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SCHOOL NEWS NOTES OF MENS COUNTY The Schools, Teachers and Pupils. The teachers' meeting Saturday was well attended. The programme was carried out. and the meeting was bene ficial to all present. Mr. Milton Wilson, one of our scho larship students at Clemson, spent Easter at his home near Shiloh. Mr. Wilson visited the Shiloh High school before returning to Clemson. The Laurens High school held Its preliminary contest last Friday night. The school auditorium was beautifully decorated with flowers and ferns. The house was well filled with an Inter ested and appreciative audience. Four teen young men were on the stage and they all spoke well. Mr. Phil Huff was given the medal. He will represent the Laurens school In the April con test. Prof. H. B. Dominick from Fountain inn was down on business last Sat urday. The Mountville High school will have Its preleminary contest Friday night. Robert Thornton. William Fellows, and Watts Hudgens will compete for the honor of representing their school in the April contest. A handsome prize will be given to the best speaker of the evening. Dr. Hughes will deliver an addresB on Hygiene. The evening will be pleasant ami instructive. The public is Invited to be present. The trustees of the Waterloo High school are taking steps to enlarge their school building. They will spend something like $1,000 on the house this summer. The people of Cross Hill f will also make an addition to their building during the summer. They will build four additional rooms to their present house. The schools at these two places are growing so rapidly that larger and more up to date houses are necessary. Hon. J. E. Swearlngen. State Super intendent of Education will address the people of Waterloo in the school house on the night of the Kith. in response to a call from Sltpt. 1*1118 the principals of the eight county High schools met in his office last Sat urday at 10 o'clock to make final ar rangements concerning the Inter- High School coi.test which will take place on April 22nd. The judges selected are: Solicitor R. A. Cooper. Rev. 11. II. Crier. II. B. Dominick. Rev. Hoheit Adams, and Rev. Mr. Green of Green wood. The order In which the hoys will spenk Is ns follows: Shiloh. Clin ton, Laurens, Cross Hill. Green Fond, Cray Court, Mountville, Waterloo Committee on programme, music etc. consists of B. L. Jonos, B. L. Parkin son, and O. L. Pitts. Prof. C. P. Owings and Mr. Clyde Curry from Green Pond High school came down for the preliminary con test Friday night. The regular spring teachers' exami nation will be held on the 6th of May. The examination will be held in the court house beginning at J? o'clock. At J[0 o'clock the doors will he closed and thoso who come later than that hour will not be allowed to stand. Who Will Contribute 1 A great deal is being said and writ ten about the Boys' Corn club. A ride through the country will convince anyone that there Is more going on besides talk and writing. Everybody both old ami young are talking corn. More corn will be planted this spring than ever before, and the preparation is certainly far better than In previous . years. Another good sign Is the gen eral cry for hogs. It seems that every body wants to buy pigs and shoats. All this means that our farmers have concluded to keep their corn-cribs and smoke-houses In tho west no longer. The Boys' Corn club will mean much to the county toward educating our boys how to grow corn. The boys are taking hold of the matter with a de termination to succeed. We have 14f) boys in the club. We have the largest (dub in the stau; and from the inieiest ' the boys are manifesting we will make a good showing at the Columbia Corn Exposition. Now these boys are offered prizes ' that amount to about $la0. This mon ey must come from men who are Inter ested in our boys and in the wealth of our country. We all depend large " ly upon the country products. Then let's encourage the hoys. All over the state wo see that banks, merchants, tributtng money for these prizes. It Is desired that the money for these prizes In Laurens county be a free-will offering. We have wealthy bankers, merchants, doctors, lawyers, editors, mill men, farmers etc. who should be glad to contribute to such a cause. The money will not bo called for un til September, but we want to get the promise of it within the next few weeks. Write the county superintend ent of education the amount you wish to give. He will appreciate it, the county and especially the members of the corn club will appreciate it, and It will be the best advertisement you ever made. Twelve Tilings to do This Month. 1. Get the land ready for planting staple crops. Don't stop with plowing, but harrow and re-harrow until a per fect pulverized seed Oed is made. The best paying work Is done before plant ing. 2. Get good seeds for planting all crops. Don't depend on just what you can pick up and don't wait till planting time to buy or select. 3. Select, prepare and plant special "seed patches" for your seed corn and cotton another year. 4. Get the harrows and weeders out and begin using them. The new It's? "Horses and Harrows" will do twice the work of the old II's?"Hired Hoe I lands." 6. Keep the fire out of the fields. As Dr. Knapp says, "Use more sense and less fire." The greatest need of our Southern soils Is humus, the most ex pensive fertilizer is nitrogen; rotting trash and grass supply both. 6. Keep the garden going. Don't for get that almost everything from rad ishes to beans and from lettuce to corn should be planted this month. 7. Spray and prune and cultivate your orchard. Don't turn it over to the fungus diseases and insect pests, even if it is a little late to start fight ing them. 8. Arrange a series of lots for hog pasturing. With Southern pasturing crops we can make pork more cheaply than Western farmers can, but wo can't compete using corn alone. !?. (Jet busy In the poultry ward. Don't have chicks hatched with no pro vision made to take care of them and don't put It off until hot wenther. It), (live tho work stock special care. Don't allow them to get poor or have them suffering from sore backs and shoulders. 11. Screen the doors and windows, clean up the back yard and about the barn, get rid of stagment water about the house. Files carry typhoid; mos quitoes cause malaria. Keep them out. 12. Fix up the house and yard. Don't allow your homo to be lacking In that beauty which Is Its inherent right.? Progressive Farmer. POINTS FROM PRINCETON. Layman's Missionary Meeting Held at Columbia Church. Princeton, April 2.?At the Colum bia church there was held on last Sunday a Layman's missionary meet ing which was addressed by Rev. R. J. Williams and Mr. Lawton of Green ville and Col. John H. Wharton of Waterloo. Easter egg hunts were given by Miss Maude Machen to hor Sunday school class and by Mrs. J. L. Hngwell for tho pupils of her school. Mr. C. A. Power of Laurens was in this section last week surveying for one or two parties. Messrs J. E. Allen and J. R. Calla ham of Honea Path were visitors to Princeton this week. Mr. J. C. Mllford of Greenville was bore on business last Friday. Mr. and Mrs. T. H. ('arter spent last Sunday at Honea Path with their daughter ,Mrs. .T. E. Allen. Mr. Frank Minor of Clinton was a recent vlstor to this place. Mrs. Mary W.Carter has closed a successful years' work as teacher of the Lebanon school, Croenvi.'e coun ty, and Is now at home. Messrs J. F. Cox of Greenville and W. M. Ellison of Honea Path were in town Tuesday on business. Rev. and Mrs. R. J. Williams of Greenville Bpent Easter here. Worse than Kullefs. Pullets have often caused less suf fering to soldiers than the eczema L. W. Hnrrlman. Purlington, Me., got It In the rrniy, and suffered with it forty years. "Hut Hucklon's Arnica Salve cured me when all else failed," he writes. Croatest healer for Sores, Ul cers, Holls. Burns, Cuts. Wounds, Hiuises and Piles. 260 at Laurons DAMON AND PYTHIAS. According und Yo Editor of (lie Ander? son Daily Mail. News and Courier. (Editor's Note: In the Issue of The News and Courier of March 11, ap peared an inquiry by Mr. A. E. Evlson of Barn well, regarding the real history Concerning Damon and Pythias. We are here reproducing the real "his tory" of the story, as told by the edi tor of the Anderson Dally Mall, and trust that It will prove satisfactory. Perhaps Mr. Evlson Is not acquainted with our good friend Brother Car penter; If not, this will prove a most excellent Introduction.) The "history" Is as follows: Pythias was a married man in an cient Syracuse. He went on a whiz one night and got into an awful scrape. He smashed a show ease in a cigar store, and ate a steak In the cafe and wouldn't pay for It. and raised a rough house generally, and finally wound up by trying to go to bed in the piano at the moving pic ture show. The police got him, of course, and tho next morning the re corder, Dionysius, gave him a sentence of thirty days without the alternative of a fine. Now, as they were taking the prisoners down the street to the rock pile, Damon, one of Pythias' neighbors, came along. "Hail!" cried Pythias, or words to that effect. "Say, you've got to he a friend. I want you to go to my wife, and prove an alibi for me. Tell her the firm has sent me to Greenville to look after some bad debts, or any other He that you can think of if It Is a better one, and make her believe It. I'll do as much for you some day." He would have talked more, but the guard punched him In the ribs and told him to gadap. Now, about three months before this Damon and Pythias had both been trying to hire the same stenographer and Pythias had won out. So, on this beautiful, bright spring morning Damon didn't do a thing but go to Pythias' house and told just what had happened. He told the whole naked truth without con cealing a single thing. And about fourteen minutes later he came hot footing it into the police station, minus his hat and with Ills face torn and his shirt front all blooded up. and this was the story he told: "Hun for your lives, you fellows. Pythias' old wife. Phllopena, Is on the warpath. Sho Is armed with a gun and a rasor and n hat pin, and she says she is coming up here and clean out this whole works. And she'll come Jolly well near doing it. too, for you see what sho has done for me." Now. the sergeant was a married man him self. He sent an offcer post haste to tho chalngang, and had Pythias brought back to the station house. They took the stripes off him and gave him back his clothes and u Pro mo seltzer, which braced him up. and sent him to his ofllce, and when Phllopena got there they said they hadn't Been Pythias in a month and didn't know anything about him. Phllopena went on to her husband's ofllce. and when she got there he was working on the books like all pos essed. But he wasn't napping -no, indeed. He beat her to It and lit In and gave her a 1 Bio of talk about how he had been called out of town sud denly the afternoon before. and couldn't get her on the 'phone, and had told the boys in the ofllce to let her know about It and they had for gotten it, and he had Just gotten In and had to stop by the ofllce and go over the books because he couldn't depend on anybody to keep things straight, and he was going on up to the house In B little while, for ho came from over yonder on tho early train and hadn't had any breakfast, and, oh dear, do sit down, he said. When Phllopena told him what Damon had said he was very much astonished, and then looked sad, and ho said he did not intend to tell her, but that he had noticed that Damon had been acting strangely for some time, and, really he was afraid ho had begun doping. Phllopena believed It or pre tended that sho did. which always amounts to the same thing. She said she had been so worried, but It was all right now, and it was a pity he had to work so hard and be away from home so much, for she did miss him so much when he was away. And then she sighed and said It was such a pity about Mr. Damon, but she wasn't suiplrsed, Considering the kind of a wife be had, for she was so ex travagant, and didn't half keep the house, nnd was always nagging at him. Whoreunon Pvlhlus f.i.i. immiu wiin I himself behind his back. Then Philo? j pena straightened up the paperb on the desk and fidgeted about for a while, and then sighed again and again and said that now that as she j was up-tOWU she guessed she had bet | ter do that shopping that she had j been thinking about, as it would save another trip and it was, so much trou ble to fix up, and would Pythias please let her have forty dollars. Pythias coughed up llie money without bat j ting nn eye. and Phllopena took it j and went out. winking at herself as she went, and Pythias spent the rest of the dav talking to himself and kicking the chairs around. And now we come to the saddest part of It all, for Damon and Pythias were never friends any more. In fact they never spoke to each other again as long as they lived, and they always acted as if they were afraid to get within reach of each other. Damon moved to Newberry not long afterward and that was the last that anybody ever heard of him. This, children, is the true story of it. Of corse it is told somewhat differently in the histories, but his tories are always unreliable. You would do weil if you would never be lieve anything you read in the his tories unless you just know it is so. Now. Pythias was a pretty good sort of a chap in a way. and he had a lot i of friends, and thop managed to cover up the scandal. It would have been awful if it had gotten out on him, you know. The way they managed to cover il up was that they organized a lodge, and in this manner they kept the secret all to tin insolves. They call ed the lodge the Knights of Pythias. Other lodges were organized from time to time, to meet similar emergencies and the thing kept on growing, until today the Knights of Pythias is one of the strongest secret societies in the county, it also claims to be one of the most noblest. Some of the very best peoplo belong to it. for. you see, yon can't get so many people into a thing without having some of them a hove the average. Pour papa belongs to it. Thank you. children. The Knights of Pythias is really a splendid organization, and it does a lot of good. The only deception it practices on the public is the name, for it is not the Klnghts of l'ythlas at all. but the Nights of Pythias. For when the lodge meets the members 1 get up and talk about what an old soak l'ythlas was, ami how ho used to spend his nights, and how we must never go and do likew ise When new members are brought in. the first lesson impressed upon . iem is that while it is possible to i i a woman If we will all stick together, it can't be done every time, nnd it Is ever so much betler If wo don't do anything lo make- ll necessary to try It. An other lesson Impressed upon tho young members Is that ir they will slay at , home of nights and behave themselves they may not have quite so much fun. , but they will feel a winde lot better the next morning and they won't bo afraid to go tip-town, It is a very beautiful lesson. You just ought to hear Prank Lander giving the lec ture. I le is line on It. One of the mottoes of the Knights of Pythias is that those who make hay should live in glass houses. An other is that an honest man never gets fat. It has been said by envious and malicious people -those who have been blackballed, perhaps- that another of the mottoes is (hat the Lord admireth a Cheerful liar, but that Is a mistake. There Is no such motto In our noble order. We hove told yon all this, children, so you will Understand why it is thai papa has to go up.town tonight. You see. all the Knights of Pythias In An derson county are coming to the city tonight to be the gues?s of Chhpiola lodge at a banquet in Maple hall. There are six or eight lodges In the county, and every member Is coming, or most of them, so there will be a big crowd. I It Is a greot honor for Chlquola lodge to be able to entertain all her brethren and we are going to spread ourselves. I It Is going to be n BcrumptlOU8 affair. 'There will be eatables and drinkables and smokeables from who laid the. rail, nnd speech making to beat the band. There will be speeches by such men ns George Rombert and Klbert Aull nnd Paul Sullivan anil other big noises, and your papa may have to make a speech himself. You see, when n man belongs to a lodge he has cer tain duties which cannot be shirked. Of course, this banquet Is putting a lot of hard work on some of us. but we don't mind It. for there Is nothing i Oo i ic, l uo i .air, to think about taking out a policy on your house if it is already burning. We take a risk but not a certainty. If you have taken time by the forelock, and insured your property against tiro, you have the Absolute Certainty that the company Will pay all your losses. The race is to the swift, and you owe it to your family to protect them from all troubles. Do not bo a laggard. E.H.WILKES&SON Stocks - Bonds - Insurance Enterprise Bank Building Laurens, S. C. CHANGING AN A D VERT IS EM EN T DOES NOT CHANGE THE SUBJECT.... I am still prepared to do all kinds of WATCH, CLOCK and JEWELRY Repairing at Moderate Prices, and Guarantee all my Work. A Full Line of EASTER GOODS .lust Received. WATCIIKS, CHAINS, BHACHI.KTS, RINGS, NKCK-CHAINS, LOCKFTS, AND NOVF.I/IIF.S. Wm. Solomon The Reliable Jeweler. Next to Hotel, I.aureus, S. C. other people happy. Remember that children. Now, children, It may bo :.' or ?. o'clock before your papa gets homo. He Will all tuckered out and will want ; to sleep late in the morning, Plenso don't make any fuss when yon got up. And now, children, good-night. ! Pleasant dreams! HOW TO Cl'HK Uli Fl M A l l SM. It Is an Internal Disease and Requires an Internal Remedy. The cause of Rheumatism and kin dred diseases is an excess of uric ' acid in the blood. To cure this terrible disease this acid must he expelled and the system so regulated thai no more acid will be formed fp excessive quantities. Rheumatism is an Internal disease and requires an internal reine I dy. Rubbing Wllh Oils and Liniments , will not cure, affords only temporary ! relief at best, causes you to delay this proper treatment, allows the malady to get a tinner hold on you. Liniments may ease the pain, but they will no : more cure Rheumatism than pnlnI will change the fibre of rotten wood Science has at last discovered a per. i feet and complete cure, which is call i ed "Rhoumaclde." Tested in hundreds , of cases, It has effected the most mar velous cures: we believe tt Will cure you. RheUinaCldfl "gets at the joints from the inside." sweeps the poisons out of the system, tones up the stom ach, regulates the liver and kidneys and makes yon well all over. Rhou maclde "strikes the root of the (Ils en S6 and removes its cause." This 1 splendid remedy is sold by druggists and dealers generally at f?0C. and $1 a bottle. In tablet form at 2? and ROC a package. Qel a bottle today Book let free if you write to Bobbin Chem ical Co.. Baltimore. Md. Trial bottle I tablets 25C by mall. For sale by LAC .NUMBER 36 STATEMENT Oi' the Condition of The People* Loan and KxcllUllge Hank, Located at Lau* rens, S. C. at the Close of Business .March 24, I'.Mo. RESOURCES: Loans and Discounts .. ..$377,462.36 Overdrafts. 11,419.08 i Hunds and Stocks owned by the Mank. 37.000.00 Hanking House. 10,000.00 Furniture and Fixtures. .. 2,600.00 Due from Hanks and Hank ers. 21,034.06 Currency. 4,161.00 Cold. 3.110.00 Silver and other Coin. 3,631.56 Checks and Cash Hems. .. 1.490.69 Total.$471.707.75 LIABILITIES: Caplital Stock Paid In, ..$100,000.00 Surplus Fund. 26,000.00 Undivided Profits, less Cur rent Expenses and Taxes Haid. 84,294.23 Hue to Hanks and Hankers, 2,199.51 Dividends Unpaid. 40.00 Individual Deposits subject to Check. 163,690.94 Time Certificates of Deposit, 86,361.10 Cashier's Cheeks. 131.97 Hills Payable, including Cor tiflcatcs for Money Bor rowed. 20,000.00 Total.$471.707.75 State of South Carolina County of Laurens. sa. 1 Before me came c. w. Tune, Cashier of the above named bank, who, being duly sworn, says that the above and foregoing statement Is a true condi tion of said bank, as shown by the books of said hank. C. \V. TUNE. Sworn to and subscribed before me, this ?1st day of March, 1910. W. R. MoCuen, Notary Public, 8. C. Correct Attest: J. W. Todd, W. A. Watts. J. II. Sullivan, Directors. STATEMENT Of the Condition of The Enterprise Hunk, Located at Laurens, S. C,, at (he ( lose of Business March 24th, 1010. RESOURCES: Loans and Discounts.$245.514.69 Overdrafts. 7,166.21 Bonds and Stocks owned by the Hank. 7.218.75 I Banking House. 21,560.16 I Furnitur?' nnd Fixtures. .. 4,936.82 i Due from Hanks and Hauk i eis. 23,260.22 ! Currency. 4,128.00 Cold. 40.00 Silver and other Coin. .. 2.377.84 Checks and Cash Hems. .. 609.64 Total.$316.700.33 LI ABI L1TIE8: I Capital Stock Paid In. . .$100.000.00 , Surplus Fund. 16,000.00 Pmllvidod Profits, less Cur rent lOxpenscs and Tuxes Paid. 14,849.00 Dm' to Hanks and Bankers, 2,160.05 Dividends Unpaid. 133.00 individual Deposits subject to Check. $110,462.68 Savings Deposits 3I.UH2.05 Time Sertlllcates Of Deposit .... 43,023.55 Total deposits. 184.568.28 Total.$316.700.33 State of South Carolina County of Laurens. ss. liefere ,n<- came C, II, Roper, Cashier of (he tihovc named bank, who. being ilulv sworn, says that the above and foregoing statement is a (rue condition of laid lunik, as shown by the books of said bank. C. II. ROPER. Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 20th day of March, 1910. W. Q. Lancaster, Notary Public, 8. C. Correcl Attest: N. B. Dial, C. E. Kennedy, S. M. Wllkes. Directors. STATEMENT 4M' (he Condition of the Dunk of Crotts Hill. Located al Cross Hill, S. C, at the ( lose of Business March 24th, 1010, RESOURCES: Loans and Discounts.$ 95,518.83 ' Overdrafts. 16.28 Hanking House. 1,250.21 Furniture and Fixtures. .. 2,080.77 Due from Hanks and Hank er-. 12.744.92 Currency.'. 1.4C6.00 Oold. 40.00 Silver and other Coin, .. 731.84 Total.$113,848.86 LIABILITIES: Capital Stock Paid i.$ 25.000.00 Surplus Fund. 6,500.00 Undivided Profits, less Cur rent Expenses and Tuxes Paid. 6.031.65 Dividends Unpaid. 16.00 Individual Deposits subjoct to Check. 38,645.88 Time Certificates of Deposit 38,550.26 Cashiers Checks. 105.07 Total.$113,848.85 Slate of South Carolina County of Laurens. 88. Before me came E. B. Rasor, Caeh ler of the above named hunk, who, be ing duly sworn, says that the above and foregoing statement Is a true con dition of said bank, as shown by tho books of said bank. E. B. RA80R. Sworn to and subscribed before me, tin 311 t day of March. HC0. J. E. Iranian, Correcl Attest: w. C. Rasor, J. II.