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THE ANDERSON INTELLIGENCER Peoaded 18t* IM North Mala Street ANDERSON* 8. C. WILLIAM BANKS, - Edltor W. W. SMOAK, - Busine?? Manager | >. Baterei According to Act ef Con. gras no Second Ciass man gutter at | the Postofflee at Anderson, 8. C PaMJshed Every Morning Except Monday SgemLWeeUr Edition oa Tuesday aid Prlcay Mornings Daily Edition??5.00 per annum; I 9SM tot Six Months; $L*t fer Three Mentha, Semi.Weekly Edition ILM per Annum; 7ft cents for Six Months; 60 ] eat* for Pear Meatha, IN ADVANCE Member of the Associated Press tad I Reeclrlng Complete Daily Telegraphic | fgetiliiii. .A larger Circulation Than Any Oth* er Newspaper fa This Congressional! District. Intelligencer la delivered by carri?re la the elty. It you fall to got your paper regularly please notify a. Opposite your name on label et pear paper It printed date to which paar paper la paid. All checks and drafts should be drawn to The An Intelligencer. THE WEATHER Washington, Feb. 10.?Forecast:? South Carolina?Fair and somewhat ! colder Wednesday; Thursday fair. Dally Thought. In politics and in religion, it so happons inat we have loss charity for those who bellove in the half of our creed than for those who'deny the whole of it?Cotton. Anderson Is My Town?The whole | M+im Sunday gshCC! COCTCStlCU. A lot of this asylum business sounds like eras y Ulk. The Congressional Record Is a valentine, a la comique, all the year around. The oity council will "tighten up" on the blue laws. Buy your cigars] on Saturday. "Fussy" Woodruff la in towo.| (Thafe^ graph In Welcome to a great church town, delegates. Anderson is proud of her Sunday Schools. The Anderson High School basket ball team Is there with the winning | scores this year. . "No valentine tor me," says Wil liam J. . "And I was sure expecting] one from .Champ C." The value of the 8. 8. Convention! to Anderses' Wil! be its spiritual up lift Will we get It or will we miss' Itf. Mr. Villa, please hurry up and end the war. We don't want anything to disturb our attention from the box scores. Please, Mr. Mayor, do some extra stunts In the way of getting streets in good condition tor the big parade Friday. Wilt Borne one pleaso explain why| the small boy is so much more regu lar on Lu nday School Just hofnm j Christmas? We wish to congratulate council on the personnel of the city board (\t h? t?h. a *r?tt?r board cculi set have been found. Mayor Holleman, last call to put the streets In good order. A few loads of sawdust, please, in front of the Baptist church. From treasurer of the Press Axso* riat!."vri to c-???co?vr o? tue income j tax would have been more of a civil | service promotion for Mr. Sims. / J. Mack King was not out looking fer. th?t 5?r^rv??or"a oi??co, nut now {Jut he has it. he wishes to have it cr.,7;^h w ?v ouuio tonsiruciive work- _\m**nm Jas. W. Oaborne who la conducting the Su'ser-Murphy graft inquiry in New York, is a Charlotte basa for whom Mecklenburg's titles are clear. A? a district attorney for New York] be sent Mollneaux to prison. The Mexican g?n?rais "interned" as captives in Texas, have all the pfoeourea of home, except, the ogees t'osa, as their playful killings are called. Of coarse it ts net Sabbath desecra tion tor a rich man to Joy ride oh Sunday or to travel on the cars. But for a poor ?an to hire a livery rig for a little fresh air?horrors! THE SI'MiAV SCHOOL The Sunday Mnl In the United States may he acknowledged ?b a most efficient means of Imparting re ligious instructing to the young, a most effective recruiting agency for the church where ^be teaching is done by loyal pcrKonfAsTaincd in that work. Some denominations were not bo ready to accept the Sunday School, deeming it safest*" for children to be taught around the fumily altar, or from the sacred dcBk, by the man of God, trained in theology and in church history. Hut, thhnks to the printing press and to the great schools of Instruc tion, there are today found in the Sunday Schools teachers!as capable and as well Informed as some of the men of the pulpit. The Sunday School passed the experimental stage more than 75 years uty>. There was a Sunday School in Norwich, Conn., as early as 1675. Plymouth, Mans, and Newton, Long Island. There was one In Pennsylvania in 1740. One of the earliest, perhaps the earliest establishment of a Sunday School ,'n ihe south, was by Bishop Asbury in Hanover county, Virginia, in 1786. In 1790 the "Flrstday So ciety" was formed in Philadelphia to give religious lnstitactlon to poor children. This society employed paid teachers and in 1800 had 2.000 sub scribers. Boston and New York soon after started a similar organization. The negroes hail had their Sunday Schools since 1793 when Kate Fergu son, a black woman, organized tiiem In New York. Manrgwuihern preach ers, before the war, taught their slaves the Bible on Sundays. The late Dr. Glrardeau, the most eloquent man the Soutdofn Presbyterian church has produced and a profound scholar, taught and preached to the siaves in Charleston, and his example under those conditions and circum stances as a missionary Is being pointed to these days in certain ar guments. The spreading of the organization of the Sunday Schools in this county has been carried out by means of the field secretaries. .Most states have their interdenominational State asso ciations. The first National con vention was held in New York in 1832. At the last^uational conven tion 2,200 delegat?Pwero present. In 1873 a ptsm^or uniform Bible lessons was formally Inaugurated and these lessons Btcr being adopted ; by Canada and England were called "International." While each denoml millions must ha^atudylng .the same lessons each Sunday. The modern Sunday School seeks to reach all ages, from Infanjjf to adult The "Cradle Roll" inSudes children of throe years. Then la a home depart ment for invalids? and others who cannot attend and there are over 500.000 on its rolls. The Amorlcafi'' Sunday School union war organised in 1824. We have cot the latest Statistics hut as tftea of the immensity of the work can bo gp.thered from ^"s"!??-* "following: It has circulated $15.000,000 worth of liter ature; has published 1,000 volumes; in the last ten years, has organised 25,000 Sunday Schoo*"! >wlth 976.000 members. Its benevolent work cost M&l rvrtA *.??...?II ? T.Li 1 ..n.nltn,-, if-.*.*>,V.'U EIUUUail,t, IW QUIUIUUUUh 1911, was 14.948.000 pupils; 1,677,000 teachers and officers skid 176,000 Sunday Schools. Great is the work and blessed, is the future of the Supjlpy Schools. NATIVE OF^IdIbBSON The editor of the Intelligencer Tiaa beHved in the sprmiaa drag and those persons in Anderson county who have used it know that line drag is a good thing. It has done good work in this county. In fact, wMtover others may say, the split log dr?K first usvd in Anderson county?.'. Col. Jno. C. Stribllng, who is .well known as one of the -most progressive farmers in the state, used the split log drag some 18 or 20 years agcacl He had a drag made to level the surface of his brich yard near Pendle ton. and so Well olcased was be with the work that he ; tried It on the roads with splendid beneficial ef fect. Like that other Anderson man and Inventor. Col. Jno. V. Stribllng, ?he trcrksd out Ibo principle or the differential .gear rwhlch has made ?OUThl* Ihn CT?*V'Sntthni.?klle Inriiin try. Col. Jno. C. Stribllng has per mitted another, Mr. King, of Indiana, I to get the pralseffor the split log I '. Whoever Invented or devised this contrivance, wO thins] it Is what the roads need. One of them costs hut about It. Thert?fWe1many of them in ihe county now. We believe every farmer should have 'one or more and drag alt the roads on his place. In ibat way Anderson county will have the beat roads in the state. Just after a raja,,when the ground Is ton wet to be wwed, and the stock c.vn be use? rotjfeothlng else, -e-?d be a goodtlme % n?e the drag. The mai being thick and gummy can be polled into the- holes and units and packed firm by&he application of su? I * ' fit-lent weight. Drags are made by many hardware people, but the home made kind i? guud enuugh. That the drag has met with great favor elsewhere Is well konwn. The Spartauburg Herald thus describes its use in that county: "The split Iok drag is doing the work In Spartauburg coutny. The ef ficiency of this Hlmple device for road Improvement may be demonstrated on several road* leading out of the city, hut of course, the Howard Gap rond, where the drag has been used longest, Im the best example to be found We doubt that there is a bet ter clay road in South Carolina than that?and its splendid condition is due to the luaintainance of the drag. "We believe this a great system of road working and that It has come to stay?provided, and this is most im portant, it provcH economical. it should be the cheapest means of working roi.ds and If the men in charge of the various sections wl'l keep an eye on the expense and hold that down as low as possible, not to allow the road to nufter, there will never be any departure from the drag antl Section system and tho roads of this county will be good the year around. Keep -down expense, and keep up the road. That's the slogan. ST. VALENTINE What has become of the young fellows and girls who used to post each other those lacey, mushy, lovey dovey valentines on Feb. 14? Per haps they are still doing it, but the St. Valentine doings of the present time seem to be more of a kldlet af fair. With what anxious heart the youth of 12 to 18 yearB of age used to wel come the coming of the anniversary! J With what discriminating care he j selected a gorgeous display of Cupid emblems to please his lady love! With what beating heart he dropped it behind the post office! And at the country school there was the exchange of missives at the ! old hollow stump. With pictures of I Cupids and of hearts pierced with I darts of love, these valentines were then wortth their weight in gold. In I the days of Chaucer and Shakespeare, Valentino day was a day for betrothui ' and was marked by the -giving of pre sents. This usage grew out of the fairy legends that on this day the birds chose their mates. Folks, let's cut out all of this poli tical mess in South Carolina. The rest of the world is holding Its nose. BEY. JOHN F. TINES * l'aster? First Baptist Choren Anderson, 8. C. j > BEY; J; SPEAKS Pastor St. John's Methodist Church Anderson, S. C DUCK SEASON SOON CLOSES After Feb. 16& !? Will Be Unlaw ful to KOI Ducks in Ander son County After the 16th of this month It will be unlawful to shoot ducks in South Carolina and those Anderson county people who violate thts law .will be subject to a .fine of $90 or Imprison ment, or both, in tho discretion of the court. This ir.formation, is obtained from a lctor sent out by the Biologi cal surev?y of the department of agri culture and & nnny nf wkUh h?, bee? received by The inteligencer. The same communication also calls attention to the fact that migratory insect-cnttng birds are protected by the federal law. This applies to robins and meadow larks, both of which come under tho provisions of the federal statutes. These birds are regarded as valuable to agriculture as their food consists largely ot I?suc?b Injur ious t? field crops. 'Kconomy of material was the ex planation of the erection of a house in Los Angeles In which njcry part was made ot concrete In the same forms they would have been ft made of wood, then hailed or wired together. Instead of the rigid planes used on most aeroplanes two Austrian invent ors have equipped their air craft with circular planes revolving In opposite directions 300 or more times a minute. MR. AIKEN SPEAKS ON IMMIGRATION Before National House of Repre sentatives When Bill Was Considered Washington, Feb. 10.?Whiie the Immigration bill was being considered In tho House, Representative Aiken made a speech which, though short, explained very clearly the attitude of the people of South Carolina on the immigration question. Mr. Aiken said: Mx. Speaker, while the section of country that 1 have the honor to rep resent has not aa yet been affected by undesirable Immigrants, the future may hold greater dangers from un restricted immigration there than In any other section of the southland, or perhaps of the United States. South Carolina ta the second cot ton-munufacturlng state in the Union. The people who operate the mills are our neighbors and friends, bone of our bone and flesh of ou/ flesh. They are descended from the sturdy racea of northern Europe and their tore fathers helped to wreBt the country from British tyranny. Our people may not be spoken of In terms of caste or class. We are one people, loving the country that we have built up from savage wilds, respecting the laws'of the land, growing in wealth, and looking ever forward for better things, intellectually and morally. Mr. Speaker, we do not want these ; ideal social and business conditions to be disturbed by the influx of a lot of undesirable foreigners. Already cortain sections of this country bare been overrun by k large foreign ele ment, so large that foreign ideal? and foreign Issues have displaced true American principles, and fed and fos tered socialism and anarchy. Of courte, I would not close the door absolutely against the intelli gent, well-meaning immigrant. This would be inconsistent with the prin ciples on "which this government was founded. Furthermore, such a step would not only be impracticable but impossible. The comity of nations re quires that our. alien laws be reason able, as the lawa, of other cations must be reasonable toward us. If England should enact a law pro hibiting any American from taking up residence within her borders, ~"c would meet the Insult with arms. But England may very reasonably pro hibit the lame, the blind, the insane, the pauper, the anarch int. yes, and the Illiterate, of this country from, be coming citizens of her domain. And why? Because they become a charge, n t? > Km t.MM .?uu...kl- mL_.. ? uv MW, uv.wj. v iiu-^iiniuj/. i kZKJJT become eU?tarbcrs- of the peace. They become tools in the hands of design ing man--to drive honest .labor out of employment. This country, then, should^npt<permit the Illiterate hordes of Eurppo to delve our own good peo ple oui of employment. The one znalmifleature ht ; which the bill unUerrdiscueetoa' differs from thtr pr????L ?w*t ?a -tine ?-?n?i.Crt i??it?f cC>' ; and 1n|my judgment tais is one of the strongest.feature jf,tbe<bill. The in telligent*, ^foreigner is/Oat willing to work at starvation wages, Jt la the llllterate.i'class, those who have not the indulgence to d?pend on their wits, who could be herded like cattle Into out: > factories- to drive, our home labor that we qted to dread, most. And I may add further, tbat it Is the illiterate class -of foreigners from whom" our foreign criminals come. 1 live in s ?oetios z-" ths country where fully half the people are ne groes. The crime for which ao many negroes pay the death penalty outside the law Is accountable, I believe, in large measure to the illiteracy of that race. Negroes with a smattering of education commit forgeries, but .they rarely assault white women. It is a question with our people, then, whether it in better to educate the ne gro and elevate the character of this offense or. leave him an.ignorant brute prone to that greatest offense which meana his death at the hands of the comes with hlsideas of anarchy and There is nothing so sacred to the southern white man as the honor of the southern white woman; and be lieving that In giving the negro some education, are lessen his brutal ten d.ascies, or we at lest; ir.crcast hia dread of certain vengeance, we have written a 3*mlll school tax In our con stitution, the proceeds, of which we divide with that race. Now, this bur den is on ua. The nearo ? ?? put ?? the south by the hand of destiny. Shall we look for further burdens by admitting the illiterate foreigner, who ocmes with his Ideas of anarchy and Immorality to mix' with and contam inate our purer American citizenship? It has been said If a lion ate beef and pork and lamb it all became lion, and a critic.wisely replied that if the lion ate spoiled beef. pork, and lamb he would likely be a sick :ion. Just so, if this country takes In the worth Jess foreign element tbat Is yearly Vomited from Europe, there will be congestion In our o**i*s ??d anarchy and crime on every hand. I repeat that tWa country should never close Its doors to the upright, hc^Uhj, intelligent loreignere, and I may add that this country will grow less and less attractive to the better element or foreigners as the country itself grows older and more like the mother countries. Free lands are ' a thing of the past here, and foreign fermera of tho type that have built up the mighty wiut, cow that the Panama canal is opened, will seeh homes In the Temperate Zone of South America. The Ignorant laborer and the city drone are the < lusses of people who will seek to come Ui ever-increasing numbers; and If we would preserve our Institutions, If we wovld preserve ourselves and our children In the heritage they tiave carved out of the Y.-::acmr,se, we must- raise the bars against the worthless torolgn ?lement. A sanitary gnard *a? been iavesteA to prevent persona handling spigot outlets. VARIOUS MATTERS BEFORE COUNCIL ? New Board of Health Wae Elected Last Night The meeting of council wee- at tended by a number or interested par ties and several of these appeared be fore council. Representing the Board "f Health, Dr. J. P. Ducketi appeared and asked that council reduce tub number of the Board from 10 to five and accept hiB resignation as a mem ber of the board. This action' was taken and tbe following new mem bers of the board, to serve from five years for the first named to one year for the last named, were announced hy the mayor: Dr. Frank Ashmore, chairman; Dr. W. H. Nardln, Dr. B. A. Henry, F. B. Cray ton and A. H. Dagnall. Recorder Russell appeared before the body and stated to tbe council that he would like to bave a little more right cf discretion granted him by the council He said that the same offense might vary in gravity in two cases. He also discussed present conditions, saying that council should go on record as being opposed to lawlessness, r.hen so much, lawless ness Jand crime is going on in the State* and men being liberated by high officials every day. in tbe year. He also asked for- instructions rela tive to "putting the lid on" on Sun days. Council considered his first reuest, that of more discretion in the trial of cases and made the minimum fine that might be Imposed by the recorder, one dollarv i J-*-JB**#<BWB8 Dr. Duckett asked council to make certain improvements on Kennedy street; Dr. Acker asked tbat im provements be made on streets ad jacent to certain of his property; Alderman Carter presented a petition asking tbat certain drainage work be done in his ward; Alderman El more secured some additional lights and hydrants tor his ward; Alderman Spearman also secured additional lights. The matter of doing addition al . paving on certain streets was con sidered and passed to the street com mittee for action. S. D. Boykln, who has had in charge the city clock, tendered hiB resignation and his son, A. C. Boy kin, was selected to fill tbe position, j jt wee the sense of council that sstr I hands be bought for the city clock I and certain Improvements made upon it if the county would pay one-halt of the expense connected with this un dertaking. Mayor Holleman announced that he had appointed City Health Officer Pom h hoi l n? o rfoiooot; ,q *k? Sani tation Con ;ntlon which meets In Co lumbia on March 12 and 13 and ask ed that council defray th|? officer's expenses to. Columbia lor this con vention. (Favorable action was taken on this suggestion. Various ether routine matters were attendit to.followlhg whioh the coun -oil went4?to oaecaUve aosoloav^ If you knew how deter mined we are to make a real clea n-.u p of this stock, you'd appreciate better the values we're offering in men's suits and overcoats. $27.50 25.00 22.50 20.00 18.00 15.00 12.50 10.00 Values Values Values Values Values Values Values Values $20.00 18.75 17 25 14.75 13.75 11.50 9.75 7.50 You'll find our offerings in boys' suits and over coats and .men's odd trousers no less interest ing, y "The Store With a Conscience." i 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? Want to know how to do home 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 classind by subjects? Want to know just when to plant devers? rape, vetches, and all farm and garden crops? All this information by the great REFERENCE SPECIAL of The PROGRESSIVE FARMER Feb. 14th, No other farm paper has over issued any. edition so packed with available information. Sepal ne ten cents fair a ten wok's tMUcriptsow QAcfaJeas a cony of this tnvalnabla tanntr,i gtAUkw?r Oy t^trf e?" send $1 for a whole yessr*s sdbecriptioss. Well giv* yon yowr money t^ck>~vnth netorcet il yon sav> not aat?sfied. Ianrt that GRESS4VE FARMER, RALEIGH, N. C.