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Sabacrlption Prloe?13 Montni, $1.00. PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. W. W. BALL. EDITOR. ttes for AdyertlKlug.?Ordinary Ad vertisements, per square, one iuaer tion, 91.00; each subsoquout Insertion, 50 conts. Liberal reduction made Tor large Ad' Yortlaementa. W.W.BALL, Proprietor. LAURENS. S. Cm July 30. 1896. Senator Irby on the State Coli? gc and Citadel. In his speech in the Court House, as a candidate (or the constitutional con vention the Senator declared that ho would abolish tho State College nud tbo'M+lltary Academy. Tho Senator declared himself unwell, us ho rose to address tho audlonco and those**'can scarcely havo been his healthy viows. Ho declared them dude manufactures and unworthy the support and main tenance of tho State. Taxes should support the primary school nnd Clom son College. Why? Upon what prin ciple? Tho Senator gavo no reason. It was tho utterance of a candldnto surely and not a thinking man. Tho Sonutor may not havo read tho law vory deeply but ho has had ample leisure to stuijy tho needs of tho state and tho laws of political economy. Ho must cortainly know that tho Stato cannot tako by taxation as a matter of right the money of tho people and give it to tho education of othor peoples chlldron? he must cortainly know that his money cannot bo taken as a matter of right to educate peoplo in primary schools or moohanical colloges, or sclontillc col logos, or classical colloges. Ho must know, and it is an oasior lesion thun to learn tho financial probloms thatull tax ation is founded upon puro oxpodioncy; wo force money out of tho pockets of the peoplo to educato tho children bo oauso it is inoxpediont and disastrous to tho Interests of socloty that igno rance should pro vail and us a result orlme and barbarism. It is not as a matter of right. It is expedient, pro per and for tho best Interest of society that public sohools should be main tained by taxation but not 08 a matter of right. Abstractly it is wrong Tho thoroforo has wisely established a system^ primary schools and a half million h\spent In support of thorn; she has Cloms?n,' "a sonool of science and practical arts; mcchaulos and agriculture. There tho sons-of plant ers, rloh mens 6ons, farmors sons, tho sons of bankers, lawyers, morchnnts, old soldiers ami poor widows uro taught at tho oxponso of taxpayors, not as a mattor of right, but because it is for tho convonionco and best interests of nil our peoplo. Then wc have tho Cita dol or Stato Military Acudomy upon tho same principle of practical exped iency and if there is a civilized com munity on tho globe whoso onviroinont moro urgently domands a school fur nishing a class of trained military youth us a nucloue around which to form ready elllciont soldiery wc do not know where upon tho map to locate it.? This is enough to urgo on this point. Tho South Carolina College is a eap stono to our systom of education. It is atypical classical school; it bus a vory high order of learned and scholarly mon, a corps of I'rofossors on a par with any band of teachers to bo found in tho country. H?re aro to bo taught tho mon who arc to bo teachors else where. It is not necessarily a school ? for lawyors or doctors. It is a school ordained to make scholars and learned men . It rounds out und completes our system. It is a collcgo absolutely ne cessary for tho sons of all classes, farm ers, professors, mechanics, merchants and lawyors. Hero as clscwhoro edu - cation is mado cheap ns it should be, not as a mattor of right ?because as wo havo urged, every form of taxation Is robbery for expediency und under tho forms of law. Tho school for women at Rock Hill, was Instituted, though at great cost, to complete our systom. It has boon gen erally understood that with tho estab lishment of Clomson tho agitation of tho support of tho higher schools of learn* ing In this Stato should end. Wo re grot Senator Irby has soon lit to. open up tho agitation. It will not strengthen him with reformers in tho Stato and wo do not bolievo in Laurens. Wo trust, thoroforo, upon rolloeUon, ho will think bettor of it and should he go to tho convention, as ho will, soo to it that a Stato Collogo be provided for In the organic law as woll as a provis ion for tho maintenance of the primary schools for all tho children of tho peo plo. All cannot be colloge bred but tho poorest and humblest should havo a chance. Thoro is not wealth in tho Stato to build groat collogos with pri vate moans. Tho argument of competi tion is fudge, bocauso ovory school in tho United Statos is in competition with overy othor school, as evory in dividual man is in competition with overy othor man. The writer is proud to boliovo that thoro Is not an anti In tho Stato who begrudged a dollar to Clone.on: whllo his nearest kinsman, outside of his own children, a farmer, has his boy there learning the first and noblost of arts, that of tilling the ground. Wo havo war enough ovor OfllcoB, politics and iinnnciul problems; lot us have no further agitation on nn old th read bare subject, worn out and throshod ovor by Gov. Till man and by - him and everybody but Walt Whit man sunk In tho oblivion of tho dead past. * # * Again Hands Off. Tho primary ordered by tho ring bosses comes olT to-day. For four years you havo boon oxcludcd from tho councils of tho rlngstors. You have no part with thorn. No good can como of swolling thoir ranks to-day. Stand far Off. Ronjorabor, that you aro pure un adulterated democrat ??, and keep your hands clean. You havo no faith in Ooalalsm. You still have faith in tho domocratio party; you boliovo It may Still be ?'conjured" with. You uro democrats. Again, hands off. * The mighty issues involved in mak ing tho now organic law aro minified in Abbevlllo county to tho issues of di viding that county. Majority Kai . * r I i-l?y In his few romarks in the Court House on tho 22d stated that he had been a lawyer. In the course >! his speech ho denounced the feature of tho dispensary law undor which cir cuit Judges sent white men to tho pen itentiary for contempt of court. This was a very proper feeling and no doubt duo to tho fact that tho Senator had been u Inwybr and had imbibed u scin tilla of inspiration from that class that has ovor resisted the cnoroachmonts of tyrants upon tho liberty of the oitl/.on. If ho had boon more of a lawyer. h? would not bo so good a radical, and worship the radical doctrine, that the majority must necessarily rulo and that a minority has no rights. No man is fit to make a constitution wluv holds to tho doctrine that because ydTTcan. thoroforo you have o God given right. A constitution should havo checks und balances to protect the minority. Tho contrary is ttho doctrlno of Thad Stevens and Heid of Musschusetts. Wo wont to war to maintain tho rights of tho minority. But might is right in tho sight of our Senator; such is his teach ing. In tho OO's tho majority boat us, robbed us of our property, made us tho 8luvos of our slaves. God grant that those chickens do not como homo to roost and that our postorlty may not suffer as we havo' from this radical doctrine Give us a domocrat. * -? Oracular. Recently wo prophesied that tho constitution which Sonator Tillman has hid in tho bushes was a bastard imita tion of tho Mississippi constitution.? Tho Sonator has now vcntilatod his schomo. It disfranchises no man white or black. It simply provides that tho registration olhcor shall do tho dis franchising. Tho Sonator is very proud of bolng a plain man and it is plain that his education has boon sadly noglccted. Qui FAOIT PER AUUM PAOlt PERSE, Ho who doos a thing by an other does it himsolf. A fraud por petratod through an agent has added to it tho quality of cowardice ? ** A Reformer and olllco holder said on tho street this morning that tho Itoin is oxactly right on tho Primary in so far as it is contended that tho Irby com mittee had no right to order a primary in which Republicans and men of di vers political persuasions arc to bo al lowed to vote Ho said that Mr. Irby, as chairman of tho Democratic Execu tive Committee, hud no right ordering anything save a Democratic primary and that when he went beyond his pow ers ho did groat injury to the organ ized democracy. That Is not exactly Reform doctrine, but tho way somo of the Sumtcr Reformers talk.?Sumter Watchman und Southern. *** Moneks Corner has boon choson as tho county site of Hcrkley. By the way why don't those fellows abolish the name of their county and call it Dennis'. Berkley was an old English Lord, as well as Colleton, Clarendon. Charleston, Orangcburg, Georgetown, Williamsburg, &c, wore all called after English Kings. Marion, Sumter. Hor ry, Pickens &c, were all lordly land lords and Bourbons. The convention will soon sit and their names will like ly bo Dennis, Tillman and tho like ? Thai new county of Hampton ought to bo robaptized. J. Billlo Stokes or Wil lie Wolfe would nnswor. L*i / Douglas and Obenr and Goff are again in tho injunction business.? Greene, tho supervisor of registration of Riehland county is the proposed vic tim. All the harm it will work to the State will bo to IUI tho tills of Senator Tlllmans friends, the array of assistant counsel. When Tom Watson burnt his law books in Georgia he should have crossed tho Savannah and become per manent administration counsel and his place among the olllco holding million aires in South Carolina would have been safe *** Tho Mississippi plan disfranchises all who cannot read or explain tho consti tution. Illiterate whito South Caro linians have pride of character and ". ill not rush to oxposo their illiteracy?es pecially to supervisors more ignorant than thomsclvos and yot havo mastered tho two R's and can read and write Tho "plan" "hatched" out disfran chises tho illitorato white. * * # Edgefiold always sends ablo men to the front when they uro needed. Among thoso urged for tho Constitution Con vention and who will probably bo sent among the soven delegates that county is entitled to, are: Sonator Tillman, Hon. George D. Tillman, Ex-Governor John C. Shoppard. Thoy aro all ablo men?equal to any omergency requir ing ability. * Whon tho strike dog opens and gives tho well known note, tho pack aro not slow to drop In and you may lay back and llston to tho music. "Tray, Blanch and Sweetheart, little dogs and oil," thoy mnko tho wolkin ring. Gentlemen may cry poaco, peace, but thoro i9 no peace. The Ringstors havo sworn that thoro will bo no poaco. This is emphatically tho case in Lau rens. Bo caroful about entangling al liuncos. *#? All signs indicate that the poll will bo to-day tho smallest thrown by white voters In this Stato for many yours.-? 'f ho peoplo arc tired of ring rule and bosslsm, Tho man whoso vertebral column Is stout to-day and who stands as straight as a cats foro log will never have to bo treated for curvaturo of tho spino. * * Govornor Tillman acknowledges tho corn?his boasted Mississippi plan is a moro toinporary arrangement ? a makoshlft. * # In tho present politics of tho State poaco would not pay and por cohmv 1 quenco poaco is postponed. * ? * An Edge Hold roostor hutonod an egg during last week. Evor^oody knows that a July chick stands but a poor show. stabil At tho groat York county Alliance meeting last week, It is roportod, that Col. Darcy P. Duncan, to illustrate that tho Alliance is still alive and kick ing up its heols, related his oM joke of "Old Mike mulo." Appropos to this, a Luuruns citizen swapped mulos with a nolghbor in Sparenburg, just across tho lino. Tho Spartanburg citizen got tho advantage and tho Laurcns man got "Poto" mule, who turned out to bo some thirty odd, Instead of ton. Where upon tho Laurcns man put I Vie in training, beating htm with a good long polo around tho lot for a week. Ho then painted Poto a fancy color and sent word to tho Spartan that ho had a good sprightly, young mule to trade The Spartaiveaiop-ovcr. The Laurons Jehu took tho precaution to carry his pole to tho lot and at sight of It Peto frisked and danced liko a two yoar old. Tho trado was in ado. The colored citizen sent to convey Pete across tho Enorco suspected him before ho got homo and it was not long beforo his identity was discovered. Tho alliunco is a good intontlonod Institution, but tho Popes, Mayflolds, Bonots, Garys, Buchanans, Kvans and the largo army of lawyors, havo about ridden that mulo to death. That mulo needs paint. On the 2?th Inst., at Tirzah, near Hock Hill, Senator Tillman and Gov ernor Evans spoko to a largo assem bly. Tho audlonco was rin^-streaked and striped. Butlor, of North Caro lina, United States Populist Sonator was u speaker. Tillman was tirosome and tamo in his "Tirade." His chief point wus tho throwing olY tho Demo oratio Party and forming a new alli anco with tho inorthwest. Tho sub stance of Domocracy being gone thero wus nothing in a name?a mcro sound and lot it go. Aicd so Tillman goes. Evans thrcshod old straw. Ho fa vored reforming tho Judlcary, which everybody thought was reformed when Pope, Gary, Townsond, Buchanan and Benet woro clothed in white robes.? Ho favored tho Mississippi plan hatched by Sonator Tillman?ho is nursing that chick. Ho favors dividing up the counties into smaller ones, to savo cx ponso to tho people How expenses aro to bo saved by du plicating Court Houses, Jails and tax collectors is a sum in multiplication ,| that don't work out according to tho ADVERTISER'S arithmetic and we leave it to editions wo have not mot. Tho Governor had other Reforms but our space is exhausted and patience too, to wit. # * # We Apologise. Wo said Inadvertently in our last is sue that tho Judges in this Stato who sont whiskey sollors to the Penitentiary without a jury trial would livo to blush with shame. We upolgise: wo forgot how they got on the bench. *** lleinphill Indisposed* Editor Hemphlll, of the Abbeville Medium, tho wheel-horse of the Abbo villo Reformers is "oiT his food." Wo trust indeed our eotomporary will soon bo "Richard again'" although if ho should prove chronically weak-kneed in his Reform notions, wo would bo none tho worse us good antis. * * a Circumstances Alter Cases. Tho Mississippi plan was adopted for a Stato whose white peoplo were a unit and not split into factions. Senator Tillman adds one require ment to the Mississippi suiYrago clause As A rcquUito qualification to vote, tho applicant for registration must bo "also posscssscd of a good moral character." Does this exclude "cussing" and if so where will the Senator be? *4 * Tho Atlanta Journal of Saturday has lifcliko and flattering pictures of our great and good men: A. B. Williams, tho Tllghman, J. C. Homphlll, N. G. Gonzales, Governor Evans. Phoebus, what a group! *?* By tho Mississippi Constitution illiterate whites aro disfranchised by tho thousands. Thoy arc required to road or explain tho constitution. They go not near tho polls out of respect to their manhood. * * ? Tho "bland dollar" Hluud is being groomed for the Prcsidoncy. THE BANE OF HUMAN LIFE, Driven Out of tho System by tho Use of 's Sarsaparil "For flvo years, l wus a great o? mifforer from a most, persistent 21 blOOll disease, none of the various medicines I took being of any & help whatever. Hoping that oi change of climate would benefit ? me, I went io Cuba, lo Florida, ? lange, c e, l we and then to Saratoga Springs) o' whore I remained B?rne time <>j drinking the waters, lint ail was j*i no use. At hist, being advised q by several friends lo try Ayoi's o oi iparilhi, I began taking it, ?L and very soon favorable results r| were manifest. To day I con-oi si lev myself a perfectly healthy o' man. with a good appetite anil ?1 nol the least trace of my former ? complaint. To all my friends, o and especially young men liko myself, l recommend Ayer's.Snr- ?J stiparilla, If In need of n perfectly o3 roll .?>1e blood-purifier. ?Josk oi EscopAii, proprietor Hotel op i.scohaii, j?n ^Victoria, Key west, Fla.j resl? ? deuce, 852W. lOtliSt,$ew York, o) ?p?Sarsaparilial Admitted for Exhibition $ AT THE WORLD'S FAIR ? Oi Hood's is Good Makes Pure Blood Scrofula Thoroughly Eradicated. "C. I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass.: "It Is with plcasuro that I glvo you Uio details ot our little May's slcknoss and her return to health by tho use ot Hood's Sarsaparllla. She was taken clown with Fevor and a Bad Coutath. Following this .b sore camo on hor right side !>?? twecu tho two lower rll>3. In a short time an* oilier broko ou tho left side. Sho would taka snells of soro mouth and when we had succeed' cd In overcoming this sho would suffer with at tacks of high fever and expel bloody looking corruption. Her head was uffected and matter oozed from her ears. After each attack she be flood's^ Cures camo v/orso and nil treatment fnllcd to glvo lief relief until wo hegnn to uso Hood's Sarsaparllla. Alter kIiu had tal.enone-lialf botHo wo could see that slio was better. Wo continued until she bad taken tlireo uoitlcs. Now sho looks like Tho Dloom of Health Slut la fat as a pla. Wo feel grateful, and cannot 6 iv tuoiaueh in favor of Hood's Sarsnparllla." >li:s. A. M. Adams, innian, Tennessee. Hood's PI?3 net easily, yet promptly nud BC\?ic;:tly, on the liver and bowels. 25c. t 1 oor alth means go. much more than \ 'you imagine-?serious and{ fatal :a vz uh from trifiir fleeted. 1 Dc pi;*.) fature'si greatest ?health. ^ ii yen arc feeling ? . < l :.oils,weak M i a ? Ijattd generally tx- \ I ',' !. nervous, J I . ao appetite t - w 1 ? ? I can't work, / i lYlfl ? .?'??> kl oncctnk thcmpstrello. I I strengthening1 Inc.which is j ? ,vn'a Iron Bit A few bot ::: ?-benefit ... . _ i ccji a from the j hi.:. I , ? ? fits! .lose-rtl . " ? . stet? your? . , and it's .. .1 ; ....?:.:.t u take. It Cures Pyepep Neuralgfu, i Constipation, Bad Dlood Molar In, Nc :\ oo :? cihncnta 4 Women'o complaints. Get r>::l ? t'.i: rrciUilttc? I lit.r. ricsscd red Hues on ilio wrapper. All others uteaub* Blitutcs. On :> :eipi of ivo ? utnmpswe Will head Eel il i J . k. . . V.'urld's Fair Yi.v... i ook?i'tc: BROWN CHEM :AL CO r M.TlMOflg. MO. I y .:?.:?:! .Liver ?f?i.?a Por Barb Wire Cuts, Scratches Saddle and Collar Galls, Cracked Heel Burns, Old Sores, Cuts, Boils, Bruises, Piles and all kinds of inflammation on man or beast. Cures Itch and Mange. TCho Coro, Cut or Bum will no7or nutter tiler tho ?'.. Uta implied. ? i'..-; prepared for accideal? l.y keeping it inyom iroorctoble. Alinrufjalclfiscllltonnnuarr.nlcc. '?j'Ciiro, No Pay. Prlco al cts. and $t.oo, II your ? ugglatdooS not keep it send us cts. In nos tagOEtamps : nil wo will send It to yon by mail, rftrl?,Tcnn.,J.in. JMh. 1801. r..\ir hin I h?vo n<ed rorffr'a Antl.cptle llrallntt Oil for (larooaaand Saddle Galla, Berateheaand Uart> wire Cull i.-llh perfect fatlafactlon, and I heartily recommend it >o II Livery nn<l ?}.,?. ?. C. D. IRVINE, Livery ond Feed Stable. oa3y burned. Gentlemen.?I nm pleasad to apeak a word for Perier't '.utUsptlo IU lIIui: Oil. My baby w.n I.no,. I a few month. ? i,and after trvhiK nil other remedial I applied your "Oil" ?!id the Iii 'I application Rave relief, and In a few dnya lite ?ire wai well. I also med the oil on my ?lock and find that .111 tho bejt remedy for thii puriioao that I have < v. r med. Voura, C. T. LKWIS. I'arla, Tonn., January IM. ISM _ UiNCFACTunr.n i;v PARIS MEDICINE CO., ST. LOUIS, Mr For sale by Du. 14. F. PoSBY, Laurens, S. C pure drugs Arc very essential when a person is ill anil adulterat ed medicines cannot possi bly have the curative powers like wholesome medicines but an. b, p. posby keeps nothing but the best and purest Drugs and Medicines and people wanting anything in my line will do well to call. I also can y a large slock of Feilet Articles, Stationery, acca, Cigars, Colognes, Toilet and Laundry Soap and a hundred and one other things kept in a first-class Drug Store. I keen HARDEN SEEDS Of reliable houses constantly on hand and sell them at reasonable price;?. Yours for mutual benefit, m? Wo wmmY. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL 0RU66IST NOTICE Any person having businoss with tho County Suporvi8or. I will bo in tho ..III ce on Monday of each wook botwoon the hours 10 a. m. toll p. m. It. P, Adaiic, Supervisor of Laurens County, S. C. THIS SPACE IS OCCUPIED -BY DAVIS & ROPER, FAMOUS CLOTHIERS. r^o F^UIT Who Knows but What this may be the Case in 1896. Now acting on the possibility of this being true hadn't we better can all the fruit we can of the promised bountiful crop for the present year. Is the time to buy your Mason's P. L. Fruit Jars. The cost of them now is twice what they were twenty clays ago, which is higher than we are selling them at now. We will sell at the present prices while this lot lasts but don't promise anything on next ship ment. Don't wait till all arc sold. "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush." J. 0. C. FLEMING & CO. CrjafjceT $50.00. We don't give you the name of this Cycle that we are mak ing a run on. We have good reasons for doing so. Wo will match it against any &hovv us for $75.00. Cash or Credit. ICYCLES. As tiood as Made?Only $65.00 will buy you a high grade Cycle made by The Ram bler people?with G & J Pneumatic Tire, wood rim. Sec these special offers in our show window. The price wont last long?\^w> want to do a little advertising. jg^P" We have now a Bicycle repairer who will do your work promptly, Mr. W. C. Mcridolh. Send him your work. S. M. & E. H. W?kes & CO. Laurens, S. C. ft^f Mintcr's New Building. Harris Lithia Water: The most remarkable Water on the Market to-day which! Shown by its Analysis and Testimonials of the Most Noted Physicians of the Country. Read what a prominent merchant of Columbia, S. C, has to say for Harris Lithia Water. "I had long been affected with kidney troubles. I had tried all the mineral waters from Saratoga to Porter Springs. I had tried the Western waters ami all others that I could hoar of, and I have no hesi tancy in saying that none have benefited 111c even approximately as much as the Harris Lithia Water. I was using the Buffalo Lithia Water when I heard of this. I do not expect to use the Buffalo Water again. "When I went to Harris Lithia Springs, I had to be assisted out of my chair. After remaining two weeks I could get-tdunrt a^good?a?,~ anybody. It acted on me like a charm?quickly ami cllectively. This water is now being largely sold in Columbia, and I think every person who has tried it will agree with me in the belief that it is the most re markable water in the country. From a simple interest in suffering hu manity, I would like very much to see it given a trial. C. A. BALDWIN, Columbia, S. C. Harris Lithia Water Co., Harris Springs, S. C. a81ieville, N. C, September, '.), iSOi. ? Mr. J. T. Harris: Wc have been selling the Harris Lithia Water for some lime, and find it a ready seller; those who have tried it are lotld in its praise. The doctors here regard it superior to cither the Buffalo or Londonderry Waters. We predict for it a wonderful sale when the merits become more generally known. Yours very truly, RAYSOR & SMITH, Prescription Druggist. ? Prosperity, S. C. Feh. 2S, 18O.1. Mr. J, T.Harris: I have been under the treatment of several physicians, and been to different watering plaCCS during the last ten years for kidney disease, ft affords me pleasure to say that I have received more benefit from the use of Hariis Lithia Water than all remedies combined. Respectfully, ?. D. BROWN. For Sale by The Laurciis Drug Co., and Kennedy Bros., Laurens, S, C.