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THE INTELLIGENCER ESTABLISHED IMO. Published every morning except Monday by The Anderson Intelligen cer at ?40 Weat Whitner Street. An derson, 8. C. SEMI-WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER Published Tuesdays and Fridays Entered aa second-clsas matter April 28. 1914, at the post ohice at Anderson, South Carolina, under the Act of Marcb 3, 1879. ASSOCIATED PRES8 DISPATCHES Telephone .321 SUBSCRIPTION BATES DAILY One Year .$5.00 Six Months .2.50 Three Months .1.26 One Month.42 One Week .10 SEMI-WEEKLY One Year .$1.60 Six Months .76 The Intelligencer ls delivered by carriers In Hie city. Look at the pirlnted label on your , paper. The date thereon shows when the subscription expires. Notice date on label carefully, and if not correct please notify us at once. Subscribers desiring tbe address ot their paper changed, will please state in their communication both the old ( and new addresses. To insure prompt delivery, com plaints of non-delivery In the city . of Anderson should be made to the i Circulation Department before 9 a. m. ( and a copy will be sent at once. All checks and drafts should be 1 drawn to The Anderson Intelligencer. I ADVERTISING Rates will be furnished on applica tion. No tf advertising discontinued ex cept on written order. The Intelligencer will publiah brief and rational letters on subjects of general Interest when they ara ac companied by the names and 'ad dresses of the authors and are not of a defamatory nature. Anonymous communications will not be noticed. Rejected manuscripts will not be re turned. In order to avoid delays on account of perennal abses.cc, letters to The Intelligencer Intended for publication should not be addressed to any indi vidual connected with the paper, but simply to The Intelligencer. WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 1915. as?sswww?M??Bsaa??wsMwwwMBi Our old friend. Ju p. Pluvius, ls with es sc sin. >' o ? Atienta narrowly missed having an Atlantlan on the Lusitania. - ? o ?? This obscurity must be awfully galling to a certain ex-governor we know. Th? milkman I? not supposed to have anything to do with the water wagon. The Chinese have demonstrated that they ate neither hotheaded nor hotfooted. -r-O There might pe more scents than you think for in St. Louis' onion day celebration. A report declared that Italy bad de clared war, but upon Investigation we found It-a-ly. -- Filling Big European Wire Order. Headline. More wire for Italy's neu trality fence? o ? In all ot this excitement about the Lusitania we completely loat sight of old Doc. D?rnberg. We sincerely trust there's more truth than poetry In some of the "poetry" we ree*-.re Tirxah, York County, has a bread club. Is that Ute Tinah famous for tts candidate for railroad commis sioner? A report says that the vee? costs England $10.600.000 a day. How we would like to swap a day's work for a day ot war. . ?? D. Spartanburg ls hot after the militia encampment. She needn't get excit ed about the matter, as no one else seems to want lt. Wi?" When yon are called upon to back np President Wilson in case we go to wsr with Germany that does not mesh turn your back ta him. S Germany's gloating over the Lusi tania butchery ts not calucalated to streoghten the ties between her and the few friends abe. possesses. ?-0 A rewurd of $6,000 is offered for ?lr. recovery Of th? body of Vander bilt who was lent when the Lusitania waa sunk. And the relaUves ot the lowliest storage passenger who waa* lost would ?rive wren as much for hi* hedy if they bad it. We OUR.it to revis* our histories thal paint terrible stories of savage Redskins who tomahawked defense les women and children hundreds of years ago. We have been expecting the Kuiser tn IHHUC a proclamation calling the people lo return thanks for the Lord being on their sill?- In their lat"Ht achievement. An Atlanta paper lias a "col y um" headed "Old Wine In a New Bottle." whh h reminds that in our rounds of the French restaurants we get the reverse of that. -o A disptach says the British steam er Lusitania was uubirarined. From all reports, we suppose tbff.t queenly liner does belong to the sub-muriue class now sure enough. Wondn what ex'-Gov. Cole. L. Blease thinks about the Lusitania disaster?-Greenwood Journal. What our esteemiij ex-gov. things about a thing doesn't matter so much as what he says. DON'T (TT ADVERTISING. in the last number of the Manufac turers Record, undoubtedly one of the most successful industrial and finan cial publications in the country, and ane which is in touch with business conditions throughout the land, there upreared an editorial dealing with business conditions generally in thu South and condemning the policy by tome concerns, when the depression came over "e country following the outbreak o. the European war, of try ing to reduce operating expenses by curtailing advertising. After a most convincing discussion of the matter, the editorial conclud ed with this paragraph: "The main principle to be consid ered air/ays is that buyers do not trouble themselves to keep in mind the names of persont with whom they wish to trade, and that the surest way to waste money in advertising la to ceose to advertise In times of depression. The man that keepa his advertisement In the paper year in and year out. in timen of prosperity as well as In times of dullness, ls the man that ls going to control the trade whever folks have money to spend." To tbs business men who know the power of advertising the above words mean much. The men who have mad? a thorongh test of advertising know that spasmodic advertising is not the thing to do. but that the time to ad' vertlse is all the time. And. as th? ilecord points out, while advertising may produce small results in periods of depression, the linn who sticks to lt through thick and thin ls the busi ness which will control trade when conditions reach the normal again and people are turning loose their money once ' more. A SPLENDID IDEA. The Idea advanced by th command ing officer of the local post if the Sal vation Army. Ensign Belcher, of giv ing a free picnic for the poor chil dren and mothers of the city some time this summer ls a splendid idea, and one worthy. of the undivided support of the good people of the community. Undoubtedly there are a great many children and mothers, too. in . our midst who rarely If ever enjoy an out ing, a trip to the wood and fields and a good dinner in the open. In the larg er cities where a meadow is. a cu riosity with a large percentage of tho people, these picnics are held, on a large scale, and they are al way J splendidly supported by the g?n?ral public ead highly successful. What larger cities of this Stats? do In this respect Anderson could do on u smaller scale. It Is to be hoped that the ?Salva tion Array will meet with popular en couragement in this worthy under taking. IT IS GOOD NEWS. lt is good news that cornea from the paving commission that the bids for paving are - exceptionally low. This means that the commission will be sble to put down more paving then would have been possible had con tractors submitted what are consid ered normal bids. Inasmuch aa the bond issue was originally to be for 188,000 and lt was found necessary to reduce lt by $3, OOO, tbs city will, after ?il, probably be able to do as much paving as it the full amount of bonds bsd been ls sued ead the bid? submitted for do ing the work been en a par with prices generally quoted when there ls more paving to do ead contracto.!! hairs plenty of work on their hands. Selected Editorials The editorfalH reprinted below an-. In the judgment of tho editor, among the bern that have appeared in recent publication?'that have come to our exchange table. We do not giv?- them a? an expression of our own view? un the subjects discussed, nor do w?* assume responsibility for any Blutementa or opinions expressed therein. Too Mitti j Horn?* Going Abroad. (HarrlHburg Star-Independent.) Th* number of horses and mules being shipped from ports in this country for use In the war aire idy ls reckoned in the hundreds o? thous* ands. The shipments are aldin? the allies, since their destinations are ultimately England and France, and at the Hame time they are depriving this country of very valuable d?men tie animal?. The United States. In Its foreign horse trade, niuo is doini? harm to Itself in disposing of great numbers, of marea at a time when a shortage of brood marcs already ex lata. We are not yet ready in the United States entirely to replace hors?1? with automobiles. The latter ar?-, of course, serving many purposes from which tile former are being gradually re tired. Yet horses still are Indispen sable on the farmB. and it will be the American farmers, largely, who will suffer If the war leaves this country In want of sufficient supplies of th'* anim?is. Most of the big American breed ing farniH went out of business when the racing trucks in various States were closed. The ?tock of these FarmB. Including large numbera of tin: best thoroughbreds, were disposed of abroad, where even in these critical times racing is favored by the peo ple At the time of the latest official count, however, there still were '?'?, (100,000 horses In thiB country, a not inconsiderable number, lt is this num ber which ahlpments ubroad are now depleting. Canada has found it the part of wisdom to protect Its horse breeding Industry. Our government is, per haps, making an unfortunate mis take in permitting the exportation of horses in Huch great numbers. The animals can for the present be used to much better purpose In America than in Europe and surely, as humane persons wisely point out, they would be much more comfortable here. Saving.' iPlne Bluff Ark. Commercial.) It Isn't what a man makes, lt's what he saves, ls an old saying. Many men can muke money but they can't save lt. Other men can save money hut they can't make enough of lt. Out lu the southwest part of town is a neat little Drown house which belongs to a man who drives a laundry wagon. He geta only a little more than $12 a week. You can walk down the street and meet a dozen men who get be tween $25 or $50 a' week and they pay tent. Saving is a hi?blt. If a man starts It In his youth he's bound to profit by it later. Money begets money. A local bank, making a bid for sav ing deposits, advertised the follow ing periods of a man's life, the aver age man, which is a greut sermon: "Twenty "to 30 years-this ls the egotistical period when the son thinks he knows more than his father, and lt ls the 'wild oats' period. The young man who begins to save at this age ls almost sure to ".muss wealth. "Thirty to 35 years-the boy ls now channing to a man. His business career is usually being shaped Into form. Frugality and the savings hub It now luy the foundation upon which may he built big opportunity. "Thirty-five to 45-the mun ls now In his prime. Moat of the world'.-) greatest work ls done by men during this period. It ls the 'harvest time' of life. If no surplus has been accu mulated lt is now or never. "Forty-five to 50-ninety per cent of meu here meet with business reverses or decrease In earning capacity, and unless a saving account is held as a protection against the necessities of old age the man Is without funds. "Fifty to GO-statistics show that 95 per cent of all men of this age have lost all they ever had and are now de pendent upon their daily labor for a living. At 50 work ls hard to lind. At t?O, harder. "Sixty to 65-sotistic-K show that only one man out of 6,000 cuu recover himself on a financial footing. The others are either paupers or depend ent upon friends or relatives for sup port." The advertisement ls headed: .Which is your period In life?" Milan's Surrender. i Charleston Post.) The Lusitania incident hus almost obscured everything else, and the tri umph of Japan in the controversy over the control of China was almost lost sight of. The ultimatum presented at Peking by tue Japanese representative was promptly und completely satisfied, and every demand made in it has been conceded. The ultimatum omitted cer tain demands that had been particu larly offensive as presented In the course of the negotiations, a'nd the omission has given China opportunity to "sav? lier face." Ttie particular de mands have, however, been reserved for future consideration, and lt may he taken as reasonably certain that they will be put through In due sea son, ellina has surrendered com pletely to Japan and from now on tho sr^at nation will he under the doml natldn and direction of her small but energetic neighbor, until such time as the national spirit of the Chinese is aroused and asserts ItRelf by a mar shalling of the immense resources ot thc- country. Tiie success of Japan In this busi ness was inevitable from the first mo ment or its undertaking. China ls ut terly helpless to defend itself, and the western nations are too much absorb ed In ttie tremendous struggle In Eu rope td come to her relief, wherein Hes their own interest. The United States was never even remotely disposed to take action that would he effective toward Btopplng Japan In her career of exploiting China. The accomplish ment o'.' Japan's designs upon China, without thc landing of a single regi mert or the call of a battleship, ls one of the decisive events or the great Eu ropean war, and a new state of thing? has hc-gun in the ?rlent, from which great changes In the adjustment of the world are certain to come. But Why Rejoice I (Augusta Chronicle.) The New York StaatB-Zeltung ls the recognized leader ot the German American press. Herman-Bidder, the editor, commenting"-Oil th? sinking of the Lusitania. saya: "I know that British sympathizers In America will raise their voices in solemn protest andfchorror. They will have many opportunities dining the next few months lo swell flu chorus. " If this mocking threat represent* the real attitude of German-American Journalism toward *'the- wholesale slaughter of American., cRiieaa by or der of the German government ther we are sorry for German-Amerlcar Journalism. Nor is lt true that British sympa thlzers alone voice their horror at thlr latest exhibition of German "fright fulness." Even those who have been disposed to sympathize stand aghast at such an act. But what seems even worse than the act itself-If anything could be worse than tho deliberate sinking of a ship with 2,000 human lives aboard, man* of them women and children-la the rejoicing that ls Bald to have taken place In Germany over Ute announce ment of this tragic event. Even If lt could be Justified as an act of war. lt could hardly be regarded aB an oc casion for a school holiday and gen eral merriment. From California Interesting letter from Anderson County man living st Banning telling of tue wonders of that great country and what the people are doing In the way of permanent improvements. Banning, Calif., May 6, 1915. Editor Intelligencer: It hus been almost one year since my last letter to your paper, and, being once a correspondent when re siding in Anderson County, 7 just feel like writing a few linea once and a whil*. The Intelligencer ls always a wel come visitor to our home, aa we keep posted on all matters of Importance that happen In South Carolnta. It baa always been our aim to keep up with the political situation of your State and we must say right here, we are indeed glad to see conditions Improv ing under the leadership of Richard Manning. We believe bia administra tion will be a blessing to the Sute. We are watching with Interest bia move on the evil doers-and also we take notice of what bis political ene mies are saying. In the language of Tillman "Let the heathen rags." This ls a red letter year for Califor nia and abe la doing things to. Any one anticipating a trip to the exposi tion here will surely not be disap pointed, for San Diego and Frisco have the fairs that are really worth while I would Just say to Anderson County folks-If you visit California this good year, why not stop over for a few. hours at 'Banning, whare you will find sbout three desea Ander son County people contented, happy sad willing to continue their abode in tbs prosperous valley. Yes, this ls a good plscs. with plenty of good moun tain water, lota of elevation, only a short ways from the beautiful cities of Riverside and Redlands, and Just 87 miles east of that thriving metro polla of Los Angeles. There are over three thousand acres of frnlt tres in this fertile val ley, and Just lots of acres of grain and alfalfa. We have Just bau about three Inches of ??rainfall, vh?ch in sures a heavy crop this year. Al monds, apricots, prunes and peaches, are the four leaders that are grown here, and' they pay good Interest on six and seven hundred dollar acre land. Of course thia Includes full water rights. Our county ls now building some permanent roads-concrete-which will last s long time: Yes. we voted bonds-lots of them too. The folks out west do things. Come on and be shown. We think Anderson County farm ers will greatly profit by this war In time to come. It should be a good lesson to all the cotton fermera-one we may never forget. When times get better you msy hear from us again. In our last let ter we said something about Blesse and one Itltle two by four politician of the county took us to task for lt. So what we have asid about Manning ts not for the sake of getting into a controverysey with, some sap-head. With best wUhes to the Intelligencer and our friends of the county. Sincerely. O. E. OA8SAWAY. Perhaps you're thinking about the cost of that new suit. Come in and let us think with you we'll give you a big dollar's worth of satisfaction for every dollar you pay here, and your money is on call, too. No, we're not running a bank-but you can bank on satisfaction or your money back. Suits $10 to $25. Palm Beach, Mohair and Tropical Cloth Suits at from $5 to g 15. And everything that is correct in fur nishings to give your suit the proper background. "Tim Stn uah ? GnckMC* Not A Pound Under 600 J .Markwell.-John M. Farrell, the i foremost planter In thia section of < liarnwell county, placed on Saturday < last with a Columbia bacterial com- i t/any what is believed to be the < largest singlucorder for legume inoc - ulation material ever contracted for | hy one consumer in South Carolina, , if not in the entire southeast, buying , 500 acres of farmogerm for cow peas ? and 30 acres for peanuts, on top of . ills recent order for inoculation for 200 acres of early maturing velvet , beans. In answer to the question if he had ' ever failed to receive a benefit from ! the inoculation of legumes. Mr. Far- ! tell said: "No, inoculation has paid me bet- i ter than any Investment I ever made, j I have now been using one brand for four years, each year buying more than. Ute year before, and always re gretting that it was not possible for me to Inoculate every acre in the one year. I have used several different varieties of Inoculation material, and though all gave me moro or less ben efit, the standard brand that I have ordered this year will always be used exclusively on my places as T am sat isfied it is the best, "I first used this material in 1912 on cow peas on dead poor sandy land. A surprising crop of cow peas result ed, I followed with oats, and to the amazement of myself, and all my friends, this land that had never pro duced enough oats to cut with a bin der, yielded nearly 45 bushels of fine oats per acre. The next summer I used the bacteria more extensively, and tried out other makes, but none proved us satisfactory as the jelly culture with the ventilating tube in the bottle. "In one notable instance, where I Inoculated half of a field sowed to cow peas, last year on the inoculate . section I made over two bales of cot ton per acre, while on the portion that was not inoculated but treated In all respects the same I made one bale to the acre. You could tell to the row where the ar lineally - Inoculated crop was planted. Up to this time. I had rather questioned whether Inoc ulation would pay on rich land, for this particular field was as fine land as I have. I had not noticed any special Increase in the yield of cow peas, though the crop did look ' a darker green, and my overseer told me the stock semed to relish the Inoculated hay a good deal more than ', that which had not been treated. Jeff Hair, Herman Brown and many others who wet out to see this cot ton are quite familiar with whet I uow tell. "Inoculation not only gives us plenty of nitrogen from the air, but there is no doubt that crops planted on Inoculated soils suffer far . less from drought, sad continue to grow under conditions that make crop fail ures on uninoculsted aol's. "I bav? also Inoculated for hairy vetch, but was very late In getting my crop seeded-not until December, which is rather taking long chance. I turned under the vetch when it wes in bloom, and the finest oats I have on my places are " where that Vetch waa turned under, and they have not had one pound or fertiliser. Gc see fer yourself. My wheat and rye are both fine, and with another rain I will get big yields. "I have ovor 750 acres Already in oculated for cow peas, 100 acres for vetch, a?d will have this summer 200 acree In au early maturing velvet bean, planted In cora tor seed, from which I expect great things. Twenty five acres of inoculated peanuts will be seeded at the first opportunity, sad I may plant more ot the Red Spanish after oats, if X can find lime to haul the limestone. "I am preparing some of my best land for alfalfa to be needed this fall, not.a large acreage, for I weat to know how to haadle the crop before 1 attempt lt la aa extensive way. It has been inoculated for cow r>eaa ead :etch, but still needs more or ganic matter to overcome a tendency to bake befo?* alfalfa fa likely te be pf Fertilizer Veres of Grain a success, so I will sow three bushels of cow peas per acre, and turn inl ier the entire crop before trying my first seeding of the great of all forage :rops." In. years past Mr. Farrell has bought a number of carloads of steers ind fed them in thc winter to con sume some of this great amount of Forage. Asked if he contemplated en gaging in live stock raising he said: "This is a cotton country and al ways will be, but I am enclosing a permanent pasture, and have two white faced pedigreed bulls at one of my farms. I hope to be able to bring in several carloads of good grade heifers of a beef type, for I know that stock raising should be Included In all extensive farming operations. Even the growing of these rich inoc ulated crops will not solve all our problems, but if I can get the feed ing value of those crops and their Fertilizing value as well, I can manu facture them into beef, and beef ls likely to be higher in the future than lt is now. "And then the soils need the ma nure, for manure ls rich tn bacteria of many kinds, most of them being of great benefit to soils. What I want to do and expect to do, through these Inoculated crops, is to ' double my production of cotton, corn and oats per acre with no increase in cost of cultivation, and cut my fertilizer bills to a third of what I have been pay ing. I have seen enough to make me believe that thia is not only poa Bible but extremely probable, for both my oats and cotton production per acre have been doubled and then some. "So you see I have good tsason to believe in the inoculation of cow peas, and of vetch, too. Altogether, I shall have 730 acres of freshly inoculated land this summer, and it ls possible that I will use 200 acres more if it is possible for me to put in the crops. "I am beginning to find out that it pays to cut up a whole crop and turn lt under, and in future more ot this will be done on my placea than in the past. There is a long standing tra c tion in this section that If you turn mer or early fall it wilt "sour tho under a green crop in the late sum Boll," and this may be true unless the crop is handled right. But if you cut it all to piecer, and turn lt under, and then roll lt down, discing lt a Ode or two and rolling after each discing, you need 3 at fear ill resulta You will grow. bigger and better crops. Inoculation has paid me big profits-the beat returns I ever bad from any investment "Come around again when we are threshing oats, and then yon can fudge for yourself how fine they ere, s coed many pound? more to the measured bushel than the If aal bushel, and grown without a pound of commercial fertiliser.** Six hundred acres ot waving grain DOW ?dorn the Farrell farms, and Mr. Farrell's greatest regret ts that the wet weather prevented him from putting lr. s largor aerease. On ' this subject he said: - "From ray very best oats each year t select th? seed for Ute next year's srop. Thia fall, with a somewhat re duced cotton acreage, I can com mence planting oats earlier, and will pnt in as many Fulghum oats < as I can harvest in two more weeks, thns doubling the amount of oats I could ordinarily handle. \ am very much pleased with th? results from th? Fulghum. The crop ls practically made now despite the dry spell, and unless we have bountiful rains, the-1 Appier and Bancroft yields will be materially reduced-so much as to cut off all profit" The people of Blackville firmly be lieve that Mr. Farrell is the only man In the cotton belt who came forward last August with a feasible solution ot the cotton problem, when he ad vanced th? argument that the fertili ser manufacturers ot the country were the only onev who held the key to the situation, and that by valorising cotton, accepting lt at 10 sea ta per pound ot account, with? holding the crop from the market, and Billing fertilizers for the next crop to those who would pay cash for them, the entire cotton situation would have cleared, cotton would never have sold for less than 10 cents, and the ?ought-for acreage re duction would have been reached without legislation or non-binding agreements. In the light of events, Mr. Farrell's plan would unquestionably have worked out, the farmers could have paid their debts, and the South been saved the "buy-a-balc" movement that benefltted very few producing farmers. .;. .;. .\ .;. .;. ?- * * * * WIT AND HUMOR. * .j. .;. * ****** * * + ****** A Statistician. "Lady," said Plodding Pete, "do you keep a dog?" "Yes." "An* a cat?" "8everal of 'em." "An', I suopose, mebbe yon bave something to spare to feed a hungry wayfarer?" "Yes. Are you hungry?" "No. I'm oompilin' statistics fur de Society of Useless Information to show de reckless extravagance of do rural population."-Washington Star. A Langaage-Slinger. T. H. Moll, who IB a candidate for judge of the supreme court, recently met a man in the court house who appeared to know bim. "You are running for something or other, aren't you. Mr. Moll?" he ask ed. Moll told him he would like to be a judge of one of the superior court rooms. The man asked Moll who hts opponent was. Moll told him. "Oh, yes, I know; he is the pres ent incumberance!" the man exclaim ed.-Indianapolis News. The Righteous hot Undone. "I prayed for de rain ter fall ah droum de wicked man," said the sable philosopher, "an* please Ood, it wash ed my own house furn de face de yeth! How come de par'r' er do righeous work so contrary is too much fer my onlimited onderstandln'. But anyhow. Providence didn't git de bes' er de rlghtous dat time, kaze I don had de house Insured fer twlct what hit wuz wurth."-Atlanta Con stitution. The Office Seeker. " A man with a deep and steadfast longing for office will run excitedly around begging everybody he sees to sign his nomination petitions and then, when he finally gets enough signatures, will put on a clean shirt and announce that if the ceil ot duty comes he will not disregard the sum mons.-Ohio State Journal. , Prayer, If father gets the notion In ni - bead that he is going to accomplish everything by prayer, lt tnak?s lt herd for mother, who has to ro< up each morning in order that the chil dren may have clothes and grub. I ain't knocking on prayer, mind you, but I don't pray for things that yon csa get r?ithoot lt.-Atchlson County (Kan.) Malt Aa Editor la Distress. We sometimes wonder If any ons appreciates The Sunlight. If they do, why don't they say so ny recommend ing It to a neighbor and securing for it a n?w subscriber? We some'Jtnes wonder if any one owes The Sunlight any gratitude. If they do, why .don't they say so and stimulate the soul of the editor, who needs sympathy ead encouragement? - Arcadia (Kan.) Sunlight A Young FewJaJat. "You can't teach a bea anything," her mother said. "They have done more hann to the garden than a drove of cattle would. Yon can teach a cat. a dog, or a pig something, but a hen-never!" "H'ml" exclaimed the child. indig nantly. 'I think they know as much .s the roosters ! "-Youth's Com pea