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The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1908-08-12

Strange it is that some good Bryan
Democrats hold against Mayor Rhett
the fact that he did not support Bryan
in 1896; they are not obscrvant of their
chiefs attitude toward such. Judge
Gray did not support Bryant in 1896, yet
Bryan wanted Judge Gray for run
ming mate this year; Colonel Henry
Watterson, a gold democrat of 1896,
has been appointed by Bryan to head
the newspaper publicity committee, and
both Editors Caldwell, of the Charlotte
Observer, and Hemphill, of the News
and Courier have been appointed on
that committee, they both having sup
ported Palmer and Buckner.
DO you see, democrats of Laurens.
how the vaunted Bryan democracy of
John p. Grace works out? Do YOU see
how he stands and how much faith and
dependence may be put in his utter
anccs? Is he a safe Bryan democrat to
follow?
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1908-08-12

No preaching at all in Laurens Sun
day, which goes to prove that Laurens
people do not require unceasing admo-
nitions to keep them straight.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1908-08-12

Candidate Blease has defed anyone to
cite blot on his record, public or pri-
vatc. All right. Bleasc was mem
Der of the investigating committee of
the old dispensary, the duty of said
committee being to disclose all the
crooked dealings in connection with the
dspensary business. Samuel j. Lana
han, Wholesale whiskey dealer, had a
South Carolina State senator employed
to look after his interests. Bleasc said
in the presence Of witnesses that he
knew who this senator was. Why did
ne not tell? So the least that we charge
against his public record is unfaithful-
ness in the discharge of his public duty.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1908-08-12

Who will we send to the legislature?
The three best men in the race?
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1908-08-12

There was no preaching service in
any of the churches here Sunday, the
congregations taking vacation from re-
ligious devotion.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1908-08-12

When the pastors away the sheep
will play.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1908-08-12
NEWSPAPER PREyARICATORS.

Being wholly averse to extreme
terms, altogether unlearned in the de-
nunciatory, abusive arts, and possess
ing an innate temperamentai mildness,
we are, in consequence, much attached
to that word "prevaricators" in pref
erence to others more acrimonious.
There are some prevaricators in the
world today, which assertion will doubt
less be accepted without question or
contradiction. Some people are natural
prevaricators, some acquire the habit
early in life, while others become ini-
tiated through the practice of their
professions.
1t is generally accepted opinion that
lawyers must be perverters of the truth
and adopts in the arts of deceit. News
paper writer's also come in for an am
pie share in this kindly cor 5ideration
and are usually regarded as jugglers of
facts and wholly unreliable, irresponsi-
bic specimens. AS to lawyers, we re-
fuse to believe there are no honest ones.
We heard Of one who had an office and
office hours somewhere in the West.
In regard to honest newspaper men
writer's who tell the truth, the whole
truth and nothing more there is not
one living; some are dead. If news
paper man were to publish all he hap
pened to know both he and his publica-
ton would come to sudden and violent
end. They are not supposed to tell the
whole truth; but-they ARE supposed
to be truthful in what they DO tell.
There is absolutely no excuse for willful
prevarication.
Consider, please, this deplorable ex-
ample from the pen of one doomed eter-
nally to prevaricator' perdition and
on swift road to his reward. He
wrote "of a cyclone, saying that it
turned well wrong side up in Missis-
sippi, turned cellar up side down in
Wisconsin, moved township line in
Nebraska, blew the slaves out of a
whiskey barrel in Iowa and left nothing
but the bung hole, changed the day of
the week in Ohio, killed an honest law
yer in the West, blew the hair off a
bald headed man in Texas, killed a
faithful doctor in Illinois, blew the
mortgage off farm in Kansas, scared
red haired women in Michigan, blew the
crack out of fence in Dakota, and
took all the wind out of politician
in Missouri" AND THAT BRYAN
WOULD NOT BE ELECTED PRESI-
DENT.
The Democratic advocate., 1908-05-22
New Currency Bill.

Washington, May 12.-By vote of
12S to 16, the Republican House caucus
last night adopted a redrafted Vree-
land currency bill. The bill was
adopted almost in the form in which
it was submitted to the committee ap-
pointed by the last conference to
make a new draft, and the action
means that the measure will pass the
House of Representatives
The new bill limits the issue of
emergency currency notes to be issued
against the assets of banks to $780,
10000; provides that these notes shall
be issued only through the medium of
national clearinghouse associations
to be formed by 10 or more banks,
having an aggregate capital and sur
plus of not less than $5,00O,000 and
located in contiguous territory, and
makes each member of such associa-
tion jointly and severally liable in
proportion to it's capital and surplus
for the issue by members Of the asso-
citation to which it belongs.
The present legal reserves are to be
kept against the new notes, which are
made redeemable in lawful money.
The notes are taxable with the rate of
per cent. for the first two months
and l per cent. per annum additional
for each subsequent month until the
rate reaches 10 per cent. per annum
The Democratic advocate., 1908-05-22
Duty on Wool.

Wool duties are the cornerstone of
the whole protective system. They
are no longer of any substantial use
to the farmers, but they may have
been once, and the tradition is still
strong. They are maintained to keep
the farmers loyal to protection. And
yet the wool industry is steadily going
down in all the well-settled States, and
fourishes only where large focks
Craze on cheap land or the public do
main. The preposterous duty on wool
is ineffective to maintain sheep-raising
as part of general farming. The
National Farmer says: twenty-five
years ago nearly all the sheep in this
country were merinos, grown mainly
for wool, and mutton was the incident.
At this time a majority of the sheep
of the country are raised for mutton,
and wool is the incident" The De-
partment of Agriculture in a special
report by Mr.. Dodge, it's former statis-
tician and one of the EXTREMIST Pro-
tectionists in the country, called at
tention to this charge dozen or fif-
teen years ago, and showed by figures
the steady decline of sheep-raising in
all the older States and the rapid
change from wool sheep to mutton
sheep. Actually, under the Dingley
law, the Department of Agriculture
has been experimenting with breed
of woolless sheep. Yet to touch the
duties that add heavily to the cost of
every wool garment worn by an Amer
lean is sacrilege in the estimation of
Republicans.
The Democratic advocate., 1908-05-22
WEST FALLS.

Mr.. and Mrs VIM. Chany were the
guests of Norval Hobbs and family
on Sunday last.
Mr.. Dennis and Mrs. Sarah Douty
are on the sick list at this writing.
Mrs. VIM. Sappington and two
daughters, Of Unionville spent Sunday
with M. B. Baumgardner and wife.
Miss Ruth CLANCY spent Sunday
afternoon with Miss Goldie Hood
John CLANCY, who sometime since
met with the serious accident of
breaking his collarbone, is slowly i'm
proving at this writing, we are happy
to say.
Augustus Barnes, wife and two
daughters, Misses Ethel and Minnie,
spent Sunday afternoon with Mr.. and
Mrs. o. r. Hood
Mrs. j. r. Hood and daughter Miss
Goldie spent Monday with G. w. Low
man and family.
John 1. Utz and wife visited friends
in New Market on Sunday last
C. E. Browning and Miss Goldie
Hood paid a visit to friends in Mont
gomery county on Wednesday.
Sunday school at 8 and class meet
ing at 1870 a. m. Sunday, oath, at
West Falls M. E. Church.
VIM. Walker, wife and child spent
Sunday with Harvey Nail and family,
of Woodville.
The Democratic advocate., 1908-05-22
Maryland Chassis Elects Delegates.

Maryland Chassis, Reformed Church,
in session at Cayetown, Nd, on Satur-
day afternoon last, elected the follow
ing delegates to the Potomac Synod
which meets at Hanover Pa, next Oc-
tober:
Rev. Drs E. R. Eshbach, Frederick;
J. Spangler Keiffer, Conrad Clever,
Hagerstown; Joel T. Ressiter, Balti-
more; c. S. Slagle, Westminster; At
vii Conner, Adamstown; A. S. Weber,
Emmitsburg; Frederick w. Bald, Clear
Spring; Elders A. c. McCardell, w. E.
Fisher, Frederick; William Gassman,
Henry c. Foltz, Hagerstown; F. H.
Ankeney, Clear Spring; DR.. M. G.
Motter, Washington; c. w. Crum,
Westminster; w. S.Kefauver, ,Burkitts-
Vile; NJ. c. Coblentz, Middletown.
Alternates-Revs. B. r. Carnahan,
Mount Pleasant; L. E. Coblentz, G. R.
Potter, c. H. Ranck, Baltimore; E.
L. Coblentz, Ridgely; DR.. J. NJ. Schick,
Washington; J. R. Stonesifer, West
minister; ]. P. Harner, Cavetown; D..
NJ. Dittman, Jefferson; NJ. L. Faror,
Woodberry; T. F. Land, Manchester:
Elders A. T. Webster, Baltimore;
Thomas Jones, ]. w. Thomas, J. F.
Haas, H. A. Stonesifer, D. H. Phetty-
place, David Rhodes, William Cramer,
D. NJ. McCauley and William T.
Rhodes, William Cramer, D. NJ Nc
Cauley and William T. Rhodes
Rev. ]. Stwart Hartman resigned as
pastor at Silver Run, Md, and asked
to be dismissed to the Reformed
charge at Woodstock, Va.
Rev. Joel T. Rossiter, Baltimore, and
Rev. w. H. Sangress, Sabillasville, had
charge of the altar service this after
noon. Rev. T. Charles Hoover, Bal
timore, conducted today's opening SER
vice.
Rev. DR.. E. L. Mclean, president of
the classis, preached the preparatory
sermon.
The night meeting was devoted to
missions. Rev. DR.. E. r. Eshbach.
Frederick, president of the home mis-
sion board, presided. Rev. NJ. L. Firor
and Rev. William E. Lampe returned
missionary from Japan, who was
treasurer of the fund raised several
years ago during the Japanese famine,
made addresses.
The Democratic advocate., 1908-05-22
Good Advice for Warm Weather.

Past the middle of May come the
days when you want to take cold
bath every day to feel comfortable and
keep your skin in good shape for the
sweltering hot weather so soon to
come said uptown physician.
There is something invigorating
about cold plunge, which, besides
openeing up the pores of the skin,
seems to brace chap right up. Lots
of illness and skin trouble are caused
by lack of cold water applied in warm
weather. Then, again, if you would
keep healthy in the summer time
watch your diet. Cut down on red
meats and eat plenty of green vege-
tables and relishes. Eat fish and fowl
and restrict yourself to beef only once
or twice week. Remember that va
r1ety is the spice of life and that your
stomach needs a change once in a
while just as well as anything else.
1t is the same with your stomach as
with your eyes or brain. The con-
trasts in life are what make one
healthy, and it is just the same with
your stomach, so vary your diet and
don't forget what l told you about cold
baths
The Democratic advocate., 1908-05-22
WARFIELDSBURG.

The recent rains and wet weather
have delayed corn planting, and there
is lot to plant yet. The wheat and
grass are looking fine. The latter
promises a good crop of hay.
David Bale improved the appear
ance of his dwelling by adding new
coat of paint. Mr.. Hyde and his force
of New Windsor is doing the work.
VIM. R. Koontz, wife and grandson,
Master Clarence Yingling, and Mrs.
Charles Koontz, of near New Windsor,
and H. M. Koontz and wife, of this
place, spent Sunday last with H. E.
Royer and family, of Westminster.
Last Saturday Miss Louis Robertson
accidentally fell out of the barn door,
distance of about s feet, bruising
herself very much.
Some of our people attended the
Sunday school convention at Carroll
ton last week.
The heaviest rain OF the season Wis
tied this locality on Wednesday about
noon, washing the roads and corn
fields and flooding gardens very badly.
The Democratic advocate., 1908-05-22
Evelyn May Withdraw Suit.

New York, May 19.-Mrs. Evelyn
Nesbit Thaw is declared to be consid-
ering the withdraw of her suit for the
annulment of her marriage to Harry
K. Thaw. What impels her to con-
template this course is a secret known
only to her and to her lawyer.
Daniel O'Reilly intimated the step
was contemplated when he appeared
today before Robert E. Deyo, refree in
the suit. In procuring an adjourn
ment until next Tuesday he assured
the referee he would De ready to pro-
ceed with the taking of evidence next
week or else would withdraw the suit
What Judge Morschauser may do
on the application to release Harry K.
Thaw from the Matteawan Asylum
will not affect our action Mr.. O'Reilly
said afterward.
Young Mrs. Thaw seemed pleased
when her lawyer told her the suit was
postponed. There have been two pre-
vious adjournments.
The Democratic advocate., 1908-05-22
EFFECT OF VEGETABLE DIET.
Emotions of the Human Family May
Be Regulated Thereby.

Girls who eat green peas are bound
to fiirt; they can't help it. Cabbage
and caulif1ower make people vulgar
and stupid. And the cure for bad
tempered husband is to fill him with
boiled carrots
Those are a. few of the laws of vege-
table therapeutics as laid down at the
recent Pathological Congress of Paris.
The pathologists studied and dis
cussed at great length the best manner
of utilizing vegetables for the physl-
cal and moral welfare OF the human
race.
They pointed out that, although
some vegetables are a preventive
against diseases of one sort or another,
there are many vegetables which pro-
duce illness, or, in case of overindulg-
ence, DEATH After many experiments
the investigators laid down broad laws
of vegetable therapeutics.
Potatoes, for instance, should be
eaten by judges, magistrates, editors,
and those engaged in similar occu-
pations; they develop the reasoning
faculties, give great mental balance
and calmness of reflection. Overin-
diligence, however, produces apathy,
luuiuSISuCc, ldZlucSS. SOIul hiOu ~
tatoeaters are likely to possess more
reasoning powers than warmth OF
heart.
Carrots will cure bad temper. They
are especially good for bilious and
peevish folk. Persistent eating of
boiled carrots will cure jealousy, mel
ancholy, feelings of wrath and re-
venge; and, in short, the carroteater
will become in time easy-going, good
natured, and placidly affectionate.
Spinach is good tor men of action.
All great generals have devoured it in
large quantities. 1t develops will pow
er, decision, ambition, energy; and it
is the ideal food for tickle and hesi-
tating people. A proper diet of spin
ach will put an end to dawdling in
any household.
Those who yearn for poetic thoughts
and artistic ideas should go in for
French beans. They create poets.
Sorrel, on the other hand, tends to
sadness and encouragement, and
those who persist in eating it become
victims of the dream habit, of night
mares and delusions.
Green peas, as has been said, are
dangerous in the extreme. They de-
velop frivolity. They make women
and reckless. Men and
women who eat green peas are given
to flirting and-if they eat many-are
not to be trusted. According to the
green peas are respon-
sible for the majority of divorce cases
and similar scandals in high life.
The Democratic advocate., 1908-05-22
MEDFORD.

There seems to be some truth in the
old adage, that the 9Th OF the month
rules the month. 1t rained on that
day, and rain has ruled the month so
far. The wet weather has delayed
corn planting very much, and also
caused the grass to come in the new
IMPLANTED corn fields, which will make
us hustle to get ahead of it, but if
it continues wet it will be almost i'm
possible.
The new railroad switch has been
staked off and is to be completed this
summer.
The correspondence of F. E. Trigg,
of Rockford, Iowa, IN the Advocate
is very valuable reading to those in
terested in the work of agriculture,
etc. 1t is appreciated by the writer
very much.
Elhanan Roop, brother of Mrs.
Mollie Horn, this place, and who left
this country about forty years ago
and went to Florida, is visiting Mrs.
Horn.
Mrs Thomas Lippy, who has been
visiting her daughter, Mrs. John Hyde,
near Union Bridge, the last two
weeks, has returned home.
The prospects look very promising
for a large fruit crop generally,
peaches and plums excepted, as they
were damaged to some extent by the
frosts. There will be an abundant
berry crop throughout, if no further
damage is done to same.
Amos Wampler and wife, this place,
and Herbert Englar and wife, of Pipe
Creek, have gone to Ohio to visit
friends and relatives.
The Democratic advocate., 1908-05-22
SCIENTIFIC FARMING.
Takes Away the Risks and Uncertain
ties of the Old Way.

| Scientific agriculture is young. IL
has had to wait until machinery pre-
pared the way, by giving the farmers
| time to think and money 10 spehu.
The first scientist who took notlce OF
| farming was the Frenchman Layolsler.
He found out the composition OF water
in 1888. and was in the midst OF many
discoveries when Paris mob hustled
him to the guillotine. The famous
Iiebig next appeared and founded the
first AGRICULTURAL experiment station.
Then came Berthelot, the father OF
synthetic chemistry, with his sensa-
tional announcement, 1.-THE soil IS
alive"
Today the new farmer finds himself
touched by science on all SIDES. he
knows that there are more living
things in one pinch OF rich soil than
there are people on the whole globe.
He knows that he can take hal1-
dozen handfuls of earth from d1Herent
parts of his farm. mix them together,
send one thimbleful to chemist, and
find out exactly the kind OF crop that
will give him the best harvest. And
more, now that science mas given him
a peep into natures factory, he can
even feel a sense of kinship between
himself and his acres, because he
knows that the same elements that
redden his blood are painting the
green hues on his fields and forests.
There are now $4,000 farmers who
have graduated from agricultural col
Ieges; and since the late Prof. w %.
Atwater opened the first American eX-
pertinent station in 1875, fifty others
have sprung into vigorous life. There
is also at Washington an Agricultural
Department, which has become the
greatest aggregation of farm-scientists
in the world. To maintain this depart
ment Uncle Sam pays grudgingly $l1,-
900 900 a year. He pays much more
than this to give food and blankets
to a horde of lazy Indians, or for the
building of two or three warships.
But it is at least more than is being
spent on the new farmer in any other
country.
Step by step farming is becoming
sure and scientific profession. The
risks and uncertainties that formerly
tossed the farmer back and forth be-
tween hope and despair are being
mastered. The Weather Bureau which
sent half million warnings last year
to the farmers, has already become so
skillful that six-sevenths of its pre-
dictions come true. In Kansas wheat
growing has become so sure that there
has been no failure for thirteen years.
And in the vast Southwest the trick
of irrigation is changing the man-kill-
ing desert into farmers paradise,
where there is nothing so punctual as
the crops-From '"The New American
Farmer" by Herbert n. CassOn, in the
American Review of Reviews for May.
The Democratic advocate., 1908-05-22

a special meeting at Frizel1burg on
Tuesday last.
Preaching at the Wakefield Bethel
Church of God on Sunday evening at
s o'clock.
Preaching at Brick M. P. Church
Sunday afternoon at 8 o'clock sharp
by Rev. G. J. Hill.
A couple of our young men went
to our neighboring town to join what
is called the encampment, higher
branch of the I. o. o. F. on Tuesday
night, but the roads were so dark and
muddy the holding-back strap came
unbuckled while descending hill and
the horse began to run. or course
the young men held on to the lines,
and one cried Jump" while the other
yelled 1--WE can ride as fast as the
horse can CO. but both changed their
minds, for the buggy was upset The
driver landed in the mud, while his
partner landed in the top of the buggy.
When they gathered themselves up,
they found the top of the buggy at one
place, running gear at another and the
horse at still another. After all this
they started on their way to town.
One took his initiation, and both re-
turned to their respective homes in
the mud and rain. This shows the
true blood of the I. o. o. F. 1t was
quite a mixup for two brothers in F.
L. and T.
The New Windsor base ball club
has organized for the season with the
following players: Earl Lantz, c.;
Milard Ham, Jr., p; Smith Lambert,
h.; Herbert Snader, 2b.; Edward Gill
bert, S.; H. Gilbert, 3d.; w. Snader,
cf.; Clarence Haines, IT,; w. Bangs,
rf. Dates are now open for any jun
ior team in the county. All challenges
will have prompt and immediate atten-
ton. Address Millard Ham, Jr.,
Wakefield, Md.
The Democratic advocate., 1908-05-22

ersville. We are glad if we can only
stay on the seat of the buggy. We
believe that the Stonersville and
Pleasant Valley road is one OF the
worst in Carroll county.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Stair, who were
recently married, moved to their new
home on the Stone road, near here,
on last Thursday. We wish them sue
cess in their new home. On the same
day (Thursday) Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob
Frock moved from her fathers home
to the tenant house of VIM. H. Ylng-
ling, near our village. An elegant
dinner was served to about 60 persons.
Those partaking of the sumptuous
hospitality were Jacob Frock and
wife, Frederick Myers and wife, David
Frock and wife, William Unger and
wife, Luther Helwig and wife, Harry
Myers and wife, John Myers and wife,
Clayton Geiman and wife, Mrs. VIM.
Yingling, Mrs. Harry Devilbiss, Mrs.
Edward Hahn, Uncle Ephraim and
Aunt Rebecca Bankard, Mrs. Joseph
Hahn, Mrs. Milton Myers, Mrs. Her.
bert Petry, Mrs. Edward Myers, Mrs.
Noah Powell; Misses Christian Bank
ard, Mary Geiman, Fannie Gelman,
Ida Petry, Ada and Laura Gelman,
Ada Myers, Ada Strevig, Anna Hahn,
Lizzie Bankard, Ruth Hahn, Ruthanna
Wantz, Bernetta Myers, Mildred Devil
bliss, Anna Hahn, Fannie Y1ngl1ng,
Pauline Helwig, Margaret and Mabel
Myers; Messrs. Charles Myerly, Mil
ton Powell, VIM. A. Myers, Carroll
Myers, Byers Unger, Harry Geiman,
Willie Yingling, Vernon, Guy and Fern
Myers, David Geiman, Martin Myers,
Ralph, George and John Helwig.
Paul Myers, son of Thomas Myers,
had the misfortune to break his arm
in two places.
Our band will play at Union Mills
on Thursday, May 2S, Ascension even
ing.
Our custom for the last few years
was to have decoration on Sunday,
but this year it will be held on Satur-
day, May 30. Our band will furnish
the music. The services will be in
the church, and both Rev. Stonesifer
and Rev. Yoder will be present. After
the services the board, with the Sun
day school and P. o. S. of A., will
march to the cemetery and decorate
the graves.
While playing at school, Hilda, little
daughter of Wilson Warren, accident
ally upset a bench, MASKING all the
toes on her left foot, from which the
little girl is suffering very much at
present writing.
Mr.. and Mrs. Franklin Welk, of near
Littlestown, visited the latter's father
and mother, Mr.. and Mrs. Ephraim L.
Bankard, last Sunday.
Neighbors to the number of about
one hundred and fifty gathered on the
farm of VIM. H. Yingling, near Pleas |
ant Valley, Thursday morning, and
proceeded to raise the new barn which
is to take the place of the one des-
troyed by fire last winter. After the
work was done, all were invited into
the house, where they enjoyed an ex-
cellent dinner.
The Democratic advocate., 1908-05-22
PATAPSCO.

The festival held by the NJ P.
church Saturday night was a success,
although the weather was not very
favorable.
Miss Ida Arnold spent several
days in Westminster the past week
Rev. F. " Ambrose has decided to
cast his lot among the people of Pa
tapsco for the summer.
The NJ. P. church of this place will
hold children's day service June 21,
at 1890 a. m. All come
Gill Preston and Harden Gentry, of
Baltimore, were guests of George
Weaver, from Saturday to Monday.
Samuel Chew, who has a position
in Baltimore, spent a few days at his
home the past week.
The Mohawk Tribe, No. 156 of the
1. o. R. NJ, will hold festival May 80,
on the lawn in front of the store.
Public invited to attend.
Mrs. Kate Gray and Mrs. Mary
Cholk and daughter, of Baltimore, are
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Weaver.