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The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1908-01-04
The City Council

The Ordinance introduced III
t h City Counc la st
Monday evening, looking to the
i'm provement in our city building
construction, is good one. The
creation of an assistant building
inspector, is also timely.
Whether or not the Office Of hay
inspector will be needed. is a
question. There are other paid
officers who can look after that
matter, and not charge a fee, but
simply fire any man who fails to
comply with the law to be. PEG.
pie who do the square thing will
feel that they should pay for
some one merely inspecting their
products, and they are right.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1908-01-04
The Smart Set.

Lord Byron said 'laugh when
you can; it is the cheapest medi-
cine" Anybody can follow Lord
Byron's advice next week when
"The Smart Set" with S. H.
Dudley and fifty others present
the ripping musical comedy,
The Black Politician at the
Majestic for two days commenc-
ing Jan. z. So if you are troubl..
ed with Tired feeIing,' go and
take d laugh for two hours and a
half. L. is better than the
mountains. 1t is better than the
seashore. It is even better than
going to Europe, especially if
you are bad sailor.
This is one of the good things
that George Washington missed.
That could not be helped. But
the last President of the United
States will see it, because this is
company that will last as long
as the government. If you have
seen it once, then you want to
see it three times. then your wife
makes you go the fourth time,
after that the children persuade
you to buy tickets. 1t is the real
colored comedy success of the
century.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1908-01-04
Communication.
A Credit to the Baptist Denomination

Rev. E. H. Borden. A. M. B.
D., Professor of ancient languag.
es and Logic at the Central City
College, Macon, Georgia, has
been chosen as assistant pastor of
the popular Colored Presbyterian
Church of that city. The Wash
ington Ave. Church is one of the
best and oldest of that body in
Ga.
Rev. J, H. Holly D. D. pastor
of the church will travel in the
interest of the Normal and In.
dustrial College of which he is
President. Rev. Borden brin gs
credit to the state Of Illinois.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1908-01-04
The Clubs. Social and Otherwise.

Inc CluDS, SOcl2I ana VtncT WlScs
Ladies' Sunlight Social, meets every
Wednesday at the residences of its
members, discusses art, culinary. and
home circle questions.
st. Paul Sewing Circle meets every
Thursday at Lecture room of st. Paul
church, discusses all important home
circle questions.
Mothers Literary, meets every
month, auxiliary to st. Paul Sewing
Circle.
The Woman's Club, meets every
week, is the oldest club-has been and
is a rescue club for the fallen, .
philanthropic agency, this club has .
social and juvenile section, Mrs. G.
H. Morgan is president, Mrs. Higgin-
botham is chairman, of the social sec
ton; Miss Clara Blackwell is press
reporter for this club.
The None-Such, is a social club
among the younger society folk
meets every Thursday.
The Don't Worry, is club composed
of the elderly married ladies-meets
weekly.
Lodges and their meeting nights
and place of meeting will be carried
for Csc the month. We have all man.
ner of lodges here.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1908-01-04
The Nations Inventory
National assets 81, 500, 900, OOO,.

NdIloudl assets D1, oUU ,UUU,UUU, :
Whatever comes after billion
is what the above is. Read it if
you can II the Republicans
don tlet. the democrats in where
are, we to put all our surplus?
How can we enumerate it? There
was nothing toy that financial
furry from the length of the
above item Fhea dem rats can
soon fix them so they will only
have to say units" and not even
tens but just units. -
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1908-01-04
Write him at once 10 SD Street
Chicago, Ill.
The Forums Staif.

The Forums Staff.
E. L. Rogers, Editor-in-Chief and
Business Mgr.
=, Will H. Barbour, Asst. Editor.
Proof Reader and Stenographer.
u :. Office Clerk, Book
keeper and Collector.
Springfield.
Mrs. e. L. White, Contributor.
Miss Mamie Davis, Petersburg.
H. A. Donegon, Lincoln.
MISS BLANCHE HOAGLAND,
Bloomington Agent and Correspondent
MISS JESSIE M. WATKINS,
Villa Ridge.
Address matter for the paper to The
Forum, 3052 So. Sixth st.
Matters of business or information
to e. l.. Rogers, Mgr.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1908-01-04

quite a contrast indeed are
THESE times to those of old. but
not toe, old to recall to memory.
when Cleveland was president
and Altgeld was governor of this
state, the people we're crowding
and rushing over each other for
soup hOuses-now what a change
The Salvation Army, Volunteers
and other leaders of eleemosy-.
nary institutions. are, at every
Dig holiday. such AS Christmas
and Thanksgiving days, looking
up all who have not plenty, ask
ing them, Come for all things
are ready now,'' and saying, in
the language of Kersande; Eat
drink. be merry to-day. for to-
morrow you may de- Yet the
democrats want a change, are
they certain that they want a
change,
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1908-01-04

ooh. Douglas! Thou hast passed BE-
yond the shore,
But still thy voice IS ringing Ger the
gale
Thou st taught thy race how high her
hope may soar,
And bid them seek the heights, nor
faint nor fall"
Paul Laurence Dunbar on Ere,
Douglass.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1908-01-04
CONSOLIDATED STREET CAR
ROUTE.
Points of Interest
Attractions and How to

Springfield's Attractions and How to
Reach Them.
Lincoln home-Corner Eighth and
Jackson streets-take South Eighth
car.
Lincoln Monument, Oak Ridge Gem
etery-take North Fifth street cars at
Fifth and Monroe streets.
Parks and Pleasure Resorts.
Washington Park, southwest of city
take South Second or Lawrence ave-
nue. cars. Reservoir Park, northeast
of city-take North Seventh cars.
Camp Lincoln. The permanent
camp grounds of the Illinois National
Guards. Take Rutledge or Camp
Lincoln cars. State Fair grounds,
north of city. Take North Seventh
cars. White City Park east of the
city. Take East Capitol avenue cars
at Fifth and Monroe.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1908-01-04

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The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1908-01-04
See Him

Go and see the Wonderful
Clairvoyant and mind reader
and Fortune Teller; is able to
tell you anything you want to
know. Gives you good luck
in any respect, takes OIL
spells caused by any evil in
fuence which has been caus-
eddy witchery or hoodoo.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1908-01-04

Women More Loyal Than Men Who
Prove in Many Cases Only
Sounding Brass.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1908-01-04
PRICES FOR POLITICAL
ANNOUNCEMENTS.

State and National offices. $1,000
County offices ................ 500
Mayor of Springfield .......... 500
Regular write-ups, 10 cents per
line. Ten-line notice one time, with
Don't walt to hear what the public
thinks before you express your opin.
ion. Say what you think II you believe
you are right
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1908-01-04

the Forum always dares TO
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-01-30
He Needs a Home

A commuter, who rides Two
hours each morning to reach his
work and two hours more at night
to get home, was asked: why do
you do it2 Why not live in town.
because am one of those men, -
he answered, fwho cannot be hap
py unless be has one spot OF land on
Gods & cen earth upon which he
can stand and call il his owr.
Because would suffocate to live
all my life under a roof belonging
to some one else. Because want
my children to grow up with the
instinct Of home, and not as mere
jewellers in the tents of the migrat-
ing races. There are the reasons
why get up at daybreak and, at
this time of year, eat my dinner
by the gaslight. - Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-01-30
Pars0n Looked. But i: Vein.

A typical parson of long ago,
the stcrn1y consistent man who
sounded conscicnces regardless of
consequences, figures in a recent
book of "reminiscences, '-Old Scuy-
kill Tales,'' by Mrs Ella zerbey
Elliot
Parson M, one of the early min
listers of POttsville, Pa, was never
more earnestly eloquent than when
preaching against the love of dress.
His wife, Mrs. M, who was a
handsome woman, nevertheless
wore very elaborate gowns, and
openly avo we'd her interest in such
frivolities- The parson cx-
posulated against this love of dress
in private, but although she was
his wishes in other respects, she
pursued her own way in silk and
lace
Che Sunday morning the minis.
ter preached a sermson on humility
fnd bore down Upon the vanities
81 dress most powerfully. At the
conclusion he leaned over the high
board of the pulpit, his face pale
and determined
You may think, he said to his
congregation, when preach
against the love of dress and the
sin of 1T that l ought to look a
home want to tell you, dea
friends, that 1 do look and look un
til my heart aches. Youth
Corupaniox1
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-01-30
4EouM,Nous FORAGE PLANTS

A Icgurninous plant is one that
has pods. Some of the pods are
very small like those on the clover,
while other pods are large, like
those on the bean and pea There
are many wild plants whose pods
are SO small as not to attract atten-
ton from the casual passerby. But
in all Csses the lcgurncs are good
things 10 grow, for the season that
they are themselves rich in nitro
gen and as forage plants supply pro-
tcin to the animals eating them,
and also gather nitI Ogen from the
air by which they fill their roots
and so leave the soil richer in nitro
igon than they find it, Every far
mcr should cndcavor to grow some
lcgurninOus plants
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-01-30

II seems characteristic of many
ofRour successful poultry plants that
their beginnings were not attended
with magpificence- The original
buildings were not fine examples
of pouitry architecture The
owners did not deem them fit to
illustrate their first annual cata-
veloped into our now successful
poultry farms In yards of many
a fancier with national reputa-
ton one can find houses of a type
that have never been portrayed in
our journals as admirable They
are frequently s<rnade overs from
some unused building or some old
pieces of scrap lumber thrown to-
eether and made habitable by the
use of tar paper and rags Yet
these houses sufficcd to shelter the
fowls placed therein, and what the
breeder lacked in confor able quar-
care. AS time passed and profit
was made many of these houses
have been abandoned or recon-
structed, but some are left and on
almost every poultry farm are still
in use, standing as a proof that
expensive houses and fixtures are
not requisites of good beginning
in poultry culture. Nowhere do
we find as up-to-date, well con-
structcd, even elegant poultry
houses as on the abandoned plant,
where money was apparently not
lacking when the original build
ings were erected.
Poultry houses are so frequently
portrayed with elaborate dcscrip-
tions of the roOsts, nesting boxes,
feed trought, grit and beef SCRAP
rcccptacIcs, that one may FORGE
that house is only SO much room
enclosed within tight walls, mere
1y so much space, protected from
the elements says the Northwestern
agriculturist- Economy is usually
associated in our minds with in
convenience The person desiring
to build cheap poultry houes mus
expect to do without poultry house
1uxurics- Our best styles o
houses consider the comfort of botf
the fowls and attendants, but oul
cheap houses consider only that o
the fowls, and leave that of thu
attendant to take care of itself
All this is not intended to argu
that poor houses are superior t.
good ones but is offered to SHOW
that beg innings need not be ele
giant or even apparently auspi
ci0r1S
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-01-30
For Sale

One five room house in south
end of town. A large lot, 1879 IL
# frontage by 200 IL TT. deep.
A stable for four horses, one COW
and 100 chickens and feed shed,
10x12 feet. There are Is fruit
trees some of which ought to bear
fruit next season, "A shade trees
and good sized stra ~berry and
raspberry patch. Plenty of room
for good garden and large yard.
For terms apply to B. T. Bjornson,
opposite Rohrers' orchard. 34-tf
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-01-30
Talking Machine for ST or Less

Spang eubcrg & Norell and r. w.
Smith have just put up for rattle a
$50 Victor talking machine and a
$50 Edison Photograph. Tickets
for this rattle are for sale at both
places numbers from 1 to 100 in
elusive and cost from cent to
$1.O0 each according to numbers
drawn. The first winning number
gives the holder his choice of the
two machines and the second win
ming takes the other.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-01-30
Why Suffer From Rheumatism

Do you know that rheumatic
pains can be relieved If you doubt
this just try one application OF
Chamberlain's Pain Balm. 1t
may not give you relief from pain
but will make rest and sleep pos
sible, and that certainly means a
great deal to any one afflicted with
rheumatism. For sale by r. W..
Smith.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-01-30

1t is very important and In fact
it is absolutely necessary to health
that we give relief to the stomach
promptly at the first signs of
trouble. Take something once in
while; especially after meals !;
something like Kodol for Dyspepsia
and indigestion. 1t will enable
your stomach to do its work proper
ly. Sold by Keener Drug Store.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-01-30
tioS to Avoid Appendicitis

Most victims of appendicitis are
those who are habitually consti-
patcd by stimulating the liver and
bowels and restores the natural
action of the bowels Foley's
Oriuo Laxative does not uauseate
or grippe and is mild and pleasant
70 take Refuse substitutes. r.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-01-30

An eyeopener-Yo Your friends will
thank you if you tell them about
the Elmore cigar.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1908-04-22
Items From Waterloo.

Waterloo, S. c., April 18.-Mr. and
Mrs. B. F. Wilcutt spent Sunday with
Mr.. Ben King in Greenwood county.
Messrs. S. w. Pickett and Joseph P.
Wharton went down to Columbia Sat
urday to spend a few days among their
friends in the Capital City.
Prof. Joseph H. Shelley spent sew
eral days this week with his home peo-
pie at Little Mountain.
Mr.. w. H. Wharton made a business
trip to Columbia this week.
Mr.. H. l.. McSwain, of Cross Hill,
spent Saturday in town. He bought a
number of bales of cotton here, the
best brades bringing log.
Rev. w. B. Wharton, of Columbia,
came up this week and spent several
days in the Fork section looking after
his farming interests.
Mr.. and Mrs. d. Casper Smith are
visiting Mr.. Robert Wallace and family
at Belfast.
Mrs. A. C. Long has returned from a
visit to Laurens.
Miss Sarah Wallace, of Belfast, is
visiting her sister, Mrs. John Harris
Wharton.
There was an enthusiastic meeting of
the local camp, Woodmen of the World,
Friday night. A number of visitors
from neighboring camps were present
and the meeting very much enjoyed by
all.
Base ball fever has struck our town
and the fans and rooters are again in
the land. Waterloo has a crack team
now and they are holding their own
with all the teams in this section.
Major Thomas B. Anderson is in
~Spartanburg this week visiting his son,
Mr.. Charles w. Anderson.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1908-04-22
A Much Missed Senator.

Senator Tillman is much missed in
the senate. When well he is usually in
in his seat during the sessions sand gen
orally has something to say on every
measur up for consideration.
One of the senator's strongest char
acteristics is his ability to cope with
any situation, and he most always mas
ters the same. 1t was some time be-
fore the people of the United States
understood the South Carolinian. The
time has passed when he is stigmatized,
and when he arises to speak his hearers
give respectful attention. Among his
closest friends in public was the late
Senator George f. Hoar, Of Massachu-
sets, who early discerned the good in
Tillman's character.
Senator Hoar admired the poetic side
Of the hardy Southerner, and the init
macy between the two men, represent
ing, as they did, two sections of the
country, at variance on 80 many ques-
tons, was interesting and touching to
the members of the senate. Washing
ton Herald.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1908-04-22
Cow,

Back to Nature! Hail, o champion
nurser of the human race! Hail, o
quiet chewer of nutritious end! Blessed
be peace and open air, beasts and sun
light, and and especially blessed be this
cow; of her we sing. Hail, Pauline;
number 48, 426-if that name you love,
0 butter champion of the world! Think
of giving 104.4 pounds of milk in a sim
gle day, and also at a high average of
fat!
81 think ! could urn and live with an
imals, they are so placid and self
contained.
| stand and look at them long and
long.
They do not sweat and whine about
their condition.
They do not lie awake in the dark and
weep for their sins.
They do not make me sick discussing
their duty to God.
Not n is dissatisfied, not one is de-
mented with the mania of owning
things.
Not one kneels to another, nor to his
kind that ivedthousands of years
ago.
Not one is respectable or unhappy over
the whole earth"
Would the pen of Homer were our
own, for we have no taste to celebr.,
the feats of admirals and presidents,
prize fighters and millionaires, and
would fain do justice to the cow; for
she, by her own unaided might, can
support thirty babies on this earth.
This journal is too strenuous; often in
sadness we believe it to be more siren
uous than inspired; higher in purpose
than in charm; but yet how dearly it
loves to forget the dust and sound of
strife; to rest in reverence for such
forces as are summoned to the mind by
regarding the animal on this page
Golfers.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1908-04-22

fled voters vote to sell, that one county
~dlspensary then be established as above
set forth, with the right to vote the
~dlspensary out at subsequent election.
This is practically the plan that
outlined in an interview given out last
fall.
STATE READY FOR PROHIBITION.
Gas | see the situation now, | believe
the State is ready to take even a
greater step towards prohibition than
this; but such a plan will, practically,
give US three-fourths or more of the
State for prohibition.
"With the policy of the State de-
clared to be opposed to the traffic,
coupled with the good effect produced
by the practical workings of a prohibl-
ton law, the counties will be very slow
to exempt themselves from the opera
ton of the law and to place themselves
in direct opposition to the we'll defined
moral policy of the State.
"Under such circumstances, | do not
believe that my candidacy this year
would be productive of good to the pro-
hibition and | will not be a candi-
date.
whether the State Democratic con
vention will be asked to permit a direct
vote upon the question in the primary
this summer | am not now prepared to
say. | have my W personal views
upon this subject, but before any def
mite conclusion is reached it may be
necessary to have a conference of the
prohibitionists. | am seeking to do
what is best for the ultimate good of
the cause.
Personally, | shall continue to go
into different sections of the State and
advocate prohibition. | shall offer my
services to any section that may desire
them, whether it be to make speeches
generally throughout the State or in
counties where campaigns are being
made under the present law.
"The fight is on and the prohibition
lists expect to keep it up until they stop
the legalized sale of liquor in South
Carolina"
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1908-04-22
Another Veteran Dead.

Another Laurens county veteran has
passed away. Mr.. William E. Cook, OF
Young's township, died on Monday
of last week and was buried Tuesday
at the old Harmony burying ground, the
funeral services being conducted by
Rev. Geo. w. Bussey, assisted by the
Rev. Mr.. Richardson. Mr.. Cook was
seventy-two years of age at his death
and is survived by his widow and sew
eral children, all of whom are grown.
Mr.. Cook was a gallant soldier and a
good citizen. After the war he, like
thousands of others, set to work with
only wasted lands and no equipments to
care for his family. Under the adj
verse circumstances, known to all those
of that day, he lived and labored with
n~ever-abating energy, and it was so up
until his death. Mr.. Cook was a mem
Der of Company E, 3rd South Carolina
battalion. He was in the noted Ker-
shaw's brigade, James battalion. This
battalion, so it is learned from Judge
Thompson, of this city, was first under
General M. l.. Bonham, of Anderson,
and was the first battalion in service on
the Potomac river.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1908-04-22
Stale Board of Education.

Columbia, April l 8.-Gov. Ansel to-
day reappointed the entire State boart
of education, as he announced at the
last meeting of the board he would do.
The membership is as follows:
First District, w. K. Tate, Charles,
ton.
Second District, H. F. Rice, Aiken.
Third District, Prof. D. w. Daniel
Clemson College.
Fourth District, Prof. A. G. Rembert,
Wofford College.
Fifth District, Prof. A. r. Banks,
Lancaster.
Sixth District, w. j. Montgomery
Marion.
Seventh District, Prof. A. j. Thack.
ston, Orangeburg.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1908-04-22
44s4khsshhMAAAAA
FISH NO. 2.
BY w. ID. S.


Peter said, Tgoa fishing" Twenty
OF the town men with their country
cousins said, 1--WE go, too" And they
came and fished the river. The catch
was not large, but plenty to make the
wash pot of cat fish stew. 1t reminded
me of the saying that a French cook
could make nice soup out of a flint rock
if you would give him plenty of ingre-
dents. So they stirred in fat pork, a
plump hen, Irish potatoes, onions, corn
with spices and a bucket of cut up cat
fish. 1t was SO rich in flavor that the
boys could not eat more than one-half
of the stew.
Tom says he has a touch of collie this
morning. Culburson got up with a
headache. don't know how the town
boys rose.
Uncle Jim chaperoned the crowd and
they did not need any hot drops and
Jamaica ginger-only iced coca-cola and
soft drinks-as the weather got so hot
about right to fish in.
-Four of the men weighed half a ton
and they made so much fuss in the wa
ter splashing the mud and halloing
that the fish took to the hollow rocks
and mud under the river banks where
the sein could not reach them.
Boys, if you want to catch fish you
must go about it quietly, not like. you
were rocking rabbits out of a briar
patch.
Tumbling Shoals.