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:,y ~ WUWIfMfliimi , Aim WIT #F T2AN8QBMA#1 Washington, May 7.?'Chickens will esie homa to roost". Tht pcacs treaty summary today ipbasizes this adage with painstaking exactness as far as Germany is encerued. All of the spectres of the triumphant military days of 1914 to 1918 are coming back to haunt the enemy as the inexorable law of retribution acts in this case. Excluding the major damage of the war, Germany will have to pay for all other damages done to civilians and their property. Seven categories, listed as follows, provide for this: a?Damages by personal injury to civilians caused by acts of war, directly or indirectly. b?Damage caused to civilians by acts of cruelty ordered by the enemy and to civilians in occupiec^/territory. c?Damages caused by maltreatment of prisoners. d?Damages to the allied peoples represented by pensions and reparation allowances, capitulated at the signature of this treaty. e?Damages to property other than I naval or military materials. f?Damages to civilians by being forced to labor. e?Damages in the form of levies or fines imposed by the enemy. The bombing of a unfortified city, the severity practiced by German commanders in occupied cities of France and Belgium, the horrors of the German prison camps, the "slave" ' labor forcibly taken to Germany from France and Belgium?these are all counts in the damage indictment against the republic of Germany. ? \ Tnctin MpfJrath ) Washington, May 7.?On the anniversary of the day that a ?fermai| Uboat sank the Lusitania, the supreme crime against humanity that history records, the plenipotentiaries of the German empire were handed at Versailles by the representatives of the victorious allies and the United States 1 the most exacting and humiliating treaty a great nation has ever beer called upon to sign. It was at Versailles that the German empire was proclaimed in 1871 It had 48 years of power and pros perity. It was gradually achieving commercial supremacy throughou the world. But its amDitious emperor, its military leaders and its junke] class were unsatisfied. They wishec to achieve quickly by a bold strok< of force the world preeminence which they might have gained grad ually by adhering to the policies the: \had pursued so successfully in peace They tried to hack their wa3 through humanity to the covetec place i? the sun, with the result tha' they have brought the German peoph dark days which will endure for generations. When the uermans sign tne ireaij handed to them at Versailles today Germany will have bidden a lonf farewell to all her greatness. Th< restrictions and burdens placed upoi her are such that her place in the family of nations is certain for ? great number of years to be subordi nate to that of the nations which arc imposing the conditions of peace. The 80,000-word peace treaty is divided into fifteen sections. President Wilson had his way aboul the league of nations covenant. Th* prtwnnnt is the> first section of the treaty. The other sections are these: Defining the frontiers of Germany in Europe. European political clauses. Extra European political clauses. Military, naval and air terms. Responsibilities for the war. Prisoners of war and military graves. Reparations, financial and econo mic terms, which take up two sec tions. The labor covenant. The section on guarantees. Final clauses. The terms which the treaty impose: upon Germany, not only clip the wing: of the Prussian eagle, but draw hi; claws and deprive liim of much of hi: plumage. THE "TIGER" OF FRANCE LAYS DOWN THE LAW TO GERMAN! In Tersailles Where the German Em pire Was Born 48 Years Ago on th Ruins of France to a Day the Yen erable Statesman Told the Ger mans "We Have Come to Settle On] Account". Trianon Palace, Versailles, May 7 ?One. two, three, comes tho nieio (Mous clung or cliui-cl: bells. A bus! of solemnity settles over the illus trous assemblage?the tribunal o civilization?gathered here to rende jvjgmeiit upon Germany. Warn rays of a resplendent spring sun an flooding the room. All eyes arr> fixer v upon the shurg3*-mcustached pugna' cious face of the man in the presiding *6at. Bat for tk? jubilant twitt?ri*g' f< of birds out is lb* palaM park th?. f< silence is supreme. j ti An American newspaperman scrib-' e bles something on a sheet of paper j v and shly shoves it to his neighbor j tl who reads: "Just occurred to me Lusitania was s sunk exactly four years ago today", j p - One, two, three, tolls a straggling; steeple bell. The man in the presid- j ^ ing chair, Georges Clemenceau, rises i v with calm, deliberate dignity and an- tl nounced: - s "The session is open". | Again this foe of phrases astounds j c the diplomatic world steeped in super- j jj fluous verbiage. For that is all he c says bv way of caling history's most i ? : o momentous gathering to order. First ^ it is almost like a shock to many of f the veterah statesmen: then all seem|c to heave a sigh of relief. His direct-: s ness and simplicity were reminiscent g of the way he opened the first session 1 j. of the supreme war council, in the darkest hour of the conflict, when! i c Foch was made allied generalissimo. ! c The man who wasted no words in the: ? o war would not squander sophistries j ^ in making peace. Germany's Delegates Enter. In a flash all eyes switched from?^ France's "Tiger" to the door flung | . , U wide open by two liveried attendants, j. One by one the names of Germany's j delegates were announced as they, entered. The last one in Clemncau'k began in French: "Gentlemen, plenipotentiaries of!1] the German empire: j 0 "It is neither the time nor the place for superflous words". \ s Then the venerable prime minister j d of France "laid down the law" to the r German representatives. "We have * come to settle our account" was one; of his crisp sentences. His speech had: in it a touch of grimness and here and ; ^ , there it contained a subtle" emphasis r of the fact that the Germans mus{ not c i think they can bargain with the t . victors; that the treaty in its essen- 1 ; tials is, as far as the Allies are con-j ( 5 cerned, final. !c He told them almost in so many i words to "put their complaints in ^ writing" and gave them 15 days in ( - which tp make up their minds, prom- * . ising every facility and the "courtesy I - that is the privilege of civilized na-j1 ; tions". Their observations, he said, ( t must be . written in French and' - English1. -1 r As soon as he had finished, the j 1 French premier handed a khaki-bound ? copy of the treaty to M. Dutastaj i secretary-general of the conference, - who in turn, presented it to Count; 7 von Brockdorff-Rantzeau, assuring! i. him he and his colleagues could havej 7 as many more as would be needed. 1 Through a window near where the, t newspaper men sat could be seen a! j steeple clock. Its fingers pointed toj - exactly 13 minutes after 3 when M. | Dutasta handed the document' to i7 Hantzau. , mat an, paie? snarp-ieaiureu ans-j l tocrat lost no time in replying to M. i Clemenceau. A shadow had seemed to j 1 fall across his face when the premier ( i said the Germans could make no oral! i observations. Upon a matching of wits! - in debate he and his colleagues pre-] 1 j sumably had pinned fond hopes. Some! of the count's fellow-delegates had, - exchanged disappointed glances when! the "tiger" in his decisive way shat-j t tered those hopes. | ? Count Brockdorff must have decided i in that moment to speak out then and there all of the "guiding thoughts" 1 which he and his peace work partner, r Count von Bernstorff, had been "out ?? xi lining oeiweeu uitsuiiseiv.es xu uciuu| for many weeks. His speech was a! long one. It was a curious mixture j of bitterness, defiance and assurances of Germany's repentant and concilia' tory mood. In the body o| his first and last "oral - observations" Brockdorff revealed the j - basis on which Germany plans to build j the whole structure of all her arguments for modifications; that by accepting the Wilsonian 14 points shej and her adversaries entered into a; 3 virtual international pact which is in-1 s violable. He flatly called it a "treaty",! 3 and by way of appealing to public s opinion in all countries?and such an appeal rang throughout his peroration?he declared "the conscience of the world is behind it; there is no na-1 $ tion which might violate it without' punishment". Veiled threats were not lacking in e the count's speech. He warned .his | . bearers that "it would cost the world - dear if hatred and despair shall seize r the German people" in case the ques-| tion of the German prisoners is not I "immediately" solved. ! He hinted too at a "crash" that; - might cause "irretrievable disorder i .1 of the whole European economic sys tern". i f lie extolled the league of nations! I r as the "sublime" thought to be deriv-} i cd fron^ the war. c Tort of Clfincnccau's Speech. \ "Gov.\semen, plenipotentiaries of - the German empire: ; "It "s : o;.o i'r.ie nor tiie i;Iace; 3r superfluous words. You har? be-1 are you the accredited plenipoten-j ] iaries of .all the small and great pow-j , rs united to fighl together in the, , ;ar that was cruelly imposed uponj hem. '"The time has come when we must! ettle our accouts. You have asked forj eace. We are ready to give you peace.1 "We shall present to you now a book j fhich contains our conditions. Youj rill be given every facility to examine j [iese conditions and the time neces-j ary for it. "Everything will be done with the' ourtesy that is the privilege of civi-j ized nations. To give you my thought i ompletely, you will find us ready to! ive you any explanation you want, i ut we must say at the ?ame time that j his second treaty of Versailles has ost us too much not to take on our, ide all the necessary precautions and uarantees that the peace shall be a isimjr peace. "I will give you notive of the pro-j etlure that has been adopted by the ! onference for discussion and if any-1 ne has any observations to offer they, rill have the right to do so. 1)..A /'nmlllointc ill IVrltilllT. X Uli VVjiifiuimo in m*iwi.s. , "No oral discussion is to take place,! nd the observations of the German j elegation will have to be submitted' 1 writing. I "The German plenipotentiaries will' now that they have the maximum pe- j iod of 15 days within which to present; a English and French their written j bservations on the whole treaty. "Beofre the expiration of the aforeaid period of 15 days the German elegates will be entitled to send their! eply on particular headings of the' reaty or to ask .questions in regard, o them. "Alter having examined their obser-j ations presented within the afore-! nentioned period, the supreme coun-' :il will send their answer in writing o the German delegation and deternine the period within which the final word garbled) must be given by this. lelegation. "The president wished to add that:' * irhen we receive, after two or three >r four or five days, any observation ! rom the German delegation on any i joint, of the treaty, we shall not wait; mtfl the end of the 15 days to give j >ur answer. "We shall at once proceed in the way j indicated by this document". ?.? I emcftM'c \/mnr im RPnnRns! tutouil O IUIUU 111 Iibwuvw; \ ' j Inventor of Phonograph, for the First "Time, Makes Short Speech Which i Will Be Preserved. Thomas A. Edison, who invented the phonograph 42 years ago, has for the! first time consented to have his own voice recorded on a phonograph record. The reproduction, which is on I the back of a record containing the national anthems of our allies, was heard recently for the first time in the Edison laboratory at Orange, N. J. Mr. Edison celebrated his 72nd birthday on February 11. The talk, which is Mr. Edison's first comment about ! the war since America entered the fight, follows: "Our boys made good in France. ml ???1 1 I ninmnfln' Kdc n nam mPHTl J. lie WUI U diuciuau n?o u ??>,?? .... Ing In Europe. Our soldiers have made j It mean courage, generosity, self- j restraint and modesty. We are proud j of the North Americans who risked I their lives for the liberty of the world, | but we must not forget, and we must ; not permit demagogues to belittle the j part plnyed by our gallant allies, j Their casualty lists tell the story. "However proud ?ve may be of our j own achievements, let us remember always that the wnr could not have been won if the Belgians, British. French j and Italians had not fought like bull- j dogs in the face of overwhelming i odds. The great war will live vividly j in the minds of Americans for the j next 100 years. I hope that when we \ do reverence to the memory of our j brave boys who fell in France we j shall not forget their orotners in arms i who wore the UDiforms of our allies. "I believe that the national airs of j France. Great Britain. Italy and Bel- j gium should for all time to come be as j familiar to us as our own 'Star- i Spangled Banner.'" BRIDAL FLOWERS HERE AGAIN That Orange Blossoms Are in the j Market Is a Sure Harbinger of World Peaoe. One interesting sign of the coming j of peaca has been the reappearance of j real orange blossoms at weddings, j tvqr> tVio? T?or? fO i X'UllUg MiC TT UA IUV.J - - . obtain, owing to the fact that they | come as a rule from France. Nearly i all the orange flowers which are used! at smart marriages in London and; Paris are grown in the sheltered val- J leys of the Alps Maritimes behind the Riviera. Hero there are orchards of orange trees scattered over the sunny slopes, rnd the local peasantry devote most of their time to growing the beautiful flowers. >To attempt is made to get the fruit, seeing that the orange trees are solely cultivated for the sake of the glistening blooms. A large part of th<* floral ever; find IIS V.TiY Ml I lit- iJvmn.n i..? Grasse, hut the choicest tfrn-ty? picked for tbt L?*d?n sb4 Park ?t?r-| k?*ts. Oranjfe fl?w?r* kevp fresh f?r a | reasi'Vrj'Mr end !h?T stand f!i?|F }?uri "V ft. Knr'iwd very arriving j. Itt pvrfcet etiiiili; ion.?Loin'oii Ntw*. ; j ' c Kanparoo Scored Knockout. j "Ned Kell.v. the *>I<1 bivk kangnro*, fens been having ? fijrlit witb the bos?j st?* of the axis* deer herd," said Ser-ic geant MeOee of tfie San Francise?' park police, "and it is the first tira? T ever heard *?f two herbivorous animals so widely different In species j finding connnon ground for a quarrel, j "As a matter of fact, it was rlie j axis deer that started tlin trouble.', He was trying to show ofl" before thf-j* does and carted buftin? at poor old! Ned Kelly who was peacefully lol-M loping about with no thought forji trouble. T;-? first butt of tlx1 deer j set Ned thinking. the second set.him j marl, the third?well. Net! Kelly just! 1 turned about and gave tin* axis d.vr one wallop under the stomach with ( its tail. You could hone the smack five blocks away, and it simply " knocked the deer fiat. It dropped a."; * if It had been shot. while Ned Kell.v just hopped away as happy as a bird." i < One Thing More. A pretty jrirl fluttered over to a .? neighbor's house Minciay iasi u? mir- row some writing: paper. She had an important letter to write and mail, and she was out of stationery. About half an hour later she returned for , an envelope, and a little later still | j came back for a stamp. "Well, I hope j that's all she wants to borrow today," said the disgruntled neighbor woman as she slammed the door after the pretty girl. "?he needs a little 'spit' to make the stamp adhere," said the i neighbor woman's husband "and she'll j nffor thnf- in ft minute."? ! V ? VI ... _ Arkansas Thomas Cat (Hot Springs,!! Ark.). , ^ J (1^ SAVES LABOR ^ U SAVES TIME M WkSMfES SOAPjW I Conde The Natioi Newb From report Showing Conditio] i RESOURCES I Loans and Investments' . . . i Liberty Bonds and Treasury Cer& cates of Indebtedness . . . United States Bonds .... % Cash and due from Banks and United States Treasury . . THE NATIONS B. C. MATTHEWS, President. State, Conn | Memhz'i I B ! mmm - ' ? ?' r~ NOTICE. j A *otie# to the carpenteri that n?w , Snore# Baptist church is let out fo' >r.i!d to the lowest responsible bid- ! ler on the 10th of May, 1919, at 10:00 j ;'clock on Enoree church grounds J I :>lease come to see us. We want he church hulled in. covered, windiwb, doers, floor in, and pulpit. Respectfully committee, C. C. Glenn, S. W. Wilsoi. M. M. Marshall, T> V Palriwpll A. Suber. Cewberry, S. C., April 21, 1919. . station for Letters of Administration [HE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Newberry. l3v W. F. Ewart, Probate Judge: Whereas, .T. A. Dominick made suit to me to grant him Letters of Administration of the estate and effects of Andrew P. Dominick. These are, therefore, to cite and ad i nonish all and singular the Kindred )nd Creditors of the said Andrew P. Dominick, deceased, that they be and appear before me, in the Court of Probate, to be held at Newberry on n? 10*1. /Iiitt n# \fov riOYt r Tiuay, lilt: lutii uttj vi , ^v~v, Make This Bank li The Armies i Mustered Ou but the dollc ed in" in ord permanent < HAVE YOU B VICTOR I TL/\ F < 1 lie IJAVIU Of Newb "The Bank of 1844 nsftd Stat I OF tial Bank o( erry, South Ca : to the Comptroller of t 1 a at the Close of Bus $ 975,413.18 Capital Stock . Sophs and Unc 215,373.13 Circalation . 100,000.00 Deposte Bills Payable (.? Bonds) 93,089.65 B& Payable ai $1,383375.98 * ? ^ ? mTwr An mini 1 MM UI* Nfcl T. K. JOHNSTONE, Cashier. 2 L<L^ Ave r Federal Reserve after publ.'catiom ktreof, at 11 o'cletfc ^ in the forenooa, to show causa, * 1 any they hare, why the said Ad?^- m istration should not be granted. fl Given under my hand this 25th <ar 1 of April, Anno Domiai 1919. j W. F. Ewart, A P. J. N. C. 1 NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT ' % Notice i3 hereby given that the undersigned will make final settlement of the estate of Solomon Levine. deceased, in the Probate Court of Newberry county, South Carolina, on 1 Monday, May 26. 1919, at 11 o'clock 4 in the forenoon, and will immediately jM thereafter apply to the Probate Judg^fll Newberry county for a discharg^^Bj as the administrator of said e^^^B jtate. All persons having claims ^ against said estate wJll file same, * properly proven, with Blease anJ Blease. Attorneys at Lav,-, Newberry S. C., and all persons indebted to saiog J estate will make immediate paymei*^B to said attorneys. Ml Harry Vigodsky, ^H| Qualified Administrator of the es- ^ tate of Solomon Levine, deceased. J Newberry, S. C., April 19, 1919. i 'our Business Home i' 1 irs must be "muster- I ler to arrange for a W md lasting Peace. > OUGHl YOUR Y BOND? j i r * r ange Bank I' >erry> S. C. : the People" # J 'l I \ i . j ement ? MaurLamr f? iicnuciij.ttrolina l he Currency ;iness March 4,1919 / 1 L I ABILITIES ' A $ 100,600.00 lirided Profits . . 30,962.06 ..... 100,000.00 [ 726,216.07 I secured by liberty 0 177,000.00 i J m) Rediscamte 249,(97.83 JjM -?U $1,383,875.96 I ^ VBERKY. S. C. ]| W. VV. ^KUiVJLILK H Assistant Cashier. Depository Svsfem \k ? ' i i