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The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1913-04-16

express shipments for the years un-
der prohibition, and see whether the
advocates of dispensary fairly repre-
sent the case.
The records of the Southern Ex-
press company for the Abbeville
agency show for the month of Febru-
airy during the last three years, un-
der the prohibition law, the number
of packages received approximately
were as follows:
1871 500
1917 800
1913 400
Now, what conclusion is to be
reached from these figures? There
can be only one, namely: There is
less drunkenness under present con-
ditions than under the dispensary;
and there is less whiskey shipped in
now than formerly the amount grow
ing much less year by year.
Nor are we left only with the rec
ords Of the city court and the ex-
press Office. There is the indisputable
record of the criminal court of the
county. For the last two years, crime
has been so greatly decreased, there
has been no need of summer term
OF the court.
Facts are stubborn things; but wise
men recognize them as unanswerable
Voters of Abbe,ille county, ponder
these things. These utterances are
not mere theories, they are facts
facts taken from official records.
OF course, have not touched the
moral and civic questions involved
These will be treated in other com.
munications Rex.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1913-04-16
WATTS MILLS

Watts Mill, April 14-Sunday morn
ing Rev. j. w. Guy, of Spartanburg.
Asst. Supt. OF the Anti-Saloon League
of Sounth Carolina, made strong ad-
dress against the liquor evil, using for
text the words Look not upon the
wine"
Rev j. NJ. Trogdon has resigned his
work at the Lucas Avenue Baptist
church and accepted call to Calvary
Baptist church Clinton. For over two
years Bro. Trogdon has made faith
full pastor. His many friends regret
to give him up, but wish him great
success in his future work and field.
A two weeks singing school is in
progress at the church, conducted by
Rev ID. A. Morgan and Mr.. ]. NJ.
Moore.
1t is with pleasure that we note the
progress of our schools. The day and
time has arrived when an education
is wholly necessary to make a success
in this life and we are glad to see
I4aurens county making such progress
and fitting children up that they may
be useful men and women in the com
ing days.
Little Bennie Mckee. who has been
quite i'll with rheumatism, is fmprov-
ing.
Rev. Reutian Compton. of Ashville,
is visiting relatives at Watts Mill and
Laurens this week. The people would
have been glad to hear him preach, but
on account of his throat and being
worn out by great toll he could not
preach.
Misses Carnelia and Hattie Patton,
Of GreenSille, are visiting friends and
relatives at Watts mills this week.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1913-04-16
Eighth Grade-Hattie Sullivan, Mary

Eighth Grade-Hattie Sullivan, Mary
Sullivan.
Ninth Grade-Herbert Sullivan.
Tenth Grade-Gussie Miller.
Mill School.
First Grade, Miss Lila Hart, teach
er-James Carter, Willie Hill, Clyde
Jones. Thomas Earl Lewis, j. b. Pow
ers, Helen Boyd, Addie May Darnell,
Mary Davis. Sarah Glynn, Clara Belle
Mott, Lola Snoddy. Ruth Stewart.
Second Grade. Miss Irene RAY
teacher-Ben Lewis. virgil Haiston.
Effie Cook, Cora Lee Abercrombie, La
la Mae Jameson, Lillian Lewis, Ber-
tha Knighton, David Powers, MarscelI
Cook, Clara Bell Nelson, Allie Gosnell.
Carrie Mae Vanhoy
Third Grade, Miss Mary p. Simpson,
teacher-Roy Jones. Lila Hill.
Fourth Grade, Miss Mary p. Simp-
son, teacher-Albert Powers, Donnie
Barton, Mollie Powers.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1913-04-16
s...ss *..%" I"
Dlspensary Reduces Drinking.

49, "*"*"
To the Editor of The Abbeville Me-
dium:
thank you for giving space to my
communication upon the dispensary
question, and ask your readers to go
little more into detail in the matter.
/ have shown the three arguments
made in favor of re- establishing the
dispensary are:
]. That 1t will promote trade;
2. That 1t will stop violation of the
law;
3. That 1t will reduce drinking;
4. That 1t will bring a profit to the
county.
have given an answer to each Of
these arguments, save the third which
desire to consider in this communi-
cation.
in answer to the first, have shown
that 1t is an effort to exploit drinking
men for the profit of few promoters
of the .dispensary institution.
To the second. my answer was, that
the claim is a fallacy.
To the fourth, in answer 1 display
ed its inconsistency.
Now, in order to give positive re-
ply to the argument that more whis-
key is drunk under prohibition than
nnder the dispensary." desire to sub
nit facts and figures from the official
records The dispensary was retained
n Abbevllle for several years after
it had been voted out OF neighboring
counties. Its last two years in Able
Vile were 1908 and 1909.
The records in the city clerks of.
Zee for the month of February. 1908
md 1909 and for the last four years
under prohibition show the following
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1913-04-16

Please notice. for the month
february during the two last years of
tae dispensary, there were sc arrests
'cr dunkenness. while for the same
r1onths during the whole four years
ander prohibition, there we're only 26
arrests.
II we will take the two last years
OF prohibition and contrast the record
with the two last years of dispensary,
the figures will be
Dispensary two years =. =. ..66
Prohibition two years :. . . z
Regarding Express Shipments.
Iet us also 90 into the question of
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1913-04-16
AS SPECIAL JUDGE.

Blease Names Sam j. Nichols of "Dfe-
tagraph Fame.n
Columbia. April 11.-Gov. Blease
today appointed Sam j. Nichols, of
Spartanburg, to the supreme court
bench as special associate justice in
the Barnard b. Evans case brought by
J. Fraser Lyon, former attorney gen
eral. Chief Justice Eugene b. Gary is
disqualified to sit In the hearing.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1913-04-16

Now is the time to buy your Re-
frigerator so that you will have the
use of 1t the entire summer. You will
be pleased with out Refrigerators end
our prices.
s. N & e. II. Wilkes & Co.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-05-06

Children and monographs should be
seen and not heard
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-05-06
Conductor Made Arrest.

Jacksonville, Fla, May BE. f. An
drews, who made a sensational escape
from the Hillsborough county Jail a
week ago by saving his way through
the wall of the Jail enclosure, was ar
rested on a Seaboard Air Line train
by Conductor w. T. McKewn, the man
being recognized by States Attorney
Phillips, of Tampa. He was turned
over to the local authorities upon the
arrival of the train here. The man
who was convicted OF the murder of
John w. Alexander, of Palmetto, and
sentenced to be hanged, upon arrival
here at first denied his identity, but
it was later proven that he was the
right man and Sheriff Spencer of Hills
borough county arrived in Jackson
vile and returned to Tampa with his
prisoner, heavily manacled.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-05-06
RABIES IS EXPENSIVE
DISEASE FOR GEORGIA
Costs The State $S7,475 in
Single Year

Atlanta, May 6.-That dog bites cost
the state of Georgia just $37,475 in ode
year past is the official statement made
public today by Georgias Pasteur In
stitute. Many lives have been ems
dangered, in addition to the great ex-
pense. During 1912 67S cases of rabies
were treated, and the number bids
fair to be great deal larger this year
as up to date there have been al
ready over 300 cases. 1t is declared
that with proper care, the muzzling of
dogs, with more strict laws about let
ting stray dogs run wild, that rabies
could be practically eliminated in Geor-
gia
Atlanta and vicinity have been par
ticularly unfortunate this spring in
the number of mad dog cases. Whole
families have been chewed up by rabid
bull dogs and other ferocious cananes.
Nobody has been killed, but only the
prompt Intervention on the one hand Ct
the police with pistols and clubs, and
of the citys Pasteur treatment on the
other, have prevented fatalities. A
called session of Atlantas public
safety committee will be held this
week to look into the situation 1t is
expected that some kind of resola-
ton will be directed to the incoming
legislature, urging upon that body the
necessity Of some statewide law.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-05-06
MAN CAUGHT AFTER
ESCAPE FROM JAIL
Attorney Recognizes Him on
Board a Train

Tampa, Fla, May 5.-W. F. Andrews
who escaped from Jail here while un-
der sentence of death, was captured al
an early hour yesterday morning when
he boarded Coast Line train at a flag
station between here and Jacksonville
States Attorney Herbert S. Phillips,
who was aboard, recognized the man
he had prosecuted He took his prison
er on to Jacksonville.
Andrews made his escape from the
county Jail here a week ago. He had
been provided with saw and re-
7olyer by his wife, it is alleged.
Following the holding of religion;
services he hid himself in a dark cor
ner of the Jail and when all was quie
sawed three iron bars in two. An
drews will be hanged here next Fri.
day for murder of J. W. Alexander
in Manatee county.
Both he and his victim were promi.
nent in the community in which they
lived Feeling was so strong againsl
Andrews that he was brought to Tam.
pa for safe keeping.
| Mrs. Andrews, who was arrested fol-
lowing the escape of her husband, has
been released on bond.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-05-06

From these tests it is clear that the
best-looking corn is not always the
best seed corn. Other methods must
be employed to increase the yields.
An increased number of farmers
of Georgia have determined to en-
gage in breeding corn this year and
build up the yielding power OF this
crop. To do this they will conduct
plat tests, keeping accurate tab on
each ear. When the corn has tassel-
ed, they will remove the tassels from
alternating hills to make sure that
the corn is fortified by another stalk
and not by itself From these stalks
that have been detasseled will be
taken the seed corn for the next
year
The best ears will be chosen from
this lot for the following years tests,
while the rest are used in planting
the field terminating tests will, of
course, be made before planting.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-05-06
FIGHT Is TO BE MADE
FOR FREE SCHOOL BOOKS

Atlanta, May "a fight for free
school books in the public schools of
Georgia will probably be made at
the coming session of the legislature.
Representative McCrory, of Schley
county, has already framed a meas
ure under the provisions of which the
state would publish it's own text
books and furnish them to all the
schools.
The expense of purchasing text
books for the public schools is now
of course, directly on the people, and
it is said to way heavily among the
poorer families, particularly in rural
districts, where cash is scarce
Many states of the union, particu-
larly in the middle west, have long
been using free text book system.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-05-06
STORIES SPRINGING
UP IN NORTH GEORGI
Saurians Reported Very Numerous
There.

Atlanta, May Sensational reports
are being brought to Atlanta this
spring by negro fishermen of alliga-
tors seen in the Chattahoochee river
and in other streams as far north "a
Atlanta and even further up into the
Georgia mountains. A negro man
who was fishing on the rocks below the
bridge on PAGES Ferry road, declares
that he saw an alligator some 6 feet
long in the reeds on the bank day
or two ago. An apparently authenti,
story comes from a white man named
Roy Tibbets, who claims to have cap
tured live 5-foot alligator in an ole
| pond near the river at Athens. This
pond is being gradually filled in an
as opportunity offers, additional eartt
and brush are piled in to help the fill,
ing-in process. The other day a biz
commotion was noted in the water
where load had been dumped. The
negroes on the work fed Mr.. Tibet;
investigated and discovered, it is said
that the stir in the mud was caused BY
an alligotar. A rope was put around
its neck, and the reptile was dragged
still alive out of the mud. 1t was fully
5 feet in length and correspondence
large in other proportions. The alIi-
gator is apparently about IL or IL
years old.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-05-06
WEDDING PLANS
BROKEN OFF
Marriage Between Prince and
Princess Postponed

Bombay, May 5.-A sensation was
caused here today by the sudden break
ing off of the projected marriage CT
Princess Indira, only daughter of the
Ireigning Gaekwar of Baroda, to Princa
Jitendra, son of the Mahrajah OF
Cooch Behar.
The wedding was to have taken place
il. Calcutta tomorrow.
The princess announced her decision
last evening and sailed this morning
for England
Elaborate preparations had been
made for the ceremony in which des-
pendants of the two most prominent
native rulers in India were to have
been married. The reason for the step
taken by the princess has not been di-
yulged, but it is understood that it
is probably a question of caste.
Such an occurrence is almost UMPIRE
cedented in the history of the leading
families of India, and it is to be trac-
ed to the princess unusual intimacy
with English and American customs
and life.
The Maharani of Boda, her mother,
is the author of THE Position of Wo~
men in Indian Life" and has advanced
ideas on the subject.
The Gaegwar of Baroda rules over
1000 square miles of territory and has
100000 subjects. He is one of the
wealthiest men in India and is man
of high education.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-05-06

Time will heel" everything but a
shoe.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-05-06
IT PAYS TO BREED CORN
John r. Fain, Professor Of Agronomy,
GEORGIA State College of Agriculture.

Tests conducted at the College
farm show that one ear of corn
the best looking-produced at the rate
of 70 bushels to the acre. Another ear
of the same variety, not so fine look
ing, produced at the rate of 144 bush
els TO the acre. In another test of
two ears of the same variety differ
ence of from 81 to 70 bushels to an
acre was produced.
The same number of grains in the
same number of hills and cultivation
under like conditions were used in
these tests. There can be no doubt
about accuracy of the conclusions.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-05-06

A love letter is a writ of attachment
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-05-06
THUMASVILLt CITIZEN
BROWNS IN SMALL LANE
George Morley Loses His
Life While Fishing

Thomasville, Ga, May 5.-Thomas
Worley, young man of this city,
was drowned this morning in Lake
Iamonia across the line in Florida
where he had gone on a fishing trip.
Worley with Robert Taylor, friend
here, and several young men from
Beachton went down to the lake yes
terday afternoon intending to spend
today there.
Last night before retiring they set
their fishing lines and this morning
Worley got up early saying he was 60
ing out in a boat to run the lines and
see how many fish had been caught
He was told to be back for breakfast
| When the meal was ready he had MOI
returned and as soon as they had fin
| ISIleu HelilDSTS u tut par ~ went Ou'
to see what had detained him and
found his dead body lying in clear
water hardly more than seven feet
deep
1t is supposed in reaching for a
line his boat overturned and he was
thrown into the lake and for some
reason was unable to come to the sur
face as the members of the party were
near enough to have heard him had he
called for aid
The body has been brought here for
interment. Worley was about 80
years old and leaves a wife and several
children.
A love letter is a writ of attachment
Time will heel" everything but a
shoe.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-05-06

DO you believe in intensive gar
dening, Mrs Hoerake?' asked the Wis
itor.
We'll, rather" said Mrs. Hoerakn.
I'I spent all last winter raising one
geranlum in a soapbox Harper's
Weekly.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-05-06
You Can Drink All You Like
of French Market Coffeel

1t is entirely different from ordinary coffees.
The secret of the wonderful blend was brought
from Paris over hundred years ago.
Until very recently the only place in America
where this rarely delicious coffee could be had
was at the old French Market in New Orleans.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-02-04
ION Board the Good Ship EARTH
Our World Wide Metal of Worship-- God

more about their properties-all
are important; but we need not
worry about the stores of them
being exhausted from that thin
skin of the crust of the decks of
the Good Ship Earth which we
can penetrate and search and sub
ject to our service.
l must mention two metals be-
cause they are of such wonderful
interest to the world for the rea-
son that they have been taken as
measures of value for other COM
modities. Though not extraordi-
narily useful in themselves, they
exert an influence upon our pros
perity which would be incompre-
hensible to a person brought up
outside their sway. l mean sill
yer and gold.
These metals are useful-in
fact, if they were plentiful they
would take the palce of the baser
metals in many of the arts. Like
zinc, copper, lead, nickel, plati-
mum and other of the rarer met
ais, there is no way of telling how
much of them the earth contains.
We keep looking for them and
the supply varies from century to
century as we have good luck or
bad luck.
In past ages gold and silver
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-02-04

were both used and still are in
some countries. But latterly the
world, at the request of the finan-
ciers, has rapidly abandoned sill
YER as a measure of value and
adopted gold. | think the feeling
of the bankers was that by the
use of gold alone the value-meas-
ure would not be as apt to grow
small as if both gold and silver
were used. Financiers are people
who have debts due them, and
these debts are promises to pay
certain number of dollars,
pounds, kopecks marks, yen or
doubloons at some time in the
future. These denominations of
money were all by law equal to
so much weight of gold or silver.
When the double standard was in
effect, the debtors would, of
course, pay in the one that hap
pened to be the cheapest. The
financiers put through their
schemes in the double standard
countries to adopt the single
standard, because it looked as if
silver was going to be so plenty
that it would displace gold en-
tirely. Hence the cross of gold
and crown of thorns" speech in
80 and the "crime of '73" in
many campaigns.
In 1907, in all the world there
was gold to the amount of about
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-02-04
POST OFFICE
BOYS HAVE
BAND
Tuesday, Feb. 4, 1913.

The postoffice boys aren't SO
= busy that they can't improve
their time during their brief rest
spells. The members of the de-
partment have found enough
spare moments to organize
splendid band of twenty pieces
and under the able leadership of
Mr.. l. e. Hill, the organization
has become one of the best equip
ped musical clubs in Tacoma.
Having become perfectly or
ganized they are now going to
order themselves lot OF new uni
forms. So on February IL the
boys have 3rranged for a big
dance in Masonic temple. The
members request the Times to
announce to those who wish to
help that they can buy tickets
to the ball from all mail carriers.
The proceeds will go toward the
purchase of new suits for each
member of the band.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-02-04

Sour, sick, upset stomach, in
digestion, heartburn, dyspepsia;
when the food you eat ferments
into gases and stubborn Jumps;
your head aches and you feel
sick and miserable, that's when
you realize the magic in Pape's
Diapepsin. 1t makes stomach dis
tress go in five minutes.
II your stomach is in a contin-
uous revolt-if you can't get it
regulated, please, for your sake,
try Diapepsin. It's so needless to
have a bad stomach-make your
next meal a favorite food meal,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-02-04
XIII.
Copyright, 1913, by Herbert
Quick


Copyright, 1913, by Herbert
Quick.)
There are other metals in the
bunkers which we should be sorry
to do without. Copper is i'm
mensely important-and when we
come to the work of using all
our water-power to save the de-
pletion of the coal in the ground,
we shall need to use a great deal
more of copper. Therefore, it
would be sensible deprivation to
all of us if the supply of copper
were worked out. So with zinc,
which is needed for utensils, for
the preservation of iron and steel
by galvanizing, and as an alloy
for copper for the making of that
very useful metal, brass, and for
paint. Lead is the basis of very
important industry, is widely con-
sumed as paint, and is almost es-
sential to many jobs of work
which we should scarcely know
how to dispense with. And even
the new metal, aluminium, and
manganese, vanadium, mercury
and lot more, mostly with names
ending in "um," from the precious
platinum to the unfamiliar molyb-
denum, are all useful, and yearly
J. y ~ ~. c nNIf
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-02-04
WILL PApE'S D|APEPS|N REALLY
CURE MY STOMACH TROUBLED YES|
If your stomach is SICK sour, gassy and upset now
you can surely get relief in five minutes.

then take a little Diapepsin. There
will not be any distress-eat
without fear. It's because Pape's
Diapepsin really does" regulate
weak, out-of-order stomachs that
gives it it's millions of sales an
nually.
Get a large fifty-cent case Of
Pape's Diapepsin from any drug
store. 1t is the quickest, surest,
stomach relief and cure known.
1t acts almost like magic-It is a
scientific, harmless and delight
full preparation which truly be-
longs in every home.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-02-04
MARINE

Str: Damara at Balfour dock to-
day loading wheat for San Fran
cisco.
will be drydocked for overhauling.
Str, Buchanan leaves Tacoma for
San Francisco via Seattle, with
cargo and passengers.
Str. Umatilla is loading freight
for San francisco on the sound.
Str. Selkirk reaches Tacoma TODAY
and is loading at Tacoma smelter.
Str. Hilonian due in port today at
Eureka dock.
Str. Bilbster with large cargo
from Tacoma, left Seattle yester-
day for Orient.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-02-04
CLUBS OPPOSE
SALARY RAISE

The Improvement clubs of the
city last night went on record
against the recent salary boost at
the city hall. South Side club
adopted a resolution against 1t
and appointed a committee to see
the commission.
The Jefferson Square club also
opposed it, as did the Bungalow
Park Improvement club. Follow
ing the action of the clubs the
Central league will take up the
matter and consider invoking the
referendum to block the boost.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-02-04
FEDERAL OFFICE
OPENS THURSDAY

Thursday morning e. w. Run
yam, clerk of the quartermaster's
corps of the U. S. army, will open
an office in the Savage-Scofield
building to present facilities in
this city for Tacoma business men
to do business with Uncle Sam.
Heretofore when any supplies
were to be purchased Tacomans
had to go to Seattle to see about
it. Now they will do business
with the government right here.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-02-04

peets, Carrots. Turnips. OnionA
Radishes. all bunch stuff.
punches for SC.
Cabbage. 5000
Potatoes. sack. 10000
Spinach. h., 10c.~
Sweet Potatoes. seleo ecu, lbs.
25c. =
Fresh Bermuda Onions. 4 lbs. 25c.
Brussels Sprouts, loo ID.
Caulifiower. 10000.
California Head Lettuce. lbs. 15c.
Celery, home grown, bunch. for 15o
California loo.
Cucumbers, 25c.
Head Lettuce, for 15c.
BUTTER CHEESE AND EGGS
Butter, tub, 35c ID.
Fancy tub, 40c H., 8 lbs. s1.15.
Fancy Bricks. 43c.
Washington. 43c.
Tilamook. 22c.
New York. SOC.
Imported Swiss. loc-
Roquefort. 60c-
Eggs.
Fresh Ranch, fancy. soc.
Regular. Eastern, 25c.