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Tttfi ADVERTISER. Subscription l'vlco-12 Months, * 1.00 Payable In Advance Kalos lor Ad vortlslng.- Ordin?r j ad vertisements, per square, one ineer tlon, $1.00; eaeh subeequentlnse-rtion, 60 cents. Liboral reduotlon made (or large advertisements. Obituaries: All over 60 words, one cent a word. Notes of thanks: Five cents the line. W. W. Ball, Proprietor. Entered i^t the pos'oOloe at Laurens, S. C, as second class mall matter. LAURENS, S. C, Nov. 8, 1905. THE GIVE-AND-TAKE OFFER. When the Millikens precipitated the unfortunate troubles in the Laurens Mills and had bought large blocks of stock the suggestion came privately from sources now identified with the Millikens that the reasonable and fair adjustment lay in a give-and-take of fer. This suggestion came to mind here in Laurens ?not to the mind of the Lucas faction. Of course we are ready to call names with time, place and circumstances if this assertion should be disputed. As the Lucas people were in posses sion it seemed fair that the proposition should come from the other side?that they should have the option. However, the war went on. At last the Lucas crowd made the give-and-take proposi tion, giving the Millikens the option. They offered to buy the whole mill at $170 or sell all their stock at the same price. The Millikens refused to sell or to name any price. But there they did not stop. They intimated that they might be induced to pay $lt>0 for the stock of Lucas and his friends. This means, if it means anything, that stock in their hands is worth more than $170, but in any other people's hands only $100. Now as long as a coalition exists by which the Millikens control a majority, the stock of the minority cannot go up in price. Nobody will likely buy mi nority stock. The majority are the only buyers. As a matter of fact if the mill were free the stock would be ten dollars or more higher now than it was when the Millikens gained control of a majority; the mill having been prosper ous. No one will deny that they are keeping the stock down. They will not deny it themselves. They are the only buyers. Since the Millikens will not sell, the burden of proof is on them to show that they have no unfair object in view. There is no law to make them sell. Un der the law the majority may squeeze the minority; may put the thumb screws on it; may depress minority stock. The law does not make this rob bery. We do not say that the Milli kens have a wrongful motive in refus ing any compromise in this matter but we do say that their conduct and utter ances as to four per cent commissions indicates their motive. But, says an outsider, the Millikens are not alone; they have allies in Lau rens. We content ourselves with re plying that such men as John Madden, Robert Bell, O. B. Simmons, A. H. Martin and many others of Laurens, J. T. Carter of Virginia, all the Charles ton stockholders and a very large ma jority in number of all the stockholders but not in shares (four or five to one perhaps) are satisfied with Mr. Lucas and are standing by him. A man in whom The Advertiser has confidence and who is with Mr. Milliken in the fight is Mr. John B. Cleveland. It is significant that Mr. Cleveland has tried to effect a compro mise?that he favored the "give-and take" proposition. Mr. Cleveland in this matter acted as The Advertiser expected. We regret that we differ from him in this controversy but our confidence in him has not been shaken. He is committed to the Milliken side but he would today be glad to see a settlement on a basis fair to all sides. It gives us pleasure to say this of John B. Cleveland; for we have believed in him as an honorable gentleman for 25 years and more that we have known of him and known him. If a partner have one-third interest in a firm he can go to the courts and force a fair settlement. Persons hold ing one-third of the stock in a corpora tion can't do it. If the Laurens Mills were a firm the minority holders could force a sale of the property and so com pel the majority to pay full .value for all of it or else to sell. We are able to prove by Mr. Milli ken's own friends that the give-and take proposition is fair. Yet he rejects it. Therefore, we think the time has come when the minority stock-holders can bring this affair to the attention of the whole State and aak the assistance of the press and the legislature. If the Millikens can oppress one body of min ority stock-holders, they can oppress them in a dozen other mills. It is the duty of the legislature to devise all pos sible methods of protection. We have taken this position only af ter the rejection of the give-and-take offer?which almost amounts to a de claration of intention to oppress. * COTTON AND NEWSPAPER. Within a month definite information will be available about the size of the cotton crop. What the price is going to be later on we cannot guess but if we had been of the cotton holders up to this time we should continue to hold now?hit or miss. When one has stayed in a game until it is nearly time for a show-down, there is no gumption in getting scared. We see no reason why cotton should not bring anywhere from a dollar a pound down to the present price?which means that we know nothing about it? but we think the farmers should stand to their guns and by their leaders. Jor dan and Smith have done good work and deserve support. When cotton goes to a dollar a pound, then a pound will buy The Advertiser for one year in advance and then every farmer in Laurens will subscribe not pnly for himself but for his wife and for each child. In a certain section along one of the Rabuns where the children are in pain our subscription list will increase very rapidly. There fore the sooner cotton goes to a dollar a pound the better we shall be pleased. Meanwhile every farmer in Laurens should expend nine or ten pounds of cotton at it's present price on The An vertiser every year for everybody knows the paper is worth a dollar a pound and we are sending out three or four, may bo five pounds, of Adver tiser to each subscriber each twelve months. It is a heavy weight newspa per and yet light to read. * Every Time. The Laurens Mill seems to be verita ble porcupine for the Milliken crowd. Every time they reach after the crea ture they get themselves stuck full of injunctions.?Charleston Post. DISPENSARY IN U. S. COURT. Petition in Union Case Dismissed?An* other Hearing November 20th. The argument in Asheville of the South Carolina Dispensary case, in which J. G. Howell, of Union, S. C, seeks to compel the board of control of Union county to allow him to re-open the dispensary in Union by claiming that the Brice Bill, under which the election which resulted in the dispensary being closed, is unconstitutional, came to ??n abrupt end on Tuesday before the merits of the case were reached. Judge Pritchard, in Asheville, on his own mo tion, raised the point that the relief de manded?a mandamus?would bo im proper in any event, that writ being used only to enforce the decree of the court, and after a brief argument he dismissed the petition without prejudice. Immediately thereafter, on motion oi Howell's attorneys, the court issued o rule to show cause why a mandatory injunction should not be granted directed against the same defendants and in fa vor of the same complainant. The hearing was Bet for November 20th be fore Judge Pritchard, at Richmond. Ex-Attorney General Bellinger and R. H. Welch, of Columbia, and Dis trict Attorney J. G. Capers, of Green ville, representing the relator: P. V. Barron, of Union, representing the board of control; Ex-Congressman Stan yarne Wilson and Judgcelect D. E. Hydrick, of Spartanburg, and B. F. Townsend. V. E. DePass and J. A. Sawyer, of Union, associated with Mr. Barron and representing the anti-dis pensary interests, are participating in the case. Woman's Farm Work. Many a farm and farmer would go to rack and ruin, morally and financially, were it not for the woman's influence and the wife's help. The average far mer and farm are what they are largely because of the wife. Sound health is fundamental in human Buccess. Ma terial and ethical development depend upon this, for while individuals in poor health and with feeble digestion may accomplish much and enjoy life, we all know that for the mass the vital essen tial is organism sound and normal from head to feet. To properly nourish the body and wisely to insure its health, physicial and moral, arc duties in every family that devolve upen the wife. To fulfill her duties in this respect, a woman re quires genius of the highest order, in tuition, knowledge, experience, tact, sense, patience, all the attributes of perfect and successful motherhood and ; womanhood. Few men on the farm un derstand the qualities possessed by the women who toil by their sides. Every woman possesses these qualities to a degree; life at its best depends upon the extent to which she is able to de velop and employ them. The responsibilities of women are complex and they must fit themselves to do their work. The educational needs of young women who are to do work of the farm are but feebly realized and poorly provided for in schools. The manner in which a woman rises to her responsibilities on the farm, in view of her inefficient preparation for her du ties, is phenomenal. The successful woman on farm has the most, glorious success possible in a woman's life. Woman's work on the farm is just as important, just as satisfying, as man's. ?The American Farmer. FELL FROM A BALLOON. Woman Aeronaut Meets Tragic Death in Anderson. Maude Broadwick, wife of Charles Broadwick, an auronaut with a carnival company exhibiting at Anderson last week, fell from a balloon Thursday af ternoon and was instantly killed. She is said to have been an experienced bal loonist and had made one or two ascen sions herself during the week. Thurs day evening her husband was to make the parachute drop, and she was stand ing by to give the signals to cut the ropes when all was ready. She gave the signal and the balloon shot into the air with the woman hanging to the ropes between the balloon and the para chute. After going up between 200 and 300 feet the woman dropped to the earth and was killed instantly. A thou sand people witnessed the tragedy. It is stated in the accounts of the affair that it may have been a suicide. She was 22 and a native of Cincinnati. Cleared for Action. When tho body is e'eared for action, by Dr. King's New Life Pill?, you c.m tell it by the bloom of health on the cheeks; the brightness of the eyes; the firmness of the flesh and muscles; the buoyancy of the mind. Try them. AI Laurens Drug Co, and Palmetto Drug Co. Price 26 cents. To be Reckoned With. Dallas, Texas, Nov. 2.- In a state ment given out today, President Harvie Jordan of the Southern Cotton Asso ciation, said: "The Master Cotton Spinners' federa tion of Manchester, England, and the Internal Cotton Spinners of Europe, the New England and American Cotton spinners within the past few months have a*kcd for a conference with offi cials of the Southern Cotton association to bring about a closer and more direct relation with the producers and the es tablishment of stable prices for the product. This confererce will be held either in Europe or Am rica on a date to be agreed upon in the near future." Juries and Damage Suits. When an attorney makes strenuous efforts to secure a verdict against a corporation by suggestion to the jury that the defendant corporation is worth hundreds of thousands, or perhaps, millions of dollars, and that the plain tiff is a poor man, it seems to us, with out discussing the moral questions in volved in Buch a transaction, that it is an insult to any jury in this State, to oven suggest that they are so narrow, prejudiced and ignorant that they can not and will not respect their oath, to render a verdict according to the law and evidence, and lo their oath as jury men, simply because it is a corporation that is being sued in the Courts. If any man has a just claim against a corporation and presents to the jury facts showing he has law and evidence on his side to warrant it, the jury should, in our judgment, return a ver dict accordingly. But if any one en ters a suit against a corportion without sufficient evidence to warrant a verdict against the corporation, according to law, and an attorney beclouds the real facts and by socialistic demagogy and trickery takes advantage of the known or supposed prejudices and perhaps ig norance of a jury, and through these means secures a verdict, not actually warranted by the law and evidence in the caoe, we cannot see the moral differ ence between such a case and highway robbery, in which both tho attorney, the plaintiff and the jury are eqally responsible. If we are right in the above, ought any reputable lawyer, or rather can any reputable lawyer, afford to be particeps criminis in any such proceedings.?Johnston Monitor. The Golden Rule ,?gain. The Golden Rule is the topic of an es say by William Allen White in "The Atlantic Monthly," and this paper is the beginning of a series, in which the economic morals of our country at this time will briefly be set down. It is a good subject, and Mr. White is the man to tell the tale. He is an optimist, and yet his eye is clear and his nature with out fear. He takes his start from his tory, when "the great mass of the peo ple had no rights; they had only wrongs.'' He comes down to our day, when enough evil remains to make him exclaim with bitterness, "All the world knows that it is no crime to cheat a poor man," whether of oppor tunity, money, or his vote. The bril liant and genial Kansas essayest sees that too frequently the contest with greed has been waged by jealousy, and in such a contest greed will win. But there are other contestants, namely justice and the truth, and their cause is not on the ebb. ' 'The party system is less rigid than it has ever been"; one great gain. "The people are ceasing to envy riches"; if true a far deeper gain. And if anything could teach men not to envy gold, that rebirth should come from observing what is going on in the money centre of the United States to-day, where once honored names are becoming a synonym for shame, and that for one sole cause?that they cared too much for gold and too little for that sermon on a hill by which most of them profess to live. ?Collier's for November. Courted Forty-five Years. A couple that was recently wedded in Constance, Switzerland, seems to be a prize winner in the number of years of courtship and number of letters ex changed. Hertzfeld, the hridgegroom, when a young man told his sweetheart that he was going away and would re turn to marry her when he had ?20,000. He kept his word to the letter, and both remained true to their vows. They courted forty-live years, and exchanged three thousand love letters and four dozen photographs. Terrific Race With Death. "Death was fast approaching," writes Ralph F. Fernandez, of Tampa, Fla., describing his fearful race with death, as a result of liver trouble and heart disease, which had robbed me of sleep and of all interest in life. I had tried many different doctors and sev eral medicines but got no benefit until I began to use Electric Bitters. So wonderful was their effect, that in three days I felt like a new man, and today I am cured of all my troubles." Guar anteed at Laurens Drug Co. and Pal metto Drug Co. We have just received a carload of solid oak, beautifully finished beds and bedroom suits and they are going at prices that would be to your interest to see our line before buying. S. M. & E. H. VVilkes & Co. A Few Bouquets Our Fertilizer Has Grown. Glenn Springs, S. C, Oct. 9, 1905. Spartanburg Fertilizer Co. Gentlemen:?The guano 1 buy from you is in the best shape to scatter of any guano I have ever used. As long as you keep it up to its present high standard I can say that it will be all right and no one will regret using it. The acids you make I like better than any I have ever used. T. H. WKST, Pauline, R. F. D. No. 2. October 9, 1905. Dear Sirs:?I have used yotir Fertilizers and like them so well I shall tise them again. They are all right. s. R. Gregory, Rich, R. F. D. No. 1. , October 9, 1905. Gentlemen:?I used your guano last Spring and i am making the best crop of cot ton I have ever made. j. Ebkr Smith. SPARTANBURG FERTILIZER CO., P. 0. Draw 78. SPARTANBURO, ? ? - S. C. TWO QUESTIONS Pall and Winter Shoes The new comer-for Fall and Winter wear awaits a call from you. .... You'll like them?you can't help it. - - We have a glove to fit your mind's eye aa well as your feet and your purse. We've the best $2.50 Shoe made. We've the beat $3.50 Shoe made. We've the best $4.00 Shoe made. We've the best $5.00 Shoe made. The best of Leather and the best of SHOE MAKING All Sizes and Width's. Model 610. Fall and Winter Underwear No one wants to throw away money on Underwear, even if it's only 50 cents or $1.00. You can waste money on Under wear as quickly as on anything, perhaps quicker, for what looks good fabric is often "a horse of quite another color." If you wish to know you are getting good, honest Underwear, get ours. Hare you a cold? Look to your Under wear. .... We have an intimate knowledge of what every manufacturer in the United State can do and is doing in the way of making Underwear. That's the reason we have the best, at the lowest price, consistent with the quality. - . - - Buy your Underwear at this store. You can't do better. Don't think you can do as well.. ALWAYS GOOD WITH QUALITY COPELAND, Shoes, Hats and Furnishings Customer's Shoes Shined Free The One Price Store THE "BOSS" COTTON PRESS! SIMPLEST, STRONOCST, BEIT Thr Murray Ginniwq System Gin*. Feo?ert, Cundenitr?, Etc. . GIBBEi MACHINERY CO. Columbls, C. SCHEDULES C. N. & L. KallroAd Co. Schedule In effect November 21st, 1004 : No. 62 No. 21 No. 86 1'nnAenger Mixed ex- Freight ?x? Dally eept Sun- cept Sun day day I.v Columbia 11 10 am 6 15 pm 100mm ar Nowberry 12 36pm 7 06pm 3 46am ar Clinton 1 22 p m 8 16 p m 6 25 a m ar Lauren* 1 12 p m 8 46 p m 6 00 a m No. 53 No. 22 No. 84 Lv Lauren* 2 02 pm 700am 520pm ar Clinton 2 22 pm 730am 6 00pm ar Ncwlwrry 3 10 pm 835am 7 05 pm ar Columbia 4 15 p m 10 80 a m 9 15 p m C. II. GASQUK. Acont. Tenth Anniversary! This week The Bank of Laurens celebrates its Tenth Anniversary. It is a matter for congratu lation that the Bank enters its second decade with a largely increased business. Its prospects were never before so flattering; and the management begs to thank the public most heartily for its generous patronage. :::::: Capital $50,000. Undivided Profits, $20,000. Deposits, $200,000. The Bank of Laurens O. B. SIMMONS, President. J. J. PLUSS, Cashier. W. P. CAINR, Assistant Cashier. Charleston & Western Carolina Railway. (Schedule in effect April 16, 1905.) No. 2 Daily Lv Laursns 1:50 pm Ar Greenwood 2- 46 " Ar Augusta 5:20 " Ar Anderson 7:10 " No. 42 Daily Lv Augusta 2:35 pm Ar Allendalc 4:30 " Ar Fairfax 4:41 " Ar Charleston 7: 40 " Ar Beau ford 6:30 " Ar Port 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 Greenville 3:25 " 10:20" Arrivals:?Train No. l, 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 6:40pm; train No. 2, daily, from Spartanburg and interm ediate stations 1:30pm. C. II. Gasque, Agt., Laurens, S. C. (i. T. Bryan, Gen'l Agt. Grencville S.C. Krnest Williams, Gen, Pass. Agt., Auguata, Ga, T. M. Emerson, Traffic Manager. Every Young Man Who Wants to Dress Fashionably at Little Cost is cordially invited to come here and see the fine quality, stylishly tailored Autumn Suits and Overcoats we are offering at moderate prices. Recause we make the outfitting of young men a serious study; and carry in stock only such styles and fabrics suited to the tastes of young fellows from 14 to 19 years, you will find here only the most exclusive smart gar ments, perfect in every detail of fashion, finish and fit. Come on our invitation to see the excep tional values we are offering this Kail, and try on as many garments as you like?we won't make you uncomfortable if you don't buy. Here is a hint of some of the matchless Suits and Overcoats awaiting your inspec tion. Hen's Sack Suits at $8 to $20. Whatever your price limit may be, from $8 to $20, you arc sure to find something here that will suit you to perfection. Roth single and double-breasted Sacks of latest cut?ex actly like the custom-tailors' make?beauti fully tailored and finished throughout, and an absolutely perfect fit guaranteed in every size. Hen's Overcoats from $7 to $20. Whether you select one at $7 or one at $20 you are sure of correct style and of materials that will give you satisfactory service. The difference in price is due to the quality of the fabric, lining and trimmings. Roth single and double-breasted models are here for your choosing in warm overcoatings in plain black and Oxford, Boys' Fashionable Suits and Overcoats in a Great Variety of Attractive Styles at $1.75 to $5.00 J. E. MINTER & BRO. There Are Styles In Watches As well as in clothes. The lat est in women's watches are now here, including some daintily beautiful chatelaine styles. In wo men's watch and lorgnette chains, we are showing a hnevaricty of Artistic Patterns ;/ * t' y \ , ' > -OF THE Simmons Chains. Although they are what are called GOLD-PILLKD chains, they are in every essential particular as good as the more costly all-gold. Your inspection of these is especially invited. : : : : : : : : Fleming Bros, See Our Stock OF BOOKS For New and Second hand School Books see our line, we have a large stock this year, there are over 2,000 pounds of se cond hand books at the Notice of County Treasurer. The County Treasurer's Books will he open for collection of State, County and Commutation Road Taxes for fiscal year 1904 at the Treasurer's Oflice, from October 15th to December 31st 1905. Those who prefer to do so can pay in January, 1900, with one per cent, addi tional; those who prefer paying in Feb ruary, 1906, can do so with 2 per eent. additional; those who prefer to pay in March, 1906 to the 15th of said month can do so by paying an additional 7 per cent. After said date the books will close. All persons owning property or pay ing taxes for others in more than one Township are requested to eall for re ceipts in each township in which they live. This is important, as additional cost and penalty may not be attached. Prompt attention will be given those who wish to pay their taxes through the mail by checks, money orders, etc. Persons sending in lists of names to be taken off, are urged to send them early as the Treasurer is very busy during the month of December. The Tax Levy is as follows: State Tax, 51., mills County Ordinary, 3 * nulls Special County, 2 mills Public Road, 2 mills School, ;? mills Total, 15'2 mills Laurens Special School 3f mills Gray Court-Owings, 2 mills mountain Inn, 4 nMHs Kkom, 2 1? Waterloo, _ ? Cross Hill, 3 Mountville, 2* Clinton, 3' All able-bodied male citizens bet\ v,ui the ages of 21 and 60 years are nable to pay a poll tax of $1.00, except old soldiers, who arc exempt at 50 years. Commutation Road Tax $1.00, in lieu of working the public roads, to he paid at the time as stated above. J. IL COPELAND, County Treasurer. Laurens, S. C, Sept. 26, 1905-td. W. B. KNIGHT, Attorney at Law. Strict attention to all business entrusted. Office hours 9 a. m. toB p. m. Office second floor Simmons' Block. DIAL & TODD, Attorneys and Coun sellors at Law. Enterprise 11 ink and Todd Omce Build Ing. L A u U EN S , S. O. Simpson, Cooper & Babb, Attorneys at Law. Will practice In all State Courts. Prompt attention given to all business. N. II. Dial. Dr. Wooiley's SKM KHVK lo nil users of morphine, opium, laudanum, olixirof opium, co calnoor whiskey,a largo book of par tlcularson liomeor aanntorlum treat ment. Addrws, Or 1?. m. wooi.i.ky, PAINLE88 PIUM I AND Whiskey Cure! P. 0. Hox 287, W. C. IRBY, Jr., Attorney at Law, LA0RKN8, 8. C.