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Our Stock Must Qo! Oi > More Week RED HOT SELLING! On account of snow and rain we give you one more week RED HOT SALE?GREAT SACRIFICE! Red Hot Sale Prices: Red Hot Sale Prices: 400 dozen King's Spool Thread, per spool, 2c. 144 Agate Shirt Buttons, 8c. Pins, Needles, Hair Pins, Key Chains, Pencils and Toilet Soaps, each lc. 500 Search Light Matches, 3c. 1,000 Oregon Matches, 4c. 10-cent can Good Luck Baking Pow der, 6c. 5-cent can Good Luck Baking Pow der, 3c. 1 pound Farm Bell Soda, 3c. 3 packages of Gold Dust, 10c. 3 packages of Premium Washing Powder, 10c. 1 box Celluloid Starch, Sc. 12 cakes Victory Soap, 25c. 5 cakes Good Washing Soap, 5c. 5-cent cake Toilet Soap, 4c. 7 cakes Fairbank's Tar Soap, 25c. 10-cent can Mendleson's Lye, 5c. 10-cent bottle Machine Oil, 3c. 15- cent plug Brown Mule Tobacco, 8c. 16- cent plug Silver Dime Tobacco, 8c. 15-cent plug Sehnapp's Sweep Stakes and Hickory Tobacco, 9c. 1 pound Good Stick Candy, 7c. 1 pound Good Nuts worth 20c. at 10c. 300 dozen Coats' Spool Thread, 4c. Our line of Dry Goods, Laces, Em broideries and Ribbons are complete. We can't list all, but you will find ev erything marked in plain figures far be low New York cost. 9,000 yards Embroidery, in good pat terns, this will be in 3 lots, at 4c, 8c and 10c per yard. 12 l-2c and 15c Ribbons, per yard 10c. We have a big line of Laces to go in this sale at prices far below any ever shown in Laurcns. 2,000 yards Standard Calicos, in red, blue and lights, 3 l-2c. 3,000 yards Ginghams and Cham brays, 6c. 17 yards Poe Mill Bleaching at $1.00. Big lot Outing on remnant table, 4c. 4,000 yards good Cotton Check, 4 l-2c. Good heavy White Cloth, 6c. 12 l-2c Ginghams, 9c. 12 l-2c Percales, 8c. 12 l-2c Lawns, Pk's and Waistings, 9c. Special lot White Lawn, 4c. Our line of Ladies' Dress Goods, Ta ble Damask, and in fact everything in the Dry Goods department will have to go during this sale. 1,000 5-cent Handkerchiefs, 2c. 2,000 Men's and Ladies' Handker chiefs, 4c. Big lot Silk String and Four-in-Hand Ties, 8c, 15c and 18c. 50-cent Underwear, 33c. 25-cent Underwear, 18c. 250 Dress Shirts at 23c. 700 50-cent Dress Shirts, 35c. $1.00 Dress Shirts, 69c. Big lot 50-cent Work Shirts, 37c. Big lot 40-cent Work Shirts, 29c. 1200 pairs Suspenders, 3c, 5c, 8c, 10c, 15c and 19c. Big line Men's and Ladies' Hosiery, 4c, 5c, 6c, 8c and 12 l-2c. 100 dozen Cluett-Peabody Collars, 4c. 2C0 dozen good Linen Collars, 8c. 100 dozen good Rubber Collars, 13c. A big line of Towels will be sold in this sale at 4c, 7c, 9c, 11c and 18c. Big line of White Quilts, 48c, 69c, 87c, 98c and $1.18. Big lot 25-cent Wool Baby Caps, 13c. Our line of Table Covers will be thrown out in lots at 23c, 39c, 63c, 79c and 98c. Big lot of Underskirts, 39c, 67c, 89c and $1.18. Big line Dress Skirts from 98c, $1.19, $1.67, $1.94 and $2.87. 3,000 pair Pants from 45c, 69c, 87c, $1.09, $1.17, $1.32, $1.45, $1.96 and $2.83. 1,000 Men's and Youth's Suits, $1.97, $2.46, $3.39, $4.73, $5.83, $6.38, $8.42 and $11.34. 2,000 Men's and Boys' Hats, 13c, 19c, 37c, 48c, 63c, 78c, $1.17, $1.43, $1.67 to John B. Stetson, $2.90. Who says Shoes are up? Not us. 6,000 pair Men's, Ladies' and Chil dren's Shoes, 10c, 17c, 43, 57c, 79c, 91c, $1.09, $1.73, $2.16 and $2.84. Big line of Caps, 4c, 8c, 13c, 18c, 29c. Big line Boys' Knee Pants, 17c, 23c, 39c, 48c and 57c. 1 Eight-Day Clock, $1.73. 6 Sewing Machines, $11.73 and $16.37. Alarm Clocks, 59c. Watches, 61c, 87c, 98c, $1.19 to $12.19. All $1.00 bottles of Patent Medicines 69c. All 50-cent bottles, 33c. All 26-cent bottles, 16c. Good White Plates, 24c and 35c. Good Decoratdd Plates, 45c and 57c. Cups and Saucers, 37c and 58c. Complete line of Crockery, Tin and Glass Ware to be sold at cost during this sale. Big line Rugs, Picture Frames, Mir rors and Art Squares to close out at cost. Remember only one more week. RED IRON RACKET Is the Talk of the Whole Town and County. There's something going to happen, they are selling out their entire stock. Yes several big changes will take place in our business about March 1st. HOW CITY DELIVERY CAN KE OBTAINED Piaei Advanced For Increasing Postofficc Receipts Which is Necessary Be fore Free Delivery. Editok Advertiser: Your issue of May 3, 15)05 contained an editorial on "Free Delivery for Laurens" which had my heartiest approval. I believe that an increase of $300 per quarter will raise this office one grade, making it a second class instead of a third class, as at present. This will be a step nearer free delivery than we are now. I sec from the dailies that our neigh boring city of Greenwood will have free delivery on and after May 1st. Lau rens has been a county seat nearly one hundred years; Greenwood about 10 years. By the census of 1900 Laurens County had a population of thirty-seven thousand; Greenwood County twenty eight thousand. Laurens city, 4,029; Greenwood city, 4,824. What they have done surely we can do before long. How can wc do it? Here is the answer: Let every firm in business here buy and use the government stamped en velopes and by these purchases increase the receipts of this office. The person doing this helps his town and at the same time saves money for himself. The Postofficc Department sells good envelopes at cost and prints them for nothing. Why pay $2.00 for one thousand printed envelopes and $20 for the stamps to be licked and put on them when you can buy one thousand better ones already stamped for $21.20? I sell envelopes and know whereof I speak. Raising the grade of the office entitles it to a larger appropriation for quarters and fixtures. If we want better apart ments Uncle Sam says: "All right give me a little more of your business and you can have them." Those who discard the old annoyance of licking stamps for the more satisfactory way never go back to it and this is a good argument that the new way is the bet ter way. The receipts of this office nre on the increase. Let'b increase them a little faster. There is only one way to do it and every one who wants to see his home town keep up with the procession can help. Yours for improvement, H. K. AlKEN. Feb. 12, 1906. A Mystery Solved. "How to keep off periodic attacks of biliousness and habitual constipation was a mystery that Dr. King's New Life Pills solved for me," writes John N. Pleasant, of Magnolia, Ind. The only pills that are guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction to everybody or money refunded. Only 25 cents at Lau rens Drug Co. and Palmetto Drug Co. NOTICE. All persons liable to road duty are hereby notified that the Commutation Hoad Tax must be paid on or by the 1st day of March next. H. B. Humbert, 28-3t Supervisor L. C. W. C. IRBY, Jr., Attorney at Law, LAURKNS, 8. C. HABIT8 OF HARES. MaIkIu? tke Tollet Im a Lon? and Careful I'rtoe?. A clever observer writes: "A good many hares (lud a secure retreat In the sand hills during the daytime and feed' on the marshes In the morning and evening. The hour at which most of them leave the marsh vorlos, hut it Is any time beforo 0 o'clock. All the hares, however, do not return, some preferring to He out all dny and make their "forms" in any standing clumps of grass In the inclosurea. I found this out one day while taking shelter among the flr trees from a downpour of rain. As soon as the rain got really heavy I saw first one and then another hare appear, as it were, out of the ground in the middle of the fields and race for the shelter of the sand hills. "On their return to the hills In the morning many of them take up their station on the sunny side of a fir tree, generally on a slope, and sit there, ei ther among the fir needles or else on the bare ground or snnd, without any sort of form apparently. Thoy like a warm, sunny seat, out of the wind, or, in wet weather, sheltered from the rain. Here they alt and Bleep, unless disturbed, until an hour or two past midday. "At some time between 1:30 and 3 o'clock they wake up and begin their toilet, which is a long and very care ful process. I have seen them roll in the sand, then get up, shake them selves and Anally lick their bodies all over, for the most part directly with their tongues, but those parts of their bodies which they cannot reach so? face, back of head, ears and nape of neck?are dressed by the fore limbs ex actly In the same way that a cat does It "These toilet operations often take half or three-quarters of an hour. When complete, there Is a short time of rast, then a long stretch and a yawn, fore legs first, then the hind legs; finally, the whole body 1? raised Into an arch, after which the animal be gin* to move off for another feed." Rossini and Meyerfo??r. Rossini, walking one day on the bou levard with the musician Braga, was greeted by Meyerbeer, who anxiously Inquired after the health of his dear Rossini. "Bad, very bad," answered the latter. "A headache, a side ache and a leg I can scarcely move." After a few moments' convcrsatlor. Meyer beer passed on, and Braga asked the great composer how It was he had sud denly become so unwell. Bmlllngly Rossini reassured his friend: "Oh, I couldn't be hotter. I only wanted to please Meyerbeer. He would be so glad to see me smash up." The Mobs In Servla, Servian peasants help each other by means of an institution kuown as the moba. A man who has not hands suf ficient to plow or reap his farm calls in the moba?that Is to say, Invites all bis neighbors to come and help him. He pays nothing for this service, pro viding only generous supplies of food and drink; hut when any of them ap ply for the moba it is understood that he will take bis turn. Not In Har KSxBt?rl?a?o. "This proverb," said Mrs. Hiram Of fen over her evening paper, "always makes me tired." "What proverb's that, dear?" asked her husband. " 'Too many cooks spoil the broth.* I don't believe there ever was such a thing as too many cooks."?Philadel phia Press. WONDERS OF SLEEP. The I'.lteotH of Slumher Upon the Brnin and tlie Heart. "Shakespeare," said a scientist, "call ed sleep the ape of death. That is a striking name for a striking thing. Sleep is a wonderland. Let us explore it. "Self hypnotism Is a mysterious force that we can exercise on ourselves in sleep alone. We are all self Hypnotists. We all, on certain nights, tell ourselves Urmly that we must not oversleep, that the next morning?at 4, at 5 or (5 pre cisely- we must wake up. And we do wake up. Our sleeping selves respond to the hypnotic suggestion made the night before by our waking Belves. That is mysterious and striking, isn't it? SI ill more mysterious and striking, though, is the fact of our keeping track of the time somehow in our slumber. How on earth do we do this? "It is impossible to do without sleep. Men have slept standing, walking, even running. They have slept In buttle, un der fire, with guns roaring on all sides. They have slept in unendurable and deadly pain. "There Is no torture equal to that which the deprivation of sleep entails. The Chinese are the crudest folk on earth and the most Ingenions of tor turers. Well, the Chinese place the dep rivation of sleep at the bead of their torture list. "Sleep is a state of rest. The heart rests in sleep. The heart is a rhythmic muscle, not one that never reposes, but one that works at short shifts, like a puddler, a moment on, a moment off. Well, when we sleep the heart's shifts of rest aro redoubled. It works, then, one on, two off, getting, Indeed, pretty nearly as much repose as we do. "Tho brain In sleep becomes pale and sinks below tho level of tho skull. When wo are awake tho'braln Is high and full and ruddy. "Not only tho brain and heart, but even tho tear glunds, rest in sleep. That Is why when wo awake we al ways rub out eyes. Tho rubbing Is on Instinctive action that stimulates tho Stagnant tear glands and cnuses them to moisten properly our eyes, all dried from their Inaction."?Buffalo Nows. Catharine Parr. Cathaiino Parr, the Blxth wlfo of tho much married Henry VIII., owed more to her Intellectual than to her personal eharmB. She was not good looking, but had n pleasant faco and a world of tact. So skillfully did sho manago her troublesome husband ns actually to turn him against some of the most truste<l of his own officials. Onoe an order was made out for her arrest on a charge of heresy, but she got news of the matter and so clovorly flattered and soothed Henry as to effect a com plete reconciliation, and when the offi cers came to serve tho order ho drove them out with curses and thront?. Brave or Reckless f When a young man on a small sal ary and with the future very uncer tain gets married we claim he Is as reckless as If he Jumped Into water and couldn't swim. The romantic may call it courage, but It Is pure reckless ness.?Atchlson (Hobe. All Broke Up. "She was very much affected, waa She not, nt the bad news?" "I should say so. Her eyes dropped, her voice broke, her face fell, and Anal ly she burst Into tears."?Baltimore American. Nothing multiplies so mnch as kin Bess.?Wray. f ANALYZING MILK. The Proocii la Neither Difficult Nor Complicated. Tho chemical analysis of milk is not complicated nor difficult. First (ho chemist weighs n small dish, cup or saucer and carefully notes down the results In ounces, grains and fractions of grains. Next ho pours In sonn? mill; to bo analyzed and again carefully notes down the result. Ily subtracting the weight of the dish from that of both the weight of the milk Is found and recorded. Next the receptacle Is placed over a steam Jet, which evapo rates the water of the milk, leaving only the residue or "solids." Again tho dish and Its contents nro weighed, and by a simple calculation the percentage of solids Is ascertained. The "solids" of the milk have been found by innumerable analyses to average about 13 per cent, and while the fat varies In milk from different cows the solids left after extracting the fat are found to he a very constant quantity, seldom falling below 10 per cent or over 14. This gives the chem ist n positive basis for his calculations and enables him to state with great certainty whether or not tho milk has been watered. The fat or oil In milk Is determined by dissolving It by menus of ether, the residue remaining after such test be ing termed "solids other than fat." Tho average fat or oil found in milk from cows Is 0 per cent, and any amount lo/s than 8 per cent Indicates almost to a certainty that tho milk has been skimmed. If analysis shows \\ decrease of fat It Indicates that the milk has been watered, while If fats and other solids together are low you may infer that the skimmer has done its worst. An ICnrly n?**irn?lir. 1. In the early days of California the daughters of the Lugos were sought In marriage by the best families of the state. It was a boast that they were even courted In the cradle, as when tho young officer Colonel Ignaclo Vallejo, being In Ban Luis OblBpo on the ocoa sion of the birth of a daughter to tho Lugos, asked her father for the hand of the day old baby, provided when the tlmo camo to fulfill tho contract tho scnorita should bo willing. Tills seem ingly Absurd betrothal took place. The child grew up to be an Intelligent ns well ns attractive young woman, mar ried hor botrothed and became the mother of many children, among them Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo. Binding n I??r?nlii. In tho book of Ruth a shoo Is men tioned as being handed over to ratify a bargain, and the custom in a sense seems to have been repeated later, for in the year 1008 certain bishops were put into possession of their sees by re ceiving a glovo. Theso may have been richly Jeweled gloves, for auch formed part of tho episcopal habit, and when some abbots thought fit to array them selves In similar hand covering pecul iar only to bishops they were forbid den their use by the council. PsOSf. Prospective Purchaser?You My this la a healthy place, yet the man next door is confined to his bed. Bow do you account for that? Real Estate Agent?Oh, he's a doctor and is slowly dying of starvation. Chicago New?. Tr??ehcn?jr. Deliberate treachery entails punish ment upon the traitor. There Is no pos sibility of osoaptog it, even In the high est rank to which the consent of socie ty can exalt the meanest and the worst a boston landmark HI8TORY OF A FAMOUS OLD ELM DESTROYED BY THE WIND. This Celebrated Tree, IlellcTed to Hare ISxIated Before the Settlement of the City, Wim Blotrn Down In the Great Storm of INTO. Feb. 15, 1870, was a fmdl day for lo cal historians in Boston, for the news papers announced the next day that at nbout 7 o'clock the previous evening Iho old elm on Boston Common had becn.destroyed by a great storm which swept over the city at that time. Bo many eulogies, both oral and written, were delivered on this most ancient of Boston's landmarks, and It wus real ized that a connecting link with the remote past Wfl3 gone forever. It is not known when tho tree began to grow, but an old Boston tradition was that the wife of Thomas Hancock, tho eminent merchant, who was Lydia Henchman before her marriage, claim ed that her grandfather, Hezeklah llenchmuii, planted the tree when he was a boy. This would have made tho treo just 200 years old at the tlmo of Its destruction. It is probable that some of the many persons on record as being publicly executed on Boston Common looked on (he fair world for tho last time when standing beneath Its hrauehos, for It was one of the largest trees, if not the largest, in the town, and It stood on Its outskirts, and also In 1722 it must have been a prominent object in Hus ton, for Bonner's map of tho town, published in that year, shows it as a feature. In 1825 tho flrst recorded measure ment of the old elm showed Its di mensions to bo as follows: Height, <">3 feet; circumference, 21 feet 8 inches ;\t 2 feet 0* inches from the ground, and the extreme diameter of the branches was 86 feet. At this time iL was said of tho tree that '"this pride of our Com mon is pronouuced by judges to be as uandsomo In form as It Is large in size and venerable in age, and It may be worth the remark, notwithstanding all tho buffeting it has received from storms and huriicaues for more than a century, Its original beauty and sym metry have not been impaired, al though it has at times lost many of its branches." The treo was accurately measured by the city engineer of Boston in 1855, and It was found that It was considerably larger than in 1825, its height being ilgured at seventy-five feet. This showed that it was still growing in Its extremo old age. The flrst serious damage the treo re ceived was in 1832, when the largest of I its llinbs was so rent asunder tbaf j throe branches rested ou the ground, but at much cost and labor they were replaced In their former positions and held together by Iron reds and bolts. The great gale in June, 1800, Injured the tree to such nn extent that its for mer symmetry was destroyed, and at this time the cavity In the trunk vras ! filled with several loads of material. I On one of the branches which were torn off at the time 190 rings were counted, which Indicated the great ago of the tree. The opening of the centennial year of the republic, 1870, found tho tree alive, but decrepit, and It would probably have been decorated ou Evacuation day and the Fourth of July, but, as stated at the beginulng of this article, Feb. 15 saw its destruction. The old elm fell at 7:17 o'clock in the evening, its trunk pointing toward tho Park Street church, and the force of the fall shattered the trunk, while the branches were scattered in every di rection. The melancholy news spread like wildfire through the city, and soon, despite the storm, the fallen monarch wan surrounded by relic hunters. Arm ed with saws, hatchets and knives, they quleklj- detached pieces of tho branches to preserve as souvenirs. Per sons were seen in the theaters laden with boughs, and it was a common sight that evening to see men in the streets carrying limbs several feet in length nnd ns large around ns a stove pipe. Much of the tree was made Into veneer, nnd one book at least of local history has on Its back cover a large veneer from the tree, bearing on Its face a lifelike engraving of the same. So passed the old elm, nnd Boston mourned for its passing. Dr. Jerome V. 0. Smith, mayor of I the city in 1854. showed his interest in I the old elm by having the tree care I fully pruned nnd cleaned, nnd ho, i caused to be placed around It an orna mental Iron fence, octagonal in shape. On the entrance gate was attached an oval tablet bearing tho following In scription: THE OLD ELM. This tree has been standing here for an unknown period. It Is believed to have ' esliitcd before the settlement of Boston, being- full grown In 1722; exhibited marks of old ae*? In 1792 nnd was nearly destroy ed by a storm In 1832. Protected by an Iren Inclosure In 1854. J. V. C. SMITH, Mayor. Soon after the falling of the old elm a young tree of the same species was planted In the center of the inclosure, and today it has attained n large and sturdy growth. Coming generations of Bostonians may be familiar with a second old elm on Boston Common, but It will always be the flrst old elm which witnessed, very possibly, tho first settlement of Puritan Boston In 1630.?Boston Budget. A Popular Number We Carry this Shoe in Stock Walk-Over Style, Quality, Style The instant Walker-Over Quality is known by you, the demand is created. Walk-Over Shoes for Men possess that appearance of Individuality that appeals to the Man Who Cares. Its a pleasure to sell shoes that are a little bettor than any other line in the world to retail at $3.50 and $4.00. COPELAND'S Laurcns, ... South Carolina.