The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1902-04-30
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Rev. Il. Dewitt Tallm,ge left a for
tune of 100000 and net u cent to
charity.
A test of wireless telegraphy as per.
fected by the weather bureau will be
made near Roanoke Island, N. g.
Five persons ON their way to the
Dallas reunion were killed in a wreck
on the Illinois Central at Bolivar, Tenn.
President Roosevelt has decided
That the neutrality laws are not violr
ted by the shipment of hores fro /.
this country to South Africa
The annual meeting of the South
Carolina Federation Of Women's Clubs
will be held in Spartanburg on May
10th to Oath. Special rates have been
made on all railroad lines in the State
and a large attendance is expected.
Many delegates from the clubs of diff
fercnt towns and cities will be present,
John SincoX, of Sterling, Kan, has
eleven children and ffty-one grand
children and great-grandchildren. In
his family there has been but one
death, that of his wife, in mole than
fifty years. He never lost a child nor
a grandchild and IN fifty years a doctor
never crossed his doorstep on profes.
siOnal business but once.
a Paris dispatch says that M. Cadet,
an oculist of bordeaux, has been sue
ccssful in the treatment of cataract
without operations, by the application
of baths of %salicylate of soda. He has
arrested the progress of the cataract IN
numerous cases, and is sanguine of
success if the treatment is begun at
an early stage.
A new portrait of President Buchan-
an, painted by William Chase, of New
York, has just been hung in the Green
Room at the White House, and the
old portrait, which became d%iscolored,
has been removed at the request of
Mrs. Harriet Lane Johnson, President
Buchanan's niece, who replaced it with
the new likeness.
Governor Frank White, of North
Dakota, has appointed Friday, May 8,
as Arbor Day for the State, and espe-
cially recommends that "an elm tree
be lovingly planted and tenderly cared
for upon g ground of every school
and public institution of the State in
memory of our martYred President,
William Mckinley"
The recent visit to Washington of
former United States Senator William
A. Washburn brings to mind the fact
that his family is the only one that
ever had three brothers in Congress
at the same time. They were Elihu
Is. Washburn, of Illinois, Cadwallader
Golden Washburn, of Wisconsin, and
Israel Washbuin, of Maine. They are
all brothers of the former Senator
from Maine.
Great Britain 10 only half as big as
Sumatra, and double the size of New
foundland. 1t stands fifth in point of
size In the list of tho worlds islands.
England, without Wales, is almost
identical in point Of size with Rou-
mania. 1t is less than one-quarter as
big as France or Germany. The whole
British Isles only occupy the one-six-
teen hundre lth part of the surface of
this globe.
In the Northern part of San Jose
County, California, and tapping over
San Mateo County, lies the so-called
Big Basin, q bit of the primitive for
est. The exact area of the tract is
about $500 acres. 1t contains one
of the finest stretches of woodland
which remains in the State. The
characteristic tree is the great red
wood. 1t has been proposed to con-
vert the basin into a forest preserve.
A movement is on foot in Spar tan.
burg with some of the leading citizens
of the town behind it to have a big
Fourth of July barbecue, picnic, speech
making, military drill, etc. Co%rrespon-
dence Is already under way with a
view to securing attractions and an
orator of national reputation. Among
those talked of are Senator Bailey, OF
Senator Carmack, of Tennessee,
and Ex-senator David b. Hill, of New
York.
An experiment is being tried at
Bridgeport, Conn.,, which is interest
.ng to the whole country. This is the
rial of a system of street telephones.
The phones are attached to posts, with
usual nickle in the slot arrange. |
nent, and if they are sufficiently well
.oatronized they will be introduced in
number of cities. The most serious
drawback to the utility of such q sys-
,em would appear to be Lhe noise Of /!
,raflc on the streets, but the human
sar in time can learn 10 adapt itself to
almost any conditions, SO that this
ought not to prove a permanent OBJ.
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