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THE ADVERTISER. SuWi iplloii Price-IS Months, fl.00 Payable in Advance. Rates Tor Advertising;.?Ordinary ad vertisements, per square-, ono inter tion, $1.00; each subsequent Insertion, 50 oents. Liberal reduction made mrl; tg* a 1 vertieemcuts. Obituaries: All ovtr 5J words, one cent a wed. Notes of (hanks: Five cents tho line W. W. Ball, Proprietor. Entered *tthe pis'office at Laurens, S. C. an sccoud class mall matter. LAURENS, S. C, Nov. IS, 1905. HEAD OF A FINE NEWSPAPER. Riehard W. Simpson, Jr., "Dick" Simpson (the sound is good and familiar in Laurens) is now editor of the Ral eigh, N. C, Times, a newspaper which has lately absorbed the Raleigh Post and is one of the strongest, most widely circulated and best backed journals in its great state. Mr. Simp son recently resigned the editorship of the Greenville News. In that position he has made a reputation and he proved too strong a man for that paper to hold. It was recently stated that since he went to Raleigh efforts were made to bring him back to Greenville, as The News under its new owners is to be greatly improved and enlarged, and the statement is doubtless true, as in our judgment at least, no newspaper man has been connected witu the news papers of Greenville who has done his work more faithfully and with more all round ability. We regret that he can not be induced to return to Greenville, for he knows our people and they know him and trust him. All this is of special interest in Lau VPIlH hecaURe lvfr Rimnsnn 5? in a senSS a Laurens boy. His father is Major R. W. Simpson of Pendleton and his grand-father, who many years ago was a member of Congress, was a brother of the late Dr. John W. Simpson of Laurens. His mother is a sister of Mr. Creswell Garlington and Mr. S. D. Garlington. Therefore Laurens has an interest in this young, virile and able South Carolinian and will watch him climb to an even higher place than that which he has already won. We should have rejoiced if he had accepted the in vitation to return to South Carolina but since we can't have him in Greenville we are glad that he does not cease to be a Carolinian. South Carolina will always claim him. * WHAT ABOUT COTTON? While we believe Laurens farmers should stand faithfully by the Southern Cotton Association, hit or miss, sink or die, survive or perish, we do not advise them to speculate. Eleven cents cotton is high priced cotton. Cotton may be higher and it may be lower. The re ports about the size of the crop are con flicting. We are sntisfied that the crop in this State might have been worse. Farmers who make or lose by holding for more than eleven cents will not have Mr. Jordan and Mr. E. D. Smith to praise or blame. I.utas Milliken. This is not a wedding announcement as the head line indicates, but it is a sort of divorce proceedings. They are anxious to get apart, but the conten tion is about the baby, the Laurens Cotton Mill. Milliken asserts that Lu cas is not a proper person to have charge of it and that it should be taken from him. On the other hand Lucas claims that the child lias grown and prospered under his fatherly care and now it is in good healthy condition and that if it is turned over to Milliken as a sort of step-father that he will carry out the old time practice of leeching and blistering which would tend to weaken the child and check its growth. ? Carolina Spartan. How the Editors Get Rich. After a good deal of study and work we have at last figured out why so many country editors get rich. Here is the secret of success: a child is born in the neighborhood, the attending physi cian gets $25, the editor gives the loud lunged youngster and the happy parents a "send off" and gets $00. It is chris tened; the minister gets $10 and the editor gets $00. It grows up and mar ries; the editor publishes another long winded article and tells a dozen liea about the beautiful and accomplished bride, the minister gets $10 and a piece of cake, the editor gets $000. In the course of time it dies, and the doctor gets from $25 to $100, the minister per haps gets another $15, the nndortakpr gets from $50 to $100; the editor pub lishes a notice of the death and an obituary two columns long, lodge and society resolutions, a lot of poetry and free cards of thanks, and gets $0,000. No wondor so many country editors get rich. ?Ex. Thanksgiving for the Orphans. Sitting in a low-country Church at one of the Associatians today I was greatly impressed with the increased prosperity of our people. They seem never to have been in as good a condi tion. Cotton is away up, and everybody feels good. I am wondering how this feeling is going to affect the thanks giving offerings the last Thursday in November. This is understood to be a time on which the ..orphans shall al ways be remembered. Shall the collection for their benefit this year reflect the gratitude that tho people feel for their prosperity? Shall they give the Lord the thanks for the good things of life, and express them in a practical way? I appeal to every pastor who shall conduct a thanksgiving service that he shall ask for a contribution for the or phans. We have 200 in family now, and the needs arc very great. Let the people have an opportunity to help in this great and important work. A. T. Jamieson, Supt. Greenwood, S. C. We have in stock the largest line of fancy china that we have ever shown and at prices that will be to your inter eat to see our line before you buy. Should we Drop Our Policies? Collier's for November II says: The wisdom for dropping policies is a topic on which inquiries are being constantly put to us, and although we have an swered them often, it seems necessary to repeat again. "Would you advise one to drop a policy with the New York Life in this case: My policy is for $2,000, twenty years paid life. I have only had it one year, therefore paid two yearly payments of $70 each. Of course, it is a long time yet to pay, but if I felt sure that the New York Life is all O. K. I wouldn't care. Would like to know just what you think of this." The three big companies and other smaller ones need improvement, and certain officials have committed outrages so gross as to call for severe penalties, but that all three companies are sound we have no doubt, and we advise everybody against sacrificing policies from a fear that any of these institutions is going to fail. All we have to do is to work hard to get the facts, give punishments that will be a warning, and institute reforms founded on these investigations. De ferred dividends should be abolished. Costs of wild competition should be done away with. Investments should be restricted. Accounting should be more regular. Probably the size of companies should have a limit. On whether the States or' the National Government will ever be forced into the business of insurance themselves our minds must remain open until it is seen how far private methods can be improved. Another question likely to remain for a time is the future of frankly money-making stock companies. One of the reforms of which we are most convinced is a generous payment to directors. Each of them should re ceive so much for each meeting that he could be expected to do his work with out any justification for Beeking profits on the side. Where Are They? What has become of the old-fash ioned man who carried a shot bag in his pocket to keep change in? Who wore barn door trousers? Who kept a bootjack to pull off his boots? Who had his trousers lined with un bleached muslin? t Who wore a long linen duster when traveling? Who carried an old flat carpet bag? Who greased his boots on Sunday? Who wore a shawl? Who wore a watch cord with a watch key fastened to it? What has become of the old-fash ioned woman who kept a bodkin in her work-basket? Who baked custard for tea when she had company? Who made impressions around the edge of pies with a key to make them look fp.ncy? Who wore* calico sun-bonnets with pasteboard slats in them? Who wore Shaker bonnets? Who reasoned apple pie with all spice? Who used indigo to blue the water when washing clothes? What has become of the old-fash ioned people who poured tea in the sau cer and blew on it to make it cool? Wao drank sassafras tea in the spring to purify the blood? Who had to learn to like tomatoes? Who saved old rags to trade off to the tinware peddler? ?Ex. FROM THE LAURENS DRUG COMPANY. Offer to Refund Money if Hyotnei Does Not Cure Catarrh. To the Editor of The Advertiser:? We have been asked recently if the advertisements printed in your col umns regarding Hyomei were true, where we offer to refund the money if this treatment does not cure catarrh. We wish you would please print this letter in as conspicuous a place as pos sible in your paper, saying that we ab solutely agree to refund the money to any purchaser of a Hyomei outfit if it | does not cure catarrh. This outfit consists of an inhaler of a convenient size to be carried in the vest pocket so that the user can breathe Hyomei four or five times daily. With this is included a medicine dropper and I a bottle of Hyomei. The outfit sells for $1.00 and is a most economical treat ment for the inhaler lasts a lifetime and there is enough Hyomei for several weeks' use, while extra bottles can be obtained for 50 cents. We trust this letter will settle any doubts thnt may have arisen as to our willingness to refund the money for a Hyomei outfit, in case the purchaser is not perfectly satisfied. We wish to say emphatically that our guarantee on Hyomei holds good, and we will refund the money to any dis satisfied purchaser who simply states that he has used the treatment accord ing to directions and not been helped. Respectfully yours, Laurens Drug Co. Start a Bank Account. Deposit your money in a bank, in your h me bank if you have one, and if | not in the nearest bank to you. Even if a man is content with his savings and never wants to invest, he should carry these savings to the bank. There might come a time when he wanted to get help to make an attractive invest ment, and if so he would find it all the easier because of his bank account. And, a fact worth consideration, the bank account helps him to economize. There is every argument in favor of deposit ing your money in a bank, and not one for hiding it away about the house or | barns. - Spartanburg Herald. IN SELF DEFENSE. Hearken to Bro. Dcndy on His Seven teenth Anniversary. With this issue The Clinton Gazette completes its seventeenth year. We therefore salute our friends, thanking one and all for past favors and only ask that a long list of dead-heads, alias delinquents, show cause, if any they have, why they should not be knocked down, stripped of their raiment and left for dead. These blessings we ask in self defense, Amen.?The Gazette, Nov. 8th. We are showing a beautiful line of I couches covered with upholstery in dif ferent colors and imitation of leather at prices that will be to your interest to see our line before you buy. Terrific Race With Death. "Death wao fast approaching," writes Halph P. Fernandez, of Tampa, Fla.t 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. For Sale 41 Acres just outside incorporated limits of city of Laurens, beautiful cot tage, servant house and good out build ings at a bargain. One seven room house in the city of Laurens. 400 acres at Madden Station, 250 in cultivation and balance in forest, with good 7 room dwelling, good outbuildings and six tenant houses. 400 acres one mile from Madden, good dwelling, three tenant houses and out buildings. 178 acres, 7-room dwelling, good out buildings, mineral spring on place, two miles of Ora, S. C. Three lots, 32 acres, 85 acres and 58 acres within the incorporated limits of the town of Laurens. Will sell lots separately or the three as a whole. Terms made easy. 446 acres, beautiful 8-room dwelling, good outbuildings, 5 tenant houses; 160 acres in cultivation, fine bottom lands, balance in forest; within 2 1-2 miles of Lanford Station; a beautiful county home; easy terms. 170 acres of land in one mile of Gray ourt. Fine Rock Quarry, of 10 acres in half mile of Gray Court. 75 acres of fine fnrming land half mile of Shiloh Church. 500 acres in four miles of the city of Abbeville Court House with good im provements and a fine brick yard, at a bargain. Beautiful dwelling in town of Foun tain Inn, one acre front, good barn and out buildings. 55 acres of land near town of Foun tain Inn. One house and lot, 4i acres land in town of Fountain Inn. AI30 lot of 12 acres. Nice residence in town of Fountain Inn, 4 acres of land and out buildings. House and lot of 2 acres in Fountain Inn. 502 acres of land, beautiful residence and eight tenant houses, with 20 acres within the incorporated limits of town of Woodruff. 140 acres in one mile of town of Woodruff. One modern residence, on Peachtree St., in town of Woodruff. One dwelling and two acres of land in town of Woodruff. Beautiful eight room house on Main Street of Woodruff. One dwelling, on Main Street, with nine bed rooms, parlor, cook room, dining room and closets, 70 acres of land, good outbuildings in town of Woodruff. One gin outfit, 20-horse power engine, two 60-saw Pratt gins, and press suc tion elevator. $600.00. 17 1-2 acres on Beaverdam Creek, near Lanford half mile from rail road, with corn and wheat mill in good runn ing order, casacity 200 bushels a day; good rock quarry, and survey for yarn mill has been made on place. 247 acres with good 4 room house, good out buildings, 125 acres in cultiva tion, lot of oak and 1500 cords of pine, two miles Enoree M'F'G. Co. 2 lots 1-4 acres each, dwelling on lot no. 1, in town of Fountain Inn. 178 acres of land with two good dwell ings and splendid well of water near Mt. Olive Church, Waterloo township. 2 acres suitable building lots, located in Jersey, city of Laurens. 1 lot acre, granite store house, town of Milton. 3 acres land dwelling and store house on Sloan street, town of Clinton. 1 six room house and 3-4 acre lot, main street Clinton. 1 five room house, 3 1-2 acres land on sloan street, Clinton. 52 acres of land and 4 room dwelling in town of Lenair, Culbert county, N. C. One 2 acre lot, suitable for building lots, on East Main street, in Laurens at a bargain. One house and lot, 4 acres, in town of Woodruff, on Sawmill Street. 112 acres, with dwelling and out buildings, 70 acres in cultivation, 10 acres fine bottoms on Reedy River, near Rabun Creek Church, i 20 acres on North Rabun Creek, 20 horse water power, with wheat and corn mill, gin house and outfit; known as Nasn's Old Mill place, at a bargain. 2 acre lot and nice 5 room house, at a bargain on Conway Avenue, Laurens, One nice six room dwelling, good building, 2 acres, 1 acre front on Peach tree street, in Woodruff. 2 1-4 acres, suitable for building lots, on Sullivan street, City of Laurens. 421 acres at Hobbyville, Spartanburg county, good dwelling, tenant houses, store and post office, at a bnrgain. A beautiful 5-room house and 4 acres of land in Gray Court. J. N. LEAK Gray Court, S. C. Money to Loan. Loans negotiated on improved farms in Laurens County at 7 per cent inter est on $1,000. and over, and 8 per cent on smaller amounts, secured by first mortgage. Easy annual payments. No commissions. Borrower to pay for ab stract of title. C. D. Bakksdalk, Laurens, S. C. Correct Dress The "Modern Method" system of high-grade tailoring introduced by L. E. Haya & Co., of Cincinnati, O., satisfies good dressers everywhere. All Garments Made Strictly to Your Measure at moderate prices. 500 itvlet of foreign and domestic fabrics from which lo choose. Ask your dosier to show you our Uns, or if not represented, writs to us for particulars. I*. HATS <SL CO. CINCINNATI, OHIO, THERE IS A. REASON WHY We Constantly Grow! People come to us because they get what they want and are impressed with the fact that they get the LOWEST PRICES. Money making is not our only object. We are ambitious to have a business of great proportions. In order to reach our aim we must so please our customers as that they will not only come back themselves but bring their friends with them. A Great Silk Shipment! We have had such an enormous silk business that we have about doubled our silk stock. New ones by Express Every Week. Beautiful designs in Shirt-Waist Silk..48 Elegant coloring in all silk-figured and change able effects, .50 The greatest line of colored Chiffon Silks $1.00 A 36-inch guaranteed Black Taffeta Silk .871 Look at all the $1.25 Black Taffeta Silk in town at $1.25 then see our guaranteed one at $1.00 and you will buy it. Fresh Dress Goods Shipment Almost Every Week! Silk finished German Henriettas.$1.00 English Serges, 44 in. wide, grand values, .50 All-wool Cheviot Dress Goods, 36 in. wide. .40 Elegant Dress Cheviot, 36 in. wide.25 Double width wool filled Dress Goods, 12 1-2 cents. Fxtraordinary value in Chiffon Broadcloth, 54 inches wide, as pretty as any you will see at $1.25, our price.$1.00 A grand line of French Prunelas, looks like other people's $1.00 goods, our price. .75 Our Millinery Business Is Alright, too. Just See the Great Array of the Season's Latest that we are Showing in OUR MILLINERY PARLOR. Cloaks! Cloaks!! Cloaks!!! Never in our history have we sold so many nice Ladies' Coats. New ones by express every week. See our great All-wool Empire Coat at $5.00. See those $10.00 values at $7.75. See our high Novelties at $10.00. Look at our Chiffon Kersey Coats at $12.50 and $15.00. A big line of Jackets from $1.25 up. A splendid line of Children's High-Grade Coats, all prices, from 95 cents to $8.00. Good Shoes! Stylish Shoes!! That's what you want, and we have them. No matter what your reasonable wants may be we can meet them in Our Big Shoe Department. "The Bay State" for men, Kippendorf-Dittman Co's for Ladies. G. H. Gerbers for Children. We are clos ing out the big shoe stock we bought from ' 'The Hub" some time since. Ladies' shoes 48c to $3.00. Children's shoes 25c to $2.50. Men's Shoes $1.00 to $4.00. Specials! Specials!! Specials!!! White Flannel, iqc, 15c, 25c and 50; Red Flannel, all-wool, 15c, 25c and 40c; Pretty Outings. 5c, 8c and 10c; Beautiful Flannelettes, 5c and 10c; a great line of good Ginghams, 5c, 6c and 7c; 10-4 Sheeting, 19c; big line of Dress Calico, 3 J/c; latest in Belts, 15c, 25c, 35c, 50c; best guaranteed Kid Gloves, $1.00; a fine Kid Glove, 75c; a big line of Golf Gloves, 25c to 50c; see our big line of Jersey (Moves, ioc to 50c, Linen Hemstitched Handkerchiefs, 5c to 25c. We want everybody to come to see us and make themselves at home with us. Ice water in summer and good fires in winter. O. B. SIMMONS CO., Laurens, S. C. THE BIG DRESS GOODS STORE. 'Phone 35. 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. Depo???, $700,000. The Bank of Laurens O. B. SIMMONS, President. J. J. PUJSS, Cashier. W. P. CAINB, Assistant-Cashier. Don't Let Your HORSES AND MULES Get Poor and Boney! White's Purgative Medicine, This puts them in good or der to get the full benefit of White's Worm and Condition Powders Continue the Powders for eight days and you will be astonished at the results. Follow directions on the packages. White's Colic and Kidney Cure! The Great Combination Kidney and Colic Remedy for Stock? Directions on Package. White's Black Liniment! The only absolutely perfectly balanced sub-cutaneous counter irritant. Especially recommended for the human family. Fine for Stock also. Give Each One a Bottle of 25 and 50 cents sizes. Sale by Dodson's Drug Store. A Man Well Satisfied is Not a Standing Ad But a Walking and Talking One. _ WE HAVE MANY SUCH._ Moore, S. C, Nov. 3rd, 1905. Spartanburg Fertilizer Company, Spartanburg, S. C. Gentlemen:?It gives me pleasure to state that I have had dealings with your company in the fertilizer business for quite a number of years. The fertilizer lias given me entire satisfaction, and my business transactions have been entirely satisfactory. Yours truly, A. J. MONTGOMERY, Spartanburg, No. 2. Spartanburg, S. C, Route No. 2, Nov. 6th, 1905. Spartanburg Fertilizer Company, Spartanburg, S. C. Pear Sirs:?I am satisfied that your fertilizers are the best on the market. Yours very truly, _K. R WAU,. SPARTANBURG FERTILIZER CO., P. 0. Draw 78. SPARTANBURQ, S. C. Notice to Planters At this season of the year all eyes are turned to sowing, for tin rem lies tlie success or fail ure of every Planter. Poor seed will never make a good crop, hence we have expended every effort to secure the host that money can buy, and have on hand seed that we are justly proud of and can roconmmend, such as Wheat, Rye, Barley, Rape, Lucerne, Vetches Red Rust Proof Oats, and Red and Crimson pi Clover, and also a great variety Garden Seeds If you want seed that will yield results and increase your Hank account, try these. PRICES are right for small or large buyers at Kennedy Bros. lift 1 ?A'-trifci?? 1'"A'"j>'"t&j* A' lA - A " A ' A ' A " A'-mV'A1' 1A1'A'AifA1'ijt^Jh 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 finevariety of Artistic Patterns -ok the Simmons Chains. Although they are what are called GoLD-Fii.i.Hi) 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 Palmetto Drug Co. Laurens, S. C. Notice of County Treasurer. The County Treasurer's Books will be open for collection of State, County and Commutation Road Taxes for fiscal year 1904 at the Treasurer's Office, 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, 1900, can do so with 2 per cent, 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 call 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, 5',. mills County Ordinary, 3 mills Special County, 2 mills Public Road, 2 mills School, 3 mills Total, 15'., mills Laurens Special School 3f mills Cray Court-Owings, 2 mills Fountain Inn, 4 mills Fkom, 2 mills Waterloo, 2 mills Cross Hill, 3 mills Mountville, 2A mills Clinton, 3 mills All able-bodied male citizens between the ages of 21 and 00 years are liable to pay a poll tax of $1.00, except old soldiers, who arc exempt at 50 years. Commutation Road Tax $1.00, in heu of working the public roads, to be paid at the time as stated above. J. IL COPELAND, County Treasurer. Laurens, S. C, Sept. 20, 1905?td. Charleston & Western Carolina Railway. (Schedule in effect April 10, 1905.) No. 2 Daily 50 pm Lv Laursns Ar Greenwood Ar Augusta Ar Anderson Lv Augusta Ar Allendalc Ar Fairfax Ar Charleston Ar Beau ford Ar Port Royal Ar Savannah Ar Waycross Lv Laurens 2:07 pn Ar Spartanburg .3:30 " VT . rn 1: 2- 40 5: 20 7: 10 No.l Daily 2 :07 pm] Lv Laurens Ar Greenville No. 52 Daily 2:09 pm 3:25 " No. 42 Daily 2:35 pm 4:30 " 4:41 " 7:40 " 0:30 " 0:40 " 0: 45 " 10:00 " No. 87 Ex. Sudd a y H:00am 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 6: 40 pm; train No -. daily, from Sparenburg and Interm ediate stations 1:30pm. C. H. Casque, Agt., La-rens, S. ( . G. T. Bryan, GenM Agt. Greneville S. ('. Ernest Wilhams, Gen. Pass. Agt., m ? Auguata, <ia, T. M. Emerson, Traffic Manager.