Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE INTELLIGENCER B&VABLISRED IHM. Published every morning except Monday by The Anderson Intelligen cer at 140 West Wbltner Street, An derson, s. 0. SEMI-WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER Published Tuesdays and Fridays I* M. GLENN....Editor and Manager Entered as second-class matter April 28, 1914, at the post offlco at Anderson, Houth Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 187?. ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES Telephone .321 SUBSCRIPTION BATES DAILY One Year .16.00 Six Months . 2.60 Three Months .1.26 One Month.42 One Week .? .10 SEMI-WEEKLY One Year .,.$1.60 Six Months .76 The Intelligencer Is delivered by carri?re in the city. Look at the printed label on your paper. The date thereon shown when the subscription ezplrea. Notice date an label carefully, and if not correct please notify us at once. Subscriber* desiring the address of their paper changed, will pleaaa state fn their communication both the old and new addrosses. 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 ADYEBTISING . Rates will be furnished on applica tion. No tf advertising discontinued ax ept on written order. The Intelligencer will publish brief and rational letters on subjects of general Interest whan they ara ac companied by the names and ad dressee of the authors and are not of a defamatory nature. Anonymous communications w.Ml 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 tor publication should not bs addressed to any Indi vidu?! connected with the paper, but simply to The Intelligencer. SATl'KDAY, AUGUST 28, 1915. WEATHER FORECAST Showers Saturday; Sunday partly loudy. -' Five Mou Arrested for Lynching.? leadline. No, it waa in Texas. Writers Want Gold to Stay in ice.?Headline. No, we don't. -tO "On With the Dance," aays Colo, at's hopo It will be a square one. -o?? " It's comforting to know that Teddy l't declare war for tho United iteB. o 'Wonder If William Jennings B. ia insistent to the extent of refusing to military hair brushes. Life lu Georgia is Just one turmoil r another?o special serlslon of je legislature ia to be held. -O: ; Some folks should be mighty care xl how thoy scratch their heads for might get splinters in their lln Tho Panama Exposition had better irry up and do whaH It is going'to before Greenwood starts up her And now it Is announced that Breat ivsk was abandoned for stragotic imuh. ' What do you know about sky? am Responsible,*' Declares Colo L?Headline. But there's a lot of iplo who thick you are lr-rospon -1 -, Col. ?;?o?? The Ncwberry Herald and New; ya ex-Governor Bleast's speech at aton was a good one. Much obliged the information, CjL -o ion Russia got rid of vodka she Ijably thought there would be no >rc chasers. But that was before Germans got Into Poland. ?-O A Boston Arm has declined to sell goods in Georgia until the murderers of Leo M. Frank have been brought to ' justice. That's a strong invitation to the fool killer to visit Bean Town. W Gasoline went up 3 cent per gallon lp a nearby town last week and the manag ar of the plant explained the advance by saying that the company "needed the money." What a> \ nt the helpless consumer. It's to h-with aim, w* suppose. WHOSE OX IS KOKEl). A few nights uko ut Gary, Indiana, a minister of the Oespel was assassl nated because of his pro-Qennan sym pnthii'H and utterances. Indiana, you know, Is up North. A few years ago in Now York city a police officer blred u gang of tAbgs to assassinate a famous gambler wbo breatenod to expose the police Heu tenant's grafting. New York city, yon know, is up North. Three or four years ago a negro In Illinois engaged in u fight with a policeman and shot him, the negro being wounded ulso. A mob broke Into Hie hospital where the negro was curried for treatment and dragged htm from his bed and lynched him. Illinois, you know, is among 'those states we call Northern. Many more shell things have hap pened in the North within our mem ory, but we have enumerated enough to serve our purpose at this time. So far as we know, no southern newspaper of uny standing has con demned the citizenship of the entire North for the assassination of the minister. We haven't lr.'ard of any southern paper denouncing the entire North for the murder of the gambler in New York city. Wo don't know of any Southern newspaper lambasKlng the entire North for the lynching of the negro who wounded the police man. Borne days ago a handful of mls gil'ded men?said to have numbered twenty-flvo?took a "life termer" from tho state prison In Georgia and lynch ed him. Tho press or the Nor'th and particularly the Chicago Tribune? which has a copyrighted slogan read ing "The World's Greatest News paper"?bitterly denounced the EN TIRE South for the outrage commit ted by two dozen men In one section of 'the state of Georgia. The Chicago Tribune, perhaps denounced tho South more bitterly than any of the other papers. The whole section was in dicted for tho crime in the most scathing arraignment imaginable. In reply to rr.eso oittacks, and par ticularly the one by the Chicago Trib une, a torrent of letters of protest from people in all sections of the United States hare gone ito the editor ial rooms of the northern newBpap ors. They are letters protesting against the tone of the criticism and. the utter unfairness of It, that is, the condemning of the. entire South be cause of the acts of but twonty-live men In one remote tittle section of one state. Many of the letters are masterpieces, real literature. The smug, self-righteous editors? and particularly the editor of the Chicago Tribune?probably have rea lised ere this that the .South lank so ignorant after all, as southerners have shown these editpeg tkat they can read and : 'jr.'i theyl can write, and produce writing with a punch to It. This is In an way a defense of the lynching of Frank. That act can never be Justified. But It is to show that it Is a case of "whose ox is gored" with our northern quill artists when they set out to. chastise the trampling under foot of the law. The Walterboro Press and Standard chronicles the alleged that a rattle sns-Hc was killed down there measur ing 10 Inches in circumference and six feet four Inches in length. And yet you'll And some folks In Walter boro opposed to prohibition. THE PRLSIUEJirS POWERS. The day after the sinking of the Arabic, a message of advice \nd warn ing was telegraphed to President Wil son by representatives of an organi sation calling Itself "The Friends of Peace." Fearing that he might suc cumb to the war fever, they deorae'i it wise to call his alttenti. >n to "tue mandatory provisions of the constitu tion of the United States." The founders of the constitution, they explained, mcanft to separate "kingly pow>r" from the presidency. "The most dangerous of kingly pre rogatives," they further explained, "is that of declaring war," for which ac tion authority war, delegated to con gress. ' Then came the meat of the cocoanut. "Without question,'' the message continued, "the issue of manifestoes nrhtch put the country In the position of being obliged to declare war la order to back up our declaration are direct assumptions of the kingly pow er so distinctly forbidden In the con stitution and so expressly committed to congres* and to congress alone."' Tho Friends of Peace therefore warned the president against "all ac tion calculated to involve us in war." This message reveals not only im pudence but ignorance. As the New York Times remarked the other day, 'President Wilson Is for the time be ing the sole judge of the measures to be taken concerning the sinking of the Arabic and the continuel refusal ot the German government to comply wiili our representations about the de struction of the Lusitanla." It Ik an true today as it was in Washington'" administration, when Thomas Jefferson found it necessary to impreas the fact on the French minister, that from the president alone "forelxn nations or their agents are to learn what is or has been the will of the nation." Every diploma tic note aent to Germany has repre sented not "kingly power" but Ameri can constitutionalism. If che conse quenco of those notes, or of others to follow them, or of uctlon entailed by them, is war, still the pr< sjdent will not have exceeded his lawful powers. The presdeut has power to recall ambussadors at will, and to dismiss the ambassadors of foreign powern. Congress thus far has nothing to do with our relations with Germany. If the president sees fit to sever diplo matic relations, H in none of the busi ness of congress. Whether he shall call congress In special se??'.on before Its regular time for assembling rents with the presi dent alone, if the nation were at tacked, he could use army and navy without question. The only limftatlon of hia authority In this direction is that if the United States la to make an actual declaration of war, or if money la to be voted for a war, con gress must be summoned for that pur pose. And the verv fact that the president Is In no haste to convene congress Is In itself pretty good evidence that he has no intention of prevokiug war and no present fear that war will be forc ed on us. PROFESSORS' WAB SYMPATHIES. There Is unusual significance In a poll taken by an eastern university professor of Iiis professional breth ren throughout the country showing the nature of their war sympathies. Professors are not necessarily repre sentative Americans. But they are presumably better qualified to sit in judgment on the various belligerents than any other class of Americans. They are exceptionally intelligent and well educated, they have cultivated a Judicial habit of mind, and they have excellent facilities for getting at the facts. The professors whose views were obtained numbered i/fire than 6,000. They wero scattered through 44 Im portant institutions In all sections of the country, with about 76,000 stu dents. The smallness of the pro-German minority was surprising. In the "gen eral institutions" one professor out of every fifteen was pro-German. In the theological schools or out of seven teen was pro-German. In the law colleges only about one out of 49 was pro-German. In other professional schools the proportion was about the same aa In the - general institutions, one In fifteen. The average pro-Ger man representation in all of them to- . gother seems to have been about 6 per ' cont Thia percentage is obviously lower than the German-American percen tage of our population, and apparently lower than the German-American per centage among the professors them selves. Tt should be remembered, too, that a very large proportion of these have studied In Germany, and so are presumably accessible to the German spirit, and most of them read the German language. Their reading is wide and cosmopolitan. They sub scribe to German periodicals or have access to such periodicals in their college libraries. And their reading and reflection have led nearly all of them to aide with the Alllea. Thla poll, moreover, was completed before the sinking of the LUBitanla, Prof. J. J. McCook, who is responsible for It. says that he knows personally of aevoral professors, previously pro German, who have changed their at titude because of that act and the train of events that have followed. It aeems fair to Infer that not more than 4 per (?nt of these intellectual leaders ni the nation would give Ger many their approval today. It wo.ijd be extremely Interesting to have a similar poll of Americana of all classes and nationalities, es pecially In view of the boasts that some pro-German leaders have made of the political influence they can bring to bear. If the people follow ed the professors, there wouldn't be l.ooo.ooo pro-German votes in the cow.try. MOT CLIMATE BUT JEN. The Des Moines Register, published la a section that makes no special meteorological pretensions, declares flatly and categorically that "the as sumption that the Pacific Coast is hutlt up on climate is a mistaken raie." "The Pacific Coast is built np on enterprise." says the Register, "on ( pure, unadulterated American grit and ambition." Ah a iualter of fact, remarks this authority, there are all sorts of cli mate in that long stretch of coant land. It isn't all equally good, and rertainly nobody could be suited with h all. Some people, perhaps, wouldn't like anv gurt of it. And yet, the resi dents of every part of that great sec tion are absolutely convinced of the surpassing merits of their local cli mate. Why? Not so much because of the climate as because of the men. The aspiring and enthusiastic settlors of "the last frontier" could capitalize any climate. It would be the same if the coast states ran clear .to tho Arctie Circle and the Tropic of Cancer. "Tho fact is," -the Register truly says, "tho great movements of the world have never been dominated by climate. Cold and inhospitable shores have more often won the hardy ad venturer. The great cities, the great industries, the great movements in history, have not been climatic. Cali fornia is not climate, nor Oregon, nor Washington, nor Alaska," any more Than Massachusetts. If climate were the chief factor in progress und pros perity, the Mexican plateau would he the seat of a civilization us great as that of our own Far West. Of course, the Coast ?tatea really have the climate?you couldn't pry that idea out of a Coast resident with tho whole world's weather records for a crowbar?but they also have a soil fertile beyond the; dreams of the early pioneers of the I eastern states; and what is more Impartant, tlwy lmvcj men with "the right 4>rt of mettle in | them." A fellow writing to the Walterborol Press and Standard during a contro versy with tho editor en the subject of I prohibition called Editor W. W. Smoak a "Bllm-slded, narrowUninded. idiotic, | educated fool." Otherwise, the cor respondent probably \ thinks Bro. Smoak is alrigh; Mrs. Delia Wilson, of Moore-Wilson | company, returned ycsterUuy after noon from New York and-imports that| the patterns and makes o! ladles' ready-to-wear clothing Is prtttier this year than before. She stated\ahe had a pleasant trip and everything in New York pointed toward a bit busi ness this fall. \ _c_ \ The first bale of this season'! cot ton has been sold and before Uong| the market hero will be crowded | wagon loads of cotton brought in I over the county. Although not us early as the first bale last the cotton made its appearance er soon considering the late seasj -o With the work of grading Sol Main street going right ahead is. ah noticeable *the fact that the work b(| slaying the big oak trees is keep! apace. These trees have long be admired for their beauty and the shades bave been the object of ma a man from the country with a lc of water melons, peaches, apples other country produce. They-are lng cut down and hauled away on| no longer can the horses and mule to the wagons from the country rea| under their flowing branches and nil longer will they be looked upon and admired as a beautiful work of na| ture. o The Line '6 Dope man saw one ol the biggest shoes yesterday that he has ever looked upon and Mr. Thorop son, the shoe roan, stated that it; sise was .144. However he must bt mistaken, for this Is an extreme^ large shoe. It Is made of wood and is of the black variety. It is not ca-[ actly like tho ones worn by the Hoi' landers although It is carved ont of wood. The shoe may bo seen placed on the top of an Iron pole in front of Thompson's shoe store. Mr. Fred H. Domlnlck of Newberry arrived In the city last night en route to Snow Hill where he will make an address before a gathering of Wood men at picnic tomorrow. -a The electric sign reading. "OSborno Jb Pearson," located over the store room on the east side of the square occupied by the firm of the same name, was being removed yesterday afternoon and no more will the peo ple of the city be able to see the let ters of this large electric dlsplayC flash one by one, the letters of the firm that haa so long "oecn well known In this entire section of the state. On September 1 this store will he oc cupied by B. Fleishman and Sons, sad] Ofbx>rne and Pearson- adjj vacate-b) 'that time. -o ,Supt. Craney stated last night thai the work of placing the concrete 01 South Main street preparatory to th< street paving would begin Monday Material will be placed on the street somo time today and everything put iu readiness for the starting of the concrete mixer Monday morning. Mr. J. J. Trowbridge returned lasl night from a short business trip tt Atlanta, Ga. He states that he has i contract which giaes him a Cahrli* Chaplin every Tuesday and that foi the next four Tuesdays the picture* have already beep booked. Mr. Trow bridge also announces that he will have on two reels of comedy everj day. GEN. PERSHING LOSES FAM1LYJN_FLAMES Mrs. Pcrshing and Three of Foui Children Perish When Resi dence is Burned. San Francisco, Aug. 27.?Mrs. John J. Pcrshing, wife of brigadier General Pershing, was burned to (1 -nth with three of her four children at her quarters In the Presidio here early today. The children burned were Helen, aged 8; Anna, 6, and Margaret, 5. The explosion of a aight lamp is ibelloved to have been che cause. Mrs. Pershing is a daugh er of Senator Warren of Wyoming. General Pershing is at El Paso, commanding troops on the border guards. BEATTIE HEADS HAMPTON MILLS Greenville Man President Colum bia Group of Former Parker Mills. Columbia, Aug. 27.?The Hampton Mills company, the local group of the former Parleer textile Interests, this morning elected the following executive officers: W. E. Beattte of Greenville, president and treasurer; T. M. Marchant of Greenville, assis tant treasurer; Herbert Lindsay, of Greenville secretary; M. L. Lindsay and David Jennlng.s both of- Green ville, vice presidents. The Hampton Mills company con sists of the Olympia, Fdohland, Capi tal >.<Hty and Granny mills of Colum bia end about 275,000 spindles and 7,000 looms are operate*!. i WALHALLA SCHOOL TO OPEN SEPT. 6 Walhalla. Aug. 27.?The session of t'":e Wa'.halla graded and high school will open on Monday, September 6th. The following Is the faculty for the coming term: Prof. H. W. Gasque, superintendent and teacher of math amatics in the high school; Misses Rudd aqd Kaufmann, teachers in the high school; Mrs. G. T. Probat, teacher of the seventh grade; Mrs. A. P. Crisp,-teacher of the sixth grade; Mrs. L. T. Covlngton. teacher of the fifth grade; MJsb Mary-Ansel, teacher of tho fourth grade; Miss Dobbins, teacher of the third grade; Mrs. R. J. Nlfford. teacher of the second grade, and Miss Eulah Grant, tenorer of the first grade. The attendance this year Is expected to be the largest In the history of the schools. The following gentlemen compose the board of trustees; E. L. Herndon, chaiaman, B. W. Pitchford, and R. C. Carter. American Lost On Liner Arabic. r >r. Edmund F. Woeds, of Jancsyflle, Ws. Dr. Edmund F. Woods of Janes llle, Fla., was one of the two kmertcans. to lose their lives whan lt? Arabic went down south of Ire usd. His death with that of Mrs. iruguiere. will he the basis of what rer action President Wilson takes in Is negotiations with the. German orenuaent. 1 oday Is Your Last Sit* urday to line up at this Sale. Reductions positively will not ht effective after this month. Men's and Young Men's Suits $ 7.45 $ 9.45 $10.95 $12.95 $14.95 $22.50 Men's Suits Now. .$16.95 $10.00 Men's Suits Now. $12,50 Men's Suits Now. $15.00 Men's Suits Now. $18.00 Men's Suits Now. $20.00 Men's Suits Now. Boys' Knee Pant Suits $ 3.50 and $3 Boys' Suits. .$2.45 $ 4.50 and $4 Boys' Suits. .$2.95 $ 5.00 Boys' Suits. $3.75 $ 6.50 and $6 Boys' Suits*/. $4.45 $ 7.50 and $7 Boys' Suits. .$4.95 $ 10.00 Boys' Suits. . $7.45 $ 12.50 and $ 11 Boys' Suits. $7.95 Men's Oxfords $3.50 Oxfords Reduced to $2.75 $4.00 Oxfords Reduced to $3.25 $4.50 Oxfords Reduced to $3.45 $5.00 Oxfords Reduced to, $3.75 $6.00 Oxfords Reduced to $4.90 Men's Odd Trousers $2.50 and $2 Trousers. >; .$1.75 $3.50 and $3 Trousers_$2.45 $4.50 and $4 Trousers_$2.95 $5.00 Trousers_$3.75 $6.50 and $6 Trousers. . . .$4.45 "Hm Stm.uBh ?.Cwadea? * WITTICISMS + . Agent?Would you like to look at this fine Bet of Dickens? i Umson?No, I never have a bit of luck with bookB. Agent?Whaddye mean, luck? Umson?I bought a set of doctor books last year and I haven't been sick a day since.?Judge. "What did the boss do when you threatened to resign if he didn't raise your pay?" "He surprised me." "How?" "He failed to show the slightest sign of alarm at the' prospect of my leaving."?Detroit Free Press. He Hadn't Heard. honkers Statesman.;* ' Teacher?Where Is the Dead Sea? Tommle?Don't know, ma'am. "Don't know where the Dead Sea is?" "No, ma'am. I didn't know any of the sears were sick, ma'am." How He Knew. "I am collecting for the suffering poor." "Put are you sure they roally suf fer?" "Oh, yes, Indeed! I r,o to their houses and talk to them for hours at a time."?Philadelphia Reco'Hl. An Interesting Character. 'tThere goes Prof. Dobbins, the famous ethnologist." "An. Interesting ' character, no doubt." "Yes, Indeed. Why, he knows more about tbu races than any other man In this country.". "Fancy that I. And he doesn't look sis if he hail e?vr?been on a track In his lit"?"?Birmingham Age-Herald. A Long Wait. The self-made man stalked into the office of a great financier, with whom he had an appointment. "Yoc probably . don't remember me?" he began "but twenty years ago, when i was a poor messenger boy, you gave me s message to carry?" "Yes, yes!" cried tl^s financier. "^There's th? answer?"?Argonaut. Friend-^Wbat? You're not going back to the stago this season? Croat Artiste?No, I have so many cas v orders ahead for testimonials tor piano players, hatr tonics, bath soaps, massage creams, hatr bleach, headache dope, champagnes, safety rasors. cigarettes, Ufa insurance and r.hcwlng gum that I can't find time Tor less Important things.?Puck. Was Pickled. "John, what possessed you to buy this chow-chow dog?" "I don't know, Maria, unless I was pickled."?Baltimore American. Happy Man. "To what do you attribute your re markable healthrV^ 4 4 "Well," replied the very old gentle man, "I reckon I got a good start oa most people by be In' born before germs was discovered, thereby bavin* lesB to worry about."?Washington Star. A Gold Head Cain. When their first son was . born, Adam is. thought by some .critics .to have remarked, not . without . much acerbity: "Red hair! Wouldn't that Jar you?" "Well, X am not presenting you with any gold-headed Cams, If I know myaelfl retorted Ehre, affecting indifference, albeit socretly mortified to death.?Puck. -.-.. . Having a way of your own may en able you to keep out of the way of others. Commissary Looted. Atlanta, Aug. 27.?The commissary department of a large local cotton mill was robbed last night and quanti ties of clothes, cigars, tobacco, shoes and other general commodities were taken by burglar who left no clue. So much was stolen that they must have used a truck to oarry the loot awuy. British Consul to Have. Fortland, Oregon. Au)f. ,27.-7?-. Thomas Erklne, the British consul here was notified today that he would be transferred oh January 1st to take charge of British Interests in Loui siana, Florida, Mississippi and Alk' baraa at the New Orleans headquar ters. D-ansyre Released. Wnshtngton,, Aug. ?7.?iQem?anr has released the American ship Dun syre. Ambassador Gerard so;'reported today, but did not say what disposi tion had (been made of tho vessel's foodstuff cargo. One other ship, the Pass of Balmaha, now la detained In Germany. Rnew la Alps. London, Aug. 27.?A Geneva dis patch says that the first heavy snows lave fallen In the Tyroles* and. Car tic Alps. Military optrratiopi, ba?fe-be?u)|rto lered on both sk***. Tn*^%iWrwthU Mscurred In the elevations above KN>4eet. Winter clothing Is being sent o the troops.