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fUE ANDERSON INTELLIGENCER FOUNDED AUGUST 1, 181?. 14ft Went Wkltaer Street ''^=r' ' ANDERSON, S. C, W. W. SMOAK, Editor and Das. Mgr L. M. Ci LEN N.City Editor Pl i EL F 8 HASSEEN, Advertising Mgr T. li. GODFREY.Circulation Mgr. Ent.er.id aa second-class matter Ap ril 28, 1914, at tba post office at An derson, South Carolina, under the Act of March 3, 187V. Member of Associated Presa and Receiving Daily Telegraphic Service. TELEPHONES Editorial and Business Office.821 Job Printing .693-L SUBSCRIPTION BATES Semi. Weekly One Tear .91.60 Six Months .75 Dally One Tear .95.00 Six Mouths . 2.50 Tliree Months. 115 The Intelligencer ls delivered by carriers !n th* city. If you fall to get your paper regularly please notify ns. Opposite your name on the label of your paper ls printed date to ?which your puper 1? paid. All checks end drafts should he drawn to Tb* Anderson Intelligencer. oooooooooooooooooooo o OUR DAILY POEM. o oooooooooooooeeoooo! MY DREAM AND I. I losL my dream laBt night; Cono, God knows whither, In the beating storm A spirit host the vibrancy Of spoken word would give afright- j Cono in the bellowing blackness, with | tender form Rtirled here and there like wreckage In a raging sea. Thc lightest wind that plays With whiskered touch upon a sum mer sea; The echo through a dying day Of some faint sign which upward strays Frqm folding depths of petal called to ecstacy , Ono moment yet-were not so l?ght as they. . And some of riches were, Mado pure In chast'nlng flames of] noble thought; Ot power, swayed to general good; Of stricken .fields where bugles stir To mighty deeds; of love ot state; of] soul unbought In any mart; of virtue In Its tidal | flood. And some were nearer still; A strain ot music that the years de filed; The passing steam of friendly eyes: Of hope; and smile; and words that thrill; Of tho*e grown worn with age; of| bubies who lisping died; And faith; und love; of light that lu tho darkness iles. How many times we'd seen My dreams and I-the troubled brow of care Grow light, an general poverty. With merry jcBts of what had been. Moved gentle sorrow unto smiles und ? laughter rare; And then last night the end of all \ came suddenly. And all my dreams had fled; And something with a colder touch than death Had laid the icy grip of fear Upon my heart; and through the dead I Silence of my lifo I heard tho bitter | breath Proclaim that with me in all tlme| would be Despair. -WALTER O. CHARLTON. AW'.'.KSON NEEDS A MARKET. Among tho great needs Anderson County has is a well located and properly arranged market where the, people from the country can bring their produce and leave lt for salo to tho consumers of the etty. As a method of stimulating the growth of great quantities ot vegetables and fruits, to say nothing of moro sub stantial products of tho farm, there] can be nothing to beat this kind of] market. The editor of this paper re calls that when a small boy lt was rather humiliating to go to town and i ?eddie round a basket of eggs or other produce. How much more pimple ?nd business like if there had been a market In the town where all nuch articles for sale, could have been lett and have been handled in a bust . neas like manner. Think of Ute time] that could be saved by such an ar rangement, and of the worm of the hundreds of farmers who might thus 'bc induced to grow moro than they consume. Anderson should have market, and The Intelligencer has advocated lt for Ute longest time. Cooperation among the chamber of commerce, city cont ell, farm demon strator, county farmer* union, and] thn business men ot the city could] easily tiring about tho establishment ? o? this central market, lt is a task I ^ well worth trying. J ( ITT OFFICES ON SA LAB Y BASIS. | The Progressive Farmer of Haleigh, ? N. C., Ia edited by om* of Hie brainiest men of the South, Clarence l'on. He lias Home advanced ideas and lias the courage lo express them. For lu Istance he hus been a steadfast ad vocate of (lie Torrens system of laud registration, und favors putting all county offices on a strict salary husis, turning i*i all fees collected to the county treasurer. If Anderson Coun ty wore to adopt this system, it would he better for the officers and for the county. Suppose that lt would nunn an ?ni mia I laving of $10,'JUO to the county and this were turned into a road fund or into the school fund, it would mean much more good to the county as a whole than if only a few fcc officials should get it. We do not know what the receipts of the officer of this county are from fees, but a certain salary would he a more busi ness like way of handling the compen sation of any official for services rendered. Another matter, aud if it only re sulted in equalizing the salaries of all the officers, it would be proper. Some of the olliclals of this county are too poorly paid for their services, and perhaps a few of them get too much through fees. So muny churges are remitted generally hy county ollleluls through a desire to uld a fellow man. or qerhaps to retain lils good will. Whereas If th? fees were all turned Into the treusury there could bo no excuso for the officer's giving away the fee, and tile county would get all this. South Carolina legislators will do well to see what is being accom plished In other States by this law. The following ls from The Progres sive Farmer, and gives some results following the adoption of this law in North Carolina: The following dispatch from Greensboro, N. C., will interest read ers who believe officers in all the stronger counties should be paid salaries instead of fees: "During 1914 the Gordon act, which placed Guilford County officers on Balarles, saved tb the county $18, 186.69, which goes to the road fund. Until eight yearB ago tho counfy of ficers were on fees, and the act has suved In the eight years something like $90,000 to the county." LlBten also to this from Memphis Commercial-Appeal : "Some of our able officials in Shel by County draw $15,000 net after paying deputies, most of whom are political or blood allies. Our court house is filled with cousins, nephews, uncles and aunts. If the men holding tho various fee offices were paid a decent salary* und the surplus In fees wai collected and administered for thft benefit of the county, we could add another month to our school term, or we could add 2U miles of pike every year to our system, or we could re> pair 50 miles of pike every yeer with the funds." Moreover, we not only ought to know how much we are paying of ficers we do need, but we ought not to bo paying anything for officers we don't need at all. The fv-ople of Florida, for example, voted almost overwhelmingly at the recent elec tion to abolish tho office of county treasurer, the decision taking effect two years hence. Other States would do well to follow Florida's progres sive example. ANOTHER PISTOL THAGEDY Tho killing of the young son ot Judge Ernest Cochran at his home in Anderson yesterday afternoon is too pathetic to be used to point a moral, and yet we can not refrain from calling attention aga:n to the practice of having these diiidly things in the home. Tho pistol was an automatic one. Deadly almost to look at. The boy, only thirteen years oid. went luto his father's room who was absent attending court in Greenville. The mother was at the home of some friend, lt is supposed he picked the thing up, and it wac accidentally discharged sending s ball Crashing through his hoad. He was a good boy, but like any other boy his cruios4ty waa aroused, and ho wished to examino the thing. He did not knpw how dangerous it was It went off. possibly from the slight est touch. How pathetic! Poor broken heart ed parents! If we could do anything to comfort them we would. But thc miserable old pistol what bushiest had it In that home? Who will giv< a satisfactory answer? We dare sa] no one can, but it was there, and ii has left wounds that can never Ix healed. What should be dono wit! all the old pistols and shooting Irons lying around in the homes ot th< peoplo within tho reach of the child ren or where they may be accident ally discharged and kill some mern ber of the family? The thin,, to <I< ls to get rid of the**. Break then into fragments. . Do not assume tha they are not ioaded and so can do ni barm; for as a rule lt the unload ed weapons that do the moat deadl; work. What is a pistol good for an: way? To kill people with. To ktl pepple in your .own home or to kll people who live in some one^lse'i ho ti?, To break hearta and rtfrn th' Uvea of men .and women. The mia oruh'e, hateful, deadly thtngal Le ua get rid of them.-Greenwood Jour nal. Ked Creas Sappiiea for Europe. WASHINGTON, April, 23.-Th American Red Cross haa arranged t send three mor? big shipments o hospital and other supplies to Europe The first leaves New York tomorrow for the British Red Cross. Others t BU to Montenegro and Russia. CLIPS AND TIPS For WOMEN . By Mrs. Rebecca R. Lee. In one big State institution for the blind it was found that half the cases of blindness could have been prevent ed if silver nitrate solution had been used on thc eyes ut birth. The best doctors always use this solution on the eyes of the newborn baby, no matter wliat the condition of tile fam ily may be. In ?onie States Us use IH provided for by law. Tho linn' IH coining when every State will adopt legislation to do away with the terrible and needless scourge of preventable blindness in children. A delegation ol' prominent Anieri < an women, headed '-?y Miss Jane Ad- I dams of Chicago, will visit The Hague next month to attend a woman".. peace conference, designed to formu late a protest against the war, it wan announced in New York by Madame Kosika Schimmer of Hungary, who ls president of the Hungarian Woman's Suffrage association. M?dame Schimmer, who ?H in this country in the interest of the move ment, said the plan was to have the conference adopt au appeal to wo men of royal blood and to others of influence In the warring countries. What is a miss? It's u practice shot Which we often must make to ea ter The list of those who can hit the spot Of the bull's eyo In the center. If you never have sent your bullet wide, You never have put u mark inside. Good manners at the table stamp the well-bred persons. The knife is used only In cutting the food, never to raise any particle of it to the mouth. A few general rules follow: Lettuce is cut with the fork, a small portion rolled about the tines and thus eaten. Oranges are peeled, cut or divide?', into quarters and eaten, or cut in half and eaten with the orange spoon, a spoon narrower und smaller than the ordinary table spoon. i At the illinois State Liquor Deal ers' convention President Frank Kunde of Chicago reported that 1,000 saloons had been ousted from the State of Illinois in the last year. He attributed part of the large dry vote to the activity of women, but he Bald that in only one case was the vote of women actually vital. A report was made on the efforts of tho liquor- dealers to have moving pictures censored so as to remove from all pictures any representations that would be harmful to the reputa tion of the liquor business. The houBe of representatives ls tho most expensive lawmaking body in the world.. It coats more than eleven million dollars a year to make the laws of the United States, and the house spends some six million. Near ly three and a half million of this goes Into the salaries of the mem bers. A court in Massai isettB ruled the other day that property in a man's name belonged to him, and although lt recognized that the man's wife had earned half of the money by saving it, it hold that the woman was entitled to none of the money according to law. Financial writers all over the coun try have declared that the decision is unsound from an economic stand point. If women can not have a voico in the spending of the money they will not have the incentive for saving lt, says the Milwaukee Even ing Wisconsin. Many other courts have recognized the woman's right to a ahare of the money. The fact that a man ls re quired to give a woman alimony when there ta a divorce la a recognition of the rlght/j of Ute. woman. But lt is not the right that women most need. Equal division of property aa her right is never granted until lt can be shown she had a hand in earning Ute money. The fact that she remained at home and cooked and Bewed and darned socks ls not called the accum ulation ot wealth. She haa to do more than simply save to get recog nition of the coulta. Woman must show she actually earned the money If she would get more than alimony. The lack ot financial responsibility with lack ot financial reward for wo men has done much to keep them economically dependant on men. Men laugh at the mistakes women mako In the financial world. They laugh when a' woman makes a big mistake st a bank, but she can. not be expect ed to know things about money and banking when the right to know ls denied her. The Thora of Spring. We'd love to see the grasses green And flowers start to grow It mother wouldn't rush to clean The bloomin' bungalow. China has hsd another awakening. The women of China have taken up arma against ugliness and they went the women of America to be their al lies In the fight for beauty. The American woman la the Chin ese woman's Ideal ot beauty. And little Misa China has started out In a very business-like way to achieve her Ideal. She haa Instructed the merchants of Singapore and Shang hai to buy "American beauty things" -face creams, perfumes, powder pigs and other enemies to ugliness, and she's going to be just as pretty -iL' she can-as her distant neighbor. Miss America. The beauty shop follows the flag of civilisation; American business agenta In the Far East say the beau ty parlors are springing uri like mushrooms In the large cities ot tho Orient, and most of them are managt ed by Americans, FOB FIREMEN'S MEET Prizer. Offered Amount To $1 , OOO-Several Prominent Speakers. G UK KN WOOD. April 23.-Green wood is making preparations to en tertain several tliouaund visitors dur ing tho Stale Firemen's Tournament which will be held in this city May 18th, liltli and 20th. Chief I^OUIB IU luv ?: of Charleston, president of the .i?it. Association, has written to the head of every fire department in the Slate urging Hie firemen to bc fully represented, and there will be many others who will attend on ac count of the unusual attractions this year. Greenwood's railroad facilities will give all visitors the opportunity to witness the vurlous events und lose little time from their homes. AU roads will give erduced rates during the week. In addition to the *1.00<>, offered in prizes, which will be contested for by the fastest teams in the State, assuring excellent exhibitions of races and other exciting events, there will be addresses by prominent men from this and other States. The chief speakers will bn Governor F>:chard I. Manning, Honorable J. D. McNeill, of Fayetteville, N. C., former president of the National Firemen's Associa tion, S. J. Nicholas, a prominent at torney of Sparenburg and F. H. Mc Master, State Insurance Commssion er for South Carolina. Other Interesting events will be two baseball games between the teams of the University of South Carolina and Clemson College, old rivals, which will be played Monday after noon, tho 17th, and Tuesday after noon, the 18th. The Greenwood city councl: Ts put ting finishing touches on one of the best tracks in the State. A. A. MANNING IS A VIS? IN CITY Connected With Legal Depart ment of Governor's Fores try Work. Mr. Andrew A. Manning, nephew of Governor Richard I. Manning, is an Interesting visitor in the city. Mr Manning ls doing the law work for the United Skates government with the acquiring of forest landa for the protection of water sheds of navigable streams. Mr. Manning, before his appoint ment to this responsible position, was practicing law in Sparenburg. He ls stationed for the present at Wal halla. ' His work has to do with tho invesUgatlng of lands which the gov ernment may wish to acquire in pro tecting the water sheds of the navi gable streams of this section of the country. Mr. Manning arrived here yester day morning and will be here for sev eral days consulting records in the office of the county clerk of court TO PURIFY BATTLEFIELDS OF WESTERN POLAND PETROGRAD. April 23.-A special sanitary commission hos been ap pointed to disinfect and purify the battlefields of Western Poland, on which many thousands of dead lio either unburied * else buried in dangerously hraliow graves and trenches. Under the new sanitary commission 15 detchments will operate, each^con tisting of two medical officers, a' dls infector, and ten grave diggers. The commission has directed tho opening, so far as possible, of all the so-called "brotherly graves" in which friend and foe were buried together, ano separating them from one- another. Gravti which were dug near towna and villages will also bo opened and the bodies removed to points more distant from the abodes of men. Be fore being re-Interred, all the corpses will be subjected to a thorough pro cess of disinfection. The diggers are equipped for their unpleasant work with rubber gar ments and masks which sterilise the air they breathe. Could You Use a SHU? extra money lo good advantage Jost now? Haven't yon something to sell? Do yoes own something yoa no longer -ase, but which if offered .t e bargain price would ap peal at once to some one who does need st 7 > An UmilJGSNCER Went Ad wm tum the trick. PHONE 321 .iv . ii Help the Stomach Digest Your Food When the stomach falls to digest and distribute that which is eaton, the bowels become clogged with a mass of waste and refuse that fer ments and generates poisons that are gradually forced into the blood, causing distress and often serious illness. Most people naturally object to the drastic cathartic and purgative agents that chock the system. A mild, gentle laxative, positive in Its effect and that will quickly relieve constipation is Dr. Caldwell's Sy rup Pepsin, sold by Druggists at fifty cents and one dollar a bottle, lt does not gripe or cramp, but acts easily and pleasantly and is therefore the most satisfactory remedy for children, women and elderly persons. For a free trial bottle write to Dr. W. B. Caldwell, 452 Washington St., Monticello, Ills. CHARGE OF FORGERY AGAINST EX-CASHIER W. J. Tucker is Placet! in Abbe ville County Jail on War rant. _ Arrested on a warrant charging forgery, W. J. Tucker, formerly cash ier of the Dank of Calhoun Falls, has been arrested and lotyg^d In the county Jail at Abbeville. The alle gation set out in the warrant is that he forged the name of J. C. McCord to a note for $cr.O which was found in the bank of Calhoun Falls. Mr. .McCord, denies any knowledge of the note. It will be recalled that the doors of the Calhoun Falls bank were closed by a state bank examner several months ago, that S. J. Hester, presi den of the institution was named as recever, and that MT. P. E. Clink scales of Anderson was later named as co-receiver, lt will be recalled that Mr. Tucker, left for parts unknown shortly before the doors of the bank were closed, and thai- he left a deed, drawn by attorneys in Abbeville, glv-, lng title- to considerable property itt the town cf Calhoun Falls to the bank to cover his shortage, which he urst estimated at S8.0UU. Later he raised this .mount by $1,000, and la ter developments showed tbat his shortage was approximately $17,000. In arranging the matter to the sat isfaction of the state bank examiner four directors of the bank-S. J. Hes ter, CH. Taylor, A. A, Grant and H. H. Hester-guarantee., to tbe examin er against all loss resulting from mismanagement or misconduct on the part of Tucker. These four gentle men, it is understood, made their guarantee believing that Tucker had made a clean breast of his conduct, and that the $17,000 cover his entire shortage. The alleged forgery notes were not taken ir to account, the four directors believing them to be gen uine and all rig it. It is understood that several ques tionable notes are held in the bank at Calhoun Falls; that the McCord noto is only the first where forgery is sus pected and charged. It is understood, further, that other warrants will be sworn out against Tucker. Injured Mr. W. C. brown Fell as He Step ped From Car and Seriously Hurt, Upon returning from prayer meet lng Wednesday night. Mr. W. C. Brown stepped from the automobile In which he had been riding before the machine came to a full stop aad was thrown violently to I he ground sustaining injuries which are serious and the cause of considerable un easiness. As Mr. Brown fell to the ground his head struck the curbing. He sus fained several cuta and bruises. Dr J. L. Gray dressed MT. Brown's Injuries. . Last night Mr. Brown was doing only fairly well, and there ls con sidorable apprehension os account of bia injuries, which appear now to be more Berlons than was at first thought. Affect ef Eire-Ana Wounds ea Sight PARIS, April 2?.-Dr. Sendral. who h is made a study of fire-arm wounds aa affecting the sight, declares that the former proportion of 12 per cent to 16 per cent, ot wounds in the head has been Increased tn the present war; he attributes lt in part to the war of trenches and In part to the increased effectiveness of shell fire Fifty per cent.' ot wounds affecting the. Sight are caused by shell frag meats, 40'pe scent, by rifle bullets eight per cent by shrapnel bullets and two per cent, various. The destruction of sight ls tn the greater number of cases the Indirect result of wounds. There are a great many cases qt what Dr. Sendral calls hysterical blindness. Men are fre quently struck blind as well as deaf and dumb by shock. Set Fire te Skip. MOBILE, Ala.. April 23.-Blown 2,000 miles ott her course, her rig ging broken and her hull leaking, the British barkenthio Golden Rod from MohRe for Buenos Aires, with lum ber wu8 eet iire ty c*Pt- Frederick sen and abandoned off Cape Raves early ta April according to infor mation received yesterday by her owner hare. ? You'll find in our oxfords the greatest com bination of comfort, service, style and econ omy you've ever enjoyed, we know it's there because we had it built into them by most re nown makers. Black and tan vicis, black and tan calf or any other leather of your choice. ? Prices from $3.50 to $6.50. *Tb* Slim nth m Gmcfcnc? THE "TODLER " Affords comfort, safety and fun for the lillie one,-?hereby re lieving and resting the tired mothers. Holds the child securely, and can be adjusted to any position. Made of heavy canvas and heavy steel wire, very durable and perfectly sanitary. Furnished Complete With Rope, Hooks and Rings. Sullivan Hardware Co. Anderson, S. C., Greenville, S. C., Belton, S. C. Watcli for very Announcement for next Paramount "WHEN LIONS ESCAPE" A Very Thrilling Drama in Three. Reels "BRONCHO BILLY" And a Rip-Roaring Comedy Making 5 Reals in all. ADMISSION ALWAYS