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' ?) SPECIMENS DINOSAUR FAMILY. American Museum Has Unrivalled Collections ot" Ancient Monsters. For fifteen years the American museum has sent out a collecting party annually, in charge of Barnum Brown, to obtain fossil remains of dinosaurs from the cretaceous formations of the West. The party has remained in the field as long as the weather permitted such work to be . - carried on profitably, usually four or five months each year. Really fine specimens are exceedingly rare, and getting them out of the rock and packing and shipping them are slow , and difficult operations?but each year the collection has included one or more skeletons and skulls of these gigantic extinct reptiles, and the museum now possesses an unrivalled series, representing the numerous kinds which inhabited this country some millions of years ago, during the cretaceous or chalk period. It was a very different looking ' world at that time. A great interior sea stretched over what is now the \ Western Plains, from the Gulf of Mexico to the Arctic ocean. Along its western border were extensive forest lowlands and marshes where great rivers brought down mud and sand from the mountains to the westward and buried the skeletons of the dinosaurs, then native to that region, writes G. W. P., in the New York V Evening Post. ) In the Old World a great ocean stretched across most of western Europe and far east and south across much of southern Asia and north Africa. The present Mediterranean is but a shrunken remnant of that ocean. The great mountain ranges of modern times had not yet risen. There were no Rocky Mountains, no Alps, no Himalayas. Such mountain ranges as had exist ed in the more ancient periods by erosion to broad, low ridges. The great chalk formation of western Eu - -> rope, from which the cretaceous period receives its name, was then being formed as a soft calcareous ooze at the bottom of a clear and moderately deep ocean, swarming with marine life. Not to Be Traded Back. None of the familiar birds' and mammals had yet appeared on the earth; not even the ancestors of any one of them can be certainly traced back into this far-distant period. Altogether to these scarce and tiny mammals, from whom were to rise the higher animals, of later ages, be longed the promise of the future, the power of the present in the cretaceous period lay with the reptiles. They were dominant on land, in the - ocean, and in the air; and i?,each field they rivalled in size and surpassed in peculiarities of form and habits anything that had lived before or has since come into existence. Of the great marine reptiles of the time, the museum has as yet an inadequate exhibit. Space is lacking to display some of our finest specimens. Of the giant flying reptile Pteranodon, there is now being prepared a skeleton to be placed in the corridor. The museum's exhibits of cretace1 ? ~i. ous dinosaurs, tne great wnu am-, mals of the time, are already large and varied and will be much increas-ed in the course of a few years as the skeletons are prepared and mounted. There were many different kinds? as diverse in appearance as the various modern quadrupeds. * ' The Terrible Saurian. Preeminent among them was the giant Tyrannosaurus, the terrible "tyrant saurian," as Prof. Osborn appropriately named him. His skele-| ton stands in the middle of the central hall on the fourth floor, no suitable place being at present available in the Dinosaur hall. Forty-seven feet in length and standing eighteen feet above the floor, he was a fierce, carnivorous beast, as attested by the huge jaws with sharp-pointed teeth and the powerful claws, cu/ved like those of an eagle. He was fitted to overcome and prey upon the largest and most powerful of the herbivorous dinosaurs, his contemporaries. In striking contrast to the massive and gigantic Tyrannosaurus is the long-limbed and slenderly proportioned Ornithomimusv the Ostrichdinosaur, as he has been named by Professor Osborn. The long neck and small head,-the jaws entirely de-| void of teeth and furnished with aj horny bill in place of it, the longf legs and bird-like toes form a curi-j ous parallel to the ostrich; but it was wingless, with a long, slender, lizardlike tail, and the forelimbs were long and slim, tipped with sharp claws like those on the hind feet. A comcL-oiotnn r?f this animal has re-1 yiutv; oiw*wv? v. ~ ?-? - _ cently been completed for exhibition; it lies just as it was found in the rock, the long limbs sprawling out the neck and head twisted backward. There are 2,800 women working as guards on the railroads of Germany. There are about 1,300 gas plants in this country. Who Am I? 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I am unafraid; I am bold to the point of audacity,'but my boldness is tempered with sagacity; I am ready night or day to go to the front for you and win?if you will but give me the chance; I believe in, opportunity?I believe in striking while the iron is hot, and unless you hobble me and curb me we can conquer\he world. I am your willing servant and your patient slave, yet at my word armies march and kings bow the knee. I am-your right hand in your battle against the world; I am your "Open Sesame" to prosperity; I am your friend; I am your GOOD friend; I am your BEST friend. I am your DOLLAR And the best place to distribute me to make YOU and YOUR NEIGHBOR happier and more prosperous is in the TOWN WHERE YOU LIVE.? The Altoonagram. Cause of Cotton Wilt. \ _ To the Editor of the News and Courier: I notice in a recent issue of your paper that the farm demonstration agent of Orangeburg county is making investigations into cotton wilt, which has caused much damage this year. Scientists claim that wilt is caused by bacteria stopping the flow of sap. * Science never made a worse mistake. Wilt is caused by sulphuric acid. Take land where sulphuric acid has never been used and wilt in cotton or any other plant is unknown. I made this discovery several years ago and since then I have proved it out on small scales every year. Any farmer on sandy land can cause his cotton to have wilt or black root in five years, provided he will put heavy applications of acid phosphate or phosphate made , up of acid phosphate each year, and plant cotton on the same land for five years. Any farmer can -cause wilt on his farm in one year if he wiil plant cotton seed grown out of the phosphate zone. This year I planted one row, heavily phosphated with seed from the West, where acid phosphate is unknown, also seed from Siam, where acid phosphate is also unknown. The phosphate was not used on one part of the row, and all the cotton lived. Where the phosphate was applied every stalk of the cotton from the West died except one and that one was badly diseased. Of the Asiatic cotton three stalks survived* On five acres a heavy application of phosphates were used. Seed were planted grown on clay land in the upper part of the State. Half of the cotton plants died or were diseased. Mind you, wilt does not injure cotton to any great extent on clay land. There is something in clay lands that counteracts the ill-effects of sulphuric acid on clay soils. The soil chemical that neutralizes sulphuric acid on clay land is not found in sandy soil. Another test. Ground phosphate rock was used on part of my farm. Not a single stalk appeared on that part of the farm, but where phosphates were used having sulphuric acid in them, wilt was plentiful, to the last row. I am now applying ground rock to my grain crop and will use it on mv entire cotton crop next year. Of course, it acts slow, and to give the young plants a start a small application of dried blood will be used; only a few pounds per acre, and of course, a slower acting ammoniate than blood will also be used to carry the crop to maturity. Beware of phosphates containing sulphuric acid if you farm in the sand belt. Truck growers will also profit by mv experience, for cotton is not the only plant that dies from sulphuric acid poisoning, known to the learned?scientists?as wilt, cabbage, beans, peas tomatoes, etc., die from it. If you practice a regular rotation, cotton one year, corn and peas the next, and small grain and peas, following corn and peas, there is no danger in using phosphates containing sulphuric acid, as the rotation takes up or makes harmless the acid. A. W. BRABHAM. Olar, S. C. NOTICE OF ELECTION. State of South Carolina?County of Bamberg. Notice is hereby given that the General Election for State and County Officers will be held at the voting precincts prescribed by law in said county, on Tuesday, November 7, 1916, said day being Tuesday following the first .Monday in November, as 1 prescribed by the State Constitution. The qualification for suffrage: ( Managers of election shall require of every elector offering to vote at any election, before allowing him to vote, the production of his registra- ] tion certificate and proof of the pay- I ment of all taxes, including poll tax, assessed against him and collectible { during* the previous year. - The pro- 1 duction of a certificate or of the re- 1 ceipt of the officer authorized to col- 1 lect such taxes, shall be conclusive proof of the payment thereof. Section ?37, Code of 1912, as amended by Act No. 6, special ses- i sion of 1914. Section 237. There shall be three separate and distinct ballots, as iol lows: One ballot for United States Senator, Representatives in Congress, and Presidential electors; and one ! ballot for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, State officers, Circuit Solicitors, members of the House of Rep- i resentatives, State Senator, county officers, and one ballot for all Con- ] stitutional amendments and special i questions, each of three said boxes to j be appropriately labelled: which bal- < lots shall be of plain white paper and j of such width and length as to contain i the names of the officer or officers ? and question or questions to be voted for or upon, clear and even cut, ; without ornament, designation, mutilation, symbol or mark of any kind j whatsoever, except the name or ] names of the person or persons voted for and the office to which such per- ] son or persons voted for and the of- i fice to which such person or persons are intended to be chosen, and all j special questions which name or ] names, office or offices, question or questions shall be written or printed i or partly written or partly printed tLereon in blabk ink; aid such ballot i shall be so folded as to conceal the j name or names, question or questions ; thereon, and so folded, shall .be de- < posited in a box to be constructed, < kept and disposed of as herein pro- < vided by law, and no ballot of any other description found in either of i said boxes shall be counted. j On all special questions the bal- i lot shall state the question, or ques- j tions, and shall thereafter have the i words "Yes" and "No" inserted so t Al?A a V*44 mat tile VUICI iua; muivaic uio by striking out one or the other of such words on said ballot, the word not stricken out to be counted. Before the hour fixed for opening the polls, Managers and Clerks must take a|nd subscribe the Constitutional oath. The Chairman of the Bodrd of Managers can administer the oath to the other members and to the Clerk; a Notary Public must administer the oath to the Chairman. The managers elect their Chairman and Clerk. Polls at each voting place must be opened at 7 o'clock a. m., and closed at 4 o'clock p. m., except in the City of Charleston, where they shall be opened at 7 a. m., and closed at 6 p. m. ' , The Managers have the power to fill a vacancy, and if none of the Managers attend, the citizens can appoint from among the qualified voters, the Managers, who, after being sworn, can conduct the election. At the close of the election, t^o Managers and Clerk must proceed publicly to open the ballot boxes and count the ballots therein, and continue without adjournment until the same is completed, and make a statement of the result for each office and sign the same. With'n three days thereafter, the Chairman of the Board, or some one designated by the Board, must deliver to the Commissioners of t^enion the poll list, the boxes containing the ballots and written statements of the results of the election. At tve said election qualified electors will vote upon the adoption or r^ection of amendments to the State r,^.nctitiitinn as nrnvided in thft fol lowing JOINT RESOLUTIONS: A JOINT RESOLUTION to Amend Section 7, Article VIII of the Consti- 1 tution, Relating to Municipal Bonded Indebtedness, by Adding a Pro viso Thereto, Relating to School District No. 1, of Kershaw County. < A JOINT RESOLUTION Proposing to Amend Article X of the Constitu tion by Adding Thereto Section 15, to Empower the Town of Mullins to 1 Assess Abutting Property for Perma- * nent Improvement. . ( * A JOINT RESOLUTION to Amend . Article X of the-Constitution so as to ^ Authorize the Town of Clinton and the City of Easley to Assess Abutting Property for Permanent Improvements. A JOINT RESOLUTION Proposing nvt A mrvn/lmonf f A A "VT T Con_ ail AUlCliUlll^Ul IU -TXI UIV/1C7 All, UCV/- | tion 2 of the Constitution, by Striking Out the Whole of Said Section 2, Article XII, and Substituting Therefor a New Section Providing for the Appointment of a Board of Regents " for Institutions Maintained for the Care of the Insane, for the Appointment of a Superintendent Therefor, ; and Defining the Powers. A JOINT RESOLUTION to Amend Section 5, Article XI of the Constitution, Relating to School Districts. * by Adding a Special Proviso as to Spartanburg County. A.JOINT RESOLUTION to Amend Section 5, Article X, of the Constitution, Relating to the Limit of the Bonded Debt of School Districts, by Adding a Proviso Thereto, as to the Charleston School District Comprised Within the Presents Limits of the . Citv of Charleston. ? A JOINT RESOLUTION tc Amend J Section 7, of Article VIII, of the Constitution, Relating to Municipal Indebtedness. by Adding a Proviso Thereto as to the City of Anderson. ELECTION MANAGERS. The following Managers of Elec- ( tion have been appointed to hold the } election at the various precincts in the said County: Bamberg?J. M. Grimes, Henry Kearse, A. B. Utsey. Colston?G. W. Kearse, J. C. Mc- J Millan, Thos. Clayton. J Denmark?St. Clair Guess, Chris. 3 Folk, Frank James. Ehrhardt?Isaac D. Copeland, J. M. Kirkland, J. Williams Carter. Farrell's Store.?J. G. Rhoad J. H. Fender C. S. Herndon. Govan?G. O. .Mather, J. S. Fields, J. H. Lancaster. Kearse's Mill?J. J. Kearse, L. M. A.yer, Eddie Kearse. Lees?H. B. Grimes, W. D. .Mayfield, H. S. Walsh. .Midway?W. E. Utsey, H. W. Herndon, W. H. Bessinger. Olar?C. H. Brabham, H. C. Kirkland, A. F. Morris. The Managers at each precinct named above ; re requested to delegate one of their number to secure boxes and blanks for the election. Call for same at Court House, Bamberg, S. C., November 6th, 1916, between 9 o'clock a. m., and 4 o'clock p. m. D. 0. HUNTER, Chairman, A. M. BRABHAM, M. N. RICE, Commissioners, of State and County Elections fof Bamberg County, S. C. October 23, 191 6. NOTICE OF ELECTION. State of South Carolina?County of Bamberg. Notice is hereby given that the General Election for Presidential and Vice-Presidential Electors and Representatives in Congress will be held at the voting precincts fixed by law in the County of Bamberg on Tuesday, November 7, 1916, said day being Tuesday following the first Monday, as prescribed by the State Constitution. The qualifications for suffrage are as follows: Residence in State for two years, in County one year, in the/ polling precinct in which the elector offers to vote, four months, and the pay ment six months before any election of any poll tax then due and payable. Provided, That ministers in charge of an organized church and teachers of public schools shall be entitled to vote after six months' residence in the State, otherwise qualified. REGISTRATION?Payment of all taxes, including poll tax, assessed and collectible during the previous year. The production of a certificate or the receipt of the officer authorized to collect such taxes shall be conclusive proof of the payment thereof. Before the hour fixed for opening the polls Managers and Clerks must take and subscribe to the Constitutional oath. The Chairman of the Board of Managers can administer the oath to the other Managers and to the Clerk; a Notary Public must idminister the oath to Chairman, rhp Msna?prs elect their Chairman md Clerk. Polls at each voting place must be opened at 7 o'clock a. m., and closed it 4 o'clock p. m., except in the City 3f Charleston, where they shall be opened at 7 a. m. and closed at 6 p. m. The Managers have the power to ail a vacancy; and if none of the Managers attend, the citizens can appoint from among the qualified votsrs, the Managers, who, after being sworn, can conduct the election. At the close of the election, the Managers and Clerk must proceed publicly to open the ballot box and :ount the ballots therein, and coninue without adjournment until the same is completed, #nd make a statement of the result for each office, and sign the same. Within three days :hereafter, the Chairman of the Board, or some one designated by he Board, must deliver to the Commissioners of Election the poll list, :he box and blanks for the election written statements of the result of 'hp plppflnn MANAGERS OF ELECTION?The following Managers have been appointed to hold the election at the various precincts in the said County: Bamberg?G. A. Rice, H. N. Folk, 2. W. Rentz, Jr. Pnlofrm?CI A Mr?Afi11an .T f! Beard, C. C. Fender. Denmark?W. L. Riley, Asa Baxter, C. M. Cox. Ehrhardt?J. C. Copeland, E. E. Hughes, H. J. Zeigler. Farrell's Store?J. W. Webster, D. N. Rhoad, Jno. W. -Steedly. Govan?B. P. Hartzog, W. A. Hay, Jr., R. L. Lancaster. Hearse's Mill?H. W. Chitty, G. B. Kearse, Willie H. Ritter. Lees?J. C. Kemp, J, V. Matthews, I. W. Crimes. Midway?J. Y. Hicks, J. P. 3'Quinn, H. W. Walker. Olar?S. E. Neeley, J. J. Brabham, J. E. Cook. The Managers at each precinct lamed above are requested to delegate one of their number to secure the box and blacks for the election Boxes and blanks will be delivered it the Court House, Bamberg, S. C., between the hours of 9 a. m. and 4 )'clock p. m., on November 6th, 1916. FRANCIS F. CARROLL. Chairman, R. L. ZEIGLER, J. W. STEWART, Commissioners of Federal Election "Do ty* Kor?rr pAnnfv Q P IUI uaiii uci 5 vuuu vj , \/? October 23, 1916. J. A. Klein Mrs. J. A. Klein Teachers of Piano and Organ Duos and Quartets for Two Pianos and the Proper Training of Beginners a Specialty R. P. 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