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THE ANDERSON INTELLIGENCER Founded im a*. , .. . I - . . < - k m North Main Street P ANDERSON, 8? C. WILLIAM BANKS, ~ - T Editor ft. W. SMOAK, Business Manager ..Entered According to Act of Con* greet as Hecond Class Mall Matter at the PoHion?ce at Anderson, S. C. Published Every Morning Except I Monday Seail-VTeekly Edition on Tuesday *Bd; Friday Mornings Baily Edition?$5.00 per ananm; ISM (or Six Months; for Three Months. Semi-Weekly Edition ? $1*0 per Annum; "5 cents for Six Months; 60 i ?gais lor Fonr Months. _ IN ADVANCE Member of the Associated Preis and! Raecliing Complete Baily Telegraphic Sarvke. ,A larger Circulation Than Any Oth. SS Newnpsper ia This Congressional Istriet, Tbe intelligencer Is delivered by carriers in iae city. If you fall to C?t your paper regularly please notify a.. .Opposite your name on label of your paper is printed dato to which year paper Is paid. All checks and drafts should be drawn to The An derson Intelligenoer. THE WEATHER Wa.hington. Feb. O.Forcast: South Carolina, Generally fair Tues- ] day and Wednesday. Daily Thought Let me have mon about me that arc! fat; S look beaded men and such as sleep | o* nights; Yond* Cassia* has a lean and hungry look? Ha thinks too. much; such men arej dangerous. ' ?Shakespeare. Anderson is Mar Town?the 8. S. executive committee. Our yacht is getting rusty?waiting | for tho canal to open. . Will some ^correspondent kindly j tell us truly what is ah unfair? Did Secretary Daniels decide . Work on. tho bridge is being rushed ex a great rate. Another hand was hired yesterday. >risu't It a peach," exclaimed Gov ernor B., looking at his valentine troi?i B. R; T.; The'Sensible DresB Club is one that Se.tfo.oo.t find listed in any of tho | l?o Book* * ?.f -tri?-,- the wild ??tl matee of some of those persona hired] by the .child labor societies. , . W*th gentle Carranxa as president. tlfeV ^Mexican militants would die j with enuul ' _ ' Old Mexico is bankrupt?but what] vvU^ji* uo CXp?C(X-u Of ? c???tci f nrViuntmeut of a republic? ' . ,. A-'corrssNondoiit writes us thatj itwfc hro lou barrooms in Anderson.! <t?o -te?l It to the sleuths. . Vt&by rural. wrvilits bill is fine and ih^y, .but, the press gang is anxious <*buw:'li?j toyn credit us well. .Lets, ttave lltli.s eonaiiitency in] li^v. Don't always cus? yuur nciglt .bor>-when you might be cussable. /u?li#:k United. States will this week] IffijlRnle the birthday of that tnonu tuoTtU.1'.mediocrity.* Abr ' am Lincoln. ! -Oootbalb mude the canal sone fit tu live in, but he was afraid to tackle that police commisaoner's Job in New York. ?? - >'*A Chicago :>pceihliat writes that is a good deal of iron in steak, bull! it's steel, the tougheat i^s^itor.'.{klndell,' who waa appointed a diplomat mid declined, had. trained oph?B Dapleta may not have Mpjjifan. much of the sea, but from hh prohibition talk he Is somewhat nr?ufi??c: ^l^^v?re'wearing pistols openly] inr'tosnfcoV since President Wilson lifted .'the embargo on concealed ' ^Tbar a smile. That'll help some toward keeping your friends from slapping your rheumatic back to c&eef you up. S fat fish bait can, at least ikers, trot the hard-shell po bas no utilitarian purposcy AGAIN WE PROTEST ARain wo call attention to the I weird mall service between Helton { and Anderson. A letter mailed by the Helton correspondent of this paper] Saturday afternoon readied this of fice Sunday at 1.2 o'clock, and the news i .contained?-intended for Sun? day's paper, Is printed today. Our correspondent, .Mr Claude a Graves, Writes, "I mailed you a letter Satur day afternoon for Sundays paper, but it did not appear. I mailed it as u.->ual on the train. There was no mail clerk on te train, caused I be lieve by a wreck above Andorson. I wish you would mention the reason it did not appenr. as the people were looking for it." It Is almost: Uits'heurtenuig to try to work up a mail service to come Into \ndcrson on that afternoon train Last week *e had an Important news letter from Columbia that did not n ach Ulla offi?:?i for a couple of days a Liter from ^Charleston requires about tour dajj- sometimes to reach a correspondent in this city when the Hlue Itidge doesj not wait for that mall :it Hult'rtr:' We wish to ask Congressman Aikun f'tueHti?! "-tTI tl*er<b nothing In can do to get u belter mall service for Anderson? it doe.; seem with all the mtorurbu^ trams coming in from Heltbn tiiat a through pouch lor thltLCtty could bo carried And it does bce?i that there could l>t through pouchc..^ ?;y the early morn iug trains between (Jreuiville. and Anderson. . .. Of ull the cities in the United States We bellevo that Anderson really has the greatest lack of mall facilities Tbc afternoon Hlu? Hidge train should bo mudc wait for that mall from Columbia or forged to bring It rm another train. BLUE LAWS :. i$y W"? are informed* thut one of the preachers of the 'city seemed to find much amusement in the position tak en by this paper last week with re ference to the Sunday closing of drug stores. We may be In error, but we stand right where we did before We believe that the supreme court decisions or the state permit drug stores to keep open their doors foi the bale of medicines nud those things nocodsary for the alleviation of suf fering We do not believe that n drug' store has any. right to sell to bacco, soft drinks or other commo dities. Any such construction placed on our renirks hr' gratuitous. Our TftltoHai"'oT-last, /ifeefc la- air fol rows-* "We agree with the ministerial uiuon in ?b efiorts to break np loaf ing on the streets on Sunday. There should be some way to make the churches attractive enough to keep the boys' attention there, j Out the parental dlscipline.or lackof it, is so noticeable these days that some bo> scom to feel most at homo In com jiuuy of a rusty telegraph pole, with a lot of companions around, ogling ail who pass by. "We bellve that a curfew law would he better thun a Sunday closing law As a matter of, .fact, anl of law. we. believe the drug stores cannot b< closed *on Sunday's and as a matter of justice we tUmtyt exceedingly If the drug stores are responsible for the crowds of-loafers. "A few years! naro it was considered a f.I?fn of poor breeding for a young man to be seen touting around the strebt* yr m fopnt of a church door, ! but as Hev. Af?4V,u rrlsou said at th< I 1 Haptlst chu ret? 'Sunday night, the ! times have ehunged." Tht? law as?-to the sale or things other" than drugs Is plain. The preachers ?;un have it enforced. We believe the druggists would bo glad BE*'! m? * .?> ?T 1A > ?' We sec it stMPd that the National Government hmj -spent ?76.000,000 fot dm reclamation of a.000,000 acres oi desert lands in the west, whereas, lU?re i.ro .3.0U0.000 of swamp land in the coutil which needs reclaiming Secret^;- I^ane of the department ol the interior has recommended an appropriation of $108,000,000 for ad dltlbttal work in tne western arid sections. fit Hut Senator John. jSbarp William: oi Mississippi, andr - Champ Clark, speaker of the hous.\ bave introduce, a bill to mako ?rsUablc $30,000.00f to oe used ror flood protection am drainage werk. U he reclamation of the swamp ant overfloo-ii landsH?f? their protec tion from floods means much more t< the whole United States than the re claiming of a fejwirnlllion acres from dredthe desert. ^tnoaus many hum sired million dollars in annual crop* thd saving of mow than a hundrct mlllkro dollars a year in flood losses the prevention of many deaths in floods and. f*t WW more needles* deaths and mes?$pable suffering due to malaria and "other* diseases caus?e by the existence of swamp*. I Why was not ht is asylum lnvestiga I gatlon conducted behind closed doors'. The poor tons woman mixed up In it FROM AK 3LB COUNTRY LADT : 5iOTHK?JvIA-I,AW. I'm sorry for mothers-in-law. Sonn: of them may bo mighty mean, but n great many have enough to make them mean, rind so ?<f them have is trying on all sides, hard on (he sons-lulsw and daughters-in-law If i thoy f- >I 11 their dut> lo try to please j everybody, but they don't all feel that I it i- necessary I heard a daiiRUler iti-lav. nay Just the oiher day that she ' didn't mean to make an ilTort to please her mother-in-law, she only married Jim?his mother was not in cluded with the marriage contract, | and should not have a thing to do J i Ith r.ie management of the:.- home i yes, I am sorry for motlmrs-in-luw and j ons-in-law and daughters-in-law, but none of them need v.<" sympathy a I man and woman needs, who is trying i to keep peace bctweeil them. Tim saddest woman I know is a good bttle creature who is wearing her li!e av.ay trying to keep pouce vvitli her mother and husband- i*h?? is-' t:% ?im between two (ires; hur mother must make.her home with them, and s'nou.'d he very pleusuni us : !.e '.. \er: de pendent'; not so. Him acta a:; if they were d?pendent upon her lor a living. Well I believe in being good to oM people for I ' haven't luv 1? art Idea where I will land, but l certainly would have no thought o! ruling in tla home of any of my children T c e is m> jiiHtlci ai it 1 have ruled my own home and I will allow them the 'yiiuc privilege I never could have any sympathy with, a ninthcr in-law who tries to rule. If tbej g'otitkeir feeling-, hurt it i- pH right; lot them stuy m their place although that place sometimes is the saddest place on carlli. Hundreds of mothers have found It so I have in mind now two mothers-in-law -.vho ara passing through the- very pangs of' torment; One Ib a good old Indulgent mother. who reared a daughter who has uevcr beeu strong, and the mother reall/cl the condition and has done all she could to shield the girl from all c\ , tos ere and hard work. Made her child's life ijust us happy as could be, trying in a way to make up for her 111 health, und give her a chance m gain strength, by not being overworked: and at the age of ZO the girl Seemed to he us strong as the average and sbon? that time married a young man of the neighborhood, one who had known her all her life, knew V.ow the mother bad protected her and had reason lo believe the girl would never have grown to womanhood without'this leader care; but with those draw backs ho courted and married hi r. was proud of his pretty little wife, and. everybody predicted a happy ro.v *?ge. They wero well mated except In strengt'.? of body, he was large and ro bust, while she was small and delicate hut all went well for a few month?. Tho son-lu-luw was agreeable, and the mother-in-law stayed in her place; but tho third year brought a second "?fhbe'to the frail mother, und tlmn it svas very ovldent the pretty little wife was ?ji a decline aud St was mure evi dent the man who loved a delicate girl hated a sickly wife; and for two years he has made home very dis agreeable. Dut as the poor heart broken mother-in-law says in her last letter: -*'He is more considerate now. The doctors say Mary is iu the last stage of consumption." Don't you think that mother desorves credit for pot murdering her son-in-law. Jut>i think what she has endured seeing lutr sick daughter imcared for and, crying to work and please an un feeling husband, a man who had no thought of her duties in the home with" the double work of two babies, which calls for more strength than most women have. Tho old mother knew it. meant death .to her own lamb, .vho had been nourished and reared In her arms, ^l?ved and protected as n dower, and after all this devotion r.h< must spend the last years of her lite Is enough to parnlyxc any mother unearcd for and forsuken. Vet. toi Illing drCadfu!. This other mother enough 10 mak?j her want to do soum is having trouble with her daughtor in-ld'w. says this ton's wll'o is some thing tierce, won't lot her visit in the home, Abd w ill out allow the eon visit her, and forbids the childrcu coming neun her, und makes both homes very miserable. Well. 1 can't say what do. Jjui like Aunt Folly fctuit* says thanythe white plague, and. when o I =<!i.-.n ;a ? of daugbtPHu-Iaw enter s | noun* with shot gun and hatchet, aipi break peace on both sides they e.re wocsv than o traitor, in war tune*." Old folks feel their d?pend?mes ; m':.mi: without bailles, had rather give up life than live in It. and sonm bow? dpn'f evsr menu tp undertaV a-life of this kind. ? ten Uku writ.up an the walls o! my humble home this one big word "Independence." The older I grow tho more independent I feel. Of course I couldn't , talk this waj It Anderson county had no couhiy mine, but so long ob it baa one 1 feel h' e allockpfellar end I don't see a bit tif use of old folks standing around .\ Ith .their fingers In their mouth, Afraid to movo or speak, like hundreds ->f poor old souls all over the world. Dr ?ourse if John should die and 1 mould break up-housekeeping in les? than a week I would be in the home of a son or daughter, right - where 1 -hould want 10 go, and I would try to oh pleas;.m and help with the grand children, for I lov* them dearly. I could dress them in the inoraiags and wash tbelr faces and comb their hair ind mend their clothes'and watch over them while their mother was out mopping or visiting, J would try to' do say duty and do It pleasantly: do as a mother and grandmother should, and then 1 would feel satisfied that 1 was doing my part; and then I would OA pect to he treated like a mother and a grandmother should be. I would evpcqt to shar? with the family in the luys. t would expect board and clothes and I would want their, to conto freely. I don't mean that t don't mean that I would want to dress like on0 of the granddaughters who ; was just making her debut, but 1 i wonid expect a calico dress or two, and a pair of shoes every year, and I wouldn't want the whole family thrown Into a ?taie of eruption on the strength of it; for the second outbur?*' I would lind nie in tbe county home, free and independent Yes, I said years uro when I first frit age creep- I iUK over me that no doubt my children saw it. and dreaded It, dreaded it I worse than I did, dreaded the time I when the "old lady " would he sitting around in the way. Hut I want them to know right now and forever more they needn't !< e u minute''-, sleep on my account I will never be I in llu-ir way. i oin either to be a I welcome guest.or I am off on charity that In far ahead of kith and kin. If 1 couldn't do any better I would do like old Mrs, Login. When old man Logan died she went to live with her son Tom who already had u house full with June and the eight children, but to ere was no other place for the old lady. She went ami certainly had to work alter she had gotten there. Tom v. is laiy and Shift 1 ens and Jane had a hard time hut the < Id lady helpud all e could, washed dimes and children and mended from morning till ni.^ht, and was' unwelconti So the old lady got tlrod of it and about that time old lean lianlv moved into the neighbor hood, lie was a widower with two children and need d u housekeeper, and in teas than two months he and ? !d Mrs. Ixjgan' were married. Tom and Jane cut up about it, said they wouldn't have cared so .much hut the old a .-? was getting up in years. Well i : "< r.\ It was all right, maybe bet t"r than the poor : ou- o. and no doubt better than v.orlcingundor dis idvuritug?sf working for children who arc upXions for the day when they can hide yon away in th grave. Hut many times mothers make life mis eruble for their children?make, it so unpleasant for the son-in-law or daughter-in-law. This reminds i?e of :i letter 1 received last summer from a poor heartbroken woman in this town. She said her husband and Iiis mother wi re running her crazy.. Between the two si-.c lived In torment, and wanted to know what would I do If It was my eaee. 1 told her to run off the mother-in-law and leave the husband, break up tho nest entirely. A mother who would break pea< e between her -on and his wife should be driven out or the country, and a man who takes sides with his mother against his wife I Is the shabbiest man on the face of the enrtW. I will never expect my son or my daughter Hide with nin ajrainst the v/ife or the husband. Xo, if my on-in-Iaw were to come home drunk every night I will make the be?t of it, and if my u&oghter-in-law goes to n ball every night in the week and leaves tho baby for me to care for, I will do the best I can; but after I do i ill I can and the best 1 can, I want to ! be appreciated, I don't want my chil dren to think 1 can't live without them. . I had rather accept kindness | from them than any one on earth, but they would be the last on earth I would ask It oil: If I must evor beg it wil not be from tho ones who owe me their life. 1 have seen parents beg ;of their children, but I hope the Lord will take me before- I come to this.: It is a true old savin*; that pu? mother cau care for a dozen children easier than, a dozen children can care for one "mother. I wonder if tho "In lnwa" causo this trouble, I doubt it. Anyway 1 have no desire to rule and neither do 1 want to be ruled, I Just want to bo a companion for my chil dren- and for those who come in by law. and If I can not have this privil ege with my children I want to get off as far as I can. I love them and love- usually begets love, and if our love is sincere as it should be, we will he Willing to bear and forbear. This is the only safe Plan for the inothor ln-law; and the spo-l^-?aw and daugh ter-in-law should do the samo. >js $ jji ?}c # j)t * :{: * sfc $ ? * ! KOPEWELL NEWS * 3ft C? pf? 3? 3fi Jj* Spccinl to the Intelligencer. Anderson, Fob. 9.?Hauling fertil izer la the order of the day now. The health of 'this community Is not so very good. Thore are several cases of pneumonia. Hopewell has succeeded In getting ;v pastor for this year. Rev. O. L. Martin was elected last Sunday for the Remainder of the year. Miss Belma Webb, daughter of Mr. ?iii! Mrs. W. C. Webb has been sick with pneumonia, bat Is reported as Ving some better. sir, W, W. Thompson has been on the sick list for soyer.nl days. It la hotted tlrat ho will soon be out again. ">lr. Claude 1). Wilson of this place has recently purchased a plantation near Six and Twenty. Miss Minnie Tooker, teacher of Cross Ro-.us High School, delightfully entertained at dinner Sunday after noon in honor of Misses Mae King, Alice King. Mary Ter.sue and Prof. ('Hut Watklns. at the hospitable home of "Mr. and Mrs. Lee Welhorn. Lot everybody come out to church Sunday afternoon and . hear Rev. O. L Mnxti.n prench.- ?sy much and tasting good be done by this noble eaker. ' . FEIGNED INSANITY TO AVOID COURT Atlanta, Feb. D.?In order to pr? tant himself from appearing before the recorder this morning, Carl Mat thews, an insane white man, who be* Hoves himself to be a reincarnation ot Jesus, took oft all hi* clothes and placed them in tbe corner of his ceil and touched a lighted match to them. Then he cat cal my, In the same in nocent state as Adam in the Garden of Eden and said: "Take mo before the Judge it yon wish." . The psssi^u i*/ii<:cman decided to postpone trio hearing until something could be found to clothe the prison er in. and whea "fee ta arralngaed now u will probably be liefere an ordinary on a lunacy writ instead of before the recorder for disorderly conduct ?, Anxiety to Sell is Poor Tactics in Merchandising WWBI i'W?7<'?>*"' " " "v"-- < -? ' Being too anxious to sell often cases the loss of a profit to the customer. It is needless if the dealer has the right sort of stuff at attractive prices. We merely suggest that you may find this clearance sale interesting. Men's Suits & Overcoats $27.50 Values .... $20.00 25.00 22.50 20.00 18.00 15.00 12.50 10.00 Values Values Values Values Values Values Values 18.75 17.25 14 75 1375 11.50 9.75 7.50 Boys' Suits & Overcoats $ 3.50 and $3.00 Values now $2.50 4.50 and 4.00 Values now 3.25 5.00 Values now 3.75 6.50 and 6.00 Values now 4.50 8.00 and 7,5*0 Values now 5.00 9.00 and 8.50 Values now 6.00 10.00 Values now 7.50 12.50 Values now 9,75 We're giving the same reductions on men's odd trousers as on boys' suits. Men's Quality Shoes It's almost disrespectful to price them so low. But when we clear stocks we can't "play favorites"?Hence these prices: $6.00 Hanan Shoes in all different leathers now. .... $4.75 5.00 Howard & Foster Shoes in all leathers now. 3:?5 4.00 Howard & Foster Shoes in all leathers now. ?.25 3.50 Snow Shoes in all different leathers sow.'. 2.75 We prepay all charges when cash, check or money order accompanies order. . Your money hack If you want it. The/aStore with a Conscience.' lllllllll?lillllllllill? illllilUllllllllllllHIUUIIIilM What Do You Want To Know About Farming? The Progressive Farmer's Great Reference Spec ial Will Tell You. Want to know how to calculate the value of a fertilizer? \\r - ? . i_i_;_ jl_ j_ i_ ' __ _ ? u?m i? anuw now tu uu nome mixing; Want to know what each element is worth? Want to know how to make, spraying mix tures and when to spray? Want a list of all the free Farmer's Bulletins classified by subjects? Want to know just when to plant clovers, rape, vei.cne?? ana all farm and garden crops? All this informatinn by the gre?t REFERENCE SPECIAL of The PROGRESSIVE FARMER Fe>>. 14th. No other farm paper has ever issued ?ny ?dition so packed with available information. Send os ten cents for et ten week's suhacriptior 'deluding a copy of this invaluable farmer's gtiidchoolc. ^ h~*?~t -fill, acndffl for a whole year's subscription. We'll give yon your money back?with interest?if y or. are not satisfied. Isn't that fair? Address? THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER, RALEIGH, N. C. ^lUllMij;?!!!!!!!!!!! 111!