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FARM ? Before You Buy or Sell any Kino: of Real Estate, or Business, Write us your wants. J. Y. Garlington & Co., Laurens, S- C. VOL XIX. LAURENS. S O.. WEDNESDAY, MAR. 9 1904. WHY WORRY Yourself about Score Cards. We can fur nish you with Hand Painted cards at price of printed ones. See our stock. _Palmetto Drug Co. NO 31. KILLED BY A FALLING TREE. Sad and Fatal Accident in Sultivans, JNO. L. PITTS DEAD. Sorrow Caused Among Many Friends. Young Farmer Was Working In a New Ground When He Was Crashed to Death, Mr. John L. Pitts, a young farmer of Tumbling Shoals, Sullivan townsh'p, was mstan'ly killed Saturday afternoon by a falling tree which crushed his head and pinioned his lifeless body to the ground. The shocking accident oc curred in a new ground in which Mr. Pitts was at work on bis newly settled farm just a mile East of Tumbling Shoals. The tree win a dead oak around whose trunk logs and brush had been heaped and set on ?re. After burning several hours and aided by a strong wind the tree suddenly collapsed and in a twinkling Mr. Pitts was hurled into eternity. The deceased was about 85 years of age, the eldest son of Mr. Billy Pitts of same community. A widow, who was Mis* Knight, daughter of Mr. Neal Knight, and four children survive, The funeral and burial services took place Sunday at Friendship Church near bis homo. Mr. Flits was a worthy young man and a useful citizen. His death causes great sorrow among his neighbors and among friends here as well. SPREAD THE NEWS. Laurens Citizens Assist ing in the Good Work. Day by day and hour by hour the "Little Conqueror" becomes better known and more respec'ed by the pub lic Nothing in modern time* has reaohed the high pinnacle of popular favor In so short a time; people.talk about it and they have reason to They tell their experience for the good of their follow beioga and through grati tude. To publish their expressions is to show you that the same experience awaits you, W. H. Smith, grocer, at 825 Wash ington St., Columb'a, 8. C, residing at 823 Washington, St., says: "I had whooping cough when I was five years old, strained ray self coughing and have never been well since and have always had kidney and bladder trouble, some times much more severe than at others. This year I had a spell of typhoid fe ver and lay in bed three months. I had suoh pains in my kidneys that every breath I drew cut to the quick. It felt like a knife being thrust in right through the bladder. I had a doctor examine me and he gave me medicine but It did not do any gcod. I tried proprietary medicines and used Slusters and rubbed my back with a ozen different liniment* but nothing relieved the pain. This has been my condition for forty years and it both ered me at night so that I could not get a night's rest. The secretions many a t mo were almost like blood. Remedies that helped other people would not help me at all, and I never expected to get well. I saw the testi monials of people who had used Doan's Kidney Fills and had been cured by them and I began taking them. The soreness in my bladder has disap Seared, I do not have to get up at all aring the night and I feel better in everyway. I have used two boxes of them and have had no pains since tak ing them. The treatment has made me feel so much better that 1 know that it is a wonderful remedy. Just such emphatic proof Js given by Laurens people. Ask the Palmetto Drug Co. to let their customers report. For sale by all dealer?. Price 60 cts. ifoster-Milburn Co., sole agents for the United States. Remember the name?Doan's and take no substitute. Notice to Hog Raisers. Stock hog, registered Essex Boar. Call on Jessk V. F?ller, Oak Grove. MILLIONAIRE'S rOORSTOMACH The worm-out stomach of the over fed millionaire is often paraded in the publio prints as a horrible example of the evil attendant on the possession of great wealth. But millionalids are not the only ones who are afflicted with bad stomachs. The proportion is far more among the toilers. Dyspepsia and in digestion are rampant among these people, and they suffer far worse tor tures than the millionaire unless they avail themselves of a starndard medl FAVORITE REMEDY FOR BABIES. | Its pleasant taste and prompt cures have made Chamberlain's Cough Rem edy a favorite with the mothers of sma'l children. It quickly cures their colds and prevents any danger of pneu Oorola or other serious consequences, it not only cures croup, but when given as soon as the croupy cough appears will prevent the attack. For sale by Laurens Drug Co._ Wanted?To sell lots 23 snd 24, Irby property, fronting on Acsdemy and North Manning Streets. |180 for both. _'_W. W. Ball. THE POLITICAL SITUATION. A prominent North Carolinian has this to say; I have been a sufferer from Rheumatism for fifteen years, a portion of the time bedfast, and for the last six months it has been seated in my left side near my heart; could scarcely rest any at night. I finally deolded to try Dr. King's Nervo and Kono Llnimont. Two or three applications entirely re lieved me of the pain. I have used it in my family with good results. D. O. Howklx. Sold by Palmetto Drag Co., Lauren?, _______ Hires are ? ter rible torment to the little folks, and to some older ones. Ea?ily cured. Doan's ointment never falls. Ioa'ant relief, permaaent*cure. At any drug htore, 50 cents. S AMONU OUR FRIENDS. Cotton brought 15 cents on our market yesterday. Mr. Ed Conyers of Greonvlllo was here Monday. Mr. Sam L. Curry of Rap'ey was hero yesterday. Mr. D. Boyd, a well known gunt!e man of the Milton neighborhood, was hero yesterday. Mr. Ilugh Mahou.a prominent farmer of the Tumbling Shoals coun'ry, was In tho city Mond., v. Mrs. T. H . Nelson has just returned from tho Northern markots, where she purchased an elegant and up-to-date line of Spring Millinery for Tho Hub. We are glad to learn that both Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Anderson are doing fairly well at this writing, and hope they are now on the high road to com plete recovery. Mr. J. B. Rasor and family left Mountville for their new home in Mul lins last week. Mullins gains a line citizen in Mr. Rasor and he and his family will be a valuab!o addition to tho Peodee town. Dr. Boozer, Cap1. McClintock, Mr. Colwell. Mr. Coker, the chairman, were hero Monday and yesterday for toe pension board meeting. These and Commissioner Hudgens, who lives here, are a One group of Confederate I veterans. Coming on 18th. On March 18th. George W. Brigg', of Kentucky, humorist and eloquent orator, will bo the season's last attrac tion of tbo Laureus Lyceum. Great Auction Tuesday. The advertisement of G. W. Shell calls attention to tho great auction sale here Tuesday. Tuere will bo bar | gains at this auction. Fine properties will bs ofTered. Candidates Announced. Mr. C. C. Foatherslone Is announced for the House, Captain Duckett fc sheriff, Mr. Druinmond for supervisor, Mr. J. B. Cosby of Pleasant Mound for coroner and Mr. Ballew was an nounced for sheriff last week. Greenwood Excursion Announced. Prof. James A. Madden has arranged for an excursion from Liurens aud other points to Greenwood on April 1st. The cost of the rouud trip from Laurons will bo only 50 centi and for children 25 cent?. The rate will be proportionate from other points and the schedule will appear next week. Traveling for The Advertister. Mr. P. B. Lookwood will go to Mad dens, High Point, Waterloo and sur rounding country today and this week In the interest of The Advertiser. It's a good idea to subscribe now. This is campaign year. Receipts for all pay ments will be rent out from this office and Mr. Lockwood will give receipts when payment la made. Tucker Property Sold. Town real estate of the late J. P. Tuokor was sold Monday. The board ing house and offlco, known as the Mc Coy property, was bought by William Scott at $3,550. The "Motte house" and lot on South Harper street was bought by Mrs. Tucker for $1.200 and the house and lot adjoining by John Pe terson at $1,015. To Have Things Fixed. A piece of machinery in this offlco was broken. Ten dollars was the price of mending it at the type foundry, Somebody suggested to inquire at Hud gens. At Hudgens the mending was done for less than a dollar. Hudgens Bros., as their announcement else" where shows, are equipped for any thing that the mechanic wants. They have a fine plant and do a fine busi ness. They are people for builders to see. WHO WA8 YOUR FATHER? WHAT SORT OF BLOOD? If your blood is thin, you are weak and languid, not enough energy to do your dally work, and feel entirely worn out, Dr. King's spoolal prescription for you, If consulted personally, would be bis own Iron Tonic Bitters. Makes old people young, renews youth, makes weak people strong, gives refreshing sleep. Sold by Palmetto Drug Co., Lauren a, 8. 0. "A dose in time saves lives." Dr. Wood's Norway Pine 8yrup; nature's remedy for coughs, colds, pulmonary diseases of every sort. Wanted?To exchange a second I hand surrey for a second-hand buggy. M. L. COPELAND. When you feel blue and that every thing goes wrong, take a dose of Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets. They will cleanse and invigo rate your stomach, regulato your bow els, give you a relish for your food and make you feel that in this old world is a good place to live. For sate by Lau rens Drug Co, BUCKLEN'S ARNICA' SALVE Has world-wldo fame for marvellous cures. It surpasses" any other Balve, lotion, ointment or balm for Cut?, Corns, Burns, Boils, Sores, Felons, Ul cers, Tetter, Salt Rhenm, Fever 8ores, Chapped Hands, Skin Eruptions; infal lible for Piles. Cure guaranteed. Only 25 cents at Lsurens Drug Go. ar.d Pal metto Drug Co. Tf it's a bilious attack, take Cham berlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets acd a quick recovery is certain. For sale by Lsurens Drug Co. m OHIO YANKEES LYNCH NEGRO. Mob Took Dixon From Jail. IN SP1UNUFIELD, His Crime was Killing a Policeman. Cm in packer and His Crowd Uavc Some thing to Talk of Besides the In Springfield, Ohio, a city of 40,000 people, Richard Dixon, a negro, who had killed an oflieer named Collins af ter ho had shot a negro woman, was taken from the city jail Monday night, llrst shot and then hung to a telegraph pole. Tho mob broko down tho jail doors with railroad iron. I', numbered 2,600 men. The policeman was trying to arrest Dixon when he was shot, the negro having just shot tho woman. If a lynching like this could cccur in I a splendidly polioed Yankee town, where thore Is every facili'y for quell ing mobs, how are tho mob3 to bo quelled in sma'l towns and In the coun try where thore are few or no police? THE DEATH PENALTY. A Ifttle tbing sometimes results in death. Thus a mere scratch, -insigni ficant cuts or puny bolls have paid the death penalty. It Is wise to have Buck len's Arnica Salve over handy. It's tho best Salve on earth and will pre vent fatality, when Burns, Sores, Ul cers and Piles threaten. Only 25 cents at Laurens Drug Co and W. W. Dod son. MERCHANTS NEWS. Now Spring Goods are arri.ing daily. Come and let us show you ihe charming and dainty fabrics. Our Millinery Department is begin ning to bloom with the Spring arriv als. Call and see thorn. We guarantee a fit or money refunded. PALMETTO DRUG CO., Southern Problem. Tho Hub. The Hub. AMERICAN I SILVER L TRUSS Laurens, S. C. CZAR NICHOLAS II. AS A MAN OF WAR. Despite tho fnct that ho suggested The Hague arbitration tribunal, the czar is fond of war maneuvers, and in the cut be is shown at tho head of his staff. An Old Fa-Ooriie \ *l**t si Im t w VUM?*l mtmU?M*JMmX*UJ^~UJUA^^~l^m t-tast?t^l ^tsA^^l^l^t^i^i^t*^Asl*sLsl^t*?t^i^lssl?slss<. THE HEAVENLY CANAAN By Isaac Watts ED TTERE] Is a land of pure delight. But timorous mortals stai - ind shrink Whore saints Immortal rolgn, To cross this narrow sea; Infinite day excludes tlie night, And linger shivering on the brink, Anil plcaaurcs banish pain. And fear to launch away. _ . . ... O, could wo make our doubts remove, i nero cvcriaet ng spring mmics, Thc80 ,oomy (lollbt h that riso, t^m, n.^cr-wltherln8 flowers; Am, ?*h CannuI1 tha, wo lovo " , h'.l ko a .WJT sea. divides Wuh becloudcd 0yC8_ 'lhls heavenly land from ours. Could wo but climb whore Moscb stood, T Sweet fields beyond tho swelling flood And view tho landscape o'er, r Stand dressed In living green; Not Jordan's strcum, nor dcath'b cold ? j. So to tho .Tows old Canaan stood, fiood While Jordan rolled between. Should fright ub from the shore. I* -K-K-H-I-H-i-H-H-I-K-l-H^ 'M"M"|"M' FOUNDRY AND MACHINE SHOPS, ?MANUFACTURERS OF? Cane Mills, Shingle Hills, Cotton Presses, An vils, Andirons, Stove Repairs, Sash Weights, Bridge Washers, Betel and Spur Gears, Derricks, Qrate Bars, Etc., Etc. Cotton Mill Castings A Specialty. WE CARRY A COMPLETE UNE OF Pipe and Pipe Fittings, * Valves, Bolts, Set Screws, Packings, &c. tf0'~ Prompt attention given to mail orders. HUDGENS BROS., LAURBNS S3. O. TUE PENSION BOARD FINISHED ITS WORK. The Total Number of Laurens Confed erate Pensioners la Now 258? Increase of 18. The county pension board finished its work yesterday. County Ponslon Commissioner John M. Hudgens had all the business ready when the board met Monday and the applications could be passed upon rapidly. The toial number of pensioners for the county is now 258. Since last year 17 have'died, 7 have been transferred to other counties aud 8 raised to a higher class. Six were transferred from other caunties to this county. Thirty-seven new applications were approved. The old roll of last year, less the dead, transferred and raised, was 225. Adding tho new ap plications, raised and transfers to this county, the total of this year's roll is 258, a net increase over last yoar of 18. CATARRH, Which usually commences with cold in head, Hay Fever, rapidly infects tho mucous mombrane of the throat, and leads to graver complicati .s. unloss promptly attended ti. Werocommond King's SacsapariDa internally to purify the blood, and direct treatment with Dr. King's Catarrh Remody (a douche comos with each bottle). It gains a foothold from which it is hard to dis lodge, With treatment of those two medicines any ordinary case will yield quickly?tho very worst cases will ba greatly relieved. Tho price, $1.00; three for $2.50, and guaranteed. Hold by Palmetto Drug Company, Lairens, 8. a IF YOU ARE UP-TO-DATK AND TRUST WORTHY, YOU CAN MARK AN EXCELLENT AGENCY CONTRACT WITH The New England Mutual Life insurance Co., of Boston, Mass. For Agency apply to John Y. Qarlington, Department Manager. Laurens, S. C. WHERE There's reason for it. Some one of them is pretty sure to have on a pair of the Shoes shown of that name. s Tte Iii lo be Till La FRANCE. | They are worth talking about, these O La France. They sell g for $3.00; Oxfords are $2.50. You'll hardly believe it when you see them. Shoes, Hats and Furnishings. I am also showing a beautiful line of Oxfords in cheaper grades. From $i.oo up. They are made on new style lasts and are very natty. The L,a France is one of those Fit-all-over, Wear-like-Irou, swell appearing Shoes that you hear about, but have never before seen for their price. Customers' Shoes Shtned Free, SPILLMAN TALKS OF BOLL WEEVIL Warns tho South Carolina Farmers. DANGER IN FRONT. Address to Farmers of Riehl and. Explanation of tho Pest ami It's Mel hods of Destruction?Early Seed Only Escape. In Columbia Dr. W. J. Splllman re cently addressed the farmers of Hich land on tho boll weevil, and also con cerning the government farm to bo es tablished near Columbia. Dr. Spill man is the agrosbologlst of tho na tional departnientofagrlcuUure.IIo ad dressed the Laurens farmers two years ago and many will remember that he seemed a very practical man. The fol lowing is an outline of his speech;?so far as it concerned the boll weevil, and it is just as wall that L?ur<?ns farmers should have somo cloar idea about this pest: In prefacing his remarks Dr. Spill man said that aguiculture is tho basis of tho wealth of this country. The products annually amount to over iivo billion dollars. Largo business con corns employ tho best talent obtaina ble. It is not so with agriculture where capital is not massed. If agri culture is to have the benefit of scien tific research the government must bring the beseht to the farmers. At the risk of being considered ex travagant, but in all sincerity, ho de clared that the southern half of the United States has a climate which in time will enable it to become the lead ing agricultural section of the world" Tho South will lead In agricultural production when all of her opportuni ties are improved. HOLL WEKVII. HERE TO STAY, There is nob tho slightest probibality that the boll weevil will bo entirely eradicated. Tho government is fully justified in spending millions of dollars to meet tho invasion of tho boll woevil and to teach tho farmers of this sec tion to engage in othor kinds of farm ing. When Dr. Spillman took up the ques tion of the boll weavll ho was asked if tho pest would get as far as South Carolina. In giving enlightmont on this subject tho speaker departed from his regular lino of thought but gave somo very interesting statements. Most emphatically the boll wcovil will come into South Carolina and will como to destroy. Wherever it has mado its appearance tho country has been blighted and a bale of cotton could not be gotten from 26 acres of the most fertile land. In reply to a question he stated that it would be un safe to buy oats or anything else ship ped from the country infeoled with tho weevil which has now gotten into the southern part of tho Indian Territory and the western part of Louisiana. WHERE TEXAS WAS SHORTSIGHTED. For a long time the government saw what was coming and endeavored to get tho legislature of Toxas to pass a law preventing any cotton from being planted on a strip of land 200 miles wide along the Itlo Grando river, for the post had made Its appearance in Mexico and was devastating tho cotton crop there. But no precautionary mathods were adopted and now tho en tiro State of Toxas is plague-ridden. It has beon reported that 10,000 farmers are preparing to leavo tho Stato of Texas and all on account of the weevil, which has ruined their crops. Ho cited an instance of a farmer in the very best of circumstances who had beon re duced to abject poverty and would havo suffered but for a little poultry yard which his provident wife was running. HOW THE PE8T WORKS. The boll weovil stays under covor of the woods until in July, said Dr. Spill man, and when the midsummer brings tho "forms" of embryo bolls to tho cotton plant tho woovll begins his dep redations. The post ts about a quarter of an inch In length and has a bill half as long again as himself. With this bill and its point, which is llko a cir eular saw, tho bug attacks tho tender llttlo bolls, and af'.er boring a round hole Into tho form deposits an ogg which is covered over with a kind of wax. Tho ogg in a very short tlmo pro duco3 a worm which feeds upon the in torior of tho cotton boll until tho ver min develops Into a full-fledged boll weevil and goes upon the rounds of at tacking cotton. Dr. Spillman ompha ai/.od tho fact that in three or lour yoars it will take South Carolina. The way to exterminate the ordln ary pest Is by finding anothor bug which will devour the weevil, as was done in California when tho orang trcos were attacked by a soale Ioupo Tho common "lady bug" was put on the tr<iil of tho scale vermin and in short tlmo tho post was driven out Hut there Is nothing known to science which will exterminate the boll wee vi; It cannot be reached with spray, for the real instrument of destruction within the weevil where the poiso would ruin the libre as well as the vermin. The only hope of growing cotton with any success in an infected terrl tory is to get a very early variety and plant it very early, and even then half the bolls would bo ruined by the wee vil. The price o2 cotton is driving ers to increase their aoreagei Tho tim? may como when cotton will bo at such a high price that half a crop will pay. The object of this movement is not to displace cotton entirely, but to give the farmer something additional to rely upon. The boll weevil cannot be fought with the spray, but a third of the appropriation has beou set aside as a fund with which to make expert* moots against the boll weevil. In r u isiana an effort is belog made by the government to raise a crop despito the boll weevi!, the government expecting to get half a crop developed before tho weevil gets to work and then to cut downovory stalk and burn it and plow up the land carefully. Tho early varie ties are not so good as a rulo becauso thoy drop the fruit too easily. METHODS NOT EXPERIMENTS. Dr. Wober, who has beon conducting hybridization around Co'umbia for several years will try to breed up im proved varieties of early cotton. Tho department of entomology has discov ered varieties which are not vulnera ble to "root rot" and "wilt disease," und is now working on "rust." Tho "wilt" Is oauaod by the water veins In the plant bolng stopped up by soino kind of fungus. In regard to tho wo-k which Dr. Weber has been doing here In connec tion with Mr. H. O. Koenan and oth ers, Dc Splllman spoke in terms of commendation, but that la an experi ment farm and tho new venture is a farm to teach methods. the rrmbdy for holl weevil. Dr. Splllman then told of th.3 man ner In which the quarter of a million appropriation would bo oxpon led. Ouo third wou'd be given to the department of entomology to And some vjry early plant which oould be made vigorous. Another third has b3on sol aside for the purpose of making experiments to see if the pest o in be exterminated by the use of any other bus or otherwise. Of tlu reminder, $2),0)0 has been set, aside for the diversification of southern agriculture This, in his mind, is tho remedy for the boll wee vil. In order to induce men to let tho. government have the uso of a part of their farms, tho soul and half tho fer tilizers will he furnishoi. These farm? are not experiment stations but are bolng run. solely for profit and to ex hibit approved methods, Tho govern ment waats to take advantage of local experionee. He bad not como hero to tell Mr. Hyatt what to do, bub to got his neighbors to assist him, and for that reason thoy wou'd have a board of directors. There is a lino market for farm pro duets right here in South Carolina where thoro are so many mills, but from black and barren New England many commodities are shipped into tho State whereas they could ba raised hero much cheaper and so'.d at better profit than cotton. NEWS FROM. HUNTINGTON. What is Moing on Along It. P. 1). No. 1?Social Matters. Huntington, R. P. i>. No. 1.?The continued rains havo thrown all farm work somewhat lato. The high price of cotton, however, causes the farmers to press forward contented "To labor and to wait'."! Tho young people enjoyed a pleasant evening not long sinco at the hospita ble home of Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Cleve land, who have recently cast tholr lot with us. For amusement, Flinch, the "old reliable," an I Pitt were played. Dainty refreshments wore served to wards tl o close of tho evening, Mr. J, L, Ray is in Union this [week. Mrs. 15. M. Anderson, of Moore's, sponl lad week with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Philson. Miss Carrie Ray has returned from Greenville, where she attended the funeral of her cousin, Mrs. J. B. Da* vis. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. AHUOQ of ClrcOn* villo have returned to Ihe'.r home after an extondod visit to the family of Mr.?. Nannie Ray. Annie Laurie. CATARRH. Which usually commences with cold in head, Hay Fever, rapidly infects tho mucous membraue of tho throat, and leads to graver complication-*, unless promptly attended to. We recommend King's Sarsapsrillainternally to purify ttio blood, und direct treatment with Dr. King's Catarrh Remedy (a doucho comos with each b >ttle). It gains a foothold from which it is hard to dis lodge With treatment of thoso two medicines any ordinary case will yield quickly?the very worst cases will bo greatly relieved. Tho price *l.00; throo for $2.50, and guaranteed. Sold by l'al motto Drug Co., Laurens, S. C. ONE CENT A WORD. Foil sale.--A dosirablo house and lot at Cross Hi 1. Bargain for the buy er. O . M. BUZHARDI , Cross Hid, March 9th?2t. Magnolias?I havo a nice lot of Magnolias from 2J to ? foot high that I will deliver to parties at Laurons or Clinton at 50 cents a piece H. P. Blakely, Clinton, s. C. Take Notice That all applications for the ofllco of County Dispenser for Laurons County and all applications for the ofllco of Beer Dispenser of I jaurons must be on fllo with tho Chairman of the County Board of Control on or before tho 12th day of Maroh 1004, Signed by order County Board of Control, Laurens Coun'y. ai?. ^ I- -i iaai a. rf *