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To insure prompt delivery, com plaints of non-delivery In the city of Anderson should be made to the Circulation Department before 9 a. m. and a copy will be sent at once. All checks and drafts should be drawn to The Anderson Intelligencer. ADVERTISING Rates will be furnished on applica tion. No tt advertising discontinued ex cept ou written order. The Intelligencer will publish brief and rational letters ou cubjecta ol general Interest when they aro 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 personal absence, letters to The Intelligencer Intended for publication should not be addressed to any Indi vidual connected with the paper, but Imply to The Intelligencer._ SUNDAY, MAY 23, 1915. And yet a gallon-a-month can get you In a peck of trouble. o ?? . Who will be the Julius Caesar of Italy If she goes to war? ''"O' If silence ls golden, Teddy wouldn't know pig Iron were he to see it. Charleston Boy Tapped.-Headline. W* thought they were called kegs. ? ... O' ? ? The Kaiser should bear In mind that a soft answer turnetb away wrath. When Italy geta luto Ute war we will expect to see that "fine Italian band" at work. . England's Lord Fisher ought to be handy at angling for German sub marines. Well, Blnce no one has expressed the wish, here's hoping it will prove a safe and sane Fourth. City's Sheep Sheared.-Headline in New York paper. . New York ls pret ty good fleecing anyway. The per capita wealth ot the United States la computed at $1,956. We'd like to know who has our share. If wealth ia a burden, as they say lt ls, then why do some rich folks .wing on to lt aa though lt were life. We would be In favor ot pardon ing Leo Frank, provided he would j sign a. contract not to go on the atago or write a book. ' '"O' Mount Lassen, out in California, ia erupting again. Ought to be a great drawing card to get nisi tors to the) Panama-Pact fie Expo. ? ?" a ' Farmers G i In For Potatoes, says ? Calina newspaper headline. In e absence of furrier lnformatlon.1 surmise they go In the ground for -m. lumbla ls to organise a drama in the fall. They would have bt0 getting plenty of comedians would walt for the convening legislature. lon e*7? ih? Balkan war gave u?e Balkan blouse. When wa Ota' ?word we suppose ?be long until well be wearing if?aronl trouser legs. m -o paper speaks of the tigers by the sheri* call any names,' saying bee? imada public. There aa well aa blind tig MK. H'UEK'H HAU.HOM). Mr. K. H. McGee of Greenwood IR on tu a 'Mr Iniagi a new railroad, and w<* liop?- he will be able to put it through. Wo need nother railroad in this part of the Stat- and we need it badly. There are nonie fini* sec tions of county thal are walting to be developed. They ure walting for th? railroad. The railroad IH in many respecta Un* beginner of prosperity a? well ax of civilization. Mr. McGee has his eyes on that flu*' section between Oreen wood and John Bton. And its flue alright, good soil and virgin timber, beautiful round yellow pine. Hut wc have been wondering why .Mr. McGee wants to carry lils road from Greenwood to Augustu. We al ready have direct connect luna with Augusta. What we need is a direct connec tion with the lower purt of South Carolina, with Charleston, with Sav annah, and with Florida. Now il is Just about as far from Creenwood to Dentuurk as lt ls from Greenwood lo Augusta. And whut a difference that would nuike in tho railroad business- in South Carolina. At Denmark we would touch the Southern to Charleston, the Seaboard to Savannah, and the Coast Line lo 1 Oraugeburg. 1 Now whenever any one goes from 1 this part of the world to that part, he IIBB to go round by Augusta or round ' by Columbia. There ls no direct out.- ' let from this section In that direction. : Such a short cut railroad would be ' a prize that these roads would like jump at like jack Ash once lt v? ' built. But we think the Seaboa. would be the one that would want kt most, as lt would connect their lines 1 to a (IUIBII, Denmark to Greenwood and Anderson. THE IDI AL POLIl'E CHIEF?! In the death Et Greenville Friday i night of Capt. h. H. Kennedy passel ' one of the most gallant gentlemen it has been our pleasure to know. For 26 years he was head of the Green ville police department. He always ? struck us as the ideal police chief. His general appearance was the most commanding of any officer we ever , knew, tall, erect, broad-shouldered i and large of frame, with an eagle i oye and a countenance that did one ! good to look upon. While he was ! firm and unswerving in the perfor mance of duty, he was never cruel, and was only harsh when the other fellow forced him to be. But it was In his bearing that Chief Kennedy im pressed one most. He was a prince, i but was never given to gush, and to ? women and children particularly he appeared a Chesterfield. He was such a man that when Ode beheld bim riding lils horse at tbs head of some public parade the onlooker felt a distinct sensation course through his , veins, a sensation of pride and admi ration. "Capt. Kennedy was not a commuU cant, hut was s sincere believer In the 1 Christisn religion and the greatness , and goodness of God Almighty," savs < the Greenville News. He was more 1 than that. He was absolutely incor- ' ruptable. He was braver than a lion, kind-hearted ss a saint, true to his friends in the sublimest measure. 1 There are men, formerly news- ( paper reporters in Greenville, scat tered all the way from Russia's coast to Samoa, who will testify that in ? those old days Cspt. Kennedy was J tholr best and truest friend. A re porter had to but show this ga nt officer that lie was worthy of . ' uti- ? dence, and thereafter he had no fears 1 about not being able to get " on the Inside" of any big "story" that was brewing In police circles. No report- ( er who always toted fair with him < can say that Chief Kennedy ever I "threw him down" on any story, or ( ever withheld one fact, though often lt was not F rtible to publish all. It la with a sense ot "uty that one , who as a reporter never had any 1 trouble getting a "scoop," or "seor- ? lng a beat," because he stood four aqua re with the chief and the chief always came clean with him, comes t forward and Ut? drop a tear at thia r old ir'end's bier. The Cae! ead tee Orchestra Leader. "I should think," remarked Mr. * G rowdier, "that the chef of this res- ' tauraat would be envions of the or chestra leader." "Wayr l "Because lt people dont approve of < the food they can make a protest < But they've got to sit np and take the ( music whether they like lt or not" Washington Star. At lae Font. ! Once upon a time a small boy I about three yeera old was taken to the church tb be baptised. As soon as he caught sight of the bowl of I water in the minister's hand he re- c membered hie antipathy for the bath < tub and straightened himself up for ] the attack. When the minister approached him. reverently dipping bl? band In the t water, the little fellow said: < ? "Ii you put soap In my eyes 111 bus c rou open/^Natteaal Moo thin.,, 1 GERMANY AND PUBLIC OPINION (New York World.) The Berlin correspondent to The World reports that he has found "no disposition to seek deliberately a conflict with America," and ijuotes a high official of the government as saying, "Germany la not quite tbHt mad." The comments of the German newspapers, nevertheless, are generally an tagon ii in- to the United State, and nome of them are openly hostile. These ' ommenta need not be taken too seriously, however. The Gennari govern ment can change the tone of the Orman newspapers overnight whenever lt is so disposed. This was shown In the earlier months of the war when German opinion vas llrst mobilized against Russia. Week utter week. German newspapers und German writers fixed the responsibility of the conflict upon Russia, and Russia alone. Suddenly it suited the purposes of the government to faBten Hie blame upon England. Instantly the attitude of the German press to ward Russia was softened and the campaign ot hate against Kngland began. That campaign has continued without interruption. ' ' German antagonism toward the United States as reflected In the German press is of compurutively recent origin, lt all centres around the aale of munitions of wur to the allies by American manufacturers, and obviously draws its inspiration from government sources. This sentiment has grown steadily in bitterness, but it eau be checked whenever Berlin -sees flt to iheek it by admitting the truth-that there has been no violation of interna tional law In American trafile in munitions of war. German sentiment need not worry the imperial government. The sentiment to which lt owes most consideration is that of the United iStates. and this sen timent is not only unanimous but ititself-ereated. No government has had a hand in manufacturing lt. It is the deliberate opinion of the American I'eople. In his despatch to The World from Berlin, Mr. von WIegand says that "lt ?eems to be pretty generally recognized in this instance that there is a firm Hand In President Wilson's velvet glove." That fact cannot be too clearly recognized. The German government has hitherto been miserably informed about \nierlcan opinion. It has taken our partisan differences seriously, and has .ven deluded Itself Into believing that there would be civil war in the United States if wrose came to worst with Germany. Unless German representa tives in this country have failed miserably In the performance of their duty, Merlin must know bv this time that the American people are completely Milted on this issuo that President Wilson's policy of strict accountability is their policy, and that his note to Germany ls their note. Knowing thlH, Berlin must know as well that the American people are hoping for a peace Mil, honorable settlement of the issue, but that the whole responsibility rests upon the imperial government. A public sentiment that can be made or unmade by a government means nothing in such a crisis. But a public sentiment that is the voice of 100,000, D00 people means everything and the future relation? between the United states and Germany depend wholly upon Berlin's ability to understand that neaning. AMERICAN "GAS BOMBS" (Augusta Chronicle.) Americans who have condemned the use of poisonous gases by the Germans ire likely to receive with mingled emotions the news that the United Statep i-overnment ls conducting a series of experiments at Fort Sheridan, with a chemical bomb, Invented by Dr. L. H. Fowzer that the purposes of the bomb ls to cause instantaneous death through the rapid diffusion of gaseous poi sons, and that the govern uent SB thinking of adopting lt if the tests demon strate Its success. It is further reported that the chemists of the war de partment have been working for a year to perfect such a bomb. It will be recalled that at the last Hague conference the representatives Di the United States refused to join In a prohibition of poisonous gases as weapons of war. declaring that asphyxiation was no more inhumane than mutilation, and that gas bombs might really prove to be more merciful than shrapnel as agents of death. Dr. Fowzer, however, makes no such argument. He alms, he says, to elim inate war by "making war so deadly that men will recoil from It in horror." Vet all the inventors of new modes and implements of slaughter have pro fessed the same laudable purpose. In view of the unfavorable impression created in this country by the Gor nau use of deadly gases, there may be public protests against our govern ment sanctioning the practice. It is possible, however, that all the belli gerents will soon have adopted the new weapon, in which case we. should be obliged in self-defense to do likewise. * + *. ODDS AND ENDS. * fr ? ??+???**++*++*?*???* ? ? Authentic records show that cinders from a forest lire in the treetops in northern Washington lost fall were :arrled twenty miles. The emperor of Japan is the repro tentative of a dynasty which claims o have possessed the thron? since B. \ 660. The official Inventory of the clocks kt Windsor Castle Alls two. large volumes and contains entries of 200 jntepiccos. To pr?vient any shade of blue from 'ading soak for two boors in a pall of irater, to which one ounce of sugar of ead has been added. Then he sure to iry well before washing snd ironing. All hunters know that, the stag reaps and lt ls asserted that the bear iheds tears when severely wounded. The giraffe ls not less sensitive, and ?gards with tearful ey*a the hunter vho has wounded lt. In Corfu sheets ot paper pata tor noney; one sheet bays one quart of Ice, or twenty sheets a piece jf hemp loth. Lake Erl? prod ucea more fish to the iqusre mile than any other body of rater tn the world. Moles, clumsy and almost blind, become perfect demons wheo they luarrel. No one knows whst they luarrel about, but when onco they itart flinting one has to die. Went a safe candlestick? Drive a imall nail Into the bottom of a candle o make it float upright, then place a a trr.ibler of water. The -highest temperature ever known a, a human being was recorded in the ?ase-of aa Dalian recently. A victim it lung disease, hts temperature was 38. The coldest inhabited country ls said o (he Province of Werchojanak. in ttberfa. The dally mean temperature ?f the entire year ls *. 7? degrees be ow ?ero. ?*************$*>***** * + ABOUT THE STATE. ? * . ? ?**?++<.>???????+?*?? #*? I Horse* En Kout??. Agents of the ullies are not yet through with their purchases of horses in America, judging from shipments which have passed through Greenville. On Sunday a train of 17 cars, cars, each car containing 30 horses, passed through this city en route to. Newport News where the 'an?mala will be transshipped to France. This was the second trainload of horses to pass through Qreenvllle within the past few days. It ls understood that the horses tbst passed Sunday came from Texas. Casual Investigation gave one the Im pression that the animals were of good stock, and capable of making first class food for German cannon. Greenville News. Growing Strawberries. Strawberries have been ver; plenti ful In Abbeville this season, and as al ways have been very delightful to the taste. The berries are selling now for two quarts for a quarter. Mr. John Duncan was in town several days ago and brought with him 40 quarts and then Bald he bad only gone over hlaf of his bed. Mrs. George White gathered a bushel from her bed on Friday, while Mrs. Oscsr Cochran nas sold $18 worth of berries from a bed ot six rows.-Abbeville Press and Ban ner. Trees Are Cheap. You often hear the remark from some man that he would give a hun dred dollars to have a nice tree In his front yard. Not all of them stop to think thst there ls a way to put a nice tree In the front yard. Larg* alxed. trees can be replanted at much less expense than $106, and lt ls be ing done right now in many places throughout this a?d adjoining com munities.-York News. Pride o? Fire?**. Lou sod Herb, the famous Iowa bones owned hy the Marion fire de partment arrived Saturday afternoon for the tournament, and are quartered at the atables on Maxwell avenas. An other actable animal ls the Btshopvllle educated horse abd still another ls "Prince," the 22-year-old celt from Columbia. Prince took first money at Florence last year.-Greenwood Jour aal, . 4 ?.>.,..--.<?? Palm Beach Suits Spring is here ar.< the "Palm Beach" is calling! Come with me, they say, out of that heavy winter clothing and enjoy something that's really life like. These Palm Beach Suits that are sold at our shop can be trusted, because they exemplify the charac ter and policy of our store-QUALITY. There's about fifty million of these same Palm Beach Suits giving the utmost satisfaction to an equal number of men; that's what they were creat ed for; they are strong and sturdy and they keep their shape, because they are built to reveal your personality, and you hold your own shape, don't you? .V, . .. The price of these suits are from seven to ten dol lars in Mr. Woodrow Wilson's money. "The Store with a Conscience" . .' '; ' . . ?*? ,.~ ? ia-fr S AJU^X*? ?v > U^Vfvrr**.'* ti . i. ./. J*?' *|f v sr -?- ..v a'. i ? J. .1 ? _ ? Ad Contest Entry_ ********************** ? ? ? WIT AND HUMOR. ? ? ? How to Make Fat One?. Anna Carlson's advice: "If you want a baby girl to grow into a big, buxom woman, just name her Dot, Fairy, or Dolly."-Kansas City Star. Doing Fairly WelL ~Mrs. William Evans had the misfor tune to fall In her home last Friday. S'no ls recovering from the effects, but lt pretty well Jarred up. Hamilton (N. Y.) Republican. '? Where Death Never Calls. "Is Loneville a healthy, place?" "Healthy? Why, they'll have to kill the the population on Judgment Day."-Philadelphia Ledger. f* Outrageously Funny. 'TU never again Invite that pro fessional humorist to dinner," ex claimed Mrs. Newly riche. "Why, he made our English butler laugh." Philadelphia Ledger. Christian Assemblage, George Christian and family and William Christian and family attend ed the Christian reunion at Grandma Christian's In Otterbein all day Thursday.-Lafayette (Ind.) Journal. Practical Pa. Suitor-Your daughter, slr, ls will ing to trust me: why cant you? Her Father-She doesn't care, how much a thing costs, and I do.-Boston Transcript. Her First Ft?. Mrs. McBride-Oh, John, dont cut your pie with a knife. McBride-Huh! You ought to be thankful that I dont call for a ?an opener.-Boston Transcript. Easy Money. Mr. Meekly-Our neighbor's son ls always thrashing my boy. What shall I do about lt? Lawyer-Teach him how to fight. Ten dollars, please.-Boston Trans cript. Weedarra! Maa! The man who caa pass a dog fight without stopping to rubber possesses a brand of dignity seldom seen out side ot a lunatic asylum.-Forest (Os.) News. Unseemly Delay. No agent has been around yet soliciting orders for a History of the Great European War. "Why," ?ak? Charles M. Harger, "this delay?" Kansas City Star. Sae Knows Her Werta. From his netter halt Benedict got ibis advice early In the course ot mat rimony: "When in doubt listen to me; when not la doubt listen to me say wuy..'WAUant/v Journal. The Part Cotton Plays Io Powder-Making One thing that has not been considered in its influence on cotton values Is the tremendous use of guncotton by reason of war. All the powder made in the United States is manufactured out of guncotton. The same statement Is true as regards Russia, France and Germany. About 70 per cent of the powder made in England is manufactured out of guncotton. From *0 to 70 per cent, of the powder made in Austria, Italy, Sweden, and Norway is made >f guncotton. For making powder Unters are preferred to the cotton of com merce. Linters are. the parts of the fiber that adhere to tho seed after the sinning. There are machines not only for cutting this fiber from the seed, but, later, for shaving from the seed what rerfialns of the fussy stuff. The powder-maker takes these fragments of cotton and chops and grinds them up into particles so small thar?not one 1B more than three one-hundredths ot an Inch in length, and than treats them with nitric and sulphuric acid. Then, I ? washes them and gives another treatment to them, this time the dose lielng ot ether and alcohol. That makes powder and for practically every pound ot linters used one pound of powder is the result. In America tier* ?re five great powder plants. Two,-those at Dover, N. J., and Indian Head m the Potomac.-are owned by the government. Three,-those at Karney's Point, opposite Wilmington, Del., and those at Parlln, N. J., and Haskell, N. I.,-are owned by private int erects. The normal output of the American powder milla ia 10,000,000 pounds a year. The extreme capacity TB about 15,000,000 pounds. That means 80.000 balea of linters. Europe's powder making capacity la from ten to twenty times aa great is that af America. It ls possible for Europe to produce perhaps 300,000,000 pounds of powder lo ene year. It linters were used in all ibis powdeHmsk ng lt would amount to 000,000 bales of Unters required by Europe. There s a suspicion that Europe ls making and using all the powder lt can. If tb at suspicion la warranted 460,000 balea of Untere would not be an excessive sstlmate to make for this account If the powder people have not Unters at land they undoubtedly will turn to cotton. It necessitates more chopping. Put that does not signify If the need ls great. Some ot the cotton bought by foreign agenta recently probably will be shot away In rifles and big guns xcfore the war ends. Recent newspaper reports Indicate large orders for runcotton ?or the belligerent governments. It is the gun of large caliber that eats up cotton. In the firing of a> 12-Inch ran SOO pounds of powder arc required. That means 800 pounds ot cotton. Due shot of a 12-ijch gun requires as much powder as 48.000 shots of the riff o in Infantry-man uses, or 160 shots from an ordinary field gun. It ls in a sea ight that cotton comes Into Us own, however. Theoretically it ls possible for i battleship In firing all Its gun to use 5.000 to 6,000 pounds of powder a nlnute,--that la ten to twelve bales of cotton. Linters ar? used in a multitude ot manufactures and there ls a demand for ill that are put on the market, so, In a broad sense, all the guncotton used ld powder-anaking in this war means that much less for commerce.-From The Improved Otulook for Cotton," by Richard Spillane, in tao American [tevtew qt Reviews for March. A Yoong Logician. Sunday School Teacher-William, what most we ? do before we caa ex >ect forgiveness of sine? William-Sin.-Judge. Literary Ifete, "There is hack work and back vork." said the literary man. "Think >f what I get for mine and what the laskman gets."--Philadelphia Ledger. Befar* Ganga*? Day. Amateur parlor entertainers could tot have been quite BO bad In the old lays, before they had Gunga Dhlo to adte.-Ohio Stat* Journal. Never!! Forget lt. "When I left home ss a lad," said Mr. Dustin Stat, "I had $10 In my pocket" "You'll never forget that day." "No. air. It's "-o only time thst I have felt that I could settle upon ? moment's notice and be absolutely sure my asets wrald cash In for more than my liabilities."-Washington Stan Meten (Rowland says a husband ls not one of the things money won't buy. Who wants to buy a hush***. Holen T OM of our subscribers would like to know.-Toledo Hade,