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PCBXJSH1NG COMPANY. imnuL s. a ?Let Mr enaum?to eAsajtcc, PMM Beet laoertloa.ILOi W>ii|iiH ueertloa.10 wul he amde at reduced rau* vBseh Mb wUI be charged end tributes ?I fit so INI ?A4 the Tree Southron la Southron of Lord Kitchener, Secre? tary of State for wer, England's ?ohller. If not the great of the Brltleh empire. Is a more severe lose to the AInes than the staking of the greatest super gtuedaeught KJtohener held a great plies fee the minds of all English peo? ple, te whom he was the superman IIMNBBSi and from the very begin atag ef the gre var they have look ?m% ?p to aim i :>?lr bulwark and tjhfifcr strength. During the first! aessjths of the war they regarded him ?aa almost superetltuous vener? and apparently expected htm to wta the victory for England by the gfiJslM of hie ' anseendent military 4*ace* and power. They felt that High g> Itch oner of Khartoum oa the $$% m was well, and that business1 weald go oa as tsjuaL until the ene ef the empire .mad been over* ar d put to flight The hard of the war, the defeats and that here followed thick and gaet wherever the British armies have | oacsuaUiid the enemy, have forced Item to realise thai more le required se wage a great war aad win victories ^ftBaa a great general. They know now ??t a great army of well, trained geeilsga, thoroughly equipped with s*je*Crn aims plus a great general? Hi tie reeuletteu if the German war gtgHdil that has been forty years In ?BS ?bieg W to be met on anything I MM esjgal tetmi. Common sense k**fthg ?t lern realac*! the blind and ?Ad! like VHef hat Kitchener could accomplish the Impossible, they st^ll him tu the architect and ir of the vr?aie?t army the Brit had ever mustered, and te him the possession of! dynamic power that Would drive throagh to ultimate victory. Klteh Wae the rallying point for all of military England aad around him were centered the hope of triumph and the determination to fight to the tor he typified the dogged per aad obstinat? courage of the British fighting man. His death Is blow 'to England, but not that It w.?uld have been eighteen months *go. Kitchener had raised aad organised h s army and the ween he started will 111 be carried on by the English people. a a e A Joint debate this year between Hon. John U McLaurln, of Marlboro. Hon. Nat B. Deal, ef Lauren*, turn out to be only the prt Beninsry bout In a senatorial fight to a finish in ltl?. Both have had pre? vious experience as seekers after sen? atorial honors, and both have been eeewsed of harboring a fingering am Wtioa to wear the toga. Tried to Wreck Train. Unknown parties attempted to wreck Southern railway passenger train No. II on King's Creek trestle Sunday morning by placing a hand car en the center of the trestle. The train was proceeding east Due to the fact that the engineer's view of the track over the trestle wss obstructed by the water barrels along the sides he did not see the hand car until he was a short dlstsnce from It It de? veloped that the hand car had been brought from a dlstsnce of about a mile down the road toward Blacksburg aad had been placed en the rails and rolled to the trestle nlth much diffi? culty. The lonf trestle which Is lo? cated ab' ut one-half mile beyond King's Creek station, Is about 10 feet In height and had the engine struck the object on the track a terrible wreck could not have been averted So far as the railroad officials know, t e is no reason why any one around King's Creek should have a grievance against the railway, and It Is believed that the attempt to wreck the train wss an act of some Irre? sponsible person bent on mischief.?' Torkvllle Enquirer. Washington. June H.?Ambassador Page at London, has cabled that the British government has refused to release John J. Kllgsllon, the Brook lyn boy who was srrested In Dublin as the result of the Irish uprising. The British hsve decided to Intern Kit gallon until the end of the war. SlilLOH DOTS. Plenty of Fruit Unified This Year? Sunday School Conference Enjoyed ?Personal Mention. Shlloh. June 7.?Mrs. T. B. Ken? nedy, of Sumter, spent Sunday with her sister, Mrs. R. W. Qreen. Mra. Cornelia Player has returned to her home here again, after a seven months' stay In Marlon. Mr. Montgomery left Monday for North Carolina where he la going to work. m> Mr. and Mra. Carson Phillips and Miss Edna Phillips of Sumter spent Sunday below here. Mr. Ed Player left last Saturday for Savannah, Oa. Miss Mary Lemino. , who has charge of the home demonstration work of Sumter county, was here last week. Mr. W. W. Green of this place was I In Sumter Saturday on business. A lot of fruit is made here this year. The canning girls and ladles will have lota to do. We are having fine weather to gather grain now. Little Miss Bertha Goodman cele? brated her eighth birthday by enter? taining a crowd of her little friends last MMbrdffternoon. Ev^fiMginV present had a delightful time m tMeV Sunday school picnic Tueedny. We have prayer meeting at the Methodist church at 8 o'clock on Wednesday nights. The public is cor dially Invited. "Kitty." FIXES SIZE OF V. 8. FLAG. Washington, June r>.?Standard proportions for the American nag, and twelve standard alaeti for use of the executive, departments of the fed? eral government are prescribed in an executive order promulgated today by President Wilson. Sixty-six sixes and many designs of varying proportlnate Wldth^emd lowedth now are In nee In the gelimnment service. Ttnygpw etandard design Is one ang nlnn snwthn times as long as it is wid>, with ehh acrnare blue field extending the width of seven of the thirteen stripes. Positions and sixes of the forty-eight stars also are fixed by the order. The twelve flag aiaee indicated for government use vary In width from 1.11 feet to . SO feet, aavl where the Union Jack is used, it is to con foim to the nag with which It Is flown ?1 r Henry Will Prosecute i Charleston Maws and Courier. Solicitor J. K. Henry of Cheiter, will prosecute all oases for the State that arise out dt the homicide which occurred In the city Democratic exe? cutive committee room October 15, It IS. when Mr. Sidney J. Cohen, reporter for the Charleston Evening Post, was killed. He was the solici? tor at the last term of the court of general sessions, when indictments against thirteen persona were asked by the grand jury after art Investiga? tion Into the shooting. Since the lent term of court, William H. Grim ball, Seq., has been appointed soli? citor an| Oov. Manning. Mr. Grim ball %hn represent the State In all other Chester Negro Given Whipping. For writing an Inaultlng letter to a white woman Bob Grant, .colored, was taken from his house in this city last night by a party of men and conveyed In an automobile beyond the city limits, where a sound and whole? some flogging was administered. Grant was brought back to the city this morning by a negro who found him In the woods near the road about two miles southeast of the city, and was given medical attention. His hurts, while painful, are not likely to prove eeriona. The affair caused a great deal of excitement this morning, and has been the theme of conversation on the streets the greater part of the day. The finding of a dead negro on the railroad track about four miles this side of Rodman was link? ed with the other happening when the matter first spread on tho streets, and lit was reported far and wide that there had been a lynching. The in? tention of the partlea who took Grant out, however, was evidently to admin? ister sound and severe though not fa? tal, punishment, and this thev seem to havo done and stopped.?Chester Reporter. NOTICE. In accordance with the rules of the Democratic party, notice Is hereby given that the Books of Enrollment for voting in the primary elections for the present year, will be opened by the Secretary of each club, or by the enrollment committee, at such places as the several clubs have heretofore been accustomed to vote, on Tuesday JuaeT^Bhn, ltlS, and will remain open for the purpose of enrollment until the last Tuesday In July. JOHN H. CLIFTON. Chairman Democratic Clubs of Sum? ter County. Sumter, 8. C, May 31, 1916. "Political Leeches.'' Newberry Observer. In Mr. McLaurln's letter, in which he denounces the State convention for refusing to give him an hour at the State campaign meetings to air his views in ?'defending" an Institution that needs no defense, he says: "I venture the assertion that about one in 20 primary voters is on the public payroll in some capacity. Thhv State is flooded with political leeches performing no useful work, but bend? ing their energies to keep up a ma? chine which will perpetuate theli Jobs. Pood inspectors, drug inspectors, whiskey constables, special constables, charity experts, labor experts, hook work and pellagra and tuberculosis experts, hog agents, anti-toxin dis? tributers, mad dog inspectors, white slave agents, demonstration agents, crop bureau Information gatherers, upon whose Information the prices of our products are forced down, trus? tees, purity congress delegates, drain? age delegates?anything that will create a job?all traveling over the same Held, ev erlastingly drawing sala? ries and piling up expense accounts to the profit of the political machine and the Impoverishment of the ordinary taxpayer. Who pays the freight? Where is It all to end? What man outside of the lunatic asylum does not know that such a loose, diffuse admin istration of Its affairs would bankrupt the United States steel trust in a few years? The State only survives such a lack of efficiency at the expense of a constant drain upon the taxpayers. We need ordinary business efficiency and plain common sense in public ser? vice." What "payroll" docs he refer to? He no doubt wants the readers to think the State payroll, although he does not name that. Poes he believe one in 20 primary voters" Is on any payroll where the pay* comes out of the pockets of the taxpayers? He is an intelligent man, whatever else he may be, and Is well Informed on public metiers, having been in public life for a quarter of a century, a largo portion of that time himself on the "payroll" of the State or federal government?now on the payroll of the State government to the tune of 13,000 a year. He knows about payrolls. Then he follows his wild assertion of "one In 20" by an equally wild list of "jobs"?with the evident inten? tion* to make the uninformed reader th.nl: that these arc all State "jobs" ?for he Is writing about State affair? only?and "all everlastingly drawing salaries," when he knows that not one halt of the "jobs" names have any "salaries" attached to them; he knows also that a large number of the "Jobs" he names, If not the larger portion of them, are the work of the federal government, and If not of that government alone .are the Joint work of the federal and State governmenta It Is an outrage to characterize men who are performing public duties,' many of them at a personal sacrifice, as "political leeches, performing no useful work, but bending their ener? gies to keep up a machine which will perpetuate their jobs;" It is unjust and untrue and a gross libel. The attack is of course meant to hurt the present administration. But sift out' his list of "jobs," and see how many of them have been created by this administration. The liquor con? stables were here before, tho extra constables, the food Inspectors?and so on. How many of these "jobs" did Mr. McLaurln try to abolish while he was in the State senate up to two years ago? They were all irf existence -then except the "charity experts" and the "labor experts"?and the warehouse commissioner and his force of helpers. Did he try to abolish any of them then? He wouldn't want to abolish the warehouse experts now, we know. Maybe his ire is concentrated on the "charity experts" and the "labor ex? perts." For our part, we are proud of tho fact that tho State is looking after th Interest of Its unfortunates and of Is laborers, and doubly proud of four of the experts?George B. Cro mer, Albert Johnstone, John L. Davis and I. H. Hunt?are of Newberry blood and that they are all giving their servlco freely to the State. Mr. McLaurln has descended to a very low plane of public discussion. His apprehension, however, that these "Jobes" of which he speaks? I federal, State, salaried, unsalarled, all In a fump?"would bankrupt the United States steel trust in a few years" is groundless. They would not even bankrupt tho Standard oil trust ?not even If Manager Archbold would send a few of his millions down into South Carolina to defeat one of our United States senators. Geo H. Hurst, Uidtrtiktr ni gjjjjgf, Prempt Attention ts Otj er NIlMCslls; AT J. 0. Oral! OM Stasi, N. Phones S^mmi An exceptional car ?built to meet an exacting demand The six cylinder motor? in Its perfected state?Is the engineer's answer to the demand of the automobile enthusiast ?the extremist if you will. The perfected six cylinder motor Is capable of a faster pick* tip and a smoother flow of power than is possible In a four. But not all sixes are superior to all fours. We build fours that are superior to many sires. And our only purpose in building a six Is to satisfy with Overland finality that extremist demand for well nigh miracu? lous motor performance. The Overland Six Is a big, roomy, luxurious, seven passen? ger car with a motor of unusual power? smoothness and flexibility. But the price Is only $1145?much lower than any other car of its size and class. Such a low price for such a superlative car Is possible only because the Overland Six is part of a huge production. In fact Overland production is easily double that of any other builder of cars of like class. So in buying the Overland Six you not only secure a car of very unusual performance? But you get the advantage of the economies possible only in the production of cars on so vast a scale. While the prices of established sixes are advancing, and those recently announced are on a higher price level, the Over* land price remains at $1145. It Is so clearly dominant value among sixes of its size and class, that the demand is taxing even our large capacity. Today Is an Overland Six opportunity which can hardly last. See us now and book your order., Overland Sales Company, 210 W. Liberty St Phcme 723 The Willys-Overland Company? Toledo, Ohio 'aeeeiae'A* DID Submarine Works Destroyed. London, June 8.?The Russiar Black Sea fleet bombarded Burgas Bulgaria, Saturday, destroying the German submarine works there. FOR SALE!?14 bushels Iron peas at $1.25 per bushel. Apply A. J. Pen nock, Sumter, S. C, R. 3, Box 14. lue(foty(j^Prm (ffitetAwardLi given W Di<monaries at the Panama PacificExposHion^l was gran fed fo ^ WEBSTER'S NEW INTERNATIONAL FOB Superiority of Educational Merit This new creation answers with final authority all kinds o! puzzling questions such as "How is Przemyil Srenounced?'' "Where is Flan ent" "What is a continuous voy? age?" 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