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THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE II. I). Nile* and > . v. ?? ? PwbUliwfc K. N. McDowell \ published every Friday *t liov No. Hroud Street, ami entered at the Cam <t?n post office a* second clan* mall mat ter I'rlco per annum 91. AO. Camden. S. I 'i IU?> , Aug. ??, ItMH. Mr. Votffr, keep youi' eye peeled for Mm campaign "ukunk". This animal usually make* his appearance at llilw Ktagc of I In' game? permeating every - t hi iik with bh "campaign lies." More tliuu a million ami half dollar* was "mink" by the Ocrtnoii government through its purchase of thf New York Kvculng Mail in na effort to influence public opinion ia thin country again#! the allied government. Till* announce ment wan made by the deputy attorney general of the state of New York. More than UfiO.tKX) t'hristftinn (Jreeks buve bmi deported from their honion iu the flourishing legions <?f Asiatic Tur key. Many have beeu driven into tip* deserts to din of .starvution. In past elections The ? 'hronlele has been called upon to publish articles at tacking some candidate during the week just preceding the primary, and in fair n ess to all parties concerned we have beeji forced to decline to publish them. Following out this rule this paper will refuse to publish any- -article-- even though it be paid advert ising which can be constructed as an attack on ally candi date later than our issue of August Ittt.h. This will allow ample time for a can didate to reply to any charge^ which might lie made in an article- of this na ture. Tljfrf Is h Reason. Several months ago The < "luou.? le published a list of the * t ? 1 1 m I ? I ?? i :n Kershaw t'ount>, t li<* amount which they win- bonded, and by what company they were bonded. Tin* list which we are again reproducing v' >\. that every officer is bonded in a reputable Muroty company with the exception of the county treasurer-? one of the most im portant offices in the county. We be gan an investigation and we know it to be a fact that three representatives of bonding companies in Camden turned this officer down and would not i>sue a bond. These companies ' are in busi ness for the money they can Ret out of premiums on such bonds and it is not * reasonable that they would turn dowa business without a cause. Since the . publication of the list of office holders and their bondsmen, and since the unfor tunate shortage ? " the late sheriff's ac count. and the subsequent suit for re covery of this shortage from his pri vate bondsmen, the grand jury has rec ommended that fill o fliers' give a bond in some reputable surety company. This vcomTnendat ion on the part of the grand jury has not beeit complied with. We submit that there is a reason. Following is a list of Hie oilier hold erx and i be iioiids furnished by each: < 'b-rk of < 'ourt .lames 11 I'lybutn. iiouded in the sum of I ? \ !?" i delit.v 1 >e)Misf| 1 tilltilliore. New Vork. ? Supervisor M. >(', H'esf, bonded in I the sum of $"?.< N N i b\ National Surety < 'o i New York. Judge of I'lvhale N\ . I.. M<l ?owell. hoiuled ill tin1 sum of l>> (Julf \ At lain ie I iisiiraucc < 'o. Supt. of lMucatioii I. .J. MeKeti/.ie; iiouded in the sum ? $?l.tXMI b.v National "Surety t'o. Master I.. A. Witikowskv , bomled in ; I lie sum of .<fi.<HMi |n American Surety < 'o . New Vork. Audiloi? W _ l\ I??!?sell. homleii in the snili of ^i.imhi Im i 1 1 1 1 1 kV Atlantic 1 1 1 s? 1 1 rn m e i '<?. .Magistral*1-- S N Ni> holsi.n, no bond ve?piired < 'oiis| ;i I >!?? .1 l\ Joit' iuan Im. tided in j tie1 siiui ? ? t STiiin |.\ 1 1,< National Suiel> I Tre;i.si?iei I ' M M'-< :is|< i II . bonded ill the Sim, ,.| I.llt M I I iv It \ Me* < 'ask ill. \ M N I ? ? a skill. Ida N Mr ' 'a skill. S \| M < ? ' i? ~ k ill. It T llol iMiel. I' I ^ it :*1 1 ? ? n : n 1 . . .1 \ Mi t 'ask ill , I N. K. Mi Kiiiiw.u A l? M- I riurin. hiuI ' ' I ?oi I m " ? ! .1 I 'afcer. Officers and llondsmen. Let us examine your eyes and fit you up with a pair of KBvptok IV OLAS8IS XV. THE INVISIBLE BIFOCALS M.H.HEYMAN & COMPANY JEWELEPS ?nd OPTICIANS CAMDEN. SOUTH CAROUNA j Don't i? Snob. It's h fit ii ay Uiing when you come to think of It? this thing of holding one'# now. high in lh?' air 'tvhcu wniii'bo(|y passes whin is coDNidtircd not worth spiukiiiK t?. Sunif people uever know others they meet daily for years just Im'ttUiii' tln'.v Wrrc never properly intro duced. Other people may sell you goods for years, I ? 1 1 > goods from you for years, ii ml never know you when you in i on tin* street. Koine wise old man Iim.s m? id that a special place has hern reserved in heaven for thy *nob8, where t hey will never nunc in contact with tin* angel* whose feathers may he u lit tle ruffled. Ouo thing is cerUin, and that is that this war has knocked out a lot of Hiiob bery from ino4t of the English peo pie, and is knocking soinc of it out of American people. A smile, a bow or a pleasant word is worth more htau money, and will make a nation and its people great where snobbery will cauxu its downfall. ' Riches do not always make snobs. Some of the worst snobs are the imi tators, the ones who want others to imagine they are rich in money or blue blood. Some times, it Is the banker who has a smile or a pleasant word for everyone, while the insignificant em-, pfoyee, who is fluffed up with a little authority, passes by with never a look at those he comes in contact with daily. It's n mighty small world after all, and little iVioui is left in it fqr Miobs. ?-?Athens Herald. Th<odor?? t'oggins, a lifteen year old I ad of Spartanburg was stabbed to death by Walter Kundolph Thursday afternoon. Moth boys were well known ami had been goiid lriuuds befor* the tight. ? - ?? ?? A> to who is going to be elected to the I'nited States Senate we do not know. We hear I>ial inch express the fear that Hlease will be elected, and Blease men ex promt the fear that Dial will be elected. We have heard so*ne | Hlease men counting strongly on the j election of Hlease, and Dial men count ing wtrobgly on the election of Dial. Itic.e is not in it, and Dial would not have been in it much except to beat Hlease. All the newspapers that are sup jsirting anybody, with the exception of the ( 'harlestou American and the New berry Herald und News, are supporting Dirt), or rather opposing Hlease. The people are not making a great fuss one way or another; but people have heard Hlease speak so far than have heard all the other candi dates in the aggregate. We hardly think, however, that Hlease has spoken enough to the people to elect him even if he should get the votes of all to whom he bus spoken, and he will not do that. For the -shoot term the race seems to be between lVeples and Christie Henet. I'ollock is making a lot of fuss; but we do not calculate on Jiis gettinK a great many votes. We are dimmed to think he is in the race more in the interest of Henet than in the interest ? ?f himself. However, the people will -ettle the matter in accordance with their own notions, and whatever they* say about it will suit us very \yell.> ? ork ville Enquirer. TOO MANY DEAD HODIES IIiiiis Itundlc Them, Hind Them With Wire. Hum Tlietn. Enquirer Losing Hope? Amsterdam. Holland. ? CJennany's looses in her last two offensives in the region of Soissons have been so great i lint the army has heen unable to bury the ilead. A neutral newspaper man visited Sois* s?ui?? just, before the start of tile July offensive a* a guest of the CJerman gen eral staff. What he was allowed to wit ness. he said, was more terrible than anything he had seen in the war. though he has visited all the fronts in Kurope. Whole regiments of Jlun soldiers had been wiped out and lay unhuried, he said. Masses ..f corpse.* had been bun dled together pell-mell, tied with wire, mill covered with lime, ready to be burned. "One (ierman officer said t me: "How i-tiidd we bury them? We should need f<> mobilize thousands of men to do it. and we cannot spare them" -aid the correspondent. j The wounded were almost as num ; ? ions a* the dead. Thc.v taxrd the < ity of 'the base hospitals, so that I 'w. unoled men lav on the ground await- , i?t; their turn to be treated. The (tcrtnntj officers, he said, had '?taiiKid their minds about the value ? ' tl,e Hindenluirg "break-through-at-all . ? - 1 ? ' -trat' gv. The .sight of so manv ? i < -mnns mav have had something ? ? with then < hange of attitude : 1 i 't: i W J. ("arson, of Hood Itivcr [ '? < ?? iS'.n. aii< killed bv a fall from " I I ii arbiio- v* Inlf living m? W i < ? h i t a Fall*. ! i Te\n ?. I ( the army aviation school at San Diogo. : ("al . was killed Friday in a fall from | an an-plaue. His companion in the ma ; i hine received only minor injuries. Rev, .1 I>. HugRins. pastor of tho Denmark Baptist Chun h died Thursday and was buried at the Crooked Ilun Bnt>tist Churehva rd .n Highland county Corporal Carl H A. < 'hristen^on. of i WHY HI .MASK IH NOT NKKDKI). A found' lflea*c voter might look at . tilt* ?i ofist ion of hiii old leader's aspir ations from either personal or the pub lie standpoint. The' foi'llM'l' <*i? it Ih* ?I?k nilx^'t], Ml*. Minis#' | ? 1 1 1 > I i < - 1> state* (tint he does not need t oflU'r of senator, lis Ih* . la inuking more ut hi# luw. prac l(('i< t lift ii tin* Hiilmy. ft veil in these times of tin* IiIkIi i'okI of living, an income from private law |ir||i;tiv^ of oyer $7. .*?< M ? Im enough to keep a man from want, lli1 is not in Mr. People's clgxfi, who frankly states that as a poor man In* iii'wIn (In- ?ular.v. From tin* public standpoint, no man can contain) that tin* I'nited States needs any more member* -who ibiuk that tin* 1'nited States is in au unjust and tin warrant abb- war. A senator who ran sco no reason why wo are in this war cannot be expected to be an effect ive and relentless In its prosecution to complete victory for the principle*! on which it Ik waged as a senator wbo has been profoundly moved from .tll? 'first, and even before its declaration, by a souse of i t m absolute necessity to main- 1 taitiing all that America stauds for in the world and to defend America against being imperiled, as she actually iwas, and ultimately crushed if she did uot do. exactly as she did do under the lead ership of Woodrow Wilson. What Ik the sense in sending a man. to Washington who still proclaims himself utterly blind to these great facts of national welfare and himself only claims to be loyal to the winuiug of the war now that we are in it? What loss could a ntan dnre to claim, even if he were not rtinnieg . for #ttioe? Thi- n? art' times when ceilftlll ? U101L are needed in the public council*, (which is not intended to intimate in the re motest degree that there ever has been a time when Mr. Blease was needed I ; there are time* when even a good man and an able man of motives and piist conduct absolutely above the reach of suspicion is not needed in the public ; councils, because of his attitude <*n tfc ? supreme issue then before the country. It is not unheard of for such men to recognize thin fact and refrain from of- | fering for public Service at such times. , Mr. Blease does not seem to recognise j such proprieties. Irrespective of the issues, he persists in seeking office for himself ut a time when it is irapow')!;1 to suppose that the public interest < an be served by a man of his openly pr< fessed views on the one supreme |snu? before the American people, the one supreme issue before the free peoplf of the world. Mr. Blease four months after we had been forced into this con flict as the only possible means of :na'ui taiuing our jsisitioh as a free natioi. and saving ourselves from ultimate sub jection to Cierman dictation, denounced President Wilson for having taken this step and declared that lie would if jh> t s-ible throw him out of office. We have own opinion of Mr. Blease's i ?otivos bnt that is only our opinion, snpport^k'however strongly it may be by vears ??f observation of Mr. Bl"?!??e a . a public man. We believe he was then guilty of the basest appeal of the demagogue in utter disregard of th * high est interests of his country. We be lieve that lie woefully misestimated the way the convictions ami the action of the cominou peopl^xnf* J^outh. Carolina wcic going. We believe that' he thought that the I. W. W. anti-draft riots ? in the West were indicative of a widespread dissatisfaction with the war. Millions of the people did not then fully under stand the issue, ami there might have appeared plausible grounds for this view ,,f what their attitude would be. Those who had more1 faith in the justice and courage of the people when ohce they learned the truth thought differently.; Those who had faith in the people's i righteousness and intelligence proved to j be right. ,and Mr. Blease proved only one,, it gain the essential shallowness of his usual mental processes. A* keen as :i fox. but utterly devoid of that bal anced. deep, afar-seeing wisdom that alone will serve at a time like this. Nothing surprising in that. Mr. Blease's whole career has been blighted by the ?i?ie limitation. It i? inherent and hopeless. | These are the things vs.. believe, and ?.? have not the slightest doubt that the vast majority of the people of South Carolina believe essentially the same thing. That is what we know. If Mr. Jib-as,- was absolutely siurere m Ins Fo n.aria and Filbert speeches, and in his reartir 'luatiou <>f them only a few weeks ago in York, lie is as utterly uutit by ' mental bankruptcy to represent the peo- j I ile ..f South Carolina in the senate of 5 the I n 1 1 ed States as it is possible to j conceive. That Mr. Blea?e would be' personally kind to soldiers, certainly if: they were of his fu?-tiou. i? not to be I doubted That he would have any regard 1 for oven soldiers not of his faction, if j it were |>ossible for him to discriminate, his whole career as the bitterest partisan that ever represented our people, hu miliating and injuring his opponents in even the pettiest ways and declaring that he would make them sweat blood, hi- w hole career forbids us to helicre. That a man who is so limited in intel lectual capacity to deal with problems that rise above the tricks of winning primary elections in a state that counts tl>?- iarre?t percentage of illiterates in lhl. .should be Refit Washing ? dclihcmt c to 1 s.llllloi .11"'"' ,l"' fWff j aiOllU'UtoUH <lWfK(|o??, is t?m ??H |M,st,OUK j to be entertained for a mo?"W by uu> i man wh?? will iliyvM himself the !?*-?; 0,mccptioilH ullirtiM^H of local !?'??- ; lie.-. There ill.' ? and cm him-I;ih< > - under which tin- people . .ion- -I Mjfid Wf? the ?m t ant) ??<? "? rejiwaMuLt them, because the view* iM?:*e. men , (),<* supreme iMHiio fatally mlsrepve- j sen t them. The reason thai Mr l*h'U*e j will he overwhelmingly tlt-f*'" lo'' 1,u' , office to which he fi?w aspire* 1- thai , ' thousands of "luCere and upright Hh'ase , in **n coupler that thin i? just *uch a I time.- Newberry Observer Battle <?iound of Onturlea. ; WheA. in t miiiiiikt Of lW4t the (iermail general* und utatewncn assur^l their Imperial master thai the French were u thoyuihly decadent BfflPlti tbej iguored the ffiet that a nation which had fought ill moat Of tin- great warn of the wold for twenty centuries could ?ot lose all it* martial virtue* in tift.v years. The deeay of Home was a much louger process, and Koine'* four Or live ceuturie* of hardening bj strife wen aj comparatively short period beside the two thousand years throughout which . northeastern France has been the cock pit of Europe. ' When one glances over the record of those centuries, it is not difficult to ^ realize Why the French peasant is, per- 1 haps, the most wonderful soldier in the j world.' descendant of the Caul, he j springs from a soil that has been bathed . in blood oftener and longer than any] other region that has a history. To j. the American soldier who kuows his Buroneau history, there must be a m>. cession of great emotibhs it^ lighting on battlelields which had known u score of great wars before .the' discovery of I America. I Northeastern France tirst caine promi nently into history when Julius Caesar entered it as governor of Caul in ?>8 B. O. in he received the submission of the Heini, the people of Hbcitns, and a great host was sent against him by the Suessoiues (Soissons) Arras, Amiens and other places on the present battle ! tine. lie beat the formidable IJelgae on j the Aisne near Rerry-fiu-Bftc. and later, took Koissous. Thenceforward this territory was to i be the world's greatest battle ground. Of the eleven decisive battles of the world fought during the Christian era. live were fought here. The . tirst was tjie battle of Chalonssur-Marne, in 451, where the Visigoths, under Theodoric, and the Romans, under Aefius, defeated Attlla and his Huns thereby saving Eu rope to Christianity, it was, incident ally. the lyt victory of imperial Rome. Three centuries later, at Tours, south west of Paris. Charles Mart el. Duke of the Austrasian Franks defeated the Sara cens under Abderralimnn Ihn Abdiillah. in 7'!2, again preserving Christian civili zation. The next- of "those signal deliverances which have affected for eeuturies the happiness of mankind." as the historian Allison rails them, was the raisin* of the siege of Orleans by .loan of Arc) In H'J'd. Orleans is between Tours and I Paris. By this feat, says Creasy, the Maijl of Orleans "rescued her country . from becoming a . seeoml Ireland under] the yoke *>f I lie triumphant English." [ It is interesting to recall that later Joan j aifled in the rapture of l.aon. Soisson*. . Compiegne and Iteauvais, and was cap- | Hired at C'onipiegne and imprisoned at ! Arras. ? t j In 17!>'J there occurred. very near tic present battlefield, the Cannonade of Ynlmy. in which the raw I'armagmde levies and shattered regulars nf France j saved the French Uepublic and began i the series of, victories which was -topped j only in that other great derisive battle.] Waterloo, fought in .lime, 1N1.">. near the city ?>f BrnsseK. Valm.\ is on t h?? I present flighting line, between llheiui* I and t he Argon lie Forest. h is not strange that two other ?!<>-; Osiv hi tests ? the two that will per-! haps be looked back upon as the great I military crisis of this greatest of nil , Whiter, Clean m ? and Uuri>r Pmfcw|? No matter now white theyh,* been in the past, we know ?<* will say GRANDMA'S J>o? dered Soap with its Wonderful suds and cleansing power aukt, them a little whiter. A UNcap*. fui to a paiiful of water W eoo^ You measure out Just ?Ut ><* need? Bomoro. There U do wMU~ eueh ee the wasting away of bunu lying around in water. TW.li,, ehip^ng jor sHdag. We>k mj, thing ? silks ? chiffon, ? leeti %tk expeneive shirt waists, with lety. GRANDMA'S Powdered S*p Your ttfocoi* Mas W I ?WHWHWHS ! wars should have been fought in the identical region? They a re the Jivst and second Maine. In 1014 and uguin in HUM. (ho Hun bas b??en burled buck in defout tit almoHt the yery spot where his forerunner, Attila, was stopped in I 1 ( 'ha rlentou Post. \ t'l I A I KOM I H.WCK ? . Camden Boy Now Serving ut Front Aslin Voter* Not to Klect Blease. Mr. and Mrs. .1. F. Bateuian this week nuuuved two letter* from their hod, Lieut. Malcolm Bateuinn, who is now in t lie aviation service in France. The tirst letter .stated that he was in n bos pita! where he bad been confined for several weeks on account of a new dis ease that lias broken out among the army men. It is called "trench month", ami if not corrected in time it results in the victim losing all of his teeth. Mr. Baremnn says that he bas lost throve teeth but had about gotten well and would leave ?>oon for a vocation granted him in order to recuperate. He speaks in high praise of the surgical treat ment accorded him and of the excellent service rendered by the army nurses. lu his letter he tells of noting in the papers of the death of Senator Till man and expressing the fear that it would 'result in the election of Blease to the United States Senate, but he asks his father and friends to use their influence to keep Blease out of the Sen ate. For says he the boys are all as one in not wanting a mau to represent theni who is not wholly behind Presi dent Wilson in his tight to win the war. Mr. Bateman tells of having bad a talk with Major Theodore Koosevelt, Jr., who was wounded. He was telling the Major what he knew about- Hermit l{(>ov(. volt's accident. It was his belief at the time that he was taken captive. Hut since Mr. Batcmnu's letter it has Ix'en <>rti<iolly announced that Kerinit had met death from the fall. In hi* second letter he tells ? > f a glorious time he is having on his vaca ? ion in Southern France, and how the French people worship the Americans. Il?l *n,\ s hi* is at St. Nil zaire. a sea shore town <.n the western coast of I' ranee, w hich has a beautifu surf. "Say. but if* great the way the boys drove the' (icrmaus back. It was the greatest drive ??ver made by the allies. ! wa* in I'ari* yesterday and saw lots ? ??i i be wounded, and if was wonderful io fee those boys lading there aud never a groan or a complaint from one of them. I lie only <|iiestiou the\ ,'ivk i*. 'how is 'i mi the trout*' Are they still push ing t In-ill back V It \<>i| could see I host* Wotllldod bo.vs ,r\ ilig becuuse fihey bad fo leave the baffle Nerve! \\ h\ 1 never snw the * ! *s ? ? I l>ev suffer untold pain iipd agony, \<i loM.-r a g roil n or a murmur. A sur geou told ii i e yestei-rlay that he had been ;i loii ii' I hospitals for 17 years and he had tiever seen such nerve us those bo) s liml in :t 1 1 his; life." On Cash Basis. I wish to announce to customers that on and after I August 1st our terms for cleatl ing, pressing, and repairin|l will be cash to everybody,? Please do not be offendtfl when bill accompanies yo?| work when returned. Thai ing you kindly for past favi and sooliciting your future ronage ? ? ? - ? Gibbs C. Carter & Co. 10-17 pd. Wants--For Sale FOR RKNT ? Three rooms on Fair Jt All conveniences. Apply to A, X, Campbelle. lti-pd. ' ~ ~ -- ' FOR SALE? Six lots and houses, will] one barn and stable, ou the coratrl of Mill and York Streets. Apply til L. A. Wittkowsky, Camden, 8. C. WANTED? I ? want a Rood share fij*1 for two horse farm close to Camta! Will furnish 100Q pounds fertiliKfj . per acre. J. L. Moseley. 17tt LOST-? A package with Mrs. J. C. MtJ Leod's name on it, and M. Mickle'ij name also, near Camden on Camfa Bishopville road. Reward if retoi>] ed. lji-pd. FARM . FOR SALE? A desirable pits' I containing about 65 acres three mitoj from Camden on public road. GM land. J. L. Moseley. 17tf FOR SALE? One 1010 Ford roadsta/j iu good condition for sale. Apply sj Kershaw Motor Co., Camden, 8. C. \VANTEl)>^To buy a second hand t?f buggy in good condition. State Ad dition and lowest cash price. Ad dress "Buggy" care of Camder Chronicle, Camden, S. C., lti-pd. LOST ? Iiini andclass for front light oil Dodge car. Fitifler please "retunrt*] Chronicle oflkW. Hi. - ? . i i m?j FOR SALE ? One milch cow with three months old calf. Also one heifer abwt IS niontliH old. Apply to l)oby Younft Itfd. 2, Westville, S. C. 2tpd. s WANTED? Experienced saleslady. Ap- , ply to L, Schenk & Co., Camdea,; S. <\ Iti WANTED ? Fifty to one hundred cordi. good Pine Wood, delivered at Heroi> tagc t'otton Mills. Will buy in one W or in small lots at full prices. NOTICE? For a nice, cheap eoffiin w < u>ket call at Billing's Bros., Ar runt's old stand. DR. R. E. STEVENSON DENTIST Crocker Building Camden, S. C. 1 ? miMmMununuiiiimmiiininr'^^.fnm TAfifcholl D40 louring (Par Will My the saemeWanbout V**1 ^e>Dt,link "f this Car Wh <? ? R. Lewis, W. L Jackson I ? J ^Cn,P. CJ. L Blar-lf^ nei,wOU see an(I ricle in ity0U u'h"?, ? ??- na%fe ir&jsanst - CAMDEN MOTOR COMPANY