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Til 15 ADVERTISER. Subscription Prko-12 Mouths, $1.00 Parable lu Advance. Rates for Advertising.-- Ordinary Ad vertisements, per square, one inser tion, $1.00; each subsequent Insertion, 50 cents. Liberal reduotion made for large Advertisements. W. W. Ball, Proprietor. LAUKENS, S. C?. Dec. 80, 1908. Happy New Year! Happy new year to the readers and subscribers of The Advertiser! A big cotton crop to you in 11)01! A big corn and wheat and oat crop to you! A big hog and beef crop to you! And may tho prices bo good! To our staunch friends and merobauts and mechanics and lawyers and bank ers, may they ull sbaro in great pros perity. The Advertiser has made one new year resolution. It is no moro than this ?to bo a better newspaper. To car y it out, tho first thing necessary was to add to the printing force of the otllce. This has bsea done. The peop'o may ex pect more news, because The Adver tiser Is able to print more. I Tub Advertiser has had a fairly prosperous year. Its advertising pat ronage, its circulation and its job printing business have been larger than ever before. The one sore spot is tho failure of a number of people to pay tho dollar a year promised. Many have paid, wo have numerous subscrib ers whose words are its good as cash, but It would astonish tho people of Laurens county if they could know how many hundreds, even thousands of dollars this paper has lost in 13 years by "ovor confidence/' It is disheart ening to know that a number of people subscribe to this paper, take it out of the post ottlco and road It and pay not a dolla". Gradually we have cut down this list and the number Is smaller now than ever before in tho history of tho paper. This year The Advertiskr hopes that Its county correspondents will promptly send tho news. We are In a bettor position to handle It promptly. Stationery and stamped envelopes can be had for tho asking. If you havo a respectable newspaper printed in your county, you ought to take it. If you have several in tho county, you should take one. Strange as It may seem, many people do not think so. To prove it, every week one or more persons call on The Ad vertiser to do them personal favors, to print resolutions, to get a copy of a paper containing an article which they wish, to print other things of no in terest to any save their own circlo of friends, who themsolvos do not sub scribe to tho paper. Such is the news paper business. These people do not even understand, as a rule,that they ire obtaining favors and tho publisher has not even the poor natlsfactiou of feel ing that he has placed a man under a small obligation. However, The Advertiser, in a general way, Is doing well. It is going to be, politically, this year as usual an independent newspaper, saying what it wishos to say with tho bounds of cour tesy and fairness. Many of tho read ers of The advertiser do not agree with Thb Advertiser in political matters, but tbey all know that the pa per has no axe to grind and no favors to ask. For that reason, 8nd no other, they trust its motives. Again, a happy new year to the whole round world and all that's on it! * "S^,-vTlio Most Dangerous. Stronger>anu"ntrH,-e_ dangerous than any other perhaps is the eW -passion for gambling. Once it secures a hold upon a man, or woman for thatmattor, tbo chances are great that tho victim Is Irretrievably ruined. While tho man who makes en occasional wager is not necessarily a slave to the pa?slon, It Is undoubtedly true that complete surren der is quick and easy. The Advertiser does not pretend to usurp the office of the sermon preacher but from a strictly secular point of view wo wish to warn agaiast that form of gambling known politely as "speculation." When a man risks more than ho can return in the event of loss, that means that ha is obtaining credit under a falle pretense, It is not honest. When a man goo j into a market and buys a thing concerning which he is wholly ignorant it is gambling, pure and sim ple. Take tho cotton market. Even our shrewdest business men know noth ing about It. Cotton mill men, whoso business it is to watch and study the market, are wrong as often as they are right?as a general rulo. When you or I buy futures or sell them we are betting. Morally, cotton futures and poker playing aro on precisely the same level. Meanwhilo, it is not ne cessarily Immoral for a man to play cards for money or to speculate In cot ton. Provided a man risks his own money, to which no othor man has any claim whatever and risks no mors than lie can afford to lose witho.it involving loss to creditors or dependents, he, in in our judgment commits no offence. Tbo difficulty Is that not one man in 1C,0G0 is able to do this. A man with, a pocket full of dynamite would be a fool to ride a fox ehaso: The man who gambles Is a greater fool because he tskes a greater risk?with rare excep tions; Speculation utterly unfits a man for business. A book-keeper who has" a few cotton contracts is likely to do his work in slapdash fashion while he has the contraots. If he wins a few hun dred dollars, the ohanoes aro that ho will be useless until ho has "blown it in " Employers do not want and will not luve young mon who speoulale on their z payrolls. They can't afford It. The young man ambitious to sucoecd In business who begins by buying cotton contraots begios at tho wrong ond. Early disaster is the invariable and in exorable result. ' . ? TnlU He Your Own Fault. If you don't go to the World's Pair, it will be your own fault. All you have is to hustle up a hundred new sub scribers for LEADING MEN KILL EACH OTHER. They Fight About Land Ownership. ONLY AN INQUEST. The Only Trial Needful Now. J. T. Hogg and lieu Jenkins Die at Each Others' Hands in Barnwell. Barnwell, Dec. 24.?At Kleins, a station on the Southern, ulno miles from our courthouse, an awful tragedy was enacted last evening when the llvos of two of our best known men, Mr J. T Hogg and Mr. Bon Jenkins, were snuffed out. It seems that there had been bad blood between the two men because of a suit involving certain lauds owned by tho latter, and last evening at a school entertainment at Kleins the two met, hot words were passed, when tho latter drew his pistol and shot the former four times, when In turn tho litter was shot with a shotgun and in stantly killed, whethor by tho formor or by othors cannot now bo loarnod. Tho former livod through the night but died early this morning. Tho do tails surrounding this tragedy cannot be obtained at tIiis time. The coroner has left for the scene to ho'd tho inquest. The family of tho latter have re tained Hon. G. Duncan Bellingor, who has gone to Kleins to be present at tho inquest. WORST OF ALL EXPERIENCES. Can anything be worse than to foel that every minute will bo your lat>t? Such was tho exporlenco of Mrs. S. II. Newson, Decatur, Ala. "For three years" she writes, "I endured insuf ferable pain from Indigestion, ttomieh and bowel trouble. Death seemed in evitable when doctors and all remedies failed, At length I was induced to try Electric Bitters and the result was mir aculous. I improved at once and now I'm completely recovered. For Liver, Kidney, Stomach and Bowel troubles Electric Bitters Is the ODly modleino. Oaly 60 cents. It's guaranteed by The Lautens Drug Co. and W. W. Dodson. Many Mothers of a Like Opinion. Mrs. Piliner, of Cordova, Iowa, says: "Ono of my children was subject to croup of a sevore type, and the givlDg of Chambor'r.ln's Remedy pronipHy, always brought relief. M my mothers in this neighborhood think the same as I do about this remedy and want no other kind for their children." For sale by Laurens Drug Co. Assessor's Notice. THE Auditor's OfGco will be open from the 1st day of January to the 20th day of February, 1003, to recoivo re turns of Real Estate and Person\l prop erty for taxation in Laurens C-jonty. For the convenience of Taxpayers the Auditor will attend the folio a in^ named places to receive returns for said year, to wit: Laurens Cotlon Mills, January 0th, from 4 to 8 o'clock p. m. Jacks Township, Dr. F. M. Setzler's, January 11th, from 10 a m to 2 p no. Jkcks Township, Renno, January 12th, from 10 a m to 2 p m. Hunter Township, Clinton, January 13th, from 10 a m to 2 p m. Hunter Township, Clinton Cotton Mills, January 13th, from 4 to 8. Hunter Township, residence of Duck Yonng, January 14th, 10 a m to 2 p in. Cross Hill Township, Spring Grove, January 15th, from 10 a m to 2 p m. Cro:s Hill Township, Cross Hill, Jan uary 10th, from 2 a m to 2 p m. Waterloo Township, Waterloo, Jan uary 18th, from 10 a m to 2 p m. \Ya'.C>flc3" Towjishlp, Ekoui; January 10th, from 10 a m to 2 p m . 1 Waterloo Township, Mt. Ga'lagher, January 20th, from 10 a m to 2 p m. Sullivan Township, Brewerton, Janu ary 21st, from 10 a m to 12 m. Sullivan Township, Priucetm, Janu ary 22J, from 9 am to 2 p m. Sulliyan Township, Tumbling Shoals, January 22d, from 1 p m to 4 p m. Dial Township, Abner Babe's, Janu ary 23d, from 10 a m to 12 p m. Dial Township, D. D. Harris's, Janu ary 25th, from 10 a m to 4 p m. D al Township, V. A. White's, Janu ary 26th, from 10 a m to 2 r> in. Young's Township, Cook's Store, Jan uary 27th, from 10 a in to 2 p m. Young's Township, Young's Storo, January 28th, from 10 a m to 2 p ra. Young's Township, Pleasant Mound, January 20th, from 0 a m to 12 m. Young's Township, Lanford Station, January 29th, from 2 to 4 p m. Soullldtowu Township, T>lor?vllle, January 30th, from 10 a m to 2 p m. It wi l Bavo much time to taxpayers, also greatly facilitate the work of the Assessor, if every person before leaving homo will make out a complete list of every item of personal proporty in the following order: Horses, cattle, mules, sheep and goats, hogs, organs and pianos, watches, wag ons and carriages, dogs, merchandise, machinery and engin<s, moneys, notes and accounts above Indebtedness and all othor property, including household. It la always required that the Auditor K6t the first given namo of the t*x-pay er in full. Under the head of "place of resi dence" on tax return, give the town ship. Al hnale citizens botween the ages of twenty-one and sixty years, on the 1st of January, except those who are incap ablo of earning a support from being maimed, or from other causes are deem ed taxable polls, Confederate veterans' oxcepted. And all taxpayers aro required to Rive the number of their school district. They are a'so.requested to state wheth er tbo proporty is situated in towa or country. After tho 20th day of February next, fifty percent penalty will be attached for failure to make returns. In every community thero are per sons who cannot read or that do not take a newspapor. Those moro fortu nate may do auoh persons a great favor by tolling thorn of the time to make re turns, or by returning for them. Tho assessing and collection of taxes aro done in the same year, and we have to aggregate the number and vaiuo of all horses, mules, cattle, and all othor piecos of personal proporty, as well as the acres of land, lots and buildings and their value, that there aro in this Coun ty, and have the same on fl!e in the Comptroller General's ofllcoby tho 30th of June of eaoh year, and trom that time to the first dav of Ootobor the Au ditor's and Treaiuror's duplicates havo to be completed and an abstract of tho work in the Comptroller General's office by that time, which will show at a (lance that the Auditor has no time to ike returns,or anything else much, be tween the 1st of October, but work on the books and the blanks. We hope, therefore, that all taxpayers will make their returns In time. C. A. POWER, County Auditor. Deo. 7,1003-tf. ji fr^** ?fr^>r ?y ? ?Hhl"? ?fr ? ?fr^t? ? << ? ?fr^?? ?^^^ ^j^l l"!"! ??^"fr ? ?| GRAUSTARK ...By ... GEORGE BARR McCUTCHEON OopyriyhU 1901, by Herbert S. Stono CHAPTER IV. tur invitation extended. THEY wore called by tho porter early the next morning. The train was pulling Into Wash ington live hours late. Grenfall wondered, as he dressed whether for tune would permit him to see much of her during her brief day In the capital. After the train had come to a stand still ho could hoar tho rustle of her gar ments, in the next compartment. Then he heard her sweep into tho passage, greet her uncle and aunt, utter a few commands to the maid, and, while he was adjusting his collar and necktie, pass from the car. No man ever inado quicker lime In dressing than did Lor ry. "She'll get away, and that '11 bo tho end of It," he growled, seizing his traps and rushing from tho train two min utes after her departure. Tho porter attempted to relievo him of his bags on the platform, but ho brushed him aside and was off toward the Btatlon. "Nice time for you to call a mau, you idiot," was his parting shot for the por ter, forgetting of course that tho for eigners had been called at the same time. With eyes ifftent on tho crowd ahead, ho plunged along, seeing nobody In his disappointed flight "I'll never forgive myself If I miss her," ho was wailing to himself. She was not to bo seen in the waiting rooms, so ho rushed to the sidewalk. "Baggage transferred?" "Cab, sir." "Go to tho devil?yes, here! Take these traps and checks and rush my stuff to ? W- avenue. Trunks Just in on B. and O.," ho cried, tossing his burdens to a transfer man and giving him tho checks bo quickly that the fel low's sleepy eyes opened wider than they had been for a month. Relieved of his impediments, ho returned to tho station. "Good morning, Mr. Lorry. Are you In too much of a hurry to see your friends?" cried a clear, musical voice, and he stopped as If shot. The anxious frown flew from his brow and was suc ceeded Instantaneously by a glad smile. He wheeled and beheld her, with Aunt Yvonne, standing near tho main en trance to the station. "Why, good morn ing," he exclaimed, extending his hand gladly. To his amazement sho drew herself up haughtily and Ignored tho proffered hand. Only a brief second did this strange and uncalled for hauteur obtain. A bright smile swept over her face, and her repentant fingers sought his timidly, oven awkwardly. Some thing told him that she was not ac customed to handshaking; that same something impelled him to bend low and touch the gloved fingers with his Hps. Ho straightened, with faco flushed, half fearful lest his act had been observed by curious loungers, and he bad taken a liberty in a public place Which could not bo condoned. But sho smiled serenely, approvingly. There was not the faintest sign of embarrass ment or confusion in the lovely face. Any other girl In tho world, ho thought, would have jerked her hand away and giggled furiously. Aunt Yvonno in clined her bend slightly, but did not proffer her band. He wisely refrained from extending bis own. "I thought you had left the station," he said. "We are waiting for Uncle Caspar, who Is giving Iledrlck Instructions. Hedrick, you know, is to go on to New York with our boxes. He will have them aboard ship when we arrive there. All that avo have with us is hand luggage. Wo leave Washington tonight." "I had hoped you might stay over for a few days." "It Is urgent business that compels us to leave so hastily, Mr. Lorry. Of Sil the cities In the world, I have most desired to see the capital of your coun try. Perhaps I may return some day. But do not let us detaiu you if you are in a hurry." He started, looked guilty, stammered something about baggage, said he would return in a moment, and rushed aimlessly away, his ears fiery. "I'm all kinds of a fool," he mut tered as he raced around the baggage room and then back to where ho had left the two ladles. Mr. Guggenslocker had joined them, and they were prepar ing to depart. Miss (Juggenslocker's face expressed pleasure at seeing him. "Wo thought you would never return, ?o long were you gone," sho cried gay ly. He had been gone just two min utes by tho watch. The old gentleman greeted him warmly, and Lorry asked them to what hotel they wcro going. On being informed that they expected to spend the day nt tho Kbbltt ho vol unteered to accompany them, saying that ho intended to breakfast there. Quicker than a flash a glance unfath omable as it was brief passed between the three, not quickly enough, however, to escape his keen, watchful eyes, on the alert since tho beginning of his ac quaintance with them, In conjunction with his cars, to catch something that might satisfy in a measure his burning Curiosity, What was tho meaning of that glance? It half angered him, for in it he thought ho could distinguish annoyance, apprehension, dismay or lomethlng equally disquieting. Before ho could stiffen his long frame and glvo vent to the dignified reconsidera tion that (lew to bis mind the young lady dispelled all palu and displeasure, Sending him into raptures by saying: "How good of you! Wo shall bo so delighted to hnvo you breakfast with us, Mr. Lorry, if It Is convenient for you. You con talk to us of your won derful city. I am sure we cannot trou ble you much longer." Ho expostulated gallantly and de lightedly and then hurried forth to call a cab. At 8 o'clock ho breakfasted with them, his Infatuation growing deeper and stronger as he sat for the hour be neath the spell of those eyes, the glori ous face, tho sweet, Imperial air that was a part of her, strange and unaf fected. As they were leaving the din- ' lug room ho asked If sho would not drive with him. Hist ardent gallantry met with a sur prising rebuke. Her voice, a moment ago sweet and affable, changed its tone Instantly to ono so proud and ar rogant that ho could scarcely believe his ears. "I flhnll be engaged during tho entire day, Mr. Lorry," she ?nid slowly, look ing him fairly In tho eyes with cruel positivoncss. Por a moment ho dared not speak. "J have reason to fc.ol thankful that you are to be engaged," ho saugst last calmly, without taking his eyes from hers. "I am forced to believe, much to toy regret, that I have offended when I Intended to please. You will pardon my temerity." There was no mistaking tho resent ment in his voice or tho glitter in his eyes. Impulsively her llttlo hand was stretched forth, falling upon his arm, while into her eyes came again tho soft glow and to her lips tho most pathetic, appealing smile, the forerunner of a pretty plea for forgiveness. The change startled and puzzled him inoro than ever. In one moment she was unrea sonably rudo and Imperious, in tho next gracious and Imploring. "Forglvo me," she cried, tho blue eyes battling bravely against tho steel in tho gray ones above. "I was so uncivil! Perhaps 1 cannot make you understand why I spoke as I did, but, let mo say, I richly deserved the re buke. Pray forgive me and forget that I have been disagreeable. Do not ask mo to tell you why I was so rudo to you just now, but overlook my unkind treatment of your invitation. Please, Mr. Ixmy, I beg of you?I beg for the first time In my life. You have been so good to me, be good to mo still." Ills wrath molted away like snow be fore tho sunshine. How could ho resist such an appeal? "I beg for the first time in my life," whirled in his brain. What did she mean by that? "I absolve tho penitent," he said gravely. "I thank you. You are still my Ideal American?courteous, bold and gentle. 1 do not wonder thnt Americans can bo masterful men. And now I thank you for your invitation and ask you to let me withdraw my Implied refusal. If you will take me for the drive I Bball be delighted and more than grateful." "You make me happy ngnin," bo said softly, as they drew near tho elder members of the party, who had paused to wait for them. "I shall ask your uu clo and aunt to nccompnny us." "Uncle Caspar will be busy all day, but I am sure my aunt will be charmed. Aunt Yvonne, Mr. Lorry has asked us to drive with him over tho city, and I have accepted for you. When are we to start, Mr. Lorry?" Mr. and Mrs. Uuggonslocker stared In a bewildered sort of manner at their niece. Then Aunt Yvonne turned qucs tloning eyes toward her husband, who promptly bowed low before the tall American and said: "Your kind offices shall never bo for gotten, sir. When are the ladies to bo ready?" Lorry was weighing in his mind the advisability of asking them to dine in the evening with bis mother, but two objections presented themselves read ily?first, he was afraid of this per verse maid; second, he bad not seen his mother. In fact, he did not know that she was In town. "At 2 o'clock, I fancy. That will give us the afternoon. You leave at 1) to night, do you not?" "Yes. And will you dine with us this evening?" Her invitation was so un expected In view of all that bad hap pened that he looked askance. "Ach, you must not treat my Invitation ns I "did yours!" she cried merrily, although be could detect tho blush tl%t returns with the recollection of a reprimand. "You should profit by what I have been taught." Tho girl abruptly threw her arm about her aunt and cried as she drew away In tho direction of her room: "At 2, then, and at dinner this evening. I bid you good morning, Mr. Lorry." The young man, delighted with the turn of affairs, but dismayed by what seemed a summary dismissal, bowed low*. He waited until the strange trio entered the elevator and then saun tered downstairs, his hands in his pockets, bis heart as light as air. In an hour ho was at home and re lating to bis mother the story of bis wanderings, neglecting for reasons best known to himself the events which oc curred after Denver bad been left be hind, except for a casual allusion to "a party of foreigners." At .1 o'clock, faultlessly attired, ho descended to tho brougham, telling Mrs. Lorry that ho had Invited some strangers to see the city. On tho way downtown ho re membered that he was In business? the law business?and thnt It would bo well to drop In and let his uncle know he wns In tho city. On second thought, however, he concluded it was too near 2 o'clock to waste any time on business, so the olllce did not know that ho was In town until the next day, and then to no great extent. For several hours be reveled In her society, sitting beside her in thnt roomy brougham, Aunt Yvonne opposite, ex plaining to her the many places of in terest ns they passed. Their dinner was but ono more phase of this fascinating dream. More than once ho feared thnt ho was about to awake to find bleak uidinpplness whore exquisite Joy had reigned so gloriously. As It drew to nn end a senso of depres sion enme over him. An hour at most was nil that he could huvo with her. Nino o'clock wos drawing nigh with its regrets, Its longings, Its desolation. He determined to retain tho pleasures of the piesont until, amid the clanging of bells and the roll of car wheels, tho dis mal future began. Ills Intention to ac company them to the station was ex pressed ns they were leaving tho table. Sho hud begun to say goodby to him when ho Interrupted, self consciousness forcing the words hurriedly ,and dls Jolntcdly from his lips: "You will let mo go to tho station with you. I shnll-er?deem It a pleas ure." Sho raised her eyebrows slightly, but thanked him nnd said sho would con sider It nn honor. Ills face grow hot nnd his heart cold with the fnney that Iber?! was in her eyes a gleam which sold, "I pity you, poor fellow." Notwithstanding his strange misgiv ing and the fact that his pride had sus tained quite a perceptlblo shock, he drove with them to tho station. They ' Went to the sleeping car a few minutes beforo the time set for the train's de parture and stood nt tho bottom of tho steps, uttering the goodbys, tho god speeds and tho sincere hopo thnt they might meet ngnln. Then enmo the sharp activity of tho trainmen, the hur ry of bololod passengers. Ho glanced soberly at his wntch. "It Is 1) o'clock. Perhaps you would better get aboard," he said, nnd pro ceeded to assist Aunt Yvoiuio up tho steps. She turned nnd pressed his band gently before passing into tho car. "Adieu, good friend. You bnvo made It so very pleasant for us," she said earnestly. Tho tall, soldierly old gentleman was .waiting to assint his nleco into tho coach. "Go first, Undo Caspar," tho girl made Lorry happy by saying. "I can easily como up unaided." "Or I can assist her," Lorry hastened to add, giving her a grateful look "Adieu, mu American!" which sho could not misunderstand. The uncle shook hands warmly with tho young man and passed up tho steps. She was following when Lorry cried: "Will you not allow mo?" She laughingly turned to him from the steps and stretched forth her hand. "And now it Is goodby forever. 1 am so sorry that I have not seen more of you," she said. lie took her hand and held it tightly for a moment. "I shall never forget tho past few days," ho said, a thrill In his voice. "You have put something into my life that can never be taken away. You will forget me before you arc out of Wash ington, but 1?I shall always see you as you are now." She drew her hand away gently, but did not take her eyes from bis up turned face. "You are mistaken. Why should I forgot you ?ever? Are you not tho Ideal American whoso name I bought? 1 shall always remember you as I BOW you?at Denver." "Not as I have been slnco?" ho cried. "Have you changed since first I saw you?" she asked quaintly. "I have, indeed, for you saw me be fore I saw you. 1 am glad I have not changed for tho worse In your eyes." "As I first Knew you with my eyes 1 will say Ihn I they are trustworthy," she sold tnntallzlngly. "1 do not mean that I have changed externally." "in any other case my eyes would not serve," sbo cried, with mock disap pointment. "Still," she added sweep lngly, "yon arc my ideal American. Goodby! Tho man has called 'all aboard!'" "Goodby!" ho cried, swinging up on the narrow step beside her. Again he clasped her band us she drew back In surprise. "You uro going out of my lund, but not out of my mind. If you wish your eyes to S2? tho change in me. you l ave only to look at them In a mir ror. They are the change?they them selves! Goodbyl 1 hope thai I may see you again." Sho hesitated an instant, her eyes wavering beneath Iiis. Tho train was moving slowly now. "I pray that wo may meet," oho said s;,ft)/ at last so Boftly that ho barely hoard tho words. Had she uttered no sound ItO COUld have been sure of her response, for it was In her telltale eyes. His blood leaped madly. "You will be hurt If you wait till tho traflfi Is run ning at full speed!" she cried, suddenly returning to the abandoned merry mood. She pushed him gently In her excitement. "J?on't you see how rapid ly we are moving? Flou3C go!" There was n terror In her eyes that pleased him. ?'Goodby, then!" be said. "Adieu, my American!" she cried quickly. As he swung out ready to drop to the ground she said, her eyes sparkling With something that suggested mis chief, her face more bewitching than over under tho Dicker of tho great arc lights: "You must como to Edelweiss to sco me. I shall expect you!" Ho thought there was a challenge in the tones. Or was it mockery? "1 will, by heaven, i will!'' ho ex claimed. 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A good place for the man who has no sengolng relatives or friends to see Buch pictures Is In some of tho win dows \)t ship supply stores on South street In New York. Snilors buy them occasionally. Ships that sailors paint aro absolutely collect In every detail. From a brig to a full rigged three master tb< re is not a block or tackle missing from stem to stern or from masthead to water line. No marine painter could get In half so much detail if he tried. But tho ships painted by sailors look ns if they were caught fast in frost tipped waves. There Is absolutely no life or any sug gestion of motion about them even when represented as going under full sail. When a sailor tries to get In a bit of landscape as a background, as he usually does, he makes matters hope lessly worse. As a general thing it Is a lighthouse or a fort looking for nil the world like little Images that children take out of their toy arks.-New York Press. E3iifl*IlHlt women of Hunk. "If you come ncross n very shabby looking Englishwoman on the con tinent," said a traveled American, "In nine cases out of ten sho will turn out to be somebody of renk. When I was In Florence, I was a great frequenter of the Ulizzi galleries, nnd there I met n number of times an oldish English woman with a young girl, whom I took to be governess and pupil, as the former was evidently educating the hitter's taste for art and would analyze the styles of the different artists and make the girl pick out tjieir pictures through her knowledge of technique. It was cleverly done, and as the older woman saw that I was interested In her art lectures she kindly included mo In tho curriculum. The girl was shy and stiff, like most of her young Countrywomen, and I never heard her call her companion'by any name, so I still retained my llrst Impression until one day when a smart young person, who was evidently a lady's maid, brought in sonic wraps and addressed the older woman as 'your grace' and tho younger one as 'your ladyship,' the two proving to be tho Duchess of and Lady Emily, her granddaughter." ?Philadelphia Ledger. AnxloaM. Alice?How dlil you fool while irretl was proposing to you? Mildred?Two or three times I felt like supplying the words I knew ho was groping for, but of course that wouldn't have been tho thing to do at nil. A Good Word. Fordy?I put In a good word for you, old chap. I told her you had more money than brains. Algy?And what did she say then? Ferdy?Sho asked mo if you had any money. - Puck. It cannot be too often repeated, "To Innovate is not to reform."?Burke. Our Now Discovery.is sold by W. W. Dodson, Laurens Drug Co. and Youngs' Pharmacy undor an absoluto guar antee. OASTOniA. Boars tho tho Kind You llavo Always B0l?|)' Blguaturo . V/ ffx? of ^ut^/y /)-i&7c&/ii DO YOU WANT TO SEE THE GREAT WORLD'S FAIR St Louis Next Summer? THE ADVERTISER will give a Free Round Tun? Railroad TICKET from Laurens to St. lyOUld and return, during the Fair to any person, Man, Woman, or Child who will obtain for it 100 New Subscribers, JC The proposition is open from now until May ist, when the fair Opens. Subscription Must BR Cash, Subscribers names with Money must be Handed in as they are secured. Two half year, fifty cent subscri bers, will be counted as one whole year subscriber. Four three months subscribers, 25 cts., will count as one for the whole year* The subscribers obtained must be new ones,?no peroon will be counted who has already been a subscriber between this date and May ist. If More Than One person secures 100 subscribers, so much the better. Each Will Grt The free Trip. Now is the time to begin work. Any one willing to work for it can get this trip. There are over a thousand people in Laurens County who would take The Advertiser if they were person ally asked. If you want to go to The Fair This is your Chance. The Advertiser costs One Dollar a year. All Home Print. An-up-to-date County Paper. u???.?, ?: , i ... v.. i mwwvv """""""""I CASTOR IA Tho Kind You Have Always Bought, and which lias been in uso for ovov 30 years, has bomo tbo Rlgimtm-c oi ^ and has been made under bis per sonal supervision sine? its infancy, r *<4tc/U4? Allow no on? to deceive you in this. All Counterfeits, Imitations and "Just-as-good" aro but Experiments that trifle with and endanger tho health ot Infants and Children?Experience against Experiment, What is C ASTORIA Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare gorie, I>rops and Soothing Syrups. It is Pleasant. Ifc contains neither Opium, Morphin? nor other Nareotio substance. Its ago is its guarantee. It destroys Worms and allays Foverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colio. It relieves Toothing Troubles, cures Constipation and Flatulency. It assimilates tho Food, regulates the Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. Tho Children's Panacea?Th? Mother's Friend. GENUINE CASTORIA Bears the Signature of ALWAYS Tlie KM You tee Always Bougul In Use For Over 30 Years. THE CINTAUR COMPANY. IX MURRAY STRECT. NKVW YORK OITV. \ 8 WE TAKE THIS METHOD to thank our cicstomcrs for their liberal patronage dur ing the year now drawing to a close. Hoping by strict atten tion to the demands of the trade to merit a continuance of the same. .May the dawn of the jYciv Year usher in Happiness and Prosperity to all. lies pect fully, W. G. WILSON & CO. White Stone Lithia Has Leading Physician's Endorsement, Is the lightest water no themarket. Wo realize that this is claiming a srreat deal, mill we couhl not afford to make this asserlio? Unless wo knew that wo could prove it to bo true. But it does not take r.n expert to test tho toftnoss of a Mineral Water. When carbonating a mineral water, if it ic a hard water the gases will not bo absorbed in tho wat^r, and when the bottle is opened, the jra es eeoape, and tho water is left flat and hard, while if it la a soft water, like White Stone Lithia, it will rettf?*i Us gases for hours after being unstopped. Head what some prominent persons you know have to say of the merits of the White Stone Lithia Water: Chester, S. C, April 23, 1U03. J. T. Harris, Esq., White Stono Spring, S. C. Dear Sir?I do unhesitatingly state that tho HTleaoy of White Stone Lithia Water, not from its splendid analytical analysis, but from my owe personal ob s^rvatio.i, is a very valuable agent In eliminating the impurities of tho blood through its marked diuretic effects, and in so doing restoros the secretory aud excretory organs of tin body to their normal physiological stato. So in this piovos its properties to be of great value in assisting digestion, assimila tion and increasing the appotit?. There fore we can recognize it as a mineral water of powerful tonlo properties aod should t o highly recommended in stom ach and liver disorders, blood disturb ances, rheumatism, gout, diabetes, Hriirht's diseaso, and in all inactive conditions of tho kidneys and convales cing diseases. I feel myself, that I am justly due an acknowledgement of tho happy effects I dorived from its use. B. Ei.moke Kell, M. D. Mulllns, S. C, April 22, 1003. Mr. J T. Harris. Whito Stone Springs, S. 0. It is with pleasure that I write of tho morlts of White Stone Lithia Water. I have Koveral pationts using it now with marked bonollt in kidney and stomach troubles. I have known a uric acid calbulus to pass aftir using the water for oaly threo days. Respectfully Yours, A. M. UrailsforJ, Jr., M. I). Macon, Qa., April 15, 1908. I have prescribed White Stono Lithia Water freely in my practice and am glad to report tho happy effects It gave as a diuretic an 1 uric acid solvent. I think its medicinal proportion are pe culiarly adaptable to uric aold dlatne sis, rheumatism, gout, anaemia and all bladder and kidney diseases and liver and stomach troubles. I consider it is a mlnoral water of marvelous tonic properties. Read what Dr. L?, J. Blake, Presi dent Board of Health of I he City of Spartanbug, has to say of tho merits ol Whita Stono Lithia Springs: Sparenburg, Stay llth, 100:1. J. T. Harris, Proprietor White Stoue Splnga, Spartanburg Co, S. (5. My Dear Sir: -I have used and pre scribed tin White stono Lithia wat r a great deal during the past two years. In all cases requiring renal stlmulal ion I havo obtained uniformly good re sults. In iithaomla and kindred affec tions from url? acid dlathosis it m-ets tho indications, and 1 am sure its free use will prove it the equal of any w.i tor on tho market. Yours vary truly, L. J. Blake, M. i>. em impr^emenVsa,Ke8t bH?k U?M iQ the 0ftrolina? or Georgia, with all .nod Wnite ? gS?T fr?m S?Uth0rn R?ad *? Sprin* White Stone Lithia Water Co. ;*? WE ARE LOOKING ? I FOR YOUR ORDERS * ? COLUMBIA LUMBER & MFC CO W COLUMBIA E C Notice. Tho logular annual meeting of tho Shareholders of tho National Bank of Laurons, s .G.,wlll be hold at the Bank lug houeo of said Bank on the second Tuesday in January, 1004, being the 12th day of tho month. Jno- Aua. Barksdalk,. Cashier. Geo. Johnstone. R. H. Weloh. A. C. Todd. Johnstone Welch & Todd LAWYERS. Will l -rant loo In all Courts, State and Federal. Office, Law Range. 4iF* Money to Loan at reasonable in terest. Lau r km s , S . O. Dr. Chas. A. El let t, DENTIST. Law Hange. W. C. IRBY, Jr., Attorney at Law. Will praotlce In all Stato Courts. Prompt attention given to all buslneas Money to Lend. On flrst mortgage of improved farms. Kasy terms. No commission. H?nower pays only aotual oxpensoa of loan. O. D. 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