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THE INTELLIGENCER _ ESTABLISHED 18ft. Published every morning except Monday by The Anderson Intelligen cer at 140 West Whiner Street, An derson, 8? C. 8BMI-WBBKLT INTELLIGENCER Published Tuesdays and Fridays L. M. GLENN_Editor and Mansger Entered as second-class matter April 28, 1914, at the post office at Anderson, South Carolina, ander the Act ot March 8, 1879. ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES telephone .821 SUBSCRIPTION BATBS DAILY One Tear .$6.00 Biz Months .2.60 Three Months .1.26 One Monti| .42 One Week.? .10 SEMI-WEEKLY One Tear .91.60 Six Months . .76 The Intelligencer ls delivered hy carriers In the city. Look at the printed label on your paper. The date thereon shows when tbs subscription expires. Notice date on label carefully, and If not correct alease notify us at once. Subscribers desiring the address of I their psper changed, will please state In their communication both the old | and new addresses. To Insure prompt delivery? com plaints of non-delivery tn the elty at Anderson should bo made to the Circulation Department before 9 a. m. and a copy will be sent at once. All checks and drafts should bal drawn to The Anderson Intelligencer. | ADVERTISING Bates will be furnished on appllca k No tl advertising discontinued ex cept on written order. -tc?llgencer will publish brief I and rational letters on subjects of | general interest when they are ac companied by the names and ad dresses of the authors and are not of a defamatory nature. Anonymous communications will not be noticed. Rejected manuscripts will not be re turned. . In order to avoid delay--, on account at personal absence, letters to The Intelligencer Intended for publication should not be addressed to any Indi vidual connected with the paper, but shupljjto^j'lhj^^ TUESDAY, AUGUST 8. 1915. WEITESB FOK1CA8T - \ Showers Tuesday;* partly' cloudy Wednesday. Swat the heat They tell us now that alfalfa ls fine diet for mau. Oh say, pass the hay, please. j It 4s said that Lord Kitchener works 15 honra a day. He's getting In the newspaper men's class. . -o By the way, didn't Japan and Ger many declare war on each other soon after the European hostilities broke out j Thc trouble with the Eastland seems to have been that it had the stability and structure of an unbal lasted wnshboltor. Japan Lv fuming over a big .graft scandal. The\Flowery Kingdom must find this business of getting civilized full of bumps. -?*--' The Chinese eat certain kinds of birds' nests. v Wouldn't be safe for, some of our American worn m to parade their millinery, over there. 'Tho saloon.raiding founds in Char leston are to be augmented with an axe squad, who will cut. silt and smash furniture and fixtures. That will be raiding "o^ Carrto Nation. Henry Ford ls going to build a ns tatorium tn. bis home at a cost of $75. OOv. But the vont get nny more en joyment out ot it tl vj the small. boy gets out of his wash-hole over in the pasture xidor tho spreading sweet gum tree. ? o ' ;?? ? A Cannan archbishop has ordered prayers In all the churches "thanking .the Almighty for the powerful bles sing accorded German arms in their many battles." How the Lord puts up w4th such blasphemy is more than we can understand. Yea, thjre's money to be made in "wat stocks1*-also to be loise How would you like u have, held about l, ?00 shares o? Electric Boat Ric* inst Munday when it dropped '* few min utes from 9440 a sh ne tc $280? and suppose you had sold ic at that price, and then seen lt jupp to $390 before thc day's trading elo^od? Wall Street ls u good placo to keep away from, those days. i ( KITH ISM OF 3fA.NM.NU INJI HT. Governor Manning IH being criti cised and charged with "inconsis tency" in offering a reward of |G0 for thc rapture of Citarles Robinson, a negro who is alleged to have killed a white boy named Lucius Crittenden In u secluded portion of Abbeville county several weeks ago, and refus ing to offer a r..wnrd for the appre hension of the person who killed Mr. T. M. Dodd several months ago In bis store right here under the nose of tho whole city and county police force. It ls ono of the easiest things In the world to And fault when you'are look ing for that sort of thing, consequent ly come of those who are disposed to search for Haws in Governor Man ning'? manner of conducting the af fairs of lils otllce are pounding the gong and railing the attention of the populace generally to his "inconsis tency" in offering a rewurd In the Ab beville irurder case and refusing to offer u reward in the Dodd murder case. Tho Intelligencer ls not taking up the cudgel in behalf of Governor Man ning, because we are fully confident that next summer he will give from tho stump an account of hi? steward ship thut will prove entirely satin factory to his constituency, and, wc hope, confounding to his critics nnd enemies. But wo arc calling atten tion to the unfairness of the criticism which ls being made of the governor in tlie matter of offering a reward In tho Abbeville murder case and not of fering one in the Dodd case. There* te a very old expression, and a very true one, too, that "circum stances alter cases." Very soon after assuming the duties of the governor ship Mr. Manning announced that be would discontinue the custom of of fering rewards for the capture of criminals, leaving their apprehension to tho officers and the law abiding citizens of the communities -in which the breacheH of the law occurred. We don't suppose the governor meant that this should be a hard and fast rule, never to be departed from under any circumstances. Most any one who makes a rule reserves the right to make departures from that rule when be thinks the exigencies ot the occas ion warrant lt. But what of the .circumstances un der which tho Abbeville ir- ?-??er and the murder here in Andi rm ir occur red? The clear thinking nuu unbiased mind can see In that alone that there t<? no V-ist ground for criticism of Govornor Manning In refusing to offer a reward tin one^estance and offering a reward in thc othor. In the case of Mr. Dodd, the victim was attacked in the day tim?! in his store onvHampton street right under tl : very nose of tho city's police and almost within hailing distance of the?county officers' qunrtera. And yet with ita large force of trained sleuths the city police ma chine failed utterly to weave the Him- Fest web of evidence pointing to the murder of the old man. The fall uro of the county ofllcora to ferret out tho murderer of Mr. Dodd was Equally as monumental aa that of the city police Ia it then to be supposed that a re ward of $50, or any sum, from the governor'?, office for the apprehension of Mr. Dodds assailant would have resulted in the arrest of the murderer when the city's and the county's police forces had failed. Wo suppose that Governor Manning reasoned that if the murderer of Mr.. Dodd could be caught with this elaborate machinery, lt was of no use for him to ofter a re ward, and a reward that would neces sarily be small dn comparison ? with rewards that had been offered by city council of Anderson and other agen cies. In tho case ot the Abbeville mur der, thia offense occurred lil a remote section of the county, separated by a wide stretch ot country from the county seat and the town of Abbe ville, the abiding place ot the county officers and the town constables. Thc crime having been committed In this out ot the way place, there was more excuse for the negro eluding the of ficera, who would have been forced to make a long trip cross country to the scene of the shooting. Furthermore, it waa reported, and the reports pub fished in the newspapers; ?A large, that the negro had, been apprehended by on infuriated mob and ht* body strung-up in the usual manner and riddled with ?hot. This put an end to the case, so far as the outside world knew. But after several days reporta esme out of Ab beville county that there was no lynching, but that the negro who shot the white boy bad escaped across Savannah river into Georgia. So far ss wo know, no rewards for the rap ture of the negro nave been offered by the county authorities, public of ficial a or private, citisens of Abbe ville. In -slew o- the erroneous re ports that had gone out of the lynch ing ot t' ,e negro, and *he further fact that he had probably escaped into another State, the governor'? office departed from Ita custom of not offer ing rewards for the capture of crimi nals and announced that $G0 would he paid for the apprehension and deliv ery of the alleged murderer. Tho circumstances surrounding thc Dodd case and tho Abbeville case and the relative chances tho officers in the respective places had for appre hending the crimlinals were so un equal, Governor .Manning was fully justified In declining to offer a reward In the one case and offering a reward in thc other. Wo repeat, "circumstance^ alter cases" and before charges of inconsis tency ure brought against Governor Maumu,, one should weigh the facts in tin* cates in'dtfblCSed scales and be sure that ]\U dedncutions are the re sult of reasoning along logical lines. HAD TASTE BIT PARDONABLE. Of course it wa? bad taste for Mrs. Meeker to have placed on the casket of lier husband a silver pluto with tho inscription, ".Murdered by Governor Whitman," but it |4 easy to under stand how, under the circumstances, it was done. She believed firmly In the Innocence of her husband, and thc devotion which she showed in the three years he was battling against being strapped in Hie electric chair was beautiful to behold. Women do not look at thing like men and neither do they reason like men, and when Governor Whitman turned a deaf ear to her eleventh hour appeal to him to give her husband another chance to establish bis innocence of the foul crime for which he was about to die an ignomlnoas death, it was natural for lier womanly instincts to revolt against what appeared to her to be cold-blooded, deliberate heartlessness. Most any woman, and probably a great many men, would have felt tho same way had their husbands ot wives gone to the electric chair under the clrcumivtuncjs 'in which Becker was sent to his death. Mrs. Becker is only human and her offense, if offense it can be called, should not call for censure. She yesterday burled her husband beside the grave of her child that was born shortly after Becker wus convicted the second time, and doubtless] her heart went to the grave with her husband's corpse. She seems to bo a woman of refined sensibilities and ot splendid character, for years a teacher in the schools of New York city, nud wo should have respect for grief, which, under the circumstances, must be almost beyond human endur ance. ? o Mrs. Becker In all probability Is not alono In her belief that her husband did not receive tho showing to which ho was entitled. We have never yot indulged in any argument as to Beck/ er's guilt or Innocence. On previous occasion. ! we have h.ul somo com ment*: *o make on tho subject of capi tal punishment, these thoughts hav ing beert prompted by the electrocu tion of the former police lieutenant. As to his guilt or innocence, we do not propose to argue; for, frankly, we are not In position to judge. One thing we do know, howevor, and that ls that wo would have to think u mighty long lime before wo would send any mart to his death upon the testimony of eiuch men as those who testified against -Becker-th eso being well known gamblers, thieves, pick pockets, murderers and men who did no honost work but survived chiefly upon the earnings ot women of Ute street with whom they pretended to Uve Furthermore, they, were impli cated in the, s-,ardor of Herman Rosen thal themselves and somo of them ha'd turned staa-Y. evldenco and were tes tifying for their lives. Any person who is himself Implicated In crime and turns State's evidence to save his own hide is a pretty sorry sort ot wi tn ti.ti to be the means of sending a man to the electric chair. So much for tho character of tho largest part of the evidence upon which Becker was convicted. The action of Governor Whitman in refusing lo grant BecUcr a, stay, ot execution ?a order that his cape might bo carried to a higher authority, does not apeak well for New York State's chief executive. ? For lt mast -he re membered that Whitman was the prosecuting attorney tn ' the Decaer trial and made hft reputation on this ente. It must be'remembered siso that Whitman rode into- the gover nor's offre on the strength of . che Becker case, and also let lt be known that he would likely bo a candidate for nomination for the pr?sidence of the United States on the Rep?blica*) ticket. Governor Whitman "worked* the Becker case for all it was worth. This being the case, is lt to be. sup posed that Governor Whitman could with .absolute Impartiality review the Antimony, In the Becker trial and grant the man a pardon or reprieve to allow- the case to bc passed to an other authority tor Impartial judg When you Ve seen these goods we're offering at such gre?t re ductions you can better under stand why you're hearing so jtiuch about this sale. Men's and Young 'Men's Suits 810.00 suits now ..* 7.ir, $12.50 Suits now.$ 9.15 SI COO Suits now.$10.95 S ! 8.00 Suits now.$12.95 S20.00 Suits now.$11.95 $22.50 Suits now.$10.95 $25.00 Suits now.$17.95 Straw Hats $2.50 and $2 Straws.$1.50 $3.00 Straws now.$2.00 $4.00 Straws now.$2.50 Some recent arrivais in our cap depart ment. Boys' Knee Pant Suits 3.50 and $1 VarflcVV. .4.50 and $4 Values .. 5.00 Values. G.50 nod $0 Value,! ... .50 and $7 Values .. ? 9.00 and $8.50 Values $10.00 Values. $12.50 and $11 Values .. .$2.45 .$2.95 .$8.75 .$1.45 .$4.95 .$5.95 $7.45 .$7.95 Men's Odd Trousers $2.50 and $2 Trousers.$1.75 $3.50 and $3 Trousers.$2.45 $4.50 and $4 Trousers.$2.95 $5.00 Trousers.'..$3.75 $6.50 and $6 Trousers.$4.45 Men's Oxfords Reduced $3.50 Men's Oxfords.$2.75 $4.00 Men'u Oxfords.$3&'? $4.50 Men's Oxfords.$3.45 $5.00 Men's Oxfords. ..$3.75 $C00 Men's Ox fords.'.. ..$4.90 Odd lot Hanan $6 Oxfords iSpeplal-$3J>5 Manhattan Shirts $1.50 Manhattans.$1,15 $1.50 Adjustos.$1.15 $2.00 Manhattans.$1.50 $3.50 Manhattans.*2?5 Mail Orders Promptly Filled And Prepaid. Any Purchases May Be Returned For Refund of Money. The Store with a Conscience ment. Governor Whitman could not have been expected to acknowledge his own wrongs. He worked hard tp send Becker to the chair and he had achieved a victory which furnish ed him a lever with which to lift him self into the office of governor of the greatest State in the. Union. It seems to us a man in Governor Whitman's position J hould havo.Jji?cn. gkiil to j pass the case along to another auth ority. It seems to us the governor of tho State of Now York should have been big enough to gl?e:the victim of | his prosecution his laur, chance, at life. But Whitman was not litg enough. When Whitman is oat of office and j shorn of his power, w? predict, some folks who are now silent1 tt?'.-?ugh fear of bim or for ether reasons will do some talking. The Worm will turn, we predict and Whitman's star will lose some of its brilliance. A New York coffin manufacturer reports that his busnless is improv ing, and he gives this explanation: "When times are good and rooney is I plentiful, men over-oat and over drink and die. When' times are bad, and people cut out the wine and rich foods and get back to corned ?h?ef and cabbage and the simple things that their stomach can stand, then there's less work for thc undertaker and the casket-maker." Is that an argument in favor of hard time'v . -:-^J|f Wireless dlspatchejs jpvfs^Buyville, Long Island, have brought the news of an official d?claration in Berlin to the effect that nil German-Americans working in factories that produce war supplies for Germany's enemies aro liable tb prosecution for treasoit un der German penal code. That's . all right. All Germany.has to do ia or der to prosecute these citizens. ls to come over and take them' 1 A L I 3& E o' D OPE Numbers of Anderson people will recall that little over a 'year ago James D. and Charles A. Hays, broth ers hailing from Walhalls and who had been making their home ta Char leston, set out from the latter etty In a h?n*e-drawn wagon for the- Pacific coast It will be of general Interest to know that the boys here concluded their trip* successfully. In a Char leston paper appears the following Item with reference to the arrival of the brothers on the Pacific coast: The Hays brothers, globe trotters, hare completed their latest expedition, traveling from Charleston to the San Francisco Expo it lon in a horse-pow er wagon? according to a pest card received by Mr. 'B. D. Jarvis of this city a friend of the wanderers. Just a little more than a year and a half was consumed in the transcon tinental Journey in primitive style. January 1, 1914. James D. and Charles A. Hays, brothers hailing from the foothills of the Blue Ridge, departed from Charleston, Eitting on tho front seat of a substantial wagon, to which won hitched a hefty-appearing" draft awl m .il. They were equipped with a certificate from tho mayor of the city, attesting that they had. left the city hall of this city at tho time specified and stating the manner in which thc trip was to be made. According to tho itinerary announc ed in advance, the transcontinental trip was to be made by woy of Colum bia, Chattanooga, Knoxville, St. Louis, Topeka, Denver and Salt Lake City. Possibly all bf these cities were visit ed by the brothers, and it is probable that they were forced to change their itinerary by circumstances. The Hays brothers came to Charles ton with a reputation as a champion globe-trotter team. It ls recalled hy persons who saw them start on tho Journey to the Pacific coast that they I looked the part i That they reached their destination will Le good news to the' friends of the Hayn brothers, those who had ? confidence In their intention and abil ity, to carry out their announced plans; to the skeptics, there will still ? be a question it the hardy pair did not take advantages of the more mod ? An travel facilities in .negotiating, nt least parts of their journey. A meeting of tho farmers ha* been 'called at Townville school house en the 17th day of August at ll. a. mr j to present td the farmers the State warehouse system and the benefits to be derived therefrom. The meeting 'will be addressed by State Warehouse Commissioner John L. McLaurln. B. Harris, member of the State Farmers' Union Executive Committee, will apeak on "How to solve the farmers' problems." The meeting is called)fay the State Farmers' UniotV Exeentive Committee and is open to~ttie-public. All farmers and business naep are In vited to attend. Family reunions and' picnics art Ithe order of tho day. Just now, sod the happy occasions are being enjoy ed to the fullest by numbers of peo ple throughout the county. On Au gust ll tho descendants of Luke Hay nie will hold a reunion ai the homo of . John T. Hayn le. The ?Rev. Mike McGee, ot ' Honea Path, ono of 1 the beat known ministers in this section or the State will make an address at the gathering. *??? _n . 'There wua much disappointment yesterday afternoon and last night over Use failure of. the vaudeville troop to put In their appearance at the Palmetto theatre. Manager Plnk ? i . ? ... : ! . ' rrton was at a loss to know why thc company did not put in its appear ance, but supposes that they missed connections on some of the railroads. It was stated last night that tho troupe was expected to arrive later in the evening, but no show would bc put on until Tuesday afternoon. Tho company scheduled to ehow at the Palmetto this week ls said to 'be one of the best on the road, and patrons 1 of the theatre have been keenly In terested in its coming. o An Andersonian with a thought for the horses that aro forced to do doty this hot weather has culled a set of "rules" for taking care of horses and has handed them to The Intelligencer for printing. The rules aro well worth reading and observing, too. They are as follows: Load lightly and drive slowly; stop in Ute shade Hf possible; water your horse as often as possible. So long as a horse ia working, water in small quantities will not hurt him. Dut let him drink only a few swal lows if ho is going to stand still. Do not fail to wotor him at night after he has eaten h ir, hay. When he comes in after work, ttpongo oft the harness marks and sweat, his eyes, his nose aud mouth, and the dock. Wash his feet but not his legs. If the thermometer is 75 de grees or higher, wipe him all over with a damp1 sponge. Uso vinegar water if possible. Do not turn the hose on him. Saturday night, give a bran mn-h, lukewarm, and add a tablespoonful of saltpetre. Do no use a horse-hat, unless it ia canopy top hat The ordinary bell shaped hat does more harm than good. A sponge on top of the head, or even a cloth, is.good if kept wM, If dry it is worse then nothing. If the horse ls overcome by heat get him Into the shade, remove har ness and bridle, wash out his mouth sponge .him all over, shower his legs and give him two ounces of aromatic spirits of ammonia, or two ounces ol Bweet spirits of nitre in a pint ol water; or giro him. a pint of coff et warm. Cool his head at once, usinj cold water, or, if necessary, chopped ice wrapped In a cloth. If the home 1s off his feed, -try hin with two quarts ot oats mixed wi tl bran and a little water, and add a Ht tie salt or sugar. Or give him oat m ea gruel or barley-'water to drink. Watch your horse.. If he stopi sweating suddenly, or if ho breathe: short and quick, or if his ears droo] or if he stands with his legi brace? sideways, he is in danger -of 'a hes . or ann stroke and needs attention a ! ones. If it ls so hot that the hors sweats in th? stable at night, tie his outside, with bedding ui ?er him. Un leb* he cools off during the night, h cannot well stand tho r ixt day's heat i ?? -o - Lou I A Cunningham, a negro, wa fined 95 In Judge Russell's court yen terdny at noon for being drunk, he ( having boen discovered asleep on tho Piedmont and Northern car tracks at tho intersection of, Greenville street at two different times Sunday night. The first offense wa>x) when the 0 o'clock car was going out toward Bel ton. Motorman Sanders and Capt. Bowen were in charge of the" car nud succeeded in bringing the train to a stop within a few feet ot the negro's form, although the car had to be re versed to do.lt. The second- offense' was when this same car was coming back into An derson and the name negro weis found asleep on thc tracks again. This time he was placed aboard the car and brought to the city ajid turned over to thc police. Chief Jackson and tho members of fire department are in receipt of a check for $10 sent them by Mr. C. M. Buchanan, whose house was sav i ed from the flames last Tuesday af I tcrnoon when-the home of Mir. Snel- . - grove wad burned Just outside the I city limits. Mr. Buchanan's house was very close by and tho work of.tho firemen saved it. i |Sherlff Cannon G. Blease of New- i berry was a visitor in the city for a short time yesterday and while hero was the guest ot Sheriff -Ashley. "Kc. Blease had been on a visit to lib* wife I who is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. , Clint Sanders. -0 William Gunter/ one of the two white men. arrested near Iva a short ! time ago, lt being alleged that they . were operating an. illicit, distillery, j arranged bond yesterday the .sum be ing $600. The other man, Bed Evans ? made bond last week. .1 ?' v The county board of registration, met "at" the court house yesterday for the purpose of giving ^.the.,'voters an opportunity, to register, or. have th?lr . names transferred. A member 0f tho board stated that the people were taklnc a great deal .of Interest In the' "nothing prohibition'election and were anxious tn get ... registration Cf.r,in - estes. Friday they 'were at ,-Hon ea i Path, Saturday at Belton, yesterday at Anderson and today the coard will be at \V i 11 i ai ns t on. . -O- ; Mr. C. J. Erdec, ope ot the revenue officers who was 4n the iparty that located the still on the Savannah rlror inst Friday night, was '<*? tho city ye&terday and gave further de tails in regard to the affale. Ho stated that Officer lt. O. Merritt was on the best when lt came tov locating a ?till and that he was; Instrumental in finding the pee Friday, night. The still was located on a small creak that runs into the .Savannah" river near Craft's ferry and had a capacity of about GO gallon? a day. About 1.160 gallons of mash was de stroyed by the officers.