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MR. LOREXZ SELECTED. Editor is Chosen for Postinastei Aiken. Aiken. Xov. 27.?After sev months of wonder and conjectun to who might receive the postmas ship at Aiken and with many ca dates, avowed and otherwise, final decision has been reached Congressman James F. Byrnes. has been learned on gooa aiuuu the fact that Alva K. Lorenz, ed and publisher of the Aiken Jon: and Review, is the man recomnn ed by .Mr. Byrnes, which is praeti ly the appointment. Warring Nations. "Four potent nations meet To shed the blood each deems n sweet. Destruction covers to mark w deeds are done." England. Germany, France, I sia, the most potent in the wai Europe now raging; shedding blood of their countrymen by riads: England, "proud mistress the seas," as she has been tern and on whose possessions she cla "the sun never sets." may dest these possessions; if she acqui them justly and governs them w out oppression. History does not say so, for si 1775, when England lost her Am can colonies, now the United Sta hy her arrogance and oppression, has continued to acquiure territ by force, and hold them in sub tion, having to keep a standing ai in. each one. and today her impoi cy lies in the fact that she can depend on them for men or moi and she dare not tax them this debt as she tried to do the coloi of America in bygone days, rules by militarism, and when cannot do that, she uses her mo power for her selfish aggrand ment. No one doubts her smartn her ability, or her boldness, but the world knows her arrogance, plicity and her readiness to grasp weaker nations, her insatiate j ousy of every power that dares compete with her by land or sea. land knows it, India knows it, South Africa knows it, and Fra certainly knows it, and has felt i' the past, and mu6t acknowledge t England's motive in joining with now is selfish to the core; Belg; knows it now. The world km that England should never have Belgium be sacrificed. It will down into history to the detrimen Cormanv France and Ensrland: the destruction of Belgium Germ has an excuse; France has soi England none; Russia is out of it cause she could not get there. Why did England want to fi Germany? Was it to aid France cause she had borrowed her mo in the Boer wars in South Afri History will say she was jealous Germany's progress, and knew only way to reach her was thro and by the aid of France, and not think Germany, for fear France and her, would dare to c< into Belgium, a neutral State, o she did, why "we (England) cc get there first," but Germany too smart, and England's arroga and tardiness played her false, she left brave little Belgium to t the sacrifice of her blunder. The question for Belgium to swer is. would she have given ba to the English had they got tl first, as she did the Germans? I impossible to say, but it stands reason and will be believed tha England had gotten there first, sne iiau repcucu mew would have rushed to her rescue, there would have been no battle Liege, and Belgium would be be off today, and the Belgians we never have had to cry out "W1 are the Germans?" as she, w pressed, did cry "Where are English?" and history twill "Where were the English?" also "Where were the English w Antwerp fell?" And her gal king with the remnant of a gal army had to seek safety by a retr Where were the English? They v not afraid. Xo one can charge Englishmen with cowardice, or timidity. Xo, they were selfi: looking out for the Straits of Do and England, and the French find no Englishman going with tl into Russia or Austria as long England is threatened. France, the ally of England the first time in the world's hist< What did she want with war? \\ she waged war in 1S70 with ( many for has never been clearly derstood: up to that time Germ and France were both living ur the "Napoleonic Code." laws pror gated by France's noted hero, X; leon Bonaparte. France says that the reason England and France going into war was because of their allis with Servia. and because Germ had mobilized. History will say cause she wanted Alsace and 1 raine, and hated Germany. Ru claims Servia was her ally, and J ESKIMO BRIDES HARD TO WE at Strenuous Methods Employed Whe Eskimo Man Decides to Marry. eral When a young Eskimo has decide ? as to become a family man he march* iter- 11P t0 *lut of t,ie young woma ndi- 01 ('lioice and ''es in wait f( the }ier* When she appears he siez* IjV her by her long, black hair or 1 [t her garments and drags her by for* irjtv off to his own particular hut of sno jtor and ice. and so they are married, rnal Even if a native Greenland* ?nd- should propose to his sweetheart h tcal- Proposal would not be accepted. 1 the eyes of her Eskimo lover, ft a girl to accept an offer of marria? would be to shame herse'f beyon redemption. It is her part to appet unwilling, no matter how she ma lost feeit and every bridegroom is expec ed to gain his bride by force, eith* hat real or pretended. In Lapland as soon as a girl bat is born and has been duly rolled i *us- the snow, a ceremony which tak( ' of the place of baptism, her father set the aside for her a certain number c m>'- reindeer, branded with her initial ! of and as they increase and multiply s ted, does her chance of making a goo ims match, for the maiden with the bij -rve gest herd of reindeer is the on ired that is the greatest belle in Laplam ith- When some young countryman c this reindeer-dowered maiden di: nee covers that she is the one girl in th eh- world for him he goes in search ( tes> a faithful friend and a big bottle c she brandy. The friend enters the horn ?r>" of the girl's father, opens the bo Jec- tie of brandy. drinks wit :my him to the health of the famil ten- and the girl and makes the proposa not Meanwhile the lover is outsid ie>*! trying to curry favor by choppin N'ar Wood or some other labor. If th lies brandy so warms the heart of th She girl's father that he gives a favorabl she renlv to the proposal the friend goe ne? | to the door and calls in the lover an *ze~ the two young people are permitte ess. to rub noses, the Laplanders' way c kissing. du_ Two or thtee years after this th all marriage takes place, the love eal~ meanwhile working in the service c t0 his future father-in-law. Ire~ When the wedding day dawns, i an(* there is a priest handy, he reads th nce service but if not the young woman t *n father merely strikes a spark from ;hat flint and steel and names the coupl her man and wife and when either c ium them dies the steel and flint used a ows the ceremony are buried with thei let to keep them warm on the long joui &? nev to the better land, t of f?r Examiner?Xow William, if a ma an>* can do one-fourth of a piece of wor in two days, how long will he take t he- finish it? William?Is it a contrac' job or i Sht he workin' by the day??Life, be nev tria her enemy. History will sa ca? when the clouds roll by, and the ve > of is lifted, that Russia feared herse the and Poland, and had to have war c ugh be dismembered, did Germany says she went to wa of because Russia mobilized her arm >m<? ocroinct Anctria anH that Franoi r if England and Russia were supportin >uld Servia, that her cause was plain, an was it was what she was expecting an mce prepared for. and History might say Germany's "Wa >ear Lord could have prevented the war, and it is probable that the kaiser wi an- say "If England had cast aside ht ttle jealousy and her insatiable desire t lere rule the world without respectin t is the rights of other nations, German i to would have preferred peace to wa t if especially at a time when German and and the Germans were just excellin any all other nations in science, ar and manufacturies, learning, ?and in ever i of phase of civilizatian. Her laws wei tter becoming more salutary each da; >uld Her commerce with the world was s ioro onr?/>Dccfnl that har enffera were bl hen ing filled with gold each day. H( the very laborers were prosperous aD say, happy, and she wanted no war an And is fighting today for her very exis hen ence against foes, two of which ha'v lant heretofore acknowledged no superio lant Germany may not conquer them, bv eat. they will never cross the Rhine < .rere conquer -Germany, and when peac the is made Germany will take care < >ven Germany and the Germans. If, i shlv usual, history repeats itself, it wi ver, be "the survival of the fittest." will This war had to be; it is the for aem runner of perpetual peace and tl" as fates of nations will be decided, an out of the chaos will rise better an for nobler races of mankind. It is or >ry! of those epochs like the birth < 'hat Christ in the Christian world, an jer- that of Buddha in the Bagan worn un- that changed the destiny of the hi any man race, and saved it from degei ider eracy, retrogression and even deca; nul- It lpo"Portends the deeds to come by 1: of whose nod. this Had tumbled feebler despots froi mce their sway, any ,.\ moment pauses ere he lifts the roi be- Soon will his legions sweep throng Lor- these his way." ssia ?Thomas S. Sumter in News an ^.us- Courier. f. PIT OFF STHIPKS IMPOSKU. n! Many Convicts Leave the County CliaJngungs. 'd Of the 101 prisoners to whom the governor granted executive dementi cy Wednesday, six were confined in the State penitentiary, one in tlie ss Lexington reformatory and one on >y the Keid State farm. The remainder ejof tlie convicts released were workwjiiig on the chaingangs of the counJ ties in which they were tried for their = ? j (Tillies. U. -J. U1 imui, aii[iciiiuciiuisjent of the penitentiary, said yestern! day that there were now between >r ISO and 190 prisoners left in the re penitentiary and on the State farms. (1 Other State prisoners are working ir on ehaingangs in various counties ty and are in the reformatories, t- The paroles and pardons were ?r mailed from the governor's office Wednesday night. It is presumed iy that all of them reached the proper n authorities in time for the favored is convicts to be liberated on Thanksts giving day. )f Since assuming office in 1911, the s, governor has exercised executive ;o clemency in 1,430 cases. A hundred >d or two of these were duplications, I- prisoners having been paroled or ie their sentences commuted and then i. pardoned. It is conservatively es)f timated that the governor has re'.eass ed 1,200 convicts serving sentences ie since he was elected. )f The six prisoners paroled from the )f penitentiary yesterday were: William e Clark, alias "Rabbit." Charleston; t- Lizzie DeLoach, Barnwell; Claude h Blessen. Abbeville; Alexander Chaniy bliss, alias Alexander Chalmers, MaI. rion; John T. Crump, Dillon, and e Harry Dean. Spartanburug. General g Washington, Abbeville, was released e from the Reid State farm and Daniel e Sheppard, Beaufort, from the reforme atorv. All of them were given a suit !S of clothes and railroad fare each to d their homes, the expenses being d borne by the penitentiary. . >f There was a slight "miscue" in the paroling of W. T. Jones, of Union, e convicted of murder with recommen>r dation to mercy and sentenced to >f life imprisonment. Jones has been in the Union county chaingang for if several months, the county paying e the penitentiary a per diem for his 's services. Wednesday night the gova ernor mailed Jones' parole to one e of the prisoner's friends in Union. >f Jones, however, could not be rett leased until the penitentiary authorin ties were notified that he had been r- paroled, as he was still under their control. The matter was straightened out by a duplicate of the parole n granted Jones being sent to the penk itentiary yesterday, o George Nichols, the circus em ploy convicted of the murder of is young Paul Williams, of Columbia, in 1910, was at the Lexington coun= tv chaingang under similar eondiy tions to those under which W. T. Jones was on the Union county chainlf gang. c ir John E. Hough, of Kershaw, convicted of murder and sentenced to be ir hanged, whose sentence was corns' muted to life imprisonment in 1913, is confined in the State penitentiary, 8 where, under the further commutad tion of his sentence to five, years d Wednesday, he has a little over three years to serve. ir A summary of the number of prisoners released from the chaingangs N in each county yesterday under pa!r role follows: 0 Abbeville, 2; Aiken, 2; Anderson, 8 10; Bamberg. 1; Barnwell, 2; Beauy fnrt 1 ! Rerkelev. 2: Charleston. 3: r? Cherokee. 7; Chesterfield, 1; Clareny don, 1: Colleton, 1; Darlington, 1; S Dorchester, 3; Edgefield, 1; Fairfield, 2; Florence. 1; Georgetown, 1; 'y Greenville, 7; Horry, 2; Kershaw, 3; 'e Laurens. 2; Lexington, 4; Lee. 2; y- Marlboro, 4; Newberry, 3; Oconee 4; '? Orangeburg, 1; Pickens, 5; Richland, 8; Spartanburg, 2; Sumter, 2; ir Union, 1; Williamsburg, 2; York, 1. d ?The State. ;d ?? t- Blue-Back Speller Wins in X. C. e r. The Observer found more than orlt dinarv pleasure in the last week's is>r sue of that twice-a-week source of :e pleasure, the North Wilkesboro >f Hustler, for it contained a detailed is account of a battle royal of spellers, 11 participated in by the Wilkes county educational association. The quese tion at stake was whether the Bluete back is the best speller to be adopted d in the schools. Laymen vociferated d that it is. while three professionals, te all superintendents of schools, combated the idea. But the Blue-back ;d won out, as it should have done. The 3. matter was under debate for two l- hours and thirty minutes, and the l- affirmative side seems to have got y. into the sympathy c* the judges by a playup on the moral effect of the Blue-hack through its pages of fables, ie as well as on its real merits as an authority on the purely proper way m to handle the vexatious intricacies of the words in the English language. 3, The Blue-back always wins in spellh ing contests; it should he an easy winner in all discussions where its d merits are at stake.?Charlotte Observer. I royi 1 Extra Heat, Just When You Need It ^ X " El WITH a Perfection Smokeless Oil Heater in the jj house you are safeguarded when accidents happen to your heating system. PERFECTION 1 SMOKELE^^^HEATERS * Cold snaps have no terror for you, for the Perfection supplies just the extra heat needed to make bedroom, bathroom or sitting room warm and I I rnmfnrt^M*? 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I I f1< /% l/V Zi I MM P 1 IV I Whereas, Ellis Reed hath made I V T Xjl I.:" suit to me to grant him letters I I of administration of the estate of and I I enecis 01 Lang n.eeu, aeteaseu. admonish &aU ajui^s in guitar the kin^ f?r the money you owe and dred and creditors of the said Lang note how much more respect- ^ Reed, deceased, that the^ be fiillv vour creditors reaard vou 5 and appear before me in the Court ot full> your creaitors reSa y?a- ^ ^ - '-j Probate, to be held at Bamberg, on They like to do business with publi'c^on^thereof' at^'l^'clock^fn a man wbo has an account at : the forenoon, tq show cause, if any the Enterprise Bank. They Ekfn should "not be^S^ted^1113^" knOW he ls- doing business in a Given under my hand and seal this business-like way. Better open GEO. P. HARMON, Judge of Probate. affairs are not large. They will 5^&ST \ TRESPASS NOTICE. ?r0W aU ngnC* | All parties are hereby warned not I to hunt on the lands of the under- B signed, under penalty of law. ?4 ?^ JL m?m u ? /? m** I* B ^ ?8' Bnterprise Bank I C. E. SAXDIFER, * I 11-27 MRS. AXXIE ZEIGLER. 5 per cent Paid on Savings Deposits. Bamberg, S. C. I TAX SALE. State of South Carolina, County of : ~~ a-".:VA.^J Bamberg. - - ' j By an execution to me directed by G. A. Jennings, treasurer I n> ...? . Jf . .4 . ?4 ~T/ / / I * - /r :t /c? / /7? Cr)nxTman LL LSfl t a iJ\,oaak. I ,* of Bamberg county, I have levied up- v# ?... ? ---- f on and will sell at public auction before the court house door in Bamberg, S. C., on Monday, the 7th day of December, 1914, the same being legal salesday in said month, during /"V * j : * the legal hours of sale, the real es- lln V^linStlllciS lViOrilinflf-~ tate described below, to the highest V** V/A11 w O bidder for cash, said sale being for ' non-payment of taxes due and owing ___ the State of South Carolina and the county of Bamberg: One acre, more or less, lying, and ^ being in the county of Bamberg, State of South Carolina, bounded Ijk north by lands of Alice LaGare; east 1A by lands of Alice LaGare: south by raal lands of H. W. Beard; west by lands liKl'A of J. B. Black. To be sold as the ||K|^P proper > o a rag ^RAY. j K9 Jiii-jJVf 1 1 Sheriff for Bamberg County. IIIHnj 91 I 8 if/ ? November 10, 1914. 1 | | 'i I i TRESPASS NOTICE. Kwffj J J grj I 1 All persons are warned not to ^\i j lands: also agents are warned not to j ||^H| trespass on 6aia ianus. ||5^S1 ",~ 11? 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