THE INTELLIGENCER ESTABLISHED 1K6?. Published every morning except ! Monday at 140 Weat Wbltner Str. i t, Anderson, H. C. SEMI-WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER Publisned Tuesdays and Fridays Entered ns second-class matter April 28, 1914, at the pout omeo nt Anderson, South Carolina, under the Act o? March 3, 1879. ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES I Telephone .321 SUBSCRIPTION KATES DAILY One Year .$r..'to Six MonthH . 2.50 ! Three Mnntha . 1.35 One M u.th .42 I One Week .10 I SEMI-WEEKLY Ono Year .11.50 ? HIx MouthH .76 The Intelligencer la delivered by carriers In tho city. Look nt the painted label on your paper. Tho dato thereon HIIOWB whan tho subscription expires. Not lee dati on label carefully, and if not correct please notify us at once. Subscribers doslrlr* the address of I eir paper changed, will please stat? their communication both tho old and new addresses. 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Borne Hens Waste Half Their Time k In Brooding.-Headline. 8o do some X -u liegend of Garden of Eden.- ;Hn line. "Yxegend? Somebody's flxltj^HS get smashed. .-O;- S^BSl Hailstones Weigh Hair Pound Bach. -Missouri News dispatch headline. Wei'., we're from Missouri. A rubber concern ls to increase Its common stock to seven million. Thats a bouncing big stretch.' --o What bas become of the farmer who was going to sell his cotton when it gets to 10 cents and pay his debta? ? ? p British Battleship Vengeance Set Afire. Headline. Thero will prob ably be retaliation with a vengeance. .-o-' They'll soon be calling King George the beerless leador.-Tho State. And prohibitionists will declare him a bud-wclser. _?- * Don't get sore because lawyers ap pear to have gotten nil thc federal plums. It may be that some of them are. not much lawyers. Q ia The stork la Bald to be hovering over the White Houoe again. Wo are preparer1 for some more bawl dope from the paragraphers union. Greets Husband aa 'You Old Tall Devil.'-Headline. And yet some men oontlnue to marry.-Spartanburg Journal. Still that's better than bo lpg cal!-?d a low-down ono. -o We thank Brother Gardner. Jr.. of the Greenwood Journal for the flat t?ry he barded us. and we trust wo shalt P\ways he at peace with him; but, knowing bim aa we do. we do not, for the life of us. see how this will he possible. But ho will have to start the row. We appreciate the kind things our brethren of other papers have had to say about os. We are not reprinting thelv remarks, for a sense of modesty we have cannot be overcome. But their kind words ate tucked away in the storehouse of memory, and some day thia side the Great Divido we shall go rummaging through that stronghold unrt thean good wishes shalt came to mind and affect us like the'faint aroma of lavender that steals vp from the depths of some forgctte* trunk that we find in an at tic sad into of a rainy day. DU. A IM S REHIIJN8 The Intelligencer regrets that An dersou IH to IOHO nr. John V. Vines, who Sunday resigned as pastor ot thc First liaptlal church, tun we agree with him when he expressen thc b? llele that li is best for a pastor t<> learn a ri?*I?! while hit* beat work in being done rallier than remain ami go later. There ii common sense he has the best wishes ot The Intelligencer. A more courageous minist? r wo nev er expect lo know, nor one who will Impress us an being mon? sincere. Ile has accomplished un immense amount ut good in Anderson, and his work, we believe, will b?: a lasting monument lo him. Ile hit straight from the shoulder und often lils drives wens anything but comfortable for some, hut he ear d on his fight for right eousness i the open ?ind lie never showed tho white reuther or lill below Hie bolt, As a fighter he commanded the respect of even thone who felt lil? utlacks the moBt. Mis will be a hniM piuco to rill, for there aro not many ministers who pitch into thc right with the zeal that marked hl:? pastorate In Anderson, and his congregation, having formed a liking for this virile manner of carrying on the Master's work, will most probably not bc looking for ally ing less than an active ministry. Tnko him all in all, he IH U man. UK HITt'HIiW A "STAR Ttl HIS WAGON. "Hitch your wagon to * ntur." urged Emerson; but Isn't 1? the name thing to hitch a "star" to your wagon? Perhaps not Invariably, but, In one case at lenst, tho reversal of the In unction brougbt none but thc best icsults. At SO years of ugo William Kockhill Nelson hud collected cer tain beliefB. ideals, und animadver sions. He knew where he wanted to Ito, what Ilia goal should be, nnd only the vehlclo for the trip was lacking. What ho needed was n city, or a com munity, in which ,to aprrnd out IIIB beliefs and Iden??, lils faith in men. lt may he said that lt was u ?ort of wagon that he needed, something to liold these thlngB together, make them live, und keep them from falling out ind getting lost along tho way. Ho picked out Kansas City. It seemed to embody the qualities ho sought, HO ho forthwith adopted the town. That ;ave him his wagon ; it remained to Although lt ls a play unon words io Bpeak of the relation of William Melson to his newspaper In the terms! isod by Kmeroon. tho truth rcmuins hat in tho conception, development, ind management ot thlH paper the highest Ideals wore held, clung to, ind as nearly attained ns it itt given o mortals to attain them. The thirty Ive years of hin devotion to Tho Stuv ! were ended by hlH death. April 13. at j lin ago of aoventy-four. How Mr. S'elson accomplished tho building up | >t so great a paper, a tusk which may JO said to have been performed by i!m8clf alone, is interestingly told in he Star's recent history of the pap?r.-| md Us editor. No man could have tept a closet touch upon his work I han did William Nelson. In fact, rou could scarcely nay ho was ah lent when ho waa out of town. for. ] IB wo road: Tho letters, telegrams and cable grams ho sent to Tho Star when ho 1 ivaa away were all trumpet-blasts I loundlng the onset. Never must Th? j Star relax. Never must it feel that mough has been donn. Never must t become Bclf-satteftod and take on lie complacency of aloth. Ho ham nered uway at tho staff of Tho Star is he hammered away at public op alon. He roused the ono to rouse tho it her, and ho never allowed either I ,o sleep. Whether lt was a more I lardy variety of climbing rose for a j ?ottace wall or a federal reserve lank, he put Tho Star on tho trail of j t and never rested until Kanaaa City mt it In lila devotion to tho public I rood of bia city, in his Indignation at njuatlce, in the splendidness of hi? .ivie vision, in his works he was ap proached by no man of his day, or if ie waa approached lt was by Kersey | 'oates alono. And so, whether lt alienated friends, whether lt threatened the Star's bust less, whether it brought on him the j ibuse and slander of politicians, the ? mmlty of money-power, or the tn* rectlvA of defeated greed, William Fl. Nelson never turned aside. He tad given himself and his newspaper to the service of Kansas Ctty, and through thirty-five .years of such struggle and Storm da have rarely I narked a private career In this coun try he remained stedfast In it to the md. There follow several illustrai lon s if the way In which the paper was nan aged. Perhaps no Journalist has war put more of himself Into the printed columna of a dally newspaper han haa William Nelson. Matter that tho conventional news papers regarded aa "niftier." to be| ?truck in when new? failed. Mr. Nai lon considered aa highly important "The mg are pretty apt to find I mmoUilng u interest to thea in the tews oa the dullest doy." ho would tay. "But wern?a aren't interested in tcllttcs or sports. We are going to urotah them good reading ao mat-1 er how dull they may find tho news." As the means came, Mr. Nelson de-1 voted nimm it to building up tin* news' departments. ll?; wau Impatient ot thc traditional ways of handling ma terial. "Don't g?-t Ute professional point of viow." be would warn his news men. "A Washington correspondent IH apt lo get to (hiukiiiK >>e IK a atotcsman. Ile imagines Hu- folks hat-k home are Interested in tho details of <'ongr?-s Blonal affairs They aro a whole lot more Interested in a fuss between the wi ven of two cabinet members, or in some new development lu farming that a congressman from Kennan can tell him about." Ono ?f his axioms was that under all circumstances The star ntusl bo a gentleman. His stag knew that he would not sanction the publication of artil les reflecting on thc private life of any person, unless a court proceed ing made such publication Impera tivo. "I am always willing to overlook an error in judgment regarding ncwi ." he would say. "provided lt is made on the side of good taste." At one time a grave scandal came up involving a man who was a pos sibility as presidential candidate There was a division of opinion in the office regarding it. Mr Nelson as he often out lt. "east the unanimous vote" against publication. "The man has been making a gami tight for seif-eontrol," he said "Tin Star Isn't going to make Ids way har der for him." He had no patience with perfunc tory work of any sort, or with adln-r once to precedents. If news wortl while wns in sight he would throw nil the resources of the paper inti gening lt. Hut If he felt th.it some thle^ else than news wns of mort public interest, then that wa? tin thing that concerned him. "I don't enjoy traveling in a well trodden path," he would say. "Tin Star should pioneer." If a poem by Rudyard Kipling or i story by Sam Blythe was tho most in (..resting thing that had come int? the olllcc on a day, his Instruction wore to "play lt up" on the first page He had the greatest scorn for Un suggestion that some other news paper handled material In anotln way. "What the other fellow doe doesn't Interest me," he would say "Newspapers that ar?; edited with : view to attracting attention fron other newspapers are failures W< are running Tho Star for ?mr ronden not for ?>thor nowsj\apers." The ndvent of yellow journalist! never disturbed him, and he made m concessions t?) it in the way of bil headlines or "comic" Bupplcment'f His was one of tim few newspaper tn America that failed to be influent ?.?I by the new movement. Ho bellev od thc movement was vulgar and ba?' Over aud over he declared be woul quit I lio business before, he *.vouli get nut a shoddy paper. Ono night, a few y?;arn ago thor was a meeting of mannging editor and publishers of a group of tim mor important newspapers in the Unite state.;. Ho gavo them a dinner at hi homo. They asked him for a littl talk as they Hat at the table aft?' the dessert. "Well, gehtlemon," bc said. "1 hav ono comment to make about Amer can newspapers. The great hulk ? them are allowing Mr. (learnt to ed them. They are copying his paper Perhaps Mr. Hearst had to do wh> he did to attract attention. Hut t long ns I have anything to say ahnt lt. Mr. Hearst isn't going to edit tl: Kaunas * * 4 * WIT AND HUMOR. * 4. .> ..?.*?..*,....*....?...*.?..*.. 4? ^? A youth io a passenger coach per sisted in sticking his head and shoul ders out of the window. The brake man touched the youth on the back. "Better keep your bead Inside the Win dow," advised the man.- "I kin.look out of the window if 1 want to," an swered the youth. "I know you can," warned the brakeman, "but if you damage any- of the iron work on the bridges you'll have to pay "for lt." Ute. "I see our traffic with Iceland is increasing." "How so?" , "Leif Erlc8on landed on theda shores, sailing from therein the year 1000." "Well?" "And I noticed last week another ship from Iceland arrhfed."-Louis ville Courier-Jour nal. .Patty-Jack and I have been en gaged for two years and I think ts time we were getting married. Peggy-Oh, I 'dont know. dear. It you really love him you'll let him be happy for- a time longer.-Chicago News. "Old man Jinks ls very slow in all his ways." "Is her "Yes. Instead of planting a run ning vine on his wall he has put there a creeper."-Baltimore American. - It doesn't matter what tho price. Nor where they put the pads; Somehow your clothes don't look ats nice As they did in the ada. . -Cincinnati Enquirer. Utilise all your opportunities. If the bathtub leaks, keep your, pot'ed plants under it.-Pittsburgh Post. A frivolous society girl, lu a small town; made a dully trip to the town library, where she would always get -a book. This being the loafing place of the . young men of the town, ll was quite evident why she came. Cns of the young men, guessing that fact, asked her this question: "Miss Jones, have yon ever read 'Scott's Emulsion ?" ' "OJ Yes, Isn't lt the sweetest book 1 just love lt"-National Monthly. A small boy went up to another tu the street and .said: "Can you tell a feller how to learn a girl to swim?" "Ohl" said the other kiddle, "von goes up to her sentie like, leads her gently down to the water, puts yer arm gently round her waist-" "Ob, go on!" interrupted the boy; "what*- tte ?*Ufer with yarr sues ny sister." "Trr s?iUr? Ci. iW*e her in!" Kicfeango.