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Subscription Prlce?12 Mouths, $1.00 Payable In Advance. Ratos for Advertising.?Ordinary ad vertisements, per square, ouo. iiiber lion,$1.00;each subsequentlnaertion, 60 conts. Liberal reduction mado lor large advertisements. Obltunrios: All ovtr 50 words, one cent a word. Notes of thanks: Five coots tho line. W. W. Ball, Proprietor. Entered ut the pDs'otlioe at Laurens, 8. C, as second class mall matter. LAURENS, S. C? June 14, I90S. Ex-Director Milliken's Answer. The answer of S. M. Millikcn in the suit brought by W. E. Lucas may be effective in law, but it will not help Mr. Milliken's cause in the minds of the unprejudiced public. As a speci men of its contents, it may be cited that, Mr. Millikcn admits that Mr. Lu cas "has in some respects and for a part of the time performed the duties of the office with efficiency and energy, but he alleges that many acts of the plaintiff in connedtion with his office as president have not been to the interest and advantage of said corporation, but to its detriment and hurt, and have been of such a nature as to meet the disapproval, disfavor and criticism of a majority of the directors and of a large number of the stockholders, and the defendadt alleges that the said cor poration would have attained much greater success but for the said acts of the plaietiff, (Mr. Lucas)." Until May 10, 1905, Mr. S. M. Milli ken was a director of the Laurens Mills and in part responsible for its management. Not until after May 2, 1905, the date of the annual meeting of the Darlington Mills, when his firm had lost the commission business of that mill, did Mr. Millikcn endeavor to gain control of the Laurens Mills. Although a director and responsible for the man agement, Mr. Millikcn did not cri icize Mr. Lucas' management?until Deer ing, Millikcn & Company lost the com missions. Although he now alleges mismanage ment and unfaithfulness on the part of W. E. Lucas, yet as late as May 10th he bought large blocks of stock at $200. the share, thirty or forty or fitty dol lars the share more than tho market price. The following week he told the New York correspondent of the News and Courier that that price was a fair price. If on May 10th Mr. Millikcn thought the mill yvaa l eing mismanaged, why didn't he sell the slock he held rather than buy more? If he [has discovered, since those purchases, that the mill has been mismanaged, why doesn't he sell now? The stock commands a good fig ure. The fact is that until the question of commissions arose ami was settled against the firm of Deering, Milliken & Company, Mr. Lucas had the warm and repeatedly expressed approval of Direc tor S. M. Milliken as well as of the en tire board of directors. One other point in Mr. Milliken's an swer deserves notice. He claims that his firm guaranteed the Mills against losses on goods sold. The contract of Stevens & Co., the two per cent house, makes the same guaranty. We do not propose to comment on Mr. Milliken's answer. The good taste, the justice and the consistency of Di- j rector S. M. Millike n's failure to criti cise the management of the Laurens Mills until after he had been dropped from the directorate is for the public to consider. While Mr. Milliken was a di rector it was his duty, his duty as a trustee of the stockholders, as a guar dian placed by them over their inter ests, to know and to prevent misman agement. His attitude is that of an as sailant of the management only after he had lost the power to remedy evils. It should be remembed that Mr. Lu cas was reelected president and treasu rer in 1904 and that S. M. Milliden and several of bis friends helped to reelect him. It was in the power of S. M. Milliken, J. O. C. Fleming, John W. Ferguson, E. J. Hale and V. M. Mont gomery (five of nine directors) to de feat W. E. Lucas for reelection in May 1904. The question of paying Deering, Milliken & Company three and four per cent commissions instead of two per cent commissions to another firm had not then arisen. * Who Paints Him "Bad"? The Columbia State says: "Mr. Dial has been in New York re cently and saw Mr. Milliken. He de clares that Mr. Milliken is not such a had man as he has been painted and that the greatest trouble to be feared is that this mill fuss will frighten northern capital away." Our friend, Mr. N. B. Dial, one of Mr. Milliken's attorneys, is referred to. We should like to know who in the South ha - ever painted Mr. Milliken as a "bad man"? What is Mr. Dial talking about? Recently an anonymous friend of Mr. Milliken in Spartanburg was quoted to the same effect. Now it Is a fact that nobody has de nounced Mr. Milliken or villilied him or spoken unkindly of him. Nobody bear.; him ill will. We suspect that ho is a good man "according to his lights" and we have found him a kindly, affable man. Mr. Milliken openly and defiantly ad mits that ho is trying to "fire" Mr. W. Fj. Lucas from the Laurens Mills be cause that gentleman withdrew busi ness from a New York commission bouse in which ho is Interested. There is no issue of fact as to this. Mr. Lu cas alleges that he withdrew the husi ness because another firm offered to do the business for less money. If it be conceded that J. P. Stevens k- Com pany will give the Laurens Mill., the ?same service for two per cent that Mr. Millikcn'.. wants three and four for, Mr. N. B. Dial himself will nol deny that Mr. Lucas is right. Meanwhile, if Mr. Milliken has been painted as a "bad man," the paint has been applied by his own friends and not by those of Mr. Lucas. The commission question is to be judged on its own merits. As to "frightening away Northern capital," if Northern capitalists expect to exact a larger tribute from the South than they exact from other sec tions, if they expect to levy an extor tionate tax on Southern industries, if they expect to charge the Southern Mills higher commissions than they are justified in charging in an open market with free competition and to elfect this by buying merely the control in them, then the sooner we "frighten away Northern capital" the better. We want no "Northern capital" on the condition of minority stockholders becoming its serfs. Rather shall we gladly hoe our own row in poverty. On the other hand, if need be to protect Southern industry against unfair and exorbitant charges, wo shall favor a legislative in vestigations into the relations between Northern commission houses, which are stockholders and the Southern mills with the view to the passage of laws to safeguard the South against. In other words we shall do our part towards "frightening away Northern capital" the instant that it becomes oppressive and unfair and thereby we shall do "the State service. Our friend Mr. Dial will probably deny that Mr. Milliken would compel 111" Laurens Mills to pay his firm more for equal service than it would have to pay others for it, but that is a question of fact. The Stevens contract speaks for itself. But we know Mr. Dial well enough to say that he will be as far as we are from asking or accepting the help of Northern Capital" on terms hu miliating to himself and his friends. The South is no begger. We didn't have to beg -10 years ago. * As to the Presses. The Charleston News and Courier and The Columbia State, both of which are inordinately rich and prosperous news papers, have purchased new presses which are said to print from twelve to sixteen and from twelve to twenty-four thousand newspapers each hour. Both of these newspapers are bless ings to the communities in which they live. They print numerous commence ment sermons and addresses or spiels from which the larger part of the pop ulation of South Carolin;? would other wise make good its escape. They also print Sundays the gorgeous descriptions of the decorations "indulged in" in the semi-weekly entertainments of the 718 women's clubs in this state. It is be lieved that at least 2,000 ways of ar ranging color schemes at peanut parties and donkey parties have been described in the society columns of these great metropolitan dailies. It is regretted that society is not more clandestine. The State and The News and Courier also print the war news, the political news and Ogdenite and anti-Ogdenite editorials together with snatches of ribald prose from the pen of the Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr., which is actually readable. Indeed they print all the news and the slop-over. While we are of the opinion that the acreage in printed matter also should be reduced, while we know that everywhere in the civilized world too much foolishness is being hourly published, we are glad that our contemporaries are able to be "in the running" and that our friends I who are candidates for governor and other jobs now have increased chances for obtaining notoriety. If we were the Czar of this country we should issue decree number one, for bidding the manufacture and sale of type smaller than pica. The result would be that men would be compelled to think and write in clean, strong Togo words and sentences or else stay out of the newspapers. It would then become too expensive to print anything long or anything empty and of course the sales of spectacles would decrease. But again since the human race has an insane and unbridled appetite for reading all sorts of stuff, we rejoice exceedingly that The News and Cou rier and The State are supplying more and more of it and that they have the money to buy overgrown and hopelessly and unreasonably List printing ma chines. While no set of editors and re porters on earth can keep up with the me* chanical plants of modern daily newspa per shops and while since the invention of typesetting machines newspapers have increased in size and grossness and deteriorated in brightness and force and finish, it is a pleasure to know that the frantic efforts of our mad contem poraries to march with the drunken procession do not fail for want of sup port. The Charleston Post has also ordered one of these wholesale, slaughter house, thirteen thousand ton battleship and disappearing gun presses. Heretofore it has been a neat, plump and trim lit tle sheet. Lately it has manifested signs of obesity. Of course it is also to be congratulated on its royal straight, flush prosperity. Probably the saddest picture visible anywhere is the threatened going to weed of the Charlotte Observer. It has also sinned against the proprieties by buying a big Norman Perchcron Press and it has been so delightfully well con tained with its feathers so carefully pruned in the past. ? If Col. Lawrence W. Youmans or Col. E. D. Smith should run for United States Senator next year, either would make a remarkable race and either would make a better Senator than somebody who might be defeated. * In Georgia there is a split among the Smiths. Two of them, Lawyer Hoke and Farmer Jim, are running for gov ernor. Both aro rich and mighty. Farmer Jim is worth over a million. In this State only one Smith as yet is run ning for governor and he is no million are. N A judge in flermany has decided that poker is not a game of chance but a game of skill. There are many who. regard poker as an educational exer eise. # Honesty is, or ought to be, the besl life insurance policy and the public de mands that it be the policy of the Equitable, * More and more does (he necessity be come apparent that the people force upon Governor Hey ward another term. CJ .A. fit 1? O X*. X ./V . Bear? tho llw Kind Vo'.i Have Always Bough? Where is the Advantage? Yorkville is making an effort to have the Presbyterian College at Clinton re moved to that city. It is difficult for us to take our neighboring city seriously in this matter. In the first place we can see no possible reason why the col lege should be removed and in the next what has Yorkville to offer that Clin ton can not show to better advantage? Clinton has not backslided in its edu cational progress, its people have done more for the college than Yorkville proposes to do; they have nursed it while it was in its swaddling clothes and now when it is able to walk an alien wishes to adopt it from its natural mother without being able to offer it any additional advantages. The college is now centrlcally located in a town with unsurpassed railroad facilities and splendid natural advan tages ami among a people zealous for its success and it would take a million dollar endowment to offset these ad vantages and it is a question if even that would do it. # LAUMI AND GROW FAT. In an old Virginia cemetery there is a weather-beaten tombstone beaming this inscription: "I AWAIT MY HUSBAND. May 26, 1810." "Here 1 AM. DECEMBER 14, 1801." Some joker has read the inscription j and added with a pencil: "Late, as usual." modern baby raising Boil the basket; made of willow: Boil the blanket, boil the pillow. Boil the bootees, boil the hood. Boil the spoon and boil the food. Boil the nurse: 'tis safer, maybe. And don't forget to boil the baby. He Couldn't Tell.?Pat: "Phwat do Moike call bis new woife?" Terrance: "Begorral an' how shod Oi know? Oi'vc never bin there whin they've been quarrelin'."- Judge. great Inducements. Guyer Fitzom, the clothier, is adver tising a silk umbrella with each *2<> overcoat he sells. Mrs. Guyer?That's nothing. Bloom, the florist, is giving away the earth with each plant he sells. - Chicago New.-'. a tired brother. "You recoken we'll wear crowns in I de hereafter?" "Co 'long, man! We gwine dar tor rest. Crowns '11 be too heavy ter tote!" F. L. S. the side to sleep on. There's a brilliant young physician in Detroit who should have been a great American humorist. During the recent hot weather a patient who hadn't been sleeping well applied to him for advice. "What side should I sleep on, doc tor?" he inquired. "In winter or summer?" asked the doctor, rubbing his chin thoughtfully, i "What's that got to do with it?" ex claimed the patient half angrily. "A great deal," responded the doctor mysteriously. "I don't see it." "Of course you don't," said the doc tor imperturbably: "if you did you wouldn't be here asking me about it." "Go ahead then," and the patient sett let' back resignedly. "Well," continued the doctor, "in winter, when it is cold, you should sleep on the inside; but In such weather as this you should sleep on the outside in a hammock with a draft all around it and a piece of ice for a pollow. Two dollars, please." Detroit Fress Press. let the cat out. You certainly were in a horrible con dition when you came home last night. Why, my dear, said Henry, how can you say such a thing? I remember dis tinctly that when I came in you asked me to fix the yeast, put out the cat, and cover up the lire. Yes; and this morning I found my sponge stuck full of kindling wood and ? shavings, Puss's tail perfectly bare where you had touched her with a match, and the stove carefully wrapped with your clothes. conundrums Wist: and otherwise, What black thing enlightens the' world? Answer Ink. What is that which is lengthened by being cut at both ends? A ditch. What coat is finished without buttons and put on wet? A coat of paint. What is that which has neither flesh nor blood, yet has four fingers and a thumb? A glove. What is that no one wishes to have and yet when he has it does not wish to lose it? A bald head. Why should a housekeeper never put ' the letter "M" into her refrigerator?, Because it would change ice into mice. Which would you rather, that a lion ate you or a tiger? Why, you would rather that tho lion ate the tiger, of course. Mr. Bigger, Mrs. Bigger, and Baby Ib'gger, which of this interesting family is the biggest, and why the biggest'.' Baby Bigger, because he is a little biggor. Indianapolis News. a missouri iconoclast. Early to bed and early to rise does very well for sick folks and guys, but it makes a man rniss all the fun till In dies and joins the stiffs that are gone to the skies. Go to bed when you please and lie at your ease, you'll die just the same of gome Latin disease. The Boonvillc Advert i .e. the catch in it. Anxious Inquirer in Insurance.' Office I understand that for $5 I can insure my house for $ 1,00b? Clerk Yes, madam; if your house hums down we pay you $1,000. Inquirer And do you make any in quiries as to the origin of the fire? Clerk We make the most careful In quiries, madam. Inquirer?Ahl I thought there wa a catch in it somewhere. Harper's Weekly. 1 I 8 8 S 8uioi\bis. yy w nave v/Aivjius Ii um ?pl ?w tu *p%j.*j\j mat, ijuojs^oo an > ? ? ?.??%*?. can be put into a shoe with out sacrificing comfort. We've a width and style for ^ every foot. All the new Toe Shapes. Leathers the very best. We guarantee Q satisfaction or the Shoes are "OURS" not "YOURS" = = i X a h A Woman Wants Two Features In a Shoe! um. J \ - "SI < ,/.\ / f ? i ?? . -) STYLE Second: Comfort This is a hard combination for most shoe builders, but not for our skilled Shoe= makers. We have Oxfords from $1.00 to $3.50 that possess all the STYLE that Customer's Shoes Shined Free COPELAND'S Shoes, Hats and Men's Furnishings The One Price Store 8 When You want Printed Stationery that has Quality consult Us I We have an equipment of up-to-date Machinery for Commercial Job Work. - We employ only such men as are perfect in their places. - -- -- -- -- We put into each job all the perfection of a superior plant, and all the skill that our force is capable of, - -- -- -- - An order placed with us means more than mere satisfaction- it means your printed matter will bear our mark of quality. - HIGH IN QUALITY LOW IN PRICE Copeland & Blackwell In The Advertiser Building, Laurens, S. C. ? ? Pompeian Massage Cream Cleanses Where Soap and Water Fail Washing with soap and water makes the face look clean, hut it cleans the surface only. It docs not clean out the impurities in the skin that make it muddy and sallow. Pompeian Massage Cream goes through the surface. It sinks into every pore ? reaches and loosens all foreign dirt and impu rities that lodge in the pores. It is the only facial cream free from grease and that keeps the face free from it. Does not? cannot?promote the growth of hair on the face. Price 50c and $1.00 per jar. For Sale Palmetto Drug Co. Laurens, S. C. f-hnrjosfo;; fr WcsICT!! Cl (Schedule in effect April 10, 1905.) Lv Laursns Ar Greenwood Ar Augusta Ar Anderson Lv Augusta Ar Allendale Ar Fairfax Ar Charleston Ar Bcauford Ar Port Royal Ar Savannah Ar Waycross Lv Laurens Ar Spartanburg Lv Laurens Ar Greenville No. 2 Daily 1:50 pm 2-46 " 5: 20 " 7: 10 " No. 1 Daily 2:07 pm 3:30 " No. 52 Daily 2:09 pm 3:25 " No. -12 Daily 2:35 pm 4:30 " 4:41 " 7:40 " 0:30 " G: 40 " 6:46 " 10:00 " No. 87 Ex. Sudday 8: 00 am 10:20 " ARRIVALS: Train No. 1, Daily, from Augusta and intermediate stations 1: 45 pm: No. 52. daily, from Greenville and In termediate stations 1:35pm; No.87,daily, except Sunday, from Greenville and intermediate stations G: 40pm; train No. 2, daily, from Spartanburg and interm ediate stations 1: 30 p m. C. II. Casque, Agt., Laurens. S. ('. G. T. Bryan, Gen 1 Agt. Grenevillc S.C. Ernest Williams, Gen. Pass. Agt., Auguata, Ga, T. M. Emerson, Traffic Manager. Special Notice?-! have received a line line of Spring and Summer samples of all the latest Btyles. Prices to suit the time.'. Pants mado to order from $4.00 up. Suits made to order from $1*2 00 up. A lit is always guaranteed. I also invite you to join my pressing club, only $l.oo per month, Phone 18o, M in ter building. E. J . DANCY, Tailor. /-^ Hard, Soft or Shop COAL Brick and D raying WANTED- l.ono Cards of Oak and Pine Wood on ears your station or delivered at Laurens". J. W. Kichelbery;er. yLjUirens, S. ('. 'Phone II. Terry's WE NOW I1AVI: THE LATEST SPRING STYLES IN lift? in i 'mm Hat Pins and Waist Pins Don't let Easter find you without one Fleming Bros, The Hec.f LOO '-kam SAW MKLL WITH rlCAOOOK-KlNG KbeO Works P.m01mr9 and DoiLRRt, WOOI'WORRINO Maoiiinrry, Cotton Oini ino, Brick MAKINO AND S It I no 1.12 .\NI> L.vti1 Maohiniuv, Corn Mills, Rto.i r.n . GIBBES MACHINERY CO., U Colurilila, 8. C. The gidbes Shinqls Maohins