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THE INTELLIGENGER I8TABLI8HED 184?. Published every morning except Monday by The Anderson Intelligen cer at 140 West Whltnor ?Street. An derson, 8. O. ? EMI-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 Marcb 8, 1879, ASB'.W'IATBD PRESS DISPATCHES telephone .121 SUBSCRIPTION KATES DAILY One Year .15.00 Six Months .2.60 T?ren Months . 1.26 One Month.42 One Week .? .10 SEMI-WEEKLY One Year .11.50 Bla Months . .76 The Intelligencer Is delivered by arri?re In the city. Look at the printed label on your paper. The date thereon shows whan tho subscription expires. Notice date on label carefully, and 1? not correct plesso notify us at once. Subscribers desiring the address of their paper changed, will please state in their communication both the old and new addresses. To Insure prompt delivery, com plain ta of non-delivery In the city at Anderson, .should be made to the Circulation Department before 9 ft, m. and a copy will be sent at once. All checks and drafts should be drawn to The Anderson Intelligencer. ADVERTISING Rates will ha furnished oa applica tion. No tf advertising discontinued ea oept on written order. The Intelligense? will publish brief and rational letters on subjects of general lntcast when they ar? ac companied by the names and ad dresses of the authors and are not of ft defamatory nature. Anonymous communications will not he noticed. Rejected manuscripts will not bo re turned. In order to avoid delays on account of personal absence, letters to The intelligencer intended for publication should not be addressed to any indi vidual connected with the paper, but simply to Tho Intelligencer. THURSDAY, AUGUST 26. 1915. WEATHER FORECAST? Generally fair Thursday and Fri-, day. - ?g* "A Fool There Was,- is ana always will be. Germany apparently has discounted Uncle 8am's last note. -o Fortune Left do Dead Man.?Head line. But who wants to bo a dead man 7 That must be a death grip tho Sick Mm of Europe has on the Dar danelles. -o- . The verdict of the coroner s Jury investigating tho Frank lynching was very frank. -o The fellow who sues for divorce pfrobably argues that he is doing it to correct a fool miss-take. -o Richiami county has Just celebratod the opening of a now Jail. They wear 'om out pretty fast down there any way. The Rast nun Kodak Company has . been declared a monopoly the expos ure having been made by the Federal court ! In t*"> WoBt Indies there are nearly 5,000,00h unreached by the gospel, to nay nothing of the vastly greater num ' her here, at home. Gets $1,000 for an Idea.?Headline. Which ahows the advantage of having nn idea, as Bro. Booker of the Spar enburg Journal would low. -o Ah the ? ? rei'.rt season draws to a close and the old gossips return to their, hornea values on the reputa. Gone market wMl proceed to rise. It is reported that over a hundred barber shops in ??ierlin have been clos ed pinc? the war alar ted. But that h?oh't prevented the Germans having some close shaves. -o? A masculine writer inquiries: "Why do American women wear abort ' ?s?rter" There are two reasons so ar/P*rcnt that It is not vrorth while to nume th?m/~Witmlngt?)n Star. We've soon some wear 'em with ho reason 4- all.?Greenville News. Not so severe, Bro. Derlcux, ycu migh; have said the tw? reasons were rather ?lender ones. TUB JIUOEKNAIT COMETH. Ti)<- magniflclcnt water-oaks that for scores of yeurs hare stood in <ho middle of Booth Main street, between Market and Hiver Htroets, and like benign guardiana watched over An derson h> Its growth from a scquost ered hamlet to a thriving town, weathering the fiercest blasts of wln t to become green again witli the spring and through the (?uitry month* of summer ward off with their protec ting arum biating rays of tiie huii from both man and beast, are being felled to earth and their mighty trunks uprooted. It is not fuir to charge eity coun cil with vandalism, for they all love trees and would like to leave thevc Htutt-ly kings of Woodlund standing, but have been advised that the trees ought to com?: down as they would Interfere with the stability of the pavement that is soon to be put down along thut street. He the towering monarchs are sacrificed upon the al tar of tills 'thing we dub Progress. Dut .It Is u dear toll thut. is being taken. It's a funny thing, but true, that when u little town begins to shuffle off Its swaddling clothes for the more conventional habiliments of a city our old, old friends who never forsook us?the trees?must bow their stately heads before tho axe of tho black laborer slashing away at their mighty roots, to make way for the Jugger naut Progress. And another funny thing, but true, is that twenty years from now, when Anderson shall have become a real city, one of tho moBt instrumental of its municipal bodies will be a "Park and Tree Commis sion," who will go abbut the sun baked thoroughfares tenderly nursing and blessing each scrubby tree that ekes out a scrawny existence in the most remote plot of earth to be found, seXtlng out young trees here and there along the streets and In the corners and by-places and besieging the "city fathers" for appropriations for the maintenance of the public parks and for the propogation of trees, yes (trees, every one of which, science tells us, Ja a, grout physician standing with Its vast fingers point ing heavenward and absorbing from tho atmosphere roundabout countless poisonous properties infesting tho air brou lied by mortals who tread here below all Ignorant of the bJeesings of the ttees. Yes mortals who with a sharp axe undo in a day what it has I taken Nature a century to perfect. JUSTICE HUGHES. i Voters of every section and every party will probably agree that Justice Hughes of the United States supremo court is a bigger and abler man than most of our presidents have '.ecu. Nevertheless, most .citizens are well satisfied with bis declaration that ho will under no conditions be a candi dato for the presidential nomination. Tho reason he gives is sufficient He regarde it as improper for a member of tho supreme bench to participate In politics in any way. The supreme court is necessarily ebove parties and independent of them, as the soverign is in a constitutional monarchy. While there would o? course be ho Imme diate barm done in a man of such un* questioned disinterestedness and in tegrity as Justice Hughes accepting a nomination thrust upon him, the precedent established might open the way to dangerous abuses. It would be a perilous thing for the nation's future if the peoplo ever came to believe or suspect that mem bers of the supremo court were aim ing at the presidency. For such am bition would be thought rightly or wrongly, to exert undue Influence in coloring court decisions, - especially where part?an interests were Involv ed. Our supremo court la perhapa our greatest contribution to the machin ery of government Ita aanatity and integrity, and the unquestioning ac quiescence in Its docislons, are the chief glory of our politica system. Re gardless of whether Justice Hughes could be nominated and elected, or of how excellent a president he would make, he is doing his country a ser vico in refufdng the presidential halt. One of the bright spot* In the war clouds overhanging Europe la that so far one nation has not accused an other of weaving a 'tisanes of Hee," an expression oo familiar In South Carolina campaign meetings. Two negroes were lynched lb Ala bama for poisoning mules. Polks ought to learn sometime that you caria transgress the "honor" o? a mule and get away with It A young girl was bitten by a pois onous snake in iSpartanburg laat week and drank three pinta of whiskey to counteract the poison. Who would have thought there was that- much i whiskey in ?r/ortanburg. .makim; good i? rog u ss If The people of the city will read wlili pleasure the announcement this morniOK that the street car track raving forces on South Main street are beccning better organized and that from now on more progress will be made every day. For awhile some seemed to think j that 'this truck pacing would hold j bac* the Btreet paving on the streets where the street cars operate but ull danger of this Is now passed. The forces are far abend on South Main street and will have no trouble in re maining a good distance in advance of the regular street paving crew. I There is a great deal more work to the car track paving than the aver age person would think unless they had seen It. There are various crews doing the several different jobs con- , necled with the paving and all of these have now become more organ- j ized and are better able to progress faeter. The grading on South Main Btreet for the brick paving is now well un- I der way and it will not bo long before the entire street will be finished and tlie people of the ?!ty will justly feel ' proud of the Btreet car track and the main thoroughfare as well. A FARMER WITH PLUCK. The public generally will sympa thise with Mr. W. Keith Glenn who j suffered such a heavy loss Tuesday night In the burning of his barns on Iiis farm west of 'the city, this being the second time ho has experienced' loss of this kind in the past three years. But there's this much about it?he Is a young man fairly bulging with energy, a splendid farmer and a good loser. The time that some far- ! mers would spend In moping over such a lose be will spent in retriev ing what he has lost, and ere you know it he will have made it all back again and a good bit more for good measure. So often farmers" are thought of as professional grumblers. It is either too wet or itoo dry, the seasons too j late or too early, and this Is too muelj that way or too much the other wr.y. j Some of it is deserved, no doubt, but nut nearly so much as we would ATTACK ON SO SIMPLE SIMON SHIES A BRICK (Louisville Courier-Journal.) The Courier-Journal has received simultaneously from several corres pondents a clipping from the Chi cago Tribune upon the Frank case, which, not content with excoriating the Georgia mob, turns upon all the people and Institutions of the South with the ferocity of a roaring Ben* gal dry goods clerk. One might expect to read such a melange of ignorance and malice in the Bungtown Bugle. But, coming from the journal made famous by Joseph Medil, ho wonders whether Its wang'^g influence and adverse for tunes have left it quite bereft of mental rectitude and moral accoun tability, or whether lu the frequent change of editorial writers incident to a double and sometimes disputed ownership, one of those stupid old musk-rakers long out of a job has not contrived to impose himself up on a careless, or impecunious man agement. Io any event the subject matter Is too undlscrlminating and splonetlc to hurt uniese it recoils and hits the Tribune Itself In the pit of the stom ach, or rips the seat of its breaches. : Here Is a sample of the toplottlcal blatherskitlng characteristic of the greenhorn who thinke he can write: "The murder was not by a mob, but by vendetta, which la determ ined, cunning, resolved and cruel. A vendetta la possible in a low so cial organization, one which has not been sufficiently trained in the rudi ments of education to submit Itself to restraints necessary to the order ly processes of society. "The South is backward. It shames the United States by Illiteracy and Incompetence. Ita hill men and poor whites, its masses of feared and mul lled blacks, its Ignorant and violent politicians, its rotten Industrial con ditions and its rotten social Ideas axlat in circumstances vrhlch disgrace the United . States in the tiic?ght of Americans and *n the opinion of for eigners. "When the NorU. exhibits a dem onstration of violence against law by guiter rats of rocloty. there la shame in the locality which waa the scene of the exhibition. When the South exhibits It there is defiance of opin ion. "The South la half educated.. It la a region of 11 literacy, blatant self righteousness, cruelty and violence. Until it is improved by the Inxasion of netter blood and better ideas It will remain' a reproach and a dan ger to the American republic." To be sure, such stuff might be trolled oft by a loose, unprincipled space-writer in quest o? cheep noto riety. Or. it might be dope. But. assuming it by chance the crude out cropping of an immature and 'in traveled 'mind, a word or ta"), . - lag an educational purpose, may not bo wasted. Our tyro saya the South ta back ward. So It Is, and so unhappily la think. But Glenn isn't that kind. Good luck or hud luck arc not know to the man who has Hand tn (be "craw." It's a case of got there, b' goflh or bust a trace. NICOTINE OUT OF TOBACC O GOTenuB*nt Expert* Kxperimenting With riants In Penn?)Itanfa. Uncle <Sam and a group of hi* plant tinkers from the department of agriculture are working away at Landisvtlle, l>ancaster county, io see how much of the nicotine they cuu take out of the tobacco leaf without reducing the cigar to the quality of [cabbage leaf. Kor three years the government han been experimenting along this line, and it ulready has reduced the percentage of nicotine in tobacco from 3.5 to 1.31 per cemt. , j What's more, Dr. W. W. Garner of the bureau of plant industry at Washington says Unit the llavor of the tobacco hasn't been changed a| bit. The government has an experi mental station at Landisville. Three years ago an analysis of 10 stalks of tobacco was made and showed a nicotine content of three and a half per cent Tho plant with the lowest content was takon and the seed planted the next year. From this tobacco 10 stalks were selected and ithe same process gone through. Last year it was found that the nicotine content had been reduced to 1.31 per cent I'p.to-Dnte. "This Is certainly a modern cook book in every way." I "How so?" t "It says: 'After mixing your bread, you can watch two rces at the movies beforo putting it An the oven."?Puck. A Ford Joke. "What do you think of this second hand auto which my father picked out at a bargain and sent me to use at college?" "It suro Is a rattling good car.? Hobart Herald. He Bet sed. Father?Why don't you come back to your own home and start a paper and help mold public opinion? Impatient Journalistic Son?Public opinion around here la moldy enough as It lo.?Farm Life. Taking No Chances. Madge?Why don't, you tall him frankly that you don't like him as well as you do ('barile? Marjorle?How can I, dear? I'm not just sure that Charlie will pro pose.?Judge. * UTH RESENTED the North, the L.ast and' tho West. Ho soys it is "half educated." It is that, too, and likewise Chicago, and, in truth, this bumptious provincial himself, as bis. screed abundantly discloses. Would fiat we were all of us wider and batteri ' But euch as we be we be; and much ali Ve; in each .of the states and sections of the Union a mostv humogeneous people; under tbc skin the samo medley of good and 111; of course, patriotism, greed and gall. I The use of tho word "vendetta" indicates that our youth has been reading "The Corsican Brothers." He should not fail to ' read "The Castle of Otranto" and "The Count of Monte Cristo," to give him atmos phere and perspective and Improve his style. He might, Indeed, if he turned his attention to verse, aspiro to become ultimately known as the "Sweet Singer of the Stockyards." That the South is "a reproach and a danger to the American republic" would seem, if we may ascribe any serious meaning to such scribbllngs, to be a covert attack upon the Pres ident of the United States, whilst the chatter about "the invasion of bet ter blood and ideas." unthinking col umny directed against several not Inconspicuous Americans, among them Washington and Lincoln. The Management of the Tribune, should either get Itself a space-writer who knows something and has a lit tle sense of responsibility, or else It should tako this bumpkin-down into the cellar and have him bored for the simples. REPLY TO ATTACK OX-SOUTH Angered by an unjustified and un called for slur on tho South as a whole by the Chicago Tribune, Judge Alvia M. Douglas of Birmingham, 'now visiting in tho Illinois City, has written a letter to the editor of The Tribune in which he r?sente the fling of the editorial. Judge Douglas' letter addressed to the editor of The Tribune, follows: Leo M. Frank "Please allow a few words from a Southerner, who feels keenly the at tack you made on the South this I morning in an editorial published un der the ?bove head. I I've In Bir mingham. Ala., and was in Atlanta Just after Governor Slaton commuted the sentence of Frank, Many people I thought Goveruor Slaton made a mis take, but they were submissive to the law and the action taken' by Slaton. It was a rough, lawless and rowdy element that, at the time'would do violence to the governor, as It was in those who brutally murdered. Frank. The good people of Georgia and the South do not approve of the mo* who took the Ufe of the Georgia prisoner. This act is to be very much deplored and condemned, u]-.d. while I was away from home, returning from the Pacific coast when I heard of the tragedy. I am sure I do speak for the South when I say they do .con demn and disapprove of each acta of lawlessness. "There may be fault oa tho part of MIS You're the man we're liberal reductions here alive to exceptionally BUT here's a warning five more days of thi; #10.00 Men's Suits. $12.50 Men's Suits. $15.00 Men's Suits. $18.00 Men's Suits. $20.00 Men's Suits. $22.50 Men's Suits. $2.50 and $2 Trouser: $3.50 and $3 Trouser: $4.50 and $4 Trouser: $5.00 Trouser $6.50 and $6 Trouser: Complete clearances; boys' knee pants and a underwear for men an the authorities at the prison; thore may have "been fault In lack of or ganization* there was fault and bad spirit in the breast of the mob, but does this warrant you in attacking the Southern people as you have? It lb to be regretted that the editor of sy| "rent paper anywhere in our country should so forget himself in the heat passion and attack and condemn all the people of any section of his own country because of the violence nnd mob spirit of about 25 men, who ! were not willing to let tho law take I Its course. "You Boy: "The South Is half edu cated. It is a region of illiteracy, bla tant self-righteousness, cruelty and violence. Until It is improved by the invasion of better blood and better ideas, it will remain a reproach and a danger to the American republic* Shame on you. Do you know the Southern people? Hove you ever been south of Mason and Dixon Line? Someone has said: 'Do the best'you e.un with what you have where you 'are.' I grani Mie South is not as highly cducaiuu as some other sec tions of our great country, but have we not dono well with the opportuni-, ties given us? 'Blatant self-righteousness.' The I Lord have mercy on'your soul; 'Judge not that.ye be not judged.' Who put I you up to judge the Southern people? Oh, thou Belf-appointed judge . and critic! Why not write something on this deplorable affair that would help the South and the country to correct I the evils of this kind rather than slap in the face a great, loyal and true to state, nation and righteousness and good government? "Better blood!" God forgive you for this, the most unkind words of all. I know not what kind of blood cburses through your veins?snd care , not. Tour unwise and uncalled for ? words probably burst forth from a < lack of training and education and re- j gard for the feelings of others rather j than from the cause of 'blood.' ? Moreover, I challenge you to show in this country any purer Anglo- I j Saxon blood than flows through the I ( veins of our Southern people. They are ? great people, though they labor ed for years under adverse circum stance. They are loyal to country; true to state; obedient to law; chiv alrous to women and hospitable to t mankind everywhere. "As the mob who lynched Frank |t does not in any way express the senti- it ment of the Southern, people, I am t sure your editorial does not express the sentiment of yonr section of our country. I have heard expressions l this morning in Chicago condemning a the editorial. The mob committed a ] fcfeat wrong, you bave 'erred. Do 1 editorials of this kind help to make a our common country better or. worse? t Yon should use your brain for the uplift of tho nation and the better- ? ment of Mankind, rather than ex- c pressing sectional feeling. Think it t over. I "I resent with *?'l the force of my t soul this attack on the people among ? whom I was born, with whom I live, ? and with whom I expect to die. > ALIN m. DOUGLAS." J canas is sot skcrokal i (The Stete.) I At the time that the newspaper- J magasin e moh of the North was as- J* sailing the courts of Georgia, which had been sustained by the courts of s the United States, with a success that c later incited group of Georgia rut- s ftone to rescue and murder a prison- 9 er that the Orst mob had rescued ? if ter?the man who shod 5 now stimulate to action powerful saving possibili \ finger; let's have the act s clearance. .$ 7.45 $ 3.50 and .$ 9.45 $ 4.50 and .$10.95 $ 5.00 .$12.95 $ 6.50 and .$14.95 $ 7.50 and .$16.95 #10.00 $12.50 and . $1.75 . .$2.45 $1.50 Man . .$2.95 $1.50 Adji . .$3.75 $2.00 Man . .$4.45 $3.50 Man oxfords, Manhattan 11 summer Union Suit d boys. .as Manhatt "The Store with*a < Troni tho courts, a South Carolina sheriff and his posse having custody of a negro guilty of the "nameless crime" were attacked by four or five members of the family of the negro's victim. After the prisoner, the sher iff, a deputy and one of the assail ants had been mortally wounded, the sheriff boro the wounded negro in hie arms up tho court house "steps and laid him before the bar of Jus tice. That night the sheriff died. Next, morning, two _ or three leading newspapers of South Carolina pro posed that a monument to Sheriff Hood be erected. At tills same moment, Northern newspapers that were printing four or five columns a day about the At lanta case bad not on inch to give to the Wtnnsboro case. Now hear the Northern press, through The Tribune of Chicago, ? conspicuous spokesman, forgetful of the far-flung assault on the Georgia courts whereby respect for law in Georgia was inevitably undermined, lecturing the South: "What the South needs is a tongue lashing and a continued tongue-lash ing of the most violent kind. It needs to be isolated from the respect of the nation which is compromised by the acts it defends. We do not Bay that the North is free from the spirit which flares up In the South. We know It is not free. The North Is able to show an act of violence Tor every one exhibited in the South, but the. North does, not condone them nor defend them and it does endeavor to get at the causes that produce .hem." What Southern newspaper defends >r condones lynching? - What South ern newspapor neglects to condemn iti If The Tribune- point to certain southing Southern politicians, dare it proclaim that no Chicago politi :lan ever raised himself to power by partnership with vice?by financing lis campaigns out of the profits of he White Slave trafile? Who is tho more dangerous, the ilatant, vulgar defender of lynching >r the smug, silent, fat-necked Con gressman or governor ruling a great Vorthern state' through a great *?orthorn city with the money of thame? Yes, the South is cursed by poll iclans who defend violence and they ire as representative as thug Boll ician (whose methods are less noisy tud more efficient) are representative >f Chicago. The Southern press and the great najorlty of Southern pabilo mea lave struggled and strlved for years md decades to strengthen R?3FBCT POR LAW in the South. Lack of It s the great affliction?of the South tnd of the United States. Then, when ho Georgia coorte condemned a vhlte man to death on the testimony fa negro, it was the enlightened, the lultured, the wealthy North ?hat urned against as and betrayed, us, hat wantonly forgot onr handicaps, hat struck down the courta and irmed the lyncher? with defensive argument. So this newspaper warned long ago, (foreseeing ;the danger. Phe same tremendous efforts for Jharlee Becker, outside of New York/ roald probably have wved him from he chw*r; newspaper defense of his rime would have been easier than a the Atlanta case. The "Thou also" argument is unas ily futile bat sometimes the T>rovo> alien compels It. In South Carolina oas are killed by their fellows In a ear. With three times the number if inhabitants there were WO horol DIT! Id be after us. The every man alert and ties. ion now, there's only $3 Boys' Suits $2.45 $4 Boys' Suits $2.95 Boys' Suits $3.75 $6 Boys' Suits $4.45 $7 Boys' Suits $4.95 Boys' Suits $7.45 $11 Boys' Suits$7.95 hattan Shirts. .$1.15 isto Shirts. . . .$1.15 hattan Shirts. .$1.50 hattan Shirts. .$2.65 and Wilson ?ros. s at same reductions an Shirts, ? Conscience cides In New York city last year. But suppose South Carolina had 6,000 thoroughly trained, uniformed and armed, rural policemen, who. believes that lynching would not be almost impossible? - To' keep the number of homicides down to 140 a year in an area of 100 square mllee, an army of 18,000, an army more than half so large as the mobile army of the United States, 1b required In New York! Chicago's conditions one sus pects, aro similar. Withdraw nine tenths of the policemen of Chicago nnd would Mr. Armour dare to Walk its streets unarmed? Yot, -in South Carolina, we Siave not ten per cent proportionally; of the -pqlic? force required in any gre?t American city. ' Ve havo not the mo?ey'*13^?Sy;ihelr wages. ' V . \\W&* "Ah, but thetie ?lti?s hav? the foreign element," one ..answers. So they answer/ whose fathers stood by approving while their representatives came here fifty years ago a^d taught an alien race to rob and . steal, to plunder the state, to corrupt the bal lot box and finally exasperated, the white people to resort to violence and intimidation to save their civiliza tion . True it Is Tthat the resistance to carpet-bagger government demoral ized the white people of the South to a great extent and recovery from the evils of that time is not yet complete but, despite that, no great American city-may preach civilization to the South. Nightly Chicago teems with crimes unknown to the crude and simple-minded, criminals of rural states and .communities and the problem of saving civilization In any great American city is greater than It Is in the South Owhore no great cit ies have been built) even as it was too great for human, solptlon In the "Cities of the Pi?in." In the indictment that The Tribuno bringe there is much truth, but there are no more condonement and der fense of crime by the governor of South Carolina, for example, and those whom he speaks for than by The Tribune and those people of mi n?la who denounced the Lorlmer leg islatures or the race riots a few years, ago in Abraham Lincoln's . home town. The Tribune indicts a whole peo ple. It wraps itself In assumed rfghteousnoss and "abuses" the South as though the d?cent, 6erf>re specting and Informed people o?- tfio South and the North did not need to' stund and fight together against the forces of evil in evxary state and section.' We pretend to. be no'..better than our neighbors by nature, but we tell The Tribune that, because we are* a rural people, with all our ruffianism, our homicides, our lynchlngs. moral ity and civilization are safer in South Carolina Chan in the reeking atmos phere of Chicago and N*w York, If there be need for chiding and "a bit ter word" they need it more than doe3 South Carolina where Time at least ta yet primitive enoufcU to bo recognized at a glance. The pity is that a newspaper of power and good purpose lacks the vision to perceive that crime Is not sectional or geographical, that South and North there are good and had and that the forces of righteousness can ill afford to spend their enorgles in warring among themselves. And The Tribune remember another time that the prers of the country can uot rescue a prisoner from the law at the cost Of discrediting the law without inviting rescue by ruf fians In a rude land and that one kind of lynch law. breeds another.,