?BE ANDERSON IN?ELLI6EHCER POL'M'ED A l'Ut ST 1, l?6tt. Mi North Mala Street ANDERSON, 8. C W. W M OAK, Edltor and l'un. Mgr Lt. M. GLENN,.City Editor PHELl'S SASSEEN, Advertising Mgr T. B. GODFREY.Circulation Mgr. EL ADAMB, Telegraph Editor and Foreman. Entered according to Act of Cou grass as Second Class Mall Matter at the Postoffice at Anderson, 8. O Member of Associated Press and Receiving Complete Dally Telegraphic Service. TELEPHONES Editorial and Business Office.821 Job Printing .693-L SUBSCRIPTION BATES ScmMTeefclr One Year .$1.60 Six Months v.76 Daily One Year .,.$6.00 Six Months .2.60 Three Months. 125 The Intelligencer is delivered by carriers in the city. If you fall to get your paper regularly please notify vs. Opposite your namo on tho label of your paper is printed date to which our paper is paid. Al" checks and drafts should be drawn to The Anderson Intelligencer. oooooooooooooooooooo ONLY e 6 o More Shopping 0 e e o paya J Before Vines. % e f. ' eooeoooooooocooooooo The Weather. South Carolina: Cloudy Friday and probably Saturday. Thought For the Day. - To be conscious of one's own ignor ance is a step toward knowledge. ; THE FABXEB AND HIS PAPER. "The farmer of today is entirely different from the farmer of yester day," said Secretary C. N. Mcllvaine, or the South Dakota State fair, "and I really believe that the country newspapers have been the greatest aid to the farmers and mads tham what they are today. There ia no bet ter or quicker way to get an educa tion than to read the papers. If a man la away from his home town bis home paper comes to him like a long lost friend.- It just seems to me, when I read my home paper, as though I was shaking hands with a chum. I think the article written by Peter Bedford have dono moro for tho farm er than any series of articles I havo ever read.' Have you read his article on 'Political PreachersT?It la one of the best he over wrote. Every farmer end ev-ry farmer's wife should read it It'a great" oooooooooooooooooo o e OUR DAILY POEM o 9 O ooooooooooooooooooo New Every Morning. . Every day is a fresta beginning, Every morn is the world made new; You who are weary of sorrow and sinning, Here is a beautiful hope for you? A hope tor mo and a hope for you. And the past things are gone and over Tho. tasks are done and the tears are sbed; Yesterday's sorrows let yesterday U * cover. Yesterday's wound which smarted and bled, . Are healed with the healing which s night has shod. Yesterday is.a part of forever, , Bound up in a heath which God holds tight With the glad days and sad days and bad dayB which never Shall visit us more with their bloom or their blight. n Their fulness of sunshine or sor rowful night Let them go since we can not re live them, Can not undo or can not atone; God in his mercy, receive and forgive them, . Only the new days are our own? Today Jo our* and today alone. Hera are skies all burnished brightly Here la the spent earth all reborn; Hare are the tired limbs springing Ufbtty u To greet the sun and share with (Xkv- .;-the morn In It* chrlara of dew and cool of the dawn. ?-?f?tf 4?y Is a fresh beginning. Listen, my soul, to tho glad refrain, And ia f/iiito of old sorrow and older Binning, And troublo forecasted or possible '; tels > Take h* set you right. Christmas is the l'uuun for giving. Get that? The eal happincsB lies In planning what ou arc going to do for others and >en doing it. The real Christmas plrlt fIlia only those whose thoughts re upon the happiness they hope to estow upon their friends and upon 10 unfortunates who think they have o friends. Its not so much what you Ive as to whom you give. There's a oor woman UMing around the corner, b one is thinking of what she would ke for ChrlstmaB. She'd be the sec nd happiest woman In town if you ere to walk In on her early Chrlst las morning with a gift of something arm for her to wear. The happiest oman would bo my little girl who rings It. There ia old Black Jim, ho shovels the snow and carries out ie aBhes. Never thought of him? roll think of him to the extent of a llr of warm mittens. Knit them nirself. Don't know how? Your other will start you. It will be trice as much fun for you and old m's look of gratitude when you give icm to him will repay you more than 11 the Une phrases of all the young lulrts to whom you send neckties icy won't wear and pincushionB they on't use. Try dad'H prescription, lughter, and you'll be the happiest Irl in town Christmas day. You will id that It isn't getting what you ant for Christmas that makes for >al Joy. You'll discover something, hat's right. Start now. i AS IT SHOULD BE. In the school house in Belleville, ris., a few evening ago, upon motion ! the Catholic priest, *he Methodist Inistor was elected president of the immunity's social center for tho lining whiter. Then three basketball teams were rmed, including the priest, the min ter, the blacksmith, the editor, a xmer the keeper of the village reB urant a dentist, a clothier, a tearn er, a druggist, a garage owner, the inker, the saloonkeeper, a hardware crchant' and a'house painter. They differed In religion. In politics,1 Income, In social status about as Idely as men can differ. But in the immon Bchool building, in the free tmocracy of the social center, they creed 1p lay asido their differences r the novel purpose of discovering w much good fellowship there wao meeting together, now and then, as uals. as brothers. In the democracy of play. In the mocracy of frank, fair discussion public questions, they are finding t, these differing men of Belleville, at, as human beings, they're amaz gly alike once you get below the rface. . And out of this agreeable discovery 11 come for Belleville, more tolor ce, more kindliness of feeling, more - e and tako than It bad ever known Fore. Even when they shall differ aln?as, of course, they often will It won't be with as much bitterness, much bigotry, as much mean hate of yore. It's a wonderful solvent, Is broth od. HOW* WE GET THE NEWS. Day before yesterday a perfectly :e lady called us up and with tears her voice reproved us for not men nlng the fact that she had had a and visiting her last week. Wo d her that she had not let us know Fthing about It and that therefore, did not know that she had a visi . Then she said, "Well, you should re known. I thought you were ining a newspaper." Wouldn't .t rattle your slats? Some people nk that an editor ought to bo a ss between Argus and Anna Eva f. They seem to think; that cur > senses are augmented by a sixth .t lets us know everything that hap. is, even If wo see, hear, feel, taste am ell It ?not. Dear lady. . editors only human or at least almost hu n. If yon ha^e a friend visiting i. If yon are going away, or have urned from a visit ont of town, it innle falls and breaks his arm, if ir husband chops his toe instead of i??k ?? W?vu, It anything happens it makes you glsd, or sad, happy, or d, call us up. Tell, up about it. at's the way to get H in the paper. the mis boy] 'SHM0MMP?| 'I will not quarrel and fight with ' big brothers in 1915." (vTnat v* I got a little brother for?) THIRTEEN CLERKS I ARE NAMED Attorney General Announces Ap ' pointments in Engrossing Dept. General Assembly. (The State. Thomas II. Peeplcs, uttorney geu eral. yesterday announced appoint ments to the engrossing department of the Reneral assembly. Thirteen ap pointments were made. "More than 200 persons applied and I would have been delighted to ap i point all of thorn, hut there were Just so many places to be filled." said tho attorney general. Following is a list of the appoint? luents: Chief clerk. J. C. Townsend, Colum hfa Miss Kate Sihroeder, Abbeville; Miss Eubank Taylor. Anderson; Miss Kittle McPadjdin, Harbin; Miss Ibs bello C. Patterson, Allendale; Miss Ann I). Bellinger, Columbia; Miss Elizabeth Sawyer. Orangeburg; Miss Nellie Adams, Newherry; Miss Esther Sims, Columbia; Miss Virginia Sim kiiiH, Edgufleld; Miss Mabel Bowman, Suinter; Miss Eflle McTaggart, Flor ence; Miss Ada Williams, Lexington; W. L. Gleaton, Spartanburg. To euch of the appointees the at torney general addressed a letter, as follows: "It gives mo pleasure to notify you that I have this day selected you as one of the clerks in the engrossing de partment for the session of the legis lature convening on tho second Tues day in January. 1915. You may, there fore, report for duty to the chief clerk of this department, in the State library, at 9 a. m. on the above date. "In accepting this appointment I desiro to impress upon you the im portance of strict attention to your du ties In every way and that you are subject to removal at my pleasure. "Wishing you a merry Christmas and happy New Year." Spartanburg Expecting Pardon for Clement (Columbia Record.) That ofllciais and individuals at' Spartan burg expect a pardon for Clyde C. Clement, tho Wofford Fit ting school student convicted at Spartanburg last February of mur der and given a sentence of life im prisonment, will form the last chap ter of the rather sensational case, was learned here Wednesday. This expectation at Spartanburg is based upon requests for records in tho trial und preliminary proceeedings that were received of officials there from, it was said, the governor's office. Clement is a prisoner In tho Spar tanburg county Jail, where he has been held since his conviction on charges growing out of th<; uUcgcd drowning of a baby girl -while in the company of Miss Flcda Pqndleron of Durham. N. C, the reputed mother of the -hild. Miss Pendleton was ac quitted of complicity in the crime, when tried Jointly with Clement. During the last few months, it was stated, several petitions have been I circulated in Spartanburg county, re i questing Governor Blease to grant* Clement a pardon. It was said these petitions were "freely signed," and that they have been forwards', to the office of tho Governor atteno'ng the trial, and reporta asserted that the chief executive showed more than or dinary interest in the proceedings. Clement is 21 years of age, and a native of Polk county, North Caro lina. He and Miss Pendleton, It was stated, were friends from childhood. A l?*Year.01d Santa Claus Who Visits More Than 6,000 Children. ' In the "Interesting People" depart ment of the December American Mag azine appears a picture and sketch of Olive May Wilson, a young Philadel phia girl who mado 5,000 children happy last Christmas and who is push ing a big scheme for making many times that number glad this year. Through energy, persistence and an unusually pleasing'personality. Miss Wilson has enlisted in her work the cooperation of the city authorities ami of people all ovv the country, hot asking for money, but approval. She got both. Ninety per cent of the letters were answered, mostly with checks, and there proved to be exaftly three tin regenerated Ebenoser Scrooges in the whole number. With the funds she bought' five thousand odd presents, and with the assistance of her family npHIS store is a veritable treasure house of holiday gifts in the best qualities of things that men and boys wear. We make free deliver}' to any address in the United States; and if things you buv here for us to send are not satisfactory to those who receive them, we refund the money cheerfully and take the goods back, before or after Christmas. Men's Suits & Overcoats Boys' Suits & Overcoats Shoes and Hats for Men The capital present for a man is al ways a suit or an overcoat. Wevc spared no time or means to secure just the ideas in clothes with which to meet his every whim. Quality cuits and overcoats with a desirable style that helps every man on the r?ad to prosperity. Suits, $10 fp $25. Overcoats and Balmacaans, $10 to $25. Evans Fifteens in both?the best clothes yet at $15. Ties and Gloves Not only hundreds, but thousands of the seasons newest creations in cra vats; colorings and shapes of < the New York art shops. Any shade of your preference4 is* found in our showing. 25c, 50c, 75c and $1. Packed in handsome holiday boxes ready for giving. , Gloves for ever, wear and every hand. For street and dress wear $t to $2.50; for auto wear at from $1 to $3.50, some with the new folding pocket gauntlet. A most favored present. And the boys are just as apprecia tive of practical nresents. Many striking models ii> ..jrfolk and dou ble breasted suits; fancy mixtures and blue serges; all cut full to give free swing to the growing boys All sizes 4 to 18 years, $3 to $12.50 Special all wool fabrics in serges and fancies at $5. Overcoats with the new shawl col lars, knee and full length, belt and plain backs. $3 to $7.30. Socks and Tie Sets These are things all men want? never get too many. Socks that are made to wear as well as give. Novel shades in cotton, mercerized and . silk, loc to $U. C' Tie Sets?pair silk hose, handker chief and tie?appropriately packed for the season. Some decidedly new ideas; fancy ties and embroidered handkerchiefs. $1, $1.50 and $2.50. Handkerchiefs in all the wantable kinds, 10c to 5oc. Linen with any initial at 25c one-eighth to three eighth hems. We can't think of a man who would not be anxious for Santa to remem ber him with a pair of shoes or a hat, ?something he always needs. Shoes of the appreciable kinds; Hanans S6 and S6.50; Howard & Fosters $4 to S5; Siiows S3.50; and he knows there is quality in every pair. Hats in the same number of styles as there are different kinds of faces. Stetsons $3.5o to $5; B-O-E Spec ial hats at $3 ; Evans $2 Specials. Guess the size, we'll exchange. Trunks and Suit Cases And there is nothing better for any man. Here is the luggage he will be proud to carry; with durability and refinement; quality at4 every price. Trunks $5 and up. Suit Cases, $2.50 to $15. Hand Bags, $2.5o to 515. Umbrellas built especially for men, some with the new white handles, all of them make a most suitable gift, $1 to $5. Canes, $1.50. Order by Parcels Post* MVe Prepay all Charges The Christmas Store for Men's and Boys' Gifts. The St?re with a Conscience Open Evenings Until Christmas. ut them up In parcels, directed, and tamped them. Then she went to Post isster Thornton of Philadelphia to taure prompt delivery. "??lc*j Wilson lives in Jenkintowo, a ishlonable suburb Just over the city ne, but it Is id the jurisdiction of 10 Philadelphia, postmaster. MY. horntou was aghast at the request. >r at that time every sub-station, the en?ral postoffice and rented buildings ere crowded to the roof with the! idden rush of packages, during, the! rst holiday, season of the parcel post ut ho. rose to tbe occasion (prqbably ?e made him), sent'but for the par sis in special motors; and - all were ?livered on Christmas. "There is nothing of tbe m 11 tant re muer about' her. she is just a jolly Irl; she plays auction. Is an expert at le tango, and loves horseback,riding, it these aro all subsidiary to her irnest purpose In life. Her plans for le coming season are elaborate and. ive been worked out with great care, f course everyone Is going to help, oy Scouts will wrap her packages >r her. Taxlcab companies are golrn? > help deliver, them, and Uncle 8am going to help out to the extent cf Is ability, even if he should happen I exact postage. Even the war wilt it be allow oil to interfere with ng toys or to upset any of her ??? " _' .. ashJagton IrrSng the .' "Father" of A merles Christmas. Although the nature of onr: c?l?brer ons may vary, Christmas itself will ways vbe for Americans the great jllday of the year. . Our lov? for it ; deeply* implanted, tt la tbe season * the expression of our best selves id lore for our follow men. our hhp iness and contentment with our lot It : our American tomperauvont-to run > extremes, and our celebration of 'Christmas Is no exception to the rule, {but these . excesses, ' such as our too lavish making of gifts, will be reform ed naturally without in any .sense taking the best of our Christmas from - us. How many of us realize that it was Washington Irving who gave us our. Christmas as we celebrate it today? { Dickens did a good deal, but Irving came first. Christmas is, of course, a Dutch holiday, with its trees and lights and toys, and who has taught us so well how to love and understand them as has Irving? Latterly the cel ebration has assumed a more charac teristic American character. : We cel ebrate the day after oV own fashion, but we should never forget that much of tho charm of this season is an Un conscious inheritance from Irving.? Professor Brander Matthews. A Prayer Per Christmas. Almighty God, we give thee thanks for the mighty yearning of the human heart for the coming of a Saviour and the constant promise of thy word that I he was to come. In our Own. soula we repeat the humble sighs' and panting aspirations of ancient men and agoa [ and own that our souls &re in dark ness and infirmity without faith-""I aim WuO CCS?CS tO'fefiE" Ood. to !?SS and man to God. We bless thee for the tribute that, we can pay to him from our sense of hoed and depend ence and that onr own hearts can so answer from their wilderness the cry, "Prepare ye the way of the LoreV* In i us the rough places are, to bo made smooth, the crooked straight, tho mountains of pride brought low and the valleys of despondency lifted. Up, O God, prepare thou tho way in ua now,, and tnay We wjlcome anew thy ' holy child! Hosann?! Blessed bo ho < who cometh In the name at the Lord. Amen.?Of-xood. , , TODAY MAX FIGMAN in We urge you to see this high grade pic ture consisting of 5 reels. Performance starts at 3 p. m.; 2nd at 4:30; 3rd at 6; 4th at 7:30; 5th at 9 p. m. special: music ! Admission Only 5 and 10c. Coming Tuesday; Dec, 22= M^clya Arbuckle in YWhe County Chairman" Steam heat, perfect ventilation. Christmas Greens Fron? France, About a million and a halt hunches of mistletoe, welching 650 tons and coming from France, were taken to London by one railway lino for lost Christmas. , [ f. . ., , i. l'n?e in Baxon Tliaes . *a Normsr and 8axon times an ox was always rcasted. whol? over toe Yule log at Christmas.