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ABOUT 5,000,000 DEAD IN BATTLING ARMIES New York.-From a careful study of what has been made public regarding casualties In the three years of war, lt appears that about 5,000,000 combatants have lost their lives and about 5,000,000 have been killed, cap tured, reported missing or so badly wounded that they can not return to the front. This takes no account of the millions of slightly wounded men. The table below gives the losses of all the fighting nations in killed and in men put out of the struggle by death, wounds, sickness or capture: ENTENTE ALLIES. Total Killed captured or permanently Incapacitated Killed, for lighting. Great Britain.... 300,000 765,000 France . 975,000 2,060,000 Russia .1560,000 4,600,000 Italy .". 120.000 260.000 Belgliu*. 55.000 120.000 Serbia. 66,000 100,000 Roumanla . 100,000 250.000 Montenegro . 6,000 30.000 Portugal. Small Small United States. . Japan . SmaU Small Totals ..2,178,000 8,175,000 CENTRAL POWERS. Germany .?2,120,000 4.550,000 Austria . 620.000 2,000,000 Turksy ._.. 146.000 ?0,000 Bulgaria . 9.000 24,000 Totals tot both aides ..5,072,000 15.699,009 ?B0PE FAILS; STEW DOES IT 8u5oide Uncertain With ?War Subttl.j , tut??," I? Experience of Hot jjfcwisj-iJ?? : Amsterdam.-A Prague newspaper relates the story of an artist there who lound it impossible to kill himself with (poison or a rope, but succeeded in his .elm by eating a restaurant stew. The newspaper's account of the tragedy is -as follows: "Tired of Ufe at forty-five, the ar tist procured a portion of a violent poison and tried to poison himself with it In vain he awaited a fatal .effect, and on the following day had the remains of the vial analyzed. It was a Var substitute* poison. He then ?procured a rope and hanged himself, font the rope was made o? paper pulp, and lt broke. The twofold failure of his attempt 1 .-at suicide the man regarded as a sign] of fate, and a fresh joy In life inspired j ?him. Proceeding to a certain well known restaurant he ordered and con : sn med an alleged meat stew. It was :a *war Substitute' stew, and two hours Mrs. Helen Hill Weed, daughter of ?the Connecticut congressman, who by .her clever defense of herself and her ; twelve sister-suffragettes has won the ; admiration of the court and all mern jbers of the bar who followed with in terest their trial for "obstructing the f traffic" In front of the White House I recently. 1 This ardent suffragist took upon her ?self the duties of counsel ??nd won ?great favor with the lawyers by her ?skillful cross-examinations. Mrs. Weed ?never studied law in her life but she ?certainly made things hum some In the (Washington courtroom. Despite her strong defense, the suf jfragists were adjudged guilty and fined !$25 apiece. Two of the ladies paid, ?the other eleven electing to serve three ?days in jail-the alternative. Mrs. [Weed was one of the eleven to choose j jail. Upon their release they were roy ially feted by the woman's party in the (capital. jSLACKER SPOUSE BEATEN UP Chicago Bride Brings War's Horror Home to Husband and Lands Him in Hospital : Chicago.-The first of the slacker 'marriages here to make public appear ance on the domestic junk pile was re corded at a hospital when Conrad Jef fers, twenty-nine, was brought tn with .his skull fractured by hammer blows and his throat cut "He married me two months ago to escape the draft," explained Mrs. Jef fers. "I found out that he was a slack er and we quarrelled all the time. We ihad hours of it last night and finally when he was asleep I got a hammer and razor and went after him." , Jeffers is in a critical condition. BRIGHTER OUTLOOK IN CHINA. Civil war In China, which a few weeks ago seemed Imminent, has been averted by compromise, and the split which threatened to destroy the re public is likely to be healed without leaving any serious scar. The Chi nese have had their taste of civil war, and are in no mood for another experience. The militarists and the southern constitutionalists are each extending olive branches, and the election of a new parliament will doubtless put an end to their troubles. But if China Is averse to civil war, she ls unquestionably eager for partici pation In the war against Germany. The constitutionalists, who see in a German triumph the downfall of con stitutional democracy throughout the world, are as strong for war as are the leaders of the military party, says Cleveland Plain Dealer. If there Is any antiwar party In China Its numbers are small. The trouble at Peking arose largely because of the desire of each party to assume responsibility for the conduct of the war. The parlia ment resented any attempt to act with out its authorization, while the anti parliamentarians sought to put the re sponsibility in the hands of a military clique. Plans alone won't win the war, but there ls satisfaction in the reflection .that all our war plans have been big, tv.-o-fis ted plans, unhesitatingly adopt ed, says Philadelphia Press. When we set about filling a war chest we poured $2,000,000,000 Into lt as a first 'installment When we set about rais ing an army we enrolled about 10,000, 000 young men from which to choose. Red Cross necessity presented itself, and so we raised more than a hundred .million dollars for that In a single week. About shipbuilding we have been a bit slow In starting, but before Jong we shall have that project work ing on a liberal and comprehensive scale. That ls the American way. ..War will nevar be outgrown until women take a greater part hi all hu man life and processes,** was the con clusion reached by Charlotte Perkins Gllm?n In her discussion of the gen eral subject of "War and the World Hope." Mrs. Gilman reasoned that be* cause the Ufe of the world ls dominated la great part by men, and because It ls the natural masculine Instinct to fight for the pure love of fighting, our humanity ls a fighting humanity, says Springfield Republican. The human processes of life have been denied to that this shall not occur now. The food and the discipline of the children will be looked after to the end that the ^babies of the war period may be aa perfect as those of any other time In our history. . At first there was a bit of tremor in the thought of sending men to France. But the welcome accorded ?our vanguard and the enthusiasm for the cause aroused by those Americans in the midst of a people fighting for existence and for civilization, ls cer 'tain to set burning in the heart of j every red-blooded young American the ?desire to get over and be in the thick of the excitement. A statistician reports that the pur chasing price of money is declining so that a dollar was equivalent to 47.8 cents in April, compared with 48.6" jcents in March and 50.3 In February. ;We defy him to figure out how long It will be before a dollar ls worth nothing. A plea made in defense by the traf* Ackers in the necessaries of life In this crisis ls that they are human. But the men who make the greatest sac rifices for their country and their fel low-men are human also. Uncle Sam has bought 200,000 wind proof shirts for his bluejackets. A wind-proof shirt may be fine for blue Jackets, but a laundry-proof shirt would find a bigger market All we have to do to deal with the spy effectually is to study Germany's method of dealing with those found within her own borders. The amount of butter fat in the city's milk supply may be slipping somewhat but the price ls holding up good and strong. "Do not despise prunes," says a writer on food topics. "They are nour ishing.*' They have nourished the Joke smiths for years. Inventors with schemes that will really put the submarine out of busi ness need not fear the competition. Haig doesn't take a town until he ls prepared to hold lt It is a system that Baves bother. IN "PRUNE STREET PRISON" Some Well-Known Men Were Confined in Philadelphia Jail When Impris onment for Debt Prevailed. The terms "Prune street prison" may be more readily understood by a read er if he shall simply bear in mind that Prune street was once the name of what ls now Locust street from Fourth to Sixth, the change having been made about, probably, forty years ago, says the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. As to the prison, it existed on the north side of Prune street and ended below Sixth and was in the nature of an extension of the Walnut street pris on at the southeast corner of Sixth and Walnut streets. At a time when im prisonment for debt was a punishment under the law of Pennsylvania, the Prune street prison was used chiefly for that purpose. In the latter part of the eighteenth century and the ear ly part of the nineteenth, it sometimes contained many well known as well as humble men who were unable to meet the demands of their creditors. Rob ert Morris was one of the prisoners for several years. During the prolong ed period of his dispensation In trying to stave off the swarms of Importunate men to whom he owed money, he would sometimes speak or write of "Prune street" as if the jail loomed np before him like a thing of dread. While Mor ris was there, William B. Wood, the eminent actor, whose long life was af terward associated with the first and the second Chestnut street theater, was one of his companions in misery. HUMAN FACE ON CRAB'S BACK Queer Legend ls Attached to an Oddi ty of Nature Which Is Found in Japanese Waters, ' ? crab with a human face ls one of the oddities to be found in Japanese waters. Not only that, but the face ls surprisingly like that of a Japanese warrior in the "old, unhappy, far-off days of the post" This face is formed hy the strange figuration of the crab's back. To see one of the creatures cradling on the sand ls to see what, apparently is a human face moving across the beach. According to Japanese history, the nation was beset hy a plague of piracy a few centuries ago, says the New York World. The coasts were ravaged, vessels sunk and terror spread gener ally by marauding sea rovers. Then the people organized a fleet and set out to exterminate the pirates. A great battle followed in which all of the freebooters were slain. At this point legend steps In. It ls j said that nnt in?? ?#*?- *?-- ?--". How a Bullet Drops. In what position does a rifle bullet return to earth? In order to solve the problem a special stand was erected in Germany recently, and experiments were carried on along the shores of a lake the surface of which was frozen, says the Popular Science Monthly. The Ice" was covered with strong plaaks. It was shown that an infantry rifle bullet shot upward in a vertical direc tion passes downward in the same po sition In which lt passed upward-In other words, It came back again to earth with Its bottom first Why was lt not upset at its culmi nation point? The answer is that the propelling force ceases to act at the culmination point. But the twist has as yet not stopped, and therefore it starts Its fall with a twist Even on Impact the twist has not stopped, as was indicated by the warping of the wood fibers in the planking on the ice. Dogs Must Leave England. Man's faithful friend, the dog, Is being driven from England, because he eats too much, said John Forbes of this city, who recently returned from Liverpool, says the Cleveland Press. With famine threatening the British Isles, dogs are being sent away, espe cially to the United States. "Every member of royalty, who kept Immense kennels, has given up these dogs," said Forbes. "I could have had a fine blooded Irish setter for $5 if I bad the arrangements for carrying the dog home. Members of our crew pur chased some fine dogs, among them Pomeranians, which they brought to this country." The Nautilus. ' The nautilus ls a flat spiral shell four to six Inches in diameter which In the adult shell has two and one-half colls. It is gracefully turned and deli cately built, pearly within and porcela neous without. The original specimens, before they have been cleaned and pol ished, have cross-bands marking their exterior of a reddish-brown color. Op posite' the opening of the shell, the coll bears a large patch of black, and there is also a narrow bond of black lining the edge of the opening. A Social Leveler. The vegetable wugon is a great lev eler and we notice when it comes around in the morning and the neigh bor wom/en meet at lt that those whose husbands make $3,500 a yeur chat very pleasantly with those whose husbands make only $100 a month. Columbus (O.) Journal. Abbeville-Greenwood Mu tual Insurance Associ ation. Organized 1892. Property Insured $2,500,000. WRITE OR CALL on the un dersigned for any information you may desire about our plan of insur ance. We insure your property against destruction by FIRE, WINDSTORM or LIGHT NING . . > and do so cheaper than any Com pany in existence. Remember, we are prepared to prove to you that ours is the eafest and cheapest plan of insurance known. Our Association is now licensed to write Insurance in the counties of Abbeville, Greenwood, McCor mick, Laurens and Edgefield. The officers are: Gen. J. Frasei Lyon, President, Columbia, S. C. J. R. Blake, Gen. Agt., Secy. <fc Treas., Greenwood, S. C. DIRECTORS. A. O. Grant, Mt. Carmel, S. C. J. M. Gambrell, Abbeville, S. C. Jno. H. Childs, Bradley, S. C. A. W. Youngblood, Hodges, S. C. S. P. Morrah, Willington, S. C. L.N. Chamberlaia, McCormick, S.C. R. H. Nicholson, Edgefield, S. C. F.L.Timmerman, Pln't. Lane, S. C. J. C. Martin, Princeton, S. C. W. H. Wharton, Waterloo, S. C. J. R. BLAKE, Gen. Agt. Greenwood, S. C. Jan. 1st. 1917. Southern Railway Company. Columbia, S.C, July 23, 1917. BULLETIN: To All Concerned: Effective Tuesday, July 24, will restore service between Trenton and Edgefield as follows: EXTRA. Lv. Trenton . . . . 8.00 A.M. Lv. Parkhill .... 8:10 A. M. Ar. Edgefield . . . 8:20 A.M. EXTRA. Lv. Edgefield . . 8:46 A.M. Lv. Paikhill . . . 8:55 A.M. ju?, uaviiuaui . . ll'.iO A.?Tri. Lv. Eureka . . . 11:50 A.M. Lv. Milledgeville . . 11:55 A.M. Lv. Lakeview . . . 12:03 P.M. Lv. Crofts . . . . 12:09 P.M. Lv. Pineridge Camp . 12:19 P.M. Ar. Aiken .... 12:25 P.M. No. Ill mixed between Edgefield and Trenton. NO. 132 MIXED. Lv. Aiken . . . 12:55 P.M. Lv. Pineridge Camp . 12:59 P.M. Lv. Crofts .... 1:09 P.M. Lv. Lake View . . . 1:15 P.M. Lv. Milledgeville . . 1:25 P.M. Lv. Eureka . . . *. 1:34 P.M. Lv. Baynham . . . 1:42 P.M. Lv. Trenton .... 1:55 P.M. Lv. Parkhill . . . .2:15 P.M. Ar. Edgefield ... 2:25 P.M. NO. 131 MIXED. Lv. Trenton . . . 1:15 P.M. Lv. Baynham ... 1:25 P.M. Lv. Eureka . . . . 1:34 P.M. Lv. Milledgeville . , 1:41 P.M. Lv. Crofts .... 1:55 P.M. Lv. Pineridge Camp . 2:08 P.M. Ar. Aiken .... 2:15 P.M. No. Ill, 131. 132 make flag 6tops above stations except Trenton which is a stop. Time shown as informa tion only and confers no rights. B. W. BROOKS, Chief Dispatcher. CITATION State of South Carolina ) Court of County of Edgefield. \ C ommon Pleas. W. M. Rowland, Plaintiff; vs. Lucy Philpot, Defendant. Notice to Creditors to file and prove claims. All persons having claims against the Estate of Charitv Philpot, Jr., will please take notice that they are required by Order of Court in above cause to file and prove same before me on pr before the 1st day of October next, (191V), or their claims will be forever barred thereafter as provided in said Decree, as to any and all funds now in my hands as Master in re the above stated cause. J. H. Cantelou, Master for Edgefield County. Dated July 13, 1917. r Warm-Weather ? Toggery We call the attention of the boys and men to our light-weight, warm weather garments-just what you need during these sweltering July days. Light-weight underwear, light weight suits, light-weight extra trousers, light-weight coats. Also see our stylish oxfords. Everything to help you keep cool at DORN & MIMS Don't Poison Your Child With that Sickening Calomel. It is almost a crime to dose children fers with them ia school and did not gripe frith Calomel-that nauseating, pois- ,ike Iiver med?c?ne formerly med. My young _. , , ... .... est child, three years old, was sick last sum cnous mineral that some folks still j . , . . . ... www Hum?*. uu? TT? *v??o ow** mef ,n(j lt toojj careful nursing and the at Ihink is the one thing that will relieve tention of physicians to sare him, and I am Constipation, headache and Other bil- sure that a few doses of Martin's Lirer ions conditions. I wouldn't give Calo- M?di?ne has prevented a recurrence of the md to . doc -1- I wanted to UH it. ^?T^ uj& When you need liver or Stoma : ; Lirer Medicine did in my home,1* medicine, nse a safe, guaranteed veg- You run no risk in buying Martin's etahle preparation like Martin's Liver Liver Medicine. It is a recognized Medicine. It tastes good. It acts 8tandard preparation, made according powerfully on the liver and bowels to "r"0""-"f5/w. - prominent s composed ind is guar* satisfaction, f it you aro t, carry the .uggist and sack. i't Martin's ?ery siuggisn. i gave eacn ot tnem a aose Liver Medicine,1 he can easily get it of Martin's Llrer Medicine night and morn- for Do not accept any Substi ing for two days. Their complexions cleared . n/and they are now normal children in tute. There IS no Other med*** .??rr respect. The medicine did not inter- "just SS good. ' * For Sale by COLLETT & MITCHELL, Edgefield, S. C. Southern Railway System . An Ambition and a Record j } HTHE needs of the South are identical with the needs j ?A \ i 0f the Southern Railway! the rrowth and success of one means j 1 J I thc upbuiidinir of the other. , I Jj \ The Southern Railway asks no favors-no ipecial privilege no? J ?/ J accorded to others. ? / 5 Tbe ambition of the Southern Railway Company is to iee that , ?^t^* r Baity cf intered that is born of co-operation between the public and | j the railroad!: to see perfected that fair and frank policy in the minare- ? y ' ment of railroads which invites the confidence of eovemmental C. . agencies; to realize that liberality of treatment which will enable lt J ; to obtain the additional capital needed for the acquisition of better and yv enlarged facilities incident to the demand for increased and better J V service; and. finally- J To take its niche in tbe tody politic of the South alongside of J) other rreat industries, with no more, but with equal liberties, equal S rights and equal opportunit?s. " The Southern Serves the South." BARRETT & COMPANY (INCORPORATED) COTTON FACTORS Augusta.Georgia ?