The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, January 10, 1906, Image 1

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mum WK AUK IN_THE School Book Business and*Sell at State Prices Palmetto DrugiCo Laurens, S. C. VOL XXI. NO. 23 ELECTION RETURNS ARE INCOMPLETE. Fairly Full Vote Oust In County. RE8ULT IS IN DOUBT. Nine Boxes Including Laurens and Clinton Qlve the Dispensary 396, No Dispensary 552. Laurens county voted on the question of "Dispensary" or "No Dispensary" yesterday, but The ADVEaTiSER is unable to give a full report this morn ing as the returns were difficult to ob tain and were late in coming in. Nine boxes out of a total of twenty three in the county give 396 votes for the Dispensary and 552 against it. A fairly full vote was cast through out the county it seems, and the indica tions are that the final count will be close. Both sides were claiming the election j last night though the returns showed a lead of about 150 for the prohibition ists. Precincts, Against For Dispen'y. Dispen'y. Laurens, 294 179 Laurens Mills, 33 28 Gray Court, 23 46 Cross Hill, 55 32 Mountville, 8 29 Clinton, 120 29 Clinton Mills, 9 11 Mount Pleasant, 2 28 Youngs Store, 8 14 Totals. 552 396 Death of a Young Man. Mr. Jay Cooper, second son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Jas. L. Cooper of this county, died at New Holland, near Gainesville, Ga., last Friday at the home of his uncle, Dr. Jas. H. Dow ney. The body of the young man, ac companied by Dr. Downey and Messrs. Willie and Earnest Cooper, brothers of the deceased, was brought to Laurens Saturday and carried to Union Church for burial. Mr. Cooper was about 18 and for some time before his recent fatal ill ness he held the position of head sales men at the store of the Pacolet Manu facturing Company, lacated at New Holland. He was a most excellent young man and was very highly esteem ed hy all who knew him. Convened Yesterday. The General Assembly of South Caro lina met yesterday in annual session. It is said there are a dozen dispensary measures on the calendar and there may be a dozen more entered as the dispensary is probably the most import ant question to come up at this session. The Laurens delegation remained over for the election yesterday, going down in the afternoon. Senator Mc Gowan is a candidate for Judge of this Judicial Circuit for which an election will be held during the present session of the legislature. The Hon. W. C. Irby, Jr., will intro duce among other bills at this session of the legislature an important dispen sary measure which he believes, if passed, will greatly improve the sys tem. DnilclllK Nhof? unil lVrlxviiji. An advertisement appears In No. i*?0 of the Tattler informing the public that a stagecoach rims from Nando's eofl'ce house to Mr. Tiptoe's dancing school, adding a postscript: "Dancing shoes not exceeding four Inches In height In tho heels aud periwigs not exceeding threo feet in length are carried In the coach box gratis." This, of course, was a satire upon the mob caps, conical hats, flowers, feathers and representations in glass of butterflies, caterpillars and even miniature coaches and horses with which the fine lady of the day adorned her head.?London Mall. The steamship Korea, which arrived at San Francisco from the orient re cently, brought the most valuable con signment of raw silk ever landed In this country. It was worth ?2,450,000. It was dispatched east In baste the same night. 8,500 bules of It. Standing by the Citadel. A part of Mr. Martin's reasoning on higher education in South Carolina strikes us as sound, but only a part. Like him we think that the State shouid have a State university, not in name alone, but also in fact. This university should be loe.at.pd at Columbia because it is both tho centre and Capital of the State and because it will have the South Carolina College with its hundred years of traditions and honorable history to build upon. But in forming a univer sity there should be no effort to destroy another institution of learning. The college that would reap the benefit of such a course do not wish it and would not with the approval of the people. The Citadel fills a want in our educa tional system. It is one of the best military schools in the country. Its courses in science and mathemat ics are signally thorough. It has de veloped many strong and worthy men. For what it has done, is doing and will do it deserves to live. Like The News and Courier we pre fer to follow those who would build up rather than he who would tear down. ? Darlington New Era. PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE. Railroad Commissioner Banks Caugh man spent Friday night in the city. Mr. T. B. Perry has returned from a brief vi 'it to his family at Newberry. Mrs. Sula Wallace and Miss Nell Wal lace are visiting in Greenville. Mr. John T. Langstonhas been elect ed to a position on the police force. Mr. Maaon Hill, of Cross Hill, was in town Monday. The city's "finest" appear to splendid advantage in their new winter suits of distinctive regulation cut and style. Miss Bessie Her of Greenville was the guest of friends in the city during the past week. Dudley Young has returned to the Marion, Ala., Military Institute after spending a two weeks' vacation at home. Mr. Boyce Clordy entertained in honor of the M. M. C. Club Friday night, about twenty guests being present. Mr. Tully F. Babb, one of the leading farmers of the county was in town Monday. Mr. Willie Crawford is at Union this week visiting his brother, Mr. J. Wis tar Crawford. Mr. J. D. Hill, a young farmer of Cross Hiil township was in the city Monday. Miss Estelle Fouche of Coronaca is visiting her sister, Mrs. R. B. Bell, j near the ci1^ . Mr. J. E. Martin of Mt. Gallagher is | spending sometime at Coal Creek,Tenn., visiting relatives. Misses Marian and Lucy Evans have returned to Spartanhurg after a visit to their grandfather, Dr. J. A. Barks dale. Mr. J. L. McLin of Gray Court filled his regular appointments at Rocky Springs and Todd Memorial Church Sunday. Caine & Moorman, furniture and jew elry dealers, will occupy the store room under the Ben Delia hotel next to Dodson's Drug Store after today. The Mill End sale, Clearence sale and all other sales, special and general, are fairly booming this week. Laurens is a good business town the year round. I The friends of Mrs. Downs Byrd of Tylersville will be pained to know that j she is quite ill, though her condition j yesterday seemed to be somewhat im I proved. Mr. Jas. E. Minter of Sedalia, senior member of the firm of J. E. Minter & Bro., the popular and well known mer chants, is here for the opening of the Mill and Factory sale today. Mr. and Mrs. IL B. Humbert, who were married at Athens, Ga., last Wed nesday, returned to the city Thursday afternoon and were given a large re ception that evening by Major and Mrs. Augustus Huff. Col. M. P. Tribble, member of the house of representatives from Ander son and a candidate for Secretary of State spent a few days in the city dur ing the past week. Col. Tribble is very popular in Laurens and practically everybody is his friend. Messrs. John Inman, a popular young man of the city and capable salesman at the store of his uncle, Mr. R. W. Willis, left this week, accompanied by his brother, Mr. Carroll Inman, opera tor for the Southern railroad at Lowell, N. C, for a month's visit to relatives and friends in Alabama and Illinois. Bishop Ellison Capers held services at the Church of tho Epiphany Sunday morning. The Bishop arrived in the city Saturday and remained until Mon day afternoon. On the 14th of January Mr. Hope H. Lumpkin, of Columbia, will arrive to conduct services at th's church on alternate Sundays during the months of January and February. Mr. Lumpkin, who is a student in the Theological de partment of University of the South, will also have charge of the Episcopal Church at Newberry. Watch for the date when our entire stock will be thrown on the market at Red Hot Sale. Red Iron Racket. County Auditor Power. This popular county official is now out on his usual rounds engaged in re ceiving the tax returns for this year. Attending New Orleans Convention. Col. John H. Wharton, chairman of the State Railroad Commission and one of the largest and most successful farmers in the county, and Mr. R. Vance Irby, son of Dr. William C. Irby and a leading young farmer of this city, have gone as delegates from Lau rens county to the annual Convention of the Southern Cotton Association in New Orleans. Rev. S. C. Byrd's New Work. Rev. S. C. Byrd, a leading Presby terian ministers in the State, has been elected presidont of the board of con trol of the Associated schools and col leges of the Presbyterian Synod of South Carolina. In accepting this very responsible position it has been neces sary to call a special session of Bethel Presbytery for the purpose of consid ering the question of dissolving Mr. Byrd's pastoral relations and the Pres byterian church at Winnsboro of which he has been pastor for three years. L. & M Paint. Lead and Zinc. Wears 10 or 16 years. Saves paint bills. L. & M. costs about $1.20 per gallon. W. L. Boyd, Laurens, S. C. 14? 18t. SERIOUS COTTON FIRE AT CHESTER. Fifteen Hundred Bales of Cotton Burned at Eureka Mill Entailing a Loss of $90,000. Chester Jan. 7.? Fire which started in the cotton warehouses of the Eureka mill at 9 o'clock tonight has already de stroyed 1,500 bales of cotton, resulting in a loss of between $80,000 and $90,000, is still burning fiercely and at 11.30 p. in. threatens to spread to an adjoining warehouse in which is stored 2,000 to 3,000 bales of cotton. The loss is fully covered by insurance. The Eureka mill is located about a quarter of a mile outside the corporate limits of tho city and little aid can be rendered by the city fire department. The company has its own fire apparatus and is fighting tho flames with all its force. Death of Mr. Arthur Cobb. After a brief illness, Mr. Arthur Cobb of the Laurens mill village, died of pneumonia at his home last Friday afternoon and was buried in the city cemetery Saturday afternoon at 4 o'clock, the Rev. M. C. Compton, con ducting the burial sorvice. Mr. Cobb was about 25 years of age, and leaves a widow, who was Miss May Belle Walker, and one child. Died in Florida. Mr. Clyde Finch, son of the late Mr. A. M. Finch of this city, died at Gaines ville, Fla., Tuesday, Jan. 2, and his body was brought to Laurens Friday for burial. The deceased was a brother-in law of Mr. E. D. Langs ton and ho was a very popular young man whose many friends regret his death. DARING OF LIONS. luoldrzita to Trove Tlint the Brutes Ar? Not Cownrdly. II has been said many times that liens are cowardly brutes, but of the many lions with which 1 have had per sonal dealings, expectedly and unex pectedly, tho epithet cowardly Is the la t l should consider appropriate iu describing them. I have been charged by a lion, and he certainly did not look cowardly. I have come face to face, ot a distance of some twenty feet, with a family parly of half a dozen, fortu nately full fed. They stood, with quiet dignity, looking at us, and then slowly moved away, stopping every few yards to stand and look again. There was neither fear nor meanness in their ap pearance or behavior. I have seen Hons stalking game, and I have myself been stalked by them. If I could have encouraged myself with the conviction of their cowardliness when I was the quarry and they the hunters, It would have put a different aspect on the situation. We were at tills time living In a station over seven ty miles from the nearest connecting link with the outside world, and when man eating lions took possession of the one road which led to this link things became serious. A large troop was reported, and the natives maintained that this troop ran along in the grass parallel with the caravan road (a path some ten Inches wide), and, having selected the most edible member of tho caravan, jumped upon him like a flash, and, seizing him, disappeared as quickly as they came. Our mall runners, attached to whom were a couple of native police armed with rifles, were several times attack ed. Finally, os the wall party was camping one night, fortunately for It, with a native caravan, the lions be came so bold that, in spite of fires, they sprang upon a native and carried him off into the busb, Mrs. S. L. Hlnde In Blackwood's Magazine. WASHING CLOCK FACES. Some Timepieces tJrow Soiled More Qnlekly Than Other*. "I've been washing the faces of the city clocks nigh on to ten years, I guesfi," said a pleasant Seotch-Irlsh Amorlcnn, "nnd before that I did It In the (.1 I country. There aren't many face washers In this land, and the few who know the business do well nt it." He looked prosperous In his tweed suit ond derby hat. "Is your work anything like that of the stemple climber?" he was asked. "Bless you, no," be replied, with twinkling eye, much nmused, "only in ono thing, and that is that mostly sail ors take Up with the trade. That's be cause we're good climbers, you know. I've washed the faces of city and Church clocks that wore 1KO feet from the ground, and It took me two and three weeks to do It. I'm u practical clock repairer, too have to be, you know -and do my work In a huge wooden cradle made for the purpose. Sotno clocks get their faces dirty in a year or so; others remain clean ten years, and mo on. Old Hen, Westmin ster's great clock, Is expected to keep clean fifteen years. "In the Oltl days the trade was more dangerous. We used to work from scaffolds and got many dangerous falls. Now wo have the cradles and all the fixings and comforts, aud if a man keeps his head he can work as well as OU (b0 curb. How Is the pay? Well, that's hard to figure, for we work by tho job. We don't clean clock faces in winter, so we make enough in the summer to last the year round. Of course sometimes the clocks are taken out of their eases and repaired in tho shops. Last year I cleared $2,000 and visited Ollly two other cities, Chicago and BostOU. This year I'll make more, because building opera*ions have grim ed the clocks and given our trade a lift."-New York Po?t. Sum.. Old Siorf. "I ?oos ho pay his alimony promptly?" "No; he has to be urged and threat encd every payday, but, then, of course. I got used to that wlwn we were living together."?Cleveland Plain Dealer. Watch for the date of our Red Hot Sale. Our entire stock to be thrown on the market. Red Iron Racket. Mr. Broadus Knight Married. Mr. Broadus Knight, private Secre tary to Congressman J. T. Johnson, was married last Thursday at Anderson to Miss Catherine Jones, a trained nurse of that city. Mr. Knight is a son of Mr. J. E. Knight of Greenville county, but formerly a resident of the Brewerton section of Laurens. A HORNED PEOPLE. Qweer Rae? That i.lve? Near the Cht? neee Prefecture of Chlenchanff. Adjoining (he Chinese prefecture of Cbleuchnug Is a deep gully barred by a river which no Chinamuu is permit* ted to pass until he tluds ball for his good conduct in I.olodom. The Lolos arc a slim, well made, muscular race with oval reddish brown faces, high cheek bones aud pointed chins, from which the beard has been carefully plucked. They are far taller than the Chinese and indeed than any European race, but their inurked pe culiarity is the born. Every male adult gathers his hair In a knot over his forehead and then twists It up In a cotton cloth so that It resembles the horn of a unicorn. This horn Is considered sacred, and even If a Lolo settles iu Chinese terri tory and grows a pigtail he still pre serves Ms horn. The Lolo man's prin cipal ; ment Is a wide sleeveless man tle of ni or black felt tied about tho neck and descending almost to the heels. Tbe trousers are of Chlneso cotton with felt bandages. No shoes are worn, but a conical hat of woven bamboo covered with felt furnisbes a head covering as well as an umbrella. The Chlneso divide the Lolos Into two classes, which they call respective ly "Black Bones" and "White Bones," the first being the nobles und the latter their vassals and retainers. There Is also a third class of captive Chinese and their descendants, called "Wutzu," practically slaves, who are tattooed on the forehead with the mark of their tribe. The Lotos never marry except In their own tribes, captive Chinese wom en being given to their bondsmen. The marriage of a Black Bone is a time of great festivities and many banquets. The betrothal la celebrated and ratified by the present of the husband to the bride's family of a pig and three ves sels of wine. On the wedding morn tho bride Is richly dressed with many ornaments. She is expected to weep profusely, whether she feels so Inclined or not. In the midst of her tears the groom's relatives and friends dash iu, seize the bride, the best man carries la-r out of doors on his shoulders, sho Is clapped on a horse and hurried off to her new homo.. Here she finds horses, cattle and sheep, provided by the groom's family, while her own people send clothes, ornaments and corn. Womeu occupy a high position among the Lo tos, and u woman chief is not unknown among the tribes.- New York Herald. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. When you die, you will die as dead as anybody. We all have enough to be cross about. Still, it Isn't a good idea to show It. People like to be called enthusiastic, hut how they hate to be called "gush ing." The only difference between the mod ern family row and that of tho older days Is that the modern one Isn't as big a family. The "good fellow" you slap on the back and tell your troubles to may seem good natured, but ho complains of you to his wife. There Is nothing so disappointing as to have one take you aside to tell you a great secret and then discover that you already know It.?Atchlson Globe. A Bit of Weatmorelnnd. The Westmoreland hills are the re mains of an Infinitely older world giants decayed, but of a great race and ancestry. They have the finish, tho delicate or noble loveliness?one might almost say the manner that comes of long and gentle companionship with those chief forces that make for natu ral beauty, with air and water, with temperate suns and too abundant rains. Beside them the Alps arc inhu man, the Apennines mere forest grown heaps, mountains in tint making, while all that Scotland gains from the easy enveloping glory of Its heather West moreland, which Is almost heatherless, must owe to an infinitude of flue strokes, tints, curves and groupings, to touches of magic and to lines of grace, yet never losing the wild energy of precipice and roejt that belongs of right to it mountain world.?Mrs. Humphry Ward in Century. Tim Arn!? Bteod. An Arab steed of pure breed would probably be outpaced in a race by an English thoroughbred, but in oilier re spects it outshines Its western rival. It Is so docile that It Is treated by Its owner as one of the family, aud It has an Iron constitution, for It sleeps out at night without covering or shelter. Nature protects tho Arab horse with a thick, furry coat, which Is never touched by brush or comb and which falls off at 11 mi approach of spring, when the body and legs, which had been shaggy as those of a bear, again resume their graceful beauty and glis ten iu flic sun like polished marble. London Chronicle. North anil South Korea. In the northern part Korea Is cov ered with transverse mountain ranges which gradually sink to a well marked lowland. The prlnelpol mountains, however, occur on the sldo of tho sea of Japan. The rocks of the country are chiefly old formations?archaenu and Palaeozoic. Tho easiest passage across the peninsula Is along the depression of Chyukkaryong. South of this line lies the "Hanland" (south Korea), which differs In history, clljnutc, topog raphy and people from north Korea. Her Vnaeemly Perveralty. Mrs. Hunks?I wish you wouldn'f be so positive. There are two sides to every question. Okl Hunks (with a roar)? Well, that's no reason why you should always bo on the wrong side!? Chicago Tribune. L. & M. Paint. Lead and zinc non chalkable. Wears and covers like gold. Sold by W. L. Boyd, laurens, S. C. 14-13t AFFAIRS IN CLINTON. Members of Actaeon Book Club Enter? talned by Miss Sallie Wright. Clinton, Jan. 8th. ?Miss Annie Lou Abel of Lowndesvillc is the attractive guest of Mrs. Geo. Young. Mrs. Grey Ellisor will spend this week in Laurens with Mrs. Dorroh Ferguson and other relatives. Mrs. Arthur Shockley is visiting her mother, Mrs. Emma Little. The Actaeon Book Club was most charmingly entertained on Friday af ternoon by Miss Sallie Wright. Flags were used in the parlor and sitting rooms for decorations, the score cards carrying out the same idea, while small Liberty bells were used as markers, Miss Ina Vance winning the prize. A delightful salad and sweet course was served on the small tables by Misses Mamie J. Wright and Mittie Young. Mr. Oswald Copeland of Newberry spent Sunday and Monday in town. Mr. and Mrs. A. V. Martin have re turned from a short trip to Atlanta. College opened on Thursday, with all the old students and a number of new ones. Mr. Clyde Horton, now of Atlanta, visited his brother on Saturday and Sunday. Mrs. Dorroh Ferguson was in town during the past week. Miss Lois Farr has returned to At lanta and in a short while will have charge of the railroad hospital at Way cross, Ga. Dr. W. G. Neville is at home again, after a stay of several weeks in Colum bia for treatment. Mrs. J. G. Norman and little son re turned to their home in Chattanooga on Saturday. Miss Mame Little has gone to Ala bama, where will make her home with her sister, Mrs. Gregory. TRAFALGAR. The 8iTif(n?n of Action of Thin Great Naval lint tie. The world will see other seu lights, but never one like tills, so close, so swift ami with so much in it of the personal element. Aud what may be railed the pace of the battle, the swift ness with which incident follows inci dent, is almost without a parallel In the history of war. The first gun was tired at 12:15; at 12:22, or only seven minutes after the French guns opened on him, Collingwood, with the British fchips nearest to him, was through the enemy's Hue. Only one brief minute later, or at 12:23 by the log of the Euryalns, Nol BOU is in the tight, and is pouring his first dreadful broadside Into the stern of Villeneuve's flagship, Two minutes later the French aud Spanish topmasts begin to fall. At 1:82, or sixty-seven minutes after the ?rst gun was tired, Blaekwood reports "the center and rear of enemy's Hue to be hard pressed in action." The fate of the battle is prac tically settled. Already some of the enemy's ships have struck. The swift moments run on, nnrt the pulses of the great fight keep time with thein. The advantage Is not all on one side. At 2:3d, for example, or less than two hours from the moment when, a shape of majestic pride, the ltoyal Sovereign moved into the zone of tho enemy's lire, she lies a mnstless and helpless hulk. She has dune hor work, but she has paid a terrible price for It. There is at this moment a flutter of Hags on the masthead of the Victory, for Nel son has a great captain's watchful vision, and a frigate?It is the Bury a 1 us ?comes down with every inch of can vas set, groping her way through the smoke, to take the battered hull of the Uoyal Sovereign In tow, so that her broadsides?the mighty ship eon still light, though she cannot sail?bear upon the enemy's ships within her reach. This Is not a battle spread through days. It Is compressed almost Into minutes. The llrst shot was llrod at 12:15; before 8 o'clock flag after Hag is going down; a great fleet is crumbling Into ruin. By 5:30 o'clock all Is over.? Cornhill Magazine. FINGERS AND FORKS. Nover use a fork when taking a piece of bread. Avoid using a fipoon for anything that Is not liquid. Pastry should be eaten with a fork; also Ice cream where the proper forks are served. It Is permissible to eat celery, corn, asparagus, water cress and undressed salad With the fingers, Olives should be lifted from the dish with the olive fork or spoon, but should be eaten from the lingers. Lemon is often served with fish and pancakes. The lemon should be taken In the lingers and squeezed upon tho viands. If cut sugar in served and there are no sugar tongs in tho bowl, lift tho pieces out as delicately as possible with the tips of tho lingers.- New York Press. dot Nenr to Them. An English druggist gives the follow ing list of blunders made by his poorer customers: "Catch an eel" for cochi neal; "prosperous paste" for phospho rus pastO) "groaso It." for creosote; "fishy water" for vieby water; "guitar" for catarrh; "ovorlnstlng" for efferves cing. Force of Habit? "How ninny times has your busband been under tho knife?" "Dear me, I don't know; but he's bo come so pCCUStonied tq It that he lie down to bo operated i?n every time ho sees n doctor."?Chicago Record-Hor Old. Arctic explorers nay the aurora pro dUCOS an agreeable, prickly, stimulal Ing Bonsation. A well painted house reflects credit ujion tho housekeeper. Use Mastic mixed paint, "tho kind that lasts," is guaranteed strictly pure: L!... best re sults are thus assured. W. W. Dodson, Laurens, S. C. SOUTH CAROLINA COTTON GROWERS Annual Meeting of the State Division of the Southern Cotton Association was Held in Columbia, S. C. The annual convention of the South Carolina division of the Southern Cotton Association, winch was held in Colum bia last Wednesday, was attended by one hundred delegates, representing thirty-one counties. The features of the convention were the re-election of the State officers and the annual address of President Smith. Mr. Smith briefly reviewed the plan for tho co-operation of the Southern bank ers and the warehouse movement, which was the true solution of the problem. The old officers were re-elected, as follows: President?E. D. Smith, of Magnolia. Vice President?H. B. Tindall, of Greenville. Secretary?F. H. Weston, of Colum bia. Treasurer?F. H. Hyatt, of Colum bia. It was decided to appoint an execu tive committee by the chair. This will be announced later. On motion of Col. L. W. Youmans a special agent will be appointed by the executive committee to work for the erection of warehouses in the State. The committee on resolutions re ported in favor of a reduction of 25 per cent, in tho acreage, except in cases of only ten acres, where no reduc tion will be made. This was adopted. The committee also urged the report of all officers by each county organiza tion. Adopted. Tho principles of the Southern Cotton Association were endorsed, viz: co-op eration between the producer and con sumer, between the banker and the farmer, and the diversification of the crops. A tax of ten cents per bale on the 1906 crop was recommended. There was some discussion on the manner of collecting the tax, and various plana were discussed, it being finally decided to leave this to each county. The committee examined the books and accounts of the treasurer and checked off* the same. They found that this division of the Association has re ceived from all sources $7,(530.32, and has paid out to the National Association $2,300, expenses $2,312.09, salaries $1,884.33, making a total of $0,527.02, leaving a balance on hand to the credit of the Association of $1,109.30. On rcccommendation of the proper committee the salaries of the State ofli was tendered as follows: President, $1,000;Secretary, $600; Treasurer, $600. Laurens county contributed $277 in cash during the year to the Association. Marlboro county led in the amount raised for the Association, giving $621. Women love a clear, healthy com plexion. Pure blood makes it . Uurdock Blood Bitters makes pure blood. IMPROVEMENT OF RURAL SCHOOLS. Association Organized at Winthrop With This Object in View. Miss Carrie Lou Dor roh, who attended the Women's Association for the Im provement of Rural Schools, recently held at Winthrop, as the delegate from Laurens county, gives the following in teresting account of the meeting: The Convention called by Superin tendent O. B. Martin met at Kock Hill, the 29th and 30th. Thirty-four counties were represented. The meeting was one of much interest and enthusiasm. The purpose of the Convention was to form an Association for the Improve ment of Rural Schools. Such an or ganization was attempted by the class of 1902 at Winthrop, but it accom plished nothing. The representatives from each county made a report on the condition, needs and improvements of schools, condition of buildings, number of libraries, etc., in her county. While some counties are much better prepared for work than others, all are striving to improve and the need is still great. We had some visitors from North Carolina, who gave us very valuable in formation concerning their Association, its object and success. We adopted a constitution and elected officers for this year. We hope to be able to accomplish many improvements before the next annual meeting. We were pleasantly entertained by President Johnson and other Rock Hill citizens. Altogether the meeting was one of great enjoyment and we earnestly hopy of lasting good. Officers elected: President, Miss Mary Nance, Abbeville; Vice President, Miss Annie Mac Caine, Eaatovor; Re cording Secretary, Miss Bessie Rogers, Bennettsvilie; Corresponding Secretary, Miss A. N. Starke, Winthrop College; Treasurer, Miss [da Salloy, Greenville. 1 Gals. L. & M. Palnl and .'I gallons oil cost about $8,60 and will paint mod erate stood house. Sold by W. L. Royd, Laun ns, S. C. 14-13'. Let the Wife Bank. Women are savers rather than spend ers. And when they spend they spend to good advantage. A dollar in a wo man's hands goes twice ,ih far as a dol lar in the hands of a man. If you want to save money let your wife he the banker. This is for the workingman, whether he labors with his hands 0V toils with his brain. Tins is for the married man and for the man nlwut to be married. It is for men in every class of life. It is tho best advice for the average man everywhere, Give this a trial during this present year upon which we have just entered and see If you are not better oft" at its beginning. ? Orangeburg Times and Democrat. j STATE AND OENERAL NEWS. The Columbia Hospital at Columbia has been formally opened. State Senator Cole L. Blease of New berry has announced himself a candi date for Governor of South Carolina. The Dispensary Investigating Com mission was in session for a few days in Columbia last week. Two unsuccessful attempts were made to lire buildings in Camden Saturday night. E. W. Robertson has been appointed receiver of the Union and Glenn Springs railroad. A warehouso in Sumter contains 2,000 bales of cotton which are being held for higher prices. The Florence Crittenden home in Charleston, a home for fallen women, lias made an appeal for aid. Commissioner E. J. Watson of the immigration bureau, has completed his annual report, which is highly satis factory. A white man, while under the influ ence of whiskey, made an attempt to commit, a criminal assault on a young white girl at Sumter. J. A. Shaw was shot and painfully wounded by Chas. McLean at Bethune Saturday. The shooting grew out of a difficulty over some bags. Richmond P. Hobson delivered a lect ure in the opera house at Union Monday night. His subject was "America's Great Mission." The Southern Field, published at Georgetown, a paper devoted to agri cultural and industrial pursuits, has suspended publication. Kimsey O. Huskey of Gaffney, who was a candidate for the legislature from Cherokee county, has announced his in tention of engaging in school teaching. The Ginners' report issued yesterday by the government, gave the number of bales ginned December 31st at 9,721, 000. According to the National Ginners' report, issued last Friday, 9,694,041 bales of thi3 year's crop of cotton had been ginned up to Dec. 31. Miss Alice Roosevelt, daughter of the President, will be married to Congress man Nicholas Longworth of Cincinnati, on Saturday, February 17, in the East room of the White House. The theft of $1,800 from the Southern Express Company was reported last week. It is claimed the money was taken from a pouch between Augusta and New York. In an altercation at Lancaster last Saturday, Dr. E. S. McDow shot and desperately wounded Hasel Witherspoon and slightly injured a Mr. Brown with a second shot. Secretary Bonaparte of the United States Navy is in Charleston for the ceremonies attendant upon the present ation of a silver service by the citizens of Charleston to the United States cruiser Charleston. Secretary of State J. T. Gantt has replied to D. II. Means concerning the disappearance of the fee book. Mr. Gantt. says that the statement made by Mr. Means that he requsted Mr. Means to evade, hide or cancel any work of his is false. The trial of Greene and Gaynor in connection with the famous Govern ment fraud case in which it is alleged that about $2,000,000 were stolen in car rying out the Savanuah harbor con tracts, commenced in the United States court at Savannah yesterday. At Albany, Ga., last Wednesday sev eral persons were killed outright, a large number more or less seriously in jured and great damage done to prop erty by a tornado which struck the town about 1 o'clock in the afternoon. Senator Latimer let it be known in a speech delivered at Spartanburg last Saturday on "Good Roads" that he was now with Congressman Johnson in the matter of locating the places for hold ing courts in the proposed Federal Dis trict for South Carolina, which means that Chester will bo dropped. Our entire stock to be thrown upon the market! Watch for date. Red Iron Racket. L. & M. Paint cost only $1.20 a gal Ion. Seven gallons paints a moderate size house. Sold by W, L. Boyd, Lau rens, S. C, 14 - 13t. Cross Hill Culliiij: . Mr. J. R. Richardson, of Columbia, is spending awhile with his mother, Misses Belle Machten and Lillian Profit returnodto Chicora Tuesday. Mrs. Tom McCuen, of Belton, who spent the holidays with her parents went home Thursday, Misses Mary and Eloise Brown left, Thursday for Town's School Greenville. Miss Wilma Ramey left for her school in Columbia. Mr. R. C. Brown is visiting relatives in town. Mr. Reed Owens of Timmonsv?le Spent from Friday until Monday with parents, Mr. Robert Crisp has moved in the new post office on Main St., adjoining the Cross Hill Bank, Dr. W. S, Bean preached at the pres byterian church Sunday in tho absence of the pastor. There was ? dance Thursday night at Simmon's store. Dr, John H. Miller left Monday for Columbia to attend the Legislature. Bodily pain loses its terror if you've a bottle of Dr. Thomas' Electric Oil In the house. Instant relief in case;; of burns, cuts, sprains, accident, of *ny sort. CRIMINAL COURT WORK COMPLETED Verdicts of Manslaughter Tempered With Mercy. WALKKlt case put off. Acquittals for A. R. Sullivan Charged With Breach of Trust, and Percy Ferguson, indicted for Murder. The criminal business for the present term of the Court of General Sessions was finished yesterday, and the Court of Common Pleas is now in session. I The term will be finally adjourned Sat urday . The second week of the session op ened Monday morning with the case of the Stute against Percy Ferguson, a young farmer of the county, charged with killing a negro a few weeks ago. The negro attacked Mr. Ferguson in his own house and the young man was forced to shoot his assailant in self de fense. A verdict of not guilty was re turned by the jury in the case. An acquittal also resulted in the case of tho State against Pressly Minn, a young white man of Clinton, charged with as3ault and buttery with intent to kill. This case followed tho trial of Ferguson, and in the afternoon the case of the Stute against Cheek Shands and Will Hunter, colored, charged with murder was calleJ, the trial of which engaged the Court until about noon yes terday, resulting in an acquittal. The case of the State against I.. D. Walker, the young farmer of the Pop- . lar Springs section, charged with kill ing John P. South last fall, was con tinued to the next term of court. The following are some of the cases disposed of during the first week of court. In the case of the State against A. R. Sullivan, former county dispenser, charged with breach of trust with fraudulent intent in misappropriating Dispensary funds to the amount of about $1,800, resulted in an acquittal for the accused. Sims Glenn ami Tom Wells, colored, charged with murder, were found guilty of manslaughter with recommendation to the mercy of the Court. As will be recalled Wells is the negro who killed Horace and Henry Bullock, brothers, at Cross Hill Christmas Eve. The double killing was the result of a quurrel over a game of cards, and it developed dur ing the progress of the trial of the case that Wells started the row. Jim Austin, a negro of the Harksdale section of the county, pleaded guilty to the charge of larceny of live stock, and was given a sentence of one year on the county chain gang. Glenn was given two years and Wells three years. Walter Jone-;, a young negro of the county, received a sentence of thirty months on the chain gang upon being convicted of the charge of assault and battery with intent to kill. Sam Sherman, colored, pleaded guilty to a similar charge and was given two years, while another negro named Will Hunter was convicted of assault and battery of a high and aggravated na ture, and got off with a fine of $100 or I twelve months 0:1 the county chain gang. A.' Mjlls, a young negro of the city, convicted of larceny, was given a sen tence of one year on the gang, and John Davis, .1 negro of the county, was sentenced to pay a line of $20;) or go l<> the chain gang for a year for violation of the dispensary law. A Surprise Party. A pleasant surprise parly may be gl en to your stomach and liver, by taking a medicine, which will reih v'o their pain and discomfort, viz: Dr. King's Now Lifo Pills. They are a most wonderful remedy, affording sure relief and cure, for headache, dizziness and constipation. 26 cent ; at Laurcns Drug and Palmetto Drug Co. Important (0 Trustees and Teachers. I have received a letter from State Superintendent of Education, <). p.. Martin, saying ili.it rural libraries may be established now, and you mny send in your applications as you have been doing, and lots keep the work moving. Would be glad for all teachers and trustees to call at my office and scq sample book case and library. Remember the teachers' mooting fn the courthouse Saturday, January 20th. I expect to give you some account of the County Superintendents' meeting in Columbia, Miss Carrio Dor roh will make u report of the Woman's Associa tion at Rock Hill, besides the regular I program arranged by the executive I committee. I Every teacher in tho county should join this association and attend its meet ings, bet's see if we can't have n larger attendance this time than we have hail at any previous meeting. Yours respectfully, R. W. 'wash. A Creeping Death. Blood poison creeps up towards the heart, causing death. J. E. Stonr Pelle Plalne, Minn., write.; thai 0 friend dreadfully injured his hand, which swelled up like blood poisoning. Hucklen's Arnica Snlvo drew oul the poison, healed the wound, and . Ins life. Rest in tho world for burns and sores. 25 cents al Lauren Drug Co. and Palmetto Drug Co. Bricc Law in Court. Columbia, Jan. 8 -To-day's session of the supremo c<mrt wns taken up with the dispensary case, testing (In validity of the Bvico bill. The argu ments were heard, but no decision was reached. It cannot he said exactly when the case will be decided.