THfe ADVERTISER. Subscription I'ricc-12 Months, $1.00 Payable In Advauce. Rates for Advertising.?Ordinary ad vertisements, per square, one ineer tlon,tl.00;euoh subsequent insertion, 50 cents Liberal reduction made (or large dvertisements. Obituaries: ill over 50 words, one cent a worn. Notes of thanks: I?\ve coots the line. W. W. Ball, Proprietor. Entered at the pse ofllce at Laurens, 8. C, as s.cond class mail matter. LAURENS, S. C, Mar. IS, 1905. To The Press and Banner. Replying to TlIB Advertiser our es teemed contemporary, The Abbeville Press and Banner says: "Butour good friend and able contem porary forgot to tell us that thirteen years ago, the State of South Carolina nad licensed 099 bar rooms, in which the News and Courier stated that 5,000 men were employed. "When about 100 or 108 dispensaries were opened, the 999 bars were either closed or kept open unlawfully, the im mense capital, 900 houses, and 4,500 men removed from the destructive side of the public economy, and were ready to enter upon the industrial or useful pursuits. "If any State has closed more than nine-tenths of its barrooms in the last thirteen years, we are not informed of the fact. "We entirely agree with The Lau rens Advertiser in believing that good men see this liquor business from a dif ferent point, and, like the Advertiser, we yield equal honesty and conscien tiousness to all who speak their con victions, be they what they may. "Another great benefit to the so briety of the different communities lies in the fact that liquor is not sold by the drink. It is not ?old on a credit, and at sundown the dispensaries are closed un til sunrise next day. They are not open at all on Sunday. "It isn't possible that 1O0 dispensa ries could sell more liquvr and could make more drunkards than would 1,000 barrooms, kept open until late hours at night and where it could be bought on a credit. "The increase in the sales may be ac counted for by the diminishing' opposi tion to the dispensary. The dispensary sells liquor cheaper tlian the bars sold it in former times, but the opposition to the dispensary was so great that many people sent to other States for it. The Inter-State Commerce so pro tects the drinker that there is no such thing as depriving him of iiquor, if he wants it. "The apparent evidence of the in creased consumption of liquor in this State is accounted for in realization of the fact that cheaper and better liquor can be had at the dispensary than can pe had in the barrooms of other States. "Another matter. The dispensary gives full measure, which was not al ways done by licensed bars in afore times. "Sixes" and not "quarts," we believe, was the rule in many cases. "The fair treatment of its custom ers, the cheapness and the pureness of the liquor, has broken much of the former opposition to the dispensary. "The dispensary gives us prohibition for half the time. "We do not know whether the Lau rens Advertiser favors prohibition or li cense system. But here's three cheers for the news paper that can be fair." We regret that actual figures are not available with which to answer The Pre3s and Banner but those we shall use will be within the range of accuracy. Let us examine The Press and Banner's argument. As to "999 barrooms." Admit. Whis key is now sold in about 39 of 11 coun ties. Before the Dispensary days there wore more "dry counties,;" several more. Whiskey is sold from about 75 dispensaries. There are probably as many more "beer privileges" and tour ist hotel privileges. In considering the success of the Dispensary scheme, ac count must be had of the "tigers." In Charleston the number is estimated at from 250 to 400. Large and small, there are probably an average of from 25 to 50 in Greenville and Columbia. The Press and Banner would testify to their frequency in Greenwood. Judg ing from the number of seizures re ported each three months by the con stables there must be at any and all times from 5 to 20 men engaged in handling "contraband." In Abbeville town there is perhaps not one. But take the coast and border towns,? Beaufort, Port Royal, Georgetown, Conway and villages along the North Carolina and Georgia lines-is there any in which whiskey is not always to be had for money and at all hours? Unless conditions have changed, whis key is sold freely by "tigers" in Green ville and Columbia. We know that it was a few years ago. Several thou sand dollars worth of whiskey was seized in Greenville county at one place about two years ago. An average of five tigers to each of .18 counties aggre gates 190. Add :',50 for Charleston, Co lumbia and Greenville and you have 510. Include 150 dispensaries of one kind or another and you have a total of 690 places where liquors are sold. ? Meanwhile a large percentage of the people are patronizing the barrooms and liquor stores beyond the Slate who formerly bought within it. Our opinion is that there are perhaps 1,000 "ti gers," big and little, amateur and pro fessional, black and white, in the State. As to the men employed. The sub dispensaries employ about 300. The "tigers" perhaps 500 to 1,000 a part or all of the time of each. Indirectly en gaged in the whiskey business are 123 members of county boards of control. Ahout 70 regular constables. How many extra constables, paid by the job, as in formers, etc,, we can't guess. Add the members of the State Board of Control and the employees of the big State dis pensary and you have some hundreds more. Due solely to the existence of the dis pensary is a distillery in Columbia the expenses of which are said to be about ten thousand dollars a working day. One-third of this goes to the Govern* ment for stamps. We do not know how many men it employs. Besides there are a number of smaller distilleries largely supported by dispensary patron age. If the dispensaries and tigers num ber about as many as did barrooms, the number of employees are about the same. Meanwhile we are supporting many barrooms in other States and paying town policemen and sheriffs to give a good part of their tim? to pro tecting the State's liquor business from competition by individuals. We think Georgia has closed more than nine-tenths of its barrooms in 10 years. Outside of the large cities it has closed nearer 100 per cent, we think. As to the night closing. A young man drops into the dispensary about sundown. He must buy at least one bottle, half pint, pint, quart or more. He and his friends usually drink the supply during the night. In a barroom he may take one drink or he may a dozen by 12 o'clock. From a dispen sary he cannot buy one drink at a time. He must buy at least six ordinary drinks if he drinks at all. "Not sold on credit in dispensaries." Are you sure of that? Our comtem porary must be under the impression that dispensers as a rule strictly obey the law. As to 'the Tull Measure" the dis pensaries do no more than other liquor dealers. Sometimes Augusta, Ga., deal ers sell five bottles for a gallon and some times they sell four. In any event you pay, to reputable dealers, for the amount you get; not the number of bottles. The dispensary will sell not a dram more of whiskey for the same money than will (other whiskey merchants. The Press and Banner simply has not investigated this point. As to the "cheapness and pureness" of liquor, there is dispute. It is certain that the so-called testing of dis pensary liquors is farcical. Senator Tillman as good as admitted this at Gaffney when he advised that the law be changed to compel the dis pensary to bottle all the stuff it sold. That the dispensary gives us prohibi tion half the time is our contemporary's favorite claim. But when the law com pels the purchase of a whole bottle in the daytime if any purchase be made, it seems rather that the law tends to force prohibition away for the whole night. That bottle must be consumed. If the Press and Banner will send a reporter to Laurens he will lind that, large quantities of dispensary liquor are consumed here every night. He will find moreover that more than one man has been a regular drunkard in this town since the dispensary became the law, that more than one death has resulted from excessive drinking and that drink ing is not unknown here now. The Advertiser is not a prohibition newspaper but in such a county as this and in any county where there is no large city we believe that far less liquor will be consumed than under the dis pensary. If you don't believe it, go to Clinton. Clinton has never had a dispensary and has had no bars in many years.? Clinton has 3,000 people; Laurens 5,000. Laurens drinks at least 50 to 100 times as much liquor a day as Clinton.. Meanwhile, in this article the most important positive objections to the dis pensary law have not been touched up on. * The Episcopal College. The Committee that was appointed last summer to see what could be done in the ofTort to locate the Episcopal College in Laurens has again taken up the work in good earnest. They are determined to find out what can be done by April 1st. They are going to do their duty and it remains with the citizens of Laurens to say whether they will give the ne cessary support. We have had nearly a year to think about it and every one should under stand fully tho importance of the pro position. As a matter of civic pride we ought to be glad to aid in the establishment of the school, but as a matter of busi ness we cannot afford to leave a stone unturned. If a person owns $1,000,00 worth of property in Laurens now, would the es tablishment of such a school increase the value of that property to $1,100.00 or over. If so, such a person contri buting $100.00 for that purpose would be out nothing. We think it a per fectly safe proposition to say that the increase in value would be more than that. The property holders are not the only ones to be benefittcd. It will be of infinite value to every individual in the city and county. To parents who have girls to educate it will save board and traveling expenses and besides en able them to retain the home influ ences over their children. We can not undertake to enumerate the advantages of such an institution. They ought to be sufficiently apparent to every thinking man and woman in Laurens. This is their opportunity and it is their last opportunity. If they are going to act they must be up and do ing. Don't wait for your neighbor. Do your duty to your city and to your family. This is your affair, more than another's. It is your child and your property that is effected. A CHICAGO ALDERMAN OWES HIS ELECTION TO CHAMBER LAIN'S COUGH REMEDY. "I can heartily and conscientiously recommend Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for affections of the throat and lungs," says Hon. John Shenick, 220 South Peoria Street, Chicago.? "Two years ago during a political cam paign, I caught cold after being over heated, which irritated my throat and I was finally compelled to stop, as I could nut speak aloud. In my extremity a friend advised me to .use Chamber Iain's Cough Remedy. I took two doses that afternoon and could not believe my senses when I found the next morning the inflammation had largely subsided. I took several doses that day, kept, right on talking through the campaign, and I thank this medicine that I won my scat in the Council." This remedy Is for sale by Laurens Drug Co., and Dr. B. F. Posoy. WANTED-You to list your property for sale or rent with M. L. Copeland. OAEJTORXA. - , . Vn> VlrA y?" tint ?l ; failure to describe the patterns and blending of I colors shown here. They must be seen to be ap preciated. The White Mercerized Waistings are again popular this Season. You will have no difficulty making a selection. Special Numbers and Choice designs in Table Linen, New Ribbons, Hosiery and Ladies' Neck wear, Laces and Embroideries of every description. These are a few of the many articles just j opened. When quality is examined and price as : certained you will easily discern the values offered at W. Q. Wilson & Co. I TEMPTATIONS! 1 You'll get your money's worth and save more in these tempters. 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To tho Commissioners of Stale and County Flections for Abbeville, Greenwood, Laurens, Newborry and Salnda Counties, in the Eighth Judi cial Circuit: Under and by virtue, of an Act of the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina, entitled An Act to Assign the Present Circuit Solicitors to the Proper Circuits in Order to Conform to the Provisions of an Act entitled "An Act to Divide the State into Ten Judicial Circuits and Arrange the Same, and to Provide for the Flections of So licitors for the Eighth and Ninth Cir cuits approved February 20th, 1905, notice is hereby given that a Special Flection will be lie Id in said Circuits on the Uth day of April 1005. for the pin nose of electing a Solicitor for the Eighth Judicial Circuit for the term ( spiring at the General Flection in 1008. Now, therefore, you are herein di rected and required to hold .said Spo cial Flection for Solicitor of the Eighth Judicial Circuit <>n the said 11th day of April. 1905, for the term to expire at the General Election of 1908. Tho polls are to be opened at the various places of elections in said Cir cuits on Tuesday, the 11thday of April, 1905, and the said election shall be con ducted in accordance with the laws governing General Elections. In testimony whereof I have hereunto get my hand and caused the (L. S.) Great Seal to he affixed at Co lumbia, this 20th day of Feb ruary, 1005, and in the One Hundred and Twenty-ninth year of the IndependeiK . m, Office second lloor Simmons' Block, Simpson, Cooper & ISol>l>, Attorneys at Law. Will practice in all State Co rls. Prompt attention given to all bush Dr. Woolley's PAINUE09 AND Whisky Ciiro / r\.s; PHI i:n ? IISl'M Pi i ? ?'! turn, inml.i elixtrofopi i?c enlnoor \. !.? lori;i> l?00k ? ItUsulnmon h nonmorlum n > incut. Add'.' ni B. 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