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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.
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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
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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,
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In fact Overland production is easily double that of any
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So in buying the Overland Six you not only secure a car of
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Submarine Works Destroyed.
London, June 8.?The Russiar
Black Sea fleet bombarded Burgas
Bulgaria, Saturday, destroying the
German submarine works there.
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