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THE ANDERSON INTELLI6?NCEf FOUNDED AUGUST 1, I860. 126 Vorth Main Street ANDKJJSUN, S. C. W. W. SMOAK. Editor and HUB. Mgr D. WATSON BELL,.City Editor PHELPS SASSEEN, Advertising Mgr T. B. GODFREY.Circulation Mgr EL ADAMS, Telegraph Editor ant Foreman. Member of Associated Prose ant Receiving Complete Daily Tolegraphh Service. Entered according to Act of Cou grenu as Second Class Mall Matter at tho Postofflce at Anderson, S. C SUBSCRIPTION BATES Semi. Weekly One Year .fl.Gi Biz Months .H Bally One Year .t5.0( Six Months.2.6( Three Months .... LS! TELEPHONES Editorial and "julncss Office......82) Job Printing .693-1 The Intelligencer is delivered bj carriers In the city. If you fail tc get your paper regularly please notlf) US. Opposite your namo on thi label of your paper is printed date tr which our paper ls paid. AI1 cheeki and drafts should be drawn to Tb? Anderson Intelligencer. The Weather. South"Carolina: Partly cloudy Fri day la interior, rain near the coast; Saturday partly cloudy. Our Dalley Thought. The tim? ls short! If thou wouldst work for God it must be now; If thou wouldst win the garland for . thy brow. Redeem the time. "The sweetest lives are those to duty wed, . Whose deeds both great and small, . Are close knit strands of an unbroken thread. Where love ennobles all. The world may sound no trumpet, ? ring no bells, The Book of Life the shining record tells." Things you should not go against; Tour will. The Inevitable. Friend wife's will. The wall. Your Judgement Handwriting on a check looks much better than handwriting on the wall, o ??? Somebody had the nerve to say thal .they are fighting In Mexico again. ' When everybody plans and nobody works, the result ls nli. lt ls an ill rain that washes nothing eleen. o Bow oats, but be careful that they are not of the wild variety, o "New shipment of Nuts," says an advertisement In The State. WeU, it's nothing to crow about. It doesn't matter tf you have com pany In your badness, it doesn't mean that you are right . ? O Try thia Pat a rose on your desk this morning and see what a diff?r ence lt makes. % o We hate to think of what would be-, come of some men if it waan't for the saving grace of their wives. o It la a pity that the cotton plant does not grow sonic kind of an edible along with its lint as a side line.' -P When a man mskes you mad it may not be "pure cussedness" on his part He may be right and you may be wrong. O'. A great many young fellows who are giving the home folks lots of trouble are following ia tho foot-steps of their fathers. You are worth about a dollar a hun-* dr ed ' pounds from your neck down, bat nobody can sstlmate the worth of an ounce ot the contents of your c?an*ua. . ' < ' ' . The congressmen have boen howling abouthaving to stay on the job so tong and' now when they have an op portunity, they don't want to come home sa badly sa they thought they -did. An Eye to Jnajniif. ^ h)^^?^\g^B^^^ uvCtoi,j whose practice was not very great, sat lui tts study-reading away a lazy afternoon i nearly summer. His man servant appeared at the door, i "Doctor, them boys is sfeahV your green peaches again. Snail ! ?hate them away? " J The doctor-. looked thoughtful ly for a moment then level?d his eyes at the servant / "No" he said.-Lippinedttgi - Y OUR M HOOL PA CIE \v<" wish io remind those Interested that the next Issue of the School page of The Intelligencer will appear in next Tuesday's Dally and Semi-Week . ly. If you have a communication for it, please try to get it to us by Mon lay noon at latest. Wu wish to have some news of every school in the j ounty, and wo want the page to hreathe the life of educational pnjg . ress in Anderson county. This can ht : done by all the schools taking th? proper Interest in this page and send ing in the news promptly. We havr heard of much favorable comment, and I the county superintendent o? educa tion gives lt his unqualified endorse ment, and ?tates that lie is Hoing tc ?lo all he cnn for this page. We have also the promise of a score of teachers ihat they are going to do the same. There will he some interesting ar ticles in tin- next issue. Retnembei I that the account of his experiences while touring Europe will he started in next Tuesday's paper by Dr. M. L. Monham, Jr. He is an Anderson county boy, und we can promise a rare troi' to our readers in this series of articles which will be featured in the educa tional page, for their educational val ue. Wo trust the teachers will read these articles to their pupils, ann pre servo thom in the libraries of the schools. One school has adopted a unique way of expressing its thankf for the uso of tho page, and for Tht Intelligencer being cent to its reading room.^ This- will be given In next Tuesday's page. Watch for lt. Send UP the news of your school. OUR FARMERS' PAGE. Attention ls called to the "Farmers Page" in thia Issue of The Intelllgen - cor. This w ill be a regular feature of the paper appearing every Friday. Wc Trust that lt will be read by all our readers whether farmers or not. It is our purpose to fill it each Friday with , good newe for the farmer, and with seasonable suggestions. Then, too, we hope that farmers will tell their ex periences in tho page. If you have succeeded in some department of your farming, tell your nelghbora and our roedora of it through this page. Let UB know bow the crops of your commun ity are, and if there Is much activity along any branch of agriculture. Is I any farmer raising some fine li vt stock? Let ua know of iL Are many of them planting much small grain? Tell ua about lt Have you a farmers' society ot any kind? Tell us about lt. In other words, this is your page, and we want you to use it. Help us to make it alive for the best interests ol the agricultural interests of the com munity. -KARD TiSES" TALS, The tendency to rry "hard times" "a i loading to the use of some choice lan guage, and it is hard to imagine any : particular evil that is not either here now or coming at an early date. It ls ? decidedly "fashionable" to cry hard j times, and some of the correspondents of The Intelligencer can play lt up In ; good style. A clipping from an article i aent In recently from Anderson county ? gives such a doleful picture that we ; reproduce I there. It la decidedly of different tone from the logic of thc < conversation quoted in Thursday's i paper, in which the hopeful young far mer said : "Others need a m blamed ( sight more Sympathy than the farmer. , In six months he will have another t crop to harvest, and anyway he can < live at home." Yes, we must be optim- ' istlc Things are never so bad that r they could not be worse. However, we feel that they cannot get much worse in the section described by our cor respondent*"^ saya: I "The fermera of this section are very much depressed with cotton 6 3-4 cents per pound and only making about half a crop and half ot what \ we thought we'd make ls roting and the-anny worms are here too. So what ls to become of the farmer?" , THE TALE .OF A tte BILL Everyone ls familiar with the story 1 of tho $10 bill which A paid B and B paid to C, who. in torn, paid to D. who was reminded by A that he owed 1 him that amount When al) of the debtors had settled and all of the creditors were satisfied A put his $10 bill back into bis pocket and went out ' with a clear conscience to spend it. The League Enterprise, a Texas newspaper, may have evolved from tm . i agination the facts which elaborate the old story Into the following: "Joe Smith sold his first bale of cot ton last week st lob per pound, real- j .slag SSC cash fur ??S?v. meelina a - Mend to whom he was Indebted, he handed him ISO. Tb his pickers he ' paid $12.50. To his grocer he paid $17. 1 and went to -the restaurant and took' a BO-cent dinner. While at dinner a friend came tn paid him $60 on an old debt with the find $20 he had paid out * of his cotton, sad walking down the street he met another man who paid, him $10 which he had collected frcal t the picker to whom' the farmer had paid $12.60. Meeting soother man to whom he was indebted, he paid him - ?> $20, and this man turned and han led it to another party to whom he wat indebted. Thin man happened to JW> tho mau who sold the bale $20, an:: handed it to him with the remark 'hu: that WUK the first money he ha'! col leeted in six months, and he was glu to be able to pay li's money, UH hi owed lt for a year. Tb H man who soli the hale paid $95 of debts with it, anc when ready to K\J home found lie stll had $47.50 left. And could it be ascer tuined the full amount uf debts Itu $50 hus puid, it would reach severa hundred dollars. Vet the seller nat his $47.f.0 left. This illustrates lirra much a small amount will pay whei put in ac tual circulation, 'buy a bale' ' Of course, the League Enterprisi may he reporting an actual occur renee. There was no economic fal lit > in the story of the $10 bill, which pah 140 worth of debts and left $10 in tnt iiunds of the man who first had it. / was simply a man who owed no more than waa due him from another, am who had $10. All that is set down bj the League Enterprise might hav? happened, and If it did not the tale o' the $50 bill aptly illustrates the ad vantages that accure to the communit> when there is money in circulation Buy a bale of cotton, of course, or t bushel or a barrel of something else if you can afford it. If you cannot af "ord to stimulate the circulation o! money by that means, and acc?l?rait the payment of outstanding obliga lions, pay off a debt with the.casi you have. The same end will bt achieved. "I BUY AT HOME." Recently The Intelligencer publish cd au editorial on patronizing mai! nrder houses to the exclusion of tht home merchants. A large number of persons were kind enough to Bay that lt was a timely expression of warning that if heeded would keep much mon J y at home that ls now being sent away for merchandise that could ae well be purchased at home, and much more safely. In reading recently we came across the following reasons why ono should buy at home, ano these are also so much to the point that we have decided to give the readers of The Intelligencer the bene flt of these good reasons, as given out by Ed De Camp In The Gaffney Led ger: Because my interests. Because the community that la good enough for me to live In is good onough for me to buy In. Because I believe In transacting business with my friends. Because I want to see the goods. Because I want to get what I buy when I pay for lt Because every dollar I spend at home ataya at home and works for the welfare of my town. Because the man I buy from stands uack of the gooda. Because I sell what I produce here it home. Because the man I buy from helps support my school, my church, my lodge, my home. Because, when Ul luck, misfortune ir bereavement comes, the man Mi y from la here with hts kindly greetings, his word of cheer, and his pocketbook. If need be. Because I get my living In this 5 tat e. Don't you? Here I live and here [ buy. I buy at home. Do you? ,00000000000000 0 0 0 0 0 ? OUB DAILY POEM o ? o 9000000000000000000 Opportunity. rh ey do me wrong who say -I come no more When once I knock and fall to find you In; Tor every day I stand outside your door. And bid you wake and rise to fight and win. ?Vail not for precloua chancea passed away, Weep not for golden ages on Che wane; Sach night I burn the record? of the day; ........ At sunrise every soul ls born again. _tughe like a boy at splendors that have sped; To vanished Joys be blind and deaf and dumb; dy judgments seal the dead past with Its dead, But never blind a moment yet to come. Tho' deep ta mire, wring not your hands and weep; I lend my arm to all who say "I can." lo shame-faced outcast ever sank so deep But yet might rise and be again a man. fest thoa hold thy lost youth all aghast? Dost yield from righteous retribu tion's blow? roan turn from blotted archives ot the past And find the future's pages white aa ?now. irt thou a mourner? Rouae thee from | thy spell; Art thou a sinner? Blas may be for- j ^$t^^oas*He?r ***** ** "** Bach night a star to guide thy feet | to Heaves. A?ft0f2ft,? . - Waltet MAlojMb'Aj* o o o o EVERY BI.?PE OF GRASS LIKE A ROSE o o O O. o o O o o o o o o o o o o Every Made of grass looks like a rose," said an American as he reached home after weeks of effort trying to get away from the inferno of war in Europe. "What thuy had learned to fear in these few weeks was mankind," writes a correspondent telling of thc dread with which children in the war zone slink away and hide from every strange face. They have grown accustomed said he, to the roar of great guns; they have learned to show no fright at bursting shells; but the face of a strange man brings panic to them. How many millions of these helpless little ones there are who run in fright' from every strange face! To them stange faces mean burned homes, dead fathers and mothes, and all other indescribable sufferings. How many there are who, cannot understand the reason for the horrors which make the devil laugh with such fiendish glee as he never o knew before since the world began! How many aged and o feeble there are who are being driven totteriftg down to the o grave by the killing agony of fear, exposure and starvation) ' o The sufferings of these are greater thf.ri the sufferings of .. o those on the battlefield. The oi?? have the stimulus of mar- o liai action, the other have destroying dread by day and by night, poverty, pain, sickness and suspense as to the loved ones on the battlefield, as fatal as the bullet in its work. No wonder that to the American who escapes from such a region "every blade of grass.looks like a rose." How we might see roses everywhere if only we would look ; and how we would magnify our blessings if we stopped to think of these things! Then every blade of pleasure or of comfort or of health or of business would suddenly expand into a glorious rose, fragrant and beautiful. The cotton which brightens our fielda-atould no longer be regarded as a liability; we would see its splendid possibilities, even though they may more slowly unfold themselves than in other seasons; the corn fields and the wheat shocks, the "lowing herds," and even the*sleeping hog laxily sunning himself would stimulate our songs of praise. Perchance we cannot sell our cotton today-it will keep; mayhap we pav more for our flour and meat than of old-we can rejoice that the growers prosper thereby; we may not be able to build the new house just now; we may have to enter losses instead of profits'iri balancing the v/ork of the year; we may have to deny many necessities as well as luxuries to our selves and ??r families. But what boots it if these things be true so long as Heaven blesses us with a fair measure of health, so long as our loved ones are with us and are not being slain on *he battlefield, so long as our soil laughs with abundant crops when tickled with the plow, so long as black ened chimnevs and countless dead do not mark the sites of o??.r homes, so long as the sun chines and our nation endures, so long as the setting of every sun brings us one day nearer the time when, in the abundant prosperity that shall cover the land, we shall forget the troubles of the present? "Let him sing to me, Who sees the catchings of the stars above the day, Who hear* the singing of the sunrise On its way, Thiough a!l the night Who outfaces skies, outsings the storm." ooooooooooooooooo o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o ?I : o o o o o o o o o o ?! o o! c o o c c f c c c o OOOOOOOOOCOOO?O O ? 0 o o o Letter From ibo PeapU. *> o o ooooooooooooooooo ttjen before witnesses "Shylock" sait he could go. Two days later h served notice on tho mill rompan employing this tenant that ho woul' require him to return and pick tin cotton without pay, and they ghoul' not "hire" as he was under contrae an? he torhjw thom earffcying UBI Who's the Victim? A story ot today, aa told at a cot ton mill, a haven of rest for poor tenant seeking a hotrfe*-and bread for hts live children ankll Jfbung wife. Bill Smith, though that ls not his name, owned land, more than he can work Seven years ago a strong young farmer with his yoong wife went to live with him, and has lived on hlB place over since. Everything went well, because crops were good and price?, good and he could pay his "rations" and. his rent. He had to plant cotton because his landloard required him to do so, no matter whether it payed him or sot. St was that or more-rent was the all im portant thing, to this land owner. The drouth came, cotton was cheap and crop short, BO was the "rations" with which to feed the five healthy "babes" at.this home. Hi? crop war standing in the field. His cow gave milk; and waa a great help, an.1 then s fine pig promised well foi* cold weather, but th er?? was no money with which to buy other things need ed. Surely Mr. Smith, his- landlord, would let him have soma "rations" till be could gather up his crop, es pecially from the long relations had md the great rent he had paid, but, no. here was the time for the canny frugal to let the heavy, hand fall on the beholden, and lt fell. Th? seven rears of service was forgotten, and the wolf that ls part of man show ed forth. This landlord broke hts xmtract and hts moral obligation, ?so-, his ssrvaatrhad to . seek bread Crom strangers. Tbl', ts but halt lae story*. This roang farmer told his master that lie would go where his . work was ranted, and where bia family could lave bread end plenty, so he sought i home at a cotton ?Vi ?r,;mlles iway, and then this Shyicck farmer ?egan his "collecting " He demand al settlement, before he~wo:<ld let il? ?errant move. The "law" allows ibm to take the crop aa hie own; tm was not satisfied, the wife gave ip her bow. He was still not satis led. They gave ap their pig in pen, ia4 aU^boir im?? M?ytls mamV Sullivan Anderson, S. C. Our growing trade depends on the growing boys, so it's to our interest to give them extra care and attention. Nowadays some of 'em (real young ones at that) come along to buy-a safe propo sition here. More attractive suits and overcoats we've never seen. If you can't call, we'll send samples. Sizes, 4 to 18 years. prices, $3.50 to $12.50. A handsome knife free with each suit. We Prepary All Charges. ?Tht Sion tollh a Caradene* man, this free-born American citi zen, and the law shields him in so toing. If a man owns land should he not >wn his servant also-? E. 8. SIBLEY PAROLED. tia! 1 road C'osumlssVn Tarns Bown Petition For Increase In Rates special to The Intelligencer. COLUMBIA. Oct. 22.-The governor oday paroled, E. S. Sibley "who waa convicted In Chester this year for nanalaughter and was sentenced for five years. The railroad commission today '.urned down .the petition for an in crease in rates by the Augusta Atk in lail^ay on irround that it waa not 'presented by an accredited repre sentative of the road. A further hear ug was ordered for Novembe ll. Her Little Game. A wily young widow named Weed.. As graceful and slim as a reed, Jj shall always wear black. (For it's very becoming, in deed.)) -Judge. You can get the news while Its new '.n The Moronic Daiiv Inienieencpr Fresh Fish TODAY We receive Fish and Oysters fresh EVERY day,, but Sunday. For Monday we will have soms Extra Nice Makerel and Trout, also some very Select Oysters, and' mixed bunch fish, too. Your orders will be high- . ly appreciated. '. ? McKelvey & Thomas WM * tm usn to. Phone No. 887. *tf9??t ?l&Cetttsat Be?ton, S, C., Greenville, S. C. i . . wt I