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THE INTELLIGENCER ISrfABLIHHED 18M. Published ?Terr morning except Monday by ibe Anderson Intelligen cer at Ito Wost Whltner Street, An derson, S. C. SEMI-WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER Published Tuesdays end Fridays L- M. GLENN_Editor and Manager Entered aa second-class matter April 28, 1914, at the post office at Anderson, South Carolina, ander the Act ot March 3, 1879. ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES telephone .821 SUBSCRIPTION KATES DAILY One Tear .16.00 Six Months . 8.60 Three Months .1J6 One Month.42 One Week . .10 SEMI-WEEKLY On? Tear .,.11.60 Biz Mouths .,.76 ' The Intelligencer is delivered by .arriera in the city. Look at the printed label on yonr taper. Thu dato thereon shows when tba subscription expires. Notice dst? on label carefully, sud if not correct .lease notify us at ones. Subscribers desiring tbs address of their paper changed, will pleaae stete tn their commuai cation born tbs old and new sddrosses. To Insure prompt delivery, com plaints ot non-delivery In the city af Anderson should bs toads to the Circulation Department before Iis and a copy will be sent at one?. All checks and drafts should be drawn to The Anderson Intelligencer. ADVERTISING Rates will be furnished on apyliea t?on. No tl advertising discontinued ex sept on written order. The Intelligencer will publish brief and rational letters on subjects of general interest when they ar? ac companied by the names and ad dresses ot the authors and are not of a defamatory ns*ure. Anonymous emnmruilcatlooB will not be noticed. Rejected manuscripts will not be re lamed. In order to avoid delays on account of persona! absence, letters to Th? Intelligencer intended for publlcstton Should not be addressed to any Indi vidual connected with the paper, but simply to The Intelligencer. SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 18, 1816. Mexican ii Mexlwi'?. -o But lt Mox' vont then Moximust. --o Prohibition will prohibit provided | . the law is enforced. Tito Entente appears to bo having about au hard a time getting that loan AB aomc of the rent of us. --o-? Something to worry yourself about: Forty-five Tourists' Yachts Burned at| Maiinl. --o ? . "We believe in Johnston."-The I Johnston Times. i_. faith almoutl makes us collapse The prohibition voto last Tuesday ought to show Chun-stun what tho of the state tina ks of her. What will a South Carolina politi cal campaign be without tho liquor] question. ? ? O' ' ? - Richland county voted against old] Booze. But then Bob Gonzalos isn't j ii (and county. "What has become of the old fash ioned boy who used td take a baked] sweet potato to school for lunch. And now the boll weevil has broken loose in Georgia. How many more kinds of h- are going to break looa o down there? ? ? o The Russlaua aro said to have a lot aBflVokda left on thotr bands. Why don't they uso lt against tho Germana in reprisal for the "liquid nref ' T?h'e Newberry Herald and News an nounces that for tho next thirty days a year's subscription to that Journal may bo had7 for $1.19. Why the dol lar. Bro Aull? -o From a military standpoint, Great Britain could well afford to bribe , the zeppelins to invado England. Every time a few civilians are killed by an aerial bombardment there's a great rush to the recruiting stations. -o Th? Orangehurg Times and Demo-j erat comes to our sanctum this week] in two- sections of eight pages each and ia labelled "County FMr Premium List Edition." it ls a splendidly got tcu-up edition, showing that an unus ually attractive list of premiums are to be offered this year in one of tbs best fairs*v.-be beU in the State. MR. FRETWELL WRITES / Excerpt from letter received by j. j. Fret wei I: Hartwell. Ga., Sept. 15ilt" 1915. Mr. j. J. Fretwell, Anderson S. c. Otur Slr: I wa? lu Royston, Cu., today and cotton bold for Ile casb, and Hi ed bold for $1.35 per 100 pounds. J. S. Heaton. September 17, 1915. Editor Intelligencer: I notice quite u few articles on the cotton situation In Anderson, ami I hear tho farmers talking ull over tk-_ county uhuut thc market, expressing dissatisfaction with the plans and prices of buying cotton on this mar ket. I know to my own certain knowl edge that cotton hus been selling from 1*5 to 50 points higher Utan the An derson market, in Hartwell, Lavonia, Westminster und Seneca. We uro los ing our trude, nut only in cotton but lu other merchandise us well. I was in Fork township Thursday. There ure a large number of farin ent who ure closer to Anderson who uro hauling their cotton aud buying t their noods at Seneca. Now I under-J stand that the formers nre going to hold an indignation meeting hero to morrow (.Saturday) and it seems a shume to me that tho merchants of this town haven't any more pluck than to allow tho trade to drift away from our markets. Cotton should bo kept equal in prlco with all tho towns that I have men tioned alto ve. To say that Anderson TIIK COTTON MARKETS. Tho Intelligencer ls printing this morning n card from Mr. J. J. Fret well in which he discusses prices paid on tho local market for cotton and prices paid on markots of neighbor ing towns. It is an interesting and valuable communier.!'on and merits the study of every business man of tho community. In an article carried In the now columna of this paper yes terday expression was given to state ments obtained from various business men and formers that aro in sub stance similar to the assertions con tained in Mr. Frctwell's communica tion. This ls an Interesting subject. It is ovldcnt, however, that there is somo valid reason why there Is this dif ference in thc cotton markets of tho various towns mentioned, and Tho In telligencer believes that the best means ot having Ulis matter cleared up, so there will be no furthor mis understanding, is to imvo a free andi frank discussion of the subject through thn publie prints. Suppres sion of fucts in any rr ter that is not under ?tood by tho people will never clear up that matter so tho people will understand lt. With that end in view, Tho Intelligencer Invitea a dis cussion of tho cotton market question that has boon raised. If anyone de sires to reply to the card from Mr. Fretwell or to the news article that appeared In this paper prior to it. The '.ntclllgoncer will gladly public such communications. PROMISES WITHOUT PERFOR MANCES. Tho trouble with Germany's asBur anco of reform In her submarine war fare ls that it ls an assurance only In theory, with no guarantee ot appli cation to ?ny particular case. Germany promises not to attack passenger ships unless Uley first at tack her submarinos or try to escape when warned; and she announces that sho baa instructed her submarine commanders to that effect. But. she leaves lt to the commanders to use their own discretion In any concrete case, and stands ready apparently to back them up In any excuse they seo flt to give. In Gie Arabic caso, the commander "thought the liner was going to try to ram him," or at least he reported that he thought so. or the German government reported that the com mander reported that he though so. And tltat settles lt-for Germany. The mere fact Uiat nobody on the liner captain, crew or passengers-saw tho submarine at all, makes no difference. In tho Orduna case, a submarino fired a torpedo without warning; and when it missed and the liner steamed on, the submarine shelled her till sho was out ot range. And Germany calm ly reports that the commander re porta that lt waa so dsrk he mistook tue nationality of the ship. In both cases she refus?e reparation. These, of course, ore the flimsiest of excuses. Yet a great government ?ses them to nullity the. effect of a pledge solemnly given us by its sm iBOUTCOTTON MARKETS County cotton ls not us good UH Hurt ?'minty (ir any other of the counties which Join UK on tho Georgia side, is foolish, and I have no doubt that all of Georgia colton which brings bet ter price is shipped to the milla of Greenville, Anderson and Sparen burg. I understand that Mr. Elias Mc Gee and Mr. Reeves Chamblee are buying cotton at Starr and hauling it across tho river und Helling lt at u profit. The poor people of this coun ty can ill a?tonl to sdi their cotton at prices under the murket UH they have been forced to do this fall, and last full, too. Now it ls up to the merchants and business men of this town to say what they propose to do about lt. Wo liavo been talking to the mill people for the last ten yearB and still cotton is being brought into the territory of tiicBc mills at probably from 50 to 60 points advance I am an old cotton merchant myself, and never have seen the wlbdom of the mill people in al lowing cotton to go else where. The cotton to run the mills In our town should bo bought herc and I am quite sure thut the mill presidents here will agree with me on that. Pay the prlco und the trade will come hero. Keep a lower price on our cotton mar kot than surroundng markets, and we lose both. 1 am In favor of organiz ing <>t once a fund for putting cotton on a parity with those other markets. What are thc business people of An derson going to do about it? Yours truly, J. J. Fretwell. basuador-and may keep on promising und dodging Indefinitely. Such equivocation, of course, ?B worse than no pledge at all, for lt en rages the nation by raining hopes and then dashing them down again. How much longer ls Germany goini? to treat the United S'ates au a credu lous and Ignorant child? And how much longer is the United States irk ing to stand for such treatment? TWENTY-THREE GOOD AMERICANS The Naval Advisory Board appoint ed by Secretary Daniels represents American talent and patriotism at their best. These men, standing at the head of their professions, are giv ing their best thought and effort to the nation without any expectation of reward save public appreciation. And c^cn that will be felt only indirectly and at distance. Their work for the navy department will not bo done with a blare of trum pets. It will be carried on mostly in secret The public will never know of Ute thought and labor de voted freely to the purpose of national safety by Chairman Edison and his twenty-two associates. Tho manner in which theso men were selected was admirable. Mere famo had nothing to dc with it. Few of them are famous, in spite of their genius. The average citizen knows something of Hudson Maxim, Peter Cooper Howitt and one or two others, but most of thc remaining names are familiar only in the professions to which the mon belong. No mere gov ernment official would have chosen i precisely this group of specialists, or could have chosen them. They were selected by oleven great engineering and scientific societies, which know their special fitness for the service expected of them. The only one of (the entire number who combined great reputation with the homage of the en gineering and scientific professions ls Thomas A. Edison, perhaps the great est of living Americans, who was naturally solected by Secretary Dan iels to head the board. The ready response of these learned societies, and the unhesitating ac quiescence of the men they chose, afford inspiring examples of good citizenship. And these aro not the only patriots walting the'word. It's likely that any profession or any trade would respond as promptly and gladly to any call for co-operation in perfecting the national defenses against possible danger. VIEWS OF A BANKER. vice-President Beverly B. Harria ot the National City Bonk of New York, who bas just completed a trip cover ing the South and Southwest and out to tho Pacifie Coast, in a comprehen sive review of the business outlook, pre pa ml for the Manufacturers Rec ord ot this week, says: "The South and Southwest, In my opinion, are getting on a sounder j credit footing than ever before, and my feeling ta that these sections are about to enter the beat and moat pros perous epoch In their history. I look for a great advancement tn popula tion, wealth and the average con di lions of Ufo within tho next, decade. One of the important factor? in thia will be a greater abundance of money and cheaper average interest ratea. TIIIH territory produces real wealth -the cousuniuble commodities which thu world must havt*-and, with bet ter methods in tho future, is bound to become very rich and populous. Conditions, in my opinion, are now distinctly on the upgrude, und the out look never more consistent for u re turn to real, geuuino prosperity ou a rook-bottom basis. Nothing is needed, however, but better credit methods and more thrift -as the experiences of the last twelve months have proven-to rapidly over tome the extravagance prior to that time and to get on a safe footing. This section is a big producer of wealth, and the average jnan is straightfor ward and a good moral risk. "Nothing but drastic conditions can urrest such a general era of over expansion and overspending as wo had before tho war. It is a very good thing that this has taken place and is now behind us. Looking to the fu ture, the country has undoubtedly profited tremendously by the exper iences of the last year and thc lesson taught by them. "Thc most striking thing In the present situation ls the remarkable contrast w\th conditions prevailing a year ago. Tho general level of prices of live stock, hides, grain, sugar, cop per, zinc and other important pro ducts has advanced to a highly prof itable basis. The cotton situation, a year aso regarded as deplorable, has greatly improved, and, on the present economic position of the staple, ad vancing rather than declining prices appear most probable if carried along and intelligently marketed. In sec tions where money hi nearly always scarce and dear, tho banks are not only redlscounting heavily ns usual in advance of the crop movement, but aro actually, in a surprising number of instances, in surplus funds and "uplatnlng of a lack of legitimate remands for tho employment of these funds." SPENDING MILLIONS IN SOUTH. Many Southern railroads- are mak ing heavy expenditures for improve ments, indicative of their appreciation ot great business development in tho near future, which will make these enlarged facilities necessary. In a general summary of ' what the roads are doing, the Manufacturers Record refers In detail to a few of these not able improvements, such at- ?he big station and terminal which the Trans Mississippi Terminal Co. ls building at a cost of about $5.000,000 for the Texas & Pacific Raliway and the Mis souri Pacific Iron Mountain Lines at New Orleans; the docking and wharf accommodations which tho Ocean tcamshlp Co., a subsidiary of the Cen? tral ot Georgia Railway, is building at avannah at a cost of $1,000,000; the $1,000.000 bridge wbleh the Chesa peake & Ohio Railway ls erecting over the Ohio River on its northward ex tension from Kentucky to Columbus, and the big bridge and other Improve ments at Memphis, costing In the ag gregate about $5,000,000. Even these few pieces of construction represent an expenditure totaling about $12, 000,000. this not ' considering thc 28 miles of tho Chesapeake & Ohio Rail road from thc river to a ptoint near Columbus, and which will cost $3,600. 000 more. But this aggregate ls only a small portion of what the Unes have re cently done or are about to accom plish. For instance, there is the com pletion of the first unit ot the F!s?*y Yard of the Southern Railway at Bir mingham, which cost $661.000 and which will be enlarged as soon as the dornende ot traffic make lt necessary; the construction of an 86 mlle exten sion of the Seaboard Air Line from Charleston to Savannah, Just begun and to cost several millions of dollars; the award a week or two ago of con struction contracts for new ahops for the Seaboard at Portsmouth, Va., st a cost of $500,000; the letting of sev eral million dollars' worth of double tracking contracts by the Southern Railway In Virginia, North Carolina; the completion lately by the same company of a large coal-handling plant at Charleston for the export shipment of fuel ; the building of thc Paducah & Illinois Railroad Co.'s bridge, known sa the Burlington bridge, to cost $3.000,000, across the Ohio at Metropolis, HU and which will connect the Burlington system nub the Nashville. Cattanooga * St. Louis ?Railway via Paducah; extensive yards being also constructed on the Kc-tucky side of the river for the ac commodation of the . Interchange freight over the route between the South and the West and No.?:.west. Then inere ara the two eccl piara to be built at Baltimore hy the Balti more & Ohio and the Pennsylvania HERE are the most c colorings, s in B-O-E Sp ed hats; th ideas in these of hat prodi The seasons favorite high crown, roll brim soft hat-the "Event" a wonder for fri quality and style v * Hats v< Bl railroads, each to cost about $1,000, 000. .A great bit of work finished this summer was the olectri eMon of about 30 miles of the Norfolk Sc Western I Railway between Bluefield and Vivian W. Va., to handle the heaviest coal traffic over heavy grades on Us way to tidewater, and which has fully rea lized expectations in the matter of economy of operation and increase of operating capacity. Tho opening to trafile of thc Carolina, Clinchfleld & Ohio Railway'a extension to Elkhorn City, Ky., must also be remembered. It cost $5,500,000 and required several years to build, and down at Ea.las Tex., there is under construction a $5,000,000 passenger terminal for the uso of all the railroads entering there, while the Louisville & Nashville Rail road has bought 43,000 tona of steel rails and the Atlantic Coast Line. 20, 000. These and varioua other better ments of different degrees of magni tude re now in progress, affording en-1 couragement and promise of general j imp ovment in industry and enter prise. They show that despite many handicaps the railroads of the South aro preparing for great things in the future. A LINE o" D O P E mam Weather Forecast-Generally fair] Saturday and Sunday. --o Usc of printer's ink in the advert?s- ! lng columna of The Intelligencer is a] regular bonanza to the advertiser, ac cording to "Judge" W. C. Broadwellj who a few days ago inserted in this] paper a small classified adv. announc ing that he had opened up a rent col lecting and real estate business. As] a result of that one adv., the "Judge' elated yesterday, he baa had listed wita him a total of 62 houses already. "I am loaded down," says be, "but there is always room tor one more." -- A certain business man of Ander son was shown Gie bed room of a lone I bachelor on West Whitner street tho] other night, in which burned two in candescent lights. This extravagant! bachelor slept midway between these two lights, and Ute wonder is how he slept at all with his room flooded with light. "Of course," he said, if an op-| tometrist were asked about th*: mat ter, he would expatiate loud and long about Ute danger to. the eyes of this aforesaid bachelor, but in view ot the fact that Uils 'lonely old fellow has a sleeping room bi the lower section ot the letter "E" in the electric sign of tho Southern Public Utilities Co. right in between two Incandescent lights, being an English Sparrow, pos sibly Ute eye Coe tot will not lose any more sleep over the "light sleeper.1 At any time y? i are,walking along! West Whitner street, at night, atop tn front of Fant's Book store and look np at the lower portion ot the elec tric sign of the 8. P. U. Co., and In tit* lower section ot the letter "E" yon will find this lonesome little English Sparrow, roosting between incandes cent lights. - -o The. show window of T. C. Cely com- J pe/V7 this week have two unusualiyi the smartest, seclusive fall ^ styles, shapes ecial celebrat e progressive > masterpieces iction. Featherweight soft hats in pearl, greens, browns grays. An exclusive style feature M CA here at ?Pu.uU nth B-O-E assurance of satis $2, $3, $2.50, $4, $5 E The Store wit h ?a pretty displays in them. Ono is a beautiful arrangement of fall woolens and Stetson hats artistically arranged, and the other show window ls com posed of now fall shirts and beautiful neckwear. Messrs. Madden and Sui-j livan deservo considerable credit for j these two windows. The Mutual Masterpiece that waa to have beeu hero yesterday was lost or sent to he wrong town somehow, but lt will be returned here next Friday. Ttiis "Captain Macklin" is a magnifi cent motion picture, taken from Rich ard Harding Davis' hook, and no one who likes a fine picture should miss this one. It will surely ne here next Friday. -o Yesterday a bright llttlo lady upon going into Gcianerg Bros.' shoe store and soelng the display of men's hate on a back counter remarked to Harry Oelsberg: "I'm surprised to sec you going to such extremes? (meaning' hats and shoes) in your business," to which Mr. Oelsberg replied: "You see, since the war, we have had to fo to extremes to make both ends meet" -o- j Last Sunday morning Ibo Intelli gencer carried a news article about a commission having been applied for by Messrs. E. P. Vandiver ot thia city and Mr. C. C. Jones of Starr for the Planters bank at Starr. The commis sion has 'been granted and tho books of subscription to the capital stock will be open in the office of Watkins and Prince, attorneys, next Monday morning at 10 o'clock. -o- - Early in the spring Forman Smith, the seedsman, offered a very attrac tive prize list for best producta of several different kinds of seed bought from him. Yesterday he was busy awarding the prizes consisting of $25 in caah as follows: $10.00 for the heaviest watermelon -C. D. Woodson, WUUamston, R. F. D. 2. Triumph melon, weighing 53 lbs. $4.00 for tlie second heaviest water melon-A. M. Ellison, Anderson, K. F. D. 1, Triumph melon, weighing 62 1-2 lbs. $2,00 for the third heaviest water melon-S. M. Bolt, Anderson, R. F. D. 2, Jumbo Sugar' Boy melon, weighing 401-2 Iba. $3.00 for the largest cantaloupe-R. L. Martin, Williamston, K. F. p., Shumway Giant, 151-2 lbs. $2.00 for the largest pod of sweet pepper-C. D. Woodson, Will tamaton, R. F. D. 2, Ruby King, 6 ounces. $3.00 for the largest tomato-Bea trice Delvin, 2020 South Main Street, city, Ponderosa, 1 3-4 lbs. $1.00 for tho largest cucumber-E. G. Harbin, Anderson R. F. D. S, long green, 3tb 2 ounces. ? Cv "? " " Mr. Gelsberg, ti?? potato chip :?nn, has had built a very modem niant in which to fry his crisp potato chips and he stated yesterday that tt was working very successfully. The plant has a furnace somewhat like that nsod under a evap?ralo! in making syrup. Over this furnace there to two vaia in which the chips are cooked. A kind nf basket con cern holds tho chips Vnd Ikey are dipped into the hot grease. After re-' malnlng there the necessary length of time, the basket is palled up snd all Wonderful productions in the newest shapes and shades. Large as sortment. Evans" OJ quality at v? (faction the grease, drips back into lite vats. This makes the potatoes much better and is proving very satisfactory. Mr. Gelaberg states that be can now fry enough for 5,000 flvo cent packages every day by running both vats. -o "Our plant is going to do tho big gest business this fall and winter ?ince 1907," stated Mr. W. L. Brissey yesterday. "Strange to say, the very years that it seems that things wlli be dull in the bulHing lines, busi ness generally picks up and they are tho best. Yesterday wc received seven car loads of lumber and during this fall we will receive over GOO cars. In 1907 we received something over 500." -o Officer Charlie Sanders of the local police force is waiting for a $26 re ward whioh was offered by pr. Hailey of Hartwell ?or automobile tires stolen off his Hudson Six r few nights ^ago. Mr. Sanders found the tires in ( a house on tho Anderson Mill hill Thursday It seems that a Georgia man stole the tires but thieving that the officers were getting close behind them brought them to Anderson and hld them. Four tires were stolen and Mr. Sanders found two of them.' Mr. Olin Sanders and Mr. Bowen, of the P. & N. yesterday received the motorcycles awarded in the voting I contest waged by the Liggett and ' Meyers Tobacco company. Mr: Sand !ers tried his out yesterday and after {receiving a fall stated that he thought bo was going to like lt all right. -o Mr. Bob King, proprietor of the Hotel Chlquola, stated yesterday af ternoon that his business at the hotel was greatly increased this fall over what it was last year. "Sometimes now I b.*\ve more travelling men In one night than I had in a whole week this time last year. They are all talking about the good bunineJS they are having, too," stated Mr. King. CLEVELAND'S TOWN "DR?" (Caldwell, N. J., Dispatch.) The council and voters of Caldwell tonight passed a' resolution to make Caldwell "dry." Tue deliberations of the council, began a week, ago were brought to a close tonight by 50 membors of the W. C. T. U. Headed by Fillmore Condit. president of the Pacific Oil company, they called up on the councilmen and presented * .petition expressing the wishes""of 430 of the 737 voters ot this place. If the court of common pleas, which Ima the licensing power, ap proves the resolution Caldwell will have what it believes ls practically local option. 'Incipiently, lt ie said, the "Hd" will close Caldwell House, one of the eldest hotels tn the state, which. has entertained with tts bar since 1Y32. No criticism of the ho tel is made. It was said tonight that the rum and applejack tippling once indulged .in at church meetings waa stopped in 1830 by a temperance so ciety founded by the father of 0>over Cleveland. Asks City te Pat Jitney Damage. (From the Wall Street Journal.) Out In Ottnmwa, Iowa, a Jitney skidded from sn iron grating 4n a gut ter and was thrown lato a acree . 'oar, killing one of the passengers in the jitney. The estate of the dead man has now brought salt against tba etty ot Ottumwa for $20,000 damages, as serting that the city and not the street ear company was responsible tor the accidental death. It is alleged'la the petition that the liability vt the city accrued by its failure to adop* regn et lon a for ?he operating of the Jitneys, but permitted them to run unregu lated and wild over the streets.