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The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1906-06-20
GO SLOW!

The magazines abound in advertise
ments, and the mails are loaded down
with circulars and prospectuses of land
and oil schemes and mining schemes,
rubber plantations in Mexico and ba-
mana plantations in Cuba, and a thousand
and one get-rich-quick schemes, against
which we would warn our people. They
are, n and all, traps for the unwary.
A few lure their victims on by paying
back a dividend or two, but none of
them ever last long enough to return
your principal. Keep your money at
home, and invest it there. 1t is better
to do this and get a small rate, or re-
ceive no interest at all, than to get
eight, ten or fifteen per cent. on it for
a short time and then lose tie princi-
pal. An exchange puts it thus: Cup
in Philadelphia lives a promoter, one
VIM. M. Ostrand." We have before
us some of his optimistic literature in
which he says, "every dollar YOU own
ought to be earning you eight per cent.
a year." We say to you that every
dollar you own ought to be in a safe
place. He wants "to see you prosper
ous."
Look out! He belittles your local
banker because he does not pay you
eight per cent on your deposit. No,
your savings bank won't promise as
much as this schemer, but you better
trust those you know. Some of the
circulars have printed in large red let
tiers on the outside of their envel ,,es,
"The Magic Money Maker" Money is
not made by magic, but it is often
transferred by magic, from your pocket
to the pockets of enterprising fakirs.
Look out for that kind of Magic!
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1906-06-20
Death of Mr.. John S. Bird.

Mr.. John S. Bird, OF Charleston, died
in Columbia on Tuesday, the 18th inst,
and was buried in Charleston on Thurs
day afternoon at 400 O'Clock. The fol
lowing is from the News and Courier of
June 18th:
"The body of Mr.. John S. Bird, who
died in Columbia on Tuesday, reached
the cityFyesterday, and the funeral SER
vices will be held this afternoon at
Grace Episcopal Church at 4.3O o'clock
after which the interment will take
place in Magnolia Cemetery. Those
who have been requested to act as pail
bearers are: Messrs. Warning p. Car
rington, George w. Williams, Henry
F. Welch, j. Adger Smyth, r. G.. S.
Lucas, f.. Kennerly Marshall, James
Simons and M. V. Haselden. The fun
eral arrangements are under direction
of the j. M. Connelley Company.
"The Columbia State of yesterday had
this to say of Mr.. Bird:
"'Mr. John S. Bird, who was for
years one of the best known travelling
men in this State, died yesterday after
noon at the home of Mrs. Mcqueen, at
1920 Senate street, after an illness of a
few days. He had been in poor health
iSCeiiIlyJ anu came 10 MS city SeVefaI
weeks ago for treatment, and was inn
proving rapidly when he suffered a
stroke of paralysis, from which he never
rallied. This was the recurrence of an
other stroke which he had about one
year ago. There were with him at the
time of his death his wife and a daugh-
ter, Mrs. Marshall of Sumter, and Mr..
Marshall.
" Mr.. Bird was born in Charleston
sixty-three years ago, and has lived
there all of his life except during the
years of the var, when he was at the
front fighting for the Confedoracy.
Since the war he has travelled for the
firm of VIM. M. Bird & Co. of which his
brother was the senior member.
He is survived by his widow, one O n
William Bird, of Indianapolis, Ind, and
two daughters, Mrs. Marshall, of Sum
ter, and Mrs. Ash, of Arlington, N. Y,
who is the daughter of a former MARI,
age. He was a member of the Presby-
terrain church."
Mr.. Bird is connected by marriage with
a number of Laurcns people and is cry
widely known.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1906-06-20
After Forty.Five Years.

One of the incidents peculiar to the
period Immediately following the de.
claration of War Between the States is
described in the following clipping from
The News and Courier's Columbia Cor.
~respondepce of June 18th:
Zone of the most impressive scenes
ever witnessed in the old University
chapel was the presentation of diplo.
mas, comforting the degree of bachelor
of arts upon the surviving members of
the class of 1862.
In a few introductory remarks Presi-
dent Sloan told how, on Saturday,
March 8, 1862, the Governor of South
Carolina called for troops. At chapel
on Monday, March 10, not a student a
swered the roll call, for every last one
OF them had answered the
Now, after a lapse of forty-two years,
the faculty had decided to award the
honor where honor has been SO nobly
won. Out of a class of sixty, there
were seventeen left in 1865. Six of
these survive, but one of them cannot
be addressed. Ten have crossed the
river and received their reward in a
more glorious land.
II SURVIVING MEMBERS.
upon whom the degrees were conferred
are: Milton Anderson Carlisle, Iredell
Jones, Robert D%etreville Laurence,
John Thomas Moore, Henry Townsend.
Messrs. Carlisle, Jones and Moore
were present at the exercises this
morning. President Sloan presented
the diplomas for their scholarly work
and devotion to duty. Major Moore re-
sponded upon behalf of his fellow class
mates. He said they would never have
mad such high ideals and noble aspira-
lions in defending their country if they
had not been SO fortunate as to attend
the old College. Here their character
had been trained, and he was glad to
see that the air of greatness and honor
still hung over the old campus which
they had left forty-two years ago to
join the Carolina regiments in defence
of Fort Sumter.
These old students received their dip
Tomas mid a tremendous applause.
The exercises closed with benediction
by Father Hegarty.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1906-06-20
Scholarships for Young Women.

OF the twelve scholarships owned by
the South Carolina Federation of Wo-
mems Clubs, only the following are
now open:
College for Women, Columbia, S. c.
One scholarship for four year academic
work in college.
Greenville College for Women One
scholarship of free tuition for four
years. Special rates for music.
Chicora College, Greenville, S.. c.
One scholarship of free tuition for -four
years.
The South Carolina kindergarten AS
ISOLATION Training School, Charleston,
S. Cone scholarship of free tuition
for two years.
The examinations for these Scholar.
ships will be held in each county, July
9th. All applicants must file their
names before 30th, with Miss Varina
ID. Brown, Chairman Educational De-
PARTNER S. G. Federation of Women's
Clubs, Anderson. S. C.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1906-06-20
A Fine Opportunity for a Young Maj

The University of South Carolina Of
fers scholarships in the Normal Depart.
ment to two young men from each
county. Each scholarship is worth
$4,000 in money, besides remission OF
$4,000 tuition and $18. 90 matriculatior
or term" fee. The money is paid al
the rate of $500 a month for eight
months, to assist in meeting the neces-
sary living expenses.
Examination will be held Friday, July
9th, before the County Board of Educa.
tion. Applicants should be at least
nineteen years of age, and preferably
teachers. Write President Benjamin
Sloan, South Carolina University, Co
lumbia, S. c., for blank on which tc
apply before July 9Th.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1906-06-20
FOR SUPERVISOR.

hereby announce myself to the vot-
ers of Laurens County as a candidate
for the Office of county supervisor sub
lect to the result of the Democratic
Primary election.
JOHN d. MILLS.
l hereby announce myself as a candi-
date for the office of County Super
visor for Laurens County and pledge
myself to abide the result of the Demo-
cratic Primary.
j. b. COSBY.
hereby announce myself as a candi-
date for reelection to the office of Coun-
ty Supervisor subject to the rule of the
Democratic Primary.
Respectfully,
III. b. Humbert.
/ respectfully myself as a
candidate for the Office of Supervisor of
Laurens County, subject to the action
of the Democratic Primary election.
JAS. M. SUMEREL.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1906-06-20
1885
1906
COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON,
Charleston, S, C..

Entrance examinations will be held in
the County Court House on Friday.
July 6, at 8 a. m. One Free Tuition
Scholarship to each county of South
Carolina awarded by the County SUPER
intendent of Education and judge of
Probate. Bcai1 and furnished E in
Dormitory, Sill. a month. All candi-
dates for admission are permitted to
compete for vacant Boyce Scholarships
which pay 500. a year. For catalogue
and information, address
HARRISON RANDOLPH,
President.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1906-06-20
FOR THE LEGISLATURE.

announce myself as a candidate for
reelection to the House of Representa-
tiVes from Laurens County, subjectto
the Democratic primary election.
j. III. MILLER, M. ID.
respectfully announce myself to the
citizens of Laurens county as a candi-
date for the lower house of the General
Assembly, subject to the Democratic
primary election.
CLARENCE CUNNINGHAM.
hereby announce myself to the
voters of Laurens county as a candidate
for the Legislature, and pledge myself
to abide the result of the Democratic
primary election.
j. G. MCDANIEL.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1906-06-20
Notice of Citizens Meeting.

The Board of Trustees of the School
District of the Town of Laurens hereby
calls a public meeting in the Court
House at 10 O'Clock a. M, on Friday
the 18th of June, 1906, of all those citi-
mems who return real or personal prop
etrty in said district, for the purpose of
levying a tax on all such real and per-
sonal property to maintain the City
Schools during the Scholastic Year Of
1906 1907.
BY order Of the Board of Trustees.
G.. H.. ROPER,
Secretary of Board.
June z, 1906. 45-3t
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1906-06-20
Winthrop College Scholarship and En-
trance Examination.

The examination for the award of va
cam scholarships in Winthrop College
and for the admission of new students
will be held at the County Court House
on Friday, July 9th, at 8 a. m. Appli-
cants must not be less than fifteen a
of e. When scholarships are vacated
after July 6, they will be awarded to
those making the highest average at
this examination provided they meet
the conditions governing the award.
Applicants for scholarship should write
to President Johnson before the exami-
nation for scholarship application blanks.
Scholarships are worth 500 and free
tuition. The next session will open
September 10th, 1906. For further in
formation and catalogue, address
PRESIDENT ID. B. JOHNSON, Rock Hill,
South Carolina. 4O-td.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1906-06-20
FOR COUNTY TREASURER

L announce myself a candidate for
the office of Treasurer, subject to the
Jules of the Primary Election.
A. S. RIDDLE.
l hereby announce myself as a candi-
date for the office of County Treasurer,
SUBJECT to the result of the Democratic
Primary election.
Ross d. YOUNG.
AT the solicitation of friends hereby
announce myself as a candidate for the
office of County Treasurer, subject to
the result of the Democratic Primary.
j. ID. Mock.
l hereby announce myself as a candi-
date for the office of Treasurer Laurens
County and pledge myself to abide the
result of the Democratic Primary.
WALTER A. BALDWIN.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1906-06-20
ANNOUNCEME
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER

AT the solicitation of many friends |
hereby announce myself as a candidate
for the office of County Commissioner
of Laurens county and pledge myself to
bid the result of the Democratic Pri-
mary. ID. f. VALENTINE.
At the solicitation of friends. | hereby
announce myself a candidate for re-
election for the office of County Com
missioner, and pledge myself to abide
the result of the Democratic primary.
w. f. BAILEY.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1906-06-20
s%&S%&S $A% 44&&444x4%#44s
{ WISE AND OTHERWISE. I,
READ II TWICE.


The nan who makes a success of an
important venture never waits for the
crowd. He strikes out himself. II
takes nerve. 1t takes a great deal of
grit. But the man who succeeds has
both. Any one can fail. The public
admire the man who has enough con-
idence in himself to take a chance.
These chances are the main thing after
all. The man who tries to succeed must
expect to be criticised. Nothing i'm
portant was vel done but the greatest
number consulted previously doubted
the possibility. Success is the accom-
plishment of what most people think
can't be done. IT'S not wealth, MOI
rank, nor state, but ''git-up-and-git'
that makes a small business and man
great. Denver Commercial Tribune.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1906-06-20
New Cure For Enilensy.

j. b. Waterman of Watertown, o.,
Rural free delivery, writes; "My
daughter, afflicted for years with
epilepsy, was cured by DR.. Kings New
Life Pills. She has not had an attack for
two years. Best body cleansers
and life giving tonic pills on earth. 25c
at Palmetto Drug Co. and Laurens Drug
Co.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1906-06-20

When the baby talks, it is time to
give HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain Tea.
ITS the greatest baby medicine known
to loving mothers. 1t makes them eat,
sleep and grow. 80 cents. Tea or Tab
lets. Ask your druggists.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1906-06-20
FOR COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT
OF EDUCATION.

/ respectfully announce myself as a
candidate for reelection to the office of
County Superintendent of Education of
Laurens County, and pledge myself to
bid the result of the Democratic
Primary.
r. W.. NASH.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1906-06-20
FOR AUDITOR.

respectfully announce myself a
candidate for reelection to the office OF
County Auditor, subject to the rules OF
the Democratic primary.
G.. A. POWER.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1906-06-20
THE REASON WHY

"There seems to be very little sick
ness in your village"
Eyes; we've only one doctor, you
know, and he is extremely unpopular,
personally. Life.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1906-06-20

'N"SAOA ot lows tooocu VI tidts quSS-
ton before IL reached the South Caro-
lima Legislature.
Oh, no. Don't vote against the dis
pensary, you Laurens men. You might
do some harm. You might vote the
Columbia glass factory into bank
ruptcy. You might vote the Richland
Distilling Company level with the
grouud. You might vote several million
dollars of deposits out of the Columbia
banks. You might vote the Columbia
hotels out of their liquor drummer pat
ronage. For Heavens sake, you Laur-
ems Tillmanites, be careful = you might
lay your capital city in waste and ruin!
But if you should be so cruel and
reckless as to vote the life out of this
state liquor store, what would you
have left? Local option between county
di~spensaries and prohibition. Laurens
might have it's dispensary just as Ath-
ems, Ca, has it. Tillman got his idea
from Athens. The county runs it over
there and there is no state liquor whole
sale shop and the State of Georgia
doesn't stink with rottenness. More
over, 100 Georgia counties have prohi-
bition and they enforce it.
But why is THE ADVERTISER worry
ing over this matter? If the people
want the State to be run in the inter-
est of Columbia and the outside liquor
dealers, with corrupt officials on the in
side as their agents, what care we?
THE ADVERTISER can make a living.
If the people like the state ~dispensary,
why they ought to have it-and the
bossdom of the ~dispensary crowd is
good enough for those whose bellies
yearn for it.
Whiskey drinking is a dangerous
thing but we prefer unanimous drunk
ness to universal dishonesty, if we had
to take either. But we don't have to
take either VIII IN the state dispensary
is abolished.
Judge Hydrick has decided that the
Laurens Brice Law election was illegal.
Of course. We have no doubt that it
was. AS long as we have the state dis
pensary, it isn't going to be possible to
vote out dispensaries. If the state dis
pensary is retained, whiskey will be
voted into Cherokee and Spartanburg
and all the other 'dry counties" again.
This Laurens decision is of no import
ance. The other way, it would have
been merely a temporary victory for
prohibitionists.
If we have a state ~dispensary we
have got to sell liquor everywhere to
make it pay. If we have a state dis
pensary we shall have liquor bosses who
will arrange to sell it. They'll 'bust''
the Brice law. They'll drench the state
in liquor more and more each year.
Either the state ~dispensary is doomed
or prohibition in all counties is doomed.
There's no halfway ground.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1906-06-20
LITERARY

Mrs. Au Fait-Did you enjoy MIR.
Henry James lecture on Balzac?
Mrs. Distract Tin a mysterious whis-
peri i wish ! knew. Life.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1906-06-20

Maker of all laws passed on that ques-
ton before IL reached the South Caro-
lima Legislature.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1906-06-20

No, the corruption is not new. 1t has
been there from the start. Years ago
Yancey Williams, of Lancaster, a dyed
in-the-wool Tillmanite and an honest
man and gentleman, denounced dispen-
sary corruption on the floor of the
House.
Nine years ago Senator Tillman ac-
knowledged that he had accepted sam
pies. 1t was not even against the law
then. This does not prove that Senator
Tillman was dishonest-but with that
example of a great man before him, we
are not disposed to blame poor old
"Tobe" Ferguson of Spartanbnrg for
doing the same thing after a law had
been passed against it. The Supreme
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1906-06-20

A man named Cantey swore last week
that he received from a liquor house for
six months $500 a month for seeing that
advertisements of whiskey were kept on
bill boards around Columbia. We don't
know whether this nan was a Tillman-
lite or an Anti-what's that got to do
with it?
Amador ledger., 1906-05-04
Fowl BuILetin in Demand.

OF the making Of Government docu-
ments there is no end. This, too,
although the President has forcibly
expressed the opinion that the liter
ary output of the departments could
be cut one-half. But there are bulle-
tins and bulletins.
"The Tapeworms of American
Chickens and Turkeys" prepared by
B. H. Ransom, B. &c., A. NJ, Acting
Zoologist, Bureau of Animal industry
is one that city chap might classify
as useless publication. Even though
''tRe important subject Of tapeworms
Of poultry has received but little
attention in this country the indi-
vidual who often mistakes cooked
veal for chicken would not sanction
the expenditure of public money for
such a ridiculous document In
Amador ledger., 1906-05-04
POULTRY. BEES AND FRUIT on A:sourHepN FARM.

for enough money to pay for his phone
service that year. With a telephone
in his home, the farmer has the world
where the wool is short. He has a
down-hill pull. On the next day he
is too busy to send horse to town,
four miles away, for bushel Of 'seeo
corn he must have for immediate
planting, as he has been advised by
telephone of it's arrival by express, so
he pays a thriftless neighbor who is
going into town to buy bacon, to bring
the seed corn out to him. That is bet
ter than stopping a three-horse plow
for half day. At night he inquiries
Of neighbor over the phone, how he
is pleased with the improved double
row corn planter, and he learns that
it is the correct thing, so he orders
one to be delivered the next day from
his nearest implement house. 1t ar
rives and saves so cents a day in
labor for ten days of the planting sea-
son. His wife calls up her cousin,
who lives in the town and has a
pleasant chat about all the doin's of
the last two days; finds out who was
present at the last social, which she
was unable to attend, and she is salts
fed. The phone is a veritable money
maker, and social satisfier in the
rural home. 1t is a builder Of so
ciety, an insurance against violence
and an ever present help in case of
| sickness.
Amador ledger., 1906-05-04
NHITe AND BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS Ar BILTMoRe. N 6.

Ten millions Of dollars or more, prop
erly expended each year through the
medium Of agricultural colleges and
departments throughout the states,
would be a valuable investment by the
National Government for the entire
nation, provided these influences tend
ed to upbuild the agricultural and
livestock interests of the South; to
teach the growing communities how to
care for their lands and their homes
in a manner that would return to the
soil its former richness, and to make
the products Of the ground increase
and multiply and enrich the people.
But nothing could be more unfortu-
nate for any locality than to have
sums Of money voted to that pur-
pose and have it made use of fol
political advancement and the aid of
classes rather than the masses.
Amador ledger., 1906-05-04
Use of Nitrogen Ba.teia Limited.

The extravagant and misleading
claims made by man! of the circulars
advertising those widely heralded bac-
terra for inoculating larren soil, which
were to revolutionize agriculture, have
led the United Stats Department OF
Agriculture to issue warning to the
farmers. In the first place the inocu-
lation is very imitsd in application
If the ground is already naturally in
fected with these nitnfying germs, any
further addition of he artificial pro-
duct is useless. They in no sense re-
place the usual forms of fertilizer; II
the ground is barren no benefit can be
expected to result from its mere inocu-
lation with bacteria phosphates, pot
ash, lime or other pant food must be
added along with the nitrogen-fxing
microbes. In soil already rich in
nitrogen the bacteria do little good.
Furthermore, many Of the bacteria
now on the market are of no value
whatever. OF nineteen samples bought
in the open market and examined by
the Bureau of Plant Industry one was
pronounced very good" five others
good" and most of the remainder
"poor" and eight worthless"
Amador ledger., 1906-05-04
The Fertility Of Eggs,

In considering the possibilities for
a good hatch from a setting of eggs
the fertility of the eggs used is of
prime Importance. Data regarding the
factors affecting the fertility of eggs
are OF great value in the poultry in.
dustry, this question having been
studied at a number of the experiment
stations in the United States and else
where.
Too warm quarters for laying stock
and oVerfeeding as well as cold sea-
son are commonly believed to exer.
else an unfavorable influence on egg
fertility. The way eggs are handled
or stored is also believed to affect the
proportion which will hatch, as well
as the conditions under which incuba-
ton occurs. The vigor and character
OF the parent stock and the length of
time the male bird has been with the
flock are also important. At the out
set, officials of the Department of
Agriculture wish it distinctly pointed
out that fertility and "hatchability'
are not necessarily identical. An egg
may be fertile and the germ still not
have sufficient vitality to produce a
healthy chick under the ordinary con-
ditions of incubation.
Il In series of incubator experiments
at the Rhode Island Station, of 8,677
eggs tested, S3 per cent. were found
to be fertile, while only 46 per cent of
the fertile eggs, or 3S.6 per cent. of the
total number of eggs, Matched under
the conditions of the tests. Expert
ments made at the Maine Station
showed that there was as great varia-
.tion in fertility as in the total yield
Ior u1nerent hens some producing eggs
that were all highly fertile and others
that were completely infertile, and,
furthermore. that eggs of some hens
varied greatly in this respect at diff.
ferent times. The observed facts
seem to show that while a heavy egg
yield does not hinder fertility, provid.
ed the hens are allowed to rest before
they begin to lay again, infertility is
likely to result after hens have been
laying long and heavily.
The Ohio Experiment Station made