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> TyyaTJ*"-'- '-^?" i. The Audubon and I The help of the individual citizen is a necessity in the Audubon scheme. The work of every government in the world rests ou the same necessity. The tendency of mankiud is toward democracy, aud it is not difficult to understand that in the process of making mankind democratic the citizen should rise to a higher conception of duty and emerge on a broader plane of usefulness. The individual member of the Audubon Society is the up.it of the organization. This being understood, tbe work of saving the birds and tbe reasons therefor may be discussed. Of course one must understand that all Audubon work is based on the work of the Bio logical Survey at Wasmngion, auu iu a few words tbe Biological Survey may be explained. As its name imv plies, its work embraces a survey and an investigation of the various forms of life on the Americau continent and their distribution, suc'h as birds, animals, fish, and so on. But in 1885 Dr. (J. Hart Merriam, with oue assistant, bejjan the work of investigating the relations of birds to agriculture. The present division of the department of agriculture known as the Biological Survey, has grown out of that modest beginning. The food of birds, and of families of birds, is determined from a scientific examination of the bird's stomach. The exact proportion of insects, graias and fruits that make up a bird's diet is thus fixed with absolute accuracy. The stomach of each bird examined is kept as a voucher. The work had not proceeded far before it was discovered that agriculture was largely dependent on the work of birds, for they alone were able to keep nksnb t It u VinrrluQ f\f illMPftH that threatened every living plant with destruction. It was seen also that certain hawks and owls were valuable because their food consisted principally of meadow mice, and these rodents create havoc iu fruit and grain sections throughout the country. To kill a bird whose principal food consisted of meadow mice was to turn loose untold thousands of these little animals on the crops of the country. One hawk, known as Swainson's Hawk, is said to save $100,000 a year to the farmers of the West. The United States was a pioneer in the work of investigating the relation of birds to agriculture. Since the Biological Survey began *s work all the leading countries of the world have taken up similar work and governments are devoting time and care to a patient study of the facts of the case. Just a little before the Biological Sin-vow Kotron ito wonderful work the Audubon Society took up the lask of preserving the song and insect birds of America from total destruction. The society's first labor was the stopping of the slaughter of herons for their plumes. This was undertaken piy ely from motives of humanity. It was revolting to the best minds and hearts of the country that one of the most beautiful birds of the shore line should be sacrificed on the altar of woman's vanity. It was pointed out that the white heron bore the plumes known a? aigrette plumes, osprey plumes, and so von, only during the nesting season, and that the plumes were borne by the mother bird only. She had two, and but two, plumes. These plumes were long enough for taking when the new herons were about half grown. Hence to got two plumes the mother and her four or five young had to be sacrificed. Pictures1 were shown of acres of dead herons?all mother birds? and pictures of scores of nests with the young herons dead or dying of starvation. This ended heron slaughter to a great extent at once, and women refused to wear the feathers when they understood what It cost to get them in blood - - it--i ana siaugtuer, oioce iu?i w?s uuuc the Biological Survey has discovered that the white heron is a valuable bird because of its destruction of meadow mice and many harmful Insects. The work of the Biological Survey of course gave the Audubon Society a powerful and unanswerable argument for preserving the birds. The very existence of the country depended on saving the birds. Examples could be multiplied to prove this, but a few of the most striking cases must suffice. In Kansas, crop after crop was destroyed by grasshoppers. The Kansas farmer was passing into the bands of the Eastern money-lender and riotous scenes ensued. It is not too much to say that Kansas was on the verge of civil war. Somebody foiind out that turkeys ate jrrasshoppero with relish and the rais ing of turkeys began everywhere in the State. The effect was magical. Kansas is the largest shipper of turkeys in ttie world to day and no more crops are being lost through visitations of grasshoppers. The experience of Texas with the Mexican boll weevil ia recent history. The scientists of the world went there to fight the insect which was menacing the entire cotton industry with destruction. They could do nothing and said so, except to bring in the famous Central American ant as a forlorn hope. The ant ate the weevil, but not in quantities sufficient to make auy considerable difference. When hope was expiring the bullbat took a band, and the boll weeyil was speedily re duced to a point where he was no more v a menace. In fact, every whera in the State where the bullbatisat all numerous the boll weevil has been wiped out. The cbacalaca and the killdee or ring-neck plover also helped in the cause, but nothing did so much as the bullbat. The pointing out of this fact has been a revelation, and the State ot Texas now sternly forbids the killing of bullbats under heavy peualties. The eggs are being bought and the attempt is being made to hatch them out in incubators. The annual damage done by insects to the forests of the country is estimated by the Biological Survey atOne Hundred Million Dollars. Here again birds do invaluable work, The yellowbilled cuckoo, or raincrow. as he is commonly called, is one of the great destroyers of the tent caterpillar and of other hairy caterpillars. The bird eats so many hairy caterpillars that the hairs stick through the stomach and LUaKti lue wuieiue ui 11 iwk jihc a uniibrush. The woodpeckers also perform valuable work in destroying borers, Bawyers and other forest pests. The golden-winged woodpecker, or yellowhammer, lives on ants, eating them daily in great quantities, and hence is an effectual check on their depreda tions. The small creepers aud titmice kilf great numbers of harmful insects. The experts have time aud ajjaiu declared that the reforestatiou of the country is impossible without the work of birds. All over South Carolina the beneficent work of the partridge is manifest, and one can easily tell where partridges are scarce by simply inquiring about \ Society ts Good Work. the .depredations of the biHbug. It is perfectly safe to say that if the billbug is plentiful the partridge is scarce. That small grayish-black bug with his bard bill, like a steel instrument, that bores into the cornstalk aud deposits its eggs to hatch into worms aud eat | out the pith so that the stalk falls over dead, is a perpetual menace to the corn crop of the State. The most effectual enemy of the billbug is the partridge. Tbe partridge is als? a great destroyer of cutworms and grasshoppers, both destructive to crops. One of the most valuable of the small birds is the blue bird. This little fellow will eat his weight in cutworms every day and the bird is worth his own weight in gold to the gardener. The blue bird has been sadly reduced In numbers, and vigorous measures for his protection should be insti tuteu. Such illustrations of the beneficent work of birds could be multiplied an hundredfold. Very little mort can be done here than to hint at what is the daily work of the Audubon Society. In this connection it should be said that nothing is so discouraging to an Audubon worker as to be referred to hunters and fishermen for sympathizers. The best class of sportsmen, of course, sympathize with the Audubon work and support it, but fish and game are small fractions only of a great undertaking. Every man in the country has the same interest in preserving the birds of his country, or he should have. In fact he would have, if he were an educated, thinking man. To any reflecting person who will take the trouble to investigate the work that the Auduben Society is doing, it will seem childish to say hunters and fishermen have any greater interest in preserving birds than has the average farmer, professional man, artisan, or other citizen. The Biological Survey has declared tho annual Homaoo Hnnn tn thp LUat IUC auu UUt crops of this country by insects is in excess of $700,000,000 (Seven Hundred Million Dollars)! They said further only last year that within fifteen years past, one half of the birds of America have disappeared. Here are cause aud effect, strangely and strongly contrasted. This is the estimate of exact aud careful scientists, and not the statement of irresponsible person*. Solomon said in bis proverbs: "Ab I the bird by wandering, the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall I not come." Have we not learned that ! the curse of devastated fields, of with-J 'ered and dying crops, of rivers drying up with drought and swollen into ! floods, of desolated forests, is not causejless ? x 1 Whereof to make this matter plain and to the point: it behooves the cit| izens of the country, men and women, to rise to the occasion and remedy the great wrong done to the entire countrv by the slaughter of its birds. The politician will not do it ; the State nas not done it, and the citizen must, i The appeal can be made only to educated people?to people who think. If the hunter and the fisherman have one selfish reason for wishing to preserve game and fish, the citizen has a thousand reasons for preserving the birds of the country. Abbeville has a proud and worthy record. Such an appeal as the Audubon Society is making must find response among her citizens. For which rpaann I am lavini? it before them. James Henry Rice, Jr., . Secretary. A Many Time Prix? Winner. National Expositions are a good index to the actual merit of the products exhibited. The judges are always experts of high standing. and their decision is made only after careful examination and exhaustive tests. It will, therefore, be a revelation to many to learn that?while lard is the most commonly used cooking fat?a vegetable oil cooking fat called COTTOLENE, was awarded Grand Prize (highest award) at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, and cakes and pastry prepared with COTTOLENE also won a Grand Prize. Gold Medals (representing highest awards in each case) were also granted COTTOLENE at the Charleston Exposition and Chicago World's Pntr. in far.t. wherever it has been exhibited in competition with other cooking fats, COTTOLENE has in every case received highest award. Eminent chemists and cooking experts unite in declaring that, in purity, wholesomeneas. economy and results. COTTOLENE Is far superior to lard. Good ready roofing, 108 sq. feet to roll at Glenn's. ? *4^* Save your fruit with Wheeler'* preserving powder, the beat on earth. Bold by C. A. Milrord <fc Co. Phone 107. , Turnip seed, barley and rye in season at Glenn's. . If you don't want your goods promptly, please do not phone na, aa promptness la what we go by. C. A. Mllford & Co. Garden hose at Harrison's. Fur More Feet. "I have found Bucklen's Aruica Salve to be the proper thing to use for sore feet, as well as for healing burns, sores, cuts, and all manner of abrasions," writes Mr. W. Stone, of East PolaDd, Maine. It is the proper thing too for piles. Try it! Sold under guarantee at Speed's drug store. 25c. Flower pots, churns and jars at Glenn's. Hurry lip And Come to the "Live Store" on! "Busy Street" for all kinds of Seasonable Goods. White Goods, White and Colored Lawns, Ginghams, Prints, Percales, Trunk*, Dress Suit Cases, Shoes, Hats, Clothing, Hardware and Groceries. Amao R Iflnrcn jfimva vi mvitfvi .J t University of S Wide range of choice in Scit and Professional Courses lead lor of Arts, Bachelor of Scie tion, Bachelor of Laws, Mast i and Electrical Engineer. Well equipped Laborator VUJUIIJCO. Expenses moderate?man expenses. jSext Session (104tb) begii For Announcement write President, - ( | A LARGE S jGarden ( Bought at a dis< I be sold at a pri t If you need it 1 | All kinds of pipe J sonable prices. J MOTTO: "LIVE A i G. A. HA] Wm AM Pa uuf nu)i IU DUE WEi With the beat modern convei high standards of teaching and for preparation for the great res Terms moderate. For attracts REY. JAMES BOYCE, Special Summ< . . . VL SOUTHERN Extremely low round trip "V now on sale for all trains Satur< trains only, to Isle of Palms, T Mountain Resort Points, from pr lina. Tickets good to return ui sale. Also special Sunday Ex< Augusta and intermediate statior For details, rates, etc., apply t( J. L. MEEK, Asst. Gen. Pass. Agent, Atlanta, Ga. n a rrmnmnYT | SUUlttMfl TIE SODTH'S SKI I Unexcelled Dinning Car Servii Through Pullman Sleeping Convenient Schedul Arrival and Depa No. of Trainsv 114 Leaves at 10:20 a. ra Columbia. 115 Arrives from Greei at 12:18 p.m. 116 Leaves at 4:30 p. m 117 Arrives at 5:35 front 112 Leaves at 5:50 for? 111 Arrives at 7:05 p. m For full information as to rates, rout Eailway Ticke J. L. MEEK, Asst. Gen. Pass. Agent, Atlanta. Ga. VALUABLE T - ~ -1 O Li ail u lur Qitic. - r Mrs- J. A. Stevenson offers for sale j[ a valuable tract of laDd, containing l about 228 acres, situate, nearest point, j within one and one-balf miles of t Hodges, splendid branch bottom land l and well wooded over about three- l. fourths of the whole. Will sell rea- j sonably on easy terms. For in forma- i tion apply to W. W. Bradley. * Buy You a Home ] : I I Anderson, S. O., June 29,190S. | Press and Banner, Abbeville, S. C. i Cut out the ad sent last week?have I sold the place. * t,T~ OAA nnwrtn noor T .HITF1 - >VC I1UW *IX1CX ouu ulicd uvui desville, S. C.. at $12.50 per acre. One- t third cash, balance lone time. Write j me if interested. Good land and good country. Buy now and quite renting. Will cut you oft 100 acres if you like. Quit renting, buy a home! Write I us for further information. Anderson Real Estate and Investment Comyany. ? E. R. Horton, President < ggssg-gsssag ^ mm outh Carolina. mtiflc, Literary, Graduate ing to degrees of? Bachence, Licentiate of Instrucer of Arts, Civil Engineer ies, Library of over 4u,000 y students make their own js September 23,1908. to the Columbia, S. C. ITOCK OF ! Hose! I ? i ;ount and will J ice to suit you. d >uy now. J i fitting at rea- ) iND LET LIVEJ EtRISON. | male College, 3T, S, C. aiences and equipment, and living, this is an ideal placo iponsibilities of womanhood. re catalog write - Doe West, S, C. ir Excursion! 1 . . . RAILWAY. ^eek-end Excursion tickets are lays and 'for Sunday morning ybee; also to many attractive in^ipal stations in South Caroitil Tuesday following date of ;ursion rates from Columbia, is to Isle of Palms and Tybee. > Southern Railway Agents, or J. C. LUSK, Div. Pass. Agent, Charleston, S. C. RAILWAY. BATEST SYSTEM. ce. Cars on all Through Train es on all Local Trains. rture of Trains. \ . for Greenville and ? "l j JVUie ttXJU Vyuiuujuia j . for Greenville. 1 Columbia. olumbia. i. from Greenville. :es, etc., consult nearest Southern it Agent, or J. C. LU8K, Division Pass. Agent, Charleston. S. C Blue Bidge Bailway Co. JSffeotlve January 5.1907. No. 12 No. 10 No. Eastbound. Dally Dally Dal Ex. St 8tatlons? A.M. P.M. A. A iV Walballa 8 30 5 1ft 12 8( jv West UdIod 8 3ft 5 10 12 4( jV Seneca 8 53 6 38 11( jvjordanla 8 55 ft 40 2 0; jV Adams 9 10 5 55 2 2i jV Cherry's 9 13 5 58 2 81 iV Pendleton 9 25 6 10 2 5} jV Autun 9 38 f> 18 3 Of jV Handy (Spring* 9 8(5 6 21 3 1{ jV Denver 9 41 6 26 3 4J jV West Anderson 9 55 6 40 8 4S iV Andernon (Pass. tlep). 10 00 6 45 3 5: jV Anderson (Fgt. dep)... JO 08 0 48 4 4? Lr Beltnn 10 30 7 15 5 If Westbound. No. 11 No. 9 No. Stations? P. M. A. M. A. A! .v Helton 7 80 11 15 iV Anderson (Fgi. (iepol) 7 56 12 n iV Auderion (Page. dep)? 7 59 12 24. 8 ic <v West Anderson 8 05 12 HO 9 20 w Denver 8 18 12 42 8 40 .v Sandy Springs 8 23 12 47 8 5(J -v Autun 8 26 12 49 8 5! .v Peud.'etoD s 34 12 57 a io -v Cherry's 8 44 1 0T 9 4<j iV Adamp 8 47 1 10 9 45 -vJordanlb 9 05 1 28 10 10 jv Seneca 9 07 1 30 10 15 jV West Union 9 25 1 50 11 20 Lr Walballa 9 30 1 55 11 30 Will also stop at tbe following stations at alie on and let off passengers?Phlnney ames, Toxaway, WelCd. J. R. Anderson, Superlntendec IR.KING'S NEW DISCOVER' Will Surely Stop That Cough. Silks. Silks. Don't forget that we alwa; ;eep tbe blue ribboo tafleta, tU& beatmoa* iad bay. Tbe K. M. Uaddoo^jo. / t I Calvert & Nickles ? Headquarters for ? White Hickory Wagons Owensboro Wagons, Bock Hill Buggies, ( Qnmmav Dii rrrri aa UUUIlUCi !>UgglVDj Cheap Buggies, ~ Harness, Laprobes, etc. Calvert & Nickles. Feb 24. 1904. tf j Abbeville-Green wo od MUTUAL IISDRMOI, ASSOCIATION. Property Insured, |i,5UU,UUU January 1st, 1908, WRITE; TO OR CALL on the undersignet or the Director of your Towushlj for any Information you may desire a boot onr plan of Insuranoe. Welnsnre your property against destru tlon by nu, vbdinu 02 lb!, and do so cheaper than any Insurance Con pany In existence. Remember we are propared to prove to yov _ that ours Is the safest and cheape&t plan <1 ? Insurance known. J, R. BLAKE, Gen. Agent Abbeville, S. 0. J. FBASER LYON, Pres. Abbeville, S. C. b0ard~dffiect0r8 8. G. Majors -...Greenwood ( J.T. Mabry ... Cokesbury W. B. Acker ....Donalds M. P. CllnKROAles Due West , > W. W. L. Keller Long Cane I. A. Keller Jdmithvllle W. A. Stevenson Cedar Spring W. W. Bradley - Abbeville Dr. J. A. Anderson AntrevlUe S. S. Bo'es Lowndeavllle _ A. O. Grant....... Magnolia _ J. W. Morrah Calhoun Mills S. L. Edmonds Bordeaux 1 H. L. Rasor Walnut Grove t W. A Nlckles ..Hodges 3 SJ. D. Coleman Coronaca I D. 8. Hattlwanger....... Ninety-Six C. H. Townsend - Klnards J. Add. Calhoun Fellowship ? # Joseph Lake ..Phoenix > Rev. J. B. Mnse.. Verdery W J. H. Chiles, Jr Bradley J. W. Lyon Troy W. A. Cheatham Yeldell G. E. Dorn...< Calllson G. E. Dorn Klrksevs J. H. Brooks Brooks AbDevllle. 8 <j., Jan. 1. 1908 V REGISTRATION The attention of tbe public is called to tbe Act of the recent Legislature, approved tbe 24th day'of February, 1908, wbicb reads as follows : An Act to Provide for tbe Re-Enrollment and Registration of tbe Qualfled Electors of this State During tbe Year 1908, and to Provide Corn? pensation fur tbe Supervisors of Registration. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina, That the Supervisors of Registration in each County of the Stale are required to re-euroll all tbe qualified electors iu this Stale during tbe year 1908. Sec. 2. That tbe same time the said Supervisors shall register all persons who may make application therefor ami who mav be entitled thereto. S. Sec. 3. " That for the purpose of ? such enrollment and registration the said Supervisor shall keep the books of registration opeu at the several county -eata every day (Sundays excepted), between the hours of nine a. in. and six p. no., during the months of July and August, 1908; and in additiou thereto, they shall attend, during the month of September, 1908, at least one day in each township, in their respective Counties, of which at least ten q day's notice shall be given by adver- g tisement in a newspaper published in the County ; and in Counties contain- 8j iug fifty thousand inhabitants they shall attend in each city, town, or industrial community, containing three _ hundred or more inhabitants, at least one day, upon similar notice: Provided, That the provisions of this Section shall only apply ti the re-enrollmentand registration for the year 1908. Sec. 4. Tnat lor tne purpo&e 01 aaiu re-enrollment thp Secretary of State shall furuiah the Supervisors of Registration with all the necessary boobs, and the sum of five hundred dollars shall be appropriated for supplying said books. Sec. 5. That the Supervisors of Registration shall each receive for their services, during the year 1908, the sum of two hundred dollars, to be paid by the State quarterly, as other State officers are paid: except in the Counties ? of Anderson, Charleston, Greenville, Sumter, Orangeburg, Richland, where they shall each receive two hundred and fifty dollars for the year 1908: Pro? vided, That in Spartanburg County 8 they shall receive this year three hundred dollars, to be paid as above pro? vided; that, after the year 1908, the ~ [ Supervisors of Registration shall each a r*.? onnnm \ r> aAF receive miy uumm !?= ?u un years and one hundred dollars in general election years: except in the above named Counties, where they shall each receive seveuty-tive dollars per annum in ofl years, and in general election years they nhull receive two hundred dollars each per annum, including the County of Spartanburg. na Sec, 6. All Acts or parts of Acts in- bu 7 consistent with this Act be, and the Se< same are hereby, repealed. Approved the 24th day of February, " A. D. 1908. All persons having business in the (A matter of registration will call on the 4 Chairman, W. C. Sherard, in the store ad of E. R. Thomson on the public square. W. C. Sherard, Chairman. A. F. Calvert, It. H. Armstrong, Board of Registration. 'H, .? We have the store, we have the goods, we _ have the clerks. Phone 10T. and that's alt yoa have to do. C. A. Mllford & Co. y Huyler's ! Huyler's ! Yes, Huy ler's. We * ' double our orders almost every week. Trade Is increasing. Goods always fresh. C. A. Mllford & Co. q ~ Fountain syringes, hot water bottles, Ice pi hag*. In fact anything you want In the rubber *y goods line can be had at the up-to-date pharmacy of G'. A. Mllford <Z Co. v:' ;T Jl 1ST A LARGE SHI Silverware, Out Glai Hand Pai] f you are in need ents of any descri tb your inter* We have tl W. E. JO THE JEV Summer Exci ... Vl Southern i Round trip Summer Excursior tain resort points are now on sale ly reduced rates. Tickets good rel Asheviile, "NVaynesville, Henders Sky;" Lake Toxaway and tlio now in their glory. Apply to Southern Railway f< J. L. MEEK, Asst. Gen. Pass. Agent. Atlanta, Ga. mm State, County and President:' Vice-Presl F. E. HARBISON. P. B. SP] Board of* Directors s ieanska, J. H. DuPre, R. M. Haddon, 1 linkecales, C. C. Gambrell. We sollef your business am it safely and ec We are in potion to make you loar when placed in Our Saving's T. EDGAR ANDERS( ROOFING AND ME Guttering. Ventilators, Skylights Cresting, Ridge Capping, Gravel 6 Mill and Repair Work a Specialty The Famous Jteisey j ... Phone or Writ* J. W. SIGN, abbevil: Office under the la well equipped in bis line of busine afkets ranges from the cheapest to the 1 [is funeral car is a fine one. Air tight t le old brick vault and which is much h de casket. Drop couch caskets. Char, Phone 88 J". A HUT is con See about an ! and keep cool. w. N. TH Chicora 1 GREEXYIL Owned and controlled by the Presbyti a nign graue ;onege ior woineu. * Graduate courses iu the Arts and Scie sties and Business. La rye and able fa< ildings. Modern conveniences. Healt jtion, and iu city of 25,000. Expenses for the A. Tuition, board, room and fees $18 ) and Tuition in Music, Art orExprens The next session opens September 17tl dress The Peoples Si ABBEVILL OFFICERS. S.|G. THOMSON, President. I. A. NEUFFER, Vice-President. R. E. COX, Cashier. 'InT DWVVP AP riujbiii vi' ' \ ss, */2? ated China. r ' -. of Wedding Presiption it will be, jst to see us. le Goods. ? HNSON, PELER. " . . ;>?< ursion Rates / " v .| 1 . . . Railway. > / ' *i Tirkets to Seashore and tybunvia Southern Railway at greatturning until October 31st, 1908. onville, in the "Land of the Beautiful Sapphire Country," ' ' >r rates, tickets, etc. J. Of LUSK, ' I)iv. Pass. Agent, Charleston, S. C. ; - ABBEVILLE City Depository. dent: Cashier: BED. J. H. DuPRE. F. E. Harrison, P. B, Speed, G. A. rV. B. Moore, W. P. Greene, J. F. i are prepared to handle tnservatively. ib, and to pay interest on deposits, Department. ?? ARCHER, S. C. TAL WORKERS. , Conveyors, Comic Finials, Hops, Gasoline Tanks, Cotton [lot Air Furanccs. > for Price*.... | Funeral Director. LE, S. 0. Eureka Hotel. es. His complete stock of Coffins and 3nest. Burial Robes always on band, yater-proof steel vaults which replaces lore reliable. Metal lined cases for inges reasonable and service acceptable. SIGN. TIME IINCr ! ??? 1 Electric Fan ) IQMSON. College, LE, S. C. jries of the Synod of South Carolina. Christian home school. mces, Music, Art, Expression, Gymjulty. Beautiful grounds. Elegant hful climate. .Location iu i'leamoni a Entire Year. 3. B. All included in proposition ion $2D3 to |-13. b. For catalogue and information S. C. BYRD, I). D., President. avins:s Bank. E, S. C. DIRECTORS. 8. G. Thomson, H. G. Anderson G. A. Neuffer, L. C. Gambrell, W. E. Owens. F. B. Gary, J. S. Stark, R. E. Cox, Jonn A. Harrifl, (