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* ^ Tinny, AU5UJV a, M CHAIEMAX BLEASE PLEADS ! i? FOR FAIR ELECTION. V The following statement read by k County Chairman H. H. ?lease at the meeting of the county democratic ex\ ecutive committee last Saturday: This meeting has been call for two purposes mainly: 1st; to designate v the polling places for the primary election; 2nd, for the appointment of managers of election. I suppose there will toe little difficulty in se- j lecting the poling places, but bear \ in mind that the clubs located in in- j corporated towns come within the j k provisions of he Australian election a law and you should select places for Hl these clubs which shall be convent- ; HBl ent for carrying out the provisons of ^HEthat law. |i|? In the appointment of managers, there are some things we should reMl^member. We are here as the guard ians of the democracy of this county j and in a way also the guardians o? the democracy of the State. Our elecitons should not only 'be conducted honestly, but they should Jbe conducted in such a way as there will be no reason for any man. however sus- j picious, to point to any seenrng un- j fairness; Do not overlook the fact | that our county convention adopted j^ a resolution, directing us to give both j ~ ? + Vl O Krtordc! j Tactions represeucatiwu Vll OUV VfVUA Vkw j Mk managers. Some people say there j Bpmare no factions, -"but we Know there ! WiSnBB? 1 | This F r * Packages *?- ? I GRANDMA'S i Pi Your Grot And 'tou arc to save and n* ri 1 I %m& *5fefc Ju^flGl 18 tew 111 1 r: J '/*'". * ' r -i-?r.: M ' ' ' *'&*it'& ' f fig * 'Mlffi >' ? :%r I K^';. SLA^SBW " w '-*~f m&TZ** c *'._* : .r tlifedical OF THE S South C Owned and Contr< HHBbo^s of Medicii |HBgg?d in Class A by the Cou ^jBMpgAerican Medical Associp American Medical Co of Pharmaceutical . HHjj^HBeader in Me BHBBMH in the 1 lilding with well eq horoughly efficient a] I opposite the Ropei p Museum, thus affo: Iportunities for resea: 1 Admitted on the sa louge address. GRADY CALL tlhoun and Lucas Stree ii in in jprni in *mmm < are. Our convention recognised them. The legislature, in the Austrailian election law recognized them. We wnnt honest and competent men. and we have hundreds of such men in our county. Many hcnest men, from lack of education and experience, may not make competent managers. Especially should the men charged with carrying out the Australian election law ,v.o oo-- <?tent for that work, for .that, is a new way of conducting elections in our county, and the people will not this year understand it fully. You will recall that when we appointed our enrollment committees I made a similar request of you. And in every committee which I have appointed since I have been your chair man, I have taken care to always see that both sides were represented thereon. Now, I wish to direct your attention to an Act of the General Assembly of this year, known as "The Berry Law", providing for the enrollment and voting of persons engaged in the civil, military and naval fiervid^ *>l3 ,the government who are absent from their "home clubs." In this law provision was made for the enrollment of the soldiers in the cantonments within the state, sucn enromneni t.? be provided for by the State Committee. The county committee hac no part in that enrollment, except to receive the books from the cantonments. No enrollment books have come to me, and I am informed by the officers Tablespoonful of DWDERED Soap! KESSBSOSHnREESSS "" Here's the right way to wash dishes- or to wash any thing else. No tnor^ i?.xr soap none of that shciusf. rubbing bother. No more iv*r soap wasting away in M?c water - no chaaoc for piet c? ot* s- v;tp cliu^iij;> to o.siics. GKANDiViA disseives completely. A P.^y.u/o-rp// 5>fkatn. .lust ;* i /"a a vwv>v? p.* ??--r- - v ? tahie&pwtttul ?? I iie dish&n:! and you hii-o the iir.fsi, Mufest s?;ds you "ver shw. YW k i uw jMKt j.o'v mti<*h to u<?*_ Not t'to Not too little. M<*rveiouj hv.%/ it cleans. r\ ~ ti f 1 %><ui sJwW'lj :sr Has St I > only dsked >t waste Tood i *,j ?v^v* P mmmmmmmmmmmummmmmaammmmttamamm C*,rAtp(fp. ^^3^ w ^ w STATE OF Carolina oiled by the SU.te ie and Phar macy incil of Medical Educators of tion. Member of the Associlieges and of the American Faculties. dical Education South. [uipped laboratories. A full ll-time teachers. Hospital and very near the rding the students more exrch and training. me teims as men. I SON Registrar, its Charleston, Sou. Carolina. t of the State .Committee that no enrollment been had, and that there | will be no elections at these canton- j ments. ! This same law makes provisions for the voting of all these soldier and sailor /boys toy mail. The enrollment ? - * v - i i committees of tne ciuds were uireciea to place on their enrollment books, names, home addresses and last V^own addresses of all these soldiers and sailors. It has been a difficult matter to ^et all these young men on tlic- roils. About 400 of them hav2; i (been enrolled. I understand there j shou'd have been about 600. Notice ; of this enrollment was not given us j yiy the state Committee until about frv"f days before the time for the enrollment to close, and the law wms not in the rules sent to U3. "^o' MIess thp enrollment committees,; . ! in this county, did their very nest i Still I regret that the name of any j soldier or sailor was omitted, for I j would like to have all of them vote j W*.9n we set the State tickets and | county tickets ready, under the pro- j visions of the law, I am directed to ! mail one of each to every person so enrolled by your enrollment committees. These young men have th* right to prepare t^eir ballots, enclose j them in an envelope, addressed to me as "County Chairman," write thei** names and addresses on the envelope, ! and write the words "Vote of absent ' voter," thereon, put on proper postage and mail to me. I am to hold all i the ballots received by me until your i meeting to tabulate the result oi the i / 1 election which will be held on ThursI rfsy after the election cn Tuesday, the i 27th. At that time the envelopes re. j ceived by me are to be presented to j the committee, the names thereon are to be checked with the names on the "absent voter" list, and su^h ballots j as are from properly qualified voter? I 01.0 t-n 1K0 r?r>nntpfi Ihv nc and included I a 1^7 IV IAJ WW41VWV. ?? v-s/ in the results in this county. Now, if you have followed me closely. you will see how great is the responsibility resting upon the county chairman. The matter pf sending out these ballets is left entirely in my hands. If I fail to send out a ballot to anv soldier or sailor, he has lost .his chance to cast his vote. These ballots will likely start to coming ill ' several days before the 'election. If I should lose or misplace an envelope containing one of these boys vote, ,1 nrVif f r\ T-rvta hoc fh<kPTl in IK it I Iuuy S liftUV tv/ ? ui-1- iiti o ~ ~ ~? j a way, taken from him. Those 40^ votes from your county may decide some of the contests in this county for office, may even decide a contest for some state office. Even a part of them might decide some contest where the candidates run close I | know that I shall do my best to handle these tickets and these returned ballots carefully, so that every boy ,mav vote and that his vote may be counted. I hope it is not egotism on my part that causes me to s^v tMt I am sure that every member of this committee, however much th^re may be political different betwoo-n m; >135 confidence in my ability and integri1 tv to carry out the provisions ~f 'Ms ! j law, as far as my duty goes, to thai j very letter. But I have stated to you, in effect, j that our election should not only he j honestly conducted, 'hut that it should , be conducted in such manner that no one shall have any basis to think for a 'moment that anything wrong has 'been, or will be, done. Therefore, I I Stop Corn Agony - r? o in rour oeconns l | i Use "Gets-It"?See Corns Peel Off! The relief that "Gets-It" gives | from corn-pains?the way it makes i corns and calluses peel off painlessI ly in one piece?is one of the wonders of the world. The womaa in Pains a^d Makes Corns | Jt the home, the shopper, the dancer, the foot traveler, the man in the office, the clerk in the store, the worker in the shop, have today, in this great discovery, "Gets-It," the one sure, quick relief from all corn and callus pains?the one sure, painless remover that makes corns come ; off as easily as you would peel a Ud.na.ria. il ia.JK.ea u acuvuus iv ?*y, ply "Gets-It"; it dries at once. Then walk with painless joy. even with tight shoes. You know your corn will loosen from your toe?peel it off with your fingers. Try it, corn sufferers, and you'll smile! "Gets-It," the guaranteed, moneyback corn-remover, the only sure way. costs but a trifle at any drug store. M*f'd by E. I^awre nee &Co.,Chicago. 111. fcioui i: "*}' f*v. a <>;1 re?:Oi)iUiend >v?' n?s fh.? * ? V>v *V r- VI. TTaj*. Arew berry Drjg Co, THE NEW CALOMEL A PERFECT SUCCESS, j Cn 1 ntolia fho r>cv?r1tr Orl Pain- i ^aAwuu.wwf iuwif ij | mel, is absolutely purified from all of ! the unpleasant, sickening and dan- j gerous qualities of the old-style cal- j omel. The new Calotabs are rapidly taking the place of the old-style cal-i omel tablets, as they are much more ; effective as a liver cleanser and sys-1 tern purifier, yet are entirely free from j all objectionable qualities. The new Calotabs are sold only Li i ordinal, sealed packages; price, 35 j rents. Your druggist recommends and , guarantees them.?(Advt.) - ! wish to make suggestions to you, | which I trust you will authorize me i to carry out, as to the handling of these "absent" voters ballots. These j suggestions coming from me, with-! out any intimation from any member of this committee, show, I trust, my desire that I shall he free from any 1 possibility of criticism hereafter. And I state frankly that even if they were to come from any of you, I should noj: take them as a reflection upon mc, but simply as the desire of the one who might make them that there be no chance for criticism of anything that-, may occur in the election in this county. I recommend to you that you give me the power to designate your sec retary and cne member of this committee, that member to be of the faction opposed to my political faction, and that the three of us together handle the matter of sending out and receiving these ballots of the absent voters. Under the law, I am compelled to do this work, ibut there is nothing in the law which prevents your secretary and this third member from seeing that I do it properly. In fact, the spirit of all our election laws is for everything to be conducted openly and above board. Authorize this sub-committee to do the following things: 1st. To have all the envelopes containing tickets for these absent voters to be addressed in type-writing, so they will be plain. 2nd. That the envelopes in which the ballots are to be returned be addressed in large type to the Count*' Chairman, and that the words "vote r\f a*>cVntpr" h? orinted thereon Vi awwvwv ? V vw. w w /; in large type, and that proper arrangement lbs made thereon for tih.i name and address of the voter, as required toy the law. 3rd. That the sub-committee be i authorized to rent a box at the 'post | office and the post office officials be ! instructed to place all mail so addressed, as stated heretofore, in that particular box, and not in mv box, or in any other box. 4th. That the sub-committee shall set only ore key to the said box; tihat the mail therein shall be removed only by the suib-committee when all three of the members are present; that when the "key is not being used for the purpose of getting the mail, that the same be left, properly sealed up, with tihe Clerk of the Court of the county, to be delivered by him to no | person except to your sub-committee, ; and only to the sub-committee when ail three of the members are present in oerson. 5th. That a proper ballot box be arranged and kept in the office, and . in the vault, of the clerk of court, under lock and key, properly sealed up, which shall be used for the purpose of nlar.ine- and keeDinsr these ballots rnd the envelopes containing them when received from the post office 'by the su,b-committee. Gth. That at the meeting of this committee for tabulation of the returnQ from, the election, the sub-committee shnll faring the said ballot box and all the tickets and envelopes therein into the presence of the full committee, and said ballot box shali thon mtih thpro finlv at. that time be opened and the ballots therein inspected, checked and counted. This seems to me to be fair and honest, and the best method I can in q short time devise for handling these votes properly. If any of you have o hat-tpr nlan to <?nprp-psf T shall wel c* * ' 'onie it.. If I hear of a better pten ir. ?rv ot^er county, r ch9ll be glad 'Tj advise you. or to be si vised of it, ft' you learn of one. My only purpose is fo so conduct the election in this county that. wh.en it is over, whatever the result may be, that all our 'people shall be able to say, "the people have spoken." ? m *^KVWFA*^g w ! ALL MEALS ' WSEA3XESS /ggjSra -?: HO XSKZKO. atfiOZBLS. \W2|{ S?Sjl l|fe.'' I: ca mEAXTAST bxhw CCNTAININO HXSZAJC . iiS HtSKALD ANb NEWS. ON3 it \ K tt>R ONLY S1.5^ J; j OLO ITALIAN SPORT Peculiar Method of Snaring Mi- : grating Pigeons ; At Cava dei Tirreni the Birds Are Way- r laid With Nets and Slinks?Much Ingenuity Necessary to Secure Good "Bag." j It is not often that one comes across a little place that has an ingenious and exciting sport all its own. At Cava dei Tirreni in Italy, nowever, there has for a thousand years eAisieu a j culiar form of pigeon catching. It was | introduced in 892, says Mr. Herbert Vivian in Italy at War and it has flourished ever since. At the beginning of every autumn great flocks of pigeons i migrate from Siberia to Africa and I pass over Cava and the Gulf of Saler| no. They probably have other routes, ; but Cava is the only place where they are waylaid with nets and slings. The I season is at its height from the 15th to | 25th of October. ! The pigeon catchers are mostly men I of the lower middle class, who club toj gether to form six societies, or i "games.'* A game usually consists of three or four towers and a clearing ! where the nets are set up. One tower is probably a thousand yards from the | net, and the nearest perhaps seventy ; yards,- but the distances vary. The towers are tall and slim, windowless and weather-beaten. There are steps ! about halfway up the inside, and a ; rickety ladder leaos to ine parapet ?.?. i the top. Each society has also a neat little clubhouse, usually near the chief tower. | In a merry mood the members take i their places in the fresh morning air. i Most of them are dressed in velveteen : coats, top-boots and peaked caps. Two J men ascend each tower and the rest . are distributed among tne neis. iu each of the clearings stands a small ' house from the center of which rises a tall black mast To that two huge j nets are fastened, stretching right and | left to clumps of trees and spreading j out obliquely to the ground. Inside I the house is a handle and a cogwheel for raising the weighted nets. The "t 1??4- ia a e+T-om hilt twfl O T iw&uui piav.c *o u ouuk ..uv ...? -- i three miles away in the direction from I j which the pigeons are expected. When | the watcher sights a flock of birds he ! gives a signal on his horn, which other j 1 watchers scattered about the woods j take up. ?'? ? j The btrds travel at a tremendous speed, always with a leader, and in ' flock8 Qt from 30 to 100. Every one { takes to cgveft for the birdsr are easily frightened. The m?S on the~tower? " 5 ,iV 1 and are proviaea wity wug suuga ??? 1 whitewashed stones about the siza of small hens' eggs. These they discharge i with great force. The pigeons, it is said, mistake the stones for hawks and i make frantic efforts to avftifl them, so the sifng6rs Efast. fling the stones where they do not 'wish fhie birds to ' go; yet wheiT tEey are flyii-g high, a stone flung beneath them will bring them hurtling downward Then, with loud cries, the watchers drive them toward the nets. The stone-slinging is the essence of the sport, ana it requires strong muscles, a quick eye and a steady aim. But the netting is also difficult. The man at the ropes is white and nervous; everything now depends upon him. If he releases the weight at the , right moment the net comes down instantly and the birds are bagged. A moment too soon, and they see the ' danger and avoid it; a moment too . late and they pass in safety. It is a : matter of an instant, and many more flocks escape than ar? taken. , The birds are gray and somewhat , smaller than the domestic pigeon. ' They cannot be trained or tamed. The ' sport is far from being profitable, for even when they have good luck the pigeon catchers never take enough birds to pay for the elaborate preparation they have made. But the moment when the nets whirl down at Cava is a moment of rare excitement. ? ? "War Time." A novel memento of the great war Is a clock, which is made from munitions j ?both enemy and allied?collected on | the Somme battlefield by a soldier, who afterwards used them for this purpose. The body of the clock is a German shellcase, and German cartridges form the legs. Of the three cartridges on tr~> of the timepiece, the , two outsJ.de are German, and the one gracing the center French^ while the two small ornaments between these are Belgian bullets. The side ornamnnfo o ra fflorfa fmm Xror,QTr_l i frVif I Ui^ilWO Ul^> 11AUUV 11 VUi T U1V.J cases, pierced to aamit of a British ! cartridge projecting through the top.! The pendulum consists of five | French bullets, and the figures and I hands are bent to shape from copper ! wire taken from German trenches. To complete the whole, the clock movement inside is also of German make, and, after necessary repairs, is found to be entirely adequate. ! i Look to Africa for Food. ! | The world-wide shortage of food and ! ! the certainty that this shortage will i continue in modified form for years to eome has roused France to utiiize more fully her great colonies just across the Mediterranean. Comprehensive plans ; a*e being formed?and started on the | way to fulfillment?for refrigerating and packing plants in Algeria, so that 1 the animals need not be shipped across the sea alive. These institutions, too, will give a much readier and steadier market thin has been available hither- , to, alic! that is probably all that is needed to quadruple the meat exports of Norih Africa. i IRE COUNTY CAMPAIGN IS NOW IN PROGRESS. Silverstreet, Friday, August 9, at 2:30 p. m. Oakland Mill, Friday. August 9, at 3:30 p. m. Pomaria, Tuesday, August 13, at 2:30 p. m. Chappells, Wednesday, August 14, at 2:30 p. m. Whitmire, Saturday, August 17, at 2:30 p. m. dewberry court house. Tuesday, August 20, at 2:30 p. m. Mollohon Mill, Tuesday, August 20, at 8:30 p. m. Jolly Street, Wednesday, August 21, at 2:30 p. m. Little Mountain, Friday, August 23, at 2:30 p. m. Willowbrcok Park, Saturday, Aug list 24, at 8:30 p. m. Burn Eighty Ships In Cleopatra. Eighty ships of war, reproductions of those which figured in the Battle of Actium, the first naval battle of history, were especially built for the William Fox screen spectacle, "Cleopatra,'^ in which Theda Bara appears as the siren of the Nile. During the filming of the battle scenes these vessels were burned to the water's edge Opera Honse, Friday, Au^nst 9. >otce of Scholarship Examination THE CITADEL, CHARLESTON, S_ C. Courses in Engineering, Sciences and Arts. B. S. and C. E. Degrees. Military instruction of unsurpassed excellence. Classed, by the War Department as "Distinguished Military College." . .r' Two vacancies in the state scholarships for Newberry county will , be filled by competitive examination on August 9th. These scholarships provide for nearly all expenses, and only Jdatao who are ilTiahlfi f# , V/CIUU iUMWWC U MW M* V - ? pay are eligible for them. Necessary blanks can be obtained from the superintendent at the Citadel. A limited number of pay cadets will t*e received- Expenses, including board, uniforms, tuition, and all other fees, $337. <Next session begins Sept. 20th. Catalogue sent on request Address i?-. Col. C. J. Bond, Supt. The Citadel, Charleston, S. C. h , ! " ?MMp? il . ?z:J LITTLETOX COLLEGEHas just closed one of the moat successful y^ars In its history. The 37th annual session will begin Sept, 25th. *> %m>\ $??**) Write for new illustrated catalogue* also and QUICKLY for particulars concerning our special offer to a few girls who can not pay our catalogue rate. Address J. M. Rhodes, Littleton, X. C. * ESTATE NOTICE, ?/?! ?, ?fi' ' j Any persons holding claims against | the estate of Dr. Orlando B. Mayer, deceased, are notified to render a j statement of them to me, duly attestj ed as required hy law, <.-nd all perI sons indebted to the estate will make payment to me. Harriet Jones Mayer, J 7-22-1S 4t Executrix. ? SKeep ?/ell jlj ' Do not allow the poisons of undigested food to accumulate in lagf gpBj your bowels, where they 01m ?5>gjfj are absorbed info your giL3 systerr. Indigestion,con- j-gfl ST|j blood, and numerous SPP other troubles are bound Tpf* J&ffl to follow. Keep your system clean, as thous- ? jg ands of others do, by *5gjj fjffisA taking an occasional dose' $Jv?i 'Jm of the old, reliable, veg- Mfel prjp etable, family liver meoi- jap* flli Thedford's g! ^ p I jjp f|NL Mrs. \V. F. Pickle, cf Rising Fawn, Ga., writes: j^jg "We have used ThedrJ^T ford's Black-Draught as a|U ggflKfl a tamuy meaicine. my i$J|| mother-in-law could not i&jags take calomel as ii seemed rpp too strong for her, so she jj?|g|a mJB used Black-Draught as a gST^ mild laxative and liver nZM regulator... We use it in the family and believe graL g| it is the best medicine for Hja m4f- the liver made." Try it ^j| W&A Insist on the genuine? FJg|j Thedford's. 2ac a pack- a|P| WO 9M3N ONT 0TVH3H tfHA Wit i^\To hhj. v:^i