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CANDIDATES SPOKE' HERE YESTERDAY ORDERLY CAMPAIGN MEET ING. SPLENDID AD DRESSES MADE LARGE CROWD HERE All Candidates Are Given Ke spectflil Hearing. All Applauded. The senatorial campaign party was in Abbeville yesterday and spoke to a crowd estimated at from 1250 to 2)000 people. The .meeting was orderly throughout and all the candidates were listened to with the greatest in terest Even the little heckling and bantering that cropped out between the speakers and the audience was in tne main gooa naiureu. men: ?<?o uV effort to embarrass the speakers, or to otherwise interfere with the sched uld or programme of the "Big'Show." Senator Smith was the first speaker. Senator Smith's eloquence on former occasions to Abbeville county audi ences, prepared the way for his most cordial reception. Senator Smith is an orator of marked ability and he rose * fully to the occasion in Abbeville. He had the closest attention of his audi ence from start to finish and his elo quent perioations were again and again most heartily applauded. He made no charges against other candidates but gave an account of his stewardship in his own way. Senator Smith stated that it was ? charged by his opponents at Green - " * * ??*?* !_ n?oc wood mat hokc snuui ui ucuigm "i*a author of the cotton grading bill. Id refutation of that statement he read a letter from Senator Hoke Smith in which he gave Senator E. D. Smith 1 .full credit for the bill. He then ex plained the workings of the bill and showed how the farmers of the state would be saved from 6 to 15 dollars Tier bale on their stained cotton when this bill is in operation under govern ment graders. At the close of Sena tor Smith's remarks he was roundly applauded. Some one in the audience handed mm a wen iruneu oiam wtih the fleecy staple. Senator Smith 'held It out and remarked, "Here is my sweetheart." Governor Cole L. Blease was the, i next speaker. The Governor departed from his usual line of speech making: and consumed the greater part of his time explaining his action in the par don of R. A. Richey of this place. The Governor was pretty well fortified with doctors certificates both of local physicians and the physician of the penitentiary, and other prominent physicians to the effect that Mr. Rich ey was suffering with a form of paral ysis that would progress to death if Mr. Richey was not allowed to get out of the penitentiary. He explained that Mr. Richey was paroled under a flvp thousand dollar bond and on his re | covery could be remanded to the Penitentiary. On entering into his speech the gov ernor said that he came to Abbeville a not to speak to the anti-Blease people J>ut to explain the Richey case. Hi? explanation threw much light on thir pardon, and placed himself and the signers of the Richey petition in Al> Devme in a umereui ounuuc nu>> that in which people have generally thought of the pardon. The governor twitted Senator Smith with claim ing the impossible when he claimed responsibility for keeping up the price of cotton in his cotton campaign from New Orleans to Virginia, but there were evidently plenty of people in the audience who remembered Sena tor Smith's fight and who believed that cotton would have tumbled but for organization kept together by Smith and other prominent speakers. The next speaker was L. D. Jen nings, of Sumter. Mr. Jennings is an orator of the sledge hammer variety, and with all a ipost logical-and convincing speaker He opened his remarks by reading an editorial from the Yorkville Enquirer, which alleged that Jennings and Pol lock were running as aids to Smith and that their campaign expenses and perhaps a good bonus was being fur nished by some one. Mr. Jenning? reduced his statement to writing in order that there might not be any misunderstanding hereafter of what he had said: "He said if the editor is ? gentleman, he will either furnish proof of his statement, or retract it. 'If he does neither he is a cowardly contemptible liar." Mr. Jennings characterized Senator Smith as a "one idea man." Said that the people needed in the Senate men of broader scope. He said the* idea that any action of the senator^ could raise the price of cotton was more moon shine but he would give Senator Smith credit for honesty as he had talked this thing so much he believed It himself. Mr. Jennings said that Governor \ ' > ' - V ' ' . ' BOUGHT PISTOL TO KILL BROTHER Love of Brothers' Wife Is the Cause So States Arch Johnson . / Raleigh, N. C., July 13.?Arch Johnson, brother of Joseph Johnson, who mhis wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Early Johnson, by her own confession, kill ed Saturday night, July 4, today, in the Martin county jail, according to the prison authorities, admitted that he bought the pistol with which his brother was slain and gave it to Mra. Johnson, knowing what use she was going to make of it. In the course of his statement, Johnson, who is 21 years of age, is reported to have said: "I loved my brother but I loved his wife more and it was because of that fact that I allowed myself to get in this scrape." Arch Johnsan will be given a pre liminary hearing tomorrow. GOLDEN JUBILEE OF B. P. O. E. OPENS Raymond Benjamin, Associate At torney General Of California Next Grand Exalted Ruler Denver, Cal., July 13.?The Golden jubilee of the Grand Lodge of Bene volent and Protective Order of Elks and the 28th annual national reunion of- the order began formally tonight with exercises at the municipal audi torium. No opposition to the election of Raymond Benjamin, associate attorney ney general of California, to succeed Grand Exalted Ruler Edward Leach, of New York, developed today. Sentiment favoring the selection ot Seattle was the reunion city in 1915 apparently has become general. Patrick H. .Shields, Clarksburg, W. Va., is seeking re-election. oooooooooooooo o ENTIRE FAMILY KILLED * ? o BY LIGHTNING. o o o o, 0 O v 0 o Fredericksburg, Va., July 12. o o ?Lightening) killed a family of o o five in Orange county Saturday, o o according to news reaching o o here today. The victims 'were o A Daoo \f r\ am U i n a a I \j ivuoo xuuui a laiuici 9 uio wuc u o and their three children. The o o entire family was buried today o o in the Methodist Cemetery at o o Parkers. o The Moores were picking ber- o o ries on their farm near.Locost o o Grove. When the storm arose o .0 they hurried bfeneath a big tree, o o and a moment later it was de- o o molished by a bolt of ligtening. o o Their bodies were not found o o until neighbors, alarmed over o o their absense, began a search, o o o oooooooooocfooo Blease claims that if he was elected lie would put all negroes out of of fice was the merest bosh. That this could not be done until the 14th and the 15th amendments to the U. S. Con stitution was repealed, which he hop ed to eee done, some day when the South and West could come together in a better understanding. He said a .ew negro clerks locked up in mail car boxes could not do half the harm to the people of the State that 900 ne gro criminals of the worst type turn ed loose on the public could do. Mr. Pollock said he come before the people of Abbeville not backed by federal apopintments or by guberna torial appointments, but as a plain citizen and that Senator Smith could have the votes of all the Senators and Governor Blease could have all the votes of all ^he governors if they would give him the voice of the plain people such as he was himself. Mr. Pollock also jumped on Senator Smith's cotton claims and ridiculed the idea that he contributed to keep ing cotton up when he made his cot ton campaign some years ago and when he passed bills to stop gamb ling in cotton, etc. Mr. Pollock arraignment of Govern or Blease was particularly grilling. He spoke of the governor having the blind tiger king of Charleston on his staff of his permitting I lawlessness in Charleston and encouraging it by promoting such men to honor. He said the governor yelled "nigger, nig ger!" all over the State and yet when he makes up his staff he appoints J. P. Gibson, a white republican in the eighties, whose name appeared on the republican ticket together with the names of three negroes. He ex hibited the original printed ticket. Mr. Pollock is an orator of great ability. When his time was up there was a chorus of cries for him to con tinue. At the close of his speech he was handed a beautiful bouquet which he said he would use to adorn the po litical temple of the state when he had set things in order for it. There was general comment that the speeches as a "whole were the best that an Abbeville audience had listened tain many a day. There Is evidently plenty of ability in the "big show." '*. ' ' i FINANCIAL OPERA INS ARE EXPOSED RECKLESS AND PROFLIGATE FINANCIAL OPERATIONS EXPOSED RECORDS BURNED Every Effort Is Being Used To Destroy Evidence of Crooked Administration Washington, July 13.?The story of the "reckless and profligate" financial operations of the New Haven railroad, one the most remarkable chapters In the history of American r^lroad and American finapce, was revealed in part today by the interstate com merce commission in a report to the senate of its investigations of that road. It told of millions used like stage money, of corporations as pawns in a monster game with all the New Eng land transportation as a prize, which led the New Haven in the ten years just passed from the height of pros perity to the point where a dividend has been passed," where a dissolution suit is threatening and where crim inal indictments of manv of the di rectors who figured in deals are at least a possibility. ; ^ Millions Lost Hampered by unwilling witnesses, by burned books and by all the mazes which lawyers in vented to cover the trail, the commission estimated that In the progress toward monopolization of New England transportation, the New Haven stockholders have lost be. tween $65,000,000 and $90,000,000, but little of which they may recover. In return, the report said, they have on tHeir hands properties which pay no dividends, which eat ihto the earn ings of the parent road and which will be a burden on its capacity for many years to come. Of the present directing head, Chairman Howard Elliott and "Wal ker D. Hines, special counsel, the re port says: "They have co-operated with the commission and rendered it substantial assistance throughout this investigation." mu- XT rooroH lilt: l\ew^nttYCU UUlUUlliauuu, iv?>v? by Charles L. Mellen, and approved by the late J. Plerpont Morgan and Wil liam Fjoekefeller, the commission finds to be clearly in violation of the Sher man anti-trust act and a monopoly in practical control of the transportation of five states. * The commission's report is unusual as regards the manner in which di rectors of the New Haven are scored. It speaks of criminal maladministra A1? 3 ortaorfa nrlfVi nns L1UI1 a,LIU UCgllgcu^t, aau^i 1.0 " r.. itiveness that the directors knew they were perfecting an Illegal combina tion and says that the dream of a transportation monopoly was unsound and mischievous. The New Haven, the commission says ' employed dummy1 directors, manipulated accounts, i\sed question able methods in increasing its own stock, paid the dividends of subsidiar ies to make a showing, and used many other devices to deceive stock hold ers and the public. It dipped into pol itics, was a factor in "Invisible gov ernment," made large campaign con tributions to the two dominant polit ical parties, bought officials and tried to distort public opinion. All this it did, the commission says, "to carry out a scheme of private transporta tion monoply imperial in its scope." Directors Liable. "T" ""in" Jiroofnpq urhrv WPrP faith less to their stewardship were held re sponsible for their failure do those things they should hav edone, the les sons to directors who do not direct would be very salutary," says the re port. Most of the directors of the New Haven accepted their responsi bility lightly. They failed to realize that their names gave confidence to the public and that their connection with the corporation led the public to invest. When these directors were negligent and serious losses resulted therefrom, they were guilty of grave dereliction of duty and a breach of trust that was morally wrong and criminal in its fruits. "Directors should be made individ ually liable to civil and criminal laws for the manner in which they dis charge their trust. A corporation-can be no better or woYse than than those who operate it. It should be just as grave a crime to plunder stockholders or the public through a railroad cor poration as it is personally to rob an individual." Laws Violated. Of all the millions lost to New Haven stockholders, the commission estimates /that possibly $8,000,000 may be recovered by proper action. Evi i + o nAoelooiAn fan(iino> fn ahnwr UCIH/C 1X1 ICO tvuuiufj vw uuvn violations of the laws of New York, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, has been turned over to the proper execu tives in these states. . The department of justice has been furnished with a complete record of the testimony secured by the commis sion, but there Is no federal statute under which the government can aid the stockholders in recovering any of their losses. Religious Services at Bethel. Rev. George Hamilton of Georgia is? asisting the Rev. W. H. Murray in a meeting at Bethel Church near town, this week. Rev. Mr. Hamil ton is accompanied by Mr. John Ilen drix, a noted singer, who will have charge of the music. All are very cordially invited to attend these ser vices. There will be preaching daily at 11 a. m. and 8.30 p. m. UP TO BLEASE SAYS A. W. JONES \ Arrangements Made To Carry The State Through Financial Needs J ' ' ' v Columbia, July 13.?"We have made arrangements to borrow $350,000 at 3 i-2 per cent," said Comptroller General Jones today .discussing the meeting of the state financial'board. He said that the terms had been ob tained by J. Pope Matthews, cashier of the Palmetto National Bank. "It is now up to the governor to sign the notes. We have done our part," said Mr. Jones. S. T. Carter, state treasurer, is the third member of the board. This matter came up last year and caused a lot of stir. The state is again without money to meet current ex penses and the legislature made no special provision for borrowing the money but it is said the plan an nounced by the comptroller general will fit the needs. ALMOST NOBMAJL. . After .a ,Hard Struggle Under the Surgeon's Knife, Prof. E. B. 'Kennedy is Almost Himself Again. His many friends will be glad to learn that Prof. E. B. Kennedy, of. Erskine Col lege, is rapidly regaining his normal phys ical condition, after undergoing, a serious surgical operation in a hospital in Phila delphia. ? v Under date of July 9, 19: , Mr. Kennedy writes from New York: "I hach a bard struggle for a few days, but recovered rapidly when I did begin to improve. I am almost normal. "I have befen doing some studying hera. but 1 think-1 shall soon return home, r should like to remain all summer to study, but I am becoming hom. sick. \ "I hope to be in Abbeville the latter part of August." ? '.< ' J , As all our people know, Mr. Kennedy was pastor of the Abbeville A. B. P. church for some ten years, when the College au thorities chose to take him from us, about a year ago, and appropriate his services to Erskine College, where his education and his art of imparting it to others has been of much value to the old institution from which he was graduated. Having been a student not so very long ago, he has not forgetten the .way to the hearts of the student body. By his nat ural tact, and by his experience in the school room, he has, during the year, earned a full share of credit for the good order ana the mental progress of those who sit at the feet of Gamaliel. In his election to a professorship in the College is another proof of the wisdom of sticking to one's friends. ! . t Hugh Wilson. PROFITABLE SERVICE, Pastor Bristow is Reverential and Impressive. \ We had the pleasure of attending divine service in the Baptist Church last Sunday morning. Of course we would not attempt to report the sermon of the able and rev? erentlal preacher, but it Is a pleasure to commend his reverence in delivering his sermon and in making his petition to the throne of Grace. During the prayer he did not engage in useless and foolish ste reotyped thanks, nor did he lay out a bill of particular gifts that was desired from ~ -CVntKsv.. Ua nolrn/1 + UUi .nottvcyiy ? niuui, uuu no ttoacu wu?u we might be strengthened In our zeal for better service to Him. , ' In neither the prayer nor in the sermon did the pastor make "vain repetitions" of the name of the deity. , He did not tell the people that he "would read the word of God." There was no one in the house who needed to be told who was'the author of the Scriptures. And whep such statement is made it is a sign of both the ignorance and the irreverence of the man in the pul pit. Speaking from my own ^convictions, I think the average brainless preacher who ftnds it necessary to resort to vain repeti tions in violation of the Third Command ment, should be asked down and out of the pulpit. My own testimony would be that some times in one short hour I hear more viola tions of the Third Commandment than I hear on the street in ten years. The preacher who cannot deliver .his dis course without interlarding it with pro fanity deserves little or no respect as a teacher. . : Speaking for myself, I do not intend to make a practice of hearing men who dis regard the Third Commandment. I would much prefer, if I had to listen to such ir reverence, to hear a man who is not a hyp ocrite and who does not pretend that his own impiety authorizes him to make th?? vain repetitions which are forbidden by the Third Commandment. '' Hugh Wilson. Male Stenographers and Type* writers in Demand. ? The United States Civil Service Com rate-' sion announces that while it has no daffll- I culty in securing sufficient female sten?g< raphers and typewriters to meet the needfc of the departments at Washington, the supply of male eligibles has not bean* equal to the demand. Young men who are at least 18 years of age and who- are' willing to accept the usual entrance not aries, which are $840 and $900 a year, hfww excellentopportunlnitibs for appointment-; While the entrance solaries are lowvad-j vancement is reasonably rapid to those- J meriting It. The examinations, whieh any , competent stenographer should be able to- j pass, are held each month in the year, es-j cept December, at the principal eLtfe&offj the United States. * MARINES ARE 1 ORDERED TO CUBA SEVEN HUNDRED MARINES ORDERED TO CUBA AT ONCE SITUATION GRAVE 7 t ; Revolution Tom,. Haiti and San to Domingo Require Out side Intereference Washington, July 13.?Seven hun dred marines today .were ordered as sembled at Guantanamo, Cuba, to be held in readiness for service ini revo lution torn Haiti and Santo Domingo. The navy department acted at the request of Secretary Bryan, who ask ed that the.fleet be prepared to deal with any emergency that* might .arise on the turbulent island. The marines will be gathered from those, now on duty in Mexican waters, and from the marine barracks in Philadelphia. At Guanatanamo the force will be only a day's sail from the north coast of Hayti and San Domingo and their proximity is expected to impress up on the revolutionary leaders the de ment to terminate their activities by forcible means unless they listen to the warnings already given, t The siti uation in San Domingo has'come to be regarded as almost hopeless of a cure from within, while in Haiti con ditions are little better. * Acting Secretary Roosevelt an nounced today's action in the follow ing statement:, "Numerous appeals from time to time have been made for the protec tion of American life and property on the Island of Hayti, -which has been jeopardized by the various bands of revolutionist operating both in Hayti and San Domingo. Dispatches from there indicating that these conditions will probably continlife for some time, it has been decided to place a small force of marines where they ^will be available in case of any emergency should atrise which would' make It advisable for them to be on-hand for the protection of life and^property. . "The acting secretary of: thei navy, at the request of the state department, has accordingly directed that, the United States ship Hancock proceed from Vera Cruz to Guantanamo and there land about 295 marines,- 11,0 of them having been taken from Vera Cru and 185 from a special, service squadron in Mexican waters, mainly from the New York and Texas. . "'After landing the marines, the Hancock will proceed to Hampton Roads to take aboard there 400 addi tional marines and return with them to Guantanamo.' "In addition to the above,'the-gun boat Sacramento has fceen, ordered from Puerto, Mexico, to' Guantanamo. This action is taken merely as a-pre caution and it is hoped that no con ditions will arise that will require services of this force." . - The navy already has in Haytien and Domincian waters the battleships Connecticut and -South Carolina, and the cruisers Marietta, Castine and, Machias. Card of Thanks. We take this opportunity of expressing our many thanks to the good people of Abbeville for their hslp and kindness to us during the illness and after the decease of Brother. May God be with each one of them. Maggie Watkins and Mother. DEATH OF AN INFANT. i ' 7* ' ' Mr. and' Mrs. Joseph Hughes are in Sorrow. The following post card explains the heartaches of Mr, and Mrs. Joseph Hughes, of Abbeville, and of Mr. Huguelet's fam ily, formerly of Abbeville, but now] of Hamlet, N. C.: Hamlet, N. &, July 10,1914. My dear Friend?Our dear little grand daughter, Christine Hughes, died this 3:80 A. M. in Hartsville, S. C., of spinal menin gitis. We are all grief stricken. Yours In sorrow, J. G. Hu/ruelet. t f NICE MONUMENT Now Marks the Grave of James Killingsworth. Mr. F. Guy Wilson, representing the firm Owen Brothers, marble and granite cut ters of Greenwood, was in town last Sat urday, putting up at Melrose Cemetery a monument in memory of James Killings worth, son of Dr. S..F. Klllingsworth, now of Columbia, but formerly of the town of Abbeville. The .Messrs. Owen Brothers are also I preparing a nice monument to Wm. G." IRile?, who was for many years the effi cient and courageous Chief of Police of Abbeville. Ail Attractive Pamphlet. The Bailey Military Institute, located at Greenwood, S. C., has just issued a very attractive pamphlet consisting of twenty four pages and containing a brief state ment relative to the institution and a number of beautiful cuts illustrating va rious phasee of ,school life, and also a number of letters from prominent men of this and other States commending the ex cellent work that has been accomplished by this schoel. Any one desiring a copy of this pam phlet can secure same by writing Bailey I Military Institute, Greenwood, S. C. MANY SEEKING NEW UNIVERSITY Southern Methodist Church Will Have Great Educational Institution Atlanta. July 13.?Consideration of Ithe advantages offered of different southern cities for the proposed new university of the Methodist Episcopal churclj, south, will be begun here to morrow by the stib-committee of the educational 'fcommission of the gen eral conference of the church. The final decision in the matter is ex pected, to be made - Wednesday at a meeting of the full commission. Various Methodist .Episcopal Collteges, in the ' south,' ' including Emory College at Oxford, Ga., and Trinity College at Durham, N. C? haVe indicated their willingness to be 6X7, panded into a university. It was re ported tonight, however, that Trinity would withdraw its offer. In addi tion to the-.college1 centers many cities, including Atlanta and Birming ham, have" prepared to make large of-' fers of land and endowment if they are. selected. The si^b-committee, which will first consider the invitations,. consists of Bishop W. A. Candler,- of Atlanta, chairman; Bishop J. M. McCoy, of Birmingham; Dr. Plato T. Durham, of Charlotte, N. C.,; Dr. A. J. Lamar, of Nashville; and W. G. M. Thomas, of Chattanoogo. It was decided at the recent, general conference of the church at Oklahoma City to establish a new university on accotmty-of the controversy between the general conference and; the board of triise of Vanderbilt, University at . .ashvillfe over control of the laiter institution. ?? ? ? mr in mi\r?n DAiLL I IY1U1USEJV , BEFORE THE .JURY Investigation Will Be Thorough, / Mrs. Carman Will Testify In / Own Behalf - " JPreeport, N. Y., July 13.?The grapd jury will begin tomorrow its investi gation into the murder of Mrs. Louise Bailey who was- mysteriously shoit in the office of Dr. Edwin Carman the night of June 30.1 I)r. Carman's wife is now in the Mineola jail, charged with the crime. The physician will be the first witness. 00000000 0 0 ooooooooo o HEIRESS TO MANY o o MILLION IS DROWNED o o . - ? o o Philadelphia, July 13.?Two o o year old Nancy Carpenter, o o heiress to millions and niece of o o United States Senator .Henry A. ? o Dupontj. of Deleware, was o o drowned today in a shallow o o pool on the estate hei;p of her o o uncle, Pierre S, Dupont. The o o child was the daughter: of R. o o R. M. Carpenter, a banker of o o Wilmington, Del. < ; o 0 0 00000000000000 0 0 0 0 0 0 For Treasurer. i We are authorized "to announce J. F. Bradley as candidate for re-election to the office of Treasurer of Abbeville Coun ty, subject to action of the Democratic primary. , . 0000000601000000000 o . o o INVESTIGATION ORDERED o O * ; v O o . Havana, July 13.?The Cuban o o secretary of justice today or- o o dered Attorney General Hector o o de Savedra to go to the Isle o o of Pines to Investigate the cir- o o cumstances of the death of o o Duncan Campbell, an , Ameri- o o can', who Vas fatally stabbed o o July 11 by Yictor Perez after a o o quarreL * o 0 ooooooooooooooooooo At the Opera House To-Night "Elwood," the Boy Wonder, Champion Boiler Skater and Dancer of the-South, will give & marvelous exhibition on roller skates and clog dancing. The regular program of four reels will be shown. Friday night "The Day of Days," a Famous Player feature in four reels will be sho.wn. - Also three other high-class reels. r . TO PUT IN POULTRY PLANT. F. C. Hare Apointed to Take Charge of New Branch at Clemson. ? ?. T?t? 15?Smith Ciemson uonegev <>uij Carolina will have an up-to-date poultry plant at its agricutural and mechanical college and will also have extension work in poultry. At. its recent meeting the board of trustees of Ciemson College* created a poultry husbandry/-branch of the division of animal husbandry and appointed H. C. Harer who is well known in a num ber of counties in the state for his poullry work to teach poultry hus bandry and to do extension work. Mr. Hare is now junior animal hus bandman in the U. S. Bureau of Ani mal Industry. For several months he was in charge of the poultry dem onstration work in South Carolina In co-operation with Ciemson Colleg. Recently, however, he was recalled to Washington to complete some work which he had left unfinished when sent to South Carolina to take up the work here. The trustees of Ciemson decided to install a poultry plant and to estab lish extension work in poultry under the direct management of the college. Mr. Hare is a poultry specialist of several years of experience and has also had experience in the poultry publishing field. He has already es tablished a wide acquaintance in South Caroiinai KILLED A WHITE / CHILD NEAR ELLOREE, ORANGE BURG COUNTY CONFESSED DEED No Motive Is Known Save That Woman Hatedthe Parents of the Child . .' V ' Orangeburg, S. C., July 13.?Rose Carson, a negress, Supday was taken ' from the jail at Elloree. Hear here, and lynched by a mob. Sheis said to have confessed to killing the 12-year old daughter of Mr and Mrs. D. F. Bell, Saturday. The child was. beaten :i t - to death with a stick of wood. The negress was taken to the scene of the crime by the mob..and hung to a tree. Aiterwafds theybody was .rid dled with ballets. The alleged con fession was made Just previous to the hanging. Searching parties found the body of the child early Sunday after an all night hunt, partly hidden beneath a ljog and covered with wounds. The child, disappeared late Saturday ! ,while she was going to a field-to drive Kdme a fcow. ' ; , Suspicion was directed toward, the negress' on account ,of recent trouble With the (Child's family - With'her sis ter she was arrested. As soon as, the arrests became generally known a mob was forced, marched to thejall, battered' in the dooiyand took posses sion of the two womten. The sister of the accused woman was later released when,she is said to have'admitted that her der, killed the child. . About thirty negroes watched the lynching but offered- no resistance. THE , ? ' H ' St. Louis, July is.?Tne- oaiioon "Goodyear," piloted by. R. A. D. Prear ton, of Akron, Ohio, won the national elimination * race to determine the thiol American entrant*. lq; the Inter national race -for" die James Gordon . Bennett cajp, which will start from . .x. ^ Kansas City in October. * ; This was' determined late today when a message from E. S. Cole, pilot of "San Francisco" 1915/', reported . that his balloon had landed Sunday morning 11 miles. southwest of ,Mc Leansboro, 111. v. ; The "Gboyear" wjUch landed gear1 Constance, Ky., made approximately 300 miles, nearly twice the distance made by its neares/t competitor. It also won the endurance record*. 24 hours, 45 mintea. The official distano* Will be coniputed by. the Wo club o? America'. , 'Besides Preston the other two AmflrrRn entrants in the International race will be Bl H. Upson, , of Akrpn, Ohio, who won the International race. of 1913, and by that victory brought the 1914 international race to the United States, and H. B. Honeywell, ; who won second place in the last! in ternational arce. ooooooooo'oooooooooo 0 0 o WOMEN ABMY F0LL0WEB8 o o ' ., . . ;* > 0 0 000000 0 0 0000 0 0 0 0 0 Exchange. r ' A Mexican army entraining is pic turesque in much the same way- that'* Y a gypsy camp is. It Includes sol-1 diers, women, children, pots and pana of primitive domesticity, pet do&s, cats, lambs, goats and even parrots.-?- - The. regulations allow the soldiers to take their'families to war. Officers told me that the rule was one*women _ to every eight men, but if such regula-; tio nexists it. is for publication only. As many, women go. as Want to?and when an army moves out from a large city the number of soldaderas is pret ty likely to be more than one>thlrd that of the soldados. And many of them have one or several children. From the days of the- Montezumas, Mexican women have borne their part v,r in war, and Mexico cannot imagine an effective army without its array ow women camp followers. TheyJorage for the army's food and cook it. They carry water to their men on the bat tlefield; they are the only nurses that the wounded have; frequently they ' parch beside the weary soldiers car rying, not only the camp equipment but their_ guns as welL They are brave, patient, hard working and faith- , full Sometimes they are UM legal . wives of the men they-accompany; more-often their relation* are for the camnaten only. These soldaderaa range in age from 12- or 15 yearg to 60 or more?the older women being, usually, the mothers of: conscripts, who elect to follow their sons to the front. f It may seen strange that women in such numbers undertake the dangers and hardships of a campaign, but life is cheaply held among the lower class es in.Merico, and hardships and fa tigue are the common lot in peace or war. Besides these women plunder the dead on the battlefield and pick up what they can on the march. A woman cooks for her own man as a matter of course. If she cooks for any others they pay her, and pay well. Asuccessful campaign will frequent ly furnish a little shop or to attract a desirable permanent husband in civil life. To Live Among Men. We must bear each personality at we come in contact with its Inherent Individuality, without 'at all counting on its regeneration and without con demning it for remaining just what it, la?Schopenhauer.