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A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY FOR LAURENS COUNTY SCHOOL 1 ?uHL^nLiI\b The Advertiser offers to Supply Each School in the County with a Small Library. We have made arrangements with one of the largest Book Houses in the country, Hurst & Co., through their Agents here, The Palmetto Drug Company, to offer a number of Sets of Books in return for Pleasant Work in the afternoons of school Days. The Special Offers are stated in the different sections below. Shakespeare's Works. This is a set of books that every school In the county would do woll to have and a set which each of them ought to have. The children should have something else to read besides their studies, for if they are confined to study alone they do not learn to ap preciate the true value of an education. Give them something light to read and something that all of the young folks of the larger cities are familiar with. Did you old folks have the opportunity of reading such hooks when you were young? Don't you wish you had? They serve to round out the life of the lit tle ones and give them a true insight into the lives of the fellow beings. Do not cramp them with tin- knowledge gained only in the Arithmetic, Geography or the Spoiler. These books are delightful little treasures for the young folks. They Will appeal to the most discriminating. The paper and printing is Of the best quality and substantially hound in extra English cloth. Bach with fine black illustration:; and Inserted with six ('(.hired lithographs in ten col ors. Bach book is priced tit $1.00. the offer. This set will only be (riven as a whole. No parts of it are to bo given. This set for DO New Subscriptions or CO Old Ones or a pro rata number of each. The following hooks compose the Berieft: Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, Anderson'.i Fairy Tales, Arabian Nights, r :k k Beauty, Grlbb's Fairy Tales, Gulliver's Travels, Mother Goose Complete, Pilgl Im's Progress, Robinson Crusoe, Swiss Family Robinson, Tom Brown's School Days, Uncle Tom's Cabin. Alger and Henty Sets. This i8 an edition of twelve separate sets of four books to the set. The Alger and Henty books for boys are too well known to dwell on them at length. Suffice it to say that the have probably been the most widely read boys' books of any writer of recent years': The books are just what the young fellows should have to exercise thejr imaginations on. They are most ly stories of adventure and of heroism In the different wars of recent years where the English or the Americans have been the participants. In num bers of the books are stories of the life struggle; of poor hoys who by sheer pluck and determination fought their way to the forefront in the world of war, politics and business. They are well worth having on the shelf for the hoys. The hooks are by Horatio Alger, Jr and C, A. Henty, both well known authors. the offer. Those hooks will either he given away in single sets or in a whole set. For six new subscribers to The Advertiser or eight old subscriptions renewed we will give any of the single sots. Or for 70 new subscribers to The Advertiser or for '.mi old subscribers, Wo will give the entire set, or for a pro rata number of each. Presentation Series. A school without a set of Shakespeare Is not complete. The teacher might almost as well be missing. Is there a set In your school, Mr. or MIsb Teacher? If not, you know that you ought to have one. Not only is It one of the necessary adjuncts to a good school, but It is an edition that you can always point out with pride to the visitor or to tin; trustee. It will serve as a UUC lens for a larger li brary. Next year you can add to it. He among the leaders in such work. This is the handy GollanCZ edition, a complete reprint of the original Temple edition, with a his torical and critical preface It is coin plete for every pur pose. Vocabulary and notes to each play bj Israel Gol lancz. Illustrated The text is by Clark and Wright, with critical notes, complete glos sary and a life of the treat poet. Complete 111 fourteen volumes in a cloth box. Limp Cloth, gilt cloth, beautiful in every par ticular, t'sual price $t;.u<>. tin: offer. This complete edition given for 25 old subscriptions. Let each hoy or girl get one subscription. new subscriptions or 110 in your school or grade Hall Leather Edition of Standard Authors. , One hundred and live volumes of this beautiful edition. Every hook selected on ac count of its peculiar adaptability to the uses of hoys and girls. Clear typo, good paper and excellent printing. Hound in line library style, half leather, gilt top. boxed. Price per volume at stores $1.00. Some uf the Hooks. Adam Bedo Aesop's Fables, Anderson's Fairy Tales, Arabian Nights, nrowings' (Both) Poetical Works, Count of Monto Cristo, David Copperflold, Emerson's Essays, In His Steps, 1 vanhoo, Les Miserables, Little Minister, Napoleon and his Marshalls, Pilgrims Progress, Stepping I leaven ward, Vicar of Wnkefleld, Whit tier's Poetical Works, Scott's Waverly. In pointing out these special books from the selection we hesitated on naming theso he cause we did not wish to slight others. The edition is. truly a woll rounded one and would be an ornament to any library. In case any library already lias some of these books and would not. wish them duplicated, wo will sub stitute others for them. We especially direct the attention of the Laurens and Clinton schools to this selection. Indeed the Laurens or Clinton City library would do well to get it. A full list of them can ho seen at this of fice. This selection is such a large one that wo will make special Inducements on any part of them. For those who do not get up the re quired number, wo will deliver them singly on a basis or five old subscribers or four new ones, or for 75 oonts In cash and ten coupons taken from this paper. Hut below Is the offer we wish to stress. the offer. This beautiful edition of well selected books for f>00 old subscribers or 400 new sub scribers or pro rata number of each. Plutarch's Lives. Plutarch's lives of groat and Illustrious Romans and Greeks have proved the inspira tion of a large number of great men of later years. They have proved the foundation stone on which the careers of many modern men base been built. They should be at the hand of every young man and every young woman who Is growing up today. They might inspire some of the pupils to do greater things in life than they have yet thought of. The work has Immortalized the writer's name and takes tho reader Into tho heroic stir of Roman nnd Greek life. Complete in three volumes, each set in a box and strongly bound in cloth. Val ue $2.25. the offer. Bring to this ofllco nlno new subscribers or twolvo old subscribers paid up in advance to The Advortlser and the sot is yours. Nothing easier could bo imagined than getting this lit tle set of books. For Ambitious Teachers! At this season of the year the newspapers, all over the country, count most on securing new subscribers and on obtaining renewals. They figure that it costs them a certain per cent to collect the subscription money. This per cent this year we are going to give to the schools of Laurens county if they will do the work that is required; not much work but some effort will be required, especially on the part of the scholars them selves. As the plan which we have formulated entails some little effort on the part of a great many the work will not fall heavily on any one person, but will be divided among a large number and thus lessened for each individual and made more pleasant for all concerned. Here is The Simple Plan! The plan is simply this: We are going to give to any school in the county that will get up a certain number of subscribers for The Advertiser a certain set of books. The size and value of the set of books will depend on the size of the list that is brought in and of course this will depend on the enthusiasm and the determination with which each individual teacher enters into the work. We are not claiming to give any great big unheard of offer in this line, something that you could get with littler effort. This is a plain business proposition where you and we get the benefits. We are just as much interested in getting the subscriptions as in giving the books to the schools. Only this, we are giving the schools the benefit of the per centage usually spent soliciting. The proposition is a good one and we believe that every enterprising teacher in the county, who has the real interest of his or her school at heart, will take advantage of it. It will be an easy matter to get one, two or all of these sets of jooks if an in telligent effort is made to get them. Just One Prize! To put some zest and enthusiasm into this campaign, we are going to oder just one prize. It is going to be a beautiful heavy crushed leather bound volume of the poems of one of the world's famous poets. This book is going to be given to the school, first library or individual that brings in the largest amount of subscription money. It will be thus seen that the prize winner will be the one who does the most consistent work. The poet is to be selected by the winner of the prize. While this offer is made to appeal more directly to school teachers, any public library, t rivate individual who is ambitious for books, any Sunday School or any other organizations is at liberty to take advantage of it. As we do not intend ordering out a large quantity of the books at once, the win ners of the prizes will be able to make their selection from this office and have the books ordered as wanted. Do not delay but start out at once. Popular Two Volume S^ts. This series is one that nearly every child ii (he county could win and one that should adorn every school library shell The beauty about this series is that the number of books which you ?et is only limited by the amount of work which you do. It will he easy work for n hunch of three or four school children to make a canvas of one Immediate neighborhood and Ki t a pair of these hooks. (hr of fkk, Each sot of two hooks boxed will he given for I new sub scribers to Tin; Advertiser or Tor 5 <dd subscriptions paid in advance. Among the sets are these: Autocrat of the Breakfast Table Professor at the llrcakfau Table, Data oT Ethics Education, Emerson's Essays Vols. 1 & ll. French Revolution, Vols. I & 11. Les Miserable Vols; I .v 11. Lincoln and His Life and Time. Vols. I ft II. Napoleon and His Marshals, Vols, I .vi If. Washington ami His Generals, Vols, l A 11. Tom Drown and Oxford Tom Brown's School Days. Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of The Roman Empire." This Is a book which should he In every school room above the fifth grade, It should be where the young folks in studying ancient history can get. it for reference and for study and for recreation. It is a hook of hooks, and should be on every shelf whether school, li brary or private person. It should be there. It is easy to net. AI! that it lakes is just a few hours work. The hook is printed from (bar typo on good paper, handsomely and dur ahlv hound In cloth with eilt top--. Complete in five volumes, boxed. Sell inn price $3.75, the offer. This set of bo six in number, will he given for ir> new subscribers,to The Advertiser or 20 old subscribers or a pro rata number of each. This should appeal to every school teacher in the county. The yo tig folks, some of them, who have already started a library could easily win this by getting out and doing a little work. The Laurens Advertiser TEACHERS! Do not be content without a Library. Laurens, South Carolina I he Bible Study Question subscription price. arc alone Ihc | I rjjc II. ; i."