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MORTE POUR FRANCE Spring has come again and tender green covers the battle-scarred earth Nature, the sovereign panacea, lias already begun her work of restoration -flowers blossom over the graves o? fallen heroes. Soon May will bring the poppies, "between the crosses, row on row." little gray crosses, each with its aluminum identification tag-and those that mark tho graves of" the men who are buried in French ceme teries inscribed with the words ".Mort? Tour France." Sixty thousand Americans He asleep In France, "Morie Pour France*' surely no other sentence could tell tho story half so well. "Dead for France." Probably the best known poem of ?he war is one quoted below, "In Flan ders Fields." breathing thc fino spirit of sacrifice for an ideal. "America's Answer" stilled all fear that the sac rifice was in vain, and nor when vic tory in battlo is won comes "America's Consecration." pledging a victory c? right. "Ce it our task tb savr>. "In memory of the life you gave. "Those rights for which your blood was shed "In Flanders Fields!" r Thin is our task, in memory of thee sixty thousand dead, to insure the vic tory they won. else they have died for naught. To every citizen of th? United States belongs this opportunity, the last opportunity to measure un to the standard set by the boys. The great est victory of all must be won now. and the shots that will bring it about will be made of dollars. Lend yours to end tlie -war. Buy Victory Liberty Loan .bends. IN FLANDERS FIELDS By Lt. Col. John D. McRae. (Written durinj? the f?cond battle of j x Ypres! 1015. Tho author. Dr. .To!i:: P. ; McCni?. of Montro.nl. Can., was kitted in Flanders, January 2<?. lin?) In Panders fields thc poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row. That mark our place; and in the ^ky The larks.still bravely singing, fly. Scarce heard amidst the guns 1 .^'.ow. "We are the dead. Sh.'.'rt days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset plow. Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe! To you from falling hands we throw The torch. Be yours to hold it high! If you break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies 1 grow In Flanders f!eld3. AMERICA'S ANSWER. By R. W. Li Hard ("Written after the .'oath of Lieut. Col. MoHae, author of "tn Flanders Fields," and printed in the Xew York Evening Post) Rest ye in peace, ye Flanders dead. The fight that ye so brave";.' led We've tnken up. And we will keep True faith with you who Pe asleep, With each a cross to mark his bed. And poppies blobing ovjorh^ad. Where once his own life blood ran red; So let your rest be swr>et and deep In Flanders fields. Fear not that ye have died for naught; The torch ye threw to use we caught, Ten million hands will hold it high, And freedom's light shall never die! We've learned the lesson that ye taught In Flanders fields. AMERICA'S CONSECRATION. By Charles Hall Davis. Petersburg, Ta, ("Written on December 1*\ 101S. arter the armistice was signed tmd Germany defeated) The poppies' blooms now mark in red Your resting place, ye gallant dead. In Flanders fields. And as they ware Above each cross-marked. Allied grave. And breathe their opiates overhead To ease each narrow, earthen bed, Where you now rest-vour spirit fled; ?Sleep peacefully, ye -warriors brave In Flanders fields! The cause that you -so boldly led With dauntless spirit, unafraid, Is won. Be it our task to save. In memory of the life you gave, Those rights for which your blood -was shed Tn Flandern fields! All the farm s m the United State*, ?are urged to support the Victory Liber ty Loan by Oliver Wilson, master of National Grange, who characterizes the loan as "our great national respon sibility." Mr. Wilson's appeal fol lows: "For the fifth time the government ?te appealing to the people for financial aid. On the four previous occasions money was needed to win the war and people of all classes liberally respond. Now comes the call for a Victory Lib erty Loan, a loan -which, now that the fight ls won, is necessary to aid in finishing the great task of assuring to all peoples liberty and democracy, that our struggles and sacrifices of the last few years may not have been made in vain. "I desire to appeal to our entire grange membership and farmers gen erally to maintain the proud record we bare made in thc previous loans. Not only subscribe what you can but give the matter prominence at your grange sneeting-s and encourage neighbors and frto??s lb do their part toward fulfill ing th i 8 our croat national responsi bility." Grist MUI. When you come to Edgefield to haul guano, freight or on other busi- j ness put a sack of corn on your wag in and bring to my mill.' 1 have just iiad my mill rocks sharpened and I make better meal now than I have ever made. 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