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THE INTELLIGENCER ESTABLISHED IHftS. Published every morning except Monday by Mb? Anderson Int*d'i?en ear at 140 Weat Wbitner Street, An derson, S. C. BEMI-WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER Published Tuesdays and Fridays L. M. GLENN....Editor and Manager Entered as second-class matter April 28, 1014, st tho post office at Anderson, South Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 187?. ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES Telephone.321 SUBSCRIPTION RATES DAILY One Year .15.00 Six Months .2.C0 Three Months .1.26 One Month .42 On? Week . JO SEMI-WEEKLY One Year.11.60 Biz Months .76 The Intelligencer ts delivered by ?arri?ra In the city. Look at the printed label on your naper. The dato thereon shows when the subscription expires. Notice date on label carefully, and If not correct ?lease notify us at once. Subscribers deelring the address of their paper changed, will please stste In their communication both the old and new addresses. To insure prompt dcitvery, com plaints of non-delivery In the city ni Andersou should be made to the Circulation Department before lim. and a copy will be sent at once. All checks and drafts should be drawn to The Anderson Intelligencer. ARVKKTISIKG Rates will be furnished on affllea Hoa. No tf advertising discontinued ex sept on written order. The Intelligencer will publish brief and rational letters on subjects of general Interest when they are ac companied by the namea and ad dresses of the authors ?nd are not of a defamatory nature. Anonymous communications will not be noticed Rejected manuscripts will not be re turned. In order to avoid delays on account ot personal absence, letters to The Intelligencer Intended for publication should not be addressed to any Indi vidual connectod with tho paper, but Biropl7 to The Intelligencer. FRIADY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1015. WEATHCB FORECAST Fuir Friday and probably Satur day. NOMT ls tho timo for all good men to come to tho aid of prohibition. -o Why not try some of tho German war gas on Charleston mosquitoes -o First thing you know we will be rl&Iit in the midst of Indian Summer ?L--o Germany- Apologizes for Sinking 8hip.-I leadline. Might choap pay mont. Sumter has voted $250.000 bonds for paved streets.' How big is Sumter anyway? Tho Groonwood Journal yesterday carried two whole-page advs. Green wood la booming. --o Norway Has Ixist Forty-Olio Ships - Headline. This business of being a neutral has ita drawbacks as well. --o Now that Emperor Nick has taken charge of the Russian land and sea forces, what ls he going to do with them? "I am an optimist" sayB William Hnward Taft. That's all right. Will yum, nobody in accTSlug you of boing otho! wise. The Carman fellow Stahl who swore to ?coing siege guns ou the Lusitania recolved sou .'euee of nineteen months for perjury. Guess that'll stall him. --_o OreoRvillo ls to have anothor lee ?cctory, but lt will take more than that to- make her keep cool faring an election period. -o Thc Teutons have captured Wol irowsyk from the Russisns. Were we the Russian*, duruod if we wouldn't havu made them u present of it. Wonder ir the English admiral who ved that newspaper man to give big write-up of Ute British fleet aught he could "itt??" anybody 7c note that Fr thee ls to permit export ot botUed champagne, nt comfort's that to the tetow who he urlce of a bottle of ginger lt. bar become of the old time who u.iod to write communica nt, to thc editor'Jittd sign them vox IN ENGLAND HONEST ABOUT IT I England may not be guilty of bud faith in dor embargo policy, but fact?' recently submitted to President wu .on hy tho American consul general at London Boeill to discredit the pro-| fessions of the British government. It is apparent Hutt while Knglundj has bocu InsintliiK Hint her sole pur pose in holding up American ships and curgocH conslguod to neutral OUUtrieu was lo prevent Hie goods from rea'liing Germany, she herself has lasen Bending those countries great nuuutittes of goods. ,She lias irgucd thal Hie increase lu our ports io Holland, Denmark, Norway) and Sweden was proof that they were reshipping the stuff to her enemies. And yet linguini's exports have shown corresponding increases. Tims lier exports of cotton to the neutral nations udjueent to Germany | have doubled within the year. She has shipped manufactured cotton and wollen goods in greater quantities Hum ever. Her salts of cocoa, coffee mid many other foodstuffs liavc in creased enormously. Ami ut the sameVlime, tens of mil tons of dollars worth of American <OOds of Hie same sort, consigned to ho same ports, havo been held up for uonths, or have been condemned by iritish prize courts und bought at trices dictated by H rent Britain. The ellet expected ns u result of con ciliatory assurances from London lias lot been realized. It is un to tho British government 11 o sliow that it hus not been using the 11 ilea of "military necessity" us a leak to cover thc Illegitimate protec iou of Btltlsh exportera. i ULAM) BIL DIM HA. !< Dr. Konstantin Theodor Dumba, the Viintro-Hungnrlaii ambassador to the Jnited tates, is either an extremely nnocent and childlike gentleman,, or LU astute diplomatic plotter who hau i lellberntely wronged u friendly gov- t 'nunent mid ?people. < Inasmuch ns Austro-Hungnry ls nwt I iccustomed to Intrusting important 1 itnbasSies to babes, it's hard to avoid < he conclusion that. Ur. Dumba has icon bluffing right along, that his yiapa! hy and apparent good will vero mero pretense, and that he has ^lusciously betrayed tho president md the Ameiican people. Our history records no precedent 1 or tho pernicious activity in which < ie has admittedly been engaged. It Hn*t likely that Austrian history does, dther. 1 Supposo tho American ambassador I it Vienna were, shown, by autograph etters, to have been engaged in plans o "disorganize and hold up for aonttiH tho manufacture of munl ie .a" In tho Auatro-Hungarian Era dre, and that ho blandly admitted the .uthenticlty of tho letter and defond- 1 d bia action. 1 Wn^f a roar of indig- < allon would KO up in Austria! ' And ow long would lt bo boforc the need ling nmbassador got his walking apers? Ot LDNT A WORD TO ADVERTISE t Jud Slinw sold shoes and sealing rax, and lamps, flBhpolca and glue, 3bocco, candles, gum, and tacks, | linkers nnd ?.at(liney, too; kopt tho eneral Btoro, in fine,-'Bold overalls nd Jeans; but Jud, somoliow, ho rnsn't wisc-"Couldn't afford to ad- J ortlHo." r No' that ho harbored any grudge gainst Ilia homo, town sheet; ho was, * a anyone might judge, a kindly man ^ > meet; his customers he treated fair, 3 ad yet ho pro?tf#?rcd not; his goods ero honest, ono would swear-he Imply waa forgot; for Jud, somehow, 0 wasn't wise-"Couldn't afford to ivortlso." Mall order fin-is from out of town,! v luch wiser in their day, paid liberal-1 ( ' for their renown, and gathorcd in io hoy; their catalogues went every- a hore; they advertised for trade; 0 lelr name went forth with trumpet?-, ? larc, and, ali! the coln they made; r mldn't afford, they were so wise, mldn't afford NOT t' advertise. Now. Jud's stuff it wnsjiun as gocd; ls prices were the same; fae loss | S as ours; he simply. /WO?LD, / not, a >resd abroad his ,*an??;, though 11 iwnsfolks might have much /prefer- n .d in their home"|^irtio<bu>". of Jud Sl haw tliey had never 'heard-you tl now thc reuson why. for Jud, some- lt aw, ho waa't wise-"Couldn't afford 1 adveitlse!. >.? ?ftts? ** OFTHERN PROSPERITY RISING* P _ U Tho South is finding that lt isnH so fe idly G.T after all. Putting cotton or. li ie contraband list. Ute thing that waa ol ?red more than anything else, has lr id little effect so far, and in fact bas fr ten followed by slight rise in price ci stead of a ruinous decline. Iii Many factors tend to encourage .Gie a radi.* -The people realise now howl r their fears of last year fell short! Ir realisation. The cotton growers uj lost money because of the low price? hut they sold almout UH mucb cotton Abroad in twelve months us In either of tlio two years previous. It seems Ilk? ly that still more of the cotton will be needed both at home und abroad this year. The demand for lt as ma terial for explosives is constantly in creasing. Moreover, England is ex pected to do everything possible to strengthen die cotton market, in or der to counteract the anti-Rritish sen timent developed In the South by her embargo. Not tho least helpful factor has been the action of the secretary of the treasury in announcing the placing or ?::0.<iuO,u(K) In gold ut the disposal of the colton belt hanks, without in terest, to be used in making cotton loans ut a rate of not to exceed t? per cent. That sum isn't HO big. as crop values KO; but It ls big enough to have a powerful psychological effect, and will doubtless be followed by other deposits for thc same purpose If they uro needed. The result is likely to be a steady growth of the business improvement that has already begun in the South, iilded by the grain crops und thriving manufactures. And when thc South becomes prosperous, the whole coun try will be. CLEANING IT THE LANDSCAPE. Colonel Edward S. Cornell, head of the .National Highways Protective So-' eiety, announces that his organization s going to light for a law providing ror a fine of or ten days In jail Tor anyone; who places a sign on a tighway or causes one 'to be so plac id. The law is to apply equally to the ulverttser ami tho owner ot the abut ing property who consents to the ad vertising. lt would be au excellent thing ir itich n law were enacted in every ital e. It may be impossible ut pres int to prohibit owners from letting heir own property to be deraced by sillboards ami trade legends, but cer :a!nly communities hnve a right to (eep the public thoroughfares freo 'rom such disfigurements. And when .hat desirable aim is accomplished, >erhaps thc lesson will so sink Into he minds of vandal advertisers that )ITcnderB will bo less inclined to mar he beauty ot natural ecencry. in dther city or country. It is dawning on the American peo >lc that landscapes have their rights, md that attractive scenes free from ill sordid reminders aro very much worth while, for the pleasuro their >eauty gives; also, that If profit ls to ie considered, it pays better flnan jlally for any community to make Its mvlronment beautiful than to clutter t up with glaring ads. Tho average .it ?zen is beginning to feel that ho ms a right to look across the street >r out of a car window without having tis eyes constantly offended by ugly >r incongruous billboards. War Starves Our Oysters.-licad lne. Then down with war. Just Imagine a state-wide prohib? ion Christmas in South Carolina. Something to worry about: the ocal pos'tofhee has boen advised that irliclcs of gold and silver, jewelry ind other precious articles cannot be m ported into Salvador. !<??***?++**+?+**+?*?* ? ? ? COMMUNICATION ? ? ? ?***??*++*+?++*++*+?* HB, BRENNEN'S SEVEN QUESTIONS ANSWERER. In yesterday's Intelligencer, there ppeared seven questions asked by ne E. J. Brennen, of Columbia, S. C., rhich ho requested all true South Carolinians to answer. They related o the coming prohibition election, nd were propounded from tho point f ylow of "Locai Option," their auth r being secretary of the Local Option ?ague of South Carolina. Tho following are some possible an wer s to these questions: 1. Why ls the Flying Squadron In outh Carolina? Answer: It has flown ere In response to an invitation from ie prohibition forces of the state to ssanlt tbc modern piracy of the devil slllng in the schooners ot the liquor rade, and free our good people from s depredations upon them. 2. Why are paid speakers of the ntl-Saloon League of Indiana and bio imported into this state for tho urpose of trying to dictate their leas of the best form of government >r South Carolina and South Carc ntanat Answer: 'These are men t national fame who have been giv ig their services sit over the country ?r years at a very small rate of pe mlary compensation, to drive thc riuor pirates off of the high-seas of righteous civilization. 3. Why are ex-governors etc., of idlaaa and Ohio attempting io thrust pon our state a system, ot govern J ment which they have never been, obit to pass in their own commonwealth! Answer: No attempt ls being mad* to thrust anything or our state; inf* will be allowed the exercise of their suffrage without any coercion what ever, unless this be Interfered with by the liquor interests with their sys tem of bribery. As for their not be ing able to pass this legislation In ?heir own states, they are now en gaged in au effort to do so. lt may be worthwhile to remind the autiior ol tbes?( "Seven Wonderful (Questions," that prohibition Is a national fight, und the best Bpcakcrs in the country ure made available for service iu their sister statea when needed. Fur ther, prohibition leaders are not per meated with that narrow provincialism of interest and sympathy which cannot see beyond its own backdoor. Further, reform movements are slow in their working, and tho attempt ?s never mude lo complete tiie work in one piece before beginning it in another one. Dut moro conclusively, these brothers from the North have come down South where men's blood ls red, their moral discernment clear and their righteousness indignation at red handed slow murderers hot, in order to get a good preceden: (as they will get on the fourteenth) for their own people. 4. Same question as preceding, ex cept stated in different words. 5. Why are theBe paid apeakcrs pleading for Htate-wlde prohibition in South Carolina when their own states enjoy the democratic privilege of local option? Answer: First, because they beievc in prohibition and not tho farce which purports to be an attempt to secure the same thing that goes hy the name of local option. Second, bcceuBC they aro advocating prohibi tion in their own states as earnestly as they are doing 8o here. Third, be cause tiley know as well as everybody else with any understanding of the principies of democracy, that prohibi tion is aa democratic as local option -and a great deal more so. Loc al op tion smacks of the principles of oll grachy where, in tho cuse of a liquor victory, a few counties in the state give thc law to all thc rest. Demo cracy is government of the people, tor the people and by the people not of, for or by a tow of them. C. Why do not these men practice in their own states wliut they advo cate down here, etc. Answer: See above. Another question repeated. 7. Did Indiana or Ohio speakers como over to our assistance during tho most critical period to work out our own salvation. Answer:: This question is obscure, and the writer ls not sure Hint he catches its Import. He supposes, however,, .that the au thor is referring to reconstruction days. If so, this question ls a lame and feeble attempt to Inject sectional prejudice and a demagogue's appeal to feelings which most of us aro wil ling to let sleep at this late day. The world has advanced a great deal In the spirit of Christian forgiveness since thoso days, and North and South today realize that they are common brothers under one flag. There are no more two sections but one grand one, liquor evil. We aro glad to havo tho and "united we stand" against the help of tho North, and are happy to help them whenever possible in this great light. Witherspoon Dodge, Pastor Central Presbyterian Church. I A LINE o' D OJ> E Local cotton market yesterday 9 1-4 c.nts. "We expect to finish McDuffie street to Greenville today," stated City En gineer Sanders yesterday referring to tho s'.ree t paving. "We will then go to Calhoun street, beginning at In tersection ot Evans and work west (Ve expect to finish Calhoun street ibount today week and then tho force vii; be moved to Church street. "Thc west side of South Main -street trill bo finished to Norris street by Saturday night and then the crev will urn back on the other side until tho itreet car track forces <?i River street ;et a good start. The city crew will il so be moved to Weat Whltner street iext week. AB soon' as Calhoun and Church itreeta are finished, the asphalt crow nil start to laying the brick on louth Main. It will be necessary for is to closo down the asphalt plant for everal days and all ot the asphalt rew will be put nt the brick work. Mr. A. L. Todd, he local' N$??| lealer, has just received a shipment f 12 roadsters. Mr. Todd considers tmself lucky tn securing these car? Ince right at this tune tbe\ are hard to got. MB sales have increased won derfully during the summer. The manager of thc local Union I News bureau stated yesterday that the news service had already been put ou the Dlue Ridge trains and would in a few days be placed on trains No.-41 and Ai on the Southe.ru between Sene ca and Charlotte. This service will be operated from the Anderson sta tion. -? Local gasoline dealers have been notified to Increase the price of gaso line from 18 cents to 20 cents. Thc reason of this increase is not known "locally. A few days ago tho price went from 16 to 18 and now there is another two cent increase. -o Joe Sullivan, of T. L. Cely Co., fixed up a window of the store yesterday af ternoon with some of the "loudest" as well as the most attractive shirts seen in Anderson this season. The j1 shirts are called the Blazers and Joe, * says that they are "uz Ix $1.00" -o Mr. N. Poliukoff of Iva was in the j city last night and stated that he had Just returned from New York where he had purchased a stock of goods. It will be remembered that Mr. Polia- J koff's store at Iva was burned last spring but he has rented another building and is starting all over again; -o "I wish to announce, said Dr/.Kln I ard yesterday, "that Mr. Goode, the director of music at Anderson Col lege is prepared to take the younger students, the beginners In music. Al ready a number of graded school pu pils have enrolled for music at tho college, -uni it is quite probable that there would be others if the parents understood that arrangements < could be made for their children to take music at the college without con 1 Hiding with the regular school work." ? * ? LOCAL OPTION LEAGUE ? ? ? (Abbeville Press and Banner.) : The liocal Option league, watch is hiding somewhere around tho Jui forson hotel in Columbia, and which seems to have a whiskey barrel full of money to be paid out for adver tising purposes (solely to keep the state and county and the soioots from losing revenue) and which has ita own advertising manager, who si hands youn the "dope" hot from the Skillet, seems to be getting the goat of the curious. There ls an air ot mystery about this person, or these persons, who ar? so Interested in tfje public welfare. ' Jim Farnum haa been up from Charleston, but he says the league is no baby of his. We do not believe that it belongs to auy ex-member of the old board on control; its naine is not spelt right. Mr. E. W. Smith baa been in to see us, and be assures ns that he das nothing to do with the organization. Tom Botts. Col. J. D. Kerr, Gene McMillan and Jim Bradley are so busy lookin?. after tberr duties In connection with the Asiatic. asso ciation, that they cannot be accused of putting out the "pisen." Bob Cochran bas been tn Marieta? ever since the nigtat before Frame was lynched. There's a run on soft More popular than e1 orites here is a soft p $3.50. Others in different ci ors. Price $2 to $5. Every face gets a fail Here are the shoes th able home for your fe The same ideas are ? ing of our shoes as a i ing a home-comfor and style. You who have found exactly what you wh ing your problem to i some headwork for ; forget your feet. . Shoes priced from $3 B?tira, "TUS John Henry Chappell has return ed to his home in Prosperity, S. C. No man in Atlanta or Greenwood has claimed to have a cousin con nected with the Inventor of the league. And thus by a process of elimina tion, somo of the brethren here [ihotit come to the conclusion that 'there is no sich animal." Hut we know better. The breth ren have over-looked the portly gen tleman with tho lurge watch chain ind diamond shirt stud, who regis ters from Cincinnati. ?+???*?+?*+?+?>*****??? ? + ? A SALOON KEEPER'S + fr ADVERTISEMENT ? ? * (New York Herald.) A saloon kteepeil of Lima/ Ohio, lot desiring to deceive anybody as o the quality of the goods he ba? iles, pu? out the following card as in advertisement of his business: "Friends and Neighbors" "Grateful for past patronage, and laving a new stock of choice wines, ipirits and lager beer, I continuo to uake drunkards and tbeggars out of sober, industrious people. My 11 luors excite riot, robbery and blood ied, .diminish comforts, increase ex lenses, shorten lives, are sure to mul Iply fatal accidents' and distressing liseases, and liable to render these attcr incurable. "They will cost some of you life, lome ot you reason, many of you Character, and all of you peace; will nake fathers and mothers fiends, rives widows, children ' orphans, and ,11 poor. "I train the young to ignorance, nfldellty, dissipation, lawlessness and Ivory vice; corrupt, lewdness and very vice; corrupt the ministers of eligion and members of tho church, ilnder the gospel and .send hundreds o temporal and Spiritual death. I fill accommodate the public even at , cost of my soul, for I have a family o support, and the trade pays, for he public encourages it. "I ?have a . license; my traffic . ls here fore lawful, and Christians even ountenance it; and. if I do not sell rink somebody else will. I know ho Bible says Thou shalt not kill,'. ?Voe unto him that giveth bis neigh* or drink,' and not o put a 'atumb ing block In a ' 'Other's way.' I Iso read that 'no ' -unkard shall on er the Kingdom t God,' and I s?p ose a drunkard maker will not share hy better fate; but I want a lazy ving, and have made up my mind lat my iniquity pays very good rages. 1 shall, therefore, carry on ly trade and do my best to decrease tie wealth, Impair the health and rjdanger the safety of the people. "AB my traffic flourishes In propor lon to your ignorance and Indul encc, I must do all I can to prevent our Jmental cud loire, moral purity acial happiness and eternal welfare. '?For proof of my ability I refer au to tho pawnshops, the police of ce, Hie hosphtJ, lunatic asylum, jail ad the gallons, whither many of my j st omer s bave gone. "I teach yoting and old to drink ad charge only for the materials. "A vary few lessons are enough. "Youra till dead." M ERIC AN IK PORTS SHOW BIO DECREASE Washington. eSpt. 9.-The analysis American imports. Issued by the ?pertinent ot Commerce shows the due of goods during the fiscal year : 1916 .which ia less than the pr?v us years trade. The total Imports e' $1,674,200000, ?4,200,000 de oaae In the importa of manufactures her- than foodstuffs account for the dudtion. Foodstuffs showed an ta sase ot 143,200,000 in anger and cot ?a. hats this season. / vcr. One of the fav earl gray felt. Price .owns, brims and col r show here. at make a comfort :ollowed in the mak [Tian follows in build t first, then service it hard to find just >h, will get on bring us that we have done you that you might .50 to $6.50. fore with a Gratton" LUTHERANS 1 GERMAN MISSION Foreign Board Adds Missions in India to Number Already Un der its Care-Missionaries Held Up. Rock Island, Sept. 9.-The board jf foreign missions of flho general council of the Lutheran church in America reported at the biennial con-" mention of the general council hnre oday, that, owing to the world war, ho Lutheran church in America has >cen called upon to render aid to a lumber of German missions. Tho ?cncral council's foreign board haa idded to its care missionaries of Ute insaner, Leipzig, Schleswig-Holstein ind Hermansburg missions in India. Another effect of the war is that a lumber of Lulhcrlan missionaries vho had planned to go out from Amer ca a year ago have been kept back, hore being a force of 14 mission aries who aro walting to be commis iloned in some special service. The proposal to establish a joint emlnary at Madras, India, in which lutherans of Buropo and ,-America ire to cooperate has been1 delayed, ilso on account of the war. : The year 1917, In addition to-liebig he "400th anniversary of tho'begin tings of the reformation, will mark he 75th anniversary of tho depar tir? of Father .Heyer ft om Phlladel ?hia to found thc first Lutheran mis ion in T*?***? . It Iv proposed to make L? >nntTersary an occasion of a' :e leral missionary celebration in the jutheran church. Retreat eFaslble. London, Sept. 9.-Commenting on he removal of Grand Duke Nicholas t8 front head of the Russian, armies, he Times military expert says tbat inless some mistake ls made the ?Ians of Gie . Grand Duke for a re reat can ba carried out. Berlin newspapers tako various lows of the change. Some soe in it political move only, and praise the Irand Duke's leadership. Others ay the responsibility fpr defeat esta alone with him, and for that eason the change la made. Stahl fists Prison Term. New York, Sept. 9.-Gustav Stahl, be German .reservist, who ?wore that o saw four gun* mounltd on 'Gie lusitania, but later admitted his affl-. avit was false, and entered a plea .cr ullty to perjury waa sentenced to Ighteen months In the Atlanta fed ral prison and a dollar fine by Ped ral Judge Hough. Boat From ArehangeL New York. Sept 9.-The Russian teaiuBhtp Owinifck, which arrived ere from Archangel, reported that lt as detained six days outside of rchangel while trawlers swept Gor ian mines from tho channel entrance, he Dwlntsk passed by north Iceland lid did not sight any German ships. Grand Dake OK His way. London, Sept. 9.-~A Rooter dls atch to Petrograd says that- Grand ?ke Nicholas and Wa headquarters 'alf, started to Caucasia last night, tnperor Nicholas went to the railroad at lon to say farewell to the new ceroy. Paris, Sept. 9.-The Frene*?* trono anlst Bi. X. Demara equalled tho orld's attitude record of 2l,r>?3 feet itabllshed by tho German Otto Lins ?kejel.