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The Press and Banner L>v W. W, and W, R. Bradley, HUGH WILSON, Editor. ABBEVILLE, S. C. - ^-Published every Wednesday at 52 t ear In advanoe. Wednesday, Jan. 20, 1909. Presentation of Badges of Honor.' TA rnnfoHorflOu VARtfir. J. lit) i/aUKUlOID Ml I.UV VVX...V..., clay presented Crosses of Honor to Bevera Confederate veterans. In addition to th< presentation or Crosses of Honor, the Daugh ters gave piotnreB of Robt. E. Lee and Jefferson Davis to tbe liraded School. Tbe presen tatlon speech was made by Mr. Templetor and was responded to on tbe part of tbe trus tees and school by Supt. L. W. Dlok. Mr. Templeton urged that true history b< taught the young people, and pointed t< Robt. E. Lee as an exponent of that manll ness, devotion to duty that characterized tb< men ol tbe South. Prof. Dick'remarks were well chosen, ful or pith and point and well delivered. Dr. Lowrle Wilson was the Orator ot th< N occasion. The Doctor's mind Is a gold mini ot recollections and his flow of soul llki Minnehaha's Fall In sparkle, beauty an< rylhm. The school children of tbe higher grade graced the occasion with their presence. I being impossible to seat all the school In tb< narrow compass of the court house,the small er members did not come down. On His Old Stamping Ground. Mr. B. D. Hodges, formerly ofCokesbury, S C.. but now ol Monroe, La., is In town seelnj kindred and old friends. He has been awa] from Abbeville lor eighteen years. When hi left us he was a youth in bla teens but he hai now grown to man's estate. He joined thi great multitude ol happy men when he lounc the 1 ove and sympathy of a guod Louislam girl that he now calls his wile. On paying i - -"ii -oirl iha Prttfnr nf thu Prea pRCU)BUll.aii I.?- ...... ? and Banner is no older now than be wa years ago. Mr. Hodges, like nearly all ih< men who go abroad and rely upon their re sources, has risen to a position of uselulnesa He is now manager of the Pacific and South era Express Company at Monroe. He Is i grandson of that good and honored old man Gen. G. "W. Hodges, of Cokesbury. The New Post Office. The post office man from Washington wai in Abbeville last Monday, and left on y ester day. He Is a kindly old gentleman, anc hooked at all of our lolB.ehbwibg Interest lr some. He gave very little Information as t( his preference or choice of lots. A whole loi of our lot owners are Bitting uncomfortably on the bdxIous bench. He thought the sla per eent grade of the Alston lot was prohibitive and be didn't seem to be oompletel; carried away with the Miller hotel lot. The , Cannon lot, the Gambrell, the Rosenberg int. Betmed Dosslbilltles, and other lots were not pronounced against. The inspectoi seemed to have a mind of bis own. He beard us all talk' and gave respectful attention to all. If be whispered hopes to any we do not know the fact. Whiskey baB recently knocked some mighty good men out of their Jobs. Better teaoh nursing mothers not to touch intoxicants of any kind. Many a mother Innocently Implants the thirst for liquor In her v babe. Almost ;any mother knows how to regulate ber diet bo tbat do barm comes to ber babe, but very few have any Idea ber use of intoxicants may generate a tblrst lor it In ber babe. When a mother feeds her child diluted intoxicants with a spoon, the child ought to be taken away instantly from ber care. She Is unfitted to bring up a child, except for a drunkards grave. The Press and Banner would have been glad to bave seen an effort on the part of the Governor to have passed a law requiring the consumption contaminated cells in the penitentiary fumigated and more healthy. At present It seems tbat the penitentiary is a breeding pen for consumption germe, and whena poor fellow is fully impregnated with them, be is turned out to go home and further spread the disease. If any man knows of a more efficient way of spreading consump tion than is now practiced at Columbia we would be glad to hear of it. Mr. Williamson, who has been manager of the ice plant and laundry business at Abbeville bas given up bis Job and gone on the road to sell ice plant machinery. His pay on the road is double the pay which he has been receiving. He leaves bis family in Abbeville in the house of the late W. T Bradley. Has Florence County the courage to punlbh the men who bo crnelly abused and killed a negro? It does seem tbat .if the State protects ibe birds for a season in every year, tbe negroes ought to .be exempt from wanton murder for at least a short period in every . year. The Courts, up to tbis time, have not nullified tbe verdict tin Reelfolt lake murders. We presume however, that somebody may be looking for technicalities upon which tbe gallows may be cheated, wnen juages enforce tbe law, and when Povemore refuse to pardon convicts, we will bear less of complaints aooot perjured Juries. Tbe Legislature ought to pass a law giving convicts a liberal allowance In time ol service for good bebavlor. Such a course would bave a good moral effect upon tbe prisoner, wltb resultant good to tbe country. In bragging about Mr. W. C. Sberrard of tbls town beating tbe Anderson prize winner at raising pork, we did Mr. Sherrard an ltJustice. One of his porkers netted 500 pounds Instead of 300 lbs. aB stated. He made 600 lbs. Tbe ;Press and Banner would be glad to know wby Senators and Representatives should be exempted froto the attention of the secret service sleuths. It looks to us like somebody didn't want an Investigation into theiractlnes abd dolnee. If everything is rlgbt, the sleuths would vindicate. The Legislature being In session, gentlemen from the larms, from tbe shops, from the law and order league, from tbe dispensary, from tbe thirsty brethren whose well springs have gone dry can now instruct the Geueral Assembly what they want. Tbe Iron brl dge, at Morton's mill, not being completed, collapsed during tbe high water In Long Cane laBt week. It can be picked up and made as good as new. No serious loss. The Colombia Kecord says Tillman la "loading bis gun." We hope that he won't shoot. Abbeville's poor house farm has four hundred bushels of corn In the crib. There ere several good farmers who have less grain on band. Now Is the time to look out for oats. ^ Almost any soitof old mule commands a good price?on a credit. I . . ? / Holier Than Thou. The pious and "unco Rude" brother of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian at Due West, in the paragraph which follows, seems to make a greater exhibition of his hatred for Abbeville than he exhibits of christian char. lty or manly valor. That paper, seemingly forgetting Its past record on the whiskey question, said last week: "The recetptB of the Abbeville dispensary , for the month of December were S21,008.80. In four months the sales amounted.to more than i 860,000.. That Is considerably more than the dispensary used to sell In six months. The dispensary Is one of the most prosperous things In the county, It 1b one of the big enterprises of the town of Abbtevlile. When one conoern sells more than 821,000 worth of , liquor In a month It Is strictly in the liquor business. If thlDgs contlnne as they are this county noted for the men It has pooduced, for the history It has made, and for the refinement of its people will be known far and - wide for its whiskey business. And it looks as If it is to be continued for the men In charge ot tbe dispensary advertise that they ! have bought 574 barrels of liquor and 800 of - beer aDd 850 cases of liquors. Besides the shame of the thing we are debauching our men. bringing sorrow to many of our women ' and children, demoralizing our labor, and i preventing our neighboring state and ooun. ties from enjoying the benefit of their temperance laws." 3 If tbe christian brother's opposition Is , based upon true, sincere and holy motives, I . would be glad tor him to state why an llllolt 3 stili a few years ago waB run right under his nose until the whiskey constable came all j the way rrom me city ot ureenvwie i/j uimit It up. Tbat still was! within two miles or } thereabout, or so to speak, nnder the very I shadow of the dome of the college of which B the christian brother Is trustee. Not until j this day has the brother Informed as as to how much whiskey that Illicit still sold, or , how much money the distiller made during t his career at Due West. t It is the sale of liquor at Abbeville to which that paper objects. From lbe earliest history of reoorded time lntoxloatlng liquors have been a great enemy to the human race, and to intoxicants are attributed nearly all the pitfalls Into which some of the best and many of the worthiest of the human family have gona i down. 1 Deliverance from the evils and the dangers b of Intemperance has excited the prayers and s the heart throbs of the purest and best men e tbat ever lived in any age. And it has even 1 given to men who may hove reaohed the 1 highest and holiest plaoes on earth, the van* lage ground from whloh they may emit the i odor that is, if possible, more ruinous than b the effect of intoxicants. Intoxicants affect ? the personality of the man, but when un scrupulous men attain the highest and the * holiest plaoes on earth they may sometimes * use their positions for attacking character. ** " - * -- ? ? ? ? mm kin n/tm4 m * necauBe 01 ice kuuwu quauty ui uio kwuo, , the liquor seller's opportunity to do barm Is clrcumiorlbed, but wben those who reaoh the highest aud the holiest positions on earth and who are presumed to labor to build up and to strengthen character assume the role of oharacter assassin their Influence is far reacb3 lng, and their work is perverted to the more - ruinous and lens excusable engine of destruo1 tion. What is to compare in value to the > Immediate Jewel of the soul. ] "He that filches from me my good name, . 1 Robs me of that wbloh not enriches blm And makes me poor indeed." " Our Saviour furnished examples of tenderness and meroy for the erring, and the erring have given to the hand and heart of those who pretend to be purer and better than their neighbors, the finest chanoe to exhibit that unchristian Bplrit which our Saviour condemned in the most Bevere language known ! to men. He yas pitiful to the erring but he 1 was severe on those who said their prayers on the street corpers and who olalmed to be purer and better than their neighbors. One unfairness of the Presbyterian is Been In the fact that it speaks of the "Abbeville'' dispensary, as if it was not tbe Abbeville oounty dispensary. ^ His manner of speeoh Is such as to create tbe impression that the town of Abbeville alone Is responsible for tbe dispensary. It is fair to presume that tbe editor of tbe Presbyterian has intelligence enough to know that any citizen of Abbevillecounty Is as much responsible for the existence of the dlspensaay aB Is any citizen of the town of Abbeville. Tbe reader is as able to assign a reason (or the implied misrepresentation. or the Insinuation of the Presbyterian, as I am. Let U8 look back at the record of the Prea" byterian on the subject of tbo liquor business. 1. For ten or twelve years no protest was made by the Presbyterian at sharing in tbe profits of the liquor trafllc for tbe benefit of the public school at Due West. 3. As far as I now recall the Presbyterian was! as Bllent as the grave on tbe BUbJectof running the Bohools in that town, partly on liquor money, until tbe schools of that town, like the schools in other seotlons, were deprived of the liquor money for a year. ' 8. During that year when the profits on the liquor business were cut ofi from tbe schools of Due West and elsewhere, tbe editor of the Presbyterian was suddenly overcome by a virtuous spasm. Wben his school no longer profited by It, he became convinoed that tbe liquor business was an exceedingly bad one. And when tbe sohool in bis town no longer profited by tbe sale of liquor, be would close the county dispensary which la located at Abbeville, and be .would now charge tbe aln of the whole whole business upon the town and the people of tbe city of Abbeville. If the Presbyterian ever whimpered against the Illicit distillery at or near to Due West tbe fact has escaped my notice. 4. When Due West was reoelvlng part of tbe liquor profits, the Preas and Banner, not because Due West was sharing In tbe profits, but from prlnolple, urged the keeping of tbe dispensary shut until a later hour In the forenooh, and tbe oloslng of tbe same waa urged for an earlier hour In tbe afternoon so that that Institution would be open for fewer hours;in tbe day. Not one word of assistance or encouragement did tbe Presbyterian give. One year when the dispensary was closed In the Snmmer time at six o'clock no word of approval came from the Presbyterian. The profits were then going to the Due West aohool. Bee? 5. As a further evidence of his conscientious scruples about maintaining, or keeping open, the county dispensary at Abbeville, we find tbe editor's name three times on the petition for ordering an election to vote out the dispensary. We have no intimation aa to how many times he Intended to vole at tbe proposed election. Tbe signing of tbe petition three times may be taken as some evidence that tbe editor was either very much In earnest, or else that be may have thought because of carelessness on tbe part of the Supervisor, tbe attempted imposition would not be discovered. 6. Tbe editor of the Presbyterian did not algn tbe petition to the Legislature for authority to build the new court houBe. Hun* dreils of the best and the most patriotic men in the county Joined in that request He, or others, did solicit private subscriptions of our people to tbe Carnegie ball, which was to be built in Due West. Tbe minutes of Synod inform us that after the completion of the Carnegie ball the Carnegie building was mortgaged to secure money to buy pianos and other things. 7. The temperance editor of tbe Presbyterian Is a trustee of tbe Female College andV Is presumed to have lent his aid and countenance to tbe unlawful aot of bad laitb. Tbe editor of the Presbyterian is also a member of the Board of Foreign Missions, and it is also lair to presume that he participated or acquieiced in tbe spending of churob money to build a house on land to which his brotherIn-law held tbe titles Where is the man In Abbeville who has performed, or who has attempted to perform any Bucb act as either? Has any man who has done either of these things the right to throw stones at anybody for anything? 8. As further proof that the pious editor la moved more by enmity to Abbeville than by virtuous motives, the warfare against the dispensary was made, not before, but after the walls of the old Court house were belni destroyed. 9. Iu the editor's Implied claim of per social superiority while Insinuating tha Abbeville alone was responsible for the dls pensary may discerned, behind the thlnnes veil, the hideousness of the misstatement, o insinuation. 10. Does the editor of the Presbyterlai contend that the people of Due West ar better than the people of Abbeville? By wha right oould he set up any suoh olalm? Are the preachers at Abbeville not as goo< as the preachers at Due West? Are the teachers at Abbeville not as goa and as true as the teachers at Dae West? Are not the business men at Abbeville li point of character and high standing, th equals In every respect, of the business mei at Dne Wesi? Are not the citizens of Abbeville as good t the citizens of Dae West? When proper allowance la made for tb church and the charitable funds that are dli irlbuted In Dae West, and after due and proj er discount Is made for fands raised by th whole church to support part of the km of tb editor and part of the Kin of other gentlemei in distant lands, Abbeville ha* nothing t fear In an honest, square and Just show dow: with Dae West or any other town. Soon after tbe destruction of the Erskln College building a good many years ago oommltlee of gentlemen from Due West cam here to see our people. They didn't go aroun secretly to plaoes in tbe back lota as if the were conscious of intending to do an unklnc ness to somebody, but they came to see thoi who were in tbe forefront?openly and abo\ board. A meeting was called in the Com bouse. All was kindness and every ma faoed every other man with an eye single f< the benefit and pleasure of tbe guesis. I like manner, If friends had oome here t consult about doing away with tbe dlspei sary, they would have found, and coald sti find, plenty of sympathisers, wbo are at leai Just as good, Just as honest, and Just as pui In obaraoter as any man who would make li slnuatlons, or wbo would make obarg< against an unoffending people. If tbe people of Abbeville \ bad bM oonsalted, instead of being insulted, It possible that the dispensary might bai been by this time a thing of the past. If tt fight against tbe dispensary is an bonorab ana an nonesione, wny proceea id a way i exolte opposition? Why rub the hair tt wrong way? Why not treat the people of At bevllle with tbe aemblanoeof decent reapec Or, Is this asking too muoh of the self-right) ons editor? Abbeville has some Dae Weet men. W honor them and we acoord to them a plat In good fellowship where they are honorei and where they are aooorded as honorab standing with as. Due West has some Abbeville men wlthl her borders. Does Dae West dlsooant thea Does Dae West exhibit to them an air of st perlorltj? Does the editor of thePresbyteria lack in olvllty to them? If saoh claims of superiority are made on side of tbe Presbyterian office I am not li formed of the &et, and I do not for an lnstai admit tbe ploas editor's claim to hla ow superiority over the people of thia town, an I do not believe that the editor of tbe Presbj terlan in its vicious attaoks or irritating nai glng of na represents the sentiment of the bei people of Dae West. Tbe faotls, tbe people of Abbeville are i good as tbe people of any other commanlt; liuoj uisuuis du aperionij' over uiumi, ui they are better than any man who maki wholesale charges against them. The fact Is, that In the olden days the pe< pie of Dae West and the people of Abbevll were on the best and the friendliest of term We were all friends then. Dne West wi oordlal toward Abbeville, and Abbevli: showed ber friendship and her respect f< | Dae West In a hundred ways. We sent man students to Dae West. We gave substantli gifts to the endowment or to the upbulldlc of Ersklne. Ersklne's friends at Abbevlll were neither nagged nor Ignored by the hlgt er tone whloh then governed the edltorli conduct of the church paper. If the oburch paper at Dae West was the unfriendly to either Abbeville or to Its oil tens, the fact was not Indelibly Impresse upon my mind. The fact Ib, I believe that if the editor of lb Presbyterian would abandon the role of Ransy Sniffles,fnd assume the higher an more honorable position Abbeville and Do Weal would today live, as Abbeville wants t live, In harmony and good feilowsbtp wit all of Dae West This la trae even of all Speaking for myself, 1 desire to live In lov and harmony with all Dae West, lnoladln the editor of the Presbyterian, bat when b presumes to cast aspersions upon the towi I or npon citizens whose hearts are as good an as pare as his own be may expeot me to ri sent the act, who may be Influenced by tbl stirrer-up of strife or lli-feeling between tb communities wblob should be one in beai and one in sentiment. The church paper long ago, worked In bai mony with the laoulty and the trustees 1 any and all effort to establish a first clat OUIlOgO ab WUOV J/IOUWI / I would call attention, however, to tta spiteful work of tbe Presbyterian agalni friends of tbe College, wblcb apltefal wor mast result la embarrassment to tbe goo and praiseworthy effort* of tbe very ebl and efflolent president o( Ersklne College. No traatee has a right to use his official p< nit Ion to bear down aDy friend of Ersklne. The plqus editor baa no right to nse th oolumns of tbe obnrob paper to gratify aplteful disposition wblob gratification ca have no other efleot than to nullify tbe e forts of friends of tbe College. He has n right as trustee of Ersklne College to throi obstacles In the way of tbe President, who I laboring so faithfully to bnlld np a good Id sstltotlon. If the Presbyterian meant to be fair in It discussion of the dispensary qnestlon, ! would not himself attempt to dodge or evad all responsibility of bis own town or that < tbe people of tbe eonnty, and then he wool not charge np a:l Its Iniquities to tbe towi of Abbeville. Her* is what an honest and a fair editor I quoted as saying: "According to tbe report of Solicitor Coope of tbe Eighth Judicial Circuit, wblob Is oom poaad of four counties, there were lorty-nln paraona tried for murder. Tbere were nine li Abbeville, five In Greenwood, sixteen li Laurens and nineteen lh Newberry. G these four counties Greenwood and Newberr; have no dispensaries, while Abbeville am Laurens had dispensaries during tbe perkx covered by tbe report. Tbls Is a fearfo record for four counties, and should cause u to stop and consider our ways. The reoord of Newberry and Laurens oountles are slmpi; fearful. Tbey adjoin each other and tbe pec pie of tbe two counties seem to be mor Blood-thirsty than tnelr neighbors. New berry oounly which beads tbe list for mm den, has been held np as a model problbl tion eonnty, where the voting on t of tbe dis pensary had done a great deal of good. If thl be true, we shudder to think what tbe recon In Newberry county would have been bai the dispensary been retained. A calm, dii passionate ooDSlderatlon of the fearful mut der report of the Eighth Circuit leod ua to lb conclusion that blind tiger whiskey make people more murderous than the wblske; sold by the dlspenaary."?Orangeburg Time and Demoorat. In view of all the facts as to the editor o the Presbyterian In not assuming his ahar of responsibility for the dispensary and li view of the fact of hla recent conviction whei the scbool money was cut off from the dii pensary, we might cite for his emulation th act of the man in North Carolina who mad a fortune attending to bis own business, am in destroying Illicit dlstllerleB at bis owi door before going abroad to abuse others am to root in tbefllih of neighboring towns. "Whatsoever things are true, whatsoeve things are boneat, whatsoever things are Jus' whatsoever things are pure, wbatsoeve things are lovely, whatsoever things are c good reporl; if there be any virtue, and I there be any praise, tblnk on these things." Hugh Wllaoo. s.All the latest Novels Papers and Magszlne atMilford'a Book Store. * Just Money From Home. r Mr. Isaac A. Keller was Id town yesterday, t and be was perhaps the proudest man that we saw daring the day. He bad Id bis hand t a check from your Uncle Bam for $126 In payr meat of a male which be rode while Id the Confederate borse marines, and wblob male 3 was taken from blm alter the war by odo ol e Sherman's cat throats. If anybody needs a t part of the money, It Is possible, though not probable, that Mr. Keller would divide it' ^ without asklDg security. Mr. Keller 1b not only a good farmer, but be Is a good financier q We sympathize with blm, too, In bis not hav. lug any use for tbe <125. If this editor bad Q gotten a $125 cbeck be would have bad at least i e three plaoes to put it. It Is different with our Q friend who has no ase for it. * Good Showing for National Bank. 6 Tbe Directors of tbe National Bank of I- A KKavIIIo halH fhnfr nnnnftl mPfltlnc last week, at which a semi-annual dlvl6 deed of 4 per cent was paid to stock 10 holders. As a result of the year's work, Sfi.OOO 1 was added to the surplus fund and over $9,000 0 was left to the account of undivided profit. D The National Bank Is the oldest Institution of Its kind In the olty. It has done much to * sustain and stimulate business In every a avenue. It may be said of Its officers that ? they are oonrteous to their customers, and 3 prompt In the dispatch of business. y Mr. J. 8. Stark, one of Abbeville's popolar '* and prosperous citizens, waB eleoted a direc10 tor of the National Bank to take the place oi ' Mr. W. Joel Smith, deceased, and Wm. N. ' rl Graydon, Esq., was elected Vice-President. n >r q The men who lay In wait for Carmack and ^ shot him In Nashville will of course, plead j. self-defense. We are not Informed how much U energy the courts will exert to find a tecbnl- I oallty for as many new trials may be graurs tod as may be necessary for their acquittal. n- y 1 ss A negro in JLIttle Rock spoke disrespectfully of a woman olerk last .week. A mob m turned off the light at the power house, I la sought the negro, and then sent him to thai I re place from which be can talk no more. The ' i? man who assails a woman's good name;de le serves to die. a 16 Thornton Halns who hat just been acqnlt? ted of being accessary to the killing of Amnls " says his brother Is cruzy. Wben the kin of 9- orazy men allow tbem to go at large, the law onght to panlsb the crazy man for his mlsre deeds. ? ,,, J' There are homes in this county where the le supply of food Is very short. This 100, in the face of tbe fact that every man might have a ? turnip patch and a section of oollards. ^ Was there ever a time when there were so ' many volunteer lobbyists in Columbia? Tbe . volunteer members of tbe Legislature are it many. it m t m n When the lien law is repealed, and wben id poor white folk must choose a master, and r- wben every farmer may ohoose bis negro g. the world will be happy. it ? ? The persistent efforl to deprive poor folks u of the right to mortgage his crop is not quite f. cnnslstent with the continued right of the it land owner to mortgage bis property. The m discrimination against poor folks ) Justified only on tbe ground that they bad no business >- to be poor. I? a. When farmers may choose their negro u laborers and wben poor white men must choose a master, tbe country will be rich and >r prosperous. It was that way belore tbe war. y ?I When the war of Secession broke out It was the duty of every poor man to go to tbe war le His rich neighbor would care for bis family] Now rich folk would deny to tbe Confederate soldier to mortgage his crop. n l_ More cotton is stored in tbe Abbeville ware d house today than was stored this time last year?but not much more. le ? - a Some men bave money wltb which to bay d the needed whiskey, bat not a cent to waste i? on bread for bis children. a .? b Since tbe world began there has never been ' a more generalluqnlry for moDey to borrow 6 on reat estate. It seems that some meo are ? obliged to have a mortgage on tbeir land to e hold It down. m m d , Is there a law aDd order league In Laurens ^ and Newberry? We are looking for tbe cause e for so many murders in those counties. t *" If the Congress has nothing better to do r. than to abuse tbe President, the country D would excuse the members for coming' borne |g to rest their fatigued and useless minds. e Wltb such continued weatber as we bave K it bad this winter, the Florida winter resort m, k might be abandoned or abolished. 9 ' Rev. Mr. Roper is preparing a paper on I 5_ Lincoln. R e Mr. W. W. Bradley Is off to Clemson to* al- I 8 tend a meeting of Clemson College trustees. D He will come back by way of Columbia. __ o To Tillman and Roosevelt: Please don't. |J a Tillman and Roosevelt having eaten each . other up, there is now nothing more to do. it Child Hurt in Runaway. q* e Rock Hill Herald. t A; As Mr. Fred Sturgls, carrier on K. F. D. No. d 6, was coming In from his trip last Tuesday tQ afternoon, bis horse look fright at some kind or a banner a negro boy was carrying on the Street advertising ibe Crystal Palace show, and dashed offal such a furious rate that be lost control of tbe animal. At tbe corner of ? White and Wilson streets tbe little four year old boy of Mrs. Mamie Slgu waB run over by r tbe buggy and dragged ten or fllteen leet . against tbe stone curbing of tbe pavement. e A physician was summoned at once aud on Q making ao examination tbe child wax found to bave sustained a fracture ol tbe tblgb bone tf and otber very painful Injuries. It is not y thought, however, tbat be received any InU tercal Injuries, aDd be Is getting along about 1 a as wed as could be expected. Mrs. Sign's ar2 i) home Is In Abbeville and she Is on a vlsli to a ber mother, Mrs. G. W. Aytrs. ? ? ty j_ wl e Sale Extraordinary. J.W. Rykard is overstocked and desires ?8ol - to turn bla stock into money at me earneni| ~~ - convenience. To do tble be Is going to sell 06 bis goods obeap. Tbls means "cheap." 1 II you need a watch or any kind ol Jewelry i now 1* the time to get It, and at a price that ? - you will not be able to duplicate. He Is sell? - Ing for cash only. Everything at a greatly e reduced price. s " j Don't tiet a Divorce. j _ A western judge granted a divorce "" 1 on account of ill-temper and bad 6 breath. Dr. King's Kew Life Pills a would have prevented it. They cure a Constipation, causing bad breath and " Liver Trouble, the ill-temper, dispels e colds, banish headaches, conquer ? chills. 25c at Speed's drug store. | : ?? I' * Many little lives have been saved by Foley's L Honey and Tar, for cougtis, colds, croup and ( whooping cough. It ts tbe only sate remedy I . r for Infants and children aw It contain* no Ij L, opiates or other narcotic drugs, and children r like Foley'* Honey rfnd Tar. Careful inotb- ?1 >f erg keep a bottle In tbe bouse. Refuse subf slltutes. C, A. Mllford & Co. I s ? m act usl If you don't bey enough good *osp to last ? ti you lor twelve months wt tie you bave a pei chance to buy It right, you will stand In your ale K own light. Call at MUlord's two stores and by cl iLtm tipialn the prohibition to you. on ( \ '. . \ aAh m Amos B. We wish to announ< we have formed a GENERAL MERCI } am WOOD A Thanking them for lieiting an increas o AMOS B. MORSE. / t AY.nn I (A Pleasant, Palatable Castor Oil.) Takes the place of that old nauseating kind to which your childhood memories revert with such horror. The kind they used to have ] to hold your nose to get you to take. How awful it was! Lax-Oil is so pleasant children will take it j? and ask for more. Aren't "a their feelings to be con- ^ sidered as they have it to tv take? "Let's help the children." Lax-Oil is put up in 10 and 25 Cts. Bottles. McMCRRAY MADE. % ? THE? | McMurray Drug Co. | ITY REGISTRATION! City boobs for registration of qualiid voters of the City of Abbevi'ie, S. , are now open from January 6th to pril 6th, 1909. To be qualified to vote it is necessary register each year. James Chalmers, Jan. 6, 1909. 3t N Estate of George Williams. atice of Settlement and Application for Final Discharge. 'ake notice that on the 26th day of Janup,1909,1 will reuder a final account of my jounts and doing an Administrator of the tate of George Williams, deceased. In the Ice of Judge of Probate for Abbeville Counat 10 o'clock a. m., and on the same day 11 apply for n final discharge from my trust such Administrator. Ul persons having demands against said ate will present them for payment on or fore that day, proven and authenticated or fnranor harrAri. L. T MILLER, Administrator. KILLthe couch imp CURE the LUNCS w,th Dr. King's New Discovery FOR C8i?sHS ind All THROAT AND LUNG TROUBLES. SpSSmS satisfactokyi >jr money refunded. b HHHBHBHBBBBDISBnBW Noah's Liniment. uflerero from all Internal and external ies and pains will find Immedlute relief by ng Noah's Liniment? the honest liniment rlple strength, the most effective and most leirating or an pain Kiuern. uoijihiuh no obol or poisonous drugs, and tr is for sale all dealers Id medicine, 25o. Noah's Ark every original package. - . -v#' f ^ >0^5 W' > Morse Co. :e to onr friends that partnership to do a fANDISE BUSINESS I i i to sell ND COAL past business and sof the same. J. S. MORSE. X>0 IT NOW Abbeville People Should Not Wail Until it la Too Late. The appalling death-rate from kidney disease is due in most cases to the fact that the little kidney troubles are usually neglected until they become serious. The slight symptoms give place to chronic disorders and the sufferer goes-gradually into the grasp of diabetes, dropsy, Bright's disease, gravel cr some other serious form of kidney complaint. If you suffer from backache,, headi aches, dizzy spells; if the kidney secretions are irregular of pansage and unnatural in appearance, do not delay. Help the kidneys at once. Doan's Kidney Pills are especially for kidney disorders?they cure where others fail. Over one hundred thousand people have recommended them. Here is one of many cases in this vicinity: J. D. Watson, 217dwygert St., Greenwood, S. C\, says: ''I have been using Doan's Kidney Pills for the past mouth and am happy to state that the results have been entirely satisfactory. My trouble was the irregular passage of the kidney secretions. Doan's Kid' ney Pills relieved me at once. They strengthen the k'dneys, and remove the uric acid from the system. I have no hesitation in recommending this remedy to other i-idney sufferers." / For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Mil bur u Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Dnrvmmlmi* t hn tlnmo ' Hnn ri'a Qtl/i ! 1VCU1CUJ UC1 IUV UULL1C?^/uuu a? auu take uo other. State of South Carolina, Abbeville County. Court of Common Pleas. 'Henry P. McGee, Plaintiff, against Delia Winbush, Cyrus Wiubush, Mark Winbush, Mannie Winbush, Lalla Winbush, Ned Winbush, Maggie A. Winbush, and Amanda Wiubush, Defendants. | To tlio defeodauts above named: f You are hereby summoned and reI quired to answer the complaint in the 1 above stated action, a copy of which i& I herewith served upon you aud to serve a copy of your answer on the undersigned at his office at Abbeville Court House, South Carolina, within twenty days after the service hereof upon you, exclusive of the day of such service, and if you fail the plaintiff herein will apply "to the Court for the relief demanded in the complaint. Wm. P. Greene, Dec. 14, 1908. Plaintiff 's Attorney. To the absent defendants Ned Win bush and Mark Winbush: Take notice tbat the complaint in tbe above stated actiou, together with the summons of which tbe foregoing is a copy, was on Decemcer 21st, 1908, filed in tbe office of the Clerk of Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions for Abbeville County at Abbeville, S. C., where it is now on file. Wed. P. Greene, \ Plaintiffs Attorney. December 21st, 1908. To tbe defendaut Ned Winbush, a minor over tbe age of fourteen years, to tbe defendant Lilla Winbush, a midor under tbe age of fourteen years, and to Cyrus W. Winbush, her father and tbe person with whom she resides: Take notice that unless you procure the appointment of a suitable person to act for you as guardian ad litem for the purpos-eB of this action within twenty days 8Iter tne service hereof upon you, exclusive of the day of such service, the undersigned will thereafter apply to R. E. Hill, Master in and for t-aid County for tbe appointment of a suitable person to act for you as ( guardian ad litem. Wni. P. Greene, Plaintiff's Altoruey. 1 c lone ucucuj uci IUJ A yuu, j I Tiic It en 1 I'Niiitc Mnrht'i Active. i How about r Dice cottage In the city of Ab- < bevllle? Have more 'bail a dozen at prices ranging lrom S575 to S5.000. Also several lots at moderate prices and any old terms. Can ?ell you any number o 1 acres of cultivated lands near oity, or country. One new cottage t Just finished, with all modern improvements, i ch<-ap lor cash. Costs you nothing to look, c Come to see me. Always In office. t I tf M. E. Hoi lings worth. i ' \ - : --ryi -. V^ vrs ^ . J/if in 1 DEWEY t 1 i? -5' ' ' >*'"< . ======= ...SHAVING PARLORS... \ , THIS enterprising ydif&g z*.an is doing a nrstciass basil mk Hie parlors are at tbe same old Stand?the old postoffice. His prices are right and ' he is getting tbe business. Shaving - lOcte. Hair Cat - 125 cte. Mr. Dewey is assisted by Mf. Walter McCord. These two gentlemen make a splendid team and can torn out work most satisfactory in price, and unsurpassed in execution. , . ' / Blue RidgeRailway Co. Effective January 6.1807. No. 12 No. 10 No. 8 Eaatbound. Dally Dally Dally Ei. flan . .. StatlODS? A. M. P. M. A. M. LvWalhalla 8 80 5 16 12 80 Lv Weet Union 8 88 5 20 1*40 T ?. O M ft ftfi 1 1A JiV ww _ w w * Lv Jordanla..'. ? 8 56 5 40 2,06 Lv Adams.... - 9 10 8 66 2 8 ' ?. Lv Cberry'a - 9 18 5 68 2 88 Lv Pendleton 9 25 6 10 2 68 ^ Ly Autun ... . ..1,1.* 9 38 6 18 8 08 H Lv Sandy SprlDge. 9 88 6 21 3 J8 Lv Denver w ? 9 41 6 86 8 48 Lv Weit Anderson 9 66 <40 8 48 Lv Anderson (Pacs. dep). 10 00 8 45 8 68 Lv Anderson4Fgt. dep)... 10 08 6 48 4 48 Ar Belton 10 30 7 15 6 lfr / Westbound. No. 11 No. 9 No. 7 >'? StatloDE? ' v P. M. A. M. A. M. Lv Belton - 7 80 11 15 ....., Lv Anderson (Fri, depot) 7'56 12 81 Lv Anderson (Paas. dep)- 7 59 12 24 8 10 Lv West Anderson- 8 05 12 80 / 9 80 Lv Denver 8 18 19 42 8 40 Lv Bandy Springs 8 23 12 47 8 50 Lv Antnn 8 20 18 49 . 8 56 Lv PetidletOD 8 84 12 57 9 10 Lv Cherry's - 8 44 1 OT 9(40 Lv Adam? a 47 1 JO 9 45 Lv Jordaniu '. - :9 06 1 28 10 10 . Lv Seneca 9 07 1 80 10 15 Lv West Union 9 25 1 60' 1180 ArWHihaiia 9 80 156 n au Will also stop at tbe lollowlng stations and 'ake on and let off pabsengers?Phlnney'a, James, Toxa way, Welcb. J. R. And|erfon. SureiJnUBdent Estate of L, W. White, Sr. , Notice of Settlement and Application for Final Discharge. HHAKE NOTICE tbat on the 4th day of February. 1909.1 will render a floal'account or my accounts and doing'as Administrators of tbo Estate of L. W. White, Sr., deceased, In tbe offloe of Judge of Probate for Abbeville County at 10 o'clock a.m., and on tbe same day will apply for a final discbarge Irom my trust as sncb Administrators. All percous having demands against said estate will present tbem for paymentonor ? before tbat day, proven and autbenlcated or be iorever barred. y T. (i. & W. H. Wblte, Adm'rs., Schedule for Doe We*! Railroad. Morulng train leaves Due West 10:15. Tbe evening tralu leaves Due West at 5:18. Tbe Southern lrom Greenville and tbe Sotnbero from Columbia m?et In tbe morning at Shoals Junction, two miles below Donalds. Tbe Due West train will take passengers from both tbeae trains. Tbe 8outbern Trains In the evening, North and South, meet at Hodges. If these are on jpm ttme tbe Due West train takes passengers ) - ' from each of tbem. If they are late It. either ^ waits, or runs out to Due West and returns for this service. Passengers can also go on t from Dae West on morning or evening freight train. This id Worth Reading. Leo F. Zelinsfei, of 68 Gibson St., Buffalo, N. Y., saya: ''I cured the moat annoying cold sore I ever had, with Bucklen'a Arnica Salve. I applied this salve once a day for two days, when every trace of the sore was gone."' Heals all sores. Sold under guarantee at Speed's drug store. 25c. Hoarse coughs and stufly colds that may ' develop Into pneumonia over night are quickly cured by Foley's Honey and Tar, as It soothes Inflamed membranes, heals the langa, and expels the cold from the system. C. A. MUford <* Co. Foley's Orlno Laxative cures chronic con stlpatloo and stimulates the liver. Orlno regulates tbe bowels so tbey will act nalnrally and you do not have to take purgatives conj tlnuously. C. A. Mllford A Co, MUSIC STUDIO. Highest Tf8tlmonlal8. n_.r n tt i-j. jrrui- guies \x< nugueiet* Organist Methodist Church, AND TEACHER OF Piona, Violin and Organ. Abbeville, S. C. Studio on second floor of new Realty Company building, next to new posfcaftice. Miss Carrie Huguelet assistant teacher and in charge of studio. We handle nothing In the holiday line m jut the best we can buy. No shoddy gooda. or sale. Come and Jet us show yon through, H ind don't forget the soap deal. C. A. Mllford t Co. m If You are Over Fifty Head Thin. Most people past mlddlc-age suffer from tidney and bhdder disorders which Foley's Sidney Remedy would cure. Slop the drala >n the vitality and restore needed strength ind vigor. Commence taking Foley'a Kidney Remedy today. C. A, Mllford <fc Co, I