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The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1896-09-29
Lack Of Schoolhouse Room.

AT the opening Of the public school
year in New York city it was found
that there were 80, 900 children apply
ing for entrance who could not get III.
There vas not schoolhouse room for
them. They are thus left to roam tho
streets and become vagabonds and Grim
inals when they and their parents really
desire that they should become intelli-
gent citizens. II there is one right q
child has, it is to SECURE a good common
school education. 1t is as much q hu-
man beings right as light and air and
water are his right. When q child is
turned away from school because there
Is not desk room for it, it is " gn there
is something atrcoiously wrong.
New York city is by no mean alone
M this criminal lack Of schoolhouse
room. The like condition exists to a
greater or less degree in many Of the
larger cities. 1t is not the fault of the
school authorities. They have used all
the money they had TO build houses as
rapidly as they could. We have men
TONED the fact i'll order to show that
here is the opportunity Of their lives for
men of wealth. Instead of spending
$50, 900 or 800, 900 for a tomb or mon
ument, let them make their home cities
a present Of a schoolhouse and leave n
monument that will be imperishable. In
the namo Of humanity and civilization,
let the coming American citizen have q
chance to learn to read and write.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1896-09-29

In another century the crude devices
at present made by experimentcrs in
air travel will appear as ~antiquated
as the original piano Or the original BIZ
Cycle does now. Inventions for air travel
are crowding one another thick and fast,
and it is emily aquestion of q little more
time when II or more of them will be
successful. II a machine can be made
to rise Of itself and then propel itself
800 feet through the air, it is only o
matter of mechanical perfection of ar
rangement to make it fly 8 miles or 500.
The possibility has been demonstrated.
A flying ship lately undoubtedly rose III
the air and moved forward 1888 feet
against the wind. This is enough to
know. The rest will come.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1896-09-29
Ho1. n.rs cure liver Ills; easy 10
FfOOd'S Pills take. easy to operate. 2cc.
Statistics of Farm Animals.

Bulletin No. II of the miscellaneous
series of the United States department
of agriculture presents in tabulated
form the condition of the American live
stock industry from 1880 to 1896.
All the live stock in the country in
1896 is valued at $1,727, 928, OS4. This
is only $151,008, 528 more than the
value IN 1880. Nothing illustrates the
present condition of the live stock in
dustry more forcefully if Mt the same
time we remember that tho population
OF the Union has increased from 5O,-
600, 600 In 1880 to 70, 900, 900 in 1896.
For nine years following 1880 both
numbers and values of farm animals
increased steadily and rapidly. In 1889
the value was So, 5O7, O5O. So. In 1890
the first symptoms Of decline began, tho
year of the Barring failure, though what
connection that event could have with
live stock in the United States is not
clear. The value has been going down
irregularly ever since. During 1899 and
1898 it rose feebly, only to drop more
rapidly )than before. In 1894 it fell
more than 800, 600, 900; in 1895 over
1915, 600, 600. For 1896 the value is the
smallest i'll 16 years. The principal
losses have fallen OH horses, mules and
sheep. Horses alone have fallen off
$113, 1866, 225 since 1880. Their number
is, however, greater than it was then,
although that has declined heavily since
1893. The same is true Of mules. Of oil
animals, oattle-milk COWS and beeves
ARE the only ones hat show a good
advance in value since 1880, although
these, too, have fallen off greatly in
the past two years. On the whole, 1895
and 1896 seem to be the most disastrous
years live stock breeders have
tered in many q day.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1896-09-29
A breathless world waits still for the

A breathless world waits still for the
dead sure facts Of that great conspiracy
which the London Scotland Yard de-
tectives claim to have uncarthcd-that
diabolical plot which was 10 blow not
only the car Of Russia out Of the
world, but even the Prince of Wales, if
not the aged and beloved queen Of Eng
land herself, and on the strength OF
which lyman, tho American citizen,
was arrested at Boulogne; Edward Boil.
another American citizen, at Glasgow,
while two other alleged conspirators,
Kearney and Wallace. were captured at
Rotterdam. The Fenians may DO bad
enough, but it is yet to be recorded that
they have my sympathy with the nj
hilists Of continental Europe, or any
spite at any car. English papers have
freely asserted that it meant death for
lyman if he once could be brought to
England, but that would involve prov
ing lyman really had a hand in the
Phoenix park murder Of Burke and Lord
Frederick Cavendish in Ireland q dozen
years ago. The convincing evidence
against this is the fact lyman has so
freely claimed he had q hand in that
%atrocious deed. It is not like persons who
help with such dastardly and bloody
crimes to openly admit it. They would
be moro apt to maintain eternal silence,
as those engaged in the foul murder OF
DR.. Cronin in Chicago have done.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1896-09-29
Deal Is Cannot be Cured

bs local applications as they can
not reach the diseased portion of
the car. There is only one way to
cure deafness, and that is by con-
stitutional remedies. Deafness is
caused by an iDfiamed condition of
the mucous lining of the Eustach-
Ian Tube. Wnen this tube is in
hamed you have a rumbling sound
or imperfect hearing, and when 10
Is entirely closed, Deafnessis the
result, and unless the Inflammation
can be taken out aud this tube re-
stored to its normal condition, hear
Ing will be destroyed forever; nine
eases out Of ten arc caused by ca
tarrh, which is nothing but an in
hamed condition of the mucous sur
faces.
We will give One Hundred Dol
lars for any case of Deafness
Caused by catarrh) that cannot be
cured by Halls Catarrh Cure. Send
for circulars, free.
r. j. CHENEYN& Co Toledo, o.
EB' Sold by druggists.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1896-09-29
A Real society.

1t was the dream Of at least some Of
the founders of this republic that the
civilization here begun should stand as
the Towering of the ages gone before,
There should be no military despotism,
no hereditary nobility, no tyranny OF
priesthood or church. All mon should
have equality of opportunity, and then,
as water finds its level. society would
arrange itself.
Instead Of this we seem thus far
merely to have repeated tho social dis
tinctioDs of the old world. A more obi
GUS caste system than even that of q
titled and hereditary nobility Is upon
our neoks. 1t Is the vulgar and prepos
ferrous ~aristooraoy Of wealth. An in
fnitesimal fraction of the inhabitants
Of one city, New York, calls itself the
society of this country. There are o
million people in the country more re-
fined, more intellectual, more brilliant
in all social gifts than any OF the men
and women who pose before the public
at Newport as tie 'sooiety" Of the
United States. These persons with real
social gifts may VI may not be rich.
That is Just as it happens. But it is
time for us to begin to know that q real
society has nothing at all to do with
wealth beyond u certain amount neces.
sary to provide the comforts aud refine
ments of life. When we all understand
that, then, and not till then, shall We
begin to have something worthy the
name of society in this country.
In the real sense the little gilded
clique which poses at Newport in the
summer is not society at all. 1t has no
right to the title, because Its title is
founded upon mere dollars. Every in
telligent n~eighborhood in America has
the markings of u real society surpass-
ing in brillianoy tho present Newport
aggregation.
TO consider the requisites Of u genuine
society: First, there is the social in
stinct, which man shares in common
with brutes. Then there is the in
stinct of kindliuess and courtesy, which
distinguishes the gentleman from the
boor." Next there must be moral and So
cial purity. A society without these
would be like the region of lost souls.
1t would contain the clements of its
own destruction. In ancient Rome, in
France. In England before Cromwell's
revolution, this was the case.
Next? Well, we should need that
aesthetic instinct which leads mankind
to refine itself and its language and
manners, to cultivate grace and beauty
OF person, which begin with perfect per-
sonal cleanliness. The aesthetic instinct
will further lead us to surround our
selves with what is dainty and pleasing
to the eye inside our homes and out
side. This does not meal necessarily
costliness. A house of four roomsm nay be
as pleasing to the aesthetic sense rs one
Of twenty.
Finally, to the building Of the perfect
society there must be added all the in
telleotual gifts and semi-intellectual
gifts mankind possesses. The c~ultiva-
ton of music, of artistic, dramatic and
conversational talent, Of social games
and amusements indoors and out, all
these go to the making Of best society.
Why do we not begin to build it in ev-
cry town in this republic?
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1896-09-29

What live farmers can do even in
hard times has been illustrated this au-
tumn by the success of the agricultural
fair at .Waverly, N. j. Tho display Of
farm and dairy products was made most
attractive, games and racing contests
really worth looking at were introduced,
and the affair was advertised far and
near. The result was a great crowd, and
the stockholders Of the company got o
per cont dividends.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1896-09-29
Strange.

The people Of no other State in the
Union eeem as AYERS to contributing
money for election purposes as those Of
South Carolina. Our people are not
naturally illiberal, yet two appeals by
The State for contributions, however
small, to the education fund of the
national Democracy have not brought
in a dollar.-Columbia State.
A lawyer named Strange died, and
on his tombstone was written: Here
lies an honest lawyer: it is Strange.
49,
Bryan snubbed Democratic head
quarters at Washington and told the
great managers that he did not believe
in practical politics and wanted no adj
vice. He believes vox PopULI vox
-9EE..-that he is a child of destiny.
"Derives from heaven his quarrel and
his cause,
Tells, them, he doth bestride a bleed
ing land,
Gasping for life under ----."
Napoleon, however, had some trust
in heavy artillery and in the pres ent
case Jones should at least be booked
for the freight.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1896-09-29

Any one having late peaches or nice
frying chickens for sale. will find ready
sale for them in Honea Path at a good
price.--Honea Path Chronicle.
Don't mention such goodies, if you
please, brother Chronicle. Remember
the case Of Tantalus. Don't do SO
again If you have regard for the peace
of your brother.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1896-09-29

Men spend their lives in anticipations
IN determining to be vastly happy at
some period or other when they have
time. But the present time has one ad.
vantage over every other. 1t is our own.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1896-09-29
On q High Horse.

The State Dlspensary authorities
when themselves caught up with
when %rottenness Is traced to their own
doors, grow suddenly pious. They have
resolved upon prosecuting every
ir~regularity in the county business
for years. Verify, misery must have
company. The big offenders may es-
cape in the cry Of "stop thief"
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1896-09-29
NOTICE.

i%hST every man and woman In tho United
States Interested in the Opium and Whisky
esDlts tohave one Of my books on these dis.
eSses; Address, u. NJ. Woolley, Atlanta, Ga.
BOX oeS' aaa ono win DO sent you free.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1896-09-29

Mr.. Marshall Stevens, an English
gentleman representing manufacture
ing and steam navigation interests
visited Charleston and other Southern
Ports with the view Of establishing q
line of steamers between Manchester,
England and some Atlantic Port.
Ii Hung Chang las much one of our
heroes as Citizen Ashley says that
Japan could fog the United States as
snugly as she did China. And 80 we
would think If we had lived around
China for the last few years.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1896-02-21

of mine, banker, who wanted Dolph,
was no doubt regarded as having some
influence on me, so that was regarded
as a very manageable ''young man."
But AR. Gourlay asks, "Was there
not a caucus?'' and "Was not Mr.. Coon
a member of that caucus? Did he not
pledge himself over his own signature,
in palpable black and white, to enter
that caucus and abide by Its decision ?''
caucus was objected to by some. and
I forNone did not wish to go into caucus.
except it be full caucus. This man
agement was finally reached, and L
wrote "in palpable black and white,''
that would go into the caucus and
abide by its decision. A few minutes
after going in, and before any business
had been proposed, I further replied by
wire to parties in The Dalles, who were
most decidedly ''on the anxious seat"
abide by the result. All this shows that
I went into caucus in good faith; and I
will add that had there been good faith
all round-in other words, had there
been a caucus at all, 1 should have
abided by the result. But there were
those present who were bent on running
that caucus according to a new method,
invented for the occasion; one which
would enable them to know certain
things better than to follow the custom
of the secret ballot absolutely. The
new method was objected to by those
who came in to take part in a real eau
Gus, with a binding resolution and
positively secret ballot. The new meth
cd had to be abandoned, and binding
resolution never was passed. A vote
was taken to ascertain the choice of
those present, but while that vote was
by ballot, it was noticed that it was not
secret ballot, as had been demanded.
Every element going to make an honest
and binding caucus was wanting. Those
of us who would not submit to trickerv
went out of that room knowing that
there had been no caucus, and there
was none. Had there been caucus
and 'fno goods delivered" Mr.. Dolph
would not have been the caucus nom
inee.
There are great many incidents con-
nected with the senatorial fight which 1
wish every voter knew as well as 1 do.
In my opposition to Mr.. Dolph, 1 took
no hand in the "Icicle" arguments nor
in any personal abuse of that gentleman.
1 became satisfied that the people of the
state did not want him and the reasons
seemed to me sufficient. 1 know that
many in my district were disappointed,
but while the petitions for Dolph were
signed extensively, so were the petitions
against him. 1 tried to do my duty and
am satisfied that my cause Is and will
be approved by the people. As an in
dependent republican and citizen 1 can
not view with Indifference the course of
political events and the manner in
which the people are worked for the
benefit of scheming politicians and their
tools.
I hope Mr.. Gourlay will brace him
self and not again be disturbed if 1
should make use of citizens right of
free speech every year or two, for be-
long to a long-lived family.
T. R. COOK.
Hood River, Feb. 20, 1895.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1896-02-21

For Sale.
Silver-laced Wyandottes chickens;
good layers. especially in winter. Fine
table fowl. Eggs per thirteen, $1.5O.
A few young Cockerels for sale, 81 each.
feb5-1m Mrs. A. A. BoNNEY.
The morning times., 1896-04-12
CapBag Inventor, But Those Who Went Laugh Re-
mained Wonder His
Copyright. 1896.

perimcnter and his machine. The result
was much as if he had tied a stone around
his neck and jumped out OF a fifth story
window. That practically is the history
OF flying machines, with Il few exceptions
in the cases Of ingenious persons who have
been skil,ful enough TO keep their balance
and-wail for the wind before trying TO get
10 the ground. But the practice and the
skill necessary 10 accomplish this result
utterly untitled the machine for general
use.
The late activity among those who have
partly learned to fly is bringing to light
some very odd contrivances designed 10
sail the air and triumphautly capture the
100000 prize. If the money were lying
upon the ground ike sheep off guard,
ana the flying machine were an eagle
soaring the air above, the money could not
seem easier 10 grasp than it now does o
the inventors. Each and all are sure OF t
One OF the latest of the inventors is a
man who stole into certain large city
few days ago with a carpet satchcl in one
hand and Il shaw! strap in the other. He
wore suit of plain gray. and though his
tile was not the latest spring creation, he
was well enough dressed 10 show that he
had money and that his machine had not
been built on brain alone.
Inside few weeks this worthy gentle
man has had more visitors calling al his
little hall room than had ever penetrated
that peaceful residential neighborhood in
so short time before The visitors were
not inventors by any means, but gentlemen
of note, whose opinion and influence would
he powerful factors for the young machine
20 own. The visitors came by invitation
and promised to keep the professors ad-
dress q secret, but one who visited him
thus describes his invention:
The plan OF Prof. Blank is TO sail the
air with q combination OF flying machine
and air-ship The invention can be called
either. As it goes by steam and carries
men aud guns il can be called a ship.
The wings, however. give il the birdhke
appearance OF the flying machine
This machine is a bold one because il
comhats the theories OF that great war
inventor, Hiram Maxim. Maxim says
that n flying machine viii never navi-
gate tie air by wings. He holds that il
is ridiculous to suppose it Will. Maxim
says an air-ship will never fly on wings
any more than Il locomotive will walk
on four legs like a horse.
He, however, holds differently. And
The morning times., 1896-04-12

Since the introduction iGto the Senate
Of bin by Henry Cabot Lodge. offering
prizes for machines that viii ny, the
activity in aerial navigation has been
unprecedented. Never since The Marquise
de BacqHe. in Zap, tried 10 fly and fell
upon his barge. breaking his leg, lin an
unsightly and unbrainly attempt to pene-
tTdte into the regions inhabited by God
and the angels has so much been going
on To reach into the domains of space.
Leouardo da yinci. in tie middle ages.
tried repeated flying-Tna chimes, owning
up 10 what we would now call fad
Tor them. but never with great success.
The argument presenting itself TO the
mind Of all WHO are trying TO fly is this:
Overhead is a great body of wind pos
ses~iug force enough TO remove houses
and impede the progress of steam loco
motives. Why is il not possible for me
10 ulnze This force TO some extent? Why
can not rise by means OF it, and remain
alort as long as please? Why can l not
move along with ii and through it? Why
am ] Eol able to turn this great power 10
my wn useS?"
And this same problem iS the one that
At'aN Af'NA tu2~s4iAE minus AAttAl
telegraph puzzled them: and it is for the
speedy solution of ii that Senator Cabot
Lodge offered his bin giving prizes TO
the first inventor who would solve the
secrets that govern flying machines.
UP LIKE A ROCKET.
There have heen many flying machines
built. And successful ones, too. They
would mount into the air and soar as high
as desired. But that was the end Of their
accomplishments. When the flyer wanted
10 descend he could not do so at will.
He was borne along as far as The wind
wanted TO play with him. just - a kite
would he. In va0 he tried and wresued
with the wings Of tie machine. The more
be tried the further he flew.
Suddenly The wings would turn, in
obedience 10 his repeated tugs upon them,
aud down be would come like Il stick from
The sky. His own weight and the weight
OF the machine would drop him to the
earth with a force considerable enough to
crush him, and when rescued from an ig-
nominious heap upon the ground there
would be an assorted mass of broken up
man and flying machine. Broken wings,
broken legs, dislOcated shoulders and de
mOraiized ribs were all there was 10 show
for the aerial triumph.
The drop had been too much for the ex
The morning times., 1896-04-12

creyices OF rocks at the waters edge for
'chispas. or, as we call them, nuggets.
\An enterprising white man made rocker.
That was q great improvement over the
willow pan and knife In the fall OF '49
picks, shovels. iron pans, and sheet iron
for rocker screens had been shipped in
from the outside. Rockers sold for three
ounces. shOvels, half an ounce apiece: picks
the same; pans for q quarter of an ounce;
gum boots an ounce a pair. and whisky
a pinch n drink. That was what bar
keeper could take between his forefinger
and thumb. They had big fingers and
thumbs in those days and a barkeeper's
salary was measured by their size. Wages
was an ounce day.
The Georgia bumper dis splaced the
rocker. 1t was something like rocker.
but much larger, and had several rifles
to catch the gold. The ends of the rockers
bump against blocks of wood TO jar the
gravel in the screen, and between rifles.
A bumper cost $500; wheelbarrow two
ounces, and q China pump, S25. That
made bumper mining outfit. The bumper
didn't last long, for the Long Tom soon
took its place. That was a stationary
affair with long screen in which the
pay dirt was thrown. Water was con-
Quoted on the screen, the wash falling
through the perforations, while one OF the
hands forked out the rocks or small stones
These, as well as the Tom, were supplied
with RIFLES, which generally caught about
all the dust. Long Toms were first used in
Nevada City in 1850. Improvements in
modes of placer mining rapidly followed.
Sets OF sluices without the Toms were used, ,
then ground sluicing came next and hy-
draulic mining, where water and fall could
be obtained, displaced the rocker, bumper
and Tom. Hydraulic mining is an old thing
now"
How about underground mining?'' in
quired the reporter.
Collaborating quartz was first diScov-
cred by some miners in the bed of Deer
Creek, below Nevada City, in the summer
of 1850. 1t was found in a narrow vein
but the discovery led to the opening up OF
the magnificent gold-bearing quartz mines
of Grass Valley in Nevada county. All the
equipments of the mines were a first crude
but the mines were rich and paid we'll
Black powder was used in blasting where
blasting was necessary. Some years after
nitro -glycerine was introduced in the State,
but an explosion of the stuff in q San
Francisco express office knocked it out,
and giant powder came into use. You
know the rest"