The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, December 17, 1915, Page 2, Image 2
_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