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WRITES STORY OF HORROR. Servians Who Revolted in Bulgaria Hanged by Tongues. There has come into the possession of the Servian authorities recently a , letter, written by a Servian patriot who Varely escaped hanging by the Bulgarians. He describes in some detail insurrections in Servia in April last, the fate that they met, and unspeakable cruelties visited upon the insurrectionists by the Bulgarians. Hi? letter?the original is at pre sent in the Servian archives but can J be seen at any time?is written with his own blood from his hiding place in the Servian mountains and is addressed to his friend, a Servian captain serving with the Saloniki lorc-es. The captain fell into captivity not long after the receipt of the missive v but succeeded in smuggling it out by means of a Servian sentry. The letter frankly advises all Servians to kill themselves rather than submit to capture; it tells of the forcible deportation of thousands of - children to Constantinople; of the frightful tortures inflicted upon prisoners before they are executed by the Bulgarians, such as hanging by the tongue; of gibbets erected everywhere to dispose of Servian prisoners of war, especially of insurrectionists. The names of both sender and recipient have been suppressed for rDoe^ne hnt'hnth are on file with the original of the letter, which runs as follows: "Here I am in a mountain which is actually my sad residence. I escaped on April 25 from the Bulgarian prison where I was incarcerated with 20 comrades after having been surrounded and captured in tne revolt near . There had been 25,000 of us insurgents; we had moreover fought with a German division that defeated us and drove us to flight. Then we had been attacked by two Bulgarian divisions armed with can/ non and machine guns. I "was taken, put in prison and condemned to be hanged, but during the night my friend arrived with a band ' in Prokouplie, killed the sentinels and rescued me. , In consequence I was able to reach the mountains. There are more than 5,000 of us insurgents. Nearly all of the other mountains are filled with insurgents. "The Bulgarians had summoned all the male population between the ages of 16 and 65 in order to incorporate +v???m in tha flrmv and send them im IU vuv ... v ? mediately to the front. At the same time they had gathered togather all the young people between 13 and 16 and had sent them to Constantinople. / It was this- vandal process of these monstrous Mongols that provoked the revolt. The unfortunate mothers, /exasperated by the cries of thei rchil. dren as they were carried off by force, attacked the Bulgarians with * stones. This was a genuine revolt, to which the Bulgarians replied with gibbets to which they hanged women and children. Finally the people, exhausted and revolting, threw themselves upon the Bulgarian depots. Men and women carried off arms and ammunition, first to Prokouplie, ther to Leskovatz, Lebane, Varanie, Vlassotintze, Zayetchar, Kniagevatz, Pojarevatz and the villages. Defeated Germans. "It was agreed that the insurgents of Zayetchar and its suburbs should X'ich that tliP rpst of US. ' .* r maivix vu v..vr . ? , from Prokouplie, Leskovatz and Vranie, should do the same and reunited, should take possession of the city. Unfortunately those from Zayetchar were late; we got ahead of them and had alone to withstand an attack from a German division. We beat them and took away two batteries and 800 soldiers. The battle took place near Gitoradja. From there we carried Lebane, Leskovatz and Prokouplie of which we made ourselves masters. Then we attacked Xish, earring the depots and half of the city. Meanwhile- two Bulgarian di visions arrived and a bloody battle developed; we should have been able to defeat the Bulgarians as we had defeated the Germans if they had not used a cowardly stretegy to prevent us us from attacking them; they forced ^ the women and children to march f in front of their ranks. Unable to fire upon our own people, we withdrew as far as Korvingrad, where a new battle began and where the Hun 11 * * irA garians atnacKea us irom uenmu. ? c made an opening and took -refuge in the mountains. Since I was dead from fatigue I was taken prisonerand was condemned to be hanged. Waiting while the gibbet was prepared, we were incarcerated in the prison of Prokouplie, but one or our bands killed the garrison and rescued us. Systematic Extermination. * "So here I am in the mountain of It may be that when you read these lines I shall no longer be / among the living, but the insurrection can not be snuffed out so easily for the Bulgarians are proceeding systematically to exterminate our nation. On the 25 of April they placed aboard trains at Belotintze 8,000 children between the ages of 12 and THE FIVE PER CENT. ARRIVES First Increment of South Carolina Men at Camp Jackson. Columbia, September 6.?South Carolina's full first increment of 5 pei cent of her selected men had reported at camp Jackson by early this morning. Only about 2-"0 of North Carolina's full first increment had arrived at noon today and about fift\ live from Florida. All of North Carolina's first increment is expected b> tonight, but Florida's will come onefifth of the first increment each da> up to and including Sunday. The last counties of North Carolina to report this morning were ths following: Perquimans, 5 men assigned to the infintrv- PQcnnntflnl; 7 mpn t> - OU UUCUH-i J , J. uv;\j Vi *? v.. assigned to the 310th machine gui] battalion, and Chowan, 3 men assigned to the 321st infantry. The newly arrived soldiers were today given a thorough medical examination, inoculated against typhoic and para-typhoid and "finger-printed." Not only were their fingei prints included on their enlistment papers, but every scar or smal blemish was carefully described. Drill Later. Brig. Gen. F. H. Barth, divisior commander, who has been at the mustering office almost continuous!} since the men began arriving, saic this morning that the new soldiers would probably be somewhat indisposed for two or three days or account of inoculation, and that the drilling instructions would not start until they had entirely overcome the effects of the inoculation. Full uniforms have not arrived bui a large supply of leggings, hats, hai cords and shoes are on hand. Five hundred and forty-nine noncommissioned officers from Fort Oglethorpe, Ga. and Augusta, Ga., arrivec at Camp Jackson this afternoon. The} are to be distributed amoung the organizations of this division to assisl in drilling the new men. Will Be Recruited. Brig. Gen. Barth announced this morning that the Thirtieth division oi National Guardsmen, now at Cami Sevier, Greenville, would be recruitec to a maximum strength from the selected men at Camp Jackson. The Thirtieth division, National Guards' men, are from the same States as the selected men at this camp. The men spent last night at the eamp. Blankets were given them and messes have been started in al regiments. In almost every case the new made soldiers are cheerful although, naturally, some of then had rather be at home. "Uncle Sam called and I was read} to go, I am thankful to say," one oi the men remarked touay, and ever} man within hearing endorsed his stand. Whaddye You Mean Denmark? Something is rotten in the Stat< to the Xoftheast of Denmark.?Th< Columbia State. 15, bound for Constantinople. Man? of the children jumped form the cars along the way and found death ir that manner. "The Bulgarians gathered the en tire population for the purpose o vaccinating every one. But, insteac of injecting serum againgt cholera oi smallpox, they inoculated them witl contagious diseases. One of the doc tors admitted that to those who hac fled to the mountains with their chil dren. "The Bulgarians have raised gib bets on the bridge of Leskovatz, a Belotintze, Viassotintze, Lebans Nish, Kniajevatz and at other places and on them have hung people, worn en and children, compelling the oth ers to help them in their terribh tortures." One of the notable Servians wh< was hanged, the writer states, was i certain Jordan, registrar of a mu nicipality, who, he asserts, was hang ed by the tongue. The writer con tin ued: Death Preferable. "I have neither time nor space t< describe my misfortune, but I can tel you briefly that if you do not conn by the month of September, it wil not be worth while coming at all. I will be too late. "The hanging of 12 Servian sol diers made prisoners on the Salonik front was a sad sight. Their sent ence was read to them, including tin words 'Because you have aban doned your flag and your Bulgaria! brothers, you can not longer be loy al Bulgarian subjects.' So it shoul< be told our soldiers who are fightins on the Saloniki front that they ha< best kill themselves rather than le themselves be taken prisoner, fo these savages hang these prisoner of war after having tortured them. "There, my dear , is a fain pichire of all that is going on in ou unfortunate Servia. Xo power couh ever stifle the Servian insurrection which is spreading about the entin country. There are even among u Bulgarians who have fled from thei own army."?Associated Press. / , Don't Poisot With that Calo , It is almost a crime to dose children . -with calomel?that nauseating, pois. onous mineral that some folks still think is the one thing that will relieve , constipation, headache and other bilious conditions. I wouldn't give calo. mel to a dog unless I wanted to kill it. When you need liver or st-omach . medicine, use a safe, guaranteed veg 1 1 i*? t itra* i etatie preparation into mai uu 5 uivci Medicine. It tastes good. It acts 5 powerfully on the liver and bowels without pain or griping. And it often 1 saves one from a spell of sickness. One of the best known men in Haddock, Ga., is C. H. Keller. On the 12th - of May he wrote the following letter - to the proprietors of Martin's Liver 1 Medicine: . 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