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ANDERSON INTELLIGENCER Founded 18? IM North Mala Street ANOERSON, 8. 0. AM BANKS, . . Editor f. W. SMOAK, . Bcslneti Manager ? - .latered According to Act of Con no as Second Class Man Matter at ] to Pofitofflee at Anderson, 8. C, faMlabed Ercry Morning Except Monday IwaJ-Weekly Edition on Taeeaay and Friday Mornings Km Bally Edition?$5.00 per aaaassi U? tor Six Montas I tl& for Three loath*. Semi*Weekly Edition ? ILM per Mtoami 75 cents tor Six Moathst M ?Os fyt Fear Mouths. _Dt APVAHCB '/ anther of the Associated Preis and I leeclrlng Complete Bally Telegraphic | ^larger Clrcalatloa Than Any Oth-, newspaper in This Coagresilonal The Intelligencer la delivered by I la the city. If you fall to j your paper regularly pleaaa notify Opposite your name on label your neper la printed data to which paper Is paid. All checks and should he drawn to The An Intelligencer. The Weather. Washington, Feb. 18.?Forecast: ith Carolina?Fair Tuesday ex t rain on the coast; much colder; lead ay, fair. everybody happy? Sure. ideraon la My Town ? Fairfax j ieori. Igor?those who dress in style, jps?those who do not. lttle beauty la a danfmrou? thing; ; fat,me la leas harmful. to men about themselves and ien about their clothes. Hies tris City gives a glad wel to her distinguished guests. Is a supernatural being, and makes bar clothes much fewer 11 float triumph of the blue law was the .all of a negro woman ahopkeop seellcnt. quarantine that Laurens had I New berry waa a sore point, ] la over now. you see the ground hog? Wel Jim Roberts would exterminate men do not owe everything to wives, to hear the way other] fuaa about it rt Anderaon is not the man for tho town wan named, hut he can it It's yaurn, Bud. m. Villa's war cry is, "Fee;*fi, fo, I smell tho blood of an Engllsh V Tnllwldem. man waa made In the image of ?.,-? !.. ?_?? ??m.u iu ?-rau up ap es wljeu he goes to tangoing. ?rlnta on the Bands of time** spoken long before the Bertillon em an?? diurne. Nothing doing Were mistaken about the police jwberry not being able to catch They can catch the point He, Maybe. - la Is the greatest session of the ture Bluce the famous drift hunch of Tillman deya. Abso rt nothing baa been done. mileage bill haa been smothered a weight of abominable* fake - Tho "big four" of Liberty Hall have been it work. Chamber ol - Commerce..has Well during its first >ear. The ..Who worked hardest have fewest ita. Let's all work and douse tera next year. i* of these days Proxy Wilson Wake np early la the morning and that there is a congress that has say-so about running the gov ient. re is no need for the asylum iktee to report Mise Saunders en vindicated. She may be an but that la no reason why have been treated so de v U'? Jvet Man's Way. i j wood Journal. Anderson Intelligencer has* :bn" discovery that lota of] ftbo are not willing to do any themselves are willing to push fcper into a ?cran. This ohar ; of human nature* fs probab _ e* human nature Itself. Any] _ manifestations began aa soon ha n?M<Kii? -"'blitliiSg C?*U~SOn-i HOBT. YOl'M? ' IfdrVlVH?PIO.VKUBJ Books of subscription for the Boiith | Carolina railway were open^^uM Die 17th of March 18?K, and by May or the nauio y.'ar flv?> experimental lottos had been built. In August, 1S3U, ?ieopin pany was organized to build the road from Charleston to Mamburg. H. C, and by May 1st, 1833, TC mil' . had been completed. A branch-lh?<? was to run to Columbia. The Charleston Mercury or May 7th, 183S, stated-very truthfully that "the locomotive t.ra\ela over a ^realer ex tent or llnr of railroad in cons?cutive utiles .than la or now can be done In any otiicr part of the world." News papers w?r<> boosters in those days also. Martin Van Buren did not hesitate to assert about thai time that the con struction of the rhurlcstou railroad was a part of the plans of Die nulll flcationlsts to make Charleston the great port of this country by reaching out arme of railroads into the west and draining that section of its com merce. In 1833 Elina Horry at Augusta, in a speech commemorating the building of the <>i ad, declared that the Western Railroad, building from Knoxvllje, Tenn., would enter South Carolina about Spartanburg district and would proceed to Columbia and thence to Branchvllle to connect with the South Carolina road, or the Charleston Rail way as it was called. Early in Feb ruary the locomotive "v ?gefleld" made the run from Charleston to Augusta In 7 hours and 20 minutes, a distance of 136 miles. Some speed* * jTbe roll ing stock of tho road consisted of nine locomotives, 14 passdnalr* coach - es and 90 freight care. ' f f But the real pioneer of rallrouding in South Carolina Is said to have been Robert Y. Hayne, who as far back as 1822 divined that what South Carolina needed was a railway to be operated by steam power to solve the difficul ties of transportation. Tho "patent railway" had been exhibited in Char leston and Mr. Hayne realised what it would do. But we are told hv. his torians' that for narrow, selfish rea sons, they had demagogue* and ob structionists then as they have" today ?the railroad 'was turned dowft flat by Columbia and even in Charleston' was denied access to the water front a while. In 1835, Gen. W. H. Harrison of In diana, later president, but at that time senator and a friend of den. Hayne, beaded a group of men to bnlhj the Charleston and Cincinnati tol?xlng ton to Cumberland'?a^|to^(li#||ren( h Broad Valley and tb ' ColvfiJJiViPnd Charleston. Joel R. Poinaett waa al so interested in this proposition, and by sonn credit for thVjpmpight of the wkc?a rnattiVt* gltfetf BStephen Elliott. ?t CothMtta Abirtay. Blend ing, Wade Hampton and Senator w. r. Preston toolc up the* proposltfiw, $ . On the 4th or July, 1836, a,-1 great convention was held in Kn$xvii}e, Tenn., and the matter waa debated let great length. It waa declared to be easily feasible to build therroad, the only question was the roate. Mr. Hayne and -his asaociaUsA Including Judge O'Neall, contended for a 'road through the middle of the' BtUe. and Mr. Calhoun contended for the road known an'"the Georgia roulf?. Tbla waa to go by way of Augusta and Athena, but Augusta fet} down on building a bridge and the two roads were of different gauge. Mr. Hayne bad a triumph in the Knoxvllle con vention aud It waa determined to build the road by . the Fridefi Broad way. Later Mr. Calhoun discovered the route over the mountsijf by White. Falls, now the Blue Ridge road. He described It as following ' tb.e old Cherokee trading path and crossing the Blue Ridge from Wtftf Water .oreek, a branch of the Reowee, to the Tuckaaiege." \ .. * f*.. There resulted a long anc termin able wrangle, which caused she death of Hayne. He attended a meeting ot the directors at AsheviHe on the 16th of September, 1839, and was taken with (eyer which caused hia(death ah d?ys later. Thus has every '- great undertaking a martyr, as the Panama canal had its David OuBose Gallttro anu its Jackson -smith ot South Caro lina. WORK FOR ANDERSON. The annual meeting ot the Chamber of Commerce will be held tonight at Maple Hall. While special guests have been Invited, men who hate a grasp upon-the great world outside of nnmllUle sphere here at home, yet this is a meeting for the men ot Andej-g s^n, and we hope that every buainasn roan ip. tn$ city will attend. Aa we understand'it, tbero will be no charge, hpt every member of the Chamber of 'Commerce is-Invited. Q The Chamber of CommerceTwaa or I ganlsed a year ago. Up to that time 1 there wns no cohesive, organised work j in the city tor public uplift? We say, jutor baring observed nwst^rafnUy the work of the Anderson Chamkar of Commerce In comparison with .the or ganised commercial bodies ot other cities, that more work haa been done nnd more ham been ??coinplished la Anderson than'In any other city of the state. Undertaking the work on a broad scope, it has been Impossible for Sec retary Wliah-y to make individual calls upon all the people of the city. He is not running for office, lie is not seeking personal popularity. Ho is employed to do whatever can be done lo build up Anderson, to brin* outside capital here, to bring desirable set tlers here, to bring Anderson to the attention of the outside world. The only kick is that lie has cut out a work thai would really require the ef forts of two men. We feel tbut Mr. Whaley has made a great success here. Ills work here has been so successful, til fact, that other eitles have tried repeatedly to take him away. Hut he has a peculiar uttachrueiw for Anderson', as has evejiy man who comes here. For -fh'^e atf God's own people here, and this is the greatest country in the world. We believe in the possibilities of Anderson. We believe in the fiiture of the piedmont, where front two to three crops may be made on one piece of lund every year and at no time Ib the weather extreme. We believe that the foundation work laid by the An derson Chamber of Cojrnmerce will beer fruit for many years to come, and I we hope that after the knowledge that has been gained in this, the first year, the members will apply them selves more diligently next year, end that the directing body will ca\l rnore freely upon the general membership for work. Put/em all tq work. We all love Anderson. We all will- work'for her. AXIIERS0V8 JfEEI>S.' ' fci> I '. ... I- V " i t - We present briefly today some his torical matter with reference to the railroads in Anderson. We feel sure that this Is ho news to Mr. Fairfax Harrison, the brilliant and well in formed president of the Southern railway system. But we wish to re fresh his memory. From the oldest I Inhabitant unto the little ones who are | just receiving their first callers An derson Ib appealing for railroad exten sion. We are not complaining today. We wish our distinguished guests to] be perfectly happy in our community. But from the inception of the build ing of the Columbia and Greenville up to and including the building of the Savannah Valley road the cry of . the people here has been for an outlet to the west. Anderson has missed her opportunities^ somehow, somewhere, but\{t is a fact that the old settlers were sdead game,' It' is true that they did put up good money to get rail roads, and we "believe that the men who are..doing things here today, tho men of push and pluck end vision, will ou-uperute with any railway, that will give' us p outlet to the west. And Atlanta Is W?st as well as Knozville. . ^ffW-~r~.-: ' REV. I>R. W. II. FRAZER. j mlcrsofcV f&Hdtisen Will l*ro nonjrte tbe Invocation Tonight ? _ ? !.. iJJJj k LOSS TO TtotfsWK Betlremcnt of Senator 0. W. SslUvan Is to Be Regretted. (Greenville Piedmont.) State Senator George W. Sullivan, of Anderson county, announced In the course of a debate In tbe Senate yesterday morning that he would not be a candidate for re-election this year, but would, retire from public service, This announcement will cause regret, among many good citizens of the State who regard him as a valua ble member of our law-making body. The State needs men like Senator Sullivan in public service, ?HaJfo* man. who Is conservative la ?sSvttwa, yet who always stands firmly for ?regressive legislation that Is useful. ^^o?rgw?rds ho is JoVfefehttoj man-ag yen* can send to KfiinM and feet that the State Is f? safe hands. He nisy not vote for bills thataPPeal-U the ma^^ew^toeyj. but yen can feel as?ufV<T* that^Tilsl vote Ib n?.>rly i SlVr&ys for the best Interests of the 8tate. What we need In tbe legislature are men who are dot carried off their rest by "popu ksryeave*.'* it is a sad fact that very* often these popular waves'* are In tftq interest of legislation that Is prejudicial to the State. $phsster SMiily&a'S . retirement wlii be a -use not only to the State Sonata but to,tbs entire State. Pittsburgh Is considering the es-1 taUlshinent of "tnanloas" saloons for! woman. \- I I?K. id t. IM Y VF it OF ANDERSON. Was once a locomotive driver on the i . .' < ; und was master mechanic at HHeon. Hi- is talking with ('apt (Jus Mudfeni<>alJ!tout 'jpolltlcs and. the thea ter.'.. JB " ft -?%ii?I_ COMMENDS THIS PA FKK. Mr. Horion,Says Lincoln Was Not Much of n Me*. Editor The Intelligencer: Hurrah for you. A thousand times over and over again for your editorial on Abe Lincoln in The Intelligencer of the 11th. I am glad to see auch arti cles written and am so sorry to see an idea among our Southern people us has got started that Lincoln was such a good, great and able man and is being held up to the youth of the South as a model and an example to go by, when be r/as nothing but a political accident, pure and simple. The agitation over slavery was at a fever heat and th.ey were hungry for a man to espouse their cause and in one of the most heated ana exciting times that' ever was in American his tory he was counted in. He waBjust simply an accident and never got in to the president's chair on merit. He was not near the man of ability that Jefferson Davla was, fpr Mr. Davis had been a, great soldier; Enlted States senator and secretary of war. But Mr. Davis went down in defeat while Lincoln was on the victorious side and he gets the plaudits just the same be cause he was on the iucky side. Lincoln deserves no honor for over whelming the South, backed as he was with wealth and numbers. There is nothing that succeeds like success I am precisely like yon with refer ence to his proclaiming the negroeB free in the middle of the war, when the North had been losing ateadily. His act was to invite the negroes to insubordination and murder. This he well knew was likely to come, and armies to go home at the risk of be lng court martialotrEfl?nhovap?!"Id this widespread defection fr >si the army Lincoln's generals'! cot id have made short work of ,the d?ciroatod Southern armies. I believe he would have done any thing to have Bubjugated the SouUi even if it would have tak?i:jt?? slaugh ter of the women and the children, | to have accomplished his, determina tion. 'The popular Vote fwjte oVfir a million votes against Lincoln -in tho presidential eiseUcm.v^whSch was a big thing when there' Wai^Hmly about 30.000,000 people then in the United States which shows that he was not the choice of the vohog pop ulation at that time Helton. S. C, Feb. J. E. HORTON, 13,1014. * TU K INTERIOR BAN. . * Says the' Rock Hill Herald: ' Probably ihe greatest truffle factor now In Vvidence in the development of Piedmont South Carolina is. the in terurban, which extends from Green wood to Anderson and on to Green ville and is now being connected up with Spartan burg, and later wflf be connected with the line out of Charlotte which la now operated as far as Gastonlu. One who gets a near view of the interurban is im pressed with the fact that a develop ment of thia character is needed in this section of the State. If Rock Hill could secure two or three, elec tric, linos, extending from this city into certain eections of the surround log country^' tbey would prove of immense advantage 'in promoting the SJrowth Of this nlann '''5rV r- - ?ry 94/In History. "Moore, the poet, died. Impeochm-j:vt of President Johnson ordered: *SLWWWm 1874?Carl Schurz made his famous speech in the United States Senate against the proposed currency In Sa Mon. 1893?John W. Mackey shot by an insane man at San Francisco. 1890?A ' measure prohibiting the importation of American cattle, placed before the cabi net of Franco by the agricul tural department. 1907?Austrian steamer Imperatrtx wrecked; 137 lives lost. 1912?Textile strikers at Lawrence, Mass., prevented from sending their children to Philadelphia and a riot ensued 1013?The constitutionality of the "White Slave" act upheld by BLOODHOUNDS, lantaj Feb. St.?Another ; T?* ?nvict, tbla time Willie Ward, ho* made a joke of the bloodhounds in the -Sultan county camp. He didn't succeed In taming them and setting them for" bird -dogs like one other prisoner tried to do, but the dogs that were pnt op his tral! came, bed to camp pleasantly wagging their tails, and if they had over caught eight of Willie at all their conversation with him must have been entirely on friendly terms. i_ ^ Murdoch clubs are springing up all over Kansas aad" Representative hfer* ?pck has already set'the political pot to boiling. His friends say it WUJ be a hard tight, but they nelleve tz t hknd the senatorlat *egs_ rlWM^^f foir y^ ar? under the impression that you have waited too long to profit by this Clearance Sale, are badly mistak en. JL .Xo.u!ll be startled at tl^^ ment you'll find in all the stocks. Here are the savings that temand action on your part irV#hii| the .ilextM^?dkysp^li ?annot afford to mis? the*good things offered. MEN'S SUITS and OVERCOATS $27.50 Suits 6?Ov'rc'ts $20.00 25.00 22.50 20.00 |18.00 15.00 12.50 10.00 18.75 17.25 14.75 13.75 11.50 9.75 7.50 BOYS' SUITS and OVERCOATS $9.00 and $8.50 Values $6.00 8.00 and 6.50 and 5.00 4.50 and 3.50 and 2.50 and 7.50 6.00 ijMEN S ODD TROUSERS $2.50 and $2.00 Values $1.75 3.50 and 3.00 2.50 4.50 and 4.00 " 3.25 5.00 3.75 o!50 and 6.00 *' 4.50 8.00 and 7.50 " 5.00 9.00 " 6.00 5.00 4.50 3.75 3.25 2.50 4.00 3.00 2.00 ill ? MEN'S SHOES $6.00 I Hainan Shoes $4".75 5.00 He-ward & Fosters 3 75 4.00 44 44 3.25 3.50 Snow Shoes 2?75 Send an yenr auifl orders. "We prepay all charges when check, cash or money order accompanies order. Tear money back if yon want It. OVER THE OUTLOOK TRADE CONDITIONS IN THIS COUNTRY ARE LOOK ING UP. REDFIELD SPEAKS Notable Prophecies Made Last Night Before the Pittsburg, Pa., Board of Trade. Wheeling, W. Vu.,. Fob. 23- -Hark ed improvement In conditions In the industrial and commercial regions of the country has come, reviving cour age ztH destroying alarm; removal of tariff duties has resulted in a ten dency clearly and openly In, the di rection of a reduction in the) coat of food and clothing; and climatic con ditions, not business depression, are responsible for the number of unem ployed In New York. City and other large industrial centers. This was the message delivered rtd the nation tonight by William C. Red field, the administration's spot man on commercial and industrl problems, before the Wheeling of Trade. Every statement speaker made was fortified by official statistics and reporta. Mr. Hedneid defended the tariff act, lauded the currency law and with decided emphasis, .assured bis audience that the government fat tends to help and not/binder legiti mate business. "It was not strange that the', ser ious depression all over Europe as well as In South America should have been slightly reflected upon us ia, the latter part of last year,'* be said. "It la not surprising that careful men moved cautiously in bosniens mas ters pending the necessary readjust ments from the/new tariff; or that they should have hesitated ' until the final .form of the currency bill was sthl aw^u^?^sivei tude of tbe government towi for worry. . The 'surplus of ears has ceased to grow. .It com menced about the auoaiereWaisswft to decline and has derreasen bv about ?ive thousand care, lV wonld be eaawi to add from aame^aos eoutces, tft{ these favorable statement*. 1 t hav? found In the last fortnight the re ports of improving business ?6 many and so general that It has heen im possible for me to consider then all. The teadsney is clearly and open ly in tbe direction of a ^redctioa In the cost of food and cloUiing through the removal of the tariff/tax. It majr" be wen to point oat, however, thai; the costly processes of distribution lay a tremendous tax upon our eon ^UT^^r??, m?r* ?mw? si. ??jT. juw^w^t 1 stogie and little-di?cu*ned factsr o" cartage alone lays a heavier burden upon our people ., than the total amount paid for railway freights. "The hew tariff has not; thus dfcbf resulted in any material increase -of] importations ot manufactured artic les to compete with the products of our own factories, bat rather its im portant effect has been to add to our food supply. "Several Hundred MIHlons" "It remains to discuss briefly two other elements o. the existing situe tien, in? prices ot ?vaiirrnodivies and the matter of unemployment Durlpg the winter months thousands of labor ers are thrown out of work for cli matic reasons in all our northern states and it is normal that they Buuui? concentrate a* for years they have done ia our large cities and industrial centers. Statements have been made and denied to the effect that there are more unem ployed in New York this year than usual. This may be true without meaning that there ia any ' abnormal excess of unemployed in the whole country. New York City is known ( to be in the act of spending several hundred millions upon subway con struction. ''Furthermore, it is .weal known that New York provides liberally ton the unemployed through i its vast private and .public charities^ end this Is an attractive factor to some out of work. All these factors would naturally draw the uempaoyegTV to that city in numbers even in excess of pcsslulo employment ,'i*ho tact that they have so gathered there or In other cities in large numbers this year may or may not have direct bearing upon the prosperity of in dustry. A large part of the unem ployed are probably not those who Work in factories buy rather those who follow the kinds of labor which the inclemency of the season forbids continuing nd which are always sus pended at this time of the year. "The reopening of idle mills throughout the central west bas im proved, conditions., :. It Is certainly true that many of those who Were oat of work When the year opened are now busy again, and the tendency la ttd esbpToy more. With the opening Tot the spring many avenues to work e season now closes will re Tb of aa?>Fstatees "Now it Id the taut that fa r?cent he tariff tax bas so operated. haS't? feake it rfa?tfy merci , *>?, ?, k scant and was?. u?ST ?u'ou potjoea wee equal to about fifty per cent on their price, and necessarily Increased their cost On the other bead, it is the &ct now that Argentine b<~t Is betas shipped te New York free ot the tariff tax, and tntt-haa resulted In a decline ia the wholessle New Yorfc market for beef of about *?ur cents a pound. /This reductioa when iraaeniiUed . to the | ivcm* New, York reteUer has result-) ed la a redaction ot the price of beeil a pound. A3 beef baa cone outside of that city Into the country at large the reduction In . price has been ab ssrbed byy tne oeaiers and has., been # little felt as. yet. i ?:-"*t 16 the fact, too, that buttai4 has been reduced in price by the large v recent importations of that food, and I have known that 1 preserved milk has been offered in this counrty at lower prices than those which have heretofore prevailed. Furthermore the. importation of Argentine .corn has during the recent winter operat ed at least to prevent a rise in the , price of corn in our Atlantic Coast cities If it has not directly reduced the price In those cities. It Is a well known fact that the price of woolen cloth from the largest market? has been reduced this winter from fifteen to twenty-five per cent. The price lists of the American Woolen Com pany and the United States Worsted Company and other textile mills show this plainly. Many things are bought in the wholesale trade al ready more cheaply than they were a year ago, particularly woolens, v*sef and butter* ***v> "In the fate of foreign condition^ the total exporta of iron and steel and manufacturers from this country increased* in lagt Oc tobet oven the totals f# etdfefc July;fAugast, or NO GRUNDS FOR WORRY'- , ^ 9 * September. The Imports of iron adn at .el in October, 1913, the first month tinker the new* tariff, wire ^ $2,S7d$D? lees than they were in * October of the previous year. The exporta were $25,189,000, nearly ten times greater than the importa. No s ember last showed a similar result The Imports were less than two and a half minions, a smaller aum then In October and less than in the pre vious .November,, while the exports were In excess of twenty, million dol lars. .December brought the total. imports up to $2,815,000 for. that month ao compared with steel and Iron epxorts in December in excess of twenty-two and a half millions. "This h? cot a situation to cause anyone alarm. Wl -*n we are able in one industry after the dutlee are lowered to sell abroad $$8,000,000 aa against purchases of leas than $8, 000,000, and. purchases which were ' actually smaller than those made un one has any about his mar ie tide runs the son. Brother Fain ia a fine newspa per man and an elegant fallow and a good sport, but he la weak on ad mitting Anderson's population.?Aa ?ersoc Intelligencer. After seeing Anderson we are con rineed thai it ia larger than we be lieved it was, aneV while It Is not "our town." we are convinced that Ander eon with periect. propriety and without doing any violence whatever tc the truth, adopt.Rock Hill's slogan. \