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Rates on long term advertisements very reasonable. For rates apply at this office. In remitting checks or money orders sake payable to THE COUNTY RECORD. In men whom men condemn as ill, I find so much v/f goodness still; In men whom MEN pronounce divine, I find so much of sin and blot? .1 hesitate to draw the line , Between the two?where God has not. THURSDAY. JUNE 15.1916. Vaux. After a seven-day battle-within-abattle, waged at tremendous cost, the German forces in the Verdun region are in possession of Fort Vaux. If what Germany now wants is gains at any price, the news of which can be posted in big letters in Berlin, no doubt Vaux counts for something in the German plan. . What Germlny has won at Vaux, how ever, is not a fort but a position. Of the fortifications only a clutter of ruins remains. Vaux may be an advantageous .height on which to post artillery. But it is far from being the last that protects Verdun. The French have still intact a half circle of inner forts,including the heights of Tavanr.es and Souville. This line is still from five to six miles outside Verdun itself. The French artillery will make every foot of this ground a costly prize for the Germans, even measured by the standards of appalling sacrifice the Kaiser's generals seem to have have established for Verdun. Is it not possible that the French can well afford to lose Verdun pro_ vided they can slowly and deliberately draw on the German^ to a Pyrrhic victory the disastrous cost of which shall not be apparent until after it has been paid? Meanwhile the Russians are gathering vast armies on the eastern frontiers of the Teutonic empires. Austria is already giving way before them. How long before Germany will feel the impact??Nrn York Evening World. Items of General Interest. 3 P McNeill, Esq, of Florence was elecbed-vice president of the ScotchAmerican society at its recent con - - s- n_ j ci?; xt p venuon in nea opriuK?, ^ v>. : xxx James R Coggeshall, Esq, of Darlington has bqen appointed special Judge to hold court in that city next week, in place of Judge T H Spain, who is still in ill health. xxx Congressman Ragsdale has appointed G Waldeck Sligh of Darlington as his secretary, succeeding T B Brooks Alford, who has been named as vice consul to Riga, Russia, xxx The park at Summerton was formally donated to the Summerton Amateur. Athletic association Friday with Masonic ceremonies, that order having made it possible for theyoung folk to have this playground for all time. XXX The super-dreadnaught Pennsylvania was placed in commission at > the Norfolk navy yard this week, Capt H B Wilson commanding. The Penns> lvania is the most powerful vessel afloat and was built by the Newport News Shipbuilding Co. V X X Uraring an increased respect for Constituted authority and stressing the necessity of educating the children of the State, Lieutenant Gov-, ernor Andrew J Bethea announces! his candidacy for re-election. Mr! Bethea said that he has been urged by many to make the race for Gov-1 ernor, but that he feels compelled from a sense of duty to continue in the office that he now holds for the next two years if the people so elect. See us for your tobacco flues. 6 ltf WlLLIAMBURG HARDWARE Co. HUGHES 6AINE0 FUME AS INVESTIGATOR AND REFORMER-NOTABLE RECORD IN GAS AND INSURANCE CASES-CAREER IN BRIEF. From the New York World. Son of a Welsh father? Rev David C Hughes?and a Scotch-Irish mother ? Mary Catherine Connelly ? Charles Evans Hughes was horn at Glens Falls,N Y.April 11, 1862. The father was a Baptist clergyman, and the son's early hoyhood was divided among the communities of Oswego, Newark,N J,and the lower east side of New York. When he was five years old the boj announced to his parents that he was ready to enter the schools of Oswego. A few months later he announced that he was ready io quit and j to take up "Chas E Hughes' Plan ol I Study," which he had devised foi i himself because the other scholars } were "very slow in getting theirles , sons and the teacher goes over tht same thing time after time." This phn of study was follower for the next four years, the boj j add,ng to the elementary branches G.-rman and French under his moth ' er's teaching, and Greek and Latir ; under his father's. In Newark h( | tried the public schools again, com ! pleting the grammar course in 1873 I when, the family having moved tc i New York, he entered Public Sehoo No 35, then in East Thirteenth , Street. Thirteen years old at thu i time, he had already proffered es says in such topics as "The Limitation of the Human Mind" and "The Evils of Light Literature." Wher he was graduated his essay was or ."Self Help." Eager to enter the City College the boy found himself too young bj some months to qualify, and once more he began to study at home, At the end of a year he was readj for college, and chose to go to Madison, now Colgate University, where he remained through his sophomore voar He matriculated then at Brown and was graduated in 1881, . with a record of having taken about ! every prize available to him and with the added distinction of being one of the five members of the class ! elected to the scholarship fraternity, . Phi Beta Kappa. A place as a teacher at Delaware j Academy, Delhi, N Y, took"Huggis' j Hughes?as he was nicknamed at I Brown?awav from New York for I another year. Greek and mathematics by day left little time for law by night, however, and the twenty-year-old boy entered Columbia Law School. He was graduated in 1884, with a prize fellowship thai made him a quiz master for the ensuing three years. For a time he was a clerk in the law office of Gen Stewart L Woodford, then shifted his association to the firm of Chamberlain, Carter & Hornblower. From 1891 to 1893 Mr Hughe? ?*?A^Aaaft*i aw/] #vAm 1 QQQ frt IfiQC a special lecturer at Cornell. Until 1900 he was a lecturer at New York Law School, and by that time he had come to be known professionally as one of the four or five leading lawyers of the bar in this city. In 1888 Mr Hughes married Antoinette Carter, daughter of Walter 5 Carter, his preceptor in law, and in 1893 he became a member of the firm of Carter, Hughes & Cravath. Soon the firm name was changed to Carter, Hughes & Dwight, Mr Hughes being the court member. With the death of Edward F Dwight the firm became Carter, Hughes, Rounds & Schurman, and with the death of Mr Carter, Hughes, Rounds 6 Schurman, with offices at No 96 T> 1 ?... DI uauwaj It was from this office that Mr Hughes was called to be counsel for the Stevens Investigating committee, which began the fight for "80 cent gas," a fight that was marked by the most extraordinary legal controversies and ended in the supreme court of the United States with victory for the legislation drafted by Mr Hughes. Popularly not much was known of Mr Hughes when he took up this gas fight. Few expected that the committee's work would b^ marked by more than the inconclusive recom | mendations that commonly attend ! such investigations. But Mr Hughes ' had qualities that precluded this. It [ j is told in illustration of this that j among the first things he called for 1 wus an exact statement of the cost of manufacturing gas. The books of the companies were turned over to a firm of expert accountants,and after [ an all-ni?htexan.ination they report. ed that it would take at least three i weeks to get what Mr Hughes wanted. ; i Mr Hughes went from his office to L- Au fV,.. Pit.. > ine niuermaim: vjimuiun m mc | Hal),where the ledgers were. He set 1 them out around him, laid a pad of , i scratch paper before him and began an examination of his own. At the j end of two and one half hours he r! had thp figures he wanted. None of 3! the men who opposed him throughout the hearing was able to upset the conclusion he r< ached, and as a 1 matter of fact it may be said that f he won his fight in that two and one ' half hours of figuring. ?' Because of this gas inquiry Mr - Hughes seemed an inevitable choice j'for the Armstrong committee that j the following year took up the nota1 ble invest'gatfon into the great life 1 ] insurance companies of New York. 5! Six days before the committee con i vened.Mr Hughes has since said, life 1 insurance was a book unknown to ? him. For a week he read about life insurance, interrupting his research , only for the sleep that exhaustion > made necessary. I When the inquiry formally got i under way Mr Hughes knew so much 5 of life insurance, of the companies under scrutiny and of the practices they had pursued that none believed he had not been specializing foryears ? in the subject. The most skilled and i cunning lawyers opposed him. Every ifeviee of delay and evasion was ' made use of. With a calmness that r came to be characterized as the cold nessstill attributed to him,Mr Hughes met and defeated the enemy in every ' attack, and held relentlessly to the course of his own campaign. No 1 public inquiry in the history of the United States, perhaps, has been fol lowed by such sweeping and funda. mental reforms. - At the height of the Armstrong ' investigation the Republicans nomi nated Mr Hughes for the Mayoralty. 5: He replied that his work was not - j finished and declined to run. The campaign was waged between Geo B McClellan and W R Hearst, while Mr Hughes went methodically about his business with the life insurance companies. One other public service was performed by Mr Hughes before he found time to listen to the calls of elective office. Attorney General Moody made him a special assistant in the prosecution of the coal-carrying railroads in the late summer of 1906, and while he was still engaged i upon that highly technical proceedI ing he was by acclamation nominated for Governor by the Republicans at their convention in Saratoga Springs. i In November Mr Hughes was > elected by a plurality of 57,897 over I Mr Hearst. How definitely this was a ; personal victory may be seen from > the fact that no other Republican candidate was elected, so that Mr ; Hughes was strictly speaking a Governor without a party. This fitted in perfectly with his conceptions of the office,for he was throughout his servI ice "the people's Governor," that i Lieut Gov Chanler, his associate, called him. : "Practical men" of the Republican ' party found cold comfort in the exi ecutive offices when Go\ Hughes sat | there. Not content with closing the i "back stairs" that led to the private J \ office of the Governor, Mr Hughes II abandoned the private office. He moved his desk to the great outer ' room,and there any who called might have his moment with the State's Chief Executive. So many took advantage of this that a moment was all one might hope for, and when.as occasion demanded, the Governor j made his appeal for support "to the [ people" they were quick and sure in i j their response. L /It/I nr\f /?Af nil iUnf t r vjut uuguca uiu uut an ! he asked of the Legislature. Twice he sought to remove Otto Kelsey, ; Superintendent of Insurance, and (twice he failed. He sought, and fail(ed, to carry through plans for ballot j reform and direct nominations. He succeeded, after % long, spectacular campaign, in putting through the Hart-Agnew bills against betting on horse races. Notable among the reform bills of f the Hughes administration was the j creation of the Public Service Commissions, which did away with the State Railway Commission and the ^ Rapid Transit Commission. He was; t essentially legal in his attitude to- j ward legislation. Attractive in the-1 ! ory as a measure might be, his law-J yer's mind revolted from it if it was j ^ open to attack on the grounds of \ constitutionality. Conspicuous ex- r amples of this were his vetoes of the ^ 2-cent railroad fare law and the 5 I 1 cent fare to Conev Island. Gov Hughes's ren^mination was, [ in effect, an operation of the direct c ! primary principle. The bosses would ? i have been happy with almost any- v j thing else but him, but there was a < j popular insistence that compelled t j them to name him again. He was J 'elected and served until 1910, when a i ^ 1 President Taft nominated him for ! the supreme court. The new Justice took his place on * ! October 10,1910. the youngest mem- I J ber of the court. He still retains j that distinction, for Justice Mc- f J Reynolds is two months his senior j and Judge Brandeis six years. i g Justice Hughes lives as orderly a life as his habits of mind would lead one to expect. He works nine hours a day and his one recreation out of doors is golf, which he plays with j| care but without especial enthusi- r asm. He is fastidious in dress and c his spare figure when he has donned j frock coat and high hat gives him 1 the appearance of more than his 5 feet 10$ inches. f One son and namesake, Charles E ( Hughes, Jr. has just entered upon t ~ l xt v?_i. uic tuauuvrc- ui law iu new xuiiv City. Two daughters, who are just finishing school, live at the Washington home of the Justice, No 2401 , Massachusetts avenue. The family ^ lives modestly, for the Justice had i but started upon the really prosperous stage of his career when he be- fc came Governor. His wealth is reck- s oned at materially less than $100,000. ^ " F . Lines from Leo. (Received too late for last week's issue). I Leo, June 6:?Under the supervis- ^ ion of Miss Le&tha Edwards the Brown school has just closed the f most successful year in its history, t and Miss Edwards is given the praise s for the good work that has been P done for the school. To the regret ^ of the friends and patrons it is probable that Miss Edwards will not ac- c cept the school another term. Be- ^ fore leaving for her vacation a pic- t nic was given to her and the school children at the home of Mr and Mrs A J Brown, which was very much enjoyed by all present. f In the afternoon Miss Edwards, .... nn'4.U VI. T U7 A 0 id v;u(upouj wiui 1UI U Vf uiUWli auu two daughters, Misses Rubie and ^ Ilee, went to Lake City, where Miss c Edwards took the train for her o home at Mullins. During the vacation she will go with a party of f friends on a pleasure trip to New F York.Niagara Falls and other Northern cities. There is considerable sickness in ? this community. Messrs Tom Ard, 0 Jr. Lewiston Ard and Billie Abrams f are among those on the sick list. i June 6 was Memorial day. Our WOW camp appointed members to decorate the graves of our de- * ceased brothers in the cemeteries at 0 Lake chapel,Eaddy ford and Brown's cemetery. f Rev C E Taylor of Darlington s closed a very successful meeting at a Little Star Baptist church Sunday jj night. Eleven communicants were s added to the church. Crops are looking fairly well in this section. * .... .. . "T7. - r wny tnaure summer leias/ It isn't necessary to have a stuffed 1 head, running nose. * To cough your head off, as it were. All you need is " to use I)r Bell's Pine-Ta^-Honey. 0 The soothing and healing balsams t open the clogged air passages and in ? a short time you get relief and start ? on the road to recovery. Your nose n stops running* you cough less and p you know you are getting better. v Get a bottle, use as directed. Keep e what is left as a cough and cold insurance. p The man who^shoots off hismouth U3es a scatter gun.?Deseret News. ? t r FeretbflugM. p People are learning that a little forethought often saves them a big expense. Here is an instance: E t| W Archer. Caldwell, Ohio, writes: t! ht J . i t__?; IL - i t :i l ao nor oeueve tnat our iamny has - been without Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy since we commenced keeping house years ago. When Ave go on ? an extended visit we take it with ? us." Obtainable everywhere. Candidal For Congress. | 1 hereby announce myself a candidate | or re-election to Congress from the * Sixth Congressional district, subject to [ he rules of the Democratic primary. ( ^ J W Raosdale. i ^ I hereby announce myself a candidate * or Congress from the Sixth Congres-1 ional district, subject to the rules of j he the Democratic primary. Julius S McInnes. For House of Representatives. The friends of S A Graham hereby ; ^ .nnounce his candidacy for re-election ; r o the House of Representatives from j Villiamsburg county, subject to the j ules of the Democratic primary. The friends of Mr D E McCutchen j j iprphv nnnoiinep his ranrlidacv for the , louse of Representatives from VVil-, a iamsburg county,subject to the rules of p he Democratic primary. i In announcing myself for the Housed f, ?f Rej^jesentatives it answers the cail ^ if many. Will say, here I am. I prom- c se you honest and diligent service, al-1 vays to be at my post ready to care [ * or your welfare, local and State, i should you elect me it will hoist me to j p he zenith of my ambition. I now tip j ? ny hat to one and all until we meet at; ampaign meetings, there I will answer iny questions prc ound d relative to our interest. Re lccti'ully, J W Kennedy. I hereby announce myself a candidate f( o represent the people of Williamsburg ^ :ounty in the Legislature,subject to the v democratic primary. S 0 Eaddy. I hereby announce myself a candidate T or re-election to the House of Repreentatives, subject to the rules of the n democratic primary. Soliciting your a upport. I am respectfully, o R K Wallace. n For Clsrk of Courf. Feeling that I possess the necessary [ualifications to aischarge the duties lelonging to the office, I hereby announce * nyself a candidate for the office of Clerk if Court of Williamsburg county, subect to the rules and regulations of the f< democratic primary. tl J 0 Carraway. I hereby announce myself a candidate or re-election to the office of Clerk of Jourt of Williamsburg county, subject f< mil AH A# # Via TlomAitwafiA nmmoi>tT ! U llir (U1CO VI UiC I'CllJWi OUV, pi|iua&jt M H 0 Britton. For Treasurer. I hereby announce myself a candidate or the office of County Treasurer of J Villiamsburg county, suty'ect to the )emocratic primary. C J Rollins. To the Democratic Voters of Williams- 0 ?urg county:? I hereby announce myelf a candidate for the office of Treas- p irer of Williamsburg county, and will .bide by the rules of the Democratic >rimary. W Dodd Daniel. I hereby announce myself a candidate n or the office of Treasurer of ' * illiams-1 ?urg county, subject to the rules of the > )emocratic primary. R B Smith, jI hereby announce myself a candidate-. ja or reappointment to the office of Coun- j y Treasurer of Williamsburg county, j ubject to the rules of the Democratic; irimary. | J Wesley Cook, j 'o the Voters of Williamsburg County: jt( Bv this means I announce myself a' andidate for the office of Treasurer of Villiamsburg county. I will abide by he rules of the Democratic primary. di pd WE Snowden. ri For Sheriff. p I hereby announce myself a candidate ?' or the office of Sheriff of Williamsburg J? ounty, subject to the rules of the Dem- E cratic primary. W T Rowell. I hereby announce myself a candidate or the office of Sheriff of Williamsburg ?< ounty, subject to the rules of the Dem- ? cratic primary. W E Allen tj I hereby announce myself a candidate or the office of Sheriff in the coming irimary, subject to the rules of the Jemocratic party. W T Wilkins. g I hereby announce myself a candidate (j or the office of Sheriff of Williamsburg ounty>subject to the rules of the Demcratic primary. Your suffrage respectully solicited. Jas h Epps. ,'o the Democratic Voters of Williams- is burg County:? t< I hereby anpounce myself a candidate pi or re-election to the office of Sheriff nd will abide by the rules of the Demcratic primary* George J Graham. I hereby announce myself a candidate . or the office of Sheriff and respectfully ?'' olicit your vote. I pledge myself to 5. bide by the rules or the Democratic rimary and if elected will do my ut- w nost to perform the duties of the office T atisfactorily. Respectfully. II U Kinder. f< 1 hereby announce myself a candidate hi or the office of Sheriff of Williamburg D ounty. subject to the rules of the y< )emocratic primary. pd WE Brockinton. 'o the Citizens of Williamsburg County: ^ Having been solicited by a number of ^ ly friends to enter the race, and feellg that I am, in every respect, capable f performing every duty belonging to T bis office, I hereby announce myself a e andidate for the office of Sheriff, suo- " ect to the rules of the Democratic si rimary. I heartily appreciate what P1 jy friends have done for me in the ast, and I wish to thank them in adance for their support in the ensuing di lection. Yours for service, tj pd J Y McGill. ri or County Superlnteadeot of Education f I hereby announce mv candidacy for p] e-election to the office of County Su- 0j erintendent of Education, subject to ales and regulations of the Democratic rimary. . J Graham MC'ullough. ^ I hereby announce myself a candidate <x or County Superintendent of Educa- o< ion for Williamsburg countv, subject a the rules of the Democratic primary. f( Jackson V McElveen.' 9l For Siperrlsor. pi 1 hereby announce myself a candidate fc or the office of Supervisor of Williams- bi urg county, subject to the rules of D democratic primary. j N Ham met. bs Cards. For Judge of Probate. I hereby announce myself a candidate & or re-election to the office of Probate udge of Williamsburg county, subject o the rules of the Democratic primary, ls in the past, so will it be in the fu- 1 ure, your consideration will be appreci- J ted. P McLure Brockinton. For Magistrate. AT LAKES I hereby announce myself a candidate or the offict of Magistrate of Lanes istrict, pledging myself to abide the esult of the Democratic primary. J G Lifrage. at hemingway I hereby announce myself a candidate or the office of Magistrate of the Hemingway district, pledging myself to bide by the rules of the Democratic rimary. C S Davis. I hereby announce myself a candidate or the ottice of Magistrate at Hemingway, subject to the rules of the Demoratie primary. W T Lee. I hereby announce myself a candidate or Magistrate at Hemingway and espectfully solicit your support, pledgig myself to abide by the rules of ithe temocratic primary. Very respectfully, G H Stancill. AT HEBRON. I hereby announce myself a candidate or xVlagistrate at Hebron in' response o the call of my friends. Soliciting our support, ram. Respectfully. CHAS W FlLYAW. i 0 the Citizens of Hebron District:? Having been solicited by a number of ly friends to enter the race, I hereby nnounce myself a candidate for the ffice of Magistrate at Hebron,pledging lyself to abide by the rules of the Dem? cratic primary. " R E McElveen. ' 1 hereby announce mysels a candidate or Magistrate at Hebron, subject to he rules the Democratic primary, 'our support respectfully solicited. W Holzy Baker, 1 hereby announce myself a candidate or Magistrate at Hebron, subject to he rules of the Democratic primary. Respectfully, J W Stewart. I hereby announce myself a candidate or Magistrate at Hebron, subject to oe rules of the Democratic primary. J L Gowdy. s at greelyv1lle. j I hereby announce myself a candidate a/ n ji uic unite ui ma^iaitaic at ureeijille, subject to the rules of the Demoratic primar,. M M Bradshaw. i The friends of Mr H S Gamble here- " y announce him a candidate for the flfice of Magistrate at Greelyville, sub- J ?ct to the rules of the Democratic rimary. at trio. I hereby announce myself a candidate ir Magistrate at Trio, subject to the jles of the Democratic primary.. J W Lockliear. i I hereby announce myself a candidate jr reappointment to the office of Magitrate at Trio, subject ts the rules of le Democratic primary. W S Tamlin. I hereby announce myself a candidate jr Magistrate for Trio district, subject > the rules of the Democratic primary. J S Tartt. at toorrisviile. I hereby announce myself as a candiate for the office of Magistrate at Morisville, asking my friends and the votr rs to assist me in my undertaking and romising to serve the public to the esi 01 my anowieage ana aoiniy, suoKrt to the rules and regulations of the lemocratic primary election. Lawson R Cribb. I hereby announce myself a candidate or reappointment as Magistrate at [orrisvilie, subject to the rules of the lemocratic primary. J M Godwin. at kingstree. * I I hereby announce myself a candiate for the office of Magistrate at ingstree, pledging myself to abide by le ruleaof the Democratic primary. Very respectfully, S A Nettles. , I hereby announce myself a candidate or reappointment to the office of Magtrate at Kingstree, pledging myself ) abide the rules of the Democratic rimary. J B Gamble. For CoroBer. 1 hereby announce myself a candidate >r the office of Coroner of Williamsurg county, subject to the rules of the democratic primary. I respectfully >licit your support H J Brown. 0 the Voters of Williamsburg County: 1 hereby announce myself a candidate >r the office of Coroner of Williamsurg county, subject to the rules of the emocratic primary. I will appreciate our vote. Yours to serve. J I Morris. I hereby announce rtlyself a candidate >r the office of Coroner of Williamsjrg county, subject to the rules of the emocratic primary. J L Blakeley, Trio, S C. 0 the Voters of Williamsburg County: 1 hereby announce myself a candidate >r Coroner of Williamsburg county, lbject to the rules of the Democratic rimary. I will appreciate your support George W Ward.. 1 hereby announce myself a candidate jte for Coroner of Williamsburg counr, pledging myself to abide by the lies of the Democratic primary. m T J Spring. I hereby announce myself a candidate >r Coroner of Williamsburg county, edging myself to abide by the rules " the Democratic primary. W I Tisdale. The friends of Mr Julius -I Hanna >reby announce him a candidate for le office of Coroner of vv illiamsburg * )unty,subject to the rules of the Demrratic primary. p I hereby announce myself a candidate >r Coroner of Williamsburg connty, lbject to the jrules of the Democratic rimary. H M Burrows. 1 hereby announce myself a candidate >r the office of Coroner of Williomsarg county, subject to the rules of the emocratic primary. Respectfully, Eddie D Epps.