Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I have just returned from the blue grass fields of Tennessee, and ? *? have a car of as fine Mules as you wish to see. They are all young and guaranteed sound. Come in and see a Pretty Lot of Mules, 0 TVTT Laurens, South Carolina. FORGING ANTIQUITIES. Even Experts Trlolced la Dlstfn ? uIhIiIhu' Real From tue Sparion?* Dr. Oliver Tuuks In the Outlook Mag azine shows the dlfllcultles of distin guishing real from spurious antiquities. Here is one of his anecdotes: At times the forger Is content to take ancient fragments of ancient vases or statuettes and complete them with clay or plaster of parls. These new "old" wares lie then paints up and passes to the unsuspecting, and sometimes sus pecting, purchaser as real antiques. The story is told of a forger In Athens that he protested that when he had fin ished "Improving" an antique he him self could not always tell where the genuine part ceased and the false be gan. Under such circumstances It may not bo wondered that at times even experts are tricked. The following incident shows how forgeries turn up in very unexpected places: One hot day a party of us were toiling up a steep ascent in the Island of Mclos when wo saw above us a number of < .'reeks seated on a parapet of ruins. Wo had been cruising long enough among the /Egcan Islands to know that these people of the place had seen our ship drop anchor In tbo water below and were now waiting to sell us antiquities, At tho sight of the?e Greeks one of our number, a tlrelejs Scotchwoman, scrambled ahead of us to the top, whore we-could soon see her, wind hlown and outlined against the blue sky, bargaining for a vaae. When we ranched the top after a more leisurely climb she put her purchase In my hands and asked me what I thought of It. My hands were moist with per uplratlon from the exertion of the climb, and for answer to her question I held them out to her all blackened from, grasping the vase. The sweat had at* tacked the modern paint with whloh It was covered, and by thus coming off on my hands the color had betrayed its falsity. The whole vase had been patched up from six or seven pieces and then painted over to conceal the repairing. CONCERNING DREAMS. Often Indicate a Serious illne???The Blind See In Dream*. Harvey, who discovered the circula tion of the blood, Is said to have re corded a dream in which a bumblebee stung him In his left thigh, on a place whore a couple of days later appeared an ugly ulcer, Malesherbe, the re nowned French author, found himself In a dream attacked by a rowdy, who stabbed blm in his left breast with a dagger in an urea whero the following evening he felt tho first attack of se vere pneumonia. "The archives of medical reports," says Dr. Axel Kmtl Cilmon, "are heavy with cases of a similar character, which have either received no explanation at all r?r else ha'.e been explained away entirely." Dr. Gibson calls attention to the fact that dreams depend on some other media than those known as the five senses. A conclusive evidence In fa vor of this view is found In the cir cumstances that even the blind are ablo to see In dreams, as witness ex periences recorded by Helon Keller, "Blind Tom," the poet Milton and oth er*; hence the conclusion seems to be unavoidable that it i* only, as far as physical vision Is concerned that the optic nerve guides and limits the field of vision. This same author arrives at the de duction that dreaming and waking dif fer in degree and form of manifesta tion only, not in principle and essence. "Like waking consciousness," he avers, "the dream reveals, but does not cre ate. The same world that surrounds the wakiug Individual surrounds the droamlng, only the viewpoints and media of observation are changed."? Chicago Nowb. Wm Jnmt m Dream, "Some old fellow over at Fort Sill who has been La this section of the country for a good many years ouco dreamed that thero was an Indian massacre on the summit of Slgual mountain. He afterward began to tell that dream, and at length told the sto ry for the truth. That dream has gone down In history as an actual fact. There never was a massacre on this mountain, nor even a battle of any sort. In early days, after tbe establish ment of Fort SHI, tho soldiers had a slgual station there, built tho bouse that is now crumbling lu ruins and possibly observed the maneuvers of many Comanches."?Lawtou New". Republican, A Natural Inference. Six-year-old Fanny, Just returned from Sunday school, seemed to have something on her mind. "Mother," she said after awhile, "they must have bad very large beds In Bible tiroes." "Why?" asked her mother. "Well, our teacher told us today thai Abraham slept with his four fathers." ?Harper's Weekly. Hot Water. Nothing is better to take on rising than a cupful of hot water. One hot drink on an empty stomach clears the system for tho day, and for many per sona a tablespoonful of lemon Jnice In creases tho efficacy. Taken on going to bed without lemon, it will help to induce sleep. Both night and morning it has tbe effect of helping to clear tbe complexion. \ How It Happened. "I suppose he ?1 a sped you In his arm* when the canoe upset?" s, "No; quite the opposite." "Quite the opposite?" "Yen; the canoe upset when be clasp ed mo in his arras." *? nonhifii. Mabel?Is she as happy as when she lived with her husband. Molly?Twice as happy. He used to allow her only $9 a week, and now he has to pay ber $18 a week alimony.?Kansas City In dependent. Tou can get a very good Idea of "nat ural selection" In Its practical work ings by viewing a celery glass after It has been once round tbe table. One Rxoeptlon. Mrs. Bibbs?This paper says that Walking In the rain, without an um brella, will remove wrinkles. Mr. Bibbs?Well, It won't, not If you are walking in the rain without en um brella because tome friend has stolen yours,?New York Weekly. A New Magazine for You I am bringing out another new magazine that you will come pretty close to liking. I wouldn't be surprised if it hit you harder than anything in the shape of a magazine you have ever seen. There isn't much style to it, but it has the stuff in it that you and everybody else will want to read. It is called Something New in Magazine Making THK SCRAP BOOK is the most elastic thing that ever happened in the way of a magazine?elastic enough to carry anything from a tin whistle to a battleship. Every thing that appeals to the human brain and human heart comes within its compass?fiction, which is the backbone of periodical circulation; biography, review, philosophy, science, art, poetry, wit, humor, pathos, satire, the weird, the mystical?everything that can be classified and everything that cannot be classified. A paragraph, a little bit, a saying, an editorial, a joke, a maxim, an epigram. Nothing Like It in the World There isn't anything in the world just like THlv SCRAP BOOK. It is an idea on which we have been working for several years, and for which we have been gathering materials. We have bought hundreds and hundreds of scrap books from all over the country, some of them a century old, and arc still buying them. From these books we are gathering and classifying an enormous number of gems, and facts and figures, and historical and personal bits that arc of rare value. Furthermore, we have a corps of peo ple ransacking libraries, reading all the current publications, the leading daily papers, and digging out curious and quaint facts and useful facts and figures from reference book, cyclopedia, etc., etc. Don't fail to get a copy of this first issue of THE SCRAP BOOK. It sells at the price at which all our other maga zines sell?Ten Cents a Copy and One Dollar by the Year. On all news stands or from the publisher FRANK A. MUNSEY, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York More than 5,000 Tons Sold in Laurens County within Three Years, Without a Single Complaint. THE CELEBRATED Royster Fertilizers! It is scarcely necessary to lay stress on the superiority of the Royster Fertilizer. Those who have used it willingly testify to its merits, as follows: Oka, S. C.. November 17th, 1905. Dr. W. C. Irby, Agent F. S. Royster Guano Co., Laurens, S. C. Dear Sir:?Replying to your inquiry of recent date in regar d to the result of my ex perience with Royster's Fertilizers for this year, I beg to advise that last Spring 1 bought of your Royster's Atlantic Brand, and 011 two acres I used 1,000 pounds per acre, preparing the land thoroughly, putting in all the Fertilizer at one time and sub-soiling after putting in the Fertilizer. I secured a yield of six bales on the two acres. On seven other acres, similarly prepared, with the same amount of Fertilizer, I secured a yield of fifteen bales. The analysis of the Fertilizer used was 8-3-3. The average weight of these bales of cotton was 425 pounds. It is needless to say that the seasons this year were very favorable, and I gave the cultivation of this cotton special attention, and that the land had been brought up to a high state of cultivation. Very respectfully, (Signed) W. J. FLEMING. Dr. W. C. Irby, Laurens, S. C. Dear Sir:?In reply to yours of recent date, we beg leave to say that wf. have used Royster's Fertilizers exclusively for the last four years. The results have been most satis factory. We believe them to be the best goods we have ever used. Farmers' Bone is the brand of ammoniated goods we have used, and we consider Royster's 10-4 Acid as good as the average standard guano. Yours truly, W. II. HUDGKNS. J. A. P. MOORK, Where the eye can detect the difference in Fertilizers, the yield by the use of Roys ters is increased more than a hundred pounds to the acre. It is to the interest of the farmer to get the best, and it has been demonstrated that the Royster brand produces the largest yield?the best proof that you ought to Use the Best Fertilizer, Namely, Royster's. W. C. IRBY, Agent. JWT-For Sale by OWINGS & BOBO, R. P. fy* >AM & CO., and other merchants in Laurens and throughout the County.