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tKfce gfotjerttser Subscription Price is $1.00 per Year Payable in Advance. S. !'. HONEY, Editor. PUBLISHED ?Y ADVERTISER PRINTING! COMPANY LAURENS. S. C. RATES KOK ADVERTISING. ? Ordinary advertisements, per square, one inser tion, $1.00; each subsequent insertion, 60 cents. Liberal reduction made for large advertisements. Obituaries: All over 60 words, one cent a word. Notes of thanks: Five cents the line. Entered at the postofllco at Laurens, S. C. as second class mail matter. I.AURENS, S. C, DECEMBER 9. 1908. Till: RACK r'OK GOVERNOR. Following Immediately upon the an. nouucemenl ot Mr. Foatherstone's candidacy for governor in 1010. the Hon. Richard I. Manning of Sumtor, gave cmi n statemcnl to the effect that he also would bo in the race for guber natorial honors when the campaign opened. Mr. Manning declared that it was too early to say what his platform would bo. In all likelihood there will he oilier entries in the race and the coming contest promises to be inter esting. Mr. ('oh- l. Illease of New berry has already practically declared himself and it is talked that lion. J. Frn/.or Lyon will ahn run Some think that I lull. John G. Richards and Hon. Mendel L. smith will declare their candidacies tat? r. While some of these, it not all. are Waiting to see the trend ot affairs, and to ascertain the popular side. Mr. Featberstotie. upon his belief in the righteousness of statewide prohibi tion, has declared his platform on the liquor question and will make bis race accordingly, .lust what stand he will take on the other questions thai may develop is not yet known; but the li quor question Is still one of vital im portance to the State of South Cam Una. Mr. Featherstono's energies have been employed tor several years past in the accomplishment and ful fillment of his ideas, by counties. lie has worked and spoken all over the Suite in the many counties where the dispensaries were voted out. in behalf of prohibition. Now he bolievos that the time has come for the last and greatest step in the matter; namely, that the whole State vote out the li quor business. Mr. Foatherstono has been persistent in ins efforts and con sistent in his endeavors to carry out his Ideas. it is vividly recalled that lion. Rich ard I. Manning was a strong advocate of the state dispensary In the race two years ago; just how he will dis pose of this, we cannot say. The people turned him down and elected Ml', Ansel who opposed the dispen sary; not because of any objection to Mr. Manning, for he is an excellent man. but because of his platform. Mr Illease. should he fully decide to run. will m>t figure very prominently in the race. The possibilities of Messrs. Lyon ami Richards depend largely upon their records during the intervening years. Mr. Foatherstone's candidacy is the logical outcome of the whiskey fight that has been waging in the State for the few years past. Kvents have so Shaped thcmsevles that South Caro lina can hardly do otherwise than vote Statewide prohibiiioti in 1010. True, there will be an effort to get a prohi bition hill thnmeh the Legislature I his next year. Wo doubt very much the possibility of success in this ef fort; We think the step unwise and premature. On a matter of this kind we believe the whole people of the State should say; let the matter he submitted in the general ??lection of 1010. Governor Ansel was elected on a revorso-loeal option platform, ami the majority of the Legislators were elected on the present option law. There seemed to he an unvoiced understanding that the present law. With such amending as the Legisla ture might deem wise, should stand throughout this administration Let the law stand as it is ami then let the people vote on the question. * ? <. A Law and Order League has been organized for the county. We sin cerely hope 11 h work will be of some effect and tor the betterment of the city ami count) Of course the Charleston papers will oppose the efforts for Statewide pro hibition; they say it will not work In Charleston. Put some how we have a notion that Governor Foatherstono would take a peep into the way law is enforced in the City by the Sea. * * * So far as wo know Mr. Fenther stone's candidacy has nothing to do with the effort to pass a prohibition hill through the Legislature next year; his announcement was made before the meeting in Columbia last week. A LOVE LETTER. Disclaiming at the very outset any knowledge or experience whatsoever concerning the gentle and wining art of writing love letters, we wish to state that the beautiful effusion re produced below is from the pen of . unotber. Hut so well does it express our sentiments regarding a few of our admirers that the use of it is Jus ttiled. "They say" that love letters are very effective sometimes, that they produce pleasing results. So mole it be! Here It Is: "Dear daring delinquent! Our precious subscriber in arrears! You are SO shy! Do you think we have sold out and gone? No, little sugar plum, we could not get away If we wanted lo. We are still at the same old stand dishing out the news on sweet promises and bright expecta tions. They make an excellent diet, darling, with n little pudding flavored with a word of encouragement to serve as desert. We are waiting and watchbu for theo? our turtle dove. We long to hear your gentle footsteps on the stairway below and to hear the ring of the happy dollaru within our office. Dear ono. we feel unusu ally sad and lonely without you. dear. Now, little pie crust, will you come? Do we hear you answer in a voice so sweet and beguiling, 'I'm coining,' or Is it only the winds that around our odlce roar? Wo pause for further developeinent." And in this same connection we are const rained to say with another: "Lives of poor men oft remind us honest toil don't stand a chance; the more we work we leave behind us blg ger patches in our pants. On our pants once new and glossy now are patches of different hue; all because subscribers linger and won't pay up what Is due. Then let us all be up and doing; send in your mite be it ever so small, or when the blasts of winter strike us we shall have no pants at all."--Dallas Now Era. * * ? St range isn't it! Laurens was a dispensary town when the Conference decided to meet here. Before the time of convening arrived it was closed. Now Abbeville is the only dispensary town in this section of the State and the Conference decides to ?_'n there next year. That's ri^ht. good brethren, make 'em ashamed; Abbeville may clean up before you get there. * * * .lames Henry Rice, tho Auduhon man. didn't llnd any unlawful feath ers in the Charleston hats. Query: are (he hats af Charleston fashion able? * * * Some of the newspapers seem to think Laurens is completely devas tated, especially in the fowl line sine<> the Conference. Pshaw! It never fazed us. * * * It is pretty safe to predict that the majority of the Laurens delegation will not vote for an iron-clad. State wide prohibition law In the Legisla ture next month. M * * A pretty young woman in Chicago is advertising for a stenographer's posi tion "where men won't worry her." Let her come to Laurens where all the young women, and all the stenogra phers are pretty and she won't be bothered--unduly. * * * To make the question very pointed, we would Inquire: "Where do the ne groes around lit e get their cocaine?" * * ? 'Tis passing strange that our visi tors of last week, the Methodist min isters, saw so much liquor In this city, while everybody who lives her?! (those who can seel knows the vast differ ence between these and dispensary days. How's This.* We offer One Hundred Dollars Re ward for any case of Catarrh that can not be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J, CHBNBY & CO.. Toledo. O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J, Cheney for the last Ifj years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions, and financially able to carry out any obligations made by his (irm. Walding, Kliman & Marvin. Wholesale Druggists, Toledo. O. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken inter nally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price, "flc. per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Take Hall's Family Pills for con stipation. Kino furniture for Masons. The Masons of Laurens. members of the Chapter. Council and both Blue Lodges, are very proud, and justly so, of their elegant new furniture re cently installed. The order WAS placed with S. M, & E. H. Wilkes & Co., Of this city, for all the hall fur nishings, paraphernalia and appurten ances, necessary for the complete Masonic out lit. The cost of these was about $1,700; as It Is today, the Ma. sonic hull is one of the bliest and most elegantly furnished in the State. Would Mortgage the Farm. A farmer on ltuarl Route 2, Umpire, Oa? W. A, Floyd by name, says: "Bticklen's Arnica Salve cured the two Worst sores I ever saw: one on my hand and one on my leg. It is worth more than Its weight in gold. I WOUld not he without it If I had to mortgage the farm to HfA lt." Only 26 cents at th? Palmetto Drug Compa ny and the Laurens To ng rVoiiipany. NOTICE OF COUNTY TREASURER. The Hooks ot the County Treasurer will be open lor the collection of State, County and commutation Road Taxes for tiseal year, 1908, at tho Treasurer's Office from Oct. 15th, to December 3ist, 1908. After December 2 ist one percent, will be added; after January 31st, two per ccni. will be added; and after February 28th, Bevon nor cent, will be added till tho 15th day of March, when tho Rooks will close'. All persons owning property In more than one township are requested to ?-all for receipts in each of the.sev eral townships in which the properly Is located. This is Important, as additional cost and penalty mil) bo attached. All able-bodied male citizens, be tween thO ages of 21 and CO yoai's til age. are liable to pay a poll tax of $1.00, except old soldiers who tiro ex empt at .">n years of age. Commuta tion Road Tax $1.00 In lieu of road duty. Road '<'nx to be paid by the 1st day Of .Mandl. 1009. Other taxes to be paid at the time stated above. Prompt attention will bo glvei' those who wish to pay their Taxes through the mail by check, money order, etc. Persons sending In lists of names to be taken off are requested to Forwai 1 them early, always giving their town ships, as the Treasurer is very busy during the month of December. The Tax levy is as follows: State Tax . ?\<j mills. Ordinary County Tax .... mills. Special Raid road Tax .... M. mills. Road Tax . IVfi mills. Constitutional School Tax 3 mills. Past Indebtedness . 1' ? mills. Total . IG Special Schools. I.aureus Township. I.aureus No. II . G Trinity-Ridge No. I . I Maddens No. 2 . 2 Narnle No. '?'< . 2 Dai ley's No. I . 2 Mills No. 5 . 2 Oak Qrove No. t; . 2 Youngs Township. Youngs No. 2 . 3 Fountain I nil No. 3b .... 10 Lanford No. in . 2> Ora No. 12. 2 Dials Township. Green Pond No. 1 . :: Shlloh No. :: . 2 Gray Court-Owings No. 5. 2 Harksdalc No. Q . 2 Sullivan Township. Prim-ton No. I . Tumbling Shoals No. ? . . 21 Brewerton No. 7 . :: Sullivan Township Railroad Ponds . :, Waterloo Township. Waterloo No. II . 2 Mt. Gallagher No. i . Bethlehem No. j . 2 F.kom No. :'. . 2 Mt. Pleasant No. y) . 2 Cross Hill Township. Cross Hill No. 13 . :; Cross Hill S. F. 2 Cross Hill No. 1. 2. ::. 1 High School . I hinter Township. Clinton No. .". . :: Mountville No. n; . 2 .1. I). MO( County Tie October 8, 1908 id. mills ?lul'.s. mills, mills, mills, mills, mills, mills. mills, mills. ?l mil's, mills. mills, mills, mills, mills. mills. ., mill:-., mills. mills. mills. mills mills. mills. mills. mills Vi mills. 9i mills. mills. ' 1 mills. K. isurer. For Rent ?Residence and forty acres farm lam!, pasture etc. within city lim its; place formerlyowned by Mrs. .1. \v. Jones; South Harper St. I am away greater part of time. Address lett< I's to me at Laurens, s. c. r. d. Darling ton. IS-31 Don't decide Ott what you will give for Christmas presents before you see our line from which you can select presents suitable for anvonc. S. m. & B. 11. WTlkes Co. Keystone Traction Water Well Drillers Are Honey Makers. Everybody uses water. A drill? d well is the only means of obtaining a pure, cold and unfailing supply. Dug wells and springs are simply cess pools for collecting disease breeding surface drainage, per cent, of Typhoid Fever is contracted from bad water. A Keystone Drill will penetrate the bed rock and tap the pure, unfailing streams below. All surface water is securely cased oft. A drilled well rarely goes dry in the most protracted drouth. It is safe, There is more money in a Kcystono Drilling Outfit than in a Threshing Machine and you work all the year round instead Of three months out of twelve. Machine is tho most comploto on the market and must not be con founded with cheap and flimsy outfits. Drills a fi-ineh hole through any forma tion tOany desired depth at the rate of 50-feet a day in ordinary formations. Costs $r>.(H) a day to run in fuel and labor. Will go anywhere under its own steam and can be set up and put to work in .'10-minutes. Write for catalog No. I. Keystone Driller Company Beaver Falls, Pa. Our line of Cut 011189 is brilliant and attractive both in qunlliy^aud price, a beautiful line 10 select from. s. m. & pj, 11. wilkos a Co. Tetter, Salt Rheum and fczema Arecurfd by Chatnbcrlain'i Salve <':.< npplica< lion rtllevM the Ilching and tntriiin? m iimuiom $ 100,000,000.00 The State of South Carolina is send ing off the approximate annual amount of $3,000,000 in Life Insurance Premiums. That amount, less a small proportion, goes to the North and West each year for in vestment, and in twenty years, including interest, will amount to something like $100,000,000.00 This should not be. Keep your premiums at home for the develop ment of your own State. The best way to do this is to have your life insured in the outfjeasitern TLitt 3fa?. Co. BROADDUS ESTES, District Agt. BOX 278 LAURt?NS, SOUTH CAROLINA. ? & Do Christmas Shopping Now Before the great rush begins. If you want to shop easily we invite you to visit our store and in spect the many useful articles which we have for the occasion. Read the List. ;1.50 $ 3.50 60c A great line of Handkerchiefs in Cambric and Linen, in cmbroid eried and plain hemstitched 5c to. A line lino silk Handkerchiefs and Mufflers 25c to A great line of (Hoves, including all styles of kid for l adies and Gentlemen; from $1.00 to . A beautiful line of Ladies' Fancy Collars 25c and . A nice assortment of Furs at Popular Prices. GOOD RRBSBNTS FOR HOUSEKEEPERS. A great line Wool Blankets $3.50 to A line line of Comforts from *2.;"il> to A great line while Quilts from $1.60 to A Lady's Suit, Coat or Sliirt Would make an appreciated present?sec our big stock of these. 7.50 5.00 3.60 CO>'<r.lOMT IOO? IV THt m??im cr MICH AELS-STERN FINE CLOTHING MIO'ACLS, CTCRN 4 CO. KOCHtlllK, H. T. Suits worth $22.50 at Suits worth $20.00 at Cloaks worth $20.Of) at Cloaks worth $1(1.00 at Cloaks worth $7.60 at $18.00 15.011 15.00 7.0S 4.08 For Men and Boys What would be more Appropriate than a nice- Suit or < ivcr coat? We arc showing a grand line of Suits for men in the best makes from $10.00 to.# 22.50 In Overcoats of all styles $6.00 to $ls.0(i In Hoys' Suits $2.00 to ...... 6.60 tn Boys'Overcoats $2.60 to, 6.00 Sec us and sec tts quick if you w.mt really useful presents and at moderate prices*. DBMMWPHMR J. E. MI NT ER & BRO THE RELIABLE STORE.