if you
fully appreciate what those boys who
do go have to give up and if you
support them to the limit of your
ability.
National War Savings Day is June
28. That day gives you the oppor-
tunity of showing in practical way
that you do appreciate what it means
to the boys who go. Pledge yourself
on or before that day to save to the
utmost of your ability and to bny
War Savings Stamps that there may
be more money, labor and materials
to back up those who fight and die
for you.
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NITRATE OF SODA

l have been notified by Mr.. Chas.
j. Brand, Chief of the Bureau of
Marketing that total of 4l5 tons
has been allotted to Chesterfield
County. This is in addition 20 wha,
has already been distributed except
McBce, Excelsior and Lancy. These
places have not recciN ii as yet their
proportionatc part Of the 3N9 ton
allotment that has already been dis
tributcd to other points in the county.
1t is highly improbable that any
more government soda will be availa-
bic for distribution this season, and
farmers need not count on any addi-
tional soda beyond the 4l5 tons now
in Charleston awaiting shipment.
All the soda asked for cototn and
corn has been divided on percent
age basis in the effort to give all
some soda and not some all the soda.
Most of the people have recognized
the justice of this method of distri-
button; but it is sad TO relate there
are a few in whom the ho~ pr"domi-
mates who have been displcascd with
this Kind Of distribution. They want
ed all their soda whether the other
fellow got any or not.
1t is also possible there have been
some errors in making the division ia
few cases, but | have conscientious
~ cndcavorcd to make the division a
fair and equitable one.
W. =. ODOM, County Distributor.
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ST. PAUL'S SERVICE FLAG

Unusually interesting exercises
were held at st. Paul Methodist
church last Sunday morning, when a
service flag was presented in honor Of
the seventeen members of that con-
gregation who are i'm the service of
their country.
A number of patriotic selections
were rendered by the violin quartet
Four little children, Francis Hursey
Sarah Teal, Mary Hanna Hurst and
Bill Lancy sang keep the home Fires
Burning Miss Guess, the daughter
Of the pastor, recitcd in most ac
ccptable manner pretty selection.
On behalf Of the Sunday school
| Miss Mary Wash presented the flag
to the church, with fine little speech.
The names of the boys in whose
honor the flag is raised were read by
Mr.. Charles l.. Hunley. They are
as follows:
Emsley Armfed, Roy c. Moore,
Joseph ID. Guess, p. A. Murray, Jr.,
Greer Robson, Clyde Davis, Fred
Huneycutt, Harry l.. Wingate, Rem
bert Cason, Isom Teal, Roy Barren
tine, Tom c. Hunley, King Moore,
George w. Wright, Ernest Burr
Charles B. Hanna, Augustus II. Hay
den, Jr.
The Rev. B. J. Guess then made a
patriotic address in which he gave
just praise to those who were maxim
great sacrifices for their country and
for humanity.
After dwelling on the sacrifices
made and privations suffered by these
brave boys the speaker made the
point clear that where man escapes
military service on account Of hi,
occupation he ought to work at that
occupation in the same spirit, with
the same zeal and ccaseless cfTor;
with which the boys in the army arr
devoting themselves to their task, that
if he is farmer he ought not to
grow all cotton nor any other croI
all for profit; and that the same prin,
ciple should apply to all occupations.
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ALL ITALY ABLAZE
WITH ENTHUSIASTS

Washington, June 2l.--Italy is
ablaze with enthusiasm and JOY as
the result of the italian victory along
the Piavc, the Italian embassy was
advised today in cablcgram from
Rome. Beyond telling of the cffcc-
tive cooperation Of the Italian s-a
forces with the army, the message
added little to previous accounls Of
the Austrian retreat
THE enemy" said She dispatch.
has been beaten hack across the
Piave from Montcllo to the sea. Italy
IS ablazc with enthusiasm and joy.
THE Italian navy has effectively
co-oDeratcd to the defeat Of the emo
ny by battering the positions along
the Tagliamcnto River and north Of
Castcllazoo while the marine battai-
ions operating along the lower Piavc
advanced and captured hundreds Of
prisoners.
The Austrian aviatorS made an
incursion on Brindsi. OF nine plane +,
winch took part in the expedition two
we're shot down ard the others forced
TO retire without doing any DAMAGE.
In retaliation Italian and British avia-
tors bombed Cattaro and Durazo.
A great demonstration Of greet
ing to Italy and the oppressed nation
allties of Austria was held this after
noon in the garden of the British en-
pasSy by initiative of the British am
oassador' Roumanian officers were
present and were received with great
applause. These officers ard the Rou-
manlan legion are about to lcav for
the Piave front to fight in the Italian
army against the comomn enemy"
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GROWTH OF ARMY

Washington, June 25.-The first
division of the American army landed
in France one year ago tomorrow, 18
days after General Pershing reached
france. In IL months that have since
elapse this division has grown to an
army in size and by July 100000
men, all told, will have been sent
forward.
Behind this 100000, another L.
ooo,Oo0 men are in camps and can
comments equipped and eager to move
and behind these third 1000. 600
will probably fill up the gaps left at
nome as the divisions sail for the
front in an endless stream.
Secretary Baker estimated TODAY
that between G5 and 70 per cent. of
the men already shipped are combat
ing troops in the strictest sense of the
word. The first division has now
been expanded to fighting force of
65O,OOO men, backed by an organiza-
tion OF the supply and transport lines
hat it takes 100000 men to make
effective
Field Army in Sight.
On the basis, it is clear that Cen
eral Pershing now has under his COM
mand the substance Of the first field
army, comprised of 18 infantry divi-
sions, with all necessary auxiliary
troops. So far as known there has
been no opportunity yet for actual
formation of this army as military
unit. The whole force has been in
training, officers and men, but the
day probably is not distant when it
will be possible for General Pershing
20 assemble his first army which will
be veteran fighting force.
American troops are now holding
sectors Of varying length in at least
SIX places on the battle front. To
meet the emergency presented by the
'" drive, ,however.thev have been
drawn away from the region formally
assigned to the United States and are
face to face with the enemy on the
Marne, in Picardy and in Flanders.
The real American sectors, how
ever, lie on the right flank of the
great battle front. From within sight
OF the Swiss border where they stand
on German soil, almost to the sha-
dows of the battered fortress of YER
dun, American troops are in the
trenches.
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ENTIRE RIVER FRONT
IN ITALIAN HANDS

The Italians at last have cleared
the remaining Austrian rear gaurd.
from the west bank of the Piave Riv.
er and now are in possession of the
entire river front from the Montello
plateau to the sea. At last accounts
their forces which crossed the stream
in pursuit of the retreating Austrians
were still harassing them, inflictine
heavy casualties and forcing the enc
my to continue his disorderly re-
treat.
Fate, however, has turned some
what its balance in favor of the Aus
trians for the Piave River again has
risen and some of the pontoon
bridges the Italians had thrown
across the stream have. been carried
away, making impossible the quick
pursuit and the crushing of the Aus
trians which General Diaz had count
ed on. The Austrians are declared
to be rushing up reserves from the
east.
The Austrian war office admits a
reverse along the Piave, but an
nounces that the retrograde move
ment has been carried out in accord
ance with plans and without loss of
material. 1t is added that the Aus
trians have taken more than $4,000
prisoners from the Italians since
June 15 and that the aggregate losses
of the Italians in fighting at the low
est estimate is 100000 men.
Offensive in Mountains.
Holding the upper hand along the
borders of the Venetian plain the
Italians have turned on the offensive
against the enemy in the mountain
region and are attacking on various
sectors. Notable gains of ground have
been made and i'm addition to heavy
casualties inflicted on the enemv y
large number Of Austrians have been
made prisoner and 16 machine guns
nave been captured, according to
Rome. The Austrian war office, how
ever asserts that all attacks in this
region have been repulsed.
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PATRICK

Mrs. 7. p. Campbell and children
have returned from Trenton, where
they spent several days.
Miss Vera Buie left Thursday for
Columbia, where she will spend a few
weeks.
Misses Rosa and Nora Pegues spent
Wednesday in Patrick.
Rev. j. +. Carter, returned from
Lamar Friday, where he had been
attending the Sunday School Confer
ence.
Mr.. J. w. Sawyer, of Johnston
spent few days with his sister, Mrs
III. i. Baggott. =
" Miss Zulia Carter left Tuesday 70!
Florence, where she will visit her
sister, Mrs. Humphreys.
Mrs. S. l.. Gillespie has rctmncd
from Hartsville where she was visit
ing her son, Mr. r. p. Gillespie.
Mr.. j. c. Baker, of Cheraw, was ir
Patrick Monday and Tuesday
The community was made sad o.
Monday by the death Of Mr. John C
Campbell. He made his home will
his daughter, Mrs. w. F.. Winburr
and had been sick for two or thre,
months. He was in his seventy-fftl
year, and had many friends. He
was a faithful member of the Presby
terian church. The funeral service.
were conducted by his pastor, Rev
A. w. White, of Jefferson. He wa.
buried in the Patrick cemetery a
twelve o'clock Tuesday. The sympa
thy of the community is extended t,
the bereaved ones.
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RED CROSS CONTRIBUTIONS
Armour Robinson has contributed
$500 to the Red Cross.
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TEAL'S MILL

Rev. Baggot filled his regular APP
pointment Sunday morning.
Mr.. James Poison came home Mon
day from Camp jackson.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Wallace, of
Cheraw visited Mr.. f. M. Hicks Sun
day.
Mr.. Luther Hicks left for Camp
Jackson Monday.
Mr.. Ray Turnage and Miss Nora
Turnage visiter their grand mother,
Mrs. w. M. Mcbride, Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Wade Stafford spent
Sunday at the home of his mother
Mrs. E. Fl. Stafford.
Messrs. j. e. Johnson and James
Poison motored to Columbia Sunday
Misses Mary and Aletha johnson
spent Saturday with their grand mo.
ther.
Mothers Day at Mt. Olivet first
Sunday afternoon. Everybody come
--W.
Break your Cold or LaCrippe with
. few doses Of 66S.
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A BIG DAY IN CHESTERFIELD

Every CO .ored person in Chester,
field County is asked to be present al
the Courthouse on the 4th day OF
July. There will be a patriotic pro.
gram rendered by members of the
churches Of the different denomina.
tions.
BY order of the County Food Ad
ministrator. r. F.. FOSTER.
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DEATH OF MAJOR COKER

The whole State of South Carolina
will be grieved to learn of the death
on last Tuesday of Maj. James Lide
Coker, of Hartsville. Funeral ser
vices were conducted at the Harts-
vile Baptist Church.
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STEVENSON AT PATRICK

The opening meeting Of the Coun-
ty political canvass will be held at
Patrick, July 4th.
The Hon. w. f. Stevenson will at
tend this meeting and deliver an ad-
dress
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Break your Cold or LaGrippe with
. few doses Of 666.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1918-06-19

,,.,,u uuIeuu VI pusts anu me hahi'"
observatory, has been sending the time
signals Of the 120th meridian east OF
Greenwich at II n. M. and III p. IN.
every day, says Science.
For the purpose of sending time sig
nails, the transmitting clock of the Ma
Mia observatory Is connected with the
Cavite wireless station through the Du-
reau of posts. Manila observatory time
signals begin at 1865 a m. and $3.50
o. M, standard time Of the 10th me-
ridian east of Greenwich, and continue
for FIVE minutes. During this Interval
every tick Of the clock is transmitted
except the 2sth, 29th, 54th 55th, 56th'
57th. 5Sth and 59th of each minute.
The situation Of Manila in the Pa
cifc makes this service Of the greatest
Importance to the mercantile and naval
fleets that ply upon that ocean.