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THE ANDERSON INTELLIGENCER Founded AugUHt 1, I860. North Main Stret AJRNI>I-HSON, 8. C. WILLIAM HANKS. Editor W. W. SMOAK_HuHlneas Manager Entered as second-class matter Ap ril 28, 1914, at tho poBt ofllco at An derson, Soul M Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 1879. 8emi - Weekly edition?$1.GO per Tear. Daily edition?$5.00 per annum; $2.50 for Six Months; $1.26 for Three Months. IN ADVANCE. ?. larger circulation than any other BCwspnprr In this Congressional Dis trict. TELEPHONESs Editor!** .327 Bus!=cg<?0STft?. .. .' 321 Job Priming.693-L Local New?.327 Boctot\ Kuvrtj.321 ?rB 4ff Tho It U.lllgouccr is delivered by carriers in the- city. If yo?' fail to get yourhpup?r regularly please notify ns. Opd(?,ife ; ?l- immb on label of your paper1 is prated date to which yotir paper is paid. AH checks and drafts should be druwn to The Ander son Intelligonccr. The Weather. Washington, July 29,?Forecast: South Carol fejw-Gonerally fair Thurs day and Friday; light to moderate variable winds. '.' DAILY THOUGHT nrri i_ . Weigh not so much what men say as what they prove. Remem ber that truth is simple and nak ed and needs not invective to ap niirol h?r ?' '" T5r!??'?" ? Sir Philip Sidney. Riot at Mexican bull fight. Dull was too small.. Oh, Teddy. o 'The danger of having good govern ment may always be averted. -!-o Mr, lluerta will get no more R. S. V. P. "notes" from this country. -?o When tho small boy has his big sis ter's coat of tan, mother calls it dirt. When President Wilson is inter viewed about Mexico, 'the i importers talk very freely. j/ri vjih?? en a child writes or spells well, iMllU?d' thing is regarded as .eccentric tljoso day a. ' > ' ?o Harry Thaw was for a long time Canada's most prosperous industry. Where is he now? Another bod feature of these for eign wars is trying to pronounce some of tbeoutlnndish names. -0?? . Corn roasts and elam bakes are in season on the seashore. Also mos quitoes and stingamarces. - o ? . Reciprocity. If we have an exhibit at San Francisco, tho monoy will come back to Carolina. , Tito delight of being president of Mexico consists in being able to amend the constitution at any tune. .-o j The college^ jp.ro not- doing their work. Ther <lS a scarcity of good u?&eu??! pitchers this year. West Virginia boy jilted by girl, eloped wUn her sister. He was de termined to get the mother-in-law. Blue lights on Mars. No, that's not a signa} I to I us, but a celebration of s baseball victory. : U't;;tJl ' 0 It requires more sense to be a good ; tanner than it does to succeed in any other line of business. A judge out in California has ruled - that it Is a wife's duty to toll her hus / band all She knows. Poor cnap. V" -o "What Is the" State? Notnmg. I am IT. " The people be hanged. That is . tho way of jome people. , ,, ' ' .-0 - Chickens for frying would be so :} much more'delightful in union un derwear than.in the prevailing style of'feathers, <? . tX f " ' ...,. Q ? ' The reason why women skip about so tho pages , of their letters Is be cause thoy wish to prolong tho en , joyment of the recipient. o ! Zulu Prince says that football Is too '%'*J?\\tq$Mfo'for. his country. Hts people profer light recreation?an elephant hont followed by a stowj of mission, arles In season. I . Vk Hi . -fe? ; We call : especial attention; to- the: ' Auatro-Servian war story and 11 lus-1 ?ri**?ss on other 'pases o? this issue. We will endeavor to present to our readers constantly instructive views and ; raapa and tho Associated Press dja$^hes tell the rest ' ' Copenhagen will bold an automobile *h???ij*?ofc iha .world, this month. A FINE SENTIMENT The editor of The Intelligencer Is In receipt of a letter which is of a per sonal nature but Is so filled with fine sentiment that he will take the liber ty to publish It with the hope that it may he an inspiration to others in Anderson county. The letter is from J. Mack King, county supervisor of Anderson county, and reads as fol lows: ' * Perhaps it will he of Intoi .-st to you to know thai I have conclue -d arrangements to place my daughter again with the institution which Is the best asset that Anderson county pos rcssob, namely Anderson college. Unfortunately for the young lady, ns well as myself, she was loft mother less five year^ ago, and knowing as I do the Importance at this day and In this age of the greatest need, "brain training." commonly called "educa tion," I determined to leave my mark on the face of time by giving an edu cation as far as possible to the family with which God bus endowed me. "Hut I leurncd long ago about 'ways and means.' When I looked around I found through your good1 odices thai we hud the combination right here, 'made In Anderson.' My daughter has developed In many ways under the cureful tutelage at Ander son College?physically, intellectually and all along the Une, and I desire to say here and now to you through you to others, that Anderson college Is the place for our girls and when we fall to cooperate with the good peo ple who are at the heud of this in stitution wo are, perhaps innocently, neglecting that which m the fu{u"e, means more for Anderson county than all other things combined. Let us go to work and help this great work by encouraging our people-to send their | girls to this great home institution and I feel tl^it In the yca^s to corao wo will see the fruits of our labors In the educated and refined-womanhood that will praise their parents' good judgment for endowing them with an Anderson college education.' "I desire thus publicly to cxpresB my thanks to my friends and my last ing gratitude to the faculty and of ficers of Anderson college for the in terest thus shown in my motherless daughter. Assuring them of my car nest desire to be of any service that I possib! can to the institution, I am most sincerely, "j. Mack King." Anderson county annually furnishes enough girls, tp College:? in other cit ies, and other states to fill the dormi-" torlos of Anderson college * to run ning over. Wo would not be a prose lyter, but we would like to suggest timidly to the good people of this section that Anderson college 1b no experiment, but a fixture, a superb in stitution, at once the surprise and the Joy of all who love advancement of education. At tho head or this insti tution today 1b a man of Christian character and courage, ot nigh order of intellect and a teacher born. H1b great heart Is throbbing with love for his splendid mission, and the young girlr. of the state who come under his care and under the teaching of him self and associates will be all the bet ter In Intellect, In development and In soul a>i In Christian womanhood for having attended Anderson college. THE ENROLLMENT HEAVY S. Dean Pearman, chairman of the county democratic executive com ml t teo, stated yesterday that the club rolls are In coming In. Ho had receiv ed 18 yesterday, and each club roll shows nearly If not quite as many names as the polling list of two years ago. In some clubs the enrollment ex ceeds the number of names on the. polling list of 1912. Friends of the members of the re cent state democratic convention claimed that they needed no defense and that the enrollment would be their vindication. Mr. Pearman says that tlu liu'i.atlons axv that the to tal enrollment will bo considerably over 7,600, while the ro?? lost pri mary waa 8,000. In fact the differ ence may be smaller than that whon all the lists are in. The above esti mate'Is conservative. Governor Btease charged at Green wood that the floating gangs of non resident employes on railroad con dI.m^IIa^ ...Mataa^J U??-?- ? . .. ..^ ...... .. v.. ........... v. Miua y^ttn? ago. The new rules cut them ou-.. The anti-administration people have claimed all the time that non residents who moved Into the state just before the last primary were per mitted to vote for Gov. Blease. Any auch possibility as that ta eliminated, if any hing of the kind ever did oc cur/ Therefore, It appears at present? wo' emphasize that?for the future may- cause a. revision : of opinion? but at this time it appears that the rules, adopted by tho last state con. vent ion are In the aggregate ?aie and fair. They give the opportunity .for an election for homefolka, by home folks, and none but, homcfolks. ^eL.tniBi^UisXv^e?.cpmmittw?_ In checking up the lists will be Uberal, RA TE DECISION \ WAY TO R/ Commerce Commission Will Dcix ness Basis?No General Washington, July '2'i.?It is so gen erally conceded that the decision of the interstate commerce commission on the proposed udvunee In freight rates will be adverse to the railroads that it is doubtful if the railroad.* themselves are setting any store by the prospects. I'nless all Indications fail, it pro mises tube the most important rullngl the commission lias ever made?im portant in the fact that it will prevent any large increase in public burdens by tho railroads, but principally im portant in that it is expected to cause far reaching reforms in railroad methods and operations. It Is ex pected to tell the railroads that they must ho run upon business princi ples, for business purposes, and not as adjuncts to the stock market, to be used for stock manipulation. The roads, it is believed, will be se verely censured for some of their practices, and will be told how they can obtain increased revenue by the diminution of special service per formed for favored shippers. The decision, in fact, will bo largely a review of general railroad conditions throughout the eastern territory, com bined with advice from the commis sion as to the best method of remedy ing had conditions. Would Scatter Industries. It Is believed that one part of it will deal especially with the present concentration of industries in the lar ger cities, and will recommend that these industries be scattered along the lines in the smaller towns, thus enabling the railroads''to handle their business without the congestion, delay and expense incidental to city termin als; aiding the Industries in reducing their overhead charges and the cost of their properties, and assisting the employes of the industries to lower inv- cost or liVlug and raising *t? standard by placing them in smaller communltites, where living expenses are not so high, where fresh air,can 'ju had for them und their families, und where they can devejop the higher imt'nor^ 0f life denied them In crowd ed city quarters. Distribution of traffic and industry undoubtedly will be one of the main themes for discussion In the report, and the carriers and industries will be urged to co-operate In this distri bution for their mutual advantage. Th3 railroads reached the conclus ion weeks ago that the commission would not grant their request for a 5 per cent horizontal increase in rates, amounting to more than $r>0,000,000 a year. Representatives of the carriers schooled by railroad attorneys, assert ad that it the increase were not grant ed quickly, the roads would go on the TafeVa all * over ' the ' country and one line after another would be forced in to bankruptcy. The bearings were concluded the fair and straightforward, and that no technicalities will be resorted to. Wo are informed that Charleston, whero there has been so much elec tion scandal, is operating under a much more stringent law?passed by the legislature and not by the conven tion. And other states are reported to be operating under primary rules ; equally as exacting as ours. All in all, it appears that the en rollment plan In this state, while just a little hit more cumbersome than the old slipshod way, and Is not at all perfect, is yet a good thing for every body and gives good protection to the honest vote. YKGGING THE SOIL BruaklDg up the soil with the use of dynamite is not understood. Some people scoff at It because they, can ont see how dynamite Imparts any fertili ty to the soil. And it does not. - But there is one thing it does do; it wakes up the old lazy soli and makes it go hustling, Just, as applying a galvanic battery to an old tramp will make him Jump. Switzerland, perhaps the greatest, agricultural country in the world, for its opportunities, is using dyna mite extensively and experiments in the United States and Tight, here in Anderson county have been very suc cessful and productive. The department of agriculture in Switzerland has set about the matter, systematically. It has been proved that fruit trees planted in the soil prepared by dynamite explosions o'io prolific- Sometimes it Is necessary to use force to break Into the storehouse of riches of the miserly soil and to put the r????cnt wealth Sato circula tion. This la an excellent means of breaking up hard soil aad making "worn out" land astonishingly fertile. The earth is a skull. . The soil Is- the loose ekln on top of the skull, or is disintegrated rock resting upon the skull. The fertility of the.lsoll de pends upon chemical elements in the outer covering to nourish plant life. - Constant rains wash away some of thesb chemicals and the maturity of crop after crop exhausts others. But down on ?he hard pan is the accumu lation of chemical elements, too deep under the crust for the" tender roots of tho plants to attain. Somo up-to date 'farmers use tractor plows to. break u^ this hard pan and to give the roots a chance to stretch thomsolvcs VILL POINT ULROAD REFORM land That .Lines Be Kurt on Busi- j 1 Advance to Be Granted latter part of April. In their closing arguments the railroad attorney!) again stated that delay meant dost rue-1 tion for many lines. All through May pressure was brought to bear on the commission to hasten the decision. Creator pressure was brought In June. Then the rail roads began to look around and found they weren't so badly off as they thought. They took the hints thrown out by the commiBloners and their ne* earnings began to show a relative increase. Crop conditions throughout the country, never more favorable than thiB year, began to shed optimism on the railroads and within the last few weeks the carriers, which had laid off many men during the progress of the rate hearings, began to hire- them back; they placed orders for new rails; they gave orders for new equip ment, and they began running their shops overtime in many instances to put their rolling stock in shape to handle the crops. Hallroads to Jfect Conditions. Conditions, have improved^ so* that the prices of those stocks which have not been fundamentally undermined by watering have shown steady im provement. The delay of the commission con vinced the railroad operators that their please for an immediate increase, because of the precarlousness of their conditions, had* gone uncountenaneed. They set about to meet conditions as| they are. The decision, however, will point out the way to groat benefits for the carriers. Through the elimination of free services alone, the carriers In the ear.tern territory will be enabled to save almost as many millions annual ly as they hoped to obtain "through the| ? per cent horizontal incrennn. A more scientJle bundling of their expenditures for new equipment and their expenditures- for repairs ou old equipment will add millions their savings and thus; increase their net earnings relatively. The commis sion will emphatically insist that tea roads take care of their "cripples" during the dull season, instead of let ting them pile up on miles of side tracks until the ruBh 'season strikes them, when an attempt is made to put them all through the Shops in a hurry. The commission will point out that the roads, should also devoto their at tention to keeping their tracks and rights of way In-repair during the off season in traffic. The decision has been wrltton for| several days. All of the commission ers now have copies of it. Its con tents have Jo%n known in a/, general way for s?ve?L weeks past, and per sons fan: iliai$&rth -the^^toarSrefc, assert there will be-Sk? diurry-at all when.: it Is finally madeikTlpwnvxto the general public. x' and grab hold of the' chemicals in the | soil. Wo have hardly scratched tho sur face of the earth. ^No plow can go deep enough to do the work of a dy namite cartridge. Plant one of these cartridges two or three feet below the surface and it will overturn the soil, pulverize it and release the chdmlcal agencies to give food to plant ilfe. The cartridges, when placed 12 to 201 feet-apart, will tear .up a whole "field' in Buch a manner that it will not I egain need euch'heroic treatment forj five or six y ears,.hut the newly pul verized soil will keep on yielding up it chemical constituents until another such treatment is needed. Chemical fertiliser may be needed at times, and even so, witl be found to take hold instantly and to sink | down to the roots and not to leach) and evaporate on top of the ground. '-je-.*. L' , "WHAT CONSTITUTES SUCCESSr| :-UjL_a--i ; - "He has achieved BUCcesB who has lived welt, laughed often and . much; who has gained the re spect of intelligent men and the love of little children; 'who has filled SH niche and accomplished his .; who haa left the world belt -ham ho found It, whether by an improved' poppy,' a perfect poem or a rescued soul; who has never lacked. appreciation of earth's beauty or. failed to ex press it; who has alwaysr looked for th? bee*; in'others'and'given the best he had; whose life was an inspiration; ;whose memory Is a benedlctron.^Mrs; X JV Stan ley, Lincoln, Kan. _ This doflnltion, won tho $250 prize, offered somo .timcj (( jago.-.by .a, Boston firm for the best answer to the above question. Can you. .beat,, it? We doubt it? W$&?'*' *A? ii??rr aK?BLTE Immense Gathering;, at .Funeral. InI Dublin, Ireland. Dublin, July ?29.-^-More persons star eat Ini the. i_ tho funeral oEthe'thnfb persons killed last Sunu^y^hsiilWK > KWa uown Scot?sh border?rs pred into a mob during a; gun rvnnhvg exploit by; ta? Irish nationalist Tr&Bqgccra. All shops were closed. The, mayor; the city council '.aid jpt^eriaubHc bodies and battalions or nationalist vohiatshrs participated tn the procession; which was a mile and, a'half long, A recently pal&hted wood screw car-1 ries a snarp.blade under the.U^d.to ream out a placet? ?oc^tes|h?,\head.| ANDERSON TO MUH SOI MEW TERRITORY NOW AFTER A PART OF ABBEVILLE DONALDS SECTION People Living There Do Not L0ce| Idea of Becoming Attached To County of Greenwood Sometime ago an agitation was started to effect a change, by which the portion of Abbeville county known as Donald's township would become a part of Groenwood county. For sometime it seemed that this deal had gone through and that the split-up would occur, but a few days ago op position to such a move was develop ed, people living In the northern half of the district refusing to agree to the proposition. The southern, half of the district wanted to become a part of Greenwood and the northern half ob jected and there the matter stood un til yesterday, when :ertnla,. citizens living in the northern Itfirtelephoned to Anderson and asked If Anderson would assits. in the undertaking to have them made Into a part of Ander 3on county If they would state a prop osition. They said that they were very ready to leave Abbeville county for Anderson county but it did not care to do so for Crecn^epdl-county It naturally follows tlj^U^'-Anderson will be glad of tho oppQrtunity'jto ac quire the territory. U. ":<*r*"? Following their conversation with, the interested parties the Anderson chamber of commerce went to work on plans for making the scheme feasi ble. It was agreed that a meeting of all the Interested parties would bo held ?t Dcna?d= en Friday at C'.SC o'clock, at which time Greenwood citi zens will be present, citizens from both the northern section and south ern section cf the district under discus sion will be present and people from Honen Path, who are also greatly in terested in the deal will be present. The chamber of commerce announced yesterday afternoon that James D. Hammett, chairman of I the executive committee, had appointed J. K. Hood, Jas. N. Pearman and T. Frank Wat kins, as a committee to represent An derson at the meeting., ' Porter A. Whaley, secretary of \ib.e Anderson chamber of commerce, will also be at the meeting and he will assure" the people of the northorn section of Don alds township that Anderson county will be very glad to have them become citizens. Mr. Whaley Bald yesterday that this ia one of the most fertile sections of I Abbeville county and that if Anderson can obtain it it will bo a> great stroke of business 'for this conntyi, He says that if convincing arjruftnenftl Vill have any effect that the people will come across and agree to Join Anderson be cause he and his committee iwlll pr?s-, ent Irrefutable argumentai when they appear at the meeting. The Ander son representatives will. \leave this city at 2:15 Friday afternoon. People In all sections of; the ccunty trust that no hitch may occur in the plans and it would seem,.how that none can turn up and that' the new territory wiii be acqnirea. HAIL SUFFERERS ARE GIVEN ADVICE Want F*ymer? la Ha2 Dis Plant Cotton Land In Peas If Crop Has Been Rained "If those Anderson county farmere suffering the most loss from the re cent severe hall. storm a JyLUi plant their land in peas they Wfrree Bur prised to learn next year - Chat they lost mighty little" said a''well-known farmer yesterday. ?Jt^^tlL J. W. Rothrock, county demonstra tion agent, said yesterday, ?3at he was urging every farmer/ l?)kvrWeifl he found a tract where the' hall had com pie tel y ruined (the cotton, coolant the land In early maturing J peas, peas ready to cut within 60 to '40 days and he la sure that they will be in much better shape than they now even hope for. An effort has been made to have the government furnish tree to the farm ers of the stricken district a quantity of peas for planting and a telegram was also sent to Congressman Aiken, asking' that ho lend hia alrt in getting some selected seed for the farmers of this section. eManwhile, Anderson plantera can'get. all the peas they want,, right here at home, from* a lo cal seedsman. The agricultural confmU?ee of the chamber of commerce is trying to get the fanners to make experiment with growing Irish potatoes on a large scale which has been devastated by the hall. The committee r?alit?s that growing Irish potatoes requires a certain amount of expert knowledge, but the commit tea also figures that ec*n though the f armera made : noth ing from tba potato ero] their experience would M valuable, and would enable them to get a rao ney-maklnjy^li^^r Ka^AtiM A nmnbeSFbl the tarrW look on the proposition ^rith ?t are thinking of trying tno latter plan, pie..vy8I4dFlac8 MR. TAN W?CK BACK IN TEXAS O. Van Wyck, Jr? of VJ^^Staff of the Associated Pr^v wii\ ieave : *kls morning to resume his. uipiJeAJaltb .the I Dallas office of this /ir->at newspaper ses If you have a crop of Ap ples you should have a Cider Mill and Pres ?S Our's are the good kind . and the prices we are mak ing on them will please you. Sullivan Hardware Co. Anderson, S. C. Belton, S, C. Anderson City Is "My Town" Anderson County Is "My County" What About Anderson College ? We Have Buggies conning hi almost every day the litest shipment being a car of ?columbus? Come in and let na show them. They are 1914 Models. We have a nice line of Pony baggies. J. S FOWLER M?B??Km Enjoy the security and prestige of being affili?t- : ' ? ed With ah institution ' ^ ] . . .that ' . , ; r . m Has "Uncle S^/' For a We solicit y?^r business and are prepared to fully take care of your inter ; % ests \^Citiz&iB Rational Bank Capital j5lS0,?p0 Surplus ;$3 5,000 Institution.- Mr, Van Wyck has been apend?hg Beveral days In the city with WiCparenta. and be has been. Receiv ing a cordial wolcomo from the people in Anderson cb?mty.' Mr. Van Wyok is one of the reporters for'the'A*. P. at DallaB and Is an ablo-young newspa per man.