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I Too Late, Too Late, to think about taking out a policy on your house if it is already burning1. We take a risk but not a certainty. If you have taken time by the forelock, and insured your property against fire, you have the Absolute Certainty that the company Will pay all your losses. The race is to the swift, and you owe ib to your family to protect them from all troubles. iDo not be a laggard. E.H.W1LKES&S0N Stocks - Bonds - Insurance Enterprise Bank Building Laurens, S. C. 8r" Styles in Jewelry ?Change as well as other styles. If you want up to date Jewelr\, you can be sure of getting the very latest and most cor rect thing here. What ever you buy, you can feel sure that you are right. Or if you have anything that needs to be altered, repaired, or reset, bring it jto'u.s. Wp'l) d? the \y(jvV ?wellj aud charge \ou but ?a moderate ttfi&e. Fleming: Bros Jewelers ! School Time! Now is the time to ? buy School Books, Pen | cils, Inks, Tablets, Spon- J ges, Slates, Pailes, Cop\ f Books and 1 drawing t Books. X A full line of state ? 1 adopted books always X on hand. Buy your School net di I here. Dr. Posey's Drug \ Store May's Brick Yard GREENWOOD, S. C. Manufacturers of Fine Brick. Write for prices. FINE LIKE SKETCH OF DR. J. A. HOLMES Director of the United states Bureau of .Mines, Kcccntl) Appointed b) President Taft. Editor of Ti?e Advertiser:?I am en closing a brief sketch of the life of Dr. Joseph Austin Holmes, director of tho t\ S. Bureau of mines, written by Collier Cobb, professor of geology and minerology in tlie university of North Carolina and published in the Charlotte Observer September the 22nd. Professor Cobb for a number of years was closely Identified with Dr. Holmes and it is doubtful if any man in the country knows more of bis genuine worth. Dr. Holmes being a I native of this county and having been ' successful in a line of work peculiarly ! his own. i believe this sketch will be ! interesting to all of your readers. D. M. Norwood, September 2Gth. Laurens. The director of the recently estab i lished Federal bureau of mines lllus ! trates the advantages of a proper heredity, influenced by an advantage ous environment. But this environ ment lias been one that his hered ity forced him to seek, and bis own ' rigorous interaction with whatever environment, lie lias made for himself, has been effective in placing him in charge of one of the most im portant bureaus of our government. He has risen to the directorship of this bureau, which his own energy has created, by sheer force of merit, when all political odds and party ex pediency seemed against his appoint ment, if that education is best which givi t one the power to select his own environment and then bring about the adaptation, one lias to look far atieid before Unding a better edu cated man than Joseph Austin Holmes. Born at Laurens, s. C, November , 23, 1*.*,!". son of Bov. /.. L. Holmes ' and his wife N. Catherine Holmes, horn NMckles, Joseph A. Holmes came of the best Southern stock. For gen orations lie had been well-born, his family on both sides having always been people of character, means and pi/ijHon. Coming into the world in South Carolina just before our civil war. his childhood and youth were spent under Circumstances well cal culated to try the mettle of a hoy. and In the duties of the home he : early came to bear a man's part. The son of a Presbyterian preach-j I er. who was himself a lover of na- 1 ture, the hoy was reared in a hottte of culture and refinement. The home was a large octagonal house made of reinforced concrete, occupying the center of ample grounds on the out skirts of the village. and having every convenience that the ingenuity and skill of its occupants could de vise and Bupply. The house was sup plied with running water, which a hydraulic ram brought up from tin' brunch, TlVlS w:,s l'1".' 9'" ,n'.' Holmes home &{ >\ Urne when the ll'ttins that came Into the nj&fpV little* village ran from Alston oVtff Kodden' rails capped With strap-iron. Htii the home had an excellent libra,V. and one could see in it here and there in struments and appliances for the study of the realm of nature, most of them mad.' in the workshop of the home. The writer recalls espe cially a high.grade telescope made and mounted by the minister him self. One son from this home became a lawyer, but later entered tho ministry of tic Presbyterian church. Tho children got the besl of their instruc tion hi homo from their parents, but they also attended thq Laurens Acad emy, famed in Us day for !'!?? thor oughness of its instruction. Joe. who w: s skilled with his ll|ig< ra and handy with tools, went to Cornell, where he mittle his own living and took his degree of Bachelor of Agriculture In 1881, with visions of rebobilitatlng the harren farm- an! mending the broken fortune- of li; stricken state. Immediately upon his graduation he was elected to tho professorship of geolqgy and natural history in the CnlVersity of North Carolina, and tu tored upon the teaching of subjects that now rdqUh'C the entire time Of nine specially trained men. As soon a< he had acquainted himself with the geography and geology of the state, ho bog?ti ah active campaign for the reorganixat'.nn of the North Carolina Geological survey and for 'he building of good roads throughout the state, in both endeavors he was eminently successful. The State sur vey was established In 1891, when Professor Holmes became state Oool ogist; and from 1885 to 1900 he In* creased the annual tax money for public roads from ten thousand dol lars to three quarters of a million dollars, thus adding more than a thousand miles of macadamized road way to the capital of the State. Professor Holmes was the most public-spirited citizen of Chapel Hill, lie was a member o" the hoard of al dermen, ami Interested himself espe cially in the sanitary condition of the town and in the grading and ma cadamizing of the streets. He car tied around with him less of himself nnd more of the work In hand Cian any other man I He literally lived Jt ave ever known, his work, with out toe toast regard to its relation to himself. So true was this that, while State Get logist, he more than once spent no much oin his annual appro priation in prosecuting the work of the survey that he did not leave money enough to pay his own salary. While professor in our University lie seen red the passage by congress of a bill appropriating money for the building of a marine biological labor atory at Beaufort for the use of the United States llsh couiniiqr.ion, By some oversight, the bill did not corry an appropriation for the purchase >f , the ground on which to erect the building. But Mr. Holmes Invited a number of universities to contribute to the purchase of an island in Beau fort Harbor on which to build the laboratory, the place affording ex ceptional opportunities for study as it is the meeting-place of the north ern and Southern funa and Bora of the sea. The universities of Vlr ! ginla, North Carolina. South Carolina, I Georgia and John Hopkins respond | ed liberally. The Island was pur ; chased and presented to the govern ment, and now each season sees a ; number of trained men carrying on : at Beaufort investigations of inestim able value to our fisheries indus tries. Prof. Holmes organized and di rected the Department of Mines and Metallurgy of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in 1904. He was in charge of the United States Geological Sur vey laboratories for testing fuels and structual materials. at St. Lou Is from 1001 to 1907, and at Pittsburg since 1908. For sever;.1 years be has l)eui chief of the tcchnologcial branch of the United states Geologi cal Survey, in charge of the investiga tion of mine accidents. Since his employment by the national govern ment he has not only continued Iiis work lor the improvement of public roads, hut has made more than a national reputation through his en lightened efforts to prevent waste in Utilization of the country's mineral and fuel resources, and to safeguard the lives of miners. His Investigation of fuel resources alone, begun ;.t the St. Louis Impo sition, gave him promp international recognition, and he was decorated by the governments of Germany, Bel glum, Italy and Japan. In recogni tion of this work, the university of Pittsburg conferred on him the de gree of doctor of science, and at the commencement of 1909 the University of North Carolina made him dot tor of laws. Dr. Holmes is a conservationist of the type of Garilcld and Pinchot, and is an administrative officer of rare ability. He has the iure gift of se lecting the right man for a given piece of work and leaving him to do it in his own way. under no circum stances burdening himself with the details of tasks which the men Inj ChOOfU'H lire fully competent to carry OUt. 'Ultls was admirably illustrated in his investigation of finds at St. Louis, at Pittsburg and at the .lames town Exposition, as well as In his survey of methods of conservation of resources and protection of human life in use in the older mining com muiTities of England, Germany, Aus Irin and France. His work along fhese lines was so thoroughly done that mine owners and employes alike petitioned for the establishment of a permanent bureau of mines and no one of them ever imagined that ail) mo hut Dr. Holmes Would 1" considered for chief of the bureau When the organization of the Bureau was intrusted to other hands, such ?'i cry of indignation tiros.; throughout the mining districts of the enfir country t!;.: President Toft couui hardly have dene otherwise than giv< the potman lit appointment to D, I loltnos. He cr.nnol be bet-er described than in the Smit h. (h gree vcrs't;. Soiled Word? of l>:\ C. Alphon v when presenting him for tin of do; (or of laws at our un! ? ( eminence, as "A man of s<-il common sens,., of winning pei uctical elllch lie Chapel Hill. N COLL IK 11 COIfi: ('.. Sent. 22, I9UJ STATELY COLUMNS <>r Ftmtill hea latonoH rccolvo llio faun1 careful intention from nur OX port workmen. 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