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IHE ANDERSON INTELLIGENCER _Fouaded 1800 2M North Mala Street ANDERSON, 8. 0, WILLIAM BANKS, - - Editor W. W. SMOAK, - Boniness Manager ? .Catered According to Act of COB? .res? ss Secosi Class Mall Matter at Caa Postofflce at Anderson, 8. C faauslied ET err Morning Except Monday MTeehly Edition on Tuesday and Friday Morning! Hally Edition-$5.00 per annum; tfti^fer 8U Months; fl JU for Three Semi-Weekly Edition - f LGO per Aaaani; 76 cent* for Six Mont/, J | CO .eats for Four Months. '%_?ADVANCE Member of the Associated Freie ead fieeclrlag Complete Daily Telegraphic Service. -iL larger Circulation Thea Any Oth* er^ewspapcr la Tala Congressional ,..d I IM., i _ fha Intelligencer le delivered by ?arriera In the city. If yon fall to ?at your paper regularly please notify am. Opposite your name on label af yeer paper ls printed date to which peen* yaper is paid. All checks and Arana should be drawn to The An derson Intelligencer. THOVOHT FOB TODAY. fce-d ooff!! in n mysterious way. His wondcra to *>erform; He platts bis lootstepn in the sea > And ride* upon the storm. -Cowper. Barkoot'e carnival Isn't wantud ir Anderson. No. not a little blt . Jim Curley, the new Democratic mayor of Boston, served one term In Congress and ona veer In nrltmn. Gen. Villa's men are no doubt ven Impatient for more Mexican fed?rale to execute. The United States will soon con traer Mexico's haughty spirit-with soap and water and vaccine points. Goethals had an many Joba offered aim that he would now make a pescb ct an attraction on the lyceum stage Again the interurban hauls aw nj the big crowd to witness a play fi Greenville. 8oon all this will end. Sammy Gompers ts the sad little rascal. Even the Uber union people are getting sore on him. Yuan Shi Kai Ia Hying to bluff the Chinese with an Idol whose feet are _m m Now that France has regained r.?jna lisa, the next move will be to aeige .Alsace Lor ruino. There Ia but one way to beat the ?ncoTne tax-and that is not to have any income. . Columbus was the only man who had John Linley beat aa a real estate promoter. fwmj!1*,* ' _? . This would be fine weather foi Spring training for an Anderson base ball .club. School teachers In . Columbia excuse Children who are tardy on account ol Waffles. It ls usually a hospital of f enoe._. . -e*.'???. ,, "lM TOgJxmiBBBXr Huerta and Hau Shi Kal dis banded their congresses, but thc South Carolina legislature la yet ic wcasion. ^WaKblnfiton, Jan. 30.-Forecast: Carolina-Fair south, clearing north portion Saturday, colder! Sun day.1 fair. > Ahd tho erstwhile reliable old As sociated Pre?? no longer then last 8aturdny carried a weather forecast ot-'i&M wave." .. Ao a test ot the ?fecklenburg ?pe trlotlftm, how^jpuch W*H those tar 'Heda give ta the Andrew Jackson tnonament? Tits expresa company ha* reduced tates and evidently is arranging Co handle 'more liquor Into this terri tory, Madame Sarah Bernhardt has been admitted to the Legion of Honor. And Indeed it has been brave ot her to remain on the stage t? such a ripe ?gd age. lu the part ot Macedonia acquired ty Bulgaria tn the Turkish war bat 271,500 male persons romain ot a population of 702,000 before the hos tilities. War ls all that Sherman said -of ,ti and then some. /The Republicans once said t*at th? tVfmocrats would ?mash all Industry And now that nothing has happened tba Democrats are "cussed" becaosx ? all runs so smoothly. WE Nh!Kl? BATTLESHIPS. Tile chairman af the naval com mittee of the national house ot repre- . eentatives i? u rank highlander, just j as was iii? predecessor, the gifted George POSH of Illinois, formerly of Vermont. Hut the new head of tho committee ls none tile h's? talented ! and none tho less level headed. He is Lemuel Phillips Padgett of Colum bia. Tenn. One of Mr. Padgett's chief claims to distinction is that he is a graduate I of Erskine college? whic h 1H not so very far away from Anderson. Upon tho naval committee of the houe j will devolve a great responsibility this session, the responsibility of deciding In part the policy cf this administra tion in tho matter of building war Bhips for defense. >i Congressman PadK<tt. wo under stand, is no "Jingo," but he believes that we need more battleships, espe cially as we have Insular possessions which nre as susceptible to attack as the Philippines. We believe that tito United States should sell those isl and:?, or swap them og for a bunch of bananas. Hut, having them, we cannot afford In the event of un international brawl to have the Pacific Islands tuken from us. In tho interest of peace, to which the prt-ddent and his adminis tration are pledged, we think that it ls wise to build a sufficient number of battleship:; to protect our coast cities. The life of a battleship in less than IS years. What have become of the Texas, the Oregon and the other great f'onting forts that swept tho seas rican ni the Spanish armada? All t," 3 to the junk pile. And the great battleship South Carnthla, so new sud o beautiful but four jvars ato. ?s fated to be obsolete and useless as ( nn aggressive flghtlgn machine in the next ten years. It requires about three years to I complete a battleship. So tho out ! look is that if the Democrats do not huild some battleships the country will be without adequate coastal pro ' tectlon. And everybody knows that it i I < tho rarest thing in the world that the man or the nation that is prepared has to fight, but the man who is never ready gets more than ,he can handle. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. I The Associated Press is a great news agency, and a great benefactor to mankind. Thursday night, or f rather Friday morning at 1:30 the i steamer Monroe waa rammed some distance out from Norfolk. The news reached the office of The ( Anderson Intelligencer ovor our ?! speciui ieasod wire at 2:30 that n ?.teamer wea sending out the "S. O. S." call of distress, and it was but 1 s short time afterwards that it was 1 learned that the Monroe and the Nan tucket had collided. However, it was not until about 4 o'clock that lt was reported that the Monroe had sunk, ?nd even this was not authent'^atvd. The Associated PresB did carry the news of the disaster for the later edi tions of the metropolitan papers. The Dally Intelligencer carried as much of a story as the lateness of the , hour and the Indefiniteness of the : details would permit. We think lt was an achievement for the Asso ciated Press to be able to get as much ' as it did of the story as quickly ss lt did, and this paper waa the first in South Carc'lna to announce the sink ing of the Monroe. We expect our news service to im prove from now on?, and can promise this to our readers: The Associated Press has been sending the news all right, and wo h av ci put In tho equip ment to handle it. The Intelligencer ! will grow better day by day. i _ tNDEBSON'S! MAGAZINE* The enterprise of J. Homer Oulla . - f this city in undertaking to publish a monthly magazine devoted to the upbuilding of the piedmont section U vary commendable. Mr. Oulla ls a printer who has made his own way in . the world and today has one of thr most extensive printing plants In ?he I up country. Uut he is ever restless, eVer reach ing out. and it is 'his Intention to print this magazine lust to show th? world what Anderson can do. Ti?e people of Anderson do not realise Pic extent aad value to tin ' city of some of the smaller enter prises here, and we use tho wore "smaller" in ita relative sense, lr i proportion to the greeter cotton mill industry. We do not know what Mr Ou?la's plans arc for editing this magazine, but we do know that he har a fine' opportunity-and we hope that h? tri\\ ??ftt Upoll li. After the death of Lieut Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner, doesn't that mske Gen/EL M. Law the ranking living I officer ot the Confederacy? Invite kim to Anderson for the reunion. " ? i As to the disagreement in Colum . ma, we should think that If Senator , Christensen keeps his owe nose clean > he should not be blamed for his an cestor's doings Electric Citi Items of Interest and Personal 3 lens On tbe titra When ashed by an Intelligencer re porter yesterday as to what he thought of tho selection of l'rof. W. H. Hand fur the presidency of Ander son college. Prof. E. C. McCanta, su perintendent of the public schools oft Anderson, said that be wan personally very much gratified ?iver the selec tion of Prof. Hand and that he wax well pleased over Mr. Maud's acceptance. He said that ho cashiered it a great thing for the institution and that in hin opinion no mun could have been, found, bettor qualified to lill the place with honor and dignity. Magnolia Camp No. r.G of tho Wood men of the World, ia now making pr?paration? for tho unveiling of a monument to the memory of lt. P. KatiHom and also J. H. Casey, which Mill take place ut Williainston on Sunday afternoon at "t:'iO o'clock. Tho Woodmen exercises In memory of de ceased brothers aro most Impressive i.nd deeply Interesting, therefore till attendance at the service Sunday will doubtless be lurg?'. A cordial Invita tion has boen extended the Anderson W. O. W. to be present. Anderson had tho 'pleasure o? enter ond left for Greenville after their vi* the fact that Col. Joseph N. Brown has < onatod five aerea of lund to the North Anderson Development company for the purpose of a park In that sec tion of tho city. Those who aro inter ested In North Anderson property say that the park will bo a thing of beauty when lt is completed and that lt will v.iukc an ideal recreation place. Robert Hill, a negro, was arraigned hefore Magistrate Broadwell yester day on a charge of stealing a watch. He was given trial and the caso In vestigated, the Magistrate deciding ?hat he was guilty. However In view of the fact that all negroes are hope ?G??,y ov?rco??iK uj the o?ghl ui jew elry, of any kind. Mt. Broadwell let Uoboit off with a fine of $2">. Mrs. Aug. Gentry has received a eheck from Governor Blease for tho ?mm of $2.00, which the chief executive rontribut?s to the repairing fund of Ilethel church. The contribution was tent hiin and tho Governor tcok occa sion to say that tho demands in work of this nature made upon him were au I ABOUT FOLKi Jack Cantrell, of Spartanburg, is spending a few Hayn in the city on business. I. B. '-Magn?es, of Spartanburg, better'known as "Dux," was in the city yesterday for a few hours. Joseph Lindsay, of Chester, is spending a few days in tho city on business. T. P. Washburn, a well-known Au gusta man, is in Anderson for a few days. D. W. Cochrane, of Greenville, wa^ smong the business visitors to ti J city yesterday. Dr. L. G. Beau, of Greensboro, N. C., was in the city yesterday, a guest at the ('niquela Hotel. C. A. Clinkscales, of Savannah township, was among the business visitors to tho city yesterday. S. T, Cochrane, of Belton, was in Anderson yesterday for a few hours. C. B. Chamblce, of Savannah town siph, was among the visitors to the city yesterday. G. W. Hyatt, a well-known planter of Hopewell, was in Anderson yes terday. W. P. Morrison, of Martin town ship, was among the business visi tors to the city yesterday. Asa Hall. Sr., of Abbeville County, was in Anderson yesterday for a few hours. E. C. Pittard of Charlotte. N. C., waa nmonjj the business visitors the city yesterday.. T. C. Cromer, of Broadaway, was in Anderson yesterday for a few Mise Etoile Watson has returned from LowndeBville where she was .me of the attendants at the Harpcr | Allen wedding. ? C. M. Watson of Centerville, was imong the business visitors to the city yesterday. Oscar Palmer, of Garvin township, waa. in Anderson yesterday for a few hours. J. N. Msstera, of Va rennes town >hip, was a business visitor to the eitv yesterday . P. Ussery, of V?rennos town ship, spent yesterday in Anderson on business. J. A. 'Harbin,, of Centerville, spent % few hours in Uie city yesterday. J. L. McGee, of Starr, was among the business visitors to the city yes terday. 5am Gillespie, a well-known far mer of Pickens County, was in the city yesterday. J. Carl Shirley and t>. Stephen Shirley, of Long Branch, were in the city yesterday. J. T, Mitford, r,f the I^ncr Branch ?oction, was a business visitor to the -ity yesterday. William Dobbins and son, Trait, of the Fork section were in the city yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Cromer and little son, of the Fork section, were shonping in Anderson yesterday. I Miss Nettie McPhail, of the Hope well section, was among the visitors in Anderson yesterday. Mr*, Lewis Cromer, of .the Fork section, waa shopping In the city yes terday. I B. M. Castle? of Spartanburg, wat H Sparklets fention Caught Orer tba Wire ats of* Anderson? heavy that ho could hardly contribute any lurgt? amount to cue ?ingle cuuse Anderson had thep leasure of enter taining yesterday a number of the of ici?is of the Piedmont & Northern line, lt is said that their visit to this city was of no especial significance, that they were merely looking over their lines und inspecting their varioiiH of fices. Amone those composing the party wore B. ThomaHon, general man ager; C. H. Allen, general passenger igent; C. H. Pettus, commercial ageut; J. S. Cureton, agent nt Greenville, and C. W. (Crosby, superintendent. The of licials were traveling in a private car j an dloft for Greenville after their visit to Anderen was completed. et, iS A shrdlu uni! do ra hat played In Anderson this afternoon be tween the Anderson High school and the Bailey Military institute is being anticipated with lively interest. Th? (Jreenwo?d boyB won t'rom the local aggregation In the first game played and tito "home" boys say that the ca dets are slated to bite the dust this afternoon. Play'Will be tailed at 4 o'clock at the Central school. Two now schools will shortly be opened in Anderson, with a third in course of construction. The Kennedy pleted and will be occupied as soi paney on Fob. 10, while the Glenn street school has already been com pleted and will (be occupied as saan as the sewerage connections are made. It is not probable that the Southside school will ?be ready for occupancy until thc next session opens in Sep tember. C. H. Pettus of Greenville, com mercial agent of the G. S. & A rali way, paid his first visit to Anderson yesterday. Mr. Pottus said that he is most favorably Impressed with the splendid showing that this city is making and that he is well pleased with thc condition of thc local affairs of his com j)a ny. W. K. .Stringer, president of the Peoples Bank of Belton, was In An derson yerterday for a few hours. Mr. Stringer said that business conditions in Belton are growing better and bet ter overy day and that prosperity is hoing radiated on every side._ S YOU KNOW ? fr ? ? ri' " n I in the city yesterday, stopping at the Ohhjuola hotel. T. H. White ot Chester, was amen/ the business visitors to Andcrsor yesterday. B. M.'tMc!?askill of Greenville, wat in the city yesterday for a few hours' IS. H* White of Due West, wa among the South Carolinians regis tered at the Chiquola hotel yester day . t' ? G. McCorkle and Lacy Moore, both -of thc Southern Railway Company were in Anderson yesterday 'n th interest,of their road, Mrs. Ralph Ramseur, Mrs. Jas. H. Ramscur and Master richey Ramseur of ?Central, are in the city, the guests of Mrs. Horace J. McGoo on Calhoun street. Mrs. B- G. Boyd has returned from a delightful trip through the West during \vhlch time she visited Lex ington, Ky.. St. Louis, Mo., and other cities. 'Messrs. E. L. Owens and W. G Wilson of Pendleton, were in the city yesterday for a few hours. W. T./Morrlson of Mountain Creek was among the visitors to Anderson yesterday. FurmAn Martin of the Hopewell section, spent a fdw boura in the city yesterday. " . Capt- P. K. M'-CUMY. Jr., who hat been in Columbia attending the meet ing of the National Guard officer's, ls expected tp return to the. city today Mrs. Marry Ttley of Apex. N. C. ts in th? city, the guest of her sister Mfrs. T. S. Crayton. HAS COME BACK Old Bob Flt rsi m mons liiere With the Punch Williamsport, Pa., Jan. 30.-Robert Fitzaimmons, former heavy weight champion, displayed much of hla old- -I hime speed and ring generalrhip hera tonight in a six round bout with "Knockout" Sweeney ?of Cleveland. It was his first contest since he re tired from the ring and pugulistic experts declared he had "come back." Fitxsimrnona' blows were powerful and while Sweeney remained in tho ring for the- limit, he repeatedly waa i knocked down and took the count efl nine. BIO, PEACH ORCHARD Eosicv Progress. Mr. E. F. Merrill, whs for a num-l ber of years has had charge of Mr. j R. B. Byers* orchard on Mauldin, Mountain, has moved recently to Picken* to take charge of a place near Seneca church for Mr. J*. MeT?.; Brui?. He will set out a large or chard of* peach and other varieties of fruit trees this spring. Mr. Mer rel! is a* splendid horticulturist and will, no doubt, make a success ox the undertaking. Mr. H. W. Farr has moved to. the Mauldin Mountain place. A Good Letter From a Good Man 3r*? and one who is absolute authority on the subject of Life Insurance, lt is with greiH.pleasure that we publish same herewith for'your consideration ani information. Mr. T. O. Lawton, Manager, Southeastern Life Insurance-Company, Greenville, S. C. Dear. Mr. Lawton: lt is with considerable regret that I find myself unable to bc with you and your agents at their meeting on the 22nd-23rd. It would have given me a rreat pleasure to be able to look into your faces and tell you of the feelings of my heart and thoughts of my mind in re gardl to the Southeastern Life Insurance Company at this time Please say to your agents for me that their company has a remarkable record. Founded without the expenditure of a single dollar for the promoter's profit ; without one penny of surplus fpr working capital, nevertheless, in eight years it has established itself firmly, fi nancially and strongly, not only in the hearts of its stockholders and policyholders, but in the hearts of all patriotic South Carolinians. , In thc days of stress, when the temptation to hide if apparent weakness was strongest, it dared to speak the whole truth; in the days of its prosperity, it will do no less, lt has a clean past ,a well established present and God grant that it may have a brilliant future. Occupying as I do a position of impartiality towards all companies licensed in this State and, without any personal interest in any, 1 feel that I am saying what is only good for all concerned when 1 say that the man who serves the Southeastern Life Insurance Company well, serves not only South Car alina, but th enation at large; for I am convinced that the peace and prosperity of our great nation is to be largely affected by the building up in each State of one or more large life insurance companies. There has been no greater drain upon the re- ;. sources of South Carolina since the war than the outflow of capital to insurance companies of other sections. While it is perfectly proper for South Carolinians to give their service to corporations of other states, nevertheless, it is prefectly true that a South Carolinian is a traitor to his State, and to his section if, in serving the corporation of another state he seeks to pull down the one within his own state. And I have this to say, to my great regret and to.-, the shame of many South Carolinians serving other companies, the Southeastern Life has woo its present position of permanent establishment despite the Siiee'a and slights of those who at least could have said a kind word in its behalf. But, as a South Carolinian, speaking to South Carolinians, I feel that I can say that it is our part to rise above such things and, speak ing to those who are serving the Southeastern, I would say that they are licensed to serve the Southeastern, and not to speak disparagingly of any other company licensed in this State. Go f jrward with light hearts and confident minds, arid may the future be brighter and still brighter. Very truly, McM-E (Signed) F. H. McMaster, Insurance Commissioner. The Southeastern Life Insurance Company is the only Ojd Line Legal Reserve Life Insur ance Company organized and operated in this state. With the record that this company ' is making, in view of the fact that we keep every cent of your money right here at home, we ask for a liberal share of your business in the future; and we want to thank you for the good business that you have given us in the past. Southeastern Life Insurance Company Horace J. McGee, General Agent, Anderson,' S. C George W. Speer, Special Agent, Anderson, S. C lc ? rmIs umnrinr ?LA?lbt IHbHtAut IN TOTAL OF TAX City Assessors Are Hard av1 Work on the Ta* Books of City of Anderson. The fact that the city tax asses sors shotf on their hook3 for the let ter "A" alone an increase of 880,000 over the rate formerly shown would seem to indicate that some tremen dous changos are being made by the board at this session but such is not the case. The city hoard for Anderson ss composed of S. D. Brownlee,. J. H. Craig' and W- W. Robinson and in accordance with the law they are now going over the tax list aa is re quired ir every fo^ajgyears. This being the fourth year the board has begun the work and is now engaged in completing it as rapidly as pos sible. Members of the board stated to a reporter of The Intelligencer yester day that the explanation of the .in crease in the first letter of the al phabet was due to the fact that th? State board during- its session last summer raised a number of the cot ton milla and oil mills of Anderson and since most of them begin with the first letter of' the alphabet the increase is due t othe fact and not to any action taken by the city board. The work waa begun on January 21 and will be completed by ..feb. 12, according to the statement of a member of the board yesterday. This member said - that they were making every possible effort to equa lise matters rather than to make any decided change and that for the most part there would be little diff erence in the totals, since they are raising some and lowering others. TITO BIG JOBS. Interstate Ceauneree Commissioner Have Beea Kened. Washington, J aa. 30.-Winthrop ?.?uui-e Daniels, of Princeton, N. J., chairman of the New Jersey puhik utilities' commission? and Henry Cl nj Hall of Colorado Springs, president ol the Colorado Bar Association, proba bly will be named as members of th? interstate commerce commission to morrow.iby Pr?sidant Wilson, Th? senators - from New Jersey and Colo Tadd were consulted -about their ap polntments late toda?. ?01,LtGB BILI, KII.LKB. ,, - ? Coluntbla, S. C., Jan. 30.-^hia*feA* ate killed a bill of Senator Banka providing free tuition for all stu dents at Clemson College. Senatoi Johnstone, of Newberry, and a trus tee ot the college, made a vigorous! speech against the bill, which wai killed by a vote of Si to 8. How About a Good Mule? \ I Ul I When we say good, we mean G-O-O-D. If you do not believe this COME AROUND and we will SHOW YOU THE GOODS, and at the RIGHT PRICES. We can sell you just as cheap as any one, and if you give us a trial we will prove this assertion. WlTbo NOT SELL CROOKS, when we get hold of one, we load it on the Cars and ship it away and out of the country. We guarantee everything that we sell to be as represented. . \#S-I : ? i ORDERS SOLICITED Arr ? * * ?Tr? A **w npnr? , ? . _ ? _.?? _ TT Ci nAVE. ?A DU i su\ un me i nar KC i au tue time who shipped us a load to-day which is the best shown on the market this season. We have Mules weighing from 1000 to 1200 pounds including several well match ed pairs, mostly maares. GOOD SMOOTH STUFF with lots of quality and finish. Come around and give us a look before buying, YOU MU ST.GET YOUR MON EY'S WORTH. . PRICES AND TERMS ALWAYS RIGHT Yours for Fair Dealing, The Fretwell Co. Josi Received... Valentines and Valentine Post Cards. Call and examine our line Cox Stationery Company