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THE ADVERTISER. .Subscription Prlce-12 Months, $1.00 Payable lu Advance. Kales for Advertising.-Ordinary Ad* vortlsenients, per square, one inser tion, $1.00; each subsequent insertion, 50 cents. Liberal reduction made for largo Advertisements. W. YY. Ball, Proprietor. LAURENS. 8. C.f Nov., 25, 1003. Charleston and the Dispensary. If the bringing of a suit against dis pensary constables in the foleral courts by a man who claims to be a a subject of the Gorman emperor is tho causo of the withdrawal of the city's share in tbo dispensary profits from the city of Charleston, then it is no just cause or excuse. In othor wordp, it Is an outrage on the city of Charles ton. To blame the city of Charleston because a citizen of another country exercises his legal rights in the United States court Is a proposition too ridic ulous for discussion among intelligent people. The laws of the United Slates permit foreigners not na'urulizsd to suointhe United States court?. The only way to evade the law and de prive tho foreigners of its benefit is to lynch the foreigners or drive them out of the country. On the othor hand, if the dispensary olllcers havo satisfactory evidence that the municipal authorities of the city of Cbarlo-tou fall to assist, in the en forcement of the dispensary law, an other and different proposition is sug gested. However, it must be eald that Governor Hey ward's indisoreet romark about the appoal by the foreigner to the federal courts, tends to obioure the real question and to lend color to the charge that the foreigner's suit is the [ nub of tho drastic policy so suddenly adopted. Without defending any laxity of the enforcement of th3 law by Charleston juries, it is well enough to call atten tion to the unhappy truth that the state of South Carolina has itself left undone and un mid nothing to imbitter | the Charleston people against the dis pensary law. Before the dispensary law wai enacted, general and particu lar persecution of Charleston was the habit of successful politicians in this state. Denunciation of the largest town in the state and its people was deliberately mule fashionable. When tho liquor law had baen enacted, the governor instead of tactfully approach ing a delicate situation found it good politics to declare in effect that he would run rough shod over Charles ton. The metropolitan police law a lit tle later was enacted for Charleston's I benefit. At tl;a', time Charleston's | chief of police was a staunch reformer. Tho metropolitan system was therefore not pat into effect. A year later, after a hard municipal contest, there was a change of mayor*. Tho new mayor naturally appointed one of his own fol lowers as head of the police, the reform Incumbent having actively opposed his election. At that moment and not un til that moment, when the governor discovered that his friend the chief of | police had been whipped in a fair and square fight and would lose his job, be imposed the metropolitan system. The] reform chief of police continued in of fice as bead of the metropolitan police. Uoder his previous administration, blind tigers had nourished. They con tinued to flourish. Thus it will be seen that .the enforcement of the whiskey law was made purely a matter of poll* tics in the city of Charleston and that| the will of the majority in the commu nity was wantonly over-ruled. The people of Charleston are human. They do not relish being kicked, even if the kicker bo the administration in Columbia. For ten years at least the policy of the political powers has been to insult Charleston whenever It was regarded sharp politio?, and. mean while, there was a hue and cry when s rictly partisan statutes met with op position. We he Hove that the dispen sary law will nevor be fully enforced in Charleston. When the law was passed, the patent fact that town and cicy con ditions differ was ignored. Tho effort to make a law apply to a city merely beeause it is suited to the country never has succeeded anywhere and it will not I succeed in Charleston. There are in stitutions existing in every large town in open violation of law which do not and oould not exist in the country. Yet nobody suggests their forcible extirpa tion. In New York city the liquor laws have been largely violated for years simply and solely because the New York state legislators have endeavored to force upon that town statutes which while suited to the people in the small er towns of New York state are in tensely irritating to those of the groat metropolis. Tho simple truth is that | the liquor question in Charleston has never been approached with ekill or tact or ordinary common sense by the liquor authorities of South Carolina I and the constant effort has been to un-1 ravel a snarl by bulldozing manners and methods. For a long time the ad ministrators of the dispensary law cared more to nourish a row in Char leston and thus preserve for themselves a text upon which to make capital out of abuse of Charleston than they oared for the law's onforcement. Wo do notl believe that Governor Hey ward has | bo .mi moved by sueh base considera tions but we suspect that indUorent. be havior on somebody's part has cheoked What was at least a steady if slowly im proving situation in the state's chief | city. ? Build Better Bouses. As one travels through the country one sees here and there large, ugly and inconvenient houses which have never bean finished. When a farmer has five hundred dollars to put into a house, he should content himself with a three or four room cottage properly built and flnlehed. To ereot a great frame, for j seven or eight rooms, and not com plete it is waste. A three room cot tage woll built, of sound planking and timbers, and the cottage painted, isj worth more to a two horse farm than a I mansion half finished. ?=> Alt? ?Spox* x a. m Sean the ^ ihe Kind You Haw Always Mri* Bigaatart '' 9t Another Side. Why does Dot the dispensary law per mit the establishment of dispensaries In country districts?outsldo of the towns? Why not have a dispensary In Jacks or Youngs township? 8'mply because the conditions are not suita ble. A dispensary in the country, where there Is no polled, would soon become a center of disorder and de moralization. The country people wou'd not submit to having it in their neighborhoods. Therefore the law re cognizes the hard facts of tho situation and docs uot attempt to force dispen saries where they aro not wanted, so far as the country la'concerned. Now for other and totally different reasons dispensaries are as little suited to olty communities as to country com munities. Why should tho law fail to recognize it? You who live (en miles from a railway know that if a whiskey shop were located among you, it would demoralize your negro labor and you kuow that all sorts of trouble would re sult. To you liquor shops would bo a a nuisance. Tho law gratifies your preferences in the matter. It adapts the system to your wishes. If It did not you would probably disregard it. If a liquor shop should be established at Pleasant Mound or Tip Top or Sar dls Church, the ohanoes are that the people would tear it down beforo they would permit it to ruin tho community. The conditions in Charleston aro quite as diiTerent from the conditions in this town as those of this town are from those of a country po&t oQlce. City life is one thing, city habit one thing and village and country life and habit are other things. Why should wo ar rogate to ourselves say what the people of Charleston must have in the way of liquor shop? Th-sy don't like the dispensaries and they violate the law, which is wrong, but the chances are that the oritics of Charleston peo ple would violate the law if it wore rammed down their throats, no mat'or how un8uited to their conditions and habits of life. Not Rislngcr's? We note in The Herald that Irving Risinger, a member of tho jury which tried J. H. Tlllman and assisted him in eluding the law, denies tho authorship of a letter recently published In Spar tanburg pipers and reprinted, with comment*, in The Advkktiser. Rl singer's denial may be taken as true and The Advertiser withdraws any and all references to Risingor. Meanwhile th?3 letter was an r.ccu rate response to tho only real defence set up In tho trial by Tlllman. The let tec distinctly defended, not a mur derer, but murder itself, when done to avenge attacks by a newspaper. The defenco itself bottomed its case on the pla'n, naked, staring proposition that what the law of South Carolina defines to bo murder is no crime?under cer tain conditions. Whether or not Risinger wrote the letter It was as strong, clear and logical a statement of the attitude <f the jury as could have been ma-Je. It is the larg Oit conceivable charity to tho jury to admit that the reasoning of the alleged Risinger letter correctly voiced the jury's view. Any other pos sible theory would infinitely more dis credit the jury's intelligence on the one hand or its integrity on the other. If the jury accepted the self-defence theory it accep'ed more than was suc cessfully offered in even assumed se riousness. * What Will The Trice Bel Scores of people ask scores of other people their opinion as to tho price of cotton later in the season. One man, woman or child can answer tho ques tion with as rauoh wisdom and intelli gence as another. Meanwhile the price of cloth has scarcely increased since cot'on sold at eight oents the pound. As long as the prloe of clo'.h romains at the present tlguaes, the indications are that the cotton spinners believe that the price of the raw material will be lower. By tho "cotton spinners" are not here meant tho cotton spinnors of the South but rather the whole body of cotton spinners, mo9t of whom live in 1 England, New England and other parts of the world. The cotton spinners of the South have little influence in fixing general prices of either the raw or fin ished product*:. 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Cowrtfit. 1900. by CtUMIS SCMWM'S SONS By and by Elizabeth slipped dowu from tho thwart and crouched down in the boat at bis feet O'Neill held the tiller with one hand, the other lightly stroked her golden head. Sho was perfectly content. Everything was out of her heart but ho and tho pres ent. Sho was very still. He could seo tho soft curve of her cheek resting upon her sweet whito hand in tho moonlight. After ono of tho little in tervals of silence he looked down upon her again. She made no motion, and did not reply to a word he said softly, and ho discovered that sho wos asleep. He did not wonder. Tho experiences of tho past few days would have killed any ordinary woman. How heroic sho had been! With What abandon she had put asldo everything for the purpose of saving him! She had hesitated at nothing. His love for her was meas ured by his honor; hers for him was boundless. 'Twns ever so, and ho had reproached her, spoken harshly to her, upbraided her, turned away from her! How could ho have been so cruel! Sho was so young, his heart yearned over her. He vowed that if God did permit them to escape from tho perils which environed them ho would make up to her for every unkind word spoken, ev ery reproach, every cutting glance, by nn eternity of devotion. Tho night, the ocean, tho loneliness, impressed him. What had ho ever done to be so blessed In tho love of this noble woman? Ills life, as he had said, had been an idle one. In tho courts ho had played at hearts as he had played at war on tho ships?for the fun of tho game. With her a serious purpose had entered his lifo and was before him. Tho silence of tho night was broken only by tho soft splash of tho waves ns the little boat rocked gently through them. Tho gentle wind grew fainter and fainter. Presently tho llnp of tho idle soil against tho mast apprised him that it had gone. The white Sernpls and her consort were far, far ahead, going fast and leaving a long white wake across the sen. They seemed to have kept the breeze which had failed tho small boat. Coming up from the southward ho could seo tho black shapes of tho Rich ard and her attendant ships. What would ho have given to bo upon tho deck by the side of that dauntless cap tain! But even could he approach the two ships that privilege would bo do nied him, for honor demanded that ho present himself upon the deck of the Serapls without delay. It might bo that it would bo too late even then to snve Coventry, but he would go and do his best. When the boat lost way ho sat a moment in indecision. Ho was so loath to waken the tired girl, but it was necessary. Gently ho raised her bead. "Why, my dearest," she said, "was I asleep? What has happened? Oh"? it came back to her?"you are going bnck to tho Sernpls." Then sho look ed eagerly forward. Tho ships wero far off now, several miles away, and ns the breeze still held with them tho distance was increasing with every passing moment. "Wo do not advance!" sho cried, a note of joy in her voice as her car de tected tho flapping of tho sail. "The wind has died out. Sho laughed tri umphantly. "Wo shall never reach them." "And poor Coventry?" said O'Neill. "I cannot help it," sho nnswered sim ply. "I think only of you. Now, If I could go back alone and take his place and let you go free I would cheerfully do that." "Come alongside, then," said the of ficer, turning Inboard and giving a shnii) command. The way of the ship was checked; she was thrown up into the wind, and as her broadside slowly swung opposite O'Neill he saw that ber mainmast was gone and that sho was frightfully cut up and bore evi dence of having participated In a tre mendous action. Away off to the north east a little, cluster of ships was seen on the horizon, too far off to distin guish them. There was no sign of tho Richard that he could see. In a few seconds the bout was brought along side the gangway. Elizabeth clam bered up the ladder with his assist ance, and they stepped upon the decks. A frightful scene presented itself. Upon olio side, amidships, dead men, hnlf nnked, covered with coagulated blood, were literally piled tip in a great heap. The deck itself was covered with grime and blood, and a handful of men, most of them wounded in some way, were distributed about the ship endeavoring to effect some restoration to order. Guns here mal Hu re were dismounted; ropes cut In every direc tion were lying entangled In wild eon fusion nbout the life rails and masts. The broken mainmast thrust its jugged end a few feet into the air above the deck. Tho rest of it was gone. Spars everywhere were shattered, and great rifts appeared in the Hupping canvas. Tho rail and bulwarks were broken nnd smashed on every side. There was not u single boat left swing ing at tho davits. Splintered wood work showed where numberless shots had taken effect, and chnrred pieces of timber on every hand added heart breaking evidence of conllagration's devastating touch. Prom the depths beneath the deck came low groans and murmurs of pnln, accentuated by tho sharp shriek of some deeper sufferer or tho delirious raving of some fovered patient. Ellanbeth shr::::l: back np palled. "How hobble!" she murmured. "Take mo away. I cannot stand it I" He caught her in ids arms. A little moro nnd she would have fainted. "Good heavens!" ho said. "In all my battles I never saw such a ship! What a frightful scene! They didn't get off Without a fight," he ndded slowly. An officer, with head bound up In a hnndkercblef nnd ills arm in a sling, was. approaching them, "Sir," said O'Neill, saluting tho white, "I um tho otticor who escaped last night? I deliver myself up to? why. it's Btaceyl" lie cried in grent surprise, recognising n brother officer of tho Richard. "What do you hero, man?" '"Fore gad, It's O'Neill!" Cried tho Other, "tiled are we to sec you, man. Hut this lady?this Is no placo for her." "She goes with me," said O'Neill briefly. "But you?" "Tills is where i belong." "And they have captured you, 1 sup pose?" "No; the ship Is ours." "And the old Richard?" cried O'Neill. "Abandoned and sunk after the sur render." answered the young officer. "She was cut to pieces by the Serapis' Qre, but WO have this ship." "Thank God!" answered O'Neill fer vently. "And Captain Jones?" "Aft there on the quarter deck." "Come, Elizabeth!" he cried, seizing her by tho arm, and, he assisting her, they made their way with difficulty In the confusion lo tho quarter deck. "Ah, O'Neill, thank (Jod I see you alive again!" said Jones, springing for ward, his face beaming. "We got there in time, {hen, I see." "Yes. sir, thanks to this lady," an swered O'Neill, pointing to Elizabeth. ".Madam, you are lit for a sailor's bride," said the llttlo captain. " 'Tis high praise, sir, from Captain Jones, I protest," she answered, rally ing herself in the relief of assured safety. "Would God that I had been with you In this battle!" cried O'Neill gloom ily. "We missed you. I wished often for you," answered the captain. "Tho poor She wits kneeling by his side. old Richard was torn to pieces under our feet. Wo could not stay on her longer, so we Jhnd to come here." "And I not there! I suppose that I hrrve forfeited everything forever for going up to the castle. Shall you break me, sir?" "Nothing, nothing shall be done, my poor boy," answered tho captain kindly. "You have been punished enough by not having been with us In the greatest battle ever fought on the sea. Hut It seems to mo you have not entirely lost the game. You, too, have a prize In tow. How go your love uffalrs?" he whispered. "Well, Indeed, sir. Tho Lady Eliz abeth Is hero, ns you see. We are to be married at once, sir." "You may have the chaplain of the ScrapiS for that purpose." "Yes, sir. When he last officiated for pie he was reading my funeral serv ice." replied O'Neill, smiling. "Some people would say It's much the same thing," laughed the captain; "but we know belter. Ah, well, that's over now, thank Cod, and this lady Madam," he said, turning to her, "I bade you welcome to a ship once be fore. It is a different ship now, but tho welcome is just tho same." "Know you aught of Major Edward Coventry, Captain Jones?" cried Eliz abeth. This time it was she who re membered. "Why, he lies on the deck yonder, dying. Ho wouldn't let me take him below. Do you know?but I forgot; he was your friend." "Take me to him," she cried hastily, and in a moment she was kneeling by his side. They had made him as com fortable ns possible with cushions and boat cloaks, but his hours wore num bered. Ills head was thrown back, his face ghastly pale. Blood stained the linen shirt about his breast. His eyes were closed. The end was at hand. "Poor fellow!" said O'Neill In great sorrow, "lie died for me." And then he briefly recounted the circumstances of their escape to the astonished cap tain. "Do you know how he was wound ed, sir?" ho asked. "It was my own hand that struck the blow," answered Jones. "Would It had been otherwise! There was a moment In the action when they sprang to board. He leaped upon the rail, cutlass In hand. lie was a fair and easy mark. I met them with a pike, which I buried in his bosom. He fell back smiling. 1 remember that I thought It strange to see him smiling at that time, even in the heat of tho bat He. Too bad?too bad!" he said. "Oh, Edward." cried the girl, tears streaming down her face, "I never thought to see. you thus! I never meant lo bring you to this! If you could but speak to me?to say that you forgave me for It all! If I could have your blessing before"? The man stir red a little* and opened his eyes. Ho looked about him vacantly, but con sciousness began to dawn again, and with the dawn came recognition. It was the face of Elizabeth bending over him. She was the woman whom ho loved. There, back of her, was O'Neill. He began to comprehend. "Elizaboth," he murmured, "my death not in vain?then." "Forgive me?forgivo me!" she cried brokenly. "Oh, forgive mo! ' I did love you I" "Yes," he said, faintly smiling, "but -not like"? He glanced at O'Neill. "You, too," ho murmured. "Make? her?happy." Ills mind wandered a little. "Father," ho cried suddenly* "don't look at mo In that way! I did it becnuso I loved her; her happiness before mlno." "Oh. doctor,, coil, uothlnjt.he. done? Is Ihm' n? h?pe7" Cl'led O'Neill to the attendiug BUtweou. "Nothing, sir. 'Twill not be long now," answered the surgepu, sbuking ids head. CHAPTER XXIV. * "kot guilty, my lord." "I^Tpw 1 HERE'S a boat eonnn' along ? I side, sir," said a midship HHHSfl man to Captain Jones, "flyin* an admiral's ling." "Ah, (hat will be our friend I/ord Wostbrpoko," ho said, turning toward tho gangway. "Show him to me if ho comes on board." Elizabeth knelt by tho side of the dying man, who had sunk into silence again, and bathed his head with her handkerchief while the doctor applied some simple restora tive. In ii moment the stately form of the old admiral stepped through the gangway, and ho looked about htm In astonishment. "God bless me, what a light! I knew that rebel was a desperate man, but I never imagined anything like this! Captain Pearson?" said he imperious ly. "Where is he?" "Hero, my lord," said Pearson mournfully, coming out of the cabin, where he had withdrawn a little. "I congratulate you, sir, on"? "Stop, sir!" cried the captain iu great agony. "Von do not understand. This ship?wo were not successful." "What!" cried the admiVal. "Is not this the Sernpls?" "Aye, but she belongs"? "To the navy of the United States, sir," said a Culm voice at his elbow, which made him start. "And she is now commanded by Captain John Paul Jones, at your sendee. I shall be glad to supply you with a ynrdarm, if you have need of one, my lord"? "Good God!" ?nid the old man, turn ing to Jones. "And the Richard?" "Wo sunk her, sir," answered Pear son, "but It was useless." "You have done well, Captain Pear son," said the admiral. "Here Is evi dence of the tight you made. Nevor fear; yon shall receive reward. 'Twaa a defeat as noble as a capture.". "Aye," said Captain Jones. "I can bear witness to the desperate nature of the resistance. 'Twus such as I have never met before in twenty battles on the sea." "Pearson, my?my?son"? anid tho admiral huskily. "How did he bear himself in tho fight?" "Well and nobly, sir, as I can tes tify," added Pearson. "I, too," said Jones. "I saw blm. 'Twns he who led your boarders, Cap tain Pearson, when they tried to sweop our decks." "And Is he well?" said the old ad miral, striving to school himself into composure. "That charge, you know, Poarson. I think we need not press It now," he added. "No, not now, nor ever, sir," said Pearson mournfully. "Compose your self, my dear admiral; ho"? "I am n veteran," said the admiral. "I have looked death in the face for fifty years. Speak plainly. You would say that he is dead." "Not yet, sir," answered Jones gently. "Where is he? Take me to htm!" "He lies aft there on the quarter dock, sir." The little group around the dying innu mado way for the old admiral. He knelt down on the deck opposite Eliz abeth, not heeding tho others, and gazed long and earnestly In the face of the dying ollicer. "The last of his line," hejnurmured, "and he Is gone!" A *fllngle tear trickled down the weather beaten cheek and splashed upon the face of the young man. "Will he live to know me, think you?" said the admiral sim ply to the surgeon. "I think ho, yes," replied the physi cian. As If he had heard the question, Coventry opened his eyes. There was recognition in them. "Father," he murmured faintly. "My boy?my boy!" said the admiral, bowing his head and striving, manlike, but In vain, to conceal his emotion. "You told me?not to see you?again. I tried to obey," said Coventry faint ly. "The charge"? "It Is withdrawn; I dismiss it. You have done nobly, Captain Pearson says, and fought like a hero. You are forgiven. I commend you," said tho. old man, catching his other hand. "Ah, so," said Coventry, smiling wearily. "Now I must go." "Not yet!" cried the admiral. "I?my lord"? said the young man, wandering again, "may It please tho court -may it please the court"? He struggled for breath. "Lift me up," lie said. " 'Twill he Ids CLtl." said the doetor, lifting n winning Ilngoi. "Lift Die tip!" cried (lie dying man more strongly than before. Tbo ad miral nodded. Tho young Irishman lifted him a little. "Higher!" he cried. O'Neill lifted him to A sitting position. "Not guilty, my lord," said tho young man resolutely III a loud, clear voice, throwing his onus out before him and still smiling. The blood gushed from his lips, and when they laid him back his plea was heard In that higher court before which the rich and the poor must all dually appear, before which the admiral und the sailor equally must plead. "The I .owl gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed bo the name of the Lord," said the chaplain of the Serapls reverently. Tho men stood around him In a sltcnco broken only by the woman's sobs. "He has died like a hero, sir," said Jones at last, removing his hat, "and I venture to say that no one of his gallant race in all tho years of their history has ever made a better end." "Ah," said the admiral, rising and mournfully regarding the little group. Elizabeth praying by the side of his son and O'Neill still supporting his head, "I made my plans. I templed this honorable gentleman to do a shameful thlug. He refused, and It has nil como back upon me. I'vo wrought my own undoing, gentlemen. The hand of God has worked his will, not mlue. I am punished; I am over ruled. Ho has written this old man childless. I go down to my grave alone ?forever alone!" "Not so," answered O'Neill, rising. "You have Elizabeth. Let nie, too"? "Peace, sir!" said the old man, wav ing him back. "The young cling to gether?think of oneh othor?there Is nothing left for the old. Our ways lie apart. I bear you in no unklndness; I ?wish you well. Elizabeth, I had hoped to call you daughter. "J'was my own pride defeated tho wish. May you bo happy with this honest gentleman 1 He deserves you even as did this, my son." "My father?my father"? cried the girl, catching his hand. The old man shook his head; his lips trembled. Gray faced and broken, all his years upon him, he turned away unsteadily, as If to go to his barge. "Stop, sir!" cried Pearson. "You for get we are not In possession of the ship. Wo are prisoners," he whispered. "Ah, yes," said the admiral; "I had forgotten It. Well, It matters little to me. Captain Jones," he continued, turning to the II11lo Scotsman and proffering his sword, with n painful gesture, "I nm your prisoner, it seems." "Sir," said the little captain, and twenty generations of gentle blood could not have done It bettor, "allow me to match the act of an American sailor against the word of an English Officer. You are free, my lord. Your boat awaits you. If I can do aught"? "Ho It so," said the admiral simply. "Let me havo my boy, and wo will go away together, and I shall remember you differently in the future. If in England you ever need a friend, re member this moment and call upon me. Farewell." And two hung over tho taffrnll and watched tho white sails of tho little boat bearing away to tho verdant shore, where tho old castle still shone In the sunlight?two, sad, yet exultant. Their troubles wero over now. 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It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic suhstanco. Its ago is its guarantee. It destroys Worms and allayS Foverishuess. It cures Diarrhoea and Wiud Colic. It relievos Teething Troubles, cures Constipation and Flatulency. It assimilates tho Food, regulates the Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep, Tho Children's Panacea?The Mother's Friend. GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS Bears the Signature of The Kind You Have Always BougM In Use For Over 30 Years. THC OCNTAUn COMPANY. TT MURRAY ST?CKT. NIW YORK CITY. White Stone Lithia Has Leading Physician's Endorsement, Is the lightest water on the market. Wo realize that this is claiming a groat deal, and wc could not afford to make this assertion unless wo knew that we could provo it to be true. But it does tot take an expert to test tho Foftness of a Mineral Water. Wboa carbonating a mineral water, if it is a hard water the gases will not bo absorbed in the water, and when the bottle is opened, the gas es escape, and the water is left flat and hard, while if it is a soft water, like White Stone Lithia, it will ro'ain its gases for hours after being unstopped. Read what some prominent persons you know have to say of tho merits of the White Stono Lithia Water: Choster, R. 0., April 23, 1003. J. T. Harris, E-?q., White Stono Spring, S. C. Dear Sir?I do unhesitatingly s'ata that tho ellioacy of White Stone Lithia Water, not from its splendid analyt'cil analysis, but from my own personal ob ssrvatioii, is a very valuable agent in eliminating the impurities of the blood through i?s mirked diuretic offecfj3, and in si doing restores the secretory and execitory organ? of tin body to their normal physiological stato. So io this proves its properties to b3 of g 'C.it value in assisting dlgestloa, assimila tion and iucreasinir the appetite. Toere f >re wo can recogniz; it as a mln iral water of powerful to ale properties aod should l>e highly recommended instoui acb and liver disorders, blood disturb ances, rheumatism, gout, diabetes, Briglu's disease, and in all inactive coalitions of tho kidneys and convales cing diseases. I real mysolf, that I am ju3t'y duo an acknowledgement of the happy etl'ecs 1 derived from its use. B. Elmore Kell, m. d. Mr MuUlns, S. O, April 22, 1003. J T. Harris. White Stone Springs, S. C. It is with pleasure that 1 write of tho merits of White Stone Lithia Water. I have tev -ral patients using it now with mark d benollt in kidnoy and stomach troubles. 1 have known a uric acid calbulus to pass after usln* tho water for o lly throo days. Respectfully Yours, A. M. BrailsforJ, Jr., M. I). Macon, Ga., April l?, 1003. I hive prescribed WhiteStoao LlthU Water freely in my practice and am gl ad to report the happy off dots it gave as a diuretic an 1 urio, acid solvent. I think its medicinal properlies are pe culiarly adipiable to uric acid dlath9 sis, rhe imaibm, gout, auto ml a a ad nil bladder and kidney diseases and liver and si, Hindi troibles. I consider ii is a mine-.il water of mirvelous tonic p -operties. Head wha\ Dr. L J. Blak?, Prosi dent Board of Health of the Chy of Spartanbug, has to s iy of tho merles n; White Stone Lithia Sprl ig?: 8par{,anburg, Ma/ llth, 1!?)!. J. T. Harris, Proprietor White Stono Spings, Spiroa Viurg Co, S. C. My Do ir Sir: -I have used and pre scribed the White stem Lithia water a great do?l during the past two years. In all cases requiring ronal stimulation I havo obtained uniformly good re sults. In lithaomla and kindred nllec ttons from ur!c acid di itoods it meets the indications, and I am sure its free use will prove It the eq i il of any wa ter oa tho m irk ?et. Yours vjrv truly, L J. Blaki, M. 1). Wo have tho largest brick Hotel in tho Carolinas or Georgia, with all mod ern Improvement?. to?" Electric Car Lino runs from Southern Road to Spring. White Stono Spring, S. C. White Stone Lithia Water Co. Cures Choiera-lnfantiin, Diarrhoea,Dysentery, and the Rowel Troubles of Children of Any Age. Cosls Onlj 25 cents at Drogist?. lh??THiNodCAslJ" Or mall 20 cents to O. J. MOFFETT, M. D? ST. LOUIS, MO. ?uros Eruptions, Sores, Colio, Hives, Thrush. Removos and Prevents, Worma. BI?3IS3IS'ra=i:i3Sr-A. COUNTERACTS AND OVERCOMES THE EFFECTS OF THE SUMMER'S HEAT UPON TEETHING CHILDREN. Look! LOOk Here are Some Specials at the Cash Bargain Store. Treco Flannel 20 cents the yard; Ladies' Ready-to-wear Skirts $1.00 to $2.25; Shoes for Everybody; Sicillian Suitings 40 cents the yard; Outings 5 to 10 cents the yard; Frank lin l weeds for Ladies' Heavy Skirts at 23 cts the yard; The slickest line of Hose in town. The only place in town that you can get 6 Plates for 35 cents. TOBACCO: Brown Mule 29 cents the pound by box; Rock and Rye 32M the pound by the box; Golden Grain 40 cents the pound. Parched Coffee 10 cents the package. J- L. HOPKINS, Proprietor. Carriages, Bloches and Wagons Cheaper than Anybody. Come and See. lau rens, s. C. j?* XX? ?^yUVnOBLY