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f ?e Qctuertiser Subscription Price -12 Mouthe, ?1.b0 PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. IV. W. JiALL, EDITOR. KatOH tor Advertising.- Ordinary Ad vortisomonts, per squaro, one inser tion, $1.00; ouch subsequent insortion, 60 oontM. Liberal reduction mado tor largo Ad vertisements. W.W.B ALL, Pronrtolor. LAURENS, S. C, July 20, 1807. A Review? The campaigners arc moving steadily towards the Western parts of the State. "Westward the star oi Empire takes its way." No new features appear, McLaurin very seriously defends his taritT votes; Kvans seriously attacks them; Mayflold makes a good,square argument in opposition to McLaurin's record and has some specific to mend the short coinings of the dispensary; lrby attacks Ellerbo for his weakness, laughs at .McLaurin, galls Kvans occa sionally and makes the feathers fly, ridicules the whole lay-out, with an occasional touch of argument as to tho issues sprung by tho quintette of statesmen. The meetings seem to con tinue smill 1 and Vli'Q attracting little interest. Public opinion is moulding slowly?and the indications as yet are insufficient to enlighten as to which way the cat will jump. Tho great body of Democratic voters lie in the Western Piedmont ? Spartanburg, York. Greenville. Anderson, Abbeville, and the satellite counties lying around them. As goes the volume of voters in these great counties so goes tho great Senatorial plum. The papers in the State, as a rule, are non-committal?straddling the fence. This, of course, comes from th^ro being a field full of candidates. Now and then a newspaper hits a candidate squarely, but as between the rest no choice is made. You must read between the linos which way they are laying their shekels. Tho Green ville News, the Piedmont Daily, makes no selection, so of the Thunderer, of Charleston, so of the Post, an evening luminary of Charleston, so of the Reg ister of tho capital city. The State speaks out wide mouthed for McLaurin and so its evening contemporary, the Record, each the echo of the other and t'other from which is indistinguish able. The great WOOkllos, the Ander son Intelligencer, the Abbeville Me dium, the Greenville Mountaineer, and others of the like ilk we are una able as yet to place. In duo time they will place their odds. The meetings have all been pleasant, but the wire edge is wearing Off and by the time the speakers reach this latitude, the campaign will have narrowed down to the real issues and it will be lively. Tho dog days are here. A foolish nonsensical suggestion has been urged of a combine between Kvans, lrby and Mnylicld against McLaurin. But this is plainly absurd. One man could carry the opposition as well as the trio it would look more like an entry of every man on his own hook with the hope of each to lead and if he fail to get a majority or if nobody get a ma jority, at least, to be second best and in tho second and last tug. From the tone of the country press the ecu try is sounder on the tariff than we had hoped for. There is a right stout con viction that we are all-round consum ers and that we must fight for a low tariIT or as near to Free Trade as we can get?atleast for two generations ? until we have manufactures to protect, and do all wo can it will require a half century to make us anything but con sumers of manufactured articles and producers of raw material. Would it were otherwise. Our good renders are entitled to have a taste of tbe pepper, mustard, ginger, spicc-B and other condiments that give relish to tho plain,every day corn dodger style of the campaign. In the way of sauce hero is a saucey letter to tho State from Cap'. Shell touching Col. Irby's reference to him down in A ikon: To the Editor of The State : I observe in the proceedings of the senatorial campaign reported from Aiken that Candidate irhy in hU harangue at that place,said; "MayAeld was poor old Shell's b ?by and Shall was a political corpse; so Mayflold is an orphan." In reply, I willsay, that Mr. Mayflold is not my "baby," but is the distinguished son of a noble sire, a .d is a gentleman in the trnost sonse, Tho most that I have had to do in creating political misfortunes was the part tak^n in advancing the possibili ties of a very unworthy blatherskite and fraud, who for six years misre presented the people of South Carolina Jn tho United Siates SenatO, and his name is John Laurens Manning lrby. I mav ho a "'political corpse," but tbank God.' I am not a moral mounter back, and to say the least, I have the respect and confidence of all good ehr: ? im people wherever known. The senatorial primary in Lumens county will determine to what extent my political corpse baa decayed, and how much voters appreciate swaggering swashbucklers. G. \v. Shell. Laurens, S. C, July 16, 1807. *** John C. Calhoun is growing papular in this campaign. Jofferson and Jack son havo grown to be great favorites in tho last six years. But a live dog is bettor than a dead lion. Givo us a live, lithe athletic, kicking Jackson. It is a nico affair when a loan yankee like Tom Reed can with a nasal drawl make a small potato out of the biggest man tho "great Stato of South Car olina" has produced. * * * Tho News and Courier is cool and complacent, the Charleston Post sar donic, -tho Greenville News jubilant and frolicksomo, tho Register watch ing, tho Record hugging McLaurin, the State reforming and explaining, tho Spartanburg Horald looking through it.? microscope for a gold bug. lrby is jubilant, Evans reminiscent, May field In earnest, McLaurin point ing backward and explaining, Duncan waiting. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. Kor (lie Marlboro Democrat. The Laurons Advertiser, ?of last week said: "Coals are not brought to Now Cas tle?wool 's Imported to a goat's houso. Watch that tho entire Egyptian cotton output is not dumped upon the great cotton patches of Col. C. S. McCall or Chancellor Johnson over in Marlboro and Marion. No wonder that Frye and lioar are coming to the help of MoLaurin and TUlinan, In noticing the above paragraph tho Marlboro Democrat, published right at McCall 's home. Bays : "The Adver tiser was evidently hard up for an item or else ho did not know that a COttO i mill not a dozen miles from the great patches of Mr. McCall, has been using Kgypttan cotton, and a deolarmatlon made by this mill thut if a tax is placed upon raw material the mill will use rone but raw otton 'Crawl in,' brother." This Is vindication enough for the action of Senators Tillman and MoLaurin in voting for the protection of cotton. Very well, wise bl'Othor. Then it is all Stuff about "bringing the mills to th cotton." We. tin-cotton producers of South Carolina are in a nice pickle if o tton can be produced In Egypt) handled and laid down ten thousand ml los distant over ocean and land at the Marlboro mills in competition with cotton grown at their gales. Wo should double the capacity and duplicate the mills. And bj the wa> it is consoling to Thk Advertiser to learn that there is a cotton mill down in Marlboro and that the liberal pro prietors are anxious for a tariff to on chance the price of tbo raw material they consume. The cotton planters In that neighborhood should encourage these mill owners. And tints we have another paragraph, don't you see. *. Fooled. The Senators, those pinks of "cour tosy," at the instance of Bacon, of Georgia, Tillman and MoLauron, "in nocents abroad," put cotton ties and bagglugon the Free List. When they got back to the House they went on the New England Protection List, of course. These Senators of ours are innocent people, and should be oxeusod for hollowing'' before they got out of woods. Fool Who'.-' Louisiana saves her sugar but Georgia falls on her "Bacon". V At Hampton, Lientennnt-Oovcrnor McSweony'8 own reservation, and where he edits the Hamp'ton Guardian, Col. Irby charged him with being in the big newspaper trust to suppress the campaign speeches. The Lle?t-Gover nor denied the "soft impeachment.", and the candidate graciously accepted the amende. These amenities between the powerful, are beautiful to behold. * The Cuban troubles bold out and so j does the internecine whiskey war in South Carolina. So we have two costly luxuries?the liquors and the litiga tion. Liquidation comos when the taxpayers walk up to the Captain's odice in October. * We are indebted to Hon. Stanyi rue Wilson for a copy of "An Act - to encourage tho Industries of the United States." It is a fearful docu ment, and in its title carries with it a fearful lie?being a Bill to rob the farmers and other consumers?ninety per cent of the people of these States. * * * A report went like wildfire throught out the State on Thursday last that Senator Tillman had boon killed by electric cars at Washington. How the canard originated has not and probably will not be explained. *** Senator Tlllman's Dispensary Bill passed the Senate, lie claims that it will enable the State to control tho liquor business, Then, again, it is claimed that it will not alter the law as it stands. ?*# Tillman tackled Speaker Reed in the cloak room of the Senate. There is some sort of a fish that shocks with electric power when touched. Our Benjamin knows about it. * ? The prospect is a little better for silver?England and France showing a disposition towards some International arrangement. +++ Thoro is danger that the pending campaign will turn upon moral and not on political principles. Seventy-five per cent of the State Press aro Ishmaelitcs in the ponding cam paign. In the present instance it will ho. commendable to hurrah for tho "un derneath dog in the light." The Dispensary bids fair to realize what its auth and advocates claim for It-?not f( ;venue only." There arc five candidates to (ill Mo Laurln's shoos as a late roprosentati vo of tho ?th Congressional District. And now it scorns *hnt Tilltnan's whiskey victory in tho Senate moans a water-haul. Quinine and other fe ver medicines take from S to 10 days to cure fever. . Johnson* s Chill and Fever Tonic cures in ONE DAY. Originality, quality, effectiveness you will find those sterling points in tho stocks of S. M. & E. II. Wllkos & Co, Furnish your houso from kitchen to parlor and pay tho froight. Hood's Cure all llvor in-. billons- n?w ? ? ? nesi, headache, stem- ?II f*t .K-Ii, Indigestion, constlpa- 9 I I Mos. They ?et caMly, Tvtth. ? ? ? ? out paiu or gripe. Seid by ?II dniftfflttc, V> cent*. The only Pill? to Uke with JUood'i Tho August Number Of The Delineator is called the Mid-su no trier Number, and its Ex position of hot-weather Modes and Fabrics Is made graphic by full page color plates und intertexual Illustrations, supplemented by a Special article on Mourning Attire. The number Is notable for its ile Uon, Prances Lyndo's "Diana of the Ephesiuus," it dainty love story with a sottllug among the mountains of Northern Alabama, boing complemented l>y tiio fascin ating narration of an encounter w i < 11 a Paris necromancer, which forms the second of Martin Orde's serial accounts of Olivo Kaynor's adventures. Mrs. A. S. Potter writing of the Social life of Si. Louis shows the continual potency oi" the Creole Influence in that in teresting semi-southern metropolis. N'i>, 1 of Jennie Drake's Now York Types Is devoted to H spright ly and ! umuslng analysis of the women ! who shop. Dr. Grace Peekham Murray continues her ''Talks ou Health and Beauty" with a ?Iis- ! cuh 1 iou of tho various forms of ex ercises especially beneficial to her h \. The growth of Golf iti Amer ica is authoritatively treated by Mrs. Reginald de Kovon, with - into account of noted feminine players. Especially suited to the dog days ate the directions for making various Salad and Salad Dressings, and Francis Leeds' for a Summer Pick-Me-Up. Young people looking for a new ontortaiunnent will enjoy Lucia M. Ii /.?hin;,' description ot "A Butter fly Party.*' Mrs. Witherspoon's A ugusi Tea-Table includes mention of some of the novol uses now to ido of precious stones. Mr. \ ick*8 Flower Garden is supple mented by practical answers to va rl >us inquiries, tho hooks of the mouth are noticed, and tho usual I [oh are devoted to needlework. The Mount Lebanon Shakers have recently perfected an ingenious c iic lor dyspepsia. Their Digestive Cordial consists of a food already dig sted and a digester of foods happily combined. The importance of this invention will be appreciated when we realize what a proportion of the c immunity arc victims of some form of stomach troubles. Thou sands of pale, thin people have lit tle inclination to cat, and what they do cat causes them pain ami distress. This Digestive Cordial of the Shakers corrects any stomach de rangement at once. It makes thin people plump. Every one will be greatly interested to read the little book which has been placed in I he hands of druggists for free dis tribution. What is LAX OL? Nothing but Castor Oil made as palatable as honey. Children like it. Constantly Pushing Ahead. . You know our clothing. You'll be surprised when vvc tell you that we're going to sell even better clothing this year than we did lasl year. You didn't think it \v;is possible. But it is.e We're constantly looking out for ft pos sible improvement. Our prices arc lower than ever. Just come and see for your self. DAVIS, ROPER & CO. Laurens, S. C. to* i C i . LONG BRANCH. The printers mistake of last week caused us to suy Dr. Frank Taylor when it Bhould have been Dr. Frank Godfrey. But we can forgive u hard worked printer for the Doctor is among us and here to stay. He is golog about relieving tho sick and encouraging the healthy. The little Gilsons attended a picnic last Saturday at Bird's Mill and report n groat big time. I The much needed rains have come at last and everybody is re joicing. Wo boar tho rumbling In the dis? taucoof the U.S. band for the Dis trict of S. ('. and we will be ready to jump aboard as she passes and choose that day whom we will vote for. Indications point to a decided oil in the number of immigrants during the present liscnl year. Up t'? tili?, time only l9<,000 immi grants have entered our ports, whereas lor ths corresponding months of the year preceding some thing like ?^o.ooo immigrants landed. No remedy is as effectual in eradicating and curing Catarrh as Botanic Blood Balm, (I>. B. B.) It purifies and enriches the blood, eliminates microbes, bacteria, etc., and builds up the system from the first dose. Thousands of cases of catarrli have been cured by its magic power. For all blood and skin diseases, it lias no equal. Buy the old reliable and long tested remedy, and don't throw your money away cn substitutes, palmed off as "just as good." Buy the old reliable Botanic. Blood Balm. Price $l.oo per large bottle. SAYS IT IS GLORIOUS.' I cannot refrain from telling you what a glorious medicine you have. For two years my mother has suffered with a severe catarrh of the bead and ulcerated sore throat. She resorted to various remedies without ell'ect, unlil she used Botanic Blood Balm), which cured her catarrh, and helped her sore throat. 8locum (i i lsox. W. A. Pepper. Fredonia, Ala. For sale by druggists. Had 8rnothorlng Spoils and Could Net Sleep - Doctors Called It Neuralgia anci Indigostlon. "I ha<l pains in my la-ad, nock and Bhoulders and all through my body hut I lity wore most severe, in my left Hide-. TU? doctor culled it neuralgia und iu dlgestlon. 1 was conllnod to my bed (or eight months. 1 wan very nervous, had smothering spells and could not sluep. I read ol oures by Hood's Sarsaparille, ami of a ease similar to mine. My husband piocured a bottle, and 1 began taking it. After taking one bottle 1 fell better, was able lo rest ami my appetite improved. I continued until my nervousness woh OUred anil 1 was ranch bitter in every way. My husband has also been bono Uted by Hood's Sarsaparille." Mahy S. Stone, Spalnville, Virginia. HOOCl5 S 8parma 1st holiest- la fncl tho Oao True blood I'urlfler. Sold by all druggists, SI, six (?r $6. j, n?, HCl haillKMlielislv with rfOOCrS HlllS Hood's guraaparllla. I Perfectly Cool; iv k i<: v w i r 11 'Cheap, as K. W. .MARTINI *sq\\s it delivered at youri |door. No one need say How Hot It Is! Furnished for picnic and, kOther parties. Prompt delivery, full' 'weight and at the Lowest (prices. K. W. MARTIN, Lnurens, S. L ^Telephone No. 79. AN OPEN L To MOT ?S3 mJ [RS. WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THE EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD <% CASTORIA," AND " PITCHER'S CASTORIA," AS OUR TRAUE MARK. /, DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, of Hyannis, Massachusetts, was the originator of "PITCHER'S CASTORIA," the same that has borne and does now sjCS^-t-JsZ"* 0,1 ever^ bear the facsimile signature of t&t^Sx "Z&ZZuic wrapper. This is the original " PITCHER'S CASTORIA,'' which has been used in the homes of the Mothers of America for over thirty years. LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it is the hind you have always bought s/tf??~%7~ on ^w and has the signature of C^a^xr^^^i^ wrap per. No one has authority from me to use my name ex cept The Centaur Company of which ('has. H. Fletcher is President. a - j March 8, 1S97. ^ 3^4U^h^, z>. Do Not Be Deceived. Do not endanger the life of your child by accepting a cheap substitute which some druggist: may offer you (because he makes a few more pennies on it), the in gredients of which even he does not know. "The Kind You Have Always Bought" BEARS THE FAC-SIMILE SIGNATURE OF Insist on Having The Kind That Never Failed You. THI OCNTAUN COMPANY, tt MUHRAV aTHtIT, NIM/VONK ?IT?. TXTotice. By ordci* of thu Hoard of Commis sioners of Lnuronscounty ouch und every Township Commissioner throughout tho county is hereby notified and authoriz 'd to have each and every overseer within their Town ship to have not more nor less than four days work done upon each and every public highway throughout the county by the first of September, ls'.iT. Any and all Township Commission ers or overseers failing or neglecting to comply with above shall bo pun ished according to the laws of the county government aftor being re ported to the Supervisor. j .ins Downy, Supervisor. Notice! The bridge across Sahn'.a River, known as tho Watts Bridge, will bo let to the lowest bidder on Thursday July 22d, 1807. The above bridge to be let jointly between this, Lnurons, and Green wood, bids from Iron bridge men solicited. Jam rs Downey, July o, '07-.it Supervisor. Notice to Creditors. All creditors of tho cstato of Mary V. Kennedy, deceased, are hereby no tified to present their claims duly at tested to the undersigned on or before August 1st. 1807. W. w. KENNEDY, Administrator With Will Annoxcd. Juno 15, 1897?3?4t DR. W. H. BALL DENTIST, OFFICE OVER NATIONAL BANK, LAUBENS omo? dat??Mondajruifl'ritMdiy.. ang a ifcuanwoio Ntocucirv is < oun Nt?W SEWING WJACH'NES. For Fun. ;? ? uTic.'i.Afi-, AooHcas ?UC(llt.!.OM TO JUNE MANUFACTURING OO. BELVIDERE, ILL. .Maniifnclurprt of FtltO FtimMy Sewing M.ichlnns South Carolina College, COLUMBIA, S. C. Session' begins September 28thr Clatstcal, Litoraryi Bolontlflo, Normal und Law Courses, v\*h Diplomas.? Special Courses, with Cortlfloates.? Hoard #!> a month. Total nocoBBary exponses for the year (exclusive of travelling, clothing, and books), from ?I r: in . i;,:;. Womon admlttod to all Classes. I'or further Information, nddroBS tho i'rosuiont, F. 0. WOODWARp* Yo? Will Fit)d Us Here Waiting to invite you in and show you through our Large Stocks. With 11 times as many Goods as can foe shown in our city hy any one. TWO STOP A ?MBU? TWO V ES. Can furnish your house from Kitchcii to Parlor You Give Us a Chance? HOUSE Laurens, S. C, June 27, 1S9} All Goods Delivered in South Carolina. Furniture, Furniture AT THE ? We have the largest and most complete stock of Furniture ever shown in Laurcns. Yon will be astonished to secus Oak Suits at such Low Prices. We arc selling the best Stove made, and can give you any size and price. Our Motto Is to give Iii?- very best lor the least money. Remember Wc don't sell anything but what wo can guarantee, and arc doing business on business principles. Yon can lind anything you want in Dross Goods, Trimmings, Millinery, Shoes and Gents Furnishing Goods. Celebrated light running "White Hickory" wagons, with ex tra deep and long bodies for hauling seed-cotton, cotton, etc., for sale cheap. Buy from us and get new Goods. Laurens Cotton Mills, ' J. ED. BASS, Jr., Manager. AM) Jec?elr y Mending and. Repairing done at sheet uotu'i and special attention glv< n to watches. \Y. A. JOHNSON, The Jeweler. Mills cc Robertson's <>U1 stand ?next door Bcn-Dclln Hotel. NOTICE TO Til K People of Laurens I have opened up a large Harnest and Saddlery business in the in tl ( storeroom next to .1. H.Sullivan's on Main Street. 1 manufacture all of my Harness and sell then' cheaper than you can buy this shoddy Noithcril harness which is p it up by boys and giiis that hm no knowledge of the business. 1 have been working nt the luisim -v for io years, and can make any kind of Harness from $2.50 up ??> $500.00. 1 work from three to five I harness-makers all the time, and can make anything you want that I have not got in stock, but I alwnj* keep a large stock c?r everything in my line on band. I sell one grade Of harness at $7.00 complete, th; il if you c an buy else where in I.au reus for the same money I \vill make anyone that does it a present of a set. 1 sell all of my goods on tw<i\e months guarantee if any thing gives away I will tix it lor nothing. I also do (ill kind ol ic pairing at reasonable prices. Call and get pi ices and examine m> stock of goods. I have a trace" attachment that 1 :.' ?? away with ovory sot of harness thai ?? worth in many cases from f.v.) to$b"n? It is a patten: fastener to keep the I iv from slipping oil of the singlclr You can't, buy them from any one hi mo ns I have'the right for this county. I sell them at !?"> cent- a pair or _* pail'f for 2fi cents, #>v Highest prices paid for Hides The Laurons Harness ( ti li. R, HUGGIN, Proprietor PrOf. Otto C. Grnnitx, ?TEACHKU Or? IHtASS, RHBD tNI> BTIUNGKO INST HUM BNTS. Classes taught on reasonable terms.