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All of tho nations In this war are taortgagtng posterity and burning the money up in powder smoke. In the March number of Harper's mejaslne Mr. Joseph E. Davis gave ???he astounding figures on the cost of the war. It Is costing all tho nations 110 millions dollars a day. The ag? gregate earr ings of all the people in ?41 the countries is 21 million a day, ?o that for every day that the war continues they spend five times the dally savings of the people. la tho first two years of the war the governments borrowed forty billion of tiollars. This vast sum of course will never be repaid but the Interest must be met unless there Is wholesale re Indication by > the nations concerned. Which la unthinkable. If the war finishes out another year, the debt will bo about 100 billion dollars, to which must be added 30 billion for W*? debts existing when war was de? clared. This makes 130 billion which Is greater than tho total wealth of either Bag land or Germany and more torn* the combined wealth of Italy and France, it will take 21 per cent, an? nually out of the dollar for every man, woman and child In all of the war? ring countries to pay the interest i ^TTiS flower of all the nations are being killed or crippled so how will the people pay 25c on the dollar in inter eat, maintain their government, pay war pensions and have anything left to live upon. It certainly looks as if It would be Impossible to continue to maintain standing armies on a hin; scale. The Interest on this debt will be six times greater than the Jaxe* Collected In the British empire during the last year of peace. All of the taxes collected, federal, state, towns end countiea In the United States last year was fifteen hundred million dollars and this would not pay the In? terest ono year at 4 per cent, on Orsat Britain's share of the war debt. What does it all mean? Are the na? tions of the world bent on suicide. But yesterday scientists were busy hunting disease germs and making sc rums to prolong human life. We were building hospitals and asylums, pro? viding retreats for the aged and doing all Ir our power to relieve the suffer? ing and banish disease. Suddenly the flames of war burst forth, so that men see each others white faces by the red glare that blase down from tin midnight sky while their ears arc deafened by the roar of mighty can? non. Every human impulse Is gone* and satanic cruelty reigns supreme. Women and children are murderod whole nations are exterminated, do ported as slaves or driven like beasts to the forest. The civilization of a thousand years with twenty centuries of Christianity vanished over night. Trembling on every lip, the question Is "Is It Armageddon?" I find thai Armageddon means the great destruc? tion, the final conflict the judgment of Qod. It may be that America is now taking her place on that great Meld of Armageddon foretold In holy writ and dimly oeen by poet and painters where tho final battle shall come be? tween error and truth, and In which man's Immortal soul finally conquers h>s brute nature I do not know but these are grand snd awful times, something colossally good or colossally evil is bound to come of such a tremendous upheaval. Wherever 1 go. whether in the quiet of my farm or on busy Wall street 1 sense a great feeling among the peo? ple that something of appalling mag? nitude must happen ere long. A mys? tical sense of impending trouble ha hung over us like a dark shadow ever since the Iaisttania went to her ocean grave. This universal feeling, half doubt and half fear, this wistful peer? ing Into the future .this vague dreac of the unknown tomorrow Is at once a warning and u call from God for ac? tion. It is easy to see now that it would have beet. Letter for this coun try to have gone to war when th" Laisltanla was sunk. We would haV< at least been prepared to defend our- j selves. No sensible man wants war, for two years President Wilson has used cv , eiy means to avoid war. but German' | has repeatedly broken her promise and while professing friendship has conspired with Japan and Mexico tc attack and dismember our country A Mexican army officered by Germans Ulled with lust and love of plunde are threstening Texas with the fat" that came to Belgium and France Congress has spoken for the people. Theer is no room for a divided alle glance. Wo had British Tories durlnr the Revolutionary war. One-third of all the colonlnt* were Tories In 1775. They raise. 1 rSglSSOntS, joined the I'.r.. Ish and Joyously shot down their ov. neighbors. They organized the In? dians and brought them down on ti< white settlers In Pennsylvania aivl New York. I believe the great n: ? of German Americans are loyal to the fnlted States and that the t lern?' Tories who are organizing lit M? \ ? Will meet the fStS tiny deserve, V . man who prove* tailor to the count that h.t- given bim shelter from ol world oppression will hand a legacy <o infninv down to his descendants, thn* will last Ivutfer thaa Un contempt ii j visited upon the British Tories of long I n?*o. 1 approve the attitude of Pre si* 1 dent Wilson and I um In favor of the United 8tr rejatng an army of two million men for self-defe? > and making our navy second to .one. 1 am ready to do my part and make such sacrifices as called upon for. 1 believe that this in a light between militarism and democracy. The soul of Home lives today in Germany. The very title of Kaiser comes from tlv word Caesar. The spirit which that name represents was born in Rome twenty centuries ago. It swept over the earth then and no country failed to pay Roman tribute. All roads lead to Rome. The same militarism again threat? ens the world; under the leadership o? a modern Caesar it is hurling its pow? er in every direction. It has organ? ised the Mnhomedan world and threat? ens the United States with Japan and Mexico. If the Kaiser was merely i man his power would long ago have crumbled, but he is more than a man, ho Is an idea. The ideal of imperial I Rome was law and unquestioning i ^edlenco to law. Julius Caesar was [ its embodiment. How like German Kultur with the Kaiser us its idcul. The Materialism of Rome finds its counterpart in the rationalism of Ger? many. At stated periods this grim spectre of Caesar stalks forth with its dark shadow of militarism and do I luges the earth in blood, before it shatters its strength against the ever? growing spirit of democracy. Na? poleon was a real Caesar, born in a great revolution without family or friends, his genius gathered mighty forces about him. He burled his arm? ies across the Rhine and the Danub? into the very heart of Russia. His banners bore the name of Napoleon, not France, just as the legions o^ Caesar bore his name not Rome. The utterance of the Kaiser claiming that he is responsible not to the German people, but to God alone is the same spirit. Napoleon seized France by tbe throat and led her where he would. Three million of her sons laid down their lives at his command. For twenty-five years his army marched to and fro making one bloody battle ground of Europe, finally the dark tragedy was over. Napoleon chained liko a wild beast to a rock in mid ocean and France in the dust under the armed heel of every nation in Eu? rope, A like late awaits Germany and I am sincerely sorry for the hard working people of that country. They are being sacrificed to the ambition of a military Junta. The Germans are a great peopK who were developing at a great pace For thirty years it wus dinned into their ears, that all the nutions were jealous and ready to dismember th< empire. The teed of suspicion were planted and NlOttchc. Bernhardt. vo? Buelow and others >oldly claimed that the Germans were a super race and the Kaiser a super man fitted to lea; in a war of frightftlness to force Ger? man Kultur upon all the nations Finally the nation believed this and the killing of one man and one woman In distant Scrl la was the spark that set the flame. It is a challenge by Germany for the domination of the earth. It Is the lame doctrine. Might makes right, proclaimed by Xerxes. Alexander. Caesar, Charlemange. Ma? homet, Napoleon and every world con? queror. The German people honest!} bellc\e. they ha'e been marie to bo lieve that they can only accomplish their destiny by blood and iron, und they proclaim th-* gospel of frightful ness for all who bar their path. Thov intend to win the world and fore? German Ideals upon It with their Krupp guns and BU ?marines. It is a terrible faith, when back of it is Ger? man efheiency and Ihe armed prepar? ation of 40 yeara I remember about 27* years ago reading a speech of BleUiark, w hom I consider one of the world's gieatesi statesmen. This speech was delivered on his 70th birthday, and 1 was so struckw with it thai I pasted it m ; scrup book. Hisma k disapproved of annexing Alsace and Lora inc. lit: great mind foresaw trouble for Ger? many. After the death of Frederick when the. present Kaiser came to the throne he got rid of Bismark as soon ?s he cjould. The old man lived on hll estate and on his birthday a great crowd came out to pay their respects In his speech he used the phrase th?4 "once aroused, not the whole worb could overcome the furor tUOtonlCUS.' in view of what Is happening now ;t looks as if the old n an knew his pe;> pie. \jct us not deceive oureelve thlr "furor tOUtonlCUS" backed by th genius, amazing resources and or ganizatlon of the empire will giv Uncle San? the tussel of his life The Kalter alma at a new map of th world. In the pursuit of that obje - he holds that treaties ate "mere scrap of paper." and he who is not for m Is against me and m ist be wiped out It Im an overbenrlnr and cniel doe trine, nnd It will take hard blows be fore the faith Of the German peopb is Shattered In this I leal. They hav< ten million men under arms, and I tfn not take much atoek la the starvation gtffjfj, Aa long us Guiiuauy bus go*/ session of the Balkans with a li to of j railroad to Constantinople and on far into Asia, they cannot he starved. In a short time now they will harvest an? other crop, and the figures show that Germany produces enough vital food to care for her people. Germany has .suffered heavy losses, but from all that I can read her spirit is unbroken. She still has confidence in her ulti? mate triumph. Engalnd is the back bo*' of the allies. Germany believes if *no can so terrify the world, that ships will not enter the submarine zone, that she can starve England into submission. So far as he United States is concerned she has no real friends in Europe. We should ?<> lute the war strictly in self-defense, to pio tcct our property and citizens on the high seas and stop right there. It is not altogether impossible that we may find ourselves pitted Jingle handed against the greatest military machine the world has ever known. Let us not deceive ourselves thai this war will be on paper. We ahould have universal military service. We j should equip and train a field force of at least two million men. The time for disarmament will come after this j war is over and the United State* will lead the way. Our vast national wealth, without any army and navy, makes us a prize to tempt the cupid? ity of the nations who have all their capital Invested in military establish? ments, No European power with the possible exception of France is our friend except to uso us for selfish ends, and not one but would levy tri? butes upon us at the first opportunity. The foundation of our foreign pol j icy has been Washington's farewell address and the Monroe doctrine. There was never a time when it was more important to avoid entangling Vforeign alliances. America has the men and money. We are protected by a great ocean on both sides and we should adhere to establish American doctrine. We can co-operate as we d?d in the Boxer trouble In China and that is as far as we should go. A foreign war by this republic for con? quest or for anything except the pro? tection of American lives and property or the maintenance of the Monroe doctrine will be the grave of repubb ? can institutions. Monarchies may flourish and aristocracies always fat ten on war, but the other course means a military republic, and :hi soon becomes subject to personal gov? ernment. America is the world's leader in de mocracy. Germany the world's leade: In autocracy. Our war is not against the Herman people, it is to overthrow an Ideal which, if it triumphs, woulc' enslave the Germans as much ai ourselves. There were two autocrat in Europe. The'Czar, also a mo< ill cation of the word Caesar, is over? thrown because he w0s secretly tryhv to aid the Kaiser. There is something wondorfu'ly contagious in the spirit ot democracy. It travels on the wings of the wind and is borne 6n the ray.; of the sun Into the dark places. Let us pray that the air of freedom be carried westward across the wai swept plains of Poland Into Germany and overturn the other autocrat. Modern democracy was born In tin free cities along the Rhine and there are three republics in the German empire. The republic of Germany would soon end the war. That would be "peace without victory" except the Victory Of error over truth, and the triumph of Germany's better soil over tryanny and scltishness. For two generations the world has been steep? ed in love of money, and greed or' gain has smothered our noble in? stincts. It 1* time for a re-action. The re-action from the brutality of th^ dark ages gave the world the days of chivalry and the crusaders. The spir? it of the crusader is always latent In the human breast. It only needs to lie fanned into a tlame, and the atti? tude of Germany will he sure to kindle the fanaticism of mankind every? where. In another year it will reach a point where the destruction of Ger? many will bo Inevitable. The Rus? sian Duma replying to Germany's peace proposal said they would listen to no proposal until Prussianism was removed. Within eight years Turkey, Portu? gal, China, Persia and flussla haw had revolutions and now only Ger? man autocracy bats the path of de? mocracy. The Russian revolution, the entry of the United States. China, Bra? sil and Cuba into the war, spells the end for the Hohenzollern dynasty Wilson's speech to congress translat? ed and dropped from aeroplanes Into Germany is sowing the seeds of rev? olution, Germany is bound to lose In the end, not merely because the allle are numerically stronger, but when the United States enters with no sol fish purpose, it makes her opponents infinitely stronger spiritually and mor? ally. Germany with all her military power ami hoasted efficiency will g< down before the outraged eonscienc of n world in arms. The only hope of escape from destruction is r revo? lution at home which will remove the malign inlluence of Prusslo aild gdl mil her again Into the brotherhood of i nations, ^ . ^ _^ The time is not yet ripe for peace. | If it came now it would he based on armies and navies, and these have failed. Peace cannot be manufactur? ed, it must grow naturally. The sol? emn word of nations must mean more than a "scrap of paper." Confidence in the progress of society, a belief in the high destiny of man and rever? ence for God'l law must be revived before real peace can come. Out of j death comes life. Our of human suf j fering comes human advancement. Nations are being destroyed and en? tire people crucified, but out of their martyrdom they are finding their souls and the purpose and meaning of life. Old you eevr see a field of rank woods of last year's growth, with the new growth struggling to come. A big two horse plow comes along and turns them under, then the disk and smoothing harrow chops up every? thing and it goes to improve the land and make a good bed for the sowing of seed. That is what war does. The nations had reached the climax of greed and selfishness. The people were pressed to the earth with taxes to support monarchies, idle artistoe racies and tremendous armies. Great Drltaln was more interested In spo. ts than anything else; she had danger? ous labor disturbances and threatened revolution in Ireland. France was steeped in atheism with Paris the center of world's vice. Germany was either a socialism or a militarism. It had to go one way or the other. As for the United States we have had no God for forty years except tho al might dollar. The land was choked with fo\U weeds and along cornea war, the ploughshare of God. It turns them over adn when the seed bed is smooth and clean, in the freshness and silence of a new morning the Divine husband? man will come forth and sow the seed of a new and higher civilization. It is the old story, terror, blood and death marking the milestones on the upward march of man. This war will go on until right makes might, and then peace shall flow like a river, and "joy and glad? ness cover the earth as the waters cover the sea." - w. r -fnjiaj J4faji0m%iu Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the lord; He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are Stored 1 He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword; His truth is marching on. I have seen him in the watchfires of a hundred circling camps; They have builded him an altar In the evening's dews .and damps: 1 can read his righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps; His day is maching on. I have read a fiery gospel, writ in burnished rows of steel; "As ye deal with my contomnors, so with you my grace shall deal; Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel; Since God is marching on. He has sounded forth fhe trumpet that shall never call retreat; He is sifting out the hearts of men before his judgment seat; Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer him be jubilant, my feet; Our God is marching on. Farmers and (Ubers who live at dis? tance from a drug store should keep in the house, a bottle of J la Hard's Snow Liniment. It may he needed at any time for cuts, wounds, sores, sprains or rheumatism. It is -a pow? erful healing and penetrating rem? edy. Price 25c, 50c adn $1.00 per bottle. Sold by Sibert's Drug Store.? Advt. Secures indefinite Leave of Absence, Washington? April 19.?Senaten Overman Of North Carolina has se? cured leave of absence for Senator Tillman from the senate for an in j definite period because of sickness. I If you cou.Ljh all night you get no rest nor do^s anyone else In the house. Keep within reach a bottle of Hal lard's Horohound Syrup. It is then easy to stop the tickling which causes the cough, whenever it appears. Price 25c, 50c and $1.00 per bottle. Sold by Sibert's Drug Store.?Advt. Heal Estate Transfers. J. M. Harby to P. Moses, Jr., lot at corner of Church and Haynsworth streets, $5. B. E. Jones to R. Kendrick Wilder lot on East Calhoun street, $2,G40. Andrena Moses to Evelyn a. Grif nn, lot on Brewlngton public road. $3,300. Nathan Nunnery to Edward Nunnery, 25 acres on Providence* Rembert public road, $300. John C. Nunnery, et al., to Kelson Nunnery, their right to 25 acre tract. $so. Art hie China, executor, to Archie China, one acre in Providence town? ship. $1.00. A prudent mother is always on the ; watch tor symptoms of worms in In children. Paleness, lack of interest piny, and peevishness is the signal fo White's ?'rcam Vermifuge. A fev doses of this excellent remedy w on end to the worms and tho child soon acts naturally, Price 25c per bottle. Sold by Sibert's Drug Store.? 1 Allvt. DOMESTIC SCIENCE FOR NE? UROES. To Grow Pood, Conserve 11 and Pro vent Waste. This one idea should be uppermost In our minds at present. The educational board has made it possible for our summer work to be along this line. Bach and every one of us should use our influence in getting as many as we can reach to plant or assist in plant? ing all the foodstuff possible. Wc should have no selfish aims or pur? poses, but all should unite as Amer? ican citizens in furthering the plan of food preparedness. Every available space should be used in planting something to eat. Then we should take steps to con? serve it, especially that which h* per? ishable. To that end wc are making an effort to establish and furnish a domestic science kitchen with the best sanitary equipment our means will al? low. Wc need to begin with at least $60 for that purpose, so that by the time berries and vegetables are to be had we can show anyone who desires to know how to can, sterilize, sugar ize or preserve in any economical way the produce raised. We propose to make the kitchen a permanent fixture in the community for the training of our girls and women in economy, san? itary, scientific cooking and domestic art. The way to secure health and to prevent prevalent diseases, is *o know how and to keep clean bodies, clean kitchens and to cook in a thor? oughly sanitary way. Our negro girls cannot do this unless they arc trained. All do not have homes where such training Is available, and where it Is in reach they do not always take ad? vantage of it. Some seem to think cooking is degrading. If there is any degredation in it it is the filthy, care? less, unsanitary way in which it is done. If we realize how much of our real existence and well being is dependent ?'pon the kind of food we eat and the way it is prepared, we would see how very necessary it is to have the best training possible for those who are to take charge of our cooking. No one can thoroughly understand this sci? ence and art, without a very fair knowledge of chemistry, physics and physiology. We therefore most earnestly appeal j to both white and colored to cooper? ate with us and give us the assistance wc need. No investment could be so l far-reaching or will do as much to prevent communicable diseases ud premature deaths among white and colored as the training of persons in sanitary and scientific methods to do service in the home. Preventing Waste. The first way in which food may be wasted and also do injury to the body, is to eat more than can be properly utilized by the body. It is not what we eat but what we digest that serves our purpose. The second way Is In serving more food (?n the plate than can be eaten. The excess is thrown away as table waste. This is a common mistake with rich and poor. In preparing school lunches we find this waste of food. Now is the time for us to stop it. The third is that which occurs in the preparation of food material for consumption. In removing the inedi? ble portions as skins, seed, etc., too much of the edible part is removed. Also in the trimming of meats there is great waste unless the parts re? moved are utilized in making soup. Oftentimes the nutrient is removed with the waste, in buying cuts of meat as loin of beef, rib chops of lamb and similar cuts, one-fifth of the cost pays for bone. By not cook? ing cereals in double boilers it burns and sticks to the vessels, there Is great waste. There are many left? overs, when if properly prepared in some other form will be very pala table and be used, thereby instead of throwing it in the waste could be made into .middle cakes, or combin? ed with fruit and made into a pud? ding. Scraps of meat chopped fine or ground may be mixed with mashed potatoes and butter, seasoned, rolled in flour or cracker dust, fried in fat and we have croquetts. What we desire to do is to make domestic work so pleasant and In inviting by the proficiency to do it ucll that many who ha\ e not the ca? pacity and are misfits in the schools, trying to teach, will be drawn to the work of the household, thereby making the home what it should be. helping to solve health problem and elevating labor to the dignity that it should have ami thereby get proper remuneration for service. Won't all help in this effort to train our women p.lld girls into useful helpers in the community and not to become bur? dens. Any contributions will be most gratefully received and acknowledged Yours for the uplift of humanity, L. Bragg Anthony, If. D. County Supervisor of Colored school;. BOX 157, Sumter or 1- Council St. i either papers please copy.) GARDEN SEED FOR CHILDREN. Secretary Rec.nloii f<? Haxe Big Sup? ply Within IVw Buys. Secretary' E. I. Roardon, of the Sumter Chamber of Commerce on yes? terday ordered from the Children's Flower Mission, of Cleveland, Ohio, live thousand penny packets of gar? den seed for free distribution among the school children of thin city andi county. Literature covering full instruc? tions for planting and cultivating the seed will be furnished each school child applying for free seed. The Sumter business men arc furnishing the money through the Sumter Coun? ty Committee of Public Safety of the Sumter Chamber of Commerce. Through this same committee the secretary yesterday ordered one hun? dred and twenty-five dollars' worth of beans, peas, corn and other garden seed from the W. H. Mixo.i Seed Com? pany of Charleston, for free distribu? tion by the ten township committees of the county cential committee of public safety. This money was also provided by Sumter's liberal and pub? lic spirit* d business men through the Sumter Chamber of Commerce. Several thousand packets of differ? ent kind of garden seed have already j been distributed free through the Chamber of Commerce, and fifty thousand cabbage and twenty-five thousand sweet potato plants also, the latter contributed by the Enterprise Company of Sumter. The Sumter Chamber of Commerce has also received from Congressman A. F. Lever and Senators E. D. Smith and B. R. Tillman about five hundred packages of garden seed of which about ail have been distributed, up to last night. I GEORGETOWN TO EtTILD SHIPS. Capt. Juell Reports Contracts to Con? struct Ten Submarine Chasers. Georgetown, April 19.?George? town is agog over possibilities of ship? building plants coming here. Capt. C. S. Juell, who has an option on the McQuade property at the foot of Front street, today wired the George? town Times: "The Georgetowr Ship? building Corporation has been form? ed and has a signed contract with the government to build ten submarine chasters at $49,500 each." From another source comes infor? mation of possibilities of a much big? ger proposition being launched, con? tracting to build wooden vessels under government contract of about 2,000 tons displacement. Every facility for fostering enterprises is being cheer? fully offered by city and commercial bodies. Death at Pisgali. Pisgah, April 20.?Mrs. Elizabeth Pixoii, an aged lady, died here Thurs? day night after a long sickness and was buried at New Hope church Fri? day afternoon, after funeral sen ices by Rev. J. Walter Kenney. From best information she was about 90 years old and leaves two children, Mr. W. J. Deas of this place, and Mrs. Mary Cato of Rocky Bluff, numerous grand children and friend3 Mrs. Dixon was long a member of the Baptist church and died in that faith. Additions to Field Day Prize Lt*t Dr. Haynsworth calls attention to the fact that among the winners of prizes on Field Day not mentioned in the first list given out are the fol? lowing: The Fraser school for hav? ing the most artistic pennant; the W. C. T. V., prize won by Ray Lide of Mayesville and presented by Mr. C. M. Hurst. The prize for 6th grade arithmetic is still being held by Dr. llaynsworth, as no one has yet called for it. Messrs. Archie Richardson, Leslio Prower, Ray Blanding and Cyril Schwartz went to Columbia night be? fore last wlu re they stood the exami? nation for places in the army hospital corps, to which they have been as? signed, leaving Columbia for Savan? nah yesterday morning. Bad breath, bitter taste, dizziness and a general "no account" feeling is a sure sign of a torpid liver HerNne is the medicine needed. It makes the 1; . active, Vitalises the blood, regu? lates the bowels and restores a line feeling of energy and cheerfulness. Price ."Oc. Sold by Siberfs Drug Store.?Advt. Paxville. April 19.?Fritz Cutter, the 14 year Old sen of Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Cutter, died Saturday afternoon after a protracted illness. The funeral ser? vices were held Sunday afternoon at Calvary Baptist church, conducted by the Rev. W. M. Gordon of Summer ten. He was assisted by Evange'ist Montgomery. Interment was in the Church cemetery. To have a line healthy complexion? the liver must be active, the bowels regular ami the blood pure. All this is brought about by using Heroine. It thoroughly sooi rs the liver, stom? ach and bowels, puts the body in fine CAtvdltlon and restores that olea<\ pink and white complexion so much . ?tr<Hl hv ladies. Price 50e Sold by Slbort'l Drug Store.?Ad\t.