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Dragged'Dotvn Feeling In the loins. Nervousness, unrcfrcshlng sleep, despon dency. It is time you were doing something, j^k The kidneys wero anciently culled the ^?reins ? in your case they ore holding the ^pcihs and driving you into serious trouble. Y Hood's Sarsaparilla Acts with the most direct, beneficial effect on the kidneys. It contains the best and safest substances for correcting and toning these organs. RAM? OVER NORTH CAROLINA. 1Incidents of n Horse Back Trip. SOME HAUE- HOADS. How tlio LaurciiH Farmer is Blessed. Yisiting a Rooky Boom in n Mountain Vide Where Pacolot's Waters IMny ?A Kind henited Orphan. AIauion, N. C, Aug. 1. Saturday night. It's a long ride from Spartan burg hero, especially if ono takes it slow as I am taking it. The dUiance, by way of 1 Tendcrsonvilio is a little over a hundred niilos in snaky semi circles. Tho road is an everlasting winding and dipping through tho woods over tho hills and across a thou a^pjX crooks. ^ \? rwyself and my tlireo friends v??^$?"?do a man and two horses, h p. ;1 tho waudoring journey thus f?^ ^% well. Yes, we are all a little ?nl^L^ ,l nn(* horses about equally. V?% xAted" out of Spartanburg at 11 o'cf?ci* '.Tuesday morning. Each of us have a pair of saddlebags and a rubber coat. Wednesday night we stayed at Lunurum. At nlno o'clock Thursday morning wo woro in Tryon whore I called on an old friend, a Kentuckian, a renl Kentuckian in tho best sense. Ifo could not do too much for us and among other things that ho did was to introduco us to 'Squire1 Mills who was A goiog to ride throe or four miles to ft wards llendersonvlllo. Squire Mills is "one of the line old Confederate veterans that ono meets up here, a cousin of Capt. Columbus Mills who served on General Gary's staIT. The Squire rode with us to Melrose Kails. First you rldo up the mountains. Then, if Squire Mills is with you, you tio your horses and crawl through the bushes down it. If the Squire is not with yon, you had best leavo the falls to visit eoiuo other ,latino. A tributary of Pacolot River loaps out of the bushes on tho moun tain side and dashes into spray on the rocks thirty feet below. AH around in a half circlo are walls of rocks. In r^front is a ponderous boulder around which tho crooks foams and dances to auotbor fall below. This rough, rock room with Its furni ture of great massed of broken rock, in tho sheer mountain side, with the aun Hght looricg in and making rainbows in tho spray, is an excellent spot for * love making, I should think, provided you havo a girl with you ar.d a lunch. Almost any kind of a girl would do, the place is so beautiful, but tho lunch should bo heavy?broiled ham between slabs of buttered bread preferred. We had the lunch but girls wore nowhere to be seen in thie locality. Crawling back to our horse3 'Squire Mills left us. Throe miles further through the woods we c<-me to a cabin inhabited by a man and woman and a covey of children. The man was a goo 1 fellow and sold us corn and fod der for the cattle. We fod on apples, it rained tremendous. These folks were about tho poorest I havo soon oven in these mountains. Nobody is as poor in Laurens County as these ^.} mountaineers. I do not mean the farm ers along the streams. The valleys are beautiful. There are many pretty farm hoii803 with good outhouses and fields of corn and peas and broad stretches of meodow. Even in tho valleys through tho crops are poor this year?poorer than in Laurens. But the mountaineer on the mountain side, in his cabin, with his little apple orchand and yoke of steers?we have no white people so poverty strickon as ho seems to be. He lives but I do not attempt to explain how. Down in the valleys, with their line corn and grass lands, the chance for f uccess is below the Laurons farm er'si The Laurcns man can produce nny and everything, even corn, almost ns well as the valley mountaineer and he can produco cotton the safest ^money crop known to mankind, be apsldes. If the Laurens farmer could ride from lint Cavo in Hickory Nut Gap throo miles into Hroad Itiver Valloy as I rodo yesterday he would thank kind Heaven for his home among our old ' red hills and thin sandy ridges as he nover thanked before, lie would find beautiful corn fields along the Broad ^whero It Is a stream no bigger than Little Itiver at Laurens but he would wonder how ho got thero and ttlll ' more how he would get out. On fairly good saddle horses we rode or climbed five miles In two hours. This, under stand, was ovor a pubho highway in llendorson County?the highway over which these valley farmers haul corn and apples and chestnut oak bark and wood. This bark is sold for about six or seven dollars tho cord at the rail way Billions to the Leather Trust agents who ship it to a point near boro to be usod in tannin;; . tVe to. k about the roads In Laurens ,, but that road, from Bat Cave to wards Lakey's Gap and down Major's Mountain-, would silence our people for ton v^ears. It seemed cruel to rid$i back o^r it?and yet one man |HH that with a team of small hordes ho h*d hauled 2000 pounds of bark 10 miles, ll'j did not say if the hones had wings. Yon Laurons peopl-j know tho grade In Hampton Street at the , nvllle Railway crossing?this road is steeper for three miles steady, and i i <?l about llko a cork-screw. It Is jjull of rocks and ruts too. Yet Concluded from First Page. CONCISE SKETCH OF LAURENS COUNTY WRITTEN BY MR. W. W. KENNEDY. After the building of the .South Carolina Railroad as far as Aiken, in the thirties, that became the depot for this part of the country, and so continued till the branch was built from Branchville to Columbia. From Columbia a road was after a while built to Newberrv, then to Green ville, and, in the meantime from Newberrv to Laurens, and up to the civil war these lines constituted the railroad facil ities of western Carolina. I.aureus was, up to the war, the depot for Spartanburg, and Clinton for Union. Prior to the civil war the public school system was a farce, and while there was a universal desire for some edu cation the aspiration of a large proportion of the people did not extend beyond reading, writing and arithmetic. Hut all of this has been changed and the provincial people have become cosmopolitan; with all that that means in lib erality of thought, breadth of interest, and yearning for all possible knowledge, When the "craze of secession" swept over the .State in i860, Laurens took her full share, as she did of the conse quences that followed in four years of bloody war, and twenty years of destructive reconstruction. .She was also ready when the time Came for the "Prostrate Stale" to rise in 1.S76 to do her full duty, and until the reign of civiliza tion was fully restored, none was nunc vigilant, courageous and energetic. Laurens County contains some very prosperous towns, in which various industries, on a considerable scale, are in successful operation; while banking facilities are ample for all needs. The city of Laurens contains a furniture fac tory, wagoti shop, planing mills, lumber yards, a foundry, one of the best laundries in the .State, an oil mill, and prob ably the best managed cotton mill in the .State, under the presidency of Mr. W. K. Lucas. Another large cotton mill is being built, to go into operation next fall or winter un der the presidency of Mr. Lucas also. This mill will be known as Watts Mill. The capital invested in the two mills will be considerably over one million dollars. There are many fine water powers in and along the borders of Laurens County, which only await the touch of modern engineering to turn them into motive power for machinery on the spot or for dynomos to generate electric ity for distant points. The mineral resources are considerable and consist of lime, granite, traces of gold, asbestos, etc. The wells and springs furnish an abundant supply of both tniueral and freestone water. Stock of all kinds can be raised profitable; all the grasses, grains, cotton, tobacco?in fact every crop that grows in a temperate climate, and even some belonging to the tropics, can be grown with ease and profit. The population of the city is about 6,000 and of the entire county about 40,000. The Piedmont section of .South Carolina is the garden spot of the Southern .Stales, and Laurens County, in the the midst of this section, is in every respect,?people, ma terial resources and general capabilities?the equal of the best. XV. w. Kennedy. ihoy travel it and don't seem to look on it as an aflliotion. Thursday afternoon when the ruin was over wo eo'< out for Henderson. Every wagon and horeo track had been woshed out. Tbo roads crossed or, rather, tangled. They tanglod us. I n two hours time we took live wrong roads. At ono placo there were three prongs. We tried them?all of thorn?and the two wrong ones first. We reached Hen dorsonville at 0 .'10 P. M. The hotels in Hendersonville are good enough but when ono gots thero after 9 P. M. ono may porisb for want of foo.1. For tho firat time iu my life, yester day afternoon I rejoiced that a man was an orphan. We descended Major's Mountain, (it ought to be called Lieu tenant Colonel's at least, judging by the road down it) at sundown, into the lovely valley of Crooked Creek whoro the peoplo on the other side said wo could easily get comfort for man and beast for the night. Tho valley ap peared full of pretty homes surrounded by handsome farms. I rodo up to a house to which several persons had di rected us and asked for accommoda tions. A 20 year old youth replied "that Pa had gone to Church and he reckoned we had better try at the next house." At that next house a man with a beard, apparently of 2? or 'M years, said: "Woll, Pa hasn't come homo from Church?he might take you if he were?but I'd rather ho was hero." The next man, Mr. Bird, was an or phan and a gentleman. I am sure he was a kindly, hospltablo gentleman and I fancy he was an orphan. At any rate ho did not tell us to keep going because his "pa" was not at home and we had a good night among good peo plo and plenty to oat. But beforo we reached Mr. Bird's houso, it looked, to employ my companions words, as though we would have to content our selves with a "good view" for breakfast next morning. We are at May-rion tonight?though they spell it Marion just as wo do our South Carolina town of the same name.' W. W. B. END OF BITTKR FIGHT. "Two physicians had a long and stubborn fight with an abcess on my right lung" writes J. F. Hughes of Du Pont, ?*. "and gave me up. Fverybody thought my time had oome. As a last resort I tried Dr. King's New Discov ery for Consumption. The benefit I re ceived was striking and I was on my feet In a few days. Now, I've entirely regained ray health." It conquers all Coughs, Colds and Throat and Lung Troubles. Guaranteed by Laurons Drug! Co. and Palmetto Drug Oo. Prloe 50 cen'.s and f 1-00, On Storage and for Sale. Guano, Hay, Brick, Wagon?, Hay Presse?, Mowers, Hay Hake, Corn, Ce mont and a few barrels of Coal Tar, and have plenty room for any kind of storage. J. Waov. Anderson, Manager. l| AMONG OUR FRIENDS. g Miss Daisy Dean is spending her va cation at home in Grccnvillt. Mr. W. D. Boyd of Hope well was here last week. Mr. George Hopkins spent Friday In town. Thero were about 200 people at the Stomp Springs barbecue last Thursday. Miss Lucy. Ladshaw of Spavtanburg is visiting Miss Margaret K. Sullivan. Mr. Wado Ferguson and W. Y. Boyd Esq. ?? pent Sunday in Clinton. Miss Mary Boyd has returned from Tryon, N. C. Mr. John B. Brooks spent last week in Asbeville. Mrs. J. H. Sullivan has returned from u visit to Ashevillo, N. C. Judge H. C. Watts and family arc vis iting at Major W. A. Watts'. Misses Epps and Iva, of Duo West, arc visiting in the city, C. C. Fcatherstono Esq. spont last week In Anderson. Postmaster Gcorgo MeCravy and family spent last woek at Stomp Springs. A HINT TO THE WISE. This Advice Will Hear Re peating in Lanrcns. "Don't chase shadows!" Doubtful proof is but a shadow. Yon can - rely on testimony of people you know. You can InvesMgate local evidences. W. C. Elcholborgor, of the City T.anafer Co., residing at 310 Chestnut St., says: '-I havo used Doan's Kidney Pills for backacho and kidnoy com plaint and they bencfltted mo groatly. My back has oaueod considerable mis ery and lias given way with mo several tlmea, compelling mo to lay off work. A mnn without a sound back is not much good at my work as it required heavy lifting. Thero was a dull heavy pain and weakness across my loin-; and whenever I oaught cold It caught me in my back and knocked me out as ef fectively as though I had been bit with a club. The secretions from the kid neys causod me great inconvenience by disturbing my rest at ninht and wore irregular in appearance and con tained brickdust sediment. I used numerous romedies but nothing had any good effect until I read about Doan's Kidney Pills In our papers and procured a box at tho Palmetto Drug Oo.'s store. After using them tho kid noy secretions eleared up and became natural and the backache disappeared." For sale by all dealer?. Prlco 60 cents. Foster-MIIburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y., sole agents for the United States. Itemcmber tho name Doan's and take ^no substitute,_ . "SEEDS THAT GROW" that's the kind we sell! New crop TURNIP SEED just received. All the best known varieties including*: Bread stone, Ruta Baga, (ihc round kind not all neck) Come and see us Laurens Drug Co. Goods Delivered Phone 75 . Cures Eczema, Ilching Humors, Mill pies and Carbuncles. B. B. B. (Botanic Hlood Halm) Is a certain cure for eczema, l ulling skin, humors, scab*, reales, watery blisters, pimples, aching bonos or joints, bolls, carbunolos, prickling pain in the skit), old eating sores, ulcers, otc. Botanic Blood BhIui cures the wo-st and most deop-soated cases by enriching, purify ing and vitalizing tho blood, thereby giving a healthy blood supply to the skin. Heals every soro and gives tho rich glow of health to tho skin. Builds up the broken down body and makes tho blood red and nourishing. Espec ially advised for chronic, old cases that doctor*, patent mod lot no and hot springs fail to cure. Druggists, $1, with complet'Tdirections for home euro. To prove B. 13. B. cures, sample sent froo and prepaid by writing Blood Balm Co., Atlanta, Ga. Describe trou ble and froo medical advice sent in scaled letter. Sold in Laurens by B P, Poscy. W. 13. KNIGHT. k. i:. BABB, KNIGHT & HA 1515, Attorneys at Law. Will practice In all the State and Federal Courts. Strict attontlon to all business intrusted to them. Office up-stalra, Simmons' Building. W. C. IRBYj jR, W. Y. BOYO. IRBY & BOYD, Attorneys at Law. Will practice in a'l State Courts. Prompt attention glvop to all business intrusted to them. Monoy to loin on real estato on easy terms. Office samo as occupied by tho lato Arm of Ball & Simkins, Laurens. KALOL? CK.YSTAT.IXK1> MINERAL WATER Inflammation's Greatest Enemy. KALOLA romo 'os all Inflammation wherevor it exists but never disturbs the healthy surface. KALOLA oures by removing tho cause of disease. KALOLA can be used Internally, externally and eternally without harm. "Take Kalola six days and eat any thing you want. Numerous testimo nials recolvcd dally from people who have been oured by this wondorful remedy. On sale at Drug Stores Price 50 cts and $1.00 per bottte. Clothing Renovated CLEANING AND DYKING DONK I'KOMPTLY. Cleaning and Dyeing Club up stairs over old Post Office. 'Phone No. 10. W. R DOZIKU. METAL BEDS have won their way into fame. Easy to keep neat and clean, ornamental, cool and comfortable. Beds in all colors and sizes==simple or heav= ily trimmed in brass. A Comfortably Fur nished Bed Room is a source of much satis= faction. WARDROBES Large and roomy on the inside, but tak= ing up only a small space. All styles. CHIFFONIERS! It would be difficult to imagine anyone who could not be sat= isfied with some of the beauties in our array. With and without mir rors. here are some of our leaders: Columbus, Babcock, 3C Watertown, Summers, y~ Rock Hill, Sechler, 3ST and Others. T. N. BARKSDALE. J. A. FRANKS Give us a Call. Leaders in Fine Vehicles and Harness. White Stone Lithia Water! Is the lightest water on the market. Wo renli/.o that this is claiming a great deal, and we could not afford to make this assertion unless wo knew that we could provo it to be true. But it does tot t:iko an expert to test tho foftness of a Mineral Water. When carbonating a mineral water, if it is a hard water the gases will not bo absorbed in tho watjr, and when tho bottle is opened, the gas es escape, and the water Is loft llat and hard, whilo If it is a soft water, like White Stono Lithia, it will retain its gases for hours after boing unstopped. Head what some promlnont persons yon know nave to say of the merits of the White Stono Lithia Wator: [Laurens, S. O, Sept. 10th, 1902. J. T. Harris, Esq., White Slono Spring, S. O Dear Sir:?I am using Whito Stone Ltthla Spring's Wator. and am very much pleased with results. I think It tin best I havo used. Yours very respectfully, O. B, Simmons. Laurons, S . O, Sept. 12tb, 1(02. Mr. J. T. Harris. Whl o Stone Spring.*, S 0. Dear Sir: ?I tako pleasure in saying that my fam'ly received great benoflt from tho use of White Stone Lithia Wuter. I can heartily recommend it to any ono in need of a healthful Miuer.nl Water. Very truly, J. O C. Filming. Greenville, S. C, Oct. 10, 1902, After a servico of ono soason at While Stone Lithia Springs, as resi dent physlolan I do not hesitate to say that the effect of iho wator upon those who drink it for nny length of time, has been perfectly marvelous. Invari ably an increase both in nosh and ap petite was porcoptible in one week, proving it to bo a mineral wator of undoubted powerful tonic property. Its peculiar adaptability to diseases origi nating from disorders of the kidney, bladdor and liver, such as Dropsy, Bright's diseases,Diabetes and uric acid calculi, and all forms or Dyspepsia, Rheumatism and Gout is to be ex pected from the splendid analysis. It has been noted frequontly that visi tors before coining here had to follow evt-ry meal with somo form of correc tive, or ?-online themselves entiroly to prcdigosted foods; soon discard these entirely, boing dellghtod to Jjod that tho water alone -nature's OMn remedy sufficed. C)f the many who drluk this water this soason for ton days consecu tively,not one but experienced decided benefit and a porceptible gain In welgt, varying from two to live pounds. L, C. Stevens, M. D. Wo have tho largest brick Hotel In the Carolinas or Georgia, with all mod o*ii improvement*. tf?" ElcOtrlO Car Llr.o rum from Southern Road to Spring. Whito Stono Spring, S. C. White Stone Lithia Water Co. Clemson Agricultural College. SE5S3S31 Olk 1Q03-O4. The next Session opens September 9th. By regulations of the College new students are required to report five days before the opening of Hie Institution to stand the entrance examinations. The following courses are given for degrees: Agricultural, Biological, Mechanical and Electrical, Civil Engineering, Metal lugical and Textile Industry. For catalogue and information apply to Clemson College, S. C. P. H, MELL, President. Clothino;, Shirts, Hosiery and Neckwear! *^?r* ~ WHERE? at the Cash Bargain Store. Suits that were $5.00 now $3.98 Suits that were 6.50 now 4.98 3.75 4 2.78 4 4 2.75 1 1.98 Shoes for the hot weather. Call in to see them. Good Luck Baking Powder, 1 pound cans, 7 cents. J. L. HOPKINS, Proprietor. There are Many Ways of Painting; But only ONE WAY of Painting Well! ^-sas^^vThat is YVith^^&Bfv. O'CONNOR & SCHWEERS' LIQUID PAINTS. IHp Looks OCCTTI *'el us know Jusl what you want-? Lasts SjLvaJ 1 ? cvcn though you never saw it for sale ?and wc will supply you. Color Cars Will be Sent on Application. O'Connor & Schweers Paint Co. Ollicc and Salesroom 841 Broad, St. ? ,4,, ii,. Factory 844 and 84(5 Reynolds, St. t AURUSUljUMn For sale by W. L. ?oyd, Laurens, S. C. Color Cards and information cheerfully gtvcrii ICures Ciioiera-lnfanlum, Diarrhoea,Dysentery, and the Bowel Troubles of Children of Any Aqc, ? JAids Digestion, Regulates rCETHING POWOErT?rsSsa Ihe Bowels, Strengthens Costs Only 25 cents at BrnggufH 'teething easy!* Or mall 25 cents to o. j. mofpbtt, m. d., 3t. louis, mo. Ouros Eruptions, Soros, Colio, Hivob, Thrush. Romovos and Provonts, worms. T^HnyraH-*TqrTT>wi /v counteracts and overcomes the effects of the summer's heat upon teething children. A NEW LAW FIRM. Tho undersigned havo this day ou torod into a partnership for the practice of law in tho Courts of thlsStato, under tho name of Simpson & Coopor and will promptly attend to all buslnoss en trusted to thorn. H. Y. Simpson, R. A. Coopek. College of Charleston. CHARLESTON, S. C. 118th Yoar Begins Soplomber 2">. Lotters, Scionco, F.nginoering. Ono Scholarship to each County of South Carolina. Extranco examinations hold at Laur<>n3 by County Superintendent and Judge of Probate on July 10th. Tuition $10. Board and furnishod room in Dormitory, $10 per month. All candidates for admission are pormitted to compete for Boyce Scholarships, which will pay $100 a year. For cata logue, address Harrison Rando-mmi. President. LAURENS Cotton Mill Stock Comes a little high, but the cloth they make is cheap. Unbleached 8ac per yd Bleached 10c per yd Bleached and Printed in fancy patterns 12aO -to 15ct,s per yd You can't duplicate the quality for anything like these prices. Buy from the Manufacturers and save three or four profits. Cotton Mills Store, T. 0. LUCAS, Manager.