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OIA A GERMAN PRISONER IN ENGLAND TELLS OF THE WAR (Extracts from article in Boston Transcript.), This Boche really understood the whole business. He was unlike any other Hun I have seen. I suppose you must call him a Boche because he was born in Munich and was serving in the German army. But most f his native Bochery must have been purgred out of him by living among civilized people. He spoke English, not a bit like a foreigner, nd altogether it was difficult to realize he was a Hunt at all. For years, he said, he had been dealing in land and mines and things in .America. He happened to be visiting London when the war threatened. He'd never taken out papers in the States, and he was afraid of being interned or something, so he skipped out the day before war was declared and got to Germany. For a long, time he was employed there on spe-j cial work, but when the' Somme push | was on last year and men were need-1 ed, he had to join up. He had served n different parts of the front. This is what he told, quivering now and again as he thought of it: 'This war is the greatest crime the world has even seen. The crimes ' that made the French Revolution are nothing if you compare tnem witn the crimes of the beasts who are run-1 ning Germany today, and keeping this war going. They were only thieves and brigands when they began it, and thought they'd bring it ff, but now they're the bloodiest urderers by wholesale that the world ever produced. There never was anything like it before. They! knorcr perfectly well they've^ lost the j war; they've known for months thatf the last chances they ever had have) gone. But they are too frightened, foe their own skins to admit it andj fall a halt, and because they arei frightened of what the people might' do when they learned the truth, they j keep the thing going and sacrifice( many thousands of Germans every ! single day and millions of money? what for? To shield the reputations of a handful of princes and politicians. It's the greatest crime the. world has ever known. Here on tnisi front our people are being killed like flies. Your artillery kills them in bunches. There isn't a minute of the day but Ilegs and arms are being blown off. Our men would gladly give themselves up to end it, but you know they cannot. When -.there seems to be a chance, there is always an officer or non-commissioned officers about. It is not only your guns that kill. Many Germans fall every day with German bullets in thexn. They are diven like dogs to the fighting. And to what end? Because our cursed Kaiser and the creatures we call statesmen are afraid of their lives for what will liappen to them when the people know it's all up. "But plenty of them know it now. Manv knew before ever'I was forced to join up. And perhaps I never should have been made to join if I had known less, and never said a word of what I know. I talked a little of what I knew. And that . is enough. In Germany today the mrfh -who will tell the truth must be hustled out of the way. That is why I see no hope for Germany, because those who a?e left in the country, have no spirit, can do nothing. All ike strength of the country, such as ft is, is in the fighting lines?helpless as slaves. The others, there in Germany, they are slaves; starving, starving quietly, never daring to say a word. The few who speak soon find themselves hustled into the front Kne?and no more is heard of them. They go on paying the price; thousands of lives every day, every single day. The Central Powers casualties now must be 100,000 a* week?all for what? The crazy dreams of a few bankers and merchants, and the cowardly fears of a few politicians; and of?of Hohenzollerns. They| say the Hapsburgs, too; but the Austrians would be thankful to make peace tomorrow, but they cannot. They are so sacrificed by Berlin as! we poor devils here on the front. All the bloody slaughter of this war, with its millions of money and thousands of lives lost?every single day ?what keeps it going long after it has been finally decided, is not the will of nations. No, it is the mur-j derous criminality and cowardice of a little handful of men in Berlin, who never have been anything but a pest in Europe. "Is not that the greatest crime the world has ever known? And is it not strictly true? Does any sane German suppose the appointed end can be altered when the whole New World is ranged against Germany,! as well as the Old? They know all tfbout the hundred millions in the States, and the millions of millions! of money; the innumerable factories mnd shipyards. They know that J America can put hundreds of thou-! srnds of fresh troops on this front next spring, and that the exhaustion] ef Germany long before then will be frightful?is frightful now, has been frightful for a year and more. They know it all, and, brute devils that they are, they chose to keep the awful slaughter going, not because they hope it can alter the end, but for what you call "wait and see"?because they fear to face today what they can put off till tomorrow at the cost of another few thousand decent lives, another few millions of money. "Never before since the world began has a twentieth part of such suffering been allowed to continue day after day and month after month to nrotect a handful of exalted crim inals from general recognition of their crimes. The Russian people rose and smashed the bonds that bound them. But not our people. Our tyrants have been much cleverer. It was only the bodies of the Russian pepole that we fettered. Their minds were free. No German mind in Germany has been free since 1870 The Berlin criminals have seen too well to that. Our people think they have been well educated. So they have; very well, very carefully, for just what they are doing now?for the blindest and most damnable kind of slavery the world has ever seen, for a slavery in which the will of the masters must be paid for daily by steadily running streams of the blood of their victims?victims taught to bare their own throats to the knife on the word of commanjd. "If your armies could reach Germany itself the slavery might' end suddenly. But Germany today is one vast} prison full of starving slaves, who cannot lift a hand to help themselves, and that it will remain while William the Murderer can go on buying a daily reprieve for his own miserable famliy in return for the blood of 10,000 of his slaves. Thank God I am out of it!" LADIES! SECRET TO DARKEN GRAY HAIR Bring Back its Color and Lustre With Grandma's Sage Tea Recipe. Common garden sage brewed into a heavy tea, with sulphur and alcohol added, will turn erray, strewed and faded hair beautifully dark and luxuriant. Mixing'the Sage Tea and Sulphur recipe at home, , though is troublesome. An easier way is to get the ready-to-use preparation improved by the addition of other ingredients, costing about 50 cents a large bottle, at drug stores, knc/wn as "Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound," thus avoiding a lot of muss. While gray, faded hair is not sinful, we all desire to retain our youthful appearance and attractiveness. By darkening your hair with Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound, no one can tell, because it does it so naturally, so evenly. You just dampen a sponge or soft brush with it and draw this through your hair, taking one small strand at a time; by morning all gray hairs have disappeared. After another application or two your hair becomes beautifully dark, glossy, soft and luxuriant and you appear years younger. Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound is a delightful toilet requisite. It is not intended for the cure, mitigation or prevention of disease.?Adv."CASCARETS" BEST IF HEADACHY, BILIOUS, SICK, CONSTIPATED Best for. Liver and Bowels, Bad Breath, Bad Colds, Sour Stomach. fiet a 10-cent box. Sick headache,* biliousness, coated tongue, head and nose clogged uj> with a cold?always trace this to torpid liver; delayed, fermenting food in the boWels, or sour , gassy stomach. Poisonous matter clogged in the intestines, instead of being cast out of the system is re-absorbed into the blood. When this poison reaches the delicate brain tissue it causes congestion and that dull, throbbing sickening headache. Cascarets immediately cleanse the stomach, remove the sour, undigested food and foul gases, take the excess bile from the liver and carry out all the constipated waste matter and poisons in the bowels. A Cascaret to-night will surely straighten you out by morning. They work while you sleep?a 10-cent box from your druggist means your head clear, stomach sweet, breath right, complexion rosy and your liver and bowels regular for months.?Adv. WimWAWAVAVAWM I MAKING THINGS EASY i - ; ?^??B5=aaa? 1 It was a notion store. Outside were ; I big baskets filled with jelly glasses, , scrubbing brushes, stoneware, toilet 'soaps and other articles at what impressed Cbassway as ridiculously low 1 ^-1 nrln^AWB ^lonlflVO/1 hiph I I i JL UQ TTtUUVntl *<? ?o? i I ly decorated china, toys, stationery . and some odds and ends of hardware, among which Chassway noticed a card of padlocks price 10 cents. He rejmembered to have heard Mrs. Chass' way say that there should be a padlock for the storeroom door. Here was an opportunity to please her and at the same time gratify his curiosity. It hardly seemed possible that a really good padlock could be obtained for 10 cents, but then everything seemed J so cheap. Chassway entered the store and a. polite young man hurried around the! ' counter to wait on him. "Yes," said the young man, "the padlocks are good padlocks?opea | with a spring, as you will notice, sir, | and two keys to every lock, all differI ent." I "I'll take one," said Chassway. As he spoke his gaze wandered around the store, "Anything else, sir?" asked the young man, insinuatingly. Chassway hesitated and was lost1 ' ' * ?<Trn AI- xUUQM [ ".Let me see," ne saia. -wnais unsi i "That's an apple corer," said the | young man. "You simply push 11 i down through the apple and there'? your core extracted quickly and neatly." "That seems a pretty good thing," said Chassway, admiringly. "How j much?" "Five cents, sir. That's a potato slicer you have in your hand?works this way?for Saratoga chips or any vegetables you want sliced thin. Ten cents." "I'll take one of them," said Chass*: way. j "That's a dandy furftture polish," i said the young man. "I can specially 'recomtaend it, because I've used it myself. It's 10 cents a bottle only, j I I'd like to have you try it." j. 11, "Well, -it won't hurt, I suppose, to j 'try a bottle," said Chassway. "What ! are these brass things?" "Picture hangers." "Oh, of course. I didn't recognize them." ^ "Five cents a dozen." "I don't know that I need any," said , Chassway. "Still, at 5 cents a dozen, I j I guess they'll come in handy." To summarize, when Chassway tore | himself away he paid for a dozen I brass books, a towei racK, a dox oi j ! soap, a long wooden spoon, six patent | I gas tips, a closet clothesrack, a pair I of rubber shoe heels, an egg beater, a! bath thermometer, the picture hangers, furniture polish, potato slicer, apple corer and the padlock. He exhibited his purchases with pride when they arrived that evening and Mrs. Chassway, after the first j shock of surprise, was delightfully appreciative. The cook cast a cold eye j upon them and merely sniffed, f That evening Chassway went out jlnto the kitchen to put his screw hooks in appropriate places. He 'found that the woodwork was too hard to get them in without a gimlet Similarly the old gas tips would not come out without pliers. All he could do was to tie a piece of string around the wooden spoon and hang It up and apply some of the furniture polish to a bureau top?and some to his trousers. The next day, however, he made a special trip to the notion (store and bought a gimlet and a pair of pliers. While he was about it he also bought a coitu eated steak mallet, a wire dish drainer, a can of enamel and a paintbrush, a wire potato master, a saltbox, a gridiron, a tin bucket and a set of casters. That time Mrs. Chassway was appreciative but not as Intensely so as i the day before. Chassway took off his coat, put In the patent gas tips and the screw hooks quite successfully. It was the cook's evening off, so he took : advantage of her absence to invert the | kitchen table and put the casters in ,jits legs. "They will make it so much . easier for her to move It around when !she wants it," he explained. The next morning tlie cook said: j;"Mr. Chassway, If It's all the same to ' you, I'd like to have you take them 'devilish little wheels out of me table. JSure, I can't cut a toaf o' breac. wlthilout sending It skatin' dear acrost the kitchen to fetch up wld a bang fernlnst the range." One mormlng as Chassway was surreptitiously poking Into the pantry drawers he discovered pretty nearly the whole miscellaneous assortment of labor-saving devices filling one , of them?wooden spoon, nutmeg grater, potato parer, apple corer?everything but the hooks he had screwed into the woodwork. "It's just that she's cranky, I suppose," said Mrs. Chassway soothingly. I "She says the corer clogs and the ! slicer turns the potatoes red and the [wooden spoon's a nuisance and the I egg-beater scatters, and things like jthat; and she's as cross as she can , be about your getting things. But I 'wouldn't take any notice of her, dear. | She's the best cook we've had for isome time and I think she means to stay with us If we let her have her own way in the kitchen." ! "Well, there's one thing sum," said Chassway. "She can plug along with any old makeshift for all of me. m not put myself out to make things easy for her If she quits tomorrow." But, Indeed, Chassway by that ttm? kad almost exhausted the notion THE ROYAL MURDERER MUST It BE PUNISHED AS THE MUR- tl DERER OF LOW DEGREE is The Statist of London, one of the e, foremost financial papers of the C] world, in discussing some phases of w the war situation, says: <j, "Here we shall content ourselves S( with saying that the war has forced C] upon human intelligence that our ,ji morality is nearly as barbarous as p everything else connecting with the jg existing State systems of the world, bi A few men in great positions, such ti as the Emperors of the two Central European States, deliberately in cold g blood, manufactured a malignant, an incredible and an unproved charge against a small neighboring State to .. furnish themselves with an excuse for destroying that State and carrying out their own policy of conquest. And, forsooth, we are told by men who profess to be representatives of the very most advanced democracy m that these men ought not to be pun- w ished simply because they were born in the purple. There was a time a when all the churches all over the w world were combined in preaching ^ that crowned heads were so holy that c they must not be touched by hostile aj hands, and there are men who call * themselves Socialists who have taken C] up the cant, and expect people who, if not either very wise or very well informed, at least are not absolute ' idiots, to believe that no human power ha 3 the right to call a criminal wearing a crown to account for his evil deeds. It is very clear that our morality wants refurbishing." In this clear statement the Statist expresses the views which the Manufacturers Record has held from the beginning of the war. 6. The men in Germany and Austria who have been responsible for the war, regardless of the fact that some 1? of them sit on royal thrones, should be treated exactly as any other crim- 14 inals guilty of murder. . If the war should end without every gTeat leader, it matters not how 21 high may be his standing, being held to a strict personal accountability for the crimes committed, and punished accordingly, civilisation would have failed of its duty to the future. 24 To Kaiser Wilhelm and all the 2? military autocracy which has been 2 M l _ IL. 2? responsible lur uiiS];caaauiv# iivi rors of the last three years the se- 3f verest punishment possible should be 37 meted out. Death before the firing squad, or even death on the gallows, would be almost too good for them. S"] But that every one of them should stJ pay the full penalty of their crimes must inevitably be true, unless all civilization is to condone murders c< and rapists and every other form of vileness against humanity, and deal Got A When 'a ne chine he hire in running ore i because he e When a mf of an automo nai*t tn Avnlai |/V1 V fcw ing a bad star When a fa after his intei can represenl a farmer drei likely to hold You do noi or a dentist t< one trained al life in that s merchant, fs teacher, editc dication that ville. Are You 1 inienly with men merely because ley have held exalted positions. He who sits on a royal throne ^ahd i guilty of murder deserves death iren more than the poor, despised riminal in the lowly walks of life ho destroys his fellow-man. InpoH if rmcVif. to nnaniVilc +r? finH >me form of punishment more exrusiatingly severe than that of eath itself. Connected with such unishment should be every possible ;nominy to which these people can e subjected by any decent civilizaon. The civilization that would permit aiser Wilhelm, the Crown Prince, r any of the military leaders re)onsible for these murders, to connue to live after the close of Jhe ar would be an utter failure. It ould merely be inviting another ar. Those who sit on thrones must be ade to realize that in this world, as ell as in the next, punishment is ire and certain if they violate the ,ws of morality and humanity. He ho would preach any other doctrine t such an hour as this is an "enemy ) all civilization. He who under ny conditions would seek to bring bout peace not based on the death barter No. 3421. REPORT OF THE v** m v a a 1HL INAilUINAL bA A.t Abbeville in the Stale of Soxith Carolina, i ' RESOUI a Loans and discounts (except those shown f Foreign Bills of Exchange or Drafts sold this bank, not shown under Item d above Overdrafts, secured. $2,935.91, unsecured a U. S. bonds deposited to secure circulate Total U. S. bonds (other than Liberty Bob of indebtedness , Payment on account subscription for Liber Stock of Federal Reserve Bank (50 per ce: >. a Vale of banking house b<>Equity in banking house S. Real estate owned other than banking hou t. a Net amount due from approved reserve cago, ahd St. Louis b Net amount due from approved reserve ai i. Net amount due from banks and bankers I in 13 or 21) r. a Outside chceks and other cash items .... b Fractional currency, nickels, and cents .. I. Notes of other national banks .. Lawful reserve in vault and net amount Reserve Bank !. Redemption fund with U. S. Treasurer Total ..." ...? LIABIL i. Capital stock paid in i. Surplus fund i. a Undivided profits ? b Less current expenses, interest, and taxes >. Circulating notes outstanding i. Individual deposits subject to check ? n .i I U J... :M Innn >. ceruncaies 01 uepusn uuc iu mo wau v money borrowed) \ Cashier's checks outstanding TATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY < I, H. G. SMITH, Cashier of the above-n itement is true to the best of my. knowledge Subscribed and sworn to before me this 6ti DRRECT?Atteit: A. M. SMITH, AMOS B. MORSE, WM. M. BARNWELL, Directort. id Ro; bout expert: wspaper man buys a li: is or secures an expert ler. It is no indication o mployed an expert. in starts to introduce a bile in a county he emp n and show the car. He t, but using common bui omnl Aire a lflWl 1 lil^l VII1[/1VJ O M *% WW J rests he simply employ ; him according to lega n up his own will it wi t employ a blacksmith t 3 shoes mules. An exp< long certain lines who h pecial line. It includes irmer, dentist, minist >rs and their employmei the best is none too goo a Booster for Abbeville or a I ^nuvci uociiivin/ penalty to be inflicted on the rulers of Germany, Austria and Turkey would be ffttee to humanity, and would be condoning the blackest sins which have ever stained the history of the human race. Reserve District No. 5. CONDITION OF /V NK OF ABBEVILLE, at the close of business on June 20th, 1917. tCES. on b and c) $271,615.34 with indorsement of (see Item 55c) $271,615.34 1, $194.44 3,130.35 / >n (par . value) 18,750.00 ids) and certificates 18,750.00 ty Loan Bonds 200.00 nt of subscriptionX 8,150.00 ... 5,000.00 5,000.00 se ? 6,877.84 in New York, Chi 8,832.15 gents in other cities.. 20,763.31 29,595.46 [other than included 8,572.92 5,260.15 117.04 5,377.19 3,580.00 due from Federal 24,743.31 1,337.50 $381,929.91 I ' JTIES. : $ 75,000.00 30,000.00 16,5X2.63 paid 7,716.96 8,795.67 - 18,750.00 217,315.22 0 days (other than , 31,386.661 >. 682.36 $381,929.91 OF ABBEVILLE, n: amed bank, do solemnly swear that the above and belief. H, G. SMITH, Cashier. Ii day of July, 1917. W. H. WHITE, Notary Public. i I 1 MS \ I 5. ' l notype mato place it f t% liarl paca A U WUU Vi*W new make iloys an ex- * i is not maksiness sense. per to look s one who J form. 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