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A Thirty-Six Pound 'Possum. A tolerable tall story .or .a 'possum Btory, but up in Huillivau and Dials whero the venue of the in ouster is laid there Is no reason why he should have St?ppel growing. In the meanwhile, neighLv '^g counties had best be eareful about offering prizos in this direction.?Kditok ADVERTISER. f. A Spartanburg man traveling In the harness and saddlery business is ro sponslblo for the following, the treib Ol whJrc.h be vouches for: The negroes of Gr'vnville county hold a stock show at Pine Hill on October fith, and a 'pOBSuui weighing 31$ pounds and hav ing tusks U inches long was placed on exhibition. Its tall had been out olT and marked In Puddy Shaw's mark.? Ho would not allow any hunting on his lands and that the 'possum must have hoen marked by him during his lifo *Jmp. He haB now beon dead twenty I'Osshsakj, _and tho plantation is now ??o natnod Sob 'Yi'.^a" Babb. Tbl? ^Sparfanbu?S fiSg*1"* ShoalS montned we a]U7f r^m? aud '?oked ap^ , l61t llko wo wore o , ? oo tako tho small-pox. Tho madam got scarod and prepared an upper chamber for me whore I Qould be quiet and unmolWprl _ I Sho tore down tho old pack and re moved it with tho general hang ings and appurtinaces to other quarters, marched mo up stairs and gave mo orders. Tho room was furnished with one lo:io chair and a hard bed. She didn't want to spoil a feathor bed with me, she. Baid. Now I toll you it was awful. Think of being already despondont and cast down, and then all of a sudden to bo cast up i and locked in. I have been used i to a soft bed, plenty of quilts and a little more company of dark nights than a quarantine set. It reminded me of the old darkies sermon. Ho squared himself bo fore his congregation and began: "You.will find my tox in do j*???ter clause of de fust par* i* de thirty fowth verso o* ?-ie fust chapter of do gospol coucorded by St. Mark: 'Ami he hoaled many that wore sick of divers diseases.' Now brodreu, die was a doctor what knowed how to diagonizo a case and describo de kind of medicine what do case. Our doctors may ouro you when you hab de fever or do small pox, but let me tell you, and heal" me whou I say it, none of dose plaints I mentioned is parable to do disease what de Moster cured. As I told you, you may hab de small pox or do yaller fever and de doctor may fotch you thro', but widout snpouatural tention, I tell you when you takes do divers you's a dead nigger sho.'' So I felt. We may survive tho fever or small pox, but this thing you call quarantine is an awful disease. But my timo is out and I ran down to Columbia to see the fair and air myself and I feel better. Large things are going on there, but I noticed only three counties represented in formal or der, namely: Chester, Marlboro and Lexington. It is a shame to sit by and let a groat institution like this go begging, and a greater disgrace to see and allow it to do generate into a gambling corpora tion. Mr. El bort Marlar came near having a serious accident somo days ago. While returning from Fountain Inn with his little boy in tho buggy after dark his mule became frightoned on top of Irby hill, and ran madly down the slope to Forth Rabun crook, whore missing tho road slightly, he ran two wheels off tho bridge and broke the cross piece holding the shafts. Fortunately no one was hurt. Martin Aberci ombie is the most aggressive Tillmanite in the up oountry. Tillman may roar and oovort on stumps and uso his pitchfork in aseemblios, but Mart is tho man that is heeled.Ho wears a large oircular heel spur,whether walking, riding horso-back or in a buggy, and is propared to wage war to a triumphant oonquest. used to feel safe in standing flat footed and opposing such meas ures or men, as I conscientiously believed to be heading in the wrong direction, but now I am hunting hiding places in brush heaps and wood piles. I can' stand bare-leggod against bteel. ?Wjiou it comes to putting gaffs on tho rank and file of tho reform movement 1 am horb de combat ??-its good bye Johny. Brother Bon. $100 Reward $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to l"iam that there is1 at least one dreadod disoaso that scionce has been able to cure in all its stages and that is Ca tarrh. Hall's Catairh Cure is tho only positive euro now known to the medioal fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, re quires a constitutional , treat ment. Hall's Catarrh Cnro is taken internally, acting dirootly upon the blood and mucous sur-1 faces of tho system, thereby de-! stroying the foundation of tho disease and giving tho patient strength by building up the con stitution and assisting naturo in doing its work. The proprietors havo so much faith in its ourativo powers that they offer one Hun dred Dollars for any case that it fails to euro. Send tor list of testimonials. F. J. OHENEY & do, Toledo, 0/; Sold by Druggists, 76 cents. Hall's Family Pills &re the boi Olothing is our leading line, and w". arc leaders in clothing. j, J. E. Mintws & Cc NOTICE, ovp^ oolv " V'eoinl The A<ivnnUg? In Gambling. "In nil gambling games," said an old time sport, "there is a perceutago In favor of the 'house.' Anybody, ex cept a born fool, knows that a man couldu't nfl'ord to equip nn establish ment, hire help, pay rent and defray all the hundred nud one Incidental ex penses unless he derived a profit that was based on some fixed principle and not dependent on mere luck or chance. Just where tlie prollt conies in, howev er, is something that very fewl(/j,1L' jt , understand. Most of thepj advantage is derived from some ? xc> 8Uch in the arrnngemep; ov (?e as the 'zero' nu--U11" c wry much ?splits' In (aro, but on a prim mistaken. It really depe gameH al|ko clple that ?ppH?>B to (ho 'percentage aud might be ter* of capital.' may seem, I could take "Strange $1,000 and begin pitching a capita' which the chances are per niekoevcn/ lotting the players e>ul? feft'v -w* th*i sauted to, nu?Knd day f . A^ Steady r- -J* an,--" 7 fiWxhe secret is thls-'The Average "Yvc,- has only ? limited/?0?1?} ?,f money, and a sUfebt eutx/* J?ad luck v es hha O?t. ?? *? null, and Homebody >lsc> * bis place. ",,.?. ..... uouOfketjr? ll?ht on through good luck nu/rj*'. coutiuuully swell ing its reser/* with the cash of the broken play/8- That prluciplo of the perceutago I capital is at the bottom of the prollt of evtvy gaming house in the world from Monaco to Long Branch."*?ew Orleans Times-Dem ocrat. ,' /o Scored on Lincoln. Iu *38 Abraham Lincoln and Stephd A. Douglas hnd a joint dobato ou th'college grounds of Knox college, Gnhjburg. It was a great meetiug, and I shall never forget the tremen dov* enthusiasm that was manifested by/the respective partisans of each of t$se great men. Mr. Douglas had tho o/enlug and conclusion, and he got in ?hc shot on Mr. Lincoln that was so pat that even the adherents of that gentleman had to join In tho laughter. Mr. Lincoln, lu tho course of Ids re marks, twitted his opponent with mak ing only one speech?a set oration which he delivered to each new audi ence, the suggestion being that he was incapable cJWiiglng his stock ad In reply Mr. Douglas said that lie ad mitted tho charge, and conceded that his rival knew In advance what he was going to say. He wished that he could foretell with the same exactness what Mr. Lincoln was going to say, but alas! that was Impc sible, since he chauged his argument to suit bis audiences, making a fierce abolition talk iu com munities where that sentiment was strongly entertained, as at Galesburg, but iu southeru Illinois ignoring aboli tion and Btoudlug up squarely us an old time Whig. A Good Natnrcd Dojr. A very ordinary looking farm horso harnessed to an old wagon stood by the curb, and ou tho board that served for a seat lay a small dog of such mixed blood that no guess could be mode as to bis breed. As a delivery wagon passed on tho opposite side of the street a large red apple Coll off. Before'It stopped roll lug the dog bouuded across tho street, picked it up with his teeth and with tail wagging rushed back to the horse, in frout of which he stood up on bis hlud legs while tho applo was taken from his mouth. As tho horso munched the apple ho made the peculiar llttlo uoiso that horses make when petted, and doggie replied with throaty llttlo barks which plainly told what a pleasure it had been to go ufter that apple. Then he wont back to his nap on the wagon seat.?Burlington Free Press. How It Happened. "Poor follow! I fear ho was badly hurt." "He was." "Well, I suppose he carried some ac cident Insurance?" "Not a bit of it. Ho wanted to take out a policy, but in view of his busi ness the companies declined on tho ground that he was an extra hazardous risk." "What was his business?" "ne was a canvasser for nn accident Insurauco company."?Chicago Pest. Dentb and the Doctor. Death and tho doctor met at the door. "Well, I've got Mini" exclaimed Death banterlngly. Tho doctor was furious, of course. "Oh, yes," he cried, with much heat, "hut you dldu't dare make a square issue of It and get him with the dis ease I was treating him for!" Hereupon Death laughed affectedly, saying nothing.?Detroit Journal. Compliment*. "How, for Instance," asked the in quisitive boarder, "would you define a compliment?" "In love's warfare," replied the di dactic boarder, "a compliment fa a skirmisher sent out for the purpose of bringing on an engagement.'VChicago (Tribune. Tke Oldest Tree. The oldest tree on earth with an au thenticated history is tho great bhoo tree of Burma. For 20 centuries it has I been bold sacred to tho Buddha, and ! no person Is allowed to touch the trunk. When the loavws fall, they are carried away, as relics by pilgrims, Rheumatism?Catarrh, are Mood Dis eases.?Cure Free! It is tho doop-seated, obstinate oasos of Catarrh and Rheumatism that B. B. B. (Botanic Blood Balm) ouros. It matters not what othor treatments, doctors, sprays, liniments, medicated air. blood purifiers, have failed to do, B. B. B. always promptly reaches the real causo and roots out and drivos from tho bones, joints, mucous membrane, and entire system tho ?specific poison, in the blood that causes Rheumatism and Catarrh. B. B. B is tho only remedy strong onough to do this and oure so there oan never bo a roturn of tho symptoms. Don't givo up hopo, but ask your druggist for B. B. B.?Botanio Blood Balm or 8 B's. Large bottles $1, six bottles (full treatment, $$. B. B. B. is an hon est remedy that makes roal cures of all Blood Diseases after every thing olso fails. Wo have abso lute oonfldonco in Botanic Blood Balm; hence, so you may test it, we will send a TRIAL BOTTLE FREE on roqnost. Personal medi cal advice free. Address Bix>od (*opvj"Ohtco) ADMIRAL OlO. UtV?:v..V But when we clu you arc sure to feel the breeze. Wo have something now t0 blow -about?our trade has been so immense this Fall that we ha' c bad to make our second ^ip to New York in one season. m tOMIRAL w. a. SCHIK' (80S 23SSggg@gS rl* JS ? ?3!"!*% fm\m*7C7mCi. what sterling worth in goods and LOW PRICES will do. We have knoo<<rci competition X JLJL1SJ Hmk9wLxvJ W k9 out ()f tue ring. Our buyer has just made the second trip this season to the Morthefn kets, and below we give a limited description of the bargains we have to offer you. Market A LONG WINTER. That is what the weather prophets says we will have, and this means long service for your Overcoat. You will need a good serviceable Overcoat that you can depend on. We sell that kind. Don't Sit and coPYRl&Hv- ?897? P Where to oo for your suits. We have sold the BEST CLOTHING that has been sold in Laurens for the last nine years and we n>f:;ii to keep selling the Best for the Least*Money. Serge ?4 are the most fashionable and most serviceable you can buy for Winter Dress. We have them in all styles from $7.50 to $17.50. m PANTS. If your trousers have seen their best days, make his old ones over for "Willie." are Pa" ought to buy a new pair and let "Ma" in pants, having made special preparation for extra Trouser season. OUR ALL WOOL PANTS Gives you the pick of the finest assortment in Laurens. Every fashionable shade and color is represented. Boys Knee Pants in every fabric and at I If You are a Man you will be interested in our Seems we are the only store with new Neckties. It's the & ^ SHIRTS h?. ? way now-a-days for us to set the pace?others follow. Exclusive ft r,? , ... ,' . , every Price from 25 cents ? enbcts in Neckware made especially for us. See our | ^ l?e best line, of Dress Shirts up. Try the Boll Doos | 25 cents line. Choosing a tie is an easy task, if you come to us. % cver displayed-in'Laurens. for everyday. | 1 Work Shirts in any style and 1 LiUL'UBLik?kJ.jiJiJLJLiKBU?uaa^ color. Mat Setose that's what we want to tell you about. We have Mats in any style?but the< wrong style?we have Hals in any grade except the bad grade. What's the Chief End of Man? THE END WITH THE HAT ON, answers the small boy. It is wonderful what a difference a stylish Hal makes in a man's whole ap pearance. We have the best Fall shades and shapes in all the popular priced Hats. on nu\v\v>v; ?m3 PLAIN SAILING FOR Stetson Hats Uncle Sam knows a thing or two about hats, as he does about yachts. Stetson Hats have distanced all competitors and successfully de fend American hat-supremacy against all comers. No hats like them?they're worn the world over. New Autumn styles?stiff and soft hats both. r.ook for Jirnnrl on Swont T.rntUor '. '??'. '<'? ></-,*,,,/tO',',>:.>:'.',','.'.-' We bought a solid car-load of Battle Axe Shoes and we have had to re-order more aheadv We are sole agents for this celebrated Shoe and remember that every pair is guaranteed to giv entire satisfaction. The Price is $1.25 a pair. ' 4 Don't Forget to ask for our great Black Bottom Line of Shoes wb- want a that will wear well. Ask to see the one that is cut open. . 2 y k< ? : ft/ Men's Dress Shoes in all popul a1 ~ leathers and toes?vicis, box calf, cordo van, willow calf, and Highland ciflf? calf lined, kid lined and drill litm/T Did you cver wear & Water proof Shoe? We have them. C We can give youmiore honen leather in a Shoe than any other firm in Laurent; County. tiJkW* Carry Your Own Roof. We sell good Umbrellas at reasonable prices. _w??T iry\ rnT*)TT/T\TT/''t *' They musl fit or we will not sell them ; No man is youi OUMli * 1 KU 1 riOi % is 0 of time to 3ook elsewheje 5 This is the store ? tion is wrapped up in every bundle. When you buy a good article remejnb'er where you got it an(1 c glW There is $65.06 still left in the money box for you?seven have unlocked the box and gotten $5 worth you get a Key, REMEMBER THE NAME Mansion House Steam Laundry. Basket loaves Laurens Wednesday and returns en Saturday. Mm i M. L, ItOPEK, Agent. IT Wl Lli MAKE YOU FEEL GOOD "v when your wife tolls you Oil a* pU?> day morning that your shirt front, and collar livals tho "beautiful snow" on hill top and meadow. There is nothing that can onoirel** your neck, outside of hor snowy arm, that will please you more, on Sunday than a collar dope up with tho perfect color and finish that wo put on all linoh laundered here. "Nothing succeeds like success." As a proof of this you will, find our agents representing us in all of the prinoipalplaces in South Carolina, southorn North Carolina and north-east Georgia, Our com missions to agents are liberal. "Wo defy competition in quality,quan tity, quantity and prico. For further particulars apply to A. A. Gates, Proprietor, Mansion Houdo, Greenville, S. C. Glenn Springs Hotel, GLENN SPRINGS, S. C, LEAJS ALL OTHERS. There is but one Glenn Springs, und it has no equal on the Continent for tho Stomach, Liver, Kidneys, Bowels and Blood . 17 >tei Open June 1st to Oct. 1st. /P0 ' Cuisino and Service Excellent. 3rL}? Greatest I?sort in tfig South, g0F* For Board apply to SIMPSON & SIMPSON, Glenn Springs, South Carolina. Water $1.75 per case, bottles to be returned. Water for sale by Tho Laurens Drug Co., Kennedy Bros., Dr. B. F. Posoy, Laurens, S. C. The Oil and Fertilizer Co. will deliver pure ice made from Artesian water as following rates: 4,000 lbs Book, 200 lbs a day, $10.00?25ots per Hundred, ?OotS per day. 2,000 " '? 100 " " 6.00?80ots " " BOots " ?? 1,000 " " 50 " " 8.50?85ots " " 17Ao *' " 500 " " 25 " " 2.00?lOcts " " lOots " " 200 " " 10 " " 1.00?50cts " " Sets " " Securo coupon book at onco, as drivers are not allowed to deliver ice except for coupons. OIL and FERTILIZER CO. Laurens, S. C, April 18th, 1809 FIVE DOLLARS will buy a Graphophono, clock work motor, reproduces satisfac torily and delightfully musical and other records. will buy a $5.00 Graphophono and a dozen carefully selected Columbia Records?an investment that will pay a hundredfold in ploasurc. Have you heard tho la tost Columbia Records? Great re solta! Hundreds of selections 1 WlKT* Write for catalogue. Columbia Phonograph Co., 110 E. Baltimoro St., Baltimore, Md. Now York, Chicago, St, Louis, Wash ington, Philadelphia, Paris, San By special arrangement with the publlRhers, wo are enabled to offer tho Amrrioan aohioui. 'iubibt, tho loading agricultural weoklyi of the Middle Stute?, In club with this paper, p' - exceedingly low figure. Tho American Aoi? VDRis r is remark nblo for the variety and it of its contents, end is undoubtedly the most practical paper of it:; kiu<> TEN DOLLARS Francisco, Horlin, AND ITS FARM ^?T" ing, 11 dor' THE LAURENS BAR. \V. 1*. KNI?lLT, Attorney and Counsellor at Law. Will practice In all the Courts of the State. Prompt attention to all busi ness entrusted to him. Olliee, Laurens, C. H., MeCord's new building. Marcp 14, 1990. Bl'W. I?A 1.1.. r,. W. SIMKINB. W.W. HAI.l. BALL,, SIMKIN8 & BALL, Attorneys at Law, LAunHNs, South Cahoi.ina. We praotieo in till State and United States Courts. Speoial attention given nolleetiouf". II. Y. SIMPSON. C. D. UARKSDALK. SIMPSON & BAllKSDAIi?, Attorneys at Law, LAURENS, S. C. Special attention given to the investi gation of titles and collection of claims. DR. W. H. BALL Ollice over Mosely & Roland's Hardware Store. Ollico days? Monday and Tuesdays. LOANS Negotiated on long time and easy terms, secured by mortgago on improved farms. Apply to Simpson A. Barksdale, Laurons, S. C. I TO ALL TIIL PEOPLE (White and Colored!