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IHE ANDERSON INTELLIGENGEB ! FOUNDED ACtilST !, ?*?o. 1x4 S?rth Main tftreet ANDERSON, 8. C. W. W. aMOAK, Edltor and Huh. Mgr L. M. GLENN.City Edltor | PHKLPS 8ASSEEN, Advertising Mgr T. B. GODFREY.Circulation Mgr.! El ADAMS, Telegraph Editor and) Foreman. Entered according to Act of Con grojH as Second Class Mall Matter at| the Postofflce at Anderson, S. C* TELEPHONES Editorial and Business Office.8211 Job Printing ..,.093-L| SUBSCRIPTION BATES SamLWeekly One Yov.r .11.50 I 81x Months .76 Dany One Year .15.00 81x Months .2.60 Three Months . 1*26 The Intelligencer is delivered by carriers in the city. If you fall to get your paper regularly please notify us. Opposite your name on the label of your paper is printed date to which our paper is paid. AU checks and drafts should be drawn to The Anderson Intelligencer. Tbe Weather. South Carolina: Rain Sunday; Mon day fair, somewhat colder. If the price of flour goes up will cakes' continue to rise? Wonder if Governor Rye of Tennes see is a teetotaler? -o Columbia news Is going to make mighty dull reading after tiilo. How's this headline for a paradox: Woman is Head'of Secret Service. ?o What a vast silence pervades Col umbia/ . . , ,. ?o Come on over, Tom Felder, the coast | Is clear. .The -pardon mill is now enjoying a well earned rest. Long live tbe Smiths?Governor and | JUdge. - *" ' . : > o Who wants the job of- writing about Colo in future histories of the State? ?' ?o-. . "Atlanta to Have Great Revival,".| reada a headline. 'Revival of what ? The droop is beginning to come out | of'the branches .of the Palmetto tree. 0"V* Come on in,.-Bleaseltes, the water's | fine. o Though we. are awfully late with it, I we rise tc sty "Happy New Year,j Greeks." Prayers of thankfulness for South Carolina's deliverance are in order) today. ?-o- . 8outh Carolina may never elect a| prohibition governor, ,buf she's got one | now alright o, ' . If Greenwood, has many moro kil lings old Gen. Villa will bo getting | envious. Here's hoping sn elevator wilt ele vate gr. in in more respects thsn one| In Anderson?in price, for instance. How la Cole going to get along after I this without his dally dish of no tor-] lety? Having, ex tende I- clemency to. every I one he could-find. Cole took a doso | of his own medicine and then quit. " ay The pardon mill ' was run at such I ' high speed tt will take several days for the machinery to cool oft. We would like to see . Governor Manning moke them Col. Pollock and Col. Jennings. o ? "Hard Tlmea Blamed for Check Forgery," reads a headline. What else Is going to be charged against the old scout? v-V . Hoyr many colonels- of Governor Blesses staff ex^?ect.to be appointed on Governor Manning's? Hold up your| hands one at a time, please. A few.fPbotogj-aphs of,.this' . mud made now'and stuck up at polling place's;when th? bond election ts voted on would prove a powerful lever to pot the matter across. ... Mayor Godfrey thinks council erred in not allowing the paving commis sion to do its own organising. He is to..be commended for. his quick per* coption and the readiness with which he speaks his mind; OH IN GROWING OIK SALVATION Away back in the forties and flftn-H. Anderson county ranked as one of the ^reat grain growing counties of the United States and harvested annually from two to four million bushels of wheat, corn ami other small grain. At every crossroud there wan a roller mill, and grain was shipped into Georgia, Florida, Mississippi and even Texas. The county was noted for the grade of the grain raised, and Ander son county grain Heeds were sold In almost every State. The grain huh raised on the large plantations! then owned, and was handled by the plantation owners and the supervisors under them almost entirely by negro labor, who were es pecially efficient In the handling uf Haine. They made excellent grain hands and were thoroughly convers ant with what were then the most up to-date and modern methods of grain production, handling and distribution. Up until tho Civil War broke In all Its devastating flurry over the Caro linas, the great money crop of the Piedmont was wheat and corn. Cotton was seldom planted and was consid ered a poor crop beside ftrain. At that time the county i ?tsed all its own meats and its hams were dally quot ed on tho New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Charleston and New Or leans mark/bis. Piedmont pork was thon better known than Chicago beef products are today. Anderson county pork brought a premium whenever sold. Beef was entirely raised at homo and butter was made by approved methods. The coming of the Civil War, the opening up of the cheap lands of the middle west, tho inability of the large plantation owners to secure money to finance tho crops, and the deplorable condition of negro labor, caused by carpet-bag methods, forced tho death of the industry, and as a ircsult tenant cotton farming, requir ing little at that time to finance, came in; later to be followed by modern and approved- cotton methods, such as wo have today. The people forgot about their prosperous days In rats lag grain, and in the early eighties the Importation of pork, western beof and grain began In Anderson county and throughout the Piedmont. People today little realise tho damage that was then done; for instead of living at home, our farmers became exclusive cotton planters and import ers of foods. The high price of cotton seemed to warrant such change. Lit tle by little the industry died away, until about six years , ago when the planting of corn became more and more tho custom, until this past year Anderson county for tho ftlrst time in fifty years raised enough corn at home to feed hersolf. It is not generally known, but In 1914 Anderson county raiRcu m-jvi one million, one hundred thousand bushels of corn, a mammoth crop. Practically all of it was used at home. The war In Europe this year has caused a gigantic Increase In wheat, oats and other small grain plantings, and tho estimate of Clemson College is that about'70,000 acres of land in Anderson county .is planted to small grains, Indicating a gross crop of 1. 400,000 bushels of grain, which at prevailing prices, practically sure to be maintained, mean a new revenue to the eounty this summer, when not less than $660,000,00 will be turned loose by buyers of this great grain crop, approached In . size the crops raised before, the. war, when Anderson county had hardly 16,000 people with in her borders as against her 85,000 today. Grain as a crop, in Anderson county, after a lapse of fifty years i as a commercial crop, has come back. It has conn back to'stay, and shall henceforth be a great , commercial money crop for Anderson county and In a lesser degree for other Piedmont counties. Tho construction of the grain elevator here, and the magnifi cently high prices for grain guarantee this. The results of tho qale of the 1014-16 grain crop will be so large and satisfactory that each year will Bee a steady Increase In grain acreage, and It may be that before the boll weevil gets to the Piedmont, Which will bo In 1919. Anderson county shall have definitely swung around again from cotton to grain, becoming almoBt entirely a grain county, and handling as incidente thereto-bogs, livestock, and dairying products. Some, who read ,thlq, may take this article as the wild dream of an enthusiast. It is not so. The great high prices' for grain now prevailing and sure* to prevail for many yean in the future; the great production p?S?ibi? o? An??rnuu and Other Piedmont farms; and the ease and cheapness with which grain may be handled here compared- With west ern and northwestern!States, together with a cheaper and bettor labor mar ket end equal freight rates, yet to be secured, guarantee the .continued ex pansion of grain planting and the grattual decrease of cotton planting In the tipper South. ' -, *s ', ?; ?'. e ir . Amcng.tho grain^ planters of the fifties in Anderson county was Mr* Jos. Fre^well, father of Mr.' J. J-vFret 11 of this city. He planted approxi Imately 900 acres in grain on this land. It was Iiis exclusive crop. His hogs, slicep and butter were minor mbney ?rops. Iiis negro labor was entirely satisfactory and hu produced his grain at much less cost than comp?titive western and mtddle western farmers then did, or do now. He had a ready cash market for all his wheat. Mr. I Jos. Y. Fretwejl was only ono of m*?ny similar farmers at that time engaged in si6in production. It was, as ata'ed, [the great money crop of the country. THF GKOLTH The Great Creator In His wisdom created many men of many minds and temperaments knowing that if the sonH ot men were alike in wishes and I desires it would lead to unending istrifi?. He created well, for many Is the noblest work of God. Dut lu some way there crept into the world a creature God did not create?a thing self made, he It male or female, that Is hated, despised and abhorred; a thing self-created, self-pitied and abnormal ly self-loved. This selfcreated creature Is tho chronic grouch that walks hero and there In every town and community searching for happiness?that he may destroy It. Flowers and children, be cause they represent beauty and love, ho detents. He reads as he runs that all men arc liars and all women but creatures of evil. In summer he reviles tho bright sunshine and hates the green hills. In winter he reviles the cleansing snow and the purifying frost. The bit terness of gall and wormwood Is with in his heart. Children floe from him and his wife can be classed among the martyrs. Men Bhun him and the world hates him. From an early age he walks this earth spreading unhapplneBS and un belief?a maker of evil and discord. Let us throw the x-ray of self-ex amination into our own hearts and search out tho little microbe that has a tendency to multiply and produce, in time, the hated grouch. There Is too much love and sunshine in this old world of ours to spoil It with the canker of selfishness. DESTRUCTIVE MR. HORAIL There was a time when S inatui Borah, of Idaho, commanded to a de gree the respect and the esteem of a large portion of the Democrats and of the independent voters of the coun try, some of whom were at one time called "Progressives." Mr. Borah talk ed enough, and not too much, to lead intelligent observers to the conclu sion that ho was a very ablo and a very conscientious statesman. Fre quently the diff?rences between him and his late colleague, Mr. Heyburn, wero pronounced, and outside of strongly partisan Republican ranks, the disposition was to give agreement to the more liberal views of Mr. Borah. But since the waning of Mr. Taft, which begun scfnc time'' before he was beaten for re-election, Mr. Borah seems to have conceived that It 1b up to.him to bo President, and ho has been running for tho Presidency for several years, to tho exclusion of everything else. It Is a raro day when Mr. Borah docs not litter up the Con gressional Record, to say nothing of the Senate chamber itself, wilth politi cal harangues that are Intended, not for the benefit or the enlightenment of the Senate or of the country, but for tho furtherance of the ambitions of the Idaho Senator in his race for the Presidency. Mr. Borah might learn a few les sons from Woodrow Wilson, and the one he needs most to learn is this: That the beat way, nowadays, to be elected President is to bo a very great man and to devote attention and abili ties to those things which are for the benefit of the country as a whole. In other words, paradoxical as it may seem but is not, the best way to run for President is not to run for Presi dent. But even granting that Mr. Borah Is pursuing an effective method toward attaining his ambition, It seems that he chose an unfortunate angle, of at tack upon President Wilson when, a day or two ago, he undertook to criti cise very severely the administration's policy in Mexico. When' he was press ed iby Senator Robinson, ot Arkansas, to say just what.he would do or would have done with respect to Mexico If he wore' 'President or If he bad been President during the past two years, Mr. Borah found- it convenient to ask that:he be allowed to continue his ad dress, .and declined to answer the questions. He was loud and extrava gant in his criticisms of tho admin's* tration'a policies, but ho was silent, oven' under questioning, ns to what ho would substitute for those policies It he had it in his power to direct the stand of the: government on the ques tion, r' It is a great deal easier to tear down than it is to build op. The statesman Who- Is a real statesman should not seek to destroy, the constructive wort of a fellow-statesman unless he has something to offer in its stead. . Special Sale of $25.00 Suits We put on sale 44 Suits, which is our complete ^? 4 *9 C&<^? stock of $25,00 suits at - -. # mZ?*~& In this lot you'll find blues, grays, browns, tans, olive greens, the new stripes and the popular tartan plaids. Serges and worsteds in abundance. Sizes and models for all figures; regulars, longs and stouts These suits made by the country's foremost tailors, will ^ i y Qg* quickly find new homes in this final clearance safe at V 1 c /*/ Other Reductions Offered Men's Overcoats Boys' Overcoats Men's Underwear Boys' Underwear Manhattan Shirts ' Automobile Gloves Wool Shirts Sweaters Special Lot Hanan Shoes Ordpr by jQf? ?Order by parcels (JJ^%sfrXl4<iXl J L^X Parcels SPOT CASH CLor?, -- we prepay ^* .jtwumm^' ^ we prepay "The Store with a Conscience" What Is the Matte As 7 have been residing in London since '.be - beginning of the war, I have been hearing the''question asked on all sides. I have never heard any satisfactory answer.-No one seems to know. "Why are the American factories not running night and day? Why are the railroads not opening up new terri tories and getting r?ady for the mil lions of immigrants who have, already made up their, minds to leave Europe as soon as the war is over? why are there not fifty American drummers in London right now trying to seil |200.000.0flg,t ?w?rth of Ameri can goods In place of the goodB that were bought last year from Germany and Austria? ' '' " ' Why have advertisers become quit ters, just at the time when their ad vertisements were most needed and most effective In cheering on the busi ness forces of the United States? From the European point of view, the United States is a haven of peace and security and prosperity. It has no troubles that it dares to mention to Belgium or Austria or France or Germany or Servis or Great Britain or Russia. Every tenth Briton has enlisted. Ev ery tenth Frenchman is at the front. Evenry tenth Belglau is dead. Wh.U dooB the United States know about trouble? If I could afford it, I would charter the "Mauretanla" and "Lusitania" aud i? ere and There < Ople T?oJ(Ps Wisdom. - Opio Held thinks this would bo a dreary, old world if everybody In it had a million dollars. -Think of it, just think or it," he ssid in sn address'the other night "If everybody was worth Si ,000,000 and a man asked another to do something, he would just put on a htgb-up air and tell htm to change climates. "There was never a falser, belief than that money and ignorance can make a man h?ppy. I would like to Im press this on the young man who hasn't got a dollar. "Poverty doesn't mean virtue, any more than Ignorance means righteous ness. . : "The world isn't nearly So bad as most of the 'God help us we're going to pieces' chautauod* lecturers would have us believe. g , , "When We're beginning to hear about evils they ara' more likely. to be going than coming. In pessimism there can he nothing but stagnation and death." ' ?? ~. . Why the Fsllnre. The other day the 'writer dropped Into a specialty storo that waa In charge of a trustas. Thl* gentlemen was asked what was the. reason for the embarrassment- Hlo reply, was substantially as follows: . "There was no . eyatom. One man wonld sail a thing for ono price and ; the oUier for seme Other figure. Then | there was too big a stock. For ex ample, here la a", item the sales of which usually rua about six d?sen during the year. The last order'was tor a gross?enough to last two years, just In order to get an additional 2 1-2 per cent "Then, again, thore were all Borts of little leaks thai eat u$ the profitai Garleasness here and downright Waste there. Stock allowed to collect dost \y With America?] convey a party of 5,000 American ad vertisers to Europe for a trip of edu cation. I would give them a week in Antwerp. I would let them look at the United { States from the scene of war. I would give them a look at real trouble. I would let them see trains, ten at a time, five minutes apart, packed with the maimed and dying. I would let them hear, from frag mentary survivors, the indescribable story of battlefields 150 miles wide and armies that are greater than the en tire population of Texas. I would let them see graves 100 yards long and lull and Belgium, the country that was, nothing now but 12,000 square miles of wreckage. Then, when t>ey began to under stand, to some slight extent, the mag nitude and awfulness of this war, I would say to them: ''NoW go back and appreciate the United States, realize your opportun ities. Don't start digging trenches when noboby 1b firing at you. Don't fall down when you have not been hit. Don't be blind to the most glorious cbanco you bave ever had in-your life. Go back and advertise. Get ready for the moBt tremendous boom that any nation ever had. Build your factories bigger. Train more salesmen. Borrow more money. Go ahead and thank God you are alive and that your family is alive, and that you are living in a land that Is at peace, at a time when nearly the whole world Is.at war." and dirt, so that It had to be sacrificed in order to move it at all. The slipshod /stockkeeplng is best Illustrated by an example. This article Is a free-seller and a pretty good stock bas to be carried s; all. times. "Instead of putting tho new arrivals at th? back of the old, they ' were placed In front, so that in the rear of the stock shelves I found quite a num ber that were so shop-worn that, they could hardly be disposed of at any price." ' It one store failed on account of things of this sort, .may there not be others headed the same way? Ex amine your own store sad see what you find. . -, Bits of Philosophy. It is often difficult for tho .fellows who have been born great' to keep up the expansion.' . When ? follow attempts to mix busi ness and pleasure he' always gets an overdose of - pleasure In the mixture. The school of. experience is hot a "pay-as-you-ent?r" institution, but collections are always made some where along tiie line. ' When all others fall boose can'al ways give the pugilist tho knockout blow. People who. fight for a principle sometimes display poor .Judgement In the selectlmt of the nrlnclnle. . Tho devil's bargain counter often shows that some supposedly good men have been sold for a song. - Be a Booster. . B? a booster if you can, (i r Booster of your fcllowman.- , '. Boost your country, boost yo?r State, Boost yur twn at any rate. Bost it as a place to live. Boost It?every boost you give Makes th?" town a better town Boost it up,, don't knock it down. Be a booste r?ror you can ; Boosting Is the bcter plan Boosters always win acclaim. Boost the knockero to their Shame, Boost them Wheu they need your help, Make thonx yell instead of yelp. - : *?B.USvr (-. .v. Boost them till they have a boost; BooBt them up, or oft the roost. Distances In Europe. The Canadian steamship lines have compiled a list of distances compar ing the European cities with those of our own countrries. If the continent of Europe could be transplanted ami placed upon this country'so that Berlin would occupy the location . of ' Chicago, the follow ing approximate comparison of dis tances would be found. London to Berlin, $13; Rochester to Chicago, 60S. Paris to Berlin, 654; Chattanooga to Chicago, 611. Vienna to Berlin, 364; DeBmolnes to iChicagft, 367. Antwerp to Berlin, 433; Minneapolis to Chicago, 420. Warsaw to. Berlin, 404; St. Paul to Chicago, 410. Petrograd to Berlin, 1,014; Quebec to Chicago, 1,022; Rome to Berlin, 1,093; Denvor-to Chicago, 1,083; Bel grade to Berlin, 733; Utlca to Chica go, 743. . Balkan States to Berlin; Florida to Chicago. Turkey to Berlin, Palm Beach to Chicago. . Western war zone; Hue through Omaha, Topeka, Joplln. Eastern war zone; line, through To ronto, Pittsburg, Lynchburg. A War Alphabet. A is for Antwerp, leaguered and shell ed, . B Is for Belgium* valiantly held, C is for Cracow, cruelly crushed, D 1b for D?nant, trembling and hushed, E is for Essen, home of the Krupp, F Is for France,-how bitter her cup, 0 Is for Germans, strong in their might, H is for heroes, battling for right, 1 is for Italy, biding her time, J is for Jo ft re, cool as a lime, K is ror Kaiser, warrior bred, L l? for Liege,, conquered, not dead, M is for Money, , cause of all strife, N is for Nothing, the cost of a life, O is for Ostend, no longer gay, P Is for Paris, that feels the samo way. " f I re RODERIC ALL STEEL 5P1 Designed to combine great durabill verlzing powers.. - Simple In construction, built entir< llcally tndsstructlblo. No castings o: These Harrows have the fewest p clamps to lose or give troubSo. Q 1b for Quitters, which none of them are, ' H iB for Reason, she's no kin to War. S iB for Strasburg, once it was French, T la for Tommy, who liveB in a trench, U is for Union, to Europe unknown. V is for Victory, and that t omes alone, W is' for WldowB, many there be, X is for Xerxes, an amateur, he, ,Y, is for Youth, the first to defend, 7i 1b for Zero?what's gained at the end. rjooooooooooeeooeeeo e e o OUB DAILY POEM o . ooooooooooooooooooo The Lie Yon Lire. It isn't bd much the lie you tell as the He you live that stings. The world is flooded each day with lies, but still it dancea - and Bings. A lie that is told may pass away and do no hauu, to men? But the lio yod livo is a lie that turds to torture your soul again. There are little lies and groat big lies and lies the world calls white, There isn't a lie of any kind that 1b Just exactly right; ; But if you must lie just tell a lie and try to live It down, But to live a lie 1b an endless hell on which the angels frown. It smuts and stains and corrodes you bo, and cankers and. clods and smears; " ' :* The lie you live is an endless hell to ! your soul through all the years; . And better a thousand lies men tell? that the world can well .for*' S give? ' . , Than the Helngest lie of all, my friend ?and that Is the He you live. ty with light draft and complete pul dy of. special steel, well braced, prac r mall?ables are used. osslblo number of parts, no enffs or ; Greenville, a. c.