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THB1NTELLIGENCER * ESTABLISHED i860. PubllBhed every morning except Monday by Tho Anderson Intelligen cer at 140 West Wnltner Street, An I der eos, 6. C. SEMI-WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER 1'ubllBhed Tuesdays and Fridays I L. M. GLENN_Editor and Manager ; Entered as second-clsss matter April 2H, 1914, at tbe post office at Anderson, Soutb Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 1879. ' 'ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES ?Telephone .821 M SUBSCRIPTION BATES DAILY -Ona Year .16.00 i Bbb Months. 2.60 ' -Tbrae Months .1.26 Ono Meath.48 ^ Ona Week .10 'l SEMI-WEEKLY ?tOa? Year .81.60 i.Six'Months .76 lui The Intelligencer ls delivered by . carriers-In the city. j .'ii Look at tb? printed label on your i paper The date thereon shows when i tb? eubscrlptlon expires. Notice date i ernie bel carefully, and if not correct rople&aa notify na at once, iii -hs er Ibers dealring tba address of ?etteslri paper changed, will please state > to their communication both the old i and new addresses. H ru. To i insure prompt delivery, corn il plainte >?f non-delivery In the city ?nil. Anderson should be made to th? < JSlecnkitlon Department before 8 a. tn. ian* a ?apr will be sent at once. .ii AH. checks and drafts should be ?draw? to The Anderson Intelligencer. ~*-!-' ADVERTISING b eBataa will ba furnished on sppllca tion.i^.u < No tf advertising discontinued ?x ; ospt ?at written order. tm The Intelligencer will publish brief . tpnd rational letters on subjects of i gfenevaL* Interest when they are ac . Ceaspanled by the names and ad? u datases i of the anthon and are not of i i?v*vdefamatory natara. Anonymous jiehmmunicatlone will not ks noticed. .vBsgadted mannsoiipts will not be re ' tntniadiii fr-fnlnorder to avoid delays on account i<afMperaon?l absence, letters to The ulfttaillgancer Intended for publication y?baaid'su>t be addressed to any Indi? otidual i connected with the paper, but bntmptjriao The Intelligencer. tr FRIDAY, JULY 2, 1915. fir WEATHER FORECAST t r.Local thunder ?bower? Friday and '^probably Saturday. 1 " 1 ? .f: We trust a sane Fourth will be ob ? i served on the Fifth. v) *Hlgh water stories from Augusta are intorder now shortly. ? 'tv i What ls the matter we don't hear *?3i -any calla for a "??fe and ?ene Fourth." >. A place In the ?un may appeal to . ectaet bnt give us a place In the shade rthvtto ?weltering day?, .M. u No matter how big a profit the Pan itaaai Exposition ls making lt doesn't idesaen the cost of your getting there. tumlnasmuch aa litigation in the Thaw i bane still goes on with a vim, we pre ??ajtaeiftbe BIZO of bis bank roll is still (..a?rnxittre. W dig Vic Huerta la said to be toad of > looking ?at tbe starB, but does not rai tt 'lah'it'so when a few stripes go along fVwHhiahenv te i.?Berlin Paper Ask? What More Doe? T America Want-Headline. Will be ? able to tell you more about lt after ' ?Jaral?na's reply to that rejoinder on ti the'Lusitania note. ?assnanshamad S\n*HHa4ser, kneeling on the battlefield ? te front of a pile of dead Germans, ls ireported to hare cried, and exclaimed, i riThia 4s not roy will." Nor bis funeral! :??*-T4? State. Bot it is his way. These must be harrowing days for V; Soath ?Carolina bankers. Decision? and j* counter decisions Involving thousands dollar* are being handed down al* 1r?eo?t.datly,---Spartanburg Herald. And ibnw thankful we newspaper men ought i rio be that wo don't have to do any '.ferrying on that score. ; President Lowell of Harvard uni . veTBttr assured the, last graduating i 'i.rflaaa- tbat tb? average man reaches his 'nanlth of mental power' at the age of i twenty-three. It may be all right for I lithe: jtntors to go forth believing that. *tet they'll have a mighty, hard Hmo ? i (persuading the world of IL M,'n The recent remarkable "peace dem < ;?>n*tratlon" in Madison F,-.uaro Oar* i ; <kn Is/-Now York would bare seemed Enmare itsmly a pea<? laeetiug, anlraatod iby eb*?pfHt of neutrality, lt the chalr ( mah had rerrained from referring to ?iije ?Hie* as 'our encinte?,'' and if ??wbat ^me'lfeported described aa "the . kepnete of" the meeting" had not boea M*?Bmtjfcaai r\ Ar from the great aadl PA VI NU INDER WAV. Judging from the way the .Southern Paving Con M ruction company's force? arc placing the concrete on Went Mar ket Htreet, it will not be long before Anderson will have one more street ot which she may really feel proud. The work is now going on in earnest and since the material is here, the way Is clear, and plenty of labor to carry on the work, nothing seems to be in tlie wsy of going right on througli with it. The employment of something over 100 laborers by the paving company and a like number by the contractors for the grading alone is a great boon for thrt city right at thin time, when everything is dull and many hands were out of employment. We venture to say that every merchant In the city will feel this In their trade If they were only ahle to judge lt. Everybcdy in Anderson ls longing for tho day when the street paving will be ecompleted, and even now there are whisperings of a great celebration when this time comes. A BIT OP WAR. "On tlie ground from Lorette Heights to Neuville and tho Lamyrlnth," says a German general, as quoted by an American correspondent, "are perhaps 10.000 unburied or party burled dead. The stench ls pestilential. By means of a hose we've thrown creosote or quick lime upon those nearest our trenches. As a matter of self-preser vation both sideB appear lately to have come to an unspoken agreement *o bury those nearest them at night. It's ghastly beyond imagination. Words can't portray to the mind that picture-by day and night white eyes staring out of faces burned coal-black by the sun. There are places where there are veritable piles of bodies. As the days and weeks go by they shrivel and shrink like little heaps of old clothes. Those silent heaps are more weird by moonlight than by day. "I wish those who cause and make war with indifference would be put into that 'hell of death' between Neu ville and the Lorette Heights for I little while." That's the way they all talk now. All the belligerents have learned what war is and whether naturally pacifists or militarists, they're stck of lt The pity or it is that they dldnt realise it last July. THE HUERTA PLOT. . It seemed too good to be true that Gen. Victorano Huerto should con tent himself with the peaceful life of a New York suburbanite, pottering around his Long Island garden and spending his evenings looking at the stars. In the ljght of recent events, lt appears that hla scrutiny of the planets througn his telescope may have been for *' rpoae of determin ing whether, tl , wree propitious for a new Mexican ? evolution. As for Gon Huerta's down town offices, they may havo been devpted, as they purported to be, to tho civil engineering business? but possibly they harbored other ac tivities. A considerable amount ot the 20, 000 000 pesos that the general ls be lieved to havo carried out ot Mexico with him 14 said to hat? been used in Wall street speculation-with what luck baa not.1 been reported. His of fices may .baye been headquarters for gambling of a bigger sort, too. Many h revolution, Mexican and otherwise, baa been hatched in one of the tall bullrings clustered 'around the inter section of. Wall and Broad streets. If Cen. Huerta really contemplated a dash Into northern Mexico with Gen. Oroxco as the active head of a new revolution-and our government ap parently baa evidence to that effect It's a pretty good guess that he had backers In lower Manhattan. There are plenty of New York financiers who would rather see a dictator of Huerta's type ruling Mexico than any milder ard more scrupulous leader, pledged to reform. Tho "strong hand" which la admitted needed to govern that dis tracted country has. heretofore been usai freely to deliver and fortify for eign concessions. It waa particularly so when the hand, .belonged to Di ax, -who ls Huerta's ideal rule?. Gen. Huerta can't be blamed much for plotting revolution. He's a Mex ican, and thst's bia business. But lt's a very ticklish business for American cltlsens to monkey with. If there waa 1 cally a well organised plot, backed by American capital. Just at the time when the United States government was making a supreme effort for the Anal pacification of Mexico, the rami fications of tho case Will be Interesting i; a they develop. Thea Toa Speke. Terr American cltisens living In Dresden, have had their passports re voked by the authorities at Washing ton because they have openly ci sed their home government ano: de clarad that they are ashamed**?*'It For the same reason, lt might ba a good Ilea to band a few cltisens of this county their passports.-Oeprge towo Times. , Second Emanciy The decision of the supreme court belaring the "grandfather clauses" n different state constitutions to he i practical nullification of the fed >ra) constitution, and therefore null inu void, is not likely to have any inmediate political effect. It will, However, have a revolutionary, hough slow. Influence on the whole udustrial structure of tue South. It viii he worth in educational value, nore than a direct appropriation or mdowment of millions for schools, t will, in a word, do more to reduce lllteracy than all the propaganda ind compulsory education laws put ogether. It ls not an exaggeration, herefore, to suy that the ultimate iffect of the decision on Southern ievelopment will he but slightly less han that exerted by the Kmanclpa ion Proclamation. The "grandfather clause" disfran :hi8ed no negroes. What it did do vas to enfranchise thousands of Ig lorant whites who could not qualify or the ballot under either the prop irty or literacy clauses. They were -Iven thc ballot as an inheritance [tils was. In effect, however, disfran chisement of the negroes for the en ranchisement of multitudes of Ignor ant whites, who were us unfit for the >allot as the Ignorant blacks, gave he former so grcnt a numerical, irepondemnce at the poles as o make the remaining black vote ?ractically negligible. Here, .then, was the deplorable sit uation which "grandfather clauses" m inc diat fly induced. It supplied ho negroes at once with a strong leslre to acquire the rudiments of an tducatlon that might meet the liter icy test and it gave them a reason ilso for acquiring sufficient property ar qualify for the property clause. Correspondingly lt took from the poor vhltes UK, Incentive either to learn or o acquire property, for tho purpose if getting the ballot. To be sure, nen want property for its own sake ind some have an inherent longing Or an education, but only those who lave lived In a rural district of the ?outh, can apprehend how I ra port - int the right to vote ls considered, t fixes In a way, a man's standing n his community. There are aer ially thousands ot white men to vhom disfranchisement would be a crowning humiliation. They would lo anything to prevent it-even learn o read and write. ?decatl?n and the Sont hem Negro. Two years ago it was pointed out n a series ot articles in the Tran icrlpt that the thirst of the younger ;eneration of negroes for education vas the most significant phase of de relopment In the New South. The trength of this movement has not ibated. On the contrary it has in creased- It is as pronounced in the country as In the city. . It has pro luced hist?rica1 complaints from cot on planters, who aver that in the all they are unable to get their cot on crop picked because the children nsist on going to school. It has led p demands on the different leglsla ures for enactments to provent thc ipenlng of negro schools before No ember. Similarly, in the cities, par Icularly the smaller ones, there has dually be serious discussion between houghtful citizens ns to bo advlslbll ty of decreasing the appropriations or negro schools on the ground that con om Ic conditions were being ser ausly disturbed. I have seen little pid annies rudglng five miles to school through and and mud to a ramshackle bulld og where one teacher was endeavor ing to instruct almost a hundred pu ills. Indeed sn rapidly has elemen- I ary education among the black'? be- : ome that a newspaper in New Or iana, attempting to counteract the ef- I ect of the largor circulation of a ompetttOr, advertises that lt ha ; al larger white circulation." That! leans but one thing, namely that the lack race there has become a -.. eat ewspaper reader, that it Is actually big factor in-circulation. Consider ow ridiculous lt would have been a hort while ago for any newspaper In lie south to he considering negro em ulation seriously. There ls a negro cook of whom I now who has three children and a ellnquent husband. Where the hus and ta abe does not know, but she oes know that all three children are it school every day, when school is a session, and every one of them can ead and write. The case is typical. For years every intelligent negro trencher in the South has been reaching education. It ls their hob iy. News travels fast along the ?lacks by word of mouth. They ouirt not ba reached" at first by the Tinted page, yet education as a gos el has somehow been Inoculated In he race. It would be folly to go so sr ? story that thia thirst for edu atiou is a result of the election laws. 'R? great big. Important fact is that van now no lllteracy test can be ap ilad that will not disfranchise al most as many whites s? ?.lacks, nar Icularly In those states which have a pac lal ly burge percentage ot ill It racy. The other big tblng is that no ollt'eal party In the South will 'dare {?franchise these poor and ignorant rbi tes. To make^ requirements that9 hey eaa meet ls to make require ments that thousands of blacks also lui meet. I literacy Amen* Blaekn and Whites. It ls impossible to get any accurate tat?mente aa to the percentage of li teracy among the blacks as cony* ired with the whites for the reason tat the statistics given are at beat Ule better than estimates. Personal bservation ls the best barometer. Or -glsiattve enactment, perhaps would o more convincing evidence of the .end. . When a compulsory educa on law was. being considered In outh Carolina, objection waa nude j BY A SOUTHERN (In Boston T t yatton ?outhem *Negr& I JOURNALIST, run H erip).) that it would not be good pol cy to compel negro children to go tu chool "Why" unid one of the high tates men, "you ( an't keep negroes ?ut of school so long as there is r ichool anywhere near. The object < I this bill is to compel white child en lo do wiiat nejero children are : ?ready doing of their own volition." Com pulsory education was necee?:" f in fi state where, in some sections men whose ancestors had fought i i the Revolution were unable to slr their names. Law is one thing and adm ilntra tlon of it another. There are t sys of keeping comp?tent voters off t e vot ing lists. Election frauds, ev ts in timidation, haw been c mmon enough in New York and P lladel phia not to mention Indian; and even Boston. Hut this may 1 > stat ed as a safe proposition. Thc gener al disqualification of tito n gro in the South by illiteracy test ls r ? long er possible. This does not me ,-? that thousands of them cannot he < aqufil Iflerl, hut it does mean that a test which would disqualify these thous and would also disqualify, tk usanda of whites that no politico; pariy would dare ap*nly lt. Trie ste way not would be for the re# tratioti commissioners to Ray arbitrar ly that a white man had passed the est, io matter how miserable a fal ire be might have made. Negroes as Property Bol sr*. When the property qualifie: ions it considered, an equally sh llficaai condition of affairs is reveal d< In the series of articles alluded t as ap pearing In the Transcript, lt was pointed out that the acqulaton of property by negroes in the Sooth had become a matter of grave cansera to those who feared the encroachment of the black race. The avidity of the black for ownership has not 1 recned. It has increased. So long as the ne gro, working his own small Ieee of land, can raise cotton for il ta than six cents a pound, while I \ white neighbor employing labor, cannot raise it for less than nine ants a pound, there can be no don t ,what ever about the progress of t negro toward land ownership. Bl eralfied crops may hold.,him back, ; ut they cannot stop him?, particular! ' as he can do some diversified pin ting on his own account ii he wc its to. Plantation after plantation : ia 'been reluctantly subdivided by a genera tion of owners among who i senil men tis not so Btrong as it ' aa with their parents. Nor has pt bibitlon been without effect in comp? ling the negroes to do without bad rhiskey. thus assurlcg more saving! . Aside from the wholesale robben aside from the natural pi >dlgnlity and wastefulness of the ne ro' race, aside from the liquor vene ir? Who get much of the laborer's Wt ?es, still there la a marked -moral j?graSa which manifests itself also itt' thc development of responsibility and fru gally. So the gradual acqu titiou ot property by the blacks conti ues. lt is as certain as the for wa I march of the boll weevil. It may be doubted If mad negroes can get the franchise under the pro perty qualification who cool -not get It anyhow under the liten y test. On the other hand many ignorant whites inherit and continu; to hold! sufficient land to ring the ? withkt the letter of the law. Yet sven so, no Southern State would dat require* property and literacy test. ' be Itlcatlons will continue to bi alterna tive. Waking up the Sleepy Bli Meta. Tho effect of the suprenj i court's decision, although it will nj ; -he im mediate, will be to check I literacy. Larger approp-iatior-s for ti e public Behool s may be anticipated, accom panied ' by a general tgwai ?ning ot the so-called sleepy di Ar ic i. This will mean much to busgnes: In gen eral. It Is, for Instanos, cl beult to teach the principles lt 1; tenslficd farming to people who Bani ot read. Education can readily d&bl< th* noll productively of the Soup. -So, lt will Induce a Ion gin f< r better living and will form a pey sort of purchasing public. Tooanu h ot the merchandising of the Seat h ls'baaed an the Ignorance of cuatefiaer . r: Disfranchisement of tv n groes i* likely to be adminlstrAv* . rather, than constitutional. LooH i eav preventing them from rftui will bc round. Law suits now an hen wHi be found. Law suits w ant! will counteract this to amnel ex However, with the elecB>2l machin ery entirely in the hand At mei. believe that the negroes Bunt not to be allowed to vote, lt wis beano very difficult task to keep tlfSu: from the polls or to deprive theiffc Ithe bal lot by registration fraucaL 9Such a. course, naturally, cannotflpnJ bo par:: slated in. particularly ajgnfis much easter now to acqualnWthf negro with hts rights.. M iii. ? The Month WIU The negroes have bec?deSrived ot the oaltot for a long |i| They' dave not been paying mflnf:<tc-ntinn to it. The more thouglflnllof tbeja nave been devoting theinfeiontlon to Industrial progress. TUB' favo not bothered with politics. Mt Will tax? tome time to overcome Stfrheultaat' It ls peculiar, tn" a w? Rhat the South, which wUl prot&Jfeost bit Lerlly against tbs jllclskMMjH&be tb? thief beneficiary of it.JHrj^BjB ions t>een evident that no bB^Hrccrity sould exlat in any. sectflp ^HBlmost (tait the population waajp^BBjlBjfl] ?nd left wlthcut bnpeUf c Ph at accounts dor the JB> : ful change In pabilo flpflflH^H lae taken place In the Sp tit; sent years. The tmosw aWgtfbnt.j leadera. Industrial not .--I u I ?Sen devoting their best o ?or ts to rsanlng the blacks fofwasa ts&tead j Special Voohies in Shirts Ties, Suit Cases Special Shirts Of genuine Amoskeag Chambray, solid blue. Best grade dye. Cut extra full, siz? i 5 meas ures 46 inches around chest. Extra large sleeves and armholes. Padded neckband, One pocket CA** with button. A wonderful value at. 3"C Special Ties Doth Silk and Wash fabrics. Silks of the most durable kinds made, full size and length. Cut on all the new shapes and ingall the popular shades. Wash colors and clothes that represent the newest ideas. 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A Snppreaaed Tele^rym. +1 Thc following telegram was sent by j .he Russian to the German emperor E. ttte evening of July 29 last year: I Thanks for thy conciliatory, and J lendly telegram, whereas the, ofhelal mmunlcatlons 'made today by thy Ambassador to my Minister wore tramed in a very different tone. Pi-ay i txplaln the difference. It would ba nore correct to submit the Austrian.! Serbian problem to Tho Hague Con ference. 'Chis telegram did not Appear with j ?titer telegrama passed between tho wo sovereigns and printed?; in tbe j ?erman '<WWte Book" issued after the ?utbreak ot war. Thc- world- knew iothfng of:'it until weeks tater lt waa riven out at Petrograd. . f?ow. .that lt an no longer be suppressed, lt is in* :Iuded In a. German '^Blue Book" Just ?ubllshed. Th? laiser tn bis reply ignored the ? .?*r'a suggestion- of a T?feronce . of . he Austro-aerbian problem to Tho lague. Tbi- Uornian government ivaded Kngland'e suggestion of arbi rntion ?apporte:! by ?*ranee -and taiy. Serbia, niter yielding to all of lu atria'* denial jd s save two, offered e -arbitrate these two. The offer ras;rejected by Austria, and Germany ?cied up A??trfa in tho rejectic. Ill j wanted arbitration except Gos? rtany and; Austria. Th* record hor? 3 cpw complete. ?Ive H a A gentteman waa te iay that lt is surpris! au'.be accomplished iy fexi?rmlntui?n by Ul >hO have tried ?Va r? ty ?termin?t!** reporf WOK ulta, an?-we pasa th? xegi ?Ith the bo*? that lt will is* .'---CfceatOi* Reporter^.-'. PRESS G (New York Tribune.) If rc?re ? ouipleyers wqulri follow the course announced by the Lincoln National hank and*several commercial 1 houser recently lhere would be less dangei of "unpreparedness." A let ter to Maj. Gen. ..O'Ryan-from the president of the babk promised that ?ti . employes who wer? rr.onxbera or the national guard' or naval militia would receive leave of : absence for military service without loss of pay and without having tho time thu? lost from work deducted from their -vaca tion allowance. One of the reason? why it is dlfll cult to obtain recruits for- tho notion al guard ia tho objection ot employers to having their young mer. Ih/?lo to miUtarjr' d?'ty at time? Inconvenient to tho concerns.. It Is? of course, against the law to discharge as em ploye Tor doing his duty rn the mili tary organisation to which he be longs, but there are waya to get around that law, ss employers and workers well know. The expense ot ? belonging to the girard and the time necessary for drillt and comp train ing seem sufficiently onermou? to the average young man, so that he thinks S the ri; curring his employer's ill will also by deserting work for military vtaty when he in needed at hir, daHy task. rovirmattely, bualcess men are coming to realizo that lt his boon s ?hort, sighted policy to frown on mili tia service. The merchant's asso ciation h na a standing committee on military affairs, which is conducing: a campaKR fcmoug the member? of that organisation to encourage thom to1 give their approval to the enlistment j ^ot tbetr e??pUryt?? in 'the practical \ ! fashion pursued by tb/> Lincoln Na tional bask. More Interest fn natton al. gunl? - vice and more enlist i mints would go s good way toward bolstering up the. country's military. Rdft?rti Piares In the gan? {('hlcako Tribuno.) pacific rcconnfilsanc?l- l?) Europe, re port? nothing more j vvtprt&y of hts coudtirmen's mectot^-i!|?ti*^?on. than the following: 1 I ."tn nil countries,"..?ayto a:??ew York j dispatch, !'he found*'a deVlre for set tlement that would he commensurate with the sacrifice in blood \?md treas ure that had - been made by the peo ple.. If lett to the . diplomatists in Europe alone a return to the terrl t or tal. status <mo would ?7?rbap? ntfft be difficult, soineNof tho information in dfcated'. In Germany-it seems there is an effort, according to r^iablejn tfortnat?cn giren to th? pWaideaw to preparo public opinion for. a realiza tion of the Idea that Germany's best i.-tereala lie! in coiimiat I expansions and - the t incidental devo'opmenl cf overseas commerce rather'?han in ter ritorial extension in-Europio proper.'' ??t thia .stage of the'war ?he over whelming \ of either aide-seevna lesif likely, exewpt -perhaps to Mr> Wolla than nt ita tee-finning,- Peace nasty not come until complete exhaustion of all l>articlpdhta,sbut is more probable Chat it wit! be . o.r>anged bet?re such ex tremities aro reached. Iii that case undoubtedly "the question of compon .sation will bo crural. That a scheme of. - reciprocal rolmbursomont cnn' 'be moro easily worked out by colonial readjustments '. or assignment of I spheres of influence than by an ex> ! change of territory ia Europe seems ?.obvious. There will have tb be soma .changes IR the souUtcaat and, if the ?Hies 'prevail, ti real tennent cf the