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TH? INTELLIGENCER ESTABLISHED ISM. * ? Published ?very morning except Monday by Tbe Anderson Intelllgen ter st 140 Weat Wbitner 81root. An derson, 8. 0. SEMI-WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER Published Tuesdays and Fridays L. M. GLENN....Editor and Manager Entered aa second-class matter April 28, 1914, at the post office st Anderson, South Carolins, ander the ?ct of March ?,.1879. ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES telephone .821 SUBSCRIPTION BATES DAILY Ona Year.IB.00 Six Months .2.60 rbree Months.. 1.25 Ono Month.48 Ona Week.~* 19 SEMI-WEEKLY One Year v.....81.50 Biz Months .76 The Intelligencer ia delivered by terriers in the city. Look at the printed label on your paper. The date thereon shows when tb? subscription eipires. Notice date on label carefully, and if not correct alease notify ns at once. Subscribers desiring the address of their paper changed, will please state in their communication both tba old sud new addresses. 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Groundhog Ed Smith - may now come out of hie bolo. ti o ?? Thc ftllioB will have to gire up the Dardanelles campaign. Three kings can't beat'a strait O All Gaul is divided Into three parts -those who have lt, those who Want lt,.and those who lie beneath Its sod. ? " o . Commission form of government for cities may not be a failure, but some times the men tho .Voters put in charge of it are. ?' ' O; ' - It looks as if Columbia were doing its best to win the championship from Charleston ia a certain brand of municipal pol?tica. --o The man who .borrows trouble al ways pays more than the logal rate of Interest, but lt ls mighty bard to convict the leader of breaking the usury laws. The war la said to be costing $1, 40Q a second. How we'd like to spike the guns for half a minute while we thrust an icthlng palm into the war cheat! -o A recent Michigan case held that a turkey if?, an* animal. The decision will be generally accepted as correct aa Judge Bird wrote the opinion of the court o The Connan word for starter is houptabgarti^istelleauflscbtsvorrteheT. If that' ls what they hurle? at the Russian army, we can begin to un derstand some of the robsons for the retreat of the whiskered hosts. -0-1-. When the frost Is on the pumpkin, And the tang ls in the 'nlmmon beer, They're no more' taetanchory days, b'gosh- M; They're the choler -.t Ju the year. In a little Pennsylvania town there la but one ice cream dealer and bis name is Timothy Hell. And they say the folks are vary fond ot going to Hell for their idgfoam. When Presqu Wilson east bia ballot tho other day it waa heard around the United States, but it didn't count for nny more than" tho vote of the hod carrier- wab followed hun to tb? polls. THE COST OE WAK After all, the soldier 1? but the pawn of war. The power tbut directs his movements and ?mil ? the strings for him to advance or retreat is the almighty dollar. The dollar is the genius that moves armies and cuuses thrones to <iuake and tremble. And lt will IK! this same invincible dellar which in the end will summon thc bird of peace ut the dono of the last act in the tragedy and say what con ditions shall govern the future con duct of the warring nations. Money shoots as well as talks. Money makes thu war horse go, and the statisticians are very busy mar shalling ngureu to tell UH how much the war is costing. All the belliger-11 mil , it has been estlmuted, ure spend-1 I ir.g liol less than $7r>,000,000 a da-. Counting In the coBt of property de stroyed, human energy crippled for life, and nil the various and sundry items of waste, an additional SfiO.OOQ, 000 might bu added. Well, that makes something liku $1.400 for each sec ond of the day und night. In South Carolina we have about | 40.000 farmers who rent the land they . cultivate. If this war would stop , just one day and Its cost be applied , to starting these struggling citizens , to easier living by giving them land ( of their own, each ono of them would get a $'{,000 farm free of debt with a , little money thrown in for Improve- | ments. < War ls waste. War ls the moat de- , Btructivo agency in tho world, and tho ( peoplo of the warring countries-the , plain, producing, hard-working men j and women-will go on for ages pll- , lng up war taxes in thc sweat of un- , remitting toll. Tho dollar bas a lit tle luster now, for the glory of the , battlefield and the fame of the battle- t ships moke it shine with reflected glory, but when the pomp and majesty , of lt all passes the dollar will con- , Untie its grind as a hard and merci- ? leBS master. ' j Lives are precious, but the cost of ? war ls measured Iq money. If the , measure were less selfish and Bordld, -J tho world would have fewer warB. | TO EQUALIZE TERMS OF OFFICE 1 : ?- i l> \ : It is understood that there is a strong sentiment among the members of the Anderson delegation to equalize the terms of office, of the county of ficials, and somo action along this line will probably be taken at the next session of the general assembly. Of the eight county officials, the clerk of court, tho probato Judge, tho sheriff, the superintendent of educa tion and tho coroner, hold office for a term ot four years-the term of the superintendent nf education having been Increased by action of diva last legislature-while the treasurer, the auditor and the supervisor still con tinue in office for a period of two years, In tho lnteres^o^efflclency and fairness, the three two-year terms ought to be Increased to four years so that all county officials might be placed on exactly the same equality. To get the best service from an of ficial, lt ls highly necessary that he be not hampered by too frequent cam paigns and that hts energies and his time ho not absorbed In a continuous effort to get votes and thus win re election. Tho four-year term ls lu linc with the plan that has been adopted In prac tically all counties of the state, and Anderson is among the few counties that still cling to the old order of things. That the change ls needed none will deny, and that the delega tion will have the support of the peo ple lu making lt ts generally conced ed. ALFALFA CLUBS . Among the many ac -Ules ot the county farm demonstra" n agent. Mr. Byers, none has more promise ot splendid results than the alfalfa Clubs established over the county. That al fa! *a can be successfully grown has been demonstrated by several pro gressive farmers, of Anderson county, but heretofore the movement has never bsd tbs stimulus bf any man or agency to push lt generally among the farmers. It ls estimated tbst this county ships from the wesl and other por tions of the country a halt million dollars in hay tor feed. In a way, this ls all a waste ot good money ss every bale of hay needed for hom* consump tion can be produced at home if the proper effort ls made. Our soil is capable of producing a wida variety ot products, and a practical demon stration of tills fact ought to be im pressed upon the mind of every far mer in the county. Now thst cotton bas reached a fair price, the old danger ..of overproduc tion for another year again becomes scute. ' Perhaps never' in the history of the county bas there been a more general dvsiro to diversify crops on account of the uncertainty attending the fortunes of thc ull-co'tou farmer, and it would be a mistake to take back water now that the lesson bas been learned. In this connection, the work of the county farm demonstration agent is to bo commended. Ills activities bavo been muny and varied. Hut if he had don)- nothing more than introduce the growing of alfalfa as a practical mouey-makiug and money-saving crop, bis work would have been re paid many times over for the small ?alary be ls getting from tho county. Two hundred aeres In ti new crop ot immense value to farmers is u good ?tart, and it means eventually thou sands of dollars kept where it ought to remain-at home. OBEDIENCE TO LAW A common falling of many people throughout this country is to flout openly those laws that they do not lpprove. This fact ls one of the un derlying causes of lawlessness, and ho pity of lt is is that often good peo ple are HO blinded by prejudice or so unconsciously Impelled by self-lnter ?st that they lend their Influence, in i negative or 'mpasslvo way, to the forces that mock the law. At times we still bear growllngs ind grumblings to the effect that pro hibition cannot be enforced in South karolina. It can bo enforced, and it will bo enforced. With a chief execu tive like Governor Manning, there ls io reason to have any fear of general lawlessness in the enforcement of the aow prohibition act or In the enforco nent of any other statute. This from Tho Manufacturer's Rec ird is pccularlly pertinent to condi :Ions In this state Just now: Vit ls preeminently important that respect for law and order should bo developed to tho utmost extent in the louth, and wherever prohibition pr? rails, it is incumbent on the state of ficials to enforce the law with the utmost vigor, for every violation of law lessens respect for all law, and .hose who violate a law because they Jo not believe in its wisdom are help ing to break down respect for all law." THE PENDLETON CELEBRATION The Pendleton Farmers' Society ls ine of the few old organizations o? the kind In tho United States that las been maintained as an active body tor a century. The celebration that lias been planned for October 12th, 13th and 14th deserves the hearty support of every progressive citizen if the county. The celebration, when one measures the real value of the society to the community to the county and to thc state, is kn event of great importance. It is not simply because Secretary if Agriculture Houston and other notables will he there to make ad dresses that the celebration 1B en titled to support, but the underlying! truth that gives it dignity and impor tance is that in tho minds and hearts if the gentlemen who composed the membership of the society during a former generation the Idea of estab lishing a great agricultural college was carefully fostered until it bore fruit in tho building of Clemson Col lege. For this reason the celebration takes on a state-wide Interest, and thbso vbo ,uiy tribute to the old so ciety br contrhlutlng their member ihlp to make lt a success are doing a rood and worthy deed. Every rural community would doubtless be much better off for main taining an active farmers' organisa tion. It acts as a clearing house for general discussion; lt builds up and broadens the community spirit; lt levolops cooperation and builds up a arotherly spirit In the big and little events of every day life. And to the lld society that has modo Pendleton ilstortc, that has contributed so much a the agricultural awakening In 3outh Carolina, our people owe at east a debt that should he liquidated n part by rallying to the supp irt ot ho men in charge of the celebration ind helping them to make it a sue*, tess. A L IN E I o" DO P E\ Weather Forecast-Fair In western joilion; showers In eastern portion Wednesday; cooler. ltAirsday fair. o .'? Our editor, Mr. L. IC. Glenn, was ?elxed with an attack of appendicitis 'osterday morning and had to be aken to the Anderson County Hospl al for aa operation. The operation ras performed yesterday afternoon hortly after 6 o'clock ana the attend? lug physicians ?tated laut night tba lu wa? successful aud that Mr. Clent waa renting well. Ilia many friends truBt that his recovery will be speed} and that he will soon be out again. -o .Mr. F. F. Darby stated yesterdaj that he had occupied the garage ot East Orr street known as Sadler'; garage and was ready for his friends to come to see him. Mr. Darby wat formerly located in the old Sullivar Hardware building on Kant Whit IHM street. Before then he was foreman for Mr. Sadler at the garage on On Street and later was with the Gibbt Machinery company of Columbia. Mi Darby stated that he will have onl> first class mechanics and that i al! ?work will be done promptly. ?-o A letter received in the city from Mr. and Mrs. D. P. McBrayer, for merly of this city but more reccntlj of New Orleans, La., states that theil house was partially damaged in the severe storm in New Orleans I'aSI week, the roof being blown off and two chimneys being blown down Their many friends in this city will be glad to learn that the damage was confined to the building und thal none of tho family were injured. ? o- ? At a recent session of tho Paving commission, tho commission decided to reimburse the city for the amount paid hy thc city to tho city englneei for his services to the paving com mission in connection with the street paving, and directed the treasurer ol the commission to pay the city thc sum of $200 for that purpose. It will be recalled that the city uns allowed the Paving commission the services ol Its engineer, which has saved thc commission quite a considerable sum on the paving work, and lt wac thought that the city should have re imbursement to tho extent of $200 i which is a very small part of thc value of the city engineer's services, o "I feel like I have done a day's work," stated Mr. Smith of the Smith, Garrett and Barton concern yester day. "I have taken tho measures ol 22 suits for tho city il remen and police. I would like to have a fow more though." ' * --O . .A telegram from tho attending physician of Mr. Leo Ballentlne, who is in a hospital at Baltimore, states that Mr. Ballentlne is getting along nicely and that his temperature IE normal. --c The following real estate transac tions have been transacted through thc Anderson Real Estate and Invest ment company recently: Dr. J. E Watson's place at Iva sold to Mr George Belcher, 107 acres, for $80 an acre; Henry Wilson's place near Wil liamston, tiG acres, to McAllister and Holcomb at $40 an acre. It was brought to the attention ol . tho city council that it was. advisable for tbo city engineer to have an auto mobile as the various work in which the city is engsged sqd the paving requires him to cover a great deal ol territory in as little time as possible. It was found that a considerable sav ing could be made by having an auto mobile and lt was decided to pur chase one for $468.50 for the use ol the city engineer. The machine ol course, is the property ot the city. -o The city directories for the year 1915, which were compiled by the Piedmont Directory company at Ashe ville, and printed by the Oulla Print ing and Binding company, were 'dis tributed yesterday. A new feature noticeable in Ute new directory is the telephone directory ot the local ex change. ' The book ls very neat and ls a credit to the printers. Accord ing to its figures ths city and sub urban population Is 17,600. -o- , Mr. Furman Smith has secured the agency ot the American Ballast com pany of Knoxville, Tenn., for eight comities in ?South Carolina. For tho past several weeks there has been a great demand in Anderson for lime and Mr. Smith has been disposing et this product to a great extent. CAUGHT PAINTING OLD FISH (New York Sun.) A new method of. doctoring decayed fish was discovered yesterday hy In spector Leiber of the burean ot food ead drugs In the health department. Ia the market under the Williams burg bridge he came upon a woman who wee dyeing the gilli of an old fleh wR't a red liquid from a bottle. The soman acknowledged that th? process was Intended to make the fish look fresh. Tbs inopectcr reported the cass to Dr. Lucius P. Brown, chlor of the bureau and sent, the bottle, which 'he believed held coal tar of aniline dye, to the department's lab oratory. The fish was ordered destroyed, and inspectors throughout1 the. city were instructed to watch for Limitar viola tions of the sanitary cede. ORI ARD MARCH CRY OF SOUTH Not since tlie panic of October, ?U07, bas thc situation looked HO promising for tte South aa at pres ent, writes Mr. Richard H. Ed monds ?in Tho Mannufacturera F.'jc ord. During the last eight years wo have had no period of broad gen eral prosperity in this country. We have had brtof spurts in some par ticular lines of industry, and we had five or six years of exception ally good conditions in the produc tion and price of cotton, but tn all this period t.iere has been a lack of enthusiaem and snap. Railroads were feeding thc full effect of the hajmperlng restriction against capi tal and corporations and therefore, could do hut little improvement ot extension work. New rial roads were scarcely to be thought of, except where here and there some daring at'empt was made to build a small linc. In all that long period the iron and steel industry of thc South was more or less depressed, and for a great part of the time was very seriously depressed and operated at little or no profit. The dullness in railroad construction work brought about great dullness and depression in lumber, one of the South's larg est industries. While cotton was high during a considorablc part of that time, cotton goods were for most of the period low in price, and cotton mills were run without much profit, except In rare cases. Qne of the most depressing and at tue samo time most noticeable features In connection with a broad study of the wholo South was the lack ot that optimism and "MhuB iasm and determination tu achieve things which had been so pronounc ed for many years prior to the panic of 11)07. Scene Shifts. Now the wholo scene has boen shifted. The stage apparently has been set for a new order of things. Tho mighty panorama of broad Southern development which has been movtfng so slowly for tuc last eight years begins once more to unfold with increasing rapidity. The spirit of optimism Is spread ing. Quickened by the very situa tion which the South faced last fall, determined that this section should not bc downed by one year of adverse, conditions in trade, nor be made to stand before the woi M as impoverished, unabio tc meet a tem porary difficulty, tho people of tlie South are arousing themselves ,?nd preparing to march forward to a victory over every unfavorable cir cumstance. No ono can nick up a Southern paper anywhere from Maryland out tb Texas, and Oklahoma without catching the note of optimism which ls being struck by everybody in ev ery direction. The iron and steel Industry Is crowded as it has not been since the early fall of 1907. ' Some fur naces out of blast for 10 or 12 years are being made ready as rap idly as possible to blow in again. Advancing prices in iron are giving a broader margin of profit to the ironmakers than they have linown for years. Cotton mills are fully employed, and there are more signs o factiv tty in the enlargement of existing mills and the construction of .new mills than for eight to 10 years. The lumber industry shows a re viving tendency, with advancing prices and a heavy increase in de mand. The phosphate rock industry, al most dormant since last fall, be gins again to show signs of life, and with increasing activity, mines long idle are now being started up. Vast expenditures aro being made tor the development of shopping fa cilities and port Improvements along the entire Atlantic and Gulf coasts from Maryland to Texas. Expenditures for municipal and road improvements work, and es pecially for the latter, are on a scale never known before in the South. Grain Crop. The South's wonderful grain crop of 1,600,000,000 bushels, or 346.000. 000 bushels in excess of last year's yield bas been an illumination to the entire country as to the grain growing potentialities of the ?Amth. Coincident with this ts the heavy in crease in tho production of meats and the greater attention that is be ing given to livestock ratb.?g, hogs and cattle alike commanding moro attention in the South now than ever before. And added to all this improvement ls the remarkable change which has taken place in the cotton market. With a crop of 10.000,000 to 12, OOO.OOO bales now being picked ad ded to the stock of 4,000,000 or 6, 000.0'?0 bales brought over from last year, the market is eagerly ab sorbing the supply at advancing prices-at prices which. indeed, would have been considered very profitable only a few years ago be fore the South waa able to se'.! one or two crops at higher figures than for many years. Running over the whole rangs ot agricultural and Industrial and rail road activities, the situation is hope ful tn the extreme. While some few industries have not yet benefited by the change that te taking placa, they'are very limited in extent es compared In the aggregate with thoa? that are cn an altogether different plane o? activity as compared with last year, and many of them aa cnmpHicd with any period since .1907. " . . The South now only needs faith in itself and the right kind of en ergy, well directed, to bring about a more far-reaching and widespread and universal prosperity than it has -ft Corvntf*. r>: '. CLOTHES buying is rather a nuisance isn't it? Well, air, we have no doubt that you can come in here, slip into a v MICHAELS-STERP? Suit or Overcoat and wear it right away. Nc time wasted on try-ons -no correspondence,--just a simple business transac tion, i And remember, whether you pay '"' $10.00, $18.00, $20.00 I or more, yon are protected by our guarantee and the Michaels-Stern warrant too, that you will be thoroughly satisfied, or your money will be returned. a " ,.:,/^ . i -7 'TU Slam wHJt a Comckat*' tad since the palmy days of 190ft ind the earlly ptrt of 1907. when ivpry railroad was crowded to its itmost capacity and when e*e-y ndustriai cnterprice was running io lie limit of ks available supply of nen. "As a man thlnketa in the heart, o is he," is as true of a country s it is of an individual. If the louth tilings broad world thoughts, t it things in terms of material ievelopment based on its limitless csources, if it things of its heaven iven opportunities and feels that it ..auld be a laggard if lt did not turn tiese resources into employment and realta-creatlng realities, then there rill soon come a broad sweep of rosperlty which will lift the South > a higher plane than -it has ever nown. Forward, March! WRY LAW8 AFFECT SSyWOJJOO Geting Into Action at Last. (The Houston Post.) S re ed upon between Major General According to an agreement greed upon between Major General custon and . Governor Ferguson, ate rangers and sheriff's posses are ot to approach close enougfo to the io Grande to be fired on hy Mell um from the opposite side of' the iver, while federal troops will un ertake to prevent the crossing to the exas side ot any Mexican male per in capable of bearing arms who can ot satisfactorily explain' his pur DSC. This arrangement, General Funston iplains, was desired in order to avoid asBlbllKy of international convplica ona. Texas authority bas all along been srfectly willing for the federal gov rnment to afford t/.io necessary pro motion to the International border, it its chief complaint has been that ie. federal patrol has signally tailed i affording ample 'protection as tn oty bound, which statement is clear ? supported by the Roubles of the ibc fo wweeka in the lower Rio rando district caused by Invasions, t bandits from the Mexican' side, ow, however, tibet the federal au tarkies have shown a moro deter ilned attitude in the mattel* the Ind ications are that the situaion In he Isturbed dlsrict will radfdly Improve id will stay Improved Until the pros it federal Vigilance is relaxed. j, Recipe tnt Long Life. "To what do you attribute your re saleable health?" "Wefl," replied ?he very .>?d gentle ao, "I reckon I got a good start on '' people by bein' bore before was discovered, thereby bavin' to-worry about."-Washington New Jersey W. C. T. U. Convention Hears of Prohibition's Growth. (Montclair, N". J., Dispatch. ) "Many a man today ls a total ab stainer and believes the liauor trafilo should be outlawed boca'- the ques tion has todched his p Kketbook." said Miss E. H. Elf roth of Haddon field, president of the-New Jersey W. C. T. ?., in her address to the dele gates at the W. C. TV ?. State con vention at the opening session today. "More than 52,000,000 of the peo ple of tihe United States are under prohibition law," Miss Elf roth said. "More than 71 per cent Ot the'area of the United States is prohibition ter ritory. Th' ? area will bo increased nearly 20 per cent when prohibition adopted bv five states In the, fall of 1914 become effective. One-fourth of all the people in niue United States; who livo In saloon territory live in six cttis-Nw TortC I Chi cago, Phlladlphia. Sl^. Louis, Boston and Cleveland. One-half of'the ped-' pie living in license territory live in four states-'New fork, Pennsylvania, Illinois and New Jersey. Tills afternoon the 200 delegates to the convention and members of local organisation Joined in u parade. Honor to Whom Rae i (The Norfolk Virginian, Pl?ot.) ' 'Governor Craig- of North "Carolina, In a recent public interview* rightly attributed to the financial policy of the administration tI . ? , place among the influences which nave imparted a healthy tone tb the cotton market. "I "believe," said the governor,, "the dec laration by Secretary McAdoo that lie was ready to .put into tb? Southern banks $30,0*0,000 tor, the protection c- thf- cotton crop had much to do with the present healthy: condition of the cotton market. Thai one act . or the administration and the attiude of the administration towards the south has eaved us millions of dollars and brought comfort end ' plenty to the homes of our country. This administration Stauda by. the farmer and by the producer in ail legitimate ways. This wes not always so, hut ii wit! uv av lung as Woodrow Wilson - ls president end as long tis the presi dent of Democracy controls this coun try.? "Dr you believe that tber*/ is really something which can inviolably tell Vhen ? man'ls lying?" "I know lt.?*' "Ahr perhaps you have .seen one ot the instrumente?" "Seen one? I mar ried one."--Houston Post. . Gekberg's Potato Gaps Fresh* and Crisp Da2y, Phone No. 733,