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XfMABUSHED KW. Ifabl?shea ?very morning except ???ad?y by iiie Anderson Intelligen ter at 140 Weat Whitner Street. An derson, D. C. ?fttfl-WEKKLY INTELLIGENCER Vt Published Tuesdays ?nd Fridays L. IL ?L2CNN.... Editor and Manager .. ?ntered as second-class matter Afrrll 28, 1914, at tho post office at Anderson, South Carolina, under the A? ot March 8, 1879. ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES fclfiphona .821 SDBHCIiil'TlOH BATCH DAILY Omr Year.|6.00 alz Months.2.60! fares Months .1.28 j 7os Month..41 ?na.Week ..?*..?? JO I SEMI-WEEKLT Ona Year ........81.50 ada Months .7B . Tb? Intelligencer ls delivered by ?arriera in the city. Look ar tho printed label on your paper. The date thereon shows when tho subscription expires. Notice date sa label carefully, and If not correct ?lease notify us at onoe. 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Jotters to Tbs ?ntslllgcncer Intended tor publication should nos be addressed to any indi vidual connected with tbs paper, bat . simply to, Tho Intelligencer,,, ?j WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24,. I?|B. It will soon bo timo for."lottere to Santa Claus" to appear. Has. the hew currency law boan of afly. benefit to you as" yet? Icebergs are said to "live" as much as 200 years. Wo know Borne who aro not that old but have gray whiskers . and are bald headed. ; . There are nome folks ao disreput able that their very presence in wholesome company ls an inonu.-? . Orangoburg Times and Democrat. Whoopee, brother, that'B porno punch. -: Frank Parrott ls back in Gaffney, running tho Cherokeb i Nowa. That /.'gVf?? C?iiu?y trr? g?Ou ??wSp?pWf ' ir.on,-~Rock Hill Herald. If Parrott1 ia "two good newspaper mon," thon1 Ed DeCamp, muat be a round half dozen. ' . ' ' ?_. . The biggeat fish story eyer told ia tho ctory. of how the British navy had ocoopod up all the U-boats in steel nets. It takes imaginative genius worthy of Isaak Walton himself-who waa an Englishman-to figure out such piscatorial strategy, whether it's fact or fiction.. Tho Georgia legislature la favoiubly considering a bill providing that no Citizen may receive from outside the elate more than two quarts of spirits, rpo gallon of wino abd forty eight pints of boer a month. How can any ^Georgia man got along on such a measly allowance as that? --o ?sw York City, as the result of a \ disastrous factory fire, baa run up against, a baffling legal problem. Tho industrial board .'?barged with inspec tion of euch buildings ia plainly epi pOworod to inspect four-story tactdr * l e s ? an d alx-j&t?ry f?fctorit-, but thora lb a disputo as to Whether : lt can ln >?>ci fiye>8tory fao?ories. Tho. boom . lu our lAtia-American commerce which Was prophesied when the 'Wfl.BfArted ia at last under way. Government reports show that in the i .?mon?i '.o^^ our trade with thu South American jconn^iea^wiia .doubled;.vib comparison with the sanie Njjbi??tb's'1 bu8in?8?;'.?ast year. ' . .'FVbm f?nbffr on it should continue growing steadily, as tho commercial develop ment work done by . our i - exporting fflpp^in the past year begins to make $Uejf':t?it/'.';'.' ^V-f ... .*THK l'OIH H TOO BIG" Under (he above caption, the Green wood Journal of yeatcrday prlntH tho following editorial comment: In our Southern elfin ito noth ing adda more to tho comfort of a home than a good Hised verandn, but tlie house must bo largo enough or tin: thing will look ridiculous. In other words, it tho matter of architecture and good taste un- to be commited it will not ?Jo to have the porch too big. A maali house with a great big poreli strikes one aa being very much out of proportion, net ter cul the porch down and make it (it, even at the riak of com fort. , Tho ?ame thing applies to a speech. The introduction should not he long. The ?peaker can not afford to keep hi? audience stand Ing tco long in tho porch, be lt maali or lar^e. Hut what we are thinking about now is thc fellow who lu ealled upon to Introduce a speaker. Wc have Just aeon a very forcible illustration of the wuy a thing should not be done. A gentleman of nationul reputa tion was introduced to an audi ence in a neighboring town, and ff the nowspaper reports aro cor rect, Instead of a simple Introduc tion a speech wus made covering much of tho ground that the speaker was expected to cover. Now, lt strikes us that a per formance of this kind is not only in hud taste, but it ls In one sonne a reflection upon the Intelligence of tho audienco and a bore, not only to tlie audience, but to the speaker. Of all the porches that could'ever bo built one of this kind is thc most out of taste and proportion. It Is a monster of frightful inion. . , Wo have an idea to whom our con temporary refers, and, if wo are cor rect In our surmise, wo can assure liim that the .introduction which he thinks WBB of "frightful proportions," was fully as good if not botter than that whicli followed, that is, the np ec eh of him who waa introduced. And, besides, it didn't cost us a dol lar to hear thc introduction; and, what's moro, wo can hear him any time wo got ready, and that entirely free. So much for that. But since our contemporary han brought up tho subject of ; speeches, let us consider tho speech of that "gentleman of national reputation" to whom he refers. We wonder If our contemporary has over * mot with the type of follow who has pronounced views of his Own about matters, but ls never willing, to concede that the other fellow haB any right to his own differing opinion about the same thing; or If the other follow does disagree with him, he is a scoundrel, ot ?pxno sort and bras ulterior motives'in hold ing the opinion that ho does? in other..words, we don't know whether tho esteemed Journal Is in favor of "reasonable .preparedness" ..or"-; is strong for "peace at-any'"price/' but If it ls in favor of the former, how doon lt relish hoing.'called .a.'-Vjingo Bu?ct" and Ita editor a "Jingo editor?" And c^afn, lt lt ls In favor of "rea sonable preparedness," how does it rolisb the idea of having lt charged that. *iui::i> nt/onoto? favoring nreuar edncss are the gun and ammunition factories and the dealera in battle ship materials? Somehow or other, we never did think nu wo?? of the man . who thinks that thoso who disagree with him are either foolB or graftors as wo do the man who ls hopelessly fixed In his own opinions and not amenable to rea ?JO n, but is willing to suffer the other fellow to have hi? own Ideas, though different1 from hts, without branding him as a two-by-four and rascal. THE COST OF PBEPAHEDNE8S Tho cutest;.. thing, about prepared ness ls that it''ls going to cost thc American people a heap ot money. Our army and navy have always cost us more per soldier and sailor and gun and chip than thone of any other nation. Now the expense for any par ticular defensive unit la going to be higher than Over. The government, has met with ' an unpleasant surprise SD letting' 'con tracts for two/new .battleships., it nnchi that the ships can't be bu.SU for anywhere near the usual price. The private shipyards can;' get - all,. the work they want from the belligerents, at prices insuring them hugo profits, and they're not Interested in strength ening American defenses unless Uncle Sam. will pay then? war prices. The same situation ls likely to bo found In every branch ot expenditure for armament. Guns will coBt more, ammunition will cost more, automo bile a and fuel and uniforms ?nd all sorts of supplies will cost more. Bren lp tho government shipyards and'mu nition shops, labor and mate-rials' will cost more. The extreme militarists and na*, alista , are blithely given to ignoring such, matters. They talk treelfj^^ standing army of 260,000 men, a re serve ot a million or. two, a navy aa big as England's and enough . munt" tloiiB stored up to light a great war, without either counting the cont or : inn:. Unie how it la to he met. It I? unquestionably necessary to strengthen our defenses. The senti ment of the nation lt* In favor of greater preparedness. But WP are already ?pending S2&0.000.000 a year on our army und navy, and the com paratively moderate plans submitted by the president seem to involve at least tho doubling of that expenditure for Bcveral years. Whatever congress does in tho matter needs to be done in sober judgment, with exact reck oning of the coat and the most eco nomical expenditure of every dollar. Our money will buy al! too little de fense, at best, if our past military and naval history affords any criterion. THE DEATH PENALTY On the same day thal foseph Hlll strom, the "I. W. W"" wan shot to death un a convicted murderer in the Utah penitentiary. William Zimmer, convicted of murder In Ualtimore, was sentenced to serve ono day Jn jail for his crime. Thexe cases represent the ex*r mes In our treatmen* of murderers. And ubsurd aa it appears to punish a mnn w' h onlv one doy's imprisonment for hilling a human bejng, the Baltimore r< ;:nlty moro nearly represents Amer k\',n sentiment than does thc Utah penalty.. Thoro wore great differences, of course. Joseph Hillstrom waa lound guilty of delib?rate murder. His rec ord wan considered bad, and hit? I mminence in L W. W. activity from v/blch Utah has suffered much, was looked upon as aggravating his of fense. Tho evidence against him vi.o circumstantial but apparently ccii eluitve. There was nothing partic ularly horrifying In bia being shot, rather than hanged. The Utah law al lows a choice. Shooting is probably tho more merciful of the two method:'. William Zimmer, tho Baltimore murderer, io a paralytic, 67 years old, The man ho killed was proprietor of a cheap lodging house. Zimmer, while drunk, bad an altercation with him, and struck ono blow with lils fist, which resulted In the victim's ipi. ih. The killing was, in a sense, ac eiilentnl, and the. prisoner's physic .1 c . 1'tlon helped to win him leniency. "But there was one common ele ment In these cases. The ridiculously trivial penalty imposed on Zimmer wu- thc extremo manifestation of the Anyjflcan prejudice against capital pu nish in ont.. Tl: o - r. ame prejudice ap - ju ni ed in the wave of protest which rolled In upon the Utah authorities frc rr all the rest of the country, and included an appeal for leniency from tfc-v prw'dcnt of the United States. Utah rejected these protests, as she had a perfect right to do. But there is no mistaking tho powerful opinion that exlata againat such togal taking of human life. Every conapicuous murder case rcvealH it. In r?ponse I . this opinion, B* -te after elate is ahoMahlncr tho death pnnalty. Even tually Utah will do likewise, and tho Hillstrom case will havo helped to hasten tho decision. A LINE J DOPE jjgjpiji ms TT-.V.V.--") Weather Forccaat-Fair Wednes day and Th?rs'day.! o Mr. O. D. Anderson baa purchased eight and one-half 'acres, of land ?known aa part of the Frank Hail place Juat oeWwUown.. -rf?t?'i?ud ad joins that which Mr. .anderson al ready owns. -, ? ' Among those attending tho Dis trict Bankers* convention lu Green ville yesterday from Anderson were Messrs. R R. Vandlver and T. Sloan Banister from the People's bank and Mr. T. B-. Maulfln from tho Bank of Anderson. . , -i-o- . The Piedmont and Northern ticket office la now located in the freight depot, having been moved on Mon 'day. night This, c.beng'o ls only tem porary and it wm bo moved back np town as aoon ns thc street paving on North Main ia completed. Tho tele-' phone number now ls 872. - " - qi -1 ? ? Messrs, 8. M. McAdams, C. S. WU-# Hams, W. C. Darby, J. B. Kay and w7[ A.: Johnson, yesterday Bent to former Governor Colo Bleaso an o'possum weighing ll pounds. , 'V r-r-b Yesterday the Line O' Dope man dropped in to look tba chickens over ot the Poultry nhqw and on bis way back hp the street be stepped at the Anderson theatre to get hi a ticket for the "Prince of Pilsen.". A well known young married man waa in the theatre lalso getting ticket?'and he and tho j Line O' Dope mah' left thc building together. When just outBlde the mar ri, man was asked If he hud seen the chickens. "Oh, yen, I was up at the hotel when they came in, and saw part of them," he said. He was gently informed that the newspaper man had reference to those at the Poultry show and not the lanalea who took pan In the show. -o IJecauso a northern man purchased a great amount of quinine when tho market price was low, and because he later ?old it at a tremendous profit, a well known out of town druggiat tried to do the same thing in An derson. However, he Boon found out that the local market WQH not too woll supplied and that tho quantity ho could secure would not amount to anything. --O? The World's Museum of Anatomy ls exhibiting thia week In Anderson in tho .vacant store room next to Crayton's Drug store. This museum 1B said to be very complete and very educational. . - \ - .p.. ! , Tile body of Tom Rood, who died suddenly Monday night in ibo city Jail, waa taken to Greenville yester day for interment Mrs. Reed and her mother came to Anderson yester day and accompanied the body back to Greenville. -o?_. ? The young son of Mr. J. H. Ander son had the misfortune yesterday af ternoon to have hie hand caught in a .cotton gin which necessitated the amputation of ono of tho fingers on the hand. Tho detailB were not learn ed. . .'.,; ? 0;' v The Library will bo closed . on Thanksgiving day. Books due on that day should be returned the day be fore, or a fine of 2 cents per day over time will he charged. --O-?-^?. While going home, from school yes terday, Frank, tho young Bon of Mr. Claude Martin, cf the Neals Creek sec tion, who was riding on the rear ol the buggy, fell and was caught in one of tho' wheels of the.(Vehicle. The lit tle fellow's - left log became entangled in the spokes and both bones of tho limb were broken, ,.??he injury was an exceedingly painful ono, but thc litio fellow's suffering. was alleviated aa soon as medical! assistance could be summoned. j ??#-v.p-fy.'!/'.;??.,.fit J - Cheer ?VM v.. These are dark day^ for?toe world. The shadow of the "^'ar ia.hCiivler tVaii over tn all hearts,. whatoyor. theil sympathies, There 1% l'ttlo exultation now ?vea in victories, .'for wc know at what a price "?f] ,bl?od and pair every victory is won. .But'thorp.,are many things besides war in thc world. Except for our active,.imaginations moBt of ias; would feet life running or pretty ?nuc/i. as usual. There is the same sunshine, the same Hfe-yivint air, the same autumn colors, in tin wood?, tue Same joy in bountlnul bar viests. There ls tho same quiet nat la faction of soul that has always com: with the fall season*, whet?er 1: country or "city. H?re, in our Amer! can isolatiou. wc can live out ow lives in splto of wars and rrumors o wara. There in need, to.-be. sure* o taking thought, -for tho future,. pre paring against the time when wa: may bring home to Os tho wretched noss that wo knew calf a century k'ji and that Europe knows today. Bu that is a matter of .calm decision, no for alarm and fear. ' We aro toda; the most fortunate nation itt the world Theroj ls no reason why. we cunno continue LO. It i3 n good time fo tho nation to take to heart the phlloso phy that Is preached so much- toda; to individu?is-the philosophy of cou f?dence, of optimism,- of -;-positiv thought. It is Tight and, proper tba we should feel the woes'of -Eairopt and it ls our duty to alleviate, the an wo can. But it ia ?wrong, to le those woes welgn on our;spirits untj we lose nm* own buoyancy and poise It is better to regard the" war as ? doctor or a nureo regards, sickness es something to be cured, whose cur can he effected not through outburst of sentimentalism but through intel ligent and cheerful service. The Light That Failed. T?te audience held their "breath an simply tair-r-Tjlled a? Jack Brambo: tho hero, killed tho last.of the It diana . .He staggered about; A ho . aun?' faint?x'i with loss of,Wood. . Then he gazed about him, and ^ dooly bis voice rang oat,,wlUV..hoi>? "Seo!"'?bo cried. "The d*iph brea!) right upon yon topmost heights\" Tho' ?tage remained' ih, : ? Htrkaess. "Se?!" he yelled agal&>r.The daw breaks brikht upon yon . .l*>Pmo; heighta!", iiiWHiP ; ?till darkness relgncdv " "Th* dawn! The. dawnf\\ ho ?crean ?d. ragLig about. t?? ?t*gs? '. brooksl DAtrtt! "Old 'ard, guv,flor,,. said tho;tt?? "Dcia't bo in .sich a bloomCn? ?urrj Some one's bin an' turned tho-, gi ortfr-Tit-BithV. :^r':-v;^M , ,i .i i ,i,,' i i.,,. . Fooled ISfweeii. Sh*-You vowed it would be yoi aim to make my life one long drea of happiccoa. And tb think that believed you. t>.'?0-:--That,a uotf?ng. I ?sllovsd myself at the 41me!~*3tray;?ftO?t?8. : Detulin of (?cnnan Gu?. Although the 42-cm. guns used by the Germans in battering down the ltc/r!flficatioas 'at Liege and Namur attracted world-wide attention during the carly Plages of the war, tho secret of its dimensions and other features has been so Jealously guarded that practically aotldng has boen made public in regard to b'.is monster mor tar, beyond tho terrible destruction wrought by it. At a recent meotlng of artillery, engineers at Dusseldorf, Ger many, an engineer of the Krupp works delivered a lecture on tho making of heavy artillery and particularly on the making of tho 42-cm. guns, or tho "Big Berthes," as the Germans call them, and an apparently reliable To port of this lecture has been trans mitted to tX/Ia country. According to this report, which appears in tho De cember Popular Mechaaica Magazine, tho big gua weighs about 97 1-2 tons, while the base on which it stands v.!.?3U in firing position weighed 4411-4 tons. Tao barrel is 1G feet long, and the theil fired from lt is about 50 inches long and weighs 880 pounds. Tho gun Ia far too big to he'.'traits ported on any kind of ?un, carriage. It is made up, of considerably;?" mor? than loo r ie ce ' .and.., must. be', taken . apArt' land load-eU. ouV, motor .trucks, of walch .12 aro said to be required, when:it is to bo moved. . NO one not connected with tho Ger-' man artillery is1 ever permitted near the 42-cm. gun when lt ls In firing position. It ls said t'-'at uo photo graphs havo over been made-of lt. the pictures purporting to represent this sun, widely published at tho be ginning cf the war, being in fact photographs of the 30.5 cm. Kru;>p and Skoda mortars. Tire Cigarette Law.. Loulslana newspaper editors are de ploring the failure of their state to enforce a law which prohibits fc.e sale of cigarettes to minors. Tho law is a drastic one, and provides that any one selling or giving away cigarettes or tobacco to minors ohali be heavily fined. Despite this prohibition, how ever, many boys, young men and wo men In Louisiana have acquired the smoking habit, and, apparontly,. bave no di il! cul ty ia getting all the. cigar ettes or- tobacco they desire. Tho editor of the Southern Indicator, Ham mond, La., believes the prohibition law is bad, for the reason that it lias not been enforced, and now, tant an effort ls to be> mad o to enforce lt, it leaves only two ways open to smok ers < to get their cigarettes; to .buy them from a. man of legal agc, or to steal them. "You ean't say to a boy," says The Vindicator, "in a dictatorial manner, ' Th ou shalt not smoke,' add think that he will obey, especially it he has been smoking two or three years. But you can talk and plead with Mm to give it up, and he will, in all proba bility, try-to oatt. Some succeed; the majority fail. If mero pleading and urging were done, at homo and at school, instead of usuv? the Impera tive, dictatorial, 'Thou shalt no?,' there would be less cigarette smoking, less wayward, : vicious boys , to con tend'with,' less need of juvenile courts and reform schools and less .crhnLisls In the future, In this state and tn ti:e United States/without resorting to tho law prohibiting the safe of cigarettes to minors.*' ?,* ?. - As tito, lodgo .Ssw Thsav^??| fh>e day while . walking with a friend in; Sad Francisco a^ professor and his companion ; bact.me luvolyed In an argument as to which was ;he handsomer man Of-the .'wp according to the Chicago News. Not ; being ?bl? to arrive at- ? settlement of tho fun, to leave lt to tba decision - ot a Chinaman who. was aeon approaching them. '. ;-.' The matter being laid befor#ptffflfc the OrientalV considered long and carefully, then he announced/lu?\p tone ct finality, ''Both ar? worse.1'v ': y--~---, Past and Palme. The Pm"}UcIan~The^ atetase the Fast was born in a los cabin. : The phlloso?hei>--Well, the state*'' man, of the future wWl.be born-te? bungalow mortgaged for' a motor cst';' -Nsw Ybtrk Bun. * Vf . Sins of the Movies. A correspondent ot The Sun, with many ol'aers of discrimination, finds danger In the moving pictures through the scenes ot physical vio loace which are enacted. This form of entertainment has both merits and demerits. Fiction is uninteresting un less novel and active in progress, but lt should bo confined to the limits of possibilities. All of the episodes, in the reels constituting serials ia a score of presentations are preposter ous in rae ' extreme, but seemingly not so recognized by the mild im beciles who thrillingly applaud. The main actors of both sexes are made to ignore the hairbreadth escapes from previous dangers' and dumbly fall Into new and ciumsy traps set by shallow vlllians who invent elabo rate death dealing devices instead of employing the speedier time honored means. Everybody ls lacking in com mon precaution; and acting on im pulse does everything precisely wrong and seemingly calculated io. get t?em selvoso Into* trouble from which in real life there would bo no way out. AU of tho portraitures are based up on Impulse.-; and impetuous'-'conduct which are the mainsprings of human mental, agony; The attraction of lae hero and heroine 16 .solely of the nn enduring:physical order. . uk *'No real 'high life that ls dationh ' NQ 'real high life that ls rational conduct is presented. People of rec ognized consequence do not visit cab aret's, attend such card parties, dances and tho variety ot cheap cost ly affaira Bhown. i. Neither are there any valet.-, to be found in tills country except those in attendance on those physically In capacitated, while ladies' ? maids, are about aa scarce. . Tacse two are fre quently in .the pictures . and conduct themselves with un-American obse quiousness, and are treated by their actor employers .with vulgar hauteur. All the scenes tend to cultivate a snobbishness and an envy of the dis played wealth which many in the au dience do not remember ?re artificial pr?sentations, and they GO not icuov/ t'.mt the real lady OB', gentleman is refined, modest and always under reasonable restraint. It is on tho above objections that the purely farcical movie in its in tended preposterousness is prefer able to one of silly sentimentality.-? New York Sun. ? Sound Plea. In advocating government by cent-, mission for counties,.as well as towns. Dr, T. Q.. Alexander, president,of the staten farmers ?inion, le sane, sound, sensible and safe, and if'.?.c wilt start the f?work off at home-rvtbat ls nt Charlotte and for Mecklenburg coun ty. The Observer "will furnish the gasoline tc- run his tractor, which is. only another way of .saying that lt will give'him spaco tn wtilch 'to preach bis doctrin?. The most sue-; cesaful applied to the county ls in the case of Jacksonville, pia where every milo of road and every aore ot ?and carries ita own evidence.-Char lotto Observer. _--,'. i '? -:-;-. rink Overalls. Th? stock of blue dyestoSO 'ls about exhausto! tn this couhtrf, - Germany is;the only Bourse of. supply, and Eng land refuses to let ?a get Shipments, froln t';at country, Hence, tho ?aero-' tory ot the National Association of Garment -workers announces i?at ; tf the^war keep* up it is .quite likely that there will bevno more blue oS?r alls,' and ?toilers in field and factory moy have; -, to garb themselves tn suits ot another. color-pink or " gray Houston Post. -And Funds. > ^ JMfcer the Blopmont-8b?r< X .sin. telegrapfaing to pap? asking forrlve He (broke)-"Better make it "'f?t-? ?ness and funds."-Boston Trans Next liest'i ;VD*?T0ss?d . Luncher-.' -rave you any prussic acid? Waitress-No, str. . IJepreseed Luncher-The., bring .mo oho c.? your steak ?Od kidneS^Sfedri i;-^Wla4slph^'?eTOrf'. , . /ant your clothes to well and wear well, demand .up-to-trfe te style, distinctive icter and graceful, ortable f?t. Y o LI substantial value /our money in all points. E clothes are de d along advanced and made from the est fabrics. Suits, $15, $18, $20, $25. coats, $io; $15, $20. mTht Store wiih o Gantier*? Thc Old, Old Subscriber. How dear to my heart are the old thlngB in general,' ' ? When foad recollection presents thom ' to view ; ' Old pewter, ol J linen, old friends and old china, Old books and old songs are far bet ter thaa new. And old shoes for comfort tWe need new ones badly) The old corncob pipe I shall always hold dear, But thc- old, old subscriber, I men tion him gladly. Ever faithful and true, he renews by the year. The old,, old subscriber, the dear old subscriber. The faithful old friend who renews iby two year.., . ; Old wine and old sweethearts, tho old er tr.io better; v . ?. The old folks nt homo-what is'home, without them? The old swimming Lois ' it mail not be forgotten- . The Jewel of Memqr:'s whole diadem; Old -times and old customs, and o'on \ the old dances (We'll haua to admit we cannot tur key trot) But of old in s ti.tl ons, if one must take chances,' Toe old, old subscriber's the best of \% the lot. f. The old, old subscriber, the dear old subscriber, Tho paid up subscriber's the best of the lot. A Doctor Cloie to Wisdom. A few years ago a controversy was waged by the medical profession, in wnich the waole country becameinter estcd to the point o! taking a parti as to tho justification of any occasion that might ariso on which a doctor shoul dsacrifico a life to put It out of t?rturq. Now a controversy o* just fire opposite character has grown out MM tm r*u\~~?.~r. ?vH?m - .' V. . - y >j *u v^.. ...tug nltL/io cv VltSV. tor, with the consent of tho child's mother refused to perm an opera tion by which tho lire of tho child could tiave been . saved. The child was born a defective, and tho ques tion was whether to let nature work out tts way. which tended to the death i of' the child, or evorelse the skill:ot science and .save a-life to' exist .in. a physicall y?nd mentally wrecked body. Looking-to'the; future state of tho ' d :Jld, the mother elected 'that it should be permitted to ?die.' -The doctor de- ?.. clares that his conscience has suffered no unrest in consequence of his re sponsibility for its death. When the'' world takes in the significance of the deformities and delinquencies of na ture in the boSy o? a child that ??& v" *? ?'ra been brought .alo oxlstenco. th? de bate will be (deckled in favor of the doctor. So far from being guilty of an act of criminality, he had In fact responded to tho silent appeal. of . ; mercy and hxraianity'. .' Ho "waa as ' close to wisdom as he "was- far from ' cruelty.-Charlotte Observer. M ? 1 \ Explicit. .-'Are you of .the opinion, ' Jones," asked a slim-looking . man of . bia companion, "that Dr. Smith's.medi cine does any good?" : "Not unless you - follow the direc tions.'' VtVhat. are tho direotlcns?" "Keep the bottle tightly corked/V Tlt-Bita. , Supper??nOos Quest loh. >-4?vf? .Tn that new servant girl?? said air. Testy, as he discovered the s?gs> ,in;the ?alt 'shaker,. "it seems- '^W! yOtt:MV?' ?ij?s*o^j<; ?Assessor ;of stu* pWltar tn Its uh'atlutteraud doublo-r?s tUleo form >.. May I ask -where you ob tained'her?' ?>1^," ,T?pl?ed Mrs , Toity, ? At tho tn^Wt?enco^oac? pt. con.rao. ''f-Judge.. . Mis Mild^?^?est. * .. "My' ?dcor,'", fia began mildly. ^"W-eU?" she snapped ? V: ;T don't mind your HberrewhV m? ?na?ne J>att Hut wtten yon: return it please reinovto the "vdt and tbei VhatA JiWfe\I don't caw? to wearamcK^ttip*' .ment downtown -agatn.^l^Uviile ICourioMournal.