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THE ADVERTISER. Subscription Prlcc-12 Months, $1.00 Payable ia AdT&aee. Entered at the pjs'.oflloe at Laureos, 8. C, as second class mall matter. "Laurens, s. c, July1905. tillman and mclaurin. Ex-Senator John L. McLaurin means to be a candidate for United States Senator against Senator Tillman next year. We look upon this as certain. Whether or not Mr. McLaurin will re main of this mind is another proposi tion. His courage may ooze from his finger tips as the time approaches. One cannot guess what will befall. If Mr. McLaurin enters the race it will place upon Senator Tillman much annoyance. Senator Tillman is not so fond of pranc ing over the State as he formerly was. He is by no means so gay and frolic some at 57 as he was at 42. "I've got a brass throat!" he shouted in the midst of a speech in Newberry in 1894 and the clangor of the word3 carried j conviction of their truth. But the Sena- J tor's throat is said not tobe so fiercely Btrong now. Campaigning in July weather and in August is a severe straining of an elderly man's powers. In 1897 Mr. McLaurin collapsed at Yorkville before the campaign ended. Mr. McLaurin advises that the Dis pensary be voted out, county by county, ?as it is being voted out. Sena tor Tillman declares that the Dispen sary must stand or fall in a state elec- j tion next fall. Here the issue is fully joined. There can be no backing from this. Mr. McLaurin haa chosen his ground. He is a prohibitionist with no adject ives to qualify and with no conditions to limit. Senator Tillman on the other hand occupies a shifting position. He promises to defend the dispensary in some circumstances if the Legislature will clean it out. Otherwise he will ad vocate State prohibition. As the latter will be a travesty in counties where public sentiment does not favor it, it seems that Senator Tillman will in no case be a real friend to the Prohibition cause though he may give it nominal adhesion. While Senator Tillman is far more popular than Mr. McLaurin the latter undoubtedly has the advantage of posi tion. * AS TO PROHIBITION. If the people of Laurens desire pro hibition we hope they will vote for it and get it. If they vote prohibition and earnestly wish what they vote for, they will enforce it. Prohibition pro hibits in Marlboro county because the people of Marlboro are merciless in their treatment of "blind tigers." The "Tigers" are watched, they are ar rested and they are punished severely. Although Marlboro is a border county, the law is observed. Unless the Laurens prohibitionists mean to pursue the tigers relentlessly, year in and year out, they had best be ware of voting a prohibition system in to existence to be brought into ill re pute through lax administration. Pro hibition and free liquor would work a vast deal of evil not only to our own citizens but to the whole State. In Cherokee County it seems that the Prohibition sentiment was so strong and so general that little difficulty has attended the enforcement of the law. It seems to be fully established that considerable improvement in the morals of the county is manifest in Cherokee though the dispensaries were voted out only nine months ago. State Senator Thomas Bothwell Butler avers that crime is less frequent and that drunk enness in Cherokee has decreased to a marked degree. Half a dozen earnest and determined and persevering prohibitionists could make Laurens too warm for "blind ti gers" to inhabit but a thousand listless and idle persons who will vote Prohibi tion and then go to sleep will accom plish nothing. If "blind tigers" are not molested they will increase and multiply. But an active and alert sher iff, such as Capt. Duckctt, backed by a few good men can enforce prohibition or any other good law in Laurens county. new YORK SHOULD LYNCH. A few days ago it transpired in New York that several society women had paid from $2,500 to $10,000 for copies of a book published from the office of a disreputable weekly Journal in that town. In reality the money was ex torted from these rich women under threat of slanderous publications about them in this journal. This could not happen in the barbar ous and benighted South. The editor of a Journal which spoke of a respectable woman in other than polite terms would be quietly and decently but quickly lynched in the usual manner and form. He would be tarred and feathered and otherwise duly prepared for the function. The reporters, printers and the news dealers selling the sheet would also he lynched though with less eclat.? Then the printing office would be promptly burned. These sundry performances would be described by the New York newspa pers as "anarchy." It is very wrong to uphold lynching. The blackmailing schemes of disreputable newspapers could be frustrated in the South with out resort to lynching but if a newspa per should venture to lightly handle a woman's good name in this region our people would not take time to consider the modern, improved and cunningly de vised methods of redress. Lynching is easy, simple and effective. In New York they have a reasonable and acute horror of lynching and they are full of kindly pity for the South groping in ignorance and gloom. A woman's reputation may be blasted by a public journal in New York and nobodv protests. In South Carolina a woman receives protection. In plain English, while lynching is never justifiable the lynching system is [ distinctly better than the New York system. As between the license of newspa pers to slander women and lynching, lynching is the lesser evil. Neither is permissible but New York would do well to lynch with freedom and fre quency until her people are fitted for a purer civilization. ^ Mr. Root having taken office, the jfcPresident's leave of absence at Oyster jj Bay is hereby extended. LAUGH AND GROW PAT. AND THEN HE WAKED UP! An Ozark country editor has found three new wild animals in the moun tains of South Missouri that heretofore had been overlooked by naturalists. One of them is the Oogly Woo, a six legged animal, with a sharp, stiff tail, and when pursued and cornered it stands on its tail, and whirling rapidly around, bores a hole in the ground, into which it disappears. Another is a Sackabore?it has four legs, two long ones on one side and two short ones on the other. It will run rapidly around a mountain with its four feet always touching, and can only be captured by being turned in an opposite direction, when its short legs will not reach the ground. The third is the one-eyed screeching Boo-Boo. When pursued it will turn on its enemies, and with a mighty gulp swallow itself.? Harrison Ark. Times. ACHIEVEMENT. A thing of beauty and a joy Forever is a certain Nancy; How she can fail to charm a boy I can't see. Incomparably sweet her air, Her years just trembling over twenty, With wit and tenderness to spare A plenty. Too human far to be a saint, ? No saint could do things quite so band some! My! she can sketch and golf and sing And dance some. Her heart, which some say can't bc| won, Is quite in keeping with her beauty. (It's in my keeping. This is on The Q. T.) And is the future gaily hued? Am I an optimist? Well, rather. Last night I utterly subdued Her father. ? From Leslie's Weekly. HER IDEA OK IT. Taragon: "The Russians have great faith in the bayonet, the Japs in tin sword. Which arm do you prefer?" Miss Imple (absent-minded): "Both!" ? Woman's Home Companion. A DEMONSTRATION. Judge: "What did the prisoner do to you?" Witness: "He bit me wid a pavin' block, Yer 'Onner, as I was walkin' on the track." Judge: "What excuse did he give?" Witness: "Said he was testin' the block signals and was givin' the dan ger sign." ? Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. A MATTER OF STRIPES. A small boy from the North who was visiting a relative in one of the Southern States where convict labor is [ employed in public improvements be- ( came very interested in the men and1 their black and striped clothes. One day he went to a circus and for the first time in his life saw a zebra. "Oh, auntie," he cried, "look at the convict mule!" ?Lippincott's Magazine. HER FEAR. He: "Clarice, you know I have al ways thought a great deal of you, and ! I have flattered myself you think not j unfavorably of me. May I- will you be ' my wife?" She: "What a start you gave me, Harry! Do you know, I thought you were going to ask me to lend you some money."?Tit-Bits. THE UNIVERSAL DISSOI.VF.NT. "Will alcohol dissolve sugar?" "It will," replied Old Soak: "it will dissolve gold and brick houses, and horses, and happiness and love and everything else worth having." ? Houston Post. CHOLERA INFANTUM. Child Not Expected to Live, Cured by Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. Ruth, the little daughter of E. N. Dewey of Agnewville, Va., was se riously ill of cholera infantum last sum mer. "We gave her up and did not ex pect her to live from one hour to an other," he says. "I happened to think of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and got a bottle of it from the store. In five hours 1 saw a change for the better. We kept on giving it and before she had taken the half of one small bottle she was well." This remedy is for sale by Dr. B. F, Posey and Laurens Drug Co. 48?4t. 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 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. Docb 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. W. B. KNIGHT, Attorney at Law. Strict attention to all business entrusted. Office hours 9 a. m. to 6 p. m. Office second floor Simmons' Block. We have now reached the Season of the year where we always Cut the Prices on Spring and Summer Footwear. We have no excuse to offer. We simply want to convert the balance of this Season's Stock into CASH to get ready for Fall and Winter Shoes. We want it to impress sensible people as a truthful statement of a plain business Shoe proposition. And these cut-prices offer you the best kind of a reason for buying the Footwear you can use for some time to come. NOTE THE Following Prices: WOMEN'S OXFORDS $3.50 Pat Oxfords. Cut price $2.75 2.50 $3.00 Pat Tan and Vici Oxfords. Cut price $2.50 Pat Tan and Vici Oxfords. Cut price. $2.00 Pat., Tan and Vici Oxfords. Cut Prices. $1.50 Tan and Vicie Oxford. Cut price. $1.25 Vici Oxford. Cut price 1.85 1.65 1.25 1.00 Ml S' $2.00 Pat and Vici Oxfords. Cut 4 fC c price %J7 I .%JO $1.50 Pat., Tan and Vici. Cut price. $1.25 Pat., Vici and Tan. Cut price. $1.00 Pat, Vici and Tan. Cut price. $1.75 Pat., Vici and Tan. Cut price. 1.25 1.00 .85 .60 MEN'S OXFORDS Clapp & Nettleton $5.00 Oxfords, ^> 75 Pat., Tan and Vici. Cut price %PO. y O Walk-Over $4.00 Pat Oxfords. Cut price . Walk-Over $3.50 Tan and Vici Ox fords. Cut price. $3.00 Oxfords in Pat., Tan and Vici. Cut price. $2.50 Pat., Tan and Vici. Cut | Qc price . 1 ?O? 3.25 2.75 2.50 $2.25 Tan and Vici Oxfords. Cut price $2.00 Vici Oxfords. Cut price $1.50 Vici Oxfords. Cut price 1.65 1.50 1.25 BOYS' $2.50 Pat., Tan and Vici. Cut d?| oc price . %PI.O*7 $2.00 Pat., Tan and Vici. Cut | /:r price 1 ? U O $1.50 Vici Oxford. Cut price 1.25 STRAW HATS HALF PRICE Free Store WOFFORD COLLEGE HENRY N. SNYDER, 1.1,. I)., President. Two degrees, A. B., and A. M. Four coursos leading to the A. B. Degree. Nine professors. Departments Ethics and Astronomy, Mathematics, Physics, and Geology, Biology and Chemistry, Latin, Greek, English, German and French, History and Librarian. The W. E. Burnott gymnasium under a competent director. J. B. Cleveland Science Hall. Athletic grounds. Course; of lectures by the ablest men on the platform. Kare musical opportunities. Next Session, Sept. 20th. Board from $8.00 to $H>.00 a month. For Catalogue or other information, address. J. A. GAMKWF.LL, Secretary, Spartanburg, S. C. WOPPORD COLLKGP PITTING SCHOOL Three new brick buildings. Steam heat and electric lights. Head Master, four teachers and Matron live in the buildings. Situated on the WolTord College Gymnasium, and have access to the College Library. $115.00 pays for board, tuition, and all fees. Sons of Methodist ministers do not pay tuition. Next session begins September 20th. For Catalogue, etc., address A. MASON DuPRE, Head Master, Sparenburg, 8. C. 1 PAINT Protects the House! Beautifies the Home!! The BEST is the Cheapest and "KINGS ELBRA" is the best. I sell and apply it. My Motto: "Honest Work and Honkst Paint." PAINT T. R. PITTS, Contracting Painter. WHOLESALE Flour, Meal Grain and Provisions. I make a specialty of direct shipments from the Mill and Manufactures. E, W. STALNAKER, Office and Warehouse at Greenwood, S. C. 'Phone 244. New Wholesale Grocery House Montgomery & Company have opened up at Fuller & Darlington's old stand with a com plete stock High-grade Groceries. They are Iselling agents for HAnnOND PACKING CO.'S Meats, Lards, Hams, Etc. C. H. HAMMOND CO/S Canned Meats Messrs J.W. Montgomery and Brooks Swygert are in charge and they will be glad for their friends to come in to see them. - - Montgomery ? Company _Wholesale Grocers? Laurens, South Carolina The Bank of Laurens Laurens, S. C, ESTABLISHED NOVEMBER, 1895 Capital. $50,000 Undivided Profits,. $20,000 Deposits, .$110,000 -=( OFFICERS )? ? O. B. SIMMONS, President. J. J. Pluss, W. P. Caine, CASHIER. ASST. CASHIHR. We will appreciate your business no matter how small it may be. We pay 4 per cent in our Savings Department. We give you a small safe so you can save your Dimes, Nickels and Pennies. Write or call on us when you are in the city. 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. G. Wilson & Co. the; test Proves Which is. best, Ig You have two houses to bo painted. 1 We want to soil you Mastic Paint for only one of them. Wo would rather 3011 would use, sonio other paint on the other house. . Paint the two at once?one with Mastic Mixed "Paint " Tho Kind That lasts" \ and the oilier wilh any Other paint, it matters not what brand? BOniG mixed paint or Lend and Oil. > Wo Mill only sell you ono lot of paint, this time; next, limo we will sell you Mastic Paint for both houses?in fact wo expect to sell you paint for the other house, before the Mastic houso nocda repainting, ?TJIE TF.XT PltOV^S WlITOir^lS UK XT" Manufactured by f PEASLEE-GAELREKT CO.. Inc., LOUISVILLE,' KY. wmsmmmmmummmummm FOR SALE BV Dodson's Drug Store. TEMPTATIONS! You'll get your money's worth and save more in these temptors. White Star Coffee, the finest grown large bean, even roasted splendid flavor, per one pound can 25cts. four pound can $1.00. Quaker Rolled Oats, largo flakes carefully milled, free from faulty or imperfect grains, per two pound pack age 15 cents. Buckwheat Flour, deli cious, appetizing, nourishing,ner package 10 cents. Old fashioned Muscovados molases?none better, per gallon 50 cts. Kennedy Bros. :WWWWWWWv^^^'Ai^i4ii>4'l/iMt/i,i/i,i',i'vii' J ?' . /?\ /WN /W\ yff\ /B\ /T\ /JN /WS /W\ /SS ? W\ sT\ /?\ J\ /T\ 'W\ Ilk sW* /t\ ,f N 'Mi /Is 7