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The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1906-04-25
Card From Judge Thompson.

Assurances of confidence and support
of y most f1attering nature, coming
through the county papers, and from a
great many people from all sections, and
insufficient volume to have removed
any doubt | may have had of the pro-
priety of asking for reelection this
year, seems to call for something
more than a passing notice. Four years
ago l hesitated to enter the lists for re-
election until four months of the year
was gone. Not however, so much on
ccoun of fears of the result as from
other considerations that / need not
mention here. During the latter part
of last year determined that if physi-
cally and otherwise able 1 would be a
candidate this year.
Any man that has had the friendship
m loyal support that L have for these
many years, and not be moved thereby
to feelings of sincerest gratitude must
be wanting in moral sentiment and
would be the veriest migrate, and it is
no affectation OF my part when l say
that it is difficult for me TO find words
to express my sincere thanks to you,
my friends and fellow citizens.
Believing that an official Is a public
servant and that as such he is under
obligation to give his people the best
service of which he is capable, and
while regretting that l have not been
able to do more, | can say that in all
conscience, l have done the best l
could.
With the limited pay in this office
and the many things that call for ex-
penditures it has been impossible to ac-
emulate means, and because of age,
financial surroundings and physical con-
dition l am prompted to seek re-elec-
ton.
Therefore with feelings of profound
gratitude to those who have supported
me in the past, and with the utmost
good will for those who have felt it
their privilege and duty to oppose me,
not one of whom have been prompted
by hostility to me, but rather by greater
friendship for a worthy opponent, and
with a full sense of what a public SER
want owes to all the people, l shall, if
reelected serve you with all the i'm
Partially, zeal and loyalty that / know.
o. G. THOMPSON,
Laurens, April Oath.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1906-04-25
Off for New Orleans.

, Capt. Thos. j. Duckett, Col. T. b.
Crews. Messrs. John r. Finley and Jas.
P. billiard, representing Camp Gar
lington, United Confederate Veterans,
left yesterday over the Seaboard Air
Line for the veterans national reunion
at New Orleans this week. Col. j. H.
Wharton, who is a member of the staff
of both Gen. B. H. league and Gen.
I. w. Carwile, left Sunday for the
Crescent city, going via Columbia.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1906-04-25
State Counsellor Terry.

AT the annual meeting last week in
Columbia of the State Council Junior
Order United American Mechanics, Mr..
H. Terry of this city was elected State
Counsellor. This is a fine compliment
which Mr.. Terry greatly appreciates as
it places him at the head of one of the
very large and popular fraternal or
CARNATIONS in the State. The State
Council will meet next year in Char
lesion.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1906-04-25
Spartanburg's Annual Event.

Laurens will be we'll represented this
week at Spartanburg's annual event,
the South Atlantic Musical Festival,
which begins to-day.
Among those who will go from here
are Mr.. and Mrs. A. d. Gray, Mrs. II.
ID. Darlington, Mrs. III. X. Aiken, Mrs.
ID. A. Davis, Mrs. S. r. Todd, Misses
Emma Hale, Emmie Meng, Bessie
Todd, Mamie Bramlett, Mr.. w. r.
Richey, Jr.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1906-04-25
Pitts-.-AbercrOmbie.

On Sunday morning, 22nd inst, at
the home of the bride near Tumbling
Shoals, Mrs. Linnie E. Pitts and Mr..
Leonard c. Abercrombic of the Rabun
Creek section were united in marriage.
The ceremony was performed by the
Rev. w. l.. Boggs of Greenvillc, pastor
of Friendship Presbyterian Church. A
large crowd of friends and relatives of
the contracting parties witnessed the
ceremony.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1906-04-25
PICNIC AND RALLY DAY AT RABUN.
DR.. Poteat and Hon. A.. r. Ausel of
GreenviiIe to Deliver Addresses.

The Friendship High School, taught
by Miss Irene Howell, will join will
the Eden school, over which Miss Saral
Copeland presides, in the picnic anc
educational rally at Rabun Creek Church
Friday, May 4.
In addition to DR.. E. M. Poteat
president of Furman University, VIII,
has been announced as one of the speak.
ers on this occasion, Hon. Martin f,
Ansel of the Greenville bar has also ac.
cepted an invitation to be present anc
deliver an address.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1906-04-25
Oak Grove Academy.

Following is the honor roll of the Oak
Grove School for the month ending Fri
day, April goth:
Firt Grade-Annie Bailey.
Second Grade-Venie Blakely.
Fourth Grade Carl Bell, Wash Fuller.
Fifth Gradc-Orene Goodwin, Hattie
Riddle. ~
Sixth Grade-Essic Bell, Blanche Du-
vail, Bessie Blakely.
Seventh Grade bessie S~hockley.
Ninth Grade Rosalie Bailey, Fair
Goodwin, Leafe Wcathers.
MATTE G.. TARRANT, Teacher.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1906-04-25
Early Closing Begins Tuesday.

Beginning next Tuesday afternoon,
May l, dry goods and hardware mer-
chants and furniture dealers of the CITY
have agreed to close their stores at six
o'clock every afternoon, Saturdays ex-
cepted, until September LIST. CON-
mencing on the 18th of May the grocery
stores will close at seven O'Clock through
the eason
This consideration on the part of the
merchants is very highly appreciated
by all the salespeople of the city.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1906-04-25
Union Physician Dies Suddenly

Columbia, April 23-Dr. John Munroe
Lawson, of Union, a surgeon in the
First South Carolina Spanish-American
regiment, and prominently connect
ed throughout the State, died suddenly
at three O'Clock this morning of pneu-
monia. He had beeni ill only three days.
The body will be taken to Union for in
terment in the family burying place.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1906-04-25
DR.. SAMPSON POPE DEAD.
Well known South Carolinian and Brother
OF Chief Justice Pope,

Newberry, Apr. 23-Dr. Sampson
Pope died at midnight last night, from
the effects ola severe rheumatic attack.
he was seventy years old, and leaves
a wife, a son, and a daughter. He was
a br'ther of the chief justice. He was
an intense Tillman partisan, but later
becoming ~disgruntled, he not only left
the faction, but the party as we'll, and
became arepublican. In recent years he
had withdrawn from public activity.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1906-04-25
RObSGnS'S Election Indicated

Montgomery, Ala. April "a. AT 1886
a. m. all returns from the Democratic
primary election in the 9th Alabama
Congressional district indicate the nom
nation of Capt. r. p. Hobson, of Mer-
rmack fame, owe John III. Bankhead,
the present Representative.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1906-04-25
Sessions Court p0stDoued.

The regular term Of General Sessions
and Common Pleas Court scheduled to
be convened Monday, May z, has been
postponed until Monday May Ia.
The special term of Common Pleas
will be called next Monday.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1906-04-25
The EXON School

The closing exercises of Prof. C. w.
Jones school at Exon will take place
Friday evening, April 9th. Superin-
tendent r. w. Nash has been invited
to make an address and deliver the
prizes.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1906-04-25
Do il Today.

All who wish to contribute ANYTHING
for the aid of San Francisco sufferers
should see MI. l.. G. Bale who has in
terested himself in raising a relief fund
here.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1906-04-25

Our Millinery has a chic and style
about it that pleases all. Then our
prices are as low as the poorly trimmed
and cheap kind that has no style OF
difference to recommend it. 1t is to
your interest to see us before buying.
Davis, Roper e Co. "
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1906-04-25
Teachers Examination.

The next regular examination for
Teachers Certificates will be held at
Laurens c. f., Friday, May 18th, 1906.
Questions will be on hand for those who
have been taking the Teachers Read
ing Circle course.
r. w. NASH,
County Superintendent Education.
% a.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1906-04-25
They All DO.

Mother-Dickie, what do you want
for a birthday PRESENT. Dickie--I want
20 be my own boss.-Indianapolis Jour.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-05-02
Care of the Farm Separator.

Much of the complaint which
comes to the creameries as to the
poor quality of farm separator but
ter, and the corresponding complaint
that creameries do not pay full val
ne, grows out of the fact that the
farm separator is not properly cared
ior. The subject has been discussed
quite fully in Bulletin No. l29 of
the Wisconsin Experiment Station,
and we append below the directions
given by the station for the care of
the separator and the cream:
l. Place the separator on firm
foundation in a clean, we'll venti
lated room where it is free from all
offensive oders.
2. Thoroughly clean the separa-
tor after each skimming; the bowl
should be taken apart and washed,
together with all the tinware, every
time the separator is used; if allowed
to stand for even one hour without
cleaning there is danger of contain
mating the next lot of cream from
the sour bowl. This applies to all
kinds Of cream separators.
3. Wash the separator bowl and
all the tinwsre with cold water and
then with warm wafer, using brush
to polish the surface and clean out
the seams and cracks; finally scald
with boiling water, leaving the parts
of the bowl and tinware to dry in
some place where they will be pro-
tected from dust. Do not wipe the
bowl or tinware with cloth or dry
ing towel; heat them SO hot with
steam or boiling water that wiping
is unnecessary.
4. Cool the cream as it comes
from the separator or Immediately
alter to a temperature near so de-
grees r., and keep it cold until de-
livered.
5. Never mix warm and cold
cream or sweet and slightly tainted
cream.
U. ProVlde covered and clean
water tank for holding the cream
cans, and change the water frequent
-ly in the tank So that the tempera-
ture does not rise above 60 degrees
+. A satisfactory arrangement may
be made by allowing running water
to flow through the cream tank to
the stock watering tank.
Z. Skin the milk Immediately
after each milking, as it is more
work to save the milk and separate
once a day and less satisfactory than
skimming while the milk is warm,
since the milk must be heated again
when saved until another milking.
s. A rich cream testing 50 per
cent fat OF more is the most salts
factory to both farmer and factory.
The best separators will skim rich
cream as efficiently as thin cream
and more skim-milk is left on the
farm when a rich cream is sold.
8. Cream should be perfectly
sweet, containing no Jumps or clots
wher sampled and delivered to the
haulers or parties buying it.-Wal-
lace's Farmer.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-05-02
Milk Should be Cooled Quickly.

Many man who is engaged in
dairying in small way has been
disappointed week after week in the
quality of the finished product. He
has possibly taken the greatest pos
sible pains in keeping everything
clean and has exercised skill in the
manipulation of matters at churning
time, and yet his butter is off in
flavor as we'll as lacking in grain.
The trouble might be due to a
variety Of causes, but one of these
was touched upon some time ago by
d. w. Webster, chief Of the dairy
division of the department of agri-
culture at Washington. Professor
Webster, in an address before the
Missouri State Dairy Association, on
how to improve the quality Of dairy
products, said:
Ii germs do not have sufficient
warmth they will not grow. Not
one farmer in one hundred realizes
what this means. Some of the best
dairymen, who deliver milk in the
cities, claiming to supply sanitary
milk, do not know what this means.
They will allow the milk to stand
for long time after milking, with
out cooling, and in that time the
germs will multiply into thousands,
and thousands into millions. One
of the points that ought to be driven
into the mind of every dairyman
and farmer is that the more quickly
milk can be cooled the better article
he is going to have. If the con-
ditions in his barn have not been
ideal (Which is the case with 80 per
cent of the barns) he must realize
that if he will take that milk and
cool it immediately-le Just as few
minutes elapse as possible between
milking and cooling-he can put it
in condition so that the germs can.
not grow rapidly, and that, if they
do not grow, the milk will remain in
good condition for long time.
There was shipment of milk
made from farm in Illinois to Par
is. This milk was neither pasturized
nor doped with preservatives. 1t
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-05-02

was simply clean milk, cooled i'm
e<edlately after milking, and four
teen or fifteen days later in was
served in the cafes in Paris and
was much better than the milk they
could get there This shows what
can be done by cleanly methods of
handling milk. 1t is all important
to every one of you. If you are
shipping cream, of course, you have
to pass your milk through the
separator, and | know great many
farmers who allow their milk to
stand IN cans without any attention
Tor long time after milking, when
1t should be separated Immediately
alter milking. That cream is what
IS bringing you the money, and it
needs attention. Sometimes when
you have only small quantity of
cream you will set it away in a pail
and pay no attention to it, it is
warm and just in condition for the
GERMS to multiply and sour the
cream This kind of c.eam makes
rancid butter and gives rise to
"ishy ilavors and other undesirable
lavors.
1t is very simple business when
you understand it. When tie farmer
puts away his cream to cool ne
should put it in a can that will ex-
pose as much of the surface of the
cream as possible to the cooling me-
dunn. The .7ater that comes from
our wells is the best thing to use, or
ice water, is better. That water
shonld be pumped fresh and kept
fresh, and the cream should be i
stirred every few minutes. and it
will soon be down tothe temperature
OF the water and the growth of the
germs will be checked. OF course
this takes little time, and some
will say that they do not get any
more money for doing it, but you
had better do it right now, and stay
right, ard you will not have to
learn your lessons all over.
This soundsa great deal as though
the author knew what he was talk
ing about, and we believe that our
readers can afford to give special
consideration to the above remarks.
Not only is it important that milk
should be rapidly cooled, but it is
specially desirable in the case of
cream because under ordinary farm
conditions cream sometimes accumu-
lates for period of four or five days
or possibly week, and unless it is
kept at a low temorature until the
rlpenlng period it is impossible to
manufacture good butter.-Home-
stead.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-05-02

10 regard TO andirons Il writer in the
Connoisactl pG.rts out the curious fact
thai tho older specimens rarely come
III pairs. but sra of different heights
and sizes. 1t ,@s the custom in the
middle ages, it seems. to make them
uneven So rs to facilitate the moving
ana raising of the huge blocks employ
ed for firewood. He continues:
In the middle ages they were also
planned TO bold spit, and ii was not
until dle late sixteenth century that
they were much ornamented. Accord
ing to Violet lie Due, since the most
remote ages, from EtruScan times
down to the Romans. such andirons
were made of iron. vasari speaks of
andirons made with "mcraviglioso ma
glstero' for the captains of the Artc
della Seta, but have not found much
ornamentation upon them rs early as
ne says. l have astheory of my own.
which is contrary to that of Violet lie
Due. In England andirons, are called
IRE dogs, and in the Bargcllo there is
a splendid specimen made in the form
of crouching hounds. hold that ira
andirons were in Il @ first instance
made i'll the shape of animals living at
rest, shaped of clay or stone, and it
was much later that they We're made
of iron, when they often ended in ami
mails heads, most often in that of
dogs.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-05-02
VIC Ottoman rur,sa.

Ting Ottoman Turks lived originally
In central Asia, where they We're men,
bers of race related to the AIongols.
Il branch OF the Ural-Altai family. I'm
der their first sultan. Gilman, who rul-
ed from 1888 to 1926, they founded a
realm in Asia Minor, but soon extended
it into Europe, entering Armenia.
With the capture of Constantinople in
Hos they succeeded to the Byzantine
empire, and their rule at it's zenith dur
ing the sixteenth century extended
over the greater part of southeastern
Europe and much of western Asia and
northern Africa, but they lost Hun
gary, Roumania, Servia, Greece and
practically Bulgaria and Egypt, etc.
The Ottoman Turks are Sunnite Mo-
hammedans and regard the sultan, who
is the supreme head of the church and
recognized as such by all Mohammed-
ans, as representative of former ca
liphs
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-05-02
Advcrtisin- a Nnre1

In a New York literary club two nov
ellsts were discussing n novel of the
eighties and of which $4,000 copies had
been sold.
ut was" said the older man. "the
best piece of advertising l ever heard
of, for it was advertising, not merit.
that made the book popular.
'Ihe author has IL millionaire bachc.
lor frend-call him Alillions-anl he
persuaded Millions to let him write
for newspaper Il paragraph to the eff
feet that the novels heroine had made
hit with him, and if he could find
anywhere n girl resembling her he
would marry her.
This paragraph duly appeared. 1t
was copied all over the country. The
young women of America, on fire with
curiosity and hope, bought and read the
book in order to see If they stood any
chance with Millions"
The younger novelist took out his
notebook.
by Jove," he muttered. 1T wouldn't
hurt to resurrect that scheme.'
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-05-02

A formula often used to tan skins
with hair or fur on is this: Wash the
skin and scrape off any flesh that nav
be sticking to it. Then wash the hair
side with water and soap and rinse
well. Take one pound each of salt and
pulyerized alum, two ounces of bornx
dissolved in hot water, add enough rye
meal (cornmeal may answer as welD
to make a thick paste aud spread all
over flesh side. Then fold lenethwise,
with the hair side out. Let remain two
weeks in an airy but shaded place;
then unfold, shake well and wash flesh
side with water and scrape with some
sort of dull scraper. Pull and stretch
and work till dry. The quantity of in
gradients must be in the proportions
given, but the size of the skin must de-
termine the quantity used. The guam
titles named probably would be enough
for two or three sheepskins.-St. Louis
ReDublic
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-05-02

Every one knows innumerable
reasons why it is foolish to worry,
the chief one being perhaps that it
is so utterly useless, but science has
added a new reason which is worth
considering. 1t not only states that
worry will kill but explains why it
will kill. Worry is a disease of the
brain, a disease which destroys GER
tain cells Of the brain, often beyond
repair. Like an enemy in the night,
worry creeps upon the brain and be-
gins its sledge-halnmer process of
destruction. The vitality of the
delicnte organism is slowly destroy
ed. Nature may repair the destruc-
tion il worry comes at intervals, but
w;lry is habit and its power grows
eich time that it is allowed admit
tance. --iIousekeeper.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-05-02
Elijah II.

"And now,'' says Bailey of Britt,
poor old Dowie has gone up the
spout, Elijah first went up it chari-
ot of fire, number two seems to have
gone up in a chariot of wind. At
any rate he has gone up the linan-
ciaI spout. lie is down and out.
Britt people should feel a deep in
terest i'll this, for it was here that
MIR. Elijah saw the angel that told
him to go TO Chicago and start his
heaven. That angel has never been
actually located yet, but there is lit
tie doubt but he saw an angel as he
says he did, and what object could
he have in lying? Angels are very
expensive in this world and the Chi
cago brand must be more expensive
than any others, as Mr., Elijah has
run his heaven short some S5O0OUO.
Just whether he took the particular
angel that lie saw here with him or
not we don't know, however, none
have been missed; be that as it may
the angel that guided him did a
good job for him financially for a
long spell and just why she doesn't
stand by him now we don't know.
We hope he will come back here
and dream some more when he gets
well enough, and if he is going to
start any more heavens, start them
here where he can get new vision
at any time. A man who will leave
Britt and go TO Chicago to start a
heaven ought to go up the spout.
Besides all this there is a prolific
contiguous country for Dowie to
work; all he asks isSfor someone to
furnish the money and let him fur
nish the brains. Garner has always
Dragged how easy it was TO raise
money for court houses, railroads,
ETC., and Forest City can raise half
million any old day to .uii,l hotels
with; Algona has Il stock food graft
that will raise q thousand minute
and some blue sky proposition that
makes anything in the graft line
look sick; we have elevators all
around us that even the stockholders
don't know whether the stock is
worth ten cents OH the dollar or sells
at a premium, and the banks the
same; we have farmers who deal
with department stores when they
could trade cheaper at home, they
buy apple trees of a smooth tongued
Council Bluffs CRATER and read
Montgomery Wards catalogue in
stead Of buying and reading their
home paper. Dowie was a confound-
ed fool to go to Chicago to start a
heaven for graft; why in thunder
didn't he stay in Iowa? Let's get
Dowie back. When the Pauls went
to Des Moines and got skinned out
by the hungry insurance gang OF
that city, they did not sit down and
whine, they started the Homesteaders
and are doing a better business than
ever, and Dowie could come back
here and in thirty days have cid
dlers green" that would double dis
count his aid Chicago Heaven"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-05-02

1t is a weariful task, that of the
statesman. Directing the affairs of
a critical people is indeed dreadful
job. For your statesman is forced
to shift, to trim, to sidestep, to carry
wafer on both shoulders. Even in
absolute countries the statesman's
job is difficult. In republics it is
gradually growing TO be awful. 1t
is not only the shifty and double
dealing statesman who finds his job
difficult lie at least has only the
people to reckon with and not his
own conscience. But the conscien
'ious statesman must find his Job
awful. "a bad second best said
John Morley, the experienced states
man, is the very best obtainable in
politics. - Argonaut.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-05-02
aSSlTUDE.

The southern b.c Z : snitly stag
of < ,ntic, r amy p.imy sIrig;
can nOt write n single thing
Word, viii t.
can but SIT AMI IDLY gaze
Across the gre: :'cai N .i,lnw W "
10 where tho ii,ighiug bruokiet pa
EachiIr
little geM toe Itch tlic CO
AS mlirlnurlt K wtves & Tippling b
tinge of SIP Ing In the nj
thousand song birds u w DECLARE
The coming Il wers periumcd rare.
And -
can but sit and grind away
AT my machi 10 day after day
From. early mrrn till twiiisiit graz.
And try
10 keep the old.time rhymns N -
Aud iilt about The same OLD s,,tc.,.
This touch Of sp:instime makes me feel
Ia Ike to tnkn my rod 'turi ieei
And to the lax" IN river>t,.l
And Il h.
10 feel agail tao kcai delight
vi hummins roc and i IL linn tight
AS wary bass or trout IL II GIT
wisi
did not laIe tli, space to fill.
ia sRip out n1w-and so | will.
-CommOner