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THE INTELLIGENCER ESTABLISHED 1840. Published every morning except Monday by The Anderson Intelligen cer at 140 West Whitner Street, An derson, S. C. SEMI-WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER Published Tuesdays and Fridays L. M. GLENN....Editor and Manager Entered as second-class matter April 28, .1914, at the post office at Anderson,* South Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 1879. ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES .Telephone .321 SUBSCRIPTION BATES DAILY One Year .15.00 Biz Months .2.50 Three Months .1.26 One Month.43 Oas Week. JO SEMI-WEEKLY One Year .$1.60 Biz Months . .76 The Intelligencer ls delivered by aairiers in the city. Look at the painted label on your paper. Tho dato thereon shows when the subscription expires. Notice date on label carefully, and li not correct please notify us at once. Subscribers desiring the address ot their paper changed, will piense state Ia their communication both the old and new addresses. 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"IE YE LOVE ME-*1 It ls tlie morning of the one day out ot seven that many of us set aBtde as a day of idleness from our own little cares that send us spinning around within our own little sphere; like so . many little tops for six days in the weok. Most of us have been down at it pretty hard since a week ago to day, toiling, fretting, scheming, curs ing, cheating, abusing ono another, oppressing, those whom we could op press, doing'obeisance to those who have lt in their power to oppress us, planning, hoping, loving a little, pray ing a blt, perhaps when we had noth ing to do, and a lot of other things Ju?! like other moa have been doing through couritJoss years. But the big gest ailing that has occupied our time and attontlon since a week ago today has been that all-important, all abaorblng ana preeminently important business of "looking out for Number One,1* and by "Number One" wo mean "mo and mino" or myself and thoso In who I am directly and vitally inter ested. 1 And on this morning or the seventh day .''moat of us will repair to rome church, and there we will go through a certain ritual-the mumming of prayers, the singing ot hymns, the repeating of passages of Scripture 'which have been collected and print ed all together on one page of a "phamplet, and listen to a discourse by the minister. Yes, that la as much as somejdf va see in this divinely order ed &xi> of worship; and there are .J somei ot us who believe that that ts all. there & to this business of living the christian lie. Tomorrow will bc Mon day, and hack to our own little world? wo will ruch, rofreshed hy the day of physical rest, and then for six more days-sweltering, illnlng. dry, parch ing days-wo will go at lt again, mark ing time on our little treadmills un til another cycle of six days has pas sed. And so on through the years until ono day you and I fall to show up at our accustomed place on. the treadmill. Rut the treadmill and those treading lt will move on Just ' the same sn tnough yon bad never .been on lt. How far those of us who spend our lives 1? this fashion and view thin business of living in thin man ner miss the real meaning of life. Wo ? know nothing but to go through six days of the week as we bave said and then on the seventh repair for a lbw minutes to the church Jn which our forefathers grow up and in which wc grew up because lt wu? "tho thing to .lo" und there KO through the stereo typed procedure which we call "wor shipping Hod," nnd come uway be lieving that we are making a success of this terribie responsibility of LIV INO. lt never occurs to some of us who run the gamut of our day? in this manner that wp ure making a miserable failure of the whole thing; it never meurs to some of us that dur iiiK those six days we ure "looking out for Number One" we ure milking the way hard for "Number Two," or we putts by "Number Three" who is atuck up In the mire, or "Number Pour" who 4s down in tho ditch, or ..Number Five" who hus given up the fight and is dragging ulong the dusty wuy and wuitlng patiently for natural death to remo along and overcome him. .Some where In the Hook lt i j rec orded that Hie Master while passing thin way said unto those that were about Him, "If ye love me feed my sheep." We arc not withing hailing distan?; of knowledge of theology, but we have ventured to think that ?.ur Master meant by those words that If we love Him we should certi fy to it by doing something for ills sheep. And his "sheep" la our next door neighbor, tho burbariun over yonder in Oilnn, tho fellow we rub elbows with every day on tho tread mill, the man or woman or child wc know intimately, those that we don't know so well, tho fellow who is "high up" in our little man-made scheme of things, the humblest und the most in conRpicious wretch that wields a pick and shovel out yonder in the middle of tho h?H. dusty street for; 80 cents a duy. T?koy are ali His sheep, lt ls not for you or I to say that any one of them is a "goat," and refuse to faed him because we wero not com manded to feed any but the "sheep." So what are you doing by way of certification that you love the Mus ter? Going to church on one day out ?f seven and singing like a seraph is not enough. Going to church und go ing through an empty, stereotyped ritual is not enough. Giving utter anco to beautifully worded prayers ls not enough. We don't suppose God ls vain in tho sense that we mortals arc vain and likes to have us grovel In Inc dust at Hist feet inst to tickle His vanity. But we imagine .the kind of praise He likes best is that kind Implied In the command "If Ye Lovs Me Feed My Sheep." Praise Me not by ceremonies but praise Me by do ing something for My sheep, who arc your brothers end your sisters. Again we nsk, what are you doing by way of certification ithat you love tile Master? Did you feed ono of His sheep last. weoJc?n, Or. did _ you Bay something mean . and . con tenu;tibio about ono of them, or glvo one who was already down in the ditch a vigor oi? 1 kick that sent him still further down, or curse or B.vindlo one of them, or repeat to some ono else a blt of scandal you hud heard about one of them, or do anything to wound the feelings of one of thom or cause them ono blt of un happiness? If you did not do any of this, (then did you feed one of these sheep? Did you give some weaker one a lift over some rough spot In his path, or speak a klniTword to ono In despair, or speak comfortingly to one in sorrow, or glyn material aid to one in distress, or "make some per sonal sacrifice In order that one might be the gainer of something Which you may havo wanted yourself, or do anything to help him along tho way? If you did nothing to injure one and did nothing to help one of them, you may think that you' have "orokon even" on last week's busi ness of living. But you are sadly mistaken. In thtB business of living there is no neutral ground. No man liveth unto himself. It you did noth ing for one of -these sheep, then yon did something sgsinst one ot them. FARMERS CHAUTAl'Ql'AS. The Wdlllamston Farmers' ; chau tauqua came to a close on Friday and from all account it was .successful from overy standpoint. The promo tors of this annual gathering at WU Uaiurton deserve praise, ai well as thu officials ot the Southern Railway anc government officials . who took pnrt in lt. Each day was filled with meettagn and speeches that were beneficial to the farmers and business men as well ss housewives. These meetings were well attended which goes to provo that the people are beginning to recognise the tra? value and worth ot such chautanques sad are anxious to give them support by being present and at the same time learn things that wi!! cause them to bc better prepared to meet the questions that confront them In every day life. Everything about this chautauqua waa absolutely free. The cttlsens* of the town of WUHsmston raised funds ind were assisted by tho Southern tait way which IK very much Interest >d in bettering rural conditions along tn line In tho south. Seneca has al ie doned a very successful chautau iua like the one at Williamson. In another section of tills paper ls i notice of a one-day chautauqua ih'eh ls to be held at Hammond's cliool bouse on August 19, and an vent that ought to be largely attend !. Although on a much smaller cale than those recently held at Wil lailiston and Seneca, much good will <. tit-rived !iy those attending. AN KI)ITOltlAL HY MACAULAY. "All around us the world Is con ulsed by tho agonies of great on ions. Governments which lately eemed likely to stand during ages lave been on a sudden shaken au i . orthrown. Tlie proudest capitals f Western Ku rope have streamed with lood. All evil passions, the thirst of aln and the thirst of vengeance, the nl.!pathy of class to ciass, the anti athy of rac?- to race, have broken jose from the control of divine and un?an laws. Fear and anxiety have louded the f.ices and depressed the carts of millions. "Trade has been -suspended and in ustry paralyzed. Thc rich have be uinc pool ; and the poor h ive become oorer. Doctrines hostile to all clences, to all urts, to all Industry, j all domestic charities, doctrines, rhlch, it carried into effect would In ilrty yearB undo all that thirty cen ares have done for mankind, and .oiid make the fairest provinces of 'rance and Germany a?* savage as ongo wilds and Patagonia, have been vowed from thc tribune and defend d by tile sword. "Europe hus been threatened with nhjugation by barbarians compared Uh whom tho hurharlns whe mnrcr il under Attila and Alboin were en ghtened and humane. The truest iomds of tho people have with deep arrow owned that Interests moro recious than any political privileges ore In Jeopardy, and that lt niUght 0 necessary to sacrifice even liberty 1 order to eave clvUbrUiou. . That sounds very up-to-date, oesn't it? you'd think it had Just cen written by a brilliant partisan f the allies-probably H. G. WellB or ame other English author. It's from Macaulay's "History of hgland." He wrote lt nearly 70 years go; and it applies to the European Ituation which rcenlted in the plac lg of William and Mary on thc Eng sh throne In 1689. HAYTL It's a mournful fact that the first alony established in tho New Worhi lould bc today tho lani capable of ilf-government. From the timo when oluiahus established a Spanish B?t ement there in 1493, tha* rich island as been the prey of hi . mee rs .and evolutionists. One man stands out of the bloody icords of HayU as a capable leader of ls race and a genuine patriot-Tous klnt L'Ouverture the "Black George Washington," who won his country's idependence a century ago. But the ft has been sadly abused. His race, hlch const: ates 95 per cont ot tho ipulatlon of the present Haytl, has iewn itself incapable of self-govern ent. Not one of his successors has on control by legal methods. The nu try has been denominated a re ib|lc. a kingdom and an empire, but is beon equally ml^Kovernedjyinder hatever namo or system, and has al ays been a military absolutism ruled y force, cunning and crucUy. Thc nching ot President Vllbrun Guil lume ts in the regular order of lings. Perhaps he deserved bis fate, ut the circumstances of it bode Ul ?r any improvement. There (Seems to be a "white man's ir den" in HayU. Poli tk al In capac y has made a hell of what should ? a paradise. Uncle Sam may have ? take charge of the job one of these ineo, lt he doesn't, some other ne on will. 1 ? mmmm?m?mmmwpmmmL .1 A L I N E i o* DOPE J Mr. H. A. Orr yesterday In speak ig of tho street car paving stated tat .after South Main street is fln'.^h 1, the forces will take up itlver treat. It will be rememberr j that1 ie Tinvkng on South Main street willi ? to the nitersection of Norris and a River street lt will go to Caugh n avenue. Mr. Orr also steted that Mr. John >n, the contractor, expected to be in laying the concrete Monday after non on Sooth Main. Messrs, Donald BVown and Sam An ?Vrso? arc back'in tho city after ah automobil? tour <o New York city and other points. They state that their automobile gave; them no trouble, having only one puncture on the trip up and one puncture, and one blowout coming back. Before going to Nev/ York they spent a few days at Atlantic City. Donald Brown Baid that the last time he saw Louis LedboUer and Chevis Cromer, who also made the trip ju another auto, they were going down Broadway, headed for Albany, N. Y. Prom there they expected to go to Niagara Falls and then to De troit. Mich. They are expected home in aboutit ten days. --o There was a great deal of Interest yesterday morning in the clo;lng of thc motorcycle contest which had been put on by Leggett and Myers Tobacco company. As advertised tb" boxes closed promptly at ibo stroke of 12 o'clock Evaus Pharmacy No. 3. where all tho boxes bad been plac ed yesterday morning. The principal ones standing in quantities of cou pons und box lops at the ia t min ute were J. Olin Sanders, Furman Geer and Mr. ll. W. Bowen. Thc suc cessful contestant will be announced about next Saturday. . Mr. Charles W. Webb, Jr., son oi Mr. Charles Webb of this city ls lucky that bc has been named a bene ficiary in tho will of Mrs. Hattie E. Durant who died in Sumter on June 1. From tblc will Mr. Webb will re ccivo $5,000 in cash an soon as lie be comes 21 years of age, which will bc within tho next few months. Mr. Webb ls at present playing ir an orchestra in St. John's hotel al Hendersonville, N. C. Ir.st .year h< was a student at Clemson College and for tho paet few years he lias been preparing to go to the University ol the South where he will train for ar Episcopal minister. Mr. Durant was Mr. Webb's uncl< and wus very fond of the young mar and this lit the reason that the monej was lef!. lo him; Mrs. Durant dlei without leaving any children and al her property was left to nephewi and nieces. Mr. Webb receiving th? greatest amount. -rO Mr. Archie Todd, the local Fon agent has received a letter from th Ford Motor Car ' fcompany, Detroit, ii which new prices,, for th!'* make c car are quoted, same to go into el feet tomorrow. Ford runabouts ar quoted at $390 and Ford touring car at $440. In tho letter lt is state that there will be no further dc crease in price until August 191G i then, lr3 profit sharing plan pi on by tho"company .during the poi year was very successful, but M Ford says that owing to tho unsettle conditions, no announcement aboi future plans of this kind will t mado as yet. -o Just as the above was being wrl ten rain began falling and the writ* ls glad as well as everyone else in tl city. From thc clouds which were bani lng around Jt seemed that tho cnti; county was receiving showers and is sincerely hoped that .this ls tl case s'.nco they were badly needed, o John M. denn, well known ai successful young farmer, son of Ho W. H. Glenn, is building him a han some residnece on his farm sever milos west of tho city, near the pla tattonB of M.\ Thomas Henry Bu rlss and Mr. W. K. Olenn, his brot er. Tho house will contain soi seven rooms and will be modern every respect. Mr. Glenn is ono of tho best fi mers for his age In Anderson coun To hit unusual amount ot industriel ness ls added Intelligence and a ke knowledge of the science ot fanni! making a combination that Is bou to bring success. Mk*, and Mrs. Gie expect to move into their noa' hoi early this fall. -o Henry F. Parker, perhaps beti known than any automobile mechai in this vicinity to the hundreds of ? owners, ha., resigned his posit! with t io Todd auto shop, and plans visit a> his old homo in North Ga lina. Upon his return, he will ti the position as master mechanic w the Anderson Phosphate ft Oil co pany. Perhaps no man In the St can diagnose the troubles that F< cars are heir to quicker then 1 Parker, and his uniform good natl and promptness dh answering tren calls has endeared Mm to hundr of owners In this and adjoin SUtes. Lawyer Breaks Jan. Wrights?Hie. Gs., July SI.-Ab dsrk hut night A. E. Smith, a li yer lodged In Jail hero ^waltbag ti on a charge of misappropriation funds, secured a ssw ta some i and made his way to liberty. Here's an ad for "Men and Young lS/Len-~ It*s Short and to the .??ii Point. Suits All $ 10.00 Men's and Young Men's Suits now All $12.50 Men's and Young Men's Suits now All $15.00 Men's and Young Men's Suits now All $18.00 Men's and Young Men's Suits now All $20.00 Men's and Young Men's Suits now All $22.50 Men's and Young Men's Suits now All $25.00 Men's and Young Men's Suits now Shirts All $1.50 Manhattan Shirts Reduced to. All $2.00 Manhattan Shirts Reduced to. All $3.50 Manhattan Silk Shirts Reduced to. . Other Clearances-? Boys' Knee Pant Suits. Men's Odd Trousers. Men's Oxfords. Manhattan Underwear. $ 7.45 $ 9.45 $10.95 $12.95 $14.95 $16.95 $17.95 $1.15 $1.50 $2.65 Delivered Anywhere at Our Expense. The Store with a Conscience Review of Fil Of Euro i (By the Associated Press.) The second year of the European, war opens today. On August 1, V8I1, Germany declared war against Rus sia and tho last chance vanished of localizing the Austro-Serb'.an war, declared three days previously by Austria-Hungary. All the great powers of Europe were drawn into a struggle the - like of which history has not heretofore recorded. Eleven nations are at war and almost all lands arc affected, di rectly or indirectly. Millions br men have been killed, wounded on. carried to captivity in hostile countries. Bil lions of dollars have benn expended. Thousands of square miles of terri tory havfe been devastated anl hun dreds of cities and towns laid waste. Half the world is in mourning for thc dead. And although the war. bas been in progress with unexampled fury tor a year, tho result s may be summarized in ono brief sentence: No decisive results have been achieved and the end is not in sight. Determination to pursue the war to a decisive ending has been expressed by high officials of all tho belligerent nations, preparations are being mado for next wnter's campaign, and, In fact, indications from Europe are that it is more likely to increase in size rather than decrease. It ls still an open question whether Bulgaria, Ru mania or Greece will be drawn in. In view of the immensity of the struggle, previous standards count for little In considering the price the world is paying. Tho figures involved are so vast as to convey little mean ing. The nations at war have poured out their treasures of men and gold without limit. The usual standards of life have been subordinated or dis regarded, and lu some cases social. In dustrial and political activities have been vrtually reorganised on a mili taristic basis, to make all contribute to tbo supreme necessities of war. ' It ls impossible to obtain accurate statistics of the number 'of men en gaged, tho casualties and the cost, For obvious reasons the- also of the various armies ls kept secret. Most of the nations do not consider lt ex pedient to reveal the number of cas ualties; in fact. Great Britain is the only one which has given .out official totals. As to thu money expended, there are available only ar Hal statis tics. More than half the population < of the world lives in the countries' ex war. The population ot the warring countries ls estimated roughly at 047,000,000, and of the countries at peace at 797,000,000. The population of the Entente nations ls perhaps five times as great aa that of their oppo nents. The number of men under arms has been estimated variously, usually in the neighborhood of 20, 000,000. William Michaelis, writing recently in a Berlin magazine, pot the number ot soldiers at war at 21, 770.COO; for th j AlUes. 12,820,000 for Germany, Austria-Hungary and Tur key 8,050,000. No previous war has approached the present one in wholesale destruc tion ot life. This is, due not only to the number of men Involved, hut to the terrible efficiency of modern, wea pons. Trench warfare on a great scale, with Its deadly charges, mining operations and extensive use of ar tillery and hand greu&des, bas con :st Year pean Conflict tributed to this end. Whereas In the past lt has been calculated that the proportion of hilled to total casual ties runs 1 to 8 or 1 to 10, tho pro portion in trench warfare, as indi cated by official British statistics, ls about 1 to 5. The battles on tho plains of Flan ders, on tho Warsaw front, in the Austro-German advance through Ga licia and in the Carpathians were at tended by frightful slaughter. Rus sian losses in thc Carpathians alone were estimated unofficially at 500,000. Along the battlefields from Arras, in northwestern France, to thc Belgian coast wholo fields have been covered with, corpses, and at thc time of thc German attempt to reach the English Channel the Yscr Canal was choked with the dead. According to official British statistics, tho British army alone has been losing of late, In kill ed, wounded and missing 2,000 a day. On June 0 Premier Asquith announ ced that British casualties since the beginning of the war (excluding naval losses of 13,549 up to May 31) amounted to 258,069, of which tho to tal klllbd was 50,342. Lator, however, on July 27, Mr. As quith issued a statement saying that tho naval casualties up to July 20, were 9.106. Apparently Mr. Asulth's first statement was based on misin formation which he has subsequent ly corrected." The losses or Germany, Franco and Russia, by reason of their largor arm ies, have boen far greater. The Her Und Politik of Rerlin carly in June estimated that more than 5,000,000 soldiers of the. countries at war with Germany and hor allies have boen killel, wounded or captured. Hall aire Belloc, tho English military writ er, said Germany's potential man hood for actual lighting probably bad. diminished from all causes by nearly one half In the first year of the war, and asserted a conservativo estimate aus that Germany had much nearer 4,000.000 than 8,000,000 men perma nently out of the Hold. Estimates of the total casualties run from 6,000,000 to 8,000,000 with the former *flgurc probably conservative. The cost in money runs to a simi larly hugo total. Great Britain ls now spending about $15,000,000 a day on the war,"according to Premier As quith. Albert Metin, gene.al budget reporter of the French Chamber of Deputies, calculates tho war is cost Ia Franco $10,000 a minute, or $14. 400,000 a day. William Michaelis re cently estimated *the dally cost to Germany st 38.250.000, saying forty days of this war cost as much as the whole Franco Prussian war ot 1870-1.- In March Dr. Karl Helffer Ich, Secretary of the Imperial Treas ury of Germany, ?aid the war was costing all belligerents 1375,000,000 a week. On the basis of Dr. Helfferich's estimate, tho first year of the war cost the stupendous sum of $11,500,000, 600. Mr. Michaelis puts the figure at IS billion dollars, not Including Italy's expenditures a sam more than 50 per cent, greater than the gold production of the world during the last SOO years. Other estimates run .UH. higher, to 20 billion dollars or mor?. Ir* addition to the money expended directly on the rar, the loss In des tructlon ot property on land and sea haa run high into thc millions. Great losses aro being occasioned by the cessation or curtailment of many forms of productive Industry. Tho en ergies of the world have boen largely diverted to making war. Factories of all sorts have been turned over to tho making of. war munitions, men taken from mill and field, to. be re placed'by women, old men and child ren. Economists assert that or gene rations to come the world will feel the effect of the huge losses, in the burdon of taxation and otherwise, and sociologists make conflicting pre dictions as to its moral, physical and psychological effect on generations living and to come. Neutrals as well as belligerents have been affected: The financial stringency which followed the out break of war was world-wide. Tho United States, in common with other neutrals, havo boen confronted .with th? threatened abridgement of - its rights, particularly at sen, and has sent notes of remonstrance to Eng land and Germany, the complications with the latter country following the sinking of the Lusitania giving es pecial concern. Tho war has betu attended with many unexpected features, one or which is its protraction. It bad been believed that such a struggle would bo of comparatively short duration, on account of the cost-ami loss of lifo it would entail. 'At the outset lt was commonly said that within less than a year the nations Involved would Ob compelled to seek peace 'through fi nancial exhaustion, If for no' other reason. While each side has won its victories, no final results have been reached in an yoi tho campaigns, with a few minor exceptions Of the lesser operations in distant colonies. Over tho greater part of the France-Bel gian front the opposing millions are facing each other In tho same posit ions as last September. Movement s on thp easters front have been wider, but with no signs of an approaching decision. . - Tho Gorman plan ls generally as-. ? sumed to have been tn deal "Irat with Franco, In tho carly weeks o fthe wax before tho Russian- army, - slower ' to mobolhee, was able to present a ser ious menace; and then to - turn on Russia. : The fierce, resistauc? o? Bel gium and the unexpected quick mobi lisation af both'thu French and Rus sian armies prevented tho full fruit Ion of this plan. Nevertheless Ger many has been able to hold her own on both the eastern and western fronts. \ ? A T ?i " In reality tho struggle of \he ?leven nations is divided Jntn j^utnb?r of ' separate wars', #?ta^"?(o3slch other in only a' general way. The whole field af military op?rations may bs summarised es follower . In Franco and Belgium Germany ls battling with Great Britain, France and Belgium. In August Germany Invaded Belgium and France, pushing j southward almost to tho gates of Paris. Following. the battle of the htarne, perhaps th? most important contest of the war thus. far. the Ger mans were compelled to retreat and have stnee held an entrenched line from the Belgian coast to Alsace, re taining possession of' northwestern France and most ot Belgium. Ia this treatre the war has been so even that the capture ot group of houaes or a few yards of trenches-ha? been cori' stdurcd a victory worthy of mention In the official reports. The German attempt to break through *the English channel; the British victory at Neuve Chappelle, the German triumph at (OONTIMJEO ON FAGfc ITVK.)