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p R 1 C ? S R ? D U c E D Owing to the Backward Season, and other locai conditions,. we have decided to CUT PRICES'on our Suits; Dresses, Evening Gowns, Skirts, Waists and Millinery. Because of the fact that we only added a FAIR PROFIT at first, we cannot advertise our Ready-to-Wear at HALF PRICE, or anything iike that; but wc have made BONA FIDE reductions which will nipan BIG SAVINGS on Ready-to-Wcar of the very HIGHEST, quality, and at thc very beginning of the season. Terms-Strictly SPOT CASH SUITS Suits niado in thc Redingote and the new short coats styles in all of this i season's want ed colors, as follows: ?35.00 Suits at..1.. .. . .$25.00 $30.00 Suits at.$22.50 $25.00 Suits at..$20.00 $20.00 Suits Ut.$15.00 $15.00 Suits at. .$12.50 $12.50 Suits at.$10.00 DRESSES Silk Dresses, Dinner Gowns, Evoning Gowns, Dancinr Frocks. $40.00 Dresses at.$30.00 $35.00 Dresses at.$27.00 $25.00 Dresses at.$20.00 I $20.00 Dresses at.. .. ..$15.00$ $15.00 Dresses at.$12?>?) 3 Skirts and "Waists at PATTERN HATS AT COST 8 WEBE OUT IN FORGE BIRDS WILL SOON EE SCARCE HERE FIRST DAY OUT Iv?/ny Listened to the Lure of the Forest Yesterday and Evjtry - Field Was Fairly Alive. S_ A stranger traveling through An dereon yesterday would have hesitat ed not one moment should he have chanced to pass a held. Ile would at onco conclude that a man-hunt was hoing waged br something o? the kind, because o? tho fact that every piece of land In the entire county. seemed io he fairly olivo with hunters enjoy ing their first day of the season. Tho cird law went out Sunday. There Is of course, no way of get ting the correct figures,, but it is esti mated, upon tho best ligures obtain able, that 1,033 men stayed at home from church yesterday, upon the pre text bf the weather and Incidentally cleaned up their old shotguns, hunt ing coats and pint llasks. This latte;* lo carry the hait--nc, i>??s -pardon, this isn't a fishing trip, they carry thc flasks just for tho spirit of the occa sion. Within lese than a week, there will b?, all sorts or stories in the newspap "era about the "sad tragedy" v>i "Hi ram Perkins" or someone else, whose bead was perforated by a huntsman who thought it was a wild turkey. Somo one else with a safety catch on his' guu will start to crawl through the barbed wire fence and blow him self to pieces. Others will Just natur ally forget that the gun is cocked and plug como Innocent guy standing be hind and there will be others of-tho various natures, all paying a toll to the desire for hunting. The fellow who vas not. drowned during, the slimmer by rocking the boat, will end his ca rocr with an unloaded gun. . Tho open season on. dcor In this State begins on ?ptero.tor 1, and continues until January 1. As to par tridges and wild turkeys the open sea Bon commences on November 15 and continues until March 15th. The open scacon for doves Is now on, huving commenced on August 15. It will con tinue until March. There is a law on the ?tate statute which makes it un lawful for any person to cast abroad on any field or other land, grain or other food, as bait for-doves,'for.tho purpose of buuting doves between March 15 and December i. Fur woodcock, the open season commences September 1 and contin ues until. January; for willct Nov ember 1 to'March 1; for wood ducks, September.%, to'?Marph 1; for grackle, October 1 to March 1. Violations of tho- closed season aro pniabable by a (Ino of $10 for each bird killed or pur sued. ' . . Among some of the. important pro vis' jnd of thu buuting laws, accord ing to the codo of 1912, no. person is allowed to kill more than twenty-five partridges, twenty-flvo doves or two wild turkeys during any ono season. No person is allowed to. hunt on lands of another without ownor'3 consent; ?nd it ia unlawful for persons to hunt with fire by" night. This offense, is punishable by a fine of not moro than $10 for each bird killed during the night, ?15 for c-acn u??? tuned. There lo a law also-against trap ping birda efceent upon one's own land and .'this* doubtless was .drawn for'.ibo pot-hunters ,who used to snare whole coveys at the time. Stat;? 'Treasurer Writes A\ Coan t:?s to Send iii Tax Money aa So'jn as possible. Tho Anderson county treasurer has| ' resolve i a "notice, as has every other treasurer in lh'e.Stat<) In which S. T, Carter, the/. State treasurer, aakB that the counties send tn all tho tax money tti?y have on .hand. .Call for Immcdlato pro merit of state taxos bea been sent out to the county treasurers by S, T. Carter, stato treas urer.' Very Httle,.inoncy has- boen re ceived to dato. Tho collection-of stale taxeB was begun October 15. -, Tko following cai!-was/sent'to the county .treasurers: . "Pienso send nie. n check, on tho inth tb cover all Stato funds you haye on hand-r-ba'ck taxes and current tax es- lt matters not how auiall'.- tho amount moy be. Jf all-of. tho treaa? urers- will probably respond-to this appeal tho remittances should aggre gate an; amount suiflcloot. to take: caro of'.tho State's, obligations until Decem ber 1, .when Soother rntriuttanco /will be due...There-ls not.sufficient money.i on hand .with which to pay. claims that; will probably . bo presonted dur-1 lng' the week. 1' shall expect ybb^ to do ! your part toward .taking .cazo'of tho. Stato's er. dit." $10^)0 ?U?WARP f will give $10.00 froward for tho"'ire-' turn of ; Willie Brawoer, a small ? de formed negro about . four feet two iucheo tall, and twenty four years .bid. Left my premises sometime in Juno. V C; WILSON, 8tp. Belton. It F. D. 1. Box 6?. "L?st call for Turkey I Fjr?fc coule, .first ecrvcil." Exit England; followed closely by Franco and Husaia. . .?. - ' WIFE ASKS 1 il SEARCH FOR HUSBAND HAS BEEN MISSING NOW FOR SEVEN WEEKS HAS DISAPPEARED Waa Oat cf a Position and Wan dered From Home-Wife Ap pealed to The Intelligencer. After having exhausted all other resources and tri?d iii vain to got rome clue to .her. husband's where abouts, Mra. J. M. Martin yesterday appealed to The Intelligencer to aid her In her search for her miking husband and to assist in restoring him to his home and family. Accord ing to Mrs. Martin her husband luis been gone for soveu weeks and wheth er ur not theta hon been foul play o? nonie sort abo does not know. Site is alarmed, us aro the friends and rel atives pt Mr. Martin, and an exhaus tive search of the country is now be h'g planned. Mrs. Marlin presented a pathetic figure yesterday as she told, In tremb ling voice and eyes filled with tears, ot the two little boya at home walt ing for their father, of how sick one of thc Halo fcllowa Ia, and of how he calls constantly for ?'daddy" .to tome hack. It seems that Mr. and Mrs. Marlin ?iv&d on Crayton street in Anderson .ind that Mr. Martin first worked for the Briss?y Lumber Company and then for tho Harton Lumber Company. They move?! to this city last; Christ mas and had been happy and content ed herc until the head of the house >st his position and as thc savings grew Emailer und smaller and no new position appeared. M'?*. Martin contin ually grew more and moro despond ent. Finally hp left home one morn ing with the announcement that he waa going to try to find a Job and he ha3 not been home again. The fam ily was ejected from the residence on Crayton street because tho rent was not paid and then Mrs. Martin had to take her children and return to lmr father's home, near Williamston.. Ksadors of The Intelligencer ore 0,11 asked bo lend their aid In the ef fort now being made to find the mis sing man. :> o o o o o o o o O o ooo o oonoo o .' v':v?r . o 0 IVA ~H KWS : o .? . . '?'?'.I O O O O o o o o o o o o o o o o o O ?I Miss Thelma Smith was hostess at 1 a party at her nome en Friday even I big. The occasion was a pleasant one, and the young jteople enjoyed them selves to. tho fullest extent in playing garnit for several hours.. Miss Maude. Erskine, ono, of tho Starr _ high.''school l-'t?aeh?i'a. . was* thc guest'for thc V/eek-end of Mrs/jJ. A. .McAllister. ' " On last Wednesday evening Mrs. Cliff D.. Coleman entertained in hon or of thc teachers, of the Iva high ?school with a social tea 'fhh evening pwns most pleasantly spent. Mi?so3 Lela Hood and Mullen, stu dents of-tho-Woman's ?pliega, .of Due West,-have been sounding n few day? here, tho rjucato cf Rev. S. J. Hood (and' family. . Mrs. Jim. Drift and', children o? Mc wlth hcr~sls?oi\ Mrs; W. F. McGee. Mr. and Mm. T. C. Collins have re turned tn thfilr linnie I?? fjrrnnvvn-vl after spending a short While here with relatives. , . Tho would-ne rural mail carrlnrn, who e'.'jod tho, government, examina tion which was held in Anderson Sat- j unlay were: E. W. Powell, Reese Mc Donald, Lorin SIrnnnon, W. A. Qailey, ? T. A. Sherartl, J. C. Joncr.. T. E. Wiles.] M. A. Chapman. Hubert Simpson, Gua Townsend and T. C. Jatkson. Jr. 'Rev. H. W. Stone and, wife .of, An-1 doraon have been spending a few .daya j hoi ? with friends. ? ?' . ? , Mr. presi?n : Lntimer was in town a "few boura Sunday. . Ile*'.. Cobb of Greenwood preached in tho' First Baptist church here Sun day, night. i Miss E.llzabetn Stilwell of McCor mick is on n via.lt to her .friend, Miss. Edna McGee. . ; Tho regular, mcntihg of thc Baptist Ahl Society ?.wan hold , or? Friday a? ternpon,. with, .Mrs. Tv F. ^?llll'and. No .special feature marked, their meeting. After the usual business . was r?Jj|pon scd wtyh tho hostess served delicious ?ak? and. Chocolate..; Miss Claudia Herron', h as returned, .to her homo in Starr after -spending i OLEAR sight is necessary to both your health nnd SUCCORS. DIM ylslpn eau genpraliy. bo relieved-by - .correctly ?o~a;icd and fitted gUiHses'. : DON'T bo blind to your own, Interest.. Exorcise- sound wis dom and intelligence by having ^ US examino your oyca,'lt . will bo a thorough, palnntaklng, ex perl examination, that: will put ' you.on rho right track of eight. . .... Y?.U can : count : on Us for ; . jj truthful, in form alio? and right -,| I glosses. 5 Prices $2.00 nnd up. Wa duplicate. broken glasses by malj-rscnd thpm to us / ;Suux-RtOpticalCo. DR, im M. ISK?K??J0??. Optometrist. 810 8. Main St. Anderson, 8. C. (JR<H.;.M) FIOQB.. . - , Three Doors Below Kress? Tea Cent Store. INSURANCE MEN HERE DISCUSSING MEASURE NEW MOVE BY THE INSUR ANCE COMMISSIONER WANTS MORE TAXES Announcement of F. H. McMastcr Was Heard in Anderson Yes terday With Interest. Almost every insurance man in An derson ytas interested yesterday in the announcement that R H. . Mc Mastcr, insurance commissioner for South Carolina, will have nome Inter esting things to recommend to the >ic."t Geucral Assembly of South Caro?, lina. It wac hard to got any expres sion Hom local insurance men yes un\>> but it was pei'tcctly evident ! ;t most of them do hoi agree with Mr. McMaster in his conclusions. P. II. McMastcr, Insurance cominls lloner, hi his annual report to the general assembly, will say that be tween $20,000,000 and $40,000,000 Worth of property held by South Cnr dinians in this state has never ap peared on tho tax lmiAu, "and so far is our Information goes no ei?ort has ever boen made IM have lt entered on 'he tax ho?'?s." Reference in made to tho ca;;h surrender values'.of life In surance r?llelas held by Smith Caro linians! It is safe to say that thone valuer, amount to between $:50,000.000 uill ?-10.000.000. "In consideration of thin matter and review of tho authorities, how ever, it do<?H not appear that it ls held anywhere that cash Rurrortder VUJUPB of Ufo Insurance policies may not bo mad o a subject of taxation, mid he question arises in connection with tho taxation of insurance rompantes, wind her or not thc $?10.000,000 to ?40. 000.000. in round figures, tho cash surrender values of insurance policies held by i^outh Carolinians are not or' should not he made ni subject to taxa tion. "Thc companies bav.? cried ' out from time to time and have generally persuaded thc public that Insurance companies arc taxed- more heavily than other institutions, but \carcful and impartial students of the subject will find tbts'npt to bc Irue. Aa shown be.'orc in reports of this department life insurance companies of other StatoB should ho. taxed on their cash taxed merely on premium receipts, and the reserves whicli aro practically tho cash onrrendor values, aro neith er taxed hero nor elsewhere, tho com panies' securing exemption from tax ation on their reserves Ia their homo States on the ?round that their re ?serves aro linr.'.lltles to their pollcy. holdcrs and are tho property of their policyholders. Certainly,- on tho.show, lng of the companies themselves, the policyholders, therefore, in their home Stats shoould bo taxed on their cash Burrcndcr val?en. "lt In generally admitted that tho nresent system of taxation in, South Carolina i:? unsatisfactory. Therefore, an Injustice? would be done if tho cash surrender valuo of policies Khouhl bo taxed at their full fac<> value, -consid eration being given, to the fact that the companies nay tax on their pre mium luceme from certain of these policies. jfn.vf?w t' th?~ condition this der; -ir.rtment ia not recommending that Ibo rpr,'\ 'surrender valuer, of policies ' ' r ' ,~l ? 1. I,..; i.... CCTUpaU?CS HOV.-" .-onBed in thia State nnd paying taxes to thc Slate bo taxed; -But certainly | there ca? hq no objection at all to re quiring nil cash surrender values to bc returned'and those to be exempted from taxation Which aro in. insurance companies now licensed in tho- State and paying taxes and license fees to tiio State, but imposing the cullinary State. ?nd . County tax on ooah sur render values on policies, held by .citi zens ot. this State in companies which aro not Hconacd In the State and which aro not paying taxes to the State." a few days hero'-with Uer aunt, Mrs. J. A. McAllister. - Prof.- Clift D. Coleman attended the teachers' meeting which was held in Anderson Saturday. Mr. C. B. Willis, who has hoon in Osark, Oklahoma, for tho paul few. weeks, Js spenfling sbmo timo' hero with his family: Mr. Oscnr Anderson of Spartanburg was hero Saturday on business. Misa '.Neille Ti Hall of Ahtrevillo and Mr. -Lester Morrow of Iva, No. 1, wero married. Sunday afternoon by lew. S. J. ilood. ... .Rev. It W. Martin married thc'fol lovring couples Sunday at his resi dence: Miss Lula Griffin and H. W. Campbell; Misa Annie Chnvping and Porter Parnell, ThoB. J; Manics and Miss Lida Burton. ?cst Couch Medicinefor "ttftldron. "Hirco years ago when I was living 4n ' Pittsburg ono; ot roy children had n hard cold and coughed dreadfully. Upon thc edvico of h rugglst I pur chased a bottle of > Chamberlain's Cough Ilomody arid it bcncflttod him at onco. I find it the best cough med icino tor children borauso, it ia pleas-, ant to take. Thoy do not object to taking It," writes . Mra. Lafayette Tuck, Homer City, Pa. This remedy contains no opinion or other narco tic, and moy bo given to a child as confidently'as to .oh adult Sold by all doalors. . . j-..-.^- . --i-> i l Wish I was rock A-sIttln' on,a hill, , . . ?Atd?..ln' nothln' all day long - But Jurt a ?It?n* still I wouldn't ?leep? I wouldn't eat; I wouldn't oven, wash; . , I'd Just sit. still a thousand years. And rest, myself, by .Ooah! -Exchange. <~-;-, -, ?___ ; We nt o not broke by ? long slghtU *A folleo? ' ' ? "No Home Complete "Without a Piano Thc relining influences and the elevating/tendencies of music in inc home cannot be exaggerated; in fact no house is a HOME.with out it contains a piano. Count over the satisfied and contented ?ionics of your own acquaintance, and nine out of ten will be found to contain a plano. After the days work is done, the family can gather in the parlor and have an evening'of music,. Isn't that bet ter than have th? family scatter immediately after supper, is over for their individual pleasures? , With the VERY LOW PRICES at which we arc selling the VERY BEST pianos, GUARANTEEING them for TEN YEARS, t?o li?me should lie without a piano. . .. .. You see, we EUY our pianos outright, paying SPOT CASH for them, laking every discount, which enables us lo SELL Hiern MUCH. CHEAPER than any other deater has ever sold them in the. Piedmont. TERMS OR CASH The Patterson Music House M. M. PATTERSON, Meager. No. 130 West Benson Street J IF YOU CANT SEE You should coimult an Optome trist AT ONCE. To u?gloit'or tinker '?v/Ith. your bye-sight, is very dahgctvi?B. Suppose you v/ont blind! Eyes eicauiineti . sud- glasses fi*ted prices rcaaonabl?,~?3 to $5 and up! Repairs foe'and i.ip. ; ' Dr. M. E G 112 W. milner St Ground Floor. Tolop?iono Connections. ? yVill Haye Reason for Thanksgiving If Youjy .Her a Box of ?'Vp .: We receive fr?sh shipments every week of Bon-bons, Chocolates, etc. Price Soc. Worth double. Phone 636. Anderson, S. C. HGU?SFOB COI GLOB EXHIBIT COMPLETE PRIZE LIST IS AN NOUNCED WORTH WINNING Event is to: Take Place ?n Ander son on December 12, Held in Chamber of Commerce. J. W. Roth rock, , county agricultur al agent for Anderson county, an nounced yesterday that thc boys' corn club exhibit \v\< take place in Ander don thia year ?JD' December ll*. The exhibit, will'he held tn'tho rooms ot thc Anderson Chnmber of Commerce and Mr. Rothrock stiyg that' li" ex'pecta by far tue finest dismay of corn thia yoar ever exhibited by the b?-yt? of .tho county.' For several weeks tho county ngent has been bard at work''on his prize list for this exhibit and ho has suc ceeded in getting some splendid prem iums. ile announced ? the" following list yesterday, subject -to change: For thc cheapest com nor acre, first prize, six sacks of 10-4-4. fertilizer. . For tho noxt cheapest, corn, five sacks of colton seed meal. Kor the best 10 earn of prolific corn, for sacks' of-10-4-4 fertilizer. For tho second beat 10 oars,. i>0 pounds 'vetch'aced. . For tho beat 10 ears, ono eared, ono turnplow. For the noxt best, ono barrel of flour. For-, the . beet written roport, ono* rocking choir. For tho best report, ono Stetson hat. ... For tho greatest yield per acre, 80 pounds ot vetch, ' ?. ' - ' .For tho second best'yield, five sacks nt cotton seed meal." For tho ear containing tho-greatest number of grains, 40'pounds of lard. For tho eur containing the .second largest' number of gralnB,' 20 pounds of lard. . Greatest improvement shown in two year rotation, pair or $4.00 shoes. , For tho second' greatest improve ment, pair $?.5ff shoos, .To : tho. boy?, making ' tho largest yioldn por tuve, one month nt Clom. Gon collage In August, 1915. Tho long list of splendid prizes . :. h ou L-l appeal to tho boys of the COuTTT ty and if anything will induce thom to tube port in tho exhibit these oplendld prises should. Hospondoncy lino to- Indigestion. lt is not at all surprising that pen sons who bare indigestion -become discouraged and despondent. Hero .a *o a few words of hope' nnd cheer ror them ? by Mrs. Blanche i Bowers, Indiana, l'a;. "For >yearavmy digest tipn - wus. BO poor that I .eould . only oat :tho lightest food?. X tried evory thing that I heard nf to got relief; but net until about a year ago when I saw Chamboriain's Tablets advertised and got n-bott! o of them, did I find tho right treatment. .- i soonbegan to. im prove, and ?texze t^kiag s 'few ^oiil^s of them my digestion- is fine." For ? salo by all deaiera. Anderdon ! -iri my town.-County Teachers Association. Sm ' On account of $he enormous , dcm an.fi-- supplies of good SEED .stock arc hard to obtain. j Wc will have some stock dur ing the coming weak of I Lca'ps Prolific Red May CUM] Blue straw j all reclcnheid and graded-quali ty .will please any onc^ ., ? ';'ti? ?V; '.: . ? ' -?' ?? i* Vi' I \t? SK K Seedsman. . :, - . Phono -464.. , * ; . Wk* We have ?6r sale 5#biisMa Harcrdft Prolific Oats graded seed) at ?1.00 per bushel. .\ . When finned on Qur Special C^n?, we uuy ii ?. premium extra length staple cotton. Good stVle :pf Irv?rible and Texas Storm Proof are generativ., worth a premium* . We buy for cash or exchangemeat and.hillls for seed, or sell meilland hulls for .ca?a/\ E. MOO??