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THE INTELLIGENCER ESTABLISHED 1H60. Published ?very morning except Monduy Ly The Anderson Intelligen cer at 140 West Wbituer Street, Au derKon, S. C. SEMI-WEEKLY 1NTELLIOENCER Published Tuesdays and Fridays Entered as second-class matter April 28. 1914, at thu post office ut Anderson, South Carolluu, under the Act of Murch 3. 1879. ASSOCIATED PItESH DISPATCHES I Telephone .321 8UB8CKIPTION BATEN DAILY One Year .|5.00 ! Six Months ..'-2.50 I Three Months . 1.251 One Month .42 I Ono Week .10 I SEMI-WEEKLY One Year .fl GO I Six Mouths .75 The Intelligencer ls delivered by carriers in the city. Look at the painted label on y.ur paper. The date thereon shows wlien the subscription expires. Notice date on label carefully, and If not correct please notify UB at once. Subscribers desiring the address of their paper changed, will please state In their communication both the old and new addresses. To lumire prompt delivery, com plaints of non-delivery in the city of Anderson should bo made to th?? I Circulation Department before 9 a. m. and a copy will be sent at once. All checks and drafts should be drawn to The Anderson Intelligencer ABVERTIHING Rates will be fuinlBhed on applica tion. No tf advertising discontinued ex cept on written order. The Intelligencer will publish brief I and rational letters on subjects of) general Interest when they aro ac companied by tho names and ad dresses of the authors and are not of j a defamatory nature. Anonymous communications will not be noticed. Rejected manuscripts will not be re turned. In order to avoid delays on recount of personal absence, lette;? to The Intelligencer Intended for publication should not be addressed to any indi vidual connected with Ute paper, hut simply to The Intelligencer. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 1915. ? * ? "Our country! In her In- ? ? tercourse with foreign na- ? ? tions may she slways be lu ? ? the right; but our country, * ? right or wrong." * + Stephen Decatur. ? ? * A fellow rnns In debt and crawls out, never vice versa. Some folks can stay drunk mir. tty long time on a gallon a month. The June brldeB are not the only ones getting showered these days. A large spot has appeared on the sun, we hesr. Maybe that'a Italy's place. Bet you couldn't find a French dancing master who would teach the german. If old man Annan his could read some of these wsr reports he would roll over In his grave. o The doyll ls always willing to take a dare from a daredevil, for he wilt get him sooner or later. . ? The fly doesn't seem to be worry tag himself about all the unfriendly attacks that are made on him. If >fanilly closets were used a little more for prayer there would not be skeletons la-ao many et them We see where a Georgian aged 10S yearn ls osad. That's an awfully long time to have to live In Georgia. The goinsa <aad comings of people are not always so Interesting to their neighbors aa their shortcomings. ? p ? ragtime philosopher says that only two men were created free and equal-?nd one of them was a woman. Fachten says that women will now wear the tuxedo. They may have the rilli dress suit as far as wo are con cerned. The Washington Post thinks thal the prte"rte?l occupation of Armenia Itf getting sr .sscred at regular In The First Baptist chu-~!i of Ander non will no doubt be able to boast of baring the highest paid pastor In the Stat?. 'JDr. J. E. Wey*, of Atlanta has accesstod their ceil.-Newberry Observe*, faa ?sotlsts of Anderson ?ever etti -heWeve fa iseyeag seeee*{ JSddle to. Anything. Hld AIM OATER IX T F. R V F. N TIO N. Wini?' tho situution between the United State? and (Jermuny, brought about hy Hie latter's submarine war fare un merchantmen of neutral coun tries, and merchantmen of belli gerents having citizen? of neutral countries aboard, is Bomewbat struin ed" at present, this 1H not by any means the gravest problem confront ing the administration just at this time. Kelations with German are far from u critical stage, but at the rate de velopments hav- occurred in the past few weeks one cannot tell what day the situation may become tilled with danger. Hut a problem nearer at hand than thut confronting us In the German question and a step which it would appear at this time the United States ls going to be compelled to luke sooner or later ls that of inter vention In Mexico. Prevailing opinion at Washington ls that the administration has reach ed a point where it is prepared to take RtepB to end the Btate of anarchy ex isting beyond tho Rio Grande. In tervention, it ls believed by the best thinkers of the country, 1B the only thing that is going to end this an archy. Presiden! W?Bon IIBB re peatedly declared that he would never countenance any interference with the right of the Mexicans to settle their own quarrels, thinking tho ques tion of human liberty too much in volved. The president's stand on this mutter has led to the general belief that Intervention hy the Uuited States In Mexicali affairs was out of tho question. Later, however, a new state of af fairs has developed, or Washington lian been made to see the situation differently. It is the starvation of the people of Mexico aB a result of the ruin brought about in the coun try through the civil warfare. The fled Urofls has made a strong appeal for succor for these starving peo tile, and relief ships bearing food are to be sent out. In doing this the United States ls confronted with the problem of preventing the diversion rf thlB food for the use of the Hilli ary factlonillstB. This may give rise to necessity or opportunity for Inter vention of a new form. It may be ?cressary to dispatch several vessels ind a detachment of the army to Mexico to protect the shipments of food, Writing along the slmlllar Une and continuing this thought of the new form of intervention, the Charleston Post says: In short, we may have to Ight the Mexican "patriot" armies for he right to feed the starving Mexi cans. But that .eed not be called lither intervention nor war, any more ban was tho Betxure and adminlstra ion of the port of Vera Crux last rear. It need not be as the other was lot, war or Intervention from the Vmerlcan point of view, but it ls cer tain the seizure of Vera Cruz wus ind reasonable to suppose the for cible supplying of ibo people would >e BO regarded by the Mexicans. We teed not regard Mexican opinion too leriotiBly in such matters-any way. ve shall not-and If Mr. Wilson has ound a formula under which he can aka effective measure to put an end o the anarchy below the Rio Grande, here will be no disposition to quibble iver terms. It would seem. Uiough. hat much better seasons than the iresent might have been found for ?leaning up Mexico. If we bad gone ibout the business a year ago we mould have had lt pretty well brough by now, and we should also lave In hand a hard and well trained irniy for any other emergencies we night have to meet. There is contolatlon in the thought hat if Prsemsyl ls taken the captors tannot give lt any name that ls hard ir to pronounce. ANDERSON REAL ESTATE. Ten real estate transfers in the :ity of Anderson, recorded in the iud Kora office during the month of .tay, shows that they brought a total if $41,450.00. or an average of $4. 145.00 per lot. Of course there Is no way we eau ret at the average size of these lots without a great dear of trouble, but udglug from the average siso of a ot, this means that dirt ls worth lomethlng in Anderson. These fig tree also speak well for tho business ronrVtimB, for although there Was bo S (tr? veal estate transaction, there /ere a number of smaller ones. This neans that people are buying for tho mrposo of betiding, In one sense ot he word, and means that Anderson s really a city ot progress. The black sheep of the family la ?ften ute .feat.-Annlston Star. Among the Russian national dances, leading the german haa at least a tem porary prominence.-Washington Post.' AFTER THIS WAR (Chicago Tribune.) After war had been declared in Europe and pacifist theorists had been compelled to retreat from their poaitlon that a general war was "humanly Impossible" they have been basing their opposition to preparedness on the theory that the world will be so war weary and so exhausted when peace is made that we need fear no aggression. This theory limps obviously when directed ot the case of Japan, so an c lab?rate effort to reveal Japan as a nation of saintlike uuselflfishn?!s^ has tieen made, though that too, has now been somewhat rebuffed by events. The pacifist prophet and doctrinaire is not, however, our concern. More important is the Judgment of Buch a man as the late Admiral Mohan, who before he died expressed the opinion that Europe would be sick of war for many years after the present conflict. Tbl? Hurely IB at least a probability, and there 1B no question that America will work to make lt as near a cer tainty as is possible in this world. But whether a federation for peace, with a reliable machinery for pacific adjustment of international differences and a partial disarmament, can be brought about ?THJBI depend entirely upon events which no one but a pacifist theorizer would predict at this stage-events in volving a more complete breakdown of the European system and a more complete break with the past than seems now at all likely. But if no constructive and institutional changes for thc assurance of peace ere accomplished, may we not rely nt least upon such a moral revulsion and cheer material exhaustion that war will become impossible for a generation at least? A suggestive comment on this theory of the exhaustive effects of war is made by Prof. R. M. Johnston of Harvard in a small but very interesting book which we should like every American, and especially every congressman, to read at this time-"Arms and the Race" (the Century company). Holland, Prof. Johnston pointa out, "sustained one of the most desolating wars recorded in modern history, and a war that lasted, with scarcely an in terruption, for no less than forty years (1568-1G09). TowardB the close of the conflict success, coupled with maritime preponderance, inclined to the Dutch arms. Hardly had lt terminated when the Dutch people displayed such extraordinary energy as perhaps no European State has ever equaled. Almost immediately they captured the carrying trade of Europe and devel oped a commercial civilization that was the wonder and envy of all their neighbors. Three years before the truce of 1609 it was already reckoned that the Dutch had three ships to the English one, while half a century later Colbert Btated that there were about twenty Dutch ships to every French one. Their cities throve as none other in Europe. Their art rivaled that of Italy ind Spain and France. With^Grotlus they founded systematic international law. With Spinoza a little later they founded the philosophy of materialism." Prof. Johnston's explanation ls that "thc energy generated by war. the confidence engendered by success, and the adaptability and resourcefulness taught by military enterprise far offset debit that may come from the loss ot a percentage of the young male population." "Successful war," he as serts, "even of such prolonged and devastating character as the Dutch war for Independence, hs the sure forerunner of a vigorous period of expansion;" and he adds: "For modern instances of the rule we need seek no further than our own northern StateB after the civil war or Germany after the war of 1870." Historic parallels need cautious handling, but American statesmanship and the American nation, whose will controls lt, will tempt disaster If In spite of the leBBona of history and the warnings of preseut experience they assume that the European complex Is now to be resolved In unending peace and an equilibrium established for the first time in the history of the world. Such a felicitous outcome is imaginable. It is not in the least probable. ? * ? ABOUT THE STATE. ? ? ? **?**??+?*+*?*?**?*?*? Rural Telephone. A number of farmers have gotten together and organized a telephone company to build a line from Lake City to Hemingway, by way of Sin gle. This will be a great convenience. With the rural route, parcel post and telephone thc country ls in close touch with towns and experience little incon venience by reason of distance.-Lake City News. Irish Potatoes Hart. It became apparent recently that the Irish, potato crop In some sections of the county would he cut off first by the drouth and next by the sudden floods. The Myrtle Beach Fa '?JIB Company, seem to be the hardest hit, as they planted for 15,000 barrels and will get but about 1,000 barrels. This unprecedented bad luck will have Ita effect on the business conditiona st this season of the year.-Horry Her ald. Mr. E. B. Mc Bachern brings The Herald what he says is the largest cotton stalk ever grown in Dili m county. It ls, of course, a last year's stalk. In a good state of preservation. It measures six Inches in circumfer ence and has the proportions of s small tree. Mr. McEachern also brought along several stalks of ehest taken from a field on his place. The heads measure six inchea In length and are well developed.-Dillon Her ald. Boa BRI Escaped. Joe, the three-year-old son, and Au* na. the live-year-old daughter of Dep uty Sheriff J. E. Jones were desper ately sick not long ago from eating shake strawberries. Jack and Hugh Bradley were sick for several days re cently and also from the same'cause. The Bradley boys and our son Bill, went down tn the rear of Foster Barn well's lot and found a vine there. Son Bill only ate those with "fur" on them, as he says those without "fur" have been licked by the snakes and poison ed. Jack and Hugh ate both kinds and were poisoned while Bill escaped. Bill got his Information from that great student of nature. J hm Coleman. -Abbeville Press and Banner. l-800R?l-<vcubB Gas Matas Are Elevated Above City Streets. On streets in New York, where aubwsy construction work la In prog ress, the gas mains are elevated on temporary trestles erected above the curb lines at a height semblent to clear the tops of motor busses aad traction ears at tbs crossings. This ls done la order to eliminate the danger of explosions, and In mott caaes the other utility pines, such ss telephone snd other electric conduits, are Rift beneath the street; surface while the excavating la going ea. The danger with a gas main in subway work ls that there ls always a chance for a weak to occur am* cause a leakage which aright easily result In a disastrous explosion. A picture In the Jane Popcfar Meehan lea Mags sine shows a street where the malas are elevated. +??++*+???*?+*?+*#++*? ? * ? EPOCHS IN WORLD WAR * ? ? 1914- % July 28-Austria declared war ugainst Serbia following assassina tion by a Serb of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand. July 30-Germany gave Russia 24 hours to explain mobilization. August 1-Germany declared war against Russia. August 2-Germany violated Bel gian neutrality. AugUBt 3-Germany asked Belgium to facilitate movement of German troops. Belgium appealed to England. August 3-England announced she would fight If the Kaiser's fleet at tacked the French coast. August 4-Germany declared war against France. August 4-Germany declared war against Belgium. August 4-England declsred wsr against Germany. Latter retaliated. August 6-Austria declsred war aganist Russia; Russia declsred wsr against Austria. August 7-Montenegro declared war against Austria. August 9-Austria declared war against Montenegro. August 10-France declared war against Austria. August 12-Montenegro declared war against Germany. August 12 (midnight)-England de clared war against Austria August 23-Japan declared wsr against Germany. August 25-Austria declared war against Japan. November 6-England declared war against Turkey. 1915 May 23-Italy declared war against Austria. May 24-Germany announced state of war wi,h Italy. Building Highway Across Storm King Moneta! n. "With all surveys completed and 'a practical route selected, plans are now being made for the instruction during, the coming summer of the highway across the face of. 8torra King Mountain, n promontory that rises sheer from the west shore of the Hodson River a short distance north of West Point, N. Y.," says the June Popular Mechanics Magasine, In an illustrated article. "This will be one of the most Interesting and dif ficult pieces of highway construction ever attempted in this country. Be tween the foot of the cliff and the river ls barely room for the tracks of the Weat Shore Railroad. To fiad additional room ter a htr*:w*y lt ia, necessary to go nearly ??0 ft up the face of the mountain and excavate ai ledge In the soHd reek. The high way will he about 4 1-2* mites long, with a roadway 24 ft wide, and ls es timated to cost close to 1290,000. Starting at Cornwall, at aa elevation M 1*0 ft. ibove the river, lt follows the contour of the cliff to an apex on tho face nf the mountain SM ft. above the river ass? tm stag from tats point to a connection with a State tread near West Point, 5 i8 ft. above the river." If you want the tip top of style this is the recruiting station for your wardrobe. We have a scout that finds out just what is doing in the field of fashion --and keeps this store stocked with the right supplies for the man who wants the correct armament to win success. Manhattan Shirts $1.50 to $3.50. B-O-E Shirts 50c to $1.50. Sport Shirts 50c to $2. Arrow Collars 2 for 25c. Clocked Socks 50c. Weightless and warmtliless sum mery suits-Palm Beach to Silklike -$7 to $10. Worsted Suits $10 to $25. mTbt ahUta mjCanckitcm ? ? ? WIT AND HUMOR. * ? + Frigid Repartee. Mrs. Fiunegan kept a boarding bouse and one day young Johnson rame to her with several complaints. She listened in Bllence ior a few mo ments, but as the young man waxed eloquent she lost her patience. "Don't I know every one o? the tricks of your trade?" said Johnson, with considerable heat. "Do you think I have lived in boarding houses 15 years for nothing?" "Well," replied Mrs. Finnegan, icily, "I shouldn't be at all surprised." One From Mother. A Chicago matron of great beauty called one day upon a friend, bring ing with her her 10-year-old daughter, who promises to be as handsome as her mother. The callers were shown into a room where the friend bad been receiving the milliner and many hats were scat tered about. During the conversa tion the 10-year-old amused berseir by trying these on. She was parti cularly pleased by the effect of the last one. Turning to ber mother she said : "Mother, I look Just like you now, don't I?" "Sh!" cautioned the mother, with uplifted finger/ "Don't be vain, dear." This Is Going Some. At the Twentieth Centry Club a member told this story: An American actor was once con versing with a man of much scientific attainment. The scientist narrated in detail a series of experiments he was conducting the microphone. "The microphone," said he, "magni fies sounds to the ear aa the mlcrso t jpe magnifies.objects to the? eye. Tbe footfalls of a spider heard through the microphone sound like the tramp ot marching Infantry." "That is amazing" was the polite comment. "This afternoon," continued the man of science, "I heard a fly walking across the pane. The noise resembled the hoof-beats of a cavalryman's mount." "Perhaps lt was a horsefly," sug gested the actor. Rebuked. He was deeply in love with his wife, but awfully careless about mon ey mattera. He started away on a long business trip leaving her short of money, and promised to send her a check-which be forgot to do. The rent came dee and she telegraphed: "Dead broke. Landlord insistent. Wire me money.** Her husband answered: "Am short myself. Will send check la few days. A thousand kisses." Exasperated, his wife implied: "Never mind money. I gave land' lord one of the kisses. He was more than satisfied." Na foqaette. Mothe--Sometimes there ere rude boys In Sunday school who gigle and smile at little girls, and sometimes little girls smile hack at them, but I hope my little girl does not behave like that. Small Daughter-No, indeed, ma ma, I always-put out my tongue at .em. lae Artful Dodger. In a hospital at Cape Town during the South African war the keenness of certain amateur members of the nursing staff tended .to aggravate, rather than alternate, the sufferings of same ot the wounded. At las the British soldier's native wit came to the rescue. One morning a sick soldier's bed clothes displayed a slip of paper inscribed: -Too Ul to be nursed today!" t>aiet Te wsw "clinkers wanted some dims of a quiet town for the 'lld Oaken Bucket' series. So he seat a couple of mea with a machine to Nubbins' Cornera. They stayed threre a week." "Welir "NotMaz moved.ClevelaBd Plate Dealer. RIESS CC Let Him Conies*. (Charlotte Observer.) There ls no doubt about the tact that Charles A. Becker, under sen tence to die in the electric < chair during the week of July 12, has se crets locked In his breast that would be o ftremendous importance in New York criminal circles. Thero ls a hop? expressed in some quarters that he will decide lo reveal these secrets, but thea.- hopea are possibly not so strong as the feara entertained by others that he might do so. Beck er, it ls said, has made up his mind not to consent to an appeal based on mercy, but he is will in; io make u confession, if his life may be nnvod therf-by. (?overno.- Whitman should strike tho bargu'i. The revelations which Becker might make would Justly that ac?'.ir Becked:- version of the killing ot Merman Rosenthal would be worth naving. Facts Overrule Mr. Dnulels. (Chicago Tribune.) Having ruo hts wllclal head into un mistakable and notorious prooi of th? unsatisfactory' 'condition af our sub marines. S?cr?tai y Daniels announce a thorough investie, it lin At n hearing be'jre the house naval committee during the last session Commander Sterling had the courages to tell that body that only one sub marine was fit for service. Secre tary Daniels is now catching up with the facta. Meanwhile he has heen giving forth the optimistic buncombs which may be good pol?tica at times but ls not patriotism. It is to be boped the next congress will meet with a determination, asDlBted by rous public opinion, to put official optimism aside, to unmuzzle the experts now kept silent by department orders in spired by an idiotic ostrich policy, and to give the navy all the legisla tion it ls shown to need, not in the view of Mr..Daniels but according to the knowledge of the men who will be called upon bo sail a,ul fight our ships If the American public is not blind it has seen what efficiency and readi ??*+***??+*+????*?+* + * .> ? ? Or DS AND ENDS. * ? ? To wash discolored embroidery, place In a vessel with cold water, bit!** ed, but not too deep, and with the lu Ice of a lemon. Boll for half an hour, and afterwards rinse in cold ?rater and dry in fresh air. Bread should never be covered with i cloth when taken from the oven, but laid on the Bide and allowed to be tten? perfectly cold, then kept in a siosely covered tin box without any wrappings. During the war with the Turks ia 1907. Sir John Duckworth succeeded in tatting to Constantinople despit the tact that his wooden vessels were as laileVr by th? Turks with Btone cannon Dalia so great that two men were re laired to roll one of them up? plank. .The Dardanelles are about 33 miles long. In places they are some lour or ive miles across, but In one place,, the Marrows, Urey are only 1,300 yards. Wie average width ls about three niles. One Inch of rain equals 101 tons to ike acre. In'New Caledonia heads of,infants ire squeesed Into different shapes, the Caces oC boys being lengthened to oak like warriors av?i the girls' faces nada oval by pressing up the chin. No matter how old a Cossack is hs >e!ongt to the reserve forces ot the, Nat km al Defense'' Itt Russia, and, lt \ *eoetred, acooa&pantes his sons and jrandsonB to battle. Nine years ago the Duke ot Con laught waa made.,? Prussian field oarshel. )MMENT ness pitted against .unreadiness and muddling can achieve. It has Been what easy going optimism covering unpreparedness costs, and lt will de mand of the next congress that its negligence and incompetence make way for action under the guidance of men who know. Civilian Ministers. (Philadelphia Record.) Obviously the position of a civilian secretary o< war or secretary of the navy is a v..y delicate one during a war. If he would not handicap the service at the head of which he 1B, he must exercise his functions in the most general way. He cannot safe interfere much with the performance of his duties by the commander of an army or of a fleet, who Ts, in a legal tense, his subordluate. He can B >eak with authority on the political considerations controlling one opera tion instead of anther. He may rec mmend officers to the president for high commands, but even here he must act largely under the advice of pro fessionals. He can hardly undertake to plan a campaign, for his own knowledge of ofilcera must be scanty and bis ability to Judge of their qual ifications very limited. His main duty is that of getting the necessary appropriations and convincing con gress and the country that adequate results aro obtained for 'ho invest ment. Great Britain installed its most dis tinguished military commander in tts war office at the outset of the war. It left a civilian at the head of the navy, but the navy has it snaval lords as well as its first lord, who 1B a mem ber of parliament. The management of the navy has not been brilliant, lt has been In the Judgment of some observers, incompetent, tl may be suspected that the civilian has inter fered too much with the management of the service. If the present agita tion for a reorganization of tho cabi net shall result in making Lord Fish er first lord of the admiralty,, the step will be entirely analogous to that by which Lord Kitchener became the secretary of state for war. ? FUNNYGRAPHS ? * + t*ft*->*4t*v*tv**tt**4>4> Spaghetti and sauer kraut will make an awful mix up.-Tampa Tribune. Give two men ten beers aplce and a little space at the end of a bar and they will hold a cabinet meeting and tell tho European powers where to get off.-Clnclnnnatl Enquirer. The entrance of Italy luto the war will give Germany a squint at a scrap of paper fro ma new angle.-Boston Transci Ipt. "When woman gets the ballot," pre dicts t. writer, "everything will be hustle and bustle." Are they coming back in style?-Wilmington Dispatch. Mexico, however, will hardly ever break into the Hst ot nations too prond to fight.-Detroit Free Fans. Nothing get sa woman madder than to Insinuate that she doesn't use but ter in her conking.-Ohio State Jour nal. - The thought of all these cathedrals In Italy must make the Teutonic month fairly water.-^Boston Tran script. Germany declares her army won't erse Switzerland to fight Italy. So loes Switzerland.- Philadelphia North american. Reports that the kaiser ls mad sug gest that everybody else In Europa teems to be ba a similar condition. IR rm Ingham Ledger. ''Petrograd on Setback. "-headHne. ?Vom psst achievements as a bluffer, we would much prefer to hi iii Totti) trad on poker.-Raleigh Times.