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"THE LIBERTY TREE." Tablet Erected by Society, Sons of "the Revolution. (News and Courier.) A tablet has been erected by the South Carolina Society, Sons of the American Revolution, on a gate post of the premises No. 22 Alexander street, near the spot where the famous liberty tree stood, and which was burned down by the British in the latter days of the Revolution. The spot where the tree stood marked the place where the early revolutionists were wont to gather and discuss the conditions of the country and it was there where the most prominent revolu tionists in this part of the country pledged themselves to stand by and back any effort to throw off the yoke of England. It was fitting that the spot should be marked by the Sons of the Revolution, and thus commemorate some important events in the history of this country. Following is the inscription on the tab let: Near This Spot Once Stood The Liberty Tree, Where Colonial Independence Was First Advocated by Christopher Gadsden, A. D., 1766. And Where, Ten Years Later, The Declaration of Independence Was First Heard And Applauded by South Carolinians. Erected by the Local Society of the Sons of the Revolution, A. D. 1905. Clinton's Chrysanthemum Show. The annual Chrysanthemum Show will be given by the Ladies Aid Society of the Presbyterian Church from No vember 9th to 11th. A strong effort will be made to make the chrysanthe mum exhibit this year better than ever before, and ladies of all denominations are cordially invited to exhibit and con tribute their prizes. Two prizes will be offered: one for the finest collection of flowers, and one for the most perfect single flower in an exhibit of twelve. ? That is, the exhibitor is asked to con tribute twelve flowers in order to com pete for the single flower prize. As usual, a cordial welcome will be given to one and all who attend the ba zaar. Competent chairmen, with com petent assistants are in charge of the various departments, and the bazaar bids fair to be one of the most success ful ever produced by the ladies. Startling Mortality. Statistics show startling mortality, from appendicitis and peritonitis. To prevent and cure these awful diseases, there is iust one reliable remedy, Dr. King's New Life Pills. M. Flannery, of 14 Custom House Place, Chicago, says: "They have no equal for Constipation and Biliousness." 25 cents at Laurens Drug Co. and Palmetto Drug Co. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. The poorest thing you can offer a friend Is nn excuse. Two things a man put? off?buying a lot tn a"*c"emetery and making n will. It Is not enough to admit that you are a fool. You must try to get over It. After a man falls to make money tiln wife loses all awe of hin bunch of office keys. When a boy helps his mother with the dishes, how do the other boys find It out? There Is no greater fallacy In the world than that sense comes with ngn or experience. When you think yourself over tn the middle of the night you give mighty poor satisfaction. It Is going to make a mighty poor Jam for your crust In poverty to eat It remembering what you spent on fool ishness In youth.?Atchtson Olobe. The Hnlt In tho Sc?. Tho Pythagoreans held that the sea was salt by reason of the tears shed by Kronos, father of Zens. According to the old Hebraic tradition, the ocean was originally a great body of fresh water, but which was made salt by tho abundant tears of tho fallen angels. One sect of Buddhists believe that loot's wife?that Is to sny, the "pillar of aalt" which was once tho wife of the bumble gentleman named above?Met at the bottom of tho ocean In a certain narrow strait and that once each year the waters of all oceans flow through that narrow channel. Tho Talmudle writers say that It was never aalt until Moses wept repentance after breaking the tables of stone. A Bit of Tmr.iRUoN. The difficulty of ?voiding "howlOT*" when ono Is ^instating from English Into sven a language as that of the M.Vninc Indians of Nova Beotla must be very great, says tho I/ondon News. We henr from tho Bible society of a curious ease. In tho first edition of 8t. Matthew In Miomao tho translator found when ho came to revise It that In chapter xxlv, 7, Instead of "Nation shall rise against nation," he had writ ten, "A pair of snowshoes shall rise up against a pair of snowshoes." And yet there was only ono letter misprint ed?naooktukumlksljlk (a nation), hav ing been displaced by naooktakumlksl Jlk (a anowshoo*. floppy Schooldar". The Parson- Well, my hoy, you seem In a great hurry to get to your school today. Roy?Yes, sir. Bill Jones Is going ter git a bird of a licking this morning for playing hookey, and I don't want to miss lt. - Buck. Ttnlt nnd Don. Those Kngllsh verbs "doff" and "do.i" are merely contractions of "do off" nnd "do on." Similarly to * dup." which means to "open" a door In Bhakc.spenre, Is to "do up"?to lift the latch. Not There Yet. Claude?Don't you think my mus? fache Is becoming? Maude-Well, It may be coming, but It hasn't got there yet.- New York Times. Making a life Is larger than making a living. Many a man has made a good living who has made a poor life. . W. L. Boyd, Laurens, S. C. Who sells the L. & M. Paint says to every church, that Longman & Martinez give a liberal quantity of paint when ever a church is painted with L. & M. Paint. 4 gallons L. & M. Paint and 3 gallons Of Linseed Oil will paint a mod erate sized house. 6-2t AN ODD REVENGE. Thm Umnm rttvtnttmn Anlernt rat? ntm 01? n?*n. Among the many amusing things Hans Christian Andersen treated us to was a little auocdote which, cu riously enough^ since It was so very chnractorlattc of him, he omitted from till autobiography. He mentions In his "Life's Story" that during the sutumn of 1844 he wAs n dally guest of the Danish royal family at Fohr, and was on terms of Intimacy both with them and with the family of the Duke of Augustenborg. He told us |he following incident about his stay there: It had been One of the mortifica tions of his younger days that the dean of the diocese, who In his day hud eonllri<- Im, had treated hhn badly, and p affront on htm of placing him, i boy, down In the bottom of the among the curate's poor enndtdau . although he properly be longed tip above, among the dean's own. He chanced to hear that this man now hold a post in the Island of Kohr. "So 1 asked the king," said An derson, "if I might for mice have one of the royal carriages, with coachman and footman In red 11 very, the name as the royal family themselves used, placed at my disposal, to pay a visit. The king smiled and Sold, 'With pleas ure.' Ho I drove out In the royal carriage, with panAched horses, and coachman and footman, to pay a visit to my old diocesan denn. The carriage waited outside while I was In the house. That was my revenge." It seems to me that we hare Andersen's whole self, his romantic bent, his old humiliations and his vehement, half childish greed of honor. In this little story.?George Brandes In Contempo rary Rerlew. SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS. The Kanton* l'alntcr Wm the So? of n DcTOKiklrt ?rrt*r. Mir Joshua Reynolds was born at ! lMympton, four miles from Plymouth, In Devonshire, In 172?. Ills father, rec tor of the grammar school, early train ed Mm In classical studies. Intending his son to be an apothecary, but he dls- j played such an Inclination for drawing, i diligently copying the prints which fell In Ms wny, that the father yielded and Beut Mm to Ixnidon an a student of art After two years he returned to Devon shire and established hlmsvlf as a por trait puhiter In Plymouth, where he was taken up by Cbmmodoro Koppel, ' who, being appointed to the Mcdlter- ; raneau station, invited the young paint or to accompany him In his ship, tho Centurion. Thus he was able to visit Rome, spending two years thero In very close study, especially of the works of Raphael and Michael Angelo. It was while painting In the corridors ' of the Vatlcnn that he contracted a j cold which brought on the deafness that afterward amTcted him during the rest of his life. Leaving Rome, he vis ited Ptrtna, where he fell under Cor- { reggto's Influence, then Florence and Venice, In the latter city studying the works of the gru? eolorlsts. On his j way home he s'jppod In Paris, making acquaintance vlth the work of Ru bens. Arrived h London, he settled In St. Martin's lane, and painted a por trait of his patron, Commodore (then Lord) Keppel, which laid the foundation i of his fortune. loiter he established himself In Leicester square, where his house, 47, may still be seen. ?St. Nich olas. Apenk Good of <he I,Win*. Few will be found to dispute the spirit of the old Latin proverb "De mortuls nil nisi bonum." Is It not a pity, however, that we ore all so in clined to offer fulsome adulation of the | dead, about whom, while living, noth ing was too vile to say? Tills Is not to be miderstood as criticising unfavor ably tho natural tendency to forget the faults and foibles and to remem ber only tho virtues of the people who | hove "gone on before," but It does seem too bad that more even Justice, greater toleration and charity can- ' not he shown to tho living. Success. I^irrri of ?'ofTee. The London Globe doubts whether there Is anywhere In the world a place more addicted to coffee thon the llttlo Island of Grolx, about nine miles dis tant from I/orlent. Tho customs' rec ords show that the annual consumption of coffee in tho island Is about 1)0,000 pounds. Now, tho population Is 5..100, and, ns tho men pass practically their whole lives afloat as seamen, this large quantity must be consumed by about 3,000 women, children and old men. It works out nt thirty pounds a hood per annum. A Healthy l'?l?py. "There's only one good thing nbout that young puppy that came to see you lost night," sold tho Irascible fnther. "and that Is he's healthy." "I'm surprised to hear you admit that much," replied the dutiful daugh ter. "I wouldn't except for tho fact that "When you met him In the hall last night I heard you say, 'Oh, George, how cold your nose Is!' " The Wntt S?reef W*y. .Tohson You bought tho stock on your broker's advice, didn't you? Dob son? Yes; he gave me four excellent reasons why It should go up. .Fobson? What has he to say now? Dobson?He has given me four equally good reasons why It went down. flnnrinenn Knitim, Mrs. Nayberlclgh Judge, I want yon to try some of my angel coke. .Tudgr* Bokern (absently) What Is It charged with??Cleveland lender. To Ikolleve Is to he strong. Doubt cramps energy. Relief la power.?Rob ertson. Strikes Hidden Rocks. When your ship of health Btrikcs the hidden rocks of Consumption, Pneu monia, etc., you aro lost, if you don't get help from Dr. King's New Discov ery for Consumpton. J. W. McKinnon, of Talladega Springs. Ala., writer.: "I had been very <l| w?tn Pneumonia, un der the cH?d of two doctors, but v/as getting no better when I began to take Dr. King's New Discovery. The first dose gave relief and one bottle < ured me." Sure cure for nore throat, bron chitis, coughs and colds. Guaranteed at Laurens Drug Co. and Palmetto Drug Co. Price fiO centa and $1.00. Trial bottles free. OAfiTORXA. B?*m the The Kind You Hate Always Bouafu Notice. All persons holding-claims against the estate of Dr. F. G. Fuller, deceased, are required to present the same within one month from this date, to the under signed. F. M. Fuller and A. P. Fuller, as execu tors of Dr. F. G. Fuller, deceased. September fith, 1906. THE LASTING BRICK8. ?*w Milt) Tk?t< CakM o? W?Vr? Ct?r An Uoo* Vor All Tim*. Front tho time the cloy In dug out of Its bed until It finds Its poruinnent place lu some building'* walls ns n brick It Is haudlcd not loss tbnu n hun dred times nud by more thnn a score of different Individuals. Take into account the persons and processes directly and Indirectly In terested In brlckmaklng, masonry building and Inhabiting such build init*, nnd tho human mind 1? baffled by fig ures reaching Into the trillions- and a trillion la written 1,000,000,000,0001 Once made, a brick Is practically In destructible. Nearly every brick that baa ever been made by man from (he beginning of time is still lu existence on this earth. The men who made nnd laid theui and who directed these operations have long since boon gath ered into dust. Some of them have doubtless contributed in their fJbdles to the making of more bricks. Hut the steadfast and enduring square of baked clay persists and "will until the heavens and earth nre shriveled like a scroll. Upon Inscriptions In bricks our earli est knowledge of human history de pends. Kings whose glory has passed so utterly that nil but their names have perished still owe the perpetua tion of these names to a mark In the pertltirablo brick.?Chicago Journal. THE ALLIGATOR'S JAWS. Th?r Will Open If Van Stiele Your IrIng??? In 111* Rye*. "If ever you have the luck to be caught by an alligator put a flnger In each eye," says an old Australian hunt er. "That will have the effect of mak ing htm open his Jaws, and then you can make the most of your opportunity. There are several known Instances of the escape of natives by that means. Alligators prefer their food high, so the chances are If you are caught you will be deposited on the bottom somewhere. I heard of one native escaping even then. When crossing tho rivers the natives carry stout sticks, so If en countered by au alligator they can ward him off by shoving a stick down his throat. "That alligators have enormous strength I have evldenco besides my own experience. At Port Rsslngton a buffalo was drinking in a stream when an alligator nailed It by tho head and drowned It. Soon afterward a horse was caught while drinking at the same spot. It dragged tho alligator about forty yards before the brute let go. Mr. Robinson anchored tho body of a horse a llttlo distance out from a cliff closo to his camp. In due time he had his chance and shot a fifteen foot alligator." ARTIFICIAL FLIES. Th* I'rrnllnr Baatneaa of the Farmer Who Rnla** Them. "I raise flies on my farm?artificial flies," he said, smiling. "I am, In fact, an artificial fly farmer. "That confuses you, doesn't it? Yet it Is simple enough. I raise birds that give those little delicate bright feath ers that compose fishermen's files. That is all. "The finest birds I raise are golden pheaaants. You have seen salmon flies? You know their beautiful top pings? Well, those toppings can only be got from tho golden pheasant's crest. "At a certain time of the year I gather my golden pheasants around me. I take one between my knees. I pluck out his crest. How mod ho gets! I wrap the crest In silver paper. And so I go on till every bird has been plucked. Do you know what I get for these crests? I get $2.W) apiece for them. "I raise mynahs, finches, mallards, Jays and green parrots. I supply ten fly makers with all tho feathers they can use."?Philadelphia Rulletln. Why Touch-me-not. The columbine, geranium and lark spur we think of together because they are all named nftor birds?the dove, the crane and tho lark. Tho meaning of geranium Is "crane's bill," and if you notice the seed pods of a geranium you will aee that they do look like the long bill of a crane. The touch-me-not gets Its name from a peculiarity of the seed pod, too, but not a peculiarity of appearance. It Is the pod you must not touch, for if you do It will burst, and out will fly the seeds.?St. Nich olas. A Blood Saeklna Knrihworm. Bouth Africa Is the home of a species of earthworm, a creature closely re lated to our common angleworm, who la not only a giant among the denlrens of the soil, hut which Is reputed to have a taste for human blood. There aro two species of this uncanny wlg gler?one of a dark red color and the other almost black. They are larger than one's finger and from three to four Inches In length. A B*14 Girl. Her Mother?If you marry him yon need never expect me to come to see you. Daughter?Will you put that Into writing? "What for?" "I want to give It to Fred as a wed ding present." Fore*, of H*hlt. "A thousand stars are looking down on yon this night!" said the poetical . young man to the girl. I And she unconsciously put her hands up to arrange the position of her hat. If we did not take greot pains and were not at great expense to corrupt our nature, our nature would never corrupt us.?Clarendon. HOMES FOR THE DELEGATES. On the occasion of the meeting of the Laurens Baptist Association with Mt. Olive Church, Tuesday, September 26, ; delegates will be assigned as follows: Boaverdam ?W. W. Cooper. Belleview?Jno. Anderson. Beth?bp'"a?J. N. Jones, Sr. Beulah?J. P. Jon?:.-?. Chestnut Ridge?N. E. Cooper. Clinton? B. L. Henderson, Cross Hill ? B. M. Owings. Durbin?W. L. Cooper. Friendship-J. N. 0'Dell. Harmony Julius Knight. Highland Home?Doc Hughes. Holly Grove?Jno. Wrenn. Lanford- Mrs. J. R. Smith. Langston ?J. N. Jones. Jr. Laurens, First?W. E. Washington. Laurens, Second--Mrs. Lizzie Wash ington. Mountville?Andy Culbertson. Mt. Gallagher?Strawder Crawford. Mt. Pleasant?Mrs. Anna Arnold. Princeton?Mrs. C. C. Cooper. Poplar Springs?Mrs. Susie Boland. Prospect?D. A. Goddard. Rabun?Jno. Culbertson. Union?James Jones. Watts Mills-Martm Wells. Warrior Creek?J. O. Martin. Waterloo-Jno. Knight. W. E. Washington, For Committee. 8YDNEY 8MITH. Am m Conatr jr ftiiiwi mua mm m Peaea ? a. It (mar Maartalrala. for twenty years Sydney Smith re mained In Yorkshire, nnd, though his Ideas of clerical duty were not those of today, yet It will not be denied that he was a vigorous country pnrnon, en tering Into the pursuits and tho dally life of his bumble neighbors and doing Ms utmost to Improve their lot. Ills descriptions of bis life and surround ings nt Foston nre among the moat de lightful of bis humorous writings. Ev cry one has heard of Annie Kay, the little country girl, "made like a mile stone," who, christened Bunch, "be came the beat butler in the county;" of the rawboned riding horse Calamity, which "flung me over his heud Into a neighboring parish as if I had been a shuttlecock, and I feel grnteful that It was not Into a neighboring planet;" of the ancient green chariot named the immortal, "at which the village boys cheered and the village dogs barked;" of his four draft oxen?Tug and Lug, Haul and Crawl?of which "Tug ami I.ug took to fainting and required buckets of sal volatile nnd 11 mil and Crnwl to He down In the mud." As n mnglstrnte Sydney Smith became fa mous for making up local quarrels and for dealing gently with poachers. The game laws, like a good ^'h Ig. he could not abide, and It stirred his honest wrath to reflect that "for every ten pheasants which fluttered In the wood one English peasant was rutting In Jail." - I.Ike Charles Klngsley nt Evern ley In nfter years, he refrained from shooting. "If you shoot," he said, "tho squire and the poneher will both con sider you ns their naturnl enemies, nnd I thought It more clerical to bent peace with both."?Rev. Canon Vaughnn In Ixmgmnn's Mngaalne. BORN FOR A LAWYER. Why Hin Mother nciyammrndril Uli?? to Colonel Ina;eraoll. Among the stories which Colonel Bob Ingersoll delighted to tell was the following, snya the writer of "Amer ica's Most Popular Men:" While studying law with a Arm out west the colonel found himself nlone In the ofllce one day. He was Interrupted by the entrance of a raw boned, sharp featured countrywoman, who nmblcd Into the room leading a freckle faced, watery eyed ten-year-okl boy by tho hand. "Air you the lawyer?" she began. On being answered tn the affirmative she went on to say that she had brought her boy .Ilm to town for tho purpose of binding him out nt the "lawyerln' trade." She was morally certain, she averred, that Jim was a born lawyer and that nil he needed was a chance. "But, madam," objected the colonel, "he is entirely too young to begin tho study of law." "Too young, Indeed!" sniffed the fond mother contemptuously. "You don't know Jim. He was horn for a law yer." Much amused, the colonel asked her on what grounds she based her hopes of a future at the bar for her darling child. "Why," said sho, "when he wan only seven years old he struck work, nnd ho wouldn't do another llek If he got killed for It. When ho was eight ho got sassy and put on more airs than a prize horse at a country fair, and now, Lor' bless me, he Jest freer.es on to everything ho con Iny his hnndn on." The Flrat KnaTlah I.lirhthonae. It Is to the Bomnns, who left so many marks of their presenco In Eng land, that Britons owe the first light house. This was, and Is still, the Pha ros watch tower to the south of the keep of Dover castle. This Is remark able as the only remaining specimen of Itoinflll work In the castle and ns the earliest piece of regular masonry now existing In (Jrent Britain. It con sists of a easing of flints nnd tnfa, with bonding courses of large Bomnn tiles tilled with smaller stones. Its shape Is octagonal outside, but square Inside, the Inner room measuring four teen feet and the wnlls being ten foot thick. Itepalred agnln nnd ngnln, It was used nt one time as a government storehouse. -London Chronicle. Keep Serene. When you come to think of It, most of ns do have n hard time keeping our selves lu order, temper, nerves, selfish ness and longings, ambitions and de sires all Insisting to have a hearing, and down steps wisdom and orders con trol. Of course there are tho cool head ed, Intellectual people to whom self sacrifice means nothing, and little they know of the fight of the other passion ate half. Ill health nnd discontent aro the fruits of the bnttlo. Keep serene, sny, "I shnll control myself nnd be n cheerful philosopher," nnd all will go well. Hntanl t'oneenalon. Fred?So you are really going to marry tbnt young widow, oh? Joe Yes. Fred- She tells mo you hnvo promised to give up smoking. Joe - Yes; sort of mutual sacrifice, as It were." Sho agreed to give up her weeds If I would give up mine. Connotation. A good deal of the consolation offer ed In the world Is about ns solacing ns the nssurnneo of tho Irlshmnn to his wife when she fell Into the river -"You will find ground nt the bottom, my denr." The Heat He Had. "Ts this the best olnret, Murphy?" nsked tho Irlshmnn of his butler. "It Is not, sorr," was tho answer, "but it's the best ye've got."--I/mdon Outlook. Religion converts despair, which de stroys, Into resignation, which sub mits.--Blesslngton. The Colonel's Waterloo. Colonel John M. Kuller, of Honey Grove, Texaa, nearly met his Waterloo, from Liver and Kidney trouble. In a recent letter, he says: "I was nearly dead of these complaints, and although I tried my family doctor, he did me no good; so I got a Ml cents botiie of your freat Electric Bitters, which cured me. consider them the best medicine on earth, and thank God who gave you the knowedge to make them." Sold and guaranteed to cure Dyspepsia, Bil iousness and Kidney Disease, by The Laurens Drug Co. and Palmetto Drug Co. at W) cents a bottle. Hard, Soft or Shop COAL Brick and Draying Wanted--1,000 Cards of Oak and Pine Wood on cars your station or delivered at Laurens. J. W. Eichelberger. Laurens, S. C. 'Phone H. Terry's THE HUB THE HUB New Fall Merchandise Is arriving every day and indications point to the busiest selling we have ever known. The business that has already come our way is the best evidence of the Public's appreciation. There could be no better indication of LOW PRICES and exceptional Values. Come and see for yourself. Dress Goods We have endeavored to gather for this Depart ment only the most popular weaves and colorings. Broadcloth, Venetians, Repellants, Mohairs, etc., 25c, 50c, 75c and $1.00 per yard. .25 .50 Tricot Waistings 27-inch All Wool Waistings,. Figured and Plaid All Wool Waistings, White Waistings Yard-wide White Waistings, figured and striped, 10 cents Neckwear Novelties White Embroideried Turn-over Collars in all the most Dainty and Effective Styles 15cts, 25cts and 50cts. New Coats for Young Ladies The new Coats and Jackets are in, and the right kind to wear with any costume is here. The best part, however is the distinct styles coupled with the Low Prices $3.75, $5.00, $7.50 and $10.00 MILLINERY! The new Ready-to-wear Hats are here in all the most charming and distinctive effects. Also, the new Styles in untrimmed Hats frames, Shapes and Ornaments. Mrs. T. H. Nelson, with a competent force of assistants, has charge of the department, and will be pleased at all times to show you the Hat and the Style that best becomes you. THE HUB -A Remarkable Shoe Store Why Remarkable? Isn't It Remarkable to find a Shoe store where you can ask for any kind of a shoe that's desirable and good, and have the salesman say, "Here it is?" Isn't It Remarkable to find a big stock of shining new styles? Isn't It Remarkable that you are able to count on one store for the possible values, the best possible qualities, and the best possible ser vice in fitting your foot correctly, stylishly, comfortably? Isn't It Remarkable to find a Shoe store that never asks you more for a Shoe than you are willing to pay? Lots of other remarkable things about this Reliable Shoe Store. Come and see. PELAND THE One Price Store