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Sure is. The air-tight ailtcr top keepa U?? lye full - strength and always ready for instant use. The Standard for Good Lye For twenty years Red Devil Lye has been the standard for good lye. Lye must do the hard, rough work about the place. The concentrated strength of Red Devil assures quick results when there's real cleaning ^ and work to be done. Ask jtour grocer for the can with the smiling Red Devil on the label. You can depend upon every can having the same uniform strength. Red Devil is convenient to use, it is economical it sure is strong ? it is the standard for good lye. Write for Free Booklet Wm. Schield Mfg. Co., St. Louis, Mo., electric power to farmers. Kershaw and Sumter County Rural Folks Want Current. Seventy-five prominent farmers, storekeepers, saw mill and grist mill operators and other well to do white citizens betwen Camden and Boykin and between Boykin and Rembert, and between Rembert and Hagood, includ ing Boykin, Rembert and Hagodd have guaranteed to sign contracts with the Southern Power Company for use of electricity in their residences and places of business if this power com pany will put in a line from Camden to Hagood. Secretary Reardon of the Camden and .Kershaw County Cham ber of Commerce has requested the Southern Power Company to send a representative to Camden to go over the ground and to meet the citizens of Kershaw county and .westerri Sumter c ounty and talk this matter * over. Mr. A. G. Clarkson, of Boykin, has been calling on the citizens in the ter ritory above mentioned and says that many more he was unable to interview will take electric power for resi dences and other uses on the farms and in their stores, mills, gins, and are ready with the seventy-five al ready interviewed . to meet and sign contracts. The Camden and Kershaw County Chamber' of Commerce is 't^oing its best to get this power line for our friends in and around Boykin and be tween Camden and Boykin and for westerri Sumter county citizens, as this commercial organization serves all of Kershaw County and western Sumter County citizens also, hun dreds of whom trade in Camden, sell their cotton and other farm products in Camden and do their banking in Camden also. Joseph Baita, alias Joseph B. Mar cino, wanted in Massachusetts, Chi cago and Philadelphia for absconding with $250,000 funds of national banks, of which he had become the control ling official, has been arrested at Laredo, Tex., after ' evading arrest since last February. Baita was arrest ed in Mexico City about ten days ago and turned over to Texas officers at Laredo. Miss Francos S. Cox is not only president of the Special Library As sociation of New York, but is also li brarian for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. LIFE AMONG THE GERMANS (Continued From Page One) much interested and asked many ques tions concerning the ^outh. I ' told him as well as I could what living con ditions were and he seemed to think that the German farmer would be well satisfied thel;e. Thousands of them he told me were ready to migrate to any place in America, where they could make a decent living but the great trouble was they did not have the money to pay their transporta tion. It costs in American money about $100 to get a laborer to the South and in German marks that amount is a small fortune. The most prosperous farmers in the province would not be 'able to buy transporta tion. He assured me that the South could get all the intelligent, hard working farmers it needed if trans portation could be advanced. So far Germany has not exhausted its quota of immigrants. I understand that it had a margin of al>out 35,000 up to July 1st. This unusual condition i3 due to the low value of the mdrk and the high value of the American dollar. This sounds very encouraging. If the negro should continue to migrate to the North I believe the farmers of Dillon county would find little difficul ty in getting all the labor they needed right here in Germany. But the German immigrant would have to have better homes and better living conditions than are provided for the negro. Even the homes of the poorest of farmers are models of neatness and cleanli ness. It would take them sometime to get used to the food we eat. Their food is different, and it ^3 cooked in a different way. It would be imprac ticable to bring over just a few im migrants. They would not be satis fied, would become homesick and we would have a .white elephant on our hands. :I may go into other German prcflN inces and make a further study of the German or I may go into Denmark and Sweden. In the latter countries IN .tva : r % . * ?--? BlackPaste ShoePolish Positively the onlij polish that Will slilne oily or datjip shoes -No disagreeable QUANTITY j II , M? V. however, there is little prospect of , securing good farmers. They are too ' prosperous. They wero not in the war j hut on the other hind sold raw mate j ^ials to the Germans and Russians and ! made fortunes' while these countries I were at war. They were very pros perous ami too well satisfied with iheir present condition to think of migrating to ail unknown country. But I. shall write more of agricultural con ditions in these countries either while X am over here or when 1 return home, Stettin is one of Germany's oM towns. It is rich in history and I am sorry I did not have more time to Spend there, It has many beautiful parks, public buildings and quaint old streets and homes. Its atreets arc paved with cobble atones and one could shut one's eyes and imagino they were riding through the good old city of Charleston. ..?? It is far from the beaten tourist patch and Americans aro as scarce there as gold is in Germany. My young friend and I were dining in n cafe filled" with native men and wo men. The conversation . was carried on in low tones. I fired a volley of English words at my friend and every one within range of my voice turned and looked at us. We were objects of curiosity until we paid our bill and left. Onu of the show places In Stettin \s an old fortress and tower erected by the Swedes when they invaded Prussia in the 17th century during the reign of Gustavus. The fortress is crumb ling with age* but in the high tower is an old clbek that not only gives the time of da but also the day of the month. The face of the clock is a complete human face and the' seconds t are noted .by huge eyes which shift from side to side as the clock ticks. The date of the month is seen in huge figures held in the mouth. The clock works automatically and ..the date of the month shifts from day to day. It was a fine piece of mechanism and represented the expenditure 6f much time and labor. At Stettin we took a taxi and spent an hour riding around the city. The fare was only 270,000 marks or just GO cents American mon ey for the two of us. v I am back in Berlin again, the world's center of music and learning an 1 Germany's centre of art and cul ? ftme Berlin is only a sky shadow of its former self, so I am told. Great crowds throng the streets but outside of the tourists no one spends much money. They haven't got it to spend. Thure is no gold in Germany and that is the reason the mark has no value. Where the gold has gone to I do not know and neither does the average German. I have been told that lots of it went to the French, but the French claim they have received very little of it. The German ' will tell you that Germahy is ready to pay and bury the ?hatchet if the Frenchman will tell him just how much he should pay and how he should pay it, but the trouble is no definite amount of reparations money has been fixed* I am not pre pared to pass an opinion on this. I am merely giving it to you as I got it* When I get to France I will find! out what the Frenchman had to say about it. There is a strong current of unrest among the people. They do not know what tomorow will bring forth. The lower the mark goes this spirit1 of un rest manifests itself more strongly. I cannot say wha*?is going to happen. The government; is printing 3 bil lion marks every day and still the demand for the mark is greater than the supply. It is like a never ending stream. The lower the mark goes the greater the demand from all classes of tradesmen in order to keep business going, and the more marks the gov ernment prints the less value the mark has. It is likC* the frog in the well that jumps one foot each day and falls back two. At the present rate she is going Germany cannot hope to get out of the well of despair, but on the other hand sinks deeper with each passing day. The railroads are running more trains than before the war and still they are unable to handle the crowds. Railroad fares are very cheap and it seems that everybody wants to travel. Living at the hotels is very cheap but living on the trains is much cheap er, and I do not see how the railroads manage to make ends meet. Let me illustrate: I Wnt from Hamburg to Berlin and from Berlin to Stettin and from Stettin back to Berlin, a distance of 600 miles. I took meals on the diner, stopped two nights at good hotels, used taxicabs and went on a sight-seeing tour in Stettin and also in Berlin. I spont money freely. Before I left Hamburg I exchanged $10 American money for six million five hundred thousand marks and when I got ready to leave Berlin 1 still had something like two million marks! On the diners an<JTn the hotels I had vegetable soup, roast veal, peas and salad and cherries and whipped creaks* Sjtut- duurt and tf>a for r meal of this kind was about 20 centa American money but a princely gem in marks. Can you beat it? In the meantime the value of the mark had gone still lower and if I had bought by exchange* two days later the cost of the whole trip would not have ex ceeded $1, Half the population of llorlin weaiyi some kind of uniform, Every man who J work* in an official or public capac- ( ity, from the man who pushes a small cart to the conductor on the street; railway, wears a uniform ami cap, 1 got aboard a sight-seeing bus stand in# at a earner on the U liter din Linden. The bus was well-filled with ?sight -.suets.. Just as. w.c J\yv?.T ready to Start something went wrong with the motor. The driver go,t down to ad just the trouble, but no sooner had h'i lifted the hood than half a dozen uni formed men of all ages and sines 'seemed to rim* up out. of the ground and each one wanted to tell the other what was' wrong. They were officials of the company that operates the bus line. There was much chattering, gesticulating, loud talking and shrug King of shoulders and after a delay of about 15 minutes some minor ad justment was made to the motor and we got under way with miU'h waving of hands and. shouting. It seemed to me that every fellow was trying to (junirel with the other fellow. 1 rode for two hours and saw many of the interesting places of JlerHn and the bill was only 20 cents. The most interesting place ! visited in Uerlin was the former kaiser's win ter palace. It is a stately but dilapi dated build, ing and covers about two blocks. It is surrounded by a mas sive iron fence which encloses pretty walks bordered with flowers of the national color. The interior is the last word in magnificence. The flours are laid in hard wood and the ceilings are decorated in gilt. Every* where you turn you seo life-size,! statues or oil paintings of former kings and queens. I found the chapel HKtjti very interesting. It is not very large ? about 40 by 10 fel't ? but it is magnificently furnished. It was in here that all the royal marriages of the kings ami queens and princes and princesses of Germany have taken place in the last five hundred years. The date of the marriages and the names of the bride and groom are set in gold in panelings and one can read them up in the order in which they took place. The canopy of plush and gold and also the altar which have been in use for hundreds of years and under which all the marriages took place, arc'^preser.ved in their original state. 1 I went into the Black Eagle and the Red Eagle rooms, the furnishings of which were carried out in colors appropriate to each room. These are said to be the most magnificent draw ing rooms in Europe. Millions of dol lars and years of labor were expended before they were completed. I shall not attempt to describe . them be cause I do not feel equal to the task. I also wfcnt into the former om epror's private room. It is a very small room ? not more than 12 feet by 12 ? and is very plainly furnished as compared with the other rooms I saw in the palace. It was in here that the former kaiser spent the most of his time when he wanted to be alone and think out problems of state. It is a corner room and gives one a good view of the prettiest part of the city. Th6 floors were laid in hardwood, the ceilings were done in gold* and white and the only furniture was a small table, a chair apd a lounge. The win dows were screened with Venetian blinds of about the samd quality that one would find in a well-furnished Arperican home. Laid in the hard wood floor at the four corners of the room were designs of the imperial crown. In the adjoining room, which was used as a reception or writing room for those who desired to see the emperor on urgent business, was some beautiful tapestry which the queen herself made and presented to the em peror. It was beautiful work and gave evidence of an unusual degree of artistic taste. In one of the rooms was a chair used by Frederick the Great when he was imprisoned by his father in 1738. He along with many of his friends was condemned to death, but later secured a pardon ahd became one of Germany's most beloved rulers. The chair is in a fine state of preservation and is one of the most interesting relics I saw in the palace. I also saw some of the palace keyys made in the 12th century and strange to say they resembled the keys of the present pe riod, except that they were much larger and heavier. I was a bit disappointed in the dining room of Frederick the Great. It was plainly but comfortably fur nished, but Frederick himself was a pian of plain and simple tastes and these domestic characteristics were roflected in his domestic life. Fred erick was so much loved by his sub jects that even unto this day he is worshipped by the German people and U often spoken of in the present tense. I ? Xheth rone room, in point of mag nificence compared favorably with the 'other gorgeous rooms in the palace. Its furnishings were more modern, tiowever, being of tin Louis the 14th period. The canopy was the taste old canopy which had been in use for hun dreds of yea is ami showed signs of wear. Il is Very threadbare at)d looks us if it might fall to- pieces at any moment. An yon stand under it you wonder how much of the world's his tory has been made On this very spot and how .much happiness or suffering and misery had its beginning here when the royal sceptre was placed 'up on the brow of some king whose llesh has long since turned to dust. Flow many kings &nd,ueens wen' crowned on this spot I do not knov/ but the line runs back into the centuries, In tin* old part of the palace ancient stone steps run down to the edge of tho river Spree, Centuries ago, when Ueilin was a forest, kings walked dowti these sTeps and took tTi? ? ?. 1> > n which carried them on pleasure trips or to battlel\elds. During the centu ries millions of feet have trod the steps and they show evidences of much wear and decay. Perhaps 1 may write more of Merlin and the palace. 1 saw the home of the former crown prince. It is an unpretentious look ing place and there are several homes in Dillon I would not exchange for "it. There was nothing home-like about it. It had a dull and sombde look and gave one a chilly feeling. The grounds were small and unattractive. After Every Meal A universal custom that benefits every- ? body. Aids digestion, cleanses the teeth, soothes tho throat. 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