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Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-01-11

The battleship Texas is to be made
a target for practice shooting. Even
this is better than to be slowly eaten
up by rust.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-01-11

In 1850, when the first federal cen
sus of Texas was taken, the center
of population was in the southeast cor
ner of Madison county. 1t is now five
miles northwest of Waco.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-01-11

A big army or navy is a pad thing
when 1t is useless, but worse when it
is used. The army bill carries an APP
preparation of 100000.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-01-11

1t is expected that the boil weevil
will march through Georgia to the sea
during the next summer campaign.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-01-11
The First National Bank
of Bryan, Texas

desires to express appreciation to its many enoS " W
Given rs during the 1910 which has been very prosperous one
I'D hest wishes are extended and all for Merry christmas
- us and bannv New Year The services and facilities OF
our institution your command = - -
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1911-08-16
Misery From Upset Stomach and Dys-
DCpSin VIII Vanish.

If what you just ate is souring on
your stomach or lies like lump of
lead, refusing to digest, or you belch
gas and eructate sour and undigested
food, or have a feeling of dizziness,
heartburn, fulness, nausea, bad taste
in mouth and stomach headache-this
Is Indigestion.
Bloodine costs only fifty cents and
Will thoroughly cure the worst case
of Dyspepsia, and leave sufficient
about the house in case some one else
in the family may suffer from stom-
ache trouble or Indigestion.
Get a bottle of Bloodine now and
eat what you like the next meal and
then take teaspoonful of Bloodine
to digest and prepare for assmila-
ton into the blood all the food you
eat: besides, it makes you go to the
table with a hearty healthy appetite;
but what will please you most is that
YOU will feel that your stomach and
intestines are clean and fresh, and
you Will not need to resort to laXa-
tiveS or liver pills for biliousness or
constipation.
This city will have many BlOodine
cranks, as some peopel will call them.
but YOU viii be cranky about this
splendid prescription, too, if you ever
have indigestion or gastritis, or any
other stomach misery, take Bloodinc.
Mail orders will be filled by the
Bloodinc Corporation. Boston, Mass.
Sold by LaurenS Drug Co.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1911-08-16

ginia in 1884. He! was a volunteer in
the French and Indian War, and was
present at Braddock's defeat. In
March 1776, he became Lieutenant col :
onel in the American army. After
the capture Of Charleston by the Brit
ish, he took refuge in the swamps of
the Santee with the rank of briga-
dier-general. On July 18TH he defeat
ed British detachment on the Ca
tawba and on August 18th, was de-
feated at Fishing Greek by Tarleton.
He collected another corps, and on
November 18th defeated Colonel Mem
ings near Broad River. In the battle
of Blackstocks, November 1880 he was
severely wounded; but in March 1881,
he raised three new regiments and in
concert with Marion, Picker and 9th
ers harrassed the British unceasing-
ly. His courage was so bold that it
often led him into battle against
forces much greater than lis own.
Sometimes he was defeated, but al
ways came out of defeat as undaunt-
ed as before. In 1881, Congress pass
ed resolution of thanks to him and
his men. After the war, Sumter had
a great public career; he first served
as Congressman from South Carolina.
then as United States senator. and fl
nally as Minister to Brazil. He was
the last surviving general of the Rev
olution dying near Camden, S. c.. in
1882.
Andrew Pickens was born at Paxton
County, Pennsylvania, September 13.
1889 The family moved to South
Carolina in his boyhood In 176l. he
served as volunteer in an eXpedi-
ton against the Cherokee Indians. At
the outbreak of the Revolution, he
was made captain and rose to the
rank of rigadier-general With Ma
ron and Sumter, he kept the field at
head of partisan troops, after the
state was overrun by the British. In
february. 779. he defeated a party of
Tories at Kettle Creek, and was de-
leated himself at the battle of Cow
his conduct on this occasion, Con-
gress voted him q sword In June he
took the British forts at Augusta. af-
ter siege of two weeks. At the bat
tie of Eutaw Springs, he commanded
brigade of South Carolina militia
He served his people in many ways,
from the close of the war to the year
1901, when he retired from public
life. He died at Tomasso Pendleton
District, South Carolina, August 18th,
1917.
These men carried on that kind of
warfare that was safest for their
country and most fatal to the enemy
The men, whom these great partisans
led drove away the armies of the in
vaders, and won the final victory for
the American cause.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1911-08-16
COUNTRY'S FIRST
100000 CITY
New YOrk's Population Now Exceeds
This Number by Over 4UU-Second
In World to Reach Mark.


This Number by Over 4vU-Second
In World to Reach Mark.
New York. Aug. 13.-New York has
just achieved the distinction of being
the first city in the western hemisphere
and the second in the world to pass
the 100000 mark in population The
margin by which this record was gain
ed this week was not q wide one since
according to the figures of the board
of health the greater city now con-
tAins exactly 5,O00,4J1 people. This
estimate is based on the official CEN
sus taken in April last year which
gave New York population of 1866
S33, so that within a period of fifteen
months there has been an increase of
233,5I4 equal to the population of a
large sized city. Since 1898 when the
population of New York was but g.
272,41S there has been an increase of
53 per cent, striking record in it
self. The great concentration of pop
ulation has not been injurious to the
health OF New York's citizens. howev-
er. On the contrary figures for the
last thirteen years show falling Off
In the death rate. According to the
lures of the health department. for
the past week the death rate was only
fraction over IA to each one thous-
and inhabitants, which is one per cent.
lower than the lowest record of the
last thirteen years. The infant NOR
tality among children less than one
year Of age was 1876 in 1000 as against
235 in the corresponding week for
1910. AT the present rate of increase
it is figured that New York will out
strip London and become the largest
city in the world within the next 25
years.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1911-08-16
P-.RTISAN LEADERS OF s.
BY Anna Prentiss.

4 =
Winning first prize in contest of ID.
A. r., Laurens Chapter.
The partisan leaders of South Caro-
lima were the men, who, during the
American Reaolution, when the Brit
ish under Cornwallis, Tarleton, Raw
don and others were overrunning the
state, led their neighbors and friends
who banded themselves together to
protect their homes, families, and
lives. The men whom they led to vic
tory, wore wOolen garments, called
hunting shirts, woven by their wives
and daughters, their caps were of ra-
coon skin, with the tails of a racoon
or squirrel hanging down behind;
their trousers and shoes were Of deer
skin. Each man rode his own horse.
Some carried reaping hooks and NOW
ing scyths, this instead Of swords.
and few carried pitch forks which
they used as spears, Most of Sumter's
men carried rife, or the flintlock
sort, with this, the back woodsmen
could send a bullet to the distance
of two hundred yards into an object
the size of a mans nat. Each rife
man had powder horn siung over
his shoulder, and wore a knife in his
belt 1t is said of Sumter's men that
they were always ready Ito scalp an
Indian, to hug a bear, and to fight
British dragons They laid them
selves in the swamps of the Santee
and Pee Dee rivers. BY means of
such signals, as the hootng of an owl
the chatteling of squirrel, the
screaming of panther, they warned
one another of the approach of the
enemy. They would dash out and
fight a desperate hand-to-hand battle,
and then disappear into the forest
The greatest partisan leaders were
Francis Marion, Thomas Sumter, and
Andrew pickens,
Francis Marion Was born at Wini-
paw in i732, AS boy, he wanted to
lead eafaring life, but ship wreck
caused him to change his mind In
an expedition az, ,-Ist the Indians in
1853, he went a,f volunteer. In am
other in 1861. I 1sSrveG as a licutcu-
ant under Captain William Moullric.
He was appointed to captaiucy in
the regular army in l715, was made Il
brigadier general by Governor Rut-
ledge i'm l77S Fortunately for his
country, just before Charleston fell
he spraned his ankle and retired
from the garrison so therefore was
not made prisoner of war. After
the surrender, he began his swift and
sudden attacks upon the enemy Tarl-
eton once attempted to catch him, but
gave it up saying: Come on boys,
let's go back and well soon find the
game cock" (Sumter), but as for this
old fox the devil himself could not
catch him" From that incident, the
title Of Swamp Fox" has clung to
the gallant Marion He, with the
help of Lighthouse Harry Lee from
Virginia, took Forts Motto and Wat
J son. AT the battle of Eutaw Springs
he commanded the right under Greene
After the British retreat to Charles
ton, he went to session of the Pro-
! vincial Congress. His face always
wore stern, hard look He had lit
tie to say, but seemed never to sleep
and was always ready to rush into
the thickest part of the fight After
the war, he occupied himself with
farming. He died February eth
1895.
Thomas Sumter IS .'0rG in Vir-
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1911-08-16
Notice oi Election.
state Of South Carolina,
COUNTY, OF lannon's.

state Of South Carolina,
County OF I.aurcns
Whereas, petitions signed by a legal
number OF the qualified electors and
frec-holders residing i'm Schunlctowu
School District 30 3. Iaurcus Com-
ty South Carolina. asking for an elec-
tion upon the question of voting a 3
mill tax upon property i'm said school
district to be used for school purposes
have been filed with the County Board
of Education, am election is hereby
ordered upon said question, said cleo
tion to be held on the 25th day OF Aug.
1911. at the LangstOn School House.
under the management of the school
trustees of said school district
Only such electors as return real
or personal property for taxation and
who exhibit their tax receipts and
registration certificate as required in
the general election shall be allowed
to vote. Those favorinG the mill
tax shall vote ballot with the word
Yes" written or printed thereon.
Those against the tax shall cast bal
lot with the word mo" written or
printed thereon, Polls shall open at
the hour of 6 o'clock in the forenoon
and shall remain open until the hour
of 4 O'Clock i'm the afternoon when they
shall close and the ballots be counted
The trustees shan report the re-
suits of the election to the County
Auditor and to the County Supcrin-
tenGent of Education within ten days
thereafter.
GEO l.. PITTS.
"-2t Co. Supt of Ed
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1911-08-16

196 acres of land at Boyds Mill,
known as the old Lark homestead ::
has beautiful dwelling, nicely situated.
with good outbuildings and tenant
houses. This property will be closed
out in the next sixty days Prices will
be made right and terms arranged.
A acres of land with two dwellings
in town of Fountain Inn, nicely To-
Gated. Prices and terms made right.
acres of land, more or less, and
ten-room dwelling, electric lights and
water works on West Main street,
City of Laurens, 159 foot front. This
is the finest location in the city of
tahrens and the building is up-to-
dale. where you will have the ad-
yhntages OF q country home and still
be on the main street in the CITY
of Laurens, Terms and price made
right.
167M acres of land with seven-roon.
cottage, we'll supplied with tenant
houses and out buildings, in three
miles of Gray Court, S. c., conven-
lent to schools and churches. This is
a nice location in a thickly settled
community, surrounded by the best
white people Price $4175. Terms
made easy.
So acres of land in the town Of Ian
ford, with beautiful cottage nicely To-
Gated. Price $4,000.
beautiful six-room cottages in
town of Gray Court, nicely located
close to business part Of the town.
Prices right and terms made easy AL
SO lots suitable for residence lots in
town of Gray Court
One lot Of land SO IT. fronting on
North Harper street, 210 feet deep
with store-room 20X50 near the Watts
rill.
One Let fronting North Harper st.,
l0Gx210 feet deep, price $4,000.
business lots near the Watts mill
fronting North Harper street. 25Xl50
feet deep.
One lot with 5-room cottage front
ing Mock street, 11oX300 feet deep.
2 acres of land more or less, and
S-room dwelling, store-house and out
building at Owings Station. This prop
erty is we'll located to establish the
trade and is worth more than the mon
ey we ask, $2,650.00.
want let me know your wants
I'd it for you.
LEAK
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1911-08-16

334 acres of land within three miles
OF Princeton with dwellings and out
buildings for the small sum of SIG
per acre.
234 acres of land, bounded by lands
of w. b. knight, w. H. Hellams. w.
II. Baldwin; seven-room dwelling.
hve-room cottage, fine barn, two
tenant houses, four horse farm in
cultivation, we'll supplied with water
and timber. Price $22 per acre.
$50 acres of land, more or less,
bounded on West by lands of d. A..
Davis, Mrs. r. G. Brown, L. j. Davis,
and North by Arthur Hudgens and
East and South by Burgess place
Said place 3 12 miles from city of
Laurens Something like 5000 cords
of wood and timber on land. Price
$40 per acre on following terms: one
and two and three years.
100 acres Of land with six-room
dwelling with good tenant houses, up
to-date' out buildings. This is very
desirable home and a beautiful farm
situated in three miles Of Ware
Shoals, on the main thoroughfare lead
ing from Laurens to Ware Shoals.
Price 100000.
DIN dCIeS VI ldnU, o-TOOul cottage,
good barn and other outbuildings, 2
acres wired in, four nice building sites,
at Watts Mills village, price $4,000.
13 1-2 acres of land, half mile from
Enoree, with corn and wheat mills, the
latter being in running condition.
Price $2,750.
1-3 acre Of land with six-room dwell
ing in town of Clinton situated on
Adair Street. Price $4,000.
: 125 acres of land, with seven
room dwelling, barn and outbuildings,
bounded by lands of Rebecca Simp-
son, John Childress and others. Price
$50 per acre,
2l9 acres Of land with dwelling ana
outbuildings, bounded by lands OF J.
M. Philpot, b. F, Terry and others.
Price $40 per acre
So acres of IaAd More or less, eight
room dwelling, 3 tenant houses, good
barn and outbuildings. in the town of
Lanford, Price $6,500.
SO acres Of land in Yonngs township,
geFnown as the Old Smith Place, nice
Tcottage and good barn and outbuild-
/inGs. Price $3.50.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1911-08-16

See our white and gold Dinner
81 pieces, best quality. price $3s9b
s. M. & r.. III. Wilkes e. co.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-09-11
FOR WASTE PAPER.

Take wire fencing, old or new. about
three feet wide and four or five feet
long. Lap the two raw edges togeth-
err, fastening the protruding wire Sc
curelv together. Set on circular end,
placing I'm bottom a piece of the fenc-
ing indenting edges when fastening
the bottom to the sides. Place In
convenient corner of kitchen. Deposit
all paper and refuse, other than gar
bage. collected from the whole house
in this big basket throughout the
week. once a week take into alley or
garden and burn paper while I'm bas-
ket Any old piece of wire fencing
will do, rusty, dilapidated, or torn.
This has saved me more steps than
any other device. Small paper bas-
kets for each bedroom or living rooms
can be made from the narrower
fencing. any desired size. and they
cost scarcely anything and are much
more desirable than the cheap paste
board kind, which soon become soiled
and useless. They can be lined with
INV shade of cloth to match the room
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-09-11
SEPARATE STATE
AND LOCAL TAXES
ssIoN WILL
SUGGEST TWO PLANS IN RE-
PORT IT WILL SUB
NIT.

Word comes from Lansing that the
special tax commission will not con-
fine its report to advocating "A partial
separation of state and local taxes
but will submit two plans; one the
complete separation of state and coun-
~ taxes and the other the partial sep
aration plan which was made public
recently i'm a statement issued by
Patrick II. Kelley. OF the commission.
A movement for the complete sep
aration OF local and state taxes first
made it's appearance in the last Leg
islature. but the opposition among the
representatives from the counties who
receive more money from the pri-
mary school fund than they pay in
state taxes was SO strong that II new
er got very far even though 1t has
such strong adherents as Governor
Osborn and Attorney General Kuhn.
Recently the subject was again
brought 10 the fore and the special
tax commission has decided it Is said,
To advocate the complete separation
and then as an alternative offer the
plan which il had first decided on as
a basis for its report.
With the complete separation Of To-
cal and state taxes the corporal ons
which now pay a specific tax would
pay the money into a general fund
which would be used to pay the run
ming expenses of the state, and in
stead of the primary school fund each
school district would pay the ex-
penses of maintaining fits own schools
This would work out to the adj
vantage of districts which now pay
moro In state taxes than they receive
back from the primary fund but IT
would be to the disadvantage of the
low valuation counties. At the pres
ent time more than so counties in
the state receive more for the schools
than they pay in state taxes. Until
the last session Of the legislature they
piled up more money than they could
use, until several of them had enough
| money on hand to pay their teachers
salaries for years 10 come. But up
der q constitutional amendment sub
mitted last spring and carried by the
people no county may pile up the
money and those who have il on hand
| will receive no more until the surplus
is used up, and then they can only re-
ceive the amount needed to pay tho
teachers, as contemplated by the fran
ers of the constitution.
There will undoubtedly be great OPP
position to the proposed absolute sep
aration of taxes, and 1t is possible
that a compromise will be arrived a
whereby the sparsely settled counties
| will receive some aid from the state
from a fund to be created for tina
purpose.
| Under the partial separation pla
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-09-11
PLAN
OF PROMOTION
GRAND LODGE FAVoRs PRoMoT-
ING TO CHIEF OFFICES
a RIGHT FROM BOT
TOM.

South Haven was awarded the next
meeting of the Pythian grand lodge at
Detroit. The meeting will be held on
the first Wednesday in September.
The new grand officers were in
stalled with much ceremony by Il. Il.
Colgrove of Hastings, past supreme
chancellor. Subsequently the new
grand chancellor. Victor Hawkins, met
with the new officers of the grand lodge
to formulate plans for the coming
years work
Chancellor Commander Kuhn's prop
csition that the lowest three offices
I'm the grand lodge, master-at- arms,
outer and inner guards, should not be
considered as stepping stones to the
higher honors of the grand lodge was
turned down, the committee that re-
ported it out not recommending its
passage and the lodge concurring.
State Lodge Dues Unchanged.
viii T.. Hampton of CharlevoiX,
grand keeper of records and seal, was
voted $500 raise in salary. making
| IL $1,000. His plan for lowering the
dues of the state lodge, an institution
designed to furnish a lodge home for
Pythans whose lodges have become
defunct, from so to 81 was, however,
turned down. There are about 300
members of the state lodge at pres
emit
The grand temple of the Pythlan
sisters spent an entire day electing
officers for the coming year. Jennie
lDoyle of Pontiac, grand master of rec
ords and correspondence, and Ella A.
Jordan of Detroit, grand master of H.
nance were unanimously reelected.
There were contests over several Of
the other Offices, there being no less
than six candidates for the office of
grand protector, which was finally won
Thy Mrs. Arthur ]. Free of this city.
ed: Grand chief. Mary r. Lichhead,
FLINT, senior, Anna Kemp, Eaton Rap
ids; junior, Addie Kempt, Upton;
manager Nellie Know. Escanaba;
Master of records and correspondence,
Jennie f. Doyle, Pontiac; master of f.
nance, Ella T.. Jordan, Detroit; pro-
tector, Mrs. A. ]. Free, Grand Rapids;
guard, Hettie Whitney, Hudson; trus-
tee, Bertha Kellinger, Saginaw; SUI
preme representative, four years, Mary
Vomberg, Charlotte alternate, Ade-
laide Kern. West Branch.
The Pythian sisters will also meet
i'm South Haven next year.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-09-11
AN INDIAN HARVEST.
How the ojibways Husk Out Rice by
Dancinu

The northern Ojibway Indians live by
hunting and fishing. wild rice and berry
gathering. and no country could be
more perfectly adapted to such a life.
Each season of the year has its char
acteristic occupation.
In the early fall they fish with nets
at the outlets of the large lakes or I'm
the narrows between their countless
islands, sometimes spearing the stur-
geons and other fish by torchlight.
The flesh is cut into thin strips and
smoked or sun dried. At this time they
also shoot many ducks and cure them
in the same way for winter use.
| BY the first of August the people be-
gin to seek out the wild rice fields,
where the precious cereal grows most
abundantly about the outlets and
swampy bays of these northern lakes.
The harvesting of this natural crop is
an interesting and important feature
of their lives.
A large field having been located GER
tain portions of it are preempted by
different families and men and women
go out by pairs in a canoe to tie the
straw in bundles to ripen. a month
later they again enter the field and
beat out the grain with a club while
holding It over the canoe with a hook
ed stick.
In this manner the light craft moves
slowly in the water several feet deep,
while only the black heads of the har-
vesters are visible through the thick
straw. After the field is cleared and
the canoes emptied on shore a hole is
dug or a natural water worn rock filed
half full with rice and covered with
rawhide. Then the young women
dance barefoot upon it until husked;
Il is winnowed I'm skins or fiat baskets
thoroughly dried and finally packed in
rush sacks or skins, sometimes in whole
fawn skins. This nutritious food is
lmainly used In the form of a soup OF
stew with wild duck and other game
Southern Workman.
The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-09-11

proposed by the commission the pri-
mary school fund as constitpted al
present would be untouched, but al
corporations I'm the state would be as
sessed on their "intangible valuation
where now assessed for local purposes
on their Tangible value" This ''in-
tangible quantity" according TO the
commission. would be the good VIII
patents. etc. The corporations would
pay local taxes as at present, bu
would in addition pay a state tax a
the average rate for the state OF
the difference between the tangible
and intangible valuation.