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* My Child. * " " * * *" * * *e e " " " f " Dailing child, so meek and mild, Why do you stay in the woods s0 wild 'And leave your mot her alone (While you roam so far from home? You are n lever looking for something to do, - But, I always have somlething ahead for you. 7 never have a chance to lay my body to rest, 'While you are playing with the birds in their nest. I amnI of you so fond. :Rift you never will leave the frogS in the pond. Y ou always a piece of candy (o .uck. iVile your father i.4 at h0ont fred ing the (tick. Tannie I). Dial. GIRLS! DRAW A MOIST CLOTH THROUGH HAIR DOUBLE ITS BEAUTY 'l'r this! Hlair gets thick, alossy, ''nt and beatttiful at o::. :1nediate?-Ves Certain?-that's Ih .toy of it. Your hair becomes light, wa.y, IlIufy, abundatt and appears as sot,. lustrous and beaut iful a.s a young :is after a I) uiuderine hair cleanse at:- try this---Moisten at cloth with a lit :e l)anderine and carefully dtraw it Thraigh your hair taking one small stand at a time. This will cleanse th . hair of dust. dirt or excessive oil. and) in just a few lomelints you have doI:bled the beauty of your hair. A (IC litful su 1r ise 'waits those whose htalr hai been neglected or is "craggy, faded, dry, brittle or thin. Ilesides anif lying the hair. Danderine dis .'es every particle of dan:lrutTff cl .anses, purifiles and invigorates the ;calp, forever stopping itching and falling hair, but what will please you mnest will be after a few week's use, Il:: n you see ne.w hair--fine and d.'\ny at first-yes but really new hair growing alI over the scalp. If you care for pretty, soft hair, and lots (t it surely get, a '.,-cent bottle of Nnowlton's Danderine from any drug sto e or toilet coute' all .15is try It ASSESSOR'S NOTICE 1917. The Auditor's ollece will be open from the 1st day ot' lanuary to the tit hi of February, 1917 to miake returns of all personal property for taxation. For the Con venie lie of taximyers file Auditor or his deputy will attend 71. ollowin g named pilaces to reetie iet r0ns for said year to wit.: Monday, .lan. 15, Scutletown town : ". S.. ('raig's store. O.(Inday, lan. 1,, .Jacks township, S. W. Dean':. .\onday, .Jan. I,, JIacks tow nslip, Reno. Alonday, .Jan, I:,, Huanter township, .3lountville. .\londay, .lan. I5, Cross Iiil towvn lhip., Cross l111!. .'londay, .tan. 1I,, Waterloo township, i(Iil\ ll.IWaterlootlts~i \londay, .lan. 15, WatrioI to wni, J. 1.. .\liden's. . onday, .uan. I.., Waterloo tow n Stoi), Silly C. .\latin':. Iiior 'e. .\londay, .lan. I., Iles to n s!i, II. .\'lenday, .1an. I.h, Yingts' townuship, -Juesnday. .Iltt. it,, Youn!vat township, \ilundaiy, Jan. 1.3, Ieiflsetownshp town Tuenday, .Jan. I1,, onurns township, Cookts s\tore.0p m o :0 .m WTdesday, .an 1, lnte ton-p ClIpnConto. oto il WTdesday *Jan. 1, ullivan town-p Tudesday, Jan. 1, Dials township, D V..Harrit. Tudesday, Jan. 1, Yongs town-p Wednsday, Jan , Hnter town-p ip.ll Cointon Coilnl. ll Wednsday, Jlan. 1, Sullivan towni shIpW Prnct. ulvnS. Wednsday, Jal. 1, Dials townIsh ip, Wedr sayyJn.C7,Yongttwn Thursday,. Jan. 18, Yunter township, Thrday, Jan. 1, Siva town-li) Thurtsdayl h Jan.e ust Dals advertse-d Platpes Mon. 0 ardmkeie idays Jn. mall uIlne makeshep Gi'olve.udadsm a o ldr Ptaleasle maketne tha te apoinhav ments ll b)te tfiltdjust in tadsverse Allns male eman heually makes age of 21 and~ 60 years on the 1st of Jan iuairy except thlose who ar'e incapable of earning a suppor~it fr'om beIng maimed or firom other causes, ar'e deemed polls, Confederate veterans excepted. Also all male citizens between the ages of 18 and 50 on the 1st (lay of January, 1918, are liable to a road tax of $1.50 and are reqtuired to make during thle tImp above specified and -their return of same to the Auditor shall pay to tIle County Treasurer at the same time ogther taxes are paid In le of workIng the road. All taxpayers are reqjuired to give townlship) and number of school dis tricts; also state whether property is situiated in town or country. 1tach lot, tract, or parcel of land must be en tered separately. Aftor the 20th of February 50 per cent penalty will be attached for faIl ure to make returns. 3, W. THOMPSON, Ununty Anuditor, * ' * LETTER FROM GEO. L. PITTS. * " (" * * * * * * * " * " a * " " * "* Roby, Texas, Dec. 18, 1916. Editor The Advertiser: This is the result of numerous re qluests from youir readers for "An other letter from Texas." In the outset let ie say that I sin cerely wish for each and all of my friends a merry Christmas and a hap ply New Year. And if perchance there Is one who does not feel friendly to ward me, then I wish for that one a dobtle portion 'of the season's happi ness and prosperity. No doubt many of you are hopinlg for me a pleasant Ytletide, but you are hoping against late. Two friends, onile from New .\lex ico and one from Colorado, and myself have planned to nieet in Abilene and synipathize with each other diaring the holidays. Your paper, Mr. Editor, reaches ie each week. It Is often lifteen days of age when I get it, but it always looks mighty good to ie. Through it I learn of your Joys and sorrows, and both are shared wit you. 1 am glad to know who are shopping and visit ing, who have finished picking cotton and sowing grain, who are getting married and who are on the honor roll. Your paper is indeed a "letter from home." Let it come each week not wit hstanding the fact the two hits will b1e added to the sublscriptionl price on account of the high cost of living. To write a Icier from Texas Is quite a hard task. I have seen two thirds of the two huindredi and lifty six coun ties of the State and have traveled ov er a territory five tlines as large as South Carolina. I do not know where to begin or where to end. Th'ere are two sections. however, that 'are- of special inlrest to me-1he I3lack Land and the Plains of the Panhandle. The black land stretches from the Red river south to San Antonio through ile east-central part of the State. a distance of almost four hu1n d red miles. and varies in width from fifty to one hundred and lifty miiles. The soil is indeed black and quite iprodiiev e wit I a small amount of rainfall. Wheat. Vegetables, fruits, et(. do not grow here. ('or and oats do well. Coton was king n111111 the in vasion 1by the boll weevil. .\ revolu tion has taken place. liiversitieatiol is the rsuit. The peanut is proving to be one of the money-bringimg subs Ii tnt es foi' (v'oltonii. Texas has :1i0,1101 acres in Peaulits this year, and mhaly repiclort a l'du1ction of $:,El.lo an aere. 'Texas, fori the most part, ai es peially this black land distri t, is stic y i co (smopolitan1. One" finds people there frout ivery stale in I the union anid from 'very ('Ounitr1y in the woi'ldl. .\laniy of tIhe counties are set tied a lmost entirely 11 y threigners. Inl onle c'ollnty whrE I speit a week, the c(ointy suu'rinlendet nt, ireasirir and Iount jtd' are Gtrmans. The ali ei ollic':s aie Italians. T'hei' imayorhi' iind all isi subioirdinate's are Germnains. In a I lace li ke' Iha t (1111 muist ('at peas, sirin's, oioiins. sauiki'aiit, spiage:tiI and ci' ple( dol not stpeak Englisht at all. Thley are'' iar itwor kerIs. good saveris, have idlnty anid spend lilttle. They arue, how('eer, grieatI belilever's in good homes, barns, roads, schoo0ls anld clhurches0. Tlhey areC nearly3 all cat ho tIes. Specaking of the holl weevil, I see Laurlens has just had a boil weevil meetinig. It is well. P'repiai'edness Is the word. The bioll weevil will ireachi South iC(arolna b~y thle summi~er of 19ft18. lie is on thle miarch. Senator Smith's zoiie plan will not work. Th'ie weevil's only' eniemyl Is dry hot weather. Those of you who hlave giveni the subject any stuldy underC'istandl. Thle frequent raitis, shlowers, damp dlays and heavy dews In South Caroinua during the monthus of .July and August will give the weevIl ai cleani sweep. What if lI had1 rained in Texas this past summer as it did in South CarolIna? Texas would not have imadle a half mIllilon bales of Thie thin g for oiut h C'arotlIna to do( is to get ready for' th1 boll weevil, le Is like a G ermian su biiainie-a b~ad holmbrie, mysterious, sure toi get there. In miak ing yoilu' lrepiarat ion conisider the Ileaniut. TIhis little inconspiuouis legume, once held in such contempt that It was used to designate a certaIn typle of diminutive polItlcIan, Is des tined to become one of the staple pr'o ducts of the South. The old tIme gubler ulsed to gr'ow mIghty well for me when I was a bare foot farmer boy down In Jacks. The PlaIns are located in the cx treme north western part of the state, anid cover' more than 60,000 square 'mIles. If the school boys will lookc at the map of Texas they will at once savvy (pardon this and other- foreIgn expressions. This letter would not sound like Texas .without them) why this part of the state is called the Pan handle. The altitude of the tplains is more than 3,000 feet, The wind blows 1917 IS DANGER YEAR FOR SOUTH Twenty Million Bales More Likely 'Than Twenty Cents a Pound, Says Hastings. Atlanta, Ga.-(Special)-That 191, Is a "danger year" for sthe south, and that there is "dynamite in the pres ent cotton situation far the cotton growing farmer," are the warning words used by 11. C. Hastings, presi dent of the Southeastern Fair Asso, elation and the Georgia Chamber of Commerce, in an interview given tc 'the newspapers here urging farmers not to increase their cotton acreage. "Eighteen to twenty cent cotton at plant ing time in spring," he says, "is the bait that will lure hundreds of thousands of farmers in the south to each put in a few extra acres, and should nature smile on the crop as in 1914, we will come nearer a twenty million bale crop than 20 cents per pound, for evidence multiplies daily that they are 'planting right up to the graveyard,' as it is sometimes ex pressed. "On the Hastings farm we don't ex pect to put in an acre more of cotton than we did last year, because we think it a time above all others to play safe. What we will increase to the limit of our ability will be food, grain and forage, beef cattle and hogs. "The safe way is to first supply all needs of family and stock from one's own acres, and then put surplus acre age in cotton. With bread and meat in hand, andi a garden producing steadily through spring, summer and fall; with home canned vegetables and fruits on closet shelves for winter ta ble use; with corn in the crib and hay and fodder in the barn or stack, the farmer can be largely independent of cotton prices in the fall. The farmer so provided for is never 'distressed.' lie can sit on his cotton bales with mind at ease, and sell in his own good time when prices are right. "With labor comparatively scarce and fertilizer high, any material in crease in cotton acreage must nec essarily he at the expense of food and grain acres that are in reality far more responsible for the south's pres ent prosperity than is 18 to 20 cent cotton. "Memories are short, but wise far mers need only to look hack to 1914 and se(- the disstei due to too much cotton that can': he eaten, and the lack of food that ':le most eat. I re peat thi. year of 1917, is a danger year. Any fiat term- who intcr-teases cot. (:;n acrens!' and cuts food cro p acres is gainling with tle cards stacked agaiinst !imt." always. The sullers are cool and the winters are cold. I saw three snows i io-in ember and felt some zero nea ethir. 'nlike the black lands the watti:' on the p'ltiis is tine. 'Tllere are no litns~i'toes, no flees in the sand, i'o tat-an:tilas or 'entlipedes. .lack-tahi hits, (oyoti- wolves, .\lexican quail, hot n i'i s and wild chickens are tlhenti ftl. The many beautiful lakes are full of lis't and covered with duek. ''her tetound .i tlwrie is a nearo on thle lilain. i id not1111 see or hlari (if him.i Onie tee; ver-y fewa .\ixicans or othle ioreituners hi(e- -st rictly- while tieoiple witht a lewi Yanikees s(-atteried here thle "liundred pe liicenIt .1ud(ge". Ti s Pianhandle sectlonl of Texas is at liti of what was on1ce known as5 the Ameriican D~ese-t. if you were to see the tinle ranch homes, the0 nice schools and chlu'rchds, thle r-aidly 'gi-owing towns, the thotusands of fine-bred horses, cowvs and sheep, the wheat, kaifli-, alfalfa and milo1 failze fields, and hoar the "hlonk, hlonk" of the many high priced catrs y'ou woulid not think4 of a tdeset. Mr .and Mrs. tiow and Mr-. andl Mrs, mlockingbird must however, of neces sity, humiliate andt endlanger- thetm selves by building their hIomeIs anid ireaing thleir' families onl the grotund in the mesqutite gr-ass. "Rock-a-by< hirdle in the tree toip does not apiply here". I see by tile paper that Ama illo Is havIng a community Christmas ti-ce, andl tile ''tree" foi- the occasIon a becautifullilac, was shipped fr-om ea of tile Mississi-ppi river-. WVheat, horses, beef cattle, sheep hlogs, andI pioultr-y at-e the priincipal money sour-ces. Easy money 1(00, Cs. pecially with the pr-esenit pmices. (tram is usually plentiful in thle summliler ant the cattle graze on the wheat fieldi during the winter. IEvery whteat tat-i. or will tell you that wheat 'svill maki a third more if it is grazed ant tramped duriing the winter monthls. saw wheat in November that wouti hide a Sotuth Carolina rabbit, and t< prevent it's jointing too early it nitsl be grazed deiwn. The cattle are ofter as fat duriing the winter on tile whoal fields as they are in the summer or the mesquite ranchoes. This country Is just nowv being set tied in earnest. The land is rapidil advancing in -price because of thle In creased demand. Sclentiflc farming ii provinig suiccessful even with the smnaI amnount of rainfall. Many of thme bi I'nlhns are being cnt upn 'The bow boys say the farmers are ruining the country. Land is seldom sold in small er lots than sections. They like. plen ty of room. A real estate man in a county much larger than Laurens said to me: "We have too many peope in the county for the amount of land we have." , Upon inquiry I learned that the county has three hundred and fifty six qualified electors, five schools, nine teachers, and tiwo hundred and seven ty-three scolastlcs. 1 found several such counties. Come west, young man, there is plenty of room. There are many other things that I would like to write but this .letter is growing too long. With kind regards and good wishes to all, I am, Yours very truly, Geo. L. Pits, 910 Wood Street, hlouston. Texas. Never Pays to Wait Too Long. Some of us let mighty good oppor tunities sllp by, waiting for inspira tion, or the psychological- momnent, all the time forgetting that idleness never Inspired anybody to do any thing. * * * * * ** * * * * * * * * * $ * * List of Contrihntors to Laurens * * Couinty Colored Fair. * * ** ***, *. . s s s " " " 0. Switzer C('o.-Fair men's work gloves, ladies' umbrella. man's shirt, fancy underskirt, counterpane. Ilymen burey-Suit case, umbrella, pair driving gloves. Owings & hobo-50 lbs first pat. flour and can coffee. .John A. Franks-Rawhide whip, 10 lb. bucket of lard, halter, package of Dr. less stock powder. Kennedy Bros.-10 lbs. roasted cof fee, 10 lbs crimson clover seed, one package Pratt's cow remedy. A. L. Mahaffey-5 lbs. of coffee. 11. F. Posey-one enameled dish pan. howler & Owens- - lbs. coffee, one Jog Figara, one lb. tea, one gallon of syru p. I1. )iamond-underwear, hat. .1. Ii. aillivan-10 lbs. of crimson clover seed, one package Pratt's horse powder. .\cPhay---:,00. .1. C. Sahadi-one-half bu. a pples. .1. .. Phil pot-one ean coffee. Laurens Iardware o('.--- one cow halter, one buggy whip. If. King --ladies 'xiltwaist. heittle of toilet water, iman's shirt. It. W. Willis-one rug. Smith & Little---pair of shoes. Laurens Drug Co.-- l ottlc of toilet water, box of slationery. O'dell & Co.-$1.110. 1Leverett Furniture C'.-Pair pi lows. 1t. ". Franks--$ 1.00. Vial ('ash Grocery--a its. best (of fee, one ib. Pratt's food for cattle. one ladies' hat, piir 111e11's pants. :',lei' sed wheat. I . I I. Irvin-- $ 1.00. Nichl Studzio---One--hal doz. best post card photos. .1. ( . I urns & ('0.--OneW pa ir shioea. 11 :me (ladi rat. pair' mien's panits. .llin'er'Co.- -Laidies' hat, tai' meni's gioveos, helt. tie. bow IL~ l land (pitche, set of gold pltie(s V ithI c'ups and1( saucer's. lHenchoffff's 5 and I10c store-DIish pan, large amiit ladies' hat.' Cilardy & Wilson-hiat, dIry goodls. Moseley & Roland-$l.'i5. S. A. Parks, Six bar's Octagon soap. C. A. O'dell-4 iba coffee. Did you turn inscribe there of them to the BEGIN I Our large dru drug material keep at all ti ticles, station kept; by drug Yoi NUNNALLY CANDY H-. woody-2 lbs best coffee. :IBramlett's Shop- One bu. meal, Hunter Bros.--One canl lina beans. Chei'o Cola Bottling Co.-Large wn Ji L. Mlaxwoll---elforme, box of gon umbrella. best pael)r' 11. C. Fletcher-50c. llayes 5 and 10c store-Ladies' hat, Fleming Bros.-One watch fob. pair sox for men, pair good stocking. Davis Roper Co.-Sweater, shirt, Jones-Taylor lardware Co.-One counterpane, wailste, embrella. Will). o aBarber Shop-15c. Dixie Flour and Grain Co.-box of Mr. Dick Owings-25c. 5c cigars. Nir-. W. Solomon-Stickpin. Claud Itabh-$1.00. - Coca-Cola Bottling Co.-Three 1P. 1). L7ankinston--50c. crates of Coca-Cola. PUT IN OUR CHRISTMAS BANKING CLUB AND INCREASED 1O4 WEEKLY /ILL MAKE -ask about This happens in 50 WEEKS. We also have a 5 cent club which in 50 weeks pays $63.75 Our 2 cent club pays $ 25.50 . Our 1 cent club pays $ 12.75 We also have clubs where you pay in $1.00 or $2,00 or $5.00 each week and in 50 weeks get $50 or $100 or $250. We' add 4 per cent interest. Gome in and get a "Cyristmas Banking Club" book FREE. It costs not if g to join. This is not a pl jt fbr BOYS and GIRLS; itis also for MEN a OMEN You can start TODAY--START. The Enterprise National Bank N. B. DIAL, President C. H. ROPER, Cashier To Machine Owners THE LAURENS MACHINE SHOP has its machine and tool outfit in good shape, and is doing ? good work on all kinds of machines used in this section. Makes a well-de igned stove-wood Saw machine that will fit you' old solid-tooth saw-mill Saw, or any othe' ki ; a strong emory-wheel stand and mandre ai the best gin-saw sharpen ing machine you a get any where; sells these machines cheape 1an you can buy them any * place. I have "little" Charlie Sullivan with me, and between us, I believe we have an expert knowl edge of more classes of machinery than any other 4 two that could get together. I solicit' your pat ronage. W. A. BRECKENRIDGE, Owner and Operator. ? NEW PAGE ever a new leaf Januar st? And did you on some brave resoluti ns? And was one a effect that you would forthwith IUYING ONLY THE BEST g business enables us to keep the freshest s at all times, and it also enables us to mes a practically new stack of toilet ar ery,.writing materials, and all other articles stores of the first class. ar Business, However Small, Is Earnestly Solicited E DRUG CO.A VICTROLA TALKING MACHINES