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The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1888-02-15
COLLEGE.

With q full corps Of assistants the
Lauronsville Female College will
~reorganize and begin fall session
Sept. 10th. Rooms comfortable.
Standard high. Special attention to
all Female accomplishments. New
and splendid Pianos. Non-secta-
rian. Government parental. Young
ladies under the immediate are Of
Mrs. McCaslan and Mrs. N. C Jor-
dan. Pupils received ut any time
and charged until end Of quarter.
Board $12 per month In advance.
Tuition $40, $50, and with classical
course $40 per Collegiate year, pay
able monthly. We solicit and hope
to merit public patronage. For
any information address,
w. M. McCASLAN,
President.
LAURENs s. c., July 20, 1887, 1y.
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Charitable.

"Have a smoke, SimsonF' said his frfenA,
as he passed out q fragrant Havana
mo, thank you, I've sworn OFF,
swell, put one In your pockee TO Sxnolo -
morP0w.nLHartford POST
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1888-02-15
FOR SALE

FOR SALE-A valuable lot on Brook
lyn side, partially improved.
FOR SALE-A neat residence on Jer-
sey side, containing six roonls. Splen-
did well Of water. Two acres. Fine
land attached.
FOR SALE.-Two Hundred and Fifty
Acres or land just outside the incorpe-
rate limits Of the town OF Laurens. An
elegant home and all necessary out
buildings.
FOR SALE-A two-story Brick Store
house in the town of Laurens. Also O
half interest in q good warehouse.
FOR SALE-A number of farms in
different portions Of LaurenS County,
A valuale lot of2N Acros partially i'm
proved, n mile west of Laurena.
A bargain offered.
A second hand two horse wagon md
splendid set double Harness-band-
made. Also one pair Fair banks Scales.
A small tract OF land near Hopewell
church, One and one-half miles west of
Goldville. said tract contains about rs
acres, about 80 acres cleared and In good
state OF cultivation balance In mixed
foreBt-Price low.
j. NJ. Hampton.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1888-02-15
Annual Report
or THE
COUNTY TREASURER
OF
JIAwREMS CO, 9. C.,

VENEER 1sT, 1885, TO NO
VENEER lsT, 1887.
To HIS Honor the PrssidSpg Jadgs
Of Tho Court Of General Sessions
for Laurs,ss County, Fec s1srn',
1888.
GruNnr DISTRICT. NO. &,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-12-01
CAUSES OF FIRE.
Some New Observations on the Subject
of Spontaneous Combustion.

Some New Observations on the Subject
of Spontaneous Combustion.
In regard to spontaneous cOmbus-
ton, the fires of the year in Boston
have furnished some new observations
of considerable Importance. In one.
case a quantity of feather dust in q
bedding mandatory took fire without
apparent reason. 1t was found, how
ever. that piece of thick glass had
been lying on the feathers, and the
suns rays, concentrated in some way
by the glass, had set fire to them, al
though the day was q cold one in the
month of March. In another case, a
number of tarpaulin hats were lying,
stacked together, in a window. The
high temperature, with, perhaps, the
close packing of the hats, caused them
to burst into blaze. Two other fires
were caused by putting paraflne paper,
such as candy is wrapped IN, into Il
refuse barrel which contained a little
sawdust; and third, which destroyed
twenty thousand dollars worth Of
property, was occasiOned by putting
greasy paper, which had been used to
wrap lunches in, into a wooden refuse
barrel, which contained some sawdust
and swecpings. american Archttect.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-12-01
"wHY, IT'S ADDRESSED To ME I"

Ia the least afraid of Sim, whom she had
often c2axed into her room with bonbons,
was quick to respond.
Selling Sim laughingly as he dashed
past her, Francie wrested the envelope
from his paw, but as her eyes unwttingly
rested ON the address so plainly visible un-
der the glass chandelier, she uttered lit
tie exclamation of surprise.
"Why-it's addressed TO me-and the
seal is brokenl" she exclaimed, fixing her
clear eyes on Mrs. Theodosia Brown, who,
for the moment was stricken dumb.
There was an awkward silence that was
suddenly broken by Dick Blake's deliber-
ate voice.
Eyes, Miss France" he said, quietly,
81 know it is yours, because | wrote it and
laid 1t in your room while you were out
this morning. The seal was unbrolzen
1en," he added, with curling lip.
"By Jove, that's a facer for the widow"
muttered Buffer, who was known to have
sporting proclivites.
81 think l must bid you good night"
| said Francie, bowling with a slightly
heightened color to the curious faces about
her. Good night, Mrs Brown" and van
ished through the door.
Curiously enough the remaining guests
suddenly discovered that it was time to go,
and in few moments no one was left in
the room but the discounted widow, the
l,nsrrot, pugs, cat and Sim, who, with his
paw pressed against his aching head,
seemed prey to the bitterest remorse.
| Half an hour later Mr.. Blake heard a
gentle tap at his door Throwing it open,
he stood for a moment in state of eXtatic
| bewilderment
For before him stood Francie, looking
demurely downward at a knot of roses,
whose carnation seemed reflected in her
/ cheeks.
| With a rapturous exclamation Blake
sprang forward. But Lifting her glad eyes
| 10 his own with sweet, yet shy glance
which told him all he would know, Fran
Gle turned and sped lightly up the stair
way. Pausing at the head Of the flight
and detaching one Of the roses from her
breast, she touched her fresh young lips
TO it and tossed it so deftly that it fell at
| Blake's feet
+" Something to be thankful for" she
whispered" gooj-night " And Blake, not
unfrequently calls his wife his Thanks
| giving rose. FRANK H. CONVERSE
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on Thanksgiving eve, and accepted the
agreeable beverage with a cheerful smile.
1t was perhaps trifie unfortunate that
he chanced to take his place, goblet in
hand. directly under the swinging perch
of the observant parrot who Just then was
very wide awake.
! For as Mr. Putter, elevating the goblet
and clearing his throat, was about to-er-
propose toast the wretchcd bird, cock
ing his head downward and fixing his hard,
unwinking eye with infinite meaning upon
Mr., Putter, remarked sepulchrally:
Let us pray"
| OF course only wrong minded people,
given to unseemly levity would see any
Ehing to laugh at ia this, which was per
haps the reason that such q general chorus
| of severe coughing followed the injudicious
suggestion, while number of faces were
suddenly averted. Old ByEper, 1t is true.
shouted "Haw! hawr" anG yc.4ng Golden
grew purple to his ear Lil!H with sup
pressed mlrth but these tveu didn't count
1t was Dick Blake who, coming to the
rescue of his embarrassed hostess, tried
to create a diversion by loudly inquiriug
as to the whereabouts of his friend Sim,
whom he had not seen that evening.
Had Mr.. Blake known that wicked
young man among the guests-BlufEer by
name-had been slyly plying Sim with
egg-nogg behind the window curtains, be
would perhaps not have ventured the
query.
Sim! oh, hos chained in the bay-win-
dow, sound asleep" responded the widow,
with glance in that direction.
But alas! Sim was neither chained or
asleep, and at the repetition of his name
he Suddenly crawled from beneath the
curtain folds on three legs, and utteripg
a pound like hiccough strangled in its
lbrth.
= The more timid of the ladies uttered
small screams and cast imploring glances
at their male protectors. Miss Dash, gath
ering her skirts about her, skipped upon
the nearest chair, as females do at the ap-
proach of a mouse.
Naughty SIM" said Mrs. Brown, re-
bukiugly. ''Mr. Blake will you"
The sudden pause in her adjuration was
caused by the unexpected action Of Sim,
who in strict justice was usually one of
the most gentlemanly and mild hammered
Of small monkeys.
For instead of obediently approaching
Mr.. Blake's outstretched hand, Sim rose
on his hind legs and staggered across the
room, wildly waving his hand above his
head Then he chartered and hiccoughcd
alternately for moment, after which he
plunged boisterously at unhappy Mr.
Putter, aud whom he b t in the calf of tho
| leg. He's mad--he's Cos the hydro
phobian shouted Mr. Putter, in dire dis
may as he held on to the wounded member
with both hands.
| If Sim WdS mad there was method in his
madness; for all at once, having violently
twitched the tail Of the Angora cat in pass
ing, he skipped nimbly up on a side table
upon which stood the handsome Quill
writing desk belonging to Mrs. Brown.
Before that estimable lady realized the
situation Sim threw back the lid and
snatched in his small paw an addressed en-
velope with broken seal, with which he
sprang to tine floor.
Mrs. Browns fine color gave place to q
sickly pallor as she saw the act
Catch him. some one-that letter"-she
gasped, and Francie Bruton, who was not
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-12-01
A Doorstep Dialogue.

A woman called at a house on Cass
avenue, and asked the lady if she could
sell her some paints.
al am not an artist, and do not use
any paints said the lady.
But this is paint for the complex
ion" answered the woman.
81 do not paint my face" said the
lady, preparing to close the door.
"Well, it would look better if you
did" retorted the other as she turned
TO ,go.-DctroH Free Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-12-01
SONOROUS SANDS.


Phenomenon.
At a recent meeting Of the New York
Academy of Sciences, DR.. A. Julian
and Prof II. c. Bolton gave report of
the interesting results of their long con-
tinued researches on sonOrous sands.
The cause of this remarkable phenomc-
non. which was first known to occur in
Arabia, has long been Il mystery. In
course of time many other localities in
which sOnOrous sands occur become
known. and, in fact. it may be found
almost every where on beaches and in
deserts. The authors collected samples
from all parts of the world, and On
close examination, found that all sonor-
Gus sands are clean; that no dust or
silt is found mixed with the sand; that
The diameter of the angular or rounded
grains ranges between 0.3 and 0.5 Of a
millimeter; and that the material may
De siliceOus, calcareOus, or any other.
provided its specific gravity is not very
great. When these sands are moistened
by rain or by the rising tide, and
Lue moisture Is eva pOiblcNl, d nm vi COu-
densed air is formed on the surface Of
each grain, which acts as an elastic
cushion, and enables the sand to vibrate
when disturbed. In sands mixed with
silt or dust, these small particles pre-
vent the formation of continuous air
cushion, and therefore such sands are
not sonorous. If this theory be correct,
5onorous sand must become mute by
removing the film of air. Experiments
Of the authors prove that by heating,
rubbing and shaking the sand is
''l1illed." All these operations tend to
destroy the film of air condensed on
the surfaces. On the other hand, sam
plies Of sonorous sand were exhibited
which had been kept undisturbed for
many years. They had retained their
sOnorousness but, after having b2en
rubbed for some time, became almost
mute. The theory advanced by the
authors appears very plausible, and
will be firmly established when they
succeed in making a sonorous sand.
Their experiments in this line have
not yet been completed, but promise
fair success. SclCDce.
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pathos, as the case may be, are quite famil-
lar to present day readers.
1t vagaely occurs to me that l have
somewhere read or heard that truth is
stranger than fiction" Ard this shall be
my apology for thus departing from es-
tablished usages in the simple Thanksgiv-
ing tale which itself is connected with
Sim-ThAodosia Browns monkey.
The monkey was only part of Mrs.
Browns menage-menagerie, Mrs. Bax-
ter's other boarders called it. The widow
was also the owner of a parrot, two
dwarfed pugs with sawed-off noses, an
Angora cat and small pet alligator. But
Mrs. Theodosia Brown had inherited from
the deceased Brown something like half
a million. And as she paid literally for
her two front rooms on the first flight,
Mrs Baxter would have allowed her TO
have kept an anaconda or a baby elephant
provided they did not annoy the other
boardcrs
Dick Blake, who had the room opposite,
was never annoyed by Mrs. Browns pets.
Indeed, generally speaking, they were to
him Il source of perpetual JOY and comfort
1t might have been the extreme interest
which he took in them all-the alligator
excepted-that led the fair widow to fancy
that in spite of her six years of seniority
she had made conquest of the handsome
young fellow at whom she had cast Ian
gushing eyes.
Dick himself was far too modest to
dream of the interest he had aroused in the
widows heart Indeed, he would as soon
have thought of making love to Mrs Bax-
ter his landlady, who was old enough to
be his mother, even had his affections pot
already been gre empted.
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dosia Brown, who, Respondent in old gold
and diamonds, was but too ready to re-.
spond to such marked advances.
And while Francie ard Dick thus plavad
at cross purposes the evening wore on in
the usual way The guests talked little
scandal, considerable gossip, and between
rubbers of whist intro uced enough liter
ary conversation to give the correct tone r.
the occas on, till the entrance of the colored
waiter with tray on which were glasses
Of egg nogg
Even Rev. Mr.. Putter considered that
mllG potation Of this kind was ALLOWABLE
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-12-01

MANY persons think that the time spent
in business is so much distracted from
what is calculated tonourish and strength
an the spiritual life. But business is not
necessarily inmical to the souls good.
# pursued ur%er the control Of Christian
principles, and with a recognition Of tho
rright uses Of pros Gritty, it m y tend to
our highest good Many man in business
has more real spiritual life than another
whose opp rtun ties for growth in g. &c
,,pear most favorable. CHI Ytt1" h,i ber
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Then Farmer Kent took OF his hat;
He said: " l came to-day
To hCnr the parson talk Of Heaven,
And, haply, show the way;
But the truest preacher have seen
Is this beggar, lean and gray
Now come with me; from this day forth
You are my honored guest"
The beggar shrauk-the farmer said:
The Father knoweth best.
He lgadeth you, He leadeth me,
He brought us all the way,
Through paths OF sin, and doubt, and pain,
To this Thanksgiving Day,
That you might teach me how to trust,
To thank HIM, and to pray.
A cozy nook awaits for you
Beside my ample hearth;
Ana! He never makes mistakes,
The Judge Of all the earth"
MARGRET HOLMES.
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Who stood in the vestibule.

Who stood in the yestibule.
The parson stayed moments space
BY the beggar grim and gray;
He sad: Good morrow, my worthy friend
Are you giving thanks to-day?
Move on-no doubt your dinner waits;"
And the parson went his way.
The beggar smiled: MY Fathers lands
Extend from sea to sea;
He feeds the ravens when they cry,
And He'u save crumb for me.
"Somewhere within His wide domain
A table doth await;
Beneath some humble cotter's root
Or by the rich mans gate;
only know l need not haste,
will not be too late"
Then Farmer Kent passed where he stood
He was a kindly man,
With shoulders broad, and heartsome voice
And cheek and brow Of tan.
He said: 81 own as fair homo
As is beneath the sky;
Yet, when catch the scent OF hamo,
Or when the wind is high,
fear, mayhap, smoking heap
Win greet my eager eye
My fields are rich with hocks and herds
My wife is good and fair;
And half a score of girls and boys
Crowd close about my chair
"If l could know death would not come
And all their beauty blight
This morn was a happy man,
may not be tonight"
Shall not The Judge of all the earth
Do for His own the right?
Some time agone, it is not long,
Your fortune fair was mine;
! Ny wealth took wings and few away;
But shall l fret and pine?
My wife and child-greeu grows the turf
Above their place of rest;
No drop of blood is kin to me,
There IS no lowly nest
To call my own; and yetTm sure
The Father doeth best.
When summer breezes round me play,
And sunshine warns my face
fare along, IonlAknow
I'll find my righJful place.
And when the summer days are dead,
When ice and frost and snow
Blot out the sun and hide the earth,
And fierce winds wildly blow,
! Still trusting to my Fathers hand,
Upon my way 90.
The summer leaves and running brooks
Were never more His own
Than are the frosts and biting winds
That chill me to the bone"
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Nuts when partly dry are sweetcr
than when freshly gathered, but they
soon get too dry unless care is taken.
If mixed with IN equal amount of sand
in box and kept in u cool place they
will not dry so fast.
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FARMER KENTS PARSON.


THANKSGIVING DAY
and the solemn
church
With autumn tints
was bright;
The purple fruit and the
russell leaves
Shone fair in tn ?
tempered light,
While the anthem rose
as free and strong
AS an eagles skyward
flight.
When the people passed
from out the door,
Some gaZed with rid,
iCule
On a ragged beggar, old
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-12-01
DICK BLAKE.
The Story Of His Thanksgiving
ROse-How He Won 1t.
Written for this paper.l


HE THANKSGIV-
ing story of fiction
is apt to have a GER
tain sameness about
it, The country, the
gathering under the
family roof-tree, the
dinner and the wan
derers' return, all
con n e C tie d by u
thread of love or
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Her name was Frank or Francie-ac-
cording to tho fancy of her friends. Dick
called her Miss Francie always, pending
the time whom he fondly hoped to call her
Francie da--'ing. Her room was up three
fights, ann Mrs. Theodosia Brown always
spoke of her in view of her occupation as
'that typo writer girl"
But Mrs. Brown was thirty ODD, some
what bish colored inclined to enlbonpotnt
and a Iaugtry wave; while Francie was
lineteer with a graceful, well-rounded
figure and a firm, elastic step, suggestive
of perfect health. And when l add that she
hal d sweet, refined face lustrousdark eyes
and heavy hair curling tendril- like over a
broad white forehead, and was, withal, as
good as she was pretty, it will be readily
seen that the widow had the best of fem
mime reasons fer speaking in a sighting
way of Francis Bruton.
Now, Dicks heart had long before gone
out into Francois keeping. If the young
girl herself was aware of this she made no
sign. Why should she when he had never
spolen-in words. But on this particular
day Dick Blake had resolved to
. 20, -
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This, then, was the meaning of the sheet
after sheet which, completed and torn up
in disgust flied his waste-paper basket
Thanksgiving morning, while small SIM
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-03-01
True to His Promise.

MIR. Cleveland has kept his pledges
as neither Mr.. Hayes. Mr.. Garfield nor
any other Republican would have kept
them. Thousands of clerks-all of
those under the Civil-Service laws
have been unmolested. The pc stmaster
OF New York is a Republican. Repub-
hcans are to be found in custom
houses, in the departments at Wash
lngton. in the railway mail service, in
fact everywhere. Democrats trained
to other ideas have protested, but the
President stood firm. He has kept
every promise. For his fidelity to the
spirit of his ante-election utterances
he has the confidence of the country.
The Civil-Service reformers have said
that he has been stronger in resisting
pressure from elements in his own
party than they had expected. AIR.
Hale would not monkey with the civil
service buzz saw unless he were rat
tied. Kansas CITY Times
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-03-01


shrewd, it may be the super-smart OBJ
server. will fiatter himself with the mo-
ton that the letter was designed to
raise up colony of rival claimants for
the nomination in order that their con-
tention may create Blaine's oppor-
tunity.
Mr.. Blaine knows that the American
people look upon the Presidency as a
great prize, and will not readily be-
lieve that any man having even the
mere chance of grasping it will permit
the opportunity to escape him. Mr..
Blaine has not stated that he would
under all circumstances decline nom-
nation. And he will be regarded,
therefore, as still possibility. = Chi
cd9o Herald.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1888-03-01
REPUBLICAN, WAYS.
The Black Record of the Riddle
Party Shown Up.

The Black Record of the Ring Ridden
Party Shown Up.
For twenty-three years, man and
boy, the Republican party acted as
though it was the absolute mentor of
the Republic. 1t were long to tell of
the violence of it's reign, and the un-
broken night of its despotism. Its
deeds of darkness would fill volume.
Its rogueries were as the sands upon
the sea shore; its violations of the con-
stitution as the leaves upon the trees.
Every office that existed at the time Of
it's ascendancy, or that was created
afterward, was filled with a partisan,
and not only mere partisan in null
titude of cases, but an officious, often
sive and aggressive partisan-one OF
the gadtiy kind. pestiferous. insectiver-
Gus and always on the wing. In a
political sense, Democrat was not
only newer of wood and a drawer of
water, but he belonged to an inferior
race of human beings, deficient in
mentality, and utterly incapable of
sharing in the administration of the
Government because of it, even if he
had not been a traitor per Sc, whose
rights the results of the civil war had
forfeited, and whose future liberation
or citiz enship in the land would have
to depend much upon his future actions.
If these brought forth fruits meet for
experimentation example, if he put on
collar of political serfdom, and
had engraved thereon the single
word "slave Ibis domicile might
safely then he vouchsafed. and the
graciousness still be extended to him
of paying taxes and inhaling sufii-
cient amount of atmospheric oxygen
upon which to exist.
Times changed, but not Republican
insolence, self-assurance and imperial
ism. It had been so used to procon-
suls. So many of the ways of the
satrap were its ways. 1t had walked
so long in paths that had never been
beset by no stile force or lurking dan.
ger. Its table service had been so long
of silver and gold, and its garments SO
long of purple and fine linen. The fat
was SO thick upon its political corpor-
osity that it would be Jeshurun for
ever, kicking Wnen ana Where ana
whom it pleased. The shoulder strap
had for so long been its sheet anchor,
the military order for so long its ulti-
matum. Federal spoils for SO long had
furnished it perfect cohesion; the iron
of its war begetting had SO long fur
nished it perfect discipline. So long
had been the sound sleep of its undis-
turbed confidence, and so thoroughly
did it believe in the constant iteration
and reiteration of its own hypocrisy
and cant, that when one fine day the
Democratic wolf did come along sure
enough, all it could do, when outside
there arose tremendous hue and cry,
was to poke its head through a window
and blubber impotently: "How dare
!''-Kdaesas City Times.