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THE INTELLIGENCER ESTABLISHED I860. Published every morning except Hominy by The Anderson Intelligen cer at 140 West Whltner Street, An derson, 8. C. SEMI-WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER Published Tuesdays and Fridays L. M. GLENN.. < .Editor and Manager Entered as second-class matter April 25, 1011, at tba pool office at Andereon, South Carolina, under the Act of March 3. 187?. ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES Telephone .821 SUBSCRIPTION BATES DAILT One Year .16.00 Six Months .2.60 Three Months.1.26 One Month.42 One Week .10 i SEMI-WEEKLY One Year .11.60 Six Months .76 The Intelligencer ls delivered by carrier? in the city. Look at *h? printed label on your paper. The date thereon shows when tbe subscription expires. Notice date on label carefully, and If not correct please 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 plaints of non-delivery In tbe city of Anderson should be mads to the Circulation Department before 9 a. m. and a copy will be ssnt at once. All cbecka and drafts sbonld be drawn to The Anacreon Intelligencer. ADVERTISING Rates will be furnished on applica tion. No tf advertising discontinued ex sept on written order. The Intelligencer will publish brief ned rational letters on subjects of general Interest when they are no companied by the names and ad dresses of the authors and are not of a defamatory nature. Anonymous communications will not be noticed. Rejected manuscripts will not be re turned. In order to avoid delays on account af personal absence, letters to The Intelligencer Intended for publication should not be addressed to any Indi vidual connected with the paper, but simply to The Intelligencer. THURSDAY, JULY 16, 191 G. WEATHER FORECAST Partly cloudy with probable scat tered thunder showers Thursday and Friday. The New Orleans officials don't seem to be able to pierce the "Peace" mys tery. A crank is a thing used to start something with-a sensation, for in stance. o It takes thin clothing as well aa an scven temper for a man to keep cool thone days. Of all attachments for automobiles. the ono handed down by thc ahcriff ia tho most unwelcome. ? '? i o Huerta Is to give up bis Long Island home and movo to El Paso. What is Long Island's loss 1? El Paso's afflic tion. .. With Mounts Lassen and Vesuvius and Bryan and Roosevelt-all eruptlrg, things are livening up on this sphere these dayn. Our notion of a morning glory ls a Co'.??..nhln waffle.-Tho State. Our notion' of a night hawk ia The State'a diabolical paragrapher. We call lt "clvtl" court and go right ahead with the trial of some of tho most uncivil scrapes mortals ever became entangled In. -o While tho European armies are en gaged in giving one another checks Uncle Sam and Germany are busy giving each other.noten. Anderson has an orderly Chinese colony. His bas been here now several months and we've nover hoard of bim getting in the slightest trouble. o. ? ? The separation of an Atlanta couple calla forth a headline clear across tho front piage of an Atlanta paper. Life In Atlanta ls Just one sensation after another. , A kind of rat-trap affair for a hus band to put in bis loose cnange pocket when be goes to bed would command a very large aal?.--York News. Where does this brother, who never wore ?he yoke of matrimony, get his license t? talk about robbing the male? WA UNG UP CHINA. Saya Yuan Shi Ks!, president of tho Chinese republic, in a pror.vjuuatlon setting forth Chiba's position as a ra ?ult of bor yii Idlug to Japan's dc mandi: "Wo aro ashamed of Hu- humiliation, but should we blame others while ?ve ourselves are nt fault? Our own woakness luis invited the insult, und I feel that I am u man of Utile vir tue and ability." However, lie addn, by way of half apology for the gov ernment's action, "we.have no right to stake the existence int a nation; therefore wo have to work out its sal tation with care." 'lhere in such honest sincerity In these word? that they leave no doubt of China's humiliation. While Japan seems not to have actually gobbled up Chinese territory or 'overthrown Chinese autonomy, alie has come so near doing both thut she hus dealt a hitter blow to the nation's pride. Hut In the very fact that China keenly feels the indignity, and ls ntdinmed of her weakness, there la hope for her. It appears to be the first time In China's long history of foreign domination and tyranny that lier people have felt such a sense of political shame. It ls evidence of A new national spirit. When a nation comes to realize that lt IH "of little virtue nnd ability" instead of whin ing, mid confesses manfully that Its misfortunes arc its own fault, there I. hope for it. China must yet wipe out the shame, not In blood, let us hope, but in peace ful rivalry, by means of the Intel lectual, Industrial and political prog ress of which the nation ls capable. I! humiliation is a spur to such prog ress, Japan, with thc worst Inten tions, han done China a great favor. NO BOOZE FOK MEDICINE. Another blow has boen dealt to alcohol. The medical profession has abandoned it. Such, at least, is thc Interpretation pinned on thc omission of whiskey and brandy from the pend ing issue of tho "United States Phar macopeia," an official reference book tired by pharmacists, physicians and chemists. It is explained that up-to-date pny slelans are generally ngreed that al cohol Isn't much good as a medicine anyway, and very few o.' them now prescribe either ns a tonic. The com mission In charge of the Pharmacopeia lins had difficulty, too, with the terms "Whiskey" and "brandy." Not being satisfied with the government's authorisation of those names for various blends Instead of the chemi cally pure articles, they chose to play safe by ruling out everything of the sort. It was felt too that drug stores wouid be subject to les temptation to carry on an Illicit liquor business if the medical sanction for keeping a stock of ardent spirits was done away with. After this scientific repudiation of the Demon Rum In the sphere of medi cine, a man who wants a drink won't have any good excuse to offer except, perhaps, one of the old familiar "Soven Reasons for Taking a Drink'." "Because he's hot, bocause he's cold, because he'a young, because he'e old, because he's wet, because ho's dry or any other reason why." , Ad n m's Advantage* Whatever trouble Adam mtssod. This must have snado him sore, When he and Mother Eve fell out He couldn't slam the door. -Birmingham Age-Herald. Whatever troubles Adam had And'ho had some, I 'sposo, , He never sat behind a hat At moving picture shows. -Houston Post. Whatever troubles Adam had He always had a chance, For sure he had nuver to fear That Eve would wear the paola. New Orleaun Item. Whatever troubles Adam had He didn't have to shiver Out upon a mountain road Patching tires for a Flivver. -Lu Jolla. Cal., Journal. Whtcver troubles Adam had I'll bet ono made bim fleet-O Not having any clothes, you see He had to dodgo the spry musquito. ' -York New?. Whatever troubles Adam had But wo don't believe he had any. For when Eve wanted a new dross It didn't coat a darned penny. What the Difference Ia. The difference between n sweet girl graduate and a suffragette ls on ly about twenty years.-Columbia Record. . Up te the Georgia Editar. The first business of the editors at Hartman this week should be to ad journ the legislature and atop the war.-Moultrie Observer. In ancient Greece am?thyste wera worn around thc neck to prevent in toxication; hence the name, walch moans "unintoxicated." THE BALAN( FROM BKTB?TJ There's so much goo So much of laughter ar So little honest cause t So much of decency a That 1 forget that I ha The sordid things of lil There are so many spl That is has been my ji So many friends to thi Night falls upon the ea That what of selfishne Is very easy to forget. Have 1 been treated fa Some one I had been I ls that a reason fair th; Should say the whole And thus condemn the To me were always kii The good so far outwt The right so much exa More happy hours thei That we should never So much that's fine I c lt makes the sum of s Peace With H< (Chlaego Tribuno.) It would bo cowardice which would abase thc nation to mortgage the fu ture for the protection of the pr?sent, but thia ia not what the United Staten would do if lt came to au agreement with Germany. We have demanded that Germany comply -Uh international law. Ger many has replied that her enemies do not observe it and that consequently shu cannot. We know that Germany's enemies do not observe the law and have ddressod them on that aubject, but without great result. That Ger many suffers from lt ia no concern nf ours; that we suffer from it Is. Great Britain's offense is the Ignor ing of rights which have trade signi ficance. Germany's offense involves the -Ki I In ig nf Americans. In princi ple lt is intolerable that either bel ligerent should impose its policies or (... necessities upon us in violation of Intermit Ional law. In fact, we have found lt more easy to tolerate the British practiced than we have the German because Great Britain, al , though offending our national dignity ty slighting our rights, doeB a dam age which is subject tb remedy In In dividual cases, whereas Germany does an irremediable wrong when she kills our citizens. Nevertheless, if we are to stand fer /.irlndplej of International law our quarrel Ilea with Great Britain aa well as Germany. Wo do not think it hu miliating to negotiate compromises with Great Britain. Shall we connirter lt humilttlng to *ek compromises with Germany? What we endeavor to do in the < ase of Great Britain la to obtain auch mitigations of the severity of thc rule? against our commerce ns wo may und to get payment for material damage done In tho seizure of cargoes from the United States to neutral or Ger man ports. We havu not addressed a note to Groat Britain stating that the righi of the United States to ' unabridged trade with Holland niny not be Invad ed and that we shall; hold Great Britain to strict accountability for any interruption of it. Wc have not told the British government that w< shall not omit any word or deed to protect American trade with German portft in the absence of a clone cordon blockade such as international law recognizes as the only effective block ade. Tho point ls that the government ? GEORGIA PRESS. ? ? + ???????????????wv** * ? + There Is No Such Thing. All our HveB we have heard of per petual motion and too much water melon. But In all this time wc have never come in contact with either.-? Savannah Press. The Automobile Tax. Judge Charlton, of Savannah, hps ruled that the automobile tax vio lates the provision of the constitu tion. The unequal distribution of the tax has made the law unpopular. The fund created by this tax should ?be devo.ed to the state school fund .instead of the public roads.-Sand era vi Ile Georgian. Bryan For the Firing Line. In the event of war, we suppose there is no likelihood of WIIHam Jen nings Bryan raising another regiment of Nebraskan volunteers.-Albany Herald. Net to Tamper Wrth lt. The tax equalization law ls not go ing to be tampered with yet. The peo ple seem to be satisfied with its ac complishment so far.-Thomasville Timos. What the Ont look Ts. With a fslr price for the cotton, there is nothing that can hold South back, particularly as good prices ore being paid or other products. For In i stance, tho Georgia peach growers bave a far greater crop this year and yet are getting fifty cents more a crate fer them.-Columbus Ledger. OF GOOD r vuv.v. PH ESS. A and kidness here, id light, o sneer, nd right, ve seen re and mean. lendid men )y to know; nk of when rtli below, ss I've met lsely by cd to trust ? it I world is unjust, many, who id and true? :i,?hs the bad, ieds the wrong, re are than sad, mourn for long, an recall, ?hame seem small. mor, or War? has found a compromise which pre vents trouble with Great Hrllaln. We ?hink that this was wise, and we hope that as negotiations proceed it will he found possible to remove causer, of controversy. We eliave not asked tor war with Great Uritain to sustain our rights. We have recognized that new fctorsi have entered into control of the sea and they cannot be set aside Ex-udemically. The further point, then, is that we muBt be prepared to deal with Ger many in the same spirit. What we demand of Germany is protection of our national Interests. The truth is that Germany's offer 1s a moro com plete recognition of our rightB than O reut Britain has seen possible to offer. The truth ls lost sight of because Germany's offense is that of killing our citizens, whereas Great Britain's is morel}* that of interupting the course of our commerce. But Ger many offers terms which will insure the safe passage of any American who wishes to go lo Europe and Great Britain does not remove its restric tions upon our trade. If the Gormans sahl that their nee ossifies! >did not penult them to con sider the safety ,of our citizens we should have another case against theni, and lt might Justify war. Even if the issue were in this aggravated' form we know that a number of Americans would believe it the duty of our people to keep out of the pro scribed sea zones where travel is un safe and not t lonvolve the country ?n war to protect them. That would bo coming close to pusillanimity, but we are not required to make such a choice. An agree ment can be reached with Germany which will give Americans safe con duct, and it need not be a part of the principles of German submarine war fare. We do not need to mortgage tho future for present security. All we have to do is lo accept present condi tions, keep whtever opinion we wish to hold regarding the violations ot law and humanity, and preserve not all our rights but a practical working application of hem. If wc try to reach an agreement wc may be ble to obtain further conces sions and reach a fair compromise, but there is no sign whatever that we cnn obtain aitch a recognition of sea law as we have demanded. The question, then, ls whether we are try ing to preserve peace honorably or to seek war. ? ********* * * * CAROLINA PRESS. * ****************.&** * ?? Queerest af Happening?. These are very queer times, but In our mind the queerer!', happenings ot tho past week were the successes of the Columbia baseball team.-. Greenwood Journal. The Man Who leeks For Trouble. Our idea of a pessimist ls a man who, unable to rind anything els to worry about, is worrying abou'. the political campaign we will have : a this R?ate next year.-Spartanburg Journal. Anxiety ?f the Politician. A young lady walting for him to "pop the question" knows how the politician feels when he waits for the the lightning stroke.-Spartan burg Journal. The Worth af the Crematory, The ceremony established at Clem son College has been a splendid suc cess and has afforded a very valuable adjunct to the farming business in adjacent counties of the Piedmont. Dr. Long, state agent in charge of demonstration work, ls authority for tho statement that a crematory will be established at the experiment farm near this city.-Florence Times. Above AH. Let There Be Peace. If til,, counrrj could ssly be as sured of peace, the future would look very bright and promising to all lines of business. But the war-cloud threatens, and no mian can tell what a day may bring forth.-Newberry Ob server. "There is nothing that this a whatever standpoint we survey more, physically, intellects morally, than thorough ventil -b We've accompl Loosley woven light and see ho Niever before si Palm Beach Su blacks with nea Crash Suits $8. Tropicloth and Underwear bui ventilation. U suits in soft poi Parcel Post, Fr< *++++******??**?+*?*<.. ? ? ? ? ODDS AND ENDS. + ? ? In tho Middle Ages people in Eng land wore the beaks, or points, 'of | their shoes so long that they encum bered themselves in walking and were forced to tie them up to their knees. Guns with a bore of twelve inches or more can only lire 90 full charges. They are then considered to be worn out. ant* have to be sent to the fou.t dry to have a new core inserted. When one of the enemy ia cap turned he is disarmed by taking the bolt from his riffle. His bayonet ls confiscated, but he still bs made to carry his ammunition and ri tile, tor | both are useless. The Romans punished patricides by first scourging the criminal, then sew ing him up in a leathern sack made a?r-tight with a live dog, a cook, a viper and an ape, and thus casting him Into the sea. Methodist ministers of Ohio have banished clocl.s from their churches on the grourd that their presence tends to ?distract congr?gation?. Fruit should commence a meal, not end it. The volume of the rocky crust of the earth, estimated as 10 mileB thick, including the mean elevation of the ! land above the sea, 1? 1,633,000,000 cubic mileB. A new mineral called thorlanite has bern obtained from the residue of { gem washing in Ceylon. It carries more than 70 per cent of thorium dioxide, 7 per cent of the cerium group, 12 per cent of uranie dioxide, ! 2 per cent of lead monoxide, and ac- j cesBory weights of ferric oxide and { silica. i The dirigible torpedo of a New York j Inventor ls propelled electrically. J guided by a single insulated wire, and , kept at the required distance below i the surface by an automatic depth I regulator. At the will of the opera- I tor a Jet of water or a beam of light ! can be thrown up from the torpedo to j show the exact location reached. Considerable study bas been devot-! ed to the cause of the Aurora Bor ealis, or "Northern Lights," but the only conclusion which has as yet been ? arrived at is that they must ve as cribed to tho agency of electricity in tho upper regions of the atmosphere, in what way the phenomenon Is pro duced remains unknown. That such ls the case is certain from the fact that during brilliant auroral dlBplavs the tnagnctio needle is generally agi tated. The air at the t ame time ia often observed to be so highly charb ed with electricity As to interfere materially with the working of tele graph linea. lt is often difficult and sometimes I dangerous to use ordinary explosives for mining and excavating in confined ?spaces-a fact that has led to the de velopment cf :he hydraulic mining j cartridge as a safe and effective sub stitute. The cartridge consists of steel cylinder, containing numerous small pistons that move at rlghtj angles to the longitudinal axis of tbe main cylinder, and that expand when j water is injected into them with a band pump. After drilling a deep enough hole the workmen insert the, main cylinder, and thea'set to work at the band pump. The tiny pistons ex-, pand until their free extremities bear! against the mses of rock with con stantly Increasing force, and the -rock Js gradualy fractured -under the tre mendous pressure. The operaUcu lt is said, ts not only cheaper than Ute ordinary blast, bot disintegrates a larger area of rock. ge, from it, needs iHy and ation." ,>J\ ' :uskin. r-H ishcd this in our Coolstyle fabrics-hold the coat u >w the are can ventilate. ich comfort tor hot days. its in natural color, gray, 1 t stripes $6 to #10. 50. Silklike $10. Mohair Suits $S to $12.5< lt on the same modern pr nion Suits 50c to $2. 1 lgee and nainsook $1. iight and Express Prepaid. The Store with a Coi PRESS CC An Abnormal Crimina!. (Brooklyn Citizen.) The fire aboard the Atlantic trans port steamship Minnehaha, off Hali fax, immediately led to n suspicion that the conflagration was in some I .way connected witli the activities of Holt or Muenter, to give bim bis right I name. In a letter written to his wife in Dallas, Texas, Muenter boasted that he had concealed explosives in the bold of a steamer which left this elly on July 3 bound for Liverpool. H? was not quite sure of her name, it was either the Saxonia or the Phil adelphia, but it might have been some other vessel. The Minnehaha left Now York on Saturday with a cargo of ammunition and war supplies, mund for Liverpool. . Later Informa tion from the burning vessel may dis prove present conjecturez based only on coincidence. That Holt or Muen ter was fully capablo of doing what he told his wife, his career sufficiently shows. Under the name of Muenter he was suspected of bracing poisoned his wife. He was indicted for tho crime, but never tried, as he disap peared out of the ken of men and no trace of him was found, until his at tempt to kill Mr. Morgan led to an investigation ot his life. All that has become known about bim makes lt clear that the man WAS Insane. He was a dangerous lunatic even before the war broke ont, and all bis disordered faculties were ab sorbed by it. The outcry against the! export of munitions to the allies made by the German press and the organ ized German propaganda tock a strong hold on his cracked brain and led him to conceive the murderous Idea of killing Mr. Morgan, the fiscal agent of the allies in the purchase of war supplies, and of blowing up steamers carrying these supplies to the enemies of Germany. It was not his fault that MB plans came to grief. He possessed all the fanaticism, bold ness, cunning and education neces sary to carry out such a granitlose criminal scheme. The sole question for the authorities to ascertain is j whether or not he had accomplices. ABOUT Tl Coker Behool a Success. The Bummer school at Coker col-1 lego which has been in Bcsteton for a | month came to a close yesterday af ternoon and a large number of teach ers and students passed through the city yesterday afternoon on their way to their various homes throughout this section. This waa the first year the school at thia institution and it is snid by those who attended to have been a decided success. A larger number of students were the Canning club girls of the Pee Deo section Who won the short course offered by Coker last year.-Florence Times. Baseball lu Florence. A party ot gentlemen who are in terested "in Feeing Florence have an I up-to-date Athletic Prk went out1 Ulis morning and inspected a piece of j land which they report will be ideal In every respect A meeting will bc called itt the near future and an or ganisation will be perfected. After ] this work will commence at once on the ground so that all of the baseball ! games In August ?nd the footfall games this fall can be played on the j new athletic field. This is good news for the Florence fans for lt wtil put Forence right out in front as much 'aa anything else that could happen/ (Florence Tunes. Delfghtfn? Anticipation. The Initial joint meeting-Or rather the idea ot one Carolina press asso ciation visiting another while lt waa in session-strikes us aa mighty fina Suits, p to the blues and o. inciple of Two-piece .ii 4 nsaence )MMENT 1 Aa Kdncatlonal Campaign. ( (Now York TimoH.) Tho educat Ional campaign which tho Navy league intends to institute. In those parts of the country more or less remote from the seafront, for the promotion of interest in the develop ment of the navy should havo good results. It is not from "Zack of patriotism that so many ot the in habitants of thc Middle, Western, and Southern States arc so generally dis posed to leave naval discussions to thc people on the seaboard, nor ia the mere fact that the Atlantic and Pacific States are expbsed to danger from the attack by sea, In case there should bo any provocation for such at tack, the only reason why their repre sentatives in congress are generally willing to vote <n favor of large naval appropriations. The people who live nt tidewater sea tho ships frequently, they have first hand information of tho capacity of the navy, its quality and its needs. A course of Illustrated lectures on the warships and their armament and the officers and men of the navy such as Rear Admiral Cowies, retired, sometimes gives be fore clubs and societies in this part of the country would probably be highly effective in many places far from the two oceans. The navy ls too rarely, If ever, up permost lu the .minds of the voters in more than half of our States. The Navy League proposes to ont all the facts about our principal means ot de fense vividly before such people, to Impress upon them the indisputable fact that the maintenance ot an effi cient modern ncvy is as necessary for their j rosperlty as for ours and. the Cull tomi na.' If this ls effectively dene wc shall not have so many of the Western and Southwestern Con gressmen either neglecting tb vote at all or voting in tho' negativa session alter reevlon, when, tho Naval Ap propriation bill ls brought up. We pointed out the urgent need of a cam paign of ?ducation the other day, and k is encouraging to learn that tho Navy cLngbe hud already taken steps lr. that direction. iE STATE business, and we are glad South Car olina had the pleasure and honor of being the first body to receive recog nition In that manner from her sister association, it Is arno gratifying to know that plans for the next gather ing are already being discussed. The prospects re that we will bo able Jointly to "pull off a stunt" worth while next summer.-Gaffney Ledger. Caught Big Tarpons. Mr. A. P. McKissick and sch, Mr. Ellison P. McKissick, have returned from Ute west coast of Florida where they spent several days fishing with Messrs. W. E. Beattie and W. C. Cleveland of Greenville. The trip proved to be not only a delightful, but a most successful one from the angler's standpoint. The party caught .'K tarpon weighing 233 pounds. The largest fish tipped the Scalen at 140 pounds, and was sis feet seven inches long.-Greenwood Journal. Farmers In York County, "Well, Bullock's Creek certainly aaa plenty to eat thia year," sadd a farmer of that township, Saturdy. "Every body hs good groans, there are lota of )rish potatoes and fruit is plentiful -apples, peaches and plums, and be sides, there are lota of chickens In the country and they are fat Ever* man who sowed wheat made a good yield. One man who sowed three fourths of a bushel, threshed out 28 bushels and lots of others did as Well. Yes? we've plenty to cat. in Bullock's Creek."-Yorkville Ev {uirer.