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THE ADVERTISER. Subscription Prlco-l? Mouths, $1.00 Payable In Adran^o. Kates for Advertising;.?Ordinary ad vertlseracnta, por square, ono inser tIon,$1.00;each subsequentInsertion, 50 oonts. Liberal reduotion made for largo advertisements. Obltuarios: All over 50 woiJs, one oent a word. Notes of thanks: Five cents the line. W. W. Ball, Proprlotor. Entered at the postoflloc at Laurens, 8. C, as second class mall matter. LAURENS, S. C, July 12, 1905. TILLMAN AND McLAUREN. Senator Tillman betrays signs of de serting the Dispensary. He says that he will desert it if the legislature does not cleanse it. He will become a Pro hibitionist in certain circumstances. Meanwhilo he will stump the State for the Dispensary perhaps. The Columbia State points out that the wiley Senator chooses in time a soft spot to fall upon if he sees the Dis pensary be doomed to disaster. Of course this is true. The Senator always runs away when the tide is against him. He makes a vast deal of noise when he retreats, he makes such a confusion that many people think he is fighting ] valiantly, but those who have watched j him have seen him skedaddle out of every scrimmage in which he has been hard pressed. We shall not be surprised if Johnnie McLaurin whips Senator Tillman into' the Prohibition camp next year. We 1 have opposed McLaurin incessantly for 15 years; we have rarely if ever agreed with him in any of his leading policies j but there is one thing about him: he J won't flunk. Once he is in he will I stand fire. He can be persuaded and cajoled, he can be led astray in a man- i ner entirely discreditable to his intelli gence but he can't be bullied, and he can't be frightened. ' We do not mean that Senator Tillman can be fright ened in a physical sense, we are not discussing that, but he will run to shelter when he sees a storm coming even if he has to take the back track. McLaurin is not smooth and smart like Tillman, nobody in these parts is as limber as he, and McLaurin has no better sense than to assert his manhood from time to time, whether it spells defeat or victory. If McLaurin makes a hard fight for Prohibition Till man may join him and take the lead ( from him. When the Constitutional Convention met Senator Tillman tried to run it. In a week or two the Convention was about to run over Tillman. The Sena tor slipped under the table, so to speak, and kept quiet for a few days. Then he peeped out slyly and when nobody was looking fell into the ranks. In a few days he had taken his old place at the head of the column but he did not try again to drive a body of men which included more than a score who in ca pacity were in his own class. It begins to appear that Mr. McLau rin will not permit Senator Tillman to nail him in a coffin before he is dead. However, if Senator Tillman should see any danger in McLaurin he would perhaps annex him again. Mr. Mc Laurin is a good-natured man. Senator Tillman would make friends with him if necessary to his political future. Senator Tillman can fool and has fooled more people than anybody. He may fool THE Advertiser some day. He has fooled a number of newspapers which at one time opposed him. * DON'T DEPEND ON COTTON. Whether or not the organization of the farmers caused the price to ascend it at least caused many to hold and reap the benefit of the better prices. We think that the organization helped to check the pouring of cotton upon the market and so checked the declin ing prices. Probably if the farmers had not already been in better financial condition than usual the holding move ment would not have been successful. We heard of a farmer in Lee County a few days ago who has never sold his cotton for less than ten cents. He does not raise a great deal. He is not de dendent upon his cotton crop for a live lihood. When the price dropped some years ago he rolled four or five bales into the back of his barn. The next year the price was again low and four or five bales more were stowed away. Meanwhile the farmer continued cheer ful and lived well. At last, after sev eral years, the price bounded up and the farmer sold. We shall not say that this old farmer was wise to hold so long. He took the chances of fire, the cotton lost in weight and he lost interest on the money that the cotton was worth. He was wise though, to be able to hold. In this State of South Carolina where on people may raise cattle and sheep and scores of crops, no man should be (le per l< nt upon cotton alone. Our farm ors ; hould raise their own supplies for the most part even if cotton should sell at 15 cents all the time. # It is stated that Messrs. G. H. Ma hon, IL A. Morgan and A. II. Dean are discussed in Greenville as possible can didates for Congress against the incum bent, Mr. Johnson. Mr. Johnson, be ing a native of this county, will have a strong support in Laurens as usual. Meanwhile there is well seasoned and sound Congressional timber in Lau rens. R. L. Abercrombie, O. G. Thompson and Representative Miller would prove strong candidates. The truth is Laurens material for Congress is much better than that of other coun ties. Congressman Johnson would be a much better Congressman, if he lived in Laurens, though his nativity has en abled him to do very well. # Is it possible that the Hon. W. Jas per Talbert could be induced to become a candidate for United States Senator next year? He is an Edgefield man. He is therefore open to the suspicion of being a candidate for some office or other. He has declared himself a pro hibitionist. Senator Tillman who, not satisfied with two terms of six years each, will be a candidate again, promi ses to defend the- Dispensary on the stump. It is likely that Senator Till man will have opposition. He ought to have opposition. LAU?H AND OROW FAT. "A dosr." "You have been with your firm a long time?" said a man to his old school-fel low. "Yes." answered the friend, with a patient expression of countenance. "What's your position?" "I'm an employee." "Yes, but what do you do?" "Well, I am a doer, and the others are tellers. It's like this. When the" guv'nor wants something done, he tells the cashier, and the cashier tells the book keeper, and the book-keeper tells the assistant book-keeper, and the as sistant book-keeper tells the chief clerk, and ihe chief clerk tells me." "And what then?" "Well, I haven't anybody to tell, so I have to do it."-"Digit." A LIVELY ANIMAL He was a good natured German and his face fairly beamed as he walked in to a drugstore. The first thing that caught his attention was an electric fan buzzing busily on the soda counter. He looked at it with great interest and then turned to the clerk. "Py golly!" he said, smilingly, "dot's a tam'ed lifly squirrel vot you got in dare, ain't idb"--Lippincott's Magazine. A WOMAN WITH A WILL. Tlt? Wnj .1 o.s nie rtnril.-lf Dnrln Oln'O Col1i?pl???l Her Snlnry. Jessie Kartlctt Davis was a woman of Indomitable will and with a stork of self eontidence born of a health}' outdoor life. When not engaged In theatrical life her entire time was tie voted to outdoor purst'Us. On her ranch In California she tat lOd and rode bronchos, herded cattle and sheep and attended to her chickens with equal facility. This combined to make her a good business woman and with the tnu.-eular activity to hack It. Mrs. l>nvis was once engaged to slug In a VnUdeYllle company In New York city. The manager of the theater was famous for his negligence In meeting demands of performers whom he had engaged, and. In fact, there were ugly rumors about checks hearing his sig nature being returned from the hank with the ominous words "No funds" written across their faces. At the conclusion of her week's en gagement Mrs. Davis received a check for her salary. That was Saturday night, and it was an open secret to ov erybody that she had engaged passage on a steamship leaving the following Wednesday for I'urope, where she had planned to take a long rest. The pro prietor of the Broadway hotel where she was stepping obligingly cashed the check. It was returned to him Tues day afternoon as worthless. Mr*. Davis look hack the repudiated paper and smiled grimly. "I will make it nil rigid this evening," she said. Armed with u stout cane she wen' to the manager's oUh-e that oven lug, the stick serving an oxen e for a limp due to a "slight sprain," sh? announced. The manager received her with evident embarrassment and listened to Hie story of the cheek told quietly and In moderate language. ? It was a mistake on the part of his bookkeeper," he explained. The stupid fellow Should hare known that the manager's Recount In that particular bank had been closed out long ago. But If Mrs. Davis would wait a few minutes he would give her a check on nnother bank which would he honored without fall. Rut Mrs. Davis was not accepting checks. She was to leave for London the next morning and nothing but the hard, eokl cash would satisfy her. The manager was obdurate and Mrs. Da vi? politely Insistent. Then It developed into a wordy war, and Mrs. Diivl.? arose with the cane In hand. Handling It like a foil, she passed the ferrule lightly through the glass door of the manager's office. Another pasa and the ferrule broke one of the window puues. The clatter of glas:? brought a half dozen employees to the spot. The manager danced around as If on a hpl stove and begged her to dasist. The scandal, he said, would ruin him. By way of reply Mrs. Davis punctured an other window. Ono of the employees, who was a relative of the manager, runhed for ward to disarm h^r. The cane circled In the air, and the man retreated nurs ing a big welt across the back of his head. The nudlenco was Just entering the theater and the crashing of glass caused many to stop and conjecture the cause. Mrs. Davis, smiling with the utmost good nature, moved to the othor side of the office and gnzed critically at the glass of a large picture?the mana ger's favorite possession. "Stop:" he almost shouted. "You ahnll have your money." A messenger was dispatched to the hox office with an order. He returned In a few min utes with a huge roll of hills, which Mrs. Davis carefully counted and stow ed away. Then, bidding the manager a smiling good night, she swept out of the ofliec and to her hotel, where the bad cheek was redeemed nud added to her collection of souvenirs of her ex perlonees on the stage.? New York Press. Tl?c? Proprrty Mitn's Tronlitfii. 'Jlic company was playing "Homeo and Juliet" the other day, and In the balcony scone a cannon went off. The. properly man was .tent for, who ex plained (hat It was a cannon which should have gone off In the perform ance of "Henry V." two days before. That property man was spoken to more In sorrow than In anger. From nn Address hy I<\ It, Benson In I/ondon. 1 ii v,? r ii In?n-i1 Opinions. Alt 1st No. 1?My landscape's, abso lutely ruined by a lurid portrult. Art i 1st No. 2?Yea, the hanging's protty slipshod this year. They've put me next to the crudest thing In the show. Artist No. 8 (coming Up) Hello! I so* they've hung you two chaps togetherl The ItPllariona Vocation. The religious vocation Isn't necessari ly the outcome of long mental proc esses. It may either steal upon one subtly or overwhelm one at a single on slaught.?From "The Bishop's Niece," by George 11. Picard. To Henovpr Her Child. "Can you help me to recover my child?" asked the poor woman. "Is your child lost?" "Oh, no. Ills clothes are worn out" Heaven never helps the man who will not act, - S'ophoclos. W. L. Boyd, Laurens, S. C. Who sells the L. & M. Paint, are in formed by Longman A Martinez, that ten thousand churches have been paint ed with L. & M. Paint. It takes the least; wears the longest; and only re quires 4 gallons of the L. & M. and 3 gallons of Linseed Oil to paint a moder ate sized house. SIGNATURE EXPERTS TH8Y ARK THE REAL SAFEGUARDS OF A MODERN BANK. Not Only tht> Autotfrnitli, fiut the Kn tlre iio.i>, at the 'luru In <lonely Srriitlnlspd Itr TI???? Itnultl mi.I AI luoat lllfnlllule Winker?. One of the most trying positions In our business, huUI a bank ofltclnl to a writer hv London Tit-Kits, Im that of signature exp?rt?tho man WUO has to exntulue tiaiiy every draft that comes (n through the clearing house and VOUCli for ItH genuineness. Our hank, one of the largest in the city, employs nix clerks who do nothing all day long but examine cheeks, and when I tell you that It Is no uncommon thing for 10.0(H) drafts to come lu during a sin gle day you will uudorsland that the Job Is not altogether the sinecure It I? popularly supposed to be. These clerks have not only to scruti nize the signatures of both drawer and drawee, but also examine the "tilling in," the latter being just as Important, perhaps more so from u monetary point of view, as the signatures. As u mutter of fact, tho commonest forgery with which we have to doftl Is the "raising" of checks, and a forger of tills nature generally chooses a check boarlng a genuine signature, hut hav ing Tory little "tilling In." For Instance, ho knows that it would not bo difficult to raise a cheek from ?3 to ?3.000. for alt he has to do Is to erase the word "pounds," Insert the word "thousand" and then nth' the erased word again. 1 have seen plenty of this kind of work during the time I have been examining checks. One of the most Impudent pieces of forgery, however, that I ever came across was a ?'heck raised from ?0 to ?500. The forger had evidently relied on colossal Impudence carrying him through, for he had simply added a couple of ciphers and then between the wonls "live" and "pounds" had placed nn omission mark and written the word "hundred" above, adding the in itials of the drawer of the check Just to give the thing a look of careless gen uineness. It was so astounding a piece of cool audacity that we had bets on the check, two of my assistants declaring It to he O. K.. while the other three and myself declared It to be a forgery. Further Inquiries, of course, proved that the opinion of the majority was the correct one. It is marvelous what a vast number of signatures some clerks will enrry In their ftllnd'fl eye. as it were, and thus lie able to pass checks by the ttlOUHUhd without once having to refer to the sig nature books. We bad a clerk here a few years ngv> who was little less than a wonder. He knew perfectly the sig ns tnres of at least IS.oOO customers and could detect the alteration of a stroke* In any one of them in an Instant. More remarkable still was the fact that he recognized with equal facility the signatures of those customers whose clic ks only came in otlCO or twice a year. But he made an art of his work, and I afterward disco vor Oil that moss of his evenings wen* spent in studying and loarulllg tho signatures of the customers, for he was a wonderful hand at copying writing, and when* ever a now signature would couio in, one with which be was not acquainted, he would at om?? facsimile ll In his poeketbook and by die next morning would be able to recognize it anioug 10,0 K). Signature clerks are not, as a role, supposed to make copies of customers' autographs, but many of them do, and some men are clever enough at the work to even deceive lliomselves1. Of course, It is understood that when the signature clerks are not examining cheeks I hey are studying the autograph ' books in order to familiarize them- j selves with the culigraphy of every ' customer. Each chock, you must un- ; dcrstimd, passes through tin- hands of ' each clerk In turn, so that if one should pass a forgery or a "raised" draft It Is ! very unlikely (hat the entire staff would do so. All these checks, of course, come through the clearing house, and if we should pass a forged draft and not find out our mistake he fore 3 o'clock in the afternoon our bank would be held responsible, One of tb'> commonest dodges adopted by the modern cheek forger a, to get a customer of some small country bank to Introduce him to that Institution as a likely depositor. On the recommen dation of the friend (who Is probably quite unaware that the acquaintance he made some few months ago Is a "wrong 'uu"> there Is no difficulty In accepting their new client's check for ?2,000, and the following day when the sann? customer calls and withdraws ?100 to ?o00, as the case may be, he Is politely handed the cash, and then, of course, loses no time In skipping the town. After the bogus customer's Check has paused through the (dealing house It Is returned to the bank on which It has been drawn, and the fraud Is at once discovered. Another part: of a signature clerk's duties tu (o see that no checks are post dated, as, of course, no drafts must be paid until they fall due. On occasions a careless man will postdate a check, but as a rule the mistake Is purposely made. This spotting of postdated checks, however. Is the easiest part of a signalure dork's work, and it Is very seldom tii.it a check so dated escapes him. Then, again, we are often noil fled that payment on certain checks has been stopped, and the clerks have to be on the lookout for these, and It must be a very careless staff Indeed that lots them slip by. We are held responsible for all checks passed after we have re celred notice to stop payment. But It I? very seldom now, owing to the cleverness of the experts, that any forged checks, "raised" checks, post dated checks or stopped chocks pass the vigilant eyes of our staff without being detected, but when one docs Well, although the signature clerks are not held monetarily responsible for the loss, It means a had mark against them in (he future, nnd they feel Its effects next time promotions or "rises" are being handed out. Altogether, (hough (he work is inter esting and even fascinating In a way, the responsibilities are so groat that the effect on the nerves Is often very dying nt times. One thing we are par ticular about, and thai Is to take no ChanCCn. ff we have (he slightest doubt about the genuineness of n check we at onco communicate, either by tele graph, special messenger or telephone, with the supposed drawer of the check and In (his way turn doubt Into cor tnlnty. During the last three years not a single wrong check has passed our vigilant optics, and, though I say It, who should not, I do not believe thero Is a cleverer set of experts nnywhore thau those who compose my staff. What's the secret of happy, vigorous health? Simply keeping the bowels, the stomach, the liver and kidneys strong and active. Burdock Blood Bit ters does it. A LINCOLN STORY. The Sawmill Hand Wh? Didn't Kor ?et About tho Cunt Hunk. "The first cltlfeen of Illinois and tho greatest of American presidents" Is Uic luannei' lu which Mr. f'arr refers to Abraham Lincoln In "Tin? Illhil," lie recalls tlio ftl'St t.ine lie ever heard Mr. Lincoln's name. It was at a country hotel, and one of the residents of the town was tolling of a "curia young fel ler" who had worked In a sawmill, hut gave up the Joh to ko into the Black Hawk war. "He was working for a gentleman named Klrkpatrlck, and one day some body aald to Klrkpatrlck: 'You ought to get a cant hook for that young fel low to move logs with. It'h too bad to mako him roll them about without one.' "The sawmill tender asked what a cant hook would cost, and they said $1.50, The young follow said, 'If you give mo tho dollar an' a half I'll go on tackling the logs as I do now with a wooden spike that I make myself.' " 'Dono:' said the boss, ami he didn't need to buy any cant hook. "Hut, do you know, that boss was so mean that he heat that poor boy out of that money. He never gave It to him. "That fellow went on tending saw mill and tetllug stories and never let on about the cant hook. Presently came the Black Hawk war. and they pitched in and raised a company, and Klrkpatrlck set all his pins to be cap tain, but that young follow hadn't for gotten about the cunt hook, and he just became a candidate for the captain's place himself, und when the company voted he beat old Klrkpatrlck four to one. I helped to elect lllui, and when he got elected ho turned to me and said. 'Bill, I've got even on that cant hook.' "He Is the most curious fellow I ever saw. Then* never came a man Into the neighborhood but he'd find out Just the things that man know best, lie never gave the schoolmaster any pence aftor I;,- found he kn^w grammar until he'd learned all the grammar the teacher knew, lie found a fellow who knew how to measure off land, and, sure as you live, this fellow quizzed him and quizzed him until he learned the trade, and then he got some tools and went out himself a-sottlng section corners and making lines and setting stakes to show peoplo where to put their fences." ' What became of this young man?" "Well," said Green, "he went and learned law, set up In Springfield and g ?t to congress. Hut he couldn't get elected for the second term. He's as g > >d a fellow a-: ever lived," continued Mr. Green, "but he's kind of common, sort of Jus( like everybody else; no bet ter, n > worse; just a good feller." "What's Ids name?" "Abe Lincoln," replied Green. The Plrnl Wnlktn? Btl< I h. The well born Egyptian carried a staff* with his name Inscribed In hiero glyphics, but walking sticks, in the general sense of the word, were flrsl used by the gallants of the fifteenth century. Canes are first heard of in the reign of Henry VIII., probably In troduced to Europe after the discovery of America. Walking sticks were adopted by the effeminate Henry II. of France about the middle of the sixteenth century. These French sticks, with a ribbon and tassel to pass over the wrist, were, however, not used by gentlemen of fashion in England until 1050. When flrsl Introduced they were formed with an indented head to a fiord a more easy rest for the hand. After ward they were crowned with a round and hollow top, which contained nut meg or ginger and sometimes sugar candy for the asthmatic or a store of snuff. Pompeian Massage Cream Cleanses Where Soap and Water Fail Washing with soap and water makes the face look clean, but it cleans the surface only. It does I 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 ali foreign dirt and impu- j 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--nromote the growth of j hair on the face. Price 50c and $1.00 per jar. For Sale Palmetto Drug Co. Laurens, S. C. Charleston & Western Carolina Railway. (Schedule in effect April 16, 1905.) No. 2 Daily 1, v Laursna 1:50 pm Ar Greenwood 2-46 Ar Augusta 5: 20 " Ar Anderson 7:10 " No. 42 Daily Lv Augusta 2:35pm Ar Allendale 4: 30 " Ar Fairfax 4:41 " Ar Charleston 7:40 " Ar "^eauford 6: 30 " Ar 1'ort Royal 6: 40 " Ar Savannah 6:45 " Ar Waycross 10:00 " No.l Daily Lv Laurens 2:07 pm Ar Spartanburg 3:30 " No. 52 No. 87 Daily Ex. Sudday Lv Laurens 2:09 pm 8:00am Ar (irecnville 3:25 *' 10:20 " ARRIVALS!- Train No. 1, Daily, from Augusta and intermediate stations 1: 451 pro; No. 52, daily, from Greenville and in termediate stations 1:35 pm; No.87,daily, except Sunday, from Greenville and intermediate stations fl: 40 pm; train No. 2, daily, from Spartanburg and interm ediate stations 1: 30 p m. C II. Gasque, Agt., Laurens, S. C. G. T. Bryan. GenM Agt. Grenevillo S.C. Ernest Williams, Gen. Pass. Agt., Auguata, Ga, T. M, "Emerson, Traffic Manager, Straw Hats Half Price Remember You have Four Months yet to wear Straw Hats. You can't afford to miss this opportunity of buying: a Stylish Hat for so little Money. Come at once and see them. - - - - Customer's Shoes Shi ned Free Shoes, Hats and Men's Furnishings The One Price Store Keep Cool! A FULL LINE FANS AT W. Q. Wilson & Co. Plain and Fancy Sheer White Lawns, White Mercerized Waistings, Good Designs in Printed Muslins, Embroideries, Laces and All-over. Ladies Sunshades at Low Prices W. Q. The Painter-Man >vith Oic Proper Can Painters who uso roody-nilxed paints, and who have thoroughly tested them all without prejudice, readily recommend Mastic Mixed Paint "The Kiit? Thtit Lasia- ' To be certain of getting the right kind see that, like the pointer-man, you got the goods in the proper can. That's the only way to identify the paint, before using it. Aflci you once uso Mastic paint Ihcnpp? i of the work and the durability of the paint will convince you that the painter-man was right in his recommendation. You will need no further proof and you will recommend Mastic paint to your friends. Mann fact i rod by PEASLEEl.GAUL?tfKT CO.. ?ncorpornfet LOUISVll LE, KENTUCKY Dodson's Drug Store. THE HUB THE HUB Only a Few Words Needed to Tell The Story of Our Special Sale The best evidences of its success are the hundreds of satisfied customers who have taken advantage of the splendid offerings. They came expecting great values and they were not disappointed. The people know we never advertise a bargain we cannot show, or make a promise we cannot back up with the Merchandise. Sale closes Saturday, July 15th. The last week's offerings are just as great values as the first week's. The place of every broken lot has been supplied with something just as good or better. Don't neglect this great Money-Saving opportunity.. Lot Figured Batiste, all desirable patterns, worth 10c, 12^c and 15c. This sale Lot Yard-wide Percals, desirable Patterns fast colors, worth 10c, 12Jc, yours for Lot Fancy Ginghams, worth 7 cents and 8 cents. Reduced to White Persian Lawn, worth 20 cts. This sale . 20 pcs Brown Dress Linen, the 15c, kind. This sale. 40-inch White Lawn during this sale only. _ Special 40-inch wide India Linon, you can't match it 8k. .08 .05 .15 .05 ,10 Lot neat figured Batiste, 27-inches wide, f\A fast colors *\j^t Lot yard-wide Percales, short lengths. f\ c this sale 'VFO Good yard-wide Bleaching . Ladies' Bleached Vests, taped necks .05 Ladies' fine Batiste Corsets with hose sup- c? f\ porters attached ' & " Lot Ladies' Shirt Waist Patterns, put up AfL with Trimming to match * ^rO Lot Cambric Embroideries and Insertions, the biggest values of the 5c ,0c All Ladies', Misses' and Children's Oxfords go in this Sale at actual Cost. Sale Will Continue Until July the 15th. The Hub. The Hub