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?10U?T GALLAGHER MATTERS FOR WEEK Importance of School Libraries Emphas ized. Wind Storm Docs Slight ham aj?c. Personal Mention. ML Gallagher, May 3.?The farmers in this section ure getting along nicely with their farm work and if nothing prevents they will soon be through planting. It seems that the farmers arc working more together these days than they have since the war. They all ought to pull by the same cord and they would have things in their own hands. In this part of the country the acreage has been reduced to a certain extent, but they haven't reduced as much as they should. Mr. Furman Martin, who has been very ill with measles for quite a while, we are glad to say is somewhat better. It. is feared that he will never be able to walk any more. They seem to have paralyzed his legs. Mrs. Matilda Ann Boland, who has been very ill with grip, is hotter. Mr. .1. W. Washington and wife, of Townville, S. ('., have been visiting friends and relatives in this section, The Mt. Gallagher school has pur chased a new library. Every school in the State ought to have one. It is a benefit to both teacher and pupil. It helps the teacher to explain to the pu pils things he couldn't if he had no li brary, and they should be compelled to. The establishment of school libraries is one of the greatest helps toward train ing children we have. They spend their leisure time in reading good literature, something that will be beneficial to their future welfare. Everybody ought to take an interest in establishing these libraries; some people never give it one thought. They think if a man can read and write that it is enough, but the time has come when a man starts out in this old world without an education lie would be better olf if he hail not started. We had a wind storm in this section last week which came from the west. It didn't damage anything except the fruit trees. There was a good deal of hail also. The Sunday school at Mt. Gallagher is in a flourishing condition with James 10. Martin superintendent and .1. R. Redden vice superintendent. Rev. .1. (). Martin preached the fu neral of Mr. Murphy tiambrell on Sun day, the 26th. Mrs. .J. W. Ii. Hill, of the Bethlehem section, is visiting her mother this week. Mr. M. D. Singleton, of the Donalds section, spent Saturday night and Sun day with Mr. W. W. Gaines. Hie Gray Court Woodmen. Cray Court, May I. The W. ?. W. camp, which has not met for some time on account of being burned out about a year ago, has purchased hall fixtures and regalia and will soon be ready to introduce candidates seeking their way in the mighty forest to the bright path ways which lead out of such forests. We admire the courage of the officers of this camp in going forward in their work. The boys lost all they had in the tire and no insurance but not a member has failed to pay his dues and now all are ready and willing to do the noble work of reorganizing and getting down to their beneficiary work which always comes from a W. 0. W. camp like this. Monument Committee. At a meeting of the surviving soldiers of the county at the court house last August a resolution was passed that a committee be appointed to solicit funds for the erection at I.aun ns C II. of a monument^ to the memory of "our women in the war." After the ad journment of the meeting there was considerable expression of opinion that because of the fact that the effort to raise a fund to build a monument to the Confederate soldier was just then in its incipiency that it would be impolitic to launch the undertaking of a monument to the women, so the matter of a com mittee was postponed. Now we feel that this work should no longer be de ferred. The following are the names of the committee selected for this work. Bach township committee will select one of their number as chairman, j Then the several township chairmen will meet at the court house on the 2nd I Saturday in May and organize the County Association by the election of a president, vice president, secretary, treasurer and such other officers as the association may choose to elect: Laurens Township -Ceorge Balle, Homer Blackwell, Mrs. J. A. Copeland, Misses Nannie Babb, May Madden, Eliza Malone. Youngs?Misses Etolia Lanford, Nan Jones, (ieorgo Cook. Dial FestUS Curry, Misses Annie Putnam, Alma Wallace. Sullivan Win, II. Carter, Misses Maude Machen, Mary Babb. Waterloo Joshua Martin, Misses Ella Wharton, Laurens Culbertson. Cross Hill Horace S. McSwain, Mrs. Sophia Pinson, Miss Annie Griffin, Hunter J. L. Boyd, Miss Maude Pearson, Miss Mary B. Henry. Jacks -l'osey H. Copeland, Mrs. Jes sie Sparks, Miss Nettie Gary, Scufiletown J. P. Saxon, MiSBOB Pearl Blakely, Lizzie McCllntOCk, WALL STREET. Origin of the Western Hemisphere'* Most Famous Thoroughfare On tho morning of March 81, 1044, a man of clerkly appoaranco might bavo boon seen standin? at the entrauco to the dilapidated fortress of New Am sterdam with a sheaf of official papers In Iiis hand. It was not an Inviting prospect which confronted the observer that raw spring morning, for the roughly bullt wootlon hoiftes scattered about the fort looked sadly weather beaten, ami the Straggling, ill made roads and paths which served as streets wen? littered with refuse and rubbish of every sort and anklodecp in mud. The man at the fort did not, how over, waste much time in gazing at these? discouraging surroundings. They were familiar to him In every dreary detail, for Cornells Van TleilllOVOn had been secretary of the council tit New Amsterdam for many years, and If he had ever been disturbed by the pre vailing wretchedness of the town it had long since ceased to afford him the slightest concern, slowly turning bis hack to the view, ho lacked ono of his otllclal documents to the wnll of the fort and then, swinging about ami picking Ids wuj across the miry ground to a convenient tree, affixed an other paper. Van Tlenhoven'? handwriting was easily read. Indeed, gtK>d penmanship was the only qualification he had over displayed for his ofllcc, and that virtue had wholly failed to endear him to the populace, who haled the very sight of his clerical fist. The particular notice ho had transcribed that morning, how ever, was singularly free from offense, It merely recited a resolut ion of I lie di rector and council of New NethcrlfUld that a barrier be erected at the north of the settlement sufficiently Btrong to prevent the straying of oul tie and to protect them from the Indians and "warned" all interested persons to ap pear on "next .\ tuday, the -lib of April, at 7 o'clock," for the prosecution of this work. It was not long, therefore, before the colonists were hard at work at the projected caftle guard, and within a few days it stood completed. There is no authoritative Information as to bow it was constructed, but there is evi dence that It consisted mainly of un trlmmcd trees felled at the edge of the adjoining forest and piled together to form a sort of barricade and that Its northern line, running certainly from the present William street, New York city, to what is now Broadway and possibly from shore to shore, marked the farthest limits of New Amsterdam, as It then existed, and practically de termined the location of Wall street. Such was the origin of the best known thoroughfare of the western hemisphere. Frederick Trevor Hill in Harper's Magazine. Oriental Secret Telegraphy. In Asia and Africa the natives pos sess a mystic power of rapidly ^id se cretly communicating news over vast distances. An Instance of this strange faculty was furnished during the In dian frontier expedition against (he Wazlrls in IS05. Sovonty-fivo miles as the crow tiles and I'JO miles by moun tain roads from their base at Sheik Itudln the British troops defeated the Wa/.iris. Heavy inlSt prevented the news of this success being heliograph ed until the following day, when, com munication being opened up, the Brit ish officer at Sheik Budin anticipated the news of the Victory by statin1; he had been informed of it by natives on the very evening of its occurrence. The most famous instance of this sort is associated with the assassination of Lord Mayo by a convict in the Anda man Islands. Within a few hours of (ids murder an English official at Sim la was told by his I'athan servant that | the viceroy was dead. Telegrams an nouncing tin; UOWS did not arrive until the next day. How such messages are transmitted is hidden from Europeans, but ago hi and again in India, as also In Egypt during the Sudanese cam paigns and lu South Africa during the Boer war. the Authenticity ami speed In such native telegraphy were proved. Founder of Eleotrical Science. Dr. Gilbert of Colchester, England, is generally considered as the founder of the science of electricity. He appears to have been the first philosopher to ropoat carefully the observations of the ancients and apply to them the principles of scientillc investigation. In order to determine if other bodies possessed the same property as amber he balanced a light metallic needle on a pivot and observed whether or not it was affected by causing the excited or rubbed body to approach it. In this way he discovered that many bodies possessed the property of attracting light substances. Gilbert also discov ered the fact that atmospheric condi tions have much to do with electrical phenomena. Gilbert's l>ook. "Do Mag neto," may be fairly considered the pioneer work in electrical science.? New York American. The Stone Age. The stone age still exists among some of the Islanders of tho south Pncllic and the Eskimos of the extreme north as well as In a few other spots here and there on the earth. The progress of early culture hi Europe seems to have been from the south and east toward the north and west, so tlu?t the emer gence of the different peoples from their age of stone was Accomplished much earlier In southern and eastern Europe than lu the north and west. Hut, while the stono ago of different areas Is thus not necessorlly synchro nous, It seems to be true of all Euro pean areas that this is the earliest con dition In which man has appeared upon them. This holds for all other areas as well, evidences of the Stono age having been fully established in Iudla. China, Japan, Africa and the Americas. Freaky Mental Notes. "Have you evor noticed what strange memoranda man's mind makes?" ask ed the observant Inquisitor. "You havo me,t people who cannot remember 2424 except ns a number which they call 'twlco 1212.' That's an ordinary case, but I think I got across a champion freak mind the other day when I wns looking Tip n man who bus been dead for some fifteen years. 1 got to his neighborhood and began Questioning the old timers. es, i remember Char ley Johnson well enough, sure I do,' said one old follow. Then I wanted to know what Charley Johnson's trade had been. 'Fl'm, Charley Johnson's trade?' answered my informant in a perplexed tone. 'Cbnrioy Johnson's trade?' Well, darn It, what was bis trade now? What did Charley do. any way? Just wait a minute. I know that there Is something here In the house that will remind mo what his trade was. Just let mo look around n min ute. Let us Bee, what was It now? That's right, that's right; there I have it. Charley was a baker. That's right. You see that there picture over there? it has some Dutch writing under It. That reminds mo of Dutch cake and makes me think of it that Charley was a baker.' Now, whnt do you think of dial'/ Why couldn't that freak mind Just as easily remember that Charley was a baker as remembering the labo rious process for refreshing Its mem ory?" Philadelphia Keeord. Tho Englishman's Letter. "Whenever 1 get a letter with a Btring of unnecessary Instructions for delivery on (he envelope I know It Is from an Englishman," said the tall girl. "He is so used to covering every scrap of space with the complex direc tions that prevail in his own country that he cannot understand how the simple address 'Miss Smith. 30 Blank Street, City,' will ever take a letter to Us destination. In order to insure safe and expeditious delivery he adds 'East Side' or 'West Side' or '.Manhattan' or 'United Slates' or somethingolso equal ly superfluous. Tho only really happy englishman I have met in a long while was one who made the acquaint ance of a girl who lives over on Staten Island, lie was tickled to death when lie gained permission to write to her and found she had a long address. He made it a good deal longer than it need be. lie wrote 1 ? Avenue, Stapleton, Staten Island, Itichtuond County, Now York, X. Y.,' with irrepressible glee, lie said that address was the first thing he hail seen in America that made him feel at home."?New York Sun. Artists have no trouble in securing models. The famous beauties have dis carded corsets and have become models in face and form since taking Ilollis ti r's Rocky Mountain Tea. Palmetto Drug Co. [COLUMBIAN JROCKPORT, INIcl Try A Sack. Ask your Grocer. If he hasn't got it tell him to get it from J. S. Machen & Co. Laurons, S. C Nitrate of Soda The finest Fertil izer for Top Dres sing-, beats cotton seed meal. Highly recommended in the ' 'Williamson" plan. We have Nitrate ^ of Soda in stock $r and solicit your ^ trade. I Kennedy Bros. EL Fl FOR IMPURE ? CLOOD I SCROFULA 1 BOILS & PIMPLES I SALT I RHEUM I TETTER I ECZEMA 8 ETC* m HOT SPRINGS jjj RLOOD REMEDY \j HAS NO !;;.:;al Ibsens aassaasai BLOOD Purifies the Blood We wanted a good remedy for blood and skin diseases?something different from old fashioned blood purifiers. Wo wanted a genuine scieutilie remedy not a patont medicine "cure-all" that really cures nothing. ''?..Sl?i We considered many kinds. Then we found Nyal's Hot. Springs Rlood Remedy and after studying it carefully we knew it was just the thing. It is of an original formula, intended for the HOME TREAT MENT of those who are unable to go to the famous Hot Springs for their health, and its effect, in blood and skin diseases (such as boils, pimples, rheumatism, tet ter, eczema, salt rheum, etc.) is remark able indeed. The price is $1.00 and it "always benefits the blood." Laurens Drug Co. Laurens, S. C. FEEL1NQ IAD? BtomMh out of onlor, Mror ftlnaolth, Uowels nil cloggod m>, And >.>n hftto Um* it l.cono-tlrod-ont'feellngl Takes an NR Tablet To-night. For Sale by Palmetto Drug Co. 333 This is the number of a fine bleach ed mercerized Linen Table Cloth just opened at $1.50 each. Special value in Napkins and Tow els. Hemmed and Fringed White Counterpanes at a bargain. - n W. Q. Wilson & Co. The Economical Man::::: The man who figures his paint expense, not by the first cost, but on the broad basis of cost per mouth or year?he is the man who considers all the elements entering into the paint question?he s the man who fig ures on MASTIC MIXED PAINTS "The kind that Lasts" It is a demonstrated fact that Mastic Paint, covering 300 square feet, two coats, is cheaper at fifty per cent, higher price than a paint covering 200 square feet, to say nothing of its durability. So the economical man can safely figure it is wise economy to use Mastic Mixed Paints. It lasts long after the price is forgotten. Manufactured by PEASLEE-G AULBERT CO. Incorporated, LOUISVILLE, KY. For Sale at Laurens, S. C, by DODSON-EDWARDS DRUG CO. We are Agents for Hudnut's Fine Perfumes and Toilet Waters. The prettiest and best line in the city. Palmetto Drug Co. ! "The world pays a salary for what you know, wages for what you do." The man who works for wages has but one way of getting above and away from the siUnulon-by saving. It is just a matter of time, if he saves a part of his earnings, before he can en ter into business for himself, buy a farm or what not. We pay all savers 4 per cent, interest. WE PAY 5 PER CENT ON TIME CERTIFICATES. Enterprise Bank Laurens, S. C.