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WAR AND THE PROPHETS.

& will be remembered that it was
sulte the fashion during the early
npuths of the Great War to parade
szasi prophecies both of fulfillment
md prediction as to various nations
nnh 6ynasties. Since the signing OF
Hhe armistice little has been heard OF
Ehze prophecies. The world has been
sso busy with actualities to consider
sugue vaccinations. Now that the
Seaee treaty has been ratified, eff
fDrts have been made to dig up the
fru that chit" Pearsons Magazine
las compiled the following:
~The ex-kaiser's left arm is so
vHhered that the hand is practically
Useless. This fact inspired many of
RIs subjects dire forebodings when
Ae came to the throne. For centuries
Hophecy has been current in the
fzfherland, foretelling that the Ger
Rzn empire would be brought to
ruir under an emperor with one
Ixzd. This prediction is not the only
~ne which has been realized by the
vzr. Before his assassination in
1881, Car Alexander II was haunted
By the dread that the wrongs of Po'
kznd should be fearfully avenged on
Rnssia and on the Romanoffs, who
lad been her chief oppressors. His
Insorite, the Princess Dolgoruki
sao passed for religious mystic
xught to assure him by declaring
skh Poland should never be avenged
Eff Russia, Austrian and Germany
4sy IN ruins together. Then it will
usver be- he said, 'for it is impossi
Ne that three such powerful empires
spuId be destroyed simultaneously.
The Hungarian revolution of 184s
4Axs suppressed with savage cruelty
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and the reign of the late Francis JOS
eph began amidst wholesale execu-
tions. One of the Hungarian patrl-
OTIS, while on his way to the scatfold,
said calmly: we die for freedom,
but the doom of the Hapsbusgs is
sealed. Their empire shall not sur
vive Francis Joseph Thanks to the
war it has survived him less than two
years."
Whether the battle of Armageddon
has been fought or not we do not
know. 1t has been a favorite theme
among the war prophets and many a
little-thumbed Book has been read
during the war to get light on the
subject. But we are still uncertain.
Che threat of war still hangs over the
world.
There is an esoteric streak in
most of us. We do not attempt to
account for it and some Of us with a
superior wisdom discount it. But
we are all interested in the future
and are willing most anytime to in
vest a few dollars with dealers in the
occult to obtain a divination Of fu-
ture developments that concern US or
ours. "Life after death" and the
"end of the world" are subjects that
always interest and many are the
predictions and the calculations in
spired by a desire for answers to
these two vexing questions. Any
great calamity that befalls the world
is matter for the hauruspices. The
sacred chickens are killed and the
stars are studied, the mediums are
rung in and the many mysterious
passages of the Bible are reconned.
Our curiousity is insatiate; our su-
perstitions will crop out.
But in the matter of prophecy it is
always better to be more delphic than
specific in our predictions. We can
gain great credit for oracular wisdom
by the former method, while definite
ness inevitably leads to discredit.
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NO HOPE FOR TAX DODGERS.

Washington, July 3.-Tax dodger:
rich and poor, were promised the full
limit of the law by Commissioner o1
Internal Revenue Roper in a state
ment today commenting on the re
cent conviction in Boston of William
A. English and John, H. O'Brien
wool merchants, who returned thei1
taxes at 100000 instead of $1,379,
817.
"It is our determined policy" Mr.
Roper said, "that wealth shall not in
fluence to prevent willful tax dodg
ers from going to Jail. The big ant
financially able must be treated il
the same way as the small willful VIC
lator and hence compromise through
money will be rejected"
Mr.. Roper said the government re
fused to allow English and O'Brier
to pay s1,5OO,OOO to escape prison
sentence. Civil proceedings will be
begun Immediately by the govern
ment to collect the tax due from the
two men and 100 per cent additiona;
penalty.
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PLENTY OF WAR is LEFT.

The signing of the treaty between
Germany and the allied and associ
ted powers has brought peace to only
one part of the world. Here are
some of the conflicts still in progress
The Poles are fighting the Russian
Bolsheviki.
The Ukrainians also are at wal
with the Bolsheviki.
The Germans are fighting the Lith
uanians, who themselves are at wal
with the Bolsheviki.
Civil war continues in Russia
where the Bolsheviki are hard press
ed by their Russian enemies on sew.
eral fronts.
The Hungarian communists are
fighting the Czecho-Slovaks and the
Rumanians.
The seizure of Smyrna by the al
lies has led to fighting between the
Turks and the Greek forces of occu
patton.
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SUNKEN VESSELS
HOLD FORTUNES

London, July 2.-There is a spice
of adventure in the salvaging OF
steamers sunk by German raiders
Round the British Isles, in the Medi-
terranean and off the Marman coast
are rich fields for the salvage SER
vice as we'll as private enterprise. In
the North Sea the water is too deepto
make any considerable success, but in
shallower water not only cargoes, but
ships are being saved.
Some of the sunken vessels contain
huge fortunes in gold or goods. One
is known to have carried $5,000,00O
in gold. The diver sent down to
work on her borrowed the key to the
ships stong box, but it is not re-
iorded whether he retrieved the gold
If the divers after an investigation
decide to attempt to float the ship,
barges are moored over her at low.
tide. Nine-inch wire ropes are then
passed under it and fastened to the
barges above. AS the tide rises the
barges rise with it, bringing the ship
along, as it lies in the great wire
cradle. The damaged ship is then
towed into shallow water and the nee
essary repairs made.
In the case of vessels only partly
submerger air is sometimes pumped
into her hold, diving out the water
while the ship slowly floats to the
surface. Occasionally it is necessary
where the hole is not too large, to
make a great patch, float it over the
hole, and then fasten it sufficiently
tight in position until the ship can
be pumped out and floated.
One vessel was torpedoed in the
Channel, but almost reached the
shore before it went down. When it
finally sank it was exposed at low
tide, and not so very far from rail-
road. Heavy locomotives pulled the
vessel into a perpendicular position
and she was finally rehoated.
While these salvage operations
have been remuneratively successful,
leaders in the industry declare that
+ it is next to impossible to save a
ship lying in water deeper than her
masts, and that very many ships will
never be brought hp. But they do
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DUST THOU ART"

We presume that there is no fur
fhrr use for the Abbeville water
vnzsn now that prohibition is with
m Still if it is to be discarded en-
finely, why let it fall to pieces like
she ene-horse shay in some back lot!
csuAn't a pedestal be placed in the
INK in the Square and the wagon be
I1aeed thereon as a whimsical re-
aander of the days when booze
Asmished as the green bay, tree and
9ssple were annoyed by dust? Let
Il he painted a palpitant pink and
xkn Inscribe on the side this legend,
.17ls is the symbol of drought,
aezieeation and dust"
DIST is a wonderful instrument in
sae hands of an all-wise Providence
vAy allay it? Without it there
Wild be no flourishing fields or
vuzlant pastures. It reflects the
E1k units and gives as that so nee
nury diffustion of illumination
fzsm the sun. It carries those germ
Rres that the soil must have for
lnsceulation. It paints the sun q WV
II 1ed as day passes into night; it
flkns the nucleus for the raindrops.
BRy, dust is a blessing and who is
Che besdtted wit who remarks that
I'm not unalloyed?
What boots it if citizens of Alb
seville sitting on the verandas along
aAuut dusk after a hot and sultry
dry, well busted, sitting, to take
Hefr uncertain chance at transient
s1eeze, are forced by clouds of
amt from passing automobiles, to 60
1nzile their homes, where there is
IeE dust? What boots it, we say, if
sm gets up in the morning with the
anoat dry and dusty and the teeth
xrRty7 That same dust raised by
tha passing autos from the streets is
vxfted-everywhere- a goodly
portion settles upon the lawns and
Hrrhlizes the soil, promising luxu-
riiant growth of grass. It's an, ill
Wind, etc.
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cATARRH OF HEAD, NOSE
AND THROAT KEPT HER
HAWKING ALL THE
Time. DREco GAVE
Relief.

Read the words of Mrs. W. O. Bo.
no, who resides at 34s Oak Street,
Athens, Ga, one of the most highly
respected women of that community,
ssDreco is unparalleled for reliev-
ing pain, sickness and suffering. Nd
one knows how suffered from that
awful catarrh of the head, nose and
stomach, and the collection of mucus
in my stomach, which nauseated ma
and caused vertigo and ringing noises
in my head that nearly drove ma
mad. When I rose in the morning ]
almost vomited from the droppingd
that would cause me to gulp and
swallow. My throat and tonsils bel
came raw-all swollen and red. /
felt miserable all over; tired and ner|
vous. .
'When I read about Dreco it mean
nothing to me except a medicine spoI
ken Highly of, but, Oh my! it is 8
different now. want to tell you all
take it like did, and see. You vii
be convinced and overjoyd by tn
results"
Dreco is made from juices and en-
tracts Of many medicinal herba
plants which act on the vital organ
in a pleasant and prompt manenr.
Dreco is highly recommended i
Abbeville by P. B. Speed, Druggist.
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ranged in a way to make them look
like Arabic characters. The ring is
so unusual that it is included in the
book on "Rings" written by DIR.
George Frederick Kunz, the jewel
expert of Tiffany's, who obtained an
impression from the ring made by the
president himself.
The ring is made of part of mug
get of gold which was sent to him by
the University of California when the
announcement was made of his en-
gagement to the present Mrs. Wilson
1t was sent with the request that the
wedding ring be made of it, and af-
ter that had been done there was SO
much gold left over that the presi-
dent had it made into seal ring.
When DR.. Kunz heard of it he ask
ed the president for permission to re.
produce the impression made by the
ring in his book and visited Washing.
ton for that purpose. President Will
son himself made the impressions ir
sealing wax and they were photo,
graphed in the White House by DR.
Kunz and the picture reproduced II
his extensive work on the history OF
rinps
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RUMANIA HAS BEEN
STRIPPED BY HUNS

Athens, July 2.-Germany has
stripped Rumania of everything,
writes Red Cross agent from Buda-
pest. There are only eighty-four To-
comotives in the whole country for
the transport of troops, munition:
and supplies. Of her seventeen theo-
retical divisions eleven have had to
be demobilized for lack of food and
equipment. There are not sufficient
horses to transport field artillery, no
tractors for the field artillery, forty
per cent of the Rumanian medical
stats died during the war and there
are virtually no airplanes, armored
cars or tanks.
Despite the efforts of the authori-
ties, the country is harboring bolshe-
vik agents smuggled in by Russia,
Hungary and Bulgaria. AS 80 per
cent of Rumania is illiterate the bol-
shevik danger is apparent.
The greatest need is food. Food
for the army and food for the civilian
population. America has sent a dozen
food ships to Rumania and the Amer
lean Red Cross is distributing food at
canteens and by means of rolling
soup kitchens wherever the need is
greatest. In the Dobrudja where
the smallpox epidemic is at its worst
the American Red Cross has many
doctors and nurses.
America has loaned Rumania S5,-
but the financial situation of
the country remains critical, writes
the Red Cross man. This he attri-
butes to Rumania's inability to ex-
port and to the broadcast issue dur
ing the German occupation of worth
less bank notes. =
In addition to food the Rumanian
army and civilian population desper-
ately need clothing. Cloth for a suit
of clothes costs sixty dollars yard.
A yard of linen for shirts costs eight
dollars and shirt of ordinary quail
ity $40. A pound Of butter costs
$3.50.
"How can America help Ruman-
ia?" Rumanian army officer asked.
"Continue your splendid shipments
of food through the American Army
Food Mission and the American Red
Cross" replied the officer. "Send us
propaganda written by Americans to
be dropped by airplanes in the Dol
shevik ranks. We must fight ideas
with ideas. Our railroad and trans
port system is a wreck. Send us
some of the American railroad men
who did such wonderful work in
France"
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GAS SERVICE STATION
AT FORD GARAGE

E. F. Arnold, agent for Ford cars
in Abbeville, will open gas service
station this week in front of his ga.
rage on The Square. It will a visible
gas service station, electrically oper-
ated. Patrons can see the amount OF
gasoline that they get and all chance
for disputes will be obviated.
The plant is made by the Guaran-
tee Liquid Measure Co., of Pitts
bugh, Pa, and will be the only one
of its kind in Abbevflle. The capac-
ity of the station will be 1000 gal
Ions. An oil service will also be
maintained by Mr.. Arnold.
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WILSON RING LOOKS
LIKE ARABIC SEAL
(From the New York Sun. }

(From the New York Sum-
The seal ring with which President
Wilson signed the peace treaty bears
one of the most unusual inscriptions
to be attached to this extraordinary
document. 1t ranks in oddity, from
the Occidental viewpoint, with that
of the Chinese and Japanese dele
gates, and has an Oriental aspect
hardly to be expected in the seal OF
an American president.
This is because the president has
engraved on the face of the ring his
name in stenographic symbols, ar.
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THE CONFEDERATE COLLEGE
No. 62 Broad Street,
CHARLESTON, S. c.

A Boarding and Day School fd
Girls.
Begins its session October 1, 191!
Historic Institution situated in
healthy location.
Advantages of City life, with larg
College yard for outdoor sports.
A WELL PLANNED COURSE d
studies in a h6melike atmosphere.
A BUSINESS COURSE open
Seniors, and Elective courses to Jul
iors and Seniors.
Two Domestic Science Course
giving practical and theoretic know
edge of cooking.
A we'll equipped Library.
For Catalog and further inform|
ton apply to the College.
1913 weeks.
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not despair as to the cargo if the
ship lies in less than 200 feet of wa
ter. Divers can operate with compar-
ative ease at that depth.
Many sailors recently demobilized
have cast their lot with the govern
ment salvage corps or with some one
of the private corporations which
have taken up the work. The pay is
good, while there is always an ele.
ment of danger.
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THE PEACE CONDITIONS

Advocates OF 'force to the
uttermost in an ION 10 Berlin
military movement by the Allied
armies in association with Amer
lean man-power, may find IL
possible to satisfy themselves with
the terms handed to the German
delegates at Versailles by ~
big Four" F" If the specific .a,
set out by the peace conference
are to be read as wrl' M
interpreted literally there
lnuch the ION to Berlin" pres
surt teculd add to the nent
uhieh must make Illuminating
reading for the PrussIan junkers
So faf as mere verbal bonds cam
go, the grip Of the peace treaty.
as proposed by he Allied dele
gates. is about as severe aS even a
,ipdietive foe could demand
Peace at the sword : point could
not demand more.
The old Germany under these
terms ceases to exist either IN
spirft III araaterial sense Terri
tory has heen taken away and
placed In the hands of enemy
neutral, or former subject. races
or ri6si6fSs- In soufees have been
49,
cut off and enezgias Restricted IN
activity PIE iaitisary power IS
wiped ant and means taken to
forbid reappearanee aeparatlun
is compulsory. daages must be
paid for injury to property and
to individuals for enforced Serv-
Ice. Germany. in short. under
these terms becomes Smal' or
ritorially. weaker nationally d
in the economic field. Sht Is
stripped of her potency for i'll to
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OFoR iNoiG ESTiON

Ineiehbol, nj ne Co4llnru, ~
Europe. and in Irss tegree 81 The
worA
siii''ggy Germany disappears -
far 0 written conditions can
make il possible. She IS forbid
len au army or navy or military
aerial force. The importation or
manufacture of munitions j. pro
hibiied excop, uuder lleenSnre ot
the league al nations Military
societies arc hanished Germany
gives up not only the iron mines
II Al,are.l.orraine. hHt the coal
producing territory oi the Saar
Valley. the metal industry pass
ing L. France as IL passed away
from France In ISL And as
some guarantee of safety Germany
gives up an her forts within ~
kilometers of tho east bank of the
Rhine The forts will be- blown
lown.
Economically. Germany becomes
q mere dependent of the Allies
llli,arily she becomes a low
.rsde Power. which need carry
mo- fear into any Nation however
mall for nm army of 10000 and
navy of $4,000 are not iRs'ru-
ueu,S of terror The absence of
army. navy. means Of mpnition
manufacture. and ocean cahle>,
surrender OF continental ameNa-
tions and overseas colonies, re-
Auees the onee-rowerful imperial
empire 10 q low level among ma
tious.
Not less important az the mo-
meut than the rigidity Of the
terms Is the question whether the
Ebert Scheidemanu Government
will accept them. or permit the.
eonquerors to occupy and admin
lister the country. rs 10 the
terms themselves those wfo have
prepared for fault-iiuding be
cause of premature CONCLUSION
thai the peace conference had
prepared soft conditions for
tba makers nf ruthless warfare.
have no ground for complaint
There is NOT much left FOR Ger
many under these specifications
.Of the old Prnssian power there
Is not a shred.
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CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE NOTES

A iIriis more ihan rwo months asc
we induced lsc Fort Smith s Western
Railway 70 give Gu'hr.s ts.teg train
service They di3-eroas pass
eneer train. then runn'as into OKLA
homa City around our way and msts
this the terminus -brinss Grew %
SIX men here every nizht r t-e week
in addition brings passengers with
them-brings people. who IL they
mus, 20 20 Oklahoma CRY had q
come here firs, sad Then 60 There
Well. ,hey - coupiaia.rs now thai
Il is nes receiving Size PATRONAGE tAsy
felt they aad righ, 10 eVpect They
are hasiy In tha, regard 3- the sery-
ice has been on ba, ahou. TWO month
and IS not yer property advertised
and & IS also the poores, time in tas
year Tor local travel
Tae freisat business has increas
materially. however. oser the same
two months ot las, year Now this IS
what We must do. route over the Fer
smith & Western Il yoa can. tell you,
friends about ,he service: It's 4 nics
train. carries a parlor ear and buffet
connects wlth the " X & T az FalHs
for 81 Lolis. Frisco az Warwick for
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Buy, Boost, Build Now
and Share In Benefits

Don't prices Buy. Build Boost Now. ID
it for Guthrie sake and profit with Guthrie.
ThesDeparment Of Labor began the with appeal
America build.
The division of public works and construction organized
and started vigorous with
building which interrupted Schools needed
homes needed churches a public works which
been suspended for years the changing back
industries many of
for prompt has been Widespread campaign
through the newspapers through posters and personal
appeal public the
individual homeseekers.
Reports the Department Of Labor show activity
building unknown and the ready response
the banks the building loan organizations and the public officials
Of the has gratifying.
Buy Boost and Build N0W.-George McCrego s4t
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leo" i a refugee-exile IN the
United States. Just across the
border. while his great estates
and holdings Of property and cash
have been eonfiseated. Part ol
his fortune before the series ~
revolutions began. We're 70.O0.0ol
acres Of land in Chihuahua ~
which i.en.O0O were IN a high
state Of cultivation. other fac.
iors Of his possessions were a
number of manufacturing plants,
a string of mines and a chain of
hanks bat all this was before
the evoluiionS. Tor now he has
nothing bar his life and extreme
old aec.
The son of peon parents he he
came a store boy n; the age Of ~.
and before he was grown up had
"a store Of his own which prosper.
ed - we'll that he soon owned an-
other. then another. almost boz.
definitely. and always growing
larger. Ills estate yslnei ~
sl50.Ooa.0pO gold has been con.
fiseaici hy the State Of Chlhua.
hua and an inventory made by the
department of coufiScafion and
the state treasury General Ter
razas WAS made iefe polliiro Of
chihuahua in lS4>. and IN 1907
Ted an army against the French
usurper MaNimi'ian supporting
his forces out of bis private funds
When Macmillan was shot and
the invasion ended the Mexican
Government was without money
and the Mexican Congress voted
90 repay General Terrazas with
vast tracts ~ land in chihuahua.
When the revolution began his
estates with iheir great herds Of
ary bandits and The aged owner
horses and cattle We're ralded
time and again by the revolution
was obliged to take refuge across
the border lie iS still on the
American side secure as far IS l'fe
j. concerned, but his millions OF
acres his mines. Industrial plants
and banks have at last officially
passed into the hands OF The
Chihuahua Government II j.
tragic ending % romantic and
life.
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HUNS FORGET HOW THEY
Hu1lltATED FRENCH IN 70

CONTINUED from Page Onei
counter proposals TO the peace terms.
o be made hy the German delegation
" Versailles, and a committee from
'he German national assembly met
larlns the day and discussed the
terms OF peace. The national assem-
BY will meet in Berlin today and 1t IS
expected that Chancellor Scheide-
mann will give some idea OF the Ger
man reply 10 the allies
Attack or petrosrad.
Allied forces are reported IN dis
patch originating at Helsinrfc-s.
finland 10 be preparing for an attack
? Petrosrai ID is said that $1,000
men will be engaged in the operation
nd tat French cruisers are lying
iefore Helsingtors presumably ready
lake part In the attack.
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THE MEXICAN SYSTEM

For 4 man 70 work through an
unusually long life acquiring the
largest fortune in his native land
aud then. long past the allotted
age Of mankind, find himself {
stripped az all his possessions, Is
hat the douehboy in the Ameri-
can expeditionary forces calls
being "out Of luck General
Lt zas. commonly referred
to as the Rockefeller OF Mex