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THE ADVERTISER* Subscription Price-12 Months, $1.00 Payable In Advance. Kates for Advertising. ? Ordinary 'advertisements, per square, one inser tion, $1.00; each subsequent insertion, 60 cents. Liberal reduction made for large advertisements. Obituaries: All over 50 words, one cent a word. Notes of thanks: Five cents the line. W. W. Bau., Proprietor. Entered at the postoffice at Laurens, S. C. as second class mail matter. LAURENS, S. C, June 13, 1906. HONESTY OK DISHONESTY?WHICH? Tho dispensary investigation during the last ten days has developed evi dence in abundance that persons high Up in the dispensary circles have been receiving large sums of money and valuable presents from the liquor houses. A. A. Bristow, of Greenville, a lead ing clothing merchant and pres> >nt of the board of trade, testified th v. one Hamberger, a member of a Pal nore whiskey firm, told him that he s d a bill of $67,0C0 worth of whiskey to fhe dispensary and gave the dispensary f ficials $8,000 for placing the order w. > his house and that Jesse R. Smith o Greenville heard "Hamberger say the same thing. 1 s . LewisvW. Parker, the well known cot ton mill man,testified,after the supreme court ordered that he answer the com mittee's questions, that Sam J.Lanahan, a Baltimoro whiskey whole-saler, who is probably a millionaire, told fiim that he had to pay large sums to get busi ness from the dispensary. E. VV. Rob ertson, the Columbia banker,, testified that Lanahan told him that a mem ber of the state board was in his pay as his representative. Hamberger told Bristow in effect that he got his $8,000 back by shipping to the dispensary mean and inferior1 whiskey, Senator Tillman in a speech at Green ville, July 4, 1905, said: "And they've got to give us better liquor." C. C. Davis of Newberry testified that he saw in H. H. Evans's house a beaver hat full of green-backs. He counted at one time as many as three one thousand dollar bills in the hands of Evans. He said that Evans admitted to him that his friends, whiskey men, gave him money and presents. Davis ? also testified that Jonah Loeb, a whis key drummer, told him that he placed an order for case goods with the board of control and had to come to Newberry and pay two dollars a case on at least six hundred cases to get the board to have the whiskey shipped. It is not for us to say whether or not the testimony is true. This is only a little of the great vol ume of testimony of the same kind that has been brought out. Lanahan also told Parker that the orders placed by the board at a certain meeting meant five thousand dollars to the board. The general condition of the dispen sary is now fully understood. What newspapers such as The Advertiser have been saying for years is now con ^rmed. The friends of the dispensary claim that it can be rebuilt with some kind of or set of statutes that will force men to be honest and prevent them from graft ing. Have you heard of a law that would prevent men from stealing if they want to steal? If we continue to maintain a state wholesale whiskey house we shall continue to have a government similar to that wo had before 1876, so far as the whiskey business is part of it. Do you know why such a fierce strug gle is being made to save the state dis pensary? We'll tell you. They're afraid to put it out of business. When the big concern in Columbia is disestab lished, when tho cleaning up time comes, more things are going to be told than have been dreamed of. This gigantic hive swarming with corruption, if it shall be torn down, will expose some king bees ptfrhaps. We believe that the concern is insolvent, that if the 'goods are put on the market and sold, the concern will prove insolvent. It won't be able to pay its debts and has made no profits. There's been too much grafting for it to have made money. Of course there is going to be a fight to the last ditch to save it.? They've got to fight. The men who have most at stake have not yet been shown up but when the legislature de molishes the weatherboarding of all this rascality, it will be time for small hoys to get from under the monkey's cage. Do the honest people of South Caro lina want this nesting-place of graft in Columbia to remain? Do the people of Laurens county want to retain it? Do they want as "the best solution of the whiskey ques tion" an institution that places South Carolina on the level with states such as Illinois and New York and Pennsyl vania which have become notorious on account of the meat-packing, the life insurance, and the coal-railroad frauds? Do we want honesty in high places in South Carolina or do we not want it? Tub ADVERTISER tries to be on the side of common decency; hence it is against the State dispensary, but we wish to say that we can stand the dispen sary if anybody else can. The State of South Carolina can bo ruled by boss grafters and we can still make an hon est living. For these reasons, when particularly vile and dangerous scoun drels have offered for office in late years, we have not felt called on to do more than protest against their election. If the people want to elect them, they may; we can stand it if they can and a good deal better than most of them can stand it. Generally the worst men have been defeated, but not always. This dispensary situation is plain enough now for anybody to see through it. If we arc to have a state dispensary, we are to have stealing?bolder stealing hereafter than before, if the thing is sustained at the polls this year. News papers will not be encouraged to keep hammering at graft if the people want a grafting institution and hereafter, if a popular vote vindicates' it, thedis-] position of thoso who oppose the con cern will be to let it alone. There's been .no such issue as this in South Carolina sinco 1876 when the car bag government was driven out. The State dispensary should be abolished even if it requires another "Hampton" campaign to do it. Tho character of the State for common honesty is to be protected or destroyed. What are you going to do about it? We predict here and now that every man who is recorded as voting in tt)e next General Assembly, however con scientious he may be, to retain the state dispensary, will leave something for his children and grand-children to regret. ? SENATOR TILL/WAN'S OPPORTUNITY. Since the rottenness of the dispen sary system has been fully exposed, Senator Tillman has the opportunity of his life. If he would come squarely be fore the people and say that he has been mistaken, that the corruption is worse than he suspected, that there is no necessity for a state dispensary in asmuch as the restrictive features of selling in only daylight, no drinking on the premises and selling in original packages in quantities not under a half pint, can be preserved without main taining a state whole-sale house, he would disarm to a degree the suspic ions of many of his enemies. Since it has already been developed that he will have no opposition for reelection, lie could make this acknowledgement with iut it being said that ho was forced in ... it. But we do not think that Senator Tillman is great enough to make this acknowledgement even if he could do it without violating his conscience and we fear that his name will live in his tory in association inseparable from the liquor system of his creation which has brought upon the state a shame com parable with that brought by the do ings of the horde that followed Moses. The Senctor i? doing his own reputation great injustice. # KEEP UP THE FIGHT. The people of Laurens must not re lax their efforts for better train con nections. It will be remembered that THE Advertiser began this fight some years ago and it had some results, es pecially in the way of handling trains at street crossings. We h,ave been given better freight facilities and in some substantial improvements the railway companies have been fair to Laurens and deserve the acknowledge ment. We are not those who condemn railroads continually; We look on the tax-books and conclude that if all citi zens paid taxes on their properties at the same rate that the railroads pay, the tax rate generally would be reduced. But the railroads are common carriers and owe a great deal of consideration to such a community as Laurens. We are entitled to have mails from Char leston and Columbia earlier, for exam ple, than the people of Princeton gut them by rural free delivery from Honea Path. If the citizens through their com mittees persevere, they will eventually get what they demand; for we do not think it can be said that they have de manded too much. ? The cotton crop reports for the com ing year are generally good but the acreage has not been largely^ increased. Meantime, the demand for cotton con tinues to grow; more mills are being constructed and the whole world is prosperous, has money and is buying clothes. The Japanese are building mills and buying some American cot ton. Nevertheless, we refuse to advise or prophesy about the price. We are entirely willing to admit that the high muck-a-mucks of the exchanges and the spinners and growers associations know a great deal more on the subject than we know and we think all they know could be crowded into a number six and a quarter hat. Gorman's National Service. From the point of view of practical statesmanship Mr. Gorman did a na tional service when he rewrote the de fective house measure and saved the treasury from bankruptcy. In accom plishing the defeat of the Lodge-Hoar election bill of 1890-91 he put the Demo cratic party deeply in his debt, and helped to prevent a recrudescence of sectional feeling, which, as Republi cans now admit, would have resulted only in evil, j It should be remembered also to his credit that of all the eastern Democratic leaders he alone held his State in line with sound money policies in the critical campaign of 1896, for Maryland never adopted a platform which declared for the free coinage of silver. In national politics, therefore, Mr. Gorman exercised an influence and enjoyed a consideration somewhat min imized or grudgingly at home. In hi personal character he was kindly and courteous, slow to anger and always capable of self-restraint. On the Democratic side of the senate chamber his was long the guiding hand and the guiding brain, and the comparative an archy which has followed his enforced retirement through this session is a striking tribute to Iiis resources in gen eralship and to '.he ease and efficacy with which that generalship attained its ends.?New York Tribune. What's the good of keeping from him Any good th'ngs you may see, That will lift Iiis load of labor I.ike Rocky Mountain Tea. Ask your druggists. 1788 1906 COLLEGE OF CH ARLETON, Charleston, S. C, Entrance examination.--, will be held in the County Court House on Friday, July 6, at 9 a. m. One Free Tuition Scholarship to each county of South Carolina awarded by the County Super intendent of Education and .fudge of Probate. Hoard and furnished room in Dormitory, $11. a month. All candi dates for admission are permitted to compete for vacant Boyce Scholarships which nay $100. a year. For catalogue and information, address HARRISON RANDOLPH, President. HOLLISTER'9 Kocky Mountain Tea Nuggets A Busy Medicine for Bu:y People. Bring* Golden Health and Renewed Visor. A ancclflo for Const!pruion. Inrttfjrstlon, I.Ivor find Kidney troubles. I'lmples. Eczema Imnrn-o lllootl, Had Brenth. ShiBfrlsh Bowels. Hcudacho ind ititcUnchft. Its RocUy Mountain Ten tn inn lot form, a.% cent* ft box. Genuine mado by HoLr.i vrr.il imvr. Pom pant, Mn<"! ,?.., V.Ms. 90t0EN NUGGETS FOR SALLOW PEOPLU To the Trustees of First Baptist Church. Gentlemen: We want to donate some L. & M. Painffto your church whenever they paint, The largest Methodist church in Geor gia expected to use 100 gallons of the usual Rind of paint, they only UBed 32 Sallons L &. M. mixed with 24 gallons inseed Oil. It costs less to paint a house with L. & M. than with other paint, because painter mixes Linseed Oil fresh from the burrel at 60 cents a gallon with L. & M., and doesn't pay $1.50 per gallon for Linseed Oil as done if ready-for-uso Saint is used. Also because the L. & I. Zinc hardens the L. & M. White Lead and makes the paint wear like . iron. Sold by W. L. Boyd, Laurens, S. C. and Clinton Pharmacy. Clinton, S. C. FINAL SETTLEMENT. Take notice that on the 19th day of June, 1906, I will render a final ac count of my acts and doings as Admin istrator of the estate ?f E. C. Maddox, deceased, in the ollice of the Judge of Probate of Laurcns County, at 11 o' clock A. M. and on the same day will apply for a final discharge from my trust as Administrator. All persons indebted to said estate are notified and required to make pay rrfent by said date, and all persons hav ing demands against said estate will present them on ? or before said date duly proven or be forever barred. M. C. Cox, Administrator. May 16?1 m. FINAL SETTLEMENT. Take notice that on the 19th day of June. 1906, I will render a final ac count of my acts and doings as Admin istrator of the estate of N. M. Maddox, deceased, in the office of the Judge of Probate of Laurons County at 11 o'clock A. M. and on the same day will apply for a final discharge from my trust as Administrator. All persons indebted to said estate are notified and required to make payj ments by said date, and all persons having demands against said estate will present them on or before said date duly proven or be forever barred. M. C. Cox, Administrator. May 16?lm. Winthrop College Scholarship and En trnncc Examination. The examination for the award of va cant scholarships in Winthrop College and for the admission of new students will be held at the County Court House on Friday, .July 6th, at 9 a. m. Appli cants must not be less than fifteen years of age. When scholarships are vacated after July 6, they will be awarded to those making the highest average at this examination provided they meet the conditions governing the award. Applicants for scholarship should write to President Johnson before the exami nation for scholarship application blanks. Scholarships are worth $100 and free tuition. The next session will open September 19th, 1906. For further in formation and catalogue, address President D. B. Johnson, Rock Hill, South Carolina. 40-td. ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER. At the solicitation of many friends I hereby announce myself as a candidate for the ollice of County Commissioner of Laurcns county and pledge myself to .abide the result of the Democratic Pri mary. D. F. BALENTINE. At the solicitation of friends, I hereby announce myself a candidate for re election for the office of County Com missioner, and pledge myself to abide the result of the Democratic primary. w. f. Bailey. FOR THE LEGISLATURE. I announce myself as a candidate for re-election to the House of Representa tives from Laurens County, subject to the Democratic primary election. J. H. MILLER, M. D. I respectfully announce myself to the citizens of Laurens county as a candi date for the lower house of the General Assembly, subject to the Democratic primary election. Clarence Cuningham. I hereby announce myself to the voters of Laurens county as a candidat e for the Legislature, and pledge myself to abide the result of the Democratic primary election. J. C. McDaniee. FOR COUNTY TREASURER. I announce myself a candidate for the office of Treasurer, subject to the rules of the Primary Election. A. s. Riddle. I hereby announce myself as u candi date for the office of County Treasurer, subject to the result of the Democratic Primary election. ROSS D. Young. At the solicitation of friends I hereby announce myself as a candidate for the office of County Treasurer, subject to the result of the Democratic Primary. .J. D. Mock. I hereby announce myself as a candi date for the office of Treasurer Laurens County and pledge myself to abide the result of the Democratic Primary. Walter A. Baldwin. FOR SUPERVISOR. I hereby announce myself to the vot er., of Laurens County as a candidate for the office of county supervisor sub ject to the result of the Democratic Primary election. John D. MILLS. I heroby announce myself as a candi date for the office of County Super visor for Laurens County and pledge myself to abide the result of the Demo cratic Primary. J. B. Cosby. I hereby announce myself as a candi date for re-election to the office of Coun ty Supervisor subject to the rule of the Democratic Primary. Respectfully, H. B, Humbert. I respectfully announce myself as a candidate for the office of Supervisor of Laurens County, subject to the action of the Democratic Primary election. Jas. M. sumerel. FOR AUDITOR. I respectfully announce myself a candidate for re-election to the office of County Auditor, subject to the rules of the Democratic primary. C. A. Power. FOR COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION. I respectfully announce myself as a candidate for reelection to the office of Count) Superintendent (if Education Oi Laurens County, and pledge myself to abide the result of the Democratic Primary, It. W. Nakii. JUDGE OF PRORATE. I hereby announce myself for re-elec tion to the office of Judge of Probate, subject to the result of the Democratic Primary election. ( >. ( i. i hompson. BUY YOUR Property NOW! Aero lot, with beautiful grove and well elevated, with six-room dwelling and good out-buildings, in town of Woodruff-$2,000. Two small tracts of land, 15 and 25 acres in Young's Township, near Friend church?$25.00 per acre. Buy your property now. Do you know of a single instance of where Eroperty intelligently purchased can be ought Dack at the price paid? 18-room building, the Leatherwood House and i -2 acre lot in town of Wood ruff. Price $6,oon. Gin and seed house, a complete Mun ger system, consisting of three 70 saw gins, revolving press, suction, one 40 h. p. engine, ana half acre land at Good gion old mill. Price $1,500. 1 acre of land and gin house complete, with two 70 saw gins, one revolving press, ono 40 h. p. engine, located in one mile of Enoree. Price $2,000. 203 acres of 'and, 2i miles east of the town of Laurens on road to Clinton. Price $40.00 per acre. 75 acres of land 1J miles east of tho city of Laurens. Price $2,000. 82 acres land near Dial's church, well improved. $25 per acre. Two lots in the city of Laurens, Nos. 14 and 35 Simpson property?the two for $125. 202 acres near Mt. Olive church, Waterloo township, well improved. $2,100. 3 acre lot, 7 room house good out builbings, well in yard in town, of Gray Court, $2,600. House and lot, two acres land, 5 room building, good barn in town of Gray Court $2,100. 400 acres at Madden Station, good dwelling and out buildings and other improvements. Price $25.00 per acre. 400 acres in one mile of Madden Sta tion, good improvements. Price $12.50 per acre. One house and lot in city of Laurens, between Laurens hotel and Merchants and Faamers Bonded Warehouse. Price $2,200. Five lots in town of New Cordell, Washita county, Oklahoma Territory, lots Nos. 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, block 12. Price for all five lots $300.00 cash. 212 acres located on Jimmie creek, Spnrtanburg county, with good dwelling and one tenant house, price $1,250. 196 acres five miles north of Laurens, with dwelling and three tenant houses, price $25 per acre. 440 acres, with 8-room dwelling, 5 tenant houses, up-to-date farm, fine bottoms and timbered land; located two miles from Lanford; $40 an acre, easy payments. 20 acres of land, wheat, and corn mill, gin house and saw mill complete; located in Greenville county and known as the old Nash Mill. Bargain at $1,500. 5- room cottage and two-acre lot on Garllngton street, city of Laurens, $925. 6- room house and 3-4-acre lot, good outbuildings, Main street, town of Clin ton, $:i,ooo. ? 5-room house and 3 1-2-aarc lot, Sloan street, town of Clinton, $1,200. 178 acres, near Mt. Olive church, two good dwellings, fine farm land, $10 per acre. Two lots, 1 1-8 acres each, town of Fountain Inn, $250 per lot. 112 acres and dwelling, on Kccdy River, cheap at $12.50 per acre. 178 acres, 7-room dwelling, mineral spring, one mile from Ora, $5,000. 11-room residence, with waterworks, fronting on North Harper street, $3,500. 225 acres, 7-room dwelling, 4 tenant houses, near Durbin Creek church, $30 per acre. Granite store building in town of Mil ton. $350. 3-ac.re lot, store room and dwelling, on Sloan street, town of Clinton, $3,000. 2 1-4-acrc lot on Sullivan street, in town of Laurons. $387.60, cash. 17 1-2 acres on Beaverdam creek, 1-2 mile from Lanford, wheat and corn mill in perfect order, survey made for yarn mill, bargain at $1,500. Two acres specially suitable for build ing lots, East Mam Street, City of Laurens-$1,500. 40 acres, East Main Street, town of Woodruff -$2,000. ? 424 acres, 7-room dwelling, store house and postoflkc, at Hobbyvillc, Spartanburg county?$20.00 per acre. I- acre lot, 8-room house, reception hall, bath room, in town of Woodruff - $2,500. 500 acres with splendid improvements and brickyard on place, 4 miles of town of Abbeville-$10,000. II- 2 acre lot, 7-room residence, hand some barn, in town of Fountain Inn ? $4,000. 502 acres, beautiful dwelling, 8 tenant houses, up-to-date farm; improvements, including 20 acres of land, located in town of Woodruff?$25 per acre. 4 1-2 acres, nice residence, in town of Fountain Inn?$2,500. House and 4-acre lot in town of Foun tain Inn-$1,600. 7-room house and halt-acre lot in City of Laurens-$825. 12 1-2 acres in town of Fountain Inn-$400. Can locate two practicing physicians in very attractive localities. J.N.LEAK, Real Estate Dealer. Gray Court, S. C. Sanders' Bottling Works. A. H. SANDERS, Prop. WHOLESALE ONLY! i MANUFACTURER OF High Grade Ginger Ale and Soda Water. Celery Cola a Specialty. Prompt Attention Given all Orders. ' LAURENS, SOUTH CAROLINA. State of South Carolina, COUNTY OF LAURENS. Whereas, R. J. Franks made suit to me to grant him Letters of Administra tion of the Estate of and effects of Luther Franks. THESE ARE THEREFORE to cite and admonish all and singular the kin dred and Creditors of the said Luther Franks, deceased, that they he and ap pear before me, in the Court of Probate, to be held at Laurens C. H., S. C, on the 15th day of June, 1906, next after publication thereof, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said Administration should not be granted. Given under my Hand, this 29th day of May Anno Domini, 1906. 0. G. THOMPSON, 43-3t J. P. L. C. Notice. I hereby forbid any one fishing or hunting on my lands, and all machine agents, book agents or agents of any kind, and all persons are notified not to make paths through my farms or tres pass on mo in any way. M. B. POOLB, 43-3t. Dr. Chas. A. Ellett Dentist. Office, Law Range. I'lMione 189, Laurcns, S. C. See our line of Refrigerators, Water Coolers, Ice Cream Freezers and Fly Trails before you buy. S. M. & E. H. Wilkes & Co. What is Bromonia? Read the following carefully: If you have consumption or some of the contagious forms of blood poisoning wo cannot cure you. We don't pretend to cure you. You need the individual treatment of some skilled specialist; but if you are run down in general health, if you have dyspepsia, are subject to fainting spells, a victim to insomnia, bilious ness, kidney or liver trouble, catch cold easily, if your system is in that condition that you may become an easy prey to the disease germs of pneumonia, la grippe and the vari ous epidemics, if you are bothered with constant headache, loss of memory, generally impaired vitality, we can help you, and, if you follow our direction.;, render you immune against sickness. Most skin disease can bo cured by the use of "Bromo nia." "Bromonia" is'* to the human sys tem what the scrubbing brush and soap are to the dirty washbowl. It aids Nature to resume normal ac tion. We don't ask you to invest a cent until you have tried "Bromonia" at our expense. A single bottle often times works wonders. Cut out the Coupon at the bottom of this column. Write name and address plainly. Be careful to address The Bromonia Co., ' NEW YORK. Free Bromonia Coupon. Name City ' State Street Address My disease is If you think Bromonia is what you need and do not care to send coupon, you will find it at all first-class druggists 25 and 50 cents the bottle. SPECIAL SALE BY TII10 LAURENS DRUG COMPANY, Exclusive Wholesale Agents for Laurens and vicinity. Dealers elsewhere desiring agency apply to MURRAY DRUG COMPANY, Columbia, S. C. Something to Eat!| Fresh Vegetables ^ Arriving Daily. Kennedy Bros. Laurens, - South Carolina. -T A Business Luxury A CHECKING-ACCOUNT is indeed a business neces sity; and lie who tries to get along without one is at great dis advantage. Paid checks arc the best receipt. It is not required that a person should have a large hulk of business in order to open an account. Professional men, fanners, and even many women, are running checking-accounts. If you have never done business in this way, and are not familiar with the plan, come to us and we will get yon started. The Bank of Laurens. The Bank For Your Savings. I am About to Melt! This is an expression often beard by ladies who suffer from the high temperature. Ilaving no framed parchment to indicate that WC have a special permit to alleviate the ills of suffering humanity, but lake the liberty of suggesting a lew articles to give im mediate relief: W ear one of our White India Linons or .Sheet Persian at nominal cost; trim with Wh itc Val Lace or Swiss Em broidery according to taste. 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