Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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The Red Hot Cut Price Sale Extended This Week. Come This Week Will close Saturday night 10 p. m., February 22d. Hurry up and avoid the rush. We are offering thousands of good things at special cut prices way below their value. We place them before you. It's your fault if you don't come and get them. Money saved in buying is money made. RED IRON RACKET. J. C. Burns & Co., Originators of Cut Prices Three big Cut Price stores==Laurens, Greenwood and Spartanburg, S. C. LYON DENOUNCES EDITOR KOESTER Dramatic Scene Witnessed in Columbia. KOESTER C1UTLCISE1) An Editorial Directed at the Winding Up Commission Occasion for an Un usual Incident. Columbia, Febri'iry 13. ?During the session of the Dispensary Commission this afternoon Attorney General Lyon denounced Mr. George I. Koestcr, edi tor and manager of the Columbia Rec ord, as "a most infamous and dirty liar." Mr. Koester, who was present, asked for the protection of the court, and arose from his chair. The situa tion was tense, and Commissioner Pat ton also arose, as if to step between Lyon and Koester. Mr. Lyon warned Mr. Koester not to approach, and dra matically told him that he (Lyon) walked the streets of Columbia, and was personally responsible for what he said. There was no confusion during the exciting incident, but the situation was such that even the official expert sten ographer did not get his notes straight. However, the detailed account of the affair is given as a transcript of the of ficial copy of the testimony. The incident grew out of an editorial in the Record this afternoon. The pa per was brought into the room while the Commission was in session, and the .ttention of Mr. Lyon was called to the editorial. Mr. Lyon bad just come into the room. He at once requested the Commission to summon Mr. Koes ter. This was agreed to. Mr. Steven ion drew up the summons, which was signed by Mr. McSween. The marshal of the Commission went out to find Mr. Koester and within half an hour re turned with Mr. Koester, who had come very willingly. He was exam ined under oath by Mr. Stevenson, the regular counsel for the Commission. At the conclusion of his statement Mr. Lyon arose and uttered his denunci ation. The editorial criticised Lyon for purchasing testimony against alleged grafters by holding up claims. Koes ter said his editorial was based on pub lished reports of the Commission. The portion of the Record's editorial to which Attorney General Lyon di rected the attention of the Commission is as follows: "The Record has been asked why it assails the attorney general, and seeks to hamper his attempts to have graft ers punished. The insinuation in the question is that the Record is in sympa thy with the grafters. The insinuation is too contemptible to notice. If expla nation of the Record's attitude toward Mr. Lyon is wanted it is easy to give. If there has been graft the Record, as much as Mr. Lyon or anybody else wants it exposed and the guilty party punished. ''But the methods employed to bring about that desired result should be clean and honorable and command re spect. It is Mr. Lyon'8 methods to which the Record objects. Wherever the Anglo-Saxon civilization has spread a common maxim of its courts has been th<it it is better for a thousand guilty men to escape than that one innocent min should be punished. "Similar in spirit is the Record's be lief that it is better that all dispensary grafters should escape than that at tempt should be made to secure convic tions with bought testimony. And that is the game Mr. Lyon has been play ing, first as a member of the investiga tion committee, and now as attorney general. If there was no political phase to the matter he could not hope to se cure conviction with bought testimony, and it is only the political phuse of the case that keeps his attempts to buy testimony from meeting the universal condemnation they deserve." Grippe is sweeping the country. Stop it with Preventics before it gets deeply seated. To check early coldfl with these little Candy Cold Cure Tablets is surely sensible and snfe. Preventics contain no quinine, no laxative, nothing harsh or sickening. Pneumonia would never appear if early colds were promptly broken. Also good for feverish chil dren. Large box, tablets, 25 cents. Vest pocket boxes, 5 cents. Sold by Palmetto Drug Co. We don't believe that we have any names on our list who do not expect to pay for their paper, but the U. S. pos tal laws say thot it must be done before April 1. SECRET WRITING. How Letters May Be Made Safe From Prying Eye?. Even with the most unromantlc of ub occasions sometimes arise when wo should like to make some memoran dum or write some letter which cannot ho read except by those wo wish to do so. Here Is a simple method: Soak a sheet of note paper in cold water and lay it perfectly flnt upon a pane of glass. Place above it another sheet, dry this time, and on the upper sheet write your message with a fairly hard pencil. You now destroy the dry pnper and allow all the moisture to evaporate from the wet piece. Don't hold it to the Are, but let it dry nat urally. If you then examlno it close ly you will see not the faintest traco of writing, but if you moisten the paper once more and, hold it up to the light you can read quite plainly all you wrote. It will show up like the water mark on a postage stamp. This meth od, by the way, is sometimes adopted by convicts. They use their gruel cans instead of glass and a sharp piece of wood for a pencil. Another way is less dirty and even more effective. Lay several sheets of paper on a fiat surface and write upon the top one. Then removo the bottom sheet, on v?hlch no impression appears. If you hold this in the vapor of iodine, however, the writing will turn brown and be quite legible. The explanation is plain. The note paper contains starch, which on being pressed turns to hydramide, a substance which is acted on by iodine in the manner de scribed.?Answers. THE PURSER'S JOKE. Why Religioue Servloes Were Not Held on That Trip. On most of the big ocean steamers a minister is usually found among the passengers, and invariably he is called upon on Sunday to conduct religious service In the main dining saloon. Oc casionally the man of the cloth seeks the purser and asks if lie may conduct a service on the Sabbath. A case of this sort happened recently on one of the Red D steamers on the run from New York to La Guayra. A young minister who three days before the steamer sailed had taken orders from a seminary, and a day later a wife asked the pursor If ho might conduct religious service on the following day, which was Sunday. The purser re plied that the dining saloon was at his disposal and thnt the passengers would be Informed. "At what hour shall the service begin?" asked the young minister. The purser rubbed his brow a moment and replied that he could begin at "nine hells." The minister and his bride appeared in the dining saloon at 0 o'clock In the morn ing and'waited four hours for the con gregation, which did not come. On the following day he listened again for "nine bells," but heard them not.?New York Tribune. 8ho 8old the Wrong Thing. -"I shall never forget the breakfast I gavo to a pretty girl when I first knew her," the short man began. "It would make your mouth water to hear what It was?grape fruit to begin with, tho most delicate of breakfast food with cream, a choice broiled chicken?It was a late breakfast?tho finest or fruit, coffee. I can't remember the things I ordered for her at that breakfast, and what do you think she said when she finished? She said: "You needn't havo gone to so much trouble. I don't care for anything but a couple of eggs for my breakfast and a piece of toast." "It was the wrong thing to say, I will admit," sighed his wife. "I was that girl, and I havo been living ever since on a couplo of eggs for my break fust and a piece of toast."?New York Press. Sheathing a Ship. Sheathing a ship la covering the bot tom with a sheath of copper. In all seas, but particularly in those of the tropics, the hulls of ships are liable to tho attack of certain worms which penetrate tho hardest wood and have been known In tho course of a fow months to damage tho hull so as to render the vessel worthless. Coppor sheathing protects the ship not only against the attacks of these borers, but also against decay, and Is especial ly valuable in the caso of iron ships, the metal rapidly oxidizing and becom ing brittle when exposed to the action of the soa vater. Fortunate. "I thought," said the author as he took back tho manuscript, "that the story would Just about do for you." "Yes," rejoined tho editor, "that's Just about what it would do if we printed it, but fortunately I happened to read It myself, so I am returning it to you for fear of accidents. People are so careless."?Judy. Starting Him In Buelneae. Hrlde's Father (to his prospective son-in-law, a young lawyer)?I am not going to give my daughter a cash dowry, but I have some doubtful claims for $10,000 that I will make over to you, and you can sue on them. BULLIES IN BATTLE. The Barroom Type of Rowdy When Put to the Teat of War. "The barroom bully Is an arrant cow ard when put to the test of war." With this saying of the late (Jeneral Rose crans as his topic, a speaker at a civic betterment meeting discoursed on the ways of the average "bad man" of the modern cities. He read from a writing of General RoseeroiiB, familiarly known as "Old Rosy," in which that officer de scribed a regiment of men from Cin cinnati In the civil war In which there were many of the oarroom bully cIobs who had been pressed Into the service or entered ns substitutes to earn a few hundred dollars. When these men came face to face with the grim light ers In gray of the Confederacy and they realized that in warfare the rlllo makes the puny weakling a match for the muscular giant, the bullies just turned pale and flunked. They couldn't stand rifle fire any more than they would the steely bayonet. Big, brawny bruisers who hod been wont to swag ger about town with chips on their shoulders looking for some weaker ves^ sei to tackle fouud in the lire and smoke of battle that, Avhlle their frames and muscles were large, their real courage was mighty small and of the cravenly coward sort. "Better take the pole faced, modest mannered Sunday school lads wheu you want real soldiers men who con face the bullets or the bayonets of the enemy?rather than the brawny red faced bullies of our cities, who, when they ni'e outdone In an argument, want to resort to brute force to set lie the question In dispute," wrote General Rosecraus. aud he should have known. ?Washington Star. CHANGED THE TYPES. The Story of a Vengeful Wife and a Bible Error. In the famous library of Wolfenbut tel, in Hesse, is on old Bible which Is greatly treasured. It appears that In that passage In Qonesls whcr? Cod told Eve that Adorn shall*DO her mns ' ter ami shall rule over her the German translation la, "Und er soll dein horr Pein." "Herr," which means moster, does not occur lu this Bible, but Instead there appears tho word "norr," which means fool. Tho error was caused by a quarrel between the printer and his wife In tho year 15S0. The wife was vengeful, and In the silent watches of the night she entered the room where her hus band hod been setting typo and mali ciously changed "herr" to "norr." The printer was arrested after the book hod been printed and the mistake dis covered, but his apprentice testified ; thnt he bow the wife steal into tho composing room and alter the word. The woman wos Imprisoned for blas phemy and died In prison. Orders were given that oil the copies of the edition should bo destroyed. This won douc, with the exception of the one copy In the Wolfenbuttol li brary. Commercial Term In Law. The plaintiff wos stating his ease: "Your honor, I was walklug alongside of tho waiting train when this man, who Is n stronger to me, and without any cause whatever, reached out of the car window and planted a couple of powerful blows upon my face." "Your honor," expostulated the de fendant, "I wos bo enraged by the do lay of that train and the mlsernblo service of thnt road In general that I Just hod to glvo vent to my feelings In somo way. I couldn't rostroln my self." "I feel for you," admitted the Judge, who had had occasion to travel on tho same road, "but I nm compelled to fine > ->u nevertheless. That pair of hand tic downs will cost you Just $10." ?New York Press. A tissue builder, reconstructor, builds up waste force, makes strong nerves and muscle. You will realize after taking Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea what a wonderful benefit it will be to you. Tea or Tablets, 35 cents. Palmetto Drug Co. It's a good old world after all; If you have no friends or money In the river you can fall. Marriages are quite common, and More people there would be Provided you take Rocky Mountain Tea. Palmetto Drug Co. "If you refuse me," said the young man, "I shall blow out my brains." "I'd hate to have you do that," re plied the girl, thoughtfully, "and yet it would be a good joke on pa. He says you haven't any, you know." ?Phila delphia Ledger. A Dangerous Operation. A dangerous operation is the removal of the appendix by a surgeon. No one who takes Dr. King's New Life Pills is ever subjected to this frightful or deal. They work so quietly you don't feel them. They cure constipation, headache, biliousness and malaria. 26c. Laurens Drug Co. and Palmetto Drug Co., druggists. **** ********i'i4** I CANDIDATES' ANNOUNCEMENS. | ***** ???*????*? ******* ** For Sheriff. I hereby announce myself a candidate for Sheriff of Laurens county in the coming Democratic Primary election, and pledge myself to abide by the re sult of said Democratic primary. J. THOS. PEOEN. I hereby announce myself to the vo ters of Laurens county for re-election to the Sheriff's oflice for the ensuing term, subject to the rules of the Demo cratic primary. TIIOS. J. DUG KETT. I hereby announce myself a candidate for Sheriir of Laurens county in the ap proaching Democratic primary, and promise to abide by results of said Pri mary election. JOHN D. OWINGS. Simpson, Cooper & Babb, Attorneys at Law. Will practice In all Stale Courts Prompt attention given to ?11 b.isine's MONUMENTS. If you are in need of a nice Menu meat for loved ones I am prepared to furnish it to you at very reasonable prices. See me. J. WADE ANDERSON, Laurens, S. C. Road Tax Notice. After the first day of March, which is the expiration of the time for pay ing Commutation Road Tax, the County Board of Commissioners for Laurens county, until otherwise ordered, as an accommodation to those who have not paid, will receive from persons liable to road duty for the year 1908, the sum of two dollars as a substitute therefor? all money to be paid to the county treasurer as road funds. Done at Laurens, S. ('., in regular session this fourth day of February, A. D. 1908. IL B. HUMBERT, County Supervisor. MESSER RAUP., County Clerk. ?s :;t CITATION. The State of South Carolina, County of Laurens?By O. G. Thompson, Pro bate Judge: Whereas, R. R. Fuller and C. M. Ful ler made suit to me to grant them let ters of administration of the estate and effects of G. L. Fuller These are therefore to cite and ad monish all and singular the kindred and creditors of the said C. L. Fuller, de ceased, Unit they be and appear before me in the Court of Probate, to be held at Laurens G. IL, S. C., on the 2d day of March, 1908, next, after publication hereof, 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 17th day of February. Anno Domini 1908. O. G. THOMPSON, Probate Judge. Notice to Clean Streams. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. COUNTY OF LAURENS. Notice is hereby given that the Board of County Commissioners for Laurens county, pursuant to an Act of the General Assembly of South Carolina providing therefor, has at its annual meeting ordered and fixed the follow ing peridos for cleaning streams in said county during the year A. D. 1908, to-wit: That all streams in said county be cleaned out as provided by law dur ing the period beginning February 1 and ending March 31, and that they shall again be cleaned out within the period beginning July 15 and ending August 81, 1908. Done at Laurens, S. C., in annual session this 9th day of January, A. D. 1908. H. B. HUMBERT, (lounty Supervisor. MESSER BARM, County Clerk. iW-4t HOLLISTER'S Kocky Mountain Tea Huggois A U.isy Mcdici-.o (or Bu:y Popple. Brines Golden Health and Renewed Vigor. A tpcoiflo for Constipation. Indigestion, T.Ivor inn lildnoy iroublos. Pimples. t'cxomn, In?r?nre Kino I. lind Broatli, Slur?inii Bowels. Headache nid it icitnciio. its Rook; Mountain Ten in tui> lot form. :!?"> oonta '? bOX. OonuInO madO by Homimk.h Daro Company. Mi llion, WK ?S?LDEN NUGGF.TS FOR SAll.OW PEOPLE KILL.??? COUCH and CURE the LUNGS with Dr. King's New Discovery AND ALL THROAT AND LUNG TR0UBLE8. GUARANTEED SATISFACTORY! OR MONEY REFUNDED. *lr.King's New Like Pills The beat in the world. R. A. COOPER, C. W. TUNE, J. F. TOLBERT, President. Sec'y and Treas. Mgr. Ins. Depart. M. J. OWINGS Vice-PreB. j. O. C. Fleming, E. P. Wharton, C. D. MOSELEY, H. K. Aiken, S. M. WlLKES, DIRECTORS: C. E. Kennedy J. W. Todd, S. j. Craig, D. A. Davis, j. W. DuPrbe, W. J. Fleming J. F, Tolbert, VV. A. Watts, M. J. Owings, R. A. Cooper. Laurens Trust Company Capital Stock $25,000 Real Estate, Stocks and Bonds bought and sold. Loans negotiated on Real Es tate?long time and easy payments. Our Insurance Manager, Mr. J. F. Tolbert, can give you the very best Life and Fire Insurance contracts. We also act as Executor, Administrator, Guardian, Receiver, Trustee, etc. Give Us Your Business and Help a Home Enterprise. Cough Caution Novor, positively never poison yourlungs. If yoa cough?ovon from a siinplo cold only?you should alwnys heal, soothe, anneasotho irritated bron chlul ttilxus. Don't Mindly suppress It with a stupofying poison. It's slrango bowjjorno things finally come about. For twenty years Dr. Shoop has constantly warned peoplonotto take cough mixtures or prescriptions containing Opium. Chloroform, or similar poisons. And now?a little lato though?Congress Bays "Put It on tho label. If poisons nro in your Cough Mixture." flood 1 Very good! I HiTeaftcrforthisvery roasonmothers, and others, should insistou having Dr. Shoop's Couch Cure. No poison marks on Dr. Shoop's labels?and none In the medicine, elsu it must by law l>e on the lal>el. And It's not only safe, but it Is said to be by thoso that know it bust, a truly re markable cough remedy. Tako nochanco then, I particularly with your children. Insist on having nr. Shoop's Cough Curo. Compare carefully the Dr. Shoop packago with others and note tho difference No poison marks there I You can always bo on the safo sldo by demanding Dr. Shoop's Cough Cure PALMETTO DRUG CO. Seed Potatoes Aristook County Alaine Seed PotaLoes For Sale. All Varieties. Prices right. J. S. MACHEN & CO. Write ni onco and learn v/ny wo secure best positions, and boat Salaries for our RraUuaU-3. euoewb Andkiison. Pto^^^^ j Chamberlain's Cough Rercsdj Cures Colds, Croup and Whoojjlu? Cough. ' Windy and Weather Work Havoc On unpainted or badly painted buildings. Everything exposed to rain and sunshine, to wind and weather, ought to be painted with the best possible paint that money can buy. Years of experience have proven that Mastic Mixed Paint, "The Kind that Lasts," is the best paint on the market for every sort of structure exposed to all of those damaging elements. Mastic Paint combines the best mate rials in the best proportions to withstand wear, to give a beautiful finish and to retain its appearance, no matter what the exposure, low or high, damp or dry. Use Mastic Paint and your buildings will always look new and your paint investment will be a source of pleasure and profit. MANUFACTURED BY Peaslee-Gaulbert Company, (Inc.), Louisville, Ky. -FOR SALE BY Dodson=Edwards Drug Company Laurens, S. C. EMllMI Header. I About ton day* I'ine medium ?Ire. I later ?han K. Jer?o; Excellent shipper, I A full aim larger. Dellclou?for fahl?. I A m-noy mater. gfr CABBAGE PLANTS ?f EARLY HEADERS MONEY MAKERS KarllMt rial Calihaia. A larg ? ytaldtr and a good jhlppar. By the HUNDRED, THOUSAND or MILLION of the above three favorite varieties. Grown in the open field nnd will Mnnd nevero cold without injury. Let money accompany your order; otherwise plonta will be shipped C. O. D., and you will have to pay return charges on the money. , _ ,_ Prices, f. o. b. Young's Island, S. C: GOO for $1.00; 1 to 4.000 at $1.60 per 1.000: 5 to 8,000 at $1.25 per 1,000; 9 to 20,000 at $1.00 per 1.000. Special priccaon larger quantities. Full count and satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded. Folder on Cabbage Culture by C. M. Gihson mailed free on application. Cheap express rates to all points. Mail your orders to C. M. GIBSON. Young's Island, S. C. ? New Postal Ruling New Postal Law as it Affects Newspapers. "A reasonable time will be allowed publishers to secure renewals of subscriptions, but unless subscriptions are expressly renewed, af ter the term for which they are paid, within the following periods dailies within three months, triweeklies within six months, semi weeklies within nine months, weeklies within one year, semimonthlies within three months, monthlies within four months, bimonthlies with in six months, quarterlies within six months they shall not be counted in the legitimate list of subscribers, and copies mailed on account thereof shall not be accepted for mailing at the second class postage rate of 1 cent a pound, but may be mailed at the transient second class postage rale of 1 cent for each four ounces or fraction thereof, prepaid by stamps affixed. The right of a publisher to extend credit for subscriptions to his publication is not denied or questioned, but his compliance or noiicompiinnce with this regulation will be taken in to consideration in determining whether the publication is entitled to transmission at the second class postage rates." Kindly turn to the address label on which is printed your name and the date to which you have paid for the paper. If you are in arrears please remit all arrears by April 1st at latest as on and af ter that date we will be required under the above ruling to drop your name from our subscription list. We do not wish to loose a subscriber, remit now before it slips your memory. Yours very truly, THE ADVERTISER Laurens, S. C.