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THE INTELLIGENCER ESTA1IMSHED 1860 Published every morning cxce.it Monday by Tito Anderson Intelligen cer at MO Wost Whittier Struct, An del ton, S. . M E 311 - WE E Hl> ? IS TE L LI OK X C E ft Published Tuesdays and Fridays L. M. GLENN..lCdltor and Manage; . Entered OB second-class mattet Ap.il 28, 1014, ut tin: post oJllce a! Anderson? Son'li Carolina, under Hie Act o? March :J, 1871?. ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES Telephone... .J?l SrilSCKU'TION KATES DAILY Ono Year.55.00( Six Months.?..'.(> Three Months-;.l.-*i One Month .. '. Ono Week.10 HEMI-HVEKKLY Ono Year.ll.HO Six Months.7*i Tho intelligencer is delivered .?y tarrier in the city. Look at the printed label on your poper. The date thereon shows when tile subscription expires. Notice date and label carefully, and if not correct please notify us nt once. Subscribers dOBir.ng Ino address of | their pupcr chauged. will pleacc state lu their communication both tho ?ld und new addresses. To insure prompt delivery, com-1 r.Iaiuts of non-delivery in tito elly | cf Anderson should bo made to the Circulation Department before 0 a. rc t.nd.a copy will be sent at once. AH checks and drafta should . e drawn to Tho Anderson Intelligencer. ADVERTI SIM' Rates will bc furnished on applica tion. ' No tf advertising dlBcontlnucd ex cept op written order Tbe Intelligencer will publish brief j and rational letton? on subjects ri gtuicrnl interest when they ure ue i.ompaniod by tho namos and ad dresses of tho authors and aro not o' a defamatory nuture. Anonymous communications will not be noticed, kcjoctod maruscrlpts will not bo re turned. In order to avoid delays on account of personal nhsence. letters to The | Intelligencer Intended for publication should not bu addressed to any Indi vidual connected with tho paper, but] ..simply to Tho Intelligencer. THURSDAY. APRIL 20, 101?. Hero's your hat, Rernstorff. Tho beaten biscuit ls hard to beat. lt is not us long until burbecuo dityn UH lt has been. Something to wrory about: lobsters j ure 80 cunts a pound, The good old wool hat days are] lurking just around tho corner. Some newspapers aro still carrying] editorials on tho gallou-a-month law. "In Hughes wo trust, but with Teddy we'll bust" hos a Republican sound. /What has Docomo of the old fash ioned girl who could do little stunts In t'ocutlon. . . --o Tho wool hat boys will soon hear just how important a part pf this world's organisation they are. Drag about your wife while she ls ' . alive, don't wait for wo newspaper , folks to do lt after she ts dead. / A reduction In the prlco of golf balls is announced. Timely cncour-? ugcmcnt.to tho local golf fiends.' " "HS \ Have you any. corn up?-Spur tun burg Journal. No, but Ed DeCamp says ho would Uko to have a little ?'own. . . - ? '.i. ? o - Wc confldenUyJ ex^eit/that Villa, who'was killed and curled several] days ago, will .bedout ot the ground j nud Hoing around about Easter. About time iiie metropolitan papers ? were out of something sensational to. write about they dug up a follow who saysJie helped bury the body of 'pot' othy >?tbo\?^$-^j.?i^i , i :;~.. : .. Ch aries ton Inn s, being without their ? vi cuatomary splrita owing to the en ' j acting of Die prohibition law, now f look to tho headlines of the News and i f Courier* for stimulation, > . V ... ' .-Vj., It ta said nearly every young wo man tchtol^^et that genes/to West minster to tiach. gets married. Morai sjffla: for ft position as teacher at Westminster next session.-Spar ; tnnix?rg Journal. Yep, there's Broth cr Goas^t'B^U ou the eligtbjo Hst. THE (?KUMAV CRISIS Heading of the note which thc American government hay transmitted to the Gorman Imperial government, the full text of which appears in The Intelligencer this morning, should convince thc m OM optimistic that the status of relations between the Unit ed States und Germany is Indeed grave. The note which President Wilson has caused to he delivered lo the Kaiser is to all Intents and pur poses un ultimatum. Germany is I ra n 1; I y advised that her submarine warfare tactics must cease Immedi ately-not . because the United iStates desires it, but because all the laws" proposed in the intorests of humanity and all the laws governing the con duct of warfare among civilized na tions d'.mund 'hat such tactics shall come to a stop. If Germany refuses to accede to the demands of tho note, and it ia not un likely that she will, lt means, as President Wilson says, that the Amer ican government will have no other course left open to ll but that of sev ering diplomatic relations. .mould this be done, the Germany ambassador at Washington would bc handed his passports and the American ambas sador at Horlln would immediately ask for his. The first untoward act on thc part of Germany after that would, in all probability, lead ito u declaration of war upon Germany by the United States government. The situation Is by far more serious than lt has been ut any time since the outbreak of thc Kuropuun war. Thc situation ls tense. It is fraught wKh gravest dunger. THE CLEMSON ENCAMPMENT If you have not contributed to the fund for defraying expenses of the Clemson College encampment, do so al once. You may figure that thc coming of thc cadetB will be of no benefit to you, directly or indirectly, und for that reason you will not con tribute anything. Out that's a mighty sorry spirit to exhibit. A citizen o!| the true spirit should not measure his interest in such things as the cadet encampment by their value in dollars and cents, to him. He should contri bute something lo tho fund without thought as to whether he will huvo a dollar more lu hls^ftpcket aa a result of the encampment. The Clemson College cadet encampment is not be ing brought to tho city with tho Idea pot making of It ? money producing undertaking. No one ls trying to niako any money out cf lt, und no one will make any out of it. Naturally, of course, there will be a picking up In business during encampment week with certain establishments, such as the restaurants, tho amusement places, refreshment stands, and thc like; but 'that Is natural and cannot bo helped. They will not. however, make very much out of lt, and they should not he expected to stand thc entire expenso of the encampment. The committee having In charge the raising of funds for the. expenses of tho encampment must make a report to tho Clemson College authorities this week. In other words,* the money muet be in thc hands of tho college authorities before thc cadet body can bo moved. There ls nothing strange about this. Clemson College has no funds for encampment purposes, and as there ls considerable expense to bo gono to before tho encampment can bo held, (the money .must bo in hand j first. It is important, therefore, that you make your contribution' to thc fund Immediately, Do not walt for a member of the committee to call upon you, but telephone your contribution to Um Chamber of Commerce... - - NEWSPAPERS AND VOTERS Speaking editorially of tho agitation for tho abolition of the . county-to county canvass, the Greenville Pied mont says: Tt has very seldom beca the case in che last twenty-five years , that a - majority of tho papers and . a .majority ot the voters. of this state have been found lined up to .-' gather for man or measure. Pro- \ -coding upon the- doctrine of avorages. The' Piedmont would say that. If the majority of the : papers of this state favor aboli-. . t|on of the canvass, that fact in dicates that lt'is most likely that :. a - majority of the voters. think . v. otherwise. . . ' A few days since the Piedmont waa bemoaning the fact that the newspa pers were losing} their in il uenoo with the people; According to the above expressed opinion of the Piedmont, the. newspapers have never had any, or hut little, at least for. the psst quarter of a century. . Our newspaper' ti parlance does not date anything like as far back Into -the mist-hung past as th rut bf the edi tor of the Piedmont, but during, the brief span we hays .been wrestling with printers Ink we have labored under the Impression' that the news-: papera und the voter? were pretty well lined up together-on measures it not on men, typical exumples of the 'ormer being slate-wide prohibition, compulsory education, legislation en abling inunielpulities to enact sp?cial ordinances providing fer permanent Improvements of one character or an ? other, etc. Tho newspapers und the majority : of the votera muy not be able always io gel together on men, and a great many times are unable to get together on certain kinds of measures. But let any measure worth while, as that of prohibition, education, public Im provements, <(tc, cte., arise and you are pretty apt to lind the majority of the voters and the majority of the newspapers Unc? up i ud pushing shoulder to shoulder for its accom plishment. ?LINE O'UOFEI Weather Forecast-Fair Thursday, probably Friday. O Peculiarly coincident ls the fact that exactly two years ago today thc daily newspapers of thc country car ried in big headlines thc startling nows that Mut rta hud refused ii he demands of the United States and that be had not saluted the Hag. Steam ing war ships were on their way to Vera Cruz and the entire country was alarmed over the outlook of war with Mexico. This morning ?the papers over thu country ure telling of the strain ed relations with Germany, and tho peoplo are even more excited and anxious for new? tliun they wero two years ago. On April 20, ,1914, which was Monday morning, The Intelligen cer got out an'extra. Mr. S. M. Byara br night to The In telligencer omeo yestcrduy ufternuon some very line crimson clover which was grown by Mr. John Drake. The clover measures from 18 to. 22 inches and is very healthy looking. It is posi tive proof that tia is a great crop for this section, and especially since some of this was grown on land that hud novcr before boen planted in clover. Mr. Uyars I3 visiting tho farmers over the county who planted alfulfa last year, and yesterday afternoon lie visited some who live just below town. He stated that Messrs. J. C. Shirley, C. H. Gassawuy. John Drake, Jesse T. Drake and Will McCarley had splendid alfalfa fields, und (hut they were so well pleased that they had al ready decldod to increase their acre I age next year. Mr. Byars states that nlfalfa In all sections of. tho county is doing exceptionally well allis year. Mr. Max Oelsberg ta being mention ed us a possible candidate for alder man from Ward 4. About f>0 tents have been creeled on thc Clemson encampment grounds and everything is being put in readiness for tho arrival of the cadets on next Monday morning. The water connec tions have been made and'the lights will bo installed today. Mr. A. P. Canter is having a base ball park made on his property on Greenville street. Whether tho games in Anderson next week will bo played there or out ut North Anderson has not been decided. Tho many friends of Chief Jackson .of the'Anderson-fire department wore glad to see him out walking about yes terday after an illness of a few weeks caused by typhoid fever. .'Tho management of The Palmetto theatre has decided to keep (this bouse open next week and will have a musical company with ten people. Tn addition he will also have the tent show, rehearsals for which are now geing on. This will give Anderson at least two shows 'during encamp ment week, not including the picture shows. --o-- j Beginning at 3 o'clock this after noon, "The Strange Case of Mary Page." the serial ' picture, will be shown at The Anderson and on up UR til 8 o'clock tonight, when the "Double Wedding*1 will he ?riven under the aus pices of Ute Ladles' Aid society of the First Baptist church. After this per formance is over, the pictures will bo continued,and those who are there for the 'Double Wedding" will bevths guests bf the theatre. { m " Osborne Charges Dwindle. ). ;Whtte Plains, N. Y?. April ti?.-Tho -charge of Immorality contained in the indictment against Thomas Mott Os born o,. former warden of Sing Sing prison, was stricken out today by Su premo Court Justice Platt. A single charge o? ?noglect of duty remain* I against him and- this will? he heard j next Monday. . THE DUCK BILLED PLATYPUS ' (Hy C. A. nt When nature wan arranging things in Australia, that land of zoological wonders, and topsy-turvy plants, shel seemed lo have been In a hurry, or I Just waking nrj from a nightmare. Jinny thing? there nrc most unexpect ed and surprising. Tor instance, the ! North wind blown wann, and the j Routh wind cool; the seeds of the j cherry ?row on the outside, and the j largest part of the pear forms next to the stem. It ls also the home of the kangaroo, one of the queerest const! ucl? ?i animals known. lt ls | t?tere, too that the mound bird builds ! an incubator. Instead of a nest, and the heat or lite sun hatches ortt the .veting, full lleldgcd and ready to fly. But there ls another small animal, that claims Australia as his birth place, that takes the prize, when it comes to a marvelous mixture of dif ferent nar.urcs in his make up. He could not tell you, to save his life, if he was a bird or a beast. Some times lie thinks he is one, nad some times lie is convinced that he is another. A moro undecided being does not exist, when ho -?ikes up in the morning he does not know whether to say "quack quack." or to bark like a dog. He ls just an ordinary looking little fellow, if you view him from the rear. He! is clothed in soft, brown fur. has a very orthodox tail, short and stump, and his hln^ feet arc something like tltose of a mole, armed with loni?, strong claws, evidently Intended for digpinj?. So far he seems all right and perfectly normal, bur. ns the eyes wander up toward the head, all our preconceived ideas of animal anatomy are rudely upset, and we wonder If we are really awake, or are we dearm ing? Instead of a mouth, with teeth and tongue, we find engrafted on his face, a regulation duck bill! And, in stead of ordinary feet, such as one would expect any self-respecting ani mal to have, we find a pair of duck galoshes protruding from under the fore part of his body. These front feet stand in a cla3s ni by themselves, there bohiR nothing like them in the earth, or in Hie waters under the earth. A heavy web affair extends beyond the claws, giving thc foot the appearance of being glued to the cen ter of a circular piece of soft, damp chamois skin. Fortunately, bc has been given the power to fold this web back out of his way when digelng. otherwise his clawswould have been useless. The hinder feet are different, teh web only extending to the base of the claws. The inner toes on the hind feet of this uncanny creature, nre located up on tho leg, after Hie Btyle of a rooster's spurs, and are said to be armed with n sting, thus mixing him slightly with the Insect tribe. On euell side of his head, a lr1 tie beyond his back, are two small oval white spots, in the center of which aro .set his little black, beady eyes. His oyeB, like those of the mole, are most rudimentary, bjlng extreme ly smalt; tie cavity ln^ which they aro sunk bc.ng only about a tenth nf nn inch In diameter. As he has a hill. lt could hardly be exported of him to have teeth, so his upper and lower mandibles are supplied with a series of hard ridges like those of a duck. Through these, ho is enabled to strain out th? water and to rotain any small water insects or shell-fish that he moy find In the mud of tho bottom. His food consists of marine plants, and water insect's. He lives on the banks of rivers and lakes and digs windin:.' galleries under tho banks, with out lets landing down undfr the water like the otter or musk-rat. One can not look at this curious creature, without having a suspicion that some one In a joking mood, had cloverly fastened the bill of a duck on the face of some beaver-like animal and was wondering what has learned natura lists would have to say. To be per fectly honest with tb isioke of nature. lt must be admitted, that the bill ls not really and truly a mouth, but onlv ?ho prolongation of thc bones of his noso and palate, tho true.mouth bclne ruination behind this projection. L.it tlo credit doce lie get for this, though, for np one sees it, or knows il ls there. No one would caro much for a mouth that was so well hidden that a surgical operation waa neces sary to brine it to light. By this time, one ls fully prepared to find n pair of humming-bird wings sprout ing from his back or. a set of deer antlers decorating his , brow, in short notltiug that ho could spring on us now would causo surprise. The lq?rn .ed people who have studied this piens an t little freak have named him thc Platypus, the Duck-billed Platypus. Wo do not know why the selected that name, when'thero are so many pret tier ones In tho world. ? It does seem that he has enough to handicap him, without saddling such a nanto on him for Ufa The native? of; his homo land are kinder, they ^all. him the "Mullengong." Ho-ls the l?v Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, of the animal kingdom, though,- ho will Insist on acting both at tho samo time. To cap tho climax of this strange animal's - contradic tions, lt might bc mentioned, tn pas ing, tthat they lay eggs in sandy places and leave the sun to do the rest. NEW ALDERMASIC CANDIDATE Friends of Willie F.' Marshall - Au. sr ance Him From Wart Taree. The'friend* of Mr, Willie- F. Max. shall have announced him a* a candi date for alderman from Ward 8, his card appearing In this mmTdng'a In telligencer. ' Mr. Marshall is ono of the best ^nown of ?he younger .business mau or the city. For a number of years he was connected with tho Farmers and Merchants Bank, aftoi which ho became engaged in' tho v.r*>4 estate husmeos with the Anderson Real Es .isM^luwatment cctaptay. ~ Mr. Marshall's friends are confident ho 'witt make a splendid : tab?. CupjT??tt lUrt S J?acr & Mars Stout Me Sh You' in H TF youVe tl to chang Here are sui newest fabi figure. Ha: scientifically to prove it; Hart Sc B-C FULL TEXT NOTE I TO GERMANY (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE.) ed has grown month by nion?.h until' tho ominous toll bounded into the j hundreds. tn:ted S?ites Patient. Thc government of tho United Slato3 ! has been very patient. At every stage of tb'.s distressing exporienco of tra gedy after tngedy ,lt has sought to be governed by tho most thoughtful j consideration of the extraordinary > circumstances of an unprecedented . war and to be guided by senf.ment3 ot very genuine friendship for tho peo-? plo and government of Germany. It has accepted tho successive explana-, t!c&3 and nssumncss of the Imperial ? government as. of course, given In en tire slncerl.y and jj??:t fa th and has j hoped even against hope, that lt would prove to bes possit ie Tor tho1 imperial government :-:o to order and contro' tho recognized . principles! of humanity as enSbodlcd in tho tar; of natons. It has made every allow ance for unprecedented conditions and lias boen willing to walt until thc' tacts becamo unmistakable and were! susceptible of only ono interpre tation. Th.it Time Comes. It now owes it to a Just regard for ita own rights to tay to thc Imperial government that that time has come. It has become painfully evident to il that tho position which It took at thc very outset is inove table, namely, tilt use" of submarines for the destntct'on of an enemy's commerce, ir, of nec essity, because of the very character of the vessels employed and the very J nu dh od 3 of'attack which their em P'oyment of course involves, uttorly incompatible with tho principles of humanity, the long-established and incontrovertible rights . of neutrals'; and the sacred immunities ot non combatants. HE PBEFEBS WIFE TO $%00O So Gypsy Drops Snit Against III* Father- in - Law. From tho ^Chicago. Examiner. luther than Jose his wife," for vi hom he had paid S2,COO, Pedro Demotrio, a gypry dropped a suit against this j father-in-law and moihor-hviavr . in tho South Clark street court.-Lhrough which he sought to v recover - $8,000 ' he accused them of taking from hil trunk. . MHla. wifo has .threatened .to-, leave htm if he persists in suing nor par* eats," 'the attorney 'for Demotrlo' ex* pinned to Jud go La Buy. '"Ho would rather take a chance on not recover ing tho ?3,000." It was ,a *ycrir ago that Demetrio paid Ai ec Rancho and . Mrs. Soko F.uncho $.1.000 fte? Tina, their daugh-l tsr.^-r;, - . . . j nf Tall men! S Lort stocky mei re not hard to fit-nobod art Schaffner & Marx, clo liought differently, fe your mind on ts in the latest st :ies and patterns, rt Schaffner & ? provided them, ^? fit and satisfaction. ihaffner & Marx Si MS Suits $10, $15, "The Store with a INNES DENIES THE LATEST SENSATION MADE OF HIS CASE Story of Clothes of Nelms Sisters Found in Trunk is Ex ploded. Athmta. April 1*.).-A sensational story published In Atlanta yesterday of thc finding in the trunks of Victor H. Innes and his wife of dresses be longing to tho missing Nelms sisterB, who mysteriously disappeared ' two years ago and for whose alleged raur Innes was tried and acquitted in San Antonio, Tex., was exploded later in tho day when Marshall Nelms, broth er of tho '.load Kirls and special de tectives employed by Solicitor 'Hugh Dorsey to follow tho trail o? the sis- j icrs, declared that nothing wan found In thc trunk to connect tho Innessus with his ulster:* except two dresses which an Atlanta dress-maker iden tified as dresses which she made two years ago for a woman giving her n-imo as Mrs. Margaret Mims, and which woman tho dressmaker identi fied as Mrs. Innes when- she Saw Mrs. Innes in tho jail a few days ago. Tho publication of tho story roused Irnos and his wife to break the sllonce they have steadfastly maintained to ward newspaper reporters ever si nco ^heir arrival in. Atlanta on extr?di t'ou issued by the govornor of Tex as.? Innes got "blazing mad whoa ho read the story of the finding of dreSS ^S bcionsjOSJ tO thtv. Uwitnc tt?ot?rg In his trunks. * ."'It is a vicious, contemptible, damn able, Ile," he exclaimed, while his wife, who waa with *jim during the Interri?v. leaned against his coil 'Mrs and wept. " ; Nt.?,* a.Vile conspiracy on the part of tl*. Nejas-family td aroi&e the peo ple against us. ' -v : > . "Suppose 1 did haye dresses baloog ,lng to tho Nolms sisters, which ls ab solutely false, -would I ..'pack . thain away and bring thom to Atlanta with we?" . y " - ;> .Mrs, innes Joined with . her hus band tn denying the. story and |J?# bounced the Nolms family. .: j .. ,"A?rjfI ' Nelms and officers searched our trunks repeatedly, in tho Jail In i San Antonio," .phd said, "?nd they were' unable tc find a- thing aga'nst ?S. . The trunks contained Identically th o sam e things now that . thor cou tallied then. If there are any dress W?^the trunks that belonged to tho Nelms sisters, they wore placed there by the Nelms family.ito frame ws up> WUh Boston, getting a flying start on the giants how, can New York bo expootej to show excitement ovor Mexico or Germany? ?lim men! ri! y is? thes we're ready that point, yles, in the to fit every vlarx have Wre ready guaranteed. aits $25 $20 MARKETS Local market 12 cents. New York Cotton. Open. High. ho?. Close. May . . .11.88 11.88 11.81 11.87 July . . .12.02 12.02 il.95 12.01 Oct . . .12.22 12.22 12.13 12.21 Dec . . .12,3? 12.39 12.30 12:31? Jan . . .12.41 12.45 12.35 12.45 TpneSteady. N. Y. Spots 12 cents. Liverpool Cotton. Open. Cluse. May-JUne.7.67% 7.81% July-Aug.... ..7.63 7.57% Oct-Nov.7.48% .7.42Vs Receipts 12,000. Sales 8,000. "v . *.' Spots 7.89. MARKET LETTER (Special to The rntelUgenccr.) Now York, April 19.-Tho c?ail ments of the people ot the United .'. Staten as expressed through our pres ident to thc assembled congre&'j miy . ultimately have an unfavorable effect upon the finances and business pros? - perity of the country, but thc stand that we have taken makes us again foel like tuon., and not .like babbling .. babes. -, Vl, .... Man is supposed to be higher in-the kingdom o'f creation ' than sparrows. . who squabble and chirp over bread crumbs. Tho healthy pride that tho people of this country will feel in themselves and each other will moire than discount, we believe, any unfav orable Influences that a manly stand on behalf of ourselves and humanity ' might temporarily cause. The fiction of today's market Justifies thia opin ion";? ? (Johnston. Storm nnd Co,) 'ti?Mk Sam Jones? Conducting An Enthusiastic Meeting. The revival meeting being conduct-: ed at the colored M. E. church hy the; "Black Sam : Jones'* : are growing In , interest .daily. Last .night a particu larly strong sermon waa delivered on' the subJeot ot>What ls HelL*t ;^PJ?- ; day night the subject of the^sermon will be "Death." , The. hour ot preaching . ls ' .8t80 o'clock. All'colored people of tho city are urged to attend these meetings, and white people are respectfully In vited to att?ad any bf the services. Garrison EseajM?; -: Petrograd, April 19 l-r-The Turkish garrison at the Black sea port i>f Trebhtohd escaped. Russians have occupied the tdwn^ A t?t?o ls finmi neat... ;,\ .