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LUC STRIKE "ITS TOASTED' Flavoris sealed in bytoasting THE SAME EVERYWHERE. The dli or of Paisa A khlar, a na tive new.spaIper of Lahore, India says. "I have used Chamberlain', Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy many tunes among my children and serv ants, for colic and diarrhoea and al ways found it effective." 4ep TO BE OR NOT TO BE Eyeglasses or spectacles ? That is the question. Let vs decide for you by examining your eyes and prescribing eyeglasses or spectacles, whichever is preferable. We will recommend Shelitex Shur-On Mountings because they look as though made for you alone when we make the selection and do the fitting. Kodak Films Developed.by Experts ODOM-SCHADE OPTICAL CO. A. A. ODOM, A. H. SCADE President See'y. & Trema Consulting Optometrists. Masonic Temple, Greenville, S, ( BiLIOUSNESS AND CONSTIPA TION. "F'or years I was troubled wit biliousness andi constipation, whic made life miserable for me. My al petite failed me. I lost my usum force and vitality. Pepsin prepar! tions and caitharties only made mai ters worse. I do not know where should have been today had I mc tried Chambherlain's Tablets. T11 tablets relieve the ill feeling at one< strengthen the digestive function helping the system to do its wor naturally," writes Mrs. Rosa Pott Birmingham, Ala. * * * * * * * *MARTIN & BLYTHE * Lawyers. * Masonic Temple, Greenville, S. C. Benj. F. Martin. * E. M. Blythe. , * J. R. Martin J. H. Earl Oreenville, S. C..- Pickens, S. C MARTIN & EARLE *Attorneys-at-Law. D Practice In All Courts Pickens Office in Court House. Greenville Office opposite Postoffie< Phone 404. ONE DOLLAR SAVED REPRE SENTS TEN DOLLARS EARNED. The average man- does not save t exceed ten per cent of his earningi * He must spend nine dollars in livinj * expenses for every dollar saved That being the case he can not be to careful about unnecessary expense: Very often a few cents properly i vested, like buying seeds for his gar den, will save several dollars outla; later on... It is the same In buyinj Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoei Remedy. It costs but a few cents and a bottle of it in the house oftqi saves # doctor's I8l1 of several doll ta INTIMATE DESCRIPTON OF COL. Wm. SIMMONS, K. K. K. ORGAN.. IZER, DRAWN BY GANTT. Former South Carolina Editor Tell. Who Man is Who is Attempting to Revive Klan. The Work of the Klan. Recently there has been consider able controversy in the state press over the introduction of a society named the Ku Klux Klan, of which Col. William Simmons, of Georgia, is organizer and Grand Cyclops. From what we can gather the concensus of opinion is that no such organization is needed here and it is more than likely to do harm by inciting racial troubles and unnecessarily alarming the "brother in black," and whom, like unto the poor, we will always have with us. But despite opposi tion, this new secret society is said to be organizing lodges all over our state and is gaining a strong foot hold -ven north of the Mason and Dixon line, where the one-time bloody shirt wavers are alarmed over the immigration into their midst of so many negroes from the Sunny South. I have known Col. Bill Simmons, organizer and chief head of this Ku Klux Society, for. o these many y ars. We lived in neighboring counties and the same congressional li:.trict. Colonel Simmons is an able lawyer and a polished Southern gen tleman of spotless character. But he has ever been an uncompromis ing, ran tankerous,red-hot-and-still-a heating, organized Democrat. To looked with disapproval on the Farm ers Alliance, and to mention Tom Watson in his presence was to cause Bill Simmons to manifest every symptom of political hydrophobia. Colonel Simmons is a good church man, but if the Democratic conven tion repudiated the Ten Command ments and an opposition party mad them a part of its platform, he would unhesitatingly endorse and, if called on, take the stump in support of his party and its creed. Colonel Simmons has a commend able ambition for public honors, but his extrenie views have never per mitted him to advance further than his front gate. When we Democrats in the old ninth Georgia district were beating the bushes to find a candidate to pit against Emory Speer, the brilliant young independent in Congress, Bill Simmons would have been given the nomination; but as Mr. Speer had defeated two of the strongest men in the district by over 7,000 votes, the colonel decided not to act the part of political lamb led to slaughter. So as a dernier resort the organized Democrats nominated Allen D. Chan dier, a comparatively unknown man, and one of the most ungainly speci mens0 of humanity you ever looked upon as their congressional stan da rd bearer. To give the readers a faint de of Coloinel C'handller's Personal a ppe aanCe when) the writer of this IAhi wa- standling hoe.nble him. I .t lik. 1tnt a thing oft beauty and j t orever. Sutlite to .dd that Al len I). (handler defeated Emnory Speer by ov'er 4,000) votes serve'd in hi Congress until he got tired, was then I eelced G ove rnor and (lied in harness. This is the time that Hill Simmons id nII!ot take the tide at flood andl it -never again returned. HI hac: re lapsed into a state of innoeuOus Idesuetinoe uin til the co lo nel again t brought himself into the limelight e by orgaonizine his Ku Klux Klam So e, Ci -ty. b I will nos t give a brief history of k the original Ku Klux Klan andl as 4, both my father andl brother wvere Klansmen,. I writ.' authentiCally.I have wvatchoed long lines of these night rideris. withI masks antd long, shroud-Ilike robes, silently p~ass alon the public roads. The spoectacle wvas so wierd andl ghost-like as to not only terrify the sup~erstitiouls negroes but S mpress unitiatedl whites. S Hadl Abraham Lincoln never been assissinated, the South would never have been subjected to the horrors -and degradation of reconstruction. H-is death left free hand to the bitter est and most vindictive enemies of the South, led by Thadi Stevens, whose ironworks our soldiers had burned on their invasion into Penn foylvania. A band of political vultures from the North flocked to the South, back ed by Frederal bayonets. Every man who sympathized with the Con -federacy was disfranchised andl these . "carpet-baggers" organized the ig norant negroes and not only took control of th~e different .states, but encouraged and upheld the blacks In > the most abhorrent aets of lawless -ness. It was literally ,the Placing of r black heels on white necks. White - women were outraged, incendiary > fires illuminated the sky at night and .stock was indiscriminately slaughter - edl. And not only this, but fraudu - lent bonds were issued and taxes im Sposed that meant confiscation of our Sfirmmng lands and town property. As the courts were controlled by these Northern adventurers and their negro tools justice was a farce. mt was then that Genne N. . 1torrest, a gallant Confederate offc er, organised the Ku Klux Klan and ;i. membership was made up of dis ab ed Confederate soldiers and quick. spread over the South. The mem rs were initiated in some secluded 'spot In the dead hours of night and the hiost solemn and binding and threatening oath of secrecy adminis :ered. Even when subjected to im prisonment and the sweat-box would arrested clansmen not divulge this oath. The exsoldiers constituting the Ku Klux Klan had no malice or antagon ism against itheir former slaves. On the other hand, they felt kindly to. ward the n egro and realized the fact that while they were fighting for his continued enslavement at the -front these faithful blacks no't only tilled th.e fields and fed their armies but supported and guarded their helpless families left among them. The ven geance of the K. K. K. was directed at the white adventurers who -were misleading the negroes. Before imposing punishment on a prisoner a regular court of justice was held and the accused given an opportunity to state his side. It was only in instances where white women were mistreated that the death pen alty was imposed. I was more the mission of the K. K. K. to terrorize and work upon the inborn supersti tion of 'the negro than to punish him. And the secret organization did work wonders in bringing order out of misrule and chaos and paving the way for white control of the South ern states. When this work was completed General Forrest issued an order dis banded the members of the Ku Klux Klan, when its members dispersed and returned to their peaceful pur suits. Some irresponsible parties and boys over the- South began to per petrate all manner of outrages upon negroes. for which the Klansmen got the discredit. But when regular K. K. K's. ran up on such bands their coats were "shuck -d" and they w're switching. In their redemption from such in tolerable conditipns, the Southern states were aided by the influence of many business men of the North, ir respective of party lines. Jelly laisses going at 45c dozen to close out. Bennett Mercantile Co. .Men's Union Suits, special price 78c. Bennett Mercantile Co. PICKENS SCHOOLS GOT $50,000 AID. Over a Million Distributed by the State to State Schools. Pickens county secured $53,590.62 in state aidl for schools laccording to a report of -J1. E. Swearingen, state -suprintendlent ,of education. The total amflount of mUoney~ given'-in the da:te was $1 .486.4 19.36, divided mlong the counties as follows: A bheville------- 7486 A iken . - - 25,027.21 Allen1i~dd - -- -----,621.41 Anderson - -- --- 66 53 lhm r- - -- -------111,777.:38 IHarnwe'll-- -- ---- --13.:246.08 Decaufort-- - - - - 7,259.92 Herkeley ---- -- -- --8,353.59 Calhoun -------------66700.46 Charleston_ __ .._ __. 17,121.94 Cherokee-- ------ ---11,87.53 Chester -- --------11,081.85 Chestrfield-- -------7 7681:3.50 Clarendon ----- --------5321.31 Collet on --- ----- -48,469.25 Darlington------------25,93.13 Dillon -------- --.- 20,407.67 D~orchester -- --- ------12,030.45 Edgefield ----------11,913.91 Fairfield--- ------.--8,281.43 Florence -- -- --- 72,502.52 Georgetown--- ------11,891.15 Greenville -- ----------9356.42 Greenwood -- -------14,445.83 Hampton-- -------..-15,2,07.90 Horry -----------89,777.26 Jasper.------------,39733 Kershaw- ------- - - 31,144.41 Lancaster-- ---------5,42.96 Laurens--------- ---69975 Lee.--------------20,218.04 Lexington-- -- ----- 46,387.85 McCormick---- -----13,198.59 Marion ------------ 34,576.84 Marlboro- -- ----------6870.18 Newberry -- -------35,373.07 Oconee ---------..---5,99.90 Orangeburg ---- -----42,112.25 Pickens ------ --.. 53,590.62 Richiand--- -----....-22,33.70 Saluda -- ----------46,848.83 Spartanburg-- ---- -.--101,727.26 Sumter -- ------ - - 15,237.66 Union ---------.. 16,129.25 Williamsburg--------.6468.96 York-- ----- -----....-35886.41 LATHEM NEWS. The ice cream supper at Mr. D. Bagwell's was enjoyed by all present. Misses Settyfay and Lydia Chap.. man spent the week-end with their aunt, Mrs. T1. J.Looper. Mrs. W. H. Johnson,-of this sec tion, was called to the bedside of her little grandson, James C. Hunsinger, of Wellford, S. C. Water LIly. BOLL WEEVIL CONTEST. Bank of Central Offers Ten Dollars in Gold. The Bank of Central is one of the most progressive institutions in Pick ens county and is always alive to the needs and interests of not only their customers, but ,the entire county. Having a large number of Pickens county farmers as their customers they view with alarm the fact that the boll weevil has, been found in numbers of places in Pickens county. They wish to help the farmer meet this enemy so that next year they will be ready if the boll weevil should make his appearance in number. To do this they, lave decided to give ten dollars in gold to the person, man, woman or chlid, who furnishes them with the best advice as to what to do to meet this enemy of the farmer. They want every farmer in Pickens county who is raising cot ton to send in their views along this line. The judges will be three good Pickens county farmers and the in formation and advice obtained will be given out to the people of the county free of charge. end in your views and help your fellow farmer. Remember that ten dollars in gold is offered for the best . The only reservation is that the person writ ing must live on a farm and not in town. Address your communication to The Bank of Central, Boll Weevil Dept., Lock Box 67, Central. S. C. The next time you buy calome ask for alotabs The purified and refined calomel tablets that are nausealess, safe and sure. Medicinal virtues retain. ed and improved. Sold only in sealed packages. Price 35c. A SPLENDID MEDICINE FOR THE STOMACH AND LIVER. "Chamberlain's Tablets for the stomach and liver are splendiff.I never tire of telling my friends and neighbors of their qualities," writes Mrs. William Vollmer, Eastwvood, N. Y. When bilious, constipated or troubled with indigestion, give them 1 trial. They will do you good. REFRIGI We have a few 1 frigerators ranging f pacity to 100 pounds at greatly reduced p $24.00 Refrigerator $27.00 Refrigerator $30.00 Refrigerator $38.00 Refrigerator Also a few heav sold for $5.75 to go i Get yours before BARR Easley, S. C. Ha BANK OF 4 F. B. MORGAN, Pres. Centra A number of our custon cerned that the Boll Weevil has We hereby offer ten dollars in g who gives the Pickens County fare live in Pickens County and on August. A committee of three vice. Mail what you have to say S. C. Boll Weevil Dept. Lock BANK OF CENTR Is He Listen in that many towns of yoi .The low STATION T4 it more profitable. SOUTHERN BELL TI AND TELEGRAPH 4ja! Wh&E he Qood w MY YOUNG sister*. H AS A Oulia board. A ND SH E believes it'. A ND TA LKS to Noah. AND I think she talks. TO H ER best fellow. WHO'S DEAD but doesn't know it AND I used to give her. TH E LOUD, rude laugh. BUT I'M sorry now. BECAUSE ,LAST nightU I WAS b~ome aone, SO I got the boardt. AND PUT in a calf. POR JiONNBarleycorn. AND OTHER departed spirits. BUT THE line was busy. POR NOTHING happened. T HEN r cheated a Uittle. AND IT spelled this. "GRAMMASHOTTA SEVEN." heIGkAm YRATORs aide ernmimele lined re rom 50 pounds ice ca that we,will close out rices. now only . - .$,17.00 now only . - .$19.50 now only - - .$22.00 now only - - $29.00 'y Screen Doors that powv for only $4.25. they all go. BROS. rdware Phone 68 !tiliffi'i CENTRAL. B. E. Allen, Cashier ,1, S. C. ers are farmers. We are con b-een found in Pickens County. old to the man, woman or chlid A ners thd best advice. You must a farm. Contest open all of farmers will pass on your ad. -to the Bank of Central, Central, Box 67. AL, Central, S. C. ing to You? Two mileage books, two weeks from the office, a hundred dollars of ex pense-that's one way. Twentytelephonecalls, a few hour's time and you've talked straight to a score of customers ir "wheel." 3 STATION rate makes BLEPHIONE COMiPANY@ Y'~ t80 1 shut off quick. TO H EAD off any. FU R THER FA M ILY scandal. THEN I stopped to smoke. A CIGAR ETTE. AND AFTER a while. I CRANKED up weejee. AND ALL of a sudden, IT STARTED off. AND QUICK ao a dsr IT SAID something. - "TH EY SATISPY.'e "gATISFY"--t.hat', the good word. Just light up a Chesterfield and see what ex ports: can do with fine Turkish and Domestic tobaccos when they blond theni Jn that can't-be copledi Chesterfield way. You'l say "they satisfy." Did .you Anorw about te. ChesterfleId packageo0 rogerr, & Mynas TobAcco Co.