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THE CAMDEN CHRONICLE H. 1>. Nile# ?ud / ? ?.< .. / I'ubllabera. K. N. McDowell \ PublUbed every Friday Ht 1 100 No. Itroad Htreet, a 00 entered at the Cam den i>oato(tico it h xeeond <'ln km mall mat ter. ril< ?- jm i it i j 1 1 1 1 in $1.00. We are glad to receive communlca tloiiM of a reawouablu length, but axi important condition of their publica tion let that they Hhall in all caaea be accompanied by the full name and exact addreaa of the aender. Obitu aries rcHoIutlonti of respect, and church notice* will not Ik? charged for. Mat tern of purely a jierMonal nature will l>e charged for at the rate of Ave cent* a line. WhlHkey or patent medicine advert Isi-incntM will not be accepted at afiy price. Itatea for display adver tising made known on application. Camden, H. C., August 20, 1915. Don't* For Cotton Growers. The Manufacturers Kecord, of Haiti' more, u publication t tin ? ha* doiie much for the upbuilding of the South, ami a paper not<nl for It m clearheaducss gives the following' advice to cotton producers : "Don't 1)0 misled into Helling your cotton at Ave or six cents a pound, an you were last fall, by political ami other pessl mists. "Don't get frightened and rush your cotton to market except to the extent that you have to sell It to meet your financial obligations, for the umlue crowding of t'ritton on the market plays into the bandH of the speculators, who by the tactics now being employed would break down the price of your cotton and enable them to buy it to their profit and to your loss, as they did last year. "Don't exj?ect either thin (JovernmeUt or any other to buy your cotton. The Government ban no more right to buy cotton than to buy grain or hogs. "Don't look for any uneconomic and lmi>osslhlc legislation in behalf of cot ton, for most of the theories advanced have bordered on aslnlnlty, and some of them have quite reached that stage. v "Don't for a moment think that you can barter your honor and your soul and shape your convictions as to right or wrong in world affairs for the price of a bale of cotton.. "Don't -seek to blackmail other coun tries by threatening retaliation because their work may Interfere with the temjMjrary selling price of your cotton. < "Don't permit |K>lltlelans or others to hold you up before the world as . willing to accept a bribe, and to shape your judgment of right and wrong In human affairs by the price that this country or .that might be willing to pay for your cotton. 2 "Don't forget that though you have raised more cotton than the South ought to have produced, there is an intrinsic value In cotton which cannot ? be permanently destroyed. "Don't forget that you can carry your cotton for years without its de terioration, and that the time will come, unless the South continues to grow more cotton than the world de mands, when every hale of cotton will be needed at a good. price. "Don't defraud your creditors by re fusing to sell cotton to meet your obli gations. but when you have sold enough to pay your debts; don't forget that the balance Is yours to hotfl .until doomsday if you please, and await the time wlien the world will pay your > price for it? "Don't, above all elsp, i>ermlt your self to be misled Into believing that your cotton is worth more than your honor; that your cotton must set your standard of morals in studying world affairs. "Don't forget that he who poses the cotton growers of the South before the world as beggars asking for ahqp, or as regarding a bale of cotton of more value than human life, or the price of a pound of cotton more to be consid ered than Individual and national hon or. Is the worst enemy which the South luis ever bad or even can have." You may be able to get a large city weekly, tilled with murders, scandal cases, chicken lights, etc., for less money than you pay for your local paper, but these city weeklies never advertise your county and make your property valuable. They do not help along your schools and churches, they do not publish your county news, they say nothing of you and your town, and have no interest in you. A good news pai>er Is as much advantage to a town or county as are good schools. If one of our farmer friends should hapi>en into one of these city offices he would tlnd out In two minutes that he had no welcome there, such as he would receive In a printing office at home. Stand by your honfe paj?er ; It stands hy you, and is ever on the lookout for your Interest. ? Gaflfncy TiOdger. The Pa goland Journal puts it this way : "Automobile clanks who per sist In speeding around corners and by the home of people who live near the ^oad should be fed on fodder and shucks as other aesoe are fed." THE DOI.UK hupkkmk. 4 'v ?:.>! No inure loi|)iV)Mlv? and convincing evidence of the 4-11 viable iMMitlon which America oceuple* hm the rising Mutt a rial center of the world could la* given than by the steady (IwIIih* of lirltiah exchange which has brought the Kng llsh hankers fart# to face with a novel situation which demands ? ton. The liitftuiy of'thta CVUUlr> lift# doubtlews no parallel to the remarkable shift of |m>hUIoiih that the pant \'i months has ?. ? n I -ant AuguM at t he beginning of the conflict there wan for weeka a riiHh of gold to KuroiW and the hankera of New Vork at rained every nerve to prevent the eountry of being drained of gold. Opinions differ aharply aa to whether or not a large reaerve of gold Im esaentlal to National prosja*rlty and safety, but the large majority of financiers think that It la necessary and act on that principle, aial hence the necessity la real, and the altautlon that wouhl have been preaented by a goldleaa country would haVc been seri* oua In the extreme. Now on the con trary gold la pouring into the United States from I0urO|M*. The enorinoua ex porta tiona and the negligible lmi>or tatloha have made " trade halftnce of unexampled proportloua in our favor, and the Kuroiteans, having no goods with which to aettle the balance, are hard pressed for gold with which to make the payment. In the meantime the American dollar la at the head of the column.? Charlotte Observer. Blames Tom Watson. The following algned editorial by Thomaa \V. I/Oyless, of The Augusta Chronicle, haa created much comment t "There can be but one anawer to tlita latest assault on the authority and Integrity of Georgia. "The decency and civilization of our state must, at last, assert Itself, or, else, pull up stakes and quit. "It is a straight-out Issue between law and anarchy ; let Georgians choose for themselves. "This climax was Inevitable as long as we permit Incendiary publications to set Georgia aflame. Tom Watson has cost Georgia more than ten thous and good and true men cnu rebuild in twenty years. "But the latter must begin now, with a courage and determination borne only in a crisis, unless they wish to see the situation grow even worse. It Is no longer a question of Leo Prank's guilt or Innocence; or of his life'or death ? but solely a ques tion of Georgia's honor and good name. "The War In BUropfl Is horrible enough ; but anarchy at home is worse. "Those who are disposed to tem porize with t'hls situation further will be as guilty of Georgia's disgrace and retrogression as the mob Itself. Only worse than either of these Is the man who has so persistently sown these seeds of hate and violence and anarchy throughout Georgia. God may l>e hble t^i forgive him, but Georgia will never be able to forget him and his hellish work." latest Summary of The War. Kovno, the strong Russian fortress on the Niemen was captured by the Germans Tuesday night Berlin announces the taking of Kov no, together with 4(H) cannon and quan tities of war material. Material observers qre .questioning whether the Russians will be able to bold the Brest-Litovsk line of defense In the direction of which the Grand l>uke Nicholas armies 'have been fall inn back. A Teutonic advance oh l'e trofcrad also Is being discussed as a possibility. (Jen. Sir Ian Hamilton reiK>rts an ad vance of 500 yards by the British left. Hank at Suvla on the Gallipoli penin sula. Italian mountain troqps, Rome an jiounc^i in squads Joined by roi>es, crossed high mountain 1 passes and climbed and occupied Turokett Spits and Illnter Madatascli Spits, each about 10,500 feet high. Italian advances are claimed in up per Relnz in the Monte Nero section and In the Tolmlno zone. Ten i>ersons were killed and 30 In jured In a Zeppelin raid over the east ern counties of England last night, In which the outskirts of London were readied. The official statement says one Zeppelin is believed to have been hit. The damage to property is not important, it is declared. Capture of two additional forts at Novogeorpievsk with twenty cannon and six hundred prisoners, is reported by Berlin, which also declared Field Marshal Von Maekenzen, on the South front, lias driven the Russians across the Rug and into the outer jmsltlons of the fortress of Brest-Litsk. f)n the western front In the Vosges, German attacks on French jmsltlons on the crest of the Sondernach was re pulsed, Paris rei>orts. The otllelal Berlin statement declares that the Freiich were driven back at Sondernach, only a small and com pletely demolished trench section re maining in their hands. You'll Not i-iose. We are offering a prize to the man who l>elleve? that J. Henry Cliappcll, the Newberry prohibition farmer orig inated the Idea of that suit to enjoin the prohibition referendum which for mer Governor Blease is conducting for him. ? Florence Times. MAYOK WAKNH HLATON. Woodward, of Atlanta, Approves of liyttrhhtg of Frank. Suit FranHwo, A??k IX ? J. <?. Wood wind, nw?y or of Atlanta, (ia., hi an ad dross here last night declared that I M. Frank suffered tbo "Just i*?*iia If y for un iniK|H-akalilf < rime." The At la nt a mayor at tin* same Hum* warned fornier Ooverifdr Slaton, now In 'Cali fornia, not to return to (ieorgia. Mayor Woodward'a address wan made at a banquet of the California Htate Assessors' Association. Mttle or no applause greeted his r?v marks, although V wan listened to with close attention. Mayor Woodward said : "I am going to take occasion tonight to tell of the events that have put Ueorgla on the map in a very undesira ble li^ht, I am going to endeavor to set you rJght. People throughout the United States have obtained their ideas of the Frank ease from a poi soned and subsidized press and press reports, 'Common decency prevents mo from tolling you 1 1??* revolt I uk trutliM of the murder of Mary Phagau. I wish you si 1 1 know tho truths as I know them. I know them for I havo boon with tills case ovor hIiico It started and I have road every line of evidence that was Introduced. I know thut then* Is not a member of tho jury that trh><! l^eo M. Frank who would change his decision if pujt to tho test again. "(7eorgla is the leading state of the South. Itn people can not he classed with tramps, hoodlums, bandits and law breakers, but things had come to a point where every avenue of the law had been .exhausted and ttte judgment of the courts sot aside by one man and the people felt that it was up to them to take tho law into their hands. "While the people of Georgia deplore this deed of Monday night, we know what is behind the feeling that prompt ed it, and t want it understood that it is simply emphasizing the fact that when it comes to a woman's honor there is no limit we will not go to avenge and to protect. ?> "There were only two people Impli cated In the death of Mary Phagan. 'i know the negro did not commit the deed,, and am positive that 75 per cent of the people of Georgia are convinced that the man lynched Monday night committed the deed, and they are on the ground and ought to know. "As mayor of Atlanta, I have re ceived tons and tons of letters and pe titions afid requests asking that some thing be done for Frank and they Ifeve all gone Into tho waste basket, like all Georgia people who are.hnafc, position to get at the truth, I know the facts. "I know Jack Slaton, have known him for HO years, ever since he was a young man. I have been friends with him and while I hate to say it, I would not advise him to return to Geo/fcia for a year ? if ever." __ .J GENERAL NEWS NOTES, v ? ,/? ? 3 ? . ; V The Southern Hallway Company l^as awarded the contract for 1(X),000 cal endars to the Peace Printing Co., |<? Greenville, K.; C. The cost of prfntm? the calendars will be $7,000. This! Is the tlrst time a Southern Arm has b^en awarded this contract. ? The News and Courier sqys it is re ported in Charleston that 10,000 liprses will be loaded at tnat port soon for shipment to the allies. The animals have been purchased in the south 'by a Rrltlsh representative with head quarters In Atlanta. Wilkes Dane, a white man, 00, Is in jail at Walterboro charged with kill ing William Padgett. The weapdn used was a shot gun and buckshot. D. C. Harris, a wellknown car Ui sj>ector at Florence, fell beneath a switch engine and had his leg so badly crushed that amputation was necessaiy. The National Guard of South Caro lina has been furnished with a com plement of twenty army wagons, forty sets of harness and forty sets of wheels. The cost, of the material Is $4,460, which is paid out of the $400, (XK) contingent fund of the secretary of war. r Italian reservists 1,300 strong, about to sail from Poston last Sunday, made a demonstration against the sailors on two Interned German ships. The crowd beat up the two stewards aUd the watchman on one 'German ship before they could be rescued by the IK)lice. The ships and the T'nlted States customs were stoned, windows broken, and furnishings damaged. A1 squad of police tried to quell the mob and were badly beaten and bruised up. The Italians are selling for a tight. The will of the late Kdmund Deas, of Darlington, negro state chairman of the Republican party for ir.any years, has been probated. Ry its terms all of hlf. personal property is left to his wife, and after her death It is to he sold and the proceeds used for the building of a hospital In Darlington for negroes. I>eas left an estate worth probably $20,000 or $30,000. - He has pe children surviving him.' Texan Oil Agency Here. Tin- 'IV \ H :?> Oil Co., llllH an aiiency in Camden with Mr. B. T. M>?*rw mk their representative. Tholr HtAtlpO will Im> located iu'?r th<' old Southern railway Htation anil will have a capacity of 25,000 rh lions. The company expects to have their delivery wagon in service in a few day*. Mr. Myera will l?e auci^eeded ax agent' ?tl t ho WeaWfe Union Telegraph i '-o. , by his brother, Mr. Vletor Myers. > The Arable Torpedoed. Yesterday afternoon'* Columbia Hec ord Carried an Associated I'rww clin patch saying tbp Arabic, the White star Liner had. been" torpedoed and Hiink near the coast of Ireland. The passengers and erew of 240 are report ed i" have l>een saved. ('apt. p. X. (lunter, aged 84, a well known cltlzeu of I/exhigton county, died at bin home at Bateshurg Satur day. He was the father of the late attorney general (J. X. (junter, Jr. The total sales of liquor In the in dispenBary count lea for the month of July were $245,510.00. I .e wis W. Parker, of Greenville, ban become assistant editor of the Green* villi? Evening Piedmont. Lake City, Fla. ? Georgia earner, i) i yearn old, coughed up a small metal i doll which she had swallowed three years in go. The prisoner threw the magazine across his cell in ilisgust and cursed violently. "Nfothin' but continued stories," he growled, "and 'I'm to be hung next Tuesday." ? Chicago Herald. The dairyman who doesn't keep re cords and test his cows for butterfat may well be compared to a merchant who sells his goods on credit yet does not set down In writing any of the crod it accounts. Test, don't guess. IN MEMORIAM. A LITTLE peach In the orchard grew? A little peach of emerald hue; Warmed by the sun and wet by the dew . It grew. .; - ' . i ANE day, passing that orchard ^ through. That little peach dawned on the view Of Johnny Jones and his slater Su?? Them two. UP at that peach a club tbey threw-. Down from the stem on which it grew Fell the little peach of emerald hue? ' Mon dleu! QUE took a bite and Johh a chew. And then the trouble began to brew Trouble the doctor couldn't sub due Too true! UNDER the turf where the dai sies grew They planted John and his sister Sue , . And their little souls to the angels flow Boo hool WHAT ofthe peach of the emer ald hue, Warmed by the suri and wet by the dew? Ah, well, its mission on earth is through Adieu! ? Kugene Field. FEAR NOTHING. FEAR nothing and hope all things, a ? the right Alone may do securely; every hour The thrones of Ignorance and anolent night }x>se somewhat of their long usurped power, And freedom' 8 lightest word can make them shiver With a base dread that clings to them forever. --James Russell Lowell. GOD GRANT YOU MAY FAIL. /lOD grant that you may fall Again and yet again! That you may know All bitterness that o'er, can come to men. For only so ? May you at length prevail. /"iOD give you bitterness. And mete yoM out despair. Qod grant that you may know The fear of things. For only from the thorny fields and bare. Of failure springs The lone trail of success. ?Youth's Companion. THE MASTER 8PIRIT. i^lIVE me a spirit that on life's rough ^ sea Loves to have his sails filled with a lusty wind, Even till his sallyards tremble, his masts crack And his rapt ship runs on her side so low That she drinks water and her keel plows air. > There Is no danger to a man th&t knows Whore life and death Is; there's not any law Exceeds his knowledge, neither Is it need ful That he should stoop to any other law. He goes before them and commands them all. That to himself Is a law rational. ? Qoorge Chapman. MEASURE FOR MEASURE. Cf^lIKN that "some day" shall oome at ? *'inst to bo. When my son's heart will wander far from mo To seek Its Joy In some one fair and young. Then will my Inmost soul be pierced and wrung ..With the tame anguish that another felt When ray boy's father for my favor knelt, ; And with my joyous and triumphant I "Yes" . r -y-tJ I pierced the heart of her life's happiness, j ?Margaret H. Lawless, J ...? - '? ~ ON MANY SUBJECT 1 Haw it in The Chronicle. - If you want to Itoli* h bit; If you waul t<? make a hit ; IT you want a blessing on your head diurnal ; If you wailt to boost the town, Bring Its citizen? H'liown, ?f ust mention that you saw it in this journal. It will help the advi'i User ; It will hIiow that you are wiser, ^ More considerate than the average man v' you meet; It 1h Jutit a little favor, / Hut It leave* a pleasant flavor 1/ If you mention that you Maw it In thiy sheet. You'll encourage loeal trade, And the home town merchant aid, While tlie editor will cut a merry cai>er, And the mall order concern Smaller dividends will earn, If you mention that you Haw it in this, piper, , Do Trifles Annoy? What a hle^ed thing it 1h that we can forget! To-day's trouble* >look large, hut a week hence they will bo forgotten and hurled out of night, j Hays one writer: "If you wouldfeeepi a hook and daily put down the things that worry you, ami aeo what lie coiih'h of them, it would beneflt you. You allow a thing to annoy you, Just as you allow a fly to settle on you and plague you ; and you lone your temi?er and you juatlfy yourself hy being thrown off your balance by causes which you do not truce out. Hut If you could aee what It waa that threw you off your balance before j breakfast, and ^>ut it down in a little j book, and follow it up and follow it out, and aKcertaln what becomea of it, you would aee what a fool yoh were In the matter." The art of forgetting la a blessed art, but the art of over* loqjclng la quite aa Important And. If we should take time to write down the origin, progress and outcome of a few of our troublea, it would make ua so ashamed of the fusa we make over them, that we ahould be glad to drop such things and bury them at once in eternal forgetful n^ss. Life is too short to be worn out In i>etty worries, fret tings, hatreds and vexations. ;m He Knew Lawyers. Rev. J. H. Rice, the preacher- judge pf Emporia, Is famed equally In Kan sas for the eloquence of his sermons and the justice of his police court rul ings. >, Uj,v "Well," said Dr. Rice, modestly, at h dinner in his honor, "I -fear your praise is exaggerated, but at leaat I can say that I go Into court with clean hands? cleaner hands, eh, than the rich litigant?" I "A rich litigant had directed his lawyer to wire him at his Palm Peach villa the result of a certain suit. The lawyer wired accordingly : " 'Right has triumphed.' "Thereupon the litigant wired hack : " 'Appeal at once.' " ? Washington Star. Not a Camden Policeman. "That policeman is too conscientious to be a gardener." "What do you mean?" . "He arrested the growth of a vine, on his house when he found it climb ing through a window." ? Exchange. ' t ? . Any one who has a sense of iMUjf< can get along pretty well with JWCfe statist. . -friv? -2&VW51 The Hock Pile for lu then? da>H of fre^k fuimth-al lawn ami *ttemptofto hahtty and iKTHoutl affair* by ruU}?, H 1m refreshing to eon* ^ U uevv Uloa lit Hty ordinance* ^ hurting HO one, act* an a taw* waving Uvea and reducing tlie uu^ of aeeltfentH. o l'm-tlnnd, Dri',, Ik tlW-Mty tt? fee cOiJttptimehted upon wrltlunj tt h code a which ha* mad* i place unique In one reepect tu are iUXVMM) people In Portlwrt # there are countleHH automobile \ In the laat nine inontliH there bin been one pereOQ Injured, much lew fcj e<| lu an automobile accident bi tl city. | And why In thin ?o? IiwaUg( j Portland the driver of an autou^ who exceed* the hikhm! limit 1m p^ , work oil the fockpile, for froui twoi IhtKy. days. No linos accepted, if ^ driver is convicted he must d0 faj time at hard luhor and no excepts .nre'tnaite. Portland's Btreet* are ?al to pedestrians. Here Is an Idea which ought | spread eastward. For Their Neighbors. The hardest housekeeping In tb world Is the housekeeping tbit pa pie do for their neighbors. Half tl troubles we have are caused^ by wo rylng alnnit what people think. Wlu .difference does It make what tb? think, anyway? No one can live to own )lfe and two or three other |* pie's lives besides. What's the use < setting up housekeeping on the roof < on the outside walls for the benefit < I the neighbors? You Would rightly I f Judged Insane If you suggested U] thing of the kind, and that Is practka ly what half the people do. Tb< can't do this because the neighboi would talk, and they efcn't do that U cause the neighbors wonder If tht could not afford to do something els They may not say It In so many wordi but they mean It, and It 1b aimply great' big vacuum In some of our w tures Where moral courage ought to U Half the sting of poverty or ama! meant) Is gone when one keeps how for himself and not for hte netghbore DR. 0. M. GAY VETERIN A RUN I treat all animals. Cell* answered day or night Office it J.*M. Canon's stables. Phone * KERSHAW, Sooth Ctrofi* When In Need of a Neat Cheap Coffin or Casket REMEMBER US CAMDEN FURNITURE Cft BmF -irrr ' ? ^ t ^ ANNOUNCEMENT The following prices f. o. b. Detroit, effective Aug. Ford Runabout *?& Ford Touring Car ? nr\ Ford Town C?r ?*?. No speedometer Included In this year's equipment, otherwise cars fully ?quipeo in?ftiej There can be no assurance given against* an a"Xf n.c?^pre ^ prices at any time. We guarantee, however, tnat be no reduction in these prices prior to August 1, PROFIT-SHARING WITH RETAIL BUYERS On August 1; 1914 we tflad6 the anlUu,icem??1 hetwe< we could make and sell at retail 300,000 Ford c& rofi| August 1, 1914 and August, -J. WS/f? 4.w#Ufrnm $40 to with the retail purchasers, to tlie extent in th on each car. We have sold over 300,000 Ford time specified, and profit-sharing checks of g distributed as rapidly as . possible ttfter August 1 5. tail purchasers who have not yet mailed us then* p , coupons, properly endorsed/ fthottl&do so without /por Our plan to profit-shafre with retail oroUgi cars during 1914-15 has been most successful, vv ly believe in it, but, realising the uncertainty nt ( generally makes it advisable to defer any anno future profit-sharing until a lat^r aftte. We are, however, cotifideht of our .inabin y ^ costs for several months, and therefore can ?, her 0< sharing for cars delivered during August, Sept tober, 1916. t . /i; Ford Motor Company DETROIT RUNABOUTS Jj * $417.20 TOURING CARS . $467.20 Delivered in Camden, S. C. KERSHAW MOTOR CAswair Camdea, '