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THE INTELLIGENCER Khr.ABM.SnKl> IHM. Published ?<v?ry morning except Monday by The Anderson Intelligen cer et 140 WoBt Whltner Street, An derson, s. C. 8EMI-WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER Published Tuesdays snd Fridays lt. M. GLENN....Editor and Manager Entered as second-class matter April 28, 11*i4. at the post office at Anderson, South Carolina, under the act of March 3, 187?. ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES telephone ...821 8UBHCUIPTI0N HAIKU DAILY One Year .86.00 Six Months . 2.60 Three Months .1.26 One Monti. .42 One Week .10 SEMI-WEEKLY One Yesr .11.60 j Biz Months.76 j Tbo Intelligencer Is delivered by ?arri?ra in the city. Look at tbo printed label on your j faper. The date thereon shows when the subscription expires. Notice date en label carefully, and If not correct please notify us at once. Subscribers desiring the address of their paper changed, will plesce 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 Km and a copy will be sect at once. All checks and drafts should be ] drawn to The Anderson Intelligencer ADVERTISING Rates will be furnished on appllea No tf advertising discontinued ex sept on written order. The Intelligencer will publish brief j and rational totters on subjects ofj general Interest when they are ac companied by the names and ad dresses of the authors and are not of I 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 simply to The Intelligencer. SUNDAY. AUGUST 29, 1916. WXATHXR FOMRCASY Partly cloudy Sunday and Mon day. They tell usJjfhat n plumber's ex amination Is no load pipe cinch. We suppose' you could eall baseball players outdoor sports. Why NlcholB Won.?Headline. Dead easy: because Morgan got less votes. World May Lose Soft Shell Crab.? Headline. And It may loao the hard sh-sll one too for all we care. M Those tailors who uro furnishing Thaw with 40 Bults may have to bring 40 suits before they get their money. 'IVhen It comes to scraolng up ac quaintance:! some bcrbcru wo know have got the real of humanity skinned a million miles. -o The Manufacturers Record calls thu cd tor of the Chicago Tribune a skunk. That'*; attaching entirely too much Importance to the gcntlcmau (?). Wo heard a wrltcr bragging tboothor day that he had spent a month on one sentence Wo know a fellow who 1b spending bis lifo time on ono. At the conclusion of a chautauo.ua ' address In . Kansas Col. Bryan was kissed by oh'enthusiastic German far mer. And yet some folks Insist there's nothing so terrible as war. | Young Man Kicked- by Family Horso.?Headline. The horse shor.ld do tbo family pulling end leavo the -family kicking for tho follow who Is honoring hard times. .. ( The society column In a Charleston newspaper chronicles* ith?1 fact that Chleco, or Matjfet street fame, has gone "IT on a vacation. Charleston "eoclefy" may be "exclusive," but bo 'hanged If you can say that about Its society column In the newspapers.. ' ' 'O ' Salem, Ore. reports that U has ship ped eastward three carloads of logan berry jntce. And. yet about 999 east ern people out o't every 1,000 don't knew what the stuff looks, tastes or smells like. Most of them never oven heard the word "loganberryIf L. J. is so wonderful a beverage as certain portions of the west seem to (think it, jj why doesn't it get a little Intelligent .publicity? - CAMILKICM rOTTOX .SCHEME. The most far-reaching and 'lnunelal movement of tho wock In C South has been th corganlsatlon by Aua O. Candler anu bia associates of a com pany to build Immediately a ware house with capacity of 200,000 bales of cotton, the entire Investment to be abtut 11,000.000. Also the un nounecniont Is mode by Mr. Candler that he und his associates will lend up to 7 cents a pound on cotkton ut 0 per cent. Last year, at the time of the most serious deprosHlon in cot ton. Mr. Candler put up temporary Bheda for warehouses and offered to lend *30 a bule up to 1,000,000 bales, thus steadying the whole market and < reatlng confidence throughout the South in the cotton situation, ills present move will result In the im mediate construction In place of tem porary warehouses of a $500,000 rein forced concrete fireproof warehouse, und an advance over the loan value put on cotton last year. This move ment will doubtless havo a marked effect in stimulating other financial Interests throughout the South to co operate lu financing and marketing of the cotton crop. CHAMPIONS OF PEACE* lu the \um few days it has seemed to millions of Americans that wo were perilously near war. As a result of the sinking of the Arabic, with the killing of two Americans and the jeopardizing of many more, there seemed nothing for our government to do hut to s< d Ambassador Born slorff home and recall Ambassador Gerard from Berlin. And such sever ing of uur relations, It was under stood, wnlie in no souse an act of hos tility, might be followed by other at tacks making it necessary for us to go to war Ao protect our citizens and Bavo the nation from wot Id-wide contempt. And then, when the government and people had almost given up hope of any action on Oorniany's part soften ing the offense and healing the breach, there came a friendly message from Berlin expressing sympathy and ask ing the nation to withhold Judgment until Germany could report the facts a she found them. That message brought instant ro thnt Germany wanted to avoid a break with the United Stated, ar ' that In all probability she would yield enough to attain that aim. Of course, wo are by no means out of the woodB yet The Arabic contro-, versy 1b not settled, and the shadow of the Lunltania still hangs ominous ly over our negotiations wfth Ger many. But the prospect Is less dark than it has been for many weeks. And that fact points a moral. Why did Germany hasten to reas 8utc ub and stem the tide of Indigna tion and protest?. Uocause Germany did not want war with the United States. And did the American government or people want war? Absolutely not. It is safe to say that never, in any great national crisis, did this nation want to fight less than it docs today. No war wo have ever engaged in was half so unpopular as would be a war now with Germany. And yet?the nation had made up its mind to light Germany, if it came to tho worst. Wo should havo Joined her enemies sorrowfully and reluc tantly, In tho performance of a duty no longer avoidable without forfeiture of our rights, our self-respect and our safety. And because the statesmen at Ber lin aro beginning to recognise this sprit of calm and judicial determina tion, they are showing signs of a re turn to justice and humanity. If this encouraging tendency per sists, aud Gorman-American relations become friendly again, or even toler able, It will be a triumph not for the Utopian pacifists who go about preach ing "peaco at any price," and certain ly not for equivocal "peaco" organi zations which arc using the stars and stripes and the badge of labor to cover an alien propaganda In tho in terest of Germany. It will not be a triumph, either, for th* Jlngolsts who havo filled the land with clamor, but whoao shouting and frothing have had Kttlo eyoct on the great mass of aan Americana. It will bo a triumph for the Intel ligent end patriotic loaders and rep resentatives of public opinion?edi tors, statesmen, businessmen, lec turers, etc?who have urged from the first rational military prepared ness and an unflinching stand for American rights. Newspaper editors particularly ha.e been subjected to criticism in the last few weeks, be cause of the mistaken notion that they wore deliberately working for war against Germany. Nothing could have been farther from the fact. We do not know of a single newspaper, edi tor in any section or city who. If he lief. It was evidence hail the power, would bring on war with Gcnrany for tin- grievous of fenses Germany has bo far committed. Dut t!ie uewspupcr men whose work keeps thern in touch with history in the inuklng have felt thac the way of national self-respect is also the way of nntiouai safety?that lliu way to avoid war is to show any nation trumping on our rights that we uro not afraid of war. And believing this, American newspapers with a few ex ceptions have demanded ever since the Lusltania massacre that the rights of American citizens?which are also the rights of humanity- -be protected "without compromise and at any cost." (Jcrmany at first did not believe that we meant it, in spite of the presi dent's plain words. At last, appar ently, the truth has percolated to the llorlin consc iousness. Manifestly the thing for us to do Is to persist without deviation in our present policy. Even that may In volve us In war; but it Isn't neurly so likely to do so us cowardly sub mission, which, by encouraging for eign insult und wrong, might culmi nate tu some great outrage making war Inevitable. New York City is all excited over the fact that "Ulg 11111" Edwards bus announced his candidacy for the oftlee of sheriff alleging no ppeclul quaiil flcntious except that he Is "an Amer ican." Of course, when you come to think of it, Americans uro scarce In New York. loot's hopu it won't be us hard for the German foreign ofllco to And out who sank 'the Arabic as it was for the Ocorgla coroner's Jury to learn who lynched Leo Frank. (And let's hope the Kaiser and his fellow-statesnicn will spend more than three inlnutcB on the job.) BIG GUNS FOR (OAST DEFENSE. It is rcnsr.urlng to learn Uuvt our coast defenses uro to be strengthened with 16-inch guns of a now type, ex pected to prove stronger and more effective than any other fortification guns du the world. They aro not yet built, but plans for them have been completed and the fortifications board has recommend ed that 'they be constructed to replace tho 14-lnch guns in our most Impor tant defenses. Their value consists not so much in their longer range as In thler greater weight of metal. They will throw a projectilo weighing 2,-> 220 pound, 600 pounds more than the 14-lnch guns. They are expected to prove offensive against the most pow erful weapons of offense carried by modern battleships. In tills connection It is remarked that even tho famous British super dreadnought Queen Elizabeth, with her armament of 15-inch guns, has not succeeded in reducing the Darda nelles forts, and these new guns will be far superior to any at tho Darda nelles. They are expected to outrange 'nil battleship guns; but that 4s not necessarily Important. A battleship Ib at a disadvantage because it 1b very vulnerable and because, bel?g in mo tion, it cannot be sure of its aim. Coast guns merely equal- to those of an attacking fleet but mounted on solid foundations and fired according to a ?yBtcni which has previously charted ovory yard of Oae area they cover, aro almost certain to win in fair battle. It should be easy for the new guns to repel any enemy at Cape Henry, Sandy Hook, Panama, Colon and other important defensive coast points, thus protecting ous national capital, our principal seaport cities and tho canal. "WAR ON CATS. "Over 6,000,000 birds, many of Oacm of rare and amost extinct species, are destroyed annually by cats." says Gil bert Peavson, secretary of the Nation al Association of Audubon Solletics. "There Is no wild animal or bird of prey on this continent which com pare in destructlveness with the do ) mostlc cat It depopulates Oae woods of our native songsters and left alone, will render silent every grove In America. Qsmo birds have suffered terribly from Its ravages, Vagrant and so-called 'domesticated' cats to gether deatroy more birds than n."? tho other forces in America combined." He points ont that Oae common view of cata as civilised household pets Is fslse. The cat Oaat sleeps by tho fire In tho daytime reverts to Its primeval insUncts at night, and becomes a wild beaat. It roams abroad in search of prey. And unfortunately Its favorite prey consists chlofly of our Insect catching birds, those most valuable to man both economically and esthe* tically. He reports one case in which * Urge colony of birds, sea terns or sea swallows, on an Island near Nantas* kot, was almost wiped out toy eight cats. From several thousand they were reduced to a few hundred hoforo bird-lovers discovered the cause of the I laughter and destroyed the cats. The city of Montclalr, N. J. has taken action to lessen this evil, to gether with the spreading in infec tious diseases by cats. It has passed an ordinance providing for the "im pounding, sale or destruction" of all vagrant or unidentified cats found roaming nt large. The only salvation for pussy la to wear a tag bearing her owner's namo and address. If this policy were followed generally, It would result In the decimation of the worthless cats and as a result, the repopulation of bird communities. + + * + * + + *+* < + + + *+** + DON'T WASTE TIME ON * 8KUNKS + - - Southern newspapers seem to be wasting apace and euer gy in replying to a vicious at tuck on the South by a bluth orsklte who wrcto for tho the Chicago Tribune an edl torlal on this section. Chicago * lia? Its own problems to solve + and its own skunks to get rid + of, even 'when they happen to "occupy temporarily some edl torlal chair. The South dig nifles such skunks as t! <> one who wroto the denunciation of the South in the Chicago Tri- + buno by wasting its thought + and energy In replying to It. Tho Intelligent people of Chicago know tho South too well to pay heed to such false hoods against it.? '.Mmufac turers Record. A party composed of Woco Chllders. Donald Scott, Ernest Murphy, Harry Trlpp and MIbbcb Maggie McAllister, Mattio Hall, Kcba Reaves, and Jes sie Thompson, all of this county, have returned from a camping trip spent In tho mountains. Mr. and Mrs. Walker Spearman chaperoned the party and a very enjoyable .:lme Is reported by all of the members. They; extend their thankB for tho automobiles they pull led out and to the good ktchens that leaded their aid. Also to 'the people who holped put down stakes, put up tents and every Incident and person who lended enthusiasm to the summer trip that will long bo remembered. Tho Paramount theatre reopencu yesterday with three good reels of comedy for tho price of five cents, and judging from tin crowds on the open ing afternoon and night the show will be a success. Manager Plnkston stated yesterday that ho would have a real new, wide awake Charlie Chaplin feature for to morrow night entitled, "A Night Out," In two reels. He will also have an other comedy, "PcrslBtent Lovero at Coney Island." -o Mr. Thos. B. Kay of WUUamston was among the visitors in the city yesterday and stated that on Wed nesday of this coming week there would ho a Kay reunion at his home. -o The Ladles Aid society of tho First Presbyterian church have had co |ment walks put down around their I church on West Whitncr street which add greatly to the looks of the {grounds. They lead directly to the paved sidewalk and will be much bet ter than the gravel walks. -o?r Mr. J. I. Brownlce yesterday speak ing of the offer made by the Farmers and Merchants bank and the Farm ers Loan and Trust company by which monoy will bo loaned to farmers at 6 per cent on cotton stored in the Farmers Union warchouso or in tho tandard warehouse, said ho would suggest that those having money bor rowed at eight per cent drop In and borrow more at 6 per cent and take up the former papers. This makes the offer all the more liberal. -o-? J. H. Hardy, who died in tho hospi tal at Marietta, Ca., was drought hack to his old home and buried at New Prospect church yesterday. Mr. Hardy had been residing in Georgia for a few months, teaching school and was known as "the pro fessor." In connection with als teach ing he was preparing himself for the ministry, since early fn |tfe he had takon hla stand for right. Members of the family stated yesterday that they would never forget fhr/kindness of the Georgia people who minister ed to him after the automobile acci dent which caused his death several days later. ? '. o The Woodmen of tho World picnic at Snow Hill yesterday was largely attended and several frost this city were present The principal speaker Monday and Tuesday the Last Days You can't wait much longer and profit by the wonderful price concessions being made here now. Men's Suits #10.00 Men's Su $12.50 Men's Su $15.00 Men's Su $18.00 Men's Su $20.00 Men's Su $22.50 Men's Su ts. ts. ts. ts. ts. ts. $ 7.45 $ 9.45 $10.95 V2.B5 $14.95 $16.95 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' Srits $7.45 $12.50 and $11 Boys' Suits$7.95 Parcel Post Prepaid "Tht Stan tctlh m Consta** or the day was Fred H. Dominick or Newberry. Mr. J. C. Darbot, clerk of the city council of Charleston, returned to hla hGino yesterday after a several days' Btay with Dr. aud Mrs. Brcedin In North Anderson. Mr. Barbot Is an o'd newspaper man and for a num ber of years was connected with the Charleston Evening Post. Many people of the city will go to Sunset Forest this aCternoon to bear Dr. Edwin M. Poteat The fact that ho is to conduct the services will be enough to attract many and again Blnce they will be in the open air, a novelty, many others will attend. A cordial invitation 1b extended to all. -o Mr. Charle Burton, formerly con nected with the People's grocery Btoro here but who took charge of the Pen dleton Hardware Mercantile company Monday, was In the city yesterday and was loud In his praise of Pendle ton and ts people. Ho says that he likes the town fine and that the people are .treating him royally. He is mis sed here but his friends are glad that he has fallen into such good hands. -o From the reports of the meeting at Williomston yesterday afternoon in regard to the proposed county of Wil liamston, the people In the two sec tions of Greenville and Anderson counties which will be effected are very desirous of uniting and starting life for themselves. It 1b nn assured fact that the town of Wllliamston la anxious for the new county and it 1b proper that they should be. It's a question that will affect every section of both Greenville and Anderson comi t?s in some way and one In which al most every man and woman Is inter ested. v One merchant was heard to say last night that he had the biggest business yesterday ho had had in many months and that all day his clerks, of which there arc several, were kept busy from opening to closing time. A clerk in another store, and It is not such a big one olthcr, remarked that he alone had sold f65 worth of goods. Business picking up. -o-? ' An appeal Is to be taken in the Wal ter iSutherlund case In which tho (re fendant was fine $8. The necessary papers will bo filed with U?e magis trate who tried the caso tomorrow. This case is one of much Interest and one Uiat will be watched. o Cars are now running down. South Main street almost to Uie bottom of University hill on this side and this means a great deal to Ute people who nee that end of the lines. In a few moro days all of the track on South Main street will be paved and then lit will be only two weeks until through cars will be run to Oluck M11L That's Wast They All Say. Tom?Is It tree that you proposed to Alice and were rejected? j&ck?Not exactly rejected?she said when she felt like making a fool of herself Bhs'd let me know,?Boa ton Transcript. SOCIALIST LEADER GETS LIGHT SENTENCE Zurich, Switzerland, Aug. 25.? (Associated IPrcss Correspondence.) ?German Socialists arj pointing to the trial of Heinrich Huncke, one of their leaders, as an illustration of the growing consideration which the au thorities have for lac socialist par ty. Hun*ke was a ."ested ou a charge of "attempting to incite sol diers of the army to he disobedie.it and mutinous, and to induce civilians to disobey the laws of the land." Although he was convicted and Sentenced bo niic months' Impris onment, tlie- socialists point out that the accused leader fared far better than even he himself had expected. Huncke 1b president of ttcjs German Engineers and Firemen's federation, and one of tho most powerful trade union mon In the country. The fact that the authorities did ot bring Huncke before a court martial is hail ed as a victory for the socialists, while his escape with a sentence of oily nine months from a court which had the power of sending lilm to pen al servitude" for life is also regarded with satisfaction by Iluncke's ' fol lowers. The trial look place in Bremen and was heard In camera, but a general idea of the proceeding can he ob tained from the Judgment which was pronounced In open com ? by the sen ior Judge: "The charge of attempting to In duce soldiers to be disobedient and mutinous canr ot be maintained In its entirety; the accused can only be convicted of this offense in so far as his propagada happoned to reach soldlors and sailors of the army, and nav*. His real offence lies in having distributed and causing to bo distri buted copies of a phamphlct, entit led, 'Our Principal Enemy is at Homo,' among the workmen of the Weser Shipbuilding company, who are engaged in manufacturing vessels of war for the imperial navy. "It only has been nrovod that the accused was directly connected with the distribution of about one hundred coplca ot thlB phamphlct, and al though It Is probable Ciat ho was re sponsible for tho circulation of many more we in this court can only deal with the number actually proven. This circumstance operates In favor of the accused In meting out punishment to him. The phamphlct contains pas sages which constitute an incitement to disobedience ot tho laws of the land, as well as other passages which ar? calculated to disturb the public pet.ee by stirring op different clasaos of the population against one anoth er. The accused baa committed a crime against his Fatherland in en deavoring, by means of the circula tion of this phamphlot, to persuade the working men of Germany to agi tate for peace, and in explaining hot a movement In favor of exercising pressure on the imperial government can be carried on with the help of the Press and through meetings and public demonstrations. "All these methods of public agita tion have been declared to be Illegal by the proclamations Issued In con nection with the introduction of mar tial law at the outbreak of hostilities so that to advocate them constitutes the perpetration of a serious crime. Moreover, the efforts made by the ac cused to create strife between these whom he calls imperialists oa the one band and the working classes c ! Ger many on theother hand unquestion ably amount to an Illegal act In tbe sense of the existing provisions of military law now in force throughout the country. It ia quite clear that Hunc-ke circulated the pbamphlet with fit knowledge of lta contents and of its probable effect on lta readers, so that he committed hia offence delib erately and with set purpose. AU EX-SECRETARY OF NAVY DEAD ' . (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE.) Glorious dispatch! I should rather like to have the credit or it. But it was not mine. I directed Chief Crowlnshield or the hurcau ot navi gation to have sucii a dispatch made ready. But CrownlnsVricld did not write it. Who prepared it? Some subordinate clerk in his bureau. Who? God only knows. Ab lor mo, I should not have used the word 'commenced.' I should have said, 'The war has begun.' Aside from that, it is a mighty good message. I think we can pardon that word. The dis patch came in to me. I took it to the president, saying to Mm: "Mr. President, I think this ought to go.' Ho said: 'AH right, sign It.'" .Mr. Long was called to head tho navy department when President Mc Kinley took office in March, 1897 and also sorvci a year in the cabinot ot President Roosevelt. President Roosevelt wrote: "It has never been my good fortune to be as sociated with any public man 'moro single-minded In his devotion to the public intorest." In addition to directing the navy during the war with Spain, the offi cial acts or Secretary Long included tho olacing of thousands of navy em ployees under the civil service rules, and the .prohibition of tho' sale of beer on naval vessels, John Davis Long was born in Buckflcld, Ne., in 1838, the son of a prosperous business man, but hi? own predilection was fo rlww, and poll tics. Settled In Boston after hist graduation from Harvard, he served four terms in the state legislature; was three terms speaker of the house; was lieutenant-governor; and in 1879 defeated General Benjamin F. Butler, the Democratic candidate, for governor, by a plurality of 13, 000. Ho was twice reelocted wit? large pluralities, and sent to coa gifcss for three terms. There he formed a warm personal regard for McKinley. In 1884 he mode a strong speech nominating Senator Georre F. Ed munds of ermont for president la the Republican national convetion. He was one of tho most polished debat ers In congress, his speeches being noted for their literary excellence, and a dry humor which made him popular as an after dinner speaker. At leisure at his home in Wie quaint Old town of Hlngham. near Boston, ho wrcte a volume of poems and translated Virgils Achcld. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Scicnceo. A total abstainer from early lite, he was also for many years -president of tho Massachusetts Total Abstinence society. Notwithstanding his national prom inence as former secretary of the navy, among his New England friends he was affectionately known as "Gov ernor" Long to tho end of his life. .1-? v - . I, , V? Way to Tell. A gentleuan fromT Oie North was eager to see one ? ot the far-famed hook wormed Georgia Crackers, so he asked an o'd negro to point out one* eavB The Jester. "Yo* see that black spot ovah yon dah in (the field?" sakd? M?se, as he pointed toward an object ?n tho field a half mile distant. "Yes," replied tho Northerner, "biit I cant tell whether that's ? mon or a stump." "Well, boss," was the reply, Mef you watches It an houah an It moves It ain't a stump." these ctrcumfc^icos have led the cocrt to the conclusion that a term of Imprisonment for nine months Is the least penalty which we can In flict on the accused." Ss9HH9B