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I GERMANY WOULD I AND AMERICA W IF KAISER WER Ctf ??I I/' (BY RUDYARD KIPLING.) ] I You need not go far to sec what i: ; would moan to England if Germany wins tho war. Iu 'Belgium at this j hour Boiterai million l'*>:;ians are making war material or fortifications ' for their conquerors. They are glv- i on enough food to support life as the German thinks it should be bup- ! ported. By tho way, I believe the j United States of America supplies a large part of that food. In return they are comncllcd to work at the point of the bayonet. If they object"* they are shot. Their fac tories, their iouscs and tholr public buildings have long ago been gutted, and everything in them that was val uable or useful has been packed up, and sent into Germany. They have no more property and iio more rights thau cattle*, and thuy cuanot lift a hand to protect the honor of their women. And lus.* than n year ago they were one of t'ic most civilized and prosperous of the nations of the earth. Therc has been nothing like the hor ror of their fat0 ia all history, and this system is in full working order within .">(? miles of the English coast. Where 1 live I can hear tic guns that arc trying to extend it. The same system exista in such parte of France and Polar, d as are in Germai hands. But whatever lias been dealt out to Belgium, Franco and Roland will be England's fate tenfold If we fail tn subdue the Germans. That wc shall be broken, plundered, robbed aid en slaved like Belgium will be but the first part of the mutter. There are special reasons in tho 'Otrman nMnd why we should be morally and mentally shamed and dis honored beyond any other people? why wc should be degraded till those who survive may scarcely dare to; look each other in the face. Be per fectly suro, therefore, that if Ger many is victorious every refinement of outrage which Is within tho com pass of the German imagination will be Inflicted oa us in every aspect of our lives. Over and above this, no pledge wc can offer, no guaranty wo can give, will bo accepted by Germany as bind iug. She has broken lier own most solemn oaths, pledges and obligations, and by the very fact of her existence she is bound to trust nothing and to recognize nothing except that of im mediate supsrlor force, backed by her inimitable cruelty. So, you see, thero are no terms possible. Realize, too, if the allies arc beal.ou, there will bo no spot on the globe where a soul can escape from the domination of this enemy of mankind. Tiero has been childish talk that the western hemisphere would offer a re fuge from oppression. Put that thought from your mind. Jf tho allies wero defeated, Germany would not need to send a single battleship over the Atlantic. She would issue an, order and it w .uld be obeyed. Civilization would b.t bankrupt and tho western world would be taken over with the rest of tho wreckage by Gormany, the receiver. There is no retreat possible. Vhcro are no terms and. no retreat in tnis war. Tho German has spent quite as much energy in the last 4fi years pre paring for war as_wo havo in con vincing ourselves that wars should not he prepared for. He has started this war with ? magniflcont equip ment, which took him time and heavy taxation to get together. That equip ment we have had to face for the last 10 months. Wo have had to face more. The German went into this war With a mind which had been care fully trained out of the idea of every moral sense or obligation?private, public or international. He doos not recognize the oxlstence of any law, least of all those ho has subscribed to himself in making, war against com batants or non-combatants?men, wo* mo and children. He has done, from his own point of view, very woll, in All mankind bears witness today that there is no crime, no cruelty, no abomination that the mind of man can conceive which the German has not perpet .od. is not perpetrating, and , will not perpetrate it lie Is allowed to go on. Those horrors and perver sions wero not Invented by him on the spur of the moment.. TUsy were arranged long beforehand?theu very outlines ar0 laid down in tbo German war book. Thoy aro part of the sys tem in which Gormany bos been scientifically trained. It Is tho essence of that system to mako such a heH of the countries / where her armies set foot that any terms she may offer will seem like heaven to the people whoso bodies she has defied and whose minds she Sias brokoa of set purpose and in tention In the fnee of these facts ^ k U fullv ^Car any fit man to waste one mJMrln talking about what he /WouJ?TOlf our system of recruiting wojffchanged, or to wa.'t on, as some Wn arc waiting, in t\.n hope that com pulsion may be introduced. Wo shall not be saved by argu ment. . Wu shall most certainly not be saved by hanging on to our pri vate Jobs and businesses. Our own atreugtu and our own will alone can save us. If these fail the alternative for us Is robbery, rape of the women, starvitlon, as a prelude to save us. So long as an unbroken Germany ex ists, so long will lite on this planet be Intolerable not only for us and our ??Wtni, hut for all humanity. And rhomantty knows it. At pres ent six European nations are bearing the burden of war. There Is a fringe of shivering neutrals almost under the German guns who look out of their front doors and see, an they were meant to see, what has been done to Belgium, the German guaranteed neu tral. RULE EUROPE IM IRON HAND E VICTORS IN WAR! I But, however, the world pretends j j to divide itself, there are only two I divisions in the world today?human j beings and Germans. And the Ger I man knows it. Human be-in?s have , long ago sickened of Jim ad every thlg connected with him. of all he doe? Mid of all he says, thinks or believes. From the ends of the earth to Uio lends of the earth they desire nothing j more greatly than that this unclean I Laing should be thrust out from the ' membership and the memory of the nations. The German's answer to the world's loaning is: "I am strong, I kill. I shall go on killing by all means in my power till I have im posed my will on all human beings." He gives no choice. He leaves no Uilddlq way. He has reduced civili zation, and all that civilization means, to the simple question of kill or be killed. Up to t!i0 present, as far as wc can find out, Germany has suffered 3.000, 000 casualties. She can suffer anoth er 3,000,000 aud. for aught we know, another 3,000,000 after that. Wo have no reason to believe that sho will break up suddenly and dramati cally a:; a fey people still expect, j Why 6lto".?d she'.' She took two gen-; erat ion s to prepare herself in every ; detail and through every flher of her . national being for this war. She la playing for the highest slakes la the ' world?the dominion of the world. It seems to me that she mast either win or bleed to death o'.most where her lines ruu today. Therefore we and our allies must continu? to pass our , children through fire to Moloch un-1 til Moloc'i periah. This as I see It, is where we stand and where Ger many stands. Evory abic-bocMcd Englishman who falls to enlist Invites himself and his | children a condition of slavery the! most brtal, heartless aud inhuman the , world has ever kuown. It would bo. a slavery compared to which the easy- j going form of bondage thai, lingers, among Turks and Arabs would ap pear positively delig.'tful.?Manufac turer Record. Only Oue, ><:t AH. Well-known Austrai>n legislator waB advocating ccrtniu reforms in educational affairs, when a member ! of the opposition became rather ex cited and exclaimed'. "Why at this very moment I have , a school In my eye?" "Pardon me," Interrupted the ara- i tor. "Not a school; only ono pupil, I I think."?Philadelphia Record. No Other Possibility. The Sergeant (sternly)?Nah then, yer young blighter, you ain't larfiu* at me, are y er? Tho Young Blighter?Oil, no, ser geant; no, Bir! The Sergeant (morc~stemly)?Then what the 'ell else Is there on parade ter larf at??London Shjetch. The Remedy. Helen?Pather, I roust have a new riding habit. Close-Pisted Parent?Dut. Helen, times are bard, and I can't afford such luxuries. Helen (angrily)?But, father what am I to do without a new riding habit? Father?Get tho waiting habit.? Pitt Panther. Of Course. They had Just come in from^Nl Wot to see the old fashion show.*" "Gracious, Hiram!" said the old la dy. "Them awful society women ?ress like they was goln' swlmmin!" "O' course, Jerushla. Hain't " you heard that in the social swim the wim mln try to outsrlp each other?"? Field and Farm. It is surprising bow little it takes to encourage a hopeful person. What German Conque fx Belgian Girl* As German soldiers having driven out or killed off most of the men In Bel gium, there are not enough left. to work the coal mines, and .as a con sequence young girl.? many of them less than eighteen years of age, have been compelled to go into the mines. Here are two; there are thousands Ready for the l'Carl Shepherd. When Pearl Shepherd was told by the film company for which die worked in the movies that she would have to learn how to dive backwards from a sitting position, she had not even learned how to swim'. "But I will gei that dive." hp id she. and being a girl of determination? hud she not been one she would never have gained her present buc co;-? in the business?she went down to the tank at Brighton Baths, New York, and began to practice. With the aid of a teacher she learned how to swim. She learned several kinda of dives. Gotton Consump at Excels of 1 Cotton consumption during last year exceeded 17.OOU.000 bales, say Reuskorf, Lyon &. Co.?Relief that viBible supply amounts to 5,000,000 or G.000.000 bales is erroneous.?In a circular entitled "Did We Consume 17,000.000 Bales," Renskorf, Lyon & Co. say: On /prll IT?. 1915, we wrote a cir cular entitled "Seventeen Million Bales Consumption." This circular received more commendation and more criticism than the usual mar ket letter. Both the commendation end the criticism pleased us. Those who commenced the letter read its i text carefully and found that 17,000, 000 consumption was the "consump tion of manufactured articles." Thoso who criticised either read the title and consigned us to Matte. - wan, an asylum for the criminal in sane, or else wcro not capable of fol lowing our lino of thought Our pre diction has been verified, i'he actual consumption of articles made of cot- \ ton from Aug.- 1, 1014, to Auk. L 1915, has surely exceeded 17,000,000 bales, and wc think any unbiased mind will now so concede. Secretary Hester's Figures. Secretary Hester of the New Or leans Cotton Exchange tolls us that the spinners of the world manufac tured into cloth or various other ar ticles M,13:1,000 bales of cotton. Whatever reduction has taken place In the stocks of Uio manufactured ar ticle must be added to these figures to arrive at the total consumption of j manufactured cotton good3, ob it: lows: Manufactured by the spinner, 11.-1 134,000 bales. Add not reduction In j stocks of manufactured articles. In the hands of spinners? In the hands of retailers? In the hands of jobbers? ist Means in Belgium more Just like them, and many very much younger. Coal mining in the United States la considered the hard est and most distasteful form of labor, bo distasteful that very few Americana are found among the miners. Only those foreigners need to the hardest kind of work, and the lowest wage? i go down Into the mines. Flop Back." Thun Hho invented hr "flop back," "Wliy, I Just sit on the wall of the lank with my right leg under nie and then spring backwards." said she. "I think I gain most of my power from my ankle and my hands. It is easy when *-ou know how." ition Estimated 7,000,000 Bales In the bands of actual consumers? In the shapo of.gunpowder and othor war supplies? Total? Therefore, any fair-minded critic must concede that the total con sumption of articles made of cottcu during the past 12 months exceeds 17.000.000 "bales. The reduced hold ings of manufactured cotton goods in the Teutonic countries, in HusBia, In France. In South America and In the Orient must bo; amazing. The difference between the amount of gunpowder existing today and that which existed one year ago today Is stupendous, and every pound of gun powder contains 40 per cent of cotton. Our April 18 circular, if you care to read It again, n^t only predicted this 17,000,000 bale consumption and destruction of articles made of cot ton, but it also predicted. I 1.'An acreage of 30,000.000. The answer was 31,585.000 acres. I 2. Wo predicted final record of ex ' ports to the other countries In excess of 8,000,000 bales. The answer was 8,512,000 bales. 13. We predicted a visible supply oi 3,200.000 to 3,500,000 at the end of the season. The answer was 3,282, 000. I 4. Wo called the amount In farm ers' hands 1.000.00C and tho crop 15,750.000. a total of IC.750,000. Tho answer was. farinera' hands, 1,500, i000, crop 15.200,000; total, 10,700, 000. Any Crop Will Be Absorbed. Wo recognized the fact that the now crop and the demand for Its product is a new question, but we feel sure that the "rapidity of cotton goods passing into smoke," has never, In all of history, been so rapid as in tho past 12 months, and when replen ishment of reduced stocks becomes necessary any crop the world can raise or manufactura will bo ab sorbed. If. tho war continues, we feel sure the "death rate" of articles made of cotton will make alarming Inroads mi the stocks of the unmanufactured article. ; In olden tlmos, articles made of cotton might bo worn foy. years. To day .their transit to the waste pile or grave Is measured by weeks, not years. ! The layman bas been led to think that au excess of (i.000,000 or 0,000, ooo bales of unsalable cotton exists in the visible supply. It would be wise for them to read tho year-cod figures of the various exchanges and make comparison with previous years. Mr. Hester gives the following fig ures: Visible supply: 1916 1914. American .3,282,000 1,671,000 Other kinds .. ..11.420.QOO 1,510,000 Total. 4.702.0OO 3,181.000 If you go deeper than this, Into the Invisible supply. American mills hold about 500.000 more than last year. European mills about 1,000.000 less and the American farmer about 1. 300,000 more than a year ago; The grand total would be In round fig ures, about 2.500,000 bales more than on this date last year. Under those condlti jjs, we are be ginning ~ to market a mw rr jp, .and although we may b->, tor a time, denied Ihe market? of Oormany and Austria for that cotton, wo are not suffering the same financial paralysis that existed a year ago.mr :* the South compelled to bny her food stuffs, as she did last year. The general, if not the unanimous, opinion of the moment by bulls and bears alike seems to be that fl.e Sep tember-October pressure lo sell spots wltl put prices to 7 1 -2 cents to S 1-2 dents, at which price everybody will buy, cotton and *veryb<?ly got rich; a good stage setting; hut they have failed to provide the actors in tho drama, or tragedy. Who will sell all the ? 1-2 cent to ? 1-3 cent cotton. * STAHDI?G OF THB CLUBS. m Southern. Wun. Los*. P.C. New Orleans. 74 49 60S MuiuphlB. 69 54 661 Birmingham. 67 G4 654 NuBhv'llo. 66 58 532 Little Hock. 48 70 387 Atlanta. 69 63 481 Mobile. 55 68 447 Chattanooga. 53 68 438 American. Won. Lort. P.C. Boston. 76 38 667 Detroit. 75 42 641 Chicago. 71 46 607 Washington. 59 55 518 New York. 54 56 491 Cleveland. 44 71 383 St. Louis. 44 72 379 Philadelphia. 35 79 307 NatioaaL Won. LosL P.C. Philadelphia. 63 50 55S Brooklyn. 63 55 634 Boston. 69 54 522 hie-ago. 57 67 500 Pittsburgh. 57 61 483 SI. Louie. 57 62 <7!? New York. 62 60 4M Cincinnati. 54 63 462 Federal. Won. Lob*. P.C. llttshurgh. 65 50 5?5 Newark. 64 51 557 Kansas City. 65 54 546 j Chicago. 65 55 642 St Louis. til . 57 bl? Brooklyn. 59 63 484 Burfalo. 58 66 46S Baltimore. 40 79 33G v4>4>4>*?4>4> 4>4>4> ? 4> 4> IKBTEKDAY'S RESULTS, 4 <>?"? * ** ++* 4>*4>**>* ! .National L*4guc. At Philadelphia 1; Cincinnati 2 At Now York 1; Pltlsburg.i 2. At Brooklyn 3; St. Louis 1. At Boston 4: Chicago 1; culled at ond of ninth, aarkness. American League. At St. Lou-iB 10; Pblludeiphia 1. At Detroit 7; Boston 5; twelvo in nings. At Cleveland 5; New York 5. At Chicago 1; Wasuluglon z\ thir teen Innings. Federal Leugue. At Chicago 6; St. Louis 10. At Baltimore 9; Brooklyn 11; twelve inniugs. At Pittsburgh 5; Kansas City 6. At Newark 4; Buffalo 1. Southern League. At Atlanta 0; Nnshvil'o 3. At Birmingham I; MeniphP 1; four teen innings, darkness. At New Orleans 4; Chattanooga 1. At Mobile 5; Little Rock 2. Standing Mill League. Won. Lost P.C. Oluck. 11 6 647 Belton. 9 7 563 Equinox. .. 7 9 438 Orr. 6 11 853 It will be noticed that If Belton wins the double header from Equinox ou Saturday, and Orr dofcats Qluck, Belton and (Jluck will bo tied for first place. Not Dangerous. "You criticize us," said the Chinese /lsitor. "yet I aco all your womon have their feet bandagod." "That is an epidemic," it wsb ex plained to him, gently, "which broke out in 1914. Thono aro called spats." -Washington Post. Kisky. Cavalry Sergeant?I told you never to approach a horse from the rear without spoaking to him. First thing you know they'll kick you in the head, and we'll have a bunch of lame horses on our hands.?Judge. Timid. Officer (as Private Atkins worms his way toward the enemy)?You fool! Como back at onco! Tommy?No bally fe^tr, sir! There's I a hornet in the trench.?Punch. PUT SULPHUR ON AN ITCHING SKIN AND END ECZEMA Bays this old-time Eczema rem edy ii applied like cold cream. Any irritation or breaking out on the face, arms,, leg? or body when aeoom panied by itching, or when the skin is dry aad fereriah, can be readily over come try applying u. little bold-sulphur, says a noted dermatologist He states that bold-sulphur instantly allays the angry itching and irritation and soothes and heals the Eczema right up leaving the skin clear and smooth. Bold-sulphiT has occupied a secure posi tion for many years in the treatment of cutaneous dtx rdcra because of its parasite-destroying property. Nothing has ever been found to tuke Its place in treeing the irritable and inflam matory skin affections. While not al ways establishing a permanent eure It never fails to subdue the itching irri tation and driva the Eczema away and it ia often years later before' any erup tion again appears on the skin. Those troubled should obtain at any drug store as ounce of boid-sulphur, which is applied to the affected part* ia the same moaner as an ordinary cold mm Pretty Neckwear Just as pretty as can he. open ed yesterday, well assorted, one and two pieces of a kind, and of course different?The prices are just as interesting 25-50 Boudoir Caps 50 to $1.50 A variety of Jewelry novelties, in Beauty Pins, Pin Sets, Hat Pins, etc ; all these pretty things will find a ready sale, and you'd better come right away. New Suits New Dresses Dont Overlook The Seybt Property This tract of about 125 acres is for sale. It lies about a mile from town, and can be bought in tracts from 10 acres up, and there's money in it. The price how is $125.00 to $175.00, according to the land?and ten 'years from today you couldn't buy it at TWICE this price. Prof. C. W. Riser bought fifteen acres last week, and is going to build out there on the new road that has rccenly been made through this property. Let us show it to you. Linley & Watson Phones 647, 9?6, 310. A Good Electric Iron Is a necessity at any time but during the hottest weather n o household is complete without one. They are so handy, efficient and cool?the cost is very, very little. Southern Public Utilities Co. Phone 223