The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, November 20, 1914, Page SEVEN, Image 7
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P LAST ROLL CALL
Lord Robert^ Famous English General,
Dies of Pneumonia While on
* His Way to See the Indian
^ Troejrs in Northern Franee
London, Nov. 14.?The official press
bureau announced tonight, at the re
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truest, Ui iJUl U , uiui. ^
Roberts died tonight in France. Pneumonia
was the cause of his death.
It was only yesterday that another
official announcement was made t:at
the famous general was "going into
the war zone to see the Indian troops.''
k The news of the death of Field Marshal
Roberts was received in a tele
gram from Field Marshal Sir John
French, reading:
k "I deeply regret to in' orm you that
a ix>ra KODerts aiea ax s o ciock uus
(Saturday) evening."
IAi later dispatch said that Lord Roberts
contracted a chill Thursday after
liis arrival in France and succumb-^
after a short illness, 'bis great age, S2,
militating against his recovery.
'Lord Roberts was born Frederick
Sleigh Roberts in Cawnpore, India,
Sept. 30, 1832. He was the son of
^ Gen. Sir Abraham Roberts, G. E. B.,
and Isabella Bunbury Roberts. He
[ was very young when sent to England
to be educated. There he was
graduated from Eton, Sandhurst and
Addiscombe.
Ho TKiomairipfl in F!n eland until 1
when he returned to India to begin
the foundations for the fighting career
winch caused Emperor William in S&tember,
1912, to refer to him as "the
Bt ablest soldier of ti:e times."
Like all those who build mightily,
he began at the very foundations and
Wr with the native field battery at Dum
. Dum. His most important duties then
comprised a supervision o?f the fiiring
? of salute guns.
It was before Delhi in 1857 that his
career of glory began, perilous though
it was, and often all but cut short by
bullets, shells and sabres of the Sepoys.
Wherever the fig?, ting was hottest
young Roberts was pretty sure
j. to be in great evidence. Wounds he
recovered from and fevers he defied.
rFrom Del'hi Roberts was parsed
with a movable column to his own
birthplace?bloodstained Cawnpore?
distinguishing himse1.: repeatedly on
the march.
With the column he went to the
relief of Lucknow and many opportunities
did 1 e receive in which to
s1. ow his indomitable courage. For
} repeated bravery he gained, at the
age of 2S, the coveted Victoria cross.
On May 17, 1S59, -he married Nora
A Henrietta Eews, the daughter of a
captain. She gave him two daugbm
ters and one son. The latter was
killed in the Boer war.
r
Soon after the Afghan war he was
created K. C. B., and it was about
this time that he became known as
"Little Bobs," f e name that Britis"
soldiers would have followed to tnc
f ]air of the devil himself.
W Here, following, are some of :he
P- places where "Bobs" aciiie7. ed fame
^ Commended the Kabul field oree in
K 1?79; commanded the Afghanistan
campaign in south. 1SN0; made com
iJii in ci? x'jvj , vv/^*
mander of the forces in lre'an;! in
IS 95; commander in chief of the Sosih
African war. lS9y-1900, relieved Kimberley,
February, 1900, took Cronje
, and the western Boer army prisoners
i in the same year; was made commander
in chief in 1901.
J The orders and decorations he received
are countless; the 'honors hestowed
upon 'him have been everything
that a nation or a monarch could
gTant.
Two years ago he retired into private
life, but when the European conflict
began his war spirit was reawakfe
ened and he hastened to the side of
W 5 his huge friend, Lord Kitchener.
L . On October 22, 1912, Lord Roberts
H at Manrhpstpr ma dp a snppph urtriirth
Fr- brought upon him the tremendous criticism
of all England.
"Germany will make war," he *eclared.
"Now just as in 1866 and in
1870 war will take place the instant
the German forces by land and sea
are by their superiority at every point
? n ,, . ?
as certain or victory as anytning m
human calculation can be made cert
tain."
This speech created a furore in the
II British parliament. T':ey went so far
as to threaten :o take way his pension
and publi-cly reprimand him by apologizing
to Germany.
Members or" parliament did apolo.
gize to tfbe kaiser and cast scorn
in>on the sol em: little prophet, who re
Iiusec to answer tneir hysterica!
scoldings.
> Tvord Roberts died possessed of more
toan $1,000,000.
Stewards Meetme.
The stewards ^f the Newberry circuit
are requested to meet at the store
of Summer & Hipp on Saturday afternoon
at 4 o'clock. Meeting that, was
called was postponed on account of
inclement weatJter.
G. McDuffie Stfgh,
Chairman.
GREAT SHIP SI NK !
BY A TORPEDO)
Br/t/sh Superdreadnaught Audacious
Lost?All Officers and Crew
j Saved.
I
I
i N'ew York, Nov. 14.?T e official
i
j letter from a correspondent on board
the Olympic gives additional details
! of the disaster to the British super!
dreadnaught Audacious.
"Since 1 wrote the earlier report,
! we have had most thrilling experiences.
Tuesday morning soon after
I breakfast as we were off the coast
of Ireland, but not in sight of it, we
saw four or five miles away a British
dreadnaugnt, a cruiser and a torpedo
i boat. We made toward it and found
H. M. S. Audacious flying signals to
; us to stand by?that she was sinking.
"Waves were breaking over her
at er-de:ks. In the roug' ; sea s'. e
seemed to be going down by the stern
' wit'!i> a heavy list to psrt as if she
had been tor])edoed on the port side,
i "After every heavy sea, water
broke over her side?a miniature
j waterfall. Tue whole crew of 9tJ0
men were on deck, all standing as
erect as nine-pins, those at the stern
with waves breaking o-.er their feet.
I "There was no flurry visible. Everything
was being managed with
coolness and clockwork precision.
j "All our boats were lowered and
manned and sent off to take the crew
from t:e Audacious.
"The battleship launched one of Ler
own boats full of men, but a >.uge
I wai es dashed it against .!:er side, sinking
the boat. All the men were pick'
ed up in 110 time by small boats from
the cruiser and the destroyers. Meanwhile
the Audacious was making ef'
forts to get a heavy cable to the
j Olympic.
"We were informed the iighter
t cruiser, a gunboat and several del
j stroyers were not of the slightest use
as t ey could not tow the great batj
tleship, but that the Olympic was going
to try to get 'her into shallow
j water before she sank.
i "At last the heavy cable was made
; fast, but a moment after the Olympic
started the heavy sea made it imposj
sible to regulate the strain oil the
; ca;ble. With tre 45,000 ton ship oil
j one end trying to pull a 30,000-ton
! battles':ip at the other end, t.:e cable
| broke under the strain.
| "'As a last resort, the Olympic then
i tried to drop her own anchor cables
| (the longest in the world), but the
! trawler was unab'e to pick them up
iand ihe dreainaught with all hei enjgines
out o commission (we were
jtold her engine rooms were flooded),
i was powerless to lift the Olympic's
| heavy cable herself and get it on
! beard.
"The whole afiernoon was spent in
; trying. We '.ad found the sinking
I battleship just after breakfast and it
' was :.ot ge-ttir.g dark.
j E"rerts told the battleship's
I magazine might explode at any miniate.
but there was no excitement.
"The Olympic got under way and
vas going at less than half speed
j when the greatest noise I ever heard
; in my life made us all nearly jump
lout of our skins.
A huge red semi-circle of lurid
j light at least 1,000 feet in diameter
: flamed into the skies astern of us,
j and in about 30 seconds all was black
jagain. T;e Olympic crept slowly on
without stopping.
i "It seemed obvious to ?very one
'on board that the magazine of the
splendid Audacious, one of t'. e great'
est battleships in His Majesty's navy;
fcad blown up and $12,500,000 had gone
; to the bottom. But I do not believe
| a single life was lest.
"How the Audacious was sunk?by
a mine or by a torpedo?is a matter
jfor experts. But if by a mine, how
! could it have blown her up by the
i stern in the open sea? It may never
actually be known.
j 'lAnyhow, it is a terrible loss. The
Audacious was only a year old, a super-dreadnaught,
and she 'had the
record ;"or gunnery in the British
navy.
ndTT'tl _ ~ ^
* v\men s^e was sirucA, sue \>ab uu
: her way cut to try at tee target with
.her enormously heavy guns at 15,000
yards (none of the Germans can
reach more than 9,000 yards)."
Small (ira/n and Flour Mills.
I
Not only here in Darlmgton have
jt-ve people at last come to a realiza1
tion that wheat is the logical successor
to cotton as our money crop, and will
plant and raise the golden grain, organizing
a cooperative company to
^ ji, ~ ? ^ Knt
UU11U <& JLLIUUCl 11 1UIIC1 11X111 11C1 C, uut
the people of Marlboro and other sections
are also pushing a movement for
V e establishing of roller mills, and
the farmers will largely grow wheat
and other grains.?Dar'ington News
and Press. Farmers in Newberry tell
1 .
I us they are; going largely into the
grain growing movement, and we haive
already mentioned that the Jalapa
Yercantile company will "build a roller
mill at Jalapa for next year's wheat'
crc-p.
Special School Man;a.
W. W. Bradley in Abbeville Press and
Banner.
The original purpose of voting special
taxes in local school districts was
commendable and added a great deal
of im'petr.s to the cause of education.
In thp hpo'innino- thp districts were
' v"v ~ - o 0
made of good size and shape, and the
i funds were used for building good
school houses and maintaining a
competent and adequate teaching
force.
The spirit and purpose of these
special taxes is still commendable,
but the woi'king o:' tne present undi
' S> feieill 15> 1IUI um> a was ir; ui
| money but entails a gieat deal of
! useless work on county auditors.
We have recently had opportunity
j to look pretty fully into the tax dei
partment of Newberry county, and
i especially, t.:e special school s/sem
of t' at county, and the facts show a
condition that must not only mean a
waste of tax :unds, but a jumbled
i nncvctpnipfif mpthnr? nf l^vvirirr and
| collecting the tax that must be posi|
ti.elv distracting to V e tax departi
ment. And Newberry is not alone
in this. We find ihe same condiI
i ticns prevail here in Afbbeville. Any
! little section of th= county that may
have the very laudable desire to im!
prove school conditions can vote a
| special '.ax. The law does not limit
i the time within which this may be
i done, ar. d hence, the auditor may be
'called upon even within a week of
| sending off1 his abstract, to set apart
i the nrorertv of t1 :at section for a
I special school tax. In doing this he
' calls in the school trustees, to say
! how much of this man's or tfiat
| man's property lies within the disj
trict, and it .not infrequently hap'
pens that one man's land is divided
between t'.iree districts. This division
is made not by the tax-payer,
not by survey, but as a mere matter
of guessing by the Trustees. Tne r<?1
suit is that numerous unavoidable
i
errors creep in, and the comptroller
general's office must be beseigec
from all sections of the State to correct
them.
Again, under tf.:e present system,
in most instances, the school districts
are tco sma'l and too irregular to be
mo f o v rlicf rinf c on cvt TQ
i 1 i Ci v_i LaA Uictuvto, Uii V/vii u
bock, almost equal in size to the
county treasurer's duplicate, mus1
, be made up, and the items i'rom this
[book must be interlined on the treasurer's
duplicate. To balance tnese
items out on the treasurer's duplicate
is not only tedious and difficult,
, but requires the greatest possible care
to proiect t'/.e treasurer against loss,
i The law pro'ides that all poll
taxes paid in a certain district shall
be expected in that district, under
the present system of levying special
i school taxes in most of the counties
it is next to impossible to comply
wit*.], this requirement of the law;
hence the county superintendent dis,
tributes the poll tax per capita of pu
pils enrolled, as he does the three null
tax. This works to the detriment ' ;
the sc.:cols in papulous districts.
But leaving out of consideration
the great amount of extra and unnecessary
work entailed on the auditor
and treasurer's offices, by reason
; cf this unsystematic process of levying
special school taxes, the pittance
cf taxes levied in many of the smaller
districts is being literally wasted.
For instance, the levy in one small
district in 'Newberry county amounts
| to only about $31.00, a sum insufficient
either to aid in paying teachers
or :n building better houses.
n n a f aiu'r? oV?irv 1 n Vrvu'V\/*kr?t?f
V^lic K\S V> 11 Oliip 111 UC11 J VVJUillJ
is cut up into ten school districts.
Only one of these receives sufficient
funds to materially aid the cause of
education. T':.e result is that the ex!
tra levy can do little more than add
a. few dollars to t':e teachers salary
without materially lengthening the
school term.
The general plan of levying spe!
cial taxes should not be discouraged
| and it is not our purpose tc discouj1
age it in the slightest degree, but we
do urge more system both in the sysj
tern of levying the tax and of expending
it. There should be a genI
eral resurvey of the counties into
i school districts, about twice the size
I of present districts, and t'lies-j should
be made the tax districts as well.
T e districts should be made large
enough to maintain one good aigh
school for wtite, and a schco1 Tor colored
children, or i the patrons pre!
fer, two white schools conveniently
located. The lines should be permanent,
so that tax-payers residing near
the dividing lines should know how
to return t'heir property intelligently
for taxation, rather than lgave it to a
guessing process by t-e trustees. Under
this plan. tf:e auditor would
have varying rates for different tax
I districts, bi t when he made up nis
| levy for ordinary taxes, special levies
i would be included without extra abor
and with absolute accuracy.
/There is no doubt that this plan
would result in greater efficiency 'n
school work and it would save the
auditors and treasurers a world of
unnecessary work and worry;
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They'll measure up
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and present new
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your appearance.
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with great dash and
piled them with j J
quality. But, we've
kept the price down.
$15.00 to $30.00
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Company
Newberry, S. C.
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j NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT
i (Notice is "hereby given thac the undersigned
as executors of the last will (
and testament of Alfred Denson, deceased*,
will make final settlement j
.on the estate o>? said deceased in the
Probate Court for Newberry county
^ ~ ~ J X* -t. - r? /-? f\-? ? --
i/n .uuuuay, .\ovemJDer <su, iyi*, at 11
o'clock in tfhe forenoon, and immed1
lately tnereafter apply for letters dis;
missor.y as such executors.
James Denson,
Jno. A- Denson.
Columbia D. Denson. ^
Executors.
October 30, 1914. ol
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berry Savings
Newberry, S. C.
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day, November 2
Mules for the Fr
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mill muies. ui i.
Mules, I will giv
they are worth.
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Sold Hogs by
A South Carolina farmer h
of hogs which were ready to 1:
was so warm that killing was 01
He went to his telephone
Columbia over Long Distance ;
at a good price. He then calle
office and arranged for shipmer
The telephone is now a nec
You can have one on your farm
See the nearest Bell Telepl
send a postal for our free bookL
FARMERS' LINE DEP^
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NOTICE TO COUNTY CLAIMANTS. any kin
will pre
The regular monthly meeting of the they ma
>unty board of commissioners will be ent sup
jld Monday, November 30th,. instead .
! Saturday, December 6th. All per- 1
)ns having claims or demands of 11-6-44-:
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:ill. The weather
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and sold his hogs
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i at small cost.
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PANY 5 AB
d whatever against tfae county
;sent them at this meeting so
,y be acted on before the preservisor
goes out of office.
Jno. H. Ohappell,
County Supervisor.
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