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Harmon D. wilson, who learned his
letters from the Troy Chief, has written
q two column article ON Sol Miller for
the Atchison Globe, in which he relates
many interesting little "reminiscences
of the old fellow. Sol would never trust
anybody else to make up the forms of
his paper. and he never permitted any
body under any circumstances to touch
the forms which contained the mailing
list. For 40 years he put on an old
apron each week and worked over the
imposing stones on issue day.
"When The Chief went to press"
says Mr.. Wilson, "the whistle was
blown. That was the signal for all who
wished to come and get their papers.
Most of those in hearing came. AS they
took their papers from a folded pile
which always stood in a certain place.
they wrote their names on sheet hung
there for that purpose. kansas City
Journal.
The Owosso times., 1897-06-25

oEDo General Banking Business.
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Money to loan onreal estate securities.
The Owosso times., 1897-06-25
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Hard, Soft or Calloused Lumps and Blem-
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Splints, Sweeney. King bone, Stiles, Sprains
all Swollen Throats, Coughs, etc. Save $50
by use of one bottle. Warranted the mcst
wonderful Bemish Cure ever known. SCld
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The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1897-05-11

Cond ,n.ed Scn -: "a,SerE,r IrAlaS.
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The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1897-05-11

DRIAK MORE WATER" After
studying the matter for some years |
am convinced" said a physician,
that people do not drink enough of
water. | think that q great majority
OF the cures Effected by drinking the
waters OF the fashionable and un.
fashionable medicinal springs in vari-
Gus parts of the country would have
resulted IL the same amount Of plain,
wholesome, everyday water was drunk
by them. People rush to these springs,
and while there drink from s to 20
large glasses Of their waters in a day.
Whether there r any medicinal
virtues in the waters, this washing out
does them good on account Of the extra
washing out they give themselves, and
1T Is the water Instead OF the con
stituency of the same that does the
work. The same people, If at their
homes, would pass many and many a
day without drinking one glass OF
water. 1T is my opinion hat it is the
water that cures, and that it is the
water that Is needed. | am not a
hydropath, or a believer in the theory
that water taken internally and ex.
~oernally will cure everything. At the
same time, | am satisfied that If PEG.
pie generally drank from four to six
glasses Of water every day they would
have less reason to complain. and suf.
fer less from many ailments that now
elect them than they now do"
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1897-05-11

nished when the end came. The youth
and manhood of the South were moved
down by the Reaper, but there was not
a stair upon their honor and integrity.
This is the rich herit ,ge which it is
yours TO keep and cherish, and in no
other wav "a you better transmit the
remembrance OF your ancestry ;han by
building q marble shaft which will 81
lently and yet eloquen,ly instil the les.
sons OF the past. Go 10 the nelp of
your sisters, and with fresh enelg,. do
vote Whatever time and means win be
necessary TO furnish this illustration to
your descendants, and which shall for
ever point TO the heroic leeds and subs
lime patriotism of these soldiers of the
South.
Veterans of Anderson How shall
L utter q word IF e%Xhortation to men
who were themselves actors in the ter
rible drama that is now ~uitcncst repre-
scented with he insignia of mourning ?
They are passing away with increasing
rapldlty each year, and the time is
snort III which we can work for the
preservation of the truth and the right.
Our comrades are now sleeping peace
fully on the hills and in the valleys of
Virginia, or by the margin of the in
land river, or where the waves of old
ocean ale sweeping the beach they
guarded with their lives Soon we
will JON them on the other side, and
yet the remnant of those who went
forth to battle from this vicinity cannot
fail to yearn and plead for this tribute
to their dead comrades, and lift their
voices in behalf of a commemorative
stone that will give to posteritv a token
of their own fidelity to Duty's call.
An eminent citizen of Anderson
County wrote the inscription which is
carved upon the beautiful monument
landing in front OF the capitol in Co
lumbia, and looking forward to tho
completion of our upon tho
public square of tins city, so dear t
many of us by hallowcd associations O
tie past, we would recall the lofty sen
timcnts of our former tellow-cilizcl
when he wrote
Let the stranger who may in future
times read this inscription recognize
that these were men whom power
,ould not carrupt, whom death roult
not %terrif>, when defeat could not dis
honor and let their virtues plead FOL
just Judgment Of the cause in which
they persisted {; let the South Carolin
ian OF another generation "umcu be
that the State taught them how to liv,
and how to die !; and that from he
oroken fortunes she his preserved foI
her children the priceless treasure OF
her memories, teaching all who may
claim the san.e birthrigh, that Truth
Courage aud Patriotism endure for
ever"
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1897-05-11

"A rubber company with q capital
of So, OOO, 600, has purchased o rubber
farm Of 40 square miles in Mexico,
upon which ready for tapping are $50
OOO trees, whose juices make, it is said,
a substitute for rubber little inferior
to Peru, which the company proposes
to gather and prepare on scientific
principles, estimating the gross re-
venue for 1897 at about $500, 600.
Colonel THIN, of Courtney, Ga.
reports his ostriches in foe condition
He is thoroughly convinced 0 that
the conditions in Florida are favorable
for successful breeding and raising OF
the birds. He has already sold many
feathers and plumes, bringing hand
some returns. Recently he negotiated
with one of the many successful vege-
table growers for the delivery Of q
cargo Of cabbages at Courtney to be-
used as ostrich food.
Prices at Johannesburg, South
Africa: Potatoes, 81 per bushel flour.
80 20, all sacks of 90 pounds beef, 25
cents per pound cabbages, % cents
per head onions, 3 cents apiece car
rots, 2 cents each; sugar, s cents per
pound eggs, so cents . dozen; butter,
so cents u pound chickens, Is cents
a turkeys, $l.75 each !; coffee, so
cents per pound kerosene, so cents a
gallon !; ham, 35 cents per pound.
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CHOOSING THE WEAPoNs.-Short-
ly before the Revolution, when the
air was heavily charged with fore
bodings of the approaching struggle,
old MAJOR Putnam happened to be
in Boston. The Major disliked the
redceats, and sometimes i~nveighed
against their arrogant supercilious-
ness in no gentle terms. One day an
officer of his MaJesty's regulars
overheard Putnam assert that the
provincial army, nntutored in arms
as they were, would fight with the
courage of trained soldiers. The Of
ficer resented the assertion, and after
some hot words challenged the Ma
jor to a duel, provided he dared to
fight.
"Dare!" shouted Putnam. "Why,
at any moment; but | choose the
weapons"
Name them," haughtily replied
the officer.
"Two kegs of gunpowder; the
time, tomorrow; the distance, ten
PAGES the fight to be as follows:
You to sit on II keg, | on tie other,
a slow-fuse to be attached to each
and lighted, and the one who holds
out the longest shall be declared the
winner"
There vas nothing for the officer
to do but accept the unusual wea-
pons, and on the following day at the
appointed time and place the COM
batants took their seats upon the
kegs of gunpowder. The fuses were
lighted and began suffering, rapid
ly approaching the kegs. The Of
ficer was deathly pale, and watched
the growing danger with dilated
eyes. At last he could stand it no
longer, and with a leap he left his
key and raced like a mailman out of
sight. When he had gone Old Put
laughingly kicked the burning fuse
away and disclosed to his friends a
key of onions. When the matter
came to light the officer was sub
!ected to the laughs and gibes of the
entire command. - arper'S Rouna
Table.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1897-05-11
The Conquered Hammer.

Furl that Banner, for tits weary
Round its staff tbs dropping dreary..;
Furl it, fold it, it is best;
For there's not q man to wave IL,
And there's not q sword to save il,
And there's not N left to lave it
In the blood which heroes gave it;
And its foes now scorn and brave it
Furl it, hide it-let it rest.
Take that Banner, tbs tattered;
Broken is its staff and shattered;
And the valiant hosts are scattered
Cd Over whom it floated high.
Oh, it's hard for us to fold it $50
Hard to think there's none to hold it;
Hard that those who once unrolled it
Now must furl it with a sigh.
Furl that Banner, furl 1t sadly,
Once ten thousands hailed it gladly,
And ten thousands wildly, madly,
Swore it should forever wave;
Swore that foeman's sword should never
Hearts like theirs entwined discover,
Till that flag should float forever.
Ger their freedom or their grave.
Furl it, for the hends that grasped it,
And the hands that fondly clasped it,
Cold and dead are lying low;
And that Banner-it is trailing,
While around it sounds the waiting
OF it's people in their woe.
For, though conquered, they adore it,
Love the cold, dead hands that bore it,
Weep for those who fell before it,
Pardon those who trailed and tore it,
But, oh, wildly they deplore it,
Now who furl and fold it so.
Furl that Banner, true It's CORY,
Yet It's wreathed around with glory,
And twill live in song and story,
Though its folds are in the dust;
For its fame on brightest pages,
Penned by poets and by sages,
Shall go sounding down the ages
Furl its folds though now we must.
Furl that Banner, softly, slowly,
Treat it gently it is holy
For it droops above the dead.
Touch it n0t-unfold it never,
Let it droop there furled forever,
For its peoples hopes are dead.
-Fdther Ryan.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1897-05-11
COUNTRY Nj ERCHANTS

Should know that there is nothing
that sells so we'll as an article that you
can guarantee to give satisfaction to
your customers. Such an article is
RlCES GOOSE GREASE LINZ
MENT. 1T cures all aches and pains
In man or beast-Scratches, Ringbone,
%Swlnney, and all ailments needing a
Flrst'Ciass Liniment. NO CURE, NO
PAY, is the motto Of the Goose Grease
people. Don't forget we are Wholesale
agents for Goose Grease Liniment.
Try Palmetto Liver Regulator.
BRUCE ~ DOSTER,
Greenville, S. G..
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OF MeXicO's most CIR

Ono Of Mexico's most curious
plants is called tho INTERCHANGEABLE
tree, and it bears a close resemblance
to an over-grown asparagus. Along
the edges Of the leaves, which are
thick and 1eshy and full Of tiny fbres
of great strength, very sharp needless
grow. If pushed back into the leaf,
ana cut loose from it's tough setting
the thorn may be easily pulled out, u
lot OF tho tough little fibres attached to
the root of the thorn coming with it.
When these tibres are twisted topeth-
err with wax a strong smooth thread is
the res alt.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1897-05-11
"P." y. m. "a" q. m.

Trains 0 end 10 carry elegant Pullman
eleeping cara between Colombia and Ashcviile,
enroute daily between Jacksonville and Gnoin
natl.
Tratns leave SpartanhurS, A. Is c. division.
Horthbound, O 42 o. IN. Ba9 p. M, els p. m.
lVestibule Linited): southbound lY:8 q. m,
o'l6 p W. II +7 q. m, tVestibule Limitad.)
Trains leave qreenvilie, A. and G.. division
Herthbound. 5:5 o. IN. 81 p. m. and 5: 80 y. m,
(Yestibuled Limitod); .ouihbound, 10 q. M.
$40 p. NJ 1928 p. m. (Vestibuled Llmltedl
Pullman Service.
Pullman palace sleeping carr on Trains rs and
20, u and B, ON A. and &. division.
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UNCERTAIN.

"Do you think it's right to deceive your wife?" "I don't know; but I'd like to find out "--Chicago Journal
 Lucle-"Do men really marry for money?" Hal-"Yes, but it's the hard est way of getting it."-Yellow Book.
 A Parallel Case.--"I wish I might live to see the day when the office will seek the man." "H'm. Haven't you noticed the result when the situation seeks the cook ?"-Truth.
 Able Financiering. Grocer-"Well little one, what can I do for you?" Jenny-"Please, sir, mamma says to change a dollar for her an she'll give you the dollar tomorrow" Truth
 Shade of Pharaoh's daughter-"Say, if you were on earth now you'd make a fine sailor!" Shade of Lots wife "Why?" Shade of Pharaoh's daughter --"Oh, you're such an old salt, you know!'-New York Press.
 The Populist Bend.-"What gives that popul1st orators head such pe- culiar bend?" "Oh, that comes from an effort to look at silver falling and wheat rising at the same time. ."-Phil- adelphia North American.
 When you have sore tooth you go to the dentist and he pulls it, don't he ?" Yes, my son." Now that you've got a sore leg, if you go to the doctor will he pull it?" with deep feeling)-"Yes, my son.''-Brooklyn Life.
 You seem sad, my red-skinned brother" said the missionary. Red skinned brothers heart heap sad" eaid tho noble son of the prairie. White man shoot better, fight better, and now Injun hear college yell, he know Injun can't warwhoop for sour apples. Waugh!"-Cincinnat Enquir- CT.
 Papa what is a doubtful state?" asked little Freddy, who had been look ing over the political news Marriage is a doubtful state, my son." answered B., with a. humorous twinkle in his eve as he looked at Mrs. B. Don't you think so, Mrs. B. ?" NO, don't think it's a state at all" she answered. "To me it always seemed like a. territory" B. was silent-Free Press.
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THE BOOM IN WADY HALFl.

That our own great West" is not the only place where towns can boom is again shown by the boom at Wady Halfa. An English correspondent gives an interesting account of the transfor- nation effected at Wady Halfa since its occupation by the Anglo-E Egyptian forces. Almost all the old town has been razed, and in it's place appear a network of railroad lines and congre- gatton of workshops and sheds full of machinery and railroad material. A vast amount of work has been accom- plished there in the last twelve months. much of it under the personal superyi- sion Of Sir Herbert Kitchener. The starting point of both the Dongola and Abu-Hamed railroads, Wady Halfa has become a great manufacturing depot. in which the officers of the royal en- gineers, and workmen of nearly every European nationality, and natives who have been taught their trade by the Englishmen, keep the rolling stock in repair There are iron and brass foun- dries, where all the necessary forging is carried on, and the work turned out is said to be better done than in Cairo. The workshops are we'll built with burnt bricks, and soon will be lit throughout by electricity. The place is striking example of what modern en- gineering can do, standing as it does amid the sands of the remote Nubian desert, busy, bustling town, noisy with the changing of hammers, the whirring of machinery and the shriek- ing of locomotive whistles. The arti- sans speak half the tongues of Europe and Africa, and everybody has to work hard, including the convicts in their clinking fetters, criminals from lower Egypt, who unload the vessels and are employed on other unskilled labor. About seven trains day now leave Wady Halfa-heavy trains of forty trucks some of them--drawn by power- ful engines.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-17
SOME FOOD TOR THOUGHT.

Some wondrous theories were stated
 in wondrous words at the meeting of
 the British Association at Toronto, and
 some Of the theories and some of the
 words were too hard for ordinary nor
 tals. But In paper read by Professor
 Roberts-Austen there were theories and
 words which were not only understand
 able but profoundly impressive. He
 said that "the whole tendency of mod
 ern work has been to break down the
 barrier between metals and the so-call-
 ed non-metallic elements" It has been
 proved that the three states of matter solid liquid and gaseous-merge per-
 ceptibly into each other and that even
 in solid some molecules are present
 which retain the freedom of motion
 characteristic of gaseous molecules.
 The behavior of solid metal under some circumstances closely resembles that of fluid one, and fluid one has
 many of the properties of an ordinary
 non-metallic fluid. When solid steel shot, for example, Is thrown against a steel armor plate with velocity of 1,60O feet a second, 1t produces in one-t three trousandths of a second a splash which resembles closely the splash of
 gold bullet falling into melted gold and the splash of milk or water. Solid steel can be shown, also, that metals will
 diffuse into each other even when solid.
 just as gases diffuse into each other, though, of course. more slowly.
 Experiments teach that metals even
 when solid are not the inert things they are supposed to be, but are vibrating
 masses of great complexity. Metals" the speaker insisted, ''are, in fact, sen-
 sitive things, almost sentient in their organization, strangely lifelike in their physicists and chemists. he added, now accept. at least in principle, the concir- sion of Sir Norman Lockyer, namely, that there is in reality but one element and that the numerous so-called ele- ments are but products of aggregations of the fine particles of the one element formed at various stages of it's cooling from a highly heated condition such as
 we still see illustrated in the condition of the sun. There is, for example, less difference between lead and tin, appar- | ently, than between graphite and the | diamond, or between graphite and char | coal, though the last three things are ] known to be but different forms of the l same substance
 l Chemistry affords hundreds of facts
 that show how one substance may ex-
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-17
SLnV IND SUHE.

There was a meeting of the board of finance last evening, but one of the members being out of town nothing was done about the gorgeous advertising bills If. at some future time, there is a meeting of the board of finance at which all the members are present, and if there is no reason why the bills should not be considered it is possible that they will be then considered. And the general expectation is that when the board does tackle the bills some business will be done. Of course it is better to be fully prepared to deal with them thoroughly than it is to take them up in hurry and act hastily on them. There has been no hurry so far and there are no indications that there will be. But the gorgeousness of the bills does not decrease and public interest in them does not diminish
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-17

ist under widely different forms and how compounds may behave as if they were clements There seems, indeed, to be no limit 10 the number of organic substances, of radically different prop critics, that may be formed of the same atoms differently grouped. The prin- ciple of evolution, the speaker said, may be extended perhaps to the ele- ments. He did not shrink from recog- nizing that the elements, as we know them, have, like our own species, been derived from simpler forms" And al- ready the metallurglst is beginning to study in solid metals certain molecular motions which make them like living organisms.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-17

ard delay the ercp until too late in the season. Unless the air of the house or cellar has been unusually dry, the mushrooms will generally appear before any water is required on the bed. An occasional examination of the top soil should, however, be made, and If the surface appears dry a gentle sprinkling of water, heated to one hundred de- grees, must be given.
 With this treatment in September mushrooms will begin to appear in De- cember. They will come ur slowly the first week. Then, if the bed has been carefully prepared and the atmospheric conditions are favorable mushrooms will flow in surprisingly large quanti- ties for another three weeks, when the supply will diminish. A slight dressing of fresh soil about half an inch thick should then be spread over the bed, and a new crop of mushrooms, often better than the first, may be gathered In Feb ruary.
 Three weeks after the second crop has made its appearance the spawn Will have lost it's vital properties ana II more mushrooms are desired fresh ma nure, soil and spawn must be obtained and a new bed or beds made,
 Tn gathering mushrooms the cultl- vator should be careful to take them out by the roots, for if these are left in bed they will seriously interfere With both crops. If any young mushrooms damp or fog off these should be re- moved. When pulling them it will also facilitate the bearing of the bed if the holes from which mushrooms are taken are filled up with light soil, and fertili- ty may be further increased or pro- longed by applying a weak solution of guano, nitrate of soda or saltpetre to 1 the beds. .'--New York Evening Post.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-17

ing the trimming in the center of back and front is sure to be a welcome change from the usual side decoration.
 Whether fall hats are or are not in the list of unattainables, 1t is time to think about theater bonnets again. It Is pleasant to learn that the dreadful over-trimmed headdresses of last sea- son are not going to reappear, while the pretty notion introduced very late last season of making the bow of ribbon, which presumably holds In place the hair, serve also as headdress, will be in favor. These bows come ready made in all shades and all varieties of ribbon, a pair of short ends being left on the underside to twist into the hair and so give the suggestion that the bow has really been made on the head as part of the support. Most of these bows stand high and are of wide ribbon doubled to make narrow loops. In other cases, however, the bow suggests the Alsatian headdress in vogue several years ago. The ribbon used is sometimes finished at the edge with lace, the very finest thread lace being often employed, and almost always the entire headdress is brilliant with the inlaying of Jewels" It Is amazing, the price asked for these, after all, simple affairs in the milliners' shops. Nevertheless, go to those shops; look-don't buy Then make your own bow and look haunty while you wear it.
 FLORETTE.
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Situations, Wants, Rents, and other small advertisements, One Cent q Word each m sertion. Five Gents Word for full week (seven times).
 Display advertisements, per inch, one ID, ,o Eertion, $1.20; each subsequent lnsertions 4o cents; one. week, $320; one month' Slo' one year. $40. ,
 Obituary Notices. in prose or verse; 10 cents per line Notices of Births, Nlur- riages, Deaths and Funerals. 90 cents each' Local Notices 15 cents per line. ..o,r
 Yearly advertisers are limited 10 lheir own immediate business (all matter 10 pe unobiectIonable). and their contracts ao ho' Include Wants, To Let. For Sale. etc.