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THE INTELLIGENCER ESTABLISHED IHM. j Published every morning except Monday by The Anderson Intelligen eer at 140 West Wbltner Btreet, An derson, 8. O. BEMI-WEEKLY INTELLIOENo?tt Published Tuesdays and Fridays L. M. GLENN_Editor and Manager Entered as second-clos? matter April 28, 1914, at the post office at Anderson, Bouth Carolina, nnder the Aet ot March 8, 1879. ASSOCIATED PKESB DISPATCHES ^Telephone .821 *, SUBSCRIPTION BATES DAILY One Year .16.00 Biz Months . 2.60 Three Months .1.26 One Month.42 One Week. .10 SEMI-WEEKLY One Year .,.1) 60 flix Mon dis . .76 The Intelligencer is delivered by Barriers in the city. Look at the printed label on yonr paper. The date thereon shows when the snbscrlptlon expires. Notice date on label carefully, and It not correct please notify us at once. Subscribers desiring the address of 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 Circulation Department before 9 a. m. and a copy will be sent at once. AU checke and drafts should be drawn to The Anderson Intelligencer. ADYEKTlblHG Rates will be tarnished oa applica tion. No tf advertising discontinued ex cept on written order. The Intelligencer will publish brief and rational letters on subjects of general Interest when they are ac companied by the names snd ad drosses of the authors and are not of defamatory nature. Anonymous communications will not be noticed. Rejected manuscript*, 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. SATURDAY. AUOU8T 21. 1915. W1ATHEB ^OBlCAKl" Showers Saturday and Sunday fair. | Mexico didn't raise her sons to bo r<oaco-at-any-prloc advocates. ?-o An ounce of sharpncl it worth a pound of peace literature. .-o The most "impressionistic" reading In hot weather Ib rending fho ther mometer. o A man's hutting average In the field veracity is at low ebb during :he fish ing season. Germany had bettor watch out, Mr. Wilson probably hasn't forgotten how to write notes. ?s? The Bummor girl who worries about her new im thing suit has mi'ghty lit tle to worry about It's about time the Russian govern ment was making another appropria tion for running expenses. -o We see where hard coal Is going to got cheaper. But that won't make the getting ot it any softer Job. o Since Wlnnsboro is lu South Caro lina, folks in this State should thJnk well before they speak their minds about Georgia, o " Somebody said once upon a time that war was invented to keep the popu lation thinned down. But that wan before the day of automobiles and railway grade crossings. From a careful perusal of the edi torial pages of northern papers one miHpoeiH that the lynching of Leo Frank called forth comment thct can scarcely be construed as favorable. Aftor read rag the slop which the At lanta Georgian is printing about the Frank caf.o from ft* Marietta corres pondent, O. B. Koeler. we Wish to suggest that it would have , proved mnro effective had the story been written tn blank'verse. . . ~?o Oie of Frank's lawyers, giving out aft ' Interview on 0'? subject of the ?yiching', ?nid tha' Tom Watson wee responsible for It and that he ought to be tried for murder in she first de gree.- He closed the interview by saying *bcr? w?s a lot more he would Hko to say. but guessed .he had Said enough for that time. No doubt Tom agrees with him. AS OTIIKKS SDK IS. "The south Ih buck ward. It sliuair* the I nltcrf Slnles by Illiteracy und in- J eom|>et*nre. Ils hill men und poor ? lilies, ?s masses of feared and 'mi lled Mucks, Km ignorant ami >lulent politicians, its rotten industrial con ditions, anil its rotten social ideas exist in rlrramslanreg which dis Kinee Hie (tailed Slntes In the thought oi' Americans mid In the opitilun of foreigners." That's pretty stiff talk, isn't It? And it's talk that makes you want to smash the nose of the mun who suys it. and purtleulurly so If ha Is of that specie we sneeringly refer to Bome t lines as a "Yankee." It wouldn't he absolutely safe for him to come down here among us ami talk to us like that to our faces, would It? Before going further, we might re mark that the ubovo quotation Is an exeerpt from editorial comment in the Chicago Tribune?"The World's Greatest Newspaper"?aucut the lynching of Leo M. Frank. And It's by no means the roughest part of the editorial either. We did not select t'ai;, editorial with any particular thought of getting one that was es pocially bitter. Of all editorials that we have seen In northern and west ern papers on the Prank case this one from the Chicago Tribuno appears to bo typical. We are reproducing the editorial here because we believe you will bo Interested In knowing how other sec tions of the country view mob vio lence und lynch law. Those are rather stinging things the northern, eastern and western papers urc having to say about tbe Frank case und about the south generally nnd its lament hie reputation for mob violence. But how nre we to help ourselves? What are we to do about it? We are frank to confess wo have no sug gestion of an immediate solution for mob violence Wo arc rather afraid that it is one of those Bhort-cornlngs of our nature that will have to be eliminated by process of evolution. That is naturally a slow process, it Is the reverse of revolution. For that reason we fear that for generations to come the south is going to see exhibi tions of mob vlolenco when outrages] are committed thai stir the people to! ungovernable wrath. In-the mean time, it Is strikes us, the heat that we can do I h tq lend our aid- to this hIOw process of evolution, which wo hope nnd believe win be the solution of our alia. That process, of course.' is ono of education?education of not only the head but of the heart. But referring again to the editorial from the Chicago Tribuno anent the Frank case, hero it, is, and read it for yourself: For a very long time the name of Leo M. Frank will be remembered as Indicative of something discouraging j I and not wholly explicable in Ameri can life. Wo know that, elsewhere than In I tho 111 ordered south. . communities j can be aroused to acts of violence against, the law, but usually the dem- j ontvtratlon is one of low elements and also one of hot blood. - What has taken place In Georgia Is not due to mob violence. The psy chology of ? ho mob does not permit Pi'ch steadfast malevolence, such a continuing purpose and determination. If a mob cannot act soon its will dies out. Frank was murdered by men con trolled by the spirit of the vandetta. In .he background of his fate there I waa no olement of law's futility to punish a crime. Law had not been Indulgent to Frank. It had been Bevern The questions of reasonable doubt in his case were resolved final-; ly In his favor only to the extent that ho waa granted the mercy of spending tho rest of his life 4n a penitentiary. To this doubtful mercy; which Frank asked only as a means by which time for tho disclosure, of his Innocence could be hod. was added ho terrible experience to which he waa subjected when a convict cut his throat Frank baa not been deal* with leniently. What he had gained was [tho smallest possible expression of I doubt. He gained it at. the last mo ment from the last man In authority to aid him at all. Every time he ap pealed to the law. every time with pifc exception the law denied him the benefit of doubt. Therefore there had been no fail ure of what we regard as retributive jua-tice,. The trial Judge, who had denied htm every pea, waa disturbed finally by doubt The United State, supreme court which ruled against him contained two juatlcse who had doubts. The then governor of Geor gia, Mr. Slaton, at last could not en dure the responsibility of a convic tion that there waa doubt of Frank's guilt Clemency obtained for him the gift' of lire, but in its hardest terms. This I must be thought of - bueauso when an i American community'yields to law-' lessness It is a mitigation, however] alight It the processes of law have! fallen, as occasionally finey do, into, disrepute and If U seem that outraged | chitons had to do .things of which' thoy disapproved to gst JusHce which they demanded. Such consid?rations are not Involv ed in she Georgia case. There had been no miscarriage of justice. At Its worst, assuming Frank guilty, there had been only a slight departure from the sternesl code, ordered by the last man who could ?ave; Frank, to meet the pressing und Irresistible fear that the convict might b<: Innocent. Georgia did not have- an excuse of law's failure for tin* sentiment it cul tivate! regarding Prank. And it did Dot have, as we have said, the excuse of mob passion. Georglu society has developed mon who could carry for months a premeditated policy of out rage against law und cruelty to u tor tured human being and execute that policy in the end by takln? the man away from the State and killing him. We have Huid that this is not wholly] explicable and it is not. The failure of Georgia to protect the threatened man. even when he was imprisoned In h State penitentiary, reveals u fuult in organization. The present governor of Oeorgiu. when he was told that raiders had broken into the State penitentiary and were running away wi*h their victim to some place where they would kill him, said feebly that he was I sure the good people of the Stato | would deplore the act. We doubt lt. | The real protection the raiders had was the scnument of the .State and the real disgrace in which the Stute stands is that sentiment. The murder was not by n mob, but by vendetta, which is determined, cun ning, resolved, and cruel. A vendotta is possible in a low social organiza tion, one which ' is not learned self control, which has no*, been sufficient ly trained in the rudiments of educa tion to submit itseif to restrains nec essary to -the orderly processee of society. The south is backward. It shamos the United States by illiteracy und in competence. Its hill men and poor whites. Us niasses of feared .-ml bul lied blacks, its ignorant und violent politicians, Its rotten industrial con ditions, and its rotten social ideas exist in circumstances which disgrace the United States in the thought of Americans aud in the opinion of for eigners. When tho north exhibits a demon stration of violence against law by gutter rats of society, there is shame In the locality which was the scene of the exhibition. When the south exhi bits it there Is defiance of opinion. The south is barely half educated. Whatever there 1s explicable in the murder of Leo M. Frank is thus ex plainable. Ivco M. Frank was an atom in Hhe American structure. He might liave dt'cd, unknown or ignored, a thousand deaths more agonizing in preliminary torture and moro cruel In final execution, and have had no ef fect, but the upectaclo of a struggling human being, helpless before fate as a mouse in the care of a cat, will Htagger American complacency. The south Is half educated. It is a region of illiteracy, blatant self righteousness, cruelty, and violence, i'ntil it 1& improved by the Invasion of better blood and better Ideas it will remain a reproach and a danger to the American republic. The Atlanta Georgian takes a double column, double leaded. 10 point black caps and lower case type story' on its front pngo to relate the fact that one of its correspondents bad been re quested to deliver Leo Frank's wed ding ring to the widow. KIM) WORDS FOU THF. MIDDLE* NAN. At last the much abused "middle man" has found somebody to plead his cause. In a recent bulletin, the department of agriculture points out that contrary to the opinion pre valent among producers and consum ers, the middleman is not a mere economic parasite?Uiat be fulfills a necessary function in Dae distribution of farm, products, and on the whole does It pretty well and about as cheaply as he can afford to. In paying high prices for goods, the public Is paying the cost of a com modity called service?a fact not ful ly appreciated. Food is distributed today more widely, more thoroughly and more promptly than ever before. The products of every land and clime arc accessible to evory family In nearly every community. Many com modities must be moved very rapidly, and even at the best involve a great amount! of waste, which has to . bo paid for. Tho retailer especially gives service that nobody would have expected a generation ago. . The display of goods In attractive and convenient form and their delivery In small quantities In volve an enormous expense. As the bulletin remarks, "Service can be come a very expensive luxury." Tim chief objections to Oae mldlle msn as an Institution not mentioned by the buletin aro these: There are far too many of him, and he has not yet solved tho problem of efficient re tall distribution. There are at least twice as many small merchants as communities bave ab y use for, most of them cklng out a precarious liv ing and-Incapable of introducing gen Half the number of merchants, with better systems of delivery of goods, eliminating duplications of routes and trips, could givo better service at less cost THE PERFECT M MB AND. The 100 per cent husband haa been discovered. If any woman doubts that husbam 11 perfection exists, let -her scan till., catalogue of'virtues posses sed by Edward K. Fischer, a railway clerk of St Joseph, Mo. Fischer 1s so lndcstrious that in oigbt years of wedded lifo he has uot lost one hour's work from the office. He Is so thirfty that before he was married he saved $000 on B salary of $.10 per month, and lie has since bought a home with the savings from a $60 salary. As for making himself useful around the house: He always got up at night to feed and take care of his four children in their infancy; he al ways undresses the children and puts them Mo bed; he rises at 4 o'clock every Monday morning and does the family washing before he goes to the office; ho workB morning and even lug In the garden, and raises chick ens; he helps his wife do the dishes several times a week. He requires for spending money only 25 i ?nts every two weeks. Ho gives his wife the rest, and walks two miles to work to save carfare. Speaking of domesticity, he has been away from his family only one evening u year since his marriage. lie 'has sent his wife on trips to Omaha, St. Louis, Chicago, Buffalo. San Francisco and elsewhore. Is he not a perfect husband? Well, that depends on the view point, it happens that Fischer is suing his wife for divorce. It looks, on .{be face of it, as if he spoiled her by over-indulgence. Would a perfect husband do that? Incidentally, docs it not strike you as rather queer that the former Gov ernor, who used to assail so violent ly so-called government by injunction should now wish by Injunction to pre vent the people from having their way.?Florence Times. No, nothing queer about that brother. A dema gogue Ib only quoor when be is con sistent A LI N E ! o* DOPE It rained again yesterday, the reg ular afternoon and night showers. Not doing much damage, however. It is delaying the street paving. Mr. B. K. Chapman stated yesterday that tho ralhs seemed to be confined to Ulis section somewhat since the river j at Portman Shoals - had not shown much rise. Another reason that the rain is thought to be confined to this section is because the Southern pow er company yesterday called on the Southern Public Utilities company for 3,000 killowatts of electricity. They were unable to supply this amount but furnished from 1,000 to 1.500 dur ing the day. Tho former's water sup ply seems to be lacking. o.n-i Many people in the county and city will be interested in the news that tho big Woodmen picnic at Clemson College has been .called off. Many were preparing to attend and this will cause them .to abandon thoir plans. -o Dr. It. L. Robinson, president of tbe College for Worn on at Due West will preach at the First Presbyterian church (Sunday. -o The directors of the local chamber of commerce arc making great efforts to have the subscribers pay up thler subscriptions. A committee consist ing of Messrs. W. W. Sullivan, P. E. Cllnkscalcs and Rufus Fant has been appointed ot prepare a ^st of the past* due subscriptions and a campaign to] collect them will be waged. Tt seems for some reason tho people have lost interest in the chamber of commerce and something mus< be done or else abandon the idea of having one. Mr. A. S. Farmer state-1 to. a rep resentative of The Intelligencer yes terday that he was getting along rlglft well with the experimental process of making asbestos yarn at the Conevoss yarn mill. He exhibited a sample and when compared with yarn made at regular mills, It was hard to distin guish the two. He stated that ex perts had advised him that he had tho weight all right but not the density. In appearance the yarn made here 4b about the same also as that made at other places and has a smoother surface. An expert irom Philadelphia will be In Anderson Monday week to confer with Mr. Far mer about the a bestes yarn process. -b?? Atnonr; the tourists registered at the Hotel Chiquola last night were Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Davis, Miss Catherine ; Davis, Paul Davis, Miss Elisabeth Johnson and J. M. Wtner all ot Chat tanooga, Tenn. o The friends of Mr. Lewis Cox in this city will be interested la the, following which ht taken from the Boton Journal: Mr. Lents Cox whb was taken to the Episcopal hospital in Philadelphia for treatment last week ts holding his You'll certainly want to get next to some of this underwear at the present reductions. $ .50 Garments Now.$ .40 $1.00 Garments Now.$ .75 $1.50 Garments Now.$1.15 $2.00 Garments Now.$1.50 One and two piece suits. Only our entire stock of summer underwear in cluded. For Saturday only, a. few dozen 35c socks in blue, black and white; at 25c. You'll hardly have another opportun ity at these; the quantity is small and we will not restock them for 25c. own and Iiis family and many friends hope that he will soon be able to re turn home. His father, Mr. J. T. Cox, and Dr. C. O. Todd returned from Philadelphia a few days ago. Mentioned in German Plot. Captain Fram von Papcu. Captain Franz von Pnpen. military attache of the German embassy in Washington, has been prominently mentioned in connection with the story of the German plot now being published. A New York newspaper has presented what it calls a report made by him to-his superiors on the question of buying the produce of fac tories which manufacture chlorine gas, such as used by the Germans la the trenches about Ypres in April. In fact, his name runs all through tho remarkable story about the operations ,ot Dr. Heinrich F. Albert to be'.p tho German cause' in the United States. It is broadly hinted in Washington that an investigation, which may re? suit in a request'on the German gov ernment for tho recall of several of those in the embassy, may be. made. The Uninitiated. A story which lias recently come to light relative to tho new notorious election of Terre Haute, displays once again the resourcefulness of ,tbo apostles of corruption, says Tho In dianapolis News. v Two young women, eagerly desir ous of the constitutional convention advocated during tho last campaign, were devoting their efforts toward that end, by passing out printed slips asking the ayes at the voters. At the polling place, at which they were stationed, the greater number of holders were foreigners, unacquaint ed with our methods, etc. (And yet they were entitled to the franchise, fust the same.). The young women patiently dealt out that printed op peal, alsu smiles by way of good measures, satisfied in their precinct, at least, they wer? winning out But alas! "There's many a slip," etc. Be tween ehe girls and the booth wem two "antts," who, as the uninitiated passed them, said nonchalantly. "Ticket?, please," and almost Invar iably the poor little scarp of paper which meant 00 much to the advo cates of a new constitution also equal suffrage, was passed*Into the hands of the ant is, without even s glance at Its contents. Beek Beer. It is at.Munich, in the land of beer, that they meet one week in May each year to pay honor to the black beer special 1 brewed for tho occasion M?.d culled hoc'.; ibeer (Mere de bouc). During these eight days fatted calves pigs pullets sausage and black rad ishes are absorbed in enormous quan tities. In normal times certain: Bava rian brewei * retell as much as 30.000 liters of beer in at hours, to accele rate the digestion of these provisions. Book made Us ippesrance <ln Fiance with the Owmnn beer houses of tho exposition of 1870, Some pretend to New Grocery BROWN BUILDING, EAST WHITNER J. F. Gary, Proprietor * Having lost my right hand in the As phalt Plant two weeks ago, and having a family to support, I am compelled to seek some other means of support; so I have de cided to open up a Retail Grocery Store, and cater to the Mill people around An derson for the greater part of my business. I have bought a stock of Brand New and Fresh Groceries. They are being put into the store NOW. We will open for busi ness Wednesday, August 15,1915 and we will appreciate your trade. We will show our appreciation by close prices, and fair and honest treatment. Mr. J. C. Burk will be associated with me in the management of this business, and any courtesies shown him will be ap preciated by both he and I. Remember the plac??Brown-puUding, East Whitner Street, where you will re ceive fair* honest treatment. j. p. find a reason between the time of the browing and the season 'when the bock is in his roost gallant humor, for the name given to this beer. ' The truth but little known Is that the name bockbeer is derived from "Bimbock-bter," formerly called the beer of Elmbock or Ehubeck, a little Hanoverian town renowned in the Fif teenth Centtury for. its beer.?die Cri de Parie. The Knitting Firemen. Sand u sky??San dusky firemen are knitting not socks for soldiers,. but shawls for their wires and jwoet hcarts. The knitting idea was pu? into their heads about a week ago when a fireman froc? one of the Co lumbus stations visited the local cen tral station and remarked that knit ting 4k the principal pastime of Co lumbus firemen. Cards and . checkerboards were promptly put aside, and now almost any evening firemen in etch one of Sandunky*a five stations may be seen sTUtng around with yarn, knitting noodles and shawls well on the way to completlon.-^The Ohio State Jour nal. your Income may be very ?mail, But, SOU, you should not flout it; Thoegh yon cant live within it, I . Know you can't lire without It. ?Cincinnati Enquirer. sow; "Oh, go 'way. I don't want any insurance. Don't try to Jolly me?I can't be affected by flattery. I'm not that kind of a man. Why-?" "That's Jui t what 1 thought,'* in terposed the agent, according to The New York Evening Poet'. "The min ute I found your name on my list I decided to call on you at once. It is' sicken mg to have to keep calling on men who expect yon to 'Jolly them, land praise them, and Hatter them all 'daring a business 'conversation. It Isn't done by any business house in the regular course of business, so why should If be done by agents? My dear Mr. Crouch, we need such men as you. We need them, greatly and always. I have . battered until my mind Is a storehouse of endear ing adjectives and pet names, and l fell you I'm tired or lt. I could teil at a glan?e that you were far be yond auch crude m?thode, hk> man who has achieved the position ybU have, and attained the honors of the top rung of the ladder pure through hia s'. titling intelligence, cares for any of that salve. Its one of the highlights m my life to meet such a man?and to find that I don* bav? to use the puerile methoon of my trade on him. I thank you, sir, from the bottor. of my heart. Yes, ?fr, sign on the dotted line. Thank you, sir. Good day."