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The , Laurens Advertis ONE YEAR Begin the New Year aright by subscribing for your County paper. The Advertiser gives Local,'County and State news of most interest to its readers. We will strive to make The Advertiser for 1908 worth more than the price asked. By having The Advertiser in your home, a paper in which the merchants of Laurens advertise, you will save the price of the paper several times over in the course of the year by reading their advertisements and securing the bargains they offer from time to time. It will pay you to read the advertisements, just as it pays the merchant to advertise. Won't you have us put your name on the list? Only $1.00 A Merry Christmas to All - ONE DOLLAR ? 4??*44;?* #44.4-44-44 t-44 ^ UNDLEY ABERCROMBIE. I ' HY W. D. S. ? 3 * *? * * * 4 * ***** **4 14 4? 4 4 4 4 M *? Lindley Abercrombie, who lived on South Raburn creek, was a quiet, in oftensive, hard-working man, who at tended strictly to his own business and lot other people's alone. He raised a large family, and his sons still live in the old settlement. If Laurens county was full of such men you would have to lock up the jail, close the doors of the court house and the lawyers would have to hunt new avocations for a liv ing. 1 never heard of an Abercrombie bragging about how much cotton he made. Somehow it ran in the family to talk about corn, wheat, grain or stock. If you went to Lindley in the summer to buy corn he would tell you: "Yes, I have cribs of it on hand; but yon know my rule, not to sell any corn until the new crop is housed off the bottom land. Kabun creek is mighty uncertain, and there might come a freshet and destroy all my corn. I am always on the safe side." He made his own Hour barrels. He seasoned the staves well and charred them Over a fire of shavings before carrying them to mill to have his Hour packed in them. He told me that he never sold his flour under six dollars a barrel. If flour was five dollars he carried it home and stored the barrels in an open log house, often keeping it two and three years. "Mr. 'Crombie, won't the worms get in it, and it get musty?" "No; it will improve by age?gets a rich yellow color. Sometimes a few worms will get around the head of the barrel. If you have well seasoned and Are-dried barrels your flour will keep for years." The old man would have made a fine citizen for Joseph, down in Egypt?to gather In the corn. A Utile Quarrel Willi the Pnrmcr. Farmers in this Piedmont region take special delight in doing the wrong thing. They sin against light and knowledge. They go cheerfully the wrong way. For several years they have been instructed in the right way and knowing the right, the wrong they continue to walk in. They know well enough that the only way to im prove their land is by a judicious rota tion of crops. This cannot be brought about except by the liberal sowing of small grain and pears. We believe that to-day the middle of December, there is a smaller acreage, sown in small grain than any year for the last five. The careless farmers offer many ex cuses satisfactory to themsolvc;., but 4\w real reason is that cotton has boon selling from in to 11 1-2 cents and they believe (hat they can get that price next f;dl. So they will not bother with small grain and cowpean, but will fall back on Cotton and live on Western flour and bacon. Cotton alone is the beut lazy man's crop in the world. He cause he get* a few dollars in the fall al>ove all expenses, he acts an though hir. farm wan covered with money, and then before March he Im not coin enough of his own make to feed a half dozen chickens. Some of the farmers say that they will sow oats in the Spring. That is better than not sowing anything for it will give them land to sow or plant peas. Again, for the nineteenth time, we warn them that the only road open to a manly, independent life on the farm is by a rotation of crops by which much corn, small grain and peas shall be raised and the cotton yield per acre doubled. Will you join the progressive crowd, or continue iu the old lazy, thriftless ways?- Ex. Collections on subscriptions for THE ADVERTISER for the past week have been disappointing. We had hoped that we would be able to make sufficient collections to make Christmas cheerful and happy in THE ADVERTISER busi ness office, but wo "fell down." We suppose everybody was so busy provid I ing Santa Claus at home that THE ADVERTISER dependents were forgot ten. While you are looking over this paper, please look on the front page at the label, and if it does not mark '"08" kindly bring or send your subscription dues before New Year's Day. Personally, we do not know nearly all the subscribers to this newspaper, but we know nearly all by reputation, and we are confident they are all good for the price of their subscriptions. We keep in touch with them through their neighbors, and when we find that a man won't pay we drop his name from the subscription list. If your name is on the list, we believe that you are all right. Don't abuse our confidence, but sustain the reputation that your neigh bors give you. A woman, famous as one of the most kindly and loving among society leaders of Ihe best American society, once said: ,"If I have been"able to accomplish anything in life it is due to a word spo ken to mi in the right season, when I was a child, by my old teacher. I was the one homely, awkward girl in a class of exceptionally pretty ones, and being also dull at my books became the butt of the school. I fell into a morose, de spairing state, gave up study, with drew unto myself and grew daily more bitter. "One day the French teacher, a gray haired old woman with keen eyes and a kind smile, found me crying. '* 'What is the trouble, my child?' she said. " '0, madame, I am so Ugly!" I sobbed out. Sh" soothed me, but did not contradict mc. "Presently sho took me to her room and, after amusing me for some time, said: 'I have a present for you,' hand ing me a scaly, coarse lump covered with earth. 'It is round and brown as yoiii "Ugly" did you say? Very well, we wdl call it by your name, then. It is you. Now you shall plant it, and water it, and give it sun for a week or two.' "I planted it and watched it care i fully. The green leav*a came first, and at last the golden Japanese hly, th A Disappointment. Hidden Beauty. first I had ever seen. Madame came in to H tare my delight. 'Ah,' she said significantly, 'who would believe so much beauty and fra grance were shut up in that little, rough, ugly tiling?' "It was the first time that it ever oc curred to me that, In spite of my ugly face, I, too, might be able to win friends and to make myself beloved in I the world. " ? Young People's Weekly. PRACTICAL DEMONSTRATORS. As will be seen by reference to tho list published in this issue of THE A? VBRTISER, Gl in number, Special Agent J. M. Jenkins has secured as demon strators some of the very best farmers in Laurens county to test for themselves the experiments already proved by the government to be practical. It is among such men as are found in this list that one would expect to find men who are willing to learn. Men who have already learned something are al ways ready to learn more. It is the person who has not learned anything who does not feel the need of informa tion. Local and Personal Miss Annie Sitgreaves, who is teach ing at Woodruff's, came home Thurs day to spend a few days with her parent;:, Mr. and Mrs. .1.10. Sitgreaves, but is this week the guest of friends at Mayesville. The children of the First Methodist church Sunday school will have a splen did Christmas tree tonight. Misses Donie Counts, Nan and Claire Rarnett, Sara Rabb, Charlotte Mc (Jowan, Mamie Tolbert, Ruth Payne, Lillie Miller, Eleanor Duckett, Kate Wright and Cora Armstrong, the bright and charming Winthrop girls, arrived Saturday. Miss Whitam, a member of the faculty of Winthrop, whose home is in far-away Wisconsin, will arrive Thurs day, to spend the remainder of the holidays with Miss Donie Counts. Dr. and Mrs. 0. R. Mayer and chil dren, of Newberry, and Dr. and Mrs. O. W. Leonard, of Spartanburg, are guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Jones. Mrs. P. D. Huff and daughter, Miss Carrie HufF, of St. Albans, S. C., arc visiting Mr. and Mrs. Augustus Ilulf. Mr. E. A. Huff, of Greenville, is visiting in the city. Mr. Thomas Ray, who has been buy ing cotton at Abbeville this season, is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. P. Ray. Prof, and Mrs. T. V. Jones, of Wood ruff, are in the city. Rev. and Mrs. W. B. Harre are now occupying the E. W. Martin residence. Mr H. A. Anderson, of Waterloo, was in the city Monday. The Columbia "State" recently of fered an interesting contest to its read ers with a $2r>.()(? prize to the winner. The contestants were supposed to <ie cide upon what they considered the host advertisement in tho "State" of De cember 15th and then to write an arti cle giving briefly (heir reasons for BO deciding. The winner of the prize was Chas. U. Singleton, of Manning, but of the 2LM> papers submitted to the judge.1; in the contest several of the best were printed in the "State" of Sunday, among them u very clever argument in the favor of the advertisement of her choice by Mrs. H. K. Aiken, of Laurena. MEASUREMENTS OF A MI/LIE. Those Bought for British Army Must Meet a Certain Standard. "Three hundred mules with empire waists and chest measurements of 61 inches are preparing for a tour of In dia," said Robert L. McDonald, of Kansas City, last [night. "A British oflicer has been in Kansas picking them up. The party will sail this month, and this will be a chance for those rovers who turn up when the British want muleteers to get a ride in a transport to Calcutta. This is as far as the mules will be taken by the mu leteers, but they themselves are to go up the Himalaya mountains. India, being a fearfully hot place, is shunned by the aristocratic officers of the con tingent of the army there. The poor subaltern spends his leave of absence on the coast, where it is cheap. The real swell goes to the Himalayas. "There is where the Missouri mules are going. Their baggage will consist of machine guns and ammunition. They will travel in parties, one carrying a small cannon, another a pair of wheels for it, another the carriage, and the balance will carry ammunition. It is not for the looks of things that the British now demand a mule with a 61 inch chest measurement, but because I the Britisher never overlooks a bet. He set out to carry his mountain guns on Missouri nudes and he found, after his experience with tens of thousands of them during the Boer war, that the best mule born for Tommy Atkins' job is a short-coupled nude from fifteen to fifteen and a half hands high and 61 inches around the girth. "Harness was made by the train load for this sized animal, and that explains why the officer now in Kansas is so particular as to the girth measurement. The harness for slinging the parts of a machine gun consists of leather and steel or brass parts. Our mule packers, who get $75 a month in our own army, know the advantage of having a mule fit the pack or the pack fit the mule, When lie gets both he is a happy trans portation boss. The British make them an actual state of affairs by making their trappings all one size, and then finding mules to fit. The advantage is realized when a mule falls in action and an understudy has to shoulder his load; or, during the march, when it is necessary to relieve the gun train by fresh mules. "The 'Empire waist' means a short coupled mule. Tim British army buy ers' rule is for 'a head like a picture, legs like bars of iron and feet like ma sons' melts, short in his couplings and intelligent.' To this is added in the mule department a chest measurement of <>1 inches. Muleteers are paid for tin? outward hound trip of the British transports, and are returned to Kansas City. If they elect to remain st the foreign station, they sacrifice their right to claim passage Jiome later on. They ordinarily go direct from the United States, but are brought back via England. "?Washington Post. 9,281,077 BALES GINNED. The Census Bureau Issues Bulletin mi Cotton Crop. Washington, Dee. 20.-The census bureau today issued a bulletin showing that the total amount of cotton of this year's growth in the United States ginned up to December 13 last was 9, 281,077 bales, as compared with 11,112, 789 for the same period last year, and 9,297,810 for the same period in 1905. The number of round bales included is 137,485 for 1907, and 243,090 for 190(5 and 252,137 for 1905. Sea Island included 05,145 bags for 1907, and 49, 301 for 190G and 90,836 for 1905. The total crop of 1906 was 12, 983,201, and for 1905 was 10, 495,145. The per cent, of crop ginned to December 13 was 85.6 for 1906, and 88.6 for 1905. For 1907 there were ginned to December 1st 8,343,390 bales. In the total for this year's growth there were ginned to December 13 the running bales, counting round bales as half bales, and excluding Hilters, are distributed by States as follows: Ala bama, 902,022 bales, 3,421 active gin neries; Arkansas, 572,105 bales, 2,086 ginneries; Florida, 45,747 bales, 242 gin neries; Georgia, 1,032,405 bales, 4,512 ginneries; Kentucky, 1,103 bales, 2 gin neries; Louisiana, 502,091 bales, 1,821 ginneries; Mississippi, 1,119,244 bales, 3,487 ginneries; Missouri, 23,674 bales, 73 ginneries; New Mexico, 55 bales, 2 ginneries; North Carolina, 525,917 bales, 2,090ginneries:, Oklahoma, 686,078 bales, 955 ginneries; South Carolina, 1,014,711 bales, 3,150 ginneries; Tennessee, 204, 467 bales, 651 ginneries; Texas, 1,987, 781 bales'; 3,957 ginneries; Virginia, (>, 787 bales, 97 ginneries. The distribution of the Sea Island cotton for 1907 by States is: Florida, 22,490 bags; Georgia, 32,99Gbags; South Carlina, 9.GG1 bags. The Maj?ic No. 3. Number throe is a wonderful mascot for Geo. II. Parais, of Cedar Grove, Me., according to a letter which reads: "After suffering much with liver and kidney trouble, and becoming greatly discouraged by the failure to find relief, I tried Electric Hitters, and as a result I am a well man to-day. The first bot bottle relieved and threo bottles com pleted the cure." Guaranteed boston earth for stomach, liver and kidney troubles by Laurens Drug Co. and Pal metto Drug Co., druggists. 50c. THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, County of Laukkns. By o. G. Thompson, Probate Judge: Whereas, Frank Hammond has made suit to me to grant him Letters of Ad ministration of the estate and effects of William P. Caine. These are, therefore, to cite and ad monish all and singular the kindred and creditors of the said William P. Caine, deceased, that they be and appear be fore me, in the Court of Probate, to l'<" held at Laurens C. IL, S. C, on the 10th day of January, 1008, next, after publication hereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said Administration should not be granted. Given under my hand this, 23d day of December, Anno Domini 1907. 0. G. THOMPSON, J. P. I,. G. The Marabou and the Hyena of Central Africa. BOTH VULTURES IN NATURE. Each Gorges Itself on Carrion, am! tho Bir?l and Beast OKen BotLlc For Their Food?Fairylike Plumes That Are a6 Light as Air. The ugliest storks in the world ni'O found ill southern Asia nud central Africa. Their flesh colored heads are only partially covered with si Iff, wiry feathers, an<l hanging on tho br< they bear a disgusting pouch, which answers the purpose of n crop. One of the largest of these storks Is the mara bou. It .stalks about the great sandy plains of central Africa with com posure and ft lordly grandeur, as If It welt; the most beautiful bird ill the world. Its hotly feathers are of n dull metallic green color, and its wings and tnil are dingy black. Looking ;ii the awkward creature, no one would sus pect that under Its ungainly uinur-< it carried the most exquisite and fairy like little i>lunies, so airy that it hikes baskotfuls of them to weigh an ounce. They are pure while and so much de sired for trimming thai tho bird is vig orously hunted by the natives, who sell those dainty feathers to traders for a very largo price. The marabou feeds on carrion, like the vulture. Its lhio.it Is very large, and it will greedily oal everything that comes In Its way. In the BWatlips ami plains around Khartum, on the Nile, are Immense flocks of marabous, and they are so daring as to conic to the slaughter houses on the outskirts of the city in search of food, mid whole ox ears and shin bones with hoof at tached have been found I the crops; of Specimens which have been killed, i These birds are skillful Ushers. They liatint the low marshy islands in the rivers and lakes of central Africa, with elephants, monkeys, flamingoes and ninny varieties of birds for coinpnu ions, and gain their principal food from ; tho water. They of ton go hi COinp.l nles of ten or twelve to fish, Wading hi the water, the birds form a circle, which they gradually draw together, gathering the frightened flsll In the center of the net, when with their long bills ami quick movements c oy speed ily provide themselves with a hearty meal. Although marabou mammas have been seen proudly parading around With a brood of diminutive downy young ones, so shy and retiring Is this bird III Its domestic habits that nat uralists have been unable to determine! when and how It builds Its host. The natives assert that It nosts In high trees, but their statement is not con firmed. In captivity the marabou Is lord of the Inclosufe, and in zoological gardens, where specimens have been COIlfiucd, no other birds of 0V0H small ben its dare approach the feeding trough un til the hunger Of this impudent bird Is I satisfied and It has retired to the warm est corner for a nap. The lunnenso strength of Itsjdll makes ft a formhbi-l Wo enemy, uud when fighting for food it will often overcome the largest vul tures and wngo successful battles with beasts of proy. viio hyona Inhabits tho same por tiouVof Asia and Africa as tbe mara bou, runt travelers give accounts of toixlHTo contests between these two sltt'uiar members of the animal king dom. Tho hyena Is called tho vulture among beasts, as it prefers carrion for Iis food, and as long as It can find dead animals to devour It leaves the Hoiks and herds in peace. Cowardly by nature, it rarely attacks man or boast unless driven to desperation by hungor. The striped hyena inhabits tbe north ern latitudes of Africa, Persia and Syria, while the spotted species, which is easily tamed and is sometimes call ed hyona dog, is found in large num bers in the vast plains of South Africa. The hyena is a strange looking beast. It has a big head and a heavy, shaggy mane. The hind part of its body Is much lower than Its shoulders, and Its hind legs are short. This odd forma tion gives it an awkward, shambling manner of walking, which Is both lu dicrous and hideous. This creature rarely shows itself by day, but when tin; shadows of bight fall on the plains and forests It comes out from its home among the rocks and caverns in search of food. Afri can travelers are much annoyed by It. When tho camp is silent and all are Bleeping the hyena comes prowling round, uttering hoarse human cries, and should it fail to find sufficient camp refuse to satisfy Its hunger some pom- donkey is sure to bo torn In ploci 3 by its terribly strong jaws. IVw animals have boen tho subject of so much superstition. In ancient times it was believed that a dog went innd if a hyena turned its evil eyo up on it. anil the beast was believed by many to be a wicked sorcerer, who went about in human form by day and at night assumed tho shape of a hyena. The poor and Ignorant peas antry of Arabia oven at the prosent day believe in tho ovll eyo of this beast and are afraid to shoot It lout they should incur the wrath of the wicked spirit which they Imagine walks the earth In this ugly form. The poor hyena, howevor, far from being an evil spirit, Is a real blessing lo the regions it Inhabits, as it is a natural scavenger, provided by tho kind wisdom of naturo to clear tho ground of much loathsome and decay ing matter, thereby rendering the air SWOOter and. purer and move healthful. Tho Namo Bismarck. I . w people know how Bismarck and his ancestors got their name. Bls marck is Hie namo of ono of those (indent castles a short dlstai.ee from Stendal, on the road from Cologne to Berlin, in the center of tho old inar qulsato of Hrandenburg. Tho castlo had this name because It defended tho "marca." or the lino whero tho river Bieso formed a boundary In former times or mark of defense against In truders; hence tho name of Bismarck. When Greek Meets Qreek. "Groeious, my dear," said the first society belle. "I do hope you're not 111; you look so much older tonight." "I'm quite well, thank you, doar," re plied tho other. "And you?how won derfully improved you are! You look positively young."?I'hlladelphln Press. FARMERS' UNION MRBTS. Columbia Convention Said to Have Been Very Harmonious. Columbia, December 18. ?The much heralded mooting of the farmers' Un ion, about which there has been so much discussion the last week or two, was called to order in the city council chamber this morning by Pocaidonl C. S. Barrett of Georgia, the head of the national organization. 'the presence and participation of President Barrett in the meeting seems to have set at rest any doubts about the legality or regu larity of the meeting. There wore present about 40 or 50 delegates, representing about twelve counties. The meeting was seen ;. and no one was admitted whocould i the password, but it was stated open meeting would be held durinj the session. The morning session lasted until about 1 o'clock and adjournment was taken until 3 o'clock for the purpot u i f getting dinner. During the afternoon other delegates cames in on the train . After passing resolutions unanimously urging the South Carolina Legislature to repeal the lien law and endorsing the scheme for parcels post system, the Convention adjourned at 12 o'clock to night, to meet in Columbia on January 22, in the City Hail. President Goodwin was on hand, but did not preside over any of the sc. of the union. National President Bar rett filling the chair. The Convention is declared to havo been most harmonious, all differences being settled. "The recent differences, which have been so thoroughly aired in the public prints were more of a mare' i nest than anything else," declared a member of the Convention to-night. Columbia State. FINAL SETTLEMENT, Take notice that on the 21 st day of January, 1908, I will render a final uc count of my acts and doings as admin istrator of the estate; of B. Adkins, de ceased, in the office of the Judge of Probate of Laurons county at 11 o'clock a. m. and on the same day will apply for a final discharge from my trust as administrator. All persons indebted to said estate are notified and required to make pay ment on that date, and all persons hav ing claims against said estate will pre sent them on or before said date, duly proven, or be forever barred. J. W. Carden, Ancillary Administrator. Dec. 18, 10OY. 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