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The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1909-09-22
GRAY COURT SCHOOL OPENS.
Begins Another Years WOrk-Items
OF Personal Interest

Gray Court. Sept. 20-The opening
high school were held Monday, Sept
IL, with an enrolemnt OF II pupils
and quite a number Of friends and
patrons present Rev. r. NJ. Dubose.
pastor OF the Gray Court Methodist
church, made fine talk to the pupils.
having for his subject Il Can't" and
Il Don't Care" He urged the chill
dren to make this year year OF
good and honest work Miss Emma
Gary of Georgia. an eX-missionary
from China made a very fine talk on
temperance Prof William H. Hand
Of Columbia made very interesting
address on the high school and how
very important it was for all the chill
dren to be in school.
After few remarks by Prot Mar
tin, the pUpi's and their teachers went
70 the rooms and the WORK OF caSsi-
flying began. Prof Martin is assisted
by Misses Mamie Craig Of Rock Hill.
Mary Latham Of Little Mountain and
Miss Sarah BeekS Of Cross Hill The
school has just been made high
school and has added another teacher
to ITS teaching force
Mrs. G. E. Moore is very i'll this
week
Prof. J. c. Martin. principal Of the
Gray Iourt-Owings high school. Wis
tied relatives at Ora Saturday and
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1909-09-22
Mr.. II. Terry Wins Prize.

Mr.. II. Terry Of this city won the
$40 prize given by the Waltham watch
company in a contest for the Oldest
watch of that make conducted by
Fleming Bros. the local dealers. Mr.
Terry'S watch was No. 3462l. made in
1850; it was used by his father and is
still in good condition.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1909-09-22
Cake Sale Saturday.

The Junior Aid society Of the First
Methodist church will conduct n cake
sale at Simmons store on Saturday
of this week, beginning at 10 o'clock.
The people are urged to attend this
sale, secure bargains for themselves.
and incidentally help COED cause
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1909-09-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST
IN SOUTH CAROLINA
Culied and Condensed for
Busy Readers
RESUME OF PAST WEEK
Current Events Of Interest in This
>hte Selected and Briefly Noted
For Advertiser Readers.

CheSter-For some time past it has
been rumored here that MIR. a. l.. Gas
ION Of the local bar would be in
the race for attorney general next
sumner. When approached and
asked for a statement on the subject,
Mc. Castor would not deny or confirm
the rNmor. 1t is known, however.
that prominent citizens from several
quarters Of the state have asked him
10 make the race. and it will not be
surprising if Mr. Gaston5 name is
among the entries for the next prt-
mary.
Columbia. .-Commissionar Watson
receNed a letter from Dan Sully today
saying that he. Sully. had been made
president Of the $3.50. 900 corporation
organized in New York to make and
market the new cotton grader invented
by l.. A. Green. of Greenvile.
Sully wants Watson to come to At
lanta for consultation on this and
Other matters affecting the cotton
growers.
The grader will be manufactured in
Graerville. Watson urges Sully to
cone here
G'e"nville An old negro living in
the country came into town one day
and saw an electric fan for the first
time in his life. This whir!inS object
al once attracted his attention and
aiter iEtently gazing at it for several
mn N,ith no i,,l
meHt 2nd curiosity he turned to the
proprietor OF the shop and said: Say.
boss, dat suttently is Lively squirrel
you got In dis year cage, but he's
sho'ty goin' to bus his heart if he
keeDS on maxim dem resolutions 50
faS
ROCK iiHt-Something entirely new
in tie way OF Il pest 10 cotton planters
has @ooearei near here in Bethesda
To"o%4i lip. ana so far no one has rec
oSn'%'i it or claims to know what it
is NJ. j. |" Williamson. one OF the
largest farmers OF Bethesda, has
StalH OF cotton ON exhibition here
"hi>1 'ho"S a condition warranted to
cause alarm it it should become in
any "'N general In the stalk are
ben "aowing different stages o: the
evil. Some bolls had only dark
spot On them. In others this had
deve!"o"d until the whole boil was
destroyed by seeming rot. Only in
one Instance did Mr. Williamson find
living organism, and that was
III .l,sI ~.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1909-09-22
SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY.
,hedule Effective June 20, 1909

\. B. These schedule figures show
the time that trains may be expected
pected to arrive and depart but the
times shown are not guaranteed
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The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1909-09-22
BOD Reward. SInA-

The readers OF this papar will be
pleased to learn that there is at least
one dreaded disease that science has
been able to cure in all its stages. and
that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure
is the only positive cure now known
TO the medical fraternity. Catarrh
being constitutional disease. + e.
QuireS a COntitutional treatment
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken intern
ally. acting directly upOn the blood
and mucous surfaces OF the system
thereby destroying the foundation of
tho disease. and giving the patient
strength by building up the conStitu-
ti0n and saSiSting nature in doing It's
work. The prOprietors have 80 much
faith in its curative powers that they
offer One hundred Dollars for any
case that il fails TO cure Send for
list of testimonials
Address +. j. CHENEY G CO.. To
lrdo, O.
Sold hv AZ DRUGGISTS. 7ic.
TAX" HANS Family pi,ls for con
stipa'ioL.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1909-09-22
EFFECTlNH AHRIL (. 1909.

Trans '86 and '87 daily except Sunday.
Tri-weekly through Pullman Parlor
Car service between Augusta and
Asheville on trains Nos and 2:
North bound Tuesdays. Saturdays:
Son'hbound, Mondays. Wednesdays
al Fridays.
Z. II. GASQUE. Agent.
laurens. S. c.
G. r BRYAN. Gen Agt..
rre"nville, 8. T..
\. " ANDERSON. Gen. Supt..
ERNEST WILLIAMS. 9. p. A..
Augusta, Ga
The Yale expositor., 1909-05-21

politan. Though many Of their farms are well
cared for, they are chiefly cultivated by the
women and children Many tiny tots are to
be seen digging potatoes and working with the
fruit trees. 1t is not unusual to see mothers
carrying loads of grain on their heads and In
fants in their arms
The women make nearly all the clothes for
the family. Their fare is limited to bread,
macaroni, cheese and port wine There is such
a heavy tax salt that to these poor peas
ants salt and meat are luxury reserved for
Sundays and holidays.
The German peasants are the hardest work
ing women in the world. They toll out in the
fields all day long, they do not question their
strength, but do whatever their husbands COM
mand. II is not an unusual sight to see wom-
en- thinly clad, hard at work in the binding
rain. No less hard is 1t for them to work all
day under the burning sun. In southern Ger
many the women cultivate the land way UP
the mountains, but their hearts know no fear.
Though these women work uncomplaningly
they enjoy few comforts. Their little houses
are almost bare of furnishing, and they are
compelled to wash their clothes in the stream.
Their children are not idle and they help on
the farms before they are half grown. A
German Of the middle class takes 1t for grant
ed that his wife does their homework, looks
after the home, anu helps him in his shop.
In a bakery a German woman, replying to
the queries of an American woman as to the
work she did, said: you have idea how
glad you ought to be that you are an American
woman-you have such good times. Look at
me. do all my homework. take care of my
three children. and am scarcely finished with
my work when my husband says Catherine,
come down and wait on the customers Some
of these men think that we are as strong a.
horses"
The Yale expositor., 1909-05-21
FEW ctREssEs IN HER LIFE
Infinite Pathos In Remark Made by
Little philadelphia Child Of
the Slums.

DR.. Herman L. During. superintend.
ent of the Philadelphia City mission.
has for many years devoted his life
to the poor. DR.. During is the in
ventor of the pretzel test for street
beggars. When street beggar pleads
starvation, you buy him big German
pretzel at the nearest stand. II he
eats the pretzel, he is honest; IL he
refuses it, he Is fraud.
Dr. During in his work among the
poor has learned many odd, quaint
things that he relates superbly, for he
is a born story-teller. In an address
at Bala, apropos of the hard, rough
lives of the children of the poor, he
related a dialogue between two little
girls in Rum alley.
Maggie. wuz We ever kissedr said
the first tot.
"'On'y wunst in me life wot kin
remember said the second. When I
wuz In de Honnyman hospital wild a
broken arm one o. de lady muses.
kissed me, an blushed like o
child"
The Yale expositor., 1909-05-21

family. In the north wages are bet
ter and taxes are lower, so the bur-
dens of women are not so heavy. But
in Venice, Rome and Naples lie
means hard toll.
The women are forced to earn a
living, and so they do whatever they
can put their hands on. They clerk in
small shops and stand in the squares
selling flowers, jewelry and plaster
casts. But competition is so great
and the wares so cheap that many
are forced to earn a living by harder
methods. The narrow streets are
thronged with women carrying in
fants on their arms, hawking their
fruits and flowers. Others trudge
along carrying heavy sacks and great
loads on their backs. Many walk for
miles along the country roads selling
their garden product and the fleece
Just shorn from the sheep.
In Rome and Naples more especial
ly the women do most of their work
out of doors. They are usually seated
before their doorways spinning, card
ing and washing the wool. Others are
hard at work making straw baskets
and cording them of rope. Most OF
the poorer homes are without water,
and these women are often compelled
to trudge miles with heavy copper
jars in which they get their water.
They cannot wash their clothes at
home, so they are compelled to use
a stream or fountain.
When work is scarce they rent a
stand near one of the old walls and
sell fish, fruit and baskets. A mother
often has a baby in her arms and
three or four other children playing
about her. The long rows of tene-
ments simply TEEN with human life.
It is not unusual to find families OF
ten or more crowded into one room.
Some of them are so crowded that
the clothes after they are washed
have to be hung out Of the windows.
But this poverty and struggle for
livelihood does not mar the sunny dis
position of the Neapolitan. Tired look
ing women are heard singing popular
airs as they trudge home from work.
When a pretty Italian girl finishes
selling her flowers she often starts
out at nightfall carrying a guitar and
serenading strangers, who increase
her small living. But to make the
best of life is the motto of the Nea
The Yale expositor., 1909-05-21
cuticura Met with Great Success.

Cuticura Met with Great Success.
'I have two little girls who have
been troubled very badly with eczema.
One Of them had it on her lower
limbs. / did everything that I could
hear of for her, but 1t did not give
in until warm weather, when 1t seem
ingly subsidized. The next winter when
it became cold the eczema started
again and also In her head where it
would take the hair out and leave
bare patches. At the same time her
arms were sore the whole length OF
them. l took her to physician, but
the child grew worse all the time. Her
sisters arms were also affected. I be-
gan using Cuticura Remedies, and by
the time the second lot was used their
skin was soft and smooth. Mrs. Charles
Baker, Albion, Me-, Sept. 81, '08."
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp. Sole Props, Boston.
The Yale expositor., 1909-05-21
WHERE THE WOMEN DO THE WORK.

Americans are greatly impressed in visiting
foreign countries to find out how hard foreign
women toll often shouldering more than their
Just responsibilities. This is certainly true In
southern countries. where women are some
times degraded by hard and mental labor No
where is this more noticeably true than in
Italy, where the women do their own work,
care for the children, and help support the
The Yale expositor., 1909-05-21
The Grin of Sprlno.

During the last twenty years many of our
citizens have been attacked in the spring
months by grip. Some have had serious or
slight attacks every year or two. All know
it to be a dangerous disease. If Lanes
Pleasant Tablets (which are sold at %
cents box by druggists and dealers) are
taken when the first symptoms are felt,
there is hardly chance of the malady get
ting foothold. If you cannot get them
Woodward, lie Roy, n. Y. Sample free.
The Yale expositor., 1909-05-21
Work Ahead for Josh.

TIL be kind O. glad when Josh gifts
home from school," said Farmer Corn
tossel. Il have an idea he can be
right useful" Are you going to put
him to work." Maybe. I've ex.
hausted all the language I know on
that team OF mules. But I haven't
given up hope. 1 want to see wheth-
er Josh can startle 'em some with his
college yell. Star.
The Yale expositor., 1909-05-21

rest if they are
potent enough.
Senator Lati-
mer of South
Carolina once in
troduced a good
roads bill calling
for the expendi-
ture of govern
ment millions for
the improvement
of the highways.
The automobilists
all over the coun-
try began send
ing letters of APP
prevail. T h e y
pressed t h e ir
friends into the
writing service,
but that they did
not always pass
upon the persua-
sive merits OF
the friends pro-
auctions is shown
fairly well by
one letter on the
good roads sub
ject received by
Senator Cullom.
1t read like this:
Dear Mr.. Gull
lom-Please vote
~ 4 LII
The Yale expositor., 1909-05-21
swinburne and the cabman.

In his youthful days Swinburne had
a quarrel with cabman over his fare.
The cabman abused the poet merci-
lessly. Addressing him Swinburne
said: And may l invite you to de-
scend from your perch and hear how
a poet can swear?"
The Yale expositor., 1909-05-21
The Appropriate Place.

THAT ship carries a big cargo OF
eggs"
do they carry eggs In a ship or in
the hatches?"
The Yale expositor., 1909-05-21
Ask Your Druggist for Allen. Foot-s.,..

II tried ALIENS FOOT-EASE recent
ly. and have just bought another supply.
II has cured my corns, and the hot, burn
ing and itching sensation in my feet which
was almost unbearable, and I would not
be without II now.-Mrs. w. ]. Walker
Camden, N. j." Sold by all Druggists, 25c.
The Yale expositor., 1909-05-21
Hypocrisy,

Dr. Cook-Briggs. what is a hypo-
critic?
Briggs, PA hypocrite is a stude
who comes to freshman English class
with a smile on his face.-Wisconsin
Sphinx.
The Yale expositor., 1909-05-21

All pleasure must be bought at the
price of pain. For the true, the price
is paid before you enjoy it; for the
false, after you enjoy it.--John Foster.
The Yale expositor., 1909-05-21

Free A lOc package of Garfield Tea to
anyone mailing us this notice, with name
and address, and names and addresses of
10 friends not now using the Ideal Laxa-
tive. Garfield Tea Co., Brooklyn, N. Y.
The Yale expositor., 1909-05-21

Those who keep Hamlins Wizard Oil in
the house do not have to buy any other
remedy for sore throat. No other rem
edy will cure this trouble so quickly or so
surely. Remember this.
The Yale expositor., 1909-05-21

Federation of Labor He also had petitions from
1000 local labor unions asking that the iteracy
clause be kept in the immigration bill. Thousands
upon thousands of these laboring men who urged
the passage of the measure 1t stood foreign
born. The fathers of thousands upon thousands
more of them were foreign born. The petitions eff
fectuay disposed of the charge that the desire to
keep out illiterates born of native American
bigotry.
AS for Samuel Gompers, he was born in England
but his letter, which Mr.. Gardner read letter writ
ten to Representative James E. Watson, showed
conclusivey how the laboring people represented by
Mr.. Gompers felt upon the matter of the admission
of iterates The letter follows
1.-THE organized workers of this country feel that
the existing immigration laws, while not without
their value of trihng effect compared with
the needs and the Just demands of American labor
Fl. The Nashville convention of the American
Federation of Labor, by vote of 1858 to $685. pro-
nounced in favor of educational test for immi-
grants. Such measure would check immigration
in a moderate degree, and those who would be
kept out by 1t are those whose competition In the
labor market is most injurious to American workers
No other measure which would have any impor-
tant effect of this kind is seriously proposed.
/ earnestly hope that you will be able to procure
the embodiment of iliteracy test for immigrants
in the bill which the house has under con-
The Yale expositor., 1909-05-21

the c n a I = =
that he brought
CO u s ion to
those who made
it. The insinua-
ton had been
made that the
IN o v e m e n I
to exclude illit-
crate immi-
grants was a re-
vived know
N o t h | n g "
scheme. 1t was
said that Amer
leans who, so
to speak, had
b e e n | o n g
enough in this
country to have
had a GRANDPA
Their born here
were DESTROYS
of shutting out
the foreigners
for purely self
ish reasons.
Mr.. Gardner
had his answer
ready to these
charges in the
form of a letter
from Samuel
Gompers, presi-
d e n t Of til e
A m e r / c a n
The Yale expositor., 1909-05-21

Nearly all Of the worlds supply OF
asbestos comes from Canada.
The Yale expositor., 1909-05-21


A New York representative had his sheer
ready when this letter read in the house.
II would like to ask the gentleman" he said,
"if Mr.. Gompers represents the Mayfower or
those who landed at Jamestown"
The truth of the matter is that the insinua-
ton of the New York man that the old-time
native American element was back of the
movement to bar out illiterates was baseless,
and the house knew it, Curiousiy enough,
perhaps, the strongest opponents of the Hitter
acy clause in the whole land were men who
traced their descent back through the centu-
ries to those first immigrants who founded
the nation in America. These men, while
holding that 1t was the part of wisdom to
keep out the criminals and the paupers of
Europe held also that 1t was un-American to
bar a man because he could neither read nor
write
The bigotry charge was used solely because
it is an ugly charge and because it hurts.
No man. even though he Is as broad as the
sea in his views, ever can clear himself OF
suspicion when the accusation once is made.
II is not hard therefore, to understand why
the men who opposed to the immigration
bill used the weapon that they had In hand
1t may, however, prove useless to them on an
other occasion.
The Yale expositor., 1909-05-21
SKIN TROUBLES CURED.

Two Little Girls Had Eczema Very
BadIy-In One Case Child's Hair
Came Out and Left Bare Patches.
The Yale expositor., 1909-05-21
tmportant "a Mothers.

CASTORIA a safe and sure remedy for
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Expenses at home for poor.
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Expekses Of deaf, dumb and blind.
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Expenses Of homo for incurablcs.
a c scherr, auditor, So o.
Expense OF elections
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GAINESVILLE News Pub Co, for
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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1909-04-03
April Wide World Magazine.

The Wide World invariably con
tains such an amazing collection Of
stories Strange but True" as to
place it in unique position among
magazine literature. There is moth
ing exactly like the Wide World pub
lished, and for this reason it has
readers i'll every quarter Of the
Globe. Apart from its general in
terest the magazine has an educa-
tional value which cannot be over
estimated, and the fact that it is be-
ing used as a text book in many pub
lie schools. both here and abroad
proves that as an adjunct to the ge
ography lesson it is unsurpassed
The April issue contains its full com
plement Of interesting material.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1909-04-03

A striking feature of the April
number of McCIure's Magazine is
the third of George E. Parker's pa
pers on Grover Cleveland which con
tAins the presidents opinions Of
some of his great contemporaries Z
J. Pierpont Morgan, Theodore
Roosevelt, James }. Hill, Senator
Foraker and others. Burton J Hen
nick contributes an interesting ar
icle on the discovery of p serum at
he Rockefeller Institute, which has
reduced the mortality of spinal men
nights from seventy-five to twenty
Eve per cent; Mrs. Harris R. Childs
writes Of the picturesque ivory
trade; Rudolph Cronau tells about
he wanton waste Of our natural re-
sources, and GugheImo Ferrero. the
great Italian historian, who came to
this country at the invit ition Of
President Roosevelt, cent -ibutes a
remarkable paper on Nero and the
Christian persecution. The number
also contains another instalment Of
Mrs. Humphrey Wards great novel,
" Marriage la Mode" and -four
short stories; "Ourself and Wom-
an" by Inez G. Thompson; The
D WelIers," by E. Nesbit; The Wa.
ters of Thunder" by Edmund Can
Tier. and The Brake Beamer. BY
Francis Lynde.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1909-04-03
The Turkish Marriage.

In Turkey marriage is a strictly
civil act, the validity of which con
lists in its being attested by at least
W. witnesses; and although an
nam, or priest, is usually preseni
at the signing of the contract, it is
his legal rather than in his religious
capacity. The civil ceremony is sim
plicity itself. The bridegroom ano
his witnesses repair to the home OF
the bride, in the selamlik Of which
ner male relatives discuss with them
he payment of the nekiah. Thi
question settled, and the contract
drawn up, the bridegroom thrice re.
peats his desire to marry the daugh
ter of the house, upon which the
imam proceeds to the door commu
nicating with the haremlik, behind
which the bride and her female rela
tives are assembled. After announc
ing the amount Of the nekiah agreed
upon, the imam asks the maiden il
she accepts the sutton for her hus.
band. The question and the affirm
alive answer having been thrice re
peated, the imam returns to the
selamlik, where he attests the con
sent of the bride, and the couple are
considered to be legally married.
The bride and groom do not meet,
however, until the conclusion of the
lughun ziafeti. or week of wedding
festivities, which may not be held
for some months afterward. e. AL
exander Powell, in the April Every
body's.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1909-04-03
A Sum In Arithmetic.

On April 1st. 1906. Mr.. ]. D. Nc
Gowan subscribed for ten shares Of
stock in the 49th series of the Hop.
kinsville Building and Loan Associa-
ton. The total payments mate
amount to $4,000. The Association
offe,s for this stock today S4OO.SO
The average time that the money
has bSen invested is eighteen months.
What RAKE Of interest does it pay?
Panics and money depressions
have no effect on the profits of the
Association.
There are 1900 shares of stock in
force in various series. New sub
scriptions viii be taken April 1st.
THOS. W. LONG, Treas.