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?fie GlcJuertiser Subscription Price 13 Montha, ? LOO PA YAJJLE IN ADVANCK. W, W. BALL, EDITOR, Bates for Advertising --Ordinary Ad vortisornontH, per square, one Inser tion, $!.00; each subsequent Insertion, 50 cents. Liberal rod not ion made for largo Ad vortlsoments. W. W. BALL, Proprietor. LAUBEN 8, S. C, May 80, 1898. What is chiefly to bo feared in the Dispensary is its success as a money-making scheme. The State of South Carolina condescends 'to meddle in so depraved a traffic as whiskey selling on the ground that it requires "police regulation," but when the rovenue roaches the point of paying fifty por cent, of tho State taxes that speclom ox cuse will quietly be put aside. Then we shall have the Stato grow ing rich out of a nefarious and can cerous business and hugging the unclean thing to Itself while tho public conscience is gradually dwarfed until It dare not assert It self. Thousands of good men will thon be quick to hail the dispen sary as an agent of benevolence, and it will gain such a hold as only that with which tho Old Man of the Sea grasped Sinbad or tho Louisiana Lottery obtained on thai unhappy Commonwoulth. If af terwards the enlightened and ag gressive sentiment for good of the whole nation comes to tho rescue we shall have somethiug to be thankful for. It was lb".'., which saved Louisiana. It is pitiable that our legislators have hastily put on us a fair-seeming system which threatens to plunge our whole peo ple Into a sea of turpitude and moral degradation. The Laurens freehold voter plumes himself upon his old fnsh ionod Jeffersonian democracy. Ho is rarely a prohibition ist. He don't beliove in what is called paternal ism in tho State and thinks the whisky business if legitimate ought iiot to bo a monopoly cf tho politi cal machine. All legitimate busi ness should bo open and free to all citizens, controlled by wholesome restraints. That is the kind of talk of tho average freehold voter, when ho turns up his nose at a dis pensary petition. Ho is not every time a prohibitionist?not neces sarily. Mint patches aro cultivated all around. These old fashioned democrats can oven comprehend tho nomenclature of the approved mix (urns that are dispouscd as cooling beverages in tho palatial establishments to be found in towns and cities. Tho attack on their old fashioned democratic ideas of a free-tor-all dispensary excites their recalcitrating bumps and they kick accordingly. South Carolina like fat Jack Fal staff, is not only good humored and full of fun, but tho cause of wit being in other people. Tho good natured gibes of our contempora ries at tho little state and our Gov ernor about the dispensary law aro entirely refreshing. It will be for tunate if these little pleasantries can be kept up all summer; for tho sjgns impend dry timoa in those comoiuiittcB where no dispensa ries araro be established. Laurens is like/ to be in the arid streak. e of the Conservative papers are proclaiming that those who were Haskellites must not nsk front seats in the Democracy. Tho "Haskellites" declaro that they merely wish to be regarded like other democrats. That is their clear right. The Advertiser was opposed to Judge Ha8kcll in '90 but it sup ported Mr. Mclver for State Treas urer last year as cordially as it supported any man on the Shep pard ticket. We believe that the Haskell movement was a blunder but wo have never doubted that those who participated in it were staunch democrats. They aro staunch dem ocrats to-day.and there Is nothing in their politlcaNfalth that will sus tain the charge of heresy when they are tried by tho standards of the Chicago' Convention. The Same cannot be said of others in South Carolina, who vote for Cleve land and teach Tom Watscnlsm on the street corners. <(11 -shellism" is a dead issue and it should nevor be alluded to by self respecting papers which desiro peace. Democrats of tho Qresham stamp are good enough for us but we wore fighting him whon wo fought Has kell. Yet, under like conditions, we should bo found fighting both men as beforo. Wonld it not bo a grateful and refreshing sight if next year a con vention of South Carolinians, none of whom had ever asked or hold of fice, would meet and nomlnato a ticket of domocrats of tholr own stamp, plain, honest citizens, who know and love no art hotter than that of successfully attending to their ownxbusiness? Wo should hail with ploasuro not only a now deal but fresh cards. Mr. Af. Ii. Donaldson appears un willing to acknowledge the fact of his political demise. Ho has writ ten to tho Piedmont Headlight an swering* some criticism of that pa per. Wo would gently remind Mr. Donaldson that tho Governor hav ing frowned ho Is blighted. SPLASHES OF PRINTER'S INK. Editorial Stuft' From Roiuo of the Advertiser's Fellows. That pattern of 3obriety and good sense, tho Spartanburg Spar tan, uttereth this spoecb: ''The main object of tho adminis tration Is to sell quantities of whis key so as to increase tho revenue. Tho Qovernor estimates that one million gallons will besohl tho first year. That sort of business will lay tho saloons In Ihe shade." ? "** For one the Advertiser do3s not dispute tho claims of the Alken Times and the Anderson Advocate that to tho "Reformers" belongs the credit of having delivered over a seat in Congress to tho nogro re publican, Murray. Says the Times: "Tho People's Advocate, hits tho nail, on tho head regarding the friendship for tho colored race as professed by the antis and as prac ticed by tho Reformers. In sup port of its incontrovertible asser tions, that paper cites tho seating of tho negro Republican Congress man from the Seventh District by tho Reform Democrats last winter, while tho old reglmo had continu ously kept ono of its own party in tho office which, by rights, belongs only to a republican. Facts aro more convincing than fancy and flattery." *** The Advertiser will not bo surprised when tho wholo Stato gets on au official drunk and ex cuses tho act. as a "roform meas ure." Tho Orangeburg Enterprise wants the Dispensary to havo a "/air trial" and wo hope it will bo by a reasonably sober jury: "If tho experiment, fuirly tested, proves a failure the pe?plo will be satisfied, and will punish properly tho men who advocated It; but if it proves a success they will also be satisfied, and will reward the men who suggested it, worked for it, and enacted it into law. No unfair test, however, will bo ac cepted as a conclusion of tho whole matter. The trial must be fair and honorable." *** The editorials of the Orangoburg Times and Democrat aro strictly matter of fact. Editor Sims Is sol-#| dorn self-opinlonatlve. "Ex-Gov. D. H.Chamberlain says tho way to stop tho lynching of negroes in the South is for the ne groes to stop raping white women. This Is tho only practicablo solu tion of the difficulty that wo havo yot seen suggested." *** Tho Prosperity Reporter may have neglected numerous opportu nities to find out that the propor tion of "club" mon to Anti-Tillman Ites in this Stato is loss thau five hundred to thirty odd thousand and so it omits the following grunt: 'Tho ant) element, which is re sponsible for the club barrooms in this Stale and polled a majority against Prohibition in the few counties that it controlled, in fight ing tho dispensary law. The dis pensary law knocks out tho club barrooms, and that is whoro the shoe pinches. The Supremo Court in the Chester caso sustuined the constitutionality of tho law, so thoy will havo to submit to tho dispen sary whether they like it or not. Tho time to fight this law was be fore Its enactment. Now that it has become a law of our State, all good citizens will cease criticising and aid in giving it a fair trial. *** The Advertiser sympathizes profoundly with the evident fatigue which the Aiken Journal and Re view feels. Tho Journal and Re view needs something to cheer it self up, and should step out and take it at once. "Tho thinking masses of tho whole country view with extreme solicitude the threatened Butler Tillmnn Senatorial campaign in South Carolina in 1891. At home any man not stricken by hopeless obliquity of vision must already see that the effect of such a con test upon the material interests, tho moral sentiment and tho social status of tho Stato must bo super latively paralyzing, degrading and deplorable. It is further to be as sumed that tho successful candi date in auch a scramble would have no more Influence on public affairs ut tho national capital than if ho wore a wooden puppot manip ulated by a string. Ho could do nothing more effective than hia election would imply that he should do, and that would be to prod thq wounds of tho defeated faction at homo and to keep astir a novor dying Qame of hatred among tho people of South Carolina." *** Tho Sumter Froeman, though some w Hut Jefforaonlan to and through the core, occasionally wor ships at tho shrine of paternalism. It says: "Tho Supremo Court has sus tained the Dispensary act. So good-byo barrooms, except thoso run by the StatoQovornmont, after July 1st. Wo must say wo think the chango promises to bo a great good ono." **? Tho Spartan tolls us that "l,aureus Is getting out of tho tadpole stage. Tho tail has dropped off and it Is just plain "Laurens" in tho post office department and Is no longer "Laurens O. H." A Better Way. Moat all of us would liko an oc casional liver medicine. Wo all need It in the Spring. Rut tho average medioine is so dobilltatlng and painful that we do without. At last we havo a liver medicino which its owners deolaro Is abso lutely, freo from pains, slcknosp. woakness and gripes. Its llvor alu sold by Dr, B. F. Posey and also by Dr. H. Martin, ?Oots. a bottle. A graduated medicine glass frco with oach bottlo. Eczema causes an itching so per sistent as to produce, not only slooplessnoss, but at times oven de lirium. Local applications will not romovo tho cause, which is im pure blood. Ayor's Saraaparilla curoS*this dlseaso by cleansing the blood and eradicating ail humors. Tho "glide" will as usual ho tho fr.voritc serpentine danco tbfs Sum mer. Every democratic paper in the land ?jhould help to swell tho cho rus for a gradod income tax. When a South Carolinian rends the newspapers of Georgia ho must concludo that the secrot of that State's.prosperity lies in tho ever lasting good humor of her people. Sacrotary Herbert Is spoken of for vice-president to succeed Ste venson,?but the Secretary should not bo asked to play second fiddle to any man. A. great many papers aro harshly criticising Ooyornor Ponnoyer of Washington. We have reason to beliovo that wo could bo very happy under a Pennoyer administration. Whore is tho sub-treasury schemo? Is it in Col. Donaldson's pocket? Is Editor Howden in charge of It? Or has tho poor thing died for tho want of puffing? While Tillman is being consid ered for a third term let us suggest that ho go over to Georgia and run for Governor of that State. Georgia would recclvo him with open arms, it would bo a filling climax to his career, it would restore harmony in thoso parts, and ohf how he would shlno as a Georgian! 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Bo I kept going from bad to worse I thou bad nn attack ot tho shingles, which, with all my other complaints, confined mo to my room for thrco months and Nearly Took Away My Life. I had heard of Hood's Barsaparilla as a good medicine, so I bought a bottlo. When I had takon It, I found it had done mo somo good, so I continued till I had taken thrco bottles. I Im proved so rapidly that I could walk out of doors, and havo steadily gained till I am nt work ?ngaln and aso my hammer and trowel onco Hood's si Cures more. Tho physicians told mo five yoars ago that I would not live thrco years, and all tho neigh bors think it a very strango thing to seo me at work again. It is tho strength glvon mo by Ilood's Barsaparilla which cnablos mo to do It.'' Isaac ADER, Vienna, Warron County, N. J. G Hood'O Pill9curonll Liver Ills, Biliousness, Jauuuico, Indigestion, 81ck Headache. 250. STATE of SOUTH CAROLINA County of LAukens. Court of Common Pleas. Samuel Patton Evlns, plaintiff, vs. William D. Evins, Elizabeth Jane Evins, Lavinia Ann Evins, Rachel Ann Evins, Lucius Evins, Cath orino Evins, Louvinia Evins, J. O. Owings and S. S. Knight, defts. To the Defendants above named;? You are hereby summoned and re quired to answer tho complaint in this action, which was iiled in the office of the Clerk of tho Court of Common Pleas, for the said county on Jan. 12, 1893 and to servo a copy of your answer to tho said com plaint on tho subscribers at their . office at Laurens, South Carolina within twenty days after the ser vico hereof, exclusivo ot the day of such service; and If you fail to an swer tho complaint within tho time aforesaid, the plaintiff in this action will apply to tho Court for tho relief demanded in the com plaint. Dated Jan. 12, A. D. 1893. F. P. McQOWAN, and W. H. MARTIN, Plaintiffs' Attorneys. J. IT. WUARTON. 0. C. C. P. To William D. Evins, Rachel Ann Evins, Lucilis Evins, Cather ine levins and Louvinia Evins, nun resident defendants abovo named, take notice that tho complaint in tho abovo stated action was iiled in the olUco of tho Clerk of tho Court of Common Pleas for Laurens county In said State on Jan. 12, 1893. F. P. McQOWAN, and W. II. MARTIN, Ot Plaintiffs' Attorneys. Dispensary Bill. On account of prohibiting the sale of liquors, which will take effect the 1st day of July and as a law abiding citizen, I will sell at onco regardless of cost my well known stock of all kinds of liquors, wines and brandies, bocv, cigars and to bacco. My 18 yoars dealings with my customers is sufficient guaran tee for salo of pure goods, honest measure and low prices. Goods must and will be sold at once. Now is your timo to buy. Respectfully, Apr. 25, 93. L. KOPPEL. pure drugs Arc very essential when a person is ill and adulterat ed medicines cannot possi bly have the curative powers like wholesome medicines but DU. B. F. POSE? keeps nothing but the best and purest Drugs and Medicines and people wanting anything in my line will do well to call. I also carry a large slock of Toilet Ailiclcs, Stationery, Tobatca, Cigars, Colognes, Toilet and Laundry Soap and a hundred and one other things kept in a first-class Drug Store. I keep GARDEN SEEDS of reliable houses constantly on hand and sell them at reasonable prices. Yours for mutual benefit, ib. f. B&SKYq WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DRUGGIST. New Barber Shop,' In Tho Robortson Building, TWO DOORS FROM THE POST OFFICE. Polito Attention and flood Work i I'roudsod All Customers. Respectfully, DICK MARTIN. BIG BLOWING And windy advertising unsurportcd by facts have played out. Trashy merchandise can no. longer be palmed oil* on an intelligent public for first class goods. People havo learned to discriminate between the good and the spuri ous. Herein lies the secret of f / OUR SUCCESS. It is selling the BEST at the price of Inferior Articles and strictly avoiding MISREPRESENTATIONS that has Won the Hearts and Pockets of the people for us. Let others do as they will we will adhere strictly to our rule? "BEST GOODS FOR THE LEAST MONEY." ? For the best 5, 10, 15, 20 and 25 els. Dress Goods come to sec us. For the best 35, 45, 50, 65 and 75 cts. Dress Goods come to see us. For the best 85c, 1.00, 1.25, 1.50, 1.75 .2.00 and -1.50 Dress Goods come to sec us. For the best line of the newest things in Ladies' Hats conic to sec us. For a White Lawn at 5cts, worth Sets, come to Bee us. For India Linen at 8, 10, 12^ and 15 cts, worth 'o, 12$, 15 and 2octs, come to sec us. For beautiful Plaid Lawns at 8, 10, 12 and i5cts, worth 25 per cent, more money, come to sec us. For the best line of novelties in Printed Goods come to sec us. For the best line of Shoes in Western Carolina come to sec us. Our Clothing Stock Can't be downed in Quality, and our prices have been made with a spe cial view of moving it, and our large sales in this department warrants us In saying ou figures arc right. FOR NOBBY AND STAPLE STRAW HATS WE ARE HEADQUARTERS. ? SIMMONS Bit We Are On Top Once Again. *? And am prepared to furnish anything In my line at reasonable rates. New Goods aro arriving every day. Mending and repair ing dono at short notice and special attention glvou to watches. And In Fact Uvory thing Kept in a First ( lass Establishment? Call at Jewelry Store, Southwest Corner of Public tfquarc. HARRIS'WATER HARRIS* L.1TI1IA PRINGS, S. O. After a long and vartod oxporionco in tho uso of Mineral Waters from many sources, both foreign and dotnestio, 1 am fully porsuaded that HARRI?' LITHIA WATER possesses oiiicaoy in tho treatment of aullotions of tho Kidney and Bladder imequallod by any other water of which I havo made trial. Tliis opinion is based upon observation of its ollocts on my patients Tor tho past throe yoars, during whioh timo I havo proscribed it freely and almost uniformly with beneut in tho modicablo maladlos annvo mentioned. Whon ;ailuro to relloyo lias occurred, I havo iinputod it to Insufficient uso of the Wator, for my oxporionco teaches mo, that froinono to two quarts daily should bo ta'ton from two to four weeks, to socuro its full romedial effects. A. N. TALLY, M. U., Columbia, Bi 0. J. T. HARRIS, Waterloo, H. c. Dear Sir:?I llnd groat bonelit Trom tho uso of your Litliia Water. T consider it a lino tonic, and goneral rogulator of tho digestion, as woll as vory olllcacious In thoso disoasos for which 1.it Ida is considered somewhat of a spocllic. judo 10 j. B. KBRSITAW,Oamdbn,S.0. My wlfo has been using your Litliia Water and is vory much bonolited. I con sider it in ovory rospoct equal to tho famous HulValo Llth'in Wator. JUDGE J. H. COTHRAN, Abboville.S. 0. -FOR WALK BY SHUMATE & GARRETT and KENNEDY BROTHERS. ? NOTICE He ?uro to go to Dr. J, A. Martin's Now Prilg Storo for your Drugs, ModicinoH, Ladies Tollot Goods, Itroath Perfumes, Diamond Dlos, Tubo Paints, Indoliblo Ink, Mtationory, Tobacco, Cigars and a . Iiundrod otbor things iiHiinlly kopt in a Drug Storo. Bond your can for tho bof>t whito or rod oil and you will sond again, special inducomonts nro now oflorcd to practicing phyHlolans in tho way of Fresh Drags, The Cheapest Drugs and tho Host Drugs. Dr. Hiokenbakor, a llrat class proscription dork, who bus hnd several years oxporlonco an n Drug Salesman and Proscription Clork is now in ohargo of thoDiug Btofo und takes special interoatin tilling proRoriptions and waiting on customers. Semi in your ordoca and bo convinced Hi .U Dr. lilokln baker la tho man to save you monoy. J. A. MARTIN. l, e. burns & so. UNI) 101UDJ Y/ERS, UNDERSELLEUS Call nn<l hoo our luuny bnrguins; to bo found among our immonso stock ot Dry Goods, Notions, Shoes, Groceries, Tinware, Ulnssware, Woodwaro, Hardware KU:. Great Imluco mentH in Stoves and Furniture Sowingmmchinos?hijrh and low nrm?at n job. Tduool Drugs very cheap. Big lot of Confoctlonory, TO RA C C O and CIGARS. Our goods must, shall mtd will ho sold; Wo hnve upon od a NEW STOKE nt-J linrksdnlo, H. <!. but nro doing business also at our OLD STAND nein- Uttlo . Knob, B.C. With many thanks Tor tho past favors und hoping for a oontinunnco ol tho same, wo uro. Your obediont sorvanls, L. E. BURNS & GO. Ovar DPlettfoi^ml Not our Political but our Business platform is bound to be popular with all parties. Here are the planks on which we stand. PROTECTION For all customers from over charges, mis-statements or poor values. FREE TRADE With everyone who buvs of us for the cheapest goods on the market. RECIPROCITY Between buyer and 'eller. We make a small profit. You get extra values. PROHIBITION Of shoddy goods, inflated values and oppressive hitrh prices. PEOPLE'S PARTY Of course "The People's Store" is where "The People's Party" buy their goods. That is the simple, tiuthful platform on which we present these canidates to you. DRESS GOODS, Domestics, Hosiery, Underwear, Notions, Trimmings, Buttons, Oloves, Knitton Cotton, BOOTS AND FINE SHOES Slippers, Oxford Tics, Hats, Umbrellas, Parasols, Etc. SCHOOL BOOKS, Full line of Stationery, Drugs and Perfumery, Hardware, Saddlery, Harness, Whips, Crockery- and FANCY GROCERIES, Sugar, ColVees, B a corf, Lard, Corn Flour, Sewing Machines, Etc. If you like theo platform patronize the Canidate. We are not asking any favors at the hands of Mr. Cleveland, but we do beg that you examine these lines and our prices. J. 0. C. FLEMING & CO. Diamond Rambler the Greatest Wheel on Earth. FITTED WITH THE CE LF.BRATED G & J PNEUMATIC TIRES. (? THE FASTEST WHEEL SOLD. V 9 Speed, Comfort and Beauty *ll Combined. Jj *? ?..sii-.*-J,2:??;--.V..v:^.. T.-. i. SOLD OJSTIL/Sr BY S. M. &E. H. Wilkes & Co. &iiL m <?-???* -FOR SALE BY I>OWN TO HARDPAN! ROOK BOTTOM PRICES ON NOTIONS, BOOTS SHOES, FUR AND STRAW HATS, ETC