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FUUK . ESTABLISHED 1844 The Press and Banner! ABBEVILLE, S. C. * j H. G. CLARE, Editor. j The Press and Banner Co. MMished Every Tuesday and Friday Telephone No. 10. 1\M . Entered as second-elass mail matter at post office in Abbeville, S. C. Term* of Subscription: fhw year $2.00 Six months 1.00 Tfrne months .50 Pkyable invariably in advance. '?it ' I TUESDAY, JULY 8, 1919. "DUST THOU ART." . We presume that there is no further use for the Abbeville water Vpn now that prohibition is with Still if it is to be discarded entirely, why let dt fall to pieces like Ae one-horse shay in some back lot? Onldn't s pedestal be placed in the pd: in the Square and the wagon be Vbted thereon as a whimsical re maadtr of the days when booze fcuLhed as the green bay, tree and yvple were annoyed by dust? Let ft k painted a palpitant pink and ftcn inscribe on the side this legend, Jim is the symbol of drought, ! dokcation and dust." I Dust is a wonderful instrument in the lands of an all-wise Providence. Wkj allay it? Without it there Id be no flourishing fields or waiant pastures. It reflects the1 enits and gives us that so necmmxy diffustion of illumination bmm the sun. It carries those germ Vans that the soil must have for iHMcalation. It paints the sun a vivH red' as day passes into night; it iou the nucleus for the raindrops.l my, dust is a blessing and who is| KoinftpH nrit, who remarks that I ? . w - - - | ftii not unalloyed? What boots it if citizens of Abbeville sitting on the verandas along aiwrt dusk after a hot and sultry Jay, well dusted, sitting, to take their uncertain chance at a transient fcteeze, are forced by clouds of fat from passing automobiles, to go ianie their homes, where there is las dust? What boots it, we say, if J ane gets up in the morning with the ClirBst dry and dusty and the teeth1 CEitty? That same dust raised byj tfci passing autos from the streets is; -wrfted?everywhere?but a goodly i portion settles upon the lawns and1 Serializes the soil, promising a luxu-j lint growth of ffrass. It's an, ill | wild, etc. WAR AND THE PROPHETS. A will be remembered that it was quite the fashion during the early TBMths of the Great War to parade qu&i prophecies both of fulfillment *md prediction as to various nations dynasties. Since the signing of fte armistice little has been heard of i fihese prophecies. The world has been feo busy with actualities to consider j mgae vaticinations. Now that the / | ynce treaty has been ratified, ef-j lasts have been made to dig up the far that "hit." Pearsons Magazine fees compiled the fololwing: "The ex-kaiser's left arm is so fihered that the hand is practically ! *ariess. This fact inspired many of, Jbs subjects dire forebodings when, ?e came to the throne. For centuries' jrophecy has been current in the^ faft^rland, foretelling that the Gerempire would be brought to rain under an emperor with one' toad. This prediction is not the only' wee which has been realized by thej -war. Before his assassination in 1881, Czar Alexander II was haunted the dread that the wrongs of Pofcnd should be fearfully avenged on fcnssia and on the Romanoffs, who been her chief oppressors. His Iworite, the Princess Dolgoruki, passed for a religious mystic, xsoght to assure him by declaring Poland should never be avenged tffl Russia, Austrian and Germany m ruins together. Then it will ?rrer be,' he said, 'for it is impossible that three such powerful empires ascld be destroyed simultaneously.' "Tfce Hungarian revolution of 1848 mts suppressed with savage cruelty, and the reign of the late Francis Jos- I eph began amidst wholesale executions. One of the Hungarian patriots, while on his way to the scaffold, said calmly: 'We die for freedom, i but the doom of the Hapsbu'^s is ' sealed. Their empire shall not survive Francis Joseph.' Thanks to the war it has survived him less than two 1 years." i Whether the battle of Armageddon : has been fought or not we do not know. It has been a favorite theme 1 In-mnntr +>?q war nrnnhfvts and manv ai' ,.--F , little-thumbed Book has been read during the war to get light on the! 1 subject. But we are still uncertain. 1 JThe threat of war still hangs over the 1 world. ' There is an esoteric streak in ( most of us. We do not attempt tojl account for it and some of us with aj1 superior wisdom discount it. But 1 we are all interested in the future ? and are willing most anytime to in- s vest a few dollars with dealers in the occult to obtain a divination of fu- j ture developments that concern us orj ] ours. "Life after death" and the "end of the world" are subjects that always interest and many are the predictions and the calculations inspired by a desire for answers to these two vexing questions. Any great calamity that befalls the world' is matter for the hauruspices. Thej sacred chickens are killed and the stars are studied, the mediums are:, rung in and the many mysterious! passages of the Bible are reconned. Our curiousity is insatiate; our superstitions will crop out. But in the matter of prophecy it is always better to be more delphic than Specific in our predictions. We can| gain great credit for oracular wisdom by the former method, while definite- j ness inevitably leads to discredit. BRINGING THE HAPSBURG BACK , i Rome, June.?A prominent and(' well-informed member of an allied i mission, just arrived here from Vien- i na, tells that the former Kaiser Karl now exiled in Switzerland, the cradle ; < of the Hapsburg family, may once! 1 more reign ih Austria. His territory i < would, of course, be sadly diminished ] and his revenues reduced to a frac- 1 tion, but even this would be better s than exile in Switzerland, where the ^ entire family is bored to death and j ] ^ainly tries to pass the time by mov- s ing from one castle to another. i "Nobody in Vienna, except the 1 most extreme socialists, speak ill of Karl," the informant said, "and even the extremists don't blame him for whiat happened, knowing that "from the moment he ascended the throne < he tried to make peace. His picture i still hangs in banks, offices and other 1 buildings. The present government,; has abolished it from its offices, but' ( j some public offices continue to let itj1 hang on their walls. The Viennese; refer to him as "Our Poor Kaiser," or. < "Our Poor Karl." ] i PLENTY OF WAR IS LEFT. i < The signing of the treaty between Germany and the allied and associ- , ted powers has brought peace to only; j one part of the world. Here are-j some of the conflicts still in progress :| ( The Poles are fighting the Russian , Bolsheviki. j, The Ukrainians also are at wari, with the Bolsheviki. The Germans are fighting the Lith-| ] uanians. who themselves are at wari. with the Bolsheviki. Civil war continues in Russia,'^ where the Bolsheviki are hard pressed by their Russian enemies on sev-L 1 ?ziai ^ The Hungarian communists are, fighting the Czecho-Slovaks and the! . Rumanians. i The seizure of Smyrna by the al-i lies has led to fighting between the' Turks and the Greek forces of occu- ' pation. WILSON RING LOOKS i LIKE ARABIC SEAL!] i i ; I (From the New York Sun.) M The seal ring with which President : Wilson signed the peace treaty bears < one of the most unusual inscriptions! to be attached to this extraordinary 11 document. It ranks in oddity, from j the Occidental viewpoint, with that I of the Chinese and Japanese dele-1 ! gates, and has an Oriental aspect | ' hardly to be expected in the seal of; : I an American president. This is because the president has engraved on the face of the ring hisj name in stenographic symbols, ar RUMANIA HAS BEEN STRIPPED BfY HUNS Athens, July 2.?Germany has stripped Rumania of everything, writes a Red Cross agent from Budapest. There are only eighty-four lo-J ftatmafjiroe in fvin /?aii nfvtt -fai*! L.U111 V l/i V *-0 111 wilt ?? HV4V VUUilbi J XV* the transport of troops, munition: and supplies. Of her seventeen theoretical divisions eleven have had to be demobilized for lack of food and equipment. There are not sufficient horses to transport field artillery, no tractors for the field artillery, forty per cent of the Rumanian medical staffs died during the war and there are virtually no airplanes, armored cars or tanks. Despite the efforts of the authorities, the countty is harboring bolshevik agents smuggled in by Russia, Hungary and Bulgaria. As 60 per lent of Rumania is illiterate the bolshevik danger is apparent. Tbp creatpst nw?d ia fond. Food! for the army and JTood for the civilian [xjpulation. America has sent a dozen rood ships to Rumania and the American Red Cross is distributing food at canteens and by means of rolling soup kitchens wherever the need is greatest. In the Dobrudja where the smallpox epidemic is at its worst the American Red Cross has many ioctors and nurses. America has loaned Rumania $5,900,000 but the financial situation of the country remains critical, writes the Red Cross man. This he attributes to Rumania's inability to export and to the broadcast issue during the German occupation of worthless bank notes. In addition to food the Rumanian army and civilian population desperately need clothing. Cloth for a suit of clothes costs sixty dollars a yard. A. yard of linen for shirts costs eight dollars and a shirt of ordinary quality $40. A pound of butter costs f5.50. "How can America help Rumania?" a Rumanian army officer asked. "Continue your splendid shipments )f food through the American Army Pood Mission and the American Red 3ross," replied the officer. "Send Us propaganda written by Americans to i>e dropped by airplanes in the boljhevik ranks. We must fight , ideas ivith ideas. Our railroad and transport system is a wreck. Send us some of the American railroad men vho did such wonderful work in France." < WANT McMILLIN TO STAY. Lima, Peru, July 3.?-The Ameri- c lan Society of Peru has initiated a s movement to have Benton McMillin, j :he American minister, retained here t is ambassador. Minister McMillin re- ? :ently was nominated by President ^ Wilson to be minister at Guatemala, t The society, composed of Ameri- i :ans throughout the Peruvian repub- s lie, at a meeting yesterday unani- s mously authorized its board of managers to send President Wilson this j toVvlA/MMSm ^auicgituu* I J "The American Society of Peru i jincerely regrets possible loss of Ben- y ton McMillin as American minister ? md wishes to inform the fireident ,i sf the United States that McMillin's ippontment as ambassador here t tvould be most gratifying to members \ jf this society." t A number of Peruvian newspapers j tiave indorsed the sugestion. \ y ranged in a way to make them look z [ike Arabic characters. The rine is c ;o unusual that it is included in the t book on "Rings" written by Eh*, c Seorge Frederick Kunz, the jewel expert of Tiffany's, who obtained an a impression from the ring made by the ,j president himself. ^ The ring is made of part of a nug- s *et of gold which was sent to him by ^ the University of California when the r announcement was made of his en- 1 eraerement to the present Mrs. Wilson, t [t was sent with the request that the I wedding ring be made of it, and after that had been done there was so I ( much gold left over that the presi- s dent had it made into a seal ring. f When Dr. Kunz heard of it he ask- t ed the president for permission to re- t produce the impression made by the i \ ring in his book and visited hashing-; i ton for that purpose. President Wilson himself made the impressions in \ sealing wax and they were photo- ! graphed in the White House by Dr.j Kunz and the picture reproduced in his extensive work on the history of rings. | i \ mm mam jtA m? BS? ^6 -theK You Need the Fortu of a Hoosie Cabin* V i STOVES ??RA 20-22=24 N. M iUNKEN VESSELS HOLD FORTUNES London, July 2.?There is a spice >f adventure in the salvaging of rtearners sunk by German raiders, lound the British Isles, in the Medierranean and off the Marman coast ire rich fields for the salvage service as well las private enterprise. Ir ;he North Sea the water is too deeptc nake any considerable success, byt ir ihallower water not only cargoes, but ships are being saved. Some of the sunken vessels contair mge fortunes in gold or goods. One s known to have carried $5,000,000 n gold. The diver sent down tc Fork on her borrowed the key to the 1 1 v..* -14 mips ISbUllg UUA, UUU AW AO ilVl iv orded whether he retrieved the gold, If the divers after an investigation iecide to attempt to float the ship, )arges are moored over her at low;ide. Nine-inch wire ropes are then jassed under it and fastened to the jarges above. As the tide rises the >arges rise with it, bringing the ship ilong, as it lies in the great wire :radle. The damaged ship is then owed into shallow water and the necissary repairs made. In the case of vessels only partly ubmerger air is sometimes pumped nto her hold, diving out the water vhile the ship slowly floats to , the iurface. Occasionally it is necessary vhere the hole is not too large, to nake a great patch, float it over the lole, and then fasten it sufficiently ight in position until the ship can >e pumped out and floated. One vessel was torpedoed .in the Channel-, but almost reacnea tne ihore before it went down. * When it inally sank it was exposed at low ;ide, and not so very far from a rail oad. Heavy locomotives pulled the ,'essel into a perpendicular position tnd she was finally refloated. While these salvage operations lave lieen remuneratively successful, eaders in tne maustry aeciare tnax t is next to impossible to save a <hip lying in water deeper than her Tiasts, and that very many ships will lever be brought hp. But they do itchen Cabinet thai saves miles oate Owner r Kitchi it WKKm . HOOSIER Prices are so low that every own this scientific kii inv its orrpnt rnnvAiiii No other cabinet s no other combines j Hoosier's capacity is struction extra qualit This is the cabin< should have?the one ed. To delay orderii and energy. Come ai and prove this fact f places you under no < NGES wr HOME <H lain NO HOPE FOR TAX DODGERS. I Washington, July 3.?Tax dodgers rich and poor, were promised the fall i limit of the law by Commissioner of [ Internal Revenue Roper in a state, ment today commenting on the re.1 cent conviction in Boston of William ; A. English and John. H. O'Brien, .'wool merchants, who returned their i1 taxes at $109,000 instead of $1,379,>1 817. i1 "It is our determined policy," Mr. ; P.oper said, "that wealth shall not inj fluence to prevent willful tax dodgt: ers from going to jail. The big and .'financially able must be treated in i the same way as the small willful vioijlator and hence compromise through . money will be rejected." Mr. Roper said the government re-fused to allow English and O'Brien J to pay $1,500,000 to escape prison : sentence. Civil proceedings will be .< begun immediately by the government to collect the tax due from the ' twn men and 100 npr rent additional ,! penalty. J , GAS SERVICE STATION AT FORD GARAGE ,| E. F. Arnold, agent for Ford cars i In Abbeville, will open a gas service j station this week in front of his gaj rage on The Square. It will a visible .jgas service station, electrically oper' ated. Patrons can see the amount of ' gasoline that they get and all chance , for disputes will be obviated. The plant is made by the Guarantee Liquid Measure Co., of Pitts ! bugh, Pa., and will be the only one of its kind in Abbeville. The capacity of the station will be 1,000 gal' Ions. An oil service will also be maintained by Mr. Arnold. not despair as to the cargo if the ship lies in less than 200 feet of water. Divers can operate with comparative ease at that depth. Manu cnilora r*?PMvfclv demobilized j;have cast their lot with the govern; ment salvage corps or with some one , of the private corporations which have taken up the work. The pay is I good, while there is always an ele, ment of danger. of steps f?{lPI fO-lfllH 9 -=p ' \s m \ I /. y* *" t * t and Hoosier terms ' housewife can easily t^hen helper and eiisnce. aves so many steps? >11 a 4-a in vrauicu i^okiuvs* extra large; its cony st every housewife i you have long wanttg means wasted time id inspect them today or yourself. A visit >bligation whatever. < rTFITTERS Abbeville, S- C. |n CATARRH OF HEAD, N08E AND THROAT KEPT HER HAWKING ALL THE TIME. DRECO GAVE RELIEF. Read the words of Mrs. W. O. Bo ho, who resides at 348 Oak Street, Athens, Ga., one of the most highly respected women of that community "Dreco is nnnaralleled for relipv ing pain, sickness and suffering. one knows how I suffered from that^R n awful catarrh of the head, nose andH stomach, and the collection of mucu^H in my stomach, which nauseated txu^H and caused vertigo and ringing noise^B in my head that nearly drove m^H mad. When I rose in the morning almost vomited from the dropping^B that would cause me to gulp an<^H ' swallow. My throat and tonsils be^H came raw?all swollen and red. felt miserable all over; tired and nex^H vous. H "When I read about Dreco it mean^H nothing to me except a medicine spo^H !?:_! 1 i- At- *i - ft.cn uigny ui, uut, un my; K is different now. I want to tell you al^H take it like I did, and see. You wi^H be convinced and overjoyd by th^H results." MB Dreco is made from juices and e;^Hj tracts of many medicinal herta^H plants which act on the vital org&n^H in a pleasant and prompt manenr. Dreco' is highly recommended i^H Abbeville by P. B. Speed, Druggist.^! inc. L-uiirc.l/li\A 1 n. lull&uc^h No. 62 Broad Street, jH CHARLESTON, S. C. 9H A Boarding and Day School f<^H Girls. H| Begins its session October 1, ldl^Hj Historic Institution situated in j^H healthy location. HB Advantages of City life, with larg^H College yard for outdoor sports. HB3 A WELL PLANNED COURSE studies in a homelike atmosphere. A BUSINESS COURSE open Seniors, and Elective courses to iors and Seniors. Two Domestic Science Coursc^fB giving practical and theoretic knov^H edge of cooking. A well equipped Library. BH For Catalog and further inform^H tion apply to the CoHege. 7-8-13 weeks. |^H