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M ANDERSON INTELLIGENCER m? a 'rn -' Founded August 14, 18SO u BM North Mala Strati ; ANDERSON, H. 0. WILLIAM BANKS * - Bettor W. W SM?AK - Business Manager . ? ' i -'-1 ?tiered According to Act ot Con gress as Second Class Mali Matter al UM FOB toffies at Anderson, B. C. _ -Weekly Edition-$1 60 per Tear. Dally Edition-lb.CO psr annum; Ct .BU tor Sis Months; 9125 tor Three MoiilBsj. IN ADVANCH .*=--1 Member of th? Associated Press and Receiving Complete Dally Telegraphic! Berrico < .wm Iteran circulation than any other | spspcr In ibis Congressional Dis fflMFHONISi Mltorial -.817 . Business Office ------ Jil Job Printing .-083-L Local News. 127 S Society News.121 "Sie Intelligencer ts delivered by "'TS. in "the city. If you fall to *T regularly piesse notify .?r name on label .ted dat? to which ?ll cheeks and n to The Ander er. Forecast : ly fair Thurs caught thc 'OS. . . nd large comuienee Jid to bo trying i accuracy tn its st /Bays that she steps of the house. >_ oncludln? para 'pondr?t from er if ail vessels _ '?an a sham rock I ?i?',- ' < o f^i^^ resorts are giving more concern than "Is the wa Jter Isaran enough for yon." '.. .? .. -,-o-~ (>;'|^?rh'e White Way seems to bo receiv. ms RIOwin? tribute from friends in .*U parts of the State. : -o : Tho moro battleships the less light ing, seems to be the policy of the ,, democrat lc ad ni in ist ration. Seems tb its that too many colleges havo been robbing tho cradle roll. Give tho high school a chance. ? -_ . '^.Two weeks heneo the people of Squib y Carolina. have a lino on tho political situation In the state. --o ^?V?i'Vj?^oS annoyance lo being caused ^h^;"th|?>hap Carranza. Will thu Unl i'i'te^l States ba made to do os he aays ^l^^eT.: . <% W;WW& '4 -?-T' ? Every democrat should see that his name; ia on. the club rolls. This is . really,nbt aa much trouble as going to ff, ^he'.'^Rnila>>ta<^rote. .. i*?' ^_ " Time for Summer excursions Is In . db^ttev|y'< postponed-until after tho rain, puts the grass whore lt can bo fought .with the hoe. ^i(-?M^W'' -?-. ' i .? We are printing today tho entire k rules, of tho democratic party and rc ?icpnunend that all democrats read thc hole'-.thing through. ^ pByy^'yevfht..ct?dpafgn opens every ^^Brndtdote should make up his mind ' to treat his opponent fairly and to ac \ cept the result in good grace. myf&f .. --o , ?ter; S.'A. Nettles seems to be on ^t^v^echnjcally, but thore are somo ?p?ej?bhers. who'Bc'om to think tho Adr vpeafo will suffer under his return. . "The Southern railway would do ? tte thing, by South Carolina' by butld -RW?o road through at tho apple orchards of % No^; tfteorgla., ::;^^?>nf'.thd^n?litanl suffragettes in "-'^bgland. ofter knocking a man down .:'-^ir^("?V>?qnmer exclaimed that the HHp; h?d/been too lady-like She >??^J?8ts flnlBhed ruining a painting ^vt?tWM Wounded." Back Hill mac In town yesterday '".'Mcftred s.t?r? 'buildings in course ?HH^'vtnd '-. grudgingly admlt HH|H|K^de,r&on is'almost an good -B?vor, T?'ijwu. s'.name is Oeorgo, not Inch \i\i>(i CONFIDENCE One nf MK" llrst rules taught hy men breaking Into honorable newspaper newspaper work is not to violate a confidence. lt ?H often heurt-break jug to a news gatherer to have things told him on honor and then to he un able to publish linn), and to sit si lently hy and sew some other paper in sb<-er luck stumble over a "story" which luis been nursed for days. While The Intelligencer feels a responsibility to ?ive its readers the news, we also feel a pride in our pro fessional reputation to stub an ex tent that we would rather suffer a "beat" on an item than lo publish it under circumstances thal would ap pear busu ami would hear deceit on the very face of lt. Tuesday The Intelligencer learned (hut the treasurer of Anderson county bas tendered bis r?sign?t lon to the governor of the Slate. This paper wus requested upon honor not to publish ?the information. In making Inquiry ?about the matter some of the persons approached evidently "lipped it off" tn the local afternoon publication, and us a result the treasurer told the re porter for the aforementioned that he would talk of the matter in conlldcncc only. As a result of that confidence thc following appeared: Columbia. June 3-It was learn ed this afternon that Governor iliense has received the resigna tion of Mr. C. W. McQco, treasur er of Anderson und lt was said that Mr. McGee asks for Imme diate acceptance. No announce I mont has been secured from tho governor's office as lo what dis position he will make of the resig nation. It ls understood here that Mr. McGee intends to enter into another, business and this I is thc cause of his resignation. j In some manner our curiosity was piqued and we wired thu private sec retary of the. governor of the state to the following effect: "Did the gov ernor's office today give out a story on the resignation of the treasurer of Anderson county?" In reply we received the following: The Inter?lgencer,^ Anderson. S. C. Your wire. No newspaper Btory ?lVen out today on any matter .today, as far as I know. . ' John K. Aull. We know that the public is not in terested in the shop talk and tho oth er matters of newspaper offices. But this Is a matter of deep significance to the newspapers trying to ?Ive up to a professional standard. We would not have said these things hut. for the fact that some weeks ago the publication referred to made a false statement to the effect that The Intelligencer had obtained a certain bit of news from the county treasur er's office and had violated Mr. McGee's confidence. Wo folt at the time like stigmatizing the allegation in the manner it deserved, but as the county treasurer himself repudiated tho fling and requested that nothing more be said, we let it drop. We wish to say here and now that The Intelligencer will ever fight to earn and to deserve and to'retain the confidence of the people. We would, therefore like to ask the question: Did tho purported story from Columbia published yesterday afternoon come from outside tho city limits of Ander son? There ls more In this than the mere matter of u "beat" or a "loss" of a story, lt !s a matter of principle. If this story did not originate ip Co lumbia, why docs it bear a Columbia date Une? Post Script-Since thc above was written. Tho Intelligencer has recolv ed the following from Its Columbia correspondent, Mr. W. P. Caldwell. The Intelligencer, ", Anderson, S. C. No resignation received hero, so Mr. Aull nnnounced. Governor Blease IR in Charleston. 10:22 p. m. W. F. CALDWELL Wo led le ve that the case hore is made quite plain. Tho Intelligencer does not wish to bo very severe In this matter, but wo wish for our readers to know that we try to be careful In the selection and printing of news and facts, although newspapers, like In dividuals, are prone to err and may be deceived by designing persons "riding" their columns. THE OLD FIRE DEPARTMENT We reproduco today from another paper an article written by that steady lover of Anderson, Andrew C. Todd, upon tho history of the fire depart ment of this city. This article ls es pecially interesting as the firemen of the city'have had hurd work this year and their friends wish to see them get a trip to the State convenlon at Flor ence. What has become of be first horses of the Anderson fire department? That ls a Question which some might not stop to think of often, bot we so/v one yesterday. Old Charley. He had a bad sore on hts side and the files were bothering him a great deal This one time splendid old animal has done his part for the protection of the city-but today he is but a sham bling old wreck. Aro there any ha man prototypes? ;.. . \ . - . . y ? ANDKKSOX .H KOKS Look ?it Ilm roster ot" jurors lo serv?- lu thc Anderson county court. That lot of mon could Ix- trusted willi any ease. This county has the high est average in the slate with refer ence to character, Intelligence und fear of tho law on th?- part of the pe tit Jurors. And that is one of the thing!! thal has helped io in ike An derson a great comity. Lu racy divorce deposition of wealthy young Howard Dale against his wife. Dorothy, givi-s detailed descriptions ?jf Sweedish punches. An Oakland, ('al., man, arrested for violating (he auto laws, argued the ex cuse that he was in an argument with his mother-in-law, which distracted his utteutlon. o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o ? o o ? .. (UTK (TTY NEWS o o ! ? O O O O O O O O ?i o o o o o o o o o Atlanta. .lune '.I. When Peal Hanks, a negro, was shot to death Inst night for uteul'ng a live cent "hot dog" sandwich auother murder was added to the long Hst nf tragedies which have given the gruesome name of "Dead House" to a negro dunce hali in the outskirts of Atlanta. The sandwich man who (ired the fatal shot, escaped tn the turmoil before the county police arrived on the scene. It was a typical Georgia negro night gathering, with "lud supper" features, dancing and banjo playing. When Mrs. A. K. Cole, who was the forty-ninth candidate" for divorce in a Hst of C7 unhappy spouses, found that tales of ordinary bad treatment did not constitute bona Ilde "cruelty" In the eyes of the law, Bhe cut loose with the following specific description of the particular form of cruelty for which she was suing her husbatid. "He kicked me out of bed, threw me from place to place around the house, drew a pistol on me, threatened to kill me. and said he had changed his mind and would boil me in oil instead." As soon as the gasping jury gqt its breath, she got her verdict. Mrs. Neille Barfield, anol,_ ir of the ti?, got a verdict on the ground that her husband came home drunk at 2 a. m. and made her get up and cook him breakfast at that hour. The small-town constables "put one over" on the city cops last night when I they arrested on a Joy-riding charge two Atlanta policemen in a police commissioner's automobile, with two of the police commissioner's pretty daughters. They were arrested at Symrua, on tho charge of violating the speed laws. The two officers are being made the target for much'sly wit'today nt the hands of their fellow bluecoata. The whole board of Fulton county I commissioners ls now formally on rec ord as favoring a searching in vest iga tion Into the charges of graft, favorit ism, maladministration and incompeU ency which have been lodged against: those who have In charge the direction of tho county's affairs. Some of the commissioners believe I there ls a "nigger in the woodpile" and want to see him forced out into the light, while others believe that there is no graft or maladministration, but that since the charges have been made, the public has a right to an in vestigation to clear the matter up. Mayor Woodward's veto denying women tho right to membership on city boards, while not intentionally di rected at tho suffragettes, since, tho mayor was simply opposed to enlarg ing the hoards, is taken hy the suf fragette leaders as another serious setback. -;_^_ oooo oooooooo o o o HA KN KS NEWS ? o o o o ooooooooo oooooooo Barnes. June 3.-Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Schumport were herc recently vis iting at the home of Mr. H. M. Schumport. Mrs. John Craft and daughter. Miss! Laura and son. Johnnie of Anderson, are spending a few days beru with tho family of Mr. A. A. Mauldln and other r obit i ves. Mrs. S. A. Morgan and little daugh ter Winnie spent awnilc in Anderson recently at the homo of Mr. J. W. Mc Car ley. Rev. and Mrs. C. J. Hampton ot DantelBville. Qa., were herc awhile re cently on their way to Rocky River to spend some time with homefolka. WANTED-A few more families to I reside at Barnes who are filled with a I spirit of good will and are not afraid of an idea. Cast your lot with ns and you will add to your list of friends 1 -and enemies. Rev. J. B. Herron will preach here on the second Sunday morning at ll o'clock. The public ls cordially In vited to hear him. Miss Sallie Patterson and her cous in Miss Carrie Patterson ot Iva, were1 here Saturday and Sunday with their relatives. Mr. E. R. Evans of Anderson H. F. D. 7 and B. B. Evans of Iva were hore last Sunday at the home of W. R. Evans. Albert Mc Man ls, of OrangctoWn. N. Y., had his only arin fractured and In a sling today as a result ct being pitched over a ledge of rock on the sides of the Palisades In Alpine by a foot pad, and falllng^tweniy-five feet Bryan on the Platform. Washington, June 1.-Secretary Bry an announced today that If house busi ness would permit he' tQjttld spend part of his vacation thia year lecturing j on ? chautauqua circuit. Mr. Bryan's first lecture will be delivered in North Carolina July. .4, he said, { The Wonderful Land of the Sky Government To Be Kept Perpei (Written For* The Intelligencer by luina].1 (,UHs.) Ashville, N. C.. June 3.-Tho recent decision hy the ll. S. Forert ReserYu 'inn Commission to purchase from Mrs. George W. Vanderbilt 86.700 ;icrea ol' land nour Ashville, N. C., will ?non make (lie United States thc own T ol' a vast and beautiful forest In '.he heart of tito Southern Appalach ia inountains, only 10 hours ride from Washington and i:i from At lanta. lt 1B believed that by next yeur congress will convert it into a national park to verve as a playground for the thirty-live million people to whom thu railways make it accessible in a day's Journey. Its center ls 17 miles in a Southwest direction from Ash ville from which its nearest pulnt ls only six miles distant. Containing 134- square miles, it formed the bulk of the land which thc late; (leorgc W.'Vanderbilt acquired in the pus.t 23 years-in connection with his princely Ufltmore House, the finest country place In ?Am?rica. "Pisgah Forest," he cailcd this cherished pos session, and tliis name has been adop ted hy tho commission. Conserved by I thc first prient ide forestry practiced ! In America, it is the linest and most I extensive hardwood forest in the Kant ern stales, and it will be the largest ?area owned by the United States E.o.t of the Mississippi. Pisgah Forest ls a princely d?malo of mighty mountains and crystal stream?. hacking thu barren grand eur of the Rockies, lt is a great green garden ot wooded heights and grassy Blades, impenetrable thickets of rho dodendron- and azalea making masses of bloom In spring and early summer. In its bounds are giant peaks, some grassy "balds," otber balsam-clad domes, and rock capped summits with granite precipices sheltering bear and wolves, culminating in the sharp spire of Pirgah's pyramid 5757 feet above sea level. Abundant rainfall ensures luxuriant vegetation. Noble trees of poplar, oak, spruce, hemlock, bulsau, hickory, walnut, maple, birch, cover the slopes. A "thousand high placed springs send their cold waters through ferny dells ' to form the hastening streams. Cascading over rocky bot toms they foam against great bould ers, swirl in dark pools, spread like a silver curtain on rock tables and plunge, os at Looking Glass, sheer down for sixty feet. It ls a land of singing brooks and white-crested streams. Game and J fish, abound tn the forest. It is estimated that there are 3,000 deer, besides' bear,. wolves, foxes, rac coons, opossums, sqlrrel. rabbits, quaile wild, turkey; -nativo phesants and the descendants of the Chinese and English phesants with which lt was stocked years ago. The clear, codi water is thc sativo habitat of the speckled or mountain trout and tn the larger streams are the rainbow or California variety. Wardened relig iously for many years the trout are as plentiful aa. tho ardent fisherman could desire. . One may, reach the heart of this wilderness in a two hour's ride from Ashville, and the. greater part of it may be overlooked by a scenic road believed to be unequaled in America; a road nearly a mlle in elevation and an automobile road at that. It was built by Mr. Vanderbilt exclusively for uso by his automobile in reaching his hunting lodge on one of the "ears" of that "rat" which, as ?een from Ashe IIOW M NET Y SIX WAS THUS NAMED . r History of Old District and Its Fam ous Indian Legend. traper From Edgefleld Chapter.) The origin of names of various towns and places is of interest to us. being alw?yft a matter of more or less curiosity and not less often quite a| source of information. I feel that I can make no bettor Introductory re marks in connection herewith than by relating the" incident, very pathetic and touching;'that gave riso to the name of the district of Ninety Six. .Ninety Six derived its name from a strikingly peculiar, though to a cer tain extent, quite a natural occur rence; and all will join In the opin ion hearing the story, that the name ls both appropriate and suggestive. Many of the names of our States, towns, rivers, etc., are derived from the Indians, because they are almost Invariably very pretty names and be cause they preserve aboriginal history and legend; Ninety Six, however, ls of coarse of our own English language. The name arose from/the testend ot the beautiful devotion of an Indian malden to her white lover, an early settler, of that section,*Mbose life waa in the hands of her who loved him best The home of thia Indian maiden was some distance. from that ot her lover, lt being near the subsequent lo cation of Fort Prince George,,?ad was known as. Ken wee, an Indian, village of the Cherokee tribe, but lt was also in this same district- ; Cblquola-for that was her name-having learned of a contemplated,attack upop the small band of whites by the Indians, rode with the speed which only love'could have made possible, J mst in advance of the attacking Indians, covering the distance'between Koowce and the home of her lover-W mites- In 24 hoars. The whites, rejoicing in Chi quouVa bravery which saved them from destruction; named their 'set tlement Ninety-six-the distance ot the memorable ride. Eighteen and Twenty-Three mile creeks ortho sante Sold By Mrs. Vanderbilt to the tually a? a Playground for Nation ville, the imagination pictures aa climbing to the sharp summit ol Pis gah. This road extends from the end of the county macadam, 20 miles from the city, and ascends 2500 feet by a steady grade of 3 to 7 per cent 7 miles to the lodge, and then continues 10 miles along Pisgah ridge. It circles great peaks, hanging over steep pre cipices and crests heights over 5000 feet high and then becomes almost level for several mtles. The speeding car unreels new scenic marvels each moment. In front, above, below, an ocean of greenery seems to rise and fall as far as the eye can see, to the dim blue of the Appalachian giants, the mass of the Great Smokies guard ing the Tennessee line, and North ward thc dark pinnacle of Mt. Mitch ell,highest land Bast of thc Rockies. Far below gleams the water-mirror ed face of a stone pinnacle that stands sentinel In the river valley and through the widening vhsta of encom passing ridges shows the distant es carpment of the Blue Ridge, reaching from Georgia to Virginia. An extension of this road 12 to 15 miles to Brevard would connect lt with thc state road to Asheville, af fording a circling GO mile ride. From it two roads lead down to the valleys whero arc many miles of well graded roads along the streams which at slight expense could be con vcr t od In to automobile highways. It is the plan of thc Appalachian Park Asso ciation, whose head-quarters are in Asheville, to have the government con vert the most suitable parts of the lands, which like this, it acquires un der thc terms of the "WeekB Act" for conserving the water supplies of navi gable streams, into national parks, and to connect these by automobile roads that they may bc easily acces sible to the people. ' These roads would link the various reserves in the mountain sections of the South. It was the wish of Mr. Vanderbilt that the nation should become the owner of Pisgah Forest and last spring he offered it to the Forest Res ervation Commission. 69,000 acres were priced at $5.75 an acre, this t*, act being subject to a contract which be made two years previously . with the Carr Lumber Company by which it could cut trees of a dtnmeter over 16 Inches, for which it was tb pay- trim $12.00 an acre. 17,000' acres of virgin timber were offered at $17.00 an acre. The commissioners inspected the property in the . early part of June, 1913, but on returning to Washington decided not to buy. The generally ac cepted reason for their declination . . as their belief that Mr. Vanderbilt would preserve the tract and thus the government would have the essential advantages of areserve without-; pur^ chase. The death of Mr. Vanderbilt in March showed the hasard of this plan. Individuals offered several dol lars an acre more for the entire tract than the price named to the commis sion, j Mrs. Vanderbilt wrote to toe com? mission tho first of May.that her hus band wished the forest to be owned by the nation and that price might not be an obstacle to effecting his wish she would sell the entire acreage at the price of $5.00 an acre. This repre sented a saving of $200.000 to the gov ernment and the commission accepted the proposition. There is excepted from the sale, os there was by Mr. Vanderbilt's offer, 600 acres surround ing the hunting lodge. Neither offer included the 12.000 acres which form the Blltmore House property which under the terms of the will was in herited by fourteen year old Cornella Stuyvesant Vanderbilt, the only child. section derive their names from this leg -nd also. As Bhown by Chapman's history ot Edgefleld county. Ninety-Six was set tled about 1748. As early as 1734 this section was thinly aettlod with whites, and needing a fort for protection, against the Indians, who continually massacrelng men women and chil dren and stealing horses and cattle, the colonists petitioned. the parlia ment of Great Britain to build them a fort in this section. . After years of delay, however, the province ha:', to build this fort at, its owo expense, and the council directed the purchase of land from the Indians with tho or der that the fort be built as near the Indian town of Keowee as possible. Gov. Glenn bought the territory in 1763 and built the fort at Keowee, which was given the name of Fort Prince George, the load acquired by this purchase being a part of the Nine ty-Six district. Before, the year 1785, Edgefleld county was a part of the Ninety-six district, which Included a large terri tory in the upper part of the State, and was by an act of the legislature March 12, 1871, divided into the coun ties,, afterwards .called districts, of Edgefleld, Abbeville, Newberry. Lau rens, Union and Spartanburg. : Previous to Ita occupancy by white people lt was in possession ot warlike tribes of Indians, known os Chero kees. For many years before any per manent settlements, stb,e upper country was traversed by roving trader? who bought skins and furs, from tho In dians, making large profits by giving in exchange a few worthless trinklete. I Buffaloes, bears, wolves, etc. /Wore as numerous then cs squirrels and rabbits aro now. Until after the R?*ir olutlonary wir there was nb Edgeflelu -it-was Ninety-Slit district, Educa tion had never . been neglected. Doubtless there' has been individual neglect, but ot all times, from tab first settlers, those who desire an ed ucation could procure lt/Sjae of'the earliest teachers was Coori es K. Johnson, a graduate or Yalo. who wrns afterwards the founder of the FNajale college ?t Anderson. V The village of - Edgefleld w?a ~ uv corporated a town in 1880, the viltagX waa made the conn ty seat Ia J 791 and! the first court wok bold here In 1792.1 .Tb* Sim toUh m Condon? Who is more uncomfort able than the man wear ing a heavy suit on a warm day ?. *| He is not only uncom- f fortable,, ?>ut cannot en joy the neatness of; the mah wearing one of our light suits. Come here and see how easy we can flt you in a Palm Beach or Mohair suit-you'll then find out what comfort is. Palm Beach Suits, $7.5o, $8.50, $10. Gravenettecf Mohair suits, $15, $18, $20. Order by Parcel? Post. Wc prepay all charges. June The 6th. 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