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_2 IIM+44I44-I-4-4 + 4 * OFFICIALDOM. 4 4 It 1 I>I'I|.14IH.|HI|MHI'H"H Fountain Inn Tribune. So far as the private citizen ii concerned, this is a democracy?oi a republic, if you like that better But so far as the official life of tin nation is concerned, the system ol government very closely resembles a monarchy. The man who has the appointive power also has discharging power And that, doubtless, is as it shoulc be. for efficiency in government as in business depends upon discipline and discipline can be conserved onl> when the boss is free to lire those who question his authority. So far, so good. Ilut, since men are but a sorry breed, and human nature a common failing, men who hold authority delegated to them by the people are prone to use that authority to their own ends and as a means of adding to their social, political and financial power. An example of this may bi found in the postofiice department?a branch of government long degraded to be a mere political machine wherein jobs are manufactured for the faithful hut unttt, ana outer joos trimmed frout the unfaithful efficient though they be. The civil service plan was designed to correct a portion of this evil, und may ultimately attain that end ?but not yet. Some days ago an assistant postmaster up in Illinois exercised his right of free speech to say what many another citizen has said, towit?that the President should have waited a longer time before replacing Mrs. Wilson with another woman. Right of free speech, did I say? May, Horatio. Not for the assistant postmaster. This one in Illinois was guilty of lese majesty, nothing less, and his official head was chopped off. That ended the matter, so far as ho .l.murinibnl vvrtc nrmPAmori hilt some meddling newspapers took up the matter, as newspapers have a way of doing, and the people began to ask impertinent questions as good Democrats have a way of doing, and the posto'Iice oflicials got nervous and -well. ?!r. Wilson gave instructions to put the assistant p. in. hack on his job. Press dispatches from Washington concluded with the phrase: "White House officials are annoyed by the publicity given the case." Of course they were annoyed. So were the postoffice officials. There they were, exercising the simple right of a sovereign to decapitate subjects who failed to show proper reverence, and the darned fool people interfered and blocked them. Of course they were annoyed. They wanted to sneak the thing through ?'to get away with a little piece of official spite work and keep the matter from the press boys. Really, haven't we a big-hearted, large brained, patriotically disinterested set of tin-horn officials in this great country? And couldn't they have one grand little old time if the newspapers would only stop telling the folks about things? TIIK l)IU'.MHF.\T OK THK PAUTHIIHiK. Gnn-glint in the open and a cold dawn o'er the hay. The drumbeat of the partridge down the old hack pasture way. A cotton tail off yonder Where the sedge grass hides his ears? Ah. that music of the autumn When the partridge darts and veers! A crack-crack and a hanging where the hollow dips and then The wooded bank conies dripping with the dew in yonder glen. A gray squirrel with his tail down Leaping frightened o'er the road Ah. that drumbeat of the partridge Giving no one time to load! Fades the drumbeat of the city in this music wild and sweet llfLAn n oAirotr Kroo Ira frAm oaoor on/1 Yv 11*11 a v.*/ v cj 1/1 v.ui\o ii\/iii 1.1/ tci auu we stand with frozen feet; And that thumming and that drumming Of those whirring wings?goodbye For the bright gold world of autumn When the heart is beating high! There'll be appetities for supper and the dogs will tucker out, But the world is good and lovely and the blue sky all about. And no soldier ever answered To the calling drum like men When the drumbeat or the partridge Qnurwla (ta notn thrAtiwh lo n o o n A glen! -?The Bentztown Bard, in The Baltimore Sun. Help Your River?It Pays. When your liver Rets torpid and your stomach acts queer, take Dr. King's New Life Pills and you will find yourself feeling better. The> purify the blood, give you freedom from constipation, biliousness, dizzi ness and indigestion. You feel flnt ?just like you want to feel. Cleai the complexion too. 25c at drug Cists. 1 fc-. - ? * ??????? PROCLAMATION > STATU OF SOUTH CAROLINAVVhereas information has bee i that an Atrocious Murder was cc f caster on or about the sixth daj body of Ernest Watkins by John - said John Mcllwain, colored, has f Now, therefore, I, Richard I. 1 J of South Carolina. In order thai majesty of the law vindicated, d< ; Hundred ($100.00) Dollars for conviction of the said John Mcll I Lancaster County, S. C. } In Testimony whereof, I havi caused the Great Seal of the State third day of December A. I). 101 Independence of the United State i By the Governor: R. M. McCOWN, Secretary c i In addition to the above rewart ready offered $100 for the appreh How to Uko the Hetl Cross Seals, lied Cross seals should, in accordance with Order No. 5,020 of the postottice department, "be affixed to the reverse side of domestic mail matter" and not on the address side of any letters or packages that are going through the mail. They may be placed anywhere on matter going by express. As many seals may be used on the back of a letter or package as may be desired. Care should be exercised in sending merchandise through the mails not to place seals over the strings with which the package is tied, since this closes the package against inspection and subjects it to first class postage rates. Users of Red Cross sedls are cautioned against indiscriminate use on foreign mail. Red Cross seals in normal times may be used on the re- 1 verse side of mail matter sent to , Austria. Germany, Great Britain and < most of the British colonies, except ! India and Australia. Guatemala. 1 1 Uruguay and Portugal refuse to ad- j mit mail bearing nonpostage stamps. , Certain European countries will re- < turn to the sender any mail bearing ' Red Cross seals on the address side. ] Mail addressed to any of the bel- , ligerent countries in Europe should not bear Red Cross seals on the address side. Red Cross seals may bo ^ used on the face of checks, bills, on , legal documents and on any com- : mereial paper. The Christmas seals are not good for postage. They will , not carry any mail matter, but any kind of mail matter will carrv them. .\ Dreamer's Mistake. Columbia Record. We are told in the press dispatches that Elorjoci .%!?< 'arlane, a delegate from England to something or other holding a convention in oan Francisco, will go among the negroes "to test the practicability of universal brotherhood." You've got the wrong test, Flor once, child. You may prove something by your experiment, but it is what everybody else now must know ?that you are light in the top stor*. Even the black man will iaugn at you. Universal brotherhood doesn't mean social equality, or equality in the sharing of all things of life. I!' that were the case, there would be nothing to strive for. There can be a brotherhood, and it will be established and maintained if such as Florence attend to their own business, which at this time would appear to lie in the giving of help to British soldiers rather than in the philosophical discussion of things of which she is as ignorant as a Hottentot is of the North pole. The white people will pass up up, Florence, and the black man win speak of you as "po' white trash," for all of your meddling. Brotherhood means the opposite of hate, it means kindliness, consideration, respect, hut not miscegenation. The cause of hate and the breaking down of all morals would he a world wide forgetting of race lines, race standards, race history, race ideals. i The white man is developing a i more kindly feeling toward the black : man and this is being reciprocated. j But the blackest black man is the best black man, and the whitest white man is the best white man, and any deviation therefrom is prostituting ] the work of God Himself. He had a providence In this method of desig- ] nating the races. ] The yellow man, the brown man, i the red man, the black man, the I white man. All compose a brother- 1 hood, but to break down the racial 1 demarkation is to invite tragedy and high brow old maids had better let humanity and Christianity work out these problems along the line of Destiny. I COLDS & LaGRIPPE , 5 or 6 doses 600 will break any case of Chills & Fever, Colds 5 & LaGrippe; it acts on the liver [ better than Calomel and does not gripe or sicken. Price 25c. THE LANCASTER NEWS, [L BY GOVERNOR. ?Executive Chamber, n received at this Department mimitted in the County of Lan- ^ r of November, 1915, upon the Mcllwain, colored, and that the (led from justice. Manning, Governor of the State | ^ t justice may be done and the 0 nereny oner a reward or une 3 the apprehension, delivery and wain, colored, to the sheriff of e hereunto set my hand and d 3 to be affixed, at Columbia, this j! 5, and in the 140tli year of the is of America. n RICHARD I. MANNING. o h if State. ? 1 Sheriff John 1'. Hunter has alension of John Mcllwain. r a Tlic Eagle. r Every now and then there comes 1 from some South Carolina town a a brief news item stating that some 11 farmer or hunter of the neighbor- P hood has shot an eagle. It never seems to occur to anybody that the incident is rather to be regretted. Why shoot eagles? They are rare t now in every part of the state except 011 the coast and, while there are sUll j it goou many in mem mere, mey are not even on the coast as numerous s as they ought to be. On the coast s they do no harm at all. living prac- t tically entirely on fish, and in the interior, where fish are not available, t they do very little harm, livine in all n probability mainly on carrion. In 0 nine cases out of ten the eagles which u are shot not because of depredations they have committed or because of f the fear that they may commit depre- s' dations, but because when a man ' with a gun sees a big bird on a tree p or flying overhead his first thought is to shoot the bird at once. _ Americans ought to have some af rection for the eagle?some feeling ? for him such as the Romans had. {j Stevenson in one of his essays recalls that Oermaniscus at the head of his legions was crossing a dangerous " river on the further shore of which " the enemy waited in ambush. Suddenly seven great eagles appeared, p seeming to marshal the Romans on 1> their way. "'Forward!' cried Oermanicus. with a fine rhetorical ii?- ' spiration. 'Forward! and follow the n Roman birds.' " The eagle is the \merican bird, iust as he was the 0 Itninan bird Americans ought to have towards htm the same patriotic sentiment that the Romans had. Instead, Americana shoot him on Bight.! ' News and Courier. ; e INCREASE IN AMOUNT FROM PERSONAL TAX!? Amount Collected bast Venr 841,-1 1' ol(t,1ti2, More by Nearly $13,000,000 Tlinn Year before. | ti Washington, Dec. 12.?Personal * income tax was paid during the last j " fiscal year by 357.515 individuals. 1 f, who turned into the government h $41,040,162, more by nearly $13.- " 000,000 than the total paid by 357,- ^ 508 making returns the year before, v according to the annual report of the ci commissioner of internal revenue, w made public tonight. j? Tlie greatest increase shown was in the amounts paid by those subject jf to the normal tax. a jump front about " $12,728,000 in 1014 to about $16. w n.V.t.noo in 1015. Incomes exceeding s $500,000 paid this year about $6,- t< 4 30,000 eontpared with about $3,- 1 437,000 last year. There were!" 82,754 individuals subject to tho nor-J ?11 !? 1 I !1 *. * 1 .1 .1 N vv ltd ftmnei r?#l t ?\ _ I - "I cnmcs between $4.nun and $5,000 |V and 174 whose returns were madoj . r on a basis of incomes of $500,000 or more. | v I'ndet the corporation income tax Shop Early Advice. f Uncle Sain lias requested, "Do your Christmas mailing early." If the salespeople, the delivery boys, the V delivery horses and all who suffer j from the Christmas rush would ex-j V press their thoughts they would say. "Do your Christmas buying early and give us Christmas, too." Every year V a plea along this line is made and yet every Christmas eve the tired faces ( show all too plainly the lack of thought on the part of the public. It is really lack of thought and not V lack of consideration for most of us are kind and considerate at heart. A so let's all think and do, early this year and let Christmas be indeed a season of rejoicing and not of drudg- O erv.? Washington( Ca.) Reporter. W The Irony of Life. One of the saddest phases of all human experience Is the way a man, lust about the time he succeeds in i getting his brain developed to the point where he might accomplish I n something with It, finds that he has n to devote all his attention to his teeth, stomach and legs to keep going c at all.?Ohio State Journal. ('oughts and Colds Are Dai^terous. Few of us realize the danger of * Coughs and Colds. We consider i, them common and harmless ailments, p However statistics tell us every third ? person dies of a lung ailment. Dan- h gerous Bronchial and Dung diseases How ft neglected cold. As your body struggles against cold germs, no better aid can be had than Dr. King's New Discovery. Its merit has cen tested by old and young. In use over 4 5 years. Get a bottle today. Avoid the risk of serious lung | ailments. At druggists. 1 ' ' A ,,,1r i DECEMBER 17, 1915. .EXINGTON WOMAN WILL ENJOY THIS CHRISTMAS ?VilI be Able to Eat Dinner and Enjoy It. VHOLE FAMILY IS HAPPY. Irs. ,1. T. Crapps Says Wonders Worked for Her, Her Husband, Brother and Sister. One of the most noteworthy enoruements of a proprietory medicine 5 mill &i \ I'll luiiiur, mt: iiiusu i men - | cine, by Mrs. J. T. Crapps, of 2h01 Vilson St., Columbia, wife of a forenan at the Southern shops. She told f the remarkable benefit she, her insband, her sister, Mrs. \\\ A. louts, of Lexington, It. F. D. 1, and ier brother, J. K. Meetze, a promilent business man of Brookland, had eceived from taking this medicine. Upon such convincing statements s this, by persons of high socia. tending and of unquestional integity, is the unprecedented success of ; 'anlac based. To gain relief from larming conditions such as were' nentloned in her statement is to rove almost conclusively the super-' or quality of the medicine which rings the change. Thus Mjs. Crapps told of her siser's suffering an drecovery: "Mrs. Monts had severe stomach rouble her liver, bladder and kideys were in bad condition, and she uffered intensely with rehumatism. he was under medical treatment for j = wenty years, and was very sickly uring the past eight years. She | ried many medicines, and consulted | ledical men in distant states with-jl^ ut avail. At last, she declared she| ^ ould take no more medicine. I ^ "After she began taking Tanlac, ? allowing much pleading on our part. A he began to recover in a wonderful i ray. In two weeks she had regaind so much of her strength that she ^3 as able to do her housework. Two < eeks later she was renllv a new ner- I 4? on. She says she now feels like a i Irl, and that there Is no medicine 1 ke Tanlac. I "All our family are overjoyed, for liev hardly expected her to regain 4 er strength as she has." 4 Mrs. Monts, when Interviewed. <3 ave the following statement of raise for Tanlac: f "I will try to tell you of the bene- 4^ t Tanlac has been to me. 1 was so Jj c-ik I could hardly walk any dls- J nee. When I tried to work, even 4* f light tasks. I became very ner- ? mi'-. I was restless at night. J "llefore T look Tanlac. what 1 ate 1 used mo intense suffering. so much mt i did not care to eat. Now, sit J Tanlac. I ininv mv meals as T \ nee did: I can sleep well and I feel # ke getting up when morning comes 3 hope Tanlac will do for others what *4 lone for me." 4S Mrs. Crapns said, regarding her ? audition and that of her husband, as ?ilows: 45 "Mr. Cranps and myself both are 1 iking Tanlac. and we have been \ reatly benefitted. I have suffered ?S inch with chronic appendicitis and 4 idr.ey '*>vble. My back and sides 4 renuently pained me intensely. My usband suffered with loss of appe- Jf te and general debility. i 1 "I can not praise Tanlac too high I J. B. Mackorell i > > <? - - I h l <: t?.i i < ?' < > ' ) < ^ t ? i f? t f :?, ? ?.4(? NATURE'S WAY... | BANANAS, ORANGES, or anything Nature prepares ? for food, is SEALED AND PROOFED AGAINST DEAD- * LY GERMS. * Preparing LUZIAME I | FOR YOUR TABLE We copy NATURE in her work. r l \ Human Hand NEVER TOUCHES this delightful CofTee, > FROM THE SACK TO YOUR COFFEE POT AT HOME. t t Save Your LUZIANNE COUPONS For Valuable Gifts. + I THE REILY TAYLOR COMPANY, + \ NEW ORLEANS, LA. { r. for it certainly has proven an infinable remedy for my family. My -J rendition is much hefter in every ^ ay than before T began taking Tan- ^ ic. and my husband, too, has found 1 of great benefit." +4 Mr. Meetze's endorsement of Tanic, previously published, said lie J had gained ten pounds in three i eeks" while taking Tanlac. Tanlac, the premier preparation, is 4 nld at J. F. Mackev A Co., I.ancas- \ r. People's Drug & Grocery fo.. ? leath Springs. S. C.: C. O. Floyd, 4 [crshaw. Price $1.00 per bottle. *4 1 \VHK\ HK'KF.ItM TS A HE ItlPE. J I 1 nth a' empty tlour sack, An' a' empty stomach, too, 4 Hi. I'd like to be a boy 4 Just once more a-roamin' roun.' I .. I 0 Htli an empty flour sack. An' a empty stomach, too, ?>1 tut a heart so full o' joy. I Jj That the skies were always blue, j 4 nien the hickernuts are ripe, I can see myself again * t'itll a hnn an' loan on* liimr* 14? Makin' for the dear old lane. L nth my Rood dog at my heels, \< With his everlasting hark L He'd outbark the scalybark) ; What a merry, merry lark. * /hen the liirkernuts are ripe, Why my thoughts go roamin* hack * n' again I climb the fence : 4 An' scoot the same old track. I h. I'd like to go again If the time I could but swipe _. Hiere the trees are bendin' down When the hlckernuts are ripe. I ?Florida Times-Union. j I Wi Where He Had to Stop. [J* "There's a child among you, taking 13 \ otea," said the poker player as the \ ? lan next to him drew down a big pot. 1 < > Yes, but he daren't print 'em,",]| huckled the man who bad Just been ; called" for his roll. J ?rv a. ? r?to rrh In thtfl RAOtlon Of til A . 1 lit'rw II lumr * _ >untrjr than all other disease* put together. and j ottt the last few year# wn supposed to be , icorable. For a great uiunjr ftars doctors i renounced It a local disease and prescribed local ( emcdtes, and by ?. instantly (ailing to cur* with ] x'al treatment, pronounced It Incurable. Science , a* proven Catarrh to be a constitutional dlseaae, j ml therefore require* constitutional treatment. | lull's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by P. J. j 'her.ey ft Co., Toledo. Ohio. Is the only Conatltu- i lonal cure on the market. It la taken Internally ] n dose* from 10 drop* to a teaapoonfnl. It acts i llrectly on the blood and mncoua surfaces of i be system. They offer one hundred dollar* for i my case If fall* to cure. Send for circular* and j :e*tlmonlal*. I Address: F. 3. CHENEY ft CO.. Tbledo. Ohio. : Bold by Dnigglats. 76c. Take Ball's Family Pills for constipation. ?? ? * ? ? I Saved Girl's Life I I "I want to tell you what wonderful benefit I have re- 9 I celved from the use of Thedford's Black-Draught," writes fl I Mrs. Sylvania Woods, of Clifton Mills, Ky. V -M "It certainly has no equal for la grippe, bad colds, V liver and stomach troubles. I firmly believe Black-Draught J I saved my little girl's life. When she had the measles, J they went in on her, but one good dose of Thedford's I Black-Draught made them break out, and she has had no 9 1 more trouble. I shall never be without V R BLAckTraughI J in my home." For constipation, indigestion, headache, dizzi- J I J ness, malaria, chills and fever, biliousness, and all similar 9 1 a ailments, Thedford's Black-Draught has proved itself a safe, X I reliable, gentle and valuable remedy. |9 # If you suffer from any of these complaints, try Black- fl > Draught It is a medicine of known merit Seventy-five V J years of splendid success proves its value. Oood for 9 Z young and old. For sale everywhere. Price 25 cents. 9 *JMl 9 A A A A A A A A A A A A A A. A A-A A A- A ?^? ?j? + ?$*+$M^? f Here Is A | Christmas Treat! FOR YOU I % | I am Going to sell on the : *1 20th of Dec. f I *% 1 pound of the best Choco- $ | late, put up in the hand- *** I somest holly box you ever % I saw for .... 25c X I T I J I Just think of it, the box alone is worth I 10c. Now this package will be in the window ** j for inspection on the 20th and you can X j judge for yourself. Only 25c and you % j get a pound of chocolates that is worth % I fldr anvwlioro ? ? ' ?ill l i i 1 WW UUJ ff 11V1 V* HOI CI puuna win oe sold t? I until the 20th. You lose if you miss this ? and it is Christmas too. % : Old Santy will be at my place with a full > I load. v 1