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THE INTELLIGENCER ESTABLISHED 18t0. . Published ?very morning except Monday by The Anderson Intelligen cer at 140 West Wbltner Street, An derson, S. C. SEMI-WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER Published Tuesdays and Fridays JU >:.. GLENN_Editor and Manager Entered aa second-class matter April 28. 1914, at the post office at Anderson, South Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 187?. ASSOCIATED PRESS DI8PATCHE8 T?l?phona.821 SUBSCRIPTION BATES DAILY One Year .$6.00 Biz Months . 2.60 Three Months .1.26 One Month.42 f Aa Week . .io SEMI-WEEKLY One Year .$1.60 Six Montha .,. .76 The Intelligencer la delivered Ly carriers In the city. Look at the painted labe! cn your .paper. The date thereon sbowa when tho subscription expires. Notice dato on label carefully, and If not correct please notify ua at once. Subscribers desiring the addreaa ot their paper changed, will pleaae state Th their communication both the old and new addresses. 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Segregate the Negro.-Says an r - change.- But not from this life. The allies will conclude after a while that it'a a long-long way to ?he Dardanelles. Bar Dunks rda From Owning Auto mobiles.-Headline. Ought to Include drunkards too. 1 a - We heard of a fellow inquiring If .the "hanging gardens ot Babylon"* was where o?d King Neb; has his war captlvep hanged. O'1' A dispatch Informs ua that Count Zeppelin ia seriously UL. We pre sume there'll be no grieving over this tact In England. We see where two more postmas ters have been appointed in South .Carolina, one at Fechtig and the at Myo. My, O, what names. New Portugal. Cabinet Wanted. ?Headline. Evidently the Portuguese are not over anxious about Betting themselves up aa targets. -o The Columbia State speaks of a "Water-Light" body In convention at Asheville. Ar? we to Infer the dele gates took them straight? We read that a Russian grand duke is dead... Leay lng. according to our last count, exactly 6,846 more grand grand dukes to mourn his death. Push Russians Back.-Headline. So they've quit shooting and slashing one another ip t??la war and are go lng at it like a football scrimmage. - i o v A Parla dispatch says tbs loss of the Teutonic allies to date ta 6,726, 000 men. They ought to have allowed the Petrot^^^th? ;to Issue this data, and then we would have had some in teresting figues. in answer to the statement of Dr. ftargent of Harvard University that women are aa well fitted for soldiers .nen, a cr .tlc suggests'that "?t s I^Kteet charge and hand-to-hand women would not having a mg anew." Oh, well, when yost* put MK, TAKT FOR TIIK TA BIN KT. One of the greatest complaints that could be paid ex President Willi nu Howard Taft lu that a number of the leading Democratic newspapers of the South have suggested that President Wilson would not make a mistake wer?, he to offer Mr. Taft the port folio In his cabinet which was returned by Mr. Hymn to Its donor. While lt may occur to some that for a Demo cratic president to appoint a Repub lican to a cabinet position would be a procedure most strange, we must re member that President Cleveland se lected Judge Gresham, an honored Re publican, for the position of secretary of state In IIIB second cabinet. For one we would not object to see ing this appointment, though it ls not probable that President Wilson will. The attitude of Mr. Taft tor.ard the Democratic administration fcna been most pleasing. He ls a thorojguhied gentleman personally, and profession ally a man who would be a credit to President Wilson's cabinet. Aside from this feature of it, bia appoint ment to that position might have tre mendous effect on the future of the Democratic party, in that if be accept ed, he would become a Democrat and many of the best element of tbe Re publican party would come over with him, strengthening the party to auch an extent that ii would be next to Im possible to send lt down in defeat in an election. HOW LON<J WiLL THEY LAST! As the war draga on without any de crease of intensity or any promise of the end, military experts are figuring on how long the available supply of human material will last. Tbe '.atest casualty reporta give a pretty good basis of computation. The British dead, wounded and miss ing up to May 31 numbered 268,000. The total had almost doubled in seven weeks, and the figurea will run up still more rapidly aa the army is brought to its full strength and as sum?e Ita share of the fighting. Servia has lost about an equal num ber of men. Belgium's losses are given aa about 200,000. German casualties are estimated by careful observers at perhaps 2,225,000. There can be little doubt that the German and Austrian losses together up to the end of May aggregate at least 3.000,000. Russia's losses are thought to be about 2,300. 000, thoae of France 1.600,000 and those of the Turks, South Africans, East Africans and others 100,000. Thia glvee a grand total of 7.600,000. It ie reckoned that about 1.600.000 have been killed, 4.600,000 wounded and tbe rest-given aa '"missing" are for the moat part prisoners of j war. Russia particularly has lost an enormous number ot men as prison ers. Thia estimate means that for the flrat ten months of the war the aver age loaa has been 760,009 a month. It la easy to see that but little more than two years of such warfare-say until the fall of 1918-will eliminate all the reguar military forces existing In the belligerent countries when the war began. After thia, if the war con tinues, they would depend on their "unorganised strength," consisting of all the men of any age able to per form military duty In extreme need. That would provide enough men to keep the death mill grinding for three years longer. Then, In theory, there wouldn't be a ningle able-bodied man left Ul any of the warring countries. Of course, thia reckoning takes no account of the large numbers ot wounded men who return to the front siter convalescence, and ot the missing men who rejoin their colors or appear tn later Hats and so aro counted twice. The growing, fierceness of the strug gle, however, in the next few months may more than balance whatever dis count muat be allowed in these par ticulars. ?Seven hundred and fifty thousand man a month-thus the manhood ot Europe ls being cut down* by ballet, bayonet sad shrapnel, every victim suffering keen pain end leaving a train of anguish sad sorrow. Seven hun dred? sad fifty thousand fsmilies, every month, grieving .for a man killed, wounded or lo^t. Seven hundred sad fifty thousand strong mais bodies swept away in fire and blood, and an other seven hundred and fifty thou sand comm.. forward to take their places. rio long can Europe stand ii? Com lag Events. Preaidosl Pc Camp has ear '?Univ ar? .-auged aa sjtracttre program i r 'he Pr**s AsricnaUoa meeting ar.? vi* st critieace Mils year ??ioutd b* tarjT. tanager J. T?os. Arnold eau enur* tiln ai kt charmingly ?t cM.k Spring?, Rn ry newspaper man tn the Mt?*c < h o ii N, attend. Of coorie ?I South Carolina Should Erect A Monument to This Man (Augusta Chronicle.) 'I expect to die, but I did my duty." So spoke bruve Sheriff Hood of Fairfield county. South Carolins, as he lay dylug in a Columbia hospital Monday afternoon; th" victim of a mad dened mob which was endeavoring to take from him and his deputies a negro prisoner whom the law had placed in his charge. What H trn^'lv this was. But what an object lesson to the people, not only of South Carolina, but of Georgia and of all the ntatea where "lynch law" undertakes to override and break down the establisued law of the land. I expect I'll die, but I did my duty;" the mumbled words of a mau about to give up life and all that was dear to him -about to face his Maker. What a crime was it that hurled this brave officer of the law into eternity without fault or offense on his own part-because he did his duty to his state and to civilization. Not a duty that he owed to the negro, charged with rape, whose life, nlso-whether guilty or not, we do not know-was forfeited to the mob's fury. His duty and obligation were higher than that. The people who elected A. D. Hood to the responsible ott'.ce of sheriff, placed upon him a sworn obligation to uphold the laws of their state; to apprehend criminals and to bring his prisoners to trial before constituted authorities-and to protect him In the nume of the law. Sheriff Hood wu? doing this; he was on the very threshold of the court of justice, willi his prisoner ?11 charge, when a mub composed of his white fellow citizens-some of whom, no doubt, helped to place bim in thut office whose duties he had sworn to fulfill-Bought to break-down the law by taking his prisoner, and the law, into their own hands, for the purpose of summary punishment by death, without rial. But, for once, the mob met a man; a conscientious, duty-loving, law respecting officer of the law-and he did bis duty. He gave all that be had to the service of his country und state-his life. Can there be found, in all of Fairfield county, or in all the state of South Carolina, a man, living or dead, more deserving of an enduring monu ment than brave Sheriff Hood?-the man who died for the sake of duty. What waa it the immortal Robert E. Lee said?-that the greatest word in the English language is "duty." That monument should be erected, and on it should be inscribed-"But I did my duty." And present and future generations of Carolinians, when they Bland uncovered before lt, should resolve that the sacrifice thus made by this brave Carolina sheriff be hot made in vain; lt should inspire in.them the resolution that tile laws and courts of their own state shall not be ruth lessly overridden and trampled upon by the mob, and that the sworn officer of the law who does his "duty" in upholding the law shall, himself, be upheld by all law-abiding people. They should honor such a man tn death, even as he honored and served them in life-"I expect I'll die, but I did my duty." There is but one answer to mob law-down with lt! Else what security ls there for any one who lives under the written law of our land? Oh! the horror of it, that men dare defy that law-and that other crlnglngly cond me Its defiance. Taft For Secretary of State (Augusta Chronicle.) ty ta hoing suggested, and the sug gestions I? meeting with favor throughout '.be country, that Presi dent Wilson could do' no better thing than lc offer ex-President Taft the state portfoi:< . in his cabinet, to suc ceed Mr. bryan. The suggestion, lt seems to us, is a most happy one; even though we have little reason to believe that Mr. Wil son-after neglecting the oportunlty to name Mr. Taft aa chief Justice of the United States supreme court; a position Ur which he ls so eminently fitted-will take kindly to the sugges tion. It will be recalled, however, that President Cleveland did a similar thing when he selected Judge Gres ham, a splendid Republican, for the position ot secretary of state io bis second cabinet. True, this selection called forth considerable crlticiam at the time, but lt turned out all right In the end-and Mr. Cleveland was, always, 'big enough to do what be thought was right, regardless of cri ticism. President Wilson has a similar op portunity; with thia difference-there would be no criticism of such an ac tion. For Mr. Taft ls recognized by men of all parties-with th? possible exception of what ls left of the Bull Moose outfit-as being not on!y Amer* lea's best beloved citizen, but a mala man who is above reproach, At the same time, it is difficult to sen how it would be possible to fl.ul. in this whole country, a mau who ls so w; ll equipped for such a position, from the standpoint of experience ns well 113 ability and character. Morevore, h 1B attitude toward Wilson administration particularly In connection with the European situation, should render him both, personally and officially agree able to the president. Wheib T or not Mr. Taft would care to tase on such heavy responsibilities or not, is another question. In this connection, we find the fol lowing editorial ia The Macon Tele graph, with which we are in full ac cord: "While lt is possible that the presi dent of ?tho United States has long had in mind a man to appoint as suc cessor to Bryan, in view of the ever present possibility of that official's resignation-for some months, there ls a'growing sentiment, especially in the South, in favor of the appointment of William H. Taft to take up the port folio the Nebraskan* has returned Its giver. "Now let us just consider thia man Taft for this office. The former pres ident In his every public utterance 'xv.3 CM;"- absolutely In accord with tho pcMcy of the administration in its relations with fe reign governments ti.e last few mon* us. This much we all know. "He ls a man of, the highest pat riotism. His experience with fore,' n affairs, as president ot the United States, secretary of war, governor of the Philippines, solicitor general ot the United States, and as a foreign en vpy eminently'qualify him for dis charging the duties of the office. "The tact that he ls a Republican should not weigh against his fitness for the office. This ls a time when the president should not be in any way criticised by his party should he step outside Its confines for the best material he can tlnd. "But beyond that lt might not be auch bad politics, for he might become a Democrat and as such a great many of the best element ot the Republican party would become Democrats with him. The wild-westerners would then be welcome to cook up any Bryan* Roosevelt coalition tbey might-the only coarse that .would be lett to eith er. "Thia Tatt proposal ls well worth consideration from more standpoints than one." ABOUT THE STATE Wadd jekmow, Brer Bree diu I About the most .pestiferous resident of a community is an officious med dler whose conceit prompts him to Inject himself Into the affairs of oth ers with a feeling of great shrewd ness, whereas eweryor.o elsa ls laugh ing at him.-Manning Herald. It In Aa Orphan l>a*c you roticed that of late yea ?a Senator Bt u lihman has quit hoa?tir? that ne IA "the daddy" of th > dispen sary system '.a South Carolina? Won 'er If in his declining yearn th* : ld foM'w. who ro boldly and dullen?'y th utt-d thc expressed will of a major ity ? f the votera ot Soutu Carolina. d-.es net reaV.ae the awful co. se quiuc** wraught hy that tyrannical act?- Kn.KM reo Record. Taking Chancer It looked Ilk? taking a genie of chance when ono walked irit-i the sheriff's cWce In the early part of the ferait; Tho scene waa a colUct'on -?? ?ot machines, the >po.?Mai. i-f .hick ls oald to be a violation of the lav. Tho sheriff and his co worker? had seined them at the Watti, Lydia and Clinton cotton mills Monday.--? Laure astille Herald. Alfalfa Boee Well. Mr. W. B. Keller, of Yorkville No. 1 recently cut hia fine alfalfa patch which lies alone the roadside on the King's Mountain road. This waa the first cutting he h*?* secured this year aad he is highly, pieased with the re sult. The field ?will be ready to out again by July ll and Wv. Kellar ex pects to obtain JpeHCtrnJ .MUtinga 4pr lng the year prodded th? seasnoes are good.--yi Wins First Honor. Spartanburg wlna a national dis tinction in the remarkable record made by one ot her sons, Dr. John Lee Hydrlck, son of Associated Justice D. E. Hydrlck, who has just gradu ated from Jefferson Medical college. Among his distinctions, he won what is recognised aa the highest honor that can be conferred upon a grad ?ale-th0 alumni medal, awarded for the best general overage In ?very subject during the whole four years. Another medal was awarded hun for the highest general average, for the senior year.- Spartsjaburg Herald. First Wheat Crop. There are quite a rv-'.o ber of ercol Alent wheat'fields in he county and lt ta said that Dillon's first wheat crop will be far above the average. Large and amati patches ot wheat have been planted in various sec tions. Archie Fore baa a snu'. f?elo near tt-wn (hst promises \o rnuke 85 or 4P bushels to the acre afid :*e:e are severn! large ftelda In V 1 cost ly where lt is claimed the field will bo lamar, ir 7 -forts from dlTc rent parts of the county have not beni exaggerated Dillon will have goad reason to bc proud of ber fire! whva?. cop -Dillon-Herald. Improved Halse. Quite aa Improvement ls noticed on SuryiKys ia the noise made by ant? mobties in passing th? churches. Stil there is room for improvement. _ not une your cut out except when at IH you were going to describe the kind of store you'd prefer todo business in, we think you'd give a description of this store; because we know about what you want and we're making this store that kind. It's a store with the right goods, at the right time, and the right'prices, distinguished for its wealth of good clothes for men and boys, for the high qualities in merchandise, for its stocks of variety, of fashion, of good taste; a store where specialization in all departments enables us to meet the most exacting requirements, lt's a store for reliabil ity arM courteous service; with liberal policies to "make good," where we study to serve your best interest; where we cheerfully "refu i money." Our guarantee of satisfaction refers to your satisfaction, not ours; we take your interpretation of it. ; . Palm Beach, Tropicloth and Mohair Suits, $5 to $12.50 4 Two and Three-piece Woolen Suits, new shades, $10 to $25 4 Boys' Suits, Serges, Crashes, Palm Beach, $3.50 to $12.50 Palm Beach and White Canvas Oxfords, $3.50 . \ Oxfords in all leathers, buacks and tans, $3.50 to $6 Shirts,. Manhattans and B-O-E Specials, 50c to $3.50 f?'] Sport Shirts, correct style, comfort first, 50c to $2 v Straw Hats, all the correct styles, $1.50 to $3 1 v , - *\ Panama Hats, men's and young men's, Special at $5 _4 ^, Socks, special value in popular colors 35c, 3 for $1 _ \ J> V-, X/?QT ms* ci ur?7, The Store with ?a Conscience1 * + WIT AND HUMOR. + EDI pres s Up a Ladder. The Czarina's popularity In Russia haa been enormously increased since tiie war on account of the work that she has been "doing for the Russian Red Cross. It la interesting to recall that her majesty once had an extraordinary ex perience for a royal personage while on a visit to Germany. She was out shopping one day, attended only by one lady companion, and ahe had hop ed to remain unrecognized by ?be peo ple. While ahe waa making some purchases in a Jeweler's shop, tow ever, the news of her identity got abroad, and In a Sery few momenta there waa a large crowd outside the premises. Exit through the front door was out of the question, so th? Czarina asked the Jeweler to let herself and her com panion out at the back of the shop. The Jeweler replied that that was impossible is th me backyard waa In closed by a very high boarding which would .effectually cut off their re treat. "That does not matter," said the em press. "Get a ladder, and'we will A ladder waa brought, . and the Czarina and her companion rushed up it. climbed over the boarding, jumped Into a quiet street, and made their escape as quickly aa they could. A minute later the Jeweler's shop window waa smashed to atoms by the surging and excitable crowd. * i A Smart Soy. Tbs Marquis ot Bute, who recently sold hts extensive* colliery property in the Aberdare district ot Glamorgan, hf on' .if Cha wealthiest members of the peerage. He ls a first-rate all-around sportsman, and ta very fond of a good story. He tel ia an amusing yarn about a certain clergyman who asked a small hoy; ' ;. "Who ts that elderly gentleman 1 have seen.you tn church with?" "Grandpa.'* was the reply. "Well," said the clergyman, "if you will promise to keep bim awake during the sermon I will give you a pe my a week," The boy agreed, and fov the next few Sundays the old grandfather waa' made to hear-the sermon. The clergy man was delighted at the aucceaa of hts little scheme and handed over the. weekly penn/ according to the con-, tract. - One ?Sunday, however, the old gen tleman went to sleep sa before. Ver/ much vexed, the clergy mau accosted the boy at tho md of tb? service. . "I ant very angry with you," he acid. "Your grandfather waa asleep as Us ual during the sermon today. I shan certainty not gi?? you a peany this week.* . "it doesn't ma i ter," r? pl led thc boy PRESS CC Law or Private Vengeance I (The State.) There will be those now; and on the trial of the Isenhower clan to lay great stress on the provocation, on the immeasurable injury done them by the negro whom, they killed. Are we prepared to consider trys substitution of private vengeance tor lawful process? Are the people of South Carolina of a mind that there shall be no courts for the trial of assailants of women? When there ia evidence-aa In rare instances there baa been, perhaps in Fairfield county-that a white man baa assailed a negro woman-shall the negro kinsmen of the victim be excused for shooting down the.white prisoner and the aherlff and deputies charged with his custody and safely? Unless we are ready to confess our laws and civilization a failure, let us hear no more talk of excusing men who take the law Into their own bands. Of, it we be ready for the confes sion, let us cease electing sheriffs and return to the prlmltve ideas of twenty centuries ago, admitting that the mab who can draw his gun In quickest tiara and get ?the drop on his enemy is tbfe best policeman snd safest law giver for society. Meantime, the life of the negro? Jules Smith, haa been snuffed out; he has been caved from the ordeal of trial and certain death in the electric chair if there waa reasonably strong evtdenvce of bia guilt. One net result of the attack by the Isenhouerb tm Fall sunlight ls times bright er than full moonlight. Siam baa fallen In Une in officially adopting the metric oyslem. Clips for letters or memoranda feature tba frame ca* a new desk dock. Home bf the beat gas coal in tho Woe. 1 asa been discovered In Vene zuela. Tesla of human bones baye ahown them to ho 60 per cent stronger than hickory. Telephone service between England and Switzerland ls maintained over tw? routes. fa a kite trem? pat?ate* pf a Wis cpnaln man ribs radiate a cetttr* ?si of metal. )MMENY th? law is that the negro, wretch though he was, has escaped pain and suffering aud has died at least a hap pier death than otherwise would have been meted out to bun. However it was meant, the shooting pf the negro waa en act of kindness. It ls only the law, the officers of the lew and their families and friends, and the people of South Carolina, that have suffered. The Essay.. (Charlotte Observer.) Colonel Bryah seems now, to have entered upon the merely theoretical stage ot personal propaganda. His latest paper la simply an essay on the causelesanea ot the war, theories ot Ita problem'; and prophecies ot things that may ome to pasa at Ita con clusion. He ls, in fact, entertaining the public with his: pen es he would entertain a chautauqua with nth tongue. lt ls as if there had been a return to Bryan, the college grad uate. At almost any college com mencement In the land the people could hear discussions quite along the line of Colonel Bryan's discussion of "The Causeless War." It'ls beauti fully theoretical, end while it ls. en tertaining, simply by reason of tho man who ls writing, lt la not et all important. Colonel Bryan has re ceded beyond the cone of Immediate interest. Confining hlmBelr to pres ent lines no harm would corn? to the country by reason of how much he might write or nay, for manifestly, he hr talking and writing Just tor the pleasure of the thing, end because lt la Bryan's nature to do so. SJX> ENDS According to s Paris physician pre mature baldness is due to som? trou ble with the teeth. Enough matches to light all its contenta ore attached td ? recently In vented cigarette box. A textile made In.China from raw silk van be buried la the earth a year without deteriorating. *. plow that digs peanuts sad shako:, them from th? viney baa hahn patented by a sdsaour! Inventor. French postal authorities are ex perimenting the American automatic and aomlrautomstic telephones. , Tb? Second. Pan-American scien tific congress will be held %t Wash ington. D. C., lu December and .lan nary. |iijrH:<nitig tmi'?tytofittes. of which