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WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 14, 1910. ESTABLISHED 1 - Some of the Best Citizen: of Abbeville Are Usta; Burriss' Mental Shingles Why not you, and help < Home industry grow t< be the Biggest Success it your State. Messrs. John T. Bnrriss & Sou, Ande Gentlemen Some weeks ago th Church, Anderson, S. C., was coverer covering has been tested by rain and I We are delighted with the coverii Pastor S Jno. T. Bu: Manufacturers of r ^ HR ANDERSON, Abbeville Lumber ( f 'j 1>E II. FT.OOT JL-^ V/ Vf SASH, CEIL1? BLINDS, SHING In fact anything lliat is needed I plans and figure with you on vc plans will not cost you anythirg will raske the utber man do it ch Get prices on material be fori business and are making pri(es I the Eurt ka JEIoteJ?a few btepp fr< Drop in and see our PHONE 233 Acker Building SCHOOI > Tablets J* I] General Eel Speed's I Ice Uream, T Cigai Paints, Oils Wholesale ai Up-to-date Dj C. A. Mil onriTUUDW ouuinmui THE SOUTH'S I Unexcelled Diiming Car Se Through Pullman Sleepi Convenient Sche Arrival and l)e No. of Trains. 110 Leaves for Gre 9:20 a in. 112 Leaves for Grf 114 Leaves for Coll 111 Arrives from C at 11:05 a.rr US Arrives from I 115 Arrives from ( For full Information as to rates, It ail way 'J ALEX Travelling Au J. L. MEEK, Asst. Gen. Pass. Agent, Atlanta. Ga. BUCKLEN'S .DHirAcViv GENUINE flftKlCfl SALV i END VIEW OF LOCK Anderson, S. C., May 22,1909. n<on, S. C. e parsonage of the St. John's Methodist 1 with the Burriss Metal Shingles. The j liail, and it stands the test. :>g. P. B. WELLS, t. John's Methodist Church, Anderson rriss & Son, rss' METAL SHINGLES. South Carolina. Company local agents. i M 7 J, LATHS, LIME, CEMENT. i?RS IX UNG, SiG, rLES, !o build a house. Let us make your iur work. If we do your work your , and if we don't get your work we eaper. 2 buying" elsewhere. We want your o get it. You will find us just below :>m the square. stock?wriic or puone us. ABBEVILLE, S. C. & Repair Co., i? jBOOKS Pencils I mk icol Supplies. )rug Store. * obacco, Cigars Tettes, i and Stains id retail at the L*ug* Store of ford & Co RAILWAY, i JKMTiST SI5T1U. rvice. Eg Cars on all Through Trains dules on all Local Trains. parture of Trains. enville and Columbia at enville at 4:05 p.m. jmbia at 6:25 p. m. lolumbia atid Greenville i. 'olumbia at 5:20 p. m. *reenville at 7:50 p. ni. rontep, etc., consultlneareBt Southern cket Agent, or . H. ACKER, Passenger Agent, gusta, Ga. W. E. McGEE, Division PaBS.^Agent, Charleston ( rKING'S NEW LIFE PILLS fc The Pills That Do Cure. 600D THINGS FOR ABBEVILLE [he Southern's Improved Station?Bigger Waiting F!ooms?Toilet Rooms, Mirrors, Water, Etc-?Splendid New Gas-Light ed Passenger Coach- Rain Shed?Side Track Coming, Too. When the people learn of the handsome mprovements which the Southern is mak ng at Abbeville everybody will be pleased. )ur people have long wished for the good hings which the Southern is now furnish > . . i ??i i -r u^4.kA?. rip, Dut tney nave reiraineu uum uumci ng the railroad folk, thinking that they rould see for themselves the necessity for tetter accommodations. Several days ago Conductor Willir is and his assistant Mr. 1. B. Syfan wo.e delighted at the recep ion of as pretty a passenger coach as any ine could wish to see or in which to take lassage. It is a thing of beauty, epic and ipan, and lighted by gas. The station itself is now being exhumed, r disinterred, and will henceforth be set ipon pillars above the ground?not under t. Efficient and skilled workmen are now tutting jacks under the structure which rill rsyse tho building as if by magic. Vhen it is raised above the dry earth it rill be squared with the track. Rooms ,re to be added at each end, which will be ised as rooms for tables, mirrors, lavato ries, and temporary resting places, where me's dress and Dig hat, plumes, feathers ind all may receive desired attention or idying up. * . In addition, a great rain shed will be irected, under which, in rainy weather, )assengers, may alight on the solid earth, without sprinkling the greatest hat. vhether of the largest dimensions or of he most exquisite architecture. The fln >st dress that ever alighted from a train itay find safe protection under this great ihecl. The prettiest feet that ever peeped rom beneath the skirts of a terrestrial an jel, may here rest upon the dry ground vith never a fear of danger to hat, dress >r footgear?no matter how hard the rain nay pour. Nobody hereabout knows how much in luence the obliging and popular agent, Hr. B. F. Sweetenburg, haa to do with all his transformation, bnt we all like him ind we can give him a full share of credit with the Southern. It has also been stated that the Southern vill at an early day put in an additional side track, which will be of a great advan ape to the buyers of coal and other car oada of goods. \ The Southern seems to be doing a larger jusiness with our people than ever before, ;he increase being due to the prosperity of ;he country as well as to the efficiency and iourteous treatment which the people re vive from all of the employees of the oad, from conductor and station agent all ;he way down to the last man on tne line. The L. W. White Co. offer Long Cloaks and Ladies Coat Suits at greatly reduced prices. The L. W. Whfte Co. STATEMENT of the condition of Ihe Bank of Mt. Carmel, ocated at Mt. Carmel, s. c., at the close of justness December l*t, 1910. RESOURCES. jOanfi and Discount* $19,640 19 )verdraftn 1,310 28 ?urDlture Hnd Fixtures - 1,627 50 Due from Brinks and BanKere 12,777 80 Currency . 2,500 00 Silver and other Mluor Colu 103 97 Total 837,959 74 LIABILITIES. Capital Slock Paid In 810,000 00 ?urplnn Fund 500 00 rTn/1lnMb/i PrnHlo Iauj Pnppflnf Wr_ penses and l'nxes Paid 1,486 15 Individual Deposit* subject toCJbecfc 19,748 55 rime Certificates of Deposit 2,724 57 Cashier's Checks 1,000 47 Sills Payable. Including Oertittcates for Money Borrowed 2,500 00 Total $37,959 74 Stale of South Carolina. > OQ County of Abbeville. J Before me came J. W. Boyd, Cashier of the ibove named bank, who, being duly sworn, says that the above and foregoing statement Is a true condition o| said Bank, as shown by the books of said bank. J.W.Boyd. Sworn to and subscribed before me, this rtb day of December, 1910. W.T. MU!er, Notary Public. Correct?Attest: T. M. Knox. ) J. W. M or rah, J- Directors. B. F. Mauldln. ) STATEMENT of the condition of rhe Lowndesyille Banking Co., located at LowndesvillP. H. C., at the close of Business December l?t, 1910. RESOURCES. Loans and discounts $ 36,777 01 Overdrafts 1,951 43 Banking house 1,360 00 Furniture and fixtures 1,400 00 Due from Banks and Bander? 37,638 97 Currency 568 00 Sold 233 50 silver and otber Minor Coin 426 71 Checks and Cash Items 714 03 Total 5 81,010 65 LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid in 8 12,500 00 3urolus lund 3,125 00 Undivided profit*. ie*s current ex penses and taxes paid 1,662 65 Individual deposits subject to cbecfc 38,781 90 rime certificates of depoHlt - 22,680 84 Cashier's checks 2,299 26 Total ?....; $ 81,049 65 State of South Carolina, "I County of Abbeville. i Before me came R. H. Moseley, Cashier of the above named bank, who, being duly sworn, says that the above and foregoing statement Is a true condition of said bank, as Bhown by the books of said bank. R. H. Moseley, Cashier. Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 8th day of December, 1010. J. O. Huckabee, Magistrate Abbeville Co. Correct?Attest: D. L. Barnes, 1 Tnoi. n. Cooley, > Directors. E. W. Harper, i You must read this if you want the benefit J. W. Greer, Greenwood. La., suffered wltb a severe case ol lumbago. "Tbe pains were so intense 1 was forced to hypodermic injections for relief. Tbese attacks started with a pain in tbe small of my back wblob gradually be came fairly paralyzing. My attention was at tracted to Foley's Kidney Remedy and I am glad to say after using tbls wonderful medi cine I am no longer bothered Id any way by my old enemy lumbago." C. A. Mllford & Co. Nchednle for Due West Railway. Morning train leaves Due West at 10:30. Evening tralD leaves Due West at 4:40. These trains meet tbe morning and evening trains oi) tb6 Southern at Donalds. Passengers can go out from Dae West on tbe evening freight train which leaves Dae West at two o'clock. Try that Russian Corn Cure at Speed's drugstore.' It sure cures corns. * - -i -. id** - CONTRIBUTED. ; DISHONORABLE ACTS? Who Is the State ? The State of South Carolina Persecutes Its Agents and Partners in Crime Remarkable Fidelity of the State's Em ployees?Fidelity to Employer's Inter ests Rewarded by the Most Cruel Per secution. Our usually fair,, and always able, con temporary, the Yorkville Enquirer, seems to be at sea on the dispensary question. 1 Certainly it takes a different view of the [ s ituation as seen by,the Press and Banner. ' To be perfectly fair with our brother ed- 1 itor, we copy his remarks entire,, as ' follows: i The Abbeville Press and Banner takes i the position that if Black was guilty of conspiracy, his partner was the state of . South Carolina and that it is wrong for the state of South Carolina to punish its ] partner in crime. ' j According to the Press and Banner "it (the state) took its share of the profits and then charged customers at the dispensary 1 an increased price for liquor, which in- ] creased price not only made the state whole, but which actually gave it a great profit over and above the actings and doings of its own officers." This sounds 1 like funny talk to us. < Who is the state of South Carolina, if it ' is not those people who were pillaged? Surely, if the Press and Banner were 1 running a store and would find a clerk overcharging customers for goods by sanding the sugar and watering the vin iUA i.1 .1?~ J 1 egtu uuu uuuiiiig wiw uruuus uius ocquirou in his pocket, it would make a fuss. If it < did not make a fuss the customers would as soon as they found it out and they would hold the proprietor responsible. But are we going to cease punishing i anybody because others who should have been punished, escaped? Then there will ; be no more punishment, and no morn security to life and property. Every man will have to look for protection to his own right arm. But we have always been pnzzled at the attitude of the Press and Banner, on this question anyway, i It used to be one of the staunchest defenders of the dispensary even in the days when pillage was in lbs greatest prosperity. Surely the attitude that it takes now is not to be interpreted as explaining its position then. We cannot get rid of the idea that If there has been any pillaging it was the people who were pillaged, and the whole object of our laws, is to punish and prevent such pillaging. "The State monopolized the whiskey bus iness in South Carolina. It, whether law fully or not, engaged in what might be termed a mercantile business, or trade, with its customers. To conduct that business the State em ployed an army of perhaps five hundred persons occupying positions ranging all the way from bottlers up to buyers and sellers of the liquor. The buyers of the liquor no doubt paid to distillers hundreds of thousands of dollars In excess of the regular cost price of such liquor. This fact was notorious for years before the closing of the dis pensary. Whether in solemn form or not, the fact of rascality was recognized. The State did so by winking at or by shut ting its eyes and ears to facts ^hlch were known to every Intelligent citizen. As long as the 3tate was receiving excessive prices for the liquor and filling its treas ury with ill-gotten gains, no protest was made by the State, until after the dispen sary was closed. "While we have not the figures at hand. We believe the dispensers paid ex cesslve'prices for liquor, and then, as the State's agent, added not only the excessive cost to the selling price, but actually .charged the regular per cent of profit on the higher cost. The state of South Carolina, after having permitted this rascality to go on until the dispensers had robbed its customers and put into the State treasury a profit on their ill doing would now?when the dis pensary is closed and when the money making Is stopped?undertake to wrench from their agents in crime, their share of the profits. This, too, after the customers at the dispensary had reimbursed the State for every cent of the overcharge. It will not be forgotten that no one has yet charged that the State ever lost one cent in the buying and selling of liquor. We believe the big thief now charges the little thieves with stealing $800,000 from the distillers, or other liquor ^dealers, in the matter of overcharge, which stealing was maae gooa to tne state in tne exces sive prices which it made against its cus tomers. The dispensers made good to the State aU their alleged theft by over-charging customers to that extent. The State added the usual ten or fifteen per cent profit on the excess cost of liquors. The State thus actually made a profit on the wrong doing of its partners. It is believed that by the system of re bates the State of South Carolina paid out some $800,000 more than a legitimate price for liquor. The customers at the dispen sary paid back every cent of this sum out oftheir own pockets. The State admits, and charges, that its partners made $800, 000 in the transaction. The State has never charged, and it cannot truthfully charge, that it4ha8 been defrauded of one cent. But the State does charge that its agents, or its partners, by some hocus pocus, in the various transactions, made the large sum which it now, by the force of its sovereignty, would take wrongfully from alleged dishonest transactions in which the State participated. The excessive charges for liquor having been made good to the State by its over charges against customers, by w iat right does it now complain? The overcharges, with a profit on the same, having been made good to the treas ury of the State by its customers, by what right does the State now seek to rob its agentq of their share of the profits, after having received its per cent of profit on the fraud. And one of the most remarkable things about the business with which so much of uncleanness and so much of dishonesty has been associated is, that no man con nected with the dispensary, from the humblest bottler all the way up from cart driver, to the highest officer in dealing : .* A 0--" ' ; ' * ' yith the stuff has failed to make a full md honest return of the State's money. This.Jtoo, in the fact that the Govern nent paid to the manager of a million lollar annual business the munificent salary of $400 a year. Is there a record in y where which is superior to this? Who sver hired five hundred men, scattered in svery County of the State to handle mon. sy where there was not defaulters? Our good brother asks: 'Who is the State of South Carolina, if t is not those who were pillaged?" We contend that the State pillaged its justomers, and we contend that the State cvi nked at the pillaging by its agents, and never protested until the business was closed. We deny in the strongest language per. cnissible in parliamentary terms, that customers at the dispensary are the State [t is true that they are of the State, but they are no more the State of South Car aiina than are the people who never drank a drop of the State's liquor. Customers at the dispensary were no better citizens and had no superior righto over those who never darkened the door of a dispensary. We repeat it, and say again most positive ly, that customers of the dispensary are apt the State of South Carolina, and we believe the Yorkville Enquirer to be the first, if not the only paper in the State to make such claim for the liquor drinking customers at the dispensary. "We say again and again that guzzlers of ^he dispensary whiskey are no more the 3tate than are the thousands of respecta. ble and sober men who did not patronize the institution. It was estimated when the doors 3f that institution were open in Abbe ville County that two-thirds of the customers at that institution were negroes Would the Yorkville Enquirer maintain that the negro patrons of the dispensary are Abbeville County? The editor of that paper is an elder In the A. R. P. Congrega tion at Yorkville. In Abbeville there is an A. R. P. Congregation of -white people. Would that Elder Grist count us as noth ing and magnify the negro customers of the dispensary to such an extent as to regard them as Abbeville County? They are part of Abbeville County?nothing more?nothing less. They are not Abbeville County. And we scarcely think that neither the negro nor the white cus. tomqrs, nor all combined would have the assurance that -would warrant them in saying, "I am the State." Customers at, the dispensary are no more the State than would be the mooir Ized law-breakers, or an aggregation of the worshippers of our Lord. ' The esteemed Enquirer did not tell us what it thought of the State's act In re pudiating fifty per cent of the State house bonds, 1; x The Enqiiirer did not refer to the 8tate's trick with "bills receivable" whereby' it took ub the 8. & U. R. R. bonds, and fhen hadihe courts to declare the bills receiv able to be unconstitutional.. The Enquirer failed to give its opinion of the way the money borrowed from Wes ley, ($300,000) is held without payment, which money was borrowed to make advantageous settlement of Blue Ridge obligations. The Enquirer offers no defense of the State's action in scaling past due claims of the State officers to fifty cents in tlje dollar. The Enquirer does not explain the jus tice of the act of the State in refusing Wesley to have his claims adjusted 1U VAJUl u?. We have heard no deliverance from the Enquirer on the refusal ef the St^Jp to allow a citizen to go into Court to- have settled alleged damages to his land by Clemson College. The Enquirer has made no deliver ance, as far as we have seen, on the Legislature's vandalism In ordering the Attorney-General to tear down the Au gusta dam. The tearing down of that dam would be equivalent to the destruc tion of the city of Augusta, when every industrial wheel must stop; when stock holders must be ruined, and when the thousands of industrious laborers must be thrown out of employment, to seek bread ? J i ? *1 TMq tlliU ilUUJ.ro tucs/ IVUU*T uuu niiOiu. xuie, too, after the State of South Carolina had solemnly and formally given its consent thirty years ago to the erection of the dam. Speaking for ourself, we do not believe that there is a member of the Supreme Court that would lend his countenance to the proposed rascality. But, suppose the Supreme Court, did act unanimously in deciding to tear down the dam, we have that faith in the U. S. Court, which whould make the State act honestly for at least one time. While the Legislature has repeatedly done things that would disgrace a citizen, yet we do not recall where the Courts have not been honest. They are honest today, and will not now put the seal of their own condemnation by sustaining the effort to tear down the Augusta dam Master's Sale. The State of South Carolina, COUNTY OF ABBEVrLLE. Court of Common Pleas. Dessie D. Pres9ley against Martha Pressley et al. By authority of a Decree of Sale by the Court of Common Pleas for Abbe ville County, in said State, made in the ?tin?o atof-oH poop T will nffer for sale. at public outcry, at Abbeville C. H.,8. C., on Salesday In January, (being Tuesday, tbe 3rd,) A. D. 1911, within the legal hours of sale the following described land, to wit: All that tract or parcel of land situate, lyjng and be ing in Abbeville County, in the State aforesaid, containing One and Three Fourths (1 3 4) Acres, more or less, and bouuded by Charles White on North, East by Walnut street, South by lauds of Seaboard Air Line Ry., and on West by lands now or formerly belonging to Thomas P. Thomson. Terms of Sale?Cash. Purchaser to pay for papers. R. E. HILL, Master A. C., S. C.. tan We Have a Choice Goods to Fertilize which is the cheapest ammoniated, you. The Ammonia will give it a grain is killed out during the win vantage of the Phosphoric Acid ; vnnr r>nrn onrl novt iroar J We have a 10-6 and 10-4 f< Some do and some like a little I the wants of all in the fertilizer lir Anderson Phspbs J. R. Vandiver, Pres. . D , Our 16 per cent, acid analyz is nothing like it on the market.? 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' This tone tktt te oar "Autograph" tfimj S2.SOS3.00 b Qoodnar VA tewed: In our CoUegt Woman'm Walking Shoe, S3-t3.50~U, it equals the Nrf ftfftitffidhL SERVICE m ASHINGTON ern Cities. 1ARD RAILWAY '' '/f < JH ng Room Sleeping Cars? . Lights and Fans. a the Berths.) 11:45 a. m. 8:48 a. m. .... 2:31 p. m. 1 board now enter the New Pi New York City. ; Cars. Service a la carte, ion, call on Seaboard agents or C. D. Wayne, A. G. P. A., Atlanta, Ga. INGLES v to-day and have never needed nd look as well ? y easily laid. * igles, if necessary, without cre tion apply to >air Company, Inc. E, S. C. I ' iving's Bank. s. c. DIRECTORS. . G. Thomson, H. O. Anderson, K A. Neuffer, C. C. Gambrell, V. E. Owens. F. B. . S. Stark, R. E.