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11 RUN EER SPEOI AL by SluAllOAb1 AlIt LN1E Tho Seaboard Air Line will rutn a spe cial train of Pullman sleepem and (1 diners to Atlanta on the morning of May 12th for i the benellt of South Carolina Slrhrrs. A special car will be placed in the Laurens yards for local Shriners4. This will be at tached to the special train at Clinton. ltoeiervations may be had fro? 4he local ticket agent - or from 1. Terry and R. C. Gray. V. S. Compton, '. P. A. 34-5t 91R. CLIFTON .JONES Deiitist. oftlro In Shumonsi ikilding Pho.ne: Oi1ree No. 86; Residonne 219 Siipsoni, Cooper & Babb, Attorneys at Law. Will practice in all Stkate Courtt. promuwt itl.n.efltion givento all husi.reas: B. R. TODD Engineering and Cont.racting Land Surveys a Specialty .icrete Work Skillfully done or in. spected. DrawiogH and estimates of all Kind Telephone No. 346 Laurens, S. C. are curable. All kinds meani uffering and Hu'neger. The, CAUSE P11 i Hn always Internal. Dr. Leon hardt's H EM-Rot D tablets priNlud'e amazing reanitlt by attackitng the INi ERNA. C AUSE. The piles are dried up and premanently cured. 24 days' treatment. $1.00. DR. LEON IARIYIIT (0.. Buffalo. N. Y. (free book) .ohd by Laureno Drug Co. and aU druggists. UNDERTAKING KENNEDY BROS., Undertakers and Embalmers Calls answered any hours, day or night. [LAURM1NS, S. C. Nodlec of RixolInjtijon. Chnal 1 'or'. ntii I lls, firm of lI. ( C 01 . tin ., : i ' .-'.d v.l in I ; 1" '. I,. (: r y wit I p lowV - 0 :"u.y to en)Ilb-el. .4i.1 liltuida:t . I . <. ( will 4 i biitne3.ss t h'. . 1 obl ja sild and will :ttproei: 4. ' rorm all our (id a usI0om rs :n t ""t 7t;Ct:. L 1.111' 'e' Ollt: 41i .3331t 11 0~r It pIt3II,i lit ;;::l11. V. 1 (;rny. A. I. ra:ty, I. C. ('ray. L;';:'ens, f$ C.,.tnn 1, 1 :1-1. ::-It AeYcu a Woman? lhe Woman's Toniic FOR SAtL Al Al.L DRilGGISTS P4 L _____ I'ANN-H1NE1EI. SOHIEDULES 03 ons And~erson, Greonwood, Gircon i' and Orcr, S. C., effectivo Sun ii Ilocemnbor 7th, 1913. Trans b - andf arrive corner Main and i'Inigton S'treets. Lemeo A rrive TieNo. TImlno S:00 A. MA. 2 8:10 A. M. * 7:r50 A. M. 4 10:10 A. M. 0:00 A. M. 6 12:25 P. M. 1:40 A. M. 8 1:40 P. M. 1:46 P. M.. 10 3:55 P. M. I :21i P. M. 12 6:33 P. M. 1' 7:30 -P. Ml. 1 9:40 P. M. tetween Greendyile and Qifeer N Time No. Time 1:20 A. M. 71 7:40 A. M. O:16'A. M. 73 9:55 A. M. 71 2:00 IP. M. 75 11:40 A. M. 1- 1:50 P. M. 77 1:45 P. M. i: 20 P. II. 8 1 4:55 P. M. <ets on ui El. lH. &A. Terminal, 0. 5. AL4EN,4 Ge't Pase. Agent. DIVERSIFICATION ON SOUTHERN FARMS Demand for Staple Rapidly In creasing All Over World. COTTON IS GREAT CASH CROP Farmers Are Advised to Supplement It With Thoroughly Good Permanent Pastures, inaugurating Sys tem of Rotation. (By G. 1H. ALFORD.) I do not wish to be understood as advocating the diversification of crops to the extent of developing a scarcity of raw cotton to meet the demand of the consuming world. Such a course would be fatal to our cotton-growing Interests in more ways than one. I am anxious to see a sufliciency of raw cotton produced each year to meet all demands of consumption at, say 12 cents a pound. Cotton Is the greatest cash crop grown. The demand for It is rapidly increasing. The demands of the con. suming world double every 22 years. If we estimate 13,000,000 bales as a minimum supply on the part of the United States for the world's clothing at the present time, it will require 26,000,000 bales in 1932 and 52,000,000 bales in 1954. to meet the demand for commerce. I do not advise the farm ers of the cotton belt to supplant cot ton as the main cash crop, but urgo all of them to supplement it with thor oughly good permanent pastures, leguminous crops, grazing crops, for age crops and good live stock. The sensible thing for each farmer to do is to largely reduce his acrago in cotton, practice a system of rotation, including leguminous crops, and raise mules and horses, cattle, hogs, poul try and other live stock. Plant fewer acres in cotton, plant prolific seed, fertilize and cultivate better and ob tain an increasing yield of lint cot ton per acre. The acres which will not be needed for cotton under this modern system of farming can be thoroughly sodded in grasses and clo vers and planted in leguminous crops, corn, oats, rape, sorghum and cane. Under these advanegd methods the soil will rapidly increase in fertility, the money obtained for cotton will be kept at home, the cotton crop will cease to bear the entire burden of the Colt Raised in Alabama. total expense of each farm, the in iquitous credtt system that has for 40 years draggcod the growers bound and brokeni will no lotnger exist, and the growers will each year grow in strength and permanent prosperity. The first efforts at breaking away from cotton usually consist in going largely into another singie crop sys tem of farming rather than going into the production of a variety of crops. The evils of the new system are much greater than those of the all-cotton system. Many farmers rush Into the truck business. Of course, truck crops should be grown ont every farm and, in some particular localities, they may constitute the main reliance for cash, but I assert positively that the truck business is a gamble for the average cotton farmer and that he will win just enough to cause him to put up all he has atnd lose, Trucking has lured many a farmer to financial ruin. James J. 11111, one of the greatest thinkers of this age, says: "Give us a system of farming that will greatly increase the fertility of the sell." lHe further states: "Forty years ago a farmer had to provide for but one other than himself. Today every farm er has to produce food for two besides himself." Hion. Henry Wallace recently said: "The nineteenth century farmer, speaking generally, was no farmer at all, but a miner of soil fertility, a soil robber." Mr. Hill, speaking along the same line, said: "The average Amer ican farmer has no equal for careless ness and for adhering to dliscredite'd methods of farming; we will soon be uable to feed ourselves or to feed the boasted home markets for the oth er industries that we are building on a constantly narrowing base." Of course, the farmers must drain the land, thoroughly prepare the seed bed, plant prolific seed, practice fre quent and shallow cultivation and make the most careful use of manures and fertilizers, but no problem is of such importance as the maintenance of the supply of plant food In the soil. The first step to be taken in order to add to the supply of plant food, is to reduce washing to a minimum. Flow ing water removes more plant food in one year than is removed in five by crops sold from the farm, The addi tion of the vegetable matter, winter cover crops, deep plowing and proper ly construeted terraces will reduce the washing of land to a minimum. Diversilfieation of crops enables the fatnems a tamly to fa,.o sumptuously, " 0 0 " " "; . " " " " " " 0 " * Jfdnor ]toll for the Watts * * Mills Mchool. * * Month linding March 10, 1911. * * " First Grade: Sallie Owens, Lewis Mlnims, E0thel Mimims, Alice Kirby, Willie Allen, Frank Penland, Swance Linder, tKirk Taylor, Edwin 'Thomas, Irvin Owens, Hermon Patton, ;Mamie Gregory, Ruth '1'haxton, Ollie Price, Ida Price, IEdward Willard, Paul Pen land, Riaymond O'dell. Willie Hlazel, Roy Page, Louis Whitlock, Albert Shook. Second Grade: Sadie Franks, Sale Hlughes, LtucIle Martin, Pearl Tumlin, (race Oxner, Grace Kelly, 'Eva Whit lock, Roy Compton, Roy Mims, Tal iage Sorgee. Third Grade: Clyde Golightly, 1ier man Taylor, Eimmett lessee. Fourth (rade: Frank Burns, Ruth Gregory, Lillie llughes, t Winona IIugles, luth Oxner, Grace Patton, Charlie Pulley, 'lEthel Sloan, ElIbert Templeton, .ames Willard. Fifth G rade: .Jessie Mae (Golightly, Chesley Grillin, Clara Martin. '(lar enCe Mlartin Iorle l'atge, Floyd Taylor. Sixth (irade: Pauline Clarke, Ger trude Oxner. Seven tth Gracde: Clarence Grillin, \laudie Mlae .lessee. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * " " * PINE BLUFF NEWS. * * * * * * * * * * ** * * * * * * * * fine Bluff, March .-.-.\ir. and M.\rs. (rover Neighbors, of Clinton, visited their parents, lr. and Mrs. W P. Acdair of this section. Mr. l'. M. \\'hite, de,ity sheriff of (. rtenwood, spent last Sunday with .\Mr. and Mirs. \\'. A. Ihoazman. The friends of .\l-. .t. A. .adden are glad to know of his improvement. Mr. It. W. Brown is on the sick list this week. Iis friends hope for hin a speedy recovery. Miiss lloise Ihrown visited friends in soldville and reported a lune trip. Mlr. . (l. Ilonzman is the guest of Mr. N. 1N. Ml)aniel and family of the Ektim sect ion. .\liss .\nnie (rilin visited her sister, \lrs. II. N. ('arter, near Hlarris Springs, last 'I'l h rsday. .1. I). lioazmian of BIirmingham. Ala., is spending awhile with homiefolks. WOtl lI.'S :ND BY Il1E enlicIst Tells iHtestuels Wl'hen Sea's Ilottom (f i(es Wa.. \\'hen the ht lloin of tGe sea give:; way fr;i'(n smine futu're volcanie i dis turba!.;1nie tihe whole earth will be (on sunn-de~ in Ilann-t.;.,ljust ast other worlds every" day are btein": conunn-d, ne ordin;; Io I.i uis I !aou'rl in, the F'renc'h icient!:t, livrent volcanie dlis turbances lead) tis "cienltist to beliee 1h1at stclh a I tine is not. far dista nt. The1. earth's erust is very tin at the lot tom of tIhe sea, he says, andl he adds that the floor on which we stand is hmore fia il thian we are l ed to be'lieve. .\ir. Itabiourdini inmtgines a disaster so great as to involve thle whole earth. f such an eitveint should (ocllur he tinks that fromt a dilstanit world its apipear an ice and1 prog ress w~ouldi C eatly par alltel what we ou rselves see in tihe case of thle "novea," or dlistant stars, that bilaze out in the heavens fromi tIime to t ime. .\tr. Itahourdin says: "Suppose that folio wIig uiponl an ext raorduiniary I. wistinug mnovemnen t, (lue to retreat of thle ('PittraI liass, a lairge mattss of the sea1 hot tomi should give, a nd, fadlug 51uddenlIy, shloutld let in thle mass of the oceani's waters uplonl thle Ineandescenit Inuterior' ma tt er. The water would be dlecomp losedI by thle hieat,* the hydrogen woul d burntt and1( it woul d lbur ni more as it had aecess to more oxygen. The conftlagrattion would1( thults ga In gradui ally ini force, accomupaniled hy electric lphenlomlena, anad thle greater part of thle earth's eruist., woulId probably he dih'pdaced. The eartih, passintg thirough a cr t~Ical epoch and returaning for thle time belig to Its formative lierlid, would againi be nothintg but a globe of fire. I 'For the inr-off wvorlds that swIng in sld ereail slpace t hIs would bie the tilhnomenont of a niew star that bIlazes becomes feebler nd1( feellerx to d isa p pear all at onuce, increases In brilllian cy asif It would eclipse the lumilnoiis sp;l endor of Its nieihors, an th1 1en tiear fInally forever In the iprofountd (darikns ol55(f the limiIt less dilstan1ce."' ('ONST iATION. Get a 25 cenit box (if 1101' SI'IllN(S LIVhICR hUtTTrONit; use them as dl rectedl andl soon all your stomach, liv er and bowel trouibles will be over. Tfhe great physicians In Hlot Springs prescrIbe them for constipatIon slug gish liver, indigestion, sick headache, dIzziness, blotchy and sallow skin and they certainly are fine. Take safe, gentle, blisftul HOT FSPRIN(#S LIV~II RTTONS for a week. They wIll tone up the liver thoroughly, cleanse the howels of p~oisonouis accumulatIons and Tnake yotu eat bectter, sleep better, work bet ter'. I ot Spirings 1liver Itttons, Hot SprIngs hthteu mat ism P,emedy andl fot Springs Itlood Remedy ar'e sold in Tanrcnnu by Lnnrnna 1f,.nu ('n. Spring Oxfords Yes, Madam, our Spring Footwear is ready. It's a splendid idea to select your Oxfords early, before the lines of sizes and widths are broken. We've a Choice Showing Oxfords in all Correct Styles. Oxfords for Dress, for home, the street, Rainy Day Shoes, etc. There's a sort of Spring atmosphere that surrounds our New Footwear. You'll find many Choice Styles here that have no duplicates in other stores. It will afford us great pleasure to show the New Spring Styles. Our display is an excellent . . one. If THE SHOE MEN Ladies' Shoes Shined Free CER On Groceries After April 1st, 1914 You can save money on your Grocery Bill by pur chasing one of our Coupon Books, on which we give a discount of 5 per cent. These Coupons are as good as cash when buying Groceries from us. By this method you save money and at the same time get the very freshest goods to be found. The Books are $2.00, $3.00, $5.00, $10.00 and I$20.00. A $20.00 coupon book costs you only $19.00. A saving of One Dollar. We are doing this to give our customers the ad vantage of a Cash Discount. If you do not desire to take advantage of this 5 per cent discount you can continue the 30 days. credit system as heretofore-paying the regular prices. Come in and let us tell you about It. DIAL COMPANY BUY A BOOK OF COUPONS TO-DAY