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OLI) BABYLON FALLS AGAIN. ( This Time the Ancient City Is Taken \ by the British Armies. The dispatches failed to mention it, when reporting the capture of Bag- e dad, but not the least interesting lj item in the recent remarkable news g from Bible lands is the fact that Babylon has fallen once more, and e this time to the troops of Great Brit- s ain. Despite all the attention that i ~ ^cnrr.p r is being given iu Da^uau? . of the recent articles ate amazingly r inaccurate?that city of the caliphs p does not have anything like the hold upon the public attention that old Babylon possesses. In history, pro- v phecy, imagery, song and story, Baby- v Ion occupies a unique position, and t its passing into the control of the 1' British is noteworthy. t Literally, the British have taken C Babylcn. There are really two Baby- t Ions. One is the Babylon of today, t and the other is the Babylon of the s time of Nebuchadnezzar. The former b is the town of Hillah, situated with- fi in the confines of old Babylon, and f famous for its dates. I have eaten t dates in many parts of Mesopotamia, d but those of Hillan are me ue?i ui all. The town is small, with only a I1 few hundred inhabitants, and its t buildings are all of mud bricks, like fl the Babylon of old. i Hard by are the ruins of Nebu- F chadnezzar's palace, and the houses a of the German archaeoligists, who v have been at work excavating the s ruins for many years. Before the c war there were a dozen German scholars living regularly at Babylon, s together with the Arab workmen en- q camped outside the walls of their t compound. The head of the com- c munity was the famous Dr. Kalde- C way, whose hospitality has been ex- t tended to the few Americans who 2 have penetrated into that remote cor- 1 ner of the world. Judging from the C guest book which Dr. Kaldeway kept, e I should say that there are probably i not a score of persons in all America e who have pressed foot on the very = bricks of the floor of Nebuchadnez- f ' oc tha ftermans! Zar S Uli uut: iyum, wo w ?w have laid it bare. Kaiser's Stake in liabylon. Germany had more than a scholar- c ly interest in Babylon. The expenses t ' of the work, amounting, Dr. Kaideway told me, to $20,000 a year, were met by the German government. The kaiser's personal interest in the BabyIon project is famous. Not only was j it a research work that appealed to the imagination, but it was also a "stake" in this wonderful region to ? s which the imperial German ambitions . were directed. The members of Dr. ; f- Kaldeway's staff were all German of(' ficers, and that their activities were ' . not exclusively archaeological has been demonstrated by the early sue- ^ cess of the Turco-Teutonic expedition. g They accomplished what the British, ^ long dominant in this region, had be-! j Iievea lmpossiuie. Now Babylon is practically a suburb of Bagdad. It automatically ^ follows the fortunes of that metropolis of Mesopotamia. When the city of the caliphs fell to Gen. Maude's ? i forces, and the Turks were chased Q from all the outlying positions, Baby- J Ion was one of the first points to be cleared. Your unsentimental British officer was not unmindful of the ro- ^ > mance of capturing the city, which had fallen to Cyrus the Great and to . Alexander the Great, and which has j had a peculiar position in all the histories of antiquity. As a German centre, it was important that it should t not be left in the enemy's hands. , In the Footsteps of Abraham. Bible students best understand the j { dispatches from Mesopotamia, for j other persons, for the most part, have, c only the haziest notions as to the lo-j t cation of Mesopotamia itself, not to speak of its detailed points. Inter- ? est in the present retreat of the Turk- ? C ish-German forces is enhanced by the fact that they are operating within , strictly Bible lands, and their course is almost identical with that followed; . by Abraham, when he followed thejc voice that called him out of Ur of the ( Caldeee. Kut cl Amara is on the edge , of ancient l'r. The Chaldeans are j still living there. Among the Chris- j tian leaders hung by the Turks when! > they took Bagdad were eminent nmn h of the Chaldean Christian church, onej i of the historic * Kastein churches!, which was borne to witness its faith. ( despite all persecutions, in this fa?n- U ouh religion. | t When Abraham went to Haran, he ; followed the Tigris river, just as thei' Turks are doing. They have the ad- * vantage or' a hundred miles of the j Bagdad railway, which has been built ; northward from the city the name of j which it bears, to old Samarra, the t place lamous religiously as the tomb ] of the tenth Imam, the niahdi whose . return is expected by Moslems. It \ \ was because of the pilgrimage thatji this section of the railroad was com-! Dieted without waiting for the rest.'. The mosque which covered the tomb i of the tenth Imam is one of the most 1 ** beautiful in the world, external!v. J Xo Christian has ever been permitted to enter its sacred precincts, and few .Westerners have ever seen its walls. JKEECE BREAKS WITH TEUTONS. 'enizelos i* at the Helm.?War Will be the Next Step. Athens. June 29.?The Greek govrnment has broken diplomatic reations with Germany, Austria-Hungry, Bulgaria and Turkey. Though war has not been declard yet, the Greek government colliders that a state of war exists since ts advent to power yesterday. The ecall of the Greek diplomatic repesentatives accredited to the Central owers and their allies is imminent. Greece's new course with regard to *- - -t A 1 > IUV DegUIl to ue siictpeu un u uuc ?. nth the abdication of King Constanine and the accesion of Alexander, iis second son, as king. The abdicaion was in effect a dethronement of "onstantine, whose pro-German atitude had given the Entente endless rouble and threatened not only the uccess of the Saloniki expedition, ut its safety through danger of backire from a hostile Green military orce. Decisive action by the Enente was long in coming, but was irastic when finally taken. Eliptherios Venizelos, Greece's eading statesman and fast friend of he Entente, soon appeared as the nan to take the leadership in guidng Greece back to her traditional lace by the side of England, France .id Serbia, the last her close ally I'hom she had abandoned under Contantine's coercion in Serbia's hour if greatest need. Summoned back to the premierhip by King Alexander, Venizelos [uickly formed a cabinet. The reacionarv elements have been ousted >r quieted, the- reestablishment of ireek constitutional government virually abolished by Constantine be;an. That the parliament of May, .915, which had been dissolved by lonstantine, will be again summoned to meet was later indicated, givng an executive backing to the new xecutive power. The route of Abraham, and of the leding army, passes old Ninevah, .cross the river from which is the ity of Mosul, where the army is likey to make a stand. This is a walled ity, the capital of a vilayet. A batle beneath the ruined walls of Xineah would be in consonance with the haracter of this war, which has so wonderfully linked the old and the iew, the past and the present, the last and the West. All that is alive n Xinevah today is a little village ?ver the reputed tomb of Jonah, and till bearing that prophet's name. If defeated at Mosul, the Turks and lermans will make tneir next stand it another point of scriptural interest, Ras el Ain, which is the old Ha an, where Abraham dwelt before gong to Canaan; and where he sent his iteward to get a wife for Isaac. Here Rebecca's well may still be seen. Does it not seem like a journey into he realms of the remote lands of noclern troops where Rebecca watered the sheep? Fighting by Kebecca'rf Well. Here at Ras el Ain great stores of nilitary supplies are accumulated, iince Ras el Ain is the terminus of he construction of the Bagdad railcay. Preparations nave long been nade for a defense here, should it >ecame necessary. -This is the point vhere the Russian army will strike, f it gets down from Bitlis, through Diarbekir. Of even greater interest, from the eligious standpoint, than the milliary operations in the regions of Abraham's early home, and of the :xile and captivity of the Children of srael. is the progress of the British expedition up from Suez and the >iani peninsular. Very little about his has got int^o print. A recent dis)atch reported the troops as being >.t Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac ind Jacob are buried, in the cave o! Uacphlah. This spot is a sacred Woslem' shrine. Evidently the British have not onl> Iriven the Turks from the entire >inai penisular, but they have alsc - l T} 1, ^ i, , ;&I<lUrCCl lilt Deist <11 Dccuiicju vhich was the railhead of the new ine built down through the Hoi} .and by the Germans, after the var began. Arish. the border to.v.r letv.een Egypt and Syria, tell to the British some time ago. Now, if the} ire at Hebion. it will be but a matte! )f days until Jerusalem falls intc heir hands?indeed, the capture o! he city of David may have been reported this article van be printed Fhe old Jebusite fortress, which ha; tood so many and so romantic sieges s scarcely in position to hold cm ottnok nlthnne'h ii Incline I Ci iilVV4V,? W wuuvii, v ?0.. .. is doul'tlul if the British would at :ack'it with artillery, because of th< joly places. Should the British Suez army pusi iorthwardf to effect a junction witl lie forces from 'Bagdad, nothing would be likelier than a landing o: reinforcements at Haifa, and a bat tie with the Turks 011 Israel's historh battleground, the Plain of Esdraelon perhaps in the neighborhood of tii< town of .Mogiddo?the real battle 0 Armageddon.?Tim Religious Rambler ( William T. Ellis. > I BANK STATEMENT. Statement of the condition of the Bamberg Banking Co., located at Bamberg. S. C., at the close of business .June 20th, 1017: RESOURCES. Loans and discounts ....$3S$.749,20 Overdrafts 1,357.65 Bonds and stocks owned by the bank l,000.0o Furniture and fixtures .. 2,305.34 Banking house 4,976.69 Due from banks and * bankers S2,4 22.25 Currency 3,194.00 Gold 70.00 Silver and other minor coin 1 ,olo.yu Checks and cash items.... 559.33 Total .... S4S6.14S.42 LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid in ....$ 55.000.00 Surplus fund 45,000.00 Undivided profits, less current expenses and taxes paid 24.695.64 Due to banks and bankers 1,593.66 Individual deposits subject to check 11S.5OS.S6 Savings deposits 111.271.S5 Time certificates of deposit 2,605.91 Certified checks 14.3S Cashier's checks 2,458.12 Bills payable, inclu-ding certificates for money borrowed 125,000.00 Total $486,148.42 Before me came D. F. Hootop, ?nf tho above named lasuici wi. v?.w _ bank, who, being duly sworn, says that the above and foregoing statement is a true condition of said bank, as shown by the books of said bank. D. F. HOOTON, Cashier. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 2Sth day of June, 1917. H. H. STOKES, Correct-Attest: Notary Public S. C. JNO. H. COPE, G. FRANK BAMBERG, J. B. BLACK, Directors. BANK STATEMENT. Statement of the condition of The Farmers & Merchants Bank, located at Ehrhardt, S. C., at the close of business June 20th, 1917: RESOURCES. Loans and discounts ....$189,030.47 Overdrafts 796.29 Furniture and fixtures.... 2,515.00 Banking house 1,435.75 Other real estate owned.. 545.23 Due from banks and , bankers; 13,164.75 Currency 3,100.00 Gold ; 110.00 Silver and other minor coin 363.55 . Checks and cash items .. 1,653.96 Total $212,715.00 LIABILITIES. 'Capital stock paid in ....$ 20,000.00 , Surplus fund $ 7,000.00 Undivided profits, less current expenses and 1 taxes paid, . 7,993.65 Individual deposits subject to Ck. $45,110.01 1 Savings dei posits 41,992.97 | Time certificates of deposit 20,478.01 Cashier's i checks .. .. 140.36 107,721.35 i Bills payable, including certificates' for money borrowed 70,000.00 Total $212,715.00 State of South Carolina, County of Bamberg. Before me came W. Max Walker, * " -Li- - -1 knnl> | casnier 01 tee auuvu uamcu uau&, who, being duly sworn, says that , the above and foregoing statement >1 is a true condition of said bank, as ! shown bv the books of said bank. W. MAX WALKER, Cashier. | Sworn to arid subscribed before ; me this 27th dav of June, 1917. W. B. MOORE, Notary Public for ST. C. ' Correct-Attest: S. W. COPELAXD, J. H. ROBERTS, M. D.. W. MAX WALKER, Directors. BANK STATEMENT. , Statement of the condition of the , Ehrhardt Banking Co., located at Ehrhardt, S. C., at the close of busi1 j ness June 20, 1917: ?j RESOURCES. ; I Loans and discounts $83,191.98 J Overdrafts 51.24 J Furniture and fixtures, .. 841.50 'j Banking house 2,000.oii : j Due from banks and bank | ers 19,001.85 i i Currency .... 1,065.00 | Gold *321.00 I Silver and other minor *| coin 854.84 }| Checks and cash items .... 36.22 Gold certificates 14 | Accepted draft .... 327.tin '! Total $107,841.03 LIABILITIES. I r~t ? -? - i - "i- ? J 'I ? ) i: ii ii i\ OA ,j VUp'lcti biui'h l>tuu m v Surplus fund .... . j?,200P0 1 j Undivided profits, less ;i current expenses and taxes paid 4.S:t??. . j Individual deposits subject to cheek $21 I Savings deposits .. .... l .08 Time certificates of de; posit 8.00 , Cashier's checks 8.00 72,1 1 8.1;; r Partial payments ... 1.602.82 Total siii7.N4l.it:: 11 State of South Carolina?County of | Bamberg. j Before me came A. F. 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